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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

CITY COUNCIL

Iola water rates to increase by Jan. 1

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iolans will pay more for water and wastewater treatment starting Jan. 1.

City Council members approved, 6-0, a 5 percent rate hike to help sustain utility reserves for both funds.

The average monthly residential water bill will increase about $2, from just under $40 to $42 a month, according to figures provided

by City Administrator Carl Slaugh.

Meanwhile, residential sewer charges will increase from an average of $15.67 to about $16.45.

Each water customer will pay a $20.44 meter charge each month, plus $3.80 for each unit of water. Wholesale customers will pay either $3.69 or $3.21 for each unit of water.

Basic monthly sewer service charges will go to $6.83 with $2.15 for each 100 cubic feet of water used on average over three winter months.

Commercial and industrial sewer users will see their base fees increase from $8.13 to $8.54, with water usage rates increasing to $2.87, from $2.68.

Slaugh provided council members with a chart from

the United States Department of Agriculture showing what other communities across the state charge for sewer and water.

Iola’s rates remain competitive with most, Slaugh noted, noting some communities have water rates similar to Iola’s, but without a new Carl Slaugh treatment facility, such as Iola’s.

A benefit for the city is Iola successfully treats its wastewater with sewage lagoons, and has not had to build a mechanical treatment plant, which would cause sewer rates to skyrocket, Slaugh said.

Slaugh said he hopes to see the rate hike bring in about $100,000 annually into the water fund, “to keep it from going in the hole like it did this year.”

Council members Jon Wells and Sandy Zornes and Mayor Joel Wicoff were absent.

THE CITY will look to see if it can assist with issues related to water drainage and sewer line repairs to aid renSee WATER | Page A3

Brek Ulrich addresses USD 257 board members Monday night about the possibility of a soccer program at Iola High School. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET

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Parents promote Iola soccer

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

Iola soccer parents want to see a different type of football in the fall sports line up next year. At the USD 257 board of education meeting Monday night Brek Ulrich, a leader of the Iola Soccer Club, proposed the district consider a soccer program for Iola High School.

Ulrich said the club has been in existence up to eight years with 100 families participating. Currently 21 Iola High School students play in

the club. There would be minimal impact on other sports or activities if soccer became a school sport, Ulrich said. The club players are students who do not play other fall sports at IHS. Jerad Larkey has agreed to coach and is working on his Kansas State High School Activities Association certification.

“There would be no Title IX issues for soccer because it can be offered as a coed sport,” Larkey said.

Larkey said the Iola Recre-

ation Department has offered the use of the soccer fields in Davis Addition, at the southwest edge of Iola near Riverside Park, for practices and games. Allen Community College has also indicated its soccer field could be used for games when available. ACC president, John Masterson, addressed board members through a letter adding his support to the idea.

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CITY COUNCIL

Council must pay unforeseen ACA fee

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

A St. Louis County police vehicle is set on fire along South Florissant Road in Ferguson, Mo., on Monday night following the announcement that a grand jury would not indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Protests flare in Ferguson FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Flames engulfed at least a dozen businesses in Ferguson early Tuesday and gunfire kept firefighters at bay after protests over the decision not to indict a police officer in Michael Brown’s death turned violent, despite pleas for peace from Brown’s family and others.

Protesters smashed windows out of police cars and buildings, several of which were later looted and set ablaze, and officers lobbed tear gas from inside armored vehicles to disperse crowds in

scenes reminiscent of the early days of unrest that followed the Aug. 9 shooting.

But the violence that followed Monday’s decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, in the death of the unarmed black 18-yearold quickly took a more destructive turn — a storage facility, two auto parts stores, a beauty supply store and pizza shop were just some of the businesses that burned.

An Associated Press photographer saw firefighters arrive at one scene only to be turned back by gunfire.

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St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said during an early morning news conference that he “personally heard about 150 shots fired” during the course of the night, but said police did not fire a shot. He said most of at least a dozen burned businesses were “total losses” and noted two police cars were “basically melted.”

“I don’t think we were underprepared,” Belmar said.

“But I’ll be honest with you, unless we bring 10,000 policeSee FERGUSON | Page A3

A previously unforeseen fee mandated by the Affordable Care Act has left Iola City Council members fuming.

The city was informed by the IRS about three weeks ago that Iola must pay $127,386 to “help subsidize premiums” on the individual market for the years 2014-16.

A provision in the Affordable Care Act — known to most as Obamacare — requires all health insurance issuers and third-party administrators on behalf of self-insured group health plans to make contributions to support payments to individual market issuers that

cover high-cost individuals, City Administrator Carl Slaugh said at Monday’s City Council meeting.

Iola must pay the fee because it has more than 50 employees. The fee is set by taking the number of individuals receiving health insurance coverage, including employees and their insured dependents. That number ranged from 217 to 231 between January and September. Iola must pay $63 for each recipient for each of the first nine months of 2014, Slaugh said. With an “insurance member count” of 2,022, that figure adds up to $127,386.

“We don’t have a choice,” Slaugh said. “The only question is where we get the monSee HEALTHCARE | Page A3

Iola man arrested for suspicion of rape Iolan Damon Brooks, 30, was arrested for suspicion of rape and other alleged misdeeds, Iola police officers reported.

Brooks was arrested following an incident Thursday morning in the 200 block of

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Officers are requesting he be charged with rape, two counts of aggravated battery, criminal possession of a weapon by a felon, criminal restraint and reckless driving. He remains in jail.

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Prisons face staffing shortages Library rings in holiday fun TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State correctional officers are being put at risk because of critical staffing shortages in state prisons, the interim director of the Kansas Association of State Employees told a legislative committee.

Rebecca Proctor told the Joint Committee on Pensions, Investments and Benefits about instances of inmates attacking guards at the Hutchinson and Lansing prisons, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. She said that recently at the Topeka Correctional Facility, which houses female inmates, employees were required to stay over for a second full shift because there was no one to relieve them.

The legislative committee may consider measures to standardize the pension benefits of Corrections Department employees. But Proctor said wages are part of the staffing problems and should be addressed before pension benefits.

“Improving retirement benefits for cor-

rectional officers is a great goal, but retirement benefits are meaningless if employees cannot be retained on the job long enough to earn those benefits,” she said.

The wage issue is particularly noticeable in Lansing, where the state prison is just a few miles away from a federal prison, where the minimum starting pay is more than $39,000 a year and can be as high as $51,702, depending on experience. By comparison, the starting pay for a state correctional officer is $13.61 an hour, or about $28,000 a year.

“Many employees stay at Lansing long enough to gain some experience and training, and then make the move to the federal facility,” she said.

Proctor said the state also competes with county jails for employees because many of the jails also pay more than the state.

Department of Corrections spokesman Jeremy Barclay confirmed that job vacancy rates in the state prison

system range from 10 to 15 percent at each facility. He says low wages and dangerous working conditions are a big part of the problem.

“Being a correctional officer is a difficult and challenging job,” he said. “We can’t hire just anybody for the job. Every day, they face the challenge of working with inmates who’ve been deemed fit to be incarcerated for felony crimes, and the inmates do not have the best behaviors.”

Sen. Ty Masterson, R-Andover, who also chairs the Senate Ways and Means Committee, suggested that if the officers want more pay, they should consider volunteering to become unclassified employees, which would mean giving up their civil service protection. They then could join a new kind of retirement plan being launched next year that requires a smaller contribution from the state.

