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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Rising to the challenge Economic development high on Iola’s to-do list in ‘17 Editor’s note; This is the second of a two-part series looking at economic development in Iola and Chanute, and challenges that lie ahead.

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

When word got out early last year an aerospace component manufacturer was looking to locate to a community somewhere near Iola and Wichita, David Toland’s eyes lit up.

The company was looking for a community that was within 250 miles of both Kansas City and Wichita (Iola, for example); had an existing facility big enough to move into immediately (the old Herff Jones building, for example); and was willing to offer up enticements such as property tax abatements, utilities and incentives (such as Iola’s neighborhood incentives plan).

All told, the package — developed with input from Iola, Allen County and Iola Industries — totaled nearly $2 million.

Then came word in March the company — then identified only as Project Blue Star — had selected two finalists: Grove, Okla., and Chanute.

Disappointed, but not discouraged, Toland, CEO of Thrive Allen County and an economic development director hired by Iola, Allen

Thrive Allen County will host a downtown summit Feb. 7 to examine ways Iola’s business district can adapt to an ever-changing marketplace now and into the future. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

It’s easy to forget, but five years ago, the downtown square had 100 percent occupancy, Now, it’s an entirely different situation. ... The downtown has shifted before, and it’ll shift again. We need to plan out what the community wants, and what it will support, so we can go out and get those types of businesses.

— David Toalnd, executive director of Thrive Allen County, on an upcoming “downtown summit” scheduled for Feb. 7

County and Iola Industries, offered congratulations and words of support to Chanute’s economic developer, Matt Godinez.

“A plant in Chanute is good for Chanute, but it’s also good for Allen County,” Toland said. “If we weren’t going to win it, and they still had a

shot, we were going to be behind them 100 percent.”

Sure enough, Orizon Aerostructures selected Chanute in June as its base of opera-

tions in southeast Kansas, over 48 other communities, including Iola.

In the end, Chanute’s financial incentives dwarfed what was offered by Iola and Allen County, perhaps three times as much, when accounting for infrastructure costs, tax abatements, and indirect costs associated with Chanute’s forgiving a lease related to the old Spirit Aerosystems plant.

“If Allen County loses out on it, then it’s in Allen County’s best interest to support our neighbors,” Toland said.

“Up until that point, we’re goSee TOLAND | Page A2

Sen. Tyson: Tough tasks lie ahead for lawmakers

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Jan Knewtson, left, and the Rev. Linda Whitworth-Reed participate Monday at a Martin Luther King Jr. service at Iola’s Wesley United Methodist Church. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON

King: ‘Love stronger than evil’

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, born

on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Ga., was celebrated on the day set aside to eulogize the greatest of civil rights leaders at Iola’s Wesley United Methodist Church Monday evening.

About 60 people joined in an hour of prayer, hymns and a sermon given by the Rev. Linda Whitworth-Reed, pastor of First Presbyterian

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Church. Several other ministers assisted.

King’s mission in life was to change the hearts of those who put evil ahead of peace, and do it in a non-violent way. He enlisted Christian love — he was trained in the church from early childhood — and the inevitability of See KING | Page A6

Good news is hard to come by these days, Caryn Tyson said Monday.

The Kansas senator, who represents Allen County, spoke with Allen County Caryn Tyson Farm Bureau members at their legislative update Monday evening.

Rep. Kent Thompson, who also represents Iola and much of the county, was ill and unable to attend.

Tyson touched on a broad number of topics, from the state’s ongoing budget crisis to her efforts to block privatization of the Osawatomie State Hospital.

“It’s just not a pretty picture right now,” Tyson, Parker Republican, said of the budget, and its $342 million deficit that must be balanced before the fiscal year ends June 30.

Finding a workable solution will be difficult, she admitted. Tyson stopped short of saying which avenues she

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favored, aside from voicing opposition to using Kansas Department of Transportation funds or further dipping into the state’s public employee pension funds. She hinted of potential support for a rollback of some tax cuts enacted in 2012.

Likewise, Tyson has seen little support for Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposals to increase business filing fees from $40 to $200 annually.

On the bright side, Tyson sees a new legislative body with members more willing to work together and have frank discussions about workable solutions.

“There’s a better attitude than we’ve seen in the past, which is critical,” she said.

“I didn’t go up there to raise your taxes,” Tyson said, “but we’ve got to get this budget situation under control. There’s a perception out there that there’s a group not paying its fair share. A betting person would say there’s going to be some movement.”

The most palatable solution, she said, would be a tiered rollback, in which See TYSON | Page A2

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Toland: Downtown summmit planned for Feb. 7 Continued from A1

ing to play to win. We always play to win.”

The episode illustrates the Herculean efforts communities must undertake to attract industrial manufacturers in today’s global economy.

Toland spoke at length about Iola’s economic climate, various perceptions (and misconceptions) about Iola’s future, and why he’s optimistic brighter days are nearer than many think.

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with amateur radio.

The next hamfest is at 9 a.m. Feb. 4 at the LaCygne Community Building. The Iola club will meet again Feb. 9 at City Hall.

LIKE IOLA’S neighbors to the south, Toland is bullishly anticipating big news on the industrial and retail front.

“Right now we’re working on a major industrial deal that potentially could happen at some point this year or early in 2018,” Toland said. (Because the deal is not yet official, Toland declined to be more specific.)

“We’re working on a potential major commercial deal that would be service related,” he continued. “We’re still working on getting a hardware store. And finally, we’re working to support small businesses, like the bicycle shop that’ll be opening in downtown Iola in April.”

The deal to bring the bike repair shop — the only shop of its kind

That highway, last summer, was probably my saving grace. ... If people are looking to put a business in Iola, that’s one of the most important factors to consider.

— Kelly Sigg, owner of Audacious Boutique, on U.S. 54 running through downtown Iola

between Pittsburg and Lawrence — should be finalized by the end of the month, Toland said.

“The bike shop is a big, big win,” Toland said.

“It’s a tiny win from an overall economic development perspective, but from a community perspective, something like this is great.”

He anticipates the bicycle shop will be on the square.

The shop, Toland said, is a direct result of the local support in develop-

State Sen. Caryn Tyson, center, speaks at a legislative forum Monday sponsored by Allen County Farm Bureau. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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those with incomes of less than, say, $50,000 or $100,000 still would pay no income taxes,” and those at higher income levels taxed at a certain percentage, comparable to personal income taxes.

In order for Tyson to support such a maneuver, however, she would also favor seeing farmers’ income losses become a larger part of the equation.

“A solution has to be fair for everybody,” she said, “and there’s still a rural-urban divide.”

But even with a roll back on tax cuts, it does nothing to solve the current budget deficit, Tyson acknowledged. Added revenues from those maneuvers are 12 to 18 months down the road.

Tyson also rejected any thought to another increase in sales taxes,

akin to what legislators did in 2015 to close a budget deficit. “It’s maxed already,” she said, to the point Kansas has the highest sales tax on food in the nation. “It’s not a good situation.”

She recommended the state formulate its budget on the previous year’s revenue figures.

Despite the dark clouds on the horizon, Tyson sees some silver linings.

“As bad as it’s been the last three years, Kansas still has taken in 3 percent more revenue,” she said. “Who would have guessed that?”

The added revenue, however, falls short of keeping the budget in balance.

TYSON, who won re-

election to a second fouryear term Nov. 8 against a write-in candidate, said she again would

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sponsor a bill to make any efforts to privatize the Osawatomie State Hospital subject to legislative approval. Such a bill passed last year, but was good for only two years. Her proposal would make such a bill indefinite.

Tyson said she would support privatization, “if I truly thought privatization would benefit patients.”

However, she points at KanCare as an example of a flawed system in which three private companies manage the state’s Medicaid system.

“Talk to anybody using that system of all the problems and issues,” she said. ‘It’s just a mess.

The bottom line is those three vendors are in it for profit. They have to be.

“Why would we want somebody in it for profit to manage our mental health?” Tyson continued. “I get the relationship, but I’m not in favor of turning over the hospital to them.”

