The Iola Register, Oct. 1, 2022

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Sen. Moran promotes Humboldt to Congress

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Kansas senator sent a lit tle love to Humboldt as he sought to educate Congress about the good things hap pening in his home state.

Sen. Jerry Moran on Wednesday highlighted Humboldt while speaking on the Senate floor, respond ing to a joke made by New York City Mayor Eric Ad ams that “Kansas doesn’t have a brand.”

“I had planned to give this speech before the mayor of New York City used Kansas as a punchline, but now it seems a little more fitting,” Moran said.

In the five-minute speech, Moran called Humboldt “a model for rural towns across our state and our country.

“Like many small com munities in rural America,

Humboldt was facing declin ing population numbers as businesses moved away and buildings on Main Street were abandoned… However, in recent years, Humboldt has defied the odds.”

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No hablas English? Yo te ayudo

Iola student helps younger kids with language skills

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Iola High School senior Eli Adams discovered that shar ing a language can bring peo ple together.

Adams has been studying Spanish for three years and now serves an internship as an interpreter for three ele mentary school students who moved to Iola from Mexico.

“It’s given me a better un derstanding of how difficult it is for someone to come to a new country, especially little kids who have no idea of what’s going on,” Adams said. “They have to learn a whole new language and a new culture. It’s so tough for them.”

Each afternoon, from 1 to 3 p.m., Adams heads to Iola Ele mentary School to work with a first grade student, a fourthgrader and a fifth-grader.

He converses with them in Spanish, interprets home work and teaches them useful English words and phrases.

On Wednesday afternoon,

Turning Mildred into a tourist destination

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

MILDRED — In the years since they’ve taken over the Mildred Store, Loren and Re gena Lance have continued to do what they could to breathe life into a largely overlooked part of Allen County.

Their store remains a pop ular destination for the rural lunch crowd with daily spe cials and the store’s signature, mountain-sized fresh sand wiches.

Their third-Saturday-ofthe-month live music shows draw crowds in the hundreds, attracting folks from across the Midwest.

And more recently, the Lances developed an RV park, catering to long-term work ers, hunters and others seek ing a resting spot in this quiet town of 25.

Their newest endeavor con tinues that trend.

Over the past four months, the Lances have installed three cabins near the RV park, which already have drawn a waiting list of those hoping to spend a night or two in Mil dred.

“The idea came from me,” Regena laughed. “My hus band says I need to stop think

ing.”

There are more reasons than one might think of Mil dred as a destination commu nity, Regena explained.

“For one thing, we have a lot of workers, guys on the railroad, wind farms or hunt ers who lease ground in this

area,” she said. “They’d either have to stay in Iola or Fort Scott. And there are a lot of people who would want to stay in an RV park, but they don’t have an RV.

“And we have a lot of peo ple who come for music night from a significant distance,”

she continued. “We’ve already rented out these cabins quite a bit on those nights.”

THE THREE cabins were purchased separately and come in slightly different siz es.

Adams met with fourthgrader Daniel Torres and fifth-grader Christian Fuen tes. Both were very shy but friendly, and looked to Adams for help when asked ques tions.

Daniel’s teacher at IES speaks a little Spanish, so school is a bit easier for him. He enjoys playing chess.

Christian said it’s easier for him to understand En glish than to speak it. When he’s not in school, he likes to ride his bicycle.

ADAMS took a Spanish class as a freshman at Iola

Putin illegally annexes more Ukraine land

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladi mir Putin signed treaties Friday to illegally annex more occupied Ukrainian territory in a sharp esca lation of his seven-month invasion. Ukraine’s pres ident immediately coun tered with a surprise ap plication to join the NATO military alliance.

Putin’s land-grab and President Volodymyr Zel enskyy’s signing of what he said is an “accelerated” NATO membership appli cation sent the two lead ers speeding even faster on a collision course that is cranking up fears of a full-blown conflict between Russia and the West.

Putin vowed to protect newly annexed regions of Ukraine by “all available means,” a nuclear-backed threat at a Kremlin sign ing ceremony where he also railed furiously at the West, accusing the Unit ed States and its allies of

Presented by The Iola Area Chamber of Commerce Entries due October

Sen. Jerry Moran speaks about Humboldt on the Senate floor. SCREENSHOT

Iola High School senior Eli Adams, center, has been serving as an interpreter for elementary school students from Mexico. At left is Daniel Torres, with Christian Fuentes at right. REGISTER/VICK IE MOSS

Regena Lance, above, and her husband Loren have installed three cabins in Mildred to promote the small community as a destination for tourists, workers, hunters and fans of their monthly live music shows. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Obituaries

Ivan Dale “Bubba” Goins, 63, of Colony, passed away on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, at his home.

Dale was born on Sept. 1, 1959, in Garnett. He was the second of three children born to Ivan L. and Yvonne (Cleaver) Goins. Dale entered the U.S. Navy in 1976, and earned his GED while in the service. He was honorably discharged in 1980, and returned to the Colony area.

Dale married Paula Britain. Two children were born to their union, Ivan Paul and Lacy Nicole. They later divorced.

Dale had a sharp sense of humor and could make anyone laugh. He loved fishing and had a herd of barn cats he looked after and cared for devotedly.

He was preceded in death by maternal grandpar ents Don and Edna (Morgan) Cleaver and paternal grandparents George and Sadie (Barber) Goins.

Dale is survived by his children, son, Paul Go ins of Overland Park and daughter Lacy Goins of Lexington, S.C.; parents, Ivan and Yvonne Goins of Colony; sisters, Jeannie Jackson (husband Dan) of Bartlesville, Okla., and Lorena Goins of Colony; nephew, Zeb Jackson (wife Mandi) of College Sta tion, Texas; niece, Danielle Bernal (husband, Mark) of Owasso, Okla.; and three great-nieces and two great-nephews.

There will be a memorial and celebration of life for Dale’s family and friends in the community room at City Hall in Colony on Saturday, Oct. 8, be ginning at 2 p.m.

Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuner al.com.

Charlie Townsend

Charlotte “Charlie” Belle Townsend, 92, retired farmer, died Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, surrounded by her family at her daughter’s home. A memorial service and a celebration of life is planned for Nov. 26, 2022 in Humboldt. Details to come.

Charlotte was born in Chanute on Dec. 3, 1929, to Joseph Robert and Frances Belle Townsend, who pre cede her in death. She is also preced ed in death by her sister, Peggy Townsend Shaffer.

She is survived by her loving daughter, Sierra (Kevin) Smith of Wichita; beloved grandchildren, Jaxson Robert Bauer, Madyson Belle Bauer and Charlotte Mae Smith; sisters, Marlene Breiner of Fort Scot and Ann (Bob) Johnson of Chanute.

Charlotte was an active member of Onion Creek 4-H Club where she won many blue ribbons for her prized Brown Swiss cattle. She graduated from Humboldt High School in 1942 and went on to grad uate with honors from Chanute Junior College, now Neosho County Community College. Charlie went on to become an extraordinary farmer, outworking any famer around and actively farmed until her late 80s. She most enjoyed spending time with her family. She was the most loving and devoted mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and great-aunt. She will be greatly missed.

A memorial has been established with Humboldt Public Library, 916 Bridge St., Humboldt, KS 66748 and Meals on Wheels of Allen County, 1 N. Washing ton, Iola, KS 66749.

Services are in care of Downing & Lahey Mortu ary-East Chapel, Wichita. The family requests trib utes at www.dlwichita.com.

Water chlorine burnout begins next week; may affect taste

The City of Iola Wa ter Treatment Plant will conduct the annual free chlorine burnout of the distribution sys tem.

The burnout will be gin Oct. 5 and will last three to four weeks. The burnout consists of turning off the ammo nia feed and increasing the chlorine feed in or der to maintain a more

uniform disinfection level throughout the distribution system.

Customers may no tice a strong taste or odor of chlorine in the water. This is a normal part of the burnout pro cess and the water is safe to drink.

Any questions should be directed to the City of Iola Water Plant at 620-365-4940.

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Judge agrees to change of venue for new trial

By SHERMAN SMITH Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Shaw nee County District Judge Cheryl Rios agreed Thursday to lower Dana Chandler’s bond and change the venue for a new trial in her 20-year-old double murder case.

Last month’s trial ended in a hung jury, with the 12 members un able to agree on wheth er Chandler killed her ex-husband, Mike Sisco, and his fiancee, Karen Harkness, in 2002.

Rios said it be came clear during last month’s trial, where prospective jurors in advertently were ex posed to information about the case, that it would be “extremely difficult” to conduct another fair trial in To peka.

“We got through the trial by the skin of our teeth,” Rios said.

She said the media attention given to the trial was unlike any other case she has had and would make it nearly impossible to find jurors who didn’t already have opinions about the case.

Defense attorney Tom Bath argued for the case to be dismissed based on the evidence presented at the trial and the jury’s unwill ingness to convict. But the judge agreed with prosecutor Charles Kitt’s request to order a new trial on the basis that seven of the jurors concluded Chandler was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Chandler was ar rested in 2011 after a “48 Hours” broadcast revealed she was the prime suspect in the killings. The Kansas Supreme Court over turned her conviction at a 2012 trial because of the misconduct by

former prosecutor Jac qie Spradling. As Rios described it during Thursday’s hearing, the jurors in 2012 “were giv en false evidence to con sider.”

Rios granted Bath’s request to lower Chan dler’s bond to $350,000, an amount that would

allow Chandler to leave incarceration for the first time in 11 years. Under the conditions set by Rios, Chandler would be monitored by GPS and barred from speaking to witness es or any family aside from her nephew and siblings.

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Ivan Dale “Bubba” Goins

Dale Goins

Charlie Townsend

Crews from Advanced Systems Homes of Chanute did all the heavy lifting Friday as they installed a new prefabricated home for Mike and Rhoda Schwindt of Iola. Located at 19 Cardinal Dr., the home is the first new construction in Iola since late 2020, when Bob Holding’s house on Cedarbrook was finished. With this home, six new homes have been built in Iola over the past seven years. The residence, which has an upper level measuring 1,725 square feet, includes vaulted ceilings and a finished basement. After Friday’s instal lation, another month is needed for plumbing, electrical, ductwork and more to be completed before the Schwindts can move in. Their new home will be within walking distance of their five grandchildren. “And I expect them over every day,” said Rhoda. REGISTER/TIM STAUFFER

Library offers ‘Sky Watch’ astronomy program

“Sky Watch,” pre sented by local astron omer Mike Myer, Hum boldt, highlights next week’s programs at the library, starting at 7 p.m. Thursday.

