Amy Coultas from Iola, and Kevin Ray from Colony will be getting married Oct. 20, 2012 at the Colony Community Church.
Amy is the daughter of Richard and Sue Coultas who live in Iola.
Kevin is the son of Mark Ray, Iola, and Doyle and Betty Reissig, Erie.
Amy graduated from Iola Senior High School and Kevin from Colony Crest High School.
Kevin works at Advantage Computers in Iola.
Merrill and Mae Truster celebrated their 75th anniversary Saturday, Aug. 11 at Townhouse West in Iola.
They wish to thank everyone for their good wishes, gifts and cards.
Roughly 90 family and friends from six different states attended. Their four daughters, Leona, Rowene, Violet and Linda hosted the event.
The couple has 10 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
Out of town guests were: Rebecca Solberg, Mitchell, S.D.; Sussie Sherril Shearer, Todd and Brenda Garrison and Violet Malson, Blue Springs, Mo.; Jeanne Sherrill Stultz, Lawrence; Sunday Humphrey, Olathe; Delores Clay, Minooka, Ill; Lyle Clay, Homer Glen, Ill.; Courtney and Clare Solberg, Manhattan; Jeremy, Shari and Emily Anderson, Broken Arrow, Okla.; Darin, Cheryl and Erin Anderson, Walnut; Fred and Linda Boothe, Ryan, Tyler, Tanner and Abigail Boothe, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Daniel, Dana and Josiah Miller, Barry Sarita and Kylie Brecheisen, Hayesville; Hazel Bahner, Jimmie and Rowene Helwick, Topeka; Vinnie Willie, LaHarpe; Pat Stillwater and family, Pam Plank, David Morgan and Ashlyn Funston, Helon and Charles King, Steven, Chris and Luke Heimberg, Wichita; Mike and Scottie Roscoe, Oregon.
Stanley and Maxine Dreher Jr. celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a family gathering at the home of Paul and Teresa Hays, Labor Day weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks.
They were united in marriage on Sept. 7, 1952 at the First Methodist Church in Iola.
Hosts for the anniversary celebration were the couple’s children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren: Paul and Teresa Hays of Sunrise Beach, Mo., Steve and Janet Dreher, Jason Dreher, and Kristen Dreher of Iola, Stephanie and Landen Hays of Overland Park, and Kasey, Johnnie, Taegan, and Parker Taul of Paso Robles, Calif.
Bill Clinton wound up his eight years in the White House with the national budget in balance and the national debt declining.
“When I am asked how I did that, I have a one-word answer: arithmetic,” he said.
Clinton’s 45-minute speech was full of forceful rhetoric. But none of his analysis was more to the point: the numbers must add up. National revenue must be greater than national spending to bring the deficit down.
President Obama’s budget plan calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, less spending on war and fewer loopholes and tax breaks that let revenues leak. Mitt Romney’s budget plan starts with another huge tax cut that will slash federal revenue by trillions and moves from there to higher spending on the military. As Clinton dryly observed, taking in less and spending more is a formula for bigger deficits and an even higher national debt.
Clinton warned his audience the nation couldn’t afford a Republican administration that would “double down on trickle down.”
But his main theme was positive. He called for bipartisanship and cooperation. He praised the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and noted that President Obama had appointed Republicans to his cabinet and had even appointed Hillary Clinton secretary of state, despite the fact that they had opposed each other in the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination.
Clinton agreed that the economy was still struggling. He observed that Obama inherited a much weaker economy than he did when he took office in 1993. No president could have repaired the damage in just four years, he said. “But conditions are improving and if you’ll renew the president’s contract, you will feel it (renewed prosperity),” he said.
To emphasize that point, Clinton said Democratic presidents have created millions more jobs over the past 52 years than their Republican counterparts. Since 1961, Republicans have held the White House for 28 years and Democrats for 24 years. The U.S. economy produced 66 million private sector jobs over that period. Forty-two million of them came during Democratic administrations, and 24 million came during Republican administrations, he said.
