The Iola Register, Sept. 12, 2023

CELEBRATES

Morocco digs out from quake

TAFEGHAGHTE, Morocco (AP) — Survivors with shovels worked alongside bulldozers Monday to dig through remote Moroccan villages flattened by a monstrous earthquake, as hope dwindled of finding people alive under wood-and-dirt homes that pancaked into rubble and rescuers overseas waited for Morocco to let them help.

More than 2,400 were killed when the quake struck late Friday — the strongest in the North African country in more than a century.

A French aid group that specializes in locating people trapped under debris said it is withdrawing an offer to send a nine-person searchand-rescue team after waiting without success for a green light from Morocco to deploy. Rescuers Without Borders’ founder, Arnaud Fraisse, told The Associated Press that “our role is not to find bodies.”

Elsmore may be small, but it put on a mighty celebration Saturday for its annual Elsmore Day festival. At top, 200 lbs. of great northern beans soak Saturday morning at the start of Elsmore Day. Ninety pounds of ham would be added later on, as the longtime tradition once again satisfied the hungry. At bottom right, Kailey Clark poses with son Meyer, born on Aug. 10. Even though he didn’t know a thing about it, Meyer was recognized as the youngest baby boy at Elsmore Day. At bottom left, Kelli Beggs and donkey Emmy were a vibrant addition to the parade. REGISTER/TIM

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Because homes in quakehit areas were often made of mud bricks with roofs of wood, stone and clay, he said, the hope of finding survivors at this point is slim.

“When all of that collaps-

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Thompson’s tenure stretched from Allen to IHS

(Editor’s note: With Allen Community College set to celebrate its centennial anniversary, the Register spoke with several former Red Devils on why ACC remains a special place in their hearts. Today, we speak to Van Thompson.)

Van Thompson’s basketball legacy in Iola and Allen County is forever preserved.

At Allen Community College, he guided the nascent Red Devil program through its early years into the late 1970s.

It was under Thompson’s tutelage that two former Red Devils — Becky Carlson and

Leslie Crane — embarked on successful coaching careers of their own.

Then, after a decade at the junior college level, Thompson took the reins at Iola High School, where he led the Fillies to the state tournament three times, including a third-place finish in his first year at the helm.

Funny thing is, basketball isn’t really even Thompson’s signature sport.

It’s tennis.

Thompson, 80, grew up not far from a tennis court in his native Hutchinson and spent countless hours hitting balls back and forth.

It set in motion a career in athletics.

Coupled with his affinity for community college — “I’m a product of one,” he noted — and you start to realize what makes Van Thompson tick.

“I thought I’d enjoy teaching at that level,” he explained. “I enjoyed the high school level, too, but I really liked the college instruction.”

Holding court Thompson’s high school athletic career started on the

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Van Thompson

Movie Night fun

Iola’s square became the spot for a family affair Friday evening with the second showing of Movie on the Square, a collaborative effort of several local businesses. About 75 gathered to watch “Little Rascals” on a large projector.

Joelle Shallah of Bella Donna Salon offered free glitter tattoos for kids, and Iola Pharmacy, Sonic Equipment, Emprise Bank and 110 Lounge and Event Center teamed up to provide free water, popcorn, and true to the movie’s form, jumbo dill pickles. Fillmore Coffeehouse and Plant Cafe’s gelato cart offered free scoops to the first 50 attendees courtesy of Jennifer Chester/Crown Realty. And the Simply Delicious food truck served up tasty eats well past most kiddo’s bedtimes.

Above from left, Selena, Lennin and Mikki Herrera enjoy gelato as they wait for the show to begin at Friday’s Movie Night on the Square event in Iola. At right, Gabe Gleason of Fillmore Coffeehouse and Plant Cafe offers service with a smile. REGISTER/TIM STAUFFER

Obituaries

Adelina Holloway

On Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023, Adelina (Nannie) Berlinda Holloway passed away peacefully at home with her family surrounding her with love, ascending to heaven. She fought a great fight against cancer and never lost hope throughout the journey.

Adelina was born on Sept. 9, 1943, at the Catholic Hospital in Iola, to the late Frederico and Florentina Perez.

ACRH launches seniors’ meal program

Adelina Holloway

Adelina attended St. John’s Catholic School all the way up to the 10th grade. At the age of 16 she found her love, Steven Holloway. She and Steve were wed on April 16, 1961, at Iola Trinity Church. From then on, family was of the utmost importance in her life. Shortly after, they were blessed with four amazing children, Michael (Mike), Patricia (Patty), Brenda, and Christopher (Chris).

Adelina’s life was full of “Precious Moments.”

She worked for many years at the Idea Shop on the south side of the square. She remembered everyone who went into the shop and always would help find the perfect gift. Cookbooks, gnomes, Corning Ware, hand-cut crystal, china, and numerous other things were always on Adelina’s mind.

She and Steve traveled to multiple countries and states. Throughout her life, Adelina’s community leadership spanned many decades. She was Centennial Chairman, Fee’s Park developer and caretaker, Gas Museum founder and curator, and a member of the VFW. The most important one to her heart was being the founder of Patty’s Posse, known today as Wings of Warriors. Adelina and her daughter, Brenda, founded the organization to commemorate her daughter, Patty, who passed away after a long battle of breast cancer. Adelina will be remembered as the matriarch that gave her life to God and serving the community to make it a better place.

Adelina spent most of her life working for the Lord. She was a member of United Methodist Church. Prior to attending United Methodist, she attended Trinity until the closing where she always loved helping with after church luncheons, parties, and welcoming anyone that wanted to give their life to the Lord.

She will be deeply missed. Adelina loved her family and friends all the way until the end. She is survived by her husband of 62 years, Steve Holloway, her sons Mike (Brenda) Holloway of Yates Center, and Chris (Kenyan) Holloway of Gas; daughter-in-law Lisa Zellner; son-in-law Ben Patterson; grandchildren Dallas, William, Brice, Mindi, Brett, Andrew, Carmen, Jakob, Madisyn, Lauryn, Christopher, and Brooklyn; multiple great-grandchildren and everyone else she welcomed into her life.

She was preceded into heaven by her parents Frederico and Florentina Perez, her two beautiful daughters Patty and Brenda, multiple siblings, and friends that she thought of as family.

On behalf of Adelina’s family, we thank you for the unconditional love and support you have given her and us in these past months. She loved each and every one of you and we all know that she is looking down from above and that she will guide us through the rest of our lives.

A visitation will be at 5 p.m. on Friday in The Venue at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 US Highway 54.

A funeral service to honor Adelina’s life will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Wesley United Methodist Church, 301 E. Madison Ave. Burial will follow in the Gas City Cemetery.

The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Wings of Warriors, and may be left in care of Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, Condolences for the family may be left at www. feuerbornfuneral.com.

Kathryn Wilmoth

Kathryn Elizabeth Wilmoth, 87, of Iola, died Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023, at Heartland Meadows, Iola. Kathryn was born Aug. 1, 1936, southeast of Yates Center to Francis R. (Frank) O’Brien and Mary B. (Totman) O’Brien.

She and Donald Lee Wilmoth were married Oct. 2, 1956, in Iola.

He preceded her in death, as did an infant great-grandson.

Kathryn is survived by her five children, Mike (Aleta Platt) Wilmoth, Wellington, Patty (John) Dick, Yates Center, Donna (Steven) Carpenter, Iola, Jane (Don) Burns, Gas, Tom (Jennifer Guenther) Wilmoth, Wichita; eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

A Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, followed by a visitation in the chapel at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13, at St. John’s Catholic Church, Iola. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery, Iola.

Memorials are suggested to St. John’s Altar Society, and be left with the funeral home.

Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Allen County Regional Hospital has partnered with Southeast Kansas Area Agency on Aging (SEKAAA) to offer nutritious meals for older adults through a new 60+ Dine program. The hospital’s cafeteria is the first location in SEKAAA’s nine-county service area to offer meals as part of this new program. 60+ Dine is administered through SEKAAA with funding provided by the Older Americans Act (OAA). The meals are available to adults 60 or older and their spouses. Disabled adult children living with a program participant are also eligible.

Allen County Regional Hospital and the Southeast Kansas Area Agency on Aging have partnered to offer nutritious meals for older adults through a new 60+ Dine program. PIXABAY.COM

Participants are asked to donate $4 per meal, but no one is denied a meal if they are unable to donate. Those who wish to participate must first enroll through SEKAAA

to create an account and get a meal card, which is then scanned at the dining location. Meals are then deducted from the account.

Meals will be available at the hospital’s

Iola to host KDOT meeting

Iola will host a public meeting to discuss the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Program (IKE).

