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THE IOLA REGISTER Monday, September 9, 2013
Sen. Roberts for food stamps
Duane West describes Jesse Montes’ art at a reception Friday night in the Mary L. Martin Art Gallery in the Bowlus Center. Montes’ art is crafted entirely of cardboard. He works out of El Paso, Texas. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
“As long as we have the dog-gone thing, at least we have some control.” By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press
Clutter case doesn’t define attorney By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com
Duane West likes to describe a person’s life as “brush strokes on your canvas.” West, 81, was in Iola Friday evening for dual events at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. First, he hosted the opening of an art exhibit at the Mary L. Martin Gallery featuring unique works of Jesse Montes, who creates two- and three-dimensional pieces from corrugated card-
board. “A genius,” West calls Montes. After the show’s opening, he retired to the Creitz Recital Hall to give about 70 people an intriguing appraisal of his life, with the core event being prosecution of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith for the 1959 murders of the Herbert Clutter family near Holcomb. West was an young attorney at the time and had been elected
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts told Kansas agricultural leaders Saturday at the state fair that the food stamp program is the “red line” for Democrats in the passage of the farm bill — and that his is crop insurance. The Republican senator said that the Senate will not pass a farm bill without what it sees as an “appropriate” funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. While Democrats have opposed any cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program, designed to give people temporary food assistance when their income falls beneath a certain level, Republicans have proposed many different approaches to trimming it. The program has more than doubled in cost in the last five years as the economy faltered and now serves around 1 in 7 Americans. “The farm bill is a perfect storm,” Roberts told the Kansas Farm Bureau at their annual breakfast meeting in the Kansas State Fair. Food stamps were added to the farm bill decades ago to gain urban votes for the rural measure, which sets policy for farm subsidies, programs to protect environmentally sensitive land and other rural development projects. But with the program’s exponential growth during the
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Ethanol’s future at a crossroads in Kansas WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Ethanol producers say they are running up against market and regulatory pressures that are putting a crimp on the industry’s future, despite lower prices for a key commodity to produce the fuel. The ethanol industry is distilling enough product to satisfy the government mandate for blended fuels, usually about 10 percent ethanol. But without increased demand or mandate for more ethanol con-
tent in fuels, the industry has hit a so-called “blend wall” that is forcing small, highercost plants to close. One such facility was the Abengoa plant in Colwich that closed in 2011 after 25 years in operations. Dave Vander Griend, president of ICM, a Colwich-based designer and operator of ethanol plants in south-central Kansas, told the Wichita Eagle that the ethanol industry See ETHANOL | Page A2
Savannah Flory arranges a bouquet of sunflowers in a cooler at Flory’s Flowers. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
Business in bloom
Flory’s Flowers now open at TLC
By KAYLA BANZET kayla@iolaregister.com
A magnificent manor Moran Manor Administrator Ashley Vogel, left, accepts the PEAK award from Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services Secretary Shawn Sullivan. PEAK (Promoting Excellent Alternatives in Kansas) awards are given only to facilities with the highest marks and improvements in the field, Sullivan said. Moran Manor was selected from more than 330 nursing homes across the state. REGISTER/STEVEN SCHWARTZ
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LAHARPE — TLC Garden Center, LaHarpe, has grown a new addition to its business, a flower shop. Savannah and her husband Levi Flory have opened Flory’s Flowers. TLC is a family owned business that Savannah took over after her mother passed away in 2006. Savannah has a degree in horticulture from Kansas State University. “I grew up with it and I enjoyed it,” Savannah said of the business. She manages the garden center and Levi manages the
landscaping portion of TLC. Savannah said adding a flower shop to the business had been a longtime dream. “I tossed around the idea and hadn’t planned on acting on it anytime soon,” she said. She knew there was an interest from customers because the store would get calls for plants for Mother’s Day or funerals. The “right time” appeared to the Florys when Kelly Spears decided to close her Iola shop, Diamond Daisy, asked the Florys if they were interested in buying the shop or its inventory. The Florys started out
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slowly. “We bought a cooler and Kelly’s inventory,” Savannah said. “We’re planning on doing some remoldeling this winter. It will be a store within a store.” The floral shop is currently in a small room at TLC, but will be expanded into where the gift shop is currently located. To update her knowledge on arrangements, Savannah is enrolled to take a 10-week floral class in Kansas City. The course starts from the beginning by teaching how to make arrangements and bou-
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