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Monday, April 27, 2015
Letting the good times stroll (and roll) By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
Lesley Skahan, left, hugs Randal Beckmon as he and his wife Marsha hold a banner for their late granddaughter Aliyah Nicholas. They led the MOM’s third annual Stroll and Roll Saturday at Riverside Park. The event is a fundraiser for area children with special needs. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
It was a perfect day for a stroll in Riverside Park Saturday morning. The third annual MOM’s (Mothers of Miracles) Stroll and Roll brought people of all ages to support area children with special needs. The morning kicked off with informational booths and carnival games for kids in front of the Recreation Community Building. About 100 participants took a couple laps around the park for the fundraiser. A free-will donation lunch was held after the walk. Funds from the event will go to help families pay for therapies, gas money, food for families while they are in the hospital and medical expenses that insurance doesn’t cover.
Nepal death toll mounts
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Shelter, fuel, food, medicine, power, news, workers — Nepal’s earthquake-hit capital was short on everything today as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings and struggled to provide for their families’ needs. In much of the countryside, it was worse, though how much worse was only beginning to become apparent. The death toll soared past 3,700, even without a full accounting from vulnerable mountain villages that rescue See NEPAL | Page A4
GOP ‘rebels’ leadership still at odds WASHINGTON (AP) — As he began his first re-election run in early 2013, tea party Rep. Thomas Massie had no trouble raising money from business interests. Then came 2015. The Kentucky Republican voted against returning John Boehner, R-Ohio, to the speaker’s job and opposed an effort by GOP leaders to avoid a standoff with President Barack Obama over immigration that threatened to shut down the Department of Homeland Security. In the first three months of 2013, Massie reported $46,000 rolling in from tobacco, trucking, health care and other industries. During the first quarter of 2015, Massie has collected just $1,000 from political action committees, which funnel
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Forensics kids get a B-O-O-S-T Saturday’s inaugural Bee for the Arts drew scores of participants and spectators alike as teams tested their spelling skills — some better than others — in an adult spelling bee. Above at left, Bumbler Bees team members Judy Baker, from left, Lisa Wicoff, Virginia Macha, Sandy Zornes and Tracy Keagle pose for a picture. The quintet won the event. Above at right, Iola High School alums Colton Schubert, from left, and Cody Cokely do an improv skit with IHS students Zach Cokely and Madison Luken. The activities were part of a fundraiser to help send Forensics team members Trilby Bannister and Catherine Venter to a national competition in Florida in May, and to help defray expenses for the 50th annual Little Oscars celebration May 16. The Forensics team raised $3,000. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
SEE, HEAR IOLA
Toland shares vision of active communities By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
Thrive Allen County is working to create a more active culture. Thrive’s executive director, David Toland, spoke Friday
at the monthly See, Hear Iola session to give an update on the trail system. Iola’s trail system started in 2008 with the opening of the Prairie Spirit Trail. Community members had a vision to expand the trail to
Humboldt. Volunteers helped link the two largest cities in Allen County together with 6.5 miles of trail, now known as the Southwind Rail Trail. Today, Thrive is working on the Lehigh Portland trail, on land surrounding the ce-
ment plant, which operated from 1901 to 1970, and is now owned by Iola Industries. Toland said there will be approximately two miles of hard surface and approxiSee THRIVE | Page A4
Young Authors feted By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
A group of students surround Kayla Genoble, second from left, as she reads her story Saturday at the Allen County Youth Authors Celebration. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
Quote of the day Vol. 117, No. 123
Different life experiences push people into becoming authors. For authors Mike Graf and Louise Borden, childhood adventures led them to their respective paths. Graf and Borden were in Iola Friday and Saturday for the 16th annual Allen County Young Authors celebration. They met with students in all county schools, attended a banquet in their honor and led discussions Saturday morning at Iola High School. Graf has penned a 12-book national park adventure series with the thrilling Parker
“The desire to write grows with writing..” — Desiderius Arasmus, Dutch philospher 75 Cents
family. The family travels to different national parks across the country and deals with a plethora of exciting experiences. Graf ’s interest in national parks began when he grew up in California. He and his family would travel to different parks. In college he and a few friends took a road trip to visit parks across the U.S. “I go to visit a park every summer,” Graf said. “Out of the 59 parks, I’ve been to 35. There are several I’ve visited multiple times.” The Parkers get into some sticky situations. Graf visits the park he plans to write See AUTHORS | Page A4
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