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Darrell Monfort, veterinarian and owner of Red Barn Veterinary Service says why he thinks the college farm is important for Allen students during the trustee board meeting on Tuesday. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET

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Couple seeks refuge in tent Trustees discuss sell of college farm

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Home on the range has a different meaning to agriculture students than it does to other ACC pupils. The board of trustees of Allen Community College extended a listening ear Tuesday night to a variety of patrons about the possibility of selling the Allen Farm.

The college farm’s purpose is to serve as a laboratory for the agriculture program courses. It also functions as a residence experience for eight students, as one of several practice areas for Livestock Judging.

The farm is five miles

north of Iola and has 240 acres, a farm manager’s house, the Zahn house, which hosts eight scholarship students, a south barn and a north barn.

Jon Marshall, vice president of academic affairs, said the farm and the college’s ag programs are under-utilitzed.

Marshall reported that during the 2012-2013 redevelopment meetings, ag instructors were asked how they would incorporate the farm as a learning laboratory.

Marshall said he received no responses. The farm is used for entomology and livestock evaluation.

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nna Hatfield speaks matter-of-factly, missing the emotion that belies her dire straits.

Entering your fourth day of homelessness tends to dull the nerves like that.

She’s cried twice.

“I cried last night in the dark,” she said Tuesday. “I didn’t like being out here alone. And I cried when we had to leave the motel.”

Hatfield has been displaced since Saturday with her companion, Gary Pinckney, with the change of ownership of the former Crossroads Motel.

Higher rent at Crossroads — now called Regency Inn by

What makes a community cool

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

Yes, he was preaching to the choir. But even a group whose mission is to promote Iola needs a pep talk every once in a while.

So it was that David Toland, Iola’s face for economic development, gave members of Iola Industries a primer on what makes a successful community.

As executive director of Thrive Allen County, Toland was granted a two-week sabbatical. Over the course of 11 days he drove 3,800 miles and visited 14 states primarily in the south and east.

“It was a time to refresh my personal well of ideas,” he said. “I felt I was running short on creativity.”

Another goal, which fit into his role as a part-time economic development director for Iola and Allen County, was to see what successful communities had in common.

By journey’s end he was able to list 10 criteria: 1. Successful communities

the new owners — prompted the pair to move out.

“The new owners wanted the money before payday, but we didn’t have it,” Hatfield said, “so they threw us out. I thought they were going to be nice and let us stay, but they didn’t.”

As of this morning, their search for a new home has been fruitless.

With no place to stay, the couple and Sophie, the little dog they adopted shortly before leaving the motel, are living in a tent along South State Street, a stone’s throw from Elm Creek bridge.

There’s not much reason for hope.

Their food supply has run out. A sack filled with old soda cans and snack wrappers sits outside their tent.

The batteries for their cell phones long since have died.

“We have dog food for Sophie,” she said. “But we haven’t eaten since (Monday.)”

An unusual cold, wet spell adds to the misery.

With the tent their only cover from the outside elements, water seeps inside occasionally.

“Our legs will get wet, and that makes it uncomfortable,” Hatfield said. “I haven’t showered since Saturday. Gary hasn’t since the day before. We know we reek.”

“The ground’s pretty hard,” Pinckney added. “We don’t have an air mattress, so sleeping is hard.”

As for going to the bathroom? “You just find a spot,” Hatfield said.

Pinckney, 35, works the See TENT | Page A2

COUNTY COMMISSION

Iola turns to county

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Iola City Administrator Carl Slaugh told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morning he would return July 1 with a request for how the county might help deal with financial shortfalls in the countywide ambulance service.

In January, county and city leaders signed a contract that put ambulance

service under Iola’s control with the county guaranteeing up to $750,000 in revenue from run charges.

When commissioners constructed their budget a year ago, they did so with the anticipation of operating ambulances this year, which led them to include $1.38 million in the budget for emergency medical services. Other than what would have been raised by See AMBULANCE | Page A4

Agencies seek support

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Ed Miller, left, and David Toland chat after Tuesday night’s annual meeting of Iola Industries. strut their stuff. They advertise with good signage.

“If someone is driving from Wichita to Branson on U.S. 54 do they know we have an 80,000-square-foot building for sale in the heart of Iola?”

Nothing to an outsider indicates the former county

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hospital has been vacated, other than weeds sprouting from an empty parking lot.

2. Public education and economic development are closely linked in communities with thriving economies.

Available, trained labor is the See TOLAND | Page A2

Allen County commissioners heard three proposals for budget support Tuesday morning, an annual aside to construction of their budget.

Tim Cunningham, TriValley Developmental Services, requested $65,000 for 2015, the same as this year.

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Cunningham said 80 Allen County residents received services in the county, and another 11 elsewhere within Tri-Valley’s fourcounty area — Allen, Neosho, Bourbon and Woodson.

Mainly because of cuts made by the state, he said Tri-Valley’s budget had decreased $2 million in the past seven years to the $5.2 See AGENCIES | Page A4

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William J. Sapienza was born Sept. 23, 1921 and died June 7, 2014. “Bill” was a decorated World War II veteran who served in the Pacific Theatre and was awarded five bronze stars. Bill enjoyed golfing, boating and working out at Gett Fitt in Iola.

Bill was a bartender at large venues in Key West, Fla. and Atlanta, Ga., for many years before moving to the Iola area with his partner, Gwen. Always quick to smile, with a kind heart William and loving nature, he will be greatly Sapienza missed by those he left behind.

Bill is survived by his partner, Gwen Sapienza; daughter; Dawn Sapienza, son-in-law Dewayne Manley; grandson, Jason, and his wife Erin Hadden; great-grandchildren Jason II, Jocelyn and Logan, all of Rock Island, Ill.; mother-in-law Patricia Larson, Samantha Lyons, Zoey and Kaden Lyons, all of Iola; Brian and Rachel Blagburn, Nashville, Tenn.; greatnieces and nephews and sister-in-law Gayla Neufeld, Oklahoma. Bill was preceded in death by his mother and father, a World War I veteran; father-in-law Buford Larson and nephew Jeremy Larson.

A memorial service will be at 4 p.m., Saturday at the VFW on U.S. 54 in LaHarpe. The family welcomes and will appreciate any fellow veterans or SEK residents who would like to attend his memorial to honor his service to our country and his life here as an Iola resident.

Charles Lingo Charles W. Lingo, 88, Garnett, entered into his eternal rest on Monday, June 9, 2014, at Golden Heights in Garnett.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Garnett.

Burial will follow in the Garnett Cemetery. Family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association. Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com

Kan. crop statistics WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A new government report shows Kansas leads the nation in the production of wheat and sorghum grain.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Tuesday that 15 percent of last year’s total U.S. wheat crop was grown in Kansas.

About 42 percent of the U.S. sorghum grown for grain also came out of Kansas.

The agency’s rankings

show Kansas second in the nation in the total number of acres used to grow farm crops. The 28.5 million cropland acres in Kansas represents 7.3 percent of the land used for farm crops in the nation.

Kansas also had 5.8 million head of cattle and calves, third in the nation behind Texas and Nebraska. The 2.13 million cattle in its feedlots also ranked Kansas third in that category.

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biggest driver to a business locating and staying in an area. Good schools are critical to a community. The success of each is contagious.

3. Learn to work with what you’ve got. Even very small communities project success if they capitalize on their assets.

4. Sometimes all you have to work with is history. Use it. Whether it’s streetcars, old theaters, or Buster Keaton being born on the roadside, promote it and make it your own.

5. Successful communities get behind a cause throughout their businesses, schools and industries. Toland recalled in one particular town, “everywhere I went they were pushing the same message. It was great.”

