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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-


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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By ALLISON [email protected] have arguably

some of the busiest schedules around, and when the going gets tough, little things may fall through the cracks.

It is Brianna Curry’s job to alleviate some of the weight on their schedules.

Curry is the new instruc-tional coach for kindergarten through second grade in USD 257 schools. Curry took over for Angie Linn, now curriculum director.

Curry assists teachers with technology training, six-trait writing, modeling lessons and team teaching.

“I am a resource that helps teachers,” Curry said. “Every day is different. Teachers don’t always have the time to find a resource to use with their cur-riculum so I find it for them.”

Prior to her new role, Curry

taught first grade for about five years.

“I miss the kids but this way I get to see a lot of the kids I had and more,” she said.

Someone she gets to see often is her daughter Reese who is a kindergartener. Curry and her husband, Brett, have two other children, Jenna, a third-grader, and Kashyn, 18 months.

Today, she is teaching stu-dents how to use iPads. Her

New to the district

Brianna Curry

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Instructional coach balances schedules

TEAM WORK ON THE FIELD

Register/Richard Luken Denny Lasley, maintenance worker and groundskeeper for Marmaton Valley USD 256, mows the high school football field Wednesday afternoon. Through the efforts of volunteers and a sizable donation of dirt, the field’s playing surface was replaced over the winter and spring months.


MORAN — Marmaton Valley High football coach Kent Houk stresses teamwork and commit-ment from his players, and the results have been impressive.

Fresh off a playoff appear-ance in 2011, the Wildcats have high hopes for another success-ful season this year.

Another project involving

teamwork and commitment has been equally received. This time it involves a group of local vol-unteers working to provide a suitable playing field for the foot-ball team.

Of specific issue was the pre-vious field’s drainage.

“It’s the only field I’ve ever seen without a crown,” said USD 256 Superintendent of Schools David Hardage, referring to

most fields that are elevated in the center to provide better drainage.

So while the field usually was lush with thick, green Bermuda grass, its lack of a crown meant standing water during heavy rains. That in turn led to slick and muddy, and potentially un-safe, conditions in wet weather.

“The field had taken a beating

Volunteers rebuild football field

Humboldt tax decision near


When the door closes on Hum-boldt’s half-cent sales tax refer-endum at high noon Tuesday, Al-len County Clerk Sherrie Riebel thinks at least 75 percent of eli-gible voters will have marked bal-lots.

Through Thursday afternoon 674 of 1,148 ballots have been re-turned to the clerk’s office. Of those, 75 were set aside because they were undeliverable, leaving 599 to count.

Ballots were mailed Aug. 22, with the legal aside that they weren’t allowed to be forwarded.

“The 75 returned were to people who had moved since they regis-tered or, in some cases, may have replaced home addresses with

post office boxes,” Riebel said.She urged any registered voter

who had not received a ballot to contact her office.

“We’ll get them a ballot if they should have one,” Riebel said.

Returning ballots to the clerk’s office by noon Tuesday is an iron-clad outcome of the mail election.

“There will be no ifs, ands or buts,” Riebel stressed. “If a ballot isn’t in the office by noon Tues-day, it won’t be counted.”

That includes ballots returned by mail, which the lion’s share have been.

“It doesn’t matter when one was postmarked,” Riebel added.

Humboldt voters decided a fluoride issue and bonds to sup-

By ANITA KUMAR and LESLEY CLARK

McClatchy NewspapersCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Barack

Obama shared center stage at the Democratic National Con-vention Wednesday night with Bill Clinton, an enormously popular predecessor who deliv-ered a powerful endorsement of the president’s record, telling an overflow crowd that he had no doubt Obama could turn the troubled economy around if giv-en a second term.

The tens of thousands of delegates and supporters who jammed into Time Warner Cable Arena responded with sustained applause and standing ovations. They waved signs, “Middle Class First,” and chanted “Four more years!”

“I love our country — and I know we’re coming back,” Clinton said. “For more than 200 years, through every crisis, we’ve always come out stron-ger than we went in. And we will again as long as we do it to-

gether. We champion the cause for which our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor — to form a more perfect union. If that’s what you believe, if that’s what you want,

we have to re-elect President Barack Obama.”

The 42nd president remains hugely popular among Demo-

Clinton at convention to ‘elect a president’

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Jeff Siner/Charlotte Observer/MCTPresident Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton embrace after Clinton spoke to the delegation on the sec-ond night at the 2012 Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena Wednesday evening in Charlotte, N.C.

By TONY PUGHMcClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Record numbers of U.S. households struggled at times to feed their families last year, according to a re-port Wednesday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the state of hunger in America.

A lack of resources forced others to cut back on meals and disrupt their usual eat-ing patterns, it says.

A record 17.9 million U.S. households — 700,000 more than in 2010 — didn’t have enough food at all times last year to sustain active, healthy lives for all family mem-

bers, according to the USDA.This “food insecurity” affected a record

14.9 percent of U.S. households and more than 50 million people, about one in six U.S. residents.

Moreover, more than one in three “food insecure” households — 6.8 million — had “very low food security,” meaning that one or more family members cut back on eat-ing last year because of a lack of either money or other access to food, according to the report. That’s an increase of 400,000 households over 2010.

After falling to 5.4 percent in 2010, the

percentage of households with very low food security jumped to 5.7 percent last year, matching the record levels in 2008 and 2009 at the height of the economic collapse, the USDA reported.

The effect on children was significant. Nearly 9 million children lived in food-insecure households last year, and 845,000 were in households with very low food se-curity.

“These numbers show the impact of the recession has not gone away,” said Jim Weill, president of Food Research and Ac-tion Center, a nonprofit anti-hunger group.

“... It’s one thing to say that wages are flat. But it’s something else to say that people aren’t getting enough to eat.”

The findings in the annual USDA survey, “Household Food Security in the United States in 2011,” show that hunger is one of the most persistent and widespread af-tereffects of the Great Recession, which claimed 8.7 million U.S. jobs.

While 85 percent of households have ad-equate access to food, the report says, soup kitchens and food banks across the nation have seen dramatic increases in requests

Hunger rose in 2011 as economy struggled, USDA finds

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The family of Jackie Hutton thanks everyone who has given support in so many ways through the years of her illness, and through the time of our loss. The cards,

flowers, food, memorial contributions and words of kindness are all truly appreciated.

We wish a special Thank You to the family of The Family Physicians, Pastor Matt Bycroft and the RiverTree Christian Church

family as well as Pastor David McGullion and the First Christian Church family.

Nothing will ever be the same for us but the support we have received has helped

immensely in our time of loss.

Thank You,

Ro b ert H u tto n & Fa m ily

At the Parsons Livestock Market sale Wednesday, 354 cattle were sold.

Choice cows 65-83; canners & cutters 40-65; shelly cows, 40 & back; choice bulls 90-99; lower grades 83-90.

Steers: Up to 400# up to 190;

400# to 500# 140-173; 500# to 600# 135-158; 600# to 700# 125-156; 700# to 800# 125-147.25.

Heifers: Up to 400# up to 160; 400# to 500# 125-150; 500# to 600# 125-146; 600# to 700# 125-142; 700# to 800# 120-135.

Helen SmithHelen Marie Smith, 87, Moran, died Monday Sept. 3,

2012, at Allen County Hospital. She was born July 8, 1925, in Bourbon County, the daughter of Wil-liam Elmer and Zaida Marie (Worden) Ross. She married James Willis Smith May 29, 1948, in Syracuse. He survives of the home.

In addition to her husband Jim, Helen is survived by her children, P.J. Smith of Kansas City, Kan., Jimmy Ross Smith of Iola and Alan L. Smith of Wichita; three brothers, Lawrence Ray Ross, Paul Dean Ross and Maurice Gale Ross; two sisters, Marjorie Joan Logsdon and Verl Annette Ross; four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Lois Irene Kershner, and Doris Elma Ross; and three brothers, William George Ross, James Albert Ross and Russell Lee Ross.

Pastor Leslie Jackson and Lloyd Houk will conduct fu-neral services for Helen at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Trinity United Methodist Church in Iola. Burial will follow at the Fairview Cemetery near Mildred, under the direction of the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Trinity United Methodist Church or charity of choice and left in the care of the Konantz-Cheney Funeral home, 15 W. Wall St., P.O. Box 309, Fort Scott, KS 66701.

Online condolences may be emailed to [email protected].

Donald TiceDonald Tice, 83, Topeka, passed away Wednesday, Sept.

5, 2012.He was born July 15, 1929, in Moran. He lived in Iola

most of his life, where he worked for the City of Iola for many years. Upon retiring, he settled in Topeka, where he had lived the past 17 years.

He is survived by his son, Bob Tice and wife Rebekah, Dawsonville, Ga.; his daughter, Brenda Kinney, Topeka; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a brother, Dick Tice, Ottawa. He was preceded in death by his wife, Shirley Tice, and his sister, Virginia Larson.

Memorials may be sent to Midland Hospice Care of To-peka.

Anderson memorialMemorials in honor of Iolan Fred E. Anderson, whose

death and funeral information was included previously, may be sent to the Wounded Warrior Project.

Memorial gifts may be left with the Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of ar-rangements.

Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Obituaries

Helen Smith


Josh Oberley has little trouble recalling the Al-len County Youth Tackle Football League’s opening night.

The league, which kicks off its 11th season on Tues-day, was launched on Sept. 11, 2001 — the same day as the fateful terror attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.

“I can remember our discussions on whether we even should have played that day,” Oberley, one of the league’s founders, said.

Organizers went ahead with games that night, in

a decidedly surreal atmo-sphere.

Oberley hopes the atmo-sphere is a bit less somber Tuesday, but no less reflec-tive.

Oberley has a number of activities planned as a reminder of the events of that day and as a tribute to the U.S. Armed Forces.

“We really want this to be a community event and not just a football game,” Oberley said.

The first game is a con-test between Iola’s third- and fourth-graders against a squad from Mound City beginning at 6 p.m. Tues-day at Riverside Park’s

football stadium. It will feature a halftime perfor-mance by Cruzline Percus-sion, a drumline based in Topeka.

At the conclusion of the game, sometime around 7 p.m., members of the Na-tional Guard’s 891st Engi-neer Battalion will unveil a giant American flag, as-sisted by Iola High School football players.

Several former players from that 2001 season will be honored as well.

“We have a few former players in the military we’d like to recognize as honorary captains,” Ober-ley said.

The 7:15 p.m. contest between Iola’s fifth- and sixth-graders and a team from Garnett will feature a second Cruzline perfor-mance at halftime.

Cheering on the players will be 36 youth cheerlead-ers. Dudley’s Done Right Barbecue will be on hand to sell concessions.

This year’s league fea-tures squads from Iola, Humboldt, Yates Cen-ter and Mound City in the third- and fourth-grade division and Iola, Humboldt, Yates Center, Uniontown, Garnett and Mound City for fifth- and sixth-graders.

Youth league plans Sept. 11 ceremony

“Cooking with Kathy: Shortcut Cooking” will be presented at the Iola Public Library at 1 p.m. Monday.

Extension Agent Kathy McEwan will be the pre-senter. The class is perfect for those who are short on time, but still want to put a home-cooked meal on the table.

Participants will learn to use shortcuts such as a pur-chased rotisserie chicken

and frozen filled pastas to speed up meal preparation. They will also learn to plan to have shortcut ingredi-ents for later use, and to store them safely.