The series of nine public meetings is part of the Local Consult process. KDOT holds Local Consult meetings every two years to discuss regional transportation project priorities with Kansans.

A meeting for the Southeast Region (District 4) will be at 9 a.m. Thursday, Oct, 12, at

the Bowlus FIne Arts Center in Iola. Attendees will have an opportunity to share their region’s transportation priorities, hear about investments being made in transportation in their area, and learn about various grant funding programs available through KDOT. The meetings are open to all Kansans and will gather public input for the IKE program, the state’s current 10year transportation improvement program.

In advance of the Local Consult meetings, KDOT has launched a short survey asking for input on the Kansas transportation system.

The survey will be available online through September 22 at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KDOTLC2023.

Other meetings will be held throughout October in each of the districts, the Kansas City and WIchita metro areas, and a virtual meeting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24.

See the stars in Fort Scott

FORT SCOTT — The Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes is hosting a star party Saturday evening.

Armed with a grant from the Fort Scott Community Foundation, the Milken Center recently acquired a Celestron NexStar 8SE fully automated telescope capable of locating and

tracking 40,000 celestial objects.

The evening will start at 7 p.m. in the Lowell Milken Unsung Hero Park with a short program about Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an early 20th century astronomer whose work led scientists to more accurately determine the distances between

Carlyle Presbyterian

Pastor Steve Traw’s message Sunday, “The Greatest of These is Love,” was taken from I Corinthians 13.

“God’s perfect love comes to us as God tells us that we are His children,” Traw said. “Love shows itself in the mature Christian’s ministry — a ministry without love cheapens the minister. If you are a Christian, you will love one another and encourage and build up other Christians.”

Myrna Wildschuetz played “His Hand in Mine” for the Prelude and “The Wonder of It All” for the Offertory.

The congregation welcomed John Hillbrant as a new member.

The church fellowship dinner will follow the worship service at noon Sunday, Sept. 17.

Bible Study with Pastor Traw is at 3 p.m. Tuesdays on the Old Testament Book of Malachi.

Hawaii volcano Kilauea erupts after two months

HONOLULU (AP) —

Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting after a two-month pause, displaying glowing lava that is a safe distance from people and structures in a national park on the Big Island.

The Hawaii Volcano Observatory said the eruption was observed Sunday afternoon at the summit of Kilauea.

The observatory said gases released by the eruption will cause

faraway galaxies.

From there, the fun moves inside the museum for a talk by NASA Ambassador Jamie Davis on the Webb Telescope and its findings. Refreshments will be available before participants go to the parade grounds at Fort Scott National Historic Site to use the telescope for the first time with an evening of stargazing.

Additional telescopes will be set up as well.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair and flashlight, and are reminded to dress for the weather.

cafeteria on weekdays from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. The menu will be posted at the cafeteria counter daily and monthly calendar-style menus will be available for pick-up at the hospital and online.

Representatives from SEKAAA will be on-site at Allen County Regional Hospital at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday to answer questions about the program and to assist those interested in enrolling.

SEKAAA also plans to be at the hospital on Mondays, Sept. 18 and 25, starting at 11 a.m. For questions or to enroll, call SEKAAA at 620-431-2980 or visit its website.

Police news

Arrest reported Iola police officers arrested Derrick T. Miller for suspicion of trespassing shortly after noon Thursday after he was caught in the Iola Housing Authority’s Townhouse Apartments without permission in the 200 block of North Washington Avenue.

Motel canopy struck

Jennifer Jackson was pulling into the Regency Inn parking lot the evening of Sept. 1 when the truck she was driving struck the motel’s overhang, which sustained damage.

Neither Jackson nor a passenger was hurt, Iola police officers said.

Vehicle struck Nickolas P. Bauer was eastbound on Jackson Avenue Aug. 28, when the car he was driving struck the rear of a sport utility vehicle driven by Jayden S. Beene, which was slowing in order to stop at the intersection of Washington Avenue. Neither was injured.

Scouts plan roundup

A roundup is set for 6:30 to 7:30 Tuesday at Iola’s Calvary Life Center (the old Calvary United Methodist Church) at 118 W. Jack-

son Ave. Boys and girls in kindergarten through fifth grade are invited to sign up for Iola Cub Scout Pack 3055.

volcanic smog downwind of Kilauea. People living near the park should try to avoid volcanic particles spewed into the air by the eruption, the observatory said.

The volcano’s alert level was raised to warning status and the aviation color code went to red as scientists evaluate the eruption and associated hazards.

Kim Jong Un to visit Russia

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia, both countries said Monday, and he is expected to hold a highly anticipated meeting with President Vladimir Putin that has sparked Western concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

A brief statement on the Kremlin’s website said the visit is at Putin’s invitation and would take place “in the coming days.” It also was reported by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, which said the leaders would meet — without specifying when and where.

“The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un will meet and have a talk with Comrade Putin during the visit,” it said.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin and Kim will lead their delegations in talks and could also meet “one-on-one if necessary.”

A possible venue is the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, where Putin arrived Monday to attend an international forum that runs through Wednesday, according to Russia’s TASS news agency. The city, located about 425 miles north of Pyongyang, was also the site of Putin’s first meeting with Kim in 2019.

The visit would be Kim’s first foreign trip since the COVID-19 pandemic, which had forced North Korea to enforce tight border controls for more than three years to shield its poor health care system. While Kim has shown to be more comfortable using planes than his famously flight-adverse father, he has also used his personal train for previous meetings with Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and former U.S. President Donald Trump, reviving a symbol of his family’s dynastic rule.

TRUTH

Thompson: Saw success coaching at Allen, IHS

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basketball court.

“I started a few games my senior year whenever the starting point guard was sick,” he laughed.

But while he was merely serviceable on the basketball court, he was a standout on the tennis court.

“I had a really good instructor,” he recalled. “He was a nationally known photographer, and he’d offer free tennis lessons.”

By the time Thompson reached high school, he was a standout. Twice, he made it to the state tennis tournament.

Then, after getting his community college education out of the way at Hutch, Thompson signed on to the Wichita State University tennis team.

Twice, he led the Shockers to berths in the national tournament.

“Wichita State was pretty good for the Midwest,” he noted, even if the nationals were an entirely different ball of wax.

His first year at nationals pitted Thompson against a player from Michigan State, who also was an all-American football player.

His second year put Thompson on the court against UCLA’s Charlie Pasarell, who went on to a successful professional career, although tennis fans most likely recognize Pasarell’s Bruins teammate — tennis legend Arthur Ashe.

Thompson also dabbled in doubles play against some tough competition.

“We wound up playing Marty Riessen and Clark Grabner from Northwestern,” he recalled. “They were the no. 1 doubles team in the world.”

The experience was humbling, he chuckled.

While Thompson was able to keep the scores competitive, he also was savvy enough to realize his foes likely had something to do with it.

“They could have beaten us love and love if they wanted to,” he said. “But these were first-round matches, and they wanted to get some work in. They were good sports and gentlemen.”

Teaching and playing Thompson was finishing his teaching degree when a position opened up Derby High School for a history teacher.

Thompson, who was majoring in physical education with a minor in history, had been unable to do student teaching because of his tennis scholarship, so he figured his professional career was still a semester or two down the road.

“But Derby’s histo-

Van Thompson was a standout player in high school and in college. Here, he competes at a tournament in the mid 1970s while he was a women’s basketball coach and tennis coach at Allen Community College. REGISTER FILE PHOTO

ry teacher had a heart attack,” he said. “They were desperate. I got the job.”

From there, Thompson moved on to Eudora High School, where he continued to teach history and coach basketball.

But a yearning to return to the community college level remained. That’s when Allen beckoned.

The college had just started its women’s basketball program, and an old English teacher signed on to be the team’s first coach.

“She volunteered,” Thompson said. “She didn’t know a lot about the sport, but she got it started.”

Thompson caught lightning in a bottle — twice — at Allen.

Among his players in his first year was Elsmore native and former Marmaton Valley High School standout Becky Carlson.

“For one thing, she was very smart,” Thompson said. “And she was a very good athlete. A point guard needs to be very intense, very intelligent.”

Leslie Crane arrived a few years later, and again, Thompson had a de facto coach on the court.

“Leslie was easy to recruit,” he recalled. “She was a local girl, and she was really, really good.”

It wasn’t long after Crane’s playing days that Thompson soon faced off with his former protege when she was head coach at Kansas City, Kan., Community Col-

lege. Both Carlson and Crane have made their marks. Carlson has won more than 500 high school games at Hoisington, Iola and Marmaton Valley. Crane, meanwhile, became the winningest coach at Western Illinois University history, coupled with successful coaching gigs at Independence and now Allen.

