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$732 per employee, per month. The county’s worst year, at least recently, was in 2019-20 when it paid $1,146,715 or $944 per employee, per month. In 2021, the county switched its health insurance provider to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas. Costs have gone down every year since. “Is it safe to say Blue Cross Blue Shield was a good deci sion?” Commission Chairman Jerry Daniels “Absolutely,”asked.Phil Drescher, who has represented the coun ty for Bukaty for years but is retiring, said. He explained the county made the change because of County saves big with health programs

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REWIND a bit, to the spring of 1992. Dwyer, then 27, was making a good living as a unit manag er and area supervisor for the Wendy’s fast food chain. He’d been a part of the franchise since he was a high-schooler, and it was opening its doors in his native Fort Scott in 1983. Before that, Dwyer worked part-time at a burger joint not far from his home. “I thought, I kind of like this,” he said. “This is kind of fun, cutting Suzy Q’s, frying hamburgers. It helped that I had cool guys to work for.” With that foundation, Dw yer was in high school, and in need of a job to pay for his car. So he applied at Wendy’s. The owner hired 69 em ployees before the restaurant opened, Dwyer noted. “And I was number 69. The owner told me, ‘You’re the last per son we’re gonna hire after we get this open. Within 30 to 90 days, we’ll probably only have half this many people.’”

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“You’ll see me at the front of the line,” FDA vac cine chief Dr. Peter Marks told The Associated Press shortly before his agency cleared the new doses. Until now, COVID-19 vaccines have targeted the original coronavirus strain, even as wildly dif ferent mutants emerged. The new U.S. boosters are combination, or “biva lent,” shots. They contain half that original vaccine recipe and half protection

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The U.S. on Wednesday au thorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, boost er doses that target today’s most common omicron strain. Shots could begin within days. The move by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives. The hope is that the modified boosters will blunt yet an other winter surge.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Stoked by the largest surplus in state history, Mis souri’s Republican-led Legis lature devised a $500 million plan to send one-time tax refunds to millions of house holds. In a shock to some, GOP Gov. Mike Parson vetoed it. Parson’s objection: He wanted a bigger, longer-last ing tax “Nowcut.is the time for the largest income tax cut in our state’s history,” Parson de clared as he called lawmakers back for a September special session to consider a $700 million permanent tax reduc tion.Upon its likely approval, Missouri will join at least 31 states that already have en acted some type of tax cut or rebate this year — an as tounding outpouring of bil lions of tax dollars back to the people. Idaho lawmakers are convening Thursday to consider more tax breaks, and Montana lawmakers also are weighing a special session for tax Flushrelief.with federal pandem ic aid and their own surging tax revenue, states have cut income tax rates for individu als and businesses, expanded tax deductions for families and retirees, pared back prop erty taxes, waived sales taxes on groceries and suspended motor fuel taxes to offset in flationary price spikes. Many also have provided immediate tax rebates. Republicans and Demo crats alike have joined the tax-cutting trend during a midterm election year. Yet divisions have emerged about how far to go. While Democrats generally have favored targeted tax breaks and one-time rebates, some Republicans have pressed for permanent income tax rate reductions that could lower tax bills — and state revenue — for years to come. Parson describes it as “real, lasting relief.”Some budget analysts warn that permanent tax cuts could strain states during a future recession. The U.S. economy

Kirk Dwyer will mark 30 years as owner of Chancy’s Grill and Shake in Moran this weekend. REGIS

Joe Holdenried, representing Bukaty Insurance of Kansas City, talks to Allen County Commissioners about savings from the county’s insurance policies. Phil Drescher, in back, is retiring as the county’s consultant from Bukaty.

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MORAN — For the past three decades, Kirk Dwyer has made himself quite at home in Moran as owner/proprietor at Chancy’s Grill and Shake. And for whatever reason, Dwyer never thought much about work anniversaries. He rolled past the 10, 20, and even 25-year marks without as much as a second thought. Until now. “It just never dawned on me,” he said this week. “Over the last few months, I just re alized, I’ll be here for 30 years. It’s crazy how time sneaks up onTheyou.”rapidly approaching anniversary arrives Satur day, Sept. 3, offering Dwyer an opportunity to reflect on get ting his start in the business, working through a pandemic and other little lessons he’s learned along the way. And it all started here be cause he was thirsty.

Jocelyn Sheets Jocelyn Kay Sheets, 64, of Cape Gi rardeau, Mo., formerly of Linwood, passed away on Monday, Aug. 22, 2022 at her residence. She was born on Nov. 24, 1957, to Dean and Juanita (Portwood) Sheets in Kansas City, Kan. Jocelyn worked as a sports editor and journalist at newspapers in Kan sas, Iowa and Missouri. Her first love was music. She was a member of the Kansas State University Marching Band from 1975 to 1979 and was on the KSU pep band for basketball. She played trumpet for the Iola City Band. Jocelyn loved sports. She started covering sports for Linwood High School for the local newspapers. After graduating from KSU with a bachelor of sci ence in journalism she went to the Linn County News in Pleasanton where she was a field reporter and sports reporter from 1979 to 1985. In 1985, she joined The Iola Register as sports editor where she remained for the next 26 years. She was the first woman in Kansas to be honored with the Kansas State High School Activities Association’s Oscar Stauffer Award in 1987. In 2013, she moved to Iowa and became the sports editor of the Newton Daily News. In 2019, she moved to Cape Girardeau to the Southeast Missourian as a copy editor and writer. She loved being a part of young people’s lives. She had a way about her that the kid gravitated to her, you would think it was the camera, but she made each person she covered feel special. She also men tored students in photography and writing through the local 4-H programs and the high schools. Jocelyn was a woman of faith. She believed that in Christ all things were possible. She had been a member of Io la’s First Christian Church. Survivors include father, Dean Sheets of Lin wood; brothers, Monte Sheets of McLouth and Jeffry (Pam) Sheets of Richmond Hill, Ga.; sister, Stephanie (Jeff) McDonald of Richmond; and sever al nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, cousins, and friends. She was preceded in death by her mother, Juanita Sheets; brother, Michael Sheets; and her grandpar ents.A Celebration of Life will be Saturday, Sept. 3, from 2 to 4 p.m. at First Christian Church in Iola. At 3 o’clock, there will be a time of remembrance conducted by Pastor Steve Traw. Anyone wishing to speak is welcome to do so. She requested everyone wearHerpurple.finalresting place will be at the Mount Syd ney Cemetery outside of Linwood. A small grave side service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate support to help pay for Jocelyn’s final expenses. Donations may also be made to the Linwood High School Alumni Scholarship Fund, 17787 Cantrell Rd., Linwood, KS 66052. Condolences may be sent in care of Stephanie McDonald, P.O. Box 214, Richmond, KS 66080

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Tommy McClanahan Tommy McClanahan, 52, died on Saturday, Aug. 20,A2022.memorial service is planned for Saturday, Sept. 10, at Iola Baptist Temple, 426 N. Second St. A potluck is planned for noon, with a service to follow at 1 p.m.

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Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev answers questions from the Chicago Tribune editori al board during a meeting Thursday, March 4, 1999. (JOHN KRINGAS/CHICAGO notice (First published in The Iola Register, Sept. 1, 2022)

BERLIN (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who re stored democracy years of isolation and deprivation,” Biden said.Biden added that “these were the acts of a rare leader – one with the imagination to see that a different future was possible and the courage to risk his en tire career to achieve it. The result was a saf er world and greater freedom for millions of people.”Although Gor bachev was widely feted abroad, he was a pariah at home. Pu tin acknowledged that Gorbachev had “a deep impact on the course of world history.” “He led the country during difficult and dramatic changes, amid large-scale for eign policy, economic and social challenges,” Putin said in a short telegram sending his condolences to Gor bachev’sGorbachevfamily.“realized that reforms were nec essary and tried to of fer his solutions to the acute problems,” Putin said.Reactions from Rus sian officials and law makers were mixed. They applauded Gor bachev for his part in ending the Cold War but censured him for the collapse of the Soviet Union.Oleg Morozov, a mem ber of the main Krem lin party, United Russia, said Gorbachev should have “repented” for mis takes that went against Russia’s interests. “He was a willing or an unwilling co-author of the unfair world or der that our soldiers are now fighting on the battlefield,” Morozov said, in a reference to Russia’s current war in Ukraine.LechWalesa, the lead er of Poland’s pro-de mocracy Solidarity movement in the 1980s and the country’s presi dent from 1990-1995, had a more nuanced view of Gorbachev. He said he “admired, even liked him, but did not under stand“He(him).”believed to the last that communism could be reformed, but I, on the contrary, did not believe it was possible,” Walesa told the Wirtual na Polska media. Walesa added: “He knew that the Soviet Union could not last much longer and he was doing everything he could to prevent the world from bringing Russia to account for communism. And he was successful there.” World leaders paid tribute to a man some described as a great and brave leader. In Germany, where Gorbachev is consid ered one of the fathers of the country’s reuni fication in 1990 and is popularly referred to as “Gorbi,” former Chan cellor Angela Merkel sa luted him as “a unique world“Gorbachevpolitician.” wrote world history. He ex emplified how a sin gle statesman can change the world for the better,” she said, recalling how she had feared that Russian tanks might roll into East Germany, where she lived, as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz praised Gorbachev for paving the way for his country’s reunification, though he also pointed out that Gorbachev died at a time when many of his achievements have been destroyed. 2.28

