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The REACH Healthcare Foundation does more than provide grants for health care initiatives in Allen and the Kansas City area counties it serves, Brenda Sharpe, its president and chief executive officer, told Rotarians Thursday.

REACH also is active in promoting healthy living and currently is encouraging Kansas legislators to accept federal support to provide Medicaid coverage.

Kansas has turned its back on 100 percent payment of Medicaid for adults for a three-year period, provided for in the Affordable Care Act. Reimbursement would drop only a smidgen to 90 percent in the fourth year

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REACH extends to local efforts

By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregiser.com

RACING

Humboldt hosts Memorial Day event

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A fitting tribute

and beyond.

“We’re trying to educate legislators,” Sharpe said, allowing that their concern about ongoing costs is unfounded.

“It wouldn’t cost Kansas, rather would save money,” she observed.

The poor, the lion’s share of those uninsured and eligible for Medicaid, turn to emergency room treatment when they become ill, rather than visit a private doctor who would charge for services. Hospitals are obligated to treat whoever comes to emergency rooms, which in their case often leads to uncompensated services and higher costs for other patients and their insurance companies.

Members of the Iola City Band, above from left, Dan Johnson, Mary Ann Regehr, Judy Zirjacks, Emily Klubek and Andy Dunlap, sound their trumpets for “America the Beautiful,” during Memorial Day ceremonies Monday morning in Highland Cemetery. Bill Shirley, left, former Iola mayor and longtime school administrator, delivered the Memorial Day address. Shirley bemoaned what he saw as a lost connection to the military. “All too many Americans view military service as an abstraction, as images seen on television and in movies,” he said. Soldiers need to spread the word of their service so others “understand the importance of our history and the importance of the Army,” he said. “We need to act to help re-connect the American people to the American soldier. If you are a veteran, share your own stories. Emphasize the relationship between the nation’s values and the core values of our military.” Shirley gave special recognition to several longtime area veterans and auxiliary members including Robert Lane, Alfred Link and Wanda Lytle, who were all at the ceremony.

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Bideau: Bloodied, but not beaten Iola placed on

EPA priority list

By SUSAN LYNN susan@iolaregister.com

Rep. Ed Bideau collapsed in the chair proffered late Friday afternoon, weariness evident on his brow.

“It’s been a long, frustrating week,” he said. Bideau stopped by the Register on his way home to Chanute as day 91 of the Legislature wrapped up for the Memorial Day weekend.

In his second stint as a state representative of the 9th District, Bideau was able to give some perspective as to why the politics of today are so embattled. Bideau previously served from 1985 to 1988.

The biggest difference in legislatures of today is that taxes are figured first, followed by the programs necessary to run the state, instead of vice versa.

“We go back and forth, which should go first, the budget or the taxes,” Bideau said.

Legislators have made it particularly hard on themselves by having a Pay-Go legislature where any additional expense must be offset by a reduction elsewhere. Both the House and Senate have adopted the measure that can only

By STEVEN SCHWARTZ steven@iolaregister.com

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Rep. Ed Bideau, at right, earlier this year in Humboldt with Paul Finney. be overruled by a two-thirds majority of both houses.

Compromise is also in short supply, Bideau said, because of the nature of how laws are currently passed.

“Today, the budget comes to us as one big, omnibus deal,” he said. “You vote yes or no.

There’s no discussing different elements of the package.”

Time was, separate issues and their needs were debated.

Education, law enforcement, social services, and transpor-

tation — each had their separate budgets to be worked out and then recommended to a house.

Today, legislators not serving on those specific subcommittees have little knowledge of their final makeup, Bideau said. And once the House or Senate passes a bill, it’s out of the hands of individual legislators.

“When the House and Senate pass a bill, it then goes to

Iola has been placed on the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priority List, which opens up Superfund monies for cleanup of ground contamination in the area.

The lead contamination is left from the former United Zinc & Associated Smelters sites from the early 1900s.

The Iola City Council voted in favor of being considered for placement on the list in 2012.

The EPA has been conducting soil testing on area residences, completing 1,686 tests. The placement of the NPL will allow for tests on 1,400 additional properties.

They have received 79 deni-

als from homeowners.

“We knew there was a process to go through,” City Administrator Carl Slaugh said. “We’ve known about the contamination for the past 100 years, why not just get it done.”

While testing simply consists of “one or two teaspoons worth of soil,” the removal of contaminated soil involves taking off several inches of topsoil.

“It’s going to be a painful process,” Slaugh said. But, the contamination does create a slight hazard for children who may put dirt in their mouth. Lead poisoning can cause developmental problems in adolescents.

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Insurers prep for exchange

By JIM McCLEAN KHI News Service

TOPEKA — Kansas insurance companies are preparing to sell a range of health plans on a new, online insurance exchange being created by the federal government in an effort to make coverage more available to the thousands of people who have struggled to obtain it.

The Affordable Care Act,

often called “Obamacare,” requires the new health insurance marketplaces to be up and running in every state

by October, with the coverage sold through them effective on Jan. 1. But large numbers of Americans who stand to benefit most from the exchanges still know little to nothing about the law or how it will affect them, according to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Anyone will be able to use the online marketplaces to Vol. 115, No.150

purchase health coverage, but they are being created mostly to make private coverage more affordable for the uninsured and individual policies more widely available to those who don’t have access to group coverage through an employer.

“It’s going to create new opportunities for people who don’t have any insurance at all,” said Andy Corbin, chief executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, the state’s largest private health insurer.

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Golden boy

Humboldt’s Tanner McNutt wins the 800-meter dash at the state track meet Saturday — one of his three gold medals.

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Obituaries Lyle Leo Miller, 94, Richmond, passed away on Thursday, May 23, 2013, at Golden Heights in Garnett.

Mass of Christian burial will be at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday at St. Boniface Catholic Church, Scipio, burial

Velma Hartman

Velma Louise Hartman, 84, Columbus, died Friday, May 24, 2013, at Mercy Maude Norton Hospital in Columbus, following an illness.

Velma was born July 30, 1928 in Iola, the daughter of Arthur and Alma (Fine) Conner.

Born and raised in Iola, Velma was a graduate of Iola High School. She later became a nurse and worked at Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Olathe, where she made her home for many years. She later retired to LaHarpe, and lived her final years in Columbus, to be near family.

In December of 1943 Velma married Billy Dean Johnson Sr. in Iola.

On Nov. 20, 1965, Velma married John William Hartman in Iola. He survives at the home.

Velma was of the Christian faith; she loved her grandkids, family, flowers, crocheting and last but not least, her cat.

Survivors include her children Gloria (Johnson) Brown, Kansas City, Mo., and Alan L. Johnson and wife Rosemary of Columbus; daughterin-law Judy Johnson of Independence; grandchildren Kim (Brown) Beecher, Kris Brown, Bridget (Johnson) Golay and husband Kevin, Brandi (Johnson) Ranabargar and husband

H Bideau to follow at the St. Boniface Cemetery. A rosary will be at 6 o’clock this evening with visitation to follow at the church.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Boniface Cemetery.

Send condolences to the family at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Kerry, Chad Johnson and wife Coty, Courtney (Johnson) Youngblood and husband K.C.; stepgrandchildren Nikki (Cross) S l a p per and Bethany (Cross) AlexanVelma Hartman der.

S h e was preceded in death by her parents, children Patricia Collins and Billy D. Johnson Jr. and grandson Troy L. Collins.

Funeral services are at 6:30 p.m. today at BathNaylor Funeral Home in Columbus, with the Rev. Dennis Johnson officiating. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m.

Wednesday at LaHarpe Cemetery in LaHarpe, with Pastor Jared Ellis officiating. Friends may call the funeral home after 1 p.m. today. In lieu of flowers the family asks expressions of sympathy be in the form of memorials to the All God’s Creatures Fund.

Friends may drop off or mail memorials to BathNaylor Funeral Home 611 S. East Ave. Columbus, KS 66725. E-mail condolences may be left at www.bathnaylor.com.

Arrangements are by Bath-Naylor Funeral Home of Columbus.

H EPA Continued from A1 Slaugh said there has been “no conclusive study” on whether Iola has issues with lead poisoning.

“They (the EPA) know that lead is a hazard,” he said. If the EPA is willing to front the money for the cleanup, he said it is probably an issue worth addressing.

THE EPA is not forcing the cleanup on any homeowner, and must receive consent for testing on any property. However, Slaugh said they are strongly encouraging cooperation.

“The EPA said that they have not forced this issue anywhere, and

they don’t plan to here,” he said. “They’re still going to make great efforts to get permission on every property.”

The National Priority List was established in 1983, with a total of 1,685 communities being added. According to a report from Don Banhnke, an environmental engineer with the EPA, 68 percent of the communities on the list have received full cleanup. The soil removal and replacement in Iola would come at no cost to the homeowner.

For more information regarding testing, soil replacement or the National Priority List, contact the EPA field office in Iola at 228-4902.

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Continued from A1 a conference committee of six people. They decide on which version to accept. It then goes back to the floor for a vote.

There’s no chance to amend the legislation at that point,” Bideau said.

N E G O T I AT I O N S

began in earnest “just this week,” Bideau said, clearly frustrated by the lack of progress.

“We were never close

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it denies the expanded program, and — The Affordable Care Act is the “rule of the land. I don’t see it being repealed. We just have to deal with it.”