With the moon near ly full, Jupiter and Sat urn are now in great position to show off their most notable attri butes, viewed through the six-inch lens of the library’s telescope and explained by Myer.

Following an audio visual presentation in the meeting room, he will take the audience outdoors for a look through the telescope.

“The full moon is a few days off, but we will be able to see a lot of its craters and moun tains,” Myer said. “Ju piter will be at opposi tion, so we should be able to see its stripes and belts.Those stripes and belts are actually the tops of gas clouds that make up the plan

et. We will also be able to see as many as four of its moons. Saturn will be in a nice posi tion, too, showing off her rings; we will not have any trouble seeing them through the tele scope.”

Myer, who describes himself as an amateur, is recognized as a Mas

ter Observer by the Astronomical League, a world-wide organiza tion of amateur astron omers. The library’s telescope, available for checkout, is one of two gifted by Myer.

Then, at 5 p.m. Friday, Jenn Rader, director of the Southeast Kansas Nature Center, presents

an interactive program, “All About Bats,” for youth and adults. She will discuss bat habits and habitats, their ben efit to humans and how we can help them.

Continuing pro grams include Monday night Chess Club with Anna Mitchell at 6 p.m., the “2 O’clock Book Talk” with Colleen Dobbins on Wednes day and the Thursday bridge group for the first of two “refresher” classes at 7 p.m. Bridge this week will meet at the library’s Flewharty Annex, 211 East St.

With the annual Friends of the Library Fall Used Book Sale coming up, Oct. 13-16, the library is now ac cepting donations of hardback books in good condition. Donations may be delivered in the alley next to the garage door. A phone call to 620-365-3262 will bring library staff to unload.

Justice Jackson makes Supreme Court debut

WASHINGTON (AP)

— Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her first appearance on the Su preme Court bench in a brief courtroom cere mony Friday, three days before the start of the high court’s new term.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spous es attended the invita tion-only ceremonial investiture for Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice John Roberts wished the 52-year-old Jackson a “long and happy career in our common calling,” the traditional welcome for a new justice.

She took her place at the far end of the bench to Roberts’ left, just next to Justice Brett Kavana ugh. The justices are seated by seniority.

During the ceremony Jackson also followed the custom of every oth er new justice since 1972 and sat in a chair that once belonged to John Marshall, who served as chief justice for 34 years in the early 1800s.

Marshall also was a slaveholder, perhaps adding a special poi gnancy to Jackson tak ing her place in his one time possession. She is only the third Black justice in the court’s history, along with her new colleague Justice Clarence Thomas and the late Justice Thur good Marshall.

Friday’s ceremony included the reading of the commission ap pointing Jackson to the court. She also repeated the oath she took when she formally joined the court in June, just after the retirement of Jus tice Stephen Breyer.

Breyer was among a courtroom filled with dignitaries, including House Speaker Nan cy Pelosi and former Speaker Paul Ryan, a Jackson relative through marriage.

Jackson’s parents, daughters, brother and in-laws had a front-row seat.

Several wives of cur rent and former justices also attended, includ ing Virginia “Ginni” Thomas. Thomas was interviewed Thursday by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Jackson was con firmed in April on a 53-47 vote in the Senate, with three Republican sen ators joining all Demo crats to support her.

Biden had pledged during his presiden tial campaign that he would nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.

Biden, Harris, first lady Jill Biden and sec ond gentleman Doug Emhoff spent a few minutes with the jus tices before the court convened, court spokes woman Patricia Mc Cabe said.

The president said nothing during the five-minute, tightly scripted courtroom cer

emony.

Back at the White House, Biden tweeted in praise of Jackson’s “brilliant legal mind” and touted his record on filling judgeships.

“In fact, we’ve ap pointed 84 federal judges so far. No group of that many judges has been appointed as quickly, or been that diverse,” Biden said.

Trunk or Treat a Chamber favorite

Make plans to attend this year’s Trunk or Treat on Sunday, Oct. 31 from 5 to 6:30 p.m., on the downtown square.

Each year the Trunk or Treat is bigger and better than ever. Last year, an estimated 1,100 children participated.

This year we will be backing trunks up to the inside of the square so trick-or-treaters can utilize the sidewalk on the inside of the square.

If you plan to deco rate a trunk — and we encourage you to join the fun! — please let us know at chamber@iola chamber.org so that we can reserve you a spot.

We’ll also take dona

Robin Schallie Chamber director

tions of candy or money to ensure participants have enough treats on hand. Go to https:// www.iolachamber.org/ events/trunk-or-treat. html to make a dona tion or come by our office at 10 W. Jackson St., Monday through Thursday 9-3.

A reminder: All treats must be pre-pack aged snacks or candy.

Moran: Senator talks about Humboldt

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now hold thriving busi nesses, and the city was named by the New York Times as one of the world’s top travel desti nations.

Moran visited Hum boldt on Aug. 23, where he toured many of those new businesses and met with several of the developers.

His speech to Con gress named several of those responsible for the revitalization, includ ing A Bolder Humboldt, Paul Cloutier, Josh and Joe Works, B&W Trail er Hitches, Walter Wulf and Monarch Cement, Murphy Tractor and City Administrator Cole Herder.

Moran also made note

of Biblesta, the world’s largest Bible-themed parade, which takes place on Saturday.

He described how Herder gives each grad uating senior a mail box, with an invitation inside to go and see the world, then return to their hometown.

“The community of Humboldt is a success

story and it’s a role model. It demonstrates how teamwork, cre ative thinking, hard work, treating others with respect and caring about the future of your community can make a positive difference for your city, our state and for our entire nation. That’s our brand in Kansas.”

More than 1,100 trick or treaters participated in the Chamber’s Trunk or Treat on the downtown square in 2021. REGISTER FILE PHOTO

This telescope, gifted by Humboldt amateur as tronomer Mike Myer, can be checked out at the Iola Public Library. Myer will present a program Thurs day evening to view the moon, Jupiter and Saturn through the telescope. COURTESY PHOTO

Ian makes landfall again, this time in South Carolina

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Hurricane Ian made another land fall Friday, this time in South Carolina, after carving a swath of de struction across Florida earlier this week.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Ian’s center came ashore Friday afternoon near Georgetown with max imum sustained winds of 85 mph.

Ian hit Florida’s Gulf Coast as a powerful Cat egory 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds Wednes day, flooding homes and leaving nearly 2.7 million people without power.

Before landfall, Sheets of rain whipped trees and power lines and left many areas on Charles ton’s downtown pen insula under water by midday. A popular pier in the beach community of Pawleys Island col lapsed and floated away. In Myrtle Beach, waves were pushing against the city’s boardwalk tourist area, flowing over where thousands of tourists typically fill the wide sandy stretch.

Ian left a broad swath of destruction after it came ashore on Flori da’s Gulf Coast as one of the strongest storms ever to hit the U.S. The storm flooded areas on both of Florida’s coasts, tore homes from their slabs, demolished beachfront business es and left more than 2 million people without power. At least nine peo ple were confirmed dead in the U.S. — a number that was almost certain to increase as officials confirm more deaths

and search for people.

Rescue crews pilot ed boats and waded through riverine streets Thursday to save thou sands of people trapped amid flooded homes and buildings shattered by Hurricane Ian.

Florida Gov. Ron De Santis said Friday that rescue crews had gone door-to-door to over 3,000 homes in the hard est-hit areas.

“There’s really been a Herculean effort,” he said during a news con ference in Tallahassee.

Climate change added at least 10% more rain to Hurricane Ian, ac cording to a study pre pared immediately after the storm, said its co-au thor, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab climate

scientist Michael Weh ner.

Among those killed were an 80-year-old woman and a 94-yearold man who relied on oxygen machines that stopped working amid power outages, as well as a a 67-year-old man who was waiting to be rescued died after fall ing into rising water inside his home, author ities said.

Officials fear the death toll could rise substantially, given the wide territory swamped by the storm.

Florida Division of Emergency Manage ment Director Kevin Guthrie said responders have focused so far on “hasty” searches, aimed at emergency rescues

and initial assessments, which will be followed by two additional waves of searches. Initial re sponders who come across possible remains are leaving them with out confirming, he said Friday, describing as an example the case of a submerged home.

“The water was up over the rooftop, right, but we had a Coast Guard rescue swim mer swim down into it and he could identify that it appeared to be human remains. We do not know exactly how many,” Guthrie said.

At least three people were reported killed in Cuba after the hur ricane struck there on Tuesday.

In Florida, businesses

near Fort Myers Beach were completely razed, leaving twisted debris. Broken docks floated at odd angles beside damaged boats. Fires smoldered on lots where houses once stood.

“I don’t know how anyone could have sur vived in there,” William Goodison said amid the wreckage of a mobile home park where he’d lived for 11 years. Good ison rode out the storm at his son’s house inland.

The hurricane tore through the park of about 60 homes, leav ing many destroyed or mangled beyond repair, including Goodison’s. Wading through waistdeep water, Goodison and his son wheeled two trash cans containing

what little he could sal vage — a portable air conditioner, some tools and a baseball bat.

The road into Fort Myers Beach was lit tered with broken trees, boat trailers and oth er debris. Cars were abandoned in the road, having stalled when the storm surge flooded their engines.

Emergency crews sawed through toppled trees to reach strand ed people. Many in the hardest-hit areas were unable to call for help because of electrical and cellular outages.

A chunk of the San ibel Causeway fell into the sea, cutting off ac cess to the barrier island where 6,300 people live.

Hours after weaken ing to a tropical storm while crossing the Flor ida peninsula, Ian re gained strength Thurs day evening over the Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center pre dicted it would hit South Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane Friday, still much weaker than the Category 4 hurricane it was on Wednesday.

