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

Bicycle lanes create concern

BEHIND THE SCENES

By STEVEN SCHWARTZsteven@iolaregister.com

Iola Mayor Bill Shirley declared April 21-27 as Volunteer Week dur-ing Monday night’s city council meeting.

The decision arose from a sug-gestion made by one of Iola’s most active volunteer organizations, the Community Involvement Task Force (CITF/Pride).

When the group was organized in 2005, members met to compile a list of various improvements they thought needed to be made. At meeting’s end, they had around 60 items.

“Our goal is to bring back Iola,” CITF member Beth Ann Turner said. She, along with members Jim Smith and Mike Ford, stopped by The Register to explain CITF accomplishments, and what they plan to do in the future.

“I just do it to keep busy and

help the community,” Smith said. “Busy” is a word used modestly in this case.

Over the past eight years mem-bers have done everything from renovating houses, painting the

town square, creating a promo-tional video for Iola and garner-ing over $800,000 in grants for in-frastructure in the city.

But, Ford said there is always a

File photo

Members of Community Involvement Task Force/Pride Committee met with Iola city officials other backers of a painting project to spruce up the Recreation Community Building and Iola Municipal Pool bathhouse at Riverside Park Wednesday. Attending the meet-ing were, from left, Kara Godfrey, Jim Smith, Megan Hageman, Co-rey Schinstock, Kasey Shay, Judy Brigham, Mike Ford, Nancy Ford, Berkley Kerr, Beth Ann Turner, Mike Waldman, April Hawkinson, Carl Slaugh, Tony Piazza and Donna Houser.

CITF is at forefront of volunteering

See CITF | Page A6

By STEVEN SCHWARTZsteven@iolaregister.com

The desire for bicycle lanes in Iola may not be the issue, but safety concerns over the lanes were at the forefront of Iola City Council members’ minds during Monday night’s meeting.

Thrive Allen County Ex-ecutive Director David Toland brought an amended proposal before the council, suggest-ing a bicycle lane be painted on South Washington Avenue, from Broadway to Vine Street. The lane would be painted out-side of the curbside parking area, and on the right side of the traffic lanes.

“It (the street) was laid out for multiple forms of trans-portation,” Toland said.

He said the width of Wash-ington is more than adequate, based on the Kansas Depart-ment of Transportation’s bicycle regulations, leaving room on both sides for cars to park, drive and share the road-

See SAFETY | Page A2

Security installation progresses

By ALLISON TINNallison@iolaregister.com

Safety and security up-grades at Iola schools are progressing, but not without some frustration, Scott Stan-ley, director of operations, told USD 257 board of educa-tion members Monday night.

CDL Electric Company, Pittsburg, won the bid for the security system installation. Out of all the bidders CDL was by far the lowest, quoting the work at $27,324. As part of the contract, CDL was to pro-vide all installation and soft-ware training.

Brett Linn, technology di-rector, has taken on some of the installation and has had to learn the software from out-side sources.

“Sometimes you get what

Restaurant taxes show discrepancies

$6,000

$8,000

$10,000

$12,000

Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept Nov. Dec.Oct.

2012 2011

Monthly Restaurant Sales Tax Revenue

2011 Total Revenue - $99,410.082012 Total Revenue - $97,946.31

$60,000

$80,000

$100,000

$120,000

Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept Nov. Dec.Oct.

2012 2011

Monthly Total Sales Tax Revenue

2011 Total Revenue - $1,130,484.972012 Total Revenue - $1,146,841.56

The tax numbers for restau-rant sales, compared to those of total sales tax revenue for the city of Iola tell an interesting story.

For restaurant sales, the numbers decreased by $1,463.77 from 2011 to 2012. For total sales tax revenue, the numbers in-creased by $16,356.59 over the

two years. While these changes are relatively small, they show somewhat of an inverse rela-tionship between the amount of business being done in the city, compared to how many people are eating at restaurants.

As for the monthly basis, the tax revenue showed very differ-ent trends from year-to-year.

The 2011 restaurant income trend showed a fairly steady rate across the board. April was the lowest income month at $6,923.76 and December was the highest at $9,559.25. The average change from month-to-month was $1,145.89.

As for 2012, the general trend for retail income on a month-

ly basis was a roller coaster ride. Numbers were low in the spring months, before spiking in the summer and dropping yet again in the fall. The high-est income month for 2012 was $10,626 in June, and the lowest was September with $6,140.87. The average change from month-to-month was $1,1518.58.

See USD 257 | Page A2

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

HUMBOLDT — Jeff Col-lins will be permitted to use a firing range at the south-west edge of Humboldt for concealed carry classes he in-structs through his Crosshair gun shop.

But, the decision by Hum-boldt’s council Tuesday eve-ning didn’t come quickly. City Attorney Fred Works had con-cerns.

The range, in a secluded area but in city limits, has been used by police officers to hone their skills. It also has been used by others, at their discretion.

Collins, police officer, and Chief of Police Brian Dillow initially proposed forming a gun club and upgrading the

range through private dona-tions and money raised by club dues.

Works said he wasn’t too keen on having a range in the city limits, noting codes pro-hibit discharging firearms in the city. It would be better out in the county, to minimize danger, he said.

Works also said there likely were zoning issues involved.

As discussion evolved, Col-lins said he had concealed carry classes scheduled every Saturday for several weeks and part of the class was live firing for an hour.

Several council members, trying to accommodate Col-lins, pieced together a mo-tion to ignore zoning issues for 45 days, while liability and insurance concerns were considered. Also, as part of possible rezoning, neighbors

Shooting range concerns arise

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt council members voted Mon-day evening to spend $100,000 to make improvements to the wastewater treatment plant.

The decision came after a lengthy and technical discus-sion of the system’s short-comings by an engineer from BG Consultants, Emporia, which was hired a year ago to make an assessment of wastewater collection and treatment.

Water infiltrating and burdening the system also is a concern. About 50 mil-lion gallons of rainwater a year flow into sanitary sewer mains, and then has to be treated the same as waste-water, which mainly comes from toilet flushings. City Administrator Larry Tucker surmised the extra 50 mil-

lion gallons because Hum-boldt sells about 100 million gallons of purified water a year.

The rainwater gets into mains in two ways, either through infiltration into flaws in aging mains or through sump pump and downspout discharges from residences.

Vada Aikins, a council member, said that educating the public about the problem might lead to residents re-directing water from sump pumps and downspouts so it would flow into storm sew-ers, not sanitary sewers.

Bruce Voettcher, the BG engineer, said not dealing with problems within the system would shorten the plant’s life and eventually result in the city having to

Wastewater system upgrades approved

Canvass changes election outcome

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.comAfter each local election

Allen County commission-ers canvass votes. Seldom does the canvass lead to any changes.

That wasn’t the case for last Tuesday’s election.

Three people whose names were on the ballot in Savonburg, and appeared to have won election, were defeated by write-in votes. Counting of provisional ballots caused a tie in LaHa-rpe that led to a candidate who had placed third in votes counted Tuesday los-ing a coin-flip.

In Savonburg Aaron Wil-son, unopposed for mayor,

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way with cyclists.Council members dis-

puted the fact that a paint-ed lane would prove to be a safer option for cyclists, particularly children.

“We are trying to jam too much into the middle of the street,” council member Joel Wicoff said. “I like the concept, but we have to be careful.”

Wicoff said one of his major concerns was over the fact that people often-times do not pay attention when they are opening their car doors after park-ing. He said it is inevita-ble that a child would be hit by a car door.

Don Becker echoed Wicoff ’s concerns, saying he regularly sees cyclists that do not pay attention to traffic. Those wary of the lanes said they believe the lanes give a false sense of security to cyclists, making them vulnerable to traffic acci-dents.

Toland said he believes the cyclists are already on the roadways, and a bicycle lane would only heighten the awareness of bicycles on the road. He cited the example of the pedestrian crosswalk signs in different inter-sections throughout the city.

“Could they have been done better? Yes,” Toland said of the signs. “But, I definitely feel safer with them there, than before when there was nothing there.”

Becker suggested work be done on the sidewalks to make them more ac-cessible to bicycles and pedestrians, thus keeping them out of the roadways.

Council member Steve French objected, saying just as much danger ex-ists to pedestrians on sidewalks if bicycles are thrown into the mix.

“Sidewalks aren’t the answer either,” French said. “We need to come up with a compromise.”

Toland offered that bi-cycle lane planning could be reviewed by Becky Pepper, the person in charge of bicycle regula-tions for the KDOT.

Skyrocketing child-hood obesity rates make the issue too important to ignore, Toland said.

“Iola has an opportuni-

ty to differentiate itself, to continue to differentiate itself,” with the bicycle lanes, Toland said.

The council decided to table any action until more information could be gathered from KDOT, as well as other sugges-tions from Pepper.

In other business:— The Community De-

velopment Block Grant program was approved to make a $89,043 payment for the renovation done to four different homes in Iola.

— The mill and overlay

project proposal was ap-proved by the council for 2013. The project includes four different sections: Carpenter Street — from Cottonwood to Kentucky Street (1), Jackson Av-enue — from Cottonwood to First Street (2), Jef-ferson Avenue — from Broadway to Neosho Street (3) and Broadway Street — from State to Buckeye Street. The esti-mated cost of the project is $219,040.29.

— Bids will be solicited to appoint an official city engineer to be held on re-tainer when needed.

— The contract for the municipal band has been renewed at the cost of $6,500 for 2013.

— A motion was passed to accept the donation of an old machine used to make bricks around the turn of 20th century, that will be transported to be put on display in Elm Creek Park South. The machine was donated by Don Britt, and city crew will help to transport the machine.

— Discussions for a new trailhead for the Prairie Spirit Trail were held, and council mem-bers decided to include it with budget discus-sions for 2014. The new trailhead would be just west of town on U.S. 54. The approximate cost for the trailhead, includ-ing tables, shelter and other amenities would be $9,818.

— The next joint meet-ing with Allen County Commissioners regard-ing the EMS merger is tentatively set for May 6 at the Dr. John Silas Bass North Community Build-ing.

We are try-ing to jam too much into the middle of the street. I like the concept, but we have to be careful.

— Joel Wicoff, council member

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Register/Steven Schwartz

For council members David Toland and Jim Kilby, along with Mayor Bill Shirley, Monday night was their last meeting on the council. New council members Sandy Zornes and Bob Shaughnessy will be sworn in April 22.

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you pay for when you go with the lowest bidder,” USD 257 superintendent Brian Pekarek said.

Though there is some frustration with the installation, Stanley is still feeling good about the progress.

“Overall, the installa-tion is going very well,” he said.

USD 257 has yet to pay CDL for the work and is talking about charging the company for the training and installation Linn has been doing.

