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By STEVEN [email protected]

Henry “Skip” Kreibach’s house sits on the edge of Highway 58, nestled next to two barns and an old grain silo. A driver in a pass-ing car wouldn’t take a second glance at the home — it’s a pan-oramic scene typical of a Kansas postcard. But, a postcard wouldn’t give a hint as to what lies inside the Kreibach complex.

One of Skip’s barns is an art gallery of his personal work, along with his wood-working tools. The old grain silo, built in 1951, has a rock climbing wall built into the side of its interior. This is not your typical Kansas farm.

On a trip to see Skip, the moti-vation was to see his “silo climb-ing wall,” and give it a try. I would come to find that this place is much more than just a hidden climbing gym.

Skip met me outside of his house, walked up and shook my

hand. His wife, Nancy, met me in the kitchen and introduced her-self. Seated at the dining room table, Skip had pulled out an Iola Register article from July 23, 1997, and showed me that we had already written a piece about his unique climbing wall. Neverthe-less, as a climber myself, I was de-termined to revisit the issue with Skip, as well as share his torment of climbers living in a flat land.

Skip and Nancy have been liv-ing in their home for 17 years,

since 1995. It seems that the Kreibachs tend to have an effect on their environment.

When their son, Steve, went to the University of Kansas for his undergraduate degree, he became a member of the rock climbing club and fell in love with the sport. Skip and Nancy lived in Olathe at the time, and during some vis-its to the college, Skip became hooked on rock climbing as well.

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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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The home of Robbie and Brandi Grisier was destroyed early this morning in Gas.Register/Richard Luken

Chimney cited in overnight blazeGAS — The home of Robbie

and Brandi Grisier and their three children was destroyed in an overnight house fire.

The family was at home ear-ly this morning when the fire started, apparently near the home’s chimney. All escaped un-injured.

The Grisiers noticed the smell of smoke and went out-side to investigate, when they saw flames coming from around the chimney.

Firefighters were called at 12:18 a.m.

Members of the Iola Fire De-partment and the Allen County

Rural Volunteer Fire Depart-ment were on the scene for sev-eral hours battling the blaze in freezing temperatures with a brisk north wind.

The Grisiers have three sons: Brennen, 8, Bryer, 3, and Rowan, who will celebrate his second birthday Saturday.

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Strategic plan presented to school board

By ALLISON [email protected]

The Iola School Board meet-ing was rather eventful Monday night.

First on the agenda was a pre-sentation from senator-elect, cur-rent representative Caryn Tyson.

Tyson gave a brief presenta-tion regarding the upcoming year and the needs of Kansas education. She said she didn’t know what the new legislation year would bring for education, but wanted to hear from school districts, especially rural towns, as to what their needs were.

“I have a major heartburn right now. We have a school put-ting down Astroturf and asking for money,” Tyson said. “It is an oxymoron. I played sports, most of us did, I love sports but we’re here about education.”

Board member Tony Leavitt asked her if she could shed some light on the upcoming year for education, if there would be any cuts.

“I’m not a fortune teller,” Ty-son said. “I have no idea what the governor will propose.”

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Kreibach not average retiree

Skip Kreibach sits in his art studio, next to one of his numerous oil paintings. His art studio is located in a barn next to the silo hous-ing his climbing wall.

Iola Register reporter Allison Tinn climbs up the wall, inside of the grain silo and Skip Kreibach belays her from below.

Register/Steven Schwartz

Register/Allison Tinn

By DAVE RANNEYKHI News Service

TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brown-back Monday announced that next month his administration would propose a two-year budget to the Legislature instead of the customary one-year plan.

“We’re going to be laying out a two-year budget — a serious two-year budget,” Brownback said.

The plan, he said, would in-clude a number of reorganiza-tions within state government that “…we want and need to work through this next two-year pe-riod.”

He declined comment when asked what those changes would entail.

The change, he said, would al-low lawmakers to “budget the first year, do oversight the second year.”

A two-year cycle, Brownback said, would be increase efficien-cy. The state’s school districts, he said, have let him know they would welcome the change be-cause they would be able to plan better.

“I think it makes good sense,” he said.

The 2013 legislative session convenes Jan. 14. The governor is expected to introduce his pro-posed budget sometime during the first week of the session.

The state fiscal year runs from July 1 through June 30.

Gov. introduces 2-year budgetCouncil notes wastewater woes

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HUMBOLDT — Humboldt council members were given a preliminary report Monday night on improvements needed to bring the city’s wastewater treatment plant up to snuff.

B&G Consultants, Emporia, sent a representative to outline shortcomings of inflow, includ-ing infiltration that occurs dur-ing heavy rainfall, and inefficien-cies with electrical systems and lift stations, which nudge along sewage when gravity isn’t capa-

ble of doing the job.Specific recommendations will

come later. What will be proposed is expected to exceed the $100,000 Humboldt has budgeted for 2013.

That prompted Councilman Dan Julich to note the council can’t push upgrades into the fu-ture, as has been done at times in the past, and should set aside money for such projects. The 2013 budget includes $100,000 for work at the plant.

“We need to keep money bud-geted (in succeeding years) to keep things up,” Julich said.

B&G Consultants will con-tinue its survey of the plant and its collection system, with a de-tailed proposal to come later for

council action.Darrin Petrowsky, Kansas

Department of Transportation engineer, reviewed highway improvements planned for the Humboldt area in 2013.

He said concrete patches would be made and joints sealed on U.S. 169, from the Allen-Neosho coun-ties line to just south of U.S. 54 at the east edge of Iola. K-224, which carries traffic from U.S. 169 to the north edge of Humboldt, will be milled and overlaid to bring it back to grade from the city limit to U.S. 169. The city limit starts at the east edge of the old Santa Fe Railroad right of way.

Bids for those projects will be

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City council members dis-cussed the privatization of billing with the EMS services in Iola.

City Administrator Carl Slaugh brought the proposal before the council, which includes three bids from private EMS billing companies — Omni EMS Billing, Wichita, EMS Billing, Omaha, Neb., and Mediclaims Inc., Tonka-wa, Okla.

Slaugh said in an earlier coun-cil meeting that the increase of bills garnered by the city would offset the percentage cost of hir-ing a company to do the city’s bill-ing. Omni charges 7.75 percent of the total cost, EMS Billing charg-es 10 percent and Mediclaims Inc. charges 8 percent.

EMS Billing includes the cost of postage in their percentage, which leads to the higher per-centage cost. Slaugh said he will research whether the higher per-centage due to postage will lead to savings for the city.

“I think it is worth a try to turn the billing over to the compa-nies,” Slaugh said. “It would be a fairly seamless transition.”

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Sunny, but still coolTonight, mostly clear. Not as

cold. Lows in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

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By the middle of next week area public school students will be getting a little antsy. The Christmas holiday break will start on Dec. 20 for several, with one a day earlier and another a day later.

Vacations start for stu-dents in USD 257 (Iola-Gas-LaHarpe) and Crest (Colo-ny-Kincaid) at the end of classes on Dec. 20, with re-sumption of classes in each district on Jan. 3. Southern Coffey County (Le Roy-Gridley) students will bolt from their schools at 1 p.m. on Dec. 20, but return a day earlier, on Jan. 2.

USD 256 (Moran-Els-more) students have an extra day, taking off after classes on Dec. 19 and re-turning Jan. 3.

USD 258 (Humboldt) students have to wait until after classes on Dec. 21 to take their vacations, but will have more time off than others, not returning until Jan. 8.

Allen Community Col-lege students will complete finals Thursday and won’t return to classes until Jan. 10, although those who find time away from friends a little tiring may check into student housing on Jan. 8.

Christmas school breaks start soon

Obituaries

He retired from the Ma-rines in 1990, so he had been accustomed to an active lifestyle. For fun, he mainly enjoyed backpacking and hiking.

Skip and Nancy became more and more involved in the sport, they even joined the Kansas City climbing club. He climbed Mount El-brus, a Russian peak noted as the highest in Europe at 18,510 feet elevation, with the club in 1997. That same year, Skip was offered a job teaching computer science at Allen Community Col-lege.

“I wanted to find a job near a place with moun-tains, we’ve (he and Nancy) always loved the moun-tains,” Skip said. “But I heard from Allen that I had gotten the job, and I thought — where the heck is Iola?”

The opportunity seemed too good to pass up, how-ever, and Skip accepted the job offer. From there he was determined to make the best of his situation. He be-gan teaching one-hour P.E. courses to ACC students on rock climbing and moun-tain climbing.

“I wanted to share my in-terest,” Skip said.

As a requirement for the course, the students were asked to “climb something,” so he took them to Fall Riv-er, where they climbed cliffs near the railroad. Also, Skip spent some of his time mak-ing instructional videos on knot-tying and other climb-

ing techniques. When his son suggested that Skip install a climbing wall in the gym for teaching his students, he jumped at the opportunity saying, “why not?”

ALLISON TINN, my co-worker at the Iola Register, agreed to accompany me the next day to take photos of the wall.

