The Allen County Aces 18s, an area club volleyball team, took second place in the Sunflower Slam at the Elite Sports Center in Olathe on Sunday. The team includes several area volleyball players including Iola senior Piper Moore, Humboldt junior Alayna Johnson and sophomore Jessica Myers, Crest senior Cassie Bowen and Southern Coffey County sophomore Emersyn Hall.
HHS students earn honor roll distinction
HUMBOLDT Humboldt High School has announced its second quarter and first semester honor rolls for the 2018-19 school year.
The rolls follow.
Second Quarter
Principals Honor Roll
(4.0 grade-point average)
Seniors Charles W.B. Bigelow, Ashlynn E. Booth, Marisha N. Collins and Camrie R. Farran.
Juniors Drake W. Hottenstein, Emma L. Johnson and Winter E. Snyder.
Sophomores Ashlyn P. Bartlett and Jessica A. Myers.
Freshmen Ashtyn J. Asikins-Ansley, Janae E. Bartlett and Madelynn M. Hodgden.
Teachers Honor Roll
(3.5-3.999 GPA)
Seniors Sydney A. Barker, Riley E. Brown, Sydney R. Hegwald, Hannah R. Krone, Dawson M. Lohmann, Morgan L. Mauk, Aricah L. McCall and Ryan A. Sellman.
Juniors Taylor L. Beeman, Logan L. Dillow, Kilea A. Heslop, Heaven L.B. Isaacs, Alayna A. Johnson, William T. Lassman, Briar R. Orth and Nichole R. Turner.
Sophomores Autumn N. Ballard, Aidan M. Collins, Jada B. Dangerfield, Jailynn A. Goforth, Thane R. Meadows, Samuel I. Neeley, Madison P. Riebel and Riley A. Schmidt.
Freshmen Kaiden M. Barnett, Brooklyn M. Ellis, Nautianna J. Goforth, Laken E. Hunter, Levi J. McGowen, Gavin D. Page and Madison L. Sinclair.
Regular Honor Roll
(3.0-3.49 GPA)
Seniors Connor R. Barnett, Noah W. Carson, Caleb I. Coronado, Jeremy I. Dutton, Dagen D. Goodner, Logan M. Gray, Melanie J. Hallacy, Sadie M. Houk, Tucker M. Hurst, Kaylie M. Johnson, Maggie F. Johnson, Teryn L. Johnson, Caleb R. Klauman, Alexandra M. Melendez, Joseph S. Murrow, Savanna D. Puckett, Zoey R. Rinehart, David J. Watts, Victoria R. White and Anne M. Wood.
Juniors Brianna Y. Baker, Veronica M. Bulk, Conor D. Eitel, Joseph K. Froggatte, Speed S. Hoepker, Kaylie L. Hole, Joshua D. Hull, Cooper A. Jaro, Travis M. King, Serena A. Melendez, Serandin N. Prock, Bryce W. VanHouden, Luke H. Yokum and Michael E. Young.
Sophomores Tanner S. Church, Damian M. Fulton, Gabriel F. Harden, Drake D. Harrington, Trenton W. Heisler, Isabelle J. Murrow, Katie M. Scheimann, Blake L. Walker, Camille A. Wood and LaChrista D. Yeager..
Freshmen Colt A. Burk, Peyten E. Galloway, Saylor R. Hermreck, Colton A. Johnson, Taylor M. Korte, Kirstyn D. Murrow, Abby L. Rinehart, Gabrielle A. Sandoval, Andrew W. Watts and Madilyn R. White.
First Semester
Principals Honor Roll
(4.0 grade-point average)
Seniors Charles W.B. Bigelow, Ashlynn E. Booth, Marisha N. Collins, Camrie R. Farran and Sydney R. Hegwald.
Juniors Drake W. Hottenstein, Emma L. Johnson, William T. Lassman, Winter E. Snyder and Nichole R. Turner.
Sophomores Ashlyn P. Bartlett, Jessica A. Myers, Samuel I. Neeley and Madison P. Riebel.
Freshmen Ashtyn J. Aikins-Ansley.
