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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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DIAMOND & FIELD SPRING SPORTS 2020

Law enforcement vehicles line a street near a house in Neosho Falls, where a woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in Johnson County. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Standoff ends with woman’s arrest

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

NEOSHO FALLS — A lengthy police chase and extended standoff ended with the arrest of a 30-year-old woman who apparently set fire to the house in which she was hiding.

Law enforcement officers arrested Tava Glover, 38, shortly after 2 p.m. Monday at the house on the west side of Neosho Falls.

The chase came after law enforcement in Woodson County were notified the woman was wanted for suspicion of attempted first degree murder in Johnson County.

Detective Jeffrey McCullough of the Woodson County Sheriff ’s Department said the Johnson County incident occurred earlier Monday morning.

The woman’s mother lives in Woodson County, so local deputies went to that house

and spotted the woman, which precipitated a lengthy chase that eventually ventured it into northwest Allen County before ending in Neosho Falls.

Glover then reportedly barricaded herself in a two-story house owned by Todd Lacrone, who was not at home.

McCullough said Glover fired at least two shots from a weapon during the standoff.

The standoff lasted until See ARREST | Page A6

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s coronavirus deaths jumped by a record number Tuesday as the country’s medical system strained to care for its tens of thousands of infected patients and the world total climbed to more than 800,000 case.

In the United States, where the spread of the coronavirus has been accelerating, New York’s governor begged for health care reinforcements, saying up to 1 million more workers were needed.

Spain and Italy are still struggling to avoid the collapse of their health systems, with Spain saying hospitals in at least half of its 17 regions are at or very near their ICU bed limits and more than 13,000 medical workers are among the country’s reported 94,417 infections.

Dozens of hotels across See VIRUS | Page A3

Restaurants revamp business plans

By ERICK MITCHELL The Iola Register

The season that could have been

By The Iola Register

The wheels were already in motion to print the Register’s spring sports preview when local schools moved to an online curriculum and canceled athletic events due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

So this is not only a look at what “coulda been,” but also gives the recognition due to our many area student athletes.

Even without the records to prove it, they’re all champions in our eyes.

Already a cut-throat industry, restaurants are learning to evolve amidst the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Sam and Louie’s Italian Restaurant and Red Beard BBQ are two local establishments that are adjusting to the new territory by selling meal kits that can be prepared from home.

For Sam and Louie’s owner Toby Shaughnessy, the last two weeks have been a 180-degree turn from the start of the year.

“We were booming,” Shaughnessy said. “January and February were a little bit slower than last year, but toward the middle of February and the beginning of March we started to do really well. I couldn’t hire enough people.”

But on March 20, Sam and Louie’s shut down for the day to re-evaluate how to construct business going forward.

The next day, the restaurant announced it would be switch-

Toby Shaughnessy prepares an order at Sam and Louie’s. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL ing to carry-out, curbside togo, and delivery.

“When the pandemic started to spread more here in the U.S. is when we noticed a huge drop-off. Our sales went

Finding a SAFE solution

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

SAFE BASE director Angela Henry reads “The Worm” as the afterschool program continues online.

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With learning moved into living rooms, the after-school program SAFE BASE also is adopting a virtual version of its educational offerings.

SAFE BASE kicked off a new six-week program this week, delivering a variety of educational programming through the SAFE BASE Facebook page Mondays through Thursdays until May 7.

Like most activities

forced online because of a coronavirus pandemic, it’s an unprecedented approach that has forced educators to get creative, SAFE BASE director Angela Henry said. ”We’re connecting with kids and people beyond our community,” Henry said.

“This has been a huge learning curve for all of us.”

SAFE BASE instructors will present a new video, either prerecorded or through Facebook Live, at the top of each hour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Programs will cover a See ONLINE | Page A6

down to almost nothing in two days,” Shaughnessy said.

“Going by the percentage of our sales, we went to probably 10% to 15% of what we were doing.”

With business dwindling, Shaughnessy needed to get innovative. On Thursday, Sam and Louie’s announced their new $25 pizza kit. The kit inSee BUSINESS | Page A6

Burlington nursing home reports 18 coronavirus cases KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas nursing home chain linked to a coronavirus death in the Kansas City area has reported that 18 staffers and residents tested positive for the virus at another facility.

Life Care Centers of America said Monday that 11 residents and seven workers were confirmed to have COVID-19 at the home in Burlington, the Kansas City Star reported.

A resident at the Life Care

Center in Kansas City, Kansas, was the first COVID19-related fatality reported in the state on March 12.

Both are operated by a company that also runs a Washington state nursing home linked to 22 deaths.

For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing See ILL | Page A6

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Obituaries

Man arrested on suspicion of stabbing his mother

Joyce Stokes

LAHARPE — Seth Owen Pace, 25, is in custody after he was accused early Monday of stabbing his mother.

Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy said deputies received a call shortly after midnight Monday morning of the reported stabbing in LaHarpe.

As deputies were

Belva “Joyce” Stokes, age 76, of Humboldt, died at her home on Sunday, March 29, 2020.

She was born on July 19, 1943 to Ernest and Chloe (Toadman) Appling in Iola. She married Charles Stokes on Sept. 27, 1962, in Iola.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Lisa Stokes.

Survivors include her husband, Charles; daughter, Tammy Parker; and two sons, Dean and Donnie Stokes.

Due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 virus, the services will be private.

Cleone Deer Cleone (Henderson) Deer, age 97, former resident of Bronson, died Thursday, March 26, 2020, at a nursing home in Belton, Texas.

Survivors include her son, Bill Deer, and wife, Marsha, of Show Low, Ariz.; and daughter, Mazie McNamar and husband, Bill, of Belton, Texas.

She married Everett Deer, who preceded her in death.

There will be a memorial service in Bronson at a later date.

Piqua woman involved in wreck that killed woman A Florida woman was killed in a two-vehicle accident that also involved a Piqua woman Sunday.

Danielle M. Livermore, 30, Jacksonville, Fla., was the passenger in a Suburban that crashed shortly after noon on U.S. 169 in rural Franklin County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported Breanna Kline, 23, Piqua, was southbound on 169, about eight miles south of Osawatomie, when her car crossed the center line for unknown reasons.

Jeanetta M. Jenkins, 63, Kansas City, Mo., was driving the northbound Suburban, troopers said. She swerved to miss Kline’s car, and overcorrected. The Suburban rolled, coming to a stop on its top in the ditch.

Livermore, who was wearing her seat belt, was declared dead at the scene.

Kline and Jenkins were both unhurt, as was a 6-month-old infant riding with Jenkins and Livermore. All were properly fastened, troopers said.

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“When finalized, the rule will benefit our economy, will improve the U.S. fleet’s fuel economy, will make vehicles more affordable, and will save lives by increasing the safety of new vehicles,” Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman Corry Schiermeyer said Monday, ahead of the expected release.

Opponents contend the change — gutting his predecessor’s legacy effort against climate-changing fossil fuel emissions — appears driven by Trump’s push to undo regulatory initiatives of former President Barack Obama and say even the administration has had difficulty pointing to the kind of specific, demonstrable benefits to drivers, public health and safety or the economy that normally accompany standards changes.

The Trump administration says the looser mileage standards will allow consumers to keep buying the less fuel-efficient SUVs that U.S. drivers have

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Soldiers patrol the streets with their fingers on machine gun triggers. The army guards an exhibition center-turnedmakeshift-hospital crowded with rows of metal beds for those infected with the coronavirus. And Serbia’s president warns residents that Belgrade’s graveyards won’t be big enough to bury the dead if people ignore his government’s lockdown orders.

Since President Aleksandar Vucic announced an openended state of emergency on March 15, parliament has been sidelined, borders shut, a 12-hour police-enforced curfew imposed and people over 65 banned from leaving their homes — some of Europe’s strictest measures

favored for years. Opponents say it will kill several hundred more Americans a year through dirtier air, compared to the Obama standards.

Even “given the catastrophe they’re in with the coronavirus, they’re pursuing a policy that’s going to hurt public health and kill people,” said Chet France, a former 39-year veteran of the EPA, where he served as a senior official over emissions and mileage standards.

“This is first time that an administration has pursued a policy that will net negative benefit for society and reduce fuel savings,” France said.

Delaware Sen. Tom Carper, the senior Democrat on the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, called it “the height of irresponsibility for this administration to finalize a rollback that will lead to dirtier air while our country is working around the clock to respond to a respiratory pandemic whose effects may be exacerbated by air pollution.

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later transported to a hospital in Overland Park. Her condition was not immediately available.

When deputies arrived in LaHarpe, the younger Pace was not at the original residence, Murphy said.

He was found about a block away, however, and was arrested

without incident.

After executing search warrants of the residence and a vehcile, deputies forwarded information to the Allen County attorney’s office and requests for a charge of attempted murder.

Seth Pace is being held at Allen County Jail with no bond.

Could coronavirus quell democracy?

Fuel standards may be rolled back WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obamaera vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the United States’ biggest efforts against climate change.

The Trump administration is expected to release a final rule today on mileage standards through 2026.

The change — making good on the rollback after two years of Trump threatening and fighting states and a faction of automakers that opposed the move — waters down a tough Obama mileage standard that would have encouraged automakers to ramp up production of electric vehicles

en route, they were flagged down along U.S. 54 in Gas by Judith Pace, 45, Seth’s mother. The deputy summoned an ambulance and remained with Ms. Pace until an ambulance arrived to treat her injuries and transport her to the hospital.

