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EGG-CELLENT HUNTING WEATHER

Mattie Williams shows off a stuffed bunny won Saturday at the Kiwanis Easter Egg Hunt on Iola’s downtown square.

Jackie Rogers directs son Israel toward a treat Saturday at the Kiwanis Easter Egg Hunt on Iola’s downtown square.

Norma Barclay adds to Dionna Anderson’s Easter basket of goodies Saturday at the Windsor Place annual Easter parade.

Above, a gaggle of youngsters are off to the races at the LaHarpe PRIDE Easter Hunt Saturday. At right, Haley Enloe, 7, has first dibs on a piece of candy, beating an unidentified boy, during the Humboldt Lions’ hunt, while her friend, Makenzie Kitley, 6, searches at right. PHOTOS BY SHELLIE SMITLEY, BOB JOHNSON AND RICHARD LUKEN

Rain arrived just as scores of youngsters in Moran awaited more than 2,000 eggs to be dropped by a plane piloted by Barry Lamb on Sunday as part of the First Baptist Church Easter celebration. The rain did little to douse the ebullient atmosphere.

An early glance at 2018 — and beyond TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A surprisingly competitive special congressional election in Kansas has Democrats hopeful about cracking Republicans’ lock on the state’s delegation next year. An open contest for governor also looming.

The state wouldn’t seem fertile ground for Democratic gains. The GOP has won every statewide and congressional race since 2008.

But Republican Ron Estes’ 7-percentage-point victory over Democrat James Thompson in the 4th Congressional District in south-central Kansas drew national attention because GOP candidates there won

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by an average of 27 percentage points over the past 20 years. The seat was vacant after former U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo’s appointment as CIA director.

The close result immediately had both parties buzzing about their chances in 2018 races.

Which leads to a few

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An organization representing Kansas’ local governments plans to push for legislation that would allow greater flexibility in boosting property taxes without first seeking voter blessings for them.

The League of Kansas Municipalities said it supports amending a 2015 “property tax lid” law that generally requires cities and counties to seek voter approval before they can adopt a budget that increases the spending of property tax revenues beyond a five-year average rate of inflation, the Lawrence Journal-World reported.

Two measures relating to the tax lid are pending in Topeka. One would repeal it; the other — supported by the League of Kansas Municipalities — would make bigger budgets subject to protest petitions, not automatically requiring an election.

Erik Sartorius, the league’s executive director, called the bill involving the protest petition “the most viable option to give cities a workable framework for budgetary decisions.”

Rep. Steve Johnson, the Assaria Republican who heads the House Taxation

Iolan eager to step forward when needed April is National Volunteer Month.

Locally, it is a time to honor and thank the people who work selflessly to make Allen County a better place. Iolan Lois Murray has volunteered for more than four years at Second Chance Thrift Store.

She sets up displays, takes in donations, prices items and waits on customers. She also works to help maintain the store’s clean appearance. A cat owner herself, Murray likes the fact that the proceeds from the store help fund the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility and that the store provides a self-service dog wash

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Filmmaker learns why she endured airport stops

Gary Covey

By DEB RIECHMANN The Associated Press

Gary Dean Covey, 70, Elsmore, passed away Saturday, April 15, 2017, at his home surrounded by his family.

He was born Sept. 22,1946, in the Nevitt Clinic in Moran, the son of George J. Covey and Betty (Rieswig) Covey. He grew up in Gary Covey Elsmore on the family farm. Gary graduated from Elsmore High School in 1964. He then continued his education at Allen County Junior College for two years and then to Pittsburg State University for two years. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in 1968 until 1974. He was honorably discharged as a Specialist Five USAR. On Nov. 17,1973, he married Beverly Norman.

They made their home just one-half mile from where Gary was raised. He was a lifetime farmer and enjoyed gardening with his wife, working cattle with his children, and spending time with his children and grandchildren.

Gary loved playing cards with his family at family gatherings and he hated losing at pitch. You had to know what you were doing to be his partner or it could get a little crazy, but still so much fun.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and one daughter, Betty Jean Darling.

Gary is survived by his wife, Beverly Covey, of 43 years; four children, Kenneth Covey and Angela Gardener-Highberger, Colony, Jackie and Aaron Redburn, Elsmore, Nancy and Richard Lamb, Osage City, and Kevwin and Rachel Covey, Elsmore; 13 grandchildren, Madison, Taryn and Kadyn Covey, Kennlee, Aaron Michael, Kennadee and Aaden Redburn, Taylor, Austin, and Dalton Lamb, Rylan and Karoline Covey and Corbin Bowers; three siblings, Gene Covey, Moran, Gilbert Covey and wife Diana, Elsmore, and John Covey and wife Trish, Moran; one aunt, Carol Baldwin, Derby; and several cousins, nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at New Baptist Church on U.S. 54, Moran, with graveside military funeral honors following at the Moran Cemetery. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 o’clock tonight at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Moran.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Moran Baptist Church or to the American Legion Post No. 385, Moran.

Drive benefits local hospitals A community blood drive runs from noon to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the John Silas Bass Community Center, 505 N. Buckeye St. Donations benefit the Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City, which provides blood to hospitals

throughout the region, including Allen County Regional.

Donors can show up without an appointment, or they can schedule their donation online at savealifenow. org and by entering “iolacomm” in the sponsor code.

ACARF names president Dawn Murray was appointed the new president of the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility board of directors at Wednesday’s meeting. Joining Murray on the board are Dr. Ryan Coffield, Doug Dunlap, Morgan Lust and Jan Kress. Current treasurer Julie Payne will act as both secretary and treasurer, in a newly combined position.

Murray replaces Robyn Porter, who resigned from the board.

Porter has volunteered at ACARF since it opened it doors in 2010.

She will continue to volunteer at the facility, handling its social media and web needs, transfers and photography.

Dr. Frank Porter also resigned from the board.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Laura Poitras’ travel nightmare began more than a decade ago when the award-winning filmmaker started getting detained at airports every time she tried to set foot back in the United States.

She was stopped without explanation more than 50 times on foreign travel, and dozens more times on domestic trips, before the extra searches suddenly stopped in 2012.

Only now is Poitras beginning to unravel the mystery, which goes back to a bloody day in Baghdad in 2004.

Time after time, airport authorities searched her baggage, rummaged through her electronics and quizzed her for hours about her trips.

In Germany, she was told her name lights up “like a Christmas tree” when security officials scan flight rosters. In Austria, she was told her threat score was “400 out of 400.”

At John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, her laptop, video camera, footage and cell phone were taken and held for 41 days.

In Newark, New Jersey, a security officer threatened to handcuff her for taking notes with a ballpoint pen that he said could be used as a weapon.