Bideau said the issue is “technically in the hands of the governor,” who has the final say over whether Kansas will broaden the insurance program to cover more of its poor.

The biggest objection

We were never close to getting the session wrapped up in 80 days.

— Rep. Ed Bideau, Chanute

to getting the session wrapped up in 80 days,” he said, a wish stated early in the session by House and Senate leaders. The state funds a 90-day session. Each additional day is estimated to cost taxpayers $45,000.

Bideau serves on three committees, judiciary, health and human services and Vision 2020.

Although it was their responsibility, members of the health and human services never seriously addressed expanding Medicaid services, Bideau said. “It was never put up for discussion,” by the committee chair, David Crum, a Republican from Augusta.

“All year I expected this to be discussed.

Nothing,” Bideau said.

Bideau is in favor of making the program more inclusive, and ticked off four reasons: — The 9th District has a high level of poverty and Medicaid is health insurance for the poor; — Both executives for the hospitals in Bideau’s district, Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center and Allen County Hospital, have said their hospitals will face substantial hits to their bottom lines if the program is not expanded; — Kansas will pass up additional money if

is if “the feds break the deal,” on funding the expanding program, Bideau said. “It’s been done before,” he said, citing special education and programs for the gifted, both programs mandated by the federal government but left to states to fund.

AS FOR a tax plan, Bideau wasn’t optimistic.

“A budget has to pass

by June 30,” he said. “A tax plan doesn’t.”

If that happens, the current 6.3 percent statewide sales tax will sunset back to 5.7 percent, and the governor’s plan to reduce and eventually eliminate the state income tax will suffer a setback.

Bideau pulled out paper after paper from his briefcase detailing various tax cut scenarios.

The Senate’s most recent proposal was to keep the statewide sales tax at 6.3 percent and reduce the state sales tax on groceries to 4.95.

That made their package “more palliative,” Bideau said, but he still voted against it.

The majority of the House is holding out for a maximum of a 6 percent sales tax, which over the next five years would raise $857 million.

Bideau said he thinks most of his constituents

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prefer keeping the sales tax at 6.3 percent, “if it means keeping our schools open and our roads up to snuff. But I’d like to hear from others.”

Of course lowering any tax, means cuts elsewhere. In legislative lingo they are referred to as “itemized haircuts,” a long list of tax breaks Kansans have grown to expect on their income tax forms including for home mortgages, heads of household, etc.

“My dad once made me get a burr haircut,” Bideau said. “I hated it,” he said of the drastic measure.

Despite the late date, legislators are still considering appeals, Bideau said, commenting on a letter received Friday from the Department of Corrections that said any budget cuts to the department would compromise public safety.

Bideau said he recently received 25-30 letters about expanding Medicaid.

“A letter is best compared to an email,” he said when vying for a lawmaker’s attention.

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EDUCATION concerns include the current hoopla against implementing Common Core teaching standards.

“Opponents are still trying to cut the funds off,” Bideau said. His wife, Margaret, an elementary teacher in Chanute, spoke on the House floor in support of Common Core.

Bideau’s biggest concern is the current effort to sway legislators to vote for a budget that de-funds the new curriculum for schools.

Sue Boldra, representative from Hays and a retired teacher, helped craft the Common Core standards for the state.

Bideau is frustrated with outside interests influencing legislators.

“They’re not listening to our own people,” he said.

As for the lawsuit against the state for

adequately funding its schools, the state has appealed the court’s decision. The appeal will likely be decided by fall, he said.

“Most lawyers predict the state will lose,” Bideau said. The unknown is whether the court will give a fixed dollar amount as to what adequate funding is or just tell the legislature “to go fix it,” he said.

And if the Legislature rebukes the court’s decision altogether?

“That’s unplowed ground,” he said.

SCHOOLS in smaller districts are losing ground to those in the city, Bideau said, citing a recent bill that allows districts that have experienced “exceptional growth” to use their wealth to build ancillary facilities and programs.

“This is an un-equalizer in education,” Bideau said. “Legislators will vote their constituencies, which is not good for us smaller districts.”

As for guns on college campuses, Bideau said he was disappointed school leaders didn’t make a greater fuss when the Legislature approved concealed carry on school grounds.

Recourse for administrators is for them to look at the cost of compliance and to demand either a review of the law or funding to accommodate the new law. The law doesn’t take effect for four years.

Bideau’s concern is people’s understanding of what concealed carry is. “It’s not a certification to be a security guard,” he said. “A gun should be used only if a life is in immediate danger.”

Bideau is a gun enthusiast and understands people’s sentiments about gun ownership.

“It’s a very strong issue. People see gun ownership as a symbol of independence from the government.”

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Calendar Calendar

Saturday - Plein Air Festival, city square.

June 4 - Hoe and Hope Garden Club meeting, 9 a.m., library.

June 6 - Chamber of Commerce annual dinner, 6 p.m., B&W Trailer Hitches lunchroom.

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Chalk art in the square

Young people of all ages are invited to add to the festivities of the Plein Air Art Festival Saturday by creating their own artwork with sidewalk chalk.

From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. kids can pick a spot on the sidewalks around the city square bandstand and design an original chalk art picture. Chalk will be provided by Works of Art Studio and Gallery.

“We hope people will get out and walk around to see what the kids draw,” Works of Art manager Melodi Burke said.

The sidewalk art will not be judged, but artists should sign their name for viewers’ easy identification.

Biblesta auction

The Biblesta committee is actively seeking donated items or consignments for a fundraising auction June 15.

Anyone wanting to donate items for the purpose of supporting the annual Biblesta Parade activities can have the items picked up or bring them to the auction between 8 and 9:30 a.m. The auction is at 10 a.m. on the west side of the city square.

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The auction is one of several fundraising efforts the committee sponsors in order to help with expenses of the day.

Chamber meets

Five members of the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce were guests at the May 16 Humboldt Chamber meeting to share some of their activities and discuss working together to promote southeast Kansas.

Reports from the 10 local members included Sunny Shreeve on the Kansas Sampler. Approximately 800 Humboldt packets were handed out during the sampler.

The attendance was down this year due to the weather. She said Humboldt, Iola and Sedan occupied the southeast Kansas tent and felt that changes in that setup needed to be made.

Jerry Stephens updated the group on Biblesta plans, Vada Aikins of the Humboldt Healthy Ecosystems reminded everyone of the Neosho River Park dedication June 8 and Action Team members reviewed Downtown, Business and Housing team activities.

Wilma Brock, kneeling, Bonnie Ladd, left, and Jeanice Cress, at the grave of Fern Cress.

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Opening day attracted a good crowd of young people and adults at the Humboldt City Pool.

The pool is open daily from 1 to 8 p.m.

Details of the annual Chamber dinner on June 6 were presented.

Community talks housing

Liz Sussa, Garden City, with Public Square Communities LLC, was interested in collecting the sticky notes that were produced from the table discussions Tuesday evening during the community conversation on workforce housing held at the library.

Besides local residents, representatives from Galesburg, Erie, Independence, Iola and Coffeyville made up a group of about two dozen in attendance. The Housing Action and Business Action teams are working on an economic plan for workforce housing locally.

Four tables, each with business, government, education or housing interest seated, were challenged to list the assets of living in Humboldt followed by brainstorm-

ing on ways to increase population.

“People, jobs and houses — you need all three to grow,” she said. “If one component is missing, you’re out of balance.”

In a printed statement for workforce housing in rural Kansas, it stated in the last decade rural communities are saying to young people “we want you back,” but “almost universally, there is no middle-range housing to support this strategy.”

Because there is a “financing gap” between the cost of building a new home and its appraised value, a barrier is encountered.

Parts of the economic plan would be to create a community-wide vision to build a new economy, grow and attract businesses and employ new workers; clean up substandard properties that pull all property values down; and close the financing gap through a long-term strategy.

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By TERRY BROYLES

Humboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Showing respect and appreciation is at the center of one of South Logan FCE’s annual projects.

When they actually started the tradition of placing flowers on the graves of deceased South Logan FCE members for Memorial Day, could not be pinpointed; but, current president Jeanice Cress, recalls joining the group in 1994 or 1995 and the project was already in place.

“I can remember our meeting was at Lois Squire’s when we decided to do it,” Bonnie Ladd offered. She has been a member of the unit for 66 years.

Today the small group, average age 80 years, sees that there are flowers at the graves of 35 former members each Memorial Day. “I take flowers to Opal Wagnor’s grave at Owl Creek Cemetery,” Wilma Brock said. “She used to

be my neighbor. It’s kind of sad, but the unit flowers are the only flowers on her grave, when I return to pick them up.”

Membership today in the unit is at nine, but not all of those are able to attend meetings or contribute to the community service projects, leaving just a few to visit the 35 grave sites, which are not all located in Allen County.

“One of our members (Marge Sharp) is buried in Chase County,” Cress said. “I usually have a friend of mine take flowers to her grave.”

The bulk of the graves (18) are in Mount Hope Cemetery just east of Humboldt and others at St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery north of town, the rural Ellison and DeWitt Cemeteries, two cemeteries in Chanute, St. Mary’s Owl Creek Catholic Church Cemetery on Turkey Creek Road and the Fairview Cemetery in Mildred.

