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Pet program gets a needed boost

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Barbara and Herschel Per ry were known for their love of pets, especially cats.

In fact, Herschel would of ten trap feral cats and dogs, pay to have them spayed or neutered, and release them back into the area.

After the couple’s death a few years ago, the executors of their trust determined a worthy cause would be to cov er the cost of having dogs and cats spayed and neutered for

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the next 10 years.

Earlier this year, the Barba ra and Herschel Perry Chari table Trust gave $10,000 to the Allen County Animal Rescue

Facility (ACARF) to provide vouchers to pay for pets to be spayed or neutered.

Recently, the Trust gave an other $10,000 — more could be forthcoming — as the pro gram has proved so popular and demand has increased.

“We haven’t advertised it because we’ve had a waiting list,” Julie Payne, secretary and treasurer for the ACARF board, said. “We’re getting through that list and hope fully we’ll be able to do even more.”

The program is available to

all pet owners in Allen Coun ty — not just those who adopt pets from the shelter. Simply contact the shelter at 620-4963647 to receive a voucher for the procedure. Proof of resi dency is required.

Pets must be spayed or neutered at a clinic in Allen County; Red Barn Veterinary Clinic or Iola Animal Clinic qualify and both accept the vouchers.

Typically, vouchers cover $150 for cats and $200 for dogs. However, that’s more of an es timate; trustees want to make

sure all costs are covered, so the amount will vary depend ing on the animal’s needs and the actual cost.

“This program is a god send,” Payne said. “It’s some thing everyone in Allen Coun ty should take advantage of.”

So far, ACARF has printed 60 vouchers for cats and 70 for dogs.

The hope is that by cover ing such costs for 10 years, it will significantly reduce the number of unwanted pets in

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Outreach begins for burn pit veterans

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Back in September, rep resentatives of LaHarpe’s Veterans of Foreign Wars post invited area veterans to learn about benefits to which they are entitled, but possibly know nothing about.

Therese Yetzbacher, a VFW member and service officer, had modest expectations.

“I thought if we got 10 peo ple to show up, we’d be lucky,” she said.

Instead, nearly 60 veterans of all ages attended, to learn everything from VA eligibil ity issues to such things as community care options and Medicare plans. The session, which was supposed to last two hours, instead lasted 5½.

“It was quite a day,” Yetz bacher said.

While the September meet ing was in the works, feder al lawmakers approved the much-heralded burn pit leg islation, opening up layers of assistance to veterans sick ened because of exposure

to harmful chemicals while serving.

Now, with details of the leg islation in place, Yetzbacher is working in league with the Department of Veterans Af fairs to schedule another pub lic meeting for veterans.

County rejects late pantry project bid

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

After hearing from local residents, Allen County com missioners decided not to al low a late bidder for a project at the Humboldt Senior Cen ter.

The county plans to re model a building on the prop erty for use by the Ministeri al Alliance Food Pantry. Bids were revealed at a Nov. 22 meeting for electrical, HVAC and construction work.

The next week, Joe Wein er told commissioners he was unable to bid on the con struction portion because of a miscommunication, and submitted a bid that was about half the cost of the lowest bid.

Commissioners at the time were unsure how to handle the situation and considered accepting Weiner’s bid.

But commissioners de cided not to allow Weiner’s bid after Chairman Jerry Daniels said he and county maintenance director Ron

residents about the bidding process. They also weren’t sure Weiner’s proposal for flooring met specifications.

In the end, commission ers accepted a bid for $25,867

“We’re trying to help them in some way, shape or form,” Yetzbacher said. “I’ve read through this bill three times. There’s a lot there.”

The first, often overlooked aspect of the legislation, is that it’s available to help more

than those who served in Af ghanistan or Iraq.

“This goes all the way back to Vietnam,” she said, and perhaps further.

That’s why it’s important,

Ukraine leader defiant as drone strikes hit Russia again

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drones struck inside Russia’s border with Ukraine Tuesday in the second day of attacks exposing the vulnerability of some of Moscow’s most important military sites, ob servers said.

Ukrainian officials did not formally confirm carrying out drone strikes inside Rus sia, and they have maintained ambiguity over previous high-profile attacks.

But Ukrainian presiden tial adviser Mikhail Podolyak taunted Moscow in comments on Twitter, and Britain’s De fense Ministry said Russia was likely to consider the at tacks on Russian bases more than 300 miles from the bor der with Ukraine as “some of the most strategically sig nificant failures of force pro tection since its invasion of Ukraine.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmi try Peskov said that Russian authorities will “take the

necessary measures” to en hance protection of key facil ities. Russian bloggers who generally maintain contacts with officials in their coun try’s military criticized the lack of defensive measures.

“If something is launched into other countries’ airspace, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to the point of departure,” Ukrainian presidential advis er Mikhail Podolyak taunted

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Nearly 60 area veterans attend an informational meeting about VA benefits at the Willis J. Ross VFW Post in LaHarpe in September. Organizers are planning a similar meeting to discuss benefits for those impacted by exposure to burn pits while serving, as well as those veterans’ families.

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from Superior Builders for construction, a bid of $5,436.60 from Kale Electric for electrical work and a bid of $5,443.83 from Dale’s

Allen County Road and Bridge Director Mark Griffith speaks Tuesday with county commissioners about buying a refur bished road patching machine. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

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Lawmakers expect more anti-abortion proposals in 2023

Obituaries

Georgia Rea

Georgia Phyllis Rea, 94, of Colorado Springs, Colo., died surrounded by family on Monday, Nov. 26, 2022, in Colorado Springs.

Phyllis was born March 12, 1928, in Colony, to William Allison Brooks and Alice Geneva (Denton) Brooks. She married Robert Dale Rea on March 28, 1947, in Lyndon.

Phyllis was preceded in death by her husband and grandsons, Seann Michael Rea and Robert James Rea.

Phyllis is survived by Jon Michael Rea (Jane), Steven Dale Rea (Trudy), William Mark Rea (Di ane), Barbara Ewing, Kelly Johnston (Ron), 12 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren on the way.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola. Inurnment will follow in the Colony Cemetery.

Memorials are suggested to the First Presbyteri an Church, P.O. Box 527, Monte Vista, CO 81144.

Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuner al.com.

Sharon Bush

Sharon Sue Bush, 73, died Thurs day, Dec. 1, 2022.

Sharon was born Feb. 10, 1949, and is preceded in death by her parents and siblings: Helen Heidi, Lorraine Pugh, Elizabeth Watson, Jean Gib son, Neoma Jones, Arlene Koeker, Martha Lois Venable, Thomas Johns, Wilma Johns, Lloyd Johns, Richard Johns, Cathy Nolan, Sha ron Johns and Donna Rose Gerdsen.

Sharon is survived by her daughter, Christinea (Peter) Koyianis of Mansfield, Texas, and grand children, Shane Koyianis and Kaylee Koyianis.

Kansas House members tap Hawkins to lead sessions

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Kansas

House Republicans nominated a leadership team Monday described as a bulwark of conser vatism against the sec ond term of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.

House Majority Lead er Dan Hawkins of Wichita, elected to the House in 2012 and a per sistent critic of Kelly, was handed the top job of House speaker with out opposition during the GOP-only caucus meeting at the Capitol. Once confirmed in Jan uary by the full House, he would hold that po sition for the 2023 and 2024 legislative sessions.

“Truly the philoso phy of our leadership is

going to be: We believe in the people. We believe in the people of Kansas to make the best deci sions on how to spend their money — not the state,” said Hawkins, who anticipated work ing closely with leaders of the Republican-dom inated Kansas Senate. “You’ll see conservative proposals consistently come out.”

Hawkins said House GOP members would push to reform tax, ed ucation, water, abortion and election integrity policy. He said he had little House interest in revisiting the state’s new sports gambling law, but there would be discussion about options for improving wages of people holding state elective offices.

Ahead of the Kansas legislative session, abortion rights again under discussion

By RACHEL MIPRO Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Kansas Republicans haven’t discussed new abortion legislation yet, but they do plan to address the subject when the legis lative session starts in January.

During Tuesday’s GOP caucus meeting to nominate new House of Representatives lead ership, House Majority Leader Dan Hawkins said he hadn’t had any discussions about a po tential 15-week abortion ban that some anti-abor tion activist groups have been advocating ahead of the legislative session.

The newly nominated leadership has shifted further to the right, and Hawkins said he antici pates more conservative proposals than usual this session.

