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AND THEY’RE OFF The annual Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life drew scores of participants to the courthouse square Saturday and Sunday. Above, nearly 300 runners take off from the starting line for the 5K run. At lower left, Devon Kinzle of Iola struts his stuff for the crowd in the Drag Race introductions. At middle right, a float depicting Melvin lighting a fuse of dynamite was among the features of the Parade of Lights. At bottom middle, Joseph Devoe ran the 5K in a long-sleeved shirt, tie and slacks. At bottom right, youngsters partake in the inflatable attractions. PHOTOS BY KLAIR VOGEL AND RICHARD LUKEN

A forum hosting candidates in local races will be at 5:30 p.m. today in the basement of Community National Bank, 120 E. Madison.

Allen County Farm Bureau is sponsoring the event.

Included are candidates for Allen County sheriff, Jared Froggatte, Kelly Zellner and current sheriff, Bryan Murphy; candidates for Allen County attorney, Linus Thuston, currently Neosho County attorney, and Jerry Hathaway, current Allen County attorney; and candidates for Allen County commission, Ron Ballard, and Tom Williams, who currently serves as chairman of the Allen County Commission.

Iola eyes budget cuts, tax increase

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iola City Council members will be asked tonight to approve a number of measures to close an $800,000 shortfall in expenses and revenues for 2017.

City Administrator Carl Slaugh already has instituted an across-the-board, 5-percent spending cut for 2016 because of a projected deficit.

Doing so will give the city a larger carry-over balance See BUDGET | Page A4

Iolan enters SNAP challenge with skepticism

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

Ashley Widener comes to the challenge of living on food stamps for one month with a healthy dose of skepticism.

First off, she wonders if the SNAP program enables people to be unproductive, knowing that assistance is available.

Secondly, she thinks the program is too lax with its oversight of applicants. Third, she considers the benefits as generous. “I already spend less than what I would be alloted,” See SNAP | Page A4

Bio in works for Piqua native, former MLB’er

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Fred Kipp, one of the most accomplished athletes ever to roam the halls at Iola High School, carries the distinction of being one of only three players in Major League Baseball history to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.

And of course, the 84-year-old has plenty of stories of life on the diamond. In addition to his time in the Majors, Kipp played several years of minor league ball, and in the winter leagues in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico — all sandwiched around his time in See KIPP | Page A4

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Scott Kipp, from left, is writing a biography of his father, Piqua native and former Iola High School standout Fred Kipp, who pitched for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees. With the Kipps is Fred’s son and Scott’s brother, Eric. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”

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Jack Spillman

By AMY JEFFRIES KHI News Service

Jack Dennis Spillman, 90, Kincaid, passed away Sunday, July 10, 2016, at Richmond Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center.

Jack Dennis Spillman was born to Dewey Edward and Wilma Anna (Decker) Spillman on Oct. 18, 1925, in rural Bayard. In 1928 his family moved to southeast Anderson County; in 1942 they moved to rural Selma.

He attended Fairmount Grade School and Kincaid High School. His freshman year he rode his horse to school. Later in life he took classes at Allen County Community College, enjoying a trip to Colorado with the biology class he took.

He always loved horses. He was a farmer all of his life, starting at the age of 6 cultivating corn. He had a dairy farm from 1945 to 1966, milking registered Jersey cows and raising registered Polled Herefords. He loved animals and always took good care of them.

He married Pauline Marie Rawlings on Jan. 1, 1945. She preceded him in death Oct. 29, 1965. In September 1968, he married Beverly DeHaven; they later divorced. On Dec. 16, 1975 he married Darline Henkle.

He started attending Selma Methodist Church in 1943, serving as Sunday school superintendent and teaching Sunday school classes for many years. He was involved with the youth group, taking them to Kansas City to see Bill Graham.

He is survived by his wife Darline; a son, Dewey Isaac Spillman and wife Kathy, Olive Branch, Miss.; daughters, Beverly Ann and husband Larry Reaves, Humboldt, and Janet Sue and husband Doug Scheibmeir, Piqua; a stepson Rick Henkle and wife Angeli, Garnett; stepdaughters Kathy and husband David Preston, Colony, and Kristy and husband David Adams, Emporia; and a stepson Darren DeHaven, New York; seven grandchildren, 21 stepgrandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, 35 stepgreat-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren; a brother Decker Spillman and wife Sandra, Colony; a sister-in-law, Letha Spillman, Blue Mound; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Dean Spillman.

Visitation with the family will be 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service in Iola.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Kincaid-Selma United Methodist Church in Kincaid. Interment will be in the Kincaid Cemetery.

Memorials to the Kincaid-Selma United Methodist Church may be left at the church or the funeral home. To leave a condolence online, go to www.iolafuneral.com.

In shootings’ wake Obama urges respect MADRID (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday urged respect and restraint from Americans angered by the killing of black men by police, saying anything less does a “disservice to the cause” of ridding the criminal justice system of racial bias.

He also urged law enforcement to treat seriously complaints that they are heavy-handed and intolerant, particularly toward minorities.

“I’d like all sides to listen to each other,” Obama said in response to a reporter’s question after he met with Spain’s acting prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, during an abbreviated first visit to Spain as president.

Obama’s appeal for greater understanding from opposing sides of the emotionally charged debate over police practices followed the weekend arrests of scores of people in Louisiana and Minnesota who protested the shooting deaths by

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police of black men in both states last week.

Those deaths were followed by a stunning sniper attack last Thursday in Dallas that killed five police officers and wounded seven others as they watched over a peaceful protest of the week’s earlier shootings.

Among those arrested in Louisiana was an activist prominent in the Black Lives Matter movement, which gained national prominence following earlier deaths of mostly unarmed black men at the hands of police across the U.S. Obama, in his remarks, urged protesters to recognize that police officers have a difficult job.

“Whenever those of us who are concerned about failures of the criminal justice system attack police, you are doing a disservice to the cause,” Obama said, the fourth straight day that he has commented on the distressing chain of events at home.

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In far western Kansas, Senate District 39 spans 10 counties — it’s vast and it’s flat.

For once, there is a Democratic candidate out here. Zach Worf, a political novice, is the first Democrat to try for the Kansas Senate seat in a long time.

The real race is still the Republican primary on Aug. 2. This time it’s a contest between incumbent Sen. Larry Powell and Garden City Rep. John Doll.

Doll says he knows what the prime attack against him will be: that he used to be a Democrat.

“I ran for the U.S. Congress (against Jerry Moran) as a Democrat.

It’s not something I’m going to be able to hide,” Doll said.

Doll anticipated the postcards — political mailers that can reach a wide audience and spread a simple message. Powell’s campaign already has sent some showing the challenger’s face next to Democrats Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.

The regulars at the Daylight Donuts in Ulysses, which is within the 39th District, have heard of Doll and Powell. But, typical of some voters when it comes to state lawmakers, they don’t know much about them.

Betty Radloff, who is retired from work as a school cook and secretary and runs a tax office with her husband, said she actually tries to ignore politicians.

