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By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

LaHarpe’s David Lee will take a seat on the Allen County Commission come January.

Tuesday’s election results also will remove a requirement that drinking establishments in Allen County must earn 30% of their sales from food.

The measure was initiated by a Humboldt David Lee development group.

M o r e than 65% of the county’s voters turned out for the election.

All results are Michelle u n o f f i c i a l Meiwes until canvassed by commissioners.

Lee, a Republican, defeated Democrat Michelle Meiwes with nearly 73% of the vote, 1,470 to 541. He will fill a seat being vacated by Bill King, who was See RESULTS | Page A5

Crest gears up for playoff game

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks at a drive-in election night event with his wife Jill Biden by his side at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, in the wee hours of this morning. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/TNS)

Presidency hinges on tight races in battleground states WASHINGTON (AP) — The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance this morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.

It was unclear when or how quickly a winner could be determined. A late burst of votes in Michigan and Wis-

President Donald Trump consin gave Biden a small lead in those states, but it was still too early to call the race.

Hundreds of thousands of votes were also outstanding in Pennsylvania.

The high stakes election was held against the backdrop of a historic pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans and wiped away millions of jobs. Both candidates spent months pressing dramatically different visions for the nation’s future and voters responded in huge numbers, with more than 100 million people casting votes ahead of Election Day. But the margins were exceedingly tight, with the candidates trading wins in

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Our Market seeks county’s help

By TIM STAUFFER The Iola Register

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battleground states across the country. Trump picked up Florida, the largest of the swing states, while Biden flipped Arizona, a state that has reliably voted Republican in recent elections. Neither cleared the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House.

Trump, in an extraordinary move from the White House, issued premature claims of victory and said he would take the election

Scott and Amy Welch of Our Market once again approached Allen County commissioners in search of support in their venture to launch a butcher shop and grocery store in Humboldt.

Our Market, which would open in the space formerly occupied by Moon’s Market, is “about a month away” from opening up butchering operations for hogs, beef and deer, reported Scott Welch.

Demand for their services is high, say the Welches. “I’ve got 40 animals already lined up to butcher as soon as we

Scott and Amy Welch, proprietors of Our Market, address county commissioners Tuesday morning. REGISTER/TIM STAUFFER open,” said Scott. Amy added, “You have animals that are fat and are sitting in pastures.

They’re losing value” and

need to be processed.

But while the butcher shop is slated to open by early December, the Welches are look-

ing for additional funding from the county to bring the grocery store online. “We still have a shortfall on funding, and that’s why we’re here today,” said Scott.

In their efforts to bring a grocery store back to Humboldt, the Welches have applied for grants, taken out loans and made use of their own finances. Scott also listed several businesses that have provided assistance, among them B&W Trailer Hitches, Monarch Cement, and Hofer & Hofer. Monarch Cement owns the building, which it purchased in late 2018 in an See STORE | Page A6

County salutes election workers Marshall wins Senate race

By TIM STAUFFER The Iola Register

As voters headed to the polls Tuesday, Allen County Commissioners proclaimed Nov. 3, 2020 as “Election Worker Appreciation Day.” With a record number of voters casting their ballots early or by mail, the recognition for those ensuring the integriVol. 122, No. 240 Iola, KS 75 Cents

ty of our elections seemed a fitting tribute in what would shape up to be a long day for the County Clerk’s office.

The proclamation, which declared that “Allen County workers serve to protect universal suffrage...and the public’s thanks for their selfless personal commitment,” was signed by all three commissioners.

That recognition was the happiest part of Tuesday’s meeting, which included an update from Humboldt City Administrator Cole Herder on Allen County’s E-Community, which partners with NetWork Kansas to support small businesses. Herder informed commissioners that Allen County residents have See COUNTY | Page A6

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Rep. Roger Marshall won an open Senate seat in Kansas on Tuesday in a tougher-than-expected race that saw his Democratic opponent raise far more campaign cash than he did.

Marshall, who has repre-

sented western and central Kansas in Congress for two terms, prevailed over Democratic state Sen. Barbara Bollier. After a tough campaign, he struck a conciliatory tone in his victory speech, saying his prayer was “for healing.”

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Dems losing paths to Senate; GOP hangs on

John Kersley

By LISA MASCARO & MARY C. JALONICK The Associated Press

John Henry Kersley, 53, died on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. He was born Oct. 2, 1967, in Wichita, the son of Jane and Herb Kersley and the late John Shultz Jr. John married Leah Heimlich in April 1992. They had three children and later divorced.

John is preceded in death by his John Kersley father, John Shultz Jr.; and grandparents, Wayne and Sylvia Wools, and Wayne and Madeline Kersley.

John is survived by his parents, Herb and Jane Kersley of Kincaid; significant other of 13 years, Sherry Hafliger of Kincaid; children, Alexa (Nick) Smith of Goodland, Dylan Kersley of Hays, Gavin Kersley of Alliance, Nebraska, Dalton Kersley of Kincaid; and step-children, Kaitlyn (James) Richmeier of WaKeeney, and Maddison Halfliger of WaKeeney.

A funeral service in honor of John will take place at 1 p.m. on Friday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service in Iola. There will be a viewing at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday.

Memorials in honor of John are suggested to the Kincaid Library or Colony First Responders and may be left with the funeral home.

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U.S. formally exits Paris climate pact

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — The United States today formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change.

The move, long threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump and triggered by his administration a year ago, further isolates Washington in the world but has no immediate impact on international efforts to curb global warming.

There are 189 countries that remain committed to the 2015 Paris accord, which aims to keep the increase in average temperatures worldwide “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), ideally no more than 1.5C (2.7 F), compared to pre-industrial levels.

A further six countries have signed, but not ratified the pact.

Scientists say that any rise beyond 2 degrees Celsius could have a devastating impact on large parts of the world, raising sea levels, stoking tropical storms and worsening droughts and floods.

The Paris accord requires countries to set their own voluntary targets for reducing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. The only binding requirement is that nations have to accurately report on their efforts.

The United States is the world’s second biggest emitter after China of heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide and its contribution to cutting emis-

sions is seen as important, but it is not alone in the effort. In recent weeks, China, Japan and South Korea have joined the European Union and several other countries in setting national deadlines to stop pumping more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes fading for Senate control, Democrats had a disappointing election night as Republicans swatted down an onslaught of challengers and fought to retain their fragile majority.

Several races remained undecided into this morning and at least one headed to a runoff in January.

It was a jarring outcome for Democrats who had devised an expanded political map, eager to provide a backstop against President Donald Trump and his party’s grip on the Senate. The races attracted an unprecedented outpouring of small-dollar donations from Americans apparently voting with their pocketbooks to propel long-shot campaigns.

The voters’ choices will force a rethinking of Democratic Party strategy, messaging and approach from the Trump era.

While Democrats picked up must-win seats in Colorado and Arizona, they suffered a setback in Alabama, and Republicans held their own in one race after another — in South Carolina, Iowa, Texas, Kansas and Montana, dramatically limiting the places where Democrats hoped to make inroads.

“You wasted a lot of money,” said White House ally Sen. Lindsey Graham in Columbia, S.C., after defeating Jamie Harrison, despite the Democrat’s stunning $100 million haul for his upstart campaign. “This is the worst return on investment in the history of American politics.”

Trump loomed large over the Senate races as did Democratic rival Joe Biden. The Trump administration’s han-

dling of the COVID-19 crisis, its economic fallout and the nation’s uneasy mood all seemed to be on the ballot.

Voters ranked the pandemic and the economy as top concerns, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate.

“It’s time for a different approach,” said Democrat John Hickenlooper, a former governor who unseated Republican Sen. Cory Gardner in Colorado, during a live video message posted on Facebook.

Yet voters, for the most part, stuck with the status quo.

Securing the Senate majority will be vital for the winner of the presidency.

Senators confirm administration nominees, including the Cabinet, and can propel or stall the White House agenda.

With Republicans now controlling the chamber, 53-47, three or four seats will determine party control, depending on who wins the presidency because the vice president can break a tie in the Senate.

