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Iola’s welcome mat greets cyclists More Family passes budget through on 6,600-mile trip troubles to Panama looming

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

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hris Conk, wife Julie Grenier and their children, Leo and Charlotte, rolled into Iola, wet and weary, on board their bicycles about 4:30 p.m. Friday.

Little did the Canadian visitors know, they’d be donning costumes less than two hours later, as the guests of honor at a local Halloween party. Julie was Cleopatra, Chris a pharaoh.

“We introduced ourselves as cyclists,” Chris laughed.

“They asked, ‘You ride wearing that?’”

Yes, it was quite an introduction to Iola and Allen County for the intrepid travelers.

The cyclists left Iola Sunday, as they continued their journey from Montreal en route to Panama City, a total 6,700 miles. Iola is about onethird of the way.

The trip began June 28, and could take as much as a

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

Chris Conk, right, wife Julie Grenier and the couple’s two children, Charlotte, 8, and Leo, 11, passed through Iola over the weekend. The family is traveling via bicycle from their home in suburban Montreal to Panama. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN calendar year, Chris said.

Why such a long route?

“It’s the end of the road,” Chris explained. “That’s as far as we can go.”

The Pan-American Highway goes from Alaska to Argentina, but it gets cut off in the Darien Gap, a dense jungle area surrounding the Panama Canal. (It starts back up south of the Canal in Colombia.)

Conk figured it was a natu-

ral stopping point — for now.

THE FAMILY of self-described “adventure cyclists” has done similar excursions in the past — going 1,200 miles as a family, while Chris has done a 5,000-mile trek solo — but never this long with all four family members aboard their own bikes.

Daughter Charlotte, 8, had been riding with her father on a tandem bicycle, but be-

gan complaining about 1,500 miles into the trip that she didn’t get to ride on her own.

“It took some mental gymnastics,” Chris said. “Do we want to bicycle with an 8-year-old sharing a road with drivers? But she showed the drive to do it, and it’s gone great.”

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A multimillion-dollar budget deficit is all but certain to emerge in Kansas with new, more pessimistic revenue projections expected in the coming week.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback already has ruled out one remedy — further tax increases after sales and cigarette taxes went up in July — not that legislators are much interested anyway after this year’s bitter, record-long annual session.

“It was, you know, just such an ass-kicking,” said state Sen. Jim Denning, an Overland Park Republican who serves on the Senate’s budget committee. “We’re not See BUDGET | Page A4

Humboldt housing gets a boost

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — Folks will have an opportunity Tuesday to see how the Humboldt Affordable Housing program is upgrading the town’s housing stock.

Tours are from 4:30 to 7 p.m. through the program’s first project, a house at 1317 Neosho St. The house was thoroughly remodeled and reconfigured; everything to make it a “good starter home for people in the work force,” said Cole Herder, city administrator and member of HAF. A $100,000 grant from the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation helps provide “gap financing,” Herder

This house at 1317 Neosho, completely remodeled by Humboldt Affordable Housing, Inc., will be open for the public to see Tuesday 4:30 to 7 p.m. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON said. “It’s not uncommon for the cost of a house plus rehab to be more than the appraised value,” he said.

Humboldt Affordable Housing lowers that hurdle by providing “forgivable” financing.

The group, with private investment, purchased the house and then went about modernizing it. When all was completed, HAF had about $62,000 in the house, See HOUSE | Page A2

Russia’s goals in Syria defined by timing

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WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s much speculation about Russian motives for intervening in Syria. The root answer lies in the timing.

Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin boss, finally decided Syrian leader and Moscow ally Bashar Assad was in danger of losing control of Damascus, the capital of the civilwar ravaged nation.

That, in turn, would have crushed a key Russian foreign policy objective — keeping Syria together as a unitary state and maintaining the Russian foothold in

Steven R. Hurst An AP news analysis

the Middle East.

“Assad has not been doing well for a long time, so that leads me to believe they (the Russians) saw something lately that made them think things were getting considerably worse, and they had to intervene,” said Eugene

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Rumer, director of the Carnegie Endowment Russia and Eurasia program.

Holding together the status quo has played heavily in Kremlin foreign policy reaching deep into the past.

And the logic of Mideast and North African developments — the centrifugal spinning apart of Iraq and Libya, for example — was deeply unnerving to Moscow.

That was particularly true as the Russians saw the danger in Syria, a long-time See ANALYSIS | Page A2

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Obituary

Police reports

Louann Snodgrass

Arrests reported

Celebration of life services for former Iolan Louann Jeanette (Stoddard) Snodgrass, whose death Sept. 12 was reported in the Sept. 17 Register, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church in Iola.

Memorials to St. Luke’s Hospice House or First Christian Church of Iola may be left with the Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola.

To sign the guest book online or leave a condolence, go to www.iolafuneral.com.

Allen County sheriff ’s deputies arrested Stewart Cole Jr., Mildred, Saturday for allegedly leaving the seen of an accident, failing to report an accident, giving false information and driving without a license.

Rylee M. Bennett,

Iola, was arrested Saturday for allegedly driving while suspended and speeding, deputies said.

case has been submitted to the Allen County attorney’s office for review.

Incident probed

A burglary and theft in LaHarpe were reported Saturday, sheriff ’s deputies said. The total loss was estimated at $1,087.

Allen County sheriff ’s deputies are investigating a reported domestic battery in Moran from Saturday. The

Burglary reported

Phi Tau Omega sorority gathers for social Sixteen members and three guests attended the Phi Tau Omega Kappa Alpha Chapter Social Oct. 19 at Rookies Bar and Grill.

Members in attendance were Jeanna Church, Mary LaCrone, Mary Ellen Stanley, Audrey Wagner, Roberta Ellis, Susan Locke, Jolene Boeken, Liz Donnelly, Rhodenia Rowe, Lucinda Stanley, Susan Hoffmeier, Gwen Hamilton, Carla Hunt, Sharon Bland, Barbara Anderson and Connie Rutledge. The three guests were Betty Skidmore, Janet Apt and Debbie Hill.

The meeting was hosted by Jolene Boeken and Rhodenia Rowe. It was Betty Skidmore’s birthday so the group sang her “Happy Birthday” and gave her some birthday gifts.

