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Celebrating a life in art

Crest dominates post-season honors

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

CHANUTE — “Every painting has a story.”

And in artist Tom Ellis’ case, such stories weave together to form an ornate tapestry spanning an entire lifetime devoted to art.

Ellis’ new show, “Tom Ellis: A Life” opens today from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Chanute Art Gallery, and will be available to view over the next two months.

The gallery’s regular hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

Believe or not, there are 970 pieces one can see from Ellis’ collection, ranging from larger oil paintings and drawings to collections of smaller sketches.

A special event will also take place at the gallery from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 3.

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In step

House Dems unveil bill for infrastructure

Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy ends its year with a recital this weekend at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Above from left are Journey Harrison, Nova Arell, Aspen Trester, Olivia Barker and Ava Booth.

Below at left are, from left, Elza Clift, Baylie Crooks and Laney Hull. Below at right are, from left, Laney Hull, Alice Hitchcock and Averie Sharon. Shows are sold out.

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats released a plan Friday for spending $547 billion over the next five years on road, mass transit and rail projects, a blueprint for what they want parts of President Joe Biden’s broader infrastructure proposal to look like.

The proposal from Rep. Peter DeFazio, the Democratic chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is a policy bill that continues existing programs set to expire and with key pieces of a larger measure President Joe Biden and Republi-

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Going on safari with SAFE BASE

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Summer serenade Since 1871, the Iola Municipal Concert Band has been providing music for the community. Directed by Jake Ard, the group returned to action Thursday night and played a number of star spangled favorites. Ard also explained how the concert band began, when Civil War veterans would gather in a therapeutic experience of sharing memories and song.

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CHANUTE — In Africa, interpretive dance is an education.

Natives dressed up in antelope costumes for elaborate dance ceremonies to connect with spirits they believed were linked to a benevolent god. They believed a god that was part-human, part-antelope taught their ancestors how to farm.

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Fourth graders look at a museum exhibit of native Africans dressed as antelope for a ceremonial dance at the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum in Chanute. Clockwise, front, Alicia Rodriguez, Karen Glukowsky, Brealynn Andres, Dominic Richards and Faith Warden in back. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

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US adds 559K jobs as firms struggle to fill positions WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a modest 559,000 jobs in May, an improvement from April’s sluggish gain but still evidence that many companies are struggling to find enough workers as the economy rapidly recovers from the pandemic recession.

Last month’s job growth was above April’s revised total of 278,000, the Labor Department said Friday, yet well short of employers’ need for labor. The unemployment rate fell to 5.8% from 6.1%.

The speed of the rebound from the recession has caught employers off guard and touched off a scramble to hire. The reopening of the economy, fueled by substantial federal aid and rising vaccinations, has released pent-up demand among consumers to eat out, travel, shop, attend public events and visit with friends and relatives.

The result has been a disconnect between companies and the unemployed: While businesses

are rushing to add workers immediately, many of the unemployed are either seeking better jobs than they had before the pandemic, still lack affordable child care, worry about contracting COVID-19 or have decided to retire early.

That mismatch resulted in the sharp slowdown in hiring in April, when employers added far fewer jobs than economists had forecast and many fewer than had been hired in March.

The mismatch appears to be easing only moderately for now.

“There is a gap between the economy and labor market,” said Nela Richardson, chief economist at the payroll processing firm ADP. May’s job gains, she said, are “more lackluster than one would expect given the strong state of economic growth.”

Still, many economists expect hiring to catch up with demand in the coming months, especially as federal unemployment aid programs end and more people pursue jobs.

Carlyle news “Prayer for Growth” was the message Pastor Steve Traw gave from Ephesians 3:14-21 on Memorial Day Sunday.

Pianist Myrna Wildschuetz played “God Bless the USA” for the prelude and “Where No One Stands Alone” for the offertory.

Rev. Tom Bevard celebrated his birthday on Monday.

Rita Sanders provided special music, “Since Jesus Came into My Heart,” on the pia-

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Aidan Fraker shared that he had made the honor roll and received the Presidential Award for Academic Achievement.

Weekly Bible Study is at 3 p.m. Tuesdays with Pastor Steve.

Colony Church Darren McGhee gave the Communion Meditation over Memorial Day, a tribute to the men and women who died in the U.S. Military. Jesus also gave his church a memorial day, but it’s not an annual event. Each week we come together to celebrate the sacrifice he made for us, to break bread and take communion. It also allows us to connect with other believers.

Pastor Chase Riebel gave the sermon “Building Community Connections: Spreading the Church.” Have you ever bitten off more than you can chew? Once you do, it’s no longer an enjoyable experience.

Another not so enjoyable experience is when you grab a cat by

the tail. Well, when Jesus died on the cross, the “claws” came out.

When Jesus died, many Gentiles turned to him as their Savior, and then they scattered. They began to be persecuted, so they scattered over the earth making disciples everywhere they went.

We need to stand strong and see the blessings in the bad times.

Things we all should do: 1. Start training someone else (dive into the Bible, learn from it, and teach others), 2.

Remove the roadblocks (Stand up to others, and for others), 3. Expect God to do his good work.

(Ref: Acts 13:1-12, 11:19-24, & 12:4-8 & 21-25; Genesis 3; Luke 23:34; Ephesians 3:20; Daniel 3:17-18)

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KS Supreme Court drills into gas dispute

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Independent Oil and Gas Company hit natural gas nearly a century ago while drilling 2,600 feet below the surface of Hugoton at its Crawford No. 1 site in Stevens County.

Field workers in that oil-and-gas patch during the 1920s may not have appreciated they’d marked the center of Hugoton Field, one of the largest gas repositories in the United States. Southwest Kansas now features thousands of wells and thousands of miles of pipeline carrying gas across the country.

The business of selling natural gas, which provides heat for homes and drives irrigation equipment in crop fields, is at the vortex of a pending regulatory dispute to be decided 360 miles east of Hugoton by the Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka.

The initial KCC staff report recommended TKO be fined $7,100, compelled to stop misrepresenting gas piped to customers and ordered to reimburse cus-

tomers for overcharges dating to 2012.

A second report by staff at KCC shifted in tone by referring to the dispute as a “billing error” that nevertheless resulted in “potentially reasonable” charges on customers. In addition, that follow-up report indicated the financial condition of TKO — a Dalhart, Texas, middleman company that buys and resells natural gas — was precarious. Forcing the company to issue refunds wasn’t in the public interest, the report said.

The three-member KCC ultimately acknowledged the company’s consistent miscalculation of gas provided clients, but concluded the rate assessed wasn’t unreasonable under state law.

The trio of southwest Kansas farmers relying on TKO gas to run irrigation pumps responded to the KCC’s decision by moving the case to Stevens County District Court.

