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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

County Commission

Stub’s Market, Moran

Delaware Road to get facelift

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

G&W Foods, Iola

Mildred Store

SMALL STORE, BIG HEART Area towns fight to save their rural grocery stores

By SCOTT CANON AP Exchange/KC Star

Osawatomie (AP) — A slight echo carries your footfalls as you walk the aisles of what used to be Moon’s grocery store.

Some dry goods remain on the shelves, but most are bare. The coolers stand empty. No cars in the parking lot.

The last grocery store, the final place with a produce section for a city of 4,000, is no more. And may never be again.

“We’re an endangered species,” said Mike Moon, who ran the store for a quarter century. “It’s a scary situa-

tion.”

The troubles of running a small-town shop only grew more dire when the Walmart 7 miles away in Paola grew to include a full-blown grocery. Moon tried some things in response. Then he sold the business, while keeping the building, to somebody else who spiffed things up even more. It didn’t work.

It’s a story repeated across small towns in Kansas and rural America broadly. Grocery stores struggle to stay alive, even when there’s not a Walmart nearby.

The food shops represent a longstanding trend of small towns. Like the farms that

marked white settlement in the country’s hinterlands, they’ve become fewer and larger. That consolidation doomed the mom-and-pop grocery the way it did the 300-acre grain farm and the small-herd livestock opera-

tion.

As the groceries close, their towns hear a final death knell, or at least the signal that things are only going down in the lonely years ahead. The disappearance of See RURAL | Page A4

Allen County commissioners authorized emergency repairs to Delaware Road — often referred to as Tank Farm Road, just south of Humboldt — Tuesday morning.

Mitch Garner, director of Public Works, said a patch of the hard-surfaced road west of the viaduct that carried Delaware over U.S. 169 and about 850 feet long had degraded to the point repairs were needed.

Commissioners approved a proposal to have Bettis Asphalt and Construction, Topeka, now resurfacing Ninth and Bridge streets in Humboldt, to do the work. Cost to mill away six inches of the road’s surface and replace it with 785 tons of new asphalt will cost $66,000.

“Will it cost more if we wait and have the company come back next year,” Commissioner Jerry Daniels asked. Garner predicted cost would increase significantly, which led Daniels and Jim Talkington to vote to proceed. Commissioner Tom Williams was out of pocket.

Commissioners also approved a $1,250 grant to benefit this year’s Farm-City Days festival in downtown Iola.

The theft that wasn’t: A calf caper

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Alleged theft of a calf that prompted a Facebook post Friday by the Allen County Sheriff ’s Department “could have been handled much easier and didn’t need to turn into a fiasco,” Cindy Jaroe told the Register Tuesday.

First-day smiles A cheerful Breighlynn Rutherford, pictured with her mom Alisha, begins her first day of first grade at Jefferson Elementary School in Iola today. REGISTER/CHRISTIAN GIN

Trump lashes out at CEOs WASHINGTON (AP) — President D o n a l d Trump on Tuesday ripped into business leaders who resigned from his Pres. Trump White House jobs panel — the latest sign that corporate America’s romance with Trump is faltering — after his equivocal response to violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“They’re not taking their

job seriously as it pertains to this country,” the president said at an impromptu news conference at Trump Tower in New York City.

After his remarks, a fifth member of his manufacturing panel resigned: AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, who said in a statement, “We cannot sit on a council for a president who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism.”

The president denied that his original statement about the violence in Virginia on Saturday — saying “many” See TRUMP | Page A3

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The incident occurred Friday when Cindy and Craig Jaroe’s children, including Cooper, 15, were dispatched to Piqua Co-op to pick up livestock feed. In the back of the truck a tarp had

been thrown over barrels that were to transport the feed because of threatening weather.

When about two miles from home northeast of Humboldt, the tarp came loose and Cooper stopped to secure it.

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Teacher ‘recharges’ at Colorado conference

By CHRISTIAN GIN The Iola Register

A Moran teacher recently went on a trip that opened the door for new opportunities. Steven Smith, a science teacher of Marmaton Valley High School, attended a week-long special training event known as the REcharge Academy at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. last July.

“We had the opportunity to hear lectures from some of the leading experts in renewable energy,” Smith said about his experience.

“We also had opportunities to visit some of the Vistas Marmaton Valley High School science teacher Steven Smith plants, which is a wind turbine building plant where seminar, which featured not was sponsored by REcharge they build the turbines.” only teachers, but profes- Academy and KidWind.

Smith was one of several sors, entrepreneurs and othOne of the speakers who others on a scholarship to ers involved with this field stood out to Smith was the participate in this training of science. This conference See SMITH | Page A3

“I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.”

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Keck outlines Osawatomie privatization

By JIM MCLEAN KCUR

One way or another, Tim Keck wants to replace the state’s aging Osawatomie State Hospital with a new mental health treatment facility.

Though he is meeting with some resistance, the secretary of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services is pushing lawmakers to consider privatizing the state-run psychiatric hospital, which in recent years has been beset by operational problems.

On Tuesday Keck outlined a privatization plan submitted by a Tennessee-based company to stakeholders and legislators during a 1 p.m. meeting at the hospital’s administration building.

It will be the first of several “community presentations” Keck is planning with stakeholders in communities in the hospital’s catchment area, which encompasses more than 40 counties.

Keck told members of the Legislative Budget Committee earlier this month that he wants to have “a plan to build a new facility” ready for lawmakers to consider when the 2018 session convenes in January.

“I think this is going to be a big year to have a lot of questions answered surrounding Osawatomie and rebuilding it,” he said.

Privatization remains controversial, however. Correct Care Solutions, the only company that bid on the Osawatomie State

Hospital project, has a history of safety problems at the state psychiatric facilities it runs in Florida.

Lawmakers opposed to privatizing Osawatomie State Hospital added a provision to the agency’s budget that requires it to also solicit proposals for a new state-funded facility.

Certification still an issue Operational issues that compromised the safety of patients and staff prompted federal officials to decertify Osawatomie State Hospital in December 2015, an order that has since cost the state approximately $1 million a month in federal Medicare funding.

Despite costly renovations and efforts to address staffing and operational deficiencies, federal officials refused to recertify the hospital after their most recent inspection in May, citing new concerns about sanitation, food preparation and infection control.

The agency has corrected those problems and the hospital is ready for another inspection, Keck told members of the budget committee.

“We’re expecting them back any day,” he said. “We feel like we’re ready to go.”

Several members of the committee expressed frustration that recertification is taking so long.

“I had hoped we’d be further along in this process,” said Sen. Carolyn McGinn, a Sedgwick Republican who chairs the Senate Ways and Means Committee.

SpaceX ships supplies

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

Newly installed officers for Kappa Alpha are, from left, Barbara Anderson, Lori Ensminger, Susan Locke, Jollene Boeken, Patty Latta, Roberta Ellis and Janet Wilson. Submitted photo

New officers for Kappa Alpha New officers were installed at the Aug. 6 meeting of Kappa Alpha. Sixteen members attended.

Jolene Boeken reported the sorority will have a “brat” booth at the Oct. 14 Farm-City Days, where members will sell their delicious bratwurst burgers.