Humboldt High lists honor roll students Humboldt High School students and their grades: Principal’s Honor Roll

Stevie Barfoot, 12, Sheri Middleton, 11, Kayle Riebel, 11, Brooklyn Rollett, 11, Jacob Carpenter,10, Joshua Hawley, 10, Chelsea Lea, 10, Rachael Taylor, 10, Austin Heisler, 9, Bryce Isaac, 9, Haylie Yost, 9.

Teacher’s Honor Roll

Shayli Ellis, 12, Tasha Embrev, 12, Judiah Hawley, 12, Megan Herder, 12, Aubrey Maxton, 12, Kristin McClanahan, 12, Tanner McNutt, 12, Randi Mitchell, 12, Mariah Phillips, 12, Caleb Rutledge, 12, Cheyenne Schomaker, 12, Sarah Smith, 12, Benjamin Welch, 12, Logan Yokum, 12.

Marli Allen, 11, Austin Beeman, 11, Caleb D’Armond, 11, Ryan Huse, 11, Leighton Jaro, 11, Jorie Maloney, 11, Dawson Mauk, 11, Hunter Murrow, 11, Zackary Osborn, 11, Haley Riebel, 11, Anna Setter, 11.

Miranda Albert, 10, Chelsea Bailey, 10, Ethan Bartlett, 10, Ashley Coy, 10, Joshua Elder, 10, Cheyenne English, 10, Breanna Kline, 10, Robert Sellman, 10, Kason Siemens, 10, Delaney Umholtz, 10.

Briana Ames, 9, Cade Ames, 9, Jacob Eitel, 9, Kailyn Hammer, 9, Sarah Heisler, 9, Megan Hudlin, 9, Hannah Hulett, 9, , Tyler Korte, 9, Kaitlyn Larson, 9, Jadyn Maloney, 9, Tanner Orth, 9, Rhett Smith, 9, Corey Whitcomb, 9, Morgan Wilson, 9, Briana Yokum, 9.

Regular Honor Roll

Samuel Aguirre, 12, Brook Boatwright, 12, Hayden Boring, 12, MacKinzie Coy, 12, Kelsey Cramer, 12, Blake Crawford, 12, Ryan Gean, 12, Trevor Gibson, 12, Dylan Greve, 12, Robb Hauser, 12, Melanie Herder, 12, Trey Johnson, 12, Kile Martin, 12, Neal Miller, 12, Robert Moore Jr., 12, Lauren Moore, 12, Brent Panek, 12, Whitney Strack, 12, Sean Swaggerty, 12, John Whitcomb, 12.

Kolbyn Allen, 11, Mikah Arthur, 11, Tristan Bruneau, 11, Mara Gillespie, 11, Rayden Goltry, 11, Justin Jay, 11, Allie Johnston, 11, Kaitelyn Kerns, 11, Morgan Leroy, 11, Dalton Modlin, 11, Alexander Murrow, 11, Grayson Pearish, 11, Preston Roseberry, 11, Christian Sallee, 11, Allison Thummel, 11, Caleb Vanatta, 11, Savannah Williams, 11.

Andrew Arana, 10, Jalissa Beachy, 10, Kasey Beeman, 10, Cody Crays, 10, Devin Davidson, 10, Hailey Dixon, 10, Jaden Fewins, 10, Jaden Fewins, 10, Dalton Hurst, 10, Kimberly Kaufman, 10, Justin Meins, 10, Karsyn Menzie, 10, Robert Navarro, 10, Heath Reed, 10, Alexandra Reynolds, 10, Jaci Ross, 10, Brittany Smith, 10, Devyn Smith, 10, Tye Taylor, 10, Brook Turner, 10, Jacob Ward, 10, Lakota Wilson, 10, Ty Yowell, 10.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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Silence on this day

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

There is a show on TV called Ridiculousness. You didn’t have to tune in to the channel to get some of this all over yourself. You just had to drive up and down State Street this past weekend.

The Allen County Sheriff ’s Dept. and Iola Police Dept. provided plenty of ridiculousness for the entire town. I’m not sure why they were pulling everybody over, but I can be pretty sure it was not to welcome them to Iola. You can give me all your talking points such as, we’re saving lives, we’re just doing our job, and so on, and so on, but I believe you have been trained right out of your common sense. Why not take off your black leather gloves, your mirrored sunglasses, and your black tactical out-

fits and start smiling and waving to all the law-abiding citizens of Iola who aren’t all out to get you.

We are getting ready to spend thousands of dollars on signs to welcome people to Iola and you can bet that our law enforcement people will be parked right behind them to unwelcome them. I have no problem with a police presence, Lord knows we have plenty of vehicles and personnel to make a very bold statement, but this idea we have to pull as many people over as we can will run more people out of Iola than we can replace with any kind of ad campaign.

Let’s start being more like Andy and a lot less like Barney.

Don Erbert, Iola, Kan.

A look back in time

60 Years Ago Week of May 26, 1953

HUMBOLDT — Joseph P. Crawford of Humboldt, who has seen a lot of fighting in the past 10 years, was promoted to brigadier general on May 1 and is now assistant commander of the 25th Division in Korea. Gen. Crawford is serving under Gen. Mark Clark, who led the 1943 campaign in Italy in which Crawford, then a lieutenant colonel participated.

Gen. Crawford served in four major campaigns in World War II and was wounded in action three times.

1963

The physical education departments of the Iola schools continued to use the national physical fitness test program as part of the regular school program this year, and recent test results show that 254 girls in grades seven through 10 exceeded the ability of 77 percent of other girls in the nation. The test report comes

from Miss Bonnie Kirby, physical education teacher. ***** Commencement exercises were last night in Memorial Hall for 110 Iola High School graduates and 83 Iola Junior College graduates. The top three students in the order of their ranking in the college were Janice Goodsell, Barbara Roe and Dwayne Litteer. The top three high school students in that same order were Mary Pierce, Kathleen Thompson and John Norton. Special recognition was given to Mrs. Minnie Allen, longtime teacher whose presence last night marked the 60th consecutive commencement she has attended in Iola. The auditorium was filled to overflowing, and Supt. Ennor Horine commented that this was probably the last time for a combined high school and junior college commencement since both the enrollment and size of the audience had grown so large.

Budget impasse has roots in 2012 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders’ difficulties this year in nailing down the details of tax legislation are partly rooted in successes GOP conservatives enjoyed in elections last year.

John Hanna An AP news analysis Anti-abortion, anti-tax, small-government and tea party movement conservatives celebrated after Republican primaries in August 2012. They unseated top Senate Republicans, shattering a moderate GOP-Democratic coalition that bedeviled Republican Gov. Sam Brownback on issues such as taxes, pensions and the budget, while checking his conservative allies on gun rights and other social issues.

Conservative legislative leaders installed after the election agree with Brownback’s efforts to follow up on massive individual income tax cuts enacted last year with another round of cuts and position the state to phase out personal income taxes. They agree the state is more likely to prosper if it gives up taxing income and concentrates on taxing consumption through its sales tax. They’re generally willing to cut spending, even where Brownback isn’t, including higher education.

They also don’t seem far apart on adjusting the current 6.3 percent sales tax rate after June. The Senate once proposed 6.25 percent and the House’s latest position is 6 percent.

Yet the impasse among top Republicans will force the Legislature’s session into a 95th day today, when the state Constitution specifies 90 days and GOP leaders had promised lawmakers would finish in 80.

Shattering the Senate’s old moderate-Democratic governing coalition also eliminated a political foil for conservative Republicans in both chambers that had kept them pursuing the same policy goals and repeating each other’s arguments. Now, with the House and Senate in conflict on tax issues, conservative leaders are at odds.

“They don’t have moderate Republicans and Democrats to blame anymore,” said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat.

The governor wants further income tax cuts to stimulate the economy but also is counting on tax legislation to head off budget shortfalls that would otherwise force big cuts in education funding and state

programs.

The sales tax is set to drop to 5.7 percent in July under a 2010 law that boosted the tax temporarily to balance the budget, before Brownback took office in January 2011.

Brownback proposed keeping the tax at 6.3 percent — pumping an extra $1.5 billion into the state treasury over the next five years. The Senate approved his plan, but the House and its GOP leaders balked, passing a tax plan allowing the sales tax to drop and making less aggressive income tax cuts.

GOP leaders sometimes have suggested their rift over the sales tax isn’t serious. Top

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The Associated Press, Wagle promised they’d work together. Merrick interjected: “It’s not a long walk across the rotunda.”

BUT CONFLICTS inevitably arise between the House and the Senate. This year, they include taxes and even the mechanics of working through budget and tax legislation.

Merrick complained at a meeting of House Republicans last week that Senate GOP leaders had changed their tactics so many times that, “I don’t know what their position is.” He accused them of being unwilling to negotiate on the sales tax.

They don’t have moderate Republicans and Democrats to blame anymore.

