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Consultant: School savings fair game to balance budget TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A consulting firm hired by the Kansas Legislature to find efficiencies in the state budget recommends taking money from school districts’ cash reserves to help pay for future education funding.

The 292-page final report issued Tuesday by the firm Alvarez & Marsal — which has a $2.6 million contract with the state to conduct the study

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— also suggested lawmakers consolidate school districts’ health plans into one big

statewide plan.

Overall, the report says Kansas could save $2 billion over five years if the Legislature adopted its more than 100 recommendations, The

Wichita Eagle reported.

The firm said Kansas should require school districts to have a minimum cash balance of 10 percent of their operating budget and a maximum of 15 percent. Any money beyond the maximum would be deducted from future funding under the recommendation.

That policy would save the state $193 million over five

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Tech ed center plans advance

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Local woodworking wizard Larry Walden is at it again.

His latest creation, a 15inch cam hammer, follows the design made famous by its inventor. You’ve probably heard of him: Leonardo Da Vinci.

The cam hammer, or Da Vinci hammer, features a remarkably simple design, but with exact specifications to ensure it works.

Walden’s hammer mechanism rests upon a wooden cam. As the cam rotates, it lifts the hammer’s head until the cam suddenly drops off.

The force of gravity pulls the hammerhead crashing onto its target.

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years — and $40 million if it is implemented for the next fiscal year, which begins on July 1.

The idea of tapping districts’ reserves has been floated in the Legislature before, but has consistently faced backlash from school officials who say cash reserves are needed to make sure schools

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Iolan Larry Walden inspects a cam hammer, or Da Vinci hammer, he built using only a photo as his guide. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

MORAN — Plans continue at a rapid pace with the hopes the first classes can be held this fall at a technical education center in LaHarpe.

Several school district representatives met Tuesday morning at Marmaton Valley High School, as did presidents of three community colleges, John Masterson of Allen, Brian Inbody of Neosho County and Alysia Johnston of Fort Scott.

At least nine school districts, including all three in Allen County, have begun working in league with the See TECH | Page A4

County gives Hope Unlimited a boost

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Hope Unlimited will get financial assistance from Allen County to help meet the local match of a substantial grant.

Commissioners Tuesday voted to provide $20,000 of a

$49,000 match, which Hope Unlimited asked for on Jan. 19. Proponents, commissioners were assured then, are confident they can raise the remaining $29,000.

The local match is for a federal Victims of Crime Acts grant of $167,607.

Success would permit

Hope Unlimited to add three full-time staff positions: children’s services specialist, sexual assault advocate and shelter manager. Proceeds also would cover a portion of expenses to install a new central air unit and upgrade See COUNTY | Page A4

Kim Bowers, center, is the the owner of the newly opened Solid Ground Counseling Center, LLC, with her husband Daniel, and the center’s program director Christine Haskew. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

On Solid Ground

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

In a part of the state famously lacking the resources to adequately attend to its population of drug users, not to mention its citizens affected by mental health issues, the newly opened Solid Ground Counseling Center seeks — in its small way — to redress that wound.

Solid Ground is located at 108 E. Madison — a tiny

Early feast Iolan David Donovan was among the worshippers treated to a breakfast of biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs and sausage this morning at Bible Fellowship in Iola for the second Lenten breakfast of the season. Among the volunteer servers was, Lavina Chambers, right. The Feb. 24 Lenten breakfast will be at Iola’s First Christian Church. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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warren of rooms squeezed between separate entrances to the Sophisticated Rose boutique. Its outside signage right now consists of four posters and a printout showing its hours.

Ignoring the modest exterior, the center will provide the community an ambitious menu of services — substance abuse treatment, domestic violence counseling, See SOLID | Page A4

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House to vote on new budget TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas House is preparing to vote on a plan for eliminating a projected deficit of nearly $200 million in the state’s next budget.

The plan before the chamber today makes dozens of changes in the state’s $16.1 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. It contains most of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposals to help close the gap by juggling funds and capturing unanticipated savings.

The final version was drafted by three House and three Senate negotiators appointed to reconcile differences between the two chambers.

The plan includes a House proposal for a 2.5 percent pay raise for uniformed corrections officers at state prisons.

If the House approves the plan as expected, the Senate would vote on it to determine whether it goes to Brownback.

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can operate during a crisis.

Mark Tallman, a lobbyist for the Kansas Association of School Boards, said districts are concerned about the state tapping reserves. If lawmakers want districts to lower balances, many districts would find ways to spend those funds before the state got its hands on them.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, a public school teacher, balked at the idea of digging into districts’ reserves.

“I’m not sure we should be getting into the business of telling school districts what they should do with their cash reserves inasmuch as we don’t have any reserves of our own,” he said.

If the state would consolidate all of the school districts’ health plans, it could save $360 million over five years, the Alvarez report said.

But Tallman said that would mean some people who love their current plans would have to switch to something else.

The report recommends hiring 54 more collection officers at the Department of Revenue and filling 14 vacant auditor positions, which it estimates could bring in nearly $322 million over five years.

Ryckman said some of the recommendations can be in place by next fiscal year and that House members will begin working on crafting legislation.

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Thousands flock to celebrate pontiff By the LOS ANGELES TIMES

MORELIA, Mexico (TNS) — Alma Martinez got a call last year that made her whole body go cold. Her mom’s voice sounded shaky and harsh: “They have him,” she said, referring to Martinez’s uncle.

“But who has him?”

Martinez asked. “Los narcos,” her mother said. The narco traffickers.

Martinez, 17, traveled miles Tuesday to see and hear Pope Francis, hoping his message would bring comfort to the thousands of victims of drug-gang violence like her and her family “Something like that really hits you, you know?” she said, speaking of her uncle’s kidnapping and eventual freedom, after the family paid a ransom. “And it’s not just us — it happens to a lot of families here in Michoacan.”

The pope chose Michoacan for precisely that reason, to speak to victims of the violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in Mexico in recent years.

After urging Mexico’s political and religious leaders to take stronger stands against organized crime, Francis came to this front line of the drug war, the western state of Michoacan, where many, like Martinez, were looking to the head of the Roman Catholic Church to keep up the pressure.

Large crowds staked out spots near the cathedral to greet the pope in a festive atmosphere, as members of the state police force, wearing bulletproof vests and helmets, stood stick straight against a wall, seemingly ready to rush at any sign of violence. Soldiers with guns drawn stood guard from atop a truck painted in camouflage. Several security cameras kept watch from above the plaza.

The pope’s strongly worded speech Saturday has been widely embraced here in a region that has reached states of near-anarchy from years of drug cartel domination and government corruption.

Francis did not specifically mention the dozens of priests who have been killed, kidnapped or threatened by drug traffickers and other criminal gangs in Michoacan.

But he did allude to the larger panorama of victims, urging Mexicans to resist the despair and “resignation” that so much violence creates.

“A resignation which paralyzes us and prevents us not only from walking, but also from making the journey,” the pope said as he presided over Mass before thousands of faithful in this picturesque capital.

“A resignation which not only terrifies us ... but also thwarts our desire to take risks and to change.”

The pope returned to a common theme since his arrival in Mexico.

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often dominated by violence, corruption, drug trafficking, disregard for human dignity, and indifference in the face of suffering and vulnerability?” the pope said.

“What temptation might we suffer over and over again when faced with this reality which seems to have become a permanent system?”

In Michoacan, it is a reality that is worryingly familiar.

It struck the home of Agustina Santillan a year ago when she picked up the phone and heard a voice that sounded like her daughter’s. “Mamita, Mamita.

They’ve kidnapped me.

They’re going to kill me,” the voice said.

A man got on the line.

“We want everything you have,” he said.

Santillan, a homemaker and wife of a retired bus driver, figured it was no idle threat. Another family she knew had suffered a kidnapping for ransom. Their child had ended up dead. She headed to the bank to empty the funds from her account.

Just then, she heard from her daughter. She was OK. It had all been a sophisticated ruse by organized crime groups who have been active across Mexico, taking advantage of a population perpetually on edge.

“There’s so much violence here, we live it every day,” Santillan said as she waited for the pope’s appearance at Morelia’s central plaza.

“If I could talk to him, I would tell him that we live a life of fear.”

The plaza, the scene

of a bloody grenade attack in 2008, was heavily guarded by thousands of state and federal police forces. Throngs lined the streets, cheering and snapping pictures as the popemobile drove through the heart of the state capital.

A plaque marks the spot of the blast, which haunts many to this day.

“What I saw was so ugly, so, so ugly,” said Gerardo Padilla, who worked at Hotel Los Juaninos, which overlooks the plaza.

He can still see the images in his mind: people bleeding onto the stone plaza, a woman collapsing from shock, debris everywhere. An oppressive bleakness settled across the state, said Padilla, 33.

“Such a sadness, such a fear to leave the house,” he said. “It lasted for months.”

After Mass, the pope made a 30-minute stop at Morelia’s historic cathedral, where he met with disabled and abused children, and received the key to the city by the mayor. Many had hoped the pope would meet with child victims of drug violence, but he did not.

A running question during the pope’s trip has been whether the pontiff will meet privately at all with victims of violence, including the families of 43 college students kidnapped and presumably killed by corrupt authorities. The massacre of the students has been a steady cause of outrage in Mexico.

