William L. Frederick, 88, passed away Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at Windsor Place. Bill was born Oct. 14, 1926, to Leo and Hazel (Mueller) Frederick in Humboldt.
Bill attended Humboldt schools and graduated from Humboldt High School in 1944. On Feb. 18, 1951, Bill married Nelva Jean Myers in Eureka. Bill worked as a farmer and rancher his entire life and also lived in Woodson and Allen counties his whole life. For about 10 years, Bill also worked at Gates Rubber Company in Iola. Bill was a member of the Humboldt Co-op during its existence.
Bill enjoyed attending auctions and going hunting and fishing, especially coon hunting. He was great at whistling and loved to do that. It was said you could hear him whistling a mile away.
He is preceded in death by his mother and father; brother, Jack Frederick; son-in-law, Darrell Honas; and grandson, Travis Yoho.
Bill is survived by his wife Jean; children, Gary Frederick and wife Marsha, Humboldt; Linda Honas, Humboldt; and Jim Frederick and wife Trina, Humboldt; sister-in-law, Marcia Herder; grandchildren, Chad Frederick, Brent Frederick, Kellee Woods, Josh Honas and Andy Honas, great-grandchildren, James Jackson Frederick, Trenton Yoho, Trinity Yoho, Eliot Are, Riley Woods and Cooper Woods.
Funeral Services for Bill will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Humboldt. Visitation will be prior to the service from 10 to 11. Interment will take place at Dewitt Cemetery west of Humboldt.
The family suggests memorials to the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility (ACARF) or to the American Diabetes Association and may be left with Countryside Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be left at www.countrysidefh.com.
Calan Dunbar
Andrew and Crystal Dunbar, of Richmond, are happy to announce the birth of their son, Calan Gregory Dunbar, born on March 18, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence.
He weighed 5 pounds and 11 ounces and was 18 inches long.
Calan has three siblings: Arabella, 7, Aydan, 7, and Mathew, 5.
He is the grandson of Gregory and Terri Jackman, Colony, and Jon and Gail Dunbar, Plainville. He is the great-grandson of Decker and Sandy Spillman, Colony, Dean Hamm, Colony, Dollene Jackman, Humboldt, Marvin Jackman, Moran, and Dean and Terry Evans, Lebo.
ACC softball swept at home, baseball splits on road
Allen Community College’s softball team couldn’t get its offense rolling in 5-1 and 3-0 losses to Labette Thursday.
In game one, ACC tied the game at 1-1 in the top of the first. Cassidy Reynolds started the inning with a double. Shelby Maycumber followed with a single that advanced Reynolds to third. Reynolds came in to score on an error.
Cheyanne Daniels, Ashley Womack and Tristyn Delgado all hit singles in the game.
Baileigh Rager pitched all seven innings, gave up five runs (four earned) and 10 hits with no walks. She struck out seven.
Allen mustered only four hits — singles from Reynolds, Daniels, Womack and Justine Dougan — in the game two shutout.
Erin Pearly made it through 1 2/3 innings before Rager came in on relief. Pearly walked four and gave up two hits and two runs. Rager struck out six and gave up one run on two hits.
ACC (11-26) travels to Ottawa Monday for a doubleheader.
ALLEN’S baseball team split a doubleheader at Kansas City, Kan., Thursday, losing 8-4 and winning, 10-8.
In game one, Allen led 3-1 after three innings. Cameron Pope hit a solo shot to put the Red Devils up 1-0 in the top of the second. Derrick Weir started the third with a single. He came into score on a Ryne Martinez single. An error brought in another run.
Kansas City took the lead for good with a three-run fourth.
The Red Devils rallied for five runs in the seventh inning of game two to take a 9-7 lead.
Weir and Caeden Harris started the inning with singles. After a fielder’s choice out, Alex Lugo came up with a three-run homer. Nate Ek’s two-run double later in the inning broke the 7-7 tie.
An error paved the way for ACC’s final tally in the eighth.
Allen (12-25) hosts KCK today in a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. to wrap up the four-game series.