The 40-foot tall grain silo is inconspicuous, as silos go. The concrete walls and rebar jut out of the field, rising above the wood red barn located to the north. We climbed through a small window on the south side, and wedged our way into the silo.

The climbing wall was made out of manufactured plastic hand- and foot-holds, and he had also chiseled nat-ural holds into the concrete of the silo. The numerous holds were scattered across one side of the wall, and led to a chain anchor that Skip had installed at the top — he said the installation of the anchor was precarious, he had to traverse around the top of the silo to install the chains.

Both Allison and I tried our hand at climbing. The day before Skip seemed ada-mant about not getting on the wall himself, but the un-seasonably warm weather on Saturday had seemed to bolster his morale a bit. He put on his climbing shoes and pulled his way up the wall like a professional, put-ting Allison and me both in

our place.The 68-year-old man un-

tied himself from the rope when he got back down from the ground, with an obvious excitement in his eyes.

“I haven’t done that in seven or eight years,” Skip said. “It’s really exhilarat-ing.”

“I’ve spent more time sending college students and grandkids to the top of the wall than I have myself,” Skip had told me earlier in the day.

We spent an hour climb-ing and taking photos, and even more time talking about how cold the concrete had made our hands feel — Skip barely said a word.

SKIP had also mentioned that he was an “amateur” art enthusiast, so as we slid our way out of the silo win-dow we suggested that we should take a look at some of his work.

After viewing his paint-ing and sketches, both Al-lison and I decided that he had used the term “ama-teur” very loosely — his art was anything but that of a novice.

The workshop was lit-tered with still-art, graphite pencil sketches, and differ-ent country scenes, not to

mention photographs of Gannett Peak, a 13,800-foot peak in Wyoming that Skip had climbed with his son — which he said was one of their more memorable climbs. Skip said he had been taking art classes at ACC since he and his wife retired seven years ago.

It seemed apparent that Skip is a man of many tal-ents, but also a man that is filling the free time of his retirement with almost ev-erything life has to offer.

When Allison and I pre-pared to leave, Skip told us that he is planning to bicy-cle across Kansas with his daughter, Michelle, in June of 2013. He said he has made the trip multiple times, but is looking forward to doing it again.

He said he had “blown out” his knees by running in his younger days, so he picked up cycling and has been pedaling for years now. A door had closed, and Skip inevitably found another one open. If anything, the obstacles in life tend to di-rect Skip’s path, they defi-nitely don’t slow him down.

“I mean, having fun is what it’s all about,” Skip said. “That’s what you’re supposed to do when you retire.”

Charles DiehlCharles Raymond Diehl, 89, retired VFR

pilot and retired Boeing Company employ-ee, went to meet his wife and granddaugh-ter in heaven, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012.

Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Tues-day with family receiving friends from 5 to 7 p.m. at Smith Mortuary, 1415 N. Rock Rd., Derby.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Pleasantview Baptist Church, 1335 N. Buckner Ave., Derby.

Graveside service will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at High-land Cemetery, Iola.

Charles is preceded in death by his wife, Autry; parents, Charles and Mamie (Buckingham) Diehl; brothers, Kimble and Vernie; sisters, Lucy Malony and Elieen Baker; grand-daughter, Amber N. Diehl; and nephews, Donald and Jerry Diehl.

Survivors are his children, Chet (Belinda) Sample, Alpine, Texas, Warren R. Diehl, Cynthia D. Diehl and John M. Diehl, all of Derby; 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Amber’s Angels or any Meritrust Credit Union.

Condolences can be left at smithfamilymortuaries.com.

Teresa Cook Teresa Kay Cook, 51, Iola, passed away Monday, Dec.10,

2012, at Allen County Hospital.Teresa was born June 14, 1961, in Man-

hattan, the daughter of Clayton Justin and Glenna (Waters) LeValley. She attended Seven Dolors Catholic School in Manhat-tan, graduated from Manhattan High School in 1979, attended Kansas State Uni-versity and has continued her education as a licensed daycare and pre-school operator.

On April 9, 1988, Teresa married Jeff Cook at Piqua and they made their home in Iola. She has been involved in daycare and pre-school in Iola for over 20 years. She owned and operated Munchkin Land now called Kid’s Kingdom Over The Rainbow group daycare with pre-school activities.

Teresa was a member of St. John’s Catholic Church and Altar Society and taught PSR until her cancer diagnosis. She had been active in PTO and coached softball and basketball for her daughter’s teams. She was a K-State Wildcat fan who enjoyed golfing, traveling, jet skiing and all outdoor activities.

Survivors are her husband, Jeff; three children, Andrea McConnaughey and husband, Jared, Pittsburg, Nick Cook, a student at K-State, and Megan Cook, a student at Emporia State; two grandchildren, Jacob and Logan McConnaughey; her mother Glenna LeValley, Olathe; and nine siblings, Mike LeValley and wife, Shelly, and Greg LeValley and wife, Kathy, Manhattan, Patrick LeValley, Toronto, Canada, Mark LeVal-ley and wife, Tina, Salina, Neil LeValley and wife, Stacey, De-nise LeValley, Mary Wargin and Maggie Collins and husband, Kevin, Olathe, and Janel Johnson, Corpus Christi, Texas; 24 nieces and nephews and three great-nieces and great-neph-ews on the LeValley side of the family; her mother-in-law, Ruby L. Cook, Iola, eight brother- and sister-in laws, Larry Robertson and wife, Sherri, Pam Shrum, Joe Robertson, Kel-ly Robertson and wife, Patty, Cindy Kilbourn and husband, Larry, Randy Cook and wife, Gail, Carla Capper and husband, Brent, and Robert Cook and wife, Karrie, and numerous niec-es and nephews on the Cook side of the family.

She was preceded in death by her father, Clayton LeVal-ley, father-in-law, Carl Cook, brother-in-law, Gary Cook, and nephew, Jack LeValley.

Parish rosary will be at 7 p.m., Friday at St. John’s Catholic Church in Iola. Visitation follow at St. John’s Parish Center.

Funeral mass will be at 10:30 a.m., Saturday at St. John’s Catholic Church in Iola.

Burial will be at Highland Cemetery, Iola.Memorial choices are Kappa Alpha Chapter of Phi Tau

Omega Sorority for local cancer support or Catholic Chari-ties, and may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola.

Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iola-funeral.com.

Charles Diehl

Teresa Cook

H KreibachContinued from A1

I haven’t done that in seven or eight years. It’s really exhilarating.

— Skip Kreibach, in regards to climbing the silo wall

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Arrests madeJessica D. Almond,

Humboldt, was arrested Saturday night on U.S. 169 for driving while her driv-er’s license was suspend-ed and having suspended registration, with both be-ing secondary to a traffic stop for speeding.

Phillip D. Lawson, Sa-vonburg, was arrested early Sunday morning in the 4000 block of Arizona Road, two miles west of Savonburg, for transport-ing an open container of alcohol as a passenger in

a vehicle stopped for an equipment violation.

Ricky G. Santiago, Iola, was arrested Sunday morning in the 2400 block of North Cottonwood Street for driving while his driver’s license was suspended, for the fourth time. He had been stopped for a stop sign violation.Vehicles crash

A vehicle driven by Mark McFadden struck one that was stopped and occupied by Howard Ross in 1000 Street just after noon Saturday.

Police reportsIn Monday’s issue of the Register it was reported that

the IMS Band Concert Tuesday. The concert is being held Thursday at 7 p.m. The Register regrets the error.

Correction

The Allen County Hospital Auxiliary will be holding its blood drive Wednesday at the North Community Building from noon to 6 p.m.

ACH holds blood drive

The Dirt Diggers Garden Club will meet at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at The Greenery.

Dirt Diggers meet

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CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (AP) — Marijuana-laced cookies taken by a student to a Maine high school on a day ethics and values were being dis-cussed have sickened some classmates.

Nine students have been suspended, and police are investigating.

Cape Elizabeth schools superintendent Meredith Nadeau says it’s unclear

if all the students who ate the cookies were aware they contained marijuana. Some of them felt ill and went to the nurse’s office.

The Portland Press Her-ald reported Monday the episode unfolded Friday during a daylong event fea-turing speakers address-ing the school district’s guiding values of “Com-munity, Academics, Pas-sion and Ethics.”

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FCE meeting, 1:30 p.m., library; Chapter AM PEO meeting, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday - United Methodist Women covered dish lunch, noon, Meth-odist church; Blood pres-sure and blood sugar tests, 10:15-11 a.m., Humboldt Senior Center.

Monday - GALS FCE meeting, 7 p.m., Terry Butts hostess; High School and Middle School choir performs, 7 p.m., high school auditorium.

Dec. 25 - Community Christmas dinner, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Humboldt Senior Center.Downtown Action Team

Susan Galemore pre-sented information and answered questions re-garding the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Downtown Com-mercial Rehabilitation Program, during the No-vember Downtown Action Team meeting. The pro-gram is designed to help commercial, non-govern-mental building owners make improvements to the outside of their buildings and make repairs to elimi-nate building code viola-tions.

