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A capacity crowd filled the Lyle Dreher Roughriders Arena at Iola’s Riverside Park Friday and Satudray for the annual Allen County Fair Bull Run. At left, Cody Hazelton of Moundridge tries his hand at riding a bull during Saturday evening’s action. Above, Iolan Jentry Mueller, age 6, hangs on during a mutton busting competition prior to the Bull Run, sponsored by LaHaye Bucking Bulls of Iola. Additional photos of the Allen County Fair are on Page A8. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT (LEFT) and RICHARD LUKEN

Family safety in focus Family Safety Night returns this week to provide fun experiences and educational safety information for youth and families.

The event kicks off at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Iola square. It includes bounce houses, games, music and temporary tattoos, and will finish off with a fire hose blast from the Iola Fire Department.

About 25 safety booths will be set up to help teach kids and families about public safety, how to call 911, drug awareness, what to do in the event of bad weather, pool safety, sun safety, seatbelt safety, and bike safety.

The event is sponsored by the Allen County Multi-Agency Team and is offered in partnership with the Allen County Farmers Market.

Secretary of state defies court order on ballot records Schwab ordered to hand over provisional ballot information

By SHERMAN SMITH Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Secretary of State Scott Schwab is refusing to turn over provisional ballot records in advance of the primary election, despite an appeals court ruling that says he is violating state open records law.

Voting rights advocate Davis Hammett renewed his request for the records in hopes of helping voters ensure their ballots are counted for an election in which a constitutional amendment on abortion rights could be narrowly decided. Schwab rejected the request while considering whether to appeal the case to the Kansas Supreme Court.

Hammett said it was “absurd” that Schwab was still

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trying to withhold public records, and that the legal battle over the records has lasted three years.

“Essentially, on a technicality, they can deny me

the data, so the data is not really helping voters this election, which is just more gamesmanship, and it’s very frustrating,” Hammett said.

“The reason we want this

data is to assist voters and make sure their votes are counted.”

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The Emperor finds his groove A collection of young actors delight a Bowlus Fine Arts Center crowd Saturday as part of the Missoula Children’s Theatre presentation of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” The production capped an intense week of auditions and rehearsals for the local acting troupe, under the guidance of visiting directors Madeline Anna and Nicholas Sweet. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN Vol. 124 No. 212 Iola, KS $1.00

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How to develop money sense in children

Ken Bryan

In many families, money matters are something not to be discussed. Children often learn how to manage money by watching those around them. Parents can help children develop money sense by providing them with opportunities to manage their own money while still young.

Here are some ways to increase your children’s sense in handling money: 1) Give them the opportunity to manage an allowance. Children as young as 5 years old can

Former Iolan Ken Bryan died Friday, July 29, 2022, in Eldon, Mo. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3, at Eldon Cemetery.

He is survived by wife Donna Bryan and son Dylan Bryan.

Corrections Michael Soetaert is one of six Democratic candidates on the ballot Tuesday seeking to run for Sen. Jerry Moran’s seat in November. An article in Friday’s Register incorrectly spelled

Soetaert’s last name.

In addition, a photo in Friday’s Register mis-identified Katelyn Hicks, who was competing in the Allen County Fair Horse Show.

We regret the errors.

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learn how to manage money. Allowances are a means for teaching money management.

Children should learn not to spend all of their allowance each week.

Discuss saving for a future purchase or for future needs. A younger child may be interested in a toy which is not yet on the market or may require additional savings to purchase.

An older child may be considering long-term needs such as when they go to college, work, or travel.

2) Encourage them to work. Once children reach preteen years, there are many opportunities to earn their own money. When children see the effort, it takes to make money, it is easier for them to

know the real cost of spending.

3) Set reasonable limits. Children should be given age-appropriate limits for spending in various categories and should be required to save a portion of their money.

4) Teach them to make good choices.

The dollar amounts and areas of discretionary spending should increase as the child matures. A seven-yearold might be allowed to spend a portion of their own money on toys, snacks, and gifts to charity. A 14-year-old might be allowed to buy meals, clothing, and games, as well. Ask the child to consider the value of the purchase from both a short-term and long-term perspective to evaluate their options and ultimate choice.

Demonstrate and encourage comparison shopping for the best price.

5) Help them learn patience.

Children should have independence over at least

some of their own money. But the remainder, perhaps half, should be saved.

6) Talk about family finances with children.

Children need to see that parents must work at managing the family finances. They should know what it costs to raise a family and to make ends meet.

7) Practice what you preach, serve as a role model. Children learn more from what they see than what they are told. Save money yourself, and tell your children that saving means that you can’t always have something right away. Teach by example; avoid impulse buying.

For more information and conversation starters, visit Money as You Grow: Help for parents and caregivers at consumerfinance.gov/ consumer-tools/money-as-you-grow/.

For more information or questions, contact Joy Miller at 620-223-3720 or e-mail joymiller@ksu.edu.

More flooding misery spreads From left, attending a faith fund rally for the Southeast Kansas Gideons Saturday in Chanute are, from left, area director Arvin Clements, guest speakers José Luis Maturana and Rafael Varon and East Kansas Gideons Director Rodney Woods. COURTESY PHOTO

Gideons gather in Chanute CHANUTE — A Southeast Kansas Gideons faith fund rally Saturday in Chanute drew José Luis Maturana, from Bolivia, South America. Maturana and his interpretor, Rafael Varon, were among the speakers at the Gideons International convention recently in Gaylord, Texas.

A faith fund rally is where Gideons come to hear testimonies from others of what God is doing through his holy word placed by Gideons, and to raise funds to purchase New Testament Bibles here and abroad.

Maturana spoke about distributing Bi-

bles in Bolivia, Peru and other locales in South America.

The Gideon’s mission is to place bibles in hotels, hospitals, schools and other institutions around the world.

Saturday’s rally, held at Opie’s Pizza and Grill, netted over $11,000, organizers reported.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Another round of storms hit flooded Appalachian mountain communities where more than 30 people were killed and search and rescue teams found more bodies on Monday.

Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for and the death toll of 30 will rise, said Gov. Andy Beshear, who noted that bodies which aren’t yet part of the official death count have been recovered. More than 12,000 customers remained

without power, many because their homes and businesses have been destroyed or aren’t fit for habitation.

Shelters were housing at least 300 people.

The floods were unleashed last week when between 8 and 10½ inches of rain fell in just 48 hours in parts of eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia and western Virginia. Radar indicated up to 4 more inches of rain fell Sunday, and the National Weather Service warned that slow-moving showers

and thunderstorms could provoke more flash flooding through Tuesday morning Among the lives, homes and businesses swept away in the floods was some of the region’s irreplaceable history. Appalshop, a cultural center known for chronicling Appalachian life for the rest of the world, was assessing the extensive damage at its repository of Appalachian history and culture, where historic documents and artifacts were flushed out of the building.

