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By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

It’s been three years since Sharla Miller lost her son, Matt, to suicide.

In that time, Miller has tried to make sense of her son’s decision by not only personally gaining a better understanding of mental health issues but also building a wider community platform for its discussion.

As such, Miller is spearheading next Saturday’s “13 Reasons to Fly” conference, to be held at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center from 8:30 to 3:30.

The Nov. 13 event is free, but registrations are encouraged.

It’s the third year for the conference, which was warmly received in 2019 by students and their families.

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Sharla Miller lost her son, Matt, to suicide three years ago. She keeps a cardboard cutout of him on her desk. Miller is one of the organizers of “13 Reasons to Fly,” a conference that discusses mental health issues. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN

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Authors bring lessons on kindness, friendship

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Try to improve just a tiny bit today.

That’s the lesson authors Chad Morris and Shelly Brown brought to Iola students and others this week.

The authors came to Iola on Thursday to talk Shelly Brown about their book, “Squint,” which was selected as the Iola Reads Young Adult Selection for 2021.

They met with Iola Middle School students in the morning, and Lincoln students in the afternoon ahead of a community presentation at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center that evening.

Morris and Brown, who

are married with five children, talked about the three books they’ve written together.

Each one has a lesson: — A little kindness can go a long way.

— See the awesome.

— Be brave and talk.

The authors encouraged students to pick at least one of the three lessons and practice working on it.

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Their first book was inspired by their daughter, Maddie, who had a brain tumor.

Brown told the story of discovering something was wrong with Maddie. When she was 9 years old, Brown and Maddie were making guacamole. Brown tossed an avocado to her daughter, but she didn’t catch it.

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Chris Weide, physical education teacher for kindergarten through second-grade students at McKinley and Jefferson elementary schools, uses books to teach his students about the value of national parks. Weide and other teachers talk about the need for more books for the new elementary school, a fundraiser called Project Bookshelf. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Finding a niche in reading

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Employers shrug off virus, step up hiring WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers accelerated their hiring last month, adding a solid 531,000 jobs, the most since July and a sign that the recovery from the pandemic recession is overcoming a virus-induced slowdown.

Friday’s report from the Labor Department also showed that the unemployment rate fell to 4.6% last month from 4.8% in September. That is a comparatively low level though still well above the pre-pandemic jobless rate of 3.5%. And the job gains in August and September weren’t as weak as initially reported: The government increased its estimate of hiring for those two months by a hefty combined 235,000 jobs.

All told, the figures point to an economy that is steadily recovering from the pandemic recession, with healthy consumer spending prompting companies in nearly every industry to add workers. Though the effects of COVID-19 are still causing severe supply shortages, heightening inflation and keeping many people out of the workforce, employers are finding gradually more success in filling near record-high job postings.

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we are not sidelined by a surge in COVID cases,” said Nick Bunker, director of economic research at the employment website Indeed.

“The speed of employment gains has faltered at times this year, but the underlying momentum of the U.S. labor market is quite clear.”

The better-than-expected jobs report was welcomed on Wall Street, where investors sent stocks further into record territory. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up nearly 200 points, or roughly 0.5%, in early-afternoon trading.

Short-term Treasury yields rose as some investors moved

up their expectations for when the Federal Reserve will begin raising interest rates. But longer-term yields dipped amid muted expectations for inflation over the long term.

By most barometers, the economic recovery appears solidly on track. Services companies in such areas as retail, banking and warehousing have reported a sharp jump in sales.

Sales of new and existing homes surged last month. And consumer confidence rose in October after three straight declines.

At the same time, though, the nation remains 4.2 million jobs

short of the number it had before the pandemic flattened the economy in March 2020. The effects of the virus are still discouraging some people from traveling, shopping, eating out and attending entertainment venues.

In October, the pickup in hiring was spread across nearly every major industry, with only government employers reporting a job loss, mostly in education.

Shipping and warehousing companies added 54,000 jobs. The battered leisure and hospitality sector, which includes, restaurants, bars, hotels and entertainment venues, gained 164,000.

Manufacturers, despite their struggles with supply shortages, added 60,000, the most since June 2020.

And employers, who have been competing to fill jobs from a diminished pool of applicants, raised wages at a solid clip: Average hourly pay jumped 4.9% in October compared with a year earlier, up from 4.6% the previous month. Even a gain that strong, though, is barely keeping pace with recent surges in consumer inflation.

Those price increases pose a headwind for the economy. Higher costs for food, heating oil, rents and furniture have burdened millions of families. Prices rose 4.4% in September compared with 12 months earlier, the sharpest such jump in three decades.

Among people who are receiving pay raises, some of the biggest beneficiaries are the record-high number of people who have been quitting jobs to take new ones. One of them is Christian Frink, who has begun work as a business analyst at a digital consulting firm.

In his new job, Frink, 27, of Ferndale, Michigan, helps business clients determine the technologies they need.

Court report IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows: Jason Glukowsky, Iola, possessing drug paraphernalia, $475, probation ordered.

Alec W. Nelson, domestic battery, cirminal damage to property, $655, probation ordered.

Destiny S. Powell, Iola, possessing drug paraphernalia, $715, probation ordered.

Melissa S. Spease, Iola, trespassing, $655, probation ordered.

Other dispositions: Shane M. Sicka, Buffalo, entered diversion agreement for charges of driving while intoxicated, transporting open container of alcohol, improper driving on laned roadway and failure to yield to emergency vehicle, fined $1,605.

Police report Door damaged, items stolen Bobby Lawrence told Iola police officers Wednesday her front door was damaged and items stolen from inside the house in the 400 block of East Lincoln Street.

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Friends, colleagues honor Colin Powell

Carol Radley

WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin L. Powell, the trailblazing soldier-diplomat who rose from humble beginnings to become the first Black secretary of state, was remembered by family and friends Friday as a principled man of humility and grace whose decorated record of leadership can serve as a model for generations to come.

“The example of Colin Powell does not call on us to emulate his resume, which is too formidable for mere mortals,” his son, Michael, said in a touching tribute at his father’s funeral service at Washington National Cathedral. “It is to emulate his character and his example as a human being. We can strive to do that.”

The funeral on a sunny and chilly day drew dignitaries and friends from across the political and military spectrum.

They included President Joe Biden and for-

Carol Ann Radley, 64, Iola, died Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021.

Carol was born on Oct. 4, 1957, in Wheeling, W. Va., the daughter of Floyd and Charlotte (Thomas) Sousie.

On July 13, 1991, Carol married Howard Radley Jr. in Troy, N.Y. He survives, as do a daughter, Natasha Radley, Iola; three sons, Heath Radley, Iola, and Howard Radley III and Thomas Radley, both of New York.

Cremation has been requested. Memorials have been suggested to the American Lung Association and may be left with or mailed to Countryside Funeral Home, 101 N. Highland, Chanute, KS 66720.

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Two recent presidents did not attend — Bill Clinton, who is recovering from a severe infection, and Donald Trump, whom Powell had criticized.

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“I made a vow that I wasn’t going to let my son’s death be for nothing,” Miller said Wednesday of her dedication to raising awareness about teenage suicide, the second-leading cause of death among that age group.

Matt Miller was 19 and about to begin his sophomore year at Kansas State University when he took his life.

Saturday’s all-day conference will include keynote speaker Amber Jewell of Le Roy, a counselor for Southern Coffey County schools and the author of the new book, “Finding Hope.”

Jewell also works as a motivational speaker specializing in suicide prevention.

Also on hand will be staff from the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center, including Matt Stuckey, Doug Wright, Lisa Holloway, Janalin Taylor and Michelle Hoag. They will lead a workshop on coping skills and mindfulness; Lori Cooper, youth pastor at Wesley United Methodist, and Kurt Jackson of Yates Center, also a motivational speaker, also will participate.

Miller said it’s still unclear whether Isabelle Cole, the founder of “13 Reasons to Fly,” will be able to attend the conference, but that they have been in contact.

“She’s at a different time of her life from 2019,” Miller said, explaining that Cole is now attending university.

The day will include break-out sessions where people can meet in small groups.

The focus isn’t solely on youth, Miller said.

“We know that the elderly suffer disproportionately from depression, mainly because of their isolated circumstances. This is for them, too,” Miller said.

No matter their age, people have a tough time discussing depression.

“There’s such a stigma attached to it. It’s so hush-hush. But it’s everywhere,” she said, noting that during the COVID-19 pandemic health professionals have seen a dramatic increase in calls for help.

To be the mother of someone who has taken his life is beyond pain.

“It’s been very, very tough,” Miller conceded. “But there’s that saying, ‘you can get bitter, or you can get better.”

Taking her story public is no cakewalk.

“It’s forcing me out of my comfort zone at a time when I’m still wrapping my head around what Matt’s loss means to me and my family,” Miller said. Matt also left behind two sisters, Paige and Jenna.

“Probably the most helpful advice I’ve heard is from Isabelle Cole when she said, ‘It’s OK not to be OK,’ because some days I’m not OK.” Miller is steeling herself for the upcoming holiday season and the expectations of celebrating. Milestones that her son’s close group of friends are celebrating — college graduation, acceptance to postgraduate studies, etc., — also trigger missed opportunities.

“This would have been Matt’s senior year in college,” she said.

She recalled how on

this past Mother’s Day, a group of Matt’s friends “tracked me down after the girls had left and brought me flowers and a card. Even with Matt gone, I feel they’re my boys.”

“Matt probably didn’t appreciate how many people he touched. I gave away 25 of his football jerseys, some to people I didn’t even know,” she said.

“The thing is, Matt was just like everybody else. I’ve had many mothers of his contemporaries tell me that their sons have since confided in them about their feelings of inadequacy and suicidal thoughts.

“If Saturday’s program can save one life — one life — then it’s a success,” she said.

than my junior year in college.”

Sharla’s family had “no idea” that she was suffering. “There were some pretty gray days,” she said of her youth.

Despite being a homecoming queen and star athlete during her high school years, “I always felt I wasn’t that good at anything. I suppose that’s how Matt felt.

“I always thought the girls might need help because of all their drama, so I looked for signs of depression with them.

There was none of that with Matt.”

One of Saturday’s sessions will deal with helping friends of suicidal students.

“What if your friend confides in you that they have suicidal thoughts but ask you not to tell anybody? You tell them that I care for you so much and I want you to live, that I did tell someone.”

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Young people both inside and outside of the United Nations climate talks are telling world leaders to hurry up and get it done, that concrete measures to avoid catastrophic warming can’t wait.