A recipe booklet will be provided.

The class has a limit of 10 participants, and a charge of $3 per person. Those in-terested should contact the library at (620) 365-8128 to register.

Iola Public Library offers cooking class

A former Registerreporter starts firm

PARSONS — Larry Goldsmith and Cynthia Morrison have formed Goldsmith, Morrison and Associates, LLC, a full-ser-vice marketing and media firm in Parsons.

Goldsmith, an Altamont native, began his 35-year ca-

reer with stints at The Iola Register and The Pittsburg Sun. Most recently he was director of marketing for Labette Health in Parsons.

Morrison is a former advertising account execu-tive at The Parsons Sun and director of marketing and resource development at Good Samaritan Parsons.

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By RYAN HAGGERTYChicago Tribune

HARRISBURG, Ill. — Stacy Cottom sat on her new front porch last week, holding her pet Maltese and gazing out at Brady Street, the small cul-de-sac that bore the brunt of the tornado that tore through this small town before dawn on Feb. 29.

Six of Cottom’s neigh-bors died. She and her husband were blown out of their home and tossed across the street, landing in a muddy field littered with broken glass, splin-tered lumber and crushed appliances. All 10 duplex-es on the street were de-stroyed, many ripped right off their foundations.

But now, six months later, the Brady Street that Cottom sees from her porch looks much as it did before the storm. All 10 duplexes have been rebuilt with the same one-story floor plans and light tan siding. Some new residents have moved in, but half the units will be occupied by people who lived there when the storm hit, despite the horror they experienced.

“I’m not afraid of an-other tornado,” Cottom, 38, said last week, watch-ing a semitrailer deliver a load of dirt to fill in a yard

across the street. “If it’s your time to go, it’s your time to go. Honestly, I’m not afraid of that.”

The tornado, categorized as an EF4, the second-most powerful, cut through this town of about 9,000 people in the heart of Illinois’ coal mining country with 170 mph winds, leveling trees, reducing a strip mall to a pile of twisted beams, and knocking out walls and windows at the town’s hospital. Eight people died, scores were injured and more than 250 homes were destroyed.

Although the damage was spread over nearly eight miles, no area suf-fered as much concentrat-ed death and destruction as Brady Street, which has become a symbol of Har-risburg’s determination to rebuild and move on, May-or Eric Gregg said.

“To be into this thing six months, and to see this is just phenomenal,” he said, watching as workers scuttled back and forth last week, grading dirt around the new duplexes. “It’s a very wonderful act of defi-ance, if you ask me.”

For some, however, the sight of the new homes on Brady Street is too much to take.

Lyndi Bowman, 21, hasn’t been back in about five months since she and her family finished col-lecting all the personal effects belonging to her grandmother that they

could find.Bowman’s grandmother,

Lynda Hull, had moved into her duplex at 77 Brady St. last summer, after her husband died. She became such close friends with her neighbors Randy and Donna Mae Rann that she joked they had adopted her, Bowman said.

“She kept saying, ‘This is where the Lord intended me to be,’ “ Bowman said.

Hull, 74, and the Ranns were killed by the tornado.

While Bowman said she is glad the duplexes have been rebuilt and residents have been able to return, she can no longer bring her-self to look at the homes, even from a distance.

“Even just going to Wal-Mart or heading out of town where I can see Brady Street, it makes me feel physically ill,” Bowman said, clutching her grand-mother’s heart-shaped gold necklace she found in the mud in the days after the tornado. “Even though I’m happy it’s back, it’s still like seeing a ghost.”

Jeff Street, whose Brady Street duplex was destroyed by the tornado, decided to buy a home about a mile away instead of moving into the new duplex built on the same

site as his old one. Street emerged from his home’s wreckage unscathed after the tornado, but his wife, daughter and two young grandsons were buried under the rubble for more than an hour.

They have healed from their injuries, but Street said he’s afraid his grand-sons, ages 4 and 5, would have refused to visit him if he moved back to Brady Street. And, he conceded, he’s not sure he could handle moving back to the place where his family en-dured so much trauma.

“It looked just like it did when we lived in it, and it kind of gave me a chill,” said Street, 46, a guard at a nearby prison for teens. “I still dream about it some-times.”

Danny Morse under-stands why some of his former tenants might not want to return to the new homes he’s built on Brady Street. He fought back tears in the hours after the tornado hit, helping dig through what was left of the duplexes he built between 2004 and last sum-mer. Since then, he and his crews have worked at least eight hours a day to clear the site and build the new homes.

“I enjoyed it the first time around,” Morse, 60, said, his white sneakers caked in dust, and sweat beading on his forehead. “This last time around, I did not enjoy one day of it.”

Despite his grief at los-ing friends, Morse said he realized in the days after the tornado that the best thing he could do to help his surviving tenants and other people who lost their homes was to rebuild as quickly as possible.

“Reality sets in, and you’ve got to pick up the pieces,” he said. “There were a lot of pieces to pick up.”

Community digs out after spring twister

E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/MCTRoy Blaine Mauney Jr. works to rebuild a concrete house of his mother, Rebecca Mauney, in Harrisburg, Ill., months after the fatal Feb. 29 tornado. Roy Blaine Mauney, Sr., 74, died of his injuries May 31, becoming the eighth person killed by the tornado.

Family & Friends are invited to help

Lois Bradford celebrate her

80th Birthday Sun., Sept. 9, 2012 Sun., Sept. 9, 2012

2-4 p.m. 2-4 p.m. at 1117 1117

Meadowbrook Rd. Meadowbrook Rd. East East

Sgt. David McCord, a member of the Kansas Army National Guard’s 891st Engineer Battal-ion who recently served a yearlong stint in Af-ghanistan, will be the guest speaker at a break-fast for military retir-ees, veterans and their spouses at 8 a.m. Sept. 8 at B & B Cafe in Iola.

The Southeast Kansas Genealogy Society will met at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Iola Public Library.

The Morrison reunion and covered dish luncheon will be at noon on Monday at the North Community Building in Iola.

Iola High School class of 1967 will have its 45th reunion Saturday. Class members will be meet-ing at Pizza Hut from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Women’s Minis-try Fellowship will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at First Assembly of God, 1020 E. Carpenter.

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Sat., Sept. 8

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., Sept. 8 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

— Organization Delivery Schedule for Saturday, September 8 — 8:30-9:30 First Christian Church ACCC Phi Theta Kappa

9:30-10:30 Challenger All Star Field Humboldt Methodist Church Girl Scouts Hope Chapel Moran Baptist Youth Group

10:30-11:30 Bronson Ruritan T ri-Valley Developmental Svcs.

This schedule will apply for September 8; however, groups can change assigned times with another group. Please let the Register know if that is done.

KEEP YOUR PAPER DRY! IN CASE OF RAIN DO NOT PUT SACKS OUTSIDE.

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Sept. 16.-Fiddlers, Pick-ers and Singers covered dish luncheon, Iola North Community Building, dancing followsSchool calendar

Monday-junior varsity football at Crest, 6 p.m.; board of education meet-ing, 7 p.m.

Tuesday-high school vol-leyball at Yates Center, 5 p.m.

Sept. 13-cross country at Big Hill, 4 p.m.; high school volleyball at Pleasanton, 5 p.m.; middle school vol-leyball, 5 p.m., football, 6:30 p.m. at Crest.

Sept. 14-high school foot-ball at Crest, 7 p.m. Meals

Monday-turkey burger, potato salad, sliced tomato, bun, pineapple; Wednes-day-pasta bake, Caribbean blend veggies, Texas toast, pear crisp; Friday-beef stroganoff, spinach salad, baby carrots, bread, fruited yogurt. Phone 852-3479 for reservations.Church items

Scripture read at Sun-day’s Christian Church service was Philippians 2:1-30. Pastor Mark Mc-Coy presented the sermon series “Finding Peace in Surprising Places” using the sermon “Following the King Who Became a Slave.” Sept. 30-church potluck din-ner and meeting following church services, City Hall community room; continue to bring Best Choice labels, education coupons, and old ink cartridges to be sent to Cookson Hills by the Chil-dren’s Church.

Scripture at Sunday’s United Methodist Church was Psalm 41:1-13, II Corin-thians 9:6-15 and Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23. The United Methodist Women’s chal-lenge for September is Mountain of Food (restock-ing the pantry). Members held a bake sale on Colony Day, which went well. They appreciate all those who were supportive.City council

At their Aug. 29 meet-

ing, City Council members agreed to pursue a Phase II Sanitary Sewer Commu-nity Block Development Grant to correct deficien-cies in the sewer system detected from a TV scan. Governmental Assistance Services was appointed to write the grant application for the city.

Two building permits were approved in the block of First Street between Oak and Maple streets.

The contract with Mid- America Nutrition Site to have its meals in the com-munity room was approved for another year. The li-brary received a letter ask-ing to consider becoming a village post office. Council members determined that would not be good use of the library or City Hall and turned down the offer.

Sheriff Jeff Hupp briefed council members on the Na-tional Drug Take Back Pro-gram. Members agreed to al-low the city marshal to work on this program between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sept. 29.

He will accept medica-tions to be disposed of according to federal stan-dards. This is to help re-duce the amount of unused medicines in medicine chests and to protect our streams and water system from being contaminated by flushing of medicines. Please participate in this program rather than dis-pose of medicines in the trash and sewer system to help protect our environ-ment. Fire department

The Colony Fire Depart-ment recently received a $2,500 grant from Phillips 66.

Chuck Gettler, an em-ployee of Phillips 66 Pipe-line Company, applied for the grant. Success of the grant was based on Get-tler’s hours of community service throughout the year, which allowed him to

apply for grants for recipi-ents of his choice. The com-pany encourages its em-ployees to become involved in their communities.

Colony firemen will de-cide soon how best to apply the funds. Firemen have been undergoing SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) training. This is provided by the Anderson County Fire Department.

They have purchased an AED (automated external defibrillator) with funds given in memory of the late Bill Michael. It will be in-stalled at the Crest school building.

In August, Colony fire-fighters answered seven medical calls and 12 fire calls. Even with recent rains, we are still in a severe drought. Residents are urged to be cautious with fire. Watch discarded cigarettes, barbe-cue grills, etc. The burn ban remains in effect.Crest

Parent Teacher Organi-zation (PTO) officers elect-ed for 2012-2013 school year are: LeAnn Church, presi-dent; Kathy LaCross, vice-president; Chrissy Powell, secretary; and Nicki Beck-mon, treasurer. The year begins with a $4,468.69 bal-ance.

T-shirts for preschool-ers and new students will be purchased. Aundi Mill-er and Church will be in charge.

Box tops again will be collected and prizes given to each class. Collections are first and third Fridays and rewards on second and

fourth Fridays. Coupons on or near the box tops that are marked “Box Tops for Education” are very help-ful, however all box tops are appreciated. It is helpful if bonus coupons are kept separate and in piles of 50 box tops. Some General Mills cereal boxes, Kleen-ex boxes, etc. have include double or more bonus cou-pons. Anyone is welcome to turn them into the elemen-tary school. Kindergarten students assist in counting.

Box top committee mem-bers are Aundi Miller, Amanda Soliz, LaCross, Kendra Weatherman and Church. Collection bins are needed.

Trash bags will be sold Sept. 14-28. Trash bag com-mittee is Powell, Beckmon, Angie Luedke and Church.

