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Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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PROGRAMStar Spangled Banner ..................................................arr. J.P. SousaAmericans We — march .......................................... Henry FillmoreRock, Rhythm and Blues — medley ......................arr. Jack BullockArmy of the Nile — march ...................................Kenneth J. AlfordBegin of the Beguine ...................................................... Cole PorterInvercargill — march ...................................................Alex LithgowHymn to the Fallen.................................... John Williams/SweeneyMen of Ohio — march ............................................. Henry FillmoreA Sixties Time Capsule — medley .............................. arr. JenningsThe Washington Post — march ...................................John P. Sousa

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

Register/Richard LukenMules Pat and Pete pull an antique sickle bar mower piloted by Ray Whiteley of Le Roy. Whiteley was joined by Greg Gleue in cutting an 18-acre prairie hay field Tuesday.

By SUSAN [email protected]

If you’ve got enough of it, Fri-day night is the night to let your hair down.

One sure test is to participate in the “Drag Race” as a runup to the Charlie Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life race.

Men and women alike are en-couraged to dress in a cross-gen-der manner and then “compete” in teams of four in a relay. Last

year a woman’s garter was trans-ferred from one participant’s leg to another.

“It’s better than a baton,” said David Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County and one of the organizers for Friday’s events.

If you don’t have a thing to wear — no worries.

Dresses, hats, purses, jewelry and other accoutrements will be available at Elizabeth Donnelly’s

The Shirt Shop, 20 W. Jackson, where participants will have a wide selection from which to choose. Doors open at 10 p.m.

Registration to participate in the drag race is $5. That also gains participants entrance to a 9:30 p.m. pre-party at the Thrive office, 12 W. Jackson. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Thrive office or Friday night on

By RICHARD [email protected]

LE ROY — Unlike the mecha-nized behemoths of today, Ray Whiteley’s mowing outfit was considerably quieter.

His “engine” — a pair of 1,200-pound mules — needed only an occasional break from the sti-fling summer heat as Whiteley traversed his way around an 18-acre prairie hay meadow.

“It’s a little warm, so we’ve been taking it easy,” Whiteley said. “It’s our little hobby.”

The mules were pulling White-ley’s antique sickle bar mower, a small wagon with cutting bar

attached. The bar was triggered through a gear box engaged as its wheels roll.

With no mechanical engine to speak of, the only noise emanat-ing from his unit was from the teeth of the seven-foot cutting bar rotating back and forth.

Joining Whiteley was neighbor and friend Greg Gleue, with his own mowing outfit, another sick-le bar mower pulled by a pair of Percheron draft horses.

“We’re having some fun with it,” Whiteley joked. “Greg’s kind of a wimp about it. He needs a

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

Register/Susan LynnThese men are ready to leave their inhibitions at home as they participate in Friday night’s favorite race, the drag race. From left to right are Matt Skahan, Brian Wolfe, Nic Lohman, David Toland and Fred Heismeyer. The race begins at 10:30 p.m. on the courthouse square.

By BOB [email protected]

Calls to the 911 dispatch center average one almost every 10 min-utes.

And while that may sound a lit-tle slow, played out over 24 hours a day and every day of the year, the total comes to 55,000.

“That’s what we received last year,” Angie Murphy, dispatch center director, told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morn-ing.

The call total — she figures half or more are for true emer-gencies — wasn’t the point of her appearance, but the magnitude of the number captivated commis-sioners.

Murphy was before commis-sioners to request a 20 percent increase in the department’s bud-get for 2012, up $126,000 over this year’s $490,000.

The increase seemed pretty hefty. Murphy reasoned health insurance will cost an additional $50,000 and another $6,000 was expected for Kansas Public Em-

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

See EGO | Page B6

By JOE [email protected]

When Brian Pekarek was hired as superintendent of the Iola school district in February, he saw an opportunity to “reinvigo-rate” USD 257.

With a focus on academic achievement and public transpar-ency, Pekarek hopes he can fur-ther success for the district and the more than 1,300 students rely-ing on it.

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-


An anticipated field of a thou-sand runners and walkers, who will flee Iola’s downtown busi-ness district early Saturday as Charley Melvin did in 1905, can be thankful that Melvin chose to do his dastardly deed in the mid-dle of the night.

Had the event being commemo-rated occurred in mid-day, par-ticipants would battle oppressive heat and humidity, with both forecast at the upper end of the discomfort scale during daytime Friday and Saturday. As is, they will run and walk in somewhat more inviting temperatures pre-dicted for the low 70s by 12:26 a.m. Saturday.

The race — many walkers will be out for a stroll — will cap activ-ities that start late Friday after-noon and will go on throughout the evening. Included will be the much-awaited “drag race,” fea-turing some of the area’s finest men and women dressed in drag.

Chris Weiner at Thrive Allen County, co-sponsor with Allen County Crimestoppers for “The Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run for your Life,” said total of partic-ipants was approaching 450, with about 200 signed on for the 5-kilo-meter run. The walk will follow a 3-kilometer course.

“Registration, including prob-ably a fifth online, has really

picked up,” Weiner said Tuesday afternoon. As in the past, “we ex-pect a lot of people to sign up Fri-day night.”

Cost is $12 for the walk. Run-ners’ fees are $14 for youth to age 17, $20 for adults and $17 each for members of teams.

Runners in the third annual event will aim for best times of 15.40.06 for males and 20.44.78 for females, set last year.

Sticks of “Melvin Dy-No-Mite” will be awarded the first three places for males and females in each of five ages groups, 15 and under, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60 and 61 and over.

All participants will break from in front of the post office. Runners will follow a course that will take them on West to Wash-ington, then Jackson, Jefferson and East to Cottonwood. They

Temps for runlook inviting

See TEMPS | B6

Countyhearsbudgetrequests

ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall knew about cheat-ing allegations on standardized tests but either ignored them or tried to hide them, according to a state investigation.

An 800-page report released Tuesday to The Associated Press by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office through an open records request shows several educators report-ed cheating in their schools. But the report says Hall, who won the national Superintendent of the Year award in 2009, and other administrators ignored those re-ports and sometimes retaliated against the whistleblowers.

The yearlong investigation shows educators at nearly four dozen Atlanta elementary and middle schools cheated on stan-dardized tests by helping stu-dents or changing the answers once exams were handed in.

The investigators also found a “culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” in the school district over the cheating allegations, which led to educators lying about the cheating or destroying

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

Brian Pekarek, center, visits with Barb Geffert and Marcy Boring at the USD 257 board office.

Cheating scandal detailed

See CHEATING | Page A5See MOWING | Page A5See COUNTY | Page A5

See PEKAREK | Page A5

Vol. 115, No. 19 75 Cents Iola, KS

Area residents share their

holiday plansSee A3

Register/Steven SchwartzFrom left Shelia Lampe, Darrell Murray and Tom Waters unload food donated by employees at Gates Manufacturing for the Iola Area Ministerial Association’a food pantry.

SEASON OF GIVING

Gates employees donate to food pantry

Commissioners offer deal on warehouse

By ALLISON [email protected]

Emily Clark keeps setting the bar higher for herself. She recent-ly was awarded the FFA Ameri-can Degree for farming, the high-est award given in FFA.

Clark, 19, is the first Iolan to receive this award in a long time and Iola’s only female to receive the award.

“That makes me really proud,” Clark said.

Clark has been in FFA for six years and had begun renting eight to 10 acres from her dad each year when she was a freshman in high school.

“My dad would put it on his tab and when I would make my profit I would pay him back,” Clark said.

Her dad kept her to her word,


Two Iola men who want to es-tablish an interactive sports com-plex here will know Dec. 4 wheth-er they have a building.

Allen County commission-ers said Tuesday morning they would offer the old warehouse the county owns in the 400 block of North State Street to Rick Vink and Dennis Sullivan. The only holdup is whether someone else is more interested.

The deal commissioners of-fered is for Vink and Sullivan to pay monthly rent of $500, repair the building’s roof and make other improvements and then purchase it for $40,000 after two

years.Commissioners said they felt

compelled over the next two weeks to make the building avail-able to anyone, before completing a deal.

Vink and Sullivan verbally agreed to the terms late Tuesday morning.

If someone steps up with a bet-ter offer, County Counselor Alan Weber said, “I don’t know how you could get around not taking it.”

Vink and Sullivan intend to put computerized interactive base-ball and softball apparatus in the warehouse, which they think will draw a clientele from a wide area.

Gates Manufacturing employ-ees took the opportunity to give back to those in need for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Shelia Lampe, executive direc-tor for the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce, said after meetings with the human resources de-partment at Gates, the employ-ees expressed they wanted the chance to give back to the com-munity.

She said she has been in con-tact with the Iola Area Ministeri-al Association’s food pantry, and there is always a need for more food for hungry families.

“I really encourage people to donate to the food pantry if they can afford it,” Lampe said.

The Gates employees respond-ed in full force. Food donations overflowed a large shopping cart, with more to spare. In addition,

an unknown employee donated a $50 check for the purchase of more food.

Lampe said food is always ap-preciated and she was impressed to see how Gates employees re-sponded to the need. She said she hopes to plan more donation events for Christmas, but she hopes the donated food “will be enough to get through Thanks-giving.”

Young farmer wins FFA American degree

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Register/Allison TinnEmily Clark won the FFA Ameri-can Degree, the highest award given in the FFA. See CLARK | Page A6

Addition to trail proposedBy BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] will have easier access

to the Prairie Spirit Trail if a grant proposal is successful.

Corey Schinstock, assistant city administrator, told the Reg-ister he would have applica-tion for a Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism grant ready for city council members to review Monday eve-ning.

The project would create a 10-foot-wide concrete walking and biking path east from the bike path near Utley’s Iola Auto Body over to Cottonwood Street and skirting Coon Creek.

“Wildlife and parks has $2 mil-lion available for grants,” Schin-stock said.

Iola will seek $230,000.Total project cost, from what

Schinstock said was a “rough es-timate,” would be $287,500. Iola would pay 20 percent, or about $60,000, as well as engineering costs, 8 to 10 percent of project cost.

Allen County commissioners Tuesday morning approved a let-ter of support for the project.

The city owns most of the old

street and railroad rights of way, “all but a little next to Utley’s (Auto Body),” Schinstock said. “I’ve talked to Larry Utley and I don’t think that would be a prob-lem.”

“The thing about the proposed trail is it connects to a large resi-dential part of the city,” Schin-stock said. “If we can get it done for 20 percent of total cost it would be hard to pass up.”

The Prairie Spirit Trail of-ficially starts at the northeast corner of Riverside Park and

runs through town and on north past or through Carlyle, Colony, Welda, Garnett and into Ottawa, a distance of more than 50 miles. It is open to walkers, joggers and bikers, but no motorized ve-hicles other than those for the handicapped.

SCHINSTOCK hopes before long Iola will have the where-withal to extend the trail to the southeast corner of Riverside Park and construct a simple

Register/Bob JohnsonThe path along Coon Creek will be part of an addition to the Prai-rie Spirit Trail if a grant for its construction is approved.