THE RED Devils were successful, and Thompson’s assumptions that he’d enjoy teaching at the juco level came true.

He surmises it’s because the students at that level are serious about their education, and grounded enough to put in the work necessary to learn.

But life on the recruiting trail became a drag, Thompson admitted.

“There would be weeks I’d be working until 11 o’clock every night,” he said. “And that was during a time when you’d have very few out-of-state players. Now, it’s a lot tougher.”

After 10 years at Allen he was ready for a change.

The timing couldn’t have been better: Iola High School was in need of a coach.

Dennis Harper, whom Thompson had met years before, had stepped down as Fillies head coach in 1987.

Thompson was immediately intrigued, if for no other reason than because Iola’s roster had twin sisters Shelley and Sheri Moore, both of whom measured in at 6

Van Thompson’s career on the basketball sidelines at Allen Community College included coaching a pair of local athletes, Becky Carlson and Leslie Crane, who both grew up to become standout coaches in their own right.

foot, 3 inches. “I’d never coached a player 6-3 before, let alone two,” Thompson said.

Sure enough, the Fillies dominated the following season, finishing third in the state in the spring of 1988.

It wound up being the Fillies’ most successful season in school history — until Carlson took Iola to a state championship 18 years later.

It runs in the family

For all of his success, Thompson remains humble, if for no other reason than his family.

His uncle, Alfred Smith, won a state basketball title while coaching in Topeka, although college basketball fans would likely recognize Alfred’s son — Dean Smith.

Yes, the same Dean Smith who guided the North Carolina Tar Heels to a pair of national titles and coached the likes of Michael Jordan and James Worthy.

“For my family, it was, ‘Oh, you won a league title, big deal,’” Thompson laughed. “Dean just won nationals.”

Thompson’s other claim to fame is he’s one of the few to have seen

Dean Smith play high school football.

“He was the quarterback,” Thompson said. “That was back when they played with leather helmets and no face masks. He broke his nose in a game once.”

Thompson oddly enought, watched Smith’s Tar Heels basketball team twice in person — and they lost both times.

“He would have been fine if I hadn’t seen any more games,” Thompson laughed.

EVEN in his coaching days, Thompson stayed active on the tennis courts. He frequently competed, and won, regional tournaments, although a series of back surgeries have since ended his playing days.

“Otherwise, I’d still be out there,” he said.

Nowadays, Thompson is content to enjoy retirement with wife Ellen. The couple walks 5 miles a day and has a mission of staying in touch with family and friends.

The couple has two children. Their son Kyle works as an anesthetist in North Carolina. Daughter Cass lives in Eudora and works as a physical therapist.

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Fish with funny float gets CT scan

DENVER (AP) — A fancy-looking French angelfish that was found one day with a funny float has its buoyancy back after taking some time from its tropical trappings to get a CT scan at the Denver Zoo.

A zoo worker recently noticed the blue and yellow fish was swimming with a tilt, prompting a visit last week to the facility’s on-site hospital for an ultrasound and the CT scan. The CT scan took place in a machine large enough to fit a 700-pound grizzly bear, so some special accommodations were required, zoo spokesperson

Farmers’ market ends soon

Thursday will be the last market of the season for Allen County Farmers’ Market

The market will be on the square along Jefferson Street from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Vendors will have the following: fresh baked goods including bread (several types of bread including sourdough), brownies, candy, cinnamon rolls, cookies, fudge, pies, scones along with chicken, pork, jerky, eggs, honey, jams, and jelly, drink, and seasoning mixes. The fresh produce selection will discover pumpkins and sweet potatoes. Craft items include handmade hot pads, fishing lures, hand forged knives, key fobs, mirrors, shampoo bars, towels, hooded towels, totes, and wallets.

Jake Kubie said. The approximately seven-inch fish was sedated, balanced upright on a sponge and had water poured over its gills to keep it alive as the scan took place.

The diagnosis: Too much gas. Enteritis, or inflamed intestines, had resulted in increased internal gas that was affecting the fish’s buoyancy, Kubie said. “It was treated with antibiotics,” he said. “It’s doing much better and swimming normally.”

Humboldt FFA attends research day

Last week, some of the Humboldt FFA members were able to attend the Bressner Pasture research day on site. Kansas State University Research and Extension were the host and provided an awesome day of reviewing research findings with the FFA members. Some of the topics included pasture burning, controlling Serecia lespedeza with sheep, patch burning, fall grazing of native grasses, use of essential oils for parasite control, agricultural drones and pasture composition changes. COURTESY PHOTO

Renovating fescue lawns after drought loss

Unfortunately, this is the second year in a row that we are facing drought conditions going into the fall. Our fescue lawns have really taken a beating the last two years and many have almost completely died out. I know some lawns still look green, but you would be surprised at how much of your lawn is actually crabgrass and not fescue. If you are thinking about renovating your lawn, September is the time to do it. Renovating doesn’t have to be done by plowing under the current turf and starting from scratch. Instead, lawns can be thickened up by overseeding.

To start the overseeding process, mow the grass short (1-1.5 inches) and remove the clippings. This will make it easier to get good seed-soil contact and increase the amount of light that will reach the young seedlings. The success of overseeding is dependant on good seed-soil contact. Thatch can prevent the seed from reaching the soil and germinating. If the thatch layer is ¾ inch or more, use a sod cutter to remove it. A power rake can also be

used to reduce a thatch layer.

Next, the soil should be prepared for the seed. Holes must be made into the soil for the seeds to fall into. A verticut machine can be used. It has solid vertical blades that can be set to cut furrows into the soil. Another option is to use a core aerator. This machine will punch holes into the soil and deposit the cores on the surface of the ground. Each hole will produce an excellent environment for seed germination and growth. Machines to do such work can often be rented, so check around.

Fertilizer should then be applied at the rate suggested by a soil test or a starter fertilizer should be used at the rate suggested on the bag.

Seeding is the next step. For overseeding, use half the amount needed compared to seeding bare ground. For tall fescue, the nor-

mal rate for bare seeding is 6 to 8 pounds per 1000 square feet so the overseeding rate would be 3 to 4 pounds per 1000 square feet. You don’t necessarily have to overseed with the same variety you planted before. The quality of a lawn by can be raised by overseeding with a fescue variety that has better growth habits. Many stores carry blends of several newer high-quality tall fescues.

Finally, water everything in and then keep the seedbed constantly moist for rapid germination. This might be a bit tricky considering how dry the soil is. Frequent light waterings are better than deeper, infrequent watering as the seedlings become established. Fertilize with a high nitrogen fertilizer again 4 to 6 weeks after seeding to keep plants growing well and to build up food reserves.

On a side note, many homeowners often want to overseed bare spots under trees, but have minimal luck. The turf will sprout as fall progresses and will get established by winter. It continues to look good going into spring. However, the next summer it begins to die out again — despite any care it is given.

In many cases, this is due to too much shade or the type of turf planted isn’t a good fit for the location. Tall fescue is the only widely used lawn turf in Kansas that can survive some shade.

All other cool and warm season turfs need more sunlight.

Instead of establishing grass under trees, consider underplanting the tree with shade tolerant ornamental plants. Examples include ground covers such as vinca minor vines, Boston ivy or liriope, or plants such as hostas or hardy ferns.

Krista Harding is a K-State Research and Extension agent assigned to Southwind District. She may be reached at kharding@ksu.edu or 620-244-3826.

Prairie Dell 4-H Club elects officers

By LIZZY MICHAEL Prairie Dell 4-H Club

to promote 4-H Week on Wednesday,

next Prairie Dell meeting will be at 7 p.m.

The Prairie Dell 4-H Club met on Sept. 4, 2023.

Prairie Dell 4-H Club members Kai Griffeth, from left, Lizzy Michael, Briar Griffeth, Treyton Church, Lainey Church and Lola Church toured the Iola Public Library on Aug. 30. COURTESY OF TERRI KRETZMEIER

Krista Harding Extension Agent for Agriculture

Opinion A5

Missing in Action: Mainstream Republicans

By JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Bloomberg Opinion/TNS

Once again, House Republicans are putting themselves in an impossible position.

This time it’s over President Joe Biden’s request for $40 billion in emergency spending for Ukraine, disaster relief, border security and other priorities popular with voters and all supported by a bipartisan majority in the Senate. However, a group of Republicans who oppose aiding Ukraine want it removed from the bill and barring that want to stop the package from reaching the House floor for a vote.

This leaves the Republican conference in the position of blocking spending that most Americans think is vital and urgent — especially new funding for FEMA in the wake of the Maui wildfire, hurricanes and other disasters.

