The Iola Register, July 14, 2023

County: Finding workers comes with a cost

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Most county departments are facing increased costs, primarily due to more pay to attract and retain personnel.

Leaders of nine county departments presented budget requests to commissioners on Tuesday. All but one asked for an increase. Commissioners will consider their requests as they begin working on the budget; they scheduled a special

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meeting on July 20 for that purpose. In previous meetings, they have expressed reluctance to raise the tax rate. That could be helped by a nearly $10 million increase in the county’s assessed valuation at $100,610,028, up from $90,142,015 last year due to new construction, new housing and agricultural value increases. Chairman David Lee said most of the requests were due to wages and benefits. Department heads requested 5%

wage increases. Commissioners may ask them to reduce that number to 3% or 4%.

“We’re going to have to see how finances are looking and if we can support those requests,” Lee said. “The resounding theme from department heads is that the cost of doing business has gone up over the past two or three years.”

Lee said his priority is to attract and retain employees,

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Forecasters: Much of US will continue to bake

PHOENIX (AP) — Millions of people across the Southwest are living through a historic heat wave, with even the heat-experienced desert city of Phoenix being tested since temperatures have hit 110 for 13 consecutive days. More than 111 million people across the United States were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings, The National Weather Service reported Wednesday. Huge swaths of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California were experiencing temperatures above 90.

Emersyn Higginbotham, foreground, dances during a scene of the Missoula Children’s Theatre production of “Rapunzel” in front of her castmate, Ellison Kent. After a week of rehearsals, the youngsters will offer a public performance at 6 p.m. Friday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Freewill donations will be accepted for the show, sponsored by the Stephenson Trust.

Fired Emporia St. professors file suit

By SHERMAN SMITH Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Eleven former Emporia State University professors in federal court documents accuse school administrators, Kansas Board of Regents members and unknown other individuals of conspiring to fire tenured and “problematic” professors.

The federal lawsuit is a response to the university’s decision last year to fire 30 tenured or tenure-track professors as part of a KBOR-approved “framework” to stabilize finances and restructure the university. The lawsuit argues that defendants willfully violated constitutional rights to due process, equal protection, liberty, property and free speech.

“To underscore just how expansive this heat is, based off the current forecast approximately 27

million people across the Lower 48 (states) will experience an air temperature or heat index above 110 over the next 7 days,” the National Weather Service said in a separate bulletin. “It is imperative users take action to limit their exposure to the oppressive hot weather as it looks to stick around for the time being.”

Forecasters in Phoenix said the long-duration heat wave is extremely dangerous for people’s health and could persist into next week as a high pressure dome moves westerly from Texas into central California.

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The 11 former professors were targeted, the lawsuit alleges, because they were tenured, not Republicans, involved in efforts to form a union or outspoken critics of ESU president Ken Hush. The university relied on KBOR’s pandemic-era Workforce Management Policy, which stripped professors of the

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Local dance troupe honored for talent, kindness

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Of all the awards and accolades received by dancers at Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy this year, studio owner Chelsea Lea is most proud of the ones that honored her students for their kindness.

First they earned the “Spreading Kindness” award given at a dance competition in Kansas City in February.

Judges created the award on site just for MCDA, recognizing Lea’s students for their character and commitment.

A month later, MCDA received the Studio Sportsmanship Award at the Talent On Parade contest in Pittsburg, followed by the “Kindness Award” at a national dance competition in Branson,

Mo., in June.

“I’m really proud of my kids for being so courteous and nice, both on stage and backstage,” Lea said.

“They walked around tell-

ing everyone good luck, break a leg, have fun. They were cheering for literally everybody. One of my students said, ‘I want someone to scream for me like that,

so I’m going to scream for them.’”

Over the course of the past year, the team competed in four dance competitions.

The team has 35 dancers,

ranging in age from 6 to 18, who typically perform a total of 36 routines.

Lea’s competition team grew significantly this year.

In past years, the team had about 17 members and 21 routines.

“This year we had the most dancers, the most routines. It was a crazy year because we kept having kids who got injured playing sports or just in general, so we kept having to change the routines,” Lea said. “It was like taking a different routine each time but they still managed to pull together. Their dedication was amazing.”

This is the first year Lea took her students to a national dance competition.

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Students of Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy cheer for their fellow competitors during the Dupree Dance event in January in St. Louis, Mo. COURTESY PHOTO

Obituaries

Richard Chase

Richard A. Chase, age 91, of Iola, passed away Monday, July 10, 2023.

A memorial celebration of life will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 4, at First Presbyterian Church in Iola. A graveside service and inurnment is at 2 p.m. Aug. 4 at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Independence. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to First Presbyterian Church or the Rotary Club of Iola and sent to Webb Family Funeral Service, 1475 S. 10th, Independence, KS 67301.

Teen charged with killing grandfather PARSONS — A rural Cherryvale teenager has been charged with first-degree murder for shooting and killing his grandfather on July 5.

middle school students can save $943 and high school students would save around $979, figuring the cost of a student eating both breakfast and lunch daily, the newspaper reported.

and thinks people see her differently than before, and the 5-year-old has begun regularly acting out. “He could have killed our three beautiful children.”

at a tollbooth who will have to do something different.”

Richard Chase

Richard Chase was born in Independence on Dec. 13, 1931, the son of Frank A. Chase and Rowena Jane (Wolf) Chase. He grew up in Independence, attending the local public schools and graduated from Independence High School in 1949. Sports was an early passion of his life playing football, basketball and tennis. He graduated from Independence Community Junior College in 1951 and from Ottawa University in 1953. He received a master’s degree from Kansas State University in 1957.

On Dec. 21, 1952, he married his high school sweetheart, Phyllis L. McMurtry, in the First United Methodist Church in Independence.

After spending four years in Junction City as a teacher, they returned to Independence where they raised their family. Richard was a junior high teacher, then a junior high principal, before becoming the Independence High School principal from 1971 through 1976. After a brief stint as the high school principal in Arkansas City, he transitioned to being the assistant superintendent of schools in Iola, where he spent the rest of his career until he retired in 1995.

Richard was a longtime member of the Rotary Club and a past president. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Iola.

Tragically, his first wife, Phyllis, developed early Alzheimer’s disease which ultimately took her life. He married Shirley Nelson in 1994. They enjoyed traveling in their mobile home and spent winters in Yuma, Ariz. Shirley died in 2012. Rita Sanders became a dear and loving part of Richard’s life in 2014. Richard continued to play golf and tennis until the winter of 2020.

Richard is survived by his five children, Michael (Pat Sato) Chase, Bill (Betse Gage) Chase, Mark (Paula Usanis) Chase, Marilyn Sprague, and Kathy (David) Carr; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren and dear friend, Rita Sanders.

He was preceded in death by Robert Sprague, son-in-law, and Adam Sprague, grandson.

Services are under the direction of Webb Family Funeral Service, Independence.

Robert Anderson

He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Pat, and their five children and three siblings. A memorial service with full military honors is being planned for a later date. A full obituary can be found at dignitymemorial.com.

Trenton Scott Anderson, 14, had a detention hearing on Monday, the Parsons Sun reported. He’s charged as a juvenile in Labette County District Court with first-degree murder in the death of Thaine Anderson, 74.

Labette County sheriff’s deputies were called to a report of a shooting the afternoon of July 7, where they found the elder Anderson’s body at his residence about seven miles northeast of Cherryvale, near Big Hill Lake, the newspaper reported.

Sheriff Darren Eichinger said a family friend had been called to check on Thaine Anderson and found his body in a pond at the residence, the newspaper reported. Eichinger said the shooting had occurred two days earlier.

A deputy found Trenton Anderson walking along a rural Labette County road about seven miles away, the newspaper reported. He was arrested and taken to the Southeast Kansas Regional Juvenile Center in Girard.

Parsons to offer free school meals PARSONS — Parsons-USD 503 students will eat school meals for free for the upcoming year.

The Parsons Sun reported the school district is taking advantage of the federal Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) to pay for breakfast and lunch for every student.

Elementary school students will potentially save around $881,

Barring changes, the district is eligible to participate in the program for three additional years after the coming school year.

