The Iola Register, Nov. 12, 2022

Pediatrician: Hats off to parents

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

As a pediatrician, Dr. Wil liam Jones has great respect for parents.

“Most don’t realize what an awesome job they are doing,” he said. “Especially brandnew parents who probably haven’t slept more than three hours.”

Jones’ specialty is from newborns to young adults, “though I don’t have a strict cut-off date. I look forward to families thinking this is their medical home, no matter their age.”

Jones began with the Com munity Health Center of Southeast Kansas in October. This is his first position out of a three-year residency pro gram at Omaha’s Children’s Hospital through the Univer sity of Nebraska, Lincoln.

His decision to pursue pe diatrics began with a general interest in all-things science, a love of children, and the abil ity to determine what really rocked his boat.

“Growing up, I loved dogs. As a family we had trained a therapy dog. So, naturally, I thought I wanted to be a veter inarian,” he said.

An experience job shadow ing a veterinarian, however, convinced him otherwise. A postmortem examination for heart worms “was a horrible, traumatic experience,” he said. “I think I just like play ing with dogs and cats.”

As a student at Kansas State University, Jones was accepted into its engineering program, which seemed like a natural segue after a high school career filled with sci ence and math classes, clubs and competitions.

But after one year in the engineering program, “I was like, I don’t love this,” he said.

Allen announces Burlingame campus to close

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

There was a time, not long after it first opened in 1990, that enrollment at Allen Com munity College’s outreach fa cility in Burlingame dwarfed even the numbers on the Iola campus.

Situated in Osage County, the center’s proximity to To peka offered urban students a prime opportunity for an affordable college education, and many took advantage.

But as educational trends have changed — particularly the explosive growth in on line and virtual instruction — enrollment at the Burlin

Musk: Twitter’s survival at stake

By MATT O’BRIEN The Associated Press

Elon Musk warned Twit ter employees Thursday to brace for “difficult times ahead” that might end with the collapse of the social media platform if they can’t find new ways of making money.

Workers who survived last week’s mass layoffs are fac ing harsher work conditions and growing uncertainty about their ability to keep Twitter running safely as it continues to lose high-level leaders responsible for data privacy, cybersecurity and complying with regulations.

That includes Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of trust and safety — a previously lit

game campus has steadily dropped over the past decade or longer, creating what col lege administrators describe as “unsustainable operating losses.”

Now, with fewer than 90 students attending classes on the Burlingame campus this fall, Allen trustees vot ed unanimously Tuesday to close the outreach facility at the end of the school year.

“Good stewardship of tax payers’ resources requires that action be taken, no mat ter how difficult,” college trustees and the President’s Council announced in a joint letter to Allen staffers.

“When we looked at the en

rollment numbers and the op erating costs, and the longitu dinal data on tuition and fees, it really brought everything into focus,” Allen President Bruce Moses told the Regis

ter. “I don’t think the board as a whole had seen all of the data at one time.”

The closure doesn’t mean Allen plans to relieve itself of working with Burlingame

students, Moses quickly add ed.

“We’re not losing any stu dents,” he said. “In fact, I

Remains of LaHarpe World War II POW identified

WASHINGTON — David E. Holeman, who was 39 when he was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, has finally been accounted for more than 80 years after his death.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Monday that Holeman’s remains had been identified earlier this year.

Holeman, of LaHarpe, was a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Force. In late 1941, Holeman was a member of the 17th Pursuit Squadron when Japanese forces invad ed the Philippine Islands in December.

Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Is land on May 6, 1942.

Thousands of U.S. and Fil ipino service members were

captured and interned at POW camps, according to a DPAA press release.

Holeman was among those reported captured when U.S.

forces in Bataan surren dered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.

According to prison camp and other historical records, Holeman died July 19, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 312.

Following the war, Amer ican Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila.

In 1947, the AGRS ex amined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Twelve sets of remains from

Common Grave 312 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila Ameri can Cemetery and Memorial as Unknowns.

In early 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 312 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA labo ratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.

To identify Holeman’s re mains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analy sis as well as circumstantial evidence. Scientists From the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mi tochondrial DNA analysis as well.

The remains were posi tively identified Aug. 23.

A funeral ceremony for

The Allen Community College outreach campus in Burlingame will close its doors at the end of the 2022-23 academic year in June. ACC PHOTO

David E. Holeman, who grew up in LaHarpe, died as a prisoner of war in Manila during World War II. His remains were identified in August, 80 years after his death. COURTESY PHOTO

Dr. William Jones joined the staff at the Community Health Center as a pediatrician. REGIS TER/SUSAN LYNN

Obituary

Veda Gillham

Veda Jane Gillham, 93, Moran,died Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, at her home.

Veda was born April 7, 1929, in Portland, Ore., to Orville C. Nail and Henrietta (Harold) Nail.

Veda and Loral F. (Ben) Gillham were married May 22, 1946, in Wichita.

He preceded her in death, as did a granddaughter, Tami Brash.

Veda is survived by daughters, Chryll Ginn, Joyce (Chris) Andersen, Gloria (Ron) Gill; grandchildren, David Hatfield, Aubrey Brash, Donald Bartsma; and numerous other relatives and friends.

A graveside service followed by burial will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Fairview Cemetery, Mildred.

Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Iola Kiwanis Club talks mental health

Dawne Burchett and Megan Hageman of Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center’s marketing team gave Iola Kiwanis Club members an overview of the services offered at its meeting Tuesday.

The center provides a wealth of mental health services and education across Allen, Neosho, Bourbon, Linn, Woodson and Anderson counties.

A new Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic designation has allowed SEKMHC to expand those services, resources and support personnel across the region.

Services available include outpatient therapy, school-based therapy, substance use and addictions treatment, crisis intervention, psychiatric/medication management and community support and groups.

Some areas treated are depression, anxiety, anger, marital conflict, mood disorders, trauma care, substance use, gambling, post-traumatic stress disorder and more.

Burchett and Hageman stressed strides made in awareness and treatment of mental health needs and said SEKMHC is always striving to improve the quality of life in Southeast Kansas. Mental health first aid courses are an example of outreach services provided by SEKMHC.

The Iola Kiwanis Club meets weekly, noon Tuesdays, at the college and welcomes interest in membership.

Call President John Shields, (620) 365-2700, or email kiwanisiola@ gmail.com for more information.

Police reports

Arrests reported

A tra c accident suspected related to drunken driving Nov. 4 resulted in the arrests of four suspects, Michelle Compton, Iola, Tyler Lowe and Brayden Smith, both of Bolivar, Mo., and Peyton Barker of Humansville, Mo., for drug-related charges, Iola police o cers reported.

O cers arrested Jacquelyn Mason, 31, Iola, for suspicion of driving while suspended Nov. 4 in the 200 block of South Second

Street.

Iola o cers arrested Iolan Pat Shannon Oct. 31 in the 300 block of South Third Street for suspected possession of opium, opiates or other illegal narcotics, drug paraphernalia and illegal possession of prescription drugs.

Brandon Brown was arrested by Iola o cers Oct. 31 in the 2000 block of North State Street for suspected distribution of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Unity Club examines ‘Washington’s Spies’

Donna Lower-Nord hosted 14 Unity Club members at her home Monday, where Judy Arbeiter gave a report on the book “Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy.”

Beginning with the true story of Nathan Hale, author Alexander Rose gives us intrigue, crossed signals, derring-do and the priceless slices of 18th Century life, Arbeiter said.

Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War.

Further, Rose goes beyond the battlefield and into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking. At the heart of it all was the spymaster himself, George Washington, Arbeiter said.

A short business meeting was a part of Monday’s meeting.

The club will next

meet at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at Ellen Thompson’s home. Karen Lee will provide the program.

Music honors

Iola High School’s Kendall Glaze, above at left, and Kalibre Smith were named to the all-district honors choir and orchestra, respectively, and have been invited to a clinic and concert set for Dec. 3 at the Bicknell Center at Pittsburg State University. Glaze is a tenor for the district choir.

Smith will play the violin for the district orchestra. At right, Iola Middle School eighth-grader Sarah Ross was named to the All-State Middle Level Choir as an alto. Ross will partake in a clinic and concert Feb. 24 at the Century II Center in Wichita. The students are under the instruction of Elizabeth Cunningham.

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District judge nalists announced

TOPEKA — Kansas

Gov. Laura Kelly will decide which of three finalists will become a district judge within the 31st Judicial District.

Iolan Tod Davis and Thomas Mikulka of Yates Center — both of whom serve as magistrate judges within the 31st district — and Dennis Depew of Neodesha, a deputy attorney general within the Kansas attorney general’s office, are the finalists tapped by a district nominating commission this week.

Kelly has 60 days to make her selection.

The new district

judge position was among several certified by a Supreme Court administrative order, after the position was funded by state lawmakers.

Applicants were interviewed this week in Yates Center.

The 31st Judicial District Nominating Commission consists of Justice Evelyn Wilson as the nonvoting chair; Richard Pringle, Chanute; Nancy Burns and John Chenoweth, Fredonia; Douglas Depew, Neodesha; Craig Mentzer, Neosho Falls; Shelia Lampe, Piqua; Donald Greg Taylor, Stark; Zelda Schlotter-

beck, Yates Center.

The 31st Judicial District is composed of Allen, Neosho, Wilson, and Woodson counties.

Court report

IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT

Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows:

Cindy M. Anthony, Iola, theft, $361.30, probation ordered

Jason L. Harris, Cherryvale, speeding 31/20, $161

John E. Huskey, Humboldt, improper driving on a sidewalk, improper turning, $295

Christian M. Lindsey, Iola, disorderly conduct, $315, probation ordered James E. McGirr Jr., Kincaid, failure to produce driver’s license, $459

Tayler N. N. Riches-Salzwedel, Iola, speeding-49/35, $179

Ethan A. Weide, Iola, speeding 50/35, $185

Diversion agreements: Joeottis C. Arell Jr., Humboldt, driving while intoxicated, $1,125

Section of destroyed shuttle found

By MARCIA DUNN The Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A large sec tion of the destroyed space shuttle Challeng er has been found bur ied in sand at the bottom of the Atlantic, more than three decades after the tragedy that killed a schoolteacher and six others.

NASA’s Kenne dy Space Center an nounced the discovery Thursday.

“Of course, the emo tions come back, right?” said Michael Ciannilli, a NASA manager who confirmed the rem nant’s authenticity. When he saw the un derwater video footage, “My heart skipped a beat, I must say, and it brought me right back to 1986 ... and what we all went through as a nation.”

It’s one of the biggest pieces of Challenger found in the decades since the acciden t, ac cording to Ciannilli, and the first remnant to be discovered since two fragments from the left wing washed ashore in 1996.

Divers for a TV doc umentary first spotted the piece in March while looking for wreckage of a World War II plane.

NASA verified through video a few months ago that the piece was part of the shuttle that broke apart shortly af ter liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986. All seven on board were killed, including the first schoolteacher

bound for space, Christa McAuliffe.

The underwater vid eo provided “pretty clear and convincing ev idence,” said Ciannilli.

The piece is more than 15 feet by 15 feet; it’s likely bigger be cause part of it is covered with sand. Because there are square ther mal tiles on the piece, it’s believed to be from the shuttle’s bel ly, Ciannilli said.

The frag ment re mains on the ocean floor just off the Florida coast near Cape Canaveral as NASA determines the next step. It remains the property of the U.S. gov ernment. The families of all seven Challeng

er crew members have been notified.

“We want to make sure whatever we do, we do the right thing for the legacy of the crew,” Ciannilli said.

Roughly 118 tons of Challenger debris have been recov ered since the acci dent. That represents about 47% of the en tire vehicle, including parts of the two solid-fu el boosters and external fuel tank.

Most of the recov ered wreck age remains buried in abandoned missile silos at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The ex ception is a left side shuttle panel on display at Kennedy Space Cen

ter’s visitor complex, alongside the charred cockpit window frame from shuttle Columbia, which broke apart over Texas during reentry in 2003, killing seven astro nauts.

