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FALL 2020
By TIM STAUFFER The Iola Register
HEALTHY LIVING | Fall 2020
INSIDE: Fall into Healthy Living
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Overcoming ‘Defiance’
Healthy LIVING
Saturday, October 24, 2020
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Iola Reads, a collaboration between Iola Public Library, USD 257 and the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, has announced its Young Adult Selection 2020, “Defiance” by Valerie Hobbs. In the 14 years of the program, this is its first without events, book groups, or a visit from the author. The Covid-19 pandemic put an obvious hitch in those plans. Nonetheless, Iola Reads chairman Deb Greenwall, notes, “We hope this is a way to bring our community together through a book and for a cause even when we cannot physically
distributed over 600 copies of “Defiance” to the public library, school libraries and various businesses around Iola in their signature yellow tubs. Community members are encouraged to take a copy and pass it on to someone else when finished. Otherwise, if you’d like to keep one for yourself, a $2 donation to Iola Reads is appreciated.
Yellow tubs with copies of the fall Iola Reads novel are located in various businesses around Iola. REGISTER/TIM STAUFFER gather together.” Iola Reads is steered by a 15-member committee and
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funded by the Sleeper Family Trust and Helen Gates Whitehead Trust. They’ve
“DEFIANCE” centers on 11-year-old Toby Steiner. He and his mother have escaped the city for the summer, holed up in the country in a pine cabin. Everything Toby does — riding a bike, gardening, astronomy — is an attempt See BOOK | Page A8
Trump, Biden use debate to frame closing appeals WASHINGTON (AP) — Their final debate behind them, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are packaging their divergent personal styles and policy prescriptions into closing messages for the final sprint to Election Day. The coronavirus was a central topic for both candidates on Friday as Trump headed to Florida and Biden prepared to address the topic in Delaware. The night before in Nashville, the pair squared off on the pandemic, the economy, climate change and race — and the nature of presidential leadership itself. Trump pitched himself to voters as the same disruptive candidate they elected to the White House four years ago. Biden offered himself as a
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more sober leader fit for a nation in crisis. Both campaigns predictably claimed a boost from the televised showdown that drew an audience of tens of millions. But with nearly 50 million ballots already cast, it remained unclear how much the faceoff would alter the course of the campaign. Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump lapped up positive feedback for his toneddown debate performance, as opposed to his aggressive See DEBATE | Page A3
Preschoolers from Ready, Set, Learn look over pumpkins at the Lampe Heritage Farm. COURTESY PHOTO
Area tots learn about pumpkins, fall crops By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register
From agricultural education to preserving family history, the Lampe Heritage Farm and Pumpkin Patch is a labor of love. Its proprietors are Don and Shelia Lampe, who delight in recreating a rural experience for people of all ages and backgrounds. As the Lampes explained, although folks are drawn Vol. 122, No. 252 Iola, KS 75 Cents
in by the delight found in pumpkins and other trappings of fall, what they come away with is a much broader agricultural experience. It’s a tradition that reaches back to when the Lampes’ forebears would take people on hayrack rides from a pumpkin patch in Piqua to the CO-OP elevator, where they’d have an opportunity to learn about multiple types of crop harvests. On the farm today, visitors
can learn about organics, windbreaks, conservation/ restoration, poultry eggs, irrigation, native grasses and much more. This is so vital, the Lampes explained, given how “a lot of kids have no idea where their food is coming from,” that food is something “grown.” Visitors also get an education in how soybeans and corn are grown, and get to See LAMPE | Page A7
Royalty crowned Sidney Shelby and Logan Brown were crowned queen and king at Friday night’s Iola High School fall homecoming ceremonies. Find results of the game at iolaregister.com and in Monday’s edition. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS
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