TYSON was noncom-

mittal when asked about a push to expand Medicaid services in Kansas — an issue clouded at the federal level because of a push to repeal the Affordable Care Act — but noted there is discussion about the topic this year in Topeka.

“They are going to have hearings on it this year, something that hasn’t happened before,” she said.

TYSON spoke briefly

of a case involving Jeremy Kettler, a Humboldt resident who was convicted of federal gun charges in November for buying a silencer from a Chanute gun dealer.

Attorneys for Kettler and the seller, Shane Cox of Chanute, both cited a state statute that grants exemptions from federal gun laws.

“I’m trying to figure out where the disconnect is here,” she said, citing as an analogy Colorado state laws that allow the sale and consumption of marijuana, despite federal statutes against both.

ing the Lehigh Portland Trails complex on the south edge of Iola, when Thrive and a team of volunteers helped create about eight miles of scenic trails surrounding Elks Lake.

“The owners have seen in a town of only 6,000, that there’s a market here,” Toland said.

“Why are they coming?

Because we’ve been investing in these trails, and no one else is.

“What is so helpful about having economic development at Thrive, is that we can blend things like trail development with traditional economic development, and leverage the strengths we have.”

TOLAND also expects optimism to build locally once construction begins soon on the G&W Foods grocery store on the old Allen County Hospital site.

“I still get calls every day” asking if construction is still a go, Toland said.

(Yes, it is. And no, the company has not backed out of any commitment to Iola.)

“When they start moving dirt, that will build confidence in other parts of the community for folks to go ahead and try to make their business dreams a reality,” Toland said.

“And there are things cooking which are much larger than G&W Foods,” he continued. “If and when they happen, they’ll have a major positive impact on not only Iola and Allen County, but the region as a whole.”

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SO WHAT are some of downtown’s strengths?

“I don’t think people realize how big of a strength it is to have U.S. 54 go through downtown,” Toland said.

Kelly Sigg, owner of Audacious Boutique, at the corner of U.S. 54 and Jefferson Avenue, agrees.

“That highway, last summer, was probably my saving grace,” Sigg said. “I can’t tell you how many people we got from Wichita who were headed to places like Branson or the Lake of the Ozarks. In the summer, I probably heard See TOLAND | Page A3

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IN ADDITION to those projects, Toland is organizing a “downtown summit” Feb. 7 to invite Iolans to discuss the state of the downtown square.

The square lost three long-time retailers in 2016, McGinty-Whitworth, Town & Country Western and Casual Wear and Ulrich Furniture, leaving prominent storefronts empty.

(McGinty-Whitworth has recently been filled

by WaveFire Games, a local, family-owned business that markets board games, and offers an on-site venue to play games.)

“These high-profile vacancies make it seem worse than it actually is,” Toland said. “I’m very optimistic about the future of downtown Iola, but we have a lot of work to do.”

The summit will offer attendees a look at how the downtown has changed through the years — a century ago, for example, a line of grocery stores lined the east side of the square with doctors, lawyers and dentists occupying the second floors — and analyze Iola’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

“And then, we’ll get direction from community members for how they envision downtown,” Toland said.

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that every day. If people are looking to put a business in Iola, that’s one of the most important factors to consider.”

Another strength, Toland said, is Iola’s downtown architecture.

Simply put, “it’s incredible,” he said. “The buildings downtown are generally in good repair, and they look good.”

The current business climate, and corresponding low real estate prices are on one hand a weakness, but also a strength, he opined.

“Rents are low, and sale prices are low,” Toland said. “You can get into a building for not a lot of money. There are Audacious Boutique remains busy on a daily basis, in part because of traffic that comes through Iola along U.S. good opportunities.”

54, owner Kelly Sigg said. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN Perhaps most importantly, the square is de- outside of the square.” signed to accommodate Alleys also are in poor crowds on a daily basis. condition, he said.

“There are a lot of D o w n t o w n people who are down- streetscape improvetown every day, because ments were cited as of the courthouse and goals by a Vision Iola related services, with study — developed by lawyers and bankers,” and for Iola citizens in Toland said. “A lot of 2010 — but few of those traffic comes downtown, recommendations have which helps restaurants been approved. and it helps retail.

Another roadblock to “The downtown is the getting downtown merheart and soul of the chants is the physical community in most peo- size of the vacant stores. ple’s minds,” he contin“They’re too large for ued. “It’s designed to be startup businesses, and the center. There’s a psy- it’s expensive to subdi- Local dignitaries flanked U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran in October for groundbreaking chological advantage to vide them into smaller ceremonies for a G&W Foods grocery store at the old Allen County Hospital site. being downtown. That’s spaces,” Toland said. Construction of the store will commence early this year. REGISTER FILE PHOTO where Iola gets its iden- “We really need retail multiple tirements. tity.” incubator spaces, small fee) in 2011. About two downtown, “It’s easy to forget, but stores with low-cost years later, her business businesses could benfive years ago, the downCHALLENGES? utilities to help get busi- was successful enough efit, Toland said. to justify moving to a Sigg, meanwhile, sees town square had 100 per“The downtown in- nesses on their feet.” frastructure needs imSigg agreed, citing larger venue, precipitat- a less expensive alterna- cent occupancy,” Toland ing her move to the cor- tive for startups, with said. “You couldn’t find provement,” Toland herself as an example. said. “Go along the Sigg opened Auda- ner on the square. (For what she describes as a storefront available. blocks off the square, cious Boutique in the transparency’s sake, To- a “collective boutique” Now, it’s an entirely different situation.” and the sidewalks are 200 block of South Jef- land noted he owns that venue.

Toland is confident A collective boutique in terrible condition. ferson (in the build- building.)

If incubator spaces looks like a single store, the city can once again There are no bike racks ing now occupied by be developed Sigg explained, but in fill its downtown stores, and no benches on the Around the Corner Cof- could reality is multiple store “however, it’s not going owners sharing the to be the same mix of businesses we’ve had in same space.

“It’s not divided off,” the past.”

As in generations she said. “It has an open Excellent financing concept. There are no past, the square is exwalls dividing the busi- periencing a shift in the plans with nesses. It may be divided types of businesses that qualifying credit. by a clothes rack, or fur- call downtown home.

“The downtown has nishings. Or nothing.”

The separate business shifted before, and it’ll owners may take turns shift again,” he said. running the cash reg- “Right now, it’s in a ister on different days. transitional phase. We Each is responsible for need to plan out what maintaining his or her the community wants, and what it will support, own merchandise.

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largest threats to Iola’s business climate, Toland contends.

“Negativity is a real threat,” he said, citing rumors that continue to swirl about the future of G&W Foods.

“Even though we’ve had a United States senator here to do the groundbreaking, even though G&W Foods has purchased the old hospital site, even though G&W Foods has spent tens of thousands of dollars in architectural plans, even though the city of Iola has issued a building permit for G&W foods, there still are people who are absolutely convinced the store won’t be built.

“If folks just accept that it’s inevitable that downtown is going to have a high vacancy rate, it will have a high vacancy rate,” Toland said. “Well, I don’t accept that.”

Toland believes that tone will soon shift as spring arrives and construction on the grocery begins, the bike shop opens and other economic activity occurs.

“Closures happen in clusters, but new activity also happens in clusters,” Toland said.

“These things are related.”

IOLA INDUSTRIES

Toland has a proverbial ace in the hole when dealing with prospective large-scale employers, Toland noted: Iola Industries.

“That organization is the envy of so many economic developers around the state because those communities don’t have anything like what we do,” Toland said.

Iola Industries, formed in 1955, consists of local business representatives tasked with the sole purpose of seeing business development in and around Iola.

The organization has played a pivotal role in bringing such industries as Gates Corporation and Russell Stover Candies, and past employers like Haldex Brake and Herff Jones to town.

“Iola Industries has assets, and flexibility to get things done as a private corporation,” Toland said.

Most recently, Iola Industries built a 12-unit apartment complex at the old ACH site, one of the key factors in convincing G&W officials to build a neighborhood grocery store in the heart of Iola.