See TRAIL | Page A6

Diebolt discounts for the holidays The perfect gift idea for anyone

looking to improve their home is available through Diebolt Lum-ber’s numerous holiday specials.

Don Diebolt, owner, said he al-ways has “very good” prices on any item on the store, especially on marked “doorbuster items.” While the list of discounted items may be too long, Diebolt said he has a few specific items that may be great for the holidays.

Closet shelving is currently 25 percent off until Christmas, which can give anyone the per-fect opportunity to organize their life — before or after the holidays.

“You can re-do and reorganize your closet space,” Diebolt said.

For smaller projects, or your “handy-man,” Diebolt said his store is offering 10 percent off power tools and ladders. He said for those looking to put up Christ-mas lights and decorations, or fix

small things before the family visits, Diebolt has sales that can help its customers out.

He said to “watch the paper” for more sales and doorbusters throughout the holiday season on items including garage door openers, heaters, storm doors, countertops and even log cabin siding.

Don Diebolt

Teena Solander, right, Gas, stands next to her granddaughter Rhi-anna Schmidt, Valley Center. They recently cut 10 inches of their hair off for Locks of Love. Solander said this is her second dona-tion and her granddaughter’s first — they grew their hair for three years in order to make the donation.

BASKETBALLRed Devils team fall

to ButlerSee B1

They’re in it together Register/Steven Schwartz

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Allen County Hospital Relay for Life Team thanks everyone who participated and assisted with the Fall Festival and Trailer of Terror. The event was

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Dogs metabolize xylitol differently than people. Xylitol increases the production of insulin in the body which can dra - matically cause blood sugar levels to drop (hypoglycemia). This causes symptoms of unsteadiness, depression, dilated pupils and in severe cases seizures. If ingested in quantity, it has been known to cause liver failure. Signs are subtle with loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea.

It has been shown that the toxic dose of xylitol is 75-100 mg / kg. (1700-2200 mg for a 50 lb. dog) Unfortunately it is hard to determine the exact amount of xylitol in products as most manufacturers will not disclose this information. it has been found that xylitol in gum can range from .9-1000 mg per piece of gum. A good rule of thumb is if xylitol is listed as one of the main ingredients then you need to be concerned.

Xylitol is released as we chew gum. Since most dogs swal - low gum whole, we have more time to make them vomit before the chemical can be absorbed. If a dog swallows candy or mints that contain powdered xylitol then toxicity occurs faster. Cats have not shown toxicity when xylitol is ingested.

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Majdi Fathi/APA Images/Zuma Press/MCTPalestinians inspect the damage at the al-Shorooq building after an Israeli air strike in Gaza city.

Gaza in ruin

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A U.N. aid agency says some 10,000 Gazans have sought shel-ter in U.N.-run schools after the Israeli military dropped leaflets on the territory warning resi-dents of certain areas to evacuate their homes.

Adnan Abu Has-sna, spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, said today that 12 schools are providing shelter.

He says the influx be-gan Tuesday evening, after Israel dropped the leaflets over Gaza. The Israeli military has not given a reason for the warning, but many here fear it is the prelude to a possible ground offen-sive.

Israeli ground troops last entered Gaza four years ago, during a pre-vious offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers, leaving a widespread devastation.

U.N. compounds are seen as safer than or-dinary homes, though some were also hit in 2009.

Gazans seek shelter

By JASON KEYSERAssociated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Feel-ing the pinch of the slug-gish economic recovery, many Americans setting out on the nation’s annual Thanksgiving migration had to sacrifice summer vacations, rely on relatives for airfare or scour the Web for travel deals to en-sure they made it home.

It’s not just tight fam-ily finances making travel tough. Airlines struggling to save on jet fuel and other expenses have cut the num-ber of flights, leading to a jump in airfares. Those hitting the roads face high gas prices and rising tolls. Now, with talk of the na-tion sliding off a “fiscal cliff ” come January, many travelers said they’re ac-cepting that sacrifices for pricy holiday journeys have become the norm.

“You become immune to it, I guess,” said Chris Zu-kowski, a 43-year-old loco-motive engineer from the Chicago suburb of Hunt-ley, as he hugged his wife and three children good-bye at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport and lamented he could not afford to join them on the holiday trip to New Jersey.

“You have to cut back on things just to make sure that you can afford to do stuff like this, so they can go visit grandma,” he said, referring to his son and two daughters.

If the nation’s travel patterns are any kind of barometer for the state of the economy, the travel forecast for Thanksgiving week suggested a slight up-ward nudge as people and businesses recover slowly from the 2007-09 recession in which Americans lost

nearly a quarter of their wealth.

Around 43.6 million Americans were expected to journey 50 miles or more between today and Sunday, just a 0.7 percent increase from last year, according to AAA’s yearly Thanksgiv-ing travel analysis. After

a couple years of healthy post-recession growth, this year’s numbers suggested it will take a stronger econ-omy to lift travel demand significantly, the travel or-ganization said.

More people are driving, fewer are flying and the average distance traveled was expected to be nearly 17 percent — or about 120 miles — shorter than a year ago, it said.

Army Pfc. Jordan Clark, of Biloxi, Miss., said he was only able to fly be-cause relatives pooled their resources to buy his ticket.

“It’s been difficult. My parents help out, my grandparents,” the 20-year-old serviceman said before getting on a flight from Chicago to San Antonio. He wasn’t so lucky over the summer, when he had to make the same journey by bus in what became a three-day ordeal thanks to breakdowns. But it saved him more than $200.

Some families are even agreeing to bump Thanks-

giving dinner to Saturday, for example, allowing those traveling long distances to get cheaper, off-peak fares and avoid crowds, said Joseph Schwieterman, a transportation researcher at DePaul University.

Aided by smartphone apps, social media and other technology, consumers are getting better at sniffing out deals and are realizing they need to be flexible with dates and even with which air-ports they chose when book-ing, said Courtney Scott, a senior editor at Travelocity.

“I think people are re-ally becoming smarter, more creative travelers and shop-pers,” Scott said.

For some travelers, the coping mechanism was de-cidedly less sophisticated: Travel now, worry about the costs later.

“I think it’s my personal style to say, ‘It’s the holi-days. Who cares?’ And deal with the consequences later,” said Olivia Melman, who flew from Chicago to Philadelphia on Tuesday. The 22-year-old, who works in human relations at Citi-group in New York City, said the costs would set her back, but family is a priority.

Having skipped their Thanksgiving trip last year, Nishiya Sivaruban and her husband were able to save enough to take their two children to the Hawaiian island of Kauai on a special holiday journey. She and her husband are originally from Sri Lanka and have family links to the founder of a Hin-du temple and monastery on Kauai that they were excited about visiting.

“There’s a lot of things we’re thankful for so we wanted to go to that temple,” she said.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A western Mas-sachusetts animal shelter is getting in on the Black Friday shopping frenzy.

The Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Soci-ety is charging just $5 on Friday to adopt a cat that’s at least six months old. The normal adop-tion fee for a cat that age is $95.

The shelter has facili-

ties in Springfield and Leverett.

Candy Lash tells WG-GB-TV that the $5 fee includes spay or neuter surgery, micro chipping, vaccination, testing, col-or and tag, and a starter kit of food.

Dakin hopes the pro-motion frees up some space for cats from shel-ters destroyed by Super-storm Sandy.

Shelter offers feline Black Friday sale

I think it’s my personal style to say, ‘It’s the holidays. Who cares?’ And deal with the consequences later.

— Olivia Melman

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Happy

Thanksgiving

JoAnne Maxwell will have a full house for Thanksgiving. Expected are Ann McLean, Iola, Brett McLean, Joplin, Mo., Kris-ten and Scott Triebel and their children, August and Brielle, Birmingham, Ala., Tom and Jane Maxwell, Sa-lina, Andy, Ashley and Aus-tin Maxwell, Olathe, Abby Maxwell, Lawrence, Sally Maxwell, San Antonio, Tex-as, Eric J. Maxwell and his children Molly and Eric T., Iola, and David and Renee Marbuk, Olathe.

John and Karen Rob-ertson, Iola, will be travel-ing to Denver to celebrate Thanksgiving with their son, Thomas and his wife, Lori.

Damaris Kunkler has a road trip in store for Thanksgiving. She and her son Arion, 17, will join friends and extended fam-ily in Tulsa, Okla., to share a feast. On Friday, daughter Elysia, 11, will join the car-avan to travel to Norman, Okla., to join Damaris’ brother and mother, Jesse and Sylvia Comer. On Sat-urday, Jesse and Damaris will join thousands of tail-gaters for the OU-OSU foot-ball game and “try to score some tickets,” she said.

Roger Carswell will be having his three sons, Dwight, Topeka, Riley, Wichita, and Kyle, Whea-ton, Ill., home for Thanks-giving. They will have a Thanksgiving dinner at home on Saturday after celebrating Thanksgiving Day with Roger’s parents in Quenemo.

Bobbi and Ken Gilpin will be with Bobbi’s daugh-ter, Michele Sams and her daughter, Piper, for Thanks-giving. Rounding our the table will be Michele’s fi-ance, Rob Gambill, and his children, Kaylan, Madison, Lauren and Ethan.

Former Iolans Richard and Julie Zahn, and now of Arizona, will entertain

their daughters, Mollie, Dallas, and Hillary, New York, N.Y., and her guest Eric Salluci, also of NYC, nephew Jared O’Connor, Buckeye, Ariz., and his guest, for Thanksgiving dinner.

Pam and Larry Hart will be hosting Thanksgiving dinner at their home. Guest of honor will be Pam’s mother, Eva Mannen. Also attending will be their son Brandon and his wife Mo-nique with children Cooper, Aubrea, McKinnon, Easton and Elliott from Burling-ton, and their daughter Kimberly Spencer and her husband Jason and chil-dren Hunter, Tanner, Brax-ton and Jase of Garnett.

Allene and Morris Lu-edke will have their son, Mark, for Thanksgiving dinner. Mrs. Luedke ex-plains the low-key celebra-tion as such: “Thanksgiv-ing Day has always been another work day at our home. Seldom have we had company or went anywhere ourselves. That’s pretty much the way farmers and ranchers do it.”

Steve and Jean Ander-son will have their “dream Thanksgiving” this year because all of their “kids” will be coming home. So many are expected, they’ll be using the amenities at First Assembly of God Church. Included will be their daughter, Sylvan Russell and her sons Lars Richardson, Topeka, and Zachery and Dominic Hel-ton, Hutchinson; daughter Natasha Russell, Hutchin-son, and her daughter Nia, and sons Nathaniel Russell-Spies and NiCole Martin with his fiancee Dawn, and Nazim Elizee and his girl-friend Tanda.; son Anthony Russell and wife Venice, Emporia, with their chil-dren Troy, Stephanie, Mat-thew and Jessica; son G’nai Russell and wife Elnita will come with their children and grandchildren includ-ing Mariah and her son, Sam, Topeka, Miranda and daughter, Lilianna, Wichi-ta; Rickey and Megan and their daughter Abigail, To-peka; daughter Shanae and Mike and son Nick, Scran-ton, Ohio; daughter Desu-rae and Donnie Van Loenen and daughters Aryanna and A’leigha, Lane.

