The Iola Register, Aug. 16, 2023

Dealership, city talk infrastructure costs

By TIM STAUFFER The Iola Register

By a vote of 4-3, Iola City Council agreed Monday to help extend water to the property boundary of where PrairieLand Partners plans to build a new facility. The 25acre site is part of an 105-acre parcel recently annexed by the city that lies at the northwest corner of U.S. 169 and Oregon Road.

Carl Slaugh, Joel Wicoff, Nich Lohman and Joelle Shallah were in favor, while Mark Peters, Josiah D’Albini and Nickolas Kinder dissented. Council member Kim Peterson was absent.

PrairieLand will be responsible for more than $41,000 of an estimated $69,500 bill to expand water access. The City of Iola committed to providing the equipment and labor necessary for the expansion, as well as obtaining water service rights to the new development, while PrairieLand will pay for all project materials. The Council did not de-

cide, however, on whether or how to help the agricultural dealership with extension of sewer lines to the property.

PrairieLand had requested

the city’s assistance in providing water and sewer to the property boundary of the new facility, as well as any necessary rights-of-way.

Much of Monday’s discussion centered on what type of sewer line would be sufficient for PrairieLand, and if the company should foot the

bill itself or with the city’s help. Members also seemed divided on whether it would be wise for the city to build a larger sewer line for future development on the annexed land. Rough estimates for the sewer line run anywhere from $275,000 to $400,000, depending on the scope of the project.

“Sewer talk, in more ways than one, really does stink,” remarked council member Josiah D’Albini, bringing smiles to the room. “But I am optimistic,” he continued, that an agreement can be reached between the city and PrairieLand for a larger project. “People don’t think about sewers, and it may be a sewer to nowhere for a little bit. But if we have future development out there, it could be a smart investment” by the city.

Shallah asked PrairieLand to come back with more information. “We’re just talking about it right now. I have to see things in black and white,” she said. “To

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What sparks wildfires? Power lines, burning, lightning

By BRIAN K. SULLIVAN Bloomberg News

The fast-moving fire that ripped through Maui’s historic town of Lahaina killed more than 90 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation, but power equipment in the area is coming under increasing scrutiny.

Across the nation, wildfires are growing in intensity and

Georgia charges Trump, allies with election meddling

ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, with prosecutors using a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers and other aides of a “criminal enterprise” to keep him in power.

The nearly 100-page in-

dictment details dozens of acts by Trump or his allies to undo his defeat, including beseeching Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to find enough votes for him to win the battleground state; harassing an election worker who faced false claims of fraud; and attempting to persuade Georgia lawmakers to ig-

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frequency as climate change sparks prolonged droughts. The initial cause can vary — a spark from downed electric lines, a lightning strike or a cigarette butt tossed out a car window — but the result is the same: Once vegetation dries out, it can easily ignite. Here’s a look at recent major U.S. wildfires.

Camp Fire

In November 2018, flames leveled the California town of Paradise, killing more than

80 people and destroying more than 18,000 structures. It was the state’s deadliest and most-destructive fire, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire. The fire was blamed on power lines operated by the state’s largest utility, PG&E Corp. The company eventually filed for bankruptcy in 2019, facing $30 billion in liabilities from several devastating wildfires, and in 2020

it pleaded guilty to more than 80 counts of involuntary manslaughter for its role in starting the Camp Fire blaze. August Complex Fire

The August Complex fire, the biggest ever in California, blazed for nearly three months in late 2020 and destroyed more than 1 million acres before it was fully corralled. The blazes were ignited by lightning, according to See WILDFIRES | Page A3

Property taxes down a tad for Iola schools

By VICKIE MOSS The Associated Press

The Iola school district expects to slightly drop its tax rate in the coming fiscal year, thanks to stable enrollment and increased valuation.

The board set a budget hearing for 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11. They will also have a hearing on the revenue neutral rate, which is what it would take to generate the same amount of revenue as the previous year using the current assessed valuation.

Superintendent Stacey Fager discussed the proposed budget with board members on Monday evening.

The good news is the district’s valuation is up about $5 million, from $60,205,000 to $65,5222,220. That means each mill — or taxing unit — will generate more money.

Last year, the district saw its first enrollment increase in 15 years thanks to a robust preschool program and a new elementary school.

Fager expects enrollment to be more stable this year

Iola-USD 257 Superintendent of Schools Stacey Fager speaks at Monday’s Board of Education meeting. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

and estimated student numbers around 1,058.

The preschool program, though, continues to grow so significantly that administrators must make tough decisions about capping enrollment. They’ve had to turn

some families down, as there isn’t enough room in this year’s program. Some of the requests have come from outside the district.

Fager explained to the

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Architect John Davidson speaks to Iola City Council members Monday about a planned construction project for PrairieLand Partners on land recently annexed at the northeast edge of the city. Behind him, at right, is PrairieLand marketing and facilities manager Drue Durst. Also listening, at left, is Assistant Iola City Administrator Corey Schinstock. REGISTER/TIM STAUFFER

The Kansas Department of Transportation will survey this bridge on U.S. 54 in rural Bourbon County.

KDOT surveys bridge

Engineers are surveying a 2,500-foot stretch of U.S. 54 in rural Bourbon County starting this week.

The Kansas Department of Transportation said in a press release the survey is necessary to plan for the eventual replacement of a bridge spanning Turkey Creek east of Uniontown.

The survey is based

July hottest month on record — so far

By HAYLEY SMITH Los Angeles Times/TNS

A sizzling month marked by record heat waves, major wildfires, melting sea ice and a burgeoning El Niño will go down in the books as the hottest July on record — at least until next year, federal officials said Monday.

on the existing highway alignment, and is expected to be finished by Sept. 7.

The survey work is necessary to determine locations of existing features within the highway corridor.

Crew members will contact property owners or tenants for permission to enter private property.

Deputies find children

Allen County sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant Friday because of suspected drug use.

What they found was much worse.

In a Tuesday press release, the Sheriff’s Department announced two suspects had been arrested on three counts of aggravated child endangerment, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

During the search of the home, where at least three children lived, deputies found “deplorable” living conditions, according to the news release.

The home at 323 S. Cottonwood St. in Iola had floors covered in urine and feces, believed to be from animals, and the house was infested with cockroaches and ants, deputies said.

One child’s bedroom had an air conditioner blowing sweltering hot

air. The chemical odor in the room was almost overwhelming, the deputies said.

A broken bed frame and dirty blanket were on the floor, with no mattress found.

In the bedroom of two other children, deputies found a pair of mattresses, that presumably used to be white, but were now “brown with disgusting filth”

A mop bucket between the rooms was filled with what deputies described as fermented urine.

The two suspects, Jayce T. Ingrahm, 36, and Kimberly I. Mahoney, 42, were taken to Allen County Jail.

The three children were taken into protective custody. All were reported as being unkempt and visibly unclean. One was reported as extremely underweight and appearing malnourished, deputies said.

KU students graduate

Several Allen Countians are among the 6,600 University of Kansas students who have earned their respective college degrees for the 2022-23 academic year.

Many took part in the university’s commencement ceremonies in May.

The local graduates:

• Kari B. Shadden, Elsmore, bachelor of general studies in film and media studies

• Teryn Lee Johnson, Humboldt, bachelor of science in exercise science

• Briana B. Young, Humboldt, doctor of pharmacy

• Mia J. Aronson, Iola, bachelor of arts in political science and bachelor of arts in psychology

• Melissa Diane Irwin,

The planet and its oceans roasted last month as global average temperatures soared 2.02 degrees above average, making July 2023 not only the hottest July ever, but very likely Earth’s warmest month in at least 174 years of record keeping.

“Climatologically, July is the warmest month of the year,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a monthly report released Monday. “As the warmest July on record, July 2023, at least nominally, was the warmest month on record for the globe.”

Temperature data through July make it virtually certain that 2023 will rank among the five warmest years on record, with a nearly 50% probability that it will be the single warmest year on record, the agency said.

The announcement came as little surprise to millions of Americans who suffered through extreme heat conditions firsthand.

The stubborn presence of a high-pressure heat dome over the American Southwest pushed temperatures in Phoenix to 110 degrees or hotter for a record 31 days

straight. More than 40 deaths were recorded in the county with hundreds more under investigation, and scores of people were hospitalized for heat-related illnesses and pavement burns.

