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Allen County COVID cases top 100 Allen County has now had more than 100 coronavirus cases.

The Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments reported another 15 positive COVID-19 cases for Allen County, bringing the total to 104.

No one in the county is currently hospitalized.

One county resident, from Humboldt, has died.

In other area counties, Anderson also reported 15 new cases for a total of 113. One person is hospitalized.

Bourbon County reported 55 new cases with one hospitalization. Three residents have died.

Woodson County reported one new case for a total of 26.

Since Friday, the state added 2,055 new confirmed and probable coronavirus cases, an increase of 3.1%, to bring the total for the pandemic to 67,862. The number of COVID-19-related deaths increased by eight to 771.

Dan and Linda Johnson

Harry and Kathleen Clubine

A history of service A family tradition

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Dan and Linda Johnson take the idea of giving back very seriously.

Just ask about their volunteer service, and even they have a difficult time remembering the long, long list of organizations.

After Saturday, they’ll be able to add “City Marshals” for the Farm-City Days parade.

They each credit their parents for teaching the val-

City Hall office open, drive-thru closed Iola City Hall, which has been closed to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, will be open through this week because its drive-thru lane is closed for Farm-City Days.

Vehicle traffic to the drive-thru lane is off limits because of the carnival, which will run through Sunday in downtown Iola.

All who enter City Hall must wear masks, with a limit of two people at a time allowed in the utility office.

Walk-ups to the drive through window and night drop box are encouraged.

For more information, call 365-4910.

ue of community service. It was something they grew up with.

“I enjoy it. I like to be around people,” Linda said.

“I just like giving back to the community.”

“That’s why we’re put on this Earth. To help people,” Dan added.

LINDA grew up on a farm near Garden City. She attended Fort Hays State University and earned a master’s See JOHNSONS | Page A3

The Farm Marshals for the 2020 Farm City Days celebration are Harry and Kathleen Clubine.

Harry Clubine has worked for Strickler Dairy since the summer of 1986, and Kathleen has worked as a paraprofessional at Jefferson Elementary for 20 years.

Harry originally hails from Havana, Kansas, and Kathleen is from Hill City.

They have two sons, Ben,

HARRY graduated from Kansas State University in 1985, with a bachelor’s degree in animal science and a specialization in dairy production.

He also happens to have been born on a dairy.

Along with the Stricklers, he’s sold cattle all over the See CLUBINES | Page A3

Despite pandemic, event marches on istration number at four different stops, where the stops can be completed in any order: Iola Pool entrance, East trailhead on Lehigh, Allen County Regional Hospital sign and Russell Stovers sign on Marshmallow Lane.)

Farm City Days promises a weekend of fun and excitement with its 2020 “Candyland” theme.

Thursday 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. — Fun Times Shows Carniva.l (Discounted armbands for the carnival are available for purchase at the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce.

Only cash is accepted and no refunds are available.)

Friday Noon — Judging of downtown “Candyland” window decorations.

Commissioners cover SPARK funds

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

During a record 15-minute meeting, Allen County commissioners discussed SPARK funding from the federal government on Tuesday and badly needed road repairs.

Allen County has spent about half of its $2.4 million in SPARK funding from the federal government provided via the CARES Act, said Lisse Regehr, CEO of Thrive Allen County.

She suspected that by the next reporting period, however, much more of the money would report being distributed.

The exigency is that the county only has until the end of the year to exhaust the funds, or otherwise send them

32, who is a chemical engineer, and Tyler, 26, who teaches history and coaches athletics.

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

6 p.m. — Registration for cannonball bike ride, with ride at 7 p.m.

6 p.m. to 10 p.m. — Fun Times Shows Carnival (The first annual cannonball bike ride is for adults.

You must collect a book page that matches your reg-

Saturday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Arts, crafts and food vendors.

8 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Iola Masonic Lodge car show.

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Kramers’ petting zoo on the square.

Governor: State won’t jump into COVID-19 hot spots

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

Lisse Regehr, CEO of Thrive Allen County, talks with commissioners about how to best spend the remainder of SPARK funds provided by the federal government. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG back.

Regehr also noted that some of the SPARK money had been returned by entities within the county, when they discovered they could not pur-

chase the items they believed they would.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday that she doesn’t plan to have the state health department use its power to manage disease outbreaks by shutting down businesses or imposing other restrictions in local coronavirus hot spots.

The Democratic governor’s statement went further than a public promise she made last month to top Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature not to issue orders to close businesses statewide, as she did in the spring. She said

that although the state will work with local officials in areas with big outbreaks to help them check the Gov. Kelly spread of the virus, it won’t dictate the steps they’ll take.

Kelly and Republican lawmakers were at odds for weeks over her handling of the pandemic, with GOP leaders preferring to let local officials set the rules for businesses, public gatherings and the reopening of K-12 schools. The LegislaSee STATE | Page A4

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Lynn Hammer Patricia Lynn Hammer, 69, of Colony, passed away on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, at Anderson County Hospital.

Lynn was born Oct. 12, 1951, in Kansas City, Mo. She moved with her family to Iola, the summer she was seven years old. She graduated from Iola High School and Allen County Community College. She Lynn Hammer married Lavon Hammer of rural Iola on March 6, 1976. She loved her husband, children and extended family dearly but the greatest joy of her life were her three grandsons. She loved to read, listen to music and was very artistic.

Lynn is survived by her husband Lavon; daughter, DeDe Hammer of Colony; son, Jason Hammer and wife Tabitha of Colony; step-son, Tom Hammer of rural Iola; grandsons, Christopher Cheung of Kansas City, Mo., Brendon Hammer and Noah Hammer of Colony; step-grandchildren Austin Hammer, Kailyn Hammer and Hailey Hammer; two brothers, Bruce Cochran and wife Judy of Iola, Dan Cochran and wife Regina of Iola; two sisters, Pamela “Lea” Baughn and husband Darrell of Iola, Terri Luttrell and husband Bill of Iola; two aunts; numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and their families.

Lynn was preceded in death by her father and mother, C.L. “Bud” and Rose Marie Cochran of Iola; her father and mother-in-law, Willard and Agnus Hammer of Iola; her daughter, Melissa Hammer of Colony; and her beloved dog, dear friend and companion Princess.

Services to celebrate Lynn’s life will take place at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, in The Chapel at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service of Iola. Family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in The Venue at the funeral home.

Memorials in honor of Lynn are suggested to Saint Jude’s Research Hospital and may be left with the funeral home. Condolences for the family may be left online at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

LaVeda Benton LaVeda Mae Benton, 78, of Olpe, passed away Sunday evening, Oct. 11, 2020, at her home surrounded by family.

She was born Oct. 23, 1941, in Emporia, the daughter of James O. and Ruth I. (McNett) Mackey. LaVeda attended Madison High School.

LaVeda was joined in marriage to Charles M. Benton on March 2, 1958, in Madison. They made their home in Eureka for a year before moving to Madison.

LaVeda and Charles settled down on a farm south of Olpe in 1969. They enjoyed 42 years of marriage before Charles preceded her in death on Oct. 21, 2000.

After moving to Olpe, LaVeda worked at the Olpe Food Bank before taking a position at I.B.P. in Emporia. She remained there until her retirement in 1989.

LaVeda was a proud homemaker and devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She attended Ebenezer Methodist Church, Olpe.

She will live on in the hearts and memories of her daughters, Diana (Bill) Ballinger of Madison, Juanita (Gary) Brown of Olpe and Julie Smith of Moran; a son, Charles M. Benton Jr. (Jennifer) of Olpe; a sister, Naomi Finney of Olpe; 14 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; numerous extended family and dear friends. LaVeda was also preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Pamela Jean Benton in 1963; brothers, Bob Mackey, Larry J. Mackey and Jerry O. Mackey.

Graveside services will take place at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, at Blakely Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. tonight at the VanArsdale Funeral Home in Madison. Memorial contributions may be made to the Ebenezer Methodist Church or Eagle Creek Saddle Club and sent in care of the funeral home at P.O. Box 488, Madison, Kansas 66860. Condolences may be made at vanarsdalefs.com.

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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration can end census field operations early, in a blow to efforts to make sure minorities and hard-to-enumerate communities are properly counted in the crucial once-a-decade tally.

The decision was not a total loss for plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the administration’s decision to end the count early. They managed to get nearly two extra weeks of counting people as the case made its way through the courts.

However, the ruling increased the chances of the Trump administration retaining control of the process that decides how many congressional seats each state gets — and by extension how much voting power each state has.

The Supreme Court justices’ ruling came as the nation’s largest association of statisticians, and even the U.S. Census Bureau’s own census takers and partners, have been raising questions about the quality of the data being gathered — numbers that are used to determine how much federal funding and how many congressional seats are allotted to states.

After the Supreme Court’s decision, the Census Bureau said field operations would end on Thursday.

At issue was a request by the Trump administration that the Supreme Court suspend

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a lower court’s order extending the 2020 census through the end of October following delays caused by the pandemic. The Trump administration argued that the head count needed to end immediately to give the bureau time to meet a year-end deadline. Congress requires the bureau to turn in by Dec. 31 the figures used to decide the states’ congressional seats — a process known as apportionment.

By sticking to the deadline, the Trump administration would end up controlling the numbers used for the apportionment, no matter who wins next month’s presidential election.

In a statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the Supreme Court’s decision “regrettable and disappointing,” and said the administration’s actions “threaten to politically and financially exclude many in America’s most vulnerable communities from our democracy.”

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the high court’s decision, saying “respondents will suffer substantial injury if the Bureau is permitted to sacrifice accuracy for expediency.”

The Supreme Court ruling came in response to a lawsuit by a coalition of local governments and civil rights groups, arguing that minorities and others in hard-to-count communities would be missed if the census ended early. They said the schedule was cut

Minority communities will likely be undercounted due to an early closure of the U.S. Census. short to accommodate a July order from President Donald Trump that would exclude people in the country illegally from being counted in the numbers used for apportionment.

