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Voters reject abortion amendment County voters evenly split on abortion issue

By SHERMAN SMITH and LILY O’SHEA BECKER Kansas Reflector

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OVERLAND PARK — Kansas voters in a landslide Tuesday defeated a constitutional amendment that would have stripped residents of abortion rights, defying polling and political observers who expected a close result.

The ballot measure was failing by a 60-40 margin late Tuesday after voters responded to an intense and costly campaign marked by dubious claims by amendment supporters and the unraveling of protections by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The question before voters, in the form of a confusingly worded constitutional amendment, was whether to end the right to abortion in Kansas by voting “yes” or preserve the right by voting “no.”

“You guys, we did it,” said Rachel Sweet, campaign man-

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The outcome could have far-reaching political implications, with a governor’s race and congressional seats on the ballot in November. It also means reproductive health

Allen Countians were evenly split Tuesday on deciding whether the state constitution affords the right to abortion.

By the time ballots were tabulated, Allen Countians were narrowly in favor of an amendment that would have opened the door for lawmakers to pass laws further restricting abortion access by a margin of 20 votes, 1,836 to 1,816, or a margin of 50.3% to 49.7%.

Statewide, Kansas voters rejected the amendment by

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Dawn Rattan, right, cries and applauds Aug. 2, 2022, at the Kansans for Constitutional Freedom watch party after learning Kansans had defeated a constitutional amendment to remove abortion rights. (LILY O’SHEA BECKER/KANSAS REFLECTOR) ager for Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, as she addressed a crowd of abortion-rights supporters at a watch party in Overland Park.

“We blocked this amendment.

Can you believe it?”

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Plans to expand the Iola Senior Citizen Thrift Store took another step toward reality.

Dimity Lowell, a board member for the group, gave county commissioners an update on Tuesday.

She’s been busy checking with state and local officials to find out the best way to build an addition at the Thrift Store. The building is too small for the amount of donations and patrons.

The county owns the property, but commissioners weren’t able to set aside money to pay for an addition, so the board has been saving money to fiSee COUNTY | Page A4

Dramatic lighting A nighttime view of the new Iola Elementary School offers a striking view from the west. An open house is planned from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16. Classes start on Aug. 17. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN.

More families expected to qualify for free, reduced school meals

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

Over half of local students qualify for free or reduced-price school breakfasts and lunches.

That’s 679 students whose families meet the income guidelines for determining eligibility for Child Nutrition Benefits.

For this coming school year, the number will go up significantly, “probably 200300" because of new guidelines that allow children of Medicaid recipients to receive free meals.

That brings it to 879 students out of 1,229, or 71.5%.

“Even then, participation could be higher,” said Judy Baker, outgoing food service director for USD 257 schools.

With her is Staci Talkington, who will fill Baker’s shoes when she retires Aug. 31.

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Judy Baker, left, is retiring as USD 257 food service director.

Staci Talkington will take over the position. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN er’s every word.

“It’s a steep learning curve,” Talkington said. Most recently, Talkington served as secretary at Jefferson Elementary School and before that oversaw food service at

Allen Community College.

“There’s no food preparation involved in this job. It’s all administrative,” Talkington said.

Turns out, her job at Jefferson was a good training

ground for Baker’s job. One of her responsibilities at Jefferson was tracking down families who were delinquent on their children’s meal accounts. She also encouraged children to start their days with a full tummy.

For the last two years, that’s been an easy task. School breakfasts and lunches had been free, courtesy of federal funding due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning this fall, that funding is no longer available.

Even though in most cases families have been able to receive assistance for school meals, many have refused to follow through with the necessary paperwork, Talkington said.

To be clear, the need is there.

Twenty-four percent of children in Allen County live in poverty.

For a family of four, those

living on $36,075 and less can receive free breakfast and lunch; if the income for that same family size is $51,338 or less, their children can receive reduced price benefits, which are significant.

A year of school lunches for an elementary school student averages $486. If they qualify for reduced benefits, that year of school lunches at 40 cents apiece would cost a total of $66, a difference of $420. Add breakfast, at 30 cents apiece, and it’s a difference of $734, from $849.75 to $115.50.

“That number, 30 cents for breakfast and 40 cents for lunch, has not changed in the 23 years I’ve been with the district,” Baker said.

The reasons many families don’t take advantage of such savings is a combination of things, Baker said.

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Kobach prevails in GOP AG race; treasurer campaign very close TOPEKA — Former Secretary of State Kris Kobach sidestepped money and influence of Republican powerbrokers to capture the party’s nomination for attorney general in a showdown with Sen. Kellie Warren and former federal prosecutor Tony Mattivi.

Kobach, of the historic territorial town Lecompton, served two terms as secretary of state before experiencing campaign hiccups in a 2018 loss for governor and the 2020 defeat for U.S. Senate. He rebounded Tuesday in the open primary for attorney general on strength of his significant name recognition and the loyalty of conservatives.

Warren was the choice of the Kansas Chamber, Kansans for Life, Kansas State Rifle Association, Kansas Livestock Association as well as former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall. In 2021, the Kansas Chamber’s president said he was concerned Kobach was incapable of effectively representing Kansas businesses and individuals in court.

“The establishment was against me from the moment I got in the race,” Kobach said. “Vic-

ed to Warren’s 175,555 vote total. Unofficial results indicated Kobach brought in 195,701 votes.

Put another way, Kobach netted 42% to Warren’s 38%.

Chris Mann, a former prosecutor and police officer from Lawrence who won the Democratic Party’s nomination for attorney general, said Kobach was getting ahead of himself.

“Kansans will have a clear choice for attorney general this fall, between a politician and a public servant,” Mann said. “The stakes are too high to entrust the top law enforcement office in Kansas to a politician. Violent crime has been on the rise for a decade, Kansans are being preyed upon by corporations and prescription drug companies, and at every turn politics threatens to distract and disrupt the priorities of the attorney general.”

The job of attorney general is up for grabs because Derek Schmidt, the Republican currently occupying that job, won the GOP nomina-

Attorney Kris Kobach, a former secretary of state, prevailed in a three-candidate race to win the Republican Party’s nomination for Kansas attorney general in Tuesday’s primary. He defeated state Sen. Kellie Warren and former federal prosecutor Tony Mattivi. (TIM CARPENTER/KANSAS REFLECTOR) tory means I’ll be able to move forward with my plan to sue Joe Biden on multiple issues, when I think he’s violated the constitution or federal statute.”

Warren, of Leawood, congratulated Kobach and expressed gratitude to people who devoted time, talent and money to her campaign.

During the primary, she repeatedly asserted Kobach was a risky choice because he could again win a GOP primary only to lose again in the general election.

“We’ve made many great friends in this campaign and I’ve been honored to have the support of people across all

walks of life,” she said.

‘Embarrass our state’

The third wheel in the Republican primary campaign for attorney general was Tony Mattivi, a former federal prosecutor from Topeka who received 20% of the primary vote. In an election day appeal, Mattivi said he was the only GOP candidate in the race who wouldn’t “embarrass our state” as attorney general.

Some were quick on social media to blame Mattivi for Warren’s second-place finish because a fraction of Mattivi’s 91,400 votes would have made a difference when add-

tion for governor. He will compete against Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, independent candidate Dennis Pyle and Libertarian Seth Cordell in November.

Kelly received 259,306 votes in her Democratic primary race against Richard Karnowski, who landed a mere 17,077 votes. It meant 94% of those partisan voters blackened the oval next to Kelly’s name. Schmidt received more votes than Kelly in the primary, but a smaller percentage of the overall GOP ballots cast. Schmidt’s total was 363,546, or 81% compared to candidate Arlynn Briggs’ 87,431 or 19%. During the campaign, Briggs gained attention for being arrested on a threat charge.

Johnson v. Tyson

Republicans Steven Johnson and Caryn Tyson entered the GOP campaign for state treasurer with similar backgrounds. He’s a farmer from Assaria in central Kansas and she’s a farmer from Parker near the

Missouri border.