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NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in this Court by Lori A. Holman, former spouse and natural mother of the heirs of Michael Eugene Holman, deceased re questing:Descent be determined of the following described real estate situated in Allen County, Kansas:That part of the West Half of the Southwest Quarter (W/2 SW/4) of Section Thirty-six (36), Township Twenty-four (24) South, Range Twenty (20) East of the Sixth Principal Meridian, described as follows, to-wit: Commencing 32 rods West of the Southeast corner of Moran; thence West 115 feet, thence South 330 feet, thence East 115 feet, thence North 330 feet to the place of beginning, Allen County, Kansas. and all personal property and other Kansas real estate owned by the Decedent at the time of death, and that such property and all personal prop erty and other Kansas real es tate owned by the Decedent at the time of death be assigned pursuant to the laws of intes tateYousuccession.arerequired to file your written defenses thereto on or before Friday, September 23, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. in the District Court, in the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.Lori A. Holman, Petitioner HEIM LAW OFFICES, P.A. 424 North Washington Avenue Iola, Kansas 66749 (620) Attorneys365-2222forPetitioner(9) 1, 8, 15 mourned as rare world leader

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Cliff Harris Cliff entered this world in a bliz zard in Reno, Nev., Jan. 30, 1968. He departed from this world at his sons’ home in Baring, Wash., on Aug. 20, 2022.Cliff survived by his wife, Tosca Harris, Chanute; his sons, Clifford Harris and Cristofer Harris, Baring, Wash.; his daughter, Ali Harris and grandson, Kyron Martin; his moth er, Carol Harris; and his sister, Rebecca Harris, all of Fernley, Nev.; and many friends and loved ones. Cliff was an artist, creating fine jewelry, paint ing with oil on canvas, sculpting with clay, building beautiful, functional furniture, teaching students how to paint theater flats in unique ways. He was a musician, playing the piano with such passion it caused a quarreling couple to reconcile. He was a mystic, searching. He enjoyed prospecting for gold and gems. He could fix anything that was broken, and he loved helping people. There will not be a local service in Kansas. If you wish to honor Cliff, please donate to your local ani mal rescue.

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against the newest omi cron versions, called BA.4 and BA.5, that are considered the most contagious yet. The combination aims to tialnotlatestrysinceatadultsupdatedolderareitsmadeinaltions,theirwhoerstoldAnnaliesaPfizernitytheants.againstcross-protectionincreasemultiplevari“Itreallyprovidesbroadestopportuforprotection,”vaccinechiefAndersontheAP.Theupdatedboostareonlyforpeoplehavealreadyhadprimaryvaccinausingtheorigvaccines.DosesbyPfizerandpartnerBioNTechforanyone12andwhileModerna’sshotsarefor—ifithasbeenleasttwomonthstheirlastprimavaccinationortheirbooster.They’retobeusedforinivaccinations.There’sonemore step before a fall boost er campaign begins: The Centers for Dis ease Control and Pre vention must recom mend who should get the additional shot. An influential CDC advi sory panel will debate the evidence Thursday — including wheth er people at high risk from COVID-19 should go“Asfirst. we head into fall and begin to spend more time indoors, we strongly encourage anyone who is eligible to consider receiving a booster dose with a bivalent COVID-19 vac cine to provide better protection against cur rently circulating vari ants,” FDA Commis sioner Dr. Robert Califf said in a statement. The U.S. has pur chased more than 170 million doses from the two companies. Pfizer said it could ship up to 15 million of those dos es by the end of next week.

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Shyla Shadden is one of the cooks at Chancy’s Grill and shake.

I didn’t just want to run the cash register or cook that hamburger. I want to know what operates the place. The investment, the money. From the outside looking in, you’re making millions of dollars. At least that’s what you think when you’re 18. — Kirk Dwyer

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vice window remained That often overlooked window became Dw yer’s“Welifeline.hadto shut down once, for 10 days, after our two main employ ees got sick, and we had five people out with it at once,” Dwyer said. “But other than that, we were busier than ever.”

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We honor all who work to make our country strong. We wish a happy and safe holiday to everyone in our communi ! 302 S. Washington | iolaregister.com620-365-2111 able.Dwyer saw it as an op portunity.Within two years he was the manager. He found himself a fast learner, and he was teeming with questions. “I didn’t just want to run the cash register or cook that hamburger,” Dwyer said. “I wanted to know what operates the place. The invest ment, the money. From the outside looking in, you’re making millions of dollars. At least that’s what you think when you’re 18.” But as he learned the inner workings about such concepts as overhead costs, main tenance budgets and payroll, Dwyer quickly realized there was more to it than burgers and fries.“I never went to col lege,” he said. “Wen dy’s was my education. I didn’t realize I knew math. I’d always enjoyed math class as a kid, but I didn’t really like it. Here, I realized I was kind of a numbers guy.” As his responsibili ties grew, Dwyer’s job as an area supervisor meant traveling fre quently across south east Kansas, and into Missouri and Oklaho ma.The demands on his time prompted Dwyer to find something new. BUSINESS opportu nities arose, but Moran wasn’t on his radar. Heck, if Dwyer is hon est, he would admit he’d probably never heard of Moran, despite growing up 30 miles to the east. “We used to play ball in Iola, Parsons, Chanute, all over,” he recalled, many trips which meant passing by Moran, but without as much as a second glance. “When you’re young, you just really don’t pay attention to towns. You’re just on the bus tormenting the girl next to Dwyeryou.”was well aware of Burlington, and a potential business opportunity there. He was hoping to take over a Sonic Drive-In there. But while en route to Burlington for an in terview, Dwyer’s thirst beckoned, which meant stopping at a truck stop at the intersection of U.S. 54 and 59 at Moran. As Dwyer was buying his bottle of water, he caught the attention of a friendly enough face standing in line. Marita Bigelow, whose husband Skip ran Bigelow’s Dairy Spot across the street, sensed she knew Dwyer already.“She asked if I was who I was,” Dwyer chuckled. “I said, yeah. She said, ‘Gosh, you should look at this build ing across the street.’” The Bigelows were nearing retirement and looking to sell. “I had no intention of buying a place,” Dwyer recalled. “But as I got to my car, I just sat there and thought about it.” He called his father for advice. Charles “Mick” Dwyer, also was intrigued.Mickhelped his son kick the proverbial tires. They inspected the quaint little eatery, which had shown some wear and tear, but had an unmistakable feeling of Therehome. was plenty of potential, they agreed, but there were risks. “If you ever got in there, boy, you’d be tak ing a hell of a chance,” Mick said. In fact, that’s where the name Chancy’s came from. Taking a chance. “We also consid ered ‘Risky’s,’” Dwyer laughed. “Chancy’s fit better.”SoDwyer gave up “a pretty darned good job” to try his hand at run ning his own business, with a new house, two sons, ages 4 years and 4 months, and a couple of new cars in his drive way.He opened Sept. 3, 1992.After a frenetic few weeks, complete with his first exposure to Mo ran Day, the newness began to wear off. And then winter came and business slowed to a trickle.Dwyer calculates he lost $17,000 within the first few “Luckily,monthsmy wife Stacy had a good job,” he said. “Thank God for that. But I knew I couldn’t do this much longer.” SLOWLY, Dwyer re versed the trend. He honed his menu, borrowing recipes from his mother, Evelyn. And he made a point to greet pretty much every customer who en tered his door. “I wanted to know ev erybody by name,” he said.Dwyer was well aware that he was a young out sider introducing him self into a tight-knit community.Dwyersensed he’d made it when one of the old-timers pulled him aside to thank him for his hospitality. “I think that’s what will help you pull through,” the cus tomerDwyersaid. found his niche, but it came at a cost.Staying open six days a week, from sunup to 10 or 11 p.m. daily meant 80-hour work weeks were the norm — if he was“Iflucky.you close at 10 you’re still not home be fore midnight,” he said. Dwyer’s father con vinced him to close a couple hours earlier, for fear his son would either keel over while slaving over the grill, or perhaps more likely, doze off while headed home after a 14-hour day.Dwyer bumped up closing a couple hours to 9 p.m., Eventually, he cut his Saturdays to half-days, closing in the afternoonIthelped, but to a point.“Even closing at 3, I was still there until 5,” he said. “Then, by the time I’d get home and shower, it was 7:30 or 8, and it’s too late to really do“Myanything.”kidsreally didn’t grow up around me,” Dwyer said. “Stacy raised them like a single parent.”Themarriage eventu ally“Somethingfailed. like this really isn’t cut out for relationships,” Dwyer admitted. “You just don’t have any time.” He considered at var ious points relinquish ing control, hiring a restaurant manager, but could never pull the trigger.“You just don’t know how people will take it,” heEarlieradmitted.this year, Dw yer announced he would no longer open on Satur days.“I can do things on Saturdays now. Mow my yard, clean out the garage, and still have time to relax,” he said. “I’ve seen my grandkids

He’d have one employ ee on hand to handle phone calls, another to work the register, two to dispense food to the cus tomers in the window and two or three in the kitchen.Business was so busy Dwyer kept a full staff through the pandemic.

