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Voters head to the polls Tuesday

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

In what may well be the last spring city and school elections ever, Allen Countians heading to the polls Tuesday will have several choices on

their ballots — albeit, some more than others.

In Iola, all four city council incumbents filed for re-election, with two — Steve French and Eugene Myrick — drawing challengers.

Myrick, a retired National

Guardsman, faces challenger Austin Sigg, a supply sergeant with the National Guard’s 891st Engineer Battalion’s headquarters company in Iola. Myrick and Sigg are in Ward 3, which covers much of the southwest quadrant of

town.

French, an investigator for the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, holds the seat in Ward 4 (southeast). He is being challenged by Aaron Franklin, a claims adjuster with Nationwide Insurance.

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Incumbents Jon Wells (Ward 1) and Bob Shaughnessy (Ward 2) are unopposed, as is Iola Mayor Joel Wicoff.

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Mo-Pac Trail work begins

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Crews started mobilizing Friday to begin work on the Missouri Pacific Trail, a new walking and biking path that should attract plenty of use through the heart of Iola.

The 10-block corridor, following the old Missouri Pacific rail corridor, will connect the Prairie Spirit Trail with the Colborn Park tennis courts near Iola High School.

The new trail is being built under direction of the Kansas Department of Transportation. Because it’s considered a state project, KDOT is funding roughly 80 percent of the $467,000 price tag.

Iola’s share — including

Lincoln Elementary School students learned all about space Thursday during Living History Day. Students rotated through different classrooms to learn about astronauts, space travel and planets. Ally Ellis, above, walks across a simulated space exercise. Chloe Sell, right, tests her balance and hand-eye coordination. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET

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State lawmakers tighten social service rules KPERS bond plan approved

By ANDY MARSO KHI News Service

The Senate voted Thursday to solidify policies restricting cash assistance to low-income Kansans over the

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is expected to issue $1 billion in bonds to bolster its pension system for teachers and government workers after the Legislature authorized the debt.

Some lawmakers see the move as potentially risky, and the votes in the Republicandominated Legislature were relatively close despite a push from GOP Gov. Sam Brownback.

The Senate approved the bill Thursday on a 23-16 vote, a day after the House passed it, 63-57. Brownback — who had proposed $1.5 billion in bonds — is expected to sign the bill, and supporters said the state should issue the debt starting this summer.

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objections of a senator who represents an urban district and other Democrats.

Sen. Oletha FaustGoudeau, a Democrat from Wichita, said during debate Wednesday that her Sen-

ate colleagues displayed ignorance of the realities of poverty in Kansas by giving initial approval to House Bill 2258.

“We in this body think that people who are receiving

welfare benefits are low-life people sitting home doing nothing,” Faust-Goudeau said. “The majority of those individuals are the working See STATE | Page A2

Aggie Days Scores of area high school FFA members descended upon Allen Community College Thursday for the college’s annual Aggie Days event. Above at left, Ottawa High School’s Elie Brister, left, and Seth French look over insects during an entomology competition.

At right, Kaitlyn Gava, foreground, of Louisburg, and Katie Arpin, from Buhler, identify several plant and flower species for the entomology portion. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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O’Donnell said each recipient is assigned a case worker to help with money management.

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poor. They go to work every day, but they still qualify for those little benefits they receive.”

The Senate passed the bill 30-10 Thursday, with Republican senators Carolyn McGinn and Vicki Schmidt joining the chamber’s eight Democrats in voting against it.

Sen. Michael O’Donnell, a Republican from Wichita, carried the bill to the floor.

AMONG OTHER measures, it would limit the amount of cash that recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) can withdraw each day, reduce lifetime benefits from 48 months to 36 months and restrict recipients from using their assistance cards for a long list of entertainment items, including theme parks and sporting events.

The bill also includes restrictions on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, commonly called food stamps. Some of the changes, including work and job training requirements, already were established by Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration through rules and regulations, but writing them into law would ensure future administrations could not change the policies without legislative approval.

O’Donnell and other supporters said the bill would prevent fraud and help recipients move off welfare and into the workforce.

“We’re trying to make sure these benefits are used the way they were intended to be,” O’Donnell said.

Faust-Goudeau and the chamber’s other Democrats slowed the bill’s passage by offering a host of amendments to do things like allow the secretary of the Depart-

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ment for Children and Families to extend the duration of benefits during times of economic recession and require annual reports on the success of the job training programs meant to help people off the TANF and SNAP rolls. The chamber’s Republican supermajority defeated the Democratic amendments one by one during a floor session that took most of the day.

But when one of the bill’s supporters, Parker Republican Sen. Caryn Tyson, offered an amendment to lower the daily ATM withdrawal limit even more — from $60 to $25 — it was adopted 23-14.

O’Donnell expressed some concern that most ATMs only distribute cash in multiples of $20 and asked Tyson what she thought about a $40 daily withdrawal limit.

But Tyson held firm at $25, saying the details could be ironed out by a conference committee with the House.

O’Donnell voted for her amendment.

Faust-Goudeau expressed dismay at the $25 limit, asking her colleagues to consider the plight of constituents

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who do not have checking accounts and pay a portion of their rent and utilities by cashing in their assistance every month and then converting the cash into a money order.

She said she traveled with some TANF recipients one day to get a firsthand look at the steps involved.

“It’s a two-hour trip, and it’s not Gilligan’s Island,” Faust-Goudeau said. “It’s a two-hour trip on the bus just to get there, and then back home. So that’s four hours in that day.”

Faust-Goudeau questioned whether TANF recipients would even be able to afford the bus fare with a $25 withdrawal that would likely to be diminished by ATM fees.

She also asked her colleagues to remember that each of their districts contain TANF recipients and repeatedly said that a majority of adult TANF recipients are working but earning so little that they still qualify for help.

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SENATE Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Democrat from Topeka, offered an amendment to put the bill’s changes on hold pending a review from a social services advisory council that Gov. Sam Brownback established.

Hensley said he thought the bill, which also provides for voluntary photo identification cards for TANF recipients, might have some positive aspects.

But he said it also likely would have some consequences his colleagues weren’t able to identify, and he thought the experts on the governor’s council would be better equipped to vet it.

“This bill contains a number of different social services policies that I’m not sure we as legislators can get our arms around and understand,” Hensley said.

Hensley’s amendment received only 10 votes.

While some supporters of the bill said a study of the TANF changes would be worthwhile after passing it, they said there should be no delay in approving the changes.

“Work lifts individuals out of poverty,” said Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, a Republican from Shawnee. “It lifts individuals out of depression, and it gives them a sense of self-worth.”

The number of TANF recipients in Kansas has dropped precipitously during Brownback’s tenure, from more than

40,000 to just under 15,000 — and most of those remaining are children. Several nonprofit advocacy organizations say that’s mainly due to restrictions that have limited access to the program, pointing to data that shows poverty levels in the state have not fallen.

But the governor’s supporters cited job training programs and the 6,000 TANF recipients who found employment that paid enough to get off the program between December 2013 and December 2014 as evidence that the changes should be set in law as soon as possible.