Opponents of the order said it followed the strategy of the late Republican redistricting guru, Thomas Hofeller, who had advocated using voting-age citizens instead of the total population when it came to drawing legislative seats since that would favor Republicans and non-Hispanic whites.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California sided with the plaintiffs and issued an injunction suspending a Sept.

30 deadline for finishing the 2020 census and a Dec. 31 deadline for submitting the apportionment numbers. That caused the deadlines to revert back to a previous Census Bureau plan that had field operations ending Oct. 31 and the reporting of apportionment figures at the end of April 2021.

When the Census Bureau, and the Commerce Department, which oversees the statistical agency, picked an Oct. 5 end date, Koh struck that down too, accusing officials of “lurching

from one hasty, unexplained plan to the next ... and undermining the credibility of the Census Bureau and the 2020 Census.”

An appellate court panel upheld Koh’s order allowing the census to continue through October but struck down the part that suspended the Dec. 31 deadline for turning in apportionment numbers. The panel of three appellate judges said that just because the year-end deadline is impossible to meet doesn’t mean the court should require the Census Bureau to miss it.

The plaintiffs said the ruling against them was not a total loss, as millions more people were counted during the extra two weeks.

“Every day has mattered, and the Supreme Court’s order staying the preliminary injunction does not erase the tremendous progress that has been made as a result of the district court’s rulings,” said Melissa Sherry, one of the attorneys for the coalition.

Besides deciding how many congressional seats each state gets, the census helps determine how $1.5 trillion in federal funding is distributed each year.

KS unemployment system recovering from backlog

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — When Ryan Wright was tapped

by Gov. Laura Kelly to take over the Kansas Department of Labor in June, coronavirus had ruthlessly gutted the state’s economy and overwhelmed the agency responsible for delivering timely financial aid to people thrown out of work.

The unprecedented wave of joblessness meant people were unable to get through to

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labor department call centers. The agency’s creaky computer system showed its age.

A backlog of claims kept expanding. Politicians eager to highlight weaknesses in the Kelly administration had a heyday. Then, the labor department tried to claw back incorrect payments and some of those transactions overdrafted unemployed Kansans’ bank accounts. It cost labor secretary Delia Garcia her job, and ushered in the Wright era.

In an interview, Wright said the addition of full-time and temporary staff and a series of IT network patches had helped stabilize the system. He also said his

office had blocked about 55,000 attempts at fraud.

Just as no magical remedy for COVID-19 has emerged, neither has a silver bullet for what challenges the labor department.

“I used to hear a lot about people not getting through, not getting responses,” Wright said.

“Right now, we’re hearing a lot about identity theft. I heard from a conservative legislator the other day, ‘Thank you.

We can tell you’re doing stuff there.’”

The Kansas unemployment trust fund had $900 million at outset of the pandemic. If it goes dry, the state can borrow from the federal government. What is the fund’s status?

“It was very healthy.

We’ve been, of course, drawing down on that.

We expect it will go insolvent after the first of the year. As of about a month ago … we were just hitting kind of where we were at when the great recession started, that $600 million mark.”

“To date, we’ve stopped 55,000 fraudulent claims. It’s all targeted to the PUA program. To give you some idea of the scope, the U.S. Department of Labor’s office of inspector general estimates that this is costing taxpayers $8 billion nationally.

Kansas is not out of the norm. This is absolutely hitting every state right now.”

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“Candyland” theme Noon — Kansas City Cobras marching band performance.

12:30 p.m. — Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy performance.

Noon to 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. — Fun Times Shows Carnival.

Sunday

6 p.m. to 10 p.m. — Fun Times Shows Carnival.

Note that this year’s medallion has already been found, and no additional hunts will take place.

TO ENSURE guests are safe as well as have

a good time, a series of changes have been implemented due to COVID-19.

Everyone who can is asked to wear a mask or facial covering in order to protect themselves and others.

Please be respectful of this precaution, and take advantage of extra handwashing stations that will be available throughout the celebration and at the carnival.

Please practice social distancing, maintaining at least 6 feet between yourself and others, as much as possible.

To encourage social distancing during the

Iola Rotary Club’s float in last year’s Farm-City Days parade. FILE PHOTO parade, the route has been extended. It will begin at the usual spot at the corner of Jefferson and Monroe, travel south on Jefferson, turn west on Madison until reaching Walnut,

Clubines: Farming tradition

turn north on Walnut and return to Monroe.

Hosts ask that no candy or any other items be thrown or handed out to passersby.

The number of food vendors has been pur-

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world, “both embryos and cows.”

He said he got his start working for Ivan Strickler, when, shortly after getting married, Strickler offered him a job while working in Independence.

Today, Clubine is farm manager at Strickler Dairy, which according to him means, “if something breaks, I’m the one in charge.”

He noted that owner Steve Strickler is gone quite a bit, and so the day-to-day management of the dairy falls to him.

He certainly doesn’t mind, though, and said he enjoys “making sure everything gets done,” even when he has to do something on his own.

In total, Clubine manages nine other employees, including Steve, though jokes that “Steve doesn’t count.”

He noted that “all we do is dairy,” and so they buy feed from others in order to focus on the needs of their cows.

“My job’s to make sure we’ve got feed for the cattle,” he said.

degree from Emporia State University.

Linda remembers searching for kindergarten teaching jobs during her senior year at Fort Hays. She found one at Jefferson Elementary School in Iola in 1971.

She would stay with the district for 46 years.

Dan grew up in Neligh, Neb. His father was a district manager for Nebraska Public Power, and whose boss was Johnny Carson’s dad.

Although Dan’s dad got to meet the late night host, Dan never did.

Dan and Linda’s paths crossed, quite literally, in Topeka.

Dan and a friend were cruising up and down Topeka’s main drag when they saw Linda and a group of other teachers who were in town for a meeting. Dan stopped to chat and invited her out to eat.

When asked what attracted her to Dan, Linda was momentarily stumped. “I don’t know.

I just liked him. He was funny, I guess. He was nice.”

“We’ve been married too long,” Dan interjected, taking her off the hot seat.

He thought she had a good sense of humor, and was impressed by how much she loved children.

The couple married in 1973, after Dan’s service in the Air Force. He completed his education on a GI Bill at Pittsburg State University. He later took a job as a technician with Copy Products in Iola, where he would remain until retirement 35 years later.

They raised three boys: Rick, of Wilm-

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five years ago the dairy also picked up the longstanding tradition of inviting people out to the farm for tours.

Clubine said he thinks that this is a worthwhile practice, and hopes that “city” industries will open their doors to more people in the future, so as to continue the tradition as well.

It’s a good thing to “get a better understanding of each other’s lifestyle,” he said.

For example, when asked what a dairy farmer can teach people, he laughed and said “brown cows don’t give chocolate milk.”

On a more serious note, he remarked that from 1930 to 2020, there are one-quarter the number of cows being milked, yet production has doubled.

ALONG with dayto-day operations on the farm, Clubine has served in various administrative capacities as well.

He’s a past president of Allen County Farm Bureau, as well as having served on the board for four years.

He’s been a dairy committee representative for southeastern Kansas, as well as a member of the State

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Holstein Association Board.

Clubine serves as a member of the Farm City Days committee, and also helps out with Strickler Dairy’s recycling efforts.

“If someone needs a tote, I go take ‘em a tote,” he grinned.

This year, the Clubines were also chosen as the Farm Bureau Allen County Farm Family of the Year.

“We’re real active in the community,” he said.

REGARDING being chosen as this year’s grand marshals, “it’s an honor,” he said, and in doing so is happy to carry on a family tradition.

His parents, Frank and Carolyn, were marshals, as were his sister, Debbie Bearden and her husband DuWayne Clubine also joked that rather than ride in a top-down convertible, he and his wife decided they would ride in a tractor instead.

As for future plans, “I’ll be here until I retire,” he said. “I enjoy working with the cows.”

“I’m a transplanted Allen Countian that enjoys living here and workin’ on my job.”

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Please be kind, patient and respectful of the decisions of others with regard to all of the above precautions.

For additional information, including vendor forms and sponsor lists, visit farmcitydays.com.

Find the Farm City Days page on Facebook for more details, and vote on this year’s photo contest. The categories include Allen County History, Farm or City, Nature or Landscape.

You can also call 620365-5252 or email farmcitydays@gmail.com.

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I’ll be here until I retire. I enjoy working with the cows. I’m a transplanted Allen Countian that enjoys living here and workin’ on my job.

posefully limited, and all vendors are being asked to keep a safe distance between displays on East Street.

Those participating in the car and motorcycle show are asked to leave every other parking space open.

Be aware that during the carnival, the number of people allowed in certain areas at any one time may be limited.

Social distancing will be practiced on carnival rides where it is possible, with spaces left between seats, which may increase wait-times.

Carnival staff will take extra precautions with cleaning, which

ington, Del.; Chad, of Union, N.J.; and Bryan, of Iola. They also have six grandchildren.

AFTER 46 years of teaching kindergarten — with two sessions before Iola schools went to all-day kindergarten — Linda has taught hundreds of students. She’s never counted them, though she’s thought about pulling out old yearbooks and giving it a shot.

“My career was very rewarding,” she said. “I enjoyed the little ones and how they remember you when they get older.”

It’s pretty common for her to cross paths with a former student. More often than not (at least, before the coronavirus) they want to give her a hug.

Sometimes, though, she needs to ask their name. She always remembers them.

“They change in looks so much from the time they’re in kindergarten to, well, when they grow up,” she said.

Dan, who also enjoyed his career and the interactions he had with clients, clearly admires how much Linda still means to her former students.

