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Today: Veterans Day service Keynote address, 11 a.m. Parade, noon courthouse square
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Iolan Carol Sager will become executive director of the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce Dec. 1. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
Iolan brings energy to Chamber post By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register
With a sunny-side-up disposition, Carol Sager is perfect as the “face of Iola.” Sager takes the helm at the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce beginning Dec. 1. Her experience in not only retail sales but also private industry, gives her a running start in her new role. “My first goal is to build up membership by reaching out to those who have let theirs
drop and to let them know we will work for them,” she said. “I will listen to their concerns and their hopes. I will be a face around town. People will see me, and get to know me.” That confidence comes from Sager’s warm, embracing nature, and her desire to make her hometown “the best it can be.” A NATIVE of Iola, Sager graduated from Iola High School in 1978. Her maiden name is Cason; the daughter
of Bob and the late Pauline Cason. After graduation, she attended Allen Community College. In 1981, she married Keith Hedden of Chanute, where they remained and raised two children, a daughter, Candace, and a son, Colt. Keith was employed by FedEx Freight. Carol, meanwhile, had several jobs, including managing a clothing store called Anthony’s, which later was sold to Stage Stores. She also ran the
computer lab at Chanute High School before she landed a position with Welding Services, Inc., and then lastly with Pacer Oil Co., from 2010 to 2015. When Pacer closed its Chanute office in March of this year Sager found herself without a job, for the first time in many years. She filled the free time quickly, including volunteering at Second Chance, the second-hand store whose proSee SAGER | Page A8
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has slashed its revenue projections, and Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s budget director has announced immediate budget adjustments so the state keeps paying its bills on time. State officials and university economists on Friday issued a new, more pessimistic forecast for state government. The new forecast predicts $354 million less in state revenues from now through June 2017 than previously predicted. The new forecast created a deficit in the state’s current budget. Budget director Shawn Sullivan immediately announced $124 million in budget adjustments to close the gap and avoid delays in meeting the state’s bills.
HONORING OUR VETS
Doug Northcutt
Gulf War veteran sets sights on preserving VFW By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
LAHARPE — There was a time when the LaHarpe Veterans of Foreign Wars post housed one of the largest civic organizations in Allen County. In its early days, the VFW’s rolls were filled with soldiers fresh out of World War II, and it had more than 200 active members, Doug Northcutt noted. Those numbers have steadily dropped, as that
generation grew older, and veterans of more recent conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan have been less likely to join, explained Northcutt, commander of the LaHarpe VFW post. “I was probably the same way,” said Northcutt, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm in Iraq. “I really didn’t want to have anything to do with any of it. But as you get older, you learn about what they do, and See VFW | Page A6
Quote of the day Vol. 118, No. 10
COURTESY OF THE IOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY
WWII poster program at library Tuesday Iola Public Library will offer to the public for the first time Tuesday a glimpse of several World War II posters the library had unknowingly stored for decades. Librarian Roger Carswell will show the roughly three dozen posters at 7 p.m. Tuesday — the evening before Veterans Day — while providing an explanation of why they convey the messages they do. The library has had the
posters since World War II, but most laid forgotten in the basement for many years. “Some years ago I was cleaning out some shelves in the basement and I ran across the posters in a pile of other paper items, mostly junk,” Carswell said. “No one knew they were there. They had evidently been retained, luckily, when the new library was built about 50 years ago, but probably promptly for-
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gotten again.” Since some of them had the library’s address printed on them for mailing purposes, it was obvious that the posters had been sent to the library during the war. Carswell moved the pile of posters to his office, where the Allen County Historical Museum borrowed a few of them for a display, and Bill See POSTERS | Page A6
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