Ashley Lashley, a 22-year-old from Barbardos who is on her country’s climate negotiation team in Glasgow, thought about how to communicate the need for urgency during a session on carbon trading. As she listened to other delegates debate the intricate and intractable topic that has baffled negotiators for more than six years, a phrase popped into her head: ‘”blah-blah-blah.”

That’s the expression prominent teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has started repeating to express her thoughts on the pace of government actions to curb global warming. The Thunberg-inspired Fridays for Future movement held a demonstration outside the conference venue to pressure the negotiators inside, drawing tens of thousands of participants.

And inside, the session Lashley attended droned on. She worries her fellow negotia-

tors too easily become bogged down in minutiae and lose sight of the big picture: keeping emissions from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), which could wipe out some island nations and other vulnerable spots.

“Can’t you guys just wrap it up,” Lashley, one of the few young people sitting in on negotiations, recalled thinking on Friday.

Umuhoza Grace Ineza, 25, a negotiator for Rwanda, said she watches some sessions crawling along and hears other negotiators say “Ooh, let’s try this way, that way, and then we can come up with a decision next session.” Ineza says she wants to ask them if they understand how urgent limiting climate change is for the next generation.

“In my mind, it’s like do these people have children?” she said.

University of Michigan graduate student observers AJ Convertino and Evan Gonzalez said watching the sessions on the inside made them both more impatient but also more optimistic because they see the right things being said and done, if still way too slowly.

Friday was the day the U.N. conference

said it was dedicating to youth. But the schedule didn’t reflect that, at times: a news conference where officials talked about youth had a panel with no members under 30, and the lunchtime events featured former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, 73, and 77-yearold John Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy.

“When I arrived at COP26, I could only see white middle-aged men in suits,” Magali Cho Lin Wing, 17, a member of the UNICEF U.K. Youth Advisory Board, said at a press event.

“And I thought, ‘Hold on is this a climate conference or some corporate event? Is this what you came for? To swap business cards?’”

And except on rare occasions, young people say they are not being listened to.

“It’s our future. Our future is being negotiated, and we don’t have a seat at the table,” said 20-year-old Boston College student Julia Horchos, who is inside the conference, but hasn’t gotten into negotiating sessions.

Still, they know it’s important to be at least near the room where it all happens.

“It’s my life,” Horchos said. “Its definitely my responsibility to step up.”

MILLER works as an agent for Farm Bureau Insurance, with offices in Iola and Yates Center.

Though her temptation is to bury herself in FOR MORE informaher work, she is learn- tion about Saturday’s ing that is not a coping conference go to “13 mechanism. “I’m learn- Reasons to Fly SEK,” on ing to take care of my- Facebook. self,” she said, which includes stepping back when life seems overwhelming.

“I used to just push through any situation, until I broke.” Now, she weighs the emotional toll of certain activities and circumstances.

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF MORAN, KANSAS: SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Ordinance the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given herein. When not inconsistent within the context, words used in the present tense include the future tense and words in the single number include the plural number. The word “shall” is always mandatory, and not merely directory.

“City” shall mean the City of Moran, Kansas, and, where appropriate by the context, each of its departments, divisions and component units, including public trusts or authorities of which the City is a beneficiary.

“Company” shall mean Kansas Gas Service, a Division of ONE Gas, Inc. “Consumer” shall mean any person or Entity located within the municipal corporate limits of the City and serviced by the Company through any use of the Public Ways.

“Distribution” or “Distributed” shall mean all sales, distribution, or transportation of natural gas to any Sales or Transportation Consumer for use within the City by the Company or by others through the Distribution Facilities of Company in a Right of Way. “Distribution System” or “Distribution Facilities” shall mean a pipeline or system of pipelines, including without limitation, mains, pipes, boxes, reducing and regulating stations, laterals, conduits and services extensions, together with all necessary appurtenances thereto, or any part thereof located within any Public Way, for the purpose of Distribution or supplying natural gas for light, heat, power and all other purposes.

“Effective Date” shall mean the date the Company files its written acceptance with the City following the final passage and approval of said Ordinance by the City.

“Entity” shall mean any individual person(s), governmental entity, business, corporation, partnership, firm, limited liability corporation, limited liability partnership, unincorporated association, joint venture or trust and shall include all forms of business enterprise not specifically listed herein.

“Facility” or “Facilities” refers to the Company’s Distribution System or Distribution Facilities.

“Franchise” shall mean the grant of authority by the City to transport, distribute or sell natural gas to the inhabitants of the City and to operate a Distribution System or Distribution Facilities.

“Franchise Fee” shall refer to the charges as prescribed in Section 3 of this Franchise Ordinance.

“Franchise Ordinance” shall mean this Ordinance granting a natural gas franchise to the Company.

“Gross Receipts” shall mean any and all compensation and other consideration derived directly by the Company from any Distribution of natural gas to Consumers within the City. Such term shall not include revenue from certain miscellaneous charges and accounts including but not limited to: connection fees, disconnection and reconnection fees, temporary service charges, delayed or late payment charges, collection fees, bad debts, customer project contributions, meter test fees, revenues received

by Company from Consumers as franchise fee reimbursement, and returned check charges. Additionally, Gross receipts shall not include credit extended pursuant to the Cold Weather Rule (or substitute rule) of the Kansas Corporation Commission for natural gas sold within the corporate limits of the City, nor Volumetric Rate Fees collected by Company and remitted to City in accordance with Section 3 of this ordinance.

“MCF” shall mean a measurement of natural gas equal to one thousand cubic feet. It is assumed for purposes of this Franchise Ordinance that one MCF equals one million British Thermal Units.

“Public Improvements” means any public facilities, buildings, or capital improvements, including, without limitation, streets, alleys, sidewalks, sewer, water, drainage, right-of-way improvements, and other Public Projects.

“Public Project” means any project planned or undertaken and financed by the City or any governmental entity for construction, reconstruction, maintenance, or repair of public facilities or improvements, or any other purpose of a public nature paid for with public funds.

“Public Way” or “Public Ways” shall mean the area on, below or above the present and future public streets, avenues, alleys, bridges, boulevards, roads, highways, parks, parking places and other public areas, and general utility easements, dedicated to or acquired by the City. The term does not include easements obtained by private entities providing utilities services or private easements in platted subdivisions or tracts.

“Sales Consumer” shall mean, without limitation, any Entity that purchases natural gas within the Corporate City limits from Company for delivery to such consumer within the City through the Company’s Distribution System or Distribution Facilities.

SECTION 2. GRANT OF FRANCHISE. A. In consideration of the benefits to be derived by the City and its inhabitants, there is hereby granted to the Company (said Company operating a Distribution System in the State of Kansas), a non-exclusive franchise for a period of twenty (20) years from the Effective Date, to construct, maintain, extend and operate its Distribution Facilities along, across, upon or under any Public Way for the purpose of selling and distributing natural gas for all purposes to the City, and its inhabitants, and through said City and beyond the limits thereof; to obtain said natural gas from any source available; and to do all things necessary or proper to carry on said business.

B. The grant of this franchise by the City shall not convey title, equitable or legal, in a Public Way and shall give only the right to occupy the Public Way for the purposes and for the period stated in this Ordinance. This Ordinance does not: (1) Grant the right to use facilities or any other property, natural gas-related or otherwise, owned or controlled by the City or a third party without the consent of such party; (2) Grant the authority to construct, maintain or operate any Facility or related appurtenance on property owned by the City outside of a Public Way; (3) Excuse the Company from obtaining appropriate access or attachment agreements before locating its Facilities on property owned or controlled by the City (other than a Public Way) or a third party; or (4) Excuse the Company from obtaining and being responsible for any necessary permit, license, certification, grant, registration or any other authorization required by any appropriate governmental entity, including, but not limited to, the City or the Kansas Corporation Commission.

SECTION 3. FRANCHISE FEE. A. As further consideration for the granting of this franchise, and in lieu of city occupation, license or permit fees, or revenue taxes, except as expressly provided herein, the Company shall pay to the City during the term of this franchise, a Franchise Fee in the amount of $100.00 to be paid on each July 1st thereafter during term hereof. The sum of $100.00 will be paid into the City Treasury.

B. The Company’s obligation for payments of the Franchise Fee shall commence following the first cycle of the monthly billing cycle beginning after the passage, adoption, acceptance and publication of this Ordinance, as provided in Section 11 below.

Prior to that date, payments shall continue to be calculated and be paid in the manner previously provided in Ordinance No. 1077, and amendments thereto.

C. In the event a Consumer of Company does not pay a monthly bill from Company in full, Company shall prorate its payments of remissions to the City for sums due on that particular bill so that the amount actually paid by the Consumer to Company on the bill is distributed to Company for the natural gas commodity and transportation or distribution service and to the City for sums due on the bill in proportion to the percentage of the total bill actually paid by the Consumer. In the event Company actually collects any outstanding amounts due on a past due, unpaid or partially paid monthly bill to a customer,

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D. Upon written request by the City (but no more than once per quarter), the Company shall submit to the City a certified statement showing the manner in which the Franchise Fee was calculated. The City shall have the right to examine within the corporate limits of the City and during regular business hours, upon reasonable advance written notice to the Company (but no more often than once per calendar year), all books, papers and records kept by the Company in the ordinary course of business and pertaining to its business carried on by it in or through the City, necessary to verify the correctness of the Franchise Fees paid by Company.

E. No acceptance by the City of any Franchise Fee shall be construed as an accord that the amount paid is in fact the correct amount, nor shall acceptance of any Franchise Fee payment be construed as a release of any claim of the City. Any dispute concerning the amount due under this Section shall be resolved in the manner set forth in K.S.A. 122001 and amendments thereto.

F. The Franchise Fee required herein shall be in lieu of all taxes, charges, assessments, licenses, fees and impositions otherwise applicable that are or may be imposed by the City under K.S.A. 12-2001 and 17-1902 and amendments thereto. From and after the date hereof, the permit fees required of the Company by any ordinance (presently in effect or hereafter adopted) for a permit to excavate in or adjacent to any Public Way shall be deemed a part of the compensation paid pursuant to this Ordinance and shall not be separately assessed or collected by the City; in no event, however, shall this provision be interpreted to waive the requirement of notice to the City and the procedural requirements of such ordinance. The Franchise Fee is compensation for use of the Public Way. SECTION 4. USE OF PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY. A. Except as provided herein or as regulated by state or federal law, the use of any Public Way under this franchise by the Company shall be subject to all laws, statutes, regulations and/ or city policies (including, but not limited to those relating to the construction and use of the Public Way or other public property) now or hereafter adopted or promulgated. In addition, except as provided herein the Company shall be subject to all rules, regulations and policies now or hereafter adopted or promulgated by the City relating to permits, sidewalk and pavement cuts, utility location, construction coordination, and other requirements on the use of a Public Way; provided however, that nothing contained herein shall constitute a waiver of or be construed as waiving the right of the Company to oppose, challenge, or seek judicial review of, in such manner as is now or may hereafter be provided by law, any such rules, regulation or policy proposed, adopted, or promulgated by the City and, further provided other than the items enumerated in this Section 4 herein, that such rules, regulations or policies shall not require the payment of additional fees or additional costs for the use of a Public Way. B. All mains, services, and pipe which shall be laid or installed under this grant shall be so located and laid as not to obstruct or interfere with any water pipes, drains, sewers, or other structures already installed. The Company shall provide, prior to commencing work, information to the City concerning work to be performed in the streets, avenues, bridges, parking areas, and public places of the City, as the City may from time to time require for purposes of record keeping. The City may require that the information be provided on its standard permit form, but without requiring approval, consent, or fees. In the event of an emergency, the Company shall have the right to commence work without having first providing such information or form(s).

