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Humboldt enrollment bucks trend

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Humboldt’s school district is growing.

That’s a bit different from other area districts, which have seen a decline in enrollment. It’s also a bit surprising in a county where the population has d r o p p e d Amber 6.3% over Wheeler the last decade.

USD 258 has 627 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, an increase of 86 from last year (541) and the highest enrollment since 1995.

Superintendent of Schools Amber Wheeler believes several factors have contributed to the increase.

“Our community is

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Small changes, big differences Moran woman uses her recovery story to help others

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Just breathe.

April Jackson remembers the time her son took a yoga class as part of an after-school program. She noticed a difference in the way he reacted to a problem. Instead of getting angry and lashing out, he simply stood there, silent and calm.

“What are you doing?” she asked.

“I’m just breathing.”

He had learned those techniques in yoga. She was amazed that something so simple could make such a big difference.

And now, many years later — as Jackson begins a new journey as the rural health coordinator for Thrive Allen County and after more than two decades in recovery her-

April Jackson is the new rural health coordinator for Thrive Allen County. She has been in recovery since 1999. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS self — she uses that story to illustrate how something small can change someone’s life.

“There’s a different kind of language for recovery versus

active addiction. Something as simple as changing a word can mean a difference,” she said.

As rural health coordina-

tor, Jackson works with the Southeast Kansas Misuse Prevention Coalition. She works with agencies, organizations See RECOVERY | Page A4

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COVID-19 Case Count

Iola Middle School falls to Wellsville

Current cases.............20 Total cases*...............1,851 Deaths......................27 *Since the start of the pandemic Sources: Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments, Kansas Department of Health and Environment

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Running ahead of the herd Iola High’s cross country runners are clustered among the middle of a pack of runners at the start of Thursday’s Pioneer League Cross Country meet at Riverside Park. The Mustangs secured three of the top four individual places to nab the team’s second consecutive league championship. Details are on B1. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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Registered Nurse Priscilla V., left, gives a vaccine shot in Eagle Rock, California. (ALLEN J. SCHABEN/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS) COVID-19 and also had cancer.

“They were switching out

their protective gear in between every patient, running like crazy trying to make sure

By ALLISON KITE Kansas Reflector

all of their patients were attended to,” she said. “I had that moment of clarity that made me want to jump right in to health care and join the workers on the front line.”

Nationally, enrollment in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral nursing programs increased 5.6% in 2020 from the year before to just over 250,000 students, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Figures for the current 2021-22 school year won’t be available until January, but administrators say they have continued to see a spike in in-

Incarcerating young Kansans is more costly and inhumane than providing community services, education and mentoring to keep them out of the juvenile justice system, according to a new report by a nonprofit pushing the state to shutter its last juvenile prison.

“The prisons we have now, they’re just meant to hold our young people,” said Jazmine Rogers, a youth leader with Progeny. “They’re meant to be dehumanizing.

They’re not meant to focus on how do we restore this young person, how do we prepare this young person to re-enter their community?”

Kansas has worked in recent years to reform its

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Nursing schools see applications rise STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge.

Among them is University of Connecticut sophomore Brianna Monte, a 19-year-old from Mahopac, New York, who had been considering majoring in education but decided on nursing after watching nurses care for her 84-year-grandmother, who was diagnosed last year with

Report: Close prisons for juveniles

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Join us in welcoming Dr. Matthew Strang to NMRMC Family Medicine Clinic in Chanute.

Dr. Strang is accepting patients of all ages from newborns to seniors. For more information, Clinic visit www.nmrmc.com or Orthopedic call 620-432-5588.

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Infection hospitalizes Clinton

Obituary Karen Miller Karen L. Miller, 63, Iola, passed away Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola.

Karen was born June 20, 1958, to Robert and Norma Jones, Topeka. She married Jay Miller on Oct. 10, 1981, in Topeka. He survives, as does her mother; children Drew, Alisa and Bryan; grandchildren Beckett, Margot and Lucas; and siblings Karen Miller Shelley Krane and Martin Jones.

Memorials in honor of Karen are suggested to A.C.A.R.F., 305 E. U.S. 54, LaHarpe, KS 66751 or www.acarf.org.

Condolences for the family may be left at www. feuerbornfuneral.com.

William M. Reed William Reed, 71, was born May 26, 1950, and died Aug. 25, 2021.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Linda Reed, and a son, Scott Powell.

William is survived by twin daughters, Melissa Turner, Iola, and Millie Masters, Coffeyville; five grandchildren and many siblings.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. William Reed Tuesday, Oct. 19, at Fellowship Regional Church in Iola.

Court news IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Robert B. Leedy, Iola, driving while suspended, 47/35, $794 Alice Rohr, Iola, dog running at large, $135

Michael E. Setterstrom, Lawrence, DUI, driving while suspended, $3,425 Melissa S. Spease, Iola, criminal trespass, $315, probation Breana L. Wrabek, Chanute, no driver’s license, possession of alcohol by a minor, $755, diversion

China launches space mission BEIJING (AP) — China today sent three astronauts to its space station for a record-setting six-month stay as the country moves toward completing the new orbiting outpost.

The Shenzhou-13 spacecraft carrying the three astronauts was launched by a Long March-2F rocket.

The two men and one woman are the second crew to move into the space station, which was launched last April. The first crew stayed three months.

The new crew includes two veterans of space travel. Zhai Zhigang, 55, and Wang Yaping, 41, and Ye Guangfu, 41, who is making his first trip to space.

The crew was seen off by a military band and supporters singing “Ode to the Motherland,” underscoring the weight of national pride invested in the China’s space program that has advanced rapidly in recent years.

They will do three spacewalks to install equipment in preparation for expanding the station, assess living conditions in the Tianhe module and conduct experiments in space medicine and other fields.

China’s military-run space program plans to send multiple crews to the station over the next two years to make it fully functional.

When completed with the addition of two more sections — named Mengtian and Wentian — the station will weigh about 66 tons, a fraction of the size of the Inter-

national Space Station, which launched its first module in 1998 and will weigh around 450 tons when completed.

The two additional Chinese modules are due to be launched before the end of next year during the stay of the yet-to-be-named Shenzhou-14 crew.

China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday renewed its commitment to cooperation with other nations in the peaceful use of space.

Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said sending humans into space was a “common cause of mankind,” and China would “continue to extend the depth and breadth of international cooperation and exchanges” in crewed spaceflight and “make positive contributions to the exploration of the mysteries of the universe.”

China was excluded from the International Space Station largely due to U.S. objections over the Chinese program’s secretive nature and close military ties, prompting it to launch two experimental modules before starting on the permanent station.

U.S. law requires congressional approval for contact between the American and Chinese space programs, but China is cooperating with experts from countries including France, Sweden, Russia and Italy.

Chinese officials have said they look forward to hosting astronauts from other countries aboard the space station once it becomes fully functional.

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ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Bill Clinton was said to be recovering from a urological infection Friday, and an aide to the former president said that Clinton was in an intensive care section of the hospital, though not receiving “ICU care.”

The aide, who spoke to reporters at the hospital on condition his name wasn’t used, did not elaborate on the reason Clinton was in the ICU. He said Clinton had a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream, but is on the mend and never went into septic shock, a potentially life-threatening condition.

Clinton was in good spirits and juggling books and watching TV coverage about his hospitalization, the aide said. Hillary Clinton was with him in the hospital, though not his daughter, Chelsea Clinton. There was no immediate word on any timeline for his release.

President Joe Biden said Friday during remarks at a child care center that he’s been “exchanging calls” about Clinton and “he seems to be, God willing, doing well.”

Clinton, 75, was admitted to the Univer-

Former President Bill Clinton, shown at an event in 2018, has been hospitalized with a urological infection. TNS FILE PHOTO sity of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday evening for a non-COVID-19-related infection, Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña said Thursday in a statement.

“He is on the mend, in good spirits and is incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses, and staff providing him with excellent care,” Ureña said.

A second statement from Clinton’s spokesman quoted physicians Dr. Alpesh Amin and Dr. Lisa Bardack, who said the former presi-

Colony Church Bruce Symes gave the Communion Meditation this week.

(Ref: 1 John 1:7-9) Pastor Chase Riebel gave the sermon “Due Process” over Acts 23 and 24. (Ref: Acts 23 & 24; Joshua 1:9; Matthew 10:16-19; Deuteronomy 31:6; John 8:44 & 14:6; 2 Corinthians 13:5; Galatians 6:4-5) Hear this and all our sermons by using your favorite podcast app, on the church Facebook page, or online at www.colonychristianchurch.org.

Tuesday meetings:

Men’s Bible study, 7 a.m. in the church basement; Women’s Bible study, 8:30 a.m. at the parsonage; Mary & Martha's life group, 6 p.m. at the parsonage.

Men on Fire life group will be the second Friday of the month. Good News is 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Community Church. Youth group for middle and high school-aged kids will meet at the church at 6 p.m. Wednesdays, with the adult Bible study at the parsonage at 7.

dent has been “administered IV antibiotics and fluids.”

“After two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down and he is responding to antibiotics well,” the doctors said.

“The California-based medical team has been in constant communication with the President’s New York-based medical team, including his cardiologist.

We hope to have him go home soon.”