Continued from A1 Chancy’s employees Sarina Powelson, seated, and Dee Hartman greet customers each morning.

“It’s crazy to think about something like that afterward,” he said.

THERE WERE other challenges.TheCOVID-19 pan demic devastated count less small businesses, particularly restaurants forbidden for several months by lawmakers from hosting customers. Chancy’s survived — even thrived — by tak ing advantage of a fea ture that has been a part of the restaurant since it was first built by Cleo Carpenter in 1970. See, Carpenter built the Dairy Spot as a drive-in. Customers could pull up into the parking lot and order from a front window in stead of coming inside. And in the 50 years af terward, even after the Bigelows built a pair of additions to accentuate the dining room, the ser

EVEN WITH his 30-year anniversary at hand, Dwyer sees no end in sight. “I’m not ready to grab a walker or a cane just yet,” he joked.Having a full weekend to himself allows Dwyer to attack each Monday once again with vigor, even enthusiasm, even though 80-hour work weeks are still the norm. “The crazy part to me is thinking of all the teenagers that would come in after school or work for me,” Dw yer said. “Now, they’re grown with families of their own.” He keeps a pool table and other video games in his dining area, which remain popular draws for youngsters af terWhatschool.they find is a dining area that’s remained largely un altered in Dwyer’s 30 years, aside from regu lar upkeep on his equip ment“As far as really deco rating it up, I wanted to a trillion times, but just never have,” he said. “It seems like if it’s not broke, why try to fix it. I’ve seen other places, hole-in-the-wall types, where they’ll pour thou sands of dollars into something, get it look ing all fancy, and they’re out of business in six months.”Sohe’s content to keep the rustic feel, complete with photos of Moran nostalgia. A prominent dis play honoring Moran native Debra Barnes, Miss America 1968, still adorns the wall. His menu has stayed largely the same as well. Home-cooked meals, in cluding his signature chicken strip dinners, or piping hot hamburg ers and Suzy Q’s remain as popular as ever. “Those Suzy Q’s are crazy,” he laughed. “We still go through six to eight buckets of pota toes a day. To this day, we’ll get a couple of old ladies who come in, they’ll each get a ham burger and a drink and they’ll share an order of SuzyTheQ’s.”key to Dwyer’s livelihood remains the community’s support. “They’ve been tre mendous.”

CHANCY’S has an other advantage that didn’t materialize until Dwyer had been in busi ness for a few years. A nearby Phillips 66 gas station closed, opening the door for a new convenience store to open just east of Chancy’s in 2001. But when that convenience store folded, it remained vacant until the city began renting it as a fit ness center a few years back.Why is that import ant?Because the gas sta tion/convenience store/ fitness center property also contains a spacious parking lot, with mul tiple entrances, capa ble of holding several 18-wheelers simultane ously.“It’s easy to get in and get out, no matter which direction you’re going,” Dwyer said. “It’s amaz ing how many trucks we get each day.”

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more in the past two months than I had in the pastFunnyyear.”thing, despite shortening the hours, Chancy’s remains busy as “Iever.wasn’t expecting it, but I would make more on Saturdays when I closed at 3 than when I would close at night,” Dwyer said. “And now, I’m making more five days a week (Monday through Friday) than I was when I was open Saturdays.”

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Regional study Humboldt City Ad ministrator Cole Herder spoke to commissioners on behalf of Thrive Al len County, as economic development director Johnathon Goering was at another meeting. Herder asked com missioners to sign on to a regional action plan that will allow partici pating counties to qual ify for federal funding under President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill.Between 12 and 13 counties will be asked to participate, Herder said. Franklin County is the outlier, as it could join a different group of coun ties. The others are all in Southeast Kansas. The action plan will look at streets and roads to determine which ar eas are most dangerous and what it would take to make them safer. Federal funds will pay for 80% of the cost, and the Kansas Department of Transportation will pay another 15%. The counties will share the remaining cost. Herder estimated Allen Coun ty’s portion is less than $2,000.Commissioners had several questions, but ultimately decided to participate. The action plan is a requirement in order to qualify for fed eral funds that could im prove those streets and highways, Herder said. The action plan must be approved by the federal government.TheSoutheast Kan sas Regional Planning Commission, which is organizing the effort, believes participating counties have a better chance at winning those federal funds if they take a multi-county approach.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, ac cording to a govern ment report being re leased Wednesday. In the first two years of the COVID-19 pan demic, the estimated American lifespan has shortened by nearly three years. The last comparable decrease happened in the ear ly 1940s, during the height of World War II. Centers for Disease Control and Preven tion officials blamed COVID-19 for about half the decline in 2021, a year when vaccinations became widely available but new coronavirus vari ants caused waves of hospitalizations and deaths. Other contrib utors to the decline are longstanding prob lems: drug overdoses, heart disease, suicide and chronic liver dis ease.“It’s a dismal situa tion. It was bad before and it’s gotten worse,” said Samuel Preston, a University of Pennsyl vaniaLifedemographer.expectancy is an estimate of the av erage number of years a baby born in a given year might expect to live, given death rates at that time. It is “the most fundamental in dicator of population health in this country,” said Robert Hummer, a University of North Carolina researcher focused on population health patterns. U.S. life expectancy rose for decades, but progress stalled before theItpandemic.was78years, 10 months in 2019. In 2020, it dropped to 77 years. Last year, it fell to about 76 years, 1 month.Thelast time it was that low was in 1996. Declines during the pandemic were worse for some racial groups, and some gaps wid ened. For example, life expectancy for Amer ican Indian and Alas kan Native people saw a decline of more than 6 1/2 years since the pandemic began, and is at 65 years. In the same span, life expec tancy for Asian Amer icans dropped by about two years, and stands at 83 Experts½. say there are many possible reasons for such dif ferences, including lack of access to qual ity health care, low er vaccination rates, and a greater share of the population in lower-paying jobs that required them to keep working when the pan demic was at its worst.

— Officials in Pakistan raised concern Wednes day over the spread of waterborne diseases among thousands of flood victims as waters from powerful monsoon rains began to recede in many parts of the coun try.Some doctors said ini tially they were seeing mostly patients trauma tized by the flooding, but are now treating people suffering from diarrhea, skin infections and oth er waterborne ailments in the country’s flood-hit areas.The development has forced the government to deploy additional medical teams, dispatch medicine and provide clean drinking water to survivors, many of whom are living in tents and makeshift homes. The warning came a day after record-break ing floods prompted the United Nations to for mally issue an appeal for $160 million in emergen cy funding to the impov erished Islamic nation, where about a million homes have been dam aged or destroyed.

