The Iola Register, Aug. 15, 2023

Fire damages downtown restaurant

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

A downtown restaurant remains shuttered after a Friday evening fire, but the quick response of Iola fire crews may have helped save the historic building from destruction.

The fire at Rookies Sports Bar & Grill, 105 E. Jackson Ave., was contained to the kitchen area. Owners Carri and Mike Sailor are still assessing the damage.

A grill in the kitchen caught on fire at about 8:32 p.m. Friday, Carri Sailor said. She attempted to extinguish the blaze but flames spread rapidly. Soon, pressurized cans of sauce, vegetables and other food items exploded from the heat. She was struck in the head by something, she said, but was not seriously injured.

Staff and patrons immediately fled the building. No injuries were reported.

Carri Sailor estimated about 25 people, including staff, were in the building at the time of the fire.

The Iola Fire and Police departments were on the scene within a couple of minutes, Fire Chief Corey Isbell said.

He credited their quick response and training for containing the fire to the kitchen area in the rear of the building.

The building was built as Adams & Hesser Mortuary in

1919 at the corner of East Jackson and North Jefferson avenues, according to a historical marker.

Isbell said fire crews train for the possibility of a fire at a historical downtown build-

ing. Most around the square are more than 100 years old and pose special challenges.

“The history of the square is well known so you hate to see those buildings catch fire,”

Full blast at Water Wars

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, and, in the publisher’s view, stressing his 98-yearold mother enough to cause her weekend death.

Eric Meyers

Several press freedom watchdogs condemned the Marion Police Department’s actions as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection for a free press. The Marion County Record’s editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, worked with his staff Sunday to reconstruct stories, ads and other materials for its next edition Wednesday, even as he took time in the afternoon to provide a local funeral home with information about his mother, Joan, the paper’s co-owner.

A search warrant tied Friday morning raids, led by Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody, to a dispute

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Allen soccer coaches, players look ahead

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Hawaii’s governor: Many more could be found dead after wildfires

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) —

Hawaii’s governor warned that scores more people could be found dead following ferocious wildfires on Maui, as search and rescue crews scoured neighborhoods street by street and

prepared to comb through buildings charred by flames that galloped a mile a minute. The blazes, which consumed most of the historic town of Lahaina, are already the deadliest in the U.S. in

more than a century, with a toll of 96. Two fires have not yet been completely contained, according to an update from Maui County late Sunday.

“We are prepared for many tragic stories,” Gov. Josh

Green told “CBS Mornings” in a recorded interview that was aired Monday. “They will find 10 to 20 people per day, probably, until they finish. And it’s probably going to take 10 days. It’s impossible to guess, really.”

As cell phone service has slowly been restored, Green had said that the number of people missing dropped to about 1,300 from over 2,000. Twenty cadaver dogs and dozens of people are making

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A one-hour storm delay didn’t dampen the fun at Water Wars on Saturday in Humboldt. Above, firefighters helped teams of youngsters take on the Barrel Blast. Below left, kids flock to the bubble station to see just how big they can get their bubble before it pops. Below center, Brentlyn Noble laughs as she finishes her slip and slide run. Below right, Cole Vanderpool is ready to blast his friends before the parade starts. See more photos on iolaregister.com REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Iola fire crews respond to the scene of a kitchen fire at Rookies Sports Bar & Grill in a historic building on the downtown square. Fire fighters were able to contain the blaze to the kitchen in the rear of the building. COURTESY OF JOSEPH DEVOE

Obituaries

Eva Mannen

Eva E. Mannen, age 101, of Iola died Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, at Anderson County Residential Center, Garnett.

She was born Dec. 28, 1921 in Neodesha to Ralph Barcus and Alberta (Seaunier) Barcus.

She married RC Mannen on Nov. 2, 1945 in Robinson.

She was a bookkeeper at Allen County Hospital for 20 years.

Survivors include a daughter, Pamela (Larry) Hart, Iola; grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Services are at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service chapel, 1883 US Highway 54, Iola. Inurnment is at Buffalo Cemetery, Buffalo.

Carolyn Sue Whitaker

Carolyn Sue Whitaker, age 74, of Humboldt, died Friday, Aug. 11, 2023.

Carolyn “Susie” was born on Nov. 28, 1948, in Caney.

Carolyn is survived by two sons and numerous other relatives.

She will be laid to rest at the Iola cemetery. She did not wish to have a service. Memorials may be made to the Humboldt Historical Museum, 416 N. 2nd St., Humboldt, KS, 66748.

Rod Rooney

Rodney Jon “Rod” Rooney, passed away Friday, Aug. 11, 2023 at Satanta District Hospital in Satanta. He was born on Oct. 31,1951 to Reba Etta (Shank) and John Whitt Rooney in Hugoton.

Rod spent his life defining what it truly means to be adventurous, resilient, and dedicated. His love for life was as vast and as varied as the landscapes he traversed, from his birthplace in Kansas to the rugged wilderness of Alaska, and eventually back to his home in Satanta.

Rod was a man of many talents and passions. After graduating from Marmaton Valley High School in 1969, he attended Seward County Community College and Fort Hays State University.

His love for adventure led him to Alaska, where he embraced a new job as a truck driver, later working as a deckhand on crabbing and fishing boats. His experiences in Alaska, though challenging, were a testament to his adventurous spirit. Rod’s career journey also saw him serving as a meat cutter, managing several meat markets, and eventually moving to Satanta, where he would retire from Haskell County Road and Bridge as a road grader operator.

Rod’s sense of curiosity was not just seen in his career, but also in his hobbies. Rod had a love for fishing, hunting, hotrods, gun collecting, ice racing, and snow machining. He was a dedicated outdoorsman, his adventurous spirit always leading him to new experiences.

Rod is survived by his sister, Vickie Rooney McDonald Winans and husband Gary; his nephews, Joel Strader and wife Tracy, Stephen Strader, Sean McDonald and wife Traci, and Matthew McDonald and wife Amy. He is preceded in death by his parents, John and Reba Rooney.

There will be no viewing as cremation has taken place.

A graveside service will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023 at Old Elsmore Cemetery, Elsmore.

Cremation was entrusted to Weeks Family Funeral Home and Crematory of Sublette.

Washington state to implement controlled burns

By CONRAD SWANSON The Seattle Times/TNS

Caribbean on alert

By RICHARD TRIBOU Orlando Sentinel/TNS

After a quiet run, the tropics have gotten the attention of the National Hurricane Center again as it keeps its eyes on two systems that could form in the Atlantic and become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

The NHC’s upped the chances on Monday for one of the two since it first began reporting on the duo Sunday night.

That one is a tropical wave forecast to move off the west coast of Africa midweek into the eastern tropical Atlantic.

“Some slow development of this system will be possible late this week while the system moves gradually west-northwestward or northwestward across the eastern Atlantic,” the NHC stated.

It gives the system a 30% chance to form in the next seven days.

The other system is an area of low pressure that could develop in a few days in the central tropical Atlantic.

“Some slow develop-

ment of this system is also possible while it moves west-northwestward through the end of the week,” the NHC said.

It gives the system a 20% chance to form in the next seven days.

If either system were to spin up into a named storm, it could become Tropical Storm Emily.

So far the season has had four named storms, with just one, Hurricane Don, becoming a Category 1 hurricane. The tropics have been quiet since the NHC stopped tracking Don on July 24.

The hurricane season runs from June 1-Nov. 30, but the traditional height of the hurricane season runs from mid-August into mid-October with September 10 identified by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as the peak of the season.

The NOAA last week increased its prediction that the 2023 season will be “above-normal” from what had been 30% to 60% citing the record-breaking sea surface temperatures of the Atlantic basin.

Carlyle Presbyterian

Pastor Steve Traw’s message Sunday was “Walking on the Sea” taken from Matthew 14:22-33.

“There are storms at sea and in our personal lives as well. What storms bring the most stress into our lives?

Why did Peter start to sink?” asked Pastor Traw.

“That’s when we need to spend time alone with Jesus.”

Myrna Wildschuetz played “Without His

Amazing Grace” for the prelude and “Whisper a Prayer” for the offertory.

Special guests were Judd Hawley and Elizabeth Cunningham, Ron Phipps, Jr., and Kay Walker’s niece, Micaiah Larney, visiting from Austin, Texas.

The church fellowship dinner is at noon on Aug. 20.

Bible Study with Pastor Steve is on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. on the New Testament Book of Matthew.

Imprisoned publisher ‘spoke

HONG KONG (AP)

— Jimmy Lai, a former newspaper publisher and one of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, spends around 23 hours a day in solitary confinement in a maximum-security facility while he awaits a trial that could send him to prison for life.

In exclusive photos taken by The Associated Press in recent weeks, the 75-year-old Lai can be seen with a book in his hands wearing shorts and sandals and accompanied by two guards at Stanley Prison. He looks thinner than when he was last photographed in February 2021.

Lai is allowed out for 50 minutes a day to exercise. Unlike most other inmates, who play football or exercise in groups, Lai walks alone in what appears to be a 16-by-30-foot enclosure surrounded by barbed

wire under Hong Kong’s punishing summer sun before returning to his unairconditioned cell in the prison.

The publisher of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, Lai disappeared from public view in December 2020 following his arrest under a security law imposed by Beijing to crush a massive pro-democracy movement that started in 2019 and brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets. More than 250 activists have been arrested under the security law and vanished into the Hong Kong legal system.

