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Monday, September 11, 2017
Irma still a menace
Elsmore loves a parade Storybook weather conditions greeted spectators and participants Saturday for the annual Elsmore Day celebration. At top left, 16-month-old Bodhi Farley watches as the parade passes by. At top right, Josh Wise rides a cart promoting the Marmaton Market Food Co-op. In the background are, from left, Anthony Bottini and Garrett Henderson holding the banner and Isaac Heskett pushing the cart. Below at left, Carl Otto was among the parade-goers to doff their caps as the Marmaton Valley High School band plays the national anthem. Below at right, Ashley and Jake Tynon (in blue) hold their son Vance. In the background is Sandy Drake, holding her granddaughter, Morgan Drake. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY
TAMPA, Florida (AP) — A weakened but still dangerous Irma pushed inland toCOURTESY OF EL day as it NUEVO HERALD/DAhammered VID SANTIAGO/TNS Florida w i t h winds that created hazards for rescuers and flooding that set a record in one city. Irma was downgraded to a tropical storm over Florida, but it still had winds near hurricane force. Its outer bands were also blowing into Georgia, where the storm’s center was expected to arrive later in the day. With rough conditions persisting across Florida, many communities in Irma’s wake feared what destruction would be revealed as daylight allowed authorities to canvass neighborhoods. Storm surge flooding in downtown Jacksonville exceeded a record set during a 1964 hurricane by at least 1 foot, according to the National Weather Service. A river gauge downtown in the Atlantic Coast city measured 3 feet above flood stage. To the south, winds knocked a utility pole and power lines See IRMA | Page A4
Conversation turns to ways to make Allen County healthier By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Allen County has made gains in recent years in terms of overall community health. That said, there are still glaring needs for many — lack of access to health care providers, poor housing conditions, drug and alcohol abuse, lack of daycare options for “the working poor,” etc.
With that in mind, a group of about 50 residents from across the county gathered Thursday for a brainstorming session to find potential solutions, even if they were “pie in the sky” goals. Then, the group came up with names or examples of people around town who could make such dreams happen. Thursday’s community
conversation was held at the behest of the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, which has funded 53 grants in Allen County totaling $3.3 million over the past 13 years. THURSDAY’S conversation consisted of answering three questions: Where are Allen County’s greatest healthy living needs? What
are possible, achievable solutions? And who can help solve those issues? “This is a time for us to solicit input,” Bridget McCandless explained Bridget McCandless, the Health Care Foundation’s president and chief executive
officer. “I don’t live here. I don’t know what your unmet needs are, and I also don’t know what ‘cockamamie’ ideas you may have.” THE IDEAS, she suggested would go something like, “If we could do one great thing, it’d look like this…” The attendees took it from See HEALTH | Page A4
New teacher stresses life skills
He followed unusual route to IMS
By CHRISTIAN GIN The Iola Register
By CHRISTIAN GIN The Iola Register
HUMBOLDT — New Humboldt High School teacher Callee Kaufman enters USD 258 with a position she has waited for her entire life, thanks to several inspiring teachers. “I had some really amazing teachers in my lifetime and they influenced me to follow my dreams,” Kaufman said. “Ever since I was 4, I would play teacher and classroom with my friends. I just loved the school environment.” The Colony native came straight out of Pittsburg State University with a degree in family and consumer science. Kaufman teaches family studies, human growth development, consumer education, career connections, nutrition, culinary and fam-
Iola Middle School life science teacher Karl Sherman is new to Iola and a fresh face to the USD 257 staff with a different career background. Sherman, a native of Peculiar, Mo., served in the United States Marine Corps four years before working as a car salesman. He also worked as a UPS manager. Sherman earned two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, middle school education and American history. Prior to joining IMS, he spent one year as a paraprofessional in Nevada, Mo., and another as a special education teacher in Butler, Mo. After 150 applications, seven interviews and
Callee Kaufman ily consumer sciences for the high school. She also teaches career and life planning classes for eighth-graders at the middle school. Her inspiration to teach family consumer sciences stems from high school, where one teacher, Kayla Taylor, who still teaches at Crest High School, influenced Kaufman on guiding others to be better people. Taylor also helped her through FCCLA
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(Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) and other extra-curricular activities. Taylor serves as a mentor to her still today as an adviser through PSU’s program for firstyear teachers. Kaufman likes being in a small town, and it was easy for her to return to one. She was already familiar with HHS where she was a student teacher under See KAUFMAN | Page A4
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three offers, Sherman said he was happy to be working in science instead of special education. “I like science more than special ed because with special Karl Sherman ed, I’ve been young employees at told I’ve been wasting UPS. my abilities,” Sherman While Sherman has said. “I really try to en- a fascination with hisgage kids and I really tory, he said it was try to get them to be tough to find a position engaged in a variety of because many history ways. With special edu- teachers also coach cation, it’s very hard to sports. He found other do that. It’s very pre- strengths in order to dominant on what the become a science teachkids have.” er. Sherman is already “When it comes to familiar with being a debate or forensics, I leader through his ex- can coach,” he said. perience as a Marine “Science was the other drill sergeant, product foot in the door for that, training as a car salesman and supervising See SHERMAN | Page A4
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