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via Lopez, sisters who traveled two hours by bus from Cheran to see the pope, said the pontiff ’s stop in their state no doubt has to do with its reputation for narco violence.

“It’s a serious problem,” said Nuvia, 16.

“We’re accustomed to it here, sadly.”

In their municipality west of the capital, she said, the narcos create chaos of all varieties.

A few years ago, she said they went on a treechopping spree, cutting down most of the town’s trees before trying to resell them.

Then, in April 2012 — not long before the pueblo’s annual fiesta — there was a massacre.

The narcos wanted control of a chunk of land, Leticia said. In the end, she heard, 19 people died.

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the pope, said the pontiff has already delivered a strong blow to Mexico’s politicians during his trip. In Michoacan, she said, she hopes he speaks directly to narco traffickers.

“That way these bad people — people who like to think that they are God — will hear the message: ‘Only God can take away life,’” she said. “The pope will wake these people up.”

“In any case, Tuesday was a day of celebration, not mourning.

“A pope in Michoacan?” said Raquel Arias, who came early to the cathedral for a glimpse of the pontiff. “This is history!”

Outside the cathedral’s plaza — only a few feet from the plaque commemorating the victims of the 2008 grenade attack in the plaza—someone had set up a huge set of capital letters.

“AMOR,” it read.

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Calendar

Thursday-county bus to Iola, phone 24 hours before you need a ride, 785-448-4410 any weekday; Feb. 24-Court, City Hall community room, 6 p.m.; followed by City Council meeting, 7.

School calendar

This week is National FFA Week; ThursdayFeb. 24-PTO Book Fair; Thursday-high school basketball vs. Jayhawk Linn, Senior Night; Saturday-School Carnival, 6-8 p.m.; League Forensics at Northeast-Arma; Monday-Feb. 24-ParentTeacher Conferences; Tuesday-high school basketball at Madison; Feb. 26-No school

Meal site

Friday-fish, macaroni and tomato, corn, bread, strawberries, bananas; Monday-spaghetti with meat sauce; Italian blend, bread, pears; Feb. 24-live band, Vision cards accepted-beef stew, cottage cheese with radishes and onions, crackers, sunshine fruit. Phone 620-852-3450 for meal reservations.

Christian Church

Sunday’s Scripture was John 3:22-36. Pastor Andrew Koll’s sermon was “To Make Much of Christ.”

Northcott Church

Sunday fellowship will be followed by a board meeting; On Feb. 25, Northcott Women of Faith meeting menu is “breakfast.”

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7-Eldon and Judy Wright; Birthdays-Feb. 2-Kylie Moon, 5-Jamie Cox; 12-Dian Prasko, Carl Otto; 16-Sharon Voorhees. Carl Otto’s birthday celebration was Tuesday.

UMC

A service was held Ash Wednesday at the United Methodist Church. Scripture was Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 and Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21.

Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon, “Through the Fog.” Sunday’s Scripture was Deuteronomy 26:14, Romans 10:8-12 and Luke 4:1-13. The sermon was “A Faith Like Moses.”

BOE

The Crest USD 479 Board of Education met Feb. 8 .

Middle school Scholar’s Bowl has begun. The high school Scholar’s Bowl season wrapped up at regionals at Blue Valley Randolph.

Superintendent of Schools Chuck Mahon attended a committee hearing in Topeka on HB 2504 — a proposal to realign scores of

ming have a maximum speed limit of 80 miles per hour.

Republican state Rep. John Bradford said the change would help regulations match reality, since many travelers drive faster in open country.

“Most of the traffic clearly flows at around 85 miles an hour,” Bradford said by phone Friday, as he happened to be driving on Interstate 70 toward Kansas City.

“I would tell you right now I’m sitting here driving 85 and I’m just flowing along naturally with traffic.”

“Just don’t tell the Highway Patrol,” he added, laughing.

The transportation department opposes

March celebrations

Anniversaries: March 3-Sid and Melissa Hobbs; 28-Bob and Mary Scovill; Birthdays: March 1-Cathy Allen, Brady Hobbs; 2-Denny Allen, Ralph Bunnel; 3-Robert Swift, Glen Weldin; 10-Aubrey Allen, 11-Danelle McGhee; 13-Kamryn Jones; 14-Colby McAdam; 19-Brent Luedke; 26-Thelma Culler; 30-Darren McGhee.

Around town

City Council

At their meeting Dec. 30, Colony City Council members approved a 2 percent raise for city employees. The Council also approved a cereal malt beverage license for Rick Horn, owner of Rick’s Halfway House, for 2016.

Fire Department

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For more information call 785-448-6797.

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the bill, and it’s unclear whether it would raise the speed limit if the law changes.

The Legislature most recently raised the speed limit to 75 miles per hour in 2011. The transportation department set the new speed limit for 807 miles of roadway as more than 1,000 miles were initially eligible.

Opponents say a higher speed limit could lead to more accidents and make hundreds of miles of interstate more dangerous.

“The severity of those accidents increases significantly with the more speed that you add into it,” said Lt. Adam Winters, spokesman for the Kansas Highway Patrol.

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school districts across the state. He noted the bill did not make it out of the House committee.

Technology purchases for this year will include updating the IDL classroom. High-schoolers will begin state assessment tests after spring break.

Board members voted unanimously to extend the contracts of Mahon and Crest Principal Travis Hermreck through 2017-18. Salaries will be determined later.

Legislators consider 80 mph limit TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Legislative committees are considering bills that would allow the Kansas Department of Transportation to raise the state’s highest speed limit on separated, multiple-lane highways from 75 to 80 miles per hour.

The Wichita Eagle reports that lawmakers could decide next week if one of the bills will go to the full Kansas House of Representatives.

The new limit would bring the state in line with several other sparsely populated, largely rural Western states. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says Idaho, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah and Wyo-

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Morris Luedke and Marian Wilson were crowned Valentine King and Queen at a party Friday at Windsor Place in Iola. Country music was a large component of the party. REGISTER/ALLENE LUEDKE Code Red system, residents should have battery-operated scanner radios. Local radio stations 94.5 Country and 101.5 KIKS also provide severe weather information.

Seekers Not Slackers

The monthly meeting of the Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club was Jan. 18 at the Lone Elm Community building.

The meeting was called to order by Kendra Sprague.

Kendra Hermreck and Gunner Ellington led the club in the flag salute and 4-H Pledge.

Roll call was answered by “Favorite 4-H Event” with 19 members and two leaders present.

Song leader, Hank Newton, led the club in “Home on the Range.”

During new business the club voted to participate in Model Meeting at District Club Days on Feb. 27. Club members will sell Blue and Gold Sausage until Monday.

Hank Newton demonstrated how to make no-bake protein balls.

Recreation, Candy Relay, was led by Brenton Edgerton and Trevor Church.

The meeting closed by singing “Happy Birthday” to Kendra Hermreck and members reciting the 4-H Motto.

The club also met Monday (reports are unavailable for the most

Bob Preston has purchased the late Bob and Vivian Barnett home on Oak Street.

Visiting Morris Luedke recently were Ron Luedke, Garnett; Roy Wools, Jerry Luedke, Colony, and Gary Smith, Wichita.

Sympathy goes to Roy and Linda Nilges at the death of his mother and to Kevin and Kacie Nilges for the loss of his grandmother, Grace Mary Nilges, 87, who died at Windsor Place in Iola Feb. 8.

Sympathy also goes to Shirley McGhee at the death of her husband, Gerald McGhee, 80, Sunday at Overland Park Regional Hospital. Funeral services are Friday at the First Christian Church, Iola.

Burial will follow at Colony Cemetery.

Foster Care

Committee floats trial program TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Senate committee is considering legislation that would establish an experimental foster care program in Kansas open exclusively to adults in stable marriages of at least seven years and with a minimum of one stayat-home spouse.

The Topeka CapitalJournal reports that the bill would grant foster parents in the statewide pilot program an exemption from standard licensing applicable to child care facilities.

“I believe there are many families in Kansas that do not step up to help children because they are so limited by the state,” said

Republican state Sen. Forrest Knox, who proposed the bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Knox’s bill would require foster parents in the trial program to be high school graduates and pass a background check.

Participants would also have to enforce a household ban on drinking alcohol and smoking.

The bill would also give foster parents sole discretion to determine schooling for the children in their care as well as limit the program to those active in their communities.

Thomas Witt, executive of the gay rights advocacy group Equali-

ty Kansas, is concerned about limiting the program to people who have been in a stable marriage for at least seven years. Kansas same-sex couples were prohibited from marrying or to have out-ofstate marriage licenses recognized by the state until last year.

“We believe the seven-year standard may violate equal protection provisions of both the Kansas and United States constitutions,” Witt said. “Native Kansans in committed, long-lasting relationships, who waited patiently for the years, in many cases decades, for marriage equality will be denied access.”

ADAMS SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS FOR 2016-2017 ARE NOW AVAILABLE

To apply, an applicant must be A graduate of an Allen County, Kansas, high school, including those students who will graduate in the spring of 2016, and A student in one of these three areas: (1) Teaching — in the fall of 2016 must be at least a junior in a four-year university located in the State of Kansas AND (1) be currently admitted or will have been admitted to the university’s School of Education (or its equivalent title) or (2) is in a teacher education program as defined by the university.

