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By ALLISON [email protected]

Art mediums are continuously revolving. New mediums come in and old ones go out, but they never stay out forever.

Keith Kavanaugh, from the Kansas City area, is bringing popularity back to an old and very unique form of art — en-caustic or hot wax painting, pri-marily with bee’s wax.

Kavanaugh gave an encaus-tic art workshop Tuesday at the Bowlus Fine Arts center for Amy Shannon’s art class.

“It is a rare medium, but it is more popular now than it has ever been,” Kavanaugh said. “There used to be only one book on it, now there are probably half a dozen, which is still not a lot.”

Encaustic art can be traced back to 800 B.C. and went out of favor when tempura and oil painting came along.

“Greeks would put wax on the hulls of their boats and there would be colorful designs along-side,” Kavanaugh said. “It’s not much of a stretch to take that

and do it on (canvas sized) pan-els. It came from ship building.”

He originally majored in mu-sic at Berkley College of Music in Boston.

“There was an art history pro-fessor that was really inspiring,”

Kavanaugh said. Kavanaugh then delved into

all types of art mediums, includ-ing graphic design, which he still does some of.

Kavanaugh became interested

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Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

At the bandstand Jim Garner, directorThursday, July 7, 2011 8 p.m.

PROGRAMStar Spangled Banner ..................................................arr. J.P. SousaAmericans We — march .......................................... Henry FillmoreRock, Rhythm and Blues — medley ......................arr. Jack BullockArmy of the Nile — march ...................................Kenneth J. AlfordBegin of the Beguine ...................................................... Cole PorterInvercargill — march ...................................................Alex LithgowHymn to the Fallen.................................... John Williams/SweeneyMen of Ohio — march ............................................. Henry FillmoreA Sixties Time Capsule — medley .............................. arr. JenningsThe Washington Post — march ...................................John P. Sousa

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

Register/Richard LukenMules Pat and Pete pull an antique sickle bar mower piloted by Ray Whiteley of Le Roy. Whiteley was joined by Greg Gleue in cutting an 18-acre prairie hay field Tuesday.

By SUSAN [email protected]

If you’ve got enough of it, Fri-day night is the night to let your hair down.

One sure test is to participate in the “Drag Race” as a runup to the Charlie Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life race.

Men and women alike are en-couraged to dress in a cross-gen-der manner and then “compete” in teams of four in a relay. Last

year a woman’s garter was trans-ferred from one participant’s leg to another.

“It’s better than a baton,” said David Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County and one of the organizers for Friday’s events.

If you don’t have a thing to wear — no worries.

Dresses, hats, purses, jewelry and other accoutrements will be available at Elizabeth Donnelly’s

The Shirt Shop, 20 W. Jackson, where participants will have a wide selection from which to choose. Doors open at 10 p.m.

Registration to participate in the drag race is $5. That also gains participants entrance to a 9:30 p.m. pre-party at the Thrive office, 12 W. Jackson. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Thrive office or Friday night on

By RICHARD [email protected]

LE ROY — Unlike the mecha-nized behemoths of today, Ray Whiteley’s mowing outfit was considerably quieter.

His “engine” — a pair of 1,200-pound mules — needed only an occasional break from the sti-fling summer heat as Whiteley traversed his way around an 18-acre prairie hay meadow.

“It’s a little warm, so we’ve been taking it easy,” Whiteley said. “It’s our little hobby.”

The mules were pulling White-ley’s antique sickle bar mower, a small wagon with cutting bar

attached. The bar was triggered through a gear box engaged as its wheels roll.

With no mechanical engine to speak of, the only noise emanat-ing from his unit was from the teeth of the seven-foot cutting bar rotating back and forth.

Joining Whiteley was neighbor and friend Greg Gleue, with his own mowing outfit, another sick-le bar mower pulled by a pair of Percheron draft horses.

“We’re having some fun with it,” Whiteley joked. “Greg’s kind of a wimp about it. He needs a

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

Register/Susan LynnThese men are ready to leave their inhibitions at home as they participate in Friday night’s favorite race, the drag race. From left to right are Matt Skahan, Brian Wolfe, Nic Lohman, David Toland and Fred Heismeyer. The race begins at 10:30 p.m. on the courthouse square.

By BOB [email protected]

Calls to the 911 dispatch center average one almost every 10 min-utes.

And while that may sound a lit-tle slow, played out over 24 hours a day and every day of the year, the total comes to 55,000.

“That’s what we received last year,” Angie Murphy, dispatch center director, told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morn-ing.

The call total — she figures half or more are for true emer-gencies — wasn’t the point of her appearance, but the magnitude of the number captivated commis-sioners.

Murphy was before commis-sioners to request a 20 percent increase in the department’s bud-get for 2012, up $126,000 over this year’s $490,000.

The increase seemed pretty hefty. Murphy reasoned health insurance will cost an additional $50,000 and another $6,000 was expected for Kansas Public Em-

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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By JOE [email protected]

When Brian Pekarek was hired as superintendent of the Iola school district in February, he saw an opportunity to “reinvigo-rate” USD 257.

With a focus on academic achievement and public transpar-ency, Pekarek hopes he can fur-ther success for the district and the more than 1,300 students rely-ing on it.

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-

By BOB [email protected]

An anticipated field of a thou-sand runners and walkers, who will flee Iola’s downtown busi-ness district early Saturday as Charley Melvin did in 1905, can be thankful that Melvin chose to do his dastardly deed in the mid-dle of the night.

Had the event being commemo-rated occurred in mid-day, par-ticipants would battle oppressive heat and humidity, with both forecast at the upper end of the discomfort scale during daytime Friday and Saturday. As is, they will run and walk in somewhat more inviting temperatures pre-dicted for the low 70s by 12:26 a.m. Saturday.

The race — many walkers will be out for a stroll — will cap activ-ities that start late Friday after-noon and will go on throughout the evening. Included will be the much-awaited “drag race,” fea-turing some of the area’s finest men and women dressed in drag.

Chris Weiner at Thrive Allen County, co-sponsor with Allen County Crimestoppers for “The Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run for your Life,” said total of partic-ipants was approaching 450, with about 200 signed on for the 5-kilo-meter run. The walk will follow a 3-kilometer course.

“Registration, including prob-ably a fifth online, has really

picked up,” Weiner said Tuesday afternoon. As in the past, “we ex-pect a lot of people to sign up Fri-day night.”

Cost is $12 for the walk. Run-ners’ fees are $14 for youth to age 17, $20 for adults and $17 each for members of teams.

Runners in the third annual event will aim for best times of 15.40.06 for males and 20.44.78 for females, set last year.

Sticks of “Melvin Dy-No-Mite” will be awarded the first three places for males and females in each of five ages groups, 15 and under, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60 and 61 and over.

All participants will break from in front of the post office. Runners will follow a course that will take them on West to Wash-ington, then Jackson, Jefferson and East to Cottonwood. They

Temps for runlook inviting

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ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall knew about cheat-ing allegations on standardized tests but either ignored them or tried to hide them, according to a state investigation.

An 800-page report released Tuesday to The Associated Press by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office through an open records request shows several educators report-ed cheating in their schools. But the report says Hall, who won the national Superintendent of the Year award in 2009, and other administrators ignored those re-ports and sometimes retaliated against the whistleblowers.

The yearlong investigation shows educators at nearly four dozen Atlanta elementary and middle schools cheated on stan-dardized tests by helping stu-dents or changing the answers once exams were handed in.

The investigators also found a “culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” in the school district over the cheating allegations, which led to educators lying about the cheating or destroying

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

Brian Pekarek, center, visits with Barb Geffert and Marcy Boring at the USD 257 board office.

Cheating scandal detailed

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HOSPITAL TAKING SHAPE

Patty McGuffin, director of nursing at ACH, points to plans of the new hospital. From left are Jim Gilpin, Karen Gilpin, Jay Kretzmeier, Debbie Roe and Sheldon Streeter, project developer.

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Tooting its own horn a priorityBy SUSAN LYNN

[email protected] trustees donned

hard hats Tuesday night to walk through a maze of shiny steel as the interior framework of the new Allen County Hospital takes shape.

Sheldon Streeter, project man-ager with Murray Construction, led the hour-long tour, highlight-ing the spacious patient rooms, surgery quarters, emergency

and radiology departments, birthing suites and the impres-sive front lobby whose barrel-shaped ceiling reaches some 25 feet high and is equipped with skylights.

Although the new hospital is some 20,000 feet smaller than the current hospital’s footprint, its single story and more open lay-out makes it feel every bit as big.

ONCE BACK at the current

hospital, trustees turned their attention to promoting the new hospital and hired Cindy Parks of Parks Communications, a public relations firm based in Leawood.

Parks has worked the past sev-eral years developing advertis-ing for the hospital on contract through Hospital Corporation of America, which leases ACH from Allen County.

Ambulance director resignsBy BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] Nelson stepped down as

director of Allen County’s Emer-gency Medical Services at Tues-day’s county commission meet-ing. His resignation, effective Jan. 31, came after a five-minute executive session.

Nelson later told the Register he was leaving to take a position as a flight paramedic with Life-Team, a critical care ambulance service that has been in Kansas since 2001. It operates helicopter, fixed wing and ground ambulanc-es.

His initial assignment will be

in Liberal, Nelson said. He has directed Allen County ambulance service since November 2008.

After accepting Nelson’s resig-nation, commissioners started to consider an interim director, but then deferred action after noting that Tom Williams and Jim Talk-ington will take seats Tuesday held today by Rob Francis and Gary McIntosh.

Dick Works, the lone holdover, and the two new commissioners will have two and a half weeks to decide who will replace Nelson, either part or full time.

U.S. 54 will be rebuiltBy BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] — U.S. 54 from Iola to the

east edge of LaHarpe, a distance of a little less than 5 miles, will undergo a complete rebuild.

Darrin Petrowsky, district en-gineer for the Kansas Department of Transportation, told Gas coun-cil members Tuesday evening the reconstruction would start later this year and continue into 2014.

“The project’s bid letting was scheduled for March 2014 but it has been pushed up to this March,” Petrowsky said, in a re-view of what KDOT has planned for this year.

“Originally, we had planned on a three-inch mill of U.S. 54 and bonded concrete overlay,” Petrowsky said. “Then, six months ago I got a call from Tope-ka, and was told the project was going to be a full-depth replace-ment with bid letting this March.”

The highway’s median will be untouched, but the four driving lanes, two in each direction, will be removed and rebuilt. That will entail taking up nine inches of re-inforced concrete and four inches of aggregate base material. The subgrade also will be inspected and “some probably will be re-moved and replaced,” Petrowsky said. A stabilizing mat, similar in looks to orange snow fence, will be laid over the subgrade before the base is replaced.

The project will be done in three phases.

The first will be from east Iola to where curb and gutter begins in Gas; the second through Gas; the third on to the end of the four-lane at the east edge of LaHarpe. Some, but not all, curb and gutter will be replaced in Gas.

The contractor will decide

Artist brings back early art medium

Artist Keith Kavanaugh shows Amy Shannon’s art class how to add color to encaustic art on Tuesday.

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Warning system active in 2012By BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] Countians received ad-

vance warning of severe weather 40 times during 2012 by way of emergency telephone calls.

Pam Beasley, emergency man-agement director, gave county commissioners a review of the service at their meeting Tuesday morning.

This is third year of a five-year contract with CodeRED. Annual cost of $11,343.50 is split equally among emergency management, 911 dispatch and the sheriff ’s department, each kicking in $3,781.17.

Of the charge, $7,781 is for Co-deRED warnings, which have to do with alerts about missing people, criminal activities and the such, and the remainder for weather warnings.

CodeRED messages go to all telephone numbers in the county, unless the recipient has specifi-cally opted out. Weather warn-ings, though, go just to people who have signed on.

Beasley noted that people who want to opt out of CodeRED or set

up an account to receive weather warnings may do so by calling her office, 365-1437, or through the Internet at allencosheriff.org, al-lencounty.org or cityofiola.org.