Nonetheless, she said she votes in every election.

So how does she decide who to vote for?

That’s where postcards come into play.

“You know, they call you, you get all the things in the mail,” Radloff said.

Candidate mailers stay positive

Stephanie Sharp is a campaign consultant, working mostly for moderate Republicans in Johnson County.

She does what she calls “campaign product coordination” — websites, yard signs, stickers, fliers and, yes, postcards.

Sharp has been in a six-week sprint since the June 1 candidate filing deadline to land the right postcards in the right mailboxes before election offices start sending advance ballots July 13.

Most of her client’s mailings are positive

John Doll, left, and Larry Powell tour Pioneer Electric before a candidate meet-and-greet at the co-op in Ulysses. AMY JEFFRIES/KCUR — smiling pictures of candidates with bullet points about passion issues or comparisons to opponents.

“Most candidates won’t put out really negative stuff under their own ‘paid-for-by’ attribution,” Sharp said.

It’s political action committees that will send the “nasty-grams.”

Steve Morris had been the District 39 state senator for 20 years until 2012 when he was blasted with “nasty-grams.” At the time, Morris was president of the Kansas Senate and National Council of State Legislatures. Postcards paid for by political action committees suggested Morris was living large on the taxpayers’ dime. He said it wasn’t true.

“One of the mailings that came out, they showed me in a tuxedo smoking a cigar — which, I don’t smoke — burning a $100 bill,” Morris said.

Morris was blindsided. He’d raised nearly $90,000 in the seven months before the primary from a list of individual donors 18 pages long. Larry Powell, then the challenger, had brought in less than $30,000, and that’s counting the $20,000 he’d loaned to his own campaign.

Powell didn’t need to do more fundraising.

The Kansas Chamber and affiliated groups like Americans for Prosperity and Club for Growth were spending tens of thousands more on TV and radio ads, phone banking and mailings.

“We were sort of steamrolled,” Morris said.

The Kansas Chamber has endorsed 73 legislative candidates in this year’s primaries and will again send postcards supporting some, including Powell. Mailers from Club for Growth and Kansas Realtors

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PAC already have landed in the 39th District.

No one knows just how much is being spent on mailers right now. Those reports aren’t due until just days before the elections.

Stephanie Sharp said there’s just one antidote to whatever’s coming: “The best thing to beat mail is candidates on doorsteps.”

Meet and greet

That’s Doll’s strategy.

He hired a four-person team to knock on the door of every Repub-

lican household in the 39th District.

One Friday in June, both Doll and Powell were getting some facetime. Pioneer Electric, a co-op in Ulysses, hosted the meet-and-greet.

Powell dedicated his stump speech to his big win — pushing back against protections for the lesser prairie chicken that he said impede development in western Kansas.

“This endangered species deal costs consumers, electric co-op people, and counties, and everybody,” Powell told the audience of employees and co-op members at Pioneer.

Doll, meanwhile, attempted to get ahead of the postcards.

“I was just a Democrat because Dad was a Democrat,” Doll said.

Even with that inoculation, the postcards will keep coming. Most of them get dumped in the last weeks and even days before the election.

— Amy Jeffries is the Kansas elections editor at KCUR, which is a partner in a statewide collaboration covering elections in Kansas.

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— Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building, Riverside Park.

— Iola USD 257 Board of Education meeting, 6 p.m., school board office.

— Marmaton Valley USD 256 Board of Education meeting, 7 p.m., school board office.

— Humboldt USD 258 Board of Education meeting, 7 p.m., school board office.

— Humboldt City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Humboldt City Hall.

— Crest USD 479 Board of Education meeting, 7 p.m., school board office.

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— Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

— Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen County Regional Hospital.

— Allen Community College Board of Trustees meeting, 6 p.m., ACC student center.

— Gas City Council meeting, 7 p.m., City Hall.

— Dirt Diggers Garden Club, 9:30 a.m., Townhouse West Apartments.

— Grief Support Group, 1 p.m., Allen County Home Health and Hospice.

— Jones Hardy American Legion Post No. 385, 7 p.m., Post Home, Moran.

— LaHarpe City Council meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall.

— Iola BPOE No. 569, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge.

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— Rotary Club, noon, The Greenery.

— TOPS No. KS 880 5 p.m. weigh in, 5:30 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church.

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— Children’s Summer Theater Workshop performance, 9:30 a.m., Bowlus Fine Arts Center, admission is free.

Police reports Arrests reported

Damien E. Wertz, 32, Iola, was arrested Friday on probation revocation warrants related to domestic battery and drug charges, deputies reported.

Shane D. Sams, 21, Welda, was arrested Friday on a bond revocation warrant related to alleged indecent liberties with a child charges.

Deputies arrested Shelby T.C. Young, 24, Iola, Friday on a warrant alleging child endangerment.

Seth L. Swaggerty, 18, Iola, was arrested Friday on multiple probation revocation warrants related to burglary charges.

Deputies arrested Samantha H. Landell, 20, Erie, on a warrant related to alcohol charges.

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Making ‘government’ Attacks on Comey undermine rule of law taint public education is a lame argument In an effort to ride the wave of small government, some Kansas legislators are referring to public schools as “government schools”— as if that were an ominous thing.

In our mind, education should be a function of the state. That way it’s a guarantee that every child has access to a free education.

But others think that’s too generous and by intoning the word “government” in an ominous manner lend it a suspect air.

“Our local grade school is now the government school,” Kansas Sen. Forrest Knox wrote in an article last fall, as reported by Sunday’s New York Times.

Prithee Mr. Knox, what is so terrible about public education and are you so against it you would deny the privilege to others?

Many an article has been written about the state senator and his wife, Renee, who homeschools their nine children.

The issue is so dear to Mr. Knox, R-Altoona, that he has proposed several pieces of legislation in its favor, including one this most recent session to allow homeschooled students the right to participate in extra-curricular activities in their local school districts.

Knox also is on record for wanting to create a special class of foster care families, CARE families, who could receive special compensation to homeschool their foster children. What makes these families special is that the parents would be clean, straight and Christian.

Knox’s Senate Bill 158 required couples to be heterosexual, married, abstain from alcohol and tobacco, and attend church or some other similar forum. The proposed law also allowed only one parent to work outside of the home.

So it’s not that Sen. Knox is against state funds being directed to education per se, but that he would rather state funds be directed to those who homeschool their children.

Knox is not alone in wanting to pull the rug out from public, er, government, education.

Sen. Ron Highland, RWamego, proposed state funds be directed to those who want to send their children to private schools.

Highland’s legislation, House bill 2741, proposed parents could receive 70 percent of what their school district allots for the education of each student — anywhere from about $6,000 to $8,000 a year, with no oversight as to its management.

Now call us suspicious, but perhaps some parents would use such stipends for purposes other than the education of their children.

Just perhaps.

The efforts of both Sens.

