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Tom Byler likes helping entrepreneurs take care of business.

Byler is regional director of the Kansas Small Business Development Center based out of Pittsburg State University. He spoke about “Growing Your Own Business” Thursday at the Iola Public Library.

Savanah Flory and Cara Thomas are business owners in Allen County who have taken advantage of the center’s services. They credit the center for helping them grow their businesses and incorporate new ideas.

Both have won the KSBDC Emerging Business of the Year award. They attended Thursday’s session to share problems and triumphs.

FLORY’S mother, the late Corinna Heard, started TLC Garden Center in LaHarpe in 2000.

Flory graduated from Kansas State University in 2007

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Grumbling about the Postal Service — its bloat, its inefficiency, its pension-rich workers — is probably as old as the service itself. Try to subtract a post office from a small farm town, however, and watch how swiftly its

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with a degree in horticulture.

Flory and husband Levi came back to LaHarpe and purchased the business in 2010.

One of the first things the Florys did was switch the business from a corporation to an LLC (limited liability company.)

“Previously it was a parttime seasonal job with random hours,” Flory said. “We wanted to make it more prof-

itable and be more steady for our customers.”

The Florys expanded their business to seven days a week, except in January and February. They also expanded the garden center with trees, shrubs and new services. Flory created a landscape division to help customers create their own oasis at home.

Since spring, summer and See BUSINESS | Page A6

Community garden on Monday’s agenda Iolan Val McLean, who donated land that eventually became the Elm Creek Community Garden in southeast Iola, will ask Iola City Council members Monday about getting free water.

The garden has 123 plots available. While regular tenants pay an annual fee of $25 per plot, those unable to pay or living below poverty level

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A customer drops off letters Friday at the Gas post office. Gas and several area towns have seen hours at their local post offices shortened. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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residents embrace it.

In May 2012, facing a desperate headwind — in the form of multi-billion dollar shortfalls — the United States Postal Service introduced austerity measures into the rural postal system under a program called “Post Plan.” The driving idea

get theirs free. The garden also features several elevated plots for disabled gardeners.

According to McLean, 60 percent of the gardeners who use ECCG are below the poverty line and receive free plots. Each plot is provided free water, seeds, gardening education materials and hand tools or other machinery.

Utility bills for the garden See COUNCIL | Page A8

Rev. Waylon Ingle, 40 years in ministry, opens new church

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

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nalogies that compare Scripture with everyday life are the foundation of many sermons.

The Rev. Waylon Ingle used one to explain what prompted him to start a new church in Iola: “When I was fishing for stripers on Lake Texoma, the guide said we needed more bait in the water. That’s what we want to do with the new church, provide another opportunity for worship.”

Bible Fellowship will occupy a building that has held several churches over the years, at 329 S. First St. Services beginning March 1 will be each Waylon Ingle Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

“Sermons will be Biblebased and what we’re looking for is a real worshipful experience,” said Ingle, 66, who began his 40th year in the pulpit in December. “I want sermons

to be applicable to life issues, and not just entertainment.

If someone wants entertainment, they can find that on TV.” The church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Music will be traditional, with an occasional low-key contemporary song thrown in.

First-Sunday goal is a congregation of 50. On hand to help out with music will be Lloyd Houk, who donated a piano. Bible studies, each having about 10 participants on See INGLE | Page A2

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Regehr promotes Iola to medical professionals

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Feel the beat The Reba E. Davis Memorial Drumming Circle performs for Arrowwood Lane residents Thursday in Humboldt. The students come from Iola’s Lincoln and Jefferson elementary schools who had to audition for a seat in the drum circle. They rehearse after school on Mondays. They are directed by USD 257 music teacher, Karen Jesseph. REGISTER/ RICHARD LUKEN

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The inviting ambiance of Iola is a huge advantage in the recruitment of medical professionals, Lisse Regehr told Iola Rotarians Thursday.

Regehr joined Thrive Allen County in October as its community health care educator.

Among her tasks is recruitment. A native of Iola, she came here from working in See ROTARY | Page A6

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Obituary Jace Ator Jace Everett Ator, entered this world on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, the son of Randy and Lacey (Smith) Ator. Heartbreakingly, Jace was taken to Heaven the same day.

He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Cindy Catterson He is survived by his parents, Randy and Lacey (Smith) Ator, his sister, Emily, and brother, Edwyn; grandparents, Stan and Frankie Chapman Smith, all of LaHarpe; grandmother, Margaret Ator, and great-aunt, Renee Fay, all of Iola.

Jace is also survived by several aunts and uncles, cousins and other relatives and friends.

Graveside services for Jace will be at 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, at the LaHarpe Cemetery in LaHarpe.

No formal visitation will be held.

The family suggests memorials to Randy and Lacey Ator, which may be sent in care of Countryside Funeral Home, 101 N. Highland Chanute, KS 66720.

Album mystery resolved Merryl McRae uncovered a key missing piece of her family tree’s puzzle Thursday, after relatives inspected a long-lost photo album.

As reported in Thursday’s Register, the album is the centerpiece of a remarkable chain of events that has united McRae with several distant relatives.

The album, with photos dating back as far as 1910, was found at an office supply store in Memphis, Tenn., in 2008. An employee there kept the album with the hope of finding its rightful owner.

The album featured a pair of photos taken in the early 1950s of McRae as a toddler with her parents and older sisters.

A recent news broadcast in Memphis — it also was made available on the Inter-

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net — finally reached McRae. A second cousin received the album this week, and realized it belonged to John and Edna Mouse. John Mouse was the brother of Scott Mouse, McRae’s grandfather.

“Now we know who it belonged to,” McRae told the Register Friday. “We just have no idea how it wound up in Memphis. We probably never will.”

McRae described her great-uncle as a world traveler, “but we don’t think he ever lived in Memphis.”

Regardless, as reports of the album went viral, it put McRae in contact with dozens of relatives across the country. Some, she knew she had, but many she had not.

She and the rest of the Mouse clan hope to organize a family reunion in the near future.

‘Superbug’ teen fighting for life LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 18-year-old student is struggling to survive after he was infected by a “superbug” outbreak tied to contaminated medical instruments at a Los Angeles hospital, his attorney said.

The young man has spent nearly three months in the hospital and is in grave condition after contracting a potentially lethal, antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, attorney Kevin Boyle said Thursday.

He had entered the hospital for a procedure that involved using an endoscope to examine his pancreas.

“They were scoping it out, trying to see what was the matter,” Boyle said. “He had no lifethreatening condition before like he does now.”

At least seven people — two of whom died — have been infected with the bacteria known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, after undergoing similar endoscopic procedures between October and January. More than 170 other patients also may have been exposed, hospital officials said.

Boyle declined to re-

Court report DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Domestic cases filed: GNB Mortgage Co., Inc. vs. Jason Nelson, et al, real estate Kansas Dept. of DCF vs. Alex J. Christensen, other domestic relations Christian L. Jones vs. Mason T. Jones, divorce Kansas Dept. of DCF vs. Lissa D. Cramer, other domestic relations Kansas Dept. of DCF vs. Jeffrey S. Wilson, other domestic relations Melissa A. Turner vs. Charles R. Turner, divorce Marriage licenses issued: Michael N. Gregg and Sarah A. Heiman Toni M. Deshane and Joshua L. Fowler Billy Burkholder and Megan A. Mader

lease the teenager’s name or where he attends school. The student spent 83 days in the hospital at one point and was released but recently relapsed and has been hospitalized again, the lawyer said.

“After he had the procedure, he was released.

Then he came down with his illness, and when they studied him and noticed he had the CRE bacteria in him, they quickly put two and two together,” Boyle said.

He said the family doesn’t blame UCLA but may sue the endoscope’s manufacturer.

That hard-to-clean medical instrument used on more than half a million people in the U.S. every year has become the focus of the investigation into the outbreak.

The infections may have been transmitted through two contaminated endoscopes that were used to diagnose and treat pancreatic and bile-duct problems. The instruments were found to have “embedded” infections even though they had been cleaned according to manufacturer’s instructions, said Dr. Robert Cherry, the hospital’s chief medical and quality officer. Five other scopes were cleared.

MAGISTRATE COURT Judge Thomas Saxton Convicted of speeding: Rahul V. Dendukuri, Weston, Fla., 75/65, $153 Said Waheedullah, Dallas, 83/65, $226 Brett A. Sunquist II, Olathe, 84/65, $207 Janae L. Brown, Lebo, 46/35, $159 Linda E. Davis, Humboldt, 75/65, $153 Donald E. Meyer, Humboldt, 68/55, $171 Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Dwayne L. Martin, Iola, improper signal, driving while suspended, $578, sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for 12 months probation Angela R. Mayo, Paola, improper registration, no liability insurance, $528 Michael R. Kaufman, Humboldt, improperly securing load, $208 George L. Hannum, Humboldt, violating basic speed rule, no driver’s license, $465 Amanda D. Yeubanks, Bartlesville, Okla., no driver’s license, $338 Jackie A. Zehner, Gas, theft, criminal trespassing, $468, sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for six months probation.