“I know you’ve got to have a job so you can make money, but you need to find a job you enjoy doing, that’s more like a hobby than a job,” he said.

“WE DO a lot of volunteering,” Linda said.

Together, they volunteer at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, Second Chance Thrift Store and the commodity food distribution at the Wes-

ley United Methodist Church. They also help with the recycling program.

Years ago, they were part of the Jaycees, which they think may have been their first volunteer service.

Dan is part of the Elks Club and the Iola Rotary Club. He’s been in several community theater performances. He also plays with the Iola Municipal Band, the Southeast Kansas symphony orchestra and takes part in the Christmas Vespers program.

Linda volunteers with Wesley’s afterschool program, Seeds and Sprouts. She also serves with the PEO Club and Daughters of the American Revolution. She’s on the Iola Reads committee for the Friends of the Library.

Before the coronavirus, Linda volunteered with the hospital auxiliary and read to first graders at Jefferson in the morning before school. Because of the pandemic, she can no longer go into the hospital or schools.

And every year, Linda offers her paper-cutting skills to the kindergarten teachers at McKinley Elementary School.

She spends most of her evenings cutting out numbers, letters and shapes so the teachers can focus on other things.

“I know how much cutting they have to do, and even though they have paras, they need that time to connect with students,” Linda said. “I can sit at home and watch television and cut paper. They’ve always got something that I can help with.”

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Area schools get nearly $1 million for STEM, distance learning

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Schools in Allen County can expect a boost in STEM programs thanks to nearly a million dollars in grants from the USDA. The grants will benefit schools in four counties: Allen, Franklin, Neosho and Woodson.

The grants were announced by the USDA Thursday and total $943,163. They will provide science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) classes to students in rural areas.

They’ll also enable Neosho County Community College to create new STEM distance learning capabilities in Chanute and Ottawa, to serve surrounding rural areas including Frank-

lin County, and Neosho County schools especially with increased allied health courses needed to improve residents’ health and to decrease out-migration.

In particular, the grants will provide schools with an Anatomage Interactive Table used for anatomy and physiology classes. The Anatomage Interactive Table used for anatomy and tables provide 3-D, vir- physiology classes. tual dissection of the human body. The table Valley schools also will chase 20 iMac computers and “zSpace” virtual shows a to-scale virtual receive a table.

Each table is valued reality units for STEM body, offering students education (30 for elea chance to examine at $70,000.

In addition, Hum- mentary, 30 for middle the anatomy and physiology similar to what boldt and Marmaton school and high school).

Students last year would be done during Valley schools received saw a presentation from grant money for STEM dissection of a corpse. a technology center in The Regional Rural programs.

Wichita, which offered Technical Center at Laengineering activities.

Harpe will receive a ta- Humboldt The district will re- Superintendent Kay ble for its Allied Health ceive $382,960 in grant Lewis said the students program. were enthralled by the Schools in the Hum- money.

It will be used to pur- program, so she wanted bodlt and Marmaton

US, 7 countries sign NASA accords setting rules for moon exploration dpa

NEW YORK — NASA on Tuesday announced that the United States and seven other nations had signed accords that establish rules for space exploration.

The Artemis Accords, named after the U.S. space agency’s program to land astronauts on the moon by 2024, were signed by Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy and the United Arab Emirates.

Through Artemis, NASA aims to establish sustainable lunar surface exploration with its international partners by 2028, as a stepping stone to the first human mission to Mars.

The principles laid out in the accords ensure a shared understanding of safe operations, use of space resources, minimizing orbital debris and sharing scientific data.

Major space powers China and Russia were not among the signatories, though NASA hopes more countries will eventually join.

“Artemis will be the broadest and most diverse international hu-

A Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter for the Artemis-1 mission is unloaded from a barge at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (Gregg Newton/AFP/Getty Images/ TNS)

man space exploration program in history, and the Artemis Accords are the vehicle that will establish this singular global coalition,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said.

“With today’s signing, we are uniting with our partners to explore the moon and are establishing vital principles that will create a safe, peaceful and prosperous future in space for all of humanity to enjoy,” he added.

NASA said the accords would help avoid conflict in space and on earth by strengthening mutual understanding and reducing misperceptions.

ture forced her to accept local control of most of those decisions, and Kelly said Tuesday during a Statehouse news conference that she wants to keep businesses open.

“A much more effective way is to have the local buy-in,” Kelly said.

“The better way to do it rather than using the hammer is to continue to work closely with local officials, local public health officials.”

As of Monday, Kansas had had nearly 68,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 771 deaths from the disease since the start of the pandemic, according to the state Department of Health and Environment.

Kansas law gives the state health department’s top administrator the authority to issue orders “as may be medically necessary and reasonable” to con-

trol “diseases injurious to the public health,” including by quarantining individuals. The health department’s head, Dr. Lee Norman, said last week that Kansas was “losing the battle” to check the coronavirus.

The governor offered a more optimistic assessment, saying Kansas can slow the virus, just as it appeared to do from late May to mid-June, before the average number of new daily cases began rising again, eventually to record levels.

“I’m not going to micromanage the counties,” Kelly said.

Kelly kept a statewide stay-at-home order this spring that stayed in effect for five weeks, then set statewide restrictions on businesses and public gatherings for another month, through Memorial Day in May. She also issued a statewide order in July re-

students to robotics and engineering concepts at an early age.

The district also will receive special overhead projectors that will enhance distance learning opportunities for remote students. The projectors are used in the classroom but also can be viewed remotely.

The district will also receive three virtual reality goggles that will allow students to explore regions of the world.

“We’ll be able to take students virtually to parts of the world most of our kids will probably never experience, like the Sistine Chapel or the pyramids of Egypt,” Superintendent Kim Ensminger said. “When the English classes are discussing Shakespeare, they can take a tour of where he lived.”

Marmaton Valley

The district will receive about $130,000 in grant money.

The money will be used for a “Kinderlab” robotic activity center to introduce preschool

Germany to give millions to Holocaust survivors

By DAVID RISING The Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has agreed to provide more than a half billion euros to aid Holocaust survivors struggling under the burdens of the coronavirus pandemic, the organization that negotiates compensation with the German government said Wednesday.

The payments will be going to approximately 240,000 survivors around the world, primarily in Israel, North America, the former Soviet Union and Western Europe, over the next two years, according to the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference.

With the end of World War II now 75 years in the past, Holocaust survivors are all elderly, and because many were deprived of proper nutrition when they were young today they suffer from numerous medical issues. In addition, many live isolated lives having lost their entire families and also have psychological issues because of their persecution under the Nazis.

“There’s this kind of standard response for survivors, that ‘we’ve been through worse, I’ve been through worse and if I survived the Holocaust, through the deprivation of food and what we had to go through, I’ll get through this,’” said Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Claims Conference, in a telephone interview from New York with The Associated Press.

“But if you probe deeper you understand the depths of trauma that still resides within people.”

Many are also on the poverty line, and the additional costs of masks and other protective gear, delivery groceries and other pandemic-related expenses has been crushing for many, Schneider said.

“You’re teetering between making it every month,” he said. “Having to decide between food, medicine and rent.”

The new funds are targeted to Jews who aren’t receiving pensions already from Germany, primarily people who fled the Nazis and ended up in Russia and elsewhere to hide during the war.

Schneider said about

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to bring it to the district for students to incorporate into classroom learning.

“You could hear a pin drop, they were so focused on what they were doing and using their brains to try to figure out how to make it work,” Lewis said.

“We want to give our students as many opportunities as possible in a small district.”

Elementary school students will also receive virtual reality units that allow them to “travel” to regions of the world.

quiring people to wear masks in public, though state law allowed counties to opt out.

Meanwhile, in Lawrence, the public school district modified its plans to move from online classes to having students attend in person part of the week because of concerns expressed by teachers and other staff.

The district plans to

have its high school students attend in-person classes only one day a week, instead of the two days that were initially planned, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. Students in lower grades will have in-person classes two days a week, but the school board decided late Monday to delay that until Nov. 9 for elementary schools.

50% of Holocaust survivors in the U.S. live in Brooklyn and were particularly hard-hit when New York was the center of the American outbreak, but now numbers are looking worse in Israel and other places.

“It’s a rolling calamity,” he said.

Each of those survivors will receive two payments of 1,200 euros

($1,400) over the next two years, for an overall commitment of approximately 564 million euros ($662 million) to some of the poorest survivors alive today.

The funds come on top of an emergency $4.3 million the Claims Conference distributed in the spring to agencies providing care for survivors.

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ment, for example, determined that it could not make a hire that it had desired.

As to how the funds will be spent, some possibilities include buying more touchless technologies for public buildings such as the courthouse, increased courtroom security and improvements to the senior center.

PUBLIC works director Mitch Garner said that problems continue in the area of Nebraska Road, where soil is being hauled out by heavy trucks.

Too many trucks passing through had prevented repairs, he said, and so other solutions were attempted, including road closures.

Garner and commissioners again posed the question as to whether the soil remediation company hauling dirt to the new elementary school site should have to compensate the county for any damages caused.

Commissioner Bruce Symes inquired about designating a

truck route, but Garner said that then trucks would end up damaging other nearby roads such as 2000th Street.

The plan is to eventually return the roads in question to gravel, or as commissioner Bill King put it, “break an egg to make an omelette.”

Heavy trucks will be passing through the area for the next 2.5 years, so all agreed that more permanent solutions would need to be found.

Heavy trucks had also been hauling gravel to windmills in the area, but not using the right roads to do so, said commissioner Jerry Daniels, but noted that the problem had been “corrected.”

NEXT week, due to the opening of advanced voting, which begins today, commissioners will meet in their regular room upstairs.

Drop boxes will also be available in Iola north of the courthouse and in Humboldt at the new ambulance barn.

