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Low pay a factor in teacher shortage By CELIA LLOPSIS-JEPSEN Kansas News Service
In his 26 years at Meade Unified School District 226, a 400-student district southwest of Dodge City, Superintendent Kenneth Harshberger has watched the educational landscape change. Teachers are harder to recruit — even for elementary jobs, which were traditionally easier to fill. “The first time I tried to hire an elementary teacher 25, 26 years ago, we had over 100 applicants,” he recalled. “Now I can’t get five applicants.” While there likely are numerous reasons behind that change, a new national report on rural teacher pay in the 50 states shows Kansas ranks lowest. That report follows another Kansas-specific study noting evidence of a teacher shortage in some rural areas of the state, particularly in the southwest corner. Ken Weaver, dean of the Teachers College at Emporia State University, co-authored an analysis of the teacher shortage situation in Kansas that was released last year.
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He thinks the newly released national report on teacher pay may shed light on one of the reasons for the Kansas shortage. “I do think that’s an important piece of the puzzle,” he said. “The challenge is, how does that piece of the puzzle kind of make it out there, into the minds and into the hearts of policymakers and decision-makers?” The national compilation by the Rural School and Community Trust draws on 2012 information that schools reported to the federal government — total instructional salaries divided by the number of instructional staff in each district. The trust uses this calculation as a stand-in for teacher pay. At rural schools in Kansas, this works out to about $40,900, compared to a national average of just under $57,800. Missouri came in second-lowest around $44,100. The trust used the federal government’s definition of rural school districts. Nationally, nearly 20 percent of public school students attend ruSee TEACHER | Page A4
The number of college students seeking teaching degrees (in blue) and those graduating with such degrees (in red) have dropped annually since 2011. KCUR GRAPHIC
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HUMBOLDT — After 14 weeks of training, Nina Froggatte graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center Friday. The ceremony marked the 245th class to graduate from the basic training course. Chief Terry Zeigler of the Kansas City Police Department gave the commencement address. “Each of you will now go back to your community and apply what you learned in the classroom to serve the community,” Zeigler said. “It will not be easy, I promise you that. There is going to be many challenges, but you
Nina Froggatte graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center Friday. The Register has covered Froggatte’s journey over the 14-week course.
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Gas restaurant plans to open in August By SHELLIE SMITLEY The Iola Register
Editor’s note: Part of this story was omitted in Saturday’s paper and is being rerun in its entirety today. The building best known to locals as Bonnie’s Corner Cafe is set to make a comeback in August. Tina Spiares and her husband, Russ Gardner, formerly of Pleasanton, are hustling to complete a number of renovations to the building that has been vacant since 2016. In the interim it was known as Ruth and Earl’s, but for less than a year. From painting to tearing out walls, Spiares and Gardner have their plates full. New plumbing throughout the gutted building is being installed and it has no gas lines. “We don’t know where the gas lines went,” Spiares said. Furniture, grills and kitchen appliances have to
Tina Spiares and Russ Gardner are renovating the building soon to be known as Tina’s Place. The new restaurant is set to open in August at the location of the former Bonnie’s Corner Cafe in Gas. REGISTER/ SHELLIE SMITLEY be replaced as well. As fate would have it, many of the original kitchen appliances will be purchased back from Regina and Loren Lance, owners of the Mildred Store, who purchased them after Ruth and Earl’s closed. Fate may have a hand in the entire venture. Gardner, a retired law officer, dreamed of living in northern Wisconsin after retiring from law enforcement for the second time. In support
of that dream, Spiares elected to close down her restaurant of seven years, “Tina’s Place.” “It (Wisconsin) was the place to go. Everyone in Pleasanton is mad at me,” she said of her decision to close her restaurant last winter. The couple set their sights on a house in Spooner, Wis. But before the purchase was finalized, the area where the See GAS | Page A4
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Heavy load John Hole, Humboldt, pulls the sled 104.17 feet on his 12-horsepower tractor “The Sears,” Saturday during the Renegades Tractor Pull at Iola’s Riverside Park. REGISTER/SHELLIE SMITLEY
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback on Sunday signed a state budget for the next two years that will use a $1.2 billion income tax increase to fund government and schools, although he says it includes “excessive spending.” Brownback signed the $15.6 billion budget bill on Sunday but complained that it unnecessarily increased spending in several areas. “I am signing the budget, despite my concerns about excessive spending, to avoid a break in core functions of government and to provide state workers with welldeserved pay increases,” Brownback said. The budget will provide raises of up to 5 percent to
“It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.”
state workers who haven’t had any in recent years. He vetoed two items related to p r o g r a m s Brownback for people with disabilities and mental health programs. Lawmakers have a chance to override those vetoes today. House Minority Leader Jim Ward, D-Wichita, told the Topeka Capital-Journal he planned to lead an effort to override Brownback’s effort to combine seven Medicaid programs for the disabled into one group. Ward said the budget reinvests in services that have been neglected by Brownback’s administration.