Hawkins said that he knew groups like Kan sans For Life were push ing for legislation simi lar to the “Born Alive” bill, a which has been rejected in other states for being too restrictive.

The legislation essen tially requires medical providers to attempt to save any children born prematurely or born alive after an attempted abortion. Critics have called this bill unnec essary and potentially harmful for medical providers.

“I have talked with, certainly with KFL. And the coalition that really worked on Value Them Both, they cer tainly would like to see the ‘Born Alive’ bill at tempted, bring that out.

To say that there’s not going to be any other abortion bills is wrong. Everybody’s free to

Anti-abortion protestors appear Dec. 5, 2022, at the Statehouse in Topeka. (SHERMAN SMITH/KANSAS REFLECTOR)

bring whatever they want when it comes to bills. So we’ll see those,” Hawkins said.

Hawkins said legisla tion involving funding crisis pregnancy cen ters might also come up.

“That’s certainly something that we will probably look at. Cer tainly, you know, you want to prevent unwant ed pregnancies versus abortion. So that’s cer tainly someplace we can look at,” Hawkins said.

Rep. Vic Miller, D-To peka, said he didn’t know what anti-abor tion legislation Repub licans were planning to introduce in the up coming legislative ses sion, but said he was prepared to fight it.

“I think the people spoke very clearly in August about what they wanted to do on that subject, and it was not a ban. It was an absolute vote rejecting a ban,” Miller said.

Rep. Valdenia Winn, D-Kansas City, said she expected to see an ti-abortion legislation such as a 15-week abor tion ban or restrictions on physician licenses. Winn plans on working with her community to fight restrictive abor tion measures.

“We work through our constituents and those communities that voted down that amend ment,” Winn said.

Debate about abortion has been constant since the August amendment was shot down by Kan sas voters, but discus sions have ramped up as the legislative session approaches. Outside the House of Representa tives during the Tues day caucus meeting, anti-abortion advocates stood holding signs and made appearances with their children on

the balcony inside the House.

“We’re letting people know that abortion is unconstitutional, that all people have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Right now the pre-born in Kansas are being slaughtered and they’re not given equal protec tion under the law and the Constitution, which they rightfully have,” Keeling said.

A Kansas judge has blocked a 2011 law pre venting women from ac cessing abortion medi cation via telemedicine, in a move abortion pro viders called a step in the right direction. The state still has many oth er abortion restrictions in place.

Kansas abortion laws have been criticized by abortion-rights advo cates as unnecessarily restrictive. State law re quires patients to under go an ultrasound before the abortion procedure, with the provider in structed to offer to show the image to the patient.

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What are these challenges – and what types of protection can be used to defend against them?

Consider the following:

• Challenge #1: Protecting your ability to reach your goals – To achieve your long-term goals, such as a comfortable retirement, you'll need to build adequate financial resources. And that means you'll need to create an investment portfolio that's suitable for your objectives, risk tolerance and time horizon. And you'll need to keep your long-term goals in mind when adjusting your portfolio during times of volatility.

• Challenge #2: Protecting your family's future if you're not around – Hopefully, you will live a long life and always be around to support your family. But the future is not ours to see – and if something were to happen to you, how would your family cope? Their chances could be much better if you have adequate life insurance. Proper coverage could help pay off your mortgage, pay for your children's higher education and allow your family to continue its lifestyle.

• Challenge #3: Protecting your income should you become temporarily disabled – If you were to become ill or temporarily disabled and could not work for a while, the disruption in your income could jeopardize your family's living situation, or, at the least, lead to an inability to pay bills in a timely fashion. To protect against this threat, you may want to consider adding disability insurance. Your employer may offer a short-term disability policy as an employee benefit, but it may be insufficient, either in duration or in amount of coverage, so you might want to look at a private policy.

• Challenge #4: Protecting your long-term investments from short-term needs – Life is full of unexpected expenses – a major car repair, a new furnace, a large bill from the dentist, and so on. If you did not have the money available to deal with these costs, you might be forced to dip into your long-term investments, such as your IRA or 401(k). Taking money from these accounts earlier than you intended could incur taxes and penalties, and, even more importantly, could reduce the amount of money you have available for retirement. To help protect these investments from short-term needs for cash, try to build an emergency fund containing three to six months' worth of living expenses, with the money kept in cash or a liquid account.

• Challenge #5: Protecting your financial independence – You would probably do all you could to avoid ever becoming a burden to your grown children –which is why it's so important to maintain your financial independence throughout your life. One potential threat to this independence is the need for some type of long-term care, such as an extended nursing home stay, which can be extremely expensive. A financial professional can suggest protection strategies to help you prepared for these types of costs.

It can be challenging to keep your financial strategy intact – so do whatever it takes to protect it.

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Restoring power after NC shootings could take until Thursday

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)

— Power should be re stored by Thursday morning to thousands of homes in a central North Carolina county that have been without electricity for several days after an attack on the electric grid, Gov. Roy Cooper said Tues day.

“I hope it’s earlier. I mean, people are really hurting,” Cooper told reporters in Raleigh.

Duke Energy said crews were making progress on restoring power to Moore Coun ty, where authorities said one or more people shot up two substations, but the repairs won’t be complete until later in the week. Officials have said the damage requires sophisticated

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repairs and delivery of equipment from outside of the area.

Nearly 36,000 custom ers were without power in the county Tuesday, down from a peak of

Council of State meet ing — a collective body of elected officials com prising the executive branch. He said this will likely include discus sions with federal reg ulators, lawmakers and utility companies about how to bolster security and prevent future at tacks.

In the short-term, the state has sent genera tors to Moore County and is helping feed resi dents. Law enforcement in surrounding counties has been more vigilant about monitoring near by substations since the attack, he said.

that much damage to be caused — causing so much problem, econom ic loss, safety challenges to so many people for so long — I think we have to look at what we might need to do to harden that infrastructure.”

Mike Causey, the North Carolina insur ance commissioner and state fire marshal, called the attack “a wakeup call to provide better security at our power substations.”

continue to work in 24hour shifts and remain on schedule to bring service back on by ear ly Thursday,” the state ment said.

Authorities have said the outages began short ly after 7 p.m. Saturday night after one or more people breached the gates of the two substa tions and opened fire. Police have not released a motive or said what kind of firearm was used.

about 45,000, according to poweroutage.us.

The governor called for a thorough assess ment of the state’s critical infrastructure Tuesday morning at a

“This seemed to be too easy,” Cooper said after the meeting. “Peo ple knew what they were doing to disable the substation, and for

Echoing the gover nor’s remarks, Duke En ergy said in a message to customers posted on its website that it is on track to restore power throughout the county by Thursday morning, in line with previous es timates.

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Many businesses around the county that’s about 60 miles south west of the state capital of Raleigh are closed at a normally busy time of year for tourism and holiday shopping. Schools are also closed and traffic lights are out around the area.

Congress honors law enforcement who defended Capitol

WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforce ment officers who de fended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 were honored Tuesday with Congressional Gold Medals nearly two years after they fought supporters of then-President Don ald Trump in a brutal and bloody attack.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the “heroes” as she opened the ceremony in the the stately Cap itol Rotunda, which was overrun that day when Trump support ers roamed the halls trying to stop Con gress from certifying Joe Biden’s election.

In bestowing Con gress’ highest honor, Pelosi praised the he roes for “courageous ly answering the call to defend our democ racy in one of the na tion’s darkest hours.”

To recognize the hundreds of officers who were at the Capi tol on Jan. 6, the med als will be placed in four locations — at U.S. Capitol Police headquarters, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Cap itol and the Smith sonian Institution.

President Joe Biden said when he signed the legislation last

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she said, to reach out to a wide swath of vet erans. “There are still many people around here who don’t know they’re eligible.”

The plans are for the meeting to be held sometime in early March. “We don’t know where yet,” Yetzbacher said.

The location will be decided once organiz ers have a better han dle on how many veter ans will attend.

Yetzbacher also en courages spouses or surviving family mem bers to reach out either to her or Maggie Bar nett with the LaHarpe VFW Auxiliary, for the same reason. Many may be eligible for as sistance after having lost a spouse or loved one, perhaps even years down the road.

Yetzbacher can be reached by leaving a message at (620) 3635004. Barnett is avail able at (620) 380-1814.

year that a medal will be placed at the Smith sonian museum “so all visitors can understand what happened that day.”

The ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda comes as Democrats, just weeks away from losing their House majority, race to finish a nearly 18-month investigation of the in surrection. Democrats and two Republicans conducting the probe have vowed to uncover the details of the attack, which came as Trump tried to overturn his election defeat and en couraged his supporters to “fight like hell” in a rally just before the con gressional certification.

Awarding the medals is among Pelosi’s last ceremonial acts as she prepares to step down from leadership. When the bill passed the House more than a year ago, she said the law enforcement officers from across the city defended the Capitol because they were “the type of Americans who heard the call to serve and answered it, putting country above self.”

“They enabled us to return to the Capitol,” and certify Biden’s pres idency, she said then, “to that podium that night

to show the world that our democracy had pre vailed and that it had succeeded because of them.”

Dozens of the officers who fought off the ri oters sustained serious injuries. As the mob of Trump’s supporters pushed past them and into the Capitol, police were beaten with Amer ican flags and their own guns, dragged down stairs, sprayed with chemicals and tram pled and crushed by the crowd. Officers suffered physical wounds, includ ing brain injuries and other lifelong effects, and many struggled to work afterward because they were so trauma tized.

Four officers who tes tified at a House hearing last year spoke openly about the lasting men tal and physical scars, and some detailed neardeath experiences.

Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges described foaming at the mouth, bleeding and screaming as the rioters tried to gouge out his eye and crush him between two heavy doors. Met ropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who rushed to the scene, said

he was “grabbed, beat en, tased, all while be ing called a traitor to my country.” Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn said a large group of people shouted the N-word at him as he was trying to keep them from breach ing the House chamber.

At least nine people who were at the Capitol that day died during and after the rioting, includ ing a woman who was shot and killed by po lice as she tried to break into the House chamber and three other Trump

supporters who suf fered medical emergen cies. Two police officers died by suicide in the days that immediately followed, and a third officer, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, collapsed and later died after one of the riot ers sprayed him with a chemical. A medical ex aminer determined he died of natural causes.

Several months after the attack, in August 2021, the Metropolitan Police announced that two more of their offi

cers who had respond ed to the insurrection had died by suicide. The circumstances that led to their deaths were un known.

The June 2021 House vote to award the med als won widespread support from both par ties. But 21 House Re publicans voted against it — lawmakers who had downplayed the vi olence and stayed loyal to Trump. The Senate passed the legislation by voice vote, with no Re publican objections.

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Pets: Perry trust sets up long-term spaying, neutering program

the area. In turn, that will reduce pressure on the animal shelter.

“We’re so full right now, we can’t take any more animals,” Payne said, bluntly.

“We’re having trou ble transferring ani mals because everyone is in the same boat.

Thank God we’re a nokill shelter, because the kill shelters are euth anizing thousands of perfectly good animals every day.”

Spaying and neuter ing animals is a much more practical solution, Payne said.

A cat can have three to four litters each year, and a cat can get preg nant at just 4 months of age. Male dogs can start

breeding at 6 months, and females not long after. That can result in huge numbers of kit tens and puppies.

lion are adopted, and 810,000 are returned to owners.

Millions of dogs and cats are killed each year because of overcrowd ing at animal shelters.

“This is way more humane,” Payne said. “Let’s just get our ani mals fixed and not have to go through that.”

The shelter has of fered a similar program off and on in the past, courtesy of grants from various sources.

ated Perry’s Restaurant on the west side of the square in Iola for many years. Herschel also owned and operated Perry’s Refrigeration in Iola.

Herschel died on Nov. 23, 2019, at the age of 86; Barbara died June 20, 2021, at the age of 88.

They left a sizable trust after their deaths, naming several people and organizations as beneficiaries.

Each year, about 6.3 million companion ani mals enter animal shel ters, according to the ASPCA. About 4.1 mil

HERSCHEL and Bar bara were married on June 5, 1954, in Gas. They owned and oper

In April, the Trust designated $200,000 for the new automotive technology program at the Regional Technical Center at LaHarpe.

Russia: Ukraine leader defiant as more drone strikes hit

Moscow in comments on Twitter. “The earth is round.”

A fire broke out at an airport in Russia’s southern Kursk region that borders Ukraine after a drone hit the fa cility, the region’s gov ernor said Tuesday. In a second incident, an industrial plant 50 miles from the Ukrainian bor der was also targeted by drones, which missed a fuel depot at the site, Russian independent media reported.

“They will have less aviation equipment af ter being damaged due to these mysterious ex plosions,” said Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “This is undoubtedly excellent news because if one or two aircraft fail, then in the future, some more

aircraft may fail in some way. This reduces their capabilities.”

Moscow blamed Kyiv for unprecedented at tacks on two air bases deep inside Russia on Monday. The attacks on the Engels base in the Saratov region on the Volga River and the Dy agilevo base in the Ry azan region in western Russia were some of the most brazen inside Rus sia during the war.

In the aftermath, Rus sian troops carried out another wave of missile strikes on Ukrainian territory struck homes and buildings and killed civilians, compounding damage done to power and other infrastruc ture over weeks of mis sile attacks.

Approximately half of households in the Kyiv region remain without electricity, the regional governor said

Tuesday, while author ities in the southern Odesa say they have managed to restore pow er to hospitals and some vital services.

In a new display of defiance from Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to an eastern city near the front line. Marking Ukraine’s Armed Forces Day, Zel enskyy traveled to the eastern Donetsk region and vowed to push Rus sian forces out of all of Ukraine’s territory.

“Everyone sees your strength and your skill. ... I’m grateful to your parents. They raised real heroes,” Zelenskyy said Tuesday in a video address to Ukrainian forces from the city of Sloviansk, a key Ukrainian stronghold in the east.

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Sheet Metal for HVAC work for a total of $36,747.43.

COLA raises Commissioners ap proved a more tradi tional 3% cost-of-living adjustment for county employees in 2023, a year after giving a 6% boost to wages to offset inflation.

Though inflation re mains high, Commis sioner Bruce Symes said his research into the matter shows econo mists expect price hikes to taper off within the next year.

Also regarding end-ofyear business, commis sioners decided to sched ule the final meeting of the year at 1 p.m. Thurs day, Dec. 29, instead of the usual meeting date of Thursday. The court house will close at noon on the 29th to wrap up annual business.

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thusiastically approved a bid for a refurbished DuraPatcher machine for $45,700.

That’s about half the cost of a new one.

Road and bridge di rector Mark Griffith has been working with a Texas company that is one of, if not the only, company that refurbish es the machines.

It is similar to a patch ing machine owned by the City of Humboldt.

“I’ve been wanting one of these for a couple of years,” Commission er Bruce Symes said.

Herder attended Tuesday’s meeting and said the city was very pleased with the equip ment. He estimated it saves the city about $30,000 a year on mate rials and allows crews to continue to make road repairs “until it’s so cold your guys don’t want to work on it.”

The only downside, he said, is storing the oil needed to run the machine. He recom mended the county talk

to Chanute about a sys tem they have to recycle the oil so it stays fresh. Such systems tend to be expensive, he said, but perhaps that is some thing Humboldt and the county could consider purchasing as a partner ship.

GRIFFITH also ad vised commissioners he is taking bids to re place the county’s fuel tanks, which are out dated. One tank is in such disrepair, it can not be completely filled or it leaks.

Griffith looked at re placing the entire sys tem, rather than just one tank, which could cost about $78,000.

Commissioners agreed the fuel tanks were long past their lifespan, and Public Works Director Mitch Garner warned them a couple of years ago the system needed to be re placed.

They asked Griffith to continue to shop around.

service with the Soviet air force in the 1970s and was designed for recon naissance duties. It can be fitted with a warhead that effectively turns into a cruise missile.

Unlike modern drones, it can only stay in the air for a limited amount of time and fly straight to its designat ed target.

Its outdated technol ogy makes it easily de tectable by modern air defense systems and easy to shoot down.

Another Soviet-built drone in the Ukrainian armed forces’ inventory, the Tu-143 Reis (Flight) has a much short er range of about 110 miles.

A Russian pro-war blogger posting on the Telegram channel “Mil infolive” on Monday hit out at Russian military leadership, alleging that incompetence and lack of proper fortifications

at the airbases made Ukrainian drone strikes possible.

Russia’s Defense Min istry said three Russian servicemen were killed and four others wound ed by debris, and that two aircraft were slight ly damaged.

Pro-Kremlin political analyst Sergei Markov said the strikes “have raised questions about security of Russian mil itary air bases.”

The Engels base hosts Tu-95 and Tu-160 nuclear-capable strate gic bombers that have been involved in strikes on Ukraine. Dyagilevo houses tanker aircraft used for mid-air refuel ing.