(2) Bookkeeping — in a post-secondary Kansas educational institution.

(3) Carpentry — in a post-secondary Kansas educational institution.

See scholarship application and instructions for definitions and conditions of each of these scholarships.

Each scholarship for the fall semester of 2016-2017 will be a minimum amount of $1,000.00; the amount for subsequent semesters will be determined each semester.

For a copy of the application and of the rules and conditions of these scholarships, contact: Clyde W. Toland Trustee of the Adams Scholarship Fund P.O. Box 404 Iola, KS 66749 (620) 365-8006 Application deadline is April 28, 2016.

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security at its shelter.

Hope Unlimited shelters abused women and children. More than 200 children, infant to 18, are served annually.

The organization also coordinates services for children removed from dangerous circumstances in their homes.

The shelter’s services are provided round the clock, Michelle Meiwes told commissioners on Jan. 19.

AT BEHEST of Commissioner Jim Talkington, the county will take a closer look at utilities at the county airport two miles southeast of Iola, with an eye on industrial development.

Mitch Garner, who managed the airport before taking Public Works reins last summer, said electric, gas and water main lines are adjacent, and that upgraded electric supply probably could be done without too much effort.

Gas and water may be another story, Garner said, because current lines aren’t designed to meet heavy demand.

The airport, and a number of acres now

used for agriculture, could give the county an ace up its sleeve in industrial recruitment.

The Ray Pershall Industrial Park on North State Street doesn’t have an abundance of open space and other areas, including those owned by Iola Industries, might not be as attractive as a site on the airport property.

However, no immediate plans are in place to do more than investigate what is available and what could be done to make the rural site better suited for a prospect.

In a related matter, commissioners are eager for economic development efforts spearheaded by David Toland, director of Thrive Allen County, to forge ahead aggressively.

Allen County, Iola and Iola Industries each has contributed $20,000 a year to fund countrywide economic development.

The new unit costs $178,485, with trade, from American Response Vehicles, Columbia, Mo. The unit will be stationed in Iola until its seven-year or 70,000-mile warranty expires, which will keep it from making many long-distance transfers to metropolitan hospitals.

— Dealt with two computer and information issues.

An annual contract with Advantage Computer to maintain the county’s system was renewed for $1,200 a year — a retainer that gives the county priority service — and $75 an hour. The company does weekly checks and maintenance for the county.

Computer Information Concepts, Greeley, Colo., will provide comprehensive data support for $4,605 upfront ad $700 a year.

The company will seamlessly and securely up- and download such things as payroll and voucher and budget information at the click of a mouse. Before, information had to loaded manually after being assembled.

IN OTHER news, commissioners: — Looked over a new ambulance for countywide service through the Iola Fire Department.

U.S. flies jets over S. Korea OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (AP) — Four of the most advanced U.S. fighter jets flew over South Korea today in a show of force against North Korea, a day after South Korea’s president warned of the North’s collapse amid a standoff over its nuclear and missile ambitions.

The stealthy, hightech F-22 planes capable of sneaking past radar undetected landed at Osan Air Base near Seoul after the flyover escorted by other U.S. and South Korean fighter jets.

Pyongyang will likely view the arrival of the planes flown from a U.S. base in Japan as a threat as they are a display of U.S. airpower apparently aimed at showing what the United States can do to defend its ally South Korea from potential aggression from North Korea.

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trauma recovery services, individual and group counseling, family conflict resolution and more.

Kim Bowers, who opened Solid Ground’s main office, in Burlington, nearly four years ago, hopes to duplicate that location’s success in Iola.

But it wasn’t on a whim that Bowers chose Iola. Solid Ground arrived in large part to fill the void created when Preferred Family Healthcare vacated the scene last summer.

PFH, during its run in Iola, provided essential, and mandatory, outpatient services to participants in the 31st Judicial District’s successful drug court program.

“So [Chief Judge Daniel] Creitz was looking for someone else to come in to provide intensive outpatient services,” explained Bowers. “Right now, it’s really hard to get assessments in a timely manner. You’re supposed to have them done within about a week. Currently, they’re running at about six weeks for an assessment. After [PFH] left — because the [Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center] was so busy — it became a very lengthy process to get an assessment.”

Bowers is sympathetic to the financial duress that PFH claimed to have encountered during their tenure in Iola.

“The only part that offends me is that the community here was told [by PFH]: ‘We’re leaving, because there aren’t enough addicts here to serve.’ That is absolutely not true. And that became apparent to me the first week we were in Iola — the number of families struggling here is heart-wrenching.

“But that was [PFH’s] explanation of why they couldn’t make ends meet,” continued Bowers. “It is hard to make it in this field…but to tell a community that is struggling so much, especially with meth-

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amphetamine addiction; to look at them and tell them there’s not enough business — well, they were owed more of an explanation than that.”

IT’S MORE than an idle complaint on Bowers’ part. Her frustration runs deeper, born largely of the fact that when PFH left, they took much of the funding with them.

In 2007, the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services selected a privately held managed care company called ValueOptions (currently merging with Beacon Health Strategies) to oversee the delivery of grant funds intended — in Bower’s words — “for those who live in poverty and do not have insurance but are in need of treatment for substance abuse.”

PFH was a stateapproved provider for ValueOptions.

Solid Ground, which arrived in Iola last month to do much of the same outpatient work, has been denied those funds.

“I am told no new providers will be allowed to enroll in this program for at least another two years while [the state] figures out how to reorganize the program,” reflects Bowers, who has appealed first-hand to representatives from KDADS. “It’s not that they can’t open that up to us,” says Bowers, “it’s that the state chooses not to.”

According to Bowers, the only agency in Allen and Neosho counties allowed to be a ValueOptions provider is the mental health center.

But, explains Bowers, the mental health center

does “not provide intensive outpatient services” — defined as a minimum of nine hours of treatment per week — “and has no plans to offer intensive outpatient treatment in the future.

“So, now, those in poverty, who have no other insurance and have drug addictions, will have to leave the area in order to get anything other than one to two hours of treatment a week.”

And access to transportation, points out Bowers, is hardly a given in many of these cases.

“The governor has highlighted these two counties, Allen and Neosho, as two of the 17 worst in the state of Kansas for addiction and poverty, and yet we’re not allowed to pick up those same services as [PFH] did. ... We’ve sat with the state and asked them: ‘What about these people that need intensive outpatient treatment, who need more than a couple hours a week?’ And they’ve said: ‘We don’t know yet.’” expertise doesn’t end at substance abuse treatment. She worked for years as a domestic violence advocate, before entering graduate school at Emporia State University, where she specialized in post-traumatic stress disorder recovery.

As for the sort of person who walks through Solid Ground’s front door: “Sometimes it’s a probation or parole officer, sometimes it’s a parent dragging a teenager in, sometimes it’s a spouse that says either you get help or the marriage is over.

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come in who have just lost a child, saying ‘I just don’t know what to do.’

If somebody walks in and they are struggling, we’re not going to say ‘OK, six weeks before your first appointment.’

“My whole thing,” says Bowers, “is when somebody walks in the door, we tell them ‘Tell us what you need and we’ll tell you if we can serve you.’

“I don’t solve their problems,” said Bowers, laying emphasis on the first word. “I sit and listen to them until they realize that they’re strong enough to solve their own problems.”

BOWERS grew up one of three sisters in “a family full of law enforcement officers,” in Phillipsburg, a small town on the far-west edge of the Smoky Hills.

She moved to Burlington with her husband Daniel, who is an engineer at the Wolf Creek power plant and the person Bowers calls her biggest supporter. The good-natured engineer sat next to Bowers as she spoke.

“When I decided to open Solid Ground in Burlington, his comment was: ‘I don’t care if you make a dime, as long as the people get what they need.’”

Daniel’s expression wrinkled briefly in incredulity. “OK,” amended Bowers, laughing, “he’d like for me to make a dime. But he’s never pressured me, and he’s known since the outset that, in moving the addiction part of Solid Ground to Iola, our biggest hope is to break even. He knows that. That’s just the way it is in this field. But, you know, there’s a lot to be said about doing the right thing.”

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Tech: Planning Continued from A1

community colleges to develop vocationalstyle classes to be offered at the old Diebolt Lumber buildings.

A subcommittee was formed Tuesday to hammer out logistics for initial class offerings, USD 257 Superintendent of Schools Jack Koehn told the Register.

“What we’d really like is for each of the community colleges to have at least one class going this fall,” Koehn said. “That way we can work things out” before the tech ed center expands.

The colleges still are huddling to determine which classes they can offer.

The subcommittee will look at such things as ensuring the Diebolt facilities are up to code in order to serve as classrooms in the fall; what type of equipment needs to

be secured; and funding sources to get that equipment.

The tech ed center would provide more extensive instruction than introductory industrial arts classes offered at each high school. Some classes would be dual credit, in which students would earn both high school and college credits for the same coursework.

Other courses also would provide more specific certification.

The end goal is to make high school graduates more marketable to the workforce upon graduation.

The facilities will be leased to the community colleges by LaHarpe businessman Ray Maloney, who purchased much of the Diebolt property earlier this year. Maloney has been an ardent supporter of a tech ed center in southeast Kansas.

