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By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

A controversial Iola High School parking lot painting in support of President Trump that included white supremecist symbols continues to draw fire over social media.

A city code enforcement officer also said the painting violated the city’s policy on political signs. It was painted over Monday night.

Students are allowed to paint their parking stalls as part of a program that raises money for the student council. Students pay $25 for an assigned spot.

On Sunday, students painted “TRUMP 2020” across four parking stalls and at one point featured abbreviations

The original version of a parking stall painting at Iola High School included letters used as white supremecist symbols. The sign has now been painted over. This photo was cropped to protect the identity of four students. TWITTER described as code words used by white supremacists.

One of the abbreviations was “WP,” which stands for White Power. The other, STK, could stand for two things, “Shoot To Kill,” or “Save The Kids.” The latter is a white supremacist conspiracy theory that purports underground pedophilia rings and touted

by the far-right conspiracy group QAnon.

The painting violated the city’s ordinance on political signs, Code Enforcement Officer Greg Hutton said.

He spoke with USD 257 Superintendent Stacey Fager about the ordinance Monday.

At that time, Fager said the district was still evaluating

A new era for teaching

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

One of Allen Community College’s newest instructors sees communication as a bridge connecting people to each other and to the world.

But starting a new job during the coronavirus pandemic means she may need to forge a new path forward.

Terri Fahnestock was one of the last in-person interviews conducted at ACC in late February, just before the virus shut down schools across the country at spring break.

It would be a couple of nerve-wracking months before she knew if she had a job. And even now, as she settles into the classroom routine this week, she’s had to learn to be flexible.

“This isn’t a traditional classroom setting,” she said, as students file into classes wearing masks and practicing social distancing.

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the ordinance and the painting, as well as the district’s own policies regarding hate speech, and will decide what steps to take next.

The goal of the parking lot painting program is to allow students to express themselves in a way that’s approSee SIGN | Page A3

Michelle Obama kicks off DNC with blunt warning WASHINGTON (AP) — At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, former first lady Michelle Obama told party members that “when they go low, we go high.”

After four years of President Donald Trump, she came back to give it to them straight.

“If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me they can; and they will, if we don’t make a change in this election,” Mrs. Obama told her party in a blunt and emotional appeal that capped the first night of the Democrats’ convention.

The former first lady outlined dire stakes for the election ahead, declaring President Donald Trump “in over his head” and the “wrong president for our country.”

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Gov. Kelly imposes new ban on evictions, foreclosures

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday imposed a new ban on evictions and foreclosures on home mortgages in Kansas because one federal program to aid unemployed workers has expired and she isn’t sure that the state will participate in an alternative offered by President Donald Trump.

Kelly’s order prevents landlords and lenders from initiating efforts to remove people from their apartments or homes if they can’t pay their rent or make their mortgage payments because of financial problems resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.

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effect Monday and is remains in effect until Sept. 15.

The governor said she might extend the order longer if Congress does not approve another coronavirus relief package. She also said that she recognizes that her new order will burden landlords and home lenders, and her administration has started to look for ways to provide relief to them.

A federal program providing an additional $600 a week to unemployed workers expired at the end of July.

Trump issued an executive order earlier this month offering $300 a week in extra benefits, with an extra $100 available to jobless workers if states cover the cost. Kansas has yet to sign up for either

version, and Kelly questioned whether Trump has the power to bypass Congress.

Meanwhile, the governor said during a Statehouse news conference, “No Kansan should be kicked out of their home during the pandemic.

That’s just wrong.”

Kelly issued her latest executive order as Kansas reported its biggest seven-day increase in novel coronavirus cases since the pandemic began and the total number exceeded 35,000.

The governor issued an order barring new evictions and mortgage foreclosures in midMarch but let it expire on May 26, when she also lifted statewide restrictions on businesses and public gatherings. At the time, a Kelly spokeswom-

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly discusses the coronavirus pandemic with reporters during a news conference, Monday at the Statehouse in Topeka. KANSAS REFLECTOR an said she was comfortable lifting the ban on evictions and foreclosures because “we are transitioning into the recovery period.”

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Keeping the beat despite the pandemic

Obituary Jerry McClure Jerry Ellis McClure, age 80, died Friday, Aug. 13, 2020, at Jane Phillips Hospital, Bartlesville, Okla.

He was born on May 29, 1940, in Iola, to Leslie Kenneth McClure and Elsie Louise (Michael) McClure.

He married Jean L. Thompson on July 30, 1961, in Iola. She preceded him in death.

Survivors include a daughter, Laura McClure, Independence; and a son, Richard E. McClure, Murrieta, Calif.

A visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 US Highway 54, Iola. A private family burial will be in Highland Cemetery.

Memorials are suggested to the Fredonia Fire Department, and may be left with Feuerborn Family Funeral Service.

Lawmaker launches write-in campaign TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A veteran Kansas House member said Monday that he’ll run a write-in campaign this fall after a narrow primary loss to a 19-yearold candidate who has been disowned by some Democrats for his incendiary social media posts and because he abused girls online when he was 14 years old.

Rep. Stan Frownfelter lost to challenger Aaron Coleman by 14 votes in their Kansas City, Kansas, district after officials in their home of Wyandotte County counted additional ballots that had been set aside because of questions about the voters’ eligibility. Coleman initially led by only five votes but picked up 16 votes Monday, against seven for Frownfelter, to make the tally 823809.

Frownfelter could ask for a recount but said he expects instead to run a write-in campaign for the Nov. 3 general election. He said a recount would cost him up to $1,800, with little or no chance of success, when that money could be used to pay for a campaign mailer. No Republican candidate is on the

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“I’m not much on quitting, so I’ll be out there until November,” Frownfelter said during an interview.

Coleman, a dishwasher and community college student, has attributed his success in the race to his doorto-door campaigning after running on a liberal platform that includes universal health coverage, eliminating college tuition, defunding the police and legalizing marijuana. He said Monday that he “had no intention of winning” but only of raising important issues.

“I look forward to having the opportunity to knock on more doors than I ever have before,” he said during an interview. “People who actually live in Wyandotte County actually know me and my opponent, and they don’t get their information about us as candidates off of news headlines, so they’re not worried.”

Frownfelter, a 69-yearold small business owner, first won the seat in 2006. He previously never had primary opposition and had no opponent at all in five of his seven past races.

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VALLEY CENTER, Kansas — On its face, band camp at Valley Center High School looks pretty normal: Lines of students with instruments march up and down a football field while the color guard practices throwing flags into the air.

Band director Jan Verboom drills the horn section on technique.

“Keep the eighth notes together, guys,” he said. “Vertical alignment.”

