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By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

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ummer is never quite what you envision — even as a teenager.

Sleeping in till noon. Hard-

mbarking on his junior year at Iola High School, Chase Regehr, 17, knows it’s going to be a year of juggling sports and academics with little else in between.

For his younger brother Cole, 14, you’d like to tell him to savor what little left there is of his carefree days, but it isn’t in the Regehr DNA to take it easy.

The boys are the sons of Shellie and Brian Regehr.

Between work and sports, the boys had a chock-full

Lounging by the pool. Rare-

Watching movies late into the night. Occasionally.

“Frankly, I didn’t have a lot of time to relax,” said Haley Carlin, 13.

There was church camp, followed by two band camps, one at Washburn University in Topeka and the other at Oklahoma Christian University; then a trip to Warrensburg, Mo., to watch an international drum corps competition; then volleyball camp in the mornings followed by play practice in the afternoon for the Mis-

Haley Carlin and her dad, Roger, shoot some hoops at home. soula Children’s Theatre production of “Aladdin.”

“Not that I’m complaining,” Haley said, with an effervescent smile that needs

summer, so much so they couldn’t find time to take a family vacation.

Chase was kept busy working full time for the Allen County Conservation District. Duties included surveying ponds, terraces and waterways. It’s helped convince him he wants to study agriculture land use in college.

Together with friend Ben Cooper, Chase and Cole operate a lawn-mowing business, aptly named BCC. They currently maintain eight lawns.

“We’ve liked the rain this summer,” said Cole.

The brothers also help See REGEHR | Page A6

little prompting to switch on.

“Basically, I like everything about school, especially volleyball and basketball. VolleySee CARLIN | Page A5

Siblings embrace new schools

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

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t’s not so much school that area students are eager for, but the activities that come with it.

Like band, sports and especially seeing friends after the three-month hiatus.

The drag? Getting up early on school mornings.

“Oh man, that’s going to be hard,” said Ethan Weide, 11.

As a sixth-grader, Ethan will be attending Iola Middle School for the first time.

“I’m a little nervous about having to switch classes and have so many different teachers,” said Ethan, the son of Andy and Lori Weide, rural Gas, and Kristen Weide, Kansas City.

“The best part is that Mr. Crusinbery, my principal from Jefferson (Elementary) will be going over to the middle school, too.”

Math and physical education are his favorite subjects, he said.

His stepsister, Abigail Hirt, 10, also will be up on the third

floor of IMS as a fifth-grader, but will continue to have all of her classes in one room.

The two talked about having lockers and the need to learn the combinations of their padlocks.

A calm and composed youngster, Abi, the daughter of Lori Weide and Corey Hirt, Lebo, is looking forward to just about everything about school. Social studies is her favorite subject and she puffs up a bit when she says she’s See WEIDE | Page A5

Helping out on the family farm was part of Chase, left, and Cole Regehr’s summer responsibilities

Compassionate nature Pastor guided back to Iola church led to counseling job

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

Last Thursday, Anne Marie Strobel brought her baby to work. It wasn’t the original plan. Her baby sitter that day had come down with a stomach bug, and so, in a pinch, the new mother packed her 8-week-old son into the car and within the hour the pair were installed behind the desk in Strobel’s new office at Iola High School, where the 31-year-old will begin her work as the freshman and sophomore guidance counselor in just over a week.

“Everyone here has been so kind,” said Strobel of her colleagues at USD 257.

“I told them, ‘I’m very sorry — the sitter was sick.’ And they said, ‘Oh, it’s fine if you bring your baby. School hasn’t started yet.’ This place is just such a happy environment. It’s been so nice

Anne Marie Strobel to feel really at home and comfortable right away.”

An Emporia native, Strobel received her undergraduate education at Ozark Christian College, in Joplin, and her graduate training at Emporia State. Today, she lives with her husband and smiling, blonde-tufted inSee STROBEL | Page A6

Quote of the day Vol. 117, No. 197

When Randy Johnson left his position as youth pastor at Iola Baptist Church in the early 1980s he never imagined he’d return some 30 some years later. He had his own plan, but it seems so did God. Right after graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with his master’s degree, Johnson served as the Iola church’s youth pastor from 1981 to 1984. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in church recreation from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo. While he enjoyed working with the Iola youth, the St. Louis native said he felt called to return to his home state.

He took on a position as an associate pastor in Union, Mo., from 1984 to 1987 and then moved to Kimberling City, Mo., where he served as pastor for a church for 22 years.

His most recent job was at Calvary Baptist in Republic, Mo. Members from Iola Bap-

Randy Johnson is the new pastor for Iola First Baptist Church. He started the position in June. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET tist, who had been without a pastor for many months, contacted Johnson various times asking him to consider coming back to Iola.

A key to his returning was his longtime friendship with Iolan Terry Sparks, with whom he attended grade school. Sparks and his wife,

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Cheryl, also attended college with Johnson.

“I tried to say no at first,” Johnson admitted. “I loved the church I was at so they asked me to at least pray about it and after that I just couldn’t say no.”

Johnson said he and his See JOHNSON | Page A6

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Court report DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Domestic cases filed: State of Kansas vs. Mildred Skaggs and Brian Morgan Dale Maley vs. Nancy Maley State of Kansas vs. Stephanie Purdy Susan Ornelas vs. Anthony Ornelas State of Kansas vs. Kaylen Simmons, Kori Simmons, Brandi Cheever vs. Ronnie Simmons, Johnny James Marriage licenses issued: Jacquelyn Rogers and Damien Evans LaRita Tipton and Garen Sager MAGISTRATE COURT Judge Thomas Saxton Convicted of failure to wear a seat belt and fined $10: Jack Haverty, Colony Ethan Chambers, Humboldt Eric Smith, LaHarpe Stephanie Loving, Colony William Stanley, Chanute Kathy Tush, Iola Mary Tush, Iola Convicted of speeding: Marilynn Rutledge, Chanute,

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Eddie Radford, Iola, environmental code nuisance violation, $460 Acey LeRoy Welch Jr., Iola, pedestrian under the influence of alcohol or drugs, $300 Criminal cases filed: Alyssa Pierce, Iola, fleeing or attempt to elude a law enforcement, $218 Nicole Gumfory, Iola, battery, $433 Anna Walls, Iola, possession of methamphetamine Brandon Brown, Iola, possession of methamphetamine Jacob Conkling, Iola, possession of methamphetamine Trevor Gray, Iola, domestic battery Levi Boan, Iola, possession of methamphetamine Michael Mallory, Iola, criminal possession of a fire arm Contract cases filed: Wichita Surgical Specials vs. Michelle Barnard Olathe Medical Center vs. Kaleb Newman Small claims filed: Moran Manor vs. Lester Edwards and Shirley Edwards

Moran student engages with Kenyan students

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Woodworking is second nature for Moran’s Brady Newman. He placed third in Skills U.S.A. at Pittsburg State University earlier this year, fashioning a walnut cabinet in just under six hours.

A few weeks ago Newman had an opportunity to put his expertise to good use in Kenya.

He joined Iola Rotarian Luka Kapkiai in his home village.

Among the things he took with him were basketballs, a novelty to many of the youth there. He also distributed a number of shoes, and found the youngsters weren’t a bit picky. “Girls here have definite ideas about what they want to wear on their feet,” but there “they didn’t care. Shoes were shoes for the girls, even if they were too big.”

His woodworking experience came in handy when he noticed Kapkiai’s mother labor over a table only about two feet tall. “I didn’t have a square or level” and no power saw, but Newman soon had a table more to the woman’s liking.

Newman, a senior at Marmaton Valley High School, went on the adventure because his

Iola and Allen County governing bodies with meet in joint session at 6 p.m. Monday at the Community Building in Riverside Park to discuss common concerns. The session will follow a special meeting of the Iola Council at 5:15 to discuss its 2016 budget.

Both meetings will be open to the public.

Among topics of the

joint session will be the old hospital site being used for construction of a G&W Foods grocery. Commercial zoning of the site allows for a grocery, but rezoning would be required for construction of apartment complexes. Discussion also will center on a traffic study, to determine such things as entrances, exits and street structures.

Sobriety checkpoint Officers from the Kansas Highway Patrol, Iola Police Department and Allen County Sheriff Department conducted a sobriety checkpoint at the U.S. 54 and U.S. 169 Junction in Iola on Aug. 7.

The purpose of the checkpoint was to identify impaired drivers and remove them from the roadway. Any motorist that had consumed any type of intoxicant was given standardized field sobriety tests. Driver’s licenses were also checked for compli-

ance with state law.