Stacey and Brad Crusin-

bery will make both sides of their family happy this Thanksgiving. First they will visit Stacey’s family, the Schaffers, in Louisburg and then play host to Brad’s family, including his par-ents Dave and Ann Crusin-bery, Bella Vista, Ark., and his brothers, Jeff and Terri Crusinbery, Topeka, and Dan and Amy Crusinbery and their children Caleb and Regan of Centerton, Ark.

Shelia and Don Lampe will be sharing Thanks-giving dinner at the home of her parents, Eddie and Janice Eckroat of Piqua. Also attending will be Doug and Lana Eckroat, Piqua, Jana Eckroat and Bridgette Eckroat, Piqua, Jeremy and Mandy Moyer and their children Cole, Gaby and Andrianne, Piqua, Alisha Lampe, Topeka, and Ruth Lampe, Piqua. Shelia and Don wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

Brian and Robin Pekarek family claim Thanksgiving as their favorite holiday because “it cannot be com-mercialized. It simply is what it is — a focus on God, thankfulness, family, food and being together.” This

year they’ll be visiting both sides of their family who live in central Kansas.

Barbara and Steve An-derson will be host to Bar-bara’s sister, Cindy Chalk-er, Barbara’s daughter, Cari Jo Bockover and her daugh-ter, Carmi Joi, and their good friend John Siemsen for Thanksgiving dinner. Later in the weekend they are expecting Barb’s son, Benjamin and his wife, Leah Bockover, and their daughters Ava and De-laney, and Rachel Bockover, Barb’s youngest. “After din-ner we’ll begin working on our Gingerbread Creation, an effort that lasts all week-end,” Barb writes. “This year we are going to try to recreate the Molly Trolley.” The family has had an en-try every year since 2006. The Gingerhouse House tradition is bittersweet, Chalker said, “because the first year we did this was the last Thanksgiving we had with my mother, Mary Ellen Chalker. I think this is why we continue the tra-dition because it’s in mem-ory of her.”

Richard and Jan Knewt-son will spend their Thanksgiving Day with Trent and Carly Knewtson and Kaiser, Paola. On Satur-

day, the Knewtsons will cel-ebrate Thanksgiving with their daughters, Michelle and Dan Foster, Amanda and friend TJ Ridge and Justin Foster, a Kansas State University student. Stacey and Dave Merando and Josie also will be in at-tendance. All the families are from Overland Park and Shawnee.

Rich and Gayla Banz are thankful their daughter, Ju-lie, her husband Karl and their daughter Josie will be joining them for Thanks-giving this year.

Patti and Mark Boyd and their daughters, Emily, 15, and Clara, 12, will be host-ing Patti’s sister and broth-er-in-law, Susan and Mark Goodrich, and their daugh-ter Leah, from Austin, Tex-as. “Mark, as the chef at our house, will be prepar-ing the traditional dinner,” writes Patti.

Vera Isaacs writes of her and Dick’s plans: “We are having Thanksgiving dinner with the Humboldt Methodists. We have al-ready had our feet under the table with the Iola Epis-copalians, the Elsmore Methodists, and the Iola Catholics. This works bet-ter for us than hot dogs at our house on Thanksgiving Day!”

Nich Lohman is turning the traditional Thanks-giving Day meal on its ear this year. “We’re follow-ing a Greek theme for the main courses, including fresh pita bread with home-made hummus, gyros with

ground lamb from Bolling’s Meat Market, tzatziki (cu-cumber sauce), and Greek salad with feta and olives on the side. To drink, I have a batch of Belgian Whit beer and a batch of apple-ginger cider that will be fin-ished fermenting and ready to imbibe. For dessert, I’m making a dacquoise, a French butter cream and meringue cake with a gre-nache and nut coating. My mother-in-law is bringing a side of Greek antipasto.” Becky and Nich and their children, Jo, 15, Della, 13, Henry, 9, Rio, 7, and Lily, 4, will be host to Becky’s side of the family from Chanute and Kansas City, Mo.

Lloyd and Nancy Houk of Moran will “travel across the street,” to his sister Cheryl Wallis and husband Jerry’s home for Thanksgiving dinner. Join-ing them will be their chil-dren, Anthony and Janelle Houk and children of Par-sons, and Andrea and Rick Hottenstein and family, Humboldt.

Jacki and Bob Chase will have their daughters, Allison, Kansas City, and Eileen, Oklahoma City Uni-versity, home for Thanks-

Area residents share their holiday plans

Debra Colgin’s Marmaton Valley first-grade class drew hand turkeys for Thanksgiving Monday. Front row from left are Meeka Harris, LaShell Johnson, Tyler Lively, Zoe Sneed, Kayla Bombagi, Emma Stewart, Brooklyn Adams and Charlie Briggs. Back row from left are Emily Smith, Jimmy Tilton, Kody McVey, Ben Thrush, Ethan Hamlin, Janae Granere, Raveyn Kegler, Chance Aiello, Qiana Scott and Payton Scharff.

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“I am thankful for food.” — Charlie Briggs

“I am thankful for my parents.” — Qiana Scott

“I am thankful for feed-ing my dog.” — Zoe Sneed

“I am thankful for a bed, because when I trav-eled I had to sleep on the floor of the hotel.” — Jim-my Tilton

“I am thankful for my family.” — Emily Smith

“I am thankful for my family.” — Payton Scharff

“I am thankful for manners.” — Tyler Lively

“I am thankful for be-ing able to help people.” — Ethan Hamlin

“I am thankful for my mom.” — Raveyn Kegler

“I am thankful for lots of toys.” — Kody McVey

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Thanksgiving Day guests of Nelda Cuppy and Larry Manes will be Elaine and Devon Cuppy and Wilma Klempnauer, Shawnee, and Jo and Seth Cuppy and Wal-ter Palmisano, Bronson.

Bill and Marjorie Ment-zer will be celebrating Thanksgiving at the rural home of their son Craig, and his wife, Denise. Those attending will be Craig Al-len and Jeanine Pumphrey of Wichita, Miles and Jen-nifer Mentzer, Wichita, Na-than and Heather Mentzer, Stillwell, and Corbin and Lissa Manbeck, Neosho Falls.

David and Beth Toland and children Caroline, 6, and William, 3, will host Thanksgiving dinner in their home. This will be a special Thanksgiving be-cause it will be the first To-land get-together since 1979 held in this house which had belonged to David’s great-grandparents, Clyde and Lucy Thompson. Lucy

lived there 1921-1980, and it was the childhood home of David’s grandmother, June Thompson Toland, 98, who will be a dinner guest Thursday. Other guests will be Beth’s parents, Jim and Connie Huddleston, Pitts-burg, and David’s parents, Clyde and Nancy Toland.

Donna and Ray Houser will be in Wichita Thursday to be with their daughter Laura Lents, and her fam-

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Kelly Sigg writes of her typical Thanksgiving: “Our family fun begins on Tues-day when five of us will be meeting up with our son Justin who is coming in from Phoenix and has got-ten us KU basketball tour-nament tickets. Wednes-day, Rosalyn and Justin will come to Iola from KC and son Jeremy, wife Ca-mille and their daughter, Adisyn, and his in-laws, Gary and Diana Fink, will head here from Wichita and our daughter Natasha, her husband Dan and three boys will arrive here from McPherson in time for a soup supper. From here in town Amanda and Ryan and their three sons, Chandler, Kyler and Drew, and Travis and Shannon and their son, Grant, will meet up with ev-eryone Wednesday evening and then Thursday morn-ing Steve starts the day off with his famous biscuits and gravy. I am super ex-cited this year because the kids know how busy I have been getting ready to move Audacious, so for the first time, all I have to prepare are the meats, potatoes and gravy and rolls and they have organized and planned the rest of the menu. With the weather looking so nice I am sure there will be backyard fishing and target shooting. Our adult kids’ fa-vorite part is once bedtime hits and the grandkids are in the basement on their

pallets, they start their board-game marathon. It gets pretty wild and crazy, but we love it that way. We should have 25 for our main meal Thursday. Friday at 8 a.m. we will open at Auda-cious and my daughters and daughter-in-laws will be helping at the store that day.”

Terry Broyles and her husband David will have Thanksgiving dinner at her mother’s, Bonnie Johnson, rural Iola, along with Terry’s sisters and families, Randy and Becky Stanley, Humboldt, Garry and Debby Daniels, Hum-boldt, their son Clayton, and his family Marian, Jack and Leo, Henry Bro-

yles from Ottawa, Dustin, Jayme and Kale Fowler,

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Rodney and Deniece Ed-son will host the annual family Thanksgiving din-ner at their home. Coming from out of town will be Da-vid and Penny McDonald, Aaron McDonald, Wichita, Michael McDonald, Taylor and Karma, Nevada, Mo., Nicole Warner, Madison, Teagon and Tyler, West Mineral, and from Iola, LaFern McDonald and Kel-ly McDonald.

Debbie and Duwayne Bearden will share their Thanksgiving Day meal with the residents of La-Harpe who attend its Com-munity Thanksgiving Din-ner at city hall from 11:30 to 1:30.

From among Harry and Joyce Lee’s seven children, the following will be join-ing them for Thursday’s Thanksgiving Day feast: Cathy and Kevin Fields and Cami, Monument, Colo., David and Tracy Lee and Adin, Tai and Austin, La-Harpe, Bruce and Jennifer Lee and Paris, Brittain and Scout, Chanute, Shari and Albert Mendez and Bryan and Brooke, Pittsburg, Brandon and Scarlet Men-dez and Kurt and Logan, Lincoln, Neb., Kevin and Ladina Lee and Keli, Alexis and Madison, LaHarpe, and Jason Lee and daughter Dannah, LaHarpe.

Wanda and Ray Shannon will have Thanksgiving with their granddaughter, Ellen Shannon, Iola, at the home of their daughter

and son-in-law, Joyce and Dan Warren, Berryton. Also attending will be their sons Trent and Travis, their daughter Judy and Tim Baker, Iola, and their daughters Ellen and Libby Shay.

Paul and Saundra Up-shaw plan to spend Thanks-giving in Topeka with their daughter, Melanie, her hus-band Scott and their daugh-ters, Alicia, Erica and Stephanie. Other guests will be Scott’s sisters and their families.

Shirley and Kendall Ash-ford will have a low-key Thanksgiving with their daughter Kathi and great-granddaughter Bodhi.