Photographers used to be able to catch a glimpse of activists in remand at another detention center in Lai Chi Kok as they were taken to and from court. Authorities started blocking this view in 2021 by making the detainees walk through a

truth’

covered pathway.

In a separate case, an appeals court is due to rule Monday on a challenge that Lai and six other activists have had filed against their conviction and sentencing on charges of organizing and taking part in an unauthorized assembly nearly four years ago.

Lai, a British national, is accused of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to call for sanctions or blockades against Hong Kong or China. He also faces a charge of conspiracy to print seditious publications under a colonial-era law increasingly used to crush dissent.

He was scheduled to go on trial last December, but it was postponed to September while the Hong Kong government appealed to Beijing to block his attempt to hire a British

SEATTLE — Washington firefighters now have more planning time and a longer season to ignite the controlled burns they use to prevent massive wildfires threatening landscapes and homes and blanketing the state in choking smoke.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved Washington’s smoke management plan last week, marking the first update to the state’s main document guiding prescribed burns in more than two decades.

“This gives us better opportunities to do the harder, more difficult-to-achieve burns,” said Vaughn Cork, fire regulation program manager for the state’s Department of Natural Resources.

State officials lit at least four prescribed fires this spring and have plans for at least six more this fall. They’re used to burn through grasses and foliage that build up over the years and dry out in the summer months, adding to the wildfire risk across the state.

As climate change warms the region and worsens drought conditions, state officials have repeatedly warned of the increasing wildfire risk year after year.

Wildfire has already ravaged parts of Washington this summer. The Newell Road fire scorched more than 60,000 acres last month, prompting evacuations in eastern Klickitat County. Similarly, the Eagle Bluff fire burned more than 10,000 acres in Okanogan County, leading to evacuations in northern Washington and into Canada, which has suffered from thousands of wildfires this year.

Last week a fast-moving wildfire

on the Hawaiian island of Maui tore through the town of Lahaina, killing dozens of people and destroying hundreds, perhaps thousands, of buildings.

Whether the updated management plan will mean more prescribed burns for Washington next year is not yet clear, Cork said. But it should mean that fewer burns will be canceled at the last minute and fewer wasted resources, he said.

Prescribed burns are perhaps the most important tool firefighters have to mitigate wildfire risk, Cork said. In recent years, the people organizing and executing them have faced logistical challenges.

First, under the old smoke management plan, those scheduling the burns were forced to decide if weather conditions were right for their fire on the morning it was scheduled, Cork said. With only a few hours lead time, that complicated larger burns.

That constraint led to canceled burns and it prevented firefighters from being directed to other, short-notice opportunities, Cork said. Now, they can rely on meteorological advances to check those weather conditions ahead of time.

“The new plan lets us approve those burns the day before,” Cork said. “Folks have more time to get ready.”

Extra lead time should mean fewer cancellations and bigger burns, Cork said.

This spring, DNR burned about 585 acres on state lands and nearby plots, said spokesman Will Rubin.

“We need the right weather conditions, ground conditions, and available resources (including personnel) all available at the same time in order to execute a burn,” Rubin said.

defense lawyer.

“My father is in prison because he spoke truth to power for decades,” Lai’s son, Sebastien, said in a May statement to a U.S. government panel, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

“He is still speaking truth to power and refusing to be silenced, even though he has lost everything and he may die in prison,” Sebastien Lai said. “I am very proud to be his son.”

Lai is allowed two 30-minute visits by relatives or friends each month. They are separated by glass and communicate by phone.

Lai, who suffers from diabetes and was diagnosed with high blood pressure in 2021 while in detention, is treated as a Category A prisoner, a status for inmates who have committed the most serious crimes such as murder.

Elsmore community conversation Tuesday

Elsmore residents are invited to gather for a community conversation at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Elsmore Methodist Church.

Thrive will host the conversation. All Elsmore residents are welcome to come share their ideas and vision for Elsmore.

Rod Rooney

Raid: Press groups respond after police raid newspaper office

between the newspaper and a local restaurant owner, Kari Newell. She is accusing the newspaper of invading her privacy and illegally accessing information about her and her driving record and suggested that the newspaper targeted her after she threw Meyer and a reporter out of restaurant during a political event.

While Meyer saw Newell’s complaints — which he said were untrue — as prompting the raids, he also believes the newspaper’s aggressive coverage of local politics and issues played a role. He said the newspaper was examining Cody’s past work with the Kansas City, Missouri, police as well.

“This is the type of stuff that, you know, that Vladimir Putin does, that Third World dictators do,” Meyer said during an interview in his office. “This is Gestapo tactics from World War II.”

Cody said Sunday that the raid was legal and tied to an investigation.

The raids occurred in a town of about 1,900 people, nestled among rolling prairie hills, about 150 miles southwest of Kansas City, making the small weekly newspaper the latest to find itself in the headlines and possibly targeted for its reporting.

Last year in New Hampshire, the publisher of a weekly newspaper accused the state attorney general’s office of government overreach after she was arrested for allegedly publishing advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising.

In Las Vegas, former Democratic elected official Robert Telles is scheduled to face trial in November for allegedly fatally stabbing Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German after German wrote articles critical of Telles and his managerial conduct.

Meyer said that on Friday, one Record reporter suffered an injury to a finger when Cody wrested her cellphone out of her hand, according to the report. The newspaper’s surveillance video showed officers reading that reporter her rights while Cody watched, though she wasn’t arrested or detained. Newspaper employees were hustled out of the building while the search continued for more than 90 minutes, according to the footage.

Meanwhile, Meyer said, police simultaneously raided his home, seizing computers, his cellphone and the home’s internet router.

The Society of Professional Journalists offered $20,000 to legal defense of the Marion County Record, which was raided by local law enforcement Friday based on allegations the newspaper engaged in identity theft to secure information about a local merchant’s drunken driving conviction. The newspaper says the information was legally obtained and the police search was illegal.

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But as Meyer fielded messages from reporters and editors as far away as London and reviewed footage from the newsroom’s surveillance camera, Newell was receiving death threats from as far away, she said. She said the Record engages in “tabloid trash reporting” and was trying to hush her up.

“I fully believe that the intent was to do harm and merely tarnish my reputation, and I think if had it been left at that, I don’t think that it would have blown up as big as it was,” Newell said in a telephone interview.

Newell said she threw Meyer and the Record reporter out of the event for Republican U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner at the request of others who are upset with the “toxic” newspaper. On the town’s main street, one storefront included a handmade “Support Marion PD” sign.”

The police chief and other officials also attended and were acknowledged at the reception, and the Marion Police Department highlighted the event on its Facebook page.

LaTurner’s office did not immediately return phone messages left Sunday at his Washington and district offices seeking comment.

Newell said she believes the newspaper violated the law to get her personal information as it checked on the status of her driver’s license following a 2008 drunken driving conviction and other driving violations.

The newspaper countered that it received that information unsolicited, which it verified through public online records. It eventually decided not to run a story because it wasn’t sure the source who supplied it had obtained it legally. But the newspaper did run a story on the city council meeting, in which Newell herself confirmed she’d had a DUI convic-

tion and that she had continued to drive even after her license was suspended.

A two-page search warrant, signed by a local judge, lists Newell as the victim of alleged crimes by the newspaper. When the newspaper asked for a copy of the probable cause affidavit required by law to issue a search warrant, the district court issued a signed statement saying no such affidavit was on file, the Record reported.

Cody, the police chief, defended the raid on Sunday, saying in an email to The Associated Press that while federal law usually requires a subpoena — not just a search warrant — to raid a newsroom, there is an exception “when there is reason to believe the journalist is taking part in the underlying wrongdoing.”

Cody did not give details about what that alleged wrongdoing entailed.

Cody, who was hired in late April as Marion’s police chief after serving 24 years in the Kansas City police, did not respond to questions about whether police filed a probable cause affidavit for the search

warrant. He also did not answer questions about how police believe Newell was victimized. Press freedom and civil rights organizations said that police, the local prosecutor’s office and the judge who signed off on the search warrant overstepped their authority.

“It seems like one of the most aggressive po-

This is the type of stuff that, you know, that Vladimir Putin does, that Third World dictators do. This is Gestapo tactics from World War II.

— Eric Meyer

lice raids of a news organization or entity in quite some time,” said Sharon Brett, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, adding that it seemed “quite an alarming abuse of authority.”

Seth Stern, director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation, said in a statement that the raid appeared to have violated federal law, the First Amendment, “and basic human decency.”

“The anti-press rhetoric that’s become so pervasive in this country has become more than just talk and is creating a dangerous environment for journalists trying to do their jobs,”

Stern said. Meyer said he has been flooded with offers of help from press freedom groups and other news organizations. But he said what he and his staff need is more hours in the day to get their next edition put together.

Both he and Newell are contemplating lawsuits — Newell against the newspaper and Meyer against the public officials who staged the raid.

As for the criticism of the raid as a violation of First Amendment rights, Newell said her privacy rights were violated, and they are “just as important as anybody else’s.”

Noxious weeds warrior

Allen County Noxious Weed Director Kevin Turner, left, presents a $1,500 scholarship from the County Weed Director’s Association of Kansas to Gavin Jaro, a recent graduate of Humboldt High School. Jaro will attend Kansas State University in the fall to study agronomy. He already has his applicator’s license and, on the scholarship application, had to explain his family’s procedures for eradicating noxious weeds on their farm. REGISTER/ VICKIE

MOSS

Beat the back-to-school blues by planning ahead

Cassidy Lutz Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences

The smell of freshly sharpened pencils, the sound of bells ringing through the halls, and the gathering of friends that you haven’t seen all summer.

