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911 upgrade approved By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Allen County commissioners gave a thumbs up Tuesday to purchase of a new telephone for business calls made to the 911 communications center. Director Angie Murphy said the purchase — she has proposals ranging from $7,000 to $14,000 — is necessary to keep the business end of the center compatible with new 911 equipment and also ensure maintenance and problems would be dealt with in an expedient manner. If the old system were kept, repair parts and upkeep would be an issue, she said. In addition to cost, $1,000 a year will be paid for a mainSee 911 | Page A4
Scores of buyers attend Thursday’s Allen County Farmers Market on Jefferson Avenue in downtown Iola. A second farmers market has been set up Saturday mornings at Orscheln Farm & Home. REGISTER/KLAIR VOGEL
Healthy food access GROWs here By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
With a pair of farmers markets in place each week, coupled with cooking demonstrations, tools to reach low-income residents and other educational efforts, GROW Allen County is maintaining its efforts to increase access to healthy foods. Armed with a $40,000 Kansas Health Foundation grant, GROW (Growing Rural Opportunities Works) has expanded its Allen County Farmers Market to twice a week sessions.
The first session occurs Thursday afternoons on the east side of the courthouse square in downtown Iola. Since May, a Saturday morning farmers market has been set up at Orscheln Farm & Home on North State Street. “GROW has been working hard to improve access to healthy foods for everyone and we are making good strides in that direction,” Kathy McEwan, fam-
ily and consumer science agent for K-State Research and Extension, said in a press release. “The Allen County Food System Assessment showed a real need, and desire, for educational opportunities in our communities — things like cooking classes — as well as continued work on making positive sustainable change that will secure access to healthy food for all.” The assessment to which McEwan is referring, was a
survey conducted over the winter that indicated nearly half of Allen County’s residents (44 percent) do not have access to healthy food, compared to 29 percent statewide. Similar numbers, 42 percent, are dissatisfied with the availability of healthy food here, while 45 percent are dissatisfied with the variety of healthy food available. THE $40,000 grant builds on an existing four-year, $125,000 grant, called the See GROW | Page A4
Clinton, Trump set for collision course on Election Day By LAURIE KELMAN The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a splash of history and a dose of reassurance, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump claimed their parties’ presidential nominations and are turning their political guns on each other. Clinton claimed her place in history as the nation’s first woman ever assured a major party’s presidential nomination. Trump seized the chance to speak in more unifying, substantive tones as Republican leaders have demanded in
stand down after the final contest of the primaries in District of Columbia June 14. Here’s a look at how Tuesday’s contests unfolded: THE BASICS
Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump
recent days. And for Bernie Sanders, Tuesday’s contests offered the chance to cap a remarkable and resilient campaign to level the American playing field
— one that vexed the Clinton armada for a solid year. But Tuesday’s contests gave Sanders a new taste of victory, and he said he wasn’t yet done. Political mathletes get to
The evening offered 694 Democratic delegates up for grabs in New Jersey, California, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota. The District of Columbia, which offers 20 delegates, is the last to vote. As Tuesday turned to today, Clinton won four states, including California, while See ELECTION | Page A4
Brownback calls for special session By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback promised Tuesday to call the Kansas Legislature into special session to respond to a state Supreme Court order declaring that public schools might not be able to open after this month unless lawmakers provide more money to poor districts. The Republican governor didn’t set a date, but the GOPdominated Legislature must convene later this month to beat a June 30 deadline set by the court for lawmakers. Brownback said in a statement that he will summon leg-
islators back to the Statehouse to “keep Kansas schools open, despite the court’s threat to close them.” But lawmakers will confront the same budget problems and political pressures that led them earlier this year to try addressing the court’s previous concerns without boosting overall state spending or redistributing wealthy
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districts’ dollars. Also, anger among Republican legislators toward the court hasn’t appeared to cool since its latest ruling May 27, just days before lawmakers adjourned their annual session. Many GOP lawmakers view the decision as political and contend the court is exceeding its authority. “Republicans will ensure that schools remain open while at the same time upholding the Kansas Constitution and not bowing to judicial overreach,” House Speaker Ray Merrick, a Stilwell Republican, said in a statement. Public schools in Kansas
Primary results Results of Tuesday’s Democratic presidential nominating contests. Clinton Sanders California Montana New Jersey New Mexico North Dakota South Dakota *As of 7 a.m., Central Time Source: AP Graphic: TNS
Iola Municipal Band — Since 1871 —
At the bandstand Jake Ard, director Thursday, June 9, 2016 8 p.m. PROGRAM
Star Spangled Banner....................................... (arr. J.P. Sousa) The Vanished Army..........................................Kenneth Alford Embraceable You........................................... George Gershwin The Big Cage................................................................K.L. King The Music Man.............................................. Meredith Willson The Original Boogie Woogie............................“Pinetop” Smith I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls....................... Michael Balfe The Footlifter.................................................... Henry Fillmore Baby Elephant Walk..........................................Henry Mancini The Thunderer............................................. John Philip Sousa Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.
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