The Iola Register, Oct. 18, 2022

Kansas AG candidate shares story in Humboldt

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Chris Mann always felt called to serve the public. It just didn’t turn out the way he expected.

Mann, Democratic candi date for Kansas attorney gen eral, met with about 20 people on Sunday afternoon at the Octagon City Coffee Co. in Humboldt to share his story and talk about issues import ant to area residents.

Mann grew up watching his father get ready for work as a police officer in Lenexa.

He listened to him tell stories about the job. From a very young age, he wanted to fol low in his father’s footsteps.

In 1998, Mann joined the Lawrence Police Department and was the youngest officer at age 21. He also used the job to pay for classes at the Uni versity of Kansas.

“It was truly a job I loved. Every day I got to go out and serve my community. I knew exactly what I was supposed to do, what I was called to do,” he said.

“That ended on a cold night in January 2002.”

Mann was training a new recruit when they stopped a vehicle at 3:30 in the morn ing. He was walking the driv er of the car to the side of the road, and they were between the SUV and his patrol car when he heard a shout.

“When I turned, the last thing I saw was headlights. I was hit by a drunk driver go ing 50 mph. The photos from the crash show the impres sion of my body in the back of the SUV.”

Recovery was painful “but what was more painful was

Giddyup and go

‘Frankenstein’ car draws crowd

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Sure there were shinier hot rods on display Satur day than Tom Bevard’s entry at the Farm-City Days Car Show.

But few could match the unique setup of Bevard’s 1968 Volkswagen Fastback.

Better described as part Frankenstein, Bevard’s Volk swagen has a little bit of ev erything under the hood.

The 318-cubic inch V-8 mo tor comes from a Dodge, as does the 727 Dodge transmis sion.

The tube frame was cus tomized to hold the new ele ments.

The front end is part Ford

Mustang. The rear end is a narrowed version of a Chevy S-10 pickup.

Getting it all to fit meant moving the engine from the rear trunk area — a staple for Volkswagen brands – to the front hood.

Bevard purchased the ve hicle not long ago from a hot rod enthusiast in Fredonia, who had done most of the modifications.

“I’ve done a little work on it,” Bevard said. “I’d like to redo the paint at some point; get it a little shinier.”

The car show was one of several attractions drawing legions of festival-goers to the weekend celebration, accentuated by storybook weather conditions.

Gates foundation OKs $1.2 billion to speed eradication of polio

By JASON GALE Bloomberg News/TNS

Bill Gates says polio came tantalizingly close to being eradicated in the spring, before new outbreaks were seeded in Africa and a man was paralyzed in New York. Now the billionaire’s philan thropic foundation is pledg ing $1.2 billion to complete the mission.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced its largest financial commit ment yet to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in Ber lin on Sunday. The money will help plug a shortfall in funding which, along with

floods in Pakistan, the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, have frustrated a 35-year effort to rid the world of the crippling disease.

“About six months ago was the closest we’ve ever been,” the Microsoft Corp. co-found er said in an interview Thursday. For more than a decade, wiping out polio has been the top priority of the foundation he co-chairs with ex-wife Melinda French Gates. The Seattle-based nonprofit, with an endow ment of about $70 billion, has donated almost $5 billion directly to the cause.

“We’re very committed,” Gates, 66, said. “I can’t say

forever, but giving up would mean hundreds of thousands of kids being paralyzed.”

Since the World Health Organization declared the international spread of wild poliovirus a global health emergency in 2014, cases worldwide have fallen from 359 to just 29 in 2022. Over the same period, cases linked to a mutated strain derived from the oral polio vaccine have jumped from 56 to 398 after the pandemic forced a four-month pause of immu nization and disease surveil lance campaigns in 2020.

The eradication program’s current five-year strategy

Lt. Gov. David Toland, an Iola native, rides in the parade as part of an election campaign for Gov. Laura Kelly. At right, Heidi Folk performs with In Step Dance Academy.

Tom Bevard’s entry at the Farm-City Days Car Show offered a little bit of everything — part Volkswagen, part Dodge, part Ford and part Chevy. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

See MANN | Page A6 Chris Mann, candidate for Kansas attorney general, visits the Octagon City Coffee Co. in Humboldt on Sunday.

Drenched in fun

Library program targets tots

A program geared toward teaching parents about the development stages of their 1- to 3-year-olds begins Nov. 1 at the Iola Public Library.

The weekly programs will allow parents to visit oneon-one with experts on nutrition; speech, hearing and language; early literacy; child development and music and movement.

The hour-long sessions also allow parents to interact with one another as their children participate in a play group that include developmentally appropriate toys.

