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Monday, May 23, 2016

Grads get rousing send-off

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Dreamgirls (and boys) Audiences were treated to some spectacular performances during Supernova Dance Academy’s annual showcase Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Above, Cali Riley performs during the song “Carnival.” Additional photos from the weekend recital are on Page A4, as well as on the Register’s Facebook page. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Iola High School’s graduating class of 2016 learned more than the “Three R’s” during its years within USD 257, Abigail Taylor said Sunday.

Taylor, voted as the class speaker, spoke at Sunday’s commencement ceremony in front of a jam-packed high school gymnasium.

Taylor shared seven lessons she learned while in high school: — News spreads like wildfire in a small town. While it could be annoying to realize many in town knew what you were up to, it was worth it to have someone in your corner, she said.

— Being the “little brother” can be tough, but it’s not all bad. Iola traditionally has been one of the smallest 4A schools in the state, so winning in athletics has been particularly tough. “But when we did win, it made it all worth it,” she said. “Besides, everyone loves a good underdog story.”

— Just because we have the same last name, doesn’t mean we’re related,” Taylor said, tongue in cheek, even though many of her classmates and teachers have become adopted families of sorts.

— A small school is full of

Above, Iola High School graduates sing “Life Is a Highway” during Sunday’s commencement. Below, graduate Valaree Burtnett is congratulated by USD 257 school board member Buck Quincy after receiving her diploma. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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Free, fresh produce giveaway effort begins

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Tracy Keagle and Georgia Masterson were in a giving mood Friday.

The pair handed out sackloads of fresh produce, all free of charge, to folks of all stripes Friday afternoon.

The occasion was the inaugural Humanity House Fresh For You giveaway.

Keagle, who mans the Humanity House garden plot on the northeast corner of the courthouse square, handed out radishes, collard greens, broccoli, onions, cauliflower, kale and other vegetables.

Recipients were required to sign up via the Humanity House Facebook page; more than 200 did.

Keagle and Masterson plan to return to the plot each Friday afternoon.

They’ll decide later whether to set up another giveaway day.

Keagle grows most of the produce, although other farmers from the Allen County Farmers Market, after hearing of her endeavor, donated leftover produce from their sales the day prior.

Keagle expects the proSee PRODUCE | Page A2

Crest High School gradautes toss their mortarboard hats skyward Saturday afternoon, following their commencement ceremony. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

Iola High School seniors among those hurt in wreck

New ag instructor joins Allen’s ranks

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

For the lay person, who has little idea what livestock judging at the collegiate level entails, Buddy Curry has a tip: “Think of it as a debate team with an animal influence.”

Curry, recently named Allen Community College’s new livestock judging coach and “ag careers specialist,” arrives at the Iola campus with a long menu of credentials, a blue-chip history in competitive judging and no shortage See FARM | Page A2

Two Iola High School graduates were among four injured in a single-car accident Friday night east of Humboldt.

According to the Allen County Sheriff ’s Department, Nathaniel Streeter, 18, was eastbound on Georgia Road, about one-half mile west of 1800 Street, near Humboldt Speedway, when his vehicle crashed.

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All four were hospitalized, Streeter seriously enough that he was flown from the scene to Overland Park Regional Medical Center for treatment of suffered broken ribs, a punctured lung and broken vertebrae in his back.

Rescue crews had to use the Jaws of Life device to free the trapped Streeter from the car.

Iola High School Principal Stacey Fager said Streeter was able to walk with assistance for about 30 minutes See INJURED | Page A4

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Obituary Dorothty Schuster Dorothy Schuster, 95, Garnett, died Saturday, May 21, 2016, at her home.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Garnett Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Christian Church and left in care of Feuerborn Family Funeral Service-Garnett.

Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

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— Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building, Riverside Park.

— USD 257 Board of Education meeting, 6 p.m., school board office.

— MarmatonValley PTO, 7 p.m., Marmaton Valley Elementary School library.

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— Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

— Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen County Regional Hospital.

— Allen County Regional Hospital trustees meeting, 7 p.m., meeting room at Allen County Regional Hospital.

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— Rehearsals for Allen Community College Summer Youth Theatre production of “Rock Around The Block,” 3-5 p.m., ACC Theatre.

— Iola BPOE No. 569, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge.

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— Rotary Club, noon, The Greenery.

— Rehearsals for Allen Community College Summer Youth Theatre production of “Rock Around The Block,” 3-5 p.m., ACC Theatre.

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— See, Hear Iola, 10 a.m., New Community Building, Riverside Park.

— Senior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior citizens center.