Knox and Highland were geared to undermine public education and cater to a select segment of the population — with no savings to the state. That’s neither honorable, nor prudent.

Whatever you call it, public education is a mantle the state should not shirk.

— Susan Lynn

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WASHINGTON — Republicans summoned FBI Director James Comey to Capitol Hill on Thursday to question him about his determination that Hillary Clinton did not break the law with her use of a private email server. They termed it an “emergency” hearing, and their questions were correspondingly urgent.

Dana Milbank Washington Post Writers Group “Have you seen the Broadway production ‘Hamilton’?”

Rep. John Mica of Florida, the most senior Republican on the House Oversight Committee, asked Comey.

The witness looked puzzled at the line of questioning: Was Mica going to challenge him to a duel?

“Not yet,” Comey replied.

Mica explained that “Hamilton” had won the Tony for best choreography, which, in the lawmaker’s fertile mind, makes the musical just like Comey’s statement recommending no prosecution of Clinton: A case of “choreography,” he alleged, between President Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Comey.

Mica displayed a “Clinton Timeline,” with photos, to tie his conspiracy together.

“There is something fishy about this,” Mica announced, between clicks of his tongue.

“I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but there are a lot of questions on how this came down.”

Comey, who otherwise endured nearly five hours of questioning with patience and calm, denounced the “insinuation” Mica had made and told him what he should tell his constituents: “Look me in the eye and listen to what I’m about to say,” the FBI chief said. “I did not coordinate that [statement] with anyone. The White House, the Department of Justice, nobody outside the FBI family had any idea what I was about to say. I say that under oath. I stand by that.

There was no coordination, no.”

Republicans didn’t just disagree with Comey’s decision, or demand new investi-

gations, which is their right.

They alleged that the justice system is rigged and corrupt.

This doesn’t hurt Comey or even Clinton as much as it undermines a building block of civilized society: the rule of law.

Until now, nobody questioned the probity of Comey, a longtime prosecutor and former No. 2 official in George W. Bush’s Justice Department.

House Speaker Paul Ryan had said “his integrity is unequaled.” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the oversight panel, had said he and his Republican colleagues would “probably” accept his recommendation because “in all of government, he is a man of integrity and honesty.”

But now Ryan is saying Clinton got preferential treatment, Chaffetz says Comey made a “political calculation,” and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump alleges the attorney general was bribed.

Republicans could simply accept the political gift Comey presented them. He said Thursday that Clinton met the very “definition of negligent” in her mishandling of classified information. And he portrayed her as a Luddite who lacks basic familiarity with the treatment of classified material and didn’t even have a computer in her office.

They could also use the occasion to fix a system that classifies too much but still doesn’t protect the most important secrets. Clinton is hardly the only one to mishandle government secrets. In the same hearing room four years ago, Chaffetz publicly exposed the existence of a CIA facility in Benghazi. The Obama administration has repeatedly

complained that members of the committee have divulged the names of U.S. government informants, airport-security details and information from a sealed wiretap warrant.

Instead, several Republicans attempted to impugn the character of a model public servant. “Obviously, this is very suspicious, just the optics of it all,” charged Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., tying Comey’s announcement to “Secretary Clinton is flying around in Air Force One with the president.” Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., said an “inside the Beltway mentality” was keeping Comey from bringing charges.

Comey, who delivered his opening statement and fielded questions without notes, calmly explained that to prosecute Clinton, the government would have to rely on a 1917 statute of dubious constitutionality that has only been used once in 99 years.

Comey said that his “allstar” team of 15 to 20 people who “didn’t give a hoot about politics” was unanimous after their year-long probe that Clinton shouldn’t be charged.

He said they couldn’t prove that she knew she was receiving classified information or retaining it on her server.

And, because the facts in the case wouldn’t be used to prosecute a “John Doe,” he said, trying to prosecute Clinton with these facts would be “celebrity-hunting.”

That, of course, is what Republicans wanted Comey to do. Instead, he showed integrity. “In my experience, which is three decades, no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case,” he said. “I know that frustrates people, but that’s the way the law is.”

Arrogant candidates a poor reflection of a strong nation WASHINGTON — As the last balloons fall over the Democratic and Republican infomercials in Philadelphia and Cleveland later this month, we voters will face the dreary prospect of deciding which candidate is less arrogant.

It is remarkable that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have successfully convinced millions that they both think the rules don’t apply to them.

Repeatedly, Trump has said sexist, racist, xenophobic, irrational and stupid things that if uttered by any other politician or CEO, would result in immediate exile. He flagrantly and reprehensibly makes appeals to the worst instincts of some Americans. He should be ashamed of himself, but he does not have the moral character for that. He is one of the most arrogant, self-absorbed, least knowledgeable people ever to run for office.

And now that old perception that Clinton fudges the truth to serve her self-interest has been fortified again. All the past doubts have been resurrected; it doesn’t get much worse than the head of the FBI accusing you of extreme carelessness in protecting national security secrets.

Ann McFeatters Tribune News Service Clinton promised us she had not sent or received truly classified information on her private emails; the FBI says she did. It is certainly true that way too much information is classified — a ridiculous amount, in fact. But the FBI made clear that some of her emails contained top-secret and sensitive information and speculated adversarial foreign governments might well have gotten ahold of them while she traveled abroad. If she were still with the government, she might have faced disciplinary action.

It’s a bad day when the best that can be said by your supporters is that you weren’t indicted.

The system is not rigged.

FBI Director James Comey was right to find evidence of criminality lacking. A Republican of stellar integrity, Comey was also right to lambaste her for her dreadful judgment

in using a private, unsecured email server based in her home while she was secretary of state.

It’s obvious why she did it — with former President Bill Clinton’s knowledge and approval. Two lawyers! She wanted to avoid Freedom of Information requests. Hillary is by nature secretive, defensive and contemptuous of the public’s right to know.

It is true that she has been for many years a target of what she once called a “vast, right-wing conspiracy.” But she certainly made it easy for her critics to attack her.

She may well become the first female president of the United States — an awesome achievement. But she has unnecessarily tarnished her quest. And her bad judgment and intense desire to avoid full disclosure, which horribly backfired, will always be part of her legacy.

HOW INTERESTING that after seven turbulent years, President Barack Obama is more popular than either presumptive nominee. His heart-felt, even passionate endorsement of Clinton in North Carolina on the same day of Comey’s bombshell announce-

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ment was more than anything else an appeal to Americans to remember their better nature and disavow Trump.

The autumn debates between Trump and Clinton and possibly Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson now loom as tremendously important. Republicans are justifiably nervous that an undisciplined Trump will continue to be a buffoon, making a mockery of the process. We’ll see; his new handlers are desperately working on him to start doing his homework. Democrats are more hopeful that the highly disciplined Clinton will shred him. It should be mustwatch TV. But both candidates are politically damaged. And the real danger is that voters are

so disillusioned and pessimistic that they won’t participate.

This election could have one of the lowest turnouts in modern times.

That would be a sad outcome, especially in a time when, as Obama pointed out, America is far more popular and respected around the globe than many Americans, such as Trump, believe.

