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THE IOLA REGISTER Wednesday, November 27, 2013

HOSPITAL BOARD

STATE

Pensions raised as school issue

‘The move is upon us’

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

The bags are almost packed.

“The move is upon us,” said Allen County Regional Hospital CEO Ron Baker in gearing up for the move across town to the new hospital.

Staging when various pieces of equipment and furniture are moved, “presents a challenge,” he said. In a little more than a week, equipment will start to be moved.

“It will be a very busy next two weeks,” he said Tuesday night.

The new hospital is scheduled to open at 7 a.m. Dec. 10.

Doctors who currently work at the hospital’s medical arts building to the southeast of the main building “want to get cleared out of this building and into a new space,” Baker said.

Finding that space, however, presents challenges. The new hospital was not designed to accommodate the various specialists who come to town on a regular basis. Their practices include cardiology, allergies, oncology, urology, podiatry, and ear, nose and throat.

The hope is for a new medical office building to be built on the grounds of the new hospital.

When that might happen has not been determined. In the meantime, hospital staff are working to find ways to have the specialists see patients in the new hospital where space allows.

“A lot of people are coveting the MRI room,” said Baker, referring to an empty space until the time such a machine can be purchased. “I know we have the space at the new hospital, we just have to figure it out.”

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Sara Scales, an Allen Community College art student, hangs another student’s artwork in the Mary L. Martin Gallery on Tuesday afternoon. The gallery will display students’ work next week as part of the Arts at Allen event. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET

Pinning it up

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

Arts at Allen will kick off Monday with student artists displaying their work for the community. The Allen Community College art department will have its artwork on display Monday through Friday at the Mary L. Martin Gallery at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center as part of the event. Arts at Allen is a three-part event that showcases the art, music and theater departments at Allen.

“There will be a variety of pieces,” Tera Reid, ACC art instructor said.

Fighting Mr. Frost

Cold temperatures bring harsh realities in Iola

“We’ll have work from drawing, painting, and photography students. There is not just one type of medium.”

The gallery will open on Monday and be open throughout the week. At 6 p.m. on Friday there will be a reception for the art students. The reception is right before the college’s music concert.

“We’ll have refreshments like cheese, crackers and punch,” Reid said. “It is open to the public.”

Reid said that students were able to showcase their work at the gallery

— Turn down thermostat

One degree saves 3% on a monthly bill.

— Use fans sparingly

Exhaust fans draw out hot air.

— Close dampers

By STEVEN SCHWARTZ The Iola Register

As the weather grows colder across Allen County, Jeri Waters is bracing for the effect of rising energy costs.

Waters administers help to those who struggle to pay their utility bills.

She is treasurer for the Iola Area Min- Jeri Waters isterial Alliance, and in charge of the Community Utility Relief Board (CURB). Her group provides up to $150 in utility relief starting in late October.

“Right now, we are sitting pretty good,” she said of CURB’s coffers. “But with the winter coming in, it’s going to be tight.”

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Fireplaces can suck out warm air. Close doors to rooms not being used.

— Turn down water heater

Lowering heater to 115-120 degrees saves money with no noticeable difference.

— Use curtains

Open curtains during the day on southfacing windows, close curtains at night to help insulate.

— Maintain furnace

Simply replacing air filters can extend the life of a furnace and help it run more efficiently.

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Tips to lower your heating bill

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, Republican legislators and school officials met this week to discuss funding for public schools and the retirement fund for teachers and other state workers.

The discussion during a 90-minute meeting Monday touched on the state’s finance formula and other responsibilities, such as keeping the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System solvent. Brownback said increases in state contributions to the system as a whole should be considered, not just how much Kansas spends per student each year.

“Our goal is to ensure Kansas schools remain strong and produce students who are prepared for college and careers,” Brownback said Tuesday. “That means having a funding process that accounts for the all the elements of our education system, including a sound pension fund that helps us hire and retain skilled teachers.”

The pension funds and school finance formula are separate line items in the state budget, but Brownback stressed that they are linked. Kansas spends more than $3 billion on K-12 education annually, plus contributes $323 million to the retirement fund for teachers and staff.

Dale Dennis, deputy education commissioner for fiscal and administrative services, said legislators made the decision about seven years ago to require school districts

— Replace thermostat

Buying a “smart thermostat” that can be programmed to turn down the heat during certain times can end up paying for itself

and more in the long run.

Information courtesy of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)

ALLEN COUNTY

Last hurdle to merger at hand

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

The merger that puts Iola in charge of countywide ambulance service is close to clearing its last hurdle of significance.

Allen County commissioners agreed to terms of a lease agreement Tuesday morning that would have the city pay $250 a month for use of the county’s ambulance station in the 400 block of North State Street.

However, while city council members looked at the lease agreement Monday night, just hours after it was given to Administrator Carl Slaugh, they have yet to agree to the monthly payment, Assistant City Administrator Cory Schinstock told the Register.

Meanwhile, County Counselor Alan Weber told commissioners he structured the agreement so that it had no appearance of the county subsidizing Iola’s fire department, which was a concern to some.

The document calls for the county building to house a central depot for ambulance supplies, as well as office space for emergency medical services. The 3,000-gallon tanker, acquired jointly by Allen County and Iola several years ago as a water source for firefighting throughout the county, and a hazardous materials response trailer, also used throughout the county, likely will be parked in the building.

Two ambulances and a utility vehicle will be dispatched from Iola’s fire station. Ambulances also will be on duty 24 hours a day in Humboldt and Moran.

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Obituary

Sam & Louie’s to open Dec. 9 in Iola

Patricia Weiner

The new Sam & Louie’s restaurant, 2150 N. State St., will open Dec. 9.

The restaurant and pizzeria, owned by Toby and Ashley Shaughnessy, will specialize in hand-tossed New York style pizza, pastas, burgers and salads. A glutenfree menu also will be available.

The Shaughnessys are Iola natives. They graduated from Allen Community College before going on to Pittsburg State University.

They returned to Iola to live and raise their

Patricia (Pat) Ann (Bond) Weiner, 74, Humboldt, passed away Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola. Patricia was born on April 19, 1939, to Ralph and Marjorie (Colaw) Bond, in Bloomington, Ill. She was united in marriage to Frank Weiner on Aug. 17, 1955. They made their home at the Chanute Air Force Base, in Rantoul, Ill., where her husband was a jet engine instructor Pat Weiner for two years. After completing his military service they moved back to Kansas to help on the Weiner family farm in rural Allen County.

Pat started her nursing career as an aide at Allen County Hospital in Iola. While raising their four children, she earned her nursing degree as an LPN at Neosho County Community College in Chanute.

She went back to school to get certificates in food service and nursing home administration. She worked at Pinecrest Nursing Home in Humboldt. She was administrator at Westview Nursing Home in Chanute for several years. She continued to pursue her career in nursing home administration in other area nursing homes.

After retiring from nursing around 1987, she ran a store in Humboldt called the Hodge Podge Shop.

She was also an avid reader, devouring several thick books a week. She enjoyed gardening and had a love for four-footed friends. She was also the director of the Humboldt Senior Center for several years, She was a selfless giver and never said a cross word about anyone.

She battled diabetes for many years and was a long-term breast cancer survivor. Her love of family and community helped to give her the will to persevere through her health issues.

She is survived by her husband; four children, Carol and her husband, Dan Cation, Savonburg, Frank II, Topeka, Beverly and her husband, Larry Headley, Humboldt, and their son, Adam, Osage City, Michael, and his five sons, Sean-Michael, Ethan, Ryan Patrick, Aidan, Polk City, Fla., and Brandon, Spokane, Wash. She also leaves behind her sister, Sue Schovaers and husband Gary, Mead, Wash.; her sister-in-law, Jane Cooley, Chanute; and brother-inlaw, Bill, Lee’s Summit, Mo. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews.

Her mother, father, stepfather, sister Dixie, brother David and brothers-in-law, Dale Weiner and Joe Weiner, preceded her in death.

Visitation will be Friday at Penwell-Gabell Memorial Chapel in Humboldt, from 6 to 8 p.m. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Humboldt. Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. at the Catholic cemetery at Walnut. Memorials are suggested to the Diabetes Association and the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility (ACARF) in LaHarpe.

Penwell-Gabel Humboldt Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Lone Elm ready for Christmas event

A Country Christmas will be at the Lone Elm Community Building from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 7.

There will be handmade gifts for purchase along with homemade

treats.

A breakfast casserole will be served at 8:30 a.m. for $4. Lunch will also be available with soup, chili, dessert and a drink for $5.

Plans for wind farm move forward HAYS, Kan. (AP) — Plans for a 200-megawatt wind farm in northwest Kansas are moving forward with approval of three key agreements by the Ellis County Commission.

The Hays Daily News reports the agreements approved Monday for Buckeye Wind Energy cover road maintenance, payment in lieu of taxes and decommissioning of the project.

The company plans

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to build the wind farm on roughly 28,000 acres north of Interstate 70 between the cities of Hays and Ellis. The energy would be the equivalent of powering 104,000 homes.

Proposals for wind farms in Ellis County have prompted opposition and lawsuits in the past. County Commissioner Swede Holmgren says he hopes that some residents have changed their minds.

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family, which includes daughter Kennady, 2.

“The inspiration to open our own pizza restaurant began while I was attending Pitt State and working in a pizza franchise, which I went on to manage after graduation,” said Toby in a news release from Sam & Louie’s. “I had a degree in business management and experience in the pizza business while Ashley had restaurant experience and retail as well.

Opening our own Sam & Louie’s was the perfect fit for us, and there

was no place better than in Iola.”

Toby’s father, Robert Shaughnessy, a local contractor, oversaw construction of the new building.

In preparation for the Dec. 9 opening, the Shaughnessys will host a friends and family opening on the weekend of Dec. 7 and 8.

“This event gives us and our staff a chance to feel comfortable in serving our guests and to get in sync with each other while raising money for the community,” said Ashley.