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suit to Hammett in which a district court judge ruled provisional ballot records are public records under the Kansas Open Records Act. Schwab responded by asking ES&S, the state’s election software vendor, to disable the ability to produce the records Hammett wanted.

In a July 22 ruling, a Kansas Court of Appeals panel viewed Schwab’s actions as an illegal attempt to circumvent KORA. Schwab is facing a GOP primary challenge from a candidate who is running on false narratives about election security. In a campaign email to supporters, Schwab said he was committed to defending ballot privacy.

“Liberal activist judges on the intermediate

Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision and will order the Secretary of State’s office to grant public access to personal ballot information,” Schwab wrote. “As your Secretary of State, I have always been committed to defending your constitutional rights — especially your right to cast a private ballot. However, this fight is not over. I am running for a second term to continue pushing back against the liberal activist agenda that wishes to make private and personal ballot information public.”

Hammett is asking for records that would indicate whose ballots are being discarded — but not how those individuals voted.

Kansas voters cast thousands of provisional ballots in every

Public notice (Published in The Iola Register July 30, 2022) Public Hearing Notice The City of Iola will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 8, 2022, at 6 p.m. in the Riverside Park Community Building, at 510 Park Ave, Iola 66749 for the purpose of evaluating the performance of Grant No. 21-CV-134 which was Covid 19 economic relief to an area generally bounded by the City of Iola that consisted of providing grants to micro and small businesses with less than 50 employees. The total grant award amount was $150,000 and nine small and micro businesses of those that applied received

funding to a total of $72,000, leaving $78,000 undisbursed to be returned to the grantor. This grant was funded from the Kansas Department of Commerce, Small Cities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.

All aspects of the grant will be discussed, and oral and written comments will be recorded and become a part of the City of Iola CDBG Citizen Participation Plan.

Reasonable accommodations will be made available to persons with disabilities. Requests for accommodations should be submitted to Roxanne Hutton, City Clerk, by Friday, Aug 5, 2022.

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election cycle, many of which can be counted if problems are corrected between Election Day and canvassing.

For example, advanced mail ballots are placed in jeopardy if there is a question about whether a voter’s signature on the ballot matches the signature from the voter’s registration. Voters who forget to bring a photo ID on Election Day can bring their ID to the election office. A voter may not initially show up in the database because counties don’t finish processing voter registrations before advanced voting starts.

Hammett and his nonprofit, Loud Light, would use the provisional ballot records to assist voters in addressing concerns about their eligibility to vote. The organization also could look for irregularities,

such as a spike in provisional ballots issued a particular location.

In addition to the constitutional amendment on abortion, legislative races are often decided by a handful of votes.

Hammett said it has been “mindboggling how aggressively” Schwab has fought to withhold provisional ballot records.

Sharon Brett, legal director for the ACLU of Kansas, which is representing Hammett in his lawsuits against Schwab, said the secretary of state’s campaign statement was “unfortunate.” Multiple courts have now told Schwab he is wrong about the records being private, she said.

“These are engaged community members and organizations that are trying to expand access to voting and

Friday at the Shawnee County Elections Office, said Schwab should comply with the court order and make the records available.

“It’s important to be as transparent as possible and make as much information as is legal and responsible available to the public,” Kelly said.

ensure that all individuals who are qualified electors can have their votes count,” Brett said.

“The secretary of state of all people should be in favor of having people vote and making sure that their votes count. So whether that was a policy position of his office or a campaign talking point, I’m not sure. But I would hope the secretary of state would see that this unanimous decision from the Kansas Court of Appeals means that this information cannot be hidden from the public.”

Gov. Laura Kelly, in a news conference with reporters after voting

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‘Summer of Mercy’ changed abortion rights in Kansas forever

By JUDY L. THOMAS and KATIE BERNARD The Kansas City Star/ TNS

They called it the “Summer of Mercy.”

In July and August of 1991, abortion protesters swarmed clinics in Wichita as part of Operation Rescue’s national campaign to shut down the “baby-killing industry” in Kansas — a state that at the time had no restrictions on the procedure. Their main target among the city’s three clinics: George Tiller, one of a handful of doctors in the country who performed lateterm abortions.

In the blistering heat, throngs of abortion foes from across the country blocked the clinic gates by day and packed revival-style rallies in a downtown hotel at night, many of them fresh from being arrested.

And as “rescue” leaders stirred up the faithful with fiery speeches and spirited songs, area activists were hard at work at the back of the room. Amid tables teeming with anti-abortion pamphlets and bumper stickers, they were recruiting the locals to run for office. Especially for GOP precinct committee positions, the basic units of grassroots politics that few besides the dedicated insiders typically cared about.

The results of their efforts became evident the following summer.

Eighty-three percent of the new Sedgwick County precinct committee members elected in the 1992 Republican primary were abortion opponents, many who had been arrested in the clinic blockades.

Two weeks after the election, they took control of the Sedgwick County GOP, squeezing out abortion-rights advocates who didn’t see it coming. Similar takeovers occurred in Johnson County and other counties in the state.

The 46-day “Summer of Mercy” campaign had pushed abortion opponents out of the pews, into the streets then into the political arena. And in the process, it became a catalyst for anti-abortion activism in Kansas.

The state went from having some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country to among the most restrictive.

“It was a firestorm,” said Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, one of the protest leaders. “We were in a social protest movement that was geared to create political firepower that resulted in abortion being illegal in Kansas.

And we’re almost on the cusp of that dream being fulfilled.

“There’s no way that Kansas would be where it is today if not for the ‘Summer of Mercy.’”

Abortion rights advocates say it is a scary place to be, with Kansas again at the center of the abortion debate. On Tuesday, the state will hold the nation’s first ballot test on abortion in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling last month that overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to an abortion.

If passed, the ballot initiative would reverse a 2019 state supreme court ruling that found a right to abortion in the Kansas constitution.

And lawmakers, for the first time in five decades, would have the power to ban abortion altogether.

But abortion opponents haven’t been talking about that possibility, instead focusing on the need to keep in place 30 years of anti-abortion regulations.

Abortion rights advocates don’t buy it.

Earlier this month the Kansas Reflector reported on audio from a Reno County GOP meeting in which a woman identifying herself as a regional director for the primary “vote yes” campaign told voters the plan was to ban abortion, with few exceptions.

Ashley All, the spokeswoman for Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, the main “vote no” group, applauded the “Value Them Both” representative for being “finally honest and forthright about their r e a l g o a l to ban abort i o n Ashley All c o m pletely in Kansas.”

“This extreme ban on abortion is absolutely out of step with the values of most Kansans and puts the lives of our daughters, granddaughters and women across the state at serious risk,” All said in a statement.

Wichita, Kansas, police officers attempt to remove an abortion protester from under a car at the entrance to Dr. George Tiller’s clinic during the Summer of Mercy protest in 1991. (JEFF TUTTLE/THE WICHITA EAGLE/TNS) them in Wichita that July.

“Tiller,” Terry said, “was the magnet.”