Other things are very different. You don’t see the whole band together, just small groups.

Trumpets, saxophones and clarinets cover their horns with nylons. And for the most part, when the instruments go down, the masks come up.

They’re changes that not only band directors, but also football coaches and choir directors are being asked to make as they prepare for the beginning of a school year under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. They say they’re doing the best they can, but many have unanswered questions about whether they’ll be able to continue — and if they do, what’s the best way to keep students and staff safe.

Already, at least one school district, in Kansas City, Kansas, canceled all fall activities, including marching band.

Verboom is doing what he can. At camp, at the end of a morning session with brass players, he shouted, “Band meeting around me.

Take a seat and have your mask on.”

After going over a few issues discovered during practice, he gives the group a pep talk — one with a very c o ro n av i r u s - c e n t r i c message.

“I don’t want you to ask yourselves, ‘What’s the point, we don’t really have a season coming up,’” he said. “We don’t know that yet.”

Drumming up motivation among his students is a top priority this year. That’s because this school, which is about 20 minutes north of Wichita, already has

lost a lot. The band was supposed to perform at the National Memorial Day parade in Washington, D.C., in May, but that was canceled.

Annual state marching band competitions are also canceled. And while football is still on, there’s no guarantee that won’t change or that the band will be allowed to play at halftime.

A student’s mellophone horn is covered to prevent Verboom said it’s the spread of airborne respiratory droplets at Valley hard to make a plan Center High School band camp. when there’s still so experience,” doing the right thing much uncertainty. His school district moved the start Wilson said. “For a lot because we want to date for school back of our kids, that’s the keep the kids safe,” he to Sept. 9. It’s also left one really great thing said.

Ultimately, he felt open the possibility about school.” following the guidethat not every student BACK at Valley Cen- lines given by the Kanwill be able to come to campus daily if the ter for another morning sas State High School spread of the coronavi- of small group practice, Activities Association rus becomes a problem. student drum majors and the National FedA block schedule would take the temperature of eration of State High School Associations make coordinating re- each arriving student.

“We’re defi nitely were enough to keep hearsal even more chalmore of enforcers now,” the kids safe. He also lenging, he said.

Faced with similar said Timothy McHat- felt that if Valley Cenuncertainty and safe- ten, who’s a drum ma- ter’s athletes were doty concerns, Wichita’s jor and a senior. “We ing conditioning work, East High School Band have to make sure ev- his band students deDirector Maranda Wil- eryone is doing every- served something, too.

Preliminary reson moved band camp thing right.”

He said being split search from NFHS and online.

“I know that my stu- up into smaller groups the University of Coldents overwhelming- isn’t nearly as fun as orado shows playing ly wanted to do band getting together as a instruments is akin camp,” she said. “But full band. It lacks the to coughing or sneezwhen I thought about one-big-family energy ing when it comes to respiratowhat that would look that’s usually there. But spreading like at a time of such Teagan Horning, anoth- ry droplets. The study students high risk in our com- er senior drum major, suggested masks (even munity, it just wouldn’t said with all of the cra- wear ziness of the past severwhile playing, by crebe a traditional band al months, everyone is ating a small slit for camp.” mostly just happy to be their mouthpiece) and Knowing that reput one on their instrumote band camp likely here.

“I’ve been trying not ments. It also suggests wouldn’t sound as exciting, Wilson tried to to dwell on (canceled any indoor rehearsal make it more attractive events) and just look should be limited to 30 by inviting guest per- forward to what new minutes.

Band camp is differformers to offer train- opportunities we can ing and encourage- have and what new ex- ent in other ways, too. ment. She also tried to periences we can have,” Instead of a full marching program, Verboom find online team-build- she said.

Because of concerns is having small enseming exercises.

But even with the about the coronavi- ble groups prepare for workarounds, she’s rus, band camp wasn’t winter performances, worried about what mandatory. In the past, potentially at basketshe’ll do once school Verboom said, camp is ball games. One mornstarts. Wilson wonders generally a way to see ing at camp, the drumhow many students who’s really commit- line and pit-instrument can safely gather at ted, but that mentality players were even pracone time or whether re- just didn’t make sense ticing Christmas music. hearsals will have to be this year.

He even considered “We want the kids held outside.

Whatever the fall canceling it on sever- to enjoy playing muends up looking like al occasions, knowing sic just for the sake of though, she said she’ll how dicey it could be playing music,” Verdo everything she can to gather a bunch of boom said. “Whether to make sure band stu- teenagers to blow into we’re trying to go for dents get some experi- instruments when an a big halftime show ence performing mu- infectious and danger- at a football game or sic together — even if ous respiratory illness playing in a competithat’s in groups of 10-15 is spreading out of con- tion representing Valley Center, it still goes on the front lawn of the trol.

“There’s days I walk back to the bare thing school. in here and you wonder of appreciating playing “It’s such an importas a teacher if you’re music.” ant part of their high

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priate for school, he said. The program does not have specific criteria to address political messages or racist remarks.

Fager said the district is addressing the situation with the students involved. Any disciplinary action would be a private matter.

At the same time, the district encourages students to be politically active, he said.

“We want our students to think for them-

selves and to be active in the political process as they transition to adulthood,” Fager said.

“Sometimes situations happen that catch us all by surprise. We want to make sure no one feels disenfranchised in the school setting, and we definitely don’t want to have something on school property that causes uneasiness in the community.”

Students do not need pre-approval of their parking stall artwork.

This is the third year the program has been offered to students. No previous stall paintings have drawn complaints, Fager said.

UNDER THE city’s ordinance 16-912 for temporary signs, political signs cannot be displayed until 45 days before an election, which would be Sept. 19.

They also cannot exceed 6 square feet in size, cannot be illuminated, cannot be located in a right-of-way and

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must be removed seven days after an election is held.

The parking stall sign appears to violate two of the five conditions: it’s too early to display a political sign and it’s too big.

In this case, any citation would likely apply to the property owner, which is the school district.

“This is what the code says,” Hutton said. “We try to treat everybody the same, no matter what side you’re on.”

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suppression, she told Americans they must vote for Joe Biden “in numbers that cannot be ignored” if they want to preserve the “most basic requirements for a functioning society.”

The scathing assessment was delivered in the last and longest speech in Democrats’ experiment with a virtual convention in the coronavirus era, a spot Mrs. Obama earned through her overwhelming popularity in her party.

She delivered her remarks in a casual setting — a living room, with a Biden campaign sign on the mantle — and identified as much with the beleaguered voters of America as the lineup of politicians that preceded her in the program.