Eudora man headed to jail for 7th DUI

LAWRENCE — A Eudora man who now has seven drunken-driving convictions was sentenced to just over three years of incarceration on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court — after his wife asked for a higher sentence and said he’d put their young children’s lives at risk.

In June, Dustin Rhodes Crowe, 40, pleaded no contest to three felony DUIs and one felony count of endangerment of a child as part of a plea agreement, the Lawrence Journal-World reported.

With the addition of the three DUI incidents — stemming from incidents on Nov. 28, 2022, and on March 15 and March 28 of this year — Crowe now has a total of seven DUI convictions on his record, the newspaper noted.

He had originally been charged with three counts of child endangerment, stemming from his March 28 DUI arrest, in which he had his three children in his vehicle when he struck a parked car, the newspaper said.

“I do not agree he should be charged with just one count of child endangerment,” the woman wrote in the letter, the newspaper reported. She wrote that their 10-year-old boy has nightmares about the crash and arrest, the 8-year-old feels “weird”

“I apologize for everything,” Crowe told the court. “What my wife said is more of a punishment than anything.”

Cashless toll system for interstates starts LAWRENCE — Drivers soon will no longer have to stop at booths to collect tickets to pay to use the Kansas Turnpike.

The new cashless tolling system will take effect in 2024, and will apply to all drivers on the turnpike, which runs on I-70 from the Kansas City area to Topeka and then down I-35 to Wichita and points south, the Lawrence Journal-World reported.

In many ways, it’s similar to the department’s optional K-Tag system, which has been in use for years, the newspaper noted.

K-Tag requires drivers to affix a special tag to their vehicles and then uses scanners to detect when those drivers get on and off the turnpike, the newspaper reported. The new cashless system will pair the K-Tag scanners with new cameras that will read a vehicle’s license plate. If a customer who doesn’t have a K-Tag drives through, the cameras will read the plate, and then an automated system will be used to send a bill in the mail.

“If customers have K-Tag, life for them won’t change all that much,” Rachel Bell, director of business services and customer relations with the Kansas Turnpike Authority, told the Journal-World. “It’s customers who currently stop and pay

The K-Tag system will remain in place, the newspaper noted, which offers a slight discount for motorists who use the turnpike.

Man arrested for shooting CHEROKEE COUNTY — A homeless man accused of firing a shotgun at somebody confronting him about a stolen vehicle in rural Cherokee County Sunday morning has been arrested.

The Pittsburg Morning Sun reported Charles L. Amos, 61, was captured just before midnight later that day in Oklahoma City. Cherokee County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a local farm after a resident discovered a farm truck had been stolen. The owner located the truck, and Amos nearby, where he was attempting to siphon fuel from the truck into a van, which had previously been stolen in Oklahoma City, the newspaper reported.

When the farm truck’s owner, as well as other family members confronted Amos, he fired rounds from a shotgun at one of them and then fled the scene, the newspaper reported.

The incident sparked a daylong manhunt, spanning from Cherokee County to Oklahoma City. Amos remains in custody in Oklahoma City, pending extradition back to Kansas, the newspaper said.

Cherokee County authorities anticipate the filing of formal charges to include attempted murder, aggravated robbery, theft, criminal damage to property and being a felon in possession of a firearm, the newspaper said.

First over-the-counter birth control pill gets FDA approval

WASHINGTON (AP)

— U.S. officials have approved the first overthe-counter birth control pill, which will let American women buy contraceptive medication from the same aisle as aspirin and eyedrops.

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it cleared Perrigo’s once-a-day Opill to be sold without a prescription, making it the first such medication to be moved out from behind the pharmacy counter. The company won’t start shipping the pill until early next year, and there will be no age restrictions on sales.

Hormone-based pills have long been the most common form of birth control in the U.S., used by tens of millions of women since the 1960s. Until now, all of them required a prescription.

Medical societies and women’s health groups have pushed for wider access, noting that an estimated 45% of the 6 million annual pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended. Teens and girls, women of color and those with low incomes report greater hurdles in getting prescriptions and picking them up.

Some of the challeng-

es can include paying for a doctor’s visit, getting time off from work and finding child care.

“This is really a transformation in access to contraceptive care,” said Kelly Blanchard, president of Ibis Reproductive Health, a non-profit group that supported the approval. “Hopefully this will help people overcome those barriers that exist now.”

Ireland-based Perrigo did not announce a price. Over-the-counter medicines are generally much cheaper than prescriptions, but they typically aren’t covered by insurance.

Forcing insurers to cover over-the-counter birth control would require a regulatory change by the federal government, which women’s advocates are urging the Biden administration to implement.

Many common medications have made the switch to non-prescription status in recent decades, including drugs for pain, heartburn and allergies. Birth control pills are available without a prescription across much of South America, Asia and Africa.

Perrigo submitted years of research to FDA

to show that women could understand and follow instructions for using the pill. Thursday’s approval came despite some concerns by FDA scientists about the company’s results, including whether women with certain underlying medical conditions would understand they shouldn’t take the drug.

FDA’s action only applies to Opill. It’s in an older class of contraceptives, sometimes called minipills, that contain a single synthetic hormone and generally

carry fewer side effects than more popular combination hormone pills.

But women’s health advocates hope the decision will pave the way for more over-thecounter birth control options and, eventually, for abortion pills to do the same.

That said, FDA’s decision has no relation to the ongoing court battles over the abortion pill mifepristone. The studies in Perrigo’s FDA application began years before the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe

v. Wade, which has upended abortion access across the U.S.

With some states curtailing women’s reproductive rights, the FDA has faced pressure from Democratic politicians, health advocates and medical professionals to ease access to birth control. The American Medical Association and the leading professional society for obstetricians and gynecologists backed Opill’s application for overthe-counter status.

An outside panel of

FDA advisers unanimously voted in favor of the switch at a hearing in May where dozens of public speakers called for Opill’s approval.

Pittsburgh gunman may face death penalty

PITTSBURGH (AP)

— The gunman who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 is eligible for the death penalty, a federal jury announced Thursday, setting the stage for further evidence and testimony on whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison.

The government is seeking capital punishment for Robert Bowers, who raged against Jewish people online before storming the Tree of Life synagogue with an AR-15 rifle and other weapons in the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack. The jury agreed with prosecutors that Bowers — who spent six months planning the attack and has since expressed regret that he didn’t kill more people — had formed the requisite legal intent to kill.

Bowers’ lawyers argued that his ability to form intent was impaired by mental illness and a delusional belief that he could stop a genocide of white people by killing Jews who help immigrants.

Hollywood actors union joins striking writers

LOS ANGELES (AP)

Bowers showed little reaction to the verdict, in keeping with his demeanor throughout the trial. In the courtroom gallery, survivors and victims’ relatives heeded the judge’s request to keep their emotions in check.

Testimony is now expected to shift to the impact of Bowers’ crimes on survivors and the victims’ loved ones.

“It has been nearly five years since 11 people were taken from us. They were beloved and valued family members, friends and neighbors. They cannot speak for themselves, and so their family members will speak for them,” Maggie Feinstein, director of 10.27 Healing Partnership, a program helping survivors of the rampage and others who were impacted, said in a statement after the verdict.

Bowers, 50, a truck driver from suburban Baldwin, killed members of three congregations who had gathered at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018. He also wounded two worshippers and five police officers.

— Leaders of a Hollywood’s actors union voted Thursday to join screenwriters in the first joint strike in more than six decades, shutting down production across the entertainment industry after talks for a new contract with studios and streaming services broke down.

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, executive director of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, said at a news conference that the union leadership voted for the work stoppage hours after their contract expired and talks broke off with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers representing employers including Disney, Netflix, Amazon and others.

“A strike is an instrument of last resort,” he said. Union leaders said at a news conference that they voted unanimously for a strike to begin at midnight. Outside Netflix’s Hollywood offices, picketing screenwriters chanted “Pay Your Actors!” immediately after the strike was announced.