“I asked for crayons because I thought that would be less threatening to him as a weapon,” recounted Poitras, whose 2014 documentary film, “ C i t i z e n f o u r, ” a b o u t the National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, won an Academy Award. “He denied me any kind of writing device.”

Poitras, 53, knows U.S. government officials are not exactly fans of her politically sensitive work.

“Citizenfour” depicted Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s rendezvous with Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel where he handed over classified material documenting NSA’s widespread surveillance program.

Her new film, “Risk,” is about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Still, she never knew why the security delays started in 2006.

She unsuccessfully sought answers from the Homeland Security

Department. She finally took the government to court, filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in 2015 with help from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties advocacy organization.

Late last year, as a result of the suit, the government released more than 1,000 pages of documents to Poitras, which she shared with The Associated Press.

The documents show for the first time that the U.S. government investigated Poitras on suspicion she might have been involved in an ambush that led to a U.S. soldier’s death in Iraq in 2004.

On Nov. 20, 2004, Poitras was in Baghdad filming “My Country, My Country.” The film depicts Iraqi elections from the perspective of an Iraqi doctor, who criticized the U.S. occupation yet hoped democracy would take root in his homeland.

Members of a U.S. Army National Guard unit from Oregon reported seeing a “white female” holding a camera on a rooftop just before they were attacked. David Roustum, 22, an Army National Guardsman from West Seneca, New York, was killed. Several troops were wounded. Some guardsmen who saw Poitras suspected she had a heads-up about the attack and didn’t share that information with American forces because she wanted to film it. If true, Poitras would have broken U.S. criminal law.

Poitras called the allegation false and said she didn’t film the attack.

“There is no ambush footage,” Poitras told the AP. “That’s the narrative that they created, but it doesn’t correspond with any facts.”

After the attack, a lieutenant colonel, whose name was redacted from documents, reported the woman with a camera to his superiors. No action was taken.

But after returning home, the lieutenant colonel was contacted by author John Bruning of Dallas, Oregon, who was interviewing guardsmen for a book about their experiences in Iraq. According to the government’s documents, the author learned about the woman filming on the roof-

Vice president aims brash statement at North Koreans

By KEN THOMAS The Associated Press

PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP) — In a trip of Cold War symbolism, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traveled to the zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of testing the U.S.

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Pence told reporters near the Demilitarized

Zone that President Trump was hopeful China would use its “extraordinary levers” to pressure the North to abandon its weapons program. But Pence expressed impatience with the unwillingness of the regime to move toward ridding itself of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

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top before the ambush.

In an email exchange on Jan. 15, 2006, Poitras confirmed to Bruning that she was filming in the area the day of the attack, but didn’t think she could help the author with his research.

“I was staying in the house of an Iraqi family I was following so my record of the fighting is from the perspective of the family,” Poitras wrote to Bruning. “I did not venture out onto the street that day — didn’t seem like it would have been a good idea. So I really don’t have a document of what took place on the streets.”

Bruning told the lieutenant colonel that Poitras was the woman on the rooftop. The lieutenant colonel then informed the U.S. military that she could have been involved.

In February 2006, a military police agent from Fort Lewis, Washington, interviewed the lieutenant colonel and the author.

Bruning declined to speak to the AP about Poitras.

But in his sworn statement to military investigators, he said he believed Poitras had prior knowledge of the attack.

He said Poitras was staying in a pro-Saddam Hussein neighborhood “and she was not in fear of her life or being kidnapped at a time when Western journalists were being abducted and executed.”

Nevertheless, the Army Criminal Investigation Command at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, wrote a two-page letter shortly

after to the FBI, saying the Army lacked sufficient evidence to charge Poitras.

It said: “A review by our legal staff of the information developed thus far revealed credible information does not presently exist to believe Ms. Poitras committed a criminal offense; however, this could quickly change if Ms. Poitras were to be interviewed and admitted she had knowledge of the ambush and refused to notify U.S. forces in order to further her documentary and media interest.”

Poitras said she was never interviewed.

In May 2006, Army officials sent a summary of their investigation of Poitras to FBI headquarters in Washington.

The airport detentions and delays began shortly thereafter.

David Lapan, a Homeland Security Department spokesman, said other agencies control who is flagged as a highrisk traveler. When people are flagged, he said, authorities must “put” them through enhanced screening procedures.

This is the reason for Ms. Poitras’ repeated referrals to secondary screening.” The FBI, which had investigated Poitras, declined to comment.

The detentions stopped abruptly six years later after a 2012 news article highlighted her travel problems.

Lapan said Poitras was deemed no longer of “significant interest.”

That allowed Customs in June 2012 to “discontinue its enhanced screening procedures,” he said.

Calendar M

— Iola City Council strategic planning session, 5:30 p.m., Allen Community College Conference Room.

— LaHarpe PRIDE Committee meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall.

Tue

— Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

— Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen County Regional Hospital.

— Iola City Council strategic planning session, 5:30 p.m., Allen Community College Conference Room.

— Allen Community College Board of Trustees meeting, 6 p.m., ACC student center.

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— Free blood pressure and blood sugar clinic, 1 p.m., LaHarpe Senior Center.

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— Senior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior citizens center.

— Rotary Club, noon, Pizza Hut. — TOPS No. KS 880 5 p.m. weigh in, 5:30 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church.

Sun

— Elsmore Ruritan 50th anniversary celebration, 1 p.m., downtown Elsmore.

— Allen County Historical Society 2017 spring meetings, 2 p.m., tours of the Lander Carriage House, 403 Bridge St., in Humboldt, tour is free and open to the public.

— Bowlus Fine Arts Center presents the Annie Moses Band, 3 p.m., call 365-4765 or vist bowluscenter.org for tickets.

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Jobs available for those eager to fill a position Who says there are no jobs to be had in Allen County?

A few days ago we counted 15 help-wanted advertisements on the Register’s classified ad page, most with solid futures and including attractive benefits.

This is not an anomaly.

Throughout most any year the Register carries ads seeking employees.

Some require education beyond high school; some experience in a particular field. All demand applicants who are willing to show up for work on time, be presentable and have ambition to give an hour’s work for an hour’s pay.

Employers also look for those with “soft” skills: Good manners, the ability to establish good rapport with clients and coworkers, and a sense of responsibility.

Among goals at Iola High School is to prepare students for the work-a-day world by establishing such attributes.

An example of why soft skills are important: Three were hired, we were told by an employer the other day. On Monday one arrived a few minutes before 8, starting time. Another came in at 8:15, the third at 8:30. The employer said he was willing to let that go for the first day, although it would seem if a person was ever going to be on time it would be the first day. The second day the first employee, who came to be valued, again was a little early. The second staggered in, the third was a no-show.

