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MOMs edge closer to playground

A REGISTER

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

HEART OF CHARITY

By STEVEN SCHWARTZ The Iola Register

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

A group of organizers backing an effort to have a playground for children with special needs added to Iola’s Riverside Park is drawing closer to its goal.

Mothers of Miracles, which has been raising money for the playground since this summer, announced Monday that a recent pancake feed, coupled with matching funds from Modern Woodmen of America, generated $3,419.37.

That leaves organizers less than $25,000 from their goal of $155,000 to have construction on the playground area begin April 1.

“We’re closer, but we still need donations,” said LeAnn Church, a MOMs member.

“This would be a perfect opportunity for a Christmas gift,” added Nancy Ford, representing the Iola Kiwanis Club, which has become a promiment backer of the effort.

Organizers hope to have the funds on hand by the end of January so ground can be broken by early April.

Weather permitting, the play set — complete with swings, slides and other equipment geared for disabled children — will be ready for use by May 1.

The playground is designed so other features can be added as more funds arrive, Ford said.

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Community pitches in for one-of-a-kind holiday experience

Traci Keagle unwraps toys for this year’s Santa’s Toy Shop. Last year, more than 1,000 children and their families came to the shop for free toys, cookies and hot cocoa. REGISTER/STEVEN SCHWARTZ

A heart immersed in charity sometimes spills over to others, and the result is pretty amazing.

Traci Keagle has created “something magical” for area children, a Santa’s Toy Shop filled with toys, cocoa, music, books and candy. Keagle calls it a celebration of the many blessings the community shares.

This is the second year Keagle has sponsored the toy shop.

After Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast last year, Keagle thought about the children without toys for Christmas. It may seem superfluous, but she thought no child should be without a toy for the holiday season.

“I wanted to make sure all of those kids got toys,” she said.

Keagle contacted people through Facebook to gather toys for those affected in the New York City area. Her husband, Willy, a truck driver, filled his entire trailer with gifts for New Yorkers — and then some.

The Keagles then decided to use the leftover toys for local children, with Willy dressed as Santa Claus.

“Overnight, there were 100 people who wanted a visit from Santa,” Keagle said. “Then it got really crazy.”

Keagle used the former AudaSee TOY SHOP | Page A6

Puppet show ‘Around the Corner’

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

Hibbett Sports is on North State Street, in the old Blockbuster building. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON

Around the Corner will turn its cozy coffee shop atmosphere into a puppet theater on Saturday. The shop will have a Christmas puppet show for families at 10 a.m.

This special treat is being brought to the community by Around the Corner barista Jessica Quinhones and her mother Cindy Lucas. The two women are originally from Wichita. Lucas moved to Iola in 2002.

“I wanted to do something for the kids and make it fun for them and their parents on Sat-

urday mornings,” Quinhones said of the performance.

Lucas was first exposed to puppetering almost 30 years ago and has shared her enjoyment of the art with others.

“I taught kids to do it for children’s church and we would do Christmas shows at the church,” Lucas said.

“We would take the kids to the nursing homes and do shows.”

During the day Lucas works from home for a real estate agent out of Wichita.

The Saturday performance will last for about 15 to 30 minutes and will include Christmas songs and stories.

“There is no age limit,” Lucas said. “Kids of all ages are welcome.”

The two women are hoping after the New Year they will make this a monthly performance at the shop.

“Starting in January, I would like to do it a couple of times a month on Saturdays,” Quinhones said.

The shop will still serve its fare of beverages and food during the performance. Parents and participants will have 10 percent off purchases that day.

Around the Corner is now open until 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Hibbett joins sports retail community Hibbett Sports opened a retail outlet Saturday in the building that for many years housed Blockbuster Video, 1606 N. State St. The store’s colorful and eclectic offering drew a crowd Saturday and with wordof-mouth advertising a line formed in front of the store for its noon opening on Sunday, said Scott Smith, a former Iolan who returned to manage the store.

According to a press release from company headquarters in Birmingham, Ala., the Iola store will have eight employees.

In announcing the open-

ing, Jeff Rosenthal, president and CEO of Hibbett Sporting Goods, characterized the store’s convenient location, in a shopping corner that also has Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, as a “win-win for the company and the Iola community.”

He noted Hibbett stocked a large selection of athletic footwear, apparel and team equipment.

“With the buying power of a national company, we offer our customers the convenience of buying the best in sports right in their own neighborhoods,” said Rosenthal.

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Fa La La La La Choir students at Iola High School serenade the audience during their winter concert Monday night at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. The IHS strings students also performed during the show.

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Obituaries

Area news

Cecil Passman

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Cecil D. Passman, 82, Colony, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, at his home.

Cecil was the fourth of five children born to Thomas Gideon Passman and Lottie (Jenkins) Passman. He was born on Jan. 24, 1931, in Amite, La. He grew up in Amite, and as a boy he helped local farmers. He joined the U.S. Army in 1952. Cecil served in Vietnam as a medic, and worked in hospitals there.

He retired from the military at the rank of sergeant first class in 1978. He was stationed in Hawaii from 1970 until his retirement.

Cecil then traveled the United States, before settling in Denim Springs, Colo. where he worked at a hospital. While working at Anderson County Long Term Care in Nov. of 1990, he met his future wife, Cindy. Cecil was united in marriage to Cindy Adkinson on Dec. 31, 1996 in Garnett.They lived in Neosho Falls from 1992 to 2009, when they moved to Colony.

He enjoyed spending time outdoors, especially fishing, hunting and gardening. Cecil loved helping others and was a very hard worker.

Cecil was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Lottie Passman; two brothers, Pat Passman and C.B. Passman; and a sister, Jane Yarborough.

He is survived by his wife, Cindy Passman and a sister, Rosie L. Crowe, Walker, La. Funeral services with military honors will be at 3 p.m., on Dec. 29, at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Colony.

Memorial contributions may be made to Colony Fire Department. Condolences may be left for the family at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Concentration Drew Tucker, Austin Roloff-Tremain and Persephone Burleson-Means perform with the Iola High School strings group Monday night. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET

Katy property may become housing

Larry Isaac, Jr. Larry Eugene Isaac, Jr., 51, died at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013.

Larry was born Dec. 27, 1961, at Iola to Larry Eugene Isaac, Sr., and Carolyn Lee (Womack) Isaac. He graduated from Shawnee Mission NW High School in 1980.

He has lived in Lamar since 2005, moving from Kansas City. Larry was a self- employed craftsman, remodeling kitchens and baths in high-end homes.

He was an aviation enthusiast, especially historic planes and was a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association. He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

Larry is survived by his parents, Larry and Carolyn Isaac, Lamar, Mo.; one brother, Evart and Gina Isaac, Lamar, Mo.; one sister, Susie and Ross Knierim, Lockwood, Mo.; six nieces and nephews, Rodney, Tiffany, Will, Brenna, Emily, and Kyle; and 10 greatnieces and nephews.

Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Lamar, Mo., with the Rev. Pat Teter officiating. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery, Iola.

Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Daniel Funeral Home.

