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The bee’s knees:
Interest in beekeeping sees rise in SEK By KAREN INGRAM The Iola Register
Saundra Upshaw, left, and Paul Upshaw will participate in the Relay for Life on Friday night. The event has been moved from the square to the IHS gym. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
Relay special for cancer survivor By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
Friday night hundreds will meet at Iola High School to raise awareness and money for cancer research at the Relay for Life event. During that time cancer survivors and those who lost their battle to cancer will be honored. The relay has been moved
to the high school due to rainy weather conditions in the forecast. Laura Vogel, survivor chair, said there are 80 survivors planning to attend. One of those survivors will be Iolan Paul Upshaw. Last July Upshaw, 72, became very ill and paid a visit to the doctor. He and his wife Saundra were sent to Overland Park to Menorah Medi-
cal Center to find a solution. It was there he was diagnosed with B-Cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “At first they couldn’t decide what to do,” Paul said. “The doctors started me on a small dosage of chemo.” Dr. Joseph Stilwill, Paul’s oncologist, started him on a treatment that lasted four days at a time.
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A new organization to support and educate beekeepers is forming with plans to hold their first meeting this month. Anne Meats, Pittsburg, co-founded the Heartland Beekeepers Association of Southeast Kansas with friend and neighbor Linda Russell. They had split off of a larger group in Missouri, the Joplin Area Beekeepers Association. “It was getting too big, and we’ve got a bit of a problem finding a place to meet because of the room capacity,” Meats explained. “We average 70 to 100 members at every meeting.” The Heartland Beekeepers Association of Southeast Kansas will meet at 1 p.m. June 21 in 102 Yates Hall on the Pittsburg State University campus. Meats said this corner of the state is underserved by beekeeping associations and that she hoped to draw
at least 20 people to the first meeting. They expect to see mostly backyard or hobbyist beekeepers, or people who are considering becoming beekeepers. The Joplin group was very good at providing educational programs for new and novice beekeepers and they hope to continue that tradition, Meats said. Robert Moore of Hawley Honey Company, 220 N. Elm St., Iola, said this is a good area for a beekeeping organization. He agreed the area was lacking. Moore said there was an organization in Iola many years ago, but it died off. Now, they have seen a recent surge in interest, especially among younger people and families. This especially strikes a chord with Moore because it’s how he got started. After he got married years ago, he accepted a job at Hawley with his father-in-law, Raymond Cooper. Working together at Hawley for years See BEES | Page A5
Day of Giving helps area organizations By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
The Day of Giving on Saturday will help out dozens of area organizations and programs with monetary donations. Each organization is participating for different reasons. Rhonda Dewitt, director for the area’s Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas, said she hoped the day will draw attention to the organization’s needs and purpose. “A big part of our participation is letting people know about us,” Dewitt said. “We haven’t been promoted in the Allen and Neosho County area for awhile.”
Dewitt said she hopes to get more people interested in becoming members of the club. “We are always looking for more children and volunteers for the program,” she said. The program pairs adult mentors with youths who could benefit from additional positive role models. Circles of Allen County is a grant-funded program in Iola that helps people in poverty. Georgia Masterson, program director, said she must be very specific on how the money will be used. “There are other needs for Circles that aren’t met See GIVING | Page A5
Soaked
A torrential downpour dumped 3 inches of rain on Iola in a 30-minute span this morning, filling Coon Creek nearly to its edges and flooding several nearby low-lying streets. Here, a pair of motorists venture through high water along East Monroe Street. The rainy weather isn’t likely to leave anytime soon. Forecasts call for thunderstorms through the weekend. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Veterans flock to Normandy to remember D-Day COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Ceremonies to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day are drawing thousands of visitors to the cemeteries, beaches and stone-walled villages of Normandy this week, including some of the few remaining survivors of the largest seaborne invasion ever mounted. World leaders and dignitaries including President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II will gather to honor the more than 150,000 American, British, Canadian
and other Allied D-Day veterans who risked and gave their lives to defeat Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. For many visitors, the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial with its 9,387 white marble tombstones on a bluff overlooking the site of the battle’s bloodiest fighting at Omaha Beach is the emotional centerpiece of pilgrimages to honor the tens of thousands of men killed on D-Day and the months of fighting afterward. D-Day veteran Clair Martin, 93, said he’s come back
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to Omaha Beach three times in the last 70 years — “four if you count the time they were shooting at me.” The San Diego, California resident landed on D-Day with the 29th Infantry Division and said he kept fighting until he reached the Elbe River in Germany the following April. “I praise God I made it and that we’ve never had another World War,” he said. Ceremonies large and small are taking place across Normandy, ahead of an international summit on Fri-
day in Ouistreham, a small port that was the site of a strategic battle on D-Day. French President Francois Hollande’s decision to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to participate in the official ceremony despite his exclusion from the G-7 summit in Brussels is being seen by some as justified recognition of the Soviet Union’s great sacrifice in defeating Hitler, but by others as a distraction given the West’s dispute with Russia over Ukraine. With many D-Day veterans
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now in their 90s, this year’s anniversary has the added poignancy of being the last time that many of those who took part in the battle will be able to make the long journey back to Normandy and tell their stories. “Three minutes after landing a mortar blew up next to me and I lost my K-rations,” said Curtis Outen, 92, of Pageland, South Carolina. Outen, making his first return to Normandy since the war, related the loss of his military-issued meal packet See DDAY | Page A5
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