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Vol. 115, No.144 75 Cents Iola, KS

CUB SENIORS SENT OFF

‘On track’ for state Regsiter/Richard Luken

Register/Bob Johnson

Storm seasonPhoto by Mike Myer

Kiwanis outreach is global

Iola High’s Ashley Campbell heads down the home stretch in the girls 400-meter final Friday at the Class 4A Regional Track Meet at Iola’s Riverside Park. Campbell qualified for this week’s state track meet in the 100-, 200- and 400-meter dashes. More details of the Fillies’ track team are on Page B1.

Lightning strikes east of Humboldt Sunday evening. Torna-do sirens sounded across Allen County Sunday, due to fun-

nel rotations spotted along with strong storms that moved through the area.

‘Dream home,’ grads told

Some of the active Kiwanis members are, from left, Roger Carswell, John Shields, Shandie Wrench, Andy Dunlap, Nancy Ford, Mike Ford and Ray Shannon.

Register/Steven Schwartz

By STEVEN [email protected]“Kids,” is all Tom Nevans

said when asked about the basis for the Iola Kiwanis Club, but the outreach of the group touches many lives.

Kiwanis was started in 1915 in Indianapolis, and the name is a native-American word that roughly translates to “we trade” or “we share our talents.”

And share they do.The group meets every

Tuesday in the Allen Com-munity College boardroom, and recently gave The Reg-ister an opportunity to sit in on one of their meetings. Club President Shandie Wrench started the meeting with prayer and news in the organization. Then, it was all business. They spoke about the need for disabled-access playground equipment in Iola, and what they can do to garner grants for the equip-ment.

“We literally build things,” Andy Dunlap said about what sets Kiwanis apart from other groups. He and Nevans said the club is all about be-ing a part of the community and making it better.

“Locally, we invest more of our time,” Dunlap said. “It’s

a more personal way to in-vest ourselves.”

Nevans said Kiwanis has been used as a “focal point” in the community from time-to-time. For instance, in the 1980s several community

See KIWANIS | Page A5

By BOB [email protected]

A bill to repeal state restric-tions imposed on properties near those on the National Register of Historic Places passed both the House and Senate, State Rep. Ed Bideau, R-Chanute.

The restrictions are on properties within 500 feet of a historical property in a city, 1,000 feet in an unincorporat-ed areas.

The bill would lift substan-tial restrictions on several properties in downtown Cha-nute, the Murray School area and would benefit Humboldt if it elects to pursue creation of a historical district in its downtown business district.

The bill passed out of the House Friday, and out of the Senate earlier in the week, with the support of Sen. Caryn Tyson.

Allen County is represented by Bideau and Tyson.

The bill now goes to Gov. Sam Brownback. Bideau said he had “every reason to be-lieve he will sign the bill into law.”

Bideau emphasized the bill would not change restrictions on historical properties, rath-er on surrounding areas.

“It will not terminate local governments’ power to make their own decisions and choic-es on restrictions for the area around a historical property

Historic bill now up to Brownback

See BILL | Page A5

Seniors line up Saturday for commencement exercises to start. Rachel Crays, left, helps prep Kristin McClanahan just ahead of the event.

By BOB [email protected]

HUMBOLDT — Cole Herd-er encouraged Humboldt High’s 42 graduating seniors to someday think about re-turning home. Herder told the students to “Dream Hum-boldt” at commencement ex-ercises late Saturday after-noon.

A Humboldt High grad

himself, Herder said he want-ed to be an astronaut when he was young, but “I came back and found something else to do here.” He urged the gradu-ates to do the same, follow a dream and try to include Humboldt in it.

Herder is manager of quality control at Microtron-

See HUMBOLDT | Page A5

By SEAN MURPHYAssociated Press

SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sun-day, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open.

“You can see where there’s absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mo-bile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up,” Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth said after surviv-ing damage in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park. “It looks like there’s been heavy

equipment in there on a demo-lition tour.

“It’s pretty bad. It’s pretty much wiped out,” he said.

The Shawnee tornado was one of several that touched down in the nation’s midsec-tion Sunday. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a mas-sive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota.

Across the state, 21 people were injured, not including those who suffered bumps and bruises and chose not to visit a hospital, said Keli Cain, a

One dead, homes leveled in Oklahoma

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TodayCountry western dance, Chanute Park pavilion, 7-10

p.m., music by Charles Gwartney.Tuesday

Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, meeting room at Allen Com-munity College student center.

Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

WednesdayIola BPDE No. 569 meeting, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge.

ThursdayTOPS No. KS 880, 5 p.m. weigh-in, 5:30 p.m. meeting,

Calvary United Methodist Church.Rotary Club, noon, The New Greenery.Allen County Farmers Market, 5:30 to 7 p.m., south-

west corner of the square.

FridaySenior Citizens’ Card Club, 5:30 p.m., Iola Senior Citi-

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Calendar

Storms likelyTonight, showers and thunder-

storms likely. Lows 60 to 65. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.

Tuesday, partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs 75 to 80. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.

Tuesday night, partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

Sunrise 6:07 a.m. Sunset 8:29 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 81Low last night 62High Saturday 82Low Saturday 63High Friday 78Low Friday 61

High a year ago 78Low a year ago 61

Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m .67This month to date 1.95Total year to date 12.81Excess of Jan. 1 .46

Iolan Shelby Lynn Brown, 18, was trans-ported to Overland Park Regional Medical Center after she was injured in a traffic ac-cident along a Bour-bon County road two miles west of Union-town about 3 a.m. Sat-

urday.She was a passen-

ger in a car driven by Timothy Dwayne Self, 20, Crouse, N.C., that ran off the road, hit several trees and end-ed halfway suspended with its passenger side wheels off the ground.

Self, also injured, was transported to Freeman Hospital, Joplin. Two other passengers, Michael Dwayne Harriger, 20, and Timmothy Da-vid Snead, 18, both of Bronson, were not in-jured.

Local girl injured in car wreck

A tornado touches down southwest of Wichita, near the town of Viola on Sunday,. The tornado was part of a line of storms that passed through the central plains.

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Tornado alley

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A major Indiana hos-pital system has started removing all sugary drinks from its cafete-rias, vending machines and gift shops.

Indiana University Health implemented the change this week at its hospitals in downtown Indianapolis and Fishers and plans to eventually also do so at about dozen

other hospitals around the state, The Indianapo-lis Star reported.

The only sodas now available in the cafete-ria at Riley Hospital for Children are diet drinks

such as Diet Coke, Coke Zero and light lemonade. The cafeterias also plan to start marking foods as green, yellow and red to signal which ones are better options.

“We’re trying to make healthier choices the easier choices to make,” said Kate Juergens, a di-etitian with Indiana Uni-versity Health.

IU Health also asked its outside restaurant ven-dors to stop selling all full-sugar beverages, although not all have agreed.

Employees and visi-tors to Riley Hospital had mixed reactions to the removal of sugary soda from the cafeteria. The McDonald’s next door to the main cafete-ria continued offering regular soft drinks.

Some questioned IU Health’s decision, say-ing what a person drinks should be an individual choice.

“Everybody should have their own options, their own opinion as to what they put in their mouth,” Christina Schermerhorn said as she waited in the Mc-Donald’s line with two children in a stroller.

Other Indianapolis-area hospitals have con-sidered whether to take

a step that has been pro-moted as a way to com-bat the national rise in obesity, but none have yet done so.

Franciscan St. Fran-cis Health has started providing a nutritional breakdown of all food sold in the cafeteria, said Sean McKenzie, director of food and nutrition services for its central Indiana region.

The hospital has stopped selling soda bot-tles larger than 20 ounc-es and cut back on the variety of sugary drinks offered.

“We believe in educat-ing the consumer, not mandating what they eat and drink,” McKenzie said.

Indiana hospital goes healthy: bans sodasWe’re trying to

make healthier choices the easier choices to make.

— Kate Juergens, dietitian

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The Associated Press“Tomorrow’s commute

will be extremely chal-lenging. Residents should

plan for a week’s worth of disruptions.”— Conn. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, saying the aftermath of Friday’s commuter train collision

will cause traffic problems in his state.

___“The big question is,

how do you know, when someone’s pointing a gun at you, whether you should keep talking to them, or shoot? That’s what makes the job of an officer amaz-ingly difficult.” — Michele Galietta, a professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, on the police offi-cer who accidentally killed

a Long Island college stu-dent.

Quotations of the day

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN

Associated PressBAGHDAD (AP) — A

wave of attacks killed at least 79 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, of-ficials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 200 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian vio-lence the country has seen in years.

The bloodshed is still far shy of the pace, scale and brutality of the dark days of 2006-2007, when Sunni and Shiite militias carried out retaliatory attacks against each other in a cycle of violence that left the country awash in blood. Still, Mon-day’s attacks, some of which hit markets and crowded bus stops dur-ing the morning rush hour, have heightened fears that the country could be turning back down the path toward

civil war.Sectarian tensions

have been worsening since Iraq’s minority Sunnis began protest-ing what they say is mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government. The mass demonstrations, which began in December, have largely been peace-ful, but the number of attacks rose sharply after a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in north-ern Iraq on April 23.

