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THE IOLA REGISTER Thursday, April 13, 2017

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Volunteering bears fruit U.S.: Syria and

Russia continue to ‘bury truth’

By SHELLIE SMITLEY The Iola Register

Lois Bradford is taking advantage of the free time retirement brings. She volunteers at both the Iola Area Ministerial Alliance food bank and the Iola Senior Citizen’s Thrift Store. She began volunteering at the food bank in 2003, a few years after she retired from Allen County Hospital where she worked as a nurse for 30 years and then in admissions for 14 years. She gets to the food bank early on Tuesdays to help unload the produce donated by Walmart through Feed America. Bradford said she has a special method of storing the items to allow their easy retrieval when things get busy on distribution nights, Tuesdays and Thursdays. “That way I am not running all over the place,” she said. The number of people the bank serves depends on the time of the year and the time of the month, according to Bradford. “A lot of people get food stamps but they run out toward the last of the month so sometimes we have more (clients)” then, she said. Bradford said the majority of the clients she serves are either retired seniors who come in for fresh produce because they can not afford it or younger people because they cannot find a job. Helping people who are “down on their luck” is what she most enjoys about the position. Besides food, Bradford said, she enjoys giving them tips about job openings and referring them to other services that may help them. She also shares her passion for gardening.

By MIKE CORDER The Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Syrian authorities — “abetted by Russia’s continuing efforts to bury the truth” — still possess and use chemical weapons, an American diplomat told the international chemical weapons watchdog today. The strong comments by Kenneth D. Ward, the American ambassador to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, came amid ongoing diplomatic skirmishes over last week’s deadly attack in Syria.

Ward used a hastily c o nve n e d meeting of the organ i z at i o n’s e x e c u t iv e council to launch a withering verbal at- Kenneth Ward tack on Syrian President Bashar Assad and his allies in Moscow. The meeting was called to discuss the April 4 attack on the Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun that killed nearly 90 people. The United States and other Western See SYRIA | Page A5

Civic groups talk collaboration MORAN — Collaboration is the key for local civic groups to grow and prosper, Barbara Chalker Anderson said Tuesday. Anderson, of the Kansas Department of Commerce, spoke to 23 representatives of 4-H, Kansas Masons and PRIDE committees in eastern Allen County. The three groups have met jointly before after the Kansas Masonic Foundation donated $1 million to the Kansas PRIDE organization in 2016. Anderson spoke briefly about the three organiza-

Lois Bradford began volunteering at the Iola Ministerial Alliance food bank a few years after she retired from Allen County Hospital. REGISTER/SHELLIE SMITLEY “I tell them about my container gardening,” she said. “Anyone can do that, even if they live in an apartment.” Bradford grows an array of potatoes, peppers and tomatoes on her back porch. She learned to garden from her aunt, Mildred Beam, who was wheelchair bound due to multiple sclerosis. “She just wheeled her wheelchair out,” to tend to

her plants, Bradford said. Volunteering for one agency is not enough for the mother of two, grandmother of five and great-grandmother of 11, who only admits that she is in her 80s. On Mondays she volunteers for a seven-and-a-half hour shift at the thrift store where she inspects the donations, prices them and puts See FRUIT | Page A3

tions, and the impact each has made locally and around the world. Jennifer Murphy, a Southwind Extension agent, spoke about Allen See GROUPS | Page A3

LaHarpe to snuff burning regulations By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

LAHARPE — LaHarpe City Council members acknowledged We d n e s d ay the city’s rules regarding open bu r n i n g after dark probably need to change, because the city often is one of the violators. The city’s ordinances ban any open burning after sundown, unless the fire is contained in a pit of some sort. However, LaHarpe occasionally burns off a brush pile near city park after resiSee LAHARPE | Page A3

A gaggle of youngsters scurry to find hidden candy at LaHarpe City Park at the 2016 Easter Hunt. A similar hunt will be Saturday at the park, one of seven such area events planned for this weekend. REGISTER FILE PHOTO

Area groups plan weekend Easter egg hunts Easter hunts aplenty will fill the weekend. Saturday

Colony’s hunt kicks off at 9:30 a.m. at the Colony ball park for children up to fifth grade. The annual Easter parade at Windsor Place takes place at 10 a.m. and is open to all children. The youngsters are invited to dress in their favorite Easter attire. Chil-

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dren should enter through the rehabilitation doors and exit out the front. Humboldt’s downtown square is the site of a 10 a.m. Easter egg hunt for children up to fifth grade. In the case of rain, the hunt will be in the old high school gymnasium. Also at 10 o’clock, the Light of LaHarpe Church will host an Easter egg hunt

for children 12 and younger. The public is welcome. The Iola Kiwanis Club Easter Egg Hunt is scheduled for noon on the courthouse square. Children through 5th grade are invited to participate. In the case of rain, the event will be in the Red Barn on the Allen Community College campus. The LaHarpe PRIDE com-

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mittee’s egg hunt will be at 2 p.m. at LaHarpe City Park. The event includes drawings for prizes in each age group. In the event of rain it will take place at City Hall. Sunday

Moran Baptist Church will sponsor an Easter egg drop at 5 p.m. The hunt begins after 2,000 or more eggs are dropped from a passing airplane.

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