Contributions are suggested to St. Mary’s Catholic Church Building Fund in care of Daniel Funeral Home.

Condolences may be left at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Menards recalls Christmas trees Menards, a chain of home-improvement stores in the Midwest, is recalling 1,800 pre-lit artificial Christmas trees because the lights may overheat, start a fire or cause an electric shock.

The artificial trees were sold for about $300 exclusively at Menards stores between September and November, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The recall is for the Twinkling Pine artificial tree sold under the Enchanted Forest brand.

They were made in China and imported by Seasonal Specialties LLC. The recalled trees are 7½ feet tall and have 400 champagne-colored light-emitting diode lights. The model number for the recalled tree is 287-1261 and its UPC code is 741895425478.

Both numbers are printed on the box and on a red tag attached to a tree branch.

Menards, which is based in Eau Claire, Wis., said it received two reports of the tree’s light strings overheating, melting or smoking.

No injuries have been reported.

The CPSC said cus-

tomers should unplug the tree immediately and return it to Menards for a refund.

PARSONS — The long reach of the Internet led to the return of a sailor’s identification bracelet, more than 65 years after it was lost on a farm near Parsons.

Earl Vandervoort Jr. lost the bracelet when he was on leave and visiting her parents in 1946, the Parsons Sun reported.

About 20 years ago, after the farm had been sold, Wichitan Alan Prince, was visiting relatives on the farm and unearthed the bracelet with a metal detector. A couple of weeks ago Prince noticed the bracelet in a box of “treasures,” plugged Vandervoort’s name into an Internet search and found his address in Parsons. That led to the bracelet’s return.

Toland to speak at See, Hear Iola Friday See, Hear Iola will be a week early due to the holidays. The event will start at 10 a.m. on Friday at the New Community Building.

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speaker will be Major Nusz from the Kansas National Guard. David Toland from Thrive Allen County will be the guest speaker.

Refreshments will be provided.

SE Kan. pipe factory to close PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A southeast Kansas factory that produces clay pipe will close Dec. 31 after more than a century in operation.

The Joplin Globe reports officials of the Pittsburg plant of Mission Clay confirmed the plan Monday.

Office manager Dennis Gatewood says about a dozen of the plant’s 15 employees will lose their jobs.

Three will stay on to help with the closing.

Mission Clay also has plants in California, Arizona and Tex-

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as and will continue to make urethane products.

The Pittsburg factory was founded in 1899 as Dickey Clay and made hollow tile brick, sewer tiles and other products. The plant was bought by Mission Clay in 1987 to help supply large pipe to the West Coast market.

PARSONS — Labette Health trustees voted to declare the Katy Hospital on Katy Avenue surplus.

The property includes the former Katy Clinic, hospital building and Katy House, where dignitaries and visiting physicians stayed over the years, the Parsons Sun reported.

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A developer is interested in creating senior housing on the grounds.

A glitch may be that the hospital and house are on the National Register of Historic Places, which means restoration of either for housing would require a detailed and potentially expensive process.

The first step in an upgrade to housing, Doug Stacy, Labette Health assistant administrator, told the Sun, is having the property declared surplus.

Pittsburg State student killed in head-on crash RIVERTON, Kan. (AP) — The victim in a fatal head-on collision in southeast Kansas has been identified as a Pittsburg State University student.

A report from the Kansas Highway Patrol says 30-year-old James Lee Potocnik was killed shortly before 1 a.m.

Sunday. The patrol says Potocnik was northbound on a highway north of Riverton when his SUV crossed the center line and struck a southbound tractortrailer.

In a statement Monday, Pittsburg State officials said Potocnik was a junior majoring in electronics engineering. He was a native of the southeast Kansas town of Frontenac.

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Yikes! Kansas losing battle of the bulge State slips 17 spots in national rankings

their populations. Colorado has the lowest obesity rate: 20.5 percent.

Dr. Tony Sun — market medical director for UnitedHealthcare Heartland States — said that while Kansas slipped relative to other states in obesity rates, it has shown improvement in other areas.

“While 2013 marks the first time since 1998 that America did not get worse in this key metric (obesity), Kansas did fall a bit here,” Sun said.

But, he said, “Kansas was among five states with the most significant change in smoking rates among adults, dropping from 22.0 percent in 2012 to 19.4 percent this year.”

Another bright spot is that more Kansans are physically active.

“In the past year, the prevalence of physically inactive adults decreased almost four full percentage points,” Sun said.

“However, almost 490,000 adults are still physically inactive in the state, which no doubt contributes to the state’s high rate of obesity.”

Sun said changing the course of health in Kansas and the U.S. is “very much in our own hands.”

“Fifty percent of a person’s health status is a

By KHI NEWS SERVICE

TOPEKA — Kansas is slipping in a widely publicized annual health ranking as its residents grow fatter.

The report puts Kansas as the 27th healthiest in the nation in the rankings released today by the United Health Foundation, which has published its annual “America’s Health Rankings” report each years since 1990.

And the report makes one trend clear: Kansans are getting fatter faster than the residents of most other states.

Seven years ago, less than 24 percent of Kansans were obese, placing the state among the least obese in the nation. That year, Kansas was ranked 17th healthiest in the nation.

This year, according to the report, nearly 30 percent of adult Kansans are obese. Only 13 states are fatter and most are in the South and Midwest.

Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi have the highest obesity rates, in excess of 34 percent of

... At the end of the day it’s about grabbing a banana instead of a doughnut ... quitting smoking ... going for a 30-minute walk instead of parking yourself on the couch. result of behavior. So at the end of the day, while it seems simple, it’s about grabbing a banana instead of a doughnut for a snack. And quitting smoking. And going for a 30 minute walk instead of parking yourself on the couch after work. It’s the collective result of making healthy decisions that can bring about big changes to population health,” he said.

OTHER challenges facing Kansas, according to the report: • Low per capita public health funding • Low immunization coverage among children and adolescents The three strengths cited by the report were: • Low rate of drug deaths • High rate of high school graduation • Few poor mental or physical sick days per month

Obesity

Obesity is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., according to the report.

“Obesity contributes significantly to a variety of serious diseases including heart disease, diabetes, stroke, certain cancers, as well as poor general health.”

While obesity rates nationally have been leveling off, the percentage of obese Kansans could double in the next 15 years or so, according to a recent analysis.

Adults are considered obese if their body mass index is 30 or higher.

A report commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that if Kansas could lower its collective body mass index by 5 percent, it likely would save 7.7 percent in health care costs — almost $6 billion — between now and 2030.

Kansas briefs Kansas, Missouri join in annual bird count

viduals simply count the number of birds they see in their backyards.

The Joplin Globe reports the bird count began in 1900, with only a few dozen observers in 25 locations. Last year, more than 71,000 people participated in 2,369 locations.

Audubon and other organizations use data collected in the count to determine the health of bird populations. If a certain species is declining, conservation measures can be

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Kansas and Missouri residents will be out during the next three weeks counting the birds in their states.

It’s part of an annual national effort that began more than 100 years ago, called the Christmas Bird Count.