In the years since Clinton left the White House in 2001, the former president has faced health scares. In 2004, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery after experiencing prolonged chest pains and shortness of breath. He returned to the hospital for surgery for a partially collapsed lung in 2005, and in 2010 he had a pair of stents implant-

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Clarification Separate houses An article in Thursday’s Register, detailing a haunted house planned by Paul Porter and Hayley Derryberry in the old Shannon building at 20 W. Jackson Ave. needed some clarification.

A second haunted house, The Slaughterhouse, also is planned for Oct. 22-23 and 2930 at Iola’s Riverside Park.

That venue will be organized by Allen County Dance Parents Fundraising and the

ed in a coronary artery.

He responded by embracing a largely vegan diet that saw him lose weight and report improved health.

He repeatedly returned to the stump, campaigning for Democratic candidates, mostly notably his wife, Hillary, during her failed 2008 bid for the presidential nomination. And in 2016, as Hillary Clinton sought the White House as the Democratic nominee, Bill Clinton — by then a grandfather and nearing 70 — returned to the campaign trail.

A spokesman for the Clinton Foundation said the former president was in the Los Angeles area for private events related to his charitable organization. The UCI Medical Center is in Orange County, about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

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competition dance team from Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy, and will include a kiddie haunt.

Part of the group’s mission is to stress the importance of giving back to the community, noted Nikki Peters, one of the organizers.

In that vein, organizers will offer s’mores in exchange for a $1 donation or a non-perishable food item.

Proceeds will be donated locally, Peters said.

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Reform: Investing in prevention programs less expensive Continued from A1

juvenile correctional system. In 2016, it passed a sweeping reform bill that closed a youth prison in Larned and earmarked money for programs to keep kids out of the system. But there’s more work to be done, Progeny says.

This year, Kansas cut more than $20 million from its funds earmarked for community intervention programs.

Progeny made the case that closing the KJCC and, instead, investing in prevention programs would be far less expensive. Beyond that, said Nichole Lee, campaign manager for Progeny, incarcerating young people is really harmful.

“I do think if we were able to close that facility, we could really talk about preventative measures,” Lee said.

The report comes just over a week ahead of the Kansas Legislature’s next Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight.

Kansas Sen. Molly Baumgardner, a Louisburg Republican who serves as vice-chair of that committee, noted the legislature’s effort had successfully reduced the number of incarcerated children but said there was more work to do. She said money the state set aside for prevention programs hadn’t been used as effectively as legislators hoped.

“The goal has always been to reduce the incarceration level, which it has done,” Baumgardner said. “But has it helped to really resolve the issues? I don’t know

The report also notes that Black children are disproportionately incarcerated compared to their white peers.

Alternatives to incarceration

At a panel sponsored by Progeny in August, a coalition of juvenile justice reformers shared skepticism about wisdom of Legislature and governor cutting $21 million from a community program fund. Progeny has released a new report calling for the closing of the state’s last juvenile prison. (SCREEN CAPTURE/KANSAS REFLECTOR)

that anyone is comfortable saying, ‘Yep, it’s at the mark that we want.’”

‘A very heavy experience’

According to the report, Kansas’ correctional system took in more than 11,700 young people between July 2020 and June 2021, which includes both juvenile delinquency cases and “child in need of care” cases, in which children don’t have adequate care or are abused or neglected. That’s down from more than 15,500 five years ago.

But still, incarcerating young people is ineffective, the report says.

Young people who are housed in a juvenile facility have a high risk of recidivism.

Tyler Williams, an organizer with Progeny, said he was in the now-shuttered Larned youth prison and KJCC as a teen.

“As a literal child

Humboldt: Numbers Continued from A1

growing.

Businesses are adding jobs. New businesses are coming to town. Our school has a great reputation and we have quite a few outof-district students,” she said.

The numbers show about 140 students attend Humboldt schools but live in a different district.

And the total enrollment doesn’t include preschool.

Wheeler noted Humboldt’s preschool program has reached 100% participation for all eligible youth.

The growth seems to be spread out among all grade levels.

But with increased enrollment comes a few challenges, Wheeler noted.

For example, the year started with 58 kindergarten students. That meant adding a third kindergarten teacher, keeping class sizes between 18 and 20 students.

The freshman class is the largest at 64. The district didn’t have enough textbooks for so many freshmen, and had to buy more.

They also had to buy more computers and iPads to meet the one-onone technology needs.

Still, Wheeler noted, it’s a good problem to have.

“I think that type of growth is good for our community, and it shows our community is healthy and growing,” she said.

The district had been considering a bond

issue for facilities upgrades, but that was put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wheeler expects the issue to come up again soon, likely at the next board meeting on Nov. 8.

SPEAKING of COVID-19, the Humboldt district currently does not have any active cases among students or staff.

The school board on Monday agreed to continue to follow the qualifications of a “Test to Stay and Learn” policy from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

KDHE provides funding for nursing positions and testing supplies that allow students to remain in school if they agree to be tested regularly upon exposure to COVID-19, and if the result is negative.

The district has been following that policy, but the board’s action formalized its intent to abide by the state’s rules as they change over time.

The district has two school nurses, one each at the elementary school and at the middle/high school building. One position is funded by a different grant; the other comes through the KDHE program.

Typically, Humboldt conducts the tests from 7:30 to 8 each morning at the garage behind the district office. Supplies also are available at schools.

“It’s a huge benefit to have the additional nurse,” Wheeler said.

who went into the system and came out as a grown man, it was very difficult mentally, emotionally, spiritually,”

Williams said. “It was a very heavy experience. I suffer from PTSD from a lot of the experiences in juvie.”

Progeny suggests Kansas look to other states, including Missouri, for models.

Missouri, according to the report, has moved away from traditional incarceration in favor of smaller facilities with extensive services closer to young people’s homes and communities.

Illinois’ Juvenile Justice Initiative suggests exhausting all less-restrictive options before incarcerating a young person and raising the minimum age for detention from 10 to 13.

The report says home care and confinement should be prioritized, and incarceration should remain a last re-

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sort. Rather than such a large, centralized youth prison, the state should have small centers with no more than 10 beds, the report suggests.

Baumgardner said there was serious talk last year about doing that and transitioning the KJCC to house adult women. That would alleviate overcrowding at the Topeka Correctional Facility, the state’s only prison for women.

That would allow kids to be closer to home and receive more help, such as education and career training, she said.

Rep. Gail Finney, a Wichita Democrat, said she’d like to see the KJCC closed and replaced with more community-based programs.

“I just think it’s going to take more time and resources to make it a success,” Finney said.

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This week’s message:

A small but required volume accompanied every flight. Those were Air Force days. As the navigator for some 1,300 aircrew hours, each day’s journey began assuring those vital preflight items were complete. The duties of my assigned position could then be carried out in a way to help assure the safe and successful transit to our destination.

I don’t miss that checklist! Yet I am at that rather delicate age where a list of things to prioritize the trek ahead is increasingly important.

And if so for my physical world, should not my spiritual duties rank even higher? In the secular world and pastoral alike some things remain constant. The ongoing routine of work, eating, sleeping, paying the bills and family matters always loom large.

Needed is the spiritual agenda. Was my time reading God’s Word sufficient for today’s challenges? Did I really feel rewarded after prayer this morning? And again, am I growing closer to the Lord in a way that is reflected in my activities?

Not a legal “must do” index drives one’s spiritual checklist. It’s rather an ingrown desire and quest to begin the day in a way that will assure safe arrival at destination.

And along the flight, knowledge and heartfelt passion grows. Words and action towards others freely emerge. Physical, and greater still, spiritual nourishment allow one to truly make a difference to self, to others and thus ultimately to the Lord.

Follow the checklist. And may your navigating be rewarded.

Pastor steve traw • carlyle PRESBYTERIAN church

Carlyle

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

Bible Study . . . . . . .Tuesday 3 p.m.

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620-365-9728

Livestream on our services: facebook.com/IolaNaz/

Sunday School 9:45 - 10:30 a.m.

Community Sunday Service 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Church Wednesday Night Bible Study 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. of the Senior Pastor Nazarene Austin Hendrix, 620-365-3983

www.nazarene.org 1235 N. Walnut St., Iola

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God” -1 John 4:7

Cowboy Church & the Arena of Life

Bible School . . . . . . Wed. 7 p.m.

Sunday Worship . . . . . . 11:15 a.m.

Children’s Church . . . . . . Sun. 10:30 a.m.

620-637-2298

781 Hwy. 105, Toronto, KS

Service Time . . . . . . . 10:30 a.m. regional church

620-365-8001

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Fellowship fellowshipregionalchurch@yahoo.com

regional church fellowshipregionalchurch@yahoo.com facebook.com/FRCIOLA 214 Madison, Iola620-228-8001 214 W.W.Madison Ave., Iola www.facebook.com/FRCIOLA/ frciola.com Service Time...................10:30 a.m.

Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 a.m.

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

Kids Connection . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30 a.m.

fellowshipregionalchurch@yahoo.com Jared Ellis 620-228-8001 Luke Bycroft www.facebook.com/FRCIOLA/

Jared Ellis Luke Bycroft

Travis Boyt, Pastor

801 N. Cottonwood St., Iola

First

John & Jenna Higginbotham, Youth Leaders 620-365-2779

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

302 E. Madison, Iola

Presbyterian

Rev. Daniel M. Davis

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

Church

620-365-3481

Join us “live” online for Sunday Worship at www.iolapresbyterian.org

302 E. Madison Ave., Iola

Grace Lutheran Church 117 E. Miller Rd., Iola

Tony Godfrey, Pastor

Steve Traw, Pastor

29 Covert St., Carlyle

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

Sunday Youth Group . . . . . . . . . . 6 p.m.