Jolene and Rhodenia asked the group to predict the total score of

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Members of the Phi Tau Omega Kappa Alpha Chapter met Oct. 19 for a chapter social at Rookies Sports Bar and Grill in Iola. COURTESY PHOTO the Royals game that evening.

Barbara Anderson guessed 15 total runs and was the closest to the total ending score.

Rhodenia presented her with the winning gift.

The hostesses also read a list of items the group needed to find in their purse for other winning

gifts.

The group enjoyed the socializing, but was saddened by the outcome of the Royals game that night.

The sorority’s next meeting is a business meeting tonight at 7 o’clock at the Community National Bank meeting room.

The four-story building, which cost $55 million, replaces an old KBI laboratory in the basement of a renovated junior high school. The grand opening is today, with tours for the public

scheduled later in the week.

The current laboratory processes about 10,000 pieces of equipment each year for law enforcement agencies across the state. The goal

is for the KBI to analyze each piece of evidence within 60 days of receiving it, KBI Director Kirk Thompson said. The lab receives about 50 pieces of evidence per day.

About 70 people cur-

rently work at the lab and that staffing will not change if the evidence can be processed within 60 days, Thompson said, but workers could be added if that goal isn’t achieved.

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client, arms customer and Moscow’s only remaining outpost in the region. Beyond that, Syria is home to Moscow’s only naval base in the Mediterranean.

Putin began Russian involvement in what is becoming his textbook incremental fashion. First, in late summer, he quietly boosted military hardware and personnel at the Sovietera Tartus base on the Syrian Mediterranean coast. Then, in late September, Putin spoke at the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in years. He issued a strong argument that the U.S. was failing against ISIS militants who hold a large swath of territory in Syria and neighboring Iraq.

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The next day, Putin said Russia might start air strikes. Those bombing runs began within days, but the targets were not ISIS fighters, as Putin had said, but the more moderate Syrian rebels Washington was backing against Assad.

The northwest region out of which Moscow is operating remains a heartland of Alawite supporters of Assad.

Alawites form a branch of Shiite Islam, a fact that also has made Syria a close ally of non-Arab but predominantly Shiite Iran. Tehran already was heavily involved on Assad’s behalf in the four-year civil war.

But Tehran’s help, along with militia fighters from Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah, wasn’t

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EMPORIA — Iolan Maggie Wilson has earned a bachelor of science degree in recreation with a minor in coaching at Emporia State Unversity.

Wilson completed her degree in the summer, according to an ESU press release. Students are given the option of going through commencement exercises in the spring before final completion, or the following winter commencement.

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KBI opens new Forensics lab at Washburn U TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new multimilliondollar Kansas Bureau of Investigation Forensic Science Center is set to open this week on the Washburn University campus in Topeka.

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“For some time Russian security and military leaders have been frustrated that even with the aid of fighters from Iran and Hezbollah, Assad’s forces have been unable to hold their own,” said William Courtney, a former U.S. diplomat in Moscow, and now adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation, and a former ambassador to Kazakhstan and Georgia.

The Kremlin fears, however, that the armed opposition to Assad will adapt to Russian air power, which will then lose effectiveness, Courtney said.

“These worries have contributed to Russia’s recent professed interest in finding a ‘political solution’ to the Syrian crisis,” he said. “The Krem-

lin may press for a while for Assad to retain his position. In some time, however, Russia and the West may both see him as expendable. The West views Assad as too brutal, and Russia (sees him) as too weak and ineffective.”

Whether effective or not, Russia’s involvement has led to resumed talks about Syria’s future in Vienna. So far there’s no progress but at least there are talks, notable for including Iran — at Russia’s insistence — for the first time. They are notable as well for easing the Kremlin’s isolation after its takeover of Crimea and backing for pro-Moscow forces fighting the central government in Ukraine.

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by President Barack Obama’s decision to insert a few dozen American special operators in Syria to bolster the Assad opposition, including highly effective Kurdish fighters in the north. That move is in contrast to Obama’s previous vow to not put American “boots on the ground” in Syria.

While it remains unclear if Russia can succeed in Syria — by holding together a unified state whether led

by Assad or another strongman — it is certain Kremlin intervention was strategically timed, has undercut U.S. tactics and has restarted negotiations to end the Syrian civil war.

The success of those talks, however, remains highly uncertain.

EDITOR’S NOTE — Steven R. Hurst is The Associated Press’ international political writer and has covered foreign affairs for 35 years.

which is its sale price. Potential buyers likely will have to put up about 20 percent of the cost for a down payment, with HAF stepping in to fill the gap between cost and appraisal. If the purchaser stays on board, HAF’s contribution will be forgiven, at 20 percent a year.

Once the house is sold members of the Humboldt group will use the proceeds, and additional investments if necessary, to purchase another home to remodel and put on the market.

The hope is to do a home every six to eight months.

Over time investors expect to recoup some or all of what they put into the project, to provide more affordable housing and stoke the local economy.

THE HOUSE was built in the late 1880s and has had numerous changes and upgrades over the years.

When the housing group purchased the house it had three bedrooms and one bath and needed substantial improvements in utility systems, as well as cosmetic tweaking.

“We decided to make it two bedrooms and two baths, with the master bath really nice,” Herder said.

“It looks like a different house now, with the enhancements making it much more usable. The detached two-car garage also was given attention.

“It’s a milestone for Humboldt” in efforts to increase housing stock and give the several hundred people working at its two major industries, B&W Trailer Hitches and Monarch Cement, another option for modernized homes, he said.

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Debates’ hostile tone stymies discussion On Saturday, Republican candidates complained of the hostile nature of the CNBC moderators at last Wednesday’s debate in Boulder, Colo.

We agree — kind of.

It serves no purpose for the debate moderator to add more fuel to the fire of what are increasingly contentious arenas. By their very design, debates are of an adversarial nature.

To make them downright nasty is not conducive to producing good answers.

That said, the role of a moderator is to hold candidates’ feet to the fire to ensure the truth is being told and to keep the discussion

on track. Sometimes that requires being forceful.

For the most part, the debates are the general public’s only opportunities to see how the candidates think on their feet and how they generally comport themselves.

