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Walking the road to Our Market

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

Our Market grocery store and butcher shop celebrates its grand opening today in Humboldt.

Yet amidst all the fanfare, it’s easy to forget how long a road it was in getting here.

In what follows, then, we take a look back over the past two-and-a-half years in order to construct a timeline of events that ultimately made Our Market a reality.

Our Market grocery store and butcher shop celebrates its grand opening today.

Robot will keep weeds out of crops

By ALICE MANNETTE The Hutchinson News

CHENEY, Kan. (AP) — For years, Kansas farmer Clint Bauer has struggled with keeping weeds out of his row crops. Along with keeping living roots in the ground, organic practices and no-till methods, he tried crimping — but the pigweeds just grew taller.

Three years ago, Bauer, an ex-California-based executive who farms in Haven and Cheney, decided to implement a wild plan, using robots to behead weeds.

“I realized there was no great way to get the weeds out at scale without chemicals,” Bauer said. “I needed to invent one.”

He started Greenfield Robotics.

Before chemicals replaced them, workers pulled weeds from the farm. Greenfield Robotics puts the “workers” back in the field with a new kind of worker — a mechanized one, The Hutchinson News reports.

“We want to control weeds with labor and make it robot labor,” Bauer said.

“Robotics is our way of putting (mechanized) laSee ROBOT | Page A5

WE’LL begin on the last day of the year, Dec. 31, 2018, when

Indians sweep Burlington

Register veteran reporter Bob Johnson wrote the Moon’s Hometown Market building in Humboldt had been purchased

by Monarch Cement.

Owner Mike Moon of Osawatomie had been facing a number of challenges, including low inventory, flat sales and competing businesses, so Monarch stepped in to relieve some of the pressure.

“A grocery store is important to any small town’s sustainability,” Walter Wulf, Monarch CEO, said. “Our participation is merely as a landlord for the purpose of freeing See STORE | Page A3

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There’s gonna be a Revival A Bolder Humboldt is renovating a former church into a music venue

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — Be bold.

Be bold in your thinking. Be bold with your ideas and your vision. Be bold with projects.

That’s the idea behind A Bolder Humboldt, a development group led by the Joe and Janie Works family.

The latest project may be one of the boldest yet: Turn a former church into a music venue that hosts national touring artists as well as regional performers of all genres.

Then, add a music educational component, bringing musicians, lessons and opportunities from around the world, both in person and virtually.

It’s called “Revival Music Hall,” a name that capitalizes on both the history of the church as well as the resurging business development in Humboldt.

The music venue is currently under construction at the former Presbyterian Church at 10th and Bridge streets.

In 2006, the building was established as the Confraternity of Our Lady Peace House of Prayer, run by a controversial Irish woman who claimed to be a prophet who saw visions and had stigmata. It closed a few years later and was eventually purchased by the Works family, along with the

A pipe organ will literally set the stage for the Revival Music Hall. Damaris Kunkler, community engagement director for A Bolder Humboldt, left, and Jaylynn Reno, Humboldt High School student intern, are working on the project along with Tony Works, not pictured. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS Bailey Hotel building.

Tony Works, son of Joe and Janie, is overseeing the Revival Music Hall project on behalf of A Bolder Humboldt.

Damaris Kunkler, community engagement director for the group, is the project manager.

“The project saves a beautiful historic building that would be tragic to allow it to deteriorate,” Works said. “It will bring the joy of live music to our community, and expose

The former Presbyterian church near downtown Humboldt is being renovated into a music venue. visitors to what’s happening here. It’s definitely a shoot-forthe-stars attempt at creating a unique destination.”

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Stained glass windows are the backdrop for an upstairs bar.

Construction began about a year ago, but has been slowed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Shipments of material and equipment were delayed.

Construction crews were busy with other projects.

Still, it’s shaping up.

Kunkler hopes the music venue will be open by the end of the year.

The first priority was to preserve the structure of the building, through tuck pointing and foundation work.

“It’s always in the front of our mind to preserve the historical integrity and do See MUSIC | Page BX

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Obituary

Kelly announces infrastructure projects

Stephen Dillow

By NOAH TABORDA Kansas Reflector

Stephen Drew Dillow, age 48, won his battle with cancer on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, in Waverly, surrounded by his family.

Stephen was born Aug. 13, 1972, to Howard and Cheryl (Johnson) Dillow in Joliet, Ill. Stephen graduated with the class of 1990 from Iola High Stephen Dillow School. After graduating, Stephen served as a firefighter in Iola, before attending the police academy. After graduating from the police academy, he then served as an officer and operated the K-9 Unit for the police department in Yates Center.

Stephen will be remembered for his strength.

He could be found supporting family members and making sure they were cared for. He lived for his family and friends, and his beloved cat, Sister Sue. Stephen is preceded in death by brother, Michael Dillow; and grandparents, Perry and Mildred Dillow, and Bill and Velma Morgan.

Stephen is survived by children, Megan Ermel and husband, Chase, and Gavin Dillow; parents, Howard Dillow and fiance, Denise Byrd, and Cheryl Dillow and fiance, Ron Drown; brother, Brian Dillow; grandchildren, Tinley, Creed, Crue and Tally; nieces and nephew, Logan, Gracie and Morgan Dillow; and numerous family members and friends.

Services to honor the life of Stephen are scheduled for 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 13 at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service in Iola. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery, Iola. Family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. in The Venue at the funeral home on Monday, July 12, the night prior to the service.

Memorials in honor of Stephen are suggested to Biker’s Against Child Abuse (B.A.C.A.) and may be left with the funeral home or mailed to 1883 U.S. Highway 54, Iola, Kansas 66749.

TOPEKA — Construction on nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in modernization and expansion projects for critical Kansas roadways will soon be underway across the state, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday.

Eight projects are planned in eastern Kansas, nine out west, six in the south-central region and one significant project in the Overland Park area, Kelly said during a stop in Topeka. Efforts include expanding historically deadly road shoulders, adding new passing lanes on narrower highways and updating interchanges.

Out of every $10 spent by the state in the 1950s and ’60s, as much as $3 was spent on transportation, Kelly said. By 2018, that number had dropped to 70 cents out of every $10, she said.

To ensure future generations have adequate infrastructure, reversing that trend is critical, Kelly said.

“Investments in infrastructure are like a relay race. Each generation must carry the torch so the next generation can go farther,” she said.

“These investments will make our roads safer, create good jobs and deliver more economic opportunities to our state now and into the future.”

The road improvements are part of the 10-year Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Program, or IKE, passed and initiated by the governor

By ALLISON KITE Kansas Reflector

Evergy customers in parts of Missouri may be repaying electric costs for the next 15 years following February’s winter storm that forced power outages across the Midwest.

Kansas City-area customers in both Kansas and Missouri, however, could see savings.

In February, Winter Storm Uri caused sustained cold temperatures across much of the central United States, driving demand for energy sky high. At the same time, utilities had trouble getting natural gas. In some places, coal piles froze. Wind turbines iced over.

For several days, utility companies asked customers to conserve their energy use. To keep the grid stable and avoid uncontrolled outages, the Southwest Power Pool, the regional grid Evergy belongs to, asked member utilities to implement rolling blackouts.

Now, Evergy is totaling the financial impact of the storm. In the greater Kansas City area, Evergy was able to generate more power than it needed during the cold snap and sell the excess into the SPP. That helped offset the higher prices it had to pay to serve the region, and the utility plans to return those proceeds to customers over the next couple of years.

But customers outside the metro in Kansas could gradually repay $152.3 million over two years. In parts of Missouri outside the metro, the company is asking to defer and then recover more than $297 million — potentially over 15 years. If Evergy didn’t spread those costs out over time, customers’ bills would be astronomical, said Lena Mantle, a senior analyst with the Missouri Office of the Public Counsel.