The Senate smoothed the measure’s possible path to passage by placing it in a House bill. The House passed it Thursday evening, 87-35.

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Brownback ‘not too excited’ about tobacco tax

By ANDY MARSO Kansas Health Institute

Rep. Don Hill, a Republican from Emporia, introduced a bill last year that would have raised the state’s cigarette tax by $1.50 per pack.

The bill died in the House Taxation Committee, where the chairman, Rep. Richard Carlson, a Republican from St. Marys, did not deem it worthy of a hearing.

This year, with the state facing a budget crisis after slashing income tax rates, Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration introduced an identical tobacco tax as part of a package to plug the projected $700 million deficit.

To sell the plan to legislators, the administration sent the Kansas Department of Revenue’s new legislative liaison: former Rep. Richard Carlson.

Carlson’s about-face illustrates the tension surrounding the public health community’s item of greatest interest this session.

A host of anti-cancer groups and other health advocates view the tobacco tax increase as good policy — regardless of the budget situation — that would save lives and save the state money on health care costs.

But they face conservative Republican majorities in the House and Senate that are resistant to any new taxes and have put the tobacco tax on the table this year only because the state is so strapped for cash.

Even their most powerful ally — the governor — seems a reluctant supporter.

“Well, I’m not too excited about them (either),” Brownback said Thursday.

“Somebody was complaining that well, we don’t seem to be pushing the taxes.

Well, I’m not excited about that. But what happens in this process is you get your budget set and then figure out OK, what can we do, trying to stay as progrowth oriented as we can, to try to have the revenues we need to meet the budget the Legislature wants? I’m

sure if everybody could do it, we’d do all the budget and no taxes.”

Opponents of the tobacco tax have seized on that ambivalence. At times they’ve conceded the health benefits of the tobacco increase but have urged legislators to push that from their minds and refocus on their distaste for taxing and spending.

Tobacco companies, while largely staying out of the public debate, have hosted luncheons with guest speakers outlining the potential pitfalls of the increase and upped their lobbying clout.

The Wichita Eagle was the first to report that the nation’s second-largest tobacco company, Reynolds American Inc. (RAI), hired Brownback’s former chief of staff, David Kensinger, as a lobbyist.

RAI already retained the services of five lobbyists from Hein Government Consulting. But the addition of Kensinger was notable because he was one of a select group of lobbyists who received

emails outlining the governor’s budget proposal — including the tobacco tax increase — before it was released publicly.

Kensinger declined to say this week when he began talking with RAI about representing it.

“I have the same policy (with RAI) as I do with all my clients,” Kensinger said. “Call my client.”

Bryan Hatchell, director of communications for RAI, didn’t respond to email and phone call requests for comment on when the company began talks with Kensinger.

Brownback said he did not believe giving Kensinger a sneak peek at the budget had provided him with an unfair advantage on other lobbyists in securing the contract, or given RAI an edge in fighting the tax.

He did say he wished Kensinger was not lobbying for “that group, but he’s free to do what he is doing.”

The governor also said he hoped the pro-tobacco tax side would prevail because he wants the state to continue moving toward con-

sumption taxes instead of income taxes and because of the positive health effects of the tobacco tax.

Brownback said he got the idea to propose the tax from the University of Kansas Cancer Center, whose director, Roy Jensen, has been one of its most outspoken advocates.

The governor said a commitment to decreasing the state’s smoking rate was key to the cancer center earning the National Cancer Institute designation.

“We’re going to try to get this across the line, and it

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will be a good public health issue,” Brownback said.

Hill, the Emporia legislator who proposed the tax increase last year at the request of the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network, said Kensinger’s hiring gives some insight into how serious RAI is taking the tobacco tax fight.

“The corporate interests that have huge bucks are going to be strategic about who’s badging up for them, and they found a willing representative,” Hill said.

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extra fees for engineering and design — came to $101,000.

Those funds have already been paid using capital improvement funds generated by the city’s half-cent sales tax.

To accommodate the new trail, crews will remove trees and shrubs. “They may need to do some clearing at the far east end, but that will be minimal,� Assistant City Administrator Corey Schinstock said.

The trail dissects the city from east to west. It will run nearly parallel with Benton Street Schinstock said motorists should see little disruption, aside from where crews cut into curbs at the trail’s intersections with various streets. Traffic control signs were erected Friday.

A concrete structure near State Street will allow the trail to be elevated over a low-lying drainage area as well.

The concrete trail will

receive an infusion of cash, immediately narrowing a long-term gap in funding for retirement benefits. The pension system would invest the money and expects its investments to earn significantly more than the state would pay on the 30year bonds. “This is a very solid financial decision,� said Republican state Sen. Jim Denning, of Overland Park.

But there’s skepticism — including among teacher, state worker and retiree groups — because the move also is designed to help with the state budget by decreasing state contributions to public pensions by $64 million over the next two years.

A report last year from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College said bonds decrease financial flexibility, turning

Orange markers line the route of the old Missouri Pacific Railroad corridor, connecting the Prairie Spirit Trail with Iola High School. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN be 10 feet wide, aside from a four-block stretch between Jefferson and Cottonwood streets, Schinstock said. That portion’s width will be trimmed to five feet wide. (Bicyclists will be encouraged to divert to Benton Street for that portion).

Crosswalks will be

added at each street intersection.

The trail provides an off-road connection between the Prairie Spirit Trail and central Iola, with easy links to both the high school and middle school, as well as downtown Iola.

The Missouri Pacific Railway Company built

a line through Iola in 1881. The railroad was abandoned in the 1970s, and most of the tracks removed by the late 1980s, although the route remains visible.

Within Iola, the city either owns the right-ofway for most of the trail, or acquired easements for the rest.

pension payments that can be modified into set bond payments.

The report also said underfunded plans and financially stressed governments typically issue bonds, often to lower annual costs. “We’re incurring debt to pay debt,� state Sen. Laura Kelly, a Topeka Democrat who opposed the bill, said after Thursday’s vote. “When things are going well — we wouldn’t have even considered this.�

The bill limits the state to paying 5 percent or less in interest to bond investors, and the pension system expects to earn 8 percent annually on its investments the long-term.

The state issued $500 million in pension bonds in 2004, paying almost 5.4 percent in interest. The pension system’s investment earnings have averaged 7.7 percent annually since then, even with the Great Recession.

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cation features a pair of contested races.

Dan Willis, safety and environmental manager at B&W Trailer Hitches, will face off against local business owner Virginia Macha for the at-large seat, meaning every voter within USD 257 has a vote. They’re looking to replace the outgoing Mark Burris, who declined to file for re-election.

Jen Taylor, who last fall chaired the “Yes, Yes� committee in favor of building new elementary and high schools, is squaring off against Stanley Grigsby, who owns a local computer business, for Position 1.

They’re looking to replace Don Snavely, who declined to run again.

Doug Dunlap, the only 257 school board incumbent to run for re-election, is unopposed for position 2. Mary Apt, a former member, is unopposed in her bid to replace Jack McFadden.