Both served since 2011 in the Legislature, and both had a prominent role in development of state tax policy. A dispute about their work and votes on tax issues mushroomed in final days of an otherwise sleepy campaign that was periodically punctuated by Johnson’s colorful campaign ads.

When votes were tallied after midnight, they both had 50% of 426,669 Republican primary votes cast. More precisely, Johnson had 213,660 to Tyson’s 212,882 — a gap of less than 800. But there remain uncounted votes, including provisional and mail-in ballots.

The eventual winner of that primary will face Democratic state Treasurer Lynn Rogers, who was appointed to the job in 2020 by the governor.

Not even Secretary of State Scott Schwab, the state’s top election official, anticipated heavy turnout in the primary despite keen voter interest in a proposed abortion amendment to the Kansas Constitution.

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Alex Jones concedes Sandy Hook attack was ‘100% real’ AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testified Wednesday that he now understands it was irresponsible of him to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax and that he now believes it was “100% real.”

Speaking a day after the parents of a 6-yearold boy who was killed in the 2012 attack testified about the suffering, death threats and harassment they’ve endured because of what Jones has trumpeted on his media platforms, the Infowars host told a Texas courtroom that he definitely thinks the attack happened.

“Especially since I’ve met the parents.

It’s 100% real,” Jones said at his trial to determine how much he and his media company, Free Speech Systems, owe for defaming Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis. Their son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 students and six educators who were killed in the attack in Newtown, Connecticut, which was the deadliest school shooting in American history.

But Heslin and Lewis said Tuesday that an apology wouldn’t suffice and that Jones

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needed to be held accountable for repeatedly spreading falsehoods about the attack. They are seeking at least $150 million.

Closing arguments are expected to begin later Wednesday after more testimony from Jones, who has portrayed the lawsuit as an attack on his First Amendment rights.

Jones is the only person testifying in his own defense. His attorney asked him if he now understands it was “absolutely irresponsible” to push the false claims that the massacre didn’t happen and no one died.

Jones said he does, but added, “They (the media) won’t let me take it back.”

He also complained that he’s been “typecast as someone that runs around talking about Sandy Hook, makes money off Sandy Hook, is obsessed by Sandy Hook.”

Jones’ testimony came a day after Heslin and Lewis told the courtroom in Austin, where Jones and his companies are based, that Jones and the false hoax claims he and Infowars pushed made their lives a “living hell” of death threats,

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online abuse and harassment.

They led a day of charged testimony Tuesday that included the judge scolding the bombastic Jones for not being truthful with some of what he said under oath.

In a gripping exchange, Lewis spoke directly to Jones, who was sitting about 10 feet away. Earlier that day, Jones was on his broadcast program telling his audience that Heslin is “slow” and being manipulated by bad people.

“I am a mother first and foremost and I know you are a father.

My son existed,” Lewis said to Jones. “I am not deep state ... I know you know that ... And yet you’re going to leave this courthouse and say it again on your show.”

At one point, Lewis asked Jones: “Do you think I’m an actor?”

“No, I don’t think you’re an actor,” Jones responded before the judge admonished him to be quiet until called to testify.

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care will remain available in a state where six girls younger than 14 were among nearly 8,000 patients who received an abortion last year.

“I’ve always maintained that a woman’s reproductive health care decisions should be between her and her physician,” said Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, in a statement to campaign supporters. “I’m proud to say that Kansans stood up for our fundamental rights today.”

The proposed constitutional amendment is a reaction to a 2019 decision by the Kansas Supreme Court, which struck down a state law banning a common second-term abortion procedure. The court determined that the right to bodily autonomy in the state constitution’s Bill of Rights includes the decision to terminate a pregnancy.

That meant abortion remained legal in Kansas when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing each state to determine its own rules for reproductive health care. Kansas attracted national attention as the first state to vote on abortion rights in the post-Roe world.

President Joe Biden, in a statement, said the vote makes clear “the majority of Americans agree that women should have access to abortion and should have the right to make their own health care decisions.”

“Congress should listen to the will of the American people and restore the protections of Roe as federal law,” Biden

We will not hand over our constitutional rights and our bodily autonomy to the government, and we will take care of each other and look out for each other because that is what Kansas is all about.

— Rachel Sweet, campaign manager for Kansans for Constitutional Freedom

Rachel Sweet, campaign manager for Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, smiles after Kansans voted to keep abortion a constitutional right on Tuesday.

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said.

Voters showed up in unforeseen numbers in urban areas of the state, while rural areas underperformed compared with turnout in the presidential race two years ago.

“From the moment lawmakers put this on a primary ballot, we knew this was going to be an uphill battle, but we did not despair,” Sweet said.

“We put in the work and these numbers speak for themself.”

Dawn Rattan, who attended the watch party in Overland Park, said the defeat of the amendment shows that reproductive health care is an issue that crosses party lines, “and people everywhere want women to have a choice.” She was moved to tears when the result was announced.

“I was so scared,” Rattan said. “I was so worried that it was going to be really close, and this

is just so decisive, it’s not even close. So I’m just happy and I’m not moved to tears often, so I’m kind of embarrassed, but I’m just really happy.”

Passage of the constitutional amendment would have nullified the Kansas Supreme Court ruling and given the Legislature the authority to pass any kind of abortion restriction, without exceptions for rape, incest or a patient’s health.

The amendment’s defeat means abortion will continue to be legal — and heavily regulated — in Kansas.

Supporters and opponents of the amendment spent millions of dollars in campaigns to educate and influence voters.

The so-called Value Them Both Coalition refused to say whether it would support a ban on abortion if the amendment passes, routinely denouncing claims that the amendment equated

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18 percentage points, 59% to 41%.

Allen County’s margin may change in the coming days as late-arriving ballots come into the county clerk’s office through the mail. Any ballot postmarked by Tuesday will be counted, provided it is delivered to the courthouse

by Friday.

Also to be considered are 57 provisional ballots, or those in which voter information did not match what was on the voting rolls when the vote was cast. Allen County commissioners will decide on the veracity of the provisional ballots when they canvass the election on Tuesday morning.

Allen Countians echoed the rest of the state in a number of contested races, opting for Kris Kobach in a three-way race to be the Republican nominee for attorney general in the November general election, 45% to Kellie Warren’s 41%. Allen Countians also favored Sen. Jerry Moran to keep his U.S. Senate seat by a wide margin, and for Derek Schmidt to be the GOP nominee for governor over Kincaid farmer Arlyn Briggs by a margin of 76% to 24%.

Likewise, 70% of Allen County’s Republicans voted for Jim Porter to keep his Kansas State Board of Education seat over challenger Luke Aichele’s 30%.

Allen County Republicans differed from statewide votes in the secretary of state race, picking challenger Mike

Brown over incumbent Scott Schwab by a 5446 margin. Statewide, Schwab won with a 55-45 margin.

And while an overwhelming number of Allen County Republicans supported State Sen. Caryn Tyson’s bid to be the next state treasurer, 72% to Steven Johnson’s 28%, the statewide vote remains too close to call. As of this morning, Johnson leads Tyson by 765 votes out of more than 426,000 cast, a margin of 50.08% to 49.92%.

THERE WERE only two contested races for Democratic voters to decide Tuesday. Gov. Laura Kelly earned more than 91% of the vote against challenger Rich-

ard Karnowski to earn her party’s nomination in November’s general election.

Statewide, Mark Holland secured the Democratic nomination to take on Moran in November, earning 38% of the vote in a six-way race, 18 points clear of his nearest pursuer in Paul Buskirk. In Allen County, Buskirk leads Holland, 199 votes to Holland’s 191, or about 30% of the total to Holland’s 29%.

THE ABORTION amendment question ramped up interest in Tuesday’s primary vote.

Turnout in Allen County was at 43%, with 3,721 of the county’s 8,644 registered voters casting ballots.

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to an abortion ban. But audio obtained by Kansas Reflector revealed that supporters of the abortion amendment already had legislation in mind that would ban abortion from conception until birth, without exceptions.