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It’s in the blood: Clues suggest pandemic may be around a while

By CELIA LLOPIS-JEPSEN Kansas News Service

Perhaps two in every 50 Kansans have antibodies swimming in their bloodstream that show they’ve had COVID-19.

That relatively low number — based on the assumption that blood donors reflect the broader population — suggests a gloomy reality.

Kansas is still in the early days of this pandemic and it’s looking at a future likely to bring many more cases than it has so far seen.

“Absolutely,” said Roger Shapiro, an immunologist at Harvard University’s School of Public Health. “When you look at these figures, you realize how far we are from herd immunity.”

The overwhelming number of Kansans, perhaps more than 95%, haven’t yet experienced the virus that has killed more than 200,000 Americans.

So medical pros say the only thing to do is sit tight, keep your masks on and stay away from other people, until we have a vaccine.

That, and get a flu shot.

“This is not the time to play a guessing game of, ‘Do I have the flu or do I have COVID?’” said Gigi Gronvall, an immunologist at Johns Hopkins’ Center for Health Security.

Many people still can’t get fast coronavirus tests that would let them isolate in time to stop the disease from spreading further, and hospitals remain at risk of getting overwhelmed by coronavirus and flu cases this fall.

Clues in the blood

The human body produces antibodies when exposed to a disease, to fend it off. And those microscopic defenders can stick around after recovery.

So the American Red Cross screens blood donations for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19.

It then sends plasma with the specialized proteins to hospitals treating coronavirus patients, and it reports how often it detects the antibodies to state health agencies trying to piece together the bigger picture.

Nationally, the Red Cross has tested about

“ ... Maybe up to 10% of the world has been infected.

But even at that number, we’re still so far from achieving herd immunity. … We really need to create immunity with a vaccine.”

— Roger Shaprio, Harvard School of Public Health

1.2 million blood donations for the antibodies.

From mid-June to mid-September, it found them in about 2% of donations nationally.

The same was true for Kansas donors. It’s not known how well that statistic might reflect the broader population.

Weekly tallies suggest the number of people carrying the antibodies has ticked upward in Kansas, as elsewhere.

In recent weeks, the Red Cross reported antibodies in 4% to 5% of Kansas donations.

Could someone with antibodies catch the virus again a year from now and get seriously sick? How about two years from now? Or could they catch it, not show any symptoms, and spread the virus anyway? Scientists can’t yet say.

“This is not a get-outof-jail-free card,” Gronvall said. If a test shows you have antibodies, she said, you should still wear a mask and follow social distancing rules.

Recent reports of a few patients catching the novel coronavirus more than once in a relatively short time may not signal what to expect for most people, but leave open the possibility that one infection doesn’t protect you against another.

Greater risk

The Red Cross reported in a medical journal last month that blood donations from people of color test positive for the antibodies at a higher rate than blood from white donors.

That matches other research that shows

communities of color bearing the brunt of the pandemic. It likely reflects broader social and economic disparities, such as lower incomes and a greater likelihood of working high-risk jobs that involve in-person contact with many customers or colleagues in a single day.

The virus spread fast in crowded Kansas meatpacking plants, for example, that rely heavily on the labor of people of color in southwest Kansas.

The need for a vaccine

Some studies and modeling point to higher antibody rates nationally and globally than the Red Cross has seen among blood donors, but still don’t offer good news.

“The (World Health Organization) just came out with an estimate that maybe up to 10% of the world has been infected,” Shapiro said.

“But even at that number, we’re still so far from achieving herd immunity. … We really need to create immunity with a vaccine.”

Vaccines mimic natural infections. They kick a person’s immune system into gear so that it churns out antibodies and stores viral information in memory cells that could defend us even after those antibodies fade. (Researchers have found SARS-CoV-2 antibodies triggered by natural infection two or even three months after infection, and say it varies from person to person.)

Ongoing coronavirus vaccine trials aim to check how protective

these immune responses will prove long-term, and whether people will need booster shots over time to keep their defenses up.

Part of the benefit from vaccines will ultimately come from the sheer number of people who would gain some level of protection at once.

“As we get to high enough vaccine levels, the herd immunity will actually just lower the amount of virus that’s circulating,” Shapiro said. “There will be just less virus around. This is our hope.”

Should you get an antibody test?

The Red Cross’ free antibody tests serve three functions.

They gather the information that helps public

health experts studying the virus’ spread, and they allow the Red Cross to flag plasma with antibodies for hospitals.

Scientists still can’t say whether the donated plasma works for treating COVID-19. A separate, lab-based approach, may prove more effective.

But either way, donations remain as critical as ever to the nation’s blood supply.

And that’s a third reason for offering antibody tests. They attract people to keep donating amid the pandemic.

The Red Cross uses respected tests, and when a blood sample proves positive for antibodies, it double-checks with a second, high-quality process.

For people who had

respiratory symptoms in recent months — but couldn’t get checked for COVID-19 because of the nationwide shortage of viral tests — that may satisfy their curiosity.

And that could help keep donations flowing as the pandemic hampers traditional blood drives, such as a major annual effort that would have attracted thousands of donors next week.

“The biggest blood drive the Red Cross does across the country is at the University of Missouri in Columbia,” said Joe Zydlo, a regional communications manager in St. Louis. “And that has been canceled.”

Meanwhile, Gronvall advises against buying an antibody test somewhere. After all, the information won’t help you medically, she said, and many products are unreliable anyway.

“There’s just been so many bad tests out there,” she said. “Right now I would not spend money on it.”

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

~ Journalism that makes a difference

Dangers of absolute power shown in full relief A gaffe, one famous political writer once explained, is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

By that measure, Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle came up with a show-stopper in late September, while speaking to a conservative group called the Wichita Pachyderm Club. Video of the speech was posted on Facebook.

Republicans need to win two-thirds majorities in both houses of the Kansas Legislature this year, Wagle told an unmasked, un-distanced audience.

To fully fund schools, or make health insurance more accessible? To make the state safer in the COVID-19 pandemic? To help the economy?

No. Wagle wants supermajorities in both houses so her party can rig the redistricting process to elect and protect Republican candidates.

She wasn’t subtle. “During redistricting, I need to give (my potential successor) some more Republican neighborhoods in order to make sure she stays elected,” Wagle said.

Without a supermajority, Wagle added, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly could veto a congressional map that “takes out Sharice Davids” in the 3rd Congressional District in Kansas.

“I guarantee you, we can draw four Republican congressional maps,” Wagle said. “But we can’t do it unless we have a two-thirds majority in the (state) Senate and the House.”

First things first: Wagle is leaving state government in January, so she won’t have a direct role in drawing any maps for anything. In fact, Wagle’s statements make it more likely the process will end up in court, where the issue was decided the last time Kansas went through this process.

But her claims were clarifying, because they demonstrate just how far some conservative Republicans are willing to go to cling to power. We now know Wagle, and others who share her views, have no interest in fair representation or political balance.

They want to protect themselves and will gleefully gerrymander to do so. The only way to stop them is to elect fair-minded Republicans and Democrats willing to oppose it.

In an email, Wagle claimed

the video clip posted on social media distorted her views, without explaining how. “I’m working tirelessly … to make sure Republicans keep control of the state Legislature as a check on Gov. Kelly’s liberal policies and to make sure we have a powerful seat at the reapportionment table,” she said.

But Wagle didn’t argue for control of the Legislature, which her party will almost certainly maintain. She wants veto-proof control, so Republicans can unilaterally impose partisan maps that last for a decade.

Gov. Kelly responded Friday by proposing the creation of a nonpartisan redistricting commission when census data comes in, and new maps are drawn. It’s a good idea, but it has little chance of becoming law unless moderate Republicans and Democrats in Topeka can assemble a working majority next year.

Wagle’s rambling address to the Pachyderm Club produced other eyebrow-raising moments. She said Davids is “very likely the winner” in her race with Republican Amanda Adkins.

“We are losing northeast Kansas,” Wagle said. “We’re losing our cities.” Again, it’s the truth. And a more reflective politician might try to figure out why that is.

Perhaps it’s because the suburbs and urban neighborhoods are tired of Wagle and her colleagues dividing the country. In her speech, she said this year’s choice is between “law and order or riots.” Voters here know that’s a false choice, even if Susan Wagle does not.

Maybe they’re fed up with politicians ignoring science and facts. “We’ve learned that children just really, they don’t catch (COVID-19),” she told the club. “We could open safely.”

In July, a pediatric patient in Kansas died from COVID-19.

Or maybe cities and the suburbs have simply been worn out by legislators who are more interested in their own power and aggrandizement than in the problems of the people they serve.

Kansans have the chance to change that in just a few weeks, and prevent Wagle and her allies from further polluting the state’s politics.

— The Kansas City Star

‘Get big or get out’ not for me

By JASON SCHMIDT The Kansas Reflector

“In America, the big get bigger and the small get out,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced to a crowd of dairy farmers a year ago.

This march toward “progress” has been the steady underlying theme of our country’s relationship with agriculture and land use.

From the “settling” of the west, to the destruction of the prairies, to the broad adoption of industrial models of producing food, farming looks nothing like the Jeffersonian agrarian vision of a democracy centered around the small farmer.

But this “progress” has failed society and the environment. Economic externalities such as social and ecological health have been thrown by the wayside in this race for highest yields, advanced technology and corporate profits.

My roots run deep in this farming culture. Over the past 145 years and five generations, my family has called this small central Kansas farm home. My family has never been the largest or most advanced farmers, but each generation did its best to keep up with the times. It is a great testament to sheer perseverance and hard work that from my great great-grandparents’ pioneering, subsistence farming lives in the 1870s to my parents’ Grade A dairy and commodity crops, this farm has stayed operational.

I, on the other hand, was not necessarily well suited to chase this “progress.” I was that kid who would rather spend my summers down by the creek catching frogs and minnows rather than learning my way around a diesel tractor engine. As a young adult, my Mennonite roots drew me towards social justice and international development work.