To top it off, the person who was tardy his first two days, and frankly wasn’t a ball of fire, asked the boss

when he could expect a raise. The question didn’t sit well; he was out the door at the employer’s behest.

While that scenario seems to be played out all too often, the majority of local workers are perfectly fine, and toe the line. That’s why officials at places such as Gates Corporation laud the work ethic of Allen Countians, and many others who drive here from elsewhere.

Who says ‘Trumpcare’ isn’t already in place?

TRAINING with close attention to soft skills in classrooms can set the stage for a lifelong career in any number of occupations.

Even so, there is more to it than that.

Many young folks have ambitious plans that include a college degree, and often advanced education in graduate school. Good for them. Many reach their goals.

Meanwhile, those who approach their life’s work with a little more training than a high school education also can find a notch in the vast array of occupations that we desperately need to seamlessly transition from one day to the next. Think how troubling it would be to have a water line break in the dead of winter and have to repair it yourself.

WHEN SOMEONE com-

plains there are no jobs to be found here, tell them to pick up a copy of the Register, turn to the second page of the B section and browse through all those listed.

Finding a job isn’t difficult, and keeping it depends only on meeting an employer’s expectations.

— Bob Johnson

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Thirty-three years ago April 1984

Back 35 years ago when Elmer Belknap was operating a dairy at the north end of Jefferson Street, son Jimmy helped out with the chores.

Today James Belknap is president of Steffen Dairy Foods Co. in Wichita.

Dennis Krouse, former manager of the Moran Co-op who pleaded guilty to misappropriating co-op funds, was placed on five-year probation yesterday by District Judge John White.

A workman for the Associated Press installed a satellite dish on the top of the Iola Register building yesterday to receive AP transmissions.

Up to now, the daily AP news has been received at the newspaper through telephone lines connected to teletype machines. The teletype produced a punched tape which operated Linotype machines, a 60-word-a-minute process subject to many glitches. Satellite transmissions come in far faster and with far fewer interruptions.

WASHINGTON — In case you missed it, last week saw the debut of Trumpcare.

There was no new legislation, and the previous health care system, Obamacare, wasn’t repealed. It was re-accommodated, United Airlinesstyle: bloodied, knocked silly and heaved aside.

What has replaced it — a system of confusion and retreat — is entirely the doing of one Donald J. Trump.

President Trump last week threatened not to pay $7 billion to insurers in annual subsidies for giving discounted coverage to low-income Americans. If he follows through, it ends Obamacare as we know it. But even if he’s bluffing, the threat itself is outright sabotage and goes a long way toward dismantling the Affordable Care Act. In the coming weeks, insurers participating in the individual-market exchanges must set premiums for next year — and they’d have to be daredevils to re-up with Trump’s sword of Damocles over them. The prudent move would be either to quit the exchanges or to impose huge premium increases to offset the risk that the subsidies will disappear — enough to deter people from signing up.

“The evidence is strong that the ACA is not dying of natural causes, but with the president’s recent comments it’s clear that it could die of suspicious causes,” says Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan outfit that studies health care. In the current environment, insurers “are just not going to stick around and take big risks,” Levitt tells me. “They’ll just take their marbles and invest elsewhere. It would be a very rational decision.”

The health care system Trump is now destroying was healthy. A report this month by Standard & Poor’s, the credit-rating agency, found “marked improvement” in the individual market for most Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers, the largest players in the market. They were fore-

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The evidence is strong that the ACA is not dying of natural causes, but with the president’s recent comments it’s clear that it could die of suspicious causes. (Insurers) are just not going to stick around and take big risks. They’ll just take their marbles and invest elsewhere.

It would be a very rational decision.

Washington Post Writers Group cast to be “close to break-even margins” in 2017. The “ACA individual market is not in a ‘death spiral,’” S&P reported.

However, the agency said, “every time something new (and potentially disruptive) is thrown into the works, it impedes the individual market’s path to stability.” Specifically citing the threat to subsidies, S&P warned: “If insurers are uneasy regarding the future of the market, they may have to decide between adding an ‘uncertainty buffer’ to their pricing or — worst case — exiting the exchanges altogether.”

Five days later, Trump — right on cue — threatened to yank the subsidies, which he can do easily by refusing to defend them in current legal proceedings. “Obamacare is dead next month if it doesn’t get that money,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, predicting his threat to kill the subsidies would bring Democrats to the table. Insurers have to submit their proposals for 2018 by June 21, which means they have to make their decisions in this atmosphere of uncertainty.

Trump isn’t fooling many people about his intentions.

“The longer I’m behind this desk and you have Obamacare, the more I would own it,” he said to the Journal.

But that time is now. A Kaiser poll this month found that 61 percent say Trump and Republicans are responsible for any problems with the ACA from now on, compared with 31 percent who would blame former president Barack Obama and Democrats. I asked Levitt if he thought it fair to call the current system “Trumpcare.” His reply: “Absolutely.”

The administration, as I noted last month, had already sabotaged Obamacare by pulling some advertising for

— Larry Levitt, Kaiser Family Foundation

enrollment in the crucial period before the sign-up deadline, by signaling, through the IRS, that it would not enforce the individual mandate to buy health insurance, and by announcing repeatedly that the ACA was variously imploding, exploding or collapsing.

Not surprisingly, insurers are spooked. Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield announced April 3 it is pulling out of the Iowa exchanges, saying a lack of clarity “makes it difficult to establish plans for 2018.” Aetna followed a few days later.

Anthem has told securities analysts that it is likely to pull back in 2018, according to Bloomberg News. And Humana on Feb. 14 said it wouldn’t participate in any exchanges in 2018, in a statement also noting that the current environment “creates uncertainty for Humana’s businesses.”

This could leave 16 Tennessee counties with no ACA insurers.

Trump, if his recent statements are to be believed, is preparing to jettison campaign positions on NATO, China, the Fed, the deficit and more. While he’s at it, he would do well to embrace Obamacare and rebrand it as his own. Trumpcare, as it now stands, is a loser.