Far less has been re covered of Columbia — 42 tons (38 metric tons) representing 38% of the shuttle. The Columbia remains are stored in converted offices inside Kennedy’s massive han gar.

Launched on an exceptionally cold morning, Challenger was brought down by eroded O-ring seals in the right booster. Co lumbia ended up with a slashed left wing, the result of foam in sulation breaking off the external fuel tank at liftoff. Mismanage ment was also blamed.

A History Channel documentary detailing the latest Challenger discovery airs Nov. 22.

Shop your small businesses Nov. 26

The value of small businesses to a com munity will be high lighted on Saturday, Nov. 26.

Known as Small Business Saturday, the day is akin to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which fea ture big box retail and e-commerce stores cor respondingly.

Small Business Sat urday presents shop pers with a distinctive occasion to show sup port for local business es.

More than ever, this year’s small business community would ap preciate your support as they have faced numerous challenges over the last two years including COVID-19, labor shortages and shipping delays.

Robin Schallie

Iola Chamber

Some facts to re member:

Small businesses have generated 12.9 million net new jobs over the past 25 years, accounting for two out of every three jobs added to the economy; In 2021, 51 million shoppers participated in Small Business Sat urday;

More than 50% of Americans say they will shop small on Small Business Satur day.

I encourage you to shop local — every day of the year!

Bulgarians protest

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets on Friday to demand higher sala ries to compensate for surging inflation that has hit the European Union’s poorest mem ber.

The demonstration was organized by the country’s two largest trade unions. Protest ers gathered in front of the parliament building holding ban ners and chanting re

quests for decent pay as winter nears.

The unions handed to parliament a joint declaration which calls for a speedy adop tion of next year’s bud get to avoid the risk of freezing the minimum wage at its current level despite infla tion, support for large groups of people that are exposed to ener gy poverty before the heating season, and protection of labor rights of workers.

Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff on Jan. 28,1986. US. NATIONAL ARCHIVES

My heart skipped a beat, I must say, and it brought me right back to 1986 ... and what we all went through as a nation.

— Michael Ciannilli, NASA manager

Remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole deluge East Coast

WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. (AP) — The remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole sent heavy rains falling from Georgia to New York on Fri day as flooding and surging ocean waters receded from a stretch of Florida coastline where the most damaging im pacts became evident after it made landfall as a hurricane.

Now a depression, Nicole could dump as much as 8 inches of rain over the Blue Ridge Mountains and there was a chance of flash and ur ban flooding as far north as

New England. With the center of the storm about 70 miles south west of Macon, Georgia, and maximum sustained winds at 35 mph, forecasters issued a string of tornado warnings in North and South Carolina, although no touchdowns or damage were reported imme diately. Much of both states and Virginia were under a tornado watch.

Wrecks added to Atlanta’s notoriously bad traffic as rain from Nicole fell across the metro area during rush hour,

and a few school systems in mountainous north Georgia canceled classes.

The storm caused at least three deaths and swallowed once-wide stretches of sand in the Daytona Beach area — famous for its drivable beach es — after coming ashore near Vero Beach early Thurs day. Some homes toppled into the Atlantic Ocean.

Officials in Volusia Coun ty, northeast of Orlando, said Thursday evening that build ing inspectors had declared 24 hotels and condos in Day

tona Beach Shores and New Smyrna Beach as well as at least 25 single-family homes in Wilbur-by-the-Sea to be structurally unsafe, forcing their evacuations.

That roughly 15-mile stretch was hit hard by coast line erosion that destroyed sea walls just six weeks earli er when Hurricane Ian came ashore on the Gulf Coast, killing more than 130 people and destroying thousands of homes.

The rare November hurri cane was the first to hit the

Bahamas since Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm that devastated the archipel ago in 2019. For storm-weary Floridians, it was only the first November hurricane to hit their shores since 1985 and only the third since re cord-keeping began in 1853.

Nicole’s surge was more destructive than those of similar storms in the past be cause seas are rising as the planet’s ice melts due to cli mate change, said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer.

Musk: Twitter may not survive without influx of subscribers

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tle-known executive who became the public face of Twitter’s content moderation after Musk took over and who had been praised by Musk for defending Twitter’s ongoing efforts to fight harmful misinforma tion and hate speech. An executive confirmed Roth’s resignation to co workers on an internal messaging board seen by The Associated Press.

The developments were part of another whirlwind day in Musk’s acquisition of the so cial media platform. It began with an email to employees from Musk on Wednesday night order ing workers to stop work ing from home and show up in the office Thursday morning. He called his first “all-hands” meet ing Thursday afternoon. Before that, many were relying on the billion aire Tesla CEO’s public tweets for clues about Twitter’s future.

“Sorry that this is my first email to the whole company, but there is no way to sugarcoat the message,” wrote Musk, before he described a dire economic climate for businesses like Twit ter that rely almost en tirely on advertising to make money.

“Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn,” Musk said. “We need roughly half of our revenue to be sub scription.”

At the staff meeting, Musk said some “excep tional” employees could seek an exemption from his return-to-office or der but that others who

didn’t like it could quit, according to an employ ee at the meeting who spoke on condition of anonymity out of a con cern for job security.

The employee also said Musk appeared to downplay employ ee concerns about how a pared-back Twitter workforce was handling its obligations to main tain privacy and data se curity standards, saying as CEO of Tesla he knew how that worked.

Musk’s memo and staff meeting echoed a livestreamed con versation trying to assuage major adver tisers Wednesday, his most expansive public comments about Twit ter’s direction since he closed a $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform late last month and dismissed its top ex ecutives. A number of well-known brands have paused advertising on Twitter.

Musk told employees the “priority over the past 10 days” was to de velop and launch Twit ter’s new subscription service for $7.99 a month that includes a blue check mark next to the name of paid members — the mark was previ ously only for verified accounts. Musk’s proj ect has had a rocky roll out with an onslaught of newly bought fake accounts this week im personating high-profile figures such as basket ball star LeBron James and the drug company Eli Lilly to post false in formation or offensive jokes.

In a second email to employees, Musk said the “absolute top priori ty” over the coming days

is to suspend “bots/ trolls/spam” exploiting the verified accounts. But Twitter now em ploys far fewer people to help him do that.

An executive last week said Twitter was cutting roughly 50% of its workforce, which numbered 7,500 earlier this year.

Musk told employees in the email that “re mote work is no longer allowed” and the road ahead is “arduous and will require intense work to succeed,” and that they will need to be in the office at least 40 hours per week.

Twitter’s ongoing exo dus includes the compa ny’s chief privacy offi cer, Damien Kieran, and chief information secu rity officer Lea Kissner, who tweeted Thursday that “I’ve made the hard decision to leave Twit ter.”

Roth’s resignation is a “huge loss” for Twitter’s reliability and integrity,

said his former cowork er and friend Emily Horne.

“He’s worked incred ibly hard under very challenging circum stances, including being personally targeted by some of the most vicious trolls who were active on the platform,” said Horne, who oversaw global policy communi cations at Twitter until 2018. “He stayed through all of that because he believed so deeply in the work his team was doing to promote a public con versation and improve the health of that con versation.”

Cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos, a former Facebook security chief, tweeted Thursday that there is a “serious risk of a breach with drasti cally reduced staff” that could also put Twitter at odds with a 2011 order from the Federal Trade Commission that re quired it to address seri ous data security lapses.

POW: LaHarpe man’s remains ID’d

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Holeman is planned for April 23 in Indepen dence.

ACCORDING to news reports at the time, Holeman and wife, Zora, had been living in Manila for seven years prior to the Japanese Invasion. David worked as a superintendent for an oil company.

As the tensions with

Japan became evident in 1941, Zora was or dered to evacuate. She moved to Evansville, Ind., while David — a 12-year veteran of the air corps — resigned his position with the oil company and went back into the Army, where he served under Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

Two days later, David was made a staff ser geant, and was expect

ing to become a com missioned officer.

Zola told an Evans ville newspaper she had last heard from her husband in a letter in November 1941, and a brief telegram a month later saying “Am Well. Seasons Greets. Love, David.”

That was the last she heard from her hus band.

“It’s a wonderful

fight that our forces are putting up in the Philp pines,” Zora told the newspaper. “MacAr thur is a splendid man, and a heroic, capable general. I doubt if any one else could have done the things he has. But I’m afraid for my husband, and the rest of the men out there. I just can’t see how help can reach them. I fear they are doomed.”

“Twitter made huge strides towards a more rational internal secu rity model and back sliding will put them in trouble with the FTC” and other regulators in the U.S. and Europe, Sta mos said.

The FTC said in a statement Thursday that it is “tracking re cent developments at Twitter with deep con cern.”

“No CEO or compa ny is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees,” said the agency’s state ment. “Our revised con sent order gives us new tools to ensure compli ance, and we are pre pared to use them.”

The FTC would not say whether it was in vestigating Twitter for potential violations. If it were, it is empowered to demand documents and depose employees.

In an email to em ployees seen by the AP, Musk said “Twitter will do whatever it takes to adhere to both the letter and spirit of the FTC consent decree.”

“Anything you read to the contrary is abso lutely false. The same goes for any other gov ernment regulatory matters where Twitter operates,” Musk wrote.

Twitter paid a $150 million penalty in May

for violating the 2011 consent order and its updated version estab lished new procedures requiring the company to implement an en hanced privacy protec tion program as well as beefing up info security.

Those new proce dures include an ex haustive list of dis closures Twitter must make to the FTC when introducing new prod ucts and services — particularly when they affect personal data col lected on users.

Musk is fundamen tally overhauling the platform’s offerings and it’s not known if he is telling the FTC about it. Twitter, which gut ted its communications department, didn’t re spond to a request for comment Thursday.

Musk has a history of tangling with regu lators. “I do not respect the SEC,” Musk de clared in a 2018 tweet.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently examined for possible tardiness his disclosures to the agen cy of his purchases of Twitter stock to amass a major stake. In 2018, Musk and Tesla each agreed to pay $20 mil lion in fines over Musk’s allegedly misleading tweets saying he’d se cured the funding to take the electric car maker private for $420 a share. Musk has fought the SEC in court over compliance with the agreement.

The consequences for not meeting FTC’s requirements can be severe — such as when Facebook had to pay $5 billion for privacy viola tions.

“If Twitter so much as sneezes, it has to do a privacy review before hand,” tweeted Riana Pfefferkorn, a Stanford University researcher who said she previous ly provided Twitter outside legal counsel. “There are periodic outside audits, and the FTC can monitor com pliance.”

Tech mogul Elon Musk has sold several billion dollars in Tesla shares following his expensive purchase of social media firm Twitter. POOL/GETTY IMAGES/TNS

Chanute BOE tables restroom security proposals

CHANUTE — USD 413 school board mem bers tabled any deci sions Monday night to renovate its restrooms to provide more pri vacy, according to the Chanute Tribune.

Members were ex pected to vote on ren ovating 40 restrooms across the school dis trict for an estimated $470,000. The work would raise the height of partitions between restroom stalls.

At issue are com plaints by a handful of students and parents that transgender stu dents are a threat to students.

School superinten dent Kellen Adams said that Chanute High School administrators have investigated all complaints and had come to the conclusion transgender students pose no threat to stu dents’ safety.

“Each and every time, the rumor, if you will, was handed down second, third, and sometimes fourth generation. So we have yet to substantiate a single issue at the high school,” Adams said. “We have three very qualified admin istrators that take this issue seriously, and they have reassured me that none of the (complaints) have been substantiated,” the Tribune reported.

Coffey County talks microchip plant preparations

BURLINGTON — Coffey County com missioners discussed the Beto Junction Community Improve ment District where a $2.5 billion military microchip manufac turing business is due to locate.