Most of the county’s telephone numbers are in the CodeRED sys-tem while about 5,000 residents have subscribed to weather warn-ings.

While CodeRED mainly is used for emergencies, it also was used last year for voter notification pri-or to elections.

Beasley said the notification system constantly was being up-graded and that some additions might be made to Allen County’s inventory, including text messag-ing and having messages placed on bulletin boards for easy access by subscribers.

Sheriff Tom Williams, who will take a seat on the county commis-sion next Tuesday, said CodeRED and weather message have been important tools for making Allen Countians safer.

COMMISSIONERS agreed to set in motion procedures to close

Wicoff wins IMS spelling bee

Topping the Iola Middle School spelling bee were from left, Zane Beasley, fourth place, runner-up Zach Cokely, champion Isaiah Wicoff and third-place finisher Elija Luedke.

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Diner sees changes with new ownership

By STEVEN [email protected]

With the turn of the new year, Colony residents may notice some slight changes at the Coun-try Diner — a result of new own-ership at one of the most well known local establishments.

Gary and LaNell Knoll, along with Roger Young, bought the diner and officially took owner-ship of the store on Dec. 21 from Nancy and Ed Ellington.

“We wanted to keep the busi-ness in the community,” LaNell said. “So we are just taking care of the ‘child’ that Nancy has raised.”

In fact, LaNell said Nancy was

the person who instigated the ef-forts to transfer the ownership from her and her husband to the Knolls and Young. She said Nancy was coming to a point in her life where she wanted to spend more time with her family, so she de-cided to let the diner go.

As for the partnership between the three, LaNell said “it just kind of happened that way.”

Young, who originally grew up in Garnett, has been in the area for 11 years and as long a loyal pa-tron of the Country Diner.

“I’ve been eating there for for-ever,” Young said. “The people there are awesome.”

Both the owners and the opera-tions manager, Brenda Dowling, agreed the transition would be a

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By RICHARD [email protected] Wicoff survived Tues-

day as his fellow competitors bowed out of the annual Iola Middle School spelling bee.

Wicoff secured the 2013 IMS spelling crown by correctly spelling “extant.”

He earned a trophy for his ac-complishment.

His primary competitor, sev-enth-grader Zach Cokely, bowed out in the eighth round by mis-spelling “subsequent.”

Both spellers, along with sixth-grader Elijah Luedke, will advance to the Allen Coun-ty Spelling Bee Feb. 1 at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

Luedke made it to the sev-enth round before bowing out with the word “fantastically.”

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By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security

WriterWASHINGTON (AP) —

The Obama administra-tion says it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an op-tion that defies the Penta-gon’s view that thousands of troops may be needed to contain al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces.

“We wouldn’t rule out any option,” including zero troops, Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy na-tional security adviser, said Tuesday.

“The U.S. does not have an inherent objective of ‘X’ number of troops in Af-ghanistan,” Rhodes said. “We have an objective of making sure there is no safe haven for al-Qaida in Afghanistan and making sure that the Afghan gov-ernment has a security force that is sufficient to ensure the stability of the Afghan government.”

The U.S. has 66,000 troops in Afghanistan, down from a peak of about 100,000 as recently as 2010. The U.S. and its NATO allies agreed in November 2010 that they would withdraw all their combat troops by the end of 2014, but they have yet to decide what future mis-sions will be necessary and how many troops they would require.

Those issues are cen-tral to talks this week as Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets with Presi-dent Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

At stake is the risk of Afghanistan’s collapse and a return to the chaos of the 1990s that enabled the Taliban to seize power and provide a haven for Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida net-work. Fewer than 100 al-Qaida fighters are believed to remain in Afghanistan, although a larger number are just across the border in Pakistani sanctuaries.

Panetta has said he foresees a need for a U.S. counterterrorism force in Afghanistan beyond 2014, plus a contingent to

train Afghan forces. He is believed to favor an op-tion that would keep about 9,000 troops in the country.

Administration officials in recent days have said they are considering a range of options for a re-sidual U.S. troop presence of as few as 3,000 and as many as 15,000, with the number linked to a specific set of military-related mis-sions like hunting down terrorists.

Asked in a conference call with reporters wheth-er zero was now an option, Rhodes said, “That would be an option we would con-sider.”

His statement could be interpreted as part of an administration negotiat-ing strategy. On Friday Karzai is scheduled to meet Obama at the White House to discuss ways of framing an enduring part-nership beyond 2014.

The two are at odds on numerous issues, includ-ing a U.S. demand that any American troops who would remain in Afghani-stan after the combat mis-sion ends be granted im-munity from prosecution under Afghan law. Karzai has resisted, while empha-sizing his need for large-scale U.S. support to main-tain an effective security force after 2014.

In announcing last month in Kabul that he had accepted Obama’s in-vitation to visit this week, Karzai made plain his ob-jectives.

“Give us a good army, a good air force and a capa-bility to project Afghan interests in the region,” Karzai said, and he would gladly reciprocate by eas-ing the path to legal immu-nity for U.S. troops.

Karzai is scheduled to meet Thursday with Pa-netta at the Pentagon and with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the State Department.

Without explicitly mentioning immunity for U.S. troops, Obama’s top White House military adviser on Afghanistan, Doug Lute, told reporters

Tuesday that the Afghans will have to give the U.S. certain “authorities” if it wants U.S. troops to re-main.

“As we know from our Iraq experience, if there are no authorities grant-ed by the sovereign state, then there’s not room for a follow-on U.S. military mission,” Lute said. He was referring to 2011 ne-gotiations with Iraq that ended with no agreement to grant legal immunity to U.S. troops who would have stayed to help train Iraqi forces. As a result, no U.S. troops remain in Iraq.

David Barno, a retired Army three-star general and former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, wrote earlier this week that vigorous debate has been under way inside the administration on a “mini-malist approach” for post-2014 Afghanistan.

In an opinion piece for ForeignPolicy.com on Mon-day, Barno said the “zero option” was less than op-timal but “not necessarily an untenable one.” With-out what he called the sta-bilizing influence of U.S. troops, Barno cautioned that Afghanistan could “slip back into chaos.”

Barno said the Afghan-Pakistan border area where numbers of Islamic extremists are in hiding could become the scene of

a prolonged “intelligence war” after 2014, with the U.S. and its Afghan and Pakistan partners sharing intelligence.

“Given its vital impor-tance, this undertaking will endure — regardless of the size of the residual U.S. military presence,” he wrote.

Rhodes said Obama is focused on two main out-comes in Afghanistan: ensuring that the country does not revert to being the al-Qaida haven it was prior to Sept. 11, 2001, and get-ting the government to the point where it can defend itself.

“That’s what guides us, and that’s what causes us to look for different poten-tial troop numbers — or not having potential troops in the country,” Rhodes said.

He predicted that Obama and Karzai would come to no concrete conclusions on interna-tional military missions in Afghanistan beyond 2014, and he said it likely would be months before Obama decides how many U.S. troops — if any — he wants to keep there.

Rhodes said Obama re-mains committed to fur-ther reducing the U.S. mili-tary presence this year, although the pace of that withdrawal will not be de-cided for a few months.

All troops may leave Afghanistan in 2014As we know from our Iraq experience, if

there are no authorities granted by the sov-ereign state, then there’s not room for a fol-low-on U.S. military mission.

— Doug Lute, White House military advisor

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Edith WesterveltEdith E. Westervelt, 97, left to be with the Lord Jan. 7, 2013,

at the Medicalodge of Columbus. She was the last surviving sibling of nine children, born

to Wiley E. Wilcox and Bertha Baker Wilcox. Preceding her in death were three brothers, Harvey, Homer and Wayne; and five sisters, Gertrude Helwig, Flossie “Tat” Souders, Mary Crain, four-year-old Elsie and an infant, Retha.

After graduating from Columbus High School, she re-ceived her Normal Training Certificate and taught for one year at Ninety Three School and three years at Crossroads Rural Schools in the rural Columbus area.

Edith was baptized with Christ as a youngster in a farm pond and became a member of the Sherwin Christian Church along with her family. In 1950 she moved to the Cen-ter Community, south of Columbus, with her husband and three children. At the time, she because a member of the Cen-ter Christian Church and has been an active member for 63 years. She always considered Center and Sherwin both as her home churches.

She was a member of Golden Hours EHU for 60 years and was a community leader for Center Busy Bees 4-H club while her children were young. She always worked on the farm and worked more than 10 years as an assistant cook at the Green-lawn School.

Surviving are two sons, Neil Westervelt and wife Joy, Iola, and Paul Westervelt and wife Marilyn, Columbus; one daugh-ter, Judi Grant, Columbus; nine grandchildren, Wiley and Gary Westervelt, Columbus, Lori Westervelt/Cary, J.C., Tod and Corey Westervelt, Iola, Mark Grant, Caney, Tracy Grant/Parsons, Columbus, and Erin Grant/Fletcher, Pittsburg, as well as 24 great-grandchildren.

Edith lived a long and happy life and enjoyed quilting and spending time with her family.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Thursday at Derfelt Funeral Home in Columbus.

Obituaries

Richard Davis Richard Almus Davis, 71, of St. Paul, died at 9:45 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at Girard Medical Center.He is survived by one brother, Merle Davis, Chanute,

and five sisters, Neomi Turner, Chanute, Betty Craft and Jane Pease, Iola, Linda Harris, Quapaw, Okla. and Melba Hutchins, Joplin, Mo.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, at Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Parsons. Burial will be in Moran Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m. until service time on Thursday.

Memorials are suggested to the Special Olympics and may be left at or mailed to Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, P.O. Box 374, Parsons, KS 67357.

Online condolences may be left at www.forbeshoffman.

Ellen Thompson gave a talk on the value of donat-ing one’s organs to help those who are ill at Mon-day’s meeting of the Nation-

al Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees.

The next meeting of NARFE is at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 4 at The Greenery.

NARFE holds meeting

Dorothy DiekerDorothy Dieker, 86, Westphalia, passed

away on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, at Golden Heights in Garnett.

Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m., on Saturday, at St. Teresa Catholic Church, Westphalia, with burial to follow in the St. Teresa Cemetery. A wake service will be at 7 o’clock Friday evening at St. Teresa Church with visitation to follow.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Teresa Cath-olic Church or Pontifical College Josephinum Seminary.

Condolences to the family can be sent to www.feuer-bornfuneral.com.

Dieker

It was reported in Sat-urday’s issue of the Reg-ister that Donna Houser had told Rotarians CITF/PRIDE helped clear the

Spirit Trail to Humboldt. They did not help with the clearing, but they help keep the trail in Iola clean.

We regret the error.

Becky ChandleeRebecca Lee “Becky” Chandlee, 56, Iola,

passed away Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

Becky was born Feb. 9, 1956, in Mexico, Mo., the daughter of Charles Lee and Helen Mae (Pulis) Davidson. She graduated from high school at Centralia, Mo., and then at-tended Columbia College.

On April 28, 1984, Becky married James E. Chandlee and they lived in Columbia, Mo., Tulsa, Okla., and Nebraska City, Neb., before moving to Iola in 1992. In Iola, she worked as a paraprofessional for ANW Co-op and then for USD 257 at Jef-ferson Elementary School.

She was a member of St. John’s Catholic Church in Iola.Her husband survives as do two sons, Jason Chandlee of

Bronson and Justin Chandlee of Iola; her parents, Charles and Helen Davidson, Centralia, Mo., and two sisters, Patty Klenke-Harris and Cindy Isgrig, both of Centralia, Mo.

Parish rosary will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, at St. John’s Cath-olic Church in Iola. Visitation will follow in St. John’s Parish Center.

Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, at St. John’s Cath-olic Church in Iola. Burial will be at St. John’s Catholic Cem-etery, Gas.

Memorials are suggested to the National Kidney Foundation and may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.