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Obituary Wanda Heck Wanda Lee Heck, 83, Westphalia, died Saturday, June 24, 2017, at her home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Old German Baptist Church, Westphalia, with burial to follow at the Bethel Cemetery. Family will greet friends at the church from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Online condolences may be sent to www. feuerbornfuneral.com.
Thief steals news vehicle ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — While a television news crew was gathering footage for a story about crime in downtown Albuquerque, a thief drove off in the station’s SUV. KOB News Director Michelle Donaldson
said the vehicle was recovered within a half hour without police assistance by following the GPS tracking device that was on board. She says the thief had fled the scene and the SUV was locked with the keys missing.
Splish splash Midget, a rat terrier, cools off in a water dish Saturday at the Happy Tails Dog Park, Iola. REGISTER/SHELLIE
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Supreme Court to decide Missouri church-state case WASHINGTON (AP) — Before taking their long summer break, the Supreme Court justices are poised to act on the Trump administration’s travel ban and a separation of church and state dispute involving a Missouri church playground. But something could overshadow rulings in those high-profile cases: If Justice Anthony Kennedy were to use the court’s last public session today to announce his retirement.
Kennedy has given no public sign that he would step down this year and give President Donald Trump his second high court pick in the first months of his administration. Kennedy’s departure would allow conservatives to take firm control of the court. But Kennedy turns 81 next month and has been on the court for nearly 30 years. Several of his former law clerks have said they think he is contemplating step-
ping down in the next year or so. Kennedy did not address the retirement rumors when he and his clerks gathered over the weekend for a reunion, according to three clerks who were there. The decision to push up the reunion by a year helped spark talk he might be leaving the court. The justices are expected to decide the case of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Missouri, which was excluded from a
state grant program to pay for soft surfaces on playgrounds run by not-for-profit groups. The case was being closely watched by advocates of school vouchers, who hope the court will make it easier to use state money to pay for private, religious schooling in states that now prohibit it. Missouri has since changed its policy under Republican Gov. Eric Greitens so that churches may now ap-
ply for the money. Also expected in the next few days, though there’s no deadline by which the court must decide, was a ruling on whether to allow the administration to immediately enforce a 90-day ban on visitors from six mostly Muslim countries. Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, could play a pivotal role in both the travel ban and church playground cases.
In all, six cases that were argued between November and April remain undecided. Three of those, all involving immigrants or foreigners, were heard by an eight-justice court, before Gorsuch joined the bench in April. If the eight justices are evenly divided, those cases could be argued a second time in the fall, with Gorsuch available to provide the tie-breaking vote.
cion of careless driving Tuesday after Iola police officers were called to a traffic accident at the intersection of First and Vine streets. Darrell Cole, 56, Iola, was cited for disorderly conduct Tuesday after officers investigated a disturbance in the 300 block of South Walnut Street. Michael Moore, 52, Iola, was cited June 19 for alleged criminal damage to property at Parkford Apartments, in the 100 block of White Boulevard. Corey Walls, 28, Iola, was cited June 19 for suspicion of battery and criminal damage to property in the 500 block of East Lincoln
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Police report Arrests reported Iola police officers arrested Kevin LaCrone, 34, Neosho Falls, in the 1400 block of East Street Thursday for suspicion of driving without a license, no liability insurance and expired registration. Iola police arrested Keifer Rutledge, 23, Chanute, for allegedly transporting an open container of alcohol and no proof of liability insurance in the 300 block of West Lincoln Street. John C. Chambers, 33, Iola, was arrested Tuesday for suspicion of trespassing Tuesday at Iola Walmart. Isaiah Arnett was arrested June 19 for al-
leged disorderly conduct following a disturbance in the 700 block of North Jefferson Avenue.
Vehicle stolen Tate Collins, Yates Center, told police Tuesday evening somebody stole his vehicle from the 100 block of South Third Street.
Burglary reported Multiple items were reported stolen Tuesday from Verizon Wireless 621 N. State St. in what Iola police officers described as a burglary.
Citations issued Hugh Conover, 84, Iola, was cited for suspi-
Act of kindess has domino effect SCOTTSBURG, Ind. (AP) — A customer’s act of kindness at a southern Indiana McDonald’s sparked a chain reaction of niceness in its drive-thru line. Hunter Hostetler is a cashier at a McDonald’s in Scottsburg, about 50 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky. He says an older woman waiting in the restaurant’s drive-th-
ru Sunday decided to pay for the big order of a man with four children in a van behind her. Hostetler says she asked him to tell the man “Happy Father’s Day,” then drove away. The kind gesture prompted the man to pay for two cars behind him, and that generosity eventually spread to 167 cars by closing time.
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Battery reported Sara Turner, 17, reported a battery Thursday in the 500 block of South Walnut Street. An investigation continues.
Bicycle stolen Brianna Jett reported a black BMX Mongoose bicycle was stolen off her porch in the 10 block of South Second Street. The theft occurred sometime after June 15.