But along my journey as a young person, I began to realize this connection between environmental health and human health. Through mentorships with college professors and organic farmers, I gained a new perspective: Rather than the paradigm that views farming as being in conflict with nature, we actually need

Since taking over his father’s dairy operation a decade ago, Jason Schmidt has built a niche market for artisan cheeses. Here he is pictured with Jersey Girl. (Submitted to Kansas Reflector) to realize that we are a part adoptable. I have much to of nature and depend on a learn and improve in the arhealthy ecosystem for our eas of pasture management own well-being. and successful no-till cropWhile a seemingly innoc- ping methods. uous difference, this change But I do feel I am part of a forced me to consider asking growing revolution of farmnot what can I get out of the ers and consumers who reland to be profitable, but how alize the industrial model of can I first be a steward of the food production is broken, land and the broader ecosys- and we desperately need to tem I am a part figure out how of. And, for betfarming can be ter or worse, a part of the Farming with nature mitigation of I realized my c o n n e c t i o n has so much potential climate change to my Kansas to not only lower on- and also adapt farming roots to a warming was stronger farm carbon use, but climate. Farmthan I realized. also for managing our ing with nature cropland and pastures has so much SO 10 years as a carbon sink rather potential to not ago I pivoted, only lower onand my wife, than a carbon emitter. farm carbon parents and I use, but also made plans to for managing return to my our cropland family’s farm. and pastures as a carbon sink We worked out a five-year rather than a carbon emitter. transition for me take over I am excited to be on this the dairy operation, while my farming journey to revoludad kept his cropland. And I tionize the way we produce began my quest to figure out food that is no longer exa way that would allow me to tractive and industrial but refarm with nature (currently, storative and ecological. That a pasture-based small dairy is intentionally small and with diverse mixes of peren- community oriented. nial pastures and annual covSo, join me as consumers er crops looking toward the and citizens in advancing this native prairies as my model), revolution. Know your farmand also jumping out of the ers. Support food grown ecoconventional expectations of logical with your dollars (if getting big (developing niche you can) by purchasing grassmarkets and on-farm process- fed animal products, organiing of artisan cheeses). cally produced food and other To Sonny Perdue, I say, ecologically labeled foods.

“Get big or get weird!”

And insist that our poliI humbly admit that I have ticians legislate for climate no idea if my vision will action. This revolution can’t be successful or is broadly happen soon enough!

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

In the Aug. 4 primary, Allen County voters approved a measure to loosen the county’s liquor laws be put on the Nov. 3 ballot.

The measure eliminates the restriction on entertainment and dining establishments from having at least 30% of their sales come from food. If approved, such established can sell just alcohol.

In their support of the measure appearing on the ballot, Allen County commis-

sioners said they viewed it as “economic development.”

Now that we have had a little time to recover from that shock, we still have time to ask why.

In my opinion, alcohol dulls the brain and alters the mind causing many troubles and problems.

These establishments make plenty of money without having to rely so much on the sales of alcohol.

Bonnie Johnson, Iola, Kan.

Miriam Goertzen-Regier, Grazing Plains cheese maker, puts the finishing touches on a batch of dill Havarti cheese. (Submitted to Kansas Reflector)

Jason Schmidt’s children, Greta and Ethan, beat the heat in a stock tank. (Submitted to Kansas Reflector)

How to contact USD 257’s elected officials

Jennifer Coltrane Email: jennifer.coltrane@ usd257.org

Doug Dunlap Email: doug.dunlap@usd257. org

Jerad Larkey Email: jerad.larkey@usd257. org

Tony Leavitt Email: tony.leavitt@usd257. org

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Dan Willis Email: dan.willis@usd257.org

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Murder Retiring Wagle makes one last push suspect Outgoing Senate sentenced president eyes redistricting

By SHERMAN SMITH and TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Democrats blasted Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle on Friday for recent comments she made about the desire to redraw legislative and congressional district boundaries in Kansas to favor Republicans.

Wagle, a Republican from Wichita who is retiring from the Legislature after withdrawing from the U.S. Senate race, told a gathering of Republicans last month that the party needs to secure a supermajority in the Legislature to craft new maps in 2022 that would keep her seat in GOP hands and prevent Democrats from maintaining a foothold in the 3rd congressional district.

The comments enflamed Democrats who have accused Republicans of exploiting their political power to gerrymander political boundaries. Gov. Laura Kelly said the comments are an indication that Kansas should form a nonpartisan commission to make the maps.

Wagle said recasting the congressional districts would inhibit the ability of Democratic U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids to retain her seat.

Additionally, Wagle’s own district has shifted to the left, the senate president explained. If Republican state Rep. Renee Erickson can defeat Democrat Melissa Gregory for Wagle’s seat, Wagle said, the Republican will need help to hang onto it.

“During redistricting, I need to give her some more Republican neighborhoods in order to make sure she stays elected,” Wagle said.

“So redistricting, it’s right around the corner. And if Governor Kelly can veto a Republican bill that gives us four Republican congressmen, that takes out Sharice Davids up in the 3rd — we can do that. I guarantee you we can draw four Republican congressional maps. But we can’t do it unless we have a twothirds majority in the Senate and House.”

Davis Hammet, a voting rights activist, published on social media Friday a video of Wa-

Senate President Susan Wagle said Republicans could redraw self-serving legislative and congressional districts as long as they have a two-thirds majority in the Statehouse to override a veto by Gov. Laura Kelly. KANSAS REFLECTOR/SHERMAN SMITH

I guarantee you we can draw four Republican congressional maps. But we can’t do it unless we have a two-thirds majority in the Senate and House.

— Susan Wagle, outgoing Kansas Senate president

gle’s comments, which were made during a Sept. 25 speech at the Pachyderm Club in Wichita.

Davids, who is seeking re-election in the 3rd District anchored

by Johnson and Wyandotte counties, said Kansas would benefit from a nonpartisan redistricting process. She is competing against GOP nominee Amanda Adkins.

“Corrupt politicians are using partisan gerrymandering to manipulate our already broken political system so it benefits their extreme agenda, not hardworking Kansans,” Davids said. “I believe every elected official should be accountable to the people they represent.

That means we need a redistricting process that’s independent, non-partisan and creates truly representative districts.”

Outcome of the state Senate race between Erickson and Gregory will be decided Nov. 3.

Erickson didn’t respond to a request for comment, but Gregory said residents of the east Wichita district were weary of the “extremism of Susan Wagle and her handpicked replacement, Renee Erickson.”

The redistricting flap was one more reason the election is critical to Kansas’ future, Gregory said.

“To move Kansas forward, we need bipartisan cooperation to cre-

ate a map that is best for Kansans, not one that is best for the extremists of either political party,” she said. “We need to expand Medicaid to 150,000 Kansans, protect coverage for their pre-existing conditions and restore jobs in a way that keeps us all safe and healthy. But that won’t happen if politicians get to choose their voters.”

Redistricting is performed each decade following completion of the U.S. Census. The population count is relied upon to set boundaries of U.S. House districts, which there are four in Kansas, as well as the 165 state legislative districts and the 10 state Board of Education districts.

Vicki Hiatt, chairwoman of the Kansas Democratic Party, called the video “a cynical and extremely disappointing display of the extremist, obstructionist politics that have marked Republican leadership in the Kansas Legislature.”

“Susan Wagle just said the quiet part of Republicans’ strategy to manipulate our districts out loud,” Hiatt said. “By promising to gerrymander districts in the Kansas Legislature and write Rep. Sharice Davids out of office, Republican leadership just made it clear they intend to undermine the voices of hardworking Kansans.”

Kelly responded to

the Wagle’s comments by revealing her intention to urge legislative leaders to support her idea for a nonpartisan voting commission to oversee redistricting, rather than leave the map making up to the Legislature.

“A democracy means voters choose their elected officials — not elected officials choosing their voters,” Kelly said. “Kansans deserve to know where their leaders stand on an issue that will impact our state for the next decade.”

C.J. Grover, spokesman for the Kansas Republican Party, said Kansans should vote

boundaries ought to reflect interests of those who win elections.

“Elections have consequences and there is no question reapportionment is a political process as it sets the table for both Congress and our Kansas Legislature for the next 10 years,” Wagle said. “I’m working tirelessly for the next 25 days to make sure Republicans keep control of the state Legislature as a check on Governor Kelly’s liberal policies and to make sure we have a powerful seat at the reapportionment table.”

Members of the Kansas Legislature draw the maps, which are subject to veto by the state’s governor.

In 2012, the House and Senate in Kansas failed to adopt a new district maps. Conflict between moderate and conservative Republicans in the Senate led to stalemate that triggered a lawsuit.

A three-judge panel in U.S. District Court intervened to draw the congressional and state legislative districts in June 2012. The federal judges wrote in an unsigned order they redrew the maps after weighing the proposals of 27 individuals allowed to intervene in the case.

“Most of the interveners have unabashedly political reasons for intervening and they

U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids is a Kansas Democrat seeking re-election in the 3rd District. SUBMITTED/KANSAS REFLECTOR

for Republicans in the upcoming election to ensure fair maps that reflect the will of the majority. He said it was laughable to suggest a duly elected supermajority of the Legislature could undermine the will of the people.

Following news reports about Wagle’s comments on redistricting, the Senate president said in a statement that the Democratic governor was certain to seek district maps beneficial to liberal unless the GOP checked her power to veto GOPdrawn maps.

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Hammet said the U.S. Supreme Court recognized last year that political gerrymandering is unjust but deferred to Congress and the states to fix the problem. Wagle’s comments, Hammet said, make it clear that “some Kansas leaders plan to exploit the problem.”

“Everyone knows that gerrymandering goes against the core values of the United States,” Hammet said.