Join us “live” online for Sunday Worship at iolapresbyterian.org or on our YouTube channel

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

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

Rev. Bruce Kristalyn 620-365-6468

620-365-3688 2001 N. State St., Iola

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Humboldt United Methodist Church

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

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

Rev. Marge Cox, Pastor 620-473-3242

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Iola First Assembly of God

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

Paul Miller, Pastor 620-365-2492

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1020 E. Carpenter St., Iola (at the intersection of North 3rd St. and Carpenter.

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New York Valley Church

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

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

1432 Hwy. 54, Yates Center

Listen in on 97.7 FM & KSNP/Burlington

South Church of Christ

Sunday Bible Class . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m.

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

Wednesday Night Services . . . . 7 p.m.

2205 S. State St., Iola

St. John’s & St. Joseph’s Catholic Church 310 S. Jefferson Ave., Iola

620-365-2277 Father David Michael

Richard Schmidt, Pastor 620-625-3060

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329 S. 1st St., Iola, KS 66749 A gospel-centered church making disciples of Jesus Christ

Sunday Worship . . . . 10:45 a.m. waypointchurch.com • facebook.com/waypointiola

Wesley

United Methodist Church 301 E. Madison Ave., Iola

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

Rev. Dr. Jocelyn Tupper, Senior Pastor • 620-365-2285

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Recovery: Jackson takes role with Thrive Continued from A1

and individuals in a six-county region to bring together resources for prevention and treatment, and to find strategies to help those with substance misuse issues.

“I want to bridge those gaps for people.

I have an understanding of what it takes to reach people who are suffering and connect them with the resources to help. The recovery language I learned is not a secret. It’s just something that started to make sense.”

JACKSON considers Moran her hometown, even though she lived in other parts of Kansas during her childhood.

She often spent summers and weekends with her grandparents in Moran, Iola and Fort Scott before moving to the Moran area and graduating from Marmaton Valley High School.

After high school, she wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with the rest of her life as far as a career path.

“I really wanted to be a mom, be on the farm and do rural living,” she said.

She headed to Independence Community College, had a baby and got married. The marriage ended and she moved back to Moran “to figure out what life had in store for me.”

Jackson noted one constant of her life: It’s always changing.

“It’s always been about timing. One door slams shut, and another door opens when it’s time to move on.”

The next years of her life would include several jobs, moves to different towns and failed relationships.

She was married and divorced again, with another child. She went back to college a couple of times, and graduated from Emporia State University in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis in earth science and geospatial information systems.

She recently started a business as a home-herbalist, making herbal teas and crafts.

She moved back to

There’s always a different choice to make.

Sometimes they’re very hard and I’ve not always made the right choices. But the one thing I’ve not done is put any of that stuff back in my body.

— April Jackson

her family’s homestead this past summer and worked for TLC Garden Center in LaHarpe before deciding she wanted to find a career where she could use her recovery experience to make a difference in her community.

HER recovery story started in Chanute, when she was 24 and a single parent to a 6-year-old.

“I had a love-hate relationship with alcohol and pills, and at that point, anything else,” she said.

“I was not sure that I wanted to continue living, but I knew I didn’t want to leave that kind of legacy for my daughter.”

A family member with similar substance misuse issues had found a different kind of life through recovery. He helped her see she had options.

She visited a doctor who helped enroll her in a detox program. She didn’t understand it was a 28-day program, and checked herself out after three days.

“It did give me a moment to realize I was willing to do whatever it takes not to be where I was.”

She started attending a 12-step fellowship program. She entered counseling.

Her life started to change.

She could just breathe.

“It didn’t happen all at once,” she said.

“There’s always a different choice to make.

Sometimes they’re very hard and I’ve not always made the right choices. But the one thing I’ve not done is put any of that stuff back in my body.”

Still, it’s an ongoing process.

Things haven’t been easy. Doors keep closing. New doors open.

Her son, Justin Courtney, became very ill during his freshman

year of high school, and the family still isn’t entirely sure what happened. He’s now recovered, graduated from high school in May, and is getting ready to start a new job at a ski resort in Colorado.

Her daughter, Carley Swanson, has a 3-yearold son, Jaxxen, and Jackson enjoys taking him to school.

After about 10 years of recovery, Jackson realized her entire family needed to heal and she went back into counseling.

“There was still stuff I was holding onto that I needed to work through. That’s the message I carry now to people in recovery.

What you are doing right now is awesome.

Don’t stop. Even if it gets hard, it will get better again.”

JACKSON’S career has included jobs in sales and marketing.

She worked more than 13 years for Muckenthaler Inc., a restaurant equipment company in Emporia. She was able to travel the country, attending conferences and learning leadership skills.

That motivated her to go back to school.

She intended to pursue a marketing degree but instead found a love of earth science.

After moving back and forth from Emporia — and after Muckenthaler closed and her son graduated from high school — Jackson ended up back home in Moran. She was working for TLC when she read in the newspaper about the rural health coordinator position at Thrive.

“I was thinking about how I could serve my community. How can I share my recovery and what I’ve gained?”

The Thrive job seemed like a perfect fit, so Jackson sent an extensive cover letter outlining her qualifica-

tions and experiences.

“I threw everything but the kitchen sink into it. I just felt super passionate about it.”

The combination of being in recovery, and having a sales and marketing background, gives Jackson a unique opportunity to connect with a variety of people.

“It’s about getting people excited to do uncomfortable things,” she said.

She’s only been on the job for about three weeks, so she’s still learning. She’s reading the criteria for the grant and reaching out to people in the community who can offer resources to help those in need.

“I’m not afraid to have a conversation and be vulnerable with somebody. Let’s find common ground.”

She noted several programs in Southeast Kansas and Allen County that are already working, such as a Drug Court program under Judge Daniel Creitz in the 31st Judicial District, and the efforts of the Allen County Multi-Agency Team (ACMAT) in alcohol and tobacco prevention for area youth.

She also wants to see more programs that can help someone thrive as they begin to recover. That could include something like a sober living house or other ways to help someone’s transition.

“What works in one stage of recovery doesn’t always work at another,” she said.

“For me, the stakes are higher. Maybe I would like to try new things, but sometimes the environment is not safe, depending on my spiritual and mindful position. I can’t lose sight of my purpose.

It’s a tricky balance.

“This job means I can serve my community and bring those resources to light.”

Judge: Kansas election database function not public record BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Republican secretary of state did not violate the state’s open records law by ordering the removal of an election database function that generates a statewide report showing which provisional ballots were not counted, a judge ruled.

The decision Wednes-

day by Shawnee County District Judge Teresa Watson comes in a lawsuit filed by voting rights activist Davis Hammet, who is the president of Loud Light, a nonprofit that strives to increase voter turnout. The group helps voters fix issues that led them to cast provisional ballots so that their votes are

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Voters are given provisional ballots if they don’t appear to be registered, if they fail to present the required identification or if they are trying to vote at the wrong polling place.

The judge sided with Secretary of State Scott Schwab in finding that the ability to produce a statewide provisional

ballot detail report in the election database is not a public record as defined by the Kansas Open Records Act. Watson found that eliminating that functionality does not violate the state law as written.

The lawsuit contended Schwab altered the software to hide election records.

Air Force general is second woman to lead US command WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost on Friday became only the second woman to lead one of the Pentagon’s 11 so-called combatant commands, the multi-service organizations that spearhead U.S. military operations around the world.

At a change-of-command ceremony at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin applauded Van Ovost’s historic rise to lead U.S. Transportation Command. He called her a “legend of a leader,” a pilot by training and a pivotal player in the airlift of tens of thousands of evacuees from Kabul in August.

She helped orchestrate the airlift as commander of the Air Force Air Mobility Command.

“We need every Jackie Van Ovost we can get,”

Austin, a retired Army general, said. “As she likes to say, ‘As young women looking up, it’s hard to be what you can’t see.’ So General Van Ovost knows the importance of breaking barriers.”

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, applauded Van Ovost’s depth of experience.

“There is not a single person out there who is more prepared to lead TransCom than Jackie Van Ovost,” he said.

Transportation Command is in charge of all aspects of global transportation for the military, including the movement of cargo and personnel by land, sea and air. Its 89th Airlift Wing at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland operates aircraft for government VIP travel, including Air Force One for the president.

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Two million poor people were left behind by the ACA

By JENNIFER HABERKORN Los Angeles Times/TNS

WASHINGTON — For most of her adult life, Amy Bielawski has gone without health insurance.

Her small Atlanta-area business, which provides entertainment for parties and events, didn’t bring in enough revenue to afford coverage. So she has gotten by on the hope that her high blood pressure doesn’t get worse and her small pituitary tumor doesn’t grow.

“I try to be as healthy as I possibly can so I’m not needing to run to the doctor, but there’s no backup plan when something goes wrong,” she said.

Bielawski, 56, is one of the people the 2010 Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, was supposed to help.

But the Supreme Court in 2012 said the law’s Medicaid expansion provision had to be optional, and several Republican-led states refused to embrace it.

That left about 2 million people, mostly in Southern states, caught without any access to health coverage because they are considered too wealthy to qualify for Medicaid, which targets lower-income people, and too poor to qualify for Obamacare subsidies.