AT ALLEN Community College, four are running for three trustee positions. Incumbents Spencer Ambler and Ken McGuffin are seeking re-election, as are Mary Kay Heard, retired owner of Iola Western Auto, and Delbert Nelson, a local farmer. Nelson is a former trustee.

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Incumbents Nobby Davis, mayor, and council members Vada Aikins and Sunny Shreeve are unopposed.

In USD 258 Sandra Whitaker and Joe Works are the only incumbents among seven candidates seeking four seats, all decided in at-large voting. Other candidates are Joyce Allen, Donald Hauser, Craig Mintz, Scott Murrow, Clayton Schoendaller and Briana Wilkerson.

VOTERS in LaHarpe have plenty of homework to do before casting their ballots. Three candidates are running for mayor, and five others are seeking two seats on the LaHarpe City Council.

Mayoral candidates are Cynthia Carr, incumbent, former mayor Lloyd Wayne Turner and Councilwoman EllaMae Crowell. Savannah Flory is the only council incumbent who filed for re-election. Other challengers for the two openings are Don Gay, Ronald

Knavel Sr., David Lee and Danny Ware Jr. NONE of the local races will be contested in Moran or for the Marmaton Valley USD 256 school board. In fact, there are more openings than candidates.

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Allen. Position 2 will be filled by write-in votes or appointment after the election.

Moran Mayor Phillip Merkel is unopposed in his re-election bid, as is City Councilman James Mueller. No other candidates filed. In addition to Mueller, one other seat will be filled, either by write-in votes or by appointment.

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Of course a woman’s face should grace U.S. currency By the time a female is selected to grace a U.S. $20 bill, paper currency likely will be extinct.

A campaign called “Women on 20s” seeks to replace Andrew Jackson’s mug on the $20 bill with a woman’s. The goal is to convince the U.S. Treasury to do so by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote.

White men first cast their votes for a U.S. president 131 years earlier with the 1789 election of George Washington.

Because U.S. currency primarily features U.S. Presidents — Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton are the exceptions — it would appear women are handicapped from the outset.

But if the criteria regard women who have changed the course of history there’s no shortage of qualified candidates.

The “Women on 20s” campaign lists the suffragist Susan B. Anthony, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, a champion

United States.

Susan Lynn Register editor of workers’ rights, the poet Rachel Carson known for her treatise on environmentalism, “Silent Spring,” Civil War nurse Clara Barton, civil rights activist Rosa Parks, Margaret Sanger, a nurse who championed birth control, and Shirley Chisholm, first African-American woman elected to Congress.

I would add Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” the story of a slave family and their efforts to secure freedom. Published in 1852, sales of the book rivaled those of the Bible and quickly inflamed anti-slavery sentiment. Stowe was credited as the “little woman” who helped break the chains of slavery in the

TECHNOLOGY, however, is fast rendering the discussion of a new figure on U.S. currency moot.

More and more, people don’t carry cash. Soon, the need for a debit or credit card will be unnecessary.

Already, an application downloaded onto a Smartphone is all that is necessary to buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

Walmart is one of several chains working on a program in which customers can deduct purchases from their checking accounts by using their Smartphones.

On the horizon is where sensors at a store’s exit will scan price tags, automatically charging the item onto the purchaser’s Smartphone account. Not only would that be a savings to shoppers in terms of convenience, but also to merchants’ efforts to combat shoplifting.

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of Americans don’t think a woman warrants gracing U.S. currency.

Increasingly, the term feminism strikes a raw chord.

Perhaps today’s young women perceive it as unnecessarily strident. Of course it’s because of the efforts of their

ancestors, some very recent, that women today are afforded these rights.

So if the purpose of placing an American’s mug on a bill is to recognize their contributions, then surely a woman has earned that privilege — and quick.

A woman on the $20 bill?

Andrew Jackson’s 87-year run on the $20 bill may be coming to an end, some are seeking to replace him with a woman.

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In defense of higher education The Kansas Senate wants a one-page explanation of higher education’s value. Here goes: Kansas Senate Bill 191 would require state universities to issue a “prospectus” to each incoming student. On one page, it would give job placement rates and median salaries, average time between degree completion and job placement, and the number of years to pay student loans, based upon major. This idea recalls Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s recent attempt to erase the University of Wisconsin’s hundred-year-old mission of statewide community engagement, replacing it with job training. It is a nationwide, Republican priority.

What about the students themselves? With apologies to Bob Dylan: there is something going on out here, and the state legislators don’t know what it is.

This semester, my political philosophy students asked me to make the class longer.

It seems they were not getting enough time to discuss the books and ideas in class.

Students could not stop talking about Herbert Marcuse, the mid-twentieth-century French philosopher who believed that our society was producing a “one dimensional man”: one who feared imaginary enemies and focused solely on earning and spending income.

They devoured the work of Hannah Arendt, a Jewish emigre from World War II Germany. Famous for studying Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, Arendt argued that modern-day

Michael Smith Insight Kansas society made the activities of “work” and “labor” so allconsuming that most people had little time, or interest, in discovering what it meant to live a genuinely fulfilling, complete life, including political action. Arendt feared a slide toward “rule by nobody”: hardly any single person can be held accountable for the actions of business or government anymore.

Also at Emporia State, Dr. Joyce Thierer’s Women of the West class is taught on one long evening each week, ending at 10 p.m. Still talking, the students invited their professor to a local all-night eatery for more discussion about the changing roles of women — and pancakes.

Our students come from all over, many from rural or ex-urban Kansas: Emporia and El Dorado, Great Bend and Gardner. They tell us that they have never seen or heard these ideas before. They are hungry for all the material we can give them, and then some.

This is the first time I have seen this, since I started teaching in 1995.

Many of our current politi-

This class is no left-wing indoctrination: up next [is] Leo Strauss, the intellectual godfather of modernday American conservatism.

Whether or not Eichmann really was a thoughtless bureaucrat, it remains true that citizens who ask critical questions, think, and act in politics can offer us release from a one-dimensional life of graduation, working only for a paycheck, retiring, and eventual death.

This class is no left-wing indoctrination: up next are Leo Strauss, the intellectual godfather of modern-day American conservatism, and F.A. Hayek, the legendary libertarian economist who railed against government meddling.

cians did not graduate from college themselves, yet they want to control higher education. Instead, our students want to know what it means to live a fulfilling, complete life. Good teaching, great books, and their own curiosity and hard work can help them achieve real intellectual development, preparing them for rich lives and meaningful careers.

So ends my one page defense of higher education.

Smith is associate professor of political science at Emporia State University.

Ronnie Caler died this week, and truth be known, his death probably didn’t register with most folks outside of family and a knot of friends.

That’s a shame. But, his passing did have an effect on me.

Ronnie played baseball for the Register PeeWee League team back in the 1960s, when I was its coach. He played second base most of the time, partly because he had a pretty good glove and also because he didn’t have a strong throwing arm.