Commissioners have agreed to invest $25 million in preparation for the manufacturing site, according to the Coffey County Repub lican. Improvements will be made on a payas-you-go basis or on the issuance of special obligation notes and bonds payable from e revenue received from the imposition of a 2% add-on retail sales tax that begins April 1, 2023 and continues for 22 years, or until the $25 million is raised.

The district is lo cated southeast and southwest of the junc tion of Interstate 35 and U.S. 75.

Midterms give DeSantis, Biden jump on 2024

By JORDAN FABIAN and MARK NIQUETTE Bloomberg News

The 2024 presidential race is taking shape fol lowing midterm elec tions that gave an early boost to President Joe Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, while leaving Donald Trump on the defensive.

Even with ballots still being counted and control of Congress up in the air, the three men quickly took center stage as White House contenders with pres sure mounting for each to announce their deci sions to run. That could crowd out other poten tial rivals on both sides.

Biden reiterated Wednesday he intend ed to seek another term after Democrats fared better than expected in congressional elec tions, declaring that polls showing most Americans don’t want him to run again will have no bearing on his eventual decision.

Losses by Trump’s hand-picked candi dates in key Senate and House races triggered panic and rare public dissent across the GOP, with figures openly suggesting it’s time for Trump to move on and conservative outlets like Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, Wall Street Journal and New York Post calling him a drag on the party. Donors and operatives began to suggest the GOP would be better off with DeSantis as its stan dard-bearer.

The state of the econ omy and stubbornly high inflation are like ly to remain top issues of public concern well into the 2024 campaign cycle, and there were clear signs coming out of Tuesday’s vote that many remain troubled by the Jan. 6, 2021 at tack on the U.S. Capitol that Trump instigated through his false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Vot ers rejected election deniers in the presi dential battlegrounds of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wis consin.

Democratic strate gist Jon Reinish called the results a “repudi ation of extremism” that showed voters want “people who work across the aisle and get results.”

DeSantis’s landslide re-election, at the same time, precipitated an al most overnight realign

ment within the GOP.

At a Monday night rally in Ohio on the eve of Election Day, Trump confidently teased a third presidential run, telling the crowd he’d make a “big announce ment” Nov. 15 at his Palm Beach estate and telling Fox News that “the base would not like it” if DeSantis — whom he called “Ron De-sanc timonious” — were to run. And he confirmed the announcement in a statement on Thursday.

But the humiliating defeats Trump’s favored candidates suffered Tuesday in crucial House and Senate races are serving as a rallying cry for those looking for an alternative to the for mer president.

Conservative Wall Street Journal colum nist Peggy Noonan wrote that if Repub licans pick Trump as their nominee, they will be left to “warm them selves in the glow of the fire as he goes down in flames.”

On Thursday, Trump issued twin attacks on Murdoch’s News Corp. and DeSantis on his Truth Social platform, accusing the conserva tive-leaning media Goli ath of being “all in” for DeSantis, while again invoking the derisive play on his name.

Pre-midterm polls al ready showed DeSantis as the strongest chal lenger to Trump for the nomination should they both run.

Now some Republi cans are trying to con vince party members to focus on helping De Santis, who has not said whether he plans to run for president, accord ing to people familiar with the matter. Those donors and operatives don’t plan to openly criticize Trump, one of the people said. Their

hope is Republicans co alesce around DeSantis, avoiding a crowded pri mary field.

THE MIDTERM re sults are likely to quell public doubts for now from Democrats about Biden’s age and stew ardship, even as voters delivered a mixed ver dict on both.

Almost eight in 10 voters said they felt the pain of inflation but fewer than a third saw it as the defining issue for Biden and Democrats, according to exit polls.

At the same time, two thirds of Ameri cans — including three in 10 Democrats — do not want Biden to run again, the polls show.

Biden, who turns 80 this month and is already the oldest-ev er U.S. president, will have to navigate ques tions about his age and whether Democrats need new leadership, especially if DeSantis, 44, becomes the GOP nominee. Biden told reporters Wednesday he’d likely make a final decision early next year, and that Trump’s early entrance into the race would not affect his tim ing.

A small group of the president’s aides have recently discussed lay ing the groundwork for a 2024 run, according to

two senior Biden advis ers. The decision will hinge in large part on whether Biden believes he can be effective in advancing his agenda and combating what he views as extreme trends in the GOP, one of the advisers said. The ad visers asked not to be identified discussing Biden’s thinking.

The Democratic Na tional Committee ex pects to hire spokespeo ple next year in early voting states to speak out against Republican candidates entering the race, according to a per son familiar with the planning.

That builds on a staff of almost 40 research ers who have been producing materials on possible GOP can didates since 2021, the person said.

The party also plans to activate grassroots supporters, includ ing more than 200,000 trained volunteers and small-dollar donors who have contributed $155 million since the 2020 cycle, according to a DNC memo.

No mainstream Dem ocrats have said they plan to run if Biden en ters the race, though he could face little-known challengers. Vice Pres ident Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michi gan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Trans portation Secretary Pete Buttigieg could be waiting in the wings if Biden bows out or fal ters.

Trump, 76, faces sim ilar scrutiny regarding his age and health, and polls show he’s even less popular than Biden.

Trump’s plan to de clare early is an at tempt to dissuade other candidates lacking his built-in base of support.

Arkansas Senator Tom

Cotton was the first GOP aspirant to forgo a presidential run. For mer Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has said she won’t run if Trump does.

Some Republicans urged Trump to delay his announcement, at least until after next month’s Senate runoff in Georgia, which could determine control of the chamber.

“No one’s going to be surprised by this an nouncement. Nobody’s going to care. It’s not going to clear the field,” New Hampshire Gov ernor Chris Sununu said Wednesday on Fox News.

DeSantis has raised $164 million this cycle while building a nation al following and has carefully positioning himself to the right of the former president on a handful of issues, including pandemic-era public health measures and LGBTQ rights.

Other potential Trump challengers who have laid some ground work for a run include former Vice President Mike Pence, former Sec retary of State Michael Pompeo; former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie; Texas Senator Ted Cruz; and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott.

Republican strate gist and pollster Frank Luntz said Trump’s midterm rebuke will embolden potential challengers. Pence, for example, is beginning a book tour on Tuesday — the day Trump could announce his White House bid — including a town hall Wednesday on CNN.

“There aren’t going to be three or four peo ple running against him, there’s going to be a whole lot more,” Luntz said.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, and President Joe Biden are favored to capture their parties’ nominations for the 2024 presidential election. TNS

Former President Don ald Trump has hinted he will declare his candida cy for 2024 soon. TNS

Kelly’s win proves Kansas isn’t all that conservative

By JOEL MATHIS Special to McLatchy

Well of course Kansans decided to elect Laura Kelly to another term as their governor. Yes, it was close — did anybody expect otherwise? — but while this is famously a Republican state, it’s not a reliably conservative state.

There is a difference, even now. We know that because Sunflower State voters overwhelmingly rejected the “Value Them Both” abortion amendment in August.

We know that because Kelly beat conservative Kris Kobach to win the governor’s office in 2018.

We also know that because Kansas Republicans have won an outright majority of votes for the state’s top office just three times in the last 30 years. One of those was conservative Sam Brownback’s first run in 2010 — he squeaked by with just 49.8% of the vote for reelection four years later. The other two times were accomplished in the 1990s by Bill Graves, a moderate who had to fight off challenges from his right flank.

And we know that because over those same three decades, Kansans have not-infrequently chosen to send Democratic women to Cedar Crest — Joan Finney, then Kathleen Sebelius twice, and now Laura Kelly twice.

In a state known for its redness, conservatives keep missing out.

Did Derek Schmidt know that history? It’s hard to believe he didn’t — the outgoing attorney general has been around Kansas politics for a long time. In any case, he took a look at the state’s tradition of electing moderates to the governorship, and then chose to run straight to the right.

Transgender youth athletes. Drag shows. A video endorsement from Donald Trump. Schmidt ran an angry, ugly campaign that didn’t talk all that much about how to make Kansas a better place to live. Nor did he didn’t try to appeal much beyond his right-wing base. He lost.

Laura Kelly won. So what’s next?

Probably not as much as she’d like. Kelly had some good items on her agenda

— during the closing week of the campaign, she talked about good ideas like finally expanding Medicaid and legalizing medical marijuana. We know that Medicaid expansion is popular, with more than two-thirds of Kansans in support, and the state is one of the last remaining holdouts against medical marijuana. It’s time to join the 21st century.

BUT THERE’S A huge obstacle: the Kansas Legislature, which remains overwhelmingly in the hands of Republicans — and they’ll be in no more mood to cooperate with her than they have been over the last four years. Which is to say, not very much. Kelly handed out vetoes right and left during her first term in office, and it’s likely she’ll have to do more of the same during her second. There just isn’t a lot of room for her to operate.

That shouldn’t stop her from trying, particularly on Medicaid expansion. It’s not just popular — voters in red states such as Missouri and South Dakota have now passed it into law — but it’s also needed by the tens of thousands of Kansans who would benefit from medical coverage they can’t otherwise get and by rural Kansas hospitals that were struggling financially even before the pandemic. It’s the right thing to do.

And that’s the thing: Despite Schmidt’s efforts to paint Kelly as another out-ofcontrol progressive, the stuff that Kelly wants to do — the stuff she can do — is far from out of the mainstream. She ran a campaign that talked constantly of bipartisanship and steering toward the middle, and maybe that’s the only way a Democrat can get elected or govern in Kansas. But it’s also apparent that voters actually like that stuff.

There’s evidence that approach can produce positive results: Grocery taxes in the state will soon start coming down because both Kansas Republicans and Kelly agreed that was the right thing to do. There will be more opportunities to accomplish good things for Kansans over the next four years. But the only way to get it done will be if both sides meet in the middle.

~ Journalism that makes a difference

Lesson of the $3,250 oil change

By PETER JENSEN The Baltimore Sun

I recently took my 11-year-old minivan in for an oil change and asked the mechanic to please turn off all the idiot lights on the dashboard because the reddish glare was becoming quite annoying. Imagine my surprise when I got a call sometime later from the same fellow with the news that they could put the vehicle in fine working order for $3,250. I assumed I had misheard. Who pays that kind of money to repair something that hadn’t actually been in a crash? “You mean $32.50? or maybe $325.00?” No, the caller patiently explained. He then went on to list all that was wrong with the van. I think he mentioned axles or steering or possibly struts. I think there were bald tires and some kind of leak as well. (Frankly, I had kind of mentally tuned out at that point. Where was I going to come up with that kind of money? Selling a kidney? Selling my wife’s kidneys?) I tried to be helpful. “You know,” I interrupted, “I paid less than that for my first car.” I bet he’d never heard that kind of keen insight before. The issue was eventually resolved with a mutual understanding that he knew exactly what he was talking about, and I most certainly did not.

The experience caused some conflict at home, especially on the organ selling issue. I attempted to posit that I had likely been ripped off by a well-regarded repair shop that has been in business for decades that was clearly willing to take advantage of my ignorance. My family held a slightly different view, suggesting that perhaps regular maintenance of the van might have prevented the crisis. Regular maintenance? Had I not brought it in for an oil change? Turns out those warning lights may serve some purpose beyond driver distraction. Who knew? I mean other than the explanation in the owner’s manual, the briefing you get when you buy the car, the manufacturer’s helpful reminders and, you know, decades of accumulated knowledge. I deftly countered that gradual wear on engine parts from driving on roads is just

an unproven scientific theory. By not addressing those lights, I likely saved hundreds of dollars in maintenance in the short term. This day of reckoning could never have been predicted unless one spent time, you know, thinking about it. But then it occurred to me. What kind of person ponders only short-term costs, ignores long-term needs, allows problems to fester and grow from relative ant hills to looming mountains while ignoring expert opinion?