Iola Industries, Allen County and the city of Iola each pays $20,000 for Thrive to coordinate economic development activities countywide.

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Farm Tuesday, January 17, 2017

New year, new veggies!

Emilia Wilkerson, left, demonstrates how to make “Valentine’s Day Puppy Chow.”

Isaiah Wicoff shows the parts of an engine and explains how it works. PHOTOS BY TERRI KRETZMEIER

Prairie Dell 4-H celebrates pajamas Junior President Jenna Wilks called the Prairie Dell 4-H Club to order on Jan. 2. It was PJ/Sock Night, and the junior officers conducted the meeting.

The club voted to participate in a fundraiser in which members gather useable shoes to send to a designated group.

Isaiah Wicoff gave a talk on a small lawnmower engine and described

how it worked. Emilia Wilkerson gave a talk on how to make Valentine’s Day Puppy Chow with pink and red M&M’s and gave samples to the members.

The club played Simon Says for recreation which was led by Emilia Wilkerson.

Leader Terri Kretzmeier informed the members of upcoming dates, including model

meeting practice for the fast-approaching 4-H Day. She also handed out Kansas State Fair ribbons to several members.

The next Prairie Dell 4-H Meeting will be on Feb. 6. Talks will be given by Kahlan Roloff, Katie Weide, Ethan Weide, Annika Hobbs, Henry Wicoff, Luke Wicoff, and Isaiah Wicoff.

— Emily McKarnin, junior reporter

Each year, the AllAmerica Selections (AAS) tests and introduces new flowers and vegetables to home gardeners. These plants have proven themselves to do well in trials across North America.

The AAS winner label is like a stamp of approval.

The vegetable descriptions were taken from All-American Selections material.

Fennel, Antares F1 – This winner is a

“First in Class,” as AAS has never before trialed a n d declared a fennel an AAS Winner. What is extremely fun about this winning plant is its many uses: as an edible bulb; for ornamental purposes; as a seed producer; and as a favorite food of pollinators, namely swallowtail caterpillars. It was described by judges as a very uniform, pure white, beautiful plant with a much improved, almost sweet, licorice/ anise flavor compared to other market varieties. It was also 7-10 days slower to bolt than comparison varieties.

Okra, Candle Fire F1 – This is a unique

Iola to host sorghum school A series of four KState Sorghum Production Schools will be offered in late January and early February to provide in-depth training targeted for sorghum producers and key stakeholders.

The one-day schools will cover a number of issues facing sorghum growers: weed control strategies; production

practices; nutrient fertility; and insect and disease management.

Iola’s program will be Feb. 3 at the New Community Building in Riverside Park.

Contact Carla Nemecek, Southwind Extension District, at cnemecek@ksu.edu or 620-365-2242 for more information.

Lunch will be pro-

vided courtesy of Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission. There is no cost to attend, but participants are asked to pre-register by Jan. 27. Online registration is available at: http:// b i t.ly /KS S ORGHUM Schools. You can also preregister by emailing or calling the Southwind Extension District, 620365-2242.

Square B 4-H Club: Kansas, cookies & crochet President Jacob Riebel called the Square B 4-H meeting to order Jan. 9. Abigail Meiwes and Katelyn Hicks led the flag salute and 4-H pledge.

Lexy Riebel led the club in singing “Home on the Range” to celebrate Kansas Day.

There were 19 members present. The Square B club sang happy birthday to Anna and Jacob Riebel. Abby Riebel gave a demonstration on how to make chocolate chip cookies. Carly Kramer gave a talk on how to crochet. Klair Vogel

gave an illustrated talk on how to develop film.

The meeting ended with square dancing for recreation. The next meeting will be Feb. 13 at the Allen County Courthouse at 7 p.m.

— Abigail Meiwes, Reporter

red okra w i t h p o d s that are round, n o t ribbed, and a brighter red color than the reddish burgundy okras currently available. The high-performing AAS Winner received high marks for productivity, taste, texture and tenderness as well as the ornamental value of red pods on red stems.

One judge noted that Candle Fire okra was quite maintenance free to grow, except for frequent harvesting, which is a great thing! Candle Fire thrives in the heat and is disease resistant even in hot humid climates.

Pea, Patio Pride – This compact beauty produces sweet, uniform pods that are very tender when harvested early.

With only 40 days need to maturity, Patio Pride can be one of your first

City Slickers 4-H Club learns sport shooting basics The December meeting of the City Slickers 4-H club was Jan. 8 at the Riverside Park Community Building. President Brody Nemecek called the meeting to order with Brennen Nuessen and Rowan Grisier leading the club with the Pledge

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of Allegiance and the 4-H Pledge. Fifteen members and one community leader answered roll call with their favorite Christmas present. Roper Curry and Rohan Springer led members in singing, “Row, Row, Row, Your Boat.”

Robbie Grisier, community leader, reported new club shirts would be ready by Jan 22. Southwind 4-H Club Day is on Feb. 4 at Marmaton Valley in Moran and online

registration is due by Jan. 20. Model meeting practice will continue every Sunday until 4-H Day. Rohan Springer gave a presentation on “Shooting Sports Practice” and demonstrated different positions when shooting a gun.

Recreation was led by Kyser Nemecek and Isaac Hopkins with “Duck, Duck, Goose.” The next meeting will be Feb. 2 at the Riverside Park Community Building.

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spring harvests or one of the last fall harvest from a fall garden. This pea is wonderful when planted in containers and is ideal for succession planting yielding a consistent harvest over many weeks. Plant in patio containers with coolseason flowers for a beautiful combination ornamental and edible display.

fourth addition to the popular Chef ’s Choice tomato series Chef ’s Choice Yellow which produces hearty beefsteak type tomatoes in a beautiful color. Tomato lovers and culinary gardeners will fall for this large meaty delicacy that has a sweet, citrus-like flavor with just the right amount of acid and the perfect tomato texture. AAS judges raved about the quantity of the 10-ounce fruit that each 5-foot indeterminate vines produced.

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wins on uniqueness alone! However, the p l a n t ’s v i g o r, earliness, h i g h yields, large size and a w e some taste all contribute to its high score among AAS judges. Mad Hatter is a member of the Capsicum baccatum pepper species from South America commonly used in Bolivian and Peruvian cuisine.

The taste has a refreshing, citrus floral flavor that remains sweet, only occasionally expressing mild heat near the seeds.

Be prepared for vigorous and robust plants that are easy to grow because they were bred for North America’s many growing conditions.

Squash, Winter Honeybaby F1 – Honeybaby

is a very productive variety of winter squash producing numerous fruits on a c o m p a c t plant.

These shorter vines grow 2-3 feet in a semi-bush habit showing great garden vigor. Short, wide fruits are slightly larger, sweet and nutty and meatier than similar comparison varieties. Honeybaby is delicious steamed, baked or made into

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Shorte r vines (3-4 feet) still produce up to six fruit per plant and can be grown in smaller spaces. For culinary purposes, this deep red fleshed watermelon has a thin but strong rind that can be carved into attractive shapes for fruit salad presentations.

Mini Love has a high sugar content resulting in sweet and crisp, juicy flesh that will be a true summer delight for watermelon lovers.

I will cover the 2017 AAS flowers in my next column. For a complete description of the 2017 All America Selections, visit www.all-americaselections.org.

Krista Harding is a K-State Research and Extension Agricultural agent assigned to Southwind District. She may be reached at 620-2443826 or kharding@ksu. edu.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

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Joining together could bring about more development Stories in the Register have told in detail about economic development successes in Chanute (Monday) and steps being taken in Allen County (today).

Chanute has had an uptick from its selection for Orizon Aerostructures, in competition last year that involved 49 communities, including Iola. The company will have about 100 employees, earning high wages, by early summer.

Eventually the company, making components for civilian and military aircraft, expects to have 500 employees. A travel center, motel and other commercial enterprises also will open this year.