Ryan Sparks of Grow Iola will speak Friday at the monthly See Hear Iola session at the New Community Building at Iola’s Riverside Park.

Sparks will discuss a website he’s developed for local home sellers and home buyers to communicate.

Shelby Brennon of

Attending Saturday’s Cofachique Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution meeting were, front from left, Beverly Miller, Clara Wicoff, Brenda Judd Dooley, Linda Johnson and Carla Ewert; back from left, Mary Lou Byers, Nelda Cuppy, Lisa Wicoff, Cynthia Geisler, Karen Gilpin, Garnett Regent Donna Roberts and Iola Regent B. Ellen Smith. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Cofachique DAR chapter hosts guests The Cofachique Chapter of the Daughters Of The American Revolution meeting was Saturday at Community National Bank’s meeting room.

State Regent Brenda

Tryouts on tap

Landmark National Bank will discuss mortgages during her presentation.

The monthly snapshot of goings-on in the Iola area are rebroadcast on Iola’s public access television channel.

The 10 a.m. session is open to the public

Auditions for the Allen Community College Summer Theatre production of “Rock Around The Block” will run from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at the ACC Theatre.

Director Tony Piazza is seeking actors ages 13-21.

Rehearsals will run June 6-23, with free performances at Riverside Park June 24 and 25.

Judd Dooley attended.

Clyde Toland was the guest speaker.

In attendance from the Iola chapter were B. Ellen Smith, Karen Gilpin, Beverly Miller, Nelda Cuppy, Linda John-

son, Cynthia Geisler, Clara Wicoff, Lisa Wicoff, Mary Lou Byers and Judy Arbeiter.

Present from Four Winds Chapter in Garnett were Donna Roberts and Carla Ewert.

Guests were Nancy Toland, wife of Clyde Toland, and Kira McReynolds, granddaughter of Judy Arbeiter.

Lunch was served by the Kappa Alpha Sorority.

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duce to become more abundant as warmer weather arrives.

In addition to the free food, Keagle is selling bundles of asparagus for $5 apiece at the Farmers Market, of which, $2 will got toward a Little Lending Library program in Allen County. The asparagus is available from Toby’s Garden Center in Chanute.

Keagle hopes to set up book exchange centers throughout the county: four in Iola and one each in LaHarpe and Moran.

Those willing to assist with the project are encouraged to contact the Humanity House Facebook page.

Tracy Keagle, foreground, and Georgia Masterson load produce for David Hill Friday as part of a weekly Fresh For You giveaway. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Farm: New instructor explains benefits of livestock judging of zeal for lifting the already successful ACC ag program to still new heights.

Passing the cases of sports trophies at the college earlier this month, Curry was brimful of optimism. “Hopefully, we’ll have to turn around and buy more cases. I’d like a string of our trophies all the way down the hall.”

DESPITE the sometimes dusty, manureflecked setting, livestock judging is as rigorous an academic pursuit as any other, insists Curry, and requires of its students the same clarity of thought, articulacy, cargo of specialized learning and quick-wittedness that define the best debate teams.

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sion of what a judging event looks like: The student is asked to evaluate the animal — nearly always cattle, sheep, goats and hogs — and rank them based on industry-defined criteria.

Participants are focused, in the main, on two categories. “Basically,” explains Curry, “if it’s a breeding stock, you look at how it’s going to relate itself back to being utilized in the herd and how it will improve the herd’s overall performance. And if it’s a market-oriented animal — how is it going to provide quality meat products for the consumer?”

Having assessed the animal and ranked it within its class, the student then enters into the section of the event called “oral reasons” — the debate-like portion

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of the livestock competion — which requires the student to convince an industry official that his or her placing is logical and accurate.

“Probably the best thing students get from livestock judging is actually oral reasons,” explains Curry. “We’re teaching them to be able to defend their decisions and defend them in persuasive ways.

“Basically, the first thing you’ve got to do is get them to understand that they will someday have an influence in the industry by going through this. This is where a lot of the standards are set for each one of the species within the industry.

“There was a study done several years ago by some of the landgrant institutions: The first 20 kids hired out of each one of those land-

grant colleges, out of their ag programs, were on some kind of competitive judging team that included oral reasons.”

And the roster of jobs available to those students is more diverse than one might suspect.

“A friend of mine who graduated with me from [Northeastern Oklahoma A&M] is a lawyer now in Dallas. You’d be surprised at how much of a natural next-step it is. He’s got to go into the courtroom and argue his case, and he’s got to be persuasive.”

