The Iola Register, Oct. 3, 2023

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Celebrating the world of aviation

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Aviation is the kind of hobby that grabs hold of you at a young age and never lets go, according to a group of enthusiasts.

Tim Holt of Iola remembers when he got his first radio-controlled airplane. He was 10, and crashed it the same day. It took him a year

Kincaid draws quite a crowd

to get it back in flying condition.

Monroe Trester of Iola was 7 and living in LaHarpe when he heard his first sonic boom. He’s kept an eye to the sky ever since.

Fred Ermel of Bronson laughed and nodded as he listened to Trester’s story.

“When I was a kid, my dad got mad at me because I was

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Monroe Trester, from left, Scott Murray and Tim Holt show their RC aircraft in front of the Allen County Regional Airport terminal during an open house Saturday. The airport offers a designated space and

Kansas State tours to discuss Allen Co.

A delegation of Kansas State University leadership members will be in Allen County Wednesday and Thursday to better understand the strengths and needs of the local community. The twoday tour begins with a community forum at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at B&W Trailer Hitches’ The Hub at 1216 Hawaii Rd. in Humboldt.

at Humboldt’s Revival Music Hall, 102 S. 10th St., then at 11 a.m. at Allen Community College and at 1:30 p.m. at Southwind Extension District’s Iola office at 1006 N. State St.

A large crowd turned out for the annual Kincaid Free Fair parade Saturday. The theme was “Back to the Country.” At top right, Kinley Edgerton was crowned Fair Queen before the start of the parade. Below, the Benedict family dressed as clowns to lead their cow, Rosie, through the throngs of parade watchers. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Smaller community conversations will be held Thursday, starting at 9 a.m.

Among the K-State visitors are Brody Nemecek, a 2020 Iola HIgh School graduate and Allison Heim, a 2020 Marmaton Valley High School graduate. Both are “Connected ‘Cats” student leaders at K-State. This week’s events are free and open to the public.

Shutdown averted

WASHINGTON (AP) —

The threat of a federal government shutdown suddenly lifted late Saturday as President Joe Biden signed a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open with little time to spare after Congress rushed to approve the bipartisan deal.

The package drops aid to Ukraine, a White House pri-

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ority opposed by a growing number of GOP lawmakers, but increases federal disaster assistance by $16 billion, meeting Biden’s full request. The bill funds the government until Nov. 17.

After chaotic days of turmoil in the House, Speaker Kevin McCarthy abruptly

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Volunteers turn out for LaHarpe cleanup effort

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

LAHARPE — As the adage goes, many hands make light work — especially if you have some heavy industrial equipment on hand.

The LaHarpe PRIDE Committee’s annual Cleanup Day made the weekend a bit spiffier for 20 local property owners.

Volunteers spent the better part of Saturday clearing

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runway for the hobbyists. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Brody Nemecek

Allison Heim

Obituary

Bessie King

Elizabeth Agnes “Bessie” King, 91, died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, surrounded by family, at the Quail Creek Skilled Nursing in Springfield, Mo.

Elizabeth was born on July, 1932, in Scotland, Texas, to Alphonse and Caroline (Haberman) Prescher.

On Sept. 18, 1950, she married Edward Joseph “Ed” King in Scotland, Texas.

She is survived by her children, Delores (Forrest) Henderson of LaGrange, Ind., Joseph Edward (Roxanne) King of Wichita, John F. (Martha) King of St. Mary’s, Lillian (Jeff) Meyers of Crestview, Fla., David M. King of Wichita, Cynthia (Kenneth) Coari of Troy, Ill., and Mary C. (Larry) Bode of Ozark, Mo.; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other relatives.

Bessie is preceded in death by her husband of 60 years; daughter Cecelia Poffenbarger; grandson Justin King; and great-grandson Lucas Cook.

Visitation will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3, at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service. A rosary will be recited at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. John’s Catholic Church, Iola, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 at St. John’s Cemetery, Gas.

Memorial contributions are suggested to Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri and can be left in the care of Feuerborn Family Funeral Services, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola.

Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Teen injured in wreck

A two-vehicle accident sent a 16-year-old driver to the hospital Saturday afternoon.

Allen County sheriff’s deputies said the driver, whose name was not released, was attempting to pass another car on the old highway between Iola and Humboldt, but clipped the other vehicle in the maneuver.

The teen’s vehicle slammed into a tree,

California governor names Feinstein successor

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign, to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

In choosing Butler on Sunday, Newsom fulfilled his pledge to appoint a Black woman if Feinstein’s seat became open. However, he had been facing pressure from some Black politicians and advocacy groups to select Barbara Lee, a prominent Black congresswoman who is already running for the seat.

Butler will be the only Black woman serving in the U.S. Senate and the first openly LGBTQ+ person to represent California in the chamber.

undercut Lee’s chances.

while the other vehicle went off the road, struck some trees and turned onto its side.

The teen was transported to Allen County Regional Hospital. The passenger in the other vehicle, who also was not identified, had a possible concussion, deputies said, adding that both drivers and the passenger were wearing seat belts.

Newsom said in a statement that the priorities Feinstein fought for in Congress — reproductive freedom, equal protection and safety from gun violence — were under assault in the nation.

“Laphonza will carry the baton left by Sen. Feinstein (and) continue to break glass ceilings and fight for all Californians in Washington D.C.,” he said.

Butler leads Emily’s List, a political organization that supports Democratic women candidates who favor

abortion rights. She also is a former labor leader with SEIU 2015, a powerful force in California politics. Her appointment sets up a potentially tricky political calculus in the crowded 2024 contest to succeed Feinstein, which has been underway since the beginning of the year.

Newsom spokesman Anthony York said the governor did not ask Butler to commit to staying out of the race. The deadline for candidates to submit paperwork to seek the office is Dec. 8. Should Butler enter the contest, she could set up a competition for the relatively small but influential group of Black voters in California and possibly

Emily’s List is known as a fundraising powerhouse, and raising huge sums of campaign cash is a must in any statewide California race. Newsom’s statement said she will step down from the organization. The decision carried the threat of political fallout for Newsom, who is seen as a potential future national candidate. The candidate favored by Black voters has won the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination every cycle since 1992. The Congressional Black Caucus was among the groups and Black politicians that had urged Newsom to appoint Lee, calling her the best qualified choice for the post.

Pentagon: Money running low to replace weapons in Ukraine

WASHINGTON (AP) —

The Pentagon is warning Congress that it is running low on money to replace weapons the U.S. has sent to Ukraine and has already been forced to slow down resupplying some troops, according to a letter sent to congressional leaders.

The letter, obtained by The Associated Press, urges Congress to replenish funding for Ukraine. Congress averted a government shutdown by passing a short-term funding bill over the weekend, but the measure dropped all assistance for Ukraine in the battle against Russia.

Pentagon Comptroller Michael McCord told House and Senate leaders there is $1.6 billion left of the $25.9 billion Congress provided to replenish U.S. military stocks that have been flowing to Ukraine. The weapons include millions of rounds of artillery, rockets and missiles critical to Ukraine’s counteroffensive aimed at taking back territory gained by Russia in the war.

In addition, the U.S. has about $5.4 billion left to provide weapons and equipment from its stockpiles. The U.S. would have already run out of that funding if the Pentagon hadn’t realized earlier this year that it had overvalued the equipment it had already sent, freeing up about $6.2 billion. Some of that has been sent in recent months.

McCord said the U.S. has completely run out of long-term funding for Kyiv through the

Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which providesmoney to contract for future weapons.

“We have already been forced to slow down the replenishment of our own forces to hedge against an uncertain funding future,” McCord said in the letter. “Failure to replenish our military services on a timely basis could harm our military’s readiness.”

He added that without additional funding now, the U.S. will have to delay or curtail air defense weapons, ammunition, drones and demolition and breaching equipment that are “critical and urgent now as Russia prepares to conduct a winter offensive.”