How to contact your elected officials

President Donald Trump, (Republican) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington D.C., 20500; phone (switchboard): (202) 456-1414; (comments): (202) 4561111

Gov. Sam Brownback, (Republican) Capital, 300 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 212S, Topeka, KS 66612-1590; phone: (785) 2963232; www.governor. ks.gov/comments/comment.htm

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, (Republican) 109 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-4774; Email: www.roberts. senate.gov/public/index. cfm?p=EmailPat

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, (Republican) Russell Senate Office Building, Room 354, Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-6521; Pittsburg: 306 N. Broadway, Suite 125, Pittsburg, KS, 66762; (620) 232-2286. Email: moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry

Rep. Lynn Jenkins, (Republican) 130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C., 20515; phone: (202) 225-6601; Pittsburg: 701 N. Broadway, Pittsburg, KS 66762; phone: (620) 231-5966. Email: lynnjenkins.house.gov/ contact-me/

Sen. Caryn Tyson, (Republican) State Capitol-236 E Topeka, KS 66612 phone: (785) 2966838; e-mail: caryn. tyson@senate.ks.gov or 19984 County Rd. 1077 Parker, KS 66072 phone: (913) 898-2366

Rep. Kent Thompson, (Republican) House District No. 9, phone: (620) 496-7200 State Capitol, Room 050-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, or phone: 620-496-2255 1816 2800 St., LaHarpe, KS 66751 email: kent@iolare. kscoxmail.com

Rep. Adam Lusker, (Democrat) House District No. 2, phone: (785) 2967698 State Capitol, Room 043-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, email: adam.lusker@ house.ks.gov

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20 arrested in California in pro- and anti-Trump rallies BERKELEY, Calif.

(AP) — At least 20 people were arrested after violence broke out Saturday between groups of supporters and detractors of President Donald Trump holding rallies in downtown Berkeley, authorities said.

About 200 people were at Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park when several fights broke out. Dozens of police officers in riot gear standing nearby quickly arrested one man. Others were arrested after several skirmishes.

Trump supporters announced earlier in the week that they were holding a “Patriot Day” at the park at noon that would feature speeches by members of the altright, an amorphous fringe movement that uses internet memes, message boards and so-

Anti- and pro-Trump supporters clash during competing demonstrations at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley, Calif., Saturday. BAY AREA NEWS GROUP/ANDA CHU/TNS cial media to spread a hodgepodge of racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny and xenophobia.

Counter-demonstrators then said they would hold a rally at the same place at 10 a.m.

Police put in a makeshift barrier of plastic

orange poles and orange fence mesh to separate both sides, but that quickly came down as demonstrators started punching and kicking each other, while pepper spray and firecrackers were thrown to the crowd.

After the barrier was

put back in place, demonstrators shouted at each other from a distance, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

“You go back to the ’60s,” shouted a proTrump supporter.

“You go back to the 1400s,” someone on the

opposing side shouted back The groups then left the park and walked on Berkeley streets with police closely following them. Photographs of the scene showed at least two men with bloodied faces.

Authorities had said ahead of the rallies, that baseball bats, sticks, flagpoles and any items that could be used as a weapon were banned at the park. Officers on Saturday confiscated sticks, knives, flagpoles and helmets and sticks with signs on them.

The rally followed March 4 demonstrations at the same park planned by some of the same groups and that ended in violent clashes.

Several people were injured and police arrested 10 demonstrators.

In February, protesters threw rocks, broke windows and set fires outside the University of California, Berkeley’s student union building, where thenBreitbart News editor and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was set to speak. His presentation was canceled.

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questions many are asking: WHY ARE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE 2018 ELECTIONS WHEN VOTING IS MORE THAN A YEAR AWAY?

Serious candidates for governor and Congress often start building organizations and announcing themselves during the summer or fall of the year before election. They need time to raise the several million dollars necessary to finance the most-competitive campaigns.

WHAT ARE THE BIG RACES NEXT YEAR?

GOP Gov. Sam Brownback is term-limited, vaulting the governor’s race to the top of the list.

Republicans close to Brownback have said there’s a strong chance President Donald Trump will appoint him U.S. ambassador to three United Nations food and agriculture agencies in Rome.

If Brownback left, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer would become governor, but that’s not likely to discourage all potential GOP candidates.

The other top races are for U.S. House seats.

Republican incumbent Lynn Jenkins is not

seeking re-election in the 2nd District in eastern Kansas, and Democrats have high hopes for both the 4th District and the 3rd District in the Kansas City area.

Voters also will decide races for attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer and insurance commissioner.

All 125 state House seats will be on the ballot.

KANSAS IS A REPUBLICAN STATE, SO WHY ARE DEMOCRATS TALKING UP THEIR CHANCES?

The special election’s results raised questions about whether enough voters are unhappy with President Donald Trump to make him a liability for GOP candidates. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback also is unpopular because of the state’s budget problems.

Democrats feel energized and expect to turn out plenty of voters like Cindy Edwards, a 54-year-old retired medical services worker from Wichita.

“I think Trump is a joke and Brownback has done nothing but put our state in a horrible mess,” she said after voting for Thompson in the special election.

Republicans see the special election results as a fluke because it was the first such contest in

Kansas since 1950.

“Don’t try to draw broad lessons,” said Clay Barker, the state GOP’s executive director.

But Bob Beatty, a Washburn University political science professor, said the special election demonstrated that the political environment has changed. Kansas Republicans owed much of their success over the past eight years to running against former President Barack Obama at all levels and that tactic is likely lost to them now that the Democrat is out of office, Beatty said.

“The thinking changes when the power changes in D.C.,” Beatty said of voters.

WHO ARE THE LEADING CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR?

On the Republican side, Wichita businessman Wink Hartman is running. Former state Rep. Ed O’Malley, now director of a nonprofit Wichita leadership center, has formed an exploratory committee.

Other potential GOP candidates include Colyer, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Attorney General Derek Schmidt and 3rd District Rep. Kevin Yoder.

Senate President Susan Wagle, of Wichita, also has been on Republican

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area. She is also fond of the merchandise.

“I have just always liked flea markets and going to auctions,” she said.

Murray has been known to volunteer for

Meals on Wheels and is currently a member of the Friends of the Library. Outside of work, her hobby is growing flowers, and her yard can be found overflowing with Impatiens. She has sung in the choir

at St. John’s Catholic Church for more than 20 years.

Murray’s reason for volunteering is simple.

There are things that need to be done by somebody, she said. Why not her?

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Committee, has said he has been holding off working on either bill until getting an idea from local governments about which measure they believed would more likely pass both chambers.

As the legislative session winds down, most of the committee’s focus

will be on passing a tax bill to close a looming shortfall of nearly $1 billion for state government while also providing additional money for public schools.

The tax lid is a significant issue now for Kansas cities and counties because they are starting to prepare their budgets for calendar year 2018.

Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug said that if the tax lid remains in place as it is, local governments eventually will be forced to make major cuts in their annual spending.

Sartorius said local governments ultimately would rather see the tax lid repealed entirely, but they don’t see that as a possibility this year.

Democrats are bullish on the 3rd District even if Yoder seeks reelection because Trump failed to carry the district. Jay Sidie, the 2016 Democratic nominee, is already running, but many Democrats expect other candidates as well.

Thompson plans to run again in the 4th, setting up a potential rematch with Estes. But he could face a primary challenger, given the special election’s result, with the Wichita Eagle reporting that Wagle is considering the race.

lists.

The only announced Democratic candidate is former Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer.

