The Allen Community College Music Department will host its fall band and choir concert at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Creitz Recital Hall in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.
The Allen concert and jazz bands and concert choir will perform.
The event is free to the public.
Wesley United Methodist Church will host this months neighborhood cookout at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the church parking lot at 301 E. Madison Ave.
Hot dogs and hamburgers will be served.
The event is free to the public. All are invited.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A handful of Kansas counties are being urged to upgrade their voting machines to a voting system that creates a paper record of each vote.
The Topeka Capitol-Journal reports the American Association for the Advancement of Science urged Geary, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Harvey, Sumner, Wallace and Wilson counties to upgrade to newer voting machines.
Those eight counties currently use voting machines that record voter choices electronically without creating a paper record.
Katie Koupal with the Kansas Secretary of States office says fewer than 10 of the states 105 counties use election equipment that doesnt create a paper trail. She says several counties are planning to buy new equipment before next years presidential elections.
BERLIN (AP) Authorities in Germany say theyve arrested a 55-year-old man on suspicion of killing his mother by drowning her in a well.
Police and prosecutors in Muenster said Tuesday that an autopsy showed the 79-year-old woman suffered head injuries before she was dropped in the well in June.
Chief prosecutor Martin Botzenhardt said the suspect appeared to have attacked her because she planned to sell parts of the land he hoped to inherit.
Authorities say the suspect hasnt commented on the allegations.
In a separate case, a farmer has gone on trial in Augsburg accused of drowning his wife in slurry last year to avoid splitting their assets in a divorce. The mans lawyers deny the allegations.
Last year, 123 women in Germany were killed by their current or former partners.
HUMBOLDT Vicki Beasley will present the program, Scrappy Farmer at the Oct. 28 Sunflower Quilters Guild meeting.
The board meeting starts at 9:30 a.m. at the Humboldt United Methodist Church. The guild meeting follows at 10 oclock.
65 Years Ago
October 1954
Iolas newest recreational facility, a 15-acre projected lake near the shale mound in Bassett, is finally on the way to becoming a reality. Water from a Lehigh fire hydrant started flooding the area Saturday. If Elm Creek keeps flowing, the pumping will continue until the area has a depth of about four feet. When the process is complete, the general public will be invited to use the lake for boating, skating or fishing.
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The Iola Lions Club will stage its annual sale of brooms made by the Kansas Foundation for the Blind on the last three days of this week. A trailer filled with brooms will be parked in the business district each day and will tour the residential areas from time to time with club members serving as door-to-door salesmen.
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Roy W. Cox of Iola was appointed to his former position on the Kansas State Highway Commission yesterday by Gov. Ed Arn to serve the remaining five months of E. R. Caskeys term as Fourth District Commissioner. Cox served as a commissioner for eight years and then was director of the highway commission for four years, stepping aside this year to become state GOP chairman. He is a veteran Allen County grain dealer.
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Mayor Charles Wilson announced today that the State Hatchery will start stocking Lake Bassola with bass, channel cats, crappies, and bluegills next Tuesday morning.
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Sunday the members of Trinity Methodist Church will observe the 50th anniversary of the construction of their sanctuary at the corner of Kentucky and Broadway.
MORAN The Moran Ruritan Club will host a pancake supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Moran American Legion Hall.
Pancakes, sausage and biscuits and gravy will be served for free-will donations.
A raffle for various desserts will follow.
The Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City will be in Iola from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at the John Silas Bass Community Building, 505 N. Buckeye St. for its regular blood drive.
Appointments to donate blood are not necessary, but can be done by visiting donate.savealifenow.org, or by calling toll-free (877) 468-6844.
LE ROY The public is invited to a free cancer screening from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the First Christian Church in Le Roy, 806 S. California St.
The event, hosted by Neosho Masonic Lodge No. 27, Midwest Cancer Alliance and University of Kansas Cancer Center, will provide health services that include skin cancer screenings, prostate cancer screenings, screen-to-save colon cancer home screening kits and body mass index (BMI) assessments.
The event is free and open to the public. No appointments are necessary.
For more information, call Don Meats at (620) 203-0396.
Chilly temperatures Saturday morning made way for storybook conditions by the time the Farm-City Days celebration hit high gear.
Gentry Davis of Yates Center picks up a giant stash of candy thrown from the parade.
Riverlee Wallace waves to the crowd while riding through the parade with her father, Dale, who works for Storrer Implement.
Among the special guests to perform in the afternoon were the Kansas City Celtic Pipes, who delighted the crowd with bagpipes.
Keyunna Willard and Asaiah Lee of Iola fly through the air with the greatest of ease aboard the ?Jumbo? flying elephants carnival ride.
Iola Mayor Jon Wells donned his inner Emerald City mayor costume for the parade. PHOTOS BY VICKIE MOSS AND RICHARD LUKEN