Vince DeGrado and his wife, Martha, and children, Natalie Williams, Braiden Williams, and Blane DeGra-do, 8 months, will host Su-san’s parents, Sue and Ed O’Connor along with out-of-state athletes attending Allen Community College, where DeGrado is cross country and track coach. “They hail from Texas, Georgia and Florida,” De-Grado said of the athletes. “In addition we break out the board games and play those while watching foot-ball games.”

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H HappeningsContinued from A3

“I am thankful for my house.” — Ben Thrush

“I am thankful for my family.” — Meeka Harris

“I am thankful for get-ting to go to my grandpa’s to eat turkey for Thanks-giving.” — Chance Aiello

“I am thankful for Thanksgiving.” —LaShell Johnson

“I am thankful for my mom.” — Brooklyn Ad-ams

“I am thankful for pres-idents.” — Kayla Bom-bagi

“I am thankful for tur-keys.” — Emma Stewart

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OpinionWednesday, November 21, 2012The Iola Registerwww.iolaregister.com A5

Billions of federal dollars will be spent putting New Jersy, New York, and parts of North Carolina, Alabama and Florida back together again in the wake of hurricane Sandy.

Of course the money should be spent; the work should be done; the people should be giv-en their homes and businesses back.

But should this aid come with the proviso that next time will be the last time?

Dauphin Island in the Gulf of Mexico off Alabama has a year round population of about 1,300. At least $80 mil-lion, adjusted for inflation, has gone into patching up this one island since 1979. That’s more than $60,000 for every resident. And that doesn’t include pay-ments of $72 million to home-owners from highly subsidized federal flood insurance.

People should live on places like Dauphin Island at their own risk. They know it will flood again. That’s why they build their houses on stilts. They also know that hurri-canes will hit them, rip off their roofs, push over their houses, carry their beaches out to sea.

Because they know all of these things, they should build elsewhere. Or if they must be able to sit on their front porch-es and watch dolphins swim by, then the storm repair bills should be theirs to pay.

To make this new policy palatable, relocation grants should be provided. Rather than shell out billions after ev-ery devastating storm, the fed-eral budget would be hit only once for every householder paid to move to higher, safer ground.

Melting glaciers and ris-ing seas make the need to find a permanent solution more pressing.

WHETHER Washington

should continue to pay to pump sand back into the beaches of New Jersey and other coastal cities is anoth-er question. The Associated Press reports that the aver-age New Jersey beach is 30 to 40 feet narrower after Su-perstorm Sandy. Some of the state’s famous beaches lost half of their sand to the surg-ing waters. The shore town of Montoloking lost 150 feet of beach, said Stewart Farrell, director of Stockton College’s Coastal Research Center.

In the past, federal dollars were spent sucking up the sand the storms carried offshore and putting it back on the shore-line. Such restored beaches act as a buffer from the next surge and, it is argued, are worth the cost. Places with recently beefed-up beaches saw com-paratively little damage from Sandy, the Center reported.

But at a time when Congress and the administration are bat-tling to find ways to reduce the deficit, pouring billions into beach restoration in order to save New Jersey’s $35.5 billion tourism industry will be a hard sell.

U.S. Sen. Tom Colburn of Oklahoma wants none of it. In 2009 Sen. Colburn used a pic-ture of a pig on the cover of a report he wrote titled, “Washed out to sea.”

The topic was beach replen-ishment. Spending those bil-lions, he wrote, was wasteful pork which the nation could not afford.

One might expect an Okie to have a different view on re-building New Jersey’s beaches from that of Gov. Chris Chris-tie. On the other hand, the dol-lars come from all Americans. How much the nation should spend, storm after storm, to put things back the way they used to be is a conversation we should have.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Storm aid policiesneed rethinking

WASHINGTON — Some prominent Republicans — among them House Speaker John Boehner, publisher Bill Kristol and Sen. Bob Corker — have been making noise about the need for the GOP to be flex-ible about raising taxes.

But the keeper of the Pledge is not concerned. Grover Norquist, the party’s Prefect of the Con-gregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, says he sees no chance of Republicans going squishy.

“The Rs are holding,” he an-nounced at a luncheon Monday of the Center for the National Interest.

“The fantasy is that the Re-publicans would cave on mar-ginal tax rates — they’re non-negotiable,” he added.

In fact, Norquist maintained, if you think there’s any erosion of support for his Pledge, which forbids any net increase in taxes, Norquist would like you to know something. “You’re mistaken,” he said. “The entire Republican leadership has been elected on that commitment in the House and the Senate.”

In fact, despite all this talk of Republicans compromising, it is pretty clear to Norquist what is really going to happen:

President Obama “will eventu-ally have to extend the tax cuts as is.”

Listening to these confident assertions, the simple conclu-sion would be that Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Re-form, had been on a long trip in a remote location. More likely, the answer involves the substan-tial amount of trauma inflicted on Norquist’s worldview in the election.

Just a few months ago, he pre-dicted to me with confidence that his goals of the past quarter-cen-tury were about to be realized: Mitt Romney would win the presidency, Republicans would seize the Senate, and the unified Republican government would quickly pass Paul Ryan’s budget, including a complete reworking of entitlement programs.

But instead of laying siege to

Washington, he is now leading a rear-guard action to prevent defections. His defense of the Pledge seems to be a mixture of improbable optimism (he main-tained that Republicans are “much closer” to smaller gov-ernment than before) and im-plied threats (”Republicans who raise taxes do their own brand a great deal of damage, particular-ly if they put in writing to their constituents that’s not who they are or what they do”).

He assured the old guard at the center-right think tank (25 of the 26 at the horseshoe table were men) that the Democratic wins this month did not mean a rejection of his Pledge. It’s “a little tough to see a strong man-date here,” Norquist argued. “The president won a mandate not to be Romney for the next four years, because Romney gives people cancer and is a bad person and is mean to dogs.” Further, he argued, Obama “dropped, what, 8 million votes from the time before, the margin he got was shrinking, he was the incumbent, he ran a better cam-paign and we had a candidate who had myriad flaws.”

Also, the dog ate Norquist’s homework.

The Republicans, by con-trast, “have a likely 10-year run in the House because of redis-tricting,” and plenty of time to get the job done. “You’ve got a Republican Party that not only touched the third rail of Re-publican politics but fondled it at great length and didn’t end up where all the smart people knew where you’d end up.”

The task for these rail fondlers, he said, is to “keep Obama on a short leash and give him an allowance every few months in return for bet-ter behavior, as you do with your kids.” Norquist couldn’t quite settle on a metaphor for Obama, because he viewed him not only as a dog and a child but also as a lame duck.

Was he concerned that Re-publican Sens. Corker, John McCain and Tom Coburn have been hinting at higher tax rev-enue?

Norquist said none of them “are considered thought lead-ers on economic issues.”

And Kristol? His thoughts are “not at all transferable” to Republican lawmakers.

Isn’t there mounting pres-sure for a “grand bargain” of tax increases and spending cuts?

“It’s an odd prediction,” Norquist said, predicting that automatic “sequester” cuts would take effect.

At one point, he seemed to soften his line, saying that to increase tax receipts, “I’d rath-er do that from growth than from higher taxes.”

Rather? So he might consid-er higher taxes?

Norquist assured me that there was no change, that there would be no tax increase of any sort and that he had not gone squishy.

“No,” he pledged, “and nei-ther have the modern Rs.”

If the dry conditions we experi-enced in Ellis County on the open-ing weekend of pheasant season are any indication of what’s to come, we’re in for a lot of trouble. We walked several miles on Nov. 10 and 11 and drove across much of the county and into northern Ness County.

The winter wheat crop looked remarkably well. Fields sported a deep, rich green color. Stands were uniform and wheat heights varied from just peeking out of the rows to four or five inches tall.

The milo crop was a horse of a different color. While the fields were generally flush with stalks, the heads were buried and featured tiny heads ranging from three to five inches in length. The ber-ries were nearly non-existent and about the size of a pin head if it were round instead of flat — about the size of a 9 shot in a quail load.

When harvested these micro heads floated through the com-bine and the machine couldn’t do a good job of separating the berry from the rest of the chaff and dried milo leaves. Some of the heads went in the front end of the combine and left the back without any of the berries being separated out and augured up into the grain bin.

This wasn’t just my observa-tion, but that of Lance Russell, who was in the swing of milo har-vest and also hosted our hunting party on his Ellis County land.

“What I’m cuttin’ now is pro-ducing less than 10 bushel per acre,” Russell told me. “Not a good year.”

Instead of filling the combine bin, each and every round like he usually does during a decent har-vest, it was taking Russell nearly six trips up and back in his field to fill the bin.

Yes, this state’s worst drought in decades wasn’t making life easy for Russell and his farming neighbors in western Kansas. This drought, well into its third year, has intensified in Kansas.

Last week’s U.S. Drought Moni-tor update confirmed Kansas is in an “extreme” or “exceptional” drought – the two worst classifi-cations. Much of our state rose roughly 6 percentage points to 83.8 percent. This compares with Okla-homa where nearly 76 percent of the state to our south is mired in extreme or exceptional drought.

Sixty percent of our country in the lower 48 states is experienc-ing some degree of drought as of last week’s U.S. Drought Monitor update.

While every hunting trip is a wonderful experience, the num-ber of birds was at least 50 per-cent less than an average year. On Saturday, Nov. 10 the wind blew at a steady clip of 45 miles per hour out of the south, sometimes gust-ing close to 55 miles per hour.

By noon the temperature was pushing 80 degrees and I believe I heard on the weather that evening Hays had set or tied the old record of 81 degrees for the high tempera-ture. Not ideal weather conditions for pheasant hunting or a grow-ing wheat crop nearly half way through a dry November.

The forecast promised a chance of rain and about 4 p.m. it sprin-kled for maybe one minute and

then these few drops of water from on high zoomed to the north. No measurable precipitation in western Kansas, although some areas of eastern Kansas reported an inch of rain or better.

Sunday morning our hunting party rose before the roosters and surrounded a giant plum thicket where we fired some of our first shots at the wily roosters. We were lucky enough to bag three birds.

The temperature had dropped 55 degrees from the day before and the wind had shifted around to the northwest where it had slowed to about 35 mph. The wind chill was cold and several of the hunters were bitterly complain-ing about the cold.

Still, we hunted well into midafternoon with a little more success. Our party was only seven strong and we didn’t have enough blockers and the birds began fly-ing out of the fields as soon as we stepped in.

Speaking of steps, did I tell you that with each step a plume of dust erupted from the powder-dry soil?

By the end of each day, our faces carried a thin layer of dust. While I showered both days and cleaned my ears with a wash cloth and Q-tips, it still took me three days to clean my ears.

My brother-in-law, Norbert, hunted in Sheridan County; he said their experience in north-western Kansas was even less productive than ours around Hays. He estimated the bird count

totaled approximately 15 to 25 percent of what it is in an aver-age year.

Norb has hunted in Sheridan County for more than 40 years. He should have a pretty good idea of pheasant numbers.