Steven G. Zartman, Iola, driving left of center, $183 Ashley N. Owens, Garnett, using wireless communication device while driving, $168 Cases deferred with fines assessed: Peirre D. Collins, Osawatomie, driving while suspended, 75/65, $528 Derrick L. Mathews, Moran, falsely reporting a felony, contributing to a child’s misconduct, $218 Ronald E. Goodman Jr., Moran, possessing drug paraphernalia, $433 Failure to appear, and subject to driver’s license suspensions or other penalties: Sharon M. Robertson, Sioux City, Iowa, 79/65 James L. Flynn IV, Gas, failure to appear Michael L. Dutro, Chanute, aggravated assault Timothy E.D. Rogers, Iola, distributing marijuana, possessing drug paraphernalia Jeremy M. Burgess, Ottawa, theft (three counts), burglary, criminal damage to property (two counts), attempted theft Amanda V. Hollis, Iola, disorderly conduct Criminal cases filed: Brandon Goddard, Iola, violating protection order (five counts).

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Police report Arrest reported Anthony T. Smith, Wichita, was arrested Tuesday by Allen County sheriff ’s deputies on an outstanding warrant issued out of Allen

IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Thomas Saxton Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Lauren E. Heslop, Iola, driving after being declared habitual violator, $430, probation ordered Cynthia D. Hulett, Neosho Falls, filing false report, $180, probation ordered

County District Court for an alleged probation violation.

Smith was taken to Allen County Jail, where he is being held without bond.

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Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, started earlier this year and will provide a congregate backbone for the church.

Iola has about 5,800 residents and on any given Sunday Ingle said he doubted if as many as 2,000 were in church, which leaves a large pool who for one reason or another aren’t attendees.

He doesn’t have a specific demographic of whom he hopes the church will reach, but anticipates most will be in the age range of 40 to 60.

INGLE WILL wind up an eight-year stint as pastor of a church in Redfield, a town of about 150 in western Bourbon County, this Sunday.

Prior to that he spent 12½ years at Iola’s First Baptist Church, and spent some time at Eudora, in a church now pastored by his nephew, Jeff Ingle.

He and wife Dianna returned to this area — they lived in Bronson where he also drove a school bus — just before taking the reins in Redfield and moved back to

Iola 3½ years ago after Ingle was involved in a motorcycle accident that left him severely injured.

He was riding south on U.S. 59 and just entering Princeton, south of Ottawa, when a northbound pickup truck turned in front of his motorcycle.

Having ridden for 40 years, Ingle long before decided if ever confronted with such an incident he would lay down his bike. He did and ended up on the truck, with his helmeted head pinned against the truck’s running gear. “It took me two years to recover,” Ingle said — with left side bones in his shoulder, arm and ribs broken.

About a year ago “the Lord spoke to me,” he said. “He told me to start a church in Iola. I never had done that and really didn’t know how to go about it. I even thought maybe the Lord would forget about it — I hoped for a while He would —

but the Lord doesn’t forget.”

Beginning a church isn’t as simple as preparing sermons and stepping into the pulpit. Ingle found a site, which he rented from Iolans Mike and Rhoda Schwindt at a favorable price. Then, came paperwork to establish the church’s credentials, with help from the Rev. Jeff Cokely, who a few years ago started Iola’s Fellowship Regional Church.

He had a bit of a constituency from Iolans who had driven to Redfield to worship. With some on the older side, driving nearly 30 miles one way was getting a little much, particularly when foul weather cropped up.

The twice-weekly Bible studies also fortified Ingle’s intentions.

Now, “we’ll see where it goes,” he said.

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He was building combines for John Deere in the Quad Cities area of Illinois, and wasn’t much on religion, wasn’t even sure what it meant when 6-year-old son Bob accepted the Lord at vacation Bible school and told his dad he was going to be baptized.

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and unnecessary expense onto himself as a way of supporting the post office he’s been using for more than 60 years.

“The company that does our customer billing is actually in Minnesota,” Lee said.

“They would do metered postage on those bills and send them from there, but that would be detrimental to the local economy, whether it’s LaHarpe or Allen County. So, we have them UPS the bills to us, then we take them over to the post office here, then they go ahead and put stamps on them.

So they m a i l f r o m h e r e , and our post office gets credit for them.

Harry Lee Jr. “It’s an extra expense but it’s one of those things you have to do to support your local economy.”

Around the corner, at TLC Garden Center, coowner Savannah Flory also tries as best she can to adjust to the inconvenience of a.m.-only hours. “We try to send packages through there whenever we can, and we buy stamps there. I try to use it as much as possible, just to support our in-town post office, so we don’t lose it….

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behind Post Plan was that by reducing the hours of operation at 13,000 rural post offices nationwide, the USPS could avoid — or at least forestall — shuttering these buildings permanently.

According to the Postal Service, the program will produce savings of $500 million per year.

The recent local impact of the change means that traveling along U.S. 54 on a weekday afternoon you won’t find an open post office between Fort Scott and Iola. Uniontown, Bronson, Moran, LaHarpe and Gas have all been subjected to reduced hours.

IN LATE 2011 a representative from the USPS appeared before the residents of Piqua, whose small post office was primed for discontinuation, and lectured the already dispirited crowd: “No one is trying to take anything from rural America [but] some of the initiative falls on you.” Buy stamps, he told them, and send mail; use your local P.O.; make an effort. The message was repeated in similar meetings across rural Kansas over the next few years.

Here’s what an effort looks like in LaHarpe: Harry Lee Jr., the owner of LaHarpe Communications — which is within shouting distance of the local post office — has gone out of his way to invite inconvenience

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have to make sure you either take the mail in the morning or, if there’s something that needs mailed out that day, you have to run it to a different post office. We just have to do more planning now. If we don’t make it before noon, we have to drive it to Iola, since Gas’ hours are short now, too.”

SPEAKING OF Gas: To mention the post office to Deborah Curry, manager at Piqua State Bank of Gas, is to light a fuse of eloquent invective, and then sit back and watch it burn: “This is a really good day for you to ask me,” said Curry, “because I have had, in the last week, just about all I can handle of the U.S. Postal Service.”

According to Curry, the bank generates between 3,000 and 4,000 statements a month, the timely delivery of which has been an increasing headache in the wake of the across-the-street post office’s truncated hours.

Like Lee in LaHarpe, Curry has been concerned with the health of her local post office since rumor of the downgrade took wing three years ago, and was a key voice in the meetings with USPS spokesmen leading up to the decision to bring Post Plan to Gas. “We went down there and a guy from the postal department stood right there and said ‘You need to support the post office here in Gas, so it will be able to stay open. We’re going to cut the hours, but we’re going to keep it open.’

Well, the hours are horrible for us, because we don’t close till 4 o’clock.

When it was open until 4 o’clock we could run our

stuff down there and it would go out the same night. Now, we have to stamp our envelopes and then I have to sit at the outside box and stuff them in the outside box.

So, if I’ve got 1,500 statements, I’m sitting there for a long time, stuffing.

And then, of course, we got in trouble because we were filling the box too much.

“So, yeah, it is really, really inconvenient. The guy stood right down there and told us that they didn’t have enough business to stay open all day, which is fine if it meant saving the post office and having it here in Gas, where we want it to be. But there is no way we can get our statements there by noon.”

Curry is another who, determined to keep the pulse alive in her local post office, made a decision of principle over convenience months earlier. “Before, all of the statements were being handled in Piqua. We determined that to help Gas stay open, we would have them ship all of the statements over here. So, now, the bulk of our mail goes out from here,” a decision she now may want back.

“Since the time that they’ve changed the hours, it’s just been a joke.”

Continuing west on 54, siblings Harvey Collins and Linda Bass, who operate Iola-based Central Publishing Co., have been using the Gas post office for their significant bulk mailings ever since a quarrel years ago with the Iola post office soured their views on the West Street branch.

According to Collins, the company spends as much as $40,000 in USPS shipping per year.

“Once we got out to Gas,” said Collins, “Pat Spencer was the post master. She not only welcomed our postal stuff, but she told my sister how to save money by making a couple of little changes to the way you do your labels, which the Iola post office had never mentioned in all the time we’d been there.”