C. The Company’s use of any Public Way shall always be subject and subordinate to the City’s use of the Public Way for any public purpose. The City may exercise its home rule powers in its administration and regulation related to the management of the Public Way; provided that any such exercise must be competitively neutral and may not be unreasonable or discriminatory, nor in conflict with state or federal law.

D. The City reserves the right to lay or permit to be laid cables, electric conduits, water, sewer, gas or other pipelines and to do or permit to be done any underground work deemed necessary and proper by the City, along, across, over or under any Public Way. In permitting such work to be done, the City shall not be liable to the Company for any dam-

age to the Company’s Facilities unless the City or its agents or contractors are negligent in causing said damage.

E. Whenever by reason of establishing a grade or changes in the grade of any street, or the location or manner of construction of any Public Way, and it shall be deemed necessary by the City to alter, change, adapt or conform any portion of the Company’s Facilities located in the Public Way, the City shall provide reasonable notice and such alterations or changes shall be made within a reasonable time by the Company, as ordered in writing by the City, without claim for reimbursement or compensation for damages against the City; provided, however, that this provision is not intended to require the Company to alter, change, adapt or conform any portion of its Facilities without reimbursement or compensation where the right to locate the same (whether by private rightof-way grant, utility easement or otherwise), was acquired prior to the designation of the location as a Public Way. F. If the City shall require the Company to adapt or conform its Facilities or in any way to alter, relocate or change its property to enable any other person, firm, corporation or entity (whether public or private), other than the City, to use the Public Way, the Company shall be reimbursed by the person, firm corporation or entity desiring or occasioning such change for any and all loss, cost or expense occasioned thereby. “Person,” “firm,” “corporation,” and “entity” as used in this paragraph shall not include regular departments of the City, or any trust or authority formed by or for the benefit of City for public utility purposes, but shall include any other agency or authority of the City, whether acting in a governmental or non-governmental capacity, including, but not limited to, any urban renewal authority, or any other agency or authority, which as a part of its program clears whole tracts of land within the municipal corporate limits and relocates citizens for the purpose of urban development or similar aims.

G. The Company and the City shall participate in the Kansas One-Call utility location program. The Company shall cooperate promptly and fully with the City and take all reasonable measures necessary to provide accurate and complete information regarding the location of its Facilities located within a Public Way when requested by the City.

Such location and identification shall be promptly communicated in writing to the City without cost to the City, its employees, agents or authorized contractors.

The Company shall designate and maintain an agent familiar with the Facilities, who is responsible for providing timely information needed by the City for the design and replacement of Facilities in a Public Way during and for the design of Public Improvements.

H. The Company shall be subject to the following fees and costs in connection with its use and occupancy of any Public Way: (i) in the event that the repairs or replacements set forth under Section 5 below, have not been timely completed by Company, the City may charge an excavation fee for each street or pavement cut to recover the costs associated with construction and repair activity; (ii) inspection fees to recover all reasonable costs associated with City inspection of the work of the Company in the Public Way when the Facilities are of such a scope and magnitude so as to require the City to incur such inspection costs by an outside party; and (iii) the repair and restoration costs associated with repairing and restoring the Public Way because of damage caused by the Company, its assigns, contractors, and/or subcontractors in the Public Way. SECTION 5. NOTICE OF WORK & DUTY TO REPAIR. A. Prior to commencing any activities related to the construction, maintenance, or extension of its Facilities along, across, upon or under the Public Way, the Company shall submit to the City written plans detailing all such activities in the manner required by the City by Ordinance. In the event of an emergency, Company shall have the right to commence work without having first providing such plans, provided such plans are submitted within five business days of commencement of the work. The Company’s Facilities shall be so constructed and maintained as not to obstruct or hinder the usual travel or public safety on such public ways or unreasonably obstruct the legal use by other utilities.

B. Prior to beginning work, the Company will inspect existing pavement within and/or adjacent to the work area and will report any existing damage or concerns.

All earth, materials, sidewalks, paving, crossings, utilities, Public Improvements, or improvements of any kind located within the Public Way that are damaged, dis-

placed, or removed by the Company shall be fully repaired or replaced to their prior condition or to existing municipal standards as are then in existence, and in a manner satisfactory to the duly authorized representatives of the City, after completing such activity as is permitted under this Ordinance and without cost to the City.

SECTION 6. INDEMNITY AND HOLD HARMLESS. The Company, its successors and assigns, in the construction, maintenance, and operation of its natural gas system, shall use all reasonable and proper precaution to avoid damage or injury to persons and property, and shall indemnify, defend, and hold and save the City harmless from any and all claims, damage, judgments, and reasonable expense, including attorney fees, caused by the negligence of the Company, its successors and assigns, or its or their agents or servants. The Company or the City shall promptly advise the other in writing of any known claim or demand against the Company or the City related to or arising out of the Company’s activities in any Public Way. SECTION 7. RULES AND REGULATIONS. The Company shall have the right to make and enforce such reasonable rules and regulations as it may deem necessary for the extension of its Facilities, the sale of its gas, and the prudent conduct of its business, provided that such rules and regulations shall neither be in conflict with the laws of the State of Kansas, with the orders, rules or regulations of the Kansas Corporation Commission or other regulatory authority having jurisdiction, nor with the ordinances and regulations of the City insofar as they are consistent with the jurisdiction of the Kansas Corporation Commission or such other regulatory authority.

SECTION 8. INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS. During the term of this Ordinance, the Company shall maintain insurance coverage at its sole expense with financially reputable insurers. The Company may elect to use the services of an affiliated captive insurance company for this purpose. The Company shall provide not less than the following insurance: (1) Workers’ compensation as provided for under any worker’s compensation or similar law in the jurisdiction where any work is performed with an employers’ liability limit equal to the amount required by law.

(2) Commercial general liability, including coverage for contractual liability and products completed operations liability with a limit of not less than Two Million Dollars combined single limit per occurrence for bodily injury, personal injury, and property damage liability. The City shall be included as an “additional insured” with respect to general liability arising from the Company’s operations under this Franchise Ordinance, provided that such “additional insured” coverage shall be on a primary and noncontributory basis with respect to the City’s own coverage and, notwithstanding the general limits of insurance described above and elsewhere, provide limits to the City of no more (and no less) than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) per occurrence.

As an alternative to the above insurance requirements, the Company may demonstrate to the satisfaction of the City that it is self-insured and as such Company has the ability to provide coverage in an amount not less than One Million Dollars per occurrence and Two Million Dollars in the aggregate, to protect the City from and against all claims by any person whatsoever for loss or damage from personal injury, bodily injury, death or property damage occasioned by the Company, or alleged to so have been caused or occurred. If self-insurance is allowed by state law for one or more of the required coverages, Company may present certificate or permit of self-insurance issued by state to satisfy this requirement.

SECTION 9. REVOCATION AND TERMINATION. In case of failure on the part of the Company to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or if the Company should do or cause to be done any act or thing prohibited by or in violation of the terms of this Ordinance, the Company may be subject to forfeiture of all rights, privileges and franchise granted herein, and all such rights, privileges and franchise hereunder be deemed ceased, terminated and null and void, and this Ordinance shall be deemed revoked or terminated, provided that said revocation or termination shall not take effect until the City has completed the following procedures: Before the City proceeds to revoke and terminate this Ordinance, it shall first serve a written notice upon Company, setting forth in detail the neglect or failure complained

of, and the Company shall have sixty days thereafter in which to comply with the conditions and requirements of this Ordinance.

If at the end of such sixty-day period the City determines that the neglect or failure complained of has not been cured, the City shall take action to revoke and terminate this Ordinance by an affirmative vote of the governing body present at a public meeting and voting, setting out the grounds upon which this Ordinance is to be revoked and terminated; provided, to afford the Company due process, the Company shall first be provided reasonable notice of the date, time and location of the governing body’s consideration and shall have the right to address the governing body regarding such matter; and further provided, if the nature of the default is such that it cannot be reasonably cured within the above said sixty-day period, and the governing body believes the Company has in good faith timely commenced its cure and is diligently pursuing the completion of the same, the Company may, in the City’s sole discretion, be given a reasonable additional period of time to complete its cure. Nothing herein shall prevent either party from invoking any other remedy that may otherwise exist at law. Upon any determination by the governing body to revoke and terminate this Ordinance, the Company shall have thirty days to appeal such decision to the District Court where the City is located or in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas. This Ordinance shall be deemed revoked and terminated at the end of this thirty-day period, unless the Company has instituted such an appeal. If the Company does timely institute such an appeal, such revocation and termination shall remain pending and subject to the court’s final judgment. Provided, however, that the failure of the Company to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordinance or the doing or causing to be done by the Company of anything prohibited by or in violation of the terms of this Ordinance shall not be a ground for the revocation or termination thereof when such act or omission on the part of the Company is due to any cause or delay beyond the control of the Company or to bona fide legal proceedings.

SECTION 10. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS. In granting its consent hereunder, the City does not in any manner waive its regulatory or other rights and powers under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Kansas as the same may be amended, applicable Federal laws or regulations as the same may be amended, its home rule powers under the Constitution of the State of Kansas, nor any of its rights and powers under or by virtue of present or future ordinances of the City.

In adopting and passing this Ordinance, neither the City’s nor the Company’s present or future legal rights, positions, claims, assertions or arguments before any administrative agency or court of law are in any way prejudiced or waived. By the City’s adopting and passing this Ordinance and the Company’s acceptance hereof as provided in Section 11, neither the City nor the Company waive any rights, but instead expressly reserve any and all rights, remedies, and arguments the City or the Company may have at law or equity, without limitation, to argue, assert, and/or take any position as to the legality or appropriateness of any present or future laws, non-franchise ordinances and/or rulings.