District Court Judge Bradley Ambrosier, who was among judges that took legal action in 2016 against Gov. Sam Brownback for delaying appointment

Court report IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Matthew C. Cooper, Urich, Mo., failure to yield, $200 Cody A. Cox, Iola, parking zone violation, $30 Tiffany L. Dokes, Iola, expired tag, $195 Alicia A. Ellis, Iola, two counts of theft, $1,705.60, probation ordered Jennifer K. Gilmore, Clinton, Mo., expired tag, $195 Rebeca R. Glukowsky, Iola, noise violation, 4175 Nathan A. Gonzalez, Iola, racing on highways, $315 Tabitha L. Graham, Iola, following too closely, $195

Dallis M. Huddleston, Chanute, criminal damage, $195, probation ordered Gita L. Johnson, Iola, driving while suspended, $315 Jarrod M. Powe, Colony, failure to yield, $195 Glenn C. Riddle, Iola, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, $555, probation ordered Kristopher M. Rotonda, Safety Harbor, Fla., 44/25, $209 Jeremy K. Shultz, Iola, theft, $895, probation ordered Phillip W. Wiggins, Gas, no driver’s license, no insurance, $545 Steven J. Yates, Iola, 53/35, $203 John W. Zahm, Iola, disorderly conduct, $195

The Kansas Supreme Court is being asked to resolve a case in which southwest Kansas irrigators accused the Texas-Kansas-Oklahoma Gas of using an inappropriate method of calculating natural gas bills for customers. The Kansas Corporation Commission sided with TKO Gas, but the Kansas Court of Appeals found for complainants. (PIXABAY PHOTO) of a magistrate judge, ruled the billing error was unfair and ordered TKO to refund as much as $100,000 to the complainants.

Ambrosier’s opinion reversing the KCC said the regulatory agency’s conclusions were “factually, logically and legally erroneous” and “not supported by the record or the evidence.”

In 2020, the Kansas Court of Appeals subsequently determined the KCC mishandled the case and failed to resolve problems of overcharging customers of TKO. The appellate court also said TKO’s approach was “neither honest nor

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The Court of Appeals’ opinion said the district court didn’t have authority under Kansas law to order a utility company to refund overpayments.

Instead, the appeals court directed the KCC to craft a remedy to the billing injustice that balanced interests of customers and the public.

Justice Dan Biles said the KCC did conclude TKO failed to fully disclose in contracts with its clients how it went about calculating customers’ bills for natural gas. Biles suggested the process relied upon by TKO could be viewed as unlawful.

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Art: Works recall memories from life Continued from A1 second opening will be a ‘cultural happening,’ celebrating the Woodstock Generation with prizes for the most original or best outfits, including tuxedos and evening gowns.”

The event is called “Dress to Impress” and will feature free wine and sodas provided by servers adorned in some of Ellis’ own clothing designs.

“There will also be a room in the back of the gallery featuring ultraviolet artworks,” Ellis noted.

ONE THING the viewer notices immediately upon entering Ellis’ show space is the incredible variety in themes and styles of works, almost as if they’d been created by countless artists instead of a singular one.

Ellis suggested a couple reasons for said diversity, both professional and personal.

“In California, they want you to do something new every time you do a show. And that can be hard to come up with every year.”

The demands of the art world require constantly transforming oneself.

That’s been no problem in Ellis’ case, though, for as he explained, “I make a conscious effort to not repeat myself, ever.

Whenever I do something for the first time, I make a mental note, even if it’s brushing my teeth with my left hand.”

“ART IS very subjective,” Ellis continued.

“But I also tried to learn from the great artists.

When I go to museums, I pick a painting that attracts me from across the room, and I’ll just study it for an hour.”

“Maybe days later or months later or years later, I’ll dredge that up and it’ll come out in something I’m working on.”

In sum, “I feel like I’m an inventor and an explorer and an entertainer,” said Ellis.

“The finished work is the entertainment and the process is the exploration, for instance, trying to work with different materials.”

Yet even still, there is perhaps some mathematical harmony underlying many of the compositions.

For example, “almost everything in here’s got both a circle and a triangle,” Ellis observed.

AS FOR some of the specific pieces at Ellis’ show, they reflect a wide range of experiences as a bohemian

Above, Judd Hawley marvels at an abstract artwork by Tom Ellis. Below, Tom Ellis talks with Bob Cross about his various artworks and the stories behind them.

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working and traveling from coast to coast.

For instance, “my first job in New York was working in the windows in Bloomingdale’s,” noted Ellis, which suggests that, in a sense, many of his easiest works were actually designs.

Some of Ellis’ earliest works in traditional media, he said, were his drawings, and he seems to have had a penchant for human figures as well.

An image of Ellis’ dying aunt, for example, conveys a profound sense of peace as well as melancholy at the impending coming of death.

Nuns with blue faces stare out angrily from black habits, indicative of Ellis’ memories of Catholic school from when he was young.

In “Lounge Act,” a young Ellis, depicted via Egyptian symbology, sings into a microphone made from a flower.

A complex composition called “The Great Lie” uses action figures bedecked in gold to convey a statement about the dangers of political authoritarianism.

Wildly colored green and yellow paints explode across the surface of another work reminiscent of Jackson Pollock’s action paintings.

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“Earthquakes,” for example, delve into tragedies such as the HIV/ AIDS crisis, along with other events affecting the gay community.

“Before I even thought of myself as an artist, I thought of myself as a gay person,” Ellis recalled.

But although this is the case, he shirks the notion that his depictions of male bodies are an attempt to make some kind of political statement.

“I just paint what I like,” Ellis remarked.

“And I enjoy painting specimens, men who work out and create their bodies into a work of art.”

Ellis, moreover, has several works that are images of himself, but he doesn’t claim to have gained any profound self-knowledge through making them.

“It may teach other people, but it doesn’t

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teach me a thing,” he smiled. “It’s like gargling. I do it and it’s over. ... It’s work.”

ELLIS’S SHOW not only features compositions with many different styles and themes, there is also a wide range in affordability.

“A lot are New York prices,” he noted, “but we’ve made a lot of prices low for Kansas consumption.”

And Ellis was nothing but excited about the venue itself, as well as its caretakers.

“Jean Cross and her husband Bob have been just remarkable,” he said. “The gallery has been exceptional.

They’ve given me everything I wanted and then some.”

Now all you have to do is enjoy the nuances of the aesthetic scene, an experience that Ellis says can’t be put into words.

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US report makes no definitive finding about UFOs

By ROBERT BURNS and NOMAAN MERCHANT The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government cannot give a definitive explanation of aerial phenomena spotted by military pilots but has found no evidence that they are linked to aliens, according to two officials briefed on an intelligence report examining the issue.

The report due to Congress later this month examines multiple unexplained sightings from recent years that in some cases have been captured on video of pilots exclaiming about objects flying in front of them. The two people briefed on the report said it found no proof of an extraterrestrial link and does not rule out that what pilots have seen may be new technologies developed by other countries. One of the officials said there is no indication that the unexplained phenomena are from secret U.S. programs.

