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HISTORIC ECLIPSE AHEAD Myer shares tips on safe viewing
“We’ll be in class on Aug. 21 (a Monday) and I’m sure all our kids (500 or so at Royster, Chanute) will have an op-
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 209,000 jobs in July, a second straight month of robust gains that underscore the economy’s vitality as it enters a ninth year of expansion. The unemployment rate slipped to 4.3 percent from 4.4 percent, matching a 16year low first reached in May, the Labor Department said Friday. But growth in Americans’ paychecks — a persistent weak spot since the recovery began in June 2009 — remains stubbornly slow. Average hourly pay rose by 2.5 percent from a year earlier, the same tepid annual pace as in June. That’s below the 3.5 percent to 4 percent that is typical when the unemployment rate is this low. Still, the hiring data points to a healthy economy despite some mixed signals in recent weeks. Employers appear to be optimistic about their businesses and future consumer demand. The solid job
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By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Shannon Bogle squirmed — mentally if not physically — when Mike Myer declared: “Don’t look directly at the sun” early the afternoon of Aug. 21 when 95 percent coverage of its eclipse may be seen locally. He explained doing so at any point of the eclipse — at any time, period — could permanently damage a person’s eyes, during a presentation at Iola Public Library. The eclipse will be the first of totality visible throughout the United States since 1918. Several others have occurred more recently but have been viewable only in parts of the country. Included is one a few years ago that drew Myer to west Texas and provided a canvas for several vivid photographs. Myer, Humboldt, is an avocational astronomer and professional photographer,
Mike Myer uses cardboard, aluminum foil and paper to show how to watch Aug. 21’s solar eclipse without looking directly at the sun. Myer spoke about the significance of the upcoming eclipse during a program Tuesday at the Iola Public Library. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON two pursuits that have him eagerly awaiting the eclipse. “I’ve been looking forward to it ever since I found about it 25 years ago.” Bogle teaches sixth-grade
science at Royster Middle School in Chanute and came to hear Myer to give herself a headstart in preparations for her students to view the event.
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Farm-City Days button features Hawk’s artistry By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Iola’s own Gary Hawk is lending a hand to this year’s Farm-City Days celebration. Hawk, whose art has drawn global acclaim for more than half a century, allowed use of one of his paintings for the 2017 Farm-City Days button sales and medallion hunt. The buttons depict Hawk’s
painting “Pickin’ A Winner,” showing a county fair judge closely eyeing a youngster’s Holstein, presumably at a county fair of some sort. “We knew we wanted to have some sort of farm theme for this year’s button,” noted Aaron Franklin, Farm-City Days Committee chairman. “We’re honored to have Gary Hawk allow us to use one of his
ACE OF BASE Noah Johnson
Joining the front lines of patient care, research By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
The concrete flooring of what will become G&W Foods was poured Friday, with crews from Grimmett Construction, Emporia, using riding floats to smooth the surface of the 17,000foot grocery store. Wall construction will begin Monday. The project is slated to be completed by the end of November, weather permitting. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
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It’s impressive in a small town like Humboldt, Kansas, where the pinnacle institutions of higher education are thought to be K-State and KU, to find a high-schooler whose horizons are a great deal broader, and whose biography has already put him in contact with two of this country’s elite universities. The summer after his sophomore year Noah Johnson was invited to attend a leadership program at the Univer-
sity of California-Berkeley. The program was intended for teens interested in pursuing a career in medicine. It combined lectures and group study with hands-on fieldwork at an area hospital. Last month the incoming HHS senior completed a similar program, this time in “advanced medicine,” at Johns Hopkins. JOHNSON — a straight-A student, whose warmth, intelligence and self-possession would seem beyond his 17 years — exhibited an early See JOHNSON | Page A6
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