— Anthony Hensley, (D) Topeka

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If you listen carefully, you sharp interruption of beaucan almost hear the silence ty, the moments, hours even, at the heart of Memorial when the vivid tenacity of Day — the inward turn that life itself feels most tangible, thoughts take on a day set even in the midst of death. aside to honor the men and On a bright, beautiful Memowomen who have died in the rial Day, you feel, as clearly service of this country. as you may ever feel, the proIt is the silence of soldiers found separation between who have not yet been, and the living and the dead. This may never be, able to talk is the strangeness of the day, about what they learned in because that separation is a war, the silence of grief so source of both joy and loss. familiar A nation that it feels at war — like a sectrying to ... (D)espite the simple sto- end its war ond heartries we tell ourselves about — needs beat. This is a day for why we go to war, every to rememacknowlthat soldier who has seen com- ber edging, despite the bat knows there is no sim- simple stop u b l i c l y, ple story. The dead have ries we tell the private m e m o taken that awareness with o u r s e l ve s rial days why them, but the living carry about that lie we go to it, usually silently, within war, scattered evthroughery soldier them. out the who has year, a seen comday when bat knows all the military graves are there is no simple story. The tended to, even the ones that dead have taken that awaresomeone tends to regularly ness with them, but the livas a way of remembering. ing carry it, usually silently, It always seems strange the within them. That, too, is the way the fond, sober gestures strangeness of this day — to of memory coincide with the honor men and women who last flush of spring, while the know things about living, trees are still lit from within dying, and the character of by their chartreuse leaves. war that we can never really The year is still rising, just. imagine. It should arouse a And yet it is something you humility in all the rest of us, often see recorded in the and in humility there is a sibooks and diaries of men lence, too. and women at war — the — The New York Times

Senate Republicans said legislators are trying to set stable tax and budget policy for the next decade, and that’s complicated and challenging. Senate President Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican, likened the legislative session to “a big family reunion.”

And House Speaker Ray Merrick, a Stilwell Republican, said: “The best relationships have their rocky moments.”

Last year, moderate Senate leaders’ disagreements with conservative House leaders were pervasive, with biting criticism common, particularly on political redistricting.

The GOP infighting prevented lawmakers from passing any legislation to redraw the state’s political boundaries to ensure equal representation, forcing a panel of federal judges to do it.

Wagle and Merrick went into this year’s legislative session talking about “dysfunction” and “avoidance of communication” between their chambers in 2012. In a joint, pre-session interview with

“It’s always come back to, ‘Here it is, take it or leave it,’” he said.

Top Senate Republicans sometimes have been condescending. Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a Hutchinson Republican, described the Senate as “the go-to chamber” with “veteran troops.”

Bruce noted last week that freshmen members have a strong influence in the House.

Forty-nine of its 125 members had no previous legislative experience, compared to only four of 40 senators.

“They are at a competitive disadvantage, just because they’re not educated on tax policy, which is very complicated,” Bruce said. “Most of them spent half the session trying to find out where the bathrooms are.”

Sniping between House and Senate leaders is nothing new in Kansas, of course. But this year, when a top conservative Republican in one chamber is frustrated with the other chamber’s leaders, the target is now a GOP conservative, thanks to last year’s elections.

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Food safety important

By JOHN SCHLAGECK Kansas Farm Bureau

While most people don’t acknowledge, reflect or dwell on it, they value tremendously the joy and pleasure that results from eating — especially with family and close friends. Food remains deeply entrenched in our family values.

Without question, emotions are also tied to what we’re eating for lunch or dinner.

Emotional connections to our food sometimes make potential risks within our food supply appear frightening.

How people look at risks provides a clear understanding of why consumers react so strongly to food safety issues. People often perceive unfamiliar things as risky if they can’t control the outcome, if their exposure is involuntary, if the effects are irreversible and if it’s caused by human actions or failures.

Food-borne illnesses are a hot food safety topic. According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 5 million illnesses each year can be attributable to mishandled meat and poultry products.

Like the food indus-

try and our government, we have an obligation to keep food safe.

The way we handle, store and cook food can mean the difference between a satisfying meal or a bout with E. coli or salmonella.

Purchasing, storing and preparing can present challenges for consumers. As wise and safety-conscious shoppers, it is our responsibility to keep food safe once it leaves our local grocery store or meat market.

Always buy food from a reputable dealer, with a known record for safe handling. If you don’t know if the meat is fresh ask a neighbor or friend who’s shopped there before.

U.S. Department of Agriculture advises to buy dated products only if the “sell by” or “use by” date has not expired. While these dates are helpful, they are reliable only if the food has been kept at the proper temperature during storage and handling. Although many products bear “sell by” and “use by” dates, product dating is not a federal requirement.

When we purchase products labeled “keep refrigerated,” do so

only if they are stored in a refrigerated case and cold to the touch, USDA advises. Buy frozen products only if they are frozen solid.

Never buy something that feels mushy.

Buy packaged precooked foods only if the package is sound, not damaged or torn.

Avoid cross contamination. To prevent raw meat and poultry from contaminating foods that will be eaten without further cooking, enclose individual packages of raw meat or poultry in plastic bags.

Position packages of raw meat or poultry in your shopping cart so their juices cannot drip on other food.

Always shop for perishables last. Keep refrigerated and frozen items together so they will remain cold. Place perishables in the coolest part of your car during the trip home. Pack them in an ice chest if the time from store to home refrigerator will be more than one hour.

While most of these tips sound simple, a common-sense approach the next time you shop could ensure a safer food product for your family.

Dining at home saves prepare your food.”

Higgins reported that eating at home will save time as well as money.

Doing so also can be healthier, said Higgins, who noted that restaurant meals can be higher in calories, saturated fat, and sodium that can contribute to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some cancers, osteoarthritis and other diseases.

At home, Higgins said, “you’ll know what you are eating, how food has been prepared, and

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be more able to measure portions that will contribute to health.”

To begin the tran-

(to prepare) than it takes to drive to a restaurant.”

When it comes to shopping, keep a running grocery list and don’t leave home without it. Higgins advises keeping frequently used ingredients on hand, and a running grocery list posted where others in the family or household can add to the list if — or when — they use the last of the peanut butter, cereal, etc.

Running out of a needed item can require extra trips to the store.

She also advises consumers to rethink how they fill their grocery carts. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 recommend two and one half cups of fruits and vegetables a day for adults. When multiplied by seven, the total is 17 and one-half cups a week; for a couple, 35 cups a week, and for a

“ A simple meal can be satisfying and

take less time (to prepare) than it takes to drive to a restaurant.

— Mary Higgins, KSU nutritionist

sition, she suggested reserving restaurant meals for special occasions, and transferring the expense to an entertainment, rather than food, budget.

Higgins suggested brushing up on cooking skills with family and friends, and noted, “A simple meal can be satisfying and take less time

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While some express concern about rising food prices, others are unaware of how much they spend on food.

Either way, there is room to save, said Mary Meck Higgins, Kansas State University associate professor in human nutrition, who suggested three cost-cutting ideas to eat well for less.

To begin, Higgins, a K-State Research and Extension nutrition specialist and a registered dietitian, recommended keeping receipts for grocery purchases and restaurant meals for one month to assess actual food costs.

She also recommended carrying a notepad or card in a purse or wallet to jot down the cost of foods purchased from occasional sources.

A vending machine at work, coffee shop and event concession stand are examples.

Spending as little as $5 a week on such purchases can add up to more than $250 a year, she said.

According to Higgins, people often are surprised to learn how much they are spending.

Making a decision to spend less on food can yield a savings and lead to better health, more time with family and friends, and pleasurable meals, she said.

Her first suggestion is to eat more meals at home, because “eating at home is typically less expensive than eating out, where others are paid to

family with two teenagers, 70 cups per week.

The recommended health-promoting fruits and vegetables purchased will likely be a combination of fresh, frozen, dried and canned, said Higgins, who noted that making a commitment to eat more meals at home will require buying more food.

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Terri Kretzmeier, a K-State Research and Extension nutrition assistant, helps Kids Can Cook students Gage Turner and Jesse Taylor slice fruit for fruit salsa. Students also made tortilla pinwheels, guacamole and rice.

Kids whip up meals

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Fruit was sliced and rice was stirred as Iola children learned how to cook at Kids Can Cook.

The session was at the Iola High School on Thursday and Friday.

The K-State Research and Extension office led the course.

Terri Kretzmeier, a K-State Research and Extension nutrition as-

By TERRY BROYLES

HUMBOLDT — Works of Art Studio and Gallery is hosting the first known local Plein Air Art Festival on Saturday, where artists, 16 and older, are free to paint or draw any local subject matter.

“This is an outdoor event, where you come to create art in an open, outdoor setting in a few hours,” Melodi Burke, Works of Art manager, said.

Any medium is eligible for judging with prizes awarded during an evening reception.

“The artwork entered for judging must be created during the time of the event only,” Burke said. Blank canvases, paper, etc. will be marked at check-in and only pieces marked by the gallery will be accepted for judging.

Local artist Diane Dobson Barton spent last week preparing for the festival.

Since the first of the year, Barton has “reclaimed” her love of painting the human figure, and with the Plein Air Festival approaching, she has gone back to practicing.

“I’ve been practicing — getting my skills back,” she said. “Working outside is more difficult because it’s less of a controlled environment.”

A big challenge the artists will encounter while creating their artwork is the changing light and they may have

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sistant, taught the children about food safety, how to prepare food and how cross contamination occurs.

There were morning and afternoon sessions.

On the first day cooking students learned how to prepare French food.

The second day they prepared Mexican dishes, such as fruit salsa and tamale pie.

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Wearing her favorite apron, Diane Dobson Barton chooses the familiar setting of her own yard to refresh skills she will use during the Plein Air Art Festival Saturday. Recently she has been concentrating on the human figure and decided to “practice” landscapes and objects again. to block out curious onlookers.

“If people start asking me questions, I can lose my train of thought,” Barton smiled.

Wearing headphones may be one method of discouraging interruptions and having multiple canvases will allow the artist to paint in different light as it changes.