“That was unprecedented. That has not occurred since — well, ever that I remember,” Mantle said.

Evergy’s Missouri West area, which stretches from the Iowa border south along the Kansas border nearly to southwest Missouri, was hit the hardest by high February costs.

Documents on file with the Missouri Public Service Commission show that area incurred more than triple its normal fuel costs. It purchased $316.8 million in power — more than 21 times its average $14.8 million for February.

After adjusting for other costs and channels of revenue, the area incurred $297.3 million in extraordinary costs.

Evergy filed last week with Missouri regulators for an “accounting authority order,” which allows it to defer the sum it will collect from Missouri customers related to the storm.

To spread out that cost, Evergy plans to file with the Missouri Public Service Commission to use the state’s newly created securitization policy and spread the cost to customers over 15 years.

If approved, Evergy estimates those customers’ bills would increase by $2.85 per month. The company wouldn’t say how high those customer bills would be without securitization, but it said the impact would be greater.

“Securitization would be the lowest total cost and lowest bill impact option for customers,” said Gina Penzig, a spokeswoman for Evergy.

In general, Evergy is allowed to pass those costs onto ratepayers unless stakeholders, like the Office of the Public Counsel, successfully argue the company acted imprudently, which Mantle said is difficult to prove.

and Kansas Legislature in April 2020. Most of the projects will begin in 2023. As president, Dwight D. Eisenhower supported the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which established the program for funding and building the country’s interstate highway system.

In Shawnee County and surrounding eastern Kansas counties investments total nearly $290 million, with the lion’s share of those funds being spent replacing a 58-year-old viaduct on U.S. Highway 70 in Topeka. In Bourbon and Crawford County, K-7 will be widened and shoulders will be added, increasing safety on a narrower roadway.

Improvements in south-central Kansas total $129 million and will address needs in Sedgwick, Sumner, Harvey and Marion counties.

One notable planned improvement would ex-

pand three passing lanes on a particularly prickly stretch of U.S. Highway 50 between Burrton and Peabody.

A $300 million expansion of U.S. Highway 69 — a top infrastructure priority of the region — will add a third toll lane, replace the old pavement and reconfigure two interchanges in Overland Park.

More than $50 million in western Kansas will rehabilitate a portion of highway in Hodgeman County and extend passing lanes on U.S. Highway 54 in Meade, Kiowa and Pratt counties, among other projects.

Rep. Richard Proehl, a Parsons Republican, noted that the Kansas Department of Transportation has found that past projects to add or extend shoulders and passing lanes have reduced crashes by 32% and decreased fatalities and injuries by 14%.

“Practical improve-

ments are just that. They are important, smaller in scope and therefore less costly and can be built much sooner,” Proehl said. “It really boils down to one thing: safety, safety, safety.”

Transportation Secretary Julie Lorenz praised a diverse approach to transportation infrastructure in Kansas, one that brings together people from various industries, communities and political backgrounds.

She said through these collaborative efforts, Kansas could get more done to benefit all.

“Transportation is about knitting together rural and urban areas,” Lorenz said. “Modern transportation moves people and goods and now it moves technology and data. It’s about roads and bridges and it’s about transit and it’s about bikes and pedestrians and, under the IKE program, it’s also about broadband.”

Court report IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Paul F. Barras, Iola, interference with law enforcement, obstruction, $315 Ian A. Cunningham, Iola, failure to give information and render aid, $315

Donald M. Leapheart, Iola, driving while suspended, $1,925, probation ordered Danielle R. Nunnery, LaHarpe, 45/35, $155 Steven R. Sinclair, Iola, theft, $975, probation ordered Annie J. Tush, Savonburg, criminal trespass, $750

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Moran native earns ESU psychology degree Victoria Shelby Angel McDougal, of Moran, graduated from Emporia State Univer-

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McDougal earned a bachelor of science degree in psychology.

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Pastor Chase Riebel gave the sermon “Preparing for the Second Mission” over Acts 15:36-41. Paul’s second mission reminds us to

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capital that Mr. Moon may use to invest in inventory and more energy-efficient equipment.”

Despite the boost, Moon’s announced it would be closing on Feb. 15, 2019, an event that sent waves of panic through the Humboldt community, especially.

“We have been seriously struggling for many months,” read Moon’s Facebook post, “[but] the financial decline has been long and slow, going back several years.”

Those especially concerned about the closure included Humboldt’s Arrowwood Lane retirement community, who wondered where they would procure staple items like bread, milk and ice cream.

The Growing Place, a Humboldt daycare and preschool, was also forced to make major adjustments, since half of the care center’s food typically came from Moon’s.

Indeed, “we depended on Moon’s for fresh produce and meat, as well as milk,” administrator Janie Works said.

A FLURRY of questions followed: How might a new store be funded? What grant opportunities and food assistance mechanisms exist? What public and private stakeholders would step up to the challenge? Who might be willing to run a new store?

Humboldt council members were some of the first to start seeking solutions.

City administrator Cole Herder began reaching out to agencies like Thrive Allen County and Allen County GROW, along with looking for grant funding opportunities. Council members pitched ideas for new grocery business models.

“We just have to be patient,” said Herder in March 2019, cognizant of the many challenges that lay ahead.

AFTER a lull of several months, in October 2019, Register reporter Richard Luken wrote that Scotty and Amy Welch had accepted the challenge of owning and operating the store, as well as adding a butcher shop.

They initially decided to call it Our Hometown Market, but would later shorten things to simply Our Market.

Having no idea that COVID-19 was lurking, even with the completion of necessary repairs and upgrades, the Welches optimistically estimated opening “sometime early in 2020.”

Eager to assist, Humboldt Council gave the green light on zoning for the butcher shop, after concerns were allayed regarding any potential noises or smells connected to the outfit.

“I think this is the best option available,” Herder said.

“We wouldn’t be here if I didn’t think Scott and Amy could run a good, clean operation.”

DESPITE success on getting the butcher shop approved, the Welches soon encountered a new challenge: the store’s refrigeration equipment was

Above, Allen County commissioner Bruce Symes talks with Scotty and Amy Welch about funding for Our Market.

At right, Donny Van Leeuwen cuts PVC pipe for a project at Our Market. FILE PHOTOS

badly outdated and inefficient, which had the potential to bury Our Market in bills.

Thus the Welches, along with Herder as their advocate, approached Allen County commissioners for assistance in Jan. 2020, seeking around $219,000 for equipment.

“We have our finances all laid out and are ready to go,” Amy Welch said, “but we’d just really appreciate some help from you, too. … We want to make sure that we’re able to sustain the grocery store and not get run over by electrical bills.”

Commissioners had a lot to chew on.

A precedent existed for the county helping

launch grocery stores, e.g., G&W Foods in Iola ($180,000) and Marmaton Market in Moran ($100,000), but funding had been denied to other entities, such as Bolling’s Meat Market and The Mildred Store.

Some were worried as well about competition between existing stores.

Moreover, it appeared that some on the commission wanted to withhold assistance until additional grant dollars could be obtained.

And although support for the store was widespread, there were also detractors like Iolan Ken Rowe, who attended an Allen County Commis-

sion meeting to voice his disdain for the project at length, especially since it deployed public dollars to partially fund a private venture.

“I hope [Scotty Welch] is able to open up a grocery store, and have booming business,” he said. “But that doesn’t make me believe that it’s a good idea to throw government money at it.”

By contrast, the Humboldt City Council was fairly quick to begin providing financial help.