Indeed, it’s likely that a majority of the House and even a majority of House Republicans would support exactly what Senate Democrats and Republicans will end up passing. The last time the House voted on aid to Ukraine, in July, efforts to cut off or even reduce assistance were soundly defeated, with well over half of Republicans joining all the Democrats. It’s unlikely that much has changed since then.

In fact, it’s likely that sooner or later the House will end up doing what the Senate and Biden want — but only after a fight that will make House Republicans look bad, force many of them to cast votes that could

be used against them next fall, and perhaps even threaten Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s job. Isn’t there some way they can avoid this?

Well, yes. But only if House Republicans in vulnerable seats and relatively moderate mainstream conservatives step up to fight for themselves and their party.

I’m not saying that the House Freedom Caucus and other extreme House Republicans are blameless. But they have the right to oppose support for Ukraine. It may be a wrong position, or even a foolish one — I

certainly think so, as do most foreign policy experts — but they’re entitled to push for their policy preferences. That’s how Congress works. That includes attempting to wield more control over the outcome than their numbers would suggest, in part by repeating their threat to oust McCarthy if he doesn’t do what they want.

Then there’s McCarthy. As usual, he’s mainly protecting himself not the members of his party. The truth is that if 50 or so of his members are constantly speaking out against the bill and none of their col-

Mexico decriminalizes abortion; regards as duty of public health

The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice decision decriminalizing abortion last week is a landmark ruling in a country that has historically outlawed the procedure with harsh penalties for the women who sought it and the healthcare professionals who provided it.

The ruling, which governs federal law in a nation of states, makes abortion legal in federal health institutions and requires the public health service to offer it. The decision does not automatically make abortion legal in all of Mexico (the way that the Roe vs. Wade decision had made abortion legal in all of the United States). But it could speed up a movement by Mexican states to legalize the procedure. Currently, 12 out of 32 states have decriminalized abortion.

The battle for the right to control one’s own body continues, but the Mexican judicial ruling is a significant victory for reproductive rights and the increasingly influential feminist movement in Latin America, which has historically been socially and religiously conservative. Argentina, Colombia and other countries in the region have also legalized or decriminalized abortion in the last few years.

Yet, as Mexico and other Latin American countries demonstrate remarkable progress toward protecting the right to bodily autonomy, the U.S. is going backward. Our Supreme Court undid protections for abortion last

Yet, as Mexico and other Latin American countries demonstrate remarkable progress toward protecting the right to bodily autonomy, the U.S. is going backward.

year when it overturned Roe vs. Wade. And now a growing number of states are working to erode protections of individual rights as their legislators search for more harrowing and surreal ways to criminalize abortions. So much for the USA being a beacon of freedom.

In Texas, where abortion is illegal unless the pregnant person’s life is in danger, a number of cities are considering “trafficking” laws to make it a crime to help a pregnant person travel on roads in that city to get an abortion in another state (like neighboring New Mexico, where abortion is still allowed). Just as the infamous Texas Senate Bill 8 allowed a private citizen to sue someone suspected of having helped a person get an abortion past about six weeks of pregnancy (before Roe v. Wade was overturned), a private citizen would have the right to sue someone they suspected of helping a person travel on Texas roads and highways out of town for an abortion. The idea that you could sue someone for legally driving a person to get a procedure

that is legal in another state is preposterous and possibly a violation of several constitutional rights, including due process. But as with SB 8, if it’s enforced only through citizen lawsuits, there’s no government official to sue for a constitutional violation. The point is to scare people into not traveling on roads in Texas to get abortions. Even scarier, in Alabama, where abortion is banned unless a person’s life is in danger, Atty. Gen. Steve Marshall recently said that groups providing financial or any other kind of assistance to Alabama residents seeking an abortion out of state could be prosecuted on conspiracy charges. No one has been charged yet, but his threats have already caused one abortion assistance fund to stop providing financial help to low-income Alabama residents seeking abortions elsewhere pending a lawsuit it filed asking for court protection from anti-conspiracy laws.

These efforts are as cruel as they are mind-boggling. The Dobbs ruling, which overturned Roe, returned the decision on abortion rights to the states. That didn’t mean it gave states the right to thwart its residents’ travel plans. Pregnant people leaving the state are not fugitive slaves escaping the plantation.

It’s heartening to witness the progress Mexico has made in restoring rights — and it’s maddening to see the destruction of those rights continue in the U.S.

— Los Angeles Times

leagues are willing to take them on, then McCarthy is in a way just listening to the members of his conference. He’s siding with an intense minority— the loud group opposing Ukraine aid — against an apparently indifferent majority who would vote for aid but not push for it publicly.

WHICH BRINGS US to the rest of the House Republicans — mainstream conservatives, including relatively moderate ones, some of whom are in tough districts and could be defeated by Democrats in 2024. While Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other mainstream conservatives in the Senate are speaking up for this package, their House counterparts are — as usual — missing in action. They don’t have to be. They could fight back. Loudly. In public. They could make it clear that this bill has the votes to pass and that they want a vote on it. They could even mirror the extreme wing’s tactic: threaten McCarthy’s job if he doesn’t put the bill, including aid to Ukraine, on the House floor. Instead, just as they were in the speakership vote and on the debt limit, most House Republicans are either too scared or just too indifferent to bother acting. In doing so, they aren’t only weakening their own position, but weakening the bargaining power of their party — and making House Republicans as a group an easy and obvious scapegoat for anything that goes wrong.

40 Years Ago

September 1983

Rick Rush, 514 S. Sycamore, was among the 131 Kansans who recently passed the certified public accountant examination. Rush is executive vice president of H. L. Miller and Son.

***** Shelton Peters, owner of two McDonald’s restaurants in Fort School and Nevada, Mo., said groundbreaking for an Iola store at State and Madison, should occur within the next two weeks. He expects the restaurant to be open by early December.

***** First day enrollment figures for USD 257 schools was 1,892 students, which is up a few from last year’s first-day number.

*****

Roy E. Singer, who was a co-owner of the IGA supermarket here from 1958 to 1969, died at his home in Phoenix Thursday following a heart attack. He and his wife moved to Iola in the fall of 1958 to start the IGA store here in partnership with Bob Huskey. It was the first Iola supermarket and the first major retail store to be located away from the square.

******

Two records for enrollment have been set, according to ACCC administrators. The college has 1,941 students this fall, a 75 percent increase from last fall’s 1,114 — which was the previous high. The oth-

er record was set for daytime enrollment. That total is 528, two more than the previous record of 526 in fall 1979. Evening division on-campus enrollment increased 12 percent from 251 to 281.

*****

The water plant being constructed by the Wholesale Rural Water District may be in full operation by Oct. 1. The plant and settling basins northeast of Iola were completed this week and half a million gallons of water was pumped through the plant to disinfect lines Thursday.

Officials said water might be available by tonight for Colony, which is strapped by waning supplies on Deer Creek. They said 100 gallons a minute could be sent Colony’s way. A minor leak on the feeder line leading to the district’s storage tank northwest of Moran will slow full operation of the district. The tank must be 80 percent full before full operation can be achieved.

*****

George Lee replaced a hand on the large clock on the south side of the Allen County Courthouse lawn yesterday. The clock, which was in the tower of the old courthouse, has been a target of vandals and has not worked for several years.

The Iola Lions Club refurbished the clock, put it in working order and will install a protective cover over the face. Lee, a Lion, is an electrician and did much of the restoration.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, says she is willing to shut down the federal government if her demands to impeach President Joe Biden and eliminate support for Ukraine aren’t met. Above, Rep. Green interrupts Biden’s State of the Union address on Feb. 7. JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTING IMAGES/TNS

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Pa. police intensify manhunt for escaped murderer

By MARC LEVY The Associated Press

Authorities searched

Monday for escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a half ago after he apparently slipped through a search perimeter, changed his appearance, stole a dairy delivery van and contacted

acquaintances.

Chester County residents were asked to be on the lookout, check their security cameras and keep vehicles and homes locked as the search for Cavalcante continued, state police said on social media Monday morning.

Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police said Sunday that Cavalcante stole the unlocked van, which had the keys in-

side, sometime Saturday night. The van had been parked at a dairy farm about three-quarters of a mile from the northern perimeter of the search area where hundreds of law enforcement officers had been looking for him.

Bivens vowed to “aggressively continue” the search and said he is confident the fugitive will be captured.

He declined to say how he thought Caval-

cante slipped through the perimeter, but said it had weaknesses, such as underground tunnels and huge drainage ditches, and that no perimeter is 100% secure and no operation goes according to plan.

“That happens in investigations, it happens in manhunts, it happens in all kinds of things,” said Bivens, who also helped guide a 48-day search for cop-killer Eric Fre-

Quake: Desperate search continues

Continued from A1

es, you don’t have much chance of surviving, because there are no air pockets,” Fraisse said — a contrast to places where buildings are made of concrete or other strong materials.