In Greece, Italy, Canada and Algeria, raging wildfires ignited amid broiling temperatures, spewing noxious smoke and sending residents and tourists fleeing for safety. Death Valley soared to 128 degrees, while areas in northwest China climbed as high as 126.

A multitude of factors converged to drive the sweltering conditions, said Karin Gleason, chief of the monitoring section at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

The onset of El Niño, a climate pattern in the tropical Pacific, warmed areas around the equatorial Pacific, pushing land and ocean temperatures to new extremes. Surface temperatures simmered 0.36 degrees

warmer than the previous July record, set in 2021.

Oceans also suffered from the heat, with July marking the fourth consecutive month of record-high global ocean surface temperatures.

At 1.78 degrees above normal, the month saw the highest monthly sea surface temperature anomaly of any month in NOAA’s climate record. Ocean temperatures off the coast of Florida rose to an unprecedented 101 degrees — roughly the temperature of a hot tub.

However, Gleason noted that El Niño is not solely to blame.

The pattern arrived after a rare three consecutive years of its counterpart, La Niña, which is known to have a cooling effect in some regions that may have been masking an ongoing warming trend, she said.

“Because we were in that prolonged La Niña period, there was this sense that the Earth

Percy descendants gather

wasn’t warming, when in reality, the rest of the ocean basins besides the eastern equatorial Pacific were warm, and were gradually warming,” Gleason said. “But now with those waters warming, it just shines a light on how warm the other ocean basins really have been.”

That larger warming trend is almost entirely attributable to human-caused climate change, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA.

“If you have to summarize it in two words, it’s global warming — that is by far the dominant effect,” Swain said. He noted that El Niño hasn’t even fully developed yet, and that the global temperature increases associated with it are typically strongest toward the middle and end of the event.

Iola, doctor of philosophy in sociology

• Ricky Michael, Iola, bachelor of science in clinical laboratory science

• Piper J. Moore, Iola, bachelor of science in journalism in strategic communication

• Riley Paige Murry, Iola, doctor of pharmacy

• Taylor Morgan Sell, Iola, bachelor of science in clinical laboratory science

• Sophie Whitney, Iola, bachelor of arts in global and international studies

• Emily Louise Wyant, Iola, bachelor of science in mursing

• Taylor Lynn Beeman, Savonburg, bachelor of general studies in history of art

The descendants of Mack Joseph and Pearl Pansy Latimer Percy gathered for a family reunion at the country home at Clinton Lake, which had belonged to the late Eugene and Ramona Percy and now owned by their daughter, Ianthe Percy Wozniak.

Attending were the hosts Ianthe Percy Wozniak and her son, Andy Wozniak and his children, Tomm-Minka, Ezra and Finn Wozniak.

Also attending were Ron and Jami Wozniak Van Hercke and their children, Blake, Abby and Grace Vane Hercke; Jim and Carol

Percy, Levi Percy and his son Mack Percy; JoJo Percy Jones and her children, Sawyer and Delilah Jones; Michael and Rebecca Percy Jones; Jeanne Ann Masteron Percy; Mona Percy Melvin; Jared and Mallory Melvin Walkins and their children, Klaira Hayes and Rive and Lennox Watkins; Marielle Melvin; Mack Melvin; Mark and Trina Percy; Chuck and Michelle Percy Johnson; Scott and Beth Snethen and their daughter, Gracie Snethen; Maggie Schmidt and her children, Grant and Lydia Schmidt; Maureen Percy Carroll; Rick and Jordan Carroll and

their sons, Frankie and Miles Carroll; Colby and Meggie Dye and their daughter, Lyla Dye; and Audrey Percy Muenz.

Sergio Lopez, 45, pours cold water over his head to cool off while working around his home in Thermal on July 11. (IRFAN KHAN/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS)

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Iola: Council talks infrastructure costs for dealership

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make a commitment on anything that I’m not seeing in front of me, I’m reluctant. But I do want to see growth. Once that information is presented to me, I can make an educated decision.”

But the devil is in the details, as John Davidson, founder of Davidson Architecture and Engineering, pointed out. Davidson, the architect in charge of designing the new Iola location, said he was happy to work up a more detailed plan, but he needed more direction.

“We can design the sewer line. But we have to be hired by someone to design the sewer line. And at this point we don’t know who owns it,” said Davidson.

“If you give me a parameter of what you’d like to see out there as far as development, we can design a sewer system,” he continued. “But I have to be engaged to do that. And PrairieLand hasn’t engaged me because they

don’t know if they’ll own the line or if the city will.”

After further discussion, the council requested that PrairieLand and Davidson return with costs for a sewer system sufficient for just the new facility’s needs and those for a system that would permit further residential or commercial growth.

That may require a

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the U.S. Forest Service.

The fire raged through Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, Glenn, Lake and Colusa counties, becoming the second-largest fire in U.S. history, according to the Western Fire Chiefs Association.

Marshall Fire

More than 1,000 homes burned near Boulder, Colorado, just a few days after Christmas in 2021 after extremely strong winds quickly spread flames in the drought-parched land. It was the most destructive fire in the state’s history. A sheriff’s report found that two blazes — the first of which spread from scrap wood and tree branches set on fire at a home, while the most likely cause for the second was hot particles from a power line — eventually merged to scorch about 6,000 acres.

Xcel Energy Inc. has said that it strongly disagrees with any suggestion that its power lines caused the second ignition, calling the re-

decision sooner rather than later. While assistant city manager Corey Schinstock said city crews could extend the water line “within a couple of weeks,” Davidson expressed concern about any delay with the sewer system.

“These guys want to begin building before the frost gets here, and that means they’ll need to start moving dirt pretty quickly,” said Da-

vidson. Company representatives estimate the new location will take about a year to complete.

THE NEW location would significantly expand PrairieLand’s presence in Iola. Plans are for a 64,000-square -foot facility, about double its current size.

Representatives said Monday the expansion would create 10-15 new positions. The Iola location currently employs 40 individuals.

Iola became part of PrairieLand in 2019, when PrairieLand acquired O’Malley Equipment Company. While the store does not bring in significant sales tax revenue, as farm machinery and equipment is tax-exempt in Kansas, the store brings in business from a nine-county area, Iola store manager Dale Lalman told council members. Those customers — and future ones — are a huge asset to Iola, he stressed.

The planned expansion hinges on two fac-

tors: an expanding market and new technology.

“We’re on approximately six acres right now,” said Drue Durst, marketing and facilities manager for PrairieLand. “But we’ve outgrown the space and need the expansion.”

Over the years, agricultural equipment has changed rapidly. When PrairieLand’s current facility was built, Durst noted, “a 7700 combine had a 25-foot header. Now, an X9 combine, the biggest machine we service, has a 50-foot header.

“We’ve doubled the size of the equipment, so as we look at building new facilities, we look at how we accommodate that from a size standpoint but also from a safety and efficiency standpoint for our employees.”

PrairieLand Partners, which consists of 15 John Deere dealerships, is based in Hutchinson.

IN OTHER developments, council members approved an Aug. 28 hearing for the city’s

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2024 budget and revenue neutral rate. Additionally, they discussed at length city code regarding definitions of fence material and gardens with residents Myra and Gabe Gleason, who were requesting amendments to articles on those guidelines. No changes to the current code were made.

Council members also tackled a busy social calendar, granting the Iola Elks permission to use the Recreation Community Building on Sept. 15 and 16 for their Kids Fest event; allowing the Liberty Homeschool Alliance permission to charge for admissions and concessions for upcoming events in the community building, and looking ahead to next year, approved LaHarpe VFW’s request to hold a boot block fundraiser in downtown Iola in May 2024.

In a productive meeting, members also accepted a bid for an electric distribution bucket truck. More on that in Thursday’s paper.

Should you invest … or speculate?

You’ll find some big differences between traditional and speculative investments — and knowing these differences can matter a great deal when you’re trying to reach your financial goals.

To begin with, let’s look at the basic types of traditional and speculative investments. Traditional investments are those with which you’re probably already familiar: stocks, bonds, mutual funds, government securities, certificates of deposit (CDs), and so on. Speculative investments include cryptocurrencies, foreign currencies, and precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper.