A4 Thursday, September 1, 2022 iolaregister.comThe Iola Register Currently hiring for: ALL SHIFTS Minimum starting wage $17/hr. Investing in our people is a top priority! Excellence • Innovation • Entrepreneurship • Responsibility • Collaboration On-site job fair & interviews Tuesday, September 6 • 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. 1995 Marshmallow Ln., Iola Russellstover.com/careers • Multiple medical insurance options • Dental & vision • Climate controlled. 67 degrees year round • 10 paid holidays from start of hire • 401-K • Education assistance • Short & long-term disability • Auto and home insurance Beneﬁts program: an employee whose health needs were quite expensive. BCBS was able to better absorb those costs. “Is there something employees are doing differently? What is hap pening at the user lev el?” Commissioner Da vid Lee asked about the lowerPartcosts.ofthe difference could be attributed to the natural five-year cy cle of health insurance costs, Joe Holdenried, a consultant with Bukaty who will now repre sent Allen County, said. It’s normal to have one bad year, three average years and one good year. This could just be a good year, he Holdenriedsaid. and Dre scher said a big part of the savings is likely at tributed to having few er employees with large claims, as well as em ployees taking a more active role through the use of wellness checks and other proactive health measures. One program in par ticular is likely mak ing a big difference, they said. In February, the county joined Tria Health, an Overland Park company that serves as a middleman between patients, physi cians and pharmacists. The service manages medications used to treat chronic conditions like diabetes, heart dis ease and more, and often results in lower costs for prescriptions drugs as well as improved health outcomes.Outof 116 eligible employees, 13 are par ticipating in Tria. The company has identified 44 theday’sRickhealth113problems,medication-relatedandreviewedmedicationsand71conditions.CountyemployeeAiellowasatTuesmeetingandsaidprogramhashelped him reduce his prescrip tion“It’scosts.helped me a lot,” heHoldenriedsaid. and Dre scher encouraged the county to take advan tage of those stories to encourage more employ ees to participate in the program.

IN OTHER news, commissioners:•Discussed the airport, after coun ty leaders attended a four-states airport con ference last week. They learned about compa nies looking for develop ment opportunities near an airport, which lines up with the county’s goals. Commissioner Bruce Symes also asked about a proposal to move a flight museum from Topeka to Allen County; a meeting is planned in a couple of weeks to dis cuss the matter.

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Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho, health min ister in the country’s worst-affected province of Sindh, said officials have set up 4,210 medical camps in the province’s flood-hit areas to treat victims now suffering from skin and water borne diseases, which are common during floods.The World Health Or ganization began aiding Pakistani authorities in their efforts to treat peo ple injured in the rains and flooding. The agen cy said in a statement it was working to increase surveillance for acute diarrhea, cholera and other communicable diseases to avoid their spreading further, and is also providing medicine and medical supplies to health“WHOfacilities.isworking with health authorities to re spond quickly and effec tively on the ground,” said Dr. Palitha Mahipa la, the WHO represen tative in Pakistan. “Our key priorities now are to ensure rapid access to essential health services to the flood-affected pop ulation, (to) strengthen and expand disease sur veillance, outbreak pre vention and control, and ensure robust health cluster northwesterncalinhadcommon,”butceivedcountry.nowamongwaterborneAuthoritiescoordination.”saiddiseasesfloodvictimsarecommonacrossthe“Initiallywereinjuredpeople,nowdiarrheaissaidFarKhan,aphysicianchargeofamedicampsetupinthetownof Charsadda. It is one of the worst flood-hit dis tricts in Khyber Pakh tunkhwa province bor dering Afghanistan, where floods killed 257 people since mid-June. Pakistani authorities backed by the military, rescuers and volunteers, have struggled to evacu ate marooned people to safer places. On Wednes day, military helicopters continued evacuating flood victims and de livering food to remote regions, according to a statement released by the military. It said it has deployed at least 6,500 troops to assist in rescue and relief opera tions.

• Discussed road re pairs, as county crews have started chip-andseal projects in some parts of the county. They’ll be in Humboldt next week. • Heard an update on an auction for sur plus county equipment. County Clerk Sherrie Riebel said she’s gath ering information from local auctioneers. • Heard a report from David Lee about recent meetings on sewer im provements at District 1, which serves the Bur ris Addition. A recent engineering study un covered problems with the sewer district, with a need to repair culverts and clean the lagoons. A cost estimate for clean ing is $70,000; the dis trict has at least $162,000 available. The county also is working on cul verts.•Are working on fi nalizing a memoran dum of understanding with the City of Iola to allow the airport to tap into the city’s sewer system, while annexing part of the property into the city.

In Pakistan, fears of diseases as floods recede

Residents wade through a flood hit area following heavy monsoon rains in Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Aug. 29. The death toll from monsoon flooding in Pakistan since June has reached 1,061, according to figures released on Monday by the country's National Disaster Management Authority. (ABDUL

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tial, business-killing increas es happening? It’s a perfect storm of issues in the energy markets caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the consequent sanctions, a hang over from Brexit, a puttering COVID recovery, massive in flation and the various dys functions of the lame-duck British prime minister, Boris Johnson. In particular, the wholesale price of natural gas has soared. A further part of the prob lem is that small businesses like independent pubs lack the caps on increases enjoyed by residential accounts and thus utility companies are free to charge as they wish. And once a pub, or any oth er small business, is dubbed “high-risk,” that Catch-22 can mean they lose access to the most desirable rates.

70 Years SeptemberAgo1952 A new eating place, Me negay’s Grill, is opening in Iola by Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Menegay, who recently operated the South Street Cafe. The grill occupies the lower floor of the Ameri can Legion building at the corner of Washington and Madison streets. The din ing room will seat 72 guests, 16 at the counter, 32 in six booths of different size and 24 at smaller tables designed to seat four each. The Men egays will close the South Street Cafe, which was opened nearly 30 years ago by E. F. and John Bergman. The Menegays bought it in 1947. ***** COLONY — The Colony school has 49 high school students and 107 grade school students. The build ing was extensively remod eled over the *****summer. St. John’s School, which is beginning its third year, has 133 students enrolled in its elementary grades and junior high school, Sister M. Lillian, principal, said this morning.

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When my daughter called to say she and her family could come Monday to enjoy the holiday with us, I bit my tongue. But inside I screamed, “But the U.S. Open is on!” Therapists say a habit is considered unhealthy if it is substituted for in-person relationships.Fourtimes a year, I’m guilty of such a habit — tennis’ grand slam tourna ments.Though I haven’t hit a tennis ball in years, I can still appreciate the athleti cism and skill displayed. And yes, I’m hooked, with the only redeeming quality being that I watch while on a treadmill. I in herited this habit from my dad. One night he hobbled into the house, after admit ting he’d watched a fivehour match that afternoon. With the tournaments always comes some pag eantry.This year’s U.S. Open includes the retirement of Serena Williams. I’m a semi-fan.There’s no doubt Serena elevated the level of play for women, introducing 100-plus mph serves and volleys.I’vewatched her and her sister, Venus, play since they were teenagers. Ve nus, age 42, continues to play professionally in sin gles as well as doubles, but has not amassed the cham pionships of her younger sister, who turns 40 in late September.Throughout their ca reers, the sisters have faced incredible challeng es simply because they are Black. Wherever they play, they must gird themselves not so much for the oppo nent across the net, but for the racist slurs from the stands and, embarrassing ly, the media. Of the two, Venus is the wallflower; Serena the star. With that fame comes sacrifices, Chris Evert said recently. Today Evert is a tennis commentator after a very successful tennis career.“People always tell you you’re the greatest,” she said in a recent interview. “And they can’t say no to you.“When that happens, you become entitled and enabled. It affected my re lationships with people, and my Serena’smarriages.”scrapes with humility include her 2018 U.S. Open loss to Naomi Osaka when she repeat edly berated the umpire, spoiling what should have been Osaka’s moment of glory.And this summer at Wimbledon, Serena re fused to join other Wim bledon champions at a ceremony recognizing its 100-year anniversary, in stead opting to attend a rockIt’sconcert.thatkind of excep tionalism that damages re lationships, as Evert noted. WE’RE ALL guilty of forgetting our place in the world.Come Monday, I’ll be ea gerly awaiting my daugh ter. The TV will remain off. Readers of Scotland on Sunday got one heck of a jolt when they opened their morn ing newspaper this weekend. The front page article focused on the massive increase in energy costs being faced in Britain and the especially catastrophic effect on anyone living in rural areas in the far north of Scotland, where geopolitical developments are shaking down for some Scot tish families as a Hobson’s choice between food and heat. “They will freeze or they will starve,” read the head line.That’s not a choice you expect to have to make in a developed nation such as Scotland, a country many Americans view mostly as a scenic theme park of chal lenging golf courses and peatyButwhiskey.it’sthe bizarre reality in a country already seeing a doubling of energy costs and a projection of further big in creases. Instead of focusing on food insecurity, journalists now are exploring the phrase “fuelRuralpoverty.”Scots already pay more for energy, and local pol iticians are pointing out that many of them work full-time jobs and yet are still are find ing themselves unable to heat their homes for the long, dark winter and also feed their families.North and south of the bor der, defenders of the great British pub are warning that some 70% of them might not survive the coming win ter, again as a result of huge spikes in energy costs. Most pubs are reporting anywhere from 100% to 300% increases in their energy costs, mean ing that they now have to sell hundreds of pints a night just to pay off the gas company. Some pubs say they are being told their energy bills are in creasing by 500% or more for the coming winter contracts. Why are these exponen