That would be approximately half of us. Or, to put it another way, while a majority of Americans believe climate change is real, opinion surveys show many more doubt they can do much about it. A poll released this summer by AP-NORC found just 52% of Americans believe they can do something to affect climate change compared to 66% in 2019. So, it’s not really about climate denial (polls show the vast majority accept climate science), it’s about laziness and avoidance or worse, climate fatalism. Like dashboard idiot lights, Americans have seen the signs of trouble ahead — worsening weather, warming oceans, wildfires, droughts, heat waves and on and on. They just aren’t fully on board with the kind of measures needed to prevent or offset the worst of it. Oh, maybe we’ll switch from coal-fired power plants to the natural gas variety or accept higher mileage standards in cars, but when it comes to real change, to energy conservation, to the “green” economy or simply

When my son got RSV; I was right to panic

By MARÁ ROSE WILLIAMS The Kansas City Star

When my youngest son was only a few months old he became ill with what I thought at the time was just a cold that was affecting his breathing. Absent an official pediatric diagnosis, I treated the cold-like symptoms with the usual over-the-counter medications for babies.

He did not get better. At least not right away.

One evening I noticed he was struggling to breathe. I panicked, called an ambulance and rushed my normally jovial baby to the hospital. Turns out he was suffering from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, the same contagious virus that in recent months has been pushing hospitals around the country to capacity.

The Star and other news or-

ganizations have been reporting on the surge of RSV, but I thought that since some of the readers in our audience are in the minority communities that often are most at risk for such community health problems, this space might be yet another place parents and grandparents should hear about the illness and how dangerous it can be for children and some adults. Knowledge provides the power to protect yourselves and family members.

So, today I’m just looking out for ya.

RSV is a respiratory virus that mostly manifests with mild cold-like symptoms, but can cause pneumonia and bronchiolitis in young children. It can be life-threatening in infants and senior adults.

Because the pandemic had us wearing masks for the last

two years, illnesses like RSV — spread through coughing and sneezing — may have been kept at bay. But with masks dropped and other COVID-19 restrictions lifted, there’s far more risk of exposure. And with children back in school and day care, there’s more risk of kids contracting this illness right here at flu season, too.

National health experts have described the alarmingly high RSV case numbers so much earlier in the year than usual as “unprecedented,” saying it’s the most severe season in 25 years. And that goes for our local Children’s Mercy Hospital, which has seen hundreds of children with RSV in the last few weeks.

The good news is that kids do recover. I know that because my little guy is now a healthy 26-year-old, but I still remember how scary RSV was for us.

using public transportation a bit more? Eh, maybe next time we’re in the shop. You saw it all over the election this year. President Joe Biden was attacked over “high” gasoline prices. Republicans pledged an “all of the above” energy strategy that would pump a whole lot more carbon into the atmosphere and accelerate global warming. But, you know, that’s a problem for another day. It doesn’t even make sense given that OPEC nations still control more than 80% of the world crude oil reserves. But who cares, right? I mean if it means slightly cheaper gasoline prices for a short period of time, if that. My family thinks I’m good at shirking responsibility but it turns out there’s a lot of that going around.

And the bill that is bound to come due will be a lot worse than $3,250 — or even $6 a gallon gas.

The real catastrophe is that you don’t get a doover. When sea levels rise, when land capable of being farmed is gone, when billions of people are displaced and economies ruined, there’s no friendly neighborhood mechanic to make things ship shape and see you out the door in six hours or so. My minivan is running just fine, thank you. I could survive a blown gasket or whatever it was (I mean, seriously, it’s all in one ear and out the other), but a word to those who haven’t read the planetary owner’s manual: I hear fixed inhabitable worlds are a lot harder to come by.

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

30 Years Ago November 1992

Angie Wray of Decorator Supply has been helping building owners around the square decorate the building exteriors in Victorian style. Several have been repainted to general applause, including Iola Deluxe Cleaners, Capper Jewelry, Saturday’s, the Rocking B Tavern, T & E Home Improvement, Classy Attic and Cradle to Campus.

A century-old well was found in front of Litwin’s store at 15 E. Madison by workmen as they prepared to lay a base for pouring a new section of sidewalk there. The well was dug

sometime before 1892 to provide water for fighting fires. Store manager Tom Mudrick opposed a suggestion the well be preserved and promoted as a tourist attraction because of potential liability to the company. New sidewalk was later laid over the well in such a way that it can be re-opened later if desired.

William King of Fredericktown, Mo. was hired by the Allen County Commission as director of public works, a new position. He will do the work formerly done by the supervisor of roads and bridges and have other responsibilities as well.

State BOE urges schools to ditch American Indian mascots

By RACHEL MIPRO Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — The Kan sas Board of Educa tion recommended the removal of American Indian-themed mas cots and branding from Kansas school districts, saying American Indian students deserve to feel comfortable in schools across the state.

The mascot debate has been ongoing, with the Advisory Council for Indigenous Educa tion recommending in October that the BOE and the Kansas Board of Regents make a priori ty of persuading local school officials to aban don culturally offensive branding. The coun cil said this transition should be completed in three to five years.

Across the state, po tentially offensive mas cots include the Braves, Red Raiders, Warriors, Thunderbirds, Indians and Redskins.

The Board of Edu cation doesn’t have the authority to make local schools change their mascots, so it is unclear how much effect the rec ommendation will have. Members say the rec ommendation is more about starting import ant conversations than forcing change.

The BOE accepted the council’s recommenda tion Thursday, with sev en members voting in favor of the recommen dation. Members Jean Clifford and Ben Jones abstained from the vote, while conservative Mi chelle Dombrosky was the only dissenting vote.

Dombrosky said

she believed the board didn’t have the authori ty to make the decision, and that local school dis tricts should make the choice.

“They have pride, they have traditions, they’re not going to un derstand,” Dombrosky said. “It’s going to take awhile for education, curriculum that you’re working on. You’re building that. Since it’s a strong recommenda tion on that part, I’m not sure why we’re taking a vote at the state board. Because 10 people are deciding for the rest of those communities.”

Other board members pushed back against Dombrosky, saying it was important to take

a stand. Member Ann Mah said with more than 90% of American Indian students attend ing public schools, the impact of offensive mas cots was significant.

“These 10 people are not deciding anything for anyone,” Mah said.

“All we’re doing is ask ing these schools that have these mascots and branding to start a con versation about is this mascot, is this brand ing, tied to real learn ing? Or is it an empty moniker that makes fun of other sovereign nations? So we’re just asking them to start the conversation.”

Board member Dee na Horst represents District 6, which covers

These 10 people are not deciding any thing for anyone. All we’re doing is asking these schools that have these mascots and branding to start a conversation about is this mascot, is this branding, tied to real learning? Or is it an empty moniker that makes fun of other sovereign nations? So we’re just asking them to start the conver sation.

school districts in Doug las, Chase, Jefferson and Shawnee counties, among others. Horst mentioned that all of the state’s reservations are contained in her dis trict. She said her deci

in which sports fans pretend to be waving a tomahawk.

“If I was a member of a tribe, and I was in a competitive environ ment, I would take that as making fun of me. And bullying is another component. It’s a way to show that you can over take someone else and that makes the person who actually is a Native American — if it makes them feel less of a per son, it’s wrong,” Horst said.

Some Kansas school districts have already decided to ditch offen sive imagery. Atchison dropped the labels Red men and Braves, and Wichita North High School voted to remove its Redskins mascot name in 2021. Other districts are resisting change, such as Manhat tan High School, which retains its mascot, the Indians.

More than 20 Kansas schools still have Ameri can Indian themed mas cots, and many tribes have expressed opposi tion to these mascots.

The council said mas cots like the Redmen and Braves damages indigenous perception and encourage “nar row-minded stereotypes that represent Ameri can Indians as exotic, warlike people who are stuck in the past,” in the original memorandum.

sion was not influenced by that, but by her mem ories as a student at Clearwater High School, where the mascot is the Indians.

Horst referenced the tomahawk chop, a move

The mascot vote was one of the first actions taken by the board after the November election. Five new board mem bers have been elected and will take their seats in 2023.

Allen: College announces Burlingame center will close

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think we’re going to gain numbers.”

Allen will continue to of fer dual credit courses for high-schoolers in the Burlin game school district.

“There’s a strong poten tial for us to use classrooms in the high school for some courses,” Moses said.

Despite the closure, Moses expects enrollment in Osage County and areas nearer To peka to grow. “That’s where data indicates growth of this institution will come from, the Topeka area.

Roberta Nickel, Allen’s interim vice president for fi nance and operations, point ed to this fall’s enrollment figures as evidence.

Allen has 626 online stu dents from Shawnee County, of which 541 are from Tope ka.

In fact, Allen teaches more students at the Topeka Cen ter for Advanced Learning and Careers (95) than at Burlingame (90). TCALC is an innovative high school program in which various colleges work in league with businesses to provide in struction in a variety of sci ence, technology, engineering

This wasn’t a move to reduce work force. This was a move that came about because the location didn’t have the traffic to warrant us having a footprint there.

and math disciplines.

Moses said he has been speaking extensively with Burlingame USD 454. Allen leases its Burlingame facil ity from the school district. The building is a part of the Burlingame High School complex.

Moses said he assured USD 454 officials that Allen will continue to provide dual credit instruction for USD 454 students, as it has in the past

“It shouldn’t require those students to have much change at all, aside from going from one building to another,” Mo ses said. “There will be very little, probably no impact, for them. That was their biggest concern.”

Moses estimated roughly 30

to 40 Burlingame high-school ers take ACC classes.

MOSES and other college administrators were in Bur lingame on Wednesday to visit collectively, and individ ually, with the 15 employees who will be displaced with the campus closure.

All seven full-time facul ty members, six full-time non-certified staffers and two part-time employees will be given the opportunity — if they choose to do so — to continue working at Allen, either on the Iola campus or through other means.

For example, one of ACC’s Burlingame instructors al ready teaches at a high school two days a week. A second instructor is at a high school

campus once a week.

Similar avenues will be ex plored in the coming weeks and months, if there’s de mand.

Moses said the plan is to give each employee multiple options to consider in an ef fort to entice them to stay.

“This wasn’t a move to re duce workforce,” Moses said. “This was a move that came about because the location didn’t have the traffic to war rant us having a footprint there.

“We wanted to give every employee who was going to be impacted at least six months’ notice,” Moses said. “This gives them time to make decisions and explore their options.”

Preferably, they’ll remain with Allen, he said.

Those who choose to ex plore other options will be given all the assistance pos sible, such as preparing re sumes, he said.

The discussion was an emotional one, Moses said.

“I had expected that,” he said. “You should expect that.”

But as the conversations continued, the teachers ad mitted the writing was on

the wall as on-campus enroll ment dropped.

“I think the employees sensed it was going to hap pen eventually,” Moses said. “Just maybe not this year.”

IN RETROSPECT, the on set of the COVID-19 pandem ic likely played a significant role in accelerating the Burl ingame closure, Moses noted.

As campuses were shut tered in the spring of 2020, schools briefly offered exclu sively online courses.

“Now students realize, I don’t have to drive to a physical location to access education,” Moses said. “I can access classes online, or through a virtual environ ment like Zoom, and still talk to instructors and ask questions, still converse with peers. We want to leverage that.”

Tack on societal changes — gas prices and child care op tions, especially — and sud denly non-traditional classes gained favor.

Without the Burlingame campus, Allen likely will ex plore other avenues to reach high-schoolers, such as send ing teachers to individual high school campuses.

— Bruce Moses, Allen Community College president, on closing ACC’s outreach facility in Burlingame

Kansas Board of Education members debate recommending the removal of offensive Kansas mascots. KAN SAS REFLECTOR/RACHEL MIPRO

— State BOE member Ann Mah

Jones: Pediatrician joins sta at Community Health Center

“I missed the life sciences.

Even in high school I’d sign up for electives in anatomy and physiology. I was a nerd — and I loved it. I loved studying animals and plants.”

