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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Iola tightens trash rules By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Iolans no longer will be permitted to leave their trash in oversized containers, such as 55-gallon drums, for city pick-up. Iola City Council members voted in the new restrictions Tuesday, at the urging of EMC Insurance, which provides the city’s property and casualty coverage. A number of ailments among employees, such as back injuries and muscle pulls, prompted the recommendation, City Administrator Carl Slaugh reported. No single bag or container, when filled with trash, can weigh more than 75 pounds, Council members decided. Containers without handles, such as large barrels, also are on the banned list because of the difficulty in lifting them. Large barrels also are the ones most See IOLA | Page A6
Brothers Jack White, from left, Milo Franklin and Henry White show off the creations they’re entering in the upcoming Farm-City Days Lego Contest Friday. The competition is open to Lego fans of all ages. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Lego fandom leads to creative landscapes By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Fans of comic book characters and video games should get a kick out of the creation of Iola brothers Jack and Henry White and Milo Franklin. Jack is 10, Henry 8 and Milo 4. The trio created a scene featuring a dragon descending upon a city with several
characters below — all out of Legos. The creation is part of the first-ever Lego contest as part of the upcoming FarmCity Days celebration. The scene was created over several nights by taking bits and pieces out of several Lego sets, Jack explained. That’s why the dragon — coming from the popular Minecraft video game world
— is landing on a tower next to a hybrid superhero, created by taking Mr. Fantastic’s body (from the Fantastic Four comics) and giving him Spiderman’s head. Bruce Wayne and Batman, meanwhile, hover nearby in a double helicopter. Other comic book characters, such as Deadpool, are on standby. The scene even has a gar-
den, Henry noted, and a satellite contraption that lights up when pressed. “We’d build the set, and kind of take it apart,” Jack said. “It just sort of came together.” “I like all the detail and colors,” Henry added. “I liked putting the stuff together.” Milo’s entry is a bit more See LEGOS | Page A6
Gas council stalls with community center plans By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
GAS — Councilman Rick Schulenberg is eager to see the Gas Community Center (nee, the old Gas School) bustling with activity. He encouraged council members Tuesday night “to get it rolling,” by way of a committee to set out how and when the building, foremost its gymnasium, could be used. “We need to figure out how to maintain it, the hours to open it and cleanup.” Schulenberg said kids have asked him about using the gym for basketball and other games, and he
has offered to provide adult supervision, “but I can’t be available 24/7.” Despite Schulenberg’s enthusiasm, council neglected to arrive at any conclusions, deciding to discuss it further at their next meeting on Nov. 10. For the most part the structure, containing what once were classrooms as well as the gym, remains shuttered, noted Rhonda Hill, city clerk. It has been rented three times for such things as reunions and receptions, and Nov. 1 has been set aside for another. Cost is $50 plus a $50 deposit. See GAS | Page A2
Democratic presidential candidate hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton share the debate stage Tuesday in Las Vegas. ZUMA PRESS/BRIAN CAHN/TNS
Strong holiday sales expected
Debate marked by civility, issues
By LORRAINE MIRABELLA The Baltimore Sun (TNS)
By MARY R. BARABEK and EVAN HALPER Tribune News Service
LAS VEGAS (TNS) — Sharing a stage for the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Democratic challengers hashed out their differences Tuesday night over guns, foreign policy and Wall Street regulation in a pointed but largely polite debate that un-
derscored the broad consensus among the party’s leading presidential contenders. Without a Donald Trump hurling insults or very many policy divisions, the five hopefuls spent much of the night addressing parts of their past, votes they have cast or, in Clinton’s case, a perception she has tailored her positions — moving leftward in support of same-sex marriage and op-
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posing a new trade deal with Asia — out of political expediency. “Actually, I have been very consistent,” Clinton said, in the first of several occasions when she defended her integrity. “Over the course of my entire life, I have always fought for the same values and principles, but, like most See DEBATE | Page A6
“In the end, everything is a gag.”
Retailers are in for a strong, yet competitive holiday season, according to two forecasts. Sales in November and December are expected to rise 3.7 percent to $630.5 billion — a bigger jump than the 10-year average of 2.5 percent but less than last year’s 4.1 percent gain, the National Retail Federation said. Holiday purchases will account for a fifth of annual retail sales this
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year, the trade group said. Online holiday-related sales will be up even more than store sales — between 6 percent and 8 percent — to about $105 billion, NRF projected. Stores are gearing up to hire between 700,000 and 750,000 seasonal workers. “With several months of solid retail sales behind us, we’re heading into the all-important holiday season fully expecting to see healthy growth,” said See SALES | Page A6
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