Donations will support Iola Public Library and accessible playground equipment for children with disabilities in Riverside Park, a project of the Mothers of Miracles (MOMs) and Iola Kiwanis Club.

Sam & Louie’s Corporation is headquartered in Nebraska. Its first restaurant opened in 1994 in Omaha, and the company now has 20 locations throughout Nebraska, Iowa, Montana and Kansas.

For more information go to www.samandlouiespizza.com.

differently than those who use plastic.

Chatterjee says his research shows that marketers may be influencing how much people spend and what they buy by encouraging them to use credit cards.

He says people who use credit cards focus more on the benefits of a product, while those who pay with cash focus on its costs, including price, delivery time, warranty costs and installation fees.

Kansas briefs KC gears up for holiday lighting tradition KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Actor and comedian Rob Riggle will flip the switch that lights up Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza on Thanksgiving night.

The annual event attracts tens of thousands of people to the upscale shopping and dining district, where several blocks of buildings will be outlined in holiday lights through Jan. 12.

A local celebrity gets the honor each year of flipping the switch with help from a child chosen at random from the crowd.

Riggle grew up in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, and graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School and the University of Kansas.

Musical performances and fireworks will also be part of Thursday night’s festivities.

Kan. governor’s residence ready for holiday tours TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas governor’s official residence is being decked out in Christmas finery, and the public can get a glimpse when Cedar Crest opens for holiday tours next week.

Gov. Sam Brownback and his family planned to be at Cedar Crest today for the scheduled delivery of a Scotch pine Christmas tree by horse-drawn wagon.

Also being delivered by wagon was a Douglas fir, to be displayed at Brownback’s office in the Statehouse.

The Kansas Tree Growers Association presents the Christmas trees to the governor each year.

Beginning next week, Cedar Crest will be open for public tours each Monday

afternoon and by appointment on Tuesdays through the holiday season.

Wichita runway to be tested for damage WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An engineering firm is being brought in to determine if last week’s wayward landing of giant Boeing cargo plane damaged the Wichita runway.

The Wichita Eagle reports the city’s Airport Authority is monitoring the condition of the runway at Jabara Airport after the Dreamlifter mistakenly landed at the airport last week. The Dreamlifter was supposed to land at McConnell Air Force Base.

The modified 747 weighs about 600,000 pounds, or about 10 times the weight that Jabara’s runway is designed to handle.

Victor White, director of airports for the Wichita Airport Authority, says initial inspections show the aircraft did no damage to the runway, though some lights along the strip were broken.

The airport is bringing in a runway specialty firm to test the runway for pavement damage.

KU prof says save money by using cash LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A University of Kansas researcher says Black Friday shoppers who want to save a little money should use cash instead of credit cards when making purchases.

The Wichita Eagle reports assistant marketing professor Promothesh Chatterjee issued a statement Tuesday saying shoppers who use cash see their purchases much

Financial Focus Sharing Your "Bounty" Can Be Rewarding Thanksgiving is almost here. If you have the financial resources to provide a comfortable life for your family, you have reason to be thankful. And if you can afford to share some of your "bounty" with charitable organizations, you may want to be as generous as possible — because your gifts may allow you to both give and receive.

By donating cash or other financial assets, such as stocks, to a qualified charity (either a religious group or a group that has received 501(c)(3) status from the IRS), you help benefit an organization whose work you believe in — and, at the same time, you can receive valuable tax benefits.

To illustrate: If you give $100 to a qualified charity, and you’re in the 25% tax bracket, you can deduct $100, with a tax benefit of $25, when you file your 2013 taxes.

Therefore, the real "cost" of your donation is just $75 ($100 minus the $25 tax savings).

Furthermore, if you donate certain types of non-cash assets, you may be able to receive additional tax benefits.

Suppose you give $1,000 worth of stock to a charitable group. If you’re in the 25% bracket, you’ll be able to deduct $250 when you file your taxes. And by donating the stock, you can avoid paying the capital gains taxes that would be due if you had eventually sold the stock yourself.

To claim a charitable deduction, you have to be able to itemize deductions on your taxes. Charitable gifting can get more complex if you choose to integrate your charitable giving with your estate plans to help you reduce your taxable estate. The estate tax is consistently debated in Congress, and the exemption level has fluctuated in recent years, so it’s not easy to predict if you could eventually subject your heirs to these taxes.

Nonetheless, you can still work with your tax and legal advisors now to take steps to reduce any possible estate tax burden in the years ahead.

One such step might involve establishing a charitable remainder trust. Under this arrangement, you’d place some assets, such as appreciated stocks or real estate, in a trust, which could then use these assets to pay you a lifetime income stream. When you establish the trust, you may be able to receive a tax deduction based on the charitable group’s "remainder interest" — the amount the charity is likely to ultimately receive. (This figure is determined by an IRS formula.) Upon your death, the trust would relinquish the remaining assets to the charitable organization you’ve named. Keep in mind, though, that this type of trust can be complex. To establish one, you’ll need to work with your tax and legal advisors.

Of course, you can also choose to provide your loved ones with monetary gifts while you’re still alive. You can give up to $14,000 per year, per individual, to as many people as you choose without incurring the gift tax. For example, if you have three children, you could give them a cumulative $42,000 in a single year — and so could your spouse.

Thanksgiving is a fine time to show your generosity. And, as we’ve seen, being generous can be rewarding — for your recipients and yourself.

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Calendar

Thursday - no trash pickup, all offices and Colony Diner closed; Friday - trash pickup resumes, city office closed until Monday; Monday - Cemetery board meeting, city office, 7 p.m.; Dec. 4 - Lions Club, United Methodist Church basement, 7 p.m., fire meeting, fire station, 7 p.m.

School calendar

Friday-Monday Thanksgiving Vacation; Monday - K-12 Music Program, 7 p.m.; middle school basketball at Crest vs. Pleasanton, 5 p.m.; Tuesday - Scholarship bowl at Marmaton Valley; Dec. 4 - FFA to Paola.

Meal site

Friday - Thanksgiving holiday; Monday - hamburger, sliced tomatoes, bean salad, bun peaches; Wednesday - hot turkey open-face sandwich, mashed potatoes, broccoli, bread, blueberry crisp. Call 620-852-3450 for meal reservations.

Churches

Scripture presented at Sunday’s Christian Church service was I Samuel 2, Luke 2. Pastor Mark McCoy presented the Sermon “Songs from the Heart.”

Scripture presented at Sunday’s United Methodist Church service was Jeremiah 23:16, Luke 23:33-43 and Colossians 1:11-20. Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon.

Christmas parade

Dec. 7 is the 9th annual Colony Christmas Parade. The theme is

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“All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Creatures Great and Small.”

If you have not entered your float, do so anytime; they take lastminute entries, call 620852-3512.

Lineup is on North Depot Street at 6 p.m., and the opening event is a chili/soup fundraiser supper by Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club from 4 to 6 p.m. at the city hall community room. There will be a tree-trimming and lighting ceremony, as well as a parade. The Colony Youth Group will be selling hot chocolate and coffee at the bank drive-thru canopy during the event. Ice, freezing rain or major snowstorm cancels event.

Prairie Belle’s

Christy McGhee and her daughter-in-law, Danelle McGhee are owner/operators of “Prairie Belle’s Kitchen and Catering” at 130 E. 5th Ave. in Garnett.

Christy is a 1974 Crest graduate and wife of Kendall McGhee, 1973 Crest graduate. Danelle is a 1999 graduate of Iola High School. She is the wife of Brant McGhee, 1996 Crest graduate. Their hours are Monday through Friday, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. and Saturday 7 a.m.-2 p.m.,

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4-H

Several Seekers Not Slackers members attended the Achievement Banquet held in the Anderson County High School Sunday.

The regular meeting of the club was held Monday.

Community leader C.J. Lacey was proud to announce club was awarded a purple seal at the banquet. She said enrollment forms must be turned in by Sunday.

Project leader LeAnn Church will be holding a foods meeting Dec. 14 at 4 p.m., before the Christmas dinner. The group will make candy for fruit baskets. The club will pay for supplies to make candy and they decided to help tornado victims in Illinois as a county-wide community service project. They will also collect coats for a coat drive. For the program, Maegyn LaCross taught how to make easy s’mores and Tanner LaCross showed how to make a doodle board.

Codi Vermillion gave an illustrated talk on how to wash and groom cattle. The recreation was an egg relay race led by Tyler Gillespie and Tanner LaCross.

The group sang “Happy Birthday” to Landon Stephens. Vice President Kaitlyn LaCross announced the next meeting would be held on Dec. 14 at 5 p.m. Bingo will be played and each wishing to participate should bring

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— By MAKAYLA JONES 4-H Reporter

Jolly Dozen

Seven members attended the Jolly Dozen meeting Monday hosted

by Phyllis Luedke at the city hall community room. The group elected Jane Ward, president; Claudette Anderson, vice-president and Virginia Dutton, secretary/treasurer. The group will decorate the half-barrels in the business area for Christmas. Cathy Allen won the hostess gift. The Dec. 16 meeting will be in the community room with the annual Christmas carry-in meal; guests are invited.

Thanksgiving

Let us know where and to whom you enjoyed Thanksgiving with this year. Call 620-852-3379, email colonynews@ckt.net or bring to 702 South Pine and leave in the leavea-note box. Please submite your news by 6 p.m. Monday.

December birthdays

Sunday - Charles Ward, Debbie Wools; Monday - Stanley Luedke; Dec. 5 - Mika Westerman Morrison; 6 - Leslie Gilliland; 7 - Brooklyn Jones; 12 - Kerry Allen, Missy Strickler; 19 - Virginia Dutton, Mary Clemans; 20 - Wilma Goodell; 21 - Laura Schmidt; 25 Yvonne Goins; 26 - Jerrick Jones; 28 - Stratton McGhee.