President Joe Biden said Sunday that while the aid will keep flowing

for now, time is running out. “We cannot under any circumstances al-

low America’s support for Ukraine to be interrupted,” Biden said. “We have time, not much

time, and there’s an overwhelming sense of urgency.”

Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said if the aid doesn’t keep flowing, Ukrainian resistance will begin to weaken.

“If there’s no new money, they’re going to start feeling it by Thanksgiving,” he said. The short-term funding bill passed by Congress lasts only until mid-November. And McCord said it would be too risky for the Defense Department to divert money from that temporary funding bill to pay for more aid to Ukraine.

Many lawmakers acknowledge that winning approval for Ukraine assistance in Congress is growing more difficult as the war grinds on and resistance to the aid from the Republican hard-right flank gains momentum.

The long-serving Feinstein died Thursday at age 90 after a series of illnesses.

Butler currently lives in Maryland, according to her Emily’s List biography. Izzy Gardon, a spokesman for Newsom, said Butler owns a home in California. She is expected to reregister to vote in California before being sworn in. That could happen as early as Tuesday evening when the Senate returns to session.

Butler said Monday she she had accepted Newsom’s nomination to serve “a state I have made my home.”

“No one will ever measure up to the legacy of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, but I will do my best to honor her legacy and leadership.”

ACC plans special meeting

Allen Community College’s Board of Trustees will gather for a special meeting at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the board meeting room.

The agenda will include a campus tour for trustees. The meeting is open to the public.

Emily’s List President Laphonza Butler addresses a Biden-Harris campaign rally on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision, which struck down a federal right to abortion on June 23, 2023, in Washington, D.C. CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES/TNS

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walks with U.S. President Joe Biden down the colonnade to the Oval Office during a visit to the White House Sept. 21, 2023, in Washington, DC. Zelensky visited the nation’s capital to meet with President Biden and Congressional lawmakers after attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (EVAN VUCCI/POOL/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

Police chief involved in newspaper’s raid is suspended

By SUMMER BALLENTINE The Associated Press

The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended, the mayor confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday.

Marion Mayor Dave Mayfield in a text said he suspended Chief Gideon Cody on Thursday. He declined to discuss his decision further and did not say

Gideon Cody

whether Cody was still being paid.

Voice messages and

emails from the AP seeking comment from Cody’s lawyers were not immediately returned Saturday.

The Aug. 11 searches of the Marion County Record’s office and the homes of its publisher and a City Council member have been sharply criticized, putting Marion at the center of a debate over the press protections offered by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Cody’s suspension is a reversal for the mayor,

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always looking up.”

Scott Murray of Chanute used to pilot full-sized planes.

“I don’t anymore, but I still want to enjoy aviation,” he said.

Holt, Trester and Murray are three members of the SEK RC Squadron, a group that gathers regularly at the Allen County Regional Airport to fly RC planes. Ermel is a former pilot who enjoys watching the RC planes.

The three members of the RC group attended an open house at the airport on Saturday. A few planes flew in for the event. County leaders were on hand to discuss recent improvements to the airport, such as an improved runway, taxiway, lighting and a remodeled office.

The airport designated a small section of land on the southwest side for the RC group to take off and land. Group leaders maintain a grass runway. They call it Little K88, because the FAA identifier for the Allen County airport is K88.

“I don’t know another place where our hobby is allowed at an airport,” Trester said. “We’re very fortunate to be able to do it here.”

The group members said they wanted to come out Saturday to show their support for the airport.

“It’s such an important part of the community and we want to keep it moving forward,” Trester said, citing advantages such as a long runway, cheaper fuel, relationships with area businesses and support for agricultural industries such as crop dusting.

TRESTER joked that the group has two units.

Squadron A are the RC plane owners such as himself, Holt and Murray. They get together to build and fly the aircraft.

Squadron B watches. Ermel qualifies as a Squadron B member. He’s flown an RC plane before but prefers to watch.

“When you are a pilot learning how to fly one of these, it’s hard,” he said.

“A full-size aircraft pilot won’t fly these as easily as you might think,” Trester clarified. “He’s sitting in the cockpit so he has a bet-

ter idea of what’s going on with the aircraft. This one is all visual.”

Trester likes to put cameras on his RC planes and has a YouTube channel, where you can find him as Red90FXRS.

RC planes come in all varieties, with different materials and costs.

Some are “ready to fly” (RTF), which means they are pre-built and can take flight immediately after being pulled from a box. Some are “almost ready to fly” (ARF) and require some assembly.

You can also buy a kit and build your own. Most of those are made out of balsa wood and can be more fragile.

Others are made out of foam.

On Saturday, Holt was flying an EDF F-22 made out of foam. It’s a larger plane so it can handle windy conditions better than smaller ones.

Some RC pilots like to perform tricks in the air. Trester calls those tricks “squirrelly things” and said. “I fly normal but I fly fast. I’m not good enough to do all those fancy tricks.”

The RC group has been flying at Allen County’s airport for about 30 years and consider it their home base, Murray said. They also fly on property owned by Scott Baker near Humboldt.

Each of them has a collection of airplanes but it’s hard to pick a favorite.

“Every time I put an airplane in the air, it’s my favorite,” Trester said. “I’m usually flying every day.”

“We’re big kids,” Holt agreed.

Trester encourages others to try the hobby. Anyone who is interested can call the airport at 620-365-1465 to get more information.

who previously said he would wait for results from a state police investigation before taking action.

Vice-Mayor Ruth Herbel, whose home was also raided Aug. 11, praised Cody’s suspension as “the best thing that can happen to Marion right now” as the central Kansas town of about 1,900 people struggles to move forward under the national spotlight. “We can’t duck our heads until it goes away, because it’s not going to go away until we do something about it,” Herbel said. Cody has said little publicly since the raids other than posting a defense of them on the police department’s Facebook page. In court documents he filed to get the search war-

rants, he argued that he had probable cause to believe the newspaper and Herbel, whose home was also raided, had violated state laws against identity theft or computer crimes.

The raids came after a local restaurant owner accused the newspaper of illegally accessing information about her.

A spokesman for the agency that maintains those records has said the newspaper’s online search that a reporter did was likely legal even though the reporter needed personal information about the restaurant owner that a tipster provided to look up her driving record.

The newspaper’s publisher Eric Meyer has said the identity theft allegations simply provided a convenient

excuse for the search after his reporters had been digging for background information on Cody, who was appointed this summer.

Legal experts believe the raid on the newspaper violated a federal privacy law or a state law shielding journalists from having to identify sources or turn over unpublished material to law enforcement.

Video of the raid on the home of publisher Eric Meyer shows how distraught his 98-yearold mother became as officers searched through their belongings. Meyer said he believes that stress contributed to the death of his mother, Joan Meyer, a day later.

Another reporter last month filed a federal lawsuit against the police chief over the raid.

for a community forum on the proposed renovations to the Allen County Courthouse

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10

6:30 - 8:30 p.m. • Allen County Courthouse

Panelists:

Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy

Dina Morrison, Chief Clerk Administrator

Kevin McGuffin, Chief Court Services Officer/Executive Director of Community Corrections and Juvenile Services

Vince Haines, Architect, Gravity Works Architecture

Tad Johnson, Construction Manager, Crossland Construction Company, Inc

Gregory Vahrenberg, Managing Director, Raymond James

Bob Johnson, Johnson Schowengerdt, PA

Dan Creitz, Chief Judge of the 31st Judicial District

Sponsored by:

Please call 620-365-2111 for more information. This event is free and open to the public.

Allen County Regional Airport Manager Robert Poydack, left, and Public Works Director Mitch Garner show off one of the airport’s new fuel tanks. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Habits to live a healthier life

The secret to living healthier, happier and longer lives has been out for many years now. Decades-long research from explorer Dan Buettner reports areas of the world where people seemed to be living longer and healthier and termed the locations “Blue Zones.”

Catching State Fair sights

Wind power project would be far off East Coast

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — A proposed wind energy project off New Jersey would be among the farthest from land on the East Coast, the New York-based development company said Monday.