Judith Pace was

to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Serbian leader, who makes dramatic daily appearances issuing new decrees, has assumed full power, prompting an outcry from opponents who say he has seized control of the state in an unconstitutional manner.

Rodoljub Sabic, a former state commissioner for personal data protection, says by proclaiming a state of emergency, Vucic has assumed “full supremacy” over decision-making during the crisis, although his constitutional role is only ceremonial.

“He issues orders which are automatically accepted by the government,” Sabic said. “No checks and balances.”

In ex-communist Eastern Europe and elsewhere, populist leaders are introducing harsh measures including uncontrolled cellphone surveillance of their citizens and lengthy jail sentences for those who flout lockdown decrees.

The human rights chief of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said while she understands the need to act swiftly to protect populations from the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly declared states of emergency must include a time limit and parliamentary oversight.

“A state of emergency — wherever it is declared and for whatever reason — must be proportionate to its aim, and only remain in place for as long as absolutely necessary,” said the OSCE rights chief, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir.

In times of national emergency, countries often take steps that rights activists see as curtailing civil liberties, such as increased surveillance, curfews and restrictions on travel, or limiting freedom of expression. China locked down whole cities earlier this year to stop the spread of the virus as India did with the whole nation.

Amnesty International researcher Massimo Moratti said states of emergency are allowed under international human rights law but warned that the restrictive measures should

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not become a “new normal.”

“Such states need to last only until the danger lasts,” he told The Associated Press.

In European Unionmember Hungary, parliament on Monday passed a law giving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government the right to rule by decree for as long as a state of emergency declared March 11 is in effect.

The law also sets prison terms of up to five years for those convicted of spreading false information about the pandemic and up to eight years for those interfering with efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, like a curfew or quarantine.

Rights groups and officials say the law creates the possibility of an indefinite state of emergency and gives Orbán and his government carte blanche to restrict human rights and crack down on freedom of the press.

“Orban is dismantling democracy in front of our eyes,”said Tanja Fajon, a member of the European Parliament, “This is a shame for Europe, its fundamental values and democracy.

He (Orban) abused coronavirus as an excuse to kill democracy and media freedom.”

“This is not the way to address the very real crisis that has been caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said David Vig, Amnesty International’s Hungary director.

Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga said criticism of Hungary’s bill were “political attacks based on the wrong interpretation or intentional distortion” of its contents.

Other governments have also adopted extreme measures.

In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s caretaker government passed a series of emergency executive measures to try to quell the spread of the new virus. These include authorizing unprecedented electronic surveillance of Israeli citizens and a slowdown of court activity that forced the postponement of Netanyahu’s own pending corruption trial.

In Russia, authorities have turned up the pressure on media outlets and social media users to control the narrative amid the country’s growing coronavirus outbreak. Moscow went on lockdown Monday and many other regions

quickly followed suit.

Under the guise of weeding out coronavirus-related “fake news,” law enforcement has cracked down on people sharing opinions on social media, and on media that criticize the government’s response to the outbreak.

In Poland, people are worried about a new government smartphone application introduced for people in home quarantine.

Panoptykon Foundation, a human rights group that opposes surveillance, says some users who support government efforts to fight the pandemic worry that by using the app they could be giving too much private data to the conservative government.

While nearly 800 coronavirus cases and 16 deaths have been recorded in Serbia, according to Johns Hopkins University, testing has been extremely limited and experts believe the figures greatly under-represent the real number of victims. Most people suffer mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, from the virus but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, more severe illness can occur, including pneumonia and death.

Images of the transformation of a huge communist-era exhibition hall in Belgrade into a makeshift hospital for infected patients has triggered widespread public fear of the detention camp-looking facility that is filled with row-upon-row of 3,000 metal beds.

The Serbian president said he was glad that people got scared, adding he would have chosen even a worselooking spot if that would stop Serbs from flouting his stay-athome orders.

“Someone has to spend 14 to 28 days there,” Vucic said. “If it’s not comfortable, I don’t care. We are fighting for people’s lives.”

“Do not Drown Belgrade,” a group of civic activists, has launched an online petition against what they call Vucic’s abuse of power and curtailing of basic human rights. It says his frequent public appearances are creating panic in an already worried society.

“We do not need Vucic’s daily dramatization, but the truth: Concrete data and instructions from experts,” the petition says.

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Kansas Dems: Mail-only voting in presidential primary

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Democrats have scrapped plans for polling sites for their May 2 presidential primary and are using only mailin ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic.

State Chairwoman Vicki Hiatt said Monday that polling sites are “going to be too risky” and that some were at public schools and community colleges that have closed.

The party on Monday began mailing ballots to almost 390,000 people registered as Democrats as of early March. The figure could top 400,000.

Hiatt’s announcement came as Gov. Andrew Cuomo in hard-hit New York said he was delaying that state’s presidential primary from April 28 to June 23. Presidential primaries also have

been postponed in Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland and Rhode Island.

“Thank goodness we already had the mail-in piece,” Hiatt said. “We always have to look for the right way to do things and protect voters’ rights to have elections and make sure democracy is protected.”

Hiatt said she’s hoping that scrapping polling sites won’t hurt turnout but believes participation will be driven more by whether Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to challenge former Vice President Joe Biden.

In Kansas, the parties run their presidential contests, with caucuses the norm except when a Republican president is seeking re-election. The Kansas GOP is having state and congressional

district conventions of party activists pick convention delegates, all supporting President Donald Trump.

State health officials expect the coronavirus outbreak in Kansas to peak on or near April 24, eight days before the Democratic presidential primary. Dr. Lee Norman, the state’s health secretary, said it’s still unwise to have public gatherings close to the peak.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Kansas has more than tripled in six days, to 368 cases reported by the state health department. Nine COVID-19-related deaths have been reported by state and local health officials.

Confirmed cases have spread from the state’s portion of the Kansas City area to 37 of its 105 counties. While most infected people recover

and many have mild or moderate symptoms, the virus can cause serious illnesses or death, particularly in older adults or people with underlying health issues.

Chris Reeves, a member of the Democratic National Committee from Kansas, said conducting a purely mailballot election was “our only choice.” He said the Trump administration should support using mail ballots through the fall and provide financial support to states.

Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, a Republican, has said there is no plan to delay the state’s Aug. 4 primary, but his office is encouraging voters to ask for mail ballots in advance.

Spokeswoman Katie Koupal said state law doesn’t require a voter to have a reason to request a mail ballot.

Spain have been converted into recovery rooms for patients in less-serious condition, and authorities are building makeshift field hospitals in sports centers, libraries and exhibition halls.

So far they have added 23,000 beds.

Overnight, Spain recorded 849 new deaths, the highest daily toll since the pandemic hit the southern European country. It has now claimed the lives of 8,189 people in Spain, forcing Madrid to open a second temporary morgue this week after an ice rink pressed into service last week become overwhelmed.

Authorities are shifting ventilating machines to regions with the highest number of ICU patients, and moving the patients themselves between regions “has not been ruled out,” said Dr. María José Sierra of Spain’s health emergencies center.

Deaths climbed rapidly in the United States, which was poised to overtake China’s reported virus death toll of 3,300. But experts say all numbers reported by governments and states in this pandemic are faulty in different ways, due to the lack of testing, mild virus cases that are missed or the determination of some governments to try to shape their pandemic narrative.

“This is going to be a long-term battle and we cannot let down our guard,” cautioned Dr. Takeshi Kasai, the World Health Organization’s regional director for the Western Pacific.

“We need every country to keep responding according to their local situation.”

Hard-hit Italy and Spain now account for more than half of the 38,714 COVID-19 deaths reported worldwide and the U.S. has the most confirmed cases at 164,610, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Italy’s death toll rose to nearly 11,600 — the highest in the world by far — but its rates of new infections were slowing.

A 12-year-old girl became the youngest person to die in Belgium, which has counted 705 deaths so far, including 98 in the last day. It was not disclosed whether she suffered from any underlying condition.

The country of about 11.5 million people has reported more than 12,705 infections.

National crisis-center coronavirus spokesman Emmanuel Andre said Belgian authorities expect the disease to reach its peak in coming days, and that “we will arrive at a point where we’re close to saturation point at our hospitals.”

To the east, Russia registered 500 new confirmed cases in the biggest spike since the beginning of the outbreak, bringing its total to 2,337.

Moscow, the capital, has been on lockdown since Monday and the government is edging toward to declaring a national state of emergency.

In New York, the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and health officials warned that the crisis unfolding there is just a preview of what other

U.S. cities and towns will soon face. New York state’s death toll climbed by more than 250 people in a day to over 1,200.

“We’ve lost over 1,000 New Yorkers,” Cuomo said. “To me, we’re beyond staggering already.”

Even before the governor’s appeal, close to 80,000 former nurses, doctors and other professionals were volunteering in New York, and a Navy hospital ship arrived with 1,000 beds to relieve pressure on the city’s overwhelmed hospitals.

In California, officials put out a similar call for volunteers as coronavirus hospitalizations doubled over the last four days and the number of patients in intensive care tripled.

Experts maintain the pandemic will be defeated only by social distancing measures that have put billions of people on lockdown and upended the world’s economy.

Dr. Chiara Lepora in the virus hotspot of Lodi in northern Italy said the pandemic had revealed critical health care problems in developed countries.

“Outbreaks cannot be fought in hospitals,” she said. “Hospitals can only deal with the consequences.”