WITH THE SALE of the ACC farm set for July 30, the college has, according to campus dean Tosca Harris, “changed the focus of [Curry’s] position. Whereas the position before dealt with farm management, Buddy will now become our ag careers special-

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ist. He will be working more with the students directly, helping them get placement in their career field .

“We also look for Buddy to make the connections in the community with our area farmers and ranchers, and to be able to direct students to those facilities to work with our local agricultural people.”

Curry will also be in charge of recruitment — not only for livestock judging but for the ACC ag program as a whole.

“It’s about getting out and getting to know the students. Not just picking the kids that are seniors in high school, but actually getting to know the kids at a younger age, and helping them get to know me so that, later on, they’re comfortable becoming a Red Devil.

The 50-YEAR-OLD, Jay, Okla., native has charted an academic and professional course that has carried him across large parts of livestock country. Cur-

ry, himself the son of an extension agent and livestock judging coach, received his undergraduate education at NEO A&M and at Oklahoma Panhandle State University. He received his master’s degree from West Texas A&M University and then spent nearly 12 years as an instructor and livestock judging coach at Frank Phillips College in Borger, Texas. From there, he moved to Fort Hays State University, where he worked in a similar capacity for more than five years, before assuming the role of lead ag teacher at Coffeyville Community College in early 2015.

Having traveled this Dust Bowl patch for a quarter-century now, Curry — who, with his wife, hopes to, in time, find a small farm outside Iola on which to retire — finds himself not all that far from where he started. “You know,” reflects Curry, “this is the closest I’ve been to back home in a lot years. Feels good.”

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‘Don’t-cry-for-me’ Kansas willing to leave money on the table In a state so strapped for cash, Kansas officials are supposedly turning over every rock in the search for available funds.

And yet right before them sits more than $1 billion in untapped funds.

The source?

The federal government through its support to states that expand their Medicaid programs.

Our problem?

Kansas legislators and a governor who have taken an oath against anything to do with the Affordable Care Act, no matter how much it may benefit their constituents.

For Allen County, we’re talking about the difference of $800,000 in annual reimbursements to our hospital, and even more important, access to health care for our most vulnerable.

When the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, its premise was to provide every U.S. citizen with health insurance. For those in poverty, as determined by the federal poverty guidelines, they were to receive coverage through their state’s Medicaid program.

Three years ago, that last idea became muddled when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was optional for states to provide such assistance for their indigent.

In response, the federal government said it would cover those costs. All a state had to do was ask.

So far, Kansas and 17 other states have refused to accept the extra funding.

In Kansas, the problem is exacerbated by the fact that our Medicaid program, KanCare, has a much lower interpretation of what constitutes poverty as opposed to the federal government.

First, let’s start with individuals.

Oops, that’s a dead end.

In Kansas, those without children and who do not suffer a disability or are not elderly cannot receive public assistance, no matter their situation or income.

But if Kansas were to expand KanCare, then the federal government would pay for the health insurance of those making up to $16,400.

For families, parents with two children can make no more than $8,019 and qualify for public assistance in our fair state.

(Please consider how little that sum actually is.)

Candidates on health care: The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

— Bernie Sanders We don’t have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

— Hillary Clinton You can’t let the people in this country, the people without the money and resources, to go without healthcare. I still want healthcare for everybody. Just not Obamacare.

— Donald Trump

If a single parent has two children, then he or she can make no more than $6,630 a year and qualify for KanCare benefits.

If KanCare were expanded, a two-parent household could receive benefits until their joint incomes exceeded $33,534.

Kansas has about 150,000 individuals who fall into these gaps. They make too much to qualify for state assistance, but yet too little to qualify for when the federal tax credits kick in, which is set to the federal poverty level.

The mentality of Kansas legislators is that these people are deadbeats and don’t deserve the state’s help when it comes to health insurance.

Truth is, more than twothirds of these people do have jobs; oftentimes more than one. The problem is that their jobs don’t come with health insurance.

WHAT’S TRULY frustrating is that in 2016 we are still having this conversation.

Every day you hear those in business moan and groan about the escalating costs of health care for their employees.

And it’s true. The Affordable Care Act has done very little about what insurance companies can charge for health care. And for those businesses that didn’t provide health insurance for their employees in the first place, they take umbrage it’s now a government mandate.

Until health care is universal — that is, like Medicare — and the middleman — companies that sell health insurance — are out of the picture, health care in the United States will continue to be a deeply flawed system.

As a country we need to take the onus of health care off the back of private business and make it a government responsibility.

And as a state, we need to expand Medicaid because it will make us healthier and wealthier.