The Value Them Both Coalition denied Kansas Reflector entry to its election night watch party because the organization doesn’t approve of Reflector news stories.

In a statement, Dannielle Underwood, a spokeswoman for the Value Them Both Coalition, said the outcome of Tuesday’s election is a temporary setback.

“We will be back,” she said.

Mallory Carroll, spokeswoman for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement that the loss was “a huge disappointment for pro-life Kansans and Americans nationwide.”

“The stakes for the pro-life movement in the upcoming midterm elections could not be higher, and there will be many more factors in play,” Carroll said. “It is critical that pro-life candidates go on offense to expose the extremism of Democrats’ policy goals for nationalized abortion on demand paid for by taxpayers.”

On Monday, Democrats received a text message — eventually connected to former Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas — that inaccurately told them to vote “yes” to preserve reproductive health rights.

Opponents of the amendment have complained about its misleading language. A lineby-line analysis by the Guardian concluded “the ballot language sows confusion in an effort to push people to vote ‘yes.’ ” The amendment claims to ban government-funded abortion, which is already banned under state law, and suggests the Legislature “could” provide exceptions in state law for rape, incest or the life of a mother — even though the amendment doesn’t actually require those exceptions.

Annual reporting from

the Kansas Department of Health and Environment shows that a typical abortion in Kansas involves a woman of color between the ages of 20 and 30 who lives in Kansas or Missouri and is unmarried, already has at least one child, has never had an abortion before, is less than nine weeks from gestation and uses the drug mifepristone to terminate her pregnancy.

Because of existing restrictions, which remain in place, the patient has received state-ordered counseling designed to discourage her from having an abortion, waited at least 24 hours, looked at an ultrasound image and paid for the procedure out of her own pocket.

KDHE reported no abortions occurred outside of 22 weeks, the legal threshold except in cases where the mother’s life is in danger.

Sweet said the defeat of the abortion amendment was historic for Kansas and America.

“We will not hand over our constitutional rights and our bodily autonomy to the government, and we will take care of each other and look out for each other because that is what Kansas is all about,” Sweet said.

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nance one on its own.

In the past year, the store’s proceeds collected $26,000.

Lowell has been in discussion with Yutzy Construction for a 50foot by 20-foot building.

It could be installed within three to four months, Lowell said.

State officials told her that because the property is in a flood plain, the addition could not be directly connected to the existing building. If the board wanted to connect the two, both buildings would need to be raised above ground level.

The board plans to build next to the existing building with a sidewalk between sets of double-doors on each building.

A large tree next to the building will likely need to come down.

Commissioners indicated concern over that, partly because of costs associated. Lowell pointed out the cost of tree removal would be significantly lower than the cost of the building, “which will become yours because it’s on your property.”

Commissioner Bruce Symes pumped the brakes on the board’s plans, telling Lowell to work with county staff, continue to do research and check back in with commissioners before proceeding.

“We gave you the green light to investigate this further. But when we start cutting down trees and hiring HVAC folks, that’s a different pace. I want to keep track of where we are in this process,” Symes said.

LaHarpe Telephone grant request

Harry Lee Jr. with LaHarpe Telephone and Neil Sleevi with Farm and Home Cooperative asked commissioners to support a grant application that

Iola Senior Citizens Thrive Store board member Dimity Lowell, front, is working on a building addition. From left, Tracy Graham with Ace Refrigeration, Greg Hutton, Iola building code director Gregg Hutton and Chuck Franklin with Agricultural Engineering Associates. COURTESY OF DIMITY LOWELL

would allow them to improve broadband internet services.

The grant would improve infrastructure that would be used to extend broadband to all unserved and underserved residents in Allen County. It would provide more reliable and more affordable bandwidth, and could potentially allow the company to lease services to other providers and bring millions in revenue into the county.

“It’s another tool in our toolbox for another income stream and another way to service Allen County,” Lee said.

They weren’t asking for financial support from the county, but instead hoped commissioners would provide a letter of support and advocate with key stakeholders.

IN OTHER news, commissioners: • Approved a request from the Humboldt Historic Preservation Alliance to give $800 for

their efforts to bring back a vintage baseball game on Sept. 17. It has been a few years since the game was offered; it wasn’t played the past two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The game will feature teams from Topeka and Wichita.

• Discussed an air conditioning repair at the former ambulance station behind the 911 center on State Street.

The building is still used to house an ambulance and two fire trucks, and is used on occasion for overnight stays for those who work with the ambulance service.

• Approved the purchase of two trailers to carry fuel at the Allen County Regional Airport. The trailers will carry 960 gallons of fuel each, and can be hauled to provide on-the-spot fueling for planes. Commissioners approved the purchase from DH Farm Equipment of Paden, Okla., for a total cost of $16,000.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The climate deal reached last week by Senate Democrats could reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that American farmers produce by expanding programs that help accumulate carbon in soil, fund climate-focused research and lower the abundant methane emissions that come from cows.

The bill includes more than $20 billion to improve the agriculture sector’s impact on the environment, mostly by expanding existing U.S. Department of Agriculture programs that help farmers change to better practices. Farmers would be paid to improve the health of their soil, withstand extreme weather and protect their land if the bill is enacted.

The roughly $370 billion climate and energy spending deal would bring the country closer to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, according to new analyses. That is something many scientists say is important, and that President Joe Biden promised. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., a long-time holdout on climate legislation, endorsed measures that would benefit electric vehicles, renewable energy and climate-friendly farming. Agriculture is responsible for 11% of the country’s climate-warming emissions.

The funding would expand programs favored by both environmental groups and the agricultural sector, said Ben Thomas, who focuses on agriculture at the Environmental Defense Fund.

“They are voluntary, they are incentive-based, they get results in terms of implementing conservation practices on work-

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to share confidential information.

Not to sound cold, but to Baker, “it’s just a number I plug into the computer and then forget about.”

That information is strictly confidential, she said. “Nobody sees it. It’s not public knowledge.”

Other families, perhaps new to the area, are unaware of the benefits, the two surmised.

“We want families to qualify for this funding because it helps our school district qualify for at-risk funding,” a formula used to determine federal and state assistance, Baker said.

The best time to see whether students qualify for either free or reduced-priced meals is during enrollment, which is from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Thursday in the Iola High School commons area.

“We’ll have computers there as well as ourselves to help parents fill out the forms,” said Talkington.

The application website is https://schoolm e a l s a p p. k s d e . o r g /

Home/Welcome/D0257 Please note the capitalizations and that it’s a zero, not an O, that precedes 257.

Talkington and Baker urged parents to take their time at enrollment.

“So many resources are pulled together for enrollment. Ask us questions. Let us help you,” Baker said.

WHILE AT Jefferson, Talkington said she would encourage students to take advantage of the free breakfasts, especially.

For the students who rode the bus to school, the breakfasts were popular.

“They might say they weren’t hungry, but I knew their days started early and it would be a long time before lunch,” she said. “We’d shuffle them to the cafeteria and encourage them to eat.”

So, if Jeff Bezos or Elon Tusk wanted to adopt USD 257 students and pay for their school breakfasts and lunches, what would it cost?

“About $70,000 a month,” Baker said.

That’s not to say there aren’t some angels in these parts.

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“I have one grandpa who comes in faithfully every week and settles his grandchildren’s accounts,” Baker said.

“And occasionally people leave us money specifically to go toward meal plans The district’s accounts are about $6,000 in arrears from families who have not paid their children’s meal accounts over the years.

For students, that means they are forbidden to participate in graduation ceremonies until either their ac-

counts are settled, or they have agreed to a payment plan to pay the debt.

Baker and Talkington are also hopeful that the district could return where all children eat for free by qualifying for a program called Community Eligibility Provision that calculates the number of students whose families rely on assistance of some sort or other.

That will be determined in April for the following school year, Talkington said.

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ing lands,” said Thomas.

“It’s great to see.”

Thomas said historically, the agricultural sector has not aggressively tackled its contribution to climate change, but that hesitation has shifted in recent years and more money will accelerate progress. There’s a lot of potential, he said.