It’s the first strike for actors from film and

A sign reads ‘Unions Stand Together’ as SAG-AFTRA members walk the picket line in solidarity with striking WGA (Writers Guild of America) workers outside Netflix offices on Wednesday, in Los Angeles, Calif. Members of SAG-AFTRA, which represents actors and other media professionals, announced Thursday it would shut down Hollywood productions completely with the writers in the third month of their strike against Hollywood studios. GETTY IMAGES/MARIO TAMA/TNS

television shows since 1980. And it’s the first time two major Hollywood unions have been on strike at the same time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was the actors’ guild president.

“Employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run,” former “The Nanny” star and SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher

said. “Shame on them. They are on the wrong side of history.”

With a stoppage looming, the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s film “Oppenheimer” in London was moved up an hour so that the cast could walk the red carpet before the SAG board’s announcement.

The looming strike also cast a shadow over the upcoming 75th Emmy Awards, whose

nominations were announced a day earlier.

Disney chief Bob Iger warned Thursday that an actors strike would have a “very damaging effect on the whole industry.”

“This is the worst time in the world to add to that disruption,” Iger said in an appearance on CNBC. “There’s a level of expectation that (SAG-AFTRA and the WGA) have that is just not realistic.”

Heat wave: Much of country stuck on ‘bake’ setting

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nix, America’s hottest large city, was forecast to hit as high as 111 to 119 over the weekend. The city’s overnight low for July 12 hit a record high of 94 Wednesday morning, which means temperatures may not be falling enough to let people recover after dark.

Phoenix is an urban heat island where concrete, asphalt, steel and tall buildings constructed closely together result in heat accumulation. Because of this, temperatures don’t drop quickly after the sun sets.

“It’s important for the temperatures to go down at night to offer relief to people needing to recover from the daytime heat,” said Sean Benedict, lead meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix.

David Hondula, chief heat officer for the city of Phoenix, noted Wednesday that “any long period without a break from the heat is dangerous.” He said the duration of the heat wave was “notable.”

As of Wednesday afternoon, Phoenix had sweltered through 13 consecutive days of 110 or higher when the mercury soared to 111, according to the weather service. The longest recorded stretch of 110 degree-plus temperatures for the city is 18 days, which was recorded in 1974.

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday, temperatures are forecast to hit 101. On Saturday, temperatures are expected to climb to 109

in inland areas of Southern California including San Bernardino. This weekend, Las Vegas could see temperatures reach between 116 and 118), the weather service said.

With no end in sight, this week El Paso, Texas, endured its 27th consecutive day of 100-plus degree (38 C) temperatures on Wednesday. The previous record for consecutive triple-digit highs was 23 days in 1994,

when an all-time high of 114 was recorded.

“It’s unprecedented,” said Zak Aronson, a national weather service meteorologist in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

“It’s never happened here before in recorded history.”

He said temperature records for the area date back to 1887.

Since 1983, both the average and daily summer high temperature in Texas have gone up 2.8

degrees, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the weather service.

Arizona’s average summer temperature and average daily high temperatures have gotten 3.2 degrees hotter during that period. New Mexico’s average summer temperature has increased 3.6 degrees and its daily high temperature has increased 4 degrees.

The summertime high temperature for Las Vegas has increased 4.4 degrees in the same period while its average daily temperature has increased 4 degrees.

How Phoenix handles the extreme weather could become a model for other cities, especially those that are less accustomed to high temperatures but are now roiled by heat waves fueled by drought and climate change.

Two years ago, the city of Phoenix opened a small office with an annual budget of about $1 million to oversee heat response and mitigation. Since then, it has planted more shade trees; designed cool, white roadways to deflect heat; and expanded shelters for homeless people who have accounted for half of Phoenix metro’s heat-associated deaths.

Arizona’s Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, reported this week that so far this year there have been 12 confirmed heat-associated deaths going back to April, half of them people who were homeless. Another 55 deaths are under investigation.

There were 425 confirmed heat-associated deaths in Maricopa County last year, with more than half of them occurring in July. Eighty percent of the deaths occurred outside.

Fueling the current heat wave is the delayed arrival of this year’s monsoon rains. The season officially begins on June 15 and can bring powerful storms with bursts of precipitation.

Despite the extreme heat, Arizona’s largest county of 4.5 million people had the biggest gain in overall population of any U.S. county last year, with a jump to almost 57,000 new residents, mostly from people moving from other states.

Secret Service: No DNA found on cocaine left at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the baggie of cocaine found in a lobby at the White House last week despite a sophisticated FBI crime lab analysis, and surveillance footage of the area didn’t identify a suspect, accord-

ing to a summary of the Secret Service investigation obtained by The Associated Press. There are no leads on who brought the drugs into the building.

U.S. Secret Service agents found the white powder during a routine White

House sweep on July 2, in a heavily trafficked West Wing lobby where staff go in and out, and tour groups gather to drop their phones and other belongings.

“Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out

a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered,” Secret Service officials said in the summary.

It’s most likely the bag was left behind by one of the hun-

dreds of visitors who traveled in and out of the building over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to talk about an ongoing probe and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Troupe: Dancers bring home awards for talent, kindness

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“We usually take the summer to rest. Other sports have seasons but this one goes all year,” she said. “Every year I have students who want to go to Nationals, so we did.”

The team competed against 32 other studios from the Midwest, performing a total of about 1,500 routines.

MCDA competed at the intermediate level. The team had the top-scoring routine in their division, with 12 dancers who placed in the Top 10 in their category, and another nine placed in the Top 15.

They also won a Judge’s Choice award for their acting and performing skills. One judge described the dancers as “Broadway bound.”

“They worked so hard this year. Their love for dance and for each other, and their energy were recognized everywhere they went,” Lea said.

“They’re such great little humans.”

Lea recalled that during the national competition, Jadyn Kaufman, a recent graduate of Iola High School, performed a routine that featured a difficult jump. The music stops as she lands. At that moment, Kaufman overheard one of the judges describe the moment as “gorgeous.”

“It’s a stunning jump. It really is gorgeous,” Lea said.

“It’s one thing to hear it from me, but it helps to hear it from someone who is a professional and a judge.”

THE TEAM won two scholarships to attend a special dance workshop in Kansas City in October. It’s a good opportunity for the dancers to learn new skills.

“I love when they get to take classes from other directors and choreographers because it allows them to be more diverse. If they continue to dance in college or professionally, they’ll work with many choreographers,” Lea said.

Enrollment for next season begins in Au-

gust. They’ll spend the first semester learning routines and preparing for competitions, which will start in January.

“We will definitely be going back to nationals,” Lea said.

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County: Department heads discuss 2024 budget plans

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and that could mean taking a comparative look at wages in nearby counties.

“We need to make sure our wages are competitive with counties, cities and industries around us,” he said.

His priorities also include boosting economic development efforts and improved roads, such as more blacktop roads rather than chipand-seal overlays.

DISTRICT court is the only department to ask for a decrease in funding compared to the previous year. Judge Daniel Creitz and Clerk Dina Morrison said the court could work with $11,919 in less funding than last year, which actually puts the budget more in line with a typical year. Last year, the court had increased costs for computer purchases.

Mitch Garner, Public Works director, reported the budget for the airport had gone up slightly because of higher utility and phone charges. But if the county decides to add five hangars at the airport, he’ll need another $230,000. His budget for the noxious weed depart-

ment increased because of the addition of parttime help to start spraying earlier in the year. He also reported an increase in supply and equipment costs, and engineering fees for the solid waste fund.

Road and Bridge director Mark Griffith reported he needed to add more employees to the road crew, and also is working to attract and retain those who have a commercial driver’s license. He’ll need to chip and seal more roads next year, so there is an increase in those costs as well.

Appraiser Jami Clark talked about the impact of an employee’s possible retirement and a cost-of-living pay increase. She told commissioners to expect a rate increase of about 10% for the service that provides GIS mapping. The service hadn’t raised rates in several years.

Treasurer Darolyn Maley increased her budget for expenses such as computers, office supplies and legal publications.

Misty Rice, who was appointed Register of Deeds after Cara Barkdoll’s retirement in December, said her department’s budget will need to increase because she

needs to attend training and conferences.