Notable was a post-season tournament. I don’t recall the circumstances that prompted it, but I decided to have Ronnie pitch in the championship game, maybe because he could lob ball after ball over the heart of the plate. His pitches would reach an apex of six or eight feet, twice as high as he was tall, about half way to the plate and than settle into the strike zone. Opposing batters either had trouble waiting on the pitches to arrive or flayed away without contact on the downward spin of the ball.

His pitches reminded me of slow-pitch softball, where pitchers try to get as much altitude as possible with as little of a strike zone as possible.

I don’t remember if Ronnie went on to play sports while he was growing up.

In recent years I’ve noticed him around town; I regret not having made a point to

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stop to talk, a failing that we blame on being too busy or something else just as frail.

My rationale was he probably wouldn’t have remembered me.

Another kid I’ll always remember is Mike Blevins.

Mikey, as I called him, was quick as the dickens and loved to play baseball. Often on game days I’d drive by the old Bassett diamond, where PeeWee and Little League games were played then, and he would be in full uniform sitting in the bleachers, waiting for game time that often was two or three hours hence.

Again, I don’t know if Mike ever played any sports in high school, but he certainly had hintings of talent including speed and quickness.

I bumped into Mike several years ago at Foodtown, which gives a time frame.

With the smile I remembered from his youth, he had to tell about still having a newspaper clipping reporting the time he hit a home run.

It’s times like that do the soul good. Coaching is not a thankless task, but can be a most rewarding pasttime.

A�look�back�in�time � May 10, 1969 — The Santa Fe railroad has posted a notice in the local station that it intends to discontinue the two remaining passenger trains running between Kansas City and Tulsa on June 14.

“All Iola citizens should join in an effort to prevent this unjustified action on the part of the Santa Fe,” said Mayor Jack Hastings.

Jerry Skidmore, manager of the Davis Paint Store and Iola Chamber of Commerce, added his voice to that of Mayor Hastings in

urging that “every Iolan and area resident take the trouble to express themselves on this vital matter.”

As matters now stand, appeals from the decision to eliminate the service must be in Washington by May 30 to be considered. “We must act immediately,” Mayor Hastings emphasized.

The decision in 1967 to take mail contracts away from the railroad, the backbone of the passenger train revenue, spelled the eventual demise of such local lines.

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Bob and Welcome Wayne Bob and Welcome (Hicks) Wayne will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on April 11, 2015.

They were married at First Church of God in Neodesha, on April 11, 1965. Welcome graduated from Neodesha High School and Bob from Augusta. Welcome graduated from Mount Carmel School of Nursing in Pittsburg in 1962. She recently retired from Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola after 46½years of nursing. Bob retired from the military and civil service.

Bob and Welcome had two children, both born at St. Joseph Hospital in Wichita. Their first child, Kristie, was born on May 19, 1967. Kurt

was born Oct. 10, 1970.

Kristie and her husband, Loren, have one daughter, Lorin. Friends and

family are invited to attend a gathering from 2 to 4 p.m. April 11 at First Baptist Church.

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Gloria Grace Dana Henry Nicole and Eugene Henry are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Gloria Grace Dana Henry. Gloria was born March 17, 2015 at Allen County Regional Hospital.

She weighed 5 pounds, 11.4 ounces and was 18 inches long.

Gloria is the granddaughter of Dana and Jay McFarland, California, and Jayanna Branstetter, Kansas, and Marlene and Billy Langwell, Arkansas. She is the great-granddaughter of Daniel and Gayle Fritzemeier, Chanute.

Gloria has three older siblings, Johnny Russell Lee Henry, 7, Kyle Allen Daniel Henry, 5, and Jay Donald Eugene Henry, 4.

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Sun. Worship.....................9:30 a.m.

Humboldt United Methodist Church

St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church

620-365-7306

302 E. Madison, Iola

Harvest Baptist Church

620-237-4442

Open in spirit - deep in faith rich in worship - active in service reflecting God’s love Holy Eucharist Sunday 9 a.m.

Followed by fellowship.

Rev. Jan Chubb All are welcome.

First Presbyterian Church

“Lead-Feed Tend” - John 21.15 - 17

Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:30 a.m.

Bible Study.............................6 p.m.

Wed. Prayer.........Noon & 6:30 p.m.

Live Stream on www.fbciola.org

Rev. Bruce Kristalyn

620-365-2492

1608 Oregon Rd., Iola

Sunday School...................9:15 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:30 a.m.

Sunday School.........................9 a.m.

Adult Bible Class....................9 a.m.

Worship Service...............10:30 a.m.

Paul Miller, pastor

First Christian Church

801 N. Cottonwood, Iola

Grace Lutheran Church

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Jeff Cokely Jared Ellis Luke Bycroft

620-365-9728

First Baptist Church

1020 E. Carpenter, Iola

Sunday School (All Ages). . . . . . . .9 a.m.

Sunday Worship....................10 a.m.

Sunday Praise & Prayer...........6 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Class......6:30 p.m.

Kids First Wednesday.........6:30 p.m.

Teens First Wed. @ The One.....6:30 p.m.

Streaming live on Sunday morning at www.thecruxchurch.com

Steve Traw, pastor

Office: 620-365-3883 Parsonage: 620-365-3893

First Assembly of God

214 W. Madison, Iola

Sunday School immediately after service

620-228-1829

202 S. Walnut, Iola

Dr. Anliker

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Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Service...........6:30 p.m.

Mike Farran, pastor

www.poplargrovembc.org

620-363-4828 620-237-4255

Rev. Jon Gray 620-473-3063

Trinity United Methodist Church Kentucky & Broadway, Iola

Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship ...................11 a.m.

Dorothy Welch, pastor (620) 365-5235

Wesley United Methodist Church Madison & Buckeye

Sunday Contemporary..........9:15 a.m.

Sunday Blended Worship. . . .9:30 a.m.

Wednesday After School. . . .2:50 p.m.

Middle School UMYF.............6 p.m.

High School UMYF...........7:30 p.m.

Rev. Trudy Kenyon Anderson 620-365-2285

The Iola Register

INSIDE

ACC baseball loses to Neosho — B3

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Iola track starts season with a whirlwind

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

ALTAMONT — Iola High’s track season certainly got off to a whirlwind start Thursday at Labette County High School.

The team did well individually, but the meet was interrupted by a tornado warning before it could be completed. Due to the storm warning, information was available for only the top six places of each event.

The athletes were required to seek shelter for an extended period, according to coach Dana Daugharthy. Events that were not finished were the 4x400-meter relays for the junior varsity and varsity boys.

“It was a good first meet. The first meet is always a learning experience, especially for how young our team is,” Daugharthy said. “Several athletes provided a very good baseline for themselves to improve upon as the season progresses.”

For the varsity girls, Emery Driskel started the season off on a high note in multiple events. She finished second in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles with a time of 50.95 seconds. She placed second in the 100-meter high hurdles at 17.46 seconds and she finished fifth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 29.12 seconds.

Olivia Taylor placed second in the 800-meter run at two minutes, 28 seconds, and fourth in the 3200-meter run at 13:32.

Cassie Delich took fifth in the high hurdles at 20.45 seconds. Jessica Oakley placed fifth in the discus with a throw of 84 feet, 7 inches.

