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Monday, May 4, 2020
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Storms sweep through area
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Trump says virus could kill 100,000
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Gym, salon owners voice frustration By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As many Kansas shops and restaurants prepare to reopen for the first time since the coronavirus shutdown, the owners of bars, salons and some other types of businesses are wondering why they must still keep their doors closed. Gov. Laura Kelly is lifting a statewide stay-athome order effective today as part of a gradual step to reopen the state’s economy, allowing certain nonessential businesses, including dine-in restaurants and retail shops, to open. But her plan prohibits bars, gyms, theaters, barbershops, hair and nail salons or state-owned casinos from opening until at least May 18. Eric Fisher employs 100 hairdressers in Wichita.
At top left, Bryan and Alisha Clay proudly display the enormous tree that landed on their house after it was uprooted during a sudden storm on Sunday morning. The Clays had been living in the home on North Third Street for only a month. Both were born and raised in Iola. Alisha Clay said that when the tree fell, it sounded like “the ceiling caving in.” The Clays plan to continue staying in the house, despite some broken rafters and water damage caused by more than half a dozen holes in the roof. At top right, a large cottonwood tree was toppled onto a carport and van owned by Connie Buller of Piqua. At middle right, the storm, with wind gusts in excess of 75 mph, approaches LaHarpe. At lower left, a crew of volunteers helped clean up several yards in Piqua following the storm. At lower right, electric crews do repairs in Piqua. In Iola, electric crews were on duty for more than 13 hours to restore electric service in some parts of town. PHOTOS BY TREVOR HOAG AND RICHARD LUKEN
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Crossings: Crossed leaves and Cross Timbers
On the back half of the tree trail, hides a sandstone overhang that’s been converted into a shelter for hikers and campers. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG
No sooner had I descended the sandstone staircase leading to the ancient tree trail at Cross Timbers State Park near Toronto Point, than a white-tailed doe erupted from the undergrowth and set to crashing through the forest. Like the name implies — though no one is for sure — this is a place of crossing-through. I watched as she explosively kicked her hind legs and bright tail into the air, not weightlessly, but as if she’d been catapulted via some sort of natural machine. It was my first signal to stop and take in the surroundings, rigorously hesitate and study the forest now engulfing
Trevor Hoag Just Prairie me on all sides. Here, a fern. There, a moss-covered rock. Few flowers. Innumerable saplings. One could learn the name and nature of one thing a day, and barely finish in a lifetime. First on my list were two of the deciduous standouts on this arboreal island in the Chautauqua Hills, as it stretches north from Texas through Oklahoma: the post
oak (Quercus stellata) and the blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica). You can tell them apart by their leaves. Post oaks have five distinct shapes that look somewhat like a cross or star (“stellata” roughly means “star” in Latin, based on hairs that grow on the bottom of leaves), whereas blackjacks have three shapes that look somewhat like a bell. Post oaks and blackjacks both grow acorns, which in turn are eaten by deer and turkeys, but post oaks reproduce more quickly, in their first summer, as opposed to See CROSSINGS | Page A4
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