“You know I hate politics,” she said, before diving into a speech that appealed to both her longtime fans in the Democratic coalition and a broad audience she’s drawn since leaving the White House and becoming a bestselling author.

The president “has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head,” she

said. “He cannot meet this moment.”

“It is what it is,” Mrs. Obama said — echoing a remark Trump made recently about the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus.

Citing the pandemic, the flagging economy, the political unrest that’s broken out nationwide over systemic racism and what she described as America’s lack of leadership on the world stage, Mrs. Obama said the nation is “underperforming not simply on matters of policy, but on matters of character.”

In contrast, Mrs. Obama said, Biden is a “profoundly decent man” who “knows what

it takes to rescue an economy, beat back a pandemic and lead our country.” She recounted how Biden has prevailed through the personal tragedy of losing his first wife, baby daughter and adult son and said Biden will “channel that same grit and passion to help us heal and guide us forward.”

BEFORE the event,

Trump took a dig at the former first lady’s coming speech, saying,“Who wants to listen to Michelle Obama do a taped speech?” he said at a rally in Wisconsin.

Mrs. Obama, who leads an effort to help register people to vote,

spoke about the importance of voting in the Nov. 3 election, which will take place amid a pandemic that has killed more than 170,000 Americans and infected more than 5 million in the U.S. Her remarks came as debate rages in Washington about U.S. Postal Service changes that are delaying mail deliveries around the country, and amid legal battles in several states over access to mail-in ballots. Mrs. Obama issued a call to action to those who sat out the last election: Now is not the time to “withhold our votes in protest or play games,” she said.

“We have got to grab our comfortable shoes, put on our masks, pack a brown bag dinner and maybe breakfast too, because we’ve got to be willing to stand in line all night if we have to,” she said.

Mrs. Obama wore a necklace that spelled out the word, “vote.”

In keeping with the virtual nature of the convention, Mrs. Obama’s remarks were recorded before Biden’s announcement last Tuesday that he had chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate.

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create “chaos” and delay payments to jobless workers. She said providing an extra $100 a week would cost Kansas more than $40 million a month when its resources are stretched thin.

“We don’t know the legality of all the other stuff that’s just come out,” Kelly said. “What Congress needs to do is go back and just reinstate what was already there and save states the hassle.”

The state Department of Health and Environment said Monday that Kansas had another 1,282 confirmed and probable cases since Friday, an increase of 3.8%, for a total of 35,167.

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Nationwide, more than 170,000 Americans have died from the virus.

Fewer cases appear to be resulting in COVID-19-related deaths. The state health department reported an additional three deaths Monday to bring the

pandemic total to 405.

Those deaths represent 1.15% of the total reported confirmed and probable cases, the lowest percentage since the state reported its first death in March.

In south-central Kansas, Harvey County’s health department said Monday that 43 students and seven staff at Bethel College in North Newton have tested positive for the coronavirus, KSNW-TV reported.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

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Letters to the editor Dear editor,

Be careful where you step.

It’s campaign time and it’s going to get deeper.

I wish (Mike) Pence were running. He’s smart, a very good speaker and not one to turn off his brain and leave his mouth running.

Our country is in a mess.

So it is very important that you vote.

To avoid the crowds you can vote early or by mail.

God judges us by our actions, not our race, color or gender. The world should follow this example.

Maude Burns, Iola, Kan. Dear editor,

My wife and I have voted for 60 years without a miss. This year we voted by mail. It was very easy, but I see there can be problems.

My wife got her ballot and I didn’t. Our mail delivery isn’t the best since they changed things a few years back. Now, the post office is open only four hours a day. Our Iola Register is two to three days late now that it is routed through Kansas City. Some days we may get three papers at a time.

If someone dies, they may be buried before we see the obituary.

In regards to the recent election, I waited nine days before I called the county clerk. She said I had listed a post office box as well as a street address, which confused things. We have lived in the same house for 48 years.

So she sent me a new form and I filled in just the street address.

About a week later she

called and said it came back with the P.O. box address.

She sent another form and it came, with two weeks to go until the election.

President Trump has been tweeting and every time he is on TV, which is every day, he says it is unsafe to use the postal service and there is going to be a lot of fraud with the upcoming election.

This is just not true.

He is the leader of the country. With 80 days until the election he could be trying to shore up any problems with the postal service and make sure Russia doesn’t get any more involved.

Instead, he has slowed down the post office by appointing someone with no background in running something this big. The new Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, gave more than $1 million to Trump’s campaign. So he bought his job.

With absentee voting there is a barcode on the envelope and you also must sign your name on the outside. If that signature doesn’t match the one on your ballot, it will be set aside and checked out. If there is a very close election like there was two years ago with the primary election that included Kris Kobach and Jeff Colyer, all the votes will be recounted. Then, it took about four days to recount the votes.

I think with all the talk Trump is carrying on about fraud that he may claim the election is not legal and refuse to leave if he loses. Nothing that Trump says or does would surprise me.

David Comstock, Colony, Kan.

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The new “S” curve on U.S. 54 is open to traffic. ***** Gov. Frank Carlson called the Register from Topeka to announce that he has appointed Walter Fees, Iola oil and gas operator and prominent figure in Kansas Republican politics, to the State Board of Regents. The board is the governing body of the state universities. ***** Mrs. Maude McKinley of Humboldt was re-elected president of the Allen County Women’s Christian Temperance Unit at the annual convention which was held Friday at Humboldt. ***** Bailey R. Chaney, Iola insurance man, has been ap-

pointed chairman of the Allen County sponsoring committee of the Children’s Service League. Other members of the committee are George Mack, Judge A. M. Dunlap, Alvin Erickson of Elsmore, and Robert Stadler and Mrs. Madeline Works of Humboldt. The organization will solicit funds for the neglected and homeless children of Kansas. ***** LAHARPE — Pvt. Elmer E. Norvell was killed in action in Korea on July 20, his mother, Mrs. Fred Sellman has been advised by the War Department. She was notified Aug. 21, that her son had been wounded in action. So far as known, Pvt. Norvell, who was 20, is the first Allen Countian to lose his life in the Korean conflict.

Apathy is not an American value August 18 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote across the country and enfranchised nearly 50 percent of the U.S. population. A century later, voting is as — if not more — important than ever before.

For the Grange, founded more than 150 years ago, equal voice and vote for women was baked into our structure from day one. Our founders believed that women were necessary in the longevity of our organization and “much like the farm, both men and women are needed to succeed” in all facets of life, public and private.

With four offices designated strictly for women and the ability to run for any office within the Grange, radical inclusivity of women in our organization has meant more to American civil society than we may ever know.