Barton has been scouting for the scene where she will set up her easel and go to work on Saturday.

“Humboldt is not lacking for inspirational spots,” she said. “I’ve been taking some reference photos around town.”

In an event such as this one, artists are required to have portable art supplies that can be secured from the wind.

“I start in the yard,” Barton said from behind her easel. “I get used to what I will need in my bag.”

Without revealing her plan, Barton said early morning and late afternoon light produce more interesting shadows in artwork and she plans to have basic landscape colors, primary colors, brushes and cleaner easily accessible. She prefers to stand while paint-

ing.

Barton started selling portraits as a teenager.

At age 25, she attended Pittsburg State University where she received a master’s degree in art.

She has K-12 art teaching certification that she utilizes with her own four grandchildren.

“I’ve never done an official plein air event,” she explained. “But, I’ve gone to places like Humboldt Hill and painted.”

Registrations for the event have been a little slow coming in, due partially to recent showers and cool temperatures.

“I think a lot of people are waiting until the last minute,” Burke said.

“Artists can register the day of the event until 11 a.m. We’ll start taking registrations at 6 a.m.

Saturday morning.”

Art pieces will need to be turned in to the gallery by 5 p.m. to be included in the judging. At 7 p.m. the public is invited to be on hand when winners will be announced and prizes awarded.

“We hope to get people in the community involved more in art activities,” Burke said. “I think it’s going to be a fun day.”

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H REACH Continued from A1 A second leg of ACA is the Health Insurance Exchange, which merely is an online way to compare plans and purchase insurance, Sharpe said. “It’s kind of like Expedia,� she said, an online service where travel and lodging costs may be compared and purchased, often at a discount.

When ACA comes full force, insurance exchanges will be a fact of life, and not nearly as ominous as some politicians who rail about ACA, popularly called Obamacare, want constituents to think, she said.

Two companies, Coventry and Blue Cross Blue Shield, are involved, but each has many plans, Sharpe said. After filling out a simple three-page form — unusually brief for the federal government — people seeking coverage through the exchange will have one pop up that best suits their circumstances. “It will be comparison shopping,� she said, “and a very Republican idea for about 20 years,� with politicians of that ilk turning on it when it became President Obama’s proposal.

Sharpe said ACA was designed to bring health care into the 21st century. “It is here and REACH’s goal is to help people digest and understand it,� Sharpe said.

REACH Healthcare Foundation and the Healthcare Foundation of Greater Kansas City came about 10 years ago when Health Midwest sold its hospital assets in six Kansas and Missouri counties, including Allen, to Hospital Corporation of America, a transaction that transferred ownership from a nonprofit to a for-profit group.

By law, nonprofit dollars could not be a part of the deal, and had to remain in a charitable format, which resulted in negotiations between Kansas and Missouri attorneys general that led to formation of the two foundations.

REACH began with $110 million. The other foundation received $440 million. Proceeds from investments are to benefit the poor and underserved through programs that help them

directly through access to health care and others that encourage healthy living.

Allen County far and away has the smallest population of counties served, and also has a rate of poverty and uninsured residents that makes the emphasis of taking advantage of federal support for Medicaid all the more important, as well as things REACH funds. “A big part of health reform is to get people to pay more attention to healthy living,� Sharpe said.

A statistical study of Allen County found 12.5 percent of adults, 1,677, were uninsured and about the same number, 12 percent, hadn’t seen a doctor in the previous 12 months.

With obesity becoming more of a problem here and heart disease the biggest killer at 30.5 percent of deaths, healthy living education is an important aspect of health care. Cancer, also exacerbated by obesity, is the second leading cause of death at 20.6 percent.

Further evidence of the importance of healthy living is that 11 percent of Allen Countians 20 and older have been diagnosed with diabetes, with 3.3 percent of deaths blamed on the disease.

Facts and figures point to REACH’s overriding goal of improving access to quality health care for uninsured and medically underserved people. to Sharpe’s presentation, Jordan Strickler, who academically was the top member of his Iola High graduating class and winner of the Rotary watch, spoke briefly about what he intends to do.

He will attend Kansas State and major in chemical engineering, but isn’t certain what career path he may follow.

Strickler said he developed a list of 50 things he’d liked to accomplish, from fun activities such as climbing Pike’s Peak to more serious, such as going on a church mission trip. The Peace Corps had been thought, but he is unsure whether he wants to devote two years.

Sharpe was introduced by Rotarian Jeff Livingston.

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H Insurers Continued from A1 “And for those who don’t make much money, it may save them some dollars.�

Corbin said that plans offered on the exchange will “probably be more expensive� than the individual and smallgroup policies the company now sells. But he said in many cases the amount that consumers actually pay would be lower because of federal subsidies.

The exchange, or marketplace, also will give small businesses — those with fewer than 50 employees — new options. Rather than purchasing group insurance, they will be able to select a plan on the exchange and allow their workers to purchase individual policies. The businesses will have the option of helping their employees pay for the coverage, or not.

At least three insurance companies will sell multiple plans on the Kansas exchange, which will be operated by the federal government because Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican opponent of the health reform law, declined to establish a state-run exchange. The companies are Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, Coventry Health Care of Kansas and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, which does business in two Kansas counties, Johnson and Wyandotte.

Subsidies to blunt higher premiums Ron Rowe, a vice president for BCBS of Kansas City, predicted the cost of premiums for new, non-group policies would trend higher. “Some people’s rates are going to go down and some are going to go up, but in aggregate it’s going to be about a 30 to 35 percent increase for that entire block of business,� he said.

But those increased costs could be mitigated for many. People who already have individual policies can keep them.

And those who qualify for federal subsidies could end up paying less for more expensive and more complete coverage. “Many people who are going to see big, high rate increases are going to qualify for a subsidy,� Rowe said. “And the amount that they’re going to pay out-of-pocket, net with the subsidy next year, will be less than they’re paying today even if the

premium is significantly higher.�

For example, a person with annual earnings equal to 150 percent of the federal poverty level — $17,235 — would pay about $460 a year for a $5,000 policy, according to a cost-estimating tool developed by the Kansas Insurance Department. Federal tax credits paid directly to the insurance company would cover the remaining $4,540.

The credits, available only through the exchange, will be calculated on a sliding scale up to 400 percent of federal poverty guidelines, or annual earnings of $45,960 for an individual. But at that top level, the subsidy would amount to only about $630 leaving the consumer responsible for the remaining $4,370.

Despite the likelihood that many consumers purchasing through the exchange could pay less, both Corbin and Rowe said they anticipated a backlash from those forced to pay more. “We’re trying to get out in front of the negative that’s going to come,� Corbin said.

To do that, he said, the company planned to do as much as it could to educate consumers about the exchange, the subsidies available and why some coverage would cost more.

Higher risks mean higher costs Premiums are ex-

pected to rise because the reform law prohibits insurance companies from continuing practices they have historically used to reduce their risks. Those practices include denying or limiting coverage for high-cost individuals or capping their benefits.

Going forward, the companies must sell policies to anyone regardless how sick they might be.

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, a Republican who has bucked the party line in supporting the law, said the old system often denied affordable coverage to people who needed it most. “If you had any kind of pre-existing condition, you probably couldn’t buy (insurance) at all,� Praeger said. “You could be denied coverage because of allergies.�

The reforms, Praeger said, also create financial incentives for insurance companies to work with doctors, hospitals and other providers to keep people healthier. “The old system avoided risk, now they have to manage it,� she said. “So, I think you’re going to see a much more active partnership with health plans and providers to monitor quality.�

If that happens, the cost of coverage should stabilize or increase more slowly, Praeger said.

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Humboldt High’s Tanner McNutt, center, wins the 400-meter dash at the state track meet Saturday in Wichita.

Humboldt’s Tanner McNutt earns three golds at state meet

By RICHARD LUKEN

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WICHITA — The chase was on.

The only question was whether Humboldt High’s Tanner McNutt, racing in his fourth and final state race in a span of just over three hours Saturday, would have enough

left in the tank.

Thanks to a flawless first three legs of Humboldt’s 4x400-meter relay team served up by Ethan Bartlett, Nick Keazer and Sam Aguirre, McNutt took the baton for his anchor leg just steps in front of Holcomb’s Heath Tucker.

Tucker was a worthy chal-

lenger, staying perched just behind McNutt’s right shoulder step for step as both zipped toward the finish line.

But there was no catching the speedy Humboldt senior; not on this day.

McNutt finished off Humboldt’s relay and cemented his place in local track and field

history with his third gold medal of the day.

McNutt also repeated as Class 3A 800 meter champion and won the 400-meter dash after claiming the silver medal in that race earlier.

And in winning the 4x400, the Humboldt quartet broke the school record for the sec-

ond day in a row — they’d also broken it in their preliminary race Friday — finishing in 3 minutes, 25.85 seconds.

“We wanted the school record in the prelims,” Aguirre said. “We just wanted to win today.”

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Iola athletes soar at state

By RICHARD LUKEN

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Iola High’s Breanna Stout competes Saturday in the 4A girls pole vault at the state track meet.

WICHITA — Iola High’s Tyler Powelson and Ashley Campbell brought home some state track hardware over the weekend, with promises to return for more next year.

Powelson, a junior, earned a seventh-place medal Saturday in the Class 4A boys 1600-meter run. He finished with a time of 4 minutes, 37.7 seconds.

