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THE IOLA REGISTER Monday, March 9, 2015
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OK man missing, presumed dead Chamber lauds
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By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Oklahoma investigators are continuing to piece together the events of Thursday evening that led to the disappearance of Ed Foreman, who has several loved ones in Iola and Allen County. Foreman, 53, has been declared missing and presumed dead by the the Blaine County Sheriff ’s Department in westcentral Oklahoma. “They have an idea of what happened,” said Michelle Diebolt of LaHarpe, Foreman’s girlfriend and mother of their nearly 3-month-old baby. “But we don’t know who did it, or why.” Foreman, 53, was last heard from in a phone conversation with Diebolt as he headed home from work in rural Geary, Okla., at about 6:20 p.m. Thursday. “I knew something was wrong when he didn’t answer my calls later that night,” Diebolt said. “We always call or text each other before we’d go to bed.” The sense of dread deepened the next morning when Foreman failed to show for work. “It was unusual enough that his boss drove 30 minutes to his house,” Diebolt said. Seeing Foreman’s door
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The Iola Area Chamber of Commerce paid tribute to A&W Family Restaurant and the City of Iola Friday. The pair were recognized as the businesses of the year at the chamber’s annual banquet and meeting. A&W was noted as the small business of the year (for 25 or fewer employees), and the city for its large employer, with more than 125.
Loren Korte, chamber board president, spoke about the contributions each made. Jim Daugharthy purchased A&W in 1977, when it relied almost exclusively on carhops with limited inside seating. Daugharthy remodeled the building at different times, “and it evolved into a more contemporary dining room,” Korte said, with a See A&W | Page A4
Raid leads to arrest here This photo shows Michelle Diebolt, Ed Foreman and their son, Grayson, who was born in December. Foreman, 53, is missing and presumed dead after an apparent altercation in his home in Oklahoma. COURTESY PHOTO locked and his vehicle missing, his boss left. Diebolt and Foreman’s other family members began calling area hospitals and police departments, as she made the 5-plus hour drive to his home outside Geary, about 40 miles west of Oklahoma City. Diebolt and Foreman’s landlord arrived at his home
at about the same time. Evidence inside the house — she declined to be specific, other than to say Foreman apparently had been attacked. “Based on the amount of blood, if it was his, there’s no way he could have survived,” she said. See MISSING | Page A4
An Iola woman was arrested Friday after Allen County sheriff ’s deputies and Iola police officers raided a house in Iola. The raid came after authorities executed a search warrant for stolen property. Several of the stolen items were found, deputies said, as was an item suspected to be related to drug use. A second search warrant was executed to find drugrelated items. Kristen N. Dreher was arrested for suspicion of three
counts of burglary, three counts of felony theft, possessing methamphetamine, possessing marijuana, two counts of possessing drug paraphernalia and aggravated child endangerment. Dreher was taken to Allen County Jail, where she is being held without bond. The stolen items were returned to the victim, deputies said. Another suspect has been named, and additional arrests are likely, deputies said.
Works finds himself at home studying abroad By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
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merica’s image abroad could be improved overnight if her tourists were suddenly all as thoughtful, articulate, curious, funny and bright as Colby Works. And while that’s not going to happen any time soon — we’ll continue to export eager quantities of the loud, garish and entitled — it’s a relief to know that on occasion we comport ourselves with grace or wit. Last Friday, Works — just a junior — presented a travelogue of his recent semester abroad, which took him to the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Weaving anecdote and history, Works guided an audience of about 20, mostly Iola High School teachers and administrators, through the highlights of his trip, illustrating his talk with slides and video drawn from his four-months journey. Works is a member of that generation born with camera phones in their hands, and so he comes by his polished vacation photography naturally. But it was his gift for story — for locating, in the mass of his experience, the fresh detail — which provided the impressive backlighting to his hourlong presentation. WORKS ARRIVED in London at the tail end of August, stashed his luggage in a cubby
Colby Works, a junior at Iola High School, spent more than four months in Britain and New Zealand as part of his study abroad. COURTESY PHOTO at a local hostel, and set out to explore the city. “One of the best things about London, from a tourist perspective, is that it’s very walkable and easy to navigate because of the Underground.” The Iolan found his way to most of the major landmarks in the capital — Piccadilly, Big Ben, Westminster, Wimbledon — but, on Friday, he drew his audience’s attention to an art installation at the Tower of London, whose presence, intended to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, coincided with Works’ visit. The piece was comprised
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of nearly one million bright red ceramic poppies, each one standing in for a British soldier who died during the Great War. Works showed a picture of the castle with a crimson waterfall spilling out of one of the rag-stone windows and onto the grass below. The piece was being installed, poppy by poppy, during the length of Works’ stay. “By the end of [our time in London] they had hand-planted and hand-made each of these ceramic poppies to where it filled the entire moat.”
traveled north by train to the Peak District, which he described as “a quintessential English countryside — with hedgerows and sheep everywhere and small little towns with brickwork dating back to the 16th century.” What this “amazingly green” upland section of England lacked in actual mountain peaks, Works said, it made up for in rolling, hikerfriendly hills. Works translated his experience of the landscape into terms the room could appreciate: “It’s like the Flint Hills on steroids.”
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of his time in England living with two separate families, in Maldon — a “compact” coastal city of about 20,000 — where he was enrolled at the Plume School. While there, Works observed the finer points of British “secondary school” education and was able to draw comparisons to his time at IHS. But Works was as much the object of observation as he was the observer. He described walking into his first English class: “The teacher had no idea I was coming. And I look around and I realize that I’m the only guy. So, I walk up to the teacher and I say ‘Hi, my name is Colby and I’m coming over from the U.S. and Mrs. Clark just assigned me to this classroom. And she said ‘Oh, you have an accent!’ and I’m like ‘Yeah, I’m from the U.S.’ And everybody just goes ‘Oh my gosh, that’s so great.’ “The first thing they did, they said: ‘Someone go grab a book.’ And so they grabbed a book off the shelf and they just flipped to a random page and they said ‘Can you read this for us?’ and so I read it, and they go ‘Oh my gosh, this is so amazing.’ “And one of the other things they always asked me about, they wanted me to say ‘hamburger.’ And I’d be like: ‘OK — hamburger.’ And then they would bust up laughing. And I just thought ‘Well, this is pretty easy entertainment.’” Sensing that his presence had become a distraction, See WORKS | Page A4
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