The protesters conducted blockades at all three of the city’s abortion clinics, but Tiller’s — which had been bombed five years earlier, causing extensive damage — was by far the focal point. Tensions rose early in the campaign when Wichita police let protesters take tiny steps to waiting buses as they removed them from the clinic property, delaying the arrest process for hours.

Many would return after being processed only to get arrested again.

And in some cases, protesters — including children — crawled into the street in front of and underneath cars trying to enter the clinic.

During the protests, Wichita attorney John Carmichael — now a Democratic state representative — was helping organize volunteers to escort women into the clinic. He realized even then that the summer could have a historic and long-lasting impact.

“My hat is off to the people on the pro-life side,” Carmichael said.

“I can remember at the time telling people, in a somewhat indignant fashion, that you shouldn’t be out here blocking other people in the exercise of their rights. You need to go run for office, you need to elect candidates, you need to change laws.

“I certainly recognized the possibility that if folks who were very fervent in their beliefs about pro-choice, pro-life issues could be organized, they had the potential to change the face of the Republican

Protests and politics

The abortion landscape in Kansas is barely recognizable since that summer three decades ago.

In 1991, there were no restrictions on abortion in Kansas. No parental consent requirements for minors or regulations on late-term abortions. Patients traveled to Tiller’s clinic from across the United States because he performed elective abortions through the second trimester of pregnancy — about 26.4 weeks — and in the third trimester in cases of severe fetal abnormalities.

Abortion opponents referred to Kansas as “the abortion capital of the country.” And they answered Operation Rescue’s call to join

Party.”

The blockades drew national attention when a fist-pounding federal judge called on U.S. Marshals deputies to guard the clinic gates after protesters violated his order to stop blocking access. Four days later — the same day that 124 protesters were arrested at Tiller’s clinic — Kansas’ Democratic Gov. Joan Finney, an abortion opponent, spoke at an Operation Rescue rally in downtown Wichita, the first sitting governor in the country to do so.

“I commend you for the orderly manner in which you have conducted the demonstration,” she told the cheering crowd of 1,500.

That crowd was small compared to what was to come. On the final weekend of the protests, televangelist Pat Robertson, a 1988 GOP presidential candidate and founder of the Christian Coalition, topped the speakers’ list at a rally that drew more than 25,000.

When the protests wrapped up at the end of August, there had been 2,657 arrests of 1,734 people, costing the city and county more

than $550,000.

With just a few months until the Legislature convened, the focus shifted to Topeka.

Abortion rights advocates, whose strategy up to that point had been to fight legislation aimed at restricting abortion, decided to go on the of-

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fensive. During the 1992 session, they pushed for a bill that would ensure access to abortion in the event Roe v. Wade was overturned or eroded.

After a battle that lasted much of the session, lawmakers passed a measure that placed some restrictions on abortion but ensured access until the fetus was viable, or capable of surviving outside the womb.

Beyond viability, abortion was legal in cases of severe fetal abnormalities or if two doctors decided that the abortion was necessary to preserve the woman’s life. The measure also required notification of one parent of a girl under 18 seeking an abortion unless she obtained a court bypass. And all women seeking an abortion had to receive counseling about the procedure, risks involved and their options, then wait at least eight hours. The

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new law also increased the penalties for blocking access to clinics.

It was a true bipartisan effort. Democrats held the majority in the House.

“It was controversial, but the lines weren’t quite as clear as you’d think,” said Rep. Tom Sawyer, a Wichita Democrat who was majority leader at the time.

Some anti-abortion lawmakers thought it didn’t go far enough, while some abortion rights proponents thought it was a mistake to allow any restrictions.

By then, the seeds sown during the “Summer of Mercy” were sprouting. A grassroots effort launched by Kansas conservatives picked up steam, and then-Kansans for Life president Tim Golba, of Olathe, said the organization planned to more aggressively recruit legislative candidates.

In June 1992, then-Secretary of State Bill Graves said a record 588 candidates had filed for seats in the House and Senate by the deadline.

The effort to recruit precinct committee members occasionally got out of hand, Golba told The Star at the time. So many conservatives signed up to run for the committee posts in Johnson County, he said, that in some cases as many as five filed for a single spot.

The tactic caught party moderates off guard. After the primary, conservatives held 58 percent of Johnson County’s GOP precinct committee positions.

And in November 1992, a slate of candidates selected by Kansans for Life got three of the top four posts in the county’s Republican Party.

Conservatives also took over the GOP in Shawnee and Douglas counties.

Nowhere was the takeover more evident than in Sedgwick County. In 1990, the county GOP was made up of 51% abortion rights advocates and 49% abortion opponents. After the 1992 primary, abortion foes comprised 83% of the county GOP. About 20 percent of the newly elected precinct committee members had been arrested in the Operation Rescue protests.

Several protesters who were arrested ran for seats in the Kansas House. And won.

And Democrats lost their slim majority in the chamber.

“The Summer of Mercy was so pivotal,” said Mark Gietzen, a Wichita activist who orchestrated the candidate recruitment during the protests and the takeover of the county GOP. “It worked out quite successfully. More successfully than anyone ever thought it would be. If we didn’t have the Summer of Mercy, I don’t know where we would be.”

In August 1993, Shelley Shannon — an Oregon anti-abortion activist who had participated in the “Summer of Mercy” two years earlier but didn’t get arrested — returned to Wichita.

Five months after an anti-abortion extremist shot and killed a

Florida abortion doc- list every day,” he said. tor outside a Pensacola clinic, Shannon waited More laws, outside Tiller’s facili- the amendment In 1997, lawmakers ty and opened fire with a .25-caliber handgun passed a measure that activas he was driving out, anti-abortion striking him in both ists hailed as a major arms. Tiller survived achievement: the “Womand was back at work an’s Right to Know Act.” The act required that the next day.

Shannon was sen- women receive a packet tenced to 11 years in of information prior to prison for shooting Til- an abortion procedure. ler and 20 years for a se- Abortion providers over ries of firebombings and the years have argued acid attacks at abortion the information is unpolitically clinics in California, Or- necessary, egon and Nevada. Her skewed and factually actions triggered a fed- dubious.

“The main eral investithing is it gation into about the possible P e r s o n a l l y , was e d u c a ting existence of a national I’d like to see all people about they go what c o n s p i r a cy abortions were actually of anti-abor- away. doing,” said tion terrorRep. Brenda ists.

She — Kansas Rep. Brenda Landwehr L a n d w e h r, was released a Wichita from prison Re p u bl i c a n in 2018. who has citIn Kansas, abortion opponents denounced ed her own abortion as the shooting and con- the reason for her oppotinued their stepped-up sition to the procedure.

For two decades Kanefforts on the political spectrum. They took sas became more concontrol of the 125-mem- servative, though there ber Kansas House in were years where the the 1994 elections, top- pendulum swung back pling a longstanding to the left enough to abortion-rights major- elect two Democratic ity. And at the national governors — abortion level, Todd Tiahrt upset rights supporters KathWichita’s Democrat- leen Sebelius and Laura ic Congressman Dan Kelly — who positioned Glickman in the 4th their veto pens as backDistrict race, relying stops against abortion heavily on volunteers restrictions.