The two officials were not authorized to discuss the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Findings of the report were first published Thursday by The New

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Congress in December required the Director of National Intelligence to summarize and report on the U.S. government’s knowledge of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs — better known to the public as unidentified flying objects or UFOs. The effort has included officials on a Defense Department UAP task force established last year. The expected public release of an unclassified version of the report this month will amount to a status report, not the final word, according to one official.

A Pentagon spokeswoman, Sue Gough, declined Friday to comment on news reports about the intelligence report. She said the Pentagon’s UAP task force is “actively working with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the report, and DNI will provide the

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The Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency have for decades looked into reports of aircraft or other objects in the sky flying at inexplicable speeds or trajectories.

The U.S. government takes unidentified aerial phenomena seriously given the potential national security risk of an adversary flying novel technology over a military base or another sensitive site, or the prospect of Russian or Chinese development exceeding current U.S. capabilities. It also is seen by the U.S. military as a security and safety issue, given that in many cases the pilots who reported seeing unexplained aerial phenomena were conducting combat training flights.

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anticipating the report given many Americans’ long-standing fascination with UFOs and the prospect of aliens having reached humankind.

A recent story on CBS’ “60 Minutes” further bolstered interest in the government report.

But skeptics caution that the videos and reported sightings have plausible Earth-bound explanations.

Mick West, an author, investigator, and longtime skeptic of UFO sightings, said he supported the military looking into any possible incursion of U.S. airspace, especially by an adversary.

“People are conflating this issue with the idea that these UFOs demonstrate amazing physics and possibly even aliens,” West said.

He added, “The idea that this is some kind of secret warp drive or it’s defying physics as we know it, there really isn’t any good evidence for that.”

The Pentagon last year announced a task force to investigate the issue and the Navy in recent years created a protocol for its pilots to report any possible sightings. And lawmakers in recent years have pushed for more public disclosure.

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Facebook suspends Trump for 2 years, then will reassess

By BARBARA ORTUTAY

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Facebook said it is suspending former President Donald Trump’s accounts for two years following its finding that he stoked violence ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection.

“At the end of this period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded. We will evaluate external factors, including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest,” Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, wrote in a blog post Friday.

The two-year suspension is effective from Jan. 7, so Trump has 19 months to go.

In a press release, the former president called Facebook’s decision “an insult.”

“They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately, we will win.

Our Country can’t take this abuse anymore!” the press release stated.

On Facebook, Trump’s suspension has meant that his account is essentially in “Facebook jail,” where others can read and comment on past posts, but Trump and other account handlers are unable to post new material.

Twitter, by contrast, has permanently banned Trump from

its service and there is no trace of his account there.

Facebook said it will heighten penalties for public figures during times of civil unrest and violence.

In a color-coded chart on its blog post Friday, it said those who violate its policies during this time can be restricted from posting for anywhere between a month (yellow) and two years (red). Future violations, it said, will be met with “heightened penalties, up to and including permanent removal.”

Facebook also plans to end a contentious policy championed

by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that automatically exempted politicians from rules that banned hate speech and abuse. The company has said it has never applied this policy to Trump.

The social media giant said on Friday that while it will still apply this “newsworthiness” exemption to certain posts it deems to be in the public interest even if they violate Facebook rules, it will no longer treat material posted by politicians any differently from that posted by anyone else. In addition, Facebook said it will make public whenever it does apply the exemption to a post.

The announcements are in response to recommendations from the company’s quasi-independent

oversight board. Last month that panel upheld a decision by Facebook to keep former Trump indefinitely suspended but said the company could not merely suspend him “indefinitely” and gave it six months to decide what to do with his accounts.

In its decision last month, the board agreed with Facebook that two of Trump’s Jan. 6 posts “severely violated” the content standards of both Facebook and Instagram.

“We love you. You’re very special,” Trump said to the rioters in the first post. In the second, he called them “great patriots” and told them to “remember this day forever.”

Those violated Facebook’s rules against praising or supporting people engaged in violence, the board said, warranting the suspension.

Specifically, the board cited Facebook’s rules against “dangerous individuals and organizations,” which prohibit anyone who proclaims a violent mission and bans posts that express support or praise of these people or groups.

A group calling itself the Real Facebook Oversight Board, which is critical of Facebook and its oversight panel, said in a statement Friday that the 2-year ban brings Trump back just in time for the 2024 presidential election and shows “no real strate-

President Donald Trump greets the crowd at the “Stop The Steal” Rally on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/TNS) gy to address authoritarian leaders and extremist content, and no intention of taking serious action against disinformation and hate speech.”

Jim Steyer, the founder and CEO of Common Sense Media and a member of the Real Oversight Board, said the ban should have been made permanent to send a clear message about protecting American democracy.

“It’s pretty straightforward.

Donald Trump incited an insurrection and the biggest attack on the Capitol in 150 years that left people dead and injured.

And Facebook still doesn’t have the courage to ban him permanently from the platform,” he said.

Steyer also questioned what it meant for other parts of the world led by Trump-

like leaders such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.

“I don’t think it sends a good message to the Bolsonaros of the world and other autocrats who are using this platform,” he said.

Facebook has had a general “newsworthiness exemption” since 2016. But it garnered attention in 2019 when Nick Clegg, vice president of global affairs and communications, announced that speech from politicians will be treated as “newsworthy content that should, as a general rule, be seen and heard.”

The newsworthiness exemption, he explained in a blog post at the time, meant that if “someone makes a statement or shares a post which breaks our community standards we will

still allow it on our platform if we believe the public interest in seeing it outweighs the risk of harm.”

In Friday’s post, Clegg anticipated criticism from both sides of the political aisle.

“We know that any penalty we apply — or choose not to apply — will be controversial.

There are many people who believe it was not appropriate for a private company like Facebook to suspend an outgoing President from its platform, and many others who believe Mr. Trump should have immediately been banned for life,” he wrote. Facebook’s job, he said, is “to make a decision in as proportionate, fair and transparent a way as possible, in keeping with the instruction given to us by the Oversight Board.”

Bill: Considered building block toward broader infrastructure package Continued from A1 cans are negotiating.

Biden is holding another round of talks Friday with the lead Senate Republican negotiator, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia. In his meeting earlier this week with Capito, Biden offered tax concessions aimed at reaching a bipartisan compromise on his overall infrastructure proposal.

The two sides are at odds over how to pay for infrastructure projects, with Republicans ruling out higher corporate taxes and the White House rejecting a GOP proposal to use unspent COVID-19 relief funds.

Biden proposed a 15% minimum tax on corporations — there’s no minimum tax now on corporate profits — and the possibility of additional revenues from increased IRS enforcement.

He is seeking roughly $1 trillion in new infrastructure spending, down from an initial pitch of $2.3 trillion.

Senate Republicans have countered with only $257 billion in additional spending on infrastructure as part of a $928 billion package.