WITH PLENTY of debates still to come — the election is just now a full year away — TV networks should heed the complaints of the candidates to keep the debates as civil as possible, while still keeping the truth as their main objective.

A formidable challenge, to be sure.

— Susan Lynn

A fair-weather fan’s take on KC Royals “If the closers are so good, why don’t they pitch more of the game?” I asked my husband.

No response.

“Or why don’t they use a different closing pitcher every inning of the game.

Surely there are enough young men who could fill the spots.”

This is when a little knowledge can be dangerous. Saturday night, Brian definitely wanted to mute my running commentary.

These are my takeaways from watching the Royals these last few weeks.

• They don’t hold grudges. When the Mets’ pitcher Noah Syndergaard started off Game 3 with a zinger that almost hit Alcides Escobar’s head, word spread some kind of retribution would await. “We’ve got a few tricks up our sleeve, too,” Ned Yost, Royals manager, threatened. I don’t know what he had in mind, but by the next day saner minds prevailed and the Royals stayed the course of simply playing their style of ball. Revenge, in any venue, is a lousy motivator.

• They are generous.

Saturday night, outfielder Alex Rios seemed to think

Susan Lynn Register editor his catch ended the inning and missed an opportunity to throw out a runner coming in at home plate. Everyone could relate. They moved on.

• They keep their composure. It annoys me to see fans waving handkerchiefs behind the batter’s box in an effort to distract the pitcher. As if. Fans should model the respect the players show for each other.

• They are a team. It must be difficult playing away from home, especially when the stakes are so high. That’s when they pull together, knowing their support of each other is all the more critical.

At this writing, I don’t know if the Royals pulled it off Sunday night to win the World Series.

Win or lose, they’ve been the very model of sportsmanship.

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A federal grant of $80,000 for Iola Public Library will be used to reduce the $198,000 bond issue voted last April for construction and equipping of the new library, said LeRoy G. Fox, state librarian.

The federal grant will thus mean the bond issue can be cut by a

substantial amount, said Harold Yokum, president of the library board. ***** The Lions Club will open its annual pancake and chili feed at the Elks Club tomorrow at 4 a.m. and keep the operation going until 7 p.m. to serve the hunters on the first day of prairie chicken season before they take to the fields.

In House’s dark hour Ryan offers hope WASHINGTON — The speaker-elect walked down the center aisle Thursday morning, accepting hugs, kisses, handshakes and applause. Then he did something unexpected: He turned left.

Paul Ryan, the young Wisconsin Republican who in minutes would accept the speaker’s gavel, walked through the Democratic side of the well. He accepted a bear hug from Rep. Gene Green of Texas and handshakes from Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and half a dozen other African-American Democrats.

He reached in to greet Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois in her wheelchair, shook hands with Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan, a frequent critic, and hugged Georgia Rep. John Lewis, the civil-rights icon.

“If you ever pray, pray for each other: Republicans for Democrats and Democrats for Republicans,” Ryan told the House. To laughter, he added: “And I don’t mean pray for a conversion, all right? Pray for a deeper understanding, because ­— when you’re up here, you see it so clearly — wherever you come from, whatever you believe, we are all in the same boat.”

There was rapt silence when, a moment later, Ryan said: “Let’s be frank. The House is broken. ... And I am not interested in laying blame. We are not settling scores. We are wiping the slate clean.”

Just about everybody — even, after some hesitation, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi — rose and applauded.

I felt goose bumps watching from the gallery, for a most unfamiliar sense of hope had admitted itself to the bitterly divided chamber.

In this dark hour for the House, there was a tantalizing glimpse that the institu-

Dana Milbank Washington Post Writers Group tion, which has strayed so far from what the Founders created, could heal itself. Only an ingenue would believe all will be different now. But only the most hardened cynic would dismiss the possibility of what Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., in her speech nominating Ryan, called a “fresh start.”

For a day, the ideological freak show was shut down.

Only nine Republicans voted against Ryan, a far more unified showing than in January, when 25 opposed John Boehner. For the moment, the Republican speaker was overtly courting Democrats.

And for once, Democrats and Republicans were rising in unison to applaud.

“How reassuring it would be,” Ryan told his colleagues, “if we actually fixed the tax code, put patients in charge of their health care, grew our economy, strengthened our military, lifted people out of poverty and paid down our debt.”

Pelosi shrugged and looked around. Finding nothing objectionable in what Ryan had said, she rose and joined in the applause.

It may not be long before Ryan winds up in the same position Boehner was for five years: forced to bring up pointless abortion bills and Obamacare repeals and otherwise placating hardliners.

But he may be the only one who has a shot at repairing the chamber, because of his youth (he’s 45), his renown (Mitt Romney, on whose ticket Ryan ran in 2012, watched the

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

This coming Saturday our community will be taking time to honor all those who have served in our United States armed forces. This commemoration has been organized by the Allen County Veterans Committee. Over recent years several challenges have presented themselves to the committee, including the loss and aging of dedicated committee members, scheduling conflicts with high school bands, and a general lack of interest and support due to the busy

lives we all seem to lead.

The Veterans Day parade, the most visible portion of the commemoration, has gotten smaller and smaller.

Critical comments have been made after the parade stating its poorness.

Rather than find fault, please help us make the parade better. Every one of us knows a veteran — a family member, fellow employee, next door neighbor, someone with whom you attend church — honor them by finding some way to be a part of this year’s parade.

Drive your car and play patriotic music. Put a sign in the back of your truck that says “Thank You.” Have your family walk as a group honoring your special family veterans. Decorate bicycles with red, white and blue. Carry a patriotic balloon bouquet or a veteran’s picture. Come together as families, neighbors, employees, churches, teams, clubs, coffee drinkers, whoever, and please join us in honoring our veterans. Help us to remember those who came back home to us and those

who gave their all.

My Dad, a World War II veteran, put flags on the graves of veterans for over 35 years.

When asked why he still did it even as an 80-year-old his answer was very simple and will forever live in my mind, “Why wouldn’t you honor these guys?”

Ask yourself that question this week and then join us. The parade begins at noon with line-up on South Washington beginning at 11:30 a.m.