In February 2020, they agreed to install a sewer and waste drain at the butcher shop ($2,000), See MARKET | Page A5

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By DAVID CONDOS Kansas News Service

Just a few weeks before COVID-19 vaccines became available, Teddi Van Kam got sick from the virus.

The director of the Crawford County health department, in far southeast Kansas, was laid out for four weeks. As the pandemic became increasingly dire in her community, she was too sick to work.

“I was scared,” Van Kam said. “I couldn’t breathe.”

By the time she recovered, the vaccines were available. She got her shot and went back to tackling the pandemic.

And she became a vaccine evangelist. But lately, converts have become hard to find. A year and a half into the outbreak, less than half of Crawford County residents are fully inoculated with a potentially life-saving vaccine.

“You wish you could convey to them how bad this could be,” Van Kam said, “but you have to be careful how you do those things.”

Now, she faces a new challenge: convincing vaccine-hesitant, pandemic-weary people in her community that the danger remains, that things are getting scarier.

“It’s hard,” Van Kam said, “to protect people that don’t want to be protected.”

The more contagious Delta variant is already fueling outbreaks among unvaccinated people in southwest Missouri that are filling up hospital wards, straining resources and claiming lives.

As cases begin to spike in neighboring parts of Kansas, Van Kam and other public health officials are trying to find ways to reinvigorate vaccination campaigns before the new variant overwhelms local health care systems.

THE DELTA variant has quickly become the dominant strain of the coronavirus in Kansas.

In early May, the state department of health reported that it found this new variant in 3% of all the positive COVID tests that it analyzed. One month later, Delta appeared in roughly half of those tests.

The latest figures now show the Delta variant

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A drive-thru COVID vaccination site in March. (DAVID CONDOS/KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) is responsible for 92% of all positive COVID tests being sequenced by the state department of health in Kansas.

Scientists believe this variant is roughly 60% more contagious than the Alpha variant — the previously dominant version, which was already more infectious than the original strain. Recent studies have shown that both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are highly effective at protecting people from the Delta variant and other variants of concern.

But fewer than 40% of Kansans have received their full dose of any vaccine, according to state data. And vaccinations have slowed to a crawl statewide.

Since peaking near 40,000 daily doses in the early spring, the state is now giving out less than 5,000 vaccinations per day.

In rural areas, part of the challenge is refocusing community attention on the dangers of the pandemic after weeks of low COVID case numbers prompted people to lower their guard.

For example, Neosho County in southeast Kansas reported zero active COVID-19 cases early last month for the first time in more than a year. Christy Hoerle, an epidemiology nurse with the county health department in Chanute, said that understandably led to a shift in how closely some people in the community were paying attention to the need for vaccinations.

“When the (COVID case) numbers went down,” Hoerle said, “it’s kind of like it’s up and gone.”

Hoerle said the county of roughly 16,000 people went two or three weeks without adminis-

WSU wins $2.1M grant for aerospace research WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A $2.1 million federal grant awarded to Wichita State University for new aerospace research facilities is expected to create nearly 500 jobs over the next 10 years.

The U.S. Commerce Department announced the grant to the school’s National Institute for Aviation Research on Thursday, the Wichita Eagle reported.

The money will be matched with university funds generated by the institute’s contracts with private industry and will go toward a new flight test research center and a maintenance, repair and

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overhaul facility, officials said.

Equipment purchased with the money will go to the institute’s WERX lab near McConnell Air Force Base and Spirit AeroSystems, WSU associate vice president Tracee Friess said. The lab works with private industry and the military on a variety of projects, including repurposing passenger planes for cargo carrying or other special missions.

The 475 jobs expected to be created over the next decade “will all be engineers and technicians,” Friess said. “Some of those will be student technicians, so they’ll cycle in and out.”

tering hardly any firstdose vaccination shots.

This week, Neosho County reported 17 active cases, and the Delta variant is the most common strain.

But Hoerle said many people still don’t realize the new risks the strain brings.

“I don’t think in our small little rural area... that people totally understand the difference in the variants,” she said. “So education is going to be key.”

In addition to posting county COVID case updates every few days on social media, the Neosho health department recently put a release in the local newspaper explaining how the Delta variant’s high rate of transmission endangers the community and how increasing the vaccination rate could limit that spread.

“I want people to understand that we can stop this,” Hoerle said.

“Let’s get it stopped before we get back to where we were at a year ago.”

NEXT door in Crawford County, the Delta variant has gained a similar foothold. In mid-May, the county of nearly 40,000 people reported only three new COVID cases.

“We were thrilled,” Van Kam said. “That entire month, we were in single digits.”

Soon after, the Delta variant began to fuel new outbreaks in nearby Joplin, Missouri, where Van Kam said many Crawford County residents commute for work. Last week, the southeast Kansas county recorded 51 new COVID cases, most of them infected with the Delta strain.

Crawford County has seen a handful of cases among people

who were vaccinated.

But those people had only mild symptoms.

Van Kam said all of the recent COVID hospitalizations have been unvaccinated people.

“The vaccine works because it keeps you out of the hospital,” she said. “It keeps you from dying.”

She said the county has seen interest in vaccinations start to inch up as the Delta variant grabs more headlines.

For most of the people who are choosing to get their first shot now, Van Kam said the tipping point came down to one of three things: learning how contagious the Delta variant is; being pushed by family members to get vaccinated; or finally feeling confident in the safety of the vaccine after months of widespread inoculations.

To build on that momentum, the county began promoting a new video message on area television stations that features a local emergency physician explaining how the Delta variant is different from previous strains.

Van Kam’s team developed new social media campaigns urging residents to get vaccinated and plans to offer COVID shots at the upcoming county fair.

But even with the more contagious variant spreading, Van Kam said she still sees vaccine resistance in her community, particularly among people ages 25 to 45.

Her advice for other rural counties who haven’t seen a rise in Delta variant cases in their backyards yet?

Get ready now.

“It’s out there,” Van Kam said. “And it’s probably not going to miss anybody.”

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LaHarpe Day Committee offers cookout LAHARPE — The LaHarpe Day Committee is hosting a community cookout tonight from 5 to 7 at the LaHarpe City Park.

Hamburgers and hot

dogs on the grill, chips and drinks will be sold for $5 per meal.

Participants are encouraged to bring lawn chairs to enjoy the evening. Cornhole games

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Proceeds will go toward the 2022 LaHarpe Day celebration.

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bor back into the farm.”

The challenge for Bauer was he felt regenerative farming did not work for large fields without the heavy use of agrichemicals.

“I came up with the idea for it (a robot) and tested it manually,” Bauer said. “No one knew if it would work.

It has to fit between rows.”

Bauer started up his company, Greenfield Robotics, on one of his family farms in Cheney in 2018. He currently uses the weeding bots running on other farmers’ soybean crops in Harper, Reno, Rice and Sedgwick counties in central Kansas.

Along with soybean crops, Bauer hopes to work with sorghum, cotton and possibly canola farmers.

There is slightly under 90 million acres of soybeans planted across the U.S. this year, according to the USDA. During 2020, Kansas ranked seventh in soybeans planted, with more than 5,000 acres. The Sunflower State follows Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, Indiana and Missouri in soybean acreage.

“Our mission was always to get the chemicals out of farming,” Bauer said. “There is no resistance to the spinning blade.”

The robots, which travel from 1 to 3 mph, are water-resistant and weigh about 200 pounds.

As they move between the crop rows, they cut down the weeds with their blades, leaving the chopped-up debris in their wake.

Although they are programed to stay in their lane, someone is monitoring them on a computer screen at all times.

Both Bauer and Jerry Poole, the company’s president and CEO, grew up in Kansas.

