Coming Wednesday:
Enbridge’s Flanagan South pipeline, which will transport 600,000 barrels of crude oil through Allen County, is on the downhill side of completion. Wednesday the Register will look at its construction, including an extraordinary 1,650-foot-long bore under the Neosho River.
THE IOLA REGISTER Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Former Iola mayor still active
A ‘FOWL’ AGENDA
By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
Carder takes on new role with company By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
John Carder, former Iola mayor and businessman, retired in December as city manager at Hesston, but he won’t be settling into a rocking chair. Carder, 70, was city administrator at Hesston for about 15 years, after a six-year stint in Herington. When GVL Poly, a plastics manufacturer, opens a new 50,000-squarefoot plant at the edge of Hesston this year, Carder will be its manager. The plant will hire about 55. A native of Chanute, Carder stepped into the family fuel and convenience store business after earning a degree in psychology at the University of Kansas. He had two stores in Iola, one in Chanute and several others in the area. He was elected to the first of three three-year terms as Iola mayor in 1980. When he and wife Jane, the former Jane Clements, Humboldt, decided to sell their businesses, Carder turned to city administration at Herington. See CARDER | Page A6
Levi Meiwes, left, and Jacob Riebel address the Iola City Council Monday evening. REGISTER/
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Council hears proposition on chicken ordinance By STEVEN SCHWARTZ The Iola Register
Citizens of Iola are one step closer to having some new feathered friends allowed inside city limits. Jacob Riebel and Levi Meiwes came before the council to present their case for an ordinance allowing chickens in Iola’s limits. The two students, both in fifth grade, listed several reasons for the inclusion, as well as addressed concerns by the council. “We are missing out on a lot of lessons on responsibility and the friendship you can have with an animal,” Meiwes said to the council. One major reason, however, are the economic benefits, Riebel explained. The cost of a store-bought egg is approximately $.21 per egg, while the cost of a home-grown egg
is only around $.08. Guidelines under their proposed ordinance: — A maximum of six hens per residence — No roosters allowed — Minimum size for a shelter is one square foot per bird, one nesting box per three birds and a roost two feet off the ground — Pens and runs must be kept clean to reduce odor — Feed for hens must be kept in an impermeable container — Pens must be no closer than 20-feet of property lines — A $5 permit fee would be required — No slaughtering inside city limits — Noise ordinances and applicable aniSee CHICKENS | Page A3
Tonight: State of the Union WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly repackaged, President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address will deliver familiar content along with some targeted first-time initiatives that both Obama test and illustrate the limits of divided government in an election year. His message to a joint session of Congress tonight will identify measures where he and Congress can cooperate, and he will press issues that will distinguish him and Democrats from Republicans. The president’s address airs at 8 p.m. and will be featured on most major networks. Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers will give the party’s response.
School buses to get security Iola school buses will receive a security upgrade. Monday night USD 257 board of education members heard bids for adding security cameras in all of the district buses. Scott Stanley, director of operations, said adding cameras would benefit the district. Multi-camera systems would have a technology upgrade. It would be easier to review the tapes if needed and it would come with GPS. Board members agreed that all the buses should have cameras but the question is when they should be installed. “There’s been buses without cameras for years but that doesn’t mean something couldn’t happen tomorrow,” Stanley said. The members decided to purchase and install three systems for buses this year. Each bus will have four cameras. During the summer the rest of the buses will be equipped. It will cost $12,713 to equip the 10 school buses with this technology for the first year. At Jefferson Elementary the asphalt near the dumpster has continually been torn up by a trash truck. When the truck backs into the space it has to turn multiple times to get back on the road. Stanley suggested replacing the asphalt with concrete at the last board See BUSES | Page A6
A FROSTY SUNRISE The sun rose on a frigid landscape hereabouts this morning, although the area has been fortunate to have avoided ice and snow that have beset other parts of the nation during the latest siege, from Winter Storm Leon. REGISTER/BOB
JOHNSON
NATIONAL NEWS
South warned of icy mess in the forecast By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Across the South, residents stocked up on fuel and groceries, schools and offices closed, and road crews were at the ready as a storm moved in Tuesday from the central U.S., threatening to bring snow, ice and subzero temperatures to a region more accustomed to air conditioners and sunscreen than parkas and shovels.
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Even with the timing and severity of the blast of freezing precipitation uncertain, officials from parts of Texas to southeastern Virginia warned motorists to stay off the roads. Popular warm-weather tourist destinations — Charleston, S.C.; Savannah, Ga.; Pensacola, Fla.; Virginia Beach, Va.; and New Orleans — expected ice and snow over the next two days, rare occurrences in places that seldom even see prolonged sub-freezing tem-
peratures. At an Ace Hardware store in the north Georgia town of Cumming, snow shovels were in short supply, but manager Tom Maron said feed scoops often used in barns - could be substituted. Workers expected brisk business, with patrons buying insulation, faucet covers, portable heaters and other cold-weather gear. “We’re fixing to put the ice melt out, and we’ve got plenty of sand here to mix in,” Ma-
“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.” — E.B. White 75 Cents
ron said shortly before dawn. Much of Georgia was placed under a winter storm watch for Tuesday and Wednesday, with some areas forecast to see as much as 3 inches of snow. But Jason Deese with the National Weather Service said the snow totals would “matter very little in this situation because of the ice potential.” “Some parts of the state may end up seeing the greatSee ICY | Page A3
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