Becky Nilges, Iola, Kan.

proceedings as Ryan’s guest in the speaker’s box), and his popularity.

Pelosi, handing the gavel to Ryan, offered “the hand of friendship” from Democrats, and said: “This is the speaker’s house.” She corrected herself: “This is the people’s house.” But her misstatement was apt: For now, at least, this is Paul Ryan’s house.

Ryan benefits from a big parting gift from Boehner, who in his final days infuriated conservatives one last time by negotiating a bipartisan deal that will postpone budget and debt-limit fights until 2017. The outgoing speaker waved a box of tissues to his chuckling colleagues before his farewell speech, and he dabbed his eyes as he pleaded for reason. “Yes, freedom makes all things possible,” he said, “but patience is what makes all things real.”

The departing speaker was still wiping his eyes when, standing in the back of the chamber, he heard Pelosi celebrate him as “the personification of the American dream,” and Ryan accurately call him “a man of character.”

Boehner gave a final salute and walked out.

“Now I know how he felt,” Ryan said, confiding that the weight of the office makes him feel that “the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.” He suggested his colleagues should feel the weight of their offices, too.

“At bottom,” the speaker said, “we vindicate a way of life. We show by our work that free people can govern themselves.”

That proposition is now seriously in question. Let’s all — Democrats, Republicans, liberals and conservatives — pray for Ryan’s success in defending it.

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going to go through it again.”

Instead, Brownback and his aides are likely to consider targeted spending cuts and other budget adjustments, such as shuffling money among various government accounts, state budget director Shawn Sullivan said. Top legislators oppose reducing aid to public schools, but Sullivan said, “I’m not going to officially take it off the table at this point.”

Kansas has struggled to keep its budget balanced after Republican legislators slashed personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 at Brownback’s urging in an effort

to stimulate the economy. They m a n aged this year to preserve most of the past income tax cuts Brownback but did it by giving Kansas one of the nation’s highest state sales tax rates and boosting taxes on cigarettes by 50 cents a pack.

Today state officials were to learn whether October’s tax collections met expectations after falling short in recent months. At the end of the week, economists, legislative researchers, Sullivan and others from

Brownback’s administration are scheduled to issue new revenue projections, meant to guide budget decisions.

Kansas’ current fiscal forecast projects state tax collections of $6.2 billion for this fiscal year and $6.4 billion for the fiscal year that begins in July 2016.

The state’s total annual budget is $15.3 billion.

After recent tax collections fell $67 million, or 4.7 percent, short, Kansas is expecting to have little in the way of a cushion of cash reserves at the end of June 2016.

The administration will work immediately on budget-balancing measures, Sullivan said,

acknowledging there will be pressure to re-examine the state’s operations and ask, “Can we do it better?”

“From that aspect, I don’t know that it’s a bad thing,” Sullivan said.

Both Denning and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Ron Ryckman Jr. expect forecasters to cut revenue predictions — and leave the state with a projected deficit in its current budget that could exceed $100 million.

Kansas isn’t alone in facing budget issues: The national economy grew only 1.5 percent from July to September, according to the federal

government. The U.S. has seen a “tepid” recovery since the end of the Great Recession in 2009 and there’s no expectation of a change, said Arturo Perez, a fiscal analyst with the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Low inflation has made both wages and prices — and the taxes tied to them — grow slowly, according to Don Boyd, fiscal studies director for the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, New York.

Plus, the stock market has remained “flat” over time, which is likely to lessen a state’s taxes on capital gains.

“A lot of states are finding that the econo-

my’s a little bit weaker than they forecast,” Boyd said.

Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan struck an optimistic note, pointing to the state’s unemployment rate, only 4.4 percent in September, and the fact that individual income tax collections are running slightly ahead of last year’s.

But Kansas saw no net collections from taxes on oil and natural gas production in July, August and September, and sales tax collections during the same period were 3.2 percent below expectations.

“People are still a little nervous about the economy,” Jordan said.

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ridden about 600 miles with few troubles aside from an occasional flat tire.

“It’s not a challenge,” Chris said. “It’s been almost the opposite. We’ve been fortunate to run into good luck.”

While staying the weekend with Iolans David and Beth Toland, the family was treated to a number of Iola’s points of interest, including a trip to King’s Sandwich Shop, visits to Riverside Park and other highlights.

But more importantly, they met several locals, which tended to overshadow tourist-related points of interest. ”It’s become a people-

When we get chances to share our experiences, Iola is going to be on the tips of our tongues.

— Chris Conk, “adventure cyclist”

interaction trip more than a trip to see attractions,” Chris said.

Conk echoed other cyclists in praising the Prairie Spirit Trail, which the family rode along Friday to get to Iola from Garnett.

“That’s what we look

for when we use Google Maps,” Chris said. “We look for sections with a green route (marking rail trails). We just drool over this. Rails to trails is probably one of the greatest things on earth.”

He was equally as effusive in praising Iola’s appeal.

“When we get chances to share our experiences, Iola is going to be on the tips of our tongues,” he said.

“We won’t forget Iola,” Julie added. “It’s going to be one of our top cities.”

Iolans can keep track of the family’s progress by searching for “bicycling family” on Facebook.

“We have a website,

too, that we barely touch,” Chris laughed.

THE FAMILY will have some choices to make when their excursion ends.

They sold their house in Quebec, partially to fund their trip, and partially because they want to take stock in their lifestyle before they return home.

“We’re looking into an adventure into sustainable living,” Chris said. “We don’t need to buy a big home. We want to purchase something that’s reasonable to maintain. We’re looking into living an alternative lifestyle, where we’re not just consuming with a 1,000 square

feet house.

“Who needs 1,000 square feet?” he asked.

“We’ve been living in our tent, which is 4x6.

Anything bigger than that will feel spacious.”

Conk, Grenier and children discovered the Tolands via “Warm Showers,” an online network that sets up potential hosts for cross-country bicyclists looking for temporary lodging.

(As an aside, David Toland said the weekend visit illustrates why Iola should develop a campground area for bicyclists near the Southwind Trailhead at Riverside Park.)

Through the network, the family connected with Iola cycling enthu-

siast Randy Rasa, who put them in touch with the Tolands.

