Veterans Day changes in store, committee declares

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September 23, 2015 - 12:00 AM

This year’s Veterans Day recognition will be more kid-friendly, Tom Nevans, Veterans Committee member, told Allen County commissioners Tuesday. The event will be Nov. 7.
He asked to use the courthouse basement’s assembly room for veterans to relate some of their experiences to youngsters, a proposal that drew rousing approval from commissioners. Also, he said an inflatable obstacle course would be on courthouse grounds to give the younger set an activity. Finally, 891st Engineer Battalion soldiers will bring their climbing wall for teens and adults.
A memorial address will occur at 11 a.m. with the annual parade to follow.
In run-up to the big day, commissioners said they would replace seven flags — five representing service branches, others the nation and Kansas — near the Veterans Wall, an exercise Nevans said was required every six months or so.
Chairman Tom Williams pointed out that John Muhl soon will have a receptacle in the courthouse where worn-out flags might be placed and later disposed of in a proper manner, as part of his Eagle Scout project. Muhl will put a container in Humboldt’s City Hall, as well.
“We need something like that,” Nevans observed. “Just the other day people at Walmart asked me where they could take old flags.”
In other business, commissioners:
— Selected a bid of $11,920 from J-D’s Automotive, Iola, for two quarry loader tires. J-D’s was one of four bids.
— Appointed County Clerk Sherrie Riebel to be the county’s representative at the Kansas Association of Counties meeting in Wichita on Nov. 5.
— Agreed to pay Rodney Burns, of Schlotterbeck & Burns, Chanute, $1,300 to help prepare the county’s budget in 2016 and $15,975 to audit 2015 financial records. The budget charge remained unchanged; audit cost is $300 more.

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