Travis Hermstein was the only varsity boys athlete with available stats. He took third in the pole vault, clearing 10 feet. He narrowly missed clearing 10’6”, which would have matched both the firstand second-place finishers.

Hermstein placed sixth in the 1600-meter run at 5:48.

The junior varsity boys tied for third in team standings.

Brice Aiello took first in the long jump at 18’6 1/2”. He took

Olivia Taylor powers through the 3200-meter run for a fourth place finish. REGISTER/

SPENCER MICHELSON

sixth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.64 seconds.

Nate Evans took second in the pole vault with a jump of 9 feet. He took fifth in the 200 with a time of 25.77 seconds.

Chase Regehr won the 800, finishing in 2:15.75. He placed fourth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 56.09 seconds.

Trea Williams threw the discus 94’9” for third.

Ethan Holloway took third in the high jump, clearing 5’2”.

Darius Greenawalt finished first and Jonathan Rodewald third in the triple jump at 34’5” and 90’9 1/2”, respectively.

The 4x100-meter relay team of Aiello, Rodewald, Evans and Nathan Sprague finished third in 49.45 seconds.

For the JV girls, Madison Carlin took third in the high jump at 4’2”.

The 4x100 relay team of Carley Cescon, Klair Vogel, Addy Prather and Jessica Oakley took second in 1:00.59.

The varsity squad travels to Parsons Friday. Field events start a 3:30 p.m. and running events at 4 o’clock.

Emery Driskel leaps over an intermediate hurdle for a second place finish. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Sand flies as Darius Greenawalt lands in the long jump. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Trea Williams makes a mighty effort at the shot put. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

ACC cheer, dance teams place nationally

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

The cheer team, from front left: Andrika Dawn, Cassandra Johnson, Tessa Rowe, Shelby Maycumber, Jordan Barber, Marissa Luna, Naomi Schuetz and Lauren Korte. Second row, Silvia Soto-Robberts, Kelcie Radford, Antonia Grubbs, Kamry Coffee, Hailey Melin and Christina Brant. Third row, Kati Aitchison. PHOTO COURTESY OF MINDY COVEY

The dance team from left: Courtney Hays,Valerie Ridder, Breanna Stout, Ashley Owens, Keclie Radford, Michaela Trobough and Kristina Aulick. PHOTO COURTESY OF MINDY COVEY

Performing most notably during Allen Community College basketball games — at halftime and cheering on fans during play — ACC’s cheer and dance team competed their way to a third place finish at the American Collegiate Championship.

This was the fifth time the cheer and dance team competed at the competition, which took place in Denton, Texas.

The team scored 283 out of a possible 300 points in Division III — where community colleges compete.

“That [score] would have beaten all of Division II and all but one of the Division I schools,” coach Mindy Covey said. “Our division was just really tough this year. We would have placed fourth overall.”

There was a lot of work involved to earn that score.

“The girls put in countless hours. They were here throughout all of spring break. It’s a lot of work on all levels,” Covey said, adding that a professional created the dance routine for the team.

To qualify for nationals, the team first competed at a regional competition on March 8 going up against other schools in the Jayhawk Conference. The cheer team took first place in the short form division, performing a 45-second cheer routine and a 60-second dance routine.

The dance team brought two routines and two soloists to the regional. In the team routine they placed third and their hip-hop routine netted them a fourth place finish.

Kristina Aulick placed first in the soloist division.

“I choreographed the cheer routine and the dance routine, we took bits and pieces from our halftime performances,” Covey said. “The hip hop routine was choreographed

by Rondell Stowe. He’s out of Florida and teaches it.”

Covey said the team finished similar to prior years.

“I think we did really well.

Last year, we placed similarly, but this year we took more events,” Covey said. “We had more to showcase. They all placed well. I was happy with how both teams did.”

A few minor setbacks — common to any school — See ACC | Page B3

B2 Saturday, April 4, 2015

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The Late George & Betty Covey We will hold a complete dispersal sale of the personal property of the late George and Betty Covey located from Moran, 5 mi. South or 4 mi. North of Elsmore on Hwy. 59 to Iowa Rd., then 11â &#x201E;2 West to 3800 Rd. then 1 mi. South and 1/4 West, watch for sale signs

Sunday, April 12, 2015 â&#x20AC;˘ 11:30 a.m.

Refreshments by Savonburg Public Library Board Farm Equipment: Allis Chalmers 6 Ft., pull type combine with pick up attachment, canvasses, always shedded; Older Gleaner E. combine, gas, with 12 ft., or 13â&#x20AC;&#x2122; header, always shedded; Glenco 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; field cultivator with harrow; Allis Chalmers #330 6-row planter; 7 ft. 3 pt. blade; John Deere #400 rotary hoe, 3 pt.; New Holland #56 rake; Allis Chalmers 4-bottom mounted 3 pt. plow; Allis Chalmers 3bottom snap coupler plow; Brush hog 3 pt. 7 ft. brush cutter, need some repair; portable hay elevator on wheels; (2) John Deere 4-wheel flat bed wagons; Allis Chalmers pto manure spreader; 200 bu. Ezy flow grain wagon; 250 bu. Kory grain trailer; grain auger wagon, 250 bu.; 41 ft. 6â&#x20AC;? Hutchinson Transport auger; portable wood splitter with 5 hp Briggs & Stratton motor; Cattle Equipment: Wadler automatic portable squeeze chute, very good; 16 cattle steel welded wire cattle panels; ten 10 ft. steel cattle panels; 20 ft. steel gate, like new; big bale fork for back of pickup with motor; Truck & Trailer: 1951 Chevy 1 1/2 ton truck with 14 ft. bed, has been stored in barn for years; Ponderosa steel bumper hitch stock trailer, 16 ft.; Shop Tools: 1000 gal. fuel tank with pump; Lincoln 180 amp welder; 2 Duracraft wood lathes with tools; bench vise; Waterloo stacking tool box; 2 bench grinders; table saw; wood splitter; 2 drill presses; sickle grinder; wash vat; tacks; bolts; chain saws; hand tools; fencing tools; misc. lumber; misc. parts; woven wire; Antiques & Collectibles: old school bell; antique hay fork; lots of old books; bookshelves; cow kickers; 100s of National Geographic; iron skillets; old IHC cream separator; 2 old flat top trunks; some camel back trunks; kerosene lamps; barn lanterns; iron beds; quilting frames; clamp on shoe skates; wood high chair; walnut chest; china cabinet; hutch; round oak table; library table; steel wagon wheels; milk cans; old 45 records; bed frames; plant stands; oak chairs; old seed corn grader; clipper fan mill; Household Goods: lots of dishes & glassware; pots and pans; 2 complete bedroom suites; window air conditioner; lamps; pictures; chairs; set of silverware in box; several trailer loads of tools & misc.

Note: There is a 40 ft. container full of unopened boxes and furniture. Plus an upstairs full of furniture and boxes. Mr. Covey was 92 years old when he died in 2011 and some of these items belonged to his parents. Terms: Cash or Good Check. Not responsible for accidents. For information contact auctioneers.