Letter to the editor — April 17, 2015
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? URBAN CONSERVATIVES HATE RURAL KANSAS AS, APPARENTLY, DOES OUR GOVERNOR
Circle the wagons, rural Kansans, the conservative representatives and senators of our urban centers and our governor are out to destroy your rural infrastructure — normally funded by state revenues. Apparently, they hate bills that help those of us that live in rural areas and recent legislation proves it! Slashing funding to poor and rural schools, hospitals and roads to balance a state budget that provides tax cuts for people that don’t need them seems to be the order of the day in Topeka, as does the disregard for the damage such an approach does to keeping viable the communities of rural Kansas.
Conservative politicians in Johnson, Sedgwick and Shawnee counties might be surprised to learn, but our state is bigger in area than all of New England combined — Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island would all fit inside Kansas. But at 2,904,021 we don’t have the 14,680,722 people that live in New England. As a percentage of land use, our state is the most “private” of all the 50 states. We have less public land than any other and we are thinly populated, which means infrastructure funding is a challenge and helps explain why our per capita cost for state and local government always ranks among the top five states in the country. Per capita we do pay a lot for state and local government. With 105 counties and hundreds of school districts for a thinly populated state, it is expensive to provide local services and that cost explains the relatively high level of property taxes that we pay in the state. But it’s been this way for 150 years!
On this challenge of paying for the infrastructure of a largely rural state, former Governor John Carlin — originally from the tiny town of Smolan — addressed our Iola economic development group a few years ago and understood this when he said that Kansas and its various levels of local government needed numerous and diverse revenue sources to appropriately support the infrastructure in the state, to include Federal funding, where appropriate. Our miles of roads and highways, for example, are huge. The last time I saw the statistics, of the 50 states, Kansas was only behind Texas and California in the number of miles of road to maintain.
What’s the matter with Kansas? And why am I on a soapbox in the local newspaper with a letter to the editor? I am angry because our conservative urban political leaders don’t seem to think rural communities are important anymore. As a life-long rural resident and volunteer in economic development, I am upset that the current crowd in Topeka has threatened to destroy in two years what I and my small-town contemporaries have labored as volunteers for over three decades to maintain — the viability of the counties and the communities in which we live. We work hard every day to keep jobs in our towns and counties — to keep viable the small county-seat towns, farming communities, regional retail centers and small manufacturing towns. Everyone should know that to keep jobs and bring in new ones to any community big or small, adequate education funding, access to health care and good highways are essential components for the survival of any community.
The Legislature and the current governor have attacked all three, consistently. They have targeted education, health care and highways. The unwillingness to appropriately fund K-12 education — in per-pupil dollars spent — hits hard most rural school districts. The rejection by Kansas of the Medicaid extension is jeopardizing the financial survival of most if not all rural hospitals in the state. Partially covering the tax-cut created budget shortfall by gutting of the state highway fund — a resource which was created by the sale of 20-year highway bonds that have to be paid back over the next 10-plus years — jeopardizes the access to and from our rural communities for now and a decade to come.
What’s the matter with Kansas? Its urban conservative leaders seem to deny that Kansas is an agricultural state — yet two of its three largest industries are grain and cattle — the third is airplanes. Our leaders — again, mostly from urban counties in the state — hate the rural part of the state, I am told, and it sure seems to be true. Our governor — who apparently has forgotten he grew up in Parker, Kansas — endorses policies that are destroying the lifestyle he enjoyed in his youth.
As the legislative leaders are in recess, what should we in rural Kansas do? (It’s not just western or eastern Kansas — it’s urban versus rural Kansas — make no mistake.) Be sure your legislators know how you feel. Our governor and the legislative leaders — primarily from our urban centers, who run the House and the Senate in Topeka — are taking all of us in rural Kansas down a path that endangers all of our small town communities.
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? URBAN CONSERVATIVES HATE RURAL KANSAS AS, APPARENTLY, DOES OUR GOVERNOR!
A betrayed and angry rural volunteer.