The count began Dec. 14 and will continue through Jan. 5. Bird enthusiasts plan gatherings or indi-

implemented to help that species rebound.

Kansas ranks 4th in U.S. for volunteering

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A new report ranks Kansas fourth in the nation when it comes to volunteering.

The report was issued Monday by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that helps

Americans engage in volunteer activities.

The Volunteering and Civic Life in America report says nearly 37 percent of Kansas residents volunteered in 2012. That amounts to nearly 808,000 volunteers giving 82.9 million hours of service. It also estimated the worth of that volunteer work at $1.59 billion.

Nationwide, the group found that roughly one in four adults volunteered last year.

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DENVER (AP) — The U.S. and Canadian military will entertain millions of kids again this Christmas Eve with second-by-second updates on Santa’s global whereabouts.

But there’s something new this year: public criticism.

A children’s advocacy group says an animated video on the NORAD Tracks Santa website injects militarism into Christmas by showing fighter jets escorting Santa’s sleigh. It’s a rare swipe at the popular program, which last year attracted a record 22.3 million unique visitors from around the world to its website.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command defends the video as nonthreatening and safe for kids.

The kerfuffle erupted two weeks ago over a 39-second video on noradsanta.org called “NORAD Tracks Santa Trailer Video 2013.”

A 5-second segment of the video — which is also available on youtube.com — shows two fighter jets flanking Santa.

The Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood said the video brings violence and militarism to a beloved tradition.

Others had similar criticism. Blogs and Twitter lit up with volleys from both sides.

Josh Golin, the coalition’s associate director, reiterated his criticism in an interview with The Associated Press — but he called the brouhaha “a mediamanufactured controversy.” The coalition hadn’t known about the fighter jet video until reporters called, he said.

“Nobody in my organization was out there protesting,” he said.

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Jeff Davis, a NORAD spokesman, said he understands the critics’ point of view but disagrees.

“We really do feel strongly that it’s something that is safe and non-threatening, and not something that would negatively impact children,” he said.

“In fact, we think that it’s a lot of fun.”

Davis said the fighter escort is nothing new.

NORAD began depicting jets accompanying Santa and his reindeer in the 1960s, he said.

And he insisted the fighters in the video are unarmed: They’re Canadian Air Force CF18s, with a large external fuel tank under the belly that might look like a bomb. The wing racks that would carry bombs or missiles are empty, he explained.

The flap has driven lots of viewers to the video — nearly 265,000 on YouTube by midday Monday.

“That’s way off the charts for any other videos we’ve done before,” Davis said.

A second video on noradsanta.org and on YouTube, “NORAD Tracks Santa Command Video 2013,” has drawn nearly 122,000 views. It’s a longer, fastpaced mix of animation and real-life footage billed as a test flight for Santa, who gets the military tag “Big Red One.” “This is very much a fun and safe and nonviolent site that children of all ages can visit,” Davis said. “Parents can be confident their children will walk away (and) have had fun and potentially have learned something, too.”

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Like all promises, Sandy Hook’s will be tough to keep The Sandy Hook Promise is a nationwide campaign to curb gun violence in U.S. schools.

Organizers hope the campaign is as successful as efforts to control drunk driving and smoking have been.

Sandy Hook is the elementary school in Newtown, N.J., where 26 children and teachers were slain by a gunman on Dec. 14, 2012.

Because gun sales skyrocket after every mass shooting, organizers want the campaign to grow out of love, not fear. They avoid demonizing gun ownership. Their focus is not on gun control, but gun safety.

The movement hopes to grow Promise communities where parents and concerned citizens meet to discuss gun violence and how it can be curbed. The effort recognizes the Second Amendment and its popular interpretation of self-defense. It recognizes that guns are an American way of life.

What it refuses to recognize is that violence involving guns should be chalked up as part of the American way of life.

At Sandy Hook, the six teachers and 20 children were slain in 30 seconds by 20-year-old Adam Lanzer.

It is the second-deadliest school shooting in the United States, followed by the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech where 32 students and teachers were slain.

Perhaps because the students at Sandy Hook were 5 and 6 years old, the horror is more visceral. A service last week of family members lighting candles in

memory of their loved ones was particularly poignant by the simple reading of their names and an occasional one-word description of their personalities.

“Bubbly,” “my sunshine,” “joyous,” and “effervescent” were used to describe students and teachers alike.

BY TAKING the Sandy Hook Promise participants endeavor to start a nationwide dialogue about ways to make our schools, homes and public venues more safe.

Over the year, organizers have found gun owners and non-gun owners alike are alarmed at the high rate of gun violence in the United States. According to their website, nearly 500,000 acts of gun violence are committed each year.

This is not about taking guns away, but making sure they are in the right hands.

It’s also about becoming a tighter-knit community.

Because Lanzer shot himself in the head after the Sandy Hook slayings, we’ll never know his motive or what led up to the horrific event.

It’s probably safe to say he was in need of psychological help. And perhaps if he had been part of a supportive community, he could have received the help needed to avert such a tragedy.

The Sandy Hook Promise also is a pledge to address as a community mental wellness, healthy development, community connectedness and gun safety so that another Sandy Hook never happens again.

It’s worth a shot.

— Susan Lynn

Ukraine tug-of-war To its credit, the Obama a military alliance still seen administration has con- by Russia as directed against demned the crackdown on it. Such arguments play into demonstrators in Ukraine President Vladimir Putin’s and is suggesting that fur- fears about an encirclement ther repression might lead to of Russia by its erstwhile eneconomic sanctions. There emies and, at the same time, are signs that international encourage the notion that support for the protesters, Russia itself is not part of who are calling for a closer Europe. relationship with Western Putin is an authoritarian Europe, may induce Presi- and a bully, and he clearly dent Viktor Yanukovich to is unreconciled to the loss recommit to an association of Russian influence — in agreement with the Europe- Eastern Europe and elsean Union that where — that he backed away U.S. officials are accompanied from under the collapse rightly emphasiz- of the Soviet pressure from ing that Ukraine can Union. But it Russia. Promising efforts honor its people’s isn’t surprisalso are underthat he European aspirations ing way to provide would regard without rejecting a Ukraine, Ukraine with a financial aid harmonious relation- country of 46 to enable it to million with ship with Russia. close a deal linguistic and with the EU. religious conAt the same nections to time, U.S. officials are rightly Russia, as a special case. emphasizing that Ukraine Even after independence, can honor its people’s Eu- many Ukrainians, particuropean aspirations without larly those in the eastern rejecting a harmonious rela- part of the country, identify tionship with Russia. Victo- with Russia. ria Nuland, the U.S. assistant That doesn’t justify secretary of State for Euro- Russian interference in pean and Eurasian affairs, Ukraine’s internal affairs who visited Ukraine this or attempts to muscle it into week, repeatedly has said joining a Russian-dominated that the future of Ukraine is trading bloc instead of asnot a “zero-sum game.” sociating with the EU. But Contrast that approach it does call for the sort of with the view of former U.N. sophisticated response U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, and European officials have who wrote in a Times Op-Ed shown in recent days, one article this week that the cri- that supports Ukraine’s sovsis in Ukraine demonstrated ereignty, democratization that the West should have and self-determination but brought that country into its doesn’t ask that country to “orbit,” including by offer- take sides in a new Cold War. ing it membership in NATO, — Los Angeles Times

Healthy rule change for baseball

By JOHN M. CRISP McClatchy News Service

Our national passion for sports doesn’t produce all that much good news, so it’s worth noting that last week Major League Baseball’s rules committee took a step so sane and healthy that one wonders why it wasn’t taken long ago: The committee voted to change baseball’s rules to eliminate runner-catcher collisions at home plate.