The couples’ children — Leo is 11, Charlotte 8, similar ages to the Toland children — bonded instantly, spending much of Saturday sauntering about while their parents visited.

“We definitely have free range children,” Chris said.

“This was a really good weekend for them to visit,” David Toland said. “We just happened to have this party when they arrived, and they met half the town there.

With all of this (Halloween activity) going on in this neighborhood, I feel like our community showed very well.”

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Royals rally to win in 12 innings, earn first World Series title since 1985 NEW YORK (AP) — They worked all season to take one more step in the World Series.

Eric Hosmer wouldn’t wait any longer.

A daring dash by Hosmer tied the score in the ninth, and those bound-and-determined Kansas City Royals rallied yet again to beat the New York Mets 7-2 in 12 innings early Monday for their first championship since 1985.

One agonizing win from ecstasy last year, this time the Royals reign after their latest incredible comeback and a go-ahead hit in Game 5 from Christian Colon, maybe the most unlikely player in uniform.

So go ahead and crown ‘em, Kansas City! The job is finally done.

“From Day One, there was no doubt in my mind that they wouldn’t accomplish it.

There was no doubt in their mind that they wouldn’t accomplish it,” manager Ned Yost said. “It’s just a special, special group that doesn’t come around very often.”

Down 2-0 in the ninth, Kansas City fought back against two of the top arms on the pitching-rich Mets: Matt Harvey and Jeurys Familia. And the Royals won it not with

The Kansas City Royals rush to relief pitcher Wade Davis to celebrate after defeating the New York Mets 7-2 to win the World Series on Sunday at Citi Field in New York. JILL TOYOSHIBA/KANSAS CITY STAR/ TNS

power at the plate but instead an aggressive sprint home

by Hosmer on a groundout, a three-run double from Lorenzo Cain, a couple of crucial steals.

Consistent contact, keep the line moving.

“I couldn’t have written a better script,” Yost said.

That’s how Series MVP Salvador Perez and the Royals became the first team since the 2002 Angels to come from behind in all four World Series wins, according to

STATS. That’s how they washed out the bitter taste of last year’s Game 7 loss to San Francisco at home, an October heartbreak that drove the Royals to their singular focus all season.

Never waver. Win it all.

Wipe away the pain.

“Kansas City is No. 1. Who cares about what happened last year?” Perez said.

To get back where they were last fall — 90 feet from tying the Giants in the ninth inning — the Royals played more than 50,000 pitches of baseball and flew nearly 30,000 miles while crisscrossing the country.

Now, this group of homegrown favorites who revitalized a floundering franchise, Mike Moustakas and Alex Gordon and Hosmer to name a few, can finally rest and rejoice.

Not to be forgotten, major contributions from new additions assembled by general manager Dayton Moore like Ben Zobrist, Johnny Cueto, Kendrys Morales, Chris Young and Alex Rios.

All together, they take their place in Royals history alongside Hall of Famer George Brett, Bret Saberhagen, Willie Wilson and those unexpected champs from 30 years ago.

“It’s kind of good that these guys have their own identity,” said Brett, a team executive.

“It’s going to be fun comparing the two teams.”

Next up, Tuesday’s parade See ROYALS | Page B8

Mustangs place 11th in state

By JONATHAN CZUPRYN The Iola Register

Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez poses with the MVP trophy and the car he was awarded after being named the World Series MVP on Sunday. SHANE KEYSER/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS

Salvador Perez earns World Series MVP NEW YORK (AP) — Salvador Perez took foul balls of his mask, collarbone and fingers, and the Kansas City catcher kept on bouncing back, like some indestructible test dummy.

No bruise was too painful.

No ache was too much to overcome.

Not only did he anchor the pitching staff, he hit .364 (8 for 22) and was voted the Most Valuable Player in the Royals' five-game World Series win over the New York Mets that culminated in a 7-2, 12-inning victory early Monday morning.

"Now I don't feel pain. I don't feel nothing," he said.

Last year against San Francisco, Perez hit a foul pop to Pablo Sandoval for the Series' final out, with the potential tying run at third.

Now that's long behind him.

"In 2015 Kansas City is No. 1," he said, the shiny trophy in front of him. "Who cares about what happened last year?"

This year, his grounder drove in the tying run as Kansas City rallied for two runs in the ninth inning.

Then he singled leading off the 12th, setting up pinchrunner Jarrod Dyson to score the go-ahead run on pinch-hitter Christian Colon's single.

Perez set a major league record for most innings caught over a two-year span since 1914 with 2,724, according to STATS, topping the 2,704 for the Chicago Cubs' Randy Hundley in 1967-68. In addition, Perez has caught 38 spring training innings over the past two years plus 36 innings during the major league All-Stars' 2014 postseason tour of Japan.

"It's unbelievable. I always say we feel like a family here," said Perez. "We've got the same group, almost the same group, when I played my first year in 2007 in Arizona, the Rookie League. It's amazing to now win a World Series and see the same guys with you."

WAMEGO — After a grueling season that started back in July, the Iola High varsity boys cross country team capped off the year with an 11th-place finish in the Kansas 4A State Cross Country Championship on Saturday afternoon.

In a tough field of competition and an even tougher course that featured hills the Mustangs haven’t seen all season, coach Marv Smith’s squad finished just 12 points ahead of last-place Paola.

“This was one of the tougher state meets I have attended,” said Smith, who wrapped up his 36th season as Iola’s head cross country coach.

There were just six seniors in the top-31 spots in the 2014 meet, which meant that the majority of this year’s runners already had experience on the course.

The IHS varsity boys cross country team takes off from the starting line Saturday in Wamego. REGISTER/JONATHAN CZUPRYN Iola, on the other hand, fielded its first state team competitor since 2012.

The Mustangs also had to overcome a slew of injuries to key runners throughout the year with a limited

amount of depth. So, despite finishing outside the top10 on Saturday, Smith said he was impressed with his team’s resilience.

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Allen cross country dominates

By JONATHAN CZUPRYN The Iola Register

The Allen men’s and women’s cross country teams pose with their trophies Saturday. COURTESY OF VINCE DEGRADO

The Allen Community College men’s and women’s cross country teams had a historic weekend in Overland Park during the KJCCC/Region VI Championships.