Proctor said she did not think most members of her union would accept that tradeoff.

Report: Growth strongest in decade WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a solid 3.9 percent annual rate in the July-September period, even faster than first reported, giving the country its strongest six months of growth in more than a decade.

The third quarter growth rate climbed from an initial estimate of 3.5 percent because of greater spending by consumers and businesses, the Commerce Department reported today. The figure followed a 4.6 percent surge in the spring, which resulted in the biggest consecutive quarters of growth since 2003.

Analysts believe momentum could slow to around 2.5 percent in the current quarter but then accelerate again in 2015. They expect growth of around 3

percent, representing a sustained acceleration in activity six years after the Great Recession.

“The question of whether the economy is accelerating or will accelerate is no longer a question; we can say somewhat definitively that the economy has already accelerated,” said Dan Greenhaus, chief strategist at BTIG. The economy as measured by the gross domestic product — the country’s total output of goods and services — has been on a roller coaster this year. It started with a steep slide in activity in the first three months of the year when GDP contracted at a 2.1 percent rate, largely due to a severe winter.

Consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of economic activity, grew at a 2.2 per-

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cent rate in the third quarter. The figure was an improvement from an initial estimate of 1.8 percent growth.

Business investment in equipment shot up at a 10.7 percent rate, an increase from an initial estimate of 7.2 percent.

Since the recession ended in June 2009, growth has averaged at subpar rates just above 2 percent. This lackluster recovery has been blamed on the financial crisis and the severity of the recession. Such types of downturns are usually harder to recover from because it requires repairs to the banking system to get credit flowing again.

But economists believe 2015 will be the year when the recovery shifts into a higher gear, in part because they expect the government itself to help.

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Iola Public Library has several holidaythemed programs coming up in December.

Ursula Turner grew up in Germany and has written the book “My German Christmas.”

She’ll share memories of Christmases in Germany and the recipes she included in the book.

The program is at 6 p.m. on Dec. 2.

“Christmas Cookies Made Easy” will be at 10 a.m. on Dec. 6. Kathy McEwan from the Southwind Extension District will demonstrate timesaving, easy holiday cookies. Registration is required and there is a limit of 12 people. This program will be in the Flewharty-Powell Annex.

Some holiday entertainment may be enjoyed at the library from 1 to 2 p.m. on Dec. 9. The Allen

Happy Hearts FCE members gathered Nov. 17 at the Riverside Park Community Building.

Terri Kretzmeier was hostess and gave a lesson on basic cooking and home preservation.

Cooking for one or two people can be simple, Kretzmeier said.

Cooks can cut favorite recipes down to fit their immediate needs, or they can fix a dish as directed and freeze what will not be eaten imme-

Arrests reported Justin Wallace, 34, and Armand Pulley Jr., 44, both of Iola, were arrested Thursday for suspicion of theft following an incident in the 2200 block of North State Street.

Brittany M. Porter, 19, Iola, was arrested for suspicion of driving while suspended and not having liability insurance following a traffic stop Sunday in the 700 block of East Madison Avenue.

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Community College jazz ensemble, Devil’s Fyre, will play jazzy Christmas tunes in the adult section of the library.

At 2 p.m. on Dec. 10 the library will use a Christ-

mas Bi-Folkal kit in “It’s Christmas Time.” BiFolkal kits contain activities to bring memories to mind and stir up discussion on various topics.

diately. Or, leftovers can be given to a friend.

Cooking also allows for fellowship, she said, by inviting a friend over to help cook or prepare meals.

Leftover meats, such as beef, pork or chicken can be used later for soup. Casseroles also are another good use for leftover meat.

Home preservation is becoming a lost art, Kretzmeier opined. Still, it’s an easy way to have

a quick meal by using canned foods. Canning can be done with a pressure cook or hot water bath.

For more information on food preservation or substitutes, contact the Southwind Extension office at the Allen County Courthouse.

The next meeting will be at 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at Aileen Wilson’s home.

Members are encouraged to bring items for a Christmas meal basket.

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Forgery reported Casey’s General Store employees reported receiving several fraudulent traveler’s checks Thursday.

Car hit A car owned by Ivan Smith was struck by an unknown driver while it was parked in the 100 block of White Boulevard, Iola police officers

were told. Smith’s car was legally parked.

Harassment incident reported Allen County sheriff ’s deputies were told Monday about an incident of phone harassment in Elsmore. A suspect was identified. Charges are being pursued through the Allen County attorney’s office.

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Library staff from across southeast Kansas participated in the workshop which discussed the increased prevalence of autism and its possible causes, as well as ways to adjust library programs to be more welcoming to patrons with ASD and their families.

An afternoon session centered on services for patrons with mobility or visual challenges.

The workshops were provided by the Southeast Kansas Library System.

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Lesa Cole and Leah Oswald of Iola Public Library recently attended a workshop on autism at the Girard Public Library.

Cindy Apple, a special education teacher from Louisburg, conducted the three-hour course titled “Autism: The World from a Different Perspective.”

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Low vision group sets meeting time A low vision support group will meet at 1 p.m. on Dec. 16 in the Townhouse craft room at 217 N. Washington, Iola. There will be bingo to celebrate Christmas. There is no charge

to attend and complimentary light refreshments will be served.

Everyone is welcome.

For more information contact Melissa Frantz, SEK Library Systems, 620-365-5136.

The Iola Public Library will be closed on Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday. The library will open on Saturday at 9 a.m.

Water: Rates up ovations for a doughnut shop slated to open soon.

David Greathouse of Greathouse Construction visited Monday with Iola City Council members about work ongoing with what will become Daylight Donuts at 1319 East St. Greathouse spoke on behalf of store owners Sam and Many Chit of Fort Scott.

A collapsed sewer line south of the building has delayed the timetable for Daylight Donuts to open, Greathouse said.

The sewer line isn’t on the doughnut shop’s property, Greathouse explained, but it needs to be fixed before the shop can open.

The issue lies farther to the south, where the sewer line crosses a concrete aqueduct built several years prior when the land was part of the Missouri Pacific Railway, Greathouse said.

A concrete panel in the canal has collapsed, exposing a portion of the sewer line, which also is broken, Greathouse said.

He estimated cost to repair the sewer line at about $2,500.

The rail corridor has long since been abandoned, Slaugh said.

Assistant City Administrator Corey Schinstock said the property is owned by somebody in California.

Meanwhile, Greathouse said water drainage from U.S. 54 onto nearby Tennessee Street is inadequate, which causes water to pool on the east side of the property.

Greathouse said a drainage system should be installed with the property owners footing the bill.

“The Chits have already incurred several unexpected and very costly expenses,” Greathouse said, such as paying for soil testing to ensure the property meets standards set forth by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Chits also are working with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to be in compliance with an underground tank removal. Previous KDHE records were inaccurate and conflicting, Greathouse said.

“All of these expenses were issues that existed with the property before it was purchased, but not required by any of these organizes to be addressed by previous owners,” Greathouse said. “It was not until after the Chits purchased the property and wanted to make the improvements that these issues were brought up.”

Council members acknowledged Greathouse’s concern, and expressed a willingness to work with the couple.

“I would think the city could do this repair cheaper than what’s being proposed,” Councilman Steve French said.

“Although the city didn’t cause this, we do have a business coming to town.

