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Hangars on: Airport plans take off By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register
Big things could be coming to the Allen County Regional Airport. At least two hangars, one for a crop dusting business and an even larger one for a Topeka air museum, are on the horizon. County commissioners agreed to find sites for the two hangars, expressing enthusiasm for potentially adding those projects at the airport. The county has focused on airport development in recent years, pursuing grants and financing that will allow them to make improvements and potentially develop land around the airport for economic development and an industrial park.
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gars. One is for plane owners as dedicated space for their equipment. The other is for pilots to use on a temporary basis, such as an overnight stay while they are just passing through. “Hangar space is a premium,” Daniels said. “There are few and far between.”
Robert Rice with the American Flight Museum of Topeka talks about building a hangar for a satellite museum at Iola. REGISTER/ VICKIE MOSS
A couple of weeks ago, a new airport advisory committee met to discuss needs of those who use the facility.
Pilots are always in need of hangar space, commission Chairman Jerry Daniels said. There are two types of han-
County has spent half of ARPA funds By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register
MATT Orth, a crop dusting pilot from Marion, asked the county if he could lease property to build an 80-foot by 80foot hangar with small living quarters for pilots. He’s a member of the new airport advisory board and uses the Allen County airport as part of his business, Central Ag Air, LLC. He has hangars in Marion and Her-
A little more than half of Allen County’s $2.4 million in federal relief funds are now spoken for. Lisse Regehr, CEO of Thrive Allen County, gave commissioners an update on plans to spend the county’s portion of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The county hired Thrive to administer the funds, and a committee helped develop a priority
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‘Wait for your brain to get quiet’ By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register
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Russia shells areas it vowed to scale back KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces bombarded areas around Kyiv and another city just hours after pledging to scale back military operations in those places to help negotiations along, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday. The shelling — and intensified Russian attacks on other parts of the country — tempered optimism about any progress in the talks aimed at ending the punishing war. The Russian military’s announcement Tuesday that it would de-escalate near the capital and Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust” was met with deep suspicion from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the West. Soon after, Ukrainian officials reported that Russian shelling hit homes, See UKRAINE | Page A4
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“What if you didn’t have a Switch?” Horrified gasps filled the air of the gymnasium at Jefferson Elementary School as first and second grade students imagined life without their beloved handheld video game device. “What if you didn’t have an iPad?” More gasps. Author Laurel Snyder continued. “Or a computer?” This time, gasps were followed by low murmuring. What kind of dystopian society did this woman grow up in? Then, Snyder asked what they might do to pass the time without those devices. “Ride my bike.” “Play with friends.” “Dance.” “Draw.” And, finally, the answer she’d been waiting for: “Read a book.” Snyder loved to read books when she was a child. She would check out 10 books at the library at the start of the weekend, and finish them all by the end. But without books to read or computers to distract her, she’d get bored. And when she got bored, that’s when the magic happened. “Your brain gets to this place where it’s a blank piece of paper. You feel like your brain is doing nothing,” she said. “But what’s happening is your brain is waking up.” She would lay down on the floor of her room and stare at a crack in the ceiling. Soon, the crack became a dragon. A hungry dragon who liked pizza. Thus began Snyder’s lifelong love of storytelling. She’s now the published author of 25 books for children, both chapter books and picture books.
Laurel Snyder talks about the importance of boredom with Jefferson Elementary School students on Tuesday morning as part of the Author Visit Program. At right, Snyder dances to illustrate a point and entertain students. REGISTER/ VICKIE MOSS
She visited seven area schools on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the Author Visit Program. The program is made possible by a grant from the Helen Gates Whitehead Trust. SNYDER discussed her writing career with kindergarten through fifth grade students in an interactive and very engaging fashion. She asked questions the crowd was eager to answer, such as “What do you want to do when you grow up?” She talked to them about a time when she was young and sad, when her parents got divorced. She shared the story about discovering magic and storytelling. She told them about her best friend, Susan, and how they wrote books together by fashioning small pieces of paper together. She See AUTHOR | Page A6
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