Democrats contested seats from New England to the Deep South and the Midwest to the Mountain West, reaching deep into GOP strongholds. But by early today, the tally was not too different from before Election Day. The Democrats’ gains were in Colorado and Arizona, where former astronaut Mark Kelly beat GOP incumbent Martha McSally. But they couldn’t hold on in Alabama: Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville defeated Sen. Doug Jones.

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against Harrison; in Texas, Sen. John Cornyn turned back former Air Force helicopter pilot MJ Hegar; in Iowa, Sen. Joni Ernst defeated Democrat Theresa Greenfield in a race seen as a toss-up; in Montana, Sen. Steve Daines routed Gov. Steve Bullock; and in Kansas, Rep. Roger Marshall prevailed over state Sen. Barbara Bollier, a former Republican who energized Democrats in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932.

THE FINAL breakdown awaited the outcome of races in Alaska, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and Maine.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged the uncertainty still ahead even after he secured a seventh term in Kentucky, fending off Democrat Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot in a costly campaign.

“We don’t know which party will control the Senate,” McConnell said from Louisville. “But some things are certain already. We know grave challenges

will remain before us, challenges that could not care less about our political polarization.

We know our next president will need to unite the country, even as we all continue to bring different ideas and commitments to the table.”

North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis has struggled against Democrat Cal Cunningham, despite the married challenger’s sexting scandal with a public relations strategist.

And in Maine the race between GOP Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Sara Gideon could be another one that pushes later into the week. If no one in the multi-candidate field breaks the 50% threshold in the first-round votes, then there are additional tabulations in which last-place finishers are eliminated. Under the state’s rank-choice system the tabulations continue until a candidate achieves a majority.

In Georgia, two seats were being contested and at least one is headed to a runoff after no candidate reached the 50% threshold to win.

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Push to relax drug laws gains big victories Senate: Marshall By the Associated Press

A nationwide push to relax drug laws took a significant step forward Tuesday as five more states legalized marijuana for adults and voters made Oregon the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of street drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

The drug measures were among 120 proposed state laws and constitutional amendments that were on the ballot in 32 states. They touched on an array of issues that have roiled politics in recent years — voting rights, racial inequalities, abortion, taxes and education, to name a few.

But none directly

dealt with the dominant theme of 2020 — the coronavirus pandemic.

That’s because the process to put measures on the ballot began, in most cases, before the virus surged to the forefront.

The Oregon drug initiative will allow people arrested with small amounts of hard drugs to avoid going to trial, and possible jail time, by paying a $100 fine and attending an addiction recovery program. The treatment centers will be funded by revenues from legalized marijuana, which was approved in Oregon several years ago.

“Today’s victory is a landmark declaration that the time has come to stop criminalizing people for drug use,” said Kassandra Frederique,

executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which backed the measure.

The proposal was endorsed by the Oregon Democratic Party, as well as some nurses and physician associations.

The Oregon Republican Party had denounced the drug decriminalization measure as radical, and some prosecutors called it reckless.

Oregon voters also approved a measure making the state the first to legalize the therapeutic use of psychedelic mushrooms.

Voters in New Jersey and Arizona approved measures legalizing marijuana for adults age 21 and older. In New Jersey, the Legislature now will have to pass

another measure setting up the new marijuana marketplace. The Arizona measure also allows people convicted of certain marijuana crimes to seek expungement of their records. The passage of the measure signaled a change of attitudes, after Arizona voters narrowly defeated a legal pot proposal in 2016.

South Dakota on Tuesday became the first state where voters authorized both recreational marijuana and medical marijuana via two separate initiatives in the same election.

The legalization of recreational marijuana was approved by voters in Montana, and medical marijuana won approval in Mississippi.

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to the Supreme Court to stop the counting. It was unclear exactly what legal action he might try to pursue.

Biden, briefly appearing in front of supporters in Delaware, urged patience, saying the election “ain’t over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted.”

“It’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare who’s won this election,” Biden said.

“That’s the decision of the American people.”

Vote tabulations routinely continue beyond Election Day, and states largely set the rules for when the count has to end. In presidential elections, a key point is the date in December when presidential electors met. That’s set by federal law.

Several states allow mailed-in votes to be accepted after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday. That includes Pennsylvania, where ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 can be accepted if they arrive up to three days after the election.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf tweeted that his state had over 1 million ballots to be counted and that he “promised Pennsylvanians that we would count every vote and that’s what we’re going to do.”

Trump appeared to suggest those ballots should not be counted, and that he would fight for that outcome at the high court. But legal experts were dubious of Trump’s declaration.

“I do not see a way that he could go directly to the Supreme Court to stop the counting of votes. There could be fights in specific states, and some of those could

end up at the Supreme Court. But this is not the way things work,” said Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California-Irvine.

Trump has appointed three of the high court’s nine justices including, most recently, Amy Coney Barrett.

Democrats typically outperform Republicans in mail voting, while the GOP looks to make up ground in Election Day turnout. That means the early margins between the candidates could be influenced by which type of votes — early or Election Day — were being reported by the states.

Throughout the campaign, Trump cast doubt about the integrity of the election and repeatedly suggested that mail-in ballots should not be counted. Both campaigns had teams of lawyers at the ready to move into battleground states if there were legal challenges.

The tight overall contest reflected a deeply polarized nation struggling to respond to the worst health crisis in more than a century, with millions of lost jobs, and a reckoning on

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Trump kept several states, including Texas, Iowa and Ohio, where Biden had made a strong play in the final stages of the campaign. But Biden also picked off states where Trump sought to compete, including New Hampshire and Minnesota. But Florida was the biggest, fiercely contested battleground on the map, with both campaigns battling over the 29 Electoral College votes that went to Trump.

The president adopted Florida as his new home state, wooed its Latino community, particularly Cuban-Americans, and held rallies there incessantly. For his part, Biden deployed his top surrogate — President Barack Obama — there twice in the campaign’s closing days and benefitted from a $100 million pledge in the state from Michael Bloomberg.

Democrats entered the night confident not only in Biden’s prospects, but also in the the party’s ability to take control of

the Senate. But the GOP held several seats that were considered vulnerable, including in Iowa, Texas and Kansas. The House was expected to remain under Democratic control.

The coronavirus pandemic — and Trump’s handling of it — was the inescapable focus for 2020.

For Trump, the election stood as a judgment on his four years in office, a term in which he bent Washington to his will, challenged faith in its institutions and changed how America was viewed across the globe. Rarely trying to unite a country divided along lines of race and class, he has often acted as an insurgent against the government he led while undermining the nation’s scientists, bureaucracy and media.

The momentum from early voting carried into Election Day, as an energized electorate produced long lines at polling sites throughout the country.

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erts’ seat was the most expensive in Kansas history. Spending on advertising by outside groups topped $41 million, with three-quarters of it coming from the Senate Leadership Fund aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other GOP groups to boost Marshall’s campaign. It also was the Democrats’ best shot to pick up a Kansas Senate seat since 1974, when then-Republican Sen. Bob Dole narrowly won reelection in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that forced President Richard Nixon to resign.

Like other Democratic Senate candidates around the country, Bollier received millions of dollars in campaign contributions from outside of her home state as the party sought to overturn the GOP’s 53-47 Senate majority. While Marshall raised $6.5 million, outside groups poured more than $41 million into advertising, and three-quarters came from GOP organizations.

Marshall also benefitted from President Donald Trump carrying the state.

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Marshall said. “We will fight to end the divisions.”

Marshall entered the fall campaign with the GOP’s traditional advantages in a state that tends to vote for conservatives.

But Bollier excited fellow Democrats because her campaign was able to raise more than $25 million and set a Kansas record that Marshall couldn’t match.

In a concession statement, Bollier said, “Remember, this race was never ‘supposed’ to be competitive at all.”

“Of course, this wasn’t the finale we hoped for,” she said.

“But at a time of deep national cynicism — when faith in our democratic institutions hangs by a thread — I consider it a sacred, patriotic duty to accept tonight’s outcome.”