“It’s a dirty trick to circumvent and undermine the will of voters.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man who federal prosecutors say they suspect in a Missouri decapitation killing was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in prison for stalking Kansas massage parlor workers in an unrelated case.

Senior U.S. District Judge Gary Fenner told 69-year-old Robert Gross that his history of violence was “extremely disturbing” in sentencing him for the stalking and firearms charges, The Kansas City Star reported.

Although he has not been charged with homicide, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jess Michaelsen said Gross had long been suspected in the August 2016 killing of Ying Li whose body was found inside her burning Kansas City apartment.

Federal law allows prosecutors to present information about uncharged crimes at sentencing.

Kansas City homicide detective Alane Booth said their investigation led them to conclude that Gross decapitated Li after he received a massage and had sex with her. Li was stabbed 18 times and her killer also cut off her fingers.

“This armed and dangerous criminal, with a history of stalking and violence toward women, will spend the rest of his life in prison,” said U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison.

Defense attorney John P. O’Connor declined to comment after the hearing, which lasted just under four hours.

In May 2019, Gross was found guilty on eight of the 10 charges that included stalking women who worked at massage parlors in Johnson County and in Lawrence. He was also convicted of possessing guns as a convicted felon and other firearms violations. Gross was acquitted on two counts of stalking.

Video played to jurors at trial showed Gross walking around a Lawrence massage parlor in 2017, at times naked, while berating a worker. The women told police their cars were keyed, screws drilled into their tires and their windows smashed out.

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By JULIE APPLEBY Kaiser Health News

President Donald Trump makes no secret he would like a COVID-19 vaccine to be available before the election. But it’s doubtful that will happen and, even after a vaccine wins FDA approval, there would be a long wait before it’s time to declare victory over the virus.

Dozens of vaccine candidates are in various testing stages around the world, with 11 in the last stage of preapproval clinical trials — including four in the U.S. One or more may prove safe and effective and enter the market in the coming months. What then?

Here are five things to know about a COVID-19 vaccine.

1. A vaccine is vital in fighting the virus, but it won’t be a quick pass back to our old lives.

Vaccines have helped rid the world of scourges like smallpox, but the process takes time and there are no guarantees. Until clinical trials have been completed on this first round of vaccine candidates, no one knows how effective they might prove to be.

The minimum requirement by the Food and Drug Administration for any COVID-19 vaccine is that it should at least prove 50% effective when compared with a placebo — that is, a neutral saline solution.

By comparison, the annual influenza vaccine ranges between 40% and 60% effective in preventing the illness, depending on the recipient and the season examined. In contrast, a full course of the measles vaccine is about 97% effective.

“It’s very unlikely that a first-generation vaccine will be something like a measles vaccine,” notes Dr. Amesh Adalja, a physician with expertise in infectious diseases and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.

2. After vaccines gain approval, the real-world evaluation ensues.

Vaccines undergo a protracted testing process involving thousands of subjects. They win FDA approval only

country won’t be able to return to “regular life” until “late second quarter, third quarter 2021,” Redfield predicted.

Dozens of vaccine candidates are in various testing stages around the world. after they demonstrate safety and meet at least the minimum standard of effectiveness. Monitoring continues after they hit the market; effectiveness and any rare side effects or safety issues become more apparent after millions of doses are given.

Hypothetically, let’s say the first new COVID vaccines prove 70% effective at preventing the disease. That would mean seven of every 10 people who roll up their sleeves will be protected, but three will not.

While that’s good news for those protected, questions remain about who is covered and who is still vulnerable. It’s possible, Adalja said, that the vaccine would reduce the severity of disease in the remaining three people, thereby helping cut hospitalizations and severe side effects.

But it’s also true that regulators are focused on whether a vaccine prevents disease. Some vaccines can keep you from getting sick without preventing infection, in which case you could still spread the virus even without exhibiting symptoms.

Mysteries remain, at least for now. Scientists don’t know how long the protection will last, for instance. Will protection fade, requiring annual shots, as with influenza? Or will it last for years?

Also, the COVID vaccine candidates are being tested only in adults so far. Most vaccine makers have delayed testing among children or pregnant and breastfeeding women, for example.

That could mean an initial lag in safety and efficacy data for those groups, complicating vaccination efforts for children or even frontline health care work-

ers, many of whom are women of childbearing age.

For all those reasons — “if you are looking for a magic wand, you won’t find one in vaccines,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious disease at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

“That said, vaccines will play a substantial role in reducing the epidemic.”

3. After a vaccine is approved, you still may need to wait awhile to get your shot.

Making vaccines is complicated. And so is distributing them. Vaccine makers say they are already producing vaccine in advance of knowing whether they will win approval. But simply having ample vaccine supply doesn’t mean manufacturers will have all the needed glass bottles, syringes or injectors to ship them right away. Indeed, some experts fear that a shortage of both production-line capabilities (special facilities are needed to make vaccines under strict sterile conditions) and limited supplies could hamper distribution of an approved vaccine. Many of the vaccine candidates must be shipped and stored at super-low temperatures, adding to the complexity.

“Even if you have the vaccine, that doesn’t mean you can ship it out. There are multiple, multiple steps, and all of them have to work,” said Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a vice provost at the University of Pennsylvania who has warned of potential shortages.

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Certain employers, such as hospitals or food production plants, could require their workers to be vaccinated, but a federal mandate is highly unlikely and probably would be unconstitutional, said professor Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, an expert on employer and vaccine law at the

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State and local health departments will also have a say in how supplies roll out.

Current recommendations say first in line will be health care workers and people with medical conditions that put them at highest risk if they get the virus. People living in nursing homes and other congregate settings will also be higher on the list. Further down are average healthy adults.

Pay attention, and go when it’s your turn, said Schaffner.

“If they say it’s time for people who are middle-aged and have chronic underlying illness such as diabetes, heart disease and lung disease, you have to know what you have and understand it’s your turn,” he said.

“You also have to understand if it’s not your turn yet. Be patient.”

Finally, many of the vaccines under consideration will require two doses spaced a few weeks apart, which would add to the delay.

If more than one vaccine is approved, which is likely, people will need the second dose to come from the same manufacturer as the first. That could prove a record-keeping nightmare and lead to more delays — depending on how vaccine supplies hold up.

In testimony before Congress in mid-September, CDC Director Robert Redfield said that tens of millions of doses of vaccine may start to become available by late November or December. But the logistics of vaccine distribution means the

4. So don’t throw out your masks yet.

Because any vaccine is likely to fall short of 100% effectiveness and won’t be in widespread distribution for a while, the use of masks and maintaining social distance will be required well into next year, experts say.

“The vaccine will be a start, but we’ll still need to do the things we’ve been discussing throughout — hand hygiene, wearing masks and continuing to remain specifically distant,” said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an assistant professor of infectious disease at the Medical University of South Carolina. “Those are the arsenal of tools we will need to use.”

University of California-Hastings College of Law. The likely approach of public health authorities is to educate people about the benefits and potential side effects of a vaccine — down to whether one might experience a sore arm.

“That’s what we do for every vaccine,” said Adalja of Johns Hopkins. A requirement of vaccination for the general public would create resistance and “foster conspiracy theories,” he said.

Most regulation of public health falls to state and local governments and health agencies, Reiss said. States would be “more likely to have narrow or specific mandates that could survive judicial review,” she said.

Schools, of course, require students to be vaccinated against a wide range of illnesses.

But a school-age COVID vaccine mandate is doubtful, at least in the near term, because the vaccine hasn’t been tested on school-aged children.

Generally speaking, employers, including the federal government, have the power to require vaccinations, especially if they don’t have a unionized workforce with a contract that might limit their power. All employers, however, face limits set by civil rights and disability laws and may have to provide alternatives for people who can’t or won’t get vaccinated, Reiss said.

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The sprint to find medical breakthroughs to contain COVID-19 stumbled this week, as a pair of pharmaceutical giants working to develop treatments and vaccines suffered setbacks in the clinic.

On Tuesday, Eli Lilly & Co. said that enrollment in a government-sponsored clinical trial of its antibody therapy had been paused out of safety concerns. That came less than 24 hours after Johnson & Johnson said research on its experimental vaccine was paused after a study volunteer fell ill.

The developments are likely to heighten worry that the pursuit of products to prevent and treat infections is moving too quickly. Regulators and drugmakers have faced questions about whether political pressure was overwhelming scientific rigor ahead of the presidential election on Nov. 3. Last week, President Donald Trump, trailing in the polls, touted antibody treatments as a cure, and his administration has pushed hard for the rapid approval of the treatments and a vaccine.

However, the trial complications are happening in an environment of intense scrutiny, executives and industry observers said, and the highly public nature of the hunt for vaccines and treatments is magnifying events that in other studies would be considered routine.

“I’m not surprised at all that these pauses are happening. Where I would be surprised is if they weren’t happening,” said Greg Poland,

director of the Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

The U.S. has poured nearly $18 billion into Operation Warp Speed, its program designed to hasten the development of virus drugs and inoculations. Companies have been moving at unprecedented speeds to develop complex and innovative products for a virus that has killed more than 215,000 Americans.

The need to find viable treatments and ways to arrest the spread of the virus is becoming more pressing. Cases are climbing again in the U.S. and Europe ahead of what public-health officials have warned could become a dangerous winter with COVID-19 circulating unchecked alongside seasonal influenza.

More virulent outbreaks could spur the need for more economically damaging infection-control measures.

J&J’s vaccine was considered one of the front-runners in the race for an inoculation. Along with rival shots made by Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc., and AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford, its safety and effectiveness is being studied in a large trial. Hope for the shot’s effectiveness has been high, since it is expected to be delivered in a single dose. Some rival shots will require a second injection.

J&J Chief Financial Officer Joseph Wolk said in an interview the company doesn’t know whether the person who was sickened had received the vaccine or a placebo. He said that J&J is sticking to its development time-line and plans

to be able to produce 1 billion doses a year.