The sessions emphasize the role of parents as

Kamikaze drones strike Kiev; four killed

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) —

Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital Monday, setting buildings ablaze and tearing a hole in one of them. People scurried for shelter or tried to shoot down the kamikazes.

The concentrated use of the drones was the second barrage in as many weeks — after months in which air attacks had become a rarity in central Kyiv.

The assault sowed terror and frayed nerves as blasts rocked the city.

Energy facilities were struck and one drone largely collapsed a residential building, killing four people, authorities said.

Intense, sustained bursts of gunfire rang out as the Iranian-made Shahed drones buzzed overhead, apparently from soldiers trying to destroy them. Others headed for shelter, nervously scanning the skies. But Ukraine has become grimly accustomed to attacks nearly eight months into the Russian invasion, and city life resumed as rescuers picked through debris.

Previous Russian airstrikes on Kyiv were

mostly with missiles. Analysts believe the slower-moving Shahed drones can be programmed to accurately hit certain targets using GPS unless the system fails.

Also on Monday, a Russian warplane crashed in a residential area in the Russian port of Yeysk on the Sea of Azov, after an engine caught fire during takeoff, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said. Both crewmembers bailed out of the Su-34 safely, but local authorities said several floors of an apartment building were engulfed in flames. There was no immediate word on casualties.

In Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Monday’s barrage came in successive waves of 28 drones — in what many fear could become a more common mode of attack as Russia seeks to avoid depleting its stockpiles of long-range precision missiles.

Five drones plunged into Kyiv itself, said Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. In the Kyiv region, at least 13 were shot down, all flying in from the south, said Yurii Ihnat, a spokesman

for Ukraine’s air force.

One strike appeared to target the city’s heating network, hitting an operations center. Another slammed into a four-story residential building, ripping open a gaping hole and collapsing at least three apartments.

Four bodies were recovered, including those of a woman who was 6 months pregnant and her husband, Klitschko said. An older woman and another man also were killed there.

An Associated Press photographer caught one of the drones on camera, its triangle-shaped wing and pointed warhead clearly visible against the blue sky.

“The whole night, and the whole morning, the enemy terrorizes the civilian population,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a social media post. “Kamikaze drones and missiles are attacking all of Ukraine.”

“The enemy can attack our cities, but it won’t be able to break us,” he wrote.

Andrii Yermak, head of the presidential office, posted on social media that Shahed drones were used.

Zelenskyy, citing Ukrainian intelligence services, has alleged Russia ordered 2,400 drones from Iran. Russia has rebranded them as Geran-2 drones — “geranium” in Russian. A photo of debris from one of Monday’s strikes, posted by Klitschko, showed “Geran-2” marked on a

mangled tail fin.

Iran has previously denied providing Russia with weapons, although its Revolutionary Guard chief has boasted of providing arms to the world’s top powers, without elaborating.

The drones pack an explosive charge and can linger over targets before nosediving into them. Their blasts jolted people awake, including Snizhana Kutrakova, 42, who lives near one of the strikes.

“I’m full of rage,” she said. “Full of rage and hate.”

The Russian military said it used “longrange air- and seabased high-precision weapons” to strike Ukrainian military and energy facilities. They hit “all assigned targets,” Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called for European Union sanctions on Iran for providing drones to Russia and reiterated Ukraine’s need for air defenses and ammunition.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the 27-nation bloc is gathering evidence about Iran’s drone sales to Russia, and if the allegations are true, “we will be ready to react with the tools at our disposal.” The EU also approved a military training program in Europe for thousands of Ukrainian troops and plans for about $486 million in extra funds to buy weapons for Ukraine.

first teachers of their children and provide strategies for healthy development.

The programs are every Tuesday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the library meeting room. They are free to the public.

A BRIDGE refresher returns to the library meeting room 7-9 p.m. Thursday, followed Fri-

day at 6 p.m. for a Halloween-themed Family Movie Night and a showing of Disney’s “Hocus Pocus.” The movie is free and open to the public, snacks included.

For more information, contact Lesa Cole, youth services librarian, at 620-365-3262 or email her at lcole@ sekls.org or at iolaref@ seklsorg.

Foundation gets boost

KANSAS CITY, Mo.

— The Health Forward Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., announced on Sept. 27 that it has received a one-time, unrestricted gift in the amount of $15 million from philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott, according to a Health Forward press release.

The donation will be used to advance Health Forward’s strategic efforts to support and build inclusive, powerful, and healthy communities characterized by racial equity and economically just systems.

“We are delighted to work in partnership with our communities so that this gift has a real and lasting impact. We built our purpose plan by listening, and we will continue to do so as we put this plan into action,” said Qiana Thomason, Health Forward president/CEO.