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Arrests reportedJoseph Gagne, 29, Iola,

was arrested Friday eve-ning following an alleged incident at Riverside Park in Iola. Gagne was charged with domestic battery, Iola police officers said.

Also Friday, Lacey Pi-ley was arrested in the 300 block of West Madi-son Avenue for allegedly

driving while suspended. She also was wanted on an arrest warrant out of Iola, officers said.

Bicycle foundA teal and silver Huffy

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By ANNA GORMANLos Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — One by one, the diabetic patients reluctantly stepped on the scale in the basement of a South Los Angeles clinic. Nearby, a nurse scribbled numbers on a chart.

Camara January, 31, her round face framed by a sparkly headband, held her breath. The number stopped at 245 pounds. “That’s not good,” January said. Tracy Donald, 45, stepped up. Just under 240 pounds. “That is wrong,” she said. Ramon Marquez, 62, tall and clean-shaven, methodically took off his watch, his cap and his shoes. 170 pounds. Ra-mon strips down to almost nothing, the others joking-ly complain.

They are among those who come each month to the To Help Everyone (T.H.E.) Clinic, hoping to finally gain the upper hand on their diabetes, a disease wreaking havoc on their bodies — and their commu-nity. Several have been hos-pitalized. Some have seen relatives die from complica-tions. All have struggled to manage blood sugar levels that spike and plummet to ominous extremes.

A chronic illness that can lead to heart attacks, blind-ness and kidney failure, di-abetes is exploding across

the United States and rais-ing enormous obstacles to the Obama administra-tion’s drive to control costs and reform the health care system. In California alone, the disease costs taxpay-ers and businesses roughly $24 billion annually. One in seven California residents has diabetes — a 32 percent increase in the last decade.

“This is a train going in the wrong direction,” said Dean Schillinger, a UC San Francisco Medical School professor and medical of-ficer at the California Dia-betes Program, run by the university and the state public health department.

Community health cen-ters like T.H.E. Clinic are

a crucial front line in the federal government’s war against diabetes. They’re charged with slowing the advance of the disease, which disproportionately affects poor patients whose care may be taxpayer fund-ed.

To do so, clinics must get millions of patients to change deeply ingrained eating habits, embrace reg-ular exercise regimens and better manage their health to avoid unnecessary hospi-talizations.

Many low-income, ur-ban patients struggle with the willpower challenges afflicting diabetes suffer-ers everywhere. But their struggle is often complicat-

ed by limited understand-ing of the links between lifestyle and blood sugar levels, along with fewer safe, affordable and conve-nient options for healthy activities and fresh food.

“The approach of tell-ing people they need to lose weight and exercise is clearly not working,” said Martha Funnell, past chair-woman of the National Dia-betes Education Program.

Like her mother and grandmother, 17-year-old Charnay Winbush has dia-betes. She injects herself with insulin five times a day and wears a bracelet identifying her illness. But Charnay often tells people she isn’t diabetic.

Without her injections, she feels weak and tired. When her blood sugar levels climb, she gets ex-tremely thirsty and can’t stop sweating. One incident sent her to the emergency room this summer. “I was scared,” she said.

Doctors at T.H.E. Clinic tell Charnay she needs to lose weight, but she con-tinues to gain. She keeps small bags of candy in the refrigerator next to her in-sulin. Counting calories brings unwelcome memo-ries of math class, she says. The only exercise she likes is playing virtual tennis or bowling.

The diabetes battle per-meates almost every aspect of T.H.E Clinic’s routine. Patients are greeted in the waiting room by television programs about the disease. They are routinely tested for it, counseled about how

to prevent it and referred to nutritionists and diabetic education groups to man-age it.

Research shows such ef-forts can produce results. Patients surrounded by support and education pro-grams do better at control-ling their blood sugar, eat more healthfully and use their medication as recom-mended.

At the Saturday session, retired nurse Emily Moore handed out a soul food cook-book with healthy recipes. Patients shared about their favorite types of exercise. One woman said she liked

dancing to disco music, an-other announced she was going to Zumba classes.

The sessions began as a diabetes education class but soon morphed into a less formal support group, said M.D. Donnell, educa-tion manager at T.H.E. Clinic. Patients say they come for the snacks, the nutrition advice and the camaraderie. James Hicks, whose leg was amputated after a diabetes-related in-fection, said he serves as a cautionary tale for others. “You never want to get this far,” he said.

Despite the intense focus, a quarter of the clinic’s diabetic patients haven’t brought the disease under control, records show. Cyn-thia Francis, a physician assistant, dispenses sober warnings along with hope. “You have to be real with them,” she said. “You have to tell them that managing their disease is a life-or-death situation.”

Stephen Carter, a laid-off security director, is among those struggling to keep his diabetes in check. He cut out fried food, joined a gym and charts his blood sugar lev-els. But sticking to his diet and exercising regularly is “an incredible challenge,” he said. “It’s really, really hard to break habits you’ve had for 50-some odd years.”

Charnay Winbush, 17, has diabetes like her mother and grandmother. She works with doctors at the To Help Everyone (T.H.E.) Clinic in Los Angeles, Cali., to work on controlling her illness.

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Diabetes is a stubborn adversary for all ages

You have to be real with them. You have to tell them that manag-ing their disease is a life-or-death situation.

— Cynthia Francis, physician assistant

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By ALANA SEMUELSLos Angeles Times

NEW YORK — A school panel in Staten Island has passed a controversial reso-lution recommending that armed, retired NYPD of-ficers patrol local schools in the interest of security in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn.

Though the panel has the power only to make recom-mendations to the city’s Board of Education, which has vowed not to adopt the plan, it signals that school districts across the East

Coast are at least paying some mind to the proposal made by the National Rifle Association in December to put armed guards in schools.

At least two school dis-tricts in New Jersey, in Marlboro Township and the Totowa School District in Passaic County, began the 2013 school year with armed police officers in elementary and middle schools.

The Staten Island plan, approved Monday evening, had two prongs, accord-ing to Michael Reilly, the

co-chair of the Safety and Transportation Committee for Community Education Council 31, in Staten Island. The first would install vid-eo cameras and buzzer sys-tems so that visitors would need to buzz in to enter. The second would hire 300 to 500 retired NYPD officers as special armed patrolmen, giving them peace officer status in the schools.

“You cannot totally pre-vent any incident,” Reilly said, “but this is an ap-proach that’s a comprehen-sive plan — it’s something that can be done when an incident happens.”

Reilly, a retired cop, says he cooked up the idea by looking through the city’s administrative code. Be-cause retired officers have concealed weapon permits, the city won’t need to pro-vide them with weapons, and students won’t have to see the weapons out in the open. The officers, dressed in plain clothes, would ro-

tate through the district’s schools, working from the first bell to the last. Reilly, who had three children in New York’s public schools, says the officers would work as a deterrent to would-be criminals.

“The main purpose of the plan is to prevent any-one from picking a school,” he said. “Deterrence is the ounce of prevention that stops it.”

Still, Reilly’s plan isn’t likely to go anywhere, mostly because New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is an outspoken proponent of gun control. His office is even advising Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden’s task force on gun control legislation.

Schools chancellor Den-nis Walcott expressly dis-missed the Staten Island plan in a news conference this week.

“It’s not happening,” he said. “Plain and simple … I can’t be any clearer than that.”

Panel recommends armed officers in schools

By LBERT AJI and SUZAN FRASER

The Associated PressDAMASCUS, Syria (AP)

— Syrian rebels today wfreed 48 Iranians held captive since August in ex-change for the release of more than 2,000 detainees in the first major prisoner swap of the country’s civil war, officials said.

The exchange came just days after Assad vowed to press ahead with the fight against rebels despite in-ternational pressure to end the bloodshed that has left more than 60,000 people dead.

Iran is one of Assad’s main backers and the Ira-nians, who were seized out-side Damascus in August, were a major bargaining chip for factions trying to bring down his regime.

The group of 48 men ar-rived at the Sheraton hotel in several vans escorted by Syrian security forces. Iran’s ambassador in Da-mascus, Mohammad Riza Shibani, greeted them with hugs and flowers.

Rebels claimed the cap-tives were linked to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, but Tehran has de-nied that, saying the men were pilgrims visiting Shi-ite religious sites in Syria.

Shibani said their release was a result of elaborate and “tough” negotiations, but he did not provide any other details of the deal. The Syrian government, which rarely gives details on security related matters, had no official comment and it was not clear what prompted the exchange.

The rebels had threat-

ened to kill the captives unless the Syrian regime halted military operations against the opposition.

A spokesman for a Turk-ish Islamic aid group that helped coordinate the re-lease said the regime had agreed to release 2,130 peo-ple in exchange for the Ira-nians.

Turkish Prime Minis-ter Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at a news confer-ence during a visit to Ni-

ger, said four Turks and “a number of Palestinians” were among the prisoners being released by Syria.

He said one Turkish and one Qatari aid organization helped broker the deal, and that Turkey had been talk-ing with the rebels.

“The rebels had made some preliminary prepara-tions for the release, but we did not know what the Syr-ian reaction would be. In the end, it seems that they

agreed,” he said.“There are still people

being held in prisons and who are being aggrieved. Let’s hope that they may be released as well and let’s hope that the process is beneficial for all,” Erdogan said. The news conference was broadcast live on Turk-ish television.

There were conflicting reports about how many of the prisoners in Syr-ian custody had been freed.

Speaking in Istanbul, Umit Sonmez of the Founda-tion for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitar-ian Relief said the 48 Irani-ans were handed over to aid workers soon after the Syr-ian regime let a group go.

“This is the largest pris-oner exchange to date,” Sonmez said. “We are pleased that people from all sides who were held and victimized have finally been freed.”

Iranian prisoners freed by Syrian rebels for detainees

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WASHINGTON — In Vietnam in 1968, two separate mine explo-sions left Chuck Hagel with shrap-nel in his chest and burns on his face and arms.

This is not a man who is going to shrink from a fight with the chicken hawks of the Senate.

President Obama hit the right theme in nominating Hagel on Monday to be secretary of defense — the first enlisted man and the first Vietnam veteran to be so hon-ored. “To this day, Chuck bears the scars — and the shrapnel — from the battles he fought in our name,” Obama said during an appearance with Hagel and other officials in the East Room.

“Maybe most importantly,” Obama added, “Chuck knows that war is not an abstraction. He understands that sending young Americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that’s something we only do when it’s absolutely necessary.”

Behind the men was the Wash-ington Monument, concealed by the East Room’s gold curtains. In front of them, on Pennsylvania Avenue, workers were finishing the parade reviewing stand for Obama’s second inauguration. For the president, who has too often shied from forceful leadership, the Hagel nomination was a welcome sign that he is willing to pick a fight in his second term.

And Hagel is worth fighting for. The Republican former senator from Nebraska should and prob-ably will be confirmed by the Sen-ate, despite irresponsible claims that he is anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-gay and a coddler of Iran. Most of that is false and the rest is irrelevant: As head of the Pen-

tagon, Hagel would not determine foreign policy.

What he would do is lead the people who fight wars — and for that, the old infantry sergeant is uniquely qualified. When he says that war should be the last resort, he speaks with a moral author-ity that few of those senators who would judge him can match.

In accepting the nomination, Hagel spoke of the troops as his top priority, the “men and women in uniform and their families ... who have sacrificed so much over more than a decade of war.” The only agenda item he mentioned was to “strengthen our country and strengthen our country’s alli-ances.”

Alliances were a Hagel trade-mark in the Senate, where, al-though he voted to authorize the Iraq War, he became a scalding critic of the George W. Bush ad-ministration’s unilateralist poli-cies and bungled prosecution of the conflict. His criticism of the administration antagonized many of his Republican colleagues, who are now returning the favor.

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas called Hagel’s record “extremely concerning.” Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana said Hagel’s confir-mation “would send exactly the wrong message.” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Hagel’s views send “the worst pos-sible signal.”

Neither Cornyn nor Vitter lists military service in his biography. Graham was an Air Force lawyer.