The men captured their first ever Region VI Championship while cruising to their fourth consecutive conference title as well.

“We finally got that monkey off of our backs and put together a championship season,” coach Vince DeGrado said. “We knew goSee ACC | Page B8

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A patient at a Kansas state hospital for the mentally ill was charged Friday with raping a staff member in the latest troubling incident at the institution.

Forty-two-year-old Aaron C. Goodman, of Hartford, is jailed on $250,000 bond in a sexual assault Tuesday at Osawatomie State Hospital. The Miami County prosecutor’s of-

Services, which operates Osawatomie, said the residential unit was fully staffed when the reported attack occurred.

Baumgardner said there had been two other worrisome situations at the hospital in recent months, including in May when a worker suffered serious head injuries after being assaulted by a patient. Questions also were raised after a patient

Employees who work in a state institution need to be safe. Likewise, patients... need to receive the health care they need.

And what I’m not liking is this cycle of patients going to Osawatomie and, because of different incidents, ending up in our jails. — Sen. Molly Baumgardner, R - Louisburg

fice said Goodman doesn’t yet have an attorney who could comment on the allegations.

Police said in a news release that it was reported that a 21-year-old staff member was sexually assaulted and raped after she was summoned to the patient’s room to assist him.

Another patient heard the struggle and stopped the attack, the release said.

The staff member was taken to a hospital and released later that night.

Republican state Sen. Molly Baumgardner, who lives in the town of Louisburg in Miami County, said she’s concerned something may have been missed during the intake process that would have led to staff taking additional precautions with the patient. She also raised questions about staffing levels at the hospital.

But Angela de Rocha, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability

fatally injured a man soon after his release from the hospital. “Employees who work in a state institution need to be safe. Likewise, patients in a state institution need to receive the health care they need,�

Baumgardner said. “And what I am not liking is this cycle of patients going to Osawatomie and because of different incidents are ending up in our jails.�

The facility in Miami County has been limited to 146 beds since midJune, after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services required renovations several months earlier. The hospital has been replacing items that could be used for hanging, such as dropped ceilings, or as weapons.

Currently, the only patients served in the hospital are those who have been determined to be a threat to themselves or others, de Rocha said.

US Episcopal Church installs first black leader

By JULIE LINDERMAN The Associated Press

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, installed Sunday as the first black leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church, urged Episcopalians to evangelize by crossing divides of race, education and wealth.

Curry used the example of his own mother being given Communion at a white Episcopal parish before desegregation, and how that act persuaded his father to join the denomination, and eventually become a priest. “God has not given up on the world and God is not finished with the Episcopal Church yet,�

Curry said, during a joyous ceremony in the Washington National Cathedral.

Curry, 62, succeeds Katharine Jefferts Schori, who was the first woman in the job and is ending her nine-year term.

He served about 15 years as leader of the Diocese of North Carolina before he was overwhelmingly elected last summer to the top church post. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, and earned degrees from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and Yale Divinity School.

The New York-based denomination was the

church of many Founding Fathers and now has about 1.9 million members. Episcopalians now are struggling with shrinking membership and ongoing tensions with fellow Anglicans around the world over the Episcopal support for gay marriage. Curry will represent the U.S. church in January, at a meeting of national Anglican leaders addressing the splits in their fellowship.

As the ceremony began Sunday, Curry rapped on the cathedral door with a wooden staff — a custom that symbolizes the ushering of a new leader into its halls, both physical and metaphorical.

Jefferts Schori passed her staff to Curry, transferring the responsibility of leadership. Those assembled in the cathedral erupted in cheers.

Curry’s historic installation comes at a time when fewer Americans than ever are affiliating with a religious group, and the Episcopal Church and other liberal Protestant groups, along with some conservative churches, have been struggling with dwindling membership. Curry has said he hopes to raise visibility of the church in “positive and genuine ways� and focus on re-

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Curry also takes over at a time of increased focus on racial issues in America and the Episcopal Church. In 2008 Jefferts Schori held a national service of repentance to apologize for the church’s complicity with slavery, segregation and racism.

Curry has said that he will continue to grapple with the church’s past.

Curry told those in the cathedral that, “evangelism is sharing the faith that’s in you, and listening and learning from the faith that’s in someone else,� he said. “It’s about listening and sharing, it’s a relationship where God can get in the mix,� he said.

He described how his father reacted when he and his mother had been allowed to drink from the same chalice being passed among white parishioners. “He was dumbfounded,� Curry said. “Years later he would say he joined the Episcopal Church because he really hadn’t imagined that could happen in America, He said, any church where blacks and whites drink out of the same cup knows something about the Gospel I want to be a part of.�

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An aspirin a day keeps your colon OK? Dear Dr. Roach: I saw that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends aspirin to prevent colon cancer. Should everyone be taking an aspirin a day? — D.L.G. Answer: In September 2015, the Task Force issued a draft recommendation statement that adults ages 50-69 should at least consider low-dose aspirin (such as an 81-mg tablet daily or 325 mg every other day) in order to prevent both heart disease and colon cancer for those who

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health have a 10 percent or greater risk for heart disease (a calculator is available at cvdrisk.nhlbi.nih.gov).

The studies on aspirin for the prevention of heart disease have had conflicting results, with several new studies unable to confirm the signif-

icant benefit seen in older studies. Also, aspirin can cause bleeding, especially of the stomach, and this bleeding can rarely be serious, even life-threatening. For these reasons, some experts have disagreed with the Task Force. In fact, the draft recommendations specifically exclude people who have an increased risk of bleeding, since the risk of aspirin is too high in that group (those who have no known disease).

On the other hand,

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studies have been consistent that men and women who take low-dose aspirin have lower risk of developing colon cancer, which would provide an additional benefit to taking aspirin.

Since the balance of risks and benefits is so highly dependent on individual factors for heart disease, colon cancer and bleeding, only your own medical provider can work with you to make a decision about whether aspirin is right for you.