In states like California, which expanded Medicaid under ACA, the gap is not a problem.

As congressional Democrats consider President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan, a sweeping bill to reshape the nation’s social programs, they are debating whether to finally close this Medicaid coverage gap, the most significant piece of unfinished business from the Democrats’ health law.

But it faces a mountain of challenges: The social safety net bill’s programs will probably be cut or curtailed to reduce the overall costs. Limited health care dollars are pitting Medicaid against other proposals to expand Medicare for everyone and ACA subsidies for middle-income people.

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) says expanding Medicaid would allow for federal funding of abortion, a line he refuses to cross, even though other Demo-

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the CARES Act, at the Hart Senate Office Building on Sept. 28 in Washington, D.C. (KEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY IMAGES/TNS) crats say it would not do so. And in the Senate, where Democrats have no margin for error, there are few advocates besides its most junior members.

“There are hundreds of thousands of my constituents who lack basic access to health care because my state’s Republican leadership refuses to expand Medicaid,” said Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), whose surprise runoff-election win in January, alongside fellow Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock, gave Democrats control of the Senate.

“It is those voters who delivered the Senate majority.”

About 60% of the people in the gap in 2019 were people of color, exacerbating long-held disparities in health access by race.

“Democrats in the House and Senate all realize that solving for the Medicaid expansion gap is the single most important thing we can do for racial equity in health care in this bill,” said Leslie Dach, founder and chair of the health advocacy group Protect Our Care.

Early drafts of the bill would call for the ACA’s subsidies to be expanded to the Medicaid gap population for three years. By 2025, a federal program that mimics a state-run Medicaid program would provide coverage.

Manchin, who as the Senate’s most conservative Democrat is among its most closely watched, has two concerns about the Medicaid expansion. He is worried about how to pay for it and he says the Medicaid expansion would allow for the fed-

eral funding of abortion.

He insists that the longtime ban on federal funding of abortion, known as the Hyde Amendment, be added.

But many other Democrats would oppose such a move. “I do not want to see the Hyde Amendment expanded in this bill, and I don’t see any reason why it should be,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).

Even if they wanted to, the Senate parliamentarian in 2017 said in an informal ruling that the Senate cannot add Hyde language to a bill passed through the special filibuster-proof procedure Democrats are using to enact their plan.

Democrats are adamant they don’t want to see a debate about abortion derail their bill. But federal funding of abortion nearly halted the ACA in 2010 and ended other seemingly bipartisan health initiatives. “There is a supreme irony here. If you’re pro-life, then you ought to support a bill that saves lives,” Warnock said.

Democrats are considering eliminating the second portion of their plan — the federal Medicaid add-on in 2025, according to several Democrats familiar with the discussions. It would reduce the cost as well as eliminate Manchin’s concern. But it would expose Medicaid beneficiaries to losing their coverage in 2025.

Medicaid is also squaring off against two other politically popular health proposals in the bill: expanding either the ACA or Medicare, the health care program for se-

niors.

In recent days, progressives in the Senate and House have made clear that Medicare expansion — to cover vision, dental and hearing — is a non-negotiable for them. And while they haven’t proposed cutting Medicaid, Democrats will at some point have to make difficult decisions about what will get axed.

That’s because their once-$3.5 trillion bill is being narrowed down to about $1.5 to $2 trillion to meet the demands of Manchin and other centrists.

A proposal to require drugmakers to negotiate their prices in Medicare — a money-saving plan designed to fund the expansions in new coverage — is expected to be pared down, too, requiring more belt-tightening.

Expanding Medicare benefits would help about 61 million seniors and provide new benefits that would probably be politically popular with reliable voters.

But the optics will be harsh if Democrats provide more benefits to middle-class people

through the ACA expansion or people of all income levels — including the wealthy — through an expansion of Medicare benefits, while leaving people who make less than $12,880 per year exposed in the 12 states coping with the gap.

“I think we’ve got to do everything,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said when asked whether Medicaid could be left out. “There is a reason why Medicare is an enormously popular program and that is it is effective. It provides care to all of our people.

It is universal.”

Several Democrats, particularly in the Senate, have quietly expressed frustration that they will have to spend their already limited dollars to bail out Republican governors who already have access to other federal dollars if they merely overcome their political opposition to Obamacare and choose to expand Medicaid.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), whose state didn’t expand, is pitching to fellow Democrats that the Medicaid expansion should be carved out of the price tag since Congress originally approved the funding back in 2010.

“This is something that we have already contemplated and set aside funds for and we should look at it in a unique light because of that,” Baldwin said.

Medicaid is a more

significant priority in the House than the Senate.

House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), whose state is one of those that did not expand, has made Medicaid a priority. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) has prioritized beefing up the ACA subsidies as well as Medicaid. Several House Democrats represent districts in states that didn’t expand coverage and they’re pressing their leadership to make sure it stays in the bill.

But in the Senate, there are only three Democrats who represent states that did not choose to expand the program: Baldwin, Ossoff and Warnock — the latter two are the chamber’s two most junior senators.

A few months ago, Bielawski got health insurance for the first time in years and has already been to the doctor. The Democrats’ COVID-19 relief bill, approved in March, provided heavily subsidized ACA coverage to anyone who collected unemployment benefits this year.

She’s said she’s worried about losing it again and troubled by the inequity that leaves people in some states without coverage.

“That seems wrong, doesn’t it,” she said.

“There should be some sort of all-country [program.]

Some things should be equal.”

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You don’t forget a miracle

By SUSAN LYNN Register editor

I had the pleasure of a recent visit from Kason Botts, a fifth-grader at Marmaton Valley Elementary School.

Kason came by the Register to inform me that he is the reporter for his 4-H club, Prairie Rose, and he wanted some tips on how to write for the paper.

His mother, Kelci, stood to the side, her face beaming with pride as Kason and I talked about news leads and such.

Kason doesn’t know this, but I first met him when he was an infant and newly diagnosed with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. The first month of his life was in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City.

As an infant, he struggled to get enough nutrition and took growth hormones. Later, physical, occupation and speech therapy were incorporated.

My introduction to Kason came by way of a story I was working on about four young mothers whose children had special needs.

They dubbed themselves “Mothers of Miracles” and are responsible for raising the funds to purchase the special needs play equipment in Riverside Park.

Their bigger mission is to provide support for others with special needs children.

The impact of those mothers will remain with me always. Their love, devotion, and strength are unparalleled.

I CAUGHT UP with Kelci later to see how Kason, now 10, is doing. Kelci is in her sixth year of teaching math at Marmaton Valley High School. Before that, she taught for 10 years in Erie. Kason’s dad, Jason, is a track maintenance supervisor for Union Pacific Railroad.

Since Kason’s birth, Kelci said that Jason “had taken a demotion” with the railroad in order to be home more.

They also have a daughter, Kylar, age 4½, who attends preschool.

Though Kason comes up past my shoulders — “proof that growth hormones work,” said Kelci — his health remains precarious.

Because Prader-Willi affects the body’s hormones, it’s difficult for Kason’s muscles to develop. As a result, he must continually challenge himself to do weight-bearing exercises.

Lucky for Kason, the Botts have a farm where his chores include hauling a five-gallon bucket of feed for the pigs and muscling around big animals. Kason has two dairy cows he’s raised since birth and wants to grow his own herd.

Kelci and Jason also devise other challenges for Kason. “Instead of opening the gate, he climbs over the

Kason Botts, a fifth-grader at Marmaton Valley Elementary School, came by for some news tips for his new position as reporter for Prairie Rose 4-H Club. The honor was all mine. fence,” Kelci gave as an example.

Having a little sister also is a great motivator. “She’s always wanting him to play kickball.”

At school, Kason sees a host of therapists on a routine basis for speech, occupational and physical therapy and Kelci continues to administer a growth hormone shot every evening.

For the last two-plus years he’s used a CPAP machine at night to help address sleep apnea, another side effect of Prader-Willi.

Kason also continues to see a retinue of specialists at Children’s Mercy on a monthly basis. “He visits eight different clinics at any one time,” Kelci said.

KNOWING what to expect for Kason has been of immense value. “We can be proactive instead of reactive,” she said.

Otherwise the future could look bleak.

Kelci said Kason is in a “window of time” between the ages of 8 and 12 where his health has stabilized. On the horizon could be a battle against obesity.

Another symptom of Prader-Willi is an insatiable appetite. To head those problems off, the family works to maintain a healthy diet.

“Kason’s already on the hefty side so if after a first serving he’s still hungry, it’s more vegetables, not a starch,” said Kelci.

As a family, they avoid sweets and snacks. Milk and water are their only beverages.

“Of course Kylar was introduced to chocolate milk in preschool,” Kelci said with a sigh.

The school cooks are aware of Kason’s condition and cater to his needs. This team effort has helped Kason realize he’s not alone in this fight.

The Botts family, from left, Kelci, Kylar, Kason and Jason.

“As he gets older he’s becoming more self-aware. On the one hand, he’s becoming more independent in educating himself about what he needs to do. At the same time, he’s starting to realize he’s a little different from his peers,” Kelci said, which can prompt some honest conversations.

Because of his exposure to other children with special needs, Kason is beyond his years in maturity.

“He understands that if the mind works, nothing else matters,” said Kelci.