Campbell, a sophomore, was seventh in the 4A girls 200-meter dash, finishing in 27.91 seconds.

“The only surprising part was that I thought my time would be faster, because it seemed like the pace was so fast,” Powelson said. “But I’m happy with how I did.”

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Marmaton Valley’s Daylen Houk, left, and Crest’s Rene Rodriguez race Saturday in the 100-meter dash preliminary round at the state track meet.

Small schools get big results in Wichita

By RICHARD LUKEN

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WICHITA — Area athletes brought home medals, with a number of near misses for others Friday and Saturday at the state track meet.

Marmaton Valley High’s Daylen Houk brought home a fifth-place medal in the Class 1A boys 200-meter dash with time of 23.85 seconds. The

time was .37 seconds behind gold medalist Kurt Van Der Mewe of Linn, and just .24 seconds away from earning a bronze.

“It was a pretty tight race, but that was because the fastest guy in the preliminaries didn’t race in the finals,” Houk said.

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IMS hoops camp starts

Above, Iola High’s Tyler Powelson, right, heads out from the starting line in the Class 4A boys 1600-meter run. At right, Iola’s Ashley Campbell racesin the girls’ 200-meter dash.

The Iola Middle School Basketball Camp and League, for all incoming sixth-, seventhand eighth-graders, starts Monday and goes through June 21 in the middle school gymnasium.

The boys camp runs from

9:30 to 11 a.m. Girls will suit up from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The camp fee is $25. Forms can be picked up and returned to the IMS office or on the first day of camp.

For more information call (620) 363-0572.

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Fuqua tops field in Memorial Day special

By SCOTT STEWART

HUMBOLDT — From out of the north country — Mayetta, to be exact — Darron Fuqua rode into Humboldt Speedway Sunday night, with power to spare and ready for action in the annual Whitworth Memorial Race.

As part of the 20-car, 25-lap McCarty Auto Group/USRA modified feature, Fuqua took the high side of the track to rocket past pole sitter Terry Schultz of Sedalia, Mo. Fuque never looked back, while Schultz fended off a challenge from Iolan Justin Folk to claim second. Ryan McAninch was fourth, Tanner Mullins fifth.

Mike Churning suc-

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Daron Fuqua, left, wins the modified feature at Humboldt Speedway Sunday in a special Memorial Day Weekend race. At right, Brad Smith led wire to wire in the B-modified feature. cessfully held back points leader Derrick Wilson in the Whitworth Construction pure stock feature until Wilson’s motor expired late in the race. Churning took the lead before Mitchell Coulter went up top for a clean pass, and sailed on to the win. Churning wound up in second.

Jared Hayden finished

third. Brad Carroll and Ryan Smith rounded out the top five.

Brad Smith led wire to wire in the Ray’s Metal Depot B-modified field, despite the best efforts of runner-up Jeremy Chambers. Dustin Thulin claimed third, Jimmie Davis fourth and Brad Jarman fifth.

In factory stock ac-

tion, Tyler James outran Jeremy Wilson for the feature win. Daryl Drake claimed third, Patrick Kay fourth.

DURING

FRIDAY’S

regular race session, Parsons driver Travis Smith — a long-time driver at Humboldt Speedway — captured his first career feature win in the

A-modified feature. He held off McAninch for the win. Josh Everheart was third, Folk fourth and Scott Daniels fifth.

Chambers wound up on top of a thrilling Bmodifed feature, which included multiple lead changes with only one caution flag. Jimmie Davis utilized a nifty lastlap maneuver to claim

second. Third went to Riley Whitworth. Tim VanGotten was fourth, Tyler Kidwell fifth.

Wilson took his second factory stock win in as many weeks, fighting off a determined Rick Aiello for the win. Jay Lamons, Jr. made some spectacular moves coming through the pack for third. James finished fourth. Jason Wayne rounded out the top five.

Derrick Wilson continued his winning ways in the pure stock division, adding another trophy to his impressive 2013 collection. Runner up was Donnie Devers, Jeremy Bennett was third. Fourth went to Donald McIntosh, Ken Colston was fifth.

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“We happened to get both today,” McNutt agreed. “You always want to go out a winner.”

THE 4X400 championship was more than a year in the making.

Keazer, Aguirre and McNutt talked about how Humboldt coach Eric Carlson put the relay team together shortly before their league track meet in the spring of 2012.

“We went out and won league,” Keazer recalled, then wound up taking fourth in the state last May. Carlson continued to switch runners throughout the season, which also was plagued by plenty of bad weather that limited practice time.

“We still haven’t run together that much,” Keazer said. “This is a great way to go out, to win a gold in the last track meet I’ll ever run.”

The quartet adjusted their strategy through the afternoon, mainly because of the wind,

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Humboldt High’s Ethan Bartlett, above, prepares for the start of the Class 3A boys 4x400-meter relay. At left, Humboldt’s Sam Aguirre, right, races in the 110-meter hurdles final at the state track meet.

Aguirre said.

Each of the four was instructed to sprint as fast as they could with the wind at their backs, then try to maintain

their position among their competitors as they ran into the headwind.

THE RACE capped an

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that pack slowly spread out over the subsequent three laps at Wichita State University’s Cessna Stadium track.

Powelson crossed the finish line nearly two seconds behind Winfield’s Riley Olson and a second in front of Andale’s Jacob Wallace. Joshua Hanna of Winfield was the race winner, finishing in 4:27.40.

“Tyler did well, even though he didn’t get to run the race the way he wanted,” Iola coach Marv Smith said. ‘He started in lane 1, which meant he had to start out faster than he wanted to in order to be in good position, which he did. But he ran a 60-second first lap, which is too fast for that distance.”

A sustained south wind may have hampered all of the competitors at times because it was blowing directly into the runners’ faces as they completed each lap.

Campbell also had to deal with the wind in the 200, which she said affected her running somewhat down the stretch.

Campbell was assured of a medal — the top eight finishers receive one — by securing a spot in the 200 finals via her time of 26.94 seconds in the preliminary round Friday.

Campbell narrowly missed qualifying in two other events, the 100- and 400-meter dashes.

She ran the 100 prelims Saturday morning in 12.87 seconds, or .14 seconds out of a qualifying spot. In the 400 preliminary round Friday, she ran her lap in 60.98 seconds, or another .14 sec-

afternoon of high drama at Wichita State University’s Cessna Stadium track, site of the state track meet.

McNutt’s 800-meter victory wasn’t secure until the final turn of the last lap, when he erased a small deficit to Scott

Community’s Joseph Meyer and ran in front by the time the pair hit the front straight-away.

Meyer had taken the early lead, and even fended off a McNutt challenge at the end of the first lap.

“I tried to get past him, but he didn’t want to give it up,” McNutt said.

Meyer even extended his lead as they headed down the backstretch — aided by a strong south wind that affected most of the distance runners.

But that helpful wind turned into a hindrance as the runners rounded the curve. Meyer slowed; McNutt did not.

McNutt finished in 1:56.78, just a fraction of a second slower than his school record and about two seconds off the state record for 3A runners.

HE STARTED his busy afternoon by winning the 400 in 49.72 seconds, a full second in front of his nearest pursuer.

Then came the 800 and his second gold.

McNutt abandoned

his hopes of winning a fourth gold medal, in the 200-meter dash.

He jogged most of the route, partly in order to conserve energy for the upcoming 4x400.

“That, and I knew I was toast early on,” he laughed. “Those guys were pretty fast.”

AGUIRRE added to his state medal hardware earlier Saturday.

After winning three medals at two prior state meets in Class 2A, Aguirre earned the seventh-place medal in the Class 3A 110-meter high hurdles, finishing with a time of 15.78 seconds.

THE MEET brings to a conclusion a track career for some of Humboldt’s most decorated senior athletes, such as Aguirre and McNutt.

“It still hasn’t sunk in,” said McNutt, who will continue his track and field career next year at Pittsburg State University. “It probably won’t for another 20 years, until we have kids in high school.”

H Schools onds out of a qualifying spot.

“I’m just happy to get a state medal in something,” she said.

“I thought Ashley did a very nice job in the 400, even though she didn’t qualify,” Smith said.

IOLA’S Breanna Stout, a senior, came up agonizingly close to a state medal in the girls pole vault.

Stout cleared a career-high 9 feet, 6 inches — tied for the fifth best mark in the state in Class 4A — but was relegated to ninth place by accounting for misses at lower heights.

The near miss mattered little, she said.

“I’m thrilled with how I did,” she said. “It was nice to get a personal best.”

“Even though Breanna didn’t medal, she was pretty elated,” Smith agreed.

IOLA’S ONLY other competitor also has a strong chance at returning next year.

Sophomore Emery Driskel competed in both the 100- and 300-meter hurdles races.

She ran the 100 hurdles in 16.87 seconds, or .37 seconds out of the final qualifying spot.

Driskel ran the 300 hurdles in 51.12 seconds, or about 2.5 seconds slower than the final qualifier.

Smith noted Driskel was hampered by a sore foot in the days leading up to the race, which limited her practice time.

“She was a little disappointed,” Smith said. “She just didn’t get the quick start in the 100 like she wanted for that first hurdle.

But she’s just a sophomore.

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Otis-Bison’s Jordan Hoffman was nearly a full second faster than his nearest pursuer in the preliminaries, but withdrew because of a leg injury, Houk said.