The next get-together

is an Aug. 21 social evening hosted by Barbara Anderson, Jolene Boeken and Mary LaCrone at Riverside Park. Requisite items are nail polish or paint and the desire to have fun.

Susan Locke and Janet Wilson will host the Sept. 5 business meeting.

— Jeanna Church

IARC meets

Military helicopter falls

Nine members attended the Aug. 10 meeting of the Iola Amateur Radio Club.

Jeremy Utley reported on several storm drills that better acquainted members with how to report threatening weather.

An hamfest is Sept.

16 in Joplin.

The next IARC meeting is Sept. 14 at Iola City Hall.

Today in history On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 42.

In 1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York at age 53.

In 1954, Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc. Thought for Today: “In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.” — Cyril Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author (1909-1993).

Prairie Rose members show projects The Prairie Rose 4-H Club met on Sunday at the Moran City Park.

Eighteen members, one Cloverbud and one guest were present.

It was a busy night for project talks and demonstrations. Natalea Elmenhorst-Heins described how she made her quilted craft entry for the Allen County Fair.

Dierks Kegler talked about Killdeers.

Cooper Scharff demonstrated how to show his Japanese silky bantam.

Raven Kegler described the parts of a beef calf.

Kyron Kegler discussed different varieties of hay and Payton Scharff talked about her Barn Star entry at the Allen County Fair. Jarrett and Jase Herrmann gave an interesting history

about the beginning of 4-H. Emily Smart reported on her experience at Citizenship Washington, D.C. Angela Heim presented the Grand Champion ribbons and award funds for the Allen County Fair Billboard and Banner entries.

Members signed thank you notes for supporters of the Royals trip. Kim Shomaker reviewed requirements

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Junior officers led the annual American flag retirement ceremony.

Nearly 100 retired flags were represented in the ceremony. Prairie Rose 4-H has flag retirement boxes located at Emprise Bank in Moran and Community National Bank in Humboldt.

Following the meeting, members enjoyed playing kickball. The last monthly meeting of the year will be held at the Moran Community Center on Sept. 24 at 5 p.m. Youth ages 7 to 18 and their parents are welcome to attend the meeting as guests to learn about the benefits of joining 4-H. — Payton Scharff, reporter

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HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard and military crews are searching the ocean off Hawaii for five crewmembers of an Army helicopter that reportedly went down during a training exercise, authorities said today.

Officials at Wheeler Army Airfield near Honolulu reported losing communications around 10 p.m. Tuesday with the crew of a UH-60 Black Hawk, the Coast Guard said in a news release.

Responding teams reported spotting a debris field about 2 miles west of Kaena Point, Oahu, shortly before 11:30 p.m., the release said.

An airplane, two helicopters and several boats are being used in the search across an area with light winds and 2-foot seas.

Two Black Hawk crews were conducting training between Kaena Point and Oahu’s Dillingham Airfield at the time communications were lost, officials said.

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Twelve year old Bailee Griffeth wants to apologize to Landon M for the lie she told about him that has spread to many of his friends. Bailee knows things that are said can never be unsaid.

Sorry Landon.

A good name is better than precious ointment.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX shipment arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, delivering a bonanza of science experiments.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule pulled up following a two-day flight from Cape Canaveral.

NASA astronaut Jack Fischer used the space station’s hefty robot arm to grab the Dragon 250 miles above the Pacific, near New Zealand.

The Dragon holds 3 tons of cargo, mostly research. The extralarge science load includes a cosmic ray monitor, a mini satellite with cheap, off-theshelf scopes for potential military viewing, and 20 mice for an eye and brain study.

Lucky for the station’s six-person crew, a big variety of ice cream is also stashed away in freezers, including

birthday cake flavor. It just so happens astronaut Randolph Bresnik turns 50 next month.

“Congratulations on a job well done,” Mission Control radioed from Houston. “You guys have just won yourselves some fresh food.”

Fischer said he was honored to catch the 12th Dragon contracted by NASA, the last one under the original agreement with more on the way under new deals. It’s a testament to the commercial space effort, which “has become a pillar of support” to NASA, he said.

SpaceX is one of NASA’s two prime shippers for station supplies. Orbital ATK is the other; its next delivery is in November from Wallops Island, Virginia.

The two companies have taken over the cargo hauls formerly handled by NASA’s now retired space shuttles.

Police reports Arrests reported Iola police arrested Anthony Larios, 25, Iola, for possession of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and an Allen County district warrant. Officers conducted a traf-

fic stop at the 500 block of N. Sycamore St. on Thursday.

Iola Police arrested Christopher Hibbs, 31, of Humboldt, for driving while suspended on Tuesday at the 500 block of N. State St.

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Financial Focus Can You Save Retirement?

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Few of us have unlimited financial resources — which means that almost all of us need to prioritize our financial goals. Consequently, you’ll have some decisions to make if you’d like to help pay for your children’s college educations someday while, at the same time, saving for your own retirement.

Your first step in addressing these objectives is to maintain realistic expectations. Consider the issue of paying for college. Right now, the average four-year cost (tuition, fees, room and board) is about $80,000 for in-state students at public universities and approximately $180,000 for private schools, according to the College Board. And these costs are likely to keep rising in the years ahead. Can you save this much for your kids’ education?

Instead of committing yourself to putting away this type of money, take a holistic approach to saving for your children’s higher education. After all, you probably won’t be the only one to help pay for college. Depending on your income and assets, your family might be eligible for some needs-based financial aid awarded by the college. Also, you should encourage your children to apply for as many scholarships as possible — but keep in mind that most scholarships don’t provide a “full ride.” Here’s the bottom line: Don’t assume you will receive so much aid that you don’t need to save for college at all, but don’t burden yourself with the expectation that you need to pick up the full tab for your children’s schooling.

On a practical level, you may want to commit to putting a certain amount per month into a college savings vehicle, such as a 529 plan. You can generally invest in the 529 plan offered by most states, but in some cases, you may be eligible for a state income tax incentive. Also, all withdrawals from 529 plans will be free from federal income taxes, as long as the money is used for a qualified college or graduate school expense of the beneficiary you’ve named.

(Withdrawals for expenses other than qualified education expenditures may be subject to federal and state taxes and a 10% penalty on the earnings.)

By starting your 529 plan early, when your children are young, you’ll give the investments within the plan more time to grow. Plus, you can make smaller contributions on a regular basis, rather than come up with big lump sums later on. And by following this approach, you may be in a better financial position for investing in your IRA and your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retirement plan. Obviously, it’s to your benefit to contribute as much as you can to these plans, which offer tax advantages and a wide range of investment options. If you’re investing in a 401(k) or similar employer-backed plan, try to boost your contributions every time your salary increases. At the very least, always put in enough to earn your employer’s matching contribution, if one is offered.

And once your children are through with college, you can discontinue saving in your 529 plan (although you may want to open another one in the future for your grandchildren) and devote more money to your retirement accounts.

It can certainly be challenging to save for education and retirement – but with discipline and perseverance, it can be done. So, give it the “old college try.”

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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Colony

Calendar

17-County bus to Iola, Mary A. phone 25 hours before Luedke you need a ride, 785448-4410 any weekday; 852-3379 21-Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club, Lone Elm Community Building, 7 p.m.; 23-Fire Dept. fire meeting, fire station, 7 19:11-21. Pastor Andrew p.m.