Master Trooper J. Burns of the Kansas Highway Patrol said 420 vehicles were stopped between the hours of 8 p.m. and 10:50 p.m.

Five subjects were evaluated for sobriety and one was deemed impaired. Along with this were five arrests for no driver’s license, expired registration and no proof of liability insurance. Five seat belt, two child restraint violations, seven moving violations and 12 other violation warnings were issued.

Public nudity laws fleshed out again at Topeka council Moran’s Brady Newman visiting a school in Kenya. and Kapkiai’s families are friends. Kapkiai lives in Iola and teach-

Newman admitted to some culture shock — a daily diet of potatoes,

A lot of things we take for granted here aren’t found there.

— Brady Newman, on his recent trip to Kenya

es science at Neosho County Community College, Chanute. Several fundraisers generated money for Newman to make the trip.

It was his first time on an airplane — taking 26 hours. Also, “the first time I had been out of the country.”

Blood lab bows to Bieber bribe NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A Long Island doctor accepted cash bribes and tickets to Justin Bieber and Katy Perry concerts to steer business to a New Jersey blood lab, federal prosecutors said.

Bret Ostrager, 55, of Woodbury, New York, accepted monthly bribes of $3,300 from employees and associates of Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services in Parsippany, prosecutors said. They allege he also

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received thousands of dollars’ worth of meals and tickets to sporting events, concerts and the Broadway musical “Newsies.”

In return, prosecutors claim Ostrager referred his patients’ blood samples to BLS, generating just over $900,000 in business for the lab.

He was indicted in Newark, N.J. on Tuesday on charges of violating antikickback laws and other offenses.

rice and beans, with some meat including goat, “which wasn’t bad,” had him losing 10 pounds — and, an athlete, he found the altitude of about 8,000 feet an adjustment. “I could walk O.K., but I couldn’t run far, and I’m a runner,” he said.

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“A lot of things we take for granted here aren’t found there.”

No Walmart, no indoor plumbing and mosquitoes so plentiful that they slept under nets.

The typical day had his hosts rising at 6 a.m. and working 12 hours, with darkness coming abruptly not long after.

Among his activities was helping Kapkiai explain how to use Iola Rotary water filters and visiting many schools.

“They had many questions about America, and they all want to come to America,” he said. “Their dream is to go to college,” which gave him pause. “We all have that opportunity and don’t think much

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka will make a third attempt at banning public nudity when city officials consider a proposed ordinance next week.

The Topeka City Council’s draft of a new ordinance banning public nudity was made available Thursday. It lists two exceptions to the ban: mothers breastfeeding their children, and children under the age of 10.

Topeka’s proposal was prompted recently by concerns about a local man who walks nude on the area’s Shunga Trail and in other public areas.

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First U.S. woman with ‘i-limb’ appreciates every movement

By JOHNNY DIAZ Sun Sentinel

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (TNS) — Weeks after becoming the first woman nationally to be fitted with an i-limb quantum bionic arm, Lizbeth Uzcategui continues to discover — and surprise herself with —what she can do.

The new, high-tech limb, made by Massachusetts-based Touch Bionics, allows the Fort Lauderdale resident to enjoy small movements that many people might take for granted. Things like giving a thumbsup (or down), moving a computer mouse, shaking hands, opening up her new hand to rest her phone in it, or using the electronic thumb and index finger to pinch something.

“This has been a lot more than just functional for me. It has been also emotional for me in the sense that, before, I was not happy with what I had,” said Uzcategui, 43, as she sat inside the offices at Hanger Clinic in Tamarac, Fla., where she demonstrated some of her newfound moves.

The native Venezuelan was born without the right arm below the elbow and three fingers

Lizbeth Uzcategui of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been training with an i-limb quantum prosthesis, which has five fully functional fingers that make it easier for her to use a mouse on her computer, grab bottles and drive. Uzcategui was born without the right arm below her elbow and three fingers on her left hand. Photo courtesy Hanger Clinic/TNS

on her left hand due to amniotic band syndrome, which restricts blood flow in utero and affects development.

Since age 3, she has had about 15 different skin-hued prosthetics, which she found cumbersome because they only allowed an open-andclose hand movement.

“I was frustrated. I needed something better. I needed to be more functional,” said Uzcategui, who came to the United States 20 years ago, teaching Spanish in North Carolina

and then Pennsylvania.

She moved to Broward County nine years ago, working as an education trainer with Rosetta Stone.

Still, she felt limited by her prostheses.

“The fact that I couldn’t [perform certain functions], I just wasn’t satisfied with who I was, who I could be. I wanted to be more.”

Her new device, which weighs about a pound, uses a microprocessor to run five fully functional fingers. It has six embedded electrodes

that read the user’s muscle contractions in the limb. Those signals cause the arm to flex the fingers and open and close the palm.

In all, it has 24 movements.

And there’s another perk. “I never wore short sleeves before,” she said, because it brought attention to her prosthetic.

Now she proudly wears her new limb.

“Now I feel proud of what I am wearing, and I feel a lot more functional. I have to go shopping for new clothes,” she

said, with a smile.

Since being fitted with the electronic limb in July, Uzcategui shares her experience with anyone who asks in her daily travels, but especially with fellow patients at the Hanger clinic, where she works as a liaison or an “empower coordinator” who guides recent amputees as they adapt to life without a limb.

She accompanies them to doctor appointments and provides emotional support.

“I am kind of like their navigator and help them understand what to expect, what is going to happen, kind of giving them a light to show them the way and help them embrace their new selves and prepare for the new chapter,” Uzcategui said.

Matthew Klein, Uzcategui’s prosthetist at Hanger, has seen how the device has helped enhance her life. It was customized for the petite hands of the 5-foot-1inch woman.

“These hands, in general, have evolved quite a bit in the last five to seven years, and they have all been too large for her hand,” Klein said. “She would come in with a somewhat antiquated hand, but it would look like a gigan-

tic fake hand on her.”

Uzcategui was given the prosthesis by the clinic, so she can provide feedback to help continually improve the device for others, Klein said.

The average cost to fit an i-limb quantum ranges from $80,000 to $120,000, according to the manufacturer’s spokeswoman, who noted that insurance companies may cover the costs.

The arm comes with an app that helps Uzcategui learn how to make specific movements. Uzcategui can charge it in her car or at home.

“I can hold my bag a lot more comfortably than before. Just a little bit of everything, the day-to-day, holding silverware as well. I can hold a glass more comfortably and elegantly as well. The fingers wrap around the shape of the object,” said Uzcategui.

“I am just really thrilled by what I can do right now,” she added.

“It’s like a new me.”

People interested in the i-limb should consult with a prosthetist trained to fit the device.

For a list of certified clinicians, go to touchbionics.com. For more information on Hanger, go to hangerclinic.com.

Ad blitz aimed at child support compliance

Employment still an issue for disabled

By ANDY MARSO KHI News Service

By ANDY MARSO KHI News Service

Two Kansas government agencies are teaming up on a $50,000 ad campaign urging employers to follow federal child support law.

The law highlighted in the campaign requires employers to report new hires to the Kansas Department of Labor so the department can begin withholding any child

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The Department for Children and Families (DCF), which handles child support enforcement in the state, partnered with the labor department to hire an Overland Park advertising firm to create a series of television and print spots reminding employers to report their new hires.

“Right now there’s some great employers who do report their new hires but some who don’t,” said Trisha Thomas, DCF’s director of child support services.

“We just want to educate those folks.”

Thomas said about 20,000 Kansas employers currently report, but she was unsure how many do not.

States set their own penalties for not following the reporting law, with some levying fines. Right now there’s no penalty for non-compliance in Kansas. Thomas said the state is not considering putting one in place, because she believes most of those failing to report are not doing so maliciously.

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a $25 fine. An employer who conspires with an employee to flout the reporting law faces a $350 fine.

Theresa Freed, a spokeswoman for DCF, said the agency got five or six bids for the Kansas ad campaign contract.

JNA Advertising was the winning bidder.

John Nohe, the company’s president and CEO, unveiled three posters Friday that will be used in the campaign. One featured a robust stalk of broccoli with the text “You can’t make sure Kansas kids eat their vegetables. But you can make sure they have the support they need.”

The bottom of the poster directs employers to a reporting website which is not yet live. Employers can currently enter their new hires digitally on a Department of Labor web page.

“We think it’s going to have a good impact,” said Nohe, whose company also handles advertising for the Kansas Lottery.