The high school and middle school software will be ready to be turned on this week.

PEKAREK was able to bring some good news to the board from Topeka.

Mediations ordered by the Kansas Supreme Court in a school fund-ing lawsuit will come to a head on Oct. 8 when a hearing has been sched-uled.

Kansas is appealing a January ruling to in-crease the state’s annu-al spending on schools by at least $440 million. The lawsuit was filed in 2010 over whether the state of Kansas is ful-filling its obligation to

adequately fund public schools.

The board voted to renew its contract with the Schools for Fair Funding in 2014.

“We have been with it this long,” board mem-ber Mark Burris said.

The contract will cost the district $8,114.10, which covers dues and an additional assess-ment for litigation sup-port.

IN OTHER news:JB Turner & Sons,

Topeka, won the bid for roofing projects with a bid of $61,913. Boren Roofing was offered a chance to present a bid but did not submit one.

The next board meet-ing on April 22 was ap-proved to be moved to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center in order to hear and see concepts re-garding the vision of the Bowlus in the fu-ture.

The retirements of Larry Regehr, McKin-ley physical education teacher, and Pam Pow-ers, first-grade teacher at Jefferson, were ap-proved.

The hirings of Chel-sea Welch Gumfory, Iola Middle School math teacher, Caitlin Rob-erts, Iola High School science teacher, Cindy

Huelett, food service, Nancy Ellington, sub-stitute cook, and John Perez, custodian, were approved.

Louise Merriman’s resignation was ap-proved.

Iola school assess-ments are taking place this week.

Elementary school principals were pleased to inform that at last week’s kindergarten round-up they each re-ceived roughly 30 new students.

Iola High School principal Stacey Fager said the two History Bowl teams are making progress in their fund-raising efforts to com-pete Washington, D.C.. A contribution from the Whitehead Trust was accepted.

Iola Middle School principal Jack Stan-ley said that due to the weekend’s weather to-day’s track meet was moved to April 22. Mid-dle school students will have a full day today and the early release day will be transferred to the later date.

The middle school history bowl team is also on its way to rais-ing necessary funds. Af-ter a little over a week of fundraising the stu-dents have raised $1,000.

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DENVER (AP) — A storm that toppled trees, whipped up blinding dust storms and may have spawned some tor-nadoes brought blizzard conditions to parts of Colorado, where up to 20 inches of snow was pos-sible in the mountains through today.

The storm has so far proved less potent than originally predicted in Colorado because a cold front has been lingering to the north. Wyoming has been hit harder, with over a foot falling in Lander.

Up to around 10 inch-es of snow had fallen in Colorado’s mountains by dawn. Another 5 to 10 inches was possible in some locations but final

snowfall amounts would vary quite a bit, National Weather Service fore-caster Jim Daniels said.

Up to a foot had been in expected in Denver but forecasters are now call-ing for around 5 inches.

The storm has can-celed 465 flights at Den-ver International Air-port and deicing was causing departing flights to be delayed by as much as a half hour.

Blizzard warnings are also in effect from south of Denver to the New Mexico line and in north-western Colorado. Winds gusting up to 50 mph were expected there.

As the storm moved in Monday night, spotters reported two tornadoes near Akron in eastern

Colorado.Northern California

was first to feel the lash-ing blasts of the storm Monday, which spread to the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.

At least a dozen trees came down in San Fran-cisco, police officer John Tozzini told KGO-TV, which reported that more than 20,000 utility customers lost power in the region. A swath of outages occurred across the Sacramento Munici-pal Utility District, the Sacramento Bee report-ed.

A tree smashed into a Sacramento home where four friends were playing bridge, but they didn’t stop playing their game Monday, according to KCRA.

Gusts topped 80 mph at some places in Southern California. The blustery system was being fueled by a cold front.

Storm brings reported tornadoes, snow

JOHN MILBURNAssociated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators left for their monthlong break without finaliz-ing the state’s $14 bil-lion budget, with many spending cuts favored by Republicans still pending and more pos-sible changes to the tax code.

Lawmakers spent more than a week ne-gotiating the budget before adjourning late Friday. Although they settled several issues, including changes in abortion and gun regu-lations, disputes over higher education and income taxes remain unresolved.

The Kansas Senate is recommending a 4 per-cent cut in funding for the state’s public uni-versities and communi-ty colleges. The House favors a 2 percent cut while capping salaries at state agencies to gen-erate about $36 million to make up the differ-ence.

On Monday, House Appropriations Com-mittee Chairman Marc Rhoades said state agencies have been spending less than what they were authorized on salaries in recent years, choosing to use the savings for other op-erations and projects. He acknowledged that would amount to a cut to state agencies, which the Senate has been hes-itant to embrace, but he said he was hopeful for a compromise.

“I think we’re really close on that,” the New-ton Republican said. “Once you take care of those pieces, we have

about 98 percent of (the budget) done.”

Lawmakers also are fighting over how to fur-ther cut Kansas income taxes, though a revenue report due out before they return to work on May 8 is expected to help settle the debate. The report, compiled by nonpartisan research-ers and economists, will look at current econom-ic conditions and calcu-late how much Kansas can anticipate collect-ing in taxes through June 30, 2014.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback wants to keep the state’s 6.3 per-cent sales tax, which was approved as a tem-porary hike in 2010 to help stabilize the bud-get, while tweaking other income tax provi-sions.

Brownback said Monday that he was working with legisla-tors to reach a compro-mise on taxes, adding that it was important to settle the issue be-fore finishing the bud-get. He said he wanted a package that would maintain core govern-ment spending and has healthy reserves but moves toward eliminat-ing income taxes.

THE SENATE plan largely mirrors the gov-ernor’s proposal, but the House has voted to let the sales tax in-crease expire, allowing it to fall to 5.7 percent on July 1. The House plan also would make other tax adjustments with an eye toward fu-ture cuts in income tax rates if overall tax col-lections grow.

But both chambers,

controlled by Republi-cans, want to eventu-ally eliminate income taxes in Kansas.

However, Democrats said Monday that Re-publicans are making tax and spending deci-sions based on the drop in revenue caused by the large income tax cuts that were made last year.

“Every time they are looking under a rock for dollars, it’s all about paying for the tax cuts,” said House Minor-ity Leader Paul Davis, a Lawrence Democrat.

Rhoades said the pro-posed cuts to the next budget are a combina-tion of trying to keep government spending in check and to pay for the tax cuts.

“It’s both, but it’s be-cause we got a tax plan in 2012 that the House didn’t want,” Rhoades said, referring to the aggressive tax-cutting plan approved last year.

The Senate approved the plan assuming it would be amended in the House, but the House approved it after the Senate refused to ac-cept any House chang-es. Brownback signed it knowing it could com-plicate future budgets without tweaking the law in the future.

“Regardless of what the tax plan was last year, my intention is to look for ways to make government trimmer, more efficient and smaller. That desire won’t change,” he said.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hens-ley, a Topeka Democrat, added that the budget problems were “self-in-flicted” by the tax cuts.

Kansas budget in flux

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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Sat-urday night Humboldt High School students will attend the annual junior/senior prom af-ter a year’s preparation raising money, schedul-ing music and planning an evening of activities to entertain attendees. Not to be left out, a ju-nior prom will take place the same evening for ju-nior high students not yet old enough to go to the prom, thanks to the staff and volunteers at the Lions Den.

The class of 2014 has been actively preparing for the junior/senior prom for more than a year raising money, while Joe Johnson, Li-ons Den manager, con-tacted churches with requests for food, deco-rations and music.

“We have a junior prom in conjunction with the high school ju-nior/senior prom so the younger kids will have something to do,” John-son said “But, it’s open to students sixth through 12 grades because not all of the senior high will get invited to the prom.”

Johnson, 30, is a co-pastor and youth leader at Faith Assembly of God Church. This is the second year he orga-nized the junior prom event.

The high school prom grand march will take place Saturday evening, beginning at 8. Imme-diately following the Grand March the Lions Den will open and the ju-nior prom will begin.

“We’ll have a D.J., give-aways, games and food,” Johnson said. “It costs $2 to get in for the evening. We’re also going to have a photographer who will

take pictures for $2.50.”Students planning to

attend the junior prom are encouraged to “dress up” and Johnson said they have been excited to do so in the past. “The boys don’t necessarily wear tuxedos, but they dress up casual.”

Approximately 50 stu-dents attended the other junior prom Johnson or-ganized.

He expects a good crowd this year. Activi-ties and dancing will last until 11 p.m., with food available through-out the evening.

“It’s not set up so much for couples, but for individuals,” John-son said. “Of course, if they have a date, we let them bring them and experience what we do. The focus is on junior high age and the kids love it.”

Churches in the com-munity will decorate the Lions Den for the event, donating food and prizes to be given away and helping with adult supervision.

CalendarToday - Housing Ac-

tion Team and Business Action Team meeting, 5:30 p.m., library; Bi-blesta Parade commit-tee meeting, 6:30 p.m., li-brary; Chapter AM PEO meeting, 7:30 p.m., Judy Middendorf hostess.

Wednesday - Hum-boldt Recreation and GALS FCE Story Hour, 10-11 a.m., library.

Thursday - South-wind Extension Council Spring Tea, 6 p.m., Cha-nute.

Saturday - Humboldt High School Jr.-Sr. Prom Grand March, 8 p.m.

Monday - GALS FCE meeting, 7 p.m., Judy Middendorf hostess; Southwind Rail Trail meeting, 6:30 p.m., Thrive office Iola.

April 16 - South Lo-gan FCE meeting, 1:30 p.m., library.

April 19-20 - Citywide spring clean-up.Housing roundtable

Representatives ap-pointed by the Allen

County Commission, the City of Iola and Iola Industries, which make up an economic devel-opment advisory group, will meet Monday at 4 p.m. in the Iola City Hall basement for a roundta-ble discussion about the status of the housing market in Allen County.

Working with Thrive Allen County, the goal for the group is to gain a better understanding of the demand in the for-sale, rental and institu-tional housing markets.

David Toland, Thrive executive director, said, “If there is de-mand for new housing in the county, we want to know what that is and what type of in-centives or programs would be needed to get those units built. We

also don’t want to step on the toes of those who are planning new hous-ing efforts in the com-ing months.”

The meeting is open to the public.DAT

Finalizing plans for the upcoming band-stand dedication and concert April 20 was one of the topics cov-ered during Friday’s Team meeting. Stacy Cakes will cosponsor the event and flyers, in-vitations and newspa-per ads will go out soon.

The Team continues to pursue the possibil-ity of getting United States Department of Agriculture and Kansas Department of Trans-portation grants, an updated newsletter is being drafted and more information was shared regarding the com-mercial rehabilitation grant program.