Hammer: A hit Continued from A1

a staple in metal forcing factories until the development of rolling mills, with water providing the turning force for the cam.

Walden’s hammer, conversely, uses a small electronic motor shipped from China.

Walden hesitated when asked how long it took him to finish the hammer.

“I don’t keep track of time,” he responded. “I just keep busy.”

He is uncertain where he will take his hammer. He’s considered donating it to USD 257. He also wonders if it could find a home in the yet-to-open technical

education center at the old Diebolt Lumber buildings in LaHarpe.

Perhaps an industrial arts teacher might consider a class project in which students create their own, Walden suggested. The project could entail physics (designing the cam takes longer than it looks, he admits), history about the hammer’s use through the years, and of course woodworking skills.

Walden also has set his sights on his next potential project.

“I’m not sure what I’ll make next,” he said. “Maybe a guillotine.”

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Opinion A5 The Iola Register

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

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Time to get off merry-go-round of school funding State leaders underfund public education. Districts sue. Courts order the state to pay more. State leaders balk, then relent, then restart the cycle by failing to keep up with their constitutional obligations and schools’ costs. And round and round it goes.

Kansans would like to exit this ride, for which they pay coming, going and during. That queasy feeling is worse this time, because of the state’s precarious fiscal condition.

The latest inevitable loss for the state came Thursday, with the Kansas Supreme Court’s decision that last year’s hastily passed block grant funding law does not distribute money equitably among districts and that lawmakers must fix it by June 30 or else the court will close schools.

That brought the usual defiant bluster at the Statehouse about “activist” judges having a “temper tantrum” and “bullying” appropriators, raising the appalling possibility that the executive and legislative branches might ignore the high court’s order.

The denunciations last week were as fiery as those a decade ago, when multiple legislative fights, a similar shutdown threat and a special session led to a schools bill that satisfied the high court and, in its view, complied with the constitution.

The problem was, that legislative answer didn’t identify any new and certain revenue for the stepped-up school funding. When the economy cratered, schools saw cuts along with every

other state-funded service.

Then Gov. Sam Brownback and the 2012 Legislature slashed state income taxes, all but forgetting the state’s duties to schools under the court-ordered remedy. Now there is little cash on hand, for schools or anything else.

Though the court didn’t specify a figure that would restore equity to school financing statewide, estimates start at $50 million.

And the main part of the districts’ Gannon lawsuit, concerning adequacy of funding, remains pending; a three-judge panel at the district court level suggested that remedy could reach $548 million.

As the House and Senate each debated and passed budget fixes last week postponing any response to the court it was striking to hear lawmakers of both parties voice worry about the state’s finances and distrust of the Brownback administration’s management of them.

There was bipartisan heartburn about the relentless diversion of transportation funds, the dangerous understaffing and other problems at Osawatomie and Larned state hospitals, and the proposed scheme to give the governor “flexibility” by delaying state contributions to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System.

Trust may be as weak in Topeka as the state’s cash flow. But the sure losers in a constitutional crisis and K-12 shutdown would be children, communities and the state’s economy and reputation.

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by Mrs. Don Morrell. ***** The Braum Ice Cream Co., Emporia, which has 22 stores in Kansas, will open the Peter Pan Ice Cream store at 4 N. Washington tomorrow. This is the building that was occupied for many years by the Anderson Shoe Store. It then was purchased

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Rise and fall of Scott Tucker a sobering tale Two area businessmen and a lawyer who became very rich very quickly by tricking low-income consumers with sky-high fees and interest rates on online loans finally face criminal charges.

About the time Scott Tucker, Richard Moseley and lawyer Timothy Muir were making court appearances in this area on Wednesday, officials in New York unsealed indictments describing elaborate usury schemes that took place openly and in polite society in Kansas City.

“The Tucker Payday Lending Organization was an organized criminal group with leadership based in Overland Park, Kan., and that operated throughout the United States,” one indictment stated.

About Moseley, FBI official Diego Rodriguez said in a press statement, “This case is an example of predatory lending at its finest.”

At its worst, actually. The federal indictments detail huge enterprises that for years got away with making loans to people in desperate circumstances, then claiming much more than the value of the loans in interest and fees.

And they aren’t the only ones. Tucker’s early success in Internet lending spurred a host of copycat businesses in this area.

The boom years saw a number of newly rich lenders purchasing Johnson County mansions and luxury vehicles. The ill-gotten riches even flowed into Catholic parish and school projects.

In August 2013, U.S. Reps.

Kevin Yoder of Kansas and Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri were lead signers of a letter to then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, protesting his efforts to stop banks from processing online payday loans. Not surprisingly, both GOP congressmen, as well as Republican U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins of Kansas, are among the top House recipients of payday loan donations.

But nobody around Kansas City is flashing the largess of predatory lending these days.

At least eight area business-

men, apart from Tucker and Moseley, are under inve s t i g a t i o n by federal agencies.

The noxious operations, which once em- Scott Tucker ployed hundreds of people in the area, closed so quickly and quietly it was as though they evaporated.

The support structure that provided investment capital and technical expertise to the online lenders reportedly is seeking more legitimate opportunities in area start-up businesses.

The indictments of Tucker, Moseley and Muir, Tucker’s lawyer, shed light on the scale of the enterprises and why it took so long to hold people accountable.

Tucker and Muir ran a $2 billion business that Tucker started as early as 1997, authorities allege. It preyed on more than 4.5 million people.

The business operated under a dizzying array of names.

Tucker’s great scam was to convince Indian tribes to shield him by allowing him to represent himself as one of their “employees.” That enabled him to elude enforcement efforts of attorneys general in multiple states.

Moseley deceived about 600,000 persons with highinterest loans, the indictment against him alleges. He, too, operated his business under multiple names and he falsely claimed, even to his attorneys, that the loans were being made by employees stationed in Nevis, a Caribbean island, and New Zealand. The business was run from Kansas City.

A shocking allegation in the indictment is that many of the people Moseley is accused of defrauding never even asked for a loan. They provided some crucial information to a “lead generator” website, enabling the operation to get into their bank accounts and withdraw money.

Moseley, Tucker and Muir

are accused of violating federal racketeering laws as well as the U.S. Truth in Lending Act. But they also broke usury laws in multiple states, officials allege.

One reason the indictments came out of the U.S. attorney’s office in New York City is that New York has a criminal law setting a lending limit at 25 percent annual interest. With that stringent cap, authorities had no difficulty establishing that the online payday loan businesses were violating consumer protections.

Enforcement is more difficult in Kansas and especially Missouri, where the average annual interest rate on payday loans is an outrageous 455 percent.

Attorney General Chris Koster took action a year ago against an online loan operator who broke Missouri law by charging excessive fees and denying due legal process for collecting overdue costs. In general, though, payday lending is an open field in Missouri.

Federal authorities are now swooping in to seize what they claim are proceeds of the alleged crimes of Kansas City’s audacious online lenders.

They are looking to clean out numerous bank accounts controlled by Tucker, as well as acquire his Colorado vacation home, six Ferrari race cars, four Porsche automobiles and a Learjet.

The collapse of Kansas City’s payday loan bubble under the squeeze of federal enforcement has broken up families and caused rifts in churches, country clubs and executive suites.

Too many people and institutions here were too quick to embrace the new “entrepreneurs” when they showed up with fancy cars and quick cash. Too many people didn’t want to think about the misery at the other end, as consumers were harassed to pay interest and fees they couldn’t possibly afford.

Now it’s payday, all right.

And it should serve as a cautionary tale.

— The Kansas City Star

How to contact your elected officials

President Barack Obama, (Democrat) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington D.C., 20500; phone (switchboard): (202) 456-1414; (comments): (202) 4561111

Gov. Sam Brownback, (Republican) Capital, 300 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 212S, Topeka, KS 66612-1590; phone: (785) 2963232; www.governor. ks.gov/comments/comment.htm

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, (Republican) 109 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-4774; Email: www.roberts. senate.gov/public/index. cfm?p=EmailPat

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, (Republican) Russell Senate Office Building, Room 354, Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-6521; Pittsburg: 306 N. Broadway, Suite 125, Pittsburg, KS, 66762; (620) 232-2286. Email: moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry

Rep. Lynn Jenkins, (Republican) 130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C., 20515; phone: (202) 225-6601; Pittsburg: 701 N. Broadway, Pittsburg, KS 66762; phone: (620) 231-5966. Email: lynnjenkins.house.gov/ contact-me/

Sen. Caryn Tyson, (Republican) State Capitol-236 E Topeka, KS 66612 phone: (785) 2966838; e-mail: caryn. tyson@senate.ks.gov or 19984 County Rd. 1077 Parker, KS 66072 phone: (913) 898-2366

Rep. Kent Thompson, (Republican) House District No. 9, phone: (620) 496-7200 State Capitol, Room 050-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, or phone: 620-496-2255 1816 2800 St., LaHarpe, KS 66751 email: kent@iolare. kscoxmail.com

Rep. Adam Lusker, (Democrat) House District No. 2, phone: (785) 2967698 State Capitol, Room 043-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, email: adam.lusker@ house.ks.gov

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South Carolina: High stakes for GOP candidates

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Marco Rubio are locked in a highstakes political chess match in South Carolina, strategically moving money and other campaign resources around in a bid to pull ahead in the Republican primary race — or at least keep their campaigns afloat if they don’t.