National Guard troops were being posi tioned in South Caroli na to help with the af termath, including any water rescues. And in Washington, President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for the state, a needed step to speed federal as sist for recovery once Ian passes.

In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper urged residents to prepare for torrents of rain, high winds and potential power outages.

Kansas public university, community and technical college headcount holds on

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Enroll ment at state univer sities, community col leges and technical colleges in Kansas this fall semester dwindled 1% to accentuate a fiveyear decline in student headcount of more than 9%, officials said Thurs day.

The Kansas Board of Regents, which has over sight roles among seven universities, 19 commu nity colleges and seven technical colleges, re ported 165,198 students enrolled at start of the 2022 academic year. Col lectively, these higher education institutions lost 1,677 students from 2021.

The report indicat ed headcount at the six state universities fell by 1,333 students or 1.5%; Washburn University in Topeka slipped by 283 or 4.1%; community colleges declined by 630 or 1%; and technical col leges expanded by 569 or 6% over last year’s en

rollment totals.

“The preliminary fall enrollment numbers show a continued trend of decreasing enroll ment for many Kansas colleges and universi ties,” said Jon Rolph, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents. “Our system is taking deci sive action to reverse declining enrollments, better serve students and ensure that our state has the workforce needed to grow the Kan

sas economy.”

During the past five years, here are the en rollment trends by cat egory: six universities, down 6%; Washburn, down 18.3%; communi ty colleges, down 15.5%; and technical colleges, down 9.2%. The total stood at 182,010 in fall 2017, but has constricted to 165,198 to mirror na tional trends.

The University of Kansas recruited the largest freshman class

in 14 years. Enrollment of 4,457 freshmen at KU constituted the sec ond-largest such class in university history. In addition, the gradepoint average of these freshmen was a record 3.66 and minority stu dents represented 28.5% of those incoming stu dents.

“While we are pleased with this year’s fresh man class, we must continue our efforts to recruit and retain top students and create a university they want to attend,” said Doug Girod, KU’s chancellor. “The reality is, college enrollment continues to decline across the na tion, and we continue to face flat population trends here in the Mid west.”

KU attributed the increase in first-time freshmen to the profile of KU athletics, includ ing a national champi onship in basketball, as well as the university’s targeted recruiting, ac ademic reputation and the influence of alumni.

Overall, KU enroll ment on the Lawrence campus this fall went down 0.4%. The tally over five years has de creased 4.1%. Enroll ment at the KU Medical Center was up 1% this fall and has risen 5.9% over five years.

“Getting students to KU is important, but equally important is en suring they earn their degree in a timely fash ion,” Girod said.

Enrollment of fresh men at Kansas State University climbed 2.9% and new student trans fers went up by 1.3% on the main campus in Manhattan. Over the past five years, Kansas State enrollment has fallen 13.9%. That in cluded an overall drop at Kansas State of 2.6% compared to 2021.

“The growth in our new student enrollment

is significant,” said Karen Goos, KSU vice provost for enrollment management. “This is one of our highest pri orities at the university and is a sign that our strategic enrollment management efforts have us headed in the right direction.”

Enrollment among Black students at Kan sas State increased 14%, while the headcount among Hispanic stu dents went up 6%.

Here are 2022 head count figures for the four other state univer sities: Emporia State, down 5.2% compared to 2021 and 7.1% from 2017; Fort Hays State, down 8.2% from 2021 and 14.2% from 2017; Pitts burg State, down 2.6% from 2021 and 15.2% since 2017; and Wichita State, up 5.1% since 2021 and up 12.2% since 2017.

A damaged property is seen near a broken section of Pine Island Road on Thursday, in Matlacha, Florida.

(MATIAS J. OCNER/MIAMI HERALD/TNS)

University of Kansas attracted the second-largest freshman class in the university’s history on heels of KU basketball coach Bill Self and the Jayhawks winning the NCAA Tournament championship. (TIM CARPENTER/KANSAS REFLECTOR)

Ukraine: Putin demands ‘respect’ for sham vote

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seeking Russia’s de struction.

Zelenskyy then held a signing ceremony of his own in Kyiv, re leasing video of him putting pen to papers that he said were a for mal NATO member ship request. He called the move “our decisive step.”

Putin has repeated ly made clear that any prospect of Ukraine joining the world’s larg est military alliance is one of his red lines and it was among the justifi cations he has cited for his invasion — the big gest land war in Europe since World War II..

In his speech, Putin urged Ukraine to sit down for peace talks but immediately in sisted he won’t discuss handing back occupied regions. Zelenskyy said there’d be no negotia tions with Putin.

“We are ready for a dialogue with Russia, but … with another president of Russia,” he said.

In his signing cere mony in the Kremlin’s ornate St. George’s Hall, Putin accused the West of fueling the hostilities as part of what he said is a plan to turn Russia into a “colony” and a “crowds of slaves.” The harden ing of his position, in the conflict that that has killed and wound ed tens of thousands of people, further cranked up tensions, already at levels unseen since the Cold War.

The U.S. announced sanctions for more than 1,000 people and firms connected to Russia’s invasion, including its Central Bank governor.

Of Putin’s annex ation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, President Joe Biden said: “Make no mistake: These actions have no legitimacy.”

NATO and the Eu ropean Union also re jected the annexation as illegal. The EU’s 27 member states said they will never recog nize the illegal referen dums that Russia orga nized “as a pretext for this further violation of Ukraine’s indepen dence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

NATO Secre tary-General Jens Stol tenberg called it “the largest attempted an nexation of European territory by force since the Second World War.”

Zelenskyy vowed to keep fighting, defying Putin’s warnings that Ukraine shouldn’t try to take back what it has lost.

“The entire territo ry of our country will be liberated from this enemy,” the Ukrainian leader said. “Russia already knows this. It feels our power.”

The immediate ramifications of the “accelerated” NATO application weren’t im mediately clear, since it requires the unan imous support of all members. The supply of Western weapons to Ukraine has, however, put it closer to the alli ance’s orbit.

“De facto, we have already proven com patibility with alliance standards,” Zelenskyy said. “We trust each other, we help each oth er, and we protect each other. This is the alli ance.”

Putin’s Kremlin cer emony came three days after the completion in occupied regions of Moscow-orchestrated “referendums” on join ing Russia that were dismissed by Kyiv and the West as a bare-faced land grab held at gun point and based on lies.

In his fiery speech at the ceremony, he insist ed that Ukraine must treat the Kremlin-man aged votes “with re spect.”

After the signing cer emony of treaties to join Russia, Moscow-in stalled lead ers of the occupied re gions gath ered around Putin and they all linked hands, joining chants of “Rus sia! Russia!” with the audience.

Putin, however, cut an angry figure as he ac cused the United States and its allies of seeking to destroy Russia. He said the West acted “as a parasite” and used its financial and techno logical strength “to rob the entire world.”

He portrayed Russia as being on a historical mission to reclaim its post-Soviet great pow er status and counter Western domination that he said is collaps ing.

“History has called us to a battlefield to fight for our people, for the grand historic Rus sia, for future genera tions,” he said.

The separatist Do netsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine have been backed by Moscow since declaring inde pendence in 2014, weeks after the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. The south ern Kherson region and part of neighboring Zaporizhzhia were cap tured by Russia soon after Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Both houses of the Kremlin-controlled Russian parliament will meet next week to rubber-stamp the trea ties for the regions to join Russia, sending them to Putin for his approval.

Putin and his lieu tenants have blunt ly warned Ukraine against pressing an of fensive to reclaim the regions, saying Russia would view it as an act of aggression – threats that Moscow can back up with the world’s largest arsenal of nu clear warheads.

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ation was an attempt by Putin to avoid more defeats on the battle fields that could threat en his 22-year rule. By formalizing Russia’s gains, at least on paper, Putin seemingly hopes to scare Ukraine and its Western backers with the prospect of an increasingly escalato ry conflict unless they back down — which they show no signs of

blood-soaked towel, cov ered the bodies.

Analysts have warned that Putin was likely to dip more heav ily into his dwindling stocks of precision weapons and step up at tacks as part of a strat egy to escalate the war and shatter Western support.

A Ukrainian counter offensive has deprived Moscow of mastery on the battlefield. Its hold of the Luhansk region appears increasingly shaky, as Ukrainian forces make inroads there, with the pin cer assault on Lyman.

Ukraine also still has a large foothold in the neighboring Donetsk region.

Ukraine has vowed to retake all occupied ter ritory and Russia has pledged to defend its gains, threatening nu clear-weapon use and mobilizing an addition al 300,000 troops despite protests.

That was under scored by the fighting for Lyman, a key node for Russian military op erations in the Donbas and a sought-after prize in the Ukrainian coun teroffensive.

The Russian-backed separatist leader of Do netsk, Denis Pushilin, said the city is “half-en circled” by Ukrainian forces. The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti quoted him as calling the setback “worrying news.”

West rejects Putin’s claim it sabotaged gas pipelines

COPENHAGEN, Den mark (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Pu tin on Friday accused the West of sabotaging Russia-built natural gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea to Germany, a charge vehemently de nied by the United States and its allies. Nordic na tions said the undersea blasts that damaged the pipelines this week and have led to huge meth ane leaks involved sev eral hundred pounds of explosives.

The claim by Putin came ahead of an emer gency meeting Friday at the U.N. Security Council in New York on the attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipe lines, and as Norwegian researchers published a map projecting that a huge plume of methane from the damaged pipe lines will travel over large swaths of the Nor dic region.

doing.

Russia controls most of the Luhansk and Kherson regions, about 60% of the Donetsk re gion and a large chunk of the Zaporizhzhia re gion where it took con trol of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

But the Kremlin is on the verge of anoth er stinging battlefield loss, with reports of the imminent Ukrainian encirclement of the eastern city of Lyman. Retaking it could open the path for Ukraine to push deep into Lu hansk, one of the re gions Russia is absorb ing.

“It looks quite pa thetic. Ukrainians are doing something, tak ing steps in the real material world, while the Kremlin is building some kind of a virtu al reality, incapable of responding in the real world,” former Krem lin speechwriter turned political analyst Abbas Gallyamov said.

“People understand that the politics is now on the battlefield,” he added. “What’s import ant is who advances and who retreats. In that sense, the Kremlin cannot offer anything Comforting to the Rus sians.”