— Susan Lynn

P.S. At 10 a.m. Thursday at the conference room in the hospital will be a discussion on the benefits of expanding Medicaid in Kansas, led by Sheldon Weisgrau. Come join. It promises to be informative, enlightening and inspirational.

Health care poll

When presented with three separate proposals for the future of the Affordable Care Act, 58% favor the idea of replacing the law with a federally funded health care system providing insurance for all Americans Please tell me whether you favor or oppose each of the following?

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The two Democratic candidates and the presumptive Republican nominee have released comprehensive income tax plans. Here’s a look at how much three sample families might pay under each plan.

Tax plan

Single adult Income: $15,080 (minimum wage, 40 hours a week)

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Retain the current tax brackets, adding an additional tax on income over Hillary Clinton $5 million, and a minimum tax of 30 percent on filers making more then $1 million.

Impose an additional tax on income over $250,000 and a 2.2% surtax Bernie Sanders on all income, in addition to the current tax brackets.

Note: Estimates of possible taxes are based on 2016 tax brackets and deduction amounts when applicable, using the standard deduction and do not factor in the capital gains tax.

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Trump bets on mass amnesia WASHINGTON — Just how gullible does Donald Trump suppose the American voter is?

The billionaire showman has been the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for only a couple of weeks, yet his general election strategy is already becoming clear: hope for a mass nationwide outbreak of short-term memory loss. His top strategist, Paul Manafort, has said that the “part that he’s been playing is evolving.” But this isn’t evolution — it’s reincarnation.

That call Trump made “for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”? Turns out that was “just a suggestion,” he now says.

The federal minimum wage increase, which he repeatedly opposed? Now he’s “looking at” an increase, he says.

The massive tax cut he proposed during the primary, which analysts said would add $10 trillion to the federal debt? Never mind! He’s hired experts to rewrite it in a way that cuts taxes less for the wealthy.

Those tax returns he promised “certainly” to release?

Not going to happen, he says now.

One of his key surrogates, Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., now declares that he doesn’t expect Trump to build a border wall or deport 11 million illegal immigrants — the cornerstones of Trump’s primary campaign. The congressman told The Buffalo News that Trump would build a “virtual wall” and that his deportation plan was “rhetorical.”

Remember all those companies Trump blasted for sending jobs overseas? Ford was a “disgrace,” Disney had “outrageous” practices, Carrier deserved higher taxes, Apple should be boycotted because it didn’t help the FBI in a terrorism case, and Trump’s never

Dana Milbank Washington Post Writers Group eating an Oreo again because Nabisco outsourced. Financial disclosures last week showed Trump has invested in all of the above.

Or his incendiary (and retracted) claim that women who have abortions should face criminal punishment?

What he really was saying was “women punish themselves,” he told The New York Times Magazine.

The list goes on and on.

Trump, who said that “if you’re running for president, you should not be allowed to use a teleprompter,” has used that very device in at least two recent speeches. Trump, who previously boasted that “I don’t have pollsters” because “I want to be me,” hired a pollster, Tony Fabrizio.

Some of those who backed Trump must feel like suckers. But will his clumsy effort to somersault into the mainstream appeal to the rest of the electorate? Perhaps. Yet it also reaffirms the biggest worry about Trump: He has no mooring other than self-love -and that’s why he’s dangerous.

To rationalize these wild shifts in position, let’s bring in John Miller, the Trump “publicist” who called journalists in the 1990s to praise Trump but who was actually Trump himself. My Washington Post colleague Marc Fischer unearthed a recording of a 1991 call from “Miller” to People magazine about Trump’s shifts from Ivana to Marla to Carla Bruni and others. Substitute policies for women and the words go a long way toward explaining Trump’s political views today as he flirts

with positions then discards them: “He really decided that he wasn’t, you know, he didn’t want to make any commitment.”

“He’s somebody that has a lot of options, and, frankly, he gets called by everybody. He gets called by everybody in the book, in terms of women.”

“Marla would’ve liked to get married, obviously, but it was just something he didn’t want to do.”

“I think that he’s got a whole open field really. ... Actresses, people that you write about just call to see if they can go out with him and things.”

Madonna “called and wanted to go out with him, that I can tell you.”

“Marla wants to be back with him.”

“Ivana wants to get back with Donald.”

“I mean, he’s living with Marla, and he’s got three other girlfriends.”

“So now he has somebody else named Carla who is beautiful.”

“He’s not making any commitments to Carla either, just so you understand.”

There were words from “Miller” that ring true today: how Trump is “immune” from and “actually thrived” on bad press, and how self-interest drives him above all else, because “he does things for himself.”