Nohe’s team plans to roll out ads at 17 TV stations across the state, with the air time heavily discounted because they are public service announcements.

Thomas said she hopes the ad campaign will lead to “millions” in additional child support revenue.

She said the money for the campaign came from the child support services budget, which is twothirds federally funded.

Kansans with disabilities from across the state gathered Thursday in Topeka for a two-day caucus centered on employment, which many said remains hard to get and maintain.

Participants in the 13th Kansas Disability Caucus split into three regional groups in the afternoon. People in the eastern Kansas group raised concerns about transportation, navigating the social services maze and the limitations of state employment initiatives.

“One of the themes was just that employment in general isn’t working,” said Steve Gieber, executive director of the Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities, as he summed up the eastern Kansas session.

Boosting the employment rate of Kansans with disabilities has been a goal of Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration for years and state funds have been funneled to provide incentives for employers.

But it remains a huge challenge and as recently as last October, less than 20 percent of Kansans with disabilities were in the workforce.

Participants in this year’s disability caucus said that some housing

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and public businesses like restaurants still aren’t accessible to people with disabilities, 25 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the landmark federal law meant to provide access to public life.

Caucus participants said the lingering problems with accessibility create barriers to employment. A shortage of networking opportunities and employers’ to provide reasonable accommodations for workers with disabilities also continued to be problems.

Others said they need more help navigating government programs like Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicaid because they’re afraid that earning more money could threaten their medical coverage.

Thursday’s meeting led to calls for more self-advocacy and more teamwork between Kansans with all type of disabilities to fight for their rights under the ADA. Susanne Hindman, from Olathe, said she needed emotional support for her legal battle with her former employer. After she was fired, she filed a discrimination complaint with the Kansas Human Rights Commission and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an experience she called “terrifying.”

“There’s really no support out there for me,” Hindman said.

“I’m flying alone. We encourage each other to speak up for ourselves and advocate for ourselves and then we leave each other out to dry.”

Caucus participants were encouraged to get in touch with the closest branch of the Self Advocate Coalition of Kansas or Centers for Independent Living.

At another session Thursday, the three managed care organi-

zations (MCO) that administer Kansas Medicaid through KanCare gave presentations about their efforts to assist clients with disabilities in finding employment.

Services provided include some transportation to and from work, resume help, interview coaching and assistance in identifying workplace accommodations.

Angie Reinking, United HealthCare’s outreach specialist, highlighted the company’s Empower Kansas grants, a three-year program to provide $1.5 million to support community programs that seek meaningful employment for Kansans with disabilities.

“We as an MCO want to be part of the answer to that ongoing challenge,” Reinking said.

“We know people want to be employed, we know there’s some good programs and there’s some good services out there, but there’s some gaps and some frustrations.”

The Working Healthy program was the focus of another session. It allows Kansans with disabilities to purchase Medicaid as they increase their income so that they don’t have to fear losing their coverage and having to purchase more expensive private insurance.

One theme that emerged was that social isolation also plays a role in employment challenges.

Johnna Godinez, a Topekan who works with the Kansas Youth Empowerment Agency, said people with disabilities tend to withdraw, especially if they’re newly disabled.

That makes it hard to find a job.

“It’s a competitive world out there, Godinez said, “and we need to raise our expectations of ourselves so that we can compete.”

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‘Gunsmoke’ cast to reunite in Dodge City DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Six decades after “Gunsmoke� debuted on television, several actors who appeared in the show, including Burt Reynolds, are scheduled to reunite in Dodge City.

The Wichita Eagle reported the actors will attend Wild West Fest on Sept. 25-27. The event is hosted by the Boot Hill Casino & Resort, the Wild West Heritage Foundation and the Roundup Rodeo.

Besides Reynolds, who portrayed blacksmith Quint Asper from 1962 to 1965, also attending are Bruce Boxleitner, Buck Taylor, Jess Walton, Lane Bradbury and Merry Florene. “Gunsmoke� ran on CBS from 1955 through 1975 and was nominated for more than a dozen Emmys.

Other key actors from the show have died, including James Arness, who starred as Matt Dillon; Amanda Blake, who played Miss Kitty; and Milburn Stone, who was Doc Adams.

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Evening Service......................7 p.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study. .7 p.m.

Sun. Evening/Youth Fellowship. .6 p.m.

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Sunday Evening

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Sunday Worship....................10 a.m.

Wednesday Service................7 p.m.

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117 E. Miller Rd., Iola

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Sunday Worship...............10:30 a.m.

Bible Study.............................6 p.m.

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Randy Johnson, pastor Jonathan Palmer, Worship/Youth Minister

Dave McGullion, pastor

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Grace Lutheran Church

Sun. Worship.....................9:30 a.m.

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Sunday School.........................9 a.m.

Adult Bible Class....................9 a.m.

Worship Service...............10:30 a.m.

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Harvest Baptist Church

Humboldt United Methodist Church 806 N. 9th, Humboldt

Lincoln & Second Streets, Iola

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Sun. Prayer/Fellowship.......9:15 a.m.

Sunday Main Worship......10:30 a.m.

Sunday Bible Study............6:30 p.m.

Wed. Youth Group.............6:30 p.m.

Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

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MS/HS Youth...........................5 p.m.

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Sun. Evening Worship.............6 p.m.

Wednesday Service................7 p.m.

Sunday School......................10 a.m.

Morning Worship..................11 a.m.

Food Pantry 3rd Friday Each Month.......4 p.m.

Tony Godfrey, pastor

Rev. Marge Cox, pastor

406 S. Walnut, Iola

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Calvary United Methodist Church Jackson & Walnut St., Iola

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Sunday Worship.................9:15 a.m.

Sunday School ................10:30 a.m.

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Trinity United Methodist Church Kentucky & Broadway, Iola

Madison & Buckeye

Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship ...................11 a.m.

Sunday Praise........................9:15 a.m.

Sunday Blended Worship. . . .9:30 a.m.

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Northcott Church

Poplar Grove Missionary Baptist Church

Sunday School...................9:28 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:28 a.m.

Wednesday Evening...........6:28 p.m.

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Wesley United Methodist Church

305 Mulberry, Humboldt

Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Service...........6:30 p.m.

Mike Farran, pastor

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Rev. Jon Gray 620-473-3063

St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church 202 S. Walnut, Iola

Open in spirit - deep in faith rich in worship - active in service reflecting God’s love Holy Eucharist Sunday 9 a.m.

Followed by fellowship.

Rev. Jan Chubb All are welcome.

620-365-7306

Light of LaHarpe

Duwayne Bearden, pastor 620-228-1829

Moran United Methodist Church First & Cedar, Moran

Adult Sunday School .........8:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship.................9:30 a.m.

Children’s Sunday School. . . . .10 a.m.

James Stigall, pastor 620-237-4442

St. John’s Catholic Church

310 S. Jefferson, Iola Saturday Evening...............5:30 p.m.

Sunday Worship....................10 a.m. (at St. Joseph’s, Yates Center......8 a.m.)

Wednesday P.S.R. Classes...6:15 p.m.

September thru May Confessions Saturday. . .4:30 - 5 p.m.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a breakfast person,â&#x20AC;? she says in a matter-of-fact voice, hinting that it takes up too much valuable time.

Her siblings, however, emit a collective groan at the idea of having to wake up early. Bedtime for the younger three is 8 p.m. The oldest, Katie Weide, 14, is expected to have lights out by 9 p.m.

never missed a day of school. This year, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s determined to make all Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Tennis and gymnastics are her favorite extracurricular activities.

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Setting a good example comes naturally to Katie, who excels at school and is a talented musician. This year she has qualified to play in the advanced levels of both the concert and jazz bands. She plays tenor saxophone, baritone and bass clarinet.

As an incoming freshman, Katie is expecting more homework, more responsibilities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and more fun. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like math,â&#x20AC;? she said, so beginning high school opens the door to a whole new world of math-related topics, beginning with geometry.

Is she intimidated by high school? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe a little, but I already know a lot of the kids from band, 4-H, and softball from over the summer,â&#x20AC;? she said.

And then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister Lilli Hirt, who at age 7 is still in love with ponies and toys and makebelieve. She brings out a new shirt sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been

The blended Hirt/Weide family consists of siblings, from left, Abi Hirt, Lilli Hirt, Katie Weide and Ethan Weide. saving to wear the first day of school. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dark purple with a big, sparkly heart applique. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The sequins are reversible,â&#x20AC;? she says with glee as she demonstrates how they can be made to face either way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mrs. Clark was the best teacher in the world,â&#x20AC;? Lilli declares of her first grade teacher Cindy Clark at McKinley

Elementary. This year Lilli will attend Jefferson Elementary as part of the school districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s change to attendance centers. A familiar face will be principal Lori Maxwell.