“People are generally suffocated by the dust.”

Moroccan officials have so far accepted government-offered aid from just four countries — Spain, Qatar, Britain and the United Arab Emirates. Morocco’s Interior Ministry says officials want to avoid a lack of coordination that “would be counterproductive.”

The United Nations estimates that 300,000 people were affected by Friday night’s magnitude 6.8 quake, made more dangerous by its relatively shallow depth.

Most of the destruction and deaths were in Al Haouz province in the High Atlas Mountains, where homes folded in on themselves and steep and winding roads became clogged with rubble. Residents sometimes cleared away rocks themselves.

In the remote impoverished settlement of Tafeghaghte, villagers estimated that more than half of the 160 inhabitants were killed. People worked quickly to clear dead bodies, but a foul stench filled the air Monday from what residents said were dead cattle. Most buildings had disintegrated.

Ibrahim Wahdouch lost two young daughters and two other family members and likened the village to a warzone.

“There’s not shooting but look around,” he said.

On Monday, a teen carried a shovel through the rocks, bulldozers cleaned up debris and survivors steered away from halfwrecked buildings that threatened to collapse.

A day earlier, people cheered when trucks full of soldiers arrived in the town of Amizmiz, down the mountain from Tafeghaghte. But they pleaded for more help.

“It’s a catastrophe,’’ said survivor Salah Ancheu. “We don’t know what the future is. The aid remains insufficient.”

Army units deployed Monday along a paved road leading from Amizmiz to remoter mountain villages. State news agency MAP reported that bulldozers and other equipment are being used to clear routes.

Tourists and residents lined up to give blood. In some villages,

people wept as boys and helmet-clad police carried the dead through streets. Khadija Fairouje’s face was puffy from crying as she joined relatives and neighbors hauling possessions down rock-strewn streets.

Offers of help poured in from around the world. But Moroccan authorities frustrated some overseas rescuers who didn’t want to deploy without official approval, which wasn’t quickly forthcoming.

Fraisse of Rescuers

Without Borders said about 100 teams — with roughly 3,000 rescuers in total — that are registered with the U.N. could have deployed quickly to the city of Marrakech that was also hit by the quake.

He surmised that Moroccan authorities may be trying to avoid the logistical chaos seen when a 2004 quake killed more 600 people and aid flights overwhelmed an airport in the disaster zone.

“Logistically, it’s extremely complicated to manage, because the rescuers then all need to be transported by truck on broken, unusable roads to the zones,” he told the AP. “So I think they didn’t want to experience again what they encountered during the last big quake.”

He said his group lodged its offer of assistance on Saturday afternoon with Morocco’s Embassy in France before deciding Monday that it would no longer be of help.

“It’s their responsibility. They can do what they want,” Fraisse said. “They didn’t call. So today we think it’s no longer necessary for us to go there, because we won’t do effective work.”

A Spanish searchand-rescue team arrived in Marrakech and headed to the rural Talat N’Yaaqoub, according to Spain’s Emergency Military Unit. Britain sent a 60-person search team with four dogs, medical staff, listening devices and concrete-cutting gear.

But the Czech Republic was waiting for permission to sent a team of 70 rescuers. And Germany sent home more than 50 rescuers who’d been waiting to fly out, news agency dpa reported.

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in in 2014. “That’s why if you’re smart, you’re planning contingencies and you’re ready to adapt to whatever happens. This is a minor setback. We’ll get him. It’s a matter of time.”

Cavalcante’s sister was arrested by immigration authorities, Bivens said. The matter involved “immigration issues,” he said, but declined to provide specifics, including the date of the arrest. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to an inquiry about it Monday.

Bivens said state police are authorized to use deadly force if Cavalcante isn’t actively surrendering.

Other agencies involved in the search may have their own rules, he noted.

Several law enforcement agencies put more stringent requirements in place for preauthorization of different levels of force in the wake of national

protests and calls for policing reforms after the killing of George Floyd by police.

The Pennsylvania State Police regulations republished in July outline specific scenarios where deadly force is justified including to prevent the escape of someone who has committed a violent felony such as murder and who could pose a threat to the community.

By preauthorizing the use of deadly force for troopers if Cavalcante does not surrender, state police officials are eliminating a potential delay.

Some schools in the region planned to hold outdoor activities inside. Owen J. Roberts School District in Pottstown announced that there would also be an increased security presence at its schools on Monday, including local law enforcement officers.

A survivor of the deadly 6.8-magnitude earthquake cries as she sits on the rubble of her damaged house, in the mountain village of Moulay Brahim in al-Haouz province in central Morocco Sunday. AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/PHILIPPE LOPEZ/TNS.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Iola hosts/wins volleyball invite

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

Iola High’s volleyball team was a gracious host Saturday, sweeping their opponents.

Colony, Parsons and Burlington participated in the invitational

Iola

The Mustangs took down Parson in their first match, 28-26 and 29-27.

Lily Lohman and Mariah Jelinik led Iola in the first set with a team-high seven points apiece. Kaysin Crusinbery and Alana Mander each scored four points. Crusinbery scored a team-high seven points in the second set while Mader scored six points.

“This group has continued to improve in the off season,” Iola head coach Amanda Holman said. “We have been a young team the past two years but are now finally becoming more experienced. Nine out of the 10 on varsity for our home tournament played club ball this winter. That makes a huge difference come high school season.”

Iola beat Burlington in their second matchup, 25-21 and 25-17.

Crusinbery had a team-

high seven points while Jelinek had six points. Jackie Fager also added five points.

Jelinek scored a team-high eight points while Reese Curry had five points.

“Our communication and energy were good in the morning,” said Holman. “Our

serve receive passing was stellar.”

The Mustangs then took down Crest in three sets, 1825, 25-20 and 25-13. Fager led the Iola attack with a team-high seven points while Crusinbery had three points. Crest’s Brook-

Mustangs fall to Wellsville

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

Iola kept it close with Wellsville in the first half but a swing of momentum ultimately sunk the Mustangs for their first loss of the season at home Friday night.

Wellsville scored three touchdowns in the first half and two more in the second half before Iola got on the board late in the fourth quarter.

The Mustangs (1-1) managed to keep a dangerous Wellsville offense off the field for the opening minutes of the game but the Eagles struck 10 minutes in when Pete Dorsey hit Dezmond Winton for a three-yard touchdown pass and the 7-0 lead.

lyn Jones and Kaelin Nilges each scored a team-high six points in the loss.

Iola’s Alana Mader scored a team-high six points in the second set while Reese Curry scored five points. Crest’s Karlee Boots led with a team-

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Allen men beat Johnson in waning minutes

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

Allen Community College’s men’s soccer team took down Johnson County Community College in a thrilling back and forth affair on their home turf Saturday, 3-2.

Allen’s (4-1) Patrick Alouidor scored two goals in the first half before Johnson countered with two goals in the second half. That’s when Allen’s Ayoup Bader took a deflected penalty kick and buried it for the 3-2 lead with little time left in the game.

The No. 11 Lady Red Devils (3-1) lost to No. 10 Johnson in the opener, 3-1. The Cavaliers scored twice in the first half to the Lady Red Devils’ one goal. Johnson cushioned its lead with a second goal in the first half.

Allen men

It looked early like Johnson was going to control the pace of the game with the ball on their side of the field most of the first half. Allen’s Patrick Alouidor had other plans though and changed the momentum of the game in the Red Devils’ favor early on.

“I had all of Allen men’s soccer on my back and I made sure I put it in the back of the net,” Allen’s Ayoup Bader said. “We play hard for each other and whoever comes in gives 110%.”

Alouidor drove from the

right side of the net and scored an unassisted goal for the 1-0 lead.

Alouidor scored again only a couple of minutes later on an assist by Pedro De Silva for the 2-0 lead.

“Patrick put us in a good

position early with the two goals,” Bader said. “I’ve known him since last year, we both played together so we have a really good chemistry between each other. We always talk about situations

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Marmaton Valley steamrolls Yates Center

YATES CENTER — Marmaton Valley rolled over Yates Center on the road Friday, 74-0.

Brayden Lawson threw two touchdown passes for the Wildcats (2-0) while Tyler Lord went for three rushing touchdowns. Jaedon Granere, Dre

Ellis and Lawson combined for three touchdown runs.

Marmaton Valley ran for six touchdowns on 202 rushing yards on 10 carries.

Defensively, Brevyn Campbell led Marmaton Valley with a team-high nine tackles while

Cooper Scharff and Dagan Barney each chipped in with five tackles. Ellis had a team-high three tackles for a loss while Campbell made two tackles for a loss.