“And I tell him that he’s an example for others to push themselves, to try new things.”

For example, Kason plays trumpet in the fifth grade band.

“All that blowing is really taxing for Kason,” she said.

“The teacher asks them to practice 30 minutes every other night. Instead, Kason practices 15 minutes every night.”

At the end of a school week, “he’s spent.”

Kason is a good student.

“Sometimes it takes him a little longer to process things,” Kelci said, noting the invaluable support of school paras.

Kelci pointed out that by Kason helping his younger sister with her classwork, he’s reinforcing elementary lessons for himself.

Once dependent on sign language, Kason’s verbal skills have greatly improved.

“He’s also a bookworm,” Kelci said. “He’ll research anything and everything and has a great memory. He can tell you any Patrick Mahomes statistic.”

As a parent of a special needs child, Kelci looks at it as an opportunity.

“Before Kason, I didn’t exactly know what my purpose in life was. Now, there’s no doubt,” she said, adding that as a teacher and as a Kays Club sponsor, she tries to raise students’ awareness about special needs children.

AFTER KASON’S visit, Kelci said he was surprised that I knew his name.

Truth is, over the years I’ve been taking note of Kason’s activities in 4-H and school, so when he walked in the door I knew exactly who he was.

You don’t forget a miracle.

Janet Yellen is right. The debt limit is dangerous and should be abolished Congratulations to Congress for avoiding economic catastrophe for another month or so. The Senate and House voted to increase the nation’s debt limit by $480 billion. That’s just enough money to pay America’s bills until Dec. 3, when Congress will likely have this fight all over again while the nation teeters on the edge of default.

Can we get off this idiotic merry-go-round?

The semi-regular debt limit fight is politics at its worst.

Why? Because raising the federal debt limit should be a routine, obligatory act by Congress to fulfill the government’s basic duty to pay the bills run up by the very same Congress.

Instead, the debt limit has become a prop in Washington’s Political Kabuki Theater. One party — usually the GOP — refuses to vote to raise the debt limit, while bemoaning the amount of federal spending and the size of the deficit. The other party scrambles for strategies or concessions to get the votes.

While the standoff plays out, the U.S. inches closer to the moment when it runs out of cash and can no longer borrow to meet its financial obligations, which include Social Security payments and reimbursing hospitals for Medicare patients.

A default could be devastating to the American economy, which is still struggling from the pandemic shutdowns, and trigger a recession. But even if Congress somehow gets its act together and raises the debt ceiling again before December, the constant brinkmanship and last-minute scrambling undermines confidence that U.S. Treasuries are a stable, predictable investment. That could hurt the

nation’s economy in the long run, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned.

“It’s led to a series of politically dangerous conflicts that have caused Americans and global markets to question whether or not America is serious about paying its bills,” Yellen said Thursday on CNN. That’s why she has endorsed eliminating the debt limit.

And she’s right.

Congress established the debt limit more than a century ago. In theory, it is supposed to encourage fiscally responsible behavior. In practice, the debt limit is largely ignored until the U.S. hits it.

That’s why the current version makes no sense. The debt limit doesn’t actually stop Congress from running up debts. It merely stops the Treasury from borrowing the money needed to pay federal creditors, pensioners, investors and others to whom Uncle Sam owes money.

The debt limit is an irresponsible way to manage the nation’s obligations, and it’s time to get rid of it.

There is a value in having some mechanism to constrain spending, or at least force a meaningful debate over whether the expense justifies the debt. Over the years, there have been countless proposals to reform or replace the debt limit, such as those from the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the nonpartisan anti-deficit group, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The core recommendation is to more closely link decisions about spending and borrowing.

But for now, the best course for Congress is to repeal the debt limit, and put an end to this dangerous brinksmanship.

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Richard Apt, a 1978 graduate of Iola High School who has made a name for himself in the art world, has a show of his works at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Apt, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Apt, Jr., is art director of Nichols Advertising Arts, Inc., and works with the visual department at Neiman-Marcus department store in Dallas. He

also teaches in the continuing education department at Brookhaven Community College. He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Houston where he was named the outstanding student in his class. ***** John and Sandra Stoneking are the new owners of Country Lanes which they purchased from Marvin Boyer and Lee Ellis. The bowling establishment opened in 1961.

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

Concerning the editorial in the Oct. 9 Register, congratulations on the reported health of your newspaper.

Just stay local and report local news as well as selected state and national news and I will continue to read the Register.

Selling out to a conglomerate would be the beginning of the end of our local newspaper and your current successful business model.

I trust the Register and metro newspapers to deliver factual news on their news pages. Other sources such as Facebook consider themselves a platform to print whatever customers want regardless of science or facts. If I recall correctly, the Register tried this in 1992

in a feature called “SoundOff.” Citizens called in with their comments but with no names, much like Facebook does today. The comments got so personal and just gossip and innuendo that it was rightly canceled after a few months. People will say terrible things and just plain lies if it can be done anonymously.

Welcome to your new sports reporter, Reese Becker, and to the yet-to-arrive new sales representative.

May the Register evolve with the changing times and last for many more years. After all, if we had no newspapers, what would take their place in today’s world?

Respectfully, Paul L. Zirjacks, Iola, Kan.

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Rural murals transform everyday Kansas into art

By DAVID CONDOS Kansas News Service

HAYS — Matt Miller slowly walks backward into the middle of 5th Street in downtown Hays.

The wall in front of him used to make up the plain, gray side of a local glass shop. Now, it’s his giant concrete canvas — 13 feet tall by more than 18 feet wide — for painting one of the northwest Kansas town’s new murals.

It’s so large that he has to take a step back every once in a while just to get a good look at his progress.

“I still need to make that brightest highlight a little brighter, but it’s close,” he said. “I could probably about bust into dancing right now.”

From Hays to Great Bend to Lecompton, small towns across the state increasingly turn to larger-than-life works of art to inspire pride among residents and attract tourists. And as more towns blaze this artistic trail, the economic benefits of murals — and the road map to getting them done — come into focus.

Miller, an artist who has lived and worked in Hays for the past 10 years, is putting the finishing touches on a painting that depicts Indigenous bison dancers from tribes who once used the western Kansas plains as hunting grounds.

Translating his art to such a grand scale has been a months-long process that’s come with plenty of challenges, many of them conquered while standing on a scaffold five feet above the sidewalk.

There’s the math it takes to accurately enlarge his original fourfoot by two-foot painting to fill this wall. Then there are the long days of taxing physical work to actually brush the paint onto a building instead of a canvas.

“It's just kind of a different animal,” he said, “a different process.”

But around Hays, this type of scene is becoming increasingly com-

Hays artist Matt Miller holds a smaller version of the artwork he created for his new mural. He's had it taped to the wall to help him translate the painting to a larger scale. DAVID CONDOS/KANSAS NEWS SERVICE mon.

Miller’s wall is the second in a line of several murals that will go up on local buildings, from the thrift shop to the sushi restaurant, over the next year.

Branded as Brush the Bricks, the series will culminate with a community art project that invites residents to paint part of Hays’ grain coop. And the town has already collected roughly half of the donations and grants it’ll need to reach its $150,000 goal to pay for the endeavor.

Miller said that’s not just good news for local artists, but also for anyone else who calls western Kansas home.

“It gives you a sense of place,” Miller said, “and it's another way to bring people together.”

The mural movement

Murals in rural Kansas go back at least 100 years, to companies like Coca-Cola commissioning artists to hand-paint advertisements on brick walls.

But Marci Penner, executive director of the Kansas Sampler Foundation, said the idea of outdoor art as a means for boosting a small town’s bottom line and staving off population loss has now become, well, trendy.

“The trend to utilize (murals) as an economic development tool … to bring people in, to improve quality of life,” she said, “that’s on the rise.”

And Penner credits Clay Center, a north-central Kansas town with just under 4,000 residents, as the place that launched a thousand paintbrushes.

When her foundation put together a recent workshop in Clay Center to teach other Kansas towns how to start putting up their own murals, Penner ended up welcoming attendees from 30 different places across the state — from Burlington in southeast Kansas to Meade and Norton in western Kansas.

Shannon Stark, chamber of commerce director for Clay Center, and other local leaders compiled a handbook for towns that want to follow in their footsteps. And they fielded logistical questions from the visiting towns like what their murals cost per square foot, where they found the artists and how they raised the money to pay for everything.

As someone who grew up in Clay Center, Stark is glad to see more small towns willing to take these kinds of risks in the name of preserving their futures.

“Quality of life, art, travel and tourism, marketing your community,” she said, ”all of those things really go back to economic development.”

And more and more towns are beginning to think that way.

The Salina Kanvas Project recently raised $250,000 to bring artist Guido Van Helten all the way from Australia to cover one of the town’s grain elevators with hyper-realistic depictions of local children.

Leavenworth put up a new mural this summer illustrating the town’s history. Hutchinson unveiled a wall of sunflowers and meadowlarks at last month’s Kansas

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“If you have strong economics in your community,” she said, “you’re going to have a strong community.”

With this mural and more than a dozen others, Clay Center has sparked a trend of more small towns across Kansas investing in outdoor artwork.

‘Win-win-win’

As early adopters like Clay Center see success, Penner of the Kansas Sampler Foundation isn’t surprised to see more towns clamoring to get into the mural game.

“There’s a win-winwin,” she said. “It's a community win, it's an artist win and I think it's a win for the public as well.”