DeFazio’s legislation, a reauthorization of surface transportation programs set to expire Sept. 30, doesn’t address how to pay for the projects. He tacked on major investments in passenger and freight rail, key pieces of Biden’s $1.7 trillion American Jobs Plan within his committee’s jurisdic-

tion. He called the effort a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to move our transportation planning out of the 1950s and toward our clean energy future.”

The bill is being closely watched as a building block toward a broader infrastructure package. DeFazio’s panel is expected to debate and vote on the measure next week. It is not expected to attract much GOP support, as Republicans unveiled their own legislation recently that would authorize about $400 billion over five years for road, bridge and transit programs.

DeFazio’s legislation used as a starting point a bill that passed his committee last year without GOP support and was then rolled into a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package that passed the House but went nowhere in the Senate.

The bill would boost

investment in roads and bridges by about 54% with an emphasis on fixing existing infrastructure. It would dedicate about $4 billion to electric vehicle charging stations and would provide record levels of investment for pedestrian and cyclist pathways.

It would also seek to reconnect low-income communities divided by highways with a $3 billion program “to correct mistakes of the past.”

The bill would authorize up to $343 billion for roads, bridges and safety improvements. Another $109 billion would go to public transit programs and $95 billion would go to freight and passenger rail system, including a tripling of funding for Amtrak.

Republican leaders on the House panel panned the bill in a joint statement. “Instead of working with Republicans to find common ground on a bill that could earn

strong bipartisan support – something our Senate counterparts did successfully last month – this bill moves even further to the left to appease the most progressive members in the Majority’s party,” the GOP lawmakers said.

A Senate panel recently passed its version of the highway bill unanimously, but the lawmakers didn’t have to vote yet on how they would pay for it, masking major differences that are a focal point of negotiations between GOP senators and the White House.

Business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable have called on lawmakers to continue negotiations and work toward a bipartisan compromise.

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They support using a process that would allow Democrats to pass an infrastructure boost with a simple majority, which they did through a COVID-19 relief measure that delivered

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Getting the American people back on their feet is,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., said Thursday night.

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You should learn the truth about the Tulsa Massacre

By TOM HANKS

I consider myself a lay historian who talks way too much at dinner parties, leading with questions like, “Do you know that the Erie Canal is the reason Manhattan became the economic center of America?” Some of the work I do is making historically based entertainment.

Did you know our second president once defended in court British soldiers who fired on and killed colonial Bostonians — and got most of them off ?

By my recollection, four years of my education included studying American history. Fifth and eighth grades, two semesters in high school, three quarters at a community college. Since then, I’ve read history for pleasure and watched documentary films as a first option. Many of those works and those textbooks were about white people and white history.

The few Black figures — Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — were those who accomplished much in spite of slavery, segregation and institutional injustices in American society.

But for all my study, I never read a page of any school history book about how, in 1921, a mob of white people burned down a place called Black Wall Street, killed as many as 300 of its Black citizens and displaced thousands of Black Americans who lived in Tulsa, Okla.

My experience was common: History was mostly written by white people about white people like me, while the history of Black people — including the horrors of Tulsa — was too often left out. Until relatively recently, the entertainment industry, which helps shape what is history and what is forgotten, did the same. That includes projects of mine.

I knew about the attack on Fort Sumter, Custer’s last stand and Pearl Harbor but did not know of the Tulsa massacre until last year, thanks to an article in The New York Times.

Instead, in my history classes, I learned that Britain’s Stamp Act helped lead to the Boston Tea Party, that “we” were a free people because the Declaration of Independence said “all men are created equal.” That the Whiskey Rebellion started over a tax on whiskey. That the Articles of Confederation and the Alien and Sedition Acts were cockeyed.

Rightfully, Sacco and Vanzetti, Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party and the Wright Brothers had their time in my classes. Our textbooks told of the Louisiana Purchase; the Johnstown, Pa., flood; the great San Francisco earthquake; and George Washington Carver’s development of hundreds of products from the common goober.

But Tulsa was never more than a city on the prairie.

The Oklahoma Land Rush got some paragraphs in one of those school years, but the 1921 burning out of the Black population that lived there was never mentioned. Nor, I have learned since, was anti-Black violence on large and small scales, especially between the end of Reconstruction and the victories of the civil rights movement; there was nothing on the Slocum massacre of Black residents in Texas by an all-

Tom Hanks, an actor and filmmaker, is also a history buff whose works inlcude “Band of Brothers,” “The Pacific” and “John Adams” and documentaries about America from the 1960s to the 2000s. white mob in 1910 or the Red Summer of white supremacist terrorism in 1919. Many students like me were told that the lynching of Black Americans was tragic but not that these public murders were commonplace and often lauded by local papers and law enforcement.

For a white kid living in the white neighborhoods of Oakland, Calif., my city in the 1960s and ’70s looked integrated and diverse but often felt tense and polarized, as was evident on many an AC Transit bus. The division between white America and Black America seemed to be as solid as any international boundary even in one of the most integrated cities in the nation. Bret Harte Junior High and Skyline High School had Asian, Latino and Black students, but those schools were mostly white.

This did not seem to be the case in the other public high schools in town.

We had lessons on the Emancipation Proclamation, the Ku Klux Klan, Rosa Parks’s daring heroism and her common decency and even the death of Crispus Attucks in the Boston Massacre. Parts of American cities had been aflame at points since the Watts riots in 1965, and Oakland was the home of the Black Panthers and the Vietnam War-era draftee induction center, so history was playing out before our very eyes, in our hometown.

The issues were myriad, the solutions theoretical, the lessons few, the headlines continuous.

THE TRUTH about Tulsa, and the repeated violence by some white Americans against Black Americans, was systematically ignored, perhaps because it was regarded as too honest, too painful a lesson for our young white ears. So, our predominantly white schools didn’t teach it, our mass appeal works of historical fiction didn’t enlighten us, and my chosen industry didn’t take on the subject in films and shows until recently. It seems white educators and school

administrators (if they even knew of the Tulsa massacre, for some surely did not) omitted the volatile subject for the sake of the status quo, placing white feelings over Black experience — literally Black lives in this case.

How different would perspectives be had we all been taught about Tulsa in 1921, even as early as the fifth grade? Today, I find the omission tragic, an opportunity missed, a teachable moment squandered. When people hear about systemic racism in America, just the use of those words draws the ire of those white people who insist that since July 4, 1776, we have all been free, we were all created equally, that any American can become president and catch a cab in Midtown Manhattan no matter the color of our skin, that, yes, American progress toward justice for all can be slow but remains relentless.

Tell that to the century-old survivors of Tulsa and their offspring. And teach the truth to the white descendants of those in the mob that destroyed Black Wall Street.