The Grange has purposefully carved out spaces for women to voice opinions with credibility, hold positions of leadership and understand the importance of their vote – something cited by members past and present as providing women the courage and skills necessary to take on leadership in their communities and beyond.

Women in the United States take seriously their role as engaged citizens – something that is evident by data that shows in the 2016 presidential election, 63.3% of women voted as opposed to only 59.3% of men voted. Even though women have outnumbered men at the polls in every presidential election since 1980, there is more to be done to honor the work and sacrifice of the suffragettes whom we must thank for this right.

We know we can do better for a nation founded on the

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cry for representation.

Today, while 86.8% of U.S. citizens are registered to vote, actual turnout languishes at an average of 55.7% for presidential elections and far less for municipal elections. When comparing U.S. voter turnout to other developed countries we see Americans rank 26th out of citizens from 32 nations in major elections.

Apathy is not an American value.

The many battles fought to bring democracy to the reach of white, land-owning male citizens, then to male non-white citizens, then to women — and to those disenfranchised because of Jim Crow-era laws and more — must be honored by each citizen by way of casting a ballot in November and every other election we are eligible to take part in. I am proud to say I’ve never missed an opportunity to cast a ballot in any election — a right won thanks to those who spoke, organized, marched for it.

This election season certainly is like no other in our history, and there are clear challenges to seeing every eligible elector cast their ballot.

Americans, though, are a people battle-tested and up for the challenge.

I call upon every citizen to help us honor each of our ancestors who fought for and won their place on the voter rolls by ensuring you are registered, you are informed and you are prepared to let your voice be heard in November,

and in all future local elections.

Know the deadline for registration and for requesting a mail-in ballot if your state encourages the practice or you wish to take advantage of it for your safety. Or, make sure you know your physical polling place as some have been or will be changed in the face of the pandemic, and schedule ample time to wait if necessary to cast your ballot in person.

During these uncertain times, it is essential to our democracy that every citizen exercise their right to vote, even if doing so means embracing changes needed to make this a safe environment. We must demand that our local election officials take seriously the call to make our polling places safe while still remaining accessible.

We cannot allow disenfranchisement to happen today after such hard battles were fought to extend this right to all, and must call especially on those entrusted with the responsibility to maintain our democracy to do so with every citizen in mind.

We must also do our part.

In the era of information overload, it is imperative for each citizen to use reputable sources, such as the League of Women Voters website and print materials, to learn more about the candidates who will appear on our ballots, and ensure you’re making an informed decision.

Then look back in a family album or history and commit to exercising a right you enjoy that someone who came before you did not.

Betsy E. Huber is the president of the National Grange, America’s oldest rural and agricultural advocacy organization.

Crowds a distraction to presidential debates; new format better The University of Notre Dame recently pulled out of hosting the first presidential debate, scheduled for Sept. 29, citing “constraints” brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. It was the second school to pull the plug; the University of Michigan said it couldn’t host the debate slated for Oct. 15 because the challenge of trying to reopen the campus safely amid the covid-19 outbreak made it “not feasible.” The two debates have been moved to other locales — Cleveland and Miami, respectively — but the decisions by these schools should serve as a reality check on how to conduct the debates.

Foremost among the issues to be decided by the Commis-

sion on Presidential Debates, the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that convenes the general-election debates, is: why have in-person audiences in the first place? Even

if the pandemic weren’t making large indoor gatherings risky, audiences bring no value to the debates. In fact, they detract from the effort to get candidates to

engage in a thoughtful exchange about their plans and policies.

The debates during the last presidential election in 2016 reached a particular low with partisans of the candidates — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — shouting out, clapping and generally disrupting the events. Debate moderators tried hard — some were better than others — to remind members of the audience they were there to watch and listen, but that didn’t stop the outbursts. No surprise that Mr. Trump delighted in the reality show cast given to the debate ...

The public health issues posed by COVID-19 give the debate commission an opportunity to rethink the for-

mat so that the debates can become more useful. The first televised presidential debate, between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon in 1960, took place in a television studio, not a grand hall, and served its purpose. But tickets to attend the debates have become one more perk for big donors. Universities had been willing to serve as hosts because they, too, could raise money from the prestige of holding such an event.

Businesses, social organizations and other institutions have adjusted to the pandemic with new approaches. The Commission on Presidential Debates should be equally nimble.

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The upside of changes brought on by COVID-19 We’re continuing our way through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some of us are starting to venture out and “testing the waters” so to speak.

We know that staying home is the safest for our physical health — especially for our senior adults. As we look down the road to what the future holds beyond this pandemic, there are likely some additional precautions our older adults (and many others) may take — even after a vaccine becomes available.

The handshake may be gone forever. Increased handwashing, disinfecting, mask-wearing will develop into standard protocol in many establishments. Businesses and restaurants will elevate their hygiene standards and will make that a key piece of their advertising strategy to their customers. Look for other forms of greeting while social distancing that you can use to show your enthusiasm in meeting someone.

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Many have already moved into the more isolated economy where online shopping has become the norm. Some older adults are having to make a big jump into the realm of online shopping, not having used the internet a great deal in the past. Yet, shopping from the comforts of home enhances the safety reassurances older adults are seeking. Shopping from home and picking up curbside or by mail will bolster those assurances. Those exploring or wanting to brush up on internet safety precautions may want to visit https://ksre.k-state. edu/tuesday/announcement/?id=47047 for internet usage tips.

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rants and businesses may find their way again as residents restrict their travel to the city to shop and eat.

Those in their smaller communities will likely do more business locally since they know and trust the owners.

Travel will change.

Overseas travel will decrease. More vehicles will be on the road for longer drives, which

may have been by air in the past. When flights are required, extra seats may be purchased to assure a more comfortable social distancing experience. Future travel plans are most likely to focus around visiting family.

With more wheels being on the road, renting an RV may become an attractive alternative for multi-generational travel for families.

Travel to visit family may not be as necessary in the future as in the past. Families are more apt to move closer together. A trend may develop where older family members that were leaning toward assisted living situations may be moving in with family members. The trust level of family members looking over the care and contacts of loved

ones versus strangers taking that charge, may override many of the usual deciding factors for external health care.

Looking at health care, telemedicine will continue to surge ahead as an appealing option to monitor personal health. My recent experience with telemedicine options has been refreshing when conducting follow-up with a specialist. While my situation was not serious, it was a nice opportunity to visit with the doctor from my own home and answer each other’s questions.

Obviously those visits requiring procedures need to be face-to-face.

However, telemed options can save time, not to mention allowing for safe social distancing.

As we age, change is often not as welcomed as it may have been when we were younger. However, the pandemic has mandated many changes in how we go about our daily lives, of which many will be here for the foreseeable future.