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Vehicles damaged Terri LaCrone told Iola police Thursday a known suspect put water into the gas tank of her vehicle in the 600 block of North Jefferson Avenue. On Tuesday, Misty Myers told police an oil line was cut on her vehicle while it was parked in the 800 block of North Sycamore Street.
Drug paraphernalia found in north Iola Iola police officers were told Tuesday that drug paraphernalia was found in the 200 block of East Miller Road.
Dana M. Todd, 40, was southbound on South Street Tuesday and was turning onto Broadway Street when her vehicle was struck by a car driven by Mandy Specht, 88. Specht was turning onto South Street from Broadway when the accident occurred. Neither was injured.
Hit-and-run Danny Peterson told Iola police officers June 19 his vehicle was struck while it was parked in the 400 block of Eisenhower Drive. The other motorist left without reporting the damage.
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— Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building, Riverside Park. — USD 257 Board of Education meeting, 6 p.m., school board office. — Marmaton Valley PTO, 7 p.m., Marmaton Valley Elementary School library. — Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse. — Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen County Regional Hospital. — Allen County Regional Hospital trustees meeting, 7 p.m., meeting room at Allen County Regional Hospital. — Allen County Democrats meeting, 7 p.m., courthouse basement meeting room.
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Brownback could clear way for Colyer Early in March Kansas Public Radio reported Gov. Sam Brownback was being considered to lead the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Rome. His role would have been to coordinate work of agencies involved in food and agriculture. Raised on a farm near Parker in Linn County, Brownback once served as Kansas’ secretary of agriculture and was exposed to international affairs on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Brownback-to-Rome rumor blew over. Another has taken its place, and has become more prominent since the Legislature for the most part rebuked his “march to zero” income tax cuts. (Please know a rumor’s substance often is fluid.) The tittle-tattle, Rep. Kent Thompson tells us, now is that Brownback not only will resign, but also the announcement will come very soon, perhaps at some point after legislators gather in Topeka today for sine die, the ceremonial end of each year’s legislative session. An addendum: Lawmakers may be called back to Topeka in a few weeks to deal with school finance. The $293 million in new funding to be phased in over two years may not find favor with what Supreme Court justices deem as adequate. If, in fact, Brownback does resign, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer will hold the reins through early January 2019. By design — likely — or happenstance, having the pulpit in Topeka would give Colyer a leg up toward the Republican nomination for governor. As is, Kris Kobach has an early edge over Colyer, or anyone else who will run in the August 2018 GOP primary. Kobach recently announced his candidacy, and is making the most of advance opportunity to firm his hold on ultra-conserva-
tive voters. (See his Twitter account, vintage Trump.) Colyer has been active in keeping Medicaid support at bay and, like Kobach, maintains trickle-down economics would be fiscal salvation. A primary race between Kobach and Colyer for the GOP nomination should be quite a shoot-out. Both would have substantial financial resources — remember, Colyer loaned Brownback $500,000 for his campaign — and he and Kobach also would be without compunction when wooing voters, particularly at critical stages. MUCH MAY occur between today and when the election cycle quickens to save us from the limited choice of Colyer or Kobach for governor. Colyer’s candidacy, in fact, may evaporate regardless what Brownback does. The saving grace may be Kansas voters will rise up as they did last November and continue to move the Legislative needle in a more moderate direction. That a Democrat could once again be elected governor seems a long shot at this point as by evidence that Brownback, who appeared politically vulnerable in 2014, defeated Paul Davis. Our Republican friends put it simply: Once inside a voting booth GOP faithful find it difficult to mark the box next to a Democrat’s name. Another part of the equation is those who have a political career as their goal, and are pragmatic about it, have learned the chance of winning is nearly always enhanced in Kansas if there is an “R” after the candidate’s name. To citizens’ advantage, moderation that embraces social concerns is not always a stranger in the Republican Party. For evidence, look at what occurred last November. — Bob Johnson
Osawatomie mental hospital needs replaced Osawatomie State Hospital, one of two state facilities for the severely mentally ill, has once again failed to achieve federal certification. That fact should disturb every Kansan. This should also prompt a serious discussion about the state of mental health treatment in Kansas, including the possibility of demolishing all or part of the existing Osawatomie facility and building a new 21st-century treatment center. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decertified the hospital in December 2015, citing patient and staff safety concerns. It cut off $1 million in monthly Medicare reimbursements, telling the state that problems needed to be fixed before the funding would be restored. Kansas officials promised to respond. This spring, inspectors took another look and found new problems. “The kitchen was not maintained in a safe and sanitary fashion,” they found. “The metal blades on the (food blender) were chipped and cracked. The meat slicer was not cleaned and sanitized after use. … The freezer was not holding at 0 degrees Fahrenheit (F) and had water dripping from the ceiling.” There were other concerns.
