Twenty years ago
April 1999
HUMBOLDT Humboldt Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jim Crismas will retire Saturday after 17 years in the department, including 15 years as chief.
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IHS students joined the citys yellow ribbon campaign today when they tied several of the ribbons on trees on the IHS campus. They also made donations to aid refugees displaced by the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
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Don Leapheart, a 15-year veteran of the Iola Fire Department, is Iolas new fire chief. City commissioners hired Leapheart Tuesday evening after conducting interviews with him and two out-of-town candidates earlier in the day.
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MORAN A vaccine is now available at the Iola-based Family Physicians clinic that immunizes against Lyme disease with about 80 percent success, according to Kathy Douglas, physician assistant with the clinics Moran office.
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Marvin Smiths track and cross country teams have earned dozens of trophies, including two state championships, under his guidance the past 24 years. Smith, 1999 Teacher of the Year for USD 257, said my biggest goal is to be able to teach my chemistry classes so well that the students dont realize Im involved with other projects, such as track or cross country. That tells me that Im doing a good job of teaching them.
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The public is invited to the First Christian Church in Le Roy Sunday for the dedication service of its new building.
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Gerald Axtell Dunwoody of Sedalia, Mo., co-founder of the firm Brink and Dunwoody Architects and Engineers of Iola, died Monday in Sedalia. He was 102.
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HUMBOLDT Lila Peters Toedman of Humboldt was grateful to hear that her daughter, Becke Mandel, who is a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., was not at work the day of the shootings at the school in which 14 students and a teacher were killed.
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Iola High School freshmen Jennifer Richey, Ashley Kerr and Allegra Catron will be traveling to Washington, D.C., next weekend after being named winners in a national science competition. The trio teamed up to win one of seven national awards for the aeronautics and space science journalism project, a news report about the Near Asteroid, which orbits near the earth.