Zoll’s sermon was “BarSchool calendar 16-17-Enrollment of becue and the Beast.” existing students; 18-En- On Sunday there will rollment of students be a farewell lunch for new to district; 21-23- Larry and Cindy Martin Teacher Professional in the church basement.

Days; 24-Teacher Work (Meat will be provided; Day; 26-First Day of bring salad, chips or desserts.) Sept. 10 - Church School-Classes begin. potluck lunch at the City Meal site 16-Birthday meal — Hall Community Room; Chicken fried breast, Sept. 15-16-Women’s Remashed potatoes, gravy, treat at Hidden Haven, green beans, roll, cake, cost $30.

Cindy McGhee reice cream; 18-Mr. Rib, baked beans, cottage quests Best Choice Lacheese, bun, pineapple bels, Box Tops for Edumango; 21-chicken sal- cation, and used ink ad, tomato and rice soup, cartridges before the bun, peaches. Phone 620- end of September to 853-3457 for meal reser- send to Cookson Hills.

Cowboy Church

vations.

Christian Church

Scripture at Sunday’s service was Revelation

Pastor Jon Petty brought Sunday’s message of “Closer to the

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Lord daily.” He referenced Scripture from Mark 16: 15 and 16. Billy and Cindy Beckmon and Terri Louk presented music and song. Terry Broyles and husband will be welcomed back to church next Sunday from a two-week vacation.

UMC

Scripture presented at Sunday’s United Methodist Church service was Psalm 105: 1-6, 16-22, Genesis 32: 22-31, Romans 10: 5-15 and Matthew 14: 13-21. Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon “Down in the Deep, Dark Hole with the Creepy Crawlys.”

Fire Department

Caleb Stephens, Paul Stephens, Tim Detrich, Jerry Jones, Eric Seabolt and Kewade Seabolt, Colony firemen recently attended the Rescue Task Force training information meeting at the Garnett Elementary School.

20th Annual Colony Day

Sept. 1 and 2: Some of the fun scheduled plus a whole lot more that will soon be posted.

Colony Lions Club breakfast, City Hall community room, 6 to 9 a.m.; Fun Run/Walk; Lots of kids competitions; homemade pie contest registration, parade lineup, (at Crest School); parade judging (at Crest School); Parade led by Grand Marshal or Marshals (begins at Crest School to business area); Inflatable Games (business area), Pony Pull by Terry Ellis (north of T’s Total Image Beauty Shop), Pie Auction (business area); Cake Walk (business area); 2-Cookie Jar contest and judging; Cookie Jar Awards followed by Cookie Jar auction; Basket Auction (all in business area); Supper sponsored by GSSB Colony Branch, Grand prize drawing.

Recall

Does anyone recall a year when the maple trees did not seed? Or when no chiggers have been found (not as yet)?

Both of them have always been big pests for me. Who wants maple trees in their flower beds? And who wants chiggers that eat at you?

I’ve never known a year without either, let alone both. Enjoy while I can!

Lions Club

At the July 19 meeting it was reported that Dennis Goodman, Sabetha, was the monthly gun winner. A short meeting was held.

Around town

Doug Luedke, son of Twila and the late Wayne Luedke, Colony, is very ill. His address is: 323 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Anthony, KS 67003.

Sympathy is expressed to area relatives at the death of Catherine I. Feese, 66, Kincaid, the daughter of Howard and Marjorie Hetzel Jones.

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She passed away Aug. 2 at Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. Memorial services were August 8 in Iola.

Sympathy is also expressed to the parents and other area relatives and friends at the death of Melissa Hammer, 49.

She passed away at the home of her parents, Lavon and Lynn Cochran Hammer, rural Colony.

Funeral services were Aug. 9 in Iola. Burial followed at Highland Cemetery, Iola.

Word has been received of the death of Gary Raymond Couch, 86, at the Topeka Midland Hospice House. He was the son of the late Raymond and Velda Couch, rural Colony and graduated at Colony High School in 1949. He is survived by a daughter, Anita (Darren) Meyers, a son, Eddie (Janice) Faiola, two granddaughters, a great grandson and sister Donna Mae Wright.

Trump: CEOs decry president’s response to racism; pull support Continued from A1

cause they make their products outside” the United States, he said as he seemed to double down on his earlier comments.

Trump also assailed the CEOs who left on Twitter as “grandstanders” and said he had plenty of executives available to take their place. The president added that he believes economic growth in the U.S. will heal its racial divide.

But the parade of departing leaders from the informal panel seems closely linked to how the president responded to events that led to the death of a counter-protester that opposed the

white supremacists.

Among those who’ve left are the chief executives for Merck, Under Armour and Intel and the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

Alliance president Scott Paul, in a tweet, said simply, “I’m resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative because it’s the right thing for me to do.”

Within minutes of the tweet on Tuesday, calls to Paul’s phone were being sent to voicemail.

Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon joined the chorus, saying in a note Monday to employees, “(We) too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by

unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists.”

But McMillon, whose business has customers on all sides of the political spectrum, plans to stay on a separate Trump advisory panel and said that the president’s follow-up remarks on Monday that named white supremacists were a step in the right direction.

Corporate leaders have been willing to work with Trump on taxes, trade and reducing regulations, but they’ve increasingly found themselves grappling with cultural and social tensions amid his lightning rod-style of leadership. The CEOs who left the council quickly

faced his wrath, while those who have stayed have said it’s important to speak with the president on economic issues.

Like several other corporate leaders, Alex Gorsky, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, said that intolerance and racism have no place in U.S. society but that he intended to stay on the manufacturing council.

“We must engage if we hope to change the world and those who lead it,” he said in a statement.

A White House official downplayed the importance of the manufacturing council and a separate policy and strategy forum featuring corporate leaders. The official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations, said the panels were informal rather than a set body of advisers. The departures, the official said, were unlikely to hurt the administration’s plans to overhaul taxes and regulations.

Many corporate leaders have faced a lose-lose scenario in which any choice involving politics can alienate customers, not to mention a U.S. president who has shown a willingness to personally negotiate government contracts.

Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier, one of only four African-Americans

leading a Fortune 500 company, was the first to tender his resignation Monday.

Trump criticized Frazier almost immediately Monday over drug prices, and again Tuesday for having factories overseas. Merck has 25,000 U.S. employees in all 50 states and has invested $50 billion in research and development since 2010, primarily in the United States.

Then came resignations from Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank and then Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. On Under Armour’s Facebook page Tuesday, customers who supported Trump threatened to boycott the athletic clothier.

Austan Goolsbee, the former chief economist for President Barack Obama, said the departures suggest the president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville could alienate those who work for the companies, and those who buy the products and services that they sell.

“It’s certainly a sign that Trump’s more controversial stuff isn’t playing well with companies selling to middle America,” said Goolsbee, now a professor at the University of Chicago.

There had already been departures from two major councils cre-

ated by the Trump administration that were tied to its policies.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk resigned from the manufacturing council in June, and two other advisory groups to the president, after the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement. Walt Disney Co. Chairman and CEO Bob Iger resigned for the same reason from the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum.

The manufacturing jobs council had 28 members initially, but it has shrunk since it was formed earlier this year as executives retire, are replaced, or, as with Frazier, Musk, Plank, Paul and Krzanich, resign.