In the 2016 Best Countries rankings done by U.S. News & World Report, the United States ranked No. 1 in power and No. 1 in leadership. People outside the United States may be scratching their heads wondering how a man like Trump is on track to secure the Republican nomination, but they are far from ridiculing the world’s only superpower.

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she said if she were to receive the maximum amount provided for a family of two.

“SNAP should be more regulated,” she added, including regular tests for drug use and proof applicants are trying to find work.

SNAP is the acronym for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly regarded as food stamps.

Widener said she agreed to participate in the SNAP Challenge — a one-month experiment of living solely on the government-subsidized program — in part from what she regards as selfish reasons.

“Being forced to spend only so much money on food will help me become more conscience in my own budgeting,” for food as well as other expenses, she said.

WIDENER’S viewpoints on SNAP hinge on her unhinged childhood.

The child of divorce, she was shuttled between parents who had their own growing up still to do. As a youth, Widener attended a dozen elementary and middle schools and five high schools between Kansas and Oklahoma.

She said her mother, especially, was a poor role model when it came to living within her means.

“We lived paycheck to paycheck,” she said, somewhat generously.

Ashley grew up not knowing the value of saving for a rainy day.

Her mother, who worked as a nurse, viewed payday as reward day.

“She’d spend it all.

I realize I can ‘choose’ to be poor by participating in this challenge. For instance, when it’s my birthday there’s no way I’m going to stay on the Challenge that day.

—Iolan Ashley Widener, SNAP challenge participant

income can be no more than $1,328 a month, or less than $16,000 a year, according to federal guidelines.

“That’s not a lot,” she said.

Ashley Widener sits with her daughter, Lydia. REGISTER/KLAIR VOGEL

Clothes. Jewelry. She felt like she deserved these things, which by the next week meant nothing.

“She was terribly irresponsible.”

The effect on Ashley is that she is the model of frugality.

She and Tim Culver, her boyfriend and the father of their child, live a somewhat spare life in a small rental home on North Second Street.

They have one vehicle, paid in full. She uses a pre-paid card for her cell phone, which averages $45 a month. They don’t have a credit card and pay for everything up front. Their debit card accounts prevent them from withdrawing more than what they have in the bank.

They’re saving to buy a home.

As for the SNAP challenge, she figures it’s

well within her ken.

Because Tim works out of town five days a week for Don Erbert’s DE Construction, he is not figured into the equation of what Ashley and their daughter, Lydia, 2, would receive if they were truly destitute.

Based on a two-person household receiving the maximum subsidy, they would receive $357 a month, or about $89 a week. Ashley figures she now spends about $75 a week.

Ashley admits that although that maximum subsidy seems generous, to qualify for that level means you have to be poor.

“We couldn’t survive on the income that would qualify us for the assistance,” she said.

To qualify for their $357 a month in food subsidies, their household

ASHLEY has several things playing in her favor.

First, because Tim has a good-paying job, she has a peace of mind knowing she has a safety net in case of an emergency.

“I realize I can ‘choose’ to be poor by participating in this challenge,” she said.

“For instance, when it’s my birthday there’s no way I’m going to stay on the Challenge that day,” she said.

Ashley’s 30th birthday is Tuesday.

Ashley is also allowed to be a stay-athome mother who can devote the time and energy needed to prepare a menu, shop for bargains and cook in a healthy manner.

“If I worked full time we’d probably be eating a lot more frozen chicken nuggets,” she said.

Ashley said some of her friends devote their paychecks toward paying for daycare for their children.

“It’s hard to find jobs here that pay a living wage,” she said.

Ashley has an associate degree from Allen Community College.

At one time she had her sights on becoming an elementary school teacher, but has since changed her mind.

“Doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of public support for teachers these days,” she said.

Ashley has only recently discovered the joy of cooking. She credits a pre-packaged home delivery meal service for expanding her culinary skills.

For one week for each of the last several months she paid $100 a week for the service.

Included were the fresh ingredients needed for a gourmet meal.

“I now own five types of vinegar,” she said.

While Ashley admits such a program is beyond the means of anyone relying on food stamps she points to the value of learning how to cook with fresh ingredients.

“My whole life I was always under the impression that fresh food is more expensive,” she said.

Now instead of buying canned sauces, she makes them from scratch.

Stocking a pantry with the requisite olive oils, vinegars, spices and other condiments that creative recipes call for also could be a roadblock for someone on a limited income, she said.

Hot dogs and macaroni and cheese were staples of her childhood, she said.

Now that she’s a mother, Ashley is keen to expose her daughter to a variety of flavors and textures.

“It’s easier to stay home and eat now that I’m cooking,” she said.

“We used to eat out a lot.”

She also has access to fresh vegetables through a family of avid gardeners.

“I can easily not spend any money on vegetables,” she said.

ONE WEEK into the SNAP Challenge, Ashley said she has become more aware of her spending habits and what may trigger her to exceed the artificial limit.

“The more often you go to the store, the more you spend,” she said.

Ashley typically shops on Friday afternoons for the coming week.

“But this week I forgot eggs and bread. So when I went back to the store I also bought a $4 box of cereal, a box of diapers and a $4 dress for Lydia to wear for the Fourth of July.

“It just adds up.”

“We’ve also become more aware of how often we eat out. A snack at Sonic can cost $20,” she said when the family is altogether.

TIM ALSO complicates the Challenge, Ashley said.

“He can be a bit impulsive. The first weekend he came home with $50 worth of steaks and ribs,” she said. “I can’t imagine $50 throwing off an entire month’s budget for food.”

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for 2017.

Even so, the city must take other steps to balance the 2017 budget, Slaugh said in written remarks to the Council.

Among the city’s options: — Raising the city’s property tax levy by 4.47 mills, which would generate about $131,000.

— Increase transfers from electric and wastewater by a combined

$154,000, while reducing the electric transfers to the equipment reserves by $250,000.

— Eschewing rock purchases for chip-andseal projects next year, saving about $100,000.

That would be possible if the city cancels its 2017 chip-seal work, or go to a five-year rotation for the annual maintenance work.

— Cutting the city’s annual payment to Van

Scoyoc and Associates, a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm. Slaugh recommended not paying $25,000 for the rest of this year, and $50,000 for 2017.

— Changing the city’s policy on how overtime is computed. (No figures were provided with this potential action.)

— Other areas for discussion include whether to purchase a second patrol car for the Iola police Department, and

increasing trash collection fees from $8.50 to $10.50 monthly.

THERE HAS been much confusion about whether large property tax hikes must go in front of local voters, Slaugh noted, because of a tax lid law recently approved by the State Legislature.

While the tax lid law goes into effect in 2017 — any proposed hike

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the service.

Now, Kipp’s son, Scott, is in the midst of penning his father’s biography, “The Last Yankee Dodger.”

An engineer by trade, Scott Kipp has written a handful of books on engineering, but this is his first biographical work.