Among things Allen County can crow about of late are connected to Ray Maloney, who has a scrap yard at LaHarpe. Maloney purchased the old Klein Tool plant north of Moran and has a company working there (more about it in a few days in the Register). He also promoted and put money into a vocational-technical training center in the old Diebolt building at the southeast edge of LaHarpe.

Allen County may be within a year or so of having a wind farm, with 15 full-time jobs and very substantial payments in lieu of taxes until property taxes kick in.

Meanwhile, an economic development group, under leadership of David Toland, is exploring every opportunity to improve the county’s commercial and industrial stock. G&W Foods, attracted in large measure by Toland’s efforts, will start construction on its grocery on the old hospital site soon. A complex of 12 apartments, next to the grocery site, recently had tenants move in and hopes to have the facility soon filled.

ECONOMIC development often achieves more through cooperative efforts.

Matt Godinez, enthusiastic director at Chanute, essentially said ignoring city limits and county boundaries would be helpful to all in this piece of southeast Kansas.

Humboldt is home of two robust industries, Monarch Cement and B&W Trailer Hitches.

Activists there are eager to encourage anything, including housing, to improve the community.

Iola Industries — think

the apartment complex — has had the same mission in Iola for decades and quickly joined the countywide effort, which also has financial support of Iola and Allen County.

Perhaps we should go further.

The U.S. 169 corridor is a lifeline between Kansas City and Tulsa. Iola, Humboldt and Chanute are situated within a stone’s throw of the highway. Iola may be best positioned because of visibility, but Chanute has overcome being in a shadow, first with a new high school, then with development along the south exit and finally the travel center and motel.

Humboldt, with resources somewhat limited, has made overtures along several avenues, and its leaders are eager for development.

Veiled contention, mainly with roots of years ago, can have an effect. But, as Godinez told the Register, letting high school rivalries have a role is folly.

If Allen County, as well as Iola, Humboldt and other cities within, were to throw weight into concentrated effort with Chanute and Neosho Couny, such a consortium would have greater resourses, and more opportunities for success.

Already residents of the cities involved are driving one way or another to fill jobs in Iola, Humboldt and Chanute. Many others come from outlying cities in southeast Kansas — Parsons, Garnett, Fort Scott, Independence, etc. — to work in businesses and industries along the 20-mile corridor.

A pressing need is housing affordable enough to prompt those now driving many miles a week — forfeiting a portion of their paychecks to purchase fuel, not to mention less time with family — to consider moving to Iola, Humboldt, Chanute, or to any town or city hereabouts.

That not only would enhance workaday opportunities, but also increase commercial activity and massage governmental budgets through utility payments and property and sales taxes.

Working together might have roadblocks — at least early on — but the reward could make it well worth the effort.

— Bob Johnson

Michelle empowered girls, women One of the books that I remember most vividly from my college years was Mary Catherine Bateson’s “Composing a Life.” Bateson, the daughter of legendary anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, posited in her book that life is “an improvisational art at every age.”

I thought of Bateson’s book a lot as I spent the last year compiling a collection of essays about the legacy of our most recent first lady. Because at the end of the day, I think what has given Michelle Obama so much universal appeal, why her approval ratings have stayed high to the very end, why she has acrossthe-aisle appeal is because Michelle Obama has come to represent an agility and an authenticity that is of incredible value to women today.

The lessons she has taught us about composing a life are ones that will stay with us, and with our daughters, for decades to come.

Lessons like the importance of putting yourself first — even when you are a mother and a wife, maybe especially when you’re in the midst of marriage or motherhood.

“I have freed myself to put me on the priority list and say, ‘Yes, I can make choices that make me happy, and it will ripple and benefit my kids, my husband, and my physical health,’” the first lady told Prevention magazine. “That’s hard for women to own; we’re not taught to do that. It’s a lesson that I want to teach my girls so they don’t wait for their aha moment until they’re in their 30s like I was (laughs). Maybe they can experience it a little earlier.”

Or when she turned 50 and said, “I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I

want to be this really fly 80-, and daughter through college, reminded us that the ability 90-year-old.”

I, for one, am saving this to work is a gift. The capabilparticular nugget for when ity to nurture a dream inside my 9-year-old hits her teens of all that hard work is our and starts dating: “Cute’s uniquely American birthgood. But cute only lasts for right. I believe we’ll all be able so long, and then it’s, ‘Who are to draw sustenance from her you as a person?’” Obama told words in the months to come.

“You may not always have Glamour magazine. “Don’t look at the bankbook or the a comfortable life,” she once title. Look at the heart. Look told an audience of young at the soul. When you’re dat- women, gathered at the White House, “and ing a man, you will not you should always be able always feel to solve all the good. ... You You may not always have a world’s probshouldn’t be in a re- comfortable life, and you will lems at once, lationship not always be able to solve but don’t ever with someall the world’s problems at underestimate the power you body who d o e s n ’ t once, but don’t ever under- can have bemake you estimate the power you can cause history completely have because history has has shown us courage happy and shown us that courage can that can be conmake you and feel whole.” be contagious and hope can tagious hope can take As we take on a life of its own. on a life of its move forward into a — First lady Michelle Obama own.”

As we connew admintinue the very istration necessary and a new business of moment in American history, it is clear composing our lives against that there is much work to a changing and tumultuous be done on both sides of the backdrop of politics and ecoaisle. If our only tasks in the nomics, we might do well months ahead were to heal to start there with Michelle and uplift the Americans who Obama and her benediction need it most — regardless of of courage and hope. where we think they live or what they look like — it would ABOUT THE WRITER Veronica Chambers the aube a staggering challenge.

Throughout her time in thor of “The Meaning of Mithe White House, Obama, chelle: 16 Writers on the Iconthe daughter of a blue-collar ic First Lady and How Her worker who struggled with Journey Inspires Our Own.” multiple sclerosis and yet She wrote this column for The still managed to work every Dallas Morning News. day of his life to put his son

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17 — State Rep. Robert A. Finney of Humboldt announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress from Kansas’ New Fifth District, an 18-county area in the southeastern part of the state. Finney, who is serving his first term in the Kansas House of Representatives, is general manager of Humboldt Brick and Tile Co. and a past president of the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce.

18 — The Iola Board of Education is giving serious study to the need for additional classroom facilities. Two of the most pressing needs are for additional elementary classroom space and science laboratories. To help develop plans, the board recently employed Brink and Dunwoody, Iola architects, to study the schools’ needs and propose remedies. *****

Allen County Hospital set new records in virtually every department last year, its busiest since the institution

opened in August, 1952. According to the annual summary prepared by Charles Gray, administrator, the hospital had 2,794 admissions in 1961, a gain of 188 over 1960. During the year, 323 babies were born in the hospital, a gain of eight over the previous year. *****

The headquarters of Union LP Gas System, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Union Gas System, Inc., will be moved to Independence, Harry F. Johnson, president, announced Sunday. Norman Castagna, manager of the headquarters here, said the move will be made about May 1. The firm now employs 23 in Iola, of which a number will move to Independence.

23 — Roy Singer and Bob Huskey, owners of Singer’s IGA Supermarket, opened a new store, Huskey’s IGA, on the north edge of Humboldt last week, across U.S. 169 to the east from the Wonder Bread depot. Leo Jeck, who managed the Kroger Store for many years and has been with Singer for several months, will manage the new market.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

King: Celebrated Continued from A1

change, brought about by constant, dogged effort.

Whitworth-Reed said such progress marches along, though never in a straight line.

Among his tutors was Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian leader noted for social change through peaceful means, whom he visited for five weeks. The experience steeled his resolve and led King to refine his tactics to effect change in the United States by employing encouragement and love to counter violence of his detractors.

He confronted evil with good, which can lead to change only if those challenging hatred are willing to give themselves to the task.

None did more than King, who gave his life while promoting civil rights for all Americans, regardless of color, creed or national origin.

King gave his life.

He was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, dying at age 39 when he walked onto a motel balcony.

He was there to plan a national occupation of Washington, D.C., called the Poor People’s Campaign.

“Hatred grows like poison,” WhitworthReed said. Dr. King told his followers and those trapped in the jaws of segregation and poverty forced on them by cruel overlords and employers that “he who accepts evil is as guilty as the perpetrator.”

