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The Weekender Saturday, November 5, 2016
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Immersed in history By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Reading festival celebrates mystery For those seeking to escape the slings and arrows of politics on the final weekend before the presidential election, today’s Iola Family Reading Festival promises its attendees a full day of bipartisan fun. The festival, which Stephen Gilpin comes along only every two years, attracts celebrated writers, illustrators and booksellers from across the country to the campus of Allen Community College. This year’s theme pays homage to the mystery genre — think private eyes and femme fatales, slatted blinds and frosted glass; think Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Elmore Leonard — a subject that will be plumbed at length by ACC drama instructor Tony Piazza in his keynote lecture, “Mystery Books to Movies.” Piazza will take the podium at 11 a.m. in the college library. Another Iolan (at least by birth), children’s book
illustrator Stephen Gilpin, will open the festival with a reading and discussion at 10 a.m. Gilpin is the awardwinning illustrator of Tony Piazza “What to Do When You’re Sent to Your Room” and the pen behind the popular “Fart Squad” series. In a nearby room, at the same time, Scott M o r r o w John E. Miller Johnson will be discussing his newly published biography of legendary KU basketball coach Phog Allen. “Phog: The Most Influential Man in Basketball” was coauthored by the subject’s granddaughter, Judy Allen Morris. Johnson, who grew up in Minnesota and lives in Seattle, counts himself a lifelong Jayhawk fan. Gilpin and Johnson will
Over the next year Adam Morrell is going to be mighty busy — and he’ll love every minute of it. Morrell, a 2010 graduate of Iola High School, has accepted a one-year position as an historical archivist for the Parris Island Museum in South Carolina. The one-year assignment is an arrangement between Advanced Global Resources, Dallas, where Morrell works, and the museum. His responsibility will be archiving nearly 4,000 artifacts and documents from the Marine Corps — Parris Island is a Marine training center — and Native American history. Already he has catalogued Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s World War II letters and a U.S. flag from the Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal during WWII. The museum is a 10,000-square-foot exhibit facility on the Marine Corps See HISTORY | Page A5
Among items Adam Morrell has archived at the Parris Island Marine Corps Museum is this flag Marines flew during the WWII battle on Guadalcanal. COURTESY PHOTO
Free potatoes available today Calvary United Methodist Church is hosting a potato drop today starting at 2 p.m. With the help of the Allen County Community Food Pantry and the Iola Area Ministerial Association, Calvary members will hand out for free 150 10-pound bags of potatoes on a first-come, first-serve basis. Another 500 pounds will be donated to the Community Pantry for distribution during regular business hours.
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Undecideds still out there, still conflicted By NANCY BENAC The Associated Press
Jim Frye shows off the pile of aluminum cans he has collected since July. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Recycling drive to benefit veterans By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
YATES CENTER — For the past four months, Jim Frye has collected aluminum cans with zeal. Seven days a week (weather permitting) Frye is darting about to and fro. His personal can drive will benefit local veterans, explained Frye, who served the Navy in his younger years until he was felled by a back
injury. Frye plans to take the cans — 22,000 and counting — to a recycling center in January, then donate the proceeds to the Woodson County American Legion post. A gift card in the amount of the monetary donation will then be handed over to a local veteran to help with food, clothing or household item purchases. The recipient will not be chosen until the money is do-
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nated, Frye said. “We’re really hoping the price of aluminum rebounds between now and then,” he said, noting he’s found centers buying cans between 37 to 56 cents a pound. Frye estimates his collection weighs around 1,100 pounds. “I’ve walked pretty much every country road around here,” he said. See CANS | Page A6
WASHINGTON (AP) — After all the sound, fury, fact, fallacy, bluster and blarney of the 2016 presidential campaign, there still are undecided voters out there. Really. And they’re not just people who’ve buried their heads in the sand. Some thoughtful people just do not know what to do with the choices they’ve been given, yet are determined to exercise their right to vote. “I’m just really trying to completely think this through,” says Peter Schroeder, a fulltime student and tech startup worker in Erie, Pennsylvania. “I have a mail-in ballot and I change my mind every day about what I should do,” says Lori Perez, a stay-athome mom in Lehi, Utah. “Let me have a moment of silence to think about this, OK?” asks Moshe Sherizen, a digital marketer from Southfield, Mich. Polls suggest the undecideds make up a small slice of the electorate — perhaps just 2 percent at this late date.
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The campaigns have largely them written off, placing their emphasis instead on boosting turnout among the much larger bloc of voters they’ve already identified as supporters. But in a close race, the undecideds still could be decisive, especially since pollsters say they’re more likely to cast ballots if they live in competitive states than in noncompetitive ones. Spend some time talking to undecided voters and a clear theme of dissatisfaction quickly emerges. “It’s not a choice between two goods,” says Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducts focus groups. “It’s a choice between two deplorables, from their point of view.” Texan Danielle Inman, who works for a cellular provider, shows the conflicting emotions that are roiling undecided voters, who See VOTERS | Page A8
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