In a daily intelligence update on the war in Ukraine, Britain’s De fense Ministry said the bombers would likely be dispersed to other air fields.

Speaking in a confer

ence call with reporters Tuesday, Peskov said that “the Ukrainian re gime’s course for con tinuation of such terror attacks poses a threat.”

Peskov reaffirmed that Russia sees no pros pects for peace talks now, adding that “the Russian Federation must achieve its stated goals.”

Russia, meanwhile, maintained intense at tacks on Ukrainian ter ritory, shelling towns overnight near the Zapor izhzhia nuclear pow er plant that left more than 9,000 homes with out running water, local Ukrainian officials said.

The towns lie across the Dnieper River from the nuclear plant, which was seized by Russian forces in the early stag es of the war. Russia and Ukraine have for months accused each other of shelling at and around the plant.

Pet owners can obtain vouchers at the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility in LaHarpe to have their pets spayed or neutered courtesy of a charitable trust set up by the late Herschel and Barbara Perry. Call 620-496-3647. ACARF.ORG

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The future depends on chips. Are we ready?

When President Biden visits a microchip factory under construction in Ar izona on Tuesday, it might look like a political victory lap: The factory will bring $12 billion and thousands of jobs to an important swing state that just elected a Dem ocratic governor and sena tor. But the chips the factory will manufacture carry far more significance than being a partisan maneuver. They are essential to U.S. security.

Silicon chips, or semicon ductors, the tiny integrated circuits that power electron ic devices, are the reason we can send texts or turn on the television. They are the means by which pilots can fly aircraft safely and militar ies can monitor missiles on radar. The potency of every chip depends on the number of transistors squeezed onto its surface, and because that number is growing exponen tially, so too is what the chips can accomplish. The inven tions that emerge, especial ly in artificial intelligence and supercomputing, will determine not only who will lead the global economy but also who will win wars. The future, in short, depends on chips.

The problem is that, right now, the United States can’t depend on a steady supply of chips, even though the design and software are mostly developed here. After half a century of global out sourcing, the manufacturing process has been dispersed, with each step along the way becoming highly concentrat ed in a few countries. The silicon wafers that carry the transistors are mainly made in Japan. The lithography tools that pattern chips are mainly made in Japan and the Netherlands. Processor chips themselves are fabri cated largely in Taiwan, no tably by the company TSMC (which is building the fac tory Biden will visit in Ar izona). The chips are then tested and packaged into de vices, primarily in China.

THE DANGERS of such a system are obvious: Taiwan plays an important role in the production of all types of chips, but it produces a whopping 90 percent of the most advanced semiconduc tor chips — the ones essen tial to innovation. In the industry, these are called “leading edge.” This puts the United States in a tenu ous position. If China were to invade Taiwan, which it claims is an “inalienable part” of its territory, the

United States could lose ac cess to the bulk of the tiny components that make our country run. We got a taste of that when the covid-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains and, suddenly, it took half a year for a new refrig erator to arrive. An invasion of Taiwan would mean a re peat — but on a catastrophic scale and with control in the hands of an adversary. The Pentagon, let’s not forget, deems China the top threat to U.S. security.

The Chips and Science Act passed by Congress this summer is supposed to help address the problem by fun neling more than $50 billion in subsidies to onshore man ufacturing as well as bolster ing research and develop ment. Whether it will work depends on implementation. The key will be directing the subsidies not just toward the fabrication of chips but to testing and packaging, too; otherwise the United States would remain reliant on Chi na. Another challenge will be ensuring that research and development money pro duces results beyond shiny new buildings at universi ties. Innovative technologies must move — as the jargon puts it — from the lab to the fab(rication). Oversight of how the money is spent is crucial.

In a parallel move, in Oc tober, the Commerce Depart ment banned the export of leading-edge chips used in military applications as well as advanced chipmaking tools. The export controls also forbid “U.S. persons” from servicing advanced

chipmaking facilities in Chi na. Taken together, these steps could suffocate China all along the supply chain. Even foreign companies are barred from selling their leading-edge chips to China without a U.S. government li cense if they want to contin ue using American technol ogy — which almost every semiconductor firm does.

THE AIM is not only to make it harder for China to buy chips but also to make it harder for China to build chips — thereby stymying both its work in AI today and its hopes of harboring an entirely domestic microchip industry tomorrow. Xi Jin ping’s regime has already in vested heavily in this effort.

If China did achieve su premacy in advanced chip manufacturing, military and economic supremacy could easily follow. That kind of power, wielded by a regime defined by its dystopian sur veillance systems and the vi olent repression of a cultur al minority, is a frightening specter. But we’re far from that reality. China spends as much money importing chips as it does oil. China may be able to outcompete the United States when it comes to building the most ships or the most drones — but this country can prob ably beat it in building the best systems to control them. That’s the edge we must maintain.

Some argue that the White House’s aggressive actions risk what could have been a permanent U.S. economic ad vantage by forcing China to

develop its own chipmaking capabilities that may even tually surpass our own. But China was already building its domestic industry. The export controls are intended to put China so far behind that catching up will prove difficult. However, that de pends on the measures actu ally being effective.

One challenge is enforce ment. The Commerce De partment’s plate is overflow ing. Congress should not underfund it. Another chal lenge is bringing allies on board. At the moment, the United States is so integral to the semiconductor sup ply chain that pretty much no country or company can produce leading-edge chips without its involvement. But the controls could create pressure for companies in Japan and Europe to manu facture the kind of tools that are restricted and provide them to China themselves, rather than accept the loss of a valuable customer. Di plomacy matters here.

The good news is this: In the public mind, software has long been the big story — why has the Chinese com pany TikTok so consumed members of Generation Z? How should Facebook and Twitter treat posts from former president Donald Trump? There has been far too little focus on the hard ware without which none of these platforms could exist at all. Now, as the beginnings of comprehensive semicon ductor strategy come into view, it looks like that’s final ly changing.

— The Washington Post

A look back in t me. A look back in t me.

70 Years Ago December 1952 Did you notice any dif ference in your drinking water today? Chances are that you didn’t although it contained something new — one part of fluorine per million. However, fluorine has no taste. The fluorida tion machinery, which was ordered early last spring, was put into operation at the city water plant yes terday afternoon. Prior to that it had been thorough ly tested by local officials and Russell Culp, head of the water and sanitation division of the State Board of Health. Fluorine is not ed for its ability to reduce tooth decay in children. It is particularly effective for those under 16 years of age. Infants born to moth ers who drink fluoridated water are said to have bet ter teeth. Its use is recom mended by the American Medical Association, the American Dental Associ ation, the U.S. Board of Health and a score of state organizations.

*****

Iola’s square will soon be twice as brightly lit at night as it is now, Clem Griffith, city engineer, said this morning. The last bit of equipment needed to erect light standards on the courthouse side of the square has been received. This morning workmen began digging the trenches in which the electric cable will be laid. Five standards, identical to those on the business side of the streets, will be erected on each side of the courthouse square. *****

T. A. Edgerton, Iola ab stractor, has successfully and successively followed two professions. He started as a school teacher, became an abstractor and now is selling his business to Frank Thompson, owner of the Iola Abstract Co. Edger ton taught school or was a school administrator for 47 years. In 1924 at the age of 53, he retired from school work and went into the ab stract business to give “my growing family a better break.” He bought an ab stract business in Iola from B. C. Lamb, who had owned it about two years. The firm was originally opened here in the early 1870s by the late T. S. Stover. Edgerton made the business flourish and now is ready for his second retirement.

Schools are missing their chance to fight learning loss

Since the start of the pan demic, Congress has provid ed public school districts with $190 billion in relief funds, roughly triple what the federal government spends on K-12 education in a typical year. This infusion has hand ed schools an opportunity to start repairing the damage caused by remote learning. Far too many are in danger of squandering it.

The need for an interven tion could hardly be clearer. Results from national assess ments show that the pandem ic wiped out two decades’ worth of student gains in math and reading. U.S. grade schoolers lost an average of half a year’s learning in math, with some in high-pov erty districts behind by a year or more. Without urgent action to help students recov er lost ground, those deficits will only continue to grow

— likely driving up dropout rates, reducing students’ lifetime earnings, and slow ing the country’s economic growth.

Lawmakers offered schools three rounds of relief funds.

