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The Weekender Saturday, September 14, 2013
Farmers:
‘Pray for rain’
By SUSAN LYNN susan@iolaregister.com
COLONY — Jane Ward’s mixed berry pie most likely was snatched up quickly at today’s Kincaid Fair. It took first place at both the Le Roy fair and at Colony Day’s competitions in the last few weeks. For today’s entry Ward didn’t take any chances and de-seeded the blackberries before they were mixed in with strawberries and blueberries. “Most people are against blackberries because of the seeds,” Ward said. A food mill helped process the berries. It’s a first for Ward, who isn’t afraid to stray from recipes. “I start out using them, but frequently switch up ingredients and amounts,” she said. At last year’s Kincaid Fair the mixed berry pie won Ward a first place. In 2011, she won first with a gooseberry and green tomatoe pie. Ward, 72, learned to cook at her mother’s knee on their farm in rural Le Roy. “I can’t ever remember not cooking,” she said. Coupled with a precocious personality, the aptitude didn’t exactly earn her into the good
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Mother Nature, fickle gal that she is, teased farmers this week, but could make a huge hit if she were soon to cut loose with a good rain. “We need a rain,” to keep soybeans on track, said Vance Beebe, 55, who has farmed full time northwest of Iola for nearly 40 years. “The beans looked good until the month of dry weather,” Beebe said. “They’ve probably lost 10 bushels (in per-acre yield). “Two weeks ago they still were putting on pods, but I don’t know how many have dropped off ” because of lack of rain and hot, sunny days. Soybeans are a hardy, drought-resistant crop, genetically engineered to go into a growth holding pattern when the temperature rises to the high 80s. “The leaves turn over and they just sit there,” Beebe said. Rainfall, within the next week or two would make a world of difference in yields of the more mature beans and help later ones. “Beans are different,” from other crops, namely corn, Beebe allowed, in that a heavy dew and light shower, coupled with moderate temperatures, can have them progressing toward harvest in a positive manner. “Corn needs heavier rain to do it any good.” Even so, corn is an after thought at this point, with the preponderance of the harvest to start in about two weeks. A little corn has dribbled in to Piqua Farmers Co-op over the last week, but not enough to make judgments on yields, said Manager Ken Smail. “Quality has been good, though,” he said. While it’s difficult to make a good pre-harvest estimate of what corn will yield, Beebe thinks it will be “fine on the better ground,” and at the very least “better than the last two years.” He has pulled a few ears, to check development, but admitted “it’s hard to guess yields,” even for a veteran farmer. “The later corn is going to be better than the early.” This year’s weather defies statistics. Going into this weekend the Iola area has an See FARMS | Page A5
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Jane Ward adds the finishing touches to a cake she has entered in today’s Kincaid Fair. A colorful array of canned goods shows the bounty of her garden. A flock of five hens and one rooster keep Ward supplied with plenty of eggs. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN
ROTARY
Youth mission trip leaves impressions By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com
Anthony Herrick, a new English teacher at IMS, times students during an exercise in his classroom on Thursday. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
Herrick brings unique style to IMS By KAYLA BANZET kayla@iolaregister.com
In room 101 at Iola Middle School, eighth grade English students separate into two teams, team Charlie and team Algernon. Their teacher, Anthony Herrick, passes out mazes to the two teams and tells them they have to complete the mazes in a certain amount of time. The prize is knowing which team is more
intelligent. One team whizzes through the maze while the other struggles and takes longer. Students start to realize there is a difference in the mazes. “Hey, their mazes are easier,” one student points out. There’s a catch. The mazes are exactly the same but one is printed bigger than the other. The point of the exercise is to teach the students a lesson from the book they are study-
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ing, “Flowers for Algernon.” Herrick is new to IMS this year and teaches eighth grade English and Read 180. Read 180 is a course that helps struggling readers get to their grade’s reading level. He uses exercises like the maze to make learning fun for his students. Grammar can be a tough subject for students to learn. See HERRICK | Page A7
“I love doing for the Lord,” Mackenzie Weseloh, a bubbly Iola High student, told Iola Rotarians Thursday. “It’s so much fun.” She and Karlie Lower gave their impressions of a mission trip Wesley United Methodist Church’s youth group took to Atlanta in July, under the direction of Lori Cooper, the church’s youth minister. Lower said she “learned we need to be close to God” and be appreciative of “all He does for us.” The mission trip was the church’s third in as many years, each with the same basic goals, to help homeless folks and kids attending boys and girls clubs, all the while witnessing to those they touch and fortifying themselves spiritually. This time around the traveling party included 22 youths, all either in high school on going to be in the fall, and five adults, “who
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probably got as much out of the experience, maybe more, than the youths,” Cooper said. In preparation for the trip, the youths performed mission tasks locally, helping with Hope Unlimited’s goals of serving people — mainly women and children in abusive situations — and doing such things as recognizing public employees’ service to the community. “This was the best part of the summer for me,” said Weseloh. “I’d been looking forward to the mission trip all year.” Lower learned that not everyone has choices at mealtime. “I learned I shouldn’t complain about what we have at home after seeing what homeless people have to deal with,” Lower said. The girls also discovered, while doing yard work for an elderly woman, that mosquitoes in Georgia are different than those in Kansas. HoldSee MISSION | Page A5
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