Today, I think historically based fiction entertainment must portray the burden of racism in our nation for the sake of the art form’s claims to verisimilitude and authenticity. Until recently, the Tulsa Race Massacre was not seen in movies and TV shows. Thanks to several projects currently streaming, like “Watchmen” and “Lovecraft Country,” this is no longer the case. Like other historical documents that map our cultural DNA, they will reflect who we really are and help determine what is our full history, what we must remember.

Should our schools now teach the truth about Tulsa?

Yes, and they should also stop the battle to whitewash curriculums to avoid discomfort for students. America’s history is messy but knowing that makes us a wiser and stronger people.

1921 is the truth, a portal to our shared, paradoxical history. An American Black Wall Street was not allowed to exist, was burned to ashes; more than 20 years later, World War II was won despite institutionalized racial segregation; more than 20 years after that, the Apollo missions put 12 men on the moon while others were struggling to vote, and the publishing of the Pentagon Papers showed the extent of our elected officials’ willingness to systemically lie to us. Each of these lessons chronicles our quest to live up to the promise of our land, to tell truths that, in America, are meant to be held as self-evident.

This opinion piece appeared in today’s New York Times.

President Joe Biden silently prays during a moment of silence during commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre on Tuesday, June 1 in Tulsa, Okla. (BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

Summer delight Taken in either 1959 or 1960 at the Iola Municipal Pool, are, from left, Sandy Conner, Kay Jordan and Mary Kay Smith.

Classmate Nyle Brown took the photo at Iola Municipal Pool. In replies to a posting on the Register’s Chronicles of Allen County Facebook page, readers posted that Sandy Conner, the one with the hair clips, “was always so stylish.” According to Brenda Sallee Hehr, “I never remember a day my mom went without makeup and hair unless she was really sick.”

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Children entering Kansas schools next fall may be required to certify they have received or are receiving immunization against polio, smallpox, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus, Ennor Horine, superintendent of schools has been reminded by the State Board of Health.

An act passed by the 1961 Legislature requires such immunizations. *****

CHANUTE (AP) — The Safari Museum, commemorating the adventures and life work of Osa and Martin Johnson, jungle photographers, authors and motion picture producers, will open in Chanute Sunday. ***** Garnett will hold its third Lake Garnett Grand Prix Sports Car Races in July.

The races last year drew an estimated 52,000 visitors, and changed the little town’s character completely.

Letters to the editor Dear editor,

May 31 was Memorial day respecting our service men and women. Yet the City of Iola could not put the American flag around the square.

It is shameful that small towns outdid Iola, including LaHarpe, Yates Center and even Piqua.

This was a time to remember our men and women who served, came home and to those that sacrifice all for our freedom.

Iola has always respected

Dear editor,

In my lifetime, I have seen and visited many wonderful places, carnivals, large and small, the Arch of St. Louis was a sight to behold, looking down at the people from the top. I never thought I would make it there, but, with much encouragement from friends I did.

I have seen many elderly wracked by the pain of age who are able to smile and joke right through it. I have seen grown children cry and tell their parents, it’s OK, we know you will be watching from above.

I have seen racism, black and white, and encouraged by both sides, which is a shame.

Just like the Aunt Jemima syrup, why was it racist to put her likeness on a bottle of syrup that had been there for over 100 years. It was an accomplishment by a woman who made something in a time and era where people of color had very few opportunities like that. Tolerance needs to be allowed, so that people of all colors could commit to a peaceful society.

If you are kind, kindness will be returned. If you help your neighbor, they will help you.

What I do see, is what the American Government is doing to the very people that

our service members with remembrances at Highland Cemetery, yet forgot the Old Cemetery. Thanks so much for the VFW Auxiliary Post 6324 and the Boy Scouts for putting flowers and flags at both.

I hope Iola remembers to put out the flags on July 4 and Veterans Day. Terese Yetzbacher, Korea and Vietnam Vet, Daughter of a Purple Heart WWII veteran, Iola, Kan.

pay their wages, sending jobs overseas. I recently spoke with a business owner who had two people start work at their business, then they got their stimulus check and they never showed up. The continuation of the stimulus checks may help some but, when businesses are crying for workers, and the owners are working 10-12 hours a day to keep their dreams alive, then something is wrong. Every day they look at the bottom line and see it shrinking.

Is the government really trying to help, or are they offering money to dry up the economy? Because as long as a stimulus is received then why work. Will Iola turn into a ghost town? I certainly hope not. When the economy collapses, there will be no stimulus and no jobs. Being out in the community and seeing what’s really happening has made me think that stimulus checks were OK once, but not continually. They need to stop. People need to look for a job and stay at a job. AutoZone, Walmart and all the restaurants in Iola are looking for workers. No, they’re not CEO wages, but, it’s better than letting the government run you.

Alzina Kress, Iola, Kan.

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Jonathon and Betsey Goering, aka Free Staters, play old-timey tunes as part of Music at the Market, on Thursday, where local artists perform during the weekly Farmers’ Market. (REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG)

Linda Johnson buys a treat from The Iola Register’s Susan Locke at Thursday evening’s ice cream social. In back are Susan Lynn and Violeta Rodriguez-Stauffer.

The social accompanied the Iola Municipal Band concert. (REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS)

SAFARI: Students embrace adventure Continued from A1 the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum, told a group of fourth-graders visiting from Iola’s SAFE BASE summer school program.

SAFE BASE students visited the safari museum in small groups this week.

This was the first week of the summer program. Each week features educational activities from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday with a field trip on Thursdays. Students can still sign up, and attendance can be limited to one week at a time or the entire program.

This past week, students learned about animals and more. In addition to the trips to the safari museum, they attended cooking classes and worked in the garden, or took part in various other activities. Friday they visited the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita.

Next week, they’ll go to the Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve near Bartlesville, Okla.

An interesting note about the trip to Woolaroc: Safari museum director Froehlich showed students a table made from an elephant’s leg, which was the only elephant killed by the Johnsons. The head of that same elephant is on display at the Woolaroc museum.

The week of June 14, is about aviation.

They’ll hear from an impersonator, Bill Nicks, who will portray famous aviator Wilbur Wright. Younger students will take a field trip to Exploration Place in Wichita.

Older students will visit Amelia Earhart museums in Atchison, and will go ziplining.

The final week, starting June 21, they’ll cool off at the Rock River Rapids, an aquatic park at Derby.

THE TRIP to Chanute was important not only to teach students about African culture, but also to show them “the amazing things we have right in our own backyard,” SAFE BASE director Angela Henry said.

“I’m really happy how impressed the kids have been by the museum,” Henry said.

Martin and Osa Johnson were explorers, photographers, filmmakers and authors from Kansas

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Allen drops opener

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

EVANS, Ga. — Allen Community College’s women will have some work to do if they hope to cash in on their first-ever trip to the national soccer tournament.

The Red Devils saw their unbeaten season come to an end Friday with a 2-1 loss to Holmes (Miss.) Community College in the opening round of the NCAA-Division II National Tournament.