Even some Republicans who once praised Hagel view him dif-ferently now that Obama has em-braced him. When Hagel left the Senate four years ago, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky praised

his “clear voice and stature on na-tional security and foreign policy.” But on Sunday, the Senate minor-ity leader retreated, telling ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos only that Hagel is “outspoken” and that it is necessary to “take a look at all the things that Chuck has said over the years.”

HAGEL, WHO FOUGHT from foxholes, knows better than to ex-pect loyalty from former Senate colleagues, and he reacted with equanimity when neoconserva-tive critics, hearing rumors of his nomination, put out word that he is anti-Semitic. “What a town!” he remarked at the time.

Standing to Obama’s right in

the East Room on Monday, Hagel wore a slight frown beneath his droopy eyes as the president lav-ished praise on him. “As a young private, and then a sergeant, he served with honor alongside his own brother,” Obama recounted. “When Chuck was hit by shrap-nel, his brother saved him. When his brother was injured by a mine, Chuck risked his life to pull him to safety.”

Hagel, hands at his side, con-tinued to wear his unimpressed frown as the man he would suc-ceed, Leon Panetta, said Hagel is “a patriot, he’s a decorated combat veteran, and ... his deep under-standing of the security issues facing this country make him the right choice to be secretary of de-fense.”

Panetta said he will return home to his California walnut farm to deal “with a different set of nuts.”

It will now be Hagel’s task to crack the nuts Panetta leaves be-hind — beginning with those in the Senate.

Hagel: Battle-tested for a fight

Dana Milbank

WashingtonPostWriters Group

Chuck knows that war is not an abstraction. He understands that sending young Americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that’s something we only do when it’s absolutely necessary.

— President Barack Obama

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Next week the Kansas Legis-lature convenes. Decisions will be made about school financ-ing, health care for the poor, the state’s appellate courts, the state’s universities and how the money collected at Kansas fuel pumps will be spent.

Be ready to tell your state representative and senator how you feel those decisions should be made.

Tell them to restore K-12 funding to its pre-recession lev-els and then be ready to invest still more to lift Kansas public schools to excellence. There is no better way to give Kansas children a head start in life.

Tell them to take money from the great majority of us who have food in our pantries, sound roofs over our heads,

warm clothing on our shoul-ders, and use it to lift up the poor and give them a path out of poverty.

Tell them to invest in the community colleges, techni-cal schools and the Regents universities, which will deter-mine the future of Kansas.

Tell them to take the taxes collected at the fuel pumps across the state and spend the money making Kansas high-ways better. Fuel taxes should be used to improve the state’s transportation system, not to pay lawmaker’s salaries or give rich folks lower taxes.

Think of other advice for them and don’t hesitate a min-ute to tell it to them, loud and clear.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Some advice foradvice-givers

Highway Patrol charge: careless driving. Actual fact, the driver fell asleep.

Well, perhaps the trooper was correct: a driver who falls asleep at the wheel is careless. But doesn’t mean to be. A new, exhaustive study showed that 4 percent of adults admit to hav-ing fallen asleep while driving.

The study also revealed that certain people are particularly likely to report drowsiness while driving. Those who sleep less than six hours a night or snore often apparently are most likely to doze while driv-ing, the research discovered. Snoring is a sign of sleep dis-order, meaning snorers are more likely to tire easily and fall asleep during normal wak-ing hours.

The researchers believe the actual number of driving sleepers was much greater be-cause those who doze or nod off for a minute at the wheel may not realize it at the time or recall it later.

The subject was worth the cost of the study. Drowsy driv-ing, reports indicate, caused an estimated 750 fatal accidents in 2009 and were responsible for another 30,000 nonfatal crash-es.

The accidents they cause tend to be more serious because they fail to hit the brakes or veer off the road before crash-ing. How many of the head-on

highway crashes on the na-tion’s highways were caused by drivers asleep at the wheel will never be known because the drivers at fault died or did not remember the sequence of events if they survived.

Anne G. Wheaton, an epi-demiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion, led a study looking at 147,000 adults in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Dr. Wheaton noted that peo-ple who fall asleep at the wheel may do it so quickly and briefly that it fails to register.

“It doesn’t mean that you put your head down and start snor-ing. You might just close your eyes for a second or two. One of the warning signs is when you have trouble remembering the last few miles you’ve driv-en, or when you miss an exit. It may be because you actually fell asleep for a moment,” she said.

Research shows that going without sleep for 20 to 21 hours and then getting behind the wheel is comparable to having a blood alcohol level of about .08 percent, which is the legal limit in most states.

Dr. Wheaton’s prescription for those who find themselves dozing is to find a safe place to pull over and take a short nap.

“Then get yourself a cup of coffee,” she advised.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Tired drivers are ahazard on the road

A look back in time

40 Years AgoJan. 6-12, 1973

Luella Varner, librarian of the Iola Public Library from 1927 to 1958, died here Saturday at the age of 81. She had come to Iola as a youngster with her parents, graduated from Iola High School, the University of Kansas in home economics, and studied library science at the University of Col-orado. Progressive deafness af-flicted Miss Varner in the 1930s. She accepted the affliction and be-came an expert lip reader. In 1967 the new library was dedicated to her.

*****Some 300 high school musi-

cians from southeast Kansas will be in Iola Saturday to participate in three festival groups which are phases of the annual Kansas Music Educators Association of District 2. This will be the first time the convention will be held in Iola. The students will assem-ble at the Thomas H. Bowlus Fine Arts Center at 8 a.m. Auditions and rehearsals will be conducted all day. A concert will be present-ed by the festival band, chorus and orchestra in the Bowlus Cen-ter Saturday evening.

Incoming Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick, R-Stilwell, has a point about it not being an annual tradition for the Legisla-ture to hear a State of the Judi-ciary report, meaning he wasn’t obligated to let Chief Justice Lawton Nuss speak to a joint ses-sion this year. But in the wake of such speeches in 2012, 2011 and 2009, Merrick’s snub seemed needlessly rude, as did his rea-son.

“It’s just another thing to take up time. I just think it’s time that could be put to better use on other things,” said Merrick, who instead asked Nuss to put his re-port in writing.

Maybe the Kansas court sys-tem’s concerns are old news for Merrick and new Senate Presi-dent Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, who are Statehouse veterans. But the 49 new members of the Kansas House, and at least some

of the 16 new state senators, could use the primer on the ju-dicial branch, which makes life-and-death decisions for Kansans daily and relies on whatever funding legislators provide it.

In fact, allowing Nuss to speak would have been a well-timed gesture of good will from one branch of government to an-other. That’s because Gov. Sam Brownback and the Legislature seem determined to needlessly alter how Kansas chooses mem-bers of the Kansas Court of Ap-peals and perhaps even the state Supreme Court.

“There is strong support for changing the system. We’re dis-cussing the options,” Gov. Sam Brownback recently told the Topeka Capital-Journal — un-wittingly demonstrating why lawmakers need to hear first-hand from those closest to the appellate courts and the current

judicial-selection process.

“STRONG SUPPORT”? If there is strong support for re-placing the nonpartisan nomi-nating commission with either direct elections or a clone of the federal system, with the gov-ernor’s picks subject to Senate confirmation, that support is be-ing directed at Brownback from activist voices and groups, not from the general public. Besides, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap-peals in Denver recently rejected a challenge to the current selec-tion process, and the U.S. Cham-ber of Commerce has ranked Kansas’ legal climate fifth best in the nation.

Especially with a controver-sial overhaul looming, would it have killed Merrick and Wagle to play the gracious hosts and hear out the chief justice?

— The Wichita Eagle

No call for snub of chief justice

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Sat., Jan. 12

1. Put the newspapers you have saved in paper grocery sacks. Plastic cannot be accepted. KEEP NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES SEPARATE. Please DOUBLE SACK magazines and catalogs. ( NO phone books, NO hardback books & NO computer paper will be accepted.)

2. Choose the organization you wish to help from the list below. Write the name of that organization on the grocery sacks in bold letters or attach a label on the sacks identifying the organization.

3. Telephone the organization and tell them to pick up your scrap paper by 8 a.m. Sat., Jan. 12 at the curbside in front of your residence. Your papers must be at your curb by 8 a.m. for pickup. Be certain to give your address to the person you talk to.

Collection Point — 911 Emergency Preparedness Parking Lot, 410 N. State Participating Organizations

ACCC Phi Theta Kappa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365-5116 Ext. 244

Humboldt United Methodist Church . 473-3769 / 473-3544

Girl Scouts - Iola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365-6445 / 228-3296

Challenger All Star Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852-3314

Bronson Ruritan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939-4745

First Christian Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365-3436

Hope Chapel, Moran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939-4828

Moran Baptist Youth Group . . . . . . . 939-4868

Tri-Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431-7401

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IOLA administrator Carl Slaugh told commis-sioners he couldn’t predict whether Iola council mem-bers would hire Terry Call to pursue collection of am-bulance bills for the city.

That has been proposed in the wake of the city hav-ing been able to collect less than 50 of its billings. The county, with Call at the helm, has a record of col-lecting 75 to 80 percent.

Some council members think having Call involved with city collections might help pave the way of a merger of the two am-bulance services, Slaugh said.

“Others think it might discourage a merger,” he added.

The two services evolved in 2008 when the county proposed to take full con-

trol and Iola decided to have its own service with-in the city. Allen County provides service outside of Iola, with two ambu-lances stationed here, one in Humboldt and one in Moran.

The ambulance desig-nated for Humboldt has been out of service a few days, since striking a deer on U.S. 54 when returning from a patient transfer to Wichita.

Nelson said he was awaiting authorization from the county’s insur-ance carrier, EMC, to have the ambulance repaired. Commissioner Works in-structed Nelson to have repairs made, saying that insurance payments could be worked out later.

Slaugh told commis-sioners that Fred Heis-meyer, who moderated a

meeting between Iola and county governing bodies to discuss a merger of am-bulance service, was pre-pared for a second meet-ing on Feb. 5 at the Creitz Recital Hall in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

“He has a one-page agen-da ready,” Slaugh said, with anticipation the meet-ing will be a continuation of discussions from the first in December.

Also, Slaugh said he would invite candidates for Iola’s next council and mayor — all will be elected April 2 — to the meeting.

Iolans will elect eight council members, two from each ward, and a mayor. The filing deadline for Iola council and may-oral candidates, as well as for other city and school positions in the county, is noon Jan. 22.

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whether to start at Iola or LaHarpe with the phased work.

The four-lane section of highway was constructed in the late 1960s and had its last major upgrade 11 years ago with mill and bonded concrete overlay.

Petrowsky said with two driving lanes in each direc-tion he anticipated traffic flow would be maintained during construction.

Gas council members were asked to sign off on the project, although the city has no financial ob-ligation. Petrowsky was asked whether sidewalks would be repaired. They aren’t part of the project, he responded.

Councilman Larry Rob-ertson suggested that Steve Robb, Gas superintendent, “look at the sidewalks,” and recommend whether repairs should be made on the city’s dime, a local proj-ect that might fit well with the highway work.

IN OTHER business:— Mayor Darrel Ca-

tron noted that curtailed hours at the Gas post office had been moved up, from March to a Jan. 25 start. The office will be open 8

a.m. to noon on weekdays and, as it has been, 8 to 8:45 a.m. on Saturdays.

— Council members ap-proved an expenditure of not more than $500 to pur-chase candy for an Easter egg hunt at Fees Park on March 30, the day before Easter.

— They voted not to sell half a block the city owns next to City Hall to a neighbor. “I’d prefer not to sell it,” Catron said. “We don’t have a use now but if we ever were to expand (City Hall and an adjacent warehouse) that’s where it would go.”

— A proposal for an or-dinance requiring insur-ance proceeds of proba-bly 10 percent be set aside to ensure clean up or re-pair of property damaged by weather or fire was

tabled.— Robb said trash col-

lection on Jan. 2 totaled 4 1/2 tons, with much of it having been accumulated from Christmas. That was the largest single-day col-lection since Gas took over trash pickup several years ago.