6. Successful communities look good. “Public investment in infrastructure attracts private investment,” he said, noting attractive streetscapes help bring shoppers, tourists and new business.

7. Trails are huge economic drivers. A study conducted in Missouri

showed the typical trail user is in her 40s, has a college education, and has disposable income.

Rocheport, Mo., a tiny town on the banks of the Missouri River, in recent years has become a thriving tourist destination all because it has capitalized by being on the route of the Katy Bike Trail.

“It has five Bed and Breakfasts and four restaurants, but no industries,” he said. “All they do is cater to trail users.”

Toland said Iola is becoming known as the state’s “top rail town,” because of its commitment to developing the walking and biking paths.

One the questions he asked in every town he visited is “What makes your town cool?”

In Chattanooga, Tenn., a young woman responded, “It got cool when we started adding trails and things for young people.”

8. Message matters.

Successful towns have effective signage directing people to schools, theaters, cemeteries, parks and tennis courts.

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It got cool when we started adding trails and things for young people.

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TOLAND’S talk was the focal point of the 59th annual meeting of Iola Industries, a group of local investors who help attract industries to the area.

John McRae gave a review of the year’s transactions, including helping secure Catalyst 2R Tool industries to locate in the former Haldex Brake plant on the north edge of town.

“That saved 25 jobs from being moved to Texas,” McRae said.

It also has worked with Thrive to attract a grant from the Sunflower Foundation to build a bike trail on the north side of Elm Creek on land it owns on the site of the old Lehigh Cement plant.

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graveyard shift at Russell Stover Candies in Iola.

He has no car or other type of transportation.

He leaves to walk to work about an hour before his shift starts, leaving Hatfield and Sophie huddled alone inside the tent.

“I don’t dare open it,” Hatfield said. “I don’t want to know what’s out there.”

A SERIES OF dominoes — not all of which were unavoidable — led to the couple’s plight.

Pinckney works full time, but did not have enough cash to find any rental places before leaving the motel.

“It looks like we’ll be here for a while,” Hatfield said of the tent.

Hatfield and Pinckney sought help with the Rev. Phil Honeycutt about three weeks ago, shortly after hearing about the motel’s new owners and the higher rent.

Honeycutt asked the couple to attend his church service that weekend — he’s the pastor at Covenant of Faith Christian Center — where he said goodhearted parishioners almost surely would have offered aid in some capacity.

“But I was sick that day, so we didn’t go,” Hatfield said.

And she’s hesitant to go to other church services because of Sophie.

“I wouldn’t know what to do with her,” she said.

Honeycutt, who is active with the Iola Area Ministerial Association and the Community Pantry, said people in Iola are willing to help, but Hatfield and Pinckney must, in turn, meet some responsibilities themselves.

“We’ve been able to help all of the others who have called for help, but Gary (and Anna) have not been following up,” Honeycutt said. “It looks like we haven’t been trying, but we have been.

“You can’t wait” to continue to seek help, Honeycutt continued.

“A lot of people wait until they’ve been put out before they call for help, and then it’s really hard to help. We’ll continue to help when we can, but our money and resources are limited.”

As of Tuesday, the Rev. Paul Miller, pastor at First Assembly of God and president of the Iola Area Ministerial Association, has been searching for

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sweep down to New Orleans where Hurricane Katrina ravaged whole townships, Toland saw small, affordable homes being built.

“You can build low-cost housing on in-fill lots,” he said. “There’s a waiting list for tight floor plans on 50-foot lots.”

Iola is a good example where such housing would work. A drive through town shows many vacant lots.

“We need to do more in the core of town, where streets and utilities already exist.”

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Be optimistic.

People in successful communities believe in themselves, and in their communities, and they aren’t afraid to say so.

They are glad to be where they are.

“We have an attitude problem in rural America,” Toland said. “We have to stop making our best export our children.”

Negative talk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, he said. “Instead, let’s be promoters and advocates of what a good community we live

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employed at the candy plant.

He eventually found another home, and then Crossroads, when he met Hatfield.

“We texted a while, and then I moved up to be with him,” she said.

They understand adding Sophie complicates their situation, but aren’t sure they’d be willing to part with the dog if the situation called for it.

“I’d be very upset,” Hatfield said. “Sophie’s like a part of the family now.”

a sturdier home for the couple.

THEIR unfamiliarity with Iola also comes as a hindrance.

Hatfield, 32, has lived in Iola only about a month; Pinckney less than a year.

Pinckney moved to Iola from Fort Scott in mid 2013 to be with another girlfriend before their relationship fell apart.

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Saturday-Lions Club 60th anniversary celebration, City Hall community room, 5 p.m.; Monday-Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club, Lone Elm community building, 7 p.m.; TuesdayLibrary Board meets at City Hall, 5:30 p.m.; Wednesday-Lions Club meets at United Methodist Church basement, 7 p.m.

Summer ball

Boys: Friday-Blue Mound at Colony, 3 games; Tuesday-Colony at Bronson; Girls: Thursday-Uniontown 2 at Colony; Monday-Bronson at Colony; 19-Kincaid at Colony.

Meal site

Friday-ham, scalloped potatoes, brussel sprouts, bread, fruit mix; Monday-Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, spinach salad, wheat bread, pears; Wednesday-Birthday Meal-fried chicken breast, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, roll, cake and ice cream. Phone 620-8523450 for reservations.

Churches

Scripture presented Sunday at Colony Christian Church was Ephesians 4:11-16. Pastor Mark McCoy’s sermon was “Two Churches.�

Father’s Day church picnic 5 p.m. Sunday at the park in Colony. Meat furnished, bring side dishes and games. There will be a softball game.

Bring your equipment.

Sunday’s sermon presented by Pastor Mike Farran at the Northcott Christian Church was “Pray With One Voice.�

June 9–90 Days of Blessing, read Joshua 1. June 14-CGMA sing at Le Roy community building, 6 p.m. June 21-Work day at church.

Sunday Scripture presented at the United Methodist Church was Psalm 104:24-35, Acts 2:121, 1 Corinthians 12:3-13 and John 7: 37-39. Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon, “Power of the Spirit.�

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Colony did not have a bank until June 17, 1974 when the Goppertowned bank moved here from Bush City. Delma French and Rozena Smitheran moved here with the bank which became the State Bank of Colony.

Glen Hermreck worked at Bush City Bank and Garnett State Savings Bank before moving and opening the bank here as president. He retired December 2006. In July 2000, a new building was built where the Oasis Hotel and Restaurant had stood. It then was known as the Garnett State Savings Bank, Colony Branch. Trena Golden began working August 1992 and became branch manager when Jeff McAdam transferred to Garnett. The bank was State Bank of Colony (Goppert owned) from 1974 until December 2006 when it became a branch of their sister bank, Garnett State Savings Bank. Upon the consolidation of the other Goppert owned Kansas banks (Ottawa, Pomona, Hepler, St. Paul and Walnut), they became Goppert State Service Bank.

Mrs. Morris Luedke 852-3379 women attended from area churches. Door prizes of a tea pot, donated by Claudette Anderson, and a planter of flowers, donated by Lady Bug Greenhouse, Iola, were given. Pat Hildebrand and Charlotte Wallace gave a skit on teenage boys saying “The Lord’s Prayer.�

The June challenge for WMW members is to provide pajamas for the Mission Hospital in Haiti. They need two-piece pajamas with a tie in the back. Contact Sue Colgin or Pastor Dorothy Welch at Richmond for more information.

The May challenge of books for doctors’ offices and hospitals was met with a good turnout.