I am sure we can all think back to our childhood and remember how the beginning of a new school year brought on excitement, dread, or anxiety.

As a parent, you can help your children get a good start to this school year and ease some of those anxious thoughts and feelings.

For many kids, one of the biggest back-toschool worries is if they will like their teacher.

Breaking the ice early is one of the best ways to calm their fears. If personal contact with the teacher is not possible before school starts, try locating the teacher’s picture on a school website or in a yearbook.

Helping your child put a face with a name before the first day in the class-

room can help them feel more at ease and prepare them for their first interaction.

Familiarizing your child with their environment is another thing you can do to help them avoid nervous tummy aches. If your school offers a walkthrough before the first day, this can be a great opportunity for you to meet the teacher, find their desk, or explore the school together. With older children, try asking them to give you a tour of the school and their classroom. Not only will this help refresh their minds, but it will give you an idea of where they will be

spending the majority of their time over the next several months. Go over class supply lists and plan a shopping trip. Having all the needed school supplies can help your child feel prepared. By taking your kids back to school shopping, they will feel supported and encouraged. Allow for a couple of splurges like a cool notebook or a backpack in their favorite color while also keeping basic needs in mind. Even a small fun purchase can make going back to school more enjoyable and give them something to look forward to.

Ease into new routines the week leading

up to the first day of school. Switching from a summer schedule to a structured school schedule can be stressful for everyone in a household. Avoid mayhem on the first day of school by getting into the new routine a few days in advance. Set an alarm clock, go through your morning ritual, and make time for a healthy breakfast. Routines help children feel comfortable, and establishing one early will make the first day of school go so much smoother.

After school kicks off, take time to talk as a family about how each day went. Try asking how they like their classes, if they have made any new friends, or what they like most about school thus far. Not only will you learn more about how they are adapting to all the changes, but this will also help strengthen family relationships by bonding over shared conversations.

Don’t let the beginning of a new school year create unnecessary stress for your kids and household. By doing some of these simple things, you can help

A loss without a card: Getting closure

What is a loss without a card?

I am talking about ambiguous loss which is often unclear and without closure. This type of loss is a common part of life but is often the most difficult and stressful one to deal with. I recently learned more about it while viewing a webinar by Dr. Michelle Krehbiel with the University of Nebraska who also refers to University of Minnesota Extension’s A Changing Way of Life: Ambiguous Loss and Farming and Dr. Pauline Boss’s research.

So, what is ambiguous loss? It is a loss that is confusing, uncertain, unverified, and can go on and on. It can be a physical loss such as a missing person or having to downsize the farm due to drought or disaster. It can also be psychological such as a loss of a loved one as you knew him/her due to dementia or of your own identity due to being newly retired. We’ve all dealt with something that did not have an official ritual to show that a loss occurred such as: divorce, miscarriage, a financial fall out, addiction, infertility, deployment, immigration, retirement, traumatic brain injury, or a natural disaster. What do we do to not get stuck in this complicated grief? In short, build resilience to lower the stress and anxiety caused by this loss and create a new narrative that one can

Tara SolomonSmith Southwind Extension District

live with. Here’s a few ways to work towards moving forward.

1. Name what you are going through Acknowledge that you have had a loss and name the feelings you are going through. Also do this with other family/friends that are affected.

2. Make new meaning of the loss

There is no magic recipe that can do this, it will take time and a combination of answers to assist. However, reconstructing your identity within this loss may help. For example, if you struggle with retirement, you may embrace that you are now a full-time grandpa and volunteer.

3. Normalize Ambivalence Work towards “both and thinking.” It’s OK to have two opposing ideas in your mind at the same time. For example, he is both gone and may return (missing in action soldier); she is both gone and still here (dementia).

4. Discover hope We know this is extremely important in suicide prevention. Hope may look different

er it.

5. Seek information and humor

If it’s an illness, learn more about what you can do, become an advocate. When dementia gets particularly trying, keep that sense of humor or it truly would be overwhelmingly sad.

6. Engage in Self Care Dr. Pauline Boss states that respite is essential and no one should feel guilty about taking it. Figure out what it means to you and make time for it!

7. Evaluate and Build a

Circle of Support Sadness is often treated with human connection. Find, engage, and check in on your “community.” This could be faith-based, friends/ family, mental health, or support groups. I hope to acknowledge my own and others’ ambiguous losses more adequately. We can all work together for better. For more information, contact Tara Solomon-Smith, tsolomon@ksu.edu, or by calling 620-244-3826.

your children feel prepared and ready to tackle another great school year. For more informa-

tion, contact Cassidy Lutz at celutz@ksu.edu or by calling 620-6258620.

Check the Chip Day

By Nicole Haney R.V.T.

August 15th is National Check the Chip Day, which is a holiday dedicated to spreading awareness about the importance of microchipping and reminding owners to update any outdated information on their pets’ microchips. Owners need to understand the benefits, functions, and requirements of a microchip.

The benefits of having a pet microchipped vary for owners, pets, and situations. The most well-known benefit of microchipping is the increased likelihood of a pet being returned home safely if they ever go missing. When a pet is found and taken to a veterinarian or shelter as a found pet or stray, they will be scanned for a microchip. If properly registered, a microchip will then help the pet’s owner to be found and contacted. There are many microchip registries, some free, some with a fee for lifetime registration and some with an annual fee. Do some research and use as many or as few as you want. Other benefits of microchipping pets can range from a sense of security for owners to easy confirmation of patient identity in emergencies.

The function of a microchip is often misunderstood. Many people believe that microchips are GPS trackers implanted directly in their pets. The reality is that a microchip displays a number when scanned, and that number is registered with the manufacturer and sometimes other larger registries. The owner has to enter the pet’s information and contact information on the manufacturer’s website and any other registries that they wish to be listed with. This information is then stored by the company so that they can contact the owner if the pet is ever reported as found. Many microchip companies also have an option on their website to mark a pet as lost if they ever go missing, which allows the organization scanning the chip to know that the owner is looking for the pet.

If you are considering microchipping your pet, it is important to speak with your veterinarian to learn more about the process and the specific company they work with. If you find a lost pet, it is recommended to take them to a local veterinarian or shelter to have them scanned for a microchip, even if they appear to have been missing for some time. If you have moved or changed your information since registering your pet's microchip, it is important to update it online. Microchipping is a reliable way to help ensure that pets are reunited with their owners quickly and safely, as long as they are properly registered.

Red Barn Veterinary Service offers microchipping to help reunite pets with their owners quickly. Don't forget to ask us about microchipping your pet at their next visit and keep your contact information updated at the pet registry associated with your pet's chip.

The begining of a new year can bring excitement and anxiety, but planning ahead can ease the transition. COURESTY PHOTO

In raid of Record, an attack on democracy

On Friday, local law enforcement raided the Marion County Record’s office, seizing personal and company-owned computers, cell phones, and reporting materials. Officers from the Marion police department and the county sheriff’s deputies also raided the home of the Record’s owners, Eric Meyer and his mother, Joan.

Tragically, Joan Meyer, an otherwise healthy 98-year-old, died Saturday. The Record reported that Mrs. Meyer, “stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police raids on her home and the Marion County Record newspaper office,” collapsed and died in her home.

Marion is a small town of 1,900 located about an hour north of Wichita, but Friday’s events have quickly become a global story. All who cherish the Constitution should be furious. And Marion law enforcement has much to answer for.

Such a raid is unprecedented in Kansas and represents a grave threat to the freedom of the press. It cannot stand. A search warrant, signed by Marion County Magistrate Laura Viar the morning of the search, claims probable cause to investigate identity theft and unlawful acts concerning computers. But the police department’s heavy-handed approach is straight out of the authoritarian playbook and nowhere close in proportion to the suspected violations.

IT ALL started with a story the Record didn’t even write. The newspaper received documentation from a confidential source proving local restaurant owner Kari Newell was convicted of drunken driving in 2008 and had later driven without a license, criminal history which could jeopardize her ability to obtain a liquor license for her restaurant. After verifying the information, the Record alerted the police but, as they questioned the motives of their source, did not publish an article on the information.

Marion police have defended the raid, claiming that officers may search a newspaper office if journalists are suspects in the offense that is the subject of the search. On Sunday, Kansas Bureau of Investigation Director Tony Mattivi released a statement that seemed to justify his agency’s involvement in the raid, saying, “No one is above the law, whether a public official or a representative of the media.”

But Magistrate Judge Viar, Director Mattivi and the Marion police department know better. The law is clear. America’s judicial system has consistently shown that only in extreme circumstances can police seize journalists’ property with a search warrant alone. The federal Privacy Protection Act of 1980 unambiguously requires law enforcement to obtain a subpoena prior to any search. The “suspect exception” claimed by Marion police doesn’t apply when it comes to merely possessing information.

It’s well-established legal

precedent that information a newspaper has obtained is protected, even if those who passed the materials on to the newspaper obtained it illegally. This is why news outlets were able to report on documents Edward Snowden sent them.

It’s why the White House lost its battle to stop the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers.