I’d like to see us assist small “ma and pas” as much as we’ve assisted big shots. They’ve done a good job in cleaning up a blighted area.”

“They’ve been great to work for,” Greathouse concurred. “They’ll be a welcome addition to the community.”

Greathouse said the Chits hope to have the doughnut shop open by Jan. 1.

Back to the drawing board on schools

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

USD 257 board members will keep plugging along for the future of Iola schools. The board accepted a proposal from Hollis and Miller Architects for a structural engineering services assessment for $2,500.

The company will assess district buildings by inspecting their structural damage. They will look at items like reinforcement and corrosion of the building. This assessment is to give the district more ideas on

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men in here, I don’t think we can prevent folks who really are intent on destroying a community.”

Smashed window glass littered the sidewalks around many other businesses, from mom-and-pop shops to a McDonalds along the main drag. The Ferguson Market — where surveillance video had recorded Brown stealing cigars minutes before he was killed — was ransacked.

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The first portion, or $106,155, is due Jan. 15, Slaugh said. The remainder is due by Nov. 15, 2015.

Slaugh recommended the Council use funds from Iola’s Health Insurance Fund, which has $500,000 in reserve.

Council member Nancy Ford noted the city already is dipping into its health insurance fund to pay for raises over the next three years on a recently revamped employee pay schedule.

The city plans to draw about $33,000 from the fund for each of the next three years for that.

“We’re going to take even more money out of it,” Ford said. “Are we going to be bleeding that dry?”

“If we kept a balance in that fund equal to three to six months of operating expenses, it’d

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food service policy was going. Koehn said parents are now notified sooner when their child’s food balance is negative. She said the parents have been very responsive to this issue.

Boring said for the first time the revenue in the food service department is more than the expenses. Negative balances are half of what they were this time last year, $33,000.

Jack Stanley, Iola Middle School principal, noted the students are enjoying the new meals from OPAA!

used car lot also burned in the neighboring city of Dellwood.

The vast majority of protesters had left the streets by late Monday, but looting and gunfire still were reported well after midnight.

Hundreds of people had gathered outside the Ferguson Police Department ahead of St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch’s news conference to announce the grand jury’s decision.

As McCulloch read his statement, a crowd gathered around a car from which the news confer-

ence was broadcast on a stereo. Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, sat atop the car. When the decision was announced, she burst into tears and began screaming before being whisked away by supporters.

A short time later, Brown’s family issued a statement asking people to keep their protests peaceful, echoing pleas they had issued several times in the days and weeks leading up to the decision.

“Answering violence with violence is not the appropriate reaction,”

the statement said.

But some protesters overran barricades and taunted police. Some chanted “murderer” and others threw rocks and bottles. The windows of a police car were smashed and protesters tried to topple it before it was set on fire, though some in the crowd tried to stop others from taking part in the violence.

Officers responded by firing what authorities said was smoke and pepper spray into the crowd.

St. Louis County Police later confirmed tear gas also was used.

be somewhere around $350,000,” Slaugh said.

“We do have sufficient (reserves) to take that amount out this year, but in following years we have to increase funding going into this so we still keep a healthy balance.”

That means higher premiums for employees.

“Is there anybody appealing this on a bigger level?” Councilman Steve French asked, such as large companies.

“I wonder how many are going to become very vocal about this,” Ford agreed.

Slaugh said other employers in town with at least 50 employees expressed “shock” at the fee.

“It was just three weeks ago, the government just sent this out to everybody?” Ford asked.

“That’s right,” Slaugh responded.

Ford noted the city in the past had offered bonuses to employees

from its health insurance fund in years past — the employees then would put that money into their health savings accounts — if premiums collected were more than expenses.

Slaugh, in turn, noted no such bonuses had been offered by the city “since I’ve been here,” or at least five years.

Council members voted, 6-0, for the city to pay the fee, but to wait until Jan. 15 to see if other parties successfully file an appeal. Council members Jon Wells and Sandy Zornes and Mayor Joel Wicoff were absent.

IN OTHER business, the Council: — Was notified the city’s utility offices will be closed from 8 a.m. to noon on Dec. 12 for computer software upgrades.

Other city offices will remain open.

— Approved the sale of a 1987 Chevy bucket truck used by the Electric Distribution Depart-

We’re going to take even more money out of it.

Are we going to be bleeding that dry?

— Nancy Ford, council member

ment to David Cross of Oronogo, Mo., for $7,200.

Cross’ bid to purchase the truck was the highest of six.

— Formally adopted an updated comprehensive plan, last altered in 2005.

The plan is intended to guide policy and recommendations for future growth and development.

— Adopted the city’s Standard Traffic Ordinance as set each year by the League of Kansas Municipalities.

— Hired Jordan Oswald and Chad Reeves as police officers. Oswald’s hiring will be funded through a fouryear grant.

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for an advance on their paycheck. District members are paid at the end of each month. Asking for advances started to become an issue. Some staff members would ask for advances every month.

Staff members are now limited to cash advances not including a Christmas advance.

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“We’ve already gone through this selection,” school board member Mark Burris said.

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and realize that this would have to be a commitment that was both financially possible and sustainable,” Masterson said in the letter. “I know that you will carefully weigh the many considerations in this decision and make a choice that is in the best interest of the district.”

Doug Desmarteau and Jeremy McGinnis, ACC soccer coaches, attended the meeting to show their support of the program as well.

“We believe we have children who are capable of playing at the college level,” Larkey said.

“They need a higher lev-

el of competition.”

Martin Bambick, Iola athletic director, was asked to look into area schools that have soccer programs. Bambick found that many schools were not looking to add a program at this time.

Bambick said the games would be played on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There would be 16 games on the schedule.

Board member Mark Burris asked Ulrich what his top reasons were for wanting the program.

Ulrich said the program would give students an opportunity to attend college.

“Coaches have showed

interest in having local players continue at the college level,” Ulrich said.

Another reason is the camaraderie that comes from playing a team sport.

“These older kids are such leaders to these younger kids,” he said.

Finally, Ulrich would like to see the district be a leader in the sport.

“It’s time for us to lead the way instead of latching on,” he said. “We need to lay groundwork now. If it was here kids might transfer to play.”

The agenda item was a non-action item. Board members will look more into the possibility of the program.

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Casino in SEK makes headway

By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A collection of Kansas investors proposed on Monday building a $130 million casino in southeast Kansas’ Cherokee County, becoming the third such group to express an interest in vying for the state’s last remaining casino license.

Kansas has three privately built, stateowned casinos developed under a 2007 law that provided for casinos in four specific regions. Casinos were built in three zones: the Boot Hill Casino in Dodge City; Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane; and Hollywood Casino in Kansas City, Kan. But developers have shied away from the southeast Kansas license in part because of competition from the Quapaw Tribe’s Downstream Casino Resort in Oklahoma that opened near the state line in 2008. In a move to spur interest in the state’s southeastern region, lawmakers earlier this year reduced the investment required of prospective casino developers to build there

Castle Rock Casino Resort said Monday it wants to develop a casino with 1,400 slot machines, 35 table games and a poker room with 16 tables. Also proposed are a 200-room hotel, three restaurants and a health club and spa. from $250 million to $50 million.

Castle Rock Casino Resort announced Monday it wants to develop a casino with 1,400 slot machines, 35 table games and a poker room with 16 tables.