SECTION 11. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS. This Franchise Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, approval by the City, acceptance by the Company, and publication in the official City newspaper. The Company shall have sixty days after the final passage and approval of this Franchise Ordinance to file with the City Clerk its written acceptance of the provisions, terms and conditions of this Franchise Ordinance and when so accepted, this Franchise Ordinance and acceptance shall constitute a contract between the City and the Company and such contract shall be deemed effective on the date Company files its acceptance with the City.

This Franchise Ordinance, when accepted as provided above, (i) shall constitute the entire agreement between the City and the Company relating to this franchise, and the same shall supersede and cancel any prior understandings, agreements, or representations regarding the subject matter hereof, or involved in negotiations pertaining thereto, whether oral or written, (ii) shall be binding upon the parties, including their successors and assigns, and (iii) shall not be amended or further obligations imposed without mutual consent of the parties hereto.

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STATEMENT OF COUNTY TREASURER, ALLEN COUNTY, KS, AS SHOWN ON THE BOOKS IN THIS OFFICE AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON THE 31st DAY OF OCT, 2021 (KSA 19-520) County General ..................................................... $1,597,603.65 Sheriff Vins Fees ..........................................................$11,616.59 County Gen Div. Fees ............................................. $130,055.73 Co Gen Grant................................................................$13,855.68 American Rescue Plan Act................................. $1,141,884.50 Airport ......................................................................... $438,415.00 Ambulance ................................................................ $422,866.62 Appraiser .................................................................. $118,666.47 Conservation District .................................................. $3,750.43 Direct Election .............................................................$92,015.21 Hospital.................................................................... $1,163,701.55 Multi County Health ..................................................$31,338.83 Historical Society........................................................$15,035.34 Mental Health ..............................................................$42,021.41 Intellectual Disability ................................................$19,522.31 Noxious Weeds......................................................... $118,115.05 Public Works........................................................... $3,073,003.66 General Transportation .............................................-11,156.51 Service to Elderly..................................................... $270,826.59 Special Bridge........................................................ $1,894,811.72 Special County Clerk Tech Fund.............................. $5,410.50 Special Liability ........................................................ $100,403.19 Special Co. Treasurer Tech Fund ............................$15,262.98 Register of Deeds Tech Fund..................................$49,895.50 Equipment Reserve ...................................................$40,508.17 Special Drug & Alcohol Programs ........................$28,328.73 Special Machinery................................................ $2,020,578.54 Special Park..................................................................... $1,239.20 NG Solutions ................................................................$85,024.60 E911 Donations............................................................. $3,426.47 Hazmat Grant................................................................. $5,463.93 Solid Waste ............................................................. $5,866,284.01 Solid Waste Trust................................................... $1,222,736.76 Auto Fees.......................................................................$15,746.87 Prairie Queen Windfarms.........................................$50,000.00 Prosecuting Attorney Fund.....................................$19,187.21 Law Enforcement Trust ............................................$18,273.12 Co Attorney Drug Forfeiture ..................................$10,516.24 Co. Attorney Check Coll. ..........................................$13,479.06 Sheriff’s Asset Forfeiture ............................................ $3,455.90 Sheriff’s Tax Holding..................................................$82,248.00 911 Tax Holding ..........................................................$25,981.00 Health Insurance................................................... $1,016,321.18 Drug Court....................................................................$44,355.62 Humboldt Senior Center ........................................... $8,655.41 Iola Senior Center......................................................... $5,704.67 LaHarpe Senior Center ............................................... $3,238.21 Moran Senior Center............................................................$5.00 Cert Donations ..................................................................$236.91 Iola EMS..........................................................................$61,522.55 LaHarpe Fire .................................................................$18,215.96 Fire Dist #2 ....................................................................$42,491.83 Fire Dist #3 ....................................................................$10,537.39 Fire Dist #4 ................................................................... $20,151.73 Sewer Dist #1 ............................................................ $149,681.00 Sewer Dist #2 ...............................................................$77,632.16 Vehicle License Tax....................................................... $6,408.69 Vehicle Sales Tax .........................................................$60,829.68 Game License.....................................................................$233.50 Heritage Trust ....................................................................$552.48 Court Cost ...........................................................................$108.00 Delinquent Personal Prop Tax......................................$267.90 Real Estate Redemptions.........................................$31,739.62 Tax Foreclosure.............................................................. $6,800.00 Motor Vehicle Tax .................................................... $214,163.51 Recreational Vehicle Tax............................................. $3,515.33 CMV Holding.................................................................. $5,196.48 Treasurer's Holding Acct ................................................$499.99 Delinquent Tax Payments.......................................... $8,259.82 Change Check/Funds Transfer.....................................$561.61 Long/Short..........................................................................$237.17 Cottage Grove Township ...................................................... $.04

Continued from A4 SECTION 12. REOPENER PROVISION. Upon written request of either the City or the Company, this Franchise may be reviewed once after five (5) years from the effective date of this ordinance, and once every (5) five years thereafter, to review the rate set forth in Section 3 above. Said request must be served upon the other party at least 120 days prior to the end of each period set forth above, and shall state specifically the amendment(s) desired. The City and the Company shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to agree upon mutually satisfactory amendment of the Franchise.

Upon written request of the Company, the franchise shall be reopened and renegotiated at any time upon a change in federal, state, or local law, regulation, or order which materially affects any rights or obligations of Company, including, but not limited to, the scope of the grant to the Company or the compensation to be paid to the City.

The franchise fee percentage rate set forth in Section 3 shall in no event exceed the percentage rate hereafter approved to calculate any fee paid to the City by any Entity for use of the Public Ways, if such fee is based in any way on the amount of revenues or gross receipts from the sale, transportation and/or distribution of natural gas or electric energy (excluding any municipally-owned electric utility) by such other Entity to customers within the City. If at any time after the effective date of this Ordinance, the fee or rate required to be paid by another utility distribution company is less than the percentage rate set forth in Section 3, then this Franchise shall become automatically subject to reopen upon notice by the Company for purposes of negotiation of a new lower franchise percentage rate.

SECTION 13. NOTICE OF ANNEXATION. The City shall promptly notify the Company in writing (to include a map) of areas newly annexed into or deannexed from the corporate limits of the City, and the Company shall update its records for the purpose of payment of franchise fees as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving such notice. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Ordinance, the fees provided for in Section 3 above shall not become effective within any area annexed by the City until the beginning of the monthly billing cycle which begins no more than sixty days after the date that the City provides the Company with a certified copy of the annexation ordinance, proof of publication as required by law and a map of the City detailing the annexed area.

SECTION 14. RELEVANT LAW. The franchise is granted pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 12-

2001 and amendments thereto.

Any and all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the terms hereof are hereby repealed or considered as having no effect as of the first cycle of the monthly billing cycle as referenced in Section 3 of this ordinance.

SECTION 15. TRANSFER AND ASSIGNMENT. Company shall not have the right to assign, sell, lease, or otherwise transfer in any manner whatsoever to any third party not affiliated with Company the rights and privileges granted under this Ordinance except as hereinafter provided. Any assignment, sale, lease, or other transfer by the Company of the franchise granted herein to any third party not affiliated with Company shall be ineffective and void unless: (1) The proposed assignment, sale, lease or transfer shall be in writing: (2) The prospective assignee, buyer, lessee or other transferee shall agree in writing to accept and become responsible for full performance of all conditions, covenants, obligations, and liabilities contained in this Ordinance; and (3) Such writing shall be submitted to the City Clerk of the City.

SECTION 16. POINT OF CONTACT AND NOTICES. Company shall at all times maintain with the City a local point of contact who shall be available at all times to act on behalf of Company in the event of an emergency. Company shall provide the City with said local contact’s name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. Emergency notice by either party to the other may be made by telephone to the City’s designee as listed below. All other notices between the parties shall be in writing and shall be made by personal delivery, depositing such notice in the U.S. Mail, Certified Mail (return receipt requested), or via the email addresses provided below. Any notice served by U.S. Mail or Certified Mail (return receipt requested) shall be deemed delivered upon actual receipt unless otherwise provided. Other than emergencies, notices to the parties shall be to the following: SECTION 17. AGREEMENT TO RENEGOTIATE. Should the Kansas Corporation Commission take any action with respect to this Franchise Ordinance and any amendment thereto which precludes Company from recovering from its customers any costs or fees provided for hereunder, the parties hereto shall renegotiate this Franchise Ordinance in accordance with or to conform to the Commission’s ruling.

PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 1st day of November, 2021.

CITY OF MORAN, KANSAS [seal] Jerry D. Wallis, Mayor ATTEST: Lori S. Evans, City Clerk

(Published in The Iola Register Nov. 6, 2021) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of JOHN E. STRUBHART a/k/a JOHN EMIL STRUBHART, deceased

Case NO. AL-2021PR-000052 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition was filed in this Court

by James L. Strubhart, heir, devisee and legatee, and Executor named in the Last Will and Testament of John E. Strubhart, Deceased praying that the foreign Will dated November 29, 2001 be admitted to probate and record; no administration of the Estate is necessary; the Will be construed and the following Kansas real estate owned by

(Published in The Iola Register Oct. 23, 2021) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate of EDWARD T. STOKES, Deceased AL-2021-PR-000047 NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that on the 19th day of October 2021, a Petition for Appointment of Administrator was filed in this Court by Barbara A. Stokes, heir. All creditors of the above-named Decedent are notified to exhibit their demands

the Decedent, situated in Allen County, Kansas: East Half of the Northeast Quarter (E/2NE/4) of Section 36, Township 26 South, Range 18, East of the 6th P.M., Allen County, Kansas be assigned in accordance with the terms of the Will. You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before November 30, 2021 at 8:30 a.m. of such day in this Court, 1 N Washington Ave., Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

James L. Strubhart, Petitioner R. KENT PRINGLE, S.C. #10458 221 W. Main, P.O. Box 748 Chanute, KS 66720 Telephone (620) 431-2202 Fax (620) 431-1166 Email: rkpringle@hotmail.com Attorney for Petitioner (11) 6, 13, 20

against the Estate within four months from the date of first publication of this notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

BARBARA A. STOKES, Petitioner DANIEL SCHOWENGERDT, #23766 JOHNSON SCHOWENGERDT, PA 118 W. Madison Avenue, PO Box 866 Iola, KS 66749 (620) 365-3778 Attorney for Petitioner (10) 23, 30 (11) 6

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Lead levels should concern Kansans According to a national study published by the American Medical Association last month, 65% of Kansas children have elevated levels of lead in their blood — 15 points higher than the national average.

There is no safe level of lead, per the Center for Disease Control.