Now, consider these three components of investing and how they differ between traditional and speculative investments: The first issue to consider is risk. When you own stocks or stock-based mutual funds, the value of your investments will fluctuate. And bond prices will also move up and down, largely in response to changing interest rates. However, owning an array of stocks — small-company, large-company, international, etc. — can help reduce the impact of volatility on your stock portfolio. And owning a mix of short- and long-term bonds can help you defend yourself somewhat against interest-rate movements. When interest rates fall, you’ll still have your longer-term bonds, which generally — but not always –pay higher rates than short-term ones. And when interest rates rise, you can redeem your maturing short-term bonds at potentially higher rates.

port’s analyses “flawed” and conclusions “incorrect.”

Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon The Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon blaze scorched more than 340,000 acres in New Mexico during the late spring and early summer of 2022. The wildfire was the largest in the state’s history and was caused by smoldering debris left over from a controlled burn in January, forest service officials said.

Randy Moore, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service, apologized for his agency’s role in accidentally triggering the flames, saying that the events leading to the fire were “nearly unheard of until recently in the century-plus of experience the Forest Service has in working on these landscapes.”

“Climate change is leading to conditions on the ground we have never encountered,” Moore said last year.

— Mark Chediak and Shiyin Chen contributed to this report.

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With speculative investments, though, price movements can be extreme as well as rapid. During their short history, cryptocurrencies, in particular, have shown astonishingly fast moves up and down, resulting in huge gains followed by equally huge, or bigger, losses. The risk factor for crypto is exacerbated by its being largely unregulated, unlike stocks and bonds, whose transactions are overseen by well-established regulatory agencies. There just isn’t much that investors can do to modulate the risk presented by crypto and some other speculative investments.

A second key difference between traditional and speculative investments is the time horizon involved. When you invest in stocks and other traditional investments, you ideally should be in it for the long term — it’s not a “get rich quick” strategy. But those who purchase speculative investments want, and expect, quick and sizable returns, despite the considerable risk involved.

A third difference between the two types of investments is the activity required by investors. When you’re a long-term investor in traditional investments, you may not have to do all that much, once you’ve built a portfolio that’s appropriate for your risk tolerance, goals, and time horizon. After that point, it’s mostly just a matter of monitoring your portfolio and making occasional moves — you’re not constantly buying and selling, or at least you shouldn’t be. But when you speculate in crypto or other instruments, you are constantly watching prices move — and then making your own moves in response. It’s an activity that requires considerable attention and effort.

One final thought: Not all speculative instruments are necessarily bad investments. Precious metals, for instance, are found in some traditional mutual funds, sometimes in the form of shares of mining companies. And even crypto may become more of a stable vehicle once additional regulation comes into play. But if you’re investing for long-term goals, such as a comfortable retirement — rather than speculating for thrills and quick gains, which may disappear just as quickly — you may want to give careful thought to the types of investments you pursue.

Steve Kaufman, general manager of PrairieLand Partners, speaks at Monday’s Iola City Council meeting. In the background at left is Dale Lalman, manager of the Iola store location, and at right, is Drue Durst, marketing and facilities manager. REGISTER/TIM STAUFFER

Iolans arrested for alleged child neglect, drugs

Allen County sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant Friday because of suspected drug use. What they found was much worse.

In a Tuesday press release, the Sheriff’s Department announced two suspects had been arrested on three counts of aggravated child endangerment, possession of a con-

trolled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

During the search of the home, where at least three children lived, deputies found “deplorable” living conditions, according to the news release.

The home at 323 S. Cottonwood St. in Iola had floors covered in urine and feces, believed to be from animals,

and the house was infested with cockroaches and ants, deputies said. One child’s bedroom had an air conditioner blowing sweltering hot air. The odor in the room was almost overwhelming, deputies said.

A broken bed frame and dirty blanket were on the floor, with no mattress found.

In the bedroom of two other children, deputies found a pair of mattresses, that presumably used to be white, but were now “brown with disgusting filth”

A mop bucket between the rooms was filled with what deputies described as fermented urine.

The two suspects, Jayce T.

Ingrahm, 36, and Kimberly I. Mahoney, 42, were taken to Allen County Jail.

The three children were taken into protective custody. All were reported as being unkempt and visibly unclean. One was reported as extremely underweight and appearing malnourished, deputies said.

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nore the will of voters and appoint a new slate of electoral college electors favorable to Trump.

In one particularly brazen episode, it also outlines a plot involving one of his lawyers to access voting machines in a rural Georgia county and steal data from a voting machine company.

“The indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia’s legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s presidential election result,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, whose office brought the case, said at a late-night news conference.

Other defendants include former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; Trump attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani; and a Trump administration Justice Department official, Jeffrey Clark, who aided the then-president’s efforts to undo his election loss in Georgia. Other lawyers who advanced legally dubious ideas to overturn the results, including John Eastman, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, were also charged.

Willis said the defendants would be permitted to voluntarily surrender by noon Aug. 25. She also said she plans to seek a trial date within six months and that she intends to try the defendants collectively.

The indictment bookends a remarkable crush of criminal cases — four in five months, each in a different city — that would be daunting for anyone, never mind someone like Trump who is simultaneously balancing the roles of criminal defendant and presidential candidate.

It comes just two weeks after the Justice Department special counsel charged him in a vast conspiracy to overturn the election, underscoring how prosecutors after lengthy investigations that followed the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol have now, two-anda-half years later, taken steps to hold Trump to account for an assault on the underpinnings of American democracy.

The Georgia case covers some of the same ground as Trump’s recent indictment in Washington, including attempts he and his allies made to disrupt the electoral vote count at the Capitol. But in its sprawling web of defendants — 19 in total — the indictment stands apart from the more tightly targeted case brought

by special counsel Jack Smith, which so far only names Trump as a defendant.

In charging close Trump aides who were referenced by Smith only as unindicted co-conspirators, the Georgia indictment alleges a scale of criminal conduct extending far beyond just the ex-president.

The indictment, with charges under the state’s racketeering law and language conjuring the seedy underworld of mob bosses and gang leaders, accuses the former president, his former chief of staff, Trump’s attorneys and the ex-New York mayor of being members of a “criminal organization” and “enterprise” that operated in Georgia and other states.

The indictment capped a chaotic day at the courthouse caused by the brief but mysterious posting on a county website of a list of criminal charges that were to be brought against the former president. Reuters, which published a copy of the document, said the filing was taken down quickly.

A Willis spokesperson said in the afternoon that it was “inaccurate” to say that an indictment had already been returned but declined to comment further on a kerfuffle that the Trump legal team jumped on to attack the investigation’s integrity.

Trump and his allies, who have characterized the investigation as politically motivated, immediately seized on the apparent error to claim that the process was rigged. Trump’s campaign aimed to fundraise off it, sending out an email with the since-deleted document embedded.

In a statement after the indictment was issued, Trump’s legal team said “the events that have unfolded today have been shocking and absurd, starting with the leak of a presumed and premature indictment before the witnesses had testified or the grand jurors had deliberated and ending with the District Attor-

ney being unable to offer any explanation.”

The lawyers said prosecutors presenting their case “relied on witnesses who harbor their own personal and political interests — some of whom ran campaigns touting their efforts against the accused.”

Trump responded to the indictment Tuesday by announcing a news conference for next week to present yet another “almost complete” report on the alleged fraud he has yet to prove nearly three years after the 2020 election.

Many of the 161 acts by Trump and his associates outlined in the Georgia indictment have already received widespread attention. That includes a Jan. 2, 2021, call in which Trump urged Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the

11,780 votes needed to overturn his election loss. That call, prosecutors said, violated a Georgia law against soliciting a public official to violate their oath.

It also accuses Trump of making false statements and writings for a series of claims he made to Raffensperger and other state election officials, including that up to 300,000 ballots “were dropped mysteriously into the rolls” in the 2020 election, that more than 4,500 people voted who weren’t on registration lists and that a Fulton County election worker, Ruby Freeman, was a “professional vote scammer.”

Giuliani, meanwhile, is accused of making false statements for allegedly lying to lawmakers by claiming that more than 96,000 mailin ballots were counted in Georgia despite there

being no record of them having been returned to a county elections office, and that a voting machine in Michigan wrongly recorded 6,000 votes for Biden that were actually cast for Trump.

In a statement, Giuliani did not respond directly to the allegations but called the indictment an “affront to American democracy” and “just the next chapter in a book of lies.”