Russia pounded Ukrainian cities with missiles, rockets and suicide drones, with one strike reported to have killed 25 people and wounded 50, the general prosecutor’s of fice. The salvos togeth er amounted to Mos cow’s heaviest barrage in weeks.

The strike left deep craters and sent shrap nel tearing through the humanitarian convoy, killing their passen gers. Nearby build ings were demolished. Trash bags, blankets and, for one victim, a

In the Zaporizhzhia region’s capital, an ti-aircraft missiles that Russia has repurposed as ground-attack weap ons rained down on peo ple waiting in cars to cross into Russian-oc cupied territory so they could bring family members back across front lines, said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine’s pres idential office.

Russian-installed of ficials in Zaporizhzhia blamed Ukrainian forc es, but gave no evidence.

Russian strikes were also reported in the city of Dnipro. Regional Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said at least one person was killed and five were wounded.

Ukraine’s air force said the southern cities of Mykolaiv and Odesa were targeted with Ira nian-supplied suicide drones that Russia has increasingly deployed, seemingly to avoid los ing more pilots who don’t have control of Ukraine’s skies.

“Ukraine’s armed formations,” he said, “are trying very hard to spoil our celebration.”

Speaking Friday in Moscow at a ceremony to annex four regions of Ukraine into Rus sia, Putin claimed that “Anglo-Saxons” in the West have turned from imposing sanctions on Russia to “terror at tacks,” sabotaging the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in what he de scribed as an attempt to “destroy the European energy infrastructure.”

In Washington, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration dis missed Putin’s pipeline claims as outlandish.

The Moscow-appointed heads of Kherson region, from left, Vladimir Saldo and Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin and Lugansk separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik react after signing treaties formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin in Moscow on Friday. (MIKHAIL METZEL/SPUTNIK/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/ TNS)

Ukraine’s armed formations are trying very hard to spoil our celebration.

— Denis Pushilin, Russian-backed separatist leader of Donetsk

Kobach says he’s changed. How will we know?

Meet the new Kris Kobach. Is he the same as the old Kris Kobach?

Before Kobach narrowly won the Republican primary for Governor in 2018, an in dependent group supporting then-Governor Jeff Colyer ran an ad featuring the tag line, “Call Kris Kobach. Tell him we can’t afford his an tics.”

Kobach is re-branding this year, downplaying alleged voter fraud and presenting himself as the candidate that will sue Joe Biden (meaning, the Federal Government) over a host of different issues including the U.S.-Mexico border.

What were the “antics” mentioned in that commer cial? To answer that, a brief history of Kobach’s career is in order. An anti-immigra tion activist long before Don ald Trump ever sought public office, Kobach never avoided the spotlight. While working as a law professor at UMKC, Kobach started his political career as an Overland Park city councilman. He then made two unsuccessful runs, one for state senate and one for Congress, all while filing lawsuits and assisting law makers in other states like Alabama and Arizona in writ ing anti-immigration laws.

At about this same time, Kobach chaired the Kansas Republican Party. His sig nature act was to propose a “Loyalty Committee” that would determine which Re publicans truly deserved the party’s support. As docu mented in a 2012 investiga tive report by the Hutchinson News, Kobach left the party in disarray, with less than $5000 in its treasury and multiple FEC fines both for unpaid tax es, and acceptance of illegal contributions.

Kobach was elected Kansas Secretary of State in 2010 and set to work immediately re making the office. Formerly known for nonpartisan coor dination of elections as well as business licensing, Kobach remade the office into a clear inghouse for investigations into alleged voter fraud, par ticularly directed at undocu mented immigrants. Kobach championed the SAFE Act in 2011, which made him the only state Secretary of State in the U.S. with the power to prosecute voter fraud. His

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quest proved disappointing, with only 13 individuals suc cessfully prosecuted. None were undocumented immi grants.

Kobach was also a stal wart defender of the SAFE Act in court. While this job would normally fall to the state Attorney General Der ek Schmidt (now running for Governor), Kobach was more than happy to use his own time and his office’s resources to defend the law’s provision that one must prove one’s U.S. citizenship when registering to vote, typically with a birth certificate. This is known as a proof of citizenship law and it had already been struck down in other states by court rulings. Kobach defended the law personally in two cases, Fish v Kobach and Bednasek v Kobach, decided together in 2018. I served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs (the ones challenging the law) in Bednasek. Appointed to the bench by George W. Bush upon a recommendation from Sam Brownback, judge Julie Robinson not only perma nently enjoined the proof of citizenship law from being enforced, she also ordered Ko bach to take continuing edu cation law classes or lose his license to practice. Among other things, Kobach did not follow the standard legal pro cedure known as discovery during the course of the trial.

As a candidate for Gover nor in 2018, Kobach edged out Colyer by 343 votes in a pri mary election supervised by Kobach’s own office. He then lost to Governor Laura Kelly in a three-way race that in cluded Independent Greg Or man. Perhaps Kobach’s most memorable moment of that election was when he rode in a parade on a float that fea tured a simulated machine gun.

That’s a lot of history. Will Kansans really believe that Kobach has changed this year? We will find out in No vember.

Yes, an education pays off

Enrollment numbers at the state’s institutions of higher learning was re leased Thursday.

Considering we’re emerg ing from a global pandem ic, the news is reaffirming. Compared to last year, en rollment is down only 1 per cent for those who attend the state’s seven universities, 19 community colleges and sev en technical colleges.

That’s quite a rebound from fall 2020, when a major ity of colleges saw precipi tous drops in enrollment.

The five-year trend, how ever, isn’t as rosy.

Overall, the percentage of Kansas high school grad uates who choose to go to college has been steadily declining. In 2020, about 45 percent of high school grad uates enrolled in college, down 9.3 percent over the past five years.

State universities have seen an average 6 percent decline in enrollment and community colleges a 15.5 percent decline. Allen Com munity College went from an enrollment of 2,574 in 2017 to a student population of 2,113 in 2020, a 23 percent decline. Only technical pro grams have increased en rollment, by a whopping 15 percent.

Statewide, attendance at our universities is 95,000; community colleges, 60,000; and technical colleges, 10,000.

Sadly, students from rural areas such as Allen County are increasingly missing out on such opportunities. Stu dents ages 10-24 comprise almost 30 percent of rural Kansas. Of those, only about 15 percent, go on to college.

INCREASINGLY, the onus is on administrators to prove the value of a college education as its costs contin ue to spiral upward.

Who is behind those ris ing costs? For the most part, state legislators.

Since 2008, when the Great Recession took hold, the state has cut funding to

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higher education by about 20 percent, and even more since the pandemic. Today, Kansas spends $1,588 less per student than in 2008.

In 2008, average tuition to a public four-year university was $6,751 a year. Today, it’s almost $9,000, an increase of about 28 percent.

Community colleges are in the same boat. In Kan sas, tuition at our two-year schools has increased al most 36 percent in the last five years.

And that’s not the com plete picture. The average net price of attending col lege, including room and board, fees, books and sup plies, accounts for 28 per cent of a median household income.

It used to be that students — through tuition — provid ed about a quarter of public colleges’ and universities’ revenue, while state and lo cal governments provided the remaining three-quar ters. Today, that split is much closer to 50-50.

And no, wages have not kept up.

AND YET, an advanced education is more important than ever, not the least be cause it’s the ticket to a high er standard of living.

In Kansas, educators have determined that a bench mark of a successful career is its ability to provide a minimum level of income. They’ve set that number at 250 percent above the federal poverty level, or at the very least an annual income of $32,200. (An indicator that the FPL, which is $12,760 a year for an individual, is painfully outdated.)

Five years after gradua

tion, 84 percent of bachelor’s degree earners hold sustain ing-wage jobs and to a lesser degree those who graduate from technical and commu nity college programs. (See chart)

THE EXPECTATION that students and their families should shoulder a greater load of a college education is what has led to more stu dents taking out sizable stu dent loans, an unfathomable burden on our country’s youth. In Kansas, the av erage rate of student loan default at our colleges and universities is 4.8 percent; at community colleges, 9.4 percent, and at technical col leges, 10.4 percent.

The average student loan debt is between $20,000 and $25,000.

On Thursday, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt signed Kansas onto a lawsuit preventing the ad ministration of President Joe Biden to forgive student debt by up to $10,000, as planned.

Schmidt, the Republican nominee for Kansas gover nor, said paying back stu dent loans is the cost of do ing business.

“There is a cost to mon ey, and signing a contract to borrow money includes a cost of interest for carrying the debt,” Schmidt said.

Biden’s loan forgiveness program would affect an es timated 361,000 Kansas stu dents.

A good education is not only critical to getting ahead in life, but plays an essen tial role in building thriv ing communities and strong state economies.

This is a nuts-and-bolts issue, not a culture war on working class Americans as the far right wants to proj ect. In fact, it’s the workingand middle-class Americans who would benefit most from student loan forgiveness.

If we want to move the state forward, making high er education available to as many as possible is the way.

High School simply because he thought it would be interesting to learn.

Turns out, he has a knack for languages.

During the 2020-21 school year, he got to know an exchange stu dent from Germany. He enjoyed learning about that language and cul ture.

“I think language is really fascinating. You can speak to so many different people and learn about their lives,” Adams said.

His grandfather, Bob Hawk, also speaks Span ish.

“I would talk with him in Spanish and he inspired me to keep go ing.”

His mom, Cathy Ad ams, is a Title I teach er at IES. She saw the challenges Fuentes was facing at school as a fourth-grader last year, and wondered if Adams could help.

He thought it would be a good opportunity to practice what he’d learned in the class room and got permis sion to spend an hour of his school day at IES during the last two or three months of the pre vious school year.

“I got so nervous I started shaking,” Ad ams said about the expe rience.

Turns out, the feeling was mutual.

“When I met (Fuent es) as a fourth- grader, he was too shy to speak in front of other kids, so it was mainly me speak ing to him and he’d nod yes or no.”

Fuentes’ mother asked if Adams would work with him over the summer. He suggest ed Fuentes attend the SAFE BASE summer program where he was already working. Fuent es really started to open up after Torres arrived. They are related and friends.

