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Thursday, August 27, 2015
CELEBRATING HISTORY, LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
Community members gathered Wednesday to say farewell to the old Allen County Hospital building. The site will host a new grocery store, G&W Foods, and apartment buildings. Demolition of the hospital is expected to begin this fall. Speakers at the ceremony were David Toland, Thrive Allen County executive director, Tom Williams, Allen County commissioner, Donna Houser, local historian, Mary Kay Heard, chairman of Iola Industries, Chris O’Hara, general manager of G&W Foods, and Joel Wicoff, Iola mayor. Community leaders, above, symbolically start the demolition for the hospital building. Mary Kay Heard, right, speaks during the ceremony about welcoming new business. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
Fatal shootings of journalists put horror on live TV A Virginia TV journalist and cameraman were fatally shot and a third person was injured during a live on-air interview. Baltimore Washington, D.C.
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The man gripped a gun as he stood behind members of the news crew, watching them do a live broadcast. The journalists didn’t seem to notice that he had pointed the weapon right at them. On Wednesday morning, as southwestern Virginia television viewers watched on live TV, a WDBJ-TV reporter and
her cameraman were shot to death in the middle of their broadcast near Smith Mountain Lake. Police later identified the gunman as Vester Lee Flanagan II, one of the journalists’ former TV station co-workers. The person being interviewed, local Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Vicki Gardner, was wounded but was expected to survive. By the time Flanagan, 41, had shot and killed himself
after a police chase several hours later, his face and his actions had been widely broadcast on televisions across the nation and on social media. Flanagan, who was black, cited racism and bullying as a motive, though Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton said it was “obvious” that Flanagan “was disturbed in some way.” The shooting was a grotesque moment of television See SHOOTING | Page A5
Creative thinking molds teacher By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
Once upon a time, when Karen Graham was in high school, she got mired in a math problem and couldn’t find her way toward the answer. The teacher looked at Karen. Karen looked at the teacher. And then the teacher began to sing. “Opera style,” remembers Graham. “Instead of talking me through the lesson, she suddenly sang the whole thing. Somehow, at that moment, though, everything about the problem clicked, and I just thought ‘I love you. You are so cool.’” The incident imprinted on Graham’s brain not only the lineaments of a difficult equation but also the method by which it was imparted. Graham, one of two new third-grade teachers at Lincoln Elementary, has successfully adapted similar techniques in her own teaching over the course of her 15-year career. “I do a lot of singing and chants and things. We get up and move,” says Graham.
Karen Graham is a new third-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School this year. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY “If ever I have kids that are stuck, a lot of times physical action will help. And I love it, because kids who get stuck are like ‘Oh, we can look at this a different way?’ And that’s what I want. I don’t want them growing up thinking ‘I can’t do this, I’m not smart.’ Because that’s not it. Everyone’s capable. But we
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each may need to travel a different route.” When Graham began her odyssey of “active teaching” — she’s worked in schools from Garden City to Chanute — she was tapping, intuitively, into a then-developing pedagogy known as “whole See GRAHAM | Page A5
Monsoon
A pre-dawn storm left Lincoln Elementary School officials scrambling this morning after the torrential rains sparked several leaks throughout the school, including this fifth-grade classroom. Students were temporarily relocated to another room until the dripping ceased. According to Iola’s official city rain gauge, the storm dumped 3.85 inches of rain. REGISTER/
RICHARD LUKEN
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