Teachers Honor Roll
(3.5-3.999 GPA)
Seniors Sydney A. Barker, Riley E. Brown, Noah W. Carson, Hannah R. Krone, Dawson M. Lohmann, Morgan L. Mauk, Aricah L. McCall, Joseph S. Murrow, Savanna D. Puckett and Ryan A. Sellman.
Juniors Taylor L. Beeman, Logan L. Dilow, Kilea A. Heslop, Heaven L.B. Isaacs, Alayna A. Johnson, Briar R. Orth and Serandin N. Prock.
Sophomores Autumn N. Ballard, Aidan M. Collins, Jada B. Dangerfield, Jailynn A. Goforth, Trenton W. Heisler, Thane R. Meadows, Riley A. Schmidt and Blake L. Walker.
Freshmen Kaiden M. Barnett, Janae E. Barnett, Brooklyn M. Ellis, Nautianna J. Goforth, Madelynn M. Hodgden, Laken E. Hunter, Levi J. McGowen and Gavin D. Page.
Regular Honor Roll
(3.0-3.49 GPA)
Seniors Connor R. Barnett, Caleb I. Coronado, Jeremy I. Dutton, Dagen D. Goodner, Logan M. Gray, Melanie J. Hallacy, Sadie M. Houk, Tucker M. Hurst, Kaylie M. Johnson, Maggie F. Johnson, Teryn L. Johnson, Caleb R. Klauman, Alexandra M. Melendez, Zoey R. Rinehart, David J. Watts, Victoria R. White and Anne M. Wood.
Juniors Brianna Y. Baker, Veronica M. Bulk, Conor D. Eitel, Joseph K. Froggatte, Jacob T. Fudge, Brooklen E.A. Gardner, Halley N. Hammer, Speed S. Hoepker, Kaylie L. Hole, Joshua D. Hull, Cooper A. Jaro, Serena A. Melendez, Titan C. Michael, Bryce W. VanHouden, Luke H. Yokum and Michael E. Young.
Sophomores Tanner S. Church, Damian M. Fulton, Gabriel F. Harden, Drake D. Harrington, Isabelle J. Murrow, Katie M. Scheimann and Camille A. Wood.
Freshmen Colt A. Burk, Peyten E. Galloway, Colton A. Johnson, Taylor M. Korte, Kirstyn D. Murrow, Abby L. Rinehart, Madison L. Sinclair, Andrew W. Watts, Madilyn R. White and Drew R. Wilhite.
Humboldt elementary students recognized
HUMBOLDT Humboldt Elementary School has announced its second-quarter honor rolls for the 2018-19 school year.
The rolls follow.
All As
Fifth grade Josey Ellis, Darryl Farrill, Ricklyn Hillmon, Emmie Hole, Skylar Hottenstein, Teghen Jaro, Taner King, Mark McCullough, Jayli Reno, Elizabeth Romine and Mason Sterling.
Fourth grade Adelaide Brojas, Leah Carman, Karoline Covey, Rylee Ellison, Hadley Galloway, Connor Gray, Kylie Hennig, Jase Herrmann, Thatcher Mueller, Carlie Weilert and Jack Works.
Third grade Carter Collins, Bailey Daniels, Alesha Dix, Kolton Hanson, Adalyn Hillmon, Brystal Hudlin, Riley Olson, Ty Shaughnessy, Gabi Vargas-Garcia and Braylynn Watson.
A-B Honor Roll
Fifth grade Lillian Albin, Akayah Atwell, Alyssa Ballard, Kalyn Baughn, Bailee Berkenmeier, Brooke Berkenmeier, Matthew Bushong, Madalyn Cook, Harper Dye, Grady Elder, Layne Ellison, Anapaula Franco, Braxton Gray, Laney Hull, Karsen Lampe, Victoria Melendez, Maxtyn Mueller, Lilli Reeder, Carson Russell, Avian Seamster, Creed Shannon, Tatum Tribble, Mila Westbrook, Rylee-Marie Woods and Kendall Works.