“It is worth taking very, very seriously,” Thomas said.

Cows belch an enormous amount of methane and agriculture is responsible for more than one-third of human-caused methane emissions, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This is a way that people’s diets — if they are high in meat or dairy — contribute to greenhouse gas buildup. The bill directs funds towards altering what cows eat to reduce those emissions.

On farms, soil can hold or sequester carbon if it is left undisturbed and covered by a crop.

Money from the bill will expand programs that help farmers turn their soil less, implement climate-friendly crop rotation practices and plant cover crops that aren’t for harvest but improve soil health.

“The historic funding validates the fact that these practices are important,” said Ranjani Prabhakar, an agriculture and climate policy specialist at the environmental group Earthjustice Cover crops, for example, are only used by

a fraction of farmers.

If their use were to triple — from around 5% of cropland to 15% — it could remove the equivalent of 14 megatons of carbon dioxide per year, roughly the total annual emissions of New Hampshire, according to Kevin Karl, a food and climate researcher at Columbia University.

“The adoption rate is so low,” Karl said.

“There’s a lot of potential improvement.”

Federal officials already offer farmers help with a variety of environmentally-focused issues including irrigation and fertilizer use.

One program helps fund conservation easements for agricultural land.

Dan Sheafer works on nitrogen research with the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association and operates a 20-acre farm. He plants cover crops and keeps soil disturbance to a minimum — practices that benefit soil health and reduce soil erosion.

But he said cover crops also have drawbacks, requiring farmers who want an environmental benefit to change their practices.

“There’s just more time involved with doing cover crops,” he said.

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If we feel so strongly about abortion rights, so must the nation It’s not often Kansans feel their votes have a national impact.

But on Tuesday, we sent the country the message that a majority of everyday citizens feel that women should have access to abortion.

And no, it’s not a freefor-all.

Kansas will continue to have some of the strictest laws in the nation, regulating abortion to 22 weeks from gestation, requiring parental consent of minors, ultrasounds and waiting periods, etc.

With Tuesday’s referendum, Kansans simply said we want to keep these protections and not ban abortion outright, which, make no mistake, was the likely outcome if the measure were to go before the state legislature, where a majority of ultra-conservative Republicans hold a scorched-earth approach to women’s rights.

IF KANSANS feel this

way, then so must the rest of the nation.

After all, we went solidly for Donald Trump in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.

But when it came to further restricting abortion, a significant number of Republicans voted against the Value Them Both measure.

In Allen County, where Republicans outnumber Democrats 3-to1, the referendum is currently ahead by a scant 20 votes, 1,836 to 1,818, indicating that many Republicans likely viewed the measure as either governmental overreach or an affront to women’s reproductive rights.

Statewide, voter turnout wildly exceeded expectations — about double that of the 2018 mid-term primary — likely because of the constitutional amendment, which was

defeated by double-digits, 59% to 41%.

The high turnout proves Kansans don’t take their constitutional rights lightly.

The vote also sends the message that the U.S. Supreme Court was sorely out of step with the national conscience when it overturned Roe v. Wade, as are other state leaders in their ultra-conservative zealotry to rob women of such personal decisions.

The high court’s ruling spurred voter registration. In Kansas, 70% of those who registered to vote after the June 24 decision were women. is the first state to give voters the opportunity weigh in on abortion since the high court eliminated it as a constitutional right. Our hope is that other states do likewise. We say that begrudgingly, because in truth the U.S. Constitution should be the umbrella that guarantees such protections. Our founding fathers devised the Constitution so that it protects the inherent rights of everyone, while ignoring the prevailing political winds.

Such important issues should not hinge on whether a majority of the people in a state can be persuaded to come to the polls. That Kansas legislators forced the issue to a public vote, rather than produce compassionate laws, only served to further divide communities.

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BECAUSE the measure was so soundly defeated, our hope now is that we can finally put it on the shelf.

Pull up the yard signs.

Ditch the T-shirts. And be determined to find common ground, lest we’ll be irretrievably pulled asunder.

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Dale Stalnaker said today those who fear the custom slaughtering establishment he is building on North Cottonwood will become a public nuisance can relax. “If it does,” he said, “they can close me down — and they should.” ***** A slip of paper bearing the name of R. M. (Bob) Allman was pulled from a hat, giving him the Republican nomination for sheriff. He and Pat Kelley tied at 1,250 votes each in the primary balloting and the drawing was resorted to determine a winner. It was the first time that a sheriff and his undersheriff had competed for the same office. ***** The Perham Clothing Co. today joined the ranks of businesses that have played leading roles in Iola’s history for a half a century or more. L.W. Perham and his son, C.E., came to Iola from Ottawa in the summer of 1902. They had previously owned stores in Santa Rosa,

Mo., Hays, Ottawa and other Kansas towns. They opened their men’s clothing store, “Perham and Son — The Live Clothiers,” on Aug. 16, 1902. The store was located at 3 E. Madison, occupying half of the main room of the present J.C. Penney store. Roy Sanden, who is with the present Perham Store, was employed as a clerk. James Clark was also a member of the sales staff. In 1920, the building was sold to E.P. Brigham, who moved his hardware business there. Perhams ceased business. Then in 1925, C.E. Perham and his two sons, opened the present Perham Clothing Store on South Washington on the west side of the square.

Woody Perham served as mayor of Iola in the 1930s and held the office until he was called to active duty with the 114th Cavalry, Kansas National Guard. “Bun” Perham is the third generation of his family to operate a clothing store in Iola and this year he heads the retail division of the Iola Chamber of Commerce.

The relief is profound on the faces of Iman Alsaden, Chief Medical Officer for Planned Parenthood Great Plains, and Kelsey Rhodes of Kansas City as they and Kansans for Constitutional Freedom supporters celebrate a victory at the polls Tuesday, Aug. 2. (TAMMY LJUNGBLAD/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS)

Is the end of Value Them Both the start of something much bigger? Time will tell What do you even write when the most powerful lobbying force in your state not only loses a pivotal election, but gets their heads handed to them?

The immediate reaction is shock.

The secondary reaction is that something may be changing; that we could be seeing a generational shift where the pressure politics of the past don’t work anymore.

In January, when more than two-thirds of our state representatives and senators put the Value Them Both Amendment on the ballot, it looked like the proposition that couldn’t possibly lose.

Conventional wisdom — that Kansas is an anti-abortion state — was on their side.

And the anti-abortion Republicans who dominate the Legislature stacked the deck as much as they could.

They deliberately put it on a primary ballot because historically, August primaries have been sleepy affairs where Republicans vote and not much of anybody else does. And the people who wrote the initiative got to write not just the amendment, but the ballot statements for and against it.

Most of all, they had the backing of a seemingly invincible lobby. For the two decades-plus that I’ve covered Kansas politics, Kansans for Life has called the tune at the Statehouse and the Legislature has lined up to dance to it.

KFL has been a kingmaker in the Statehouse and they were key players in purging just about every pro-choice moderate GOP legislator from the Capitol.

And if there are any prochoice Republican lawmakers left in Topeka, the mere threat of being primaried by KFL and the anti-abortion right was enough to cow them into submission and vote to put the amendment on a primary ballot.

But it all came crashing down Tuesday when the voters got to weigh in.

As of this writing, with 97% of the votes counted, the score was “No” 59%, “Yes” 41%.

The primary architect of the defeat of the Value Them Both Amendment is the United States Supreme Court.

Over the years, pro-choice Kansas has been complacent — letting the Legislature pass more or less whatever it wanted on abortion, secure in the knowledge that the fundamental right to choose was protected at the federal level.

Dion Lefler The Wichita Eagle/TNS In June, when the High Court overturned Roe v. Wade and threw abortion to the states, pro-choice Kansans — who according to polls were always the majority — finally woke up.

All of a sudden, the only thing standing in the way of a total abortion ban was a 2019 Kansas Supreme Court ruling that the Kansas Constitution contained a right for women to control their bodies and their pregnancies.

In the Value Them Both campaign, pro-choice had a lot of catching up to do.

