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The Weekender Saturday, April 26, 2014
Movement inspires healthy lifestyles
Union mulls tenure lawsuit
By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
inception that hasn’t been seen in 40 years. Toland described the process, “like peeling an onion.” Toland and Smith are discovering something new behind every wall torn down. “Over the years it was easier to cover up problems than fix them,” Toland said. Toland said the first major project that they plan on doing is recreating the marquee. That will cost $35,000. Dick Houston, the guest speaker and native of Ashtabula, Ohio, happened to be in town for the Safari Film Festival at the Martin
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas National Education Association officials said Thursday that the state’s largest teachers union might consider a lawsuit to determine if the state can take away tenure rights of teachers. At issue is a provision in a school funding measure signed Monday by Gov. Sam Brownback. While increasing funding for public education, the measure also reduces the due process rights of teachers if they are fired by a school district. KNEA officials told the Lawrence Journal-World that the only recourse might be to challenge the new law in court once a tenured teacher is fired. The KNEA considers the tenure process a right that teachers have earned after working for at least three years in a district. “We are looking at challenges on a variety of levels, and that is one of them: whether the Legislature can, by fiat, take away an earned property right,” said Mark Disetti, the KNEA’s director of legislative and political advocacy. Brownback signed the bill, which increases school district funding by $129 million to satisfy a March 7 state Supreme Court ruling in a lawsuit filed by school districts and parents in
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It’s never too late to start living a healthy lifestyle. Thrive Allen County wants to get people up and moving this year. Thrive is sponsoring the sixth annual Movement, a county-wide eight week healthy initiative. The Movement focuses on physical activity and nutrition to motivate individuals in the community to eat better and create more movement in their lives. Registration is April 29 to May 2, said Damaris Kunkler, program director for Thrive Allen County, as well as anytime throughout the eight weeks. Participants can sign up individually or as a team. Signups are at Moran City Hall, Thrive Allen County and Terry’s Flower Shop in Humboldt. “You don’t have to have a team to sign up,” Kunkler said. “We encourage anyone who is interested to join.” Registration costs $12 and participants get a T-shirt, information folders and access to all the classes. There will be a Movement kick-off event on May 5 at the Iola High School track where participants can weigh in. “We will take registration and give out T-shirts that day,” Kunkler said. “We will walk around the track and
Guest speaker Dick Houston spoke at the Iola Theatre Thursday night. David Toland and Jim Smith purchased the theater about a year and half ago. The two men want to bring the theater back to its former glory. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON
Theater exhibits potential By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register
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wners David Toland and Jim Smith opened up the Iola Theatre for a public tour and to hear guest speaker, Dick Houston, Thursday night. Toland, 36, and Smith, 68, are renovating the theater, 203 S. Washington, to return it to its original 1930s art deco style. The theater was built in 1931 and originally had a seating capacity for 980. Toland said they want to make the theater into a not-
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for-profit where they can host multiple events. He wants it to be a multipurpose venue for movies, live music and high school reunions. “The movies we’d show would be like ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ during Christmas,” Toland said. “They’re going to be seasonal.” Toland and Smith bought the theater about a year and a half ago to save it from being torn down. The tour of the theater showed that the renovation is in its beginning phases. Torn down walls inside the main auditorium show original murals from the theaters
Weather or not
Rainfall, ag’s lifeblood, varies across county
By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Hop, skip and jump McKinley Elementary second grader Zoey Lyons, jumps through part of an obstacle course Thursday afternoon. The course was part of the Food and Field Olympics. K-State Research and Extension taught a nutrition class to Allen County elementary second grade students during the school year. Students tested their food knowledge and exercised in the McKinley gym. REGISTER/ KAYLA BANZET
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Moisture is the most significant ingredient in agriculture, and today there’s a wide disparity in Allen County. In the northwest part generous amounts of rain have fallen in the past month, while along its southern border pasture grass is next to dormant and pond levels are starting to fall. The Register checked in with three farmers — Dale Daniels, southeast of Humboldt; Dick Sutherland, in the Iola area; Dave Bedenbender, in the northwest corner. Drier weather has permitted Daniels to get all of his corn in and he did it late enough a heavy frost early the morning of April 15 didn’t have an effect. “It’s all up,” Daniels said, with most having put on two leaves, but he hasn’t yet seen a third. Third-leaf stage indicates the root system is maturing. Daniels finished planting corn about April 10 and has
not had to replant. “Some around here was up when we got the freeze and I saw some that was laid down to the ground, but it’s come back,” he said, noting that
While corn is up and growing, “we still need a good rain before long,” Daniels said. “Some of the ponds are starting to drop and the pastures aren’t growing, not even the
Some corn around here was up when we got the freeze and I saw some that was laid down to the ground, but it’s come back.
— Dale Daniels, farmer
soil temperature was high enough to prevent invasive freezing that would have affected root systems. Daniels’ only weather concern at the moment is forecast of a short cold spell late this coming week. The National Weather Service predicts nighttime lows of 40 degrees. Temperatures would have to dip well into the 30s to pose any danger.
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fescue,” a cool-season grass. Thursday’s rainfall totaled about .65 of an inch in south Allen, a bit of a blessing but not nearly enough. Dick Sutherland said his and other farmers’ corn in the Iola area was in the ground, up and growing. “Some of it came up uneven,” because of weather conditions, “but you couldn’t See CORN | Page A4
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