Lawson led the Wildcats with a team-high 212 total

yards of offense while Granere added 186 yards. Granere and Lord each scored three touchdowns total.

Marmaton Valley hosts Sunrise Christian Academy on Friday at 7 p.m. Yates Center is at St. Paul on Friday at 7 p.m.

Iola stepped it up big time defensively in the second quarter, holding the Eagles on fourth down and getting the ball back at the seven-yard line.

“The defense played decently. We still didn’t make plays or execute every time, but for the most part the defense was pretty good,” Iola head coach David Daugharthy. “They came up with some big fourth down stops too.”

The Eagles’ Winton then found Brody Lee open for a five-yard touchdown pass and the 13-0 lead.

Wellsville’s Dorsey then proceeded to hurl a 49-yard touchdown pass down the middle for the 21-0 halftime lead. In the third quarter, Wellsville’s Dorsey then

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Humboldt downs Caney

CANEY — The Humboldt Cubs held string in their 28-8 road victory over Caney Valley Friday. Humboldt (2-0) scored two touchdowns in each half. The Cubs held Caney Valley to one touchdown and a two-point conversion the whole game.

Blake Ellis led the Cubs with a couple of rushing touchdowns and one passing touchdown while also picking up 171 ground yards on 21 carries. The junior threw for 145 yards and the touchdown, including a 31yard pass.

“We did a good job of making some adjustments at halftime and responding well to those adjustments,” said head

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Crest’s Kayla Hermreck, left, and Iola’s Kaysin Crusinbery, right, go up for the ball at the net Saturday. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Allen’s Pedro De Silva, No. 9, outmaneuvers a Johnson County defender. REGISTER/QUINN

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— The Chase County Bulldogs turned off the lights on Crest Friday night, defeating the Lancers 50-0. Crest (1-1) couldn’t get anything going offensively, stalling out drives due to penalties and miscommunication.

“We didn’t talk very much at all last night in terms of coverage and our containment was

K-State takes down Troy, 42-13

not good enough,” said Crest head coach Nick McAnulty. “We didn’t do our jobs and we were undisciplined. Inexperience is part of it and the pace of the game is sped up a little bit.”

Crest’s Rogan Weir started at quarterback and was the leading rusher, accounting for 19 yards on two carries. He also completed two-of-eight passes and threw for 56 yards.

Denton Ramsey hauled in a team-high two receptions for 56 yards.

“The biggest thing is, we’ve got to be more consistent and more aggressive. We would initiate contact but couldn’t hold a block,” McAnulty said. “We had some drives that would go but then a mistake like a holding penalty killed the drives.”

Crest travels to Oswego on Friday at 7 p.m.

Cubs take down Galesburg at home

By QUINN BURKITT

The Iola Register

Humboldt’s Middle School Cubs hosted Galesburg Thursday and prevailed for the win.

The Cubs (2-0) came out of the gates strong scoring three touchdowns in the first quarter. Ty Shaughnessy went for a 43-yard touchdown run before Truman Gryzbowski ran for a 31-yard touchdown run and an 11yard scamper.

Humboldt’s defense held Galesburg scoreless.

Mason Miller ran in a five-yard touchdown run and Owen Sicka dashed 11 yards for a score while Shaughnessy returned an interception 10 yards for a touchdown.

The Cubs led Galesburg at halftime, 44-0.

Shaughnessy cranked it up again in the third quarter when he ran for a two-yard touchdown, followed by a Remington Strick-

ler two-point conversion for the 52-0 lead. Both teams were scoreless in the final quarter.

Shaughnessy led Humboldt’s defense with four tackles for a loss, six solo tackles and an interception for a touchdown. Weston Johnson had two tackles, eight solo tackles and one sack. Kolton Hanson had an interception as well.

Humboldt hits the road to take on Eureka on Thursday at 6 p.m.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Will Howard passed for three touchdowns and ran for two others as No. 15 Kansas State defeated Troy 4213 Saturday.

Howard threw touchdown passes of 9 yards to Jadon Jackson and 39 yards to Philip Brooks to help the Wildcats (2-0) to a 2110 lead at the half, and his 2-yard run late in the third quarter made it an 18-point game.

K-State went over 40 points for the fourth straight regular-season game. The Wildcats also stopped Troy’s 12game winning streak, the second-longest in FBS coming into the game. Howard finished 21 of 32 for 250 yards and had eight carries for 33 yards.

“It wasn’t perfect, by any stretch,” Howard said. “We had some rough moments early in the second quarter. But we needed it. This was a game where we learned a lot. That was a really good team. They’ve got one of the tougher defenses I’ve ever gone against. They

were hitting, and they did some really good things, schematically.

“I think that was a really good game for us to learn from. “

K-State held the Trojans (1-1) to 286 total yards a week after they gained 540 against Stephen F. Austin.

“I can’t take anything away from them — hats off to Kansas State,” Troy coach Jon Sumrall said. “But I don’t care about the opponent. What makes me upset is we didn’t play to our standard. It makes me sick. K-State is going to beat a lot of people when they play good, but we can’t play the way we did and expect to beat anybody. We have a long way to

go.”

Troy’s Gunnar Watson was 17 of 32 for 167 yards with a touchdown and interception.

“This game doesn’t define us or mark us as a team,” safety Dell Pettus said. “And we know that. But we are going to put in the work to fix it.”

The Wildcats put the game out of reach with a nine-play, 76-yard drive capped by Howard’s 1-yard shovel pass to Treshaun Ward for a 35-13 lead.

“That was a great win for our guys, a great win over a really good team,” K-State coach Chris Klieman said. “Their quarterback is a good player.”

HMS volleyball wins three of four against Galesburg

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

The Humboldt Middle School volleyball team won three of four matches against Galesburg Thursday.

The Cubs A, B and C

team each moved to 2-0 on the season. Humboldt’s second C team came up just short to Galesburg.

Humboldt’s A team knocked down Galesburg, 25-16 and 25-21.

Bailey Daniels led

the Lady Cubs with a team-high five aces while Jordan Hencey, Adalyn Hillmon and Gabi Vargas-Garcia also provided good serving. Addisyn Drake was Humboldt’s main hitter while Hillmon and Ellis

each assisted.

“The team had a rough start against Galesburg, however, with amazing teamwork and hard work they were able to get the wins,” Humboldt head coach Darcie Croisant

said.

The Lady Cubs B team defeated Galesburg, 2521 and 25-22.

Vargas-Garcia led Humboldt at the serving line with a teamhigh seven aces. Carlin Hart, Brystal Hudlin,

Lillie Bingham and Maggie McCullough all served well. Braylyn Watson and Bingham each had two kills.

“This team works great together and has amazing team spirit

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Kansas State quarterback Will Howard (18) throws against Troy. AP PHOTO/REED HOFFMAN

Iola: Hosts Crest, others

Continued from B1

Crest

The Lady Lancers came out on top in one of their matches against Burlington but lost to Parsons and Iola.

“We let our passing go south in the match against Parsons and fed them free balls. They passed well and ran their offense,” Crest head coach Abigail Hermreck said. “The start of the Iola match had a great feel to it. We were running our offense and playing together. Iola rallied and picked up their offensive game. Iola is playing well together.”

Crest’s Kayla Hermreck had a team-high 20 kills and also recorded 19 digs, 20 assists, two blocks, went 19-for-20 from the serving line with three aces.

Senior Brooklyn Jones also played well, going for 20 digs and going 25-of-30 from the serving line with four aces.

Karlee Boots led the Lady Lancers with 28 digs while going for 10 kills, two blocks and a 100% serving rate with one ace serve.

“Going into the tournament as the only 1A school, our goal was to improve our game,” said Hermreck. “We had some very positive moments and hopefully figured out more of what we need to work on to win. It was a good start to the day with the win against Burlington. We played relaxed and didn’t get too rattled.”

Cursten Allen led Crest in serve receive

Djokovic wins U.S. Open

NEW YORK (AP) — Halfway through a second set that lasted 1 hour, 44 minutes, a test of tenacity as much as talent amid a U.S. Open final as exhausting as it was exhilarating, Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev engaged each other in a 32-stroke point. It was among many such elongated exchanges between two men whose styles are nearly mirror images, and Djokovic capitulated by netting a backhand. He fell to his back and stayed down, chest heaving. The crowd roared. Djokovic sat up but remained on the ground for a bit. The crowd roared some more, appreciating the effort, saluting the entertainment.

Using every ounce of his energy and some serve-and-volley guile — an old man with new tricks — Djokovic emerged for a 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory over Medvedev at Flushing Meadows to claim a historic 24th Grand Slam title on Sunday night in a match more closely contested than the straight-set score indicated.

