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THE IOLA REGISTER Locally owned since 1867
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Farming legacies honored
Glen and Ginger Roberts were named recipients Monday of Kansas Farm Bureau District 3’s Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday during the annual Allen County Farm Bureau meeting. Below, Bernita Berntsen and her family received District 3’s 2015 Natural Resources Award in recognition of the Berntsens’ conservation efforts. Presenting the awards to both were Layne Sterling, Allen County Farm Bureau president.
By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Ginger Roberts was a bit too modest when reflecting on the accomplishments her husband, Glen, and she have accumulated through the years. “It’s taken us 91 years to get them,” she joked. The Robertses were named Lifetime Achievement Award recipients by Kansas Farm Bureau’s third district Wednesday, at the annual Allen County Farm Bureau meeting. Layne Sterling, ACFB board president, rattled off the list of the Robertses’ accomplishments. Through the years, they’ve been named the KFB District 3 Farm Family of the Year, as well as the District 3 Leader and Woman of the Year, and received the Kansas Banker Award. In addition, Glen and Ginger have represented their neighbors on the Allen County Soil Conservation Board, Humboldt FFA Advisory Board, the United/Heartland Rural Electric Board, the Allen Community College Trustees and Endowment Association boards, the Allen County Planning and Zoning
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Russian airstrikes add to intrigue
By JAMES ROSEN McClatchey News Service
WASHINGTON (TNS) — For the first time in 70 years, U.S. and Russian bombers are flying in the same skies, but it remains to be seen whether they are on the same side as they were in World War II. While Moscow’s allies have flown Russian-made planes in more recent conflicts, from Vietnam to Iraq and Iran, the direct entry of the Kremlin’s air force into the messy Syrian civil war marks a new chapter in U.S.-Russian relations. That chapter is starting with the two countries cooperating to de-conflict their airstrikes, but the rest of the story could go sour quickly given Moscow’s support for a repressive Syrian government that America says must go. At a Pentagon briefing hours after the Russian bombing raids began, DeSee SYRIA | Page A3
Polls: Most support Medicare funding for end-of-life counseling The public overwhelmingly supports Medicare’s plan to pay for end-of-life discussions between doctors and patients, despite GOP objections that such chats would lead to rationed care for the elderly and ill, a poll released Wednesday finds. Eight of 10 people surveyed by the Kaiser Family Foundation supported the government or insurers paying for planning discussions about the type of care patients preferred in the waning days or weeks of their lives. (KHN is an editorially independent program
of the foundation.) These discussions can include whether people would want to be kept alive by artificial means even if they had no chance of regaining consciousness or autonomy and whether they would want their organs to be donated. These preferences can be incorporated into advance directives, or living wills, which are used if someone can no longer communicate. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services earlier this year proposed paySee POLL | Page A5
Number of people in poverty and additional number who would be in poverty without targeted government programs (2014)
43,390,000
Additional number who would be in poverty without the following programs 25,909,000
Social Security 9,785,000
Refundable tax credit SNAP
4,726,000
SSI
3,778,000
Housing subsidies
2,829,000
School lunch
1,248,000
Unemployment insurance 932,000 TANF / General assistance 616,000 WIC 300,000 LIHEAP 300,000 0
10
20
30
Source: Economic Policy Institutre Graphic: Tribune News Service
Quote of the day Vol. 117, No. 230
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Local hairstylist opens new salon By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
Poverty and welfare programs Currently in poverty
Janelle King has opened Nelle’s Outback Hair Shack at 318 S. Chestnut St. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
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Janelle King’s dream of owning a hair salon has become a reality. On Friday she opened Nelle’s Outback Hair Shack behind her home at 318 S. Chestnut. The entrance is in the alley behind King’s Sandwich Shop, which she co-owns with her husband Kyle. The salon started out as a deck in the King’s backyard until five months ago when construction began to create a small, private salon. “Hair styling is something I’ve always liked and had always been told I’d be good at,”
she said. “I like to do things out of the ordinary with my hair, change the cut or the color and I would experiment on friends’ hair.” In 2011 she switched careers from certified dietary manager to hairstylist after she graduated from the Fort Scott Community College School of Cosmetology. Upon graduation she worked in local shops, Wild Hare and La Riviera, but she always had hopes of her own place. “It is a big risk in a town with oh, 15 salons, ” she said. “Honestly, I have really good clientele and I wanted something better for them. It’s one of those things if you don’t
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try you won’t know. With my salon I’m gaining a more private environment for clients and they can let their worries go.” Private indeed. The shop is a nestled between tall trees and flowers line the sidewalk to the salon’s entrance. The shop has only one station so clients have peace and quiet. King wanted to make her services affordable. She offers $5 men and kids’ haircuts, $15 cut and style for women, $50 for color and waxes for $5. She uses Chi and Joyco products in the salon. “I have a lot of clients who See SALON | Page A5
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