WHAT ABOUT CONGRESSIONAL RACES?

In the 2nd District, former Kansas House Minority Leader Paul Davis, the Democrats’ 2014 nominee for governor, is exploring a run.

Conservative state Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, of Leavenworth, is seeking the GOP nomination, and several other state lawmakers are weighing the race.

IS THIS ALL POLITICAL THEATER? DOES IT HAVE ANY IMPACT UNTIL NEXT YEAR?

It has an impact in Topeka, where it makes resolving big budget, tax and school funding issues more complicated.

Lawmakers considering higher office sometimes vote differently to appeal to a wider swath of the electorate and organizing a campaign divides a legislator’s attention. Lawmakers who aren’t running often take sides, creating extra friction.

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Racing: Humboldt Speedway

Keeter wins fourth feature race

By JEFF FEHR The Humboldt Speedway

Mitch Keeter won his fourth race of the season on Friday at the Humboldt Speedway. FINISHLINE PHOTOGRAPHY/DAYTON SUTTERBY

H.S. Track & Field:

Kunkler has perfect day in Garnett

HUMBOLDT — Mitch Keeter has found Humboldt Speedway his own personal playground. The Webb City, Mo., driver notched his fourth win on the young NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Season Friday in dominating fashion. Keeter led wire

to wire for 20 fast-paced laps holding off Arkansas driver Tyler Wolff and Arizona’s RC Whitwell. Chase Domer from Nevada, Mo., was the night’s biggest mover, finishing fourth from his tenth place starting position. Heat race wins went to Iola’s Chase Sigg and Keeter. With the win, Keeter is starting to amass National Points for a run at the

coveted NASCAR Whelen AllAmerican Series crown.

In Ray’s Metal Depot BMod Action, Humboldt’s Riley Whitworth used his outside pole starting position to out-distance Dylan Allen.

The win, the first on the year for Whitworth, showcased the field’s performance going See RACING | Page B4

College Track & Field: Mount SAC Relays

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

GARNETT — Iola freshman Elysia Kunkler has now competed in three high school track meets and each time she has made incredible strides.

In Thursday’s Anderson County Invitational Kunkler won every event she entered.

The Fillies freshman set personal bests in the long jump and 300-meter hurdles by clearing her previous jump by more than a foot in the long jump and knocking half a second off her intermediate hurdle time.

She won the long jump with a 15’4”, the 100-meter hurdles with a 16.5, the 300-meter hurdles with a 50.83 and the 100-meter dash with a 13.4.

“The fact that she is winning events and setting personal records is a sign that she is going to just get better and better,” Iola coach Dana Daugharthy said.

Daugharthy decided to let freshman Elka Billings run in a varsity meet for the first time this season and she did not disappoint.

Billings took sixth in the 1600 meters with a 6:08.11 and seventh in the 800 meters with a 2:43.17.

“There were some really talented runners at this track meet,” Daugharthy said. “So the fact that she placed as high as she did really speaks to her work ethic and potential.”

Billings also helped the 4x400 relay take fifth with a

Allen Community College sophomore Kaitlyn Shoemaker runs during the NJCAA Cross Country National Championships in November in El Dorado. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

California Dreamin’

Shoemaker shines in premier meet

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

TORRANCE, Calif. — The motto of the Mount SAC Relays in Torrance, Calif., is: ‘Where the world’s best athletes complete.’

Two Allen Community College runners were among those worldclass athletes competing in the pres-

tigious event this weekend.

Sophomores Kaitlyn Shoemaker and Ricardo Banuelos each made the journey to the West Coast to test their skills against the nation’s best 10,000 meter runners.

“It is the who’s who of Division-I,” Red Devil coach Vince DeGrado said.

“Some of the my Division-I buddies saw me, and looked like ‘What are

you guys doing here.’”

Shoemaker and Banuelos were the only two junior college athletes in the field. DeGrado credits that to the tremendous support his team has received from the administration at Allen.

“I want to give a shout-out to Allen See ALLEN | Page B4

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Middle School Track & Field: Girard Meet

High School Golf: Chase County Triangular

Solander finishes second in Chase County meet

Varney breaks Ponies record, for second time in a week GIRARD — Two days after Iola seventh grader Trenton Varney broke the school record in the 1600 meters with a 5:20.8, he set out to raise the bar in Girard on Thursday.

Mission accomplished.

Varney took first in the meet with a 5:16.43 to break his own record.

Varney also finished second in the 800 meters while Iola won the 4x200 relay and the sprint medley relay for the seventh grade boys.

Seventh grader Brett Willis took fourth in the 200 meters.

Kolton Lacrone was fifth in the 100 meters and Evan Casner was sixth in the 100-meter hurdles.

For the seventh-grade girls,

Josie Plumlee was the top performer with a fourthplace mark in the 1600 meters. Iola also finished fourth in the 4x200 relay.

Jack Adams led the eighth-grade boys with fourth-place finishes in the 1600 meters and 800 meters. Iola took fourth in the sprint medley relay.

For the eighth-grade girls, Averie Sharon was the star with a third-place finish in the 800 meters and a fifth in the 1600 meters.

Iola also took fifth in the 4x400 relay and Zareona Pulley was sixth in the 100-meter hurdles.

Yates Center’s Jon Barnes holes a putt at the Chase County Triangular in Cottonwood Falls on Thursday. SUBMITTED PHOTO

COTTONWOOD FALLS — The Yates Center golf team got some valuable experience playing a sand-greens course on Thursday as they prepare for regionals and the state tournament for high school sand-greens golf.

The team went to Cottonwood Falls — which will host regionals in May — for a triangular meet with Chase County and Riley County. The Wildcats finished second behind host-school Chase County.

Reece Solander was the top Wildcat finisher with a runner-up mark at 73, after going one under for a 32 on the back nine. He was two shots off the lead.

Remi Wagner shot an 84 to take seventh while Jon Barnes finished ninth with an 88 and James Hess’ 101 earned him 11th.

“Their scores were some of the lowest of their careers, if not the lowest, and most of them shot much better on the back nine as they became more familiar with the course,” Wildcat coach Kevin Barnes said. “This gives me a good feeling about our regional tournament, which will be here in about three weeks.”

Krais Baker represented the Wildcats junior varsity and shot a nine-hole score of 70 to tie for 10th in the junior varsity portion.

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I don’t want kids — especially someone else’s Dear Carolyn: My husband and I have been married 12 years and have no kids. Prior to getting married, my husband was aware that I did not want kids, and he expressed the same sentiment. Throughout our marriage, we have had the conversation and agreed we do not want kids. That has not changed. We don’t want kids.

My husband has three nephews and one niece.