Around town

Gareld and Shirley McGhee held an early Thanksgiving family dinner Sunday. Attending were Shirley’s brother, Dale Fooshee, Topeka; Darren, Cindy, and Rochelle McGhee, Westphalia; Derick McGhee, Baldwin; Dustin Smart, Iola; Joe, Vicki and Chad Atwood, LaCygne; and Tyler Atwood, Lawrence.

Jay and Virginia Dutton will spend Thanksgiving at their daughter, Jayne, and husband Jim Miller’s home, Garnett.

Sympathy is expressed to Keith Babcock at the death of his mother, Frances Babcock, 85. She passed away Saturday. Funeral services are today at Feuerborn Family Service, Colony, burial followed at Colony Cemetery.

Gates big on giving Gates Corporation donated two large boxes of food Monday to the Iola food pantry run by the Area Ministerial Alliance. Teri Porter, left, handed the food over to Iola Area Chamber of Commerce director, Shelia Lampe, for the food to be delivered. Gates hopes to donate more food around Christmas. REGISTER/KAYLA

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Storm upsets travel CHICAGO (AP) — A wall of storms packing ice, sleet and rain could upend holiday travel plans as millions of Americans take to the roads, skies and rails today for Thanksgiving.

So far, the deadly storms barreling into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast have not resulted in many flight delays or cancellations, but forecasters were expecting the weather to worsen throughout the day.

“The timing of the storm couldn’t be worse,” said Chris Vaccaro, spokesman for the National Weather Service headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. “We are seeing numerous threats as the storm is beginning to develop and intensify.”

Heavy rain and breezy conditions were to strike the East Coast from the Carolinas to the Northeast today, with ice and snow a possibility in the Appalachians, western Pennsylvania and western New York. Snow to-

tals from the Ohio Valley to the interior of the Northeast were expected to be less than 10 inches, the weather service said.

The storm system, which developed in the West, has been blamed for at least 11 deaths, half of them in Texas.

It limped across Arkansas with a smattering of snow, sleet and freezing rain that didn’t meet expectations.

But even a weaker than expected storm system is potentially bad news the day before Thanksgiving — the anticipated busiest travel day of the year.

More than 43 million people are to travel over the long holiday weekend, according to AAA. The overwhelming majority — about 39 million people — will be on the roads. But more than 3 million people are expected to filter through airports, and the weather could snarl takeoffs and landings at some of the busiest hubs on the East Coast.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Local community members share their Thanksgiving plans and what they are thankful for.

Mrs. Colgin’s first grade class at Marmaton Valley Elementary School drew turkeys and shared what they are thankful for. Students are first row: Alanah Maley, left, Addyson Trester, Dominic Smith, Ty LaRue, Ryan Pugh, Jaedon Granere. Second row: Emma Carlson, Ava Newman, Trinity Lawson, Kailyn Ard, Alexis Carman, Klaten Gates. Third row: Danielle Deer, Dreden Ellis, Brayden Lawson, Deanna Key, Piper Barney. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET

season.” Larry Tucker.

“I am thankful that Jourdain comes to Grandma’s house when he doesn’t have school,” Jaedon Granere.

“The Wicoff family will once again be eating turkey sandwiches on the beach, building sand castles and soaking up the sun this Thanksgiving. We will also be visiting Joel’s Grandmother Dorothy in Zephryhills, Fla.,” Lisa Wicoff.

“We will have our children (three daughters and son) my son’s wife and our grandson here for Thanksgiving at the family farm which has been in the family since 1905. We have two daughters in college and one, Andi Bush, a senior at Marais des Cygnes Valley High School and she plans to attend Pittsburg

“We will have Thanksgiving dinner in our home with Vera Hunt, Ivan Elliott and Frances Scearce, all of Iola. I think what we are most thankful for this year is our friends and family, and being together during this holiday season.

We pray for our country and for the military who protect it, and continue to make it “the land of the free.” Mike and Mary Lou Byers.

home.

There will be 14 in attendance. That’s nieces and nehews and four great ones there.” Edward Harner.

Roy and Pam Holland, Humboldt, will spend Thanksgiving weekend with Roy’s son Daryl, daughter-in-law Michelle and grandson Landen, Reynoldsburg, Ohio.

They will have dinner at his sister Connie and Clyde Shetlar’s, Moran, along with other family

“I am thankful for people who give food to other people who need it,” Alexis Carman.

in the Kansas City area and his wife Kaylee is also a graduate of KSU in accounting. We live between Melvern and Quenemo. We take the online paper because we want to read about the Allen County softball team as we don’t make all the games. My husband, Douglas Bush, usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey. We are grateful to be so blessed!” Roxie Bush.

“My wife, Jo, and I will travel with our four children to be with extended family in the St. Paul and Girard areas. I am very thankful for the opportunity to work in USD

Lisbona, Overland Park; Terry, Lisa, and Karlie Lower, Iola; Drew Lower, Colorado; Paige Farmer, Manhattan; Dylan Lower, Pittsburg; Fred, Lisa,

“I am thankful for my grandmas and grandpas,” Ava Newman.

257 and for our children to attend Iola district schools. My wife and I are so fortunate to live in a community that values and supports education so greatly,” Stacey Fager.

“I will be thankful for: family, good health, living in a country where I can freely practice my religious faith, and a KC Chiefs winning football

Kayle, Haley and Hannah Riebel, Humboldt; Dr. Dwight Blackwood, Chanute; Katy Hatch, Yates Center.

“I am thankful that my dad signed me up for dance,” Alanah Maley.

Bob and Linda Watson will be traveling to Kansas City to spend Thanksgiving Day with their daughter Katy Myers, her husband Eric and their two children, Evan and Ava. The family will have dinner with Eric’s family at his uncle, Billy Myers, home. Linda Watson.

“I will have Thanksgiving with my four sisters: Darlene, Betty, Carolyn and Mary. We all will have Thanksgiving dinner at Darlene’s girl, Kendra and Tim’s family

State next year. Stormie Bush is a sophomore at Allen County College and plays softball there.

We are grateful that all are healthy and will be home Thanksgiving.

Becca Bush is a junior at Emporia State University. Our son Aaron Johnson is a 2005 graduate from Kansas State University in mechanical engineering and works

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members. Pam Holland.

Vada Aikins, Pat Michael and Ryan and Abby Michael will spend Thanksgiving together.

Glenda and Randy Hill, Brian, Jennifer Sheridan, Lillie and Kai Barnhart will spend Thanksgiving together.

Donna Lower-Nord hosted an early Thanksgiving dinner Sunday at her home. Those attending were Ron, Pam and Brandon Powers, Shawnee; Bryan, Kristin, Loren and Lucas

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The Iola Register California. We are very excited as this is their first time here since Chris moved out here. I will be making a small Thanksgiving dinner.

We will be playing the

been happy. How do I plan to be thankful? By enjoying time with my family in Texas without anxiety for the first time in a long time.”

Shay Hlavaty

“Fathers are some of life’s biggest blessings! As many of you know, my father, Ray-

“I am thankful when we get to have pie and play games,” Kailyn Ard.

“I am thankful for my family, friends and God,” Dreden Ellis. card game “hand and foot.” GG, Chris’ grandma, will beat the pants off of all of us and will steal all of our quarters (because it isn’t a real card game unless we are playing for money).” Elyssa Jackson.

“I have many things

and Dara Coomes; Seth, Abby, Sawyer, and Rhett Born, St. Paul; Shawn, Jeneal and Blake Stanley, Louisburg.” Barbara Leavitt.

that my family can always devote time to one another no matter the distance or how busy we all become. God has blessed me with amaz-

mond Sutterby, was in a terrible car accident in April of this year. I am blessed beyond measure that this Thanksgiving I will be sitting at the table right beside him. I will also get to share this experience with my mother, my husband and children,

“I am thankful for my friends,” Deanna Key. and depression. Not knowing what I wanted as a career, where to move, or what I was even doing being alive all really made me feel like I was drowning every day. The last few

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Jennifer Murphy

“I am thankful for my family,” Danielle Deer.

“I plan to be thankful just by enjoying not being anxious or lost.

This last year and a half since I graduated from college, I’ve been suffering from anxiety

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“I am thankful for my family,” Klaten Gates.

“I am thankful for God, he made me.

I’m also thankful for mommy and daddy and Weston and Wyatt.”

Cole Hines, 4.

“I am thankful for God. I am thankful for my family. I am thank-

ing family and friends and I’m truly thankful for that.” Kayla Banzet

“I am thankful I get to help mom do dinner,” Emma Carlson. to be thankful for this year. Most importantly, I am thankful for the opportunity to work in a job that I enjoy. After starting my job this spring, I moved to a small town and made some great

my brother and his family, and some of our closest family and friends.” Kara Godfrey “I am very thankful for a family that shows love all year long and a strong supportive

ful for my school family,” Mrs. Colgin.

“I am thankful when someone can come over and spend the night,” Dominic Smith. months though, my head’s been above the water, and I’ve actually

“I am thankful for my friends,” Ryan Pugh.

“On Thanksgiving day I will be traveling to Chetopa and Altamont to have Thanksgiving dinner with my family

“This year we are having Chris’ mom and grandma come out from

“I’m thankful we are a community who helps others. I’m thankful for the simple, but busy, lifestyle we have here in Allen County. I’m grateful to the many forward-thinking indi-

“I am thankful that my mom feeds me healthy food,” Piper Barney.

“I am thankful that I get to spend time with my family at Thanksgiving,” Addyson Trester.

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church family at Harvest Baptist Church. I am thankful for a warm house that my family can call home and where we can enjoy the grandbabies’ giggles and squeals.” Barry and Jennifer Lamb “We’re very thankful that we have our health, such as it is, and are able to gather around the Lentz family dinner table. We are going to have a fairly light meal, only about nine things because several of the family can’t be home.”

Donna Houser.