In spite of the less-than-ideal hunting conditions, our group of hunters enjoyed our time in the fields and draws of northwest-ern Kansas. We appreciated the hospitality and the fine folks who allow us to hunt their land each season. We understand that hunt-ing on private property is a real privilege and something not ev-eryone has an opportunity to do.

That said, we also witnessed firsthand the drought conditions facing our nation’s crop and live-stock producers. We know with-out the blessing of rain from above, 2013 could bring continued drought, lack of abundant crops and tightening economic condi-tions for farmers and ranchers.

This Thanksgiving and throughout the holiday season, think about the blessings you enjoy. Think about the farmers and ranchers who face continued troubled times with this lingering lack of moisture. Offer a prayer on their behalf.

John Schlageck is a leading

commentator on agriculture and rural Kansas. Born and raised on a diversified farm in northwestern Kansas, his writing reflects a life-time of experience, knowledge and passion.

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Summer is long gone, but drought remainsJohn

SchlageckKansas Farm Bureau

Last week’s U.S. Drought Monitor update confirmed Kansas is in an “extreme” or “exceptional” drought – the two worst classifications. Much of our state rose roughly 6 percentage points to 83.8 percent.

son, Jonathan, Jennifer, and Jessica Tidd will be hosting Thanksgiving din-ner at their home. Guests will include Josh Tidd, Lin-coln, Neb., Mel and Eunice Tarum, McPherson, Dan Tarum, Dave and Nancy Woodruff with their chil-dren Brandon, Kristen, and Ryan of Wichita, Frank Tidd, Darin and Kristi Tidd with Tyler, Kaleb, Darian, and Danielle, of Neosho Falls, Ina Day, Iola, and Chad and Phyllis DeVoe with Matthew and Chey-enne, Chanute.

Dave and Sue Scantlin will be going to Colum-bia, Mo. to their daughter Missy Gerardy’s home for Thanksgiving. “Joining us will be Mona and Leland Hull, Humboldt, and chil-dren Josh, Sam and Laney. We plan to participate in the Columbia Turkey Trot 5K run/walk on Thursday morning.”

Susan Michael and her husband will be traveling to Wichita to spend time with their son and his fam-ily. From there they will travel to his sister’s house in Kansas City to spend time with more family. Su-san will also be calling all her family in New Ham-phire, Georgia and Arizo-na to wish them all a happy Thanksgiving. And most of all, she will be praying for all those who are away from their loved ones this Thanksgiving.

Jim and Shelby Bauer and their children Alex and Katie will be going to Leawood for Thanksgiv-ing to join Brett and Marci Knoff and their children Grace, Bauer and Char-lie. Joining them are Don and Donna Bauer, Max Patterson and Mary Ann Magnuson-Patterson, all of Iola; Shirley Bauer, Elsmore; Darrell and Linda Bauer and children Dylan and Allison, Erie; Duane and Dona Bauer, Fort Scott; Danna Steele and children Mattson and Payton, Dan Bauer and daughter Jandyn, all of Pittsburg; Brian and Judy Johnson and their children Ben, Jacob and Caleb, Wichita; and Ryan Magnuson and Jen Dobni-kar, Kansas City.

Gale, Steve and Chloe Hoag will host Todd, An-gela, Ryan and Jack Eyes-ter, Scout Henry, Derrick, Cathy, Jacki and Eli Adams and Bob and Ginny Hawk, on Thursday. On Sunday, Bob Hawk writes, “we will celebrate Chase Vaughn’s 21st birthday with the tra-ditional birthday cake.”


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They noted more than 40 traveling teams for the two sports play much of the year and would welcome an opportunity for players to hone their skills within the latest high-tech atmo-sphere.

They will offer special sessions for teams and indi-viduals, and have means of identifying and correcting flaws in players’ skills.

Other sports may be in-volved. Vink mentioned golf.

Prices for rent and the building were agreed upon after Weber told commis-sioners John Brocker, an Iola real estate agent, had appraised the warehouse at $32,000 and suggested rent should be $700 a month. Commissioners thought the building’s value would increase with improve-ments and, in concession to work anticipated, put rent at $500.

JODY MADER, a super-visor at the 911 dispatch center, and Angie Murphy,

its director, gave commis-sioners a brief review of their efforts to educate youngsters about 911 and how to use the emergency response system.

Murphy said 455 students in Iola, 86 in Moran and 159 in Humboldt have par-ticipated in safety seminars during the past year.

“Jody did a good job of explaining to the children how 911 works and how crank calls could end up hurting someone,” Murphy said.

She said about $200 was

spent on educational mate-rials, and that sessions also involved preschool chil-dren.

“If what we did saves one life, it will have been well worth the effort,” she added.

A surprise, said Mader, was that many children didn’t know how to use a conventional telephone, that they knew only about cell phones.

“We also stressed to the kids they need to know their address and give it to the dispatcher if they have to call 911,” Murphy said.

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even to working her land. Clark not only plants the crops but she fertilizes, tests the soil and works with ma-chinery such as the combine.

“Driving the combine is just like driving a car in a big field, it’s not like you can really hit anything,” Clark said.

If Clark wasn’t able to work on her land, her father would do it and she would make it up by working an-other part of his land when she could.

She has mostly grown

wheat but has done soy-beans and tried corn once.

She planted corn two summers ago when the first drought hit and her crop was not successful.

Clark didn’t let that kill her spirit for farming, rath-er she took it as a learning experience. Being from a farm family, she knows that’s the name of the game.

“The program helps build you up to become an entrepreneur and own your own business,” Clark said.

Assisting Clark in her success was her FFA advis-

er Charles Kerr.“He worked with me even

after I left high school,” Clark said.

CLARK is a sophomore at Kansas State University studying agronomy after having attended Allen Com-munity College.

“It is nice to meet people who share a love of farm-ing like I do,” Clark said. “I wish we had more of that in high school.”

After college Clark plans to either work at a co-op or scout the fields. She plans to

own her own farm later in life but realizes it probably won’t happen right out of college.

She will be moving to north central Kansas when she is finished with school to be with her boyfriend, Kaden, in Smith Center.

“Farming is such a way of life for me that it’s not something you work around but you grow with,” Clark said. “It’s fun being out in the field. I love getting dirty and the smell of the dirt. I am proud to say that I farm.”

walking path atop the le-vee that rings the park.

Volunteers are working on extension of the trail from the south edge of Iola to Humboldt. Much under-

growth has been cleared, with about two more days of clearing work remain-ing. Yet to be done is con-struction of railings for the old railroad bridge over Elm Creek.

Also, more work awaits on the trail and its surface, which will be graded and covered with limestone screenings. A rest stop is planned about half way be-tween Iola and Humboldt.

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Second-half cold spells prove troublesome for Red Devil squads

Grizzlies pull away lateBy RICHARD LUKEN

[email protected] weeks after losing on the

road to Butler County Commu-nity College by 23 points, Allen Community College looked to have reversed its fortunes.

In opening the second half with a 22-9 run, the Red Devils were downright dominant on de-fense, harassing Butler shooters and snaring rebounds against the taller Grizzlies front line.

“Defensively, we were very good for about 16 minutes, and that fed our offense,” Red Devil head coach Andy Shaw said.

The momentum changed down the stretch.

Shots that had been falling ear-lier in the half suddenly couldn’t find their mark.

“Butler made the plays down the stretch that we couldn’t,” Shaw said.

The Grizzlies closed Tuesday’s contest with a 16-5 run, taking the lead for good with 2:26 left in regu-lation of a 71-60 victory.

The loss — Allen’s fourth in a row — drops the Red Devils to 2-6 on the season.

“We had this game, and we gave it back to them,” Shaw said.

The Red Devils also were cold at the start. They were scoreless 5 1/2 minutes and trailed by as many as 11 points in the first half.

Allen emerged from the locker room with an invigorated defen-sive effort, holding Butler with-out a field goal for nearly five minutes.

Andrew Rountree’s 3-point play with 17:19 left closed the gap to 36-32.

Butler County’s Eric Watson and Allen’s Bryce Schippers traded 3-point baskets, then Tray Fountain banked in a jumper for the Red Devils to cut Butler’s lead to 41-38.

Ricky Roberts pulled Allen even at 41 apiece with a 3-pointer

at the 11:45 mark. Schippers fol-lowed a Butler turnover with a 3-pointer to give the Red Devils their first lead, while a foul on the Grizzlies underneath the basket allowed Allen to retain posses-sion. Rountree’s emphatic slam dunk on the inbounds pass sud-denly put Allen on top 46-41.

Fountain scored again at the

6:02 mark to maintain the five-point lead, 55-50. Butler closed the gap to 55-54 before Alex Keiswet-ter scored on a nifty pass by Bar-nett to give Allen a three-point cushion at the 3:33 mark.

But five consecutive empty possessions for the Red Devils al-

Register/Richard LukenAllen Community College’s DaNara Day, center, hoists up a shot among a group of Butler County Community College defenders Tuesday.

By RICHARD [email protected]

Allen Community College women’s coach Mark James at times has to remind his players the Red Devils are a good basket-ball team.

“We were a good team to-night,” James said. “We just didn’t make shots.”

A brutal 10-minute field goal drought did in the Red Devil women, who saw visiting But-ler County Community College open the second half with an 18-2 run to assume control in a 74-48 defeat.

The Grizzlies outscored Allen 45-22 in the second half.

Halftime seemed to erase all of Allen’s momentum.

The Red Devils started slug-gishly. They trailed 18-6 before DaNara Day’s 3-pointer at the 10-minute mark, followed 30 sec-onds later by Day’s conventional 3-point play which triggered a 9-3 run. Brittney Redmond’s trey with 7:29 left in the half cut the

gap to 21-15.The lead wavered between

four and eight points for the Grizzlies the rest of the half be-fore Taylor Seward scored at the buzzer to pull Allen to within 29-26.

But the offense hit the skids from there.

Allen didn’t connect from the field in the second half until Day scored inside with 9:56 left in the contest. By then, Butler’s lead had ballooned to 21, 49-28.

Leslie Ware and Kayla Mor-ton both hit 3-pointers two min-utes apart for the Red Devils to pull them within 16, 52-36, at the 6:23 mark, but Allen could get no closer. Butler eradicated any hopes for a comeback by drain-ing 20 of 23 free throws on the night.

Day led all scorers with 18 points, but was the only Red Devil in double figures. Han-nah Blackwell pulled in five re-bounds. Ebonie Jones, Redmond

Shooting woes doom Allen

Allen Community College’s Ricky Roberts (5) drives past Butler County defender Eric Watson (23) in the first half of the Red Devils’ 71-60 loss. Roberts led Allen with 13 points.

IMS eighth-graders continue defensive dominance

Register/Richard LukenAbove, Iola Middle School eighth-grader Toni Macha (34), shown here in a recent home game, led the Ponies with 14 points and 13 re-bounds Tuesday in a 34-5 victory over Coffeyville. At left, IMS seventh-graders also pulled out a win, defeat-ing Coffeyville 21-16. Shown here on defense in an earlier game are, from left, Karly McGuffin, Colbi Riley, Katie Bauer and Eliza Hale.

Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade girls continued to clamp down on defense, not allowing visiting Coffeyville to score a point before halftime Tuesday.

The Ponies led 22-0 at the break, winding up with a 34-5 victory to push their record to 5-1.

“No matter what happens on the offensive end, these girls don’t let it affect their defense,” IMS head coach Marty Taylor said. “It wasn’t a pretty game, but the girls played hard and battled through some mistakes.”

Three Iola eighth-graders out-scored Coffeyville by themselves

Toni Macha led the way with 14 points and 13 rebounds. Lexi Hes-lop added eight points and five rebounds, Riley Murry chipped in with six points and six boards and Sydney Wade had four points, nine rebounds and five assists. Jadyn Sigg added two points and two rebounds.

“Toni Macha has been outstand-ing over the last couple of weeks,” Taylor said. “She plays so hard no-body has an answer for her.”

The seventh-graders turned around an earlier defeat by claim-ing a 21-16 win over Coffeyville.

“Coffeyville beat us a couple of weeks ago 25-9,” Taylor noted. That shows how hard this group has worked to get better.”

Iola led 4-2 after one quarter, 9-7 at halftime and 14-11 after three.

“It was by far the best all-around game we’ve played,” Tay-lor said. “Everybody on the team contributed.”

Katie Bauer and Colbi Riley shared high-scoring honors with eight points apiece. Bauer had 13 rebounds; Riley two. Eliza Hale added five points and four re-bounds.

The win lifts the seventh-grad-ers’ record to 3-5.

Coffeyville edged the Pony B team 18-15. Brook Storrer scored nine points to lead the Ponies. Ma-Cayla Bycroft added four points and Madison Carlin two.

Iola resumes play Monday at Independence.

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By DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas learned just how effective it can be Tuesday night against Saint Louis when its best defend-ers also turn out to be its most ef-ficient scorers.

Jeff Withey matched a career high with 25 points, Travis Rel-eford added 23 and the No. 12 Jay-hawks rolled to a 73-59 victory in the championship game of the CBE Classic.

Releford had 21 points in the first half, and Withey had 15 in the second, the inside-outside duo carrying the Jayhawks (4-1) despite every effort by the Billik-ens (2-2) and senior forward Cody Ellis to get back into the game in the waning minutes of the second half.

“Travis was unbelievable the first half. They made the decision not to guard him, so he was unbe-lievable, made them pay,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “And the rea-son Jeff had the big second half is they started to guard Travis.”

Releford, who had 17 points in the semifinals against Washing-ton State, has long been regarded as the Jayhawks’ best perimeter defender, while Withey emerged as one of the Big 12’s top interior defenders during a breakout ju-nior season that has set him up for a big final year.

“He worked himself in there pretty tight,” Self said. “Jeff was really good at both ends.”

The Jayhawks improved to 16-4 all-time at the Sprint Center, the site of this season’s Big 12 tour-nament, and where they’ll play

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Watson scored again, as did Sean Osler on a layup with 1:10 left in the game to give Butler a 63-57 lead.

Butler shot an astound-ing 42 free throws, com-pared to 12 for Allen.

“We only gave up eight field goals in the second half, but we put them on the line 31 times,” Shaw said. “We’ve got to be smarter than that.”

Roberts led Allen with 13 points, followed by Barnette with 10. Rountree added nine points and 10 boards. Schip-pers also scored nine points. Keiswetter had seven points and 11 rebounds. Fountain dished out five assists. Bar-

nette had two steals.The Red Devils without

the services of leading scorer and rebounder Cam-eron Blue for the second consecutive game.

“We’re optimistic he can play again after Thanksgiv-ing,” Shaw said.

Watson paced the Griz-zlies with 17 points. Ma-drid-Andrews added 13.

Allen returns home Nov. 28 against North Central Missouri.Butler County (32-29—71)Allen (22-38—60)

Butler Co. (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Bradshaw 0-0-1-0, Briggs 2-5-2-9, Williams 0-0-1-0, Richardson 3-2-4-8, Triggs 0-6-0-6, Pruitt 3-1-0-7, Watson 4/2-3-1-17, Fitzgerald 0-0-1-0, Osler 2-4-2-8, Madrid-Andrews 4-5-3-13, Schraeder 1-1-4-3. TO-TALS: 19/2-27-19-71.

Allen (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Rob-erts 4/1-2-4-13, Fountain 4-0-4-8, Schippers 0/3-0-4-9, Uno 0/1-0-2-3, Keiswetter 3-0-4-6, Barnett 2/2-0-5-10, Rountree 3-3-3-9, Walter 1-0-3-2. TOTALS: 17/7-5-29-60.

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and Jamie Peel each had two assists. Day and Red-mond also had two steals.

Butler County’s Tysia Manual went 6 of 7 from the field to score 17 points, while Ashlee Ivy scored 12.

Butler held a command-ing 57 to 37 rebounding ad-vantage and limited Allen to 21 percent shooting from

the field. The Red Devils connected on only 7 of 32 3-pointers in the game.

Starting point guard Mir-acle Davis returned to the lineup for Allen after miss-ing her previous game due to a hand injury. She scored two points in 16 minutes but did not have an assist.

“She’s still pretty sore, but the doctors told us she

wouldn’t injure her hand any more by playing,” James said. “And 70 percent of Miracle Davis is still pretty good, but it will be nice for her to get healed up over Thanksgiving.”

Allen (3-4) travels to Rhe-ma College in Tulsa Tuesday.

Butler County (29-45—74)Allen (26-22—48)

Butler (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Wil-

liams 1/1-4-3-9, Bonner 2-1-0-5, Rutledge 1-0-5-2, Manual 6-5-3-17, Bettancourt 2-1-1-5, Howard 0-4-2-4, Ivy 5-2-3-12, Anderson 1/1-0-2-5, Satterlee 4-0-0-8, Whitebread 2-3-1-7. TOTALS: 24/2-20-20-9.

Allen (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Jones 0/2-0-1-6, Saulsberry 0-40-1-4, Davis 1-0-3-2, Morton 0/2-1-1-7, Day 4/1-7-2-18, Flanigan 0-0-2-0, Redmond 0/1-0-3-3, Taiclet 0-0-2-0, Ware 0/1-0-1-3, Seward 1-0-1-2, Blackwell 0-1-3-1, Hall 1-0-3-2. TO-TALS: 7/7-13-20-48.

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Oregon State in a noncon-ference game next week.

Ellis finished with 19 points for the Billikens. Mike McCall Jr. added 13 points, Cory Remekun had 10 points and Dwayne Ev-ans pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds.

“We had 10 turnovers in the first half, two in the second,” Ellis said. “I think our defense defi-

nitely picked up in the second half. We have a long way to go, but it was a big step.”

The Jayhawks got off to the same kind of start they had the previous night, when they buried Washington State under a 21-5 onslaught. Releford keyed it with back-to-back 3-pointers, and Elijah Johnson’s only basket of the first half finished off an opening 14-4 run.

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By LUKE MEREDITHAP Sports Writer

Jack Taylor’s perfor-mance left even Kobe Bry-ant impressed.

The Division III guard shattered the NCAA scor-ing record with 138 points, hoisting a mind-boggling 108 attempts — or one shot every 20 seconds — in eclipsing the previous re-cord by 25 points.

Taylor made 27 of 71 3-point attempts, was 52 of 108 overall from the field and added seven free throws on 10 attempts while playing 36 minutes in Grinnell’s 179-104 victo-ry over Faith Baptist Bible on Tuesday night in Grin-nell, Iowa.

“That’s crazy, man. I don’t care what level you’re at. Scoring 138 points is pretty insane,” the Lakers’ superstar said after Los

Angeles’ victory over the Nets.

Even Taylor was having a hard time processing his feat.

“I don’t think reality has set in yet,” said the 5-foot-10, 170-pound sophomore from Black River Falls, Wis.

That’s partly because Taylor was coming off a poor shooting weekend and started Tuesday’s night game off slow — at least according to his stan-dards. His coaches figured the best way to get him on track was for him to keep chucking, so that’s what Taylor did.

“Maybe my cold shoot-ing from the weekend was affecting me,” Taylor said. “But then they started to drop.”

Taylor had 58 points at halftime.

Then he got hot.Taylor was 32 of 58 from

the field — including 18 3s — in the final 20 minutes and averaged an astonish-ing four points a minute in the second half.

“It felt like anything I tossed up was going in,” Taylor said.

Bryant, who has a shoe that bears his Black Mam-ba nickname, has a theory.

“He must have been wearing the Mambas, man. Only Mambas have no con-science to shoot the ball that much,” said Bryant, who has an 81-point game, second-best in NBA his-tory, on his resume.

Rio Grande’s Bevo Fran-cis held the NCAA scor-ing record with 113 points against Hillsdale in 1954. In 1953, Francis had 116 against Ashland Junior College. Frank Selvy is the

only other player to reach triple figures, scoring 100 points for Division I Fur-man against Newberry in 1954. The previous Grin-nell record was 89 by Grif-fin Lentsch last Nov. 19 against Principia.

Taylor recently trans-ferred to Grinnell, located about 50 miles east of Des Moines, after playing one season for Wisconsin-La Crosse. Under coach David Arseneault, the Pioneers press and shoot 3s like no-body else in the country at any level. They’ve led the nation in scoring for 17 of the past 19 seasons while ranking first nationally in 3-point shooting for the 15 of those past 19 years.

Taylor’s game was so as-tounding it overshadowed the 70 points Faith Bap-tist’s David Larson had on 34-of-44 shooting.

College player sets scoring mark with 138

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CalendarFriday - trash Pickup,

city office closed; Tues-day - Allen/Anderson Deer Creek Watershed, City Hall community room, 8 p.m.; Nov. 28 - city council meeting, City Hall, 7 p.m.School Calendar

Monday - Parent Teach-ers Organization, elemen-tary library, 7 p.m.; Tuesday - middle school vs. Pleasan-ton, 5 p.m.; Nov. 29 - high school basketball at Crest vs. Southern Coffey County, 4 p.m.Meal Site

Monday - hamburger, sliced tomato, corn and bean salad, bun, pears; Wednesday - live music, Vi-sion cards accepted, chick-en and noodles, mashed potatoes, broccoli pineap-ple mango; Friday - Swiss steak, au gratin potatoes, green beans, bread, lemon medley. Phone 620-852-3479 for meal reservations. For prescription drug program, phone Area Agency at Ot-tawa, 800-633-5421.Churches

Scripture read at Sun-day’s Christian Church service was Colossians 2:6-7. Pastor Mark McCoy presented the sermon “Not a Fan: Thankful for ‘Not a Fan.’” Sunday - practice starts for the Christmas program during children’s church; Dec. 2 - church fel-lowship potluck dinner and meeting following services at City Hall community room; Dec. 23 - children’s church will be presenting “Just a Little Christmas” during worship time.