The maneuvering comes as some Republican leaders fear Donald Trump or Ted Cruz will begin piling up the delegates needed to secure the nomination before one of the more traditional candidates can concentrate the support of voters turned off by the brash billionaire and fiery Texas senator, who so-called establishment Republicans believe could jeopardize the party’s chances of winning in November’s general election.

“We do need to get the field down to Trump, Cruz and somebody,” said Henry Barbour, a Republican National Committee heavyweight from Mississippi. “New Hampshire tried, but it’s clear as mud.”

Indeed, the only thing that is clear heading into Saturday’s South Carolina primary appears to be Trump’s grip on the lead. Cruz, the winner of the Iowa caucuses,

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Riverview Park Activity Center Tuesday in North Augusta, S.C. TNS/ OLIVIER DOULIERY

is also in the mix for a strong finish.

But the more mainstream lane populated by Bush, Kasich and Rubio is more jumbled. Bush’s campaign now sees an opening to capitalize on Rubio’s fifth-place finish in New Hampshire, while Kasich’s strong second-place showing there has given him reason to keep his campaign going. Rubio’s team, meanwhile, is quietly confident that South Carolina will prove to be a comeback story for the Florida senator.

Kasich’s finish in New Hampshire has scrambled what might have been a do-or-die contest between Bush and Rubio in South Carolina. After initially viewing the first-in-the-South primary as too much of a long-shot for a moderate Midwesterner, Kasich

abruptly changed his schedule this week and announced plans to campaign in South Carolina almost every day until Saturday’s primary.

The newly confident Ohio governor also recently put a small batch of ads on television in South Carolina — something he hadn’t planned until after his New Hampshire success.

“Exceeding expectations is why we’re there,” Kasich spokesman Chris Schrimpf said.

For Kasich, exceeding expectations would be to finish ahead of Bush, the former Florida governor. Bush has deep family ties to South Carolina — his father and brother each won two Republican primaries here — and a poor showing Saturday could leave him without a compelling rationale to keep his

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Wildcats end conference road streak

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Kansas State coach Bruce Weber decided accentuating the positive was the best way to finally end a Big 12 road losing streak that lasted 13 months.

Weber showed his struggling Wildcats a highlight film of their top plays before

Tuesday night’s game at TCU. They went out and beat TCU 63-49 led by Justin Edwards’ 17 points.

Kansas State (15-11, 4-9) last won a conference road game on Jan. 10, 2015 at Oklahoma.

“We said, ‘Hey, this is you,’” Weber said of the self-scouting report. “‘You can be this good.

You can play this way,’ I don’t know if it helped or not. They just kept fighting through.

“The last thing I wrote on the board — ‘Do what you do and do it well.’ That’s what we tried to show ’em on that tape.”

The Wildcats improved their road record this season

to 2-7. Their other win came at Georgia on Dec. 4.

Edwards returned to the starting lineup after coming off the bench for three games.

Barry Brown added 16 points and Dean Wade 4 for the Wildcats.

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TCU’s Malique Trent (3) goes for a steal against Barry Brown (5) in Tuesday’s game. Steve

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Marmaton Valley gets close win

Iola’s Colbi Riley breaks away from defense in Tuesday’s 39-25 win over Osawatomie. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

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Iola’s Ashlie Shields shoots jump shot as three Osawatomie attempt to close out on her in Iola’s 39-25 win. REGISTER/JON

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OSAWATOMIE — When the Iola girls basketball team went into the locker room for halftime clinging to a one-point lead against Osawatomie, they knew they were capable of much more and in the second half they showed it on the way to a 39-25 road win.

“We just needed to get it done and get out there,” Iola forward Toni Macha said.

“It was kind of rough at the beginning but we did get it done.”

The Iola girls team has been short-handed the past couple of weeks as point guard Sydney Wade continues to recover from a highankle sprain.

“She is still kind of stiff,”

Iola coach Becky Carlson said of Wade. “We are hoping (she can return) next week.”

Last week, forward Toni Macha also missed a game and was slowed in another with illness.

“I was pretty excited to be back with my team and back in it with everybody,” Macha said.

On Tuesday, it was starting wing Ashlie Shields who was under the weather.

Senior Olivia Bannister started in place of Shields even though Shields was able to play in the game.

“It takes a lot of teamwork to pull through with everyone sick and the upperclassmen are stepping up,” Macha said.

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Extra second comes back to bite Mustangs

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

OSAWATOMIE — One free throw. One rebound. One foul.

One shot. One second.

If any of these things would have gone differently for the Mustangs, the outcome in Osawatomie may have been very different. But instead, the Mustangs came home on Tuesday night with a stinging 69-59 overtime loss to the Trojans.

“Our kids played hard,” Iola coach Jay Applegate said. “I’m really proud of them.”

With 35 seconds left in regulation, the pivotal foul occurred.

Trojans’ guard Derek Manes drove to the basket and was fouled by sophomore

Evan Sigg. It was Sigg’s fifth foul and now the Mustangs were without their second most productive big man and one of their top rebounders.

Sigg finished with 10 points.

“Ethan (Holloway) and Sigg did a great job rebounding,” Applegate said. “They rebounded like men.”

Manes went 0-for-2 from the charity stripe, but junior Trojan Robby Joeckel got the jump on everybody and grabbed inside position on the miss.

Joeckel snagged the rebound and called timeout with what appeared to be 30 seconds on the clock. However, during the stoppage in play, the officials went to the score table to talk to the scoreboard operator.

As the timeout ended, the clock was changed to read 31.7 seconds. One second was added to the clock at the officials request.

“They didn’t stop it soon enough,” Applegate said, explaining why the time was added.

The Mustangs fouled Trevor Ballou as he drove the lane coming out of the timeout.

The 6-2 junior nailed both of his foul shots to cut the deficit to 53-52.

Mustangs guard Isaiah Fawson was fouled with 19 seconds remaining and the junior stepped to the line and hit both free throws to again put the margin at three.

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Iola’s Chase Regehr is fouled in Tuesday’s 69-59 loss. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

MORAN — Marmaton Valley High’s girls took care of business Tuesday, knocking off visiting Chetopa 34-27.

It wasn’t the prettiest victory, head coach Gavin Cole acknowledged.

“Defensively, I thought we played very well for the second straight game,” Cole said. “Offensively, I thought we got a lot of good looks, but we didn’t do a great job of finishing them.”

Marmaton Valley also was a cool 6 of 13 from the foul line.

Still, Mackenzie Tynon’s offense was enough to pave the way.

Tynon poured in 18 points as the Wildcats took the lead in the second quarter and maintained that advantage from there.

The game was knotted 9-9 after one period. Marmaton Valley led 22-16 at the break.

Neither team did much after the break.

“I thought we could’ve pulled away from them in the third quarter if we would have knocked down some easy ones,” Cole said.

Kyla Drake added 5 points, while Magie Stevenson scored 4. Brooklyn Newman had 3 and Taryn Covey and Shayla Brooks 2 apiece.

The varsity boys did not play because Chetopa does not have sufficient numbers to field a team.

Marmaton Valley returns home Friday to host Pleasanton for its sweetheart night.

ACC starts 2-0 The Allen Community College softball team had a perfect opening day when they hosted Ottawa University’s junior varsity for a doubleheader. The Red Devils came away with a 2-0 record.

The first game was a nailbiter for the Red Devils as they jumped out to a 4-0 lead after one inning but wound up having to hang on for a 6-5 win.

Baileigh Rager was the star of the day for her Red Devils.

Not only did the pitcher come in and record the save by getting the final four outs, but she also went 2-for 3 at the plate with a home run and a double to go with a pair of RBIs. The Allen power didn’t end there. Ashley Womack and Mykenna Sharp-Hadl each had a home run as part of their two hits.

The second game was more relaxed for the Red Devils.

They were able to secure a 10-2 lead.

An eight-run second inning broke the game open and again it was Sharp-Hadl with a big day at the plate. She went 2-for2 with three RBIs. Both of her hits were doubles.

The ACC women now take their show on the road as they head to Fort Worth, Texas, for the weekend to compete in the Cowtown Classic.

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Officials battle doubts over major bond deal TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration worked Tuesday to counter Kansas legislators’ misgivings about an effort to lure the annual American Royal horse and livestock exhibition to the state from the Missouri side of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

A recent Kansas Department of Commerce report obtained by The Associated Press said the proposed development in Wyandotte County “is assumed� to include a total of 15 projects, including a new hotel, children’s museum and 5,000-seat hockey arena. The report doesn’t include a total price tag, but also describes retail stores, restaurants and outdoor farming exhibits for children.

A top department official told legislators Tuesday that potential details are “just speculation.�

Brownback’s budget director said the state wouldn’t give up any existing sales tax revenues to pay off the bonds for such a project — countering concerns from GOP lawmakers seeking to block the effort.

Sen. Jim Denning, an Overland Park Republican critical of the project, said he believes it was “almost executed� until lawmakers started raising questions. “They’re trying to dig themselves out of a hole,� he said of the administration.

Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary Steve Kelly was asked about the project during a legislative hearing Tuesday morning, but said no firm plans were close to being adopted. He and other agency officials were at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing to give an annual report on a bonding program that could be used to pay for the project. “We’re speculating on plans that, as I understand it, have evolved a number of times,� Kelly said dur-

ing the hearing.

Department of Commerce spokeswoman Nicole Randall said state law bars the agency from commenting on potential projects.

The American Royal issued an email statement Tuesday saying “we have been exploring options for our future location that will support our mission to promote agriculture excellence and youth education.� It said it had no further details.

But Shawn Sullivan, Brownback’s budget director, told The Associated Press that the new development would be a “stand-alone� project, with sales tax generated by only its attractions paying off any debt.

Denning said, “It sounds like they’re trying to backpedal and tell us what we want to hear.�

A few lawmakers were surprised to learn that the project includ-

Kansas legislators have included a provision in budget legislation to block Brownback’s administration from authorizing bonds for the American Royal project under a special state program in which sales tax revenues collected in a development district pay off the debt within 20 years.

Mike Taylor, a spokesman for Wyandotte County, said discussions began about six months ago. “It is not Wyandotte County’s project,� Taylor said. “It is a project the state and the American Royal approached us about.�

Kansas legislators have included a provision in budget legislation to block Brownback’s administration from authorizing bonds for the American Royal project under a special state program in which sales tax revenues collected in a development district pay off the debt within 20 years.

With state backing, Wyandotte County issued $450 million in such bonds starting in 2001 for a now-thriving entertainment and shopping district surrounding a NASCAR track, Kansas Speedway.

Officials expect those bonds to be paid off by the end of this year.

Legislators in both parties have said Kansas was set to tap sales tax revenues generated in that area to back the bonds for a nearby American Royal development, costing the state $42 million a year.

ed a hotel, a children’s museum and an arena for a team in the United States Hockey League, which grooms young players for college and professional play.

Kelly said the bonding program is used for major attractions that have large upfront costs that would discourage private developers. “The primary objective is destination tourism,� Kelly told lawmakers during Tuesday’s hearing.

Founded in 1899, the American Royal runs nearly 11 weeks from early September into the week of Thanksgiving. It includes a parade, horse and livestock shows, and a national barbecue competition.

Its website says it draws more than 270,000 visitors a year, and the Kansas Department of Commerce report projects attendance growing to 350,000 four years after a move.

The report anticipates the new, 5,000-seat arena being used both for hockey and agricultural events. The report also said the children’s museum would draw at least 100,000 visitors a year and the hotel could have 140 rooms.

GOP lawmakers seek Senate chairwoman’s reinstatement TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — More than 40 Republican legislators asked the Kansas Senate’s top leader Tuesday to reinstate the former chairwoman of the chamber’s health committee, while GOP lawmakers tried to dampen talk of a serious rift.

Seventeen of the Senate’s 32 Republicans signed a letter asking President Susan Wagle to reconsider her decision last week to remove fellow GOP Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, of Shawnee, as chairwoman of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee.

The signers included Majority Leader Terry Bruce, of Nickerson — which signals a split among top Republicans that’s been evident in the Statehouse for months.

Twenty-six of the House’s 97 Republican members signed a separate but identical letter, led by Rep. Brett Hildabrand, of Shawnee, whose district overlaps with Pilcher-Cook’s. That letter is notable because

it is unusual for one chamber’s lawmakers to publicly intervene in the internal workings of the other.

Pilcher-Cook was removed as committee chairwoman Friday, days after Pilcher-Cook’s at-

doubt she is a person of conviction,� both letters said of Pilcher-Cook. “We respectfully ask you to reconsider your recent actions.�

Bruce said the senators’ letter resulted from concerns about Wagle’s

[Sen. Mary] Pilcher-Cook has said she was trying to force a debate on expanding Medicaid in hopes of killing the idea....

[While Senate President Susan] Wagle has said Pilcher-Cook was flouting the chamber’s rules.

tempt to force a Senate debate on a proposal to expand the state’s Medicaid coverage for poor and needy residents as encouraged by the federal health care overhaul.

Both are critics of the federal law, but Wagle said the attempt was disrespectful to the chamber. “Though we may not agree with every position she has taken on every issue, there is little

move, particularly because it came at the end of the fifth week of the Legislature’s annual session. Sen. Michael O’Donnell, a Wichita Republican who was appointed to replace Pilcher-Cook as leader of the health committee, signed the letter, too. “I see it as a diplomatic way of bridging a rift between two people we hold in high esteem,� Bruce said.

Pilcher-Cook is among the Legislature’s most conservative members, a strong abortion opponent and an outspoken critic of the federal health care overhaul championed by Democratic President Barack Obama. Wagle also is a conservative.

Pilcher-Cook has said she was trying to force a debate on expanding Medicaid in hopes of killing the idea, and she accused Wagle of hiding personal support for “Obamacare expansion.�

Hildabrand called removing Pilcher-Cook as chairwoman “unfair treatment.�

Wagle has said PilcherCook was flouting the chamber’s rules. And Senate Vice President Jeff King, an Independence Republican, said those chamber’s rules are applied fairly, without political considerations.

King didn’t sign the senators’ letter and said he favors “anything� that prompts senators “to talk and work together.� “We don’t need a document to do that,� he said.

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Mustangs: Iola drops heartbreaker on road to Osawatomie Continued from B1

Another Mustangs’ foul again stopped the clock and put Osawatomie’s Riley England on the line. England only made one of two and the lead was at 2.

Iola point guard Ben Cooper got fouled with 10 seconds left and went to the free throw line with a chance to seal the win with two makes or make the Trojans have to hit a three with one make.

Cooper missed both and hope was still alive for Osawatomie.

“Free throws and being impatient on offense probably was our Achilles’ heel,” Applegate said.

Ballou took the ball to the basket again, but this time the Mustangs avoided any fouls and Ballou missed the layup.

Ballou grabbed his own miss and quickly put the ball back up as the buzzer sounded.

The ball flicked through the net and the game was extended by 4 minutes.

Joeckel opened the overtime session with a basket to put the Trojans in front. Fawson quickly answered with an and-one play and the Mustangs were back in the lead.

Fawson fouled out on the next possession though as England responded with a 3-point play of his own.

Fawson finished the night with 19 points.

Cooper made one-oftwo free throws on the next possession to cut the lead to 60-59, but those were the last points Iola would score and after

nine more Osawatomie points the final buzzer sounded and a dejected Mustang squad headed for the locker room.

“This is a step forward for us,” Applegate said. “We really, really took it hard that we lost this game and you don’t take it that hard unless you really wanted it and worked your butt off to get it and we did that.”

England led the Trojans with 21 points while Noah Cole added 20, including 10 in the fourth quarter.

The Mustangs are out of action for a week until they take on Wellsville at home next Tuesday.

THE IOLA junior varsity dropped a heartbreaker as well with 3634 loss to Osawatomie.

The Mustangs were

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never able to fully recover from their poor start.

They fell behind 9-4 after the first quarter.

That lead grew to seven at the end of the third and their fourth quarter rally fell just short.

Evan Sigg led Iola with 10 points while Braden Plumlee added eight points. Mason Ingle rounded out the leading scorers with seven points.

Colton Bradley led the Trojans with 10 points.

IN THE FRESHMAN game, Iola was able to cruise to a 50-19 win.

Kane Rogers led the Mustangs with 14 points.

Dylan Doolittle added 11 points for the winning side.

Derek Bycroft scored nine and Cole Regehr dropped eight.

Iola sophomore forward Ethan Holloway loads up to make a move on on Osawatomie sophomore Noah Cole during Tuesday’s 69-59 overtime loss. REGISTER/

JON DYKSTRA

Fillies: Team rolls to easy win over Trojans Continued from B1

TCU’s Devonta Abron (23) tries shoot over Kansas State’s Justin Edwards (14) during the first half on Tuesday. Steve Nurenberg/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS

K-State: beats TCU Continued from B1

Malique Trent led the Horned Frogs (11-15, 2-11) with 11 points and grabbed seven rebounds.

TCU squandered a chance to escape the conference cellar and move into a three-way tie for eighth place.

The Wildcats won despite shooting only 38.8 percent, holding the Frogs to 32.7 percent.

TCU, last in conference scoring at 60.5 points going into the game, failed to break 50 for the second straight game. The Frogs lost 73-42 at West Virginia on Saturday.

“It’s contagious and it’s tough when things aren’t going well, but there’s no secret to it,” Frogs coach Trent Johnson said. “The responsibility’s on me to get this thing to where they’re playing right. Our fan base deserves better.”

TCU’s Chauncey Collins was 3-for-13 shooting and finished with nine points after equaling a career-high 20 at West Virginia last Saturday.

He said the players aren’t on the same page.

“Sometimes we’re not ready to compete, not ready to play,” Collins said.

The 14-point win was Kansas State’s largest since it beat Oklahoma State 89-73 on Jan. 23.

Brown, a freshman, was 4 for 6 from 3-point range. He hit all four of his field-goal attempts in the first nine minutes, including three 3s, and had 11 first-half points.

“Maybe TCU won’t be the biggest game we’ll play, but we were pretty hyped for the game,” Brown said. “We were

yelling in the locker room before the game.