Jim Gilpin
502 East Madison
Iola, Kansas
Crest track
PLEASANTON — Crest High’s track team competed at Pleasanton on Tuesday. The girls took eighth place and the boys came in sixth.
Individual results follow:
Girls
1600m run
Taryn Covey, third, 7:10.12
Discus
Laurel Godderz, third, 84’8”
Krystal Cooper, fourth, 82’
Javelin
Laurel Godderz, second, 96’4”
Shot put
Krystal Cooper, fourth, 29’3”
Boys
100m dash
Cody Vermillion, sixth, 12.22
200m dash
Gage Adams, fourth, 24.8
4x100m relay
Crest, fifth, 50.6
4x400m relay
Crest, fourth, 4:16.81
Discus
Kellen Ramsey, fifth, 98’6”
Javelin
Evan Godderz, first, 145’
Iola golf wins second tourney of season
PITTSBURG — Iola High’s golf team continues to roll this season, getting another team tournament win in as many contests — Kaden Macha took second individually.
The team shot a 318 overall, one stroke better than Pittsburg’s St. Mary Colgan. Macha shot a 75, the same as winner Austin Krewson of Labette County. They went into a tiebreaker on the fourth hole and Krewson won.
Shane Walden scored a 78 for sixth overall. Just behind him was Drake Dieker in seventh with a 79. Matt Jacobs and Adam Peterson tied for 16th with an 86 overall.
Humboldt High’s Robbie Sellman entered the tournament as an individual. He shot an 84 and earned 14th place.
Iola competes in league action on Tuesday at Osawatomie.
Iola, Humboldt dominate IMS Invitational
Iola Middle School held its Invitational on Tuesday. The all-day event boasted 21 schools from across southeastern Kansas.
For the seventh grade girls, Humboldt won, Iola took second and Marmaton Valley placed 14th. For the eighth graders, Humboldt took sixth, Iola placed seventh and Marmaton Valley came in eighth.
Of note, Iola’s seventh grade girls 4×100-meter relay team — Elka Billings, Ella Taylor, Sydni Keagle and Elysia Kunkler — broke their record from earlier this year and a new time of 56.93 seconds. Humboldt’s 4x400m relay team — Alayna Johnson, Hope Kamanga, Madison Gean and Winter Snyder — set a new record with a time of 4 minutes, 48.96 seconds. They beat the meet’s previous record by 11 seconds.
For the seventh grade boys, Iola took third place, Humboldt tied for 12th and Moran didn’t have any participants. For the eighth-graders, Iola placed third, Humboldt took 10th and Marmaton Valley took 18th overall.
Individual results from each school follow:
Seventh grade girls
100m dash
Elysia Kunkler, Iola; second, 14.33
Hope Kamanga, Humboldt; third, 14.35
Bailey Griffith, Marmaton Valley; fourth, 14.73
200m dash
Hope Kamanga, Humboldt; first, 28.97
Elysia Kunkler, Iola; second, 29.28
Madison Gean, Humboldt, fourth, 30.29
400m dash
Winter Snyder, Humboldt; first, 1:06.13
Nissa Fountain, Iola; seventh, 1:13.41
800m run
Emma Johnson, Humboldt; third, 2:53.07
Carlie Payne, Iola; sixth, 3:02.97
1600m run
Emma Johnson, Humboldt; first, 6:15.03
100m hurdles
Elysia Kunkler, Iola; first, 17.60
Ella Taylor, Iola; fourth, 19.71
Sydni Keagle, Iola; seventh, 20.54
4x100m relay
Iola (Elka Billings, Ella Taylor, Sydni Keagle, Elysia Kunkler); first, 56.93
Humboldt (Hope Kamanga, Madison Gean, Winter Snyder, Alayna Johnson); second, 57.63
4x200m relay
Iola (Elka Billings, Nissa Fountain, Allie Fager, Ella Taylor); fourth, 2:10.20