UMCScripture at Sunday’s

United Methodist Church service was Psalm 24:1-10, Proverbs 3:9-10 and Mark 13:1-8. Pastor Leslie Jack-son gave the sermon. Sever-al church members and the pastor delivered shoeboxes filled with Christmas gifts that members made. They took them to Ottawa Bible Church and will be sent to needy children. The next challenge is “Bag It For The Big Man (Santa).” We will again get Christmas gifts but these are for local teenage children. Pastor Jackson said teenagers are sometimes overlooked at Christmas. Flyers will be posted around town.

United Methodist Wom-en met in fellowship hall of the United Methodist Church for the November meeting. Roll call was an-swered with a Thanksgiv-ing article or Scripture verse. The December chal-lenge for the church is San-ta Sacks for teenagers and it was decided to donate to this cause. Jane Ward re-ceived the drawing gift. The next meeting will be Dec. 6 with a carry-in luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Each member is to bring a gift for the Christmas drawing.

Christmas ParadeBe sure to help light the

Christmas tree Dec. 1 with a dove for that special per-son that is battling cancer or lost life to cancer. Pro-ceeds go to the American Cancer Society. If you know a special person that you would like to remember but had some other illness, there is a bulb you can light for them. Proceeds go to the First Responders volunteer firemen.

The opening event for the 8th Christmas Celebration themed “A Picture Perfect Christmas” is a chili/soup fundraiser supper held 4-6 p.m. at the City Hall com-munity room. Parade line-up is 6 p.m. on North Depot Street; Love Lights A Tree, 6:15; Forever in Our Hearts, 6:20; downtown street and business lighting, 6:25; pa-rade, 6:30 followed by Santa at the Colony, GSSB bank building. Hot chocolate and hot coffee is served during the event. All community residents and all surround-ing towns and communities are invited. Questions? A float for the parade? Phone 620-852-3512 and one of the bank employees will help you.BOE

The regular meeting was Nov. 12. The resignation of Kloma Buckle, who rep-resented Position No. 7 at large, was accepted with regrets and thanks for her service.

In other matters, Super-intendent Jerry Turner reviewed the building wa-

ter leaks, discussed special education transportation and repairs to the wrecked van. He has congratulated the volleyball and football teams and coaches for their work and effort. A new li-censed personnel evalua-tion requirement was dis-cussed. The high school hosted scholar’s bowl on Nov. 6 with staff, students and patrons volunteering to assist.

Principal Richard Burk-doll stated the elementary students enjoyed treats for Halloween provided by the PTO, Colony and Kincaid businesses.Council

Mayor Neal Wallace opened the Oct. 30 meet-ing with council members, Donna Westerman, Melissa Hobbs, Debbie Oswald and city personnel in atten-dance. The Water Works Department reported Kan-sas is still under a water warning; therefore the City of Colony’s water warning resolution remains in ef-fect. They ask residents to severely limit outside wa-tering. Some water resourc-es remain low.

The budget hearing was held, no public comments were brought forward therefore the budget and Ordinance 421 were passed. Past due water bills were reviewed with action to be taken. The Boy Scouts do-nated six trees to the city as part of their community project. The new trees will be planted around the ball-park for shade purposes.

The council has agreed to have the downtown siren checked and if not cost prohibitive, repair it. The Emergency Management Services (EMS) determined when the new siren at the fire station was put in place on Pine Street, the down-town siren belonged to the city and if the city does not repair it, the county EMS will remove the siren.Veterans

The Kincaid VFW opened the annual program at the Crest School auditorium on Nov. 12. Four Crest students presented the acclamation on Veterans Day. The Crest band played “America.” Ten veterans introduced themselves, giving branch of service in which they served and the war in which they fought, includ-ing World War II, Korean, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghani-stan. A moment of silence was held and taps were played.

December celebrationsDec. 1-Charles Ward,

Debbie Wools; 2-Stan-ley Luedke, Bob Prasko; 5-Mika Westerman Mor-rison; 6-Leslie Gillil-and; 7-Brooklyn Jones; 12-Kerry Allen, Missy Strickler; 19-Virginia Dutton, Mary Clemans; 20-Wilma Goodell; 21-Lau-ra Schmidt; 25-Yvonne Goins; 26-Jerrick Jones; 28-Stratton McGhee; 30-Clair Wiley.Around town

If residents would like to support the Angel Trees ef-fort, they may do so at the GSSB, Colony Branch. You

may adopt a child or an en-tire family. If you have toys or money to donate, they are most welcome. See the employees at the bank or phone them at 620-852-3512.

Roger and Debbie Os-wald purchased the trailer in which Steve and Sue Mi-chael owned in west Colony. The Oswalds own the lots and have the trailer rented.

Kloma and Richard Buckle, Missy and Sid Hobbs and their boys and Janila Preston spent the evening of Nov. 2 with Kloma and Janila’s mother Myrtle and husband Elton Francis at Iola Nursing Home celebrating Myrtle’s birthday. Cake and ice cream were served and the boys liked watching Myrtle blow out her candles on the cake. She had gifts to open and the evening was en-joyed.

Peyton Schmidt cel-ebrated her 5th birthday with family at her new home (former Bill Michael home). She is the daugh-ter of Nathan and Laura Schmidt. Peyton’s sisters are Jaycee and Hanna. Roger and Debbie Oswald are her grandparents.

Our town welcomes Joyce Sipe, a new resident this month.

Where were you for Thanksgiving? Did you host a Thanksgiving get-together? Let us know at [email protected], bring to 702 Pine St. and put in leave-a-note box in carport or you may phone 620-852-3379.

Mrs.Morris Luedke

852-3379

By JOHN MILBURNAssociated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — About 50 college students who are in the U.S. illegally marched Tuesday on Kan-sas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office urging him to stop working on immi-gration laws and to do his state job.

The students from Kan-sas and Arizona delivered a letter to a staff member, who said Kobach was in his office but unable to meet with the students. The let-ter calls for Kobach to stop working on immigration laws and focus on his duties as secretary of state or re-sign for office.

“I’m still standing and fighting to have the Ameri-can dream,” said Ernesto de la Rosa, a 24-year-old Dodge City student who attends Wichita State Uni-versity. “We need a path to citizenship.”

The students are mem-bers of the DREAM Act Coalition. The DREAM Act would create a citizenship path for residents who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Kobach is a Republican and former law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has helped shape immigration policies around the country and continues to litigate im-migration issues in other states while serving in his Kansas position.

K o b a c h told The Associated Press he read the s t u d e n t s ’ letter but t h o u g h t it would have been i n a p p r o -

priate for him to have met with the students in his office because he tries to separate his official duties from his outside interests.

“The audacity of these illegal aliens is amazing. First they demand that we not enforce the laws against them. And now they de-mand that a public official who believes in the rule of law should step down,” Ko-bach said. “Illegal means il-legal, and that’s a very sim-ple concept to understand and yet they want me to ignore the fact that the law has meaning in Kansas.”

Kay Curtis, a member of Kobach’s staff, met for about 10 minutes with the students and told them that the office doesn’t do im-migration issues. The sec-retary of state is charged with running Kansas elec-tions and certain business transactions. Kobach said he had other meetings scheduled at the time the students arrived.

Curtis said it was ironic that the students were criti-cal of Kobach spending his

own time on immigration issues and that they wanted him to break from his offi-cial duties to listen to their immigration concerns.

Kobach is known nation-ally for helping to draft laws in Arizona and Ala-bama cracking down on illegal immigration. He also pushed successfully in Kansas for a law requiring voters to show photo identi-fication at the polls.

Erika Andiola traveled from Mesa, Ariz., to speak with Kobach, said her fam-ily has been affected by pas-sage of laws in her state that Kobach helped write. She said her mother was stopped recently by local police on suspicion of “be-ing too brown.”

“That’s not fair. He needs to do his job and leave us alone,” Andiola said.

Kobach has also filed a lawsuit challenging Presi-

dent Barack Obama’s De-ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which would allow some children of illegal immigrants to stay in the United States longer as they seek legal status.

To be eligible for deferred deportation applicants must have come to the U.S. before they turned 16, be 30 or younger, be high school graduates or in college, or have served in the military. The immigrants could not have a serious criminal re-cord. Successful applicants can avoid deportation for up to two years and get a work permit.

The plan to halt depor-tations for as many as 1.7 million illegal immigrants closely mirrors the failed DREAM Act, a bill that would have provided a path to legalization for many of the same immigrants ex-pected to benefit from the government’s deferred ac-tion policy. The new policy does not provide legal sta-tus for the immigrants.

“The DREAM Act has been proposed in 24 differ-ent bills in Congress and it has been rejected every time. If they want to hold a protest in favor of the DREAM Act they ought to be holding a protest on Capitol Hill,” Kobach said. “They seem more interest-ed in having public officials ignore the law.”

Students protest Kobach’s immigration role

KobachThe audacity of

these illegal aliens is amazing. First they de-mand that we not en-force the laws against them. And now they de-mand that a public offi-cial who believes in the rule of law should step down.

— Kris Kobach

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By JOHN MILBURNAssociated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A report released Monday shows that the Kansas un-employment rate contin-ues to decline.

The state Labor Depart-ment says unemployment fell to 5.7 percent in Oc-tober from 5.9 percent in September. Last month’s figure also is down sharp-ly from a seasonally ad-justed 6.6 percent in Octo-ber 2011.

September’s figure marked the first time since December 2008 that Kansas unemployment was below 6 percent.

Interim Labor Secre-tary Lana Gordon said she is encouraged by the lat-est report, which showed that Kansas has added 8,700 private sector jobs since October 2011, an 0.8 percent increase.

But a Labor Depart-ment economist said the slow pace of seasonal hir-ing shows a tentativeness in the economy.

“One positive sign is a decreasing unemploy-ment rate, which im-proved significantly for the second consecutive month,” said economist Tyler Tenbrink.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has made economic growth his ad-

ministration’s priority. He signed sweeping changes in the state’s income tax code, which take effect Jan. 1. Among the chang-es are the elimination of income taxes for certain businesses and a reduc-tion in the overall rate for individual filers.

On Monday, a task force he appointed held its first meeting. Among the goals outlined in-clude strengthening families and improving the well-being of chil-dren. He’s seeking ar-eas for greater collabo-ration between state agencies, faith-based groups and other orga-nizations to help pull children out of poverty. More than 18 percent of Kansas children live in poverty.

First lady Mary Brownback, who is serving as an adviser to the task force, opened the inaugural meeting by urging the task force to be creative in devel-oping strategies and to avoid placing blame for problems.

“Childhood cannot be regained,” Mary Brownback said. “There is no going back to lost opportunity. There is no remedy to missed devel-opment.”

October jobless rate decreases

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s unemploy-ment rate edged up to 5.3 percent in October — but the state still has one of the lowest rates in the country.