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THE PUB landlord of the Rose and Crown near Liv erpool drew widespread at tention on Twitter in recent days by pointing out that his gas and electricity costs were now being quoted at £61,000 (about $73,200) a year, a stag gering sixfold increase just since last May. Very few small businesses could survive that kind of cost increase. Ac cording to a U.K. trade group, the Federation of Small Busi nesses, the typical utility bills for small-business own ers have increased by 349% for electricity and by 424% for gas just between February 2021 and the current month. There are plenty of other reasons why pubs become high risk, not the least of which is rampant inflation driving up costs. U.K. infla tion rates are significantly worse than in the U.S., run ning at 10.1% annually, ac cording to a report by the Of fice of National Statistics, so pubs are facing rising wage bills along with their energy costs.Simply put, the country is in an economic mess. Fortune magazine noted that Britain was only a currency crisis away (something that could well happen) from mirroring the economy of a developing nation.Clearly, the U.K. govern ment cannot maintain a pol icy of capping residential price increases and leaving small businesses to fend for themselves in such a market. There’s little point in helping people heat their homes if they then lose their jobs pull ing pints or lose the social center of their lives and the economic anchors of their communities.Buteven with the resi dential cap, the British are seeing huge price increases: Britain’s energy regulator an nounced Friday an additional 80% increase in household energy bills. That comes on the heels of a record 54% in crease in April. Pubs might be facing far worse scenarios but that doesn’t mean many households can pay these bills and continue on with their previous lives. Unless these issues are addressed in bold fashion, British pubs and restaurants are going to disappear and a whole lot of people are go ing to be making the kinds of choices between food and heat that are associated with Dickensian images, not con temporary Britain. The impact of the inflation rate is a cautionary tale for the U.S., and an argument for Federal Reserve Chair man Jerome Powell to stay his course on raising interest rates, the consequent pain notwithstanding. There is no point in forgiving student loans, for example, if any benefit to recipients is im mediately eaten up by rising costs.But things in the U.K. are demonstrably worse. The sudden drop in the standard of living is so precipitous as to be a cruel shock to pretty much everyone. There is raw fear of rising energy bills. Once the endless process to replace Johnson is con cluded, this acute crisis is go ing to be job one for the new Conservative prime minister, most likely Liz Truss, lest their tenure be as short as a wee dram of Scotch whisky. — Chicago Tribune

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A6 Thursday, September 1, 2022 iolaregister.comThe Iola Register SunDAY MonDAY TueDAY WedNESDAY ThuRSDAY FriDAY 3SatURDAY 4 5 6 7 8 29 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 2821 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 Library Littles STORYTIME 2 p.m. Library Littles PLAYDATE 2 p.m. Book Talk, 2 p.m. Iola Public Library 218 E. Madison Ave. Iola, Kansas 66749 | 620-365-3262 iolapubliclibrary.org Connect with your local library! here’s what’s going on in September 1 CLOSED Chess Club, 6 p.m. Library Board Meeting, 5:30 p.m. Chess Club, 6 p.m. Talk Like a Pirate Day Chess Club, 6 p.m. Library Littles STORYTIME 10:30 a.m. FIND MORE VIRTUAL EVENTS AND CLASSES AT Televeda.com Beginner Bridge, 7-9 p.m. CLOSED Read a Book Day Healthy Hearts, 6 p.m. Who Are You? Genealogy, 7 p.m. Bike the Trails, 7 p.m. National Voter Registration Day Beginner Bridge, 7-9 p.m. 18 LIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP MONTH September is has shrunk for two straight quarters this year, meeting one infor mal sign of a recession. “Quite simply, relying on the current surplus to fund permanent tax changes isn’t fiscally sustainable, or responsi ble, and will ultimately require cuts to state ser vices,” said Amy Blou in, president and CEO of the Missouri Budget Project, a nonprofit that analyzes fiscal policies. For some states, the current surpluses are unlike anything they’ve previously seen. The 2022 fiscal year, which ended June 30 for most states, marked the second straight year of large growth in tax col lections after economic shutdowns triggered declines early in the coronavirus pandemic. Many states reported their largest-ever sur pluses, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers. “I don’t think there’s been a time in history where states are better equipped to ride out a potential recession,” said Timothy Vermeer, senior state tax policy analyst at the Tax Foun dation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. “A majority, if not all, of the rainy day funds are in a really healthy posi tion.”Income tax rate cuts have passed in 13 states this year, already equal ing last year’s historic total, according to the Tax Foundation. Repub licans control the leg islatures in all of those states except New York, where Democrats who wield power accelerated the timetable for a previ ously approved tax rate reduction.Republican-led Ar kansas was the most recent to take action during an August spe cial session. A new law will speed up a gradual income tax rate reduc tion enacted last year and provide a one-time inflationary tax cred it. Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson described the $500 million package as “a transfer of wealth from the government to the taxpayer” that “could not have come at a more important time.”

Nationwide, inflation is at a 40-year-high, rais ing prices on most good and services and squeez ingAtincomes.least15 states have approved one-time re bates from their sur pluses, including 10 led by Democratic gover nors and legislatures, four by Republicans and one — Virginia — with split partisan ofomistMoscosoercontributingscarcespendingadditionalductive”actuallyfighttaxratepermanentCarolinadiana,rebatestrolledthanhouseholds$250,000ualsandbatessurplus,aifornia,Democratic-ledcontrol.Calwhichpostedrecord$97billionissendingreofbetween$200$1,050toindividearninglessthanannuallyandearningless$500,000.AllfourGOP-constatesproviding—Georgia,InIdahoandSouth—alsomadeincometaxcuts.Thoughoftenpopular,rebatesdolittletoinflationand“maybecounterprobyenablingconsumeronitemsinsupplyandthustohighprices,saidHernanBoedo,aneconattheUniversityCincinnati.Still,bigsurpluses coupled with inflation make rebates a tempting option for politicians, especially during an electionGeorgiayear.Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican fac ing a re-election chal lenge from Democrat Stacey Abrams, has been among the most aggressive tax-cutters. He signed legislation gradually reducing the income tax rate from 5.75% to 4.99%. He also signed a measure pro viding a $1.1 billion tax rebate, with up to $250 for individuals and $500 for couples. He has pro posed an additional $2 billion in income and property tax rebates. And after a law tempo rarily suspending the state’s gas tax expired in May, Kemp extended the gas tax break through mid-September.“We’retrying to help Georgians fight through this tough time,” Kemp said.In Colorado, legis lative staff estimate it will cost $2.7 million to carry out legislation expediting an income tax refund of $750 for individuals and $1,500 for couples. The consti tutionally mandated re fund of surplus revenue was originally due to be paid next year but is being distributed now — along with a letter from Democratic Gov. Jared Polis touting it as infla tionPolis,relief.who is up for re-election in Novem ber, had been a previous critic of the automatic refund provision. His Republican challenger, Heidi Ganahl, is accus ing him of “hypocrisy.”

Beside them sits a card board box filled with gold-framed pictures, including a Time maga zineThoughcover. it contains significant new details on the investigation, the Justice Department filing does not resolve a core question that has driven public fascina tion with the investi gation — why Trump held onto the documents after he left the White House and why he and his team resisted repeat ed efforts to give them back. In fact, it suggests officials may not have received an answer. During a June 3 vis it to Mar-a-Lago by FBI and Justice Department officials, the document states, “Counsel for the former President of fered no explanation as to why boxes of govern ment records, including 38 documents with clas sification markings, re mained at the Premises nearly five months after the production of the Fifteen Boxes and near ly one-and-a-half years after the end of the Ad ministration.”Thatvisit, which came weeks after the Justice Department is sued a subpoena for the records, receives sub stantial attention in the document and appears to be a key investigative focus.Though Trump in sisted again Wednesday that he had declassified the documents at Mara-Lago, his lawyers did not suggest that during the visit and instead “handled them in a man ner that suggested coun sel believed that the doc uments were classified,” the Justice Department said.