Senate’s health reform bill a sham President Donald Trump would decimate Medicaid made headlines Thursday with more than $800 billion when he tweeted he doesn’t in spending cuts over a dehave any tapes to document cade, weaken the Medicare what he said to former FBI Di- trust fund, and leave tens of rector James Comey. millions more people without But regarding the other big insurance than under current news of the day — the future law. They would drive up pricof the nation’s health care es for older consumers, and system — there are plenty of sicker ones, and those who recordings that convey ex- need the kind of comprehenactly what he said about his sive policies Obamacare made plans for health care. Trump mandatory. repeatedly promised that he Trump has wavered in his wouldn’t cut reaction to the Medicaid, and bills. He held a that his plan huge party to would provide the [The health care bills] celebrate coverage for House’s passage are a tax cut for the all, with cheapof the AHCA wealthy masquerad- in May, but reer and better ing as health care re- cently called it policies than Americans form. ..... the 3.8 per- “mean, mean, can get now. cent tax cut for the mean.” His promise Trump’s probwealthy ... would ex- lem is that these to repeal and plode the deficit. replace Obambills are a tax cut acare while for the wealthy also touting masquerading “coverage for as health care all” had a unique resonance. reform. According to the But that is not going to hap- rules the Senate must use to pen. The health care bill un- pass the bill with a bare maveiled Thursday by the Senate jority, the health care part exposed his promises as lies. will have to be “mean” to poor The Senate’s bill, largely people for Trump to afford the same as the American the huge tax gift he wants to Health Care Act passed by give to rich people. To pass the House of Representatives, the bill in the Senate with 51 and Trump’s support for both, votes rather than the usual make that clear. These bills 60-vote requirement, it must
reduce the deficit. But the 3.8 percent tax cut to the wealthy that these bills create would explode the deficit. These tax cuts wouldn’t help the economy, because they would mostly go to people who don’t need to spend the extra money. But the health care spending cuts to offset the tax cuts would devastate the economy. Trump can side with the House and Senate plans to cut taxes for wealthy Americans, the ones who’ve captured nearly every penny of increased wealth in this nation of late. Or, he can insist on real reform and side with struggling Americans to whom he promised better things. The cynicism driving this legislation is revolting. The Senate bill would postpone the draconian Medicaid cuts to 2021, a year later than the House. Perhaps the reason is that nine GOP senators from states that took the more generous Medicaid benefits that this legislation would end are up for re-election in 2020, as is Trump. The senators must fear that people won’t be fooled once the consequences of the president’s betrayal actually hit home. — Newsday
Infection control procedures were deficient. A nurse “borrowed” medication from one patient to give to another. The facility lacks on-site radiological services. It has no qualified therapeutic activities director. Some wiring and equipment were improperly installed and maintained, raising the risk of fire. State officials said they were relieved — at least these were new issues. “None of the deficiencies that we had before are in what you’ll see here,” said Tim Keck, Kansas secretary for aging and disability services. That seems small comfort for the patients at Osawatomie. No patient at any hospital should endure unsafe or substandard food or be at risk for infections from other patients. And fire hazards are a concern for patients and employees. Taxpayers should be angry. The state will continue to lose $1 million a month in federal funds; if those payments aren’t restored until December, as some lawmakers now expect, the state will have forgone $24 million in federal reimbursements for the facility. It is time to do better. Kansans should demand improved management of Osawatomie and then consider alternatives
to the aging hospital itself. In 2013, after years of complaints, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon proposed replacing the state’s psychiatric hospital in Fulton. Some legislative muscle and creative financing were required, but Missouri is now constructing a $211 million, 300-bed facility in Fulton that’s expected to open next year. Kansas must now begin a similar discussion. The state needs to figure out the demand for acute care psychiatric services at Osawatomie and Larned state hospitals and then examine the cost and necessity of repairing or replacing one or both of those facilities. A new hospital could improve patient care, provide a better environment for employees and potentially save the state money in operational costs. The alternative is to spend good money after bad, losing federal payments and providing substandard care to some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. Every candidate for governor and every state legislative candidate should be asked to take a stand on Osawatomie State Hospital. The status quo is unacceptable. Kansans deserve better. — The Kansas City Star
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ACCC President Bill Griffin prepared an economic impact statement to show how much the college contributes to the local economy. During 1990, the report shows, the ACCC payroll was $2,158,704. Employment was at 257, with 144 working in Iola and the rest at other learning centers. In-county employees paid $32,375 in local property taxes. There were 450 students enrolled on a fulltime basis in the spring 1990 semester. Estimates are that a full-time student spends about $4,539, counting everything. Total spending for fulltime and part-time students would have been in the range of $2.6 million, he said. Using conservative turn-over ratios, every $1 spent by a student in Iola would generate $2.50 for the community. In addition, the college spent $631,558 in Allen County during the budget year for goods and services. ***** Sometime late Friday afternoon, Don Bain will walk out of his office for the last time as superintendent of USD 257 schools. He re-
Don Bain called that he got his wings as a fighter pilot just as the Korean War ended and was assigned to teach pilots to fly the B-24 bomber instead of flying an F-86 jet fighter over Korea. His teaching assignment persuaded him to leave the Air Force and become a public school teacher. He started at Iola High School teaching mathematics and science and also serving as an assistant football coach. He moved into basketball coaching and became assistant high school principal, then principal and, 12 years later, superintendent, a job Bain has held for 17 years.