— City Clerk Rhonda Hill reported health in-surance premiums paid to Blue Cross Blue Shield increased by 11 percent, $30.93, to $311.92 a month with the new year. The city pays a single membership for employees.

— Agreed to continue investment of a $155,000 certificate of deposit at Citizens Bank, Iola, at .5 percent for the next 14 months, the best bid re-ceived. The money had been drawing .65 percent.

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Originally, we had planned on a three-inch mill of U.S. 54 and bonded concrete overlay. Then, six months ago I got a call from Topeka, and was told the project was going to be a full-depth replacement with bid letting in March.

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three short roads giving access only to Terry Mc-Donald’s property just east of Gas and north of U.S. 54.

McDonald asked for the closures to make his prop-erty more secure and ac-commodate a used car lot, which he said would open Monday.

McDonald said people riding four-wheel-drive vehicles often used the roads, which he and neighbors found to be a nuisance.

Bill King, director of Public Works, said he was closer to proposing a card-reader system for access to fuel pumps adjacent to the county’s warehouse south of Iola near the old Lehigh Cement Co. prop-erty.

King said fueling had been done by employees, of his and other depart-ments, on the honor sys-tem for years, but that a card-reader system would be more efficient and dis-courage thefts.

in encaustic art when he came across a Jasper Johns painting, 1950s artist who worked predominantly in encaustic art, at a museum in Boston.

“About 10 years ago I dropped acrylic (art) and focused primarily on wax,” Kavanuagh said.

He now has a studio in Kansas City, Mo.

ACCORDING to Kava-

naugh, bee’s wax is used because it has the right amount of plasticity. He uses skillets and hot plates to melt the wax.

Many types of waxes can be used when painting but Kavanaugh said he found using bee’s wax with a little carnauba wax, a tougher wax of the leaves of the palm copernicia prunifera, makes for a fluid but firmer surface.

Bricks of wax can be found in any color that oil and acrylic come in.

Though Kavanaugh mostly paints landscapes, he has also done collages. Wax lends itself well to col-lages because papers and objects can be imbedded.

When making encaustic art a heat gun is needed to keep the wax flowing.

To imbed an object hot

wax must be laid down on the panel and then a layer of hot wax needs to be swiped over the top of the object. Once the object and wax have been placed, a heat gun is used to fuse the wax together.

Wax can be sculpted, scratched, splattered and brushed to create texture.

Kavanaugh said the pro-cess allows for an artist to find new and unique ways to create art with different shapes, textures, colors and looks.

Tools laying around the house, string, spoons, sten-cils, knives, all can become tools or part of the art.

ENCAUSTIC art, like any piece, must be treated correctly to maintain its look.

Encaustic art owners need not worry about their hanging art work melting on a hot day.

The wax melts at 150 de-grees.

“If your painting is melt-ing, you have bigger prob-lems because your house is on fire,” Kavanaugh said. “If you leave it out in the trunk of your car on a hot day it will be a puddle.”

For more information on Kavanaugh visit his web-site at www.keithkavana-ugh.com.

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Amy Shannon’s art class students tried their hand at encaustic art. From left are Coby Cochran, Nathan Meadows and April Elder.

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peted in the IMS bee. Twen-ty advanced past the first round, 15 past the second and 11 past the third.

Eighth-grader Zane Beas-ley took fourth place and is the school’s alternate competitor if any of the top three cannot make it to the county bee. Beasley was eliminated in the sixth round by misspelling “ad-vocate.”

Wicoff is the brother of five-time defending coun-ty spelling bee champion Clara Wicoff and the son of Iolans Joel and Lisa Wicoff.

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By TONY PERRYLos Angeles Times

SAN DIEGO — The gun-man stalked the dormitory halls yelling, “I’m going to kill somebody,” pounding and kicking on doors, and firing his weapon in the air.

The resident assistants remembered their training: Turn off the lights, barri-cade the doors with chairs and tables, lie flat on the floor, push back if the killer tries to bust in, or jump out a window if it isn’t too high.

The drama was all staged but with a life-saving pur-pose Tuesday as a dormi-tory at San Diego State Uni-versity became a stand-in for Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook Elementary and the engi-neering building on the campus here — all scenes of deadly rampages.

Two-dozen people from colleges and schools throughout Southern Cali-fornia came to campus for a two-day session with the chillingly modern title of Active Shooter Response Training.

Although the program of lectures, discussions and scenarios was planned months ago, the recent shooting in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults were killed, only heightened the urgen-cy of planning for possible violence.

Bret Bandick, a trainer from Texas company Re-sponse Options, played the role of a heavily armed killer targeting students at the Olmeca Residence Hall. He fired an airsoft gun into the air and at doors to pro-vide an extra dose of real-ism. Resident assistants and

others played the role of stu-dents caught by surprise.

In the fall, those same as-sistants will be giving a new, mandatory 90-minute semi-nar to all incoming fresh-men at San Diego State on how to survive an on-cam-pus shooting. The session will be in addition to the university’s system of alert-ing students via emails, text messages and social media when a gunman is suspect-ed.

“Our responsibility is to give people as many tools as possible to survive,” said Capt. Lamine Secka of the San Diego State police force.

Kerry Harris, also an in-structor with Response Op-tions, said the strategy “is not rocket science.”

“We tell people they should flee if they can, hide if they must and fight back if there is no other option,” Harris said.

The San Diego State resi-dent assistants did better than many people who have taken the same training, Harris said.

The event drew police of-ficers and school officials from Orange, the Vista and Escondido school districts in northern San Diego County and the campuses

of Cal State Los Angeles, San Diego State, UC San Di-ego and the University of San Diego.

San Diego has reason to be concerned about school shootings.

One of the first high-pro-file school shootings that gained national attention occurred here in 1979, when 16-year-old Brenda Spencer used a rifle to kill two people and wound nine others at an elementary school across from her home.

“I don’t like Mondays,” Spencer told a reporter by telephone during the rampage. She is serving a 25-year-to-life prison sen-tence.

In 1996, a graduate stu-dent at San Diego State killed three of his profes-sors in the engineering department. The gunman pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty and is serving a life sentence.

In 2001, two shootings in high schools east of San Diego left two dead and 18 wounded. One shooter, then a 15-year-old student, is in pris-on; the other, an 18-year-old former student, committed suicide while behind bars.

In 2010, a mentally dis-turbed man jumped the fence at a Carlsbad elemen-tary school and wounded two students before being subdued by construction workers. He is serving a life sentence.

By the time of the 2001 shootings, nationwide po-lice protocol for school shootings had changed to emphasize an immediate re-sponse by the first officer on the scene rather than wait-ing for the SWAT squad to assemble.

School holds shooting survival training

We tell people they should flee if you can, hide if you must and fight back if there is no other option.

— Kerry Harris, instructor with Response

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Her first priority will be to help trustees settle on a new name for the hospital.

An informal poll con-ducted by the Iola Register received 74 responses, of which the majority favored Allen County Regional Medical Center. That name did not sit well with trust-ees, which prompted them to seek the opinion of a marketing expert.

Parks can also help trustees create a “brand” for the hospital, both vi-sual and verbal, which can be used on hospital statio-nery, its website, and in press releases, and which will help set the hospital apart from its current look once it moves into its new facility as well as when it breaks away from opera-tions of HCA.

Parks recommended Re-actor Design Studio, Kan-sas City, a graphics design business, to handle the hospital’s new look and its move to a broader market, including cable television.

“The hospital has had a habit of going great guns and then dropping the ball midway,” Parks said of its marketing efforts. “There also seems to be a ton of competition for patients in southeast Kansas. It’s important that you build a new brand and identity.”

Trustees agreed to pay Parks her fee of $75 an hour to come up with a name for the new hospital, but held off committing further services with Parks or Re-actor Design Studio, until Ron Baker, the incoming chief executive officer, be-gins Jan. 28. Trustees also will need to select a busi-ness to manage its website once it departs from HCA.

IN OTHER NEWS, trust-ees approved payment of bills once Bruce Jones of Health Facilities Group, the architectural firm overseeing the construc-tion of the new hospital, has approved the first bill to Murray Company for $1,321,239. Other bills and

their amounts are to con-sultants Siegfried Bing-ham for $2,978 and a total of $248,267 to Cerner for its electronic health records program.

Larry Peterson, chief financial officer and inter-im CEO, said the decision to have HCA continue to

lease the hospital remains until further clarification of Medicare guidelines is to be had. Peterson did not

give a date as to when the matter will be settled but intimated it will be sooner rather than later.

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“Before, you couldn’t run out of milk if it was dark, raining or snowing,” Dowling said. “It’s 12 or 13 miles in either direction before you get to a grocery store.”

Dowling said the store plans to do some remodel-ing in the next month or so, which will include add-ing new floors to the dining area. The diner has added Wi-Fi as well.

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By RICHARD [email protected] — The ele-

ments of a successful basket-ball season are coming togeth-er nicely for Iola High’s boys.

The Mustangs showed poise under pressure, distributed the ball fluidly and wreaked havoc at times with their de-fensive intensity Tuesday eve-ning.

Good thing.The way host Central

Heights was shooting, Iola’s sterling play almost wasn’t enough.

But the Mustangs answered every call down the stretch, with several players stepping up and delivering big plays in a 62-58 win.

The victory pushes Iola to the .500 mark for the first time this season at 4-4. Iola stands at 2-0 in Pioneer League play.

“When we play like that of-fensively and defensively, I get excited thinking about where we’re headed,” Iola coach Bill Peeper said. “Our defensive ef-fort was outstanding.”

Iola put the game away in the second half by repeatedly moving the ball around the pe-rimeter until the post players could work themselves into prime scoring position.

Tyler Powelson scored twice inside to give Iola the lead for good midway through the third quarter. Mason Coons, Levi Ashmore, Trent Latta, Tyler McIntosh and Adam Kauth took turns coming up with critical baskets as Iola held a 41-35 lead at the conclu-

Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Libby Shay, right, dribbles past Central Heights defend-er Sydney Meyer in the Fillies’ 25-21 loss. Shay scored five points before exiting the game with a knee injury.

Big plays propel Mustangs

Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Mason Coons, center, is challenged by Central Heights’ Tanner Erhart as he puts up a shot in the first half of the Mustangs’ 62-58 victory. Coons led Iola with 15 points.

By RICHARD [email protected]

RICHMOND — Iola High’s girls continue to show improvement on the basketball court, but cold spells early and late doomed the Fillies’ shot at victory Tuesday.

Iola had opened the second half with two straight baskets, the second by Emma Piazza to give the Fillies a 14-13 lead over their hosts from Central Heights High.

But things went south from there.

Central Heights responded with a 10-0 run, then withstood a late Fillies rally to down Iola 25-21.

The loss keeps Iola winless on the season and 0-2 in Pioneer League play.

“I see improvement every game, and the effort is there,” Iola coach Becky Carlson said. “We’ll work on something in practice, and get better at it, but then some-thing else sneaks up and gets us.”

Iola went scoreless for 7 1/2 minutes as Central Heights turned their one-point deficit into a 23-14 lead.

Emery Driskel ended the drought with a three-point play with 6 minutes left to cut the gap to six, 23-17.

Central Heights scored only two points in the last seven min-utes of regulation — a pair of free throws by Sydney Myer — but Iola could get no closer than the final four-point margin.

Mikaela Platt drained a pair of free throws for Iola with 39 seconds left in the game, then Jo Lohman connected for a field goal

with nine seconds left.The Vikings played keep-away

over the final nine seconds, pre-venting Iola from fouling before time ran out.

NEITHER TEAM could gain much traction in the early going. Libby Shay had three early points and Platt scored for the Fillies, who trailed 8-5 at the end of one quarter.

Central Heights forged ahead 13-7 in the second quarter, hold-ing Iola without a field goal in the period until Piazza drained a 3-pointer at the buzzer to cut the gap to three.

