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The Iola Register 2011 Year In Review
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scholarship to ACCC, $37.50 a semester — “That would not even cover one credit hour today,” she said. Leavitt graduated from ACCC in 1973 and made a career at the community college until her retirement in 2010 after 37 years. For much of that career she helped students secure student loans. 17 — The Rev. Gene McIntosh tends to his flock at Calvary United Methodist Church with all the attention of a dedicated shepherd. He knows each member of his congregation by name and their personal challenges. The pastor’s own life of highs and lows must surely contribute to his empathic nature. McIntosh, 65, entered the ministry after experiencing devastating losses. In his mid-30s, both his parents died as well as his young wife to leukemia. “The Magic of Mark Toland” will be featured Saturday and Sunday at Iola Community Theatre’s Warehouse Theatre, the latest of ICT’s One Night Stand performances. 18 — SPRING HILL — Spring Hill High’s Broncos are quickly becoming Iola
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High Mustangs’ regional nemesis. For the second straight year, the Broncos ousted the Mustangs from Kansas Class 4A Regional Baseball Tournament contention in a semifinal contest. May 19 — YATES CENTER — It was No. 1 seed against No. 2 seed just like it should work out in a regional baseball tournament final. Humboldt High’s Cubs, seeded No. 2, had sailed through their semifinal game and Sedan High’s Blue Devils, top-seeded and undefeated, cruised past host Yates Center High’s
Wildcats in the semifinals. The Blue Devils were just too much for the Cubs on a very cold, damp May night taking the 2011 Kansas Class 2-1A Regional Baseball Tournament championship. 20 — Kansas Sen. Jeff King figures he agrees with Gov. Sam Brownback “on 90, maybe 95 percent of the issues.” The most noteworthy difference in the 2011 legislative session was spurred by Brownback’s plans to cut state funding for the Kansas Arts Commission through a line item veto. King, R-Independence, was among the senators who voted to override Brownback’s Executive Reorganization Order to eliminate the Arts Commission, only to see Brownback later announce his intentions for the line item veto that effectively did the same thing, pulling about $600,000 from the state budget. 23 — MORAN — A 23-mile stretch of U.S. 59 was closed this morning after several boxcars connected to a Union Pacific train derailed, causing a massive fire that continued to burn. Some of the cars that derailed from the three-quarter-mile long
train were filled with ethanol alcohol, according to the Allen County Sheriff ’s Department. At least two of the cars were in flames, with several others threatened. OTTAWA — Maggie Wilson captured her third straight Kansas Class 4A Regional Track Meet pole vault championship Friday. Wilson qualified for her fourth consecutive state track meet in winning the title at Ottawa High School. Also qualifying for the state meet in the event was Wilson’s teammate Breanna Stout. Wilson and Stout were among seven Iola High athletes punching a ticket to this weekend’s Kansas All-Class State Track and Field Championship Senior Charles Apt is the lone Mustang qualifier in the javelin. Kirstin McGuffin, a senior, qualified in the girls’ discus. Kelsey Larson, a junior, qualified for the second straight year in the 400-meter dash. Junior Kendra Taiclet qualified in the high hurdles, the 200-meter. Wilson, Larson and Taiclet are going back to state in the 4x100- meter relay race along with sophomore Chanel Coyne.
32 railroad cars derailed outside of Moran on May 23. Miraculously, no one was injured.
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The Iola Register 2011 Year In Review
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Emma Piazza swims the butterfly stroke as an Iola Seahorse. ing’s viability in jeopardy. Kluever is striving to attract notice to the old jail’s condition in hopes of raising the $10,000 needed to qualify for a $50,000 grant through the Heritage Trust Foundation. 6 — Competing on home court or in this case in home waters, Iola’s Seahorses won 43 of the 78 races contested Wednesday against visiting Erie. It was the first home swim meet for the summer for the Iola swim team. 8 — Engineers tried to prepare Allen County Hospital trustees Tuesday night for a report due next week that they fear will reveal a very unstable building site for the new hospital. Numerous borings have revealed “a hodgepodge” of different fill materials and depths, said David Wright, the architect with Health Facilities Group. Onlookers came out in droves Tuesday for a one-ofa-kind sale, featuring a wide assortment of heavy construction equipment, tools and scrap iron belonging to the late Johnny Womack. The sale took most of the day on one of the city’s most conspicuous properties, a strip of land stretching along the old Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad corridor from U.S. 54 to Bruner Street.
Jerri Henry
22 years 217 W. Garfield, Iola
9 — Hot, dry weather the past several days hasn’t been the best of prescriptions for gardens. “The weather is killing our peas,” said Joni Tucker, of the garden at Jefferson and Jackson avenues maintained by Allen County Jail inmates. Tucker is the jail administrator. Julie Tidd tries to live each day to its fullest because, she said, “None of us is promised tomorrow.” Tidd’s tomorrows are precious to her
as she continues treatment in her battle against stage 4 breast cancer. The statistics are there for all to see. A person with stage 4 breast cancer has a 16 to 20 percent survival rate of living five years, she said. 10 — Daryl D. Alquist, Erie, was appointed as a 31st District Court judge Thursday morning by Gov. Sam Brownback. Alquist is a 1979 graduate of Washburn University School of Law. He
Julie Tidd and her daughter, Jessica. Julie, who is battling breast cancer, says "None of us is promised tomorrow."
JD’s Tire & Muffler
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Family Dentistry Humboldt
has been engaged in a general private practice in Erie for more than 30 years. He also has served as city attorney for Erie and Thayer for many years. Other nominees considered for the appointment were Chuck Apt, Iola, and Curtis Bolt, Chanute. Twenty new six-foot-long benches, made of recycled vehicle tires, are available for people attending Iola Municipal Band concerts on the courthouse square. The benches, each capable of comfortably holding five adults, replaced 11 metal and fiberglass benches 16 feet long that had been in place well over 25 years. 13 — Kathryn “Katie” Gant, 31, Burlington, and director of radiology at Allen County Hospital, died in a traffic accident shortly before 8 a.m. Friday on K-58 five miles west of Le Roy. Gant’s car, a GMC Acadia, collided headon with a Cadillac Escalade Kathryn Gant driven by Justin Birk, 20, Burlington. The Highway Patrol said Birk’s vehicle “for an unknown reason went left of center” just before the collision occurred. 14 — Don’t light those fuses just yet. Shooting fireworks will remain illegal in Iola for the upcoming July 4 holiday. Iola City Council members rejected, 6-2, a proposal to allow the shooting of fireworks in city limits for the first time since the 1920s. 17 — Dominant pitching performances by Ethan Ericson, Jerrik Sigg and Ryan Latta propelled the Iola
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Ray’s Metal Depot
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Lori Holman Independent Sales Director
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H&R BLOCK®
21 years 901 N. State • Iola
D&D Propane David Gant
21 years Humboldt
Chancy’s 22 years 408 North St. • Iola
Kirk’s Grill & Shake
21 years Jct. 54 & 59 • Moran