“Everybody is anxious to get a vaccine to the pandemic, for the right reasons,” Wolk said, “but nobody is cutting corners or suggesting that there be undue pressure to make that happen.”

The stakes in a vaccine trial are especially high, since inoculations are given to people of all ages, many of whom are otherwise healthy. Poland, of the Mayo Clinic, said he had never seen a vaccine trial under as much scrutiny as the COVID-19 trials.

“No one wants to misstep here,” he said. “The decisions we are making will affect our children, our parents, our families.

We aren’t making decisions in a void.”

Wall Street analysts who follow the drug industry said pauses are a common feature of clinical trials, and earlier data on J&J’s vaccine and Lilly’s antibody treatment had been encouraging.

“Trial halts are fairly common, and although we don’t know the exact reason for this stop, the majority of safety incidents aren’t usually related to the vaccine,” Shore Capital analyst Adam Barker wrote in a note about J&J’s temporary halt.

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Barrett has been batting away questions in long and lively exchanges, insisting she would bring no personal agenda to the court but decide cases “as they come.”

Her nomination by President Donald Trump to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has ground other legislative business to a halt as Republicans excited by the prospect of locking in a 6-3 conservative court majority race to confirm her over Democratic objections before Election Day. “She’s going to the court,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the committee chairman, said as the proceedings got under way Wednesday after a nearly 12hour session the day before.

Graham said Trump had made history by nominating someone “who is unashamedly pro-life.” But Graham said, as Barrett has, that she’d be able to set her personal views aside when deciding cases on abortion.

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Trump seemed pleased with her performance. “I think Amy’s doing incredibly well,” he said at the White House departing for a campaign rally.

Trump has said he wants a justice seated for any disputes arising from his heated campaign against Biden, but Barrett testified she has not spoken to Trump or his team about election cases. Pressed by Democrats, she skipped past questions about ensuring the date of the election or preventing voter intimidation, both set in federal law, and the peaceful transfer of presidential power. She declined to commit to recusing herself from any post-election cases without first consulting the other justices.

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FILLIES DELIVER Iola rallies with help of jumping jacks in sweep

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Jada Dangerfield

Lady Cubs earn split HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s volleyball team saw its winning streak snapped, but still picked up a split Tuesday.

The Lady Cubs defeated visiting Cherryvale in straight sets, 25-16 and 25-21, but fell to Eureka in two, 2520 and 25-21.

The Lady Cubs entered the night on a nine-game winning streak.

Humboldt will be in Neodesha Saturday for tournament action before wrapping up the regular season next Tuesday at Fredonia, with Bluestem also a part of the evening’s competition.

Humboldt head coach Terry Meadows said faulty serving played a role in the loss to a talented Tornado squad.

“They were a very good team,” he said. “When you See CUBS | Page B5

Another MV game canceled MORAN — Marmaton Valley High has canceled its second straight football game.

Friday’s home contest against Yates Center is being called off because of a player shortage at Marmaton Valley.

Marmaton Valley also had to forfeit its game last week at Oswego.

BURLINGTON — Even though her team had won each set of the evening so far, Iola High volleyball coach Amanda Strickler-Holman didn’t like what she saw.

On the wrong side of a 21-17 deficit against host Burlington, Strickler-Holman called a timeout when she saw momentum slipping to the Wildcats’ favor.

Did she deliver a message of inspiration? A new strategy, perhaps?

Nope. She had her players do a quick round of jumping jacks — not once, or twice, but three times.

“We are an energy-based team, and they had absolutely none,” Strickler-Holman said afterward. “If we have energy, and we are talking, we are a totally different team, so that’s what I pulled out of my hat.

“I did my best to be silly.”

The gambit worked to perfection.

Much like they’d done previously, the Fillies ended the set with a flourish, scoring eight straight points to win the set, 25-21, and match against the host Wildcats.

Prior to that, Iola capped an exhilarating win over Wellsville, 31-29 and 25-21.

The 31-29 thriller included another impressive comeback that saw Iola trail 24-20 before scoring four straight to knot the score. The teams then traded points until Iola’s Jenna Curry tipped home a kill with the Fillies trailing 29-28. The match ended two points later in identical fashion, with Wellsville hitting potential kills into the net.

Becca Sprague led the way against Wellsville with eight kills and eight assists. Veronica Agostini was right behind with six kills and seven as-

Iola High swept matches Tuesday against Wellsville and Burlington. Above, Veronica Agostini sets up a Fillies teammate. Above at right, Aysha Houk goes up for a kill attempt. Below, Iola’s Lauryn Holloway tips the ball between a pair of Wellsville players. The Fillies rallied late to sweep matches against both schools. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

See FILLIES | Page B5

Allen runners compete at Seminole Valley Stampede CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Allen Community College’s women continue to shine as the cross country season enters the home stretch.

The top-ranked men, meanwhile, had a bit of a stumble.

The Red Devil runners traveled 7½ hours Saturday to run at the Seminole Valley Stampede at Mount Mercy University, which featured a cross section of junior colleges and four-year NAIA universities.

The Red Devil men finished a disappointing sixth in the team standings.

“It was a combination of things,” ACC head coach Vince DeGrado said. “It wasn’t a good meet for us.

Those things are humbling, and it happens. It’s not a bad thing. We just need to remember you have to be on your game before it gets to championship season.”

Allen was led by Henos Andebrhan, who ran the 8K course in 26 minutes, 14 seconds to place 22nd. Brig Merritt followed at 26:42 in 32nd.

Allen’s top runner, Devan Crow, was nursing an injury,

Drew Wilhite

Wilhite shines in Eureka meet Allen Community College’s Henos Andebrhan nears the finish at the Red Devil Duals in Iola Oct. 3. Andebrhan was named the KJCCC male runner of the week for his and stepped off the course midway through.

“He’ll be fine,” DeGrado said.

As for the team results, DeGrado called the experience a humbling one for a squad vying for the NJCAA nation-

al championship.

THE WOMEN, who do not field enough runners for a full team, continued to impress DeGrado with their improvement.

Leading the way were Io-

lans Elka Billings, who ran the 5K in 19:38, in 37th and Rachel Bycroft in 43rd at 19:50.

Billings’ performance came as she was named the See ACC | Page B5

EUREKA — Humboldt High’s Drew Wilhite led the way for the Cub cross country teams Oct. 6, by placing fourth at the Eureka Invitational.

Wilhite, a junior, traversed the 5K route in 19 minutes, 10 seconds.

On the girls’ side, Lulu Melendez led Humboldt’s varsiSee EUREKA | Page B5

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Rays go up 3-0 Wildcats defeat Crest in straight sets SAN DIEGO (AP) — Joey Wendle hit a go-ahead, two-run single two batters after another critical error by José Altuve, and the Tampa Bay Rays rallied for a 5-2 win against the Houston Astros on Tuesday night that moved them within one victory of the second World Series appearance in franchise history.

Tampa Bay took a 3-0 lead in the best-ofseven AL Championship Series at Petco Park. Towering righty Tyler Glasnow, who grew up just north of Los Angeles, will try to deliver the Rays their first pennant in 12 seasons on Wednesday night when he opposes Zack Greinke.

Tampa Bay reached the World Series in 2008 before losing to the Philadelphia Phillies.

The innovative Rays, managed by former big league catcher Kevin Cash, had one of baseball’s lowest payrolls during the pandemic-shortened season and still finished with the AL’s best record at 40-20.

They often have a different player come up big every night, whether it’s a batter or reliever — or sometimes both. They’ve also played spectacular defense.

The Astros got into the postseason with a 29-31 record before going 5-1 to reach the ALCS. But they’ve looked nothing like the team that won the AL pennant two of the last three seasons and they remain villains in many peoples’ eyes for their sign-stealing scandal three years ago en route to a World Series title.

MORAN — Marmaton Valley High’s volleyball team impressed head coach Tara Kegler from start to finish Tuesday.

The Wildcats swept visiting Crest High in three sets, 25-15, 25-18 and 25-17 in the latest iteration between the two rival schools.

“The girls moved well and transitioned quickly into their offense,” Kegler said. “We really worked well as a team, hustling all over the place, and backed each other up. I’m proud of their effort.”

The teamwork was evident in the stat sheet.

Janae Granere had 14 kills and a block, while Kendall Scharff had 16 points and three kills.

Raveyn Kegler had 10 points and 27 assists.

Aly Ard racked up eight kills, five points and a block. Kayla Ard delivered eight kills as well.

Haylee Meiwes provided five points.

Marmaton Valley High’s Raveyn Kegler sets up a volleyball teammate in a match earlier this season. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Braves stave off Dodger comeback ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Freddie Freeman and Ozzie Albies homered again, rookie Ian Anderson extended his postseason scoreless streak in an abbreviated start and the Atlanta Braves just held on for an 8-7 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night and a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven National League Cham-

pionship Series.

Freeman put the Braves ahead to stay with a two-run homer in the fourth off rookie Tony Gonsolin, who filled in after three-time NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw was scratched because of back spasms.

Freeman added an RBI single as part of a fourrun outburst an inning

later.

Albies homered in the ninth for the second night in a row, and for the second time in a row the ball was caught in the bullpen by closer Mark Melancon. That solo shot proved huge for the Braves, who led 7-0 but near squandered the lead as the Dodgers scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth.

Melacon came on with two outs after Corey Seager’s RBI double and Max Muncy’s two-run homer. Albies made a fielding error on Will Smith’s grounder to second, and reigning NL MVP Cody Bellinger hit an RBI triple.

AJ Pollock then hit a game-ending groundout to end a 4-hour, 12-minute game.

Eureka: XC meet Continued from B4

ty runners by placing 12th at 26:09.

Humboldt is back in action Saturday at the Tri-Valley League Championships in Fredonia.