Iraq’s Shiite majority, which was oppressed under the late dictator Saddam Hussein, now holds the levers of pow-er in the country. Wish-ing to rebuild the na-tion rather than revert to open warfare, they have largely restrained their militias over the past five years or so as Sunni extremist groups such as al-Qaida have targeted them with oc-casional large-scale at-tacks.

But the renewed vio-lence in both Shiite and Sunni areas since late last month has fueled concerns of a return to sectarian warfare. Since last Wednesday alone, at least 224 peo-ple have been killed in attacks, according to an AP count.

The worst of Mon-day’s violence took place in Baghdad, where ten car bombs ripped through open-air markets and other ar-eas of Shiite neighbor-hoods, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 150, police of-ficials said. In the blood-iest attack, a parked car bomb blew up in a busy market in the northern Shiite neighborhood of Shaab, killing 14 and wounding 24, police and health officials said.

The surge in blood-shed has exasperated Iraqis, who have lived for years with the fear and uncertainty bred of random violence.

Wave of attacks kill 79 Iraqis

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By ANGELA CHARLTONAssociated Press

PARIS (AP) — France will see its first gay wed-dings within days, after French President Fran-cois Hollande signed a law Saturday authoriz-ing marriage and adop-tion by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate.

Hollande’s office said he signed the bill Sat-urday morning, a day after the Constitutional Council struck down a challenge to the law and ruled it in line with France’s constitution.

Hollande, a Social-ist, had made legalizing gay marriage one of

his campaign pledges last year. While polls for years have shown major-ity support for gay mar-riage in France, adop-tion by same-sex couples is more controversial.

The parliamentary debate exposed a deep conservatism and at-tachment to traditional families in France’s rural core that is often eclipsed by and at odds with libertine Paris.

But mostly, it tapped into deep discontent with the Socialist gov-ernment, largely over Hollande’s handling of the economy. Months of anti-gay marriage protests became a flash-point for frustrations

with Hollande, and oc-casionally degenerated into violence.

In addition, gay rights groups reported a rise in attacks on homosexu-als as the parliamentary debate was under way. Protest organizers dis-tanced themselves from the trouble-makers.

The opposition isn’t ready to give up. It plans a protest Sunday to par-lay the success of the anti-gay marriage move-ment into a broader anti-Hollande one. Among those expected to attend is Jean-Francois Cope, the leader of the oppo-sition UMP party, riven

by divisions and strug-gling for direction since Nicolas Sarkozy lost the presidency last year.

Hollande warned that he wouldn’t accept any disruption of France’s first gay marriages.

One couple signed up Saturday to tie the knot on May 29 in the gay-friendly southern French city of Montpel-lier.

“We’re very happy that today we can finally talk of love after all the talk of legislation and political battles,” one of the future newlyweds, Vincent Autin, said on France-Info radio.

According to French law, couples must regis-ter to marry in city hall and wait at least 10 days before holding a cer-emony so that anyone objecting to the union — such as an existing spouse — has time to in-tervene.

Marketing whizzes are already preparing lesbian and gay cake toppers, his-and-his wedding bands, and oth-er services for France’s gay weddings.

Despite the protests, the law passed easily in both houses of parlia-ment, which are domi-nated by Hollande’s Socialists. And the Con-stitutional Council said, “Marriage as a union between a man and a woman cannot be con-sidered a fundamental principle.”

FRANCE IS the most populous country to have legal gay marriag-es, and the 14th country worldwide.

In the United States, Minnesota became the 12th state in the coun-try to legalize same-sex unions on Tuesday.

In neighboring Bel-gium, thousands of people took to the con-fetti-covered streets of Brussels to take part in an annual gay pride march on Saturday.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Food Bank has given out a record number of its backpacks full of food to students this year.

The highest number of backpacks handed out this year to school children in need was 7,158 during one week in February, said Larry Gunkel, a Food Bank official running the pro-gram. He said the Food Bank handed out nearly that many last week.

Those are the two highest weekly figures recorded since the pro-gram began in 2004, Gunkel said.

The Wichita Eagle re-ported the food packag-es are part of the orga-nization’s Food 4 Kids

program. The program gives students identi-fied by school staff as chronically hungry a backpack of food each

Friday.School officials have

told the Food Bank for years that some of their students often don’t get anything to eat outside of school breakfasts and lunches.

Gunkel said the num-ber of schools in Kan-sas now served by the

program has grown from 369 last year to 400. He said schools in Wichita, Chanute, Cof-feyville, Independence,

Haven, Junction City, Pittsburg and Syracuse have all requested the weekend food packages.

Friday was the last distribution of food packets before students begin summer break on Wednesday. Gunkel said the Food Bank is work-ing on ways to get food to chronically hungry children during sum-mer months.

Food backpacks on the rise

School officials have told the Food Bank for years some of their students often don’t get anything to eat outside of school breakfasts and lunches.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Legisla-ture has been in session a week longer than its leaders had anticipat-ed, and lawmakers still must resolve major tax and budget issues.

Today was the 87th day of lawmakers’ an-nual session.

Republican leaders in the GOP-dominated Legislature had prom-ised that it would wrap up its business in 80 days. That would have trimmed 10 days off the

normal expected 90-day schedule.

But the House and Senate have had trouble reconciling their dif-ferences on a proposed state budget for each of the next two fiscal years, beginning in July. They’ve also had trouble agreeing on proposals for cutting income taxes while pos-sibly stabilizing the budget by canceling all or part of a scheduled sales tax decrease set by law for July.

Day 87 and counting

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The 2014 state budget is being held hostage by con-spiracy theorists.

You know the thinking. Don’t drink fluoridated wa-ter — it’s a communist plot to take over the world.

That, at least, is so far-fetched it gets a chuckle.

The current theory circu-lating the halls of the Kan-sas Capitol, however, has to do with education, and can do a lot more damage than rot your teeth.

Ultra-conservatives are against implementing a new curriculum for Kansas schools, popularly known as the Common Core.

“It’s the federal govern-ment imposing on our schools,” said Sen. Ty Mas-terson, chairman of the Ways and Means commit-tee.

How so?Well, a goal of the Com-

mon Core is to make math and reading standards more comprehensive. In-stead of teaching to a test, the curriculum would take a broader approach to learning so students would better understand the meaning of the subjects and their context in the greater world.

Masterson, however, in-terprets that guidance as “Big Brother” telling teach-ers how to teach.

Well, no. For the past several years

educators from all over the country have devised a new curriculum they think will better educate our children.

To date, 45 states have adopted the measures, as has Kansas, but will be for naught if it doesn’t agree to fund it.

The measure to block the Common Core failed to make it out of committee in both the House and the Sen-ate Education committees earlier this session. That it has somehow resurfaced at this critical juncture in budget negotiations should raise red flags as to its mer-its. Smells very fishy — like politics.

THE CONSPIRACY theo-ries about Common Core standards get wackier the deeper you dig.

To wit: Parents are at risk of losing control of what their children are taught if the standards are adopted, according to the Concerned Women of America, an ul-tra-conservative lobbying

group. Last time we checked,

parents send their children to public schools precisely because they lack the time and skills to be progressive educators.

The Concerned Wom-en go on: “Policy-making guides, instructional mate-rials, curricula and assess-ments will all be developed for us in states that have adopted the standards. Control moves further and further away from parents who have the primary re-sponsibility for educating their children.”

Can you hear a collec-tive sigh? That’s our teach-ers saying, “If only parents would be more involved with their children’s educa-tion.”

The Concerned Women of America website goes on to lament English classes may devolve to using such “anti-capitalist” books as Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickel and Dimed,” or photo essays from a news-paper, as a teaching mod-ule.

Now wait just a minute ….

First of all, Ehrenreich’s book about the working class poor probably is an affront to ultra-conserva-tives. It just happens to be a true story about how some industries don’t pay a living wage and the bind that puts people in. That the Concerned Women for America interprets that as socialism, is again another example of a conspiracy theory.

As for newspapers … well, that’s fair game.

WHAT IS TRULY alarm-ing about all this is that Kansas legislators consider themselves experts on edu-cation. They are dismiss-ing work by real educators not because they know of a better route, but because, if truth be told, they don’t want to pay for the new cur-riculum.

So again, our children’s education — our state’s fu-ture — is being held hos-tage by legislators who don’t want to adequately fund needed programs.

At least that’s more pal-atable than all the mumbo-jumbo of the Common Core standards being the work of the devil.

Now, the fog clears.— Susan Lynn

Education reformwork of the devil, sayconspiracy theorists

When the Senate Judiciary Committee meets on Monday to resume marking up an im-migration bill, it will have two weeks of solid achievement to build on. The bipartisan “Gang of Eight” that drafted the deal has so far held to-gether. The full committee has rejected an array of amend-ments designed to cripple or kill the bill, while adopt-ing technical fixes and other amendments to make the sys-tem fairer, smarter and more generous.