Debbie Wools gave the lesson and provided refreshments at the May 1 meeting. Seven members attended. The next meeting will be at 5:30 p.m., July 3.

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The Lions are collecting eyeglasses which will be fixed up for those in need. Collection boxes may be found at the Iola Pharmacy on Madison Street, Pump ’n Petes on North State Street in Iola, and Gett Fitt, Iola, Colony Community Diner and Convenience and Garnett State Service Bank, Colony Branch.

The first pickiup is on June 14.

Vacation Bible School is June 16-20. Opening and closing exercises will be at United Methodist Church at 8:3011:30 each morning.

Cathy Allen is doing the decorating. The theme is “Workshop of Wonders, Imagine and Build with God.�

Colony banks history

In 1884 was the first bank in Colony. Charlie Cramer, one of the first settlers who was the agent at the railway station, resigned to become cashier of the Bank of Colony, the first bank.

Feb. 1, 1920, the National Bank opened its doors at this location. The building was removed brick by brick to make way for the Colony Community Diner and Convenience.

The Old Hall housed People’s Bank. It stood where the present bank stands.

After the last bank in Colony closed in 1929,

Card of thanks

The family of Delma French extends their appreciation to Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, Pastor Mark McCoy for the lovely service, the casket bearers, the ladies of the Colony Christian Church for the lunch and all those who made memorial contributions. Delma loved the Colony Community.

Around town

Word has been received from Marla Brown of Omaha, Neb., who is working on her family genealogy. She will be in Colony this summer looking for the residence of her greatgrandfather and grandmother. She is thinking of two locations that could have been the E.E. Varner and Mary Varner residence. Her research has led her to believe their residence is at the northwest corner of East Third and Oak Streets or southeast corner of East Third and Oak Streets. If someone can help her on this, please notify by phoning 620-852-3379.

Denton Ramsey celebrated his 7th birthday with a Hot Wheels party.

Friends who helped him celebrate at his home were Gunner Ellington, Max Black and Lane Yocham. Chocolate angel food cake and homemade ice cream were served and the boys enjoyed a game of kick ball.

The wedding of Rochelle McGhee and Dustin Smart was Saturday at Lil’ Toledo’s southeast of Chanute.

Mark McCoy officiated.

Rochelle is the daughter of Darren and Cindy McGhee of Westphalia and the granddaughter of Gareld and Shirley McGhee of Colony. Dustin is the son of Gerald and Vickie Smart of Scipio and the grandson of Arden and Thelma Culler of Colony. Many from the Colony area attended. They will be making their home in Iola.

Sympathy is expressed to family and friends of Bonna Lea Fivecoat Luedke, 83, Atwood, who passed away unexpectedly June 3 at Beloit Hospital. She was a 1948 Colony High School graduate, the sister of Claudette Anderson and sister-in-law of Wayne, Morris and Stanley Luedke. She will be missed.

Chanute OKs high-speed broadband CHANUTE, Kan. (AP) — The Chanute City Commission has voted to expand the city’s ultra-high-speed broadband service to every home and business, if funding is found.

The commission voted Monday to proceed with the $13.5 million project in the southeast Kansas town of 9,100 people.

Public Works Director Larry Gates says the project depends on finding funding and doing a cash flow analysis of the next 20 years.

The Wichita Eagle reports the new system

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — In an upset for the ages, Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, the secondmost powerful man in the House, was dethroned Tuesday by a little-known, tea party-backed Republican primary challenger carried to victory on a wave of public anger over calls for looser immigration laws. “This is a miracle from God that just happened,� exulted David Brat, an economics professor, as his victory became clear in the congressional district around Virginia’s capital city.

Speaking to downcast supporters, Cantor conceded, “Obviously we came up short� in a bid for renomination to an eighth term.

The victory was by far the biggest of the 2014 campaign season for tea party forces, although last week they forced veteran Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran into a June 24 runoff, and hope state Sen. Chris McDaniel

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After being strongly criticized, the commission said it would reconsider that vote. On Tuesday, commissioners heard from citizens and doctors who offered differing views on whether IUDs caused abortions.

The Salina Journal reports the three commissioners said they had taken time to listen to people and decided to stay with their original decision.

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would be 100 times as fast as the national average Internet connection. It would cost $40 a month for city residents and $50 a month for those outside the city limits, with no installation charge.

Chanute’s high-speed network is being used by its hospital, community college, library, banks and other speedcritical businesses.

The expansion would make Chanute the first municipality in Kansas to offer publicly run ultra-high-speed broadband service to all homes and businesses.

Big blow to GOP

Saline Co. rejects grant SALINA, Kan. (AP) — The Saline County Commission has refused to reconsider a vote rejecting a federal grant to provide a type of birth control to county residents.

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Cantor’s defeat was the first primary setback for a senior leader in Congress in recent years. Former House Speaker Thomas Foley of Washington and Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota both lost their seats at the polls in the past two decades, but they fell to Republicans, not to challengers from within their own parties.

The outcome may well mark the end of Cantor’s political career, and aides did not respond Tuesday night when asked if the majority leader, 51, would run a write-in campaign in the fall.

But its impact on the fate of immigration legislation in the current Congress seemed clearer still. Conservatives will now be emboldened in their opposition to legislation to create a path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally, and party leaders who are more sympathetic to such legislation will likely be less willing to try.

The majority leader had been tugged by two warring forces in his party and in recent weeks sought to emphasize his opposition to far-reaching immigration legislation as Brat’s challenge gained force. Last month, a feisty crowd of Brat supporters booed Cantor in front of his family at a local party convention.

Still, neither he nor other House leaders betrayed any serious concern that his tenure was in danger, and his allies leaked a private poll in recent days that claimed he had a comfortable lead over Brat.

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Agencies: Seek county support Continued from A1 million proposed for 2015.

“We’ve lost some clients, but not $2 million worth,” he said, and budget cuts mainly had been dealt with through consolidation of jobs.

Allen, Neosho and Bourbon counties all have been asked to contribute $65,000 for 2015, Woodson, much smaller population-wise than the other three, $23,000.

A pending change in Iola is the Tri-Valley work station downtown on West Jackson Avenue will be moved to the old F & S Supply offices, 335 N. Cottonwood St. Representing the Allen County Historical Society, board member Larry Manes asked for annual support of $27,000, an increase of $500 over this year.

Manes said several

by Dina Morrison, clerk of the District Court.

That would put the total at $352,213.

Morrison said the increase came from indigent services, up $20,000 to $25,000; computer services, up $6,000 to $24,500; and a one-time expense of $15,000 for security measures to protect employees in the public office area.

Commissioners said they would consider each request.

projects awaited funding, including more storage space in the main museum building, corner of Washington and Madison avenues, and improvements elsewhere. The museum building has secondfloor storage, but to protect artifacts it needs climate controls, Manes said, the area being too hot in summer and too cold in winter.

Iola provides about $23,000 a year through transient guest tax collections and the remainder of the society’s $70,000 budget comes from donations and sales.

The Humboldt Historical Society has received $5,000 in previous years; no presentation on its behalf was made Tuesday.

Court budget increases were pegged at $41,000

MIKE

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who lives northeast of Humboldt in the 1700 block of Idaho Road, told commissioners drainage whistles near his home were insufficient to deal with recent heavy rainfall. He also noted snow often drifted as high as five feet where Idaho tops a nearby hill, making the

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road impassable.

“I think the ditches need cleaned out,” he said.

“A bigger whistle might help,” said Commissioner Dick Works who visited the area prior to Tuesday’s meeting. But, “we have thousands of whistles,” many of which were overwhelmed by last week’s exceptional rain.