So, with the slate wiped clean, “I randomly signed up for a genetics class.”

And, bingo.

“I loved it. It was so much fun.”

Because K-State doesn’t offer a degree in genetics, Jones opted for one in biology.

“Which is generally useless,” he quipped, other than being a terrific launching pad for medical school.

Encouraged to explore his options after he graduated from KSU in 2015, Jones shadowed at a hospital in Manhattan. That might have been a good experience, except the only slot available was Friday nights in the emergency room. In a college town.

“So yeah, I saw a lot of drunk people. It was horrible.”

Veterinarian. No dice.

ER physician. No way.

To the rescue came mom. “She was good friends with my pediatrician growing up and asked if I could shadow her.”

Well, kind of.

Jones’ mother is a professor at the School of Health Professions at KU Medical Center and Jones’s former pediatrician, Dr. Pamela Shaw, is now a professor of pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center and associate dean for medical education.

After two days with Dr. Shaw, the young Jones was set loose in the pediatric center’s walk-in clinic where he followed physicians in its residency program.

“I saw all these children

— Dr. William Jones, Community Health Center pediatrician

coming in with all kinds of conditions. I could see all the learning happening.

“I loved it, and I’ve basically never looked back.”

In short order Jones attended KU School of Medicine, graduating in 2019. From there he did a three-year residency at Children’s Hospital in Omaha.

His decision to return to Kansas was fairly simple, he said.

“It’s always been my home. I’m a Kansan, through and through.”

The decision to work for CHC/SEK was also easy for Jones.

“Growing up, I always wanted a place where I had a desk, but I didn’t have to sit at it. I like to be busy, to be challenged, and to be needed.

“And as a physician, I wanted to be able to help people no matter their financial circumstances. I didn’t want to have to turn people away because they didn’t have health insurance. The Community Health Center lets me do that.”

As for Iola, Jones regards its calm environment as a good antidote to his busy job.

“I love it when I need to go to Walmart and I think darn, I hit traffic because I had to stop at both traffic lights, and it took me six minutes to get there.”

“I can already say I know my neighbors. Growing up in

Kansas City the only neighbors I knew were the family whose daughter babysat my brother and me,” he said.

Jones related that co-worker Cathy Dreher drafted him to hand out candy during Halloween at the Chamber’s downtown trunk or treat affair.

“And two kids waved at me!”

THAT JONES, age 29, is a kid magnet is an obvious advantage as a pediatrician.

“Kids are fun,” he said simply. “They come in wearing unicorn pajamas. They’re not afraid to have fun conversations about animals and colors. I love their innocence and their ability to enjoy life.”

Taking care of little ones has unique challenges.

When all Jones has to go by is that a “tummy hurts, it’s a little more like being a detective. That’s when a parent’s help is so important. They know their children best. They’re their best advocates.”

It’s important that children visit a physician on an annual basis for routine checkups, Jones said.

“That’s when we can catch things in their early stages and be most effective,” he said.

“With little ones, parents feel as if they’re at the doctor every few days,” he said. “Kids get sick a lot.”

“But once they are past

kindergarten age, things level out. And parents perceive them as healthy. They get lost in the healthcare system until middle school when they have to return for vaccines. That’s a big gap.”

And it could be during those years that crucial screenings could catch diseases in their early stages.

Jones gives examples of early detection of lead poisoning and diagnoses of ADHD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Ingestion of lead-based paint, water contaminated with lead and lead-contaminated soil are particularly dangerous for children, Jones said.

Homes built before the 1950s should be inspected for lead-based paint as should the soil throughout the Midwest.

“It’s even in the dust of a lot of these old homes,” he said. “Even if they’ve been renovated, it can be in their bones.”

A high level of lead in a child’s bloodstream is frequently misdiagnosed as autism, he said. Lead contamination can cause intellectual disabilities and developmental delays in children.

Jones also said he frequently sees youths who are the victims of bullying or suffer from mental health issues.

“We live in a more complicated world today,” he said. “Even though I’m not very old, I remember that when I came home from school I went outside to play.”

Note the words “outside” and “play.”

Many of today’s youths use their free time to play computer games inside or are on social media. Such habits provide no relief from the societal pressures of school. If

anything, they could intensify the pain.

“The harassment doesn’t stop,” he said.

Jam-packed schedules can also cause kids to burn out.

“We see a lot of times that kids are over-stimulated,” from sports and other activities. “The danger is that they don’t learn to use their imaginations,” which allows them to unwind.

“By the time they get home they go straight to bed and start it all over the next morning. They need a balance between work and play. They need ‘me’ time.”

Parents feel pressure to enroll their children in myriad activities.

“It can be tough. Parents want their children to be involved but then some of them push them to be better, and better, and better.”

“The parents mean well by wanting to expose their children to all these things. What’s important is that if the child doesn’t like soccer, then there’s no pressure to do it again. But there is value in teaching children the value of commitment and of being a team player.”

In truth, Jones is more worried about children who “don’t do anything.”

He also wants parents to know that he’s their biggest fan.

“A lot of parents are hard on themselves because they think they didn’t do something right and it’s going to screw up their kids. There’s a lot of things in parenting that if you do right 50% of the time, your kids are going to be just fine.

“How often do you hear from your doctor, ‘Good job!’? I’m here to reassure parents they are doing a really good job and to keep it up.”

We are proud to welcome Dr. Will Jones to our Iola clinic. As the community’s only pediatrician, we are pleased to announce he is now caring for Iola’s children.

Dr. Jones graduated from Kansas State University with his bachelor’s of Science in biology and obtained his doctor of medicine from the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He completed his post-graduate training at the University of Nebraska Medical Cen ter-Creighton, where he has a resident for more than three years. He is from Leawood, Kansas.

“I always wanted a career where I got to challenge myself, help others, and not have to sit behind a desk all day,” says Dr. Jones. “I am not the person who knew they wanted to be a doctor as a little kid. I went to college not knowing what path I would choose. Then with the help of great mentors and teachers I was encouraged to shadow different physicians. Once I shadowed a pediatrician, I knew this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.”

Outside of work, Dr. Jones likes to hang out with friends, his dog, and he challenges himself to make different recipes in cookbooks. He also loves all things Chiefs football, Kansas State football, and Kansas basketball.

Dr. Will Jones

As a physician, I wanted to be able to help people no matter their nancial circumstances. I didn’t want to have to turn people away because they didn’t have health insurance. The Community Health Center lets me do that.

Sports Daily B

Setter heads to batting showcase

a challenge because it’s a bit bigger.”

Setter hopes his speed will be on display in Miami.

“I’m an overall fast play er. I like to move around, get around the bases and I like to put the ball into play,” Set ter said. “Being able to keep my composure has definitely helped me throughout the years with getting better.”

Setter has not received any college offers yet but hopes this showcase can help with that.

The shortstop has come a long way since his freshman season and has put in work year round on the baseball field with different teams in cluding the Olathe Precision summer league team. Setter also played with Precision this fall in preparation for the showcase and his final high school season coming up in the spring.

MVJH hoops down Cherokee

MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s boys picked up a pair of hardfought victories Thursday.

The Wildcat A team pre vailed, 27-25, over Southeast of Cherokee, while the B team rolled to a 30-17 victo ry.

“We really worked hard and made good decisions when we had to,” Wildcat head coach Byron Marshall said. “I was really proud of how we played and the crowd was amazing.”

Leading the charge in the A team victory were Thom as Allee and Dagan Barney, each of whom scored eight points. Allee drilled a pair of 3-pointers in the pivotal fourth quarter.

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

COLONY — Crest senior baseball slugger Stetson Set ter will participate in the 15th annual World Power Showcase Home Run Derby and All-American Classic in Miami from Nov. 19 to Nov. 23.

The showcase will gather some of the most skilled and highest ranked amateur play ers from around the world.

The showcase includes an MLB Scout Day in front of 30 organizations.

Setter finished last season leading the Lancers offen sively with a .527 batting av erage, six home runs, 39 hits and 51 RBIs. The senior mans the shortstop position for Crest and will serve as one of

the team’s most influential leaders this season.

“I have my mechanics down pretty well for hitting.

I think that’s why my batting average and home runs were up,” Setter said. “I’m always working on my arm talent, I’m obviously not going to be the best there. I don’t really pitch much anymore but I can throw it pretty well from the outfield down to home. What helps is my ability to keep a level head.”

Setter said he is honored to be named to the showcase roster and feels he can prove what he’s truly made of once he gets there.

“I think it’s a great honor because I get to represent my small hometown of Colony,” said Setter. “It’ll be an ex perience getting to see how

well all of the other players can hit, play and field and all new kinds of pitching, too.”

Setter will be treated with a wel come dinner and jersey pre sentation ceremony, a home run derby competition as well as the All-American/ World Classic Game.

Playing in a major league baseball park such as that for the Miami Marlins will be a first for Setter but he hopes that it doesn’t faze him too much and that he can relax and play his style of baseball.

“I’m very excited to even step foot on that field. Try ing to hit home runs will be

“I’ve improved a lot since freshman year by just being able to see more pitching, especially playing summer leagues up in Olathe (Preci sion),” said Setter. “Travel ing to all these bigger places, seeing 85 mph pitches, it’s definitely helped with my game.”

Setter also plays football and basketball but main tains baseball is his favorite sport and is something his whole family enjoys.

“I think I like baseball more because it’s some thing I’ve been playing since T-ball,” said Setter. “Every one in my family absolute ly loves baseball. It’s just a blast to play. You don’t neces sarily have to be the biggest or strongest guy out there, you just have to make your plays.”

No. 23 K-State visits Baylor with title game on line

WACO, Texas (AP) — De fending Big 12 champion Baylor needs a victory over No. 23 Kansas State to keep a clear path to the confer ence championship game. The teams are tied with No. 18 Texas for second place. Baylor will control its path to the title game with a vic tory. The Wildcats need a win and a loss by the Longhorns to control their fate. Baylor is on a three-game winning streak after beating Oklaho ma. Kansas State is coming off a loss to the Longhorns.

If quarterback Blake Shapen and the Baylor Bears want a realistic chance to de fend their Big 12 title, they’ll need a fourth consecutive victory when No. 23 Kansas State visits Saturday night.

The Bears (6-3, 4-2 Big 12) and Wildcats are tied with No. 18 Texas, and the winner will have a much clearer path to the championship game at the home of the Dallas Cow boys in December.

Neither team is dwelling on the stakes.

“Whether it’s at the be ginning of the year and feel ing pretty full of ourselves when we haven’t really ac complished anything, or in the year feeling pretty full of ourselves after one win,”

said Baylor coach Dave Aran da, whose team is coming off a 38-35 win at Oklahoma. “I think (we need) to keep the focus on what’s right in front of us and what we have to do today.”

The Wildcats (6-3, 4-2) lost control of their path to the title game with last week’s 34-27 loss to the Longhorns. But they can get it back with a victory over Baylor and a loss by Texas to undefeated Big 12 leader TCU.

“It’s something that we don’t get too caught up in,” Kansas State coach Chris Klieman said of his players. “As soon as you start getting too much into that, you’re not going to do what you need to do to be successful.”

The first extensive action of Shapen’s career came last year at the Wildcats, when he replaced the injured Gerry Bohanon and was efficient enough in a 20-10 victory that kept the two-loss Bears on track for the league champi onship.

He won the job in the spring, and Bohanon trans ferred to South Florida.

“I’ve had to evolve in be ing more vocal, I guess, and things like that,” Shapen said. “When it’s such a long season like this, it’s easy to

try to be out of the facility as early as you can and things like that and maybe take shortcuts. I’m not the type of person that can do that.”

QB PLAN

Adrian Martinez was back as the starter for Kansas State against Texas after Will Howard threw four touch down passes in a 48-0 rout of then-No. 9 Oklahoma State with Martinez sidelined by a knee injury.