Trump immediately said the unearthed recording wasn’t of him. Given the sound of the voice and Trump’s prior admission to posing as his own publicist, this was obviously false. But perhaps to Trump it wasn’t a lie. Back then, he spoke of Ivana, Marla, Carla and Madonna. Now it’s Muslims, the minimum wage, taxes and the wall. In both, Trump’s idea of the truth means whatever words last came out of his mouth.

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70 Years Ago Week of May 22, 1946

Iola Boy Scouts will start tomorrow on a canvass of the city residential district for signatures to petitions urging congress to adopt the army engineers’ plan of flood control for the Neosho River.

The chamber committee will station booths at the four cor-

ners of the square next Saturday where petitions may be signed. ***** ELSMORE — The Elsmore High School faculty will be increased from three to four teachers next fall and an additional teacher will be hired for the 1947-48 school year, Dave C. Massey, superinten-

dent, announced today. ***** Merle R. Hoffman and Verl R. Hoffman, twin brothers who came to Iola two months ago from Wichita, have opened a Hudson distributorship, sales and services in the 100 block on North Walnut, across the street from the post office.

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Among the Supernova Dance Academy performers at Saturday’s annual showcase were, above from left, Bailey Sparks, Kennedy Shaughnessy, Piper Jordan; and at left, from left, Olivia Bannister, Emma Weseloh and Morgan DelaCruz. The dancers were under the instruction of Marielle Melvin.

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Knavel were transported to Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. Ray was taken to Allen County Regional Hospital. He attended Sunday’s IHS commencement ceremony, his arm in a sling.

Tyler Streeter has since been released from the hospital. Knavel re-

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mains hospitalized.

Fager said Nathaniel Streeter will be given his diploma during a separate ceremony some time this summer. He invited the fellow graduates to return to honor their injured classmate.

Sheriff Bryan Murphy said the quartet apparently had attended

races that evening at Humboldt Speedway and were on their way home when the accident occured at about 10:15.

Murphy said alcohol was not a factor in the wreck. “We still need to do some follow-up work, but it appears speed was a contributing factor,” Murphy said.

‘One Night Only’ Scores of youngsters filled the Bowlus Fine Arts Center with dance Saturday as part of Supernova Dance Company’s annual showcase. Among the performers were, above from left, Justice Wilson, Taylor Korte, Chloe Hageman, Harper Gregg. Additional photos are available via the Register’s Facebook page. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Obama lifts ban for Vietnam HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — U.S. President Barack Obama today lifted a half-century-old ban on selling arms to Vietnam, looking to bolster a government seen as a crucial, though flawed partner in a region that he has tried to place at the center of his foreign policy legacy.

Obama announced the full removal of the embargo at a news conference where he vowed to leave behind the troubled history between the former war enemies and embrace a new era with a young, increasingly prosperous nation. Obama steered clear of harsh

condemnation of what critics see as Vietnam’s abysmal treatment of dissidents, describing instead modest progress on rights in the one-party state. Activists said his decision to lift the embargo destroyed the best U.S. leverage for pushing Vietnam on abuse.

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Seniors: Class of 2016 departs blurred lines. Typical stereotypes are hard to come by at IHS, Taylor said. Students may be athletes who star in school plays, or cheerleaders who are valedictorians.

— Be prepared to be asked what part of Iowa you’re from, she said, and clearly enunciate the “L” from “Iola.”

— The graduates will most likely develop a love-hate relationship with “The Wizard of Oz” and hear too many times to mention “Oh, you’re not in Kansas anymore.” Not all Kansans have dogs named Toto, Taylor joked.

— Always say “thank you,” Taylor concluded, noting the adage, the habit of saying thank you is the mark of an educated man.

Taylor took the opportunity to thank her teachers, mentors and coaches.

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“It hasn’t been an easy road, for you or us, but I hope we can all attest it was worth it. Thank you for shaping us into the people we are today, and giving us the skills we need to face the world.”

SUNDAY’S ceremony featured a notable absence.

Nathan Streeter, one of the 90 graduates scheduled to walk across the stage, remains in a Kansas City hospital room after being injured in a car accident Friday evening near Humboldt. He was one of four people hurt in the wreck. (See related story elsewhere in today’s paper.)

Among his injuries, IHS Principal Stacey Fager announced, were broken vertebrae in his back.

Fager said Streeter’s family reported he is able to walk with the assistance of a walker, but will remain hospitalized for the time being.

The school will host a

separate ceremony for Streeter this summer after he recovers, Fager said.