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Free school supplies at Thursday’s market; Tuesday hours change ACMAT will have a table full of free school supplies at the Allen County Farmers’ Market from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Thursday.

Vendors still have lots of fresh vegetables, including bell peppers, cantaloupe, cucumbers, green beans, garlic, green onions, herbs, jalapenos, kale, okra, tomatoes, sweet corn, squash, watermelon, and zucchini.

Also look for homemade foods and goods.

Tuesday’s market is from 1 to 3 p.m. in the

700 block of North State Street.

As always, we accept EBT, debit cards and participate in the Double Up Food Bucks Program.

There is no better way to strengthen our local community than to shop and eat locally, so do not forget to visit the surrounding businesses. Also support yourself by providing healthy and fresh food for you and your family by shopping at the Allen County Farmers’ Market.

4-year-old shoots self WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 4-year-old Wichita boy has been hospitalized in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself in the head with his father’s gun, police said.

The boy climbed on top of some items to reach the gun on a shelf Saturday night at the family’s south Wichita home, Capt. Jason Stephens said.

The boy was hit in the head when he “accidentally fired one shot and injured himself,” Stephens said.

The gun was not in a safe and its safety was not on to prevent it from firing, he said.

Police continue to investigate. The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office will determine if any criminal charges will be filed.

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MANHATTAN — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration has awarded the Technology Development Institute at Kansas State University grant funding through the coronavirus relief act to assist regional innovation efforts.

The institute is using the funding to create an Innovation Stimulus Program, which provides no-cost commercialization and engineering services to projects that will have a positive economic impact in the region, said Jeff Tucker, institute executive director.

The program will offer up to $150,000 worth

of services to help move projects, products or ideas forward in the marketplace over the next 12 months with a maximum award of $20,000 for any single project.

The goal of the program is to help manufacturers and innovators with their innovation efforts even when cash flow may be in short supply, Tucker said.

Examples of projects that would fit within the Innovation Stimulus Program would be design, engineering or prototyping of new product ideas, including creation of SolidWorks models or drawings of existing product lines, or modification of existing product draw-

ings to make improvements/upgrades.

Applications for the program opened on Aug. 1 and will remain open until all funding has been allocated.

More details on the pro-

gram and a link to the online application can be found on the Technology Development Institute website under the Innovation Stimulus Program page, or at k-state.edu/tdi.

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Anthony is best known for her role in the movement to secure voting rights for women, but she also was a strong anti-slavery and voting rights pioneer.

Trump said he would sign “a full and complete pardon” later today, the 100-year anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which ensured women the right to vote. It’s also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.

His action comes as his

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support has been eroding among suburban white women in battleground states since his last campaign, in part because of his harsh rhetoric.

In recent weeks Trump has recognized he needs to work to undo some of the damage among the pivotal constituency and has stepped up his events aimed at women. His campaign has launched a “women for Trump” bus tour and the president has embraced a “law and order” message with renewed vigor.

Trump’s move move also comes amid an outcry over Postal Service disruptions that Democrats say endanger the voting rights of millions of Americans who would vote by mail in November amid the pandemic.

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LET THE GAMES BEGIN Armando Colome squares off against Camilo Patino in a game of ping pong on Allen Community College’s first day of the 2020 fall semester. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG

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dents in new ways we might not have discovered? Planning is desirable, but it’s not really realistic right now.”

In spite of the challenges, Fahnestock is grateful for the opportunity at ACC. She grew up in Oklahoma and attended a similarly sized community college.

After that, she worked at Ozark Technical College, a much larger school, in the admissions department. She

found it difficult to create lasting connections with students in that position, which left her yearning to make more of a difference.

“I had a handful of students where I feel like I really made an impact and watched them succeed beyond college,” she said.

For example, she kept in touch with a formerly homeless student who was able to transfer to PIttsburg State University to complete his ed-

ucation. She helped him navigate through the complicated world of college admissions.

“Some of the people who influenced me the most were in smaller colleges,” she said.

She also was impressed by Allen’s robust online learning program and its efforts to streamline the college experience and remove barriers with things like a flat-rate tuition.

“I’m someone who’s always going to be looking to recruit students, and Allen has a lot to of-

fer,” she said.

Fahnestock earned a master’s degree in instructional design, which requires teaching experience. She enjoys teaching communications because it’s so essential to the human experience.

“I feel we need more people out there with communication backgrounds, especially in a global society,” she said.

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“I enjoy exploring that, not only from a philosophy standpoint but I really like the nuts and bolts of it,” she said.

This summer, she took a class on public relations, specifically learning how companies are addressing social activism issues like Black Lives Matter.

More and more, companies are seeing the value of making very public statements on social issues.

“They are taking stances that even two or three years ago, wasn’t acceptable,” she said.

“It was really fascinating.”

Fahnestock will teach three classes: public speaking, mass communications and interpersonal communications.

A two-year college offers a general education, so she won’t be able to delve as deeply into some of the issues, especially with the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus.

“We’re building a base for students to explore,” she said.

IN HER personal time, Fahnestock hopes to find volunteer opportunities in the community.

She’s particularly passionate about animals and hopes to connect with the local animal shelter. She has a background of volunteering for similar organizations and led a media campaign to spay and neuter feral cats.

Other issues that she hopes to explore are environmental issues like adopting a highway or recycling; and education opportunities for children.

A fun fact about her: Frankie Avalon, that icon from the 1950s and 60s, personally taught her to hand jive.

She worked at a performing arts center at the time, and Avalon was performing in the musical “Grease.”

Fahnestock was working as a stagehand backstage, prepping for the classic “Beauty School Dropout” number, when Avalon decided he needed to show her how to loosen up a bit.

“We danced backstage before he went on,” she said.

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Chiefs spell out attendance rules

By SAM MCDOWELL The Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When the Chiefs begin their Super Bowl defense next month, there will be fans in the Arrowhead Stadium stands.

The Chiefs announced plans for a reduced capacity of 22% when they kick off their season Sept. 10 against the Houston Texans. With a seating capacity of approximately 76,000, the reduction would equate to about 16,700 fans.

The blueprint for the reduced capacity, which applies to the first three home games, falls “under the guidelines established by the National

Football League, and with the approval of Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, City of Kansas City Health Director Dr. Rex Archer and City of Kansas City EMS Medical Director Dr. Erica Carney,” the Chiefs said in a statement.

The team presented a plan to Lucas that looked at the stadium’s seating and social distancing requirements, his office said.

As the season progresses, the team and officials could alter the permitted capacity, they said.