Republicans haven’t lost a Senate race in Kansas since 1932.

Marshall will replace retiring four-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee and didn’t seek reelection.

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Limit use of public Wi-Fi. Hackers often set up their own Wi-Fi networks in public areas, such as the computers found in hotel business centers. Ask an employee for the name of the legitimate network. And even when you use it, log off when you’re finished.

Don’t take the bait of “phishers.” Cyberthieves go “phishing” for sensitive information – usernames, passwords and account numbers – by sending communications, such as emails, purporting to be from a business or financial institution with which you often do business.

They may claim your account was “suspended” or that an “unauthorized transaction” was made, and you’ll be asked to click on a link that takes you to what appears to be the company’s website. If you go along with this request, you could find malicious software being downloaded on your computer. But legitimate businesses generally won’t ask for account numbers or passwords unless you initiate the transaction. Other signs of phishing include threatening language, “urgent” requests, misspelled words or odd word choices. If an email does look suspicious to you, delete it without opening it.

This list is not exhaustive, but by putting these steps to work, you can at least reduce the risk of becoming victimized by cybercriminals.

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2020 Election: Women gain seats at the table Women made history in Tuesday’s election.

Though the results are not final, a record number of women ran for Congress. Both Democratic and Republican parties were well-represented by female candidates.

This election’s numbers surpassed those of 2018, which saw a 40% increase in female candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and a 28% increase for seats to the U.S. Senate.

This year, 298 women are running for the House, up from 234 in 2018. In the Senate, 21 women are running, down from 23.

There’s still ground to gain to achieve parity.

In this year’s general election, female candidates were running in about one-third of the races for Congress. In elections for statewide executive offices, women were in 34% of the races.

Overwhelmingly, more female candidates identify with the Democratic Party.

In this year’s race for the U.S. House, almost 48% of the nominees are Democratic women, as compared to 23% Republican.

Of special note is the increase in minority women running for office. At least 115 women of color are running for the U.S. House.

That’s more than double the number from four years ago.

Of course the most famous of those is Sen. Kamala Harris, the vice presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. Were the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket to win, she would be the first woman of color to serve as vice president.

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guaranteeing women the right to vote, a full 150plus years after their white male counterparts.

Increasingly, today’s female candidates are not the “suburban women” who President Donald Trump patronizingly paints into a 1950s corner. “We’re getting your husbands back to work,” he said only last week at a campaign rally in Michigan. Memo to the president: Women have jobs, too.

It’s vital that women play a role in making our laws.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was crucial in getting the Affordable Care Act passed in 2009 that guarantees health insurance for Americans. Critical to women is that they now cannot be charged more for coverage than men. The ACA also helps pay for contraceptives, maternity care and preventative services such as mammograms and bone density scans. It also provides coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, a perk that some private insurance plans continue to find “inconvenient.”

I N C R E M E N T A L LY,

Americans are accepting that women are as equipped to lead as men.

But we’re not there yet.

The Democratic field for the presidential nomination began with six women. In our mind, Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Harris of California were the smartest and most eloquent of the entire field. But it was not to be, perhaps because more than anything of who they would have faced.

We’ll get there.

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Mail-in ballots crucial to outcome It was unclear early Wednesday whether President Trump or Democrat Joe Biden had won the presidential election — and there was reason to anticipate the outcome might not be known for some time. The final result may hinge on the count of mail-in ballots in several Midwestern states, something that could require days to complete. If so, it’s essential that Americans remain calm and patient — and that attempts by Mr. Trump and other Republicans to disrupt or discredit the vote count be rejected.

In early results, Mr. Trump performed relatively well, leading the hotly contested states of Florida, North Carolina and Texas. But he was still well short of an electoral college majority, and Mr. Biden was leading in Arizona, a formerly red state. In the potentially decisive states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Mr. Trump was ahead — and in tweets early Wednesday he claimed “a big WIN” and charged that Democrats “are trying to STEAL the Election.” In fact, hundreds of thousands of valid votes are outstanding in those states, and counting them is not theft, but democracy. Mr. Trump’s motive is transparent: A substantial majority of the untabulated mail-in votes

come from Democrats.

According to official figures, registered Democrats outvoted registered Republicans by a margin of more than 1 million in the 2.5 million mail-in ballots Pennsylvania received as of Tuesday.

Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin together reported receiving 6.5 million mail ballots as of Election Day, and did not begin counting them until then. It should be no surprise if they are not finished by Wednesday. Early Wednesday, Mr. Biden rightly called for patience as all the votes are counted and predicted that he would win the Midwestern battlegrounds when they were.

Mr. Trump offers the confused and groundless argument that the counting of votes after Election Day is corrupt, especially in the case of mailed ballots that will arrive in the coming days. On Monday, he tweeted that the longer count would “induce violence in the streets.” Thankfully, there has been no sign of such trouble so far — some 100 million Americans voted before Tuesday either in person or by mail with few disruptions, and no major incidents were reported by late on Election Day. If there is violence, the president will stand culpable for inciting it.

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Political parties aside, we are one nation The United States of America isn’t about any one man or woman.

The United States of America isn’t about any one party or set of beliefs, however deeply held.

The United States of America is all of us, past and present and future, an astonishing diversity of souls, engaged in an ongoing debate about where we’re going and where we’ve been.

It’s not always a comfortable journey, but it makes us who we are.

So this morning after Election Day, whoever might be ahead, whatever decision might be suggested from early totals last night, let’s remember that we’re all bound to one another. We are all one people.

Some of us may be unhappy with where the results are heading. The temptation will be great to claim that those results are invalid.

That’s understandable, and it’s important that all votes be counted accurately. But we have all had our say. In the United States of America, we then wait and see what those results will be.

Perspective, especially in a moment like this, can be difficult.

Yet the discussion isn’t over. If your candidate ends up losing, the disappointment will be acute, but you still have a voice. You still have the ability to speak out, to lobby, to mobilize. In four years, there will be another election. There will be more opportunities to make your case.

Remember this: Whoever wins, both candidates will have collected millions upon millions of votes. Whoever wins, both candidates will have earned the support of nearly half the population of this country. Maybe that makes you angry and frustrated. Maybe it should motivate you to know more people who disagree with you.

Members of both parties love this country. Those without a party love this country. And even those who don’t love this country have a voice. We’re all part of the astonishing diversity of the United States of America — some 328 million people. We can’t be contained by any one candidate or party or by

officials say they will be able to complete their tallies in a matter of days. Even though seven Pennsylvania counties will not even begin counting mail-in ballots until today, the state’s chief election official has said she expects the process to be nearly done by Friday. Michigan is on a similar timetable. That it will take even that long is largely due to Mr. Trump’s campaign, which encouraged Republicans in the Pennsylvania legislature to reject proposals to start the processing of mail-in ballots before Election Day. THE TRUMP campaign was planning court challenges to slow or stop the counting of votes — a sign that it does not anticipate a legitimate election victory. It will likely seek to reverse a decision by the Pennslvania Supreme Court requiring that ballots that arrive between Wednesday and 5 p.m. Friday be counted. The U.S. Supreme Court chose not to intervene in the case before the election, and it should not do so now. Nor should responsible Republican leaders abet any attempt by Mr. Trump to disrupt the lawful counting of legitimate ballots, or cast doubt on the results. It is time for them to support U.S. democracy against Mr. Trump’s threats to undermine it.

— The Washington Post

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Dustin Black and his wife Mimi, left, watch election results with friends Chris and Amanda Moon around a fire in their St. Anthony Park, Minnesota, back yard after casting their ballots on Election Day. (Mark Vancleave/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS) any one election.

So let’s all commit this morning, let’s all commit this day, to a peaceful post-election period. Whichever man becomes presi-

dent, let’s support him when we agree and speak out clearly when we disagree.

Let’s keep the discussion going. For all of us.