And while rural Kansas towns might not be able to control the other economic and demographic factors shaping

their futures, putting up a mural is one positive thing that’s within the town’s power to change.

“You maybe can’t bring in this big manufacturing plant,” she said, “but you can start to chip away at changing the look of your town and the feel of your town.”

Penner said that when small towns think big with these art projects, it can also change the way that both people who live there and people who visit view rural Kansas.

And even if a small town’s mural doesn’t bring in one cent of tourism income, the worstcase scenario is that residents get to enjoy some new art and a renewed sense of pride about where they live.

“Rural communities aren’t always thought of as fun and colorful,” she said. “There’s closed businesses, maybe it's looking a little dreary. …

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But as Clay Center began to attract visitors who came specifically for a glimpse of its paintings, it didn’t take long to get the community on board.

“Once we got like three murals done,” she said, “businesses and building owners … would come to us and say, ‘What do I have to do to get a mural on my wall?’”

A mural covers the side of a building with books Courtesy Of Shannon Stark, Clay Center Chamber Of Commerce This Clay Center mural turns one of the town's buildings into a bookshelf.

Clay Center has put up 15 murals so far, most of them privately funded with money that the town’s mural committee has drummed up from donors and local businesses. Each piece typically costs at least $5,000 to create.

There’s a painting of rescue dogs on the side of the animal shelter and a giant bookshelf next to the library. The largest mural, a farm scene, covers a grain elevator more than 80 feet tall.

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The University of Michigan nursing school reported getting about 1,800 applications for 150 freshman slots this fall, compared with about 1,200 in 2019.

Marie Nolan, executive vice dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, said it has seen its biggest number of applicants ever, many of them applying even before a vaccine was available, despite her worries that COVID-19 would scare off students.

Students at those and other schools have been able to gain valuable hands-on experience during the pandemic, doing COVID-19 testing and contact tracing and working at community vaccination clinics.

“We’ve said to the students, ‘This is a career opportunity that you’ll never see again,’” Nolan said.

Emma Champlin, a first-year nursing student at Fresno State, said that like many of her classmates, she saw the pandemic as a chance to learn critical-care skills and then apply them. And she is young and her immune system is fine, she said, “so the idea of getting the virus didn’t scare me.”

“It’s just time for us to step in and give it our all and figure out how we can help, because there has to be a new generation and that’s got to be us,” the 21-year-old said.

The higher enrollment could help ease a

nursing shortage that existed even before COVID-19. But it has brought its own problems: The increase, combined with the departure of too many experienced nurses whose job is to help train students, has left many nursing programs without the ability to expand.

The rise is happening even as hospital leaders around the U.S. report that thousands of nurses have quit or retired during the outbreak, many of them exhausted and demoralized because of the pressure of caring for the dying, hostility from patients and families, and the frustration in knowing that many deaths were preventable by way of masks and vaccinations.

Eric Kumor saw many of his nursing colleagues from a COVID-19 unit in Lansing, Michigan, transfer or take other jobs this past spring when the pandemic’s third wave began to hit. He followed them out the door in July.

“It was like this mass exodus.

Everybody chose their own health and wellness over dealing with another wave,” he said.

He said he plans on returning to health care someday, but for now is working at a barbecue joint, where the worst thing that can happen is “burning a brisket.”

“I’m not done with nursing yet,” he said.

Betty Jo Rocchio, chief nursing officer for Mercy Health, which runs hospitals and clin-

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The departures are also taking their toll on nursing education, which relies on clinical instructors and precep-

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Nursing faculty is expected to shrink by 25% by 2025 across the country as nurses retire or leave because of burnout or other reasons, said Patricia Hurn, the

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Drew Wilhite

Wilhite makes it a three-peat CANEY — Drew Wilhite is finding his stride, thank you very much.

The Humboldt High standout had been sidelined through the early portions of the the 2021 cross country season.

As he’s returned to action, his times have dropped and he’s steadily climbed to the top of the leaderboards.

He capped his senior year Thursday with a Tri-Valley League championship — his third straight league crown — finishing the 5-kilometer course in a blistering 17 minutes, 14 seconds. Wilhite was nearly a half minute faster than his nearest challenger.

He was joined in the top 10 by teammates Peyton Wallace in fifth and Levi McGowen as the Cubs also brought home the team title.

Meanwhile, a pair of freshmen spearheaded the Lady Cub contingent, with McKenna Jones and Anna Heisler taking fifth and seventh, respectively, with teammate Carsyn Haviland and Lulu Melendez not far behind in 10th and 12th.

The Lady Cubs took second in the final team standSee CUBS | Page B8

Iola High’s Cross Country team put on quite a show Thursday, even with both the top boy and girl Mustang runners having issues along the way.

Iola’s boys captured three of the top four places, and five of the top 12 to easily win the school’s second consecutive Pioneer League championship.

A dandy finish saw Iola’s Kaster Trabuc, Cole Moyer and Jesse Taylor running stride for stride alongside Wellsville’s Nash McDaniel.

The quartet ended the 5-kilometer race at a full sprint, with McDaniel winding up a stride in front of Trabuc, or about a half of a second separatSee IOLA | Page B7

Running stride-for-stride at the front of Thursday’s Pioneer League Cross Country Meet are, from left, Wellsville’s Nash McDaniel and Iola’s Kaster Trabuc, Jesse Taylor and Cole Moyer. The quartet took the top four individual places at the finish line. Meanwhile, Iola’s boys secured their second straight league championship. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

At left, Iola High’s Sage Barney runs in the Pioneer League Cross Country Meet. At right, Iola Middle School’s Amos Rutoh runs in the seventh-grade race.

IMS wraps up play at home

By REESE BECKER The Iola Register

With the football season coming to a close, Iola Middle School played its last home games of the year Thursday against Wellsville.

The seventh-grade team jumped out to an early 6-0 lead after Kale Pratt caught a 15-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Austin Crooks.

Wellsville controlled the rest of the game, however, scoring 20 unanswered points.

With two minutes left in the fourth quarter, Iola began to mount a charge, spurred

Iola Middle School’s Noah Schowengerdt, left, carries the ball in the ball in Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade contest Thursday. At right, Iola’s Landon Shelton, center, is tackled by a pair of Wellsville players in the seventh-grade game. REGISTER/REESE BECKER

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MVJH season ends COLONY — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s volleyball teams went 2-1 to wrap up the 2021 season Thursday.

The Wildcat A team fell short in straight sets to host Crest, 2514 and 25-21, but Marmaton Valley’s B and C teams both emerged victorious.

The B team won a pair of hard-fought sets, 25-20 and 25-23, while MV’s C team won a single set, 25-12.

Marmaton Valley’s scorers in the A team contest were Jacee Mattox with five,

Tierce Moore with four, Andie Carr and Tay Blevins with three each, Kylah Sander with two and Braelyn Sutton with one.

Emily Robertson paced the Wildcat B team with eight points, followed by Addisyn Drake with seven, Kaya Boone and Jae Beachner with four each, Jetta Mathews three and Gabby Briggs with two.

Makayla Beal scored eight to lead the C team. Kadience Womelsdorft and Alayna Cook each had four.

Layla Cook added two.

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2014 — Kansas City Royals win the American League pennant, sweeping the Baltimore Orioles in four games.

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1968 — American Olympians Tommie Elliott and John Carlos give the blck power salute during the Mexico City games to protest racism and injustice.

1985 — Kansas City Royals win the American League pennant over the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3.

2005 — Fernando Alonso wins first of two Formula One drivers’ titles by winning the season-ending Chinese Grand Prix

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Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Tyler Lord (12), Brevyn Campbell (50), Dagan Barney (51), Todd Stevenson (21), Garrett Morrison (8), and Cooper Scharff (25) walk off the field after scoring the last touchdown in their 52-6 win over Crest Thursday. PHOTO COURTESY OF HALIE LUKEN scores.

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Meyer promises he’ll fly with team this time WATFORD, England (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer promised Friday to not miss another team flight.

The last time he did, Meyer ended up embarrassing the franchise and drawing a public reprimand from owner Shad Khan after videos surfaced of the coach’s behavior in an Ohio bar.

Meyer, speaking outside London ahead of Sunday’s game against the Miami Dolphins, had opted not to fly back with his winless team following Jacksonville’s 24-21 loss at Cincinnati on Sept. 30, a Thursday night.

It’s a highly unusual move for any coach, but Meyer said Friday that he had given the players three days off and his coaches two days off after the loss. He said he stayed in Ohio to visit his grandsons.

“Yeah, I look back now ... I talked to our GM about it. It didn’t seem like a big deal, but yeah that’s something I won’t do,” Meyer said Friday.

Instead of joining his team on the flight, Meyer remained in his home state of Ohio to see family members and went to dinner that Friday at his restaurant/bar in Columbus, Urban Meyer’s Pint House.

The first video shows a young woman dancing between the 57-year-old Meyer’s legs as he was sitting on a bar stool.

The second, taken from a different angle, shows

Meyer’s right hand on or near her bottom.

Khan publicly reprimanded Meyer for the coach’s “inexcusable” behavior and said Meyer must “regain our trust and respect.”

Meyer apologized to his family, his team and Khan for actions he called “just stupid.”

The Jaguars slipped to their 20th consecutive loss in a 37-19 defeat to the Tennessee Titans

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It was all Marmaton Valley, as the combined seventh and eighthgrade squad picked up a 52-6 win.