The trey also triggered a 7-0 run that extended into the second half. Hannah Endicott banked in a shot 80 seconds into the third quarter, followed about a minute later by Piazza’s bucket that put Iola in front, albeit briefly.

Whitney Kraus responded with a basket for Central Heights, put-ting the Vikings back in front for good.

The Fillies lost the services of Shay late in the contest. The se-nior guard injured her knee while driving to the basket with less than 3 minutes remaining.

“We’re hoping it’s just a sprain,” Carlson said.

Piazza led Iola with five points. Platt had four, and Lohman, Shay and Driskel had three apiece. Platt and Endicott each had four rebounds. Piazza and Shay both had three steals. Driskel, Lexie Long and Moore had two steals

BY STEVEN [email protected]

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s boys must not have slacked off too much during the holiday break.

Their first matchup of 2013 against Fredonia Tuesday night proved to be an exercise in efficien-cy with a 68-39 victory.

The game started quickly from both squads. Humboldt’s Nathan Whitcomb struck first under-neath, followed by back-to-back 3-pointers from Hunter Murrow and Tanner McNutt. The quarter ended Humboldt on top 21-16.

Fredonia held close in the second half, despite some key plays from Noah Thornbrugh — he stole the ball and wowed the spectators with an impres-sive dunk with just over six minutes remaining in the half.

“We really shot well tonight,” head coach David Taylor said. “We were getting a lot of our shots in rhythm and had good ball movement.”

Humboldt opened up the lead in the second half, outscoring Fredonia 22-5.

Taylor said it was what impressed him most from his team’s performance.

“We played well in the third,” he said. “Nathan Whitcomb really gave us a spark.”

The Cubs led 58-32 after three periods.Thornbrugh led Humboldt with 19 points, fol-

lowed by Tanner McNutt with 16 and Nathan

Humboldt keeps record spotless

Register/Steve SchwartzHumboldt’s Tanner McNutt (3) drops the ball in the basket during the Cubs’ 68-39 victory over Fredonia Tuesday night. Humboldt’s Nathan Whitcomb (11) looks on along with Fredonia’s Zach Johnson (15) and Tyler Morris (23). See CUBS | Page B2

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Fillies can’t overcomeoffensive doldrums

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sion of the quarter.Central Heights did not

go away quietly.Jordan Horstick scored

two consecutive baskets to pull the Vikings to within 43-41 early in the fourth pe-riod.

Kauth responded by scoring seven of Iola’s next 10 points over the next 2½ minutes to put Iola on top 53-45.

“Adam’s baskets were huge,” Peeper said. “We’ve been in position before where we’ve found the shots we wanted, and they just wouldn’t fall. Tonight, those shots fell. We did a good job of taking shots from the 3 when they were open and taking it to the basket.”

Ashmore and Latta stepped up to snuff one fi-nal Viking rally.

The Vikings’ Trevor Barkdoll scored with 1:42 left and had the crowd on its feet with a near steal at midcourt. But Ashmore retook the ball for Iola, which led to a Latta jump-er that pushed the lead to 58-51 with 1:12 remaining.

The Mustangs weath-ered an early Viking bar-rage of 3-pointers and long jump shots. Central Heights led 20-10 at the end of the first quarter.

“I just told the guys dur-ing our timeout that they weren’t going to keep fall-ing like that,” Peeper said. “We just had to be ready for when their shots weren’t falling. We didn’t hang our heads or panic, and we were able to respond and chip away at the lead pretty quickly.”

Iola held Central Heights without a field goal over the final 4 minutes of the second quarter. Levi Ash-more’s jumper at the buzz-er capped the 17-6 run to put Iola on top, 27-26, at the break.

Coons led the Mustangs with 15 points and three boards. Kauth followed with 14 points, while Ash-more had 13 points, three rebounds, three assists and four steals. Latta scored 12 points with four assists and four steals. Mc-Intosh had three rebounds and three assists. Powel-son had six points and six rebounds.

“We need to get better at our rebounding,” Peeper said, “but I couldn’t be hap-pier with our effort and our defensive intensity.”

Horstick scored 19 points, Zach McAfee and Trevor Burkdoll scored 10 each for the Vikings.

Iola’s junior varsity pre-vailed 49-45. Kaden Ma-

cha scored 13 and Shane Walden 10 for the Mustang JV. Bryan Mueller, Fryen-dz Wallace and Jesse Zim-merman scored six points each. Kohl Endicott, Tra-vis Hermstein and Adam Peterson each scored 2.

Central Heights won the C-team contest 37-29.

Endicott had eight points and Colby Works seven. Brett Taylor scored four. Matt Jacobs, Peter-son, Isiah Shaughnessy and Sager Patel scored two. Walden scored a point.

Iola resumes action at home Friday against Prai-rie View.Iola (10-17-14-21—62)Central Heights (20-6-9-23—58)

Iola (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Latta 4-4-3-12, Ashmore 2/3-0-1-13, Coons 4/2-1-3-15, McIntosh 1-0-1-2, Kauth 6-2-2-14, Powelson 3-0-2-6. TOTALS: 20/5-7-12-62.

Central Heights (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Davis 2-1-0-5, McAfee 4-2-3-10, Burkdoll 2/2-0-0-10, Beckwith 1/1-0-0-5, Schooler 0-0-1-0, Hor-stick 4/2-5-2-19, Erhart 1-0-3-2, Hendron 3-1-1-7. TOTALS: 17/5-9-10-58.

Lady Cubs fall to FredoniaBY STEVEN [email protected]

HUMBOLDT — De-spite a valiant effort from Humboldt High’s girls in the first half of Tues-day night’s game versus Fredonia, an offensive on-slaught from the Yellow-jackets had the Lady Cubs feeling their “sting” by the end of the game.

The contest ended 52-18, which did not reflect the Cubs’ effort, head coach Sherri Nelson said.

“I know we are super close to putting it all to-gether,” Nelson said, not-ing Humboldt missed 35 baskets within a few feet of the hoop.

“That is very frustrat-ing to do the right things and take good shots, but not be able to finish,” she said.

The game started slowly for both teams.

Sheri Middleton dropped a 2-pointer under-neath for Humboldt and Delaney Umholtz went 1 for 2 from the foul line. The Yellowjackets retaliat-ed with a 6-0 run, polished off with a free throw to end the quarter at 7-3.

The tempo picked up in the second quarter.

Middleton struck early with a big block on Fredo-nia’s Shelby Baker. Brean-na Kline, Middleton and Umholtz each contributed baskets for the Cubs.

Fredonia’s Baker and Malorrie Kukovich both heated up in the second, the latter dropped back-to-back long-range jumpers with five minutes remain-ing in the half to lead 20-11.

The second half told the

story for the Lady Cubs. A strong scoring perfor-mance from Baker and Danielle Shay for Fredo-nia proved to be too much.

The Cubs scored only four points in the third, compared to 20 from the Yellowjackets.

Fredonia applied a full-court press for much of the game, which led to numerous turnovers from Humboldt.

The only points for the Lady Cubs in the fourth quarter came from three free throws from Lakota Wilson and Kline.

Wilson led the team in scoring with six points, fol-lowed by Kline and Middle-ton, each with three points. For Fredonia, their top three scorers were Mor-gan Finley, Baker and Shay with 13, 11 and 10 points.

Fredonia (7-13-20-12—52)Humboldt (3-8-4-3—18)Fredonia (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP) Fin-

ley 5-3-2-13, Baker 5-1-1-11, Shay 4-2-2-10, Couch 1-0-3-2, Plummer 0-2-0-2, Van Leeuwen 1-2-0-4, Ku-kovich 2-0-3-4, Robinson 3-0-1-6. TOTALS 21-10-12-52.

Humboldt (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP) Kline 1-1-4-3, Middleton 1-1-2-3, Strack 1-0-2-2, Wilson 2-2-0-6, Umholtz 1-0-4-2, Morris 1-0-2-2. TOTALS 7-4-14-18.

Register/Steve SchwartzLakota Wilson, front at right, struggles to keep the ball away from Fredonia’s Shelbey Baker, left, while Micaela Plummer swipes for the steal from behind.

YATES CENTER — A blistering start from visit-ing Cherryvale High put Yates Center High’s boys in an early hole they could not escape Tuesday.

The Chargers led 23-6 af-ter one period, enough to keep the Wildcats at bay from there in a 75-58 victory.

The loss drops Yates Cen-ter to 3-6 on the season. The Wildcats resume play Jan. 18 at home against Waverly.

Cherryvale led 42-24 at the break. Yates Center closed to within 12, 56-44, by the end of the third quarter. Cherryvale closed the game

with a 19-14 run.Cameron Brown paced

the Wildcats with 18 points, followed by Caleb DeNoon and Trevor Chism with nine apiece and Myles Dice and Robert Arnold both with eight.

Derek Robertson led Cherryvale with 17 points. Hunter Robinson scored 14 and John Anderson 13.

Cherryvale (23-19-14-19—75)Yates Center (6-18-20-14—58)Cherryvale (FG-FT-F-TP): An-

derson 5-3-4-13, T. Robertson 1-0-0-2, Trim 1-2-4-4, Thornton 1-3-4-5, John 1-1-3-3, Robinson 5-4-0-14, Trout 4-1-1-9, Torkelson 3-2-2-8, D. Robertson 5-7-2-17. TOTALS: 26-

23-20-75.Yates Center (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP):

Chism 3/1-0-1-9, Cooper 0-0-3-0, DeNoon 3/1-0-5-9, Schemper 0-0-3-0, Brown 6-6-2-18, McNett 0/1-0-4-3, Dice 3-2-3-8, Busteed 0-0-1-0, Rossillon 0-3-2-3, Arnold 3-2-2-8. TOTALS: 18/3-14-24-58.

High School BasketballFriday vs. PRAIRIE VIEW,

4:30 p.m.High School Wrestling

Thursday at Labette County with Chanute, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday JV at Labette County Invitational, 9 a.m.

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Thursday 7th, 8th boys at Royster, 3:30 p.m.

Iola

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Burlingame downs YC boys

ST. PAUL — Momentary lapses proved costly for Marmaton Valley High’s boys Tuesday.

“There were times defen-sively when we would make them work the ball around 30 or 40 seconds before they could get a shot,” Wildcat coach Tim Stinnett said. “Then we’d forget to box out, and they’d score any-way.”

Those lapses allowed host St. Paul High to pull away late in a 70-55 win.

The loss drops Marmaton Valley to 1-7 on the season.

“I saw some good things tonight,” Stinnett said. “At times we looked pretty good offensively. St. Paul is pret-ty good. They’re long and they can play.”

The Indians led 22-11 af-ter one quarter and 37-27 at

halftime.Marmaton Valley pulled

to within 47-41 midway through the third quarter before St. Paul closed the period with an 8-0 run to open a 55-51 cushion.

Carlos Gonzales led the Wildcats with 14 points, five assists and four steals. Cole Becker followed with 12 points, six assists and four steals. Nathan Smart had eight points and four re-bounds. Ryan Smith scored six points, as did Brady Newman. Levi Ramsey scored four points, Chance Stevenson scored three and Michael Genn had two.

The Wildcats resume play next week at the South-east Lancer Classic. Mar-maton Valley plays host Southeast of Cherokee at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

St. Paul pulls awayfrom Wildcat boys

apiece.“Mikaela gave us a spark

off the bench, and I liked Emery’s hustle tonight,” Carlson said.

Brianna Erhart paced Central Heights with eight points. Sydney Meyer scored seven.

Iola won the junior var-sity contest 32-6. Lexie Long scored nine points to pace the JV squad, fol-lowed by Endicott and Platt with six points each and Piazza with five.

Ashlie Shields scored four and Lohman had two.