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of Florida, officials were meeting later Tuesday to decide whether to let the infection-plagued cruise ship Zaandam dock after more than two weeks at sea.

In a South American dream trip that turned into a nightmare, dozens on the ship have reported flu-like symptoms and four people have died. The company said eight people have tested positive but 2,300 other passengers and crew are in good health.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the state’s health care resources are stretched too thin to allow the ship to dock.

More than 235 million people — about two of every three Americans — live in the 33 states where governors have ordered or recommended that residents stay home.

Worldwide, 800,049 people have been infected and 166,768 have recovered, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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Viral storm predicted to hit in mid-April; are we prepared?

Now that China is emerging from the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists are gaining valuable takeaways.

What plays in the favor of every other nation is that testing for the virus is available, whereas Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the virus, was in a fog until scientists determined the virus’s genetic sequencing and what steps were necessary to contain its spread.

Wuhan demonstrated to the world how quickly the virus could spread and overwhelm health systems.

What’s truly incredible is how quickly scientists were able to determine the virus’s makeup within one week, compared to the several months it took to identify that of SARS in 2003 and the several-years endeavor to decode HIV in the 1980s.

So yes, we should count our blessings in that testing for the coronavirus came about quickly.

China’s experience also taught government officials that it was better to overreact, than to not react. Those communities that kept the virus at manageable levels have since been able to rebound more quickly than those that did not.

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could escape the throes of this pandemic, the same lessons would apply.

But that can only happen if we remain vigilant in our plan of attack.

In the Chinese communities that escaped its ravages, official oversight was strict.

By the millions, individuals were electronically surveyed and those found to be infected were quarantined as well as anyone or anything they may have been in contact with.

Even now, three months later, individuals are required to post their daily temperatures into a government health data bank and businesses continue to take the temperatures of employees.

This Big Brother approach saved lives.

Of course, such aggressive measures won’t happen here. Not even close.

Americans’ ideals of civil liberties would never allow such personal invasion.

Which puts the onus on each of us to do our part of preventing spread of the virus.

AS THE VIRUS is taking the major cities of New York, San Francisco, New Orleans and Detroit by storm, Americans are beginning to embrace social distancing.

It’s none too soon.

Kansas is averaging 58 new cases a day, with a peak caseload predicted in mid-April.

Surely for the next month we can give it our best.

Batten down.

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The USNS Comfort, an enormous Navy hospital ship last dispatched to the Big Apple in the wake of 9/11, is seen arriving in midtown New York City on Monday to help in the battle against the coronavirus. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/TNS)

Couch potatoes, give yourself a pass If you’re reading this at 11 a.m. and you already maxed out your recommended calories for the day, we feel you.

Stay-home orders from state and local governments should come with refrigerator padlocks.

For the privileged employees who can work from home, those not working and for those still heading out the door for work, routines have been shredded. Schools, gyms and restaurants are closed.

Hospitals and nursing homes forbid visitors. Vacations have been postponed. Weddings and funerals are on hold. Let’s face it. It’s a stressful time.

We’re spending more time indoors, and the only thing getting a serious workout is the microwave.

We’re eating peanut butter by the spoonful, popcorn by the handful, ice cream by the bowlful. We’re eating over the kitchen sink, standing at the counter and yes, in bed. There are toast crumbs prickling flannel sheets across America right now as testament to dutifully obeying government restrictions.

We’re trying to cook healthier during this time of uncertainty. But can roasted chicken and vegetables be considered diet food if you eat four serv-

ings at a time? Isn’t it an act of patriotism to order takeout burgers and fries to keep local businesses afloat? Is it wrong in the privacy of your own home to enjoy a splash of wine at noon?

Of course, the advice for controlling weight gain is to use common sense. Try to eat on your normal schedule. Plan your snacks and put them in containers. Move your work station around the house or apartment to avoid boredom.

And set up shop away from your favorite cupboard — the one with the nuts, cookies and Pop-Tarts.

That’s not to say everyone dealing with stay-home mandates is finding their inner Homer Simpson. Plenty of people are using the time wisely by cleaning out drawers and painting bedrooms.

Some people are sticking with those New Year’s resolutions and demonstrating discipline with food and exercise.

If you’re not one of them, it’s OK. Alex Light, who writes a column for Hello! Magazine, reminds us weight gain is not a sign of failure.

“It’s never an indicator of failing, but especially not during these current circumstances,” she wrote earlier

this week. “Weight fluctuations are an entirely normal response to our lives being very different right now.”

Kimberly Hershenson, a New York City therapist and eating disorder specialist, told the New York Post she’s seeing clients return to emotional eating habits due to stress.

“People binge because they feel everything is going wrong in their life, so who cares if they gain weight too?” she said.

If you’re one of them, cut yourself some slack. Postpandemic, we’ll see the return of running clubs and crowded gyms. There will be plenty of time to shrink muffin tops and get back to sensible eating.

In the meantime, if the scale in the bathroom is adding to your emotional blues, apply at least some of the advice nutritionists are offering. Get out and walk. Drink more water.

Don’t rely on alcohol as a coping mechanism.

And know that no matter what, summer is coming soon.

Morning sun soon will stream through your windows. Cafes and bike paths will reopen.

Lakes and rivers will beckon, along with barbecues and beach volleyball. It’s coming.

Have hope.

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I’m the daughter of a hypochondriac; fear won’t make us safer

By DEBORAH. A. LOTT The Los Angeles Times

Two weeks ago, when restaurants were still open, I watched a friend at lunch repeatedly spritz his hands with hand sanitizer. It seemed more compulsion than prudent protective measure. If he keeps this up for the duration of this pandemic, I thought, there’s a good chance the skin on his hands might not hold up.

In a market, I saw a man load 50 rolls of toilet paper into two carts, elbowing others away, as if his life depended on this act of hoarding.

In the nearly empty streets, I see newly experienced alarm on the faces of people who probably never washed their hands for more than 10 seconds in the past, who blithely lined up at hotel buffets or paid good money to subject themselves to the petri dish that is a cruise ship.

The rest of the world is deep into what I grew up with, the kind of fear I have been fighting to rid myself of for most of my life.

I am the daughter of a serious hypochondriac. Learning

to dread illness was one of my earliest lessons, and strangely, I feel calmer now than the spritzers and hoarders. I have had a lifetime of practice at feeling terror and talking myself down, of sorting out the irrational from the reasonable.

My father’s relentless obsession with germs and contamination led him to create rituals to ward off danger.

One that he imparted to my two older brothers and me pertained to the opening of cans.

In my father’s universe, botulism was not a rarity; it was a ubiquitous assassin inside every can of soup or tuna. We would gather round him in the kitchen as he prepared, washing his hands for far longer than the CDC-recommended 20 seconds. Taking a can of food in hand, he would vigorously wash it too, dry it with a paper towel that, now contaminated, he let drop to the floor. Slowly turning the can around, he would inspect it up close for dents. As he hooked the can opener, also washed, to the lid, we would lean in close, listening for the pfft that would prove it had

been truly vacuum sealed, the magical sound that signified, to my father, that the contents were safe.

There was no logic in the can-opening ritual — botulism is an anaerobe that only survives in an airtight environment. Substantiating that the tomato soup was vacuum sealed provided no real safety from the bacterium, and my father knew this, intellectually, if not emotionally. After the pfft, he’d sigh in relief, but the relief was short-lived.

There were so many dangers around us: contaminants in the air, germs in other people’s coughs or sneezes, our bodies’ cells that could be plotting sabotage at any moment.

As children, my brothers and I never had a headache that we didn’t imagine a brain tumor, a rapid pulse that didn’t augur a heart attack, a stomachache that did not suggest appendicitis.

This level of learned hypochondria does not just go away when you grow up. It is its own form of sickness. A slight sore throat or a touchy stomach will still require me to talk myself down from the

As children, my brothers and I never had a headache that we didn’t imagine a brain tumor, a rapid pulse that didn’t augur a heart attack, a stomachache that did not suggest appendicitis. worst-case scenario. Always suspecting some dire diagnosis, I am way too familiar with the inside of MRI machines. I actually find being swallowed up by them comforting.

IF HE WERE alive for COVID-19, my father would be saying, “See, I told you so.” Part of the legacy of hypochondria is an impaired ability to accurately assess risk. With that has come an intimate understanding of how hysteria impedes rational thought and systematic action. And yet in times like these, rationality and systematic action are imperative. We are all struggling with this now, as the president veers between sense and nonsense, and public health authorities sweep up after him.

Of course, there is much about the dangers to come that we can’t know, that even

the experts, with their nicely graphed projections, can’t know. But we need to keep our wits and distinguish between the truly protective measures we must take, for ourselves and others, and the empty but calming rituals like my father’s, that do not serve us or our neighbors.

Will 50 rolls of toilet paper really make us safer than 12? Will having 30 pounds of ground beef in the freezer ensure survival? Is it worth contributing to the panic that the empty meat cases in supermarkets create for everyone else?

Normal life has been temporarily suspended. So be it. But we’re going to have to find a way to survive without relentless panic, without irrationality, because fear is a contagion that can make us sick, too.

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Reading with kids helps speed up mental, social development What we have discovered through the COVID-19 situation — social distancing, stayat-home spring break, and the announcement of schools closing — is that there are many learning opportunities right at our fingertips.

Bradford Wiles, a K-State Research and Extension specialist in early childhood development, says children’s education happens right at home every time they read a book with their parents. “Reading with a child involves thoughtful and active listening to assess and assist the child’s knowledge,” Wiles said.