4x400m relay
Humboldt (Alayna Johnson, Hope Kamanga, Madison Gean, Winter Snyder); first, 4:48.96
Iola (Haley Carlin, Allie Fager, Nissa Fountain, Carlie Payne); seventh, 5:32.93
Long jump
Isabella Duke, Marmaton Valley; fourth, 12’8”
Bailey Griffith, Marmaton Valley; fifth, 12’7 1/2”
Madison Gean, Humboldt; seventh, 12’7”
Winter Snyder, Humboldt; eighth, 12’6 1/2”
Shot put
Allie Fager, Iola; second, 29’1”
High jump
Nissa Fountain, Iola; tied for seventh, 3’8”
Eighth grade girls
100m dash
Savannah Puckett, Marmaton Valley; third, 14.23
200m dash
Savannah Puckett, Marmaton Valley; third, 29.58
Morgan Mauk, Humboldt; fifth, 30.09
Kassy Shelby, Iola; eighth, 30.69
400m dash
Kaylie Johnson, Humboldt; second, 1:08.82
800m run
Madison Holloway, Iola; fourth, 2:56.69
Piper Moore, Iola; seventh, 3:01.88
1600m run
Aricah McCall, Humboldt; third, 6:34.94
100m hurdles
Ashley Nicholas, Iola; third, 17.67
Savannah Puckett, Marmaton Valley; fourth, 18.52
4x100m relay
Iola (Paige Burrough, Madison Holloway, Kassy Shelby, Ashley Nicholas); third, 57.86
Humboldt (Aricah McCall, Kaylie Johnson, Maggie Johnson, Morgan Mauk); fifth, 1:00.19
4x200m relay
Iola (Paige Burrough, Madison Holloway, Kassy Shelby, Shaylee Sutterby); third, 2:06.01
4x400m relay
Iola (Paige Burrough, Piper Moore, Kassy Shelby, Madison Holloway); fourth, 4:57.45
Humboldt (Maggie Johnson, Morgan Mauk, Aricah McCall, Kaylie Johnson); fifth, 4:59.38
Long jump
Kaylie Johnson, Humboldt; first, 13’10 3/4”
Ashley Nicholas, Iola; third, 13’9 1/2”
Savannah Puckett, Marmaton Valley; fourth, 13’8 3/4”
High jump
Aricah McCall, Humboldt; first, 4’8”
Morgan Mauk, Humboldt; second, 4’8”
Patricia Outland, Marmaton Valley; fifth, 4’6”
Seventh grade boys
100m dash
Dan Foust, Iola; fourth, 13.13
200m dash
Dan Foust, Iola; third, 26.85
400m dash
Conor Haviland, Humboldt; eighth, 1:06.03
800m run
Asher Sievers, Iola; fifth, 2:37.34
Cooper Jaro, Humboldt; 2:40.73
1600m run
Elijah Fawson, Iola; second, 5:38.35
Asher Sievers, Iola; third, 5:39.70
100m hurdles
Dan Foust, Iola; first, 16.83
4x100m relay
Humboldt (Jackson Aikins, Gunner Elder, Conor Haviland, Cooper Jaro); sixth, 56.04
4x400m relay
Humboldt (Jackson Aikins, Conor Haviland, Gunner Elder, Cooper Jaro); second, 4:38.52
Iola (Asher Sievers, Noah Ashmore, Dan Foust, Christian Floyd); seventh, 4:48.36
Discus
Christian Floyd, Iola; third, 73’6”
Eighth grade boys
100m dash
Tayton Driskel, Iola; first, 12.47
200m dash
Tayton Driskel, Iola; first, 25.44
400m dash
Tayton Driskel, Iola; first, 56.39
800m run
Cole Regehr, Iola; sixth, 2:35.52
1600m run
Cole Regehr, Iola; third, 5:29.46
100m hurdles
Teryn Johnson, Humboldt; eighth, 17.88
4x100m relay
Humboldt (Treyvor Comstock, Tucker Hurst, Joe Murrow, David Watts); seventh, 54.89
4x400m relay
Humboldt (Bo Bigelow, Tucker Hurst, Dagen Goodner, David Watts); fourth, 4:24.08
Iola (Kenji Khang, Ben Jahr, Cole Regehr, Blake Haar); seventh, 4:31.53
Long jump
Tayton Driskel, Iola; first, 18’8”
Shot Put
Matt Karr, Iola; fifth, 36’10”
Isaac Heskett, Marmaton Valley; eighth, 36’4”
Discus
Hunter Preston, Iola; second, 111’1”
Dagen Goodner, Humboldt; third, 110’10’
Teryn Johnson, Humboldt; fifth, 102’7”
Tucker Hurst, Humboldt; sixth, 102’5”
High jump