The Fillies return home Friday to host Prairie View.Iola (5-5-4-7—21)Central Heights (8-5-8-4—25)Iola (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Moore 0-1-4-1, Piazza 1/1-0-0-5, Lohman 1-1-3-3, Shay 1-1-1-3, Ford 0-0-1-0, Endicott 1-0-3-2, Platt 1-2-1-4, Driskel 1-1-4-1, Sigg 0-0-1-0. TO-TALS: 6/1-6-17-21.Central Heights (FG-FT-F-TP): Erhart 3-2-1-8, Kraus 2-0-3-4, Markley 2-0-2-4, Meyer 2-3-3-7, Hayward 1-0-1-2. TOTALS: 10-5-10-25.

Whitcomb with 14. As a team, the Cubs shot 29 for 48 from the field (60.4 per-cent).

Thornbrugh led in re-bounds as well with 10. The Cubs had 21 as a team. Whitcomb contributed seven assists, and Murrow, Whitcomb and Trey John-son each had three steals.

“I was pleased with the first game after Christ-mas break,” Taylor said. “Normally, I dread those games.”

He said the success of the team was dependent on whether they used their athleticism efficiently in their offense.

The Cubs did just that Tuesday.

“When they use their athleticism on offense, they’re hard to stop,” Tay-lor said. “They have been unselfish, and are willing

to share the wealth.”The win improves Hum-

boldt’s record to a perfect 8-0. The Cubs play Cher-ryvale at home on Friday.

Humboldt’s junior var-sity squad followed the var-sity team’s lead with a vic-tory, as did the C team.

Humboldt’s JV won 58-35 behind Kason Siemens with 20 points.

The C team prevailed 52-39. Rhett Smith led Hum-boldt with 12 points.

Fredonia (16-11-5-7—39)Humboldt (21-15-22-10—68)Fredonia (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP)

Sommer 1/1-0-2-5, Siegele 3/1-3-0-12, Stevens 1-1-0-3, Johnson 2-2-3-6, Morris 2-2-1-6, Moya 3-1-1-7. TOTALS (12/2-9-7-39).

Humboldt (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP) Vanatta 1-0-3-2, McNutt 2/4-0-4-16, Murrow 3/1-0-1-9. Whitcomb 6-2-2-14, Sellman 0/1-0-2-3, Craw-ford 1-0-3-2, Johnson 0/1-0-3-3, Thornbrugh 9-1-1-19. TOTALS (22/7-3-17-68).

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BURLINGAME — A cold night from the field did in Southern Coffey County High’s girls Tuesday.

The Lady Titans connect-ed on only 6 of 44 field goal attempts in a 35-22 loss to host Burlingame High.

The loss drops Southern Coffey County’s record to 3-6 on the season.

“We’re still having trou-ble getting the ball to go through the basket,” Lady Titan coach Jeff True said.

Burlingame led 10-3 af-

ter one quarter and 20-9 at the break. The Lady Titans went scoreless in the third quarter before erupting for 13 in the final eight min-utes.

By then, it was too late.Sarah Webb led the Lady

Titans with 13 points and 16 rebounds. Martyna Heg-wald had three steals.

Hayley Lewis led Burlin-game with 13 points.

Southern Coffey County hosts Olpe Friday.

SCC (3-6-0-13—22)Burlingame (10-10-6-9—35)

SCC (FG-FT-F-TP): Newkirk 1-0-1-2, Mart. Hegwald 0-0-3-0, Myr. Hegwald 2-0-2-4, Webb 2-0-0-13, Brite 1-1-1-3, Alumbaugh 0-0-2-0. TOTALS: 6-10-9-22.

Burlingame (FG-FT-F-TP): B. Lewis 3-0-1-6, Ullmer 0-0-1-0, Zabokrtsky 4-0-3-8, Dorr 3-1-4-7, H. Lewis 6-1-1-13, Young 0-0-1-0, Vandevord 0-1-4-1. TOTALS: 16-3-15-35.

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SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Manny West wants to be an astronaut, and Bryan Martel wants to be an as-trophysicist. But as mem-bers of the Salina Central High School robotics team, their thoughts for the next month and a half will be more down-to-earth.

For the next six weeks, they and fellow team mem-bers will be designing, building and program-ming a machine to fling a Frisbee-like flying disc at targets, one being atop a metal pyramid that the ro-bot somehow must climb.

The finished robot will be entered into an internation-al competition in March.

On Saturday, team mem-bers assembled at Kansas State University at Salina and, for the first time, re-ceived the objectives for the 2013 contest.

As the details were re-vealed, team members gasped at the technical re-quirements, which some said were more advanced

from last year, which re-quired the robot to shoot basketballs.

One year the task was to snare geometrically shaped objects and hang them on pegs.

“Last year, all the ro-bot had to do was pick up a round ball,” West said. “This year, it has to actu-ally pick up a Frisbee and figure out how to throw it. It will be a lot harder to throw than a basketball.”

Fellow team member Martel agreed.

“It’s a lot more compli-cated,” he said. “Every year the game changes.”

As with previous compe-titions, there will be offen-sive and defensive strate-gies that each team much plan for. Besides figuring

out how to successfully toss the disc, teams must guard against opponents who are out to disrupt the scoring.

Also new this year is the climbing element. Two years ago, part of the com-petition required teams to build a mini robot capable of shimmying up a pole.

This year, the machine must scale a Jungle Gym-like pyramid structure, atop which sits a target similar to a disc golf hole.

“There’s a climbing as-pect to it,” said Pratik Pa-tel, a junior. “You get bonus points if you get the robot to climb the pyramid.”

Senior Alyssa Moore is excited to get started.

“It’s going to be chal-lenging,” Moore said. “Last year, we had to shoot hoops.

This year, we have to some-how throw a Frisbee with some kind of hand.”

Lee Scherman, a Kansas State-Salina graduate who works at Great Plains and is a mentor to the robotics team, said work will begin right away on the machine.

“We have six weeks to get it built,” he said.

Saturday was the first time any of the teams got a look at the rules.

“This is the first time we’ve seen the game, hints about the game or any-thing,” he said.

The contest is sponsored by FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an orga-nization formed in 1989 by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen to foster an in-terest in science and tech-nology among students.

The Salina Central team will qualify for the interna-tional contest if it does well at a regional competition in Dallas. Salina Central has earned a spot at the inter-national contest in three of its last four attempts.

Students to build frisbee-throwing robotLast year, all the robot had to do was pick

up a round ball. This year, it has to actu-ally pick up a Frisbee and figure out how to throw it. It will be a lot harder to throw than a basketball.

— Manny West, Salina high-schooler

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Concealed gun injures wifeLENEXA, Kan. (AP) — Police say

a northeast Kansas man accidentally shot his wife at a restaurant when his concealed weapon discharged.

Lenexa police say the man had a small caliber handgun in his pock-et while dining at the Longbranch Steakhouse last week. Officer Dan Friesen says the man reached into the pocket and accidentally discharged his weapon.

His wife was treated and released at a hospital for a wound in the leg.

Police say the man had a valid con-cealed carry permit and the proper training but the state likely will re-voke his permit.

The restaurant’s manager said the company is now considering banning customers from bringing in concealed firearms.

Pilot likely disoriented TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A pilot who

died along with his family in a plane crash near Topeka likely became dis-oriented while using instruments to land in overcast and rainy weather, according to a report from the Nation-al Transportation Safety Board.

Dylan Spencer, 35, was flying from Scott City to Topeka on April 22, 2011, when the plane crashed as he tried to land near Topeka’s Philip Billard Air-port.

He died along with his 34-year-old wife, Amy Spencer, and their two chil-dren, Chase, 7, and Ansley, 5.

Spencer, of Scott City, had less than an hour of flying using only instru-ments after he received his rating to fly relying on instruments rather than sight, according to the NTSB’s probable cause report.

Scott missed the airport runway the first time he tried to land and asked for permission to attempt an-other landing using a global position-

ing satellite, the report said.He was using instruments to set

up the GPS approach when the plane crashed, the NTSB report said.

“It is likely that the pilot became disoriented while maneuvering in IMC to set up for the GPS approach and lost control of the airplane,” the report stated. “Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s minimal ex-perience flying in actual instrument conditions.”

Dylan Spencer served on the Scott City Commission, the county econom-ic development board and Scott City Municipal Airport Board. Amy Spen-cer was a special education teacher in Scott City.

After the crash, friends of the Spen-cers and other pilots at Scott City set up a flight training center dedicated to the family.

The Spencer Flight and Education Center at the Scott City Municipal Airport features a Redbird FMX full-motion flight simulator as well as a classroom and library.

Three finalists named for university president

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Wes-leyan University leaders have chosen three finalists to consider as the next president of the Salina school.

The finalists announced Monday are Brian McGee, chief of staff and senior policy adviser at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C.; Rog-er Drake, vice president of finance at Lindsey Wilson College in Ken-tucky; and Matthew Thompson, vice president for advancement at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla.

The Salina Journal reported the presidential search committee chose the finalists from eight candidates. The men will visit the Salina campus in the next two weeks to meet with faculty, staff and students.

The next president will replace Fletcher Lamkin, who resigned last June after a 2½-year tenure marked by controversy as many employees re-signed or were fired.

Kansas issues restrictions on consumption of fish

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State health officials are warning the public to restrict their consumption of bass because of concerns about their mer-cury content.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Monday large-mouth, smallmouth and spotted bass should be eaten only once per week.

The department says women who are pregnant, might become preg-nant or are nursing; and children un-der the age of 18 should eat Kansas-caught bass only once a month.

The health department says restric-tions are necessary because of the levels of mercury, which can cause health problems, particularly to fe-tuses and children.

Farm women’s meeting tackles risks, legal issues

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A con-ference designed for women involved in managing farms will tackle a wide range of issues, from financial risks to farming in the city.

Registration has opened for the conference, called Women Managing the Farm. It will be Feb. 7-8 in Man-hattan.

The annual event aims to reach women who are landowners, farm managers or otherwise engaged in agricultural careers. This year’s agenda includes more than a dozen sessions on topics including estate planning and legal issues, crop insur-ance, drought management and social advocacy.

Kansas briefs

WASHINGTON (AP) — America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012.

A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees the gov-ernment announced Tues-day. That’s a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998.

Breaking temperature records by an entire degree is unprecedented, scien-tists say. Normally, records are broken by a tenth of a degree or so.

The National Climatic Data Center’s figures for the entire world won’t come out until next week, but through the first 11 months of 2012, the world was on pace to have its eighth warmest year on record.

Scientists say the U.S. heat is part global warm-ing in action and natural

weather variations. The drought that struck almost two-thirds of the nation and a La Nina weather event helped push temper-atures higher, along with climate change from man-made greenhouse gas emis-sions, said Katharine Hay-hoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. She said temperature increases are happening faster than sci-entists predicted.

“These records do not oc-cur like this in an unchang-ing climate,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric

Research in Boulder, Colo. “And they are costing many billions of dollars.”

Last year was 3.2 degrees warmer than the average for the entire 20th century. Last July was also the hot-test month on record.

Nineteen states set year-ly heat records in 2012. U.S. temperature records go back to 1895 and the yearly average is based on re-ports from more than 1,200 weather stations across the Lower 48 states.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. last year also had the second most weather extremes on

record, behind 1998. There were 11 different disasters that caused more than $1 billion in damage, including Superstorm Sandy and the drought, NOAA said.

The drought was the worst since the 1950s and slightly behind the dust bowl of the 1930s, meteo-rologists said. During a drought, the ground is so dry that there’s not enough moisture in the soil to evap-orate into the atmosphere to cause rainfall. And that means hotter, drier air.

The last time the country had a record cold month was December 1983.

“A picture is emerging of a world with more extreme heat,” said Andrew Dessler, a Texas A&M University climate scientist. “Not ev-ery year will be hot, but when heat waves do occur, the heat will be more ex-treme. People need to begin to prepare for that future.”

2012 hottest year on record for USA picture is emerging of a world with more

extreme heat. Not every year will be hot, but when heat waves do occur, the heat will be more extreme.