Bauer helped his father tend to their crops and cattle in Haven. Poole, who grew up in southeastern Kansas, spent time on his grandfather’s hog and cattle ranch in Oklahoma.

Bauer, who had a successful career in startups and technical businesses in California, got together a top software engineer and several other key players

The proprietors of Our Market are Amy and Scotty Welch.

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and Cole Herder advocated they provide the store between $10,000 to $20,000 in order to match the funds provided by HUGRO, Humboldt’s economic development group.

Greenfield Robotics is a company that builds robots that control weeds by cutting them down without tillage and without herbicides, owned by Kansas farmer Clint Bauer, right, with Jerry Poole as CEO and president, left. SANDRA J. MILBURN/HUTCHINSON NEWS to mount his company.

After a career in engineering and a brief health issue, Poole wanted to put his efforts into helping farmers, so he joined Bauer’s team.

Food is medicine if it is grown without too many chemicals, Poole said. “Big agriculture are creating virtual poisons,” he said.

Although the robots can be used on any type of farm, conventional or regenerative, it works better on a farm that is using regenerative principles — always having a living root in the ground, using cover crops, not tilling the field and having animals graze on the land. On his farm in Cheney, Bauer practices organic and regenerative principles and has a flock of sheep that he moves around the land.

Regenerative practices leave carbon in the soil. Because these practices hold more moisture in the soil, the robots have an easier time manipulating on the ground.

A recent study performed by the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München) in Germany found plant residues, or roots left in the ground, are important for carbon storage.

According to Carsten Müller, Ph.D., at TUM, these roots can help ensure carbon is stored in the soil for longer.

“We plan to realign the interests of farmers and consumers with a food system that is economical and sus-

tainable,” Bauer said.

The company charges per acre at the same rate the farmer would pay for chemicals. It usually takes about three run-throughs per season for each crop, but that might change by climate.

Bauer hopes to expand to other states.

“We work until they (the plant) canopy,” Poole said. “We start post-emergence (of the crop).”

The U.S. is the world’s largest producer and exporter of agricultural pesticides and one of the largest users — utilizing 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides in 2016, according to Nathan Donley, Ph.D., a researcher at the Center for Biological Diversity.

“We (the robots) are as effective as herbicides,” Poole said. Unlike herbicides, robots do not need specific weather conditions, like rain, to work. After starting his business, Bauer learned of Naio Technologies, a French startup, that uses robots to weed near garden vegetables. In 2011, the company introduced robots that work with moundgrown vegetables, especially lettuce. Recently, they introduced a robot that could work in vineyards.

“I really appreciated them,” Bauer said.

“They gave me good advice.”

Bauer believes there is a lot of talent in the Sunflower State.

“I have a great team,” he said. “Next year, we hope to grow by about ten times.”

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FOLLOWING the announcement in March 2020 that work on Our Market had stalled, so as to find contractors and additional grant funding, COVID-19 struck.

The world stopped.

But the Welches and others continued working behind the scenes.

After months of waiting, and with little success in obtaining additional funds, in November 2020, the Welches returned to the Allen County Commission.

“We still have a shortfall on funding,” Scotty Welch said, “and that’s why we’re here today.”

Herder continued to emphasize how “there’s a widespread movement across the country that now sees grocery stores as very important parts of infrastructure that serve the community.”

Still no action. But shortly after, the City of Humboldt decided it was time to make an investment, and approved the $20,000 Herder had initially requested.

“We’ll recoup that money in a year,” through sales tax revenues, predicted Humboldt Mayor Nobby Davis. “It keeps the money right here in our community.”

PERHAPS the Allen County Commission was inspired by the City of Humboldt’s financial support for Our Market.

At the Nov. 10, 2020, commission meeting, they voted 2-1 to provide the grocery store an $80,000 loan, with a

Butcher Steve Heady, left, and Scotty Welch take a break from processing deer. provision for forgiveness based on sales tax receipts.

Both current members of the commission, Jerry Daniels and Bruce Symes, cast in favor. Former commissioner Bill King voted against.

At the time, commissioner Symes said, “I think a food desert has a real impact on our county, not just Humboldt. When one of our communities suffers, the whole county suffers.”

Following the decision, the Welches were confident that, with $22,000 a year in sales tax revenues, the loan would be repaid in less than four years; and they would now have the elusive high-efficiency refrigeration units they had long-desired.

“This was the last piece of the puzzle we’ve been waiting on,” said Amy Welch, “and we appreciate the support and help from the commission and the community with moving this huge project forward.”

WITH all the necessary dollars in place, work on Our Market began to accelerate, even as the butcher shop operation was already taking flight.

Construction firm Hofer & Hofer likewise continued to make progress on everything from organization to installing carpet to

transforming the building’s interior.

Community volunteers were showing up to assist en masse, and final details were worked out on everything from cash registers to filling shelves with stock.

Back in April, regarding the store’s completion, Scotty Welch told this Register reporter, “if they’d have said two years, I would’ve said ‘no way,’ figuring it’d be a lot quicker.”

But slow and steady wins the race.

Indeed, Our Market has already had its “soft opening,” where an estimated 300 people passed through the doors.

And although Amy Welch described herself as “feeling all the emotions” in response, it’s safe to say that one of them is gratitude.

Not only for a longfought project finally coming to fruition, but for the significant community support received along the way.

“This town just does a great job of supporting its own,” she said.

And it’s apparent that not just folks in Humboldt, but throughout the entire surrounding area, worked together diligently to produce an excellent example of what can happen when communities unite around a shared goal.

That’s why it’s “Our” Market ...

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~ Journalism that makes a difference

Considering water a finite resource the best path forward Usually by this time of year our yard is a pale yellow. Just inches below the surface is a limestone shelf.

So every time it rains, it greens up fast. Two weeks without rain in this heat, and it’s crispy brown.

I never can figure out if we need trees whose roots shoot deep, finding their way through the rock’s crevices, or those that spread horizontally.

So I plant both. Most every year.

Like most, I’m especially sensitive to the plight of Western states that are entering their third year of extreme drought.

The last 12 months’ precipitation has been the lowest on record for much of Arizona, Western New Mexico, Southern Utah, and Southern Nevada. In the Pacific Northwest, 87% of the region is in drought.

Both California and Nevada are 100% in moderate-to-exceptional drought.

About one-fourth of California is in what scientists call an “exceptional drought.”

That means that for farmers all crops are severely impacted.

The ground is a minefield of cracks. Wildfires and dust storms are to be expected.

Aquatic life is at risk.

Kansas experienced such extreme conditions for six months in 2013, during the middle of a fiveyear drought. That year, our place lost 22 trees.

In California, Gov. Gavin Newsome has asked everyone to reduce their water use by 15%.

If achieved, that would save roughly 850,000 acre feet of water, which is enough to supply 1.7 million households a year, according to the governor’s office.

So yeah, a drop in the

Susan Lynn Register editor bucket considering California’s population is bumping 40 million.

But what’s really changing the picture there is a law that curtails farmers from freely tapping into its most imperiled underground water basins, much like our farmers in Kansas do with the Ogallala Aquifer system out west.

It used to be if you owned the land, the thinking went, you owned the water under it. No more.

Adopted during California’s last devastating drought, the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act — SGMA, pronounced “sigma” — asserts that groundwater is a shared resource. While it upholds a farmer’s right to pump, it imposes rules on its use, including water meters and accompanying fees.

Overkill? Not by any means.

Beginning in the 1950s, farmers drew so much groundwater that California’s water table plummeted, permitting seawater to seep in.

This new effort, combined with other measures, has reduced annual groundwater use by 7.8%, on average from 2015 and 2019, according to the agency.