While they’re not out of contention for the medal round, the Red Devils now must defeat St. Louis Community College in their pool play match this morning at 10:30, then hope St. Louis can topple Holmes when those teams play Sunday afternoon.

The national semifinals are Tuesday, and the championship game is Wednesday.

All games are at the Blanchard Woods Park complex in Evans.

Holmes scored both of its goals within a span of 36 seconds midway through the first half.

Cariel Ellis scored off an assist from Mia Aviles in the 29th minute, followed by an unassisted goal from Laney Smith at 29:45.

The Red Devils did not go down without a fight against the nation’s second-ranked team.

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Lancers rack up postseason honors

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Occasionally, coaches have the luxury of coaching an all-star team, a squad of the best players around.

Crest High head coach Roland Weir nearly had that experience every time his Lancer squad suited up on the baseball diamond this season.

As can be expected, Crest’s 22-2 romp through the season brought several postseason accolades for his Lancers.

Eight of the nine Crest starters earned at least honorable mention for the All-Three Rivers League postseason team.

Four players — Holden Barker, Trevor Church, Tyson Hermreck and Stetson Setter — earned firstteam all-league honors.

Four others — Avery Blaufuss, Stratton McGhee, Kobey Miller and Rogan Weir — received honorable mention.

Funny thing is, Coach Weir expressed disappointment afterward that all of Crest’s starters warranted recognition.

The only player not included, Jack White, was deserving as well, Coach Weir said.

“I called him and told him that,” he said. “I

Crest High sophomores Holden Barker, clockwise from to pleft, Trevor Church and Stetson Setter all earned all-state honors for their work on the baseball diamond this season. REGISTER/

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thought we could have been deserving of one more allleague player, and that way Jack could have slid up to receive honorable mention.”

The Three Rivers League baseball honors included a pair of Yates Center High standouts as well. Sean Hurst and Tyler Green both earned honorable mention.

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KC’s rebuilt line draws praise from Mahomes

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes remembers stepping into the Kansas City Chiefs’ huddle for the first time and seeing a group of veteran offensive linemen, from Eric Fisher at left tackle to Mitchell Schwartz at right, who knew how to operate in the NFL. Now Mahomes is the one

telling everyone else what to do.

Not that his new-look offensive line needs a whole lot of direction. Whether it’s Pro Bowl left tackle Orlando Brown Jr., veteran guard Joe Thuney or any of the other newcomers, the group fighting for the five spots protecting the Chiefs’ half-billion dollar quarterback this season represents a significant upgrade.

But they also have a former league MVP directing the show these days, not some first-year starter under center, and that’s been a big reason why so many new pieces have come together so quickly during voluntary offseason workouts.

“They got a lot of good guys and brought back a lot of good guys to put in that O-line room,” Mahomes said following their Thursday

workout, “so the competition is high every day. That brings out the best, and that’s what you want on any team — a winning culture. You have to earn your spot every day.”

Especially given the expectations Mahomes has for them.

He made headlines during his foundation’s recent fundraising golf tournament in See MAHOMES | Page B3

Three aces headline all-TRL softball team

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

From left, Morgan Collins of Yates Center, MyKayla Ard of Marmaton Valley and Aubree Holloran of Crest earned first-team All-Three Rivers League honors for 2021. REGISTER/KATHE HAMMOND (LEFT) AND RICHARD LUKEN

The Wildcats ran wild in 2021.

Yates Center High’s Wildcats, who roared through the softball season with an 18-4 record, and Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcats, who compiled a 15-7 record on the season, were well represented by the Three Rivers League allleague softball team.

Yates Center placed three players — juniors Morgan Collins and Allie Chrisman and sophomore Molly Proper — on the first-team All Three Rivers League team.

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team and Crest High senior Aubree Holloran.

Earning honorable mention were Yates Center junior Hannah Jones, Marmaton Valley juniors Aly Ard and Kendall Scharff and freshman Payton Scharfff.

Collins was dominant in all phases in leading Yates Center’s squad.

She batted a mind-boggling .688 to break the school record for batting average. She also led YC with 42 RBI. She was one of four players to earn unanimous selections to the all-league team.

Proper wasn’t far behind, hitting .608 while tying the school record with eight home runs, while scoring a team-high 59 runs.

Collins and Proper split the pitching duties, with Collins typically pitching the first game of each doubleheader, and Proper taking the second.

Collins finished with a 2.57 ERA; Collins a 4.00 ERA. Both also shined on the field, with fielding percentages north of .920.

Chrisman served as Marmaton Valley’s cleanup hitter “and had some big hits in games when we needed them,” head coach Abbie Collins said.

Chrisman wound up with a .478 batting average with 32 RBIs. Jones, meanwhile, proved to be a threat with her speed on the bases.

“She was able to make a lot of things happen whether it was hitting or bunting,” Coach Collins said.

Jones led Yates Center with 20 stolen bases and scored 57 runs.

She played second base with a .911 fielding percentage.

HOLLORAN, a decorated multi-sport athlete for the Lady Lancers, proved to be jack of all trades.

She batted .535 on the season, and usually bunted from the left side of the plate.

She racked up 28 singles, four doubles, five triples and a home run, while stealing 18 bases and scoring 29 runs.

As Crest’s starting shortstop, she also committed the fewest errors on the team and struck out only five times in 71 at bats. The Lady Lancers went 6-15 on the season.

STATISTICS were unavailable for Marmaton Valley’s standouts, although head coach Brenda Mills noted the contributions all four provided.

MyKayla Ard was the Wildcats’ ace pitcher and leadoff hitter, and usually was involved in several key rallies on the season.

Aly Ard, meanwhile,

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Aly Ard, left, and Payton Scharff played key roles for Marmaton Valley High softball this year. COURTESY OF HALIE LUKEN suited up at shortstop and held down the No. 2 slot in the batting order, even after being sidelined with illness in the preseason.

Kendall Scharff manned several infield positions, and pitched the second game of most doubleheaders.

With MyKayla Ard’s graduation, she’ll ascend to the No. 1 pitching slot.

Payton Scharff, meanwhile, made an immediate impact on the young Marmaton Valley squad with her hitting, fielding and speed.

Each of the three local Three Rivers League teams should have plen-

Yates Center High’s Hannah Jones, above, and Marmaton Valley High’s Kendall Scharff, below, earned honorable mention in Three Rivers League play this softball season. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN ty of returning talent for 20222 and beyond.

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That said, Marmaton Valley will have big shoes to fill with MyKayla Ard’s graduation. Holloran also graduates for Crest along with Lizy Young.

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Hawaii when he was asked what record he wants to break. Mahomes answered by saying he wants to be the first team to go 200, a benchmark that became possible this season when the league expanded the regular season to 17 games, with three more games in the playoffs.