The grant must be sub-mitted by the city on be-half of the building own-er and if awarded, would

pay 75 percent of the proj-ect costs. State-designated historic buildings also qualify, Galemore said. The deadline for the grant is Feb. 1 and/or Aug. 1.

The team will contact downtown building own-ers who may qualify to see if there is interest in ap-plying for the grant. The grant requires a 25-per-cent local match.

“The consensus of the committee was that if no projects can be found by (Saturday) then DAT would not pursue the grant until August,” DAT member Larry Tucker said.

Members of DAT at-tended today’s Allen Coun-ty Commission meeting to request building façade and window repairs to the local Senior Center.

Team members were informed the Cham-ber of Commerce and Humboldt Community Growth, Inc. will pursue a hotel and restaurant feasibility study to be done in March, including the need for a conference facility.

By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — The chal-lenge of decorating for Christmas in limited space was solved by thinking “outside the box” for Jessa Works this year.

The Works family of three lives and travel in an 8-foot by 27-foot Airstream travel trailer where space is utilized to the maximum for functionality with little, if any, unoccupied areas.

“Last year we relied on the fact that we would be with family at Christmas time,” Works said. “But, this year I knew we would be here longer and I wanted to decorate.”

Works and husband, Josh, are both designers, graphic and Internet-based, and their creative nature had a large influence on the decision to sell their five-bedroom home and possessions in Manhattan 20 months ago in order to travel doing freelance de-signing.

Knowing there wasn’t room inside the trailer for a Christmas tree, Jessa looked for an alternative.

“I knew I was going to have a tree outside,” she said. “I decided to use the panorama window as an-other room.”

A tree was cut and stands secured by rocks, outside in front of the wide trailer windows, decorated with lights, easily visible from the living area inside. Nuts found in the area are being converted into ornaments.

“We got rid of all the decorating stuff, artificial

trees, all the porch deco-rations and wreaths,” she said. “Now, it seems unnec-essary to have all that stuff you store for 11 months of the year.”

PAPER SNOWFLAKE or-naments and circle-shaped garland were cut for inside the trailer. Their 4-year-old son, Jack, helped gather twigs that were bundled to-gether and tied with twine. A few sprigs of pine are tucked in cabinet handles and a replica ornament of an Airstream hangs by the sink.

“We didn’t want to have to buy anything, so we col-lected natural things that can be tossed on the burn pile,” Works said. “Christ-mas is about tradition and

it’s different not to keep things, but our tradition will be to use our surround-ings.”

Family purchasing gifts for the Workses have nar-rowed their focus at Christ-mas as well and limit items knowing space is a consid-eration.

“Last year my Mom got Jack this big basketball goal and I just said ‘Mom, this isn’t going to work,’” Jessa said. Opening a door under the bench seat in the trailer containing three tubs, she said Jack is allowed to have what toys will fit in the tubs and those can be traded out for different toys when they are home.

In April 2011 the Works family began traveling full time in the Airstream In-

ternational, pursuing their dream to escape the subur-ban lifestyle, see the coun-try and loosen the limits of 50-hour work weeks and daily commutes associated with their design jobs at Kansas State University.

“We looked into being location independent and read some blogs,” she said of their choice to purchase an Airstream travel trailer. “We absolutely love it.”

She pointed out house-hold chores such as clean-ing and upkeep of the trail-er were considerably less time-consuming than with the house they sold. They are able to do freelance de-signing by computer and an internet connection from most any location, which provides enough income to maintain their lifestyle of living on less.

Because the trailer is small, Jessa said “we are all forced to be outside more; Jack plays outside with sticks and mud; we stay in state parks primarily, and we go hiking, visit muse-ums and explore places wherever we are. We never did that in Manhattan. We have a whole other family on the road.”

When school is out for the summer, Jessa’s daugh-ter Cody, 13, joins the family in the Airstream where her education continues while traveling state to state.

The Works family has been in Humboldt visiting family since Thanksgiving and plans to stay through the holidays before the next road trip unfolds.

Jessa Works adjusts the string of lights on the family Christmas tree that sits outside the panorama windows of their Airstream travel trailer home.

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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Any-one looking for a recipe for fun should check with Donna Jones and Debbie Lake. The two have been working together on their entries for the annual Gin-gerbread House competi-tion in Iola and have been having so much fun, they determined they would make a house regardless if there was a contest this year.

This will be the second year the two have been involved in the holiday event. Last year, together with Mona Herder, the three worked on one entry, which won People’s Choice and first in Judge’s award. This year Jones and Lake both created their own en-tries.

Jones, 77, is Debbie’s mother and she knew she wanted to have penguins in the scene she created that would be displayed in Jones Jewelry.

“I love to watch pen-guins,” she said. “I think they’re a cute bird and their shape is simple.”

AN IGLOO made of sug-ar cubes and a hut will be included her winter scene.

Lake is picking up where she left off last year in constructing a play-ground with children play-ing on the equipment.

“We built a church with stained glass windows last year and I wanted to have a playground beside the church, but there wasn’t

room,” Lake said. Regulations stipulate all

parts of the entry must be made of edible materials, which led to steps made of Starbursts, swings made of pretzels, streetlights made of cupcake-shaped marshmallows and spa-ghetti merry-go-rounds along with a large assort-ment of candies, gum and sweets.

Buildings and features are cemented together with frosting and Fondant can be used to shape things like penguins. “You can’t use any food that draws moisture, would spoil or mold,” Jones explained.

“You have to make up your mind what you want to make, so you don’t buy a lot of extra stuff.”

“You can save ingredi-ents from year to year,” Lake added. “Some of it gets pretty stale; you wouldn’t want to eat it, but it works for this.”

Attempts to achieve the look envisioned for the scenes were overcome by trial and error early in the week. Lake’s plan to use a certain flat piece of candy as a teeter-totter had to be altered when the candy was too soft to stay rigid.

“See, I cemented spa-ghetti noodles (uncooked) on the bottom side to keep it stiff,” Lake said holding the candy teeter-totter.

Having motion in the scene is a plus, Lake said, and she planned to have swings that would move, as well as action on the merry-go-round.

Family keeps ‘untraditional’ traditions

Register/Terry BroylesDonna Jones works on her gingerbread house.

Pair uses design skills for sweet creations

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Wednesday is 12/12/12. Quick, buy a Powerball ticket using those magic numbers. Buy two. Or play 12 on a rou-lette wheel. Black and red. Twelve stands for a queen in playing cards. Three queens are sure to be a poker winner.

All this gambling talk is pro-voked by the news that Mul-vane’s Kansas Star Casino’s first 10 months in operation pro-duced $158.8 million in profits up to the end of October. That is more than the Boot Hill Casino in Dodge City or the Hollywood Casino in Kansas City earned in their first 10 months.

Mulvane’s gambling house is drawing all the big money from Wichita and points south on I-35.

And the message is that the economy must be doing bet-ter if so many people have so much money to gamble with, or to whoop off in whatever way suits their passions.

Casinos make millions be-cause the odds are with the house. Those who spend lei-sure time and extra money in casinos know this. (The ones who don’t should be sent home and go into treatment.) Patrons who come back feel they got their money’s worth so the rest of us should pat them on the back and say thanks.

Thanks because 22 percent of the revenue goes to the state and pays for things like economic development, which

would otherwise take tax mon-ey or go undone. Thanks, also, from Sedgwick and Sumner counties and the town of Mul-vane, that split 3 percent of the take equally. Each of the three received $1.5 million in these 10 months. And $1.5 mil-lion is a chunk of extra cash for Mulvane, population 4,250 — not counting those at the slots. Sumner County was able to cut county property taxes by 27 percent because of the gam-bling revenue.

Kansas Star added $22 mil-lion to the property tax base in Mulvane, which will allow more benefits to residents an-nually for as long as the casino prospers.

This is the sunny side of le-galizing gambling in Kansas. The profits taken by the state and local governments come from folks who make their con-tributions — pay their volun-tary taxes — with a smile (most times.)

There is a dark side, too. We won’t go into that today. We’d rather repeat our first com-ment: When the three casinos owned by the state can produce hundreds of millions of dollars in profits in 2012 as they are do-ing, that means hundreds of thousands of casino patrons are doing just fine, thank you very much.

So forget the recession talk. It’s all a mirage.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Good news flash:Recession’s over,just ask Mulvane

So far, the controversy over ObamaCare has focused largely on the “individual mandate” — the requirement, upheld by the Supreme Court, that uninsured people buy coverage or face a penalty. This has overshadowed another key part of the new health care law: the employer mandate.

Now, with regulations being written, some business owners have stepped up their complaints about the requirement that com-panies with 50 or more employ-ees offer coverage to their full-time workers, starting in 2014.