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Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, has called the Legislature back for a special session start ing Thursday to consid er more tax breaks. He’s proposing to use part of the state’s pro jected $2 billion budget surplus for a $500 mil lion income tax rebate this year. He also wants to cut more than $150 million annually by cre ating a flat 5.8% income tax rate starting next year. That comes after the state reduced the top tax rate each of the last two“Folks,years.this is conser vative governing in ac tion,” Little said while asserting the tax cuts still would leave enough money to boost education funding by hundreds of millions of opinionGarneranemergencytowantingemergencydrivenispressedFrankterm-limitedlawmakers,muchschoolsuchpossibleofferthatinmajoritycanforindividualstaxwouldpastertyowners$1,000proposalfromtosiontoareMontanadollars.lawmakersweighingwhetherconveneaspecialseslaterinSeptemberprovidetaxbreaksabudgetsurplus.Acallsforgivingrebatestohomewhopaidproptaxesduringthetwoyears.Italsoprovideincomerebatesof$1,250forand$2,500couples.Montana’sRepubliHouseandSenateleaderssaidajointstatementtherebateswouldhelp“assoonaswithexpensesasgas,groceries,suppliesandsomore.”ButsomeincludingGOPRep.Garner,haveexreluctance.“Myfirstconcernifthisproposalisbyanimminentorbythosetowritechecksvotersbecausetheirismerelyimminentelection,”wroteinancolumn.

The Justice Depart ment says classified documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at former President Don ald Trump’s Florida es tate as part of an effort to obstruct the federal investigation into the discovery of the govern mentTherecords.FBIalso seized boxes and contain ers holding more than 100 classified records during its Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and found classified documents stashed in Trump’s of fice, according to a filing late Tuesday that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of months of strained interactions between Justice Department of ficials and Trump repre sentatives over the dis covery of government secrets.Thefiling offers yet another indication of the sheer volume of clas sified records retrieved from Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida. It shows how investigators conducting a criminal probe have focused not just on why the records were improperly stored there but also on the question of whether the Trump team intention ally misled them about the continued, and un lawful, presence of the top secret documents. The timeline laid out by the Justice Depart ment made clear that the extraordinary search of Mar-a-Lago came only after other efforts to re trieve the records had failed and that it result ed from law enforcement suspicion that addition al documents remained inside the property despite assurances by Trump representatives that a “diligent search” had accounted for all of theItmaterial.alsoincluded a picture of some of the seized documents with colored cover sheets in dicating their classified status, perhaps as a way to rebut suggestions that whoever packed them or handled them at Mar-aLago could have easily failed to appreciate their sensitive nature. The photo shows the cover pages of a smatter ing of carpetpages,alongrust-coloredCRET//SCI”andbrightSECRET//SCI”someclassifiedpaperclip-bounddocuments—markedas“TOPwithyellowbordersonemarkedas“SEwithaborder—withwhited-outsplayedoutonaatMar-a-Lago.

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The Iola High School football team is looking to shake things up and create more of a winning culture on the ﬁeld thisCertainseason.to help are some key senior leaders returning. The Mustangs will kick off the season Friday at Osawatomie. Looking to lead the way are seniors Wyatt Westervelt, Jake Skahan, Carter Hutton and Kyle matesculturecomelyjuniorrealmentalityvelt.ouryeartivatedplewe’vesilenceisthetheballtheirforularbackingtangsingComingMittelmeier.offofadisappoint-2021season—theMus-were2of7—thereturn-seniorsarehungrytogetintheswingofthereg-seasonandmakeanamethe“Iola”onthefrontofjerseys.Oflate,thefoot-teamhasn’tliveduptoreputationthatmanyofplayersbelievetheirteamcapableof.They’rereadytothedoubters.“I’mexcitedtoseewhatgottoshowforthepeo-ofIola.We’reallverymo-toproveapointthisthatwe’rebetterthanreputation,”saidWester-“Mysophomoreyear,theoftheteamwasbad,toputitlightly.Myyeareveryonegotreal-tiredoflosingandhavebe-hell-bentonmakingtheandteambetter.”Westerveltandhisteam-hopetobeinaposition where they could make a run at a Pioneer League championship as well as a regional championship.“Ourultimate goal is to turn the culture around so that maybe further down the line we can have a state championship team,” Westervelt said. “We’re all working together towards one ultimate goal.”Inorder to achieve these goals the Mustangs will need to be disciplined and listen to what head coach David Daugharthy has to say. Football is a game in which every position on the ﬁeld has equal importance, which is something the players have been emphasizing.“Atraitwe’ve all been trying to work on is discipline. When it comes down to the fourth quarter, we used to be so gassed we would sit over and lay down and kind of give up almost. This year we’ve been really trying to discipline ourselves and really work on pushing through all obstacles,” Westervelt said. Skahan also believes this year’s team is capable of changing the culture and the perception of Iola football. The Mustangs have been practicing since Aug. 15 and are anxious to put their best effort on “Obviously,display.we just want to be the biggest and best out there. We want to change the culture but we also want to change the community. In years past we haven’t really been known for being the best football team and so we just want to make them proud that we’re the Iola Mustangs,” said Skahan.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs wanted to get younger around quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the rest of their veteran core. They couldn’t have done it much better through the draft.The Chiefs selected 10 players in April, their most in 14 years, and all but one made the final cutdown Tuesday for teams to reach the 53man limit for the regular season. Some of them, such as first-rounders Trent McDuffie and George Karlaftis, were locks from the moment their names were read while others played their way onto a perennial Super Bowl contender.That includes two seventh-round picks — the time of the draft when teams are typically throwing darts at the board in the hopes of landing a hidden gem. Defensive back Jaylen Watson and running back Isiah Pacheco made the team while safety Nazeeh Johnson, a candidate for the practice squad, was the lone draft pick to be cut. McDuffie, who will start at cornerback, and Karlaftis, who could start at defensive end in the opener Sept. 11 at Arizona, join Watson in a young defense. Second-round pick Bryan Cook made the team at safety, third-round pick Leo Chenal carved out a role at linebacker and fourth-rounder Joshua Williams survived the cut at cornerback.

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The Humboldt varsity volleyball team took down a pair of opponents on Tuesday night in Pittsburg Colgan and Jayhawk Linn to improve to 4-2. The opening match came against Pittsburg Colgan in which the Lady Cubs took both sets, 25-16 and 2519.Shelby Shaughnessy led the way with five kills while Karley Wools also tacked on four kills. Wools also led the way with four aces while Kennisyn Hottenstein registered two aces.On defense, Wools led with nine digs while Shaughnessy had six and K. Hottenstein and Skylar Hottenstein each recorded five digs apiece. “We played well tonight. Our serve was aggressive and we passed the ball around well. I was pleased with the adjustments we made since Saturday,” said Humboldt head coach Terry AgainstMeadows.Jayhawk Linn the Cubs won 25-18 and 2522.S. Hottenstein led with four aces while Wools collected two. Wools and Shaughnessy each had five kills apiece to lead the Humboldt attack. On defense, S. Hottenstein made 15 digs to finish as the only Humboldt player in double figures. Natalie Wells also collected five digs while Wools notched four. The other two Lady Cubs to finish with multiple digs were K. Hottenstein and Shaughnessy with three and two, Humboldtrespectively.will host Neodesha and Oswego in their season home opener at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Then, playing against rival Crest for the second time in four days, Marmaton Valley again went the full three sets, but fell, 25-21, 23-25 and 25-13.Marmaton Valley didn’t go home empty handed, however, rolling past Hartford in straight sets, 25-23 and 25-21.

“Especially with the young guys, those guys — you can see the scheme is starting to click for them,” said linebacker Nick Bolton, the second-year pro who has taken over calling plays in the middle of the Kansas City defense.“They’re playing a whole lot faster. They’re communicating well. Those young guys, they’re doing a hell of a job,” Bolton said, “and the vets are just helping them. We have open communication with the young guys and they’re doing their best.”

MADISON — Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcats came up short in a pair of threeset matches Tuesday, going 1-2 in a quadrangular volleyball competition at Madison High School. A back-and-forth second set turned the tide for the Wildcats against host Madison. After winning the ﬁrst set, Marmaton Valley came up just short in set two. Madison seized the momentum from there to complete the1825, 25-23 and 25-21 victory.

THE BUY-IN and commitment on the varsity team is apparently greater than it has been in years past and Skahan believes this could help Iola be successful the whole season.“Overall, how committed we are at this point, most of us have already bought into these goals. I feel like we can succeed if we put our minds to it and put our nose to the grindstone,” Skahan said. The seniors on the football team may be one of the strongest in years past and their leadership style is being passed down to the younger players. Skahan believes the word “genesis” best encapsulates their “Genesisgoal.means a new beginning,” said Skahan. “We want to build a new program and a new “Osawatomieculture.”isa very runheavy team and so we’re really looking at stopping that run game. This week we’ve been focusing on getting into the backﬁeld and stopping that run before it can even start,” Westervelt said. Kickoff Friday is at 7 p.m.

Stangs looking to ‘change culture’

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The IHS football team lines up during its blue and gold scrimmage earlier this year. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Tuesday’s matches put the Wildcats at 5-3 on the young season. Marmaton Valley hosts Eureka and Yates Center next Tuesday.