County Clerk Shannon Patterson reported an increase in expenses for personnel and postage. The county’s election budget also needs to increase because there will be three elections next year: a presidential primary in March, a primary election in August and the general election in November. Costs as-

sociated with the presidential primary will be reimbursed by the state.

ON THE law enforcement side, Sheriff Bryan Murphy reported increases due to personnel and vehicles. He plans to replace one vehicle next year.

The jail also needs to replace its heating and cooling system. Murphy presented a bid from

Design Mechanical, but commissioners said they’d like a week or so to make a decision.

Chelsie Angleton, 911 Communications director, shows an overall increase of 2% in her budget request, mostly because of personnel issues. She asked for an increase in parttime pay and said overtime costs also have increased because of a

shortage of employees. The emergency management department also asked for a 1.5% increase.

TUESDAY’S meeting was not live-streamed online, an anomaly from prior meetings. Commissioners said those trained to operate the equipment were not on hand to attend the meeting.

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Tennis court protest goes out of bounds

Professional tennis players shake hands after their matches — except, in some noteworthy cases, when one participant is Ukrainian and the other either Russian or Belarusian. Got that? Tennis spectators are having trouble figuring it all out. At the French Open, the crowd booed Ukrainian player Elina Svitolina when she blew off the handshake after losing to Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka. And at Wimbledon this week, fans booed Belarusian Victoria Azarenka when, after a loss to Ms. Svitolina, she forwent the ritual. What they apparently didn’t understand was that Ms. Azarenka was trying to respect Ms. Svitolina’s wish not to shake hands with her.

“What should I have done. Stayed and waited?” Ms. Azarenka asked in her remarks to the media.

The no-handshake policy is rooted in war: Ukrainians have taken to withholding handshakes from post-match meetups as a protest of the Russian invasion of Ukraine — for which Belarus has provided critical support. The trend has made for a string of awkward moments on the pro tour, as Ms. Svitolina and her compatriots have upended what one commentator called the “emotional crux” of a tennis match.

A year ago at Wimbledon, handshakes weren’t an issue. The tournament barred players from Russia and Belarus on the rationale that “it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players.” The Association of Tennis Professionals called the action “unfair” and said discrimination on the basis of nationality violated its agreement with Wimbledon. By excluding some of the world’s top tennis talents, the move also cheapened the entire competition.

For this year’s championships, Wimbledon reversed the ban, to the dismay of Ms. Svitolina. “Last year it was clear message from Wimbledon,” she told reporters. “This year it was changed because of different kind of pressure. … I don’t really support the change.” When asked about the crowd’s confused behavior this week, she replied, “Tennis organizations, they have to come out with a statement that there will be no handshake between Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian players.

... Some people don’t really know what is happening, so I think this is the right way to do.”

The Women’s Tennis Association issued a statement Monday explaining the situation to fans and noting that it was a “personal decision” as to whether to shake hands.

Meanwhile, Wimbledon chief executive Sally Bolton said her organization had “no intention” to intervene. Nor should it. The championships’ decision to convert tennis courts into geopolitical proving grounds last year was misguided, punishing individual Russian and Belarusian players who bear no personal responsibility for the Ukraine invasion and who do not compete for a national team in Grand Slam tournaments such as Wimbledon. So, too, is Ms. Svitolina’s “personal decision” to refuse handshakes with those players. If there’s one thing we know about Russia and Belarus, it’s that athletes have little sway over — and hence responsibility for — the belligerent actions of their authoritarian regimes. What’s more, some of these players have either criticized the war or expressed sympathy for its victims.

An enlightened world appreciates the distinction between regimes and their subjects. Shake those hands.

— The Washington Post

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Lance Gurwell and his wife, Verlene Kay, will open a photography studio at 402

S. State Monday. Gurwell, a graduate of Iola High School and the School of Modern Photography, has served a year and a half of apprenticeship at Drisdell’s Studio in Chanute.

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Construction of a new clubhouse by the Allen County Country Club is assured. Joe Vandiver, president, told the Register that $37,500 had been raised in cash and pledges toward the project. The architect has been notified to complete plans for the building as soon as possible. It is hoped construction can begin late this summer or early fall.

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Allen County Commissioners took the first step this morning toward zoning a three-mile belt around the City of Iola. The commission unanimously voted to ask their board of county planning to study land use in the area and consider whether zoning would be beneficial.

Dave Conderman, attorney on the city planning board, told the commission the city

Climate chaos is everywhere

By JOHNATHAN MINGLE Guest opinion for The New York Times

LINCOLN, Vt. — The capital of Vermont — the state that often tops those “best states to move to avoid climate change” lists — was, until Tuesday afternoon, mostly underwater.

Swollen by record-breaking rainfall, the Winooski River claimed nearly the entire downtown area of Montpelier late Monday. Swift-water rescue teams helped people escape from the upper floors of apartments not far from the golddomed State Capitol. Even the governor was forced to hike from his house on a snowmobile trail to reach an emergency response center in time to lead a news conference on the still unfolding disaster. By Wednesday morning, residents and business owners were stepping through the mud caking their front steps and basements to assess how much they had lost.

Vermonters have seen floods before. But amid the scenes of destruction, there was a sense that some threshold had been crossed.

skyline, just weeks after triggering a spike in asthma hospital admissions in New York and Washington, D.C. On Sunday, eight inches of rain fell in a few hours near West Point, N.Y. — a “once in a thousand year” event — even as an entirely different band of violent storms buried the Oklahoma City area in floodwaters, too. The same day, ocean temperatures off the Florida coast passed the 90-degree mark. Even here in Vermont, norms are being transgressed. In late June we hit an all-time high for air pollution concentrations.

When I moved to my gravelly, wooded strip of land an hour south of Montpelier about a decade ago, I didn’t harbor many illusions that I could insulate my family from climate chaos. Thanks to my chosen profession of climate journalism, I was familiar enough with facts, such as: For each degree Celsius of warming, the atmosphere holds 7 percent more water vapor, driving the extreme precipitation events in New England that have increased by 55 percent since 1958, according to the Fourth National Climate Assessment.

take traffic while workers were building a $24 million replacement bridge. They were set to start pouring concrete this week, as reported by our local nonprofit news outlet, VTDigger. “That was the plan,” said one of the crew’s foremen, “but Mother Nature changed it.”

The climate is jumping the banks, blowing past the guardrails. Another recent study found that in the United States, flood risk isn’t being accurately incorporated into property values anywhere — and that overpricing has created a $200 billion bubble in the country’s housing market. Not surprisingly, Florida is a big piece of that story. Somewhat more surprisingly, Vermont is an overvaluation hot spot too, according to models of future scenarios of extreme flooding under climate change. This makes the state’s financial architecture and heavy dependence on property taxes for revenue as vulnerable to future climate risk as its physical infrastructure.

favored zoning a three-mile belt around Iola to control how land on the north and east of Iola would be developed. The location of the Allen County Community Junior College on the northeast edge of Iola made control important, he said. State law permits counties to zone such an area.

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GARNETT (AP) — Brad Brooker of Wichita, driving a Shelby GT35, won the feature race of the seventh Lake Garnett Grand Prix Sunday, averaging 89.60 mph on the 2.8 mile course. The race track was back in action after a four-year hiatus. The national championship sports car races are sponsored by the Lake Garnett Racing Association and the Kansas City region of the Sports Car Club of America. Garnett has the distinction of having one of the few remaining natural road courses in the United States.

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Sell Constructors of Iola was the apparent low bidder this morning for construction of a 96-bed dormitory for the Allen County Community Junior College. The building is scheduled to be completed by July 1, 1969 in the time for the 1969-70 school year.

The receding water sloshing in our streets was ferried by storm tracks from fast-warming seas 1,000 miles south. The storm dumped four to nine inches of rain on towns up and down the Green Mountain State, where the ground was already saturated. With nowhere else to go, it filled creeks sluicing off the mountains and then rivers like the Winooski, the Mad and the Black and on into Montpelier and towns like Ludlow, Richmond and Weston, where water submerged much of the fire station.

As the world heats up, our benchmarks are becoming increasingly useless — as useless as the notion that there are any places to move to avoid climate change. Americans suffer from a longstanding delusion, a hangover of sorts from the Manifest Destiny era, that there will always be some corner of our vast country to escape to. Its 21st-century form is the notion that one can just pick up stakes and move somewhere else to get away from all this quickening climatic chaos.

