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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
County considers burial policy By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
Iola artist Gary Hawk looks at a framed sketch he had done years before for Iolan Leah Tomson at a reception Tuesday for Hawk’s exhibit on display this week at the Bowlus Fine Arts. Center. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Reception has Hawk flying high By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Gary Hawk has been honored across the country, from former presidents, heads of state, governors and countless others enamored with his ability to bring the Old West to life with his paintings and other art projects. But rarely has Hawk been
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so overcome with emotion as he was Tuesday when his friends and family gathered to recognize his talents.
Hawk occasionally choked up and wiped away tears at a reception in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center where his art is on display this week in the Mary L. Martin Gallery. Hawk spoke at the reception with wife Beverly and their three daughters, Deborah, Susan and Lori. “I didn’t know that everybody was doing this,” Hawk
admitted beforehand. “When they said, you had to come down to the Bowlus and I saw this, it put tears in my eyes. Words can’t express what this is like tonight.” Dozens of Hawk’s prints are on display, including his iconic portrait of Milburn Stone, who played Doc on See HAWK | Page A2
One local gentleman, having shuffled off his mortal coil about a week ago, is doing more to influence county policy from the Great Beyond than he was ever likely to manage in his lifetime. Iola’s Feuerborn Family Funeral Service is in possession of a deceased individual whose sister is either unwilling or unable to pay for proper burial. “So we’ve got two issues here,” explained the funeral home’s owner, Reuben Feuerbor n, who appeared before the county commission Tuesday morning. “ N u m b e r Reuben one, the le- Feuerborn gal direction of the disposition, which, in Kansas, comes from the next of kin. And then, two: Who’s paySee COUNTY | Page A4
High court hears potentially costly school aid case By JOHN HANNA The Iola Register
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Attorneys for cash-strapped Kansas are trying to persuade a state Supreme Court not to order hundreds of millions of dollars in additional aid each year for schools. But lawyers for four poorer school districts, who will
Report: Voting rolls purged By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has discarded as of August the registrations of about 6,570 Kris Kobach prospective voters under a rule that allows him to purge them after 90 days primarily for lack of proof of citizenship, the League of Women Voters said Tuesday. Those prospective voters whose names are missing likely registered at some place other than a motor vehicle office and so their right to vote is not protected by recent court orders compelling Kobach to keep them See PURGED | Page A2
present arguments before the court today, say they are confident the judges will side with them. The Dodge City, Hutchinson, Wichita and Kansas City, Kansas, districts filed their lawsuit in 2010. More than 70 percent of their students are eligible for
free or reduced-price lunches, giving them more at-risk students than 90 percent of all districts in the state. The four districts contend in part that legislators aren’t providing enough aid to schools to fulfill a duty under the state constitution to give every child a suitable education. The six-year legal dispute has pitted the seven
court justices — six of whom were appointed by Democratic or moderate Republican governors — against conservative Republicans, who control the rest of state government. The high court has reviewed the case multiple times and directed legislators to increase funding for poor districts so they don’t fall too
far behind wealthier ones. But the high court is now considering whether the state’s nearly $4.1 billion in annual aid to its 286 school districts is sufficient — or as much as $1.4 billion a year short. The state’s lawyers argue that Kansas has a good public education system and total See CASE | Page A2
Film crews follow ACC student By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
A yearlong documentary is following the progress of Allen Community College freshman Jose Reza as he strives to earn a degree in order to become a biology teacher. Reza, 19, is being followed through his first year at ACC by a Univision film crew. The documentary is part of a collaborative effort between Univision, an American Spanish language television network aimed at Latino Americans, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project is a campaign to address the educational gap for Hispanic and African American students, noted Galo Arellano, a Univision reporter producing the documentary. The film crew was in Iola this week to follow Reza through several of his classes, his cross country practices See STUDENT | Page A4
Quote of the day Vol. 118, No. 227
Allen Community College student Jose Reza, seated, visits with Univision reporter Galo Arellamo, left, and camera operator Joannae Suarez during a film session Tuesday at the ACC campus in Iola. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
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