Briefly, for the non-fan: Baseball is essentially a noncontact sport. Unless a fielder is holding the ball or in the act of catching it, a runner approaching any base must be given a clear path and is ordinarily prevented from reaching the base only by a tag with the ball. Collisions on the base paths are relatively rare.

The exception is home plate, where a runner attempting to score is often physically blocked by the catcher. The result is a punishing collision between ballplayers, one running at top speed, one dug in hard, and both essentially unprotected. Collisions at home plate are generally inconsistent with all the rest of baseball, and they have inflicted serious injuries and ended careers.

The final language of the new rule is under development, but likely it will mean the end of violent home-plate collisions.

No doubt many players will welcome this change, but expect some pushback. In the New York Times account, Brad Ausmus, former catcher and current manager of the Detroit Tigers, expresses reservations: “I’m a little bit old school in the sense that I don’t

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want to turn home plate into just another tag play.” His point is well taken. Baseball’s conservatism — its resistance to instant replay and, at least in the National League, to the designated hitter rule — is generally a good thing. And home plate collisions have been a part of the game from the beginning.

But I suspect that if objections to this rule change arise, they will be less concerned with the conservation of the original game and more worried about its “sissification.”

If Major League Baseball eliminates home-plate collisions, look for someone to object that they might as well be playing softball.

This is the problem that football faces, and it’s one of the reasons that football, in the midst of its slow and halfhearted response to the socalled concussion crisis, is unlikely to make changes that significantly diminish the violence at the heart of the game. Some of the players themselves object to proposed rules modifications designed to protect them, harrumphing indignantly about turning America’s favorite game into touch football.

IF MAJOR League Baseball eliminates home-plate collisions, look for someone to object that they might as well be playing softball.

Call me a wimp, if you like, but indulge for a moment the assertion that the games we play should require speed, skill, endurance, teamwork, strategy, competition,

The American Legion is moving today into its own home, the building at the corner of Madison and Washington, which it purchased about two years ago. Menegay’s Grill will continue to occupy the ground floor; the club’s quarters are in the basement, which has been converted into an attractive suite of three rooms. Entrance is via a covered stairway built along the west side of the structure. ***** Members of the Iola BPW club voted to join the other 165,000 women of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs in an all-out drive for the passage of an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Iolans will write personal letters to Senators Frank Carlson and Andrew Schoeppel urging them to support the amendment.

peak of a vast pyramid of players who suffer injuries that will persist for a lifetime.

And the essential spirit of the game involves an aggressive, testosterone fantasy that has no real connection to the development of character.

In fact, if the Duke of Wellington ever said — he probably didn’t — that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton, he was referring to cricket, not a joint-crushing, disabling, super-macho game like American football.

So, Major League Baseball, abolish home-plate collisions, and ignore objections that depend on appeals to manliness or toughness. The courage of any ballplayer who can function in the batter’s box while an extremely hard spheroid flies past inches away at nearly a 100 mph will never be in question.

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sportsmanship, and so on, but they should not serve as vehicles for encouraging an overwrought sense of macho manliness. And they should not inflict on their players injuries that are permanent. In fact, games supported by public money, that is, those played in public colleges and high schools, should have positive, lifelong physical benefits for as many citizens as possible.

Unfortunately, our favorite game, football, falls short in all these areas. The best players reside precariously at the

To the person who ran over and killed our English bulldog Saturday evening between 6:15 and 6:30 in front of our house at 1235 1800 St., and didn’t have the common courtesy or decency to come to the door and tell us, we hope you can sleep and live with yourself.

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Tom and Carol Higginbotham, Iola, Kan.

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Pros and cons of vaccines Holidays aren’t perfect Vaccinations are used to ensure immunity levels remain above the disease challenges. This is true for our livestock and pets as well as our family members and friends.

When sickness occurs it is the result of one of two things ­— either the disease challenge exceeds the highest level of protection or the protection level falls below the disease challenge.

There are two types of viral vaccines — modified live (MLV) and killed vaccines.

Modified live vaccines typically require mixing. They include a live virus which can be replicated within an animal.

The advantages of MLV would be a faster, stronger and longer protection, better crossprotection and technically one dose would be sufficient. In addition to

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mixing requirements, the disadvantages are the potential to revert to virulence, possibility to cause illness in an immunosuppressed animal, abortions, and the

As a producer, our livestock’s health is our major concern. A vaccination program and veterinary guidance help keep our animals healthy and happy.

prospect of being contaminated with other live viruses.

Killed vaccines do not contain a live virus so they cannot be replicat-

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ed and do not typically require mixing.

Killed vaccines are generally safer than MLV and are more stable in storage and handling practices. However, boosters are required along with more frequent re-vaccination.

They also provide less cross-protection, can cause lumps at injection sites and have increased risk of anaphylactic reactions, in addition to

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There have been some recent reports of abortions in cows given a MLV with Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR). It is recommended not to use MLV on pregnant cows unless they have been vaccinated within the last 12 months with the same product. Additionally, calves who are nursing unvaccinated pregnant cows (cows who have not been vaccinated within the last 12 months with the same product) should not receive a MLV for IBR as the virus can spread through the teat skin.

As with all vaccines, it is vital to follow label directions. The labels do cover the above guidelines for bred cows. If the pregnant cow’s vaccination history is unknown, a killed vaccine is the safe route to take.

As a producer, our livestock’s health is our major concern. A vaccination program and veterinary guidance help keep our animals healthy and happy like pediatricians, family practice doctors and gerontologists keep us, our friends and our families well and active.

The holiday season is here, bringing more things to do, people to see, and places to go.

Holidays are fun, but they also can be stressful. And when the holidays are over we’ll breathe a sigh of relief that schedules are back to normal. In our busy times, it is easy to miss some of the real joys of the season.

Media depicts the holiday season as a time when everything is perfect and everyone is happy. Those idyllic images are difficult to match in real life. But they may cause us to overdo it by trying to make this “the best holiday ever.”

It’s the season when people want to make others happy. We worry about selecting the ideal gift, yet can’t remember what we received or gave last year. Consequently, we end up tired, stressed, and with added financial burden to deal with in the New Year.

The stress of upcoming holidays can overshadow the joy of spending time with family, exchanging gifts, nibbling on holiday goodies and relaxing with friends. No one wants to be too frazzled to enjoy what the holidays are all about.

Here are some tips for making memorable holidays.

