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Rotary taps local to lead district By SHELLIE SMITLEY The Iola Register
Former City Administrator Judy Brigham will be installed as Rotary governor of District 6110 tonight in a ceremony at Liberty Theatre, Fort Scott. “It’s my job to make sure all of the clubs are doing the things that they are supposed to do and reaching the goals they want to reach,” Brigham said. It’s been a 17-year journey for Brigham, having joined “my first grown-up club” in 2000. “It was the first club that I joined not because I was a parent, but because I was an adult,” Brigham mused. Her becoming a Rotarian wouldn’t have occurred a few years earlier. In 1989 Rotary International tweaked its constitution and bylaws to shift the organization from an all-male body. Even today, Brigham noted, there are Rotary clubs that do not encourage women to join. “They do not say no women, but there are no women” in their club, she said. Not so with Iola’s. Women quickly became an integral part of Iola Rotary, taking leadership roles and often being
the driving force for projects. Melody Snesrud completed a year as Rotary president on June 30. Brigham directed activities of the Iola club in 2004 as its president. She then served three years as assistant district manager. She has been working toward the governor position during that time. District governors are chosen three years in advance and complete a series of training requirements. Once appointed they serve for a year. Twenty-four assistant governors and three lieutenant governors will assist her in serving the 79 clubs and 4,300 members throughout the four states of District 6110, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. A personal focus is to encourage members of each club to show support by attending sponsored events around the district. Brigham has been at the forefront personally in support of Rotary programs aimed at helping the less fortunate. She has been involved in three Rotary mission trips, including, most recently, to Mexico to distribute wheelchairs. “It’s a great way to spend your free time,” she said of the mission trips.
Iolan Judy Brigham was recently elected Rotary District 6110 governor for 2017-18. The district includes parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri. REGISTER/SARAH WEIDE Brigham is proud of the Rotary’s most prominent project, the worldwide eradication of polio, a program which began in 1985. “We are down to the last three countries,” she said. “It’s been billions of dollars and lots of partnerships.”
Rotary has been a partnership between Brigham and her husband Tom. They have traveled extensively together, domestically and to foreign countries, often with a focus on Rotary projects, programs and ideals. Next year (2018-19), Tom
will be the president of the Iola Rotary Club, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary in February. He agreed to accept the Rotary reins, Tom joked, only when Judy agreed to be his See BRIGHAM | Page A6
Moran weathers tough town hall By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press
Jenkins praises USD 257’s food program U.S. Rep Lynn Jenkins visited USD 257’s Summer Food Program at noon Friday, making a point to congratulate Director Kathy Koehn on the program’s success. Jenkins’ appearance was special, part of Lunch Across Kansas Month. The event, sponsored by Kansas Appleseed and the Kansas State Department of Education, encourages summer meals sponsors to provide activities or events to increase participation. Science-themed activites on Friday in Riverside Park gave kids a fun look at various aspects of the discipline. Koehn said having something special on Fridays had led to an uptick in the number of kids participating in the meals program. Jenkins applauded the
PALCO (AP) — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran faced tough questions Thursday at a town hall meeting in his home county packed with critics of Republican efforts to overhaul health care, showing that even a tiny town deep in Trump territory in a Republican state isn’t isolated from the political discontent in Washington. Moran had his first town
hall meeting of the short Fourth of July congressional break in Palco, a town with fewer than 300 residents about 270 miles west Jerry Moran of the Kansas City area, the kind of event he’s held hundreds of times over the past two decades. Palco is in Rooks County, where Moran grew up. President Donald
Trump carried it with 84 percent of the vote in last year’s presidential race, and there is no organized Democratic Party. But about 150 people tried to squeeze into a community center room set up to hold less than half that number, with many of them from outside the area. While the audience applauded Moran for opposing a health care bill written by Senate GOP leaders, the applause was louder See MORAN | Page A6
ACC boosts online learning with new hires By SHELLIE SMITLEY The Iola Register
At top, Jessica Francis, 9, enjoys her fries, while, at bottom, USD 257 Director of Nutritional Services Kathy Koehn poses with Rep. Lynn Jenkins. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
summer program as a good use of federal dollars flowing through the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The online learning program continues to flourish at Allen Community College. Regena Aye, dean for online learning, reported to board members that Spring 2017 showed an 81 percent success rate. Summer enrollment was stronger than expected with 1,166 students. Fall orientation opens July 21. In preparation for the fall semester the college has Online adjunct instructors Penny Moylan, left, and Valerie Jaffee. hired online adjunct instruc- and earned an undergradu- Kansas Supreme Court in the tors Valerie Jaffee and Penny ate degree from Towson Uni- capacity of deputy disciplinMoylan. versity. She moved to Topeka ary administrator. Litigation Moylan is preparing to in 1982 to attend Washburn has brought Moylan to Iola in teach business law — a sub- University, where she earned the past. ject that appeals to pre-law a law degree. Moylan has 17 “It seems like a great students and business ma- years of private practice un- town,” she said. “I like the jors, she said. der her belt. For the last five location and it seems like a She graduated from high years she has worked for the See ACC | Page A6 school in Damascus, Md.,
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