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CRUZ CONTROL Slugger’s blasts lead Minnesota past KC

By BRIAN HALL The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nelson Cruz homered twice, continuing his climb up the all-time leaderboard, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 4-1 on Monday night.

Devin Smeltzer (2-0) picked up the win in relief of opener Matt Wisler for Minnesota.

Smeltzer allowed one hit in 2 2/3 innings while striking

out three batters. The Twins won three of four games in the series after being swept by the Royals in Kansas City last week.

“Nelson is getting to a lot of pitches in the zone and finding the barrel,” Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli said. “When you’re at ground level, and getting to see the actual adjustments he’s making during the at-bats, he’s See CRUZ | Page B6

Major League Baseball: COVID-19

Looking at the ethics (remember ethics?) of sports COVID testing

By GENE COLLIER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Against mountainous odds, Major League Baseball has managed to sustain its socalled season into a fourth week despite substantial casualties.

Dozens of players have fallen ill and cancellations have been common due to the virus, which has disrupted schedules in both leagues to varying degrees. The St. Louis Cardinals, who lost the entire series with the Pirates this week due to COVID-19 positivity, had been barely able to play once a week as of Saturday.

But what baseball has, and what the NFL has, and the NBA has, and the NHL has, and Major League Soccer has are the tests — oodles and caboodles of tests with quick turnarounds on results. Well that’s wonderful news, except that even in July — four months into the pandemic — people were passing out in their cars while waiting up to 13 hours for tests in Phoenix while the Arizona Diamondbacks and their attendant personnel were getting tested

Signs direct arriving cars to a COVID-19 testing site erected in a parking lot at Mayo Clinic in June in Phoenix, Ariz. GETTY IMAGES/CHRISTIAN PETERSON/TNS every other day.

Baseball and the other sports might not care about the optics, but what of the ethics?

(For the sake of argument, let’s just posit that ethics are still a thing.)

“I definitely think that

there is an ethical dilemma when we’re talking about who gets access to COVID-19 testing and who doesn’t,” the social epidemiologist Dr. Alvin Tran was telling me on the phone from Connecticut the other day. “Given all that’s been happening in terms of

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what I think is preferential access to COVID-19 testing, it reminds me of a lot of conversations in the medical and public health community when it comes to, ‘OK, what do we do when a celebrity or a high-profile client shows up in a hospital? Do they get

preferential treatment?’ If so, that kind of makes a health professional’s judgment cloudy. We technically should not be providing preferential treatment to anyone based on their income status or their level of fame or popularity.

“I think there’s a huge concern here. By allowing these special athletes increased access to COVID-19 testing and expediting the time they can get their results, I do believe that it reinforces what I’d call an already existing system of privilege, one that favors the rich, the powerful, when it comes to them receiving better health care.”

Dr. Tran did post-doctoral work at Harvard and taught at Emory University and the University of Washington before taking his current gig as assistant professor of public health at the University of New Haven. It’s probably not required that you possess his kind of brain to understand where the kind of quick and effective COVID-19 testing available to elite athletes ought to be channeled as the country struggles with its worst public health crises See COVID | Page B5

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Kansas City targets defensive line depth

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Taco Charlton has been declared a bust by two different teams.

Tanoh Kpassagnon was considered the same for a while as he moved between linebacker and defensive end.

Breeland Speaks is still trying to live up to expectations as a second-round pick after injuries scrapped his second season in the league.

Yet those three could provide the depth that turns the Kansas City Chiefs defensive line into one of the best in the NFL. Of course, it helps that Pro Bowl defensive tackle Chris Jones has just signed a long-term deal to remain the anchor of their four-man front. It also helps that Derrick Nnadi flourished alongside him last season and that fearsome defensive end Frank Clark made good on the promise that he showed before the Seahawks traded him to Kansas City.

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There is work still to be done during training camp. But the pieces are there for a much better bunch than a year ago.

“We’ve got a lot of ways to go,” Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo said, “but it’s nice to have so many options. Any time you can get a lot of competition at one spot, that’s good for us.

You get to pick the best players. We’ll see how it all shakes out. TK was key for us last year. We didn’t have Breeland but he’s back. Taco is new. Just keep them in the mix.”

Keep them healthy, too. Jones has been sitting out the first padded practices of training camp with a groin injury. Nnadi is slowly getting up to speed after offseason surgery on his ankle. Defensive end Alex Okafor was starting to blossom in the first year of his three-year deal before a torn pectoral muscle sidelined him during the Super Bowl run.

All of those guys in the mix have showed promise at some point in their careers. Even if they haven’t lived up to it.

Charlton was a firstround pick of the Dallas Cowboys in 2017, but he began falling out of favor with the coaching staff the next year and was subsequently released early last season. The Miami Dolphins picked him up and he made a handful of starts, but he was inactive three of the final four games for a team that finished last in the AFC East.

Perhaps a change of scenery (again) will finally unlock his potential.

Kpassgnon was a second-round pick who was initially moved to linebacker when the Chiefs

ran a 3-4 scheme under former defensive coordinator Bob Sutton. He moved back to defensive end in the 4-3 system of Spagnuolo and began to show some promise.

He wound up playing meaningful snaps as the Chiefs won their first title in 50 years.

“I’m always looking to grow,” Kpassgnon said, “and especially making those key sacks or key plays. And being able to play in the Super Bowl, win the Super Bowl, it just boosted my confidence. Boosts the team’s confidence.”

Then there is Speaks, who was widely considered a reach when the

Chiefs selected him in the second round of the 2018 draft. He played quite a bit with mixed reviews as a rookie, but a season-ending injury in training camp a year ago means he is still trying to learn Spagnuolo’s system as he gets onto the practice field this fall.

“We got him in training camp and he got hurt, so he at least had that background. But you have to do it,” Spagnuolo said. “It is one thing to do it in a meeting room and another to get out and do it.”

The Chiefs are taking their first day off of training camp today, so his next chance won’t come until Wednesday.

NOTES: TE Ricky Seals-Jones was carted off with a right leg injury during special teams drills Monday. The extent wasn’t immediately known. The Chiefs are thin at the position after losing Blake Bell in free agency and with Deon Yelder out with a groin injury. They did claim Daniel Helm off waivers Sunday. ... LT Eric Fisher (concussion), CBs Antonio Hamilton (groin) and Lavert Hill (hamstring) and WRs Sammy Watkins (groin) and Byron Pringle (knee) did not practice Monday. ...

Spagnuolo let slip that DT Mike Pennel could be facing a suspension for the start of the season, though the reason is unclear. A team spokesman declined to provide any additional details.