Attentive Energy released new information on the project, which will be 42 miles off Seaside Heights and provide enough energy to power 600,000 homes.

State regulators did not identify the company when bids were received in August — one of four received as the state pushes to become the East Coast hub of the nascent offshore wind industry.

Wind power developers have struggled to make progress, however, due to supply chain issues, higher interest rates, and a failure so far to garner enough tax credits from the federal government.

Damian Bednarz, the company’s managing director, told The Associated Press that it

passed on bidding on undersea sites closer to the shore because it feels its site is situated to take advantage of the strongest winds.

“We believe it has the best positioning in terms of wind resources,” he said. “It’s in a position geophysically to have the best opportunity to get the most wind.”

Bednarz also said the project’s turbines — the exact number of which the company has not revealed — will not be visible from the shoreline, eliminating one potential source of opposition from homeowners and residents’ groups who object to the likelihood of seeing the structures on the horizon from the beach.

One of the proposals made in August, from Chicago-based Invenergy and New York-based energyRE, would be built 40 miles off Long Beach Island called Leading Light Wind. It would consist of up to 100 turbines, enough to

power 1 million homes.

Another, from Community Offshore Wind, would be based 37 miles off Long Beach Island, and generate enough electricity to power 500,000 homes. The project would be built by Essen, Germany-based RWE and New Yorkbased National Grid.

The state has already approved three other offshore wind projects from previous solicitations in waters closer to shore, where the likelihood of seeing the turbines from shore has generated opposition. Orsted, the Danish wind energy company, would build its first project about 13 to 15 miles off the coast of Atlantic City and Ocean City.

Robin Shaffer, a spokesman for one of the main offshore wind opposition groups, Ocean City-based Protect Our Coast NJ, said it doesn’t matter how near or far wind farms are from the coast.

“Offshore wind development makes no

Chicago woman, 104, skydives

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) —

A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after making a tandem jump Sunday and landing 13,500 feet later at a northern Illinois airport.

“Age is just a number,” Dorothy Hoffner told a cheering crowd moments after touching the ground Sunday at Skydive Chicago Airport in Ottawa, about 85 miles southwest of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The Guinness World Record for oldest skydiver was set in May 2022 by 103-year-old Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson from Sweden. But Skydive Chicago is working to have Guinness World Records certify Hoffner’s jump as a record, WLS-TV reported.

Hoffner first skydived when she was 100. On Sunday, she left her walker behind just short of the Skyvan plane at the Ottawa airport and was helped up the steps to join the others waiting inside to skydive.

“Let’s go, let’s go, Geronimo!” Hoffner said after she was finally seated.

When she first sky-

dived at 100 she had had to be pushed out of the aircraft. But on Sunday, tethered to a U.S. Parachute Association-certified instructor, Hoffner insisted on leading the jump.

She looked calm and confident when the plane was aloft and its aft door opened to reveal tan crop fields far below shortly before she shuffled toward the edge and leaped into the air.

The dive lasted seven minutes, and the plane beat Hoffner to the ground after her parachute opened for a slow descent. Finally, the wind pushed Hoffner’s white hair back as she clung to the harness draped over her narrow shoulders, picked up her legs as the ground neared and plopped onto a grassy area at the airport.

Friends rushed in to share congratulations, while someone brought over Hoffner’s red walker. She rose quickly and a reporter asked her how it felt to be back on the ground.

“Wonderful,” Hoffner said. “But it was wonderful up there. The whole thing was delightful, wonderful,

couldn’t have been better.”

After her jump, Hoffner’s mind quickly turned to the future and other challenges. The lifelong Chicago woman, who’s set to turn 105 in December, said she might take a ride in a hot-air balloon next.

“I’ve never been in one of those,” she said.

sense from either an environmental or economic standpoint,” he said. “As more people get to know about how much carbon goes into creating a wind turbine, as they learn about the harm that will come to their happy places down the shore, and as they come to terms with the fact their electricity rates will increase substantially, they are becoming more and more disenchanted with offshore wind as a cure for climate change.”

Opposing offshore wind has become a major talking point in Republican political campaigns as well. GOP Congressmen succeeded in getting the Government Accountability Office to open an inquiry into the industry in June.

Bread-making class planned

A bread-making class will teach the basics and give participants recipes to take home to practice new skills.

“Basic Bread Making” is offered at 6 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Southwind Extension District office, 1006 N. State St. The cost is $10 per participant.

Participants will make one recipe and will sample additional recipes they can try to make at home. Call 620-365-2242 to register.

His recent Netflix documentary gives a visual and is now trending as a top streaming pick.

The five original Blue Zones are in Italy, Costa Rica, Greece, Japan and California, with Singapore being added later.

So why do people in these areas live so long and so well? The answer is simple — lifestyle. Their lifestyle includes a healthful diet, daily exercise, and a low-stress style of living that focuses on family, purpose, religion, and meaning. Here are a few lifestyle aspects that Buettner has found in his research.

Move naturally. If you are like me and do not like to go to the gym, you might be inspired by this one. Those in the Blue Zones build movement naturally into their day by walking to the store, gardening, or sitting on the floor instead of lounging in a chair.

Downshift. This relates to stress relief. We talk a lot about mindfulness and reducing stress, but in Blue Zones it seems to be a natural practice. For example, in Okinawa, Japan, people take a minute every day to remember their ancestors. In Loma Linda, California, people take time to pray every day. In Greece, it’s an afternoon nap. In Italy, a Happy Hour.

Tara SolomonSmith Southwind Extension District

Plant Slant and the 80% Rule. Blue Zone diets include meat; however it’s about a tenth of the amount Americans eat. Incorporate more plantbased foods, such as beans and nuts and green leafy vegetables and try ways to add herbs for flavoring. Another principle allows your stomach to catch up to your brain by eating only until your 80% full. Build that Social Network with Purpose. Blue Zones have similar prioritization of family and community. A network of support and a sense of belonging is good for the body and the soul. This has often been found in a faith-based community, but it doesn’t have to be. It can be accomplished within an interest group or through volunteer project work. We do know that habits are often contagious so surround yourself with others that inspire you to live a healthier life style!

There’s no quick fix or one thing that will create this all-encompassing health change. It requires dozens of small steps that can move us toward a healthier life. We can start this within our home in small increments to improve connections, increase movement, and decrease stress.

For more information, contact Tara Solomon-Smith, tsolomon@ksu.edu, or call 620-244-3826.

Humboldt High School’s FFA chapter took in an assortment of activities and sightseeing opportunities Sept. 13 by attending the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson. The students were chaperoned by instructor Jerome Riebel. COURTESY PHOTO

~ Journalism that makes a difference

Our role is to ask the questions others won’t

“Newspapers are dead,” a solemn but dubious audience of students heard. “In 10 years, they’ll be gone altogether.”

We’ve all heard the grim assessment.

But it didn’t come this year, when corporate greed downsized far too many newsrooms.

It didn’t come 15 years ago, when social media began to cocoon us into echo chambers that let us hear only what we believe.

It didn’t come 30 years ago, at the dawn of the Internet letting us browse multiple sources of information.

It didn’t come 45 years ago, when cable news channels began giving us talking heads, mouthing the same points over and over.

The grim assessment came 75 years ago, in a journalism class that my father, a 1948 graduate, attended as a college senior.

Newspapers, he was told, soon would be replaced by a new, high-tech alternative: Facsimile.

Yes, fax machines.

As Mark Twain would have noted, reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated. And it’s not because we’ve been turned into unkillable zombies. We haven’t died because democracy needs us, and smart people nationwide know it.

If you have any doubts, look at the more than 10,000 messages of support we’ve received at the Marion County Record from all over the na-

tion and world.

Along with those messages have come more than 5,000 orders for new subscriptions — not bad for a newspaper that had a press run of only 4,000 before police attempted to intimidate us and a local politician with coordinated raids later found to have been illegal.