“I talked to their par ents a lot during the sum mer, to give them infor mation. I’d see them in public and talk to them. They knew if they need ed something, I would help them,” he said.

When school started in the fall, Adams start ed to work with the two boys as well as the firstgrader.

He’s seen a lot of improvement in their English skills, and has watched them get more comfortable at school.

At the high school, he started to talk to a couple of students who

were new to the area and also from Mexico.

Recently, a freshman girl and her mother asked him to go with them to a doctor’s ap pointment, so he could translate.

“It feels good to help people, and it gives me a sense of pride that I can learn something and put it into actual use,” Ad ams said. “A lot of kids learn Spanish at school but never get to speak it and expand what they learn.”

ADAMS doesn’t know what he might con

centrate on after high school, but he plans to continue studying Span ish in college.

“I’d really like to achieve fluency, and maybe use it in a future profession. I just hope I don’t stop speaking Spanish and get out of touch.”

He enjoys practicing his Spanish skills in a

real-world situation, such as when he goes to a Mexican restaurant or meets people while on vacation.

“But what happens is I’ll say something and they think I’m fluent, so they say something back so quick and I have no idea what it was,” he said.

There’s a big gap be tween knowing a lan guage and being able to comfortably converse in it, he said.

He’ll get an opportu nity to further sharpen his skills next month when he plans to go to Chile with Hawk on a Rotary-sponsored trip.

“That will be a really good test,” he said.

Ultimately, he would like to travel to Mexico to fully immerse him self in the culture.

“I don’t want to go to a resort. I want to go somewhere like Mexico City,” he said. “I got a lit tle taste from being with these kids and learning about their traditions, so I would like to see what life is like down there.”

The smallest is 12 x 20 feet; the largest 14x30.

Each comes equipped with its own central air and heating units, re frigerator, microwave, air fryer, coffee pot, tele vision and even a ceiling fan. Sleeping quarters are built into each cab in’s loft.

The largest cabin can easily accommodate five or more occupants. The smallest has a single bed; the mid-sized one has two sleeping quar ters.

“They were basically storage sheds when we started,” Regena said.

She found one in Blue Mound; another in Gi rard and the third in Springfield, Mo.

“We found them quick er than I had the mon ey,” Regena laughed.

The Lances financed much of the project themselves, while also securing funding from an E-Communities grant through NetWork Kansas

Once in hand, the Lances would add in sulation, electrical and plumbing utilities and then find appropriate décor for each. Regena often finds accessories during “junking” expe ditions to various shops and antique stores.

The most vexing hur dle has been finding suit able ladders to get occu pants to the second-floor

lofts. The Lances looked at designs in which small cubbies built into the walls could double both as storage and as rungs for a ladder.

“But those don’t real ly fit with our design,” Regena said. “The lad ders we found are plenty sturdy.”

The rooms can be rented by a night, the week or the month.

Nightly rentals cost $75 for the smallest two and $85 for the largest cabin.

“Our location hin ders charging much more than that,” Rege na acknowledged. “But you can’t get a hotel for that.”

EVEN WITH the cab ins open for business, the Lances aren’t neces sarily finished.

Regena notes the vacant city block on which the three cabins sit is spa cious enough to accommo date three more.

Then, she would look into adding a

commons area.

Word has spread al ready, with the Lances booking all three cabins for a week next July for a wedding party.

Another cabin will be part of a Mildred-based wedding in March. The wedding and reception will be in the Mildred Store.

Regena noted work is ongoing to renovate Mil dred’s nearby Fairview Chapel.

Her dream is for an all-inclusive wedding party in Mildred, with the ceremony in the chapel, the reception at the store and honey moon in the cabins.

EACH cabin a name as well, two in honor of songs from Loren’s fa vorite singer, Merle Hag gard.

“We have ‘Farmer’s Daughter’ and ‘Kern River Cabin,’” Regena said. “The third was supposed to be ‘Old Man From the Mountain,’ but it was too long to fit on the sign.”

So Regena named the third cabin “White Mountain,” in honor of one of the stops along the Iditarod Dog Race in Alaska.

“This past year, White Mountain was a bit of a challenge for the rac ers,” Regena explained. “I thought it was ap

propriate because it’s been a fun year, but not without its challenges. I thought we could whip these out quickly, but with Loren working, it took us a lot longer than I anticipated.”

She was born to Chester Arthur and Madeline Mae Paige Whitfield in Newton, Kansas. Rosemary’s family includes her daughter Jennifer McKenzie; daughter-in-law Dionne Bass and her children Keesha Ball (Corey) and John Silas Bass, and their children Corey Ball and John Elliot Bass; son Jay (Barbara) Bass, and their daughters Emily and Madeline Bass; nieces Diana (George) Hillard and Kathi Day; nephews Wendell (Angela), Elliott (Beverly), and Ralph (Christie) Bass; as well as numerous cousins throughout the country. She was

in death by her niece Lesa Day Reed, her son John Arthur Bass and her husband John Elliott Bass.

Eli Adams helps Daniel Torres pick out a book in the Iola Elementary School library as Christian Fuentes, at right, watches.

Loren and Regena Lance converted small buildings into cabins.

Fillmore fills ‘em up

Maloney family gathers for reunion

The Maloney family had a reunion on Sept. 17 at Riverside Park in Iola. Those in atten dance were:

From Iola: Jim Maloney, Jimmie Maloney and Lisa Maloney, Jimmie Malo ney Jr., Leeann Maloney, Brad and Ann Lea, Jacob Lea, Matt Lea, Morgan Lea, Chelsea Lea, Darren Maloney, Scott and Caro lyn Kinzle, Candace Malo ney, Travis Maloney.

From Fort Scott: Earl and Janice Maloney.

From Baldwin City: Betty and Ed Nicolay.

From Pittsburg: Matt, Andrea, Charlotte and Wrenlee Maloney.

From Gas: Symanthia and Robert Alford, Adri enne Sprage and Evelyn Maloney.

From Brenhan, Texas: Larry Joe and Jackie Pow ell.

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Andi Reynolds sketches out the Iola High Mus tangs logo to adorn the base for a basketball goal in front of Sharla Miller’s Farm Bureau of fice at 208 S. Washington Ave. Thursday. Reynolds later painted her sketch later Thursday, just in time for Friday’s Home coming festivities at IHS.

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Kelly unveils 2nd term agenda

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly introduced the first piece of a sec ond-term agenda Thurs day anchored by propos als to immediately end the state’s tax on gro cery purchases, expand by $50 million tax relief to the elderly and cre ate a three-day, back-toschool sales tax holiday.

Kelly said her plan would help every Kan sas family save money without raising taxes, and “make our state the very best place to live, work and raise a fami ly.”

The “Road Ahead” initiative released five weeks before the Nov. 8 election showdown with Republican guber natorial nominee Der ek Schmidt also would strengthen the work force, expand economic activity and make stra tegic investments in the future of children, Kelly said.

She said her strategy would bolster the state’s

rainy-day fund, reduce state government debt and prevent diversion of money away from highway programs.

“In my second term, I will build on our founda tion and grow the econo my through proven stra tegic investments that we know work,” Kelly said. “I’ve been laser-fo cused on balancing our budget every year, an in vestment that has paid off and allowed us to cut taxes. But there’s more we can do.”

She said the school tax holiday ought to be in August. She said seniors on Social Secu rity making less than $100,000 annually would benefit from a $50 mil lion reduction in state taxes over the next three years.

The state’s 6.5% sales tax on food would be summarily dropped in accordance with her proposal to the GOP-con trolled 2022 Legislature. State lawmakers de cided to phase out the grocery sales tax over a three-year period.

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BERLIN (AP) — A cow herd in Germany has gained an unlikely following, after adopt ing a lone wild boar pig let.

Farmer Friedrich Stapel told the dpa news agency that he spot ted the piglet among the herd in the central

German community of Brevoerde about three weeks ago. It had likely lost its group when they crossed a nearby river.

Stapel said while he knows what extensive damage wild boars can cause, he can’t bring himself to chase the an imal away, dpa reported

Thursday.

The local hunter has been told not to shoot the piglet — nicknamed Frieda — and in winter Stapel plans to put it in the shed with the moth er cows.

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From LaHarpe: Ray Maloney and Teresa; Ka tie Maloney and Shawn Reed. From Edna, Texas: Jeff

and Billie Duckworth and Kayleigh. From Neodesha: Boe Guiterrez and Brenda, Ashley Cole, Rick and

Sharrie Lowry, Greg Hockett, Gabe and Mon ica Guiterrez. From Yates Center: Pete Watts.

Attending the Maloney family reunion were, from left, Larry Joe Powell, Jackie Powell, Ed Nicolay, Betty Nicolay, Janice Maloney and Earl Maloney. COURTESY PHOTO

A bustling crowd greeted Myra Gleason, Jack Blevins and their crew Friday morning when they officially opened Fillmore Coffee House and Plant Cafe in downtown Iola. As its name suggests, Fillmore offers a wide selection of coffee products and plants, as well as pastries and other artisan-made products. The cof feehouse occupies the same location as the community’s last authentic coffee shop, Around The Corner, at 102 S. Washington Ave. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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Local runners compete at Central Heights

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

RICHMOND — Iola, Humboldt, Crest and Marmaton Valley participated in the Central Heights cross country invitational Thursday.

The high school harriers ran a 5K while the middle school runners competed in a two-mile race.

Iola

The Iola cross country team had six runners race in the varsity boys competition. Jesse Taylor took home sixth place with a 17:57 time. Kaster Trabuc followed with a time of 18:32 to place in 12th overall.

Cole Moyer rounded out the top three Mustangs runners in 16th place with a time of 19:12.

Travis Wanker came in 24th, 19:56; Brennan Coffield 40th, 21:02; and Alejandro Escalante 50th, 22:40.

Mustang Mason Silvey crossed the finish line first for the JV runners, placing 12th place with a mark of 23:52. Ricky Rowe was 14th with a time of 24:36.

Iola seventh grader Mosiah Fawson was the lone seventh grader to run. He finished 21st with a 15:36 time.