Also charged are individuals prosecutors say helped Trump and his allies on the ground in Georgia influence and intimidate election workers.

One man, Stephen Cliffgard Lee, was charged for allegedly traveling to Freeman’s home “with intent to influence her testimony.” Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss testified to Congress last year about how Trump and his allies latched onto surveillance footage from November 2020 to accuse both women of committing voter fraud — allegations that were quickly debunked, yet spread widely across conservative media.

Both women, who are Black, faced death threats after the election.

The indictment also accuses Powell and several co-defendants of tampering with voting machines in Coffee County, Georgia, and

stealing data belonging to Dominion Voting Systems, a producer of tabulation machines that has long been the focus of conspiracy theories. An attorney for Powell declined to comment.

According to evidence made public by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, Trump allies targeted Coffee County in search of evidence to back their theories of widespread voter fraud, allegedly copying data and software.

Besides the two election-related cases, Trump faces a separate federal indictment accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents as well as a New York state case charging him with falsifying business records.

As indictments mount, Trump — the leading Republican candidate for president in 2024 — often invokes his distinction as the only former president to face criminal charges. He is campaigning and fundraising around these themes, portraying himself as the victim of Democratic prosecutors out to get him.

Republican allies once again quickly rallied to Trump’s defense.

“Americans see through this desperate sham,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks at a press conference at Fulton County Government Center in Atlanta Monday, following the indictment in an election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others. THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION/ARVIN TEMKAR/TNS

Opinion

global warming

First the good news. Today’s youth are taking action to preserve the environment.

The bad?

Saving the planet has become a divisive issue.

On Monday, a Montana judge ruled in favor of Montana youths ages 5 to 22 who argued its governor and legislators were designing laws to hurt the state’s waters, skies and land.

The youths filed their case against Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte and several of his department heads for designing and approving laws that forbid considering the impact of the fossil fuel industry, specifically its production of greenhouse gas emissions.

Such laws, argued Our Children’s Trust, violate Montana’s constitution, which in 1979 was amended to say the state should “maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment for present and future generations.”

That’s not happening, the youths said.

District Court Judge Kathy Seeley sided with the 16 plaintiffs in her decision, saying recent legislation to curtail the Montana Environmental Policy Act violated state constitution.

This most recent legislative session, Montana legislators amended its environment policy act to prohibit state agencies from considering “an evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions and corresponding impacts to the climate in the state or beyond the state’s borders.”

Gov. Gianforte signed the measure into law on May 10.

In earlier testimony, many of the youths said they have witnessed how the changing environment has threatened their families’ health and livelihoods with wildfires, warming rivers and drought.

Climate science experts backed up the youths’ claims. The Earth is getting hotter as a direct result of greenhouse gasses being emitted from mining and gas drilling operations and this change is harming the state’s ecosystems as well as the plaintiffs themselves.

It has long been understood that certain greenhouse gasses, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in the atmosphere, causing the Earth to warm. July was the hottest month on record.

The science community is unequivocal in its agreement that CO2 from fossil fuel pollution is the primary driver of the Earth’s energy imbalance resulting in more solar energy being retained on Earth and less energy being released into space.

Until greenhouse gasses can be reduced, extreme weather events such as droughts and heat waves will occur more frequently and in greater magnitude.

The wildfire season is now two months longer than it was in the 1980s

due to a declining snowpack, warmer summer temperatures and decreased rain. Montana is currently battling seven forest fires.

MONTANANS KNOW the difference.

Already, the state has warmed significantly more than the global average. The difference means spring is coming earlier, melting the snowpack high in the mountains earlier along with heavy rains instead of snow. The result has been catastrophic flooding, as witnessed last year in Yellowstone National Park.

Montana’s glaciers are melting.

Of the lower 48 states, Montana has suffered the most glacier loss. In Glacier National Park, only 26 of its 146 glaciers determined in 1850 remained in 2015, affecting its ability to provide water for communities downstream.

Eighty-five percent of Montanans depend on the fresh water from high elevation snowpack.

As the “water tower” of the continent, Montana feeds three of the great rivers of North America, the Columbia, the Saskatchewan, and Missouri-Mississippi.

Today, Flathead Lake, the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, is too warm for bull and cutthroat trout.

The Missouri River, Yellowstone River, Madison River and dozens of others are all reporting an increase in stream temperatures, increased algae and low streamflow.

If we don’t change course, children born in 2020 are on track to experience a two- to seven fold increase in extreme events, particularly heatwaves, compared with people born in 1960.

SO WHAT’S to argue?

Surely we all want to turn back the clock on this impending doom.

Apparently not.

In their chats with legislators, fossil fuel energy lobbyists are increasingly veering away from disabusing climate change to science in general, especially if liberals support it.

So there’s the bogeyman. Liberals.

The ocean temperature off Florida is registering 100 degrees in some parts.

Big deal.

Wind and solar power don’t burn fossil fuels.

So what?

Kansas has lots of wind and sun.

Shut up.

Kansas homeowners and businesses can save money if their municipalities adopt net metering so they can link their excess solar-generated energy into the city’s power grid.

There’s the door.

MONTANA’S youth have bravely fought for their future by securing this legal victory.

We adults should need no further prompting.

— Susan Lynn

Waving a simple way to connect

By JIM NOWLAN Chicago Tribune/TNS

Not long ago, I moved from a tiny town to a small city of about 8,000 people in central Illinois to be closer to the action. You know: band concerts, ice cream socials, veterans’ sandwich sales in the park and even a professional summer theater festival, as well as a mayor who personally waters the huge flower-bedecked urns along Main Street. (Talk about good politics.)

A broken-down professor, I have been conducting a social science experiment in and around my new town. My finding to date: Waving is good; more would be better. An inveterate walker, I give a rather hearty wave to every car and pedestrian I confront along city streets, country roads, park lanes and rails-totrails paths. Nine of 10 folks I meet wave back. The fraction may be higher, but the sun’s glare on windshields sometimes blocks my view. Some wavers seem a bit startled. After all, they neither know me from Adam, nor whether I am progressive, a Donald Trump supporter or maybe even a believer in QAnon. Yet wave back, they do. Most accompany their wave with a smile, which is an added bonus. The only thing they know is that I am a human, like them, and, somehow, we’re all in this together. There are different waves.

Fortunately, I have not received anything close to the tortured figure-S wave of beauty pageant contestants atop parade convertibles. The most rewarding wave is from people in cars, windows down, when each person in front enthusiastically shoots an arm way out, at roughly 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock, and twirls an arm, always nodding or smiling as well. I call it the “all-American wave.”

I am always pleased with the “sight-unseen wave.” When I hear a car coming up from behind while I’m walking, I wave, the auto still behind me. Almost always, the driver waits until he or she is passing me by, then the hand comes out the window, enthusiastically. People seem to want to wave, if prompted.

There have also been grudging waves, but waves nonetheless. Take the wizened old farmer in his seed corn cap, astride the cab of his fully loaded Ford 250 quad cab pickup.

I sensed from a distance he was determined not to wave. His right hand tightly gripped the very top of the steering wheel. So, as he came close, I waved again. Somehow, he couldn’t help himself — eyes straight ahead, he briefly flicked up the index finger of his wheel-gripping hand. I counted it as a wave and call it “the grouchy old farmer wave.” Waves should have names.

I was introduced to waving

by the old black-and-white, cowboys-and-Indians Saturday matinees of my youth. Out on the Plains, a Native American chief — maybe it was Tonto, the Lone Ranger’s companion — would solemnly hold up the flat of his right hand to approaching Indians. “We come in peace,” said the hand. That was a wave. That’s what waving is all about.

I BEGAN WAVING as a rural state legislator, decades ago. Being neighborly is good politics.

On our dominating, snark-infested social media platforms, the human touch is absent, and echo-chamber political sites stoke red-hot passions. Nothing neighborly here.

I don’t mean to wax philosophical, yet the coming couple of years may be challenging for order in our democracy. Waving is a healthy antidote. It might even be infectious.

I don’t expect this opinion piece to create a wave across the country. (Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.) Yet, just maybe, more of this totally cost-free waving will remind us that, no matter our differences, we’re all in this together. We should come in peace.

About the author: Jim Nowlan lives in Princeton, Illinois. His latest book is “Politics — The Starter Kit: How to Succeed in Politics and Government.”