Twelve straight days of 110-degree temperatures in Phoenix, after weeks of a punishing heat dome, have pressed down on Texas. Wildfire smoke from Canada obscured the Chicago

But there are facts, and then there is lying awake at night counting how many sheets of plywood are in the barn in case the stream jumps the bank and heads for the basement. There is pulling ticks — which recently expanded their empire into my high, cold piece of Vermont, courtesy of warming winters — off my daughters almost weekly. There is making a spare bed for one’s parents to get them out of their creekside cabin.

Our infrastructure wasn’t built for these extremes, for this pace of change. Neither were our prevailing risk models. Just two weeks ago, researchers from the First Street Foundation warned in a new study that the database that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses to estimate the risk of extreme rainfall events is being outpaced by climate change and is in urgent need of updating. Americans can now expect to experience “once in a hundred year” rain events at 20-year intervals, on average. And the trend won’t stop there: That interval will keep shrinking, thanks to unchecked fossil fuel burning.

Monday’s flooding destroyed a temporary bridge across the White River, which had been erected to

Late Monday, a friend in my town texted an update on the river level, along with the observation that “it’s the oncoming darkness that makes it more worrisome.”

I knew what she meant. It’s the uncertainty that gets you, that ties that knot of discomfort in your chest. It’s a sensation familiar to anyone who has stared down raging wildfires in California or Gulf Coast hurricanes and now to Vermonters, too. And for me, it’s laced with something new: the near certainty that this will happen again. And again.

As the Winooski River retreated on Wednesday, it revealed the only climate refuge that remains: neighbors aiding neighbors. “The sense I have gotten,” a friend who lives in Montpelier texted me, “is an overwhelming willingness of people to volunteer, to help in any way they can.”

But the vulnerability of this “brave little state,” as its native son President Calvin Coolidge once called it, was laid bare all the same. As the floodwaters recede, the notion that any place could be somehow insulated from extreme weather and the ravages of a warming climate should be swept away, too, for good.

About the author: Mr. Mingle is an independent journalist and author of the forthcoming book “Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future.”

A car swept up in flood waters was abandoned in Montpelier, Vermont, on Tuesday. Up to eight inches of rain prompted flooding of the Winooski River forcing evacuations, washing out roads and flooding buildings. (CJ GUNTHER/EFE VIA ZUMA PRESS/TNS)

Biden: NATO ‘more united than ever’

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President Joe Biden said he and other NATO leaders showed the world that the military alliance emerged “more united than ever” this week as he on Thursday capped a European trip meant to demonstrate the force of the international coalition against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The allies “understand that this fight is not only a fight for the future of Ukraine,” Biden said, noting that it’s also about sovereignty, security and freedom throughout eastern Europe and the world. Though Ukraine’s demand for an explicit path to NATO membership remained elusive, Biden emphasized that agreements with other countries in the alliance would support Kyiv’s long-term secu-

rity even without its entry into NATO.

At a news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, Biden pledged that the United States’ commitment to NATO would not waver, despite tumultuous domestic politics underscored by a potential return of Donald Trump to the White House, as well as a growing sense of isolationism in the Republican Party.

“I absolutely guarantee it. There’s no question,” Biden said, answering a question on whether the U.S. will remain a reliable NATO partner. “There’s overwhelming support from the American people, there’s overwhelming support from members of Congress, both House and Senate.”

“Nobody can guarantee the future. But this is the best bet that anyone can make,” he added.

Earlier Thursday, Biden met with the leaders of other Nordic nations including Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Sweden is poised to be admitted as NATO’s 32nd member country after it pledged more cooperation with Turkey on counterterrorism efforts while backing Ankara’s bid to join the European Union. Finland gained NATO membership earlier this year.

Both Finland and Sweden abandoned a history of military nonalignment and sought to join NATO alliance after Russia invaded Ukraine last year.

Biden’s brief stop in the shoreline Finnish capital is the coda to a tour that was carefully sketched to highlight the growth of a military alliance that the president says has fortified itself since the Russian

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invasion of Ukraine. Finland’s admittance to NATO effectively doubled the alliance’s border with Russia.

Biden arrived in Helsinki after what he deemed a successful NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, where allies agreed to language that would further pave the way for Ukraine to also become a futuremember. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the summit’s outcome “a significant security victory” for his country but nonetheless expressed disappointment at not getting an outright invitation to join.

Biden and other administration officials also held what aides said were pivotal conversations with Turkey before that country dropped its objections to Sweden joining NATO.

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right to determine why they were fired, or examine reports or other evidence that was used to determine who would be fired.

The professors are asking for damages in excess of $75,000, the threshold for filing a civil lawsuit, and to be reinstated with full pay and benefits. The lawsuit attempts to sue the defendants as individuals, rather than public officials.

“These defendants saw tenure as an impediment to terminating tenured faculty who were ‘problematic’ concerning issues disfavored by the ESU administration,” the lawsuit contends. “These issues included being members or former members of the faculty senate committee, being perceived to or having friction with the administration, policy sticklers, liberals, advocates, unionizers, and department or campus leaders.”

The 11 professors involved in the federal lawsuit are Christopher Lovett, Amanda Miracle, Michael Behrens, Rob Catlett, Dan Colson, Charles Emmer, Brenda Koerner, Sheryl Lidzy, Max McCoy, Michael Morales and Lynnette Sievert.

They were called to

an off-campus building on Sept. 15, where they were given termination letters signed by Hush. The letters said professors were being dismissed for reasons that may include but were not limited to nine possibilities.

The Office of Administrative Hearings, a state agency that handled appeals, reinstated five of the professors on the basis that the university failed to provide a specific reason for firing them. But in aboutface, the office then upheld the firing of Lidzy and Lovett. The office has not yet ruled on the Emmer, Koerner, McCoy or Morales cases.

ESU has asked the Lyon County District Court to review and reverse the OAH decisions to reinstate Behrens, Catlett, Colson, Miracle and Sievert. The university placed those five on paid leave but required them to clear out their office and turn in badges that give them access to campus facilities. They won’t be allowed to teach or provide services to students before the legal wrangling is resolved.

The 72-page lawsuit makes 30 references to an alleged conspiracy by regents members, ESU officials and others to target “problematic” professors.

In the months before they were fired, the lawsuit says, several plaintiffs organized meetings and worked to obtain signatures to support unionization. ESU provost Brent Thomas and other ESU administrators attended some of those meetings.

McCoy, a journalism professor, spoke in favor of effort to form a union. He also wrote an opinion article, published by Kansas Reflector, criticizing the decision to suspend tenure.

“I may be fired for writing this,” McCoy wrote.

He was fired two days later.

The lawsuit argues that tenure is a recognized property right under Kansas law. ESU chief counsel Kevin Johnson, the lawsuit notes, co-wrote a paper in 2015 in which he acknowledged tenure was a property right. But during appeals hearings, the university argued that tenure was merely a privilege.

The university presented its framework for realignment to the KBOR under the pretense of financial exigency. But, the lawsuit says, ESU enrollment had increased, operating revenues had increased, and operating expenditures had decreased. The financial

position was further bolstered by federal COVID-19 relief funds.

THE LAWSUIT also notes that after firing professors, ESU secretly awarded $137,741 in performance bonuses to 68 faculty members for undisclosed reasons. The bonuses were made public through reporting by Kansas Reflector.

The lawsuit was filed against Hush, Thomas, Johnson, ESU associate general counsel Steven Lovett, KBOR general counsel Julene Miller, and current and former KBOR members.

The lawsuit also identifies “John Doe” as a defendant — a placeholder for anybody involved in the drafting of the KBOR policy or ESU framework.

“Defendants conspired, had a meeting of the minds, and took action in furtherance of the conspiracy to deprive plaintiffs of their property right in tenure, liberty right in their good names, reputation in employment and their equal protection rights, without due process by adopting and implementing the WMP and ESU’s framework in KBOR meetings, among KBOR members and ESU officials, ultimately resulting in the publication of the termination letter,” the lawsuit says.