Much of the resistance has been coming from restaurant chains. Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter said companies would “find loopholes to get around” the requirement, adding that “it’s common sense” for compa-nies to reduce workers’ hours so they no longer fit the definition of full-time. Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden and Red Lobster, said it was experi-menting with cutting workers’ hours. The owner of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s chains said it would employ more part-time workers. And one angry Denny’s franchise owner in Florida said he’d add a 5 percent “ObamaCare surcharge” to meal prices.

Let’s cool the coffee before it scalds. Yes, the employer mandate

will add to some companies’ costs of doing business, and those costs no doubt will be passed along to customers. Papa John’s says the price of a pizza could increase 11 cents to 14 cents per pie. But is that such a terrible price to pay to ensure that some of the nation’s hardest working, lowest paid em-ployees will get health coverage they’ve never had?

Even in the absence of any sort of mandate, most American workers already get their insurance through their employers. ObamaCare pur-posely didn’t change that, despite critics’ hyperbolic claims that it’s a federal takeover. A real federal takeover — a single payer system such as Medicare for all — would be simpler and would let businesses off the hook. But it’s a political non-starter.

SO IN A PRIVATE, employer-based system aimed at getting as many Americans covered as pos-sible, it’s appropriate that all but the smallest businesses share the cost. The employer mandate evens the playing field for small businesses that already provide

health coverage but compete with companies that don’t.

Similar mandates have been working for years in San Fran-cisco, Hawaii and Massachu-setts. Once businesses have to comply, they figure it out. Some even have lower turnover when they offer health benefits.

Indeed, after a customer back-lash, some companies and execu-tives have backed off from their initial criticism of the employer mandate. Darden said last week that it would not reduce current employees’ hours. Schnatter, of Papa John’s, said that he couldn’t speak for individual franchise owners, but that corporate work-ers’ hours wouldn’t be cut.

In fact, Schnatter wrote on The Huffington Post, the “good news” is that all full-time workers will get insurance. Because nothing is free, “we’re all going to pay for it.” And Papa John’s won’t be at a disadvantage because “our com-petitors are going to have to do the same thing.”

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

— USA Today

Employers slow to provide coverage

A few pennies per pizza isn’t too high a price to pay so workers can have health insurance.

By DUANE GOOSSENKansas Health Institute

Last month state estimators made a new forecast of school fi-nance costs that further compli-cates an already difficult budget situation. The forecast: To fund the state’s school finance formu-la, a lot more money needs to be added to the current fiscal year 2013 budget, and then even more added to the soon-to-be-created FY 2014 budget.

The school finance estimate came out simultaneously with a new estimate of state revenue and a new estimate of human service caseload costs. Together these es-timates paint the budget picture that policymakers face. As a re-sult of tax cuts, revenue will drop sharply, but at the same time, spending pressures will rise.

The chart above right summa-rizes the school finance estimates. In this fiscal year the Legislature has already approved spending $3.159 billion. That’s about half of the state general fund. How-ever, the new estimate indicates that the school finance formula requires $3.324 billion — another $165 million for this year — and then $3.375 billion in FY 2014, or $216 million above the current budget.

THE ESTIMATE breaks down school finance costs into five ar-eas. The largest area, general state aid, is based on a calculation

of $3,838 per student. When law-makers passed the FY 2013 bud-get, they planned to spend $3,838 per student for a total general aid cost of $1.957 billion. But with the actual count of students higher than expected, $3,838 per student now calculates to $1.979 billion.

Lawmakers are not required to add these increases to the bud-get. The increase in the KPERS category comes closest to being a “requirement” because the state must pay the estimated amount to meet commitments to the pub-lic employee retirement system.

However, in the other categories, flat state funding means school districts either draw more heav-ily on local financial resources or just spread the state aid more thinly.

The school finance estimate il-lustrates the pressure to spend more on public education. Even if lawmakers resist higher spend-ing on schools, this portion of the budget — half of the state general fund — remains a very unlikely area for cuts that can be used to fix the coming imbalance between revenues and expenditures.

School Finance Estimates(Dollars in Millions)

Approved New FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2013 Estimate Estimate

General State Aid $1,957 $1,979 $1,972

Suppl. State Aid $339 $430 $439

Capital Improv. Aid $111 $111 $114

Special Education $428 $475 $481

KPERS-School $324 $329 $369

TOTAL $3,159 $3,324 $3,375

$216 million increase from current approved level of spending.

School finance vs. the KS budgetOn Dec. 11, 1936, after ruling

for less than one year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdi-cate the throne. He chose to ab-dicate after the British govern-ment, public, and the Church of England condemned his decision to marry the Ameri-can divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson. On the evening of Dec. 11, he gave a radio address in which he explained, “I have found it impossible to carry on the heavy burden of responsi-bility and to discharge the du-ties of king, as I would wish to do, without the help and sup-port of the woman I love.” On Dec. 12, his younger brother, the duke of York, was proclaimed King George VI.

*****On this day in 2008, financier

Bernard Madoff is arrested at his New York City apartment and charged with mastermind-ing a long-running Ponzi scheme later estimated to involve around $65 billion, making it one of the biggest investment frauds in Wall Street history.

*****On this day, Adolf Hitler de-

clares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.

*****In the aftermath of World War

II, the General Assembly of the United Nations votes to establish the United Nations Internation-al Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), an organization to help provide relief and support to children living in countries devastated by the war.

This day in history

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Recent changes in school lunch menus required by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act are generating dis-cussion in Kansas’ and the nation’s school districts.

“The 2012 changes in the menus are intended to ad-dress concerns about chil-dren’s nutrition, health and obesity that can lead to chronic diseases,” said Sandy Procter, K-State Re-search and Extension nu-trition specialist, and state coordinator for the U.S. De-partment of Agriculture’s Expanded Food and Nutri-tion Education and Family Nutrition Programs.

“People have been com-plaining about school lunch for years,” Procter said. She noted complaints often focused on school lunch menus with too many high fat and fried foods, lack of age-appropriate portions, and less costly foods rather than nutrient-dense foods that could cost more, but contribute to health.

“These are the first changes to the school lunch guidelines in many years and, in many districts, the difference is significant. In other places, voluntary improvement has been gradual over time, so stu-dents and parents see little change this year.”

Procter noted the 2012 changes to school lunch

menus are research-based and intended to address specific nutrition and health issues, including:

• Age-appropriate por-tions for three groups: Kindergarten through eight-year-olds; nine to 12-year-olds, and high school students.

• Health-promoting foods, including lean proteins, low-fat dairy products, fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

She said the move toward standard portions helps youth meet nutritional re-quirements for health and become more familiar with a standard portion. Youth will be more able to choose an appropriate portion when at home or on their own, and place a cap on calories to learn to manage a healthy weight.

Expanding the variety of foods offered meets Depart-ment of Health and Human Services’ and the USDA’s 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, but does add to the cost, which is supported with additional funding, ac-

cording to Proctor. If children and youth

are complaining to parents about not getting enough to eat, they may simply not be choosing to eat foods of-fered, said Procter, who not-ed that youth who are not familiar with fruits, vege-tables, whole grain breads, crackers and cereals, or dairy products served may initially shy away from them.

While adjusting to the changes will likely be a gradual process, many food service professionals re-port students making the adjustments fairly quickly.

“Youth who eat an in-creased variety of foods can begin enjoying health benefits — increased en-ergy, greater ability to man-age a healthy weight, more restful sleep, healthy skin and improved overall resis-tance to illness are possible examples — almost imme-diately,” she said.

School lunch or break-fast menus may not suit everyone, said Procter, who noted that some children occasionally prefer a sack lunch from home.

She also advised parents to plan snacks to fill the gaps between meals, and indicated a preference for health-promoting snacks, rather than pre-packaged snack foods that introduce

extra calories, fat or sodi-um unnecessarily.

If, for example, students will be staying for after-school activities or sports, Procter advised checking with the school office for a list of allowable approved snacks that can be sent with students.

Checking with the school is an essential step, as many of today’s youth are allergic — or critically al-lergic — to everyday foods, such as a peanut butter sandwich, she said.

A whole grain granola bar, fruit, cheese and crack-ers are shelf-stable, non-perishable snacks that will fill the gap between meals, she said.

While parents and nutri-tionists support youth com-ing home hungry so they’ll be ready to eat a variety of foods offered for the eve-ning meal, Procter recom-mended keeping a bowl of pre-washed and cut veg-etables and low-fat dip in the refrigerator as a ready snack to take the edge off the appetite, but not spoil the upcoming meal.

“If we provide health-ful options, like fruit and vegetables, snacks can help kids meet nutrition needs,” said Procter, who noted that updated school breakfast guidelines will be intro-duced in 2013.

Changes in school lunches offer opportunitiesKathy McEwanExtensionAgent forFamily andConsumer Sciences

Fashion may not be fore-most on the minds of most people when dressing for outdoor farm chores, but proper clothing is an im-portant component of farm safety. As temperatures drop in the fall we auto-matically reach for warmer clothing and more layers. When dressing for cold weather chores, it’s impor-tant to think safety first.