They came at us like a SWAT team going after a jaywalker who actually was in a crosswalk at the time.

Now that the dust of seizing seven computers and four cell phones has settled, the truth has become clear.

Their raid wasn’t to investigate any crime, which never occurred. It was to put us in our place like a bunch of 300-pound defensive linemen smashing into a quarterback after he releases a pass.

Eventually, the legal system threw a flag on the play. But before that, people all over the globe — a quarter of a million of them who read about the raid on our website, plus countless others who read about it elsewhere — gasped in horror and de-

manded justice.

Speaking truth to power — the goal of every decent news organization — is just too important to our democracy.

Our computers may have been seized, but our newspaper — along with the unvarnished truth it seeks to impart every week — could not be silenced. If it had been, it wouldn’t have been a medium that died. It would have been democracy. Democracy is, as Winston Churchill said, the worst form of government — except for all the others that have been tried.

Democracy requires truth and facts — and a willingness not just to listen to them but also to give voice to them.

That’s what newspapers do — we ask questions when others are afraid to do so and provide truth that others seem reluctant to accept.

An old retort, intended as an insult, was that newspapers afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.

But what’s wrong with that?

Democracy isn’t about Barney the Dinosaur singing, “I love you; you love me.”

Putting up a false façade of everyone agreeing about everything might work if every politician, every bureaucrat, every person in power was a benevolent dictator, caring only for everyone else’s well-being. Ask the survivors of Nazi

Germany or Putin’s Russia how that worked out.

True democracy isn’t neat and tidy. It’s about disagreement — everyone presenting his or her personal truths in a public arena, then coming together to compromise on something that is at least minimally satisfying to the majority while protecting the minority.

By their very nature, newspapers are charged with finding hidden facts, speaking for the voiceless, and arguing for those who cannot easily be heard.

To some in the Barney generation, that makes us negative.

To others, it makes us patriots.

Feinstein defied the odds in a male-dominated field

By JERRY ROBERTS Guest opinion for The Washington Post

In 1969, soon after Dianne Feinstein first made history, a San Francisco newspaper published a bemused feature on her marriage. Headlined “The Big Man in Dianne’s Life,” it centered on her husband, Bert Feinstein, a prominent local surgeon, and began:

“When Mama is in politics, there’s many an unkind query heard about who wears the pants in the family. Such is the fearsome image of a lady politico.”

The fearsome Mrs. Feinstein had recently shocked the town, finishing first in a crowded race for the Board of Supervisors. She was the first woman elected to the city’s legislative body in a half-century — and only the second ever. Capturing the top vote total positioned her to become board president, San Francisco’s second-most influential municipal office after mayor.

For the newspaper, this raised a crucial question:

“Did Dr. Feinstein feel humbled or intimidated now that the little lady was occupying the limelight?”

Oy. This anachronistic specimen of cringeworthy sexism (and journalistic fatuity) reads today as an artifact of cultural anthropology, a reminder of the mores that Feinstein (and her then-husband, who declared himself neither humbled nor intimidated) confronted as she began her pioneering career.

Feinstein has died at the age of 90. In political time, her demise seems far more than the end of a mere era — more like the passing of an eon.

As politician, policymaker and uncommonly private public figure, Feinstein for six decades modeled attitudes, behavior and values that have become increasingly rare. Reliably favoring civility over churlishness, she preferred independent judgment to ideology, pragmatism to partisanship, problem-solving to power-seeking.

“Dianne wasn’t in politics, she was in government,” former Democratic congressman John Burton, her San Francisco contemporary, once said of her, with faint disdain.

Many tributes for California’s longest-serving U.S. senator will no doubt highlight Washington achievements. But any assessment of her historical influence begins with the generations of women who followed her into national and state politics, passing through doorways she was the first to breach: women such as Vice President Harris, former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and former senator Barbara Boxer, to name three from Feinstein’s home area alone.

Among the milestones and high-profile achievements, it’s easy to overlook the long years when Feinstein paid her dues in relative obscurity. From the early 1960s until she became mayor, she persisted through recurring defeats, private anguish and countless petty slights — the prologue to a remarkable career shaped by determination to defy the odds in a field perpetually dominated by men.

It is commonplace for politicians to set forth self-regarding narratives of tribulation overcome, but Feinstein eschewed personal revelation and confession — although she had plenty of authentic material for both. Though raised in privilege, she and her two sisters were physical-

ly and emotionally abused by their mentally ill, alcoholic mother. The family’s painful secrets were not discussed outside their fashionable Presidio Terrace home; behind closed doors, Dianne bore the brunt of her mother’s eruptions and struggled, as the eldest, to protect her siblings.

In the early 1960s, she ended a disastrous first marriage; as a divorced single mother, when both still carried a whiff of social scandal, she gained a foothold in politics via an appointment to the California Women’s Board of Terms and Parole. For 10 days every month, for nearly five years, she left her little girl with a babysitter to travel to the women’s state prison at Chino. During her term, the board there adjudicated nearly 5,000 cases of female prisoners — abortionists, arsonists and burglars, murderers, swindlers and thieves — plunging Feinstein into the core of the criminal justice system. But when she won a national award for her work in local jail reform, a big story about it was headlined “A pretty expert on crime,” a harbinger of how often coverage focused less on her ideas

than on her appearance — the “raven-haired beauty” in the “fashionable blue Norell original with a bolero top and wide white belt” was “sufficiently eloquent to divert the minds of the mostly male members of the club from her stunning good looks.”

Twice in the 1970s, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly rejected her bid for mayor, apparently uneasy at the notion of a female chief executive. The sting of those defeats was slight, however, compared to the sorrow of nursing Dr. Feinstein, her beloved second husband whose name she kept, after his 1976 cancer diagnosis and through his lingering death two years later.

In despair, she just kept going to work, confronted by a new board of supervisors, including Harvey Milk, the nation’s first prominent gay officeholder, and an ex-cop named Dan White, whose clashing personalities and politics she tried to mediate and balance.

But on the morning of Nov. 27, 1978, long-simmering hatred and grievances over politics, personality, race and sexuality exploded in terrible violence, as White murdered

Mayor George Moscone and Milk.

In an instant, Feinstein had attained the job she’d so long sought, in the worst way imaginable.

In the aftermath, as one of the first female mayors of a major U.S. city, she guided San Francisco with compassion, dignity and skill. She responded early and effectively to the AIDS epidemic and managed thousands of other day-to-day crises and mundane affairs with diligence and industry.

Nine years later, she left office with lofty ratings and a formidable political brand. In 1990, she became the first woman nominated by a major party to run for governor in California. Though narrowly defeated, Feinstein effectively won by losing, gaining statewide and national recognition that installed her as a front-runner for a U.S. Senate seat in 1992. She triumphed that November, her victory a centerpiece of what the media termed the “Year of the Woman,” as the political energy of female voters, triggered by the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings one year earlier, shaped elections across the nation.

It was a pivotal moment for politics — and for Feinstein. As she embarked upon the second three-decade act of a historic political career, the chauvinism and misogyny she had faced for a quarter-century began to be recognized and called out.

“Up until this election being a woman has not been an asset,” she told a reporter back then. But now, “women have become symbols of change.”

About the author: Jerry Roberts is a former managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in October 2017. (IRFAN KHAN/ LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS)

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Wildcat coronation

10 killed in Mexican church collapse

CIUDAD MADERO, Mexico (AP) — The collapse of a church roof during a mass in northern Mexico has killed at least 10 people and injured 60, and searchers said Monday that no further people were believed to be trapped in the wreckage.

State police had initially estimated about 100 people were inside the church in the Gulf coast city of Ciudad Madero when it collapsed during a baptism Sunday, and said that approximately 30 parishioners may have been trapped in the rubble when the roof caved in.

But Tamaulipas state Gov. Américo Villarreal

Shutdown: Budget deal

abandoned demands for steep spending cuts from his right flank and instead relied on Democrats to pass the bill, at risk to his own job. The Senate followed with final passage closing a whirlwind day at the Capitol.