Sit down with your family and talk about the meaning of the holi-

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day. Have each person think about the most essential things about the holiday. What would really be missed if it wasn’t done together as a family? What can you do for others who may find it difficult to have a happy holiday? Not only will this be helpful to others, but it will also be a big boost to your health and happiness.

Make a list of who will be responsible for doing tasks to get ready for holiday activities.

Whittle down the plans until you feel confident you can accomplish them. We are just days away from Dec. 25, so at this point in time, it may be obvious that everything will not get done. Determining which are the most important tasks will give a sense of being in control, one of the key characteristics of good stress management, rather than feeling overwhelmed, which is a cause of stress.

Some things may just need to be postponed for the next holiday.

Are there family rituals that need to be dropped or modified? Family rituals are very important to children, but they may need to evolve as

families change.

Stay within your budget. Feeling in control of your money is a priceless feeling.

Take good care of yourself. It’s especially important at holiday time for you and everyone else in the family.

Your stress can splash over onto other family members. So it’s a kindness to everyone when you take care of yourself.

Spend fun time together and roll with the punches. Expect glitches and make the best of what comes your way. When things get too stressful, call a 10-minute time out — adults need those too!

Get a cup of coffee, run around the block or just relax with your feet up.

You will come back to face any challenge with a refreshed mind and body.

Remember that real “happy holidays” come from the enjoyable times spent with family and friends. Happy holidays are best achieved by making wise use of time, money, and energy.

For timely information and answers to your questions on a variety of family and consumer topics, contact your local Southwind Extension District office. Or check us out online at www.southwind. ksu.edu.

Wishing a happy holiday season to you and yours!

4-H helps youth network 4-H is a network of families that grows great kids and offers meaningful activities for both urban and rural families. Now is a great time to consider joining a local 4-H club.

The deadline to enroll is Jan. 1, 2014.

Club activities allow youths to find answers to interesting questions, such as: How do rabbits aircondition themselves?

What mineral makes fireworks red?

Jennifer Murphy Extension Agent for 4-H “Youths ranging from 7 to 18 can explore projects that are of interest to them,” said Diane Mack, K-State Research and Extension, 4-H youth development specialist. “As kids grow, they can choose

to take on more leadership and teaching roles while still getting help from adults. 4-H also allows youths to attend conferences and other events throughout the state, country and the world.”

Visit JoinKansas4-H. org., your local Extension office, or contact Jennifer K. Murphy, district 4-H youth development agent at the Southwind DistrictErie Extension office to join 4-H today.

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GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — Finney County residents will be asked to vote in March on whether to extend a sales tax for a law enforcement project.

A March 4 special election will ask voters to extend a quarter-cent sales tax to finance a 25,000-square-foot building to house court services, youth services and community corrections on county-owned property.

The Garden City Telegram reports the sales tax currently is paying for past improvements at the Law Enforcement Center. Bonds for that project are expected to be paid off in July 2014.

The cost of the new project is estimated at $6.625 million. If voters approve the extension, sales tax revenue would back bonds not to exceed that amount.

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cious Boutique location on South Jefferson as the shop, with permission by David Toland, owner. The event attracted more than 1,000 people.

ON MONDAY afternoon, Keagle was hard at work in Annie’s Attic, arranging toys for this year’s toy shop.

Brenda Miller, former owner, recently sold the space to Toland, who again gave Keagle permission for the event.

“I thought, ‘how could I not do this thing,’” Keagle said after last year’s success. People have been donating their toys throughout the year, Keagle said. She has washed each toy to make them presentable. Donald Leapheart let Keagle use his laundromat free of charge to wash all the toys.

“All of these toys look new,” she said, while sitting among the plush stuffed animals and dolls.

Santa will also look spiffier this year.

“I’ve always said I wouldn’t ask someone to do something that I wouldn’t do, and every year I asked my husband to put on that Santa suit,” which Keagle said has seen better days.

Through the philanthropy of area businesses, Keagle gathered $420 for a new Santa Claus costume. Her husband is a bit more willing to put on the costume this year.

As she spoke about the toys, and the children, it was obvious that the experience brings back memories for Keagle.

“On Christmas, we

never had presents,” she said of when she and Willy were young parents. Instead, the family was content to gather on Christmas Day and enjoy each other’s company.

Today, Keagle feels a toy can make a difference come Christmas morning and that the store’s purpose is to share the wealth.

“I hate for people to spend money on things when it’s all here.

There’s so much,” she said of the room overflowing with toys.

Sonic Drive-In donated cups and plates for the food, the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce pitched in, Klein Lumber donated supplies and Terry and Sandy Zornes are providing hot cocoa .

KEAGLE reflected back on Iola when she was a child, walking around the square and looking through the storefront windows.

“It was a magical time of year,” she said.

At Santa Toy’s Shop Keagle plays the role of Santa’s elf, a job she wouldn’t trade for the world.

“I get the best job of all,” she said. “They (the kids) see that one thing, and their faces light up.

It’s really magical.”

“I remember last year, there was a little boy who was crying because he didn’t get to see Santa,” Keagle said. Then he looked through the window of the toy shop.

“He saw Santa through the window, stopped, and yelled, ‘this is the real deal.’ He kept on saying over and over, ‘this is the real deal.’”

Playground Continued from A1 “We’re going to keep looking at grants or other fundraising after the first part is done,” she said.

Local gifts include a $25,000 grant from Kiwanis International, matched by Iola’s city council. Iola Rotarians added $2,500 to the kitty in November.

Volunteers will be integral in the playground’s installation as well, with the only cost for a certified installer necessary to show the workers how the equipment is assembled.

If the full amount is not raised, the project will be scaled back accordingly.

CONTRIBUTIONS are tax-deductible and can be made through the Allen County Community Foundation, 202 S. State St., Iola, KS 66749.

Mike Ford at the Iola Police Department, 3659494, or MOMs member Lesley Skahan, 363-4340, can answer questions.

The MOMs also remain eager and willing to speak with any civic group wishing to learn about the project.

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She said people are encouraged to sign up on Facebook, by simply searching “Santa’s Toy Shop,” but it is not required. She reiterated that the event is for everyone, and she doesn’t want anyone to feel like they are receiving a handout. It’s simply an opportunity for the family to celebrate the spirit of Christmas.

She also pointed out that her toy shop will have enough toys to go around.

“We will not run out of toys, it’s not Black Friday,” Keagle said. She said lining up ahead of time and waiting outside is not necessary, unless people really want to.

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child to have a toy, meet Santa or enjoy the hot cocoa.

“I just want to make sure every kid has fun,” she said.

Taking part in a check presentation for the MOMs Playground fundraising effort were members, from left, Lesley Skahan, Amy Welch, Nancy Ford (representing Iola Kiwanis), Tara Nicholas, Josh Oberley, LeAnn Church and Kelci Botts. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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Allen Community College cross country and track standouts, from left, Tegan Michael, Jacob Spence and Ryan Pulsifer, have signed to compete at four-year universities. Michael is headed to Wichita State, Spence to Fort Hays State and Pulsifer to Western State in Gunnison, Colo. Pictured with the trio is Allen cross country and track head coach Vince DeGrado. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Three runners who helped establish Allen Community College as a national power are taking their talents to four-year schools.