“I never imagined that I would be here standing with you talking about 24 Slams. I never thought that would be the reality,” said Djokovic, a 36-year-old from Serbia and the tournament’s oldest male champion in the Open era, which dates to 1968. “But the last couple of years, I felt I have a chance, I have a shot for history, and

why not grab it if it’s presented?”

He moved one major singles title ahead of Serena Williams and is the first player to win 24 in the Open era. Margaret Court also collected a total of 24, but 13 of those came before professionals were admitted to the Slam events.

There were snapshots, particularly in the miniseries of a second set, when it appeared Djokovic was faltering. After some of the most grueling points — and there were many — he would lean over with hands on knees or use his racket for support or pause to stretch his legs. And then, suddenly, he would snap to.

“That’s Novak,”

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found Matt Newhouse for a 16-yard touchdown connection for the 29-0 advantage.

run to bring the Mustangs back within a 35-7 deficit.

passing and had five digs.

Kaelin Nilges registered six kills, four assists, nine digs and went 15-for-17 from the serving line with one ace serve.

Aylee Beckmon notched four kills, 18 digs and went 14-for20 from the serving

line.

Kinley Edgerton led the Lady Lancers with 22 assists and had 12 kills and 22 digs.

Iola hits the road at Burlington on Tuesday. Crest travels to Jayhawk-Linn to face off against Pleasanton, Northeast Arma and the Jayhawks on Tuesday.

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coach Logan Wyrick. “We probably needed to find a way to finish with scores on a couple other drives tonight. Battles like tonight will only make us better.”

Cole Mathes carried the load at running

back going for 53 yards and one touchdown. Jacob Harrington led the way at receiver with one touchdown and 73 receiving yards.

Defensively, Kyler Isbell led Humboldt with a team-high nine tackles while Mathes had six. Garren Goodner

and Logan Page each had five tackles.

Sam Hull scored both of Humboldt’s two-point conversion attempts, one on a rush and the other receiving.

Humboldt is at Neodesha Friday. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.

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and communication,” said Croisant. “They too are now 2-0 for the season.”

Humboldt’s C team took down Galesburg, 25-9 and 25-19.

Letty Eisenhart led with a team-high 10 aces while Piper Goss had seven aces while Brylee Napier and Maddie Rausch each had two ace serves. The Lady Cubs second C team lost to

Galesburg, 20-25, 27-25 and 13-15.

Haley Anderson had a team-high seven aces while Idabelle Williams had two aces.

Humboldt travels to Eureka on Thursday at 4:30 p.m.

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Wellsville scored again in the third when Dorsey found Brody Lee open downfield for a 36-yard touchdown pass and the 35-0 lead.

The lone score for Iola came in the fourth quarter when Tre Wilson ripped off a 44-yard touchdown

“That was an explosive play and that’s what he’s capable of,” said Daugharthy. “Tre can take any ball to the house. He’s pretty effective at what he does and I think he showed it tonight.”

Wilson went for a team-high 57 yards and one touchdown while Cortland Carson accumulated 27

rushing yards. Landon Weide found Korbin Cloud for a 36-yard connection, Iola’s longest pass play of the day.

Defensively, Drayden Reiter had a team-high six tackles while Ben Kerr had five tackles. Mac Leonard and Jordan Kaufman each had one sack.

Iola travels to Parsons next Friday at 7 p.m.

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in the game.”

Though Johnson led Allen 26-10 in shots, they were unable to capitalize on their attempts.

Johnson’s Ryan Masterson took a pass from Alaa Alamood for a goal. Owen White scored for Johnson when he was fed a pass by Masterson to knot the game at 2-2. Allen wasn’t going to go down without a fight as Bader found an opening in Johnson’s defense and was fouled on his way to the goal with 13 minutes left in the game.

Bader took a penalty kick but it deflected off Johnson’s goalkeeper which he then poked back into the net for the 3-2 advantage.

“I was just looking at the goal,” said Bader. “I was looking to score for the team, for my family back home who are watching. There was a lot of talk about Johnson but it all comes down to 11 v 11 and who puts more effort in to get the win.”

Gaurav Sandhu was solid at goalkeeper for Allen, making six saves out of eight attempts.

Allen women

This game was all No. 10 Johnson County from the jump, after they scored all three of their goals in the first half for the 3-1 win.

Johnson’s Sydney Hammett scored on an Alandra Bailey assist for the 1-0 lead. Lotta

Meindl then followed that goal up when she took an unassisted pass to the back of the net for the 2-0 lead.

Brenley Cunningam then added the Cavaliers’ third and final goal 10 minutes later when she took an Ansley Seevers’ pass to the net for the 3-0 difference.

Audrey Smith scored Allen’s lone goal when Rebecca Lord fed her a pass which she finished for the 3-1 deficit.

The Lady Red Devils managed three shots on goal while Johnson footed 17 shots on goal. Allen had three shots to Johnson County’s 26. Allen hosts Crowder College on Thursday at 2 and 4 p.m.

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Friends resent life changes after inheritance

Adapted from an online discussion.

Dear Carolyn: I recently inherited some money, enough to allow me to quit my job and buy a new car. Nothing flashy, just a nice, reliable vehicle. I’m now focused on doing some creative work that I’ve long wanted to do.

Some of my friends are jealous. Most of them don’t say anything about it to me directly, though one or two of them occasionally make snarky comments: “Well, if you can afford that kind of thing, fine.”

I think in one case it has caused enough resentment that the friendship is not going to survive.

I try not to be obnoxious about it. I listen to my friends complain about their jobs and their bosses, I’m sympathetic. I try to share my good fortune when I

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can, such as by inviting my friends to stay with me at a vacation rental and so on.

Am I doing something wrong? What can I do to keep people from being resentful that I no longer must work? — Heir

Heir: My answer will cost you $25,000. :) Just do the non-obnoxious things you’re already doing. I’m happy for you, and I’m sorry some of your friends are being small about your largesse. Keep being the best friend you can, and hope they eventually get over themselves.

Re: Heir: This question hit a nerve, because I’m in the middle of the end of a friendship of

my own due to my jealousy over her money situation. I don’t know how to not be this way. Yes, I realize money can’t buy happiness or good health, but I also know all the reasons that’s just a platitude and, in fact, having access to basic resources DOES promote both happiness and health. There is also the fact that my friend readily makes moral judgments without considering the role of finances — e.g., I work for an evil for-profit company, so I might be a bad person, even though I have rent to pay and she doesn’t. I don’t want this to be happening to our friendship, but it is. Is there a way to avoid it if I ever find myself close to someone with a lot of money again? — The Money-Jealous Friend

The Money-Jealous Friend: No, because

How to make kids’ meals nutritious

By BARBARA INTERMILL Tribune News Service/TNS

Before I ever dreamed of having kids of my own, I was a consultant for the New Mexico Department of Education in Santa Fe. My job? To make sure the schools in our state were meeting federal guidelines for feeding wholesome meals to kids.

Then I had kids of my own, who often chose to take their lunch to school rather than buy it.

That was when my knowledge of foods that can optimize a child’s health came face to face with getting my kids to eat those foods.

If you’re one of those parents, a good starting place is to know what kids actually need nutritionally. For example, the United States Department of Agriculture’s National School Lunch Program is required to follow the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

(www.dietaryguidelines. gov). The recommendations change every five years based on current nutriton research.

Based on the 20202025 guidelines, five food components are required to meet a child’s nutritional goals: fruit, vegetables, grains, meats and other protein alternatives, fluid milk or other dairy alternative.

That’s the nutrition side.

The challenge for schools, as well as parents, is to provide a variety of these foods in such a way that kids won’t throw them in the trash.

Let’s just say it’s a learning process.

Children, like adults, have different tastes and appetites. They may also have special dietary needs.

With that in mind, here are a few ideas that may help:

Consider the form. Most kids like fruit but

might toss a fresh orange or apple unless it’s cut into bite-size pieces. I guarantee it’s worth the time. Younger kids also like fun finger fruits such as blueberries or strawberries. Or you can rely on the convenience of single serving cans of water or juice-packed fruit.

Some kids love vegetables, some not so much. The goal here is persistence. If tomatoes make them gag, slice a few strips of red bell pepper along with their favorite dipping dressing. Baby carrots are durable and agreeable with most kiddos. And don’t forget that beans are an amazing vegetable as well as protein source (my grandkids love bean burritos).