Red Ribbon week is Oct. 24-31.

Notes from Richard Burkdoll include the birth-day sign was broken and it will cost roughly $200-$350 to buy a new one or it may be repaired.

Oct. 23 will be parent-teachers conferenceR/Title I meeting. PTO will donate cookies and lemonade.

The next meeting is Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. in the Crest El-ementary library.Around town

Bonnie Rook underwent rotator cuff repair recently and is recuperating at her home. Her daughter-in-law, Paula Decker, has been as-sisting her.

Labor Day weekend guests of Phyllis Luedke were her son, Craig, Hot Springs, Ark., and Phyllis’ daughter and family, Julie and Dirk Nichols, Bryce and Kimberlyn, Beloit. They also visited their dad, Stanley Luedke.

Harold and Sharon Denchfield of Washington state attended Colony Day and part of the alumni gathering at the Crest au-ditorium. The Denchfields are former residents and continue to own farmland northwest of Colony.

Colony Day was well at-tended following a benefi-

cial rain the night before of 1.5 inches.

The 105th alumni event also was well attended. Re-ports on both events will be made soon.

Is there anyone who would like to be placed on the October birthday and/or wedding celebration list? If so, please send to [email protected], phone 620-852-3379, leave in leave-a-note box in carport at 702 Pine St. or write 702 Pine St., Colony, KS 66015.

The Colony class of 1957 met Sept. 2 to celebrate its 55th anniversary with all-day covered dish meals and visiting at the home of Bill and Shirley Ulrich. Attending were Eddie My-ers and Lucreta, Sapulpa, Okla., Calvin and Carol Wells, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Ronnie Runner and Ila, Colony, Dr. Howard Wil-liam “Howdy Bill” Osborn and Barbara, Lake Ozark, Mo., Gary Roush, Wichita, and Bill Ulrich’s sister and husband, Mary and Don La-Crone, Iola.

Register/Bob JohnsonMembers of the Crest Middle School band perform at Saturday’s Colony Day parade.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama got rave reviews for the custom-made Tracy Re-ese pink and copper dress she wore while giving a tribute to her husband at the Democratic National Convention.

The sleeveless dress showed off Mrs. Obama’s famously toned arms and the length modestly skirt-ed her knees. She paired the dress with pink pumps from J. Crew and her fin-gernails were painted a trendy blue-gray.

Reese described the dress as a “silk jacquard in an abstract baroque wallpa-per pattern” with a bodice in hot pink woven with rust and copper. It’s not the first time Mrs. Obama chose a design by Reese, an African-American designer who is showing a new col-lection Sunday during New York Fashion Week.

Reese said the first lady “looked incredible and spoke beautifully; I am so honored that she chose to wear one of my designs for such a memo-rable occasion.”

Commentators also praised her look. “You may

not be a fan of her poli-tics,” Kate Hogan wrote on People’s website, “but it’s likely that if you watched the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, you were a fan of Michelle Obama’s elegant ensemble.”

Last week Ann Romney, wife of the Republican

presidential nominee Mitt Romney, wore a bold red Os-car de la Renta outfit when she gave her speech in trib-ute to her husband.

The silk taffeta dress from De La Renta’s pre-fall 2012 collection was decided on with the help of Rom-ney’s senior adviser.

The Daily Beast’s Robin Givhan called Romney’s look, “judiciously femi-nine” and “pitch perfect.”

But critics thought the dress’ $2,000-plus price tag contradicted Romney’s message of moderation.

The wives’ dresses draw raves

Michelle Obama

Ann Romney

ROME (AP) — The three U.N. food agencies urged gov-ernments Tuesday to take quick action to curb rising prices of corn, wheat and soybeans and avoid a repeat of the 2007-2008 food crises.

The sharp rise in food prices in recent months threatens to make life even more difficult for tens of mil-lions of people, particularly in poor countries, the heads of the U.N. World Food Pro-gram, Food and Agriculture Organization and Interna-tional Fund for Agriculture Development warned.

A prolonged drought in the U.S. — the No. 1 export-er of corn, wheat and soy-beans — has helped drive up commodity prices. The FAO’s next global food price index is due today; its last report found global prices had risen 6 percent in July after three months of de-

cline, in part because of the U.S. drought and worsened crop prospects for Russia’s wheat harvest.

The three agencies urged countries to avoid panic buying and refrain from im-posing export restrictions when production falls, say-ing that while it may tem-porarily help consumers at home it makes life diffi-cult for others. In the past, Russia has imposed export bans to offset low domestic wheat production.

They also said coun-tries should adjust biofuel production requirements when food supplies become scarce. Livestock farmers in the U.S. have demanded the government relax bio-fuel production quotas be-cause corn is becoming so expensive. Forty percent of the U.S. corn crop goes to ethanol production.

Food agencies fear crisis

The Hays Daily News(Election mix-up)

The Aug. 7 Kansas primary was notable for a couple of reasons.

Most people are aware of the first, so we needn’t spend much time rehashing the bashing mod-erate Republicans received at the hands of their conservative coun-terparts. Kansans will feel the ef-fect of those results for years to come.

The second newsworthy item from the election kind of flew un-der the radar. Or at least for those of us outside Shawnee County.

It turns out at one particular polling place, the Light of the World Christian Center in Tope-ka, election workers apparently were in the dark. Incorrect ballots were given to a number of voters,

creating doubt about who actually won the GOP contest for the 52nd District in the Kansas House of Representatives. The tally at the end of the day had Shanti Gandhi leading Dick Jones by 41 votes.

Since the polling place also had ballots for the 56th District and not everybody received the right one, election officials were un-sure whether Gandhi had won.

Shawnee County Election Com-missioner Elizabeth Ensley De-iter wasn’t exactly sure what to do but knew a winner needed to be declared. So she called for a special election, limited to the 432 people who voted at Light of the World on Primary Day. This week, 243 of those voters came back to recast ballots. Final results still had Gandhi in the lead, either by

46 votes if one included the spe-cial election or 45 votes if not.

Since the outcome didn’t change, no legal challenges are planned. Shawnee County Coun-selor Rich Eckert said he’s hop-ing the State Board of Canvass-ers could tell him if the special election was the proper route to take.

We want to know why no direc-tives came from the secretary of state’s office. Surely the person responsible for all statewide elec-tions, Secretary Kris Kobach, could have given guidance before Shawnee County went to the ex-pense of a second election.

His work apparently was done for this election cycle. In addition to working on campaigns for some of the conservative Republicans in targeted races, Kobach already had ensured campaign work-ers were trained to combat non-existent voter fraud. He pushed through the nation’s toughest vot-er-ID law in order to “protect the integrity of our elections.”

Of course, the integrity he was talking about was related to 75 cases of suspected voter fraud reported since 1998. Zero convic-tions, but Kobach believed even one suspicious vote was indica-tive of rampant fraud.

His lack of comment, or even interest, in hundreds of incorrect ballots being distributed during

a single election should indicate where his priorities lie. Either that or he’s simply been too busy working with the Mitt Romney campaign and the National Re-publican Party on immigration issues.

We only can hope Secretary Ko-bach at some point will pay closer attention to the actual job he was elected to perform.

The Hutchinson News(Defending all)

The state needs to find addi-tional resources to support crimi-nal public defense

In a judicial system that as-sumes a citizen is innocent until proven otherwise, Kansas is woe-fully underfinanced.

The need for public defenders is dire, but because the average state-appointed attorney in Kan-sas makes about $46,000 annually, filling those positions is difficult.

The topic came to light this week as two Kansans were being appointed to the state’s Board of Indigent Defense. During their confirmation hearing, Paul Eu-gene Beck and Kevin Mark Smith were asked if they would be will-ing to press the governor for more money to allow the public defend-ers’ office to continue function-ing.

Each said he would.However, it isn’t as simple as

merely asking and receiving. In these economically challenging times, every dollar is closely scru-tinized and those who inquire of-ten are turned away empty-hand-ed while more pressing issues take precedence.

Gov. Sam Brownback doesn’t likely have more money ear-marked for public defense. But Owens said this issue was not one the state should take lightly. He added that the state should be concerned that a lack of adequate legal support could lead to law-suits against the state. That could end up costing Kansans more in the long run.

Kansas public defenders earn less than those in private prac-tice. Smith said some Kansas resi-dents consider indigent criminal defendants not as citizens who are innocent until proven guilty, but as “social undesirables.”

“We need to get over that,” Smith told the Topeka Capital Journal. “We need to educate the public and educate the Legisla-ture.”

Our freedoms as Americans are built on a strong judicial system. Everyone is entitled to a fair trial, no matter his or her lot in life. In that sense, freedom isn’t free.

It requires proper resources — and a sense of humanity for ev-eryone who enters into the court system.


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A study published last week in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that fitness in middle age gives people a much better chance of staying healthier longer.

This is much better news for those now in their 40s and 50s than it may first appear.

Americans are living lon-ger today, Gretchen Reynolds wrote in Wednesday’s New York Times, but the incidence of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer is also increasing in the nation’s elderly.

Researchers are calling the result a “lengthening of mor-bidity.”

“That means we are spend-ing more years living with chronic disease and ill health — not the outcome that most of us would hope for from a prolonged life span,” she ob-served.

But the new study shows that middle-aged folks who had never exercised much before, can give themselves a good shot at a healthy old age by be-coming fit in their 40s and 50s.

The study looked at the health histories of 18,670 mid-dle-aged men and women who had had medical examinations at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas beginning in 1970. Their aver-age age then was 49. They all had taken treadmill tests to de-termine their aerobic fitness. They were rated in one of five categories depending on their treadmill results. The majority fell into the least-fit group, as do most Americans.

“Then, in a first-of-its-kind data comparison, the research-ers checked the same individu-als’ Medicare claim records from 1999 through 2009, by which time most of the par-ticipants were in their 70s and 80s. What they found was those adults who had been the least fit at the time of their middle-age checkup also were the most likely to have developed any of eight serious or chronic conditions early in the aging process. These include heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and colon or lung cancer.

“The adults who’d been the

most fit in their 40s and 50s often developed many of the same conditions, but notably their maladies appeared sig-nificantly later in life than for the less fit. Typically, the most aerobically fit people lived with chronic illnesses in the fi-nal five years of their lives, in-stead of the final 10, 15 or even 20 years.

WHAT A GREAT trade-off. Get in decent shape say at 50, and collect your reward at 75, or 80, or 85.

Death comes to everyone eventually. But, as the old joke puts it, I’d like to live to 100 and then be shot by a jealous hus-band. The Dallas study brings that frivolous wish a tad closer to reality.

Life expectancy today is about 78. That’s up from 74 in 1980. The number of 90-year-olds grows steadily. Living to 100 no longer makes a person a curiosity.

But living long is not the same as living well.

With a little advance plan-ning, a great many more of the world’s middle-aged men and women can give themselves 10 years or more of good health at the end of their lives, when health becomes of such great importance to the elderly and their families.

As the Dallas study showed clearly, cardiovascular fitness can be achieved by virtually all men and women in their 40s and 50s. Twenty minutes of brisk walking on most days will do it.

Jogging and sensible weight lifting will boost a person into the top ranks of the fit within a year of regular exercise for perhaps an hour a session, three to four days a week.