“This is good news for the American people,” Biden said in a statement.

He also said the United States “cannot under any circumstances allow American support for Ukraine to be interrupted” and expected McCarthy “will keep his commitment to the people of Ukraine and secure passage of the support needed to help Ukraine at this critical moment.”

It’s been a sudden head-spinning turn of events in Congress ahead of the midnight funding deadline after grueling days in the House pushed the government to the brink of a disruptive federal shutdown.

The outcome ends, for now, the threat of a shutdown, but the reprieve may be shortlived. Congress will again need to fund the government in coming weeks risking a crisis as views are hardening, particularly among the right-flank lawmakers whose demands were ultimately swept aside this time in favor of a more bipartisan approach.

“We’re going to do our job,” McCarthy, R-Calif., said before the House vote. “We’re going to be adults in the room. And we’re going to keep government open.”

If no deal was in place before Sunday, federal workers would

have faced furloughs, more than 2 million active-duty and reserve military troops would have had to work without pay and programs and services that Americans rely on from coast to coast would have begun to face shutdown disruptions.

“It has been a day full of twists and turns, but the American people can breathe a sigh of relief: There will be no government shutdown,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

The package funds government at current 2023 levels until mid-November, and also extends other provisions, including for the Federal Aviation Administration. The package was approved by the House 335-91, with most Republicans and almost all Democrats supporting. Senate passage came by an 88-9 vote.

But the loss of Ukraine aid was devastating for lawmakers of both parties vowing to support President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his recent Washington visit. The Senate bill included $6 billion for Ukraine, and both chambers came to a standstill Saturday as lawmakers assessed their options.

“The American people deserve better,” said House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, warning in a lengthy floor speech that “extreme” Republicans were risking a shutdown.

For the House package to be approved, McCarthy was forced to rely on Democrats because the speaker’s hard-right flank has said it will oppose any short-term funding measure, de-

later said only 70 may have been inside. Villarreal said that, after sending search dogs and thermal imaging cameras under the collapsed concrete slab, it appeared that nobody was still trapped, apart from the ten bodies already recovered.

“The most likely thing, I can’t affirm it 100%, is that there aren’t any more people trapped,” Villarreal said. Describing the searches by dogs and rescue teams, he said “there are no indications of life inside the collapsed area.”

That optimism will be put to the test when cranes start lifting chunks of the collapsed slab off the floor and the tops of pews.

The state security spokesman’s office said early Monday that 23 of

the 60 injured remain hospitalized, with two in serious condition.

The collapse occurred Sunday at the Santa Cruz church in the Gulf coast city of Ciudad Madero, next to the port city of Tampico, just as a mass baptism was being held.

Three of the dead were children., and on the list of people who had been injured were a 4-month-old baby, three 5-year-olds and two 9-year-olds.

“Unfortunately, the elderly and children were those who suffered the most, the ones who were most trapped, the ones who suffered the most deaths, I think,” said Father Pablo Galván, a priest who was just outside in the church parking lot Sunday when the collapse occurred. He had just

finished celebrating the main mass.

Describing that moment, Galván said “the roof just simply and plainly collapsed, like an implosion, like when you crush a can.”

“It fell, there was no time to do anything. It was like two seconds. We still can’t understand what happened,” Galván said.

Questions immediately turned to why the concrete and brick structure failed so suddenly. Security camera footage from about a block away showed the unusual, gabled roof simply collapsed downward. The walls did not appear to have been blown outward, nor was there any indication of an explosion, or anything other than simple structural failure.

nying him the votes needed from his slim majority. It’s a move that is sure to intensify calls for his ouster.

After leaving the conservative holdouts behind, McCarthy is almost certain to be facing a motion to try to remove him from office, though it is not at all certain there would be enough votes to topple the speaker. Most Republicans voted for the package Saturday while 90 opposed.

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Cars pass the U.S. Capitol Building during a vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government on Saturday in Washington, D.C. GETTY IMAGES/ANNA MONEYMAKER/TNS

Marmaton Valley High School’s Daniel Fewins and Payton Scharff were crowned 2023 Fall Homecoming King and Queen Friday. They are accompanied by flower girl River Gable and crown bearer Judson Curl. PHOTO BY HALIE LUKEN/MVHS

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

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Mustangs fall in heartbreaker at Burlington

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

BURLINGTON — A backand-forth thriller turned into a heartbreaking 46-42 defeat Friday evening for Iola High.

The Mustangs traded huge momentum swings with host Burlington for much of the night, and the Mustangs were poised, twice, to push back ahead down the stretch.

But Iola came up empty on both occasions, including the game’s pivotal play, from the Burlington 24 yard line with a half-minute to play.

Mustang quarterback Landon Weide, whose electric running proved to be the team’s catalyst for much of the night, seemingly found receiver Korbin Cloud on a long third-down pass to the Wildcat 6.

But after the officiating crew’s lengthy huddle to discuss the play, they instead ruled Burlington defender Brody Anderson was able to wrest possession of the ball at the whistle.

Interception Wildcats.

Game over.

Iola head coach David Daugharthy and his assistants howled their disapproval as the hometown Burlington crowd went nuts upon the ruling.

“I thought he had it,” Daugharthy said afterward of Cloud. “I thought it was obvious. I don’t know what they saw.”

The unfortunate ending for the Mustang contingent soured what had been a classic scorefest in which the teams traded the lead four times in the fourth quarter alone, the final salvo com-

ing from Burlington’s Zane Hoback, who ran in a 27-yard touchdown with 4:50 left in the game to push the Wild-

cats ahead, 46-42. Iola made it to midfield on their next possession, but Weide threw incom-

plete on a long attempt to Cloud, who made the catch out of bounds, and then just missed on another long pass to Lucas Maier. The Wildcats blitzed on fourth down, forcing Weide to scramble to his left. He reversed course, but his pass over the middle came up just short of the receiver with 2 ½ minutes remaining.

Burlington was poised to drain much of the game clock from there, but Iola’s Ben Kerr spoiled their plans with a fumble recovery two plays later to set up the final Mustang possession. Weide connected with Maier on the next play to push the ball to Burlington’s 25.

But a pair of Weide rushes went nowhere on the next two plays, setting up the cli-

Humboldt runs over Eureka on the road

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

EUREKA — Humboldt’s first play of the game Friday foretold how the night would unfold against the Eureka Tornadoes.

The Cubs’ Brody Gunderman returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown, followed by a two-point conversion for the 8-0 lead. The Cubs, 5-0, won the contest 62-0.

“It really just set the energy,” said Gunderman. “At this point in the season, everyone is pumped. We’re working as a team and we’re putting everything together and playing well right now.”

Humboldt came out of the gates strong, accounting for 48 points by halftime. It was a next-man-up kind of night for the Cubs which saw Sam Hull lead the way with a team-high two touchdowns.

Five Cubs scored touchdowns.

The Humboldt defense had five tackles for a loss. Jacob Harrington led the Cubs with a team-high four tackles for a loss on Eureka quarterback Cole Ptacek.

The Cubs defense had four turnovers, including an interception from Sam Hull

and Kyler Isbell each. Hull found the end zone on a one-yard touchdown rush as well as the two-point conversion attempt for the 16-0 lead.

“We look to start off hot from the first whistle,” said

Humboldt head coach Logan Wyrick.,. “It was good to see the momentum continue throughout the game.”

The Cubs came up with a fourth down stop of Eureka’s offense on the Humboldt 39yard line. After Humboldt

mactic sequence.

“It was a hard-fought game,” Daugharthy said. “Defensively, we couldn’t figure out a way to stop them, and offensively, it seemed like whoever had the ball last was going to win.”

Alas, costly penalties earlier in the game short-circuited other Iola scoring drives, which Daugharthy agreed played a crucial role in the game’s outcome.

“Any time we punted or did anything less than a touchdown, we knew it was going to hurt us,” he said.