The idea is that law enforcement should always seek the least intrusive approach with the press. And with good reason. No government agency has the right to shut down a newspaper, but that, in effect, is what Marion police have attempted in seizing the Record’s work materials. Such government interference threatens First Amendment rights. It sends a chilling message to journalists and the public, one that intimidates and almost certainly instigates self-censorship.

And what does Friday’s raid communicate to those in power? That they can simply swat reporters aside. Sure, they’ll whine about their rights, but we all know who pulls the strings.

The press is just a nuisance, transparency and democracy nothing more than lofty words. Take what you can.

SUCH INJUSTICES won’t stand. Meyer is preparing at least one lawsuit, and he’s on rock-solid legal footing. In the meantime, several actions must occur immediately.

First, Marion police must immediately return the seized materials and erase any information their department may have obtained. The warrant Viar signed must be revoked, and any evidence acquired through the search must be declared inadmissible. And if an affidavit was filed by the Marion police to support the warrant, it must be made public.

Champions of a free press should support their local paper by subscribing to it. The Record, and newspapers across this country, don’t need your likes, shares or retweets. Local news is worth paying for, and American journalism needs the public to share that conviction.

The press has rallied. The Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press and 34 news organizations, including CNN, the Associated Press and others, sent Marion’s police chief a four-page letter condemning the raid. Reporters and publishers from across Kansas have offered to help the Record lay out its pages, design ads, and even print its paper for free. If Newell thought she could shut Meyer and his crew up, she is sorely mistaken.

WEATHER can roll through the Kansas plains quickly. In the August heat, cells pop up and disappear over the course of an afternoon. Friday’s raid in Marion, however, has the markings of something different. The thunderclouds are big. And in the coming storm, those who protect our Constitution will look up and smile sweetly at the rain. Meyer lost his mother. God willing, he won’t lose his paper.

— Tim Stauffer

Newspaper search goes too far

Marion city police and the Marion County sheriff’s office did something on Friday that no government agency in America has any right to do.

They shut down a newspaper.

Those agencies raided the offices of the Marion County Record and the home of its owners, Eric Meyer and his mother, Joan. Police seized company-owned and personal computers and cell phones, and photographed personal documents on tables in the Meyer home.

The police action, involving at least four city officers and two sheriff’s deputies, also seized similar equipment and materials from the city’s vice mayor, Ruth Herbel.

Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody (more about him later) reinjured a dislocated finger of Record reporter Deb Gruver — a former Wichita Eagle reporter — when he personally snatched her cellphone from her hand during the raid.

The ransacking and seizures, which include the Record’s file server, directly threaten the ability of the Record to publish. The computer equipment seized contained the stories and ads that were scheduled for next week’s paper.

We could express our outrage at what is happening here.

But we probably couldn’t say it any better than the 98-year-old Joan Meyer, a newspaperwoman since 1953: “These are Hitler tactics and something has to be done.”

It turned out to be one of the last things she ever said. Mrs. Meyer complained of feeling upset and stressed by the invasion of her home when she spoke to us on

Friday. Late Saturday, we received the sad news that she had collapsed at home and passed away.

According to a search warrant signed by Marion County Magistrate Laura Viar, the raid is related to an ongoing dispute between the paper and local restaurateur Kari Newell.

Newell has been seeking city approval of an application for a liquor license.

But records sent to the paper and Herbel by a confidential source indicated that she should be ineligible because she does not have a valid driver’s license due to a 2008 drunk-driving conviction and other violations. The paper checked those records through a publicly available website, but opted not to publish a story.

From the warrant, the crux of the police investigation seems to be whether the paper and its reporters committed identity theft and/ or unlawful acts concerning computers in confirming Newell’s driving records. An affidavit justifying the warrant is being withheld by County Attorney Joel Ensey, whose brother owns the hotel where Newell has her restaurant.

The ordinary and proper way to pursue such a complaint would have been to subpoena the paper’s communications and records regarding Newell and let the courts decide what, if anything, the Record had to turn over.

Unpublished materials of a news gathering operation are generally protected by state and federal laws and a long line of First Amendment court decisions, but there are exceptions.

There could very well be more sinister motives in play here, involving the police

chief himself.

Cody was hired by Marion in April, after taking an early retirement from the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department, where he was a captain.

According to Eric Meyer, the Record has been actively investigating the circumstances surrounding Cody’s departure from the KCMO department. Friday’s raid gives Cody and his subordinates access to reporters’ notes and materials from confidential sources who were interviewed as part of the newspaper’s investigation.

Cody’s phone line does not accept voicemail and he did not return a message left for him with the city clerk.

There’s no way to put this toothpaste back in the tube, but there are several actions that need to be taken without delay:

1) Magistrate Viar, or the presiding district judge, should immediately revoke the overly broad search warrant she signed and declare that any evidence seized under it be inadmissible in court.

2) Viar or the district judge should order the immediate return of all equipment and materials seized.

3) Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach should take time out from his hobby of suing over “government overreach” from Washington, and conduct a full investigation of government overreach at home. That must include public disclosure of the circumstances of the raid and motivations behind it.

In the meantime, The Wichita Eagle and The Kansas City Star stand ready to assist the Record in any way we can.

— The Wichita Eagle and Kansas City Star

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30 Years Ago

August 1993

Mike Myer, an amateur astronomer of considerable expertise from Humboldt, shared with Register readers facts about a meteor shower predicted for Wednesday night. Myer gave tips on the best way to watch the event. *****

At all schools in USD 257 this school year, breakfast, in an arrangement similar to that of the long-standing hot lunch program, will be offered between 7:40 and 8 a.m. each day that school

lunches are served. *****

A benefit concert by the Bella Vista Big Band, which played for one of the presidential inauguration balls this winter, will be held in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Sept. 11 to raise funds for and promote membership in the Friends of the Bowlus, Inc. *****

Kelli Magrath, who played for Allen County Community College Red Devil Women, is the new head women’s basketball coach at ACCC. *****

Iola representatives will vote Aug. 31 to form a water assurance district that would embrace cities and industries along the Neosho and Cottonwood Rivers. In the water assurance district participants would buy storage rights in Redmond, Council Grove and Marion reservoirs and would be assured of a certain amount of water during any given year. *****

Humboldt school board members agreed to begin installation of air conditioners in district schools.

Eric Meyer, publisher of the Marion County Record, answers questions in his newspaper office Friday after police seized computers, servers, cellphones and other items. (SAM BAILEY/KANSAS REFLECTOR)

Iola Fire Department crews survey the damage from a kitchen fire at Rookies Sports Bar & Grill, 105 E. Jackson Ave., just after putting out the blaze on Friday evening. The fire

Fire: Downtown restaurant remains closed

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Isbell said. “You worry about the construction, if there are voids in the ceiling or places where fire can creep up.” The type of fire also posed a challenge, as grease fires are notoriously difficult to contain.

“We don’t get fires like this a lot, but we train for them,” he said.

He also thanked the community and the City Council for providing the appropriate training and equipment.

“I’m thankful to everyone, and that in situations like this, they

Biden administration urges colleges to pursue racial diversity

By the Associated Press

New guidance from the Biden administration on Monday urges colleges to use a range of strategies to promote racial diversity on campus after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in admissions.

ing policies known to stint racial diversity, including preferences for legacy students and the children of donors.

were able to get the job done and come home safe.” In a social media post, Rookies owners and staff thanked the fire and police response, as well as the outpouring of help from neighboring businesses and members of the community.

Colleges can focus their recruiting in high minority areas, for example, and take steps to retain students of color who are already on campus, including by offering affinity clubs geared toward students of a certain race. Colleges can also consider how an applicant's race has shaped personal experience, as detailed in students' application essays or letters of recommendation, according to the new guidance.

It also encourages them to consider end-

"Ensuring access to higher education for students from different backgrounds is one of the most powerful tools we have to prepare graduates to lead an increasingly diverse nation and make real our country's promise of opportunity for all," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.

The guidance, from the Justice and Education departments, arrives as colleges across the nation attempt to navigate a new era of admissions without the use of affirmative action. Schools are working to promote racial diversity without provoking legal action from affirmative action opponents.

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their way through blocks reduced to ash.

“Right now, they’re going street by street, block by block between cars, and soon they’ll start to enter buildings,” Jeff Hickman, the director of public affairs for the Hawaii Department of Defense, said Monday on NBC’s “Today.”

Such crews had covered just 3% of the search area, Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said Saturday.

The blaze that swept into centuries-old Lahaina nearly a week ago destroyed nearly every building in the town of 13,000, leaving a grid of gray rubble wedged between the blue ocean and lush green slopes. That fire has been 85% contained, according to the county, while the Upcountry fire has been 60% contained.

“There’s very little left there,” Green said about Lahaina in a video update Sunday, adding that “an estimated value of $5.6 billion has gone away.”

Even where the fire has retreated, authorities have warned that toxic byproducts may remain, including in drinking water, after the flames spewed poisonous fumes. And many people simply have no home to return to — so authorities plan to house them in hotels and vacation rentals.

The cause of the wildfires is under investigation, and Green said authorities would also examine their response. One fire, for instance,

was thought to be out but later flared again.

Before the blaze engulfed Lahaina, Maui County officials also failed to activate sirens that would have warned the entire population and instead relied on social media posts.

Fueled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane, the flames on Maui raced through parched brush — one moving as fast as 1 mile every minute, according to Green.

“With those kinds of winds and 1,000-degree temperatures, ultimately all the pictures that you will see will be easy to understand,” he said.