Public notices (First published in The Iola Register on Oct. 19, 2015) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Civil Case No. 15-4917-DDC-KGS Plaintiff, v. ROBERT L. WILSON, and SAUNDRA H. WILSON, Defendants. NOTICE OF SUIT SAUNDRA H. WILSON: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, by the United States, on behalf of Rural Housing Service, United States Department of Agriculture, by and through the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, praying for in rem judgment against borrowers Robert L. Wil-

son and Saundra H. Wilson, in the total amount of $92,925.33, which includes the following: the principal sum of $82,528.91 (including unpaid principal of $78,702.14 and advances as follows: escrow replenish of $1,249.00; title of $125.00; escrow of $2,409.36; and late fees of $43.41); and $10,396.42 interest accrued to July 6, 2015 (including principal interest of $10,222.85 and interest on advances of $173.57); plus daily interest accruing at the contract rate of $12.8889 (including daily interest on principal of $12.6678 and daily interest on advances of $0.2211) per day to the date of judgment herein; together with interest at the legal rate thereafter; plus the costs of this action; and for foreclosure of real estate mortgages executed on July 1, 2004,

(First published in The Iola Register, October 19, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY L. MARTIN, DECEASED

Case No. 15 PR 48 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR PROBATE OF WILL AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS (Chapter 59) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified a petition has been filed on October 15, 2015, in this Court by Gregory G. Martin, the named executor of the Will and estate of Mary L. Martin, deceased, and as executor named in her will, praying for admission to probate of the Last Will Testament of Mary L. Martin dated February 18, 2010 which will is filed with the petition, and for his appointment as executor of said Will and estate, to serve without bond, and for the issuance of letters testamentary to

covering real property located in Allen County, Kansas, described as: Lots One (1), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4) and Five (5), in Block Six (6) in Savonburg, Allen County, Kansas, and you are hereby required to plead to said Complaint on or before November 24, 2015, in said Court at Topeka, Kansas. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said Complaint. BARRY R. GRISSOM United States Attorney District of Kansas s/ T.G. Luedke T.G. LUEDKE Assistant United States Attorney Ks. S.Ct. No. 12788 Federal Building, Suite 290 444 SE Quincy Street Topeka, KS 666833592 Telephone: 785.295.2850 Facsimile: 785.295.2853 E-mail: tom.luedke@usdoj.gov Attorneys for the United States (10) 19, 26 (11) 2, 9, 16, 23

him as executor.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 10th day of November 2015, at 8:30 A.M. of said day, in the district courtroom at the county courthouse, in the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard.

Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition.

All creditors of the decedent are notified to exhibit their de-

(First published in The Iola Register Oct. 26, 2015) NOTICE OF HEARING LAHARPE, KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that the City of LaHarpe, KS, is considering granting a request to re-zone 805 S. Main from a commercial zone to a residential zone within the City Limits of LaHarpe, Kansas. A public hearing concerning this proposal will be held on November 10, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. The public hearing will take place at LaHarpe City Hall, which is located at 902 S. Washington. If there are any concerns, questions, or objections regarding this proposed re-zoning, you are invited to appear at the public hearing to let your voice be heard.

(10) 26 (11) 2 mands against the estate within four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

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Royals: Kansas City wins second ever World Series title Continued from B1

in Kansas City to celebrate the club’s second title, capped with a party at historic Union Station.

With no margin for error, Harvey put the Mets’ last hope in his hands and hung on as long as he could. After eight scoreless innings, he pushed to pitch the ninth and finally faltered. “Obviously, I let my heart get in the way of my gut,� manager Terry Collins said. “It didn’t work. It was my fault.�

New York slugger Yoenis Cespedes exited with knee pain but Curtis Granderson hit a leadoff homer, his third long ball of the Series, and the Mets managed two runs against heavyhearted Royals starter Edinson Volquez, pitching one day after returning from his father’s funeral.

But for these resilient Royals, no deficit was too large, no time too late. “We never quit. We never put our heads down,� Perez said. “We always compete to the last out.�

Perez looped a leadoff single in the 12th off

losing pitcher Addison Reed, and pinch-runner Jarrod Dyson stole second. One out later, Colon stepped in as a pinch-hitter for his first plate appearance since the regular-season finale Oct. 4.

Hardly rusty, he lined a 1-2 pitch into leftcenter and pounded his chest at first base. “He’s a winner,� Yost said.

Alcides Escobar added an RBI double, and Cain’s bases-loaded double off Bartolo Colon broke it open.

Royals reliever Luke Hochevar, drafted No. 1 overall by the team in 2006, pitched two hitless innings for the win.

All that was left was for Wade Davis to close it out. He threw a called third strike past Wilmer Flores to end it and tossed his glove high in the air as the Royals rushed toward the mound to celebrate.

Out in the Midwest, fireworks popped from Missouri to cities all over Kansas. Thousands of fans crammed into the Power & Light District, partying as though it was New Year’s Eve. At Citi Field, hundreds of Royals fans

ACC: XC results Continued from B1

was going to a race between us and Butler CC. From the gun they jumped out on us early and had the lead through mile three, but our strength and depth eventually prevailed just like I figured it would be.�

On the women’s side, the Lady Red Devils placed third in the region and first in the conference only a year removed from not even having enough runners to qualify as a team in 2014. “I can’t say enough great things about this women’s team,�

DeGrado said. “They truly embodied what running for me is all about. They literally bought into everything I gave them and have exceeded any and all of my expectations.

They have now set the standard for years to come on how I want my women’s teams to be like.�

The men were especially dominant in their race as they not only swept the regional and conference meet, but they also recorded a perfect score of 15 in the league, a feat which had previously never been accomplished in the Jayhawk East.

Pedro Montoya, Ricardo Banuelos, Ben Najman, Philip Lagemann, Meshach Adams and Obed Quintana all qualified for the All-Region Team.

Kaitlyn Shoemaker, Kristina Silvers, Vicky Ibarra and Taylor Jameson all qualified for the All-Region Team on the women’s side.