“We will be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday at the home of Tony and Barb Leavitt with Bob, Brandi, Jacob and Jayden Leavitt; Tony, Staci, Megan, Hannah and Brystal Hudlin; Ed and Mary Ann Mann; Jack and Tina Stanley; Scott Stanley; Martin, Janalin, Kylie, Toni and Brett Taylor; Michael, Terry and Corey Taylor; Erika Taylor and Darrien, Iola; Rick and Terry Coomes; Adam

“I am thankful for all the people in my life; my cousins, my friends, mom and dad and my sister,” Ty LaRue. and celebrate my birthday. On Friday I will be going to the Wichita area with my fiance to have dinner with his family. I am thankful

viduals and groups who envision our pocket of the state to become even better.” Susan Lynn

“I am thankful for my brother, Kory,” Trinity Lawson.

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Fire damages Williams Monuments Quick reactions save major damages

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By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

An alert passerby likely prevented more severe damage being done to Williams Monument, 11 W. Broadway, when pallets stacked at the southeast corner of the building caught fire Tuesday night.

Iola firefighters were called at 10:15 p.m. and were on the scene before the blaze could penetrate more than just inside the building, Lt. Jeremy Ellington told the Register this morning.

Firefighters were able to knock down the fire “very quickly,” Ellington said.

Cause of the fire has not been determined.

The blaze was spectacular for a few min-

Emergency vehicles responded to a blaze in the southeast corner of Williams Monuments Tuesday night, blocking off intersections at Broadway, Washington and South Street. REGISTER/STEVEN SCHWARTZ utes as the wooden pallets were consumed and sent flames into the night sky, and the fire did burn through the building’s wall.

“But it was restricted to the southeast cor-

ner,” Ellington said.

Firefighters remained on the scene for nearly two hours, to make certain all embers were extinguished and none of the rest of the building’s interior

was at risk.

“That we got the call so quickly made a big difference,” Ellington said.

Terry Ellis, rural Lone Elm, owns the business.

The number of patients using the hospital’s new therapy department has tripled over the past six to nine months, Baker said.

The dramatic increase in physical and occupational therapy comes somewhat as a surprise.

“They’ve grown this demand here in this building without a lot of the aerobic equipment that will be at the new hospital,” Baker said.

Baker said he receives “lots of requests for charitable gifts,” for hospital equipment that will not be moved to the new facility.

Allen County commissioners will decide what will become of the current hospital once it is vacated, said Alan Weber, legal counsel.

Lots of ideas are continually proposed, Baker said, but whether any take root is the question.

“I doubt anyone is chomping at the bit to acquire the hospital,” he

said.

Weber said it would cost the county upward of $100,000 a year to maintain the empty building.

“The question is, how long are we going to wait (for a buyer) until we are forced to raze it,” Weber said.

TWO NEW employees were recently hired.

Katrina Regehr Springer, daughter of Mary Ann and Walt Regehr, has accepted a part-time position as dietitian.

And Lori Brown will become the new director of the respiratory therapy and lab departments.

Brown also has ties to the area. A grandmother is from the Bronson area.

The search for an inhouse surgeon is progressing, Baker said. A recent trip to the area made a good impression on a prospective candidate, Baker said, and he plans to make a second trip with his family.

Cold: Local entities work to keep people warmer in winter Continued from A1 tions for their support. The Iola Senior Center and the Salvation Army also contribute to the CURB fund.

For assistance, Allen Countians must have a past-due bill and show that they are working to pay off their expenses.

“We always try to talk to them about raising part of the money,” she said.

She said the funds tend to get low as the months grow colder, and once the funds are gone, they don’t have any options. “If you don’t have the money, you have to turn them (those in need) away.”

Past experience has shown that those who ask for CURB funds, are truly in need.

“I don’t have repeats,” Waters said. “It is the circumstances that have caused this. So many times these people come in and

they need $300 or $400.”

She said common reasons for CURB requests are the loss of a job, or children coming into the family unexpectedly. Rarely do individuals ask for assistance, Waters said.

“It’s families who need the help.”

The program is currently funded to fulfill 33 to 35 requests.

ROXANNE HUTTON, Iola city clerk, said she is put in a difficult position every year when winter rolls around — although her issues are generally with “repeat offenders.”

She said the City of Iola does not adhere to the “cold weather rule,” which states cities that use corporations such as Westar to supply their energy needs must leave utilities on for past-due bills when temperatures dip below freez-

ing. The rule is only mandatory for corporations, not municipalities that own their own utilities.

“A lot of people are under that misconception,” she said.

The City of Iola currently serves 3,741 customers in and out of the city limits. They shut off utilities for 71 homes on average every month. The highest month for shutoffs is October.

She said corporations that adhere to the coldweather rule oftentimes drag out the process — which could push people further into debt.

“It’s actually burdening them, I think,” Hutton said.

She said consequences for shutting off utilities in the winter may be higher, but costs run higher on average in the summer than the winter

— August is the highest month on average. She said the amount of shutoffs is about the same throughout the year, although people are motivated to pay their bills when it’s cold outside.

“People are quicker to get their heat turned back on,” she said.

Hutton added the city is willing to work with people having financial trouble, as long as they show initiative.

“You can always make payments,” she said. “We are willing to help within the 42 days (the time given to pay the bill), but we have to pay the bills, too.”

IOLA Code Services Officer Shonda Jefferis said it is important for a home to have proper insulation first and foremost, but they haven’t had any formal complaints by resi-

dents in the area.

“For new construction, I don’t think it’s an issue,” Jefferis said. For older construction, “blown-in” insulation can be an issue, she said, and needs to be re-filled. The materials used will compact over time and allow air pockets in-between walls.

The City of Iola requires — according to the 2000 International Property Maintenance Code — that a home, old or new, be able to maintain at least 65 degrees at any point during the year.

She said there have been no formal complaints or citations for the homes in Iola, but concerns can be brought to her office.

WATERS said those who come in for assistance generally are families living in low-income housing or “houses that

are poorly insulated.”

Their funds will be stretched tight over the next few months, but the community tends to come through.

“The Iola community is a wonderful, giving community,” Waters said.

When there is a need, it is filled.

Her group encourages those in need to “do their best” to contact friends and family for financial assistance, especially because assistance funds are not bottomless at the ministerial alliance. She said, however, that special attention is given to families with small children in the home.

“That’s the one thing we can’t have, is young kids in a house being cold,” she said. “We aren’t going to leave children in the cold.”

Hurdle: Lease agreement one of the last steps in merger Continued from A1 Ryan Sell, the merged services’ director, said all ambulances would roll as type I units, meaning they will have a paramedic aboard. The utility vehicle will support and often arrive ahead of ambulances.

He noted that a first responder aboard the utility vehicle could be on scene five to 10 minutes ahead of an ambulance, and if the responder found transport or more advanced medical services were not necessary, ambulance runs could be aborted or slowed to runs without emergency signals.

That would be a safety advantage, noted Commissioner Tom Williams, by not having an ambulance run “hot” — with siren and emergency lights engaged — when it wasn’t necessary.

A first responder with the utility vehicle will be an important adjunct when calls come from Humboldt or Moran when the local ambulance is out of town for a transfer.

Michael Burnett, county director, said the switchover was “going great.”

Sell said county supervisors would began operating under the city’s

schedule on and after Dec. 1, while all other county personnel would move to the city schedule the last week of December.

IN OTHER NEWS, commissioners: — Approved refinancing $1.7 million in outstanding revenue bonds for the law enforcement center’s construction and equipping, which will cut the interest rate from a little over 4 percent of 2.64 percent. Net savings in interest costs over the remaining nine years of the issue will be about $80,000.

— Acquiesced to a re-

quest from Allied Hospital Services to hire only “friends and family” of hospital employees to help with the move to the new Allen County Regional Hospital. Those hired — 15 or 20 — will be paid $9 an hour from Dec. 3 to about Dec. 13. An email announcing job interviews Dec. 2 at the Super 8 motel, including the re-

striction on candidates, was sent to commissioners and hospital trustees.

A recipient made it available to the Register. The email’s content was mentioned by Commissioner Jim Talkington Tuesday morning.

— Learned that LaHarpe Rural Volunteers will erect a four-bay building costing $46,000 at Sev-

enth and Main streets in LaHarpe, to replace an older building that hasn’t been adequate for years.

Weber said with completion, trucks and other equipment would be kept in the building, out of the weather and beyond the reach of vandals. The volunteers answer rural calls in the LaHarpe area and Deer Creek Township.

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Guess who’s coming to Thanksgiving dinner?

When families gather round the table Thanksgiving Day, chances are they are as much a mishmash as the food.

Stepchildren. Ex-spouses. Half-siblings. Multi-cultural. Unmarried cohabitants. Single parents.

Don’t be alarmed. Truth is, that’s the landscape of the American family.

Recent reports of U.S. demographics show we are a curious amalgam and more like a Jackson Pollock than a Norman Rockwell painting.

Today, most moms bring home the bacon along with dad. The female workforce has quadrupled since the 1950s and today 40 percent of women are their family’s sole breadwinner.

Families are smaller, with an average of two children compared to three in the 1970s. Fewer women are becoming mothers, 80 percent compared to 90 percent in the 1990s.

The fastest-growing immigrant group is Asian, not Hispanic, despite the furor over immigration. The high influx of Asians has helped steady our divorce rates — the lowest in 30 years — and also raise the average level of household

income of any racial group.

Asian families average divorce rates of 20 percent, compared to the national average of 40 percent, and on average earn roughly $68,000 a year, compared to the national average of $44,000.

THE UNITED States retains the highest divorce rate of the Western world, even though our rate is down from its 50 percent peak in the 1990s.

On average, Americans are marrying much later.

First-time grooms now are nudging age 30 and blushing brides are almost 27, on average, a good seven to eight years later than a generation ago. Likewise, first-time moms are now on average 25 and older.

The good news is that the rate of teen births has dropped dramatically thanks to sex education in schools and widespread birth control measures.