My husband tries to attend all the nephews’ games. I have no interest in spending my weekends or weeknights attending children’s soccer matches, tennis matches or basketball games. If I did, I would have had kids.

My husband gets upset when I refuse to go. He thinks it looks bad and he has to constantly make excuses.

His niece is a few months old. Whenever I’m around her, her mother places her in my hands and then disappears. I get stuck holding the baby for long periods of time. I don’t mind a few minutes, but I don’t want to spend my whole visit holding the child or feeding her.

I know I sound horrible, and I probably am.

But, should I just suck it up? Should I attend all the games, and hold the baby with no complaint?

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax

Is there a good compromise? — Anonymous Answer: Your down times aren’t just his, they’re yours, too. His family, though, has no ownership stake.

That’s the gist of it regardless of the nature of the events he’s trying to foist on you.

But — kids’ sports? Really?

You’re not horrible.

Your husband doesn’t sound horrible either, so please phrase it kindly when you tell him I said he is completely deranged.

People routinely miss their own kids’ games.

Coaches miss. And not just because having multiple little athletes/athlete-proxies forces them to, but because a team’s season can easily have games numbering in the dozens — and sometimes the operating instructions for having a multidimensional life dictate that next Sunday’s thirdnephew Regional Elite Select Invitational Quarterfinal Shootout Showdown Pro Cup Qualifier is an unfortunate must-

miss.

Some will note my reference to a “season” and be overcome with nostalgia.

I love watching my kids play. I go to lengths to get to their games that some might call contortionist. And my kids love it when their aunties come watch. But the idea that any adult is tethered to a youth schedule is an idea not bred to survive in the wild.

That the idea has taken root in your marriage says one of three things (or a bit of all of them): that your husband is OK with serving priorities outside the marriage; that his family insists on being his priority; that you aren’t comfortable standing up for your priorities.

This is the basic layout of what you and your husband really need to talk about. You are in this for each other, not you for him and him for his siblings’ kids.

Compromise is a fine impulse but the kowtowing has me concerned, and may warrant deeper attention for you both.

“Make excuses” for your absence? What happened to, “Oh, she’s home — she says good luck”? And with the baby: some peekaboo, then placement in the next secure lap, then,

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“I need to go stretch my legs.” These become doable the moment you trust that they are.

Dear Carolyn: Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? My boyfriend and I have been dating a year and a half — almost a year of it apart. We finally made what I think is a mature decision to break up until we can be together permanently in three months. We had a really difficult time communicating over the phone and often took the slightest sigh the wrong way. If we can’t communicate on the phone, will it really be any different when we’re in the same city? ­— Richmond Answer: Absence does make the heart grow fonder, except when it doesn’t — see above — which suggests absence itself isn’t germane.

Contentment, however, consistently warms the heart — just as excess maintenance cools it.

Forcing a relationship to last (i.e., being so afraid it won’t last that each sigh has a seismic effect) is hard work and therefore, ironically, a great way to kill a relationship. Near or far, your best chance to stay together is to make peace with the odds that you won’t.

Public notice (First published in The Iola Register, April 10, 2017) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust Plaintiff, vs.

Jennifer A. Conaway a/k/a Jennifer Ann Conaway, Ronald C. Conaway a/k/a Ron Conaway a/k/a Ronald Corbit Conaway, Jane Doe, and John Doe, et al., Defendants Case No. 17CV26

Court No. 1 Title to Real Estate Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. §60

dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; and the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability and all other person who are or may be concerned: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Mortgage Foreclosure has been filed in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas by U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, praying for foreclosure of certain real property legally described as follows:

NOTICE OF SUIT STATE OF KANSAS to the above named Defendants and The Unknown Heirs, executors, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing,

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green to checker without any cautions. Wheatland’s Mike Striegel and Chanute’s Tyler Kidwell rounded out the top five.

Jasper, Mo.’s Cody Jolly charged through the field from his seventeenth starting position to finish eighth. Heat race wins went to Jerry Morgan, Whitworth, Allen and Striegel.

In the Street Stock division, Longton’s Shane Cook picked up the feature win holding off Jay Lamons Jr., and Chet Aitken. Last week’s winner Rusty Etherton managed a fourth with Humboldt’s Nick Fritch rounding out the field in fifth. Heat race wins went to Cook and Fritch. Next week’s Street Stocks battle for a $600 purse.

Friday night’s Factory Stock division saw 26 cars check in. The A feature saw Chanute’s Bryce Weldon use a late race pass to secure the win over Jon Westhoff and Joey Decoster. The win, Weldon’s second in a row, saw Weldon maneuver through traffic en route to the win. Heat race winners were Ethan Vance, Jon Westhoff and Tyler Schoen.

The Sports Compact division saw John Willard pick up another win, holding off Topeka’s Barry Luthi and Humboldt’s Marisha Collins. The field, the largest for the young class this season, saw heat race wins go to Brian Vohs and Barry Luthi.

Racing returns next Friday night with hotlaps at 7:30 p.m., and racing at 8 p.m. For more information, including live results, visit www. humboldtspeedway.com.

Humboldt Speedway is a proud member of NASCAR’s Whelen All-American Series.

NASCAR Modifieds A Feature 1: 1. 1M-Mitch Keeter, 0.000[1]; 2. 4-Tyler Wolff, 0.000[3]; 3. 96-RC Whitwell, 0.000[4]; 4.

227-Chase Domer, 0.000[10]; 5.

21C-Cody Schniepp, 0.000[6]; 6.

17-Jeremy Chambers, 0.000[11]; 7. 02-Tanner Mullens, 0.000[12]; 8.

1-Dennis Bishop, 0.000[13]; 9. 22KKevin Newell, 0.000[14]; 10. 75-Tad Davis, 0.000[5]; 11. 9D8-Paden Phillips, 0.000[9]; 12. 9D-Scott Daniels, 0.000[7]; 13. 18JR-Chase Sigg, 0.000[2]; 14. 21B-Bryce Schniepp, 0.000[8] Heat 1: 1. 18JR-Chase Sigg, 0.000[1]; 2. 4-Tyler Wolff, 0.000[4]; 3. 21C-Cody Schniepp, 0.000[3]; 4. 9D-Scott Daniels, 0.000[2]; 5.

9D8-Paden Phillips, 0.000[6]; 6.

17-Jeremy Chambers, 0.000[7]; 7.

1-Dennis Bishop, 0.000[5] Heat 2: 1. 1M-Mitch Keeter, 0.000[2]; 2. 96-RC Whitwell, 0.000[3]; 3. 75-Tad Davis, 0.000[4]; 4. 21B-Bryce Schniepp, 0.000[1]; 5. 227-Chase Domer, 0.000[5]; 6.

02-Tanner Mullens, 0.000[7]; 7.