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Elementary students from Iola, Gas, LaHarpe, Moran, Elsmore, Humboldt, Zillah and Piqua were guests of the Iola Unity Club at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center to see “Aesop’s Fallibles,” an up-to-date version of the famous fables, presented by the Young Matrons’ Trouping Unit of the Community Children’s Theater of Kansas City. An estimated 1,500 children saw the performance. ***** TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas Democrats, making their best showing in a dozen years, held onto the governor’s chair for two more years, punctured the state’s all-Republican congressional delegation and won the state Attorney General’s office for the first time in history in Tuesday’s election. Allen County voters, however, remained staunch Republicans, giving majorities to all of the state and national Republican candidates and returning county office holders who sought re-election.

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appointed to the seat in 2018 but chose not to run for a full term.

“I’m very appreciative of the residents in District 2 and their supporting me in this endeavor,” Lee said. “I learned quite a bit going door to door.”

“I look forward to the opportunity to serve,” he added, and also praised his opponent Meiwes as “a great candidate.”

In a conversation with Meiwes, she said “It might just not be my time. It’s what’s supposed to be. It’ll all be Humboldt citizens cast their ballots at Humboldt’s Methodist Church Tuesday afternoon. Dorcas Romary, an election worker at the church, remarked that turnfine.”

“I have learned so out has “been heavy. It’s been pretty steady all day.” REGISTER/TIM STAUFFER much about the prosupporters. benefit, Paul Cloutier cess,” she added. “It’s we did OK.” Cloutier said she ran Thompson and Tyson said. been an exciting time for office to encourage were not available for “It makes it easier for for me.”

She thanked the cur- more Democrats to run comment before today’s some of the projects,” Cloutier said. “When rent county commis- in rural districts. Be- newspaper deadline.

Other county incum- we come out of the othsioners for their guid- cause so many Kansas ance, and expressed voters lean Republican bents who ran unop- er end of COVID and gratitude for “all the many races are decided posed included Sheriff people are able to safely support I’ve gotten from in the primary election. Bryan Murphy, Clerk open businesses again, The state benefits if all Sherrie Riebel, Trea- this will allow businesspeople.”

That was the only voters have a chance to surer Darolyn (Crick- es to open more quickly, ett) Maley, Register of have fewer restrictions contested race at the d e c i d e Deeds Cara Barkdoll and kick start the recovcounty level. Incumbent the outand Attorney Jerry B. ery process.” commissioner Bruce c o m e , Hathaway.

Symes ran unopposed, she said.

“HopeIn the Congressional TUESDAY’S election earning 1,658 votes. f u l l y District 2 race, Repub- brought a flood of votes, lican Jake LaTurner both in advance and at TWO Humboldt Dem- m o r e ran away with the race. the polls. ocrats who ran for the p e o p l e Democrat Michelle De The county reported a Kansas Legislature h e a r d t h a t Caryn Tyson La Isla was his Demo- record 2,791 in advance were handily defeated. cratic opponent. Locally, votes, including those Incumbent Republi- message if LaTurner garnered 70% who voted by mail and can Kent Thompson of and of the vote. those who voted early, in LaHarpe will keep his even one person.

9th District seat in the p e r s o n is conTHE BALLOT inAnother 3,039 turned House sidering cluded a question out on Election Day. of Reprunning whether to exempt the At the polling locaresenfor somecounty from a require- tion in Humboldt, sevt a t iv e s , t h i n g Mike Bruner ment that drinking eral voters shared their winning in the establishments must thoughts. nearly future that feels like a include 30% of sales Serena Melendez, 18, 77% of win. from food. The question of Humboldt, took part the vote Incumbent 12 District passed by nearly 68%, in her first presidential o v e r Kent Senator Caryn Tyson, 3,827 to 1,825. election.

H u m - Thompson a Republican, won her The measure would boldt’s race by 68% against allow for businesses like Alana Humboldt Democratic breweries and bars to Cloutier.

Party Chairman Mike open without the need In Allen Bruner. Allen Coun- for a kitchen or other C o u n t y, ty votes came in 3,931 food sales.

Thompfor Tyson and 1,818 for A Bolder Humboldt s o n Bruner. District votes brought the question earned were 23,712 to 8,114. to the county and lob3 , 8 8 4 After the race, Brun- bied for its passage. The votes to Alana Cloutier er congratulated his op- group is planning sevCloutier’s 1,171. In the district, ponent and thanked his eral projects that could Thompson won 6,683 to 2,229.

“Rep. Kent Thompsonand I both ran clean campaigns,” Cloutier said. “I’m proud that all of us in the 9th will be represented by someto those who supported me in one who didn’t put out Tuesday’s election. attack ads. In an incredibly divisive election Especially to those who offered encouragement, season, we both stuck to talking about the isadvice and financial support. I promise to do my sues, and what is best best each day of the four years ahead. for the district. I’m really proud of that. If the worst thing people online can say about me is that I’m originally from ALLEN COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 3 California, then I think

Scott Murrow of Humboldt checks in to vote at Humboldt’s Methodist Church Tuesday afternoon.

“I’m kind of nervous,” she said. “My grandfather really wanted me to vote today, so I’m doing it for him.”

She was accompanied by her mother Monica Melendez.

“This is the most important election I’ve ever lived through, and this is my daughter’s first time voting. So this is a big day for us, and for her.”

Curt Whitaker of Humboldt said he believes that “all of us need to band together. I don’t like the way this country’s headed and the only way we can fix

it is for each of us to vote.”

Scott Murrow of Humboldt said he is “really excited about the record voter turnout.”

Dorcas Romary, an election worker at Humboldt, remarked that turnout has “been heavy. It’s been pretty steady all day.”

James Acres, Humboldt, said he voted because “I’ve always voted; it’s our American duty.”

The Register’s Tim Stauffer and Trevor Hoag contributed to this article.

Monica Melendez, right, and her daughter Serena pose before voting at Humboldt’s Methodist Church Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday’s election was Serena’s first time voting, while Monica called the election “the most important of my lifetime.”

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Britain to evaluate data for potential vaccines LONDON — The chair of Britain’s coronavirus vaccine task force says data evaluating the efficacy and safety of the two most advanced candidates should be available in early December.

Kate Bingham told a Parliamentary committee on Wednesday that data on the two vaccine

candidates — developed

by Oxford University and AstraZeneca and Pfizer and BioNTech — should be available by then.

After that, the vaccine candidates will need regulatory approval.

“If we get that, we have the possibility of deploying by year end,” she says.

Bingham acknowledged despite the government’s earlier estimate there would be 30 million doses of the Oxford vaccine available by September, there only will be about 4 million doses available by the end of the year, due to some manufacturing “hiccups” that have since been resolved.

She says there will be about 10 million doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine.

Dr. Robin Shattock, one of the scientists behind another vaccine developed by Imperial College London, says it’s possible several vaccines will be needed to stop the pandemic.

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attempt to ensure the viability of Moon’s Market. Thrive Allen County, Humboldt Community Growth, Inc. (HUGRO), A Bolder Humboldt and the City of Humboldt have also been assisting the Welches, who now lease the building from Monarch.

Humboldt has been without a grocery store since February 2019, when Mike and Lori Moon announced both the Humboldt and LaCygne stores would close. The Moons had operated the Humboldt store since 2006, when they acquired the old Humboldt IGA from Wally Hart.

The Welches view any funds awarded by the Allen County commission as an investment.

“Whatever support the county commissioners give to Our Grocery, the county will get that money back and then some in return sales tax,” Scott Welch told the Register.

Welch sees Our Market as a way to reclaim dollars now spent outside Allen County.

“There’s nothing in Humboldt for the 2,500 residents besides Dollar General, so a lot of people end up going to Chanute. That’s money going out the door.”

In a market study completed by Associated Wholesale Grocers, the same wholesaler which sells to G&W Foods, AWG estimated approximately 40%

of Humboldt residents now purchase their groceries in Chanute.

Cole Herder, Humboldt administrator, said the loss in sales tax from Moon’s is approximately $20,000 per year for the county and $30,000 for the City of Humboldt. “We’ve already lost two years of that sales tax,” Herder lamented.