While the anti-abortion side entered the ring with a fully-scripted, heavily funded and well-mobilized campaign, pro-choice marchers took to the streets with hand-painted signs because they didn’t have enough professionally printed ones to go around.

Another thing that happened was that younger Kansans, who until now had little interest in state politics, came out in droves for this election.

When I covered the “No” side’s election watch party Tuesday night, I ran into civic activist Jane Byrnes. She appeared in a “vote no” campaign ad and also served as a poll worker Tuesday.

She was shocked by the sheer number of younger voters. “I’ve worked primaries before and hardly anybody voted,” she said. “And they were all old people.”

I didn’t cover the Value Them Both election watch.

Like almost all serious journalists in the state, I was

banned by the campaign from attending.

So all I can tell you about their thinking is that they blamed — you guessed it — the mainstream media.

According to their written statement, the media “propelled the left’s false narrative, contributing to the confusion that misled Kansans about the amendment.”

That’s not what happened at all.

I can only speak for myself, but I never believed their infinitely repeated protestations that they didn’t want to ban abortion, just make reasonable regulations about it.

I didn’t believe it because they didn’t even believe it themselves.

Apparently, about six out of 10 voters didn’t believe them either.

So, is this a one-off election to protect a particular right that is of particular interest to young voters, or is this a generational shift with newly energized participants demanding a change in the status quo?

It’s hard to tell at this point.

But if everyone who showed up for Tuesday’s election shows up in November, this could be the start of changing everything.

It could be the beginning of reversing the trend of extremism that has marred Kansas state politics for the last five election cycles.

And it could bring back the days when Republican lawmakers were allowed to be independent thinkers, not just power lobbyists’ puppets living in constant fear of being purged as “RINOs” — Republican In Name Only.

On Tuesday, we became a better state because voters showed up and had their say.

Here’s hoping we can do it again.

Allie Utley of Iola, right, and Jae Moyer, center, of Overland Park, cheer at a gathering of supporters for the Kansans for Constitutional Freedom Tuesday, Aug. 2. (TAMMY LJUNGBLAD/ KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS)

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Senate approves aid to vets exposed to burn pits WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill enhancing health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits won final approval in the Senate on Tuesday, ending a brief stalemate over the measure that had infuriated advocates and inspired some to camp outside the Capitol.

The Senate approved the bill by a vote of 86-11.

It now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. Biden described the legislation as the biggest expansion of benefits for service-connected health issues in 30 years and the largest single bill ever to address exposure to burn pits.

“I look forward to signing this bill, so that veterans and their families and caregivers impacted by toxic exposures finally get the benefits and comprehensive health care they earned and deserve,” Biden said.

The Senate had overwhelming approved the legislation back in June, but a do-over was required to make a technical fix. That process derailed when Republicans made a late attempt to change another aspect of the bill last week and blocked it from advancing.

The abrupt delay outraged veterans groups and advocates, including comedian Jon Stewart. It also placed GOP senators in the uncomfortable position of delaying the top legislative priority of service organizations this session of Congress.

A group of veterans and their families have been camping out at the

Jon Stewart speaks about the Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act in Washington, D.C. (DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES/TNS) Capitol since that vote.

They had endured thunderstorms and Washington’s notorious summer humidity, but they were in the galleries as senators cast their votes.

“You can go home knowing the good and great thing you have done and accomplished for the United States of America,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told them.

The legislation expands access to health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs for millions who served near burn pits. It also directs the VA to presume that certain respiratory illnesses and cancers were related to burn pit exposure, allowing veterans to obtain disability payments to compensate for their injury without having to prove the illness was a result of their service.

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Hundreds of thousands of Vietnam War era veterans and survivors also stand to benefit from the legislation. The bill adds hypertension, or high blood pressure, as a presumptive disease associated with Agent Orange exposure.

The Congressional Budget Office projected that about 600,000 of 1.6 million living Vietnam vets would be eligible for increased compensation, though only about half would have severe enough diagnoses to warrant more compensation.

Also, veterans who served in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Guam, American Samoa and Johnston Atoll will be presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange. That’s another 50,000 veterans and survivors of deceased veterans who would get compensation for illnesses presumed to have been caused by their exposure to the herbicide, the CBO projected.

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rizes 31 major medical VA health clinics and research facilities in 19 states.

The bill is projected to increase federal deficits by about $277 billion over 10 years.

The bill has been a years-long effort begun by veterans and their families who viewed the burn pits used in Iraq and Afghanistan as responsible for respiratory problems and other illnesses the veterans experienced after returning home.

It was named after Sgt. First Class Heath Robinson from Ohio, who died in 2020 from cancer he attributed to prolonged exposure to burn pits.

His widow, Danielle Robinson, was first lady Jill Biden’s guest at the president’s State of the Union address earlier this year.

Stewart, the former host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” also brought increased exposure to the burn pit maladies veterans were facing. He also was in the gallery watching the vote Tuesday. He wept and held his head in his hand as the final vote began.

“I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a situation where people who have already given so much had to fight so hard to get so little,” he said after the vote. “And I hope we learn a lesson.”

The House was the first to act on the burn pits legislation. An earlier version the House approved in March was expected to increase spending by more than $320 billion over 10 years, but senators trimmed some of the costs early on by phasing in certain benefit enhancements. They also

added funds for staffing to help the VA keep up with the expected increase in demand for health care and an increase in disability claims.

Some GOP senators are still concerned that the bill will increase delays at the VA because of an increased demand for veterans seeking care or disability compensation.

“What we have learned is that the VA cannot deliver what is promised because it does not have the capacity to handle the increase,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

Sens.

Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., led the effort to get the bill passed in the Senate. After passage, Tester told reporters he received a call from Biden, thanking him for “taking a big weight” off his shoulder.

For Biden, the issue is very personal. He has raised the prospect that burn pits in Iraq were responsible for the death of his son Beau.

“We don’t know for sure if a burn pit was the cause of his brain cancer, or the diseases of so many of our troops,” Biden said at his State of the Union speech. “But I’m committed to finding out everything we can.”

Moran said that when the bill failed to pass last week, he was disappointed but remembered the strength of the protesters who had sat outside in the scorching heat for days.

“Thanks to the United States Senate for demonstrating when there’s something good and a good cause, this place still works,” Moran said.

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A joint civilian inspection team spent three hours checking the cargo and crew of the Sierra Leone-flagged ship Razoni, which left Odesa on Monday carrying Ukrainian corn, a U.N. statement said.

The Joint Coordination Center team included officials from Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations, who signed deals last month to create safe Black Sea shipping corridors to export Ukraine's desperately needed agricultural products as Russia's war upon its neighbor grinds on.

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By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

Whitney Shaw begins her eighth season at the helm of Allen Community College’s women’s volleyball team.

That’s on top of her five years as assistant coach and another two years when she took to the floor for her Red Devils from 2006 to 2007.

Last season, Shaw’s team finished the year at just a couple of games under a .500-record at 13-15 with an even 5-5 mark in conference play. She is looking at making that record even greater this season with the team she has assembled.

Some of the bigger victories obtained by last year’s team was a 3-1 win over Independence Community College as well as a 3-1 victory over Fort Scott Community College, both in conference action. The fall volleyball season normally runs from August through October with somewhere in the range of 25 to 30 matches.

“First off we want to have an average of a 3.5 GPA for us as a team,” said Shaw.

“We want to have a winning season and I want to first of all make it to the regional tournament and second of all make it out of the first round.”

Shaw says the first few days of practice to begin the year are strictly focused on fundamentals. Then shortly after that the team moves on to their offensive and defen-

Vin Scully in 2016 TNS

Scully, baseball icon, dies Allen Community College’s Gabriella Dominguez receives a serve in a volleyball match last season. Dominguez is among the key returners for the Red Devils in 2022. REGISTER FILE PHOTO sive systems and what they will be working with on each side. Near the start of games, the team is practicing full-on games in six versus six player work.

