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Another charge for murder suspect By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Iolan Amber Boeken, charged with first-degree murder in the death of Shawn Cook, faces an additional charge of battering a corrections officer. Allen County Attorney Jerry Hathaway filed the felony charge this week in Allen County District Court. “She had an issue with one of the corrections officers,” Sheriff Bryan Murphy said. The alleged incident occurred April 26 at Allen County Jail, where Boeken is being held. Boeken, 24, is scheduled
to appear in front of Judge Thomas Saxton Wednesday regarding the battery charge. She also appeared in front of Saxton this week for a status hear- Amber Boeken ing regarding the Cook death. During the hearing, she filed a paper asserting her Fifth, Sixth and 14th Amendment rights. The Fifth Amendment deals with her right to remain silent; the Sixth See CHARGES | Page A3
Senate VP won’t run again TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A top Republican in the Kansas Senate announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election, partly in response to his colleagues’ unwillingness to address the state’s budget problems. Senate Vice President Jeff King of Independence issued a statement saying the Legislature’s recent veto session — in which his colleagues approved a budget
that leaves it up to Gov. Sam Brownback to make deep cuts to balance it — “shows the harm of putting politics Sen. Jeff King over good government.” “I am not attacking the See KING | Page A3
Oneda Grimes unveils her latest quilt, which will be displayed in Garnett today. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY
She shares passion for patching By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
G
ARNETT — The Quilt Lady lives in a small house surrounded by trailer homes on a hill overlooking a lake. Inside, the house is dimly lit, the afternoon sun pressing softly against closed blinds. Entering through the door nearest the carport, the Quilt Lady apologizes — unnecessarily — for the mess: “When I get to working on a quilt, everything else goes to pot.
Come on in.” As soon as the backdoor opens, Maggie, a small white tousle-haired mutt charges from the shadows, barking so furiously that her paws come off the ground with each yap. The Quilt Lady drives Maggie back, eventually trapping the dog in the master bedroom, the centerpiece of which is a lush purple and white quilt draped across the bed. “This is one I made last year. See?” IN FACT, there’s barely a square inch of Oneda Grimes’ Garnett home that isn’t
adorned with some item of her own design. Quilts slung over furniture. Quilt panels hanging from the wall. Her variegated curtains are handsewn. There’s an intricatelypatterned cover draped over a side table. “That?” she says, “No, no. I got that at Goodwill.” “THEY USED TO call me the Quilt Lady. My granddaughter was in Iola one day, at the doctor’s, and she was See QUILTING | Page A6
New vaping rules get mixed reviews By MEGAN HART KHI News Service
From left, Breck Alonzo, who attends preschool at the Growing Place in Humboldt, pets a pot belly pig, held by Jesse Robb, while River Lemaster, left, and Seth Franey, who are home-schooled in Garnett, make friends with a kangaroo. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
Animals galore excite youngsters, elders alike By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Becky Robb gave kids and adults a chance to see, pet and bond with a wide representation of her menagerie at Riverside Park Thursday. “This is the fourth year I’ve had the animals here,” Robb said, allowing it was easier for her to trailer the animals, from common to exotic, to the park than make them acces-
sible at her rural home. They were in the barn where come fair time she will have many again for a pet zoo. First-grade students from all Iola schools, as well preschoolers and others from daycares, began arriving late morning, with the total topping out at about 225. Delegations from nursing homes also were invited, and passersby who couldn’t resist stopping.
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After viewing and petting animals, kids were invited to do crafts, play games and even milk Allen County Farm Bureau’s fabricated cow. One enclosure held a pair of Jacob sheep, and a newborn who arrived Wednesday. Another had the younger of two camels Robb owns. “I don’t have a trailer big enough for the older one, and it would hit its head on the rafters” of the barn where the took up short
term residence. A kangaroo was encouraged with soda crackers to cozy up to kids, and a tortoise, as large as a wash pan, worked its way around the edges of a pen. The tortoise, said Robb, is “15 to 20 years old and can live to be 150.” Kids oohed and aahed and giggled, and a couple even had tears when it came time to leave.
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Kansas health advocates lauded the Food and Drug Administration’s decision Thursday to regulate electronic cigarettes, while those in the vaping industry pointed to harm to businesses and people trying to quit smoking. The FDA announced that it would ban selling or giving free samples of e-cigarettes and their nicotine cartridges, cigars, hookahs and pipe tobacco to people younger than 18. Kansas law already forbids the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. But another change the FDA announced Thursday may be more farreaching. Any tobacco or nicotine product that went on the market after Feb. 15, 2007, will have to go before the FDA for approval. Companies have See VAPING | Page A5
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