According to the Kanrecruited during Operasas Legislative Research tion Rescue’s rallies.

Sawyer saw ’94 as a Department, lawmakers amended state statutes turning point.

“I would not have on abortion 14 times bedreamt that things tween 1998 and 2017, takwould have shifted as ing action on everything far to the right as they from specifying text size did after the Summer of for the “Woman’s Right Mercy,” he said in a re- to Know Act” notices to be posted in clinics to cent interview.

In 1996, the primary banning abortion after election results read 22 weeks’ gestation.

But for one anti-aborlike a page ripped from the Kansans for Life tion militant, passing legislation year afplaybook.

With the help of ter year that chipped churches and orga- away at abortion rights nizations opposed to wasn’t enough.

In May 2009, Scott abortion, Kansans for Roeder of Kansas City Life succeeded in nominating and electing drove to Wichita and abortion opponents to shot Tiller at pointoffices from district blank range while he court judge to the state was ushering at his Board of Education. church. Roeder was conAnd several legislators victed of first-degree who supported abortion murder and aggravated rights were ousted by assault and sentenced staunch abortion oppo- to life in prison with no chance of parole for nents.

Two of those victors 25 years. Tiller’s clinic had been arrested in closed, but a new one — the “Summer of Mer- now called Trust Womcy” protests, including en — was opened four Tim Huelskamp, who years later by Julie Burlater was elected to khart, who worked for Congress, representing Tiller for years. It is now the 1st District. (Huel- one of four abortion skamp, who lost to Rog- providers in the state.

Meanwhile, the bater Marshall in 2016, is now chairman of the tles in the political areDo Right PAC, which is na raged on. The 2010 aggressively backing and 2012 elections were the “Value Them Both” a major turning point, Carmichael said. amendment.)

Brownback, who had The most visible 1996 victories were at the developed a reputation congressional level, as a hard-line conserwhere Sam Brownback vative, won the goverdefeated moderate Shei- nor’s office. Two years la Frahm in the GOP later came a wave of primary for the U.S. Sen- conservative lawmakers ate seat vacated by Bob defeating moderate inDole, and Vince Snow- cumbents in primaries.

Carmichael saw the barger defeated moderate Overland Park anti-abortion victories Mayor Ed Eilert in the as a demonstration of race for the 3rd District political power.

“Good Republican House seat. Brownback legislators who had and Snowbarger were served many years with abortion opponents.

Gietzen, who is chair- distinction, they chased man of the Kansas them out the door,” CarCoalition for Life and michael said.

“Thereafter, it’s been president of the Kansas a clarion call to RepubRepublican Assembly, said the list of volun- licans that if you want teers and candidates to be successful you will he developed from the toe the line and you will “Summer of Mercy” re- do what Kansans for Life says. And if you mains invaluable.

“I still live off that don’t, you will find your-

self out of a job.”

Anti-abortion activists said these lawmakers were elected because of increased awareness.

“As more and more people came to realize what was happening in the abortion industry, they elected legislators who would support these reasonable regulations on the industry,” said Jeanne Gawdun, a longtime lobbyist for Kansans for Life.

In 2011, lawmakers passed SB 36, a measure regarding clinic licensure and safety regulations. It was what abortion rights proponents considered a TRAP law — targeted regulation of abortion providers.

The measure placed an extensive series of regulations on abortion providers that they said would make their work more difficult, if not impossible.

Proponents said the move came in response to reports of abhorrent conditions at a Kansas City, Kansas, abortion clinic. But the bill was never enforced — instead, it was blocked in court.

Four years later, after Brownback won re-election as governor, Kansas made history.

Lawmakers voted to pass a bill banning “dismemberment abortions” — medical dilation and evacuation abortions, a common surgical procedure performed during and after the second trimester.

KANSAS WAS the first state in the nation to pass such a ban, but the move would prove to backfire against anti-abortion lawmakers.

The bill was quickly blocked from going into effect, and litigation over it led to the 2019 landmark ruling that found a right to abortion in the state’s constitution. The ruling set a stricter standard in protection of abortion rights in Kansas than was, at the time, provided by federal law.

Immediately, anti-abortion lawmakers called for a constitutional amendment to overturn the ruling. It took two years to get the amendment approved for the ballot. A first attempt that would have placed the issue on the August 2020 ballot failed by four votes in the House.

But then there was an election, and all four House Republicans who voted against the measure either retired or

Jeanne Tiller, center, reacts as the guilty verdict is read in the courtroom Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Scott Roeder was found guilty of killing Tiller’s husband, abortion provider George Tiller. In 1993, Shelley Shannon shot Dr. Tiller in both arms, outside his Wichita, Kansas clinic. (JEFF TUTTLE/WICHITA EAGLE/MCT) were booted from office, clearing a path for the 2021 Legislature to approve the amendment.

Lawmakers scheduled the amendment for Aug. 2, 2022. Several other states had passed similar amendments, but Kansas’ ballot initiative would take on mammoth proportions.

Last summer, Texas successfully banned most abortions after six weeks, and Oklahoma passed a copycat law. And then, in June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.

“They kept chipping away, chipping away, chipping away and finally got the courts to do what they were working on for almost 30 years,” said Rep. Barbara Ballard, a Lawrence Democrat and the longest-standing member of the Kansas House.

“Now you’re coming to Kansas and you’re going to find out, are people sitting? Are people going to buckle down, turn out to vote? And are they going to fight back against my freedom?”

The lead up to the amendment fight has been the most expensive

ballot measure in state history, with more than $10 million pouring into the campaign. And the August referendum is guaranteed to change the face of abortion law in Kansas for decades to come.

“Personally, I’d like to see all abortions go away,” Landwehr said.

She added that she would be comfortable with exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. But if that happens, she said, the state has work to do on funding and promoting adoption programs.

Carmichael is hoping for a different sort of transformation.

“I hope and I think that people are and should be scared about what’s happening, and maybe this will be the time we see another sea change in Kansas politics,” he said. “Over the last 30 years, my wife and I have said someday this pendulum is going to swing back, and maybe this will be the election.

“We seem to say that every election. And the pendulum just swings farther to the right.”

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Sen. Marshall throws veterans under the bus in reversal of vote Three of the region’s support a budget bill raising four U.S. senators decided corporate taxes to pay for Wednesday to hold sick vet- deficit reduction and climate erans hostage to their own change mitigation. anger. It’s appalling and The tax and budget bill childish. would need a simple majoriThe senators — Roy Blunt ty to pass, not 60 votes. That and Josh Hawley of Mis- made Republicans mad. souri, and Roger Marshall So let’s get this straight: of Kansas — voted against Because Blunt, Hawley and blocking a filibuster of the Marshall were angry about a PACT Act, a measure de- tax and climate bill, they designed to provide funding cided to make veterans sufto treat veterans exposed to fer? It boggles the mind. toxins and burn pits.