Lead exposure, especially early in life, can lead to brain and nervous system damage, slow growth and development, and learning, behavior, hearing, and speech problems.

While we have made significant progress over the past 40 years in reducing lead exposure via government policies that work to eliminate it from gasoline, paint, plumbing, and consumer products, there is still much to be done. Many older homes in low-income areas, especially minority-populated urban areas, still have an abundance of lead in paint and plumbing.

Health concerns associated with lead exposure invoke thoughts of Flint, Michigan where, in the name of financial savings, the local and state governments failed to appropriately treat the water supply and it poisoned thousands of children. The city’s kids will never fully recover.

But we can work to prevent it from happening elsewhere.

Alexandra Middlewood Insight Kansas Lead exposure via water isn’t only a concern in states like Michigan. It’s a problem right here in Kansas.

KANSAS HAS some of the highest numbers of lead service lines in the country.

Per the National Resources Defense Council, Kansas has the third highest number of lead pipes per capita. These pipes carry water into our homes and buildings that our children then drink.

Appropriate water treatment can prevent pipe corrosion. But once service lines begin to corrode, they carry lead into our drinking water.

Water that has high acidity or low mineral content is especially corrosive to fixtures and pipes. This is exactly what happened in Flint.

There has long been a lack of political will to replace lead service lines. But after the Flint crisis, it has recently become a national priority under the Biden administration. The president’s infrastructure plan has proposed devoting $45 billion to replacing lead pipes, including

Get the jab, keep the job The garbage is still being collected, the streets are still being patrolled, the fires are still being doused and the ambulance calls are still being answered — and 92% of the city’s nearly 400,000 employees are vaccinated against COVID. It’s proof that NYC Mayor de Blasio’s universal vax mandate is working, despite the wailing of deadenders about a supposed violation of their rights.

Sure, there is a rapidly diminishing pool of latecomers, about 9,000 refusers who’ve temporarily lost their paychecks and another 12,000 who’ve applied for medical or religious exemptions. But the mayor’s plan, stupidly resisted by foolish union leaders, succeeded in getting the vast majority protected while maintaining city services.

From Monday to Tuesday, another 2,000 municipal workers did the smart thing and took the needle. It only pinches for a second, but it may save your life and will certainly save your paycheck — and you still get the 100 bucks.

To the 9,000 on unpaid leave: Your pay is gone for a month, but then those bills

will come due. If you don’t want the shot, then you don’t want the salary. Meantime, your obstinance is also making your brothers and sisters carry your load (that’s actual loads for sanitmen).

As for the 12,000 seeking exemptions, those requests will be evaluated, but only a tiny portion will be granted. Most should then relent and get the shot.

Any malingerers feigning sickness, like the rush who reported to the FDNY medical division, have to be dealt with seriously.

These few adults are setting a poor example for children. Now that the vaccine is getting emergency approval for kids down to age 5, having all youngsters shielded must be a priority for de Blasio’s remaining two months and the next mayor.

The state’s immunization requirements for schoolkids include shots for diphtheria and tetanus; polio; measles, mumps and rubella; and hepatitis B, among other diseases far less virulent today than COVID. When the junior dose gets full federal approval, add it to the list. Immediately.

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the approximate 158,000 lead pipes in our state.

Research by Dan Slusky, a health economics expert and Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, studies the economic impact of lead exposure. His analysis concludes that the benefits of the infrastructure plan would justify the costs.

Cities across the country have recently faced leadbased public health crises.

Are Kansas’ cities next?

If the past two years have shown us anything it’s that health is a community issue.

It has also shown us that scientific truths are often dismissed for political reasons.

Government can protect rights, promote equality, and prevent historic injustice — but it often requires citizens to demand government use this power preventatively. A lead crisis would be too late for Kansas’ kids. No amount of exposure is safe.

But we can — and should — pressure Kansas’ congressional delegation to prioritize replacing lead pipes as part of the infrastructure plan. This is our chance to protect the health and wellbeing of Kansas’ kids.

About the author: Alexandra Middlewood is an assistant professor of political science at Wichita State University.

Dear fellow parents: Please get your kids vaccinated. I’m doing so this week.

As a pediatrician at Duke Health, I’ve seen many children and families suffer from COVID-19 over the last 20 months. The parents of my patients tell me about the fevers, body aches, headaches, and loss of smell that have lasted for months. With approval this week of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11, we can ease a great deal of that heartache.

COVID-19 has not only harmed adults. In North Carolina, about 250,000 of the state’s COVID-19 cases — roughly 1 in every 6 — has been a child. And with the emergence of the more contagious Delta variant over the last several months, more and more children have become infected.

COVID-19 is unpredictable.

Some children have it and never know; symptoms can be nonexistent, mild, serious or even deadly. But even a mild or asymptomatic infection can force a child into quarantine, a disruption to the predictable, consistent routine that helps children thrive.

With moderate illness, they may need to be hospitalized, which can be very traumatic.

Almost 10% of children who had COVID-19 may experience prolonged symptoms, such as trouble concentrating, fatigue, headache, muscle and joint pain, and insomnia.

A recent report showed that 1 out of every 3 children admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 ends up in the intensive care unit and may need life support. Sadly, over 700 children have now died of COVID-19 in the United States, more than usually die of influenza in an average year.

And COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on children of color. Black and Hispanic children represent more than half of the child hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.

Meanwhile, recent research found that 140,000 American

children have lost a parent to COVID-19, many of them racial and ethnic minorities.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound effects on the mental health of children as well. I’ve seen it in my own patients, like the bubbly little girl who I’ve been taking care of for four years. This child has traditionally been so upbeat that I had a sticky note to remind myself: “She’s always happy!” But when I last saw her a few months ago, she was gripped by anxiety and thoughts of suicide; the pandemic had turned her world upside down. She never had COVID-19 herself, but the pandemic had cut her off from her own life support: school, friends, activities.

She was not the only one. In my 15 years as a pediatrician, I have never seen so many young girls cutting their wrists as a suicidal gesture, as I have this year.

But there is hope now.

COVID-19 finally joins the list of other vaccine-preventable illnesses like measles, tetanus and polio. There don’t have to be another 700 childhood deaths next year. With the protection of the vaccine on board, our children can now be part of the fight, part of the victory.

Over the last year my kids have watched me on countless virtual town halls sharing stories about the hardships my patients and their families face. They have heard their father, a pulmonologist and intensive care doctor, come home day after day talking about the different ways he and his team try to save the lives of people suffering from COVID-19.

My children are 7 and 9 years old, and I see the vaccine as a chance to give them agency — to empower them in this fight against COVID-19.

And the good news is that we have a safe and effective way to do it. I am getting them vaccinated Thursday, as soon as the vaccine is available.

Please join me.

About the author: Gabriela M. Maradiaga Panayotti is a pediatrician at Duke Health.

This piece was written for The Charlotte Observer.

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49 Years Ago 1973

Iola Pharmacy began in 1973 when pharmacists Jim Arnott and Bret Lawrence purchased Cooksey’s Drug Store at 1 E. Madison, followed by the purchase of Eyler Drug, formerly Cook’s Drug Store, in 1975.

In 1987, the pharmacy added to its customer base by purchasing Knorp Drug, which was located in the Iola Plaza.

Arnott became sole owner in 1988. Over the next few years pharmacists Jeff Dieker, 1991, Bill Walden, 1993, and Jim Bauer, 1994, became partners with Arnott in the growing business. In 2007, Travis Coffield bought into the practice. ***** The new equipment warehouse for the Allen County Road and Bridge Department is to be completed this November. The warehouse is being built on land purchased by the county commission near the defunct Lehigh plant. ***** The Iola City Commission has issued an austere

This is the Iola Pharmacy crew in 2002.

Christmas lighting policy aimed at reducing electrical power use by as much as two-thirds over that required for last year’s Christmas lighting. The commissioners have ordered that no decorative lighting will be installed on public buildings. Other festive lights will be turned on for only three hours each day and then only on certain dates.

City superintendent Jim Wilson has directed city of-

fices to lower thermostats to 68 degrees, to turn off lights not needed for security or in areas not being used, and to close overhead doors in city garages as quickly as possible. Wilson also asked employees to conserve fuel as much as possible. “I sincerely believe,” said Wilson, “if all citizens cooperate wholeheartedly in the conservation of energy of all types that a rationing at the federal level can be averted.”

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didn’t work, she told her mom.

That led to a quest to find out what was wrong and brain surgery to remove a tumor the size of two golf balls.

“Sometimes, people are going through hard times, and we just don’t know what to do,” Brown said.

As Maddie was recovering from surgery, a cousin decided to post a picture of herself wearing a silly blue fake mustache. She encouraged friends and family to post pictures of themselves on social media wearing mustaches, with the #mustachesformaddie hashtag.

“She thought, when Maddie comes out of surgery, she’ll know we were thinking of her. And she’ll laugh because we look ridiculous,” Brown said.

It worked.

In fact, it went viral.

Soon, hundreds of people across the country were taking pictures of themselves wearing fake mustaches and tagging it for Maddie.

“Sometimes, little things we do can make a really big difference,” Brown said.

“Keep your eyes open.

Shelly Brown, above, talks to Iola Middle School students about her daughter’s experience with a brain tumor, which led to writing the book “Mustaches for Maddie.” At right, Chad Morris acts like Voldemort from the Harry Potter books.

Find something.”

Squint

“Squint,” which was shared with Iola readers, tells the story of a middle schooler who is losing his eyesight but wants to finish drawing a comic before a contest deadline.

Soon he meets a young woman whose brother is terminally ill.

The book teaches lessons about making friends and appreciating special aspects of others, Morris said.

“That’s a tough thing in our own life, to see

the awesome in someone else,” he said.

The average adult in America hasn’t made a new friend in five years, he said, citing a study commissioned by Evite.

Morris pulled a couple of students from the audience and asked them to name something special about their teachers. He encouraged them to continue to think about what makes people awesome.

“Make sure you are practicing this,” he said.

“See the awesome.”

Willa and the Whale

The most recent collaboration between Morris and Brown is “Willa and the Whale.”

It’s the story of a young girl whose parents divorce, so she moves to Japan to live with her mother. She’s happy there, until her mother dies unexpectedly.

Willa goes to live with her father, who has since remarried. She’s sharing her former family home with strangers.

To top it off, she’s still grieving the loss of her mother.

On a whale-watch-

ing cruise, Willa sees a whale and feels safe talking about her problems, only to discover the whale can talk back.

The lesson is “be brave and talk.”

“I know you’re thinking, ‘I talk all the time,’” Brown said.

“I mean the kind of talking you have to do when you’re going through something hard. When you’re going through tough times.