Perhaps the most encour-aging victory was the crush-ing defeat on Tuesday of an amendment from Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, to reduce the future legal flow of immigrants — a proposal that laid bare the re-strictionist intent at the heart of Mr. Sessions’s broad and tenacious opposition to the bill. The other Republicans on the committee, even the bor-der hawk Ted Cruz of Texas, balked. Mr. Cruz used the mo-ment to profess his belief in America as a nation that wel-comes immigrants, and voted with everyone else to rebuff Mr. Sessions, 17 to 1.

Tuesday’s progress was matched in a workmanlike session on Thursday, where the senators voted on various

modifications to the E-Verify work-authorization program. The absence of drama was a sign of how far the reform ef-

fort has moved beyond dema-gogy. Every day of movement in the committee process is a rebuke to the politics of defi-ant stalemate.

The spirit of honest leg-islating has proved sturdy through two weeks, but this week brings more peril. Still pending are amendments from Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, to make the system more generous to high-tech companies hiring guest workers, and make it easier to ignore or displace Americans. The tech industry has already won sweet deals in the overall bargain, and crit-ics of these amendments say they could still blow apart the compromise. Then there are other amendments that seek to undercut the bill’s efforts to repair the overburdened im-migration courts, to reform

the immigration detention system, and to add due-pro-cess protections to a system cruelly deficient in fundamen-

tal fairness.We can be sure that the

hard-core opponents of re-form will continue to throw all they’ve got against this bill. But all they’ve got — so far, anyway — turns out to be not that much. With the an-nouncement on Thursday that a bipartisan group of House members had reached agree-ment in principle on its own immigration bill, the anti-immigration crowd — like Representatives Steve King of Iowa and Louie Gohmert of Texas, who held a news con-ference to denounce reform — is looking less like a crowd and more like a gaggle. There will be fireworks to come, es-pecially when the bills reach the floors of their houses. But the fundamental support for reform looks strong.

— The New York Times

Immigration bill presses on

The absence of drama was a sign of how far the reform effort has moved beyond demagogy. Ev-ery day of movement in the committee process is a rebuke to the politics of defiant stalemate.

A breakthrough in stem-cell research has again raised the specter of human cloning. The discovery by a team at Or-egon Health and Science Uni-versity moves the world incre-mentally closer to that result, but its more immediate effect will be to spur efforts to regen-erate healthy tissue for the in-jured and the ailing. Although it’s reasonable to worry about where such a discovery may lead, those concerns shouldn’t stop researchers from explor-ing the restorative properties of stem cells.

The promise of stem cells is that they can develop into many different kinds of tis-sues rather than being locked into a specific cellular fate. Researchers are using them to replicate and study diseased cells, and a few therapies in-volving stem cells are already in limited use.

The team at OHSU, which disclosed its work in a paper published online by Cell, cre-ated embryonic stem cells by replacing the nucleus in an unfertilized human egg with the nucleus from a skin cell, then harvesting the resulting stem cells. This long-sought technique may eventually let doctors create replacement cells for a wide variety of tis-sues from bits of a patient’s

own skin.One advantage to this ap-

proach is that, unlike much of the initial work on stem cells, it doesn’t require the destruc-tion of human embryos. That practice drew fierce opposi-tion from some religious lead-

ers and right-to-life groups, although their criticism has faded as researchers switched to adult stem cells and, more recently, regular cells re-programmed into stem cells through genetic engineering.

Some critics continue to ar-gue that it’s unethical to ma-nipulate the genetic makeup of human eggs even if they’re unfertilized, and others warn about potential harm to egg donors. The biggest ethical issue for the OHSU team, though, is that it artificially created a human embryo, al-beit one that was missing the components needed for im-

plantation and development as a fetus.

Much more research would have to be done before a lab could clone a viable, implant-able human embryo, scien-tists say, and such studies would face real barriers at

the Food and Drug Adminis-tration, the federal agencies that fund scientific research and the journals that publish it. There are also laws in sev-eral states, California among them, that bar human clon-ing. Still, the federal govern-ment needs to set rules that would stop researchers in this country from crossing the line between generating stem cells and trying to bring a cloned embryo to life. Adding a clear prohibition would help as-sure the public that stem cell research should be embraced, not feared.

— The Los Angeles Times

The specter of human cloning

The federal government needs to set rules that would stop researchers ... from crossing the line between generating stem cells and trying to bring a cloned embryo to life. Adding a clear prohibition would help assure the public stem cell research should be embraced, not feared.

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ics in rural Gas and heavily involved in a multitude of groups in Humboldt.

Black rural mailbox-es, each with the name of a senior painted in orange, were lined up in front of the stage.

“We hope you need one here later,” he told the seniors. “Think, what can Humboldt do for me, and what can I do for Humboldt.”

He allowed many of the students’ parents, friends and neighbors grew up in Humboldt and “are making a liv-ing for themselves here today.”

Kile Martin and Kris-tin McClanahan spoke on behalf of their class-mates.

They noted that grad-uates, all dressed the

same, are told that “in-dividuality is the key to success. However, we feel there is more to suc-cess than that.

“Hard work, determi-nation and perseverance are all important factors to being successful, but never underestimate the power of a good laugh, hanging out with friends and just enjoying life.”

“Just like our class quote from Dr. Seuss’s book. ‘Oh the Places You’ll Go’ ... I want to wish you all good luck on all your future en-deavors,” said McClana-han.

“To those of you who received honors, awards, and distinctions, I say well done,” Martin chimed in. “And to the C students, I say to you that you too may one day be president of the Unit-

ed States.”

BEFORE DIPLOMAS were handed out, several students were recog-nized.

McClanahan was giv-en the Humboldt Lions Club watch for having the top academic record in the class. Stevie Bar-foot won the Lions Club Scholarship. The Ro-tary Club watch, given to the male with the top academic record, went to Judiah Hawley.

The Dean A. McGee Scholarship was given to Aubrey Maxton; the Nina McGee Fellers Scholarship went to Cheyenne Schomaker; the Monarch Academic Achievement Award was won by Kristin McClanahan; the B&W Custom Trailer Hitch-es scholarship went to

Benjamin Welch.

A HOUR BEFORE commencement, a bac-calaureate service drew about half the graduat-ing seniors.

“Monday, adulthood will slap you right in the face,” said the Rev. Shirley Fisher, Faith Assembly of God min-ister.

She reminded the students that “the Lord Jesus Christ loves you more than anyone and he will be there for you,” in whatever tri-als and tribulations may arise. “If you seek God, He will guide you in all things that you can imagine. God wants to take you higher than you can imagine.

“His plans for you are glorious,” she conclud-ed.

through their zoning powers, building codes and home rule powers,” he said. “It will simply prevent the state from doing that unilaterally, without consent of lo-cal government and without any notice or hearing rights to the owners of properties.”

The problem arose more than two years ago, Bideau continued, with a proposed his-torical district in Cha-nute.

“We were shocked to discover the state was putting on these perpetual restric-tions that could never be changed, without any notice or hearing rights to property own-

ers.”He proposed and en-

couraged the legisla-tion.

However, he added, “Owners should be very careful about put-ting a property on the National Registry, be-cause it will then be subject to permanent restrictions that may adversely impact their investment in the prop-erty and their insur-ance costs.”

Humboldt’s Down-town Action Team and the town’s governing body had sought to have the law changed, with thoughts of pro-posing downtown structures, including the bandstand, for the national registry.

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members in Iola thought the city needed Jaws of Life (hydraulic devices used to rescue people involved in car wrecks). A man, whom the group members left unnamed, said no one would listen to him.

“It was just one man,” Dunlap said.

But, he came to the Kiwanis group and within one month they had $25,000 raised to purchase the safety equipment.

“The community has to accept you to get any-thing done,” Roger Car-swell said. “They trust us.”

And this trust has translated into a Ki-wanis Club more active than ever.

The group has been involved in numerous aspects of the commu-nity. They run the train out in Riverside Park, set up bell-ringing sta-tions for the Salvation Army and contribute scholarships to Allen Community College.

From an national and international standpoint, Kiwan-is’ effect reaches all around the globe. John Shields, lieutenant gov-ernor for Kansas Ki-wanis District Three, gave a Power Point pre-sentation to the group during their meeting, explaining just how much the group does in the world.

He said more than 600,000 members world-wide have worked to make people’s lives better. Partnered with UNICEF, Kiwanis helped to “virtually eliminate” Iodine Defi-ciency Disorders (IDD) in developing coun-tries. According to Shields’ information, approximately 70 per-cent of those in devel-oping countries have access to iodized salt today.

A project currently

under way for Kiwanis International is Elimi-nate — a project meant to eliminate neonatal tetanus. The disease kills one in every nine newborns, mainly due to a lack of sanitation during the birth pro-cess. The disease is prevented through a se-ries of three vaccines, which cost about $1.80 per mother. Kiwanis hopes to raise $110 mil-lion by 2015 to protect 61 million mothers and their babies.