4-H Entry Check-In and Conference Judging of all Static Exhibits

4-5 p.m. 4-H Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS), Horticulture, and Photography Judging Contests

4-5 p.m. 4-H Cloverbud Visit, Fairgrounds Community Building

2-4 p.m. Crafts, Baby Barnyard

6 p.m. Community Building Open to View Exhibits

6 p.m. 4-H Swine Show

6 p.m. Baked Pie Contest: Blackberry only

6:30-7:30 p.m. LEGO Competition, Cannot be created prior to competition. Bring your own LEGOS. No kits, freestyle only. Community Building, Little Theatre

6-9 p.m. Kansas Wildlife & Parks, Baby Barnyard

Friday, July 28

9 a.m.-9 p.m. Community Building Open

8 a.m.-10 p.m. Baby Barnyard Open

10 a.m. 4-H Bucket Calf Show followed by Dairy Show

2-4 p.m. Barnyard Olympics

2-4 p.m. Crafts, Baby Barnyard

4-6 p.m. Family games with prizes

5:15 p.m. Watermelon Feed (Sponsored by Green Cover Seed)

5:30-8 p.m. Kiwanis Train Rides, pick up near Baby Barnyard

6 p.m. Ice Cream Social by 4-H Council, Show Arena

6 p.m. 4-H Meat Goat Show followed by Sheep Show

6:45 p.m. Register for Mutton Busting, Rodeo Arena (entry fee required)

7 p.m. Mutton Busting, Rodeo Arena

8 p.m. Bull Bash by LaHaye Bucking Bulls, Rodeo Arena

Adults ($10), Kids 5-12 ($5) and Under 5 (free) Saturday, July 29

8 a.m. Youth Livestock Judging Contest

8 a.m.-9 p.m. Baby Barnyard

8 a.m. Iola Rotary Club Smokin’ Hot Cars & BBQ, Riverside Park

9 a.m. Sandy Hooves Volleyball Tournament, Sand volleyball court, Riverside Park

9 a.m.-9 p.m. Community Building Open

9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Junk Drawer Robotics, Community Building

10-10:30 a.m. Register for the Dry Land Turtle Race, Baby Barnyard

10:30 a.m. Dry Land Turtle Race, North of Baby Barnyard

11 a.m. (until sold out) Picnic in the Park Community Feed (Sponsored by Iola Rotary Club)

11 a.m. 4-H Rabbit Show followed by 4-H Poultry Show, Baby Barnyard

11-11:30 a.m. Register for Best Dressed Pet Contest, Show Arena

11:30 a.m. Best Dressed Pet Contest, Show Arena

12-1 p.m. Registration for Gale Ritter Pedal Pull (Sponsored bt Allen County Farm Bureau)

1 p.m. Wolf's Wild Variety Show: Fire Eating, Sword Swallowing and Juggling

2:00 p.m. Ronnie Ward Band 70s 80s 90s & 00s Pop Rock.

2-4 p.m. Gale Ritter Pedal Pull (Sponsored by: Allen County Farm Bureau)

2-4 p.m. 4-H Swim Party, Iola Municipal Pool

5:30-8 p.m. Kiwanis Train Rides, pick up near Baby Barnyard

6 p.m. 4-H Beef Show

6:45 p.m. Register for Mutton Busting, Rodeo Arena (entry fee required)

7 p.m. Mutton Busting, Rodeo Arena

8 p.m. Bull Bash by LaHaye Bucking Bulls, Rodeo Arena ($10)

9-10 p.m. Static exhibits released from Community Building

8 p.m. Bull Bash by LaHaye Bucking Bulls, Rodeo Arena Adults ($10), Kids 5-12 ($5) and Under 5 (free)

Sunday, July 30

9:30 a.m. Clean-up of Community Building

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Lady Red Devils advance their careers

Smith signed to the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Ark.

She was a two-year starter at Allen and averaged 10 points and seven rebounds per game. Smith was one of four returning freshmen this past season and earned All-Jayhawk Conference honors as well as being named Allen’s Female Athlete of the Year.

“No matter who we played, Naomi was always ready to knock down the important shot, find the open post player, steal the ball in front of our press or secure the final rebound to win the game,” said Crane. “Naomi is dedicated, loves the game and has an outstanding basketball IQ that will ensure her success on the court.”

Richardson inked her name to Oklahoma Wesleyan University.

Friday, July 14, 2023

Iola athletics set to host 3rd annual golf tourney

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

A golf tournament to support Iola High School and Iola Middle School athletics programs is Saturday at the Allen County Country Club.

There are still openings for teams to sign up. Signup is inside the club. Tee off will be at 9 a.m. with warmups beginning at 8 a.m.

This is the third year for the golf tournament.

By QUINN BURKITT

Summer brings a wave of Allen Community College women’s basketball players departing for four-year universities after successful stints as Lady Red Devils.

Britney Schroer, Clara Romero, Naomi Smith, Shade Richardson and Skyler Evans will all move on.

“This is why they came to Allen, to play college basketball and have a chance to be recruited to the university level,” Allen head coach Leslie Crane said. “Although they will be missed and hard to replace, we wish them all the best and look forward to seeing their success in the future.”

Schroer has chosen to continue her academic and college basketball career at York College in Nebraska.

She originally started out at Barton County Community College and suffered an injury her first semester at Allen. The York commit averaged 10 points per game this past season. She started in 23 games playing an average of 12.9 minutes per game.

“Britney was a very mobile and hard post player to guard,” said Crane. “She had many weapons to use to score and she was a calculating player as she would expose the opponent’s weaknesses expertly. Britney will excel at York both academically and on the court. Her commitment and love for

basketball and life will carry her far.”

Romero also made it official by signing to attend York College.

A native of Spain, Romero was the first international player to join the Lady Red Devil program. She averaged seven points and five rebounds per game through her two seasons at Allen.

“Clara was willing to do what needed to be done to help the team win. She was a starter, came off the bench, played the toughest post defense and no matter what she was always around the ball to secure the rebound,” Crane said. “She will excel at York and bring this same intensity and commitment to their program.”

Born and raised in Lauderdale Lakes, Fla., Richardson played for Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts prior to Allen. She served as ACC’s point guard on both sides of the ball and averaged nine points and three steals per game.

Richardson was also tabbed as the Defensive Player of the Year in the Jayhawk Conference.

“She (Richardson) was able to use her quickness and speed to make her opponents’ guards cringe while they attempted to advance the ball,” said Crane. “Shade will carry on with her defensive lessons and bring that determination to the KCAC next season.”

Evans has signed to play college basketball at Kansas Wesleyan University next year.

Perhaps her most useful skill was on the defensive

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Mahomes keeps focus on winning

By ROB MAADDI The Associated Press

Patrick Mahomes already is a two-time Super Bowl MVP and AP NFL MVP before turning 28, compiling an impressive Hall of Fame-worthy resume in only six seasons. If any player is ever going to challenge Tom Brady for GOAT — greatest of all time — status, Mahomes has the best chance. Like Brady and other superstar athletes, Mahomes still works to improve, aiming to keep the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl contention.

“I think everybody thinks about legacy and how they’re remembered, but you have to think about that at the same time, valuing every day and how you can become better, how you can really maximize every single day,” Mahomes said on the AP Pro Football Podcast. “And then whenever your career is done, you have no regrets. That’s what I’ve al-

mony on Thursday,

ways preached. It’s not about success of that day, it’s about having no regrets at the end of your career.

“And I think if you work hard every single day and put everything you have into the game, then when you

look back at the end of your career and however many trophies you have or how

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“The past few years have gone well, we’ve run into rain but hopefully it’s not too hot this year,” said Iola High athletic director Matt Baumwart.

The event is mainly geared to adult golfers but also accepts participants of all ages.

Soccer: Panama upsets USA

SAN DIEGO (AP) — After winning the CONCACAF Gold Cup with its junior varsity two years ago, the United States failed to repeat.

Adalberto Carrasquilla converted the decisive penalty kick after Cristian Roldan was stopped in his attempt, and Panama beat the Americans 5-4 in a shootout following a 1-1 tie on Wednesday night to reach the CONCACAF Gold Cup final against Mexico.