“How dare they use veterThe bill has been un- ans as a bargaining chip,” der discussion for years. It Sen. Patty Murray, a Demowould cost about $30 billion crat, said in a tweet. annually, a pittance in a Comedian and activist Jon multitrillion-dollar federal Stewart, who came to Kanbudget. But the cost is less sas City this summer to urge important than the cause: progress on the PACT proThe nation has promised to posal, was equally furious. help sick veterans, and vot- “Not one of these stab vets ed Wednesday to break that in the back senators should promise. get to leave for the Summer “If you have the guts to til this is fixed,” he tweeted. send somebody to war, then “Not one.” you better have the guts to We agree. If you need a pretake care of them when they cise picture of why Congress get home,” is broken, Sen. Jon TesWe d n e s d ay ’s ter of Montana If you have the guts vote is as good said on the as any: In a fit Senate floor, to to send somebody to of pique over war, then you better an unrelated little effect.

The vote to have the guts to take c o m p ro m i s e, end the filiRepubcare of them when Senate buster was 55 licans punyes to 42 no they get home. ished veterans (Senate Mastruggling to — Sen. John Tester, jority Leader breathe.

Montana Chuck SchumWe should er switched his pause here to vote to “no” in thank Sen. Jerorder to bring the measure ry Moran of Kansas, who back later.) In the Senate, of was one of just eight Repubcourse, it takes 60 votes to licans who voted in support open a can of bean soup, so of veterans. We congratulate the bill remains unpassed, him on his good sense, and while veterans suffer and hard work for veterans. We die. wish he would share both The votes should infuri- with his colleagues. ate Kansans and MissouriThe other three senators ans. The three senators vot- should apologize, and vote ed for a virtually identical to proceed to the bill if — bill in June, which passed when — it comes back to the overwhelmingly. Blunt even Senate floor. If they want to bragged about it: “Blunt oppose the Schumer-Manvotes in favor of historic, chin tax and climate bill on bipartisan bill to ensure its merits, they are free to do health care and benefits for so later. toxic-exposed veterans,” his Until then, Sens. Blunt press release said. and Marshall should be disWhy the change of heart invited from any Veterans now?

Day service or Memorial Here’s one suggestion: Day observance until the Senate Republicans were PACT Act is signed into law. furious at a budget deal, anJosh Hawley? No need to nounced just moments ear- worry. If he sees an upset lier, between Schumer and veteran approaching, he’ll Sen. Joe Manchin of West run the other way.

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In 1925, Hattie Campbell, seen in a mugshot when she arrived as an 18-year-old at the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women, was one of more than 5,000 Kansas women imprisoned by a government intent on enforcing a certain version of sexual morality than solving the health crisis at hand. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Policing women’s sexuality: Kansas has been here before

As Kansans prepare to vote on the future of reproductive health care in our state, we would do well to remember another chapter in our history. Between World War I and World War II, Kansas authorities sent more than 5,000 women to a prison in Lansing under a law called Chapter 205 for no other “crime” than having syphilis or gonorrhea.

First implemented in an attempt to control venereal disease among troops during WWI, the policy was almost exclusively applied to women.

Authorities talked about Chapter 205 as a way to morally reform young women who were engaged in what might have been called “lascivious conduct” at the time.

But, as often happens when black-and-white moral mandates get applied to the messy realities of life, many others were caught up in the policy as well.

Wives whose husbands cheated on them, gave them a disease, and then turned them in after a fight. Survivors of rape. Nine-year-old girls abused by a relative and then sent to a prison alongside women convicted of murder and theft. Women who actually volunteered to go to prison because they couldn’t otherwise afford medical treatment. These were the casualties of a government more intent on enforcing a certain version of sexual morality than solving the health crisis at hand.

In 2019, the state of Kansas took a different approach to women’s health care when the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution protects women’s right to make decisions about their own bodies, including whether to continue a pregnancy.

While restrictions on abortion are still in place in Kansas, the court’s ruling that access to abortion care is constitutionally protected is particularly consequential given the loss of that protection at the national level.

Nikki Perry The Kansas Reflector KANSAS VOTERS face a choice Aug. 2. A “yes” vote for the “Value them Both” constitutional amendment would give the Legislature the right to legislate against abortion, even in the case of rape or threats to the mother’s health, while a “no” vote would leave the 2019 court decision in place.

The fact that this vote is on the primary ballot, which attracts fewer voters, is an acknowledgment that legislators and lobbyists in Topeka worried that the average Kansan voting in November may not be in favor of letting legislators make reproductive decisions. A recent Docking Institute poll found that 63% of Kansans agreed that women were in a better position to make their own decisions about abortion than politicians. The vote Aug. 2 will be decided based on which Kansans show up on Election Day. I’ve spent years researching and writing about the women imprisoned under Chapter 205, and their stories still make my stomach drop. One thing that stands out about the story of Chapter 205 is the sheer number of people involved with implementing it. There was not one sexist bad guy plotting to imprison women for having sex, but rather hundreds of local health officers, corrections workers and everyday citizens who turned women in to authorities.

People saw women, and especially Black and poor women, as being more like children than adults. They believed these women needed the state to make decisions about their health care and their sexual lives for them.

Chapter 205 involved hundreds of people over several

decades, all of whom essentially bought into the idea that women’s rights to due process and self-determination were optional.

If we look to our past, we see Kansans justifying sending women to prison instead of asking men to put on a condom. If we look to our present, we see incredibly restrictive abortion bans being passed across the country that again treat women as children. The ease with which legislators and the general public have dismissed women’s rights throughout history offers a lesson to us all, if we are willing to listen.

The old adage that we need to learn from our history if we are going to avoid repeating it is not as simple as it sounds. To actually learn from our past, we have to be brave enough to face the hard parts of our history head on, not as spectators but as participants who understand that we are still a part of this story today.

We have to be humble enough to recognize that the faults of people of the past are still with us, to actively look for ways that the sexist attitude that people with uteruses are more like children than adults shows up in our daily lives. We have to be vulnerable enough to look for those attitudes within ourselves.

And, most importantly, we have to be willing to change.

We are in our own messy moment in history right now, and we need whatever wisdom we can gain from our past to navigate it.

As we reflect on the sad story of Chapter 205 in Kansas, let’s face the hard truths and look for opportunities to create a more just future. The women and girls who were imprisoned then deserve nothing less.

About the author: Nikki Perry is the author of “Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: the Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women.”