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75 Years Ago August 1948

Bob Lacy, Iola’s entrant in a national junior golf tournament, in Ann Arbor, Mich., lost a narrow-margin decision to T. Stanford, Midland, Mich., yesterday in the first round of the tournament, causing him to be eliminated from further competition. *****

Iola Junior College will take a major forward step in September when its educational or teacher training department reopens. The course mainly serves second-year students. Buford E. Fisher will head the department. Completion of the course here will qualify graduates for a 60-hour elementary school life certificate as teachers. It will place them above the qualifications of 75 percent of the elementary teachers in this area now,

according to Superintendent Joe W. Ostenberg. *****

Preliminary steps toward formation of a county organization to promote a state retirement system will be taken in a meeting at the high school here tonight. State, county and city officials and employees and school teachers and employees are forming a new movement in Kansas. They are the persons considered eligible for retirement benefits the organization will seek.

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Iola’s municipal restroom, on the second floor at 14 S. Washington, continues to be of real service to the women who come to Iola to do their shopping, according to a report received yesterday by the city commission. The restroom is operated jointly by the city and the Business

and Professional Women’s Club. Miss Dora Langford is matron. The restroom was used by 4,555 women who registered in the guestbook last year. Some women do not register and those who are accompanied by children seldom make note of the children’s names. *****

On Monday, Aug. 30, Allen County’s young men between the ages of 18 and 25 will start registering with the Allen County draft board according to instructions received from H. R. McLean, state director of selective service. The state board estimates that this county has about 1,050 young men of draft age. Men of different ages will register on different dates, beginning with the oldest. The dates for each age are published in this issue.

Youth plaintiffs and their attorneys in the the landmark Held vs Montana climate change lawsuit walk to the Lewis and Clark County Courthouse in Helena for the first day of their trial in June. On Monday, a Montana judge ruled the state’s failure to consider climate change when approving fossil fuel projects was unconstitutional. (ROBIN LOZNAK/ZUMA PRESS WIRE/TNS)

Montana youth take on state’s inaction to

Mother pleads guilty after 6-year-old son shoots teacher

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of felony child neglect, seven months after her son used her handgun to critically wound the educator in a classroom full of students.

Prosecutors agreed to drop a misdemeanor charge of reckless storage of a firearm against Deja Taylor. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors said they will not seek seek a sentence that is longer than state sentencing guidelines, which call for six months in jail or prison.

A judge will have full discretion and will ultimately decide the length of Taylor’s sentence. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 27.

Taylor was charged in April with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor count of recklessly storing of a firearm.

The January shooting

shocked the nation and roiled this shipbuilding city near the Chesapeake Bay. The case against Taylor is one of three legal efforts seeking accountability, including the teacher’s $40 million lawsuit that accuses the school system of gross negligence for failing to respond

aggressively to multiple warnings that the child had a gun at school on the day of the shooting.

Police said the first grader intentionally shot teacher Abby Zwerner as she sat at a reading table during a lesson. Zwerner, who was hit in the hand and chest, spent nearly two

weeks in the hospital and has endured multiple surgeries. Moments after the shooting, according to search warrants filed in the case, the child told a reading specialist who restrained him: “I shot that (expletive) dead,” and “I got my mom’s gun last night.”

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board how different “weighting” factors are added to the enrollment count to estimate the budget. The district gets credit for certain factors, such as how many students are taking Career and Technical Education courses or how many qualify for free meals.

Adding those factors brings the total to 2,084.6, which is calculated by per pupil state aid plus additional virtual education funds for a total of $10,670,845.

Every school district in Kansas contributes a 20-mill local option budget to the state for the “local option budget,” which is then divided and redistributed to meet the goal of providing an equal education no matter the size of the district.

In USD 257, that means taxpayers will contribute $1,031,292.

Fager pointed out that USD 257 will receive $10 million from the state, which means the district pays just about 10% compared to what it receives.

“We are a district that received a lot of state aid,” Fager said. “This makes Kansas proportional, so a student in Iola gets the same education as one in Olathe or a larger city.”

Next, Fager explained the supplemental local option budget, which is the amount taxpayers contribute directly to USD 257 that is not reapportioned by the state.

Because of the increased valuation, the district’s tax levy here will drop about a halfmill to 16.566. Last year, it was 17.051; the previous year it was 18.41. That’s because the district’s valuation has increased significantly the previous two years.

But that benefit gets mostly erased when it comes to the amount taxpayers must contribute for the 2019 school bond. As the district’s valuation increases, the state contributes less toward the bond. The money must be made up somewhere, so it falls to taxpayers.

The bond and interest tax rate will increase slightly to 23.675 mills this year, up from 23.32 last year and 22.39 the previous year.

That means, overall, the school district will collect 68.726 mills in the next fiscal year. That’s just a hair — .153 of a mill — higher than last year’s rate of 68.879. The previous year it was 68.80.

“I think that’s great for the district,” Fager said. “We are not having to raise our mill rate overall to fund our school system.”

Property and equipment

The board agreed to a request from transportation director Aaron Cole to buy a 14-passenger minibus for $93,773.

The board expects to order a second bus provided they can wait until the next fiscal year to receive it and pay for it.

Cole recommended purchasing the minibus instead of a full-sized bus because it doesn’t require a driver to have a commercial driver’s license (CDL). It’s been very difficult to hire bus drivers with a CDL. The district even offers a CDL training course, and Cole said several people were interested in taking the course this summer but no one passed.

Cole said there are many opportunities to use the 14-passenger vehicle. The district uses 10-passenger vans, which are convenient for smaller groups but sometimes the group is just a little too large for the vans.

Cole also received the board’s blessing to look

at ways to offload between three to five old school buses. He’ll evaluate the vehicles to see if they are worth selling on an online auction site or if they’d be worth more as scrap metal. The buses aren’t used for routes; some have had parts removed to repair the current fleet.

Fager also asked the board for permission to explore options for a piece of property the district owns near the new Iola Elementary School. The lot is a little less than an acre just south of the school, with an older 40 by 100 foot metal building.

The district considered multiple uses for the lot, such as turning it into a maintenance building. The district tore down its maintenance building with the construction of a new science center and cafeteria at Iola High School.

But as Cole and others looked into their options, it became clear the existing building on the lot isn’t worth saving.

Fager wondered if there might be a better use for the lot, amidst new developments on the east side of town near U.S. 54. The lot doesn’t have highway frontage but it is between the highway and elementary school.

Fager proposed the district seek proposals from the community to see what, if any, interest there might be in purchasing and developing the lot.

The board agreed to seek proposals with the understanding they could reject any and all. They are not necessarily interested in offloading the lot but would like to know if there are better uses for it.

IN OTHER news, the board:

• Heard from Dan Willis, who attended a recent conference with environmental professionals where Lt. Gov. David Toland, an Iola native, praised USD 257 for its efforts to take an environmentally distressed lot and develop it as the site of a new elementary school. Toland also talked about plans to build a Panasonic battery plant at the former Sunflower Ammunition Plant in DeSoto. Those are two examples about how economic development can work in distressed environments, Toland said.

• Heard from board member Robin Griffin-Lohman, who thanked staff and volunteers for their help with enrollment.

• Agreed to a request from Iola Middle School Principal Brad Crusinbury, who wants to explore options to sell old band uniforms. The goal is to remove the old uniforms from storage space, not necessarily to make money. Similar efforts were done with old basketball uniforms.

• Heard from Crusinbury about a new hunter safety class at the middle school. At the end of each session, students could participate in a field day for practical application of their skills. It could include different stations, such as one for trap shooting, one for rifle shooting, one for archery and one on how to set up a tree stand.

USD 257 maintenance and transportation director Aaron Cole, left, speaks at Monday’s Board of Education meeting. Among the topics was discussion on what to do with this property containing an old shed near Iola Elementary School. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

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Aikins takes reins for ACC volleball

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

Maria Aikins is taking over the Allen Community College volleyball team this fall as its new head coach.

She brings a large amount of experience to Allen after serving as the assistant coach at Hutchinson Community College and earlier as Hutchinson High’s volleyball coach. She was hired at Allen on July 1.

Aikins is originally from Salina and was an All-State player at Salina Central High.

