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IHS students hold the grand march in high style, and interesting fashion The Iola High 2013 Grand March showcased students in their highest fashion Saturday evening before their prom. Attendees arrived in everything from stretch limousines to front-loaders and swing sets. Above, Morgan Wilson and Drew Smith ride in on their custom swing-set trailer. Above at right, Derrick Weir and Taylor Heslop are lowered to the sidewalk on a front loader. Lower right, Gerardo Rojas and Emerald Rook coast in on bicycles. Lower left, Emma Piazza and Colton Schubert strut their stuff on the walkway.
One dead, two injured in crash By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com
Richard Sigg, 59, Carlyle, died in a traffic accident three miles south of Girard Saturday afternoon. Iolans Raymond Sutterby, 62, and David Redfern, 66, were passengers in Sigg’s vehicle, and suffered serious injuries. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Sigg was westbound on a county road and drove onto K-7, a second-
ary route from Girard to Pittsburg and towns to the south, when his 1963 Studebaker collided with a Dodge DaRichard Sigg kota pickup truck driven by Shawn Adam Garbin, 39, Girard. Redfern was flown by helicopter from the accident scene
to Freeman Hospital in Joplin. Sutterby and Garbin were taken by ambulance to Via Christi Hospital, Pittsburg. Sutterby then was transferred to Freeman. According to Dayton Sutterby, Raymond, his father, suffered broken ribs and a fractured vertebrae in his neck, which has him wearing a stabilizing collar. “He has a lot of cuts and abrasions and is being se-
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Boston tries for normalcy BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombings supect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remained hospitalized and unable to speak today with a gunshot wound to the throat, and the 19--year old was expected to be charged by federal authorities and face state charges in connection with the fatal shooting of university police officer Sean Collier. Seven days after the Boston Marathon bombings, the city planned to mark the traumatic week with mournful silence and a return to its bustling commute. Authorities on Friday had made the unprecedented request that residents stay at home during the manhunt for suspect Tsarnaev. He was discovered that evening hiding in a boat covered by a tarp in suburban Watertown. His older brother Tamerlan was earlier killed during a furious getaway attempt. “It’s surreal,” said Barbara Alton, as she walked her dog along Newbury Street. “But I feel like things are starting to get back to normal.”
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Honorees at Saturday’s Red Devil Diamond Club Hall of Fame ceremonies were, from left, Duane Wales, Richard Weisensee Sr., father of Rich Weisensee Jr., “Rocket” Rod Rush, Joe Haynes, Val McLean and Richard Thomas.
Red Devil elite have their day By RICHARD LUKEN richard@iolaregister.com
A handful of the greatest ball players to ever suit up for Allen Community College’s baseball team were honored with laughs, recollections and a few tears Saturday evening. The second annual Red Devil Diamond Club Hall of Fame ceremonies featured the induction of former ACC superstars Rich Weisensee, “Rocket” Rod Rush, Duane Wales and Richard Thomas; Joe Haynes, the school’s first baseball coach; and Val McLean, who has coached Allen for the past 37 years and is the winningest active coach in NJCAA with more than 1,100 wins. Charles Krupa/Boston Herald/MCT
A gathering applauds as police leave the scene of the arrest of a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Mass., on Friday. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has asked residents to observe a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m. Monday, the time the first of the two bombs exploded near the finish line. Bells will ring across the city and state after the minutelong tribute to the victims. Vol. 115, No.124
Many Boston residents were heading back to workplaces and schools for the first time since a dramatic week came to an even more dramatic end. Traffic was building on major arteries into the city toSee BOSTON | Page A4
SPEECHES WERE frequently light-hearted, with several moments of poignancy, particularly when Iolan Mark Percy, a former high school teammate of Weisensee, spoke about the late shortstop. Weisensee died in March following a yearlong battle with leukemia. Percy, who coaches Iola High’s baseball team, talked about Weisensee’s prowess on the baseball diamond — “I
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don’t know how he did it, but he could just flick the ball out there, and always make contact,” he said — as well as his skills on the football field and basketball court. But as good as Weisensee was as an athlete, he was an even better man. He respected his elders, to the point that Percy recalled one afternoon when Weisensee stopped by his house to pay a visit. Percy’s father, Glenn, met Weisensee at the front door as the youngster asked to talk with Mark. “I’m sorry, he’s not here right now,” Percy recalled his father saying, just as the two youths made eye contact through the door. Rather than raise a fuss, Weisensee simply answered a respectful “OK,” and turned to leave before the elder Percy assured him it was a joke. “Rich was respectful enough that if my father said I wasn’t there, it meant I wasn’t there,” Percy said. Weisensee starred at Allen in 1977 and 1978, setting a numSee ACC | Page B3
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