Statements made sale day take precedence to printed material.

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Please review complete position description posted on the Allen website (www.allencc.edu). Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree required. CPA preferred.

First review of applications will begin April 16, 2015. Starting date is July 1, 2015 or negotiable. Send letter of interest, resume, and unofficial college transcripts and three professional references to Personnel Office, Allen Community College, 1801 N. Cottonwood, Iola, KS 66749. Fax to 620-365-7406. Email: personnel@allencc.edu. Equal Opportunity Employer.

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KS panel advances campus group bill amid protest fears TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Republican legislator warned Thursday that Kansas risks the same sort of national backlash as Indiana and Arkansas if lawmakers pass a proposal aimed at protecting college religious groups, but a GOP colleague said heeding such concerns would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;catering to the mob.â&#x20AC;?

The Kansas House Federal and State Affairs Committee approved a bill designed to give religious groups on state university campuses more control over their membership.

The committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debate touched on the criticism lawmakers in the two other states have faced for passing broader religious objections measures described by some business leaders and groups as anti-gay.

Gay-rights supporters in Kansas contend its bill, which passed the Senate two weeks ago, would protect campus religious groups from being sanctioned for barring gay and lesbians as members â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or limiting membership based on race, ethnicity or national origin. Backers of the bill say it protects studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; freedoms of association and worship.

The House committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 12-10 vote sending the bill to the House floor signaled a possible wider split among Republicans in Kansas than in Arkansas and Indiana, which are among more than a dozen states where religious objection proposals have been introduced this year.

Republicans hold 18 of the panelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 23 seats, and six joined four Democrats in voting against the bill.

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GOP Rep. Stephanie Clayton, of Overland Park, predicted Kansas would face an outcry and boycott threats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kansas does not need anything like that happening to damage our reputation,â&#x20AC;? said Clayton, who voted against the bill.

But Rep. Dick Jones, a Topeka Republican, said if legislators rewrite the bill or refuse to pass it because of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happened elsewhere, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re catering to the mob.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I get the feeling that if we took religious organizations out of this and put in gay organizations, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be falling all ourselves to pass it, so I say we pass it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to run away from somebodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s misunderstanding of the bill and trying to make a national issue out of it. This doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt anybody.â&#x20AC;?

The Kansas measure is significantly different from new religious objections policies approved by lawmakers in Arkansas and Indiana, which focus on limiting broader government action against individuals, groups and businesses that say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re acting in line with their religious beliefs.

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Tennis team posts ACC softball winning record falls to Johnson

COFFEYVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Iola Highâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boys tennis team went 10-6 as a team Thursday in Coffeyville â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that included two wins by forfeit from Columbus.

Colby Works returned to the court, after missing last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home meet due to a schedule conflict. He went 3-0 in No. 1 singles action.

He fell behind early, 3-1, to Coffeyvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chris Frazier before coming back and forcing a tiebreak. Works took the win from there.

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Isaiah Fawson went 3-0 on Thursday in Coffeyville. REGISTER/SPENCER

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as Iolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 2 singles player. He also went 3-0.

Iolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 doubles team of Mason Key and Rhett Allen had to fight back to beat Coffeyville in the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first match of the day. They dropped their next two matches.

Tyler Holloway and Glenn Thomas earned their first win as the No. 2 doubles team, going 1-2.

Coach Dan Berg said the team needs to continue to work hard.

Works also played Monday at Independence, to make up for not playing last week. He went 4-0.

Iola travels to Pittsburg next Thursday.

Allen Community Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s softball team dropped a doubleheader to Johnson Thursday afternoon, losing 13-3 and 8-0.

In game one Allen trailed 8-0 heading into the bottom of the sixth, when the Red Devils struck for three runs. Cassidy Reynolds tallied an RBI double that scored Justine Dougan to give Allen its first run of the game. Ashley Womack then laced a double to left field, scoring Reynolds.

MyKenna Sharp-Hadl hit a fielderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice to score Womack.

Johnson responded

with five more runs in the top of the seventh.

Reynolds led the team with three hits, including a double and RBI. Dougan, Womack, Tristyn Delgado, Alana Renshaw, Baileigh Rager and Erika King each had a hit.

In game two, Allen lost 8-0 and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the offense working. The team finished with four hits. Renshaw, Rager, Emmy McManigal and Jordan Barber each tallied a hit.

ACC (11-16) hosts Fort Scott for a doubleheader at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Panthers best Red Devils in Thursday doubleheader Game features former members of Iola, Humboldt High teams

From left, Derrick Weir, Iola coach Mark Percy and Trent Latta pose for a photo last season after their final game as Mustangs. REGISTER FILE PHOTO

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up on the winning side in both, 7-6 and 12-2.

Former Iola High standout Derrick Weir started Allen with an RBI single to give the Red Devils an early 1-0 lead of Game 1.

The Panthers struck back with a six-run outburst. Iola native Levi Ashmore â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who played collegiately at Allen in 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; had a single and a run for Neosho in the frame.

Humboldt native Hunter Murrow led off Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second inning with a single. He came around to score on Ben Aslettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s RBI double, to start a four-run outburst. Jeremy Thomasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; three-run shot later in the frame cut the Panther lead to 6-5.

Fast forward to the sixth inning, Thomas hit an RBI double to drive in Aslett, and suddenly Allen was within 7-6.

Enter Whitcomb, who came on in relief to slam the door. Whitcomb struck out Weir to end the sixth, then pitched a 1-23 seventh â&#x20AC;&#x201D; capped by a strikeout of Murrow â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to pick up the save.

Neoshoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ashmore finished with two singles, a stolen base and an RBI. Whitcomb pitched 1 2/3 perfect innings of relief with three strikeouts.

Weir had a single and RBI. Murrow finished with a single and run scored. Thomas led Allen with two hits â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a home run and double â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for four RBIs. LATTA PICKED up the

baton in Game 2, and after a couple of early hiccups, shut down the Allen offense from there.

He improved to 5-2 by allowing just four hits in eight innings, with no walks and five strikeouts.

Ashmore again played a large role in the pivotal fifth inning, singling twice in the frame as the Panthers scored seven to break a 2-2 deadlock.

Allen scored single runs in both the first and second innings. Cameron Popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ground ball drove in Zach Bickling in the first inning. Jon Mitchellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solo shot in the top of the second put Allen on top 2-0.

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Softball Tuesday, vs. PRAIRIE VIEW (JV/V), 4:30 p.m.

Tennis Thursday, at Pittsburg Track Friday, at Parsons (V), 3:30 p.m.

Golf Tuesday, IOLA INVITATIONAL (JV), 3 p.m.

IMS Track Tuesday, IMS Unlimited Meet , 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, at Central heights IMS Golf Monday, at Pittsburg, 3 p.m.

Wednesday, IOLA GOLF INVITATIONAL, 3 p.m.

Humboldt Baseball Tuesday, at Burlington, 4:30 p.m.

Softball Tuesday, at Burlington, 4:30 p.m.