Inspect jackets, over-coats and insulated cover-alls for loose hems, flap-ping sleeves or frayed edges that can become entangled in machinery. Stitch down loose hems and frayed edg-es, especially on pant legs and the bottom of sleeves. It’s also a good idea to look for missing buttons and broken or missing zippers. Make necessary repairs be-fore it gets too cold.

When dressing for cold weather work outdoors, plan clothing for the type of work to be done. If you are burning leaves or brush and will be exposed to an open flame be sure to wear non-flammable clothing. If you are hunting or will be working in a field near where people may be hunt-ing, wear bright-colored, highly-visible clothing.

For extended periods outdoors in winter temper-atures wear appropriate protective clothing — a hat that covers the ears to con-serve body heat and protect ears from the cold; neck scarves that can be tucked inside a coat or jacket; warm, dry gloves to pro-tect hands from frostbite; and non-slip, insulated footwear to keep feet warm and prevent slips and falls. If you plan to be outdoors and exposed to cold tem-peratures for extended pe-riods of time windproof coveralls or snow suits should be worn.

If conditions are wet, be sure to include waterproof rain gear over the top of your warm, protective clothing. Water cools the body 25 to 30 times faster than air, so if you are wet and exposed to the cold, your body will lose heat faster than under dry con-ditions.

Wear cold weather clothing for safety

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The South Logan FCE had a meeting on Nov. 19 for a lesson in “gift giving.”

The lesson was led by Ann Ludlum and five mem-bers were in attendance. Their next meeting will be today at 1:30 p.m. at the Humboldt library to have a Christmas party.

4-H’ers learn gift giving

let later this month.Petrowsky said an up-

grade to U.S. 54, from Iola to the east edge of Mo-ran, was planned for next year with bids to be let in March.

In answer to a question from Larry Tucker, Hum-boldt administrator, he

said KDOT no longer des-ignated business routes, rather “we’re in the pro-cess of eliminating lane miles” for which the state has some responsibil-ity. Tucker had wondered about making K-224 and old U.S. 169 through Hum-boldt a business route.

Tucker also asked about

billboards, to alert motor-ists of what Humboldt had to offer.

Restrictions are in place for signs along U.S. 169, considered an express-way, Petrowsky said, but elsewhere “that’s up to lo-cal entities.” Signs may be placed along a national highway, such as 169, he added, but they generally are generic, are limited in size and scope and may be placed at intersections of city access roads.

PASTOR JERRY Nee-ley, First Baptist Church, asked if the city would forego a 5 percent late fee on utility payments for

those made by the ministe-rial association. He said lo-cal churches helped needy folks with utility bills and the late fee, invoked on the 10th of the month, added to the burden.

Julich said he preferred for those who received as-sistance to have some ac-countability and at least pay the 5 percent them-selves. And, he said, “if we were to take it off, we should do it for everyone.”

That approach wouldn’t trouble the ministerial group, said the Rev. Da-vid Meier, of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, which prompted council mem-bers to leave the late fee

untouched.Meier and Neely said

the churches had helped 14 families this year to the tune of $3,402.

IN OTHER action, coun-cil members;

— Approved a job de-scription for a utility/court clerk, who will fill two part-time positions.

Tucker said combining the two jobs would improve efficiencies in the clerk and Municipal Court depart-ments and reduce training required when part-time employees were replaced. Also, he said the employee could fill in when others were ill, on vacation or away on city business. He expects the job to be filled in the fall with a starting pay of about $14 an hour.

— Removed $1 a month fee from utility bills that had been in place since 2008. Proceeds had been used for drainage work about town, but had fallen short of what was needed. The fee removal was facili-tated by council members including $20,000 in tax-generated funding in the 2013 general fund budget for such work.

— Approved an annual resolution making Hum-boldt an “official entrant in the PRIDE Program” for 2013.

— Approved closing city offices Dec. 24 and 25 for Christmas and Jan. 1.

H HumboldtContinued from A1

Members of Kappa Al-pha Chapter of Phi Tau Omega met Dec. 3 at the home of Susan Hoffmeier. Twelve members and four pledges attended.

Members discussed a De-cember fundraiser.

The Christmas party will be Dec. 17 at Mary Lou Beyer’s home with a cov-ered dish dinner and secret sister gift exchange. Re-freshments were served by hostesses Janel Wilson and Hoffmeier.

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Board member Darrell Catron asked if in the new legislation year would they revisit the 2.5-mile rule, which allows students from surrounding areas to attend other school districts.

“The state is losing mon-ey when they allow a dis-trict student (in one district) to go to a different district,” Catron said. “They could stop that by saying that a student is worth what they are worth in the district they live in.”

Tyson didn’t have an answer, but did say “rural versus urban will be the biggest argument you hear (this legislative year).”

THE NEXT major pre-senter was Lisa Wicoff, rep-resentative of the facilities planning committee.

At the last committee meeting, USD 257 faculty and staff and communi-ty members agreed they would advise the board to bring in a bonding firm for consultation and begin the interview process for an ar-chitect.

Wicoff presented to the board the committee’s deci-sion and an informal survey she personally conducted, polling community mem-bers’ opinion on a new facil-ity.

The committee had a few options, including doing nothing. That option, Wic-off said, was “not an option

at all.”“We decided to bring in

the bond financing people and start interviewing ar-chitects,” Wicoff said.

She said she didn’t want to present it in a way that would make it seem set in stone, but that she believes it is a necessary step to be able to give the board and district residents, who will eventually vote for the bond, all the information avail-able.

To bring in the bond-ing firm it doesn’t cost the district anything, so in the next several months the planning committee will gather as much information on location, cost, savings, and the cost it would take to keep current facilities up to date.

“We are nearing the end of the lifespan of our build-ings,” Wicoff said. “We need some kind of strategic plan-ning.”

Wicoff, in her informal survey, found some of the same recurring questions of concern:

• What does it actually cost USD 257 to educate one student? What percentage of that would we spend on maintenance?

• Where would be the lo-cation of the facility?

• What would happen to the old buildings?

• Would that sever ties with the Bowlus Fine Arts Center?

• Would this lead to the

loss of students?• What would happen to

the bus barn and athletic facilities?

“I think we need to be very careful as a committee to these needs,” Wicoff said.

The board agreed with Wicoff. Information will be key to selling the bond is-sue to the community. It will also be key to making the decision of building an ele-mentary school or an entire campus.

“A lot of the issues are the same, the needs are the same. What has changed is (the aging) schools,” board member Don Snavely said.

THE BOARD briefly touched on a growing issue at Iola High — bullying.

“The board takes these issues extremely seriously,” Leavitt said. “We will ad-dress the happenings or potential happenings in a more in-depth presentation at the next board meeting on Jan. 14.”

Curriculum director An-gie Linn will be attending a meeting, Positive Behavior Supports, to address bully-

ing further. The board approved the

USD 257 District Insurance Coverage for fiscal year 2014.

As a whole, the district is down in its workman’s com-pensation premiums, but a little higher in property and automobile premiums.

The board decided to stay with their current insur-ance Employers Mutual through Iola Insurance.

The board approved the Neighborhood Revitaliza-tion Project renewal.

IOLA Middle School principal Jack Stanley had good news to share with the board. IMS received an award naming last year’s eighth-graders top 60 in the state.

Lincoln Elementary will be having its winter pro-gram tonight at 7 o’clock at the Bowlus.

On Dec. 18 Jefferson will be holding a chili feed at the high school to raise money for Raef Casner and his mom Lea. Raef is a fifth-grader who has liver can-cer.

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We are nearing the end of the lifespan for our buildings. We need some kind of strate-gic planning.

— Lisa Wicoff

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The transition would be aided by the fact that the companies would integrate with the city’s current soft-ware, leaving very little work for the city employees to do, Slaugh said.

Council member David Toland questioned whether such changes would inter-fere with EMS negotiations between the county. Slaugh said, “any changes with the county are not likely to hap-pen within a year.”

Council members also brought up the billing rates in the city, which Slaugh said are significantly lower than that of the county’s. Slaugh suggested that the rates be raised to match the county’s.

Council members decided to defer the decision until the next city council meet-ing, citing the need to dis-cuss things further with the county, as well as research the cost of postage for bill-ing EMS services.

ASSISTANT City Ad-ministrator Corey Schin-stock proposed the coun-cil officially close out the Prairie Spirit Trail project and make final payment to Schwab Eaton Engineers — the contractors for the trail.

Schinstock said the city is approximately $6,000 under

budget for the trail.He said due to delays in

the trail for inspection, the engineering firm “ate the cost” of the extra time need-ed. Schinstock proposed that the city award the ap-proximate $1,500 to Schwab Eaton. He said the city was under no legal obligation to pay the damages, but sug-gested the council award the funds on good faith.

The council passed mo-tions to pay the damages, as well as close the Prairie Spirit Trail project, barring any legal hurdles in paying the damages to the engi-neering firm.