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President Joe Biden, (Democrat) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington D.C., 20500; (202) 456-1414; (comments): (202) 456-1111

Gov. Laura Kelly, (Democrat) Capitol, 300 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 212S, Topeka, KS 66612-1590; (785) 296-3232; www. governor.ks.gov/comments/comment.htm

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, (Republican) 109 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C., 20510; (202) 224-4774; www.marshall.senate. gov.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, (Republican) Russell Senate Office Building, Room 354, Washington D.C., 20510; (202) 224-6521; moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry

Rep. Jake LaTurner, (Republican) 130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C., 20515; (202) 225-6601; LaTurner.house.gov/ contact/email

Sen. Caryn Tyson, (Republican) State Capitol-236 E Topeka, KS 66612 (785) 296-6838; caryn.tyson@senate. ks.gov

Rep. Kent Thompson, (Republican) House District No. 9, (620) 496-7200 State Capitol, Room 050-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, kent@iolare.kscoxmail. com

Rep. Kenneth Collins, (Republican) House District No. 2, (785) 296-7698;State Capitol, Room 043-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612 Ken.Collins@house. ks.gov

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Scenes from the 129th Allen County Fair The 2022 Allen County Fair culminated over the weekend with a plethora of activities. Above at left, Jadey Ellis, foreground, and Maleah Gordon parade their steers through the showmanship portion of Saturday’s Beef Show. Above at right, judge Zach Sobba, right, visits with Madison Rausch about her poultry exhibit Saturday morning. Below at left, Kyser Nemecek presents his grand champion market hog during Sunday evening’s 4-H/FFA Livestock Auction. Below at right, Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy members, from left, Chelsea Hawley, Evie Schooler, Jadyn Kaufman, Blayke Patterson and Aila Remboldt dance during the Rotary Day at the Park activities. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Iolan Mike Buck was among the 16 entrants to take part in the Iola Rotary BBQ Cookoff as part of the Allen County Fair Saturday. Buck, who formerly competed regularly in Kansas City Barbecue Society events, had cut back in recent years, but decided to give it a whirl once again this year. Buck, who has a rare eye disease, is blind, and receives assistance from friends at the cookoff. At right, Carolyn Whitcomb, foreground, and Marcus Whitcomb partake in the Southwind Extension District “Junk Drawer Robotics” workshop Saturday in which they used household items to create airplanes and other gizmos. Below, Julian Trester-Earleywine competes in Sunday’s Pedal Pull.

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TOPEKA — The Comeback Kids almost finished one of their patented rallies once again Saturday.

Alas, the AA American Legion state champion Iola Indians came up just short after slicing a four-run deficit to one in the seventh and final inning. The rally ended with the tying run on first base as Iola bowed out to the AAA Pittsburg Patriots, 7-6. The loss, in the Senior American Legion State Tournament, ends Iola’s chances at advancing to nationals.

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“Growth is a huge thing because a lot of them didn’t know each other at the beginning of the year,” said

From left, Drake DeLaTorre, TJ Taylor, Nathan Look, Kaiden Barnett and Sam Hull recite an oath prior to Saturday’s game.

Iola head coach John Taylor.

“We had growth as a team, cohesiveness, and once they came together it was amazing. Every game they played they just made it fun for me as a coach.”

That cohesiveness culminated Friday, when Iola emerged from an 8-1 deficit to Hiawatha to win, 10-8, thus securing the AA state championship.

In Saturday’s tournament — which featured the top two AA and AAA squads in a four-team tournament — Iola trailed 7-3 going into the seventh.

Sam Hull drove in a run

Jr. Legion ends with a victory GREAT BEND — Iola’s Junior American Legion baseball team ended the 2022 campaign in much the same manner it played the rest of the season — by giving everything it had.

The Iola A Indians wrapped up its State Tournament action Friday evening in winning a 13-10 slugfest over Pittsburg.

The victory came in the third and final round of pool play. Iola did not advance to Saturday’s championship bracket.

But the Indians made sure to go out with a bang, racking up 13 hits and scoring multiple runs in the first six innings.

Payton Houk was a key protagonist for the victors, including a bases-clearing double to give Iola a quick 3-0 lead in the top of the first. He tacked on RBI singles in the third and fourth innings as part of his five-RBI day.

Pittsburg tried to keep things close but fell short after knotting the score at 3-3 in the first.

Iola scored two runs each of the next five innings, opening a 10-3 lead after 3 1/3 innings.

Pittsburg erupted for four in its half of the fourth, but the Indians responded again

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with a groundout, and Carter Hutton’s ground ball turned into a two-run error, making it 7-6 with one out.

But Pittsburg’s pitchers ended the rally with Hutton still on first.

Hull helped begin the day with a bang for Iola, driving in two runs on an RBI double to right field to plate TJ Taylor and Nathan Louk for the early 2-0 advantage.

“I think that was actually huge for our confidence,” Taylor said. “Getting those first two runs I think they realized this is a baseball See IOLA | Page B3

Salvy smash lifts KC NEW YORK (AP) — Salvador Perez hit a three-run homer off All-Star closer Clay Holmes in the ninth inning, and the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Yankees 8-6 Sunday to avoid being swept in the season series.

Whit Merrifield walked with one out — Holmes’ eighth walk in his last eight games after he issued just five in his first 37 appearances. Bobby Witt Jr. was hit on the right hand with a pitch, forcing him from the game.

Perez, who struck out three times and popped out to the catcher in his first four at-bats, drove a 1-2 sinker 441 feet into Monument Park behind the center-field wall. It was the first home run allowed this year by Holmes, who was facing his 181st batter.

“He’s got such good sink and his numbers are so overwhelming,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said. “You just don’t see right-handers take a lot of good at-bats against him. Don’t tell that to Salvador Perez.”

Perezis hitting .296 with 33 homers in 686 career atbats in late and close situations — in the seventh inning or later with the Royals either ahead by one run, tied See KC | Page B4

Report: Browns QB Watson to receive 6-game suspension

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Golden allowed two hits with three strikeouts.

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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson was suspended without pay for six games Monday for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct made against him by two dozen women in Texas, two people familiar with the decision said.

The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been publicly released. Watson, who played for four seasons with Houston before being traded to Cleveland in March, recently settled 23 of 24 lawsuits filed by women alleging sexual harassment and assault during massage therapy appointments in 2020 and 2021.

The NFL has three days to appeal the decision by disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson. The NFL Players’ Association already stated it would abide by her ruling. If either side appeals, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell or someone he designates will make the decision,

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson. TNS per terms of the collective bargaining agreement. The union then could try to challenge that ruling in federal court.

The league had pushed for an indefinite suspension of at least one year and at least a $5 million fine for the 26-year-old Watson during a three-day hearing before Robinson in June.

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Vaccinations could play role in MLB trade decisions PHOENIX (AP) — This is always a stressful time of year for Major League Baseball’s 30 general managers, who are evaluating talent, juggling financial implications and trying to figure out ways to make their teams better as Tuesday’s trade deadline approaches.

Now there’s another factor in the wheeling-and-dealing calculus — COVID-19 vaccination status.

“It’s certainly one of the things that’s new that you didn’t have to think about,” Pirates GM Ben Cherington said. “I think every team obviously wants to feel

that the full complement of their roster is available to play, but we’re in a new world and there’s personal choices.”