Houk missed out on a second medal by .15 seconds, this coming in the 400-meter dash preliminaries Friday afternoon. Houk finished in 53.25 seconds.

The eighth and final qualifier had a time of 53.10 seconds.

Houk also competed in the 100-meter dash. He failed to qualify with a time of 11.54 seconds, 11th fastest. Crest High’s Rene Rodriguez was nearly stride for stride with Houk, finishing an eyelash slower, at 11.57 seconds.

“I ran OK,” Houk said. “I was just happy to make it to state in four events. To get a medal was pretty cool, too.”

CREST’S Kurston Gilliland capped her storied high school career with another throwing medal Saturday.

She finished seventh in the 1A girls with a throw of 116 feet, 4 inches. On Friday, Gilliland took home third place in the shot put with a throw of 39’8 1/2” and narrowly missed a medal in the discus, finishing 10th at 101’8”.

Also in Class 1A, Southern Coffey County’s Walker Harred capped his season with a fourth-place finish in the 1A boys discus. He

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finished with a throw of 148’9”.

The Lady Titan’s 4x800meter relay squad of Chenae Newkirk, Martyna Hegwald, Sarah Webb and Jessica Cole took home 14th with a time of 11 minutes, 18.67 seconds.

IN CLASS 2A, Yates Center’s squad featured a bevy of young talent that failed to produce any medals, but did gain plenty of experience.

On Saturday, Riley Albert failed to qualify in the girls’ 100-meter dash, finishing in 13.79 seconds.

Drake Busteed raced twice, finishing 12th in the 1600-meter run with a time of 4:29.20 and 13th in the 800-meter run with a time

At left, Southern Coffey County’s Jessica Cole, foreground, gets the baton from teammate Sarah Webb in the Class 1A girls 4x800-meter relay Saturday. At right, Yates Center’s MaKayla Jones competes in the 2A girls shot put.

of 2:10.72.

Yates Center’s Jones brought home 15th in the girls shot put with a throw of 30’8 1/4”.

“We are extremely proud of our efforts even though we did not medal,” Yates Center coach Dan Berg said. “We sent out a lot of young kids and they performed well for their first efforts. All the kids have been great to work with this year and we are looking forward to next year. We are going to miss our fouryear letter winners Ceaton and Paige (Steinforth). They added so much to our program with their work effort and leadership. They will be sorely missed.”

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Red Cross fund for Sandy aid still unspent

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Allen County Hospital Board of Trustees meeting, 7 p.m., Mary Ellen Stadler Meeting Room.

Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building at Riverside Park.

USD 257 School Board meeting, 6:30 p.m., Iola High School lecture hall.

American Red Cross office meeting, Emprise Bank, 9-11:30 a.m.

Wednesday

Iola BPDE No. 569 meeting, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge.

Thursday

TOPS No. KS 880, 5 p.m. weigh-in, 5:30 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church.

Rotary Club, noon, The New Greenery.

Allen County Farmers Market, 5:30 to 7 p.m., southwest corner of the square.

Friday

Senior Citizens’ Card Club, 5:30 p.m., Iola Senior Citizens Center.

See, Hear Iola, New Community Building at Riverside Park, 10 a.m.

is to wait to see how the hardest-hit states allocate a $60 billion pot of federal relief dollars and address gaps in the government aid package.

"We are waiting to see where the greatest need is going to be over time," said Josh Lockwood, CEO of the Red Cross Greater New York Region. "We

looking," he said. "But the important needs, from the cost perspective and the recipient perspective, take place after the headlines are gone and after the cameras are gone."

Red Cross officials noted that a year after a tornado killed 158 people in Joplin, Mo., it found itself providing a new round of

Our experience shows that as the recovery goes on, the needs of survivors will evolve. It’s important to make sure some money is available for those needs no one can predict right now. — Roger Lowe, Red Cross senior vice president

are more concerned with spending our resources wisely rather than quickly."

Some disaster relief experts said holding funds in reserve was indeed a smart move.

Much of the toughest and most expensive relief work after a natural disaster comes not during the initial months but during the long-term rebuilding phase after the public's attention has waned and new donations have stopped flowing, said Patrick Rooney, associate dean at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

"It would be splashier, perhaps, to spend the money right away while the media is still there and the donors are still

mental health services to survivors. The cholera epidemic that killed thousands of people following a massive earthquake in Haiti, where the Red Cross was also criticized for not spending donations faster, also didn't start until nearly a year after the disaster.

The Red Cross says it is planning substantial grants to other nonprofit groups doing Sandy recovery work and is doing much of its current work in conjunction with charitable partners with local ties.

Red Cross volunteers working in conjunction with the organizing group New York Cares are going out several days a week to muck and clean flooded homes and remove mold.

Red Cross staff and caseworkers have been holding "unmet needs roundtables" in hard-hit communities, trying to identify victims not covered by traditional aid programs.

"Our experience shows that as the recovery goes on, the needs of survivors will evolve," said Roger Lowe, Red Cross senior vice president. "It's important to make sure some money is available for those needs no one can predict right now."

Other organizations that raised large sums for the relief effort have also held back money while they evaluated the wisest way to spend it.

The Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, led by Mary Pat Christie, the wife of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, raised $32 million after the storm but didn't begin awarding grants on a large scale until April.

So far, it has given about $11 million, with the biggest grants going to local organizations building or repairing housing.

The United Way, which raised $9.7 million in a Sandy recovery fund for New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and some parts of Pennsylvania, said it has spent about $4 million of that total to date, though another $2.5 million is set to go out soon.

"We always knew, from the very beginning, that our fund and our resources would be for longer-term strategies,"

said United Way of New York City President Sheena Wright. "We feel good about the timeframe."

That strategy of holding some cash to spend later contrasts with the approach taken by the Robin Hood Foundation, which was in charge of distributing more than $70 million raised by a Dec. 12 benefit concert by Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones and other music royalty.

That fund was depleted entirely by April, with grants given to 400 relief organizations ranging from food banks to legal services to volunteer rebuilding groups.

Robin Hood spokeswoman Patty Smith said the foundation moved as fast as it could because it believed that delays in government aid were leaving big gaps in services.

Red Cross officials say they have the ability to meet both long-term and short-term needs, noting the organization has served 17 million meals and snacks, distributed 7 million relief items, mobilized 17,000 workers and volunteers, and provided 81,000 overnight stays.

Its efforts won over early critics like Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, who assailed the Red Cross response in the days immediately after the storm but now praises it as having provided vital help.

"They've come a long way since Day One," Molinaro said.

Curse of the cruise ship: fire breaks out on voyage BALTIMORE (AP) — For the second time this year, a fire at sea has aborted a cruise ship's voyage.

This time, aboard Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas and the ship's 2,200 passengers were expected back in Baltimore on Tuesday after being flown on charter flights from the Bahamas.

The fire that began at 2:50 a.m. Monday was extinguished about two hours later with no injuries reported. A cause wasn't immediately known but the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board planned to investigate.

The ship, which left Baltimore on Friday for a seven-night cruise, was headed originally to CocoCay, Bahamas. Royal Caribbean said the ship never lost power and was able to sail into port in Freeport, Bahamas, Monday afternoon.

The ship launched in 1996 and was refurbished last year.

Royal Caribbean said on its website and through social media that executives met with passengers in port and that the cruise line was arranging flights

for all 2,224 guests. Also, passengers will get a full refund of their fare and a certificate for a future cruise.

Aboard ship, the captain announced that passengers needed to go to their muster stations, said passenger Mark J. Ormesher

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at their stations for four hours and the captain provided us as much information as we needed to stay safe. —Mark J. Ormesher, passenger

in an email to The Associated Press. Immediately after, his room attendant knocked on the door and told him and his girlfriend to grab their flotation devices. The attendant said it wasn't a drill.

Ormesher, a native of England, who lives in Manassas, Va., said he and his girlfriend smelled acrid smoke as they went to their muster station, the ship's casino. The crew quickly provided instruction.

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As Americans open their wallets to assist tornado victims in Oklahoma, the Red Cross is again emerging as one of the most important relief organizations on the ground and also one of the most prodigious fundraisers for victims. As of Thursday, it had raised approximately $15 million in donations and pledges for the tornado response, including a $1 million gift from NBA star Kevin Durant and numerous $10 donations, pledged via text.

The Red Cross was also the No. 1 recipient of donations after Sandy. The organization said it still had $110 million remaining from its pool of storm donations as of mid-April, which were the most recent figures available.

Red Cross officials pledged that all the money in its Sandy fund will eventually be spent on the storm recovery and not diverted to other disasters or used to support general Red Cross operations.

Over the next few months, the Red Cross expects to spend as much as $27 million of its remaining Sandy donations on a program providing "move-in assistance" grants of up to $10,000 to families displaced by the storm. About 2,000 households have been assisted by the program so far, with an additional 4,000 waiting for an eligibility determination.

Part of the delay in spending, officials said,

“

NEW YORK (AP) — Seven months after Superstorm Sandy, the Red Cross still hasn't spent more than a third of the $303 million it raised to assist victims of the storm, a strategy the organization says will help address needs that weren't immediately apparent in the disaster's wake.

Some disaster relief experts say that's smart planning. But others question whether the Red Cross, an organization best known for rushing into disasters to distribute food and get people into shelter, should have acted with more urgency in the weeks after the storm and left long-haul recovery tasks to someone else.