Larry Tucker met with Susan Galemore of SEK Regional Plan-ning about the possible grant, which could pay up to 75 percent of the cost of rehabilitating buildings in the down-town business district. The grant deadline is Aug. 15.

Team members also will meet with Jeremy Bulk Thursday to dis-cuss improvements to the downtown sidewalk. They also will continue to follow the status of legislation proposed in Topeka to eliminate the 500-feet rule that affects private property own-

ers near a designated historic site.Hoe and HopeGarden Club

The Hoe and Hope Garden Club, along with Sean McReyn-olds Family Dentistry, are inviting local resi-dents to join the fun of a “Decorating Your Gas Meter” contest.

Gas meters can be painted any color with any design, as long as the glass window on the front remains clear for City employees.

Cash prizes for the top three entries will be awarded and an-nounced in the news-paper after judging on May 4.

Meters will be judged based on creativity, originality and use of color adding color and fun to the yard.

Contest entries will be taken by calling 620-473-3060.Neosho River Park

Westar Green Team will erect an informa-tion kiosk at Neosho River Park April 27 and is seeking volunteers with screw guns to help.

Work will begin at 9 a.m. Volunteers should dress accord-ingly bringing screw guns, if available.

The Humboldt Healthy Ecosystems Committee will assist.

For more informa-tion about the kiosk project, contact JoAnn Roether at 620-473-0040 or email her at joann.roether@westarener-gy.com.

Lions Den manager, Joe Johnson, is head-ing up plans for a Junior Prom geared toward the Junior High students Saturday night.

Register/Terry Broyles

Lions Den to host junior prom

Members of the Humboldt Chamber of Commerce welcomed Weide’s Cemetery Service and Me-morials to Humboldt Thursday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Owners Shelia Bolling and Bryan Weide cut the ribbon surrounded by Chamber members, family, friends and employees. Joining the festivity, were, from left, Brad Hurt, Patricia Howerton, Steve Hoag, Loren Korte, Laci Sicka, Ashley Edwards, Jamelynn Carpenter, Jess Bolling, Peg Smith, Bolling, Wayne Smith, Ellery and Eileen Robertson, Weide, Larry Tucker, Linda Leonard, Don Copley, Vada Aikins, David Broyles, Joe Works (behind), Ed Harner and Chris Bauer.

Register/Terry Broyles

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GALS FCE member and Story Hour coordinator, Janie Works, holds a baby duck for boys and girls to see up close during the first session of the Spring Story Hour at the library on Wednesday. Story Hour will be held each Wednesday during April from 10-11 a.m. at the library for children 3-5 years of age.

Register/Terry Broyles

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Ribbon cutting

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Margaret Thatcher, who died of a stroke Monday at age 87, transformed Britain more thoroughly than any other prime minister of the past half-century. She was a path-breaker from the moment she took office in 1979 as Britain’s first, and so far only, female prime minister. And she was the rare conservative leader to come not from the upper echelons of Britain’s class-obsessed society, but a modest apartment above her father’s grocery shop.

But much more than that distinguished the 11 years of Mrs. Thatcher’s government, which followed years of tepid leadership, economic stagna-tion and high inflation. She tamed the power of Britain’s once powerful labor move-ment by shutting down inef-ficient coal mines, privatizing state-owned industries and modernizing archaic work rules. She encouraged an en-trepreneurial culture that had grown timid and somnolent. With her powerful, plain-spo-ken approach to issues large (like Saddam Hussein’s inva-sion of Kuwait) and relatively small (the brief war over the

Falkland Islands) she reawak-ened Britain’s taste for mili-tary engagement.

In the process, she revived policy debates among politi-cal parties grown too com-fortable with safe consensus mumbling. As she pushed the conservatives to the right, she pushed the Labour Party to the center. Without Mrs. Thatcher, there probably would have been no Tony Blair.

She had many critics, and her record was not all trium-phal. Eventually, Mrs. Thatch-er’s relentless negativism

on the European Union and bullying style of leadership pushed her own party to drive her from office in 1990. Over the intervening years, much of the glow has faded from Mrs. Thatcher’s economic achievements.

THE CAPITALIST revival she sparked did not slow the over-financialization and deindustrialization of the economy, with clear and nega-tive consequences in the 2008 financial crash. Her weaken-ing of the unions also led to a regressively skewed distribu-tion of wealth and, her critics said, a widening gap between rich and poor.

Arguably, Mrs. Thatcher’s popular military successes made it easier for Tony Blair to carelessly and recklessly follow George W. Bush into Iraq. But Mrs. Thatcher knew how to stand up to Ronald Rea-gan when she needed to, for example, over the ill-consid-ered United States invasion of Grenada. She was one of the first Western leaders to recog-nize the reformist intentions of Mikhail Gorbachev, showed remarkable foresight on the dangers of climate change, and in general managed Brit-ain’s global role more deftly than her successors.

Mrs. Thatcher was, without a doubt, a divisive political fig-ure in her day. The passage of time has drained much of the old anger and left behind her record of accomplishments.

— The New York Times

Britain’s ‘Iron Lady’ a force of nature

Thatcher revived policy debates among political parties grown too comfortable with safe consen-sus mumbling. As she pushed the conservatives to the right, she pushed the Labour Party to the center. Without Mrs. Thatcher, there probably would have been no Tony Blair.

By BARBARA DEMICKLos Angeles Times

BEIJING — North Korea is sometimes mocked as the mouse that roared, one of the poorest countries in the world threatening two economic and military giants, the United States and South Korea.

But under Kim Jong Il and now his 30-year-old son, Kim Jong Un, North Korea has proved itself the master at playing a poor hand. Indeed, it uses weakness to its ad-vantage. Like a barefoot man who doesn’t fear the man with shoes, North Korea behaves like it has nothing to lose.

South Korea has twice the population and 40 times the economic might of North Korea. The South has a highly sophisticated military and a strong U.S. alli-

ance. But North Korea is also one of the most mili-tarized nations on Earth, bristling with nuclear and conventional arms that could inflict horrific damage on its southern neighbor, albeit at a sui-cidal cost.

North Korea’s bombas-tic propaganda machine need only issue a missive threatening to turn Seoul into a “sea of fire” and the South Korean stock market takes a beating.

“It is difficult to keep North Korea under con-trol despite the fact that the U.S. and South Korea are superior in military force, because they know that we won’t use force first,” said Park Syung-je, a military analyst at the Asia Strategy Insti-tute in Seoul.

South Koreans have largely grown inured to the constant threat, but

some acknowledge an underlying fear.

“North Koreans are scary. They are full of spite,” said Kim Sung-ya, a well-dressed woman in bright lipstick and sun-glasses who was stroll-ing through a Seoul train station. “I’m afraid that they might fire some-thing first.”

On several occasions, most seriously in 1994, the U.S. contemplated a pre-emptive strike against the North Korean nuclear compound at Yongbyon, but quickly abandoned the idea. There is no doubt that if such a strike spun into a full-scale war that the United States could easily defeat North Korea — according to some estimates, in less than three days.

But victory would come at an unthinkable cost. Half of South Ko-rea’s 50 million people live within a three-min-ute flight of North Ko-rea, and the thriving me-tropolis of Seoul is only 30 miles away. The North Korean capital, Pyong-yang, is within 70 miles of the border. Both sides could expect horrific ca-sualties.

North Korea does not have a workable nuclear weapon or interconti-nental ballistic missile thus far, but it has the fifth-largest army in the world, more than 1.1 mil-lion soldiers under arms and another 4.7 million on reserve, according to the International Insti-tute for Strategic Studies. Most of the North’s force is pointed like a dagger at South Korea. Accord-ing to the London-based institute, it has 8,000 ar-tillery systems and 2,000 tanks at the demilita-rized zone on the border.

A computer simula-tion done in 1994, when the Clinton administra-

tion was contemplating airstrikes to take out the nuclear complex at Yong-byon, projected that if North Korea went all-out in retaliation, as many as a million South Koreans could be killed, as well as thousands of American troops stationed near the DMZ, according to a for-mer South Korean official.

U.S. military planners use the phrase the “tyr-anny of proximity” to describe the geographic situation.

If the U.S. and South Korea launched a quick, all-out blitz against North Korea, there would be heavy casualties on the North Korea side. In a slower, more cau-tious campaign against military targets, losses would be greater south

of the border, according to Park.

“Ultimately, North Ko-rea is bound to lose, but millions of people would die,” Park said.

Another scary scenar-io: A conventional war could quickly turn nucle-ar. In a much-discussed article that recently ran on the Foreign Affairs magazine website, schol-ars Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press said that Kim Jong Un, fearing the same fate as other defeat-ed leaders such as Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Lib-ya’s Moammar Gadhafi, could be tempted to use a crude nuclear weapon, delivering it through a guerrilla commando raid or some other unconven-tional means.

“Nuclear weapons are really the weapons of the weak,” said Lieber,

an associate professor at Georgetown University, in a telephone interview. “If North Korea is fac-ing conventional defeat, which seems likely given the superior might of the

combined forces, they might not see any other option for avoiding re-gime change.”

North Korea also de-ploys the craziness card to its advantage. The colorful bombast of its infamous propaganda mouthpiece, the Korean Central News Agency (threatening to “break the waists of the crazy enemies, totally cut their windpipes and thus clearly show them what a real war is like”) is de-signed not merely to in-timidate but to convince the outside world that it is dealing with lunatics. And of course, when dealing with lunatics — as with suicide bombers — the whole premise of deterrence breaks down.

The rhetoric has be-come especially fevered in recent months, during

a cycle of escalation that began with North Korea launching a rocket in De-cember and conducting its third underground nuclear test in February, predictably leading to international condem-nation and stiffer sanc-tions, which in turn led to the stream of invective from Pyongyang.

“Their rhetoric is their rhetoric. I don’t find it particularly shocking,” said Joel Wit, a former State Department offi-cial. “We’ve been around this block a few times.”

One of the big un-knowns this time, how-ever, is Kim Jong Un, in power only since De-cember 2011. The fear is that the young, untested leader might actually be-lieve his country’s own inflated rhetoric about how powerful it is.

“Absolutely, there is a chance that war could break out. North Korea considers itself to be a nuclear power and one of the strongest nations in the world,” said Zhang Liangui, an analyst at the Central Party School in Beijing. “North Ko-rea has zero chance of winning such a war. But think how often wars break out because of wrong judgment.”

North Korea plays a weak hand to advantage

Nuclear weapons are really the weapons of the weak.

— Keir A. Lieber, war scholar

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We wash clothes, lin-ens, cars, dishes and our-selves. So, it is logical that many people believe meat and poultry can be made cleaner and safer by washing it.