Those gathered around the table could be black and white, Baptist and Hindi, Democrat and Republican.

Let’s give thanks we live in a country where that’s not only permissible, but welcome.

— Susan Lynn

A look back in time

40 Years Ago Week of Nov. 24, 1973

Drizzle filtered into the city’s official rainfall gauge yesterday for .22 of an inch, which rose the precipitation to 60.04 for 1973. In 1951, 60.03 inches were recorded and that was the most miserable year in the city’s history. The title has now passed to 1973 — and there’s still a month left. ***** A shortage of acetone has

caused a layoff of about 37 employees at the IMP Boat Co. here, Jim FitzPatrick, company president, told the Register this morning. FitzPatrick said IMP was one of the last fiberglass boat manufacturers in the country to feel the impact of the supply of petroleum.

Acetone is a chemical used to thin the resin used in the manufacture of fiberglass. It is also needed for clean-up in the fiberglass section.

FCC makes right call on cell phones The Federal Communications Commission may permit airlines to experiment with allowing passengers to use cellphones in flight, officials said last week. The agency should do so, and airlines should get on with experimenting. Permission is not requirement; a change in federal rules would not necessarily mean the ruination of air travel for all time.

We sympathize with anyone whose immediate reaction is to recoil at the prospect of having to listen for hours to a loudmouth with unlimited mobile minutes. Air travel is uncomfortable enough. But the FCC’s move wouldn’t guarantee such an outcome. Rather, it would leave matters to airlines and their passengers, which is as it should be.

The proposal before the FCC would simply admit that there are no dangers or technical complications to transferring voice and data to and from mobile phones in the air, as long as the right technology is on board. Until now, the FCC worried that airborne mobile phone use would interfere with ground-based cell networks. Now that carriers in Europe and Asia have shown it can be done safely, the government’s telecommunica-

Medicaid expansion a lifesaver Gov. Brownback and the GOP-led Legislature should not let the Affordable Care Act’s problems keep them from doing right by the lowincome families and Kansas hospitals for whom Medicaid expansion could be a lifesaver.

The state’s conservative leaders need to listen to the Kansas Medicaid Access Coalition, which isn’t taking the 2013 Legislature’s “no” on expansion for an answer.

“We will be more aggressive,” Bruce Witt, director of governmental relations with Via Christi Health, told fellow coalition members last week, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. “We believe expanding coverage to an additional 100,000-plus Kansans who are low-income fits in with our mission.”

The ACA’s launch could hardly be worse, exemplified by the humiliating moment last week in Miami when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius witnessed the HealthCare.gov website crash as an ACA “navigator” was helping a woman sign up for insurance. Then there was President Obama’s confusing flip-flop on canceled individual plans, which only postponed pain for policyholders while further burdening insurers. The low enrollment numbers and technical missteps have emboldened the critics of “Obamacare,” fueling arguments in Kansas for staying as far away as possible from Medicaid expansion and

It’s going to save lives, it’s going to help people, and you tell me what’s more important than that.

— John Kasich, Republican governor of Ohio

anything else related to the law.

But by neglecting to be among the roughly half of states expanding Medicaid under the ACA as of 2014 to cover those whose income is 138 percent of the federal poverty level, Kansas already is sitting out the first of three years during which the federal government will pick up the full cost of expansion.

That’s dumb ­— a case of Kansas subsidizing other states while idly letting thousands of its own people remain not only uninsured but uninsurable under the ACA. That’s because nearly 88,000 Kansans who lack insurance, including more than 29,000 children, are not eligible either for Medicaid coverage under Kansas’ tightfisted rules or for the new ACA subsidies for private insurance through the online marketplace. Among 5 million such people in a coverage gap nationwide, they earn both too much and too little to access insurance.

Meanwhile, many hospitals and community health centers in Kansas face the phaseout of federal funding that helps with their costs of uncompensated care. Covering more Kansans via Medicaid means helping Kansas providers cover their costs, while

benefiting the state economy with an estimated $3 billion and 4,000 new jobs by 2020.

Brownback should follow the lead of eight other GOP governors who expanded Medicaid. “For me, it was an easy decision,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich told the Wall Street Journal last week. “It’s going to save lives, it’s going to help people, and you tell me what’s more important than that.”

To her credit, Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, has expressed a willingness to keep the state’s options open on Medicaid expansion, showing particular interest in the “Arkansas model” of using expansion funds to help people buy private insurance.

Wagle is a skilled lawmaker and a persuasive conservative voice who has said going through her family’s health crises gave her a “soft spot for doing what we can with our health care to provide the best quality care for people in need.” She is in a prime position to lead a Medicaid expansion push in her chamber and the state.

Continuing to deny Medicaid expansion may hold a misguided political appeal, but it will do a grave and shameful disservice to Kansans and Kansas hospitals. ­— The Wichita Eagle

tions regulator has no sound reason to keep its restrictions.

Its rules are outdated, and they should go.

Once gone, airlines and travelers would decide what to do. Carriers would have all sorts of possibilities to suit a range of passenger preferences. They could allow a limited number of simultaneous phone conversations. They could let passengers retrieve

ity that some carriers would not allow any mobile phone use. It is already legal for air passengers to make calls over onboard WiFi connections, but airlines don’t permit it.

Some travelers are waging a campaign against anything that might lead to more noise in cramped airplanes. Major airlines did not rush to celebrate the FCC’s announcement.

While some passengers mourn the disappearance of their last disconnected refuge, others will embrace the convenience of connection.

data or send text messages but not talk. They could create quiet cabins or designate entire flights as no-phone zones, if that’s what customers want.

Airline staff would have all the leverage in enforcing the rules, because they would control the equipment that would connect passengers to cellphone networks. Beyond the rules, costs would also constrain cellphone users; they would be charged roaming rates for their conversations.

There’s a distinct possibil-

The immediate impact of the FCC ridding the country of its unnecessary rule, then, may well be small. Yet we hope that carriers explore their options to bring air travel into the 21st century, with all its pluses and minuses. While some passengers mourn the disappearance of their last disconnected refuge, others will embrace the convenience of connection. Either way, there’s no reason for the government to play referee.

— The Washington Post

Why we remember JFK Civil Rights Act of 1964 a defining moment John F. Kennedy, 50 years after his assassination, continues to hold the attention of Americans, many of whom were gradeschoolers on the day he died.

Why is it that we continue our fascination, our devotion or our conspiracy theories about the 35th president of the United States, how he lived and how he died?

The Kennedy family itself was a study of history. The Irish Catholic Kennedy family was bigger than life and commanded the limelight.

Kennedy’s assassination and the decades of investigations, hearings and interviews have failed, at least in some people’s minds, to answer the question of whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot the president. That question, along with a long list of conspiracy theories, has held the nation’s attention, at least to some extent.

But if on this 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, you are looking for his legacy to this nation, we offer you the 1964 Civil Rights Act. When he became presi-

dent, blacks throughout the South were still being denied the right to vote and were barred from restaurants and restrooms alike.

Change was certainly on its way with or without Kennedy.

But in June of 1963 when Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door to prevent two black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama, Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard.

What followed was a defining moment of the civil rights crisis.

In August of 1963, more than 200,000 Americans celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with the March on Washington. Soon after the march, Kennedy sent a bill to Congress that became the 1964 Civil Rights Act, one of the most important pieces of legislation to come about as a result of his presidency.

In remembering this president, we should look beyond the Hollywood hype.

He changed our nation in a way that made it a better place for all to live.

— The Joplin Globe

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”

— John F. Kennedy

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Turkey cop in Vegas LAS VEGAS (AP) — A giant turkey is roving crosswalks in Las Vegas to squawk on drivers who don’t yield to pedestrians.

Officers dressed in Thanksgiving bird finery are walking across the road Tuesday as part of a sting operation. It’s the fifth annual appearance of the safety mascot dubbed “Butterball One.”

Police waiting to the sides of the crosswalks are slapping drivers who don’t stop with fines starting at $191.

The festive campaign underscores a sobering problem in southern Nevada. Safety advocates say 46 pedestrians have died so far this year in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located. That’s ahead of last year’s pace.

Show: At Bowlus Continued from A1

last fall as well.

“We know that the gallery books up fast so the Bowlus schedules us in advance,” she said.

“We’re hoping to have it every year.”

Reid said this gives students the opportunity to showcase their work. Any art student who wanted to display work was allowed to do so. Reid said there are about 15 to 20 pieces in this particular show.

“The students are working very hard this

semester,” she said.

“There will be a lot of beginning level stuff but it’s coming along very nicely.”

The music department will have its recital at 7 p.m. in the Dale P. Creitz Recital Hall. Admission is free. Thursday through Saturday the theater department will perform “The Diary of Anne Frank,” at 7:30 p.m. at the Allen College Theatre. Admission for adults is $6, students are $4. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Iola Pharmacy.

Pension: Issues Continued from A1

to show pension funds on their budgets, even though the revenues come from the state.

The funding is sent by the state to the districts but immediately “boomerangs” to KPERS to be invested, Dennis said.

Districts can’t spend the money or collect any interest off the funds.

“I don’t think it is a bad idea because it tells the public and the taxpayer that the state is paying for it,” Dennis said.

John Robb, a Newton attorney representing school districts in a school finance case on appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court, said the state ran into trouble with its pension system when legislators failed to make adequate contributions to the system starting in the 1990s. The decision caused the gap between what the state owes to beneficiaries

and what it has in the fund to grow.

Robb said it “is absurd” to think that schools must shoulder the cost of making the pension system solvent, noting income tax cuts Kansas enacted in 2012 have reduced how much money the state has to spend on services.

“The state pension plan and the schools are both state responsibilities and both are underfunded,” Robb said. “The constitution protects education. It does not protect tax cuts.”

KPERS officials said in September that the system’s unfunded liability had risen to $10.2 billion, despite a 14.5 percent net return on investment. Legislators and Brownback pushed changes in the system in 2012 that included increasing employee and employer contributions to improve long-term solvency.