WE MUST look at water, and its use, differently.

If we regard it as a finite resource, and not a renewable resource, we’ll be better positioned for the future.

A look back in t me.

55 Years Ago July 1966

Four Iola High School graduates in the class of 1941 who all became ministers are in Iola for the reunion of their class and have been invited to preach in Iola churches Sunday.

They are Rev. Clyde West, St. Louis, Rev. Harold Peck, Topeka, Rev. William Sarver of Iola and the Rev. Paul

L. Seyffer, who pastors churches in Meriden and Ozawkie. The classmates all were early members of the Salem Evangelical United Brethren Church which is located five miles southwest of Iola and all say that the pastor of the church, the Rev. Paul Life, had a strong influence on their religious convictions and career decisions.

A boat navigates Lake Mead, where a white “bathtub ring” along the shore shows how far below capacity the nation’s largest reservoir is on April 1, 2021. Lake Mead is on the Colorado River and the Nevada-Arizona border, 24 miles east of Las Vegas. (LUIS SINCO/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS)

No, LA is not a desert. Yet. One of the standard tropes we hear from outsiders about Los Angeles is that it is located in a desert — a dry biome that cannot sustain our millions of people without importing water from somewhere (and someone) else.

And the standard retort from folks like us on the Los Angeles Times editorial board is that, no, it’s explicitly not a desert. To get to the desert, we have to leave town.

The difference in climate, flora and terrain between L.A. and, say, Palm Springs or Las Vegas is profound. Deserts get less than 10 inches of rain a year. Las Vegas gets just over 4. Los Angeles gets nearly 15.

We’re not a desert. We have a Mediterranean climate, like, say, the South of France.

That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

But there are a few caveats that we Southern Californians should discuss, just among ourselves.

The first is that, sure, we have a Mediterranean climate, but it more closely resembles what you’d find in the Med’s drier southern coasts than the lusher parts of Italy or France. Think Alexandria rather than Rome or Barcelona. So if we were going to adjust our water consumption to correlate to our rainfall, we’d be even stingier with our landscapes and showers than we currently are.

The second is that as the globe warms, southern climate patterns are creeping northward. So L.A.’s climate may come to more closely resemble northern Baja California’s: hotter and drier.

The third is that, yes, we import much of our water from wetter places like the Sierra Nevada and the Rockies, via rivers, dams and aqueducts. The engineering,

The issue is no longer whether L.A. is a desert — whether it’s too dry to support itself. The question should be whether all those areas from which Southern California has drawn so much of its water over the last three-quarters of a century will be too dry to support themselves, let alone those of us in L.A.

construction and operations expertise that keep us from going dry are marvels and should be the subject of our pride and awe, despite the scolding we sometimes get from our Northern California neighbors. We should also be proud of the fact that as our population has grown over the last 30 years, our water consumption has not. And we should be pleased that our local reservoirs will keep us in good shape through the dry summer and into what we hope will be a wetter winter.

BUT

THOSE

WETTER

places that help quench our thirst are changing too. The Rocky Mountain snowmelt that feeds the Colorado River and once filled Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona has diminished since the start of the 21st century, coinciding with the end of an unusually wet period in history. Further downstream, Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border reached its lowest level in history last month, both because of the drying Colorado River watershed and competing uses in increasingly populous Western states.

The Sierra snowcap was a small fraction of its historic size last winter. Much of Northern California is in severe drought. And just last month, a deadly heat storm struck those parts of the West

that have always been considered the wettest — Washington, Oregon, British Columbia.

So the issue is no longer whether L.A. is a desert — whether it’s too dry to support itself with water. The question should be whether all those areas from which Southern California has drawn so much of its water over the last three-quarters of a century will be too dry to support themselves, let alone those of us in L.A. Many great civilizations, including the Maya and Khmer empires, arose during wet periods in their history and thrived because of ingenious engineering and management feats that created steady, reliable water supplies. And it is widely believed that the fall of those empires coincided with climate changes that no longer accommodated the structures and systems they had built.

Like the rest of the globe, Southern California now faces a far more profound change in climate — one that could cut off Los Angeles from the water supplies that created it. To survive, and to thrive, we will have to use, clean and use again the water we have locally and be more parsimonious with the less-abundant water that we import. Otherwise, Los Angeles just might become a desert after all.

— Los Angeles Times

How to contact your elected officials

President Joe Biden, (Democrat) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington D.C., 20500; (202) 456-1414; (comments): (202) 456-1111

Gov. Laura Kelly, (Democrat) Capitol, 300 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 212S, Topeka, KS 66612-1590; (785) 296-3232; www. governor.ks.gov/comments/comment.htm

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, (Republican) 109 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C., 20510; (202) 224-4774; www.marshall.senate. gov.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, (Republican) Russell Senate Office Building, Room 354, Washington D.C., 20510; (202) 224-6521; moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry

Rep. Jake LaTurner, (Republican) 130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C., 20515; (202) 225-6601; LaTurner.house.gov/ contact/email

Sen. Caryn Tyson, (Republican) State Capitol-236 E Topeka, KS 66612 (785) 296-6838; caryn.tyson@senate. ks.gov

Rep. Kent Thompson, (Republican) House District No. 9, (620) 496-7200 State Capitol, Room 050-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, kent@iolare.kscoxmail. com

Rep. Kenneth Collins, (Republican) House District No. 2, (785) 296-7698;State Capitol, Room 043-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612 Ken.Collins@house. ks.gov

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ALLEN COUNTY FAIR July 22 - 26, 2021 • Riverside Park • Iola, Kansas

TURTLE RACE Saturday,

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Kiwanis Train Rides (Pick-up near Baby Barnyard)

July 24

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Judd Hawley Music • 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Kelly Baker Music • 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, July 24 Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy • 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Performer • 4:00 p.m.

Registration - 6:30 p.m.; Event - 7:00 p.m.

Rodeo Arena, Riverside Park

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Top 5 mutton busters each night will ride again during the rodeo!

Paid preregistration guarantees a spot to ride.

If you would like to ride both nights, both must be paid in advance to have guaranteed spot.

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1 - 4 p.m.

Riverside Park Rodeo Arena

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1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes awarded.

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BAKED PIE

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SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE COMMUNITY BUILDING DOUBLE-CRUST PIES ONLY • MUST BRING RECIPE

LaHaye Bucking Bulls presents the Allen County Fair

BULL BASH

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Sponsored by the Iola Rotary Club

Saturday, July 24 Rotary Day in the Park Riverside Park, Iola

Kansas BBQ State Championship Event

$200 Entry Fee Register online at bbq.iola-rotary.org

Neil Westervelt Memorial CAR SHOW

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ADULTS - $10 • KIDS 6-12 • $5 5 AND UNDER - FREE

JULY 23 AND 24, 2021 MUTTON BUSTIN’ REGISTRATION @ 7 P.M. BULL RIDING @ 8 P.M. $2,000 & BUCKLE TO CHAMP • ADDED NIGHTLY

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Pulled Pork Picnic in the Park

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Pulled pork sandwich, chips and drink for $5

Sunday, July 25

6:30 p.m. at the Show Arena, Riverside Park Allen County Fair 4-H & FFA

LIVESTOCK AUCTION

The Livestock Committee & the youth livestock exhibitors encourage you to take part & support these great projects!

Join Us For The Livestock Buyers’ Appreciation Dinner at 5:30 p.m.