So far, the majority of CEOs and business leaders that are sitting on the two major, federal panels, are condemning racism, but say they want to keep their seats at the table.

“Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is unwavering, and we will remain active champions for these efforts,” said a spokesman for Campbell Soup for CEO Denise Morrison. “We believe it continues to be important for Campbell to have a voice and provide input on matters that will affect our industry, our company and our employees in support of growth.”

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Senior Engineer Otto Vangeet. According to Smith, Vangeet spoke about solar off-grid living and its possible impact in the future.

“He made a comment about how most schools in the U.S. could become energy neutral,” Smith said. “A lot of schools across the nation could become zero energy or energy neutral by utilizing solar as their energy source.”

Smith saw several scientists in action while visiting NREL’s testing facility. He found it interesting when he was given a presentation of

ideas that were not released to the public yet.

The largest focus from REcharge Academy was the operation of wind turbines and how they function. He saw extra details that turbines provide behind the scenes.

“The amount of information, especially when it came to wind turbines, you’d learn a little bit about how it all works and how it ties to the U.S. grid system that we have,” Smith said. “We learned about how much it costs and it’s eye-opening right there. It’s expensive, but it can also pay off in the long run.”

Attendees of the REcharge Academy participated in several labs from being offshore or

near a wind turbine as a simulation. Smith said he also learned about how solar application works and knows how to install it.

Smith teaches chemistry, physics, earth, space anatomy and life science at MVHS and said he plans to use some things learned from the academy. In particular, he has multiple ideas for lab activities in the classroom.

“Its goal was to bring awareness not only to me as a teacher, but also how I can teach it to my kids,” Smith said. “I felt like I got a lot out of that.

From understanding on how we have to work with grids and renewable energy and how it has to be accounted for.”

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Rural: Grocery stores searching out new ways to stay afloat Continued from A1

the grocery store — more than an inconvenience to the elderly, the poor and those who don’t drive — speeds the plummet of home values and any other lingering retail activity.

Kansas is a prime example of what’s happening elsewhere. From 2006 to 2010, according to a report on “The Rural Grocery Crisis,” a fifth of the state’s rural groceries shut down. The Center for Engagement and Community Development at Kansas State University recorded the loss of 43 of the 213 rural groceries since it started tracking them in 2007.

In Iowa, any town with less than 1,000 people is more likely than not to have lost its only grocery store since the mid-1990s.

Two out of every five Kansas counties include a food desert, an area at least 10 miles from the nearest grocery.

Even the prospect that the local grocery might shutter is enough to make the most vulnerable worry about putting together a week of meals.

Owners Shirlene and David Mahurin would like to ease into semiretirement in the next few years. She’s 61, and he’s 68. They’ve had the place on the market on and off for about five years. Although there’s been some interest, nobody with the wherewithal has emerged.

Banks are more than skeptical about financing grocery stores in small towns.

It’s a small-margin business, typically between 2 and 3 percent of sales. The trick is volume. That’s great in a suburban neighborhood that can draw the business of thousands, or tens of thousands, of households.

In a place like little Moran, not so much. So when the Mahurins negotiate deals with the distributors that supply their inventory, they are

on health and economic development issues is searching for grants and low-interest loans to drum up purchase money. The Mahurins have listed the store for $148,000.

Organizers have recruited a few dozen people to buy $100 memberships to the co-op.

Anybody would still be able to shop at the store, but the hope is that people who’ve invested in the next iteration of Stub’s would be more committed to the store and its role in keeping Moran alive.

Larry Manes is part of the drive, and he’s also looking for other “angel investors” to follow his lead in putting up loans of $10,000 each. That money would be less a promising financial investment, he said, than something bordering on the philanthropic.

We don’t draw a paycheck out of the grocery store. If we did, we’d probably fail. ...

But this thing is important to the people in the area.

— Loren Lance, co-owner of the Mildred Store

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In Moran, Kan., a town of about 500 in the southeast part of the state, 67-year-old Jessie Bables need only walk across the street from her rentsubsidized apartment to get eggs, milk, toilet paper and the special of the week at Stub’s Market.

But a for-sale sign outside the store, and all that represents, has her worried. The next closest grocery is 13 miles away. That means Bables must time her trips to Iola around the bus that comes every other Friday or pay somebody to drive her to the store and back.

“I have to pinch my pennies,” she said. “I can’t afford to pay somebody to drive, because that’s money I wouldn’t have for groceries.”

Stub’s isn’t planning to close. Yet.

at a distinct disadvantage.

“The less you have delivered, the more it costs,” said Shirlene Mahurin, who includes butchering among her chores at Stub’s. “It makes it really hard to keep things going.”

At some point, still a few years off, she said, the couple will walk away from the store. But they hope to sell it — both to recoup the money and sweat equity they poured into the business, and so people like Bables won’t be stranded without a grocery.

So a fledgling effort is underway to make the grocery store a cooperative, likely the first to emerge in Kansas since the 1970s. A nonprofit group, Thrive Allen County, that works

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Meanwhile, a neighbor mistook the exercise for the Jaroe kids stealing one of his calves. The neighbor followed the truck a ways and called 911 to report theft of his calf, which was later found hale and hearty in a pasture. To the neighbor’s credit, calf tracks were found in muddy places along the road.

A sheriff ’s deputy was notified and immediately typed a Facebook post, saying a calf had been stolen and giving a description of the truck. After checking the license plate number, Craig Jaroe was contacted. Jaroe reported where Cooper and truck were, and called Cooper to tell him to stop by the sheriff ’s office in Iola.

After Cooper talked to officers the incident was made known to be a misunderstanding. The neighbor, Rocky Porter, later apologized to the Jaroes. A post on the sheriff ’s Facebook page also announced the mistake.

The Jaroes, who made their displeasure known to Allen County commissioners Tuesday, are not fully satisfied.

“I’m so frustrated it got out there (on Facebook) and then on social media,” Cindy said. “The post said

a calf had been stolen, not that a theft was suspected.

There was no reason to put anything on Facebook when they knew where we lived (in relation to the alleged incident) and who owned the pickup. I think their (sheriff ’s office) program should be evaluated. They could have used other investigative tools” that didn’t lead to embarrassment for the Jaroes.

“People take things like this seriously, and you never know what might have happened if someone had seen our pickup,” and thought the Jaroe children were thieves.

“We try to make sure our children use social media correctly. Everyone needs to be responsible.”

As soon as it was determined the original post was in error, an apology was placed on the sheriff ’s Facebook page, which didn’t mollify the Jaroes, although they understand distress arising from the original post has much more impact on them, as parents, than anyone else.

Their fervent wish is officers are more careful and consider circumstances before leaping to social media with accusations such as those leveled against their children, no matter how many apologies come afterward.

“It’s about preserving the community,” he said.

“If that store goes, in 10 years we’ll have a population of 100” — a loss of 80 percent of the people living in Moran.

The co-op effort reflects how small-town groceries increasingly can’t expect to stay open merely on market economics, said Ben Alexander, the deputy director of Thrive Allen County.

“The reality is that any project like this is going to need some help,” he said.