Fourth grade Cole Anderson, Leo Broyles, Wyatt Burnett, Emmitt Carson, Madelynn Comstock, Collin Cook, Bryce Culbertson, Conner Defebaugh, Morgan Dillow, Jayden Fink, Kinley N. Hart, Broc Ivy, Kreed Jones, Bristol Krone, Jaide Marvin, Alexis McCullough, Hayden McLaughlin, Lakyn Meadows, Jaiden Naff, Cooper Peters, Hudson Reese, Ella Schomaker, America Sinclair and Ethan Sutterby
Third grade Benjamin Cook, Alexa Ellis, Bryer Grisier, Truman Grzybowski, Dylan Hazen, Jordan Hencey, John Hermreck, Nahla Jenkins, Haley King, Maggie McCullough, Connor Newman, Maelee Powell, Brian Robertson, Kaydence Whitworth and Sydnee Wilson.
Fourteen students were recognized for maintaining perfect attendance through the quarter.
Truck, trailer stolen
David Gant told Allen County sheriffs deputies a white 2½-ton Ford flatbed truck and a trailer loaded with a skid steer were stolen from him Sunday morning.
The theft occurred about two miles west of Humboldt. The vehicle was spotted at about 3 p.m. heading south on K-3 Highway near Hepler, deputies reported.
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Sheriffs Department at 365-1400, or the Allen County Communications Center at 365-1437.
SCC splits on the road to Hartford
The Southern Coffey County Titans traveled to take on Hartford to open up the new semester on Friday and came away with a split. The boys won 74-57 while the girls lost 42-29.
Senior Dawson Leimkuhler led the way for the Titan boys with 20 points followed by 15 for junior Jonathan Borntreger, 12 for senior Jett Harvey, 10 for senior Kolgan Ohl, nine for freshman Noah Borntreger and six for junior Cooper Harred.
Individual stats were not available for the Lady Titans.
The boys advanced to 5-3 while the girls fell to 4-4.
The Titans will face Madison on Tuesday before traveling to Lebo on Friday.
Democrats plan more pressure on Trump to reopen government
WASHINGTON (AP) With no weekend breakthrough to end a prolonged partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump is standing firm in his border wall funding demands and newly empowered House Democrats are planning to step up pressure on Trump and Republican lawmakers to reopen the government.
Trump showed no signs of budging on his demand for more than $5 billion for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, though on Sunday he did offer to build it with steel rather than concrete, a concession Democrats panned.
With the shutdown lurching into a third week, many Republicans watched nervously from the sidelines as hundreds of thousands of federal workers went without pay and government disruptions hit the lives of ordinary Americans.
White House officials affirmed Trumps funding request in a letter to Capitol Hill after a meeting Sunday with senior congressional aides led by Vice President Mike Pence at the White House complex yielded little progress. The letter from Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought sought funding for a steel barrier on the Southwest border.
The White House said the letter, as well as details provided during the meeting, sought to answer Democrats questions about the funding request. Democrats, though, said the administration still failed to provide a full budget of how it would spend the billions requested for the wall from Congress. Trump campaigned on a promise that Mexico would pay for the wall, but Mexico has refused.
The letter includes a request for $800 million for urgent humanitarian needs, a reflection of the growing anxiety over migrants traveling to the border which the White House said Democrats raised in the meetings. And it repeats some existing funding requests for detention beds and security officers, which have already been panned by Congress and would likely find resistance among House Democrats.
Trump sought to frame a steel barrier as progress, saying Democrats dont like concrete, so well give them steel. The president has already suggested his definition of the wall is flexible, but Democrats have made clear they see a wall as immoral and ineffective and prefer other types of border security funded at already agreed upon levels.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to begin passing individual bills to reopen agencies in the coming days, starting with the Treasury Department to ensure people receive their tax refunds. That effort is designed to squeeze Senate Republicans, some of whom are growing increasingly anxious about the extended shutdown.
Among the Republicans expressing concerns was Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should take up bills from the Democratic-led House.
Lets get those reopened while the negotiations continue, Collins said on NBCs Meet the Press.
Adding to concerns, federal workers might miss this weeks paychecks. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on NBCs Meet the Press that if the shutdown continues into Tuesday, then payroll will not go out as originally planned on Friday night.
Trump reaffirmed that he would consider declaring a national emergency to circumvent Congress and spend money as he saw fit. Such a move would seem certain to draw legal challenges.