When you’re sad.”

People don’t like to talk about the sad stuff, Brown said.

“I don’t know why, but we keep it inside.”

It’s important to find someone to talk to when you are sad and struggling, she said.

Young people especially might feel embarrassed.

“If you fell out of a tree and broke your arm, you don’t say, ‘I’m not seeing a doctor about this. It’s embarrassing,’” she said.

“Brains get broken just like arms can get broken, and you might need some help. It’s no big deal.”

More vaccines, fewer mask rules as US keeps fighting COVID By the Associated Press

The United States is steadily chipping away at vaccine hesitancy and driving down COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations to the point that schools, governments and corporations are lifting mask restrictions yet again.

Nearly 200 million Americans are fully vaccinated and the nation’s over-65 population, which bore the brunt of the pandemic when it started nearly two years ago, is enthusiastically embracing vaccines.

Nearly 98% of the over-65 population has received at least one COVID-19 shot and more than 25% of them have gotten boosters, just weeks after they were authorized. The improving metrics could get a boost from President Joe Biden’s workplace mandate unveiled Thursday and the launch of COVID-19 shots in elementary-age students.

Seniors also are playing a role in getting other family members vaccinated. Erin Lipsker

plans to get her 8-yearold daughter and 5-yearold son vaccinated as soon as possible so they can see her parents and her 98-year-old grandmother. An added motivation is that Lipsker was treated for cancer two years ago, and her 8-year-old daughter, Kennedy, has asthma.

“The more children and adults are vaccinated, the quicker we will be able to resume a new normal. I want that for my kids. I want that for our planet,” said Lipsker, of Spokane, Washington. “I think I will feel much safer around our family. I have a 98-year-old grandmother that my kids adore. I will feel safer having my kids around her, and my parents.”

But the pandemic has proven hard to control. In the U.S., winter is coming and diseases like COVID-19 often spread easier with people indoors and closer together. The worst surge in the nation happened last winter, before the vaccines were widely available.

While cases around the world are declining, the World Health Organization said this week new cases jumped by 6% in Europe, compared with an 18% increase the previous week. The U.S. plans to open its borders to international travelers Monday.

The trends in the U.S. have health officials feeling better for the first time in months and hoping the progress will continue as long as a new variant doesn’t pop up or the rate of newly vaccinated people declines. But they have also been down this road before and have come to the conclusion that COVID-19 is going to be an issue for years to come.

“It is going to be endemic. It is going to exist in our population for a long period of time,” said Deborah Fuller, a professor of microbiology at the University of Washington. “You saw what looked like an inflection point coming and, boom, here came the delta variant.”

There are still plenty of encouraging signs

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in the U.S. Pfizer announced Friday its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% among patients with mild-to-moderate infections and it will soon ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize its pill.

The number of Americans in the hospital with COVID-19 is averaging around 42,000, the lowest number since the beginning of August, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The hospitalization dip matches a dip in overall cases.

But deaths, which lag behind increasing case counts because it can take weeks for the disease to kill, continue to mount. The U.S. is averaging 1,100 coronavirus deaths per day, down from more than 1,600 two weeks ago.

More than 750,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. in less than two years, about the population of Denver. The latest 50,000 deaths happened in the

past month.

With hospital beds emptying, case counts declining and an increase in vaccinated people, however, it has been a slow return to a new normal. Louisiana’s Democratic Gov.

John Bel Edwards last week ended a face covering requirement almost everywhere but schools, saying he was “optimistic, relieved that the worst of the fourth surge is very clearly behind us now.”

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asked them a riddle no student had ever answered correctly before.

“What’s a skeleton’s favorite instrument?”

This year, every one of Crotchett’s students shouted: “The trombone!”

BOOKS are everything.

And at Iola schools, they are everywhere.

Every teacher is expected to use books — and not just the instructional workbooks to teach particular lessons.

Picture books. Chapter books. Adventure.

Educational.

Fun. Non-fiction. Fiction.

Even the classes you don’t think about using books, they’ll use books too.

Music. Art. Physical education.

Teachers in those classes gathered at Jefferson on Thursday to talk about how they use books in their classrooms. Teachers work together for special enrichment programs, and books are emphasized during those sessions.

They want to encourage donations to Project Bookshelf, a fundraising campaign aimed at raising money to buy books for the new library at Iola Elementary School when it opens next fall.

“Our children deserve a current, high-quality, diverse collection,” Prather said. “Project Bookshelf aims to fill the gaps.”

So far, efforts have raised more than $30,000, or enough funds to purchase 1,200 books.

The new library has a capacity of about 30,000 books.

And while the program already has collected a lot of money, Prather noted it won’t go very far. Books are expensive, and they’ll need to supply reading material for preschool through fifth grade.

Many current books will move to the new library, and they’ll come from each of the three elementary schools.

But the average publication date of the district’s books is 2004. It’s important to keep books current because they are more relatable to students and reflect current events.

Also, the district’s commitment to reading means their books get a

How to help

Donations to Project Bookshelf can be mailed to the USD 257 Endowment Association, Attn: Project Bookshelf, 305 N. Washington Ave., Iola KS 66749. For more information, call (620) 365-4700. lot of love, Prather said.

Last year, McKinley and Jefferson checked out 49,542 books.

“Some of our collection is outdated, and some of it is just worn out,” Prather said.

“Children love books.

People think children just watch TV all day, but at this age, when they sit with an adult and turn that page, it makes an impact.”

IT’S ALSO made an impact on Crotchett.

She’s discovering a new joy in reading. She’s been introducing her students to jazz. They’ve read autobiographies about jazz musicians, and read books based on jazz songs and culture.

“We even got into scatting, which is really cool but it’s a really hard concept. They just jumped into it.”

She’d like to take a familiar story and have students turn it into a musical, picking songs they like that would fit.

Art teacher Gale Hoag has used the book “Mixed: A Colorful Story” to teach students about the color wheel.

She’s currently reading “Balloons Over Broadway” to teach students about the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Earlier this week, she introduced students to a book about artist Vincent van Gogh and they drew “Starry Night.”

“They hung on every word,” Hoag recalled.

“They knew names, dates. They were really listening.”

And, as it usually happens, her students wandered into the library the next day and asked for books about van Gogh.

Prather and library paraprofessional Mona Melvin were ready.

Because they work as a team with teachers, the librarians know which topics the teachers will cover. They pull books on those subjects and create a special display, so they can direct students to

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“Every student has their niche, a place where they thrive,” Hoag said. “Some like music. Some like PE. If we are all reading, they’ll find something they like.”

UNFORTUNATELY, the library doesn’t always have enough books on a particular topic.

That’s another area where Project Bookshelf can help.

For example, physical education teacher Chris Weide uses books to teach students about a variety of activities, especially things he can’t do in the classroom, such as kayaking.

He’s been incorporating books in his lessons for several years.

“It’s not just football and basketball,” he said.

“And it’s not just sports.”

He’s been teaching students about national parks and monuments.

On Thursday, he had a handful of books about places including Mount Rushmore.

He told students his “bucket list” includes a visit to Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca citadel in Peru. A student soon came to the library to ask for a book about it.

Recently, Weide came into the library to find books on skateboarding.

They only had one.

Bowling? Only two.

“It makes your heart hurt as a librarian” when someone can’t find a book they want, Melvin said.

LIBRARIES shouldn’t be quiet places, Prather noted.

“For a kid to be a reader in today’s world, it has to be social,” she said. “Long ago, you had a few kids who were bookworms. Today, it is a social activity. It’s talking to a friend about a cool book.”

Weide agreed.

“Kids today value an opinion if they hear it from more than one person. If we all stress the importance of reading, that’s something they’ll do all the time.”

That’s why Iola schools have created a culture of reading, Prather said.

“Our kids think everybody reads. They would be astonished to learn otherwise.”

Kansas governor more forceful against COVID vaccine mandates TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly grew more forceful Friday in opposing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates, saying it’s “too late” in the coronavirus pandemic to impose them after Kansas and other states tailored responses to their needs.

Kelly’s latest statement came a day after she argued that federal mandates “tend not to work,” though they’ve boosted vaccination rates elsewhere. She faces a difficult race for reelection next year in her Republican-leaning state, and GOP officials have been attacking the Democratic president’s mandates for weeks and criticizing Kelly for not making any public comments until Thursday.

“While I appreciate the intention to keep people safe, a goal I share, I don’t believe this directive is the correct, or the most effective, solution for Kansas,” Kelly said in her latest statement.

Kelly’s statement Friday came shortly before Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a Republican who hopes to unseat Kelly next year, announced that Kansas is among seven states that filed a federal lawsuit with the 6th U.S. Cir-

Gov. Laura Kelly cuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati against a Biden mandate that applies to companies with more than 100 workers.

Schmidt already had brought Kansas into a federal lawsuit against a mandate applying to employees of federal government contractors.

Kelly said Thursday that last year — when Donald Trump was president — states were left to fashion their own responses to the pandemic, though the federal government provided billions of dollars in aid.

“States have been leading the fight against COVID-19 from the start of the pandemic. It is too late to impose a federal standard now that we have already developed systems and strategies that are tailored for our specific needs,” she said in Friday’s statement.

For Republicans, Kelly’s statements smacked of political opportunism following the GOP’s strong show-

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“It’s not surprising to see the governor backtrack on this issue,” Kansas House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr., an Olathe Republican, said in an email to The Associated Press.

“Nevertheless, we need every state leader engaged in fighting this gross federal overreach, and Republicans will welcome her participation.”

Kelly said in her latest statement that she will “seek a resolution” on vaccine mandates that “continues to recognize the uniqueness of our state and builds on our on-going efforts to combat a once-in-acentury crisis.” Her office declined to provide more details.

Some Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature have discussed making it easier for people to claim medical or religious exemptions from the mandates or guaranteeing that people who are fired for refusing to get vaccinated receive unemployment benefits. Kelly said Thursday that the state is considering unemployment benefits on a caseby-case basis.

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By REESE BECKER The Iola Register

The sun has set on area high school volleyball.

A select group of players has received all-league honors. Sixteen players — at least one from each area high school — received firstteam, second-team, or honorable mentions.

Iola High School’s Chloe Sell, a senior, was a second-team Pioneer League performer. Sell had 45 aces and 308 digs.

Humboldt High School had four honorees after a 30-9 season.

Seniors Kirstyn Murrow and Nautianna Goforth were all-league selections. Murrow had 190 kills and 189 digs. Goforth had 248 kills and 178 digs.

