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Allen County COVID-19 Case Count Current cases .......... 91 Total cases* ............ 448 Deaths.................... 1 * Since the start of the pandemic.

Sources: Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments, Kansas Department of Health and Environment

COVID case closes library By the Register Staff

The Iola Public Library will be closed until at least Monday after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19.

A Facebook book sale scheduled for today was canceled.

Curbside pickup is available between 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on weekdays while the library is shut down. Drive down the alley behind the library and See COVID | Page A3

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Getting bent along the Horseshoe Trevor Hoag Just Prairie A yellow-white sun was descending the horizon in northern Allen County, not far from a place still called Horseshoe Bend on the Neosho River.

Soon, the setting sun spread a fiery band of color, illuminating the fields littered with corn cobs and stalks.

The detritus sent my mind spinning.

“It’s strange,” I thought after setting down my whiskey glass on the nearby table back home, “This was an illegal act for almost half of Kansas’ history.”

Perhaps longer than any other state in the nation.

Almost exactly 100 years ago, the federal ban on alcohol was enacted due to the 18th Amendment to the Constitution.

At the time, someone in Iola wrote “prohibition is effective

A recent exhibit at the Allen County Historical Museum showcases the events of prohibition and the raid at Horseshoe Bend. at midnight tonight … and declares places where liquor is sold to be common nuisances.”

No more public procure-

ment of hooch, spirits or sauce.

And thereby, like many other reigning political issues, was an adjoining claim that

Local prosecutor accused of lying to juries in other counties

By SHERMAN SMITH Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — The Shawnee County prosecutor handling the retrial of Dana Chandler in a double murder case says a litany of evidence used to convict Chandler in 2012 doesn’t exist.

Deputy district attorney Charles Kitt provided testimony Monday in a disciplinary hearing for his predecessor and former colleague, Jacqie Spradling. She is accused of lying to juries in Shawnee and Jackson counties to secure convictions in high-profile cases.

Spradling is now the assistant county attorney in Allen County.

The trial of Chandler for the 2002 murders of her ex-husband, Mike Sisco, and his fiancee, Karen Harkness,

Jacqie Spradling, left, arrives with her legal team Monday for a hearing into alleged misconduct by Spradling as a prosecutor in Shawnee and Jackson counties. (SHERMAN SMITH/KANSAS REFLECTOR) was featured by “48 Hours.”

Cameras aren’t allowed in the hearing for Spradling, which is taking place mostly out of view in a pandemic-restricted space at the Kansas Office

of the Disciplinary Administrator. News reporters are allowed to watch by video link but ordered not to make recordings or take images of this week’s hearing.

Spradling faces seven ethics violations for comments she made to the jury in the Chandler case and to investigators handling the complaint against her, which was filed by Alma attorney Keen Umbehr.

As outlined by deputy disciplinary administrator Matt Vogelsberg in his opening statement, Spradling fabricated a phone conversation between Chandler and Sisco, lied about Chandler violating a restraining order that never existed, claimed without evidence that Chandler drove from Topeka to Denver by way of Nebraska after the murders, falsely told jurors that Chandler read news articles about how to get away with murder, willfully violated a judge’s order not to point out a trial observer, caused the reversal of convictions, and See HEARING | Page A3

Drop boxes allow for safe disposal of medication

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Allen County pharmacies and the hospital recently added safe disposal methods for unused prescriptions.

The new MedSafe boxes, provided with the assistance of Thrive Allen County, allow residents to safely discard unused medication at convenient locations.

The new boxes are located at Iola Pharmacy, 109 E. Madison Ave.; Iola Pharmacy at the Family Physicians building at 1408 East St.; and at the Allen County Regional Hospital.

The pharmacy locations are open during regular business hours. The hospital location is Vol. 122, No. 283 Iola, KS 75 Cents

currently open only to emergency room patients because of COVID-19 restrictions.

Any medications can be discarded, including liquid medications. Needles and syringes with sharp points or edges are not allowed.

It is recommended that you drop the medication in its original container. Staff are not allowed to handle any medication.

The locations were chosen because they allow for discreet disposal, but are located in a facility that is safe.

Other drop boxes are located at the Allen County Sheriff's office, and police departments in Humboldt and Moran.

Iola Pharmacy’s Drew Spencer and Thrive Allen County’s Robin Griffith demonstrate a MedSafe prescription drop-off box at Iola Pharmacy. COURTESY PHOTO

rural America had imposed its more conservative values on the rest of the country.

Given today’s acceptance See BENT | Page A6

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Feds passed on more vaccine WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is facing new scrutiny today after failing to lock in a chance to buy millions of additional doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, which has shown to be highly effective against COVID-19.

That decision could delay the delivery of a second batch of doses until Pfizer fulfills other international contracts.

The revelation comes as Trump plans to host a White House summit aimed at celebrating the expected approval of the first vaccine later this week. His administration is seeking to tamp down public skepticism over the vaccine and secure a key component of the RepubliSee VACCINE | Page A3

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GOP lawmakers maintain key positions

Attorney: Death penalty ‘peak horror’ of racism

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Years working capital murder cases and appeals of the wrongfully convicted led criminal defense lawyer Cheryl Pilate to conclude the government’s willingness to order execution of men and women stood as a potent expression of racism’s grasp on the justice system.

From a front-row seat of repetitious legal dramas, Pilate encountered evidence of a system willing to prey upon minorities and encouraged by corrupted law enforcement officers and prosecutors. She said a broad coalition of the willing, all the way down to corrections officers who volunteer to serve on prison execution units, reinforced this societal failure.

She’s convinced the country’s legal system has been too distorted by centuries of injustice to fairly judge who deserved to live or die.

“The death penalty — it’s like the peak horror,” Pilate said. “It is the reflection of pervasive racism throughout the justice system. And, the justice system is a reflection of society.”

On the latest episode of the Kansas Reflector podcast, Pilate and Beatrice Swoopes, a retired lobbyist for Catholic causes, and Mark McCormick, a staffer with ACLU of Kansas, offered personal and professional arguments in opposition to capital punishment. They shared their thoughts at a conference sponsored by the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty.

Their views were drawn from direct experience with racism and framed by a belief state-sponsored executions couldn’t be defended. In their minds, ending the death penalty would bring the nation a refreshing injection of dignity. Their rejection of capital punishment cannot be separated from the tragedy of America’s long history of Black slavery and the persistence of white supremacy.