But, research tells us that washing poultry, beef, pork, lamb or veal before cooking is not recommended. Bacteria in raw meat and poultry juices can be spread to other foods, utensils and surfaces. This is called cross-contamination.

Hand washing after handling raw meat or poultry or its packaging is a necessity because any-thing touched afterwards could become contami-nated. Counter tops and sinks which have come in contact with raw meat or poultry juices should be washed with hot soapy water. A sanitizing solu-tion of one tablespoon of unscented, liquid chlo-rine bleach per gallon of water may be used.

Packaging materials from raw meat or poultry should never be reused with other food items. These and other dispos-able packaging materials, such as foam meat trays, egg cartons or plastic wraps, should be discard-ed.

It is important to cook meat and poultry to a safe minimum internal tem-perature. Beef, veal and lamb steaks, roasts and chops can be cooked to 145 degrees. All cuts of pork should reach 160 de-grees, as should ground meats. All poultry should reach a safe minimum in-ternal temperature of 165 degrees.

Sometimes consum-ers wash or soak country ham, bacon or salt pork

because they think it re-duces the sodium or salt enough to allow these products to be eaten on a sodium-restricted diet. However, very little salt is removed by washing, rinsing or soaking a meat product and is not recom-mended.

Do not wash eggs be-fore storing or using them. Washing is a rou-tine part of commercial egg processing and the eggs do not need to be washed again. “Bloom,” the natural coating on just-laid eggs that helps prevent bacteria from permeating the shell, is removed by the washing process and is replaced by a light coating of ed-ible mineral oil which restores protection. Ex-tra handling of the eggs, such as washing, could increase the risk of cross-contamination, especial-ly if the shell becomes cracked.

Washing fresh produce before eating is very im-portant. Before eating or preparing, wash under cool running tap water to remove any lingering dirt. This reduces bacte-ria that may be present. If there is a firm surface, such as on apples or po-tatoes, the surface can be scrubbed with a brush. Produce which has a rind that cannot be eaten should also be scrubbed and washed with cold water before cutting. Any bacteria on the surface could be transferred into the flesh of the produce when cut with a knife.

Consumers should not wash fruits and veg-etables with detergent or soap. These products are not approved or labeled by the Food and Drug Ad-ministration for use on foods. Residues from soap or detergent absorbed on the produce could be in-gested.

When preparing fruits and vegetables, cut away any damaged or bruised areas because bacteria that cause illness can thrive in these places. Immediately refrigerate any fresh-cut items such as salad or fruit for best quality and food safety.

Wash your hands, not your poultry

AnneLudlum

ExtensionAgent forFamily andConsumer Sciences

Beef, veal and lamb steaks, roasts and chops should be cooked to 145 degrees. All cuts of pork should reach 160 degrees, as should ground meats. All poultry should reach a safe minimum internal tem-perature of 165 degrees.

I commonly receive numerous calls dur-ing this time of year about controlling vari-ous aquatic plants in ponds; K-State Research and Extension has a great publication on this problem. Control of aquatic plants depends on the type of water, species of plant, correct identification, and wa-ter usage.

The most common problems occur in im-pounded waters such as ponds, lakes and res-ervoirs. Aquatic vegeta-tion is seldom a problem in flowing waters such as rivers and streams. Water saturated areas like marshes, seeps and drainage ditches usu-ally have little problems with aquatic vegetation since these areas are not used for convention-al agriculture.

Problem weed species must be identified be-fore appropriate control can occur; they are clas-sified by similar growth habits. Phytoplankton, filamentous, and chara are the major forms of fresh water algae.

Some plants are free-

floating while others, rooted in the bottom, have floating leaves that rise or fall with the water level. Many float-ing plants grow rapidly and are among the most troublesome aquatic plants.

Submersed plants are true seed plants with roots, stems and leaves. Rooted on the bottom, these plants grow chiefly below the surface although their flowers and seeds and a few leaves may ex-tend above it. A depth of 10 to 12 feet in clear water is the limit habi-tat for most submersed plants.

Emersed plants are rooted in the bottom and produce most of their leaves and flow-ers at or above the sur-face. Leaves of emersed plants do not rise and fall with the water level

as do those of attached floating plants.

Marginal plants are emersed plants that grow on saturated soil beyond the water’s edge. These plants vary in size, shape and habi-tat. They may be found growing in moist soils along shorelines into water up to two feet in depth.

Prevention, mechani-cal, biological, and herbicides are the four subdivisions of control. A combination of these

usually works best.Aquatic weed prob-

lems usually occur in clear, shallow water, high in nutrients. When planning for new ponds or lakes, shallow water areas can be minimized by shaping the sides with three feet hori-zontal to one foot ver-tical slope. Excessive

nutrients should also be prevented from get-ting into the water since they cause rapid plant growth.

Mechanical and phys-ical means will be more effective in smaller bod-ies of water. They are also labor intensive and provide results for a short time. These meth-ods are extremely ef-fective in home sewage lagoons.

Herbivorous fish are usually the most effec-tive biological method

of control. Stocking new ponds with three to five grass carp per acre can prevent develop-ment of aquatic weed problems.

Herbicides may be used for control, but re-sults may vary due to stage of growth, rate of application, timing, and weed susceptibility.

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ExtensionAgent forAgriculture

Herbivorous fish are usually the most effective biological method of control. Stocking new ponds with three to five grass carp per acre can prevent devel-opment of aquatic weed problems.

Prairie Dell The Prairie Dell 4-H

club backwards meeting was April 1 at the New Community Building at Riverside Park. Vice president Emily McK-arnin called the meeting to order.

Henry Wicoff led the club in playing “Simon Says” for recreation.

For the program Ethan Weide told jokes from his favorite joke book.

Next was the new busi-ness followed by old busi-ness and committee re-ports. Emily McKarnin reported that members had replaced three light bulbs with CFL or LED bulbs in March.

Clara Wicoff, secre-tary, read the March minutes and called roll, which was answered by telling a joke.

Katie Weide, song lead-er, led the club in singing “If You Are Happy and You Know It.”

The next meeting will be May 6 at 7 p.m. at the New Community Build-ing at Riverside Park. It will be Parents Night.

Logan PalsThe Logan Pals 4-H

club’s monthly meeting was March 26. It was grandparents night. Roll call was answered by what is your grand-father’s first name. 4-H Day camp is in June. Council meeting for Al-len County is in April.

Logal Pals received third blue at the model meeting at 4-H Days. Rock Spring Summer Camp registration is due in May. Weighing your animals is in the beginning of May. Zoey Rinehart gave a talk on the pig project. Gabri-ella Sharp demonstrated how to make chocolate chip dip. Jessica Sharp played the piano and talked about playing the piano at competitions. Josh Hull and Drew Schoendaller lead the club in the game tele-phone. Abby Rinehart and Gabriella Sharp lead the club in singing “Happy Birthday” to all the March birthdays and bingo. The next meeting will be April 22 at the Lu-theran Church at 7 p.m.

4-H news

The Allen County second-grade classes will have their fi-nal nutrition class for the school year. The monthly classes started in September and are provided by K-State Research & Extension Family Nu-trition Program.

The following shows the location and time for each of the remaining second-grade classes. These will be in the schools gym:

Marmaton Valley Grade School — April 8 from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.

Jefferson Grade School — April 10 from 1:20 to 2:20 p.m.

Lincoln Grade School — April 22 from 1:35 to 2:35 p.m.

McKinley Grade School — April 26 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Students wrap up nutrition classes

By John SchlagleckKansas Farm Bureau

Huge and nearly im-possible to comprehend are words that best de-scribe the economic impact of California agriculture as viewed through the eyes of nine Kansas farm fami-lies who toured the state beginning on March 25.

Each year, families from each Farm Bureau district in Kansas tour California agriculture as part of their recog-nition as Farm Family of the Year designees. This year the Kansans touched down in south-ern California in Los Angeles. The state’s 81,500 farms and ranch-es received a record $43.5 billion for their output last year.

California’s agricul-tural abundance in-cludes more than 400 commodities. The state produces nearly half of US-grown fruits, nuts and vegetables. Across the nation, US consum-ers regularly purchase several crops produced

solely in California.An avocado and lem-

on ranch was the first stop on this year’s Farm Family trip in Ventura County. Leaven Fair-view Ranch is owned and operated by David Schwabauer. Located in Ventura County along the Pacific Coast, Schwabauer is neigh-bors with nearly 900,000 people in just this coun-

ty. The top five crops include strawberries, raspberries, lemons, celery and tomatoes.

In addition to the ever encroaching urban sprawl, the biggest chal-lenge Schwabauer faces is pests and disease that threaten his avocado and lemon crops includ-ing the citrus psyllid and the boring beetle.

Applying enough water during the criti-cal growing season and

finding enough labor to harvest crops is another continual challenge for the Ventura County pro-ducer. Schwabauer and other produce grow-ers often cannot find enough help to harvest the fruits and vegeta-bles in their valley.

Lemons imported from Chile and Mexico are also flooding into southern California

over-supplying the mar-ket and causing the price to tank for local growers.

Phil McGrath has carved out an “organic” niche in Camarillo, sev-eral miles north of Leav-en Fairview Ranch. The McGrath family farm takes pride in supplying its customers with the freshest organic fruits and vegetable. Their

California grows it all

The state’s 81,500 farms and ranches generate $43.5 billion in profits.

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need for people in the community to volun-teer.

“We are always look-ing for people to help out,” he said.

Approximately 15 or 16 people are currently involved with the group. Adequate funds always seems to hold back their dreams.

“There are so many things we want to do that require money,” Ford said.

“It’s always a prob-lem,” Smith interjected with a smirk.

It has been worse in the past, before the group stepped in to help the community.

According to census numbers gathered at the start of the millennium, the city of Iola did not meet the criteria to ap-ply for Community De-velopment Block Grants (CDBG). The criteria stipulated that 51 per-cent of the community must be under the pov-erty line. Members of CITF knew the state of Iola’s economy, and that it met the criteria — the

census numbers were inaccurate.

That is when the vol-unteer group went into action for the first time in 2006. Members went door-to-door with sur-veys to gather accurate information that repre-sented the local econo-my, and they succeeded. Information reflected that Iola was well with-in the criteria to apply for the grants, and that is just what they did.

Ever since, fueled by donations and grants, CITF has been active behind the scenes in “bringing Iola back.”

ON THE heels of Mayor Shirley’s procla-mation, CITF members are working to organize a community picnic to honor different volun-teer organizations in Iola.

The event is tentative-ly scheduled for May 19 at Riverside Park. Lead-ing up to the communi-ty picnic, The Register will highlight different groups weekly that are actively volunteering in the community. While the list of volunteer or-

ganizations may be too long to delve into every-one’s efforts, different features will put these hard-working and often underappreciated vol-unteers someplace they never asked to be — on the front page.