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Since the time that they’ve changed the hours, it’s just been a joke.

— Deborah Curry, Piqua State Bank Gas branch manager, on shorter hours at the Gas post office

critics of Post Plan fear will be lost as post offices move to replace their full-time employees with part-time staff. As Collins notes, “If you’re a trained individual, you probably can’t justify working only three or four hours a day.”

Curry, too, cites the lower quality of service that accompanied the transition, but considers it just a small piece of a larger remorse. “It’s just sad to me what’s happening to all the little towns.”

CRITICS OF Post Plan fear that as the Postal Service continues to lose money — it reported a net loss of $754 million last quarter — it will eventually move to close many of these rural post offices for good.

According to the USPS, many of the country’s smallest rural post offices earned an average of $15,000 annually, but cost $114,000 to operate.

Harry Lee, though, frames the crux of what’s at stake more succinctly. “The question is: Do we want to help people have a reasonable standard of life when they live in rural areas?

“I understand the economics of it, but it is not advantageous to rural America what they’re doing, period. There is a past history of our government trying to help individuals to live in rural places.”

The Postal Service was designed, not only to get a slip of paper from here to there, but to bind the nation together by a system of civic outposts, whose in-lobby operations, once you walked through the front door — whether you were in LaHarpe or Chicago — were governed by a

uniform system of rules and a largely identical menu of costs.

A land map freckled broadly with numerous rural post offices was also a way to ensure sound infrastructure — roads and rail, especially — which grew out of the obligations to deliver mail to the country’s farthest-flung citizens.

Lee points to the Rural Electrification Act of 1935, too, which provided federal loans that introduced electricity to large parts of rural America.

The Postal Service operates under the unusual burden of being expected to run like a business while at the same time having its operations constrained by Congress. (In 2006 Congress required the agency to pre-pay its future pension obligations. Not coincidentally, that was the last year the Postal Service turned a profit.)

As an “independent government agency” the Postal Service receives zero taxpayer dollars.

Still, many believe that if rural post offices, which will probably never be profitable, were viewed as a priority within the Postal Service, then their longevity could be assured — but that it would first require a shift in values.

“When Roosevelt signed the act that would bring electric light into farmhouses across the country, it underpinned the belief that rural America is part of America,” said Lee. “The same thing was true in telephony. Same thing with schools. And it is true with the postal service. ... I think most of us find a way to do what we want to accomplish.

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Parker to observe Gitmo hearings Kim Parker, a native of Moran, is en route to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to observe legal proceedings against prisoners held in the U.S. detention center.

Parker, 57, is chief deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District in Wichita.

“I’m going as a guest of the U.S. government,” she said Friday afternoon in a telephone conversation.

Parker will be one of several associated with the legal profession going to Cuba, either as practicing attorneys or in academia.

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Family members of victims of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, are also invited to attend the hearings.

Detainees at Guantanamo are associated with the attacks on either the USS Cole in 2000 or the 9/11 attacks.

As an attorney, Parker will be on the lookout for what she deems as inconsistencies in carrying out justice. The bulk of the proceedings will be conducted in English.

Parker said an “ongoing dispute” are allegations by detainees of the

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Debate in the Kansas House over requiring public schools to get parents’ consent to teach sex education is likely to be tense, just as it was before a committee approved the measure, the panel’s chairman said Friday.

Several Kansas school districts already require written parental consent to include students in sex education lessons, while others allow parents to request their children be excluded

“character background” of interpreters and whether they are giving accurate interpretations of what the defendants — many from the Middle East — say.

Parker is the daughter of Gary and Janice Parker of Moran and has been practicing law since 1982. She graduated from Washburn University’s School of Law. She will depart from Andrews Air Force Base for Cuba on Sunday and will stay at “Camp Justice” in Cuba for the week.

from such instruction.

The bill’s supporters say that’s not enough because parents are often ill-informed about what the curriculums include.

Democratic Rep. Carolyn Bridges, a former public school principal, noted earlier this week that parents can already access school curriculums and can petition their school board if they disagree with what is being taught. Bridges, of Wichita, said schools need to step in because

not all parents will discuss sexual health issues with their children.

But supporters won out Thursday, when the House Education Committee approved the bill by a 10-8 vote.

The bill now goes to the full House, where the committee’s chairman, Republican Rep. Ron Highland of Wamego, expects debate to be similarly tense. He said members of the committee were narrowly divided and their discussions heated.

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Because spring, summer and fall are their busiest times of the year, Flory looked for ways to expand the winter business.

“We do snow removal for small businesses around town,” she said.

Two years ago Flory added Flory’s Flowers to her resumé After a flower shop in Iola closed its doors, Flory bought the inventory and started making arrangements.

“It helps increase our winter sales and we already had the space so it wasn’t a huge investment,” she said.

Levi manages the landscape and maintenance divisions and Flory takes care of the flower shop and garden center. They split duties so employees know who to go to for a specific question.

Flory said many don’t realize how long it takes to get established in a business. Those who can make money by the fifth year “probably are doing it right.”

The Florys continue to look to the future.

They are considering

CARA THOMAS grew up in the meat locker business. Her grandparents and parents have run their own businesses for many years.

After a fire at the Moran Locker, the Bolling family began discussing its next move.

In Moran, customers would bring in animals to be butchered and packaged.

This kept the family busy, but people would come in and simply want a pound of hamburger.

The wheels began turning in Thomas’ head and Bolling’s Meat Market was created. Thomas brought the meat market to Iola in 2011.

“We asked ourselves certain questions,” Thomas said. “Do we have a unique skill? If we have a competitor, are we better?”

Other questions she asked are who is going to shop there? What is the longevity? Could she attract new customers?

“I’m selling a commodity and I don’t dictate my prices,” she said.

“I also don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket.”

Just like Flory, Thom-

Tom Byler vegetable production in the greenhouse.

“We sell romaine lettuce and onions to Around the Corner coffee shop and we’re looking to see if there is enough of a market to expand elsewhere,” she said.

Flory said working with family can be difficult and gave a warning. Issues can arise and cause tiffs.

“When we first started out we were working with several family members and now we’re down to none,” she said.

“It’s something to keep in mind when planning.”

as is always looking for the next step. She decided to expand her building and open a deli in 2013. She is also working to expand online sales.

“We have a website and I want people to be able to shop online, order and have it shipped to them,” she said.

Online business allows Thomas to present her product to a wider audience, she said.

Thomas advertises with the traditional media outlets like the newspaper but she also embraces social media.

“I’m always thinking of what content I can create to bring customers in my store,” she said.

Thomas and Flory also mentioned employee retention is a huge piece of the puzzle.

“Employees represent you and you don’t want them to represent you badly,” Thomas said.

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nesses to discuss taxes, market, employees, licenses, prices and customer base. The second workshop - at a cost of $20 - helps develop business plans.

Workshop attendees are given a checklist with 27 questions, to give people an idea of issues they need to answer when deciding on their business plan.

“A benefit is helping people realize they aren’t quite ready yet, whether it’s financially or time wise,” Byler said. “The state director always reminds us not to judge an idea, but just to inform them.”

“What if someone came to you and said I’m going to pick up rocks, paint faces on them and sell them to people as pets,” he said.

Somebody did exactly that in the 1970s, he noted. “It was a hit.”

Administration Kansas Department of Kansas and PSU matches it, but the grants cannot be used as loans for expanding businesses.

“We help people start a business, expand an existing business or sell their business,” Byler said.

With startups, the center asks a lot of questions.

Byler said startups take a lot of extra effort.

Even if the business is closed on the weekends, owners are still working.

A lot of people don’t realize the amount of money they need to get started, he said. Many are uncertain if they need a loan, or what their credit is like.

Byler said 65 percent of the center’s clients are existing businesses; the rest are startups.

A workshop is available for startup busi-

Rotary: Regehr promotes Iola to medical professionals Continued from A1

foundation fundraising in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

To date, one physician has been impressed enough to narrow his choices to either Iola or Pittsburg and will decide in the spring whether to come here with a partner, Regehr said. A dentist, who will practice at Community Health Center, is on board.

Those achievements didn’t come on the fly, and Regehr gave an inside look at what goes into recruitment, and why it is important.

“We have six providers and all are within 10 years of (possible) retirement,” she said, which means “we need to look to the future” in attracting medical professionals. Efforts have centered on the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, where, surprisingly, far from all about to graduate have their sights set on big city life.

The process is simple enough, yet extensive and creative.

Recruiting visits include a basket of homemade goodies and facts and figures about Iola.

One of the first stops is the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, where Director Susan Raines gives a tour of the impressive facility.