Still on the topic, Clinton said Obama’s decision to bail out the auto industry produced an additional 250,000 well-paid jobs building cars. Those jobs were created not just in Chrysler and General Motors and their dealerships, but also at auto parts manufacturing plants across the country. Romney was a high-profile critic of the auto bailout who said the companies should have been allowed to go bankrupt and shut down.
Clinton also praised the Affordable Health Care Act. Because the law requires health insurance companies to spend 80 percent of premiums they collect on health care rather than profits or promotion or give refunds to policy holders, the companies have been forced to pay out more that $1 billion in refunds this year. The law also provides people between 19 and 26 coverage under their parents policies and expands preventive care coverage to seniors. Under the law, Medicaid will be expanded to cover millions who are now uncovered, and provide a dependable source of income to hospitals and medical clinics.
He also pointed out that Romney’s plan to increase Medicare spending by billions that Obama had trimmed from it would mean it would go broke eight years sooner.
THE FORMER president’s political rhetoric can cut like a razor even while his face is wreathed in smiles. Here may be his best zinger of the night: “The Republican election logic goes like this: We left the country in an awful mess in 2008. Obama hasn’t cleaned it up fast enough. So toss him out and put us back in.”
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
Allen County Youth Tackle Football started its 11th season today with its annual jamboree at Mound City. All teams in the two age groups — 3rd-4th grade and 5th-6th grade — took part in the event.
Regular season play opens Tuesday. Iola teams host Mound City and Garnett and will hold a special tribute to 9-11-2001, which was the first games of the league on the tragic day in U.S. history.
Here is the 2012 schedule.
Allen County Youth
Tackle Football
2012 Schedule
Game times 6 p.m (3-4),
7:15 p.m. (5-6) unless
otherwise noted
Sept. 11
3rd-4th Grade League
Mound City at Iola
Humboldt at Yates Center
5th-6th Grade League
Garnett at Iola
Humboldt at Yates Center
Mound City at Uniontown, 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 15
3rd-4th Grade League
Iola at Chanute, 10:30 a.m.
5th-6th Grade League
Iola at Chanute, 12:30 p.m.
Sept. 18
3rd-4th Grade League
Iola at Yates Center
Mound City at Humboldt
5th-6th Grade League
Iola at Yates Center
Mound City at Humboldt
Uniontown at Garnett, 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 23
3rd-4th Grade League
Iola at Chanute, 1 p.m.
5th-6th Grade League
Iola at Chanute, 2:30 p.m.
Sept. 25
3rd-4th Grade League
Iola at Humboldt
Yates Center at Mound City
5th-6th Grade League
Iola at Uniontown, 6:30 p.m.
Garnett at Humboldt
Yates Center at Mound City
Sept. 30
3rd-4th Grade League
Iola at Chanute, 1 p.m.
5th-6th Grade League
Iola at Chanute, 2:30 p.m.
Oct. 2
3rd-4th Grade League
Yates Center at Iola
Humboldt at Mound City, 6:30 p.m.
Mound City at Yates Center
5th-6th Grade League
Mound City at Iola
Uniontown at Humboldt, 6:30 p.m.
Yates Center at Garnett, 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 9
3rd-4th Grade League
Humboldt at Iola
Mound City at Yates Center
5th-6th Grade League
Humboldt at Iola
Uniontown at Yates Center
Garnett at Mound City
Oct. 16
3rd-4th Grade League
Iola at Mound City
Yates Center at Humboldt
5th-6th Grade League
Tournament, TBA
MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s girls swept their home volleyball matches Thursday.
The Wildcats beat Pleasanton 25-8, 25-16 in A-team play. Magie Stevenson served for 15 points and Trinitee Gutierrez had nine points served to lead the Cats.
Emily Plaschka served for six points. Misty Storrer had three service points.
In B-team play, Marmaton Valley won 25-14, 25-21. Clara Boyd had 12 service points. She served eight aces to bring back the Cats from a 21-17 deficit.
Shelby Yoho had eight service points and Megan Ensminger served six points
The MVJH C-team won 15-2, 25-4. Karlie Stephens served up 14 points and Shailee Woods had seven service points.
HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Middle School’s A and B team volleyball squads ran their records to 4-0 for the season Thursday.
The Lady Cub A-team defeated Cherryvale 25-10, 25-8 and 25-11 25-16.