Community Building Sponsored by Emprise Bank & The Kramer Family

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Madison Lee struck the ball for Sam and Louie’s. Lee got a single in the first inning. REGISTER/KLAIR

Rec league results Pigtail League State Farm 0, KwiKom Communications 1. Hits for State Farm, Reylynn Jones 3s, d, t, Aaliyah Rhodes 4s, d, Finley Nelson s, Channing Kett 2s. Hits for KwiKom, Cayleigh Rutherford 3s, Blayke Patterson 3s, Leanna Flory s, Piper Jordan s, Mariah Mathis s,d, McKenzie Hamilton 2s.

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Casen Barker throws a pitch to an opponent. Barker pitched most of the game Thursday night.

Indians take two against Burlington HUMBOLDT — The Iola AA American Legion Indians swept Burlington 7-3 and 8-5 in a double-header Thursday night at the Humboldt Sports Complex.

Burlington got things started in the second inning on an error that brought in two runs.

From then on the Indians held the game in check.

Eli Smith led the Indians to victory on the mound, allowing five hits and three runs over five innings, striking out three. Noah Ashmore came on in relief for two innings.

The Indians tallied 11 hits.

Drake DeLaTorre, TJ Taylor, Casen Barker and Aiden Jones each managed multiple hits for the Indians. DeLaTorre went 3-for-3 at the plate to lead the Indians in hits.

In the second game, the Indians took the lead late, notching four runs in the third inning. Dillon Bycroft, Cooper Riley, and Trenton Jones all moved runners

Noah Ashmore runs through first base during his game Thursday night in Humboldt. REGISTER/KLAIR VOGEL across home plate with RBIs. The Indians earned the victory despite allowing Burlington to score three runs in the fourth.

The game was tied at five with the Indians batting in the bottom of the fourth when Barker’s sacrifice fly scored one run.

Bycroft was credited with the victory for the Indians.

Bycroft lasted two innings,

Wimbledon: Djokovic to face Italy’s Berrettini WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — We know, of course, that Novak Djokovic can lose matches at Wimbledon, and he can lose at other Grand Slam tournaments, too, because it has happened — and actuality proves possibility.

And yet he keeps showing, over and over again, that it is foolhardy to doubt his supremacy at the moment.

The top-seeded Djokovic stretched his current runs to 20 consecutive victories at Wimbledon, dating to 2018, and 20 in a row at all majors this season, working his way in and out of trouble against a much younger, much-less-experienced opponent until eliminating No. 10 Denis Shapovalov 7-6 (3), 7-5, 7-5 on Friday night to reach the final at the All England Club.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates his victory against South Africa's Kevin Anderson during the second round of the Wimbledon Championships on Wednesday. On Sunday, Djokovic faces Matteo Berretinni for the championship. (BEN STANSALL/ AFP/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

Each set was tight and intense. Each appeared to be within Shapovalov’s grasp.

Until it was in Djokovic’s.

“I don’t think that the scoreline says enough about the performance and about the match,” said Djokovic,

who saved 5 of 5 break points in the second set, then 3 of 3 in the third.

Then, talking about Shapovalov, a 22-year-old from Canada, Djokovic said: “We’re going to see a lot of him in the future, definitely.”

And now, if he can beat another new-to-these-stages foe, Matteo Berrettini, in Sunday’s final, Djokovic will collect a sixth championship at Wimbledon — third straight — and, more importantly, a 20th Grand Slam title, which would tie his rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal for the most by a man in tennis history.

And then there’s this: He already won the Australian Open in February and the French Open in June, so a Wimbledon triumph would See TENNIS | Page B2

allowing one hit and zero runs while striking out one and walking zero.

Barker started the game for the Indians. Barker allowed two hits and five runs over three innings, striking out five.

TJ Taylor and Brayden Cole had multiple hits for the Indians. Taylor went 3-for-3. The Indians stole seven bases.

Father says player safety is priority

By CHILDS WALKER Baltimore Sun (TNS)

BALTIMORE — Martin McNair has no quarrel with the new economic freedoms that have opened to college athletes in recent weeks.

It’s just that when he looks at the reforms sweeping the NCAA landscape, he wishes profit would fall behind health and safety on the priority list.

McNair can’t help but feel this way three years after he watched his 19-year-old son, Jordan, die from the effects of heat stroke suffered at a University of Maryland footSee NCAA | Page B2

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ball workout. Sure, it would have been nice for Jordan McNair to make a few extra bucks off his status as an offensive lineman for the Terrapins, but his father would much rather have seen rules in place to protect his son from a preventable death.

It’s a message Martin McNair is sharing with federal legislators as they consider laws that would expand college athletes’ financial rights.

“This is the time right now,” he said. “I’m definitely for the economic freedom of student athletes, all day long. I just think it’s really gotten away from the player safety component, and everybody’s just focusing on: how do I compete with the next school recruitment-wise?”

The NCAA fundamentally changed its model of amateurism last week when it lifted restrictions on athletes’ rights to profit from their names, images and likenesses (NIL). The

Martin McNair, right, father of Jordan McNair and founder of The Jordan McNair Foundation, speaks to a group of parents and coaches at the foundation’s health and wellness sports clinic on June 5. (BARBARA HADDOCK TAYLOR/BALTIMORE SUN/TNS)

move came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of college athletes who were seeking additional educational benefits and after a wave of states, including Maryland, passed NIL laws.

A federal law outlining college athletes’ rights could come next, with several versions awaiting action in Congress.

McNair wants that legislation to place athletes’ health rights front and center, following the model Maryland lawmakers used in crafting their bill.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan signed the Jordan McNair Safe and Fair Play Act into law in May. The legislation requires universities to create guidelines for preventing and treating serious injuries such as brain trauma and heat-related illnesses and to develop clear protocols for athletes returning from injuries or illnesses. Martin McNair helped develop that language.

Last month, McNair spoke before a U.S. Senate committee, de-

scribing the last call he shared with his son on May 28, 2018 and the shattering news he received the next day after Jordan McNair collapsed from heat stroke at an offseason workout.

He died two weeks later.

“I never thought to ask about any safety, preventative, or overall protection of my student athlete on or off the field,” McNair testified, describing his outlook before the tragedy. “I just assumed like so many of us parents of collegiate athletes that the systems were in place in the event of.

I never thought to ask what if Jordan got hurt or couldn’t play anymore, what would they do to protect him?”

The NCAA has shared health guidelines and best practices with its schools but hasn’t set requirements — not good enough for McNair.

He said federal legislators have been receptive to his message.

In their statement last week on the NCAA lifting NIL restrictions,

Sens.

Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) explicitly mentioned the need for legislation guaranteeing athletes’ health and safety rights.

“The Supreme Court’s decision … the panoply of state laws about to take effect, and the powerful grassroots coalition of athletes are all pointing in one direction: it’s time for Congress to act,” Booker and Blumenthal said. “Athletes deserve enforceable health and safety standards, robust educational opportunities, and yes, fair compensation and full rights to their Name, Image, and Likeness.”

Booker and Blumenthal’s proposed legislation would require schools to contribute to medical trust funds that would help athletes cover out-of-pocket health expenses related to sports injuries for up to five years after their playing careers.

Martin McNair said

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put him three-quarters of the way to a calendar-year Grand Slam, with only the U.S. Open remaining.

First things first. This will be Djokovic’s 30th major final, Berrettini’s first. Much as it was Djokovic’s 41st major semifinal, Shapovalov’s first.

Cries of “Vai!” (Go!), “Forza!” (Let’s go!) and even “Andiamo, amore mio!” (Let’s go, my love!) rang through Centre Court earlier, supporting Berrettini in his native tongue on his way to becoming Italy’s first Grand Slam male finalist in 45 years.

With booming serves delivering 22 aces, and powerful forehands helping compile a total of 60 winners, the

No. 7-seeded Berrettini used an 11-game run to grab a big lead and then held on to beat No. 14 Hubert Hurkacz 6-3, 6-0, 6-7 (3), 6-4 in the first semifinal.