The fires are Hawaii’s deadliest natural disaster in decades, surpassing a 1960 tsunami that killed 61 people. They also surpassed the 2018 Camp Fire in northern California that left 85 dead and destroyed the town of Paradise.

Many gathered Sunday to mourn the dead. Maria Lanakila Church in Lahaina was spared from the flames that wiped out most of the surrounding community, but with search-and-recovery efforts ongoing, its members attended Mass up the road. The Bishop of Honolulu, the Rev. Clarence “Larry” Silva, presided. Taufa Samisoni said his uncle, aunt, cousin and the cousin’s 7-yearold son were found dead inside a burned car. Samisoni’s wife, Katalina, said the family would draw comfort from Silva’s reference to the Bible story of how Jesus’ disciple Peter walked on water and was saved from drowning.

“If Peter can walk on water, yes we can. We will get to the shore,” she said, her voice quivering.

Meanwhile, Hawaii officials urged tour-

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ists to avoid traveling to Maui as many hotels prepared to house evacuees and first responders.

Green said 500 hotels rooms will be made available for locals who have been displaced. An additional 500 rooms will be set aside for workers from the Fed-

eral Emergency Management Agency. Some hotels will carry on with normal business to help preserve jobs and sustain the local economy, Green said.

The state wants to work with Airbnb to make sure that rental homes can be made available for locals.

J.P. Mayoga, a cook at the Westin Maui in Kaanapali, is still making breakfast, lunch and dinner on a daily basis. But instead of serving hotel guests, he’s been feeding the roughly 200 hotel employees and their family members who have been living there since Tuesday.

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A man walks along Lahaina’s Front Street on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2023, past the burned carcasses of cars that couldn’t escape a catastrophic wildfire that swept through the Maui, Hawaii, city. (ROBERT GAUTHIER/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS)

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Humboldt Speedway has Championship

The Humboldt Speedway Championship night at the Humboldt Speedway started off with a bang with the opening ceremony and the playing of the National Anthem by guitar player Anthony Schettler.

The Extrusion Inc. Midwest Mods hit the track first. There were only 15 laps and 16 points separating Matthew Kay and Blake Sutton. Sutton got out to an early lead.

But “The Real” Tyler Davis in the 01JR had other plans as he worked his way through the field to pick up the win. Davis’ big win landed him third place in the points championship. Matthew Kay came in second in the A Feature and brought home the points champion crown for the season. Finishing third in the A Feature was Blake Sutton. He took home second place in the points championship.

The Home Savings Bank Factory Stocks championship was decided when Dallas Joyce signed. The A Feature was interesting because Joyce DNS also signed on, so the win was up for grabs. Taking the checkered flag was Jay Lamons. But after further tech inspection, Lamons was DQ’d, leaving Grant Reeves on the podium. Coming in second was Jason Thurman. Third place went to Derrek Wilson. Fourth went to Tevyn James and fifth place went to Kenny Schettler (who also took 2nd in the points championship).

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USRA B Mods A Feature winner was Reece Solander. Coming in second was points champion Brian Bolin. Third went to Brian McGowen.

Bringing home fourth was Andy Bryant. Finishing fifth was Jacob Ellison, who started 14th.

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USRA Modifieds saw a wild race as the track became very touching in turns three and four. And showing how touchy it was, the driver out of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Tyler Wolff, who races full time with the USMTS, got upside down. Wolff

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Lady Red Devils seek continued dominance

take another step and lead on both sides of the ball.

“We both bring a lot of energy to the team, just motivating people and getting spirits high during matches or training,” Hicklin said. “I think both of us (Clark) are very reliable on the pitch and talkative in getting others to communicate to get in line.”

McGinnis currently sits at 91 total wins heading into this fall. His coaching milestones have included reaching the national tournament in 2019 and securing a season-best mark of 15-4-1 in 2021-22.

Last season, Allen went 6-2 at home and averaged 2.71 goals per game, along with scoring 46 goals total. The average number of goals scored against Allen was only 0.98.

By QUINN BURKITT The

The Allen Community College women’s soccer team will be locked in on securing top-20 NJCAA rankings in its 11th season under head coach Jeremy McGinnis.

Allen is currently ranked No. 17 in the NJCAA preseason ranking. The Lady Devils have been ranked in the top 20 the last four years.

“Bringing a real program to ACC means a lot to me,” McGinnis said. “Any program you take over you want to leave it in a better place. It’s

important to have something that you do well.”

McGinnis hopes to continue the team’s success with a number of returning starters ready to make a difference.

The returning starters include Brianna Alexander, Katherine Hammond, Blair Clark, Tanika Rother, Mollie Roberts, Rebecca Lord, Lizeth Suarez and Peitra Camboim. Lord and Suarez are the only two offensive players of the bunch.

Last year’s season-ending 2-0 loss at Pratt Community College still leaves a sour taste. Allen had won eight-of-

nine heading into the playoff loss.

“I think we saw how close we were. We split with Pratt during the season and if we had won one more game after that one we would have gone to nationals,” said McGinnis. “In 2019, we went to Georgia and they know about that. They want to add to that history now and be a part of it.”

Clark was a starter in seven games for Allen last year on defense and took two shots. Emma Hicklin started in two games and also took a pair of shots on goal as a center midfielder. The pair will look to

“There is a recipe for success and there is a reason we do things the way we do them, because it works and it helps us win and be successful,” McGinnis said. “I don’t think there’s one specific way to do things but I keep in mind whether we are improving our players on and off the field and whether we are helping develop them for the next level.”

The team camaraderie within Allen’s women’s soccer program is at a high heading into the season. Both Hicklin and Clark are eyeing even bigger roles on the squad this year as sophomores. Their leadership will be counted on throughout

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Allen men’s soccer flush with new recruits

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

Allen Community College men’s soccer head coach Doug Desmarteau believes in a competition-breeds-success atmosphere around his program. The Red Devils come into this season with a much different look after all but two players — Patrick Alouidor and Santino Brignone — have departed.

With over 60 players on the squad, the team is split into two teams, starters and reserves.

“The big thing with us having a reserve team and so many guys is competition breeds success,” said Desmarteau. “Every training session they’re fighting for spots. I don’t care if you’re the leading goal-scorer or

not, you always have to earn your spot on the field.”

A team with so many players makes the competition just to see playing time a lot thinner.

Those players who Desmarteau expects to break through this season will be Josiah Bobb, Jeff Beljour, Patrick Alouidor, goalkeeper Guarav Sandhu, wings Ted Roberts and Rosmith Messieur and midfielders Gabriel Mocco, Ayoup Bader.

Sandhu is a transfer goalkeeper from Cowley Community College and Bader is a sophomore midfielder from Jordan.

“I want all these guys to remember at Allen we were a group of brothers who came together from different countries and it became one big family,” Bader, who is from Jordan, said. “The most im-

portant thing is representing the school and showing what we’re capable of.”

Allen’s midfield is not as strong as it was last year, Desmareau said, but there is more speed up top where deep passes can reach.

Allen’s front line and wings will be the key to their offense, playing many more direct balls and utilizing space between the back line and the goalkeeper. Desmarteau also wants his team to be

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Chiefs downed by Carr, Saints in preseason opener

NEW ORLEANS (AP) —

When Derek Carr finished putting on his uniform before his preseason debut with the New Orleans Saints, he couldn’t help but be struck by the sight of himself in black and gold — instead of the Raiders’ silver and

black he’d worn for all of his previous nine NFL seasons. “It may look weird, but it felt right,” said Carr, the Saints’ top free agent acquisition. “I just feel refreshed. I feel rejuvenated. And to put that uniform on and come out and be a Saint, it felt re-

ally good.”

Carr threw a touchdown pass on his opening series and rookie Blake Grupe kicked a 31-yard field goal as time expired to lift the Saints to a 26-24 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday in the opening exhibi-

tion game for both clubs.

Chiefs star QB Patrick Mahomes started but took just five snaps before Kansas City’s first drive ended with a failed fourth-and-1 play on a direct snap to reserve tight end Blake Bell.

“We were a little flat at

the beginning. You can’t do that,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “You come to work ready to go.”

That’s what Carr did. He looked comfortable taking his first live snaps in his new offense, completing six

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Allen’s Blair Clark, 20, goes for a kick in a game last season. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Allen’s Tavar Lawrence, left, battles for the ball with a Johnson County defender. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

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Georgia is No. 1 in preseason AP Top-25

By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press

Georgia will begin its drive for an unprecedented college football championship threepeat as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press preseason Top 25.

The Bulldogs received 60 of 63 firstplace votes in the poll released Monday to easily outpoint No. 2 Michigan, which received two first-place votes and has its best preseason rankings since being No. 2 in 1991. The Wolverines’ Big Ten rival, Ohio State, is No. 3 with one first-place vote.

Two more Southeastern Conference teams join Georgia in the top five. Alabama is No. 4, the Crimson Tide’s lowest preseason ranking in more than a decade, and LSU starts at No. 5, its best preseason ranking since 2016.

The Bulldogs have won the last two na-

tional titles while going 29-2, but this will be only the second time in program history they have been preseason No. 1. The first was in 2008.

Georgia started the 2021 season No. 5, before going on to win its first national title since 1980. The Bulldogs followed up with a perfect season in 2022 after being preseason No. 3. The Bulldogs have had 25 players drafted by NFL teams the last two years, including quarterback Stetson Bennett and All-America defensive tackle Jalen Carter this past April.