Those personal choices matter because MLB’s COVID-19 rules affect all 30 teams differently.

Arizona Diamondbacks GM Mike Hazen said the vaccine status of players was affecting trade talks “to some degree” but didn’t believe it would be a deciding factor in many deals, particularly for teams that don’t have to travel to Canada in the near future.

As the only MLB team located in Canada,

the Toronto Blue Jays have by far the toughest constraints. Foreign nationals who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 are not allowed to enter Canada, save for limited exceptions that require a 14-day quarantine.

Unvaccinated players are placed on the restricted list, where they are not paid and do not accrue major league service time.

That means any upgrades for the Blue Jays — who are right in the middle of the American League playoff race — will almost certainly have to be vaccinated. It also means teams traveling to Toronto for the

rest of the regular season have to consider if they’re willing to add a player who might miss a crucial series.

The Yankees, Guardians, Rays, Orioles, Red Sox, Angels and Cubs all play games in Toronto after the Aug. 2 deadline. Toronto GM Ross Atkins declined an interview request through a team spokesman.

Several teams have gone to Canada this season without some of their best players.

The Kansas City Royals were the most extreme example, losing 10 players ahead of their trip north of the U.S. border.

Several of those play-

ers — including hitters Andrew Benintendi and Whit Merrifield — have reportedly been the subjects of trade talks. Benintendi was traded to the Yankees last week.

Merrifield, a two-time All-Star, says he may be willing to get the vaccine if it means playing postseason games in Toronto.

Unless all those unvaccinated players change their minds, it sure seems like a homefield advantage for the Blue Jays. They are 3421 in Toronto and just 23-24 on the road this season.

Missing regular season games is problematic, but the playoffs are

even more important.

The Blue Jays are on track to make the postseason, so theoretically, the road to a World Series title could go through Canada. For a team like the Yankees, it would put them at a sizable disadvantage.

Benintendi has said he’d consider getting vaccinated.

“I’m open minded about it,” Benintendi said after the trade. “I’m not against it, but time will tell as we get closer, but for now I’m just focused on getting here, getting comfortable, getting to know the guys and winning baseball games.”

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game anybody can win and why can’t it be us?

They started believing and it was huge.”

Pittsburg tied the game in the bottom of the second. A ground ball error to third base allowed one runner to score. Then a sacrifice-fly at the next at-bat allowed one more run to knot the score at 2-2.

Hull then came through again in the third inning when he grounded into a fielder’s choice to second base to bring home Taylor for the one run lead, 3-2 “Sam is a special talent. He’s been a huge pick-up for us. At the beginning of the year he struggled hitting offspeed pitches, but he’s taken our coaching all year long and it’s amazing by the end of the year how well he hits

the ball. I think he had four or five RBIs in this game alone.”

In the bottom of the third, Pittsburg drove in three runs on an RBI double to right field for the 5-3 lead. Pittsburg brought in one more run across in the bottom of the fourth when Louk hit a batter with the bases loaded for the 6-3 Pittsburg edge heading into the fifth.

Indians relief pitcher Kaiden Barnett came on with one out in the fourth inning and worked the final 2.2 innings allowing only one run and three hits.

The final run of the day for Pittsburg came in the bottom of the fifth inning when a sacrifice-fly to center field plated a runner and made it a 7-3 ballgame with time running out

TJ Taylor pitches for Iola’s AA Indians in Friday’s state championship win over Hiawatha. Below, Nathan Louk bats for the Indians. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT for Iola.

The Indians’ rally in the seventh showed promise, but they were unable to keep it going.

Louk began on the mound allowing six runs and seven hits through 3.1 frames of baseball.

Hull led at the plate for Iola with four runs driven in while Hutton drove in two runs of his own. Hull and Barnett also ripped two hits apiece in the season finale.

FRIDAY’S thrilling comeback set the tone for the blood pressure-bursting weekend.

Trailing 8-1 in the American Legion AA state championship game Friday, Iola’s stormed back with nine unanswered runs to defeat Hiawatha, 10-8.

“They didn’t quit,” Iola head coach Taylor said. “You look those kids in the eyes and they want to win for each oth-

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er. They did all the little things that we asked of them in the dugout.”

It just took a while to get settled in.

Hiawatha burst out the gate to lead 3-0 after half an inning.

The Indians chipped away at the lead with Trey Sommer’s RBI single in the bottom of the first to pull within 3-1.

But Hiawatha responded with two more in the third, and then plated three more in the fourth to lead 8-1.

Iola’s starting pitcher Eli Smith had trouble locating his breaking pitches, Taylor said.

“He was actually the one who made the pitching change,” Taylor said.

“He came to me and said, ‘I don’t have it.’ It just shows what kind of leader he is. It takes a big person to do that.”

TJ Taylor came on in relief, throwing the final four innings, Iola’s bats woke up in the bottom of the fourth, when Gavin Page ripped

an RBI single. Two batters later, Louk singled home a pair to make it 8-4.

Iola wasn’t done.

Barnett singled home a run to further slice the deficit, and Sommer ripped a two-run double to score Drake DeLaTorre and Barnett to knot the score at 8-8.

“I rallied them all in the dugout and I said, ‘are we quitters or are we winners?’” Taylor asked. “They showed me they weren’t quitters. It takes one or two big hits and all of the sudden the boys explode behind each other.”

Taylor pitched a 1-23 fifth inning to set the stage for Iola’s winning rally. He scored on Smith’s sacrifice fly before Louk singled in Iola’s final run of the game.

That was all the younger Taylor needed.

He set down the final six Hiawatha batters of the game to earn the win. He allowed two hits over four innings with a strikeout.

Iola was led at the plate by Louk and Sommer’s three RBIs while Barnett also drove in two runs in the win.

Louk and Hutton led the way with two hits.

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or trailing with the tying or go-ahead run at the plate, on base or on deck.

“I like to compete — I’m going to do my best, I don’t care who’s on the mound,” Perez said. “He’s got some good stuff, good sinker, good slider, both sides of the plate to righties, to lefties. This is the big leagues. If you make a mistake, someone’s going to get you.”

Holmes (5-2) blew a save for the third time in 20 chances.

“Trying to get a ground ball there and he’s a pretty good fastball hitter and that one probably just got a little much of the plate,” Holmes said. “But I think the two batters before — just a walk and hit by pitch — allowed them to get something going there.”

Kansas City went 1-6 against the AL leading-Yankees, who last swept a season series of seven games or more by going 7-0 against Minnesota in 2009. The win also snapped a fivegame losing streak for the Royals, who entered Sunday with the thirdworst record in baseball.

“Had a couple tough ones, they start to affect anybody,” Matheny

into the right-field short porch.

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His streak of consecutive batters without a hit was the second-longest since 1974, according to STATS, behind Dennis Eckersley’s 71 for Cleveland in 1977 and Dwight Gooden’s 57 for the Yankees in 1996.