Karley Wools and Kenisyn Hottenstein were Tri-League honorable mentions. Hottenstein, a sophomore, had 49 aces and 141 digs. Wools, a junior, led the Cubs with 312 digs. She also had 137 kills Three athletes from Marmaton Valley High School garnered Three Rivers See VOLLEYBALL | Page B6

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From left, Humboldt High senior Karley Wools, sophomore Kenisyn Hottenstein and senior Kirstyn Murrow earned recognition from the Tri-Valley League for their prowess on the volleyball court.

Sunflower Showdown lacks luster, but not importance

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The last two coaches to face Kansas State have been let go almost immediately after they lost.

That’s probably not what Kansas coach Lance Leipold wants to hear.

In reality, Leipold is in his

first year of arguably the biggest rebuild in college football, so his job with the Jayhawks is pretty safe regardless of what happens when they face the Wildcats in the Sunflower Showdown on Saturday.

But getting a win? Well, that would endear Leipold to a weary fanbase more than any of the four coaches be-

fore him.

“Hopefully there’s a lot of things that go into extra motivation and energy and enthusiasm about the opportunity,” Leipold said, “but as we continue to build our program, we want to make sure that we’re staying focused on the things that we need to, and that’s our daily preparation. There’s a lot that can

be gained for a program like ours as we work to build this by playing well on Saturday.”

While it hardly carries the luster of the Iron Bowl or other big-time rivalries, the Kansas State-Kansas game is one of the longest running in college football. It started in 1902 and will be played for the 119th time on Saturday.

And given the state has

only the two Division I football programs, and the only pro team — the Kansas City Chiefs — is just over the state line in Missouri, the game carries a lot of heft for those that call Kansas home.

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NBA: Firm will look into team owner’s abuse allegations PHOENIX (AP) — The NBA has asked a law firm to investigate the Phoenix Suns after a published report on Thursday detailed allegations that owner Robert Sarver has a history of racist, misogynistic and hostile incidents during his 17-year tenure in charge of the franchise.

ESPN said it talked to dozens of current and former team employees for the story, including some who detailed inappropriate behavior by Sarver.

Most of the allegations are from anonymous sources but a few are on the record.

In ESPN’s report, Sarver denied or disput-

Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver stands with the Western Conference Championship trophy after the Suns eliminated the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals at Staples Center on June 30. GETTY IMAGES/HARRY HOW/TNS ed most of the allegations through his legal team. The Suns also

strongly denied the report in a lengthy statement released Thursday.

MVJH hoops teams compete CHEROKEE — Marmaton Valley Junior High boys basketball split a pair of games on the road Thursday against Southeast. The Wildcats A team lost 41-14. The B team won 21-16.

The A team started slowly, only scoring three points in the first quarter.

“The A team needs to calm down and play within themselves,” said head coach Byron Marshall. “We started to do this late in the game, but we need to do this at the beginning of the game. We got better last

night and I am looking forward to the season.”

Tyler Lord scored eight points for the A team. Tucker Sutton and Cooper Scharff scored two points.

A slow start almost doomed the B team. The Wildcats only scored four points in the first quarter before getting its act together.

“The B team played better late,” Marshall said. “We did a good job of not making mistakes down the stretch.”

Thomas Allee scored five points for the Wildcats. Kris McVey and Ethan Lawson scored

four apiece.

The girls A team lost 34-22. Jacee Mattox led the Wildcats with nine points. Braelyn Sutton scored seven. The girls B team lost 34-10. Addisyn Drake led the team with four points. Gabby Briggs had two.

After losing its openers against Uniontown earlier this week, the B team win should be a big confidence booster as the season ramps up.

The A team will look to get in the win column when the Wildcats have their first home game of the season on Monday against Yates Center.

fun atmosphere, especially when the majority of the crowd was purple,” said Wildcats quarterback Skylar Thompson, who grew up in suburban Kansas City.

“This is the biggest thing for all of us that are not from the state of Kansas, even though I pretty much am,” he said, “and we all kind of put ourselves in the shoes of the people from the state and how much this game means to them.”

It’s not just bragging rights, though. The Jayhawks (1-7, 0-5 Big 12) can earn the kind of statement win they haven’t had since Mark Mangino was roaming the sidelines, while the Wildcats (5-3, 2-3) can become bowl-eligible with a victory.

They’ve knocked off Texas Tech (which fired Matt Wells) and TCU (which parted ways with Gary Patterson) the past two weeks.

“I always have a few of our Kansas kids address the guys early in the week about the importance of the rivalry,” Kansas State coach Chris Klieman said. “We’re going to get KU’s best shot and I think KU is going to get our best shot. You don’t have to say anything about getting ready to play this game, and I’m sure Lance won’t have to say anything either.”

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Kansas leads the series 64-49-5, including a disputed forfeit of the 1980 game, but the past three decades have largely belonged to the Wildcats. They’ve only lost four times since

1993 while winning the last 12 meetings.

INJURY OUTLOOK

The Wildcats should have running back Joe Ervin back after missing last week’s win over TCU. Wide receiver Malik Knowles and Phillip Brooks, both of whom got banged up in the game, missed practice this week but hope to play Saturday.

three games into the 2017-18 season.

Sarver said in his statement that Watson was “clearly not a credible source.”

“While there is so much that is inaccurate and misleading in this story that I hardly know where to begin, let me be clear: The n-word is not part of my vocabulary,” Sarver said. “I have never called anyone or any group of people the n-word, or referred to anyone or any group of people by that word, either verbally or

in writing. I don’t use that word.”

Watson released his own statement through the Toronto Raptors, where he is now an assistant coach.

“I am not interested in engaging in an ongoing battle of fact,” Watson said. “Instead, I want to applaud the courage of the numerous players, executives, and staffers for fighting toxic environments of racial insensitivity, sexual harassment, and micro-aggressions with their truth.

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“I would entirely welcome an impartial NBA investigation which may prove our only outlet for clearing my name and the reputation of an organization of which I’m so very proud,” Sarver said.

Sarver will get his wish. The NBA released its own statement from executive vice president of communications Mike Bass saying the allegations were “extremely serious” and that the league has asked the Wachtell Lipton law firm to “commence a comprehensive investigation.”

“The NBA and WNBA remain committed to providing a respectful and inclusive workplace for all employees,” Bass said. “Once the investigation is completed, its findings will provide the basis for any league action.”

Among the allegations: Former Suns coach Earl Watson said Sarver was upset that Golden State forward Draymond Green used the N-word during a game in 2016 and that the owner repeated the N-word several times when voicing his displeasure. Watson said he told Sarver that he can’t use that word.

Watson was the Suns’ coach for all or part of three seasons before being fired

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sacks had to be counted as running plays instead.

“They didn’t recruit me because I was undersized,” Anudike-Uzomah said of the Jayhawks, “so that’s basically the fuel I’m going to use. I used that last year and got a sack against them.”

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Kansas cornerback Jeremy Webb, who missed last week’s lost to Oklahoma State, also could be available despite missing practice early in the week. Less likely is the return of freshman cornerback Jacobee Bryant from his injury.

BEAN COUNTER

Jayhawks quarterback Jason Bean has had a wildly different past two weeks. He was 17 of 23 for 246 yards with a TD pass and no interceptions in nearly engineering an upset of then-No. 3 Oklahoma, then was just 3 of 10 for 10 yards with no TDs and two picks before getting benched in a 55-3 blowout loss to the Cowboys. ““Getting (Jason) off to a good start is important for him,” Leipold said.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Unified School District #257 Board of Education invites public offers to purchase District owned property including McKinley Elementary School (located at 209 South Kentucky Street, Iola, Kansas), Jefferson Elementary School (located at 300 South Jefferson Street, Iola, Kansas), and Lincoln Elementary School (located at 700 North Jefferson Street, Iola, Kansas).

The property(s) are expected to be available for transfer of possession on Monday, October 3, 2022.

The terms of sale are cash or some other mutually agreed form of payment and must include a reasonable earnest money payment with the entire balance due at closing and also shall include the following: 1.) Prospective purchasers will be required to utilize a purchase agreement form.

2.) The awarded bidder must sign an “acceptance and release” form accepting the property “as is” and releasing USD #257 from any claim regarding the condition of the property (or with modifications to either document as mutually agreed upon prior to signing of contract).

Both of these signed documents will be kept on file at the USD #257 Board of Education Office at the address noted below.

Transfer will be a quick claim deed with all title work to be conducted by Security 1st Title Companyy, 108 West Jackson Street, Iola, Kansas. Cost of closing will be split 50% each with the Buyer and the Seller. Any prospective sale is subject to completion of statutory hearing and other sale procedures.

To view the property(s), please contact: Mr. Stacey Fager, Superintendent of Schools USD #257 Board of Education 305 North Washington Avenue Iola, Kansas 66749 Phone: 620-365-4700 Bids must be received at the Board of Education Office no later than 4:00 p.m. on Monday, January 31, 2022. All bids will remain sealed until date of opening. Late bids will not be considered. Bids will remain valid for 40 days.

It is required that prospective buyers provide a written letter of intent/development of the property and present it with the bid(s) submitted by Monday, January 31, 2022 to the board of Education Office at 305 N. Washington, Iola, KS. USD #257 reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any condition of sale, to negotiate further, with any bidder or bidders and to sell to the bidder it deems in the best interest of the District, which may or may not be the highest financial bid.

The Board is interested in a development plan which will add value to the community surrounding USD #257, Iola, Kansas and predict a well maintained and attractive development into the future. The bidder must submit a detailed written description along with its bid detailing its proposed use in light of current zoning (or proposed change in zoning) including plans for renovation and/or demolition, timeline, for implementation of its plan, project financing, prior experience relating to projects similar to the proposed project, maintenance plans for the property and building after construction and any other factors the bidder deems important. USD #257 plans to choose the bid and bidder which it wishes to work with toward potential sale at the Board of Education meeting to be held Monday, February 14, or within 20 days thereafter.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Allen County Fair Board

ANNUAL MEETING Tuesday, Nov. 16 6:30 p.m.

Regular meeting follows at 7:00 p.m.

Loction: Riverside Park Published in The Iola Register Nov. 6, 2021

The Allen County Animal Rescue Annual Meeting will be held November 10, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. at the Community National Bank & Trust meeting room.

We will be electing our Board of Directors for the 2022 year. The public is invited to attend.

USD #257 Board of Education, Iola, Kansas

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Volleyball: Area standouts earn postseason recognition Continued from B1

League honors. Sophomore Janae Granere was named a unanimous first-team selection. Granere had 76 kills and 58 blocks.

Senior Aly Ard was named a second-team selection with 20 aces and 91 kills this season.

Tayven Sutton was also a second-team selection. Sutton, a junior, had 74 kills.