Martinez threw for 329 yards and two TDs, but had an interception that led to a Texas touchdown and a fum ble that clinched the victory for the Longhorns.

“Those guys are really

good friends, and (Howard) handled that really well as a team player,” Klieman said. “You bet he would want to play. Just like the week be fore, I think Adrian wanted to play. He couldn’t, and Will said, ‘Let’s go.’”

ANOTHER RUNNER

With the flu affecting a number of Baylor players, fifth-year junior running back Craig “Sqwirl” Wil liams ran for a career-high 192 yards and two touch downs against the Sooners. National freshman TD lead er Richard Reese (13) was limited to four carries.

The teams were knotted at 8-8 at halftime and 16-16 after three.

Cooper Scharff added six points and Ethan Lawson five.

Kris McVey’s eight points were the catalyst for Mar maton Valley’s B team vic tory, all coming in the first quarter.

Truett Blevins, Brady Burton and Kaden McVey added four points each. Scoring two points apiece were Allee, Brendon New man, Colin Ard and Tucker Sutton.

Qatar set to prove soccer passion

GENEVA (AP) — Qatar made a promise to fans 12 years ago when it started campaigning to host the World Cup: We love soccer just like you, so come and enjoy it with us.

The message acknowl edged there would be skep tics that a tiny emirate whose team had never been to a World Cup — never played a qualifying game until 1977 — could match the passion for soccer’s biggest event shown by the

Crest’s Stetson Setter (15) batting against Marais des Cygnes in the class 2-1A Substate Playoff at Central Heights High School last season. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Brendon Newman makes a shot Thursday in a victory over Southeast of Cherokee.

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Wilson leads No. 5 Kansas past NDS

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Jalen Wilson had 21 points and nine rebounds, Gradey Dick added 12 points, and No. 5 Kansas tuned up for the Champions Classic next week by routing pe rennial Summit League contender North Dako ta State 82-59. MJ Rice added eight points in his college debut for the Jay hawks, who ramped up the defensive pressure in building a 48-19 lead by halftime and coasting through the final 20 min utes. Up next for Kansas is a showdown with No. 7 Duke on Tuesday night in Indianapolis. Grant Nelson had 11 points and Boden Skunberg 10 to lead the Bison.

Kansas did exactly what was expected of the nation’s No. 5 team when the defending na tional champions played Omaha and North Dako ta State to open the sea son: win in routs.

The stakes are about to get a whole lot higher with Duke awaiting in the Champions Classic.

Jalen Wilson had 21 points and nine re bounds, Gradey Dick added 12 points and MJ Rice scored 10 in his college debut on Thurs day night, helping the high-flying Jayhawks roll to a 82-59 victory over the Bison in their final dress rehearsal be fore facing the No. 7 Blue Devils in Indianapolis.

“We’re just trying to get better,” said Jay hawks assistant Norm Roberts, who handled his second game in place of suspended coach Bill Self. “It’s not about who we’re playing. We’re talking about how we can improve as a bas ketball team. We’re still a long way from where we’re going to be. We’re gaining on it. We’re get ting better.”

It was hard to see any flaws in the first half Thursday night. Kansas built a 48-19 lead before coasting to the victory.

Grant Nelson had 11 points to lead North Da kota State (0-2). Boden Skunberg scored 10.

“Shame on me if I don’t recognize what success looks like, and that’s a product of suc cess over there,” Bison coach David Richman said. “That’s what we talked to our guys about: There are no secrets. Those guys play their tails off, they look like men, they’re unselfish. That’s a fun group to watch as you’re scout ing them. Not a very fun group to play.”

North Dakota State gave the Jayhawks all they could handle when they met in December 2020 in Allen Fieldhouse, leading for more than 28 minutes only for the Jay hawks to score the final

seven points and eke out a four-point win.

It wasn’t nearly as close Thursday night.

Wilson got off to a hot start, scoring 17 points in the first half, and Rice provided some addition al energy with a high-fly ing dunk after missing the Jayhawks’ opening win over Omaha with a back injury earlier in the week.

“I’ve been dreaming about this for a long time,” Rice said. “When I finally got the opportu nity, it was like, ‘Wow.’”

But it wasn’t until Wil son’s bucket with about 12 minutes to go that the game got out of hand.

Kansas proceeded to score 10 straight points, highlighted by Rice’s ally-oop dunk, and the run stretched to 13-2 on a 3-pointer by Joseph Ye sufu. And when the Bi son finally got a bucket, Yesufu answered with another 3, triggering an other 11-0 run that gave the Jayhawks a 40-16 lead by the under-4 min ute media timeout.

“Coming into the game, right out of the gate, you want to estab lish yourself to the oppo nent,” said Ernest Udeh Jr. who had eight points and four boards. “Right out of the gate you want to establish yourself to the opponent: ‘We mean business.’”

The Jayhawks shot 56% from the field in the first half, helped by four ally-oop dunks, while the Bison resorted to shoot ing desperation 3-point ers late in the shot clock. Twenty of their 28 shots in the first half came from beyond the arc.

The Bison outscored Kansas in the second half, though much of it came against the Jay hawks’ bench.

“We have great big expectations in our program that in March we’re competing against Arkansas or Kansas,” Richman said, “and hopefully these are great learning experiences for us.”

THE TAKEAWAY

The Jayhawks were brutally efficient on of fense, but they really shined on defense. Texas Tech transfer Kevin Mc Cullar Jr. has lived up to his billing as a perimeter stopper, and KJ Adams Jr. and Udeh dominated the paint. North Dako ta State was just 9 of 32 from beyond the arc and the Jayhawks scored 22 points off turnovers.

UP NEXT

While the Jayhawks head to Indianapolis to face the Blue Devils in one of the marquee nonconference games of the season on Tuesday night, the Bison travel back to Fargo for their home opener against Pa cific on Sunday.

Reid, Peterson meet for second time

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs coach Andy Reid and Jaguars counterpart Doug Ped erson will meet for the second time as oppos ing head coaches on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium. Pederson played for and coached under Reid in Phila delphia before becom ing his first offensive coordinator in Kansas City. Reid got the best of him in 2017, when Pederson had depart ed to become the head coach of the Eagles. He is now in his first year with Jacksonville. The Chiefs have won five straight against the Jaguars. Both teams are coming off wins, with Jacksonville com ing from behind to beat the Raiders and the Chiefs beating the Ti tans in overtime.

Doug Pederson will always feel indebted to Chiefs coach Andy Reid for the way his career played out.

Both the playing one and the coaching one.

It was Reid who gave Pederson, then a back up quarterback for the Packers, an opportuni ty to be an NFL starter with the Eagles. And years later, it was Reid who welcomed Peder son back to Philadel phia as an offensive quality control coach, a job that would serve as the jumping-off point for his rise to become head coach, first of the Eagles and now the Jaguars.

“I owe a lot to Coach Reid and the things he taught me,” Pederson said this week. “When I became coordinator there in Kansas City, we spent so much time together, in meetings and one-on-one, and everything about him is pouring himself into other people. He did that with me and pre pared me for my first job in Philadelphia, and that went a long way, and now here in Jacksonville, taking some of the same things I learned from him and applying them here.”

The two remain close, talking often during the season. But those phone calls and text messages will stop this week as the Jaguars prepare to visit the Chiefs on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium.

It will be the sec ond matchup between mentor and pupil — Reid won the first when the Chiefs beat the Eagles on Sept. 17, 2017. In fact, the Kan sas City coach is 17-9 when facing former assistants as head coaches.

“He’s a good friend,” Reid said of Pederson, “and I think he’s doing a heck of a job down there. The players have bought into what he’s teaching. They’re well-coached and you know what? They have good players and they play very hard.”

Pederson won’t be the only familiar face on the opposing side line.

Jaguars quarter backs coach Mike Mc Coy played for Reid with the Packers in the ‘90s, defensive co ordinator Mike Cald well played for and coached under him in Philadelphia and

defensive assistant Bob Sutton was his first co ordinator in Kansas City.

So yes, even though it’s been seven years since Reid and Peder son worked together, there is a certain fa miliarity between the two coaching staffs. And that makes their preparation a little more complicated than usual.

“I have to ask,” Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said, “because I wasn’t here with Doug — he left right before I got here — ‘Do we need to change code words, change things up, so he doesn’t have any intel on the stuff we’re try ing to run?’”

Reid and Pederson both acknowledged this week that the Kansas City offense maintains its roots in the West Coast system. But it has changed dramatically from the days when Pederson was orchestrating it with Alex Smith under center to the present, where offensive coor dinator Eric Bieniemy has Mahomes putting up record-setting num bers.

He set new Chiefs marks last week for completions and at tempts, going 43 of 68 for 446 yards in a 20-17 overtime victory over the Titans.

“Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, they just win. They get it done when they need to,”

Jacksonville safety Andrew Wingard said, “and I think we’re starting to trend in that direction. It will be a good test. If you’re go ing to contend in the AFC, you’re going to have to go play Kansas City in January, Febru

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Reid: Peterson meet for second time at Arrowhead Sunday

The Jaguars rallied from a 17-point deficit last week to beat the Las Vegas Raiders 2720.

NO-LOSE NOVEMBER

Kansas City has won 10 straight November games, a streak that began on Nov. 18, 2019, with a win over the Chargers. Part of the reason is the play of

Mahomes, who is 12-2 as the starting quarter back. He has thrown 37 touchdown passes and nine interceptions during his second-best month statistically be hind September.

MISSING MECOLE Chiefs wide receiv er Mecole Hardman has been dealing with an abdominal injury during what has been perhaps the most pro ductive three-game span of his career. He has touchdown catches

in each game, and five TDs total over that pe riod, and he’s given the Kansas City offense a different dynamic with his ability to stretch fields on jet sweepsLas Vegas Raiders 27-20.

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

Wide receiver Kadarius Toney could have been on the vis iting sideline Sunday. Ex-Jaguars coach Ur ban Meyer badly want ed to draft Toney with the 25th pick in 2021,

but the former Florida standout went to the Giants five spots earli er. His first 18 months in New York were mostly a bust, prompt ing the Giants to trade him to Kansas City last month.

The Jaguars select ed former Clemson running back Travis Etienne at No. 25 in stead. He ranks sixth in the NFL in rushing and has been Jackson ville’s top offensive threat.

RUN TO DAYLIGHT (NOT A WALL)

The Chiefs ran for 77 yards last week against Tennessee. Ma homes had 63 of them on scrambles. The oth er 14 yards came on 13 carries from their trio of running backs. None of them had a longer carry than 3 yards.

IDOLIZING MA HOMES

Jaguars quarter back Trevor Lawrence doesn’t miss many

prime-time Chiefs games, and there have been a bunch already this season. He tunes in for one reason: Ma homes. And Lawrence is always taking notes.

“Just the things they do, really creative,” he said. “Obviously Pat rick’s a great player, fun to watch. … Those are always good games to watch, and I’ve got a lot of respect for him and the way he plays the game is special. He’s a great player.”

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Navigating the necessity of losing weight according to BMI

DEAR DR. ROACH:

I was confused by your column the other day, as well as the response regarding weight loss to a writer who is losing height due to aging and/ or osteoporosis.

Would it be possible to please obtain more information about why it’s not necessary to lose weight unless someone is in the mor bidly obese range? I am confused. You also said that it’s okay to be in the overweight range (of the BMI) and remain healthy. What about the obese range of the BMI?

Many people, includ ing myself, have vacil lated between the over weight and obese range for quite a few years, and don’t feel healthy and would like to lose weight. I try to eat well, and I ex ercise regularly. So, I am unclear on why this is considered sustainable unless I reach the mor bidly obese range.

I am tired of people’s fat phobia; perhaps your column was an attempt to normalize being over weight and obese in or der to avoid fat phobia, which is rampant in so ciety. I could understand that perspective. But, I am still curious about the actual health effects of not losing weight or why you said it wasn’t necessary. K.E.