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— They said it: “We’ve had some great impact players, but never one on offense, one on defense, of the caliber that these guys have been able to play on a consistent basis.”

Handicapping the chase for College Football Playoff

THE SEC)TexasDARKHORSESA&M(8-4,4-4 Texas A&M has won at least eight games in each of Jimbo Fisher’s four seasons in College Station, but the Aggies still are waiting for that breakthrough. That won’t change this sea son after Fisher signed the No. 1 recruiting class and added experi ence through the trans fer—portal.They said it: “When you’re talking about winning national cham pionships, it’s not just understanding how to handle the expectations, it’s organizing and structuring the team to get to those points. We’re really right now at the beginning of that stage where we can do it consistently.” — Fisher on expectations. Notre Dame (11-2) New coach Marcus Freeman was imme diately embraced by the players and fans, making his transition a smooth one moving forward. The Irish have appeared in the College Football Playoff semi finals twice in the last four seasons and have enough talent to make another serious run. — They said it: “The entire quarterback room is extremely close, but they also know that there’s only one quarter back. They compete ev ery day. They competed in spring ball, and I look forward to seeing their competition as we start fall camp.” — Freeman on the QB situation on ESPN’s SportsCenter. Oklahoma (11-2, 7-2 Big 12) Adding new coach Brent Venables should pay off for the Sooners, who lacked defensive toughness under former coach Lincoln Riley. Jeff Lebby guided explosive offenses at UCF and Ole Miss, making him the perfect match with Ven ables, particularly with the addition of transfer QB Dillon Gabriel. — They said it: “He’s our quarterback. Cer tainly, anything can happen as we move for ward through fall camp. But I feel great I can lay my head down at night knowing not just what he has done on the foot ball field but the quality of the person he is.” — Venables on Gabriel.

By MATT MURSCHEL Orlando Sentinel

SEC)AlabamaFAVORITES(13-2,7-1 Nothing seems to slow

Alabama head coach Nick Saban, right, talks with Georgia head coach Kirby Smart before the SEC Championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Dec. 4, 2021, in Atlanta. GETTY IMAGES/KEVIN C. COX/TNS

THE down Nick Saban, who, despite turning 71 this year, has Alabama back in position for another run at an SEC Championship and a national championship.

— Saban on Young and Anderson. Ohio State (11-2, 8-1 Big Ten) Ohio State is 34-4 in the three-plus seasons under coach Ryan Day with all four losses coming against teams ranked in the top 10. QB C.J. Stroud (4,435 yards passing, 44 TDs) is back after a record-set ting season, as is WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba (1,606 yards) and RB TreVeyon Henderson (1,248 yards). The de fense underwent an overhaul, with Jim Knowles leaving Okla homa State to take over as defensive coordina tor.

While the Crimson Tide suffered through the typical roster attri tion with seven players selected in the 2022 NFL draft, the team returns QB Bryce Young, the reigning Heisman Tro phy winner, and DL Will Anderson Jr.

RVING, Texas (AP) — The changing Big 12 Conference plans to enter into discussions with ESPN and Fox about a potential early extension of its media rights deal that still has two more football sea sons left after this one. New Big 12 Commis sioner Brett Yormark said Wednesday that given the changing land scape of college athlet ics, the league welcomes “the opportunity to en gage with our partners to determine if an early extension is in the best interest of all parties.” An early negotiation for the Big 12 could be significant, given that the Pac-12 board of direc tors a month ago autho rized pushing up negoti ations for its next media rights agreements after the decision by UCLA and Southern California to leave for the Big Ten. The Pac-12′s current deal expires in 2024. The Big 12’s deal with ESPN and Fox goes through the 2024-25 ac ademic year. That also is the latest date when Oklahoma and Texas, the league’s only foot ball national champi ons, will leave to join the expanding Conference.SoutheasternFootballindependent BYU, along with Amer ican Athletic Confer ence schools Cincinnati, Houston and UCF join the current 10-team Big 12 next summer. BYU, Cincinnati and Houston were all ranked in the preseason AP college football poll, matching the number of current Big 12 members in the TopThe25. Big 12’s an nouncement also came two weeks after the Big Ten reached seven-year agreements with Fox, CBS and NBC to share the rights to the confer ence’s football and bas ketball games. That deal is worth about $7 billion.

PREDICTION Nobody has made more College Football Playoff appearances than Alabama (7) with the Crimson Tide play ing in the title game in six of those seven sea sons. It’s hard to imag ine Saban’s team not making it back to the championship, espe cially with the help of Heisman quarterback BryceClemsonYoung. (4), Ohio State (2) and Georgia (1) are the only other teams to make it to the CFP ti tle game since 2014 and all three have the pieces to make another run. Oklahoma and Notre Dame haven’t won ti tles in decades, but both could surprise some people with new coach es.

Big 12 eyes media rights extension

— They said it: “C.J. has always had very good leadership skills. He’s always had a voice. Once you go on the field and you show credi bility that you can do it, you walk a little dif ferently and guys look at you through a dif ferent lens.” — Day on Stroud’s fromdraft,selectedcordoutanother(2011-12),titlestobecomeIf33-181980firstSEC)Georgiadevelopment.(14-1,8-0GeorgiacaptureditsnationaltitlesincewithanimpressivewinoverAlabama.theBulldogshopetothefirstschoolwinback-to-backsinceAlabamathey’llneedstellarseasonoftheirdefense.TherewasanNFL-re15Georgiaplayersinthisyear’sincludingeightthedefensive side led by DE Travon Walker and DL Jordan Davis. The Bulldogs re turn the least amount of production from their defense in the SEC, but a deep recruit ing base should help alleviate some of those concerns.—They said it: “Peo ple ask the question, ‘How does it feel to be hunted?’ We will not be hunted at the Univer sity of Georgia. I can promise you that. The hunting we do will be from us going the oth er direction. We’re not going to sit back and be passive about.” — Geor gia coach Kirby Smart Clemson (10-3, 6-2 ACC) For the first time un der coach Dabo Swin ney, the Tigers under went massive changes to the coaching staff, losing his offensive (Tony Elliott) and defen sive (Brent Venables) co ordinators.Theoffense took a massive step back with quarterback DJ Uiag alelei struggling in his first season as a start er. The defensive front may be one of the best in the ACC, with all-con ference standouts in Xavier Thomas, Bryan Bresee, Tyler Davis and Myles Murphy. — They said it: “Be ing a starter for a whole season instead of just playing starter for two games taught me a lot about how to manage it, how to manage ev erything, how to man age media, manage to go into the preparation of a game.” — Uiagale lei on what he learned from his first season as a starter. Michigan (12-2, 8-1 Big Ten) The Wolverines are coming off a break through season in which they snapped an eight-game losing streak to rival Ohio State and captured the Big Ten title for the first time since 2004. Despite flirting with the NFL in the offseason, coach Jim Harbaugh has enough returning pieces for Michigan to make an other solid run. The offense was phys ical up front, leading the Big Ten in rushing (214 yards per game) and with quarterbacks Cade McNamara and J.J. Mc Carthy and tailback Blake Corum back. It’s easy to see a little dropoff in 2022. The defense, while talented, lacks practical experience. — They said it: “We’re just going to continue to attack. That’s what I really love about this team. They literally at tack everything that’s put in front of them.” — Harbaugh on carrying momentum from last season.

NEW YORK (AP) — The welcome and sup port for Venus Williams in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday afternoon were not the same as they were for her sister, Serena, a night earlier. Nor was the result. Venus, who turned 42 in June, has not made any pronouncements about her future in ten nis, unlike her younger sibling, and while she has been successful and influential, too — a seven-time Grand Slam champion; a Black wom an in a predominantly white sport — the fan fare and attention are not the Playingsame.in front of thousands of empty blue seats in an arena quite silent at the start, although growing loud er later, Venus bowed out in the first round of the U.S. Open for the sec ond consecutive appear ance, losing 6-1, 7-6 (5) to Alison Van Uytvanck. “She means so much to female tennis. Ten nis, in general,” Van Uytvanck said. “She’s a legend.”Thiswas the 23rd trip to Flushing Meadows for Venus, who made it to the final in 1997 as a teen then won the tro phy in 2000 and 2001, and her record 91st time participating in a major tournament.Venushad never lost in the opening round at the U.S. Open until 2020, then was absent last year.Asked what keeps her motivated these days, she answered: “Three letters: W-I-N. That’s it. Very simple.”

