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THE IOLA REGISTER Locally owned since 1867
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Businesses seek county’s assistance Rough road rankles resident
By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
An existing business and one proposed have lost no time in seeking assistance from a new Allen County economic development fund, but first, guidelines for how the money will be awarded and a committee to winnow applicants have to be named. Regina Lance came to Tuesday’s commission meeting with a well-prepared presentation outlining substantial upgrades to Mildred Store, the iconic business that at better than 100 years is among the oldest continuous establishments in the county. The new business, which could be in operation by early
By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Trish Hester serves up a sandwich to customer Joe Grewing Tuesday at Mildred Store, whose owners appealed to the Allen County Commission Tuesday for economic development assistance. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN 2018, is a restaurant in Gas. Russ Gardner and wife Tina want to capture the allure that was Bonnie’s for three decades. The Gardners recently
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Paul Sorenson has driven what seems like a million miles in his lifetime, and he knows a good road from a bad one. “The highway (169) south of Iola is the worst I’ve driven on in my 17 years in Kansas,” Sorenson, Iola, lamented to Allen County commissioners Tuesday. The highway, of course, is the responsibility of the Kansas Department of Transportation, but commissioners were all ears. “I’d like to see the con-
Washington takes look at Trump’s budget
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Debate on tax, school bills today
By ANDREW TAYLOR The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top officials in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet are heading to Capitol Hill to defend his plans to cut domestic programs and parry Democratic criti- Mick Mulvaney cism of his tax proposals. Budget Director Mick Mulvaney appears today before the House Budget panel while Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will testify at the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. The budget contains virtually no further detail on taxes beyond the cuts the administration proposed in a one-page outline last month. Trump on Tuesday released a 10-year budget plan containing jarring, politically unrealistic cuts to the social safety net and a broad swath of domestic programs. The plan, Trump’s first as president, combines $4.1 trillion for the upcoming 2018 fiscal year with a promise to bring the budget back into balance in 10 years, relying on aggressive spending cuts, a surge in economic growth — and a $2 trillion-plus accounting gimmick. Trump’s budget is simply a proposal. There’s little appetite among Capitol Hill Republicans for a genuine effort to balance the budget; GOP lawmakers this year are instead pressing to rewrite the tax code and forge a spending deal with Democrats that would permit higher military spending. Trump’s budget holds true to his campaign pledge to leave Medicare and Social Se-
crete leveled to give a good transition from one to another,” Sorenson said of recently installed segments that do not lay flush with the road. Commissioner Jerry Daniels mentioned KDOT plans were for improvements from Iola on south, but with no definite schedule. Williams interjected that the Kansas Legislature’s raiding of the Kansas Department of Transportation funds has left the department in disarray. “I just wanted to go on record about the highway,”
Cooking up something special Madeleine Wanker, left, and Molly Riebel shred a head of cabbage Tuesday, one of the ingredients to preparing eggrolls, as part of the inaugural Kids Can Cook session at Iola High School. The sessions, offered by Southwind Extension, are in Iola this week, at Humboldt High School May 31-June 2 and at the Moran Senior/Community Center June 19-21. Enrollment is closed for the Iola session, but remains open for Humboldt and Moran. Registration can be completed online at http://goo.gl/forms/HmoKuOhRso. For more information, call the Southwind Extension office at 365-2242. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are preparing to consider a new plan for raising taxes to fix the state budget and another measure that would boost spending on public schools. The House was scheduled today to debate the two biggest issues remaining. House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday night on details of a plan for raising $948 million over two years. The plan would increase income and liquor taxes and would impose the state’s sales tax on a few services. The education measure would phase in a $280 million increase in spending on schools over two years. Kansas faces projected budget shortfalls totaling $887 million through June 2019, and the state Supreme Court has said funding for public schools is inadequate.
JoAnna Curl, center, cuts the ribbon to Moran’s new Allen County Regional Clinic, which opens Thursday. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Fanfare greets opening of new clinic in Moran By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
MORAN — As a Moran native, JoAnna Curl remains intimately aware of the community’s desires to see a medical clinic open once again.
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Wishes granted. Curl, a physician’s assistant with Allen County Regional Hospital, will begin treating patients at a clinic in Moran starting Thursday. A ribbon-cutting ceremony to announce the clinic’s opening was Tuesday. Curl will be the sole prac-
titioner on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 1 to 5. “This is very exciting to see,” Curl said. “I’ve seen a lot of people in the community, and they’ve talked to me about wishing the Moran clinic was open.” Curl, the former JoAnna
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Bland, is the daughter of Moran’s Melvin and Jonet Bland. She is a Marmaton Valley High School graduate, “and I still live here,” Curl noted. The clinic will offer family and preventative care; school See MORAN | Page A8
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