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County era ends THE CIRCUS IS COMINGCheating Wagner TO TOWN hears budget requests By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com
When callers ring in to Radio KIKS-KIOL’s Trading Post Friday morning they’ll hear a familiar voice — for the last time. Friday is Rob Wagner’s last day at the station where he’s worked most of his adult life. He started in September 1993, calling an Iola High football game his first week on the job. He’s been By BOB JOHNSON known bob@iolaregister.com as “the voice of the Mustangs and ever since. Calls tothe theFillies,” 911 dispatch center “It willone be almost hard toevery leave,” average 10 said minWagner, 43, but a new venture utes. awaits, one that onathe And while thathas maybeen sound litdrawing board about a year. He tle slow, played out over 24 hours and a high schoolday buddy recenta day and every of the year, ly a to Gambino’s Pizza thepurchased total comes 55,000. franchise Winfield. “That’sinwhat we received last “We’ve neverMurphy, run a business year,” Angie dispatch before, but we’ve lot of center director, tolddone Allena County research,” and they will have adcommissioners Tuesday mornvantage of taking over a restauing. rant thatcall has total been in for The — business she figures several half oryears, moreWagner are for said. true emergencies — wasn’t the point of her appearance, but the magnitude of the number captivated commissioners. Murphy was before commissioners to request a 20 percent increase in the department’s budget for 2012, up $126,000 over this year’s $490,000. The increase seemed pretty hefty. Murphy reasoned health insurance will cost an additional $50,000 and another $6,000 was expected for Kansas Public EmSee COUNTY | Page A5
To get a first-hand feel for the pizza business, Wagner worked part time at Iola’s Pizza Hut last summer, and was reminded of the familiarity that has come from his broadcasting. “Several times when I answered the phone, the caller would say, ‘I know that voice,’” he recalled. “I’ve enjoyed Iola and made a lot of good friends here,” he said. “I have mixed feelings about leaving. “Jim (Talkington, his partner on sports broadcasts) is a good friend. We’ve developed a rapport; we each seem to know what the other is going to say and when.” Register/Richard Luken This football season — the fourth winning onepull since he’s Mules Pat and Pete an antique sickle bar mower piloted by Ray Whiteley of Le Roy. Whiteley was been here wasGleue a delight to fol-an 18-acre prairie hay field Tuesday. joined by — Greg in cutting low, Wagner said. His most memorable time behind the microphone came in 2006 when the Fillies won the class 4A state basketball championship. By RICHARD LUKEN attached. The bar was triggered
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LE ROY — Unlike the mechanized behemoths of today, Ray Whiteley’s mowing outfit was considerably quieter. His “engine” — a pair of 1,200-pound mules — needed only an occasional break from the stifling summer heat as Whiteley traversed his way around an 18acre prairie hay meadow. “It’s a little warm, so we’ve been taking it easy,” Whiteley said. “It’s our little hobby.” The mules were pulling Whiteley’s antique sickle bar mower, a small wagon with cutting bar
through a gear box engaged as its wheels roll. With no mechanical engine to speak of, the only noise emanating from his unit was from the teeth of the seven-foot cutting bar rotating back and forth. Joining Whiteley was neighbor and friend Greg Gleue, with his own mowing outfit, another sickMechanics le Cirque bar mower pulled perform by a pairthe of Birdhouse Factory show. Percheron draft horses. “We’re having some fun with it,” Whiteley joked. “Greg’s kind of a wimp about it. He needs a
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Restaurant has Italian flair By ALLISON TINN allison@iolaregister.com
ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall knew about cheating allegations on standardized tests but either ignored them or tried to hide them, according to a state investigation. An 800-page report released Tuesday to The Associated Press by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office through an open records request shows several educators reported cheating in their schools. But the report says Hall, who won the national Superintendent of the Year award in 2009, and other administrators ignored those reports and sometimes retaliated against the whistleblowers. The yearlong investigation shows educators at nearly four dozen Atlanta elementary and middle schools cheated on standardized tests by helping students or changing the answers once exams were handed in. The investigators Submitted also found a photo “culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” in the school district over the cheating allegations, which led to educators lying about the cheating or destroying