The physicians who conduct-ed the Dallas study concluded that living healthier, longer, was the primary payoff for get-ting up from the couch at mid-life. Maybe. But fitness makes life more productive and enjoy-able for everyone at whatever age. The payoff is immediate as well as long-term. Try it. It makes living more fun.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Getting fit at 50 paysoff at 75, so move!

By LANE FILLERNewsday

If someone were to poke me out of a sound sleep and whisper, “What was your time in that mar-athon you ran,” I would immedi-ately respond, “My gun time was 4:48 but my chip time was 4:44, because I started from the back, so runners faster than me (octo-genarians, grandmothers, a guy carrying an enormous American flag) wouldn’t run over me as I shambled along. It was an 11-min-ute per mile pace. I ran the first half in 2:23 and the second half in 2:21. I could have done a lot better, if I wasn’t a chubby guy with the raw athletic ability of an overripe eggplant.”

I would be able to give this answer instantaneously even if awakened from a slumber so deep drool had created a small lap pool on the pillow and my snores were registering as earthquakes on a seismic monitor 45 miles away.

I ran Kiawah on my 39th birth-day, in 2009. Crossing that fin-ish line probably wasn’t the top athletic achievement of my life (I was a pretty fair competitive swimmer in my youth), but it was the top discipline achievement of my life. It officially marked the end of a two-decade period of sed-entary sloth, and it took two years of training, the last six months of it extremely intensive, to make

happen.I do not believe that Republican

vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan could misstate the time he clocked in the 1990 Grandma’s Marathon, in Duluth, Minn., without it being intentional. Par-ticularly after I looked at what he actually said.

Ryan told a radio host last week he ran that marathon, the only one he’s ever run, in “under three (hours), high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.”

He actually completed it in just over four hours.

For you non-runners out there, he was describing an athletic feat that would be, while not world class, pretty elite. We’re talking more than 26 miles at a sub-seven minute per mile pace. Few casual runners can run more than one or two miles at that clip.

Based on the fact that he stated the time in three separate ways in the comment, I don’t believe he misspoke. And again, I don’t

think it’s possible for a guy who has run just one marathon to for-get his time, or misstate it by an hour, in three different ways, by accident.

This may not be a huge person-al failing, but it is quite odd.

Ryan’s “exaggeration” is not the equivalent of a golfer saying he shot an 89 when he actually needed 94 strokes to complete the round. This is the equivalent of a golfer saying he shot a 69 when he needed 94 strokes to complete the round.

The technical term for such a statement is “a whopper.”

What’s sad is that running a marathon in four hours, which Ryan undeniably did, is a signifi-cant accomplishment, and one worth trumpeting. It takes a ton of perseverance, discipline and drive, traits that would serve a vice president well.

It’s an above-average time, and a great one for a novice. Had we run our singular marathons to-gether, he’d have been showered, dressed and drinking a Coolatta by the time I crossed the line.

Somehow Ryan managed to turn what should be a badge of honor into an (admittedly) small mark of shame. Me, I’ll keep taking pride in my 4:44, no mat-ter how many 77-year-old power walkers beat me.

It’s not very fast, I know. But it is true.

Lane Filler is a member of the

Newsday editorial board. His email address is [email protected].

Marathoners don’t forget their timesPaul Ryan, GOP vice presidential nominee, exaggerates finish by more than an hour

Paul Ryan

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in recent years,” Hardage said. “We knew we wanted to do something, but we knew we couldn’t afford it.”

Enter Bob Sager, who offered up a substantial amount of dirt from his farm.

Local patrons Buddy Mann, Steve Becker and Sager assisted Denny Las-ley, district maintenance worker and grounds keep-er, in hauling the dirt.

More than 130 loads were brought in, Lasley said.

Becker then tilled up the freshly deposited soil for local contractors Virgil

Tucker and Bill McAdam, who helped seed the field with more Bermuda grass.

Assisting with the effort was local resident Rusty Cole, who provided much of the brainpower.

“He was the one who ad-vised us on what to do and when to do it,” Hardage said. “He let us know how much to plant, when to fer-tilize.”

From there, Houk and Lasley oversaw watering, ensuring the grass would take root and survive one of the hottest, driest sum-mers on record.

“We kept watering it un-til the city put in its water restrictions a couple of weeks ago,” Hardage said.

The Bermuda has held up well through the first two games of the season.

“It really looks pretty good,” Lasley said Wednes-day as he mowed in prepa-ration for Friday’s much-anticipated home contest against Crest High.

The key to the project, Hardage stressed, was that the district’s costs were minimal, thanks to the ef-forts put in by district pa-trons.

“We couldn’t have done this on our own, and we certainly couldn’t have af-forded the dirt,” he said. “One of the things I’ve learned about Moran is people always are willing to help.”

Submitted photoAmong the volunteers who helped replace the Marmaton Valley High School football field playing surface were, from left, Denny Lasley, Buddy Mann, Steve Becker and Bob Sager.

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own children — even Kashyn — already use tech-nology and love it, she said.

“When we were kids we didn’t have the technology they have,” Curry said. “It is a great wealth of infor-mation.”

Curry’s office is in Iola High School, but her time is spent hopping around the elementary schools.

“I like that I get to move around and that I am not tied down to one class-room,” she said. “I am up for the challenges. I just don’t know what they are yet.”

CURRY SPENT most of her childhood in Iola, where she met her husband, Brett, a fellow Iola native.

She attended Kansas Statue University, where she got her bachelor’s de-gree in science and a mas-ter’s degree in leadership.

“After K-State we moved to Gardner and then moved back home to be with our family,” Curry said. “We have been here now seven years.”

WHEN CURRY was younger she spent a lot of her time playing sports, a trait she passed on to her children.

Her daughter Jenna is involved with traveling softball during the summer, but all her kids do — or will — play sports.

The family also has re-cently taken up bike riding, which they do almost every night, Curry said.

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port improvements to the town’s swimming pool by mail votes, and in each case participation was high, in the 75 percent or better range. Those opposed to fluoridation of Humboldt’s drinking water had their way in that mail election and proponents of swim-ming pool improvements held sway.

While ballots must in her office by noon Tues-day, Riebel said their count wouldn’t start until after closing time, 5 p.m.

Determination of the issue should take no more than an hour, she added. “We’ll open the envelopes, stack the ballots in ‘yes’ and ‘no’ piles and then count them.”

IF VOTERS approve the sales tax increase, it will provide foundation fund-ing for improvements to 300 blocks of residential streets.

A half-cent sales tax is

expected to generate be-tween $80,000 and $90,000 a year, which alone wouldn’t be enough to fund the proj-ect. Supplemental funding will be from annual fuel tax distributions that come Humboldt’s way from the Kansas Department of Transportation.

“We get about $50,000 a year in fuel tax proceeds and plan to use about $30,000 for the special street project,” Tucker said. “The remaining $20,000 will be used each year for regular street maintenance.”

To kick-start the 300-block project, Hum-boldt likely would seek a low-interest loan from KDOT so work could start immediately. The amount of such a loan hasn’t been discussed in detail.

If the half-cent tax, which would add 50 cents to a $100 purchase, is ap-proved, it would put Hum-boldt’s local sales tax at 1.75 percent and increase its overall tax to 9.3 per-cent.

The project would con-sume about $1.7 million and take 10 to 15 years to complete, with sales tax proceeds flowing to coffers for 15 years.

Streets would be ground down, bases reshaped and then resurfaced with as-phalt. Thickness of bases and asphalt applications will vary, depending on what is needed, City Ad-ministrator Larry Tucker has said at several public airings of the project.

Allen County commis-sioners have agreed to permit Bill King, director of Public Works, to dis-patch his crew and a road reclaimer — a device that quickly grinds pavement to small chunks — to fa-cilitate the work. King ap-peared at a public hearing on the project to confirm the county’s willingness to participate, and also provide rock to rebuild bases.

In addition to street sur-face improvements, come curbs, gutters and culverts

will be replaced or im-proved.

AT A RECENT public meeting to discuss the proj-ect and its funding, Mayor Nobby Davis said he heard much about streets and the need to improve them when he campaigned for election.

“The No. 1 concern .... was what could we do with the streets,” said Davis, who is in the second year of his initial two-year term.

After his election, one of Davis’ first decisions was to appoint a Street Com-mittee, which developed the street plan.

David Julich, a Street Committee member and councilman, said the de-cision to opt for asphalt over chip-and-seal, which has been done throughout town for years, was an easy one.

“Asphalt will last 20 years, while chip-and-seal has to be done every five years or so,” he said.

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for assistance.The survey was conduct-

ed on a representative sam-ple of the U.S. population. It found that most households _ regardless of race, gen-der, age and family size _ generally spent less on food last year than they did in 2010, said Alisha Coleman-Jensen, a USDA sociologist and the lead author of the report.

But food insecurity rates were highest among house-holds with children, those headed by single parents and those with black and Latino families.

The survey data comes as congressional Republi-cans, led by GOP vice presi-dential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, push for massive cuts in food stamp-program funding to curb enrollment growth and to help balance the federal budget. The Dem-ocratic-controlled Senate also voted in June to cut food stamp funding, but by a smaller amount.

“With so many of our neighbors, friends and fam-

ily worrying about where their next meal may be com-ing from, now is not the time to use federal nutri-tion programs as a trading chip to balance the budget,” said Matt Knott, the interim president of Feeding Amer-ica, the nation’s largest anti-hunger organization.

Indeed, food stamp en-rollment has almost dou-bled, from a monthly pre-recession average of 26.3 million people in 2007 to 46.4 million people so far this year.

That growth coincides with an even larger in-crease in jobless Ameri-cans, from 7.6 million when the recession first hit in De-cember 2007 to 15.4 million by October 2009. Nearly 12.8 million Americans were still unemployed as of this July.

The Congressional Bud-get Office expects food stamp enrollment to fall back to pre-recession levels as the economy improves.

Republicans in the House of Representatives have vot-ed to convert food stamps to a block grant in 2015 that would cap funding.

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crats, and his speech was hotly anticipated by del-egates yearning for a full-throated defense of Obama’s economic policies after months of attacks by Republicans on the No. 1 is-sue in the presidential race.

Before he arrived on stage, the delegates and guests began clapping and dancing along with a video that played Clinton’s cam-paign theme song, Fleet-wood Mac’s “Don’t Stop.” During the speech, the for-mer president had the del-egates leaping to their feet as he delivered a detailed, point-by-point rebuttal to every Republican criti-cism of Obama, from the 2009 stimulus package to a recent change to welfare regulations.

The speech was vintage Clinton. He frequently veered from his prepared remarks — and went way long — and had the crowd in stitches. “We love you, Bill!” they screamed.

Obama had watched

Clinton’s speech from the arena after arriving in Charlotte on Wednesday afternoon. He appeared from behind the stage after Clinton’s 47-minute speech to deafening cheers. The two men hugged as the Tom Petty song “I Won’t Back Down” played.

Clinton not only blamed Republicans for causing the problems in the econ-omy in the first place, but for preventing Obama from allowing the economy to fully recover. For example, he said, House Republicans have failed to pass the pres-ident’s jobs plan that would have created more than a million new jobs.

He argued that it’s unrea-sonable to expect a total re-covery in one term, but that Obama has created jobs and cut taxes through the stimulus, the auto industry bailout and an agreement with management, labor and environmental groups to double car mileage over the next few years.