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Shockers edge BYU to claim CBE title

BLUE DRAGONS DOUSE ALLEN

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bodies were flying all over the floor. Bumps and bruises gave way to cuts and blood.

It was exactly the kind of game Wichita State loves to play.

Ron Baker took the biggest blow when he was walloped in the jaw by a flying elbow from a BYU player late in the second half, but the Shockers’ star guard calmly made the free throws, spurring his team on to a 75-62 victory Tuesday night in the championship game of the CBE Classic.

“I think it’s a lot like our practices,” Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall said.

“We don’t make a lot of excuses. There’s not a lot of chatter and making excuses. You just have to play.”

The Shockers (7-0) did that best when it mattered most.

Baker finished with 23 points, including six straight free throws down the stretch.

Fred VanVleet hit two late 3-pointers and finished with 12 points, while Cleanthony Early also had 12.

Above, Allen Community College’s Tray Fountain, right, tries to get by Hutchinson defender B.J. Watson in the first half of the Red Devils’ 90-69 defeat. At left, Allen’s Courtney Sluder looks for a teammate during a second-half possession. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Free throws, defense carry Hutch

See SHOCKERS | Page B2

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

MVJH hosts Westphalia

Visiting Hutchinson Community College demonstrated for all to see Tuesday why two of its players were among the most heavily recruited in all of junior college basketball.

Host Allen Community College, meanwhile, showed that while improved, work remains before the Red Devils are to reach the upper echelon of the Jayhawk Conference.

In their final preThanksgiving contest of the season, Hutchinson exploded out of the gate to lead Allen, 30-9, midway through the first half Tuesday evening.

The Red Devils responded, pulling to within five early in the second period.

But Hutch, the fourthranked NJCAA Division I school in the country, answered every challenge,

MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s basketball teams wrapped up the preThanksgiving portion of their schedules Monday with a 3-1 record against Westphalia.

The Wildcat boys won both of their games. The A team prevailed, 44-36, while the B team emerged with a 38-16 victory.

The Wildcat girls lost a 1514 heartbreaker in the A team contest. The MV girls B team won, 24-20.

IN BOYS A team action, the Wildcats broke open a 1915 lead with a 15-9 run in the third quarter to push into a double-digit lead, 34-24.

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then pulled away down the stretch to win, 90-69.

The loss drops the Red Devils to 6-4 on the season.

“We just didn’t have it,” Allen head coach Andy Shaw said. “When you shoot 23 of 73, you’re not going to beat many teams.”

The Blue Dragon defenders had something to do with that, repelling several ACC attacks to the basket, particularly in the first half.

Hutchinson (8-2) held Allen without a field goal for more than seven minutes as part of a 17-2 run to take control.

The Blue Dragons’ Coreontae DeBerry ended two straight possessions with dunks to cap the run at the 9:01 mark of the half.

“Their size really hurt us in the first half,” Shaw said.

Allen’s response was keyed by its defense.

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Josh Sweet — the only Red Devil who didn’t score in Allen’s 123-point explosion Friday evening in a win over Tabor — scored eight points in a 3-minute span as Allen closed the half on a 21-7 run.

Ben Uno scored five straight points with a trey and a layup with 6:35 left before Courtney Stockard scored on a nice upand-under play, followed by a 3-pointer less than a minute later. Sweet’s free throws cut the Red Devil deficit to 37-30 at halftime.

Sweet scored early in the second half. DeShawn Watson’s putback with 18 minutes remaining pulled ACC to within 39-34.

It was as close as the Red Devils could get.

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Lakers extend Bryant’s contract, fall to Wizards

By BILL ORAM Orange Co. Register

WA S H I N G T O N (MCT) — Throughout his rehab over the last seven months, Kobe Bryant found motivation nearly everywhere he looked. In ESPN ratings that called him the 25th-best player in the NBA and in the injury itself. Without it, he said Tuesday, he might not have had the fire to play two more seasons.

And when the Lakers and Bryant agreed to an extension that will pay the five-time champion $48.5 million and keep him with the organization through 2016, Bryant said, “It makes me want to run through a wall.”

But Bryant’s return won’t be this week.

He said he is probably weeks, rather than days, away from returning to games, and Coach Mike D’Antoni called it unlikely that he would play Wednesday in Brooklyn or Friday in Detroit.

Without Bryant, the Lakers went out and fell to 1-5 on the road, wilting down the stretch in a 116-111 loss to the Wizards, in front of an announced crowd of 19,204

Washington Wizards power forward Nene Hilario (42) scores over Los Angeles Lakers center Pau Gasol (16), left, and small forward Nick Young (0) Tuesday.

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The Lakers rallied from nine down in the fourth quarter to take a 108-107 lead with 1:54 remaining, but gave up six straight points to the Wizards.

“As well as we played offensively,” D’Antoni said. “I thought our defense was not gritty. It wasn’t as tough as it’s been.”

The Lakers allowed 56 points in the paint,

including a career-high 30 points by Nene.

Jordan Farmar led seven Lakers in double figures with 22 points, but the Lakers couldn’t overcome 17 turnovers which turned into 28 Wizards’ points.

It all adds up to the Lakers needing some kind of boost, which they will hope comes in the form of Bryant.

The 35-year-old knows that the deal with the

Lakers is already being criticized. Critics say Bryant should have taken less money to allow the Lakers more flexibility in free agency next summer. Besides, he is recovering from a career-altering injury, the ruptured Achilles, and the Lakers are just giving him the deal on blind faith.

“It adds more fuel to the fire,” Bryant said, “to be able to come out and prove to everybody that they’re right and everybody else is wrong.”

Bryant isn’t naive.

He recognizes that the Lakers will continue to make him the game’s highest-paid player for a number of reasons, not just for what he will offer on the court.

“Some of it was obviously for work previously done,” he said, “the value of some of the things I’ve brought to the organization. Some of it was a leap of faith of what they expect me to do when I return.”

Bryant doesn’t necessarily need motivation, despite constant sources of it. His competitive spirit is well-documented and admired. He

believes that his deal, which he said would “probably” be his last, will allow the Lakers to contend for a championship while he is still under contract.

While Bryant will eat up $23.5 million in cap space next season, and $25 million the year after, Kupchak agreed that the Lakers managed to preserve enough flexibility that they still have enough to build a contender, and quickly.

“I think we do,” he said.

“I mean, the challenges are there. The collective bargaining agreement doesn’t make it easier for anybody, it’s restrictive and challenging.”

However, Kupchak said he doesn’t look at signing Bryant as limiting the Lakers from signing a top player – they believe that is precisely what they did on Monday morning.

“Everybody forgets that Kobe would be a free agent this summer, too,” he said. “We got what we feel is one of the top free agents available this summer. And we still have the ability to pursue other free agents or other opportunities.”

ANW bowlers compete OVERLAND PARK — The ANW Cooperative’s Special Olympics Kansas team members were in Overland Park Friday for a state bowling competition.

Participating from Iola were Joseph Barbarick, second in his age group; Bo Bland, third, Judy Branstetter, first; William Hill, second; Leberene Moore, second; Destin Nichols, second; Kaylee Norton, third; Justin Narvaez, second; Ian Spoor, second; and Christopher White, third.

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Allen County Special Olympics members competing were Bridgette Eckroat, Piqua, first; Casey Riebel, LaHarpe, third; and Steven Riebel, LaHarpe, second.

WSU: Baker keys victory for Shockers in CBE Classic Continued from B1

“I feel like our team got tested the most in this game,” Baker said.

“Being down at half is tough for some teams, and we like to pride ourselves in second halves.”

Wichita State was clinging to a 68-62 lead when Baker was popped

by BYU’s Nate Austin, who was given a flagrent-2 foul and ejected from the game. Baker made both free throws with 45.3 seconds left, and then two more when he was fouled with just more than 30 seconds remaining.

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The Cougars (5-2) were then hit with a technical foul on their bench for protesting a series of calls, and Baker tacked on two more free throws to put the game out of reach.

“It was a hard-fought game and both teams obviously were playing to win the championship there, and I think it came down to a few plays there late in the game,” BYU coach Dave Rose said. “Give Wichita State credit. They hit a couple big shots and came down with a couple big rebounds.”

Meanwhile, the Cougars didn’t make a field goal for the final 8 ½ minutes, and were just 6 of 30 from the field in the second half. BYU missed all 10 of its 3-point tries after the break.

“I don’t think we were maybe attacking the rim as much as we wanted to, but they did a good job defensively, too,” said Matt Carlino, who led the Cougars with 21 points. “Give them credit.”

Tyler Haws finished with 17 points for BYU, though he was just 3 of 15 from the field. Eric Mika had 10 points and Austin pulled down 12 rebounds.

“That’s a very tough ballgame against a very, very good basketball team,” Marshall said.

As evenly matched as the teams were much of the night, both had

long stretches of dominance in the first half before BYU emerged with a 36-34 lead at the break.

The Cougars, relying on a vexing zone defense, frustrated the Shockers over the first 10 minutes and used a 13-2 run covering about 5 minutes to take a 21-8 lead.

Eventually, the Shockers started to have success shooting over top of the zone and the Cougars cooled off.

Nick Wiggins curled in a 3-pointer, Tekele Cotton added one of his own and the scrappy Shockers roared on a 20-2 charge that ignited a partisan crowd inside the Sprint Center.

By the time Darius Carter finished it off with a bruising basket inside, the Shockers had taken a 26-23 lead — their first since the opening minute of the game.

It remained a backand-forth game throughout the second half as the more physical Shockers tried to pound away inside and the suave, sweet-shooting Cougars peppered away from the outside.

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In fact, most of BYU’s offense down the stretch came from the foul line, where the Cougars at one point scored six straight points.

But they had also gone cold from the perimeter, while VanVleet scored on an assort-

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Carter slashed to the rim with 1:30 left to make it 68-61, and after Carlino made one of two free throws for the Cougars, he missed a good 3-point look from right in front of his bench.