Coach Kirby Smart has built a program to rival Nick Saban’s Alabama dynasty so voters are now giving Georgia the Crimson Tide treatment.

Alabama had been preseason No. 1 each of the last two seasons, and five of the previous seven. Clemson was preseason No. 1 in

the other two seasons, making Georgia the first team other than the Tide or Tigers to be preseason No. 1 since Ohio State in 2015.

Alabama is also the last team to win backto-back major college football national championships, doing so in 2011 and ‘12.

No team has won three straight national titles during the AP poll era, which dates to 1936. For the record, Minnesota, the first official AP champion, was retroactively crowned champion for the 1934 and ‘35 seasons by a couple of organizations.

Coach Bernie Bierman’s Gophers from long ago are the closest thing major college football has to a three-peater.

“We have not addressed that with them,” Smart said during SEC media days of chasing college football history. “We’ve certainly looked at some

three-peat scenarios of teams like the Bulls and different sports teams that they might actually know about. No offense to the Minnesota 1935 team, but I don’t know if it’s going to resonate with my audience.”

The Bulldogs are reloading on the defensive front and at quarterback, but do not lack for stars. Tight end Brock Bowers is one of the nation’s best players; linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson was a second-team All-American; and center Sedrick Van Pran anchors one of the country’s most talented offensive lines.

Rounding out the top 10 is Southern California at No. 6, which is the Trojans’ best preseason ranking since 2017, followed by Penn State, Florida State, Clemson and Washington. The Seminoles are back in the preseason

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sound in their organization on defense with a new experienced goalkeeper in Sandhu.

“I think we always want to make sure we’re not giving up goals,” said Desmarteau. “I think we’re going to be very fast and physical from the midfield to the front line. We’re not as deep. Right now we probably have 16 or 17 guys who I feel really comfortable playing.”

A difference in Allen’s schedule this season will be that Neosho and Johnson County both moved from Division I to II KJCCC. This will allow the Red Dev-

ils more exposure and a much more wide open conference in terms of standings.

Desmarteau knows

his team, at least the reserves who were there, are fueled by the early playoff exit last year at the hands of Pratt. The

goals this year already in place are focused on getting beyond that hurdle.

“Our first goal is to take care of preseason and non-conference games and come out with either an undefeated record or play really well to make sure we’re staying where we need to be in the top-20 in the nation,” Desmarteau said. “Our next goal is to win the conference and get the number-one seed for the region, I think that’s always a standard we set.”

Allen opens the regular season with a match at Anoka-Ramsey Community College on Thursday, Aug. 17.

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eight passes for 70 yards during his only drive.

After twice rolling away from pressure on first-down completions to tight end Juwan Johnson and running back Alvin Kamara, Carr capped the 12-play, 80yard drive with a 4-yard pass to Keith Kirkwood as the receiver crossed the back of the end zone.

“I was fired up because now I get to move and work on my stuff in a live scenario,” Carr said. “It was satisfying because those are the realest reps it gets. Like, they can hit me out there.”

With backups in the game for both teams, the Saints rallied late.

After rookie Jake Haener’s 2-yard scoring pass to running back Ellis Merriweather pulled the Saints within 24-23 with 1:20 to go, New Orleans’ 2-point conversion attempt for the lead went awry on a botched shotgun snap.

But Saints defensive end Kyle Phillips tipped Chris Oladokun’s thirddown pass and caught the deflection on the Kansas City 22 to set up the winning kick.

“You can’t finish with a mistake and that’s a terrible way to end the thing,” Reid said. “It

looks like the Saints have a good football team. We’ve got to make sure we get our stuff taken care of.”

Jameis Winston relieved Carr after the Chiefs’ fourth-down failure and drove New Orleans 48 yards in four plays for a 14-0 lead on a 29-yard pass over the top of the secondary to rookie receiver A.T. Perry. A sixth-round draft pick out of Wake Forest, Perry was New Orleans’ leading receiver with six catches for 70 yards.

Blaine Gabbert played most of the first half for Kansas City and pulled the Chiefs within 17-7 on a 1-yard fade to Richie James in the corner of the end zone.

Saints defensive backs

Alontae Taylor and Bradley Roby appeared to have a miscommunication on the play, leaving James uncovered.

James’ TD came a few plays after he’d beaten Taylor on a 43-yard catch deep into Saints territory.

Kansas City

third-stringer Shane Buechele threw for 155 yards and a pair of scores, the first on a 15yard pass over the middle to Justyn Ross.

Buechele put the Chiefs in front 21-17 when he escaped two near sacks, stepped for-

ward and found Kekoa Crawford in the middle of the end zone.

“That escape was good and then the throw was good and the catch was good,” Reid said. “All around, that was a pretty good play.” Chiefs receiver Nikko Remigio, a rookie out of Fresno State, caught four passes for 71 yards.

DEFENSIVE STANDOUTS

The Chiefs had three sacks, with Drue Tranquill, Chamarri Conner and Danny Shelton each getting one. Linebackers Zach Baun and Ty Summers each had sacks for the Saints. Kahlef Hailassie, a rookie out of Western Kentucky, made a leaping grab to intercept Haener along the sideline. Saints backup safety Ugo Amadi intercepted Buechele on a ball tipped by Taylor.

INJURIES

Saints: RB Kendre Miller left the game in the third quarter and coach Dennis Allen said he has a sprained knee. Miller was a thirdround draft choice out of TCU who, if healthy, is expected to be in the mix for snaps during Kamara’s three-game suspension to start the season. Chiefs: Reid said

Allen’s Autumn Wyatt. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

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the fall.

“I feel like we’re very close this year. We all have each other’s backs on and off the field so I can’t wait for us to play together as a team,” Hicklin said.

“Everyone has an

important role to play,” Clark added. “Everybody is wanting to win and do our best.”

The Allen women kick off their season against Anoka-Ramsey Community College on Thursday, Aug. 17.

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out unscathed. And Paden Phillips, who was having electrical problems in his car, started the A Feature in his brother’s USRA B Mod. Phillips needed to start the race in order to have a chance at the points championship. At the end of the A Feature, even though Phillips didn’t pick up the “W”, he was able to lock in the championship for points. The driver bringing home the win in the A Feature was Tyler Davis. Second place was Tad Davis. Coming in third was TJ Tolan, who also finished second in the points championship. Fourth went to Gabe Hodges. And rounding out the top-five was Darren Moses.

Closing out the

OMNIA

reserve cornerback Nic Jones fractured “a couple fingers” and that fellow reserve defensive back Anthony Witherstone had a toe injury. Reid said he was unsure if Jones would need surgery or could return with a cast.

UP NEXT Chiefs: At Arizona on Saturday. Saints: Visit the Los Angeles Chargers on Aug. 20.

night was the Wilson’s Auto and Fabrication Freedom 50 for the USRA Tuners. It was going to be a tough feat running 50 laps but Clint Haigler, who chose to start in the back of the pack, ended up picking up the win for the A Feature. Haigler finished third in the points championship. Bringing home second place finish was Jesse Stair. Wyatt Burress came in third. Fourth went to Carlyle Ward. Coming in fifth was Travis Bockover, who also took second in the points championship. The points champion for the USRA Tuners was Trenton Wilson, who did not finish the A Feature. That wraps up the 2023 season at Humboldt Speedway.

Allen’s Thiago Fernandes gets around a Hesston defender. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Spain and Sweden meet up in World Cup semifinal match

SYDNEY (AP) — Spain failed to qualify for the first six editions of the Women’s World Cup, but once La Roja made the tournament in 2015 they’ve made a steady climb toward joining the global elite.

Spain scored its first point with a draw in its World Cup debut. Four years later, Spain advanced to the knockout round before it was eliminated by the U.S. team that went on to clinch a second consecutive championship.

Now in their third World Cup, the Spaniards have reached a new level and face Sweden in the first World Cup semifinal on Tuesday at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.

It is Spain’s first semifinal match in a major tournament since the 1997 European Championships, and the reward for making it this far? A match against the second-ranked team in the world that has already eliminated the U.S. and Japan in this tournament.

The Swedes are playing in a fifth World Cup semifinal: they were runners-up in 2003, finished third three times, and, just to note how consistently strong the Swedes have been, they lost the gold medal match to Canada two years ago at the Tokyo Olympics.

So is Spain nervous?

You better believe it.

“If we’re not nervous, something is not

going right,” forward Jenni Hermoso said on the eve of the match. “We have to feel that nervous sense in our stomach and to have the willpower. To reach the final, just thinking about it gives me shivers. We are close to achieving this but we have (another) game.

It’s another final as far as we’re concerned.”

Spain leads all teams in the tournament with 15 goals so far and is determined to showcase its offense against Sweden, which has so far allowed just two goals and beat the United States in the knockout round on penalties.

It’s unknown what Alexia Putellas will have in this monumental moment in Spain’s women’s soccer history.

Putellas tore her ACL

last year and wasn’t a guarantee to even make Spain’s 23-player roster.

The 29-year-old midfielder, a two-time Ballon d’Or winner as the sport’s best player, was a substitute in Spain’s first match of this World Cup, started the second match of group play, but has been used sparingly since.

The Barcelona star has played in all five of Spain’s matches, but hasn’t been on the field for more than an hour in any match and has logged just 155 minutes in total. She has no goals, but does have an assist, in the tournament.

