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By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
LAHARPE — A love of helping others, coupled with a love of animals has kept Blaine King busy the past few weeks. King culminated his monthplus effort to convert old tires into bedding for dogs and cats Saturday, by delivering five of the beds to the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility. The project doubles as King’s “self-determined” community service project as part of his work with the Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club. King, age 13, is a student at Crest Middle School in Colony. King read about the idea to recycle old car tires, so he went about securing materials necessary for his project. A friend in Moran had several old tires for him to select from, while other acquainSee ANIMALS | Page A4
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Blaine King, 13, shows the homemade pet beds he made from recycled tires and other donated materials. He donated the beds Saturday to the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility. REGISTER/RICH-
ARD LUKEN
Christmas in Humboldt
Bethany Alzanadi transports Cole Myers in a stroller around the Humboldt square, with Harlow Wrestler in the background. Below, Maxton Mueller, left, and Aaron Wille take part in festivities.
A jolly elf and Santa Claus join Humboldt’s “Bike Around the Square” event Friday evening. Stores stayed open late for Black Friday shopping. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS
WASHINGTON — The escalating coronavirus pandemic could reverse decades of gains in the fight against poverty, as U.S. government aid for the vulnerable dries up. In the early months of the crisis, the federal Cares Act, which gave an extra $600 a week in unemployment assistance and $1,200 stimulus checks, helped prevent poverty from dramatically deepening. But that lifeline for low-income earners is being cut off. Unemployment benefits are set to expire for millions of workers in late December and talks over a new stimulus package have stalled — just as some states reimpose job-hammering lockdowns to halt a surge in cases. Keeping a flow of government assistance open to poorer families will be crucial to ensure that the recovery from the pandemic doesn't further exacerbate inequality, according to James Sullivan, an economics professor at Notre See POVERTY | Page A2
Returning to the Garden of Eden: Humboldt Academy Trevor Hoag Just Prairie Near the southern tip of the Allen-Woodson border, is an immense native stone rise that’s known by many as Zeig’s Hill, and before that, Quackenbos Hill. The name comes from Professor George Quackenbos, a nineteenth century schoolmaster from Connecticut who had the idea of pioneering a place of higher learning, one he would christen the Humboldt Academy for Boys. Indeed, the distance between Zeig’s Hill and Humboldt is only a few miles, though this turned out to be more of a detriment to the
school than a benefit. Quackenbos successfully convinced wealthy parents from eastern states to send their sons out west to escape the typical depravities found in cities, but it seems Humboldt provided plenty of temptations of its own. Though the inchoate German settlement had been in See ACADEMY | Page
In the Allen County Historical Society’s museum hangs an original metal sign from the Humboldt Academy for Boys.
Imposing in size, Quackenbos Hill (or Zeig’s Hill) looms large against the Kansas prairie. REGISTER/
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