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THE IOLA REGISTER Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Pray for peace at Iola church By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
When the television is turned on for the nightly news it’s hard to avoid seeing violence. There is violence internationally, in the United States and in the home. The United Methodist Women’s group at Wesley United Methodist Church in Iola wants to promote peace. From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday Wesley United will open its doors at 301 E. Madison to the community for a pray for peace effort. The idea came to the women after hearing a program on peace. “Peace needs to be in the home, it needs to be personal and national,” Regina Woodworth, church secretary, said. “It starts from the bottom up.” With the current conflict in Ukraine, the women thought now would be a good time to promote a day of prayer. Woodworth said international conflict isn’t the only thing the community should be aware of. “In this community we need peace because there is domestic violence,” she said. “We know God desires peace when we remember that we’re not in this alone and there is a higher power that can be a big part of the guidance.” Gerry Uphoff said everyone is welcome to stop by the church. “You can stay for a couple minutes or stay for as long as you like,” Uphoff said. “You can sit in a pew or go to the altar. It’s however or whatever you want to do.” As a coincidence, April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time communities are encouraged to share prevention awareness strategies and activities. The women would like community members to realize violence against children is a real problem that affects everyone. “When they feel like it’s their concern, too, they are more apt to be a part of it,” Woodworth said. For more information on the event contact Wesley United at 620-365-2285.
Donita Garner, left, of Hope Unlimited, and Alison Leach, of KVA, which manages area foster care, plant pinwheels on a flower garden berm near Allen County Courthouse Tuesday. The pinwheels are to draw attention to April being Child Abuse Prevention Month. Register/Bob Johnson
Pinwheels tell a story By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Colorful pinwheels spinning in the breeze on the Allen County Courthouse lawn are there for more than decoration. They draw attention to April being Child Abuse Prevention Month. They were placed Tuesday after county commissioners signed a proclamation recognizing efforts of CASA, Hope Unlimited and others active in protecting today’s youth. Donita Garner, Hope Unlimited, told commissioners
her organization puts focus on helping prevent and also deal with sexual abuse of children, including when courts are involved. CASA, an acronym for Court Appointed Special Advocates, has a more comprehensive role. Its volunteers are trained to step forward to help a child removed from a home, for any reason. Volunteers counsel children when they deal with moving to a new environment, go to court with them and are at their sides when children undergo being a child in need of care. “Our volunteers make sure all the services are in place
for mental health, school and wherever they’re living,” said Aimee Daniels, CASA director for Allen, Neosho, Woodson and Wilson counties. “Child Abuse Prevention Month is dear to us and nothing would make us happier if it weren’t needed and that our jobs could be eliminated,” she said. Daniels noted that last year 16 CASA volunteers came to the aid of 50 children. “We could use more volunteers. Our goal is to have an advocate for each child,” she said. See PINWHEELS | Page A4
County Commission
Repairs OK’d for Delaware Road
By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
People living along four miles of Delaware Road east of the old Zillah School will get their wish. Those residents were distraught last year over the condition of the road, arguing that heavy truck traffic had left it dangerous and dusty. County crew milled up the asphalt and let it settle over winter. Within a couple
of weeks reconstruction of the road will start, Director of Public Works Bill King told commissioners Tuesday morning. Plans are to put down six inches of base rock with the county’s pug machine, a device that mixes rock, water and fine quarry ingredients during application. The surface then will be rolled “and it will be like concrete,” King said. “You won’t be able to drive a nail into it.” See ROADS | Page A4
Kansas Legislature
Members of P.E.O. Chapters L and AM, Iola and Humboldt, gathered at Allen County Regional Hospital Tuesday to draw the winner of a quilt raffle, which generated more than $1,700 for the hospital’s nursery. From left are Karen Works, Judy Baker, Cindy Strickler, Mary Ann Arnott, Karen Gilpin, Judy Arbeiter, Tina Poe, R.N., nursery manager, Linda Leonard and April Hudson.
Lawmakers strive for ‘happy medium’
By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two legislative budget committees approved competing plans Tuesday night for increasing aid to poor Kansas school districts while trimming other education funding, and allowing local districts to levy additional property taxes. The separate bills from the Senate Ways and Means Committee and House Ap-
In a bit of a repeat performance, P.E.O. Chapters L and AM, Iola and Humboldt, raised more than $1,700 to purchase a bassinet for Allen County Regional Hospital’s nursery. Proceeds came from raffle tickets, sold for a $1 each, for an old-fashioned quilt. The winner was Kay Sallee, Bartlesville, Okla.
propriations Committee represented attempts to satisfy a recent Kansas Supreme Court ruling that required more funding for poor districts. Each chamber expects to debate its committee’s plan later this week. Republicans in each GOPdominated chamber conceded that lawmakers probSee FUNDING | Page A4
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Quilt raffle aids hospital nursery Sallee is a friend of Patty Mathews, Bartlesville, who is mother of Iolan Gina Powe. The quilt will weave its way to Oklahoma Saturday when Gina and husband Matt take their son to a Cub Scout Pinewood Derby race in Independence. Grandmother Mathews will come to watch, and pick up the quilt. The two P.E.O. chapters
“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.” — Dag Hammarskiold, Swedish diplomat 75 Cents
raised $500 in 1952 when the original Allen County Hospital opened to furnish a patient home. None of today’s members were involved in the first fundraising, but Iola Chapter L member Karen Gilpin said $500 then very likely would have furnished a room from top to bottom, given economics of those times. The bassinet will cost about $1,500.
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