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THE IOLA REGISTER Thursday, December 19, 2013
A CLASSIC HOLIDAY TRADITION
‘THE NUTCRACKER’ OPENS AT THE BOWLUS FRIDAY By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
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ooper Dance Studios’ Kansas Youth Dance Company once again will bring “The Nutcracker” to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. This year Christian Delery, a professional dancer, will perform with the dance students. Delery, 21, is a medical student at Tulane University in New Orleans, La. He has been dancing professionally for nine years. “I used to act as a kid in the performance,” Delery said of his younger years. “I liked what I saw so I got into training to be a dancer.” Jesse Cooper, owner of Cooper Studios Dance Center, met Delery while dancing for the same company, Dayton Ballet. Delery is now a freelance dancer. “Once the season ended I moved back here to open my studio and he moved to New Orleans,” Cooper said of their years with the Ohio dance company. This year there are 45 area youths in the show. “The kids have been great this year,” Cooper said. “This is our biggest performance of the year with scenery and costumes. It alSee NUTCRACKER | Page A6
Performing a number for the Kansas Youth Dance Company’s upcoming production of “The Nutcracker” are, above, front from left, Averie Sharon, Brie-Anna Winner, Hailei Gregg, Theresia Middleton, Devin Rubow and Lauren McDermeit; and second from row, Hannah Stout, Delaney Umholtz, Mackenzie Weseloh, Chelsea Lea, Emma Weseloh, Tiffany Moore, Zoie Stewart and Morgan DeLaCruz. At right, Alexi Fernandez is Clara and Christian Delery is the Nutcracker, the musical’s protagonists. Other photos are available via the Register’s online photo album at www. iolaregister.com.
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Budget deal comes with caution
Darin Robertson, from left, Melvin Smoot and Ryan Sigg poured footings Wednesday afternoon for an arch at the south end of the Southwind Trail. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
Work begins on second arch By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
HUMBOLDT — With a break in the winter cold, construction of an arch at the south end of the Southwind Trail is underway. Footings for the arch were dug and laced with reinforcing rebar ahead of concrete being poured late Wednesday afternoon. The arch will be just north of the connecting road between U.S. 169 and Humboldt’s north edge, and will be a
mirror image of the arch at the west edge of Iola, which is complete except for an “Iola” sign that will be put atop it. The south arch will have “Humboldt” at its top. The arches, with a steel core and brick exterior, sit atop large concrete pads, which in Humboldt’s case required a pour of about 10 cubic yards. Ryan Sigg, Darin Robertson and Melvin Smoot tended to preparations, and then tamped and soothed concrete
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WASHINGTON (AP) — There were no champagne corks popping at the White House after Congress passed a two-year budget deal, no declarations of a new era of cooperation in President Barack Obama’s second term. Instead, the modest agreement that passed Wednesday served as a stark year-end reminder of how low expectations for Washington sank in 2013, particularly for a president who hoped his resounding re-election would clear the way for progress on immigration, the long-term debt and tax reform. The president’s advisers say they’re still searching for the larger meaning in the bipartisan budget deal, if there is one at all. At best, it could provide an opening for making progress next year on Obama’s stalled legislative agenda. It also could be a political play by Republicans to keep the focus on the disastrous rollout of Obama’s health care law and avoid another partial
government shutdown like the one in October that tanked the party’s approval ratings. Or it could simply be an isolated move by lawmakers eager to head for the exits after a year that was perhaps even more dismal for Congress than for the president. The president’s press secretary, Jay Carney, said administration officials were “not getting overexcited because we’re not naive about the obstruction that continues to exist and the partisanship that tends more often than not to paralyze Washington and Congress.” Nine Republicans joined the Senate’s Democrats in passing the budget deal Wednesday and sending it to the White House for Obama’s signature. The GOP-led House approved the measure a week ago. The agreement is aimed at preventing another government shutdown for nearly See BUDGET | Page A6
TV guide has a new look The TV guide in today’s Register has a new look. Instead of coming in tabloid style, the guide is printed as a broadsheet in style with the rest of the paper. The new format allows for a savings in printing costs in that it does not require a separate press run as was required for the tabloid. The TV guide will continue to be in every Thursday paper. Today’s is on pages A3 and A4.
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