WHEN IT BOILS down to it, “it’s all about the community,” Nevans said.

Whether it is a com-munity in Iola, or across the world, Ki-wanians do their best to make lives better. President Wrench said nothing they do would be possible without the help of the community, however.

“It has really been humbling,” she said.

The group said local businesses have been “extremely helpful” whenever they need to raise money for differ-ent causes. It all comes down to the trust.

“They know it is go-ing to help someone in the community,” Ne-vans said.

None of the money raised by the group is used for club expenses, it all goes to the com-munity.

“Money we collect here, we like to spend here,” Carswell said.

Whatever the cause, the group concurred they enjoy the camara-derie of helping people. Nevans said it is nice to help those in need, even though volunteer groups don’t always receive recognition for their work. But, some-times it’s good to be known in the commu-nity as people who care.

“It’s nice to have some quiet recogni-tion,” Nevans said.

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spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Manage-ment. Booth said six at Steelman Estates were hurt.

Following the twisters, local emergency officials went from home site to home site in an effort to account for everyone. Cain said that, many times in such situations, people who are not found immediately are discov-ered later to have left the area ahead of the storm. Booth said everyone from the trailer park had been found.

Forecasters had been warning of a general storm outbreak since Wednesday, and for Sun-day’s storms some resi-dents had more than a half-hour’s notice that a twister was on the way. Tornado watches and warnings were in effect through late Sunday in much of the nation’s midsection.

The trailer park west of Shawnee was among the hardest-hit areas, and among the hardest to reach, as tractor-trail-ers forced the closure of a section of Inter-

state 40 north of the site and power lines draped across roads to the south.

James Hoke lives with his wife and two children in Steelman Estates. He said the family went into their storm cellar as the storm approached. When they came out, their mo-bile home had vanished.

“It took a dead hit,” Hoke said.

A storm spotter told the National Weather Service that the tornado left the earth “scoured” at the mobile home park — using a term used by storm chasers to de-scribe grass being ripped out by high winds.

“It seemed like it went on forever. It was a big rumbling for a long time,” said Shawn Sa-vory, standing outside his damaged remodeling business in Shawnee. “It was close enough that you could feel like you could reach out and touch it.”

Gov. Mary Fallin de-clared an emergency for 16 Oklahoma counties that suffered from se-vere storms and flood-ing during the weekend. The declaration lets lo-cal governments acquire

goods quickly to respond to their residents’ needs and puts the state in line for federal help if it be-comes necessary.

Heavy rains and straight-line winds hit much of western Oklaho-ma on Saturday. Torna-does were also reported Sunday at Edmond, Arca-dia and near Wellston to the north and northeast of Oklahoma City. The supercell that generated the twisters weakened as it approached Tulsa, 90 miles to the northeast.

“I knew it was com-ing,” said Randy Grau, who huddled with his wife and two young sons in their Edmond home’s safe room when the tor-nado hit. He said he peered out his window as the weather worsened and believed he saw a flock of birds heading down the street.

“Then I realized it was swirling debris. That’s when we shut the door of the safe room,” said Grau, adding that they remained in the room for 10 minutes.

In Wichita, a tornado touched down near Mid-Content Airport on the city’s southwest side

shortly before 4 p.m., knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses but bypassing the most populated areas of Kansas’ biggest city. The Wichita tornado was an EF1 on the enhanced Fujita scale, with winds of 110 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

Sedgwick County Emergency Management Director Randy Duncan said there were no re-ports of fatalities or inju-ries in Kansas.

There were also two re-ports of tornadoes touch-ing down in Iowa on Sunday night, including one near Huxley, about 20 miles north of Des Moines, and one in Grun-dy County, northeast of Des Moines, according to the Des Moines Reg-ister. There were no im-mediate reports of major damage or injuries.

In Oklahoma, aerial television news footage showed homes with sig-nificant damage north-east of Oklahoma City. Some outbuildings ap-peared to have been lev-eled, and some homes’ roofs or walls had been knocked down.

“When I first drove into the neighborhood, I didn’t see any major dam-age until I pulled into the front of my house,” said Csaba Mathe, of Ed-mond, who found a part of his neighbor’s fence in his swimming pool. “My reaction was: I hope insurance pays for the cleaning.”

“I typically have two trash cans, and now I have five in my drive-way.”

The Storm Prediction Center had been warn-ing about severe weath-er in the region since Wednesday, and on Fri-day, it zeroed in on Sun-day as the day the storm system would likely pass through.

“They’ve been call-ing for this all day,” Ed-mond resident Anita Wright said after riding out the twister in an un-derground shelter. She and her husband, Ed, emerged from their hid-ing place to find uprooted trees, downed limbs and damaged gutters in their home.

In Katie Leathers’ backyard, the family’s trampoline was tossed through a section of fence and a giant tree up-rooted.

“I saw all the trees waving, and that’s when I grabbed everyone and got into two closets,” Leathers said.

“All these trees just snapped.”

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — If you want your workout buddy to im-prove, keep your mouth shut.

That’s the advice from researchers at Kansas State University and Michigan State Univer-sity.

Assistant Kansas State kinesiology pro-fessor Brandon Irwin said in a news release that the initial hunch was that encourage-

ment would be motivat-ing. But the researchers found it had almost the opposite effect.

In the study, subjects were told they would be exercising with a part-ner, although the part-ner was a looped video recording.

Researchers found that people exercised the longest when working out with a partner who was better and wasn’t verbally encouraging.

Study shows workoutencouragement won’t help

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Sports BThe Iola Register Monday, May 20, 2013

Folk wins at Humboldt (left) —B3Athletics cap sweep of Royals, 4-3 — B3

By RICHARD [email protected]

Breanna Stout earned her trip to the upcoming state track meet the hard way.

Despite suffering from a back injury she sustained ear-lier in Friday’s Class 4A Re-gional Track Meet, Stout still topped all comers in the pole vault.

Stout cleared 9 feet, even while wincing noticeably after each attempt.

“My back hurts, but I know I can do better at state,” Stout said.

Stout will be Wichita for the state meet, which begins Fri-day.

She will be joined by team-mates Emery Driskel and Ash-ley Campbell, both of whom qualified in multiple events at the 4A regional, hosted by Iola at Riverside Park.

Campbell qualified in the short sprints, the 100-, 200- and 400-meter dashes, while Driskel has plenty of hurdling in her future. She qualified in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles.

THERE was plenty of dra-ma for all three Fillies quali-fiers.

Stout injured her back ear-ly Friday, on her first javelin throw.

Even then, Stout threw the javelin a career-best 122 feet, 7 1/2 inches. She declined to throw in the finals because of the injury, which meant she could not improve upon her fifth place finish, thus sacrific-ing a chance to throw in Wich-ita. (Only the top four finish-ers qualify for state).

“This is her first year to

throw, and she has improved every meet,” Iola track coach Marv Smith said.

DRISKEL SET a pair of per-sonal records in her hurdles races, finishing in second at 100 meters and fourth at 300 meters, although she injured her foot in the 300, which may limit her practice time this week, Smith said.

Her improved time in the 100 hurdles was by a literal step by step process, Smith ex-plained.

“One week ago, she ran four strides between hurdles and alternated lead legs at the league meet,” smith said. ‘We simply had not had enough good practice sessions to get

her to three steps between hurdles.”

Much of the credit goes to assistant coach Vicki Snavely, who worked extensively with Driskel in the run up to re-gionals, Smith said.

“Emery may have placed, but would not have qualified if she had run her four-stride pattern. We have two very happy girls” — Snavely and Driskel — Smith said.

CAMPBELL’S day started on a rough note when she struggled off the starting line in the 100 finals.

“Her start was terrible,” Smith said. “I was standing

Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Tyler Powelson, center, leads a group of competitors around the curve in the 1600-meter run Friday at the Class 4A Regional Track meet.

FILLIES ATHLETES STATEBOUND

Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Emery Driskel, above, qualified for the state track meet in the 100-meter hurdles Friday, while Breanna Stout, right, qualified by winning the pole vault at the Class 4A Regional Meet at Iola’s Riverside Park.

Powelson overcomes illness to win 1600

WELLSVILLE — Humboldt High’s Tanner McNutt will continue his run into local track and field history when he travels to the state track meet starting Friday in Wich-ita.

McNutt, a senior, will look to defend his state 800-meter run title after he successfully qualified in the 800 as well as the 400- and 200-meter dashes and with Humboldt’s 4x400-meter relay team with Sam Aguirre, Ethan Bartlett and Nick Keazer. All competed Fri-day at the Class 3A Regional Meet, hosted by Wellsville.

McNutt won the 800 with a

BURLINGTON — Daylen Houk’s return to the Marma-ton Valley High track and field team culminated Friday in his qualifying for state in four events.

Houk earned state bids in the 100-, 200- and 400-meter dashes and as a member of Marmaton Valley’s 4x100-me-ter relay team, all by placing in the top four of each event at the Class 1A Regional Meet, hosted by Southern Coffey County at Burlington High School.