Kansas reinstituted a trial court’s option to impose a death sentence in 1994, but no one has been executed in the state since 1965. So far, 10 men in custody of the

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By STEPHAN KORANDA

Kansas News Service

Republican legislative leaders will likely keep their sometimes combative relationship with Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly.

Conservative Republicans maintained their grip on top jobs in the Kansas House and Senate in leadership elections on Tuesday.

That paves the way for lawmakers to restrict the governor’s powers to respond to the pandemic and continued challenges for some top Democratic priorities, like Medicaid expansion.

In the House, Republican Speaker Ron Ryckman won an unprecedented third term.

Traditionally, speakers serve two terms and step down, but Republican Rep. Brenda Landwehr said Ryckman earned a third.

“He knows how to bring us together. He knows how to pull the votes together and get things done,” she said when nominating Ryckman for a third term.

“He’s shown his ability to be a good negotiator, even with our governor.”

House Majority Leader Dan Hawkins and

Kansas Departm e n t of Corrections h a v e been ord e r e d to die Cheryl Pilate by legal injection. Seven are white. All are convicted killers. As inevitable appeals claw through the system, they spend most of each day in solitary confinement.

Half of U.S. states have adopted laws forbidding capital punishment or placed a moratorium on executions. In Kansas, however, toughon-crime politics holds sway. Whenever the idea of repeal surfaces at the Capitol, the testimony from proponents points to millions of dollars in extra costs required of capital cases. They raise moral and religious objections. There’s no way to get around cruelty of strapping someone down and intentionally ending a life, they say.

And there are questions about mistakes and corruption as the list of exonerees grows.

Opponents of repeal in Kansas have an easier task. Those favoring status quo can sway opinion by simply mentioning Reginald and Jonathan Carr, John Robinson, James Kahler, Kyle Flack, Frazier Cross, Justin Thurber, Scott Cheever, Sidney Gleason and Gary Kleypas.

Collectively, these men condemned to death by Kansas have been found guilty of killing two dozen people.

The Carr brothers shared a sadist’s zeal by murdering five in Wichita. Robinson was convicted of killing three, but the serial killer confessed to five more.

Kahler massacred four female members of his family in Burlingame.

Flack shot three adults and a toddler. Gleason killed two. Cheever gunned down Greenwood County’s sheriff.

Cross, a white supremacist, murdered three at a Jewish retirement center. Kleypas was sentenced to life in prison for a Missouri murder, but was released to Kansas where he killed a Pittsburg State University student. Thurber murdered a pre-pharmacy student on Cowley Community College’s dance team.

Conservative Republicans maintained their grip on top jobs in the Kansas House and Senate in leadership elections on Tuesday. STEPHEN KORANDA / KANSAS NEWS SERVICE

Speaker Pro Tem Blaine Finch were reelected to their jobs.

Senate President Susan Wagle, who’s leaving the Legislature, will be replaced by fellow conservative Sen. Ty Masterson.

After the vote, Masterson said the chamber will remain an obstacle for the Democratic governor. “ F u n d a m e n t a l l y, that’s the purpose of this body,” Masterson said, “to be a check on the executive branch of government.”

Masterson said he expects a constitutional amendment on abortion rights — a change that would need approval from voters in the state

—to get another shot next year. Lawmakers also might consider tax changes and modifying the law that gives the governor the power to respond to emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic.

Republican Rick Wilborn will be the new Senate vice president and Gene Suellentrop will take over as Senate majority leader.

Republican lawmakers have clashed with the governor over her response to the pandemic, specifically her decision to close many businesses early in the pandemic.

The two sides eventually reached a compromise where the governor got to keep some of her pow-

ers to respond to the pandemic.

Relations between leadership and the governor have warmed somewhat after Kelly said she has no intention of closing businesses again. Lawmakers have since voted multiple times to extend Kelly’s disaster declaration.

House Minority Leader Tom Sawyer will remain the leader of the Democrats in that chamber.

Democrat Dinah Sykes will take over as minority leader in the Senate, the first woman to hold that job. The current minority leader, Anthony Hensley, lost his bid for reelection last month.

Top docs debunk spurious vaccine claims

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — A pair of physicians said dangerous myths they’ve encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic include an assertion vaccines emerging to fight the virus made women sterile and manipulated a person’s genetic code.

Doctors Kevin Ault and Matthias Salathe, who work with the University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas, said Monday that neither claim about vaccines was true.

Ault, who is an OBGYN, said there was no validity to speculation treatment for COVID-19 would prevent women from getting pregnant.

“We don’t see that in natural COVID infections so it’s kind of hard to believe a vaccine would cause that problem. That’s go-to misinformation about infertility and has been used for lots of vac-

Obviously, this is not the truth.

There is no genetic code that will be manipulated within your genome.

— Dr. Matthias Salathe

cines,” he said.

Salathe, who is chairman of internal medicine in the KU Health System, said another strange claim was the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were designed to secretly alter a person’s genetic structure.

“Therefore,” he said, “you will be genetically altered and they can trace you with this,” Salathe said. “Obviously, this is not the truth. There is no genetic code that will be manipulated within your genome.”

He said both vaccines were effective and he would be will-

ing to take the shot as soon as it was available to the public.

On Monday, Kansas health officials said testing identified more than 5,700 new cases of COVID-19 and 70 additional fatalities in Kansas had been attributed to the pandemic since Friday.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported that since March the state had racked up

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174,025 cases of coronavirus, 1,856 deaths and 5,509 hospitalizations.

Steve Stites, who is chief medical officer of the KU Health System, said he was concerned the same people who were resisting the vaccine were the same folks who didn’t want to wear a mask. If so, he said, those individuals would be placed at the greatest risk for contracting and spreading the coronavirus.

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can president’s legacy.

The focus was to be on the administration’s plans to distribute and administer the vaccine, but officials from President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, which will oversee the bulk of the largest vaccination program in the nation’s history once he takes office Jan. 20, were not invited.

Pfizer’s vaccine is expected to be endorsed by a panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers as soon as this week, with delivery of 100 million doses — enough for 50 million Americans — expected in coming months.

Under its contract with Pfizer, the Trump administration committed to buy an initial 100 million doses, with an option to purchase as many as five times more.