Humboldt

For Humboldt, Tori Melendez was the only racer to compete at the varsity level, coming in 25th place with a time of 24:50. Melendez lowered her personal-record time by 27 seconds.

“We had a nice day running on a good course. We did not have our full squad as some chose to sit this meet out,” said Humboldt head coach Eric Carlson. “With three PRs and three medals our day was successful.”

In the JV boys race, Maxtyn Mueller came in 19th place with a time of 27:20. Mueller lowered his time by over a minute in his impressive finish.

Humboldt’s Sophia Barlow came in seventh overall in the junior varsity girls race with a time of 28:56 to take home a medal. Lulu Melendez fin-

ished with a medal after a time of 29:26, good for eighth place overall.

Leah Mueller also brought home a medal after placing in ninth with a time of 29:29.

Piper Jones rounded out the JV girls runners in 14th place with a time of 33:19.

“We still have work to do and need to get faster and run tougher before our league meet in two weeks,” Carlson said.

Carlson had three middle school runners come out on Thursday.

Thatcher Mueller placed in eighth with a time of 14:39, Jack Works came in at 15th with a mark of 16:10 and Carter Collins came in 26th in the middle school girls race with a time of 16:41. Collins took 7 seconds off her previous time.

Humboldt races at Osage City Thursday at 4 p.m.

Crest The Crest cross country team had a pair of varsity runners place in the top-10 in the 5K race. Josie Walter took second place overall and Pey-

ton Schmidt took ninth place overall.

Walter ran in 20:43, followed by Schmidt, 22:13. These times were both personal records. Walter is a freshman competing with varsity runners.

“Josie is currently among the top girl cross country

runners in the state in class 2A with her times so far this season. To be able to compete against some of the best runners in the area and have so many top finishes as a freshman is outstanding,” said Crest head coach Kaitlyn Cummings.

Other varsity girl runners included Aubrey Allen who finished in 15th with a mark of 23:31, followed by Kyree Puckett with a time of 27:19 to place in 41st overall.

The lone varsity boys runner to compete for the Lancers was Breakin Jones who crossed the finish line in 36th place with a time of 20:36.

“Breakin got boxed in at the beginning and fought his way through the pack to make it up through the middle of the race. He gets better every race,” said Cummings. “These kids have been working extremely hard in practice and it’s nice to see it is paying off for them.”

Crest’s Kallei Robb, a seventh grader, tied for second place with a time of 13:29.

Dagon Denny finished not far behind, tying for 11th place with a time of 14:38. Jimmy Ayers registered a time of 15:01 for 14th place and Wyatt Francis finished in 25th place with a mark of 16:29.

“I am so proud of the dedication and commitment my team has been showing. As a coach, it’s one of the best feelings to see them cross the finish line, whether it’s simply finishing a hard race, achieving a personal record, or winning a medal,” Cummings said.

September Athletes of the Month announced

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

The votes have been counted and the results are in.

Marmaton Valley football’s Brayden Lawson and Crest volleyball’s McKenna Hammond are the Allen County Area Athletes of the Month.

As a quarterback for the Wildcats, Brayden Lawson has helped his team get off to a strong start. The Wildcats are 2-2. Lawson continues to put up video game-like numbers, currently owning 778 passing yards and 10 touchdown tosses in only four games.

Not only is he throwing the ball with ease but has rushed 314 yards on the ground with three touchdowns. That includes averaging 6.4 yards per carry and 16.2 yards on average per pass completion. With this kind of performance, Marmaton Valley will be in good stead come playoff time.

McKenna Hammond has helped her Lady Lancers reach a 21-4 overall record. Crest sits at 6-0 in district play. The senior has impressed at the serving line

where in some matches she has gone a perfect 100%.

At a Mound City match, Hammond had nine aces and went 19-for-21 from the line. Hammond will look to keep up the strong serving as her team pursues one of its best

records in school history.

STILL TO COME are features on Lawson and Hammond in the coming days as well as the October Allen County Area Athletes of the Month nominees.

Marmaton Valley’s Brayden Lawson.

PHOTO BY HALIE LUKEN

Crest’s McKenna Hammond. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

The Iola cross country team poses for a photo on Thursday following the Central Heights meet.

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The vasity boys running. Pictured here is Iola’s Jesse Taylor (239) on the left side of the frame.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: My 20-year-old daugh ter will be moving soon to finish her final year of college. She will be living off campus and will need to use a public laundromat. Given that most of her clothing la bels recommend “cold water and low heat dry ing,” there is concern about her contracting monkeypox from anoth er laundromat customer.

We have read about monkeypox being pri marily contracted through close personal engagement with some one who is infected.

Dr. Keith Roach

However, every article also states that it can be passed through items such as sheets and cloth ing. Should we be wor ried? — C.P.C.

ANSWER: While I can’t say it’s impossible, I can say it’s very unlike ly to get transmission of monkeypox (or other viral diseases) through clothes at a laundromat.

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Even cold water with detergent will render vi ruses non-contagious.

It’s far more impor tant that she be careful about her close contacts,

Adapted from an on line discussion.

Dear Carolyn: So I get the concept of split ting chores and agree ing who will do what in advance. But I’m strug gling on how to do that in daily life. My hus band tends to overlook the garbage can running over, the dishes piled all over the counter, the front door left wide open as bugs and leaves blow in, empty soda cans and food wrappers randomly around the house, etc. His thing is that if some thing bothers me then I need to tell him to fix or clean it up. But I’m both ered by having to ask him to do basic things that amount to essen tially the courtesy and respect of living with other people.

Yet I also see this is a pattern: My adult step kids do no chores or help around the house when they are with us unless specifically asked. And that means they will do the dishes but only if you ask, every night and every single time. They will just expect others to clean it unless they are specifically asked.

So should I just start negotiating with my husband for what needs

To Your Good Health Carolyn Hax

and for her (and every body) to seek prompt medical attention if they have a new and painful rash that might be monkeypox.

The dreary chore of having to ask the spouse to do chores

Tell Me About It

to be done — e.g. you will pick up your own used, half-full and threeday-old Starbucks cof fee cups — knowing he will do it for a day then stop and insist I ask him again every time if I want it done? — Strug gling

Struggling: Choresharing fails when someone skips their share. It’s really that simple, and hard to live with, I’m sorry. Here are two suggestions.

1. Make it clear that you consider it a chore to point out chores, therefore, if he insists on your doing it for him, then your share of other chores goes down. Sit there with pen and pa per, together, and write down every job toward running your house hold. Each of you choos es jobs till the whole list is assigned. Again, make “point out chores” one of yours, if he is too stubborn or oblivious to notice a full trash can.

2. Put things on the calendar and, corre

spondingly, on his phone in the form of remind ers. Alarms can be set for every X day at Y time with the label “take out trash.” Set your phones at this list-dividing ses sion.

Try this at least. It’s probably never going to be perfect because “door wide open” suggests at tention issues, and if his issue is oblivious ness with a neurological origin, then it’s not easy to change. Also not per sonal, if that helps.

Re: Chores: Seconding Carolyn’s advice to set multiple phone alarms as daily task reminders. My husband is the same way. He was recently di agnosed with executive function disorder. Once I understood he was ba sically waking up every morning with a para lyzingly blank slate in his task-brain, we tried a few ways of breaking down the chores list be fore arriving at the one that didn’t overwhelm him further: phone alarms. He actually now enjoys setting them for the next day before he goes to sleep, because it gives him a road map of what his next day is go ing to look like. There is hope, I swear! — Anony mous

Anonymous: Thanks for this. Executive func tion deficits are often mistaken for passive ag gression, when in fact they are not a choice, and they typically drive the people who have them to a deeper frustra tion than they ever could drive the rest of us who are just wondering why the trash bin still hasn’t been emptied.

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Marmaton Valley Jr. High falls

MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High showed marked improvement on the gridiron Thursday.

Four weeks after a lopsided loss to Yates Center, MV had a chance to tie the score with under 3 minutes left in the game. Alas, the drive stalled, and Yates Center

scored on a late touchdown to defeat Marmaton Valley, 60-44.

“Our young team has consistently improved throughout the year and our leadership by our captains has been steady,” Marmaton Valley coach Dan Uhlrich said. “Yates Center has nine eighth-graders on

their team and has an impressive ball club. We are playing much better football.”

Marmaton Valley hosts another powerful squad next Thursday when the Wildcats host Southeast.

“We are looking forward to giving them our best shot,” Uhlrich said.

Embiid becomes U.S. citizen

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Joel Embiid has tried to keep the ruse alive — that he was nothing more than a 7-foot couch potato this summer. To hear Embiid tell it, every day was easy like a lazy Sunday morning.

His biggest offseason accomplishment?

“Sleep,” he said with a laugh Thursday.

The Philadelphia 76ers’ franchise center might not have been exaggerating about his desire for some R&R.

Embiid and his Brazilian girlfriend share a 2-year-old son. That can tucker out even the biggest of big men. He was put through rigorous workouts this summer by his long-time personal trainer in Beverly Hills.

And there was a pressing personal process: A native of Cameroon who also holds French citizenship, Embiid was sworn in two weeks ago in Philadelphia as an American citizen.

“I’ve been here for a long time,” Embiid told The Associated Press on Thursday at training camp at The Citadel. “My son is American. I felt like, I’m living here and it’s a blessing to be an American. So I said, why not?”

The 28-year-old graduated from a Florida high school and played a season in college at Kansas before the 76ers drafted him No. 3 overall in 2014. The natural question raised is, which country could Embiid potentially represent in international basketball? Embiid defused speculation and said it was way too early to think about the Olympics or other international tournaments.

“I just want to be healthy and win a championship and go from there,” he told the AP.

After missing his first two seasons with injuries, Embiid has been every bit the dominant force in the NBA over the past six seasons. Once the poster child for load manage-

ment, Embiid set career highs in games (68) and minutes (33.8 average) and his 30.6 points made him the first international player ever to win an NBA scoring title. He’s a five-time All-Star and was runner-up each of the last two seasons to Denver’s Nikola Jokic in MVP voting.

Embiid, James Harden, Tyrese Maxey, Tobias Harris and P.J. Tucker might form the Sixers’ most potent lineup since 2019 and they have a legitimate shot at contending for an NBA championship. Coach Doc Rivers, in his third season, knows the scoring load isn’t a democracy — it starts with the Big Man. And even Embiid has room to grow.