Also proposed are a 200room hotel, three restaurants and a health club and spa. The company said it could open

by June 2016, if it wins the contract.

CASTLE ROCK is owned by a group of Kansas partners that include Rodney and Brandon Steven, Dave Burk, Dave Wells, W.G. Farha II, Mike Vess and others, according to the company.

Last month, the Southeast Kansas Casino Group said it was interested in developing a casino, hotel and restaurant just southeast of Pittsburg. Earli-

er this year, the Quapaw Tribe’s Downstream Casino in partnership with another developer proposed building a casino, restaurant and event center near Frontenac.

Castle Rock said its project would be less than one mile north of I-44 on U.S. 400.

The state is accepting applications until Dec. 19. The State Lottery Commission then reviews the applications to ensure they meet financial and other standards and holds hearings. Approved projects then go to a seven-member Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board, which makes the final selection.

The Cherokee County Commission on Monday endorsed the project from Castle Rock, said Cherokee County Clerk Rodney Edmondson.

Meatless Mondays — no way

By JOHN SCHLAGECK Kansas Farm Bureau

Eliminate meat from my diet?

No way. Just the thought of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Be honest, have you ever thrown a couple of pounds of linguini on the grill and watched it cook while you sipped a fine burgundy or singlemalt scotch?

Don’t get me wrong, I love vegetables. I eat them with every meal, however I consider them a side dish — ­ essential but for me the main course is meat, whether it is beef, pork, lamb or chicken. I love fresh fish too.

When it comes to eating, the truth is, nothing compares to the smell, sound and taste of a steak sizzling over an open fire.

Kansas City Strip. TBone. Porterhouse. Rib

Eye. Thick. Juicy. Delicious.

Fist-sized pork chops aren’t bad either. And don’t forget a grilled leg of lamb. Superb dining.

Unfortunately, a widespread general consensus on red meat can be summed up in two words, “Eat less.” This has triggered a decline in the consumption of red meat and a drop in income for livestock producers.

Meatless Monday is an international campaign that encourages people to not eat meat on Mondays to improve their health and that of our planet. It was founded in 2003 by marketing professional Sid Lerner.

When it comes to making decisions about the food I eat, I prefer to consider the findings of someone who has conducted scientific research on what makes a healthy diet. The

Hunter sentenced WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Texas man has been sentenced to one year of probation after pleading guilty to violating a federal law protecting birds while he was in Kansas.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says 52-year-old George Morgan of Gordonville, Texas, pleaded guilty Monday to violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. He was also ordered to

pay a $2,000 fine and $3,000 in restitution to the state of Kansas.

Morgan is the last of eight hunters to plead guilty after a meetup in Graham County for a dove hunt in September 2013. They also were sentenced to probation and ordered to pay fines.

The federal law classifies mourning doves as migratory game birds.

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question here becomes whether the concerns about red meat are scientifically sound.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture suggests eating two to three servings of meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs and nuts each day. The key is to choose lean cuts of meat and trim the fat from the meat before or after cooking.

No matter how you cut it, all lean meats are high in nutritional quality. Beef, pork and lamb have been recognized as healthy sources of top quality protein, as well as thiamin, pantothenic acid, niacin and vitamins B-6 and B-12.

Red meats are also excellent sources of iron, copper, zinc and manganese — minerals not easily obtained in sufficient amounts in diets without meats, according to food guidelines by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Lean meats eaten in moderation as part of a varied diet, including lots of fruits and vegetables, are not only healthy but also essential. Just as important, beef-steak, pork roast and lamb chops taste good.

Fire up the grill.

Writing this column has made me hungry.

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Area FFA chapter wins award INDIANAPOLIS — Marmaton Valley High School’s FFA chapter won a 2014 National Chapter award from the National FFA organization and was recognized as a top-10 chapter.

Meanwhile, Marmaton Valley’s Nathan Smart earned his American FFA Degree during the National FFA Convention earlier this month.

The National Chapter program recognizes outstanding FFA chapters from throughout the country that successfully completed an annual set of required activities that encourage members to grow as individuals, work as a team and serve

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas University officials say they have nearly met a first-semester target of international students enrolled through a recruitment program.

Earlier this year, the university and company Shorelight Education formally announced a partnership for the International Academic Accelerator Program, which is aimed at increasing the school’s international enrollment to help diversify the student body.

About 7 percent of undergrads are from other countries, said Sara Rosen, KU’s senior vice provost for academic affairs. Overall, about 9 percent of the school’s students are international.

Officials had a goal of recruiting 60 students for its first semester in the program and ended up with 57 this fall, the Lawrence JournalWorld reported. The school aims to recruit 35 more students in the spring, 15 in the summer and about 225 in fall

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The program was sponsored by John Deere and the National FFA Foundation.

Nathan Smart received his American degree at the convention. This is the highest award the FFA can bestow upon a member and requires a member earn and/or productively invest $7,500 through their supervised agriculture experience program. Nathan is the fifth member of the Marmaton Valley chapter to earn this prestigious degree.

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their communities.

The Marmaton Valley chapter was recognized for its community development programs, such as a worker auction, Allen County Farm Day and a flag retirement ceremony.

Local members Kaysha Elmenhorst, Trent Johnson and Mackenzie Tynon participated in an interview process that highlighted the three activities.

They also answered questions from the selection committee.

Earlier in the year the Marmaton Valley chapter was awarded the State 3-Star award, and its application was

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The fall figure hasn’t been finalized yet by officials, but Todd Fritch, the program’s interim managing director, said it’s feasible.

“That’s a realistic goal based on how well KU is resonating in the market,” Fritch said. “It’s a very, very attractive institution.”

For about a $45,000 flat fee, the program provides about a year’s worth of room, board, tuition and activities for participating international students.

The program still lacks permanent hires for two of its top three jobs. Fritch is a Shorelight employee “loaned” to the school until it finds a permanent candidate, Rosen said. The ideal candidate would have Fritch’s international and academic background; ability to manage a budget and staff; and work both in higher education and private business sys-

tems.

“They really have to be able to bridge both of those worlds,” Rosen said. “All of us on the KU side and the Shorelight side agree it’s more important that we get the right person than we do it fast.”

Rosen said the school didn’t find a candidate over the summer and agreed with Shorelight to close the search. The company is now overseeing the search for a managing director.

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

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A good night’s sleep one good deed away The Presidential Medals of Freedom were awarded Monday afternoon in a moving ceremony.

Nineteen — six posthumously — activists, artists, scientists, and public servants were recognized for their contributions to further U.S. security, world peace or cultural endeavors.

Their work “moved us to higher ground,” said President Barack Obama.

“Not only did they make the world better, but each of us by following their example.”

Among the recipients were Isabelle Allende, author, who was exiled from Chile and writes about not only war and violence, but also peace and redemption; Tom Brokaw, veteran news reporter and author, who helped us better understand the world and each other, and actresses Meryl Streep and Marlo Thomas who used their fame as springboards to further women’s rights and early childhood education.

Be it marching in a Civil Rights protest, discovering a new vaccine or reporting from a war zone, these men and women were trailblazers “who bent the arc of our nation to justice,” Obama said.

MONDAY’S ceremony came on the heels of the resurgent news that Bill Cosby allegedly drugged and raped a number of women over the course of his career as a black entertainer.