“I’m probably about 80 percent finished with my first draft,” Scott reported last week.

But with the reams of stories he’s collected, Scott Kipp also needs photos.

He’s sending out a call to any locals who may have photos of him during his ball playing days in and out of high school.

“Anything they have, we’d be interested in looking at it,” Scott said.

Those with photos are encouraged to

contact Scott Kipp at skipp@brocade.com.

FRED KIPP is a 1949 IHS graduate, and was an accomplished athlete in other sports as well.

He helped lead the 1949 Mustangs to a third-place finish in their class in the state basketball tournament.

Following high school, Kipp went to Kansas State to play basketball, but soon transferred to Emporia State, in part so he also could play baseball.

As a tall, lanky lefthander, Kipp even tossed a no-hitter in one of his first starts for ESU. A Dodgers scout encouraged Kipp to attend a tryout in Florida in 1953. He agreed to a $500 signing bonus, plus a $200-a-month salary.

He pitched well in the minors, and made

his major league debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1957, the last year the Dodgers were in New York before relocating to L.A. He appeared in 40 games for Los Angeles in 1958, going 6-6.

He appeared in only two games for the Dodgers the next year and soon thereafter was traded to the Yankees.

Kipp played sparingly in New York, appearing

in only four games in 1960.

He bounced around the minors a short while thereafter before retiring in 1962.

Alas, his time in the big leagues came when many players still were paid a relative pittance — he had to have a job in the off-season to make ends meet. After his playing days, Kipp ran a construction company in the Kansas City area.

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greater than the rate of inflation must be approved by local voters — it would not affect any budget approved this year, Slaugh said.

“The tax lid does not affect your 2017 budget,” Slaugh wrote.

ALSO ON the agenda for tonight’s meeting are discussions about whether to allow golf carts to be driven on city streets.

The 6 p.m. meeting will be at the New Community Building at Riverside Park.

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UFC: UFC 200

Major League Baseball: Mariners 8, Royals 5

Lesnar, Nunes pick up victories

By GREG BEACHAM The Associated Press

Kansas City Royals’ Brett Eibner follows through on a solo home run during the seventh inning on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

SLOW STARTERS

Royals can’t play catch-up against the Mariners, split series

By ANDREW HAMMOND The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Dillon Gee had hoped to give the Kansas City Royals a strong outing heading into the All-Star break.

The first inning was anything but strong.

Robinson Cano and Adam Lind then homered in a five-run seventh inning and the Seattle Mariners held off the Royals 8-5 on Sunday.

Gee (3-3) struggled early and picked up the loss, giving up three runs and five hits in 3 2/3 innings.

One of the key moments in Gee’s rough outing occurred in the first inning where an errant throw on a double play opportunity eventually led to Seattle’s first score.

“I kinda got caught in between when I came up to take a look at second,” Gee said. “It was right when the umpire was kinda like, making his way into position and I tried to slow up a little bit and it sailed on me. Just a costly mistake” Kyle Seager had a two-run single in the first, and Ketel Marte added See ROYALS | Page B4

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brock Lesnar returned from a 4 1/2-year UFC absence with a unanimous-decision victory over Mark Hunt, and Nunes took the bantamweight title from Miesha Tate with a stunning first-round stoppage at UFC 200 on Saturday night.

Jose Aldo also won a competitive decision over Frankie Edgar to claim the interim featherweight title on the UFC’s star-studded landmark show.

Daniel Cormier dominated a decision over Anderson Silva, who took the fight on two days’ notice after Jon Jones was dropped from the main event for failing a drug test.

While Brazil’s Nunes shocked Tate in the main event, the hulking Lesnar (6-3) was the greatest curiosity on the card. The pro wrestler earned his first mixed martial arts victory since July 2010, dominating Hunt with wrestling skill and sheer mass.

“I’m older, and when I decided to make this comeback, it was a hard decision,” the 39-year-old Lesnar said. “I’m glad I did. This goes to show for everybody out there, if you don’t stick your neck out, you’ll never get ahead.”

UFC 200 capped three fight cards over three days for the world’s dominant MMA promotion, which used a golden canvas for its first event in T-Mobile Arena, the spacious new entertainment venue just off the Las Vegas Strip.

The UFC stacked the card with compelling matchups, and while every fight wasn’t a See UFC | Page B4

Wimbledon Tennis: Serena Williams and Andy Murray win tennis’ premier event

Englishman takes Wimbledon again

By HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press

Serena Williams with the trophy after winning the women’s final at Wimbledon at the All England Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Saturday.

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Williams wins

By HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — To hear Serena Williams and her coach tell it, the process of getting her ready to win Wimbledon for a record-tying 22nd Grand Slam title began with a series of chats over the phone not long after her loss in the See WILLIAMS | Page B4

LONDON (AP) — Andy Murray’s first Wimbledon championship was for his country.

This one was for Andy Murray.

Dulling big serves with quick-reflex returns, conjuring up daring passing shots and playing impressively mistake-free tennis all the while, Murray beat Milos Raonic 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) on Sunday for his second trophy at the All England Club and third Grand Slam title overall.

In 2013, Murray famously ended Britain’s 77-year wait for one of its own to win the men’s final at Wimbledon, a quest that became burdensome.

Now he wanted a vic-

tory to end his personal rut of three consecutive losses in major finals, including at the Australian Open in January, and French Open last month.

“It is different. I feel happier this time. I feel more content this time. I feel like this was sort of more for myself more than anything, and my team as well,” the secondseeded Murray said. “Last time, it was just pure relief, and I didn’t really enjoy the moment as much, whereas I’m going to make sure I enjoy this one.”

This was his 11th Grand Slam final, but the first against someone other than Novak Djokovic or Roger Federer. The sixth-seeded Raonic eliminated Federer in five sets in the semifinals Friday, and also defeated the player

See MURRAY | Page B4

Andy Murray of Great Britain wins the men’s singles final against Milos Raonic of Canada at the Wimbledon Championships in London on Sunday. Andrew Parsons/i-Images/Zuma Press/TNS

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Grub rumpus EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) — A sheriff in southern Kansas says calm has been restored after dozens of inmates created a disturbance that included overturning tables and breaking security cameras.

Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet says the incident began after lunch Sunday when 57 inmates complained about the food and refused to return to their cells.

Herzet says the inmates overturned tables, broke security cameras, televisions and sprinklers, and barricaded a door.

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Wichita bracing for abortion protests WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Twenty-five years after tumultuous mass protests led to nearly 2,700 arrests outside local abortion clinics, Wichita is bracing for a Summer of Mercy anniversary that supporters hope will draw hundreds of activists.

The Wichita Police Department has spent months putting together a 60-page operational plan that aims at ensuring that everyone is safe.

“I don’t think that we are anticipating an event like 1991,” said Police Capt. Brian White.

“However, we have to be prepared for all possibilities and we want to ensure protesters have the ability to exercise their rights to protest, and we also want to make sure that we balance that with the legal right for the businesses to operate.”