“Obviously, the job is not done yet. I want to get the trophy now that I’m here,” said the 25-year-old Berrettini, who lost his only previous Slam semifinal, at the 2019 U.S. Open. “But just, it’s a really unbelievable feeling.”

He’s now on an 11-match winning streak on grass courts, including a title at the Queen’s Club tuneup last month, when he became the first man since Boris Becker in 1985 to win the trophy in his debut at that event. Becker went on to triumph at Wimbledon that year.

The outcome Friday seemed to turn early against Hurkacz, never before past the third round at a Slam but coming off victories over eight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer and No. 2 Daniil Medvedev.

A key moment, oddly enough, came less than 20 minutes in, when Hurkacz was ahead 3-2 and held a break point.

That was erased by Berrettini — no surprise here — by a service winner at 130 mph, punctuated by one of his many yells of “Si!” From there, Hurkacz morphed from the guy coming off the biggest win of his career — in straight sets in the quarterfinals against his idol, Federer — back to the player who arrived

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Berrettini (almost) couldn’t miss. Hurkacz (almost) couldn’t connect.

he’s cautiously optimistic about federal legislation, which he sees as the cleanest way to address all issues at hand.

For now, he’s also urging anyone who cares about college athletes to contact their state legislators and demand that health protections be added to NIL bills.

He and Jordan’s mother, Tonya Wilson, have devoted their lives to raising awareness of heat stroke and heat-related illnesses through the Jordan McNair Foundation. Now, with so much focus on NIL rights and the NCAA’s changing definition of amateurism, they see an opportunity to push for more comprehensive change.

“Student athletes just need more assurances that, ‘Hey, I don’t have to worry about these things,’ ” Martin McNair said. “Everybody can see the level of empowerment. Now, let’s focus on keeping these kids safe.”

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Music: Church building renovation underway for concerts thought it sounded really awesome. I wanted to be part of it.”

Reno also has learned about construction, which she didn’t expect.

Kunkler hopes Reno and future interns will also learn about sound and light engineering, event photography and social media marketing.

“There are so many opportunities for high-level, technical education here,” Kunkler said.

Plus, she said, “they might meet some famous people.”

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as little altering as possible,” Kunkler said.

For example, at the front of the sanctuary — which will be the stage — features a large pipe organ. It will remain and make a stunning backdrop for performers.

“It’s fully intact but not functional,” Kunkler said of the beautiful facade.

Most of the pews will be removed but stored.

Some are being renovated to fit in the music venue for seating.

The original sanctuary will become a “general admission” area with mostly standing room only. The pews or other types of seating could be brought back in for more intimate concerts or “singer-songwriter” events.

An upstairs balcony will include a bar. Floorto-ceiling stained glass windows provide another magnificent backdrop. Another section upstairs will be designated as a VIP area. Alcoholic beverages will be sold at the venue.

A Bolder Humboldt hired professional sound and lighting companies to install equipment. The companies have done work for places like the Hard Rock Cafe in Tulsa and casinos in Oklahoma.

“They know what they are doing,” Kunkler said.

A small room will be dedicated as a space for the church’s unique artifacts and religious memorabilia.

Major construction is happening downstairs, where the basement is being renovated into a massive “green room” with overnight accommodations for the musical performers.

“Humboldt has limited places to stay,” Kunkler said. “That’s going to be one of the coolest features of the church. I don’t think a lot of other music venues are set up for the artists to stay overnight. It’ll be a place where they can feel safe and it’s very private.”

The basement will accommodate up to eight people with three bedrooms, two full showers and dressing rooms, a kitchen and dining room. It will also feature a large “creative space” where musicians can practice or relax before and after the show.

“We’ll offer functional wall art, meaning instruments will be the art,” she said. “Maybe they’ll feel like having a little open jam or be inspired to write music.”

Kunkler envisions opportunities to offer “meet-and-greet” events for VIP ticket holders.

She also dreams of opportunities for marketing, such as encouraging visiting performers to record short videos that can be posted on social media like TikTok or on a dedicated Revival Music Hall YouTube page.

“I really think about how this can be marketed on digital platforms in a way that’s creative and quirky and forward-thinking,” she said.

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The former sanctuary has been updated with professional lighting, above, and sound with a sound booth in the upper right. Most of the pews will be removed to allow for general admission downstairs, with a bar and seating areas in the balcony area. A VIP section will be offered at the top left. church building is no small feat, but that’s only a part of the project.

A Bolder Humboldt members have also been immersing themselves into the music industry, learning how to host events and artists in a way that is different from other area performing arts centers.

Kunkler grew up with music. Her grandparents were competitive ballroom dancers, and her father was always part of a band. She’s also a singer-songwriter and performs at venues across the region. She performed at the Kansas State Fair two years ago and will return in September.

That gives her a special connection to the project, but she’s had to learn quite a bit about the management side of performing. She’s visited several wellknown music venues in Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, meeting with

administrators to learn the ropes.

ALSO helping with research is Jaylynn Reno, a junior at Humboldt High School.

Kunkler approached the school for a possible internship to help launch The Venue.

“I wanted someone who is young and bold, who will be here for the whole project,” Kunkler said. “It’s a transactional relationship. I want to learn from our young people just as much as they learn from us. And I want them to be a tentacle that reaches into the high school and allows us to connect with other students for future opportunities.”

Reno fit the bill.

Reno plays guitar and is a dancer, though her ultimate career goal is aimed at criminal profiling or something scientific.

For the project, Reno is particularly focused on social media.

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She’s contacted music venues in about a 500mile radius, anywhere from Nashville to Denver, making a detailed spreadsheet of information such as capacity, contracts and ticket sales.

She has a similar database filled with musical artists, outlining their style of music as well as downloads on online music platforms.

Revival Music Hall likely will target artists who have between 750,000 to 1.5 million downloads, Kunkler estimated. She hopes to find “up-and-coming” musical acts who are scheduled for shows within a two-hour radius, such as between Kansas City; Topeka; Lawrence; Wichita; Tulsa, Okla.; and Joplin, Mo.

The COVID-19 pandemic has opened the world on a virtual level.

During lockdowns last year, Kunkler and other musicians learned to perform in creative ways online.

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The basement at Revival Music Hall is being renovated to allow artists and crew members to stay overnight at the venue during events.

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ing rooms.

They jammed with musicians around the world on Zoom or other virtual platforms. They offered online “meet-and-greet” discussions with fans.

Those moments inspired Kunkler.

“My dream would be to offer an after-school program with music lessons from teachers around the world,” Kunkler said.

“I want to think very big and brash. You’ve heard of telemedicine.

This is telemusic.”

For example, say a student in Humboldt wants to learn to play the harp. Kunkler could find a harp teacher in another country who is willing to teach virtually.

“I want to find a teacher who will create passion and ignite a child’s interest, and ex-

pose them to new types of music and someone in a different culture,” she said.

Future opportunities also could include bringing in recording equipment and teaching students how to mix and record their own music, then upload them to online music platforms.

“The world is open to us, digitally,” Kunkler said. “The possibilities are limitless.”

Dig near memorial sparks intrigue

By WILLIAM KOLE Associated Press

Archaeologists combing a hill near Plymouth Rock where a park will be built in tribute to the Pilgrims and their Native American predecessors have made a poignant discovery: It’s not the first time the site has been used as a memorial.

David Landon of the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Fiske Center for Archaeological Research says his team unearthed a cache of personal items he thinks were buried there in the late 1800s, most likely by a brokenhearted settler who had outlived all three of her children.