Also finding quick favor is the rail trail running south of town.

Iola’s Happy Tails Dog Park is a perk that visitors find unusual for a town Iola’s size, Regehr said. Riverside Park also is an eye-catcher.

“A lot of us who live here take those things for granted,” she added, but they are features that come as a surprise for many who expect small towns to have just the bare necessities.

The downtown, with its huge courthouse square, is a Rockwellian moment, particularly when one of the several community events is in full swing.

Disadvantages Regehr and fellow recruiters try to overcome is the less than attractive east entrance to Iola

that includes “a sea of cars” along U.S. 54. The lack of apartments or homes for rent is also a problem.

She pointed out those who might locate here would prefer to rent a home for a time while deciding if Iola is a good fit.

The biggest drawback? “A stand-alone

Iola’s biggest drawback? Not having a stand-alone grocery. “That’s hard for some people from elsewhere, even small towns, to accept.”

— Lisse Regehr, Thrive Allen County

grocery,” Regehr said.

“That’s hard for some people from elsewhere,

even small towns, to accept.” The county’s economic development

involve more people in recruiting.

Spontaneous contacts and get-togethers with local residents — a factor in the dentist’s decision — can be the difference in a medical professional picking Iola over another city.

Recruiting may not be blood sport, but it is highly competitive.

group has redoubled its effort to encourage a grocery to come to Iola; possibilities are pending.

In sum, Regehr said, recruitment can’t be up to “just the hospital and Thrive. It’s the responsibility of the whole community.”

Thrive is putting together a task force to

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Middle School UMYF.............6 p.m.

High School UMYF................8 p.m.

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Let’s keep judiciary independent; kill ill-advised bill It isn’t that Gov. Sam Brownback doesn’t understand the role of the judiciary. He received a law degree from the University of Kansas the same year current Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss did. Practicing as an attorney in Manhattan was the only private-sector job he had until undertaking a career in politics. In Washington, Brownback was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

With such credentials, Brownback fully comprehends the checks and balances provided by an independent court system.

He simply doesn’t appreciate having checks and balances derail any part of the conservative utopia he’s attempting to establish. With no partisan opposition of note, his own GOP purged of moderates, and enough voting citizens willing to keep the experiment alive — the only speed bump left on the governor’s road map wear black robes. Judges and justices have not embraced all the facets Brownback envisions in his red-state model, particularly when it comes to public education, equality and other items on the ultraconservative agenda. Why? Because they conflict with the law.

The governor wants to pack the state’s highest court

The governor wants to pack the state’s highest court in his own image. He already has his way with the Kansas Court of Appeals.

in his own image. He already has his way with the Kansas Court of Appeals. Two years ago, the Brownbackguided Legislature dismantled the merit-based system of selecting those justices by eliminating the role of a lawyer-dominated nominating commission. The governor now simply selects who he wants.

He seeks the same with the Supreme Court.

Brownback has less than four years to complete his faithful journey — and the Kansas Constitution will not stand in his way. With higher stakes, the hurdles naturally are higher as well. Not only must he garner two-thirds majorities in both chambers of the Statehouse, Brownback also will need a vote of the people to amend our constitution.

We do not doubt Kansas voters would give the governor what he wants. This battle will be won inside the Statehouse, where legislators understand what Brownback is doing. The question is whether two-thirds support the justification offered for the change.

The governor’s office insists it just wants justices to be accountable to voters.

Others do not believe it’s that simple.

In a Topeka Capital-Journal report earlier this year, former Sen. Tim Owens, ROverland Park, said Brownback had pressured him to help end the merit-based model.

“Gov. Brownback,” said Owens, the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, “pointed his finger at me and said, ‘Tim, why can’t

Sacking school finance formula When Gov. Brownback spoke to Kansans in his state-of-the-state address last month, he called for a school finance formula that “should reflect real-world costs and put dollars in classrooms with real students, not in bureaucracy and buildings and artificial gimmicks.”

The next morning he did the exact opposite. He released his budget, proposing a $127 million cut right at the heart of public education — from classrooms.

Not only that. The governor wants to sack the state’s school finance formula in favor of a “block grant” to schools, which would make that $127 million cut permanent and shut off any future funding increases for schools from the state.

Why would he propose this?

How does this help Kansas?

Well, it doesn’t help Kansas schools or Kansas students, but it does help staunch a budget crisis created by a dramatic loss of income tax revenue.

School finance is the largest item in the state budget, putting school funds directly in the firing line when state finances deteriorate.

The governor says the school finance formula is too complicated, even suggesting that it was deliberately designed that way in order to confuse Kansans.

It’s not. Rather the formula helps make sense of a complex

Duane Goossen Insight Kansas situation, and provides funding in a fair, consistent way.

Kansas has 460,000 students with a wide range of abilities and varying needs. Those students receive education in 286 school districts, from tiny, to quite large, from rich in property resources, to poor. Such a situation requires a reasoned, rational method for distributing funds which recognizes that one size does not fit all.

At root, the current formula provides a set amount per student. That’s a fair foundation.

Growth in student numbers brings more funding, a decline, less. But not all students are the same, so the formula adjusts funding upward for students who are “at risk” and need extra attention, for students who need bilingual education, and for students who are in vocational programs.

Large geographic districts logically receive more money per student for transportation. The formula also helps equalize how much each Kansas citizen pays for education through property taxes.

Any formula may need to be adjusted from time to time to make it better, but dump-

ing the entire Kansas school finance formula, as the governor proposes, will immediately lead to funding inequality, unfairness, and less money from the state.

If the governor and state lawmakers throw up their hands and claim they can’t comprehend the formula, they are abdicating their responsibility. Giving school districts less money through a fixed block grant simply passes the buck to every local school district. The governor is saying, in effect: “If more students show up, tough luck.”

Aside from state funding, school districts only have one other significant source of revenue — property tax receipts. A cut in state funds that will be frozen in place by a block grant forces districts into impossibly difficult choices. To make up for disappearing state funding, school districts will have to reduce classroom spending or raise property taxes.

School districts get this choice because the governor’s fiscal experiment is failing.

Tax revenue has fallen below normal, reasonable expenses.

Instead of fixing the real problem, school kids and property taxes are asked to pay the price.

Duane Goossen is a senior fellow at the Kansas Center for Economic Growth and formerly served 12 years as Kansas budget director

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you go along with us on this judicial selection issue and let us change the way we select judges so we can get judges who will vote the way we want them to?’ “ Granted, of the others present at that meeting, one person denies Brownback saying that while the rest either can’t recall the meeting or don’t want to discuss it.

Regardless, we believe that is precisely what the governor is attempting to do.

As do others.

Wichita Rep. John Carmichael, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said: “The complaint isn’t that the court is unqualified,” said Carmichael, who also attended law school with Brownback. “The complaint is the courts are not ruling the way that the governor wants.”

Sen. David Haley, D-Kansas City, told the Capital-Journal the court reform movement was designed to bring the judicial branch into step with legislative and executive branches.

“This is designed to align the three branches of gov-

ernment to one school of thought,” Haley said. “I just don’t think it will work well.”

Two House concurrent resolutions (5004 and 5005) are being debated in Topeka that would change the selection process. The first would allow direct partisan elections while 5005 would have direct appointment by the governor and confirmation by the Senate.

Both are horrible ideas.

The merit-based system was put in place because a former unscrupulous Kansas governor abused the process for his own gain. We believe the current governor is attempting the same.

The separation of powers as defined in both the state and federal constitutions is a concept worth preserving.

Before the people of Kansas are harmed irreparably by basically merging the three branches of government, the pending legislation needs to be scuttled. Supreme Court justices are supposed to decide matters of law and constitutionality; not be pawns in Brownback’s power grab.

— The Hays Daily News

Nutrition a big part of learning

Forrest Knox, state senator whose 14th District includes Woodson County, is close enough to home to captivate my attention from time to time.

Earlier this week he caught the dickens in a Hutchinson News editorial for a bill he introduced to give higher foster care payments to families who met what he termed the state’s definition of a “good family.” Specifically, that’s one with a stay-at-home mom, dutiful husband and cookiecutter kids in the images of Beaver and Wally of “Leave it to Beaver” fame. I suppose he’d have Eddie Haskell excommunicated.

A couple of weeks ago Knox took aim at “bad parents” who depend on schools to feed their children breakfast and lunch.

He interpreted school meal programs as an example of parents not stepping up to the plate, rather sending their kids to school hungry.

Intervention on the schools’ part has been morning and noon meals, which in most cases in southeast Kansas — Allen County included — has 50 to 60 percent of kids qualifying for free or reduced-priced meals. Poverty may not be rampant in this corner of the state, but it is pervasive.