THE SUMMER was a blur, the kids said.

Katie was busy with a paper route, band camp, softball, and helping with the summer band

program.

All four children are members of Prairie Dell 4-H and the responsibilities of preparing for the county fair.

They spoke fondly of a weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vacation to Colorado and the thrill of whitewater rafting and seeing the Royal Gorge.

Even so, the prospect of school is just as exciting.

Carlin: Eager for sports and studies Continued from A1

ball practices start Monday. Her favorite subjects are math and English.

As an eighth-grader, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;seniorâ&#x20AC;? class of middle school, Haley said she and her friends plan to make this â&#x20AC;&#x153;a most awesome year.â&#x20AC;?

She said their goal is to â&#x20AC;&#x153;stay positive and drama-free,â&#x20AC;? no small feat for teenage girls.

In fact, seeing friends who havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been in her summer circle is one reason sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eager for school to resume. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a good summer in that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made

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Haleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musical interests helped keep her busy over the summer.

She plays acoustic guitar, bass guitar and the ukulele as well as the piano.

For school this year she was admitted into both the upper level jazz and concert bands.

Shopping for school clothes was pretty much a no-brainer, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I prefer simple things, T-shirts and jeans. If I like a certain style of shirt, then it seems to make sense to by it in multiple colors. I love my

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Converse shoes, they are my life. My sister thinks Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m nuts,â&#x20AC;? Haley said.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big sister, Madison, 15, who will be a sophomore at IHS. The girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; parents are Terri and Roger Carlin.

Madison, who was away at band camp at Greenbush at the time of the interview, â&#x20AC;&#x153;takes way too much timeâ&#x20AC;? getting

ready for school, according to Haley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the hair,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can wake up after she does and still be ready for school before she is. I just throw on a shirt and pants and hope my socks match.â&#x20AC;?

But their father, Roger, remembers only too well that Madison, too, once eschewed the trappings of womanhood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was only yesterday,â&#x20AC;? he said with a heavy sigh, for which Haley has little patience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let me show you the shelves I made,â&#x20AC;? she says, pulling dad from his reverie. Sure enough, Haley produces three small shelves covered with bright paper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re for my locker at school,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Roger produces a video of Haley using her first-ever power tool, an electric sander. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were too rough.

The shelf paper wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stick, so I got to use a sander,â&#x20AC;? she said.

ONE CHALLENGE a new school year poses is figuring out where each class is and whether thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough time to between classes to retrieve textbooks in her locker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have 3½ minutes between each class.

Sometimes it makes more sense to carry books for multiple classes than to try to stop by my locker in between.â&#x20AC;?

Other than those logistics, Haley feels confident â&#x20AC;&#x153;this will be my best year ever.â&#x20AC;?

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son, Guy, on a farm near Garnett.

The new counselor seems in every way suited to her job. She’s thoughtful in conversation, laughs easily, and broadcasts a natural compassion. And she’s a lover of the rousing quote.

There are inspirational placards on a bulletin board in her office, a quotation from the ageless Dr. Seuss stenciled on the wall, and a maxim inked in permanent cursive just above Strobel’s left shoulder blade (“Out of adversity comes opportunity”) — phrases whose meanings are intended to detonate in the impressionable minds of the teens who encounter them at just the right time.

Mostly, students will

visit Strobel with scheduling questions or for advice on coursework.

But they’ll find their way to her office, too, when they’re in some anguish — when they are lonely or bullied or overwhelmed by schoolwork, or when the stress at home spills into their lives as students.

“I realize I can’t fix all of their problems,” said Strobel. “But I can be there for them, and that means so much.”

It’s not an abstract promise in Strobel’s case. For a period of years in her youth, Strobel lived in California with her parents.

But, at 13, she and her mother returned to Kansas, where Strobel was thrust into a classroom of unfamiliar faces at a new junior high.

“Middle school is hard for most people. And I

moved from California to Kansas in the eighth grade. It was really overwhelming and traumatic, because you’re 13 and everything is already awkward, and then you move and it’s a different culture.

“But I had the best middle school counselor.

He was so kind and so helpful in getting me to feel comfortable in my own skin. He just retired this year. Mr. Ellis. … He didn’t have to do a whole lot with me probably, but the fact that he was there was so helpful. You don’t need too much in middle school; you just need someone to love on you.

“Ever since then I’ve wanted to do something in this field.”

Strobel’s previous job was as a counselor for elementary school children in the West Frank-

lin school district, near Ottawa. But her intentions, always, were to work with teens.

“Even in college, I wanted to be around teenagers and help them and talk to them.” A lot of people are disconcerted by teenagers, said Strobel, “because they’re ornery. But I love them because they think critically about things. You know, that’s why they’re ornery — they’re questioning everything. But it’s because they think critically that you’re able to give them things that challenge their minds and help them become who they are ultimately going to be.”

While Strobel’s job as counselor won’t start in earnest until the 26th, she’s been busy during the enrollment period acquainting herself

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with her new digs and learning the baroque mechanics of PowerSchool, IHS’s comprehensive scheduling software.

“Do you know the movie ‘Apollo 13’? When they give the crew like seven items” — duct tape, plastic hose, baggies, etc. — “and say ‘Here, you have to make an oxygen-producing machine out of this.’

And the guys are like, ‘Oka-ay?’ That’s kind of how it feels for me. I’m in the process of putting all this new information together.”

When she’s not on the clock, Strobel is an active participant in the civic life of Garnett. She

is on the Community Foundation board, and teaches a number of fitness classes — spinning, water aerobics, yoga — in Anderson County.

“Other than that,” said the busy working mother, “I’m kind of a homebody.”

It’s a rare good thing to have a job that you love, to be doing in life the thing you always meant to do. “I’m really excited to be here,” said Strobel. “I’m not nervous. I’ve been nervous about jobs in the past.

It’s just kind of one of those things where I’ve known I’ve needed to do this my whole life.

So now, it’s just excitement.”

Johnson: Pastor Continued from A1

wife, Janice, a retired teacher, made the trek back to Kansas full of excitement for the possibilities that lie ahead. The couple have two grown sons, Jason and Josh, and two grandchildren.

There’s a major culture difference between his church in Republic and Iola’s.

Calvary Baptist averages 600 to 700 congregants. Iola Baptist has about 150 people attending.

On Sunday evenings members feed 40 to 60 students and many of them attend Iola Baptist regularly.

“One of the greatest needs here is a children’s ministry and I want to establish a vibrant ministry,” he said.

“We can’t just stop there though, we need to reach out to every age group.”

This Sunday the church will host the Christian band Unspoken for an afternoon concert, which is al-

Ninety-seven percent of churches in America aren’t growing. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.

Regher: Brothers active in school Continued from A1

aptly named BCC. They currently maintain eight lawns.

“We’ve liked the rain this summer,” said Cole.

The brothers also help their dad and Uncle Dave on the family farm north of town where they are adept at maneuvering massive tractors, combines and cattle.

Of course it hasn’t been all work and no play.

“We played summer league basketball,” said Cole.

“And I attended football camp,” added Chase.

School sports, in fact, are a big reason the boys

aren’t exactly dreading the return to school.

Chase is signed up to play Mustang football, position linebacker.

“I’ve been playing since I was in third grade, flag football,” he said. This summer he faithfully attended conditioning workouts at 7 a.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at the high school gym.

Cole will be running cross-country, a switch from football. At this summer’s Charley Melvin run he ran the 5K in 23 minutes, 57 seconds, and that’s with the gun sounding at 12:26 a.m.

Chase’s time was 21:01.

Team practices for

both Cole and Chase begin Monday night.

COLE has his sights

on taking geometry, history, agriculture, English, computer applications and choir his freshman year.

He’s taking the transition from middle school to high school in stride, shrugging off any hints of anxiousness.

Chase is gearing up for college entrance exams and will have physics, ag mechanics, English, Spanish II, American government and consumer education to look forward to.

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where he’ll take college algebra and trigonometry and psychology.

Both boys are “straight A” students, said their mother, Shellie. She works as an attendant secretary at the high school.

The boys also are involved in school and church activities. Both are their respective class representatives in Student Council.