But this summer, the White House opted not to lock in an additional 100 million doses for delivery in the second quarter of 2021, according to people who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Dr. Moncef Slaoui, who is leading the government’s vaccine effort, noted the Trump administration was looking at a number of different vaccines during the summer. He told ABC’s “Good Morning America� today that “no one reasonably would buy more from any one of those vaccines because we didn’t know which one would work and which one would be better than the other.�

Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health administration, told “CBS This Morning� the U.S. expects to be able to vaccinate about 20 million people this month, 20 million to 25 million in January and another 20 million to 25 million in February with the Pfizer vaccine and another vaccine from drugmaker Moderna, assuming both receive FDA emergency authorization.

The Trump administration insists that between those two vaccines and others in the pipeline, the U.S. will be able to accommodate any American who wants to be vaccinated by the end of the second quarter of 2021.

The decision not to lock in additional Pfizer purchases last summer was first reported by The New York Times. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told NBC the administration is “continuing to work across manufacturers to expand the availability of releasable, of FDA-approved vaccine as quickly as possible. ‌ We do still have that option for an additional 500 million doses.â€?

The “Operation Warp Speed� summit will feature Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and a host of government experts, state leaders and business executives, as the White House looks to explain that the vaccine is safe and lay out the administration’s plans to bring it to the American people.

Officials from the pharmaceutical companies developing the vaccines were not expected to attend, despite receiving invitations, according to people familiar with the matter.

Some expressed concerns about the event contributing to the politicization of the vaccine development process and potentially further inhibiting public confidence in the drugs.

Trump is set to kick off the event with remarks aiming to “celebrate� vaccine development, according to an official who previewed the event. Trump also will sign an executive order to prioritize Americans for coronavirus vaccines procured by the federal government.

A second official said the order would restrict the U.S. government from donating doses to other nations until there is excess supply to meet domestic demand. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss plans for the summit.

The Food and Drug Administration’s panel of outside vaccine experts is to meet Thursday to conduct a final review of the Pfizer drug,

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call to inform them of your arrival.

Allen County currently has 91 active COVID-19 cases, according to the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments.

Since the pandemic began, the county has reported 448 cases.

Still, the county’s in-

fection rate remains lower than other area counties, with 36.2 infections for every 1,000 residents.

Only Woodson County’s rate is lower, at 25.8. Of the counties that surround Allen, Anderson has the highest rate at 54.2 cases per 1,000 residents. Crawford County has the highest rate in SEK, at 68.7 per 1,000.

and it will meet later this month on a vaccine developed by Moderna. The FDA is not required to follow the panel’s advice, though it usually does.

Agency decisions on the two drugs are expected within days of each meeting. Both have been determined to be 95% effective against the virus that causes COVID-19.

Plans call for distributing and then administering about 40 million doses of the two companies’ vaccines by the end of the year — with the first doses shipping within hours of FDA clearance.

Child gifts ready now Parents whose children are registered to receive gifts through the annual Adopt-AChild project can pick up the gifts from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church, 801 N. Cottonwood St. Donors have purchased items and gifts for 175 children in the Iola area this year.

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made three false statements about evidence to investigators who asked her about the misconduct.

Under questioning

by Vogelsberg, Kitt said his in-depth review of evidence in the Chandler case showed there was no way of knowing what Chandler and Sisco talked about on the phone, there was never a protection from abuse order, and there was no basis for the claim that she drove through Nebraska. “We had no evidence in the file that she had ever been in Nebraska,� Kitt said.

Kitt also said Chandler had merely read stories about former Minnesota Timberwolves and Carolina Panthers players involved in murder cases.

The Kansas Supreme Court cited problems with Spradling’s conduct as its basis for overturning Chandler’s convictions in 2018. The Kansas Court of Appeals similarly overturned the conviction of Jacob Ewing on charges of rape and other sex crimes in Jackson County because of false statements made

by Spradling about the evidence in that case.

Topeka attorney LJ Leatherman, who is representing Spradling in the hearing, pointed to the volume of evidence involved in the Chandler case. There were 1,000 documents and 100 witnesses, he said. “She prepared to the best of her ability, what she believed was admitted at trial,�

Leatherman said.

He said Shawnee County District Judge Nancy Parrish, who presided over the Chandler trial, will testify that she didn’t realize the evidence cited by Spradling in closing arguments had not been present-

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Public health officials need our support now more than ever On Nov. 24, Coffey County commissioners voted against requesting citizens wear face masks to guard against the spread of COVID-19, per Gov. Laura Kelly’s most recent request.

The commissioners’ decision went against the advice of Coffey County’s health officer, Dr. John Shell, who requested county leaders take a proactive position against the virus.

“My plea is for the community to do more to protect others … when one person wears a mask, it is helpful. When two people wear a mask, it is much more helpful,” Shell is quoted in the Burlington newspaper, the Coffey County Republican.

When a majority of commissioners turned a deaf ear to his pleas, Shell resigned his position, as well as that of medical director for the Coffey County Health Department.

As a health professional, Shell has no doubt talked himself blue in the face about the health consequences of COVID-19 and how as a society we should do all we can to prevent its spread.

To date, 27 county health officials in Kansas have quit their posts since the onset of the pandemic.

Like Shell, they are beyond frustrated with how a public health crisis has been turned into a civil liberties argument.

Rather than fight such obstructionism — and worse — health directors are throwing in the towel.

In Reno County, home to Manhattan, Health Director Nick Baldetti resigned due to its hostile political environment, 80-hour work weeks, and threats made to his family, according to a recent story by the Kansas News Service.

“I had the local police watching my house,” Baldetti said. “There was a period of time that I had escorts to and from work.”

Gianfranco Pezzino, health officer for Shawnee County Health Department, said nine months of battling county commissioners over how to contain the virus has worn him out.

“I’m tired emotionally, I’m tired physically,” Pezzino said. “I don’t think I have the energy … to do another year like this.”

Fredonia’s Jennifer McKenney, health officer for Wilson County, told the News Service that she, too, is receiving threatening emails and attacks on social media for her recommendation of a mask mandate.

Though the abuse hurts and the attacks are scary, McKenney remains committed to her post.

“I can’t have this knowledge and ability to help people and just walk away,” she told KNS’s Jim McLean.

WE’RE GRATEFUL that Allen County commissioners have said they will follow the advice of Rebecca Johnson, director of the Southeast Kansas Multicounty Health Departments, and thus keeping the focus on the public’s health.