“I’m a big believer in being a relationships coach, coaching is a big passion for me,” said Aikins. “I think inspiring young women to be confident individuals is huge and getting to know them as a person is important because character matters.”

The Lady Red Devils return seven sophomores and carry eight more freshmen on the squad this season. Those returners will be led by Teryn Farley, Abby Altic, Nadia Gallegos, Lexi DeWeese and Veronica Agostini.

“Walking in the gym, everything is a clean slate,” said Aikins. “A lot of the sophomores probably got a lot of playing time as freshmen

but for me it’s a new system and it’s figuring out what I want to run, what our offense and defense will look

like and how we can be better matched against our opponents. We want to have success and make the playoffs.”

Aikins replaces former head coach Whitney Shaw.

The freshmen standouts for Allen through practice so far have been Chloe Vargas from Texas and Isabella Simione from Brazil. The freshmen class of eight players were recruited by former Allen head coach Whitney Shaw before Aikins arrived.

Last season, the Lady Red Devils finished with a 16-13 winning record and earned a 5-4 mark on the road. One of the highlights of the season included winning eightof-10 matches from the end of August through the end of September, sweeping Labette

Community College.

Allen had its most recent team success in the fall of 2019 when the team went 1913. “I had heard of Allen. I played in the conference but I was at the Division I level at Cloud County,” said Aikins.

“I had the familiarity and my husband grew up in the area so it was easy and comfortable to make that switch over.”

The serving line will prove to be valuable for the Lady Red Devils with a number of strong servers and not as much height up front. Serving hard and making big hits from all around the floor will be important with a unit that lacks height.

“The biggest thing will be controlling the tempo through the serving lines we have and defense,” Aikins said. “We have to play good defense, be able to block, be scrappy and be able to score out of serve receive, so just be consistent in the back row.”

Aikins comes from a winning culture that she hopes to bring to Allen’s program. Aikins believes in growing skill every day in the gym.

Aikins’ coaching style is rigorous, insisting on three practices a day.

With Aikin’s goals for Allen’s program at a high, the Lady Red Devils will look to make a deep playoff run.

“The main thing we want to do is go undefeated at home,” Aikins said. “The second thing is aiming to be top-three in our conference, so we need to take one game at a time. One of my other goals is to get everyone through preseason healthy. Growth is most important.”

Allen begins their season against Northeast Community College at the Garden City Invitational on Friday, Aug. 18 at 2 p.m.

Spain beats Sweden 2-1 to advance to World Cup final

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Spain will play for its first Women’s World Cup championship after Olga Carmona’s goal in the 89th minute lifted La Roja to a 2-1 victory over Sweden in the Tuesday semifinal.

Spain, which overcame last year’s near mutiny by its players against coach Jorge Vilda, will play the winner of tournament co-host Australia and England on Sunday in the final in Sydney.

The controversy surrounding Spain dates to last September, when 15 players signed a letter complaining about Vilda and the conditions for the the national team. Three of those players are on this World Cup team, and Vilda a day before the game against Sweden praised the Spanish federation for its support.

Now, La Roja has a chance to become a first-time World Cup champion.

“This is a historic day,” said Vilda. “We’re in the final, that’s what we wanted.”

Blanco’s bunt wins it for Royals

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Dairon Blanco executed a suicide squeeze bunt in the ninth inning to score pinch-runner Samad Taylor, and the Kansas City Royals rallied after blowing a 5-0 lead to hand the playoff-contending Seattle Mariners their third straight loss, 7-6 on Monday night.

“That’s how we drew it up,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro deadpanned. “He’s gotten bunts down in big spots. That guy (Matt Brash) was throwing 100 miles per hour. That’s not easy to do.”

Brady Singer took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, Bobby Witt Jr. hit the Royals’ first inside-the-park homer in four years and Salvador Perez hit a three-run shot to build the Royals’ big lead.

“Everything felt good,” Singer said. “I was able to work up in the zone. All the pitches were working.

“I knew (about a no-hitter), but you never think it’s going to happen. So you just go out there and try to make pitches. What happens, happens.”

So much happened in the final two innings that Singer’s effort was almost for naught.

Julio Rodríguez hit a bases-clearing double in the eighth to get the Mariners within 5-3, then scored on a single by Eugenio Suárez.

In the ninth, Josh Rojas tied it with a run-scoring single against Nick Wittgren (1-0), and Rodríguez’s RBI single put the Mariners on top.

But Brash (8-4) immediately ran into trouble

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College teams staying home for camp

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin offensive lineman Trey Wedig’s challenges in his first week of preseason camp weren’t limited to creating running room and protecting his quarterback.

He again thanked the federation and its leadership for the support that has Spain one win away from the World Cup.

“The end result is a learning process which has made us all

stronger in my opinion, and to leave it archived in the past and think about the future,” Vilda said through a translator. “And to think that we’re here because we deserve it.”

Carmona’s goal capped a flurry of late scoring that saw Sweden tie the game, then Spain win it 90 seconds later on the surprise score.

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The Badgers’ dormitory accommodations at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville also meant the 6-foot-7 Wedig had to figure out how to sleep comfortably in a twin XL-sized bed.

“My feet are hanging off or hitting that wooden frame,” Wedig said.

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Allen’s Veronica Agostini last season. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Spain’s Olga Carmona is celebrated by her teammates after she scored her side’s winning goal during the World Cup semifinal soccer match against Sweden. ALESSANDRA TARANTINO/AP PHOTO

Allen volleyball’s newly hired head coach Maria Aitkins, left, at Washburn University. COURTESY PHOTO

Public notice

(Published in The Iola Register on August 16, 2023)

GENERAL BOND DEBT LIMITATION

To the Electors of Unified School District No. 479, Anderson County, Kansas (Crest):

You are hereby notified that the Board of Education (the “Board”), of Unified School District No. 479, Anderson County, Kansas (Crest) (the “District”), will make and file its application with the State Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, together with proof of publication of this Notice, for permission to vote general obligation bonds (the “Bonds”) in excess of the District’s general bond debt limitation for the purpose of providing funds to pay the costs to construct, furnish and equip renovations, improvements and additions to District school facilities, including but not limited to: (a) classroom addition, designed as a storm shelter; (b) main entry ADA accessible and

secure entry addition, renovations and improvements; (c) existing classrooms and locker rooms renovations and improvements; (d) kitchen and cafeteria renovations and improvements; (e) new auxiliary gymnasium addition; (f) parking and entry drive improvements; and (g) all other necessary improvements related thereto (collectively the “Project”), and to pay costs of issuance and interest on said general obligation bonds during construction of the Project. The costs of the Project will be payable from proceeds of the Bonds in an amount not to exceed $5,950,000.

The application will be filed pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Board on August 14, 2023, under the authority of K.S.A. 725458 et seq., as amended.

Dated: August 14, 2023.

BOARD OF EDUCATION UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 479, ANDERSON COUNTY, KANSAS (CREST)

Allen County Special Olympics bowls the summer away

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

Allen County Special Olympics bowlers have been in action all summer, most recently competing at the Kansas State Bowling Tournament in Olathe.

The tournament took place at the Olathe East Bowling Lanes on Aug. 11. Michael Purvis, a new member of the team, secured a second place finish while Ty Johnson got fourth place, Ian Webber took second and Casey Riebel placed third.

The team also competed May 12 at the Southeast Regional Adult Bowling tournament in Pittsburg.

Bridgette Eckroat from Piqua, Ty Johnson of Moran, Casey Riebel of Gas and Ian Webber of Colony all took first place at the tournament.

The team practices at the lanes at Light Hardware in Yates Center. Allen County’s Ty

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Salma Paralluelo, the 19-year-old super-sub who also scored the game-winner in Spain’s 2-1 extra-time quarterfinals victory over the Netherlands, scored in the 81st minute to put Spain up 1-0. She gestured for the crowd to cheer, and the crowd thought it was celebrating Spain’s decider.

But the celebration was brief. Rebecka Blomqvist tied it for Sweden in the 88th.

Then, just 90 seconds later, Carmona beat Sweden goalkeeper Zecira Musovic with the game-winner.

“It was really, really really crazy,” Spanish defender Irene Paredes said. “After scoring the first one it was like, ‘OK, this is the end, we have to keep this score.’ But they scored quite fast and I was like, `What the hell happened?’ But we had confidence that we could create something else.”