Chase is also an officer with FFA and Cole is involved with Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Youth group activities through Wesley United Methodist Church are an additional outlet.

Friends, sports and studies. Sounds like an auspicious combination for the school year.

— Randy Johnson, Iola First Baptist Church pastor

But it’s not about numbers, Johnson said.

“Ninety-seven percent of churches in America aren’t growing. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it,” Johnson said.

His go-getter mentality is already being put to work.

“I’m in the process of formulating a five-year plan for this church, but I want every church in this town to be successful,” Johnson said. “I’m not somebody who treads water. I’m a goal-setter and I want to challenge the church.”

The church has a strong ministry with students at Allen Community College.

ready sold out.

“This church does a great job of reaching out to the community,” he said. “They are super friendly people.”

Besides pastoring, Johnson serves on the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Southwest Baptist University and will be a part of the Iola Ministerial Alliance.

“I’m trying to figure out why God sent me here and I think some exciting things are ahead of us,” he said.

Iola First Baptist is at 801 N. Cottonwood.

Sunday morning worship service begins at 10:30 a.m.

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Traveling gives better appreciation of home Much like a student wondering how the summer could pass so fast, I feel the same way about a recent vacation.

I know I was gone. The knee-high grass is proof.

My problem is that I was so anxious to be carefree that it took forever to reach that sense of relaxation.

Pathetic, I know.

GROWING UP, I idolized

my piano teacher Marlene Lenski, at least once I got over being scared to death of her dominating presence. She had big, strong hands that pounded the keyboard. When she showed me how a piece should be played, she’d close her eyes, lost in the music. She never wore makeup and her straight hair couldn’t hold a curl if it tried. Which I’m sure she never did.

When I got older she’d let me come by to visit. During those times she smoked with abandon and cut through the haze with big, demonstrative waves of her arms.

As a teenager I thought she was super cool and I admired what I viewed a most unconventional life mostly because she had never married. She was the first person to make me question what I thought was laid out before me in June Cleaver fashion.

From her travels around the world she’d show me mementos and tell me I, too, needed to get out of Dodge.

So it surprised me to learn one day that she had put away her traveling bags.

“But what about India, Africa, Tahiti?” I asked, incredulous that with her wherewithal she could be

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anywhere in the world.

“I’m done,” she said.

“Now, I just want to stay home,” which to my young mind seemed a betrayal to everything she had encouraged me to do.

EVERY TIME Brian and I are in Colorado I drool over the mountain homes posited among alpine flowers and bubbling brooks. I picture myself as spry and nimble as Heidi of lore. I look at real estate sites — which quickly bring me back to reality.

Brian tolerates my chatter about such things, but I know he hates it, especially when we come to the foothills of Boulder where homes sit high above the city.

But when we pulled in late last Saturday night I felt almost like a kid again, going from room to room, running outside to see if my plants and flowers had survived, giving the cats a big hug.

“I’m so glad to be home, and I never want to live anywhere else,” I said.

And all of a sudden I thought of Marlene, finally able to understand her sentiments.

It’s wonderful world out there, but, more and more, I appreciate the comforts of home.

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Diggin’ with one of the Diggers While George Wyant probably would argue he isn’t so famous, it’s refreshing to visit with a TV celebrity who isn’t stuck on himself.

I had the occasion this week when I joined Humboldt’s Robbie Baker and Wyant for a metal detecting sortie in south Iola. We found a few coins and a couple of other interesting things, though the highlight for me was having a chance to chat with Wyant.

He and Tim Saylor are stars of National Geographic Channel’s hit reality show “Diggers.” They travel the country — more recently Europe as well — prowling about historic sites and unearthing artifacts of all sorts and occasionally old coins.

Wyant was a Montanan and copper miner when Saylor, who worked with computers, moved to Anaconda. They became friends, took up hunting with metal detectors and when instructional videos they bought left them wanting decided to make their own. The right person saw it, which led to their gig with Na-

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that’s how all this got started.

Look on a few YouTube videos to see some amazing finds he and Saylor made in and around Anaconda before going to television.

More than his skills with Bob Johnson a detector, I was most impressed with Wyant’s genuineness — I would be shocked tional Geographic. “Diggers” if that changed.

He found his way to a home is on Cox Cable channel 75.

I’m fond of the show be- north of Iola by way of wife cause it truly is reality. Every Lori, whom he met in Monhole dug doesn’t hold some- tana. Lori’s mother, Hazel thing meaningful, and every Jones, lives east of Iola. Her find isn’t awe-inspiring. They husband, Don, died just a also have a good time going few days ago. That the Wyabout what they do, which ants, along with two teenaged makes the show all the more daughters, were nearby was a appealing. They’ve even cre- blessing.

Wyant, and Baker, were ated their own vocabulary: generous in waiting on an Nectar is something found, roundness in the hole is a old codger like me, and were even good enough to help coin.

The lion’s share of what with a couple of finds by they find goes to the property loaning their pointers — a owner, including historical small detector that pinpoints groups, and often ends up be- coins in a hole. To their creding displayed in a museum or it, they made me feel one of similar venue. But Wyant also the gang.

Now, if I could just find that enjoys hunting in circumstances that permits him to elusive gold coin, the story keep what he finds. After all, would be complete.

Why mounting state debt matters Thanks to Governor Sam Brownback and his legislative backers, your child or grandchild born this year will still be paying off a new $1 billion state debt in the year 2045.

Of course, this assumes your children and grandchildren will choose to live in Kansas and take on the financial burden state lawmakers are placing on them.

With this new debt Kansas taxpayers are now saddled with a total debt load of over $4 billion, by far the highest in state history and a jump of 50 percent over current borrowing. Debt recently authorized by lawmakers but not yet issued could bump these figures even higher.

State decisions on taxing and spending draw public attention because of their immediate impact on our pocketbooks. Yet, bonded indebtedness represents fixed obligations that reorder state taxing and spending priorities for the long term and therefore requires careful public scrutiny.

Most Kansans may not be aware that state government has been aggressively using debt to meet its obligations for the past 25 years. As of last year the debt burden of Kansas taxpayers was more than twice that of surrounding states in terms of per capita debt and debt as a percentage of personal income.

The new debt will boost those numbers further.

So, why are state lawmak-

Ed Flentje Insight Kansas

ers so hell bent to borrow another billion dollars? They are gambling that state officials can invest proceeds from the $1 billion bond issue in marketable securities that will earn better returns than the interest charged on the debt — at least over the long term. Their betting scheme may carry less risk than play-

rowing is projected to pay for less than $50 million of the tax cuts over these two years, well less than one-half of 1 percent of the state’s biennial budget. This speculative venture represents another act of financial desperation designed to rescue for two more years the risky, ill-advised tax cuts of 2012 and 2013.

Without question the state’s deteriorating financial condition has elevated the state’s risks. National rating agencies downgraded state credit last year, and last month Moody’s graded the planned pension debt down one step from a similar bond issue in 2004, citing “the structural imbalance in the state’s budget and reliance on interfund

With this new debt Kansas taxpayers are now saddled with a total debt load of over $4 billion, by far the highest in state history and a jump of 50 percent over current borrowing.

ing games in the state lottery or at a casino but could backfire on Kansas taxpayers.

The real story here is that the governor and his legislative coalition want to borrow a billion dollars in order to reduce state pension obligations this year and next and in doing so help pay for the revenue lost from state income tax cuts. But, their bor-

borrowing, as well as an underfunded pension plan.”

These downgrades translate into higher interest costs that narrow the potential for any state benefit.

Earlier this week Moody’s took the additional step of warning that the new debt would do little or nothing to alleviate the state pension’s unfunded liability of $9 bil-

lion.

Further, state lawmakers have played fast and loose with highway debt in recent years. During the Brownback administration alone $450 million in new highway debt has been issued, but that amount plus another $750 million has been swept from the highway fund to help pay for current obligations, such as state income tax cuts for the wealthiest Kansans, rather than highway improvements.

Growing debt levels will skew state priorities and have long-term costs for Kansans.

Repaying bonded debt immediately becomes the state’s highest spending priority, leaping past school and university funding, highways, and assistance to vulnerable Kansans. Further, repaying debt may foreclose taxing options such as reducing property taxes or eliminating the state income tax. Future state borrowing will be more constrained, and Moody’s recent warning may signal another credit downgrade for the state.

Finally, mounting debt will hasten the shift of state obligations and tax burdens onto future generations. So, while you are enjoying this year’s tax cuts, remember to thank your children and grandchildren, who will be paying for them for many years to come.