In the last month, the rate of infections in Allen County has skyrocketed from 175 total cases to 448.

That’s an increase of 156%.

Incredible.

Please people, do everything to keep yourself and others safe. Mask up.

Social distance. And after personal encounters, wash your hands.

It’s going to take a village.

— Susan Lynn

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Here’s why I trust the COVID vaccine

By JENNA MERMER The Baltimore Sun

There are currently three COVID-19 vaccines awaiting approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA approval will trigger millions of vaccine doses to be distributed across the U.S. and administered to the first “tier” of recipients, likely consisting of health care workers and congregant living residents.

What was only a thought experiment this summer — “would I be willing to get a COVID vaccine developed in the time frame of less than a year?” — has become a question I answered in reality last week as my health department began planning its tier one vaccine supply request, of which I am a part since I am a public health nurse there.

I have had my own concerns related to the vaccine, which I have reconciled for myself; my hope is that sharing my thought process may help you as well.

First, I admit that I do not fully understand the mRNA vaccine — but there are plenty of things about science and medicine that I don’t fully understand, yet accept as fact.

Since I am not an immunologist or vaccine expert, I have to trust that the community of professionals has been as honest and thorough in their assessments of these vaccines as they have been with all other vaccines before them. The electrical wiring in my house is best tended to by an electrician; I try to be an informed electricity consumer, but I mostly leave it up to the professionals. I choose the same

approach here.

Second: I, too, have concerns about long-term vaccine safety. Truly, only time can tell about any long-lasting effects of the vaccine, but we must first survive the pandemic in order to be affected by long-lasting effects — survival that is made more likely by receiving the vaccine. More than a quarter-million people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19, and the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation projects that number to nearly double over the next four months. The more time we spend on research and development and getting comfortable with the idea of the vaccine, the more people who will get sick and possibly die.

These vaccines have been developed quickly as a result of safety trials, efficacy trials, manufacturing and distribution planning happening concurrently rather than sequentially as they have in the past. No part of the process has been skipped — instead, it is all being done at the same time and must all be completed satisfactorily before any vaccine is approved by the FDA and offered to the general public. This saved time is a gift, and I accept it gladly.

Third, some of my colleagues are concerned about being treated as “guinea pigs.”

I am happy to report that my friends and colleagues who participated in the clinical trials took that role on for us and have reported only minor complaints of the flu-like symptoms common following vaccine receipt. No amount of tweaking will make any

vaccine 100% safe for every person, but the side effects appear minor and definitely not as big or bad as the virus’ effects on our bodies and communities.

I know that my opinion as a white woman may be of little comfort to communities of color that historically have been exploited in medical research. I am buoyed by the fact that the trials have enrolled a proportion of Latinx individuals exceeding their proportion of the U.S. population and that Moderna fell just 3% short of Black Americans’ proportion of the U.S. population. I am also heartened by the Black Coalition Against COVID-19’s encouragement of Black Americans to get the COVID vaccine, which was signed by the presidents of four HBCU Colleges of Medicine, the National Medical Association and the National Black Nurses Association.

I, and many of my friends, family and colleagues have lingering concerns, including the need for transparent data regarding safety, children and pregnant persons, as well as more experts expressing faith in the vaccine’s safety and efficacy, and difference between these trials and historical trials. Personally, my biggest fear is that the vaccine will not be as effective under real-life circumstances as it has been in the controlled setting of a clinical trial — but if that is the worst-case scenario, then I am OK with giving it a shot.

Jenna Mermer is a public health nurse with the Howard County Health Department in Maryland.

Biden must not rush to nuclear diplomacy with Iran After the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist last week, President-elect Joe Biden is coming under renewed pressure to quickly resume negotiations with the regime. He should slow down and proceed with caution.

Biden has long since telegraphed his desire to resuscitate the nuclear deal that Iran agreed to with the U.S. and other world powers in 2015. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as it was known, was designed to pause Tehran’s nuclear-development program well short of the weaponization stage. Since President Donald Trump’s decision to unilaterally withdraw the U.S. from the agreement in 2018, Tehran has accelerated its enrichment of uranium and built up its stockpile to alarming levels. Now the regime is threatening to end interna-

tional nuclear inspections unless Biden lifts key sanctions within weeks of taking office.

Biden would like to turn the clock back, and can expect a chorus of approval from the other signatories of the deal if he does. The European Union, along with China and Russia, would like him to flourish his executive pen and quickly bring the U.S. back into the agreement: That would allow them to sell everything from passenger jets and sedans to missiles and tanks to the theocrats in Tehran.

At the other end of the spectrum, Israel and many of Iran’s Arab neighbors are signaling their anxiety — witness Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent secret visit to Saudi Arabia — that Biden will repeat the mistakes of President Barack Obama and brush aside the

concerns of countries that are most menaced by the regime and its proxies. They view the agreement as a license for Iran to deploy all non-nuclear means in its pursuit of regional hegemony. They won’t be reassured by Biden’s decision to name top Obama-era officials Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, both champions of the nuclear deal, as his secretary of state and national security adviser.

BIDEN’S OWN druthers are to encourage Iran to end enrichment and reduce its stockpile to 2017 levels, which would pave the way for the U.S. to return to the deal and drop the sanctions introduced by Trump. Once such a “compliance for compliance” scenario is achieved, Biden hopes to open new negotiations over Iran’s other dangerous activities, including

its missile development and use of proxy militias to destabilize the region.

Resuming dialogue would no doubt be politically expedient for Biden. But he should be mindful that the trick to diplomacy is often in the timing. There’s little purpose to opening negotiations before next summer, when Iran’s quadrennial simulacrum of elections produce a new president. Although Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will always be the regime’s real decision-maker, it makes sense to wait for him to formally anoint Hassan Rouhani’s successor before sending feelers to Tehran.

Waiting will also give Biden time enough to repair Trump’s rift with the other signatories, and establish a united position with which to confront Iran. He’ll need to persuade the Europeans,

Chinese and Russians that everybody’s economic and security interests are best served by holding out for a deal that is comprehensive in nature, and not just in name — one that requires Iran to forgo not only the nuclear option but also its other dangerous activities.

To achieve this, Biden should recruit Israel and the Arab states to add their powers of persuasion to his. Such a consensus might even persuade Republican opponents of the nuclear deal to come onside, insuring any new agreement against the whims of a future president. A reasonable leader in Tehran would recognize the value in that.