Sweden has now lost in four of five semifinals and will try to finish third for a fourth time.

“I have to watch the game, I really do, before I can make any assessments,” said Sweden coach Peter Gerhardsson. “Right now I am full of emotions. It is is the third loss in the semifinals. I think everyone just feels sadness and huge disappointment.”

Paralluelo became just the second teenager to score in a Women’s World Cup semifinal after Kara Lang of Canada in 2003, also against Sweden

“It was a magic moment. It is something very unique when I scored the first goal. To

be able to repeat is really incredible,” Paraluello said.

Spain is playing in only its third World Cup. Four years ago, La Roja advanced to the knockout round but lost to eventual champions the United States.

“Now it’s the final. I think we have to do what we’ve done in every match,” said Paralluelo. “We’ve overcome every challenge and now we face the ultimate challenge, the big one”

The Swedes have never won a World Cup. They were the 2003 runner-up and have finished third three times. Sweden won silver medals at the Tokyo Olympics two years ago, and at the 2016 Games in Brazil.

“I’m tired of crying big tournament tears,” said Kosovare Asllani. Sweden also lost in the semifinals of the Euros last September.

The Swedes swept their opponents in the group stage before knocking out two-time reigning champion the United States on a penalty shootout after a scoreless draw.

Sweden then got by previously unbeaten Japan 2-1 in the quarterfinals.

Spain fell to second in its group after a blowout loss to Japan, but rallied to beat Switzerland 5-1 and the Netherlands 2-1 to reach the semifinals.

It was La Roja’s first appearance in a major semifinal since the 1997 European Championships.

Spain’s two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas made her third start of the World Cup. Putellas ruptured her

ACL last summer and has been working her way back to full fitness. She came off the bench in the team’s last two matches.

Putellas, who replaced Esther Gonzalez in the starting 11, was subbed off in the 57th minute for teenage Paralluelo, who has now scored in two straight games.

Spain dominated possession and had the better chances in the first half. Carmona’s blast from the top of the box was a low shot went just wide. Sweden’s defense, which had allowed just two goals in the tournament, held.

Putellas nutmegged Filippa Angeldal before delivering a cross in the 35th minute but Magdalena Eriksson was there to clear it away.

Spain goalkeeper Cata Coll dove to save Fridolina Rolfo’s shot late in the half, then punched the ball away on a corner kick to keep the game scoreless at the half.

Sweden had energy to start the second half but Spain still had chances. Paralleulo’s header in the 63rd minute sailed over the goal.

Alba Redondo was on the ground in front of the goal but got a foot on the ball and appeared to score in the 71st minute, but she was just wide and the ball was caught up in the side netting.

There were a few tense moments when Paralluelo’s goal was checked by video review, but it was awarded.

After Carmona’s goal, Spain’s players piled on top of her near their bench.

College football: Teams staying on campus for camp

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“I sleep diagonally so I don’t hit that wooden frame.”

The Badgers spent a week working out in Platteville, about 70 miles from Wisconsin’s Madison campus. New Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell got the idea to train out of town from his coaching tenure at Cincinnati, which is spending a 25th straight year practicing about 30 miles from campus at Higher Ground Conference & Retreat Center

in West Harrison, Indiana.

Schools that train out of town rave about how isolating themselves from campus builds camaraderie that can carry a team through the grind of a season.

Fickell said after his team’s final practice in Platteville that “there’s no doubt” he’d want to make this trip again.

“They really enjoyed it,” Fickell said. “They’ve asked several times about, ‘Can we stay here for another week?’ …

I’m the same way. If we could stay here another week, I’d love it.” Wisconsin and Cincinnati are among a shrinking number of programs training off campus.

Of the 93 Football Bowl Subdivision programs that responded to an Associated Press survey, only Cincinnati, Wisconsin, Arizona State and Florida State are holding portions of training camp outside the city in which their campus is located and

having at least one overnight stay. Ten years ago, 14 different schools spent at least part of the preseason working out of town.

That list of 14 schools included Northwestern, which has permanently discontinued its training camp in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which had been an annual tradition since 1992. Some of the hazing allegations that led to the firing of Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald and the filing of at least a dozen law-

suits stem from those Kenosha camps.

Brian Crow, who has researched hazing while chairing the department of sport management, hospitality and tourism at Slippery Rock University, says it’s encouraging to see fewer teams leaving campus for preseason workouts.

“I believe there is a correlation to more bad behavior the further from campus they are,” Crow said.

Elizabeth Allan, a University of Maine profes-

sor of higher education, conducted a 2018 study with colleague Mary Madden in which 57.1% of students reported hazing was most likely to happen off campus.

Allan noted her survey wasn’t limited to athletes and didn’t collect data specifically focusing on off-campus training sites like the one in Kenosha, so it couldn’t determine whether there was any indication these types of camps increased the risk of hazing.

Allen County’s Special Olympics bowlers, from left, are Ty Shaughnessy, Ian Webber and Bridgette Eckroat. COURTESY PHOTO

Shaughnessy. COURTESY PHOTO

Some professional athletes deal with fear of flying

By JANIE MCCAULEY The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)

— San Francisco Giants star Joc Pederson is scared to fly. Outfielder Seth Brown of the Oakland Athletics, too.

They are hardly the only ones. Longtime manager Dusty Baker would bet that anxiety in the air has shortened more than a few careers. He recalls watching terrified teammates and coaches cling tightly to photos of their loved ones during bumpy flights.

“There’s no helping them,” Baker said. “A lot of times they have a couple drinks more than they should on the plane. I’ve had guys I played with, they had like four or five kids, and the plane was having turbulence and they would start kissing their kids, like they were kissing them goodbye, like it was the last time they would see their kids.”

In big-time sports, there’s no getting around regular flying. Major League Baseball players might crisscross the country several times in a single week. NBA and NHL teams frequently play on consecutive nights in different cities and time zones. Even 300-plus-pound football players have to be comfortable traveling from one coast to another. And then there are sports like golf and tennis, with professional tour events spanning several continents.

Hall of Fame football coach John Madden, who died in late 2021, is among the most famous for his trepidation with air travel. Debilitating claustrophobia prompted him to eventually begin taking his own bus around the country.

Netherlands soccer player Dennis Bergkamp was nicknamed “The Non-Flying Dutchman” for his anxiety, which he said

stemmed from traveling on smaller planes while with Inter Milan in the 1990s. Former NBA power forward Royce White, a firstround pick by the Houston Rockets in 2012 out of Iowa State, fought crippling anxiety that became far worse when he flew and led to panic attacks — so he too regularly drove on his own whenever possible.

Even Barry Bonds, who hit a record 762 home runs, told The Associated Press he has a fear of heights.

“We’re pointing to flying but what we’re really pointing at is the feelings of being out of control, the feelings that come with trusting, so it’s the fear that we’re pointing to,” said high performance psychologist Michael Gervais, who has worked with the Seattle Seahawks among other sports teams, Olympians and businesses.

Athletes find different ways of dealing with the stress at 35,000 feet.

All-Star pitcher Dan Haren used to visit the cockpit on team charters, hoping for some comfort when he became overwhelmed.

Troy Murphy, a former forward with the Golden State Warriors, did the same.

“You empathize with them, because it’s

tough,” said Mike Dunleavy Jr., Murphy’s former teammate and the Warriors new general manager. Baker and Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker remember how teammates turned to alcohol to ease the nerves.

For many years with flying, players had to “get used to it,” insists Hall of Fame baseball star Rickey Henderson, who recalled what he described as crazy flights when he would try to “close my eyes and go to sleep.”

“I was in the minor leagues for a period of time and I rode buses for 14 hours,” Henderson said, “I definitely don’t want to do that.”

Even with heightened awareness around mental health, there is a greater prevalence of anxiety in society now than people might realize, according to Gervais. He is proud of those who speak up and take on the challenge to cope with it, a part of how they strive to reach peak performance in their sport — and appreciates teams being proactive rather than reactive.

“What’s great is that there is an attunement and there’s an awareness, more than there has been in the last 15 to 20 years about the

importance of the psychological well being of people,” Gervais said. “It’s always had a seat at the table of high performance. Now that seat is not in the poorly lit end of the table, it’s moved up to kind of center court, because if you don’t have the ability to work with your mind, especially under pressure, all of the physical and technical skills are not able to be accessed.

