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Audit looks at property seizure practices The Iola Police Department will enact administrative changes in light of an audit examining how law enforcement agencies handle seized property and comply with civil forfeiJared Warner ture laws. The audit — made public this week by the Topeka Capital Journal — was funded by the state Legislature’s auditing arm to examine practices at IPD, as well as at the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Highway Patrol, Sedgwick County Sheriff ’s Department and Salina and Coffeyville police departments. The goal was to sample a portion of the state’s 300 local and state agencies and share findings with lawmakers. State lawmakers considSee AUDIT | Page A3
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While the 2016 Summer Olympics got underway Friday, Allen County Fair participants had their annual Barnyard Olympics to entertain the crowds on Thursday. At left, Delaney Umholtz takes a swing at a water bottle with a tennis ball attached to her head with a nylon hose. At top right, Brandi Grisier, left, holds a cup so it can be filled with water by teammate Carly Dreher. Looking on are Jill Keller and Brody Nemecek. At middle right, Derick Hanson, an adult leader with City Slickers, crab walks his way through the show arena for another competition. Thursday’s activities wrapped up with the 4-H FFA Livestock Auction, where Marlee Miller was among the sellers. PHOTOS BY RICK DANLEY AND BOB JOHNSON
Streets upgrade underway By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
From left, Katrina Roush and Michelle Meiwes of Iola’s Hope Unlimited, Iola Elks Lodge member Jon Wells and Murray Satterfield of Chanute’s Faith House purchase several carts of bathroom essentials to benefit clients of both organizations. COURTESY PHOTO
Elks aid area agencies A pair of local organizations who deal with people having to leave home for whatever got a significant boost from the Iola Elks Lodge. The Elks purchased $2,000 worth of bathroom, bedding and kitchen supplies to split between Hope Unlimited and Faith House. The idea was to provide everything a person would need if they needed to get into a new home or were leaving an unstable environment, explained Jon Wells, an Elks member. “We realized that if you left everything behind, or didn’t have anything to start with, there’s a lot of money in the bathroom that makes it very difficult to start over,” Wells said in a press release. “If you just look around the bathroom it’s usually one of the most cluttered spaces and it’s cluttered with costly ne-
cessities, even more costly if you have kids, and especially teenagers.” The funds came from a “Gratitude Grant” made available from the Elks National Foundation, which can be used to benefit agencies dealing with employment, homelessness and housing, military families, health and educational support. Hope Unlimited in a nonprofit organization based in Iola that serves victims of domestic or sexual abuse. Faith House is a Chanutebased homeless shelter that serves clients in Neosho and Allen counties, including Iola. The Iola Elks members wound up filling 10 shopping carts with everything from toothpaste and toothbrushes to towels, bath mats, razors and cleaning supplies, Wells said.
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HUMBOLDT — Humboldt’s new Zipper, as its name portends, zipped through several layers of old chip-and-seal on 12th Street Thursday. The street’s surface was ground to fine aggregate in preparation for an upgrade. According to City Administrator Cole Herder, the plan is to reconstitute 12 blocks from Wulf Drive, which runs along the south side of Sweatt Park and its diamonds, to Bridge Street, the main east-west avenue through town. Herder said another 12 blocks would be done, “more if we have the money.” After the Zipper does its chore, the tossed leavings are graded and rolled, “to about as hard as concrete,” Herder observed. Then, two applications of oil and small-diameter rock, from Allen County’s quarry, are applied. “Two chip-and-seal layers will last longer,” and ensure, he thinks, the master strategy to do a fourth of the city’s street in quadrants, one every for years. To aid the process portions of streets that have held up well will be skipped, which the Zipper, having a 30-inch head, can accommodate. This isn’t the first time the machine, acquired
Derrick Onnen gives direction to Larry Kress, whose front-end loader is the platform for Humboldt’s new street-grinding Zipper. In the background Jeremy Bulk drives a grader, used to smooth material after it’s torn to pieces. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON earlier this year for $91,000 in a five-year lease-purchase agreement, has been used. The four-block-long entrance to Mount Hope Cemetery was redone and four blocks in particular need throughout the city also were rebuilt. Lower-priced oil has been an advantage for Humboldt’s street improvements. “We’re paying $13,000 a tanker (6,000 gallons) and it was $18,000 last year,” Herder said. Also, the city found oil cheaper by piggy-backing its purchases with the county, which often finds a favor-
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able price by buying several tanker loads. The county also furnishes rock — and, in fact, did Humboldt’s chip-and-seal in previous years as it does for several other Allen County towns. A part of the reason Humboldt purchased the Zipper was because of its versatility. With the 30-inch grinding head small sections of streets that need attention may be dealt with rather than having to tear up more than is required. Humboldt will make its first of five $20,000 lease-purchase payments in March.
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