Red Devil runners Ryan Pulsifer, Jacob Spence and Tegan Michael signed letters of intent this fall, and will immediately head to their new schools to compete in track and field competitions in the spring.

Pulsifer, an ACC sophomore out of Tampa, Fla., will attend

Emotions run high after Dallas collapse

By SCHULER DIXON The Associated Press

IRVING, Texas (AP) — Dez Bryant made the rounds Monday trying to explain why he left the field early in Dallas’ crushing loss to Green Bay. The emotional receiver just couldn’t watch the Packers take a knee three times for a 37-36 victory after the Cowboys led 26-3 at halftime.

He was afraid he was going to cry in front of the cameras, so he says he took the tears to the locker room.

Now it’s time for a twogame test for the Cowboys’ biggest playmaker and the resolve of Tony Romo after his latest failure in key moments.

Beat Washington and Philadelphia to finish the season, and Dallas (7-7) ends a threeyear playoff drought. Lose to the freefalling Redskins on Sunday, and the Cowboys might be eliminated before they even play their final game.

All this after they had a near-certain victory in hand against the Packers that would have pulled them even with the Eagles atop the NFC East and given them a chance to wrap up a playoff berth at Washington.

“The trend’s not going to continue because we’re going to do what we need to See DALLAS | Page B4

Western State in Gunnison, Colo. Spence, a sophomore from Baxter Springs, will head northwest to attend Fort Hays State University. Michael, a Topeka native, is headed to Wichita State.

The trio provided the anchor for the back-to-back Jayhawk Eastern Conference champion cross country squads at Allen.

Pulsifer brought home an individual conference championship in 2013 meet in October. He also took sixth among Region VI runners. One year earlier, he finished fourth in

conference and 11th in regionals.

“I had an assistant coach from Colorado State recruit me, and I liked their program,” Pulsifer said.

Pulsifer plans to study athletic training. He is the son of Regina and Ronald Pulsifer.

Michael, who used up his eligibility last season, returned to complete his schooling at Allen this fall. He finished second individually at the conference championships in 2012 and seventh at regionals.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals filled the most glaring hole in their roster Monday night when they finalized a $30.25 million, four-year deal with Omar Infante to become their primary second baseman.

The agreement, which includes a club option for 2018, was reached last Friday. Infante will be introduced during a news conference today at Kauffman Stadium.

The notoriously frugal Royals have been aggressive this offseason after posting their best record in more than two decades at 86-76.

They already have signed left-hander Jason Vargas to a $32 million, four-year contract and traded reliever Will Smith to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Norichika Aoki.

Vargas and Aoki filled two major needs, but Infante may plug the most vexing one.

The Royals churned through six players last season — Emilio Bonifacio, Jamey Carroll, Chris Getz, Johnny Giavotella, Elliot Johnson and Miguel Tejada — combined to hit just .243

Omar Infante with four home runs, none of them doing enough to win the job on a full-time basis for next season.

Bonifacio was the most likely option, but he’ll instead slide into a utility role thanks to his ability to play around the infield along with the outfield. Infante will primarily play second base, though he also has the ability to play several infield positions and the outfield.

Infante, who turns 32 on Dec. 26, played exclusively at second base for Detroit last season. He hit .318 with 10 homers and 51 RBIs in 118 games.

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Kansas City not content with playoff berth

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In the span of a year, the Kansas City Chiefs went from being a franchise in disarray to one with the best record in the AFC and a shot at winning their division with two regular-season games left.

It’s hard to believe even for those in the midst of it.

“You can’t really explain it by words,” said linebacker Derrick Johnson. “It’s a feeling that not everybody has, and to go through what we went through last year and to be in this situation to do some big things — making the playoffs before the season is over, it’s great.”

The Chiefs punched their ticket to the postseason with a 56-31 victory at Oakland on Sunday, one that pushed their franchise-best turnaround to nine games. Kansas City (113) also moved into a tie with Denver atop the AFC West, though the Broncos hold the tiebreaker by virtue of a season sweep.

Still, if the Broncos stumble in one of their two remaining games — at lowly Houston and Oakland — and the Chiefs beat Indianapolis and San Diego, it would be Kansas City that’s home for the playoffs.

The way this season has gone, even the most remote possibility is still possible.

“This team is wired maybe a little different,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Monday. “I think they’re going to finish out strong no matter what the outcome is. I feel as a coach you tell them to go get them, they’ll go get them.

I kind of feel they’re wired that way.”

Kansas City Chiefs defensive back Husain Abdullah (39) points the Chiefs way after recovering a fumble by Oakland Raiders defensive back Taiwan Jones (22) Sunday. Kansas City’s 56-31 victory netted the Chiefs a playoff berth. JOHN SLEEZER/KANSAS CITY STAR/MCT That wasn’t the way they were wired before Reid’s arrival.

While the Chiefs have churned through their roster, about half of which is new this season, most of the key players remain from that 2-14 team. Jamaal Charles, Eric Berry and Dwayne Bowe were all part of the most forgettable season in franchise history, one that resulted in the firing of coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli and an overhaul of the entire front office.

Shortly after Reid was hired, John Dorsey was brought in as the GM, and team owner Clark Hunt vowed to take a more handson role with the organization. The results have been nothing short of spectacular:

That just shows you how hard work pays off, and every guy in that locker room has worked their tail off.

— Derrick Johnson, linebacker, Kansas City Chiefs

The Chiefs are heading to the playoffs for just the second time since 2006, Arrowhead Stadium is packed and there’s a buzz throughout the city.

“That just shows you how hard work pays off,” Charles said, “and every guy in that locker room has worked their tail off. ... That’s what I told those guys, ‘Hard work pays off.’”

The performance by the Chiefs on Sunday may have been the most impressive yet.

While the defense gave

up big chunks of yardage, it also picked off five passes and forced seven turnovers.

Berry had two of those picks and returned one of them for a touchdown, the 11th time that Kansas City has gotten a TD from defense or special teams this season.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge made headlines Monday by declaring that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records is likely unconstitutional. But even he realized his won’t be the last word on the issue.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon put his decision to grant an injunction against the NSA on ice, predicting a government appeal would take at least six months. He said he was staying the ruling pending appeal “in light of the significant national security interests at stake in this case and the novelty of the constitutional issues.”

Even after the appeals court rules, the Supreme Court will probably have the last word.

“This is the opening salvo in a very long story, but it’s important symbolically in dispelling the invincibility of the metadata program,” said Stephen Vladeck, a national security law expert at the American University law school.

Vladeck said 15 judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court have examined Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, the provision of law under which the data collection takes place, without finding constitutional problems.

“There’s a disconnect between the 15 judges on the FISA court who seem to think it’s a nobrainer that Section 215

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Vladeck said there is a long road of court tests ahead for both sides in this dispute and said a higher court ultimately could avoid ruling on the big constitutional issue identified by Leon.