H. Edward Flentje is professor emeritus at Wichita State University.

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Dale Webb and Bill Owens have established a plant in Gas City to turn out dune buggies, a fiberglass sports vehicle mounted on a Volkswagen chassis. Pictured is one of the first units they have produced. They say they can make the vehicles so they can travel on snow and ice or produce an amphibious model to travel on water.

They say they will start small and expand if demand creates a market. ***** The Lehigh Cement Plant in Iola will cease production at the end of this week and all but a handful of employees will be discharged by the end of next week, Hallet Guth, plant manager, told the Register this morning. Guth said he was informed today that the Iola plant and two others in the shrinking Lehigh chain were being closed because they are old and less profitable than larger, more modern facilities. Today’s announcement means that 65 additional Lehigh employees will lose their jobs. Earlier in the year the plant cut back from 110 to 65 workers. Guth said he hadn’t been told what the termination benefits would be.

The Iola plant was built in 1900.

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August Yard of the Month Ted and Norma Stahl were selected for the Yard of the Month for August. Their home is at 612 E. Neosho in Iola. They were presented a $25 gift card donated

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Randy Latta is:

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During his days at Iola High School, Randy Latta broke the mold for the stereotypical athlete. While most of his classmates won varsity letters in part due to their size and strength, Latta won one despite his lack of size and strength.

Although his stature was unlike the traditional athlete’s, Latta helped bring IHS its first ever state championship when he and the rest of his cross country team took the crown in 1969.

For this edition of “Remember Me,” we catch up with Randy Latta, a current accountant for the Iola Nursing Center and former star athlete at Iola High.

Randy Latta pictured running for Allen County Community College in 1972.

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n July 24, the sun shone brightly and intensely over the Kansas plains. Not long after sunrise, the temperature skyrocketed to 100 degrees. And then it’d just keep getting hotter.

The Adam LaRoche Baseball Complex in Fort Scott, though new and kempt, lacked enough shaded areas for fans to take refuge. So they fought for what little space there was to avoid baking in the stinging summer heat.

The players on the diamond sat during pitching changes. The umpires retreated to the dugouts in between innings. And to the dismay of everyone in attendance, even the lone cloud in the sky couldn’t help but evade the high-noon sun.

But there stood Randy Latta.

With nothing but the brim of his dusty ball cap to shield his eyes, the 61-year-old man settled dutifully by the Iola Indians’ dugout. He never asked to join the team inside for a brief moment of relief, and he never retired to the oasis of the concession stand where the other fans huddled beneath.

No, Latta just stood there.

A wet rag in one hand and a bottle of Icy Hot in the other.

“Randy!” one of the Indians cried out from the dugout.

Latta hastily hobbled the

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three or four steps it took for him to reach the field’s entrance where the player was waiting for him. He gave the kid the wet rag, asked if he needed anything else and then reported right back to his post.

While the other fans were considering whether they had just paid $3 to stand somewhere between Dante’s sixth or seventh level of hell, Latta was in heaven.

“Maybe I spent too much of my life around sports,” he said. “But maybe not.”

——— In 1969, Randy Latta still had his old hip and his ankles didn’t yet have the power to predict the weather.

“It’s the barometric pressure,” he said. “I get this intense pain when it’s about to rain … (My wife) says I can get within the hour.”

As for the hip, Latta got a new one in 2001. And unfortunately no, his hip doesn’t anticipate storms, perform magic or let him know when the Dow Jones dips a few points.

It just helps him walk.

Lame, right?

Anyway, in 1969, Latta was your average, healthy 16-year-old athlete enrolled in Iola High. He had a fervent passion for baseball and basketball as well as an evident knack for distance running.

“We’d play pickup basketSee LATTA | Page B3

his wife

Randy Latta poses for a photo in 2015.

Above: Randy Latta (front row, first on the left) is pictured with the Iola High School cross country team during the 1970-1971 school year, which was his senior year. COURTESY OF RANDY LATTA Below: Randy Latta (right) at this year’s American Legion state tournament in Colby, with the Iola Indians. REGISTER/JONATHAN CZUPRYN

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Horseshoe Pitching League – at the Riverside Park Horseshoe Pits, 600 S. State St., Iola. Monday and Thursday Evenings, 6:30 pm. All ages and skill level are welcome to participate. Iola Horseshoe Tournament Dates: August 8 and October 17.

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Thursday Evenings, 6:30pm.

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Youth Flag Football Program – Register online or at the Recreation Office by August 28. Boys & girls in grades 1st-2nd and 3rd5th may participate.

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Royals’ bullpen blows 4-run lead, KC loses 7-6 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Royals’ bullpen has been so dominant the past couple years that it had been 126 games since the reigning American League champions lost when leading after the eighth inning.

Their streak ended in frustrating fashion Thursday night.

The Angels scored a pair of runs in the eighth, then C.J. Cron and Kole Calhoun each drove in a pair off closer Greg Holland in the ninth, sending Los Angeles to a 7-6 victory over Kansas City and ending its seven-game skid against the AL Central leaders.

“When you’re leading in the ninth inning,” Holland said, “you should win the game.”

Kansas City built a 5-1 advantage heading to the eighth, but All-Star reliever Wade Davis coughed up two runs in his first appearance since Aug. 6, when a stiff back put him on the shelf.

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Then, Holland (3-1) entered in the ninth and gave up a leadoff single, a walk and threw a wild pitch.

Cron followed with a pinch-hit double to tie the game, and after Johnny Giavotella singled, Calhoun added his go-ahead double into the right-field corner.

Holland then walked Mike Trout before he was finally pulled. The former All-Star closer allowed four runs and four hits and a pair of walks without retiring a batter.

“I’ve been closing and in the bullpen long enough to know you’ve got to take the bad from the good and the good from the bad. It’s one of those nights, I didn’t get it done,” Holland said.

“I didn’t execute when I needed to and we lose the game because of it.”

Huston Street gave up Eric Hosmer’s solo shot in the ninth before getting Alex Rios to fly out with runners on first and second to end the game. Street earned his 27th save with Albert Pujols — because of pinch hitters and substitutions — forced to play third base for the second time this season and only the 12th time since 2002.

“That was the best we could come up with,” Angels manager Mike

Scioscia said. “There were some things we had to do with so many guys out of position.

Jose Alvarez (3-3) tossed 1 2/3 scoreless innings to earn the win.

The Royals’ stunning bullpen meltdown squandered a nice bounce-back start by Jeremy Guthrie, who allowed two runs and three walks over six innings. The veteran had been dinged for at least 10 hits in each of his past three outings, putting his spot in the rotation in question.

Garrett Richards allowed three runs and eight hits and two walks for Los Angeles.

Rios, Lorenzo Cain and Drew Butera drove in runs off Richards early in the game, and Hosmer and Kendrys Morales appeared to put it out of reach when they touched up the Angels bullpen.

Then, an offense that had been sputtering came to life.

Trout, Conor Gillaspie and David Murphy also drove in runs for Los Angeles, which had managed four runs total in a three-game sweep by the White Sox to start its road trip.

The victory snapped the Angels’ nine-game losing streak away from home.

“I think it’s definitely a win to build on.

That’s one of the best teams in baseball,” Street said.

“This is a good series for us to show something.”

Randy Latta, second row, second from the left, is pictured with Allen County Community College’s cross country team in 1972. COURTESY OF RANDY LATTA

Latta: Remember Me? Continued from B1

ball games and play to 100,” he said. “But we’d play by ones, there were no twos or threes.

And of course, you had to win by two. Those games would wear you out.”

With his energy and love of the game, it’s not a stretch saying he should have graduated in 1971 with a varsity letter in basketball. But he didn’t.

In fact, he never made the team.

“Back then if you were small, they didn’t even look at you,” Latta said. “I could dribble and I could shoot. But that day and age, they didn’t look at you.”

Earl Boykins became a staple in the NBA at 5-foot-5. Muggsy Bogues was a star at just 5-foot3. Clearly, there were some exceptions to the rule.

But no one, not even the Iola High basketball program, would take a chance on little Randy Latta.

He was just 4-foot-8.

If the rides at Disney wouldn’t give him a free pass, neither would the hoops squad at Iola.

So when Latta was a sophomore, he had a choice to make: Use every pent-up ounce of energy toward working on the family farm after school or find himself another outlet.

He chose the latter.

“One day I said, ‘I’m going to find something that I’m going to beat some people at,’” Latta recalled.