“It’s an exciting time. Athletes are leading the way with their courage to point to the importance of it.”

These days, there certainly are more resources to help — and Pederson and Brown are grateful to have that support.

Pederson, a two-time All-Star, has had a career resurgence since joining the Giants for the 2022 season. Shortly after arriving in San Francisco, he began working with the club’s director of mental health and wellness, sport psychologist Shana Alexander, and human performance specialist Harvey Martin to cope with his flight anxiety.

Alexander and Martin have helped Pederson develop techniques and tools to get through a flight, such as meditation, visualization and calculated

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in the ninth. He gave up consecutive singles and Perez tied the game with a sacrifice fly. Blanco then bunted Brash’s first pitch down the first-base line, and first baseman Dylan Moore couldn’t handle it cleanly as Taylor dashed home with the game-ending run.

“It was a heck of a comeback by our guys, really down and out and didn’t have a whole lot going offensively,”

Seattle manager Scott Servais said. “But our guys don’t quit. It’s a testament to them and they find a way to get ahead and get the lead. But then (the Royals) came back that’s a big hit there at the end to obviously pull it out.”

The Mariners (63-55), coming off back-toback extra-inning losses to Baltimore, fell two games behind Toronto for the final AL wildcard spot.

Maikel Garcia led off the bottom of the first with a single against Logan Gilbert, extending

his hitting streak to 16 games, a Royals rookie record. Garcia advanced on Witt’s infield hit and Perez followed with a 429-foot homer to center, his 19th.

In the fifth, Witt hit a sharp line drive to right field. Dominic Canzone appeared to lose it in the lights and it sailed behind him. He had trouble picking it up at the wall, and the speedy Witt circled the bases in 14.3 seconds, the fourth-fastest home-tohome time since Statcast began in 2015.

“I thought (Canzone) caught it,” Witt said. “Then I saw the ball get past him. I was focused on (third base coach) Vance (Wilson).”

The Royals’ last inside-the-park home run was by Whit Merrifield against the Chicago White Sox on Aug. 9, 2019.

While Gilbert was struggling, Singer was cruising. He retired the first 14 batters he faced and only had one three-

ball count before walking Cade Marlowe with two outs in the fifth.

Canzone singled with two outs in the seventh for the Mariners’ first hit. In the eighth, Singer gave up a one-out double to Mike Ford and hit Moore with a pitch, ending his night. Carlos Hernandez came on and allowed both runners to score while giving up two runs of his own.

Gilbert allowed four runs on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.

breath work.

Martin is a former minor league pitcher driven out of baseball by his own anxiety that included a fear of flying. He sat with Pederson on the plane for some flights last season, guiding him through relaxation breathing that has helped Pederson make major strides. They also regularly walk barefoot through the outfield before games to work on mindfulness.

Pederson said when he joined the Giants, he was immediately impressed with “the amount of energy, money, resources they put into mental health.”

Reducing anxiety off the field is one of Alexander’s methods to make it easier for someone to get through it, with meditation and visualization of a top performance key components.

“I think a lot more players struggle with it than come forward. I’m one of them,” the 31-year-old Pederson said. “I really don’t love flying and it’s been something I’ve dealt with my whole career. The first day I got in, they were open-handed trying to help, trying to make the best possible situation out of it, and last year was the best year I’ve had flying since.”

Brown, also 31, chose to conquer his struggles by reminding himself how fortunate he is to be part of a team at this stage of his life, knowing he will dearly miss it someday when he’s done. At his locker recently, he made a tight fist to demonstrate his frayed nerves when flying that made him “white-knuckled.”

“There are so many tools at our disposal these days with anything involving your mindset, anxieties, anything like that, stress,” said Brown, in his fifth big league season. “And it’s so awesome to have those tools to use at your disposal any time you need them.”

Sometimes, exhaustion or fatigue can fuel anxiety. Take the Giants’ first month of travel this season, for example: Arizona to San Francisco to New York to Chicago, home to San Francisco, to Detroit and Miami then home again before a trip to Mexico City.

“If you did that for vacation, you’d be tired,” Martin said. Sometimes the fear can develop from one particular scary event.

Rangers manager Bruce Bochy still becomes nervous in the air on occasion. That began after he and late Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn nearly had an accident 28 years ago on the private plane of then-Padres owner John Moores when they hit a wind shear going into Colorado for Gwynn’s Branch Rickey Award ceremony. “There’s times when you pucker up a little bit,” Bochy said.

Haren, now a pitching strategist for the Arizona Diamondbacks, decided to study up on aviation to ease his mind and gain a better understanding of the risks and everything that would have to go wrong for a catastrophic event.

“Through the course of the season you fly so much that there’s going to be times that we’re flying through rough air and a lot of times, too, I always would be scared because there was no choice but for us to fly somewhere,” he said. “We couldn’t just get delayed ‘til the next day, so I always felt like sometimes we were pushing it to get to places.” Baker reflected on Madden’s very public life moving around the U.S. by bus, and the Houston manager is happy there are more resources for athletes and staff these days.

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The four-game series continues Tuesday night with Mariners RHP Emerson Hancock (0-0, 1.80 ERA) making his second career start. Jordan Lyles (3-13, 6.13) starts for Kansas City.

It’s not just baseball players opening up about that anxiety. English cricket player Mark Wood holds hands with teammate Chris Woakes in an effort to ease the discomfort on planes. Wood shared his fear of flying and wrote a self-help book.

“There are some people, for whatever reason, they don’t like to fly,” Baker said. “And it’s probably shortened some guys’ career. Maybe instead of making a comeback, they’re like, ‘OK, that’s enough.’ Especially if they’ve made enough money.”

Before the days of breathing sessions and meditation, Bonds had a simple trick when experiencing his fear of heights on planes.

“Just close the shade,” he said. If only it were that easy for everybody.

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Charity helps with Maui search

The Associated Press Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian humanitarian aid organization, airlifted 17 tons of emergency relief equipment, tools, and some volunteers Tuesday to help after the deadly wildfires on Maui.

Volunteers with the North Carolina-based ministry plan to help search for mementos and other items that might have survived the fires, the group said in a news release.

Its disaster-response specialists have been in Hawaii since Thursday, conducting assessments and coordinating with local authorities and church partners, the group said.

In 2018, the group helped families in a similar manner following flooding on Kauai.

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Jets agree to terms with former Vikings running back Dalvin Cook

By DENNIS WASZAK JR. The Associated Press

Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets’ offense just got another big-time playmaker.

Former Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook agreed to terms on a one-year contract with the Jets on Monday, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team hadn’t

announced the agreement. NFL Network and ESPN first reported the deal is worth up to $8.6 million.

Cook, who turned 28 last week, has run for at least 1,000 yards in each of the past four seasons but was released by the Vikings on June 8 for salary cap savings. He was scheduled to count more than $14.1 million against the Vikings’ salary cap. After a few weeks of speculation about where he’d sign, Cook joins a

revamped Jets offense led by Rodgers and coordinator Nathaniel Hackett and includes wide receiver Garrett Wilson, last season’s AP Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Cook visited with New York on July 30 and watched practice after saying during an interview on NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football” the Jets “are right at the top of the list” and the odds of signing with them were “pretty high.”

The former Florida State star also said in the

interview he was interested in the Miami Dolphins and that it would be “a Cinderella story” to play for his hometown team.

Instead, he picked the Jets. And it’s another sign New York is going all-in to not only end the NFL’s longest postseason drought at 12 seasons, but to go deep into the playoffs.

“We’ll never say no to a great player,” Jets coach Robert Saleh said recently while confirming the team’s interest. “If the

opportunity presents itself in the right way. So we’re excited about him and his visit.”

The Jets wanted to make sure his surgically repaired shoulder checked out OK during his visit.

“He’s dynamic,” Saleh said. “He’s a dynamic ball carrier. He’s been a dynamic ball carrier for a long time. He’s great in the passing game. And so it’s just a matter of, like I said, all the details of that. I’m not going to get too detailed, but you

can’t say no to a good football player. They usually find a way.”

Cook, who’s third on Minnesota’s career rushing list with 5,993 yards after six seasons with the Vikings, joins Rodgers in New York after the former Green Bay quarterback was acquired by the Jets in April. Rodgers has made it clear since joining the Jets he thinks the team could make a deep playoff run. And Cook agrees with his new quarterback.