Wiles has written a publication that outlines six ways in which parents can build their child’s cognitive and social-emotional skills while reading with them: 1) Ask questions

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in a mindful way that help you assess your child’s thinking, such as “Do you know what color that is?” or “Do you know what this is called?” Challenge your child to really think about what they are experiencing.

2) Provide explanation or instruction to build on what children already know. Sometimes children need just a single piece of information to fully understand something they were not previously aware of.

3) Model learning.

When reading with a child, sound out words

so that your children learn how to look at the print and determine how a word sounds. You can also mimic what you see — flap your arms to imitate how a bird flies.

4) Provide feedback. Comment on your child’s performance by saying “You did a good job. You used to struggle with that” or “That’s better than you did the last time.” Provide the “because” to explain why the child did well.

5) Help your child maintain focus. Young minds may wander quickly. When reading, offer choices such as a finishing a page before doing something else, stopping now, or skipping ahead to help your child stay engaged.

6) Structure the activity. Explain to your child that you are going to read and think about the story together. This

Be wary of COVID-19 scams I seem to hit the fraud and scams topic fairly frequently. However, the landscape scammers work within is constantly changing, and scammers are crafty in learning new ways of reaching their targets. With the current climate created with COVID-19, more doors are cracking open for scammers to wiggle in and take advantage of unsuspecting victims.

While we all need to be on guard, our older adults in our communities are still prime targets for scams.

Now that we are all spending more time in our home setting, the phones may be ringing more frequently.

Along with the extra calls, we may be seeing more solicitations through email. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns of these potential scams: Undelivered products — Online sellers claim to have much needed products, such as cleaning, health, and medical supplies. These could include offers for vaccinations and home test kits. You can place an order, but then it is never delivered.

Most anyone can set up an online shop. Be sure to research the company name online before ordering with words such as “review,” “complaint,” or “scam.”

If things check out, pay with a credit card and keep a copy of your

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transaction.

There currently are no vaccines or products to treat COVID-19. Neither are there any Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-authorized home test kits for the Coronavirus.

Fake charities — If you are looking for ways to help during this major health event, know that scammers use these same events to find ways to take advantage of good people’s generosity.

Scammers will often set up charities that have similar names to those used by real charities.

Do your homework and research before you donate. Again, if the proposed charity checks out, pay with a credit card.

Never use a gift card or use a wire transfer.

Fake emails, texts and phishing — Scammers are very clever in getting their targets to share personal information, such as account numbers, Social Security numbers or passwords. Once they get a piece or two of personal information, they can steal your money or your identity.

Phishing emails lure targets to click on links within an email that can

Woodson County auctions on hold Woodson County Sheep Auction will not have sales in April or May due to the COVID-19.

There will be a buying station on April 7 and May 5 at the same location.

SEK Sheep and Goat Buying station will be open from noon to 7 p.m. for the next two months.

There will only be one buyer present,

but he will have bids from at least three or four of the auction’s normal “major” buyers.

If“replacement type” animals are being sold, organizers will hold onto those animals “until we get closer to ‘back to normal,’” a press release read.

For more information, call Dale Lanham at (620) 496-7933.

allow scammers to gain access to your computer.

To make these phishing emails more realistic, they often use familiar company names and official logos from existing companies. Protect your computer by keeping your software up-to-date.

This should include allowing automatic updates to your cell phone.

We have heard that as a part of the stimulus package being considered, that individual households may be receiving some future money direct from the government. While our pocketbooks could use an influx of cash right now, don’t respond to calls, texts, or emails relating to checks from the government.

Know that the government will not ask you to pay anything up front to get this money if it truly comes about.

The government will not ask for your Social Security number, bank accounts or other personal information.

Anyone who does ask for this kind of information or tells you they can get the money to you now is a scammer.

Robocalls — Scammers are using illegal robocalls to promote scams on various Coronavirus treatments and work-at-home schemes.

Hang up on robocalls.

Don’t press any numbers. Pressing a number will likely lead to more robocalls.

There are still a lot of unanswered questions relating to the coronavirus. As we move forward into this uncharted territory, stay on your toes and question anything that may sound a little shady — especially those unsolicited requests involving money. Your money is yours, and you should be the one that decides how it is spent.

The FTC asks that if you come across any scams or suspicious claims, report them to the FTC by going to ftc. gov/complaint. The FTC wants to stop scammers as much as we as individuals would like to see scammer activity cease.

Jessy Coffield, preschool teacher, reads to children at Ready Set Learn preschool in February as Sheri Orear, owner, watches. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS helps the child develop a shared focus in the story.

For more information or tips checkout Emergent Literacy: Helping Young Children’s Development Through Reading, available free online through the K-State Research and Extension

bookstore. (https:// b o o k s t o r e. k s r e. k s u . edu/pubs/MF3161.pdf) K-State Research and Extension has compiled numerous publications and other information to help people take care of themselves and others during times of cri-

sis. Visit the Southwind website (southwind.kstate.edu) for a list of resources with relevant information relating to COVID-19 and food safety. You can also follow us on Facebook @southwindextensiondistrict or Instagram Southwind_ext

Pandemic may shutter abortion clinic WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An official in the Wichita area wants to temporarily close an abortion clinic during the coronavirus pandemic that has spawned another outbreak of cases at a Kansas nursing home.

Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O’Donnell said Monday that he will ask the commission to shutter the Trust Women Wichita Clinic at Wednesday’s meeting by stripping abortion clinics from the list of “essential” businesses that can stay open during county and statewide stay-at-home orders, The Wichita Eagle reported.

Julie Burkhart, founder and CEO of the Trust Women clinic, said the proposal was “unethical” and “unconscionable.” The clinic replaced the practice of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller after he was shot to death by an anti-abortion activist in 2009.

“This is nothing more than a political tool they are using in order to shut down

abortion,” Burkhart said. “This has nothing to do with caring for people and ensuring that they and their families are not infected with COVID-19.”

O’Donnell presented the proposal even as federal judges on Monday temporarily blocked efforts in Texas and Alabama to ban abortions during the coronavirus pandemic, handing Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers a victory as clinics across the U.S. filed lawsuits to stop states from trying to shutter them during the outbreak.

O’Donnell said his proposal is modeled on an action taken Friday

by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, who issued an executive stay-at-home order banning abortions except in cases of emergency or serious health risk to the pregnant woman.

O’Donnell said since Stitt’s order, women who would ordinarily receive their abortions at Trust Women’s Oklahoma City Clinic are now coming to Wichita

for them.

“We are trying to prevent community spread,” O’Donnell said. “We should not be having women, and men, travel from other states, potentially bringing the coronavirus into Wichita.”

For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death.

At last count Monday, state health officials said that Kansas has 368 cases, up from 319 on Sunday.

State and local officials reported nine deaths, including four in Wyandotte County.

The latest two victims are a Sedgwick County man over 60 with underlying health conditions and a woman in her 40s in Crawford County. The deaths are the first in the state’s southern half. Most others were in the Kansas City area.

Plumbing co. owner files for Senate KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kansas businessman Bob Hamilton on Monday announced he’s running as a Republican for U.S. Senate.

Hamilton threw his name in the ring to be the Kansas Republican nominee for retiring four-term Sen. Pat Roberts’ seat, the Kansas City Star reported.

Other GOP hopefuls include hardline conservative Kris Kobach, U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, state Senate President Susan Wagle and Dave Lindstrom, a Kansas Cityarea businessman and retired Kansas City Chiefs player.

Campaign events are on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Hamilton cited the

economic hit from the virus as one reason he decided to enter the race for U.S. Bob Hamilton Senate.

“A lot of Kansans are reeling from the job loss and health scare caused by COVID-19,” Hamilton, who owns Bob Hamilton Plumbing, said in his campaign announcement.

“My pledge to Kansas, as your next Senator, is to work every day to get our state back on its feet.”

Hamilton Plumbing is based in Johnson County.

Hamilton lives in Miami County.

Marshall’s campaign spokesman told the newspaper in a statement that it “takes a heck of an ego to announce a vanity project in the middle of a pandemic.”

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cludes dough, pizza sauce, choice of two toppings and cheese. Each kit is enough to make four personal pizzas.

“We have sold quite a few already, like 10 or 12, which to me is a good amount,” Shaughnessy said. “Hopefully we can keep it going.

We are learning how to adjust. We have been leaning heavily on our pizzas because they are low-cost.”

The loss of revenue has not been the only thorn in Shaugnessy’s side. He’s also suffering from a loss of manpower. Shaughnessy said some of his employees have ventured out to designated “hot zones” and have been forced to self-quarantine upon their return to Iola as a safety measure.

Shaughnessy admits he has furloughed some employees, but is doing everything to keep staff members on board. For example, former severs earning $2.13 an hour are now serving as car hops making $7.25 an hour.

Shaughnessy said he’s leaning on previous experience with the delivery business.

“I used to run a Papa Johns when I was in college. So now, I’m going to lean on the delivery side of pizza, and hope it sees us through.”

RED BEARD Barbecue is in somewhat familiar territory in that

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Kansas school food prep worker tests positive for the coronavirus TONGANOXIE, Kan. (AP) — An eastern Kansas school district is suspending its grab-and-go sack lunch program for a week after a worker with the district’s drivethu program tested positive for the coronavirus.