The CARES Act of March 2020 included $13.2 billion to pay for technology and other material needed to support the temporary transition to remote learning. A second COVID relief bill passed at the end of 2020 authorized an additional $54 billion in aid. In March 2021, President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan included $122 billion for schools, the biggest-ever onetime federal investment in public K-12 education.

The size of these programs hid basic flaws. The ARP re quired that school districts de vote 20% of their relief funds to “addressing” learning loss, but didn’t specify bench

marks for measuring student progress or consequences if schools failed to meet them. In the absence of clear rules, districts have used the funds to repair buildings, pay staff salaries and upgrade sports facilities. Some districts have used their pandemic aid to make up for budget shortfalls caused by declining student enrollment in failing schools.

Even more alarming is schools’ lack of urgency in putting available resources toward combating learning loss — despite evidence that poorly performing students have fallen further behind since returning to the class room. According to one anal ysis, less than 15% of funds allocated in Biden’s 2021 re lief bill have been spent, with many districts spending less than 5%. A McKinsey report this month found that onethird of pandemic funds have

yet to even be budgeted. At that rate, schools could wind up with as much as $20 billion unspent by September 2024, the deadline for using the funds. While the next Con gress may extend the dead line, there’s no guarantee it will.

School officials need to rec ognize that this may be their only chance to reverse the harms imposed by the pan demic. First, districts should gather data to determine the scale of learning loss within schools and identify where students are furthest behind. Next, they should expand tu toring programs by enlisting parents, college students, retired teachers and others. Finally, they should extend the school year and ensure students spend more time in class — through after-school and Saturday academies, mandatory summer school

for struggling pupils, and in creased outreach to families to reduce chronic absentee ism.

Policymakers also need to get serious. States should require that school districts publicize their spending plans and see to it that remaining relief funds are poured into classroom instruction, rather than non-academic priorities. Congress should hold regu lar hearings on how states and local school systems are spending relief funds and work with the Biden admin istration to create a publicly accessible scorecard to track districts’ progress and call at tention to schools that under perform.

The academic damage caused by the pandemic is immense. Failing to use all available resources to address it would be a tragic mistake.

President Joseph Biden in Syracuse, N.Y., in October to celebrate the federal government’s effort to spur domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors, spending that will help bring a Micron Technologies megafab plant and a $100 billion investment to central New York. DENNIS NETT | DNETT@SYRACUSE.COM/TNS

Iola girls snatch first win; boys fall

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

RICHMOND — The Iola High girls basketball team won their first game of the season, defeating Central Heights, 43-31.

The Iola boys lost to Cen tral Heights, 60-45, due to a lack of rebounding and missed shot opportunities.

Girls Basketball Iola and Central Heights kept pace alongside each oth er up until the second half when the Mustangs pulled away behind stout defense and good shooting.

Reese Curry dribbled into the lane for a couple of twopoint baskets in the first quarter. Aysha Houk and Kei ra Fawson also hit two-point ers. Iola trailed Central Heights heading to the sec ond quarter, 13-10.

“We learned that we’re coming into our pace of the game that we want to set and just continuing to focus on that,” said Iola head coach Ali Peters. “It’s about what game we want to play and us setting the tone for it.”

Peters is serving as inter

was able to hold Central Heights in line to halftime, allowing only four sec ond-quarter points, including another three from Brockus.

Iola’s Houk came out fir ing in the second half and scored 11 points in the third quarter alone, hitting a trio of three-pointers. Crusin bery also hit a two-pointer to help the Mustangs take a 3120 advantage at the end of the third quarter.

“I think we had a lot of people step up and take more shots at the basket, along with just running through our plays,” Peters said. “We were more patient and we started playing our game at our pace.”

The Mustangs held the Vi kings to 14 points in the sec ond half. The Viking’s Brock us finished the night with 18 points, hitting five treys.

It’s safe to say the Mustangs cranked up the intensity in the second half both offen sively and defensively. Faw son went up for four points, Houk hit a three-pointer, Jackie Fager collected two points and Karingten Hall scored a two-point basket to

Humboldt wrestles in KanOkla

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT

Mathes took home second place with 18 team points in his 165-pound weight class.

The Cub first received a bye round and then took down Bartlesville’s Mason Man ley in a 5-1 decision. Mathes then beat Cleveland’s Luke Johnson by a 3-1 decision be fore he lost to Pittsburg’s JJ White on a fall over 1:01 into

the match.

Slocum took third place with 20 team points in the 190-pound weight class.

Slocum received a bye be fore he won by a fall over Shawnee Heights’ Caleb Seelbach 3:40 into the match.

Slocum then lost to Indepen dence’s Isaiah Melugin on a fall over 5:17 in. He then top pled Bartlesville’s JD Atter by on a fall over 4:20 into the match.

Slocum knocked off Newkirk’s Ryan Axelson on a fall over 2:54 into the match.

Humboldt travels to Fredo nia on Friday at 6 p.m.

HMS duels Galesburg

HUMBOLDT — The Hum boldt Middle boys and girls basketball teams faced off against Galesburg Monday night.

The Cubs A-team beat Galesburg, 43-20.

Humboldt’s Collin Cook led offensively with 22 points,

going 10-for-20 from the floor.

Hudson Rees also scored five points, Kreed Jones, four, and Jack Works chipped in two points.

The Cubs were more physical under the basket,

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Wildcats dominated in opener

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

CENTER —

YATES

The Yates Center High boys basketball team was dominated start to finish in their season opener against Madison on Fri day, 42-15.

The Wildcats (0-1) got be hind early and could nev er make enough shots to claw back into the game. The Bulldogs played a zone defense and forced Yates Center to take early three-pointers which they missed and lost posses

sion.

Yates Center continued to work around Madison’s zone defense but could only muster up four points by halftime to trail, 29-4.

“We were really hin dered by a slow start and the inability to make shots,” said Yates Center head coach Lane Huffman. “Madison plays a really good zone defense that forced us into settling for early possession threepoint shots.”

“I thought our defense was good enough to keep us in the game, our offense

just wasn’t flowing as we have practiced,” said Huff man. “You always want to start the season strong with a win, especially when you’re at home. We will regroup and be ready for our home tournament this week.”

Cash Cummings led Yates Center offensively with seven points while Emmit George collected four points and Emmet Britain and Jayston Rice netted two points apiece.

Yates Center hosts Hart ford on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

im head coach. The Vikings were led by Bailey Brockus’s pair of three-point swishes as well as a three-pointer from Addison

Ouellette to grab the early ad vantage.

The Mustangs couldn’t get much to fall again in the second quarter. Fawson and

Curry hit a pair of two-point ers while Kaysin Crusinbery and Houk went for three free throws total. Luckily, the Iola defense

Iola’s Courtland Carson (13) drives into the lane and looks for the rim in the second half of a 6045 loss at Central Heights on Monday. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

— Humboldt wrestlers Cole Mathes and Dakota Slocum participated in the KanOkla Varsity com petition over the weekend.

Humboldt wrestler Garren Goodner matches up last season. REGISTER FILE PHOTO

Yates Center High boys basketball player Canon Cavender . REGISTER FILE PHOTO

Public notice

DENVER (AP) — De

ion Sanders sauntered into the Arrow Touch down Club for what felt more like an old-fash ioned tent revival than a news conference to introduce the Universi ty of Colorado’s splashy new hire of “Coach Prime” as its new head football coach.

At that very moment Sunday afternoon, the Denver Broncos were predictably blowing an other late lead in their death spiral under Na thaniel Hackett and Russell Wilson, who this time couldn’t even reach the red zone much less the end zone in a 10-9 loss at Baltimore.

Folsom Field has been college football’s waste land for the better part of this century but a per fect storm has brewed over Boulder that could allow the Buffaloes to turn things around overnight from a 1-11 team that was one of the worst in the nation to a relevant program again.

The NCAA now al lows athletes to cash in on their exploits and

transfer schools without having to sit out a sea son. And the university has relaxed its stringent credit transfer regula tions while creating a pool of donations to par cel out to players.

Combine that with the home run hire of Sand ers and Colorado can suddenly compete with traditional powerhous es in luring five-star recruits and prominent players in the transfer portal.

Suddenly it’s cool to be at Colorado, and with Coach Prime’s arrival, the Buffs have swiped the buzz that the Bron cos have owned in the Centennial State for de cades.

Now, it’s the Bron cos who are at the bot tom of the barrel in the NFL. At 3-9, they’ve lost 13 of their last 16, the franchise’s worst such stretch since the 1970 merger.