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By REESE BECKER The Iola Register

A group of volunteers offers free softball instruction each Sunday afternoon at the Allen Community College activities building.

Keith Gurwell, who’s helped scores of young softball players hone their skills on the diamond, offers the clinic

CHEROKEE — Crest High’s Breakin Jones took home fifth place Thursday, while Yates Center’s A.J. Belcher finished 10th on the girls side at the Three Rivers League Cross Country Meet, hosted by Southeast High School.

Area middle school runners took home two first-place finishes Yates Center Middle’s Jaylinn Birk ran to firstplace in the seventh-grade girls race with a time of just over 14 minutes in the 2-mile race, finishing in 12 ½ minutes.

The Crest duo of Josie Walter and Peyton Schmidt finished first and second, respectively in the eighth-grade girls run while Marmaton Valley’s Jarred Jamison was the area’s highest finisher among the eighth-grade boys, finishing sixth.

Varsity Girls: 10. A.J. Belcher, Yates Center, 25:50 12. Courtney Spoon, Yates Center, 26:30 13. Pauline Thery, Marmaton Valley, 26:41 Varsity Boys: 5. Breakin Jones, Crest, 19:11 20. Jarrett Birk, Yates Center, 22:39 21. Zach Allee, Marmaton Valley, 22:59 Seventh Grade Girls:

by an interception by James Hunt.

But Iola fumbled the ball late on Wellsville’s side of the field. That fumble led to Wellsville’s final touchdown to give the visiting Eagles a 20-6 win.

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Breakin Jones 1. Jaylinn Birk, Yates Center, 14:05 Seventh Grade Boys: 1. Kole Walter, Crest, 12:30 5. Tucker Sutton, Marmaton Valley, 12:41 6. Thomas Allee, Marmaton Valley, 13:27 7. Bryan Uhlrich, Marmaton Valley, 13:34 8. Koiy Miller, Crest, 14:00 13. Kris McVey, Marmaton Valley, 15:36 16. Collin Ard, Marmaton Valley, 16:06 17. Jimmy Ayers, Crest, 16:17 19. Daylen Nicholas, Crest,

17:35 Eighth Grade Girls: 1. Josie Walter, Crest, 12:21 2. Peyton Schmidt, Crest, 12:52 4. Kaelin Nilges, Crest, 13:47 5. Aubrey Allen, Crest, 14:05 6. Kimmi Colman, Crest, 14:18 8. Sophia Heim, Marmaton Valley, 15:05 Eighth Grade Boys: 6. Jarred Jamison, Marmaton Valley, 12:19 7. Clayton Culver, Yates Center, 12:25

IMS: Drops pair to Wellsville Continued from B1

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“I could definitely tell Wellsville has been keeping up with their scouting,” said Iola Middle School head coach Scott Ellis. “Wellsville had us as far as what we try to do offensively. The kids played aggressively.

We were in the game un-

til the end. We just came up a little bit short.”

In the eighth-grade game, Wellsville scored early in the first quarter to take a 6-0 lead before Iola’s Tre Wilson scored on a 65-yard return on the ensuing kickoff.

Both teams traded the ball back and forth for much of the game.

Both sides had a few turnovers and both defenses got a few key fourth-down stops.

Wellsville took the lead 14-6 after a 42-yard touchdown pass in the middle of the fourth quarter.

Iola had its chances to come back but couldn’t, resulting in a 14-8 win for Wellsville.

“I think Wellsville running the clock out slowed us down and kept the ball out of our hands,” Ellis said. “They ran on us and had too many first downs and we just couldn’t stop them tonight.”

Next up for IMS is a road game at Wellsville on Monday.

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Jonathan Allen does not mince words about Washington’s defense failing to live up to expectations.

“The defense has been absolutely horrible this year,” he said.

Kansas City’s has not been much better.

The Chiefs are the only team to allow more points than Washington this season, each defense is among the worst in the NFL and the teams face off each at 2-3 this weekend for what could be a touchdown-filled shootout.

The oddsmakers certainly think so. The over/under points total of 55½ is the highest of any Week 6 matchup, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, which opened with Kansas City favored by 6½.

If only the Chiefs and Washington weren’t so turnover prone. Kansas City is tied for the most giveaways in the league with 11 after two fumbles and two interceptions last week in a loss to Buffalo, and Washington has turned the ball over seven times.

If defenders were feeling the pressure heading into the weekend, they’re sure not showing it.

“At the end of the day, we’ve just got to do our job and we’ve got to do it well,” Chiefs defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi said. “There are some critiques, there are some things we’ve got to work on, but that’s why we have practice.”

Practice? Practice?

Kansas City has allowed 30-plus points every game this season.

Washington hasn’t fared much better, giving up 33, 30 and 43 points the past three weeks. Now that unit has to face Patrick Mahomes with the Chiefs quarterback eager to atone for his recent mistakes.

“I got to make sure I’m firm with my fundamentals,” Mahomes said. “It’s the same thing every year when you see me get a little off: You got to go back to the basics and make sure I perfect those things. I think everything else will kind of come along with it.”

TURNOVER TROUBLE

Washington QB Taylor Heinicke was visibly angrier at practice this week after throwing two interceptions in a loss to New Orleans. The fun storyline of Heinicke going from

taking college classes online to becoming an NFL starter is over, and he’s taking his problems to heart.

“I’m still kind of pissed off about it,” Heinicke said. “I just use that as fuel to get better throughout the week. Some people use different methods, but I kind of hold it with me and use it as fuel.

I’ve done that throughout my career.”

With a career at the opposite end of the spectrum, Heinicke is not trying to be Mahomes. When he was out of football and coaching kids, Heinicke often told them: “You’re not Mahomes. That’s something that he can do. We can’t.”

A little Mahomes magic might be on tap for this weekend — if he and the offense can tamp down on the turnovers.

“We’re moving the ball down the field at a high rate,” he said.

“We’re executing. We’re not having a lot of threeand-outs. That’s what you want to do as an offense. But once you have turnovers happen, it kind of ruins everything. It takes that great offense we can be and knocks it down to a very average one.”

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Iola: Mustang boys repeat as Pioneer League champions Continued from B1

ing the two runners.

Moyer took third and Taylor fourth.

McDaniel finished in 18 minutes 34.68 seconds. Trabuc finished in 18:35.11.

“Kaster had an amazing day,” Mustang head coach Brit Daugharthy said. “One of the things they’ve worked on all season is a strong finish. I was proud to see that happen, to see them finish up front like that.

It was very exciting.”

Trabuc agreed.

“All of us have worked so hard in practice,” Trabuc said. “We run as a team; as a family. We work well together.”

The sterling finish came after a rough start, particularly for Taylor, typically Iola’s fastest runner.

Taylor was tripped at the starting line, and after getting back to his feet, had to work his way up through the entire field.

He was able to do so, even running at the front by the end of the first mile, but it came at a cost.

By extending so much energy early on, Taylor was unable to match the other frontrunners in the last 100 meters.

“I never could find a good pace,” Taylor said.

But more importantly, he was uninjured with his early stumble.

“It was unfortunate,” Daugharthy said. “It just wasn’t his normal race.”

Eli Adams, on the heels of a blistering sprint at the finish, took eight, while J.J. Rutoh finished 12th.

The top 15 varsity runners in each division received a medal and all-league designation.

Rounding out the race for Iola, Drake DeLaTorre took 25th and

The 2021 Pioneer League cross country champion Iola High Mustangs are, from left, Cole Moyer, J.J. Ruoth, Kaster Trabuc, Travis Wanker, Jesse Taylor, Eli Adams and Drake DeLaTorre. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Bethany Miller

Iola Middle School’s Brennan Coffield, left, runs in the eighth-grade race.

Travis Wanker 30th.

Iola’s 29 points were well above the next three teams, Wellsville, Anderson County and Santa Fe Trail, which finished with 67, 68 and 72 points, respectively.

ON THE GIRLS’ side,

Iola’s No. 1 runner, Elanie Sturgeon had to step off the course midway through due to injury.

“This would have been her fourth straight all-league run,” Daugharthy lamented.

Nevertheless, teammate Sage Barney — in her first year of cross country — brought home a 10th place medal. Freshman Alyssa Willams took 32nd.

The races were held in Iola, starting and ending just north of Riverside Park, with the course meandering

around the park dikes and extending north nearly to U.S. 54.

Daugharthy had to reroute the race in the last few days because of water drainage issues.

“For not having it mapped out, and it was difficult for us to see what it would be like, the course was beyond our expectations,” Tracus said. “It wasn’t a bad course at all.”

IN middle school races — all 2-mile runs — Iola’s Amos Rutoh took third among seventh-grade boys, followed by Josh Wanker in 12th.

Brennan Coffield took fifth among eighthgrade boys; Bethany Miller ninth in the eighth-grade girls race.

Top-10 finishes in those races netted med-

Josh Wanker

Former Iola High School cross country coach Marv Smith fires the starter’s pistol Thursday. als.

NEXT up for the high-schoolers is a trip to Baldwin next Saturday for the Class 4A Regionals, with the top three teams and other top individual runners qualifying for the 4A State Meet Oct. 30 in Wamego.

Daugharthy is hopeful Iola will be able to send several runners on to Wamego; perhaps the entire team.