Scott and Amy Welch have already firmed up an agreement with Associated Wholesale Grocers, which would provide the inventory and rack system early next year. A fully operational grocery store and butcher shop would likely create 10-13 jobs, according to the Welches.

Amy Welch, a Humboldt native, is eager to emphasize the importance of each town having its own grocery store. “Right now, if Dollar General is out of milk in Humboldt, there’s no milk for families here,” she said. “We’ve had so many conversations about how the lack of a grocery store in Humboldt has changed how people eat here.”

Herder sees a new grocery store in Humboldt as a vital service to Humboldt residents, noting, “There’s a widespread movement across the country that now sees grocery stores as very important parts of infrastructure that serve the community. It’s important to the health and well-being of the community.” Herder points

to community efforts in Erie, Caney and St. Paul as part of this trend, one where local governments have stepped in to financially support grocery stores.

Commissioner Jerry Daniels, whose district includes Humboldt, is of the same mindset as Herder. “The grocery store has been a need ever since we lost Moon’s.

I’ve heard from so many citizens pleading to get a grocery store back.

“We’ll discuss it more next week, and we’ll see what the other commissioners think,” said Daniels. “I support it, but we’ll need to see what we can do as a county to help make them [the Welches] successful and bring a badly-needed grocery store to Humboldt.”

LaCygne, where the other Moon’s grocery store closed, offers a cautionary tale. The town has been unable to replace its grocery store, though not for lack of trying. “The Spot” was a local grocery store that opened this July in an attempt to fill the gap left by Moon’s. It closed its doors last month.

Residents now are left to choose between a Dollar General or head out of town. Half an hour to the north, Louisburg has a Price Chopper, while Pleasanton, 18 miles to the south, has a grocery store as well.

If Our Market is able to launch its grocery operation, they’ll have competition. Two Dollar Generals, Marmaton

Market, two Wal-Marts and two G&W Foods locations all within thirty minutes of the store.

Still, Amy Welch is confident Humboldt residents want to spend their dollars locally and having “fresh, local meat from our butcher shop will set us apart. Plus, having a manager who’s been in the business for years will also be a huge advantage.”

Welch was referring to Devin Donaldson, who worked at Moon’s Hometown Market and previously served as a manager at G&W Foods.

Donaldson also worked at grocery stores in Chanute and Cherryvale.

The Welches know they can’t depend solely on outside funding sources. “We’re ready to open up the butcher shop,” says Scott Welch.

Without county support, the couple will “keep applying for grants and other options, but we’ll run the butcher shop until we raise enough money for the grocery. But that may be six months, or a year at least, until we get the available funds.”

“We’re not asking for a handout,” says Amy Welch. We’re asking for them to support us so that we can be here longterm for the community.”

The Welches are hoping for a decision from county commissioners next week. It will likely be a busy meeting, as commissioners will also certify results from yesterday’s election.

County commissioners, from left, Jerry Daniels, Bill King and Bruce Symes, sign a proclamation declaring Nov. 3, 2020 “Election Worker Appreciation Day.” County Clerk Sherrie Riebel looks on.

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until the 18th of December to purchase tax credits. Donors would receive a 75% state income tax credit for their donation, a dollar-for-dollar credit against state income tax liability. Interested parties can contact Herder for more information, who also stressed that Allen County’s E-Community is recruiting additional members for its leadership team.

Public works director Mitch Garner informed commissioners that county crews are still mowing, trimming trees and filling potholes. Garner also mentioned that crews are currently working on building up 4400 Road near Elsmore to get the road in decent shape before winter. He also assured commissioners that Savonburg Road is at the top of the list for improvements next spring.

Commissioners, who shared a letter of appreciation from the City of Moran for help the county provided with chipsealing Moran’s city streets, inquired about the progress of lane striping on the old Highway 169. Garner reported that the project, along with runway striping at the county airport, is a priority but likely

won’t get done until next year.

Allen County Dispatch Center employees Chelsie Angleton and Karen Kimball briefly appeared before county commissioners. The two have assumed additional duties since Angie Murphy left her position last Saturday, with Angleton, who has been with the Dispatch Center for close to seven years, serving as interim director.

Commissioners informed Angleton and Kimball that the search for a full-time director will begin soon.

As a final act of business, upon the advice of county attorney Bob Johnson, commissioners also signed a resolution providing for a tax sale of properties that have been delinquent on their property taxes for at least three years. Johnson informed commissioners that 104 Allen County residents owe approximately $386,000 in unpaid taxes. The resolution authorizes Johnson to begin proceedings for the tax sale, which will likely occur next spring or summer.

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Football

Focused on the playoffs

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

COLONY — Perhaps it was natural that Crest High, which had been so dominant in the regular season, was expecting a cakewalk to open the Kansas Eight Man-II postseason playoffs Thursday.

After all, the Lancers had won each of their previous eight games by at least 36 points, and were set to host Wakefield, a team that had won only twice — against teams with a combined 1-13 mark.

Crest received an emphatic wakeup call when Wakefield scored just seconds into the game to take the lead.

The Lancers rebounded, and how, behind the work of standout senior Jacquez Coleman, who accounted for 348 yards of total offense and six touchdowns to bring back a sense of normalcy in a 5626 romp.

But it was anything but pleasing to head coach Nick McAnulty.

“We were not very clean,” McAnulty noted. “We had a lot of penalties that took a couple of scores off the board. And we had miscommunication, where the guys sent in the wrong play five or six times. That’s not something we’ve done all year.”

McAnulty attributes the missteps to a lack of focus.

“I think we were looking beyond Wakefield, and that hurt us offensively,” he said.

“Granted, we still put up a lot of points, but we’ve got to stay focused, and the guys know that.”

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down the stretch.

Crest led 44-42 in the waning seconds when Tyson Hermreck broke off a long touchdown run to secure a 52-42 win.

The victory came in McAnulty’s debut as Lancer head coach.

“They’ve gotten bigger, faster, stronger from last year,” he said, “just like we have.”

And much like the offense, McAnulty said Crest will need a more focused defense.

“Our pass defense hasn’t been where we wanted it to be,” he said. “We worked on a it a ton, but we’re still struggling with it. Hopefully, the

Trevor Lawrence won’t be playing against Notre Dame, but he will be on the sideline.

Clemson’s star quarterback will travel with the team to South Bend, Ind., for Saturday’s top-5 showdown.

Lawrence will have completed the required 10-day isolation period in time to travel with the Tigers, but he will not have passed the cardiac requirements.

“He’s doing great. He really is,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday. “He’s in the meetings. He’s Zooming in and all that stuff. So he’s doing well. He’s just anxious to get out. He’s back with us Thursday or Friday, so he’ll be with us. He’ll travel with us. He just can’t play because of the cardiac back-to-play protocol that’s in place.”

Atlantic Coast Conference rules require players to isolate for at least 10 days from the start of symptoms or a positive test. They must then undergo a cardiac evaluation before beginning a phased return and a re-acclimatization period.

There is no set minimum period for the phased return from the ACC. For Clemson athletes, it’s typically a mini-

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Crest High defenders Kobey Miller (12), Holden Barker (23), Caleb Nolan (26), Avery Blaufuss (42), Solomon Taylor (33) and Andrew McAdam (34) will be counted on to slow a potent Hartford offense Friday in the second round of the Kansas Eight-Man-II playoffs. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Hartford Jaguars at Crest Lancers Kansas Eight Man-II Regional Playoffs —— 7 p.m. Friday

The win sets up a showdown at 7 p.m. Friday when Crest hosts the Hartford Jaguars, who opened the postseason with a 62-12 thrashing of St. Paul.

For anyone interested in comparison scoring, Hartford defeated Wakefield, 54-24, earlier in the season, while Crest toppled St. Paul, 54-8, in Week 4.

McAnulty expects a hotly contested matchup.

“They’re big; real big,” he said.

Hartford is paced by running back Shayden Sull, who’s nearing the 1,000-yard mark on the season, with 15 touchdowns on the ground.

