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THE IOLA REGISTER Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Library finds good partner
EVERYTHING, AND THE KITCHEN SINK...
Invests in Allen Co. Community Foundation By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register
Roger Carswell, director of Iola Public Library, may not have an accounting degree on his resume, but he knows the value of a good investment. As of July, the library’s foundation has made $649.51 on the modest $15,732 it has invested with the Allen County Community Foundation. “It’s the start of a beautiful relationship,” Carswell said of adding the library foundation’s gifts to the greater corpus of the community foundation. The library launched an endowment fund in spring 2012, shortly after its renovation was completed in 2011. “We’d hoped to have $50,000 in two years’ time,” he said. “Obviously, that hasn’t happened.” The library has appealed to former staff, active library patrons and library friends to help build an endowment to help the library weather cuts in state funding. The library’s budget is funded primarily by the city, which has remained static over the years. Another See PARTNERS | Page A6
How full is your bucket? Program gives positive outlook By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
A leadership class at Iola High School has brought a positive outlook to fellow students. The class was assigned to read the children’s book, “How Full is your Bucket,” and created a program afterward. In the story a boy named Felix learns how being kind not only helps others, it helps him, too. His grandfather uses the metaphor of a bucket and dipper, and why happy people make Felix feel good, and thus “fill” his emotional bucket, while those with negative emotions are a drain on his bucket. Felix also realizes how he affects others and wants to become a positive influence. Even though this is a kid’s book, the important lesson spurred the students to create a “Fill the Bucket” program. The program has students nominate fellow classmates for being kind or for doing something kind for others. See BUCKET | Page A6
A home, formerly located next to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, travels down East Madison this morning, while current owner David Toland and prospective owner Ben Middleton ride on the front porch. Unruh Construction moved the 137,380-pound home to its new location on South Oak Street. Jim Talkington and Toland are the current owners. REGISTER/STEVEN SCHWARTZ
Maven spacecraft heads to study Mars By AMINA KHAN Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Four billion years ago, rivers and lakes dotted the surface of Mars, their waters reflecting puffy clouds drifting in a blue sky, scientist believe. Now, it’s a dry, rusty rock that’s subject to fierce sandstorms, withering blasts of radiation and freezing temperatures that have frozen carbon dioxide to the planet’s poles. What happened? That’s the question NASA seeks to answer with the scheduled launch Monday of the MAVEN spacecraft. Planetary scientists believe the answer lies high in the Martian atmosphere. Today, it’s a thin layer of mostly carbon dioxide gas. But long ago, it may have been thick enough to host a lifefriendly, even Earth-like, environment. If so, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission may reveal clues about where it all went. Previous missions, from rovers to or-
biters, have tried to see into Mars’ past by examining the Red Planet’s surface. But that only tells part of the story, said Bruce Jakosky, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and principal investigator for the MAVEN mission. “If we want to understand Mars as a system, we need to include the role of the upper atmosphere,” he said. “We can no longer just look at the geology and understand it in isolation.” Earth is flanked by two alternative worlds. On the side closer to the Sun is Venus, a planet with too much atmosphere, boiling away under thick layers of carbon dioxide. On the other side lies Mars, a planet with too little air shielding its cold, dead deserts. “We think all three of those planets, when they formed, were not all that different,” said Steven Lee, curator of planetary science at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Life arose on Earth because it’s a “Goldilocks” case, protectSee ROCKET | Page A3
An AtlasV rocket, carrying the Maven spacecraft, blasts off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on Monday. MCT
Spreading spirit one step at a time By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Keely Harles hopes the girls she coaches today will become tomorrow’s cheerleaders. Harles is opening her Spirit Nation Dance & Cheer studio at 320 W. Garfield. The program will emphasize cheer and dance routines. Classes begin Jan. 6. Registration began Saturday and by Monday 30 had signed up. “I want classes to coincide with school,” which starts after the holiday break at most area schools on Jan. 6. Information is available from Harles at 817-455-2564. Her concentration will be on cheer, Harles said. “I loved to cheer and dance, See CHEER | Page A6
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Keely Harles is about to open her Spirit Nation Dance & Cheer studio at 320 W. Garfield. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
“Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” — Richard Roeper 75 Cents
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