RESULTS MEN (1ST REGION, 1ST CONFERENCE) 2. Pedro Montoya (25:37.0) 3. Ricardo Banuelos (25:53.8) 8. Ben Najman (26:30.4) 11. Philip Lagemann (26:53.2) 12. Meshach Adams (26:55.2) 13. Obed Quintana (26:57.8) 21. Jeremy Brittain (27:21.9) 25. Max Berg (27:38.7) 32. Chris Dunn (28:12.7) 42. Mitchell Greenlee (28:42.3)

WOMEN (3RD REGION, 1ST CONFERENCE) 3. Kaitlyn Shoemaker (19:35.4) 4. Kristina Silvers (19:46.9) 10. Vicky Ibarra (20:10.5) 12. Taylor Jameson (20:22.3) 49. Asha Alvarez (22:09.3) 71. Tiesha Collier (23:37.5) 75. Nichole Moreland (23:58.4)

REGION VI: MEN

WOMEN

1. Allen (31) 2. Butler (42) 3. Barton (108) 4. Hutchinson (114) 5.

Johnson County (133) 6. Dodge City (180)

1. Butler (58) 2. Barton (69) 3. Allen (75) 4.

Johnson County (112) 5. Dodge City (128) 6. Pratt (136)

Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Edinson Volquez, right, gets a hug Sunday. JOHN SLEEZER/KANSAS CITY

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dressed in blue descended toward the Kansas City dugout to cheer their champs.

Perez received his MVP award after the catcher hit .364.

Later, the Mets came back onto the field to salute a smaller pocket of fans who stuck around for one last chant of “Let’s go, Mets!� The team remains without a World Series title since 1986.

It was the eighth comeback victory for Kansas City this postseason, matching a

mark also held by the 1997 Marlins and 2002 Angels, STATS said.

The tenacious Royals trailed by at least two runs in a record seven of those games — including when they staved off elimination by overcoming a 6-2 deficit in the eighth inning of an AL playoff game in Houston.

Fired up all night, Harvey was at 102 pitches following a 1-23 eighth and stalked briskly back to the dugout with one purpose in mind. There, cameras

caught him telling Collins — in no uncertain terms — he was going back out for the ninth.

Collins relented, and a huge roar went up as Harvey bounded off the bench and sprinted to the mound, looking for his second complete game in the majors.

But he walked Cain on a full-count slider, and Hosmer hit an RBI double. “I wanted it bad.

The way the game was going, the last thing I wanted to do was not finish what I started,�

Harvey said. “I poured my heart out and gave everything I had.�

Harvey was pulled for Familia, and Hosmer advanced on Moustakas’ groundout to the right side.

Sound fundamentals, a Royals staple.

So up stepped Perez with the potential tying run 90 feet away, same as last year when he fouled out against Giants ace Madison Bumgarner to end the World Series.

This time, Perez got jammed and hit a slow grounder to third baseman David Wright, who froze Hosmer with a glance and threw across the diamond for the second out.

Hosmer, however, bolted for the plate when Wright released the ball. First baseman Lucas Duda fired wide of catcher Travis d’Arnaud — a good throw probably would have been in time — and Hosmer made a headfirst dive home with the tying run. “As soon as I saw his head turn towards first, I just decided to take a chance,� Hosmer said. “It’s a lot easier to take a chance when you’re up three games to one, so just felt it was the right time.� “There’s no fear in anybody on this team,� he added.

Hosmer was greeted by excited teammates, while Familia was saddled with his third blown save of the Series, though two were the result of shaky defense. “They definitely put their foot on the gas the entire series on the basepaths, and this is just another example,�

Wright said.

UP NEXT

In an unusual bit of fortuitous scheduling, the teams open next season with two interleague games at Kansas City.

Mustangs: Iola places 11th in state Continued from B1

Iola finished the day with 262 total team points. Baldwin High School won the meet with 47 points.

Junior Braden Plumlee, who finished fifth in the Mustangs’ regional meet, had hoped to crack the top-20 in the state meet, which would have qualified him for an individual medal.

But the competition proved tougher than expected and Plumlee earned a 57th-place finish overall with a time of 18:17, which was the best among the rest of the Mustangs. “The hills took their toll and it was somewhat expected,�

Smith said. “We do not have hills for prac-

tice. We went to the golf courses on Monday and Tuesday during regional week and state week, but even our golf courses do not have terrain that compares to the Wamego course.�

Iola began the race “hell bent for election,� as Smith put it, in order to beat the competition up the daunting hill at the start as well as get an advantage heading into the course’s sharp U-turn 300 meters into the race.

He added if the meet would have ended after the first mile, the Mustangs would have placed either sixth or seventh. “The team asked my opinion and I said, ‘Let’s go for it — we have nothing to lose

ACC basketball opens season The Allen Community College men’s and women’s basketball teams kicked off their season Saturday against Ottawa JV at home.

The Red Devils came away with an 88-62 victory while the Lady Red Devils earned an 82-51 win.

Jermaine Long led the men’s team with 14 points on 5-of-12 shooting, including 2-of-5 from behind the three-point arc.

The sophomore guard also led the squad with 24 minutes played. Each member of the Red Devils saw at least some action on the court to win

in a balanced effort.

Allen shot 48 percent as a team and dominated the glass, out-rebounding Ottawa JV by 19 boards.

On the women’s side, freshman McKena Arlt led the Lady Red Devils with 17 points. Fellow freshman DaMonica Franklin added 14 points of her own.

Allen distributed the basketball efficiently by recording 18 team assists and hustled to record six steals and 40 rebounds.

The men will play Tuesday at Labette while the women will hit the road today to play at Cottey College at 6 p.m.

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But the final two miles of the course took its toll on Iola’s top runners. “Braden, Kendall (Jay), and Colby (Works) were all in the top third of the field, but we couldn’t stay there,� Smith said.

What’s most promising about Iola’s future in cross country is that the team will only lose Colby Works to graduation.

So the rest of the Mustangs’ top runners like Plumlee, Jay and Isaiah Fawson should all help take the squad back to Wamego in 2016. “If we can get back to Wamego next year, we hope for better results,�

Smith said.

RESULTS Iola — 262 team points (11th place finish) 57. Braden Plumlee (18:17) — 38 points 59. Kendall Jay (18:20) — 40 points 79. Isaiah Fawson (18:55) — 56 points 82. Colby Works (18:58) — 59 points 92. Cole Regehr (19:16) — 69 points 106.

Nathan Sprague (22:07) — 83 points 107. Jonathan Rodewald (23:11) — 84 points

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