In his heyday during the 1980s, Cosby also was hailed

as a trailblazer for raising the image of the African American male from that of a caricature to a professional and father with high morals in his long-standing series “The Cosby Show.”

Despite the allegations filed by five women, Cosby has never been criminally charged.

In Monday’s New York Times the columnist David Carr admitted he had skirted the issue when interviewing Cosby several years back, though it weighed heavily on his mind.

Carr said he did so in order to preserve “The Natural Order of Things.” In other words, don’t rock the boat of a superstar.

Other journalists have since pleaded guilty to giving Cosby carte blanche, including those with The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the author Mark Whitaker in his 500-page epic biography of Cosby.

Carr said his omission is a huge disservice to the women who were brave enough to speak out against the heavyweight entertainer.

“THERE ARE two kinds of people,” Obama said in Monday’s ceremony, quoting Danny Thomas, father of Marlo, and founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital network. “Givers and takers. The takers may sometimes eat better; but the givers always sleep better.”

So easy, and yet seemingly out of reach for some.

— Susan Lynn

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

Regarding the article in The Iola Register on Nov. 11, “District grapples with special funding.” The switch to an outside food service OPPA. USD 257 has saved $111,502 compared to expenditures last year at this time.

Why don’t they say in what way?

Did they save on food or did they save because they have no employees to pay salary and insurance?

Can you demonstrate the

Lawmakers! Put money in the classroom

By DUANE GOOSSEN Former state budget director

If you own a car, you know there are a bunch things to pay for: taxes and tags, insurance, oil changes, tires, and probably monthly installment payments. You also have to buy gas. Even if you spend a lot of money on those other things, without gas the car won’t go far.

The same is true for public schools in Kansas.

Producing high quality education requires buildings, computers, school lunches, and a retirement program for teachers. But it also requires classroom operating funds — the gas. Over the last six years, Kansas has let up on the gas for education, and the danger of more cuts is now quite high.

The best measure for judging whether Kansas is letting up or pushing down on the education gas pedal is Base Aid Per Pupil (BAPP). The main operating budget of each school district is deter-

correlation of the savings vs the lost jobs, hours worked, taxes collected and less money to be in Iola to provide decent jobs now makes a Missouri company wealthy.

By the way, what do the kids think about the food?

There was a lot of food, napkins, gloves, soap and other miscellaneous items left from last year.

Did OPPA use them free of charge?

Lillian Orzechowski, Iola, Kan.

The danger of foreign jihadists Once again, a new video from the Islamic State features young foreign converts joining in the slaughter of prisoners and hostages alongside hardened jihadists.

This latest one includes two 22-year-old French nationals, one the son of poor Portuguese parents and the other a middle-class man from Normandy, both of whom converted to Islam in their teens and made their way to Syria, apparently in 2013, to join the ranks of fighters.

Why they did this is a matter of anguished questioning in France; that they did it is no longer a surprise as a growing number of foreigners, including many American, Canadian and European men — and increasingly women — from non-Muslim backgrounds, are being enticed into the ranks of the barbaric and media-savvy Islamic

mined by BAPP multiplied by the number of students. That basic budget is funded by a 20 mill statewide property tax levy which raises just under $600 million in FY 2015, and by “general state aid” from the Kansas general fund. During the past six years, the amount of money for general state aid has decreased, while the number of pupils has increased, leaving the BAPP $548 — or 12 percent — lower than it was in 2009.

The chart below lists the major areas of school funding provided by Kansas and the federal government. The first line shows the General State Aid drop.

Note that some areas of school funding have gone up, which has enabled Gov. Brownback to claim that total school funding is growing, even though the critical money for “gas” has been cut.

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Estimates of the number of foreigners in the Islamic State, or ISIS, vary, but of the more than 31,000 fighters the C.I.A. estimated in September to be active, as many as half came from foreign countries, according to the International Center for the Study of Radicalization in London and the Soufan Group in New York. The overwhelming majority are men from Arab and other Muslim countries, drawn to jihad by religious zeal, a chance to fight the decadent West and the lure of excitement in otherwise dreary lives. But the flow of non-Muslim or non-religious recruits from the West, and their use in some of the most grisly actions, is a new and worrying phenomenon.

It is worrying, first of all, because it speaks to the surreal appeal of the most vi-

cious Islamist terror group to take the field in the terror wars of recent decades. It is also worrying because of the security risk it poses once surviving fighters, many radicalized, start filtering back home to the West. The response among Western governments has included blocking those suspected of going off to fight, arresting returning jihadists and offering deradicalization programs.

In the end, the surest way to combat the appeal of the Islamic State is to deny it success, and that must remain the priority. In the meantime, it is important to keep in mind that not all who are lured into its web will return a threat. Vigilance is clearly warranted. But there must also be a way left open for those who want to renounce extremism.

— The New York Times

Kansas lawmakers have little discretion on most items in the chart: • Last spring the Kansas Supreme Court ordered lawmakers to increase supplemental aid, which provides a partial match to local property taxes to help less wealthy school districts fund local option budgets.

• Federal rules require special education to be maintained at minimum levels.

• The state pays the employer share of retirement costs for teachers and must increase that amount each year.

• Some school districts receive state bond and interest aid to help make loan payments on buildings, a promise to those districts that cannot be easily broken.

LAWMAKERS DO have discretion over general state aid, and they have chosen to let it decline. The result: classroom sizes are growing and Kansas districts are less able to competitively attract and retain high-caliber teachers.

As the budget debates heat up, keep your eye on Base Aid Per Pupil — the gas that runs the education system. Simply maintaining the present level is not good enough, especially given that the BAPP has fallen for years while classroom sizes have grown.

For the future of our state, our governor and legislators should be pushing the BAPP back up.

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The fine arts festival to inaugurate the use of the new Thomas H. Bowlus Fine Arts Center starts Nov. 30 and will continue to Dec. 12. The festival will start with an appearance here of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra and continue in December with an oratorio by the junior college mixed chorus, a concert by the University of Kansas Brass Choir and a dramatic production by the high school senior class. The 80-piece philharmonic orchestra will present a special matinee for the Iola school children of grades five through nine. The cost of the matinee has been covered through a donation by Allen County State Bank. Monday night the orchestra will present a concert for the general public, with Hans Schweiger

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State stalls vote on Manhattan facility MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback and top legislative leaders agreed to delay a vote on issuing bonds needed for the proposed agro-defense plant in Manhattan.

The State Finance Council decided Monday to postpone issuing $231 million in bonds for the National Bio- and AgroDefense Facility.

Republican Senate President Susan Wagle, of Wichita, told the council final action on the bonds could occur in December. She wants the state’s investment in NBAF to be legally capped at $307 million.

The $1.2 billion federal laboratory at Kansas State University is planned for research on dangerous animal-borne illnesses.

The Topeka CapitalJournal reports the state initially agreed to invest $105 million and about three-fourths of that bonding authority has been used.

Fall harvest wraps up WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The latest government farm snapshot shows the fall harvest is wrapping up in Kansas.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 90 percent of the sorghum and 96 percent of the soybeans have now been cut in the state. The sunflower harvest is 86 percent finished.

Winter wheat is faring well so far despite the recent cold temperatures.

The agency rated the state’s wheat condition as 6 percent excellent, 55 percent good, 35 percent fair and 4 percent poor About 95 percent of the winter wheat has emerged.