Diplomacy with Iran is the smart course for Biden. But rushing into another flawed deal won’t help anyone.

— Bloomberg Opinion

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Coping with holiday loneliness It’s the season where we are looking for all things to be merry and bright. However, this holiday season is likely to look different from previous years.

The focus on family and togetherness during this time of year can leave anyone not able to participate in their traditional customs feeling isolated or unhappy under “normal” circumstances.

With our current environment, additional feelings of gloom can be expected, especially for older adults.

Isolation makes the holidays hard. A lot of changes may have taken place over the past year. Older adults inevitably suffer losses, even if they are relatively healthy. Friends may have become ill, the neighborhood may have changed, decreased energy levels — all resulting in feelings of lost independence and opportunities.

While we may have to work at adapting our own holiday plans and traditions, we need to remember what the holiday season is truly about. Some things may need to be simplified, yet we can still

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focus on what is really important: the people that matter in our lives.

Here are some thoughts to brighten the darker winter days for those who remain at a distance.

— Be an active listener. Talk about what your loved one wants to talk about, even if the conversation tends to be negative. An empathetic listener can help them work through what is troubling them.

Conversations might help them realize why they feel down and help find ways to improve their spirits.

— Remind them they are a significant part of your life. They may feel useless or burdensome if they cannot fully participate in festivities.

Encouragement to do what they are capable of doing and showing them they are loved is important.

— Ask family members to send cards, pho-

tographs and drawings to help keep seasonal mail cheerful. The traditional Christmas cards don’t always bring good news of updates from life-long friends and acquaintances, especially for older adults. Looking forward to receiving those cards and then not receiving one here and there can create concern for those friends.

— Help family members understand that you are trying to simplify your holidays to focus on what matters with the celebrations.

Remind them that family and friendships are what is most important.

— If a virtual get-together is possible, plan a time for all family members to join. It doesn’t have to be on a particular holiday. If a loved one is in a care facility, see if arrangements can be made where the staff would arrange for a virtual visit. Interactions with younger generations can be most uplifting for older adults.

— Send easy-to-use decorations that can be hung in smaller living areas, such as remov-

able window clings or artificial wreaths to help create a festive atmosphere. Then phone or video call to follow up with the decorating process. Be prepared to listen to reflections on past holidays.

— Make some traditional baked goods or treats that can be safely sent through the mail and send those to family members. If several family units are involved, but cannot gather, consider each family taking a traditional recipe and sending some of that product to all family units usually involved in the gathering. Traditions based around food and certain recipes can be continued but in a new way.

— Remember, spending time with older adults speaks volumes in helping them feel included and letting them know they are loved.

We may need to do that in a safe way through social distancing, wearing masks, sending notes and things through the mail, or meeting virtually. However you go about your holiday traditions this year, any time you can share is a precious gift.

Farmers, ranchers wrap up business MANHATTAN — On Saturday, more than 400 Farm Bureau members of Kansas wrapped up business for their organization during a virtual session for Kansas Farm Bureau’s 102nd annual meeting.

The policies adopted will now become the organization’s road map for the 2021 legislative session.

Topics of discussion included livestock marketing, trade and water.

Montgomery County farmer Rich Felts was re-elected as president.

Others elected to the board of directors include: George Pretz, Miami County; Steven McCloud, Harvey County; Doug Zillinger, Phillips County; Joe Jury, Gray County; Kevin Holle, Rawlins County.

Other activities included a host of agriculture-related workshops and speakers including a keynote from Vance Crowe, an update on American Farm Bureau Feder-

ation activities from Andrew Walmsley and a townhall with members of the Kansas congressional delegation, including Sen. Jerry Moran, Sen.-elect Roger Marshall, Reps.-elect Tracey Mann and Jake LaTurner, and Rep. Sharice Davids.

KFB also honored retiring Sen. Pat Roberts for his decades of service to Kansans, especially his dedication to ensuring farmers and ranchers had their voices heard in Washington, D.C. County Farm Bureaus and volunteers were recognized for their 2020 achievements.

Allen County Farm Bureau voting delegates take part in the virtual 2020 Kansas Farm Bureau Annual Meeting Saturday.

From left, Steve Carpenter, secretary/treasurer; Dee Jay Bedenbender, president; and Randy Riebel, vice president.

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Seekers-Not-Slackers 4-H members donate Christmas toys to TFI Family Services Inc. From left are Blaine King, McKenna and MaKayla Powell. COURTESY PHOTO

4-Hers give back The Seekers-NotSlackers 4-H club met Nov. 18, in the Lone Elm Community Building.

Roll call was “What are you thankful for?”

The question was answered by 15 members, and two club leaders.

The most popular answer was family.

Members celebrated achievement award night, by being presented with K.A.P., record book awards, and membership pins. The club also recognized 2021 seniors Lanie Walter, Rebecca Sprague, and Hailey Gillespie; who also received her KEY award.

The club sang “Hello Mr. Turkey,” led by song leaders McKenna Powell and Hailey Gillespie.

Members discussed selling Blue and Gold

meat products once again this year. Due to COVID-19 the club will not deliver fruit and cookie boxes to community 4-H supporters.

Members voted to present those individuals with Christmas ornaments during the month of December. There was no program. September, October, and November birthdays were recognized.

The club voted to play Bingo at the next regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. on Dec. 21.

Those who wish to play need to bring a wrapped $1 gift item. The community service project was to bring a new unwrapped toy, which was donated to TFI Family Services, Inc. — Blaine King,

Survey: Vaccines will turn economy around NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. economy’s growth is likely slowing as 2020 comes to a close, but a growing number of economists expect it to claw back to its pre-pandemic strength by the second half of next year as vaccines for the coronavirus become widely distributed.

That’s the view from the latest survey of the National Association for Business Economics. It found that 73% of surveyed forecasters say the economy will return to its pre-pandemic level by late 2021.

That reflects greater optimism than the forecasters had expressed a couple months ago, when just 38% of them said they thought a full

recovery could occur before 2022.

Economists have been saying for months that only when vaccines are widely available to control or defeat the virus will the economy be able to sustain any meaningful recovery from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Hopes that one or more coronavirus vaccines will roll out soon are helping drive expectations higher, said the survey’s chair, Holly Wade.

