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The Iola Register
Saturday, June 22, 2013
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Freewheeling sisterhood Humboldt sisters ride across Okla. By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com
Humboldt sisters, from left, Becky Stanley, Terry Broyles and Debby Daniels, were photographed at the conclusion of last week’s OKFreewheel bike ride across Oklahoma.
Fuse lit for Melvin run, July 12-13
HUMBOLDT — Sisters share a special bond, few more so than three in Humboldt. When one joined tap dance
The Charlie Melvin Mad Bomber Run celebration’s fifth annual edition is expected to be the biggest and best yet, Damaris Kunkler told Iola Rotarians Thursday. Kunkler, Thrive Allen County program director, reviewed the history of the event, which started as an adjunct to Iola’s sesquicentennial in 2009. The first year about 400 people participated in the 5K run and 2K walk, which started on West Street in front of the post office. Start time was 12:26 a.m., the exact time when Melvin detonated dynamite that damaged several beer joints and nearby buildings, including Allen County courthouse, but injured no one. Melvin had a thing against consumption of alcohol, and showed his opposition in a
By STEVEN SCHWARTZ steven@iolaregister.com
Thrive Program Director Damaris Kunkler greatly underestimated the response this year’s Movement program would receive. She estimated around 40,000 minutes of activity from the participants — they have logged over 81,000. The eight-week program, meant to motivate people to maintain a healthy lifestyle, was titled “Meltdown” for its first four years. For the fifth year, Kunkler realized that many people had met their weight-loss goals but still needed the program to keep active, hence the name change. “It totally exceeded expectations,” Kunkler said of the registration. As of Wednesday, there were nearly 350 people signed up. For the first time, Kunkler utilized Facebook as a resource for the groups and she has seen an outstanding response. “I’m so pleased with the way the Facebook group has turned out,” she said. “It makes everyone feel like they’re on the same team. It brings people together.” Participants were encouraged to post their “minutes” on the page, pictured at left. Minutes were recorded any time someone was active during the day — whether it was playing with grandchildren or jogging five miles. Also, if registrants posted pictures with their Movement T-shirts on Thursdays, they were entered into a raffle for prizes, with a drawing on the final day of the program, June 26.
We had over 1,000 last year... and hope to have 1,200 or more this year. — Thrive Program Director Damaris Kunkler
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Bon voyage for SAFE BASE kids SAFE BASE director Angela Henry is encouraging the community to send off her students in style on Saturday night. The group, which is heading to Colorado for a weeklong adventure in the mountains, will be leaving on two charter buses at 8:30 p.m. from Lincoln Elementary. Anyone wanting to wave goodbye to the departing 75 students and 25 staff are welcome to join.
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Facebook helps ignite Thrive fitness program
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yles two years ago did a 450mile bike ride across Oklahoma, the OKFreewheel that starts on the south edge of the state and goes to Joplin, Mo. A year ago Becky Stanley, 54, caught the bug, and the two of them peddled across Oklahoma. Debby Daniels, 62, more a horsewoman than bicyclist, decided she didn’t want to be
A SOCIAL ‘MOVEMENT’
By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com
dramatic way. He had stolen dynamite prior to his social misadventure, not all of which went off. The triggering event for the unique community celebration occurred at 12:26 a.m. on July 9, 1905, with the time confirmed by a clock atop the courthouse being stopped by shock waves. Run and walk participation has increased annually, Kunkler pointed out, by about 200 people each year. “We had over 1,000 last year — maybe more because several who were undocumented joined in — and hope to have
lessons in Chanute, soon all three were click-clacking across the floor. Then, Terry Broyles, the eldest at 64, took up distance bicycle riding. In 2008, to celebrate her 60th birthday, she and Peggy Hillman, a Humboldt pastor, started a ride across Kansas, and made it about halfway before Hillman fell from her bike and broke an arm. Ever the adventurer, Bro-
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Karr sheds 170 pounds; turns life around By STEVEN SCHWARTZ steven@iolaregister.com
There is a noticeable difference between June 11, 2012, and June 11, 2013, for Amy Karr — 170.4 pounds to be exact. One year ago, Karr decided she wanted to change her life. She weighed 343 pounds and was not active. Now she weighs half that much. Strangely enough, it took a different sort of life change to act as a catalyst for her transformation. “Honestly it was a broken heart,” Karr said. She and her husband had filed for divorce, she was alone and didn’t like the direction she was heading. “I didn’t like who I was.” So, she started working out, or “killing calories” as she so emphatically put it. “I really didn’t know what I was doing,” she said. “I wasn’t really in the mood to be eating anyway, it didn’t take long to see success.” She enlisted the advice and help of one of her good friends, Christine Dennie, her son Mathew and her doctor. She registered for Thrive Allen County’s Meltdown in 2012 (this year’s program is titled The Movement; Karr is enrolled this year as well). The pounds began to melt off. “I lost 36 and a half pounds in the first eight weeks, and actually won the Meltdown,” Karr said. “I wasn’t expect-
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Amy Karr, above, dropped 170.4 pounds over the course of a year, with the help of friends, family and discipline. She was involved in Thrive’s 2012 Meltdown program and 2013’s Movement.
Trabuc a fitness expert Salena Trabuc is a registered nurse at Allen County Hospital, mother of two, personal trainer and bodybuilder. She has clients across Kansas, in Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri and helps them with weight loss, pregnancy fitness, blood pressure reduction, 5K training, wedding fitness or simply fitting into a swimsuit for
summer. The winner of the Movement will receive three months of training from Trabuc. Her training includes everything from meal planning, cardio workouts and strength training. “How you feel about yourself is the true weight loss transformation proof, not the scale,” Trabuc said in a press release.
Salena Trabuc
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