Meanwhile, teammate Lu-cas Hamlin earned a state nod in the 400, courtesy of his third place finish.

“Daylen had a lot of run-ning today with preliminaries and finals, and you could tell

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By RICHARD [email protected]

Tyler Powelson wasn’t go-ing to let an illness stop him from a pair of impressive rac-es Friday.

The Iola High junior was hoping for a pair of strong finishes in the 1600- and 3200-meter runs at the Class 4A Regional Meet before a nasty respiratory infection struck this week.

“I could barely breathe,” he said.

Until he stepped on the track.

Powelson led from start to finish to win the 1600 regional title in 4 minutes, 37.72 sec-onds, barely a second off his personal record.

“It felt a little better out there running,” Powelson

said.“He was determined not

only to ‘punch his ticket’ but to win a gold medal,” Iola head coach Marv Smith said.

Smith was unsure what to expect from Powelson the rest of the night. He pulled him from Powelson’s other spe-cialty, the 800-meter run, but not because of illness.

“We have five of the state’s top 11 half-milers in our re-gional,” Smith said.

The 800 field was so loaded, Paola’s Luke Wilson, a 2012 state medalist, finished in 2 minutes flat, and did not qualify.

Smith’s plan was to focus on the 3200 to give Powelson a chance at a second event at state, “but that was before

the breathing problems sur-faced,” Smith said. “I doubted he could run the eight laps, but Tyler didn’t.”

Powelson stayed glued to the front pack of runners in the 3200, finally coming in fourth within a few strides of winning his second event.

“I’m convinced Tyler would have won that race un-der different circumstances,” Smith said.

Powelson is convinced he can run faster in Wichita.

“It’s going to be an entirely different environment,” he said, with faster runners.

That bodes well for Pow-elson, who has won his last several 1600s without being threatened, including Friday.

“It’s hard to go faster if you

don’t have anybody pushing you,” he said. “I’m sure I’ll have that at state.”

POWELSON is Iola’s only male qualifier for state this year.

Junior Michael Wilson and senior Eli Grover both had near misses.

Wilson finished fifth in the pole vault, even after clearing 12 feet, while Grover set a per-sonal best in the discus with a throw of 132 feet, 11 inches.

Grover’s throw was good for fourth, even through the final round. But another com-petitor showed up at the last minute and tossed the discus 138 feet, pushing Grover to fifth and out of state.

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Tournamentat Salina

Thursday, vs. Field Kind-ley, 11 a.m.

Radio: KIOL 1370Friday, TBAHigh School Track

Friday-Saturday, state track meet, Wichita.

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he wasn’t as fast as nor-mal, but he still found a way to push through it and make it in all four events,” Marmaton Val-ley assistant coach Scott Brady said. “Hopefully, he can put the exclama-tion point on an incred-ible season at state next weekend.”

Houk, a senior, is re-turning to track after playing baseball for the Wildcats the past two seasons.

“Lucas ran a great race to get himself to state,” Brady said. “He got out front early and kept his pace.”

Hamlin and Houk are Marmaton Valley’s first individual sprinters to qualify for the state meet in several years.

Crest’s Jordan Morton in the Class 1A regional javelin champion. He won with a throw of 167 feet, 11 inches and will represent the Lancers in Wichita. Teammate Rene Rodriguez will race in the 100 at Wichita. He finished just behind Houk in third in 12.00 seconds.

The Southern Coffey County 4x800-meter re-lay team also earned a state bid, courtesy of its second place finish.

Brady also noted Mar-maton Valley’s 4x800 relay team of Hamlin,

Gonzales, Stevenson and Wyatt Bolinger took fifth with a season-best time by 17 seconds. They missed qualifying for state by about a second.

ON THE GIRLS’ side, Crest High’s Kurston Gilliland is a three-time state qualifier. She earned bids with her sec-ond place finishes in the shot put and javelin and her third place mark in the discus.

Girls100-meter dash: 14. Brook-

lyn, Gray-Lacross, C, 14.99200-meter dash: 12. Gray-

Lacross, C, 31.74400-meter dash: 8. Gray-

Lacross, C, 1:13.11; 9. Maria Rodriguez, C, 1:22.27

800-meter run: 5. Chenae Newkirk, SCC, 2:35.92

1600-meter run: 10. Ashtynn Louk, MV, 6:47.16

100-meter hurdles: 8. Mar-tyna Hegwald, SCC, 19.15;

300-meter hurdles: 8. Mart. Hegwald, SCC, 56.98

4x100-meter relay: 9. Crest, 59.90

4x400-meter relay: 6. South-ern Coffey Co., 4:46.50

4x800-meter relay: 2. South-ern Coffey Co., 11:15.94

High jump: 5. Sarah Webb, SCC, 4’8”

Long jump: 15. Tiffany Jack-man, C, 12’9 1/4”; 16. Macken-zie Tynon, MV, 12’9”; 17. Maria Rodriguez, C, 11’2 1/2”

Triple jump: 9. Louk, MV, 29’9 3/4”; 15. Jackman, C, 26’3”

Shot put: 2. Kurston Gilliland, C, 39’3 3/4”; 12. Breanna Isch, SCC, 28’2””; 13. Krystal Cooper, C, 27’7 1/4”; Regan Morrison, C, 26’11 1/2”

Discus: 3. Gilliland, C, 113’1”; 6. Myranda Hegwald, SCC, 91’11”; 17. Morrison, C, 67’1”;

18. Cooper, C, 64’5”Javelin: 2. Gilliland, C,

113’10”; 8. Isch, SCC, 84’11”; 15. Connie Lyda, SCC, 80’11”; 18. Emily Frank, C, 68’1”

Boys100-meter dash: 2. Daylen

Houk, MV, 11.74; 3. Rene Ro-driguez, C, 12.00

200-meter dash: 4. Houk, MV, 24.45; 5. Rodriguez, C, 24.49; 7. Carlos Gonzales, MV, 25.58; 17. Jordan Morton, C, 25.94; 18. Josiah Witteman, SCC, 26.08; 19. Codi Vermillion, C, 26.69

400-meter dash: 3. Lucas Hamlin, MV, 56.26; 4. Houk, MV, 57.16; 8. Vermillion, C, 1:05.90; 9. Evan Godderz, C, 1:09.58

800-meter run: 8. Aaron True, SCC, 2:19.39; 10. Wyatt Bolinger, MV, 2:24.76; 12. Mi-chael Armstrong, C, 2:36.33; 13. Dal Lacey, C, 2:48.27; 14. Hamlin, MV, 2:49.32

1600-meter run: 7. Arm-strong, C, 5:35.08; 8. Marcus Miller, MV, 5:35.69; 11. Lacey, C, 5:59

3200-meter run: 7. Chance Stevenson, MV, 12:35.15

300-meter hurdles: 6. Dylan Sedlak, C, 44.29; 9. Gonzales, 45.78

4x100-meter relay: 3. MV (Garrett Booth, Gonzales, Stevenson, Houk), 46.43; 10. Southern Coffey Co., 48.68

4x400-meter relay: 6. South-ern Coffey Co., 3:53.92; 7. MV (), 4:09.98

4x800-meter relay: 5. MV ( ), 9:03.44; 6. Crest, 9:45.53; 7. Southern Coffey Co., 9:56.13

Long jump: 11. Hunter Pan-key, SCC, 18’8”

Shot put: 2. Walker Harred, SCC, 43’3”; 14. Trent Johnson, MV, 34’6 1/2” 21. Trevor Free-love, 27’7 1/2”

Discus: 3. Walker Harred, SCC, 142’1”; 19. Freelove, C, 61’2

Javelin: 1. Morton, C, 167’11”; 2. True, SCC, 165’1”; 9. Johnson, MV, 131’11”; 14. God-

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the 30-meter mark and she was in last. Her last 50 meters must have been super.”

As Campbell walked toward her coach fol-lowing the race, he was ready to offer a pep talk.

“I said, ‘Hey, you just have to put that race out of your mind,’” Smith said.

“Marv, I qualified!,” Campbell bellowed in re-sponse.

“I really did not be-lieve it until it was an-nounced,” Smith said.

Campbell wound up in fourth at 13.2 seconds.

She added a pair of third place finishes in the 400 at 1:03.75 and in the 200 at 27.07 seconds.

“Not her best races,” Smith said. “She ran tight and robotic. She can go faster.”

IOLA’S Abigail Taylor ran a strong 1600-meter run, but was relegated to fifth with a time of 5 minutes, 38.76 seconds.

“This was a tough race,” Smith said. “Southeast Kansas is loaded with distance standouts. She would have qualified at two other regionals. This was the hardest work-ing, most dedicated girl we have had in a long time. It is such a shame she will miss the state meet.”

Taylor finished ninth in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:34.84.

“Her time was excel-

lent, but so was the field of runners,” Smith said.

Several other under-classmen showed their stuff at regionals, but will not advance to state, Smith noted.