Clinton’s endorsement was meant to signal a “good

economy seal of approval” for Obama, a promise that Obama’s policies will bring back the peace and pros-perity of the 1990s, when a booming economy created millions of jobs, stocks soared, and a flood of tax revenues helped balance the federal budget for the first time in a generation.

“A lot of Americans are still angry and frustrated with the economy. Though employment is growing, banks are beginning to lend and even housing prices are picking up a bit, too many people do not feel it yet,” Clinton said. “I had experienced the same thing in 1994 and early 1995. Our policies were working and the economy was growing but most people didn’t feel it yet.”

“President Obama start-ed with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now, no president — not me or any of my pre-decessors — no one could have fully repaired all the damage in just four years,” Clinton said “But he has laid the foundations ... and if you’ll renew the presi-dent’s contract you will feel it. You will feel it.

“Are we where we want to be today? No. Is the presi-dent satisfied? Of course

not,” Clinton said. “But are we better off than we were when he took office?”

“Yes!” the audience screamed.

It came from a man who arrived slowly, even grudg-ingly, at Obama’s side after first watching his wife lose a hard-fought battle for the 2008 Democratic nomina-tion, then had to watch Obama coast to a solid ma-jority that had twice eluded Clinton.

But the two have grown closer, and Clinton’s warm embrace Wednesday sig-naled not only his sup-port, but his belief that he and his family’s future are tied up in Obama’s. And as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton is now one of the most popular members of the Obama administration and is not involved in poli-tics. On Wednesday, as the convention convened, she landed in East Timor on a six-nation tour of Asia.

Delegates continue to be enamored with the former president, and it was easy to see why his speech had been expected to be one of the highlights of the three-day convention. They laughed at his jokes, leaped to their feet and cheered al-most as if he was running for president.

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Mustangs open Pioneer League playBy JOCELYN SHEETS

[email protected] League bragging rights

are up for grabs Friday night.Iola High’s Mustangs step

into the new league on the road against Osawatomie High’s Tro-jans. Kickoff is 7 p.m. at OHS Lynn Dickey Stadium.

“Osawatomie is a bigger and more physical team than Cher-ryvale and they are a power run-ning team,” said Doug Kerr, Iola High head coach.

“Our goal is to create penetra-tion by our defense and get to them in the backfield before they get started running downhill.”

The Mustangs and Trojans last met in 2008 and 2009. Osawatomie won both non-league contests in big fashion.

But both teams have new coaches — Kerr for Iola is in his first season and Rod Madden is in his second stint as head coach for the Trojans. Madden coached Osawatomie from 1990 to 2006 as head coach. He was an assistant coach for the Trojans last year.

“We’re playing several new kids in a different offense and we’ve had growing pains,” said Madden. “The kids have worked hard and given a great effort.”

Iola beat Cherryvale 22-0 in the

rain last week. Also in the rain, Osawatomie fell behind Neodesha 21-0 by halftime, rallied in the sec-ond half before losing 39-26. Cher-ryvale and Neodesha are both out of the Tri-Valley League.

“We know we have to be bet-ter this week. Our defense played pretty well but we’ve made some adjustments to put our strength against their strength this week,” Kerr said.

“We’ve switched a couple of linebackers around and believe this will give us an opportunity to match up better.”

Kerr pointed to Osawato-mie’s senior quarterback Austin Chisam as “their best athlete.” He said Chisam creates offense behind some big bodies up front.

Deven Ayers is a junior run-ning back for the Trojans, who rushed for 151 of his 193 yards in the second half last week. Matt Lofling is the Trojan’s senior full-back.

“We’ve moved Stephen McDon-ald to an outside rush linebacker

spot and moved Kaden Macha and John Whitworth into the middle linebacker spots,” Kerr said.

The Trojans’ offense goes through Chisam. Madden said Chisam is a multi-threat quarter-back who runs well and throws the football well.

“We were more of a run team last week because of circumstances but we want that balance with a pass-ing game also,” Madden said. “Aus-tin throws well but we have some inexperience in our wide receivers and we’re working on it.”

The circumstances last week mainly came from the wet weath-er. Neither Iola nor Osawatomie had the balanced offensive at-tacks they wanted because the rain hampered the passing game.

Offensively for the Mustangs, Kerr said this week was spent working on timing and protec-tion in the passing game. He said senior quarterback Mason Coons was directing the passing game well in practices.

“We want to get Mason un-tracked in a game and get our vertical stretch game going. That way opponents can’t key on our running backs,” Kerr said.

Madden said almost the same thing about the Trojans.

“We have to execute our offense better without shooting ourselves in the foot. We had turnovers and penalties last week that hurt us. We didn’t pass the ball much be-cause of the weather and we want to get the full balance of our of-fense into play during a game,” Madden said.

Madden pointed defensively at the Trojans being assignment sound. He said Iola’s spinner se-ries out of the single-wing offense presents a lot of misdirection.

“Our kids have to play assign-ment football defensively against Iola because if we don’t they’ll break some big running plays on us,” Madden said.

Iola has one change in its offen-sive lineup. Junior Quinton Mor-rison is stepping in as a starter at guard. Sophomore Trey Colborn missed a couple days of practice because of illness but was back as of Wednesday.

Also on the line is Pioneer League victory No. 1 for both teams. The Mustangs are new to the league and want to establish a foothold in the Pioneer landscape.

“Every team wants to win their league,” said Madden. “This game really means something to both teams. Having Iola in the league brings an added dimen-sion to it. We’re excited about Fri-day night.”

“Our kids won a season opener and it’s been a long time since an Iola team had done that. We had a shutout and that’s been a few years since that has happened here,” Kerr said.

“We’re on our first road trip in a new environment. We have to focus on the task of playing this game. We want to get that first Pioneer League win in our first league game but we have to work hard for it.”

Kerr said he’s like to see the Mustang offense set the tone of Friday night’s game and score points early. Neither Iola nor Osawatomie scored offensively in the first half of last week’s games.

The difference was Iola still held a 2-0 lead at halftime. Osawat-omie trailed 21-0.

“We’d like to open things up and get a good lead to take Osawato-mie out of its game plan,” Kerr said.

Iola High’s Fillies play at home Saturday. It is the 22nd annual Iola High Invitational volleyball tournament. Iola fans need to pack the house with blue and gold for the Fillies.

Saturday is one of only three home dates on the 2012 volleyball schedule for the Fillies’ varsity. The Fillies will play three matches in pool play starting at 8:30 a.m.

A strong fan base could help them get through pool play and into the semifinals. The Fillies haven’t been in the semifinal bracket of their own tournament for awhile. Fans can provide a little extra boost to the Fillies’ energy on the court and maybe you can get them over the hump.

The Fillies are 1-5 overall and have had a week to work on their game. With very few players with varsity experience back this season, the Fillies are trying to find the right combination of play-ers for the court. New head coach Emily Sigg sees progress and eventually, the hard work will pay off in match wins.

Players are working hard and deserve support from students and other fans at home. Don’t allow visiting teams’ fan base be louder than Iola’s on Saturday.

ALLEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE’s cross country teams are ranked No. 2 in NJCAA Divi-sion I. The first week of NJCAA Division I Hill N Dale cross country rankings came out this week. The Red Devil squads have competed twice this season, winning at home then placing high at the Wichita State meet last weekend.

In the rankings, Allen’s men and women are No. 2 in their respective divisions. Iowa Central Community College is first in both polls.

SPEAKING OF CROSS COUNTRY, the Iola High Doc Stiles Invitational is Sept. 18. The an-nual meet has been moved from Iola’s Riverside Park to the campus of Allen Community College.

IHS head coach Marvin Smith announced this week there will be an “all-comers” run before the high school races on that Tuesday. The run starts at 3:45 p.m.

“We wanted to give the schools with middle

school runners a chance to compete at our meet this year. But the race is also for anyone who wants to come out and run,” Smith said. “They can run a mile or two miles. There is no entry fee and no medals given for the race.”

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS will be on the Iola High Mustangs in Osawatomie this week. The Mustangs have their first road game of the sea-son and it’s the first Pioneer League contest for the Mustangs.

Not since 2009 have Iola and Osawatomie played each other on the football field. The Trojans then swept the two-game series (2008 and 2009) with the Mustangs.

But that was then and this is now. The 2012 Mustang seniors were freshmen the last time the schools played. Both programs have new coaches and there’s a little more on the line this time.

Iola and Osawatomie are going after a league victory Friday night. Iola joined Osawatomie in the Pioneer League this year.

The Mustangs are 1-0 and the Trojans are 0-1 — they lost 39-26 to Neodesha last Friday night. Mus-tang head coach Doug Kerr expects the Trojans to come out ready to claim a victory at home after losing opener there.

“We worked hard this week on getting the kids fo-cused again after the win. We’re excited to open the season with a victory but we had to come back down and focus on Osawatomie this week,” Kerr said.

With the 22-0 win over Cherryvale last Friday, the Mustangs won a season opener for the first time in a long time. The last time a Mustang foot-ball team shut out an opponent was in 2009, a 45-0 win over Central Heights.

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By JOCELYN [email protected]

LE ROY — There wasn’t a big secret to his success as a coach, according Bill Freeman.

“I always had good players. They had talent and I was able to get them to work for me,” Freeman told the Register in a telephone interview Wednesday from his Le Roy home.

Work for him they did. Freeman guided football teams to eight state titles at three different schools in three different classifications. His 36-year career re-cord of 242-81-3 included head coaching stints at Baxter Springs, Parker Rural, Nickerson, Le Roy, Osawatomie and Lawrence high schools.

On Friday night, Freeman will be presented with the State of Kansas Sports Hall of Fame’s Pride of Kansas Award. Freeman is recognized as one of the most successful high school football coaches in Kansas history.

Freeman will receive the high-est honor given to a coach or ath-lete by the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame other than induction in the Hall of Fame. The Pride of Kan-sas Award will be presented to Freeman prior to the Southern Coffey County High football game in Le Roy.

The award presentation is at 6:45 p.m. The SCCH Titans play Lebo with kickoff at 7 o’clock.

“Each time I moved to a differ-ent school there were good play-ers with talent. I liked the kids but I was pretty tough on them.

They responded and we were successful together,” Free-man said.

Freeman won six state football championships on the field — five were coaching Lawrence High

from 1974 to 1990 as the Li-ons complied a 134-

38 record under his guidance.

The Lions won Class 6A titles in 1979, 1984, 1986, 1987 and 1989. He

also guided the Lions track team to back-to-back Class 6A state ti-tles in 1989 and 1990.

Freeman, who is a Burlington native, spent nine years coach-ing at Osawatomie High School and won a state football champi-onship in 1973. Before the Kan-sas State High School Activi-ties Association came up with a playoff system, the Trojans won a “mythical” state football champions in 1966 under Free-man.

Freeman also guided Le Roy High School to a “mythical” state football title in 1963.

Iola High MustangsOffense

QB — Mason Coons, 6-2, 190, Sr.WB — Adam Kauth, 6-0, 140, Jr.HB — John Whitworth, 5-10, 175, Jr.FB — Eric Heffern, 5-11, 170, Sr.TE — Bryce Misenhelter, 6-2, 180, Jr.T — Alex Bauer, 6-0, 200, So.G — Quinton Morrison, 5-10. 190, Jr.C — Aaron Barclay, 6-0, 265, Sr.G — Derrick Weir, 5-10, 210, Jr.T — Eli Grover, 6-0, 250, Sr.WR — Cole Morrison, 5-8, 145, Sr.PK — Isaias Macias, 5-8, 165, Jr.