Works promised Public Works employees would look at the problem areas.

“We had a lot of problems with whistles and wash-outs last week,” said Bill King, director of Public Works, an occurrence that will be repeated anytime three inches of rain falls in 30 minutes as it did then.

“We had water over hard-surfaced roads where we haven’t had it before.”

Farm: Downsizing program at issue Low student enrollment is what peaked administration’s attention to the agriculture program.

Marshall said student enrollment for on site courses on the Iola campus have averaged 9.47 students over the last five academic years. On average, 15.53 seats per course were left unfilled.

The board was given two recommendations.

They were to take steps toward the sale of the facility including the land, or they would continue to own the facility and invest in operating costs and personnel.

Steve Troxel, vice president of finance, broke down the expenses of the farm. For the 2013-14 year the farm’s income was $12,473. Direct farm expenses, which includes salary, was $109,193.

“It’s not about the money,” John Masterson, president of ACC said. “But about the loss of interest in the program.”

“For the last four years we’ve tried to increase the program. One of the things we discovered was that the farm is under-utilized. The sale of the farm is not the enticement for its closure.”

In a call this morning to Realtor John Brocker, he said depending on the quality of the land, pasture could sell anywhere from $1,000 to $1,300 an acre. Factoring in the homes and barns could

increase the acreage price upward to $500 to $1,000.

The farm gives those kids the experience they need. They can’t learn things like this online.

EARLIER THIS year

eight students were awarded Zahn scholarships. The scholarship provides housing, tuition, fees and books for agriculture students. Ten hours of optional work study may be earned each week after satisfying the work requirements of the scholarship. Richard Zahn, an ACC alumnus, established the scholarship in 1999 in honor of his father, the late Ed Zahn, an agriculture instructor.

If the college were to sell the farm those students would have to be moved to different housing at the college and purchase a meal plan.

Three Zahn recipients, Leah Schultz, Carl Riffle and Dakota Ferguson, attended the trustee meeting. Ferguson said he wants to become a professional artificial inseminator.

“I wanted to come here because of the farm and the opportunities it would provide me,” Ferguson said. His hometown is Williamsburg.

Darrell Monfort, veterinarian and owner of Red Barn Veterinary Service, said he has been associated with the farm.

“This farm is a great utility,” he said. “I see opportunities for other classes and programs to use the farm not just the ag program.”

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Monfort pointed out that some students don’t go on to four-year universities after Allen.

“The farm gives those kids the experience they need,” he said. “They can’t learn things like this online.”

Online learning has been utilized at the college for various programs but parents of the Zahn recipients disagree with this learning tool.

“Online learning would cheat these kids,” Beth Riffle, parent, said. “The farm is an on-hands site.

They need to get their hands dirty.”

Jeff Nemecek, farm manager, and his family live on the farm. He has been at Allen for eight years. Nemecek said he was told to build up a large budget but now money is an issue.

“I almost feel like I’ve been set up,” he said. “I was told to build the budget up high.”

Nemecek said he would be willing to do whatever it took to keep this farm going. If that meant further his education he would do it.

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a property tax levy of 3.726 mills (about $360,000), transfers from the general fund and cash carried forward would have been tapped for funding.

Meanwhile, Iola planned to spend about $1.3 million on ambulance service within the city and for fire department operations.

Together, the two services would have settled out at about $2.7 million.

Iola’s budget for all ambulance and fire service for this year now is a touch over $2.3 million. When played against would have been spent that’s a savings of $400,000.

While the savings still is in place, income from ambulance service along with funds budgeted for fire has not met expectations.

A few weeks ago expected deficit was in the $200,000 range, and now, just over five months into Iola’s countywide ambulance tenure, Slaugh said projections might reach $600,000 by year’s end. In part, he blames overtime, accrued by responders whenever an ambulance is dispatched.

Slaugh would like to change city policy to put overtime call-ins on a stricter basis.

“I’m willing to take acceptable risks,” he said.

Commissioner Tom Williams said, as he has in the past, nature of calls should enter the equation when determining whether to call in employees.

SLAUGH mentioned options: Raising property taxes, drawing down utility reserves and adding a $20 surcharge to utility bills.

A property tax increase, or a sales tax as one councilman proposed, would not help immediately. Neither would generate additional money before 2015.

A utility surcharge Slaugh proposed would realize $370,000 from electric department reserves and $35,000 each from water and gas, a total of $440,000; depending on how run charges play out that might be sufficient, maybe even more than needed.

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might be instituted as early as July 1. Adding $20 to electric bills, with 3,720 consumers, would raise nearly $75,000 a month, and if started July 1 would bring in $450,000 the remainder of the year.

Council members were dead set against a utility surcharge, Slaugh reported.

While one council member said during the heat of Monday night’s discussions that maybe Iola should return countywide ambulance to the county, Slaugh said he didn’t detect any councilwide leaning in that direction.

WHAT SLAUGH will propose to commissioners on July 1, after it is reviewed by council members on June 23, likely will involve more financial participation on the county’s part, above the $750,000 guaranteed in the contract. But, Slaugh allowed he wasn’t yet sure how the proposal would play out.

He did note “everyone realizes it’s a more efficient operation” with one provider, which is “a key element” in any further discussions.

Also, Slaugh observed if the county were to resume ambulance service, all taxpayers, including those in Iola, would pay more than they were today.

Commissioner Dick Works maintained “all the numbers were available when the contract was signed,” including those that warned of a city deficit.

“You got what you wanted,” he concluded.

“I still feel good about the agreement,” Commissioner Williams said, and that the feared shortfall may rectify itself somewhat in the months ahead.

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“No one has ever approached me about doing a lab,” he said. “A majority of the time I take my classes out there. The farm is the life blood of our program.”

Trustee, Larry Manes, and a former instructor at Allen in ag finance and ag economics, said he thinks agriculture education programs are moving toward a business format.

“There is no doubt in my mind that the kids who get to live on the farm learn a lot,” Manes said.

“But this is not the same group as back then.”

Beth Riffle said she hoped for a decision soon.

“Eight kids’ lives are in limbo right now,” she said. “So I hope you make the decision sooner rather than later.”

The sell of the facility was not an action item on the trustee’s agenda.

Spencer Ambler made the motion to allow the Zahn Scholarship students to live on the farm for the continuing school year.

Trustees said they want more information before they make any decision to sell the farm.

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Faces we can’t forget Nine area veterans from the Vietnam War remain faceless on the Memorial’s new “Wall of Faces” digital display.

Instead of a picture, a Gen. Patton-like drawing of a man in uniform accompanies the soldiers’ names, home towns, and dates of birth and death.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund has put out the word to the nation’s newspaper associations to search for these veterans’ photos in an effort to better complete the project.

Those missing from Iola include: H John A. Mott, born Jan. 13, 1944, died March 22, 1967 H John J. Harris, born July 3, 1948, died March 17, 1968 H Robert E. Goodner, born Dec. 8, 1949, died May 21, 1969 H Charles L. Troxel, born June 7, 1948, died Aug. 16, 1969 Humboldt: H James F. Godsey, born Aug. 15, 1942, died Aug. 24, 1967 LaHarpe: H Earl D. Hutton, born July 10, 1946, died Nov. 5, 1966 Chanute: H William L. Schultz, born March 19, 1937, died Oct. 8, 1966

H Johnny R. Webb, born Feb. 9, 1944, died April 18, 1968 H Gary K. Stanfield, born June 17, 1949, died Sept. 14, 1969 Alongside the Vietnam Veterans Wall in Washington, D.C., are plans to build an education center that will include the digital display.