“With our freshman class to go with Camp-bell and Driskel in the sophomore class, we should be OK next year,” Smith said. “Breanna is our only senior. We have loved what she has given us.”

The Fillies finished fourth as a squad with 42 points, three points bet-ter than Chanute. Paola, the defending 4A girls champion, won the team title with 147 points. Pittsburg was second with 85 and Coffeyville third with 48.

100-meter dash: 4. Ashley Campbell, 13.14

200-meter dash: 3. Camp-bell, 27.07

400-meter dash: 3. Camp-bell, 1:03.75; 8. Olivia Bannis-

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ter, 1:09.03800-meter run: 9. Abigail

Taylor, 2:34.84; 17. Mikaela Platt, 2:49.13

1600-meter run: 5. Taylor, 5:38.76

100-meter hurdles: 2. Emery Driskel, 16.57; 9. Cassie Delich, 19.32

300-meter hurdles: 4. Driskel, 50.16; 11. Delich, 55.98

4x100-meter relay: 9. Iola (Driskel, Breanna Stout, Delich, Platt) 55.06

4x400-meter relay: 9. Iola (Driskel, Campbell, Taylor, Delich), 4:31.35

Pole vault: 1. Stout, 9’Long jump: 15. Bannister,

13’8 3/4”Shot put: 8. Darci Collins,

32’9 1/2”Discus: 14. Jessica Oakley,

88’; 16. Collins, 78’9”Javelin: 5. Stout, 122’7 1/2”

Mikaela Platt

mark of 2 minutes, 8.86 seconds. He finished second in the 400 and fourth in the 200.

Aguirre also will head to Wichita in the 110-meter hurdles. He qualified by finish-ing third, as did Ethan Bartlett in the 400. Agu-irre narrowly missed qualifying in the 300-meter hurdles. He corralled a fifth place finish there.

Bryce Isaac will com-pete at state in the tri-ple jump. He qualified by finishing third at re-gionals with his leap of 40 feet, 5 inches.

On the girls’ side, Humboldt’s Sheri Mid-dleton qualified for state with her fourth place finish in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:04.85.

Boys110-meter hurdles: 3. Sam-

uel Aguirre, 16.04; Kyle Doo-little, 21.87

4x800-meter relay: 6. Hum-boldt (Ethan Bartlett, Bryce Isaac, Nick Keazer, Andrew Keazer), 8:58.72

100-meter dash: 13. N. Ke-azer, 12.23; 17. Hayden Bor-ing, 13.29

1600-meter run: 10. Rayden Goltry, 5:30.40

400-meter dash: 2. Tan-

ner McNutt, 52.72; 3. Bartlett, 52.78

300-meter hurdles: 5. Agu-irre, 42.44; 11. Logan Rose-berry, 49.54

800-meter run: 1. McNutt, 2:08.86; 5. A. Keazer, 2:10.10

200-meter dash: 4. McNutt, 23.62

4x400-meter relay: 1. Hum-boldt (Aguirre, Bartlett, N. Ke-azer, McNutt), 3:29.93

Long jump: 8. Isaac, 19’1”Triple jump: 3. Isaac, 40’5”

Girls100-meter dash: 14 Shayli

Ellis, 14.324x800-meter relay: 6. Hum-

boldt (Kolbyn Allen, Rachael Taylor, Sheri Middleton, Haylie Yost), 11:20.63

400-meter dash: 4. Sheri Middleton, 1:04.85

Long jump: 6. Ellis, 14’10 1/2”

Triple jump: 9. Ellis, 29’8”

Photos by Mike MyerHumboldt High track athlete Samuel Aguirre, above, qualified for the Class 3A state track meet in Wichita in the 110-meter hurdles Friday in Wellsville. He will be joined at state by his teammates, including, from left, Ethan Bartlett, Tanner McNutt and Sheri Middleton.

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Photo by Dayton Sutterby/FinishLine PhotographyJustin “Whitey” Folk, foreground, cuts beneath Ryan McAninch to take the lead for good Friday in the modified feature at Humboldt Speedway.

Racing heats up at Humboldt Speedway

“It was still a great meet for Eli,” Smith said. “To get a score in a 16-team meet with a per-sonal best throw should be enough of a reward, but...”

Wilson, meanwhile, can take solace in fact that the top four finish-ers at regionals — in-cluding the defending state champion — are all seniors.

Adam Kauth also set a personal mark in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 42.58 seconds, putting him in sixth. He qualified for the 110-me-ter finals but was dis-qualified for a false start.

Jacob Harrison ran the 400-meter dash in 53.38 seconds, about a second slower than his regional mark a year ago and before a hair-line fracture in his foot kept Harrison in the season opener kept him sidelined much of the spring.

Tyler McIntosh com-

peted in the long jump and triple jump for the first time since early in the season because of a hamstring injury.

“He could feel some soreness, but he wanted to jump,” Smith said.

With those injuries, plus Jeremy Spears’ ill-ness Friday, Smith de-clined to enter any Mus-tang relay teams.

The Mustangs fin-ished 12th at region-als with 19 points. Cof-feyville earned the regional championship with 94 points.

Iola results:400-meter dash: 7. Jacob

Harrison, 53.381600-meter run: 1. Tyler

Powelson, 4:37.723200-meter run: 4. Powel-

son, 10:20.37110-meter hurdles: Adam

Kauth, 16.46 (DQ in finals)300-meter hurdles: 6. Kauth,

42.8Pole vault: 5. Michael Wil-

son, 12’Long jump: 11. Tyler McIn-

tosh, 18’9”Triple jump: 15. McIntosh,

38’3”Shot put: 13. Eli Grover, 40’2”Discus: 5. Grover, 132’11”

By ZACK MARKHAMHUMBOLDT — Hum-

boldt Speedway was back in normal work-ing order Friday with the year’s first good night of weather.

In the Whitworth Construction pure stock feature, Derrek Wilson led from start to finish, even with a handful of cautions that kept the field close together. Donnie Devers came up to take second. Stetson Deets finished third.

The Ray’s Metal De-pot B-Mod feature was a fast one, particularly for Jeremy Chambers, who used the low line to

get in front of Jimmie Davis, who had won the heat race earlier in the evening. Riley Whit-worth finished third. Tyler Kidwell worked his way up through traffic for fourth. First-time driver at Hum-boldt, Matthew Lang, took home fifth.

Jeremy Wilson and Tyler James won their factory stock heat races to earn front-row start-ing spots in the feature. Jeremy Wilson took the early lead before a col-lision with another car flattened his tire. A fe-verish pit stop kept him in the race, where he fended off a late charge

from Tyler James to claim the win.

James held on for second. Jay Lamons was third, David Mat-lock fourth and Clint Drake fifth.

Justin Folk’s night al-most was over before it started.

His modified race car rolled off the trailer as he drove onto the speed-way grounds.

He and his crew were able to repair whatever damage the car sus-tained, enough to win his heat race to set up a titan-ic feature match up with Luke Driskel of Kansas City and Chanute’s John-ny Allen, each of whom won their heats.

All three took a back

seat early in the feature to Ryan McAninch, who held the early advan-tage.

But that was before Folk made a few adjust-ments and took the lead at the halfway point.

Folk finished first, followed by Josh Ever-hart, McAninch, Jess Folk Jr., and Driskell.

Friday’s regular race session this week will be followed by Sunday’s Whitworth Memorial Race, paying $1,063 to win the modified fea-ture, $563 to win the B-mod series and $363 for the pure stocks.

Campers are wel-come to spend the weekend on the race grounds.

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Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Tyler McIntosh competes in the long jump at Friday’s Class 4A Regional Track Meet af-ter being sidelined most of the year due to injury.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Yoenis Cespedes hit a leadoff home run in the eighth inning and the Athletics beat the Royals to complete a three-game

sweep.Cespedes hit his

eighth homer, connect-ing against Kelvin Her-rera (2-4).

Jerry Blevins (3-0) pitched one scoreless in-ning. Ryan Cook worked the ninth for his first save of the season.

Alex Gordon matched his career high of four hits for Kansas City. The Royals have lost 10 of 13 and fallen back to .500.

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High ed cuts keyin tax talks

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Proposed cuts in spending on higher edu-cation is a key issue for Kansas legislators as the House and Senate at-tempt to reconcile their differences on the state budget.

Legislative leaders hoped negotiations would resume Monday on proposed budgets of roughly $14.5 billion for each of the next two fiscal years, beginning in July. Talks broke off Friday, delaying the end of lawmakers’ annual session

The two chambers disagree over funding for state universities, community colleges and technical colleges

— and both are at odds with Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s rec-ommendations.

Brownback wants to hold higher educa-tion funding flat for two years.

The House is propos-ing a 4 percent cut dur-ing the next fiscal year. The Senate is proposing to phase in a 2 percent cut over two years.

Tax talks ata standstill

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Negotiations are at a standstill between the Kansas House and Sen-ate over the state’s sales tax rate and proposals to cut individual in-come taxes.