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Allen: Hutchinson pulls away in second half of 90-69 victory Continued from B1

Allen Community College’s Courtney Stockard goes in for a bucket Tuesday in the Red Devils’ 90-69 loss to Hutchinson. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

straight points to restore its double-digit lead.

Sweet’s 3-pointer stemmed the tide briefly before Hutchinson responded with a 12-2 run to lead 57-39 by the 12-minute mark.

That’s when Kadeem Allen took over. Hutchinson’s sophomore guard — who has signed to play with the Arizona Wildcats next season — scored 21 points over the final 12 minutes, doing most of his damage from the free throw line. He hit 21 of 24 free throws to finish with 33 points.

Still, the Red Devils did not go down without a fight.

Stockard drained a 3-pointer with 3:07 left in the contest before going 1 of 2 from the line to cut the deficit to 10, 74-64.

But the Red Devils came up empty on their next four possessions as the Blue Dragons pulled away.

Allen capped his night with six straight free throws in a single

possession — the first two after he was fouled, then four more on a pair of technicals assessed to Allen’s Alex Miller as he fouled out of the game.

Stockard led the Red Devils with 17 points and four assists, while Uno followed with 16 points.

Sweet scored 15 points.

Raheem Tyner pulled in 15 rebounds. After draining 7 of 10 3-pointers three nights earlier against Tabor, Miller hit only 1 of 10 from downtown against Hutch. He ended the night with five points.

Allen wound up with 33 points, nine assists and seven rebounds to lead Hutchinson. DeBerry — who will take his talents to the University of Cincinnati next season — followed with 21 points and eight rebounds. Tafari Whittingham scored 15.

The Blue Dragons converted 35 of 46 free throws; Allen went 12 of 18.

“We just didn’t have anybody to match up with them physically,” Shaw said. “We’ve got to play better.”

Allen Community College defenders Alex Miller, left, and Tray Fountain guard Hutchinson standout Kadeem Allen. Allen scored 33 points as the Blue Dragons toppled ACC, 90-69. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN Hutchinson (37-53—90) Allen (30-39—69) Hutchinson (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Winter 0-2-5-2, Allen 6-21-0-33, Watson 0-0-2-0, Budke 1/1-2-17, Whittingham 6-3-2-15, Sands 3-0-3-6, DeBerry 8-5-3-21, Jackson 2-2-4-6. TOTALS: 26/1-35-20-90.

Allen (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Uno 4/2-2-2-16, Fountain 1/1-0-4-5, Sluder 0-1-3-1, Stockard 2/4-1-417, Sweet 2/3-2-1-15, Keiswetter 0-0-2-0, Miller 0/1-2-5-5, Jones 1-1-1-3, Watson 1-0-0-2, Tyner 1-33-5. TOTALS: 12/11-12-25-69.

Allen gets a slight break for Thanksgiving before returning to practice over the weekend.

The Red Devils host Fort Scott in a doubleheader next Tuesday.

“We’ll give the guys a couple days off before we get back at it,” Shaw said. “We have a lot of work to do in order to get better.”

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at 10-10 at halftime. The defenses controlled the pace in the second half.

Marmaton Valley scored only single buckets in the third and fourth quarters, and missed six free throws in the fourth quarter. Westphalia had only one free throw in the third period and two baskets in the fourth period, but that was enough to escape with the win.

Trinitee Gutierrez scored 10 points to lead the way for the Wildcats.

Shayla Brooks added three points and Megan Ensminger scored one.

Sarah Spillman and Shailee Woods shared high scoring honors for Marmaton Valley’s B team with eight points each. Kaitlyn Knavel added four. Emily Smart and Karlie Stephens each scored two.

The teams resume action next Monday at Northeast of Arma.

Griffith followed with six and Isaac Heskett had five.

Trent Vest chipped in four and Thompson, Kiefer Endicott and Hall all had two.

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Elliott poured in 17 points to lead the way to the B team victory.

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‘Sound of Music’ goes live NEW YORK (AP) — Maria, former would-be nun, is about to get married.

Starring as Maria in NBC’s new version of “The Sound of Music,” Carrie Underwood is clad in her own T-shirt and leggings plus a wedding veil as she reverently steps through the bareb o n e s M a n h at tan re- Underwood hearsal space while three dozen castmates, on their feet as if in church, sing “How do you solve a problem like Maria?”

Underwood’s procession ends at the “altar” (marked by a music stand) to join her groom, Capt. von Trapp, played

by Stephen Moyer.

During this preliminary run-through a few weeks ago, much work clearly remained to get “The Sound of Music Live!” ready for airtime on Dec. 5, when it, along with everyone involved, will make history: More than a half-century has passed since a broadcast network has dared to mount a full-scale musical for live TV. It would have been risky enough revisiting this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic on any terms. But this is no remake of the not-tobe-tampered-with Julie Andrews juggernaut, declares Neil Meron.

Meron and longtime partner Craig Zadan are the telecast’s Oscarwinning executive producers.

Instead, “The Sound of Music Live!” is the 1959 Broadway musical reimagined for TV, then given extra crackle with a live presentation.

Meron’s message: Everybody knows “The Sound of Music,” or thinks they do from the 1965 film nearly everyone has seen. But relatively few fans are acquainted with the stage original.

Drawing from it, “The Sound of Music Live!” is meant to feel familiar, yet at the same time come across as new and different.

And then there’s Carrie Underwood.

Despite her status as a multiplatinum country music superstar who rose to fame as the winner of “American Idol” in 2005, at first glance she might seem something of a wild card in the “Sound of Music” cast: She has never had a major acting role before.

“Carrie is one of the bravest artists we’ve ever worked with,” says Meron, who notes that she arrived two weeks before the production’s six-week rehearsal began with her lines fully memorized, to get a head start.

“Every day,” she says during a break, “I feel like I discover new things and how to go places in acting that I didn’t think I could go.”

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How you know you’re ready to date Dear Carolyn: I’m newly single after being dumped from a serious, long-term relationship.

I didn’t see this coming.

I thought the relationship was perfect. It turns out my ex was telling me things were perfect but secretly romancing someone else behind my back. I’m starting to move past the stage of wanting my ex back and into the stage of wanting to find a new person to be in a relationship with.

However, I don’t want to ruin my chances with new people by trying to date before I’m really ready. How will I know when I’m ready? How long do I really need to wait? — C. As long as it takes to meet someone you want to date — which is very different from reaching the point of wanting to date.

“Wanting to date” is interviewing for a vacancy, and too often the first step in agreeing to the least unappealing

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax candidate.

Another reason to be patient: You’ve positioned yourself to make that mistake, or one like it, before you’ve even accepted a date, with, “I don’t want to ruin my chances with new people.” You’re trying to impress these candidates, vs. treating them as people who need to impress you.

Think about your role here. Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it.

Therefore, you will

be “really ready” when you can trust yourself to mind that gate effectively — when you can think clearly, judge fairly, give wisely and, especially given your recent history, read accurately whether someone is good for you.

Your baseline for such accurate readings is the happiness of your life on your own — the phase between wanting the old and wanting the new.

Nurture that, please, until someone deserves to be invited in.

Dear Carolyn: I need a reality check.

Is it out of line to want a preliminary family meeting to discuss next steps for our aging parents to include just the adult siblings and the parents, i.e., not my sister’s husband and brother’s live-in partner of several years?

I am single and don’t think that’s why I’m asking to limit this first major conversation to our

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family of origin. I also don’t think I should have to explain why I have this preference. Does this sound out of touch?

— B. Yes, but maybe not for the reason you think.

Your parents get to decide who has this conversation, not you.

If they don’t care, are incapacitated or are vulnerable to arm-twisting, then it’s worth explaining your preference.

Whether you “should have to” explain is irrelevant and, worse for your interests, defensive.

It’s also important to acknowledge, as part of your explanation, that partners and spouses deserve their say.

Any “next steps” will affect them significantly. It’s important — and non-defensive — for you to acknowledge that upfront.

Once you do that, then your sibs will likely be more receptive to your thoughts on what you prefer and why.

Some bone loss expected in 82-year-old Dear Dr. Roach: I just found out that I have bone loss in my spine.

What does that mean for me? Will I get so that I can't walk? I am very worried. I am 82 years old. — B.F.H. Answer: Bone loss in the spine is almost universal in 82-year-olds, for both men and women.

However, women start off with less bone than men, on average, so they are at greater risk for fractures when the bone loss occurs.

Depending on how much bone loss there is, we call it "osteopenia" if it is more mild, and "osteoporosis" if it is more severe.

In general, there are no symptoms of osteopenia, which is why we do a test, most commonly an X-ray test called a DEXA, to look for the amount of bone in the spine and hips.

The biggest risk is that of a fracture. Fractures in the spine are most commonly compression fractures; imagine a hatbox with too much weight on top of it that gets crushed and loses some of its height.

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Logan to take leave from CBS NEW YORK (AP) — CBS ordered “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan and her producer to take a leave of absence T u e s d ay following a critical inter nal review of their handling of the Lara Logan show’s October story on the Benghazi raid, based on a report on a supposed witness whose story can’t be verified.

The review, by CBS News executive Al Ortiz and obtained by The Associated Press, said the “60 Minutes” team should have done a better job vetting the story that featured a security contractor who said he was at the U.S. mission in Libya the night it was attacked last year.

Questions were quickly raised about whether the man was lying — something "60 Minutes" should have better checked out before airing the story, the report said.

The report also said Logan should not have done the story in the first place after making a speech in Chicago a year ago claiming that it was a lie that America’s military had tamed alQaida.

CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager, who is also the “60 Minutes” executive producer, said he had asked Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, to take a leave of absence of an undetermined length.

Fager said he prides himself on catching almost everything, “but this deception got through and it shouldn't have.” There was no word about whether Fager will face any repercussions for his role.

lease that 28-year-old Mary Amador was sentenced Monday to four and a half years in prison and ordered to pay more than $300,000 in restitution.