“We break it down and do fundamentals first. We go back to the basics and we learn passing, setting, serving, hitting, we do all of the basics first before we ever play as a team. Then we go

over team defensive systems, team offensive systems, how I expect certain things. We really start from the ground up even though I expect they know how to pass. By day 14 we’re really clicking along and have a full six-on-six going.”

Competition is stiff in the Eastern Kansas Jayhawk division of NJCAA volleyball.

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Shaw saw her girls lose in three sets against Cowley but put up a better fight than many other schools in the area.

“The top two teams are traditionally Johnson County Community College in Overland Park and Cowley See ACC | Page B6

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night. He was 94.

Scully died at his home in the Hidden Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, the team announced after being informed by family members. No cause of death was provided.

“He was the best there ever was,” pitcher Clayton See SCULLY | Page B3

Kansas City trades Whit Merrifield to Blue Jays

By LYNN WORTHY The Kansas City Star

Kansas City has traded Whit Merrifield to Toronto for a pair of prospects. TNS

News of swap draws mixed reaction from fans

By PETE GRATHOFF The Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Whit Merrifield will play in Toronto after all.

Merrifield, the second baseman/outfielder, was one of 10 unvaccinated Royals players who didn’t — actually, couldn’t — make the trip to Toronto last month for a four-game series against the Blue Jays.

Merrifield was traded on Tuesday to the Blue Jays.

The assumption is Merrifield would get the vaccine that would allow him to enter Canada.

Merrifield enraged some Royals fans when he said last month he would consider being vaccinated if it meant he could play in the postseason.

He hoped it would be with the Royals, but it appears he’ll have a better chance with the Blue Jays, who lead the American League wildcard race.

In seven seasons with the

Royals, Merrifield made a pair of All-Star appearances and twice led the league in hits. Royals fans had a mixed reaction to news of the Merrifield trade. Here is a sample of what was being said by fans.

One Reddit user wrote: “I know everyone here hates him now but I’m gonna miss him. Other than Salvy, he was the most fun thing about this team the last 5 years. I See FANS | Page B6

CHICAGO — By all accounts, Whit Merrifield wanted badly to be part of the Kansas City Royals’ next contending team. Instead, he’s the latest veteran traded away to make way for the new core of young players the Royals hope to build their next contender around.

The catalyst atop the Royals lineup for most of his tenure, a versatile defender and a two-time All-Star, Whit Merrifield has been one of the faces of the major league club in recent years who set the franchise’s standard as an iron man, and he will wear another organization’s uniform for the first time in his career.

The Royals completed a trade that will send Merrifield to the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for infielder Samad Taylor and right-handed pitcher Max Castillo on Tuesday, shortly before the MLB trade deadline.

Castillo, 23, has a 3.05 ERA in 20 2/3 innings pitched in nine games (two starts). He will be sent to the Royals’ Triple-A affiliate in Omaha.

Taylor, 24, batted .258 at Class AAA Buffalo in 70 games.

Merrifield’s versatility, having started games at every position except pitcher,

catcher and shortstop, and a team-friendly contract made him a strong trade candidate for several years.

Annually, there had been swirling trade rumors surrounding Merrifield and potential suitors. This time the Royals pulled the trigger.

Merrifield, 33, originally signed a four-year contract prior to the 2019 season. That deal was worth a guaranteed $16.25 million and included a fifth-year option for 2023.

In April, the Royals exercised their club option on Merrifield for 2023 and added a mutual option for 2024. The restructured contract made Merrifield’s salary $7 million this year and $2.75 million next season with $4 million in potential escalators based on him staying healthy.

The 2024 mutual option added Wednesday is $18 million or a $500,000 buyout.

A two-time major league hits leader as well as a stolen base champion, Merrifield also set the franchise record for consecutive games played with 553, a streak that began in June 2018 and snapped due to a toe injury on July 11.

In 2019, Merrifield became the second right-handed batter ever to lead the majors in hits in back-to-back seasons along with Hall of Famer See ROYALS | Page B6

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Kershaw said after the Dodgers’ game in San Francisco. “Just such a special man. I’m grateful and thankful I got to know him as well as I did.”

As the longest tenured broadcaster with a single team in pro sports history, Scully saw it all and called it all. He began in the 1950s era of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson, on to the 1960s with Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, into the 1970s with Steve Garvey and Don Sutton, and through the 1980s with Orel Hershiser and Fernando Valenzuela.

In the 1990s, it was Mike Piazza and Hideo Nomo, followed by Kershaw, Manny Ramirez and Yasiel Puig in the 21st century.

“You gave me my Wild Horse name. You gave me love. You hugged me like a father,” tweeted Puig, the talented Cuban-born outfielder who burned brightly upon his Dodgers debut in 2013. “I will never forget you, my heart is broken.”

The Dodgers changed players, managers, executives, owners — and even coasts — but Scully and his soothing, insightful style remained a constant for the fans.

He opened broadcasts with the familiar greeting, “Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be.”

Ever gracious both in person and on the air, Scully considered himself merely a conduit between the game and the fans.

“His voice played a memorable role in some of the greatest moments in the history of our sport,” Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said. “I am proud that Vin was synonymous with baseball because he embodied the very best of our national pastime.”

After the Dodgers’ 9-5 win, the Giants posted a Scully tribute on the videoboard.

“There’s not a better storyteller and I think everyone considers him family,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

“He was in our living rooms for many generations. He lived a fantastic life, a legacy that will live on forever.”

Although he was paid by the Dodgers, Scully was unafraid to criticize a bad play or a manager’s decision, or praise an opponent while spinning stories against a backdrop of routine plays and noteworthy achievements. He always said he wanted to see things with his eyes, not his heart.

“We have lost an icon,” team president and CEO Stan Kasten said. “His voice will always be heard and etched in all of our minds forever.”

Vincent Edward Scully was born Nov. 29, 1927, in the Bronx. He was the son of a silk salesman who died of pneumonia when Scully was 7. His mother moved the family to Brooklyn, where the red-haired, blueeyed Scully grew up playing stickball in the streets.

As a child, Scully would grab a pillow, put it under the family’s four-legged radio and lay his head directly under the speaker to

A fan leaves a baseball acknowledging the legacy of Vince Scully at Dodger Stadium Tuesday evening. LOS

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hear whatever college football game was on the air. With a snack of saltine crackers and a glass of milk nearby, the boy was transfixed by the crowd’s roar that raised goosebumps. He thought he’d like to call the action himself.

Scully, who played outfield for two years on the Fordham University baseball team, began his career by working baseball, football and basketball games for the university’s radio station.

At age 22, he was hired by a CBS radio affiliate in Washington, D.C. He soon joined Hall of Famer Red Barber and Connie Desmond in the Brooklyn Dodgers’ radio and television booths. In 1953, at age 25, Scully became the youngest person to broadcast a World Series game, a mark that still stands.

He moved west with the Dodgers in 1958.

Scully called three perfect games — Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series, Sandy Koufax in 1965 and Dennis Martinez in 1991 — and 18 no-hitters.

He also was on the air when Don Drysdale set his scoreless innings streak of 58 2/3 innings in 1968 and again when Hershiser broke the record with 59 consecutive scoreless innings 20 years later.

When Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run to break Babe Ruth’s record in 1974, it was against the Dodgers and, of course, Scully called it.

“A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol,” Scully told listeners.

“What a marvelous moment for baseball.”

Scully credited the birth of the transistor radio as “the greatest single break” of his career. Fans had trouble recognizing the lesser players during the Dodgers’ first four years in the vast Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

“They were 70 or so odd rows away from the action,” he said in 2016.

“They brought the radio to find out about all the other players and to see what they were trying to see down on the field.”

That habit carried over when the team moved to Dodger Stadium in 1962. Fans held radios to their ears, and those not present listened from home or the car, allowing Scully to

connect generations of families with his words.

He often said it was best to describe a big play quickly and then be quiet so fans could listen to the pandemonium. After Koufax’s perfect game in 1965, Scully went silent for 38 seconds before talking again. He was similarly silent for a time after Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit home run to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.

He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that year and had the stadium’s press box named for him in 2001. The street leading to Dodger Stadium’s main gate was named in his honor in 2016.