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2006:- Members went door-to-

door to provide accurate cen-sus information to the state, thus garnering eligible status for CDBG grants.2007-2011:

- The group traveled to Washington, D.C. on multiple occasions to speak with rep-resentatives, garnering more than $816,000 in grants for in-frastructure improvements.2006:

- Members organized an “Extreme Home Makeover” for a local family, refurbishing their home with new windows, paint and supplies donated by local businesses.

- CITF helped to design the Iola billboards north and south of town on U.S. 169.2007:

- Members helped to create a promotional video for the city of Iola, titled “A Town to Come Home to.”

- The group helped to reno-vate the Senior Citizens Cen-ter interior, with updated floor-ing and paint.2008:

- Along with the Allen Coun-

ty Historical Society, the CITF group helped in the spring cleaning of the Allen County Museum, as well as the clean-ing of the Funston home.2009:

- Partnered with Rail Trail volunteers, CITF members helped to clean the Prairie Spirit Trail.

- Members assisted in or-ganizing the sesquicentennial reading festival celebration.2010:

- CITF members assisted with the installation and dona-tion of play equipment for the Age to Age preschool in Iola.

- Members helped raise money for the cement picnic tables in Elm Creek Park.2012:

- Members raised mon-ey to pay for the paint that was needed to paint the trim around the Iola Recreation Building.

- CITF help construct a tug boat play set to be donated to Iola Preschool.2013:

- Members worked to re-store the windows of the Allen County museum.

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within 200 feet of the range will be asked to comment.

While firing on the range into a bank of dirt is directed to the south, Camp Hunter Park is di-rectly north of the range and homes are to the northeast. Those proximi-ties gave Works pause, as

did farm fields and Mon-arch Cement Co. activities to the south.

Collins said people on four-wheelers had dam-aged the range, some citi-zens apparently thought dirt meant to rebuild the shooting backstop was free for the taking and some trash had been dumped where only limbs and yard waste were sup-

posed to be left.For better control,

council members decided a gate on a road leading to the range would be locked with anyone wanting ac-cess checking out a key at the water plant. That was done years ago but the practice was discontinued when duplicate keys were made by users, leaving the city with little control.

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make substantial invest-ment in repairs or even a new plant. Hanging over the city are state and fed-eral sanctions if treated wastewater flowing into the river doesn’t meet their standards.

Also, Humboldt has nine lift standards that keep wastewater flowing through mains and five of those beg attention, said Roger Vincent, the depart-ment’s supervisor. This year’s expenditures will deal with those.

OTHER NEWS, council members:

— Learned the city’s premium for property, li-ability and worker’s com-pensation insurance for this year through PSI’s lo-cal agency will be $96,098, nearly $11,000 more than the previous year’s $87,034.

— Tabled consideration of a new roof for City Hall until an assessment of damage from Sunday’s hail storm is done.

— Appointed Patricia Sanchez, utility foreman,

to be the city’s voting del-egate at a meeting May 10 of Kansas Municipal Utilities. Vincent will be her alternate.

— Were reminded the bandstand in the city square will be dedicated April 20. Festivities will start with a band concert at 2 p.m.

— Approved having the municipal pool filled with water later this month so USA Pools, Inc., which will manage it, will have time to train employees before its opening in May.

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received 10 votes, but lost to Kip Betts, who garnered 17 write-in votes.

For council seats, Da-vid Janssen won with 22 write-in votes and displaced Charles Leck-rone, who received 14 votes in conventional voting. Also Janssen de-feated Vivian McMur-ray, former mayor, who received 17 write-in votes, three more than Leckrone.

Other seats on the council were won by Vern Leon Cuppet Jr.,

with 28 votes, Lon L. Hale, 24, and Glenn Wolfe, 17.

In LaHarpe Don Gay finished third in votes counted Tuesday with 21, while Clayton Carr had 18. When provi-sional ballots — those set aside Tuesday be-cause of possible errors — were counted Carr’s total grew to 21, and he then won by a coin-flip.

Others elected to the council were Sara’Nicole L. Prock, with 30 votes, and Diana Mullens, with 24.

IN HUMBOLDT Otis

Crawford won re-elec-tion to Ward Two, Posi-tion 4 on the Humboldt council with 27 write-in votes.

In Gas a coin-flip gave Kenny Baker a seat on the council after he and Deborah Catron each received one write-in vote.

All council members and mayor Loraine Price were elected in Elsmore with five write-in votes each. Council members will be Dick Fewins, John Fewins, John Chad Starliper, Christine Yackle and Gary Yackle.

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CorrectionA benefit for Rhoda

Gilliland, a food service employee for USD 257 suffering from acute myelogenous leukemia, will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Iola High School Commons.

Tickets are $5 in ad-vance or $6 at the door for the meal of pancakes,

sausage and Tang. Free-will donations

will be accepted for bake sale items.

A raffle will also be held. Items include a barbecue grill and sev-eral baskets.

For more information call the food service de-partment, 365-4760.

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Iola youths open soccer season (left) —B2Louisville beats Michigan for NCAA title —B2

MIXED BAG ON DIAMOND FOR IHS SQUADS

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.comGARNETT — Iola High’s

Levi Ashmore set the tone early Monday afternoon, launching a 360-foot home run against Anderson County High.

His Mustang teammates picked up the baton from there. Iola received contribu-tions up and down the lineup and from the mound in a dou-bleheader sweep.

Iola thumped the Bulldogs 12-1 and 12-0.

“I saw some good things out there,” Iola coach Mark Percy said. “We had an opportunity to put a couple of guys out on the mound who hadn’t pitched varsity before.”

Shea Beasley pitched a per-fect inning in relief of starter Aaron Barclay in game one be-fore Clubine tossed two score-less innings in relief of game 2 starter Drew Faulhaber.

After Ashmore started the opener with his blast, Mason Coons doubled and was driven home by Derrick Weir, giving Iola a 2-0 lead.

Trent Latta started a five-run rally in the top of the sec-ond with a two-out single and stolen base. Coons knocked him in with a single. Weir followed with a walk before Barclay’s towering shot to left went over the fence for a three-run home run and a 6-0 lead. Clubine singled, stole second and scored off of Faulhaber’s single, making it 7-0.

Ashmore started the third inning with a triple, followed by Latta’s RBI double. Weir’s single drove home Latta. Bar-clay followed with another hit before Clubine had an RBI sin-gle, pushing the lead to 10-1.

Coons’ double drove in Lat-ta to start the fifth inning. He scored on Clubine’s third sin-gle of the game.

Ashmore had a home run and triple. Latta singled and

doubled, while Coons had three hits, including two dou-bles. Weir went 2-for-2 with a pair of singles. Barclay had three hits, including his home run. Clubine had three singles. Faulhaber also had a single.

Barclay gave up four hits in his four innings of mound

work with two strikeouts.

A SIX-RUN second inning did the trick for the Mustangs in the second game.

Two walks, an error and a balk were good for the first two runs of the frame be-

Mustangs sweep Anderson Co.

Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Drew Faulhaber pitched three innings without giving up a hit in a 12-0 win over Anderson County.

Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Holly Schomaker delivers an RBI single Mon-day in a 4-2 loss to Anderson County.

Call dooms FilliesBy RICHARD LUKEN

richard@iolaregister.comGARNETT — A bizarre

umpire’s ruling, in which Iola High’s softball team was punished for not recording a fourth out in an inning, was a fitting example of how Monday went for the Fillies.

The unusual call came with host Anderson County High batting in the bottom of the fourth inning with a 3-1 lead.

With runners on second and third and Anderson County’s Maddie Magner

at bat with one out, Magner sent a scorching line drive to center that Iola’s Tessa Rowe snared for the second out of the inning.

Because neither runner stayed at her respective base, Rowe tossed the ball into second base for an easy double play.

Inning over. Scoring threat averted.

Or maybe not.After the Fillies reached

the dugout, the home plate

Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Valaree Burtnett clears the high jump in a track meet earlier this season. On Monday, Burtnett took third in the high jump and second in the pole vault at a junior var-sity meet in Chanute.

CHANUTE — The compe-tition was a bit tougher than expected, but Iola High’s ju-nior varsity track and field teams still shined in their re-spective events.

Leading the way for Iola was the Fillies’ Valaree Burt-nett, who claimed the silver medal in the pole vault and bronze in the high jump.

Burtnett’s pole vault mark of 7 feet was the same height as the winning mark set by a Chanute varsity competi-

tor, Coach Marv Smith said. Burtnett took the silver be-cause of a tie-breaker.

Several varsity athletes competed in the JV meet be-cause other meets had been rained out earlier this sea-son, Smith said.

Burtnett’s mark of 4 feet, 4 inches was good for third in the high jump.

Also taking bronze for the Fillies were Jessica Oakley in the discus (77 feet); Shan-non Vogel in the 3200-meter

run at 16 minutes, 29 seconds; and Olivia Bannister in the pole vault, clearing 6 feet.

Alexis Hobbs finished fourth in the javelin at 74’9”. Iola’s 4x100-meter relay team of Klair Vogel, Burtnett, Ban-nister and Shannon Vogel also finished fourth at 59.5 seconds.

Bannister took fifth in the long jump at 13’5”. Klair Vo-gel won her 100-meter dash

Register/Richard LukenBraydyn Jones, left, and Aysha Houk square off in a soccer match Saturday in an Iola Recreation Department League game. Results from last week’s games are on B2.

SOCCER KICKS OFF

LYNDON — Yates Center High’s track team kicked off a busy week in fine fashion Monday.

The Wildcat boys took home third place overall at the Lyn-don Relays.

Yates Center’s girls did them one better, taking sec-ond.

The teams don’t have long to bask in the glow of their success. Weather permitting, Yates Center is scheduled to host its own track meet this afternoon.

“We did great with our kids scoring very well,” Yates

Center coach Dan Berg said. “Some of our times were a little slower and distances a little less, but we liked the way our kids competed. Just about everyone scored, if not in an open event, in a relay. I’m pleased with where we are at this time of the year.”

The Wildcat boys finished third with 70 points behind host Lyndon’s 143 and Osage City in second with 129.

Yates Center’s girls also scored 70 points. Northern Heights won the girls competi-

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IHS JV track team fares well

Wildcat thincladsshow mettle on track

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heat at 14.5 seconds, which was good for eighth best overall. The 100 featured eight heats, Smith said.

“Jessica’s discus throw was a very good mark,” Smith said. “The girls got to throw di-rectly into the wind. The boys had to throw into a strong cross wind.

ON THE BOYS’ side, Iola’s 4x800-meter relay team of Jacob Cooper, Blaine Klubek, Travis Hermstein and Jona-than Tidd took third place with a mark of 10:17.