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ral schools. In Kansas, the figure is a little higher. The trust’s report does not adjust for cost of living differences among rural areas in different regions of the country. Jeremy Hill, director of the Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University, noted other potential caveats about the national report. It is possible, for example, that pay varies because some states tend to employ teachers with more experience or higher educational attainment. Getting creative
In the Meade district, Harshberger has become creative in finding teachers. Last year district officials worked with a college for the first time on an arrangement to hire a student as a full-fledged teacher — albeit with supervision. And with some college students landing teaching job offers before graduation, they’ve begun calling universities. “I will call K-State or Wichita State and ask for the heads of the departments and say, ‘Can you give me the names of any kids?’” Harshberger said. “And a lot of times they won’t give it to us unless they’ve been given permission. And I say, ‘Well, can you ask those kids if we can have permission to contact them?’” The teacher shortage report that Weaver and others authored found 109 unfilled teaching jobs in southwest Kansas in the 2015-16 school year. Those jobs remained vacant at least through the first half of the academic year and into the spring, when tallies were finalized.
The report, which found teachers were migrating from rural areas to more populated ones, corroborated anecdotes of shortages that had prompted warnings from top Kansas education officials in recent years. Nationally, teachers earn more in larger towns, suburbs and cities than rural areas. The trust’s report found rural salary spending per instructional staff lagged nearly $2,000 behind towns and more than $10,000 behind suburban and urban districts, though those figures don’t factor in cost of living. ‘Areas of concern’
The authors of last year’s report on Kansas teacher vacancies suggested further monitoring and investigation to explore causes and solutions. But they suspected pay as a factor. “The low salaries are one of several areas of concern and they need to be addressed,” Weaver said. In Meade, starting pay for a teacher straight out of college is around $36,000. It’s unclear how this compares to the statewide average. The Kansas State Department of Education doesn’t track starting pay. But the Kansas Association of School Boards conducts a voluntary annual survey. For 2016-17, 220 of 286 school districts reported their starting salaries to the association. The average among these was about $34,700. District budgets vary, as do local spending priorities, which are determined by school boards. Kismet-Plains USD 483, a 700-student district next to Meade, offers beginning teachers
$42,000 a year. “We have to pay well just to attract folks,” Superintendent Elton Argo said, adding that the area lacks amenities that draw many applicants to larger towns, cities or suburbs. The 540-square-mile district does not have a dentist or optometrist, he said, and a physician comes to the area only a few days a week. Outdoor opportunities like fishing and hunting abound, but there’s not a movie theater or bowling alley. “Job fairs — we still attend some of those, but it’s kind of a waste of our time,” Argo said. “There aren’t many applicants there.” Fewer future teachers
Secondary teaching positions and special education jobs are particularly difficult to fill, superintendents say. Their concerns come amid a drop in students preparing to become teachers. According to the U.S. Department of Education, about 2,500 fewer people enrolled in teacher preparatory programs in Kansas in 2015 compared to four years earlier. The number of people completing such programs slid by about 460 over the same period. State universities and the Kansas State Board of Education are responding with efforts ranging from changes to teacher certification requirements to new career-transition programs. Just two examples: Kansas State University has a new one-year online master’s degree for aspiring elementary teachers who didn’t major in education at college and Emporia State has received approval
from the Kansas Board of Regents for such a program, too. But superintendents, university faculty and education officials alike have suggested the teaching field has become less attractive, not just because many other jobs offer better pay and health insurance, but because of a years-long fight over state aid to schools, lawmakers’ decision to strip teacher tenure from Kansas statute and other factors. The picture they paint is one of low morale. In Meade, Harshberger said, summer school programs disappeared amid years of budget cuts, purchases of equipment and supplies like textbooks slowed, individual teachers took on more duties at work and pay stagnated. “They know they’re not in it for the money. None of us are in it for the money — we’re in it because we love kids,” he said. “But I’ve seen a lot of dismay, particularly in the last seven years, that we’ve been hardly able to put any money in schools.” For more information, contact kcur.org.
Jared Froggatte, from left, Nina Froggatte and Brian Dillow pose for a photo after Nina’s graduation ceremony Friday. REGISTER/SHELLIE SMITLEY
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will get through it if you rely on your training.” Humboldt Police Chief Brian Dillow attended the ceremony along with clerk Lora Hunt. “I am very proud of her,” Dillow said. “It might be the end of this, but it’s the beginning of a great career.” Froggatte’s father, Jared, said, “I am just glad she graduated. I never had a doubt. I am very proud of her.” Dillow said the Humboldt department has been understaffed and will be glad to get Nina Froggatte back on board. She initially will shadow another officer and resume ordinance
violation and animal control duties. Further training will include what it feels like to get tased. Although he expressed his dislike for the exercise, Dillow said it is important that officers understand what suspects go through when they are tased, and to have direct knowledge in case the officers have to testify in court about a tasing incident. Twenty dollars of the court costs from every traffic ticket issued in Kansas goes toward funding the Kansas Enforcement Training Center. The fees enable departments from around the state to send officers for the training without further charge.