That same year he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.

“God has been so good to me to allow me to do what I’m doing,” Scully, a devout Catholic who attended Mass on Sundays before heading to the ballpark, said before retiring. “A childhood dream that came to pass and then giving me 67 years to enjoy every minute of it. That’s a pretty large thanksgiving day for me.”

In addition to being

the voice of the Dodgers, Scully called playby-play for NFL games and PGA Tour events as well as calling 25 World Series and 12 All-Star Games. He was NBC’s lead baseball announcer from 1983-89.

While being one of the most widely heard broadcasters in the nation, Scully was an intensely private man.

Once the baseball season ended, he would disappear. He rarely did personal appearances or sports talk shows. He preferred spending time with his family.

In 1972, his first wife, Joan, died of an accidental overdose of medicine. He was left with three young children.

Two years later, he met the woman who would become his second wife, Sandra, a secretary for the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams. She had two young children from a previous marriage, and they combined their families into what Scully once called “my own Brady Bunch.”

He said he realized time was the most precious thing in the world and that he wanted to use his time to spend with his loved ones. In the early 1960s, Scully quit smoking with the help of his family. In

the shirt pocket where he kept a pack of cigarettes, Scully stuck a family photo. Whenever he felt like he needed a smoke, he pulled out the photo to remind him why he quit. Eight months later, Scully never smoked again.

After retiring in 2016, Scully made just a handful of appearances at Dodger Stadium and his sweet voice was heard narrating an occasional video played during games. Mostly, he was content to stay close to home.

“I just want to be remembered as a good man, an honest man, and one who lived up to his own beliefs,” he said in 2016.

In 2020, Scully auctioned off years of his personal memorabilia, which raised over $2 million. A portion of it was donated to UCLA for ALS research.

He was preceded in death by his second wife, Sandra. She died of complications of ALS at age 76 in 2021.

The couple, who were married 47 years, had daughter Catherine together.

Scully’s other children are Kelly, Erin, Todd and Kevin. A son, Michael, died in a helicopter crash in 1994.

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(AP) — Four-time major champion Naomi Osaka won the first match she’s played since May, beating Zheng Qinwen 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 on Tuesday night at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic.

Osaka hit 11 aces and saved 7 of 8 break points in the hard-court tournament that serves as a tuneup for the U.S. Open.

Osaka had not played anywhere since a first-round loss to Amanda Anisimova at the French Open on May 23.

The former No. 1-ranked player was bothered by her left Achilles tendon during that defeat, then cited that lingering injury when she pulled out of Wimbledon in June.

Osaka won the U.S. Open in 2018 and 2020.

Next up for Osaka is Coco Gauff, who won her match 6-0, 6-1 over Anhelina Kalinina.

Osaka leads their headto-head series 2-1, including a victory over Gauff at the 2019 U.S. Open.

Gauff was the runner-up at this year’s French Open.

Another past champion at Flushing Meadows, 2019 winner Bianca Andreescu, lost Tuesday in San Jose, beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Shelby Rogers.

In other firstround action Tuesday, qualifier Elizabeth Mandlik won her WTA debut, defeating Alison Riske-Amritraj 6-3, 6-3, and No. 9 seed Veronika Kudermetova beat Camila Giorgi 7-6 (2), 4-6, 7-5.

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Richard Seymour in a press conference at World Golf Village in Jacksonville in 2005/PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER./TNS

Seymour cherishes Hall of Fame

By SCHUYLER DIXON The Associated Press

Richard Seymour was winning Super Bowls with the New England Patriots before, as he put it, Tom Brady was Tom Brady.

The defensive lineman’s early success — three championships in his first four seasons — is as good a starting point as any for how Seymour ended up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

“We’d have a saying with the Patriots that stats can be for losers,” Seymour said. “I was asked to do selfless things.”

Seymour had 57 1/2 career sacks in 12 seasons, the first eight in New England before finishing his career with the Oakland Raiders.

His three All-Pro seasons were two more than each of the other two Hall of Famers categorized as defensive ends and tackles — Chicago’s Dan Hampton and San Francisco’s Bryant Young.

The Patriots did, indeed, win with defense when Seymour was a

rookie in 2001, the year Brady became the starter. New England turned into a top 10 defense that year, then held the “Greatest Show on Turf ” without a touchdown into the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl before beating the St. Louis Rams 20-17 on Adam Vinatieri’s final-play field goal.

New England missed the playoffs in 2002 before winning the next two Super Bowls, over Carolina and Philadelphia. Dallas is the only other franchise to win three Super Bowls in four seasons (1992-95).

Seymour, who is set for enshrinement in Canton, Ohio, on Saturday, is the second player off those New England defenses to get into the Hall of Fame after cornerback Ty Law. Those three titles were it for Seymour, Law and the rest of that batch of New England defenders, while the 44-year-old Brady is at seven and possibly counting, the most recent with Tampa Bay. But Seymour and company get credit for their part of the foundation.

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“Those first three Super Bowls, they were all defensive-led teams,” Seymour said. “I think for us, the shift really started to happen right after that. And that’s when Brady really became Brady. And then it really just took off.

Offense sells, so I totally get it. But those early teams were led by the defense.”

The sixth overall pick out of Georgia in 2001 after growing up in South Carolina, Seymour played inside and out for the Patriots before spending most of his time at defensive tackle with the Raiders.

Listed at more than 300 pounds in his playing days, Seymour fit the mold of run stopper more than pass rusher.

The only mold he cared about was winning.

“I think my story is a story of impact because it was selfless and it was about the team and being a competitor,” Seymour said. “The bigger picture for me is as long as the team valued what I was bringing to the table and they showed it in terms of my contracts and that sort of thing.

I knew they valued me, and they told me they valued me.”

Tennessee coach Mike Vrabel, another anchor on those defenses as a linebacker, saw the value when he joined the Patriots as a free agent the same year Seymour was drafted.

“I was in my fifth year, but I really, boy, hadn’t done a whole lot in the league. So we were kind of starting in the NFL for the first time,” Vrabel said. “I just remember, just his size, his length, his power. This was a smart player that could recognize things, would say, ‘Hey, let’s do this.’ I said, ‘OK, yeah, that’s a great idea.’”

ANY TRADE

This is quite a time to be a season ticket holder for the San Diego Padres.

Great weather, a jewel of a ballpark — and perhaps the most exciting lineup in baseball for the near future.

The Padres landed the biggest prize of this year’s trade deadline — and maybe at any year’s deadline — when they acquired outfielder Juan Soto, a 23-year-old superstar who isn’t due to become a free agent until after the 2024 season. To get him, they had to send six players to Washington, including several of their top recent prospects.

It’s a massive move for an organization that has never won a World Series — but now adds Soto to a team that has Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Yu Darvish. San Diego also traded for closer Josh Hader this week.

Here’s a look at the biggest buyers and sellers at this year’s deadline, and how they’ve reshaped their futures.

BUYERS San Diego Padres (60-46, second NL wild card) Acquired: OF Juan Soto, 1B Josh Bell, LHP Josh Hader, 2B Brandon Drury, C Cam Gallagher, LHP Jay Groome.

Traded: LHP MacKenzie Gore, SS C.J. Abrams, OF Robert Hassell III, OF James Wood, RHP Jarlin Susana, 1B Luke Voit, LHP Taylor Rogers, RHP Dinelson Lamet, 2B Esteury Ruiz, LHP Robert Gasser, SS Victor Acosta, OF Brent Rooker, 1B Eric Hosmer, 2B Max Ferguson, OF Corey Rosier.

Analysis: It was going to take a big offer to pry Soto loose from the Nationals, and the Padres always made some sense as a destination.

Noah Syndergaard pitching/TNS They had enough attractive prospects to make the deal happen — and because they were already postseason contenders, adding Soto can benefit them even if he only stays through 2024. Bell brings power to the lineup as well.

Philadelphia Phillies (55-48, third NL wild card) Acquired: RHP Noah Syndergaard, RHP David Robertson, OF Brandon Marsh, 2B Edmundo Sosa.