Incoming House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., said on ABCs This Week that the executive power has been used to build military facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan but would likely be wide open to a court challenge for a border wall.
Speaking on CNNs State of the Union, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff called the idea a nonstarter.
Trump also asserted that he could relate to the plight of the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who arent getting paid, though he acknowledged they will have to make adjustments to deal with the shutdown shortfall.
Middle school Cubs take care of Neodesha
The Humboldt Middle School boys and girls started off 2019 with five home wins over Neodesha.
The A-Team girls won 22-20 led by six points for both Kenisyn Hottenstein and Karley Wools. Emily Ross had 10 rebounds.
We looked very rusty during the game, head coach Jason Weilert said. We had plenty of good looks that didn’t fall. It wasn’t our best night on the defensive end but we did enough to win. We found ways to make shots at the end of the game and got a few stops to take and keep the lead.
The B-Team won 22-1 with Ashlynn Works scoring 12 points while grabbing five rebounds. Elizabeth White also had five rebounds.
The C-Team won 11-9. Kadance Ballard had six points.
Meanwhile, the eighth-grade boys pulled off a close 24-22 win.
Maddox Johnson hit a half court three to tie up the game at 18 at the end of the third quarter after trailing by four at the half. Johnson struck again by hitting the game winner with 1.6 seconds to play.
Johnson had 11 points and seven rebounds and Trey Sommer had seven points and eight rebounds. Dakota Slocum had nine rebounds and five assists.
The team ended the night with 17 total steals.
Neodesha is a very tall team, head coach Jeremy Weilert said. I thought we ran the offense better, but we didn’t shoot the ball very well from the floor or the free throw line. We were much better defensively. We were able to hold them under their scoring average. This was a total team effort and a big win for us.
The seventh-grade also had a close win, beating Neodesha 32-25 in overtime.
Sam Hull had 16 points, Landon Bauer and Bradly Lowry had four points and Caden Vink and Kaden Barnhart each had two points.
American Legion to sell
The Iola American Legion building, 712 W. Patterson, is being sold.
Who is purchasing the building, owned by Leslie J. Campbell Iola American Legion Post 15, and its future use, remains a mystery to most.
Because the sale is not complete, public records of the buyer are not yet available.
Iola Realtor John Brocker, who is handling the sale, declined to identify the buyer until the transaction is complete.
Because of the pending sale, most of the buildings contents, including commercial kitchen equipment, as well as pool tables, tables, chairs, furniture and other miscellaneous will be sold at an auction today, starting at 10 a.m.
Loren Mitchell, post commander, cited dwindling membership and activities as reasons for the sale.
At its peak, Post 15 had 400 members; today, that number is down to about 100.
The Legion officers will continue to meet monthly, the second Tuesday of each month. For now, members will gather at the Iola Public Library.
Mitchell said the members will decide at some point whether to seek a new home or build a facility.
Wed really like to find things that are more family friendly, Mitchell told the Register.
The building has served as the Legions home since 1991.
As an aside, the Legion building and parking lot to the west are being sold, Brocker clarified. An adjoining parcel of land, which contains a storage building and the parking lot east of the building, is owned by the La Societe Des 40 Et 8, is not a part of the transaction.
Allen County Auction Service is handling todays auction.
Concessions efforts paying off for Farm-City Days group
Since August, volunteers with the Farm-City Days Committee have combined to work more than 1,500 hours manning concessions booths at Kansas Citys Arrowhead Stadium.
The work serves as a key fundraiser for the committee through Aramark, a program that utilizes non-profit organizations in community events, such as football games.
The project involves taking eight volunteers to each Kansas City Chiefs home football game this season, plus a Taylor Swift concert, to work at Tailgaters, one of the concessions booths inside the stadium. Two other volunteers work at portable serving stations elswhere inside Arrowhead.
With most of the Chiefs games starting at noon, game days typically entail hitting the road by 5 a.m.
By the time the game ends, crowds have filed out, and the stands closed, the weary volunteers are headed for home after a 12- to 14-hour workday.
The Farm-City Days Committee received a special game ball from Aramark staff following Sundays 35-3 victory over Oakland.
