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The Weekender Saturday, November 23, 2013
COMMUNITY SHARES THANKSGIVING SPIRIT A feast for a community By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
LAHARPE — Residents who otherwise would be alone on Thanksgiving Day may feast on turkey and all that goes with a traditional holiday meal Thursday at City Hall, thanks to LaHarpe Baptist Mission. “We will provide the turkey and volunteers are bringing side dishes,” said Debbie Bearden. “Some people have asked if it’s potluck. It’s not, but if
someone has a favorite dish they’d like to bring, that would be fine.” Serving will start at 11:30 a.m. and continue until 1:30 p.m. Carry-out meals will be delivered to shut-ins, who may make a request by calling Bearden at 620-228-3069. This is the third Thanksgiving Day feast the Baptist Mission has offered to the community, but the first in which it has independently provided food. Iola’s See COMMUNITY | Page A8
Debbie Bearden
True meaning of thanks By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
The Iola Area Ministerial Association will have its community Thanksgiving service at Calvary United Methodist Church on Sunday, starting at 6:30 p.m. Tony Godfrey, pastor at Harvest Baptist, 401 S. Walnut, will be guest speaker. Godfrey said he will structure his sermon around society’s changing perception of Thanksgiving. “We talk about being thankful for materialistic things,” he said. “It’s important to be thankful for the body of
Christ and other believers.” Godfrey said he is happy to be able to speak to the community, which will give him the opportunity to share Harvest Baptist’s mission: “Go, Bring, Build.” “We ‘go’ where the people are, ‘bring’ people to the body of Christ and ‘build’ relationships,” he said. Godfrey started his own journey when he moved to Iola in 1990 from Syracuse. His mother had moved to Iola because she had a job at the hospital. He said it was at that time he was trying to See THANKS | Page A8
Tony Godfrey
IMS helps those in need By STEVEN SCHWARTZ The Iola Register
IMS students, front to back, Brandon Westerman, Elizabeth Scott and Amerikas Bell make pumpkin pies.
Iola Middle School students and faculty are doing what they can to improve their fellow students’ holiday experience this year. “Within our own building there are many families,” for whom times are tough, IMS Principal Jack Stanley said. For the past several years, teachers have been paired with students to provide ingredients for a full Thanksgiving meal for 15 families. The food includes a
turkey, stuffing and all of the other traditional Thanksgiving amenities — including a fresh-baked pumpkin pie. Regina Young, math lab teacher, has been working with her students to make the 15 pies for the students’ families. The math students have made all of the measurements and portioning for the pies. Stanley said some meals will be delivered, families will pick up others. A letter was sent home with the students, saying that meals were available for those See IMS | Page A8
Restoring cars a big investment By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
A sweet design
Extension agent Kathy McEwan assists Adrian Reynolds with constructing a gingerbread house during a class in the courthouse Thursday night. McEwan and Barbara Anderson taught the class. Entries for the Gingerbread Contest need to be into the Chamber by Nov. 25. The houses will be displayed in merchant windows around the Iola square. The Gingerbread Walk will start on Dec. 2 and run through Dec. 23. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
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Mike Schwindt and Jim West gave Iola Rotarians Thursday an inside look at the workings of car shows and the autos that have made them so popular. The Rotarians will sponsor their second Neil Westervelt Memorial Car Show and also assume sponsorship of a barbecue cook-off at the 2014 Allen County Fair. Schwindt — who makes his living restoring cars — gave an inside look of what it takes to produce a show car, with photos of his start-tofinish work on a 1965 Chevelle Malibu. At the start, a car is reduced to a pile of parts, down to the last bolt in the frame, Schwindt said. “We then redo it from the frame up” at his shop at 317 N. Buckeye.
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To document the work, and make sure all goes back together as it should, Schwindt said he often takes as many as 2,000 photos of the process. Oftentimes, the investment, including a new coat of paint, can tally up to $100,000, Schwindt said. With vehicles valued so highly, owners are picky about where they are shown and keep a close eye on the weather as the date of a show approaches, said West, who has redone several vehicles of his own. “The weather is important,” he said, recalling an area show that often drew 200 entries ended up with about 30 because of a rain storm. West outlined steps Rotarians should take to ensure See CARS | Page A8
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