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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
County hears budget requests By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Norm Conard, director of the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes in Fort Scott and a former Uniontown High School history instructor, speaks with a visitor Tuesday during the center’s grand opening ceremony. REGISTRE/RICHARD LUKEN
Museum celebrates unsung heroes By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
FORT SCOTT — There are countless heroes overlooked by the history books, Lowell Milken said Tuesday. Through an ever-growing network of educators and now millions of students, those unsung heroes are being discovered on a daily basis. “People and events previously unknown serve to challenge our understanding and add context to our decisions to create a more secure future for us and our children,” said Milken, a businessman, philanthropist, education advocate and the namesake of Fort Scott’s gleaming new Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes. The Milken Center, at 1 S. Main St. in the heart of Fort Scott, occupies space formerly occupied by a series of buildings destroyed in a 2005 fire. Billed as an interactive museum, the center also serves as an international
tle Rock Central High School seniors who faced threats for their support of nine African Americans who integrated their school at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. — Lt. Colonel Tran Ngoc “Harry” Hue, a combat leader for South Vietnam who led his troops in battle in support of the United States during the Vietnam War. — Therese Frare, a journalism student whose haunting 1990 photograph of an AIDS victim on his deathbed became a rallying cry for compassion during a growing HIV epidemic. “We’re thrilled to be in Fort Scott because the community has been so responsive,” Milken said after the ribbon-cutting ceremony. “We’re also thrilled to be here today because we’ve brought in so many fellows who love coming to Fort Scott, because they’ve been treated so well by the community.”
Lowell Milken education tool that helps discover, develop and communicate the stories of individuals who have made a profound and positive impact on the lives of others. As an innovative educational think tank, the LMC provides resources to students and teachers around the world on how to develop
unsung hero projects, including topic ideas, research tools and references. Also on hand for Tuesday’s grand opening were educators from across the nation, dignitaries and four of the aforementioned unsung heroes: — Ken Reinhardt and Ann Williams Wedaman, were Lit-
THE LOWELL Milken cenSee HEROES | Page A6
G7 nations send message of unity ISE, Japan (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations plan to voice unity over fighting terrorism, pandemics and tax evasion at their summit in Japan this week. Finding a consensus on how to breathe life into their sluggish economies is proving more elusive. Aging workforces, sagging productivity and lingering damage from the 2008 financial crisis are complicating efforts to spur growth while the effects of the slowdown in China and the other big developing economies ripple across the globe. Ahead of the summit meetings that begin Thursday, finance ministers and central bank governors of the G-7 meeting in northern Japan failed to concur on a coordi-
nated approach to fighting what Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz calls the “Great Malaise.” They did agree the world’s growth engine is running on fumes: “We as the G-7 believe the biggest economic problem is demand. Demand — there is no demand — and that is the biggest problem around the world,” said Japan’s finance minister, Taro Aso. The reluctance of consumers to buy and businesses to invest, despite rock-bottom in-
terest rates, has caught economists by surprise and policymakers flatfooted, as the IMF, World Bank and governments repeatedly have had to downgrade overly rosy forecasts. That stagnation is evident in the run-down business districts of Ise and many other places in Japan. Last month, the IMF lowered the economic growth projection for 2016 and 2017 for the world’s advanced economies, including Europe, the United States and Japan, where collectively growth has remained below 2 percent since 2010. “It’s a difficult environment indeed,” PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said last month. “Most of the developed world outSee G7 | Page A2
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“Men are what their mothers made them.”
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With budget season upon them, Allen County commissioners heard requests, and justifying presentations, from the District Court and Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center. District Court support was pegged at $381,458 for 2017, less than 2015 but a touch more than 2016. The mental health center requested $120,500, a 3 percent increase over this year’s $117,000. Dina Morrison, who manages day-to-day activities of the District Court, said the county’s contribution would be buffered by fees that flow to the general fund. She predicted 2017’s at $66,320.92, which, if on the nose, would leave the county’s net responsibility at a little over $315,000. — Court-Appointed Special Advocates operated at $5,720 this year and its budget was projected with about a 10 percent increase, of $572. CASA volunteers represent children whose parents face court action. District Judge Dan Creitz said the program is “very successful” and more could be done if additional volunteers could be brought into the fold. — With no major computer system upgrades anticipated, contracts in that area will be $16,000, a cut of $8,500. — Juror costs are anticipated at $5,000, a $1,300 increase. Morrison noted a seven-day civil trial is scheduled in November and one or two See COUNTY | Page A8
IPD detective to speak at Memorial Day service Jared Froggatte, a detective with the Iola Police Department and a candidate for Allen County Sheriff, will deliver the keynote address at Monday’s Memorial Day c e r e m o n y Jared at Highland Froggatte Cemetery. Froggatte, rural Iola, served in the Army’s 25th Infantry Division from 1991 to 1995 as a scout and team leader. Froggatte then worked as a farmer and enlisted in the
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
National Guard. He was with the 891st Engineer Battalion when those guardsmen were deployed to Iraq in 2004 and 2005. Froggatte’s wife, Wendy, is a Humboldt Elementary School nurse. The ceremony begins at 11 a.m. Monday at Iola’s Highland Cemetery. Other elements, including the placing of wreaths at the Veterans Memorial, and a performance by the Iola Municipal Band, also are scheduled. In the case of inclement weather, the ceremonies will be at the American Legion, 712 W. Patterson.
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