“Love is the secret weapon,” WhitworthReed continued, alluding to the Christian principle “to love the sinner but hate the sin.

There is good in the worst of us, and evil in the best of us. Evil leads us from the light of Jesus Christ.”

However, “unconditional love is stronger than evil,” King said.

And, “hate is too great a burden to bear.”

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Major League Baseball: Royals’ Duffy signs 5-year extension

Royals lock up ace with new deal

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Perhaps the Royals and Danny Duffy thought Kansas City sports fans could use some good news.

The team announced a $65 million, five-year contract with the popular left-hander on Monday, ensuring he will remain with the Royals through the 2021 season. Duffy was eligible for arbitration and could have become a free agent after the upcoming season.

Instead, he will earn $5 million this year before a bump to $14 million in 2018. He will make $15.25 million each in 2019 and 2020 and $15.5 million in the final year of the deal.

“Danny has been great. He has one of the best arms in all of baseball,” Royals general manager Dayton Moore said earlier this offseason.

“The fact that he’s left-handed makes him more special and separates him even more. He’s the kind of pitcher we all envision.”

Duffy and Moore are expected to attend a news con-

ference Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium.

The contract was announced the day after the Chiefs, whose Arrowhead Stadium sits a few hundred yards from Kauffman Stadium in the same sports complex, lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the playoffs.

Good timing for fans who had been expecting a long postseason run.

Now, they can turn their attention to a season of big expectations for the Royals, who See DUFFY | Page B6

Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Danny Duffy throws against the St. Louis Cardinals on June 27, 2016, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

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College Basketball: Kansas 76, Iowa State 72

Schottenheimer dealing with Alzheimer’s

By VAHE GREGORIAN The Kansas City Star

Kansas forward Landen Lucas (33) battles Iowa State forward Deonte Burton (30) for a rebound during Kansas’ victory at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa, on Monday night. LAWRENCE JOURNAL -WORLD/NICK KRUG

MAGIC KILLERS Morris outplays Mason, but Kansas survives for road victory

By LUKE MEREDITH The Associated Press

AMES, Iowa (AP) — No. 2 Kansas passed its biggest Big 12 road test of the season, winning in a gym where losing was threatening to become a trend.

Frank Mason III had 16 points,

Landen Lucas scored 14 and the Jayhawks held off Iowa State 76-72 on Monday night for their 17th straight win.

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Boys and Girls Middle School Basketball: Cherryvale at Humboldt

Humboldt Middle School girls fall against Cherryvale

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

Humboldt seventh-grader Rylee Wilson drives down the court on Monday in Humboldt.

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HUMBOLDT — The Humboldt Middle School varsity girls team suffered a 46-21 loss at the hands of Cherryvale and Humboldt coach Scott Brady was not pleased with his team’s performance following Monday’s game.

“We have no toughness or ‘want to’ at all,” Brady said. “If we want to have a chance in our next couple games, we are going to have to change that.”

Brady gave credit to the Cherryvale squad for being See GIRLS | Page B3

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — From his home near Charlotte, N.C., Marty Schottenheimer gazes out a window at Lake Norman on a gorgeous 70-degree Thursday.

“It’s a magnificent setting,” he said. “Life is good.”

Nearby, as ever, is his wife, Pat, who keeps him laughing even as he’s on the phone.

He still can’t believe his fortune to have met her in Daytona Beach, Fla., way back in ...

1965, she gently reminds him as he pauses.

“I can’t effectively tell you, maybe you know. I love this woman so much,” he said.

On Feb. 4, they’ll have been married 50 years.

So much has been so wonderful since and through their lives in football, highlighted

by Schottenheimer guiding the Chiefs to the only two home playoff wins in franchise history.

Twenty-five seasons ago, Schottenheimer delivered the Chiefs’ first postseason victory since winning Super Bowl IV on Jan. 11, 1970. In fact, he still holds three of the meager four playoff victories they’ve tallied since winning it all.

Now, the Schottenheimers cherish their time with their children, Kristen and Brian, an Indianapolis Colts assistant coach, and grandchildren, whom they see as often

Cherryvale Middle School routs Humboldt

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HUMBOLDT — The Humboldt Middle School boys varsity team suffered another lopsided loss on Monday when Cherryvale cruised to a 48-19 win.

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States can offer lessons to GOP LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans who have pledged to cut federal taxes to boost the economy might consider looking first at lessons learned in GOPcontrolled states that adopted similar strategies, only to see growth falter and budget gaps widen.

The situation is worrisome enough in Kansas, Oklahoma and Indiana that lawmakers are now debating whether to reverse course and raise taxes. And political leaders in states that have seen expanded Republican control, such as Arkansas and Iowa, are signaling caution about any new tax-cut proposals.

“It does not take a Ph.D. in economics to know that we can’t say yes to every spending need, and we should also not say yes to every taxcut idea,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson warned late last year.

The reforms show that tax changes always carry an element of uncertainty — about the economy, government needs and even the prices of commodities such as oil. Although the federal and state tax systems are significantly different, both are subject to forces beyond lawmakers’ control.

A recent Associated Press survey found that more than half of the states — 33 — are currently dealing with a budget shortfall or expect to confront one in the coming fiscal year. Experts say state economic growth has been slower than expected.

Hutchinson, who took office vowing to slash income taxes, has proposed a much more modest cut of $50 million annually for low-income taxpayers. Meanwhile, a top Arkansas GOP lawmaker has said any tax-cut ideas may have to be set aside for a few years until the state’s financial picture improves. State revenue is running $8.8 million behind projections for the fiscal year.

After Indiana Republicans cut income, corporate and property taxes, the state developed a $300 million budget gap.

GOP lawmakers are now pushing a plan to raise gasoline taxes and adopt a new registration fee for motorists to help pay for road improvements.

Critics say the effort is simply shifting the tax burden from the wealthy to everyone else.

“This is going to be the first session I remember coming into that the Republicans are advocating for tax increases,” said Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane, a Democrat.

“At the same time, we’re continuing to give tax breaks to corporations and businesses. How are they going to explain that?”

In Kansas, lawmakers have struggled to balance the budget since they slashed personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 at the urging of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.

The state has faced economic pressures related to a decline in agriculture and oil prices, but the broad-based tax cuts are viewed largely as an unsuccessful effort to stimulate the economy.

Lawmakers are now debating their third tax increase since the cuts were passed, with the state facing projected shortfalls of $1.1 billion through June 2019. The Brownback administration has proposed higher taxes on certain business owners, cigarettes, beer and liquor. Other plans include diverting highway money to general government programs, scaling back contributions to the pension program for public employees and liquidating a $317 million investment fund.

Brownback’s budget director, Shawn Sullivan, warned of dire consequences if the proposals are not approved.

“You’re left with huge tax increases or huge (budget) cuts,” Sullivan said. “Even the mix between the two is huge.”

Whatever happens in Washington is likely to affect state budgets in some way. That gives lawmakers another reason to move cautiously.

A congressional tax overhaul could eliminate key exemptions benefiting state and local governments. At the same

time, the promise by Trump and congressional Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act would probably reduce the amount of federal money sent to states. In New York alone, repealing the health care law would cost the state an estimated $3.7 billion in federal funding, or roughly 2.5 percent of the state budget.

A House tax plan would reduce federal revenue by $3 trillion in the first 10 years, while Trump’s plan would cut revenue by $9.5 trillion over the same period, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Trump has disputed the analysis.

Previous tax cuts are not the only reason for downbeat budget forecasts.

Medicaid costs are contributing to budget gaps in Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, New York and Rhode Island.

Other states are dealing with increasing spending demands in education and health care.

Energy-producing states such as Oklahoma, Alaska and New Mexico have struggled in part because of a decline in oil and natural gas prices.

Oklahoma’s budget woes were deepened by a reduction in the top individual income tax rate that took effect just as the state’s economy began to contract amid lower oil and natural gas prices.