While Knox may interpret the program as schools assuming the role of parents, there is much more to it. Foremost, educators realized decades ago that children performed better in class and learned more if they were not distracted by hunger.

Also, the lunch program isn’t a new kid on the block, with federal subsidy starting in 1946 under the pen of President Truman, in part because of a preponderance of men entering armed services during World War II who suffered from malnutrition. The nation also had

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food surpluses and what better way to alleviate the glut of food than by feeding hungry kids.

The breakfast program came at the tail-end of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” domestic initiatives, at the behest of experts who rightly pointed out nagging hunger was no way to start a day.

Knox’s rail about the food programs was part of a screed that blamed most of what’s wrong with society and education on abdication of parental responsibilities. Whatever shred of truth that’s in that isn’t positively amplified by inflammatory pronouncements by legislators.

AN ASIDE to the hot lunch program is when I was a student in the 1950s, it was very much a part of the day at Humboldt High School.

I lived less than two blocks from school and if any mom ever prepared three nutritious meals a day — every day — it was my mother.

But, it was quite a treat for me to stay at school over the lunch hour and join my friends.

We got quite a kick of having fare of the day plopped down on our compartmentalized plastic trays and then munching away, with a little carton of milk to wash all down.

Also, I learned an important life lesson when a nutritionist came to talk: Eat the potato skin, he said, that’s where all the good stuff is. I have with every potato since.

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Moran students earn reading awards

Births

Riley Tynon Jake Tynon and Ashley Vogel are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Riley Jane Tynon.

Riley was born on Jan. 29, 2015, at Allen County Regional Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 8.1 ounces.

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She is the maternal granddaughter of Johnnye and Phil Summerson, Olathe, and Gar Vogel, Stilwell. She is the paternal granddaughter of Pat and Deb Tynon, Moran. Her great-grandparents are E.J. and Barb Siefker, Moran.

Connie McWhirter and Ruth Spangler from the Moran Public Library presented awards recently for the Teen Winter Reading Challenge. Allison Heim, the Winter Reading Challenge winner, received a $25 Amazon card for reading 18 books with a total of 6,942 pages. Rachel Shaffer, runner-up, received $15 for reading 18 books with a total of 4,638 pages. Isabella Duke and Genna Mitchell received $5 for participating. The library plans to offer this challenge again at the end Pictured from left are Ruth Spangler, Rachel Shaffer, Allison Heim, Isabella Duke, of this year.

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Temperance Bedenbender William and Jaqui Bedenbender are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Temperance Autumn Bedenbender.

Temperance was born on Feb. 4, 2015, at Allen County Regional Hospital. She weighed 5 pounds, 11 ounces and was 17½ inches.

She is the maternal granddaughter of Billie

Sue Thompson, Pittsburg, and Wallace Maples, Ark. She is the paternal granddaughter of Dee Jay Bedenbender and Shelia Bedenbender, Neosho Falls.

Her great-grandparents are Thelma Bedenbender, Karen Darnell, Carol Robinson and William Maples.

She has a sister, Aurora Lynn Bedenbender, 5

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Carlyle news Sunday services at the Carlyle Presbyterian Church were led by Pastor Steve Traw. Traw’s message was “At the Well,” from John 4:7-14.

Guest pianist for the morning’s service was Joe Compton, who also provided special music. Joe played guitar and sang “The Sweetest Words.”

A fellowship dinner followed at noon.

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‘Days of Our Lives’ actor sentenced after plea in crash JEFFERSON, Ohio (AP) — Soap opera actor Freddie Smith has been sentenced to two years of probation and had his drivers’ license suspended for a year after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a car crash that seriously injured his girlfriend.

The 26-year-old “Days of Our Lives” actor from Los Angeles lost control of his vehicle Oct. 7 in Ashtabula County in northeast Ohio. He pleaded guilty in December to felony vehicular assault

and misdemeanor driving under the influence.

Twenty-seven-yearold actress Alyssa Tabit of North Hollywood, California, was seriously hurt but is recovering.

The Star-Beacon in Ashtabula reports Smith apologized for his actions in court Wednesday.

Smith must also pay nearly $1,400 in fines, attend a driver’s intervention program and speak at every Ashtabula County high school about the dangers of drinking and driving.

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EVEN THOUGH Iola is still in the grip of winter, McLean and organizers are planning for the planting season.

The community garden will open on March 17 and applications are being accepted. Forms, available on the outside of the garden shed, may be mailed to McLean at 702 S. First St., Iola, KS 66749. He also may be reached at 365-5577.

IN OTHER business Monday, council members will review various city polices on annexation, economic development, housing and industrial and miscellaneous issues.

The discussion is part of the city’s plan to periodically review policies that should form the basis of decisions that come up each year, City Administrator Carl Slaugh explained.

Monday’s 6 p.m. meeting will be at the New Community Building at Riverside Park. It is open to the public.

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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Iola’s Andrew Garber is state-bound Garber still has chance at first place in Class 4A Regional, while Tavon Blazek and Colton Toney fight for chance at state in consolation brackets

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

LOUISBURG — It was a good Friday of wrestling for Iola’s Andrew Garber.

Garber wrestled his way into the Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament by guaranteeing a top-two finish in the 182-pound weight class at the Louisburg Class 4A Regional on Friday.

But, his work isn’t done. He is in the finals of the regional which take place at Louisburg High School at 11 a.m. today.

“It feels awesome,” Garber said. “I’m just going to go wrestle my best and let it out.”

Garber, the second seed in his weight class, went 3-0 at the first day of the regional.

In his first match, Garber pinned Spring Hill’s Nick Sprague in 3:59. Garber then beat Prairie View’s Dylan Rice in the quarterfinal by a 3-2 decision. Garber attacked Rice’s legs, pinning him outside the wrestling area to earn two points in the final 30 seconds of the match. He had previously beaten Rice this

season.

“That’s something we’ve been working on — attacking the legs,” coach Jason Bates said.

“Really, that

Andrew Garber

no tuck shot. We’ve been getting tied up a lot and that’s slowing us down. That’s something we need to work on. He needed to attack his legs and it paid off.”

In the semifinals, Garber faced Coffeyville’s Grant Newton, another familiar foe that he beat earlier this season. Garber was able to win in a 6-1

It feels awesome. I’m just going to go wrestle my best and let it out.

— Andrew Garber

decision. The win clinched him a berth in today’s finals for a chance at first place in the regional.

Tavon Blazek and Colton Toney still have a fighting chance to make it to the state tournament.

“Both Colton and Tavon have a good chance at winning their matches tomorrow,” Bates said. “They just have to come out ready to wrestle.”

Blazek started the tournament as the fifth seed of the 195-pound class and got a win in his first match. After struggling in the first period, Blazek came back out in the second period and pinned Spring Hill’s Keegan Crotchett in 2:52 to get the win.

“We needed that win, hopefully it boosted his confidence a little bit,” Bates said after the match. “The first match is

out of the way, so hopefully we wrestle the best we can.”

Unfortunately, Blazek wasn’t able go knock off his next opponent. He lost to Chanute’s Alex Son by being pinned in 53 seconds.

“He just needs to shake that one off right now, get his head straight and do the best he can,” Bates said.

Blazek is now in the consolation bracket and needs to win three matches today.

Toney only had one match on Friday in the 285-pound division. He was pinned by Louisburg’s Anders Vance in 29 seconds. The loss knocked him into the consolation bracket, where he will need to win two matches to make it to the state tournament.

“I haven’t seen anyone wrestle bad at all,” Bates said.

“We’ve been peaking at the right time, using the moves we’ve worked on in practice and keeping level heads.

They’re wrestling a lot better than they were at the beginning of the year.”

Play resumes for day two of the competition at 11 a.m. today.

Above, Andrew Garber works to pin his first opponent, Spring Hill’s Nick Sprague on Friday. Garber has a chance at first place in the 182-pound weight class. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Right, Tavon Blazek begins to pin Spring Hill’s Keegan Crotchette in the first round on Friday. Blazek lost his next match, but still has a chance at the state tournament. REGISTER/

Colton Toney, blue, is pinned by Louisburg’s Anders Vance, purple, in the first round of the 285-pound weight class on Friday.

Toney still has a chance at state by advancing in the consolation bracket. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

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Lady Wildcats lose on final shot

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

Yates Center High’s Lady Wildcats were a half-second away from collecting their second win of the year Friday night. The home crowd

was on its feet, the student section was poised to erupt, a local newspaper photographer was aiming her lens toward the Yates Center bench in an attempt to capture a reaction snap of one of the exuberant Cats.