Jesse Zimmerman struggled in the discus, throwing 88’8”, good for seventh.

“That mark was about 25 feet off of his best,” Smith said, attributing the shorter distance to the wind. “If you got the lip up at all, the wind would turn it over and it would fall like an an-chor. The javelin was the same problem.”

Zimmerman had no such issues in the shot put. His personal-best throw of 34’9” brought home eighth place.

Cooper finished sev-enth in the 800-meter run at 2:29.7.

The Fillies took home fifth place with 41 points. Fort Scott won the girls competition with 117 points, followed by Paola in second with 80.

While only taking a handful of boys to the meet, Iola claimed 13th place with 11 points. Fort Scott won the boys side with 103 points, followed by Paola with 84 and Oklahoma Union with 60.

“This was a huge meet,” Smith said, not-ing the boys shot put alone had 56 throwers. Thirty-four more ran the 1600 meters. “We even had about 20 running the 3200.”

Iola’s varsity squad travels to Independence Friday.

The next action for the JV thinclads is April 23 at Fort Scott.

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tion with 150 points.

I N D I V I D UA L LY , Yates Center’s Drake Busteed was a two-time gold medalist. He won the 800-meter run with a time of 2 minutes, 15 seconds, and the 1600-meter run with a time of 5:03.

Mindi Holloway won the 800 on the girls side with a time of 2:38.43. She teamed with Rylie Albert, Paige Steinforth and Ashley Pringle to win the 4x100-meter re-lay with a time of 54.9 seconds.

Individual results fol-low:

Boys100-meter high hurdles6. Tyler Keenan, 20.08

seconds100-meter dash6. Caleb DeNoon, 12.4

secondsBryce Leon, 12.6Jason Wendland, 13.41600-meter run1. Drake Busteed, 5:033. Brett Holloway, 5:144x100-meter relay2. Yates Center (Leon,

Ceaton Cooper, Myles Dice, DeNoon), 47.86

400-meter dash2. Cooper, 53 secondsDice, 58.59300-meter intermediate

hurdles4. Keenan, 46.59 sec-

onds800-meter run1. Busteed, 2:15Mason Hartwig, 2:55200-meter dash6. Austin McNett, 25.82

secondsLeon, 26.30

Wendland, 27.034x400-meter relay4. Yates Center (Bust-

een, McNett, Cooper, Hol-loway), 3:53

DiscusDrew Pringle, 81’3”Shot putPringle, 29 feetJavelin6. McNett, 113’11”Hartwig, 63’3”High jump2. Busteed, 5’8”3. Dice, 5’4”Long jump6. DeNoon, 19’9”Wendland, 15’4”

Girls100-meter high hurdles4. Katelyn Hatch, 19.2

seconds100-meter dash4. Ashley Pringle, 14.6

secondsRylie Albert, 15.19

4x100-meter relay1. Yates Center (Albert,

Paige Steinforth, Pringle, Mindi Holloway), 54.9 sec-onds

300-meter intermediate hurdles

3. Hatch, 54.77 seconds800-meter run1. Holloway, 2:38.43Nikki Acklin, 3:28200-meter dash3. Pringle, 29.49 sec-

onds4x400-meter relayYates Center (Steinforth,

Hatch, Albert, Pringle), 4:38Discus3. Makayla Jones, 92’7”Makayla Bishop, 84’Shot put4. Jones, 29’7”Bishop, 24’6”High jump2. Steinforth, 4’10”Long jump3. Holloway, 13 feet

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two runs of the frame before Ashmore drilled an RBI triple and the third run of the inning. Weir followed two bat-ters later with a two-run triple. He, in turn, scored on Clubine’s single.

Two walks, three sto-

len bases and Weir’s RBI single gave Iola a 2-0 lead after one in-ning. Jacob Rhoads led off the third with a walk. He scored on an error.

Two walks and a hit batsman led to Iola’s final three runs in the fourth.

Faulhaber pitched three hitless innings with two strikeouts to take the win. Clubine gave up three hits and a walk in his two innings of relief. He also struck out two.

“I think we got a little home run hungry af-ter Levi started off the

game like that,” Percy said. “We settled down after that and quit swinging so hard. Any time you get two wins is a good thing for this team.”

The Mustangs (6-0) will travel to Prairie View this afternoon, weather permitting.

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umpire informed Coach Vince Coons that while Iola recorded the third out, the runner on third had crossed home plate. Because Iola only dou-bled up the runner on second, and didn’t do the same for the runner on third, the run counted.

In short, Iola needed to record a fourth out.

“The way he explained it made no sense at all,” Coons said. “It was just that kind of day.”

The run became cru-cial when Iola plated a run in the top of the sixth, but instead of trailing by only one run, the Fillies still trailed by two, 4-2.

That meant Iola had to play for a bigger inning after Taylor Heslop led off the top of the sev-enth with a walk.

Instead, Anderson County retired the final three batters in the sev-enth to save the 4-2 win.

Anderson County then exploded for seven runs in the first inning of the nightcap to com-plete the sweep with an 11-1 win.

The losses put Iola’s record at 2-4. The Fillies are scheduled to travel today to Prairie View for

a doubleheader, weather permitting.

“WE JUST MADE too many mistakes,” Coons said.

Fillies starter Mack-enzie Weseloh had trou-ble with the strike zone in the first game, partic-ularly early in the count.

That, in turn, led to hittable pitches for An-derson County’s hitters.

“Then our defense fell asleep and let two run-ners advance on a dou-ble steal, which was big because both of those runners scored,” Coons said.

The Bulldogs led 3-0 after one inning before Weseloh settled down the rest of the game.

Iola scored its first run in the second inning on consecutive singles by Holly Schomaker, Katie Thompson and Baylea Thompson.

Then down 4-1, Iola scored its second run in the top of the sixth when Shelby Reno dou-bled and scored on Katie Thompson’s single.

Iola lost another run-ner on the base paths after Hannah Endicott led off the inning with a single and stolen base, only to be caught trying

to advance to third on a ground ball.

Reno and Schomaker paced Iola with a single and double apiece. Katie Thompson had two sin-gles. Endicott and Bay-lea Thompson had one single each.

Weseloh gave up six hits and four walks. She struck out five.

ANDERSON County scored seven in the first, one in the second and three in the third of the second game.

Reno and Schomaker drilled back-to-back two-out doubles for Iola’s only run in the top of the fourth.

Emily McKarnin led the way with two sin-gles. Weseloh and Halie Cleaver also singled.

Endicott took the loss, giving up nine hits and four walks with three strikeouts.

“We had trouble see-ing the ball here to-night,” Coons said. “We just not hitting the ball well at all.”

Register/Richard LukenRiley Jay, right, of Diebolt Lumber and Supply squares off against Iola Transmission’s Jillian Stokes Saturday.

Soccer season kicks offResults from Iola

Recreation Depart-ment-sponsored soccer games:

5-year-oldKindergarten League

SaturdayModern Copy Systems

(Humboldt) 0, The Crux, 0Modern Copy Systems

(Humboldt) 0, Johnson Law Office, 0

Johnson Law Office, 2, Brigg’s Welding, 1. Seth Pek-arek and Noah Schowengerdt each had a goal for Johnson Law Office. Brigg Shannon scored the only goal for Brigg’s Welding.

A & W 5, A & B Cleaning 1. Brayden Lawson scored for A & B Cleaning. Blake Ellis had three goals and Kale Godfrey had two goals for A &W.

The Crux 5, Brigg’s Weld-ing 0. Jordy Kaufman and Isaac Hopkins each had two goals while Shelby Shaugh-nessy chipped in one.

H & R Block 5, MAE Re-sources 0. Roper Curry had three goals while Ryun Cole added two goals.

Cutting Edge Graphics (Humboldt) 2, H & R Block 0. Colden Cook and Teghen Jaro each scored a goal for Cutting Edge Graphics.

1st-2nd Grade LeagueApril 2

Adams Agency 5, Cutting Edge Graphics 1. Eli Adams had four goals while Ethan Hamlin added one goal for Ad-ams Agency. River Kaufman scored for Cutting Edge Graphics.

Gates Corporation 5, Lil Buckwheat Ent. Inc. 1. Hold-en Barker had five goals for Gates. Christopher Rodriquez scored for Lil Buckwheat.

SaturdayIola Vision Source 2, Cut-

ting Edge Graphics 0. Drake Mathew and Joseph Karr

each had a goal for Iola Vision Source.

Iola Vision Source 3, Su-perior Products 1. Joseph Karr kicked in two goals and Drake Mathew added one goal for Iola Vision Source. Jessica Aronis had one goal for Supe-rior Products.

Microtronics 3, TJ’s Towing 0. Easton Hitchcock scored two goals and Jeremy Adair had one goal for Micro-tronics.

Ulrich Furniture 6, Lil Buckwheat Ent. Inc. 0. Ben-jamin Kerr put three in the back of the net while Sage Shaughnessy, Arabella West-gate and Alejandro Vargas-Garcia each scored one goal for Ulrich Furniture.

Adams Agency 1, John-son Cattle Company (Hum-boldt) 1. Eli Adams had the only goal for Adams Agency. Jamon Beck scored Johnson Cattle Company’s only goal.

Superior Products 0, Lil Buckwheat Ent. Inc. 2. Chris-topher Rodriquez and Melina Hess did the scoring for Lil Buckwheat.

Johnson Cattle Company (Humboldt) 4, TJ’s Towing 0. Maddox Johnson had two goals while Raegan Trester and Jamon Beck chipped in one goal each.

Herff Jones 6, Gates Cor-poration 1. Brennen Nues-sen had two goals while Evan Kent, Josh Perez, Keynan Stahl and Wyatt Westervelt each scored a goal for Herff Jones. Holden Barker scored for Gates Corporation.

Microtronics 5, Cutting Edge Graphics 1. Stephen Leo scored Cutting Edge Graphic’s only goal. Easton Hitchcock and Drayden Reiter each had two goals while Jen-na Adair put one in the back of the net.

Herff Jones 2, Ulrich Fur-niture 0. Keynan Stahl had

both goals for Herff Jones.Adams Agency 3, Gates

Corporation 0. Carson Keller led the way with two goals while Brandon McKarnin helped out with one goal.

3rd-5th Grade LeagueStacy Cakes (Humboldt)

3, Iola Transmission Shop 1. Drew Wilhite had two goals and Kirstyn Murrow had one goal for Stacy Cakes. Gregory Hardwick scored one goal for Iola Transmission Shop.

Digital Graphics 1, River-tree Christian Church 0. Ea-son Cheung scored the only goal of the game for Digital Graphics.