“NABE panelists have become more optimistic, on balance,” Wade said, “with nearly onethird revising their outlook higher based on recent news of effective vaccines.”

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of alcohol, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to believe it was once regarded as an ill worth stamping out in the name of protecting society.

As a child around my grandparents, for instance, and in turn around their grown children, alcohol was never really a welcome guest at family dinners.

Now, there are parts of the U.S. where you can readily and legally procure full-spectrum THC cannabis products of all kinds, alcohols of unlimited proofs and even exotic items like psilocybin mushrooms.

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Wrestlers off to a flying start

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Shown here in a game from 2018, Washington quarterback Alex Smith’s remarkable comeback from a broken leg included Monday’s victory over previously unbeaten Pittsburgh. GETTY IMAGES/WILL VRAGOVICH/TNS

Smith’s comeback continues

By HOWARD FENDRICH The Associated Press

With Alex Smith leading the way in the latest remarkable development of his oh-so-remarkable comeback, maybe it shouldn’t be so surprising that Washington — below .500, representing the lowly NFC East, with little help from two leading playmakers, facing a two-TD hole on the road against unbeaten Pittsburgh — would pull off a victory.

This no-nickname team’s See SMITH | Page B5

Iola High’s wrestlers kicked off a frenetic, and highly successful, beginning to their 2020-21 season Friday and Saturday.

The Mustang wrestlers were in Burlington Friday for the Wildcat Duels, a series of head-to-head matchups with area schools. On Saturday, wrestlers TJ Taylor, Henrik Sieh, Danny Boeken and Damien Wacker traveled to Caney for the Kan-Okla Classic, where both Taylor and Boeken rolled through their respective weight divisions to take first place.

“I was very pleased with how they wrestled,” head coach Jason Bates said. “Obviously, it’s new for a lot of our younger wrestlers. It’s a big step from middle school to varsity for three or four of them. They surprised me and did better than I thought they would. I’m happy with all of them.”

Taylor, a junior wrestling at 126 pounds, won all three of his matches at Saturday’s tournament. He also pinned two other wrestlers Friday at Burlington, while winning three others via forfeit to start 2020-21 with an 8-0 record.

Boeken, a freshman, pinned all four of his opponents to place first Saturday in the 220-pound division. He went 3-1 on Friday, winning

Iola High wrestlers TJ Taylor, above and Danny Boeken, right, both won their respective weight divisions at the Kan-Okla Classic in Caney.

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a fourth via forfeit to stand at 8-1.

“Danny’s a freshman, but he’s experienced,” Bates said. “He did very well.”

Defending Class 4A heavyweight champion Logan Brown, a senior, wrestled Friday in Burlington, and continued his run of dominance, pinning four of his opponents and winning the fifth via forfeit.

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NFL: Coping with COVID

Why experts say the NFL’s COVID response puts the season in peril

By SAM FARMER Los Angeles Times

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, left, wears a mask on the sideline before a game against the Tennessee Titans on Nov. 22. BALTIMORE SUN/KENNETH K. LAM/TNS

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As other professional sports leagues planned to tiptoe ahead with quarantined lockdowns, the NFL went boldly and cleverly ahead with a virtual draft so innovative and well received that even strident critics reluctantly applauded it.

The basement of commissioner Roger Goodell’s New York home served as the nerve center for the April event, projecting a sense of calm and confidence as if the world briefly had tilted back onto its axis.

Goodell’s increasingly casual attire over the three days reflected that — from sports coat to sweater to quarter-zip to T-shirt — until he finally plopped into his favorite leather recliner and ate fistfuls of M&Ms. Everything was going to be OK. The NFL feels very different now. As the country faces a dangerous surge in coronavirus cases, the league is being challenged to duplicate that April success — to keep moving forward, to be innova-

tive and to project that determined assuredness.

“We have said many times this is not going to be easy,” Goodell said. “We all know the virus is in all our communities, and cases are at their highest in months. COVID will continue to pose a major challenge for the NFL as it does for everyone.”

The league is dealing with the fallout from an outbreak that ripped through the Baltimore Ravens, a sham of a game in Denver, where the Broncos played without a quarterback — all four were on the COVID list — and the uprooting of the San Francisco 49ers, who temporarily have relocated to Arizona because of a coronavirus crackdown in Santa Clara County.

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Bills too much for 49’ers, 34-24 GLENDALE, Ariz.

(AP) — The passes zipped through the air one by one, almost always finding their intended target right on the hands and in stride.

By the time Josh Allen was done, the quarterback had finished one of the best games of his young NFL career, and the Buffalo Bills once again looked like one of the league’s elite teams.

Allen threw for 375 yards and tied a career high with four touchdown passes as the Bills stayed in sole possession of first place in the AFC East with a thoroughly impressive

34-24 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Monday night.

“That’s our quarterback. He’s a baller,” Bills safety Jordan Poyer said. “I don’t know what answer you want me to say. It’s no surprise to us what he does every week.

I’m happy he’s on our team.”

Buffalo (9-3) moved a step closer to winning its division for the first time since 1995 thanks to a nearly flawless performance from Allen.

The 24-year-old completed 32 of 40 passes with no interceptions.

He threw touchdown

passes to Cole Beasley, Dawson Knox, Isaiah McKenzie and Gabriel Davis as the Bills built a 17-7 halftime lead and controlled the majority of the second half.

“We were clicking,” Allen said. “It just seemed like our guys were getting open and the ball was coming out of my hand really well.”

The Bills are one game ahead of the Miami Dolphins with four games left for both teams.

San Francisco (5-7) lost in its first game at its adopted home in Arizona. The 49ers will be based in Glendale for at least the next three

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weeks after Santa Clara County issued strict new coronavirus protocols that forced the team to find a temporary new home.

It was Allen’s fourth game of the season with at least 300 yards passing and three touchdowns, which set a franchise record. Jim Kelly did it three times in 1991 and Drew Bledsoe three times in 2002.

“As long as it correlates to team success, it means we’re doing the right thing, making the right decisions and we’re winning football games,” Allen said.

“That’s all that matters to me.”

MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s boys continued their solid play Monday, by jumping out quickly and not looking back in a 50-32 win over Crest Middle School.

“They are a good team and that’s a good win for us,” MV head coach Byron Marshall said of Crest. “It was a good defensive game.

We rebounded and pressured them well.”