Unfortunately for Yates

Center, Fredonia frosh Whitney Solander didn’t get the memo. With the home team up two with eight seconds left in the game, the Yellow Jacket managed to get the ball across halfcourt against the See WILDCATS | Page B3

Items such as the ones above will be up for auction. COURTESY PHOTO

Ducks Unlimited banquet on tap A banquet and auction to benefit waterfowl habitat will return to Iola Feb. 28 with the annual Neosho Valley-Iola Chapter of Ducks Unlimited banquet and auction.

Doors open at the Iola American Legion Post at 5 p.m., with a barbecue dinner catered by Matt Kerr starting at 6:30. The auction follows.

Among the items to be sold or given away through drawings are shotguns, a series of prints of varying size, a number of decoys and other outdoors items.

All proceeds go to Ducks 55.

Tickets sell for $45 for adults, $45 for couples and See DUCKS | Page B3

Yates Center’s Shayna Karmann (5) corrals a rebound between two Fredonia defenders as Makayla Jones (34) and Aubrey Smith (25) come to her aid. Yates Center lost 47-46. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

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KS Senate OKs abortion ban TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A national group’s push to outlaw and redefine as “dismemberment� a procedure commonly used in second trimester abortions advanced Friday in Kansas, with the state Senate’s approval of what could become the nation’s first ban of the practice.

The bill approved on a 31-9 vote is model legislation drafted by the National Right to Life Committee as part of its long-running efforts to restrict abortion incrementally. The group first unveiled the proposal in Kansas last month, but similar legislation is pending in other states, including Missouri and Oklahoma.

The measure bans what doctors call the dilation and evacuation procedure, used in about 8 percent of abortions in Kansas, redefining it legally as “dismemberment abortion.� “It is unimaginable how such a procedure could be utilized by a medical practitioner,� said Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a Nickerson Republican who voted for the bill, adding that failing to ban the procedure would “further coarsen society.�

According to abortion rights advocates, the procedure is often the safest way to terminate a pregnancy in the second trimester, but the ban could outlaw some earlier abortions.

The bill goes next to the House where there’s also a strong anti-abortion majority, although some members favor an outright ban on most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, a strong abortion opponent, has pledged to sign the ban if it clears the GOP-dominated Legislature.

Kansas already bans most abortions at or after the 22nd week of pregnancy.

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By TIM DAHLBERG AP Boxing Writer

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Fight is finally on.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. will meet Manny Pacquiao on May 2 in a welterweight showdown that will be boxing’s richest fight ever.

Mayweather himself announced the bout Friday after months of negotiations, posting a picture of the signed contract online.

“I promised the fans we would get this done and we did,” Mayweather said.

The long anticipated bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas will almost surely break every financial record, and make both boxers richer than ever. Mayweather could earn $120 million or more, while Pacquiao’s split of the purse will likely be around $80 million.

The fight, which matches boxing’s two biggest attractions of recent years, has been in the making for five years. It finally came together in recent months with both fighters putting aside past differenc-

es over various issues — including drug testing and television rights — to reach agreement.

Pacquiao was sleeping in the Philippines when the fight was announced, but his camp issued a statement saying the fans deserve the long awaited fight.

“It is an honor to be part of this historic event,” Pacquiao said. “I dedicate this fight to all the fans who willed this fight to happen and, as always, to bring glory to the Philippines and my fellow Filipinos around the world.”

While the fight rivals the 2002 heavyweight title bout between Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson for interest, it comes more than five years after the first real effort to put the fighters together in their prime. Most boxing observers believe both have lost some of their skills, though Mayweather remains a master defensive fighter and Pacquiao showed in his last fight against Chris Algieri that he still has tremendous quickness in his hands.

Still, Pacquiao is 36 and has been through many wars in the ring.

And while Mayweather has been largely untouched in his career, he turns 38 on Tuesday.

“I am the best ever, TBE, and this fight will be another opportunity to showcase my skills and do what I do best, which is win,” Mayweather said in his announcement. “Manny is going to try to do what 47 before him failed to do, but he won’t be successful. He will be No. 48.”

Oddsmakers believe Mayweather will do just that, making him a 2 1/2-1 favorite in the scheduled 12-round bout. The fight is expected to do record business in Nevada’s legal sports books, with tens of millions wagered on the outcome.

It will also do record business at the box office — with the MGM expected to be scaled far higher than the $20 million live gate for Mayweather’s 2013 fight with Canelo Alvarez.

The pay-per-view revenue also is expected to be a record, though television executives said Friday they had yet to actually fix a price for people to buy the fight at home.

Yates Center Aside from a close first quarter, Friday night’s Yates Center vs.

Fredonia high school boys basketball game was all Fredonia. The home team — on the night of their homecoming — finished the game on the wrong side of a 56 - 39 spread.

The Wildcats traded baskets with the Yellow Jackets in the first minutes of the game — led by Yates Center senior Kal Hamm, who tallied a quick eight first-quarter points — but Fredonia quickly outscored the home team 17 - 8 in the second quarter, and entered the locker at halftime up 32 - 18.

Second verse, same as the first: Fredonia’s momentum was un-

deterred rolling into the third quarter. And though the Wildcats outscored the visiting Yellow Jackets in the final eight minutes of the game, it was too little to late.

The combined scoring of Fredonia juniors Justin Solander and Isaac Ostrosky — 15 and 16 points, respectively — was too much for Yates Center.

Although held to a scoreless fourth quarter, Hamm ended the game as the Wildcats leading scorer, dropping 16 points on the visiting Yellow Jackets. Yates Center freshman Jordan Smith followed with nine.

Yates Center travels to meet Burlington on Tuesday.

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Lady Cats’ stringent press. With three seconds to go, Solander slipped away from her defender; finding a gap in the defense, she received a skip pass from a fellow Yellow, squared her feet, and fired a 3-pointer, which whistled through the bottom of the net as the buzzer sounded. Fredonia wins by one point in the 47-46 conetest.

“You know what,” said a magnanimous Chris Wells, the Lady Cats’ head coach, “all year we haven’t played with that passion, and tonight we really showed it. They

were fired up. It’s a very tough loss for us — we’re now 1-17 on the year, and I thought we were going to pull something out there. But we’re not going to hang our heads.”

Nor should they. The Wildcats and Yellow Jackets, to the extent that either species is capable, traded punches all night.

Yates Center’s leading scorer, senior Shayna Karmann, scored 21 in the effort, depositing twelve of those in the critical third quarter.

Aubrey Smith followed with eight.

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Center — the Lady Cats missed 10 free throws in the fourth quarter, at a time when even one might have made the difference — but Wells was thrilled by the effort.

“We played well against a pretty good Fredonia team. We never come in expecting to win, but we come in and fight for it for 32 minutes, and I believe the girls did that — they fought hard for 32 minutes.”

Malorrie Kukovich led Fredonia with 18, including three key free throws in the game’s final minutes. Solander emerged as the Yellow Jackets’ second leading scorer with twelve — all 3-pointers — including the coup de grace to end the game.

“It came down to the little things, that’s what hurt us the most. Those things will come back on you. But we’re going to take this game as fire,” said an ever-optimistic Wells, “and build on it for next week, when we go to Burlington and we get a Jayhawk win here for Senior Night. And, hopefully, we’ll take that into substate with the same kind of momentum. You know, tonight, it was just a great game.”

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Lancers clip Jayhawks MOUND CITY — Crest High’s boys basketball team earned a 63-53 road win against Jayhawk-Linn on Thursday night.

“I’m very pleased with this win. We have been pretty inconsistent as of late, but tonight we brought some fight with us,” Coach Travis Hermreck said. “This was a huge win for our team, and hopefully gives us a kickstart for the next few weeks.”

The Lancers led after each quarter, going into halftime with a 38-32 advantage and outscoring the Jayhawks 25-21 in

the second half. Crest won the turnover battle 13-11.

Crest’s Austin Green led the way with 23 points, making three 3-pointers. He also had six defensive rebounds, two steals and five assists. Making an impressive five 3-pointers on his way to a 20-point performance was Hunter Frazell. Evan Godderz had seven points, and led the team with seven assists. Kellen Ramsey led with nine rebounds.

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“Defensively, we played good team defense, and despite giving up a lot of size and athleticism, we made everything tough.”

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Wiggins’ rookie season has been a family affair

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(TNS) — Andrew Wiggins’ family settled into a row of eight seats with a bird’s-eye view of the Timberwolves bench.

The group included his mom, dad, his three sisters and an older brother.

“We’re at most of the home games,” said Mitchell Wiggins, his father.