The return of the Summer of Mercy, slated for July 16-23, is being organized by Operation Save America, a Dallasbased Christian fundamentalist group now led

by Rusty Thomas. Group leaders say they hope to complete in 2016 what activists started in 1991.

About 100 to 150 police officers have been assigned to the protests, White said, adding that the department is changing assignments of current officers while not compromising its ability

to respond to 911 calls elsewhere.

“While we have had good lines of communications with protesters, we have to be prepared for the unexpected and that is what we are doing,” White said.

Donna Lippoldt of Operation Save America’s

facility.

Director Julie Burkhart said the clinic plans to stay open during this year’s protest, but the decision was ultimately made not to do any counter protesting.

“It is a new approach,” Burkhart said. “That our work is here inside and

The Wichita Police Department has spent months putting together a 60-page operational plan that aims at ensuring that everyone is safe.

Wichita affiliate did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Pastor Rob Rotola, whose Word of Life Church is hosting the Summer of Mercy, also did not return a call from the Associated Press.

Abortion provider George Tiller and the clinic where he performed late-term abortions had been a target for decades. His clinic was bombed in 1985, and Tiller was shot in both arms in 1992. Tiller was fatally shot in 2009 at his Wichita church by an abortion opponent. No abortion services were available in the city for years afterward until April 2013 when the abortion rights group Trust Women opened the South Wind Women’s Center in Tiller’s former

it is out talking to people who would like to have meaningful conversations in the community and not standing out basically wasting energy on folks that will never be able to understand that sometimes some people need or want to access abortion care.”

Instead, abortion rights supporters put together events including a rally and reception as part of what they’ve dubbed the #ShowSomeMercy Celebration.

Abortion opponents plan protests at the South Wind clinic as well as the Planned Parenthood clinic, which began offering abortions by pill earlier this year.

Other Summer of Mercy events include seminars, rallies and religious services.

KC Star issues publisher apology KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Star’s publisher has apologized for printing an opinion piece that suggested women can reduce the risk of getting raped by not drinking too much and that many readers felt amounted to victim blaming.

In the apology posted late Saturday on the paper’s website and included in its Sunday print edition, Publisher Tony Berg wrote that the newspaper should not have published the piece by Laura Herrick, a teacher and author and one of the guest contributors to the newspaper’s “Midwest Voices” column.

Berg wrote that while he appreciated the point that Herrick “was trying to make about responsibility,” the newspaper removed her piece from its website because of the “indisputable facts” that rape “is a violent act in which the victim loses control,” and “if a person is incapacitated and someone takes advantage of them sexually, the law considers that rape or sexual assault and the

victim is blameless.”

“But as an older brother to two sisters, I believe when a person is sexually assaulted, it’s not their fault. Period,” Berg said.

“I apologize that the column was published and assure you we are putting even more measures in place to ensure this doesn’t happen in the future,” Berg wrote.

In her column titled “Women can take action to prevent rapes,” which was posted online Friday and included in the Star’s Saturday edition, Herrick reminded men that “’no means no’ (and if someone is too drunk to say no, then no is implied).” She went on to write that she thinks women should take responsibility for their bodies by not becoming so drunk that they don’t know what’s happening.

“And if you wake up the morning after doing the ‘walk of shame,’ don’t yell rape if you regret your actions of the night before. Accept your role in what happened, learn from the experience and move on,” Herrick wrote.

She later wrote: “When men drink, their decision-making abilities are also limited. If a woman was too drunk to know what she was doing and should be excused for what happened, then why are men not allowed to be too drunk to make good decisions?”

Some readers took issue with the column on social media, saying it blamed the victims. “For real, @KCStar?! How about instead we spend our energy teaching men not to rape. HOW DOES THIS GET PUBLISHED?” @anoutlawlife said on Twitter.

A phone number listed under Herrick’s name did not appear to be working Sunday. But she told KCTV she doesn’t understand why her piece was removed from the website since it expressed an opinion. She said she stands by the piece and that she wasn’t blaming rape victims.

Herrick said she pointed out at the beginning of the piece that rape is wrong, but said there are ways women can protect themselves.

Carter announces 560 more US troops to Iraq BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to help establish a newly retaken air base as a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said today on an unannounced visit to the country.

Most of the new troops will be devoted to the build-up of the Qayara air base, about 40 miles south of Mosul, and include engineers, logistics personnel and other forces, Carter said. They will

help Iraqi security forces planning to encircle and eventually retake the key city.

“These additional U.S. forces will bring unique capabilities to the campaign and provide critical enabler support to Iraqi forces at a key moment in the fight,” Carter said, according to prepared remarks.

He revealed President Barack Obama’s decision as he spoke to about 120 troops in a building at Baghdad’s airport, shielded from scorching desert heat hovering near 100 degrees. Many were

members of the 101st Airborne Division, known as the Screaming Eagles.

The increase brings the total U.S. force authorization in Iraq to 4,647, and comes just three months after Obama’s last troop addition.

Carter told reporters earlier that U.S. advisers are prepared to accompany Iraqi battalions if needed, as those units begin the siege of the key northern city. It’s not clear when exactly that will happen. U.S. officials said a team of American troops went into Qayara for a quick site assess-

ment Sunday and left.

One potential job is helping Iraqi troops use highly technical bridging capabilities to get across the river into Mosul.

Carter called this weekend’s recapture of Qayara a key strategic victory. Speaking to reporters before he arrived in Baghdad, he said the air base will be one a hub from which “Iraqi Security Forces, accompanied and advised by us as needed, will complete the southern-most envelopment of Mosul. That’s its strategic role, and that’s its strategic importance.”

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What’s up with all these rabid bats? And goiters.

Dear Dr. Roach: Recently a member of our church was bitten by a rabid bat and, along with his wife, is now undergoing treatment. This is the second person I know in this area who has been bitten by a bat that was confirmed to be rabid. Our barn has a bat colony, so I explored getting a vaccination as a precaution. I was told that it would require multiple shots and cost more than $2,000. Why is it so expensive for humans when our animals receive rabies vaccinations for about $25? — G.I. Answer: I spent a long time researching the answer to this, but I still can’t provide a good one.

Vaccines are expensive to research and produce, but the wholesale cost of the same vaccine has dramatically increased in the past several years.

Outside the U.S., the wholesale cost is about

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health $15 per dose (three doses are required). Given that your barn has a bat colony and there is rabies in your area, I can understand why you would want the vaccine, but I can say only that I am shocked and dismayed at the cost. In the U.S., some insurance companies will cover it, so I think it is worth asking your physician and finding out.

Dear Dr. Roach: In February, my doctor had me get a neck ultrasound because she said one side of my neck felt larger. The results came back that the right lobe of my thyroid gland did measure larger. I had a blood test, which was OK. Another ultrasound

was done last month. The doctor’s nurse called and said they had made me an appointment with an oncologist because the measurements had increased.

The appointment isn’t until the middle of next month. Do you think it is safe to wait? Should I try to find another oncologist? I feel healthy. Are there any symptoms I should be aware of ?