Diebolt Lumber & Supply 6, Iola Transmission Shop 0. Jack Adams and Lexie Vaga each had two goals while Mi-chael Crites and Carlie Payne chipped in with one goal each.

EZ Lock & Key (Hum-boldt) 4, Digital Graphics 3. Austyn Stewart and Benjamin Leo each had two goals for EZ Lock & Key. Josh Kaufman, Ally Ellis and Josie Plumlee scored one goal apiece for Digital Graphics.

EZ Lock & Key (Hum-boldt) 3, Dairy Queen 0. Hunter Zimbelman led the way with two goals as Cooper Jaro added one goal for EZ Lock & Key.

Diebolt Lumber & Supply 7, Stacy Cakes (Humboldt) 0. Jack Adams, Riley Jay and Royce Smith each had two goals while Shane Winner chipped in one goal for Diebolt Lumber & Supply.

Dairy Queen 1, RiverTree Christian Church 0. Asher Sievers scored the only goal of the game for Dairy Queen.

Brigg’s Welding 3, Sonic Drive-In 3. Cooper Riley had two goals as Karson Sigg chipped in one goal for Brigg’s Welding. Casen Barker put the ball in the net three times for Sonic Drive-In.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Plenty of teams talk about how tight-knit they are, how the team matters more than any individual accomplish-ment.

Louisville has the na-tional title to prove it.

Short-handed because of Kevin Ware’s broken leg, facing yet another big deficit and with their biggest star, Russ Smith, having a rare off night, the Cardinals simply went to the next guys up.

Luke Hancock made four straight 3-point-ers late in the first half, single-handedly halting what was threatening to become a Michigan run-away, and Peyton Siva and Chane Behanan erupted for monster sec-ond halves to lead top-seeded Louisville to an 82-76 victory that gave the Cardinals their third national title.

r more to win.Hancock matched

his career high with 22 points, including a per-fect 5 for 5 from 3-point

range. Siva had 14 of his 18 points in the second half, and Behanan had 11 of his 12 rebounds in the second half. Behanan also chipped in 15 points for Louisville, which fin-ished the season on a 16-game winning streak.

“I just thought we needed something,” Hancock said. “I tried to do whatever I could to help the team. I usually take a back seat to Russ and Peyton (Siva), which I’m fine with. ... I just hit a few shots.”

Smith had been bril-liant through the first five tournament games, averaging 25 points and shooting 50 percent. But he reverted to his wild and “Russdiculous” ways — he missed nine of his first 10 shots, and finished with just nine points — and Michigan was threatening to run away with the game be-hind the hot hand of Spike Albrecht.

Then Hancock made Michigan pulled within 54-52 with 12:07 to play

on a deep, deep 3 by AP Player of the Year Trey Burke, who sat most of the first half after pick-ing up two quick fouls. But then, Siva and Be-hanan simply took over. The Cardinals had three players with three fouls — Hancock and Siva, in-cluded — and fears about their shortened rotation had made them cautious in Saturday night’s na-tional semifinal. This time, however, it seemed to fire them up.

The 6-foot Siva looked about 6 inches taller as he scooped up a rebound took it all the way in for a layup, the first of three straight baskets. Behan-an seemed to be every-where under the basket, grabbing one rebound after another. Louisville outrebounded 32-27, in-cluding 20-10 in the sec-ond half.

“He said he was go-ing to take care of the boards, that’s what he did,” Hancock said of Behanan. “He stepped up and was a leader.”

Louisville takes title

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products are picked the same day as delivered with a guarantee that nothing is more than 24 hours old.

A few years ago, Mc-Grath couldn’t sell his fruits and vegetables be-cause most of his Ven-tura County customers were looking to buy or-ganic.

“They directed me to organic farming,” he says. “My goal is to grow as many things as pos-sible in their season.”

The McGrath family farm grows everything from strawberries and baby vegetables to le-gumes and flowers. This is not only attractive to their customers but it is also advantageous to sus-tainable growing meth-ods of crop diversity and rotation.

Pyramid Flowers, lo-cated on the southern California coastline in Oxnard, offers premium quality, specialty-cut flowers for the wholesale and mass market trade. Seventy percent of these flowers wind up in super-markets including those in Kansas.

Owner Fred Van Wing-erden opened his 50 acres of fertile fields and 20 acres of greenhouses to the Kansas visitors. A first-generation grower from the Netherlands, Van Wingerden began his flower business in 1979.

For Van Wingerden harvesting his flowers when they reach matu-rity is critical.

“You have one day to harvest them at that point,” he says. “One day later and the plants suf-fer and so does my busi-

ness.”The trend at Pyramid

Flowers has been to steer away from chemical pest control. Cost of chemi-cals like methyl bromide has rocketed out of sight so Van Wingerden uses steam sterilization to control weeds.

Another fascinating

stop on the California trip included Associates Insectary. This grower-owned cooperative pro-vides its fruit and veg-etable growing members with pest control advice and beneficial bugs. This sustainable farming pro-gram began in the 1920s

when citrus mealy bug infestations threatened to wipe out the local citrus industry in and around Santa Paula.

Associates Insectary was established by farm-ers to help fight this pest by raising and releasing millions of mealy bug destroyer beetles in their groves. An average of 800 million beneficial organ-isms are raised 365 days each year. They are re-leased in the 8,500 acres of groves that are mem-bers of this cooperative throughout the year.

One other farm stop was Kallisto Green-houses. Located within the Fontana community this family owned busi-ness was established in 1976. Located on a 10-acre parcel of land are 257,000 square feet of covered greenhouses. Kallisto sells tropical foliage plants for use indoors.

John Schlageck is a leading commentator on agriculture and rural Kansas.

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My goal is to grow as many things as pos-sible in their season.

— Organic farmer Phil McGrath

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Occasional showersTonight, occasional show-

ers and thunderstorms. Much colder. Lows 35 to 40. South winds 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 25 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 80 percent.

Wednesday, cloudy. Rain showers likely in the morn-ing, then a chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Much cooler. Highs 45 to 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

Sunrise 6:55 a.m. Sunset 7:52 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 69Low last night 60High a year ago 73Low a year ago 40

Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m. 0This month to date 2.60Total year to date 7.84Def. since Jan. 1 1.35

By SUSAN LYNNsusan@iolaregister.comHumboldt school ad-

ministrators and the information technology department will head up and over to Quincy, Ill., today to investigate schools there that em-ploy digital-only teach-ing methods.

The group was to leave at noon for the five-hour drive, returning Wednes-day. They also intend to visit schools in Council Buffs, Iowa, and Jop-lin, Mo., at later dates. The plan is to begin the One-to-One digital cur-riculum for the 2013-14 school year in grades six through 12, and then in the elementary school the following year.

“That’s our hope,” said K.B. Criss, super-intendent of schools at Monday night’s USD 258 board of education meet-ing.

The schools plan to use Google’s Chrome-book devices to replace textbooks.

THE MINIMUM bid for the district’s build-ing trades house was set at $96,000, by board members.

“Usually I recommend a bid 7 to 10 percent above building costs, but this project is so near completion I feel com-fortable recommending this house at our ac-tual estimated expenses without the buffer,” Criss said.

The lot at 318 S. 9th was purchased for $8,000. Estimated building ex-penses were $88,000.

The “Charter” in the title Humboldt Elemen-tary Charter School, will be dropped, said prin-cipal Kay Bolt, due to lack of funding. In 2008,

Bolt wrote a grant to be-come a Charter school that garnered $250,000 in state and federal funds. The designation was good for five years, over which time the state could continue to apply for federal funds. For the last several years, the state has been un-able to attract additional funding for the charter school programs.

The funds were used to purchase IT equip-ment for the elementary school.

Dropping the word “charter” from its name will make no difference to what the school offers, Bolt said.

The addition of per-meable pavers to the parking lot south of the high school will allow a bigger lot with less need of a drain pond, said Criss. The new design will provide 116 park-ing spaces, including six handicapped spots, “More than we’ll ever need,” Criss said.

Criss said using a combination of gravel, drain pipes and pavers on a sloped lot would provide adequate drain-ing and free up spots otherwise delegated to a water detention area.

Board members gave their blessing for Criss to pursue the plan.

THE NEW sports com-plex is for the most part on schedule, although recent rains haven’t helped, Criss said. Board members will do a “walk and talk” of the grounds before their next board meeting on May 6.

The water lines at the complex are ready to be tied into city lines, Criss said, and should be com-

pleted over the next cou-ple of weeks.

The sanitary sewer lines are just waiting for manhole covers before they can be completed, he said.

The parking lot should receive chip and seal around the end of May or early June. And elec-tricity to the complex is ready to be connected.

As for the fields, the softball field is 90 per-cent complete whereas the baseball field is far-ther behind.

“If we had two con-secutive good weeks of weather, it would be on schedule,” Criss said.

The sod on the softball field was laid in early March and has taken nicely, Criss said. The Sod Shop, which has of-fices in Lawrence, Wich-ita, and Kansas City, is providing the lawn. Sod for the baseball field is to arrive April 22.

SEK Landscape out of Humboldt is providing the sprinkler system. Until the water system is hooked up, a tanker is providing the water to keep the grass alive, Criss said.

The I-beams for the scoreboard are next to go up.

Masonry work for the dugouts is to begin Mon-day. Cleland Masonry out of Arma is doing the work.

Students in the build-ing and trades classes will build the press box-es at each field, Criss said.

It won’t be until mid-May that asphalt sur-rounding the new track will be poured, Criss said. Track equipment has been put “on hold,” Criss said.

As for the football field, the Cub paw print in the center of field is being applied. Specta-tor seating is next to be installed, followed by fencing. Isle Fencing of Chanute is doing the four- and six-feet high fencing. Mid-America Fencing of Kansas City, Kan. is supplying fenc-ing behind the back-stops.

IN OTHER news, board members ap-proved a continuation of the summer food pro-gram. Last year the pro-gram provided almost 4,000 lunches and 1,300 breakfasts during June and July for area resi-dents.

The meals are free for those 18 and younger. Adults can partake in the meals for $3.50 a sit-ting.

Funding for the pro-gram is by the federal government through the United States De-partment of Agricul-ture and is admin-istered through the school in conjunction with the Humboldt Min-isterial Association.

New employees at the district include Misti Czarnowsky as a coun-selor for grades first through eighth, Heather Daniels as a para-profes-sional for kindergarten, and Kristin Barnett as an assistant track coach for the middle school and high school.

Resignations were accepted for Kelci Ow-ens as assistant high school basketball coach and Terry Meadows as assistant girls basket-ball coach at the middle school.

Bolt reported 38 kin-

dergartners were en-rolled for next year and that at the recent parent-teacher conferences, 97 percent of parents of elementary age stu-dents participated and 72 percent of parents for middle school students attended the sessions.