If not at Target Center, the family usually can be found at a high school gym watching Wiggins’ two younger sisters play as members of the Hopkins High basketball program.

Wiggins’ introduction to the NBA has become a family affair. Once his trade from Cleveland to the Wolves was finalized last summer, the family packed up their Torontoarea home and moved to the Twin Cities to be near Wiggins.

Though he’s flourishing on the court — runaway favorite for Rookie of the Year honors and superstar-in-the-making — Wiggins is still a teenager at 19. He credits his family for helping him adjust to his new environment.

“Going through something like this, first year

in the NBA,” Wiggins said, “it’s always good to have family beside you, supporting you, comforting you.”

Wiggins’ older sister Stephanie and older brother Mitchell Jr. live with him at his home.

His parents, Mitchell and Marita, and two younger sisters, Angelica and Taya, live in their home 10 minutes away.

The only family member not here is older brother Nick, who plays for the Utah Jazz’s D-League team in Idaho.

“We see [Andrew] every day,” his father said.

“He wanted us close. We try to give him his freedom and his independence.”

Wiggins’ parents felt their son’s age — he turns 20 on Feb. 23 — made it important for him to be surrounded by family while adjusting to life as a professional athlete.

“He’d still be in college if the world was normal,” Mitchell said.

Wiggins says he’s close to all of his siblings, but he’s admittedly “real protective” of his younger sisters — Angelica, a senior at Hopkins, and Taya, a sophomore.

“He thinks that he’s their father,” Marita said.

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“Sometimes when we’re walking across the street he still tries to hold my hand,” Taya said, laughing. “If I have to go to the bathroom [in public], he’ll be like, ‘Angelica, go with her.’ “ Angelica, who recently turned 18, said they often get text messages from him asking, “Where are you?”

“Very protective,” she said.

Wiggins keeps close tabs on their basketball careers, too. He attends their games when his schedule permits and works with them at open gym.

“My sisters love to shoot,” he noted.

As kids, they spent hours shooting together at the community center near their school in Toronto. One-on-one games were no contest, but shooting competitions were a little more even.

“He doesn’t always win,” Angelica said.

Uprooting and starting over at a new high school required sacrifices, but his sisters embraced the change.

They’ve made plenty of friends and are doing well in school.

“I was excited, not sad,” Angelica said of her senior year.

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ity and some unrealistic chatter, considering their family genes. Their father had a long pro basketball career, including six NBA seasons. Their mother won two silver medals in track and field for Canada at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

The two older brothers played college basketball.

And, of course, Andrew was the No. 1 overall draft pick.

“At first, everyone probably expected us to be like him,” Angelica said. “Everyone probably thought that we’re going to be dunking.”

Hopkins coach Brian Cosgriff, who has won five state championships and sent 21 players to Division I programs, didn’t know what to expect when he learned that Wiggins’ sisters were joining his program.

“I kept asking, are they big?” he said.

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Senior Spotlight Iola High School Class of 2015 Baleigh Seeber

Baleigh is the daughter of Janna Stotler and Ronald Seeber.

She participates in tennis and softball in high school. She is a member of FFA, SADD, FCCLA and LinkCrew.

Her hobbies are swimming, playing sports, hanging out with friends and watching movies.

Baleigh has a part-time job at Allen County Animal Rescue Facility in LaHarpe. Baleigh said she plans to continue working at ACARF after high school. During the fall semester she plans to attend Allen Community College to work toward an associates of science degree.

She then plans to go to Kansas State University to work on earning a veterinary of science degree to become a veterinarian.

Baleigh said she has many high school memories.

“Throughout my high school years I played softball and tennis. My freshman year I participated in scholars bowl and I earned a medal,” she said. “In FFA I have received many proficiency awards. For tennis my junior year I received the award for the ‘Most Hustle.’”

Lauren Hunt

Lauren is the daughter of James and Sari Hunt.

She was a member of FFA, FCCLA, Crime Stoppers, 4-H and United Methodist Church. She runs track, cross country and plays softball.

She enjoys horseback riding in her free time.

She works part-time at The New Greenery and Inn Club.

Lauren plans to attend Kansas State University and getting a degree in veterinary science.

“My highlights were coming in third place in the 800 in track and placing fourth place at district land judging for FFA,” she said.

Travis Hermstein

Travis is the son of Travis and Melanie Hermstein.

He participates in cross country, basketball, track, FCA, STUCO, site council and National Honor Society. He is a member of First Christian Church, Wesley United Methodist Church youth group and coached youth basketball.

His hobbies are playing sports and hanging out with friends.

He has a part-time job at China Palace.

Travis plans to attend the University of Kansas to major in geology.

“My highlights are earning a HOBY leadership award, being a fall and winter homecoming candidate, attending Boys State and being a part of the cross country and basketball teams that went to state,” he said.

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Eighth grade Ponies end season with win at Fort Scott FORT SCOTT — Iola Middle School’s Ponies ended the season with Fort Scott on Thursday.

The eighth grade A team won 47-40 in overtime. Blake Ashmore led the way with 13 points, while Ian Maynard followed with 12 points and seven rebounds. Kane Rogers scored seven points and had five rebounds. Derek Bycroft scored seven points. Tayton Driskel scored six points and hauled in 10 rebounds. Cole Regehr added two points.

“That was a great way to finish the season, everyone really played well,” coach Marty Taylor said. “Ian and Tayton did a great job inside against kids that were much taller and when Ian fouled out, Cole came in and gave us some great minutes. Kane and Derek took care of the ball and were all over the floor for us. Blake hit some huge shots.”

The B team fell 27-23.

Brady Folk and Dylan Newland each scored

six points. Jeremy Waldman scored five points, Jon Miller followed with three, Blake Haar added two and Hunter Baughn made a free throw.

The seventh grade A team lost 31-13. Cal Leonard scored five points and Cason Barker followed with four. Brady Wiggin added two points and had eight rebounds, while Zane Whitney scored two points and grabbed five boards.

“We had a couple of starters out, but these kids played hard and hustled all night,” Taylor said.

The B team lost to Fort Scott 21-19. Ethan Hamm scored six points and Karson McGraw added three. Noah Ashmore, Brody Nemecek, Zane Whitney, Peter Venter and Asher Sievers each scored two points.

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Angelica averages 3.5 points per game off the bench for the state’s premier program. Taya plays on the sophomore team.

Both hope to play Division I basketball.

Cosgriff believes they likely will get that opportunity, though he wishes he had two years to work with Angelica, who indicated she might attend junior college next year.

Wiggins said his sisters don’t feel pressure living in his basketball shadow.

“I don’t think they think about it like that,” he said. “They’re just living life.”

That life revolves around family. The siblings try and see each every day, if possible.

They watch TV, talk, listen to music. Normal stuff.

“He’s goofy,” Angelica said of her big brother.

They love being able to share this time with him, which makes it an ideal situation for Wiggins and an organization that has staked its future on him. Mitchell said the family hopes to stay at least until Taya finishes high school.

“We’re a very close family,” he said. “We all believe in each other.”

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After the ferry went off course, the ice breaker towed it to Boston.

The Massachusetts arrived at about 10 a.m., about 45 minutes later than normal. No one was hurt and the boat was not damaged.

Ferry service was canceled elsewhere in the Northeast. The Cape May-Lewes Ferry, which connects Delaware and New Jersey, halted operations because of ice and wind. Ferries on New York’s East River also were canceled.

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The mayor of Tangier Island, Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge, played down its plight but said medicines were essential for those who could not get off the island. Tangier has no drugstore.

“But you know, we’re not starving out here,” he said in an interview.

“This happens when you live in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay.” While the island has a grocery, many islanders hop on a ferry to Crisfield, Maryland, for larger purchases.

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“Polar vortex” is so last year. Some forecasters are calling the record-setting bout of icy air the “Siberian Express” because winds coming from Russia are traveling over the Arctic Circle and pushing into Canada and the United States.

Despite being the buzzword of winter 2014, the polar vortex is a term that has been used for decades in meteorology. It is a pocket of very cold air that typically swirls around the North Pole.

Last year was displaced by a high pressure system that traveled far north into the Pacific Ocean, sending the center of the vortex into southern Canada.

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In western Pennsylvania, temperatures dipped to minus 18 in New Castle, minus 15 in Butler and 6 below zero in Pittsburgh — all records.

Records also were set at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey (1 degree); Trenton, N.J. (zero degrees); New York’s Central Park (2 degrees); and Cincinnati (12 degrees below zero).

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Arctic air plunged the eastern half of the United States into a deep freeze — as far south as Alabama and Georgia — and broke records Friday.