Abilene to rebuild theater ABILENE, Kan. (AP) — An historic theater in Abilene that was destroyed by fire will be rebuilt.

Maggie Hoffman, executive director of the Great Plains Theatre, says an architect has been hired to develop plans to replace the theater. The building was destroyed by fire after being hit by lightning in July. It was built in 1883 and housed a professional Equity theater for 20 years.

Hoffman says no date has been set for the new theater to open but it could be three to five years. She says the theater’s supporters want to see what the architect envisions, and then have plenty of time to raise the funds needed for a new building.

The Salina Journal reports a professional fundraising expert will be hired to help raise money and apply for grants.

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Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse says the fire was reported Monday night in rural Denison. The mobile home was engulfed in

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Brice Aiello

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Colton Heffern

Pride of the Mustangs Iola High players earn spots on All-Pioneer League teams Kaden Macha

Ethan Sigg

Iola High’s football season may not have ended with a trip to the playoffs, but the team had five players earn All-Pioneer League honors.

Kaden Macha earned first team All-Pioneer League for both linebacker and punter. He also earned second team honors as a running back. Macha

Ashmore signs with Emporia State

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

CHANUTE — Former Iola High and Allen Community College baseball standout Levi Ashmore is taking his skills to Emporia State.

Ashmore signed a letter of intent last week to play for the defending MIAA conference champion Hornets, under the guidance of head coach Bob Fornelli, the Chanute Tribune reported.

“I really liked the program and I thought it was a great

fit for me,” Ashmore told the Tribune. “I loved the school and the facilities, and I’m anxious to get up there and produce for the program.”

Emporia State has made nine trips to the NCAA Tournament in 10 seasons under Fornelli.

Ashmore was an all-state shortstop for the Mustangs, leading Iola to the state championship game in May 2013.

Meanwhile, he was a standout for the Iola AA American Legion Indians squad that won back-to-back state championships in 2012 and 2013.

had 612 rushing yards on 122 carries this season. He had 112 tackles in 2014 and over 300 in his career.

Ethan Sigg earned first team honors for his play on the offensive line. Alex Bauer earned second team honors for offensive line and Colton Heffern was an honorable mention at offensive

line. The offensive line helped the team run for 2,041 yards on the season.

Brice Aiello earned second team for defensive back. He had 101 tackles and two interceptions.

The players will be honored at the football banquet at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 4 in the lecture hall.

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Following that, he played one season at Allen, where he batted a team-high .318 with 12 stolen bases.

Ashmore also played for the Valley Center Diamond Dawgs for the National Baseball Congress World Series over the summer, including a memorable 5-for-6 performance and the game-winning hit over the Everett (Wash.)

Merchants.

He transferred over the summer to play his sophomore year at Neosho County Community College, under head coach Steve Murray.

Levi Ashmore (6) slides into the base during his playing days for Iola High School. Ashmore signed his letter of intent to play at Emporia State. REGISTER/FILE PHOTO

Iola High’s Emery Driskel (24) was selected to the Class 4A-II AllState second team for her play this season. Earlier this month, Driskel was selected to the All-Pioneer League first team. The Fillies placed fourth in the Class 4A-II State Tournament this season.

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They were among Hollywood memorabilia offered at Bonhams on Monday.

The big cat outfit, which went for just over $3 million, had been authenticated as the one Bert Lahr wore in the 1939 film. Its face is a sculpted likeness of the late actor.

A spokesman for costume owner James Comisar says a secondary costume used in the film sold at auction in recent years for close to $1 million.

Iran nuclear talks stumble, pushed VIENNA (AP) — A yearlong effort to seal a nuclear deal with Iran fizzled Monday, leaving the U.S. and its allies little choice but to declare a seven-month extension in hopes that a new deadline will be enough to achieve what a decade of negotiations have failed to do — limit Tehran’s ability to make a nuclear weapon.

Pushback from critics in Congress followed almost immediately, with powerful Republicans saying that Iran is merely trying to buy time.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other Western foreign ministers defended the add-on time as the best way forward. “We would be fools to walk away,� Kerry declared.

But a week of tough maneuvering appeared to have achieved little more than agreement to keep on talking. Negotiators will now strive to nail down by March 1 what Iran and the six world powers it is negotiating with must do, and by when. A final agreement is meant to follow four months later.

Members of the new Republican-controlled Congress to be sworn in early next year threatened to impose additional sanctions on Iran and may well have enough votes to overturn an expected veto by President Barack Obama. “The one thing the Iranians didn’t have was time, and now they have 219 days,� lamented Sen. Mark Kirk, an Illinois Republican whose work with Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey on oil sanctions helped cripple Iran’s economy and drive it to the negotiating table.

Kirk pledged to come forward with a new bipartisan sanctions package after the Republican takeover of the Senate.

Menendez suggested similar action, saying he’d work “to ensure that Iran comprehends that we will not ever permit it to become a threshold nuclear state.�

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cause it fears it will push Tehran away from the table.

Monday’s decision already appeared to benefit Iran. Its nuclear program is left frozen but intact, without any of the cuts sought by the U.S. And while the negotiations continue, so will monthly dole-outs of $700 million in frozen funds that began under the temporary nuclear deal agreed on late last year that led to the present talks.

Kerry called for patience, saying he hoped congressional skeptics would “come to see the wisdom� of giving talks an extra “few months to be able to proceed without sending messages that might be misinterpreted.�

In Tehran, hard-liners fearful that their country will give away more than it gets under any final deal may increase pressure on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to break off talks. Still, the latest extension appears to have the approval of Khamenei, the ultimate arbiter in his country.

Positive comments by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reflected Khamenei’s backing. “Many gaps have been eliminated,� Rouhani said in a statement, though he added the sides were “still some distance� from a deal.

U.S.-Iran relations have warmed since Rouhani took office last year and the thaw has extended to the nuclear negotiations.

Still, Rouhani has struggled to sell the idea of negotiating with archfoe America to hardliners at home and he pledged “ultimate victory� for the Islamic Republic in securing a favorable agreement.

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told reporters the sides were giving themselves until March to agree on a text “that sets out in layman’s language what we have agreed to do.� Experts then will have four months to “translate that into precise definitions of what will happen on the ground,� he said.

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From left, Connor Immenschuh, Pedro Montoya, Trail Spears, Diego Sanchez and Brock Artis pose for a team photo after placing third at the NJCAA Half-Marathon Classic in Topeka on Saturday. COURTESY PHOTO

ACC cross country places third in final meet

By SPENCER MICHELSON

The Iola Register

TOPEKA — Allen Community College’s cross country season has run its course. The Red Devils ended the season with a third place finish at the NJCAA Half-Marathon Classic.

Pedro Montoya finished in fifth with a time of 1 hour, 10 minutes and 41.1 seconds — a record in the ACC books.

Brock Artis followed in sixth place with 1:11:45.2. Both Montoya and Artis were NJCAA All-Americans.

Trail Spears finished

in 14th place in 1:14:06.9.

The top three runners times’ for Allen were counted. For Allen’s fourth and fifth runners, Diego Sanchez finished 25th in 1:19:54.8 and Connor Immenschuh placed 33rd in 1:23:09.7.

The course is 13.1 miles.

According to coach Vince DeGrado, the team had a chance at finishing second overall. Allen was in second place at the 10-mile mark but a runner pulled away from Trail to finish six seconds ahead.