22K-Kevin Newell, 0.000[6] NASCAR B Modifieds A Feature 1: 1. R63-Riley Whitworth, 0.000[2]; 2. 98-Dylan Allen, 0.000[1]; 3. 17-Mike Striegel, 0.000[4]; 4. 54-Tyler Kidwell, 0.000[3]; 5. 22-Brian McGowen, 0.000[5]; 6. 20C-Shane Collins, 0.000[11]; 7. 42J-Jerry Morgan, 0.000[6]; 8. 00-Cody Jolly, 0.000[17]; 9. 121-Tim Phillips, 0.000[8]; 10.

98K-Kenton Allen, 0.000[9]; 11.

16-Matthew Kay, 0.000[7]; 12.

37-Tim Van Gotten, 0.000[18]; 13. 101-Matt Rose, 0.000[10]; 14.

B01-Jimmie Davis, 0.000[13]; 15.

B2-Chance Bishop, 0.000[12]; 16.

8-Mike Letterman, 0.000[19]; 17.

15R-Ryan Smith, 0.000[20]; 18. 2GJacob Asbell, 0.000[16]; 19. 96-Allen Winter, 0.000[14]; 20. 31-Luke Phillips, 0.000[15] B Feature 1: 1. 00-Cody Jolly, 0.000[8]; 2. 37-Tim Van Gotten, 0.000[11]; 3. 8-Mike Letterman, 0.000[4]; 4. 15R-Ryan Smith, 0.000[2]; 5. 14T-Quentin Taylor, 0.000[1]; 6. D86-Eldon McIntosh, 0.000[10]; 7. H1-Mark Hunzinger, 0.000[3]; 8. 16H-Jake Hereford, 0.000[6]; 9. (DNF) 06-TC Balthazor, 0.000[5]; (DNS) 18-Mason Sigg, 0.000; (DNS) K25-Kevin Stephens, 0.000 Heat 1: 1. 42J-Jerry Morgan, 0.000[1]; 2. 16-Matthew Kay, 0.000[4]; 3. 101-Matt Rose, 0.000[3]; 4. 96-Allen Winter, 0.000[2]; 5.

(DNF) 00-Cody Jolly, 0.000[7]; 6. (DNF) K25-Kevin Stephens, 0.000[5]; (DNS) 16H-Jake Hereford, 0.000 Heat 2: 1. R63-Riley Whit-

worth, 0.000[4]; 2. 54-Tyler Kidwell, 0.000[6]; 3. 20C-Shane Collins, 0.000[3]; 4. 31-Luke Phillips, 0.000[2]; 5. 14T-Quentin Taylor, 0.000[5]; 6. 8-Mike Letterman, 0.000[1]; 7. 06-TC Balthazor, 0.000[7] Heat 3: 1. 98-Dylan Allen, 0.000[5]; 2. 98K-Kenton Allen, 0.000[2]; 3. 121-Tim Phillips, 0.000[7]; 4. 2G-Jacob Asbell, 0.000[4]; 5. 15R-Ryan Smith, 0.000[1]; 6. (DNF) D86-Eldon McIntosh, 0.000[6]; 7. (DNF) 37-Tim Van Gotten, 0.000[3] Heat 4: 1. 17-Mike Striegel, 0.000[2]; 2. 22-Brian McGowen, 0.000[5]; 3. B2-Chance Bishop, 0.000[3]; 4. B01-Jimmie Davis, 0.000[6]; 5. H1-Mark Hunzinger, 0.000[4]; (DNS) 18-Mason Sigg, 0.000 NASCAR Street Stocks A Feature 1: 1. 19-Shane Cook, 0.000[1]; 2. 0L-Jay Lamons Jr, 0.000[6]; 3. 29-Chet Aitken, 0.000[5]; 4. 8-Rusty Etherton, 0.000[7]; 5. 85-Nick Fritch, 0.000[3]; 6. X11-Brad Jarman, 0.000[2]; 7.

J31-Hunter Oswald, 0.000[9]; 8.

49-Ken Colston, 0.000[8]; 9. XL7Colby Carter, 0.000[10]; 10. 0-Ray Roberts, 0.000[4]; (DNS) 08-Jeremy Holm, 0.000 Heat 1: 1. 19-Shane Cook, 0.000[3]; 2. X11-Brad Jarman, 0.000[5]; 3. 0-Ray Roberts, 0.000[6]; 4. 49-Ken Colston, 0.000[2]; 5.

(DNF) 08-Jeremy Holm, 0.000[1]; (DNS) XL7-Colby Carter, 0.000 Heat 2: 1. 85-Nick Fritch, 0.000[1]; 2. 29-Chet Aitken, 0.000[2]; 3. 0L-Jay Lamons Jr, 0.000[3]; 4. 8-Rusty Etherton, 0.000[5]; 5. J31-Hunter Oswald, 0.000[4] Factory Stock A Feature 1: 1. 23JR-Bryce Weldon, 0.000[2]; 2. 9-Jon Westhoff, 0.000[4]; 3. 61-Joey Decoster, 0.000[1]; 4. 75T-Tyler Schoen, 0.000[5]; 5. 13V-Ethan Vance, 0.000[3]; 6. 3-Derrek Wilson, 0.000[23]; 7. 21-Jacob Ellison, 0.000[15]; 8. 15-kylee jarman, 0.000[7]; 9. 7H-Zoe Hannah, 0.000[8]; 10. 12-Jason Agee, 0.000[11]; 11. 114-Wayne Johnson, 0.000[9]; 12. 54-Todd Kidwell, 0.000[6]; 13. 89-Jackson McGowen, 0.000[17]; 14. 417-john shaver, 0.000[13]; 15. 6J-Justin Shadden, 0.000[12]; 16. 1/2S-Jeremy Willard, 0.000[18]; 17. 1106-Eddie Coulter, 0.000[22]; 18. 33D-Camryn Davis, 0.000[16]; 19. 0-Ethan Lamons, 0.000[10]; 20. 72-William Franklin, 0.000[14]; 21. 85N-Kris Dupuy, 0.000[19]; 22. 02-Jack Bigley, 0.000[21]; (DNS) 99-Scott Lucke, 0.000 Heat 1: 1. 13V-Ethan Vance, 0.000[1]; 2. 61-Joey Decoster, 0.000[6]; 3. 114-Wayne Johnson, 0.000[2]; 4. 12-Jason Agee, 0.000[5]; 5. 72-William Franklin, 0.000[4]; 6. 89-Jackson McGowen, 0.000[3]; 7. 85N-Kris Dupuy, 0.000[7]; (DNS) 99-Scott Lucke, 0.000 Heat 2: 1. 9-Jon Westhoff, 0.000[1]; 2. 23JR-Bryce Weldon, 0.000[5]; 3. 0-Ethan Lamons, 0.000[3]; 4. 7H-Zoe Hannah, 0.000[7]; 5. 21-Jacob Ellison, 0.000[2]; 6. 33D-Camryn Davis, 0.000[8]; 7. (DNF) 02-Jack Bigley, 0.000[4]; 8. (DNF) 3-Derrek Wilson, 0.000[6] Heat 3: 1. 75T-Tyler Schoen, 0.000[1]; 2. 54-Todd Kidwell, 0.000[4]; 3. 15-Kylee Jarman, 0.000[7]; 4. 6J-Justin Shadden, 0.000[2]; 5. 417-John Shaver, 0.000[6]; 6. 1/2S-Jeremy Willard, 0.000[5]; 7. (DNF) 1106-Eddie Coulter, 0.000[3] Sport Compact A Feature 1: 1. 12CZ-John Willard, 0.000[2]; 2. 66B-Barry Luthi, 0.000[3]; 3. 18-Marisha Collins, 0.000[5]; 4. 22I-Eric Ikehorn, 0.000[7]; 5. 4-Curtis Wilson Jr, 0.000[9]; 6. 3-Trenton Wilson, 0.000[8]; 7. 14JR-Jillian Wilson, 0.000[11]; 8. 6-Cayden Vance, 0.000[6]; 9. (DNF) 55-David Miller, 0.000[4]; 10. (DNF) 5-Charles Butler Jr, 0.000[10]; (DNS) 95-Steven Bunton, 0.000; (DQ) 30-Brian Vohs, 0.000[1] Heat 1: 1. 30-Brian Vohs, 0.000[2]; 2. 55-David Miller, 0.000[4]; 3. 18-Marisha Collins, 0.000[3]; 4.

