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AGE-TO-AGE PROGRAM MAKES A DIFFERENCE Age To Age Preschool instructor Heather Wools works with students, from left, Jaxon Stevens, James Flynn and Kahdrien Boeken. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Preschool’s success stories shared with Rotarians By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Windsor Place’s Age-toAge pre-school program, in its fifth year, remains an unqualified success, Marian Highberger told Iola Rotarians Thursday. The USD 257 program permits kids to experience the nursing home’s elderly resi-
dents, and for them to involve themselves with the children. “We thought we did a good job of entertaining and engaging residents,” said Highberger, human resources executive. “When the kids came in they took it to a whole new level. It’s gives both (groups) a better quality of life. The elderly feel like they’re back in the community; the kids
learn to be advocates for the elderly.” Highberger acquainted Rotary members with Ageto-Age through a video produced from Coffeyville’s kindergarten program, which was a selling point for installing a classroom at the Iola facility. See ROTARY | Page A6
Feeding frenzy a Humboldt tradition
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Pastor cherishes Moran’s offerings By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
By JONATHAN CZUPRYN The Iola Register
HUMBOLDT — Calling it ham simply doesn’t do it justice. “Ham steak,” Lisa Wrestler clarified. Each serving was so monstrously thick that the paper plate burdened with the responsibility of carrying such a cut should surely bend, if not break, under the pressure. Well, it would it wasn’t for the more than generous helping of comfort food heaped on the other side of the already helpless plate — you know, to provide some balance. “Cheesy potatoes, corn and biscuits,” she continued. The ice-cream covered brownies needed their own
Brock Goetsch is the new pastor at Moran Baptist Church, having arrived in the community in May.
Lisa Wrestler, center, prepares a meal Thursday for the Humboldt High School football team. REGISTER/JONATHAN CZUPRYN bowl, understandably. For the better part of 14 years, Wrestler has been testing the limits of disposable dishes, all for the benefit of the Humboldt High football team. Each Thursday night,
the Cubs and their coaches gather in the school’s cafeteria for food, fellowship and more food thanks to Wrestler and a group of parents who See FEEDING | Page A6
MORAN — It was a long-traveled road but the Goetsch family has found their home in Moran. Brock Goetsch, 30, became the pastor for Moran Baptist Church in May. The California native is joined by wife Ashley and son Eli, 3. Goetsch and his wife grew up on opposite coasts — he in Lancaster, Calif., and she in the Washington, D.C., area. They met while he was teaching at West Coast Baptist College, where his father is the executive vice president of the college. So how did the young couple make their way from the
coast to the Midwest? IN 2010 Goetsch moved to Virginia, was married and returned to school to get a masters degree through Piedmont University’s online program. While in Virginia he worked at the Pentagon in Arlington and helped start the Family Life Chaplain Program for Pentagon workers. Goetsch counseled individuals and families on subjects like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, marriage counseling and addiction counseling. “It was a busy life but it was great. There’s very little that takes me by surprise See PASTOR | Page A6
Local couple trades in farm life for home in town By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
About 5 miles west of Iola, at the rural intersection of Missouri Road and 400 Street on the crest of a high hill, stands a 125-year-old farmhouse with a view of three counties. To the north, on a clear day, you can see the steeple of St. Martin’s, in Piqua; to the south, the tower at the Ash Grove Cement plant in Chanute; and, nearer, to the east, the view drops onto Humboldt. “We never did go anywhere to watch fireworks,” said Dorothy Catron, who, with her husband Leon, has lived on the Allen County farm for a half-century. “You can see everything from here.” “Plus, it’s cheaper,” joked Leon. The large front lawn at the Catrons rural home is renowned for its beautiful gar-
den — at least among those locals who hold such things in esteem. The mail carrier, taking a break from her rounds, occasionally parks her truck and gets out to wander among the plants. Iola’s Molly Trolley used to stop there. Riders would dislodge for tours of the grounds. A diverse regiment of trees surrounds the house: globe willows, hackberrys, weeping willows, Bradford pears, curly birches, redbuds, cypress oaks. There’s a tulip tree, which took 20 years to sprout its first flower, but which now produces huge clusters of heavy yellow flowers every year. And a giant pin oak, whose branches lean out over the second-story roof, providing shade for the old farmhouse. There are 50 blackberry vines out back and a strawberry patch nearby. But the prize attraction See CATRONS | Page A3
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Leon and Dorothy Catron have sold their farm southwest of Iola, along with their renowned garden, and have moved to town. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY
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