It will be an addition to the massive dark granite sculpture, The Wall, by artist Maya Lin of Ohio upon which are engraved the names of the 58,286 soldiers who died in service for our country from 1961 to 1973.

The three-acre complex also includes a sculpture called The Three Servicemen by Frederick Hart as well as a sculpture of female soldiers by artist Glenna Goodacre. our veterans and the sacrifices they have made helps heal the wounds of their tragic deaths and that interminable war.

If you know how to secure photos of the veterans named above, write to the “Faces Never Forgotten” program at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund website, vvfm.org.

The info is nice, but a picture brings it to life.

— Susan Lynn REMEMBERING

A�look�back�in�time � 50 Years Ago Week of June 8, 1964

A group of citizens met in Memorial Hall Thursday to complain that a feedlot on the east edge of Iola was causing foul odors. Wes Clendenen and Jim McFadden, owners of the lot, said they could not understand how “any individual or group can identify the

odor, if one exists, of our 60 cattle from an area which has a livestock sale barn, a chicken processing plant, a meat packing plant, another feedlot with 125 cattle and a foundry.”

Property owners at the meeting represented the Sunnyside and Sterling Heights areas of Iola, with most of the protesters from Sunnyside.

Law addresses teacher shortage When Kansas’ public schools open their doors in August, it’s possible some students in grades 8 through 12 will be introduced to a teacher who has no classroom experience and hasn’t been trained for the job.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

The 2014 Legislature passed a law that allows school districts to hire professionals to teach science, math, technology, engineering and finance in grades 8 through 12. The professional must have a bachelor’s degree in the subject he or she will teach and five years of work experience in that field. Schools also can hire as teachers for vocational education classes people who have earned an industry-recognized certificate that verifies their skills and have at least five years of work experience in their field.

Some schools have difficulty hiring science, math, technology and engineering teachers and vocational education instructors. The law will help schools solve that problem and will put in the classrooms

Effective teaching requires a blend of knowledge and skills, and that blend is not limited to people with teaching degrees.

professionals who can give students the benefit of their experience in the field as well as the theory.

Granted, not all professionals will be suited to the classroom experience. But not everyone who comes out of college with a degree in education is suited to the classroom experience, either.

Effective teaching requires a blend of knowledge and skills, and that blend is not limited to people with teaching degrees. There’s no reason to believe students wouldn’t enjoy learning from someone who had actual experience in a field the students were considering as a career.

Some professionals will learn the classroom isn’t for them. That’s fine, a teaching contract isn’t a multiyear com-

mitment. Other professionals might excel in the classroom.

That’s a win for everyone involved.

The communications director for the Kansas National Education Association thinks people can’t teach effectively without the proper education in teaching, learning theory and classroom management strategies.

The Kansas Association of School Boards supports the changes, however, and its lobbyist thinks school districts can be trusted to determine if a job candidate would be a good teacher.

We think hiring professionals for difficult-to-fill teaching positions is worth a try and may prove to be a great idea.

— The Topeka Capital-Journal

Re-election shouldn’t be easy Just another 100 years ...

We’re glad Manhattan is represented in the Kansas House of Representatives by responsible individuals, but we still don’t like the idea that they can skate to re-election.

That is the case.

That’s because neither 66th District Rep. Sydney Carlin, a Democrat, nor 67th District Rep. Tom Phillips, a Republican, has an opponent in either the primary or general election. For that matter, Ron Highland of Wamego, who represents the 51st District, also is unopposed.

Barring a successful challenge from an independent or a write-in candidate, Rep. Carlin will win her seventh term and Reps. Highland and Phillips will win their second terms, although Rep. Phillips served part of an unexpired term before seeking election in 2012.

It could be that the three of them are simply so good at what they do and so popular in their districts that no challenger would have a chance. If that really is the case, we hope none of them contemplates taking voters for granted.

In a visit to the Manhattan Mercury, Rep. Carlin said she enjoys visiting with her con-

By STEPHANIE HAVEN McClatchy D.C. Bureau

Too often it’s been voters who have let our system down. The best-intentioned candidates and elected officials are handicapped if they don’t know what their constituents want.

stituents and will keep in touch with them in the coming months; there’s no reason to doubt that Reps. Phillips and Highland would do likewise in their districts.

The least that would do is show respect for the citizens they serve, even those citizens who voted for other candidates or didn’t vote at all.

Our form of government functions best when individuals with competing views seek office and when voters show enough interest in the candidates’ respective positions and philosophies to make informed choices.

Too often it’s been voters — or, more accurately, registered voters who don’t bother casting ballots — who have let our system down.

The best-intentioned candidates and elected officials are handicapped if they don’t know what their constituents want.

More recently, however, some candidates and elected officials in Kansas and elsewhere have increasingly taken their cues not from their constituents but from well-funded interest groups. These groups are often opaque and often from out of state. And too often, their priorities don’t coincide with those of local residents. Given the power that some of these groups have acquired, elected officials and candidates sometimes defy them at their peril.

We hope voters, particularly at the local and legislative levels where they can have direct contact with elected officials, can tune out the machine-driven noise.

And we hope legislative candidates, even when they don’t have opposition, remember that the interest group that matters consists of the citizens of their districts.

— The Manhattan Mercury

WASHINGTON — At the rate they’re going, it will take another 107 years until women hold half the seats in Congress, according to a study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a nonpartisan group that studies female-centered issues.

With 99 women among the 535 members of Congress currently — a record high — the 107year estimate is “an optimistic model,” institute study director Jeffrey Hayes said.

The 1992 surge of victorious female candidates stemmed, in part, from a backlash after many of the members of the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 brushed off Anita Hill’s claims that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her.

As the numbers grew steadily if gradually, Congress changed.

Most notably, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was elected the first female speaker of the House of Representatives in 2007. Another change: The House installed a more centrally located women’s rest room, near the Speaker’s Lobby, in 2011.

While a woman has never served as the mi-

nority or majority leader on the Senate side, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., the first female chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, became the longestserving female senator in 2012.

“More things like that need to happen for the spotlight to be shining on the politicians who happen to be women and are doing great things,” said Elyse Shaw of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Beyond the reasons both genders run for elected office, such as ambition and public service, women tend to run for additional reasons, according to Kleeman: — An issue they’re interested in is dominated by men.

— They’ve been inspired or enabled by other female politicians.

“What has to happen is more women need to decide to run, and more needs to happen to get them to make that decision,” said Kathy Kleeman of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. “In order for that to take place, more women need to be asked to run. Women are not as likely as men to put themselves forward.”

Senate historian Betty Koed said, “There has been so much progress made in terms of the growing importance of women,” Koed said. “I doubt that it’ll take 100 years” for women to fill an equal number of seats in Congress.

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Klubek in as head coach for swim team

Swim team to make a splash

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

Swim season starts today as Iola’s recreational department’s swim team heads to Coffeyville for the first meet of the season. Ciara Klubek, 25, is in her first season as head coach.

“I have really high hopes for this season, the kids are just so outgoing and wanting to do everything we ask them too,” Klubek said. “We can see all these kids bloom in the water and it’s going to be great. I can see this working.”

Klubek first got involved with the swim team by becoming a member of the team.

“I started swimming on swim team when I was a sophomore in high school,” Klubek said. “Then, I became a lifeguard in 2008.”

As a lifeguard, she started to shout suggestions to kids that she noticed needed some pointers on how to swim.

“I watched from the lifeguard stand when they opened the new pool and I was pointing out kids kicking wrong and everything,” Klubek said.

Swimmers took notice.

“Somebody told me that I should just become a coach,”

Kaylin Klubek, 11, practices her breast stroke during practice this morning. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Sports Calendar AA Legion Thursday 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. — At Coffeyville Tuesday 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. — vs.