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house was situated was rezoned as a flood zone, causing the couple to change their minds. It was then that Spiares found her dream home located near the Allen County Country Club. The couple, their daughter Jasmine, Spiares’s mother Holly and five dogs made the move to Allen County. In hindsight, Spiares said living in Wisconsin would have been hard because of the distance
from her two grandchildren in Pleasanton, now just an hour away. Not too long after moving to Allen County, Spiares, who had no intention of going back to work full-time, was inspired by the abandoned Bonnie’s Corner Cafe. “The people in Allen County are friendly and supportive and I am glad things worked out the way they did,” she said. Tina’s Place (number two) will be open Wednesday through Sat-
urday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sundays 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The menu will include a buffet and salad bar and daily homemade specials such as chicken and noodles, meatloaf and Salisbury steak. Spiares said she will be hiring, but intends to be picky. “It’s not easy work. Everyone thinks it is easy, it’s not. It’s one of the hardest things out there,” she said of restaurant work.
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HUMBOLDT — RC Whitwell of Tuscon, Ariz., is getting accustomed to his surroundings here in Kansas. Whitwell led every lap of NASCAR’s Whelen All-American Modified action to pocket a cool $2,000 payday in Hum-
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boldt Speedway’s 26th Annual Modified Classic. Whitwell outpaced last year’s track champion Tad Davis, who pressured Whitwell the entire 30-lap distance, and ran second. Tanner Mullens, Chase Domer and Darron Fuqua completed the top five. In Ray’s Metal Depot B Modified Action, Jasper,
Mo.’s Cody Jolly outdueled Chanute’s Tyler Kidwell in an instant classic that had fans cheering. Kidwell, who could get to the bumper of the leader Jolly, finished second in a hard-fought battle. Riley Whitworth, Jimmie Davis and Dakota Foster rounded out the See RACING | Page B3
Chase Domer (227) and Tyler Wolfe (4) race during the NASCAR Modifieds A Feature on Friday night at Humboldt Speedway. Domer finished fourth and Wolfe took eighth. FINISHLINE PHOTOGRAPHY/DAYTON SUTTERBY
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The bullpen door swung open, and out jogged Scott Alexander late Sunday afternoon. A baseball game tied, the Royals on the verge of a three-game sweep, manager Ned Yost called on his sinker-ball specialist to neutralize the Blue Jays’ powerful lineup in the top of the sixth inning. The tactic seemed mostly sound. In 26 innings this season, Alexander had logged a 1.38 ERA, controlling hitters with a darting sinker that reaches the strike zone then disappears. He is 27 years old and pitching the best season of his life, a performance built on sinker after sinker. On a Sunday at Kauffman Stadium, the combination of sinkers, a tight strike zone and a porous defense turned a sound decision into a disastrous one. In an 8-2 loss to the Blue Jays, Alexander and the Royals’ bullpen was ravaged for five runs during a messy sixth inning. The sequence included a spate of borderline ball calls from home-plate umpire John Tumpane, a costly error by third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert, a subsequent ejection of reliever Peter Moylan and the end of a rollicking three-game winning streak that began with two stunning comebacks. The momentum halted on See ROYALS | Page B3
Iola first baseman Lance Daniels gets a hit on Saturday afternoon in Shawnee against the Kansas City Naturals in the USSSA 18-and-Under College Showcase. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA
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KANSAS CITY — The Post 15 Indians can’t seem to catch a break with the injury bug so far this season and that continued at the 18-and-Under USSSA College Showcase this weekend. Derek Bycroft — the Mustangs’ First Team All-State pitcher as a sophomore this past season — made
his first start on the mound this season, but as the Indians were bolstered by Bycroft’s return, they lost one of their other aces with Daylon Splane suffering with soreness in his tricep. The Cubs’ Second Team All-State selection had been anchoring Iola’s pitching rotation prior to the weekend, but he began dealing with a sore arm after his last start against Yates See INDIANS | Page B4
Local Notebook: Mustangs split; Kunkler qualifies for regionals
Mustangs split in Topeka By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register
The Local Notebook is designed for coaches and parents who choose to submit scores, stats and accomplishments for any local athletes and teams — particularly youth teams and other teams that the Register is unable to cover in person. Please submit scores and stats for the Local Notebook at sports@ iolaregister.com.
Youth league results Bank of Gas’ Cade Curry slides to field a grounder in T-Ball action on Friday night at Riverside Park. Box scores for Friday’s Recreational League action are on page B4. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA
TOPEKA — The 11-andunder Iola Mustangs baseball team traveled to Bettis Park in Topeka for a tournament over the weekend. The Mustangs were able to show off their offensive prowess in the first game on Saturday when they rolled to a 23-9 victory over
The 11-and-under Mustangs played in Topeka this weekend. Front row from left are Mac Leonard, Xander Sellman, Landon Weide, Ben Kerr; back row, Korbyn Fountain, Wyatt Rink, Briggs Michael, Brody Hobbs, Will Talkington and Isaac McCullough. SUBMITTED PHOTO
the Lawrence Dragons. They were unable to carry that momentum into the second game of the day, trailing 11-1 against the Baldwin Bulldogs.