The Oklahoma Employ-ment Security Commis-sion says the unemploy-ment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point from September’s rate of 5.2 percent.

The agency says that Oklahoma added 1,300 nonfarm jobs in October

despite losses in six of the state’s 11 industry sectors. Professional and business services added 2,300 jobs while leisure and hospital-ity added 2,200 jobs.

The biggest losses came from construction, which decreased by 1,300 jobs, and educational and health services, which lost 700 jobs.

The national unemploy-ment rate is 7.9 percent. Oklahoma’s rate of 5.3 percent is the seventh-low-est in the country.

Oklahoma unemployment upBy TIM TALLEYAssociated Press

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A woman who lost an Okla-homa House race by a mere 16 votes says there were so many irregularities in the Norman-area election that it’s not possible to tell who really won, and she wants a new election.

Democrat Paula Roberts has filed a petition that al-leges 10 different irregular-ities make it “impossible to determine with mathemati-cal certainty which candi-

date is entitled to a certifi-cate of election.” A hearing was held Tuesday, but the judge did not hand down a ruling on Roberts’ request for another election.

Additional testimony is planned for Nov. 30.

A recount of the results of the close Nov. 6 election for the House District 45 seat showed Republican Rep. Aaron Stiles had de-feated Roberts by 16 votes.

Roberts’ lawyer, Gregory Bledsoe, questioned Cleve-land County Election Board

officials during Tuesday’s hearing. He said ballots cast by voters who did not have valid identification were treated differently than those from people who did have ID, which he called unconstitutional.

“We believe they were treated unequally,” Bledsoe told District Judge Tracy Schumacher.

Among the allegations is that ineligible voters were allowed to cast ballots while some validly registered vot-ers were not. Roberts also

alleges that absentee ballots were improperly secured and that mistakes were made with both provisional ballots and voting machines.

Roberts claims that more than 30 provisional ballots cast in the election were im-properly not counted. But election board officials said they were excluded for le-gally valid reasons includ-ing that addresses provided by voters on their provi-sional ballot affidavit did not match information on voter registration records.

House candidate seeks revote after loss

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Sealed bids for a 26 x 36 building that is ready to be moved will be received by the City of Gas, Kansas, at the office of the City Clerk until December 11, 2012, at 4 p.m. Bids received after said time will be returned unopened. The bids will be opened and reviewed by the City Council and a decision will be made at the City Council Meeting on Tuesday, December 11, 2012. The City Council Meeting will be held at City Hall, 228 North Taylor Street, at 7 p.m. Bids should be marked on the outside of the envelope, “BID FOR BUILDING.”

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By ROBERT BARRAssociated Press

LONDON (AP) — The Church of England’s gov-erning body blocked a move Tuesday to permit women to serve as bishops in a vote so close it failed to settle the question of fe-male leadership and likely condemned the institution to years more debate on the issue.

The General Synod’s daylong debate ended with the rejection of a compro-mise that was intended to unify the faithful de-spite differing views on whether women should be allowed in the hierarchy. But backers failed to gain the necessary majority by six votes.

“There is no victory in the coming days,” said Rev. Angus MacLeay. “It is a train crash.”

The defeat was a setback for Archbishop of Canter-bury Rowan Williams, who retires at the end of De-cember, and his successor, Bishop Justin Welby. Both had strongly endorsed a proposed compromise that would have respected the decision of those who ob-jected to the ordination of women bishops.

Instead of ending de-cades of debate on the issue in the church, the narrow defeat opens the church, which has around 80 mil-lion members worldwide, to further years of internal discussions. It also forms an uncomfortable back-drop to the start of Welby’s leadership. He is due to be enthroned in March.

Passage of legislation to allow women to serve as bishops must be approved by two-thirds majorities in the synod’s three houses: bishops, priests and la-ity. Some took heart in the fact that both the bishops and the clergy voted over-whelmingly in favor. But among the laity, the vote fell short, at 132-74.

“This leaves us with a problem,” said Bishop Gra-ham James of Norwich. “Forty-two out of 44 dio-ceses approved the legisla-tion and more than three-quarters of members of diocesan synods voted in favor.

“There will be many who wonder why the Gen-eral Synod expressed its mind so differently,” James added.

Rev. Rachel Weir, leader of Women and the Church, said the group was “abso-lutely devastated.”

“Obviously this will be an enormous blow to cler-gy women, it’s awful for their morale — but it’s a disaster for the Church of England.”

Despite the vote, several bishops noted that a wom-an, Queen Elizabeth II, is the church’s supreme gov-ernor.

Church says no female bishops

By ROBERT LOPEZ Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Four men with ties to South-ern California have been charged with plotting to join al-Qaida and the Tali-ban to commit “violent jihad” and target Ameri-cans, the FBI said Monday night.

One of the men, Sohiel Omar Kabir, 34, allegedly traveled in July to Afghani-stan, where he arranged for terrorist training to be con-ducted with al-Qaida and

Taliban operatives, accord-ing to a complaint unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Riverside, Calif.

Kabir, who lived in Po-mona, Calif., is a natural-ized U.S. citizen born in Afghanistan, federal au-thorities said.

In 2010, Kabir allegedly introduced Ontario, Calif., resident Ralph Deleon, 23, and Upland, Calif., resident Miguel Alejandro Santana, 21, to “radical and violent Islamic doctrine,” accord-ing to the complaint.

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(First published in The IolaRegister, November 14, 2012)IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS

CIVIL DEPARTMENTU.S. Bank, N.A. as Trustee on behalf of Conseco Finance Home Equity Loan Trust 2001-CPlaintiff,v.Meredith M. Rogers, et al.Defendants,

Case No.12CV49 Court No.

Title to Real Estate InvolvedPursuant to K.S.A. §60

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Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: I have always known that fish oil is beneficial for its omega-3 content. I see that krill oil is now being sold, claiming to have the same beneficial properties, but krill are high in choles-terol. How can that be benefi-cial? — J.B.

Answer: The benefits of omega-3 fatty acids have been extremely controver-sial in the past few years, with studies showing con-flicting results and a recent study concluding omega-3

has only a small effect. My take, after reading all this data, is that omega-3-con-taining foods, such as fatty fish like salmon, have a modest benefit in reducing heart disease. Fish-oil sup-

plements may be of benefit, especially for people with high cholesterol or heart disease.

One study showed that krill oil supplements re-duced cholesterol levels, but

I would not recommend tak-ing a supplement until there is clear data not only that blood numbers improve, but that people live longer or are healthier taking a supple-ment compared with not. We don't yet have that certainty with krill oil.

Finally, the big effect on your blood cholesterol comes from the cholesterol your body makes, not from the cholesterol you eat. Fish oil and, it appears, krill oil seem to affect the way your body makes cholesterol.

Krill oil: good for cholesterol control?Dr. Paul Donohue

To YourGoodHealth

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To YourGoodHealth

Wife’s failed job hunt puts relationship in a trap Hi, Carolyn: My wife is

hunting for a new job and has been for two-plus years. She keeps getting close and then getting turned down after two or three rounds of interviews. She has a graduate degree in her field and is doing every-thing “right,” from network-ing with alumni to talking to a career coach to asking for feedback from rejections.

Somehow, though, she keeps losing out, and it is be-ginning to put a major stress on our marriage. A promotion for her would allow us to move on in our lives in major ways (buying a home, starting a family). I am already working overtime and am at the top of the pay scale for my job. I try to offer her suggestions and leads, and when I do, it leads to a fight.

Meanwhile I feel resent-ful and I am ashamed to say nervous, like she has some bad-luck cloud over her head or isn’t really trying or some-

thing. It seems lately all we talk about is job hunting, sav-ings accounts, and planning for the future. We are both an-noyed with each other.

I suggested marriage coun-seling and she snapped that it would cost money and time she could spend looking for new work. She thinks I resent her for holding us back and resent putting her through school with no result, and maybe I do. I also care about her and hate that our life is one nonstop fight lately. Any ideas? — Bad-Luck Spouse

Answer: Which sounds more like a choice to you: fail-ing to get several jobs after several rounds of interviews despite years of visible effort; or seeing this failure as her fault, giving her “suggestions and leads” despite clear signs they’re not useful or welcome, and resenting her “bad-luck cloud”? (Seriously?)

More than marriage coun-seling, you need a refresher

on cause and effect. By my count, you’re laying your lack of a house and children, your resentments, your nerves and your nonstop fighting all at the feet of your wife and her job situation, when in fact the limits on her income are just one wedge of your marital pie.

Other wedges are the lim-its on your earnings; your location and the cost of housing there; your current expenses and other demands on your two incomes; the insufficiency of the savings each of you brought to the marriage; your mutual lack of investment-income sourc-es; the absence of extended-family support ... and, if I were in that kind of mood, even in each other’s taste in spouses, since you’d both have better-padded lives had

you each found higher-earn-ing mates.

Is that really where you want to go, though?

I have to think not — and if you don’t want to prop the door open to wholesale blam-ing, then you need to stop the arbitrary, selective blaming now.

Instead, you and your wife, together, as a love-based team, need to revisit your plans, and limit them to things you two can control.

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By MELANIE GOUBYAssociated Press

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Thousands of Congolese soldiers and policemen de-fected to the M23 rebels to-day, as rebel leaders vowed to take control of all Congo, including the capital Kin-shasa.

“We are now going to Kinshasa. No one will di-vide this country,” said Col. Vianney Kazarama, the M23 spokesman, to a cheer-ing crowd of thousands.

The rebels organized the rally at Goma’s Stadium of Volcanoes after seizing con-trol of the strategic city in eastern Congo Tuesday.

Kazarama first welcomed the crowd in Swahili by shouting “Goma Jambo!” meaning “Hello Goma!”

Kazarama said the M23 rebels’ next goal is Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province on the other side of Lake Kivu. He claimed the rebels already control the town of Sake, 17 miles from Goma on the road to Bukavu, and will soon take Minova, a lakeside town in South Kivu.

More than 2,100 army troops and 700 police turned in their weapons, accord-

ing to M23’s Col. Seraphin Mirindi. The former army troops and policemen piled up their arms and ammuni-tion in the stadium.

In Bukavu people are already demonstrating against the Kinshasa gov-ernment and in support of the rebels, according to local residents reached by phone.

The Congo soldiers re-maining in the government army near Goma said they are not sure what to do.

“We are waiting for orders now. We don’t know what we are supposed to do. It’s hard. My comrades who de-fected in Goma, we’re going to fight them,” said a Con-golese army major reached by phone in Kanyabayonga, 66 miles to the south, where the troops have regrouped. The major required ano-nymity because of the un-certain situation.

In neighboring Uganda, Congo President Joseph Kabila met with Rwanda President Paul Kagame, for emergency talks prompted by the fall of Goma and the progress of the M23 rebels. Rwanda is blamed for back-ing the M23 by Congo and by the United Nations.

M23 rebels vow to take Congo

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