She pleaded guilty earlier to charges including theft of pub-

lic money, aggravated identity theft and making false statements.

Federal prosecutors say several residents of the apartment Amador helped manage were in the U.S. unlawfully, and that Amador took bribes from those resi-

dents in exchange for accepting counterfeit citizenship documents.

Prosecutors say she also falsely reported to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that the tenants were eligible to receive

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Route 3 — Sue Keller, 703 S. Washington Ave., 620-365-3828 — (S. Washington Ave., part of Acres St., W. Broadway St., W. Neosho St., and W. Spruce St.).

Route 4 — Logan Roettgen, 209 S. Tennessee, 620-228-0451— (S. Jefferson Ave., S. Sycamore St., South St. 300 block on, 100-200 E. Irwin, E. Calhoun, 206 1/2 E. Broadway Apartments) Route 5 — Gene Myrick, 521 S. Sycamore, 620-380-6094 — (S. Buckeye St., S. Cottonwood St., 300-400 E. Irwin St., 200-400 E. Broadway).

Route 6 — Levi Seilonen, 208 S. 2nd St., Iola 620-363-2371 — (S. Colburn St., S. Oak St., S. Elm St., S. 1st St., 400-700 E. Spruce St., 500-800 E. Broadway St.).

Route 7 — Abygail Roettgen, 209 S. Tennessee, 620-228-0422 — (S. 3rd St., S. 4th St., 900 E. Broadway St., 1019 E. MadisonS. Kentucky St., S. Ohio St., S. Tennessee St., S. Vermont St.).

Route 8 — Andrew Garber, 416 N. Chestnut, 620-228-1874 — (N. State St., N. Chestnut St., W. Madison 200 block on).

Route 9 — Andrew Garber, 416 N. Chestnut, 620-228-1874 — (10-1100 N. Walnut St., 200 W. Jackson Ave., 200 W. Douglas St., 113-201 W. Lincoln St.).

Route 10 — Dravin Luttrell, 725 N. Elm, 620-363-2140 — (N. Walnut St. 1200 block on, W. Garfield St., Guest Home Estates, Northwestern St., Northwestern Cir., Prairie Dr., Timber Dr.).

Route 11 —To be announced — (N. Washington Ave., North St. to Buchanan St., 2 E. Buchanan St., 10-20 W. Buchanan, and Monroe St.).

Route 12 — Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620-363-0893— (200-600 N. Jefferson Ave., 200-523 N. Sycamore St., 100-500 N. Buckeye St., 100-300 E. Monroe St., 400 block E. Douglas St., 200-506 N. Cottonwood St., 202 E. Jackson Ave., 410-519 N. Oak St.).

Route 13 — Morgan Bennett, 843 N. Washington, 620-228-1299 — (600-1400 N. Jefferson Ave., 4-102 E. Buchanan, 4, 116 W. Edwards).

Route 14 — Jessica Tidd, 1418 Virginia Rd., 620-380-1259 — (217 North St., Townhouse East and 217 N. Washington Ave., Townhouse West) Route 15 — Mary Hoggatt, 831 Wilson Ln., 620-228-0766 — (E. Garfield St., Garfield Rd N., Windsor Place, White Blvd., E. Alamosa Cir., W. Alamosa Blvd., 1200-1400 N. Cottonwood St., Mustang Cir.) Route 16 — Jason Garber, 202 S. Main, Laharpe, 620-363-4280 — (600-1300 N. Buckeye, 700-1110 N. Cottonwood St., 321 E. Buchanan St., 600-1300 N. Sycamore St., E. Jim St., 120 E. Garfield St.).

Route 17 — Mary Hoggatt, 831 Wilson Ln., 620-228-0766 — (500-700 E. Lincoln St., N. Oak St., N. Elm 300 block on, 400710 N. Colburn St.).

Route 18 — Abygail Roettgen, 209 S. Tennessee, Iola, 620228-0422 — (N. 1st St., N. 2nd St., 800 block of E. Jackson Ave., part of E. Lincoln St., 818 E. Carpenter).

Route 19 — Mercedes Jones, 324 S. Ohio, 620-228-0371 — (N. 3rd St., N. 4th St., Tara Gardens, 900-1110 E. Carpenter St., 902-1101 E. Douglas St., 1105 E. Lincoln).

Route 20 — Jennifer Tidd, 1418 Virginia Rd., 620-380-1259 — (The Square, 100-300 South St., 100-220 S. Jefferson Ave., 1102 N. Washington Ave., 9-19 N. Jefferson Ave., 110 East St., 1-108 E. Madison Ave., 1-115 E. Jackson Ave., 2-224 S. Washington Ave., 9-120 W. Madison Ave.).

Route 21 — Trevor Gray, 616 South St., 620-228-7742 — (217 E. Madison Ave. to 1000 block, 700 block East St. on, S. 2nd St.).

Route 22 — Devan Radford, 217 S. 3rd St., Iola, 620-228-1371 — (Low numbers on N. Buckeye, 200-700 E. Jackson Ave., 8-19 N. Sycamore St., East St. thru 700 block, 200 N. Elm St., 200 N. Colburn St., 400-500 E. Monroe St., 100 N. Cottonwood St.).

Route 23 — Mary Hoggatt, 831 Wilson Ln., 620-228-0766 — (Meadowbrook Rd. East and West) Route 24 — Sam Terhune,601 N. 1st St., 620-228-9747— (N. Kentucky 700 block on, E. Buchanan St., Redbud Ln., Kenwood Cir., Sterling Heights Addition).

Route 25 — Jason Garber, 202 S. Main, Laharpe, 620-363-4280 — (N. Kentucky thru 600 block, N. Ohio St., N. Tennessee St., 1200-1300 block E. Carpenter St., 1100-1300 E. Lincoln St., 1100-1321 E. Douglas St., 1200-1300 E. Breckenridge).

Route 26 — Trevor Gray, 616 South St., 620-228-7742 — (N. Vermont St., Kansas Dr., 1500 E. Carpenter St. on, Eisenhower Dr., Wilson Ln.).

Route 27 — Dravin Luttrell, 725 N. Elm, 620-363-2140 — (Dodge Dr., Holiday Ln., Kansas Ave., Holiday Cir. North and South).

Route 28 — GeneMyrick, 521 S. Sycamore St, 620-380-6094 — (1800-2600 N. Cottonwood St., E. and W. Miller Rd., Funston St., Pryor St., Canary Ln, Cardinal Dr.).

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By DAVE RANNEY KHI News Service

TOPEKA — The Kansas Hospital Association recently completed an advertising campaign aimed at building support for expanding the state’s Medicaid program. “We’re just wanting to raise the public’s awareness about there being a lot of people who would benefit from expanding Medicaid,� said Cindy Samuelson, a KHA spokesperson.

The association, which represents all 128 hospitals in Kansas, sponsored radio and television commercials in the Wichita and Kansas City markets from Nov. 11 through last Friday.

Kansas is one of 24 states that have chosen not to expand their Medicaid programs to include adults whose incomes are below 138 percent of the federal poverty line.

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The hospital association is not a “signed up� member of the consumer coalition, Gatewood said.

Regan Cussimanio, director of government relations for the Kansas Cancer Action Network, said the group also is backing Medicaid expansion. “Our position is that all cancer patients should have access to care and treatment,� said Cussimanio, who represents the advocacy arm of the American Cancer Society. “That includes those people who aren’t eligible for Medicaid now but would be with expansion. “The way it is now, there are a lot of treatments that just aren’t available to patients who don’t have insurance or who can’t pay for it,� she said.

HOSPITAL officials throughout the state have been meeting with legislators to “talk about what expansion means locally to each of them,�

Samuelson said.

Sean Gatewood, interim director with the Kansas Health Consumer Coalition, an advocacy group for the state’s uninsured and underinsured, welcomed the hospital association’s campaign. “It’s great to have them on board,� Gatewood said. “There are two fundamental things that communities in rural settings are built around: schools and hospitals,� he said. “So the hospitals’ voice really mat-

confirmed her employment but declined comment.

The Parsons Sun reported that police received a call Monday from concerned co-workers and family members after Umbarger didn’t show up for work on Tuesday.

A candlelight vigil is planned for 7 o’clock tonight in Parsons.

Funeral services are planned Monday in Thayer for Umbarger, 9-year-old-Hollie Betts, 6-year-old Jaxon Betts and 4-year-old Averie Betts.

Parsons police, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies are investigating.

Parsons is a community of about 10,500.

22-year-old suspect was taken into custody in Independence on Tuesday evening, but it provided no details of his apprehension. No charges have been filed and the suspect wasn’t identified.

The victims are 29-year-old Cami Umbarger, Parsons, and her three children, the statement said. Authorities did not say how they were killed or provide other details about their deaths.

Law enforcement officials concentrated their search for the suspect in Independence in southeast Kansas.

Umbarger was a licensed practical nurse who worked at the Good Samaritan Society, a nursing home in Parsons. The nursing home

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his or her income is less than 32 percent of poverty line, about $630 a month for a thee-person household.

Gov. Sam Brownback and the Republican majorities in both legislative chambers have shelved the state’s Medicaid-expansion debate, citing doubts that the federal government will be able to keep its promise to cover most of the costs associated with the expansion.

In the KHA commercials, Kelly Brown, a single mother who lives in Lawrence, shares that even though she works six days a week, she cannot afford health insurance. Her income makes her ineligible for Medicaid. “What I make (wages) is pretty much living paycheck to paycheck, just trying to get the things me and my daughter need to get by,�

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Her daughter, she says, is covered by Medicaid. “If I end up with a serious illness,� Brown says, “then I’m usually ending up in the hospital just to figure out what’s

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We will be open New Year’s Eve until 9 p.m. & closed New Year’s Day. Reopen Thur., Jan. 2 at 6 a.m.

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