THE START was all Iola.

Weide accounted for 46 of Iola’s 47 rushing yards on the Mustangs’ opening series, including a 6-yard keeper on third and goal to open the scoring.

Burlington’s subsequent three-and-out gave Iola possession again. The Mustangs marched 62 yards on eight plays, capped by Weide’s 11yard touchdown run on the opening play of the second quarter to make it 14-0.

But the momentum took an abrupt 180 on the ensuing kickoff.

Burlington’s Anderson took the line drive kick 85 yards for a touchdown to give the Wildcats a much-needed jolt.

A holding penalty on Iola’s next possession led to a punt, followed four plays later by a Hoback 21-yard touchdown run to make it 14-12.

The Wildcats were just getting started. Iola went threeand-out on its next two possessions, while Burlington wasted little time in finding

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Wildcats steamroll Hartford

MORAN — Marmaton Valley steamrolled Hartford at home Friday, 8022.

The Wildcats (4-1) forced three turnovers and went for five touchdown passes and six touchdown runs total. Brayden Lawson tossed all five of the touchdown passes while Dre Ellis ran in a team-high four touchdowns, out of his five total.

“I think our physicality with our blocking and our running were key,” Marmaton Valley head coach Max Mickunas said. “Our offensive line made a lot of holes and made it easier. They just didn’t want to tackle Brayden and Dre, those guys ran hard.”

gave the ball back again, Hull intercepted Eureka at the 30yard line which set up another Humboldt touchdown.

That score came in the form of a Blake Ellis to Jacob Harrington 24-yard touchdown

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Jaedon Granere and Tyler Lord had two touchdown catches each, while hauling in 68 and 83 receiving yards, respectively. Ellis caught the other touchdown pass on a 15-yard

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Iola High’s Lucas Maier dives for extra yardage against Burlington

Friday in the Mustangs’ 4642 defeat. REGISER/RICHARD LUKEN

Iola High’s Cortland Carson dives to tackle Burlington ball carrier Zane Hoback Friday in the Mustangs’ 46-42 defeat. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Humboldt’s Cole Mathes runs through the Eureka defense Friday. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

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Crest’s lead slips away at St. Paul, loses 26-20

By QUINN BURKITT

ST. PAUL — Crest couldn’t hold a double-digit lead when they fell at St. Paul Friday, 26-20.

Mental mistakes and poor communication between the Lancers caused St. Paul to stage a second half comeback after leading 14-0 at halftime. Crest ultimately gave the ball back with only a minute left in the game which was when St. Paul scored a 14-yard touchdown for the win.

Crest head coach Nick McAnulty laid the blame on a lack of being mentally prepared to play.

“We never got anything going, even when we scored. We should have been up 20 points and we were up eight.

If you let teams hang around they’ll come back and get you.”

Denton Ramsey scored Crest’s first touchdown when he burst in for a five-yard touchdown and the 8-0 early lead.

Gentry McGhee scored two of Crest’s three touchdowns in the game, his first a 14yard touchdown catch to make it 14-0 at halftime.

McGhee rushed in a two-yard touchdown for the 20-0 lead in the third quarter.

The Lancers stalled on a number of drives that ultimately resulted in Hartford taking control, including 49- and 10-yard touchdown runs and an 18yard touchdown pass.

With 30 seconds on the clock, Hartford scored, for the 26-20 victory. scored a 10-

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yard touchdown run for the 26-20 lead.

“They had one timeout left and if we had got a first down or two the game would have been over,” McAnulty said. “I think we got a blocked punt and we didn’t finish. We never showed up and at no point did we have anything going.”

With only 11 seconds to go, Crest was unable to mount a comeback.

“We’re going to find out who wants to play football,” McAnulty said of this week’s practices. “It’s going to be a hard week of practice and they know it,” said McAnulty. “It’s going to be a mental week. We’re going to figure out who we really are as a football team.”

Crest will host Marmaton Valley on Friday at 7 p.m., a Three Rivers League local matchup.

Iola goes 8-3 in last week

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

The Iola High volleyball team has gone 8-3 since their second-place tournament finish at Burlington last weekend.

The Mustangs (14-9) started out by defeating Southern Coffey County, Fredonia, McLouth and Burlington before falling to Humboldt in the championship match of the Burlington tournament.

Kaysin Crusinbery reached a milestone-1,000 career assists at the tournament.

Reese Curry and Mariah Jelinek led the Mustangs over SCC with a team-high four aces. Against Fredonia, Curry notched a team-high 10 kills while Crusinbery went for a teamhigh 21 assists. Against McLouth, Mader had a team-high five kills.

When Iola took down Burlington, Fager led the way with a teamhigh five aces while Mader and Curry each had a team-high 11 kills. Crusinbery also notched 30 assists.

Iola then matched up at Anderson County where they knocked down Santa Fe Trail, 2-1, and lost to Anderson County, 2-0.

Alana Mader led the Mustangs offensively in their victory over Santa Fe Trail with a teamhigh nine kills. Curry had a team-high four aces. Defensively, Jackie Fager had a team-high eight blocks while Elza Clift had a team-high 18 digs.

In the loss to Anderson County, Mader had a team-high four kills

while Mariah Jelinek and Crusinbery each had one ace. Defensively, Mader had a teamhigh two blocks and six digs.

The Mustangs then matched up against Fredonia and Eureka on Thursday, dropping their match to Fredonia, 2-0, before defeating Eureka, 2-0.

In the loss to Fredonia, Curry had a teamhigh five kills as well as

pass, followed by an Ellis two-point conversion run for the 24-0 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Isbell came up with the Cubs’ second interception of the game when he picked off Eureka right around midfield to give Humboldt the ball to start the second quarter.

“The goal is obviously a shutout but that’s difficult weekto-week,” said Wyrick. “The goal is to score seven points and then not let them score so if you put up a lot of points it’s fun, but we want to continue to strive on defense. It’s good to see them flying around and we were able to get more guys up front tonight.”

Ellis had a four-yard

touchdown for the 32-0 lead.

Harrington came up with two big sacks for chunk losses midway through the second quarter which set up Humboldt in good field position again.

“I think it helps more defensively if everyone does their job. If we can do everything right, we’ll be alright,” said Harrington.

Cole Mathes had a five-yard touchdown rush to put Humboldt ahead, 40-0.

Hull had his second interception of the game at the Eureka 35yard line which set up a Harrington four-yard touchdown catch from Ellis for the 48-0 halftime advantage. Humboldt remained scoreless until three minutes left in the

third quarter when Ellis hit Asher Hart for an 11-yard touchdown connection and the 54-0 difference.

The scoring came to a halt once Hull scored his second touchdown, a five-yard touchdown run for the 62-0 lead in the fourth.

Humboldt rushed for a total of 319 yards and needed only 54 receiving yards to score two touchdowns through the air, completions of 24 and 11 yards.

Defensively, Humboldt compiled 27 tackles as Isbell led the way with a team-high six tackles. Logan Page had five tackles while Harrington had four. Humboldt hosts Tri-Valley top contender Osage City next Friday at 7 p.m.

a team-high two aces. Defensively, Fager had a team-high four blocks and Clift notched a team-high 22 digs.

Iola was led in their victory over Eureka by Mader and Curry’s team-high eight kills apiece. Crusinbery had two aces. Defensively, Clift had a team-high 12 digs.

Iola travels to Prairie View on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

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A Crest Lancer is tackled by some Oswego defenders in a game earlier this season. PHOTO BY MARIA RODRIGUEZ

Humboldt’s Chase DeMerritt, right, tackles a Eureka ball carrier. REGISTER/ QUINN BURKITT

Iola’s Alana Mader goes for a hit at home. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Greinke pitches Royals to 5-2 victory over Yankees

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(AP) — Zack Greinke tried to give Royals manager Matt Quatraro the ball when they met on the mound Sunday, just as the sixtime All-Star had done so many times over the years, when he was departing for a reliever amid one of his 541 starts.