The committee will be back at Arrowhead next Saturday to work during the Chiefs home playoff game. Kansas Citys opponent will be determined this week.
The primary goal of the fundraising is to promote continued growth of Farm City Days events and add valuable experiences back into the community, committee chairman Aaron Franklin said.
The Farm-City Days Committee will keep busy after football season concludes.
The committee is co-sponsoring an anti-bullying program with USD 257 Feb. 27 at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.
Additionally, the summer concert series will return to Iola July 13. Performers have not yet been announced.
The committee also may work a few Kansas City Royals games, Franklin noted.
Employment numbers up
WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. employers dramatically stepped up their hiring in December, adding 312,000 jobs in an encouraging display of strength for an economy in the midst of a trade war, slowing global growth and a partial shutdown of the federal government.
The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.9 percent, but that reflected a surge in jobseekers a positive for growth.
Average hourly pay improved 3.2 percent from a year ago, up from average wage growth of 2.7 percent at the end of 2017.
The jolt in hiring offers a dose of reassurance after a tumultuous few months as the outlook from the financial markets has turned decidedly bleaker. Job growth at this pace is a sign that the economy will continue to expand for a 10th straight year, even if overall growth slows somewhat because of the waning stimulus from President Donald Trumps tax cuts.
The labor market is very strong even though the economy appears to be slowing, said Eric Winograd, senior U.S. economist at the investment management firm AllianceBernstein. Those two things cannot coexist for very long. Either weakening demand will lead firms to dial back the pace of hiring or the robust pace of hiring will lead firms to ramp back up production.
Stocks jumped Friday in response to the jobs figures. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed roughly 450 points in morning trading, an increase of about 2 percent.
But in recent weeks, financial markets have been increasingly worried about the path of economic growth this year.
Major companies such as Apple say their sales are being jeopardized by the tariff-fueled trade war between the United States and China. Factory activity in China and the United States have both weakened, with the Institute for Supply Managements U.S. manufacturing index on Thursday posting its steepest decline in a decade.
The government is about to enter its third week of a partial shutdown, with negotiations stalled over President Donald Trumps insistence that Democrats agree on funding for a wall along the border with Mexico. And attacks by Trump on the Federal Reserve over its rate increases have raised doubts about Chairman Jay Powells status a concern for both the markets and the economy.
The expected continuation of steady job growth suggests that such risks might be for the moment, anyway overblown. However, the stock market will have to weigh whether the strong job growth encourages the Fed to hike rates in 2019 more frequently than investors had previously anticipated.
President Donald Trump called the job growth GREAT on Twitter. But Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters on Thursday that the next jobs report for January could be weak if the partial government shutdown continues.
There could be hundreds of thousands of government workers who could say theyre not working, which would lower the job totals.
So when we see the January jobs number, it could be a big negative, said Hassett, even though those workers would be paid back wages once the government fully re-opened.
The health care, food services, construction and manufacturing sectors were the primary contributors to last months hiring.
Health care and education services added 82,000 jobs in December, the biggest jump since February 2012. Restaurants and drinking placed posted a net gain of 40,700 jobs. Builders added 38,000 construction jobs, while manufacturers increased their payrolls by 32,000 workers.
Businesses are still searching for more workers. The employment site Glassdoor found that job postings have risen 17 percent in the past year to 6.7 million.
We really dont see any slowdown yet, said Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor.
Despite the increase in the unemployment rate, the influx of people searching for work coupled with the job gains is an indication that the rate should decline in the coming months. Economists estimate that it requires roughly 100,000 job gains each month to satisfy population growth and keep the unemployment rate at its current level.
Hiring has easily eclipsed that pace. In 2018, employers added 2.6 million jobs, or an average of nearly 217,000 a month, according to the Labor Department.
At some point, even if the economy remains healthy, monthly job gains will likely downshift to a more gradual pace. This is because there is a dwindling pool of unemployed people searching for work after several years of solid hiring. There were 6.3 million people looking for a job in December, down from 6.5 million a year ago.
People should not get used to numbers like the one we saw this month, said Martha Gimbel, director of economic research at the jobs site Indeed. Eventually, job growth is going to start slowing down. When that happens, we shouldnt panic.