DefenseE — Bryce Misenhelter, 6-2, 180, Jr.NG — Eric Maxwell, 6-1, 180, Jr.E — Alex Bauer, 6-0, 200, So.LB — Tyler McIntosh, 6-1, 145, Jr.LB — Eric Heffern, 5-11, 170, Sr.LB — Kaden Macha, 6-0, 180, So.LB — John Whitworth, 5-10, 175, Jr.LB — Stephen McDonald, 6-2, 205, Sr.DB — Adam Kauth, 6-0, 140, Jr.DB — Jacob Rhoads, 5-7, 145, Jr.DB — Cole Morrison, 5-8, 145, Sr.P — Zeph Larney, 5-10, 155, Sr.

Osawatomie High TrojansOffense

QB — Austin Chisam, 5-11, 157, Sr.RB — Deven Ayers, 5-6, 143, Jr.FB — Matt Lofling, 5-10, 190, Sr.WR — Jake Allen, 5-10, 155, Sr.WR — Grant Maimer, 5-8, 138, Sr.T — Zack Owens, 5-11, 232, Sr.G — Tanner Foulk, 5-9, 245, Jr.C — Ben Dorsett, 6-0, 185, Jr.G — Peyton Fields, 6-3, 168, Fr.T — Richard Alonzo, 6-1, 288, Sr.TE — Morgan Roth, 6-1, 221, Sr.PK — Sheldon Booe, 5-11, 180, So.

DefenseDL — Richard Alonzo, 6-1, 288, Sr.DL — Zack Owens, 5-11, 232, Sr.DL — Chase Lee, 5-9, 226, Jr.DL — Peyton Fields, 6-3, 168, Fr.DL — Teddy Gahr, 6-1, 310, Sr.LB — Matt Lofling, 5-10, 190, Sr.LB — Tanner Foulk, 5-9, 245, Jr.LB — Jake Allen, 5-10, 155, Sr.CB — Grant Maimer, 5-8, 138, Sr.S — Austin Chisam, 5-11, 157, Sr.CB — William Arth, 5-8, 133, Jr.P — Sheldon Booe, 5-11, 221, Sr.

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Iola High senior quarterback Mason Coons (11) along with junior running backs Adam Kauth (6) and Jacob Rhoads (3) execute a play during last Friday night’s win over Cherryvale. The Mustangs go on the road this Friday to Osawatomie in Pioneer League play.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Jason Witten was supposed to stay home. Kevin Ogletree was sup-posed to be a bit player.

And the replacement of-ficials were supposed to be a fiasco.

Instead, Witten provided the inspiration by playing weeks after lacerating his spleen, third wideout Ogle-tree made the big plays, and the officials had a mostly quiet night in the NFL’s season opener.

The Cowboys waited all year for another shot at the New York Giants, and

when they got it Wednesday night, they were relentless in a 24-17 victory that really wasn’t that close.

“We executed on of-fense and defense when we needed to,” Tony Romo said after throwing for three touchdowns and 307 yards. “We put them in a hole. Our job was to keep the pedal down, to not let up because you know what kind of team they have over there.”

Not a good enough team this night as the Giants lost for the first time since Game 15 of last season. Part of their six-game winning streak that earned them a fourth Super Bowl title last winter was a win over Dal-las on New Year’s Day to take the NFC East.

“I don’t think we played up to our potential at all,” defensive end Osi Umeny-iora said. “Obviously they were prepared and they fought, and all the credit in the world goes to that team.

They played a very good game today.”

And the field officials did their part. It was feared they would be a big factor with the league’s lockout of the regulars. But there were no controversies, no blatant mistakes or ram-pant confusion.

“No problems, just as we said there wouldn’t be,” league executive Ray An-derson said at halftime. Nothing changed in the sec-ond half.

Many Cowboys credited Witten’s presence with lift-ing their spirits and their performance.

“Sometimes you don’t care about yourself, you go out and play for the guys,” DeMarcus Ware said. “It was emotional. We were all behind him when he said he would play.”

Witten, who had two catches for 10 yards, didn’t think it was such a big deal.

“I think and hope every

other player on our team would do the same thing,” he said. “At this point in your career, you want that mentality to leave it all out there.”

DeMarco Murray rushed for 129 yards and the de-fense sacked Eli Manning three times.

For Ogletree, the night was a special homecoming.

“I felt really good when I woke up this morning, I had great meetings, got to go see my brother,” said Ogletree, who grew up in the New York borough of Queens. “Really good vibes today.”

When the Cowboys were threatened late — a spot in which they often have folded against the Giants — Romo hit Ogletree for 15 yards on third down to clinch it. That gave Ogletree 114 yards on eight catches; he had 25 receptions for 294 yards and no scores enter-ing the game.

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“When I graduated I re-ally enjoyed sports and de-cided coaching and teach-ing was what I wanted to do. I enjoyed the students and the athletes wherever we were,” Freeman said.

Freeman graduated from Burlington High School in 1949. He was a four-year let-terman at offensive guard for Emporia State University, 1949-1953. He was inducted into the ESU Hall of Fame in 1996. Freeman still is a mem-ber of the ESU Foundation board of directors.

Also in 1996, Freeman was elected to the National Football Foundation Col-

lege Hall of Fame by the Jayhawk Chapter in Law-rence. He was inducted into the KSHSAA Hall of Fame as well.

Freeman coached several players who went on to play in the National Football League, including Lynn Dickey, Derrick Jensen, Jeff Wright, Bucky Scrib-ner and Keith DeLong. Dickey and Jensen played at Osawatomie High and the others played at Law-rence.

Freeman and his wife, Joan, live in Le Roy. They owned the First National Bank of Le Roy for 32 years. They sold the bank in 2010.

Freeman, 81, stepped down as mayor of Le Roy in April after serving in that capacity for 21 years. Free-man is a survivor of qua-druple heart bypass surgery and prostate cancer. Despite being diagnosed with early stages of Alzheimer’s dis-ease, Freeman still is active in the community.

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TodayCross Country

Iola, Marmaton Valley, Crest at Fort Scott, 4 p.m.Humboldt, Yates Center at Girard

Girls’ TennisIola at Independence, 3 p.m.High School Volleyball

Iola JV/9th at Garnett, 5 p.m.

Jr. High FootballIndependence at IMS 8th, 7th, 5 p.m.

Jr. College SoccerNEO at Allen, women 2 p.m., men 4 p.m.

FridayHigh School Football

Iola at Osawatomie, 7 p.m.Crest at Marmaton ValleyJayhawk-Linn at HumboldtLebo at Southern Coffey CountyYates Center at West ElkJr. College VolleyballAllen at Highland tourney

SaturdayHigh School Volleyball

Iola High Invitational, 8:30 a.m.Iola 9th at Prairie View Inv., 8 a.m.

Jr. College VolleyballAllen at Highland tourney

Jr. College SoccerCowley at Allen, women 2 p.m., men 4 p.m.

SundayJr. College Golf

Allen at Jayhawk Confer-ence No. 1, Hesston

MondayHigh School Football

Osawatomie at Iola JV, 4:30 p.m.High School Volleyball

Iola JV at Burlington, 5:30 p.m.

Girls’ GolfYates Center at Chanute

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Red Devils claim close victory on home courtBy JOCELYN SHEETS

[email protected] is east and west is

west. And for anyone who might have noticed the team that was on the east side of the volleyball court in a five-set thriller won sets here Wednesday night.

Really, the side of the court doesn’t really mat-ter but just an interesting fact to toss out after Al-len Community College’s Red Devils pulled out a big home victory against Inde-pendence Community Col-lege’s Pirates. The teams “held serve” so to speak in four sets as the team open-ing the set with the serve won it.

It all came down to the fifth set played to just 15 points, and like the others, must be won by two points. Allen was on the west side of the court and led 7-6 be-fore Independence gained the serve.

Independence led 8-7 when the teams switched sides. The Pirates got an-other point then sophomore Haley Mertens delivered a kill to keep the Red Devils to within one.

Down 12-10, Allen tied it up again then trailed. That’s how it went right to the end. Independence was

up 17-16 and had the serve but freshman Sidney Keith pounded down a kill for ACC.

Mertens took over the serve for Allen and kept it. Tying it up on the first serve, the Red Devils need-ed just one point to win. Si-erra Morgison put an “ag-gressive tip” down the line that proved too tough to return for the Pirates and Allen celebrated.

The Red Devils won 25-23, 15-25, 25-14, 23-25, 19-17. The vic-tory evened Allen’s Jayhawk Conference record to 1-1.

Allen takes a 2-4 mark into this weekend’s High-land Community College tournament in Highland.

“This match can be summed up as simple as earned point followed by an error is a wash,” said Jessica Peters, ACC head coach. “We had struggles at the service line (12 service errors) and in several other areas.

“But the girls found a way to win tonight. They fought hard when we were down in the fifth set. Sierra made an aggressive tip down the line and Independence shanked the pass out of bounds for the final point.”

Sophomore setter Jac-qui Ortiz finished with 14 service points. She had two

critical five-point runs in sets one and three. Ortiz also had 31 set assists and 20 digs.

Mertens delivered 24 kills at the net, served up 14 points, with two five-point runs in the third and

fourth sets for ACC. Morgi-son pounded down 20 kills and served for four points. Mertens made 22 digs and Morgison had 15 digs.

Tayler Shook, freshman libero, came up with 45 digs and served for seven points.

Shook and Mertens each had two service aces.

Freshman setter Adriee Munoz had 24 assists and 15 digs plus served for five points. Keith, a freshman, had 11 kills, one solo block and three assisted blocks.

She served for six points. Sophomore Autumn

Douglas had one solo block and two assisted blocks. Sophomore Randi Billings and freshman Cheyanne Miller each had one solo block.

Major League BaseballAt A Glance

All Times EDTThe Associated Press

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 77 59 .566 —Baltimore 76 60 .559 1Tampa Bay 75 62 .547 2½Boston 63 75 .457 15Toronto 61 75 .449 16

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 74 62 .544 —Detroit 73 63 .537 1Kansas City 61 75 .449 13Cleveland 58 79 .423 16½Minnesota 56 81 .409 18½

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 81 55 .596 —Oakland 76 60 .559 5Los Angeles 74 63 .540 7½Seattle 67 71 .486 15

Wednesday’s GamesChicago White Sox 6, Minnesota 2L.A. Angels 7, Oakland 1Detroit 7, Cleveland 1Toronto 6, Baltimore 4N.Y. Yankees 6, Tampa Bay 4Texas 7, Kansas City 6Seattle 2, Boston 1

Thursday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees (Phelps 3-4) at Balti-more (Hammel 8-6), 7:05 p.m.Texas (Feldman 6-11) at Kansas City (Hochevar 7-13), 8:10 p.m.