“Trail was pressing and pressing and pressing,” DeGrado said. “If I had told him that we

MVJH basketball finds success Marmaton Valley Junior High basketball took on Westphalia Tuesday night.

The boys A-Team won 51-43. Both Caiden Elliott and Isaac Heskett led the way with 18 points. Gage Griffith added 10 points, Alec Cochran scored two points, Ty Scharff scored two points and Trenton Vest made a free throw.

The B-Team won 2519. William Lowder scored a team-high 14 points. Drake Sellman scored five points, Scharff scored four

points and Nate McAloon scored two points.

The girls A-Team fell 27-22. Katy Beggs led Wildcat scorers with six points. Patricia Outlan, Shailee Woods and Paige Becker each scored four points. Savanna Pucket and Karlie Stephens both scored two points.

The B-Team won 25-20. Bailey Griffith scored nine points, Rachel Shaffer scored six points and Beggs scored four points. Kennadee Redburn, Morgan Woods and Sarah Spillman each scored two points.

were in second, with the runner from Gillette's team, he would have backed off a bit and maintained. He ran himself into a side stitch.”

Because of the bad cramp, the runner from Gillette passed him up.

“It's a little heartbreaking because it would have been the highest national finish in Allen's history,” DeGrado said. “We tied it with the third place finish, the highest since baseball in 1983.”

DeGrado was happy for Montoya and Artis each earning NJCAA All-American runners,

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Burkholder said doctors are “75 percent” of the way toward a definitive diagnosis, and that Berry was on his way to Atlanta to be examined by specialists at Emory University.

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“All in all, I'm very happy. The problem with me is I'm very pessimistic to an extent,” DeGrado said. “I'm a greedy coach. You always want more for your team. I expect more for myself.

Up to nationals, it was a great season. Coming in, we returned only two

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This year’s team returned its no. 7 runner, Artis, and redshirt Trail Spears — who has another year of eligibility.

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they’ll do a biopsy of one of the lymph nodes or the mass,” Burkholder said. “We’ll be able to give you more information in the next couple days.”

Burkholder spoke during a somber news conference attended

by Chiefs coach Andy Reid, general manager John Dorsey, team president Mark Donovan and chairman Clark Hunt. Berry issued a statement in which he said he was “in shock” but promised to battle the illness.

“I understand that right now I have to concentrate on a new opponent,” he said. “I have great confidence in the doctors and the plan they are going to put in place for me to win this fight. I believe that I am in God’s hands and I have great peace in that.”

The 25-year-old Berry, an All-Pro in 2013, began feeling discomfort during Thursday night’s loss in Oakland.

He was examined by team physicians Cris Barnthouse and Michael Monaco, and they recommended further tests. The mass on the right side of his chest was discovered Friday night.

Berry underwent more tests, including a CT scan and blood work, over the weekend.

He met with the team on Monday morning, shortly before flying to Atlanta for a consultation with Dr. Christopher Flowers, an associate professor at Emory and a leading expert in lymphoma.

Berry has no history of cancer, Burkholder

said, and a routine physical over the summer came back clean.

In fact, Berry is considered one of the healthiest players on the team, usually absent from the locker room during periods of media availability because he is in the training room.

“He had an opportunity to address the team and feel their love and support, which I think is crucial,” Reid said. “When you get in these situations, you hunker down and battle for your life, which is what you do. You have to be in a certain frame of mind, have certain support to back you up, and Eric has that with his family and also the Chiefs.”

Berry, who grew up near Atlanta, is expected to be evaluated over the next few days. The Chiefs (7-3) will head into a pivotal AFC West showdown with Denver on Sunday night without him.

“We’re really just a microcosm of life,” Reid said, “is what we are in this building. And a small family — maybe a big family, you could say. So you have the support, people standing up, and they work through the emotional part of it, support each other and most of all support Eric.”

Berry was the fifthoverall pick in the 2010 draft, and made an impact almost from the start, earning Pro Bowl honors his rookie season. He missed nearly all of his second year after tearing a ligament in his knee, but returned to start every game the following season.

way it’s looking I'm going to get a couple recruits,” DeGrado said.

“If I can get guys like Pedro and Brock, you're talking about podium (finishes) again.”

With extra talent coming in, DeGrado hopes the program can accomplish loftier goals.

“I want to get over that regional championship hump, I want to be able to get top-three in the nation,” DeGrado said. “Other than that, I want to strive to better myself. I want to get a bigger team, a deeper team so we churn them out and become a factory of fast runners.”

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State unveils Medicare plans for Osawatomie hospital

By KANSAS HEALTH INSTITUTE

TOPEKA — State officials have a threepronged plan to ensure Osawatomie State Hospital maintains its Medicare reimbursements after a federal agency announced last week they are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, mental health advocates say the situation at that hospital underscores the need for legislators who hold the state’s purse strings to allow the executive branch to follow through on reforms that are still in their early stages.

The corrective plan for the Osawatomie hospital, according to Angela de Rocha, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department for Aging and Dis-

ability Services, includes regular “fire watch” room checks when the facility is over its Legislature-approved capacity, or census. It also includes nursing reforms and better pharmacy coordination.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave state officials until Dec. 8 to address deficiencies identified by Kansas Department of Health and Environment surveyors. The public notice from CMS warned the facility would suffer termination of its Medicare benefits, which make up about 23 percent of the hospital’s total budget, if the shortfalls weren’t corrected.

“The hospital is working closely with CMS to

implement a plan of correction that increases the quality of care delivered at the hospital,” de Rocha said.

The fire watch entails two staff members checking each hospital room once an hour when the facility is above its 206-patient census. When the public notice from CMS was sent, the hospital was at 221 patients. De Rocha said Friday the facility was at 210 with eight discharges scheduled. The day before, she said, the facility was below the census threshold.

De Rocha said the surveyors also identified “immediate jeopardy” issues related to nursing and pharmacy during their visit.

“Immediate steps were

taken to remedy these deficiencies and the hospital was afforded the opportunity to construct a plan of correction,” de Rocha said.

That plan includes a nursing assessment upon admission to determine if new patients are at risk for edema, rashes, pressure ulcers or other conditions. Additionally, the pharmacy staff is to work more closely with others at the facility to improve “clarity and accuracy in medication orders and follow up.”

Osawatomie State Hospital is the largest of the state’s two inpatient facilities for adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses. Prior to admission, most of the hospital’s patients have

been declared a danger to themselves or others.

Mental health advocates say they hope legislators will follow through with the funding for Gov. Sam Brownback’s wider plan to improve delivery of mental health care.

Kyle Kessler, executive director of the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, said federal incentives that discourage the institutionalization of people with mental illnesses had contributed to a lack of beds within community facilities and put more pressure on state hospitals.

“The reduction in community beds has really caught up with us, and I think the state is working to reduce the census

in a safe and appropriate manner,” Kessler said.

Kessler said that effort includes changing Rainbow Mental Health Center to a short-term “sobering” and crisis stabilization facility, which allows doctors to triage patients and reserve Osawatomie for those who are “really sick.”

Amy Campbell, lobbyist for the Kansas Mental Health Coalition, also praised the effort at Rainbow. Legislators are looking for places to cut the state budget, but Campbell warned that if they do anything to impede the Brownback administration reform effort, it will lead to further problems at state hospitals like Osawatomie.