Three straight years of budget shortfalls were closed largely with cuts to state agencies. Now the Republican governor and GOP-controlled Legislature are considering raising taxes on cigarettes, gasoline and some services to help fill an $870 million budget hole.

The state Department of Human Services has slashed about 1,200 nonchild welfare positions to deal with the falling revenue.

“Every time the government wants to cut,” said Marcellius Bell of Oklahoma City, who serves as legal guardian for three adults with severe developmental disabilities, “it seems like they cut services to the disabled, the veterans and the nursing homes.”

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Humboldt eighth-grader Jailynn Goforth shoots over a Cherryvale defender on Monday in Humboldt. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

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a strong team, but was disappointed that his girls weren’t able to raise their games to that level and make it a tighter game.

“They are a very good team and a lot better than we are, but we didn’t come ready to play tonight,” Brady said.

The Cubs’ top-scoring duo of Isabelle Murrow and Maycie DeNoon led the team with five points each.

Madi White scored four points and Kirstyn Murrow added three points for the Cubs.

Jessica Myers and Zoey Wilson each had two points to round out the scoring.

JUNIOR VARSITY The Cubs’ junior varsity bounced back with a lop-sided 26-14 victory over Cherryvale in the nightcap.

The second-half dominance by Humboldt was the story of the game.

They went into halftime trailing 8-7, but got on track early in the second half thanks to eighthgrader Madi Riebel.

“This group just keeps winning,” Humboldt coach Scott Brady said.

“They struggled the first half and were down, but Madi Riebel scored four points in about 30 seconds to start off the half and that gave us a big boost.”

Zoey Wilson led the Cubs with nine points and was also their star on the defensive end of

the court with a teamhigh six steals.

Wilson helped the team close the game on a 9-0 run to seal the victory.

Anna Goforth added six points while Riebel finished with those four gamechanging points.

Autumn Ballard had three points and Kirsten Kobold and Kennady Wilkerson each had two points for Humboldt.

The Cubs’ record improves to 8-1 this season.

C-TEAM The Humboldt C-Team controlled its game with Cherryvale throughout and cruised to a 16-8 win.

“They led the entire game and did a good job of maintaining a six to eight point lead throughout,” Humboldt coach Scott Brady said.

Peyten Galloway led the Cubs with eight points and seven rebounds.

“Peyten played very well tonight and did some really good things on offense,” Brady said.

Rylee Wilson scored six points and Jailynn Goforth had two.

UP NEXT The Cubs will hit the road on Thursday when they travel to Caney Valley.

as possible. They attend all of Brian’s home games and visit nearby Kristen and her family frequently, The Kansas City Star reported.

Then there’s what Schottenheimer calls “the joy of my life” — Phoebe, the Cavalier King Charles spaniel who sits on his lap every morning as he reads three newspapers.

He still can’t play enough golf, which has long been a sanctuary for him and offers a telling snapshot of life at 73 for Schottenheimer.

“On the course, you’d never know there’s a single thing wrong with him,” Pat said. “His score is down; he’s got it figured out. There’s something about golf, or maybe it’s just his competitive instinct that pops out.

“On the golf course, they say he’s amazing.”

He often hits the ball so far off the tee, in fact, that it can be hard for him to find.

But that’s not always just because he hits it so long.

“Sometimes, he’ll kind of not remember where he hit it,” said Brian Schottenheimer, a Blue Valley High graduate.

Sometimes, he can’t remember his score — a point Brian playfully calls a positive since it means he’s not likely to dwell on playing poorly.

Sometimes, though, he’ll forget how to get home and call Pat for directions.

Schottenheimer has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, the sinister, irreversible and progressive brain disorder that erodes memory and thinking capacity.

According to the National Institute on Aging, it afflicts about 5 million Americans and is the nation’s sixth-leading cause of death.

“The unfortunate thing is there’s nothing that they can do right now; they don’t have any cures,” said Pat Schottenheimer, whose husband began showing signs of the illness several years ago. “The only thing they have is medication that slows it down, and I encourage anybody who’s having any problems to go in and get checked out.

“Because if you get on the medication sooner rather than later, you’ve got an opportunity to be better for a longer time, if that makes sense.”

What is just as true as all these grim realities is that the Schottenheimers have determined that they will deal with the disease

on their own terms.

So Pat Schottenheimer wants you to know that this should be seen as a positive story more than it is anything else, and that her husband “is good. He is fun. He is happy. He is Marty all the time.”

She wants you to know that she’s grateful for terrific medical care in Charlotte, that they’ve been to the Nantz National Alzheimer Center in Houston and that Marty is participating monthly in a drug-trial test offered

by Roche laboratories in Switzerland.

“We are hopeful that it can help him,” Pat said.

“It may not, who knows?

But then hopefully it will make a difference for somebody in the future.”

Pat Schottenheimer doesn’t deny how hard it is to see her husband have to contend with this, or that it can be draining to be his caretaker 24-7, or that there has been a scare or two — like when he seemed to go missing one day but had just taken Phoebe out for a walk and got turned around a bit.

But you keep moving forward and compensate where you have to.

That’s why Marty always has a phone on him now, for its built-in GPS. And it’s why grandchildren will volunteer to go with him, just in case, if he needs to visit the bathroom in an airport.

It’s also why the family does its utmost to find humor in the anguish instead of crying.

“Obviously it’s a very tough disease, and it goes in different stages,” Brian Schottenheimer said.

“But if you can’t laugh at it, you can’t enjoy some of the silliness that goes with the disease, that’s where it becomes heartbreaking.”

With his short-term memory “just not there,” as Pat put it, Marty might leave the room to bring her a cup of coffee only to come back with clothes from the dryer.

Or he might forget he already ordered at a restaurant, or think they’re going someplace that they’re not, or wake up and not know where he is.

Instead of focusing on the deep anguish in those scenes, their way has been to just explain things to him or even tease him about it.

“That’s very easy for him,” she said. “He’s always had such a good-natured personality. He just kind of rolls along with it.”

Among their family Christmas traditions now are customized pajamas and Santa Claus hats that

riff on the recipient.

Brian’s wife, Gemmi, orchestrates that with a certain mischief in her heart — including her own “Fired Wife” hat for herself last year after Brian was on the University of Georgia staff that was let go.

It was in that spirit that she came up with this year’s theme for Marty and Pat. Marty’s hat was adorned with the words, “Where’s Pat?” Pat’s said, “Papa’s Blanket” — as in for security.

Marty thought it was great and laughed, knowing the truth in the joke, but also the affection behind the truth.

“It really summarizes our family,” Gemmi Schottenheimer said, noting her own parents are close with Marty and Pat and adding, “We love so hard, and we laugh so hard.”

Knowing what we know now about football and head injuries and dementia, it might seem natural to wonder to what degree the game did this to him.

Schottenheimer was a linebacker at the University of Pittsburgh, after all, and played pro football from 1965-70.

But speculating or fixating on that would be counter-productive to the family’s game plan with Schottenheimer, who was 200-126-1 with four NFL teams — including 10158-1 with the Chiefs from 1989-98.

“Were there side effects to him playing? Probably,” Brian Schottenheimer said. “But we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it; we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about it.

“Our choice has been to live in the moment. And we wouldn’t be where we are as a family, I wouldn’t be where I am today as a coach, he wouldn’t have accomplished the great things he did (if not for football).

“We love the game of pro football, and we look back and think of the happier times and try not to figure out what went wrong. It’s a troublesome situation; it is what it is and now how are we going to make the most of it.”

It’s also evident that football is providing a guiding light in this fight.

For one thing, it’s been energizing for Schottenheimer to stay around the game, whether at Arrowhead in September for the induction of Tony Richardson into the Chiefs’ Ring of Honor, or at a reunion of the 1986 Cleveland Browns a few weeks later, or at Brian’s home

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“Football is the thing that kind of keeps us consistently together; it’s all that we know as a family,” Brian Schottenheimer said, adding, “So many (former players) go out of their way to come up and just tell him how he changed their life. Or just fans who appreciated the way he carried himself along the journey.