Santa Fe Trail (at ACC)

Iola Rec Dept.

Baseball Boys T-Ball Friday 6 p.m. ­— Dairy Queen vs.

Community National Bank 6:45 p.m. — Tholen’s Heating & Cooling vs. A&W Family Restaurant Bitty Ball Thursday 6 p.m. — Iola Vision Source vs. A&W Family Restaurant 7:15 p.m. — Allen County Chiropractic vs. C.L.O. Friday 6 p.m. — Sonic Drive-In vs. Cameron 7:15 p.m. — Iola Elks vs.

Iola Vision Source Pee Wee Thursday 6 p.m. — Young’s Welding vs. First Title Service (at Humboldt) 7:30 p.m. — Johnson Law Office vs. Iola Vision Source (at Humboldt) Little League Friday 6 p.m. — Emprise Bank vs. Dairy Queen (two games) Softball Girls T-Ball Friday 6 p.m. — Johnson Law Office vs. Stephens Pest Control 6:45 p.m. — Iola Pharmacy vs. A&W Family Restaurant Pixie League Thursday 6 p.m. — Sonic Drive-In vs. Stephens Pest Control 7:15 p.m. — J&W Equipment vs. Tholen’s Heating & Cooling Pigtail League Thursday 6 p.m. — H&R Block vs.

Rinehart Construction 7:30 p.m. — Iola Elks vs.

Monarch Cement Ponytail League Saturday 6 p.m. — Gates vs. Humboldt I (two games)

Klubek said. “I became assistant and it took three years to work up to head coach.”

She has enjoyed her time as coach so far. Her favorite part about coaching is interacting with the kids. Klubek also likes to go to the meets and watch the kids succeed.

Klubek looks forward to the season starting off today. The team will have three home and three away meets, capping off See SWIM | Page B3

Schedule for this season The Iola recreation department’s swim team season starts today. Ciara Klubek will be making her debut as the coach.

Swim meet schedule: Today, at Coffeyville June 18, at Erie June 25, vs. Cherryvale July 2, vs. Chanute July 9, vs. Humboldt July 16, at Fort Scott July 25-26, League Meet at Coffeyville

Royals overpower Indians in 9-5 win

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY (AP) — Jason Vargas was completely unaware that Cleveland had piled up 17 runs the previous night.

He was happy about it, too.

Unaware of how hot the free-swinging Indians had been, the Royals left-hander calmly carried a shutout into the eighth inning Tuesday night. Meanwhile, the Kansas City offense hit a season-best three home runs in a 9-5 victory to open their two-game series.

“I guess I’m glad I didn’t know they scored 17 runs last night,” said Vargas, who gave up six hits and hit three batters with pitches, but didn’t allow a run until Jason Kipnis drove in a pair with a two-out double in the eighth.

“You just have to get ahead and execute,” he said, “and let the defense do what they do.”

ERIC HOSMER hit a tworun shot and also drove in a run during a four-run fourth inning. Alex Gordon went deep in the eighth and Mike Moustakas added a two-run shot later that inning as the Royals (32-32) moved back to

Kansas City Royals’ Omar Infante (14) scores ahead of the throw to Cleveland Indians catcher Yan Gomes (10) on a two run single by designated hitter Billy Butler in the third inning during Tuesday’s baseball game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. MCT/KANSAS CITY STAR/JOHN SLEEZER .500 by matching their secondbest run total of the season.

“It’s a good feeling,” Moustakas said, “but it’s not where we want to be.”

Corey Kluber (6-4), who dominated the Royals earlier this season, allowed six runs — three earned — and six hits over five innings. He struck out five and walked two.

He was nearly bailed out when Tim Collins gave up another run in the eighth inning and Aaron Crow yielded two more in the ninth. But Crow wound up finishing for his first save of the season.

Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Jason Vargas (51) throws during Tuesday’s baseball game against the Cleveland Indians at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. MCT/KANSAS

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ASDRUBAL CABRERA, Carlos Santana and David Murphy drove in the other runs for Cleveland.

Both starters dominated for the first couple of innings, Vargas using guile to keep Cleveland off balance and Kluber needing just 17 pitches to retire the first six Royals batters.

Everything changed in the bottom of the third.

Moustakas walked to start things off, and Alcides Escobar followed with a

single. Jarrod Dyson then hit a grounder that Kipnis fielded and tossed to Cabrera covering second.

But in making the grab and transitioning to his throwing hand, Cabrera dropped the ball. He was still granted an out initially, but replay overturned the umpire’s call and he was given an error.

“When you give teams extra chances, extra opportunities, especially against the middle of the order, sometimes you pay a price for it,” Indians manager Terry Francona said.

“Obviously, nobody is perfect,” Kluber added. “Errors are part of the game.”

That one loaded the bases for Omar Infante, in the throes of a 1-for-21 slump, and he dropped a single into center field for a 1-0 lead. Hosmer followed with his RBI groundout, and Billy Butler added a two-run single moments later to make it 4-0.

“If we don’t win that challenge,” Royals manager Ned Yost said, “we lose out on three runs.”

Hosmer homered in the fifth, his third of the season,

and Kluber was yanked after the inning. It was a marked contrast to his last outing against Kansas City, when the right-hander tossed his first career complete game in a 5-1 victory on April 24.

MEANWHILE, Vargas was mowing down an Indians order that included the scorching Lonnie Chisenhall, who went 5 for 5 with three homers and nine RBIs the previous night in Texas. Vargas even helped himself, snaring a liner in the sixth to start an inning-ending double play.

It wasn’t until Vargas left the game that the Indians started to rally, and the hole they had dug themselves proved to be far too deep.

NOTES: Indians RHP Zach McAllister (strained lower back) allowed two runs in six innings during a rehab start for Triple-A Columbus. He will join the team later this week in Boston, though it’s unclear when he’ll slot back into the rotation. ... Indians OF Nick Swisher (left knee) went 0 for 2 while playing five innings for Double-A Akron.

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Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center is pleased to introduce a new Healthcare Coordination Program for which we seek quality Healthcare Managers and Coordinators. Join us in initiating and delivering integrated healthcare coordination services while working closely with medical and other healthcare organizations in our communities.

HEALTHCARE PROGRAM MANAGER Provides leadership and supervision of Healthcare Coordinators; oversight of services and coordination, collaboration with all team members and community healthcare partners to promote continuity and consistency of care while minimizing duplication.

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HEALTHCARE COORDINATORS Support consumers in achieving healthy outcomes by providing six core healthcare services: Comprehensive Care Management, Care Coordination, Health Promotion, Comprehensive Transitional Care, Member and Family Support and Referral to Community Supports and Services. This position will also work closely in coordination with all healthcare providers serving the consumer. Must demonstrate skill in overcoming barriers, computer skills for accurate documentation, communication skills with consumers, families and healthcare community partners, sound judgment, skills in working with diverse public. Educational requirements include RN, LPN, BSW or a Bachelors degree in a human services field. KBI, Child Abuse Registry, Motor Vehicle Record and alcohol/drug screening required. Full time. Benefits.

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DENISON WELDING SUPPLIES now accepting applications at our Chanute location.

Permanent position. Apply in person between 8am-5pm at 216 East Elm. EOE ANW SPECIAL EDUCATION COOPERATIVE Has an opening for a School Bus Driver for the 2014-15 school year in the Iola area. Applicants must have a valid CDL License with both a P and an S endorsement, a high school diploma or equivalent and must relate in a positive manner with pre-school aged students.