Varsity Boys (5K) 4. Drew Wilhite, 19:10 19. Sam Neeley, 21:01 47. Cooper Woods, 25:37 49. Thane Meadows, 26:37 51. Peyton Wallace, 30:55.

Varsity Girls (5K) 12. Lulu Melendez, 26:09 16. Melina Hess, 27:48 17. Leah Mueller, 27:52 21. Taylor Korte, 28:42.

JV Boys (2 mile) 7. Caden Vink, 14:51 JV Girls (2 mile) 8. Peyton Galloway, 18:40 13. Danica Modlin, 20:14 16. Morgan Hunter, 20:25 19. Lizzi White, 23:16 Eighth Grade Girls (2 mile) 4. McKenna Jones, 16:34 6. Anna Heisler, 16:31 Seventh Grade Girls (1 mile) 11. Tori Melendez, 7:16 Seventh Grade Boys (1 mile) 19. Layne Ellison, 7:31

ACC: Runners Continued from B4

Celebrating a match win against Wellsville, above, are Iola High Fillies players, from left, Jenna Curry, Veronica Agostini, Becca Sprague, Aysha Houk, Lauryn Holloway and Hannah Gardner. Below, Jocelyn Erbert returns a volley. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Fillies: Sweep past Wellsville, Burlington Continued from B4

last week,” she continued. “We did not this time. We pulled it out and did what we needed to do.”

Even if it took some jumping jacks to pave the way.

Had Strickler-Holeman tried such a maneuver previously in her coaching career?

“Nope, never,” she laughed. “It was just something that came up.”

sists. Curry and Lauryn Holloway each knocked home four kills. Holloway also had two aces.

Several players came up a bit in the digs department. Sprague had 14, Curry 13, Hannah Gardner 12, Agostini 11 and Holloway nine.

IOLA cruised to victory in the first set against Burlington, winning 25-16, before going backand-forth in the second until Iola’s frenzied, calisthenic-fueled finish.

Sprague and Holloway again paced Iola’s attack. Sprague had six kills and Holloway five. Sprague also had nine assists, two aces and a block. Holloway, meanwhile, was on target with all five of her kill attempts. Curry had 10 digs to lead the way.

“We did a great job,” Strickler-Holman said.

“I think we’re peaking, and tonight shows that, going 2-0 in league. Our goal is to come back and

take care of what we lost in the first half of the season, where we’d lost too many by two points.

“We let one get away

IOLA (11-14) has one more week of regular season action. The Fillies will host a tournament Saturday in the IHS gymnasium before wrapping up the regular season next Tuesday at Prairie View.

The Class 4A Substate Tournament — and the chance to earn a state tournament bid — will be in Iola Oct. 24.

Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference female runner of the week. As an aside, Andebrhan was tapped as KJCCC’s male runner of the week. Both were top junior college runners at Saturday’s meet.

“The girls have been amazing this season,” DeGrado said.

The Allen runners are idle until the Region VI championships slated for Oct. 28 in El Dorado. The national championships are Nov. 14 in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Seminole Valley Stampede Women’s 5K 37. Elka Billings, 19:38.93 43.

Rachel Bycroft, 19:50.07 116. McKenna Esfield, 21:29.82 Men’s 8K 22. Henos Andebrhan, 26:14.89 32. Brig Merritt 26:42.74 59. Raymon Gonzalez, 27:31.21 65.

Phillip Semien, 27:36.15 80. Michael McMorris, 27;52.91 90. Burche Greene, 28;13.08 104. Kyle Henry, 28:39.42 202.

Bret Plumlee, 33:15.96

Cubs: Earn split Continued from B4

miss that many serves to a good team, you won’t win. I thought we stayed in rallies, but could not find a way to put it away when we needed to.”

Jessica Myers led Humboldt with six kills, two aces and three digs, while Jada Dangerfield and Kady Hart had three kills each. Kirsten Kobold also had a pair of aces.

Kirstyn Murrow and Kenisyn Hottenstein added nine and seven assists, respectively.

Dangerfield had two blocks.

Dangerfield and Murrow also had three digs.

The outlook was much brighter after

the win against Cherryvale, but Meadows still saw room for improvement.

“We played well enough to win, but still not our best,” he said. “I was pleased with our attitudes throughout the entire match, even when we were down, and that was nice to see.”

Myers and Murrow had four and three kills to pace Humboldt’s attack. Myers and Isabelle Murrow both had two aces.

Nautianna Goforth registered two blocks.

Hottenstein and Kirstyn Murrow had six and five blocks, respectively.

Kirstyn Murrow also had three digs.

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Rueben Burger

lb. burger topped with swiss, sauerkraut, and thousand island dressing on a pretzel bun

Big Rog Dog

Back by popular demand! Bratwurst wrapped in bacon, fried to a perfect crispiness, and topped with housemade pico de gallo and chipotle ranch

All specials at $7.99 (620) 228-5322 Northeast Corner of the Iola Square FACEBOOK: @Rookiesiola

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STATE STREET LIQUORS

ST. CLAIR- HAYS, INC.

We’ve got your party!

PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

The largest selection of wine, spirits, domestic & import beers in the area.

10% off Wine & Spirits Everyday for Elks, American Legion, Military, 65+

Yay! It’s Farm City Days!

Wine Wednesday | Thirsty Thursday | Special Orders Cold Kegs in stock | Frozen Drinks

M-S: 9 a.m.-11 p.m. • Sun: Noon-8 p.m.

Janet S. St. Clair-Hays

110 South State Street | Iola, Kansas 66749 Phone: 620-380-6110 • E-mail: susan@ssl.kscoxmail.com

1006 N. State|(620) 365-2421

WHERE YOUR

ADVENTURE

WONDERFUL

FARM CITY DAYS DELIVERING RIGHT TO

YOUR DOOR! Daily service to Iola, Humboldt and Yates Center

BEGINS!

CONSTRUCTION

BOB

Builders of FINE HOMES Since 1969

620.228.1303

FIND WHAT YOU NEED

THE MARKETPLACE EMPLOYMENT

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Enjoy the parade

GARAGE SALES

AUCTIONS

SERVICES

HOMES FOR SALE OR RENT

ITEMS FOR SALE

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Monday, Wednesday and Friday delivery to: Gas, Moran and LaHarpe

207 N. State, Iola - 620-365-5533 24H

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RENT A CAR

CAR WASH

We also offer:

automatic transmission fuel & air induction filter & total system cleaning fluid exchange CAR PARTS

CAR SERVICE

OIL

I• •A Iola Insurance Associates

Deborah A. Taiclet, CISR

anti-freeze cooling system flush with extended life

COLDEST BEER IN TOWN!!!

O’SHAUGHNESSY LIQUOR, LLC

P.O Box 653

203 South Chestnut

(620) 365-7601

Beyer Motor Co.

510 Main St. • Gridley, KS • 620-836-3181

Since 1949. Your Satification is our #1 priority.

Comfort Matters

Especially For Your Family

OWNER/OPERATOR

FIND US ON FACEBOOK oshaughnessyliquor.business.site

1211 EAST ST. IOLA, KANSAS 66749

Iola, Kansas 66749

AUTO – HOME – FARM – BUSINESS – LIFE – HEALTH – CYCLE

620-365-5702

BRIAN & LINDSEY SHAUGNESSY

Chrissy Powell

Established 1968 — Fully Insured 211 N. Jefferson • Iola (620) 365-3534

Certified Service Department Body Shop • Program Cars Large Selection Used Cars & Trucks

Financing Available Trade-Ins Welcome

SENDING OUT OUR REGARDS FOR A Wonderful Farm City Days

CELEBRATION IN IOLA!

HERE’S TO A WONDERFUL FARM CITY DAYS! The Piqua Co-op Farm Service Store stocks everything you would expect to find in a complete farm store. Plus, some things you wouldn’t expect: • Great selection of combine guards & sections, baler teeth, rake teeth, twine & netwrap • Extensive stock of sprayer fittings

PIQUA We have all the quality material for constructing your

CUSTOM POST FRAME METAL FARM BUILDINGS!

THE NEW KLEIN LUMBER CO. 201 W. Madison, Iola

620-365-2201

201 S. WASHINGTON ST. PIQUA, KS Open 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. M-F Sat 7:30 a.m.-12 Noon

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FARM CITY DAYS

FARM CITY DAYS 2020

CANDY LAND

Oct. 15-18 Junction 54-59• Moran, KS

At

620-237-4534

Home

Auto

Business

Farm

Kirk’s

Come see us for any of your insurance needs.

Rick & Shelley Lauber "See Us For Your Precision Ag Needs"

agventureaok.com @AgventureofEasternKansas

700 W. Miller • Iola, KS 66749 | 620 228-3148

Celebrate Farm City Days!

RVB TRUCKING, INC. • Complete service & Repair •

DENNIS RINGWALD www.rvbtrucksales.com

P.O. Box 613 28 Davis Street Iola, Kansas 66749

Residential and Commercial Heating & Air Conditioning

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PROPERTIES & MECHANICAL

Let our professional HVAC technicians handle your heating and air conditioning needs. We have over two decades of experience helping area families stay comfortable.

We install high quality American Standard systems and can service all brands.

• TOTAL HOME COMFORT SYSTEMS •INDOOR AIR QUALITY • CUSTOM SHEET METAL • BOILER SYSTEMS • STANDARD & TANKLESS WATER HEATERS • RENTAL PROPERTIES

(620) 365-6832 Cell: (620) 496-7600 Fax: (620) 365-6502 rvbt@sbcglobal.net

PUMP 'N PETE'S

We couldn’t be prouder to be a part of this community

HAPPY FARM CITY DAYS!

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CHRIS HOLLOWAY 620-365-9698

COMFORT EXPERT

HELPING FRIENDS AND FAMILY GATHER TOGETHER.

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