ANSWER: I try to base my recommendations

Dr. Keith Roach

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on evidence when possi ble, and the evidence is pretty strong that being overweight does not in crease a person’s overall risk of death. While this area remains contro versial, the most recent data suggest that a BMI (the body mass index is a flawed but widely used way of adjusting weight for a person’s height) in the overweight range is not a significant harm and, in some studies, may have an improved mortality rate compared with people who are in the “normal” range.

However, people who are obese do have a clear worsening in mortal ity risk, and the risk depends strongly on a person’s waist size. A smaller waist size for both men and women is associated with im proved mortality rates at every level of BMI, re flecting the fact that ab dominal obesity (a body shape sometimes called “apples”) is much differ ent and much worse than obesity around the hips and thighs (“pears”). At very high levels of obe sity, called morbid obe sity, there is an increase in mortality that gets

worse and worse as the BMI goes up.

The reason I do not emphasize weight reduc tion for patients who are overweight, and for those people who are in the obese but not morbidly obese range, is because the evidence that weight loss improves outcomes is scanty. Further, nearly every obese patient I have had has heard many times that they need to lose weight, and I feel that emphasizing specific be havioral changes, such as modest increases in exer cise and specific dietary changes after a careful review of their eating habits, is more likely to improve that person’s health than the advice to just “lose weight.”

People who are obese and morbidly obese who have diseases related to their weight, such as diabetes, do benefit from weight loss. However, the best evidence from this comes from trials on weight loss surgery,

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NBA Commissioner Silver defends Irving

By TIM REYNOLDS The Associated Press

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has “no doubt” that suspended Brooklyn guard Kyrie Irving is not antisemit ic, he said at a confer ence on Thursday, while LeBron James took to Twitter to defend his former teammate whose status with the Nets remains a mystery.

Those developments followed Nike co-found er Phil Knight telling CNBC, in an inter view that aired earlier Thursday, that the re lationship between the shoe giant and Irving is likely severed for good.

Silver met with Ir ving earlier this week, and he told attendees at the Sports Business Journal Dealmakers Conference in Washing ton that he came away from that conversation believing the situation is “incredibly unfortu nate.”

“I personally, based on what he said direct ly to me, have no doubt that he’s not antisemit ic,” Silver said. “But I think there’s a process that he’s going to now need to go through.”

That process — and when the Nets lift his suspension — hinges

in part on how Irving satisfies a number of team-imposed returnto-play mandates, one of which was completed when he met with Silver earlier this week. There are several others, and the mandates have raised eyebrows of both the National Basketball Players Association — the union on which Irving holds an execu tive board seat — and James, among others.

“I told you guys that I don’t believe in sharing hurtful information,” James posted on Twit ter, echoing comments he made after a Los An geles Lakers game last week. “And I’ll continue to be that way but Ky rie apologized and he should be able to play. That’s what I think. It’s that simple. Help him learn- but he should be playing. What he’s asked to do to get back on the floor I think is excessive (in my opin ion). He’s not the person that’s being portrayed of him.”

Irving’s suspension with the Nets will last at least five games. He’s al ready missed four, and in theory could return Sunday when Brooklyn visits the Lakers. It’s unclear when the Nets will reinstate him.

Nets general man ager Sean Marks said Wednesday he had not spoken with Irving during his suspension.

“At the appropriate time, when we do talk and if there’s an update to share, I will certainly share it,” Marks said.

Silver told The New York Times on Thurs day that he’s never known Irving to use an tisemitic or hate speech, but added, “Whether or not he is antisemitic is not relevant to the dam age caused by the post ing of hateful content.”

The content was a

since-deleted tweet posted by Irving last month with a link to a documentary called, “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black Ameri ca,” which includes Ho locaust denial and con spiracy theories about Jews. In a contentious postgame interview session a couple days later, Irving defended his right to post what he wants.

The fallout was mas sive: Irving was criti cized by Silver and sev eral anti-hate groups including the Anti-Defa mation League, the Nets

eventually suspended Irving and then Nike announced last Friday that it “suspended” its relationship with Ir ving and canceled its plans to release his next signature shoe.

“I would doubt that we go back,” co-founder Phil Knight said in the CNBC interview that aired Thursday. “But I don’t know for sure.”

Irving signed with Nike in 2011 and had a signature line of shoes since 2014, with his an nual endorsement deal believed to be worth at least $11 million.

“Kyrie stepped over the line,” Knight said. “It’s kind of that sim ple. He made some statements that we just can’t abide by and that’s why we ended the rela tionship. And I was fine with that.”

The Nets said they decided to suspend Ir ving in part because he “refused to unequivo cally say he has no an tisemitic beliefs.” Nike evidently also tried to get Irving to clarify or apologize.

“Same situation. He was dug in,” Knight said.

Irving eventually made an Instagram post after the Nets an nounced their decision to suspend him, writing in part, “To All Jewish families and Commu nities that are hurt and affected from my post, I am deeply sorry to have caused you pain, and I apologize.”

Irving has also re ceived some support in recent days. A small group of protesters was outside of Bar clays Center before the team played the New York Knicks on Wednesday night, say ing Irving has been treated unfairly by the team and others for speaking his mind.

Qatar: Hopes to show soccer passion as World Cup host

Continued from B1

previous host at that time, Germany in 2006.

Some skepticism is still there on the eve of the tournament.

Doubts about LGBTQ fans being safe in a coun try where same-sex rela tions are criminalized and in the bemused re action provoked by Qa tar’s plan to pay expens es for about 1,500 fans to visit and be social media influencers.

The invited fans will go to the opening cere mony dressed in each team’s colors and sing approved chants before Qatar plays Ecuador in the first game on Nov. 20, then stay for at least two weeks posting positive social media content while reporting trolls to tournament organizers.

Does Qatar “get” soc cer culture enough to stage the biggest event in the world’s favorite sport?

Absolutely, one local fanatic in Doha told The Associated Press.

“This whole country is going to turn into a festival — we are all aware of that,” Hamad Al Amari, who watches Premier League match es with a Liverpool fan group, said in a tele

phone interview. “It doesn’t get any better than this.”

A nation that’s like a city-state — with about 350,000 citizens in a population of less than 3 million — will have its limits tested to cope with the 1.2 million visi tors expected during the 29-day tournament.

Some will find them selves watching games in shopping centers, at alcohol-free joints like Lemon Café in the Tawar Mall favored by Al Amari’s group of Liv erpool fans.

“People who want to have a pint (of beer) go to hotels. There are sports bars that under stand it,” he said, sin gling out Champions at a five-star Marriott hotel in West Bay.

There, a bottle of beer can go for 56 riyals (about $15).

Budweiser, the World Cup beer sponsor, will be served through the evening at the official FIFA Fan Festival site, a 40,000-capacity area in downtown Al Bidda Park. It’s also where Al Amari, a stand-up come dian, will work as an en tertainment host.

The park and the ex tensive waterfront Cor

K-State: at Baylor

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FEELING BETTER

Aranda said the Bay lor players and coaches probably needed to be more mindful of wash ing their hands coming off the flu outbreak. But he did say he thought the team was in better shape.

“It started out as a trickle, as these things normally do, and toward the end of the week it became a thing,” Aran da said. “Lot of those guys are back. I think

as it stands now, we’re in good standing.”

PLENTY OF PICKS

This is a matchup of two of the top three teams in interceptions in the Big 12. Baylor leads with 12 after five the past two games, the most for the Bears in a two-game stretch since 1980. Kansas State is tied with Kansas for second with 11. Nation ally, Baylor is tied for 11th with the Wildcats and Jayhawks tied for 15th.

niche area, now closed to traffic, will be hubs for many fans.

Finding a secret spot off the beaten track to watch games will be tough, Al Amari said, and restaurants and shisha bars in the tight lanes of Souq Waqif market will be in heavy demand.

“That’s the hardest (place) to get a seat,” he said. “They are more for the resident patrons who are always there and everyone knows where to sit.”

Not all the demand will come from Europe an fans, at least until the knockout rounds when fervor at home typically kicks in.

The Belgian soccer federation has reported selling hundreds, not thousands, of tickets from the 8% quota of stadium capacity each team gets.

In Switzerland, one of the wealthiest European nations, about half of its quota — 1,500 tickets — have sold for games

against Cameroon and Serbia. More but not all were bought for the glamor game against Brazil.

The Swiss soccer body cited as deterrents the cost of traveling to Doha, the limited choice of hotels, and debate about Qatar’s human rights record.

In England, the offi cial group for LGBTQ fans, Three Lions Pride, will not come to this World Cup.

“We understand from our counterparts, the Qatari nationals and migrant group counter parts, that our visibility, our presence would ren der them vulnerable to systematic institutional and potentially vigilan te abuse,” group found er Di Cunningham said this week. “So, no, we’re not going.”

The lure and a World Cup adventure still drives many fans to in vest the time and money.

In Argentina — home of soccer icon Lionel Messi — fans face two

obstacles to be in Qa tar: distance and getting some American dollars.

A tourist package costs about $10,000 for flights, lodging and tickets for three group games. It’s a lot for most Argentines with infla tion running at 7% and restrictions on access to dollars forcing up the price of black-market purchases.

Despite this, Osval do Santander and his son Julian will travel to their third World Cup by means of their savings, selling banners and a TV game show win this year.

Osvaldo Santand er won 1 million pesos (about $6,500) with the best guess of how long the movie Shrek lasts.

“I said 126 (minutes) and it was 93. I won by virtue of being the clos est,” he said at his home in Banfield, a suburb south of Buenos Aires.

Santander also sells team banners to help fund renting an apart ment with other friends

to stay in Doha for one month.

“We are very pas sionate, crazy fans,” Santander said. “We feel that we have a duty in displaying our banners, with our name, our city, our big idols, Leo (Mes si) and Diego (Mara dona).”

Santander and his son do not yet have tickets for Argentina games. They plan to sell the tickets they got for other teams’ games, including Brazil’s, to pay for seats to the games they want.

Their devotion is typ ical of World Cup fans, who can also be noisy and boisterous.

Will Qatari people relish such behavior in their socially conserva tive country?

“We know we are a minority in our own country,” said Al Ama ri, adding when asked if some citizens would take vacation until the World Cup ends. “There’s a tiny, tiny, tiny percent age of people who are going to leave.”

Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets reacts to an official’s call during a preseason game against the Milwaukee Bucks at Fiserv Forum on Oct. 12 in Milwaukee. STACY REVERE/GETTY IMAGES/TNS

Here’s what to know as Royals head into MLB offseason

By LYNN WORTHY The Kansas City Star

Major League Base ball’s annual “hot stove” season officially fired up on Thursday afternoon with the start of free agency. More than 160 free agents hit the open market and became el igible to sign with any team, including the Kansas City Royals.

The Royals began their overhaul midsea son with trades that sent away veteran play ers such as Andrew Be nintendi, Cam Gallagh er, Whit Merrifield and Carlos Santana, as well as youngster Emmanuel Rivera, followed by the dismissals of former president of baseball op erations Dayton Moore in September, then man ager Mike Matheny and pitching coach Cal El dred in October.

The Royals hired a new manager in Matt Quatraro, and the search for a pitching coach is ongoing.

Executive vice presi dent and general man ager J.J. Picollo, who was handed the reins in September after Moore’s firing, and his front office lieutenants won’t exclude them selves from the hot stove this winter.

But it’s hard to imag ine any moves matching the sort of upheaval the organization and roster have seen since early summer.

Here are some of the keys to remaining on top of the potential comings and goings this winter for the Royals.

Spending in free agency

The Royals ranked 24th out of 30 MLB teams in total payroll in 2022 ($105,345,711), ac cording to Spotrac.com.

Picollo hasn’t speci fied a payroll figure or range for next year’s team. But during his end-of-season news con ference he seemed to indicate a hesitancy to add significantly to the payroll this winter.