This position is approximately 6 hours a day, four to five days a week with a beginning salary of $12.50 an hour. The successful applicant will be required to attend training before the school year begins. This position will begin in August. Applications will be taken until July 1st, 2014.

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Cheney OKs school bond

CHENEY, Kan. (AP) — Cheney residents overwhelmingly approved a $15.4 million school bond issue.

The Sedgwick County Election Office says the issue unofficially passed Tuesday by a 550-198 vote, with about 34 percent of registered voters participating.

The money will be spent on security enhancements, infrastructure repairs, and upgrades to academic and athletic facilities.

Cheney Superintendent David Grover says the projects will include a tornado shelter, enhanced security system, new air conditioning for the high school and repairs at the elementary, middle and high schools.

The district also plans a multiple-use baseball complex.

Judges to review school funding TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A panel of three state-court judges is reviewing a new Kansas education funding law to determine if it meets a state Supreme Court mandate to boost aid to poor school districts.

The hearing Tuesday afternoon in Shawnee County District Court comes in a lawsuit filed in 2010 by parents and school districts.

The Supreme Court ruled in March that past cuts in state aid for poor schools created unconstitutional gaps in funding between them and wealthier districts.

Legislators in April increased aid to poor districts by $129 million during the next school year.

The three-judge panel will consider whether that action is sufficient to meet the mandate.

But the Supreme Court also has ordered future hearings on whether Kansas is spending enough money overall on its public schools.

‘Innovation’ plan OK’d TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State Board of Education has approved creating two “innovative” school districts, which will exempt them from most state laws and regulations governing public schools.

The board voted Tuesday to make McPherson and Concordia the state’s first innovative districts, with several conditions.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the

districts are exempt from state regulations if they have a plan to improve education. The board attached conditions and added rules that will give the state board more control over how the innovative schools system will be operated.

The orders approved Tuesday commit the state board to working with the districts to seek federal approval for the waivers.

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Lawyers for Sterlings battle on Clippers sale

By TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donald and Shelly Sterling, the long-separated married couple whose peaceful partnership atop the Los Angeles Clippers is described by one person close to them as “a strange estrangement,” will face off as official foes for the first time Today when their lawyers appear in court with the team they share and a $2 billion deal hanging on the outcome.

An attorney will ask a probate court judge in Los Angeles to confirm Shelly Sterling's authority to sell the Clippers against the will of her husband, according to a person familiar with the matter not authorized to speak publicly and speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Donald Sterling said in a statement Tuesday that he's not just fighting for the Clippers but taking a stand against the NBA, which he called "a band of hypocrites and bullies" and "despicable monsters" who want "to take away our privacy rights and freedom of speech."

Donald Sterling is suing the league for $1 billion. The league has sought to ban him for life since racist remarks emerged in a recording in April.

Shelly Sterling brokered what would be a record-breaking $2 billion deal with former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to sell the team less than two weeks ago.

She contends she is the sole trustee of The Sterling Family Trust, which owns the team.

Donald Sterling was stripped as co-trustee after two neurologists last month determined he has dementia and

is "mentally incapacitated" under the trust's conditions, according to a person who is familiar with the trust and the medical evaluations but could not speak publicly.

The aim of Shelly Sterling's court bid is to have a judge confirm provisions of the family trust to ensure the Ballmer sale moves forward without a hitch.

Donald Sterling has the right to present his side at any hearing and appeal any decision.

His attorney Maxwell Blecher said a representative for Donald Sterling will be at the hearing, and that the main issue to be decided is whether Donald Sterling is mentally competent.

“There isn't the slightest evidence he's incapable of managing his affairs,” Blecher said. He said the next step is to have other doctors evaluate Sterling.

"I have no doubt at the end of the day the court is not going to say he's incompetent. That's a very high burden in the probate court — otherwise people would get their sisters and wife and brother-in-laws and everybody declared incompetent."

Though both Sterlings will have their own attorneys at the hearing Wednesday and they live apart, the couple remain “chummy,” Blecher said.

“It's what I describe to people as a strange estrangement, they don't seem at all hostile to each other, and he's very solicitous of her,” Blecher said.

“They've been married 58 years. Each threatens the other one they're going to get a divorce but they never did and never have.”

Baseball Hall of Fame turns 75, ceremony planned for Thursday C O O P E R S T OW N, N.Y. (AP) — The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is celebrating its diamond anniversary.

A ceremony marking the 75th anniversary will be held Thursday morning on the front steps of the museum, with Hall of Famers Cal Ripken Jr. and Joe Morgan taking part.

Babe Ruth was the star of the first class elected to the Hall of Fame in 1936, and he attended the Hall of

Fame's official opening on June 12, 1939. Ruth was the last person to speak before Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis officially opened the museum.

To honor his contributions to the game, the Hall of Fame is opening a new Babe Ruth exhibit on Friday.

Thursday's festivities include a discussion by three local residents who were present when the Hall of Fame opened in 1939.

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The Vipers, a 10-and-under traveling girls softball team with players from, Iola, Moran, Humboldt and Colony, brought home first place Sunday at the 2014 Road Rally in Topeka. The Vipers defeated the Baldwin Bombers, 9-1, and Stars & Spikes, 7-0, in pool play. Bracket play started Sunday evening. In bracket competition, the Vipers defeated Impact, 5-0, to advance to the title game against the Topeka Bandits. The Vipers won the game, and the championship, 7-4. Team members are, front from left, Kailey Schinstock, Chloe Sell, Aly Ard, Carsyn Haviland and Brooklyn Ellis; second from left, coaches Jenny Ellis and Kim Murry, Lauryn Holloway, Reece Murry, Kayla Ard, Kendall Scharff, Lindsay Godderz and coach Corey Schinstock. COURTESY PHOTO

Missouri’s Current River mixes mild and wild

By BRENT FRAZEE The Kansas City Star

(MCT) EMINENCE, Mo. — Moments after launching his johnboat on the Current River, Billy Smith took a few seconds to admire his surroundings.

There are ugly places to cast a line, where you can catch fish like crazy.

And there are beautiful places, where the scenery can connect a fisherman with what he or she is really chasing.

It’s almost a spiritual experience, Smith will tell you, being able to float the Current River on a spring morning.

The woods glow with an emerald color, almost shouting that spring is here. The sound of gurgling riffles carries through the cool air. And deer pause to get a drink, and wild turkeys fly low across the surface.

The crowds? They will come later. For now, the Current is calm and showing its mild side.

For Smith, that translates to the perfect time to go smallmouth bass fishing.

“I grew up on these rivers, and I’ve fished them

since I was a kid,” said Smith, who lives in Piedmont, Mo., and works as one of the maintenance supervisors in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. “I was brought up fishing for smallmouths, and we had some good fishing back in those days.

“But I think it’s better now than ever. We have a lot of big smallies in here just waiting to twist your arm.”

Smith uses results of local bass-club tournaments as proof.

“Used to be, it would take five smallmouths weighing a total of 8 or 9 pounds to win it,” he said. “Now it will take 14 or 15 pounds.

“That’s pretty darned good fishing.”

Smith chased some of that good fishing on a recent cool, overcast day.

Floating the section of the Current from Twin Rivers to Powder Mill, he guided his boat through the swift current until he reached the end of a hole. He launched a large brown tube bait with purple flecks and let the bait drift along the current line.

The plastic bait hadn’t gotten far before Smith

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the season at the end of July with the league meet.

The first home swim meet is June 25 against Cherryvale.

“We invite everybody to come down to our

home meets and cheer us on,” Klubek said.

“We’re looking forward to league meet, it’s two days and it’s going to be super long and super crazy but it’s going to be great.”