The Tonganoxie school district said in a statement that it is placing staff members who came in contact with the fellow worker in a

14-day quarantine. The district said it also is following all infection control protocols, including thoroughly sanitizing the meal preparation area before and after meal preparations.

District officials say that the person did not come in direct contact with students or families and was only involved with meal preparations.

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it’s never relied on a dining facility. The popular food truck operates out of the Southeast Kansas Stockyard.

Beginning on March 16, co-owner Austin Honaker imposed a self-quarantine for two weeks, re-opening on Monday. Honaker used the hiatus to re-evaluate Red Beard’s business plan.

“Now I have to go through a distributor down here for my food, opposed to Kansas City, so the food costs have gone way up. But we are OK, we will be fine,” he said.

During that two-week break, Honaker constructed a website to sell meal kits, enabling customers to stay safe — and satisfied — by

ordering from www.redbeardbarbecue.com.

“I got that idea from other chefs. They are doing that to pay their employees, but we don’t have employees. I don’t need to keep paying myself when I know others that are struggling.”

The prices of the meal kits are not particularly cheap. For example, the Wyatt Earp sandwich kit is $60, but the kit is enough for eight sandwiches.

With the money from the meal kits, Red Beard will feed those who are lending a helping hand. Last Monday and Thursday, Honaker fed 10 staff members making meals for students at USD 247.

Also, Red Beard will help feed those with the

Allen County Sheriff's Department who are taking over the Meals on Wheels program. On Friday, Honaker will donate a couple dozen N-95 masks and feed some of Allen County Regional Hospital’s workers.

“I think if we opened right now, we’d be killing it, because we would be on a level playing field with all the other restaurants,” Honaker said. “But we’d be risking our health and everybody else’s. And for the businesses that are struggling, we would be taking money from them, too. Hiram has been here for 10 years and I have been here almost two. We’ve been welcome with open arms, which makes me want to give back.”

about 2 p.m. when officers noticed smoke coming from the home from a fire she had apparently set intentionally.

Glover attempted to flee the structure from a window, Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy said, but was quickly subdued by K-9 units brought in by the Kansas Highway Patrol.

Glover was not hurt during the arrest “aside from a couple of bite marks,” Murphy said.

In addition to KHP, and its critical response team, officers from Woodson, Anderson, Coffey Allen counties and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks were at the scene.

A distraught Lacrone said the incident left him without a home or many belongings “I was at work and I got a phone call that

somebody broke into my house,” a distraught Lacrone told a Register reporter afterward. “I lost everything I own because she went crazy, tried to outrun the police and act stupid and break into my house.

She tried to steal my car, too, is what they’re telling me.”

Lacrone said he was at work when he received the call Monday morning that Glover had sought refuge in his house.

“I was in the middle of pulling an oil well,” said Lacrone, who was still decked out in his work clothing several hours afterward.

He, along with several onlookers, was ordered to stay several blocks away while the standoff unfolded.

“Then I get a message saying, ‘Hey, your house is on fire on top of all that.”

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variety of topics, from cooking classes to learning about pets and bicycles, to paper crafts and mental health coping skills.

Each instructor will determine the length of his or her program, so expect them to vary.

All videos, including Facebook Live, will be available for viewing after the session on SAFE BASE’s Facebook page.

CONTINUING SAFE BASE has a practical purpose, as well, Henry said.

The program is funded by competitive grants, including through the Kansas Department of Education.

With schools closed and education moved into the homes, KSDE notified Henry to expect a possible reduction in the money SAFE BASE

would receive this year.

That prompted Henry and the school board to brainstorm options to keep the program going.

“It was a great solution,” Henry said.

With a plan in place, Henry asked the state to keep the program going without a reduction in funding. Not only that, but SAFE BASE also receives money for travel to national conferences, which is required. Since there would be no national conferences, that funding likely would be cut.

Instead, Henry asked if they could instead use the money to purchase about 21 new iPads.

The instructors would use the iPads to deliver this new educational program; when the new school term starts in the fall, the new iPads would replace older models used by students.

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“It helps us now and it will be a big win for us next year,” Henry said.

THE NEW program took a great deal of planning on short notice, Henry said. She credits the group of about 20 instructors for their creativity and also for digging in to learn new technology skills. Instructor Lydia Holloway was the go-to source for teaching others how to use Facebook, how to create videos and more.

Some of the topics are things instructors would have taught students had the school year continued as normal. Others are new ideas inspired by the unexpected new reality.

For example, instructors will teach a craft class using paper items supplied by the school district’s breakfast and lunch program: paper

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Each Wednesday morning, SAFE BASE will bring in a surprise guest speaker. Henry wouldn’t reveal details, only to say that some may be well-known in the local community and in the region or state.

Students also are encouraged to practice safe “social distancing” techniques. SAFE BASE instructors include a social worker, Susan Hawk, and a registered nurse, Wanda Kneen, who made sure to keep health and safety at the forefront of the program.

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those things.”

Participants are encouraged to share photos and videos of their activities.

Henry plans to track “likes” and “views” to gauge interest in the experiment. She’s already noticed other school districts sharing their videos, and hopes it inspires others.

“I’m excited to see what this does for SAFE BASE.” HERE IS A look at the weeks ahead: — Each day, Lydia Holloway will host a “variety hour” at 1 p.m.

Kate Terhune will read a new chapter of a book each day at 2 p.m.

— On Mondays, at 10 a.m. Henry will take a virtual tour of interesting places around town, followed at 11 a.m. by a Tik Tok Dance Competition. At 3 p.m., Crafty Crafters will teach how to create crafts and toys from the paper items found in sack lunches.

At 4 p.m., Cindy Williams teaches a cooking class.

— On Tuesdays, at 10 a.m. Ben Alexander of Southwind Cycle & Outdoor will teach bicycle

maintenance. At 11 a.m., learn more paper crafts.

At 3 p.m., learn how to care for your pets and take a virtual tour of the local animal shelter the dog park and more.

A class about food starts at 4 p.m.

— On Wednesday mornings, a surprise guest checks in at 10 a.m., followed by a coloring project at 11. At 3 p.m., social worker Susan Hawk will teach coping skills to help children deal with the stress of not seeing friends and teachers, or having “too much togetherness” with family members.

— On Thursdays, Alexander returns with more lessons about bicycles, including some tricks to impress friends, at 10 a.m. A tour of local trails follows at 11 a.m., along with lessons on how to make decorative rocks to leave on the trails or cards to leave at Little Lending Libraries. At 3 p.m., Staci Talkington offers “Fun Things to Do While You Are Inside.” At 4 p.m., learn more about food, this time how to make picnic items.

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As a statewide stay-athome order took effect Monday and President Donald Trump granted a major disaster declaration for the state, the number of cases grew.

At last count Monday, state health officials said that Kansas has 368 cases, up from 319 on

Sunday.

State and local officials reported nine deaths, including four in Wyandotte County.

The latest two victims are a Sedgwick County man over 60 with underlying health conditions and a woman in her 40s in Crawford County. The deaths are the first in the state’s southern half. Most others were in the Kansas City area.

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By HERBIE TEOPE The Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Typically, “preparing for anything” in the context of sports means injuries, trades, suspensions and under-performance. Global pandemics aren’t usually usually high on the list of worries for an organization like the Kansas City Royals.

But America’s sports landscape has entered an unprecedented time.

Their response to the COVID-19 coronavirus manifests in multiple ways, including adjustments on the business operations side of the club and participation in the local community’s response efforts. On top of that, baseball folks in the Royals’ front office must maintain some level of normal daily operations.

For general manager Dayton Moore and his top lieutenants, the past two weeks have been an exercise in refining their methods of communication, both among staff and with players, and relying on technology and innovation more than ever.

“I feel we’re doing what is necessary and what’s important — that’s first and foremost. Following the directive and the guidelines that our health officials and government leaders have laid out for us and doing our best to model that behavior,” Moore told The Star. “That’s the most important thing, putting baseball in its proper context.

“From a baseball standpoint, I’m extremely proud of our leadership and what our guys have been doing from our sports performance

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs spent the past week bringing back some contributors from their 2019 championship team, namely fullback Anthony Sherman and defensive tackle Mike Pennel.

And they stayed in-house with another unrestricted free agent Saturday.

The Chiefs re-signed wide receiver Demarcus Robinson to a one-year deal, a source confirmed Saturday to The Star. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Tom Pelissero of NFL.com reported that the contract is worth $2,297,500 fully guaranteed, though only about $1 million will count against the Chiefs’ salary cap.

According to the source, Robinson drew interest on the open market. General manager Brett Veach and the Chiefs, however, remained focused on bringing him back and kept the lines of communications open before eventually agreeing to terms.

Robinson appeared in all 16 regular-season games with 10 starts in 2019, recording 32 catches for 449 yards and four touchdowns on 55 targets. His biggest game came in Week 2, when he totaled six catches for 172 yards and two touchdowns, averaging a healthy 28.6 yards per catch.

The 6-foot-1, 203-pound Robinson originally joined the Chiefs in 2016 as a fourthround pick out of Florida.

Over the past four seasons, Robinson has appeared in 64 games with 23 starts and produced 75 catches for 949 yards and eight touchdowns on 127 targets.

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College Basketball: Kansas Jayhawks

Self reflects on 28-3 season cut short

By GARY BEDORE The Kansas City Star

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Bill Self realizes that as time goes by, college basketball fans nationwide will not care much about the Kansas Jayhawks’ magical 28-3 season of 201920.