It was the state’s pro fessional football team and not its flagship uni versity that had all the buzz this spring.

When the Buffs were

embarking on a season that would see them win just one game and fire their head football coach Karl Dorrell midseason, the Broncos were boast ing about their acquisi tion of Wilson, a Super Bowl-winning quarter back supposedy still in his prime at 33, whom they would reward with a contract extension be fore the season that was worth just shy of a quar ter billion dollars.

Broncos fans were thrilled that the team’s new owners were mem bers of the wealthiest family in America.

Walmart heir Rob Wal ton, the oldest child of Walmart co-founder Sam Walton, bought the Broncos along with his daughter, Carrie Walton Penner, and her hus band, Greg Penner, for $4.65 billion, a global re cord for a professional sports franchise.

Suddenly, the NFL’s wealthiest owners by a mile were in the Mile High City.

Things were looking up in Denver, where Hackett was plucked off

the Packers staff to re place Vic Fangio.

But things took a bad turn from the start, when Hackett settled for a Brandon McManus 64yard field-goal attempt in Wilson’s horrible homecoming at Seattle in the season opener.

McManus missed, just as he did Sunday when he came up short on a 63-yarder at Baltimore, leaving the Broncos still without a win on Ameri can soil since Sept. 25.

Wilson has thrown just eight touchdowns in 11 starts and the Bron cos have reached the end zone three times since Halloween.

Detroit Lions running back Jamaal Williams has as many touch downs himself — 14 — as the entire Broncos roster this season.

The Broncos managed just three field goals Sun day but still throttled the Ravens all afternoon before allowing Lamar Jackson’s backup Tyler Huntley to drive them 91 yards in 16 plays for the game’s only touchdown with 28 seconds left.

The Dallas Cowboys scored 33 points in the fourth quarter Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts, or 18 more points than the Broncos have managed in the third quarter all season.

It’s “Groundhog Day” in Denver with the Broncos’ maladroit offense unable to score and its stellar defense incapable of closing out opponents. Every Sun day, they trot out the same tired offense be hind a patchwork line, revamped backfield and reserve receivers.

Every Monday, Hack ett is peppered with questions about why this has been such a poor fit with Wilson and the elusive fixes to this mess.

“We’re evaluating ev erything,” has become his mantra as Hackett dodges straightforward answers better than Wil son eludes the pass rush.

One longtime fan who’s been a season tick et holder for nearly four decades told The Asso ciated Press that while he won’t sell his tickets for fear of having them

revoked by the Bron cos, he cannot even give them away, even to this weekend’s game against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.

Not helping matters was a rare slip-up by the Broncos’ social me dia team over the week end after the week’s poster on the team’s official Twitter account showed Denver’s lead ing tackler Alex Single ton alongside Jackson, Baltimore’s dynamic starting quarterback who went out in the first quarter with a knee injury.

Critics wondered why they highlighted Singleton rather than say, star cornerback Patrick Surtain II or star safety Justin Sim mons, who would re cord two interceptions Sunday.

“Looks like we made some new friends with our game poster!” read the team’s response on Twitter. “Shoutout to the real fans who know we do this every week & always feature a differ ent player.”

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A relieved Tom Brady stepped to the podium with a big smile.

“Just like we drew it up,” the seven-time Su per Bowl quarterback said after throwing a pair of touchdown passes in the final three minutes Monday night to help the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rally from a 13-point deficit and beat the New Orleans Saints 17-16.

Clearly frustrated and on the verge of being held without a TD pass at home by the Saints for the third straight season, Brady led scoring drives of 91 and 63 yards and the Bucs (6-6) back to .500, tightening the team’s grip on first place in the weak NFC South.

“We’ve had a lot of

games come down to the end,” Brady said.

“Some we’ve won, some we’ve lost, which is why we’re 6-6. It’s not where we want to be, but we’ll keep fighting.”

The 45-year-old quar terback tossed a oneyard TD pass to rookie Cade Otton, pulling within 16-10 with ex actly three minutes remaining. He got the ball back with 2:29 to go, then won it with a 6-yard throw to another rookie, Rachaad White, with three seconds left.

“They played hard, they showed grit. It was a complete team effort, obviously,” Bucs coach Todd Bowles said. “De fense got the ball back, the offense cashed it in. Got it back one more time, cashed it in one more time.”

The Saints (4-9) swept the season series be tween the division ri vals each of the past two seasons, holding Brady without a TD pass in a 38-3 New Orleans rout in 2020 and again in a 9-0 road victory in 2021.

Tampa Bay ended a seven-game, regu lar-season losing streak in the series with a 20-10 victory in Week 2, sack ing Jameis Winston six times and forcing five turnovers.

Andy Dalton, who didn’t play in the earlier meetings, threw for 225 yards and a touchdown without an interception for New Orleans, howev er the Saints ultimately paid for having to settle for three field goals by Wil Lutz on drives deep into Bucs territory.

The Bucs rebounded

from an overtime loss to Cleveland to extend their division lead over the Atlanta Falcons to 1½ games.

The last-place Saints missed out on an oppor tunity to pull into a tie for second with the Fal cons. None of the four teams in the NFC South has a winning record.

“I’ve got to go into a bye week knowing that we should have beat this team,” Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan said. “The first time we should have beat this team. This time we should have. ... We should have beat a lot of other teams. We didn’t.”

Brady, who before the game exchanged greetings with the big gest prize on this win ter’s baseball free agent market AL MVP Aaron Judge, finished 36 of 54 for 281 yards and two touchdowns.

The Bucs quarter back led a long field goal drive on the

propel Iola’s fourth-quarter offense.

“We got into their lane a lot more and shut down their top scorer,” Peters said. “We com municated a lot better and made things more efficient on defense. I think that’s with any sport and especially in basketball, knowing where people are and knowing when to cover a certain spot, when to box out.”

Houk led the scoring charge with 18 points, followed by Fawson’s eight points and Hall and Curry’s six points apiece. Houk’s 18 points included her hitting four shots from threepoint distance.

The Iola girls face Olathe Heritage at Cen tral Heights on Thurs day at 3:30 p.m.

Boy’s Basketball

The Mustangs showed up early but faltered late as they al lowed a six-point half time lead to turn into a 15-point defeat.

The blue and gold got the ball moving

and hit shots early.

Mac Leonard hit a pair of three-pointers and a two-pointer while Landon Weide hit a three to keep Iola in the game. They trailed 1413 at the end of the first quarter.

Leonard continued hitting shots in the second quarter after another three-point er put his team ahead.

Courtland Carlson also knocked down a couple three-pointers while Eli Adams went for a pair of two-point baskets.

“We didn’t rebound at all tonight,” said Iola head coach Luke By croft. “If we don’t start rebounding the ball, we’re not going to beat anybody. We’ve got to rebound and we’ve got to keep the ball from go ing in the lane.”

Central Heights’ Ethan Rowen was a thorn in Iola’s side.

Rowen scored 22 points in the contest.

Iola led Central Heights at halftime, 3025.

Unfortunately, the Mustangs’ hot shoot ing and tough defense

didn’t last as the team allowed the Vikings to outscore them 15-7 in the third quarter. Weide hit another three-point er and Adams drib bled in for a layup but those would be the only third-quarter scores.

“We did things well early. We rebounded, took care of the ball and we found good shots,” said Bycroft. “We built a lead. But in the fourth quarter we didn’t have the same stuff. We just got soft, made poor de cisions and we couldn’t finish a shot at all. Then we started dropping our heads.”

Central Heights out scored Iola in the fourth quarter, 15-7.

Adams nailed a three-pointer and Leon ard went underneath for a two-point score for the only five points from the floor for Iola in the fourth quarter.

Leonard led Iola with 13 points, followed by Weide’s 11 points and Adams’ nine points.

Iola will tip-off against West Franklin at Central Heights on Thursday at 5 p.m.

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World Cup Viewers Guide: Round 16 wrap-up

DOHA, Qatar (AP)

— The final day of the round of 16 concludes Tuesday at the World Cup when Morocco fac es Spain, and Portugal goes head-to-head with Switzerland for the final two spots in the quarter finals.

The results will be decided on the field, but for Spain and Morocco, the game will be played against the backdrop of the long and complex re lationship between two border nations separated by the Strait of Gibraltar.

As neighboring na tions, there are ties be tween the two teams, and many of Morocco’s play ers speak Spanish and the team’s medical staff is Spanish.