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

About 13 miles west on U.S. 54, a G&W Foods store is under construction on the site of a former hospital. It’s being built with help from the county government to provide a standalone grocery store as an alternative to the Walmart that opened on the outskirts of Iola

in 2007 — and ultimately sped the folding of other groceries in town.

Those efforts to prop up remote grocery stores can mean the difference between a small town

promotes rural culture.

“People have to either accept the lack of one, which can be really hard, or they move.”

Increasingly, city councils and county

about 40 feet from the store. If people need something at night, they just knock on my door, and they know it doesn’t bother me. These are my friends and neighbors.”

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It’s about preserving the community.

If that store goes, in 10 years we’ll have a population of 100.

— Larry Manes, on the importance of maintaining a grocery store in Moran

thriving or withering, said David Procter, the director of the Center for Engagement and Community Development at K-State.

“If there’s no grocery store, then the property value goes down. Then the schools struggle because businesses struggle, and you can’t keep commerce in town,” he said. “The grocery store is a barometer, and it’s an attractor of citizens.

If you don’t have one, things go downhill.”

Already, he said, rural areas have higher obesity rates — along with the medical problems that follow — than urban areas. Lose the grocery, and Procter said folks will turn to gas station convenience stores and similar merchants.

Not only are the prices higher, but a selection of oranges and bananas gets replaced by Fruit Roll-Ups and Bomb Pops.

Pass through Greeley, Kan. — fewer than 300 people left — and folks in the bank aren’t sure if the grocery closed in the late 1970s or early ’80s. It’s about a 15-minute drive each way to Garnett for groceries. In Blue Mound, Bradley’s closed more recently, leaving folks there with a similar trip to stock the kitchen.

In traveling to every town in Kansas, first in the early 2000s and again in the first part of this decade, Marci Penner noted the disappearance of small grocery stores and the void they left.

“If your town wants to sustain itself, access to groceries is key,” said Penner, the director of the Kansas Sampler Foundation that

boards step in with various forms of help — providing tax abatements or low-interest loans, or setting up nonprofit operations.

In northeast Kansas, Muscotah, population 125, had only a bait shop and a post office when C.J. Hanson started selling a few grocery items and crafts out of a home.

The town saw a possibility, and she got $55,000 in “flat-out” donations that, with the help of some loans, allowed her to build a small metal building.

Now she’s selling groceries and serving lunches and dinners.

“I’m not here to make a million,” she said. “I just want a place for people to gather where they can get some food.”

Meanwhile, a few operators fill in the gaps on their own. In Courtland, Kan., the grocery store closed a decade ago, and people in the town of about 270 were looking at driving about 15 minutes just for a gallon milk.

That gave birth to The Cantina and Jensen Tire and Service. Gary Jensen got a Small Business Administration loan for a walk-in cooler and a few other necessities and began selling groceries. These days, he works from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. six days a week.

He delivers groceries to some of his older customers.

His prices are higher than what people might find elsewhere, if they were elsewhere. But customers don’t gripe.

“Several times, every day, people say, ‘Thank you for being here,’ ” Jensen said. “I live

Tiny Mildred, Kan., has just 27 residents. It also has a thriving grocery store, supported by people living in farmhouses that surround it.

The Mildred Store had been open for about 100 years. Then it was closed for about two months before Loren and Regena Lance cranked things up three years ago.

The store maintains the feel of an old-time grocery, with everything short of a pickle barrel.

It’s known around Allen and Anderson counties and beyond for its deli counter, and Loren Lance anchors country music sessions that draw 170 people into a side room every third Saturday night of the month.

“We don’t draw a paycheck out of the grocery store. If we did, we’d probably fail,” Loren Lance said. “We get our pop from Walmart when it’s on sale. … We charge a little more. … But this thing is important to the people in the area.”

Those who run the surviving stores talk about the many difficulties of buying at small scale. They’re forced to charge higher prices and then see customers load up on supplies on trips to larger towns, looking local only when they find themselves short of a staple here and there.

Procter, who tracks the issue at K-State, said the temptation for outof-town bargains is inescapable. But he thinks the local buy can still be smarter.

“So you save a few pennies on that gallon of milk, but then when the store closes, you lose thousands on the value of your house,” he said.

Still, he sees local governments as increasingly important to keeping their groceries going.

“Public dollars are going to be part of it,” he said. “It’s just getting too hard in some places to do it any other way.”

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Ultra-conservatives refuse to admit Kansas needed saving Sam Williams, the former mayoral candidate from Wichita who now heads the state’s Department of Revenue, has sent out a column of old worn half-truths and falsehoods that malign the Kansas Legislature for snatching the state back from the abyss of bankruptcy. Other officials also have begun spreading falsehoods, pretense ginned up by the bedraggled refugees trudging along Sam Brownback’s pitted path to prosperity, one that has gone to weed.

Williams begins by discussing a “$1.2 billion tax increase” approved in June by the Legislature as though it were a virus, ebola taxation destined to infect the bank accounts and business ledgers of all Kansans. His column takes a fatherly, advisory tone with warnings

to make sure the infection is stilled; he warns of new tax withholding tables for employers, of retroactive levies. “Additionally, I recommend talking to your tax preparer to ensure the additional money withheld is sufficient to address the increased amount you owe under the Legislature’s new law.”

It’s as though the new law were nuclear, and citizens should prepare to duck and cover.

In fact, the legislation is less a tax increase than a tax recovery. It reinstates a three-bracket income tax and restarts a flow of reasonable funding for local schools. It was an historic accomplishment, one that pulls Kansas from a fall into bankruptcy, the shuttering of its educational system

and the starvation of social services. In the nick of time, we were spared more of the governor’s ruinous “Glide Path to Zero” income taxes for the wealthy, for favored farms and businesses.

The recovery reverses the catastrophic tax cuts five years ago that bled the treasury dry, left the state with a billion-dollar operating deficit and an emaciated highway fund. Meanwhile the state suffered three credit downgrades; a state hospital lost $1 million every month in federal aid because it was not funded adequately; local schools were wretchedly under-financed with a funding formula left vacant. Colleges and universities were starved, left with outlandish tuition increases; teachers, administrators and professors fled the state for ones

that welcomed and valued educators, not demeaned them. Local hospitals and clinics were shuttered or on life support for lack of funding. The list went on, all of it due to those tax cuts. Not even the diversion of a massive sales tax increase (2015) could stem the red ink.

Williams mentions the state’s life-saving tax recovery as though it were venom, the “largest tax increase in history,” one that “funds more than $200 million in new spending ...” (It’s old spending, restarted.)

Williams’ anti-tax screed, foamed up in the guise of friendly advice from the revenue secretary, is a festering disservice to the citizenry.

The Legislature did nothing more than restart the revenue stream that had been shut off a half-decade ago.

This will barely cover the largest tax cuts in history, the ones that have left this state withered and gasping. We’re only returning to five years ago, and we have already lost a decade of competitive edge across the public and private sector.

People don’t want to come to a place that’s let itself go, that has missing teeth, a vacant smile, a place gone to seed. We were nearly there.

And we’ve a long route yet to recovery.

It may sound good to rail on about the evils of taxing and spending, or spread those savage superstitions that enliven campaign folders. But Kansas has learned first-hand that it’s one thing to vote for a place with no taxes, and quite another to live in one.