“We’ve gotta take care of the run, but they’ll throw it, too,” McAnulty said, pointing to sophomore quarterback Ali Smith. “And they have a couple of good receivers.”

Crest fans are well familiar with Hartford’s potential.

Crest opened the 2019 season at home against the Jaguars, and trailed 14-0 early before rallying in a contest that went back-and-forth

Royals: Gold Glove Awards

KC’s Gordon exits with more hardware for his trophy case ST. LOUIS (AP) — Colorado Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado won his eighth consecutive Gold Glove and right fielder Mookie Betts snared his fifth in a row on Tuesday, his first with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers after four with Boston.

Kansas City Royals left fielder Alex Gordon also won his eighth Gold Glove — and fourth straight — in his final major league season.

Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo earned the honor for the third straight year in the pandemic-shortened season and fourth time overall. He was joined for the first time by Cubs shortstop Javier Báez.

Cincinnati catcher Tucker Barnhart won for the second time and first since 2017. St. Louis second baseman Kolten Wong won for the second year in a row, six days after the Cardinals allowed him to See GORDON | Page B2

Kansas City Royals left fielder Alex Gordon was named a Gold Glove winner Tuesday for his defensive prowess during the truncated 2020 season. It’s the eighth Gold Glove for Gordon and fourth straight for Gordon, who retired at the end of the season. KANSAS CITY

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Left out of Masters a time to appreciate a good year

By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press

It’s rare to have a player in the top 40 missing from the Masters, much less four of them.

Rarer still is to show up at Augusta National and notice who’s missing.

That element won’t change, especially with so much anticipation from waiting 18 months to hear: “Fore, please.

Tiger Woods now driving.� And with so much intrigue about chasing a green jacket two weeks before Thanksgiving.

The chase will not include Daniel Berger, the No. 13 player in the world.

Berger received more attention from being left off the November invitation list than if he had been playing in the Masters. It became a bigger story than necessary because he was holding out hope that his three months of great play this summer, including a victory at Colonial, might count toward a major that was supposed to be held in the spring.

With the Masters a week away, Berger has company among players in the top 40.

Viktor Hovland, a former U.S. Amateur champion from Norway, won the Puerto Rico Open and has relied on solid, steady golf to reach No.

Daniel Berger has ended 2020 with a flourish, but it will not be enough to earn him an invitation to play next week at The Masters. TNS FILE PHOTO 24 in the world. Ryan Palmer is having a resurgent year with five top-10 finishes and two close calls. He is No. 33, his best world ranking in five years.

Not to be overlooked is Harris English, who was No. 373 in the world and had only conditional status when the previous season began. He had four top 10s in five events, never lost his touch after the threemonth shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and played his

way into the Tour Championship. And then he was fourth in the U.S. Open. Now he is up to No. 35 in the world.

All of them will be watching a Masters without spectators, without blooms, without roars and without them.

It couldn’t be any other way.

This is the 2020 Masters, and it was meant to be played April 9-12 with a field of 96 players who began qualifying a week after Woods won his fifth green jacket. C.T. Pan

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become a free agent rather than exercise his $12.5 million option for 2021.

St. Louis left fielder Tyler O’Neill, Atlanta pitcher Max Fried and San Diego center fielder Trent Grisham were first-time winners in the National League.

Gordon and Cleveland catcher Roberto PĂŠrez were the only players to repeat in the AL. They were joined by seven first-time winners, including Indians second baseman CĂŠsar HernĂĄndez. The others were Seattle first baseman Evan White and shortstop J.P. Crawford, Texas third baseman Isiah Kiner-Falefa and right fielder Joey Gallo, Chicago White Sox center fielder Luis Robert and Los Angeles Angels pitcher Griffin Canning.

The 36-year-old Gordon announced his retirement in September.

He joined Hall of Fame

have regular access to the PGA Tour. Els had his chances. He wound up winning the British Open that summer, and he had a Masters invitation for the following five years.

This is not a time for Berger, Hovland, Palmer and English to wonder what they’re missing, because they were never part of the 2020 Masters. This is the time for them to celebrate what they’ve achieved to at least be part of the conversation, and to look forward to the next Masters. They earned it.

All four are guaranteed spots at Augusta National next April by reaching the Tour Championship, no small feat for any of them. Berger and English were out of the top 125 the previous season. Hovland was a PGA Tour rookie. Palmer’s game never seems far off, though he had gone six years since he last played in the Tour Championship.

Now they’re in the top 40, and not likely to lose much ground with only two tournaments left this year after the Masters.

They can expect that cream-colored invitation in the mail from Augusta National in December. They will start next year at Kapalua on Maui. And they can make plans for a Masters that is only five months away.

There might be spectators then among the blazing blooms and Georgia pines. And their names will be called in an introduction not heard anywhere else. “Fore, please.�

won the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head to qualify for his first Masters.

He will have waited 571 days to hear his name announced. Pan now is No. 169 in the world.

Would it have hurt to add one player?

Yes, if the player in question was Berger, because five other players since have won PGA Tour events that qualify them next year. And with limited daylight, Augusta National already is going to a twotee start and still might not beat darkness.

Augusta National avoided what could have been messy with Collin Morikawa. He was just outside the top 50 when he tied for ninth in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, moving

into the top 50. A week later, the pandemic shut down golf, and the Masters used that March 17 world ranking to fill out the field.

Imagine if Morikawa had been a fraction of a point outside the top 50, and then won the PGA Championship at Harding Park. Is he in the Masters? The club never had to consider that scenario.

Even with the smallest field and the toughest qualifying criteria, the Masters gets the right field.

There was outrage in some media corners in 2012 when Ernie Els didn’t qualify and wasn’t extended a special invitation. Those typically are reserved for international players who don’t

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Gordon, Hernåndez, White and Wong earned $18,519 bonuses, prorated portions of $50,000. Arenado and Robert earned $9,259, prorated portions of $25,000, and O’Neill earned $3,704, a prorated portion of $10,000.

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Bride’s snub may destroy friendships Dear Carolyn: My sister’s daughter, “Abbie,” and my daughter, “Karen,” have always been very close.

So when Abbie asked Karen to be her maid of honor and officiate at the ceremony, Karen was thrilled.

At the time of the engagement, my sister made it known to me and Karen that she was concerned my daughter would bring covid-19 with her from New York, where cases have been high. The bride did not express any fears to us.

Karen made plans to drive 12 hours, not fly, to the wedding venue, to quarantine before the wedding date and to take a rapid coronavirus test before leaving home.

Due to the pandemic, the wedding plans changed to include only immediate family and Karen.

Six weeks before the wedding, Karen contacted Abbie to get a wedding update and to ask about plans for testing other family members traveling from other cities.

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Two days later, Abbie told Karen she no longer wanted her in the wedding. She said she would not ask anyone else to be tested.

My daughter is heartbroken, disappointed and a little angry, too. Since then, several calls and texts to my sister and brother-in-law to extend birthday wishes — only messages with birthday greetings were left — have gone unanswered. The bride has also not answered Karen’s messages.

My fear is that my sister’s avoiding us will evolve into a major family feud and a prolonged breakdown in communication between the two families.

I am completely fine with no longer being invited to the wedding, but feel the decision to exclude my daughter was coldhearted, unwarranted and mean,

especially since Karen was willing to “go the extra mile” for her cousin. I feel very badly for her. Should I just wait it out?

— Mother of the ExMaid of Honor Mother of the ExMaid of Honor: Short answer, yes.

I left the long story intact, mostly, because the first thing people want to know about a rift is what caused it.

Yet the more times I read it, the more I think it doesn’t matter.

Your sister and her family made up their minds; they have their reasons; their reasons for not having Karen travel to the wedding, even quarantined and tested, are at least defensible; their reasons for applying different standards to different family members are possibly not defensible — but only they really know what they are; and there may be more to this, but you have no way of finding out since they’ve gone silent (indefensible, in most cases).

That’s what we have.

Who is most at risk for COVID-19?