“There’s a lot of learning lessons that we’re all going to take away as we now continue our preparation to the path of 2026,” U.S. interim coach B.J. Callaghan said, looking ahead to the Americans co-hosting the World Cup.

“You had some older senior guys that had experience that we challenged to take on more leadership roles, mentorship roles, and that came out,” Callaghan said. “And then we had a group of young players, whether they are U-20 — had played at the U-20 — or Olympic age, and all striving to become part of that roster in 2026.”

Iván Anderson put No. 57 Panama ahead in the ninth minute of extra time with his first international goal, and Jesús Ferreira tied the score six minutes later for the 11th-ranked U.S.

Panama reached the final for the third time after losing to the U.S. in 2005 and 2013. Panama will play Mexico, an eight-time champion, on Sunday at

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Allen’s Shade Richardson served as the Lady Red Devils’ main point guard this past winter.

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, showed their style on the red carpet at Union Station arriving for the Super Bowl LVII championship ring cere

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Delta is soaring to record $1.8 billion profit

By the Associated Press Delta Air Lines soared to a record quarterly profit of more than $1.8 billion as summer vacationers packed planes, especially to international destinations, and the airline enjoyed a tailwind from falling fuel prices.

The results released Thursday beat Wall Street expectations, and Delta raised its forecast of full-year earnings.

Delta officials said strong demand for tickets has continued at the beginning of the Julythrough-September quarter, when it expects revenue similar to the record second quarter, and even into the December holidays.

“I think it’s going to be more of the same,” CEO Ed Bastian said in an interview. “International bookings, which traditionally start to trail off into the fall, are still go-

ing to be at a higher level than normal.”

Revenue on flights between the U.S. and Europe, Delta’s most important overseas market, soared 65%. The airline will run its European summer schedule longer than normal to take advantage of American tourists who are overrunning the place after staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Savanthi Syth, an airline analyst for Raymond James, said Delta’s comments are positive for rivals American and United, which also get a large chunk of revenue from international flights. Last year, when travel to many countries was still restricted, domestic-looking airlines such as Southwest benefitted.

A key part of Delta’s strategy involves pursu-

ing high-income travelers, whom it says account for three-fourths of all spending on air travel. Drawing on government and private research, Delta says highincome households have accumulated $27 trillion in wealth since 2019.

“They have the means, and when we ask them where they are going to spend, their No. 1 priority is premium travel experience,” Bastian said. “That’s our bread and butter.”

In the second quarter, Delta’s revenue from sales of premium seats and services rose 25% — better than the 18% gain in the main cabin. Airlines need more revenue to remain profitable in part because they are facing sharply higher labor costs. Earlier this year, Delta pilots won a new contract

that their union says will boost average pay 34% over four years and cost Delta more than $7 billion.

Across the airline industry, companies have hired aggressively to rebuild work forces that they shrunk after the pandemic hit the United States in early 2020. Industry officials say all that hiring should help airlines run better than they did last summer.

Canceled flights have returned closer to historical norms — 2% of all scheduled flights since June 1, according to FlightAware. Delta’s cancellation rate of 1.2% is better than average but well above Alaska and Southwest and slightly higher than rival American Airlines — and four times Delta’s rate during the same period before the pandemic.

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Q: As you head toward your ninth season of hosting “America’s Funniest Home V ideos,” are you still enjoying it?

A: I absolutely love it! It’s been a lot of fun, and it’s always home base for me. It feels to me like it will continue to be on for a ver y, ver y long time, and it always will be my Number One, though it feels like “Dancing With the Stars” – on which I was co-host and am now host – is making a comeback.

Q: Did you enjoy being involved in PBS’ “A Capitol Four th” as the special’s host recently?

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Aging parents may thwart dreams

Dear Carolyn: After several decades of putting my aspirations on hold in favor of working in the comfort zone of my hometown, I have the opportunity to pursue a lifelong dream abroad.

Problem is, my parents are well into their 70s, and for my entire adult life, my mom has seen me as her therapist, constantly emotionally dumping on me about my dad. He is an angry person and is difficult to live with, and in the past year, he has had serious health issues that have stabilized.

As my mom clings to me amid my decision to move, others in my life openly express shock that I would leave in my parents’ time of need. I am racked with guilt as I stare off into a beautiful, glimmering horizon of new experiences — so close, yet so far away. What should I do?

— Drowning in the Emotional Dump Drowning in the Emotional Dump: Don’t finish reading this, just go.

Not because your dad’s miseries are pri-

Carolyn Hax

marily his to navigate, though they are. He’s a grown man. Not because your mom’s co-opting of you as her marriage counselor is a form of emotional abuse, though it is. She’s a grown woman. And not because “lifelong dream” opportunity is what I think you will experience, because daily life tends to be challenging no matter what, and framing any version of it as “dream” anything sets us up for higher expectations than most real lives can meet. Moving abroad after a lifetime in your hometown and disentangling yourself from an enmeshed family while racked with selfdoubt are two huge asks of anyone’s emotional resources, and just going would launch both at once. Your opportunity may deliver on

every bit of its dreamy promise, and I hope it does, but I trust more that it will deliver the most satisfying, “Yay, me, I freaking did it,” moment of your life to date. (Which alone is reason to do it.)

Here’s why I’m saying “just go”: because you want to, and because none of your perceived obstacles is insurmountable morally or in fact. You are a grown person.

Your dad will have his miseries and ailments with or without you.

Your mom will deal with her soul-sucking marriage with or without you.

Your parents will retain more access to you than any one of you thinks. “Abroad” is not Mars. When you feel it’s necessary to be with your parents, for a week or forever, you can fly back. Modern technology will work seamlessly with your parents’ poor boundaries to retain you as your mom’s de facto therapist, if that’s what you want. (Pro tip: Don’t want it.)

Any deterrent to be-

Having to wait for appendectomy

DEAR DR. ROACH: I went to the hospital and was diagnosed with appendicitis. I’ve been sick for three days. My surgeon said that although the CT scan showed a ruptured appendix, he wants me to take antibiotics for a week or so, and then come back in six to eight weeks for surgery.

I don’t want to wait! Wouldn’t it be better to get this done now? I’m in pain, and I’m worried I will get a very severe infection. Why do I need to wait? I always thought that when you have appendicitis, they operate right away. — D.S.

ANSWER: The optimal treatment of acute complicated appendicitis is

Dr. Keith Roach

To Your Good Health

changing. In cases like yours, where the body has partially or completely walled off the infection, giving antibiotics and waiting for the inflammation to reduce make the operation safer. Of course, if a person is unstable, or if the perforation is free, that requires an emergency surgery. Observation by a skilled surgeon is still necessary for a period of time on antibiotics to make sure the person

is not in need of urgent surgery.

I spoke with one of my surgical colleagues who noted that operating immediately in a case like yours may require removal of part of the colon, because there is so much inflammation that extensive surgical dissection is required. Giving the body a chance to wall off the infection and the antibiotics time to kill the bacteria means when they do the surgery later, it brings less risk of complication.

I understand you want the problem solved right away, but you are likely to have a better long-term outcome if you wait.

ing involved in their marriage is a good one, though solo therapy for you — to learn why it’s so unhealthy and how to stop it — is probably the best.

Being involved in their care as they age is a different story and will obviously be more difficult from afar. But it could be years before this becomes an issue, assuming it ever does. Plus it’s a reason to build contingencies into your plans, not to put all your plans on hold for more decades.

Meeting others wherever you go can open your eyes, too, to new understandings of family.

Thoughtful people can disagree on why we have children: for society, for ourselves, for themselves, in service to a faith, to name a few. If it’s your core belief that you exist for your parents, then I doubt there’s any quantity of therapy that can persuade you otherwise. But if you see this as your life, then stop explaining yourself, and go live it.

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LeBron James says he will play for LA Lakers again

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James will play another season for the Los Angeles Lakers.

The 38-year-old superstar announced his intentions on stage at The ESPYS on Wednesday night after accepting the record-breaking performance award for becoming the NBA’s career scoring leader.

At the end of last season, in which he surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s mark, James had said he wasn’t sure if he would be back.