Since the school didn’t yet have a baseball program, he chose to run despite loathing the tiresome, monotonous activity. And although he hated it, he found the sport that didn’t judge him based on his size.

Well, it kind of did — at first.

“I don’t how many races I’d go in and other runners would go, ‘Oh is this going to be a junior high meet?’” Latta said. “And then some of my teammates would go, ‘Well he’ll be waiting for you when you guys finish.’ I didn’t even have to say anything. I’d just smile.”

But by the end of his first year on the team, Latta had proven to the region that he was a force to be reckoned with on the course despite his size. In 1969, the Mustangs cross country squad captured the school’s first ever state title thanks in large part to Latta, who would consistently finish in the top-20 of every meet.

Marvin Smith, who was a track coach during Latta’s high school days, said the novelty of Latta wore off pretty quick when his opponents found out how fast this 4-foot-8 kid was.

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Randy Latta because of his performance when at that time you wouldn’t have expected people to perform like that,” Smith said. “By his junior and senior year, people stopped being surprised.”

Instead, they’d just get frustrated.

Latta was the type of runner that never got too ahead of himself.

He knew his pace and stuck to it — even if it meant starting the race in dead last.

“I never ran a race … where I wasn’t the last one out of the chute,” he said.

But when he eventually caught up with the others (and he always did), he wouldn’t just pass them. He’d let them know he was there.

“I would talk and it was hard to do but that’s how you psych people out,” Latta said.

He’d encourage his teammates and simply ask his opponents how they’re doing.

That’s all Latta needed to say to get in their heads.

With his strategy and his 10:01 two-mile time, which was a former Iola High record, Latta continued his unlikely athletic career at Allen County Community College and eventually Pittsburg State.

Although he competed in the national JUCO meet twice while at Allen and succeeded at Pitt State despite stiffer competition, Latta most fondly remembers his time at Iola High.

He laughs now when he recalls being thrown into lockers (just like the movies, he adds) and hidden from coach “Doc” Stiles under a pile of leaves. He cringes when he describes how cramped and uncomfortable it was in Stiles’ old pickup truck that took the boys to their meets.

But then he smiles when he mentions he mostly rode up in the cab with Stiles since he was almost always the No. 1 or No. 2 runner.

But when Latta speaks of a time nearly 50 years ago, you mostly see his pride. Not the arrogant, self-serving kind though.

He challenged himself to become the best athlete he could be despite his very non-stereotypical jock stature.

And that challenge ended with a state championship along with a life-

time of memories.

“For all the stuff I did, probably the relationships you see and the people you meet are unbelievable,” Latta said. “And I think that’s what it’s all about. It’s not what you do. It’s who you’ve met.”

——— Latta Angus Stadium is the Fenway Park of handmade farm ballparks in Kansas.

As a kid, Latta constructed a backstop and cleared a field to play on.

Today, that field by his house still stands.

“My brothers and I got to play on it when we were kids,” said Ryan Latta, Randy’s oldest son. “And whenever we wanted him to throw to us, he would never say no.”

All three of Randy’s children, Ryan, Jarred and Trent, grew up playing baseball. But with Trent, the youngest, recently having finished up his last season of American Legion baseball, Randy said he’s not sure what he’s going to do.

He and Patty, his wife, religiously attended each of their sons’ games throughout their childhoods. So he mentioned he might still hang around despite not having a child on the American Legion team for the first time since 2006.

But in the meantime, Randy continues to be his energetic self. Even though his ankles cause him pain every now and his hip prevents him from running, Randy works tirelessly on the family farm after finishing up his day job as an accountant for the Iola Nursing Center.

“I still like to mow the lawn, but not with the riding mowers,” he said. “It needs to be a push mower.”

Even at 61, Randy can’t help but be on the move.

He’s 5-foot-9 now, but he didn’t really hit his growth spurt until he was about 30. Ryan said he’s glad he and his brothers got their height from their mother’s side of the family.

What the kids didn’t get was Randy’s speed.

At least, not state championship speed.

“He would always tell us, ‘If I had my good legs, not one of you boys could keep up with me,’” Ryan said.

Well, to be fair, not many people could.

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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Cardinals fall to the Pirates 10-5

Jason Heyward lets out his frustration during St. Louis’ 10-5 loss. CHRIS LEE/ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH/TNS ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis right-hander Lance Lynn didn’t sugar coat his thoughts about Thursday night’s performance.

“It was terrible, plain and simple,” Lynn said.

“You give up seven runs and don’t get out of the first inning, that’s a poor effort and that’s what it was and next time I’ve got to be better and I will be.”

In his worst start as a pro, Lynn was pulled with two outs in the first inning and gave up seven runs as the St. Louis Cardinals fell to the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-5.

“Just one of those days that you want to forget about as quick as possible and get back out there,” manager Mike Matheny said. “It’s not something we normally see from Lance, doubt we will. Those happen from time to time. You just got to let them go.”

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Lynn made 41 pitches as eight of the 10 batters he faced reached, but only three of the seven runs were earned. A Matt Carpenter throwing error led to a couple of runs and Jason Heyward lost a lazy fly ball in the sun, allowing the Pirates to pile on.

Lynn wasn’t in the mood for excuses.

“A lot of balls in the middle, a lot of balls behind in counts and they are a good-hitting team and they made me pay,” Lynn said. “Tonight I just didn’t make pitches and never gave myself a chance.”

Pedro Alvarez blasted a two-run homer against Lynn to help the Pirates break an eight-game losing streak at Busch Stadium. The Pirates moved within six games of the Cardinals with their 12th victory in the last 18 games.

St. Louis, which won

the first two games in the series, has won the last seven sets between the teams in St. Louis.

Alvarez and Neil Walker each had three hits as the Pirates held on after a huge first inning. The Cardinals closed the deficit to 7-5 in the seventh.

Alvarez, who also homered in the series opener on Tuesday, has 18 home runs against St. Louis since the start of the 2010 season, the most against the Cardinals in that span. He has 57 career RBI against the Cardinals, his highest total against any major league team.

Francisco Liriano (86) pitched six innings and gave up three runs and six hits.

Walker had hits from each side of the plate in

the lengthy first inning.

“It’s rare, but as a switch hitter, that’s what you’re supposed to do,” Walker said.

Following one-run and two-run losses in the first two games of the series, the Pirates came out aggressive from the first pitch on Thursday.

“We didn’t play our best ball the first two days,” Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said.

“So where do you go from there? It was really good for everybody to get involved in the offense in that first inning.”

Added Walker, “We had good approaches early on. We made (Lynn) throw strikes. We were able to take advantage of some situations.”

The Cardinals got a two-run single from Yadier Molina in the bot-

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Jhonny Peralta cut the deficit to 7-4 with a run-scoring hit in the seventh off reliever Joakim Soria. Molina’s sacrifice fly brought the Cardinals to within 7-5.

Walker hit an RBI double during a three-run ninth.

Matheny was pleased with how the Cardinals battled back.

“You could feel that

they believed,” Matheny said.

“Had enough opportunities out there and if guys just kept going about it the right way we’d be right in this thing and we were.”

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Chiefs could sit several ailing players Letter to the editor: Alumni Football Game The town of Iola can rest in peace. Ever since there was rumor about the first ever Iola Mustangs Alumni Football game, I have heard several people in the town muttering some concerns about whether some of the great alumni of the past would be participating.

While I am not sure about those great athletes, I can say that I will be participating on the gridiron. I feel like the football field has been calling my name ever since I left.

Since last stepping on the football field, I have been preparing for an opportunity like this alumni football game.

I have been eating like a football player and putting on mass just for preparation of this game! Trust me, I am in a shape!

All sarcasm aside, I am genuinely excited for the opportunity to play with my former brothers of the gridiron. This will be a great opportunity to get together with some old friends and be plugged into our current program. All players will be announced over the intercom and will run out of our new inflat-

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The current Mustangs will have their BlueGold scrimmage. Following the scrimmage, we will go out to a local restaurant (location to be determined) and catch up with our former teammates.

Even if you do not plan on playing, we want you there! We want to build a connection with the alumni and the current players, so please come down and support Mustangs Football! If you do, I might just decide to take it easy on you!

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Jeremy Maclin catches a ball during training camp on Aug. 2. Maclin says he hopes to play after missing two practices with a neck strain. DAVID EULITT/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Chiefs could be forced to rest a handful of players in their exhibition opener Saturday night in Arizona because of nagging injuries picked up during training camp.

Linebacker is the position where they are most banged up.