Self, KU’s 17th-year hoops coach, does hope, however, that this squad, which was ticketed to be the No. 1 overall seed in the 2020 NCAAs had COVID-19 coronavirus not forced cancellation of the postseason tournament, will forever be recalled fondly by Jayhawk supporters.

“Ten years from now they are not going to talk about what could have been. Nobody is going to talk about that,” Self said. “There will be something new to talk about, but I hope these guys are remembered by our fans as being a team that was probably as special or as close to special as any team that they’ve supported during their time supporting Kansas.”

Self was speaking on KU’s official podcast, “The Jayhawker,” hosted by Brian Hanni.

Self said he personally will remember something besides the team winning the Big 12 regular-season title and fin-

ishing the campaign on a 16game win streak.

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Timmy Hill’s iRacing victory on national television gave the journeyman driver and his sponsors exposure they would never receive during a normal NASCAR weekend.

“What I’ll gain from this is recognition. It’s hard to get that recognition because of the level of competition that we are in real life,” said Hill, who at 27 has bounced around NASCAR’s three national series since 2011 before making his first Daytona 500 this year.

“We just don’t have the money, the dollars, to compete at a high level. Every once in a while we’ll get that big payday and we can really reinvest in our race team,” he said. “This win will hopefully gain some recognition and attract more sponsors for us, maybe in the real world when we get back rac-

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The real world looks grim right now: Racing and revenue have come to a halt and it is unknown what the landscape will even look like when the crisis ends.

IndyCar suspended its season 48 hours before it was set to open, and last week new series owner Roger Penske made t he unprecedented decision to delay the Indianapolis 500 from Memorial Day weekend for the first time in its long and storied history.

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Wall Street on pace for worst quarter since 2008 NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell in early trading today, as Wall Street closes in on its worst quarterly performance since the most harrowing days of the 2008 financial crisis.

The S&P 500 dipped by less than 1% in the first few minutes of trading, extending its loss for the first three months of the year to more than 19%. Asian markets rose earlier in the day following a strongerthan-expected report on China’s economy, where factories are reopening as the spread of the coronavirus slows there. But momentum stalled in Europe, where the number of deaths jumped in Spain.

The surge of coronavirus cases around the world has sent markets tumbling by breathtaking degrees since midFebruary, halting what had been a good start to the year. Markets rose early in the quarter with expectations that the economy was accelerating due to a calming trade wars and low interest rates around the world.

Benchmark U.S. crude oil has dropped by roughly two thirds this quarter and hit its lowest price since 2002,

for example, while Germany’s DAX has lost a quarter of its value for its worst quarter in nearly 18 years.

The big question is if markets will get worse.

At this point, no one knows.

The reason for the huge declines in stock markets from Japan to Germany to the U.S. is that economies around the world are grinding to near standstills as businesses close their doors and people hunker down at home in hopes of slowing the spread of the virus. A record number of Americans applied for jobless benefits two weeks ago as layoffs sweep the country, and the economy will likely be in dismal shape until the spread of the virus slows.

The hope is that massive aid coming from the Federal Reserve and Capitol Hill can help prop up the economy in the meantime. Goldman Sachs economists on Tuesday said they expect the U.S. economy to shrink 34% in the second quarter, but they expect growth to rebound in the third quarter.

The S&P 500 was down 0.7%, as of 9:45 a.m.

Eastern time. The Dow

Jones Industrial Average dipped 116 points, or 0.5%, to 22,210, and the Nasdaq was down 0.2%.

The number of known coronavirus cases keeps rising, and the worldwide tally has topped 780,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States has the highest number in the world, more than 160,000.

Most people who contract COVID-19 have mild or moderate symptoms, which can include fever and cough. But for others, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, the virus can cause pneumonia and require hospitalization.

More than 37,000 have died worldwide due to COVID-19, while more than 160,000 have recovered.

“We’re also still not even close to peak coronavirus in the U.S. which has already reported more cases than any other country and will sadly likely see a huge spike in the number of deaths, meaning further lockdown measures will likely follow,” said Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at OANDA Europe.

“Huge challenges still lie ahead.”

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s coronavirus deaths jumped by a record number Tuesday as the country’s medical system strained to care for its tens of thousands of infected patients, and Italy opened a 200-bed field hospital at a fairgrounds in Milan to ease the pressure on overcrowded intensive care units.

As worldwide infections soared past the 800,000 mark, New York’s governor begged for health care reinforcements, saying up to 1 million more workers were needed.

The World Health Organization warned the pandemic is “far from over” in Asia even if the epicenter has shifted.

Russian lawmakers approved harsher punishments for violating quarantine regulations and spreading “fake news” amid the outbreak.

Spain and Italy struggled to avoid the collapse of their health systems, with Spain saying hospitals in at least half of its regions are at or very near their ICU bed limits.

Overnight, Spain recorded 849 new deaths, the highest daily toll since the pandemic hit the southern European country. It has now claimed the lives of 8,189, forcing Madrid to open a second temporary morgue after an ice rink pressed into service last week become overwhelmed.

Dozens of hotels across Spain have been turned into recovery rooms for patients in less-serious condition, and authorities are building field hospitals in sports centers, libraries and exhibition halls.

Authorities are moving breathing machines to regions with the highest number of ICU patients, and moving the patients

themselves “has not been ruled out,” said Dr. María José Sierra of Spain’s health emergencies center.

In northern Italy, the intensive care field hospital, built in 10 days, was unveiled at the Milan fairgrounds to help ease pressure on the health care system.

“We made a promise and we kept it,” said the head of the project, former civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso, who ended up catching the virus while on the job and had to work from his hospital bed.

Italy and Spain account for more than half of the 38,714 COVID-19 deaths reported worldwide and the U.S. has the most confirmed cases at 164,610, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Takeshi Kasai, the WHO’s regional director for the Western Pacific, cautioned, however, that the risk in Asia and the Pacific “will not go away as long as the pandemic continues.

“This is going to be a long-term battle and we cannot let down our guard,” Kasai said.

“We need every country to keep responding according to their local situation.”

A 12-year-old girl became the youngest person to die in Belgium, which has counted 705 deaths so far, including 98 in the last day. It was not disclosed whether she suffered from any underlying condition.

The country of about 11.5 million people has reported more than 12,705 infections.

National crisiscenter coronavirus spokesman Emmanuel Andre said Belgian authorities expect the disease to reach its peak in coming days, and that “we will arrive at a point where we’re close to saturation point at our hospi-

tals.”

Russia registered 500 new confirmed cases in the biggest spike since the start of the outbreak, bringing its total to 2,337. Moscow has been on lockdown since Monday and many regions and cities have ordered similar restrictions.

ACCORDING to measures passed by lawmakers, evading quarantine will be punishable by heavy fines or, if it leads to two or more people dying, by up to seven years in prison. Heavy fines are also outlined for those who spread misinformation about the outbreak, or up to five years in prison if it results in a death.

In New York, the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and health officials warned that the crisis unfolding there is just a preview of what other U.S. cities and towns will soon face. New York state’s death toll climbed by more than 250 people in a day to over 1,200.

“We’ve lost over 1,000 New Yorkers,” Cuomo said. “To me, we’re beyond staggering already.”

Even before the governor’s appeal, close to 80,000 former nurses, doctors and other professionals were volunteering in New York, and a Navy hospital ship arrived with 1,000 beds to relieve pressure on the city’s overwhelmed hospitals.

California officials put out a similar call for volunteers as coronavirus hospitalizations doubled over the last four days and the number of patients in intensive care tripled.

Experts maintain the pandemic will be defeated only by social distancing measures that have locked down billions of people and upended the world’s economy.

White House turns to statistical models for coronavirus forecast WASHINGTON (AP) — Like forecasters tracking a megastorm, White House officials are relying on statistical models to help predict the impact of the coronavirus outbreak and try to protect as many people as possible.

The public could get its first close look at the Trump administration’s own projections Tuesday at the daily briefing.

High numbers of potential deaths estimated under different models have focused President Donald Trump’s attention. He’s dropped talk of reopening the country by Easter and instead called on Americans to stay home for another month and avoid social contact.

Such models are a standard tool of epidemiology, the branch of

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White House coronavirus task force adviser Dr. Deborah Birx and the National Institutes of Health’s Dr. Anthony Fauci have been talking about the models at press briefings. Fauci on Sunday cited one estimate of 100,000 deaths.

Birx has described how officials are working to refine their own model.

On Monday, Trump signaled that the White House will explain its

forecast soon. “We will meet again tomorrow for some statistics,” he told reporters at the daily briefing. As soon as it’s released, the White House model is certain to get a thorough vetting by independent experts.

The models can feed in numbers from around the country on deaths and other data points.

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A senior administration official said other streams of data being analyzed include local hospital capacity, the ability of health departments to trace the contacts of people who test positive, the types of businesses in a community and whether they could ensure worker safety if they reopen and economic modeling under varying scenarios. The official provided details on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing planning.

Birx said the White House task force has looked at about a dozen models designed by other experts.

“And then we went back to the drawing board over the last week or two and worked from the ground up, utilizing actual reporting of cases,” she explained.

Birx singled out projections by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, suggesting that model is close to how government experts see the situation.

As of Tuesday morning, the IHME forecast

predicted about 84,000 U.S. deaths through early August, with the highest number of daily deaths occurring April 15. That would be three days after Easter.

The model generated attention because it offered the first state-bystate outlook for the next several months, based on how the outbreak is reacting to the various containment efforts put in place at different times around the country. It shows how the outbreak will unfold at a different pace in various states. For example, the model predicts it will peak about a month earlier in New York than in Texas.