"The Red Cross has never been a recovery operation. Their responsibility has always been mass care," said Ben Smilowitz, executive director of the Disaster Accountability Project, a nonprofit group that monitors aid groups.

"Stick with what you're good at."

Storm victims could have used more help this past winter, said Kathleen McCarthy, director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Civil Society at the City University of New York.

"People were cold.

Homes mildewed. There wasn't enough decent housing," she said. "Given the lingering despair, it's hard to understand the argument that 'We are setting that money aside.'"

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and on his first cruise, said the air conditioner had been shut off, and as the hours passed and the ship got hot, bottled water was distributed. The crew and passengers remained calm, and helped those who needed it. Crying babies were given formula and held while their parents used the bathrooms.

PHOTOS SHOW a substantial area of the stern burned on several decks of the ship the length of about three football fields.

Royal Caribbean said all guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for.

Royal Caribbean spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez

said in an email that the company was arranging 11 different charter flights.

The company in a statement on its website said it is "deeply sorry for this unexpected development in our guests' vacation. We understand that this may have been a very stressful time for them. We appreciate their patience and cooperation in dealing with this unfortunate situation."

Carnival Corp. also had trouble with fire aboard ship earlier this year.

The 900-foot (275-meter) Triumph was disabled during a February cruise by an engine room fire in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving thousands of passengers to endure cold food, unsanitary conditions and power outages while the ship was towed to Mobile, Ala. It remained there for repairs until early May when it headed back to sea under its own power.

On the Royal Caribbean ship, after passengers were allowed to leave their stations, Ormesher said he saw water on the outside of deck 5 and in the hallways. The mooring lines were destroyed he said; crew members brought new lines from storage.

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The effort consists of turning off our ammonia feed and increasing our free chlorine feed in order to maintain a more uniform disinfection level throughout the city water distribution system. You may notice a taste or odor of chlorine in your water, this is normal in the process and the water is completely safe for use.

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Monday-Friday. Sealed bids must be submitted to ANW Cooperative, 710 Bridge St., Humboldt, KS 66748 until noon on June 11th. Bids will be opened on June 12th at the monthly Board Meeting. ANW Board of Education reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids on these vehicles.

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KHI News Service/Phil Cauthon Children’s Cabinet chair Amanda Adkins, left, and cabinet member Shannon Cotsoradis, chief executive of Kansas Action for Children.

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By MIKE SHIELDS KHI News Service

TOPEKA — Attorney General Derek Schmidt Friday made public a letter he sent to the chair of the Kansas Children’s Cabinet describing his agency's role in tobacco settlement arbitration and responding to criticisms that his agency has not been forthcoming with information.

The Attorney General's Office emailed a copy of the letter to KHI News Service at 5:04 p.m. after most offices had emptied out for the three-day Memorial Day weekend.

In the letter, Schmidt said he now could now offer "a clearer snapshot" of the arbitration agreement since Friday was the deadline for other states party to the arbitration to opt-in to the agreement that Kansas already has signed off on.

Kansas has received an average of about $56 million a year for it’s share of the Master Settlement Agreement struck in 1998 between attorneys general from 46 states and the major tobacco companies to settle litigation filed by the states seeking to recoup the costs of treating sick smokers.

The Attorney General's Office has been tasked with supervising the settlement and its payments, which typically in Kansas have been used to fund programs that benefit at-risk chil-

dren and their families.

Kansas Action for Children, a Topekabased advocacy group, has criticized the Attorney General’s Office for not providing more information about the arbitration agreement, particularly after it was learned last month that Kansas was receiving about $12 million more than expected. KAC said the attorney general disclosed that information late in the Legislature's budget deliberations.

It also has filed suit in Shawnee County District Court claiming the attorney general has failed to comply with the state's Open Records law.

In his letter to the Children's Cabinet chair, Amanda Adkins, Schmidt defended his actions, saying he has been as forthcoming as possible given the ongoing nature of the legal dispute and given the vagaries of knowing how much money the state will receive in future years as a result of the settlement.

New information in the letter included disclosure that the state can expect another $17.3 million next year as a result of the arbitration agreement. But Schmidt said he couldn't accurately forecast the amount of other settlement dollars because the sum would be based on tobacco sales that have not yet occurred or been calculated.

Kan. budget plan ends ‘carve out’ for disabilities TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are backing the Brownback administration's desires to shift services for the intellectually and developmentally disabled into the state's new managed care system, a move opposed by disability advocates.

The plan ends a special exemption, or carve-out as it is called, for developmental disability services and puts those clients in the state's KanCare health system, which is managed by three private health insurance com-

panies.

Advocates are wary of putting the services in the hands of insurance companies Gov. Sam Brownback and his allies believe that the Medicaid overhaul that took effect in January will cut the state's costs and provide better-coordinated and more effective care.

Rep. Arlen Siegfreid, an Olathe Republican, said studies suggest that bringing the developmentally disabled under a managed care system produces the best outcomes.

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The law wins in parking dispute Dear Tom and Ray:

My question regards parking etiquette. Recently, a neighbor has been parking his car in front of our house on a daily/nightly basis.

From what I can gather, this neighbor lives in a “group house” of about four individuals. Their driveway fits only two cars, and there’s room for only one at the curb in front of the house.

So, this neighbor has adopted my curb as his car’s new home. While I am aware that it’s technically a “public” street, this is, in my opinion, very rude — but more importantly, it’s inconvenient. I have a single-lane driveway for both my car and my wife’s car. I often travel to the airport and come home late at night, or have a need to travel to an early-morning meeting. So I have need to use my curb to park my car, on occasion. My car is a manual transmission, and my wife cannot drive a stick, so any movement of my car requires me to do it.

As it stands, I often am forced to park down the street or around the corner from my own house.

And I recently held a dinner party where my guests could not park in front of my house.

Vandals in custody JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Officials in Junction City are estimating the damage done by vandals at an elementary school at more than $250,000.

Police said the damage at Westwood Elementary was discovered after three teens were taken into custody around 8 a.m. Monday on suspicion of shoplifting at a Dollar General store.

Officers reported finding items from Westwood Elementary on one or more of the teens. Police then went to the school and found extensive damage throughout the building.

Details of the damage weren’t immediately released Monday.

Two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old were in custody on suspicion of burglary, theft, conspiracy and felony property damage. Police were seeking a fourth person they believe was also involved.

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We live in suburbia, not the city — everyone here has a driveway and plenty of room to park.

At a minimum, it’s unsightly and annoying,

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Tom and Ray Magliozzi and very un-neighborly.

I’ve left polite notes to this neighbor letting him know these facts, and in a recent note, I mentioned “I don’t park my car in front of your house, so why do you park your car in front of mine?” Do you have any advice? — Duane RAY: Yeah: Start by apologizing. It’s not “technically” a public street, Duane. It IS a public street. So you have no right to claim it as private property.

TOM: Can you ask your neighbor, as a favor, to leave that spot open for you when possible? Sure. And if you have a neighborly relationship, and he has other reasonable options, he’ll probably accommodate you. But you’ve started off the negotiations on the wrong foot by accusing him of behaving badly.

RAY: When someone starts a conversation with you by saying, “Hey, jerk!” how open are you to helping the guy?

TOM: Now, we know, you say you started off politely. But you may think you’re being more polite than you are. Saying “I don’t do this rude thing to you, yet you do it to me” puts the other guy on the defensive.

And since he has the law on his side, you’ve given up your most potent weapon: an appeal to his good nature and benevolence.

RAY: So here’s what I’d do: Start over. Start by getting to know your neighbors.

Nothing helps resolve a situation like seeing each other as actual human beings rather than “some jerk in a group house” or “some grouchy old guy who thinks he owns the street.” Learn your neighbors’ names, and find out what they do.

Be neighborly first. You even might invite them over for a meal.

TOM: And poison them.

RAY: Don’t listen to my brother. He’s been hated in every neighborhood he’s ever lived in. Once you have some kind of basic relation-

ship established, then you’ll be in a position to ask for a favor. That is, in fact, what you’re asking for.

TOM: And here’s the secret: Most people LIKE doing favors for other people. It feels good to help another person. They just don’t like being forced to accommodate other people. So ask really nicely.

Explain that you know he has every right to park anywhere on the street. But say that because of your work and family situation, it really helps you a lot if you can park in front of your house, and you’re wondering if he might do you a favor and leave that space open whenever it’s not inconvenient for him.

RAY: And ask him if there’s anything you can do for HIM in return. It’s possible that this relationship has already been poisoned, and you’re just going to have to live with the life-shortening effects of having a bad neighbor. But maybe you still can turn it around.

TOM: Understanding your position (that you need a favor from him) is an important starting point in any negotiation. Good luck, Duane.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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Cowley keeping concealed carry WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) — Cowley College in Winfield will continue banning concealed weapons inside its buildings and residence halls as officials study how to implement a new Kansas law.

The law taking effect July 1 prohibits most public entities from banning concealed firearms

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Fighting cancer: it’s all in the family Four sisters and their extended family members celebrated Saturday for their efforts to fight cancer in the Relay for Life fundraising effort.

The sisters’ team, Sisters for Life, was the top team in Allen County

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The sisters are Ina Railsback, Edna Donovan, Joan Hess and Jean Parker.

Loren Railsback, Ina’s husband, is a cancer survivor.

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The group is on its way to meeting its 2013 goal of $15,000, Ina Railsback said.

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