“And he’s still quick with his thoughts after a game, and it’s kind of fun to get in the car and listen to him give his feedback.”

But it runs deeper than that, too.

Asked how they knew what approach to take when Marty was formally diagnosed in the last year or so, Pat Schottenheimer said it was second nature.

The family did more or less what it has always done: be competitive, proactive people who make the best of everything in an ever-changing world — or set of jobs, as the case may be.

“It’s what we do; it’s who we are,” she said. “In the profession we were in, you’re forced to stay positive, if that makes sense. It becomes a habit, and it’s a good habit.”

When her kids were young, and they’d pass a moving van on a street somewhere, Pat learned to say, “Oh my gosh, somebody’s daddy got fired.

They get to move. They’re so lucky.”

If her own husband got fired, she brainwashed the kids to figure, “It was great!”

“If that tells anything, that’s us,” she said.

“That’s how we approach life, and that’s how we are approaching this. We don’t like it, but it is what it is and we’re going to make it work.”

Even if he’s still “Marty all the time,” as Pat Schottenheimer said, that doesn’t mean it’s not excruciating to watch these dramatic changes unfold.

But wallowing in sorrow won’t help anything.

And don’t mistake this for denial.

Instead, it’s about not surrendering and finding a way and everything that the coach would’ve asked of his players.

The Schottenheimers are going at this “full throttle,” Pat said, because that’s how Marty coached, and that’s how you live.

“He could not be paired with a better partner to go into having to tackle this disease,” Brian Schottenheimer said.

Pat considers herself “one of the luckiest caretakers,” because of all the support she is getting.

Maybe she learned some of her resolve from her father’s imprisonment in a German POW camp during World War II, insists you not feel sorry for them.

Marty called his prognosis “very favorable” as long as he’s careful about what he does and how he does it. He figures he’ll be fine “as long as I can keep that putter hot.”

Then he thought of something from a long time ago, advice he got when he was a kid delivering the Pittsburgh PostGazette in his wagon.

“Life is a journey of one step at a time: You pick one foot up, you put it on the ground,” he said. “You pick your other foot up, you put it on the ground.

And you just continue to do your thing.”

Soon, he hands the phone back to Pat, and the first thing she wonders is if you can tell he’s happy.

If you heard him talk, you’d smile and believe he sure is.

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Jayhawks: Graham’s late foul shot seals it Continued from B1

10th time.

“It’s always tough (here),” Lucas said. “We should be proud to come in here and win. Our young guys maybe don’t understand that.”

Though it was never comfortable for Kansas, the Jayhawks led the entire second half. Iowa State star Monte Morris drilled a long 3-pointer and two free throws to make it 75-72 with 14.6 seconds left. But then Devonte Graham’s free throw made it a two-possession game and Morris missed a 3 that would’ve made for an interesting finish.

Morris scored 23 points with seven rebounds and seven assists for the Cyclones (11-6, 3-3), who saw their recent string of success against the Jayhawks come to an end.

Iowa State had won four of its last six against the 12-time defending league champions.

“We’ve just got to figure out a way to become a better defensive team.

They shot 14 layups in the first half. Layups.

You can’t give Kansas 28 points in layups and expect to beat them,” Iowa State coach Steve Prohm said.

Deonte Burton had 21 points on 21 shots for the Cyclones, losers of two straight for the first time in six weeks.

BIG PICTURE Kansas: This was a win Kansas has a right to be proud of. Hilton Coliseum is one of the most intimidating atmospheres in America — especially when the Jayhawks come to town — and over 14,000 fans braved an ice storm to scream at them. Victories like this are the reason Kansas keeps winning the Big 12. “No disrespect, but I think it was the best home court we’ve played in so far,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.

Iowa State: The Cyclones let a huge opportunity slip by. Iowa State is very talented and remains a threat in the

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Kansas guard Devonte’ Graham (4) puts up a layup over the defense of Iowa State forward Deonte Buton (30) during the Jayhawks’ victory on Monday night at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. LAWRENCE JOURNAL -WORLD/NICK KRUG postseason because of its strong backcourt. But the Cyclones have lost tight games to Gonzaga, Baylor and Kansas, and their program has long since passed the day when moral victories mattered.

POLL IMPLICATIONS In a slight surprise, voters picked Villanova over Kansasfor the top spot on Monday. It’ll be hard for the Jayhawks to pass the Wildcats after Villanova routed Seton Hall by 30 points on Monday. The defending national champions host Providence on Saturday.

“It really doesn’t matter.

I told our staff that Villanova would jump us in (the) AP (poll). They beat Xavier by 25 last week.

That didn’t surprise me at all. We’re in a pretty good spot right now,”

Self said.

TURNING POINT Burton’s three-point play brought the Cyclones within 67-63. But a quick 6-0 run capped by Mason’s layup put Kansas up 10 with 1:57 left, and those baskets came in handy after Iowa State made its late surge. Given that the Jayhawks’ first two road league wins were at TCU and scuffling Oklahoma, the resolve Kansas showed down the stretch was impressive.

THE DIFFERENCE Kansas dominated Iowa State on the boards, 41-24, and scored 52 points in the paint. The Cyclones’ guards did their part, with Naz Mitrou-Long chipping in 18 points, but the inability to hang with teams in-

side continues to haunt Iowa State against elite competition.

THE NUMBERS Kansas shot 54.8 percent from the floor, helping mitigate its 18 turnovers. ... Iowa State was 9 of 27 from 3-point range. ... Graham had nine points and eight assists, freeing up Mason to attack the basket. ... Morris also had four steals, but he turned it over three times in the first half after committing just one such miscue in his first five Big 12 games.

UP NEXT Kansas hosts Texas on Saturday. But next week will be brutal, with trips to West Virginia and Kentucky looming.

Iowa State plays at Oklahoma on Saturday.

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Route 42 — Brandi Gonzalez, 1318 New York St., Humboldt, 620-228-7047 — (Northeast Section - 900-1300 Bridge St., 1200 Osage St., 900-1700 Central St., 1200-1700 Neosho St., 1000-1600 Charles St., 1200 Elm St., 600-1600 Signor St., 100 Amos St.,1000 Kansas St., 400 N. 9th St., 300-1000 N. 10th St., 100-900 N. 11th St., 200-600 N. 12th St., 500 N. 13th St., 400 N. 14th St., 300 N. 16th St.).

Route 43 — Chris Gonzalez, 1318 New York St., Humboldt, 620-228-7047 — (Southeast Section - 900 Leavenworth St., 400 Pine St., 900-1200 Sycamore St., 1300 Pecan St., 1000 Mulberry St., 900-1200 Cherokee St., 900-1300 New York St., 900 Bridge St., 200-1100 S. 9th St., 500-1200 S. 10th St., 500800 S. 11th St., 300 S. 12th St., 200 S. 13th St.).

Route 44 — Elizabeth Romine, 306 Pecan St. Humboldt, 620473-0640 — (Southwest Section - 600 Ohio St., 300-1100 Pine St., 100-700 Sycamore St., 400-900 Pecan St., 200-800 Mulberry St., 1-900 Cherokee St., 100-800 New York St., 1-500 Bridge St., 500-700 S. 3rd St., 200-600 S. 4th St., 400 S. 5th St., 300-1400 S. 8th St., 200-1100 S. 9th St., 500-1200 S. 10th St.).

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Be careful about becoming dependent on drugs Dear Dr. Roach: Like thousands of people, I have experienced heartburn for years. Chewable antacid tablets provide temporary relief. Extended use of ranitidine and famotidine gave me partial relief, but I still required regular use of antacid tablets. But starting omeprazole gave me immediate and complete relief. I’m sure results are different for different people. The package for omeprazole says “three 14-day courses of treatment.” My question is, can omeprazole be safely taken long-term? — Anon.

Answer: Omeprazole (Prilosec and others) is a proton pump inhibitor, which prevents the stomach from making acid.