Three senators and three House members

appointed to reconcile the differences between their chambers on tax issues had no meetings scheduled today.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and GOP leaders in the Republi-can-dominated Legisla-ture want to follow up on individual income tax cuts enacted this year with more cuts.

But the two chambers disagree over Brown-back’s proposal to sta-bilize the budget by keeping the sales tax at 6.3 percent, rather than letting it drop to 5.7 per-cent in July, as sched-uled by state law.

The Senate approved Brownback’s sales tax plan. House GOP lead-ers have proposed set-ting the rate at 6 per-cent.

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By PHIL CAUTHONKHI News ServiceSYRACUSE — Two

years ago, voters here approved tax increas-es to keep the 25-bed Hamilton County Hos-pital open. The county sales tax went up by a half-cent and property taxes went up 20 per-cent, both permanent increases.

Now hospital offi-cials are asking the county for another $3 million in “no-fund warrants” to support the operations of the facility, which employs 108 people. Otherwise, the hospital faces the prospect of closing, said Phyllis Horning, the interim chief ex-ecutive.

“We can probably go another month with-out doing something,” Horning said. Closing “is a possibility, but it’s sure not where I want to be. I do believe the no-fund warrants issue will pass. I don’t really have any doubt that it will.”

In March, commis-sioners unanimously approved the request for $3 million to be re-paid over four years by county taxpayers.

However, a petition is circulating to put the measure to a county-wide vote. If 63 signa-tures are collected by June 3, the vote will be held sometime in July — pushing back to August the earliest the funds could be avail-able.

Syracuse Mayor Joe Stephens, owner of the town’s bowling alley and gun shop, is among the 55 or so people who so far have signed the petition.

“I signed the peti-tion not as mayor but as a citizen,” Stephens said. “We’re trying to find out why they need $3 million to operate all of a sudden. We didn’t arrive at this point overnight. It seems to be a pattern that about every two or three years they’re coming and asking for more money.

“Nobody in their right mind wants to lose the hospital. But we can’t just be taxed to death. They say they’ve lost revenue because they don’t have doc-

tors. Well, if my busi-ness falls off, we make whatever adjustments we have to make — if it’s laying people off, cutting services, not supplying something. But we haven’t seen any of that up there.”

Hospital officials are scheduled to make the case for the $3 million in bonds to the com-munity 7 p.m. Friday at the Syracuse High School gymnasium.

“The meeting Friday is to explain to every-body how we got where we are and where we’re trying to get to,” Horn-ing said.

Budget woesAmong the factors

threatening to put the hospital’s $5 million annual budget in the red is declining oil and gas tax revenue — the main variable behind the county’s quarterly allotment to the hospi-tal, said County Clerk Angie Moser.

In 2007, the hospital received $1.1 million from the county prop-erty tax when it was 15 mills, plus another $12,000 to $18,000 per month from the sales tax.

In 2011, the hospital received only about $690,000 even after the property tax was raised to 18 mills. The sales tax revenue re-mained stable.

“Oil and gas produc-tion around here has really dropped. And the state assesses the valuation on public utilities and that really dropped. And that’s af-fected the hospital,” Moser said.

Another hit on the hospital budget was the installation of a new $800,000 electronic health records system. Hospitals that don’t have a digital records system by 2015 will receive reduced Medi-care reimbursements from the federal gov-ernment.

But by far the big-gest factor behind the hospital’s financial problems has been the lack of its own doctor, Horning said.

“Once we can get one hired, it should all turn around,” she said.

In January, the hospi-tal lost its doctor when

it could not afford to renew its contract with Greeley County Health Services, which for five years had supplied Syr-acuse one to three part-time doctors.

Hospital officials were able to recruit a semi-retired physi-cian from Atwood, Dr. Charles Zerr, to fill the void. But he only start-ed last week.

Hospital board mem-ber Shannon Wharton said the board reached a “handshake agree-ment” with Zerr to work with the hospital while the hospital con-tinues the search for a permanent doctor.

“He’s willing to work with us. He’s been won-derful as far as doing as much or as little as we need,” Wharton said.

Recruiting doctorsWharton said a cen-

tral element of the long-term strategic plan to be presented at Friday’s meeting is changing how the hos-pital recruits doctors.

“We can’t just rely on outside companies to do all of our recruiting for us. Now, it’s going to be an ongoing pro-cess that never stops,” Wharton said.

“We’re not just go-ing to recruit one doc-tor and sit back and say ‘We’ve got our doctor, we’re in good shape.’ We’re looking at starting earlier with doctors in residency programs,” she said, citing the University of Kansas residency programs in Salina and Wichita, which face possible elimination or reductions if some budget cuts proposed by the Legislature are enacted.

It’s more challeng-ing than ever to recruit doctors, Wharton said.

“There’s not as many graduates going into family medicine like we need. A lot of them are going into special-ties,” she said. “Rural doctors need to have more of a servant-ori-ented attitude. It has to be a passion for them. They have to be drawn more toward wanting to help the rural com-munity — the people — versus becoming a rich doctor. It’s a different mindset.”

Hamilton Co. hospital faces tax controversy, closure

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Sudoku is like a crossword puzzle, but uses numbers instead of words. The puzzle is a box of 81 squares, subdivided into 3x3 cubes of 9 squares each. Some squares are filled in with numbers. The rest should be filled in by the puzzler. Fill in the blank squares allowing the numbers 1-9 to appear only once in every row, once in every column and once in every 3x3 box. One-star puzzles are for beginners, and the difficulty gradually increases through the week to a very challenging five-star puzzle.

Dear Carolyn: I’m returning to work after a two-month absence. What was supposed to be maternity leave turned into a nightmare — my son was stillborn and I suffered a number of serious complications from a very difficult de-livery. I needed the time away from work to recu-perate. Although physi-cally I am doing much better, emotionally I am anything but.

I anticipate that some co-workers, although well-intentioned, may ask awkward and even inap-propriate questions about my son’s birth and death, and my subsequent heal-ing period. My nerves are raw and the last thing I want to do is discuss what happened with people I hardly know.

No matter how many times I rehearse a polite, “Thank you for your con-cern, but it’s too painful to talk about,” I feel like

people will no doubt in-trude on my space, which will set me off into a cry-ing spell. What advice do you have to preempt the

questions and conversa-tions I am anticipating?Anonymous

That’s horrible, I’m so sorry. Please ask your supervisor to let people know in advance that you’d rather not have any-one approach you at all.

I doubt you’ll be able to avoid all crying spells, so don’t waste any dread on that. Tears will come, and you’ll deal with them, and people in the office will understand. In a way, tip-ping off everyone before-

hand will let them know how they can help you, since no doubt that’s all they’ll want to do — help somehow. I think we all wish we could.

Hi, Carolyn: I teach at a small high school, and one of my co-workers is VERY nice, constantly thanking people for the everyday things they do. Every day.

Within the thank-you is often a putdown of him-self. For example, if he’s thanking me for my work with my math class, he will say something like, “Now if I weren’t such a crappy math teacher/coach/whatever, maybe our team/my class would do better.”

What should I say here? I think I know what he wants: for me to say, “NO! NO! You’re WON-DERFUL!” So, should I say that? The eighth time, and the 14th, and the 32nd time get a little

old.Nice, Kinda

No, please don’t of-fer up fished-for compli-ments. It doesn’t fix what he’s trying to fix and you’ll only sound insin-cere.

It might help you fig-ure out what to say if you keep it firmly in mind that, beyond being a bit of a nuisance, this guy’s problem isn’t really your problem. Not yours to solve, certainly, be it by giving him the coerced compliments or by try-ing to get at the deeper insecurity.

One thing you can of-fer, as a kindness to you both, is a verbal mirror in which to see himself, if he’s so inclined. When he puts himself down, respond by pointing out that he’d probably flag it if a student talked down on him- or herself that way, right? So why would he want to model it?

Prepare to heal a broken heart

Tell MeAbout It

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Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 64-year-old woman in fair-ly good health and who takes no medications. Both my mother, 88, and my sister, 53, take medica-tion for hypothyroidism. In the past four months, I have had blood work done three times to check my thyroid and had slightly elevated TSH scores (be-tween 5 and 7). My doctor then had me tested for an-tibodies, which came up negative.

I was told that since I don’t have antibodies, I should not be treated. When I asked about the elevated TSH levels, I was told, “We do not treat ‘old age’ hypothyroidism.”

If my levels are elevat-ed, what does the pres-ence of antibodies mean? Am I hypothyroid or not? — S.S.

Answer: I don’t know if you are hypothyroid ei-ther. I suspect not. But the issue, as far as I can see, is not so much the antibod-ies, but the level of your actual thyroid hormone — free T4. The thyroid-stimulating hormone is made by the pituitary gland in the brain, and its job is to stimulate the thy-roid gland in the neck to make more thyroid hor-mone.