EIGHT seniors were honored as class valedictorians, for maintaining a perfect 4.0 grade-point average through high school: Taylor Heslop, Clarie Moran, Sagar Patel, Mikaela Platt, Yohon Sinclair, Abigail Taylor, Ben Taylor and Clara Wicoff. Joie Whitney was named class salutatorian, in honor of her 3.98 GPA. Wicoff received the Rotary Achievement Watch, in recognition of her spotless grade-point average, and her score of 35 on the ACT. (A perfect ACT score is 36.)

The senior choir sang a rousing rendition — complete with air guitars — of the Tom Cochrane hit song, later released by Rascal Flatts, “Life Is a Highway.” Abigail Taylor, on piano, and Moran, on cello, also entertained the crowd with the classic “Ave Maria.”

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Crest qualifies trio for state — B4

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HS Track & Field: 2A

Yates Center sends 11 to state meet

High School Track & Field: 4A Regional in Chanute

LYNDON — Yates Center received contributions from all ages as its boys took fourth in the 2A regional track meet in Lyndon on Friday.

The team was able to qualify 10 male athletes for next weekend’s state meet in Wichita despite not qualifying a single one in a field event. The Wildcats dominated their competition on the track though.

Senior Brett Holloway led the charge by qualifying in four events.

Holloway took third in the 800-meter run and finished fourth in the 3200-meters to qualify in each of those events.

Holloway — the only senior on the boys’ team — was also a key component in two relay teams that will be competing next weekend in Wichita.

The 4x400 relay team took second and in addition to Holloway had freshman Nolan Jones and juniors Levi Cooper and Mikey Bruner.

The 4x800 squad also finished in second place. FreshSee WILDCATS | Page B4

Iola freshman Ashleigh Nicholas runs the 100-meter hurdles on Friday in Chanute during the 4A regional track meet.

Nicholas qualified for state in the event with time of 17.33. Nicholas was the only Fillies’ athlete to qualify to run in Wichita next weekend. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

WEEKEND PLANS Yates Center senior Makayla Jones throws the discus earlier this season in Eureka. Jones qualified for state in both the discus and shot put. REGISTER/

Nicholas, boy’s 4x800 relay headed to state next weekend

CHANUTE - Ashleigh Nicholas came into her freshman year with the goal of keeping Iola girls’ track and field relevant especially the Fillies’ hurdlers.

Prior to this season, the Fillies’ program was able to rely on Emery Driskel. She was a mainstay as pointgetter for the team and capped her career with an eighth-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles last year.

Going into this season, the loss of Driskel was a huge hole in the lineup and it seemed unclear if the Fillies would have someone competing on the final weekend of high school track and field in the state.

Nicholas arrived on the scene for the team hoping to pick up the torch from Driskel, with the ultimate goal See IOLA | Page B4

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High School Track & Field: 3A Regional in Erie

Cubs’ Isaac stands out in Erie

Humboldt senior Bryce Isaac completes his triple jump during a track meet earlier this season in Humboldt. Isaac qualified for state in four events. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

ERIE — Bryce Isaac is Humboldt’s Swiss Army knife.

Whether it is jumping, running or clearing the hurdles, Isaac is among the best the area has to offer.

The senior proved his versatility at the 3A regional meet in Erie on Friday by competing in four events.

He qualified for state in all four events.

Isaac won the triple jump with a 42’8.5” mark. Isaac also took third in both the long jump and 300-meter hurdles.

His teammates helped him secure a fourth event at state with a third-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay.

Sophomore Noah Johnson, and seniors Wyatt Wehlage and Anthony Doran joined Isaac on the relay.

Wehlage and Doran also joined forces on a 4x800meter relay and won the regional with a 8:46.24 time, See CUBS | Page B4

High School Track & Field: 1A Regional

Marmaton Valley freshman Savanna Puckett edges SCC’s Adina Ratzlaff earlier this season in Humboldt. Both runners qualified for state in the 200-meters. Ratzlaff also qualified in the 100-meters, 400-meters and 4x100 relay. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

Small schools shine BURDEN — Watching Marmaton Valley’s Savanna Puckett and Southern Coffey County’s Adina Ratzlaff square off with one another on the track is a must-see event for any area track and field fan.

If you have missed their meetings this season, there is no reason to fret though — they will be at it for another

two years.

Puckett, a freshman, and Ratzlaff, a sophomore, represent each of their team’s top sprinters and have faced off several times this season and met up again in the 1A regional track meet in Burden on Friday.