Kids balk at “brown bread”? There are other ways to get whole grains into junior. Corn tortillas or popcorn, for example. Or cereal bars and crackers made with whole grains.

this isn’t about money. I thought it was going to be from the way you started, but then you got to the truth, and it was about something else: a friend who is killing your friendship with her smug, obtuse, judgy pronouncements. That problem can be moneyadjacent, but it’s not a money problem per se. So, to avoid this problem in the future, choose people with some humility and social sense. Sometimes it’s too late; we acquire people long before we see all their true colors. But at least we can try for character and hope for the best. Re: Heir: Being a real friend means doing what’s within your power to keep the air clear between you, which may entail, “Does it feel like I’m gloating about my situation?” or, “You’ve made similar comments a few times. What’s goin’ on? How is my situation impacting you?” — Anonymous Anonymous: Good point, thanks. Also useful: “Is there something you want to say?”

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Gauff wins first grand slam title with US Open

NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Gauff is still a teenager, after all, and so it should surprise no one that she was on her phone in the locker room, scrolling through social media, right up until 10 minutes before heading out on court for the U.S. Open final.

What the 19-year-old from Florida was reading, she would say later, were various comments, negative ones, “saying I wasn’t going to win today; that just put the fire in me.”

As a pro athlete from a young age, as someone of whom greatness has been expected by some and doubted by others, Gauff has always

taken it all in and kept moving forward, trying to learn from each setback. And now, at a tournament she used to visit as a kid to see her idols, Serena and Venus Williams, Gauff is a Grand Slam champion herself and a certified star.

Setting aside a so-so start Saturday, Gauff surged to a 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over the soonto-be-No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the final at Arthur Ashe Stadium, delighting a raucous crowd that backed her from start to finish.

When Gauff walked into her news conference — phone in hand, of course — she noticed

that a large screen on the back wall was rotating pictures of her from the match. So she tucked her new silver trophy under one arm and used the other hand to snap a selfie with those photos in the background.

“Right now I’m just feeling happiness and a very, very small bit of relief,” she explained. “Because honestly, at this point, I was doing it for myself and not for other people.”

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Medvedev said. “No matter what, he can be there.”

There was an inescapable sense, on the part of the participants and any observer, that whichever man succumbed in the second set would be unable to overcome it.

“I don’t think I have ever played a longer set in my life,” Djokovic said.

Medvedev’s take on that segment of the match?

“Oh, regrets, for sure,” he said. “Should have won it.”

Medvedev came within a single point of taking that set while returning at 6-5. Djokovic rushed the net behind his serve, and while Medvedev had an opening for a backhand passing shot by hitting it down the line, he instead went cross-court, and Djokovic had it covered. In the tiebreaker, Medvedev led 5-4 before Djokovic grabbed the next three points.

One key adjustment: When Djokovic was looking more bedraggled, he turned to serve-and-volleying, not his usual sort of tactic. He won 20 of 22 points he played that way, and 37 of 44 overall on the points when he went to the net, some with spectacular volleys or half-volleys at angles a pool shark would appreciate.

Medvedev never countered.

“I should have been less stubborn,” Medvedev said.

This was the 27-yearold Russian’s fifth major final and he is 1-4, with two losses apiece to Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. The victory came against Djokovic in the 2021 final at Flushing Meadows, stopping a bid for the first men’s calendar-year Grand Slam in more than a half-century.

That weighed on Djokovic.

“I really did my best in the last 48 hours not to allow the importance of the moment and what’s on the line get to my head,” Djokovic said Sunday, “because two years ago that’s what happened, and I underperformed.”

Djokovic’s fourth championship in New York, where he was unable to compete a year ago because he isn’t vaccinated

against COVID-19, goes alongside 10 trophies from the Australian Open, seven from Wimbledon and three from the French Open, extending his lead among men. Nadal is next with 22; Roger Federer retired with 20.

When it was over, Medvedev tapped Djokovic on the chest as they talked at the net. Djokovic flung his racket, put his arms up and then knelt on the court, head bowed. Then he found his daughter for a hug. His son and wife came next, along with his parents and his team.

“This is one of the biggest achievements in (sports) history,” said his coach, Goran Ivanisevic. “We’re not talking about tennis. We are talking generally in sports.”

Soon, Djokovic was donning a shirt with “24” and “Mamba Forever” written on it as a tribute to the late NBA star Kobe Bryant, a close friend who wore that jersey number. And on top of that went a white jacket with the same significant number on the chest.

As good as ever, Djokovic went 27-1 in the sport’s most prestigious events this season: The blemish was a loss to Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final.

Djokovic will return to No. 1 in the rankings Monday, overtaking Alcaraz, who was the defending champion at Flushing Meadows but was eliminated by No. 3 Medvedev in the semifinals.

At the start Sunday, with the Arthur Ashe Stadium retractable roof shut because of rain in the forecast, Medvedev seemed jit-

tery, the looping swings of his white racket breaking down repeatedly.

Djokovic, in contrast, was as reliable as a metronome, anticipating nearly everything headed his way and scurrying to retrieve and respond.

Gauff, who is from Florida, is the first American teenager to win the country’s major tennis tournament since Serena Williams in 1999. If last year’s U.S. Open was all about saying goodbye to Williams as she competed for the final time, this year’s two weeks in New York turned into a “Welcome to the big time!” moment for Gauff. Famous people were coming to watch her play, including former President Barack Obama, who was among those sending congratulatory wishes on Saturday. Also, Gauff and her parents received a congratulatory phone call from President Joe Biden, who was in New Delhi for the Group of 20 summit.

Djokovic relies on analytics and a foe’s tendencies. He leans on instinct and a masterful ability to read opposing serves and groundstrokes. On Sunday, his blue shoes carried him right where he needed to be, more often than not, and his contorting, stretching, sliding allowed him to keep the ball in play, when required, and create flipthe-switch offense, too, if desired.

Medvedev plays similarly. Points lasted 25 shots, 35 shots, more.

Was Djokovic perfect? No. But he was good enough throughout, as he so often is. He has won exactly a third of the 72 Grand Slam tournaments he has entered since his 2005 debut, a remarkable rate. That includes gathering trophies at seven of the past 10 majors he entered.

Medvedev joked it’s about time Djokovic moved on and let someone else take home some hardware.

Don’t count on it, Daniil.

“I’m going to keep going. I feel good in my own body. I still feel I’ve got the support of my environment, of my team, of my family,” Djokovic said.

“Knowing that I play at such a high level still, and I win the biggest tournaments ... I don’t want to leave this sport if I’m still at the top.”

Gauff burst onto the scene at 15 by becoming the youngest qualifier in Wimbledon history and making it to the fourth round in her Grand Slam debut in 2019. She reached her initial major final at last year’s French Open, finishing as the runner-up to Iga Swiatek, a loss that stung.

“I watched Iga lift up that trophy, and I watched her the whole time,” Gauff recalled. “I said, ‘I’m not going to take my eyes off her, because I want to feel what that felt like for her.’

she exited in the first round. Since then, she has won 18 of 19 matches, and now 12 in a row, while working with a new coaching pair of Brad Gilbert and Pere Riba.

The No. 6-seeded Gauff did it Saturday by withstanding the power displayed by Sabalenka on nearly every swing of her racket, eventually getting accustomed to it and managing to get back shot after shot.

Gauff broke to begin the third set on one such point, tracking down every ball hit her way until eventually smacking a putaway volley that she punctuated with a fist pump and a scream of “Come on!”

Soon it was 4-0 in that set for Gauff. Didn’t take long for her to close it out, then drop to her back on the court, before climbing into the stands to find her parents.

“You did it!” Gauff’s mom told her, both in tears.

In addition to her trophy, Gauff was handed an envelope with the champion’s $3 million paycheck, the

versary of when the 1973 U.S. Open became the first major sports event to pay women and men equal prize money; the person who led that effort, Hall of Fame player and rights advocate Billie Jean King, was on hand Saturday.

“Thank you, Billie,” Gauff said, “for fighting for this.”

Sabalenka came in 23-2 at majors in 2023, including a title at the Australian Open. The 25-year-old from Belarus already was assured of rising from No. 2 to No. 1 in the rankings next week (Gauff will be No. 3 in singles, No. 1 in doubles).

By the end, Sabalenka had 46 unforced errors, Gauff 19. Here’s another way to view it: Gauff only needed 13 winners to accumulate 83 points.

“Sometimes, I can get emotional,” Sabalenka said. “Today on the court, I was overthinking and I was missing ... balls I shouldn’t be missing.”

When Sabalenka has everything calibrated just right, it’s difficult for any foe to handle it — even someone as speedy, smart and

Coco Gauff returns a shot against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus during the finals of the U.S. Open on Saturday, Sept. 9. Gauff won the championship. (ELSA/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

Coco was moving unbelievably. I always had to play one more ball.

— Aryna Sabalenka