Osaka, Venus among those out early at US Open

By PETE GRATHOFF

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Venus Williams hits a backhand against Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium in their 2022 U.S. Open Women’s Singles First Round match Tuesday. GETTY IMAGES/JAMIE SQUIRE/TNS

At night, Emma Ra ducanu became only the third defending U.S. Open champion to lose in the first round, elim inated by Alizé Cornet 6-3, 6-3. And yet another past champ bowed out in straight sets when Naomi Osaka, who won two of her four Grand Slam titles in New York, was eliminated by Aus tralian Open runner-up Danielle Collins 7-6 (5), 6-3 in a match that end ed after Osaka,midnight.aformer No. 1, also lost in the first round of the French Open this year and has slid to 44th in the rankings. She had been 3-0 head-to-head against Collins, but this fun-to-watch, hard-hit ting matchup went the other“Whenway. you lose to somebody three times,” said the 19th-seeded Col lins, who has struggled with injuries this sea son, “you have nothing to lose, so I tried to go for it and hope for the best.”Raducanu, who was 18 and ranked 150th when she won the title as a qualifier a year ago, was bothered by hand blisters — she took a medical timeout for treatment after the first set — and was outplayed by Cornet, a 32-year-old from France who also upset No. 1 Iga Swiatek at “ObviouslyWimbledon.really dis appointing. Really sad to leave here. It’s proba bly my favorite tourna ment. But also, I mean, in a way, (I’m) happy, be cause it’s a clean slate,” Raducanu said. “I’m going to drop down the rankings. (Will) climb my way back up.” Also playing under the lights was 22-time major champion Rafa el Nadal, who returned to the U.S. Open for the first time since 2019 and beat 21-year-old Rinky Hijikata 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3. Nadal did not show any serious lingering issues with the torn abdomi nal muscle that forced him out of Wimbledon in VenusJuly. was off the tour in singles entirely from August 2021 until less than a month ago and is now 0-4 since her return. Her ranking — which 20 years ago was No. 1 — is 1,504th this week.“It was definitely the longest time I have been away from tennis and been without a racket in my hand. So it was a completely new expe rience for me, getting a racket back in my hand and trying to acclimate as quick as possible to be ready for the U.S. Open, which was not easy,” she said. “Definitely playing lots of great points, but in the end, it’s just rust. There is nothing you can do about that except for, you know, not be rusty at some point.” It was Serena who announced to the world on Aug. 9 that she was getting ready to step away from her playing career, leav ing unclear exactly when the end would be, although she hinted it could come at the U.S. Open. So her first-round match Monday fell into the category of a mustsee happening, draw ing a record crowd of more than 29,000 to the tournament grounds, including more than 23,000 in Ashe — and the atmosphere was uproar ious and electric from start to finish of her 6-3, 6-3 victory over Danka Kovinic.NowSerena, who won six of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles in New York, will move on to a matchup against No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit in Ashe on Wednesday night.And then she and Ve nus will join forces in doubles on Thursday, teaming up for the first time anywhere since 2018 this week. When a reporter wanted to know wheth er retirement has been on Venus’ mind, she re plied: “Right now, I’m just focused on the dou bles.”So how did that re union of a pairing that has earned 14 Grand Slam titles in that event come about? “It was Serena’s idea. She’s the boss, so I do whatever she tells me to do,” Venus said. “We have had some great wins. It would be nice to add some more.” Van Uytvanck now meets Clara Burel, who eliminated Wimbledon champion Elena Rybak ina 6-4, 6-4. In other action on a humid and windy Day 2 at the hard-court tournament, women’s winners included 2017 champion Sloane Ste phens, No. 1 Iga Swiatek, No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka, No. 8 Jessica Pegula, No. 9 Garbiñe Muguruza, No. 13 Belinda Bencic — whose opponent, An drea Petkovic, said she is retiring from pro ten nis — and No. 22 Karo lina Pliskova, the 2016 runner-up in New York. Men who advanced included 2014 champion Marin Cilic, No. 3 Car los Alcaraz, No. 7 Cam Norrie, No. 8 Hubert Hurkacz, No. 9 Andrey Rublev, No. 11 Jannik Sinner, No. 15 Marin Cilic, No. 17 Grigor Dim itrov and No. 28 Holger Rune, who meets John IsnerNeithernext. Williams at tended the other’s firstround singles match; Venus said she watched Serena on TV but was not there in person be cause of her own early start the next day. Their mother, Ora cene, and sister, Isha, were in the guest box each time. On Tuesday, they saw Venus struggle from the outset, partic ularly with her usedto-be-feared serve and groundstrokes that were not calibrated correctly. So many into the net. So many landing long. After some of her 25 unforced errors, Venus would wince or fiddle with her racket strings or tug on the brim of herTenvisor.of those miscues came on backhands, far outnumbering her two winners on that side. There were a half-doz en double-faults, just three aces. She faced 12 break points and dropped four of her 10 service games. Just 20 minutes in, there was a 4-0 lead for Van Uytvanck, a 28-yearold from Belgium who is ranked 43rd and came into the day with a 1-8 career mark at the U.S. Open.Venus did make a bit of a stand, breaking to open the second set and holding for 2-0. But that would be her only break of the match and soon enough, Van Uytvanck was putting away a vol ley winner to close out theAwin.night earlier, Ser ena was feted during a post-match ceremony that included a video tribute from Oprah Win frey and a lengthy oncourt interview. After this match, Venus sim ply slung her red equip ment bag over her left shoulder, carried her racket in her right hand, and quickly walked off toward the locker room.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Royals fan Bruce Wil liams’ 18th birthday is next month, so his fa ther got him a special gift: two tickets to Sun day’s game against the Padres at Kauffman Sta dium in Kansas City. Williams made the two-hour trip from his house in Stockton, Mo., with his cousin, Luke, and they were excited to have seats in a part of Kauffman Stadium for the very first time. “It was my first time ever sitting at the Pepsi Porch and I saw we’re playing the Padres. Be cause of how interest ing the Royals pitching has been these days, I was like, ‘(San Diego outfielder) Juan Soto is gonna put one out on the party porch, so I better bring my mitt,’ ” Williams recalled. In the seventh inning of the Royals’ 15-7 victo ry, that’s just what hap pened.“Iwas like, Man, I wouldn’t even be mad if Juan Soto hit a ding er as long as it went to me because we’re up by so much,” Williams said. “And then a cou ple pitches later, he just cracked it right out there.“And I saw it coming to me and so I put my glove on real quick and I stood up right in my seat. Like it was right at me. And then all sud den, someone was just plowing over me. He was bumping into me, pushed me to the side trying to get the ball, and I reached over him and snagged it right out of the air.” A decade ago, Wil liams had gotten a ball from a Cleveland play er who was leaving the field, so he was ex cited to catch a homerun ball. But the thrill was gone in an instant as another spectator grabbed Williams’ mitt with both hands and took the ball. After an awkward pause, the thief scam pered away and re turned with a couple of jerseys which he tried to hand to Williams. “No, I don’t want your shirts,’ Williams said. “Give me the ball.” The man said, “No, I’m not going to” before dropping the jerseys. Williams said the man, who was also at Friday’s Royals-Padres game, then left the scene and exited the stadium. Williams said the jerseys were of pitcher Sam Gaviglio, who ap peared in four games for the Royals in 2017. He wore No. 62. In an email, the Royals identified the man who took the ball as Mark Kirsch, who is known for pulling planes and cars in an online series called “Man vs. Impos sible.”“At this time we are not banning Mark Kirsch from the stadi um,” Sharita Hutton, Senior Director of Com munications wrote in the email to The Kansas City Star. A fan at Friday’s game said friends had spoken with the man, who iden tified himself as Kirsch. During that contest, Kirsch had acquired at least a dozen baseballs after playing catch with Padres outfielders be tweenKirschinnings.could not be reached for comment.

A happy ending After Kirsch left the scene, Williams ap proached a security guard who said he had witnessed the theft. “I just kind of com plained to him about what just happened to me,” Williams said. “And then about 10 or 15 minutes later then, they got someone from guest services down there and he brought me a bag full of bobbleheads and a Bobby Witt signed base ball.”It was late in the game, but the guest ser vices worker asked Wil liams and his cousin to stick around after the final“Weout.waited around and sure enough, he came walking back,” Williams said, “and he had a ball signed by Juan Soto with some of his achievements writ ten down on the ball and on the other side of that, ‘sorry about that.’ “It turned a pretty bad experience into a very good one.”

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Thework.Foundation, a third-party collective at Ohio State, says it has raised more than $500,000 for Stroud, running back TreVeyon Henderson, wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba and cornerback Denzel Burke. Texas Tech boosters have formed The Matador Club collective, which says it is signing all 85 scholarship players and 20 walk-ons to $25,000 contracts this season in return for appearing at club events and doing a certain amount of community service.