Annalise Whitcomb served 12 aces for the Lady Cubs and was credited with 15 set assists. Sydney Houk had five kills and two ace serves.
Rylan Wilhite had four ace serves while Makaylah McCall and Cara Bartlett each had three service aces.
Tilar Wells had five kills in the second match for Humboldt. Kassie Angleton had three kills.
“The girls played very well tonight,” said Terry Meadows, HMS volleyball coach.
“We still need to work on transitioning off of the net but they are doing very well.”
Humboldt won the B-team matches 25-21, 25-17 and 25-13, 25-12. Kaiti Carpenter had 15 service aces for the night.
Chassis Hoepker served up six aces while Morgan Lea had five ace serves. Britnee Works had four ace serves, Katie Malone had three aces and Denise Johnson had two aces.
GARNETT — Iola High’s freshmen notched a three-set match victory over host Anderson County High’s Lady Bulldogs Thursday.
The Fillies defeated Anderson County 25-20, 14-25, 25-23. Iola lost to Louisburg 25-13, 25-17.
Taylor Heslop was leading server and led the team in set assists. Ashlie Shields and McKayli Cleaver also had good nights from the serving line.
Mikaela Platt and Taylor Sell paced the net attack for the Fillies.
The IHS freshman volleyball team is in a tournament today hosted by Prairie View High in LaCygne.
HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High continues to be rather rude hosts to visiting teams, particularly on defense.
The Cubs limited visiting Jayhawk-Linn High to 114 yards of total offense in a 46-6 thumping.
The victory marks the second lop-sided home win in a row for Humboldt on the young season.
The Cubs did plenty of damage through the air. Quarterback Nathan Whitcomb rolled up 225 passing yards, including five completions to Trey Johnson for 125 yards.
The ground game accounted for the first 19 points of the game for the Cubs, however.
Whitcomb ran in a one-yard sneak to open the scoring, followed by a pair of runs by Jacob Carpenter, covering 16 and five yards.
Whitcomb found Johnson on a 67-yard pass play for another score before running in another one-yard quarterback sneak to lead 32-0.
Jayhawk-Linn scored its only points in the third quarter — and the only points the Cubs have allowed this season — before Tanner McNutt scored twice for Humboldt to cap the scoring. McNutt hauled in a 28-yard Whitcomb pass, then ran in a 48-yard interception return.
“I was real proud of the kids’ effort,” Cub head coach K.B. Criss said. “The kids came out and played well in the first half. We weren’t as sharp in the third quarter, but they picked it back up in the fourth quarter.”
Carpenter ran for 102 yards on 17 carries. Whitcomb had 34 yards on nine totes.
Blake Crawford had 62 yards on three receptions. McNutt’s two catches covered 38 yard.
Carpenter and Ryan Gean led the Cub defense with 10 and nine tackles, respectively. McNutt and Justin Meins intercepted Jayhawk passes. Johnson recovered a fumble and Noah Thornbrugh registered a quarterback sack.
The Cubs will hit the road for the first time in 2012 next Friday at Neodesha.
Humboldt 13-19-0-14—46
Jayhawk-Linn 0-0-6-0—6
Humboldt — Whitcomb 1 yd run (Boring kick)
Humboldt — Carpenter 16 yd run (kick failed)
Humboldt — Carpenter 5 yd run (kick failed)
Humboldt — Johnson 67 yd pass from Whitcomb (kick failed)
Humboldt — Whitcomb 1 yd run (Boring kick)
JL — Johanning 21 yd pass from Avery (run failed)
Humboldt — McNutt 28 yd pass from Whitcomb (Boring kick)
Humboldt — McNutt 48 yd interception return (Boring kick)
Humboldt J-Linn
First Downs 19 6
Rushes-Yds 34-152 34-68
Passing Yds 225 46
Total Offense 377 114
Passing 10-20-0 2-9-2
Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-1
Punts 0 4/31
Penalties-Yds 6-60 7-70
Memorials in honor of Iolan Fred E. Anderson, whose death and funeral information was included previously, may be sent to the Wounded Warrior Project.
Memorial gifts may be left with the Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.
Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.