Fanciful contraptions highlight acts dustrial take on the traditional circus show. Boston native Chris Lashua, who previously had a background in BMX biking and a sixyear stint spent performing with Cirque du Soleil, founded Cirque Mechanics in 2004. Lashua worked with mechanical contraptions and his ideas
Borens were thinking of when ily had always wanted to take on they decided to get into the res- a project like a restaurant and Iolans will soon be able to add taurant business. It is also what when the opportunity presented another restaurant to their list prompted the name Corleone’s. itself in May they decided to buy of dining options. Corleone’s Katy Boren, being a movie the building. will be opening its doors at the buff, was inspired by the Godfa“We would have never taken end of November. ther movies during the naming that leap if it wasn’t for Aaron,” Corleone’s, formerly Ken’s process. Boren said. Pizza on North State Street, is “It ties into the Italian and The building went under a owned by Katy and Ron Boren, family theme of the restaurant,” complete renovation. The back of Boren’s Roofing, and will be she said. room, which used to be a party managed by Aaron Franklin and “We want people to feel like room, was turned into a pub. Register/Susan his wife Allegra. part of the family when they “We completely changed theLynn “We men have are known othertheir These readyeach to leave inhibitions home as they participate Friday night’s favorite come into atthe restaurant,” look ofinthe inside,” Boren said. for Katy said. race,years,” the drag race.Boren From left to right are Matt Skahan, Brian Wolfe, “It NicisLohman, David Toland and a brand new place.” Franklin added. “Aaron is like family .” race begins at 10:30 p.m. on the courthouse square. Franklin is a veteran in the Fred Heismeyer. The Family is exactly what the BOREN said she and her famSee CORLEONE’S | Page A6
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kept growing until he decided to take his work and mold it into a circus show of his own. “Machines became the central focus of what we do,” Lashua said. “We explore the relationship between apparatus and mechanics.” Lashua and his team conjured
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A hearty mix of excitement and performance will take center stage at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Sunday when Birdhouse Factory, a unique circus show, makes its stop in Iola. Birdhouse Factory, performed by Cirque Mechanics, is an in-
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An anticipated field of a thousand runners and walkers, who will flee Iola’s downtown business district early Saturday as ByMelvin ALLISON Charley did TINN in 1905, can allison@iolaregister.com be thankful that Melvin chose to As winter nears and Iolans predo his dastardly deed in the midpare for festivities, the Iola school dle of the night. district has gone temporarily dorHad the event being commemomant. rated occurred in mid-day, par“It is the calm before the ticipants would battle oppressive storm,” Iola High School prinheat and humidity, with both cipal Stacy Fager said. “After forecast at the upper end of the Thanksgiving, sports start up and discomfort scale during daytime it gets busy again.” Friday and Saturday. As is, they During Monday night’s Board will run and walk in somewhat of Education meeting, USD 257 more inviting temperatures presuperintendent Brian Pekarek dicted for the low 70s by 12:26 a.m. shared the facilities planning Saturday. committee’s feedback from when The race — many walkers will community members and school be out for a stroll — will cap activofficials visited and toured the reities that start late Friday afternoon and will go on throughout the evening. Included will be the much-awaited “drag race,” featuring some of the area’s finest men and women dressed in drag. Chris Weiner at Thrive Allen County, co-sponsor with Allen County Crimestoppers for “The Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run for your Life,” said total of participants was approaching 450, with about 200 signed on for the 5-kilometer run. The walk will follow a 3-kilometer course. “Registration, including probably a fifth online, has really