Morocco goalkeep er Yassine Bounou and striker Youssef En-Ne syri both play in Spain for Sevilla, right back Achraf Hakimi, a Paris Saint-Germain player, was born in Madrid, and coach Walid Regragui played in Spain with Racing Santander.

The team’s also met in the World Cup just four years ago in the final group game in 2018, a 2-2 draw.

As Morocco advanced through this tourna ment, the national team captivated both its fans at home and Qatari, Sau di and Tunisians fans in Doha as the last Arab team still playing.

“Everyone wants to

come to Doha,” said Regragui, who became coach in August. “We could fill two stadiums.”

Morocco is trying to secure its first appear ance in the quarterfinals.

The Atlas Lions topped Group F with a draw against Croatia, followed by wins over Belgium and Canada to reach the knockout round for the first time since 1986.

Not a single player on the current squad was born the last time Mo rocco advanced this deep into the tournament, and its run in Qatar has been a national source of pride back home.

Spain opened the World Cup with a 7-0 win over Costa Rica, fol lowed by a 1-1 draw with Germany. The 2-1 loss to

Japan in the final game of group play was tense as La Roja fluctuated between in and out of advancing into the next round because its fate was also tied to other re sults.

“The match against Japan has to serve as a lesson for what is to come. Luckily, that de feat has been resolved and we are clear about what we have to do,” Gavi said. “We are in the round of 16 and there are some very good teams that haven’t been able to do it. That’s why we have to really think that pres sure is a privilege.”

The loss to Japan snapped a seven-game unbeaten streak for Spain and got the atten tion of its players.

“We are not going to lose focus on the goal, which is to win the World Cup,” Gavi said. “We are going to look for it by being faithful to what we have been doing all these years. It would be a mistake to give up every thing we believe in.”

Spain also met Mo rocco in the teams’ fi nal group game in 2018, which ended 2-2.

Morocco is trying to match the longest un beaten run by an African team at the World Cup, a record set by Cameroon, which went unbeaten for five games between 1982 and 1990.

“We didn’t come just to say ‘oh, we almost got close’,” Regragui said. “We need to get the re sults as all the Europe

an or South American teams do. We need to em ulate them.”

If Sergio Busquets plays for Spain, he would tie the national team’s World Cup record with 17 appearances, a mark shared by Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos.

PORTUGALSWITZERLAND

Cristiano Ronaldo plays again in this World Cup when Portugal faces Switzerland for a spot in the quarterfinals, and all the attention is on the su perstar.

And not really for the right reasons.

Following his split with Manchester Unit ed, there are rumors that Ronaldo could move to a Saudi Arabian club for an astronomical amount of money. He was crit icized for the body lan guage he exhibited when he was substituted in a match last week, and a poll in Portugal suggest ed fans in his home coun try don’t even want him part of the national team anymore.

Portugal coach Fer nando Santos was un bothered by the poll and decisions that Ronaldo may make about his club career. After eight years as head of Portugal, Santos is used to the dis tractions that come from having a global giant on the roster.

But Ronaldo’s obvious displeasure with being taken out of the game in

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opening possession of the game, but only had sporadic success after that until finally get the Bucs in the end zone with help from a 44yard pass interference on Saints cornerback Paulson Adebo.

Otton scored on the next play.

“Tom Brady is Tom Brady. He was meticu lous in staying to the plan of his dink and dunk,” Jordan said. “He had the one prayer that he sent out there and got bailed out with the

flag.”

A week after being shut out for the first time in 332 games, the Saints built a 10-3 half time lead on Dalton’s 30-yard scoring pass to Taysom Hill and a 38yard field goal set up by just the third intercep

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rebounding the Silver Streaks, 23-16. Rees led at the glass with seven rebounds, followed by Cook’s five rebounds. Jones and Works had four rebounds apiece.

Humboldt Middle School’s B-team then ousted Galesburg’s B team, 37-7.

The Cubs outre bounded the Silver Streaks, 27-3. Hum boldt’s defense prevent ed Galesburg from scor ing in the first quarter and surrendered only two points through the entire first half.

Conner Newman led offensively for the Cubs with 16 points while Weston Johnson and Ty Shaughnessy tacked on eight and seven points, respectively. Newman shot eight-of-16 from the floor while Shaugh nessy went one-for-one from three-point dis tance.

Johnson led on the boards with 14 rebounds

while Newman collected seven rebounds. Hum boldt’s defensive perfor mance was highlighted by Shaughnessy’s six steals, Kolton Hanson’s five steals and John son’s three steals.

The Humboldt Mid dle School girls A-team cruised past the Gales burg Middle School girls A-team, 34-5.

The Lady Cubs jumped out to a 10-3 advantage by the end of the first quarter and by 26-3 at halftime. Humboldt was mainly helped out by their 27 forced steals which they converted into points.

“We came out a little sluggish and had to get the nerves out,” said Humboldt head coach Scott Brady. “We really picked up the intensity in that second quarter and got after the ball.”

Lakyn Meadows led offensively with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Jo Ellison notched sev en points and five steals.

Leah Carman had six points and five steals and Hadley Galloway registered three points and five rebounds.

Bailey Daniels and Kinley Hart each netted two points.

The HMS girls B-team ran through the Gales burg Middle School girls B-team, 22-4.

Lady Cubs Jor dan Hencey and Jetta Mathews each totaled six points, Galloway had four points while Kaydence Whitworth, Maggie McCullough and Carman each netted two points. McCullough led up front with eight rebounds while Whit worth made five steals.

“Not bad for their first game,” Brady said. “Both teams have a lot they can work on still but I was very pleased with our opening night.”

The Humboldt Mid dle School basketball teams play at Cherry vale on Thursday.

tion Brady has thrown all season.

Demario Davis’ pick was also only the eighth takeaway New Orleans defense — by far a league-low — in 13 games. Defensive end Cameron Jordan later forced a fumble

that the Saints turned into a 12-play, 7-minute, 20-second drive that Lutz finished with a 21yard field goal, making it 13-3 late in the third quarter.

“We didn’t make the plays when they were there at the end of the

the 65th minute of a loss to South Korea? That ir ritated the coach, who wouldn’t say if Ronaldo will be captain against Switzerland on Tuesday.

“I didn’t like it, not at all. I really didn’t like it. We fixed that in-house and that’s it,” said San tos, who wouldn’t com mit on Ronaldo’s status as captain against Swit zerland.

“I only decide who’s going to be the captain when I reach the stadi um. I don’t know what the lineup is,” he said.

Ronaldo opened the tournament by becom ing the first player to score a goal at five World Cups. But there’s a blem ish on his record — a fat zero in goals scored at the World Cup in the knockout stage. He heads into what is likely his fi nal World Cup to play a Swiss team that hasn’t made it to the quarterfi nals since 1954.

That doesn’t mean Switzerland can’t chal lenge Portugal. The Swiss eliminated reign ing World Cup champion France in the last 16 at the European Champi onship last year and has been one of the most consistent teams of this tournament.

“We have seen how euphoric Swiss people are about being at this stage,” coach Murat Ya kin said Monday. “We’ve proven that we’re able to beat them.”

game and they did. That’s what it came down to,” Dalton said.

“We had opportunities for that game to be very different than what it was, and I feel like I’m a broken record saying the same thing. We just missed opportunities.”

Kylian Mbappe (10) of France and Grzegorz Krychowiak (10) of Poland go after the ball during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 matches between France and Poland on Sunday. ELSA/TNS

Mom’s help worth it?

Dear Carolyn: I have three kids, ages 5 and under, and life is hectic. We have child care dur ing our working hours but are otherwise pretty much constantly look ing after our kids.

My mom always says she wants to help, and on rare occasions she will take the older two overnight, which IS a big help. But sometimes I need smaller-scale help, such as someone to watch the kids while I take a shower or do the laundry. She offers that, but when I get out of the shower, she tuts about how she had to do all the dishes. Or while I’m doing dishes, she tuts at me about how I seem to need a shower. She comes from a place of concern (“Poor thing, I can see you haven’t had time to wash your hair!”) and she IS offer ing help, so do I have to tolerate that she is mak ing me feel bad while do ing it? — Feel Bad

Feel Bad: Well, hm. A few things jump out at me.

First, sympathy. It’s so hard to find a way to be with people we love who just push our buttons. You’re willing to try now, because you want something from your mom, which is opportu nistic and not ideal — but in a way it’s a good thing. Under different circumstances, you’d probably just keep her at arm’s length; by needing her, you get an opportu nity to find a better way to communicate.