Track Thursday, at Eureka Golf Tuesday, at Burlington

Marmaton Valley Baseball Tuesday, at Northeast, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, vs. YATES CENTER, 4:30 p.m.

Softball Tuesday, at Northeast, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, vs. YATES CENTER, 4:30 p.m.

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Southern Coffey Co. Track Friday, at Lyndon

Yates Center Baseball Monday, at Neodesha, 4:30 p.m.

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Softball Monday, at Neodesha, 4:30 p.m.

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Josh Hamilton not disciplined NEW YORK (AP) — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton will not be disciplined

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MLB said Friday the decision was made by an arbitrator appointed under its joint drug program with the players’ association. MLB said in a statement it disagreed with the decision and will “seek to address deficiencies in the manner in which drugs of abuse are addressed under the program in the collective bargaining process.”

Hamilton, a five-time All-Star and the 2010 AL MVP, is subject to the treatment program for prior violations involving cocaine stretching back a decade.

He self-reported a new issue this year involving both cocaine and alcohol, a person familiar with the case said. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because those details were not made public.

MLB said it took “the position that Hamilton violated his treatment program and is subject to discipline by the commissioner.”

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Insanity Workout Classes, at the Recreation Community Building. Monday and Wednesday evenings beginning April 13; Tuesday and Thursday mornings beginning April 14.

Separate sessions, 6 weeks each. Register at the recreation office by April 10, ages 18 and older.

Youth Summer Ball Program, play baseball or softball on age division teams. Boys and girls, ages 4-14, by the appropriate cutoff date may participate. Register online or at the recreation office by April 17.

Kansas Old-Time Fiddlers, Pickers and Singers, 1-4 p.m.

Sunday, April 19, at the Bass Community Hall, all ages welcome.

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Baseball defines cocaine as a drug of abuse — which is covered by different rules than those for performanceenhancing drugs, such as steroids.

A four-person treatment board created by the joint drug program, which includes one lawyer and one medical representative each appointed by management and the players’ association, deadlocked 2-2 on whether Hamilton’s conduct was a violation of his treatment program and was subject to discipline. That created the need for an arbitrator to break the tie.

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Even before Max Scherzer, Bryce Harper and the rest of the ramped-up Washington Nationals hit the field for their first full-squad workout at spring training, they got the message.

There it was, printed across the top of a practice schedule posted in the clubhouse at Space Coast Stadium. Simple and direct, from manager Matt Williams.

“The road to the World Series begins today.”

A challenge? A prediction? A statement?

Or, perhaps, a rally cry from Wrigley Field to Fenway Park to Dodger Stadium. Because as Major League Baseball launches speed-up rules this year to cut the length of games, a lot of teams will be on the clock when the season begins Sunday night.

Throw in the return of Alex Rodriguez from a drug suspension, the possible reinstatement of Pete Rose — imagine the roar he’d get at the All-Star Game in Cincinnati — and fresh ideas pitched by new Commissioner Rob Manfred, and it’s a full plate going into opening day.

“There are so many plotlines unfolding, especially at the start of the year. It’s like a very meaty novel — people want to see how it’s going to turn out,” Toronto Blue Jays sage R.A. Dickey said.

Fans are in a hurry to take their seats. They just might need a little extra time at the ballparks to get through the metal detectors that are of enhanced security.

Chicago Cubs newcomer Jon Lester will throw the first pitch of the season, a Sunday night special against St. Louis.

Hope springs eternal all over, and now there’s a special kind of Chicago Hope. Credit that to a key free agent — wily, ol’ manager Joe Maddon.

The Cubs haven’t won the crown since 1908, before Wrigley was built.

As the fabled ballpark gets a renovation that

includes a giant, bright video board, the franchise is being refurbished, too.

“I always feel good vibes in baseball,” Maddon said.

The feeling is mutual across the big leagues.

From Cuba to Canada, from the Bay Area to the snow-besieged Northeast, great expectations abound.

Pablo Sandoval, Hanley Ramirez and the remade Boston Red Sox; Nelson Cruz with the run-starved Seattle Mariners; Jimmy Rollins and the Los Angeles Dodgers, with their $270 million payroll.

Hey, if Kansas City can come so close in the World Series — should Alex Gordon have tried to score in Game 7? — and Pittsburgh can blossom into a perennial playoff contender, then any club truly can reverse its fortunes.

“You look at what the Royals and Pirates have done,” Yankees veteran Carlos Beltran said.

“The success they’ve had, other teams want to emulate that. They inspired a lot of people to think, ‘This could be us.’

The Cubs, the Mets, the White Sox, more. Everybody has a chance.”

Count the Houston Astros in there. Not far removed from steady 100-loss seasons, they’re on the rise.

“The game of baseball is such an up and down game,” Astros catcher Jason Castro. “That’s why optimism plays such a role.”

No wonder Harper, after hearing his Nats had added Scherzer to their robust rotation, said he started laughing and thought: “Where’s my ring?”

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And then there were four: ­NCAA semis tonight INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — John Calipari has endeared himself to Big Blue Nation because he does what Wildcat fans demand — win.

He’s delivered a championship, competes annually for national titles.

Now he can immortalize himself in the eyes of Kentucky’s rabid fans by giving them something they’ve never had — an undefeated national championship.

And you can bet your last Bluegrass dollar that Indianapolis will be overwhelmingly blue with throngs flocking to see firsthand if their

Wisconsin (35-3). Fans of the Badgers, Duke and Michigan State no doubt have similar ideas and are known to travel just as well. unbeaten Wildcats can get two more wins at the Final Four.

Then again, they always are.

An estimated 10,000 turned out in Louisville for the Midwest regional and filled the lower bowl of the rival Cardinals’ home court — for practice. Yes, we’re talking about practice!

“I think they’re crazy,

but I’ve said it before,” Calipari said of his fan base. “They’re nuts. But it makes them what they are’” Friday’s open practice at 71,000-seat Lucas Oil Stadium leaves room for at least twice as many Wildcats fans to invade in hopes of giving Kentucky (38-0) a decided advantage in tonight’s Final Four rematch with

NEXT in the way of Kentucky’s perfect season: Frank the Tank and his fun-loving band of Wisconsin teammates.

Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky and the Badgers were so loose, they were giggling on the podium during their interviews Friday — answering questions about what they eat, how they slept and even what their

Hardwood legends an afterthought this time

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Any other year, this would probably be the premier matchup of the Final Four.

On one bench sits topseeded Duke and its record-setting coach, Mike Krzyzewski. On the other is upstart Michigan State and Tom Izzo, one of the finest coaches in the game come March.

But with overall No. 1 seed Kentucky chasing perfection against those loveable goofballs from Wisconsin, the opening game of tonight’s national semifinals has taken on an undercard feel — two of the game’s most tradition-rich programs kicking things off at Lucas Oil Stadium before a massive crowd and potentially recordsetting TV audience.

“We’ve been that way all year: overlooked, doubted the whole time,” said the Spartans’ Travis Trice, who Krzyzewski lauded as the biggest breakout star of this year’s NCAA Tournament.