Friday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Texas at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.Toronto at Boston, 7:10 p.m.Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.Detroit at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.Oakland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 84 52 .618 —Atlanta 77 60 .562 7½

Philadelphia 66 71 .482 18½New York 65 72 .474 19½Miami 60 77 .438 24½

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 83 55 .601 —St. Louis 74 63 .540 8½Pittsburgh 72 64 .529 10Milwaukee 67 69 .493 15Chicago 51 85 .375 31Houston 42 95 .307 40½

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco 77 60 .562 —Los Angeles 73 65 .529 4½Arizona 68 70 .493 9½San Diego 64 74 .464 13½Colorado 56 79 .415 20

Wednesday’s GamesPhiladelphia 6, Cincinnati 2N.Y. Mets 6, St. Louis 2Washington 9, Chicago Cubs 1Pittsburgh 6, Houston 3Atlanta 1, Colorado 0Milwaukee 8, Miami 5San Diego 4, L.A. Dodgers 3Arizona 6, San Francisco 2

Thursday’s GamesColorado (Chacin 2-4) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 13-5), 12:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Estrada 2-5) at Miami (Jo.Johnson 7-11), 12:40 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Germano 2-5) at Washington (Zimmermann 9-8), 7:05 p.m.

Friday’s GamesChicago Cubs (T.Wood 4-11) at Pittsburgh (A.J.Burnett 15-5), 7:05 p.m.Colorado (Francis 5-4) at Philadel-phia (Cl.Lee 4-7), 7:05 p.m.Miami (Ja.Turner 0-2) at Washing-ton (Strasburg 15-6), 7:05 p.m.Atlanta (Maholm 11-9) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 10-8), 7:10 p.m.Houston (Harrell 10-9) at Cincinnati (H.Bailey 10-9), 7:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Gallardo 14-8) at St. Louis (Lohse 14-2), 8:15 p.m.Arizona (Skaggs 1-1) at San Diego (Cashner 3-3), 10:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 1-1) at San Francisco (Lincecum 8-14), 10:15 p.m.

Baseball

NEW YORK — On an emotion-filled afternoon that morphed into a shocker of an evening, Andy Roddick and Roger Federer both bid farewell to Flushing Mead-ows; Roddick for good.

Roddick lost 6-7 (1), 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-4 to No. 7 seed Juan Martin del Potro to bring the curtain down on his career Wednesday — an ending that came, fittingly, on the court where he won his only Grand Slam title, back in 2003.

Federer fell 7-6 (1), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to No. 6 Tomas Berdych, who improved to

4-3 in his last seven matches against the 17-time Grand Slam champion, ending Fe-derer’s string of U.S. Open semifinal appearances at eight, much the way he halted Federer’s streak of 23 straight trips to major semifinals back in 2010 at Wimbledon.

In other matches, No. 4 seed Serena Williams overpowered No. 12 Ana Ivanovic 6-1, 6-3 to set up a semifinal against 10th-seed-ed Sara Errani, who beat her Italian doubles partner, Roberta Vinci, 6-2, 6-4.

The other women’s semi-

final will pit top-seeded Vic-toria Azarenka against No. 3 Maria Sharapova, who re-turned to her rain-suspend-ed match with a 4-0 deficit but defeated 2007 Wimble-don runner-up Marion Bar-toli 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Advancing to the men’s quarterfinals were de-fending champion Novak Djokovic and his Serbian Davis Cup partner, eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic, along with No. 3 Andy Mur-ray, who was down a set and 5-1 in the second before he rallied for a 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-0 over No. 12 Marin Cilic.

Roddick, Federer out of US Open

Cowboys beat Giants in NFL opener

Register/Jocelyn Sheets

Hitting the volleyball past the Independence Community College blocker at the net is Allen Community College’s Sierra Morgison (3). Morgison later provided the final point for a Red Devil win in a five-set match over the visit-ing Pirates, 25-23, 15-25, 25-14, 23-25, 19-17.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Job vacancies increased in Kansas during the second quarter of 2012 compared to a year earlier, accord-ing to a report Wednesday from the state Department of Labor.

The report found an es-timated 36,000 vacancies from April to June, a 17.3 percent increase over the second quarter of 2011.

During the quarter, Kansas averaged 88,739 unemployed workers. That meant about 2.5 workers for every job vacancy, which was an improvement from 2011, when there were 3.2 unem-ployed workers for every job opening.

By comparison, there were 1.3 unemployed per-sons for every job vacancy for the second quarter of 2008.

Labor Secretary Karin Brownlee said the survey shows positive movement for unemployed workers who are looking for work.

“Fortunately, more jobs are available now than a year ago to meet the needs of the unemployed,” Brownlee said.

The Kansas unemploy-ment rate was a season-

ally adjusted 6.3 percent in July, the most recent figure available. It was 6.1 percent from April to June, while the rate was 6.7 percent in April and May 2011 and 6.8 percent in June 2011.

The most vacancies were in the education and health services, followed by leisure and hospital-ity. Food preparation and serving workers were the two most vacant jobs in the state at the time of the survey.

Jennifer Garrett, su-pervisor of the survey for the Department of Labor, said the survey is a good resource for determining the educational and train-ing needs of workers and the needs of employers.

The survey found that 71.4 percent of the job va-cancies had no education-al requirement or only required a high school diploma. Those needing a bachelor’s or advanced degree were 13.7 percent. The average wage for the vacancies was $11.73 an hour, ranging from $9.29 for those with no education requirements to $29.85 an hour for ad-vanced degrees.

Job vacancynumbers rise TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A

committee overseeing state employee pay is recom-mending about $11.4 mil-lion in raises for underpaid state workers, with cor-rections officers at Kansas prisons among the groups benefiting most.

The Joint Committee on Employee Pay Plan Over-sight on Tuesday recom-mended 7.5 percent raises for more than a thousand corrections officers. The funds were appropriated during the 2012 legislative session.

Corrections Secretary Ray Roberts told the com-mittee the increases would bring officers who haven’t had a pay raise since 2009 closer to the market rate. Roberts said that out of seven states surveyed by his agency, only Oklahoma paid its corrections officer less than Kansas.

The Topeka Capital-Jour-nal reported the pay raises are part of a state program to raise the pay of certain state employees closer to similar private sector em-

ployees. This is the fourth year of a five-year program and the first since legisla-tors suspended funding the increases last year over budget concerns.

The pay increases range from 5 percent to 12.5 per-cent and will go to 4,296 state employees, which is about a quarter of the state payroll. The committee’s recommendations now go to the State Finance Council for approval. The increase amounts were negotiated between the Department of Administration and state employee unions.

“I don’t have a lot to say except thank you for the money,” Mike Marvin, of the Kansas Organization of State Employees, told the

committee.Marvin said after the

meeting that the union would keep working to get pay raises for other employ-ees.

“It’s a step forward for basically 3,500 workers that KOSE represents,” Marvin said. “That means there’s probably another 5,500 that do not get a step forward.”

About 1,000 corrections officers are KOSE members. The committee’s recom-mendation allocates about $1.65 million to the Lansing prison, $1.04 million to El Dorado, $1.19 for Hutchin-son and more than $400,000 to the five other smaller fa-cilities and the Department of Corrections itself.

Juvenile Justice Author-ity employees would see increases, as well, with $455,155 split among 161 em-ployees at the Kansas Juve-nile Corrections Complex in Topeka and $205,775 for 60 employees at the Larned facility.

“This will go a long way toward helping the long-term employees of JJA that

risk their lives every day,” Teamsters representative Matt Hall told the commit-tee.

He said the pay increases would make the jobs more attractive and help retain and recruit staff, while alle-viating the number of over-time hours being worked.

The Topeka juvenile com-plex was the subject of a critical audit released in July that found the facility had a 32 percent turnover rate among staff, the highest among Kansas correctional facilities in the past five years and a factor in a num-ber of security problems.

“We try not to have too many of those situations where people work 16 hours (straight),” Roberts said. “But it always works better if you have sufficient staff.”

Sen. Vicki Schmidt, a To-peka Republican and chair-woman of the committee, said other reforms were needed to improve condi-tions at Topeka juvenile cen-ter, but pay raises to retain trained staff is “certainly a piece of the puzzle.”

Panel OKs raises for public employeesI don’t have a lot

to say except thank you for the money.

— Mike Marvin, Kansas Organization

of State Employees

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By JOSH FUNKAssociated Press

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The company that wants to build a pipeline to trans-port crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries said Wednesday it has re-vised its proposed new route through Nebraska to avoid environmentally sen-sitive areas.

The latest proposed Key-stone XL pipeline route is TransCanada’s second at-tempt to satisfy state envi-ronmental regulators. The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality said in July that the initial revised route crossed land that could erode easily and passed near unconfined aquifers that supply drink-ing water to residents and livestock.

The new TransCanada proposal tweaks that April plan, making the route veer east shortly after entering the state to avoid more of the sensitive areas in Keya Paha County, east again around the town of Clarks and west around the town of Western to avoid drink-ing water well fields.

“TransCanada shares the goal of protecting key wa-ter and natural resources with Nebraskans,” Trans-Canada CEO Russ Girling

said. The proposal also up-grades planned safety mea-sures, adding more remote control shut-off valves and inspections, the company said.

Nebraska regulators said they would review the new proposal and hold a public hearing on it before sub-mitting a recommendation to the governor, possibly by the end of the year. The gov-ernor will decide whether to approve the new route for the pipeline.

“An initial scan of the report indicates that it re-sponds to some of the com-ments raised by the NDEQ and the public, but a full evaluation will now begin,” said Mike Linder, director of the state agency.

Environmental groups have long opposed the pipe-line project because of concerns that it could con-taminate underground and surface water supplies, in-crease air pollution around

refineries and harm wild-life.

Bold Nebraska’s Jane Kleeb said the latest new route doesn’t go far enough to address her group’s con-cerns about potential ero-sion of the Sandhills and groundwater contamina-tion, so she believes state and federal officials should block the pipeline.

“The route still crosses the aquifer and it still cross-es sandy soil, so all of the same concerns remain,” Kleeb said.

TransCanada spokesman Grady Semmens said only 36 miles of the 275 miles of pipeline in Nebraska would cross sandy soils, and the new route entirely avoids the area Nebraska defined as the Sandhills.

Joe Mendelson of the Na-

tional Wildlife Federation said the Keystone XL pipe-line puts too much natural habitat at risk.

“The best approach is to ditch Keystone XL entirely and embrace clean energy solutions that don’t spill or explode,” Mendelson said.

The pipeline is designed to carry oil from Canada across Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan-sas, Oklahoma and Texas. TransCanada also has pro-posed connecting it to the Bakken oil field in Montana and North Dakota.

President Barack Obama rejected TransCanada’s original application for a federal permit to build the pipeline in January by af-ter congressional Repub-licans imposed a deadline for approval that didn’t al-low enough time to address questions about the route through Nebraska.

Since then, TransCanada has split the project into two pieces. The company began construction last month on the southern section of the pipeline between Oklaho-ma and the Gulf Coast.

New cross-country pipeline route proposed

TransCanada shares the goal of protecting key water and natural resources with Nebras-kans.

— TransCanada CEO Russ Girling

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By ROXANA HEGEMANAssociated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas doctor and his wife appealing their con-victions in a moneymak-ing conspiracy linked to 68 overdose deaths ripped the government for re-versing its position and claiming that the couple had conflict-free trial at-torneys.

Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda, were convicted in 2010 of con-spiracy, unlawfully pre-scribing drugs, health care fraud and money laundering. The doctor was sentenced to 30 years, his wife to 33 years.

In filings with the 10th Circuit Court of Ap-peals, new attorneys for the Haysville couple said Tuesday that the pros-ecuting attorney, Assis-tant U.S. Attorney Tanya Treadway, had taken dra-matically different posi-tions in the two courts.