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Outdoor activities pose a lesser risk than indoor activities, studies have shown, but they aren’t absent risk.

According to the Mayo Clinic, “When you’re outside, fresh air is constantly moving, dispersing these droplets. So, you’re less likely to breathe in enough of the respiratory droplets containing the virus that causes COVID-19 to become infected.”

The Chiefs will institute increased COVID-19 protocols and

measures. For starters, anyone attending the game will need to wear a mask, unless they are “actively eating or drinking.” Fans will be required to bring their own mask.

Tickets for the initial three home games will go on sale on Aug. 24, with season-ticket members having the first chance to buy them based on tenure. They will be sold in “pods,” and fans can purchase up to six seats in one pod.

The complex will continue to allow tailgating, though guests can only tailgate with those who

also have tickets in their pod, the team outlined.

Once inside the stadium, they will be greeted with “new physical distancing measures in place, including in seating areas, in areas where lines tend to form, as well as high-traffic areas.” The stadium will move to a completely cashless system, with credit and debit cards at points of sales.

All staff members will go through health screenings, including temperature checks.

The “high-touch areas” will be cleaned and sanitized before, during and after each game.

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Overcoming friction with elderly neighbors Dear Carolyn: I moved into my first house of my own late last year. It’s a twin home, and I figured it was important to have a good relationship with the people next door. They are an older couple, both retired, and I introduced myself, had them over for dinner and we exchanged a few favors, Christmas cards and goodies, and all was well.

As soon as the weather got warm though they started to be a pain in the you-know-what.

There are only a few shrubs and a low fence separating my little patio from theirs, and every time I was outside, they’d appear within a few minutes, even if I had company. They would literally help themselves to food and drink and bring chairs over and join the party. Eventually I had no choice but to very nicely ask them to respect my privacy and only come over when invited.

You’d think I’d told them to blank off and never darken my door again. Now they won’t speak to me or even look at me.

I thought it would blow over but it’s been months. Some friends are saying I should be grateful but I hate things this way.

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By KELLIS ROBINETT The Wichita Eagle (TNS)

MANHATTAN — Any Kansas State football fan hoping to watch the Wildcats play games this season at Bill Snyder Family Stadium received some excellent news Monday.

K-State has received permission from Riley County health officials to host fans at all five of its 2020 home games at a capacity of approximately 25%. That means the Wildcats will welcome around 12,500 fans at every game inside their stadium, which normally holds 50,000.

The new seating plan includes enhanced safety protocols that will help to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19 in Manhattan. All fans will be required to wear face coverings at games and no tailgating will be permitted in K-State parking lots. Fans will also be asked to practice social distancing inside the stadium, and there will be no re-entry at any point during games.

“We are appreciative of the consideration the commissioners gave to all facets of our plan and their ultimate endorsement,” K-State athletic director Gene Taylor said.

“Our plan is very detailed in how we intend to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 spread at a football game. We are implementing several new policies and will be strict in our enforcement in our best efforts to accomplish playing football games safely.”

This arrangement is viewed as a victory for the K-State athletic department, as no other event in Riley County is currently permitted to host more than 2,000 fans, even with written approval from county health officials.

TORONTO (AP) — Jake DeBrusk, Brad Marchand and the Boston Bruins quickly went from trailing by two goals to overwhelming the Carolina Hurricanes with a dominating third period.

DeBrusk scored twice while the Bruins scored four straight goals to rally and beat the Hurricanes 4-3 on Monday to take a 3-1 lead in their first-round playoff series.

Marchand and Connor Clifton also scored in the third, helping Boston erase a 2-0 deficit entering the period. It was a stunning turnaround – complete with the Bruins taking a 16-2 edge in shots on goal in those final 20 minutes – that now has Boston within a win of advancing in a series that looked headed for a 2-2 tie.

Game 5 is Wednesday, with the Bruins having the chance to eliminate the Hurricanes from the Stanley Cup playoffs again after sweeping Carolina in last year’s Eastern Conference finals.

The Bruins entered the postseason as the President’s Trophy winner with a leaguebest 100 regular-season points, but they went 0-3 in the round-robin series to determine the top four seeds in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Then came the surprise news that goaltender Tuukka Rask was opting out of the playoff run to be with his family shortly before Game 3.

Kansas State quarterback Skyler Thompson (10) is congratulated by fans after the Wildcats knocked off Oklahoma, 48-41, at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan on Oct. 26, 2019. WICHI-

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The county’s most recent health order restricts normal public gatherings to no more than 50.

But the Wildcats received special permission to exceed those limits after sharing their seating plans and safety measures with county commissioners. There is no statewide restriction on outdoor mass gatherings. Local and county officials are allowed to set those numbers at their own discretion.

K-State will share its ticket plans with fans later this week.

“I am excited,” K-State running back Harry Trotter said. “Some fans is better than nothing. Some stadiums aren’t going to have any fans this season. I am super thankful we get to have at least some capacity ... Having fans there is great. I am super excited to see how that works out.”

At 25% fan capacity, odds

are good the Wildcats will offer season-ticket holders with a plan similar to the one Iowa State unveiled last week. Under that plan, all season-ticket holders will be able to purchase tickets for half of this season’s home games.

Taylor said during a meeting of Riley County commissioners on Monday that K-State hopes to offer all of its season-ticket holders the option to attend at least one game.

For now, it is unclear how many tickets will go to students, band members and visiting fans.

County health officials will pay close attention to COVID-19 test results following K-State’s first game on Sept. 12 against Arkansas State. If the country experiences a surge in positive cases afterward, commissioners said they may adjust the stadium’s fan capacity moving

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K-State fans that do attend games this season will benefit from a new perk that has never previously been available in Manhattan. The Wildcats will expand alcohol sales and offer beer and wine at concession stands throughout the stadium for the first time.

In the past, K-State has offered alcohol throughout its club levels and in a beer garden, but not in general seating areas.

“Having fans in the stands, that’s what makes it gameday,” K-State defensive end Wyatt Hubert said. “I think it would be such a different game if no fans were allowed. Obviously, the student body makes up such a big part of the gameday environment.

I’m so glad they passed that rule of 25% capacity, because we need our main supporters there.”

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since 1918, but he was still willing to spell it out.

“The people in my mind who should getting this preferential treatment are the people who are working in hospital settings,” he said.

“Our doctors, our nurses, who are providing care, day-in and day-out for patients who may be having COVID-19 symptoms or may actually have tested positive for COVID-19. And of course people who have symptoms should be getting tested, as well as people in the higher-risk categories.

Those are the people

who should be receiving preferential access and results to our tests. Testing companies and centers are overwhelmed right now. Can’t get results fast enough. People in positions of power or who have higher incomes receiving special access compared to other groups in the population, that to me is an unethical situation.”