— The Salina Journal

Legislature should call special session

Deep ties to cause strangle objectivity Shortly after taking office, President Trump signed an executive order creating task forces in every agency to eliminate “burdensome” regulations.

“Every regulation should have to pass a simple test,” he said. “Does it make life better or safer for American workers or consumers?”

Keep that standard in mind as you consider his gutting of federal protections for our clean drinking water, attempt to eliminate the agency charged with preventing chemical accidents, and now, killing of a “burdensome” rule that truckers and train drivers be tested for a dangerous sleep disorder.

Sleep apnea can cause spontaneous nodding-off, even at the wheel. The symptoms are similar to narcolepsy.

In light of horrific accidents like the one in Hoboken last year — in which a train slammed into the end of a track barrier too fast, killing a woman and injuring dozens more, and its engineer was later found to have this undiagnosed disorder — the Obama administration thought it would be a good idea to test

drivers of large machinery for it.

After all, it wasn’t the first such tragedy. The man at the controls of a commuter train in New York that crashed at high speed in 2013, killing four, was also later diagnosed with sleep apnea. In fact, sleep apnea was the probable cause of 10 highway and rail accidents the National Transportation Safety Board investigated over the past 17 years, and is an issue in a number of ongoing investigations.

The New York City suburbs, which now does testing, found that 11.6 percent of its engineers have sleep apnea.

Federal regulators were approaching the final stages of imposing mandatory testing.

But now the Trump administration has killed that effort.

Testing will remain optional.

So rest easy, commuters.

Trump is also backing off another federal effort to require speed limiters in the trucking industry. Why? Because he says regulations are bad for business and hiring. But think about his alternative: To save the hassle of screening drivers for sleep apnea or limiting the ability

of truckers to speed, we are all going to pay the vastly larger price — in lives and twisted metal — of the ensuing accidents.

Perhaps it’s no surprise that many of the members of Trump’s task forces dismantling these regulations have deep ties to industry. Others, his administration refuses to even name. Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the White House on Monday, demanding that it release the names of its rule-busters and their potential conflicts of interest.

So far, 85 are known, including 34 with potential conflicts, according to an investigation by the New York Times and ProPublica. At least two may profit if certain regulations are dismantled, and at least four were registered to lobby the agencies they now work for.

Yet we’re supposed to trust that they have our best interests at heart — that Trump, and not consumer and health advocacy groups pushing for these government regulations, is making our lives “better” and “safer.”

— The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.

Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle has rejected a call for a special legislative session to address the growing safety problems in the state’s prisons.

Wagle said she had recently toured the El Dorado Correctional Facility, where guards and inmates have suffered through a summer of unrest.

“I witnessed, firsthand, the struggles at the prison,” she said, “and firmly believe the Department of Corrections and the state can move forward to address these concerns without a special session.”

We disagree. A special legislative session could bring an immediate and necessary focus to the ongoing challenges in all of the state’s prisons.

There would be much to discuss.

Staff shortages continue to plague the El Dorado prison, as well as the facility in Lansing. Guards in El Dorado have worked extra shifts this year, an unfair imposition on them and a threat to safety.

More than 100 correctional officer positions remain unfilled in Lansing, a 15 percent staffing shortfall.

Wagle and other lawmakers have called on Gov. Sam Brownback to immediately raise salaries, which start at around $30,000 annually. He should do that, but it won’t be enough.

Kansas, like other states, will have to figure out how to recruit guards, train them and keep them on the job.

Higher salaries are just one part of the equation. A safe work environment and opportunities for advancement must be offered to employees as well.

The state must also review its prison operations.

During her visit, Wagle was told some of the disruption in El Dorado was a result of

transfers to the facility, double-bunking and newly transferred inmates acting out because family members can no longer visit as frequently.

Meanwhile, a representative of a state employees’ organization recently compared Lansing with a powder keg, “ready to explode.”

In all of this, Brownback has shown a disturbing lack of urgency — a strange response because the governor has in the past demonstrated serious concern for the wellbring of those on the wrong side of the law. He has visited prisons and talked with inmates.

A special session would demonstrate a recognition that Kansas prisons are reaching a crisis point. Lawmakers could work quickly to increase compensation for guards, then consider additional measures to attract new employees. They may also wish to review operations of the state’s penitentiaries.

An email inadvertently forwarded to The Star suggested political considerations may be playing a role in the reticence to call a special session. That would be disappointing. Kansas cannot wait for a major incident before it takes action.

And a special session is needed to address a specific and urgent issue such as this — unlike Missouri’s wholly unnecessary special legislative session to consider abortion legislation.

Lawmakers need not wait for the governor to act. The state’s statutes allow the Legislature to call itself into a special session with the agreement of two-thirds of its members.

Legislators should draft and sign such a petition. A short special session to address prison unrest is overdue.

— Kansas City Star

It’s a war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump’s recent invocation of “fire and fury” in response to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program had a familiar ring to it. It’s the kind of dramatic rhetoric that North Korea regularly uses in its public statements.

Thanks in part to Twitter, the American president has also become somewhat infamous for his statements, though in a more casual, off-the-cuff manner than what appears to be North Korea’s carefully crafted script. Has North Korea

met its match? Stay tuned. It’s a war of words, and one which analysts fear might lead to actual conflict.

FIRE — NORTH KOREA — “Our preemptive nuclear attacks will bring the provocateurs nothing but tragic consequences: South Korea will be submerged in a sea of fire, Japan will be reduced to ashes and the U.S. will collapse.”

— TRUMP — “North Korea had best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”

NONSENSE — NORTH KOREA — “The U.S. president at a golf links again let out a load of nonsense about ‘fire and fury,’ failing to grasp the on-going grave situation. This is extremely getting on the nerves of the infuriated Hwasong artillerymen of the KPA (Korean People’s Army). ... Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him.”

— TRUMP — “North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life? Hard to believe that

South Korea ... and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!”

THREATS NORTH KOREA — “The provocative ‘preventive war’ the U.S. has devised and plans to execute will be countered with a just all-out war of wiping out all the strongholds of the enemies including the U.S. mainland.”

— TRUMP — “We are sending an armada. Very powerful. We have submarines. Very powerful, far more

powerful than the aircraft carrier, that I can tell you.”

NUKES — NORTH KOREA — “Should the U.S. dare to show even the slightest sign of attempt to remove our supreme leadership, we will strike a merciless blow at the heart of the U.S. with our powerful nuclear hammer, honed and hardened over time.”

— TRUMP — “North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the U.S. It won’t happen!”

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National Football League: Kansas City Chiefs

Chiefs relying on healthy vets, new bodies to stop the run

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Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones and outside linebacker Frank Zombo close the gap on New Orleans Saints running back Tim Hightower in the third quarter on Oct. 23, 2016 at Arrowhead Stadium. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Chris Jones was standing on the sideline, on the cusp of returning from arthroscopic knee surgery, and watched as Chiefs teammate Allen Bailey dominated the line against San Francisco.

“Oh beast! Did you see that?” the gregarious Jones said a few days later, when asked about Bailey’s performance from Friday night’s preseason opener. “Split

the double team, make the TFL. I went up to him and said: ‘Allen Bailey the Hulk is back! The Hulk is back in business, baby!’”

That’s good news for the Chiefs.