22I-Eric Ikehorn, 0.000[5]; 5. 4-Curtis Wilson Jr, 0.000[6]; 6. (DNF) 95-Steven Bunton, 0.000[1] Heat 2: 1. 66B-Barry Luthi, 0.000[1]; 2. 12CZ-John Willard, 0.000[5]; 3. 6-Cayden Vance, 0.000[2]; 4. 3-Trenton Wilson, 0.000[4]; 5.

5-Charles Butler Jr, 0.000[3]; 6. 14JRJillian Wilson, 0.000[6]

Allen Community College for allowing us to go,” DeGrado said. “I told the kids that if Allen didn’t support us and this program, they would not be running this fast.

“I’m so grateful that I work at Allen and they let me take these kids, who have earned the right to go, to these type of events. That is how they get recruited. We are very fortunate.”

Neither runner disappointed.

Shoemaker ran in the A-Division and took ninth place out of 36 finishers.

“She ran her first 5000 meters in 17:33, so the whole time I’m thinking, ‘Holy cow, this is going to either go really, really good or she is going to blow up,” DeGrado said.

“But she hung on and competed.”

She finished with a 35:25.43, more than 4 minutes faster than the next fastest NJCAA 10,000 meter time in the nation this season.

Shoemaker will be the heavy favorite to win the national championship in both the 10,000 and 5000 meters at the NJCAA National Championships in May. “She is going to win, there is no way anyone is going to beat her,” DeGrado predicted. “No way. She would have to get sick, but even getting sick, she still would win.”

sick, but still broke the school record,” DeGrado said. “He had a bad race, but he was still on pace to break 30 minutes which was our goal, but the last 4000 meters he fell apart.”

LONG BEACH STATE Shoemaker isn’t the only elite women’s 10,000-meter runner in DeGrado’s program.

Sophomore Vicky Ibarra ran the 10,000 meters for the first time ever on the California trip at the Beach Invitational at Long Beach State University.

She ran a 39:46.3, which is the third-best time in the NJCAA this season, and finished 13th at the meet.

Other results follow: Men’s 5000 — 14.

Paul Becker 15:32.7; 18. Ludreche Bougana 15:48.35. Women’s 5000 — 18. Abby Steinhauser 19:14.49; 20. Kristina Silvers 19:50.61. 3000 Steeplechase — 11. Chris Dunn, 9:57.64.

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DeGrado has even higher expectations for her than just a national title: He wants the meet record.

“She is 19 seconds off the national meet record in the 10,000 meters,” DeGrado said. “When she runs it at the national meet, she’ll probably get it... I’m going to put a count-down clock on her and we are going af-

ter that national meet record, that is the only thing I can think of to go after.”

Banuelos didn’t quite provide the fireworks that Shoemaker did, but the sophomore was still able to post a 30:41.81 and finish 25th in the A-Division out of 35 runners and beat out runners from UCLA and Purdue.

“Ricardo was a little

AZUSA PACIFIC Allen freshman Anthony Glasgow stole the show at the Bryan Clay Invitational at Azusa Pacific University.

Glasgow broke the school record with a 1:52.96 in the 800 meters and finished in 39th place.

Other results follow: Men’s 800 — 55. Kaven Berry 1:54.27; 69. Vinny Butera 1:55.35; 85. Ryan Yarde, 1:56.38; 96. Chris Martin 1:57.53. Women’s 800 — 127. Maria Puente 2:24.28; 134. Gemma Gonzalez 2:29.45; 139. Hannah Johnson 2:35.54.

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4:44.62. Ella Taylor, Madison Carlin and Kylee Maloney joined her on that team.

Carlin, a junior, rounded out the Fillies point-getters by taking sixth in the high jump with a personal-best 4’8”.

“I am so pleased with her performance,” Daugharthy said. “She comes to practice every day and has worked really hard ever since she was a freshman.”

Christine Helman and Erin Klubek also had personal bests.

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“Our team is moving in the right direction,” Daugharthy said.

MUSTANGS Chase Regehr continues to ease into his senior year with the Mustang track and field team and made a big stride on Thursday by setting a season-best in the 800 meters with a 2:10.92 to take fourth at the Anderson County Invitational.

He also had seasonbest splits in the 4x400 relay and 4x800 relay.

The 4x400 relay finished fourth as a team with a 3:45.09, another season-best.

Regehr was joined on the re-

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lay by Dan Foust, Cale Barnhart and Nathan Sprague.

Foust also fought to finish fifth in the 300-meter hurdles despite not feeling 100 percent. He ran a 44.53.

“As he was running, you could tell he was in pain, but he pushed through and really demonstrated grit and determination,” Daugharthy said. “I expect a healthy Dan to really be able to drop that time.”

In his first meet of the season, junior Ethan Holloway took fifth in the high jump with a 5’6”.

In addition to Foust and Barnhart, Bryce Andres, Jonathan Rodewald, Trevor Stover and Alex Morrison all had personal bests in their events.

UP NEXT Iola will go to Fredonia on Friday with events beginning at 3 p.m.