The cold snap followed snow and ice storms earlier in the week, and weather forecasters warned that more sleet and freezing rain will be possible in the coming days.

Residents also had to deal with more school cancellations, power outages, road hazards and water main breaks.

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Man accused of shooting at whales with WWII rifle NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A tuna fisherman has been accused of shooting at pilot whales from his vessel with a World War II-era rifle.

Daniel Archibald surrendered Thursday to face the charges and was

released on a $10,000 unsecured bond.

Archibald, who’s from Cape May, widely considered America’s oldest seaside resort, used a Mosin-Nagant rifle to shoot at pilot whales from the vessel Capt.

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Public notices (First published in The Iola Register on Feb. 7, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY E. CLEMANS, DECEASED CASE NO. 15 PR 6 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR PROBATE OF WILL AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in said Court by Arvin E. Clemans, praying for the admission to probate of the Will of Mary E. Clemans dated April 10, 2012, and the First Codicil thereto, which are filed with said Petition, and for the appointment of Arvin E. Clemans as Executor of said Will, and you are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 3rd day of March,

2015, at 8:30 a.m. of said day in said Court, in the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place said case will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgement and decree will be entered in due course upon said Petition. All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against said estate within four months from the date of the first publication of this Notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are

not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

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(First published in The Iola Register on Feb. 21, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EARL R. CLEMANS, JR., DECEASED CASE NO. 15 PR 10 NOTICE OF HEARING STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED, GREETINGS:

Take Notice that a Petition has been filed in said Court by Arvin E. Clemans praying for the determination of the death and heirship of Earl R. Clemans, Jr., deceased, and the decree of this Court assigning the real estate described in the Petition and all other property, real and personal, of his estate to the persons entitled thereto as the heirs-at-law of said decedent, pur-

suant to the law of intestate succession of the State of Kansas, in force at the death of said decedent.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 17th day of March, 2015, at 8:30 o’clock a.m., of said day in said Court, the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein,

judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said Petition.

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(First published in The Iola Register on Feb. 21, 2015) NOTICE OF PLACES AND DATES OF REGISTRATION In compliance with the provisions of K.S.A. 1982 Supp. 25-2310, notice is hereby given that the books of registration of voters will be open at the following places during regular business hours: The office of the County Clerk, Courthouse, Iola; the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, Iola; the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, Humboldt; the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, Gas;

the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, LaHarpe; the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, Moran; the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, Savonburg; the office of the Kansas Driver License Department, Iola; the office of the South East Kansas Mental Health Department, Iola; the office of the South East Kansas Mental Health Department, Humboldt; the office of the ANW Coop, Iola; and the Public Library, Humboldt;

At 5:00 o’clock P.M. on the 17th day of March, 2015 the books for the City/School General, will close and remain closed until the 7th day of April, 2015.

A citizen of the United States who is eighteen (18) years of age or older, or will have attained the age of eighteen (18) years at the next election, must register before he or she can vote. Registration is open until the close of business on the 21st day before election.

When a voter has been registered according to law, the voter shall remain registered until the voter changes name by marriage, divorce or other legal proceeding

or changes residence. The voter may re-register in person, by mail or other delivery when registration is open or the voter may reregister on Election Day. Application forms shall be provided by the county election officer or the Secretary of State upon request. The application shall be signed by the applicant under penalty of perjury.

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Stop and smell the roses As the sun peaks over the horizon icicles glisten as temperatures dipped to 28 degrees Friday at Dewar Nurseries in Apopka, Fla. Workers covered acres of plants with frost cloth and also sprayed water, encasing the roses in a cocoon of ice.

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BRUSSELS (AP) — Greece and its creditors in the 19-nation eurozone reached an agreement Friday on extending the country’s rescue loans, a move that should ease concerns it was heading for the euro exit door.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the eurozone’s top official, said a deal was agreed on that will extend Greece’s loans for four months, not the six months that the Greek government had requested on Thursday.

“We have established common ground again to reach agreement on this

common statement,” Dijsselbloem said.

In return, Greece has committed to not take any measures that might affect the country’s budget targets. Greece has committed to provide a list of reforms based on its bailout program for assessment Monday.

The review will be carried out Tuesday by representatives from the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund and European Commission.

“The institutions will provide a first view whether this is sufficiently comprehensive

to be a valid starting point for a successful conclusion of the (bailout) review,” according to the eurozone statement on Greece.

If the institutions don’t think the proposals are good enough, Greece would be facing financial trouble again.

Its bailout ends after Feb. 28.

Dijsselbloem said Friday’s agreement was a “first step in this process of rebuilding trust” between Greece and its euro partners and allows for a strategy to get the country “back on track.”

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Cars stack up at the end of pit road for qualifying’s first round.

No one wanted to be first out.

Tony Stewart upset with weigh scale, group qualifying Tony Stewart has not been happy during much of his stay at Daytona International Speedway for the Speedweeks’ racing program.

It started Friday when NASCAR blackflagged his No. 14 Chevrolet in the first practice session in preparation for the Sprint Unlimited on Friday afternoon.

Stewart had not been weighed on the NASCAR scale, which is a mandatory rule for competitors before any Sprint Cup Series event. The three-time champion ignored the black flag and stayed on the track.

When he brought his car to the garage, he was immediately summoned to the NASCAR hauler for a chat with race officials.

After a 10-minute, closed-door meeting, Stewart headed straight to the NASCAR scale to have his body weight recorded.

Stewart wasn’t happy about the whole ordeal.

On Sunday, after he failed to advance through first-round group qualifying for the Daytona 500, he took NASCAR to task for doing away with traditional single-car time trials at Daytona.

“Today used to be about showcasing the hard work from the teams over the winter.

Now it (is) a complete embarrassment for our series,” Stewart fumed on social media Sunday.

A win in Sunday’s Daytona 500, the only blank spot on Stewart’s remarkable racing career, would probably cheer him up.

Have we learned anything yet after the first weekend of racing?

Come on, you know better than that. If there’s one certainty in NASCAR, it’s how nothing we learn at Daytona has anything to do with what will happen in the coming hours, much less weeks. We know this: Tony Stewart’s irritation is back in midseason form, “group qualifying” doesn’t work at plate tracks and, of course, Jeff Gordon is up front unless he wads it up on Thursday.

Qualifying race? Sounds outdated Good point. But can you imagine setting the Daytona 500 field based solely on what we saw (and didn’t see) during Sunday’s qualifying? Or, I should say, “qualifying.”

That debacle deserves quote marks. The overall point, however, is this: The Daytona 500, in a way, is bigger than the sport itself.

Thursday’s qualifying races already set it apart, so find a unique way to determine the pole. Such as single-car qualifying.

Can you believe you said that?

Not really. But compared to Sunday, singlecar qualifying looks like the State Fair and Mardi Gras combined.

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Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach News-Journal for more than 30 years. Reach him at ken.willis@ news-jrnl.com

Tony Stewart, waiting in his No. 14 Chevrolet during Saturday’s practice, took NASCAR to task Sunday for doing away with traditional single-car time trials at Daytona International Speedway.

Since the No. 19 is a new team with no history, Edwards was in a must-qualify When Carl Edwards changed race teams situation. in the offseason, he knew there would be His fears were put to rest on Daytona one, immediate daunting obstacle — get 500 pole qualifying day when he turned his No. 19 Toyota qualified for the Daytona the seventh-fastest lap in the final group 500. He did not have the safety net of qualifying session and earned a spot in the 2014 owner points.

500 grid.

The 35-year-old driver spent all of his “I’m very happy with the result,” Edcareer at Roush Fenway Racing. He dewards said. “The process and everything cided to leave the No. 99 Ford and drive the No. 19 car owned by Joe Gibbs Racing. was extremely stressful.”

Edwards relieved

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Jeff Gordon was happy about Daytona 500 knock-out qualifying after winning pole honors, but he was in the minority.

Many other drivers complained about the format, introduced to Speedweeks for the first time this year.

Clint Bowyer’s No. 15 Toyota was destroyed in a multicar crash in the first session. “It’s idiotic to be out here doing this,” Bowyer groused.

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Logano’s No. 22 pushed Harvick’s No. 4 into the wall in the Sprint Unlimited. There was some contact on the cool-down lap, words exchanged on pit road.

GODWIN KELLY GIVES HIS TAKE: “No fist fight. Good sign!”

GODWIN’S DAYTONA 500 PICKS Godwin Kelly is the Daytona Beach NewsJournal’s motorsports editor and has covered NASCAR for more than 30 years. Reach him at godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com

Winner: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Rest of the top five: Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart, Brad Keselowski, Kevin Harvick Dark horse: Martin Truex Jr.

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