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Thursday, August 25, 2016
Fresh faces join USD 257 teaching ranks Energy, love of music draw Mayfield to Iola By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
A gaggle of kindergartners entered McKinley Elementary School Wednesday morning, not sure of what to expect, but excited nonetheless. They weren’t the only ones. Teacher Karly Mayfield is a newcomer herself. Fresh out of college, Mayfield, 23, is teaching music at McKinley and Jefferson schools for pupils in kindergarten through second grade. “It was kind of comforting for me to remember the kids were just as nervous, if not more, than I was,” on their first day of school, Mayfield said.
Elizabeth Cunningham has been hired as middle and high school vocal music instructor for USD 257. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY
Cunningham draws on family’s musical heritage By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
THE PLATTE City, Mo., native grew up with her sights on a different career — journalism — in mind. But as she grew older, so did her passion for music. “I grew up playing the piano and singing a lot,” she said. “I just really loved music.” She graduated from Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., in May. She applied for teaching jobs primarily in the Kan-
Karly Mayfield is the new music instructor at Jefferson and McKinley elementary schools in Iola. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
After graduating from Iola High School in 2008, Elizabeth Cunningham enrolled in Allen Community College and entered upon a course of study that would make her, in time, an art teacher. But plans change and courses alter. One day in art class, maybe she was daubing away at some old canvas, Cunningham heard on the classroom radio a transmission from a better world. “It was classical music,” said Cunningham. “I just kept think-
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ing, ‘Wow, I wish I was doing that instead.’ The whole time I just thought: That might mean something for me. Just hearing it made me want to be there, doing it. That was the first sign.” Cunningham quickly changed her focus to music, and after graduating from ACC, enrolled at Emporia State University. There, she played violin in the orchestra and sang in the Hornet choir, and declared herself, officially, a music education major. Today marks the recent See MUSIC | Page A5
Anguish, death toll mount in Italy Osawatomie hospital ready for inspection By ANDY MARSO KHI News Service
The second-in-command at the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services told mental health advocates Wednesday that Osawatomie State Hospital is well-prepared going into a high-stakes federal inspection Tuesday. The Osawatomie hospital is one of two inpatient state facilities for Kansans with severe mental illness. KDADS Secretary Tim Keck visited the other facility in Larned on Wednesday. That left Kelli Ludlum, assistant KDADS secretary, to update the Kansas Mental Health Coalition on Osawatomie, which is seeking to regain millions of dollars in federal payments lost when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decertified the facility last year. “We are ready,” Ludlum See OSAWATOMIE | Page A5
AMATRICE, Italy (AP) â Rescue crews raced against time today looking for survivors from the earthquake that leveled three towns in central Italy, but the death toll rose to 247 and Italy once again anguished over trying to secure its medieval communities built on seismic lands. Dawn broke over the rolling hills of central Lazio and Le Marche regions after a night of uninterrupted search efforts. Aided by sniffer dogs and audio equipment, firefighters and rescue crews using their bare hands pulled chunks of cement, rock and metal apart from mounds of rubble where homes once stood searching for signs of life. One area of focus was the Hotel Roma in Amatrice, famous for the Amatriciana bacon and tomato pasta sauce that brings food lovers to this medieval hilltop town each August for its food festival. Amatrice’s mayor had initially said 70 guests were in the crumbled hotel ahead of this weekend’s festival, but rescue workers later halved that estimate after the owner said most guests managed to escape. Firefighters’ spokesman Luca Cari said one body had been pulled out of the hotel rubble before dawn but the search continued there and elsewhere, even as 460 aftershocks rattled the area after the magnitude 6 temblor struck at 3:36 a.m. on Wednesday.
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The clocktower still stands amid the rubble of buildings following an earthquake in Amatrice in central Italy Wednesday. IMAGO/ZUMA PRESS/TNS
Earthquake levels Myanmar temples CHINA
Magnitude 6.8 NEPAL BHUTAN earthquake BANGLADESH INDIA
Chauk LAOS
Naypyidaw
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Indian Ocean
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BAGAN, Myanmar (AP) — Using brooms and their hands, soldiers and residents of an ancient Myanmar city famous for its historic Buddhist pagodas began cleaning up the debris today from a powerful earthquake that shook the region and damaged nearly 200 temples. At least four people were killed and as many as 185 brick pagodas were damaged in Bagan after a 6.8 magnitude quake struck the area on Wednesday. The tremor was centered about 15 miles
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west of Chauk, just south of Bagan. Bagan, also known as Pagan, is one of Myanmar’s top tourist attractions, drawing visitors from all over the world who can view a panorama of temples stretching to the horizon flanked by the Irrawaddy River. Bagan is home to more than 2,200 structures, including pagodas and temples constructed from the 10th to the 14th centuries. Many are See QUAKE | Page A5
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