If the thyroid gland is not producing quite enough hormone, usually because of autoimmune disease (antibodies at-tacking the thyroid), the brain senses this and in-

creases TSH. Sometimes the thyroid gland is able to make enough hormone to be in the normal range. We call this “subclini-cal hypothyroidism,” or “compensated primary hypothyroidism.” Most physicians do not treat

this condition if there are no other symptoms of hy-pothyroidism, such as fa-tigue, cold intolerance or muscle weakness. How-ever, in this situation, having thyroid antibod-ies, showing autoimmune disease, makes the devel-

opment of symptomatic hypothyroidism much more likely. If you have no symptoms, no antibod-ies and normal free T4 levels, then I don’t think you need treatment, but just to have periodic tests of both TSH and free T4.

High TSH doesn’t always need treatment

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Join the Largest Run/Walk in Southeast Kansas!

Summer Activity CalendarMay

Swim TeamIola Rec. Dept.Registration deadline is May 17. Regis-

tration forms available at the rec. building. Daily practices begin around Memorial Day, home and away swim meets are on Wednesday evenings.

Pickleball ClubIola Rec. Dept.Week nights, 6 p.m. at the Meadow-

brook tennis courts, North Cottonwood Street. Ages 15 to 90 may participate, equipment for first-time players is avail-able.

Quilting GroupIola Rec. Dept.Second Monday of each month, 6 to 8

p.m. in Bass Hall, the former North Com-munity Building, all ages are welcome.

Horseshoe Pitching LeagueIola Rec. Dept.Monday and Thursday evenings, 6:30-

8:30 p.m. at the Riverside Park horseshoe pits. All ages and skill levels are welcome to participate. Tournament dates are June 22, Aug. 10 and Oct. 9.

Bike Riding GroupIola Rec. Dept.Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m., meet

at Cofachique Park, North State Street. Organized leisure rides for all ages, 10 years and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Bring your own bikes, hel-mets recommended.

Swimming Pool OpensIola Rec. Dept.Memorial Day, May 27 at 1 p.m., River-

side Park. There will be contests, prizes, live radio and more.

ACC Summer Play Auditions

May 21-22Auditions will be 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the

ACC theater for ages 13 to 21. This year’s play is the musical “45 Minutes from Broadway.”

Tennis CampIola Rec. Dept.May 28-31Registration forms available at the rec.

office, deadline for registration is May 20. Camp is at the Iola High tennis courts, East Monroe Street, girls third through eighth grade may participate.

Cooking DemonstrationMay 30Takes place at the Farmers Market

5:30-6:30 p.m. on May 30, June 20, July 18. Canner pressure gauge testing will also be June 20 and July 18.

See, Hear IolaMay 31Come hear the good news about Iola

from local representatives. 10 a.m., Com-munity Building, Riverside Park. Held the last Friday of the month. Sponsored by the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce. Call the Chamber at 365-5252.

JuneStep into Summer Tour

June 1Southwind Extension District Master

Gardeners Landscape Tour is open and free to the public. Meet at Traci Keagle’s house in the 200 block of Elm Street at 9 a.m. There are five stops on the tour.

Iola City-Wide Garage SaleJune 2

Iola Rotary Pancake FeedJune 2

Co-Ed Sand VolleyballIola Rec. Dept.Registration forms available June 3,

ages 18 and older may participate.

Swimming LessonsIola Rec. Dept.Lesson registration begins June 5 at

the rec. office, ages three and older may participate. Registration deadline is July 3. Lessons will be offered during the weeks of June 17-21, July 8-12 and July 15-19.

Iola Municipal Band Concert/ Ice Cream Social

June 6The Girl Scouts are providing ice cream

and desserts, 7 p.m. at the bandstand. The music begins at 8 p.m.

Outreach Block PartyJune 7Hosted by the Allen County Farmers

Market 9-11:30 a.m.

Southwind Rail Trail (Iola-Humboldt) Grand Opening

June 8Sponsored by Thrive Allen County.

Takes place at the insersection of the Southwind Rail Trail and the Prairie Spirit Rail Trail on Bruner Street in Iola at 2 p.m. Participants are encouraged to walk or bi-cycle to the event!

Molly TrolleyJune 8Garden tour hosted by Barbara Ander-

son starts at 11 a.m.

Backyard Bible ClubsJune 10-14Will be held at various locations in La-

Harpe and Gas. For more information, call 288-1829.

Acts 1:8 One-Day MissionJune 15Mission group will leave from the LaHa-

rpe Baptist Mission at 8:30 a.m.

Children’s Summer Theatre Workshop I

June 10-21Students third through fifth grade are

welcome to participate. The workshop is at the Iola Community Theatre Ware-house from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Children’s Summer Theatre Workshop II

June 10-21Middle school students are welcome

to participate. The workshop is at the Iola Community Theatre Warehouse from 10 a.m. to noon.


June 13Hope Unlimited is providing ice cream


Reading RoundupJune 13Takes place at the Farmers Market

5:30-6:30 p.m. Other on July 11.

Grace Lutheran VBSJune 17-21Children ages 3-years-old to fifth grade

are welcome to attend from 9:30 a.m. to noon.

ACC Summer Play June 21-22ACC’s production of “45 Minutes from

Broadway will start at 7:30 p.m. in River-side Park.

K-State for Kids Day CampJune 21Call the K-State Extension office at

(620)-365-2242 for details and to register for the camp.

Molly TrolleyJune 22Cemetery tour hosted by Barbara An-

derson starts at 11 a.m.

Children’s Summer Theatre Workshop Performance

June 22The workshop students will perform at

9:30 a.m. at the Iola Community Theatre Warehouse.


June 27CrimeStoppers are providing ice cream


Molly TrolleyJune 29A tour of Yates Center hosted by Don-

na Houser starts at 10 a.m.

Molly TrolleyJune 30WPA tour hosted by Donna Houser

starts at 2 p.m.

JulyIola Municipal Band Concert/ Ice Cream Social

July 4The Veterans Day Committee is provid-

ing ice cream and desserts, 7 p.m. at the bandstand. The music begins at 8 p.m.

Molly TrolleyJuly 7Koi pond tour hosted by Barbara Ander-


Heritage Arts CampJuly 8-11The camp will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

in the Iola Public Library Flewharty-Powell Annex for children ages 3 to 5. For kinder-garten through eighth grade, camp will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Students will be intro-duced to entertainment, food, arts, crafts and themes related to the Old West.

Isometric Water Exercise ClassSwimming Lessons

Iola Rec. Dept.Monday, Wednesday and Friday morn-

ings, July 8-19 noon-1 p.m., July 22-Aug.9 11 a.m. to noon. Ages 16 and older may participate, no pre-registration necessary.


July 11ANW Preschool is providing ice cream


Molly TrolleyJuly 12Historic square tour hosted by Donna

Houser starts at 6 p.m.

Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life

July 12-13The largest 5K race in Southeast Kan-

sas! Festivities begin 5 p.m. on Friday, July 12, the 5K run/3K walk begins at 12:26 a.m. on Saturday, July 13. Festivities this year include a kids carnival; car show; rock climbing wall and mechanical bull; “Killer

Karaoke”; the nighttime “Parade of Lights” (9:30 p.m.) the 4th annual “drag” race; and the 5K itself just after midnight. A limited number of camping locations are available on the courthouse square. Registration open now. Call Thrive for details, 620-365-8128, or go to www.madbomberrun.com

ACMAT Family Safety NightJuly 13Takes place at the Farmers Market

5:30-6:30 p.m.

Molly TrolleyJuly 13Historic church tour hosted by Donna

Houser starts at 11 a.m.

Molly TrolleyJuly 14Historic railroad tour hosted by Donna


Missoula Children’s Theatre — “Blackbeard the Pirate” auditions

July 15Auditions are scheduled for July 15 at

12:30 p.m. in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Auditorium. Performance will include up to 60 local children, first through 12th grade. Rehearsals are Monday through Friday from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Students partici-pate for free.

Comics Crash CourseJuly 15-18Students from third grade to eighth

grade will learn how to create their own comics from instructor Stephen Gilpin each day from 9 to 11 a.m. in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center art room. All materials are pro-vided, pre-enrollment deadline is July 8.


July 18The Community Involvement Task

Force is providing ice cream and desserts, 7 p.m. at the bandstand. The music begins at 8 p.m.

Drawing for ComicsJuly 19From 9 a.m. to noon, instructor Stephen

Gilpin will demonstrate advanced tech-niques for drawing your own comics. This program is meant for high school students, all materials are provided. Located in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center art room, deadline for pre-enrollment is July 8.

Missoula Children’s Theatre — “Blackbeard the Pirate” performance

July 20Local students will perform for the public

at 3 p.m. in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center auditorium. The public is welcome to at-tend, prices are $3 for adults, $2 for chil-dren ages five and up, and children under five are free.

Molly TrolleyJuly 21Historic homes tour hosted by Donna



July 25Calvary Church is providing ice cream


Molly TrolleyJuly 27Koi pond tour hosted by Barbara Ander-


Youth Flag Football LeagueIola Rec. Dept.Registration forms available on July 26.

Students in grade 1st through fifth may participate.

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