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Treating chronic cholesterol is a challenge Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 63-year-old female. I have been treated for high cholesterol since I was in my 30s. My cholesterol levels are difficult to control, and as a result I am closely monitored. My meds are adjusted accordingly.

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of her freshman year to make the state meet.

On Friday in Chanute, Nicholas accomplished that goal.

“I want to follow in Emery’s footsteps because she was so good,” Nicholas said.

With nine runners entered in the 100-meter hurdles, it meant a preliminary round would be required to get the field down to eight.

In the preliminaries, Nicholas was not in much danger of missing the finals, but it was a key to find out where she stood among the field. Nicholas finished fifth in the race.

If that would have been the finals, she would be just on the outside looking in on the state qualifiers.

Three Paola runners and Jayci Vietti of Chanute finished in front of the Iola freshman and she knew she would have to improve on her 17.82 time.

Nicholas did just that in the finals by running a 17.33 and edging out Paola freshman Amanda Meeks by five one-hundredths of a second to earn her way to state and follow in Driskel’s footsteps.

“Being a freshman and heading to state is a great

opportunity,” Nicholas said. “I’m trying to carry it on from Emery, because she also did state her freshman year. I’m honored more than anything.”

One of the biggest congratulations that Nicholas received after her race was from teammate Cassie Delich. Nicholas says she considers the senior to be her biggest mentor.

“The first of the year, I remember hitting a hurdle in practice and she was so caring,” Nicholas said. “She immediately stopped and was like, ‘Are you OK?’ She just flipped out and she has been helping me ever since.”

Even though Delich ran her last race of her career on Friday in Chanute, Delich will be going with her teammate next Friday to continue to support her.

“She helps me mentally,” Nicholas said. “She helps me to not stress myself out.”

4x800 IS BACK Iola’s 4x800-meter relay has been a fixture at the state meet for years now and 2016 will be no exception.

Junior Chase Regehr will be headed to Wichita as a member of the team

for the third year in a row.

“It feels good,” Regehr said.

Regehr is joined on the team by junior Braden Plumlee, sophomore Nathan Sprague and junior Kendall Jay. The team has grown together throughout the year and Iola coach Dana Daugharthy says the emergence of Sprague is the key to the team’s success.

“Sprague is continuing his great season,” Daugharthy said. “We were talking on the bus ride, he has to be probably the most improved kid on the team and we didn’t see it coming at all.”

Going into the race, the group knew they were headed to Wichita after the team from Girard backed out of the race, leaving only four schools to compete. The team still wanted to earn the highest finish they could in the regional and gain momentum for next weekend.

Iola took second in the relay with a 8:47.52.

“We have qualified in the 4x800 for several years now, but this is the first time we’ve actually taken second in the regional,” Daugharthy said. “We feel pretty good about it.”

Iola’s Nathan Sprague runs the final leg of the 4x400meter relay on Friday in Chanute. Jay also ran the anchor on Iola’s 4x800 state qualifier. REGISTER/JON

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Puckett was able to edge out Ratzlaff and the rest of the field in the 200-meters by winning with a time of 27.73.

Ratzlaff finished in third-place, but that was good enough to earn her a trip to state and guarantee that the two runners will do battle at least once more this season.

SO. COFFEY CO. Ratzlaff wasn’t satisfied with just the one event to run in Wichita next Friday and Saturday. She was able to qualify in all four events she competed in on Friday in Burden.

In the 100-meter dash, Ratzlaff took third with a 13.39. The race was incredibly tight between the top three finishers, with South Haven’s Jennifer Grado-Leon taking first with a 13.34.

Ratzlaff had her best finish of the day in the 400-meter dash. She took second with a time of 1:02.38.

The sophomore was also a part of a Titan relay team that will be going to

Southern Coffey County sophomore Erikah Lyons runs during a meet earlier this season in Humboldt. Lyons qualified for state in three events.

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The 4x100-meter relay team finished in second place. Ratzlaff was joined by three other underclassmen on the team.

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man Hadley Splechter and sophomore Jordan Smith joined Bruner and Holloway on the team. They were less than a second and a half behind regional champions Olpe in the race.

Splechter qualified a total of three events. The young distance runner will be covering a lot of ground at the state meet as he qualified in the 1600-meter run and the 3200-meter run, in addition to the 4x800.

Splechter took second in the mile and was third in the two-mile.

Cooper also made it in three events.

The junior notched the only first-place finish of the day for Yates Center in the 400-meter dash. He won the race with a time of 51.85.

Cooper will also be heading to state in the 200-meter dash. He finished second at regionals with 23.83. Colgan’s

Joshua Hayes narrowly edged him out as regional champion.