COUNCIL members de-ferred a new bicycle or-dinance that would allow cyclists to ride on the side-walks anywhere in the city, as well as negate the re-quirement to register a bi-cycle with the city.

Due to clarification is-sues, the motion was de-ferred in order to stipulate that bicycles may be ridden on the sidewalks around the courthouse and town square.

THE IOLA Register and Great Southern Bank were unanimously voted by coun-cil members to be accepted as the official newspaper and bank for the city of Iola.

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High School BasketballToday vs. FREDONIA, 6 p.m.

High School WrestlingThursday at Erie, 5:30 p.m.Saturday JV at Cherryvale, 9 a.m.

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IMS squads end season with victoriesBy RICHARD LUKEN

[email protected] Middle School’s seventh-

and eighth-grade girls ended their respective seasons on a high note Monday.

The seventh-graders pulled away in the second quarter to de-feat visiting Parsons 33-19. The eighth-graders didn’t wait that long, jumping out to an 11-4 first-quarter lead en route to a 38-19 win.

The eighth-graders’ victory puts the Ponies’ final record at 10-5 on the season. The seventh grade ends with a 5-10 mark.

Ponies coach Marty Taylor was effusive in his praise for both squads, beginning with the eighth grade.

“There really are not enough good things to say about the way these girls played tonight,” Taylor said. “Every girl on the team was fantastic. I’ve been very lucky to have the opportunity to coach this group. Winning 22 games in two years speaks to their hard work. Every one of these kids should be proud of what they accomplished and be excited for what they will accomplish with Coach (Becky) Carlson and the (Iola High) Fil-lies.”

Iola led 11-4 after one quarter and 22-10 at halftime.

Leading the way was point guard Sydney Wade’s 11 points, seven rebounds and four as-sists. Toni Macha followed with 10 points and eight rebounds. Lexi Heslop chipped in with nine points and eight boards. Riley Murry had three points and five rebounds. Taylor Stout scored three points, Brook Storrer had two points and Jadyn Sigg had four rebounds.

A 9-2 RUN in the second quar-ter turned a small advantage into an 18-9 lead at halftime for the seventh-grade Ponies.

“A great way to finish the year for these girls,” Taylor said. “This group has improved as much over the season as any group I’ve had. I’m expecting big things out of

From upper left, Iola Middle School seventh-grader Scout Rush (32) looks for a teammate against Parsons Middle School. Rush had seven rebounds in the Pony victory. At upper right, IMS eighth-grader Taylor Stout eyes an opening inside against a Parsons defender. Stout had three points in the 38-19 win. At bottom left, Carley Cescon (11) lines up a field goal attempt, while teammates Madison Car-lin (4), Addy Prather (30), Kylee Shaw (51) and Brook Storrer (13) stand by.

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By RICHARD [email protected] Sheble, daughter of

former Iola standout Shelley (Moore) Sheble, will take her basketball talents to Manhat-tan next fall.

The 17-year-old Olathe North senior signed a letter of intent Nov. 15 to play basket-ball for Kansas State Univer-sity.

The 6-foot, 4½-inch Sheble is fulfilling a childhood goal, her mother said.

“She’s always been a K-State fan and always wanted to play there,” Shelley Sheble told the Register in a telephone inter-view. “She just never was sure she was good enough.”

A conversation with a coach

Daughter of former Iolan signs with KSU

Jessica Scheble

By DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — When James Shields broke into the big leagues with Tampa Bay, the Rays were no better than the Kansas City Royals.

They lost more than 100 games his first season, and fared little better the following year. But by his third season as a starter, the Rays had finally turned the cor-ner, many of their prized pros-pects forming the nucleus of a team that upstaged AL East stal-warts Boston and the Yankees and advanced all the way to the World Series.

Now, after a blockbuster deal that sent Shields and fellow right-hander Wade Davis to the Royals late Sunday, the former All-Star pitcher believes everything is in place for Kansas City to replicate the Rays’ success.

“The Royals are definitely on

the right track,” Shields said Monday. “They definitely remind me of our ‘07 season going into our ‘08 season in the Rays organi-

zation, and I think there’s a good possibility we can step in that

Trade shows KC wants to win now

James Shields Wil Myers

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By HOWARD ULMANAP Sports Writer

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Just another game for the New England Patriots. Just a wire-to-wire domination of the team with the NFL’s best record.

So when their 42-14 Monday night rout of the Houston Texans was complete, there were few big smiles and no loud music in the Patriots locker room.

They’ve been here before — many times.

“We’ve played in a countless number of big games,” said guard Logan Mankins, a veteran of two of the Patriots five Super Bowls in the past 11 seasons. “We know what it takes to prepare for

one and not over-hype the game.”Not exactly the way some Tex-

ans viewed it coming in — “the biggest game in the history of this franchise,” wide receiver Andre Johnson had said.

Houston certainly didn’t play like it, falling behind 21-0 early in the second quarter on three touchdown passes by Tom Brady. It was 28-0 on his fourth scoring toss just over five minutes into the third quarter and, with a strong showing by an improving Patriots defense, the Texans had little hope of coming back.

“If we do what we want,” safety Devin McCourty said, “we can’t

Patriots steamroll Texans

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Dear Santa,Thank you for Camo, that’s

what I named the dog. I want lots of tows and a

slide phone and an Easy Bake oven, also a slurpee maker. High heels, too.

Thank you,Heidi Walker,

Iola

Dear Santa,I am 4 years old and my

Grandma is helping me write this letter. I have been a very good boy for my Daddy and my Grandma.

Could you please bring me a big fire truck.

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Do the girl reindeer like pink? I will help mommy and Gretch-en make cookies for you on Christmas Eve!

Love, Sophia,

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Dear Santa,Thank you for the

paints, color books and markers you brought last year.

I have been a very nice girl. This year would you please bring me some pres-ents? I would like a pretty purple prin-cess, a ballerina tutu, and a tooth fairy doll.

Do you know the real tooth fairy? I will leave out some milk and cookies for you on Christmas Eve!

Love, Gretchen,

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Dear Santa,I hope you have a great

year! All I want is an iPod and one game — plants vs. zom-bies. But if your elves cannot make it I understand. But if you can, I hope your can give me one. By the way, did you send Quentin a letter that said that I was bad and I would get coal?

Or some Alexander stuff for the dolls, especially some cool duct tape.

P.S. I will set some oats out for your reindeer.

Have a Happy Christmas!!!Love,

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Dear Santa,I would like a dump truck

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Love,Easton King

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Hot Wheels, a pirate ship and games. Remember, we are in the blue house this year.

Love, Blaine King,

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and the Eagle Talon Castle for Christmas.

By the way, my new lizards got in a fight with other lizards so they do not get any pres-ents for Christmas.

Thad Pekarek,Iola

Dear Santa,I want an Eagle Talon Cas-

tle and a baseball game for Christmas.

Seth Pekarek,Iola

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Love,Ryan Cole,

Iola

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But most of all I want you to have a good Christmas, too. We will set out cookies and milk for you. I like how you have such a long beard. I also won-dered why are red and green the Christmas colors? Why is your house so small?

Did you know that people can track where you are? Once we tracked you. You can move so fast.

Guess what, I found my name is really old.

I have wondered, do you have a sister or brother? I have two sisters and one

brother. What are your parents’

names. Mine are Edye and Eric.Tell Mrs. Claus that I like her

dress.I love you. You are so nice.

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Iola

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Love,Austen Stewert,

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Karsyn

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The Royals haven’t known what that’s like in years.

Despite the matricula-tion of their best prospects to the big league club, the Royals still struggled to a 72-90 record and a third-place finish in the weak AL Central last season. It was their ninth consecutive los-ing season, and extended to 27 the number of years it’s been since the franchise last played in the postsea-son.

The biggest reason for the lousy finish was a dearth of starting pitching,

and that’s something that general manager Dayton Moore has been aggres-sively trying to resolve this offseason.

Along with acquiring Shields and Davis in argu-ably the biggest move his tenure, Moore also re-signed Jeremy Guthrie to a $25 mil-lion, three-year deal and ac-quired Ervin Santana and his $12 million salary from the Los Angeles Angels. That means Kansas City’s top four starters next sea-son weren’t on their open-ing day roster this past year.

“Our goal is to add as much pitching depth as we can as every organization tends to do, especially this time of year,” said Moore, adding that Bruce Chen, Luke Ho-chevar and Luis Mendoza could compete for the final job in spring training.

Danny Duffy and Fe-lipe Paulino, who are both coming off Tommy John surgery this past summer, could also wrestle the job away when they return sometime during the mid-dle of the season.

“It looks like a good mix of people, I think, with Shield and Santana — I’ve seen Guthrie pitch for a

couple years with the Ori-oles,” Davis said. “I’m not a 10-year veteran or a coach, but I think it’s a good mix of people.”

The Royals certainly mortgaged their future to put it together.