“It’s just keep getting better at being a team-

mate and making everybody else better,” Rivers said. “That’s the next step, dominating. Giving room for James to dominate. Giving room for Tyrese to dominate. Giving room for Tobias to have a great game. I think he’s actually doing that right now.”

Embiid also averaged 11.7 rebounds and 4.2 assists in helping the 76ers reach the Eastern Conference semifinals for the second straight year. Embiid averaged 23.6 points and 10.7 rebounds in the postseason despite playing with an orbital fracture. He had offseason surgery to repair the torn ligament in his right thumb suffered in the playoffs and a procedure to repair an injury to his left index finger.

MVJH hosts Yates Center

MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High came up short in its first set against Yates Center Thursday, and then struggled down the stretch in the second in a 2523 and 25-19 loss.

“Our serving wasn’t bad,” MV head coach Brenda Mills said. “We just made random mistakes and couldn’t keep the serve going.”

Taylen Blevins scored eight points and Layla Cook seven for Marmaton Valley. Andie Carr added four, while Addisyn Drake and Evva Sander each scored three. Emma Michael chipped in with a point.

Marmaton Valley claimed both the B and C team matches.

The B team prevailed 16-25, 25-10 and 15-10.

Myleigh Eslick led the way with 12 points, Jae Beachner scored eight and Mahayla Burris five. Reagan Marshall followed with four, Adisyn Pritchard three and Mary Burris one.

Marmaton Valley’s C team brought home a 25-15 victory. Eslick scored 10, Bella Winner three and Marshall one.

Marmaton Valley’s A team is in Uniontown Saturday for a tournament. The entire squad will be at Southeast on Monday.

Celtics agree to deal with Gri n

BOSTON (AP) —

Veteran big man Blake Griffin has agreed to a contract with the Boston Celtics, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Friday.

The person confirmed the move to the AP on the condition of anonymity because the deal had not been announced. It was first reported by ESPN.

Griffin, 33, should

help the defending Eastern Conference champions weather the absence of center Robert Williams III, who is expected to miss 8-12 weeks after knee surgery.

Qui ing smoking was hard. Screening for lung cancer is easy.

Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Reagan Marshall dives for the ball in a match against Yates Center Thursday. PHOTO BY HALIE LUKEN/MVHS

Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Cooper Schar winds up to pass Thursday in a home game against Yates Center Middle School. Yates Center came out on top of the scoring extravaganza, winning 60-44.

PHOTO BY HALIE LUKEN/MVHS

Joel Embiid after a recent Philadelphia 76ers training camp session. HEATHER KHALIFA/TNS

Bengals top Dolphins; Tagovailoa injured on TNF

CINCINNATI (AP) —

Behind an overhauled offensive line coalesc ing in front of quarter back Joe Burrow and a defense forcing turn overs, the Cincinnati Bengals are looking more like the defending AFC champions.

After losing their first two games, the Bengals have reeled off two wins in a span of five days.

They beat the New York Jets on Sunday, then turned around and took down Miami 27-15 in a Thursday night game marred by the horrific sight of Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa being taken off the field on a stretcher.

Tagovailoa was taken to a hospital, but was expected to be released and fly home with the team. Coach Mike Mc Daniel said the QB sus tained a concussion.

Burrow tossed a late a 2-yard touchdown pass to Hayden Hurst to seal the win after Cin cinnati safety Vonn Bell picked off Miami back up quarterback Teddy Bridgewater with three minutes left in the game.

“All day the protec tion was awesome,” said Burrow, who was 20 for 31 for 287 yards and two touchdowns. “I had all the time I need ed in the pocket to find the guys I needed.”

Tee Higgins caught

seven passes for 124 yards and a TD for Cin cinnati (2-2)

Evan McPherson kicked two fourth-quar ter field goals — includ ing a 57-yarder — when the Bengals’ drives stalled.

“Joe was lights out,” Bengals coach Zac Tay lor said. “You had to beat man coverage. We had the guys to do it and the protection to match it and the quarterback who, that’s what he wants to see.”

Bridgewater threw an incomplete pass on Miami’s final drive to turn the ball over on downs with 57 seconds left.

Tagovailoa was 8 for 14 for 110 yards and an interception before his injury. Bridgewater fin ished 14 for 23 for 193 yards, a touchdown and an interception in re lief.

“It’s a tough loss,” Bridgewater said. “It’s tough walking away, es pecially under the cir cumstances.”

Tyreek Hill paced the Dolphins with 10 catch es for 160 yards. Jason Sanders kicked three field goals and had one blocked. He also missed a point-after attempt.

“You’re going to lose games to very good teams if you lose the turnover battle and you’re kicking field goals instead of trying for touchdowns,” Mi ami coach Mike McDan

HMS cruises over Cherryvale Thursday, 38-16

HUMBOLDT —

The Humboldt Mid dle School football team took down Cherryvale on Thursday night, 3816.

The Cubs (4-1) be gan the game scor ing 14 points and holding Cherryvale scoreless through the first quarter.

Remington Strickler got Humboldt on the board with a nineyard rushing touch down before Ty Shaughnessy con nected with Collin Cook on a 62-yard touchdown pass.

Truman Gryz bowski ran in for a two-point conver sion on one of the scores.

Humboldt was able to keep Cher ryvale quiet on the scoreboard the rest of the first half. Em mitt Carson inter cepted Cherryvale for a 45-yard picksix before Strickler stuck in another touchdown rush from 28 yards out.

Gryzbowksi and Strickler each scored two-point conversions to help the Cubs take a 30-0 lead at halftime.

The second half began with a run ning clock due to

Humboldt’s lead. Cook scored another touchdown for Hum boldt on a 46-yard run, followed by a Gryzbowski twopoint conversion.

The Chargers scored a couple of touchdowns in the fourth quarter on passes with suc cessful two-point conversions on each score. Cherryvale cut into the deficit but Humboldt still led big when the clock struck all ze ros, 38-16.

“The Cubs have been playing great and showing real character on the field. The coaches are proud of their players and are looking forward to the last two games of the season,” said Humboldt head coach Matt Jen nings.

After the official game, the Cubs and Chargers played a fifth quarter for many of the players who were not able to see much play ing time. Each team snapped the ball eight times with both sides coming up scoreless.

Humboldt hits the road to take on Leon Bluestem Thursday

iel said. “We had been executing. We didn’t today. You don’t get free passes against good teams.”

‘SCARY MOMENT’

The Bengals handed Miami its first loss of the season. The Dol phins departed Cincin nati with uncertainty surrounding the future of their starting quar terback.

Tagovailoa was chased down and thrown to the turf by Cincinnati’s Josh Tup ou with about six min utes left in the first half. He remained down for more than seven min utes before being taken to a hospital with re ported head and neck injuries.

His teammates gath ered around as they worked on him.

“Very scary mo ment,” McDaniel said. “He was evaluated for a concussion. He’s in the concussion proto col, but he’s being dis charged. It’s an emo tional moment. It’s not a part of the deal you sign up for.”

The 24-year-old Ta govailoa was suffering from a sore back and was listed as ques tionable for most of the week ahead of the game.

Tagovailoa briefly left Sunday’s 21-19 vic tory over the Buffalo Bills after appearing to be disoriented by what the team originally

said was a head injury after taking a hard hit from Bills linebacker Matt Milano late in the first half. He missed just three snaps and re turned after halftime.

The team and Tagov ailoa said after Sun day’s game the quar terback had a back injury that caused his awkward stumble and fall after he was slammed into the turf in the second quarter. The team said Monday that Tagovailoa was not in concussion protocol. He said he “hyper-ex tended” his back after getting his legs caught under someone on a quarterback sneak.

CHEERS

At halftime, the Ben gals added two players to their fledgling Ring of Honor at Paycor Sta dium.

Isaac Curtis is re garded as one the team’s all-time great receivers. The four-time Pro-Bowl er played in Cincinnati in 1973-84 and still holds the Bengals record for average yards per re ception (17.07).

Tackle Willie An derson was considered one of the best offen sive linemen of his era.

Anderson played in 182 games (regular and postseason) for Cincin nati in 1996-2007 and went to the Pro Bowl

four times.

They join last year’s Ring of Honor inaugu ral class: team found er/coach Paul Brown, quarterback Ken An derson, tackle Anthony Munoz and cornerback Ken Riley.

INJURIES

Dolphins: CB Xavien Howard left in the sec ond half after suffering a groin injury.

Bengals: TE Devin Asiasi left in the second half with an ankle inju ry.

UP NEXT Dolphins: At New York Jets on Sunday, Oct. 9.

Bengals: At Balti more on Sunday, Oct. 9.

IMS easily topples Prairie View

B7iolaregister.com Saturday, October 1, 2022The Iola Register By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

The Iola Middle School football teams stuck it to Prairie View on Thursday night com ing away with mon strous victories.

The seventh grade Mustangs took their matchup with a shutout over the Buffalo, 52-0. The eighth graders took a win over Prairie View, 32-16.

Eighth grade

The eighth grade Iola football team earned the majority of their points on the ground attack. Kale Pratt rushed in for a touchdown and 173 to tal rushing yards. The touchdown came on a 50-yard rush which de flated the Prairie View defense.

Once the Buffalo got the hang of Pratt’s rush ing, the Mustangs didn’t stop there. Jase Herr mann ran in a touch down from 34 yards out. Overall, Herrmann rushed for 61 yards.

“Pratt had a huge night for us with 173 yards rushing. Then when they started cu ing in on him I thought Herrmann, Eud Nicolas and Broderick Peters picked it up,” said Iola head coach Scott Ellis.

Austin Crooks start ed under center for Iola and passed for 10 yards which included a 22-yard passing touch down. The other Crooks pass play was a loss of 12 yards for the Mus tang offense.

Pratt stepped in at quarterback for a few snaps and threw one pass for an interception.

He also hauled in a pass at receiver for the Mustangs on a 22-yard connection.

Iola’s defense also stepped up. Pratt made seven tackles and James Hunt came down with six. Mustangs Nicholas Eud and Xander Brack ett each collected four tackles.

