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By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register
HUMBOLDT — Since The Growing Place Childcare Center & Preschool opened in Humboldt in 2005, its leaders kept a sort of “wish list” of improvements. An indoor play area — where kids could run around to burn off excess energy and discover the many benefits of physical activity — topped that list. Soon, a 4,000 square foot expansion will be in the making. More than a quarter of the space, 1,400 square feet, will be devoted to a recreation room that can hold up to 60 students. “It’s something we always thought would be nice to have,” Janie Works, administrator, said. It won’t be an official gymnasium, but will feel somewhat like a mini gym, director Tina Friend added. The recreation center also could be available for community use, such as parties or
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Take steps to prevent elder abuse PAGE A5 The Growing Place will add 4,000 square feet, including an indoor recreation center and classrooms. Pictured from left, Administrator Janie Works; 4-year-olds Kamri Eccles, Abraham Weese, Jentry Mueller; and Director Tina Friend. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS other events, outside of business hours (the center is open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.). “We want to share what we
have,” Works said. THE INDOOR play area may be the “wish” part of
the equation, but the need for more space for its preschool See GROWING | Page A3
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Republican Senate candidates square off in debate By JIM MCLEAN AND SCOTT CANON Kansas News Service
MANHATTAN — The Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate agreed in a livestreamed Saturday morning debate that they want to do all they can for the president and his policies. They differed mostly on who among them could offer President Donald Trump the strongest ally on Capitol Hill and on who had the best chance to beat a Democrat to get there. The two best-known candidates — former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall
— clashed most directly with each other. They challenged each other’s conservative bona fides and their respective electability in November. State Senate President Susan Wagle championed herself as a foil to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and a powerful force in reopening a Kansas economy flattened by the coronavirus shutdown. And the two other candidates — long-retired football player Dave Lindstrom and founder of a large Kansas City-area plumbing business Bob Hamilton — stuck largely to broad anti-politician, anti-government rhetoric. The five would-be senators met in a largely empty hotel ballroom. (They all shook
hands at the end, despite the threat of the coronavirus.) The audience was almost entirely online through the Kansas Republican Party’s Facebook Live feed, restarted in the middle of the opening arguments because the audio made them sound as if they were speaking through kazoos. When the technical problems got solved, the farm-focused debate saw the candidates focused on attacking China over trade issues, backing Trump in his ongoing trade war and talking about who’d best argue the case for Kansas ranchers and farmers in Washington. The winner of the primary See SENATE | Page A2
Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate. From right to left: U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, businessman Bob Hamilton, former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, state Senate President Susan Wagle and former football player Dave Lindstrom. KANSAS NEWS SERVICE/JIM MCLEAN/KCUR.ORG
The dimensional rift at Dry Creek Cave
The mouth of Dry Creek Cave reveals itself amid a mass of bright leaves, as the evening light pours through the tree branches. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG
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Long after I had crossed the Kimbell Ranch with its vast open sky, stretching and swelling with enormous oceanic depths, the experience stayed with me. After I had seen the expanse of the Rhea Brush, and visited the graves of the Rhea family in Kalida cemetery, the feeling lingered. For days afterward, even, every time I closed my eyes, the image of Dry Creek Cave pulled mercilessly at my thoughts, that geological black hole and singularity opening onto another spacetime. I would be miles away from that paleolithic gate near the northwestern corner of the county, yet I could feel it all the same: some primordial sense for that ancient Thing, that entrance into a disquieting zone before history as we know it began.
Trevor Hoag Just Prairie Yes, Robert Daly, Esq., stumbled across the cave in 1858 while on a hunting trip and recorded his findings shortly thereafter, and Alfred Andreas told the world of its existence in his 1883 tome “History of the State of Kansas.” There is even an oblique sandstone memorial hidden nearby to the south, dedicated to a pioneer hunter-trader, that reads: “In Memory of James Jenne 1858.” But this is “mere” history, when perhaps what we’re aiming for is mythology, metaSee EXPLORING | Page A6