Spain coach Jorge Vilda wouldn’t commit Monday to how Putellas will be used against Sweden.

“We are very happy

Glover makes it two in a row at FedEx opener

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Mostly from the stifling heat, maybe from the pressure, Lucas Glover needed to keep his hands from sweating and he learned a trick long ago from not wearing a glove.

On the 17th tee Sunday, tied for the lead with Patrick Cantlay, he dunked his hands in the ice water of a cooler for as long as he could stand it and then quickly dried them.

“It literally stops them from sweating for a little while,” Glover said. And it did nothing to cool him off.

and now already has locked up a spot in the Tour Championship. He is No. 30 in the world. He has earned just short of $5 million in two weeks.

Is the Ryder Cup on the horizon? Glover would have to win the BMW Championship next week to make the team. If not, he felt worthy of a pick.

“Playing pretty good golf, and I think I’d be pretty good in the team room and be a good partner,” he said. “So yeah, absolutely I would.”

with the level Alexia has reached. Since the first day of training we have noticed this,” Vilda said. “It is true that she is in the process of a recovery of nine or 10 months. We’ve adapted... and Alexia is ready for everything.”

Picking up the slack in Putellas’ absence has been Aitana Bonmati, who has scored three goals in this World Cup to tie teammates Hermoso and Alba Maria Redondo Ferrer as Spain’s most prolific scorers.

Sweden has its own player concern with forward Sofia Jakobsson battling an illness ahead of the match. Sweden coach Peter Gerhardsson wasn’t sure of Jakobsson’s status against Spain.

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CFB: Preseason AP Top-25 is out

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rankings for the first time since 2018, and in the top 10 for the first time since 2017.

STARTING ON TOP,

STAYING ON TOP

Beware, ‘Dawgs.

Since the AP preseason poll started in 1950, 11 teams that started No. 1 also finished No. 1. Only two of those have occurred since 2000: Southern California in 2004 and Alabama in 2017. “The threat for us is complacency,” Smart said. “The first thing you have to do is acknowledge that it’s a threat. Like if you acknowledge the complacency is a threat, it’s the first step towards stomping it out.”

TIDE’S OUT ... OF THE

TOP THREE

For most schools, a preseason No. 4 ranking would feel pretty good.

For Alabama, it feels like a sign of decline. The last time the Crimson Tide had a lower preseason ranking was 2009. That was Year 3 for Saban in Tuscaloosa, and Alabama went on to win the first of six national championships during his unprecedented run.

This preseason poll is the first since 2015 in which the Tide did not receive at least one first-place vote.

The Tide did run its record streak of top-five preseason rankings to 15. Next

best in poll history is 11 for Florida State in 1990-2000. Ohio State has had 11 top-five preseason rankings since 2009.

CONFERENCE CALL Over the last three years, schools have been redrawing the conference maps.

This year, the Big 12 has four new members, the American Athletic Conference has six and Conference USA has four.

The really flashy moves come in 2024.

This season will be the last with Texas and Oklahoma in the Big 12 ( before moving to the SEC ) and maybe

the last with a Pac-12 at all. USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington will play in the Big Ten next year while Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah move to the Big 12 as major college football moves toward sprawling super conferences.

Heading into this season the breakdown by conference of teams in the Top 25:

SEC — 6 (Nos. 1, 4, 5, 12, 22, 23).

Big Ten — 5 (Nos. 2, 3, 7, 19, 25).

Pac-12 — 5 (Nos. 6, 10, 14, 15, 18).

Big 12 — 4 (Nos. 11, 16, 17, 20).

ACC — 3 (Nos. 8, 9,

21).

American Athletic — 1 (No. 24).

Independent — 1 (No. 13).

If sorted by next season’s conference alignment the breakdown looks like this:

SEC — 8 (Nos. 1, 4, 5, 11, 12, 20, 22, 23).

Big Ten — 8 (Nos. 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 15, 19, 25).

Big 12 — 3 (Nos. 14, 16, 17).

ACC — 3 (Nos. 8, 9, 21).

Pac-12 — 1 (No. 18counts Oregon State as a Pac-12 team).

American Athletic— 1 (No. 24)

Independent — 1 (No. 13).

Glover won the FedEx St. Jude Championship, his second title in two weeks, this time by making three big putts — one of them for bogey — on the back nine, closing with a 1-under 69 and then beating Cantlay in a playoff with what ultimately was the most important shot.

His tee shot on the 18th hole in the playoff found dry land. Cantlay’s did not.

Glover won with a par to extend a most amazing run. Just 10 days ago, he started the PGA Tour’s postseason at No. 112 in the FedEx Cup — No. 119 in the world ranking — and was looking at an early end to the season. He won the Wyndham Championship to get into the FedEx Cup playoffs. He won at the TPC Southwind

Not even Glover could have imagined this less than three months ago, when he thought the yips would stay with him forever, prompting a change to a long putter that must feel like a magic wand these days.

“If you would have told me this three months ago, I’d tell you you’re crazy,” he said “But at the same time, if you asked me legitimately did I think I was capable, I’d say yes, even then. It’s just one of those sad ways athletes are wired.

We always believe in ourselves no matter how bad it is.”

Belief was at its peak on the back nine. Glover made a 20-foot par putt on the 13th, a 30-foot bogey putt on the par-3 14th after a tee shot into the water, and a 12-foot par putt on the 17th to stay

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Lina Hurtig of Sweden celebrates with teammates after scoring her side’s winning penalty in the penalty shoot out during the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 Round of 16 match against the USA. ROBERT CIANFLONE/GETTY IMAGES/TNS

He loves the freedom of single life, but it’s lonely

Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared June 5, 2009.

Dear Carolyn: I am a 28-year-old single male.

I am in no hurry to get married, but I’m getting to the point where I’m tired of being the odd man out with friends.

On the one hand, I love my life because I can do whatever I please: spontaneous trips, happy hours, outings, going to see my family, etc.

On the other hand, it can be quite lonely. Independence is great, unless you’re missing out on connecting with that special someone.

I dread having to give up ANY freedom to do what I want, when I want. I am smart enough to realize a good relationship is not built on this selfish principle, but given that I’ve been living like this for so long (and it’s not all that bad), I find it hard to see myself being happy if I have to give up a lot of independence for someone else.

Carolyn Hax

I guess right now I live in an extreme, and a relationship is about striking a balance, so how do I keep my independence while pursuing a relationship? Do I just need to face that growing up means making sacrifices? — E.

E.: You’re right, good relationships aren’t built on the principle of having what you want, when you want it.

But they also aren’t built on the perceived opposite, of forcing yourself “to give up a lot” for someone else.

Life with a partner is different, clearly, from life alone. But choosing your partner well means you want this different life more than you want the old one. It’s trading old ways for new, not sacrificing them.

Instead of fighting your reluctance to change, use it. Let it alert you to the difference between trading up for a life partnership, or trading down. Any sense that you’re trading down to be with someone means you haven’t found the right someone.

Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend and I come from very different backgrounds. His parents are not very supportive, including begrudging him the money for college. He has taken out loans but has to beg them for even gas money to drive home. My parents are very supportive and do everything they can for me.

Although I love him, I’m having a hard time coping with the stress of his constant money and family problems. It’s making me question our future. Am I being petty and superficial? — College Student College Student: I can’t tell from here whether you’re flagging

Brain tumor diagnosis can be scary

By DEB BALZER Mayo Clinic/TNS

A diagnosis of a brain tumor can be frightening. Of the more than 100 types of brain tumors, meningioma and glioblastoma are two of the most common.

Dr. Wendy Sherman, a Mayo Clinic neuro-oncologist explains the differences in these brain tumors and why research is crucial to help move towards a cure.

Meningioma

“The most common brain tumor is actually what’s called a meningioma, which is a tumor that arises not in the brain itself, but it arises from the lining that surrounds the brain, the meninges,” says Dr. Sherman.

Meningiomas are slow-growing tumors.

Surgery may be suggested based on size and location.

“Most meningiomas are benign, and after surgery, they may never regrow. Or if they do, it may take a very long time,” she says.

Glioblastoma

Another type of brain tumor is cancerous and fast-growing.

“Glioblastoma is the most common type of malignant tumor in the brain,” says Dr. Sherman.

After diagnosis, treatment usually starts with surgery. “The first step is to remove as much of it as you can,” says Dr. Sherman.

Treatments may slow the growth of cancer, but there is no cure for glioblastoma.

“That is the reason why we are so dedicated to our research ef-

forts to find innovative treatments for this and, eventually, a cure so that we can change the landscape,” says Dr. Sherman. Glioblastoma treatment

Dr. Sherman says different forms of therapy are being researched, including immunotherapies, vaccine therapies, targeted therapies and medications.

Surgery is often the first course of treatment. The goal is to remove as much of the brain tumor as possible without damaging surrounding areas of the brain. Radiation therapy, like proton beam therapy or X-ray, usually comes after surgery. The radiation kills any glioma cells that might remain after surgery. Radiation is often combined with chemotherapy.

a legitimate problem with your boyfriend’s ability to handle adversity or pouting because his courageous efforts at independence have inconvenienced you. The details are everything here.

Fortunately, the whole money issue is a red herring; your wanting to quit matters more than the reasons you want to quit.

For the sake of argument, let’s say you are being petty and superficial. If you were in your boyfriend’s position, would you want a petty and superficial mate to stay with you, just because staying has the outward appearance of being the right thing to do? Surely that goes in the “please don’t do me any favors” file.