I suppose that carries over.”

The Wildcats built a 26-11 lead nine minutes in, outshooting the Frogs 61.5 percent to 27.3. To that point, TCU had more field goals made from behind the arc (2 for 6) than inside it (1 for 6).

The Frogs cut a 13-point deficit to nine points with 13:59 left in the second half but got no closer. Kansas State’s 17-point lead midway through the second half was its largest of the game.

SICK BAY K-State’s D.J. Johnson was limited to four points and three rebounds in 16 minutes because of sickness. “He couldn’t even do shootaround,” Weber said. “I didn’t think he’d play.”

FOUL TERRITORY TCU center Chris Washburn picked up his second foul after only 3:05 and sat the rest of the first half. He finished with no points, three blocks and two rebounds in 16 minutes.

TIP-INS Kansas State: The Wildcats got only seven bench points. . Wesley Iwundu went into the game leading K-State averaging 12.4 points but scored only five points, on 1-for-10 shooting.

TCU: The Frogs outscored K-State 24-22 in the paint but hit only three of 16 3-pointers. . Karviar Shepherd returned after missing two games with a sore knee.

Without Wade and with Shields limited, the Fillies had an upand-down opening half and only took a 17-16 into the half.

“In the first half we just kind of played and we talked about it at halftime, not waiting for them to lose, to play to win and attack them,” Carlson said.

Determined to take control, Macha — who was held to just one basket in the first half — erupted for 10 points after the intermission.

“She is just everywhere and very intense,” Carlson said.

“She is always where the ball is.”

She finished with 12 points total.

Macha wasn’t the only Iola player to get into a groove in the second half. The Fillies went on a 20-4 run to open the second half and built a 37-20 lead midway through the fourth quarter.

“As soon as we got into a team rhythm it all kind of fell through,” Macha said.

Wellsville.

THE IOLA junior varsity topped Osawatomie 41-35 in a hard-fought basketball game in Osawatomie.

The Fillies jumped out to a 21-12 halftime lead and were able to hold off the Trojans in the second to hang on for the win.

The Fillies were led by freshman Piper Moore with nine points.

Riley Murry and Chloe Gardner also contributed six points to the winning effort.

Osawatomie was led in scoring by Emily Block with nine.

Iola’s Toni Macha drives by an Osawatomie defender in Iola’s win on Tuesday night. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA With the game in hand, Carlson was able to play her bench for the final minutes and rest her starters, which have played major minutes with the Wade injury and the team’s bouts with sickness.

Macha shared the team-high with Mikaela Platt, who also scored 12 points. Shields and Colbi

Riley — who has been the team’s point guard in place of Wade — each added five points for the Fillies.

Belle Henderson led the way for Osawatomie with five points.

The Fillies have a week to recover from their injuries and illnesses. They next play Tuesday when they host

THE FILLIES’ freshman team rolled over the Trojans 29-6 in their twoquarter matchup.

Verlene Johnson scored all the Osawatomie points, while Madisyn Holloway scored 12 for Iola. Shaylee Sutterby and Kendra Sprague each scored 5 points for the Fillies.

Piper Moore (4), Jennifer Tidd (2) and Kassy Shelby (1) rounded out the scoring for Iola in the win.

Pistons acquire Harris Miami DETROIT (AP) — With a playoff spot within reach this year, the Detroit Pistons made a trade they hope will benefit them both now and in the future.

The Pistons acquired forward Tobias Harris from Orlando on Tuesday in a deal that sent guard Brandon Jennings and forward Ersan Ilyasova to the Magic.

The 23-year-old Harris gives Detroit another athletic young player, and he’ll be under team control for a while. Harris signed a $64 million, four-year deal to stay with the Magic last summer, when he was a restricted free agent.

“This is a move that can be looked at as a long-term move, as one that will fit with our core group of players, and we’ll be able to keep them together,” Detroit general manager Jeff Bower said.

Detroit, which is a half-game out of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, gave up its starting power forward in

Ilyasova. Jennings was the Pistons’ backup point guard, and they could afford to part with him after making a long-term commitment to starter Reggie Jackson.

Detroit hasn’t made the postseason since 2009.

Bower said the Pistons were interested in Harris when he was a free agent, but his restricted status made acquiring him hard.

The 6-foot-9 Harris is averaging 13.7 points per game this season, down from 17.1 in 2014-15. His 3-point accuracy is down to 31 percent after he shot a career-high 36 percent a season ago.

Harris thanked the city of Orlando, coach Scott Skiles and his teammates in a post on Instagram.

“God closes one door to open up another,” the post said. “Though this is not the easiest time it’s part of life and part of the business of being a professional.”

The Magic are also hoping to make a push for the playoffs, but they have lost 16 of 20 and are now in 11th place in the East.

“We felt like we needed to shuffle the deck a little

bit. We needed to try to shake things up, not a ton, but we felt like the roster needed to be balanced in certain ways,” Orlando GM Rob Hennigan said. “I don’t think it’s been a secret that we’ve been looking for more veteran stability on the roster.”

The 28-year-old Ilyasova is averaging 11.3 points. The Pistons acquired him last offseason in a trade with Milwaukee. Jennings is averaging 6.8 points in 18.1 minutes a game. He returned in late December from an Achilles tendon injury that kept him out 11 months.

Jennings is in the last year of his contract. He now joins an Orlando team that has been going with second-year man Elfrid Payton at point guard.

“He was playing the best ball of his career probably, the month prior to getting injured,” Bower said. “His long-term outlook was probably one that he was going to examine other situations that would probably offer him a different role for the future. So those are all real parts of the decision.”

gets Lee CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets acquired veteran swingman Courtney Lee from the Grizzlies in a threeteam trade that will help bolster the team’s perimeter shooting and defense after losing Michael Kidd-Gilchrist for the season.

The Grizzlies got forward P.J. Hairston from Charlotte and big man Chris Andersen and two second-round draft picks from the Heat, who will get guard Brian Roberts from Charlotte.

The three teams confirmed the trade Tuesday night.

“He brings a lot of experience,” Hornets general manager Rich Cho said in a conference call. “He is a vet that is a true pro. He’s a great shooter and plays great defense.”

“There are not a lot of those 3 and D guys around,” Cho said.

Cho said it’s unclear if Lee will start right away, but he expects him to play a lot.

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

The Iola Register

Humboldt boys lose to physical Burlington

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

BURLINGTON — David Taylor has warned that his Humboldt High squad was capable of great things this season — as long as they played well.

“We’re not a team that can just go through the motions,” Taylor said Tuesday, after the Cubs suffered through a 59-48 loss at Burlington. “We have to play at a very high level, and play crisp to win. If one facet of our game isn’t up to snuff, we’re going to struggle.”

Two facets did in the Cubs (15-4 overall; 8-2 in Tri-Valley League play) Tuesday — shooting and rebounding.

“They manhandled us,” Taylor said. “We didn’t match their height or their physicality.”

Burlington held a decided advantage on the boards.

“They did a good job of limiting us to one shot and out,” Taylor said.

Conversely, Burlington took full advantage of its second, and third, chances on offense.

The Wildcats raced out of the gates to a 14-4 lead.

Humboldt righted its ship, and stayed within striking distance through the balance of the half.

Rhett Smith’s 3-pointer late in the half pulled Humboldt to within 24-18. Rayce Hoepker’s 3-point play closed the gap to 32-25.

Burlington re-established a double digit lead at the break.

Hoepker erupted for 11 third-quarter points as the Cubs put together an 18-9 run. Hoepker’s field goal shortly before the buzzer sliced Burlington’s lead to 47-43.

But a 5 1/2-minute scoring drought — most-

ly from one-and-out possessions — proved fatal.

Burlington opened the fourth quarter with a 6-0 run to lead 53-43. That’s where it stayed until Humboldt’s Jake Haviland scored with 2:23 left in the game. Smith tacked on a 3-pointer with 1:07 left to close the gap to 53-48.

Burlington ended the game with three free throws. Dalton Rankin’s steal and layup with under 20 seconds left sealed the win.

Hoepker led the way for Humboldt with 22 points, followed by Haviland with 12 points and five rebounds. Corey Whitcomb had three steals and four assists.

Four Burlington players wound up in double figures, led by Garrison Fiedler and Owen Redding with 16 apiece.

Despite the disappointing loss, Taylor was optimistic the Cubs can

bounce back as the season nears its end.

“They’ve worked too hard to give up now,” he said.

HUMBOLDT’S junior varsity fell 52-37. The Cubs were led by Daylon Splane’s 12 points.

In C team action, Burlington prevailed, 4826. Caleb Coronado led Humboldt with 10.

The Cubs wrap up the regular season next Tuesday at home against Cherryvale.

Humboldt (6-19-18-5— 48) (FG/3pt): Whitcomb 1-0-1-2, Korte 2-0-1-4, Hoepker 4/3-5-3-22, Haviland 6-0-3-12, Isaac 1-0-42, Doran 0-0-3-0, Smith 0/2-0-4-6. TOTALS: 14/55-19-48.

Burlington (14-22-1112—59) (FG/3pt): Nordstedt 3-5-2-11, Kuhlman 2-0-2-4, Fiedler 8-0-1-16, Rankin 4/1-1-1-12, Redding 7-2-3-16. TOTALS: 24/1-8-9-59.