Three Crest High School players earned Three Rivers League honors.

Sophomore Kayla Hermreck was named a first-team selection.

Hermreck had 384 kills and 196 digs. Junior McKenna Hammond was named to the second team. Hammond had 252 digs and 195 kills this season. Lindsey Godderz received honorable mention.

Godderz, a senior, had 199 digs this season.

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Marmaton Valley High’s Janae Granere, left, and and Crest High’s Kayla Hermreck earned first-team All-Three Rivers League honors this season.

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From left, Marmaton Valley’s Aly Ard and Tayven Sutton and Crest’s McKenna Hammond earned Three Rivers League volleyball honors this season.

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Honor: Volleyball players bring home postseason awards

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High School seniors also earned Three Rivers League honors.

Morgan Collins was named to the first team.

Collins had 256 digs and 81 kills this season.

“Morgan is a dynamic leader and all-around great volleyball player,” said Yates Center head coach Kari King. “She ran the show and knew who to set and was the motivating, driving force behind this team.”

Hannah Jones took second-team honors.

Jones had 392 digs.

Three Southern Coffey County High School juniors were named to Lyon County League all-league teams.

Josie Jones earned first-team honors.

Jones had 375 kills and 56 digs. Madeline Spencer received second-team honors. Spencer had 112 kills and 36 aces. Ross Snovelle took honorable mention.

Snovelle had 107 kills and 25 aces this season.

“All three of these junior girls are deserving of All-League honors,” said SCC head volleyball coach Jeff True.

“They put in a lot of extra time last winter and in summer working on their game and it’s paying off for them.”

Yates Center’s Morgan Collins, left, Crest’s Lindsey Godderz, above, and Yates Center’s Hannah Jones, below at left, earned all-league recognition by the Three Rivers League. PHOTOS BY RICHARD LUKEN AND MKE MYER

Southern Coffey County volleyball team members are, front row from left, Karley Ohl, Callie Johnson, Rylee Mattheis and Kyla Houston; second row, Ross Snovelle, Madeline Spencer, Josie Weers, Jalea True and head coach Jeff True. Weers, Spencer and Snovelle earned Lyon County League honors. USD 245 PHOTO

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The Browns didn’t appreciate the video or that Beckham didn’t reach out to Mayfield, who said he was wiling to work things out.

Beckham was told not to report to practice for two days as his representation worked with Browns general manager Andrew Berry on agreeable financial terms for his departure.

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Letruska carries hopes of a nation into Breeder’s Cup

By BETH HARRIS The Associated Press

DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Coming from Mexico, where he has dominated racing, Fausto Gutierrez is at his first Breeders’ Cup with the best horse he’s ever had in his stable.

And the trainer is expecting big things from Letruska.

“She is a horse with a very special mind,” he said. “She is ready for this.”

Gutierrez is, too.

He’s the best-known trainer in Mexico and

he’s backed by client German Larrea Mota-Velasco, the CEO of Grupo México, the country’s largest copper mining operation. Mota-Velasco is worth an estimated $14.9 billion, according to Forbes.

Together, Mota-Velasco and Gutierrez set up a U.S. division at the Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida in 2019 to take a shot at the most prestigious races.

Mota-Velasco, who races as St. George Stable, bred Letruska in Kentucky. The 5-year-old mare is a daughter of

2010 Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver.

Letruska won her first seven career starts, including six at Hipódromo de las Américas in Mexico City. Among her winning streak were victories in the Clasico Esmeralda and Clasico Diamante, two legs of Mexico’s Triple Crown for 3-year-old fillies in 2019. She was named that country’s divisional champion.

“The actual Mexican races are with a lot of problems, especially for the quality for the horses,” Gutierrez said.

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The gap between that level and the Breeders’ Cup is “like a child to play in school and go to the major leagues,” he said.

Since relocating to South Florida, Letruska’s been a well-traveled competitor, winning at Gulfstream, Oaklawn, Saratoga, Belmont, Sam Houston, Churchill Downs and Keeneland.

Now, Letruska ventures West for the first time to race at Del Mar, located about 40 miles north of the Mexican border.

She’ll take on 10 rivals in the Distaff, car-

rying the hopes of Mexico with her.

“This is a real dream, because nobody can think this could happen,” Gutierrez said.

“When I had this horse in Mexico City I understood she’s a special horse, a horse who could run fast. But to be here, it’s like another planet.”

Letruska has six wins this year, including four in prestigious Grade 1 races. Her only loss came in the Azeri Stakes, when she was second by a head to Shedaresthedevil. They’ll have a rematch today.

Quote of the week: “He’s just a hack.

THIS WEEK

Just an absolute hack. He gets his @#$ kicked by his teammates every week.

He’s #$%^ terrible. He’s just terrible.

He sees one opportunity, he takes it.”

-Denny Hamlin (right), speaking about Alex Bowman, after Bowman knocked Hamlin out of the lead Sunday and went on to win

Bowman burnout blocked; now it’s on to Phoenix

D

enny Hamlin provided the perfect capstone to a day of banged-up stock cars, hurt feelings and crushed dreams.

Alex Bowman took the checkered flag in Sunday’s Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway after sliding up into Hamlin’s race-leading Toyota on Lap 494 of 501 and knocking Hamlin’s car up the track and into the outside wall.

As Bowman tried to start a burnout to celebrate his fourth NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season and his first at the .526-mile short track, Hamlin drove to the frontstretch and expressed his displeasure by twice blocking the progress of Bowman’s No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

“I just got loose in,” Bowman said of the accident that gave him the lead. “I got in too deep (into Turn 3), knocked him out of the way and literally let him have the lead back.

For anybody that wants to think I was trying to crash him, obviously that wasn’t the case, considering I literally gave up the lead at Martinsville to give it back to him.

“He’s been on the other side of that. He’s crashed guys here for wins. I hate doing it. Obviously, I don’t want to crash somebody. I just got in, got underneath him, spun him out… Regardless, we get a free grandfather clock (trophy), which is pretty special.”

By the time Bowman took the checkered flag, his teammate, defending Cup champion Chase Elliott already had clinched a spot in next Sunday’s Championship 4 race at Phoenix by sweeping the first two stages of the event.

Elliott joins another teammate, two-time Round of 8 winner Kyle Larson, Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. in the quartet that will vie for the series title at the one-mile track in the Sonoran Desert.

With a damaged car that had slapped the outside wall at the exit of Turn 2 on Lap 471, Truex eked out his berth in the championship race by three points over Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch, who finished second to Truex’s fourth but lost his slim pre-race advantage in the first two stages.

Eliminated from the Playoff with Busch were the Team Penske Fords of Brad Keselowski (third Sunday and eight points below the cutoff), Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano.

Hamlin, who started from the rear after his car twice failed pre-race inspection, had enough of a margin entering the race that his 24th-place finishing position didn’t cost him a chance at the championship. But that was little consolation for the lost opportunity to add to his collection of five grandfather clocks.

Lane choice helped Truex gain the final four after Aric Almirola got loose and forced him up the track on Lap 471, costing Truex positions and the eventual scrape with the wall. Truex gained spots on the subsequent restart on Lap

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Alex Bowman wins the Cup Series Round of 8 playoff race at Martinsville Sunday and Denny Hamlin displays his displeasure after being spun from the lead by preventing Bowman from a post-race celebration burnout. (Getty Images) 478 and chose the outside lane—directly behind Busch—for the final restart on Lap 500.

“I have no idea how we finished fourth,” Truex said of the contact with the wall. “I’m going to buy a lottery ticket on the way home.”

Even though Busch struggled with the handling of his No. 18 Toyota throughout the afternoon at Martinsville, he blamed his 28th-place finish last weekend at Kansas for his failure to advance to the Championship 4 Round.

“We just missed last week,” said the two-time series champion—and the only active driver with more than one title. “That’s where we lost all the ground. Could have come in here with 15 more points, we would have been fine on the cut. Just wasn’t it. Wasn’t meant to be. Obviously, it was Truex’s day. We had a Hail Mary opportunity there at the end. Just didn’t materialize.

“All in all, just proud of the effort for sure. We slung everything and anything at this thing today, couldn’t really make it come alive. Great effort. That was there, for sure.

We’ve just got to get better, everybody included, the whole team, in order to be able to go race with the best and race for a championship. We’re not going to do that this year.”

Neither will Bowman, who was eliminated from the Playoffs in the Round of 12. But the victory at NASCAR’s most venerable track, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary next year, was ample compensation.

Not to mention the free clock.

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• Surface: Asphalt • Length: 1 mile • Turns: 4 • Banking: Start / Finish Straightaway: 3°; Dogleg: 10–11°; Straightaway from Dogleg to Turn 1: 10° • It was built in 1964 around the Estrella Mountains on the outskirts of Avondale.

Because of the terrain and the incorporation of a road course and drag strip, designers had to build a “dogleg” into the backstretch. The original roadcourse was 2 miles (3.2 km) in length and ran both inside and outside of the main oval track.[4] The hillsides adjacent to the track also offer a unique vantage point to watch races from. “Monument Hill,” located alongside turns 3 and 4 (now turns 1 and 2 due to the tracks 2018 reconfiguration), is a favorite among race fans because of the unique view and lower ticket prices.

AND THEN THERE WERE 4 …

WHO’S IN: Kyle Larson (two wins), Chase Elliott (points), Denny Hamlin (points), and Martin Truex Jr. (points) are all headed to Phoenix next week with a chance to battle for the championship. Larson was the only driver locked in before the Martinsville race after his win at Texas Motor Speedway to open the Round of 8. Elliott officially clinched his spot in the Championship 4 after his second stage win Sunday at Martinsville. Hamlin’s 24thplace finish at Martinsville and Truex’s fourthplace finish on Sunday made it a Hendrick Motorsports-vs.-Joe Gibbs Racing final.

WHO’S OUT: Kyle Busch (minus-3), Brad Keselowski (minus-8), Ryan Blaney (minus-20) and Joey Logano (minus-42) were eliminated from championship contention Sunday. Tough day for Team Penske as all three of their drivers failed to make it to the Championship 4.

Meanwhile, Busch could not catch up to Bowman and will miss the Championship 4 for the second straight year. Blaney has yet to make it to a Championship 4, despite 2021 being arguably his best season as a Cup driver.

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“When I decided her campaign, I selected the races depending on how she’s doing, how she trains,” Gutierrez said.

“Every day it’s like she tells me, tomorrow we can go to stronger competition.”

A victory in the Distaff would make Letruska worthy of consideration for Horse of the Year honors, Gutierrez believes.

“She traveled around the most strong races, different tracks,” he said. “She’s a consistent, solid horse. It’s very difficult to ask more.”

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