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Thursday, April 14, 2016
IHS brings ‘Who-bilation’ fun to Bowlus By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
As much a part of the iconography of American culture as Lincoln’s beard or Marilyn’s dress or Mickey’s ears, the red-and-white striped stovepipe hat worn by the cat in Dr. Seuss’ most famous story is the fashion accessory that has helped forge generations of readers. And it’s the first prop audiences will see in Iola High School’s version of “Seussical the Musical Jr.,” which descends on the Bowlus Fine Arts Center tonight and Friday, starting at 7 p.m. The musical’s opening minute — in which a spotlight is trained on the familiar hat, slumping unattended in the middle of the stage — marks the rare static moment in a show that is otherwise brimming with jubilant doggerel and grand-scale choreogra-
Iola High School’s drama department will bring Dr. Seuss to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center stage with its presentation of “Seussical the Musical Jr.,” tonight and Friday at 7 o’clock. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY phy. Directed by Richard Spencer, with musical direction by the very Seussian-sounding Ben Ballou, the script is a joyous mash-up of Seuss tales, which dwells primarily on the story of Horton, a gentle
elephant — played with convincing tenderness by Aaron Terhune — who, in attending to his patch of clovers, comes across a speck of dust, upon which lives a colony of microscopic Whos. The Whos, however, are
evident only to Horton — who does his all to protect the speck of dust from the crush of an insensitive world — a fact which earns the loyal elephant the ridicule of his jungle community. Chief among his antago-
nists — at least in the beginning; this being a children’s story, all enemies become friends in the end — is the Sour Kangaroo, played by the big-voiced belter Brynna See SEUSS | Page A2
Agency manpower shortage hits feedlots By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Millions of cattle and hogs fatten up at Kansas’ more than 1,750 large-scale livestock feedlots, yet the state regulatory agency entrusted with overseeing those confined feeding operations has no full-time professional environmental engineers at the moment. There are four vacancies in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Livestock Waste
Top cop Humboldt officer Scott Aikins, who has more than 30 years of experience in law enforcement, tells Humboldt fourth-grade students about the demands of his job during USD 258’s Career Day Wednesday. Students from pre-school through high school had multiple opportunities throughout the day to hear about possible careers, in stations on Bridge Street — as with Aikins — and in many high school classrooms. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
Twin Motors celebrates anew By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Tim Henry was greeted recently by a customer at his newly refurbished Twin Motors Ford showroom. “Boy, you’ve sure got a nice Ford store,” the customer gushed. “You do, too,” Henry replied with a sly grin. As owner of Twin Motors for 12 years, Henry sees the new building, with its metallic silver facade shining like a jewel on North State Street, as a source of community pride. “It’s Twin Motors’ and Ford’s way of saying, ‘We want to remain a part of this community, now and well into the future,’” Henry said. Henry oversaw the fullscale remodel, which includes a new showroom and service area. The renovation also includes a 1,200 squarefoot addition in the form of an inside bay where customers can inspect a potential purchase; and an interior drive-up area for vehicles in
Management Section, the last created by a retirement in November. That’s created a backlog of between 20 and 30 permits for new or expanding feeding operations and delays of an additional three months to process wastewater permit applications for confined animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, said Tara Mahin, the section’s head. “It has really put the brakes on anybody getting a new facility started or exSee FEEDLOTS | Page A7
Support grows for tech center in LaHarpe By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Twin Motors Ford owners Tim and Teresa Henry will celebrate the dealership’s renovation project with an open house celebration April 16. need of service. The completion took place over the winter months, and was made possible through Ford Motor Company’s fran-
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chise improvement effort, a nationwide promotion for dealerships. While Twin Motors has held up its end on the sales
side, Henry said the old facility fell short of Ford’s criteria in other areas, such as See TWIN | Page A3
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” — Plato 75 Cents
LAHARPE — Efforts to develop a vocational technical education center near LaHarpe are getting some local help. Damaris Kunkler, program director at Thrive Allen County, told LaHarpe City Council members several in the county have indicated support for the tech ed center, prompting Thrive to voice its support as well. As local school officials scramble to outfit the old Diebolt Lumber facility southeast of LaHarpe in time for classes this fall, Thrive is willing to help seek out grants, Kunkler said. The Community Engagement Grant, which could provide up to $100,000 in matching grants to Allen County and its communiSee SUPPORT | Page A7
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