Humboldt drops lopsided game

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

BURLINGTON — Burlington High’s big run to end the first quarter put Humboldt in an early hole Tuesday.

The Wildcats’ run in the second half never ended until the final buzzer.

Humboldt was within three points early in the second half, and within five with less than a minute left in the third quarter.

But an unfortunate series of Humboldt turnovers mixed with Burlington 3-pointers proved toxic.

The Wildcats ended the game with a 23-4 run to win, 64-38.

The loss drops Humboldt to 14-5 on the season and 5-4 in Tri-Valley League.

Burlington improves to 13-5 and 5-1 in TVL.

“We knew it would be a dog fight tonight,” Lady Cub head coach Aubrey Jones said.

“They worked their tails off for three quarters and then just relaxed in the fourth.”

Junior Makaylah McCall did most of the offensive damage early for Humboldt, scoring 13 points before intermission.

But Burlington’s 7-0 run to end the first quarter put the Wildcats on top 15-8. Burlington extended its advantage to 31-19 by the break.

Humboldt came out of the locker room on a mission.

Annalise Whitcomb, McCall and Tilar Wells scored on a 6-0 run to start the third quarter.

Whitcomb’s 3-point play cut the margin to 5; Rylan Wilhite tacked on a pair of free throws, and suddenly Humboldt was

within 33-30.

Alas, Burlington responded with a quick six-point spurt before McCall knocked down consecutive jumpers.

Humboldt trailed 39-34 before Burlington ended the half with another 6-0 run to end the third.

The lead never dipped below double digits after that.

McCall hit two more jumpers in the fourth quarter, providing all of Humboldt’s scoring. The Wildcats ended the game with a 19-4 run.

“Definitely not how we wanted tonight to go,” Jones said. “We just have to move on and work harder to get the next one.”

McCall finished with 23 points and, unofficially, with eight rebounds.

Whitcomb scored 9.

Freshman Kirsten Young paced Burlington with 19 points, Rylie

Hess with 15 and Shelbi Emling 10.

IN JUNIOR varsity action, Burlington knocked off the Lady Cubs, 52-28.

Kaylie Johnson scored 7, Britnee works 6 and Aricah McCall 5 for the Lady Cub JV. Humboldt wraps up the regular season Tuesday at home against Cherryvale.

The Class 3A substate playoffs begin Feb. 29 or March 1.

Humboldt (8-11-154—38): A. McCall 0-0-2-0, Wells 1-0-2-2, M. McCall 10-3-2-23, Wilhite 1-2-4-4, Whitcomb 3-3-2-9. TOTALS: 15-8-12-38.

Burlington (15-16-1419—64) (FG/3pt): Hess 6/1-0-3-15, Isch 0-0-2-0, Norton 4-0-2-8, Steffen 2-0-2-4, Emling 3/1-1-110, Wagner 2-0-0-4, Young 7/1-2-1-19, Aikins 0/1-0-43. TOTALS: 24/4-4-15-64.

Crest gets blown out by Lebo, 70-37

Crest’s Hunter Frazell drives earlier this season.

Crest’s boys had no answer for Lebo on Tuesday night.

“Some nights you just don’t play very well and your opponent does,” Crest coach Travis Hermreck said.

Hunter Frazell led the scorers for the Lancers with 15 points.

Crest feel behind by 20

at halftime, 34-14.

Brandon Brallier joined Frazell in doublefigures with 10 points.

The Lancers committed 11 turnovers in the game and only had one steal.

“We have to pick ourselves up off the floor and find a way to bounce back,” Hermreck said.

Rousey in dark place after loss Fighters make debuts LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ronda Rousey says she had dark thoughts including suicide after she lost her bantamweight title to Holly Holm in Australia last year, her first defeat since joining UFC. “Honestly, my thought in the medical room, I was sitting in the corner and was like, ‘What am I anymore if I’m not this?’” Rousey said Tuesday during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” ‘’Literally sitting there thinking about killing myself. In that exact second, I’m like: ‘I’m nothing. What do I do anymore?”

Rousey told DeGeneres that her relationship with UFC heavyweight Travis Browne helped

get her through.

“I looked up and saw my man, Travis, was standing there,” Rousey said. “I’m looking up at him and was just like: ‘I need to have his babies. I need to stay alive.’”

Rousey won her first 12 mixed martial arts fights — eight of them in less than a minute — before stepping into the cage against Holm in Melbourne last November. Holm finished her off with a devastating kick to the head.

Rousey told DeGeneres that she wants to be the one to beat Holm, who will make her first title defense against Miesha Tate in Las Vegas next month.

Iolan Milton Ivy fought to a three-round draw in his boxing debut Friday.

Ivy and fellow Iolan Cody Tice both fought at Kansas City, Mo.’s, Harrah’s Casino.

Ivy, in the heavyweight division, had what promoters declared “the fight of the night,” reported Mike Aronson, who helped train both Ivy and Tice.

“It was the crowd pleaser,” Aronson said.

“It was so bloody, and it was a ‘swing for the fence’ fight.”

Ivy bloodied his opponent, Jacob Giangrosso, in the first round, then knocked him down in the second with a combination followed by an uppercut.

“It was a slug-fest for

the next two rounds,” Aronson said. “It was a great fight.”

Tice wasn’t as fortunate in his 185-pound mixed martial arts bout against Nikolas Quinn Tice was knocked out in the opening round. An early move went awry, and Tice’s opponent got topside control.

Quinn pounded Tice and ended the fight with a rear naked choke hold, Aronson reported.

A large contingent of Iolans cheered on the local duo at Harrah’s Voodoo Lounge.

Aronson said more Iolans are expected to fight at Harrah’s on April 8.

“We’re not sure who will fight yet,” Aronson said. “I’ve got two more guys who want to train and fight.”

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Fast chattering may mean you’re manic Dear Dr. Roach: Some years ago, my psychiatrist, a psychiatry resident and I went into a small room. The psychiatrist asked me why I was speaking so fast, and I replied that I wasn’t.

I asked the resident if he heard me speaking quickly, and he said yes.

Why couldn’t I hear myself speaking fast? — P.R.V. Answer: We use the term “pressured speech”

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health to describe the rapid talking that people with some psychiatric disorders, especially those who are bipolar, have during the manic phase of their illness. During these times, the brain works extraor-

dinarily quickly, so your speech comes out sounding normal to you, but it can be hard for others to catch up to how fast your thoughts are communicated. I wonder if everybody else’s speech sounded slow to you.

In mild forms of bipolar disorder, people can become what we term “hypomanic,” where they are capable of enormous amounts of productive work in a short

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period of time. A classic description is a person who cleans the house at 2 in the morning. In fully developed mania, the thoughts move so quickly that people are rarely capable of actually getting things done; I have seen people with five different pens in their hands but unable to write anything down.

There are many effective treatments for bipolar disorder.

Reclaiming the passion and purpose of your youth Dear Carolyn: Looking back on my life, I find that I hardly recognize myself from year to year. There used to be so many things I cared about, causes I was a part of, people I adored.

Reading through some of my old writing, all full of fire and deep feeling, makes me wonder where my “self ” has gone. I recognize that I don’t care about most things anymore, and I don’t feel as deeply as I used to. Even in my relationship of several years, I have no sense of being deeply in love or that I couldn’t live without him. I don’t think he makes me a better person or any of the common phrases typically associated with a normal relationship. We’re simply comfortable together and it works.

I understand that people and feelings change over time, but I feel so completely adrift and pretty numb. I would like to live a purposeful

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life, even if for a trivial purpose, as long as it is meaningful to me.

Have others felt this way about life as time goes on? Is there anything they’ve done to regain that sense of purpose? — Losing Steam Losing Steam: What you describe isn’t necessarily odd or even bad; I think just about everyone can look back on past selves and see a fire that no longer exists. Youth is a fiery thing.

What concerns me here is that new, more mature passions haven’t replaced your old ones.

“Adrift and pretty numb” is not the thing you want displacing your youthful

depth of feeling.

So, it’s time to get screened for depression.

This isn’t to say depression is the only explanation for feeling adrift.

A screening is merely a logical first step because ruling clinical depression in or out changes the steps you take after that. Short version: If it’s depression, you treat the depression and then see what changes you still need to make from there. There might not be many after all.

If it’s not depression, then you start the life inventory, where you figure out what you do and don’t like about your current circumstances and make incremental changes accordingly.

There are some things common to both paths, some you can start immediately. First is taking meticulous care of your health. Get your eating, sleeping and exercising house in order, with a doctor’s supervision if

necessary. After that, get your finances in order, if needed. After that, sort out any issues with your professional path, at least enough to give you a sense of your own direction.

I’m listing these at a fast clip to get the answer done, not to suggest they can actually be dispatched quickly.

These are big climbs for anyone, and if there is an element of depression, they can seem insurmountable. It’s like the climb plus a heavy pack.

And cast-iron shoes.

That’s why it’s so important to find the resolve to stick with this for however many small steps it takes, and to start in a reputable doctor’s office so you know exactly what you’re taking on.

This is not an unusual place to be in. Lives need inventories sometimes.

Just be patient with yourself and with the process, and trust it’ll be for the good.

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