Kansas City struggled mightily to stop the run last season, never more so than in a playoff loss to the Steelers. LeVeon Bell’s darting, start-and-stopping style not only drove the Chiefs crazy to the tune of 170 yards rushing, it was a big reason their season ended in an 18-16 defeat.

Bailey was standing where

Jones was Friday night for that game, placed on injured reserve a couple months earlier with an injured shoulder. The 6-foot-2, 280-pound defensive lineman had become an integral part of their run-stopping defensive front, parlaying a breakout 2015 campaign into a $25 million, four-year contract that included $15 million guaranteed.

Yet the Chiefs’ inability to stop the run was much bigger than See CHIEFS | Page B6

Major League Baseball: A’s 10, Royals 8

With Chiefs on board, KC pushes to host NFL draft

By BLAIR KERKHOFF The Kansas City Star

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Kansas City officially wants the NFL draft.

The Chiefs, Kansas City Sports Commission and Visit KC have submitted an “expression of interest” in holding the event that occurs in April.

The bid years are 20192023.

“Any time we can bring a national event to Kansas City, that’s something we want to do,” said Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt. “Whether it’s a college football game at Arrowhead or the NFL draft, which has become one of the biggest properties on TV and a very coveted event for cities across the country.”

Kansas City’s bid includes three options for sites: Union Station, the World War I Museum and Kauffman Center would be combined for one option; Sprint Center and the Power & Light District for another; and the Truman Sports Complex as the third.

The NFL draft had been anchored in New York from 1965-2014 before moving to Chicago in 2015 and 2016.

Last year, the draft took place in Philadelphia, outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the steps where a seminal scene from the movie “Rocky” was filmed.

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Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Joakim Soria kicks the mound after giving up a two-run double in the eighth inning against the Oakland Athletics on Sept. 13, 2016, at Kauffman Stadium. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

NOT QUITE ON TRACK Soria squanders late-game lead breaking Royals win streak

By MICHAEL WAGAMAN The Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Matt Joyce hit a threerun double to cap a six-run eighth inning and the Oakland Athletics rallied past the Kansas City Royals 10-8 on Tuesday night.

Joyce also homered and had four RBIs. Khris Davis added his 33rd home run and

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Matt Olson hit his fourth in five days to help the A’s clinch at least a tie for the season series between the former division rivals.

The Royals hit three home runs in the top of the eighth, including Mike Moustakas’ 35th, to take a four-run lead before Oakland stormed back against relievers Joakim Soria and Mike Minor (5-5).

Blake Treinen (1-0) retired five batters for his first AL win.

Drew Butera, Eric Hosmer and Moustakas homered as part of the Royals’ five-run eighth. Hosmer also had a two-run double and drove in four.

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Report: Woods had marijuana, painkillers in system at arrest

By TERRY SPENCER The Associated Press

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Ryon Healy and Olson hit RBI singles off Soria. Matt Chapman and Chad Pinder struck out swinging, and pinch-hitter Rajai Davis was intentionally walked to load the bases before Joyce lined a 1-0 pitch from Minor off the left-field wall.

The loss prevented the Royals from moving past the Angels in the race for the second AL wild card.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods had the active ingredient for marijuana, two painkillers and two sleep drugs in his system when he was arrested on a DUI charge earlier this year, a report released Tuesday by police said.

Police in Jupiter, Florida, released the report less than a week after the golf superstar agreed to enter a diversion program to settle his driving

while intoxicated charges.

The report’s contents were first reported Monday by ESPN. The report, prepared by the Palm Beach County Sheriff ’s Office, says Woods, 41, had THC, the active ingredient for marijuana; as well as the painkillers Vicodin and Dilaudid; the anxiety and sleep drug Xanax; and the anti-insomnia drug Ambien in his system when he was arrested at 2 a.m. May 29 about 15 miles from his home in Jupiter. Officers had found him unconscious in his Mercedes-

Benz, which was parked awkwardly on the side of the road and had damage to the driver’s side. It’s not clear how he damaged the car. Officers checked the area but didn’t find that he had hit anything.

Woods issued a statement Tuesday saying he had been trying on his own to treat his insomnia and pain from his fourth back surgery, which he underwent in April. He did not specifically address the marijuana issue. None was found in his possession.

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the eighth before scoring three times off closer Santiago Casilla.

Butera homered after Alex Gordon’s five-pitch leadoff walk. It was Butera’s third home run, one shy of his ca-

reer high set in 2016.

After Lorenzo Cain walked to chase Casilla, Hosmer and Moustakas hit back-to-back homers. It was Moustakas’ 35th home run, one shy of Steve Balboni’s franchise record set in 1985.

All three A’s home runs came off starter Jason Hammel. The right-hander, who spent half a season with Oakland in 2014, allowed four runs and eight hits in six innings.

He struck out six and

walked one.

TRAINER’S ROOM Royals catcher Salvador Perez (right intercostal strain) threw to second base from behind the plate and played catch, though no timetable has been set

for his return. Perez did not swing a bat, a day after hitting off a tee.

UP NEXT LHP Danny Duffy (7-8, 3.68 ERA) tries to snap his two-game losing streak for the Royals, while RHP Paul

Blackburn (3-1, 3.02) makes his first career start against Kansas City in the series finale this afternoon. Duffy is 3-0 in six appearances against the A’s but hasn’t beaten them since 2012.

Tiger: Woods completed drug treatment Continued from B1

“I realize now it was a mistake to do this without medical assistance,” said Woods, who completed an outof-state drug treatment program last month. “I am continuing to work with my doctors, and they feel I’ve made significant progress.”

Woods is scheduled to plead guilty to reckless driving Oct. 25 and enter the county’s diversion program.

Under the plea deal, prosecutors would drop the DUI charge, which is a more severe charge than reckless driving. In the diversion program, Woods will spend a year on probation and pay a $250 fine and court costs.

He would also have to attend DUI school, perform 50 hours of community service and attend a workshop where victims of impaired drivers detail how their

lives were damaged.

Since the program began four years ago, almost 2,400 defendants have enrolled, according to the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office.

If Woods completes the program, he can ask a judge to expunge the reckless driving conviction.

His 79 PGA Tour victories and 14 major titles both rank No. 2 all-time. He has not

competed since February because of his back injury and is not expected to return this year. His last win was in August 2013.

Woods said his back is improving.

“I recently spoke to my surgeon and he’s very pleased with how my fusion is healing.

I’m right on schedule.

I’m now doing some light lifting, riding a stationary bike and putting a little,” he said.

College Football: Kansas Jayhawks

KU to honor Mangino during season opener LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas plans to honor former coach Mark Mangino, who was forced out amid allegations that he abused his players, and the rest of the 2007 team that won the Orange Bowl, during its season opener.

The school said Tuesday that the team will be inducted into its Hall of Fame, along with former players Aqib Talib and Anthony Collins, during the opener Sept.

2 against Southeast Missouri State.

Mangino led the longsuffering Jayhawks to a 12-1 record in 2007, a season capped by a victory over Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl. But things soon soured and Mangino was forced out in 2009, when allegations surfaced that he physically and verbally abused his players.

One of his assistants on the 2007 team, David Beaty, is now the Jayhawks’ head coach.