Dylan Doolittle, Humboldt; third, 5’2”
Caleb Klauman, Humboldt; eighth, 4’10”
Bill Wagner
Willbert “Bill” Wagner, 79, passed away Sunday, April 12, 2015, at Freeman Hospital after complications from heart surgery. He was born to John and Violet (Hartman) Wagner on Oct. 5, 1935 in Garnett. Before his retirement he was a pipeline equipment operator. Bill was married to Eileen Hansen Aug. 23, 1954. They were later divorced. Bill then married Deliena Ewan on June 21, 1996 in Miami, Okla. She survives the home
In his retirement he loved riding horses and gardening. Bill was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Florine (Wagner) Stewart; two brothers, John and Melvin, and one granddaughter.
He is survived by his wife and children: Billy Wagner and wife Marilyn, Iola, Janice Bratton and husband Gary, Carthage, Mo., Michael Wagner and wife Judy, El Dorado, Barbara Jones, Colony, Keith Wagner and Gina, Scammon, Josie Wagner, Sonja Ford and Kent, Erie, Cathy Rinehart and Jason, Erie, Jeannie Carnall and Danny, Erie, and Robert Daniel and Leann, Erie.
Bill is also survived by a brother, J.V. Wagner, Moran, a sister, Maxine (Wagner) Engle, Fort Scott, and sister-in-law Eva Wagner, LaHarpe, as well as 27 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be at 4 p.m. on Saturday at the VFW Hall in LaHarpe.
SEK-CAP events highlight special week
SEK-CAP, the Southeast Kansas Community Action Program, is celebrating Week of the Young Child by hosting several events throughout the week. The purpose of the Week of the Young Child is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize early childhood programs and services that meet those needs.
Events include a visit from children’s librarian Leah Oswald of Iola Public Library, spirit week, a health lesson from a SEK-CAP nurse, a parent and children night activity, having community members eat lunch with the children and hanging the children’s artwork at Community National Bank and Town Square Tannery.
Becky Robb brought a goat and baby kangaroo to show the children Tuesday.
Iola recreation soccer scores from last week
April 6th Games
6th-8th Grade League
A&W 3, Church Construction 1
Lane Bahnsen scored two goals, with Nissa Fountain scoring a goal for A&W. Drake Harrington scored the only goal for Church Construction.
Sonic 6, Church Construction 1
Zane Griffeth led the way with three goals, with Greg Geiler scoring two goals and Ryan Geiler scoring a goal for Sonic. Logan Gray had the only goal for Church Construction.
April 7th Games
5-year-old-Kindergarten League
Twin Motors Ford 7, The Frame Shop 0
Thomas Cash and Eliana Rafferty each found the net twice, with Zoie Hesse, Kale Pratt and Isaiah Geisler each scoring a goal for Twin Motors Ford.
Johnson Law Office 7, The Frame Shop 0
Anthony Hunt found the back of the net three times, with Beau Erickson and Evan Lacrone each scoring two goals for Johnson Law.
1st-2nd Grade League
Fellowship Regional Church 1, Gates 2
Ryun Cole and Henry White each scored a goal for Gates. Gates put one in their own net.
Johnson Law Office 1, A&W 4
Noah Schowengerdt scored the only goal for Johnson Law. Jordy Kaufman led the way with two goals, with Kale Godfrey and Brigg Shannon each chipping in with one goal for A&W.