Former first-round pick Dee Ford is still out from a concussion, Josh Mauga left practice Wednesday with a bum heel, D.J. Alexander is hobbled by an ankle injury and JamesMichael Johnson by a

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That means rookies Ramik Wilson and Justin March could get considerable time.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid plans to play starters in the first quarter, the second unit in the second quarter and into the third, with the rest of the reserves finishing the game.

Jeremy Maclin says he hopes to play after missing two practices this week with a neck strain. Fellow wide receiver Albert Wilson is also questionable with an illness.

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What to do when engine goes kaput Dear Car Talk: I recently inherited the car I spent my childhood washing. It’s a ’94 Ford Explorer with the tow package. I know you’re going to say that Explorers have problems, but I really love this car ... even though it has no air bags. It won’t be my commuter car; it will get used when I climb the 14,000-foot peaks out here in Colorado. The head gasket is blown, even though the engine has only 65,000 miles on it. I was leaning toward having a Jasper remanufactured engine put in. My line of thought was that due to the engine’s age and the overheating that caused the blown gasket, other things might be ready to go, and a new engine would cut down on future repairs. However, on your radio show, I recently heard you recommend that

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a caller have her engine rebuilt instead. Which is the best option for me? — Brandon Yeah, I wouldn’t worry about the lack of air bags.

When you careen off one of those 14,000-foot mountains, they won’t help you anyway.

If you’re planning to keep the car for a long time, then I think a remanufactured engine always is the best option, if you can get one. There are factories that do nothing but remanufacture engines, and they have the machinery and expertise to do it very well.

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(the spaces between the things that really matter) are likely to be more accurate, which produces better results and fewer problems later on.

If you have a car that’s so old, or so rare, that a remanufactured engine is not an option, then you need to decide between having a local shop rebuild it for you and buying a new one (if you can even get it). But your Explorer was common enough that Jasper and other companies can make a good business out of remanufacturing those engines and selling them.

So that’s exactly what I’d get.

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and that the Will be construed and the Kansas interest in real estate owned by the decedent described in the Petition be assigned in accordance with the terms of said Petition.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 1st day of September, 2015, at 8:30 a.m., of said day in said Court, in the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be

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Public notices (First published in The Iola Register on Aug. 8, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JULIANNA E. ZAHN, A/K/A JULIANNA ZAHN, AND A/K/A JULIE ZAHN, DECEASED CASE NO. 15 PR. 33 NOTICE OF HEARING STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that

a Petition has been filed in said court by Richard W. Zahn praying for the admission to probate and record in said Court of the Last Will and Testament of Julianna Zahn dated January 31, 2014, heretofore admitted to probate and record in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona in and for the County of Maricopa, and praying for an order determining that administration of the estate in this Court is unnecessary

(First published in The Iola Register on Aug. 15, 2015) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, the 8th of September at 6:30 p.m., at City Hall, 2 W. Jackson in Iola, Kansas; the Board of Zoning Appeals of Iola, Kansas will hold a public hearing on the written application of John H. Cox of Iola, KS for a variance to the Unified Development Code Section 106-87, in specific they are requesting a variance to the maxi-

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Abdullah impresses in Lions’ 23-3 preseason win over Jets

Detroit Lions running back Ameer Abdullah runs against the New York Jets on Thursday at Ford Field in Detroit. JULIAN H. GONZALEZ/DETROIT FREE PRESS/TNS

DETROIT (AP) — Matthew Stafford threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate, and rookie running back Ameer Abdullah ran for 67 yards — 45 on one play — to lift the Detroit Lions to a 23-3 preseason victory over the punchless New York Jets on Thursday night.

Stafford played only one possession.

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“It was a good start,” Stafford said.

“I thought the tempo was good. We were able to run the ball pretty well tonight, which was good to see.”

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Although Stafford’s appearance was brief, Abdullah played a bit longer and impressed the Ford Field crowd with his seven carries.

The highlight was his 45-yard run up the middle in the first quarter.

“He’s just what he was in college,” Bowles said.

“He’s about as quick as Barry Sanders. I’m not saying he is Barry Sanders, but he’s got that kind of quickness.”

Abdullah, a secondround draft pick from Nebraska, could be a real asset to the Lions, who cut Reggie Bush in the offseason and were without injured RB Joique Bell on Thursday.

Abdullah got a nice cheer on his first carry of the game, and Lions fans had to like what they saw from him.

“He’s got some talent,” coach Jim Caldwell said.

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QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions ... and maybe a few actual answers

3 THINGS WE LEARNED AT WATKINS GLEN 1. Ford can win Ford got two big wins early in the 2015 Cup Series, then went missing until Joey Logano won last Sunday’s roadcourse war at Watkins Glen. It was surprising to learn that car owner Roger Penske had never won at The Glen until Logano’s No. 22 Ford flashed under the checkered flag.

2. Oh, man, 'Dinger Watkins Glen was supposed to be AJ Allmendinger’s path into the

Chase. He did it in 2014.

He failed to defend The Glen on Sunday. 'Dinger can still get in with a win, but he has never snagged a top-five finish at any of the next four race tracks.

Yes, Joey would gladly trade that wheel for a Cup trophy in Homestead. AP/DERIK HAMILTON

3. Save fuel For the second straight week, fuel mileage determined the outcome of the Cup Series race. At Pocono, Matt Kenseth won when two cars ahead of him ran out of gas. At The Glen, Kevin Harvick came up a pint short of gas, allowing Joey Logano to win on the last lap.

Isn’t it time to consider a possible Joey Logano championship?

Well, yes and no. In the non-Kevin Harvick Division, Joey leads everyone in top-five and top-10 finishes. Better yet, for future Chase purposes, he hasn’t had back-to-back clunkers all season, and while wins are obviously key, a sudden minislump can be Chase death.

The last time we saw a Ford in Victory Lane was back in March at Fontana, California. It took several months, but Joey Logano got the carmaker back to winning form at Watkins Glen. DANIEL SHIREY/GETTY IMAGES

Is there a “however” coming?

— Godwin Kelly, godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com

3 THINGS TO WATCH 1. Chase this

Big Three, so a race at the two-mile oval is more like a football scrimmage that will determine the starting lineup — you know, just a tad more personal and intense. The past seven wins have gone to Ford and Chevy drivers. They all want bragging rights to this trophy.

With only four regular-season races left on the schedule, drivers without that golden-ticket race victory will be going extra hard to lasso that elusive triumph.

With Kyle Busch climbing into the top-30 in points, and assuming he stays there, only five playoff positions remain open. The two drivers who may take that half-court desperation shot? Kasey Kahne and Greg Biffle, 18th and 19th, respectively, in Chase points.

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Kasey Kahne hopes to race up and meet Hendrick Motorsports teammates Jimmie Johnson and Dale 2. Industry event Earnhardt Jr. in the Chase. He can When NASCAR goes to Michigan Interclimb into the playoffs with a Cup national Speedway, there is a race within Series win during the next four a race. MIS is located about an hour weeks. CHRIS TROTMAN/GETTY IMAGES from Detroit, home to the automakers’

Out of the 11 drivers currently qualified for the NASCAR Chase, two are brothers with the last name Busch. Kyle leapfrogged older brother Kurt in the Chase standings (zero to second) by becoming Chase-eligible at Watkins Glen. Amazingly, neither has run a full season. Kurt missed the first three races on suspension, while Kyle was out 11 races for injury. Under the Chase format, wins, not starts, rule the day.

— Godwin Kelly, godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com GODWIN’S PICKS FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE 301

WINNER: Kasey Kahne REST OF TOP 5: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick FIRST ONE OUT: Kyle Busch

DARK HORSE: Greg Biffle DON’T BE SURPRISED IF: Kahne tries some kind of offthe-wall strategy to win and get Chase eligible.

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Um … however, Joey’s two wins this year have come at a plate race (Daytona 500) and a road course (The Glen). While you have to applaud the diversity in his Victory Lane appearances, a trophy at an intermediate track would help his cause on the road to Homestead.

Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach NewsJournal for 27 years.

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REGAN SMITH VS. TY DILLON: All the driver-on-driver action was in Saturday’s Xfinity Series at Watkins Glen, highlighted by Smith lunging at Dillon on pit road after Dillon sent Smith spinning on a restart.

GODWIN KELLY’S TAKE: Smith said, “There is zero chance that No. 3 car (Dillon) wins this championship. I'm going to make sure of it.” It’s all bluster. Smith’s car owner (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) will calm him down.

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