Landon says the objects — eyeglasses, clothing, sewing implements, a pocket watch and a book — gave him chills. That’s because they turned up during final excavations of Cole’s Hill, a National Historic Landmark site in Plymouth, Massachusetts,

where Remembrance Park is set to be constructed.

“Someone clearly used that space in that fashion in the past to memorialize members of their family,” said Landon, whose team spent the past month scouring the waterfront site where the Pilgrims are said to have come ashore in 1620.

“It’s an amazing array of things you don’t usually find as an archaeologist,” he said. “It plays very much to the remembrance aspect of the site.

The idea of a human memorial there is emotionally powerful.”

Remembrance Park originally was conceived to mark 2020’s 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s 1620 arrival, the founding of Plymouth Colony and the settlers’ historic interactions with the indigenous Wampanoag people.

But then the coronavirus pandemic hit, idling many commemoration events as well as construction. Work

on the park is expected to begin late next year or early in 2023.

The newly reimagined park will highlight three periods of epic historical challenge: the Great Dying of 1616-19, when deadly disease brought by other Europeans severely afflicted the Wampanoag people; the first winter of 1620-21, when half of the Mayflower colonists perished of contagious sickness; and the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

Donna Curtin, executive director of the Pilgrim Society & Pilgrim Hall Museum, which owns the tract, said the discovery of “this exquisitely personal family cache” makes the site even more evocative.

“A project like this helps reminds us that there’s real emotional power in history because real people lived through it,” she said. “That’s really the purpose of Remembrance Park.”

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, peppering pronouncer Jacques Bailly with questions about Greek and Latin roots.

Zaila knew she would be the first African American winner of the bee. She knew Black kids around the country were watching Thursday night’s ESPN2 telecast, waiting to be inspired and hoping to follow in the footsteps of someone who looked like them.

She even thought of MacNolia Cox, who in 1936 became the first Black finalist at the bee and wasn’t allowed to stay in the same hotel as the rest of the spellers.

But she never let the moment become too big for her, and when she heard what turned out to be her winning word — “Murraya,” a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees — she beamed with confidence. It was over.

Declared the champion, Zaila jumped and twirled with joy, only flinching in surprise when confetti was shot onto the stage.

“I was pretty relaxed on the subject of Murraya and pretty much any other word I got,” Zaila said.

The only previous Black champion was also the only interna-

tional winner: JodyAnne Maxwell of Jamaica in 1998. The bee, however, has still been a showcase for spellers of color over the past two decades, with kids of South Asian descent dominating the competition. Zaila’s win breaks a streak of at least one Indian-American champion every year since 2008.

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Fan ‘borrows’ McIlory’s club NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — A spectator was escorted from the course at the Scottish Open on Friday after taking a club from Rory McIlroy’s bag and taking a few swings with it.

The incident took place on the 10th tee, where McIlroy was waiting to get his second round underway at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick.

Widely spread footage on social media showed a man walk on to the tee, take the head cover off McIl-

roy’s driver and then grab an iron from the bag. McIlroy, a fourtime major winner, was seen looking on in bemusement.

The man was eventually escorted off the tee by a security guard after handing the club to McIlroy’s caddie, Harry Diamond.

“At approximately 8am on Friday morning, a spectator entered the tenth tee area,” a statement from the European Tour read. “He was quickly escorted from the tee by security per-

sonnel and the matter is in the hands of Police Scotland.”

U.S. Open champion Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas, Nos. 1 and 3 in the world, respectively, were also on the tee as playing partners of McIlroy. No one was hurt in the incident.

David Wilson, a member of nearby club Kilspindie who posted the footage, said in The Scotsman newspaper: “The players laughed it off, saying they knew he wasn’t a golfer when they saw his grip.”

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- Christopher Bell (right), who pulled off a second-place showing Sunday at Road America. His No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota crossed the finish line 5.705 seconds behind Chase Elliott

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fter one event in “exile,” Chase Elliott once again is King of the Road.

The reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion passed Kyle Busch for the lead on Lap 46 of 62 and cruised to victory in Sunday’s Jockey Made in America 250 Presented by Kwik Trip, the first Cup race at the 4.048-mile road course in 65 years.

The win was Elliott’s second of the season and the 13th of his career.

Seven of those victories have come on road courses, including this year’s debut race at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Elliott had to settle for second to teammate Kyle Larson in last month’s event at Sonoma Raceway.

Unable to complete a flying lap Chase Elliott, driver of the #9 NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet, takes the because of two ill-timed cautions checkered flag to win the Cup Series Jockey Made in America 250 Presented during qualifying, Elliott started by Kwik Trip at Road America Sunday in Elkhart Lake, Wisc. (Logan Riely/Getty) Sunday‘s race 34th in a field of 40. By the end of Stage 1, he was 10th, and real good rhythm all of yesterday (in there’s more to come. Like I said, by pitting three laps before the end of practice),” Elliott said. “For whatever there’s no reason why we can’t run up Stage 2, he positioned himself for a reason there, after about halfway front every week.” front-row restart for then final stage. through the race, I started finding Kyle Busch started from the rear of “Just really proud of our team for some of that rhythm, was able to put the field and finished third in a backup overcoming some adversity early and it together, piece different parts of the car after wrecking his primary No. 18 having to start in the back, having good track.

Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota in the Kink pit stops,” said Elliott, who restarted “Finally I felt like I was able to piece during Saturday’s practice. fifth on Lap 46 after the final caution of most of it together. Yeah, stayed with it Brother Kurt Busch came home the race for Anthony Alfredo’s spin into and glad it worked out.” fourth and increased his lead to 25 a gravel trap.

Hendrick Motorsports has won points over Chris Buescher in the race “Had a really fast NAPA Chevrolet. 10 of 20 races this season and seven for the final Playoff position. Denny Just so proud. We’ve had a rough few of the last eight. Elliott has the most Hamlin came home fifth, giving Joe weeks, so it feels road course victories Gibbs Racing three cars in the top five.

Elliott, who clinched a really good.” among active drivers, Chase Briscoe was the top-finishing spot in the Cup Series Less than a lap is third all-time Ford driver in sixth, matching his best after that final behind Jeff Gordon result of the season. Ross Chastain, Playoff with the win, restart, Elliott finally got a feel for the (nine wins) and Tony Tyler Reddick, Martin Truex Jr. and pulled alongside Stewart (eight) and Matt DiBenedetto completed the top 10. mammoth road course Busch entering the has won at more Austin Cindric, who qualified Kink (Turn 11) on after frustrating practice different road courses fifth, had just retaken the lead from and qualifying sessions. (five) than any other Matt DiBenedetto on Lap 24 when a the backstretch and cleared him driver in Cup history. mechanical issue thwarted his hopes through Turn 12. Sixteen laps later, Bell overcame a tail-end-of-the- for a maiden Cup victory. Cindric ran Elliott finished 5.705 seconds ahead field penalty for driving through more wide in Turn 5 with a broken axle and of runner-up Christopher Bell, who than three pit boxes on Lap 15. spun shortly thereafter. passed Busch for the second position “Here the last couple weeks, I’ve Pole winner William Byron led on Lap 58. been really proud of the progress we’ve the first 15 laps and won Stage 1 but Elliott, who clinched a spot in the made,” said Bell, who picked up his finished 33rd after spinning off course Cup Series Playoff with the win, finally first Cup win in the second race of the in the final stage. Reddick earned the got a feel for the mammoth road course season at the Daytona Road Course. Playoff point for winning Stage 2 after after frustrating practice and qualifying “I’m just proud to drive for everybody Elliott, Kyle Busch and Truex made sessions. on this 20 group at Joe Gibbs Racing. strategic pit stops ahead of him.

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