Sports: ACC women win, men fall short See B1
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
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Wind Group targets stadium repairs farm nearer reality By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
One day Allen County may have about 100 wind turbines producing electricity from farmland in a spacious tract north of LaHarpe and Moran. Rorik F. Peterson told Allen County commissioners Tuesday the project, first mentioned a couple of years ago, was progressing, although all enabling details had yet to be fleshed out. Peterson is development project manager for EDP Renewables, which has corporate offices in Houston. EDP has the third largest wind farm presence in the nation, and is on the cusp of completing installation of 95 turbines in Coffey County, in the Waverly neighborhood. Information Peterson related, in a seamless and rapid fire presentation, included; — To date, over 10,000 acres — of 20,000 proposed — have been leased in Allen County. — Four temporary meteorological towers have been installed to measure See WIND | Page A6
When it rains it pours — and water flows right into the locker rooms at the Iola football stadium in Riverside Park. Drainage issues, mold and inadequate dressing rooms were among the issues Citizens Involvement Task Force members addressed at USD 257’s Board of Education meeting Tuesday. The organization proposed a solution. CITF/PRIDE member Ryan Sparks said the group would like the board’s permission to raise funds and fix some of these problems. “We’re not asking for you to take this on,” Sparks said. “Let us fundraise and really find an answer for the drainage problem. With our group we could give the stadium a facelift.” Sparks said the first thing on the to-do list is find a solution for an ongoing drainage problem. The group has spoken to a few contractors but haven’t pursued them. “We don’t want to overstep our bounds,” he said.
Iola CITF/PRIDE Committee members will begin raising funds for repairs at the football stadium at Riverside Park. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN “We are not asking for your maintenance crews’ time. We would do the work.” CITF/PRIDE is an organization of volunteers who
work together to improve their community. The group has worked on various projects such as painting buildings around town and install-
ing the new Elm Creek Disc Golf Course. Donna Houser, CITF/ See STADIUM | Page A4
Taking a closer look at hopefuls’ tax plans By NICHOLAS RICCARDI The Associated Press
DENVER (AP) — Republicans came into this presidential campaign with painful memories of how, in the last one, Democrats blasted Mitt Romney’s tax plan as a giveaway to the rich. They’ve heard a new wing of conservative intellectuals urge them to focus on tax cuts to
working-class Americans rather than the wealthy. Yet the release of Donald Trump’s tax plan adds to the number of major GOP presidential candidates who propose to cut all taxes — but especially those for the wealthy — as deeply, or deeper, than Romney proposed. The lesson Republicans seem to have drawn is to simply stop worrying about balancing
the budget. The plans would blow open deficits over the next decade that economists estimate ranging from $3.6 trillion to $12 trillion. Oren Cass, who was Romney’s domestic policy adviser, noted the former Massachusetts governor had pledged to make his tax cuts deficit-neutral by cutting tax loopholes, though he never fully detailed how his plan
would do so. Yet he was still savaged by Democrats who accused him of planning to stiff middle-class ratepayers for the benefit of the rich. “You look at what Gov. Romney did and you say, ‘There’s nothing to be gained from being responsible that way,’ “ Cass said. “You may as well do the plan that your See TAXES | Page A4
Jazz singer to perform Oct. 10 at Bowlus
A little off the top
Crews from Environmental Restoration began the latest Environmental Protection Agency-funded cleanup phase in Iola Tuesday by clearing lead-tainted soil from a home in the 400 block of South Second Street. More than 300 yards will be cleared of the polluted soil and replaced with “clean” dirt. EPA officials expect the cleanup — estimated to cost between $8 million and $10 millioin — will take about two years to complete. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Quote of the day Vol. 117, No. 229
“Language is wine upon the lips”
— Virginia Woolf 75 Cents
Renowned jazz vocalist Donna Singer will be at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center’s Creitz Recital Hall at 4 p.m. Oct. 10. A four-piece jazz group will accompany Singer, whose appearance is being sponsored by Allen Community College. The event is free to the public. While Singer is best known across the country, particularly for jazz afficianadoes, her spouse may be a bit more renowned locally. Roy Singer is an Iola native and Iola High School graduate. He’s a former classmate of ACC President John Masterson.
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