“But we don’t really look like it like that,” Trice added, moments later. “If we win, people are going to be talking about us. We win a national championship, everybody will be talking.”

The seventh-seeded Spartans (27-11) have certainly come a long way since November, when they were routed by the Blue Devils (33-4) just down the street at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Freshman guard Tum Tum Nairn has replaced Bryn Forbes in the starting lineup, giving Michigan State a muchneeded shot of speed.

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“It’s just special. You can just feel it in the air now, how important it is, what it means to be here,” Jones said.

“Just look out and see how many seats are out there.”

Re Branden Dawson have learned to shoulder the leadership role. And just about everyone else has found their niche for a team that missed out on the Final Four a year ago, when everyone expected it to contend for the title.

“That was a devastating loss last year,” Izzo recalled Friday. “That’s what the beauty and the terror of the tournament is, you’ve got to play well six straight games to win.”

Relying on stingy defense, the Blue Devils have run roughshod through the opening two weeks of the tournament. Even when shots weren’t falling and All-American forward Jahlil Okafor was held in check by Utah and Gonzaga, Coach K’s bunch of bluebloods have been just fine.

That doesn’t mean there haven’t been potholes on the road to Indianapolis.

The Blue Devils went through a lull in January, losing to North Carolina State and getting pounded by Miami.

Junior guard Rasheed Sulaimon was booted from the team, the first player to be dismissed

by Krzyzewski in 35 seasons. And there were times when the trio of Okafor, Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow looked like wide-eyed freshmen rather than superstar prospects.

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Convertible tops wear out over time Dear Car Talk:

I recently had to put my older convertible into service during an extended rainy period when my regular car started acting up. The convertible top is original, with no tears, but it didn’t hold up well against the heavy rains, and water came into the interior. It got to the point where I started to experience some weird electronic problems.

Sounds were coming from my audio system even when the system was off. I immediately stopped using the car, pulled the battery cable and then covered the car with plastic, and left the windows cracked open.

The rain kept coming for days after that. Well, the rains have stopped for now, and I no longer hear the sounds, but I have what appears to be mold inside the car. How screwed am I? Would a professional interior detailing, if the detailer was given the facts, do the trick? Thanks.

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Ray Magliozzi bought one of my brother’s old cars. He used to have to shovel snow out of his convertibles in the winter.

Even though there are no visible tears in your convertible top, it’s no good anymore. You’re probably saying, “Duh!” about now.

But people don’t realize that old tops shrink over time and the rubber weatherstripping dries out. The cloth top itself even can become porous, and you’ll see drops of water seeping through.

So, if you’re really invested in this convertible, you need a new top.

And you may be surprised to find that it’s going to cost you a couple thousand bucks! But at least that’ll stop things from getting worse, which is always the first step in dealing with water damage.

I suppose if you’re not committed to this convertible for the long haul, the cheaper solution is to just get a car cover and never drive it in the rain. In fact, to remove any temptation to drive it on a day when it might rain, you might want to just remove the top entirely. Or put in a bad set of plug wires, so it won’t start in damp weather.

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2015: Baseball season opens Continued from B5

because youth is hopeful.”

So start with this: With Derek Jeter gone, who will reign as the face of the majors? Could be Andrew McCutchen, despite trimming his trademark dreadlocks. Or $325 million man Giancarlo Stanton or unanimous MVP Mike Trout or King Felix or ace Clayton Kershaw, provided he can overcome his October struggles.

Maybe the main man on Madison Avenue will be the MadBum himself, Madison Bumgar-

ner. That is, if his long left arm holds up after he threw 270 innings while becoming the World Series MVP and leading San Francisco to its third title in five years.

The Giants get a boost with the return of injured pitcher Matt Cain.

That’s a common theme, guys named Matt coming back from health woes — Harvey, Wieters, Moore. Plus, Prince Fielder, Jose Fernandez and Manny Machado are on the mend.

Several stars weren’t so lucky in spring training. Pitchers Yu Dar-

vish, Zack Wheeler, Marcus Stroman and Tim Collins already are lost for the season, Cliff Lee and Justin Verlander are ailing, and Kershaw is OK after being hit in the face by a line drive.

Giants sparkplug Hunter Pence is out for a while, his forearm broken by an errant pitch.

Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar missed 10 days and was hurt in a much different fashion — he strained his side when he sneezed.

“I was very upset that it got out and it became as big of a story as it was,” Pillar said.

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QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions ... and maybe a few actual answers

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1. Toyota can win

Part of me wants to worry, because kids that young shouldn’t pass out after an autograph session. But you can’t help but wonder how far we’ve come when a driver passes out on a Saturday and isn’t allowed to race on a Sunday. If these precautions had been in place back in NASCAR’s formative years, when plenty of the ol’ boys hit the deck on Saturday night, there would’ve been a lot of short fields on Sundays.

THINGS WE LEARNED AT MARTINSVILLE

It’s been a while since Team Toyota enjoyed the inside of Victory Lane — 32 Sprint Cup races, to be exact. Denny Hamlin was Toyota’s bookend. He won last May at Talladega and snapped Toyota’s dreadful skid Sunday at Martinsville. “Yeah, it’s a big win for Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota,” Hamlin said.

Is this maybe, just maybe, a sign of good things for Danica?

If you finish seventh at Martinsville, you did some good work, obviously. And since the GoDaddy/Danica Patrick contract apparently is sunset-bound, it’s only natural to assume a high-profile driver will find some speed in an effort to perhaps close the deal with a new sponsor. Strange coincidence, that one. But don’t get ahead of ourselves yet.

2. Harvick can lose

Nobody saw this coming. Kevin Harvick, who had not finished lower than second since November, fell hard — well, hard for Kevin Harvick — by finishing eighth in his freaky-fast No. 4 Chevy at Martinsville. As Harvick said, “It still was a good day.” Harvick remains the driver to beat on any given weekend.

3. Danica does it

Danica Patrick earned her fifth career top-10 finish, finishing seventh at Martinsville. Patrick’s finish was the best by a female at NASCAR’s oldest track. She is now tied with Janet Guthrie for the most top-10 Cup finishes by a female.

Danica’s still looking for her first topfive after 88 starts.

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It had been a while since a Toyota driver had felt the pitter-patter of confetti in Victory Lane, so Denny Hamlin’s win at Martinsville was equal parts celebration and relief.

THINGS TO WATCH FOR AT TEXAS

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1. Larson’s health

2. Jimmie’s jam

3. Gordon’s rebound

Kyle Larson fainted during an autograph session Saturday.

The 22-year-old driver was taken to the hospital, then lifted from the No. 42 Chevy for Sunday’s race. Keep your eyes on Kyle.

Texas Motor Speedway has always been good to Jimmie Johnson. He’s won a Cup race at the 1.5-mile track in each of the past three seasons.

All those wins came in the fall race.

After a rough start, Jeff Gordon has scored three consecutive top10 finishes. He’s the guy to watch as the Cup Series heads to the Lone Star State, with NASCAR via Getty Images/CHRIS GRAYTHEN one disclaimer: He only The Kyle Larson health watch will be a topic during has one win there.

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