“We’re very hopeful Elanie will be ready for next week,” Daugharthy said. “She really has worked hard. She

is fired up and ready to make it to state.”

If the Mustangs qualify, it will be the team’s fifth straight state bid.

“We’re going to compete at regionals and do what we always do,” Trabuc said. “This is Iola. We represent and we run.”

Thursday’s results follow Pioneer League 2021 Boys Varsity (5K) 2. Kaster Trabuc, 18:35.11 3. Cole Moyer, 18:37.93 4. Jesse Taylor, 18:45.01 8. Eli Adams, 19:05.71 12. J.J. Rutoh, 19:55.68 25.

Drake DeLaTorre, 21:25.46

30. Travis Wanker, 22:06.75 37.

Drake Mathew, 23:26.55 Team scores: 1. Iola, 29; 2.

Wellsville, 67; 3. Anderson County, 68; 4. Santa Fe Trail, 72; 5. Osawatomie 109; 6. Burlington, 177; 7. Prairie View, 195 Girls Varsity (5K) 10. Sage Barney, 23:23.51 32.

Alyssa Williams, 30:40.74 Team scores: 1. Prairie View, 35; 2. Santa Fe Trail, 46; 3. Anderson County, 63; 4.

Burlington 76 Eighth Grade Boys (2 mile) 5.

Brennan Coffield, 15:09.34 Eighth Grade Girls (2 mile) 9. Bethany Miller, 24:15.97 Seventh Grade Boys (2 mile) 3. Amos Rutoh, 15:01.56 12. Josh Wanker, 21:03.20

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Iola Flag Football results (Note: Rains washed out Tuesday’s Iola Recreation Department-sponsored flag football games at Riverside Park. Here are results from Oct. 5)

6 years-Second Grade League Hammerson Ready Mix 15, Sigg Motors 0. Jase Emerson scored one touchdown and a one-point conversion for Hammerson in the shutout, Angelito Young scored a touchdown, with Havick Westerman added a two-point conversion.

Nelson Quarries 19, G&W Foods 6. Asher Rinehart scored two touchdowns, Charley Kerr scored

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Grades 3-5 Piqua State Bank 19, A&W Restaurant 12. For Piqua State Bank, Kamdon Barnett, Micah Coltrane and Ty Thomas each scored a touchdown, with Cade Curry adding a one-point conversion. Jaxen Mueller scored two touchdowns for A&W..

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down and a two-point conversion, with Remington Hall adding a touchdown for Sam & Louie’s. For Sonic, Ronald Ballard and Colton Hall each scored a touchdown.

Iola Pharmacy 32, Iola Insurance Associates 24.

Milo Franklin scored five touchdowns for Iola Pharmacy, with Maddux Franklin adding a two-point conversion. Maxwell Ebberts, Elijah Irby, Greyson Skahan and Enio Young each crossed the goal line for Iola Insurance.

Sonic Drive-In 13, Piqua State Bank 0. Austin Cooper and Lee Wanker each scored a touchdown, with Ronald Ballard adding a one-point conversion for Sonic.

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At the middle school level, Humboldt’s Thatcher Mueller took sixth, Layne Ellison eighth and Jack Works ninth in the boys race.

Tori Melendez led the Humboldt Middle School girls, taking fifth, followed by Jo Ellison in seventh.

Next up for the Cub harriers in the Class 3A Regional Meet Oct. 23 in Fredonia, with a berth at the state meet Oct. 30 in Wamego at stake.

Tri-Valley League Meet High School Boys (5K) 1. Drew Wilhite, 17:14.0

McKenna Jones 5. Peyton Wallace, 19:20.7 7. Levi McGowen, 19:24.8 21. Brigg Shannon, 21:49.6 27. Cooper Woods, 23:25.7 29. Landon Bauer, 24:44.6 34. Colton Johnson, 26:38.4 Team scores: 1. Humboldt, 40; 1. Caney Valley, 40; 3. Eureka, 58; 4. Erie, 88

High School Girls (5K) 5. McKenna Jones, 22:19.52 7. Anna Heisler, 23:24.25 10.

Carsyn Haviland, 24:53.02 12. Lulu Melendez, 25:42.74 16. Sophia Barlow, 26:30.96 19. Leah Mueller, 26:56.84 24.

Peyton Galloway, 30:11.50 28. Brooke Yokum, 34:56.28 Team scores: 1. Fredonia, 26; 2. Humboldt, 50; 3. Caney Valley, 61; 4. Erie, 89 Middle School Boys (2 mile) 6. Thatcher Mueller, 14:35.0 8. Layne Ellison, 17:24.4 9. Jack Works, 17:31.2 Middle School Girls (2 mile) 5. Tori Melendez, 15:09.2 7. Jo Ellison, 16:41.7

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got the lead, the (car) was stupidfast.” - AJ Allmendinger, who stayed undefeated at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course Saturday.

The Xfinity driver of the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet won his third straight race at the 2.28-mile, 17-turn Roval.

Battle royal at ROVAL goes Larson’s way

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unday’s Bank of America ROVAL 400 featured a frequent winner, a couple of unlikely heroes and occasional villainy.

Kyle Larson took the checkered flag after 109 laps at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course to win for the seventh time this season and advance to the Round of 8 in the Cup Series Playoffs.

Larson won for the third time on a road course — the most ever in series history in a single season — in a race that featured the violent renewal of the Bristol-born rivalry between Kevin Harvick and Chase Elliott.

And Larson’s victory was no stress-free Sunday drive.

Car chief Jesse Saunders and hauler driver Steven Legendre changed the battery and alternator belt on Larson’s No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet under caution and kept him on the lead lap at the end of Stage 2, after the voltage dropped and put Larson in danger of elimination from the Playoff.

“It wasn’t looking too good,” Larson said of the electrical problems that beset his car. “Thankfully, everybody on our 5 car did a great job of staying calm. (Crew chief) Cliff (Daniels), as always, did a great job of communicating with me what was going on, getting the battery changed, the alternator—whatever was going on to get our battery running.

“I knew I was going to have some sketchy moments. I had to work my way through traffic, stay calm, and we had some good restarts there at the end… It was just aa fun race there and a lot of craziness all day long.”

The victory was Larson’s first at the Charlotte Road Course and the 13th of his career.

Harvick failed to advance from the Round of 12 for the first time since the inception of the elimination format in 2014. His race ended in the SAFER barrier on Lap 99 after he locked up the left front tire on his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford and shot straight into the wall.

“I just pushed it in there too hard and I got the tire locked up and I couldn’t stop it,” Harvick said. “I felt like I needed to go get a couple spots back that I had lost, and I got the left front locked up, and I couldn’t get it to turn.”

“Karma,” Elliott’s spotter, Eddie D’Hondt, said on the radio with understandable satisfaction, given that Harvick had spun Elliott into the wall in Turn 8 to jeopardize the reigning Cup champion’s chances of advancing to the next round.

Texas Motor Speedway 1 p.m. ET Sunday, NBC Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, takes the checkered flag to win the Cup Series Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway Sunday. (Brian Lawdermilk//Getty) But Elliott did advance after recovering to finish 12th, joining Larson, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski and Martin Truex Jr. in the Round of 8.

Joining Harvick on the sidelines were Christopher Bell, Alex Bowman and William Byron, who led a race-high 30 laps but lost track position after a bump from race runner-up Tyler Reddick entering the backstretch chicane after a restart on Lap 90.

Byron missed the corner and had to come to a full stop before continuing. Later, he was running third before hitting the wall on the penultimate lap. Needing a victory to advance to the Round of 8, Byron instead finished 11th.

Harvick’s shot into Elliott’s back bumper on Lap 55 appeared to be retaliation for the Sept. 18 Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, where, in Harvick’s view, Elliott cost him a victory by taking his line in the late stages of the race—after Harvick had run Elliott into the outside wall and cut a tire on the No. 9 Chevrolet.

Asked whether his intent was payback for the Bristol race, Harvick said, “Sometimes real life teaches you good lessons.”

Chris Buescher finished third on Sunday—his first top five of the season. Kyle Busch was fourth, followed by Hamlin, Matt DiBenedetto, Logano, Bell, Blaney and Bowman.

Surface: Asphalt Length: 1.5 mi (2.4 km) Turns: 4 Banking Turns: 1-2 20° & 3-4 24° History tidbit: JUNE 21, 1997 – Texas Motor Speedway hosted the Blockbuster RockFest for an estimated 385,000 music fans. Featured performers included Matchbox Twenty, Jewel, Bush, No Doubt, Collective Soul, Counting Crows and The Wallflowers.

CUP PLAYOFFS: JUST ELIMINATED • Kevin Harvick, Stewart-Haas Racing • Christopher Bell, Joe Gibbs Racing • William Byron, Hendrick Motorsports • Alex Bowman, Hendrick Motorsports

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NOTES Kyle Larson is the first driver since Kasey Kahne in 2006 to win both the Coca-Cola 600 in May and the fall race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kahne won both races on the 1.5-mile oval. The ROVAL became the venue for the fall race in 2018 … Larson enters the Round of 8 as the No. 1 seed with 4,065 points, 35 more than second-place Denny Hamlin … The victory was Hendrick Motorsports’ 36th at Charlotte Motor Speedway, including the oval and ROVAL events and the NASCAR All-Star Race … Team Penske is the last organization with all off its Playoff drivers still eligible for the championship — Keselowski, Logano and Blaney.

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