Second, she isn’t “making” you feel any thing; she is being her self, and herself annoys you. That’s the only transaction. And you’re not “tolerating” some thing she does to you; you’re deciding whether the pros of her involve ment outweigh the cons. That’s it.

Although you can talk to her about some of the ways the two of you com municate, this is mostly something you manage within yourself. As in:

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Can you change the way you interpret, and there fore respond to, your mom’s comments?

Adding these up, I see the mom thing working if you can, basically, get over yourself. (I.e., stop seeing it as being about you.) Accept her tutting as the verbal release of her own [stuff]. Maybe she’s anxious or awk ward or craves attention or martyrdom points or whatever, and she lacks the emotional intelli gence to handle it better. Can you train yourself to breathe through your own reflexive objections, toward the greater good of (now) having some help and (over time) strengthening her bond with your kids?

If yes, then try on some constructive re sponses to her tutting: “You’re a champ, Mom.” “Leave me the dishes if you want.” “Yeah, I swear they multiply.”

Give her a few gentle op tions to see what releas es the pressure. Pick the best one and move on.

You want to scream, but on a deeper level you want to get along better and even understand her. This is where the deep breaths come in. Ignore the impulse to react, then breathe into the greater good, then act.

Readers’ thoughts: • Throughout high school, I was a babysit ter/mother’s helper to a family. I would get regu lar calls stating, “I need to take a shower,” or, “I need to wash the floor.

Can you come over?” I would go over for less than an hour, usually, to “make sure no one dies.”

I made some pocket change, helped her tre mendously, and I loved it. I believe her mother was equally help-chal lenged.

Does laser treatment make sex less painful?

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 71-year-old wom an in good health, but sex for me is extreme ly painful. Not only the start and inser tion, but also once in side. I’ve seen ads for laser treatment; how ever, this is $2,000. What do you suggest? — Anon.

Answer: Painful sex is a very common problem in women and, unfortunately, one that some women aren’t comfortable bringing up to their doctor.

There are many, many different causes, and most of them are treatable.

They can be physi ological (low estro gen levels, which are nearly universal in women after undergo ing menopause, can often lead to pain ful sex); anatomical (including endome triosis and benign tumors); neurologi cal (such as pudendal neuralgia); and psy chological (such as a history of intimate partner violence). There are many oth ers, and I couldn’t do justice to them all in 10 columns. A com prehensive evalua tion is essential by an expert, such as a gynecologist who subspecializes in pel vic pain.

Laser treatment holds some promise; however, its role in

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chronic pain is not yet clearly defined, and I would strongly recom mend an evaluation by an expert to see where the pain might be com ing from prior to spend ing money on an un proven therapy that has the potential for compli cations, especially when you aren’t sure what is being treated.

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Crest, MVJH girls earn split

MORAN — Crest Middle School’s girls took the early lead Monday against Marmaton Valley Junior High and held that advantage to the end Monday to win, 25-16.

Crest held an 11-2 cushion at halftime. The teams played evenly through the second half, with the Wildcats unable to make much of a dent in the Lancer lead.

Taylen Blevins

scored six to pace the Wildcats, while Taylen Blevins, Andie Carr, Mahala Burris, Emma Michael and Addisyn Drake all had two.

Gracyn Ellington and Summer Valentine poured in eight points apiece to pace Crest, followed by Jaycee Schmidt, who chipped in with seven. Hanna Schmidt also scored two.

In B team action, Marmaton Valley took

control with a 14-0 run to defeat Crest, 18-4, in two quarters.

Carr scored six, Drake and Kaylee Burris added four apiece, and Mary Burris and Michael scored two each.

Valentine scored all four of Crest’s B team points.

The Wildcats travel to Arma Thursday to take on Northeast. Crest travels to Yates Center next Monday.

Wildcats, Lancers tangle

MORAN — Crest Middle School’s one-two punch of Lane Yocham and Kole Walter proved to be a tough nut to crack for Marmaton Valley Junior High Monday.

Yocham scored 17 points — 13 in the first quarter alone — while Walter scored 15 in the Lancers’ 52-46 victory.

The Wildcats made things interesting in the second half, outscoring Crest 17-4 in the fourth quarter, but could not complete the comeback.

“We had great energy,” Marmaton Valley head coach Byron Marshall said. “We made a huge comeback and really turned up the defense. I’m very proud of the kids’ effort.”

Marmaton Valley relied upon a balanced scoring attack, with six players scoring between six and 10 points.

Kaden McVey notched 10 to lead the Wildcats. Tucker Sutton followed with eight. Cooper Scharff, Thomas Allee, Ethan Lawson and Dagan Barney all had six. Lane Lord and Kris McVey chipped in with two apiece.

Xander Fuller and

Roy Gordon both had seven for the Lancers. Koiy Miller notched six.

Marmaton Valley rolled to a 36-11 win in the B team matchup, behind Kaden McVey’s 16 points and Kris Mcvey’s 10. Truett Blevins, Lord, Kooper Welch, Brendon Newman and Kameren McClenning had two points each.

Charlie Slyter scored four to lead the Lancer B

team. Ethan Flyingman, Grady Allen, Ty Coberly all had two points. Tristain Boone scored one.

The Wildcats also prevailed, 15-8, in the C team game. Hunter Doolittle scored eight to lead MV. Corbin Bowers followed with five and Welch had two.

Crest’s Wyatt Francis scored four. Coberly and Boone had two each.

Verlander, Turner agree to deals as winter meetings heat up

SAN DIEGO (AP)

— Justin Verlander is going to the New York Mets. Trea Turner has agreed to a blockbuster deal with the Philadelphia Phillies. There are three more high-profile shortstops in free agency, along with ace pitcher Carlos Rodón.

And one big slugger looms above the whole market.

Baseball’s first winter meetings since 2019 kicked into high gear Monday when Verlander agreed to an $86.7 million, two-year deal with New York, and Turner joined Philadelphia for a $300 million, 11-year contract. Clayton Kershaw also returned to the Los Angeles Dodgers on a $20 million, oneyear deal.

The biggest outstanding question at the end of an impactful day at a downtown San Diego hotel centered on the status of AL MVP Aaron Judge, who was all the way across the country at the NFL’s “Monday Night Football” game at Tampa Bay — right across the street from the Yankees’ spring

training complex.

Judge is a free agent after setting an American League record with 62 homers, powering the Yankees to the AL East title. He also tied for the major league lead with 131 RBIs and just missed a Triple Crown with a .311 batting average.

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, fresh off signing a new four-year contract, said he spoke with Judge’s agents on Monday.

“We are in active conversations,” Cashman said. “Certainly we’d love to land the plane favorably here in New York in the Bronx. But we’re not flying the plane. And so we’ll wait, we’ll wait for this process to play out.”

Judge, a Northern California native, also visited with the San Francisco Giants last month, and there likely are more teams monitoring the market for the 6-foot-7 outfielder who turns 31 in April.

“I feel good about what we’ve done but some of it is out of our control. I think we’ve put ourselves in po-

sition,” said Farhan Zaidi, the president of baseball operations for the Giants.

Judge was drafted by New York in 2013 and spent his first seven big league seasons with the Yankees. But Cashman said he hasn’t received any indication from Judge’s camp that the team will have any last chance to match any offers to the slugger.

“I’m not putting a timeframe on him as of today, basically, and we’ve not put any timeframe on him that way because out of respect for the position he’s earned himself in free agency,” Cashman said. “And now you’ve seen in the last 48 hours, people are starting to make decisions. So it’s not like we’ve missed time, in my opinion.

“But I understand that the longer things go, the more at risk you are.”

Verlander made his decision Monday, agreeing to a contract with the Mets that is worth $43,333,333 per year and includes a vesting player option for 2025 at $35

million, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because there was no immediate announcement.

Verlander departs

Houston to step in for Jacob deGrom, who left New York after nine seasons when he agreed to a $185 million, five-year contract with Texas last week. It also puts Verlander on the same team as Max Scherzer after

they played together with the Detroit Tigers from 2010-14.

Mets general manager Billy Eppler declined to confirm the Verlander move, but he said the team was working on its pitching plans.

Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Thomas Allee, left, is guarded by Crest Middle School’s Roy Gordon Monday. PHOTO BY HALIE LUKEN/MVHS

Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Emma Michael (22) is guarded by Crest Middle School’s Summer Valentine (24) Monday. In the background is MVJHS teammate Kaylee Burris (13). PHOTO BY HALIE LUKEN/MVHS