— Andrew Dessler, climate scientist

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SEAFORD, N.Y. — Own-ers of homes and other buildings infected with mold from superstorm Sandy’s flooding may be in line for help after a push for federal funds by coun-ty officials and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer.

Schumer, D-N.Y., high-lighted the issue Tuesday at the Seaford home of Lar-ry Elliott, who is among those still grappling with the situation 10 weeks af-ter the storm.

Under current law, re-sources from the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot be used to remove mold from a house, even if that mold is mak-ing the house unlivable, Schumer said. In part, that is because it’s hard to know if a mold condition existed in a home before a flood.

After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005, however, officials made the administrative changes necessary to enable federal funding for remediation work so that homes could be made inhabitable.

Mold, which can start to grow on a damp surface within 24 to 48 hours, has plagued flooded homes since Sandy struck Oct. 29. Molds digest organic mate-rial and can eventually de-stroy what they grow upon.

Failure to remove con-

taminated materials and reduce moisture and hu-midity can lead to serious long-term health risks, in-cluding respiratory prob-lems, according to a FEMA-produced pamphlet.

“Mold is a common oc-

currence in flood-damaged areas, but FEMA does not reimburse for mold cleanup in private homes and businesses,” agency spokesman John Mills said Tuesday.

There are no funds al-located under either the agency’s disaster assis-tance or the program known as STEP — Shelter-ing Temporary Essential Program, a new, post-San-dy initiative introduced in Nassau and Suffolk coun-ties on Long Island.

FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program may cover mold and mildew

damage when the damage occurs in connection with a covered direct physical loss from flooding, Mills said. It will not be covered if there is clear evidence of the policyholder’s fail-ure to inspect and main-tain the insured property before the disaster.

“If such damage is the result of wicking — wa-ter’s been absorbed by, say, drywall — it is covered under the flood insurance program,” Mills added.

Suffolk County officials, concerned by the potential long-term health effects on residents, have in recent weeks pressed FEMA, the New York State Office of Emergency Management and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, President Barack Obama’s point person on Sandy recovery, for funding to help address the issue.

So far, both Nassau and Suffolk have secured help from various charitable or-ganizations and nonprof-its, including AmeriCorps, for homeowners who need mold remediation work.

Suffolk Commissioner of the Department of Labor Samuel Chu told Newsday that of 81 homes in early December that needed to be mucked out, 63 had work completed by volunteer organizations. The remaining 18 homes were to be dealt with once the homeowners could be reached.

Officials urge FEMA funds for mold

If such dam-age is the result of wicking — wa-ter’s been ab-sorbed by, say, drywall — it is covered under the flood insur-ance program.

— Agency spokesman

John Mills

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By DONNA CASSATAAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s choice of John Brennan to be the next CIA director hit a snag Tuesday as a Republi-can senator threatened to de-lay the nomination until the Obama administration pro-vides answers on the deadly assault in Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, whose opposition helped scuttle U.N. Ambassador Su-san Rice’s hopes of becoming secretary of state, said the Senate should not confirm any Obama nominee for the nation’s top spy post until the administration elaborates on the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi.

“My support for a delay in confirmation is not directed at Mr. Brennan, but is an un-fortunate, yet necessary, ac-tion to get information from this administration,” the South Carolina senator said in a statement. “I have tried — repeatedly — to get infor-mation on Benghazi, but my requests have been repeatedly ignored.”

He added that the admin-istration’s “stonewalling on Benghazi” must end.

Graham did not explicitly say he would put a “hold” on Brennan’s nomination, and his office declined further comment. However, his state-

ment signaled that he would try to slow the nomination.

The White House dis-missed the politicization of the issue and pressed for the Senate to act quickly and de-liberately on Brennan’s nomi-nation.

“It would be unfortunate, I think, if in pursuit of this is-sue, which was highly politi-cized, the Senate would hold up the nomination of John Brennan to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

An independent review board released an exhaustive report last month that found “systematic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels” of the State Department that led to inadequate security at the mission in Benghazi.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to deliver her long-awaited testi-mony on Libya before the Sen-ate Foreign Relations Com-

mittee on Jan. 22, although the State Department says the date hasn’t been finalized.

Illness and a concussion delayed her congressional ap-pearance in December, one of her last acts as secretary of state. Obama has nominated Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to replace Clinton after Rice withdrew her name from con-sideration.

In the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Republicans criticized the administration for blaming spontaneous protests over an American-made, anti-Muslim video. They suggested the administration was trying to play down an act of terrorism leading up to the November election, even though Obama used that description in the days after the raid.

Graham and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., directed much of their ire at Rice, who said in a series of Sun-day talk show interviews on

Sept. 16 that the attack may have been a protest that got out of hand. Rice’s widely debunked explanation was based on talking points from the intelligence community.

Graham said he wants an-swers on who changed Rice’s talking points and deleted ref-erences to al-Qaida. He said lawmakers were told that the director of national intelli-gence deleted the references, then were told it was the FBI. Hours after a meeting with Rice in late November, Con-gress was informed that the CIA had changed the talking points.

“This ever-changing story should be resolved,” Graham said. “It is imperative we un-derstand who changed the talking points just weeks be-fore a presidential election and why.”

Graham, who is up for re-election next year, has been an outspoken critic of the ad-ministration on Libya.

Carney pointed out that Obama pressed for swift con-firmation of his national security nominees when he announced the selections Monday, and the administra-tion hopes there are no un-necessary delays. He noted that the FBI is continuing its investigation of the attack, the independent review board issued a scathing report and Obama wants to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice.

GOP senator threatens delay on CIA nomination My support for a delay in confirmation is

not directed at Mr. Brennan, but is an un-fortunate, yet necessary, action to get infor-mation from this administration. I have tried — repeatedly — to get information on Ben-ghazi but my requests have been repeat-edly ignored.

— South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Planners of President Barack Obama’s second inaugura-tion are making an unprec-edented solicitation for high-dollar contributions to help pay for the celebration.

They’re asking for individ-ual donations of up to $1 mil-lion to help fund the events surrounding the inaugural on Jan. 21. Such donation packages, which come with special access, are a far cry from the policy of Obama’s first inauguration to accept

contributions up to only $50,000 from individuals.

The pressure is high to pay for the festivities after donors already contributed to the most expensive cam-paign in U.S. history. More than 400 individuals and a handful of corporations have so far contributed $200 or more to the inaugural com-mittee. But the committee won’t be listing how much they’ve given until weeks af-ter the event, another about-face from 2009.

$1 million donations sought for Obama’s inauguration

BOSTON (AP) — A Justice Department of-ficial is arguing that an independent trustee must be chosen to oversee the bankruptcy case of a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a deadly meningi-tis outbreak.

U.S. Trustee William Harrington says in a filing Tuesday that an accoun-tant chosen by the New England Compounding Center to lead it through Chapter 11 proceedings is “hopelessly conflicted.”

He says that’s because Keith Lowey was appoint-

ed by NECC’s board and the board has the power to fire him at any time.

Harrington also argued the company’s “gross mis-management” meant an independent trustee was needed to protect the inter-ests of the NECC’s credi-tors.

Messages request-ing comment were left at Lowey’s office and with an NECC spokesman.

A tainted steroid made by the NECC has been linked to a fungal meningi-tis outbreak that has killed 40.

Conflict seen in case


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CarolynHax

Dear Dr. Roach: I real-ize most of the letters you print are from senior citi-zens, like me. I am 72 and have health issues — high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and arthritis, and I realize I will not live forever. One of my friends woke me up when she said she “has to die of some-thing.” The thought of death does not petrify me. When I’ve been in senior health facilities, I’ve seen many people whose qual-ity of life is so limited that I THINK I would choose a peaceful death over some of those situations.

Sometimes I get the im-pression that some of us think that if we get just the right physician’s care and medications, life can go on and on. I also realize that Americans spend many of their health dollars in the final year of their lives, and that seems wasteful and un-necessary. So I’d like you

to relate what current life expectancies are and what factors most affect life ex-pectancy. — J.G.

Answer: Thank you for this honest and thought-provoking letter. As a pri-mary-care doctor for 20 years, I have thought a lot about the issues you bring up. I also have spent a lot of time examining math-ematical models of life ex-pectancy.

Let me start with your point that Americans spend many of their health dol-lars in the last year of life. In fact, 27 percent of spend-ing is during the final year of life. Unfortunately, it is

not always clear as it is hap-pening that the last year of life is upon us, or even that the illness one is facing is destined to be the final one.

So, it makes sense to treat illness appropriately, no matter what the age. I don’t see people regret medical care when the out-come is uncertain; people regret too much medical care when a terminal result is certain. That often takes time. You have been wise enough to look at what the future might hold, and now is the time, if you haven’t already, to write out your wishes in the form of a liv-ing will and to designate — and, especially, discuss with your durable power of attorney for health care — what your wishes are in case you are no longer able to make those wishes known. That way, once it becomes clear, your family and doctors will know what you want.

Your second question is about current life expec-tancy. These numbers are available readily from the Social Security Adminis-tration website, and you can find that a 72-year-old woman has, on average, a life expectancy of about 15 years. On the other hand, if you make it to 87, you still have a life expectancy of about six more years.

However, nobody lives forever. Even for a person with the healthiest lifestyle, who has avoided chronic diseases and has good ge-netics, that person at 72 has a life expectancy of 20 to perhaps 30 years.

You can make a huge dif-ference by keeping your blood pressure under con-trol, exercising regularly and eating well. The jury remains out, but I suspect that personality traits, including resilience, and strong social connections also predict long life.

Hoping for a long life expectancy Dr. Keith Roach

To YourGoodHealth

Dear Carolyn: I suspect my husband of 18 years may be straying, which as far as I know would be for the first time. I cannot point to one incident — just little things here and there and a strong sense of intuition. For ex-ample, I overheard a small part of his end of a phone conversation. He did not know I was there. It was not what was said, but the very familiar way he was speak-ing to the other person, and I just “knew.”

I’m unlikely to ever prove an affair, because I do not have his passwords, and I know he would deny it if confronted. I love my hus-band and believe he loves me. If he is cheating, I will feel incredibly hurt and dis-respected, and want him to stop. I have chosen not to talk to anyone about this in case I am wrong — but I am lost as to what to do. — Sus-pecting.

What outcome are you hoping for?

You say you want him to stop, of course, but I don’t think it works on its own.

What I’m sticking on is, “I know he would deny if confronted.” That tells me you don’t want an honest husband or an intimate marital relationship — both of which are contingent on truth-telling — you just want the other woman erased and the status quo back.

If instead what you want is a loving and intimate re-lationship with your hus-band, then you’re going to need to come clean with what you overheard, what your mind leapt to, and with your expectation that he wouldn’t tell you the truth if confronted.

This is where knowing the outcome you hope for beforehand is so important. He is going to answer your remarks somehow, be it to surprise you with a whole and messy truth, or a de-nial, credible or otherwise, or some surprising other thing. If the answer isn’t satisfying, then tell him why, based on what you were hoping for.

For example: “I was hop-ing you’d trust me enough

to tell me the truth, no mat-ter what it was, and while I can’t prove it I do suspect you aren’t telling me everything.” Your depth and honesty are your best chance at receiving the same from him.

One of the hardest things when one partner sees signs of an affair is that you can’t prove a negative; sometimes a denial is the truth, and yet the skeptic often doesn’t be-lieve it. A confrontational, accusatory tone can make even an honest denial sound defensive and insincere. Set

a tone of transparency in the discussion, and that will help the truth stand out for what it is, whatever it is.

Re: Suspecting:Speaking your truth does

have a time limit, however. If he denies it and you don’t believe him, after you tell him you don’t believe him, you have to either drop it

or ask for a way, including marriage counseling, for both of you to address this as a trust issue. Because if he’s not cheating, he doesn’t deserve to have his spouse convinced that he is, repeat-edly bringing up an accusa-tion with no solid evidence behind it.

Anonymous

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