The IHME model is what’s called a “planning model” that can help local authorities and hospitals plan for such things as how many ICU beds they’ll need from week to week.

“Nobody has a crystal ball,” said Dr. Christopher Murray of the University of Washington, who developed the model. It is updated daily as new data arrives. While it is aimed at professionals, Murray hopes the model also helps the general public understand that the social distancing that’s in place “is a long process.”

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Andy Hunter, founder of a new online sales outlet for independent booksellers, had seen a crisis building well before the coronavirus pandemic shut down many of the country’s stores. “”Between 2015 and 2018, I saw this big jump in the percentage of weekly sales for physical books that were going to Amazon.com,” Hunter says. “And it seemed like independent bookstores needed to do something to adapt, because the writing was on the wall.”

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which offers everything from the new Hilary Mantel novel to such classics as Boccaccio’s “The Decameron,” and shares proceeds with independent stores. Hunter says weekly sales at first were around $30,000, but jumped to more than $450,000 by mid-March, as the virus spread and readers no longer could visit their favorite local stores.

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The Iola Register B4 Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Grieving father emotionally blackmails daughter Dear Carolyn: My mom passed away a couple of months ago.

My dad made it clear he would not be part of the cleaning-out process. I live in the same city as my parents, while my two sisters live on the other coast. My dad is also planning on selling the house in the near future.

I'm overwhelmed.

Cleaning out my mom's closet has been an emotional process, and some days I can clean for just 15 minutes, then I need a break. Any advice?

I'm working against my dad's timeline of selling the house. — Feeling Overwhelmed Feeling Overwhelmed: I’m so sorry for your loss.

What would happen if you just stopped?

It sounds as if you’ve been emotionally blackmailed into assuming everyone else’s share of the work.

Re: Overwhelmed: Either Overwhelmed or the dad should go to professionals in handling estate sales. They

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax

have no emotional investment and will triage stuff: this for the sale, this to donate if it doesn't sell, this for the dumpster. If dad is moving, then he should take the stuff he wants and leave everything else for the estate sale people.

Overwhelmed should take any keepsakes she wants and not look back. — Anonymous Anonymous: Yes. I lingered a bit before ending this chat to see if there was some explanation for why it HAS to be done by the letter-writer. It just doesn’t make sense. The father, as the homeowner, is the one accountable, and it can be outsourced. Thanks.

Carolyn: My dad said it's too emotional for him to clean out the closet and house because he lost his wife. He routinely reminds me that this

process is more difficult for him, so I should do the cleaning. — Overwhelmed again Overwhelmed again: You lost your mom!

No one wins by his making this a competition.

And it is emotional blackmail.

Whatever you decide to do, make sure it’s based in your values and beliefs, not your father’s guilt trip.

Readers’ thoughts (including their gender assumptions): • I suspect Overwhelmed has always done what the father has said to do. They’ve probably been playing these roles the child’s whole life.

I hope Overwhelmed listens to Carolyn and thinks about why she feels obligated to do work everyone else is allowed to skip.

• Surely Overwhelmed doesn’t want to keep EVERYTHING of Mom’s.

So she can go to the house, take what really matters to her (as long as Dad doesn’t want it) and walk away, leaving

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the other stuff behind.

Along with a piece of paper with three names and phone numbers of professional organizers or estate-sale people.

• Seriously, Dad — this is yours to manage.

I suspect Dad envisions ordering a dumpster and just throwing stuff in it. Or else he’s just used to having someone there who takes care of stuff he doesn’t want to deal with.

Maybe this isn’t their scenario, but when I cleaned out my brother’s house, I found a lot of cash stuffed in clothing pockets and books and other hiding places.

My friends bought her mother’s house and they found things such as coin collections in boxes with utility bills from the 1970s. Sometimes you have to go through it all.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 66-year-old male.

I have suffered seasonal allergies all my life.

They seem present almost year-round as I get older. I have tried every over-the-counter med I can find and some prescription meds, with little long-term relief.

The new rage here to combat these allergies is elderberry syrup. It combines elderberries, echinacea, cinnamon, clove, ginger and honey.

I have Type 2 diabetes controlled by oral medication and only have to check my A1C every three months. It is usually no higher than 6.2.

I would like to know if this combination of ingredients would work to combat my allergies and if taking a tablespoon

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equately will cause the toxins to be present in the extract, potentially causing nausea and vomiting, sometimes severe enough to require hospitalization. Commercial products regulate the amount of active ingredients, which is not possible with homemade.

The amount of honey in the syrup will determine its effect on your diabetes; however, a tablespoon a day is not likely to have a significant effect on your very well-controlled diabetes.

Incidentally, an A1C level of 6.2% is so well-controlled I wonder if you need the oral medication you are taking. Many experts would reduce or eliminate oral medication in a 66-year-old with your A1C.

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Self: Recaps stellar 2019-20 year Continued from B1

than any team could ever deal with distractions, and they thrived on it,” Self said.

Distractions this past season including the program receiving a notice of allegations from the NCAA; a Late Night in the Phog that included a risque Snoop Dogg performance; and a melee at the end of the KUKansas State game in Lawrence that resulted in suspensions of two players from each team.

“Let’s just call it like it is. This year’s team carried their coach,” Self said. “I know there’s other times where a coach can do things maybe to kind of help a team along. No … this year’s team carried me, and they somehow, whether they thought about it or whether they did it by accident or whether they did it intentionally, somehow they let me be me and still yet carried me with an understanding that, ‘Hey coach we got this. Don’t worry about this. We got this.’

“So to me that will be he thing I’ll carry with me probably about this team as much as anything else because their attitudes were so good.

They deserve a lot of credit, even more than the staff does.”

Self said he believes the Devon Dotson/Udoka Azubuike-led team

did have what it takes for a long NCAA run.

“What do you have to do in the NCAA? You’ve got to be tough. You’ve got to guard, obviously,” said Self, who calls Marcus Garrett the country’s “defensive player of the year,” and notes that Azubuike “challenged every shot and changed team’s game plans.”

He also noted that point guard Dotson led the team in steals. He had 63, Garrett 56.

“You’ve got to know how to handle pressure and know how to deal with distractions because there are so many moving forward (in the tourney),” Self said. “I really believe this year’s team had a real shot, just as I would say the team in ‘08 did as well,” he added of the 2008 national champs.

Self, as stated before, liked the intangibles of this team — one that basically went eight players deep.

“I think every coach is very, very biased in how he feels about his own players,” Self said. “I’ve heard so many coaches over the years say, ‘I’ve got the best kids in the world.’

“No, you don’t. Not everybody can have the best kids in the world, but I honestly feel I’ve got the best kids in the world. I think one thing

is so cool about them is they argued, they bickered but they are so competitive they knew that is the way it had to be done.

“We all had moments, coaches included, me included, where maybe we got a little pouty or a little testy form time to time, but everybody respected how the other guy was feeling and to be real candid, without getting emotional at all about this, they carried me.”

As far as individuals...

Of Dotson, he said: “I think if this year had ended in a way we all hoped it could, I think you could make a case he’s the best (point guard) we’ve had.”

Of 7-footer Azubuike he said: “In ‘08, with Sasha Kaun, you never had to trap the post, or very rarely, because he was such a good 1-on1 defender;. This team had the same thing with Doke. As good as Sasha was defensively, he was not Udoka Azubuike.

The bottom line is the kid (Azubuike) wanted it in a way that very few have wanted it.”

And of Garrett, Self said: “He guarded the other team’s best player.

I think Marcus Garrett’s emergence and the way he matured as a player gave us confidence in a different way.”

Self added of the

Udoka Azubuike holds the ball over his head while looking for an open teammate against Oklahoma on Feb. 15. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL other contributors: “I thought we did a good job of accepting our roles. Everybody contributed to that, whether it be Ochai (Agbaji) or obviously Isaiah (Moss) or Christian (Braun).

David (McCormack) had a great year. Tristan (Enaruna) in a very limited role … he didn’t get much burn there at the end.

“I thought everybody played a role in our suc-

cess. If you have one of those guys that doesn’t play to their role we wouldn’t have been 28-3 because we only played eight guys. Everybody contributed and played a role.”

USA Basketball may face roster challenges for 2021 Olympics

By TIM REYNOLDS The Associated Press

Knowing when the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics will be solves one problem for USA Basketball.

And it creates a few others.

Let’s assume that the 2020-21 NBA season is over by next July, a premise that also assumes some sort of normalcy returns to the sports world and that the global coronavirus pandemic slows to the point where games can be played again.

That would also mean that NBA players and coaches would be available, schedule-wise, to participate in the Tokyo Olympics next summer as planned.

That’s good news.

That is, until free agency is added to the equation.

The NBA summer of 2021 is supposed to be another free agent extravaganza, one where plenty of the league’s biggest

names and top USA Basketball candidates like LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Chris Paul, Bam Adebayo, Kyle Lowry and more could be on the market. This summer would have been so much easier for USA Basketball from that standpoint, with Anthony Davis one of the few big-name stars who could become free agents when this season ends.

U.S. coach Gregg Popovich and managing director Jerry Colangelo would have had probably anyone they wanted this summer.

Next summer, that might be more of a challenge. The Olympics are now set to start July 23, 2021. That means training camp, in theory, would start around July 3 or 4, right around what could be the peak of the free-agent shopping period.