Sunday was a similar script for the young Mustang team. Their bats helped carry them to 14-6 victory over the See NOTEBOOK | Page B4
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top five. Jolly leads the NASCAR Whelen All-American Division II standings by 97 points over Derek Stoltz, who races at the famed Bowman-Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C. Humboldt Speedway is well represented in the top-15 in DivisionII standings with Shane Collins, Kenton Allen, Riley Whitworth and Tyler Kidwell all placing within NASCAR’s rankings. Fastshafts by Axle Exchange Street Stocks saw Ethan Lamons hold off South Coffeyville, Okla.’s Rusty Etherton for the win. Lamons battled with his father, Jay Lamons, for the race’s initial laps. Mechanical issues would force him to retire, giving second to Etherton. Etherton, using Humboldt’s Speedway lower line, ran down the leader and continued to put pres-
Tanner Mullens (02) races during the NASCAR Modifieds A Feature on Friday night at Humboldt Speedway. He finished third. FINISHLINE PHOTOGRAPHY/DAYTON SUTTERBY sure on Lamons. Etherton could get no closer than the bumper to Lamons, as the latter closed out the win by a car’s length. Shane Cook, Nick Fritch and Hunter Oswald completed the top five. In the past two weeks in Factory Stock, John Westhoff has outdistanced Bryce Weldon in close racing action. Weldon turned the tables this week on Westhoff and took home the Factory Stock A feature.
Humboldt’s Wayne Johnson ran second with Jacob Ellison, Westhoff and Derek Wilson pacing the top five. Being in the right spot at the right time always helps in racing. Humboldt’s Eric Ikehorn found this out on lap number one of Friday’s A feature. Ikehorn, starting eighth, saw the leaders swerving to avoid a spinning car, maneuvered through the action and dominated the remainder
of the race for the victory, his first at Humboldt Speedway. John Willard and teammate Barry Luthi finished a distant second and third. Humboldt Speedway will take June 30 off and return for weekly NASCAR points racing on July 7. For more information about Humboldt Speedway visit www. humboldtspeedway.com or find Humboldt Speedway on Facebook and Twitter.
Royals: Bullpen falters in loss to Blue Jays Continued from B1
Sunday as the Royals (3737) entered a day off on Monday before starting a three-game series in Detroit on Tuesday night. The tipping point came in the top of the sixth. Alexander opened the inning by allowing a single to Toronto’s Darwin Barney and issuing walks to Kevin Pillar and Steve Pearce. His command was not awful. Yet the results were not ideal. Alexander kept hurling sinkers that skirted near the bottom of the strike zone. Tumpane, the home plate ump, kept watching the pitches and calling balls. With the bases loaded and a right-handed dominant top of the lineup due up next, Yost summoned right-hander Moylan to replace Alexander and face slugger Jose Bautista. Moylan walked Bautista on five pitches, including a 2-1 fastball that was not borderline but rather fully in the strike zone. In the moments after the 2-1 pitch, Moylan screamed at Tumpane, offering at least one expletive. Catcher Drew Butera
stepped in front of Tumpane, trying to de-escalate the situation. As Bautista trotted to first base with a walk, the Blue Jays led 3-2. The inning would flatline in the next moments when Cuthbert bobbled a grounder at third base and threw wildly to first, allowing another run to score and everybody to be safe. From there, Toronto’s third baseman Josh Donaldson put his bat on another sinker from Moylan and sent a tworun double to right field. As Yost emerged from the dugout to make yet another pitching change, Moylan hollered at Tumpane, earning an ejection as he walked back to the dugout. The loss could not ruin the weekend. The Royals won two out of three and clinched their fifth straight series victory. Even after Sunday’s frustration, they have won 11 of 14 and sprinted into contention in the American League Central. Yet the result could feel like a missed opportunity for more. Seeking their
Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Scott Alexander (54) waits to be taken out of the game in the sixth inning after Alexander was charged with three earned runs and two walks with no outs in the five-run sixth inning against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. David Eulitt/Kansas
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first three-game sweep since May 14, the Royals built a 2-0 lead in the first four innings. Rookie Jorge Bonifacio clubbed his 11th home run in the first inning against Blue Jays starter Francisco Liriano. Eric Hosmer delivered an RBI single in the fourth. Starter Jason Hammel opened the game with four scoreless innings. But then Bautista knotted the game at 2 with a booming 450-foot homer in the fifth, and Hammel’s pitch count reached 105 as he finished out the inning. In a tie game, the Royals would need four innings from their bullpen. Yost called on Alexander to work the sixth.