“(Royals CEO and Chairman) John (Sher man) and I have had this discussion, and John is willing to do what we need to do at the appro priate time,” Picollo said.

“Coming off of a sea

son like we’ve just come off, it may not be the right time to do that. But there is a willing ness and an openness. I think what we need to focus on is more infra structure and how we build out the infrastruc ture. When the time is right, we’ll do what we have to do.”

It would seem unlike ly that the Royals add high-priced free-agents, but they still have ar eas of need they’ll look to address. They simply may address them through low-risk, high-value type of sign ings, similar to what they’ve done in the past.

Prior to 2021, they added pitcher Mike Mi nor as well as Beninten di and Santana. None made more than $7.25 million that season. Be nintendi came via trade, and the Boston Red Sox sent cash to help offset his salary as part of that deal.

AREAS where the Royals hope to add to their roster include:

— Starting pitchers — likely at least two candidates to make the rotation. Zack Greinke is also a free agent.

— Veteran hitter — likely in the outfield or third base

— Back-end-of-bull pen reliever capable of

pitching in high lever age or closing

— A backup catcher who excels at working with a pitching staff

Trade possibilities Center fielder Michael A. Taylor’s name will probably continue to float around in rumors, as it did during last sum mer’s MLB trade dead line.

The Royals were un derwhelmed by poten tial suitors during the summer. They see value in having Taylor as a steady, veteran presence along with star catcher Salvador Perez in the middle of the field and in a lineup with so many young players, who could fall victim to growing pains of adjusting to the

majors and the league adjusting to them.

Plus, Taylor is a free agent after this season, which means his expir ing contract could theo retically be more valu able on the trade market closer to next summer’s deadline.

The number of op tions the Royals have who can play the corner infield or corner outfield spots makes Hunter Doz ier a player the Royals could look to move, but he’s due $7.25 million this year and $9 million next year and coming off of two seasons when he slashed .226/.289/.391 combined. So that may not be a likely trade chip.

If a trade becomes the best option to acquire starting pitching candi

dates, then it wouldn’t be shocking for the Roy als to deal prospects from their farm sys tem in order to get that pitching.

Roster decisions

Teams must add el igible players to their 40-man roster by No vember 15 to avoid ex posing them to the Rule 5 Draft. Players origi nally signed at age 18 be come eligible after five seasons, while players signed at 19 years or old er become eligible after four seasons.

The Royals have al ready made several ros ter moves in advance of that deadline. Thursday, they added infielder/ outfielder Samad Taylor (acquired from Toronto in the Merrifield trade) and left-handed reliev er Richard Lovelady to the roster and reinstat ed left-handed reliever Jake Brentz, left-hand ed starter Angel Zerpa and shortstop Adalberto Mondesi from the 60-day injured list.

They also designat ed catcher Sebastian Rivero for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster, which means another MLB club could claim Rivero.

In recent weeks, several players were claimed by other orga nizations as the Royals made room on their ros ter.

Left-handed reliev er Gabe Speier (Seattle Mariners), right-handed reliever/starter Luke Weaver (Mariners) and right-handed reliever Tyler Zuber (Arizona Diamondbacks) were each claimed, while right-hander Ryan Weiss was sent outright to Triple-A Omaha.

Some of the Royals’ top prospects who would be eligible include out fielder Diego Hernan dez, outfielder Brewer Hicklen, right-handed pitcher Alec Marsh, left-handed pitcher T.J. Sikkema (acquired from the New York Yankees in July), left-handed pitcher Anthony Vene ziano, Hernandez, March and Sikkema all rank among the Royals’ top 20 prospects according to MLBPipeline.com. Hicklen earned the Royals’ Triple-A Player of the Year award and became just the fourth Royals minor-league player since 2005 to post at least 20 doubles, 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases in a season.

Non-tender deadline Clubs have until No vember 18 to tender a contract for the 2023 sea son. They don’t have to actually reach an agree ment with the player, but if they decide not to tender a contract to a player then the player immediately becomes a free agent.

Last November, the Royals didn’t tender Lovelady a contract but later signed him to a mi nor-league deal. They had made similar moves previously to keep play ers after non-tendering them.

However, following the 2020 season, they non-tendered third baseman Maikel Fran co, who was arbitration eligible and likely to seek a sizable raise.

The group of arbitra tion-eligible players for the Royals this winter includes right-hand ed relief pitching stal wart Scott Barlow, right-handed reliever Taylor Clarke, left-hand ed reliever Amir Gar rett, pitcher Brad Keller, infielder Nicky Lopez, Mondesi, first base man/outfielder Ryan O’Hearn, starting pitch er Brady Singer and right-handed reliever Josh Staumont.

Kansas City Royals general manager J.J. Picollo, left, introduces new manager Matt Quatraro during a news conference at Kauffman Stadium on Nov. 3 in Kansas City, Mo. The Royals hired Quatraro to replace Mike Matheny, who was fired at the end of the season. THE KANSAS CITY STAR/TAMMY LJUNGBLAD/TNS

Michael A. Taylor may be a potential trade candidate for the Kansas City Royals in 2023. JOSHUA GUNTER/TNS

RACING THIS WEEK

Slow start dooms MVJH Wildcat girls

MORAN — A comeback by Marmaton Valley Junior High’s girls came up short down the stretch Thursday.

The Wildcats trailed visiting Southeast-Cherokee 9-2 and 12-4 before cutting the deficit to 1813 after three periods.

But Southeast clamped down on defense in the fourth quarter, limiting Marmaton Valley to a single field goal in the period to to win, 22-15.

Mahala Burris keyed Marmaton Valley’s of-

fense, scoring eight points. Taylen Blevins followed with three, while Myleigh Eslick and Addisyn Drake each scored two.

Marmaton Valley’s B team, meanwhile, defeated Southeast, 14-10, in a two-quarter matchup.

Drake scored eight for the Wildcats, followed by Emma Michael with four and Emma Louk with two.

Marmaton Valley is at Crest Monday and at Pleasanton Thursday.

Trucks bonus quote: “I’m going to win this. There was no other option. I was either backing it in the fence wrecking, or I was leaving tonight with a championship trophy.”

- Zane Smith, who won his rst Trucks title in OT Friday

Jubilant Joey Logano back in Championship form at Phoenix

t was the perfect ending to a season

Joey Logano started with a win.

Dominating the action in Sunday’s Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway, Logano started on the pole, won the first stage, led a race-high 187 laps, won the race and claimed his second series championship (2018, 2022).

Logano joins two-time champion Kyle Busch as only the second active driver in the series to hold more than one title. The victory was his fourth of the season, his third at Phoenix and the 31st of his career in his 507th Cup start.

Back in February, Logano won the competitive debut of NASCAR’s Next Gen car in the exhibition Clash at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. On Sunday, in a sprawling desert city some 370 miles to the east of L.A., he put the finishing touch on a dream season.

Logano finished .301 seconds ahead of Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney. Championship 4 contender Ross Chastain was closing fast in the final laps and came home third, 1.268 seconds behind Logano on the track and one spot behind the driver of the No. 22 Ford in the final standings.

“We did it!” exulted Logano, the first Ford active driver to hold two championships since David Pearson in 1968-1969. “We’re champions again— yes! Oh, my God, I’m so excited. Thank you to everybody, my team. You guys are amazing. Gave me a good race car, good pit stop there at the end, got us up in front. Boy, that was just intense there at the end.”

Logano restarted third on Lap 280 after hard contact between the cars of Alex Bowman and Michael McDowell caused the sixth and final caution of the day. Three laps later he passed Chase Briscoe for the lead and opened a lead of nearly three seconds over Chastain, who was pursuing from third place. Chastain had the faster car in the final 20 laps but ran out of time.

“I had a car fast enough to chase him down at the end,” Chastain said. “I think we did everything we could. That was a

heck of a drive for us.”

A disastrous 19.8-second pit stop under caution on lap 271 cost Championship 4 driver Christopher Bell an opportunity to contend for the win. Bell restarted 16th with 33 laps remaining and worked his way up to 10th at the finish.

“We fought hard, and at the end of the race… (until) the last pit stop, or what we thought was going to be the last pit stop, we were right there battling for it,” Bell said. “I’m just proud to be in this position, proud to be at Joe Gibbs Racing and race this No. 20 car. We were there, and hopefully, we can come back here next year.

“The 22 (Logano) was lights-out all weekend. The best car definitely won the championship.”

Chase Elliott, the 2020 series champion, wasn’t in position to race for the title after Lap 205. In a wild restart, Elliott’s No. 9 Chevrolet spun off the nose of Chastain’s No. 1 Chevrolet and slammed sideways into the interior SAFER barrier in the dogleg of the onemile speedway.

Elliott lost a lap in the pits under repairs and lost another on the track on Lap 230. He finished 28th, two laps down, but he scrupulously avoided laying blame for the incident after the race.

“Yeah, just disappointed, obviously, ended our day and ended our chance at a win or a championship,” Elliott said. “Just disappointing.”

Chastain, on the other hand, provided his in-depth analysis of the wreck.

“William (Byron) didn’t get going quite as well as he wanted to, and I got to the left of him,” Chastain said. “And I saw an erratic move he (Elliott) made to cover it, and I was already there. Yeah, it’s not how I want to race him or those guys.”

Ford drivers Chase Briscoe and Kevin Harvick finished fourth and fifth, respectively, followed by William Byron, Kyle Busch (in his final trip for Joe Gibbs Racing), Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson and Bell.

Before the race, Bell received the news that Coy Gibbs, vice chairman of Joe Gibbs Racing, son of team owner Joe Gibbs and father of Xfinity Series champion Ty Gibbs, had passed away in his sleep hours after seeing his son wrap up the title.

“All of a sudden you wake up this morning and you are racing for a championship, and you are happy, you are elated, and then your world comes crashing down,” Bell said. “Whenever you get news like that, it puts it in perspective that there is more to this than racing. The whole Gibbs family is in all of our prayers. I’m thinking of them.”

TRUCKS CHAMPIONSHIP

• Friday’s LUCAS OIL 150, Phoenix Raceway

WINNER: ZANE SMITH

A er two frustrating runner-up nishes in the Camping World Truck Series championship, Zane Smith nally won his rst title in a twolap overtime shootout.

Holding o defending champion Ben Rhodes by .236 seconds at the end of a wild nal two laps of Friday night’s Lucas Oil 150, Smith put it succinctly a er a burnout at Phoenix Raceway.

“The third time’s the charm,” exulted an emotional Smith, who said he was crying throughout the nal lap a er wresting the lead from Rhodes one circuit earlier.

Under caution for Hailie Deegan’s hard contact with the Turn 3 wall on Lap 134, Rhodes opted for right-side tires only, while the other three Championship 4 drivers—Zane Smith, Chandler Smith and Ty Majeski—took fresh rubber on all four corners.

The subsequent overtime restart enabled the race winner to capitalize on his tire advantage. Rhodes got to Zane Smith’s bumper in the nal corner and crossed the nish line less than a truck-length behind. Chandler Smith was third, .259 seconds back of the winner.

For the nal restart, Smith chose to line up behind Rhodes, rather than to his outside. That enabled Smith to shortcut the backstretch dogleg and pull even with Rhodes to the inside. From that position he was able to edge ahead of eventual third-place nisher Chandler Smith to the outside.

The victory was Smith’s fourth of the season, and it was a clean sweep. Smith earned the pole position in Friday’s time trials and won both stages before claiming the victory and the series title.

He’ll return to Front Row Motorsports next season, where he’ll defend his championship and compete in selected Cup Series races, starting with the Daytona 500.

John Hunter Nemechek ran fourth on Friday night, followed by Friesen. Majeski came home 20th a er the spin that sent the race into overtime.

Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, celebrates with a burnout after winning the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway Images)Sunday (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Addisyn Drake (25) ghts for a rebound Thursday. PHOTO BY HALIE LUKEN/MVHS