— J.C. Answer: Enlargement in the thyroid gland (“goiter” is a term for any kind of enlargement of the thyroid) can come from benign causes and from thyroid cancer. Benign causes are much more likely.

Checking the thyroid function with blood tests helps to narrow down the possibilities. I am guessing that because they told you the blood test result was OK, it was a normal thyroid function test. This also goes along

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with your lack of symptoms. Often, a physician will then order thyroid antibody tests, since autoimmune thyroid disease (specifically, Hashimoto’s) is a common cause.

Since your thyroid gland is increasing in size, a biopsy is a very reasonable next step. In my institution, this is usually performed by an endocrinologist, but it can be done by an interventional radiologist or any other trained professional. The biopsy is a fairly simple procedure.

An oncologist normally is consulted after a pathologic diagnosis of cancer is made.

If your doctor is very worried about the change in the size of the thyroid, I would think a biopsy done sooner rather than weeks from now is likely to reassure both of you.

In the unlikely event that it is thyroid cancer, doing so will allow you to get treated faster.

Husband vs. Dad: Do I have to choose?

By CAROLYN HAX Tell Me About It

Hi, Carolyn: I’m caught between my husband and my dad. Dad is getting older and becoming very set in his political views. My and Hubby’s views are opposite his, but we do not debate him because he tends to be closed-minded and prone to ranting.

But a recent issue came up in which Dad stated opinions that go directly against our

church teachings. Husband is irate that I didn’t “stand up for your faith” when my dad was on a rant. My feeling is that it would do no good and alienate us from my parents, who live nearby and dote on our children.

How do I know when to stand up for myself and when to let it go?

— Anonymous Anonymous: First, you try to figure out what your priorities tend to be in these situations, re-

flexively; then you try to add these up into a general worldview; then you draw on that worldview when the next conflict arises.

Amazing that a rollicking, religious/political/ intra-family/intergenerational rhubarb can produce that dry a response, but there it is.

In this case, for example, you might decide your priority was to keep the family peace. Peace was possible, getting through to Dad wasn’t.

Add that to your history, and what belief system comes through?

Maybe you opt for expediency over principle, and need to revisit those principles. But maybe, too, you value pragmatism over absolutes, or family over philosophy.

Maybe you believe in considering context (say, you suspect your father’s growing combativeness is about age more than free will) vs. focusing narrowly on debate topics.

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Royals: Team goes into break with loss

UFC: Lesnar wins

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a run-scoring single in the fourth to give the Mariners a 3-0 lead.

Cano’s two-run shot to deep right field for his 21st home run of the season extended the Mariners’ lead to 5-0. Lind hit a three-run shot, his 13th, a few batters later.

“A lot of good at-bats,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. “Guys were grinding. Definitely want to go to the break above .500. It was an important game for us today.”

The Royals scored five runs over the final three innings, pulling within three on Alex Gordon’s homer leading off the ninth.

Mike Montgomery (33) pitched 6 1/3 strong innings for Seattle, giving up one run and five hits, in his first start of the season.

ning with a sacrifice fly.

Kansas City Royals’ Alex Gordon is tagged out by Seattle Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager on a fielder’s choice hit by Drew Butera during the third inning on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS Brett Eibner had three hits, including his third homer of the season in the seventh and an RBI single in the Royals’ three-run eighth.

Marte finished the game with two hits in four at bats.

“You know, see the ball, see the ball. If I feel good, I know I’ll get on base.”

Marte said. “I know I’ve got the talent. I know I can hit. You know, I’m trying to come back and give a hundred percent every day and see what happens after.”

Kendrys Morales’ bases-loaded walk pulled the Royals to 8-2 in the eighth, and Cheslor Cuthbert capped the three-run in-

ROYALS AT ESPYS After the All-Star Game on Tuesday, Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez will attend the 2016 ESPY’s on Wednesday night in Los Angeles. Kansas City is nominated for “Best Team” and manger Ned Yost is nominated for “Best Coach/Manager”.

This will be Perez first trip to the ESPY’s. “Yeah, it’s cool. The All-Star Game is a special moment, there’s a lot of top players there_a lot of All Stars. As for the ESPY’s, this is my first time going so that’s pretty good for us.”

SUCCESS AT THE BREAK Despite the loss, the Royals went into the AllStar break with a winning record for the third straight season at 45-42.

Williams: Continues dominance Continued from B1

French Open final.

That setback in Paris marked the third consecutive major tournament that Williams left without the trophy, which to any other tennis player would not be a big deal but to the 34-year-old American represented a real drought.

So she and Patrick Mouratoglou touched base repeatedly to hash it all out.

“I was just talking through things, and how I was disappointed that I lost the French, and what I needed to do, to do better at Wimbledon. We were strategizing a lot,” Williams told a small group of reporters in her last of many interviews Saturday night, about 7 hours after beating Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-3 for the championship at the All England Club.

Williams and her older sister, Venus, 36, also captured the women’s dou-

bles championship. It was the sixth time the sisters have claimed the title and the fourth time that Serena has won both titles at Wimbledon in the same year.

“I had just enough time to change and get my ankles retaped,” Serena said about going from one match to the other. “But there was so much adrenaline, I didn’t want to cool down too much.”

“It wasn’t one conversation,” Williams said about her talks with her coach.

“We talked almost every day. Just to try to feel what I needed to do and what was going to be done.”

At some point during that period, Williams sent a text message to Mouratoglou that he found full of meaning.

Recalled Mouratoglou on Saturday: “I felt like the Serena I know was back. ... Back to thinking the way she thinks.”

That was important, he knew, because it wasn’t as if she had forgotten how to play, of course, or allowed her skills to erode, even if she already was the oldest woman to be ranked No. 1 and the oldest to win a major title.

He realized he hadn’t quite seen the same person ever since Williams’ bid for a calendar-year Grand Slam in 2015 ended with a loss to Roberta Vinci in the U.S. Open semifinals, one of the biggest surprises in tennis history.

After that came defeats for Williams in two Grand Slam finals, against Kerber at the Australian Open, then against Garbine Muguruza at Roland Garros.

During the past two weeks at Wimbledon, Williams certainly did appear to be back to possessing the confident, all-powerful presence the world is ac-

customed to seeing and hearing — on and off the court.

“One day, I woke up and I just felt different,” Williams said, referring to those days after the French Open. “I felt like: I can do better. I can do this. Not only can I do this, I’m going to do this, and there’s nothing in this world that’s going to stop me.”

That was evident in her play, to be sure, particularly in that spectacular serve, which produced 13 aces at up to a tournament-leading 124 mph against Kerber.

And it was evident in her words, most succinctly when a reporter asked after the semifinals what Williams makes of it when others refer to her as one of history’s greatest female athletes.

She replied: “I prefer the word, one of the greatest ‘athletes’ of all time.”

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who stunned Djokovic in the third round, Sam Querrey.