Traded: C Logan O’Hoppe, LHP JoJo Romero, OF Mickey Moniak, OF Jadiel Sanchez, RHP Ben Brown.

Analysis: Chasing their first postseason berth since 2011, the Phillies added help in the rotation, the bullpen, the infield and the outfield. Philadelphia moved on from Moniak, the top pick in the 2016 draft.

Seattle Mariners (56-49, second AL wild card) Acquired: RHP Luis Castillo, LHP Matthew Boyd, C Curt Casali.

Traded: SS Noelvi Marte, SS Edwin Arroyo, RHP Levi Stoudt, RHP Andrew Moore, LHP Anthony Misiewicz, RHP Michael Stryffeler, C Andy Thomas.

Analysis: Speaking of postseason droughts, the Mariners haven’t qualified since 2001, and they approached this deadline with a sense of urgency, sending three of their top

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Rob Walton is adding seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton of Britain to the Denver Broncos’ new ownership group.

Hamilton, 37, who drives for the Mercedes team and whose 103 career victories are the most in F1 history, is the

third limited partner brought aboard by the Walton-Penner ownership group headed by Walmart heir Rob Walton, his daughter, Carrie Walton Penner, and her husband, Greg Penner.

“Excited to join an incredible group of owners and become a part of the Broncos story!!” Hamilton tweeted.

“Honored to work with a world class team and

serve as an example of the value of more diverse leadership across all sports.”

Commissioner Roger Goodell has made minority ownership a point of emphasis in the league. Hamilton is Black, as are the new ownership group’s two other limited partners, Starbucks board chair Mellody Hobson and former U.S. Secretary of

Royals: Trade Merrifield Continued from B1

Kirby Puckett (1988-89).

Merrifield also became the first player, regardless of handedness, to lead the majors in hits in back-to-back seasons since Ichiro Suzuki (2006-10). The only other Royals player to lead the majors in hits in consecutive seasons is Hall of Famer George Brett (1975-76).

Merrifield was the American League Gold Glove at second base last season, his only full season as the everyday starter at that position.

A ninth-round draft pick out of South Carolina in 2010, Merrifield became a fan favorite for his hard-nosed approach, ability to play everyday despite physical ailments, his allaround performance and his willingness to embrace a leadership role on the field, in the clubhouse and in the media.

Merrifield spent six seasons in the minors before making it to the majors and has spoken in the past about how he nearly gave up on professional baseball before breaking through in the majors.

His debut in the majors with the Royals came after the fran-

chise’s back-to-back World Series appearances in 2014 and 2015 and the championship in 2015. Those postseason runs energized the fan base and the region.

He was part of just one .500 team in seven seasons, and endured back-to-back 100-loss campaigns.

In recent weeks, Merrifield took criticism for comments he made surrounding not being able to travel with the team to Canada for a series against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Merrifield was one of 10 players who were not allowed to enter Canada because they were not vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus.

While teammates and members of the Royals organization expressed no ill will against Merrifield in the aftermath of those comments, he was even booed at Kauffman Stadium for the first time in his career.

Despite the criticism, swirling trade rumors that had become an annual occurrence and a lingering toe injury that stopped his consecutive games played streak, Merrifield performed at a high level right up until his last day with

the club.

After a dreadful offensive start to the season that included a slash line of .135/.177/.164 through the first 26 games, Merrifield turned his season around at the plate over the next 68 games (through the end of July) and slashed .280/.333/.415.

Gallagher traded, too Shortly after completing the Merrifield deal, the Royals traded catcher Cam Gallagher to the San Diego Padres for outfielder Brent Rooker.

ment. “He is a champion competitor who knows what it takes to lead a winning team and a fierce advocate for global equality, including in his own sport.

“With over 100 race wins, Lewis is considered the most successful F1 driver of all time,” Walton added. “His resilient spirit and standard of excellence will be an asset to the ownership group and the Broncos organization.”

Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson saluted his friend Hamilton on Twitter before Tuesday’s practice. Wilson and his wife, Ciara,

were guests of Hamilton’s race team at the Monaco Grand Prix this year.

The Pat Bowlen Trust has run the franchise for several years and the trustees put the club up for sale after the children of late owner Pat Bowlen couldn’t agree on which one of them would succeed their father.

The trustees wanted Brittany Bowlen, 32, to take over. She stepped down from her job as the team’s vice president of strategy following the Walton-Penner ownership group’s winning bid.

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loved watching him rip off bags.”

Another joked: “This may be the best moment of the season for me.”

On Reddit a fan wrote: “Living in the past. Dude has 18 SBs this year and every other category has

declined over the last 4 years. He’s 33. As a speed guy, his best days are far behind him.”

Another wrote: “Thanks Whit for being one of the few bright spots over the last few years. Always a great example of someone who worked hard and sweated it out in the

minors and made the most of his opportunity. I know things didn’t end on a high note but I wish him the best.”

On Reddit a fan wrote: “I’m gonna miss him” Another responded: “The feeling isn’t mutual. This team and town aren’t good enough for him”

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Shaw discussed her team’s strengths and weaknesses for the upcoming season. The backline will be the more experienced and veteran presence of the team while the front will need to work at gelling at first.

“We are a driven and disciplined team looking to break into the top of our conference. Our strength will be our serving, we’re going to have a lot of young hitters so I don’t think it’ll be a weakness but it will be something we have to get going on early because I only have three hitters that will be sophomores.”

Keeping the theme of international student-athletes at Allen going, Shaw explained that she has two international players this season, one hailing from Italy and one from Brazil.

“Then for the past six or seven years I’ve had Puerto Rican players, so they’re not international, but not in the states.”

Some of the leaders on this year’s team will include those international players. Shaw has also been able to get some transfers, including one from Texas but says that some of the best players are from instate.

State Condoleezza Rice.

The Walton-Penner group won the bidding for the Broncos with a $4.65 billion offer. the highest price paid for any sports franchise in the world. NFL owners are meeting in Minneapolis next week to approve the sale. Once that happens, Walton, who has an estimated net worth of $60 billion, will become the league’s richest owner.

“We’re delighted to welcome seven-time Formula One World Champion Sir Lewis Hamilton to our ownership group,” Walton said in a state-

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Suki can’t wait to meet her forever family! This silly 2-month-old kitten loves to play –chasing a broom, other kittens, or even your feet. Her curiosity and energy know no bounds! We are accepting applications for her adoption, but she won’t be able to go home until she is 3 months old. Her adoption fee is $75, which includes her spay, current vaccinations and microchipping.

Whitney Shaw “We have a new Brazilian center, her name is Julia and she’s phenomenal. Talking to her, she should run for president, she’s a great leader, she’s really well spoken and she’s talented. We got a late commitment from a big right-side out of Atchinson, her name is Katie Harris, I expect her to be really good.”

Before taking the reins at ACC, Shaw was the assistant coach at Allen for five years under former head coach Jessica Peters. Shaw believes it is her experience in volleyball both playing and coaching that has helped her develop the knowledge and skills she needs to take on this important role.

Shaw played at Ottawa University in 2008 as a defensive specialist.

She graduated from OU with her bachelor’s degree before entering the coaching ranks.

For more information about Naveen and Suki, contact: adoptions@acarf.org • acarf.org/adoptables • 620-496-3647

R’NS Farms

Your Central Boiler Dealer 1520 1300th St.,Iola www.redbarnvet.com

(620) 365-3964 rbvs@redbarnvet.com

Heim Law Offices, P.A. BRET A. HEIM DANIEL C. SMITH

424 N. Washington • Iola

(620) 365-2222 heimlawoffices.com

941 2400 St. Iola, KS 620-496-2406

Serving the Area For 67 Years

1-800-750-6533

(620) 365-7663 • 306 N. State, Iola

Wed. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Thurs. - Fri. 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

108 E. Madison Iola, KS

Call or check out our website. We may have a pet for you.

620-496-3647 | acarf.org 305 E. Hwy 54 | LaHarpe, KS