Monarch Cement 1, H&R Block 0
Scoring the only goal for Monarch Cement was Anthony Rodriguez.
Community National Bank 0, Gates 8
Henry White and Ryun Cole each found the back of the net twice, with Alex Smail, Dreden Ellis, Everett Glaze and Ethan Riebel each scoring a goal for Gates.
April 11th Games
5-year-old-Kindergarten League
Johnson Law Office 0, Twin Motors Ford 3
Zoie Hesse found the back of the net twice, with Wyatt Dickerson scoring a goal for Twin Motors Ford.
The Frame Shop 2, Moon’s Home Town Market 4
Jack Works scored two goals for The Frame Shop. Sydnee Wilson led the way with three goals, with Emmitt Carson scoring a goal for Moon’s Market.
Ellison Construction 5, The Frame Shop 0
Jase Herrmann kicked in four goals for Ellison Construction, while Cooper Criss had the other goal.
A&W 4, Moon’s Home Town Market 0
Brody Maley scored two goals, with Ethan Tice and Branton Varney each chipping in with a goal for A&W.
Twin Motors Ford 3, A&W 1
Zoie Hesse, Kale Pratt and Wyatt Dickerson each chipped in with a goal for Twin Motors Ford. Scoring the only goal for A&W was Brock Michael.
1st-2nd Grade League
Community National Bank 0, A&W 5
Eliott Stephenson scored two goals, with Kale Godfrey, Wyatt Williamson and Kelley Hayden each chipping in with a goal for A&W.
Platinum K Salon 2, Johnson Law Office 7
Scoring the only goal for Platinum K Salon was Kade Nilges, Johnson Law put one in their own net. Noah Schowengerdt and Tre Wilson each kicked in three goals, with Bryce Franklin chipping in one goal for Johnson Law Office.
A&W 3, Monarch Cement 4
Jordy Kaufman, Eliott Stephenson and Wyatt Williamson each scored a goal for A&W. Jacob Harrington led the way with three goals, with Brylie Helm chipping in one goal for Monarch Cement.
Smith Contracting 0, H&R Block 1
Scoring the only goal for H&R Block was Kaiden Rutherford.
Community National Bank 2, Stacy Cakes 4
Skyler Harris found the back of the net twice for Community National Bank. Blake Ellis led the way with three goals, with Anapaula Franco scoring a goal for Stacy Cakes.
Monarch Cement 4, Platinum K Salon 0
Anthony Rodriguez kicked in four goals for Monarch Cement.
Smith Contracting 1, Johnson Law Office 5
Scoring the only goal for Smith Contracting was Gustavo Vera. Noah Schowengerdt led the way with three goals, with Brennen Coffield and Bryce Franklin each chipping in with a goal for Johnson Law Office.
3rd-5th Grade League
Iola Insurance Associates 2, Ashley Clinic 1
Charles Rogers and Korbyn Fountain each scored a goal for Iola Insurance Assoc. Scoring the only goal for Ashley Clinic was Peyton Wallace.
B&W 0, Allen County Chiropractic 4
Mac Leonard found the back of the net twice, with Tyler Boeken and Laura Newkirk chipping in with a goal for Allen County Chiropractic.
Ashley Clinic 0, Allen County Chiropractic 4
Tyler Boeken kicked in four goals for Allen County Chiropractic.
Dude Be Nice 2, Tholen’s Heating & Cooling 4
Brennen Nuessen and River Kaufman each chipped in a goal for Dude Be Nice. Cooper Riley scored two goals, with Landon Weide and Carson Keller each scoring a goal for Tholen’s Heating & Cooling.
Sigg Motors 9, B&W 0
Jakoby Wilson led the way with four goals, with Sam Fager scoring two goals and Kolton Greathouse, Ashton Hesse and Bradyn Jones each scoring a goal for Sigg Motors.
Dude Be Nice 0, Sigg Motors 7
Sam Fager and Isaac McCullough found the back of the net twice, with Bradyn Jones, Jakoby Wilson and Abigail Meiwes each scoring a goal for Sigg Motors.