“There are five or six different issues in these

and support personnel for Navy SEAL Team VI. Leon, an appointee of President George W. Bush, ruled that the two men “have a substantial likelihood of showing” that their privacy interests outweigh the government’s interest in collecting the data “and therefore the NSA’s bulk collection program is

This is the opening salvo in a very long story, but it’s important symbolically in dispelling the invincibility of the metadata program.

— Stephen Vladeck, American University law school

cases,” Vladeck said.

Robert F. Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Center for National Security Law, predicted Leon’s decision was highly likely to be reversed on appeal.

He said the collection of telephone metadata — the issue in Monday’s ruling — already has been addressed and resolved by the Supreme Court.

IN HIS RULING, Leon granted a preliminary injunction against the collecting of the phone records of two men who had challenged the program, and said any such records for the men should be destroyed. The plaintiffs are Larry Klayman, a conservative lawyer, and Charles Strange, the father of a cryptologist technician who was killed in Afghanistan when his helicopter was shot down in 2011. The son worked for the NSA

indeed an unreasonable search under the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.”

“I have little doubt that the author of our Constitution, James Madison, who cautioned us to beware ‘the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power,’ would be aghast,” he declared.

In addition to civil liberties critics, big communications companies are unhappy with the NSA program, concerned about a loss of business from major clients who are worried about government snooping.

President Barack Obama will meet today with executives from leading technology companies. The meeting was previously scheduled, but the NSA program is sure to be on the agenda, and now the court ruling will be in the mix.

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Iola’s Latta noted Infante: Royals fill second-base need BALDWIN CITY — Iola High senior guard Trent Latta was tapped as a member of the alltournament team from the Mustangs’ participation in the BulldogWildcat Classic, hosted

by Baldwin High School.

The honorees were an-

Sports Calendar Iola High School Basketball Today, at Fredonia, 5 p.m.

High School Wrestling Thursday, at Cherryvale with Erie and Jayhawk-Linn, 5:30 p.m.

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nounced Monday.

Latta averaged nearly 12 points per game, including a season-high 19 in Iola’s Dec. 10 matchup against Chanute. He also averaged nearly three steals per game.

The Mustangs went 1-2 in tournament play.

Yankees, who were seeking a replacement for Robinson Cano. But the Yankees were hesitant to give Infante more than three years, and the Royals gave him an extra year while tacking on the club option to

lure him to Kansas City.

The Royals are certainly familiar with Infante from having watched him play for their AL Central rival Detroit. He came up with the Tigers in 2002, and then was traded to the Cubs and Braves

Humboldt Middle School girls win YATES CENTER — Humboldt Middle School’s girls picked up a pair of wins on the hardwoods Monday evening, defeating host Yates Center in A and B team action, while the C team fell short.

Humboldt’s A team prevailed 32-23 after leading 17-10 at halftime.

Sydney Houk poured in eight points with nine rebounds, while Aricah McCall followed with seven points. Maggie Johnson and Katie Malone both scored six.

Rylan Wilhite had three points and five steals, and Lizzie Myers scored two.

Head coach Scott Brady also praised the defensive contributions of Kaiti Carpenter

and Chassis Hoepker.

Though neither scored, both were integral to the victory.

“We didn’t play our best tonight, but it was a total team effort, and I am proud of the girls for gutting out a win against a scrappy Yates Center team,” Brady said.

The B team prevailed, 30-19. Kassie Angleton had 13 points and nine rebounds, followed by Kaylie Johnson with four points and seven steals. Denise Johnson and Hannah Riebel each scored four points. Britnee Works had three points and seven rebounds. Sydney Barker also had two points.

The C team dropped a 12-6 decision, played in a 20-minute running

clock.

Tori White had four points and Ashlynn Booth two for the Lady Cubs.

ON THURSDAY, Humboldt went 1-1 at Caney Valley.

The A team won, 3014. Maggie Johnson had 12 points and six steals.

Houk followed with six points, Works had four points and six boards.

Malone chipped in with three points and six rebounds, McCall had two points, eight steals and four assists. Myers and Hoepker added two and one point, respectively.

The Lady Cub B team fell, 26-10. Barker and Booth both had four points. Riebel scored two.

Chiefs: KC is playoff bound

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downs without an interception, making him just the second Chiefs quarterback with a perfect quarterback rating.

Trent Green did it on Sept. 29, 2002.

Then there is Charles, who made a mockery of the Raiders defense.

He touched the ball 16 times but still piled up five touchdowns. He had 195 yards receiving, the fifth-most by a running back in NFL history, and his TD total was tied for the fourth-most in league history.

“As you know, that’s a tough position to play,” Reid said, “and this time of year, you see running backs, their production goes down a bit, and he’s been able to maintain a high level.”

The Chiefs put up all that offense despite missing starting left tackle Branden Albert, tight end Anthony Fasano and slot receiver Dex-

Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid eyes the scoreboard Sunday. JOHN SLEEZER/KANSAS CITY STAR/MCT ter McCluster due to injuries. All three of them, along with pass rusher Justin Houston, could be back for Sunday’s game against the Colts.

Reid said he wouldn’t hold anybody out who is ready to play, even though the Chiefs are

already in the playoffs.

After all, there’s still a division title to chase.

“If the guys can play, they’re going to play,” he said. “The rest of our season is as important to us as the beginning of our season. We’re not backing off on anything there.”

before landing back in Detroit two years ago, when he helped the Tigers win an AL pennant.

Infante has hit .279 with 74 homers and 421 RBIs over his 12year career. He’s never played more than 149 games in a season, and missed more than a month last year with an ankle injury that occurred when the Blue Jays’ Colby Rasmus slid into his leg.

Aoki is expected to hit first with Infante sliding into the second spot in the batting order, giving the Royals a pair of hitters with solid on-base percentages to lead off the lineup. That would allow them to slide outfielder Alex Gordon into an RBI-producing role in the middle of the order.

The deal for Infante also could signal a chance in the way the Royals conduct business.

General manager Dayton Moore has said that he expects payroll to be “about the same”

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as last season, which was roughly $82 million. But by adding Infante to the ledger, the Royals are on the verge of pushing their payroll beyond $90 million for the first time.

Of course, there’s always the chance the Royals will make a move to trim salary.

Designated hitter Billy Butler, who regressed last season after his first All-Star appearance, has been floated as a potential trade candidate. He’s due $8.5 million in 2014 with a $12.5 million club option for 2015, but his list of suitors would be limited to a select number of AL clubs, and he’s coming off a down season in which he hit just .289 with 15 homers and 82 RBIs. There are few other options that appear expendable. Most of the Royals’ core players — Eric Hosmer, for example — are either under club control or signed to club-friendly contracts.

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His goal was to compete at a Division I school, and was impressed with Wichita State’s facilities.

Michael plans to study sports management at WSU. He is the son of Holly and Scott Michael.

Spence finished 31st among Jayhawk Conference runners in October and 61st in Region VI. “I really liked the coaching staff,” he said. “They seemed to know what they were talking about.”

The son of Rusty and Laticia Spence, he is uncertain of a major.

LOSING THREE talented runners is bittersweet, Allen head coach Vince DeGrado said.