Dear Dr. Roach: Now that we are nine months into the pandemic, I could use a refresher on what underlying conditions cause people to fare worse when they contract this virus. I have heard that diabetes and high blood pressure are two risk factors. Do those with controlled diabetes and high blood pressure have the same risk as uncontrolled?

— E.T. Answer: Diabetes is clearly a risk for developing complications in people who are infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health It is likely, but not definitive, that diabetes that has not been well controlled, especially for a long time, is a much greater risk factor than well-controlled diabetes. High blood pressure is also likely a risk factor, and again, those with high blood pressure that was caught early and promptly treated with goals reached are probably less likely to have complications than those with poor

control.

Other risk factors include any immune system disease or treatment (HIV, cancer, organ transplant); heart or lung disease; chronic kidney disease; sickle cell and obesity.

There are many other conditions that probably increase risk. In fact, a majority of older North Americans will have at least one risk factor, which is why we all need to continue to physically distance and wear masks.

And it’s a lot, but not enough to justify saying anything definitive about anything they’ve done or are going to do.

What I do know for sure is that you control your part of whether this “will evolve into a family feud.”

That means you can decide this “mean” decision will divide you and your sister.

Or you can decide to wait to see what happens next.

Or you can decide you won’t be the reason this causes a rift.

Since you’re asking me, and since there’s enough division in the world to hold us for the next decade or six, my advice is to choose, upfront, to drop it — before you’re even sure what you’re dropping.

I think you’ll feel better.

And you can always change your mind.

Write to Carolyn Hax at tellme@washpost. com. Get her column delivered to your inbox each morning at wapo. st/haxpost.

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NASCAR’s Hendrick seeks more balance in 2021 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — If Kyle Larson had been a true free agent available to the highest bidder, Rick Hendrick doubts he would have entered the game.

Hendrick had passed on Jeff Gordon’s advice years earlier to sign Larson out of sprint cars. It was Chip Ganassi who took the risk and spent the money to develop Larson into a NASCAR star. Hendrick recognized he’d whiffed, but didn’t want to outspend Ganassi to land the driver.

“I think because of my relationship with Chip I couldn’t do it. I wouldn’t. I can’t,” Hendrick said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. “If somebody is out there looking for a job, that’s one thing. But I do motors for Chip, we’re friends and, you know, I’d have a hard time with that.”

There was no bidding war for Larson, who was fired by Ganassi in April for using a racial slur while competing in an online racing game. NASCAR suspended Larson and the driver spent the last six months educating himself on racial justice and understanding his error.

Reinstated last week

by NASCAR, Larson this week signed a multiyear contract with Hendrick Motorsports to drive the No. 5 Chevrolet next season. Hendrick has sold no sponsorship as of yet for Larson and only needed the blessing of Chevrolet, one of the partners that originally dropped Larson for us-

Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick, from left, and drivers Alex Bowman, Jimmie Johnson and Chase Elliott on pit road during 2019 Daytona 500 qualifying. N-J/DAVID TUCKER/TNS ing the n-word, to finalize the deal.

Hendrick is willing to fund the No. 5 out of pocket for now, confident Larson is a better person from his experience. If on-track performance meets Hendrick’s expectations, the team owner believes he can sell the sponsorship.

“The plan is to let everybody get adjusted, let everybody see him and the performance I’m absolutely sure will be there,” Hendrick said.

“As time goes on, they are going to see a story in him and I am a car salesman, you know?”

Hendrick is indeed one of the largest car dealers in the United States as well as owner of one of NASCAR’s top organizations. His

dueling businesses have been hit hard this year by the pandemic and Hendrick had to reorganize, renegotiate and readjust.

Hendrick told AP he didn’t issue furloughs and paid employees 80% of their salaries. Contracts with sponsors were adjusted since NASCAR didn’t race at all for 10 weeks, and even after the season resumed, sponsors have not been permitted at the track to hold hospitalities or entertain customers.

“I took a whack in April and a little bit of May, but we’ve come back and put together a really good year,” Hendrick said. “But living through that uncertainty, and the race teams, not knowing if you are going to have

races and sponsors not being able to go to the track. It’s been one of the toughest years I’ve ever had trying to juggle everything.”

He’s also had to be cautious with his own health. Hendrick is 71, battled chronic myelogenous leukemia two decades ago and is, in his own words, “overweight. I start each day on a diet and by 10 o’clock I want a cheeseburger and ice cream. I go to Dairy Queen, I get a Blizzard and then turn around and get a chocolate dip large cone on the way out.”

Hendrick also told AP he underwent surgery on both a knee and an ear this year which required him to limit his personal interactions

to avoid coronavirus.

Aside from a two-week fishing trip, he said he’s been mostly connected to clients, customers and employees electronically.

Because team owners are not permitted inside NASCAR’s bubble, Hendrick said he’s not attended races because he doesn’t want to watch from a suite. He does plan to attend the Nov. 8 season finale at Phoenix, the final race for seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson before he retires.

With one race to go to set the championship four, Hendrick has both Alex Bowman and Chase Elliott still in contention for a shot at the title. Should neither advance out of Sunday’s

race at Martinsville Speedway, Hendrick will be locked out of the title round for the fourth consecutive year.

If that happens, Hendrick still takes satisfaction in gains his organization has made this season.

HMS suffered through growing pains following the retirements of Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Chevrolet’s 2018 introduction of the Camaro in the Cup Series bombed. Hendrick noted streamlining of his own organization — all the teams are now in the same building — as well as at Chevrolet, and a 2021 engine partnership between Hendrick and Richard Childress has improved his four-car program.

His 2021 lineup will be his youngest ever as the four drivers combined average just 26 years old and Larson, in his seventh full season, will be the veteran. Hendrick doesn’t have a Cup champion among them — Johnson and Gordon won 11 titles between them — but the boss sees tremendous improvement in William Byron and Bowman, and a bright future for the organization.

Hendrick last month promoted longtime executive Jeff Andrews to general manager and Chad Knaus, Johnson’s seven-time championship-winning crew chief, to head of competition.

“I’m really pumped,” he said. “I believe on balance, we will be much stronger than we have been in a long time. And that’s across the board.”

Sports venues across country come into play on Election Day DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson cast her vote at the Detroit Pistons’ training facility. About 12 hours later, she saw metal boxes on wheels with ballots inside roll into Ford Field for double checking.

“I’m grateful for our sports partners in Detroit,” Benson said Tuesday night at the home of the Lions.

“They really led the way for sports teams across the country to play a critical role in providing the resources we needed to run the election successfully this year.

“It is something that I hope will continue in the years ahead and really underscores the work that went into today, which was truly a team effort.”

The coronavirus pandemic put stresses on the general election, so professional sports teams stepped up to offer their stadiums, arenas and practice facilities as socially distant spaces to vote and conduct other election-related activities.

Twenty-plus NBA teams and half of the NFL’s 32 franchises provided a place for people to vote or assisted with the process in other ways. Meanwhile, many Major League Baseball and NHL teams also put their stadiums and arenas in play on Election Day. “This is a shining moment to have sports teams all over the country making a commitment to help people

vote because that’s the most important non-violent tool in our democracy,” Pistons Vice Chairman Arn Tellem said after he and Detroit coach Dwane Casey watched Benson put her ballot in a drop box steps from the entrance to the team’s training facility. “Sports teams bring people together from all backgrounds and at their best, inspire us and encourage us to unite.”

Before returning to Sacramento, California, on Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Gavin Newsom greeted and thanked poll workers at the Golden State Warriors’ facility in downtown Oakland.

“Three things in the

world that really bring people together — music, food and sports,” Warriors guard Damion Lee said after beating Newsom in a “PIG” shooting game. “For us to use our platform, for the Warriors to open up their facility — that’s the true sense of democracy.”

For voters across the country, opening the arenas and stadiums gave them another option for casting their ballots — a quicker one at times.

It also afforded an opportunity to enter some venues that have been relegated to hosting fanfree games during the pandemic, if they have been occupied at all since the spring.

“It’s a great idea,” John Schmit said outside Chicago’s United Center.

“I’m a Blackhawks fan. I haven’t been here in six months.”