Quatraro gave the ball right back to him.

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the end zone when it got the ball back on both occasions.

Hunter Reiling connected with Hoback on a 5-yard scoring pass to push Burlington ahead 18-14, then he found Brody Webb from 30 yards out, and suddenly Iola was in arrears 26-14 with 2 ½ minutes left in the half.

The Mustangs regrouped from there. Weide tossed a 9-yard scoring strike to Drayden Reiter with 40 seconds left in the half to cut the deficit to 26-20.

Burlington threatened again before intermission, but ran out of time deep in scoring position when the gun sounded.

Undeterred, the Wildcats opened the second half scoring with Reiling finding Hoback on a short pass to the outside. After eluding a defender, Hoback raced another 50 or so to make it 32-20.

Weide’s third rushing touchdown of the game, a dazzling 33-yard scamper down the left sideline, pulled Iola to within 32-28 to cut it to 32-28, and suddenly Iola’s fortunes brightened once again.

“He was pretty electric running the ball,” Daugharthy said.

Iola sophomore Tre Wilson picked off a Wildcat pass to set up Iola’s next possession, which pushed the Mustangs back on top early in the fourth quarter, when Ben Kerr rumbled in from 7 yards away on a short pitch from Weide to make it 36-32.

Burlington responded quickly, with a 5-yard keeper from Reiling to push Burlington back ahead 38-36.

Iola’s response was even quicker.

Wilson took the ensuing kickoff 79 yards

to paydirt, zipping past the pursuing Wildcats down the left sidelines, to push the Mustangs back ahead, 42-38, with 8:25 left in the game.

“We were waiting for that for a while,” Daugharthy said. “It got things going our way.”

But the Wildcats converted a pair of critical fourth-downs on its ensuing possession — one coming when Iola jumped offsides before the snap on fourth-andfive — leading to Hoback’s 27-yarder.

Unofficially, Weide racked up 153 yards on 22 carries, while completing 11 of 21 passes for 108.

Cortland Carson rushed for 58 yards, while Skahan had 20 on the ground. Cloud hauled in three receptions for 49 yards, Reiter had three catches for 28. Maier and Kerr added 20 and 11 receiving yards, respectively.

Hoback’s ground work was good for 175 yards on 21 carries. Reiling went 9 of 16 passes for 171 yards.

Anderson had 84 yards on six catches to lead the Wildcats.

Iola falls to 2-3 overall, and more importantly, stands at 1-1 in Class 3A district play.

The Mustangs travel to Girard next Friday. The Trojans stand at 2-3 overall and 0-1 in district action after a 21-0 loss to Prairie View.

“There’s definitely a danger (of a letdown) when you invest so much in a game like this,” Daugharthy said.

“I have confidence our kids will bounce back. We’re going to be preaching that all week.”

Iola 6-14-8-14—42

Burlington 0-26-614—46

First Quarter

Iola — LandonWeide

7 yd run (kick failed).

0-6

Second Quarter

Iola — Weide 11 yd run (Weide run) 0-14

Burlington — Brody Anderson 85 yd kickoff return (run failed) 6-14

Burlington — Zane Hoback 21 yd run (PAT failed) 12-14

Burlington — Zane Hoback 3 yd pass from Hunter Reiling (PAT failed) 18-14

Burlington — Brody Webb 30 yd pass from Reiling (Zane Hoback pass from Reiling 26-14

Iola — Drayden Reiter 9 yd pass from Weide (kick failed) 26-20

Third Quarter

Burlington — Zone Hoback 54 yd pass from Reiling (pass failed) 3220

Iola — Weide 33 yd run (Carson pass from Weide) 32-28

Fourth Quarter

Iola — Kerr 7 yd pass from Weide (Reiter pass from Weide) 32-36

Burlington — Hunter Reiling 5 yd run (PAT failed) 38-36

Iola — Tre Wilson 79 yd kickoff return (pass failed) 38-42

Burlington — Zane Hoback 27 yd run (Reiling run) 46-42

Statistics (Unofficial)

Rushing

Iola: Weide 22-153; Skahan 4-20; Kerr 1-4; Carson 13-58; Wilson

4-2

Burlington: Anderson 6-15, Reiling 7-27; Hoback 21-175; Fefjar 1-4

Passing

Iola: Weide 11-21-108

Burlington: Reiling

9-16-171

Receiving

Iola: Kerr 3-11; Cloud

3-49; Reiter 3-28; Maier

2-20

Burlington: Webb

1-30; Anderson 6-84; Hoback 2-57

The famously reserved Greinke stuck it in his back pocket as he walked off the field, quite possibly for the final time in his big league career. And with help from a trio of home runs, and a Kansas City bullpen that held the New York Yankees in check the rest of the way, Greinke was able to enjoy a 5-2 victory and his

225th career win.

“He had a smile on his face,” Quatraro said later. “He was appreciative of getting to come off, having the guys surround him on the mound. He was soaking that in, every inning looking to his family coming off the mound. I thought that was great.”

Greinke even accepted a curtain call from a Kauffman Stadium crowd that first welcomed him to the big leagues 20 years ago. The 39-year-old Greinke can become free agent after this season, and while he declined to say whether he plans to retire, the 2009 Cy Young Award winner has had a challenging year. His only other win came May 3 against Baltimore.

“I mean, everything about it was great,”

Greinke said, “and the last couple of months were a lot better than the first.”

Michael King (4-8) had a forgettable finale to an otherwise excellent end of the year for New York. He’d allowed one earned run or fewer in his previous seven starts before serving up a trio of homers among eight hits that led to four runs Sunday.

Late-season revelation James McArthur got the final six outs for Kansas City for his fourth save.

“These guys have been trying to seize every day as an opportunity. More of them have gone our way as of late,” said Quatraro, whose club snapped a 15-series losing streak to New York that dated to May 15, 2015.

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completion.

Tyler Lord and Dominic Smith each had an interception while Lawson had the lone fumble recovery for Marmaton Valley’s defensive turnovers. Lawson also led the way defensively with a team-high six tackles while Brevyn Campbell and Lord each had five tackles.

The Wildcats’ lone fumble recovery was in the first quarter and set up the home team in a good position to score.

Marmaton Valley led Hartford 44-0 at the end of the first quarter.

The Jaguars returned a kickoff for

a touchdown early in the second quarter, one of their three touchdowns, but still trailed Marmaton Valley, 44-8.

The Wildcats outscored Hartford in the second half, 3622.

“I think any matchup for Jaedon and Tyler is a good matchup,” Mickunas said. “Tyler is a great route runner and Jaedon has some speed unlike anyone. Those two receivers are as good as you’ll see in eight-man football. They complement each other well. You’ve got kind of a thunder and lighting offense with the run -

ners and the speed on the outside.”

The pair of interceptions from Lord and Smith came near the end of the game and set up Marmaton Valley for the win.

“I thought our execution was there completely, we made very few mistakes,” Mickunas said. “It was a great team effort. We shut them down then scored some more touchdowns on top of that. We got those interceptions and it sealed the deal after that.”

Marmaton Valley travels to Crest on Friday in a local Three Rivers League showdown at 7 p.m.

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Pope suggests blessings possible for same-sex unions

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— Pope Francis has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting where LGBTQ+ Catholics are on the agenda.

The Vatican on Monday published a letter Francis wrote to the cardinals on July 11 after receiving a list of five questions, or “dubia,” from them a day earlier. In it, Francis suggests that such blessings could be studied if they didn’t confuse

the blessing with sacramental marriage.

The Vatican holds that marriage is an indissoluble union between man and woman. As a result, it has long opposed gay marriage. But even Francis has voiced support for civil laws extending legal benefits to same-sex spouses, and Catholic priests in parts of Europe have been blessing same-sex unions without Vatican censure.

Francis’ response to the cardinals, however, marks a reversal from the Vatican’s current official position. In an explanatory note in 2021, the Congregation

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Chiefs hold on to beat Jets Sunday night

EAST RUTHERFORD,

N.J. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs appeared on their way to a blowout against the struggling New York Jets.