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Tecumseh Reapers in their first game on day two. Once again, that offensive momentum failed to carry over into the second game of the day. The Mustangs ended their tournament run with a 12-3 loss to the Lawrence Red Wings. KUNKLER Iola sophomore Elysia Kunkler competed in the USA Track and Field Oklahoma State Track Meet on Saturday and wound up qualifying in four events for the regional meet in St. Louis in July. Kunkler got first in her favorite event, the 100-meter high hurdles,
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Indians: Short-handed team falls in tournament semifinals inning ended on a hard liner that Cooper was able to leap up and grab from his shortstop spot. Leonard came in to pitch for Vink with one out in the fifth. Leonard — who had thrown 73 pitches the day before — was very strong, getting five-straight outs to finish the fifth and sixth frames. The Indians were unable to scratch across any more runs and ended up falling 4-3. Despite the loss, Coach Vink was pleased with his team’s performance. “We fought back,” Vink said. “We scratched out three runs on only two hits, which is a testament to their pitching. We had some good base-running and Ben had a great bunt. “We played one of our best games today, but just came up short.” POOL-PLAY The pool-play portion of the tournament was inconsistent for the Indians. In the first game, Iola was able to take a 6-3 victory over the Legacy Baseball Academy from Excelsior Springs, Mo. Ethan Tavarez started for the Indians and threw the first four innings while giving up only one earned run and dealing with a defense that committed five errors. Cooper pitched scoreless frames in the fifth and sixth innings and Vink closed the game by
surrendering just one run in the seventh. The offense was led by the Humboldt duo of Lance Daniels and Splane, who each had two RBIs. Daniels finished 2-for-3 with a double. The team’s defense continued to struggle in a 3-0 loss to the Northwest Missouri Nationals. Bycroft got his first start of the Legion season and threw a complete game. He allowed only two earned runs on four hits, but the defense committed three errors. That was enough for the Nationals to escape with the victory. Tavarez was the team’s top hitter, going 2-for-3. The defensive struggles reached a peak against the Excelsior Springs Tigers when eight errors led to a 14-10 loss for the Indians. Iola had a 7-3 lead going into the third inning, but five of those errors occurred in the 11-run fourth inning as the Tigers opened up a 14-7 lead and Iola couldn’t recover. Kane Rogers pitched extremely well out of the bullpen with three shutout innings to close the game. With a spot in bracketplay hanging in the balance, Iola turned back to Cooper — who had thrown 45 pitches the day before — against the Kansas City Naturals. Cooper delivered in a
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big way by throwing 104 pitches for a complete game and the 9-3 victory. “I wanted us to have every pitcher we could available for (Sunday’s bracket-play), so I wanted to finish what I started,” Cooper said. “I felt really good. After throwing two innings yesterday (Friday) my arm was a little tired right off the bat, but I just tried compete and throw strikes.” Coach Vink said Cooper was determined to go the distance. “I was going to take him out after the sixth, but he wouldn’t let me,” Vink said. Cooper was one of six Indians with multiple hits in the blowout win. “On the Legion team, there isn’t as much pressure on me to hit,” Cooper said. “I’m able to bat last and that is where I prefer to hit. It is working out well lately.” Vink, Splane and Leonard each had three hits while Cooper, Ashmore and Daniels had two apiece.
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Center. Iola coach Rick Vink limited Splane to designated hitter duty in the tournament. The Bycroft and Splane injury news began a weekend that seemed full of good news/bad news trade-offs. After going 2-2 in poolplay, the Indians advanced to bracket-play to face the top-seed and defending tournament champions St. Joseph Storm. Iola was forced to dig into its pitching depth and start Isaac Vink, who has been the sixth mostused pitcher for the team throughout the season. With Splane unavailable and Bycroft, Ben Cooper, Ethan Tavarez and Cal Leonard having already started games during pool-play, it was Vink’s turn. “With Daylon not being able to pitch, we still made it to a fifth game against this level of competition,” Coach Vink said. “I feel really good about where we are as a team.” Vink got off to a slow start by giving up three runs in the first inning and one run in the second. “We threw Isaac out there, who hasn’t pitched much,” Coach Vink said. “He didn’t pitch much during high school ball and when he did pitch for us that was in Garnett three weeks ago.” The offense also struggled early with the Storm starting the game with three perfect innings and holding a 4-0 lead after three frames. The Indians found their offense in the fourth inning with Vink being hit by a pitch and Blake Ashmore and Derek Bycroft following with backto-back singles. The Storm buckled down though and held the Indians to just two runs as they maintained a lead at 4-2. The Indians tacked on another run in the fourth inning with Leonard scoring on a Vink ground out. Meanwhile Vink found his groove on the mound. He pitched scoreless frames in the third and fourth, while leaning on his defense which had been struggling earlier in the tournament. “It is nice to see us play defense,” Coach Vink said. The defense was especially strong in the fourth inning when the Storm had runners on the corners with no outs. Vink drew a double play with Bycroft ranging to his right to pick up a grounder, step on second base and throw to first for the double play. The
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