This class of drugs is very effective for many people with symptoms of acid reflux, or GERD. There are two reasons to be cautious about longterm use. The first is that, like all medicines, PPIs have side effects. Among the side effects are an in-

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crease in the risk of bacterial pneumonia, increased likelihood of osteoporosis and possible adverse effects on the kidney.

The second reason is that the same symptoms attributed to GERD might be something more serious, such as ulcers or stomach cancer. Guidelines by gastroenterological societies recommend a careful evaluation in those who require longterm treatment, and I absolutely agree.

My experience is that many people take these drugs long-term, even if they didn’t have long-term symptoms when they started. Many patients can come off these medications and can be treated with lifestyle changes or sometimes with occasional use of medications like ranitidine (Zantac)

or famotidine (Pepcid).

These are antihistamines specific for the stomach that partially block acid secretion. However, for those who continue to have significant symptoms despite other treatments and who have had a thorough evaluation to rule out serious problems, long-term use is reasonable.

Dear Dr. Roach: A pet peeve: Why do almost all doctor’s and dentist’s offices have TVs going ALL THE TIME? Often blaring.

It is NOT for the patients’ benefit! Look around, as I have done dozens and dozens of times, and count the number of people actually watching. If there are 20 people waiting in a group area, perhaps one will be watching the TV, while everyone else is trying to read or is paying attention to his mobile device.

TV can be very upsetting — the opposite of what a waiting patient needs.

In any office where SE-

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RIOUS procedures are underway (chemo/radiation), you will not find emotionally upsetting, trivial and loud TV! What do you think of this practice? — C.C. Answer: I agree with you completely. I don’t enjoy televisions in doctors’ waiting rooms. They often are too loud, and advertisements for pharmaceuticals may have the appearance of being condoned by the medical office. Medical shows, especially those promoting or exploring controversial practices, also are potentially problematic to show in a physician’s office. I am sure medical professionals put them there for the enjoyment of their patients, but I don’t like them at all. Also, in a wellrun practice, people often shouldn’t be waiting so long that they are getting bored.

That being said, I don’t think they are unethical or unprofessional. I’d be curious to hear other points of view.

Public notices (First published in The Iola Register, January 3, 2017) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

Daniel Lamb a/k/a Daniel Ray Lamb; Laura Lamb a/k/a Laura Smith, a/k/a Laura Salmond; John Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Kansas Housing Resources Corporation; City of Iola, Kansas;, Defendants.

Case No. 16CV74 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, credi(First published in The Iola Register, January 3, 2017) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, vs.

Paul L Woodard (Deceased) , et al., Defendants.

Case No. 16CV34 K.S.A. 60 Mortgage Foreclosure (Title to Real Estate Involved) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Under and by virtue of an Order

tors and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

You are notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, praying to foreclose a real estate mortgage

on the following described real estate: Lot Nineteen (19), in Horde Addition to the City of lola, in Allen County, Kansas according to the original recorded Plat thereof, commonly known as 1718 North Walnut Road, Iola, KS 66749 (the “Property”)

of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court in and for the said County of Allen, State of Kansas, in a certain cause in said Court Numbered 16CV34, wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendant, and to me, the undersigned Sheriff of said County, directed, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at 10:00 AM, on 01/25/2017, at the front door of Allen County Courthouse, the following described real estate located in the County of Allen, State of Kansas, to wit: LOT TWO (2), TRADES ADDI-

TION TO THE CITY OF IOLA, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS. SHERIFF OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS Respectfully Submitted, By: Shawn Scharenborg, KS # 24542 Michael Rupard, KS # 26954 Dustin Stiles, KS # 25152 Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. (St. Louis Office) 12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555 St. Louis, MO 63141 Phone: (314) 991-0255 Fax: (314) 567-8006 Email: mrupard@km-law.com Attorney for Plaintiff (1) 3, 10, 17

and all those defendants who have not otherwise been served are required to plead to the Petition on or before the 13th day of February, 2017, in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

NOTICE Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given

without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Prepared By: SouthLaw, P.C. Mark Mellor (KS #10255) 245 N. Waco, Suite 410 Wichita, KS 67202 (316) 684-7733 (316) 684-7766 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (127272) (1) 3, 10, 17

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Duffy: Royals’ ace commits to KC Continued from B1

missed out on the playoffs last season after back-to-back World Series appearances.

They return most of the major pieces from a team that contended until late in the season, and the move to keep Duffy as a cornerstone of their rotation should only embolden the franchise going forward.

The 27-year-old lefthander emerged from the bullpen to set career highs in wins, starts and innings pitched while going 12-3 last year. Kansas City was 17-9 in his 26 starts.

Duffy won 10 straight decisions from June 11 to August 21, one shy of the franchise record shared

by Rich Gale and Paul Splittorf. He also set a franchise record with 16 strikeouts against Tampa Bay on Aug. 1, and he hasn’t lost at Kauffman Stadium in his last 15 starts.

Perhaps most importantly, his new contract takes one more star out of free-agency limbo.

All-Star first baseman Eric Hosmer, who

Humboldt eighth-grader Sam Neeley puts up a shot on Monday against Cherryvale in Humboldt.

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Boys:

JUNIOR VARSITY The Humboldt junior varsity team lost to Cherryvale 42-19. “We didn’t take care of the ball tonight,�

Humboldt coach Jeremy Weilert said. “They put a little bit of pressure on us and we turned the ball over more times than I thought we should have.�

Ethan Doepke led the Cubs with eight points and seven rebounds.

Trenton Johnson added six points.

Andrew Comstock and Sam Neeley each had two points while Aden Kelley rounded out the scoring with one point.

C-TEAM Humboldt’s C-Team lost 31-17 against Cherryvale.

Humboldt seventhgrader Aden Kelley led the team with 11 points and five steals. “Aden played one of his best games of the year,� Humboldt coach Weilert said.

Sam Neeley, Andrew Comstock and Colton Slocum each scored two points.

UP NEXT Humboldt will face Caney Valley in Caney on Thursday.

Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Danny Duffy tips his hat to the crowd as he is relieved in the seventh inning against the Minnesota Twins on Aug. 21, 2016 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. John Sleezer/Kansas

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agreed to a $12.25 million deal to avoid arbitration last week, can become a free agent next year. So can outfielder Lorenzo Cain, third baseman Mike Moustakas and shortstop Alcides Escobar — all former All-Stars — and veteran left-hander Jason Vargas. “We’ll try to sign as many of our young guys as we can to long-term contracts. We won’t be able to sign them all, as you know,� Moore said.

“That’s something we’ll have to figure out, and I’m accountable for figuring that out But I want to make it very clear, from the first day I took this job, we always tried to put the best team we could on the field each and every night.�

The decision to pay Duffy doesn’t come without a gamble.

He has been a rollercoaster as a starting pitcher much of his career, spending long stretches in the bullpen, and has never started more than 26 games in a season. He also underwent Tommy John surgery in 2012, though his movement and velocity are better now than they were prior to the injury.

Still, the deal represents another investment in the future by Moore, a signal that the general

The things I put up with!

manager is not content simply to try to win next season and go through a wholesale rebuild.

In recent years, Moore has signed catcher Salvador Perez to a $52.5 million, six-year contract; outfielder Alex Gordon to a $72 million, four-year deal; right-hander Ian Kennedy to a $70 million, five-year deal; and young flamethrower Yordano Ventura to a $24 million, five-year deal.

Moore also traded AllStar closer Wade Davis to the Chicago Cubs earlier this offseason for young outfielder Jorge Soler, who is signed through the 2020 season.

The whole idea is to expand the Royals’ window to compete for another championship.

Evidently, Duffy wanted to remain a big part of it.

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lert said. “We just didn’t do enough on the (defensive) end to slow them down. I thought, we got better tonight, despite what the score says.�

Weilert credited Cherryvale after the game for its strong play. “Cherryvale is a very good team,� Weilert said. “They have a good mix of post players and outside shooters. They made eight three-pointers against us.�

Humboldt’s Drew Wilhite scored nine points and had four steals.

Thane Meadows had five points and six rebounds.

Drake Harrington scored three points and had two steals while Drew Schoendaller had two points and four rebounds.

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