“In that moment I’m asking myself if I can still play without cheating the game. Can I give everything to the game still? The truth is I’ve been asking myself this question at the end of the season for a couple years now. I just never openly talked about it,” James said.

“I don’t care how many more points I score or what I can and cannot do on the floor.

The real question for me is can I play without cheating this game? The day I can’t give the game everything on the floor is the day I’ll be done. Lucky for you guys that day is not today.”

The crowd at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood let out a huge cheer.

“So yeah, I still got something left,” James said. “A lot left.”

He was presented his trophy by wife Savannah, sons Bronny and Bryce and daughter Zhuri. In her introductory remarks, Savannah said, “I think LeBron James is the baddest ...”

She began to say an expletive but cut herself off as Zhuri exclaimed, “Mom!”

James later returned and was joined by Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade to honor Carmelo Anthony, who recently retired after a 19-year career.

Earlier, Chicago White Sox reliever Liam Hen-

driks told the audience that he pitched much of the 2022 season with non-Hodgkin lymphoma before being diagnosed with an advanced stage of the disease.

He accepted the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance. The 34-year-old Australian was declared cancer-free in late April and returned to the mound a month later.

“That was an eye-opener. I didn’t feel too many symptoms but I had some lumps around. It just shows you the power of the mind. When you don’t think anything’s wrong and you believe that you can do anything, you can do anything,” Hendriks said.

“I was throwing 100 miles per hour while going through Stage 4 lymphoma and then coming back after doing eight rounds of chemotherapy and four rounds of immunotherapy and was able to get out there and

throw 96 miles per hour. That isn’t physically who I am. That’s all this, that’s all mental.”

The U.S. women’s soccer team was honored with the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage for its fight to receive equal pay. The players sued U.S. Soccer in 2019 and last year reached agreement on a deal that splits men’s and women’s pay equally.

Briana Scurry, goalkeeper for the national team from 1994-2008, saluted the 1985 team.

“They are the foundation of this entire community of giants,” she said.

The Buffalo Bills training staff received the Pat Tillman Award for Service, honored for saving the life of safety Damar Hamlin, who went into cardiac arrest at a game in Cincinnati in January.

The staff was greeted by a standing ovation. They huddled around Hamlin on stage, hug-

ging him and patting his back. With his back to the audience, Hamlin bent his head and appeared to break down. He has since recovered and plans to play this fall.

“Damar, first and foremost, thank you for staying alive, brother,” said Nate Breske, head trainer for the Bills.

“We’re not used to having the spotlight on us. We were just doing our job, but the idea of service is definitely something that is engrained in our profession and that we take great pride in,” he told the audience.

Breske urged support for funding for automated external defibrillators and CPR training, especially in underserved communities, as well as for athletic trainers in youth sports.

“Learn CPR and how to use an AED because they save lives,” he said.

Patrick Mahomes was

honored as best men’s sports athlete, while skier Mikaela Shiffrin received the women’s sports honor.

The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback has won two Super Bowls in his five seasons and was named MVP of the game each time, including this past February. He turns 28 in September.

“It was an incredible season. There was many ups, many downs,” Mahomes said. “I appreciate my teammates, my coaches, the guys that are here. I go back to camp next Tuesday, so this is a great award. But we’re going to do this thing again, we’re going to keep this thing rolling.”

Shiffrin won her 87th World Cup race in March, breaking the mark set by Ingemar Stenmark for the most such wins by any skier. She went on to win an 88th Cup race, as well as the overall season title.

Mahomes: Still hungry for wins

many Super Bowl rings you have, you’ll have no regrets.”

Mahomes has led the Chiefs to five straight AFC championship games, three Super Bowl appearances and two championships in his five seasons as the starting quarterback.

With Brady now retired after winning seven rings with New England and Tampa Bay, Mahomes takes over as the face of the NFL. It’s just another title to the dynamic QB.

favorites to win it again this season, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

for the first time in his career as a starter after Eric Bieniemy left the Chiefs for Washington.

Allen’s Britney Schroer takes a shot. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Allen: Women advance careers

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Continued from B1 side of the ball where she could change the momentum of a game in a heartbeat. Evans averaged six points and four rebounds per game.

“Skyler would take charges and sacrifice herself for the team to swing the games’ momentum, draw fouls on drivers, and instill a spark of excitement in her teammates,” said Crane. “Skyler

brought toughness and hard-nosed play to the Devils that was needed in games to fight for victories. This is what she will continue to bring to her team and new program in the KCAC.”

USA: Falls to Panama in Gold Cup

Continued from B1

Inglewood, California.

The U.S., a seven-time winner of the championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean, failed to reach the final for the first time since losing a 2015 semifinal to Jamaica. The Americans have not won consecutive Gold Cups since 2005 and ‘07.

The game marked the finale of Callaghan, who led the U.S. to five wins, one loss and one draw as the Americans’ second interim coach this year. Gregg Berhalter returns for the Sept. 9 exhibition against Uzbekistan.

The U.S. had just 34% possession in the first half.

“The first half is my fault,” Callaghan said. “I didn’t set the team up the way they should have been set up.”

American Cade Cowell hit a post about 20 seconds in and that was the closest to a goal until Panama went ahead nine minutes into extra time.

Carrasquilla played a through pass to Anderson, who was kept onside by DeAndre Yedlin. Anderson took a touch and played the ball past onrushing goalkeeper Matt Turner, then kicked the ball into the open net for his first international goal.

Turner, who saved two penalty kicks against Canada, was the only U.S. player on the field who saw extensive time at last year’s World Cup.

Ferreira scored six minutes later after Matt Miazga played a long pass to Jordan Morris, who headed the ball into the penalty area. Ferreira volleyed

the ball with his right shin from 16 yards past the outstretched left hand of a diving Orlando Mosquera for his 15th international goal, his seventh of the tournament

With the U.S. going first in the shootout, Ferreira was stopped by Mosquera.

Fidel Escobar and Ismael Díaz beat Turner, while Djordje Mihailovic and Morris were successful for the U.S. Turner dove to his left to stop Christian Martínez and Julian Gressel and Miazga converted around Édgar Bárcenas successful kick for Panama, leaving the U.S. ahead 4-3.

Cecilio Waterman tied the score with Panama’s fifth shot, Mosquera dove right to parry Roldan’s attempt and Carrasquilla put his shot inside Turner’s right post.

“I embrace being me,” Mahomes said. “I think that’s the biggest thing. It’s definitely cool to see your name on the news line or to be able to partner with great companies like Walmart and do all these great things. But at the same time, I just try to be the best me I can be and whatever else comes with that comes with that.” No team has repeated as Super Bowl champs since Brady’s Patriots in 2003-04. It’s a daunting task in today’s NFL. The Chiefs are embracing the challenge. They’re

“I think it’s so difficult because there’s so much player movement these days,” Mahomes said, pointing to free agency, trades and the draft. “Every team is getting better and better each and every year. It’s hard to win the Super Bowl. I’ve noticed that from my first one to my second. You can do everything the right way and you don’t win. So to be able to repeat it, you have to just continue to work and work and work and try to get yourself in position to win those big games. I’m confident in us because we have a lot of guys coming back now that have won a Super Bowl and been in that big moment. But we have to go out there and prove it and it starts next week.”

THE CHIEFS are among several teams opening training camp next week, with rookies reporting on Tuesday. Mahomes will work with a new offensive coordinator

Matt Nagy, who was Kansas City’s offensive coordinator in 2016-17 before going to Chicago to serve as head coach for four seasons, is back in that role under coach Andy Reid.

“It’s definitely gonna be different,” Mahomes said about losing Bieniemy. “He was a voice that’s been in this locker room my entire career. To lose that voice, I’m excited for Washington because I know how inspiring he can be and how smart he was for us. Luckily for us, I think Coach Reid does a great job of finding great coaches to supplement some of that great leadership that Coach Bieniemy had for us. ... It’s definitely tough losing him. I have so much respect for EB. He was such a great coach but a great person. But I’m excited for these other guys to step up and be those coaches that they’ve learned from him and learn from Coach Reid to be.”