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THE IOLA REGISTER Monday, April 28, 2014

Many hands make light work

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By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

Lesley Skahan takes a step back from helping with playground construction. She looks at volunteers lifting heavy equipment and a smile appears on her face. “I can’t believe this is hap-

pening,” Skahan, leader of Mothers of Miracles said. “I just can’t wait to see it get done.” After months of planning, fundraising and dreaming, the MOMs can now breathe a sigh of relief. On Saturday, hundreds of volunteers flocked to Riverside Park to help make a playground for

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children with special needs a reality. The construction was originally planned for April 5 but due to hard rain that week the construction was put on hold. The group had planned to work Saturday and Sunday but the weather pushed the See PLAYGROUND | Page A4

The paper trail

Newspapers, magazines find new purpose By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Young authors Professional illustrator Ard Hoyt shows local students how he draws for children’s books. Hoyt and author Peter Lerangis were this year’s Young Authors designees. The two talked about their careers to area elementary and middle school students on Friday and Saturday. COURTESY PHOTO/ GLENN McMILLAN

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Iola Rotary Club paper drives have led to recycling of almost 500,000 pounds of newspapers and magazines in the last five years through Central Fiber, Wellsville. Tim Russell, plant manager, told Rotarians Thursday the company recycles about 100,000 pounds of paper a day, converting it to insulation, industrial fiber and erosion control material. The plant has capacity to process more than 200,000 pounds a day. Insulation, with fire retardant added, often is used in older houses and is blown into walls and above ceilings. Industrial fiber finds its way into everyday use as binding material for chalking, paint, felt paper and asphalt. Much of the material

is beings sold in Texas, Russell noted, where it is added to asphalt. Fiber also is sold in Mexico and Central American countries, where it is radiated and then used as bedding and in other associations with livestock to eradicate screw worms, whose larvae (maggots) eat the flesh of warmblooded animals. Screw worms mainly are found in the tropics. Paper recycled into fiber also goes to control erosion along newly constructed highways and at landfills. Allen County cooperates with Iola Rotarians by furnishing four highway transport trailers, filled here and taken to Wellsville by county trucks. The county returns with erosion-control fiber for use at its landfill. Russell pointed out that

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a half inch of slurry made with the fiber — with the consistency of runny oatmeal — did the same as six inches of dirt in covering the landfill waste. It is sprayed over the top of the landfill. “That adds another 5½ inches of space to the landfill each day,” he said. The second advantage to the county is keeping spaceconsuming paper out of the landfill. Central Fiber pays $70 a ton for paper, a price that has been stable for about four years, Russell said. That puts money in pockets of non-profit groups in Allen County. The local paper drives are about every six weeks and draw from a wide area, including churches and organizations that pick up bundles from individual

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