You’re college students living (with varying success) off your parents; you can save the more complicated thought processes for more complicated entanglements. Stay because you want to stay, and go because you want to go. Just mean it either way.

Saturday’s Cryptoquote: Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

— Malcolm X

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MARVIN by Tom Armstrong

HI AND LOIS by Chance Browne

BLONDIE by Young and Drake

MUTTS by Patrick McDonell

Heat tests stamina at southern youth baseball event

RUSTON, La. (AP)

— With field temperatures soaring above 150 degrees at times, 10-year-old baseball player Emmitt Anderson and his teammates from Alabama thought better of kneeling when they gathered near the mound for pregame prayers at a recent regional youth baseball tournament here.

“It was too hot on our knees,” Anderson said of the artificial surface. “We just stood up.”

High heat proved considerably harder to handle than fastballs up in the strike zone at the DYB World Series this week. Temperatures reached 105 degrees, with the heat index topping out at 117.

Some spectators and umpires required treatment for heat-related symptoms. A few passed out and were briefly hospitalized.

“The heat was so extreme, I just knew it was a matter of time before something happened,” said Dr. Kelsey Steensland, an anesthesiologist from Dothan, Alabama, who was there to watch her 10-yearold son, Finn, play for a team representing their state.

During opening cer-

emonies, she rushed to help an elderly woman who’d collapsed and didn’t regain consciousness for several minutes.

“This was a medical emergency,” Steensland said. “It was more than just giving someone a glass of water.”

With climate change driving average global temperatures higher, organizers, players and spectators taking part in quintessentially American traditions such as midsummer youth baseball championships are having to pay closer attention to the heat — and become more resourceful about mitigating its effects.

A case in point is the DYB World Series, which features teams from 11 Southern states competing in multiple age groups up to 12 years old.

Formerly known as Dixie Youth Baseball, DYB was established in 1955.

“The number one priority to any event that anybody puts on outdoors is the safety and health of the participants,” DYB Commissioner William Wade said. “We’ve got to do the best we can to preach whatever safety we can.”

Large evaporative coolers — which pull air over water to cool it

before blowing it back out — were placed in dugouts. It was the first time B.J. Branigan, who coached a team from the New Orleans area, had ever seen that.

During the first four days of the six-day tournament, when temperatures were hottest, games were halted every two innings for five-minute “heat breaks.” Cases of water were supplied to coaches, players and umpires.

Many also wore wet cooling towels on the back of their necks.

Sail shades over the stands helped keep fans out of direct sunlight at the Ruston Sports Complex — a newly built facility that drew widespread praise from tournament participants and attendees. But some expressed concern over the way the artificial turf fields, “infilled” with black rubber pellets for cushioning, became so hot at times that one could easily see air rippling from convection just above the surface.

“One day they advised us that the temp was 167 on the field — and it felt like it,” umpire Tim Ward said, noting that he’d never been so hot in 25 years of calling balls and strikes. “You

couldn’t stand still. You had to keep moving or your shoes would start getting soft on the bottom, and the heat was radiating up into you.”

Ward was behind home plate that day, wearing a mask and chest protector, and passed out between innings.

When he regained consciousness, he was being treated in the dugout, and was taken soon after by ambulance to a hospital. He missed one day of games and returned to umpire again before the tournament ended.

Any proposal to cancel or postpone the tournament would have been met with considerable opposition. It was getting close to the start of the school year for some players and these were their highest-stakes games of the season. Parents and grandparents had booked hotels and traveled from as far as Virginia.

Spectators tried to adapt on the fly.

Many showed up with hand-pulled wagons to move newly purchased, lithium-ion battery powered misting fans to seating areas, where they were rigged to buckets of water.

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“Let me just say that everyone trained fully and Sofia Jakobsson is kind of climbing the walls currently,” he said. “I don’t know what that means, but I think that is a very positive sign. So, very mild symptoms of illness. I hope that we have everyone available — that’s the plan.”

The Swedes have been led offensively by centerback Amanda Ilestedt, who has never been considered much

of a scorer at international level and yet has four goals in this World Cup and trails only Hinata Miyazawa’s five goals for Japan in the race for the Golden Boot.

Sweden eliminated Japan in the quarterfinals.

BEFORE THIS tournament, Ilestedt had scored just eight goals in 64 appearances for Sweden’s national team in a decade-long international career.

“Amanda is amazing, but we have so many players that are really good in areas,” forward Fridolina Rolfo said while praising Sweden’s execution on set pieces. “I don’t think anyone cares who is the leading goal scorer. But obviously it is amazing that Amanda has scored so many goals on our set pieces, which is our strength.”

Vilda said because Spain has never beaten Sweden, the Swedes are the favorites to win

the semifinal match and maybe the entire tournament. The winner in Auckland faces the winner of the semifinal match between co-host Australia and European champion England.

“About being the favorite team beforehand? I don’t know what team is the favorite in this game,” Rolfo said. “When you reach the semifinals, there are only good teams. I know they have a great team, and so do we.”

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tied with Cantlay, who had finished his superb round of 64 and was watching on TV.

The playoff effectively ended with one shot. Cantlay hit 3-wood that was about a foot from being perfect. Instead, it hopped down the bank and into the water. Glover found the fairway with his 3-wood and two-putted for par. Cantlay took a penalty drop and his 20-foot par putt just slid by the right edge.

“Just hooked the ball a little too much off the tee,” Cantlay said. “Bad shot, obviously, and paid the price.”

Glover becomes only the third player in his 40s to win back-to-back weeks on the PGA Tour over the last 25 years, joining Kenny Perry (2003) and Vijay Singh, who did it three times, most recently in the FedEx Cup playoffs in 2008.

“Whether you’re fighting something or playing great, you just work hard. You never know when it can turn,” Glover said. “And it’s turned very quickly for

me.”

The biggest fight was the back nine when some of the game’s best lined up trying to take catch him — Cantlay and Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Jordan Spieth and Max Homa.

Cantlay played superbly on the back nine, starting with a chip-in on the 10th hole and giving himself birdie on practically every hole after that. Glover looked to be on the ropes and briefly fell one shot behind. But it could have been a lot worse if not for those putts.

“Got to a point there middle of the back nine where it was just kind of survive and try to give myself as many chances as I could coming in,” Glover said. “That kept us in the game.”

McIlroy birdied the last hole for a 65 and tied for third with Fleetwood (68), who had a birdie chance on the 18th to join the playoff.

Spieth was close most of the way until twice hitting in the water over the last four holes. He shot 70 and joined a large group tied for sixth. Spieth only

moved to No. 27 in the FedEx Cup with the late mistakes, and now will have to earn his way to the Tour Championship next week.

Cameron Davis and Hideki Matsuyama played their way into the top 50 in the FedEx Cup. That gets them into the BMW Championship next week, and it assures them a spot in the $20 million signature events next year.

Davis closed with a bogey-free 67. Matsuyama, who has made it to the Tour Championship each of his nine years on the PGA Tour, amazingly has a chance to extend the streak.

He was at No. 57 in the FedEx Cup and was in a tie for 38th going into the final round at the TPC Southwind, still only 2 under for his round after a birdie at the 15th. And then came a storm delay of 90 minutes. “I looked and saw what I needed to do on the final three holes.

I knew I had to birdie them all,” Matsuyama said.

He hit 6-iron to 10

“I’ve never experienced any kind of heat like this before. You can feel your eyes drying out,” said Steensland, who watched games with a misting fan pointed at her and her 7-month-old daughter.

“You’re either prepared or you’re not,” she said. “And the people that come prepared have a wagon full of hundreds of dollars of equipment — chairs, fans, tents. You have to have industrial grade fans to get through temperatures like this.”

Experts say heat exhaustion and heat stroke are likely to become more common in coming decades. Signs of heat illness include heavy sweating, dizziness, muscle spasms, nausea and loss of consciousness. One of the more common ways people die from extreme heat is cardiovascular collapse because of the extra energy the heart expends to help the body respond.

Dr. Jonathan Scott, an obstetrician from Dothan, said he treated “a grandmother” who passed out from the heat in the stands near him. People sitting nearby caught her in time to prevent her from falling. They cooled her down with ice and “she came to pretty quickly for us,” he said.

“This is the hottest any of us can remember,” said Scott, whose 10-year-old son, Davis, is an outfielder.

Scott purchased and set up two large misting fans to augment four hand-held fans he already had. He also brought five gallons of ice water “to get through the games.” Still, Scott said his clothes were “soaked through” from sweat when games ended.

Kevin Murphy, the father of a 12-year-old player from Livingston, Texas, called the heat during the tournament “brutal.”

To combat it, he had a device that pulled air through a cooler full of ice and blew it out through a flexible tube. He said he’d been using it regularly at games in Texas, as well. “Rain, shine, hot, snow — whatever it takes,” Murphy said. “We’re going to be here watching these kids and they’re going to be out here playing. They love it.”

During opening ceremonies, the featured guest speaker was Louisiana Tech baseball coach Lane Burroughs. He tried to mentally prepare players and their families by noting, “It’s August in Louisiana. ... We’re going to have to dominate those elements, won’t we?”

feet for eagle on the par5 16th. He holed a 12foot birdie putt on the 17th. And then he made a superb up-and-down from behind the 18th green for par and a 65. That was just enough to crack the top 50 and send him to Chicago.