When the case was in district court, Treadway twice tried to remove the Schneiders’ trial at-torneys from the case

because of “conflicted in-terests” arising from their representation of Siob-han Reynolds. Reynolds was the president of the Pain Relief Network, who allegedly used the case to promote her agenda against government pros-ecution of physicians who prescribe painkillers.

But in federal appeals court, Treadway claimed that by the time of trial, the lawyers were not ac-tively representing both clients and the conflict had no “adverse effect” on the case. She argued the Schneiders had re-ceived an “exceedingly fair trial, vigorously de-fended by separate coun-sel the defendants trust-ed and who believed in their respective client’s innocence.”

“More fundamentally, inconsistencies like those cataloged here reflect a deeper pathology, a cer-tain disrespect for the courts, a contempt for the adversary, and an indiffer-ence to the norms and con-ventions that define appel-late practice.”

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — Pittsburg officials think they know why someone threw a kitchen sink into a sewer line. Now, they’d like to know who did it.

KOAM-TV reported the sink, a TV and a micro-wave oven were discov-ered in a Pittsburg sewer this week during a routine inspection.

Pittsburg utilities direc-tor John said says the TV and microwave have been

removed. But the sink is wedged so far into the line that the city may have to hire a private contractor for a major — and costly — excavation job.

The sink has to be re-moved, since it’s clogging the line and could cause a sewage backup.

Officials believe some-one wanting to get rid of the items simply lifted a manhole cover and threw them in.

Doctor, wife, appealdrug fraud convictions

Sewer inspection finds sink, television

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge will try the criminal case against the highest-ranking Catholic official in the U.S. to be charged with shielding an abusive priest, three weeks before it was to go before a jury.

Bishop Robert Finn and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph are

charged with one count of failing to report suspected child abuse to the state.

Their trial was sched-uled to start Sept. 24 in a case that carries a maxi-mum penalty of a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Instead, a set of stipu-lated facts negotiated by both sides will be present-ed this afternoon to Judge

Accused bishop’s trial begins

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PARIS (AP) — A steam blast at France’s oldest nucle-ar plant Wednesday left two workers with slight finger burns and revived calls to reduce this country’s heavy reliance on nuclear power.

Nuclear safety authori-ties said there was no threat of radioactive leaks and that the incident at the Fessenheim plant near the German border was minor. It touched a nerve, however, because anti-nuclear activ-ists have long urged the closure of the plant, which was built in the 1970s and is in a seismic zone. Those calls have mounted since the earthquake and tsuna-mi disaster at Japan’s Fu-kushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant last year.

Utility giant Electricite de France, which operates the plant, denied initial re-ports of a fire. EDF said in a statement that the incident occurred during mainte-nance when oxygenated wa-ter escaped and prompted a burst of steam. It said all nine people in the facility at the time were examined.

Plant director Thierry Rosso said two employees suffered slight burns on their index fingers from the blast of vapor. He said it triggered automatic calls to the emergency services, but insisted “there is no envi-ronmental impact.” He said the water involved was not contaminated.

“The next stage is to look at what happened” to cause the blast, he said in a con-ference call with reporters.

France relies on nuclear energy more than any other nation, getting about much of its electricity from atomic reactors scattered around the country. French President Francois Hollande pledged during his election campaign to close Fessenheim, which operates two 900-watt pressur-ized water reactors, by 2017.

Workers were prepar-ing a chemical solution for treating waste water in a building that is separate from its two reactors when the incident occurred, said Thierry Charles, deputy director of the Institute for Radioactive Protection and Nuclear Security. He said there was an unexpected chemical reaction that re-sulted in the steam blast.

“It has nothing to do with radioactivity,” he said, not-ing that oxygenated water is widely used for indus-trial purposes. He said at this stage he sees “no risks” resulting from the incident.

The regional government in the neighboring German region of Baden-Wuerttem-berg, which has been led by the anti-nuclear Greens since last year, has called for France to shut down Fessenheim quickly.

Noel Mamere, a parlia-ment member from the en-vironmental party and a vo-cal critic of nuclear energy, told BFM television that the latest incident is a remind-er that “we must leave nu-clear energy progressively” and turn to other, less risky sources of energy.

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DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:

Sudoku is like a crossword puzzle, but uses numbers instead of words. The puzzle is a box of 81 squares, subdivided into 3x3 cubes of 9 squares each. Some squares are filled in with numbers. The rest should be filled in by the puzzler.Fill in the blank squares allowing the numbers 1-9 to appear only once in every row, once in ev-ery column and once in every 3x3 box. One-star puzzles are for begin-ners, and the difficulty gradually increases through the week to a very chal-lenging five-star puzzle.

The implications of rapid increase in PSADear Dr. Donohue: Of in-

terest to all men are PSA num-bers. I am 90, and my number went from 4.6 to 5.1 in three months. My doctor insists I see a urologist. I have no symptoms of prostate trouble, and this really has me upset. I am at a breaking point. — H.L.

Answer: PSA, prostate spe-cific antigen, is a blood test for the detection of prostate can-cer. Experts argue about what value to choose to indicate a positive test result — that is, at what level the test truly in-dicates cancer. Many set four as that number. However, low-er numbers are more mean-ingful at younger ages and higher numbers at older ages. In fact, many would stop test-ing for PSA in a man who’s 90 years old.

Let me give you some more numbers and information that will only add to your grief.

If the PSA test increases by 0.75 in one year, that’s a signif-icant increase that would trig-ger some doctors to ask for more testing. If the original PSA was 4, then an increase of 0.35 in one year would do the same.

All of this testing is con-tested at the present moment. You are 90. Many feel that this

age is too old to demand that a man submit to more test-ing, like a biopsy. Others feel that if a man of 90 is in good health, that man should be of-fered further investigation.

If I were in your shoes, I wouldn’t hesitate to hear what a urologist had to say. I might, however, decline to seek more testing and the prospects of an operation. In truth, since I am not that age, I’m not posi-tive how I would react.

Dear Dr. Donohue: I have a lot of problems with sinus in-fections. I had sinus surgery about 10 years ago. At that time, my ENT doctor said I had pockets of infection in the sinus cavities. He performed surgery to clean the pockets. For a few years I had fewer infections, but they are a problem again. The only anti-biotic that clears the infection is Avelox. The most recent in-fection does not seem to be re-sponding to Avelox. Can you offer any advice? — Anon.

Answer: It’s time to again consult an ENT — ear, nose and throat doctor. Such a doc-tor has a scope that allows inspection of the sinuses for detection of chronic infec-tion. It also allows the doctor to sample tissue for culture so the infecting germ can be

identified and tested for an-tibiotic susceptibility. That way, the doctor will know what to prescribe. And if the lab is alerted, it can test for the germ’s susceptibility to Avelox.

That’s the best advice I can come up with.

Dr. Paul Donohue

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‘Marry me or else’ falls flatDear Carolyn: What are

your thoughts on giving a guy an ultimatum? Do you think after a certain period of time with somebody, the idea of living together or marriage should be brought up and, if not, some sort of ultimatum given? — Ulti-matums?

Answer: My thoughts on ultimatums are overwhelm-ingly negative. Why would you want to marry some-one you have to threaten to go along with it? And why would you want to pressure someone you love into any-thing (stuff that falls into the tough-medicine catego-ry excepted)?

If you want to marry someone, then that must mean you want to spend the rest of your life with him, right? If you’ve come to that conclusion, then do some more thinking on the topic before you say any-thing to anyone.

First, are you really at the point in your relationship where that makes sense?

Have you seen each other through different things, have you taken note of the way you and he solve prob-lems, are you good for each other, have you outlasted the head-rush of initial attraction? Are you gun-ning to marry this person because he’s the one you happen to be with when so-ciety tells you it’s Marriage Time?

Think, think, think and question everything in your reasoning that re-sembles an unchallenged assumption. It can’t hurt, and it can save you from feeling deeply stuck seven years from now.

If you’re sure this is the

person you want, then, next step:

Would you be okay with your relationship staying as is “the rest of your life”?

Presumably no. So, what about your status quo do you want to change — do you want to share a home, have kids, make things right in the eyes of God, get your naggy Aunt Mae off your back, secure the legal protections offered by mar-riage ...

Once you’ve accounted for the who and the what, consider the various ways to get what you have. Pre-sumably marriage is one of them, but are there others? Are any of those acceptable to you?

After you’ve thoroughly explored all of these ideas, and lined up what you want, believe is best for you and hope is best for him, then you talk to him. You lay out the way you’d like things to be — barring the unforeseen, of course, as al-ways — and see whether he

shares your vision.The conversation could

end there. If you’re in agreement on your path as a couple, though, then you say that you see marriage as an important step in this process for X or Y reason(s).

Should his plans diverge from yours at any point, at least consider what he wants and the reasons he gives. If you can embrace his way, then do — and if you can’t, then explain that to him when you break up.

Translation: 100 percent truth, no ultimatums. It’s no fun to start the conversa-tion, but there’s no “no fun” like a marriage entered un-der pressure.

This answer doesn’t ac-count for styles; those who have a dramatic proposal scene in mind would have a hard time with the spell-it-out conversation. As long as proposer and proposee both buy into the fairy-tale staging and also are able to talk freely after, then, mazel tov.

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Beware!I was sweeping leaves off my sidewalk after the rain and uncovered this little rattlesnake. It was only about a foot long, but I don’t like snakes. I did quickly get my camera so I could prove that I really did see it on my sidewalk. He didn’t last long after my daughter got the hoe for me. I hope there aren’t more nearby. My neighbor did see a dead one about a block away that had been run over. After looking on Wikipedia I found it is a Western Massasauga rattlesnake, usually 18 to 30 inches long. They are venomous. It did have a small button on the end of its tail.

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More rain on the wayTonight, thunderstorms likely.

Lows 70 to 75. Chance of precipi-tation 60 percent.

Friday, occasional thunder-storms in the morning, then thunderstorms likely in the af-ternoon. Breezy. Not as warm. Highs 75 to 80.

Sunrise 6:56 a.m. Sunset 7:43 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 95Low last night 68High a year ago 77Low a year ago 45

Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m. .29This month to date 1.57Total year to date 19.13Def. since Jan. 1 7.85

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An explosion and blaze triggered by an acciden-tally dropped hand grenade killed 25 soldiers during a stock check at a Turkish ammunition depot, the gov-ernment said today.

Four other soldiers were injured in the blast, which lit up the night sky late Wednes-day with flames, and shat-tered windows in homes in the nearby town of Afyon-karahisar in western Turkey, terrifying residents.

Forestry and Water Min-ister Veysel Eroglu ruled out terrorism and sabotage, saying the blast occurred in a section where hand grenades were kept. The soldiers’ remains were dis-covered after a subsequent blaze was extinguished.

“One hand grenade was dropped during stock-tak-ing and sorting, causing a large explosion,” Eroglu said. “There was no exter-nal intervention. There cer-tainly was no sabotage or anything like that.”

Eroglu said hand gre-nades were found strewn across the area and author-ities were detonating them with controlled explosions. Turkey’s NTV television showed security officers walking along a road and in fields, looking for unex-ploded ammunition.

Some civilians were evacuated from the nearby town overnight. Authori-ties warned people to stay away from the area.

In 1997, an explosion at Turkey’s largest weapons factory in Kirikkale in cen-tral Turkey killed two peo-ple and sparked a fire that raged for days.

Turkey: 25 killed in blast

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