Hayes ran a 23.78.

The talented youth on the Wildcat squad continued to show in the 4x100-meter relay. Three freshmen and a sophomore were able to secure a fourth-place finish and a trip to Wichita.

Sophomore Kobe Forsyth was the veteran on the team that included freshmen Quin Lowder, Aaron King and Thayne Smith.

JONES QUALIFIES Yates Center senior Makayla Jones will be representing the Wildcat girls’ team at the state meet as its only qualifier.

Jones made the field in two events. She took second place at regionals in the discus with a throw of 98-feet.

She also finished fourth in the shot put with a 30’2.25”.

In addition to freshman Braelyn Falls, Ratzlaff ’s classmates Danielle Kasprzak and Erikah Lyons ran legs of the relay.

Lyons, Kasprzak and Falls joined forces again to earn a third place finish in the 4x400-meter relay.

Freshman Jordyn Stone ran the other leg for the Titans.

Lyons will be heading to state in a third event as well. She took second in the javelin throw. Her throw of 120’1” was just two inches shorter than regional champion Calli Daniels of Hamilton.

The Titan boys will only have one representative in Wichita, but he will be very busy there.

Chonnor Ludolph will compete in three individual events at the state meet.

Ludolph took second in the regional in both hurdles events.

In the 110-meter hurdles, the sophomore ran a 16.21 and in the 300-meter hurdles he posted a 43.86.

Ludolph’s third event will be the triple jump where he leapt 39’9.5” to earn third place at the regional.

MARMATON VALLEY Puckett wasn’t the only sprinter for Marmaton Valley to have a strong day.

After missing regionals last season, senior shortdistance specialist Austin Deer was determined to make the most of his time in Burden this year.

Deer provided the Wildcats with a sweep in the 200-meter dash with a season-best time of 23.29.

The senior also qualified in the 100-meter dash.

Cedar Vale’s Demetrius Atkins barely beat out Deer by two one-hundredths of a second to win the regional crown, but Deer’s runner-up finish was good enough to earn him a spot in the field this weekend.

Brady Newman will also be representing the Wildcats in Wichita. He tied for third in the high jump to earn his spot.

In addition to Puckett on the girls’ side, Shelby Yoho also had a great day.

She qualified in two events. Her day began with the 1600-meters, where the sophomore finished comfortably in fourth place to earn a spot at state.

Yoho’s best finish of the day came in the 800-meter run. She finished in thirdplace.

Yoho will have a familiar face joining her on the track in that race as well.

Sophomore Megan Ensminger ran her best time

of the season to finish in fourth place and secure a trip to Wichita.

CREST The Lancers will send three athletes to the state meet and appropriately enough, one of those will be throwing a lance.

Evan Godderz earned his way to Wichita in the javelin with a secondplace finish.

His throw of 149-feet was far from his best on the season so the senior will look for a big improvement next weekend.

Sophomore Caleb Stephens will be joining his teammate at state. Stephen tied Marmaton Valley’s Brady Newman for third in the high jump on Friday.

Freshman Camryn Strickler will represent the Lancer girls’ team.

She finished fourth in the 300-meter hurdles to punch her ticket.

their best of the year.

That relay also included junior Joe Kline and senior Tanner Orth.

Kline and Wehlage each also qualified for state in the 800 meters.

Kline took second at the regional and Wehlage was right behind him in third place.

Kline qualified for his third event in the 1600-meter run. He took second in the closest finish of the day. He was edged out

by William Bailey of West Franklin by just two hundredths of a second, but still easily qualified for state.

Kalob Cleaver was the other Cub to earn state qualifications in multiple events.

The senior will be competing at state in both the shot put and discus. He took fourth in both events.

Colin Gillespie will round out the group of Cubs competing in Wichita. The sophomore won the high jump at regionals by clearing 6’.

All of these qualifiers were able to help Humboldt place second in the regional, just six team-points behind Caney Valley.

GIRLS The Humboldt girls finished in fourth place in the regional and will send five athletes to the state meet.

Kaylie Johnson earned her spot with a first-place jump of 34’11.5 in the triple jump and a secondplace showing in the long jump. Johnson is the only Cub freshman to qualify for state.

Her teammate Lizzie Myers will also compete in two events in Wichita next weekend.

Myers finished second in the 800-meter run with her best time of the season. She ran a 2:35.13.

The sophomore also led a Cubs’ 4x800-meter relay team that was able to finish third and punch its ticket to state.

Juniors Padyne Durand and Annalise Whitcomb joined Myers on the team, along with sophomore Britnee Works.

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