Those wins helped Raonic become the first man representing Canada to reach a major final.

He did it, primarily, by averaging 25½ aces through six matches. But on a breezy afternoon, at a Centre Court filled with nearly 15,000 partisan fans, Murray shut down that integral part of Raonic’s game.

“This one’s going to sting,” Raonic said.

It’s been a rough few weeks for Britain, what with its vote to leave the European Union, the drop of the pound’s value, and the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron, who was seated in the front row of the Royal Box on Sunday, several seats over from Prince William and his wife, Kate.

During the trophy presentation, Murray joked: “Playing in a Wimbledon final’s tough, but I certainly wouldn’t like to be a prime minister. It’s an impossible job.”

Murray, a 29-year-old from Scotland, long dealt with the expectations that accompanied being Britain’s best chance to find a male champion to succeed Fred Perry, who last won the grass-court tournament in 1936. After Sunday’s victory, Murray’s mother, former British Fed Cup captain Judy, referred to that old phenomenon as, “The constant, ‘When are you going to win Wimbledon? When are you going to win Wimbledon? When are you going to win Wimbledon?’”

But her son has dealt with that and thrived, thanks to a counterpunching game and sublime returns of serve.

It took Raonic 36 minutes and five service games to record his first ace, and he wound up with only eight. Over and over, Murray managed to get the ball back, even one that came in at 147 mph.

And while Murray only broke Raonic once, to lead 4-3 in the opening set, that was all it took, because the tiebreakers were surprisingly one-way traffic.

Murray also took 50 of 65 points he served across the first two sets, not only never facing so much as a break point in that span but also being pushed to deuce merely once.

Finally, at 2-all in the third, Raonic got to 1540 for his first — and, it turned out, only — break points, thanks to a forehand return winner off an 82 mph second serve.

“Potentially turning points,” said Carlos Moya, one of a trio of coaches for Raonic, including John McEnroe. “If he got that break, who knows what could happen?”

But Murray stood tall, taking the next four points to hold, then wheeled toward his box, pumping his right fist and yelling.

According to the official statistics, Murray made only 12 unforced errors, two in the second set. While that’s a subjective accounting, anyone watching and listening could plainly tell that he was striking the ball cleanly and confidently, a crisp thwack resonating as racket strings hit ball,

much more often than not putting shots right where intended.

“Really good stuff,” Murray said.

His opponent’s take?

“He was playing much better than me off the baseline,” Raonic acknowledged.

Taking it all in from Murray’s guest box, with seemingly nary a smile, was coach Ivan Lendl.

They worked together when Murray won his first two Grand Slam trophies, including at the 2012 U.S. Open, then split up, before reuniting last month.

Once again, that partnership paid off, and at Wimbledon, no less.

When he sat in his sideline chair after the match concluded, Murray wiped away tears with a tournament towel.

“To do it twice here,” he said, “an event where there is a lot of pressure on me to perform well — I’m very proud with how I’ve handled that over the years.”

classic, the underdog Nunes’ victory was a stunner.

“Everybody knows that I respect Miesha a lot, (but) I’m the new champion,” said Nunes, also the first openly gay champion in UFC history. “For years I’ve been working hard for this moment. I feel amazing.”

Nunes (14-4) became the fourth different fighter to hold the UFC’s 135-pound belt in the last eight months since Ronda Rousey lost it to Holly Holm. Holm lost the belt to Tate in March, but Nunes dominated Tate (18-6) from the start, stunning her with multiple big shots.

Tate was bloodied and unsteady by the time Nunes sunk in a rear naked choke and ended it 3:16 into the first round.

“When I saw she was hurt, I controlled myself, because I know she can come back,” Nunes said.

“I made sure she couldn’t come back anymore.”

Lesnar made a UFC-record $2.5 million guaranteed purse for his first bout since late 2011, returning to the sport where he won and lost the heavyweight title during a meteoric MMA career. Although he walked away after consecutive losses and serious health problems, he couldn’t stop thinking about a return while racking up easier money in the WWE. The main-event star of UFC 100 seized the opportunity to be on another landmark show, and his performance showed that his inimitable athleticism hadn’t diminished. Lesnar never wandered into trouble against the famously heavy-handed Hunt, repeatedly taking down his veteran opponent and keeping him pinned to the canvas.

“I wanted to finish the fight, but the guy’s got a coconut head,” Lesnar said. “My g round-and-pound, I’m sure he’s going to feel it tomorrow, just as I’m going to feel his punch tomorrow.”

Lesnar dominated the final three minutes, punishing a prone Hunt with his cartoon-sized fists. All three judges scored the bout 29-27 for Lesnar, who sounded tentatively interested in another MMA bout — after he performs for the WWE this summer.

“It’s really too soon, and I have no idea (about continuing in the UFC),” said Lesnar, who turns 39 on Tuesday. “I believe any man can do whatever he wants to if he

puts his mind to it. I’ve been out of this game for five years, and I trained for six weeks. ... I think I’m top 10. That puts me right back in the game.”

The 41-year-old Silva (33-8) stepped up to fight the UFC’s light heavyweight champ after Jones was ruled out Wednesday night.

Although Silva is 45 months removed from his last victory — and seven weeks removed from gallbladder surgery — he gamely took a shot at Cormier, who was denied a lucrative, career-defining rematch with the troubled Jones.

Cormier (18-1) had little trouble with one of his heroes, largely keeping Silva pinned to the canvas on his back. Silva goaded Cormier into a few striking exchanges, and he even hurt Cormier slightly in the final minute, but the champ won 30-26 on all three cards.

“I appreciate the UFC for getting me this fight,” said Cormier, who still made half of the guaranteed $1 million he would have earned against Jones.

Aldo put on a masterclass in his return, cutting Edgar in the first round and tormenting him for four more rounds. Aldo reclaimed one version of the belt he held until his 13-second knockout loss to Conor McGregor in December — and he’s also likely to get the lucrative next shot at McGregor whenever the 145-pound champion finally returns to their division following his second bout with Nate Diaz next month.

The Irish star stood amid the floor crowd at cageside when the fight began. Afterward, Aldo put on his belt and immediately made threatening gestures at McGregor, who shouted back at his most bitter rival.

“I have one goal left, and that’s to beat this guy,” Aldo said.

The pay-per-view card opened with former heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez brutally stopping Travis Browne in the first round of a bout that could have headlined many other UFC cards.

The oft-injured Velasquez (14-2) had fought just once since October 2013, losing his belt to Fabricio Werdum a year ago. He showed vintage form against Browne (18-4-1), who got wobbled by a spinning wheel kick and then battered to the ground repeatedly.

Velasquez finished his heavyweight-record 10th knockout victory with 3 seconds left in the round.

Title contenders T.J. Dillashaw, Kelvin Gastelum and Julianna Pena won clear, entertaining decisions on the undercard. The first three fights at UFC 200 ended with first-round stoppage victories for UFC veterans Joe Lauzon, Jim Miller and Gegard Mousasi.

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