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Judge’s batting average dipped from .300 to .297. No one has batted at least .300 while hitting at least 50 homers and exceeding 100 RBIs since Alex Rodriguez hit .314 with 54 homers and 156 RBIs for the Yankees in 2007.

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Salvador Perez (13) of the Kansas City Royals reacts after hitting a 3-run home run against the New York Yankees during the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium Sunday. The Royals won 8-6. GETTY IMAGES/ADAM HUNGER/TNS said. “But this team just wants to keep fighting, play the game hard.”

Taylor Clarke (21) threw a perfect eighth, then gave up DJ LeMahieu’s single with one out in the ninth.

Aaron Judge flied out to just shy of the track in right field, Rizzo walked and Gleyber Torres hit a game-ending lineout to center.

“Don’t give up a homer,” Clarke said dryly

of his approach against Judge. “I thought he got it, just because anything to right field goes out.”

Judge went 0 for 3 with two walks and ended July with a major league-leading 42 homers and 91 RBIs. New York overcame a 4-0 deficit and took a 6-4 lead when Anthony Rizzo hit a three-run homer into the right field second deck in the seventh off Dylan Coleman, Riz-

zo’s 25th home run this season.

Hunter Dozier homered against Ron Marinaccio leading off the eighth, ending Marinaccio’s 19-inning scoreless streak and run of 56 consecutive batters without allowing a hit.

Royals starter Zack Greinke allowed three runs, five hits and two walks with three strikeouts over five innings.

Yankees starter Jor-

dan Montgomery gave up four runs, four hits and two walks with six strikeouts in four-plus innings.

He has a 6.27 ERA in his last four starts.

Kansas City took a 4-0 lead in the fifth on Nick Pratto’s two-run single, Maikel García’s RBI double and Merrifield’s run-scoring groundout.

Kyle Higashioka had an RBI single in the bottom half, and LeMahieu hit a two-run homer

Rizzo’s home run cost Greinke a chance to earn his win at the Yankees. He is 0-3 with an 8.63 ERA in eight games in the Bronx, including old Yankee Stadium.

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Royals: IF Bobby Witt Jr. (right hand) said he felt good and didn’t expect to need X-rays after being hit by a pitch in the ninth inning. Manager Mike Matheny said he was going to pinch-run anyway for Witt, who started his second straight game at designated hitter after missing the previous five games with a hamstring injury.

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practice and play in exhibition games before his suspension begins the first week of the regular season. He would be eligible to return on Oct. 23 when the Browns play at Baltimore.

Watson, who signed a fully guaranteed $230 million, five-year contract, will lose only $345,000 if the suspension is unchanged because his base salary this season is $1.035 million. His $45 million signing bonus is not affected by the suspension.

After learning the ruling was imminent, the NFLPA issued a joint statement with Watson on Sunday night, saying they will not appeal Robinson’s ruling and urged the league to follow suit.

“Every player, owner, business partner and stakeholder deserves to know that our process is legitimate and will not be tarnished based on the whims of the League office” the union said in a statement.

As he awaited the ruling, Watson has been in training camp with the Browns. He has continued to take most of the reps with the first-team offense, which will be turned over to backup Jacoby Brissett while he’s sidelined.

While the NFL pushed for a severe penalty, the union had argued Watson shouldn’t be punished at all because he was not convicted of any crime.

Two grand juries in Texas declined to indict Watson on criminal complaints brought by 10 of the women.

This was the first case for Robinson, a former U.S. district judge who was jointly appointed by the NFL and the union to handle player misconduct — a role previously held by Goodell.

A three-time Pro Bowl pick with the Texans, Watson has seen his playing career stalled by the allegations that he acted inappropriately

with the women during massage therapy sessions he scheduled via social media. He sat out the 2021 season.

In their lawsuits, the women accused Watson of exposing himself, touching them with his penis or kissing them against their will. One woman alleged Watson forced her to perform oral sex.

Watson has denied all wrongdoing, insisting any sexual activity with three of the women was consensual. He publicly insisted his goal was to clear his name before agreeing to confidential financial settlements with 20 of the women on June 21.

“This case started because one woman had the fortitude to step forward and make her voice heard,” said attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents the women in the civil lawsuit. “Her courage inspired many others with the same experience. None of

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and many questioned why the team would take on a player with so much baggage.

During his introductory news conference after he was traded to Cleveland, Watson was adamant about his innocence.

“I have never assaulted, disrespected or harassed any woman in my life,” he said at the dais, where he was joined by Browns general manager Andrew Berry and coach Kevin Stefanski. “I was raised differently. That is not my DNA. That is not my culture. That is not me as a person.”

He repeated those comments three months later during the Browns’ minicamp, insisting his only goal was to clear his name. However, a week later he settled 20 of the civil lawsuits. Any remaining lawsuits could still go to trial, but not until 2023 after both sides agreed to wait until after the upcoming season.

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The league has been sensitive about its image and handing out the appropriate discipline for Watson after being criticized for its handling of previous cases of domestic violence or sexual misconduct against women involving Baltimore running back Ray Rice, Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and Cleveland running back Kareem Hunt among others.

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Watson’s high-profile case has renewed scrutiny of the league’s handling of player misbehavior, along with its support for women, and left the Browns wonder-

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USD 256 BOARD OF EDUCATION Kim Ensminger.................................. Superintendent Sherry Henry .................................................. Clerk Bill Bigelow................................................President Jim Armstrong .................................... Vice President Ken McWhirter ................................... Board Member Bob Rhodes ....................................... Board Member Kris Smith ......................................... Board Member Joe Sutton......................................... Board Member Jackie Walls ....................................... Board Member

MISSION STATEMENT USD 256 is committed to providing an educational environment that promotes the maximum mental, physical and social development of each individual. We will provide a safe and conducive learning environment. Instilling a lifelong love of learning and a need for knowledge.

USD 256 ADMINISTRATION Kim Ensminger........................... Elementary Principal Brian Campbell........................... Jr./Sr. High Principal Brian Campbell............................... Activities Director Hali Drake ............................... Jr./Sr. High Secretary Cynthia Johnson........................Elementary Secretary Trista McVey ........................... Food Services Director Denny Lasley ........................ Maintenance Supervisor

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Enrollment P-12 Teacher In-Service Classes Begin Progress Reports Labor Day (no classes) Parent Teacher Conference 4-8 p.m.

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Progress Reports Parent Teacher Conference 4-8 p.m.

Parent Teacher Conference 4-8 p.m.

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Jr./Sr. Daily Bell Schedule 1st Hour....................8-8:50 Seminar....................9-9:20 2nd

Hour...........9:24-10:14

3rd Hour...........10:18-11:08 4th Hour...........11:12-12:02 Jr. High Lunch....12:06-12:30 Sr. High Lunch....12:09-12:39 5th Hour............12:42-1:32 6th Hour...............1:36-2:26 7th Hour...............2:30-3:20

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