Kolby Cook scored 11

to lead Marmaton Valley, followed by Tyler Lord with 10, Dierks Kegler and Jaedon Granere with eight apiece, Brayden Lawson with six, Todd Stevenson with four and Dominic Smith with three.

For Crest, Matt Beckmon scored a game-high 17, while Gentry McGhee added five. Denton Ramsey scored four. Jacob Zimmerman, Drake Weir and Kade Nilges added two each.

NFL: Experts warn league’s response puts season in peril Continued from A1

virus, among them reigning most valuable player Lamar Jackson. Several cases were traced to the team’s strength and conditioning coach, who broke from protocol by not reporting his symptoms and not wearing a mask. He was subsequently suspended by the team.

“Our protocols aren’t failing,” said Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer.

“Our compliance is an area where we can continue to improve. Any protocol is only as good as the compliance that you have, and as I’ve said before, 90% is a failing grade here. We have to have 100% compliance because the virus only needs a small opening to get in.”

With four weeks remaining in the season, plus the playoffs and Super Bowl, the NFL is like an underwater swimmer trying to get the most out of that last gulp of air and reaching to touch the wall.

“I absolutely think the NFL is going to finish the season,” said Dr. Zach Binney, an epidemiologist at Oxford College of Emory University. “Whether the wheels come off is an open question.”

Three weeks into November, the NFL ramped up its restrictions at all 32 team facilities and entered a period of “intensive protocol,” which mandates that meetings be held virtually, outside or in a practice bubble, with participants safely distanced.

Banned under the heightened restrictions are in-person contacts among team members outside of the facility, except for travel or games.

Cafeterias are grab-and-go only, the use of locker rooms is strongly discouraged, with reduced numbers of people allowed in certain places and increased use of personal protective equipment such as masks and face shields.

“Around our facility, we

players for an entire season the way other leagues have would come with a costly psychological toll. Whereas other sports play games multiple times a week, NFL teams play once and cannot safely compress the time frame any further.

“The notion of putting everyone into a bubble is a real challenge, given the number of people and the length of time to play our season,” said Jeff Miller, NFL executive vice president of health, safety and communications.

“There are significant challenges, very human challenges, for people to be in those environments.

“So our effort here is, understand that there may be some positive cases, identify those early through daily testing, trace and track those positive cases using the technology available. Identify those people as early as possible and keep the virus from spreading.”

As not to place additional burden on local health care systems, the NFL outsourced its testing to a national vendor, Bio Reference Laboratories, and tests are either driven or flown each day to one of the company’s five labs around the country. Results are available within 24 hours.

Even though the NFL reportedly has paid more than $75 million for testing so far, the notion that players have the luxury of that access to testing is controversial.

“I would rest a lot easier if I felt there were a national push to extend that same thing to everyone,” Binney said.

Nonetheless, testing and contact tracing have led to critical interceptions. The NFL said that in more than 20 cases they have successfully identified a player or staff member who was a “high-risk close contact” on the verge of testing positive, then isolated that person before the virus

I’m not suggesting that they need to shut down.

I’m suggesting they need to shut themselves in. If they want to continue to play, recognizing that everybody when you’re not in a sealed bubble will be completely subject to the rate of community transmission that is spiraling out of control.

— Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA professor of epidemiology on how the NFL teams and players should adapt to the ongoing COVID 19 spread

have a compliance report every week of who’s wearing masks and who’s not,” Rams tackle Andrew Whitworth said. “We actually are tracking how often you’re wearing it, if you’re wearing it properly, and all that. It’s kind of a challenge to us to do it right.”

When teams are in intensive protocol, the NFL has had a 60% reduction in close contacts. Throughout the league, players are responding to positive peer pressure.

“Nobody wants to be the guy who goes out and does something and then spreads it to a bunch of teammates,” Minnesota Vikings guard Dakota Dozier said. “It’s not good for you and your health, obviously, but it’s going to hurt your teammates and hurt your team’s performance. There is that kind of, ‘Hey, I expect you to be responsible, because I’m going to do the same for you.’”

Unlike other leagues that created so-called bubbles for their players, existing in hermetically sealed environments, the NFL allows its players to live with their families and therefore incur the risk of more exposure to the virus. The league might create local bubbles for the postseason — with, for instance, the Rams setting up shop in a Los Angeles hotel — but no decisions have been announced.

Goodell said all options are on the table.

Some infectious disease experts say a bubble is the safest

way to go — by far.

“We’re in the most dangerous period in modern public-health history, and I feel it would be smarter to do a real bubble and truly quarantine the way that the NBA and NHL did,” said Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

“I’m not suggesting that they need to shut down, I’m suggesting they need to shut themselves in. If they want to continue to play, recognizing that everybody when you’re not in a sealed bubble will be completely subject to the rate of community transmission that is spiraling out of control.”

Instead, the NFL has relied on daily testing of players and staff; the use of wearable smart tags that monitor the physical distance of interactions between people and for how long they occur; and extensive protocols at team headquarters and in games to mitigate the risk of spreading the virus.

“Right now, their rates are low,” Rimoin said. “Probably what that’s showing is by the rigorous testing they have in place, they are catching people before they’re able to spread the virus to others. But given that it’s a contact sport and that testing is complicated, it’s time to call an audible.

It’s time to really consider what could go wrong.”

The NFL says sequestering

could spread within the organization.

If the Ravens are on one end of the spectrum, there are plenty of teams on the opposite end. In the second half of November, a dozen teams had no cases among players and there were 16 teams with three player cases or fewer.

The NFL said the majority of cases have been asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic.

In the wake of the Thanksgiving holiday, with the Baltimore outbreak in full bloom, the NFL took the unusual step of ordering all headquarters closed for Monday and Tuesday, except for teams that had games scheduled on those days. In a sport in which every minute of practice and meeting time is precious, that was a dramatic decision.

According to the latest testing results released by the NFL — for the period between Nov. 22 and 28 — 42,264 tests were administered to 7,819 players and team personnel.

There were 33 new confirmed positive tests among players, and 53 among other personnel. That’s a test positivity rate of 0.2%, which Sills said is “well below what we’re seeing in the rest of society.”

He cautioned, however: “We’re certainly not out of the woods. But you can see the effects of the procedures we put in place, and I think the strategic decision to close the club facilities reflects that.”

Rimoin said it’s vital that the NFL not be overconfident in its current low positivity numbers.