This has been an issue before. Deron Williams couldn’t participate in contact portions

of practice with the 2012 U.S. Olympic team during its training camp in Las Vegas until he signed his new contract with the Brooklyn Nets.

Training camp started before the moratorium on player signings ended that summer, so the Americans and Williams were in a delicate situation. He signed the deal on an iPad at the first possible moment, got on the court the next day and everything was fine.

But expect lots of that next summer: Players who are about to sign new huge-money deals won’t risk going all-out in practice with the Olympic team before those contracts are finalized. Once they sign, sure. Beforehand, not happening.

That won't be ideal, and will add to the challenge.

Among the lessons that needed to be learned from last summer’s Basketball World Cup in China, where the Ameri-

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cans finished seventh, include: The world is no longer afraid of the Americans, and that players are no longer afraid to say no to USA Basketball.

Colangelo and the U.S. staff needed to cycle through about 50 names before getting to a 12-man roster for the the tournament in China, with most players backing out for a variety of reasons along the way.

The Americans cut only two; a few got hurt, and everybody else made the decision for themselves.

Popovich left China saying that gold medals were no longer guaranteed for the U.S. Kobe Bryant, who was an ambassador for that World Cup, was in Beijing for the final games last August and said the same thing.

“It's not a matter of the rest of the world catching up to the U.S. It's that the rest of the world has been caught up for quite some time,'' Bryant, who died in a January helicopter

crash, said in China last summer. “It's to the point now where the U.S., we're going to win some and we're going to lose some. That's just how it goes.”

The one-year delay is going to cause issues for some other nations as well.

If Greece qualifies for the Olympics — the tournaments that will decide the last four spots are going to be rescheduled at some point, with Greece one of the 24 nations still in that mix — then reigning NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo will have a massive decision to make. And he'll have to make it probably around the same time that he signs a new NBA contract worth something around $200 million. Rudy Gobert can be free in the summer of 2021 as well, which could impact France. Marc Gasol will be a year older, which might weigh on his decision to play for Spain or not.

But for the Americans,

next summer could be particularly problematic. And again, that’s if next season in the NBA is even over by July. Until USA Basketball knows what will happen there, it remains stuck in limbo and unable to resume the process of building the next Olympic roster.

All that is clear so far is the road to another gold medal for the red, white and blue won’t be easy.

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presidents of tracks owned by NASCAR — and 20% for all other employees. Behind the scenes, NASCAR has crafted a schedule to accommodate the seven races already postponed, but series leaders have been hesitant to release details because everything is so fluid.

NASCAR has officially suspended the season until May 9 at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia — a state that on Monday issued a stay-athome order until June 10 or it is rescinded by executive order.

Senior NASCAR executives have consistently checked in with teams and discussed future scenarios, including the development of the Next Gen car that had been scheduled for a 2021 debut. A car meant to revolutionize the sport by improving the racing while cutting costs — a project the entire industry is deeply tied to — could be pushed back a year.

Teams are caught in financial limbo. Sponsors unsure when their logos will be seen at a race are withholding money needed to make payroll and meet operating expenses. Stay-at-

home orders have left little to no work for race teams.

“Are we concerned about teams broadly and their financial health?

Of course we are,” NASCAR President Steve Phelps has said.

There are very few team owners like Penske or Rick Hendrick, who have other businesses larger than their racing hobby. The bulk of the sport is composed of racers.

Chip Ganassi owns race teams that supply the bulk of his revenue, and when his sports car program ended last year he moved those employees to a third IndyCar team to avoid layoffs. Now he has five cars idled in two series.

It’s the same all the way down the grid, for owners such as Jay Robinson, Carl Long, Rick Ware and The Gaunt Brothers, all teams who rely on racing as their primary business. They need to be back at the track.

All the uncertainty has teams reluctant to speak publicly. Most discussions are at the ownership level, with drivers and team members waiting and wondering what will happen next.

Penske put IndyCar’s

team owners at ease by ensuring the first three payments from the series’ bonus program will be paid. He acknowledges revenue will be down and was hopeful race teams might qualify for assistance from the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill.

“We’re doing everything we can do to help (teams). They have no cost right now other than their people and whatever assets they might have,” Penske said. “But I don’t think people should think that just the people on the top are going to be fine. I mean, we all have ongoing costs. And the larger the team is, the more cost you have. When the revenue begins to slow, you’ve got to make sure you make your adjustments.”

Race promoters are stuck with empty venues and no idea when their next event will be. Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage was a good sport Sunday during the iRacing event that was televised live on some Fox affiliates and nationwide on its cable channel. He used social media to treat the video game race as a real one because that’s as close

to the real thing anyone is going to get for some time.

Hill was nervous for Sunday’s event, the second of six scheduled in a virtual series designed to keep fans engaged with the sport and its drivers. He practiced at least four hours a day on his simulator, which consists of an obsolete $300 wheel at a desk with a computer (Denny Hamlin won the first iRacing event in a rig he said cost upward of $40,000).

The racers have still found a way to race — IndyCar and IMSA have similar racing series up and running — and it’s all they have for now.

“For me to actually beat these guys on a level playing field, it really feels good for my driving talents,” Hill said.

“It’s neat to beat up on these guys with these big, massive, expensive setups. I think for the viewers, it’s neat for them because they can understand that they don’t have to spend that huge dollar amount to get into iRacing.

“And I tell you what ... I knew a lot was on the line, a lot of people watching. The rush of emotions definitely feels just like a real race.”

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people, you know, Austin Driggers and his department, (assistant GM/amateur scouting) Lonnie Goldberg and (assistant GM/research & development) Dr. (Daniel) Mack and what they’re doing to continue to research players for this year’s draft and next year’s draft, what J.J. Picollo and our player development people have been able to do.”

Kansas City went under a stay-at-home order last Tuesday, but the organization had announced its employees would work from home for now the previous week.

The Royals also pulled their scouts off the road two weeks ago.

All levels of amateur baseball are at a standstill domestically.

As of Friday, the Royals did not have a staff member, player or family member of a player in the organization who’d reported contracting the virus. Moore said he was “thankful” for that fact, and said head trainer Nick Kenney and the team’s medical staff continually monitors the players’ health.

Members of the Royals’ major-league coaching staff have returned to their homes to be with their families.

They stay in contact with players who’ve retreated to their separate corners, while manager Mike Matheny and Moore touch base via phone every other day or so.

For the front office staffers, an average of three to four conference calls and video-conferencing meetings have dominated the daily schedule. On Thursday, Moore even did a conference call with season ticket-holders. He was joined by broadcaster RyanLefebvre.

The club’s performance science and strength and conditioning staffs gave players workout plans to maintain their fitness while many went their separate ways.

“It’s a very unnatural time for all of us in baseball,” Moore said.

“We continue to do the things we’ve been doing from a mental health standpoint. (Director of behavioral science) Ryan Maid and his group have continued to work. There’s a lot of good work taking place.

Things don’t stop. They don’t shut down.

“We’re obviously not on the field. But as each day passes that we’re not playing baseball, we become more appreciative of the game and that heartbeat is stronger to pursue the game and keeps us looking forward to that opportunity when we can play the game again.

It’s going to be that much more meaningful when we step back on the field.”

While the Royals’ Surprise, Arizona, facility initially remained open for players on the 40-man roster and minor-league players who couldn’t get home, it’s now available only on a limited basis.

Arizona does not have the same stayat-home or shelter-inplace restrictions as Kansas City. Five minor-leaguers who are rehabbing injuries and minor-league rehab coordinator/physical

therapist Justin Hahn are the only ones allowed to be there now.

Forty-nine players were still regularly around the premises as of last week, some daily and some two or three times per week, Moore said.

Major-league players who lease residences or reside in Arizona, and minor-league players who couldn’t make it home, particularly those from Venezuela, still use the conditioning field and batting cages and throw side sessions at the facility.

They shuffle through in groups of four or fewer.

Before the facility went into shutdown mode, including the clubhouse and weight room, major-league strength and conditioning coach Ryan Stoneberg spent a day showing those players how to train effectively with the equipment available, including medicine balls.

And now, the Royals’ daily conference calls aren’t exclusive to the front office and coaches.

Once the minorleague baseball seasons start back up, the Royals will have more than 200 guys playing for affiliates in Nebraska, Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Idaho, North Carolina and Arizona, as well as their Dominican Republic Academy.

For now, those players are training on their own.

“We’re putting things together for our players to keep them engaged, but also it’s a way for us to have a better understanding of what each kid is dealing with,” Picollo said.

“There’s such a wide variety. Some kids really haven’t been interrupted with their workouts, whether it’s a home gym or a throwing partner.”

Picollo, who oversees the player-development side of the Royals’ baseball operations, participated in a Zoom call with a group of pitchers Friday, a test run to see what the response would be like from the players.

“It’s been interesting, a different way of teaching and a different way of learning,” Picollo said.

The club plans to do even more through its various web portals starting this week, including optional webinars on nutrition, pitch grips and the use of Edgertronic cameras.

They’ve even set up online quizzes for players on game situations.

The player development staff has already implemented new ways of remaining in contact with players on a regular basis. For instance, they have a call list through which each player is contacted by a staff member at least once a week. There’s also mass communication through email, text messages and WhatsApp. In formulating a plan to keep in contact with players, Picollo said he pulled from his own son’s experiences — he’s one of the countless college students who’ve been forced to take classes remotely.

Picollo said he’s also leaned on members of the front office who’ve had online elements to their education.