“The eighth grade boys were able to come up big tonight as well. Other than giving up a kickoff return for touchdown I thought our boys executed our game plan well,” said Ellis. “The whole defen sive unit played well, making some big stops.”

Layton Stowell recov ered a fumble for Iola for the only forced turn over of the game.

Seventh grade

The seventh grade Mustangs shut out Prai rie View with a solid all around game which also saw the offense put up 52 points, all with the rushing attack.

Kevon Loving aided the Iola offense with his 126 rushing yards and two touchdowns while Reginald Davis III ran in for three touchdowns and 122 yards on the ground. Loving’s pair of touchdowns came on rushes of 60 and 35 yards.

Davis III’s touchdown scores came on runs of 20, 50 and 50 yards to lead the Mustangs in scoring.

Reed Clift also stuck in two touchdowns on only two rushes of 32 and 52 yards to help in the 52-point outburst.

“The seventh-graders came out tonight ready to go from start to fin ish. I thought the boys played well on both sides of the line tonight with a big win,” Ellis said.

Defensively, Iola was led with Clift and Davis

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III’s seven tackles apiece, followed by Kheeliant Dean’s six tackles. Bent ley Zarhouni, Evan La Crone and Loving also each came down with five tackles.

Lacrone and Zarhouni combined for three sacks on Prairie View’s quar terback. Clift picked

off Buffalo once and re covered a fumble while Kason Porter and Davis III also each recovered fumbles.

The Iola Middle School football team will be back in action at 4 p.m. Thursday when they host Burlington at Riverside Park.

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow (9) hands a ball off to running back Joe Mixon (28) against the Dolphins on Thursday. TNS

By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press

The days of postsea son bans and crippling scholarship reductions to punish schools for breaking NCAA rules appear to be winding down.

Memphis was placed on three years of pro bation earlier this week with a public reprimand and fined for NCAA violations related to the recruit ment and short col lege career of James Wiseman, who is about

to start his third sea son with the Golden State Warriors. The NCAA also wrapped up an investigation of Air Force football for breaking the COVID-19 recruiting quiet period.

No postseason bans or scholarship reduc tions in either case. The Independent Account ability Review Panel, the NCAA’s outside arm of enforcement, said in its decision in the Memphis case that it did not want to pun ish current athletes.

That sentiment is

widespread in college athletics these days, even with millions of dollars suddenly flow ing to athletes from var ious sources for their celebrity endorsements amid concerns over im proper inducements. In fact, it is on the way to being codified: Last month, the Division I Board of Directors ad opted three proposals to change the infrac tions process.

The board also com mitted to “identifying appropriate types of penalties and modi

fying current penalty ranges, including iden tifying potential alter native penalties to post season bans.”

Trying to predict what those alternatives will be is difficult, but if the goal is to avoid harming athletes and others who were not in volved in the violations the options are limited.

“I emphatically be lieve it’s the wrong di rection to go,” said Ne braska law professor Jo Potuto, who spent nine years on the NCAA’s Committee on Infrac

RACING THIS WEEK

Tyler Reddick latest to crash Playoffs party

say everything is “bigger” in Texas and certainly NASCAR‘s Round of 12 Playoff opener at Texas Motor Speedway lived up to the billing. From Playoff consequences to a red-flag delay to bumper-banging aggression, tire fall-off and record statistical marks, there was no shortage of competitive drama in Sunday‘s AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500.

Ultimately Richard Childress Racing‘s Tyler Reddick prevailed as race winner — taking the green flag by 1.190 seconds over Team Penske‘s Joey Logano in a final 24-lap green flag run to the checkered flag. It was the 26-year-old Californian’s third career victory and first win on an oval after claiming trophies on two road courses earlier this season.

“We had a lot of issues today, I‘m not going to lie,” Reddick said with a smile, listing a number of setbacks from pit-road mishaps, vibrations in his No. 8 RCR Chevrolet to holding off a hard-charging Logano, who has now taken the NASCAR Cup Series championship lead by 12 points over Trackhouse Racing driver Ross Chastain.

“Every time we‘ve had a strong car we‘ve been bit by something,‘‘ said Reddick, who announced earlier this season he is leaving the RCR team to go to 23XI Racing in 2024.

The outcome made it four straight wins for drivers without championship eligibility to open the postseason, denying the 12 remaining playoff drivers an automatic berth into the next round. Reddick had qualified for the 16-driver playoff field but was eliminated after last weekend’s race at Bristol Motor Speedway. There was still plenty of drama among the Playoff 12.

Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron, who finished seventh, and Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin, who finished 10th had a literal “run-in” late in the race. Byron said he felt Hamlin ran him up on track causing his No. 24 Hendrick Chevrolet to hit the Turn 2 wall and sustain damage. And in retaliation, he bumped Hamlin‘s No. 11 JGR Toyota during a caution, and that contact ended up sending Hamlin spinning into the infield.

Hamlin, 41, took exception to the hit, and tapped his Toyota into Byron‘s Chevy multiple times after his infield spin. He still appeared miffed after the race.

“I don‘t think we touched but obviously he sent us through the infield under caution,‘‘ Hamlin said. “This is hard racing obviously. I‘m fine with hard racing. But wrecking me under caution is not what we bargained for. I‘m thankful to my FedEx Toyota team for bouncing back.‘‘

It was an action-packed racing afternoon on all levels. There were a record 36 lead changes and a record 16 caution periods — including a 56-minute red flag for rain just after Ryan Blaney claimed the Stage 2 victory.

When the race resumed, the resulting drop in temperatures — factoring in a light rain shower and nightfall — seemed to reinvigorate the racing on track, with side-by-side racing and passes throughout the field and multiple tire issues at the front of the field.

tions in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

“If you’re going to deter, the punishment has to fit the offense, right?” Potuto added. “You’re not going to de ter serious violations with penalties that are not perceived to be real ly serious.”

Since January 2020, there have been at least 45 major infractions cases decided by the NCAA. Of those, at least 15 involved Level I allegations, the most serious and those car rying the most severe

penalties; six cases re sulted in some kind of postseason ban, with four of them self-im posed.

The Memphis case went through the IARP, which was created in response to the FBI’s investigation of college basketball corruption but is now being discon tinued. Sunsetting the IARP was among sev eral recommendations put forth by the NCAA’s Division I Transforma tion Committee earlier this year and recently adopted by the board.

Xfinity bonus quote: “This No. 9 team, man, they’re on fire and all you fans, you keep us motivated. We’re gonna come back and win more races for you. You guys are awesome and we appreciate you. Thanks for coming out.”

CUP PLAYOFFS: 5TH RACE

YELLAWOOD 500 Talladega Superspeedway 2 p.m. ET Sunday, NBC

Martin Truex Jr., along with Kevin Harvick and Chase Elliott all had tire issues while leading the race.

The 32nd-place finish dropped the 2020 series champion from the points lead coming into Texas to seventh in points — 26 points behind new championship leader Logano now, and only four points above the cut-off line heading to Race 2 of this three-race championship round at the always unpredictable Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway next weekend.

Elliott was one of a handful of Playoff drivers who had challenging days. Joe Gibbs Racing‘s Christopher Bell, who came into the race ranked sixth after turning in the best Round 1 Playoff showing of any of the 12 championship-eligible drivers. He suffered tire issues that ultimately eliminated him from competition as well.

The incident dropped him to 11th place in the playoff standings, 39 points behind eighth-place Daniel Suarez with eight drivers advancing to the next round of the Playoffs.

Justin Haley finished third on the day with playoff drivers Ryan Blaney (Team Penske) and Chase Briscoe (Stewart-Haas Racing) rounding out the top five. Erik Jones, Byron, Sunday‘s race pole-sitter Brad Keselowski, reigning series champion Kyle Larson and Hamlin rounded out the top 10.

Byron holds onto the third playoff spot, 13 points behind leader Logano. Larson is fourth (-14), followed by Blaney (-15) and Hamlin (-22). Elliott and Sunday‘s 12th-place finisher Daniel Suárez are seventh and eighth in the Playoff standings, both 26 points behind Logano.

Briscoe, Austin Cindric, Bell and Alex Bowman (who finished 29th) round out the top 12, with Bowman 56 points behind leader Logano and 30 points out of the eighth-place position that would advance to the Round of 8.

Cody Ware was treated and released from the infield care center after a hard hit with his No. 51 Ford midway through the 500-miler.

The race was red-flagged for rain and lightning after 220 laps, just before the start of the final stage. That 56-minute delay pushed the finish under the lights.

The second race of this Round of 12 comes Sunday at Talladega. Bubba Wallace is the defending race winner. Chastain won at Talladega this April.

32 4 Talladega Superspeedway, nicknamed “Dega,” and formerly named Alabama International Motor Speedway, is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln.

Capacity: 80,000–175,000 Length: 2.66 mi (4.281 km)

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Surface: Asphalt Banking: Turns 1 & 2: 33°; Turn 3: 32.4°; Turn 4: 32.5°; Tri-oval: 16.5°; Back straight: 3°

• Talladega is the longest NASCAR oval, with a length of 2.66 miles (4.281 km), compared to the Daytona International Speedway, which is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long. The total peak capacity of Talladega is around 175,000 spectators, with the main grandstand capacity 80,000.

• How fast do NASCAR’s go at Talladega?

The Talladega record is 212 mph and has stood for over 30 years.

• Talladega has seen a wide amount of winners, but Brad Keselowski has the most wins there among active drivers with ve.

• Talladega is known for rst-time winners, including Bubba Wallace.

• Talladega Superspeedway is the most competitive racetrack on the NASCAR schedule (record 88 lead changes in 188 laps).

• Three- and four-wide racing at 200 mph are a norm at Talladega, along with nail-biting photo nishes.

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Tyler Reddick, driver of the #8 Lenovo/ThinkEdge Chevrolet, takes the checkered flag to win the Cup Series Auto Trader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway Sunday (James Gilbert/Getty Images)

Here’s a look at 1993 Talladega fall race winner Dale Earnhardt and crew. (ISC Archives/Getty Images)

Noah Gragson, who tied an Xfinity Series record Saturday at Texas with his fourth straight win