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THE IOLA REGISTER Locally owned since 1867
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Here comes the bride
Clinic announces building plans By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Construction is expected to begin as early as May for a new Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas clinic on North State Street. Sophie Alexander, the health center’s practice manager, told Iola City Council members Monday the clinic has grown substantially now that it offers dental, medical and behavioral health services. In the last 12 months, the clinic has served 7,500 patients for a combined 22,000 visits, Alexander said. “We’re busting at the seams.” Ground-breaking for the 13,000-square-foot facility is See CLINIC | Page A3
Iola’s SAFE BASE after-school program restaged the wedding of Bailey and Austin Lee, top. The couple — wed in earnest last July — are longtime SAFE BASE volunteers. Students participated in every aspect of the wedding planning process: flower design, music, cake, photography, etc. The parents and children in attendance Monday evening were encouraged to wear wedding-appropriate attire. Candle lighter Alisha Trainor, bottom left, steadies her flame. At right, bridesmaid Danika Hill makes her way up the aisle. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY
SAFE BASE organizes mock wedding By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
It may not be every child’s luck to participate, in their adulthood, in the elaborate meringue of a full-blown white wedding, but for scores of Iola students, after this
week, they’ll never be able to say they haven’t at least seen one. On Monday evening, just after 5:30, in a crowded Jefferson Elementary School gym, Austin Lee — light khakis, white shirt, burgundy tie — married Bailey Lee
— drenched in sparkles and lace — in a mock wedding organized by SAFE BASE, Iola’s robust after-school program. Officially, the couple was joined in marriage last summer. On Monday, however, the Lees — both devoted
SAFE BASE volunteers — agreed to stage a second ceremony for the benefit of the after-school program. “This wedding was definitely planned with the students at the forefront,” exSee WEDDING | Page A3
Iola Council OKs transfers By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
A discussion about yearend budget transfers turned into a look at Iola’s sales tax revenues. While the sale tax has brought in roughly the same amount this year from 2015 and 2014, it fell short of the city’s target by a shade less than 10 percent this year, City AdministraSee BUDGET | Page A3
Humboldt rejects appeal for Ninth Street bike lane By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Officers pulled this Halloween bucket off the snout of a young deer Monday. IPD PHOTO
Oh, deer Rudolph’s brother — affectionately referred to as “Pumpkin Head” — has been freed from his plastic muzzle, Iola police officers reported Monday evening. A little back story: A young button buck had been spotted around town for more than week with a blue pastic HalSee DEER | Page A3
HUMBOLDT — After 90 minutes of comments, about half favoring a multi-user lane along the edge of Ninth Street and the other half opposed, Humboldt council members voted nay, by a 4-3 vote. Councilman Mark Slater was absent because of surgery his wife underwent earlier Monday. Council members Sunny Shreve and Vada Aikins gave impassioned support to the project that has been hanging fire for several months. Shreve made the motion to move ahead and Aikins quickly put it before the council. Only Cindy Hollingsworth joined them in the affirmative. Sarah Lassman was the only of four negative voters to stump her position vocally, saying she feared having a multi-user lane — for bicycle riders as well as walkers, joggers and people using small motorized devices — would
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Richard Weilert was one of several Humboldt residents who opposed marking a multi-user lane on Ninth Street during Monday evening’s council meeting. The measure failed, 4 to 3. REGISTER/BOB
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give young children a false sense of security. In a nutshell here are other comments: — Mona Hull said she thought the connectivity would be helpful in promoting commerce downtown and be an adjunct that would encourage out-of-towners. — Bobbi Bonds mentioned Allen County would resur-
face the main north-south thoroughfare, and allowed marking a six-foot lane with a three-foot buffer would leave ample room for two lanes of vehicular traffic. — Richard Weilert questioned why sidewalks wouldn’t be a better venue, particularly for walkers. Don’t take people from a place a safety — sidewalks with a
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five-foot strip grass strip between them and the street — and put them in harm’s way on the street, he urged. — Don Walburn had a plethora of reasons why he thought the lane should be rejected: put children and walkers, even people pushing strollers, closer to traffic; See HUMBOLDT | Page A3
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