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Monday, August 31, 2015
Jobs for people, people for jobs By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
Rhonda McGraw, Senior Life Solutions director in Iola, speaks during the monthly See, Hear Iola session. REGISTER/ KAYLA BANZET
Senior Life Solutions offers myriad services By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
As we age problems may arise both physically and mentally. The Senior Life Solutions program at Allen County Regional Hospital can ease those burdens. Rhonda McGraw, director of Senior Life Solutions, explained the program’s purpose at See, Hear Iola Friday. The program began in June. Its mission is to offer emotional or behavioral health counseling to area seniors over age 65. Senior Life Solutions
helps with: coping with loss, crying, decreased energy, difficulty sleeping, hopelessness, loneliness, low self-confidence and restlessness. “This program is designed to help older adults overcome these trying circumstances and improve their quality of life,” McGraw said. McGraw said each patient receives individual care but participates in a group therapy atmosphere. “Group participants start See SOLUTIONS | Page A4
By 10 o’clock, on a soggy Friday morning, the parking lot at Bass Community Hall was packed with the cars and trucks of area employers and job-seekers who turned out for last week’s career fair, an event organized by the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce and KansasWorks. A good chunk of the tiny tarmac was occupied by the KansasWorks Mobile Center, a brightly-painted 38-foot-long custom-built bus, outfitted with 11 computer work stations, where job-seekers can search the agency’s employment database and receive advice on creating or updating their resumes. The main portion of the fair, however, took place inside the buff-colored building on North Buckeye Street, where, according to Susie Ellis of KansasWorks, more than 200 potential applicants browsed the 34 employer
Job-seekers enter their information at computer stations set up as part of the KansasWorks Job Fair Friday in Iola. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY
booths. Among area employers in attendance were B&W Trailer Hitches, Russell Stover, Tramec Sloan, Rookies Sports Bar & Grill (opening soon) and Emprise Bank. Jennifer Jones, a recruit-
By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man’s odyssey into terrorism culminated when he tried to bring a van filled with inert explosives onto the tarmac at the Wichita airport where he worked, an attack prosecutors say was aimed at causing “maximum carnage”
during which Terry L. Loewen would die as a martyr. “I expect to be called a terrorist (which I am), a psychopath, and a homicidal maniac,” he wrote in a letter that investigators later found in his house. But the plot unraveled on Dec. 13, 2013, when it was revealed to be an elaborate FBI sting operation in which two
Iola High School’s inaugural alumni touch football game Friday evening drew participants from as recent as 2015’s graduating class to Bob Franklin, who last donned shoulder pads for Iola High in 1965. The participants were, front from left, Cody Conner, Shane Walden, Dana Daugharthy, Earl McIntosh, Bob Franklin, Gavin Wilson, John Whitworth, Austin Sigg, David Daugharthy and John Sigg; second from left, Devin Culler, Milton Ivy, Jesse Zimmerman, Brad Bazo, Tony Godfrey, Kris Collins, Zeph Larney, Corey Emerson, Mason Coons, Braden Larson, Brandon Hess and Josh Mueller. At lower left, Larson (88) is escorted by Wilson (78) as he runs back an interception for a touchdown. Attempting to run down Larson is defender Dana Daugharthy. At lower middle, Mike Aronson prepares to throw a pass. Other photos of the scrimmage, as well as the regular high-schoolers’ annual Blue and Gold Scrimmage, are on B1. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
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Quote of the day
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“The less routine, the more life.” — Amos Bronson Alcott, American teacher 75 Cents
agents posed as co-conspirators. At the time, Loewen was an avionics technician for Hawker Beechcraft’s facility at Mid-Continent Airport, now called the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport. He was arrested as he tried to use his employee badge on a card reader to bring the fake See PLOTTER | Page A4
Circus coming to Iola Sept. 12 The big top is coming to Iola. The Iola Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus for a pair of shows at 2 and 4:30 p.m. Sept. 12. The tent will be set up at 423 W. Madison Ave., behind Miller’s on Madison. An assortment of acrobats, animal performers and circus clowns are on the menu. Advance tickets sell for $10 for adults and $6 for children ages 2-12. Youngsters younger than 2 are admitted free of charge. Tickets on show day sell for $13 for adults and $7 for children. Advance tickets are available at the Chamber, Duane’s Flowers, Landmark Bank and Iola Pharmacy. The public is invited to watch the raising of the big top, from 9:30 to 10 o’clock that morning, followed by free tours of the facilities.
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