A few mistakes by the star quarterback made it uncomfortably close, but he and the Chiefs shook off a subpar performance during which they blew a 17-point lead and then held on for a 2320 victory Sunday night.

“I knew I put us in two bad positions,” said Mahomes, who was intercepted twice. “No one points fingers in that locker room. We all play together. Not everything is going to be pretty, but the guys responded and we found a way to win.”

With pop superstar Taylor Swift watching Travis Kelce and the Chiefs for the second straight game, this time from a suite at MetLife Stadium, Kansas City was able to bounce back.

After the Chiefs (31) regained the lead on Harrison Butker’s 26yard field goal with 10:51 remaining, Zach Wilson made his first big mistake for the Jets when he lost a snap. Tershawn Wharton recovered and Mahomes and the Chiefs got the ball at the Jets 47.

Michael Carter II intercepted Mahomes on third-and-20 from the Jets 40 — but it was negated by a holding call on Sauce Gardner. Replays showed it was a questionable call and an irate Jets coach Robert Saleh stormed down the

sideline to shout at an official.

“Fourth quarter, crunch time,” Gardner said. “I don’t even know what to say.”

Mahomes, who had a 25-yard run on thirdand-23 to extend the drive, ran for 9 yards on another third down to the Jets 2, sealing the victory.

“Listen, I thought it was a hold,” said Chiefs coach Andy Reid, who tied Tom Landry for fourth on the career list with his 250th regular-season victory. “I’ve got to go back and look at the tape on it. He was on the other side of the field. They’re aggressive, so they’re going to get a couple of those during the game. Sauce is as good as there is in the league, but he might have had a little

bit of fabric there.”

Moments later, a still-angry Saleh was called for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty — and the clock hit zero on a bitter loss for the Jets (1-3).

“Just that whole drive after the fumble was unfortunate,” Saleh said. “That’s extremely unfortunate, especially for a primetime football game.”

Mahomes, who became the fastest to 200 NFL touchdown passes, was 18 of 30 for 203 yards and a touchdown. He also ran for 51 yards to set the franchise’s career rushing mark for a quarterback. Isiah Pacheco rushed for 115 yards and a touchdown on 20 carries, and Kelce had six catches for 60 yards.

“It was a lot of hard

No. 24 Kansas taken down at No. 3 Texas

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— Jonathon Brooks and balance. Texas has been using both to put teams away through the first half of the season.

Brooks rushed for 217 yards and two touchdowns as No. 3 Texas piled up more than 600 total yards in a 40-14 win over No. 24 Kansas, which lost standout quarterback Jalon Daniels in pregame warmups with back stiffness.

half. The Longhorns blew the game open in the fourth quarter with Ewer’s touchdown pass to Adonai Mitchell and the quarterback’s second touchdown run.

“We can run and pass,” Brooks said. “We just kept going back to (the run), breaking the other team’s will and being really physical.”

Sarkisian said Texas is gaining confidence it can win with any game plan.

grinding tonight,” Pacheco said. Wilson had his best game since taking over for the injured Aaron Rodgers, going 28 of 39 for 245 yards and two touchdowns. But he blamed himself for the loss because of the lost fumble.

“To be driving right there, to drop a snap, I can not do that,” Wilson said.

Trailing 20-12, Wilson and the Jets opened the second half with the ball and marched down the field. Wilson found Allen Lazard in the middle of the end zone for a 10-yard touchdown pass. The quarterback then avoided a tackle attempt, rolled out and zipped forward for a 2-point conversion that tied the game at 20.

Royals: Greinke takes down Yankees, 5-2

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really happy for the fortitude they’ve shown, the work ethic to keep pushing. It would have been very easy for them to pack it up.”

The Royals went 56106, matching the franchise record for losses in a season. The Yankees finished 82-80, clinching a winning record for the 31st straight season with their win Saturday but still their worst since 76-86 in 1992.

Yankees star Aaron Judge, who did not play, stood at the dugout rail and stared at the field following the final out.

“We need to be playing this time of year, so that’s the first thing,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “But again, you know, you take a little bit of solace just in how these guys continued to show up, continued to prepare, continued to compete all the way to the end, and played well down the stretch, when it wasn’t necessarily an easy thing to do.

“We know we have to be playing this time of year,” Boone added. “And that reality and disappointment certainly is upon us.”

MJ Melendez tagged the first of the Royals’ homers Sunday, all of which rode an early October breeze to left field, leading off the second inning. Nick Pratto drove in Dairon Blanco later in the inning to stake Kansas City to a 2-0 lead.

Edward Oliveras and Blanco added their home runs off

King one batter apart in the fourth inning, and the Royals made it 5-0 in the fifth when Bobby Witt Jr. tripled leading off and Salvador Perez followed with a sacrifice fly.

The Yankees got two runs back in the sixth on Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s two-out single off Taylor Clarke, but the Kansas City bullpen that had been so beleaguered all season shut them down the rest of the way.

“There’s been a lot of guys that have taken some positive steps,” Greinke said of the Royals, “and it’s in a better place than it was at this point last year. But there’s still got to be some guys getting better and some improvements being made.”

RENDERING JUDGMENT

Judge said before the game he’s talked with owner Hal Steinbrenner and general manager Brian Cashman about what could change before next season. Judge also said he supports manager Aaron Boone leading the club into the future.

“We have a good group of guys in here. I’m excited to build off what we’ve got here,” Judge said, “and if we can add a couple of more pieces down the road this winter, then we’ll be in a good spot.”

BOBBY’S BUMMER

Witt became the first Royals player in the 30-30 club when he hit his 30th homer in the series opener, but he finished one steal short of becoming the fourth

player ever in the 30-50 club. Witt was thrown out trying to steal second Saturday, then picked off first base Sunday, leaving him with 49 steals for the season.

HOME ATTENDANCE

The Royals had 1,307,052 attend home games this season, the third-worst total in the majors behind Miami and Oakland. Thanks in part to the pitch clock, and improved pace of play, that total still exceeded their attendance of 1,277,686 last season.

UP NEXT

The Yankees play their spring training opener Feb. 24 against Detroit in Lakeland, Florida. The Royals play their spring opener the same day against Texas in Surprise, Arizona.

Quinn Ewers passed for 325 yards and ran 30 yards for the game’s first score. Texas (50, 2-0 Big 12) also got another standout game from its defense, which has surrendered just three touchdowns in the past three games.

Brooks, who was behind freshman C.J. Baxter on the depth chart when the season started, now has three consecutive 100-yard rushing games and a team high six touchdowns. He averages 7.0 yards per carry.

“He is a home run hitter for us right now,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian.

Brooks’ first touchdown came on a 54yard ru n. His second came after Texas recovered a fourth-down fumble, putting the Longhorns ahead 2614 late in the third quarter.

His only blemish Saturday was getting chased down from behind on a 67-yard run.

“That (defender) was fast,” Brooks said.

Texas finished with 336 yards rushing and 661 yards overall, and wore down Kansas (4-1, 1-1) in the second

“We keep talking about being versatile and finding different ways,” Sarkisian said. “Championship teams get better during the season, I think that’s something we’ve done.”

Kansas was hamstrung by the unexpected loss of Daniels, the preseason Big 12 offensive player of the year, who was with the team at the start of warmups. But he didn’t finish them, leaving the offense with backup Jason Bean. Kansas managed just 260 total yards.

“We tried to get him ready. We thought we could get him out there,” Kansas coach Lance Leipold said. “It is what it is .... We just never got in sync.”

Bean passed for 136 yards and a 58yard touchdown to Trevor Wilson that pulled Kansas within six points early in the third quarter. But missing Daniels, the hero of Kansas’ upset win here in double-overtime in 2021, turned the Jayhawks heavily reliant on a running game that struggled.

Patrick Mahomes (15) of the Kansas City Chiefs hands the ball off to Isiah

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