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felt a jolting strike. He set the hook and watched as a bronze-colored torpedo shot out of the water.

The fish fought for a few seconds, straining to use the current to its advantage. But it wasn’t long before Smith had the 16-inch fish in the boat.

“I just love fishing for

smallmouths,” Smith said. “I don’t think there’s a meaner fish in the water.”

Smith and I ran into plenty of those meanspirited fish this day. As he used his trolling motor to keep from drifting through productive places too quickly, we steadily caught fish.

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Coach Ciara Klubek is in her first year as head coach of the Iola swim team. She was an assistant for three years before she was promoted this season. The team’s first meet is tonight in Coffeyville. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

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Spurs’ historic first half too much for Heat to overcome

By JOSEPH GOODMAN The Miami Herald

(MCT) MIAMI — Records weren’t broken in the first half. They were demolished by a wrecking ball rigged with dynamite.

Doors weren’t blown off in the game’s first 12 minutes. They were launched into Biscayne Bay. The Spurs didn’t shoot out the lights. They simply absorbed all the electricity pulsating from AmericanAirlines Arena and Miami-Dade County in two hard-tobelieve quarters.

Take all the cliches and hyperbole and exaggerations and statistics from the Spurs’ remarkable run before halftime of Game 3 of the NBA Finals, and know this: It was a lot worse last year and the Heat still won.

The Heat proved last June that it could take the Spurs’ best punch and still win an NBA title. In the rematch, the defending back-to-back champions will have to do it again. San Antonio’s 111-92 victory in Game 3 gave the Spurs a 2-1 lead in this best-of-7 series and set the stage for more drama and higher stakes in Game 4 on Thursday.

The Spurs shot 75.8 percent in the first half to take a 71-50 lead to set an NBA Finals record for field-goal percentage in a half. At one point, it was like the San Antonio was playing inside a video game, or maybe playing against no one at all.

The Heat fell behind by 25 points quickly and the lead was never really in doubt despite some impressive fight from the home team and loyal support from a maturing fan base. But as thorough of a performance as the Spurs delivered on Tuesday, it

was nothing compared to last year. Amazingly, 2013’ provided a bigger blowout for the Spurs.

In those Finals, San Antonio defeated the Heat by 36 points in Game 3 to take a 2-1 lead in the series.

And now the Heat will need more magic to wrestle back that home-court advantage it earned with a two-point victory on Sunday in San Antonio. The Heat defeated the Spurs just once in Texas in 2013.

Miami will have to do it twice this time to win three in a row.

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade each finished with 22 points and Rashard Lewis had 14 points, but it wasn’t nearly enough. Chris Bosh was perfect from the field, but only scored nine points. He was 4-of4 shooting, including 1 of 1 from three-point range.

A few examples of just how statistically impressive the Spurs were in Game 3: — The Western Conference champions were 13-of-15 shooting in the first quarter.

— Spurs forward Kahwi Leonard finished with 29 points. He was averaging nine points entering the game.

— The Heat shot 50 percent from three-point range in the first half (7 of 14), yet trailed by 21 points.

— With about five minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Spurs were shooting above 60 percent from the field, 50 percent from three-point range and 80 percent from the free-throw line.

— The Heat shot 51.6 percent from the field and 50 percent from three-point range, but never really had a chance.

Despite all of that, the Heat managed to cut the Spurs’ lead to

seven points in the third quarter. A reverse layup by Norris Cole gave the Heat a glimpse of hope with 1:59 left in the period, and certainly brought the best out of the sold-out arena, but the Heat had already expended too much energy to seriously threaten the Spurs’ lead.

Leonard’s baseline dunk in the 7:56 left was a sign that the Heat players had no life left in their legs and a threepointer by Tony Parker a minute later drained even more energy.

Parker finished with 15 points. Tim Duncan had 14 points. Danny Green 15 points, going 7 of 8 from the field.

Leonard, who had struggled in Games 1 and 2, went 10 of 13 from the field, 3 of 6 from three-point range and 6 of 7 from the free-throw line. As a team, the Spurs shot 26 of 32 from the free-throw line and forced 20 turnovers for 23 points.

Leonard made a difficult turnaround jumper from 21 feet to give the Spurs 10 field goals in a row and 19 of 21 to begin the game. One of those misses, oddly enough, was a blown layup by Duncan.

At one point, the Heat was shooting 56 percent and was trailing by 21 points.

A 10-3 run by the Heat gave fans something to cheer about midway through the second quarter. Keyed by a pair of three-pointers by Rashard Lewis, the Heat cut the Spurs’ lead to 18 points.

The Spurs’ shooting percentage in the first half (75.8) was the team’s fifth-best shooting percentage in a half in the Tim Duncan era.

San Antonio set Heat opponent playoff records for points in a quarter (41) and a half (71).

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Plastic cups cause a fuss in the office Dear Dr. Roach: A coworker and I are at odds over a recent incident, about which I seek your opinion. I purchased a large mocha caramel latte from a well-known coffee shop. When I arrived at work, a job situation demanded our attention and, when I was able to return to my coffee, it was cold. I placed the drink in a microwave oven for one minute to heat it up. The co-worker pulled my coffee out of the microwave and promptly poured it down the kitchen sink.

When I asked her why she did this, she claims that coffee and/or food in Styrofoam cups or containers can be poisonous when placed in a microwave; and in some instances it can cause cancer! Is there any truth to this? Please advise.

She STILL owes me, but perhaps I may owe her!

— W.E. Answer: She is a little bit right. There are

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health chemicals inside many plastics that can leak into food. I recommend against using plastics while reheating food in the microwave.

However, the risk in this situation probably is very small. The materials used in containers designed for hot liquids (including Styrofoam) are generally safe in the microwave, unless they get really hot (above boiling temperature for water).

I think you can buy her a coffee for meaning well but overreacting, and she can replace the one she threw out. Next time, bring your own porcelain mug, save some waste and maybe a little money, and don’t worry about plastics.

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What are your thoughts on the subject? There is no history of breast cancer in my family. — P.M. Answer: Breast cancer sometimes runs in families, but 70 percent to 80 percent of women with breast cancer have no family history. Once a woman has had breast cancer, she is at higher risk for developing a second breast cancer. Survivors of breast cancer should get regular physical exams and mammograms.

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Case No. 14CV20 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

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One killed, another injured in Oregon school shooting TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) — A teen gunman armed with a rifle shot and killed a 14-year-old student Tuesday and injured a teacher before he likely killed himself at a high school in a quiet Columbia River town in Oregon, authorities said.

After the shooting stopped, police spotted the suspect slumped on a toilet in a bathroom at Reynolds High School.

Officers used a robot with a camera to investigate and discovered the suspect was dead and that he had likely killed himself, Troutdale police spokesman Sgt. Carey Kaer said.

His victim was identified as freshman Emilio Hoffman, who was “loved by all,” police Chief Scott Anderson said at a Tuesday news conference. He said Hoffman was found in the boys’ locker room.

A girl who used to be

Hoffman’s girlfriend said he was “a good kid” and a “down-to-earth guy.”

“He was very caring, he loved to joke around,” said Savannah Venegas, 16.

Hoffman lived with his mother and had an older brother and two younger sisters, both in elementary school, Venegas said.

Anderson said he spoke with Hoffman’s family, saying they had a difficult road ahead and sought privacy.

Hoffman didn’t have enemies and “didn’t stir up trouble,” Venegas said.

“They wouldn’t have just picked him,” she said. “It had to be, just, random.”

Authorities have tentatively identified the gunman but his name is being withheld until his family is notified, Anderson said.

The teacher, Todd

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