In one anecdote highlighted recently in the Los Angeles Times, a Florida physician tested a patient for COVID-19, submitted it to a lab, and was still waiting for the results 16 days later. Half an hour away inside the MLS bubble

in Orlando, 180 players and staff from four soccer teams were tested as they checked into a hotel. Their results came back within hours.

Both the MLS and the NBA, the other Orlando bubble operation, have already responded to resultant criticism.

The NBA planned to set up a mobile testing site in the community, and MLS was working with BioReference to provide antibody testing.

Baseball issued a statement that was the rhetorical equivalent of fouling a pitch off its face: “By creating its own laboratory and not re-

lying on a commercial laboratory to process most of its samples, MLB has not taken laboratory capacity from the healthcare sector,” said the statement. “We have been assured by the manufacturer of the saliva testing kits that the test kits themselves are in ample supply. Most clinical laboratories in the U.S. are not using the saliva kits at this time to analyze samples.”

Uh-huh, but even if sports leagues are creating their own resources, that system consumes valuable testing materials and requires in-demand laboratory space, among other consider-

ations.

“The argument still stands,” Dr. Tran said.

“To say, ‘Well, we’re working with a private contractor,’ their ability to be able to make that partnership or arrangement only highlights or underscores that there’s an existing system of privilege where certain people and certain entities in the country are able to do that. Unfortunately, a huge proportion of the American population are unable to do that.”

Guess which segment then — the privileged or the not privileged — is going to win when or if a vaccine arrives. That

argument will make the current conflict look like child’s play.

There’s an argument to be made, and with some merit, that the return of sports has provided a desperately needed soothing agent to the nation’s collective psyche. But you know and I know — it’s inescapable — that if we ever get out from under this nightmare, somebody, somewhere, and likely more than one person, will have died because it was somehow more urgent that the Brewers play the Cardinals.

Are we this stupid right now? Oh yeah.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

The Iola Register

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NBA: Playoffs

Clippers prevail LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers had enough answers to withstand Luka Doncic’s dazzling debut — especially after his running mate was thrown out of the game.

Leonard had 29 points and 12 rebounds, and the Clippers got a big boost from the ejection of Kristaps Porzingis to beat the Dallas Mavericks 118-110 on Monday night in Game 1 of their Western Conference playoff series.

Doncic finished with 42 points, nine assists and seven rebounds, and had the No. 7 seed hanging right with the Clippers for much of the night.

But Los Angeles pulled into the lead when Porzingis was ejected for picking up his second technical foul in the third quarter to move ahead and Doncic couldn’t bring the Mavs all the way back.

RAPTORS 134, NETS 110

Fred VanVleet scored 30 points and the defending NBA champion Raptors beat the Nets.

VanVleet went 8 of 10 from 3-point range and the Raptors shot 22 of 44 from beyond the arc as a team. The Raptors’ 22 3-pointers matched a season high and set a franchise playoff record.

VanVleet had 11 assists with only one turnover, becoming the first Raptor in franchise history to combine 30-plus

points and 10-plus assists in a playoff game.

Serge Ibaka scored 22 points off the bench for the Raptors.

Brooklyn’s Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot scored 26 to match a career high.

NUGGETS 135, JAZZ 125, OT

Jamal Murray scored 10 of his 36 points in overtime on a day Donovan Mitchell erupted for a Jazz playoff-record 57 points as the Denver Nuggets outlasted Utah in Game 1 of their firstround series.

Nikola Jokic finished with 29 points and 10 rebounds for Denver. He had a chance to win it in regulation at the buzzer, but his right-handed hook shot over Utah’s Rudy Gobert was off the mark.

Murray sealed the victory on a 3-pointer with 46.8 seconds remaining.

CELTICS 109, 76ERS 101

Jayson Tatum had career playoff highs of 32 points and 13 rebounds as the Boston Celtics beat the Philadelphia in Game 1 of their firstround Eastern Conference playoff series.

Jaylen Brown scored 15 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter and Kemba Walker added 19 points for the Celtics.

Joel Embiid had 26 points and 16 rebounds and Josh Richardson and Alec Burks each added 18 points for the 76ers.

Minnesota Twins DH Nelson Cruz, right, celebrates with Marwin Gonzalez after hitting a solo home run in the fourth inning against the Kansas City Royals Monday, at Target Field in Minneapolis. The Twins won, 4-1. MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE/CARLOS GONZALEZ/TNS

Cruz: Slugger propels Twins past KC Continued from B1

not just up there swinging. … It’s not happening by accident. The guy’s very talented, but he also makes fantastic adjustments.”

Rookie Kris Bubic (0-3) surrendered two runs on four hits and four walks in 4 1/3 innings for the Royals.

Hunter Dozier homered in the ninth inning to end Minnesota’s shutout bid.

Cruz supplied all the offense the Twins needed while continuing his assault on Kansas City pitching and the record books.

The 40-year-old slugger led off the fourth inning with a line drive that hit the facing of the second deck in left field.

In the seventh, he con-

nected for his eighth of the season into the bullpens in left-center field.

“I think everything starts with the preparation, the way I prepare for every game,” Cruz told the team’s local TV broadcast. “Trust what you’ve got, trust what you see, trust the report that they give us and from there, you take off.”

In his past 16 games against the Royals, Cruz is hitting .482 with 13 home runs and 26 RBIs. “He’s given us a hard way to go,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said. “You’re looking at guys coming after him with good stuff. When good hitters are hot, they’re going to make you pay when you make

even the smallest mistakes.”

Bubic had held up in his first two major league starts this season, but he’s now allowed seven runs over 9 1/3 in his past two starts.

“I’m always trying to get ahead. It’s kind of been a struggle the last few times out,” Bubic said. “Not getting ahead in the count will lead to higher pitch counts. …

That’s just a fundamental of pitching, trying to pitch ahead in the count as much as you can. That’s something I’ll try to emphasize going forward to make my life a little easier.”

PÉREZ LEAVES EARLY

Royals catcher Salvador Pérez returned to

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the lineup after missing a game with blurry vision in his left eye, but he was replaced in the sixth after having more trouble.

Pérez met with an eye specialist on Monday morning and Matheny said a small pocket of fluid was found in the eye. Pérez was told he could keep playing with no risk and the spot will eventually dissipate.

“Mid game, he just was having trouble,” Matheny said. “He had that spot that was getting in the way of him doing what he needed to do. Felt pretty good early when he was catching and then as his at-bats went he just felt like he couldn’t see like he needed to, so needed to get him out.”