The Dolphins are the only team to cap an unbeaten season with a championship, going 17-0 in 1972, when the regular season consisted of just 14 games. The Patriots in 2007 went 16-0 in the regular season, won two playoff games but then were beaten by the Giants in the Super Bowl to finish 18-1.

“If you’re in this league you want to win every time you get on the football field,” Ma-

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question I was asked was what record do I want to break and to me, records don’t mean anything if you don’t win that last game of

the season.”

One of the biggest reasons the Chiefs didn’t win the last game of this past season? An offense line that was dominated by the Buccaneers in the Super Bowl, resulting in Mahomes spending most of the night running for his life.

That’s why the Chiefs spent so much of their offseason — and their bankroll — remaking the group tasked with protecting him. Brown and Thuney were big pieces, but so was the drafting of Oklahoma center Creed Humphrey and a few under-the-radar signings that should provide more depth than Kansas City had last season.

All of them have spent the past couple of works drilling down into the playbook.

“The big guys are working their tails off

good to be able to go out on the field without a mask and practice and your mind isn’t on what’s next related to COVID.” Reid also spent some time Thursday praising Ken Flajole, the longtime NFL assistant coach who was hired to replace Britt Reid as outside linebackers coach. Flajole has coached every defensive position during 40-plus years in the game, and he’s spent time with Reid and was on defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo’s staff with the Rams.

“I was with him for a long time at the college level and then he was with Spags at the college level for a stop and also the NFL,” Reid said. ”The unique thing about that defensive staff, you throw Ken in the mix, they all kind of know each other.”

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In other news, Reid said vaccination numbers within the club are “trending way up compared to other teams,” though he did not provide an estimate on the number of players or staff that have received shots.

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Honors: Crest players dominate Three Rivers League lists Continued from B1

ple opportunity to add to its hardware.

Three of the four first-teamers, Barker, Church and Setter, are sophomores.

As it so happens, those three also earned all-state recognition.

Barker earned firstteam All-Class 2-1A as a designated hitter.

Setter earned firstteam all-state honors as an outfielder.

Church was named to the second team allstate class as a pitcher.

Setter led Crest with a .522 average, racking up 36 hits in 69 at bats. He also pounded a team-high 11 doubles and tied for the team lead with h33 RBIs and 44 runs scored, while smacking three home runs and stealing 17 bases. He also started five games as a pitcher, and won all five, with a 1.54 ERA. Setter allowed 14 hits over 22 innings, with 39 strikeouts. Opponents batted .173 against Setter..

Barker hit at a .420 clip, with 29 hits in 69 at bats, with 33 RBIs and 44 runs. He smacked eight doubles and five triples, with two home runs. He also stole 13 bases.

Church went 7-1 on the season, with a 0.34 ERA, striking out 60 over 40 innings, while limiting opposing batters to a .126 batting average.

At the plate, Church hit .375 with 21 RBIs, eight doubles, two triples and scored 36 runs. He stole 11 bases.

Crest High’s Tyson Hermreck, top left, earned firstteam All-Three Rivers League honors, while teammates Kobey Miller, above, and Stratton McGhee, below at left, received honorable mention for their work during the 2021 baseball season. Crest went 22-2, advancing to the Class 2-1A State Baseball Tournament. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Hermreck, the only senior on Crest’s squad to earn first-team allleague recognition, batted .343 — 23 of 67 — with three doubles, a triple and a home run. He also was among a stable of talented Lancer pitchers, going 3-0 with a 1.66 ERA. Hermreck struck out 14 batters in 12 innings, and opponents to a 1.70 batting average. As a bit of a statistical oddity, Hermreck was hit by more pitches (9) than the times he struck out (8).

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down four of 12 base-stealers.

McGhee, a senior outfielder, hit .354 and a team-leading four home runs, with 33 RBIs and 33 runs.

Miller, a senior third baseman, hit .340 on the season, with 15 RBIs, including both of Crest’s runs in a 4-2 loss to Spearville in the 2-1A State Tournament.

Weir, a freshman right fielder, batted .326 while driving in 19 and scoring 23 runs.

“We got a good taste” of success in 2021, Coach Weir said. “We know what it takes. I’ve already highlighted the calendar, for motivation for 2022.”

He also reiterated his opinion White, a sophomore, also warranted recognition from the league.

“All nine of my kids, perhaps even a couple off the bench, could have started for every other team,” Weir said.

“That was the point I was trying to make.”

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Brennen Coffield, right, of Nelson Quarries leans back to avoid being hit by a pitch Thursday in a Little League game against Chanute. Nelson prevailed, 11-8. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN Yates Center High’s Sean Hurst, above, and Tyler Green, below, earned honorable mention for their work this baseball season by Three Rivers League coaches. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

CENTER’S

Green, a senior infielder and pitcher, and Hurst, a junior pitcher and catcher, were standouts for the Wildcats’, who went 4-15 on the season.

Their statistics weren’t available.

Three Rivers League First Team Trevor Church — Crest Holden Barker — Crest Isac Elkins — Oswego Blaine Simons — Jayhawk-Linn Cade Mitchell — Southeast Stetson Setter — Crest Cade Burdette — Southeast Dylan Nickelson — Jayhawk-Linn Easton Renn — Southeast Karasten McKee — Pleasanton Braden Broyles — Northeast Tyson Hermreck — Crest Austin Nation — Jayhawk-Linn Jake Harvey — Uniontown Andrew Buckman — Uniontown

Honorable mention Cooper Hamblin — Southeast Avery Blaufuss — Crest Trey Peters — St. Paul Stratton McGhee — Crest Wyatt Vanatta — Chetopa Kaden Nation — Jayhawk-Linn Braden Young — Northeast Nate Jacobs — Southeast James Claffey — Northeast Dakota Pease — Chetopa Connor Wright — Chetopa Sean Hurst — Yates Center Tyler Green — Yates Center Kobey Miller — Crest Dale Gallaspie — Pleasan-

ton Kiser Wiatrak — St. paul Adam Dumcum — Pleasanton Lance Teal — Oswego Cade Goodridge — Uniontown Rogan Weir — Crest

Diamond action heats up Scores from Thursday Little League Nelson Quarries 11, Chanute 8. WP — Caden Coltrane, 4 innings, 5 hits, 12 walks, 10 strikeouts. Hits for Nelson Quarries: Reed Clift, s; Ty Shaughnessy, 2 s; Hayden Kelly, s, t; Caden Coltrane, s; Mason Lampe, s; Landon Shelton, s.

Iola Insurance 12, Chanute 0. WP — Kolten Hanson, 3 innings, 1 hit, 3 walks, 3 strikeouts. Hits for Iola Insurance: Nick Bauer, s, d; Kolten Hanson, 3 s; Tre Wilson, 2 d; Jubal Stockebrand, d, t, HR; Colton Thompson, s.

