Sports: Fillies take second in volleyball tourney See B1
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Monday, September 15, 2014
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Supreme Court to hear Taylor ballot case
Perfectly fair The communities of Elsmore and Kincaid celebrated Saturday with their annual fairs. At left, Gemma Adams, 5, and Graceland Adams, 6, of Moran and Kenleigh Westoff, 7, Iola, watch the Elsmore parade. Above, Tom and Frances Hernyk are the grand marshals at the Kincaid Fair. Below, Taelyn Sutterby and Drew Perry ride a tractor in the Kincaid parade. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — State records show that a Democratic U.S. Senate nominee seeking to get his name off the ballot is the only candidate since 2010 to fail to use wording that Secretary of State Kris Kobach says is required. Before Chad Taylor sought to withdraw this month, which would clear the way for independent candidate Greg Orman to directly oppose Republican Pat Roberts, nine other candidates had withdrawn after winning their party’s nomination in the past four years, The Wichita Eagle reported Saturday. Records The Eagle obtained from Kobach’s office show all of them declared they were incapable to serve. Kobach has refused to remove Taylor from the ballot, saying Taylor did not declare himself incapable to serve if elected in his letter withdrawing from the race. Kansas statute states, “Any person who has been nominated by any means for any national, state, county or township office who declares that they are incapable of fulfilling the duties of office if elected may cause such person’s name to be withdrawn from nomination by a request in writing.” Kobach questioned how Taylor, the district attorney See TAYLOR | Page A4
THRIVE
After-school programs popular By KAREN INGRAM The Iola Register
Damaris Kunkler
Thrive director selected for leadership academy By KAREN INGRAM The Iola Register
Thrive Allen County’s Damaris Kunkler stands out among the 15 selected by the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City to participate in the Healthy Communities Leadership Academy. The majority of this year’s participants are from the Kansas City area.
Kunkler, program director at Thrive, is the lone candidate from a rural community. The academy is designed to help community directors develop expertise to help promote policy and environmental changes that will promote a healthier lifestyle, something that Thrive Allen County already strives to do, Kunkler said. The yearlong program inSee THRIVE | Page A4
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Children in Iola have a chance to learn about gardening, healthy eating, caring for pets and the art of steampunk this fall with SAFE BASE. The after-school program is in its 15th year, which is impressive considering it was started on a grant that would sustain it for only three years. “It’s completely grant-funded,” said Angela Henry, SAFE BASE coordinator. Currently 256 children, grades kindergarten through fifth, are enrolled in the program. By the end of the program last year, they had 373 students enrolled. Henry said typically more students sign up as the school year progresses. A good sign the program is doing well this year is that each day of the program, Monday through Friday, at least 200 children were signed up for activities. Henry said this is the first time in the program’s history that they have hit 200 children every day of the week.
First-grader Natalie Smutz helps water the plants in USD 257’s community garden, located at 601 N. Sycamore St. The garden contains flowers, corn, eggplant, tomatoes and many kinds of berry bushes and fruit trees. Angela Henry, program director, said the children love working in the garden, and something about growing vegetables makes them want to try eating them more. “They’ll try things they wouldn’t normally try,” she said. REGISTER/KAREN INGRAM
“We’re pretty excited about that,” she said. Budgeting is always a struggle for the program, because it relies on grants and is free to
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” — Napeleon Hill, author 75 Cents
all children in the area — even homeschooled children. A few years ago, they had to cut the program from five days a week See PROGRAMS | Page A4
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