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Beer garden plans uncertain Gas wide
open for fireworks
F-C Days’ Committee seeks permission for alcohol venue
By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Allen County commissioners denied Farm-City Days organizers permission to have a beer garden on the courthouse lawn during their annual event, Oct. 6-9. The temporary garden would have been at the foot of an entertainment stage just south of the county jail, said Aaron Franklin, chairman of the F-C Days committee. A significant feature of F-C Days is live music. The beer garden would be “secured, controlled and monitored,” Franklin said. A temporary license also would be needed from the state Alcohol Beverage Control agency. With Commissioner Tom Williams absent from Tuesday’s meeting, Commissioner Jim Talkington took the lead in questioning Franklin. Rather than take responsibility of allowing alcohol on the downtown square Talkington proposed that Rookies, a sports bar on the corner of Jackson and Jefferson with an outdoor dining area, could be an alSee COUNTY | Page A3
Ottaway Amusements, which offers such rides as Freak Out (shown above) will return to the Farm-City Days celebration this fall. OTTAWAY AMUSEMENTS PHOTO
Fall festival events taking shape By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Efforts to offer a beer garden is one of the features Farm-City Days organizers hope to use to grow the fall festival into one of the premier events in southeast Kansas. As reported elsewhere in today’s Register, Allen County commissioners declined to allow any sort of
alcohol on the courthouse lawn, but left open the door for a beer garden on Jefferson Avenue or other nearby public venues, if the Iola City Council gives its approval. A temporary license also would be needed from the state Alcohol Beverage Control agency. of the beer garden’s fate, organiz-
ers have other items they hope will appeal to audience members of all ages. Among the biggest changes, committee chairman Aaron Franklin noted, was the return of Ottaway Amusements for the carnival. Ottaway previously offered carnival rides for Farm-City Days, but had
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GAS — Any kids here who have a stash of fireworks may shoot them off at their heart’s content whenever they want. Tuesday evening Gas council members revoked an ordinance that limits use of fireworks to a handful of days before and on the Fourth of July. Sale of fireworks still will be restricted to June 27 through July 5, which coincides with state law. The ordinance returns to the good old days, until a reviser of the city’s code arbitrarily limited use of fireworks. After becoming aware, council members discussed it a time or two and decided the way things were had worked fine. The only limitation will be if noise becomes excessive. Then the city’s noise ordinance will be triggered. Two other key issues were on the agenda. One, a raise in water rates, was tabled, and the second, what to do about Iola raising wholesale rates, led to an executive session under client-attorney See GAS | Page A6
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How airline systems are vulnerable By DAVID KOENIG The Associated Press
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Report offers details on Gitmo detainees By DEB RIECHMANN The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Following a lengthy tug-ofwar with Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has given a senator the first-ever, unclassified report detailing the suspected militant backgrounds of more than 100 detainees at or recently released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay — a report that will likely spur more debate over shutting it down. The report, given to Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., who shared it with The Associated Press, tells the story of detainees like Karim Bostan, who once ran a flower shop and later was accused of running an al-Qaida affiliated explosives cell believed to have targeted U.S.-led coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan. He’s been at Guantanamo for more than 13 years, but has been cleared for
transfer to a country willing to accept him. “While the Department of Defense watered down information and failed to provide key details regarding some detainees, the report still provides Americans with a consolidated, unclassified source of information regarding the dangerous terrorists at Guantanamo who the administration has recently released or plans to release soon,” Ayotte said in an email response to questions. She has pushed the Obama administration for years to be more transparent about who is being transferred out. The remaining detainees “will no doubt” return to the fight once released, she said, noting that the Defense Department told her that 93 percent of the detainees still at Guantanamo as of late last year were high risk for reSee GITMO | Page A4
DALLAS (AP) — Twice in less than a month, a major airline was paralyzed by a computer outage that prevented passengers from checking in and flights from taking off. Last month, it took Southwest days to recover from a breakdown it blamed on a
faulty router. On Monday, it was Delta’s turn, as a power outage crippled the airline’s information technology systems and forced it to cancel or delay hundreds of flights. Delta employees had to write
out boarding passes by hand, and at one airport they resurrected a dot-matrix printer from the graveyard of 1980s technology. Why do these kinds of meltdowns keep happening? The answer is that airlines depend on huge, overlapping and complex IT systems to do just about everything, See AIRLINES | Page A4
GOLDEN GIRLS
The U.S. women’s gymnastics team, including, from left, Gabrielle Douglas, Lauren Hernandez and Alexandra Raisman greet teammate Simone Biles after her floor routine secured the gold medal in the team competition Tuesday at the Rio Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Full details on another record day for the U.S. athletes begins on Page B1. COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE/MARK REIS/TNS
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