“Just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it won’t happen,” she said. “At the end of the day, it’s what we say about COVID all the time — testing is imperfect, even under the best of circumstances, and so the risks have to be worth it.

“I’m sure that’s what every player and every person involved is considering.”

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Jon Bostic made a sliding interception when Montez Sweat tipped Ben Roethlisberger’s pass at the line of scrimmage with about two minutes left, and Washington’s tremendous defensive performance made its dink-and-dunk output on offense stand up for a 23-17 win Monday that dropped Pittsburgh’s record to 11-1.

“We knew it was going to be a little bit ugly,” said Smith, who last month made his first start in two years after needing 17 operations to recover from a broken right leg.

“Proud of our team to find a way to win this game like that, especially as young as we are. We showed a lot of maturity.”

Smith downplayed what looked somewhat scary from afar: blood coming through his left uniform pants and sock late in the first half.

“Never,” Smith said, “had one gush like that.” But he said it wasn’t a big deal and didn’t require stitches at halftime.

Washington trailed 14-0 in the second quarter before a late field goal at the end of the half and a 14-play, 82yard touchdown drive early in the third period cut that deficit to four points.

Smith ended up 31 for 46 for 296 yards and a 15-yard TD pass to Logan Thomas that made it 17-all with less than 10 minutes remaining.

Dustin Hopkins made a pair of 45-yard field goals down the stretch.

“We talk about fighting. There’s no reason to stop playing. Doesn’t matter what the score is. And I just think that’s who they are,” Rivera said. “This is a bunch of young guys that’s learning how to play with some veterans sprinkled in at the right positions. We’re growing and we’re learning.”

Rivera congratulated his players coming off the field after their third victory in a row to keep pace with the New York Giants atop their division at 5-7.

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coming in. They earned it.”

Washington’s defense was a big part of that, providing a turnover on downs after Pittsburgh had a fourth-and-goal at the 1, holding the Steelers to three points in the second half and getting Bostic’s victory-sealing pick off one of Sweat’s trio of batted balls.

“The defense bowed their neck and saved me,” Rivera said.

Perhaps.

But his players credited him with allowing them to head into this game thinking they had a chance against what everyone else figured was a much better Steelers team.

“Coach Rivera, he just put it in our head that we can do this,” said Cam Sims, one of the unheralded players who contributed on offense, with five catches for 92 yards.

Thomas had nine receptions for 98 yards and his score, plus recovered a fumble, while running back J.D. McKissic pulled in 10 catches for 70 yards.

That was important because two key players were not factors at all: leading rusher Antonio Gibson left in the first quarter with a hurt toe after two carries for 14 yards, and leading receiver Terry McLaurin was limited to two catches for 14 yards.

“Your reputation, your record — when you get on the field, those things don’t matter. What matters is who plays the best,” Rivera said. “And I thought our guys played pretty doggone well today.”

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Wrestlers: For 4 column jump head Boeken def. Wyatt Reust, Eureka, Fall :31 Boeken def. Billie Baker, Baldwin, Fall 2:57 Todd Palic, Marion, def.

Boekn, Fall 2:32 Boeken def. Clayton Lassley, West Elk, Fall 3:08 Logan Brown — 285 pounds Brown def. Toby Thomas, Baldwin, Fall 3:01 Brown def. Gavin Brewer, (unaffiliated), Fall 1:10 Brown def. Bryson Lassley, West Elk, Fall 1:40 Brown def. Tuff Burnett, Washburn Rural, Fall :28

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Saturday because he was visiting a prospective college, Bates said.

Xander Sellman, a freshman wrestling at 106 pounds, went 1-2 in contested matches Friday, claiming two other victories via forfeit.

Iola’s Landon Nading, a senior, wrestled at 113 pounds and went 4-1 Friday in Burlington.

Nading’s comeback from a leg injury that essentially wiped out his freshman and sophomore years brought him a .500 record at 120 pounds in 2019-20, Bates noted.

“He’s off to a good start already this year,” Bates said.

Freshman Damian Wacker, at 120 pounds, won two matches via forfeit Friday and lost three others. He went 0-3 Saturday in Caney.

Senior Henrik Sieh, a foreign exchange student living in Iola this year, went 1-3 in contested matches at 182 pounds Friday, winning a second via forfeit. He went 1-2 Saturday to take seventh at Kan-Okla.

Iola will travel to Jayhawk-Linn Thursday, along with Labette County and Girard.

The Mustangs will wrap up their pre-Christmas schedule Dec. 17 at home, with Humboldt and Erie.

Iola’s results follow Friday Burlington Wildcat Duals: Xander Sellman — 106 pounds

Iola High wrestlers competing at Caney Saturday were, front row from left, TJ Taylor and Danny Boeken; second row, Henrik Sieh and Damian Wacker. COURTESY OF JANA TAYLOR Ayedin Johnson, Baldwin, def. Sellman, Fall :26 Sellman def. Bridan Butel, (unaffiliated), Fall 3:29 Bryson Sparling, Washburn Rural, def. Sellman, Fall :08 Landen Nading — 113 pounds Nading def. Maddox Weiner, (unaffiliated), Fall :35 Nading def. Dalton Dempsey, Baldwin, Dec. 9-3 Nading def. Levi Lantis, (unaffiliated), Fall 1:11 Evan Coble, West Elk, def. Nading, Fall 2:27 Nading def. Lucas Nelson, Washburn Rural, Fall :24 Damian Wacker — 120 pounds

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129 W. Randolph, Moran • (620) 237-4591

KALE ELECTRIC Fertilizer • Chemicals • Seed & Custom Application

Experienced Applicators

We wish you a

Merry Christmas

Be Merry

MAY YOUR DAYS

AND BRIGHT

Ken Kale kdankale@gmail.com P.O. Box 215 Moran, KS 66755

Kirk’s

A little rundown place, where you don’t have to ask if it’s good!

and a Happy New Year!

Paul Acton-General Manager 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday Extended Hours & Saturdays during busy season.

203 N. Locust, Moran • (620) 237-4668

Are you a hungry shopper?

Try Our Famous Jackman Burger Or how about a bowl of Hot Chili or Soup!

Gift Certificates

Pool Table

Hours: Mon-Thur 6 am-9 pm

Video Games

• Fri 6 am-10 pm • Saturday 6 am-3 pm • Closed Sunday