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USD 257 board reviews feedback cently built Garnett Elementary School. Positive feedback centered on the safety of the school. The school has one entrance and exit point and all other doors are locked. An expressed weakness of the picked up,” Weiner said Tuesday school was As thatinthe of“we classafternoon. thesize past, exrooms anup overpect a was lot ofsacrificed people tofor sign Frily bignight.” commons area. day Brad Crusinbery, of Cost is $12 for theprincipal walk. RunJefferson Elementary School, ners’ fees are $14 for youth to age however, begged differ. 17, $20 for adultstoand $17 each for “I thinkof the commons area members teams. makes it easyinatthe the beginning of Runners third annual event willSee aim for best times of USD 257 | Page A4 15.40.06 for males and 20.44.78 for females, set last year. Sticks of “Melvin Dy-No-Mite” will be awarded the first three places for males and females in each of five ages groups, 15 and under, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60 and 61 and over. All participants will break from in front of the post office. Runners will follow a course that will take them on West to Washington, then Jackson, Jefferson and East to Cottonwood. They
Put that ego on the shelf, boys Sports complex on track Witnesses differ on when Libya attack began By SUSAN LYNN susan@iolaregister.com If you’ve got JOHNSON enough of it, FriBy BOB bob@iolaregister.com day night is the night to let your
year a woman’s garter was transferred from one participant’s leg 8,000-square-foot building will be to another. concession stand, restrooms, “It’s better than a baton,”storsaid age andToland, mechanical and electrical David executive director areas. of Thrive Allen County and one members also ofBoard the organizers for approved Friday’s Criss’ events.recommendation to advertiseIffor seating. you don’t have a thing to The—anticipation wear no worries. is that the complex willhats, be ready for jewelry use by Dresses, purses, the the 2013 football seaandstart otherofaccoutrements will be son. ThereatisElizabeth a chanceDonnelly’s baseball available and softball fields may be completed by spring.
HUMBOLDT — USD 258 Board hair down. members Monday approved One sure test isnight to participate ainlease-purchase agreement with the “Drag Race” as a runup to Community BankBomber to pay the Charlie National Melvin Mad part costs a new sports Run of Forthe Your Lifeofrace. complex. Men and women alike are enK.B. Criss, superintendent of couraged to dress in a cross-genschools, said and lease-purchase proder manner then “compete” ceeds, notoftofour exceed million, in teams in a$2relay . Last would pay for equipment and such things as sports fields, track and fencing. Cash on hand in the district’s capital outlay fund will KAY BOLT, elementary and pay for the buildings, including middle schools principal, told the stadium. members — Sinceboard 1871 — 97 percent of eleConstruction of the sports arementary students’ parents attendAt the bandstand Jim Garner, director na Thursday, at the east July edge7,of2011 town is on ed teacher-parent conferences, 8 p.m. a part of nearly 52 acres given the number they found remarkable. PROGRAM district by Joe and Jane..................................................arr. Works. At the middle school, J.P. attendance Star Spangled Banner Sousa TheAmericans Workses We own—B&W Trailer was 75 percent. Henry Fillmore march .......................................... Hitches are known for — their She also noted percent Rock, and Rhythm and Blues medley ...................... arr.that Jack92 Bullock community activism. of sixth-graders made the honor Army of the Nile — march...................................Kenneth J. Alford Land not occupied by sports roll for the first nine weeks. Other Begin of the Beguine ...................................................... Cole Porter fields will be set aside ................................................... for later percentages were Alex 83 for eighthInvercargill — march Lithgow when a school be built. graders,John 79 Williams/Sweeney for seventh, 68 for Hymn to themay Fallen.................................... In addition ball............................................. fields, fourth, 60 for fifth and 58 for third. Men of Ohioto — the march Henry Fillmore track and field event venues, the Bolt said 32 boys 28 girls A Sixties Time Capsule — medley .............................. arr.and Jennings complex with have a — stadium had signed up for basketball The Washington Post march ...................................John P. Sousaat to seat 750 and press box. In rescheduled a the middle school,evening. with practice Rained out aconcerts will be for Friday starting this week.
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