Outside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, home of the NBA’s Cavaliers, the line to vote wrapped around the building’s glass exterior early Tuesday. By late morning, the pace had slowed considerably, but there was a steady stream of voters stepping into stalls inside the arena’s large atriums to fill out ballots.

The building hasn’t hosted any games or concerts since mid-March due to the pandemic.

“It was nice to come here and see that it’s actually being used for

something that’s worthwhile,” Cleveland resident Ian Crawford, sporting an Indians cap, said after he exited the arena.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, whose district includes parts of Detroit, recently said it’s appropriate for taxpayer-funded sports facilities to play a part in the election process.

But it didn’t go off without a hitch.

At the home of the Atlanta Hawks, a pipe burst early Tuesday morning in a room where absentee ballots were being counted. That caused processing to stop for about four hours at State Farm Arena.

In Kansas City, Mis-

souri, Chiefs coach Andy Reid voted in the same stadium where he leads the defending Super Bowl champions when they host games.

Reid was among about a dozen people waiting in line to vote early Tuesday morning, shortly after the polls opened.

“I think it’s neat that they were able to do it right here at the stadium,” Reid said. “There were a lot of things that had to go right to get that done. A lot of it had to do with the players, first of all having a plan, second of all presenting it to management and ownership and then those people in ownership and management supporting it.”

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IMS wrestlers hit the mats BURLINGTON — Iola Middle School had five wrestlers win their respective divisions at a meet in Burlington Tuesday.

At the middle school level, wrestlers are based on weight and experience level.

Iola’s results:

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focus will improve on that. We’ve gotta make some changes, and they know that.”

EVEN WITH the Lancers’ dominance this season, McAnulty understands questions abound, primarily because of the strength of schedule. Crest’s opponents were a combined 21-47 this year, and only one (Waverly) finished with a winning record.

McAnulty is optimistic some of those questions will be answered.

“Our mindset is we have to prove it every week,” he said. “We’ve got to prove that we are the team that we’ve

shown on paper so far.

That’s been our goal.”

Crest may not be at full strength for Friday’s tilt.

Hermreck has been hobbled with a sore ankle, and Kobey Miller missed the Wakefield contest with injury.

“We’re banged up,” McAnulty admitted.

FRIDAY’S contest is the next step in a swift turnaround for the Lancers, who went winless in 2018, then rebounded to win six games in 2019, including their playoff opener.

But their season last year ended in the second week of the playoffs, a

pothole McAnulty is eager to avoid.

A win on Friday, and Crest will enter the round of eight for the first time since 2012 — and a potential showdown with Hanover, one of the top-ranked eightman teams in the state.

“We haven’t even looked at that,” McAnulty said. “We’re just focused on Hartford.”

Excitement is bubbling in and out of the halls at Crest High, McAnulty noted.

“The boys have been excited the whole time,” he said. “But any time I see anybody, their question is, how’s Friday going to be.”

Trapper Baren went 2-1 to take second, scoring 12 points.

— Baren won by fall over Kenzly Levins (Wellsville), Fall 1:55 — Baren won decision fall over Malin Farr (Osawatomie), 6-4 — Deakon McMurtrey (Prairie View) won by decision, 6-0, over Baren.

Noah Schowengerdt went 3-0 to take first, scoring 18 points — Schowengerdt won by fall over Corbin McCain (Santa Fe Trail), 0:53 — Schowengerdt won by fall over Joseph Hewes (Prairie View), 0:24 — Schowengerdt won by decision over Kyser Lehman (Burlington), 9-2 Cole Mathes went 3-0 to take first, scoring 17.5 points.

— Mathes won by fall over Lewis Florey-Stackle (Burlington), fall 2:28 — Mathes won by tech fall over Maddex Doherty

(Wellsville), 16-0 — Mathes won by decision over Kain Williams (Santa Fe Trail), 5-0.

Grady Doughtry went 2-1 to place second, scoring 14 points.

— Doughtry won by fall over Eli Grow (Burlington), 0:33 — Walker Beets (Osawatomie) won by fall over Doughtry, 0:27 — Doughtry won by fall over Brendan Kimble (Santa Fe Trail), 1:49 Dreden Ellis went 3-0 to take first, scoring 20 points.

— Ellis won by fall over Luke Griffin (Burlington), 1:49 — Ellis won by fall over Gavyn Smith (Santa Fe Trail), 0:38 — Ellis won by fall over Zak Soetart (Wellsville), 1:42 Isaac Hopkins went 2-1 to take second, scoring 14 points.

— Hopkins won by fall over Sam Shepard (Santa Fe Trail), 0:52 — Carter Wilmarth (Wellsville) won by decision over Hopkins, 2-1.

— Hopkins won by fall over Ezra Crutchfield (Burlington), 0:57 Camden Warner went 0-3 to take fourth, scoring 4 points.

— Tage Skoney (Santa Fe Trail) won by fall over War-

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mum of two to three days for the phased return.

Having Lawrence at the game will provide another voice of reassurance and another set of eyes to help Tigers freshman quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei.

The California native will be making his first career road start and second career start against the Irish. Last week against Boston College, Uiagalelei completed 30 of 41 passes for 342 yards, with two touchdowns and no interceptions. He also had a 30-yard touchdown run.

Swinney is counting on Lawrence to help Clemson’s young QB on Saturday.

“He’s an incredibly knowledgeable guy and he’s been there,” Swinney said of Lawrence.

“I think he’ll be able to bring a good presence to D.J. He’s got a great mind. He’s got great eyes. So he’s gonna be Coach Lawrence.”

In addition to being down its starting quar-

ner, 0:49 — Brody Kitt (Burlington) won by fall over Warner, 0:41 — Josh Goodwin (Prairie View) won by fall over Warner (1:45) Brayce Walden went 3-0 to take first, scoring 18 points.

— Walden won by fall over Alex Strother (Santa Fe Trail), 0:54 — Walden won by decision over Tyler Browning (Anderson County), 7-0 — Walden won by fall over Brayden Serrano (Prairie View), 0:07 Alexia Alexander went 1-1 to take second, scoring 4 points.

— Josie Vance (Wellsville) won by fall over Alexander, 0:26 — Alexander won by fall over Ashley Saueressig (Burlington), 0:28 Katelyn Womelsdorf went 2-1 to take third, scoring 7 points.

— Rebecca D’Attoma (Prairie View) won by decision over Womelsdorf, 6-1 — Womelsdorf won by decision over Alina Martina-Pritchard (Prairie View), 3-2 — Womelsdorf won by decision over Nadine Neel (Wellsville), 7-1 Jada Burton went 1-2 to take third, scoring 9 points.

— Haley Musteen (Wellsville) won by decision over Burton, 4-3 — Burton won by fall over Grace Matlock (Burlington ), 1:19 — Zoey Stogsdill (Prairie View) won by fall over Burton, 1:35 Layla Newkirk went 2-1 to place second, scoring 12 points.

— Newkirk won by decision over Gillian Simon (Burlington), 8-2.

— Indira Trester (Iola) won by fall over Newkirk, 1:32 — Newkirk won by fall over Alex Martin (Burlington), 0:43 Indira Trester went 3-0 to win her division, earning 20 points.

— Trester won by fall over Alex Martin (Burlington), 2:14 — Trester won by fall over Layla Newkirk), Iola, 1:32 — Trester won by fall over Gillian Simon (Bulinrgton), 0:48

GOING ON VACATION? Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence TNS terback, senior defensive leader and starting middle linebacker James Skalski will also miss the Notre Dame game.

Skalski has a groin injury and has been out the past two weeks. But like Lawrence, Skalski will travel with the team

and will do everything he can to help on the sideline. Redshirt sophomore Jake Venables will start in Skalski’s place.

“Skalski’s going to be with us as well, so we’ll have Coach Lawrence and Coach Skalski this week,” Swinney said.

“I told them I wasn’t gonna take them unless they were gonna be productive coaches for

us, so that’s going to be their roles this week. So they’ll both take a lot of pride in that.”

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