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estimated 100,000 fans, and the threeday total was about 250,000 according to the NFL with about half coming from outside Philadelphia.

There is no cost to attend the draft or surrounding events.

“We’re so glad the NFL made the decision to move the draft out of New York and rotate it,” Hunt said.

The NFL also has kicked around the idea of multiple locations for the draft.

The first round could be held in one city and the next two rounds at another.

“That really gives us a great opportunity, and some (options) we’re very focused on,” Hunt said. “It’s

something we’re very focused on and (something I am) personally going to push the commissioner (Roger Goodell) on to make happen in Kansas City.

“Hopefully in the next three, four or five years, we’ll get it.”

KC Sports Commission president Kathy Nelson attended the drafts in Chicago and Philadelphia and was convinced it would thrive in Kansas City.

“There’s an economic impact having a hundred thousand people come here, spend here,” Nelson said. “Plus, there’s the spotlight on Kansas City. You can’t buy that type of advertising.”

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one player. It was a yearlong issue that they hope they’ve rectified with a bunch of maneuvers in the offseason.

Bailey’s return to health was a good start.

Then, the Chiefs let massive defensive tackle Dontari Poe sign elsewhere in free agency,

giving them precious salary cap space to spend elsewhere.

Some of it went to Bennie Logan, who signed an $8 million deal for this season.

Some of it went to Roy Miller, who arrived early in training camp to provide some depth. And some of it

went to paying out the rookie contract of second-round pick Tanoh Kpassagnon, a raw but athletic 6-7, 290-pound pass rusher whom the Chiefs plucked out of lower-level Villanova.

Logan in particular has been a crucial signing, bringing a veteran presence to the defensive line. “He’s a pro. He’s h i g h l y competitive.

I t h i n k he’s real physical,�

Chiefs defensive coordinator Bob Sutton said. “He plays with that grit that you need

to have to play defense with.�

It’s not just the newcomers that are going to be counted on, though.

Bailey is back from his shoulder injury, and Jones wasn’t the only one who noticed him making plays against the 49ers. Also back is Rakeem Nunez-Roches, a former sixth-round draft pick who was pressed into service when Bailey got hurt and wound up starting five games.

Nacho, as his teammates call him, was singled out by coach Andy Reid for his performance against the 49ers. He made nearly as many plays as Bailey, even if they weren’t as flashy, and overcame a penalty on one of the special teams units to remain in Reid’s good

graces. “He’s somebody I wanted to keep an eye on,� Reid said. “He’s put on some weight, which you see with guys going in — when they’re in the league for a couple years, they figure out what their prime weight is. He put on some real good weight and he’s had a good camp, and it carried over to the game.�

Nunez-Roches said he gained about 30 pounds, mostly in muscle, and is playing at 310 pounds. “There was a lot of things I could do off the ball being lighter.

I was always fast and agile and explosive, but anytime I was hit in my hip, I would go flying,� he said. “So I was like, ‘If I just add a little more in the lower half, I will be OK.’ Off-

season, I emphasized in that area and gained a good amount of weight.

I started to run with it, condition with it and see how I could move with it.�

So far, the results have been good.

That goes for the Chiefs’ ability to plug up the run, too. They stuffed the 49ers’ Carlos Hyde on his two carries when the starters were in the game, a good sign they’re headed in the right direction.

NOTES: CB JR Nelson missed practice Tuesday with a heel injury. ... LB Derrick Johnson was back at practice after getting a planned day off Monday. Johnson played in the preseason opener after rupturing his Achilles tendon last December.

United Bid Committee commences outreach for potential host cities in bid for 2026 FIFA World Cup SPORTING KC COMMUNICATIONS

CHICAGO — The United Bid Committee of the United States, Mexico and Canada officially started its outreach for cities to declare their interest to serve as Official Host Cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup™ by sending Requests for Information (RFIs) to 44 cities across the three nations.

The RFI asks each city to declare its interest to take part in the bid process by Sept. 5.

A total of 49 stadiums located in or around those 44 candidate cities will be considered for inclusion in the official bid that will be sent to FIFA by March 16, 2018.

After cities declare their interest, the United Bid Committee will review the submissions and intends to issue a shortlist of cities by late September. The Bid Committee will then provide more detailed bid documentation to the cities and conduct meetings to discuss any questions as candidate cities prepare their final bid, due early January.

The Bid Committee plans to include 20-25 venues in its final bid to FIFA. If selected to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup™, subject to FIFA’s determination, it is anticipated that at least 12 locations could ultimately serve as Official Host Cities. If a city is not selected to host matches, there may be other opportunities to be involved in the 2026 FIFA World Cup™.

Those cities, as well as other cities not on the initial list, could be selected as the location for the International Broadcast Center, host Team Base Camps or host major events such

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The 2026 World Cup will be the first tournament with the expanded 48-team format and will require world-class facilities and infrastructure. The United States, Mexico and Canada are uniquely suited to accommodate FIFA’s highlevel standards for hosting a FIFA World Cup™. “The host cities included in our bid will be critical to its success — not only because of their facilities and ability to stage major events, but because they are committed to further developing the sport of soccer by harnessing the impact of hosting a FIFA World Cup — and looking beyond the game itself to make a positive contribution to our communities and the world,â€? said United Bid Committee Executive Director John Kristick. “We have had a great response so far and we’re looking forward to working closely with each city and determining the best venues for our official bid that we’ll submit next year.â€?

The 49 stadiums represent a wide spectrum of facilities, including stadiums for soccer and football as well as domed and retractable roof stadiums. All stadiums are required to have at least 40,000 seats for group stage matches, and a capacity of at least 80,000 to be considered for the opening match and the

final.

Municipal leaders in each city have been asked to provide information about each city’s transportation infrastructure, past experience hosting major sporting and cultural events, available accommodations, environmental protection initiatives, potential venues and more.

In addition to a stadium capable of hosting international soccer, each city has to propose top international-level training sites and locations for team base camps, and hotels for teams, staff and VIP’s.

The bid committee will also evaluate cities on their commitment to sustainable event management, aspirations to develop soccer, and the positive social impact they anticipate in the local community and beyond stemming from the event.

FIFA established a deadline of Aug. 11 for member associations to express their interest to bid to host the event.

Morocco declared its intention. Both bidders

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The United Bid Committee kicked off its efforts earlier this month by announcing the board of directors and the executive leadership team that includes Executive Director John Kristick, Managing Director of Technical Operations Jim Brown, Canada Bid Director Peter Montopoli, who is Canada Soccer General Secretary, and Mexico Bid Director Yon De Luisa, who is a Televisa Vice President.

The United Bid Committee’s Board of Directors includes Sunil Gulati (Chairman), Steven Reed (Canada), Peter Montopoli (Canada), Decio De Maria (Mexico), Guillermo Cantu (Mexico), Carlos Cordeiro (USA), Donna Shalala (USA), Dan Flynn (USA), Don Garber (USA), Carlos Bocanegra (USA), Julie Foudy (USA), Ed Foster-Simeon (USA) and Victor Montagliani (CONCA-

CAF). Legendary sports executive Robert Kraft has been appointed as Honorary Chairman of the Board.

The three nations have hosted a combined 13

FIFA World Cups (men’s, women and youth), more than any other trio of geographically-connected nations, and set attendance records for five of those events.

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