He’s happy that all

three have proven their mettle and can advance their collegiate careers, but he also realizes what he and ACC are losing: three talented athletes, part of his inaugural recruiting class after DeGrado returned to coach at Allen following a national championship-winning stint at Cowley Community College.

“They took some heat for coming to Allen, but they proved to everyone what they could achieve,” DeGrado said. “Now, they’re going on to bigger and better things. They had faith in me and followed me to Allen, where we didn’t have much of a cross country program. It was pretty bad. But they’ve left a legacy. There are banners hanging because of those guys.”

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Dallas: Collapse raises doubts do,” Bryant said Monday in a mostly empty locker room at the team’s training facility. “This whole group in this locker room, we believe and we’re going to keep working.”

Bryant, who made similar headlines earlier in the season with a sideline rant during another deflating defeat at Detroit, was waiting for reporters so he could tell them that leaving with time still on the clock “was absolutely not right.”

That was essentially the message in his conversation with coach Jason Garrett, who said his star receiver wasn’t disciplined.

“It’s difficult for everybody when things don’t go well and he needs to understand how to handle that,” Garrett said.

“I think he’ll handle that better in the future. He was very apologetic to me and was concerned about the situation.”

Bryant’s latest sideline moment didn’t face

as much scrutiny Monday as Romo’s decision to check out of a running play before throwing an interception that gave Green Bay another chance down 36-31 with less than 3 minutes to go.

The Cowboys were in position to force the Packers to go most of the field in less than 2 minutes even if they didn’t get a first down.

Instead, Matt Flynn took over for Green Bay at midfield and led a scoring drive.

Another interception from Romo completed the collapse.

“Sometimes it’s OK on second-and-6 to hand the ball off, take your lumps, and deal with the third down, force them to use another timeout, and then just work that situation out.”

Now Romo has to find a way to lead a team that has given away two games, been blown out of two others and has a personal history of lategame and late-season failures.

Juco hoops From Saturday Allen 96, Johnson 88 Allen (48-48—96) Johnson (37-51—88) Allen (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Keiswetter 1-1-5-3, Jones 10/13-2-26, Tyner 10/1-5-5-28, Uno 0-0-4-0, Fountain 1-6-2-8, Sluder 2-0-4-2, Stockard 1/1-7-3-12, Sweet 1/2-9-0-17. TOTALS: 25/531-26-96.

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Here’s to a great new year!

The latest left tight end Jason Witten with nothing much to say beyond “words can’t really describe it” after the game.

“If you have the right kind of guys on your team, you handle the inevitable adversities of the season better than if you don’t,” Garrett said.

“If you put emotion into something, passion into something and it doesn’t work out, sometimes that’s hard to swallow.

But again, you have to regroup.”

The challenge for Bryant might be the biggest.

“I know for me it’s very, very, very hard to swallow,” said Bryant, who had 153 yards and a touchdown that put Dallas up 12 midway through the fourth quarter.

“That kind of stuff leaves scars. It brings pain. I know that’s what it brought to me.”

DETROIT (AP) — Justin Tucker’s career-long 61-yard field goal with 38 seconds left lifted the Baltimore Ravens to an 18-16 win over the Detroit Lions in a Monday night matchup with major playoff implications.

Ravens rookie safety Matt Elam sealed the victory with an interception — Matthew Stafford’s third of the night.

Stafford threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Joseph Fauria with 2:21 left, putting Detroit ahead 16-15. But the Lions were unable to make a 2-point conversion and couldn’t prevent Baltimore from setting up its sensational kicker for his sixth field goal of the game and 33rd in a row.

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How to give a car a facelift on a budget Dear Tom and Ray:

I have a 2000 Toyota Corolla. It runs really well, especially since it has 180,000 miles on it. However, the paint is coming off and it looks horrible.

What is an economical way to get it painted? I think that the original paint would have to be stripped, so I realize that this adds to the cost. I plan to keep it for two more years (when I am done with university), so I am on a tight budget. — Karen Tom: Have you ever heard of Rustoleum, Karen? Or Krylon?

Ray: Actually, there’s not a great solution to your problem. A number of cars from this era experience this peeling paint syndrome, which we call “delamination.”

It typically occurs on the hood, the roof and the trunk.

Tom: The reason it

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Tom and Ray Magliozzi happens is that, at that time, car makers were switching over to more environmentally friendly paints — paints with fewer volatile organic compounds.

Ray: The problem was, they didn’t really know what they were doing with the new paints yet, and some of the paint jobs failed — catastrophically.

Tom: If you were lucky enough to catch it early, when you were still at least within shouting distance of your warranty period, you could make a good case to the manufacturer that it should repaint the car for you. But that’s a harder case to make

(successfully) when the car has been on the road for 14 years and has 180,000 miles on it.

Ray: Still, it’s worth a try. You can go to your dealer and say: “Look, I bought a Toyota because they're supposed to last forever, and mechanically, it has lived up to that reputation. I love the car. But look at it ... does Toyota think it’s normal or acceptable for paint to just peel off its cars while they're still on the road?”

Tom: I doubt they’ll respond by ushering your car right into the body shop and telling you it’s on them. But if you acknowledge that it’s an older car now, you can still ask them if there’s anything they can do to help you get your car back into “presentable condition.”

Ray: Maybe, if they’re real humanitarians,

they’ll try to help you pay for part of the cost of a paint job.

Tom: But a paint job is likely to be several thousand dollars, Karen, because it does require removing the existing paint with a scraper or random orbit sander, which is very time-consuming work.

Ray: I think it’s worth getting a few estimates.

But I think you'll probably get sticker shock.

And if you can’t get financial help from Toyota and don’t want to make the investment yourself, then you can either live with it (which is what I'd do), or improvise something that might make the car look worse.

Tom: Personally, I like contact paper, Karen.

That way, you can hide the delaminating paint and make an artistic statement at the same time! We wish you luck.

Any exercise is better than no exercise Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 60-year-old female who is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. For the past 10 years, I have not exercised because of arthritis in the knees. I have owned a stationary bicycle for years. Now I regularly use this machine. It does not cause pain in my knees. Since the machine causes you to push and pull against your body weight, is this exercise sufficient for recommended daily exercise? Can this be considered strength training? Should I make myself walk and lift weights? — R. Answer: I have believed through my career that exercise is critical for maintaining good health, for preventing disease and even for treating some medical conditions.

The medical literature increasingly supports this view. So I am delighted to hear that you have found a kind of exercise that you can do without pain and that, most importantly, you are doing.

Any (safe) exercise is better than no exercise, from the standpoint of your heart and overall health. You often will hear the advice “at least 20 minutes a day of moderate intensity, at least three times per week,” which is well enough,

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Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health but that amount isn’t possible for some people, especially when starting out, and is less than the

optimal amount for most people.

I think you will find that the bicycling exercise will make it easier to walk. Walking puts a bit more stress on your bones as well as your joints, but that stress translates into more strength and less risk of osteoporosis.

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The more you walk, the more you will be able to walk. Different exercises have different benefits, so changing things up may have more benefit. If you try walking and weights, you may be surprised how easy it is after a few times and how much better you feel.

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