Hagel’s exit highlights foreign policy split in administration WASHINGTON (TNS) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s resignation Monday amid pressure from the White House clears the way for a new Pentagon leader but still leaves the administration divided over the issues that helped lead to his downfall — most notably how to approach the intertwined problems of the Islamic State militants and the civil war in Syria.

In an announcement at the White House, Obama praised Hagel’s leadership in overseeing those matters, but said “it was an appropriate time for him to complete his service.”

White House officials had grown increasingly dissatisfied with him as the military’s focus shifted to renewed combat with the Islamic State militants who have taken control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria. Hagel often appeared ill-at-ease when trying to publicly articulate administration policy on that fight.

Hagel’s rift with Obama began to emerge in late October when a blunt two-page memo Hagel wrote about Syria surfaced. In it, he warned the White House that the overall plan in Syria could collapse because U.S. intentions toward Syrian President Bashar Assad were unclear.

Obama has called on Assad to step down but has refused to authorize using military force, including a proposed proxy army of rebels, to

Hagel’s career 1980 1981: President Ronald Reagan nominates Chuck Hagel to serve as Deputy Administrator of Veterans Administration.

1984: Hagel co-founds Vanguard Cellular Systems, which was later acquired by AT&T. 1996: Hagel is elected to the United States Senate to represent Nebraska.

2008: Hagel does not seek re-election, retiring after his second term in the Senate.

Feb 27, 2013: Hagel is sworn in as the Secretary of Defense.

2014

Nov. 24, 2014: Hagel’s resignation is announced.

Source: Department of Defense, Chicago Tribune Graphic: TNS

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Administration officials acknowledged that the president was ready for Hagel to move on so he could name someone else to lead the Pentagon. But White House aides denied that Hagel and Obama no longer see eye-to-eye about important matters of foreign policy.

The president’s search for another defense secretary was not lost on ranking Republicans in Congress.

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Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, vice chairman of the committee, accused the White House of micromanaging the

military.

Hagel, 68, was the only Republican in the upper echelon of Obama’s circle of advisers. He and Obama forged a friendship in the Senate, where both were critics of the Iraq war.

Hagel won a bitter Senate confirmation battle in February 2013 but never fully fit in with the White House security team, a close-knit group whose most influential members were part of the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.

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Speaking at the White House alongside the president, Hagel said the post was the “greatest privilege of my life.”

He said he will remain defense secretary until Congress confirms his replacement.

A nominee will be named “in short order,” a senior administration official said.

In addition to fighting Islamic State, Hagel’s successor will oversee a host of challenges across the globe.

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The next defense secretary is in for a difficult task, said John Pike, di-

rector of GlobalSecurity. org, a website for military policy.

“From a military standpoint, the White House wants to do as little as possible until their two years are up,” he said. “They want to ride it out and hand over their problems to the next administration.”

Obama has been looking at several candidates to run the Pentagon. Two said to be under consideration are Michele Flournoy, a former military adviser, and Ashton Carter, a former Pentagon official who was on

the short list when Hagel was chosen.

Flournoy would be the first woman to hold the job, the kind of history-making choice that appeals to Obama, who tapped Eric H. Holder Jr. as the first black attorney general and nominated a successor to Holder, Loretta Lynch, who would be the first black woman to run the Justice Department.

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Hip pain not the only signal for replacement Dear Dr. Roach: It would be helpful if you described some of the warning signs/symptoms of a bad hip that requires replacement. I now know that such a condition does not necessarily announce itself with chronic severe pain in the hip. Indeed, what sent me to the doctor was a recurrent pain in my groin. My hip was relatively pain-free and even then I had only a mild discomfort that I thought was simply some arthritis.

What I failed to appreciate over the past few years was the very gradual loss of my range of motion, leading to difficulty with simple activities, such as tying my right shoe or cutting my toenails. In retrospect, I feel rather foolish that I did not realize sooner that I was having hip problems. Perhaps

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health you can alert others to the signs of gradual hip degeneration that fall short of acute hip pain. — B.A. Answer: You have done a lot of the work for me.

The groin is the most common location for pain from hip osteoarthritis, but other locations — especially pelvis and knee — all can be coming from the hip.

We suspect arthritis when pain is worse after activity and improves with rest.

But it is the range of motion and pain with movement that we as internists look for on exam to help us decide whether the complaints are likely from the hip joint or from another

location. Pain is common with internal rotation (such as placing the outside of your ankle on the opposite knee and letting the elevated knee fall to the side). I think the main message is that pain in the hip or groin, especially if worse with exercise, suggests arthritis, and an Xray can confirm the diagnosis.

Dear Dr. Roach: I was diagnosed with beta thalassemia about 10 years ago. My blood tests keep showing that I’m anemic, but I’m not. My blood count was 11. My red blood cells are misshapen and smaller than normal. The only reason thalassemia was diagnosed was because I had a Middle Eastern doctor who was familiar with the condition.

I am always tired and lethargic. Do you think

there could be a connection? — S.M. Answer: The thalassemias are a group of diseases related by the reduced or absent production of one or more of the four globulin chains that compose hemoglobin.

There are two alpha and two beta chains. Beta thalassemia is a reduction in the beta chains. With no beta chains (thalassemia major), the disease is evident early in childhood, requiring frequent transfusions. By contrast, beta thalassemia minor, also called beta thalassemia trait, is just a reduction in the amount of beta chains, and people with this condition have variable severity of disease. Many people have a mild anemia, only discovered with a blood count obtained for some other reason.

Public notices NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, the 16th of December at 6:30 p.m., at City Hall, 2 W. Jackson in Iola, Kansas; the Board of Zoning

Appeals of Iola, Kansas will hold a public hearing on the written application of H.A.A.C. Code Section 106-61 on the following property: S26, T24, R18, LOT 7, BLOCK 6,

GEARS ADDITION TO IOLA A.K.A. 23 W. BUCHANAN Said application is being filed for under the provisions Article IV. Section 106-52 of the City of Iola

Unified Development Code.

City of Iola Board of Zoning Appeals William Newman, Chairperson (11) 25

(First published in The Iola Register on Nov. 18, 2014) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR NOMURA ASSET ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2007-1, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-1 PLAINTIFF -vs- No. 2014CV71 Div. No. K.S.A. 60 Mortgage Foreclosure

RACHEL MCCULLOUGH, et. al.; DEFENDANTS NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court in and for the said County of Allen, in a certain cause in said Court Numbered 2014CV71, wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendant, and to me, the undersigned Sheriff of said County, directed, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the South door of the courthouse in the City of Iola in

said County, on December 10, 2014, at 10:00 a.m., of said day the following described real estate located in the County of Allen, State of Kansas, to wit: LOTS FOUR (4), FIVE (5) AND SIX (6), OF GILMORE’S SUBDIVISION OF LOT ONE (1), OF BOUGHTON’S SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE/4) OF SECTION TWENTY-SIX (26), TOWNSHIP TWENTY-FOUR (24) SOUTH, RANGE EIGHTEEN (18) EAST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS. Commonly known as 616 North Oak Street, Iola, Kansas 66749

This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Bryan J. Murphy SHERIFF OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS SHAPIRO & KREISMAN, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 4220 Shawnee Mission Parkway Suite 418B Fairway, KS 66205 (913)831-3000 Fax No. (913)831-3320 Our File No. 14-007651/j (11) 18, 25 (12) 2

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