Bitty Ball League Sigg’s 10, Iola Transmission 4. Hits for Sigg’s: Lynn Young, 2 s; Brandley Hammer, 2 s; Lincoln Neely, 2 s; Owen Hesse, 2 s; Brighton Hacker, 2 s; Sebastian Hays, s; Israel Evans, 2 s; Michael Evans, 2 s; Lane Willard, s; Hudson Boyt, 2 s; Michael Hall, s. Hits for Iola Transmission: Easton Rutherford, s; Cohen Sigg, 2 s; Cain Fehr, 2 s; Grayson Lisher, s; Gavin

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Despite being outshot 25-6 in the match, Allen stayed close, thanks to the steely play of goal-

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Michaelis saved seven shots on goal.

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Allen tried six shot attempts in the match.

Allen Community College’s Dot Usher (12), shown in a game against Pratt earlier this season, scored the Red Devils’ only goal Friday in a 2-1 loss to Holmes (Miss.)

Community College in their NJCAA-Division II National Tournament pool play opener. The Red Devils must defeat St. Louis today as part of their quest to advance to the national semifinals.

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congratulate Rick Hendrick and all of Hendrick Motorsports on breaking the all-time wins record for a NASCAR Cup Series race team, long held by the legendary Petty Enterprises team. With nearly 40 years of excellence, Hendrick Motorsports has set the gold standard for race team success.”

– NASCAR chairman and CEO Jim France

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ONCORD, N.C. — In dominating fashion, Kyle Larson won NASCAR‘s longest race Sunday night and in the process gave team owner Rick Hendrick a record 269th victory, most in NASCAR Cup Series history.

Larson‘s win in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor KYLE LARSON CELEBRATES WITH AN EPIC BURNOUT Speedway was the eighth of his career and his second of AFTER WINNING SUNDAY’S COCA-COLA 600 AT the season, guaranteeing the driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet a CHARLOTTE. ASSOCIATED PRESS spot in the playoffs. By the time he crossed the finish line at the end of 400 laps, Larson held a 10.051-second lead over runner-up and teammate Chase Elliott.

Larson started from the pole and swept the first three The 1-2 finish was the third straight for Hendrick stages, but not without challenges from Elliott and Byron.

Motorsports. Only third-place finisher Kyle Busch found In fact, in the green-flag run after the second stage break, a way to break up the HMS party, with Hendrick drivers Byron passed Larson for the lead on Lap 231. During the William Byron and Alex Bowman running fourth and fifth, subsequent exchange of pit stops, however, Larson came in respectively. for service one lap earlier than Byron and was roughly one Larson led 327 of the 400 laps, with his only real second faster on and off pit road than his teammate. challenges coming from Elliott and Byron, who led 22 and 19 Larson built a lead of more than 2.5 seconds but spent laps, respectively. more than 15 circuits trying to lap the No. 43 Chevrolet of “It feels great to be that guy who helped Mr. H break that Erik Jones, as Byron closed to his bumper. record finally,” Larson said of the victory that broke a tie with “Make him work for it,” Jones‘ spotter, Rick Carelli, radioed Petty Enterprises for most wins in the series. to his driver as he fought to stay on the lead lap, and Jones Larson signed on with Hendrick to start the 2021 season. certainly followed those instructions.

The car he drove to victory Sunday night bore the same But Larson finally passed the No. 43 Camaro and began number as the Chevrolet Geoff Bodine piloted at Martinsville to pull away from Byron before Ryan Newman slammed the Speedway on April 29, 1984 to give Hendrick‘s fledgling — outside wall to cause the fourth and final caution of the race and struggling — organization the first of those 269 wins. on Lap 296. The stage ended under yellow, with Larson the “It‘s been better than I ever could winner. have imagined,” Larson said of his first Coincidentally, it was also Jones who “Make him work for 15 races with HMS. “For us to lead as pitted for fresh tires during the final run it,” Erik Jones‘ spotter, to the finish, returned to the track ahead many laps as we‘ve got this year (a series-best 1,105), to contend for as of Larson and helped Larson build his Rick Carelli, radioed many wins as we have and now to get winning margin. to his driver as he our second win in a crown-jewel event, “I just towed with him for a while too, it feels great. and stretched my lead out,” said Larson, fought to stay on the “I‘m just very lucky that Mr. H was who for the second time in his career lead lap, and Jones able to put a deal (together) for me. It‘s followed three straight runner-up just awesome. I‘m living a dream, for certainly followed those finishes with a pole and a victory. sure.”

Austin Dillon ran sixth, followed by instructions.

NASCAR chairman and CEO Denny Hamlin, Chris Buescher, Tyler Jim France was one of the first to Reddick and Kevin Harvick. Hamlin congratulate Hendrick. retained the series lead by 76 points “I am proud to congratulate Rick over Larson and Byron, who are tied for second in the Hendrick and all of Hendrick Motorsports on breaking the standings. all-time wins record for a NASCAR Cup Series race team, Notes: Post-race inspection in the NASCAR Cup Series long held by the legendary Petty Enterprises team,” France garage revealed no issues, validating the No. 5 Chevrolet’s said in a statement issued at the conclusion of the race. victory. The Nos. 24 and 48 Chevrolets each had one lug “With nearly 40 years of excellence, Hendrick Motorsports nut not safe and secure, which will result in fines for the has set the gold standard for race team success. Rick crew chiefs. The No. 77 Chevrolet had two lug nuts not Hendrick has already cemented his legacy as a NASCAR Hall safe and secure, which will result in a fine and a crew-chief of Famer, and now adds another incredible accomplishment suspension. to an exemplary NASCAR career.”

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For the first time in almost two years, Sonoma’s North Bay will be transformed into Thunder Bay as the sights and sounds of NASCAR make their long-awaited return to the twisting, turning layout of Sonoma Raceway, June 5-6.

The Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Cup Series race will mark NASCAR’s first race in the state of California in more than 15 months and the first race in Sonoma in nearly two years.

The return of racing at Sonoma Raceway also signals the return of race fans to the facility as well. Sonoma County authorities have given the green light to host a reduced capacity crowd that will be thirsting for the roar of engines.

No one will be more excited to get back to the 12-turn, 2.52-mile road course than Martin Truex Jr. The 2017 NASCAR Champion has won the past two Cup races in Sonoma and will be trying to join Jeff Gordon as just the second driver to ever win three races in a row at Sonoma. Gordon won the 1998, 1999 and 2000 Toyota/Save Mart 300s.

“I’ve been waiting for a while to go back to Sonoma and try to get the three-peat,” Truex said. “Sonoma is such a fun track and it’s a great part of the country. It’s beautiful and always great weather.

I can’t wait to get there and see all of our fans in California that we haven’t seen in quite a while.”

Other storylines to watch include Chase Elliott’s pursuit of Jeff Gordon’s career road TRUEX JR. course win record. Gordon won a NASCAR-record nine road course races during his career. Elliott, the defending series champion, picked up his sixth career road course victory at Circuit of the American in Austin just a week ago.

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