Tampa Bay’s biggest prize in the six-player swap is undoubtedly outfielder Wil Myers, widely regarded as the top prospect in the minors. The 22-year-old hit .314 with 37 homers and 109 RBIs last season, and he starred during the All-Star Futures Game hosted by Kansas City, putting togeth-er a pair of hits and driving in three runs.

Moore said he tried to keep Myers out of the deal, but he also understood that “you have to give up some-thing to get something,” so he parted with one of the game’s top prospects.

He also sent along right-hander Jake Odorizzi, the Royals’ top pitching pros-pect, left-hander Mike Montgomery and third baseman Patrick Leonard to Tampa Bay. Kansas City also will receive another player or cash.

“When you get a chance to upgrade and get a pitch-

er the caliber of James Shields and Wade Davis, we felt it was the right thing for us to do for our team today and going forward,” Moore said.

The Royals have made a significant financial com-mitment to winning this season.

Along with taking on Santana’s hefty contract, the Royals will pay Shields $10.5 million this season while holding a club option of $12 million with a $1 mil-lion buyout for next season. Davis is due to make $2.8 million this season and $4.8 million in 2014, with the Royals holding options on the next three years.

Shields said he relishes the opportunity to return to the role of franchise ace.

It was the same role he had his first few years in Tampa Bay, before Da-vid Price and others blos-somed, and a role in which he feels comfortable. He’s logged at least 200 innings six consecutive seasons, has 14 complete games over the past two years, and his 3.89 ERA for his career makes him the most effec-tive starter in the Royals’ new-look rotation.

Kansas City starters combined for a 5.01 ERA last season, fifth-worst in the big leagues.

“Starting pitching, I think that’s where it starts,” Shields said. “What the Rays did the last couple years, it’s been about start-ing pitching and defense. That’s the key to success. Hopefully me and Wade can get the job done.”

of her AAU summer bas-ketball team led to Sheble’s invitation to a camp hosted by K-State womens coach Deb Patterson.

“Her AAU coach hap-pened to know a recruiter from K-State, so they in-vited her,” Shelley Sheble said. “Everything changed from that point. The coach-es said she had a lot of po-tential.”

A three-year starter for Olathe North, Sheble av-eraged 13 points and 8.6 rebounds per game as a ju-nior for the 8-13 Eagles.

“They haven’t had a lot of team success, but we have some young guards who will help this year,” her mother said. “We’re really hoping to make it to state.”

Shelley Moore Sheble was a four-year standout for Iola High in the late 1980s.

She, along with twin sis-ter, Sherry, was a part of Io-la’s state-qualifying basket-ball teams in 1986 and 1988.

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these girls next year.”Colbi Riley poured in 15

points and grabbed four re-bounds. Eliza Hale added 10 points, while Karly McGuf-fin had seven points and 13 rebounds. Katie Bauer pulled in six rebounds and scored a point. Scout Rush had seven boards.

Parsons won the B team contest 25-18.

Notching the scorebook for Iola were Mackayla By-croft, four points, Madison Carlin, Carley Cescon and Kylee Shaw, three points each, Kayla Underwood and Addie Prather, two points each, and Brook Storrer, one point.

MONDAY’S games came two days after the eighth-graders went 1-1 in the IMS Winter Classic.

Iola opened the tourna-ment by knocking off pre-viously unbeaten Mead-

owview 31-13. The Ponies took control with a 9-1 spurt in the second quarter, then sealed the win with an 8-0 run to end the game.

Wade had 13 points and two rebounds, followed by Heslop with 10 points and eight rebounds, Macha with six points and seven boards and Murry with two points and five rebounds.

Pittsburg defeated Iola 23-19 in the championship game in come-from-behind fashion. Iola led 13-12 after three quarters.

Heslop scored eight points with five rebounds to lead the Ponies. Macha had four points and nine rebounds. Stout scored three points. Wade had two points, two rebounds and five assists. Murry had two points and five rebounds.

“These girls put together eight quarters of hard work in these two games,” Taylor said. “I couldn’t ask for any

more. Syd was really, really good all day, she makes this team go. Toni Macha is as tough on both ends of the floor as anyone I’ve had. Ri-ley was outstanding on de-fense against Pittsburg. She

made their big girl work for every point she got. And Taylor Stout was all over the place on defense and Lexi on the block was great going up against much big-ger girls.”

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Register/Richard LukenIola Middle School eighth-grader Jadyn Sigg (14) con-trolled four rebounds Monday in the Ponies’ 18-19 win over Parsons Middle School. Defending Sigg are Mal-lorie Smith (10) and Brittany Hopkins (22) of Parsons.

predict the score but we know we can dominate games.”

Starting with Brady.He threw four touch-

down passes for the 18th time, passing Johnny Uni-tas and moving into fourth place all time. In the Patri-ots seven-game winning streak — four by a margin of at least 28 points — he’s thrown for 19 touchdowns and just one interception.

But Monday night’s per-formance was his first as a father of three, capping off a stretch in which his wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, gave birth to Vivian Lake on Wednes-day.

“She is doing very well,”

Brady said. “It’s been a great week, a great way to end it.”

The Patriots (10-3) tied the AFC West-leading Denver Broncos for the second best record in the conference and already have clinched the AFC East title. The Texans (11-2) still hold the top spot in the conference, and have locked up at least a wild-card berth, but two of their remaining three games are against India-napolis, which trails them by two games in the AFC South.

“We know how impor-tant this game was to us,” Johnson said after the Texans six-game winning streak ended. “We have to respond next week”

against the Colts.Wes Welker had only

three catches. But his 31-yard punt return and 25-yard catch ed to the first of Aaron Hernandez’s two touchdowns, a 7-yard score.

H PatriotsContinued from B1

MORAN — A pair of losses for Marmaton Val-ley Junior High’s girls will offer “a good teaching moment,” head coach Kim Ensminger said.

Visiting Jayhawk-Linn downed the Wildcat A team 22-16 and the B team 20-12.

“Both teams were flat,” Ensminger said of her Wildcat squads. “A lack of practice has had an im-pact on our performance.”

A high school tourna-ment last week limited practice time, Ensminger

said. “We will bounce back and be ready for our two games next week.”

Marmaton Valley trav-els to Jayhawk-Linn next Monday, then to Union-town one day later.

Nalea Alexander led the Wildcat A team with eight points, followed by Misty Storrer with six and Kyla Drake with two.

Trinitee Gutierrez scored eight of the Wildcat B team’s 12 points. Clara Boyd and Shayla Brooks each had two points.

MVJH drops pair

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By JOHN HANNAAssociated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback an-nounced Monday that he intends to merge Kansas’ troubled juvenile justice agency with the adult De-partment of Corrections system, arguing that two critical legislative audits in the past five months show the need to abandon “a failed social-services approach” to handling young offenders.

Brownback contends the juvenile facilities and programs would be better managed under the De-partment of Corrections and says money that’s going toward adminis-tration of the Juvenile Justice Authority could instead be diverted into programs for offenders.

The conservative Re-publican governor’s plan to issue an executive or-der early next year to the GOP-controlled Leg-islature received the im-mediate endorsement of incoming Senate Major-ity Leader Terry Bruce, a former county pros-ecutor. Under the state constitution, Brownback will have 30 days to issue the order once legislators convene their 2013 ses-sion in mid-January. Law-makers will then have 60 days to reject it, or the order will take effect on July 1.

Brownback removed the Juvenile Justice Au-thority’s top two officials earlier this year and put a Department of Correc-tions official in charge. Later, the legislative au-dits questioned the au-thority’s handling of safe-ty issues and suggested education programs for young offenders aren’t up to par.

The state separated ju-venile justice programs in 1997 from the agency that became the Depart-ment for Children and Families, partly to give the programs more atten-tion and partly to hold young offenders more accountable. Brownback said the agency’s recent problems — and the ones predating the authority’s creation — demonstrate that corrections profes-sionals should run juve-nile programs and cen-ters.

“A long-term solution is to increase the empha-sis on safety at our youth facilities,” Brownback said during a Statehouse news conference. “This has been an area of prob-lem for some period of time.”

Brownback said the Ju-venile Justice Authority will become a division of the Department of Cor-rections, with a deputy secretary. He said he in-tends to appoint Acting Juvenile Justice Commis-sioner Terri Williams, herself a former deputy corrections secretary, to the position and praised her for doing “a very good job in a difficult set of cir-cumstances.”

The Department of Corrections houses about 9,400 adult offenders, run-ning seven prisons and a mental health center with an annual budget of about $282 million. The Juvenile Justice Author-ity oversees programs for 1,500 young offend-ers, housing about 330 of them at juvenile correc-tions centers in Topeka

and Larned, and has an annual budget of $90 mil-lion.

B r u c e, a conser-v a t i v e Hutchin-son Re-publican, c a l l e d B r o w n -b a c k ’ s plan pru-dent, par-ticularly

for offenders housed in the Topeka and Larned centers.

“By the time an offend-er is required to serve in that situation, you need to acknowledge that it needs to be in a structured cor-rections environment,” Bruce said.