Bolt also reported $5,500 was raised from a recent bingo night. Recent grade reports indicated 57 percent of fourth through sixth graders made the honor roll as did 83 percent of middle schoolers.

In a fundraiser for the football team more than 1,400 enchiladas were made. Not coinciden-tally, enchiladas were available at the board meeting.

AN AUDIT of school finances for 2011-12 was complimentary, Criss said. Accountants with Hutinett Schlotterbeck & Burns, Chanute, cited two minor discrepancies in the district’s account-ing methods, including the food service depart-ment and the recording of the district’s interest earned on a certificate of deposit. Board mem-bers approved the audit.

Criss ended the meet-ing on a somber note with the remembrance of school custodian Phyllis Reed, 67, who died March 13.

“We lost a valuable employee,” Criss said. “She was a good lady who the kids are going to miss a lot. She stood for a lot of things that are right.”

A memorial in Reed’s name has helped pur-chase two new benches for in front of the middle school.

Humboldt schools pursue digital-only format

(AP) — Caribou Coffee lovers may need to look a bit fur-ther for their caffeine fix.

The Minneapolis-based coffee company said Monday that it is closing 80 underper-forming stores and converting another 88 stores to Peet’s Coffee & Tea sites.

Caribou said it is making the changes to better position the coffee company for long-term growth. It said the stores will be closed in April but did not say where the closures would occur.

The conversions will occur over the next 12 to 18 months in Washington D.C. and eight states: Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Mary-land, Virginia, Geor-gia, Illinois and Wis-consin.

Going forward, Caribou Coffee will be made up of 468 lo-cations in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Western Wis-consin, Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina, Colo-rado and 10 interna-tional markets.

Caribou was taken private last year by German investment firm Joh. A Benckiser Group GmbH, which also holds a majority stake in Peet’s.

A representative for Peet’s could not be reached for com-ment.

Caribou Coffee to close 80 locations

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Coming Events Scrapping for Kathy! Please join us for a day of fun, in honor of Kathy Young, to raise money for education scholarships April 27 9-6 at Humboldt High school. The cost of the day is $25 and includes lunch and door prize registration. Bring your project and share with others and learn. Send your check by April 20th to: Glenda Aikins-HIll, 1905 Connecticut Rd., Humboldt, KS 66748.

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Help Wanted ARROWOOD LANE AND TARA GARDENS are current-ly seeking to fill a full time position in the Maintenance Department. Must have prior experience and enjoy working with the elderly. Please apply in person at Arrowood Lane, 615 E. Franklin, Humboldt.

ARROWOOD LANE RESI-DENTIAL CARE in Humboldt and Tara Gardens in Iola are looking for a creative and en-thusiastic individual to lead our resident activities pro-gram. Lead social activities for our residents and help plan an active calendar for them includ-ing crafts, exercise, parties, music, etc. Apply at Arrowood Lane, 615 E. Franklin, Hum-boldt, KS 66748

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PATROL OFFICER The City of Iola is now accept-ing applications for the position of Patrol Officer. Responsibili-ties include police patrol, inves-tigation, traffic regulation and related law enforcement ac-tivities. Competitive wages and benefits. Applications and job descriptions are available at the City Clerk’s office at 2 W. Jack-son or online at www.cityofiola.com. Application review begins April 15th. EOE/ADA

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The State Board of Education is preparing to approve changes in the material that Kansas students are expected to know in history, govern-ment and social studies.

The new standards were developed over the past two years for kin-dergarten through high school. Kansas students would be asked to better understand the context of what they learn, not just memorize names and dates.

Board members will adopt the changes at their April 16 meeting in To-peka.

The new standards replace those that had been in place for Kansas schools since 2004. Stu-dents will take tests based on the standards starting in 2016.

Local school boards will be responsible for developing and approv-ing curriculum that fol-lows the new standards, including the purchase of textbooks.

Kansas BOE to approve standards

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Chris Browne

ZITS by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

HI AND LOIS by Chance Browne

BABY BLUES by Kirkman & Scott

BEETLE BAILEY by Mort Walker

FUNKY WINKERBEAN by Tom Batiuk

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DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:

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

(First published in The IolaRegister, April 2, 2013)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS

JPMorgan Chase Bank, Na-tional Association sbm to

Chase Home Finance LLC,Plaintiff, vs.

Case No. 09CV94Div. No.

K.S.A. 60Mortgage Foreclosure

Jerry Steele, Mary Roe unknown spouse

if any Christina Steele aka Chris-

tina D. Harvey aka Christina D. Clover aka

Christina D. VolkJohn Doe unknown spouse

if anyState of Kansas Social &

Rehabilitation Service nka Kansas Department of Chil-

dren and Families, Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court of AL-LEN County, Kansas, to me the undersigned Sheriff of ALLEN County, Kansas, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the main lobby of the ALLEN County Courthouse at Iola, Kansas, at 10:00AM on April 24, 2013, the following real estate:

The tract of land is de-scribed as: The West 462.00 feet of the North 187.50 feet of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section Fifteen (15), Town-ship Twenty-Six (26) South, Range Eighteen (18) East, Al-len County, Kansas.

more specifically described as 373 NE 1200th Street, Hum-boldt, KS 66748

to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case. The

sale is to be made without ap-praisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court.

Sheriff of ALLEN County, Kansas

PREPARED AND SUBMIT-

TED BY:SINGER TARPLEY &

JONES, P.A.Sheldon R. Singer KS

#10915Linda S. Tarpley #22357Kenneth C. Jones #10907Jonah W. Lock #

2333010484 MartyOverland Park, KS 66212Phone: (913) 648-6333Fax: (913) 642-8742ATTORNEY FOR PLAIN-

TIFF(4) 2,9,16

Public notice

Dear Tom and Ray:I’m an old geezer with

fond memories of when you could pull into a gas station and tell the kid to fill it up and check the tires, oil (the kid holding up the dipstick so you could see it: “Sir, you’re a quart low”) and water. In fact, at one time, I was that kid. Those days are long gone, but that leaves me with a problem. I’m a bit arthritic, and it is dif-ficult for me to bend over and contort myself to check the air pressure in my tires, and much more so to wrestle that air hose that really wants to con-tract back into its hole. I suppose I could check the oil and water myself, but I’d really rather not. I’d be willing to pay for this ex-tra service, but I can’t find anywhere that offers it in my neighborhood, may-be not even in my city. I wouldn’t want to pay a lot — it shouldn’t take some-one who’s more nimble than I more than five min-utes. I suppose I could take my car to my mechanic’s shop, but it seems kind of

lame to ask him to check the, you know, air, water and oil. Of course, I am kind of lame!

Any suggestions? -- Rick

TOM: You’re right, Rick, that these sorts of services are rarely pro-vided anymore. What you may not know is that they’re hardly necessary anymore, either.

RAY: In the old days, everything leaked: crank-cases, radiators, tires. But cars are much better now, and are much more main-tenance-free (on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis) than they’ve ever been.

TOM: And when you do have a leak, there’s often an idiot light now to let you know about it. We had an extra set of idiot lights installed in my brother’s car just to give the lights a fighting chance against him.

RAY: Nowadays, if you lose tire pressure, all new cars have tire-pressure-monitoring systems that will alert you on the dash-board.

TOM: Most new cars have coolant-level indi-cators now to tell you if you’ve lost coolant. That gives you a heads-up that you’re a little low before the idiot light comes on to warn you that your en-gine is about to melt.

RAY: For oil, more and more cars have oil-level lights, in addition to the old oil-pressure lights. And car batteries are all sealed now and mainte-nance-free.

TOM: So, you just don’t need to check those things with every fill-up, like you did in years past. And if you have a well-maintained, modern car with tire-pressure moni-toring, you easily can go three to six months be-tween checking that stuff.

RAY: If you have an older car, a high-mileage car or a car with a known problem, obviously, you’ll have to check things more

often. TOM: But whenever

it IS time, it’s absolutely fine to go to a repair shop and ask them to look at the fluids and tire pres-sure for you. We have old-er customers who come in and ask us to do that all the time. We do it for free, as a courtesy, and then we add a hundred bucks to their next repair bill.

RAY: Not true! Usually, the customer will tip the guy who checks every-thing five or 10 bucks. That makes everybody happy.

TOM: You also can search online (or beg a grandchild to do it for you, Rick!) for “full-ser-vice gas stations” in your area. There aren’t a lot of them left, these days, but there seem to be at least a few in every city. If you find one of those nearby, take your business there.

RAY: You’ll pay for those services there, too, but it’ll be in the form of a few extra cents a gal-lon. And you’ll even get your windshield cleaned. Wouldn’t that be a treat?

CarTalkTomand RayMagliozzi

Services of the past not needed

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Zeph is the son of Joshua and Samantha Larney and Venessa Weohr.

He plays football, soccer, baseball and tennis and is involved in wrestling and FFA.

His hobbies are hunting, fishing and being with friends.

After graduation Zeph plans to attend a welding school or enlist in the military.

Zeph’s high school highlights have been winning Pioneer League in football, playing traveling soccer and spending time with friends.

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Dallas is the son of Jeff Yocham and Carrie Stiffler.

He enjoys riding his four-wheeler when possible.

He works part-time remodeling houses. Dallas plans to go to college after high school .

Sarah is the daughter of Breant and Christine Beagel, her foster parents. Her mother is Amy Howell.

She is a member of FCCLA, Thespians and players.

She likes to ride four-wheelers and horses and spend time with her friends.

She plans to go to vocational school to get an automotive degree.

Sarah said her high school highlight has been being involved in three plays during her freshman year.

Sarah Beagel

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Submitted photoElephant gets a makeoverThe elephant slide that has been located at Riverside Park for more than 50 years has been taken for a sprucing. An employee of the city’s parks and grounds department uses a forklift to remove the slide to Williams Monu-ment where it will be sandblasted. From there, the elephant will receive a new coat of paint at Utley’s Auto Body Shop.

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The Allen County Farmers Market kicks off the 2013 season with a vendor showcase on Thursday from 5:30 to 7 p.m., on the southwest corner of the Iola square.

All vendors antici-pating marketing their goods this year are en-couraged to distribute promotional materials

outlining their expected offerings to share with market-goers.

Shoppers can look for-ward to bedding plants, spring salad greens, beets, herbs, jams and jellies, baked goods, eggs, beef, fryer and broiler chickens, soap and per-sonal hygiene items, feedbag totes along with

crafts for Mother’s Day. The drum circle will

be on hand to entertain. Shoppers will have the opportunity to use their Vision or debit cards to make purchases.

A new feature this season will be a Reading Roundup for children to enjoy while their par-ents browse the market.

Farmers Market begins Thursday