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THE IOLA REGISTER Thursday, June 1, 2017
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Schools plan OK’d (but is it enough?) By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans pushed the Kansas Legislature on Wednesday toward passing an increase in spending on public schools that even some GOP lawmakers acknowledge might not be enough to satisfy a court mandate. The Senate approved a bill , 23-16, that would phase in an education funding increase of $230 million over two years. The House has its own GOP-backed plan that would phase in a $285 million increase, and legislative negotiators are likely to draft a final plan, starting this week. Minority Democrats have argued more money is necessary to comply with a Kansas Supreme Court ruling in March that education funding is inadequate. They’ve proposed phasing in an increase of $400 million or more over See SCHOOLS | Page A3
With this week’s launch of USD 257’s summer meals program, youngsters 18 and under have plenty of opportunities to eat for free. The first of nine consecutive “Fun Friday” celebrations at Riverside Park begins tomorrow at noon. Nachos will be served with the summer kickoff celebration. Macaroni art also is on the plate, while other prizes will be given away. The following Fun Friday themes:
— June 9, “National Get Outdoors Day,” will feature grilled hotdogs and a scavenger hunt. — June 16, “Feed 500 Day,” will serve up chicken and noodle dinners. — June 23, “Super Heroes Day,” will have hero sandwiches served. Rubble, from the popular children’s
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Luminaria sales are once again part of the annual Allen County Relay For Life Saturday. REGISTER FILE PHOTO
Relay for Life goes for the sun By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
They’ve spent years raising thousands of dollars for the American Cancer Society through the dark of night. Saturday’s annual Allen County Relay For Life, conversely, will have plenty of “Fun Under the Sun.” The annual relay kicks off at noon Saturday at the courthouse square. Up to now, each relay started in the evening, concluding 12 hours later, usually around sunrise. “We’re trying to attract more people,” explained event leader Denise Smith, with the hopes that the daylight hours will bring more to partake in the myriad relay events. As of Wednesday, seven
Noon Saturday, courthouse square (In case of rain, the event will move the Recreation Community Building, Riverside Park) teams, consisting of more than 100 walkers, have signed up for the relay. The mechanics will remain the same. Each team must have at least one member walk the
route around the square — in case of rain, the event will shift to the Recreation Community Building at Riverside Park — for the entire 12 hours. And as always, there are plenty of other activities to keep folks entertained. A variety of games and activities, including several inflatable attractions, will run through the afternoon, before the focus splits at 5 p.m. with a survivors’ dinner at Calvary United Methodist Church, at the intersection of Jackson and Walnut streets. (Yes, the teams must keep at least one walker active during the dinner.) After the dinner, a ceremony honoring survivors will take place at around 6:30. Immediately thereafter, Moran’s Lloyd Houk will
sing until a benefit auction gets underway at 8 o’clock. Humboldt’s Ross Daniels has volunteered his auctioneering services as part of a benefit auction. Among the items up for bid are a trip for two to Las Vegas, gift certificates and coupons to area restaurants worth over $200, a GoPro camera, tool set and other gift baskets. The luminaria ceremony, featuring lighted candles in honor or in memory of those afflicted with cancer begins at 9:30. The relay ends with a flourish, featuring games and a scavenger hunt leading up to the closing ceremony at midnight. WHILE IT’S always a powSee RELAY | Page A3
television show “Paw Patrol” will be on hand. — June 30, “Plant The Seed” Day. — July 7, a Science Circus will be featured. — July 14, “Hometown Hobbies” Day. — July 21, includes information from the Allen County Multi-Agency Team (ACMAT). — July 28, “Pack a Picnic” Day. Chicken patty sandwiches will be served.
THE SUMMER meals program is available throughout the school district, including several sites featuring M.A.R.V., the district’s “chow bus.” The meal sites:
— Iola High School cafeteria, breakfast from 8 to 9:45 a.m. and See MEALS | Page A3
Tyler Shelby, an Iola High School alum who plans to attend Yale in the fall, conducts research in one of the labs at Pittsburg State University. He, along with Colony native Jayden Bowen, are PSU graduates chosen to be a part of an NIH Medical Scientist Training Program. PHOTO COURTESY OF PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
PSU grads join frontlines in disease research (Editor’s note: The following article appears courtesy of the Pittsburg State University Media Relations Department.)
Bargain hunters rejoice Iola’s annual Citywide Garage Sale is Saturday. Sale maps are available Saturday at Ray’s Mini Mart, Pump’ N Petes (in Iola and Gas), Jump Start Travel Center and Casey’s General Store.
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Jayden Bowen and Tyler Shelby, both Pittsburg State University graduates from 2016, have been chosen for a highly selective NIH program created to train physician-scientists who will go on to work on the front lines of disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention. The two have been accepted into an eight-year NIH Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) during
which they will earn both an M.D. and Ph.D. Bowen will go to the University of Iowa and Shelby to Yale University. It’s all pretty heady stuff for a couple of small-town Kansas kids who grew up just seven miles apart. Bowen is from Colony and Shelby from Iola. They first met at PSU. “I graduated with a high school class of just 13 and I was looking for a place where I wouldn’t get lost,” Bowen said of his choice to attend PSU. Bowen and Shelby both considered becoming physicians. The reputation of
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PSU’s pre-med program and the fact that both were selected for its honors program helped bring the two young men to campus. What they didn’t expect was that they would prefer the research side of medicine. “I’ve always known I wanted to go into medicine and science is the pathway to get there. But then I really got more interested in research once I started working with the professors here,” Shelby said. “Once I started doing research and saw how cool it was and how See GRADS | Page A5
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