Last year, Brownback proposed folding the state’s juvenile justice programs into the De-partment of Children and Families. However, key Republican legislators argued that the plan was hastily conceived and

ignored history, and the governor backed off.

Since then, two of the biggest GOP critics of the plan, Sens. Tim Owens of Overland Park and Dick Kelsey of Goddard, lost Republican primaries for re-election. Another Republican skeptic, Rep. Pat Colloton, of Leawood, chairwoman of the House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate.

In March, Brownback fired Juvenile Justice Commissioner Curtis Whitten and Deputy Com-missioner Dennis Casaro-na. Brownback’s admin-istration declined to say why they were removed, but the audits suggested significant problems.

The first audit in July said the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex in Topeka, which houses about 220 male offenders and 20 female offenders, has not taken adequate steps to protect the safe-ty of offenders and staff and that the problems were compounded by poor management.

The second audit last month said educational pro-grams at the complex don’t adequately prepare offend-ers for future jobs and that the Juvenile Justice Author-ity had taken a “hands-off approach” to education pro-grams.

Williams has acknowl-edged the past problems and said the authority was work-ing to make improvements. But she endorsed Brown-back’s proposed merger, saying it would allow her to focus far less on adminis-trative and computer issues and far more on programs for young offenders.

Corrections Secretary Ray Roberts said: “I be-lieve that consolidation will make both agencies stronger and help us to be better equipped to man-age a comprehensive cor-rectional system.”

Juvenile program to merge with corrections

Brownback

I believe that con-solidation will make both agencies stronger and help us to be better equipped to manage a comprehensive correc-tional system.

— Ray Roberts,corrections secretary

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Dear Tom and Ray: My daughter-in-law purchased a new, 2009 Toyota Corolla Type S in late 2008. The car currently has about 40,000 miles on it, so it has exceed-ed the warranty by about a year and 4,000 miles. The car was taken to the Toyo-ta dealership from which it was purchased because the steering wheel dropped down when the wheel was turned. The dealer said that the bolts that secure the steering wheel had backed out. The dealer later stated that the steering column would have to be replaced, because they couldn’t rein-stall the bolts through the bracket on the steering col-umn. A claim was opened with Toyota, and Toyota denied the claim, citing ex-piration of the warranty. Aside from faulty bolts or improper torque, what would cause these bolts to back out? Is there anything she could have done to make this happen, or is this clear-ly a defect? The estimated price of a new steering col-umn is about $2,000, so now my daughter-in-law is mak-ing payments on a car she can’t drive or afford to re-pair. Should Toyota at least share the cost? — Dennis

Tom: In my opinion, defi-nitely. There’s absolutely nothing your daughter-in-law could have done to strip the bolts on the steering wheel. I don’t think we’ve ever seen that happen, in decades of re-pairing cars. So it could have happened one of only two ways.

Ray: Either the bolts or some part of the steering column was defective when

the car was manufactured, or someone made a mistake on the assembly line and it somehow slipped through the quality-control process.

Tom: So I would ask your dealer to set up an appoint-ment for you with Toyota’s “zone manager” for your re-gion. That’s someone who’s empowered to investigate unusual situations and take

action if it’s called for. Ray: I’d think Toyota would

be embarrassed to have its steering wheels falling off at 40,000 miles, and would want to quickly fix this, even with the car out of the warranty.

Tom: And if Toyota isn’t embarrassed by this, write back to us and we’ll try hard-er to embarrass them. Good luck, Dennis.

Dear Tom and Ray: I have a 1964 Mercedes 230 SL. While I was adding gas, the detachable plastic spout from a five-gallon gas can fell into my car’s gas tank. I asked our mechanic how to find and remove the spout;

he said I’d have to empty the tank and he’d have to remove the entire tank from the car. This option seems expensive and like overkill to me. Do you know of some kind of grabber with a camera or light that can be used to find the spout and remove it? Or do you have any other sug-

gestions? Thank you for any help you can give. — Cathy

Tom: Yes. My suggestion would be to forget all about it. I don’t think it’s going to hurt anything.

Ray: I agree. It’s obviously not going to dissolve in the tank. How do we know that? It used to be part of a gas can.


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Optometrist should be involved in rosacea treatment Dear Drs. Donohue and

Roach: My father and I have rosacea. I have it worse. I get acne on my face, along with redness, and now I have scar-ring.

I never had acne when growing up. I was diagnosed three years ago with rosacea. Sometimes I don’t leave the house because it’s so bad. I have tried a lot of medicines, but nothing has been a solu-tion so far. Is there anything you can suggest? I’m sick of dealing with this. — J.O.

Answer: Anyone can come down with rosacea, but people with fair skin who blush easily are the ones most likely to develop it. Redness of the nose, cheeks and chin, an outbreak that resembles acne and tangles of tiny blood vessels that have the appearance of small spiderwebs (telangi-ectasias) are the predomi-nant signs of this chronic skin condition. Hot drinks, emotional situations, spicy foods and alcohol bring on an outbreak, but the most

troublesome influence is the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. People with rosacea should never go outside without ap-plying sunblock to their face.

An often overlooked aspect of rosacea is eye involve-ment. The eyes dry and red-den. Without proper atten-tion, permanent eye damage can occur. An eye doctor should be involved in treat-ing rosacea patients whose eyes are affected.

I don’t know the treat-ments you have had. Metro-Gel is a preparation of the antibiotic metronidazole that’s applied directly to the face, often with good re-sults. Oral antibiotics have their place in treatment, too. Periostat (doxycycline)

comes in a reduced dose marketed specifically for rosacea. Laser treatments obliterate the spiderweb ag-gregations of blood vessels.

It sounds like you’re not seeing a dermatologist. You need to. You can’t fight rosa-cea without one. In addition, contact the National Rosacea Society. The toll-free number is 800-NO-BLUSH, and its website is www.rosacea.org. The society will keep you up to date with new develop-ments and provide a number of useful tips for controlling rosacea.

Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: I am a 91-year-old male and have a blood test every year in our town’s medical center. Last December, my he-

moglobin was 13.8, within the normal range of 12.6 to 17.6. I had a recent test, and it was 13.7 — out of the 14-18 range. Can you explain this? — C.C.

Answer: Hemoglobin is a large protein inside every red blood cell. It’s a magnet for oxygen, picking it up as the red blood cells pass through the lungs and delivering it to all body sites in need of it. The hemoglobin value is an estimate of the number of red blood cells a person has. A drop in hemoglobin indicates loss of blood or a decreased production of it. You have a couple of differ-ent values for normal. Let me give you one used by a trust-ed medical reference. It is 13.3 to 16.2 grams/dL for a male. You’re safely within the nor-mal range. Furthermore, the change from last December to the present is so small that it should not be a concern. It’s within the acceptable er-ror range of the test. If your doctor isn’t upset, you don’t need to be.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A task force created by Gov. Sam Brownback to review the Kansas system for fund-ing public schools held its final meeting Monday, though teachers argue they were being left out of the discussions.

The task force was formed by the Republican governor to look at how funds are spent by school districts and identify areas for improving fiscal effi-ciency.

Several recommen-dations were discussed Monday that could be in-cluded in the task force’s final report to Brownback. Among the topics were consolidating districts’ ad-ministrative positions and so-called back-office func-tions, changing purchasing laws for supplies and ser-vices, modifying negotia-tion rules for districts and

teachers and creating two-year budget cycles to help districts with planning.

Ken Willard, chairman of the task force and a Re-publican member of the State Board of Education, said consolidation should not be mandated at the state level in a manner that forc-es district to close build-ings, even though that may be where the most money could be saved. He said even though buildings are big ticket items, closing them may not be in students’ best interest.

“I think there’s ground to be made and money saved by taking a look at the ad-ministrative piece,” Wil-lard said.

Other task force mem-bers said they supported centralizing some district functions and purchasing abilities, but wanted to re-tain some flexibility for districts to make decisions or provide financial incen-

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cus more of their resources on classroom instruction and find ways to reduce spending on functions that don’t affect teaching. The governor said Monday that he would like to move to a two-year budget cycle

Members of the Kansas National Education As-sociation, the state’s larg-est teacher union, held a news conference Monday to lament the fact they

were shut out of the task force’s process. The teach-ers raised concerns that the task force, legislators and Brownback appeared to be more concerned with finan-cial efficiency than what teachers called educational effectiveness.

Karen Godfrey, a lan-guage arts teacher from To-peka and president of the KNEA, said school districts have made spending cuts in recent years that resulted in larger class sizes, fewer classroom supplies and loss of support staff such as counselors, janitors and librarians. The result has been that teachers use time that should be spent on instruction to clean class-rooms or counsel students facing personal issues not related to schools.

“Efficiency is not just

about saving money,” God-frey said.

Kansas spends more than $3 billion in state revenues on public schools each year.

The task force is expected to make recommendations to the governor for possible action in the legislative ses-sion that starts Jan. 14.

I think there’s ground to be made and money saved by taking a look at the adminis-trative piece.

— Ken Willard,task force chairman

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