Health Forward will use the contribution to deepen strategic investments specifically related to health and wealth building such as advancing safe and affordable housing and homeownership and increasing representation of people of color in the region’s health sciences workforce. Health Forward will conduct health sciences workforce and housing assessments to inform how to strategically deploy resources in those specific areas.

“We will use this gift to repair and rebuild systems that shape a region in which all can participate, where people who are working hard to make ends meet prosper, where people

of color are free from the structural racism that creates disparate health outcomes, and where the conditions in rural communities don’t hinder their health. We appreciate the trust Ms. Scott has placed in us to deepen our impact across the Kansas City region. We are grateful for this extremely generous gift that will significantly further investments that change systems in service of health equity,” said Thomason.

“Kansas City’s future will be strengthened by meaningfully engaging those who have been historically excluded in designing solutions that redistribute wealth and build health. It is long past time to lift our communities that desire to be healthy and have access to economic opportunity,” said Stephenie Smith, Health Forward board chair. “In that spirit and joint vision, we are honored to serve as a conduit and catalyst of Ms. Scott’s investment in our region.”

Health Forward was selected after a rigorous process and is being recognized both for its history and current leadership and partnership to change the conditions for its communities of focus with strategies that center racial equity and economic inclusion.

“This gift is not given to us but through us. It is a recognition of the outstanding work taking place in Kansas City to address health equity and the promise of new partnerships and political will to secure a fair and just region,” said Thomason.

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Government: Bannon should get 6 months

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Monday that Steve Bannon should serve six months in prison and pay a $200,000 fine for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

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The longtime ally of former President Donald Trump should get a hefty sentence because he “pursued a badfaith strategy of defiance and contempt” and he publicly disparaged the committee itself, undermining the effort to get to the bottom of the violent attack and keep anything like it from happening again, federal attorneys wrote. He has not yet provided any documents or answered any questions, they said.

“The rioters who overran the Capitol on January 6 did not just attack a building— they assaulted the rule of law upon which this country was built and through which it endures,” federal attorneys wrote in court documents. “By flouting the Select Committee’s subpoena and its authority, the Defendant exacerbated that assault.”

The Justice De-

partment push comes shortly after the committee took the extraordinary step last week to subpoena Trump himself, something the members said was necessary to get the full story of what happened Jan. 6, 2021. It’s unclear how Trump will respond to the summons, but a refusal to comply could open up a similar path in court — though holding a former president in contempt would be an unprecedented and fraught process.

Bannon’s lawyers, meanwhile, deny he was acting in bad faith. They’re asking for probation, even though the two contempt convictions each carry a mandatory minimum of one month in prison. “Imposing a sentence of incarceration under the circumstances of Mr. Bannon’s case would run contrary to the fundamental constitutional principles of individualized sentencing and sentencing proportionality,” defense attorneys wrote. They’re also asking for the sentence to be paused while an appeal plays out.

Bannon is set to be sentenced Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition and another for refusing to provide

How to deal with rising food costs

If you’ve been shocked by food pric es this year, you aren’t alone. Try these tips for dealing with food price inflation. Not every idea will work for you, so pick the ones that best fit you and your lifestyle.

Start by making a list before grocery shop ping. Stick to that list and avoid shopping on an empty stomach to prevent impulse pur chases. When possible, also try to shop when you are well-rested be cause you will make better decisions. Con sider eliminating highcost “junk food” snacks and beverages that provide empty calories with little or no bene ficial nutrients. Take advantage of coupons (but only on products you already use). Look up and down when se lecting a product, since eye-level products can be more expensive.

When purchasing pro duce, plan to purchase produce which is in sea son and less expensive.

If you are concerned about maintaining a nutrient-rich diet amid high food prices, con sider choosing canned fruits and vegetables.

According to the Acad emy of Nutrition and Dietetics, these can be just as nutrition as fresh and frozen foods.

There are some steps you can take to ensure you are choosing a nu tritious option. Pick

Avian flu returns to Kansas

Clara Wicoff Extension Agent for Health, Wellness and Nutrition

fruits canned in wa ter or 100% fruit juice versus those packed in syrup. When it comes to canned vegetables, choose ones labeled “no salt added” or “low sodium.”

If you are eating out at a restaurant, re think your drink and make the switch from soda to water. You can also investigate if local restaurants have spe cials like “kids eat free” nights. If you have left overs, bring them home to eat for another meal.

For food safety purpos es, leftovers should be refrigerated or frozen within two hours of eating or preparation.

Place the leftovers in a prominent spot in your refrigerator to remind

yourself to consume them promptly.

Another important way to cut down on food costs is to reduce food waste and eat ev erything you buy. The average family of four loses $1,500 each year on wasted food. Some of the tips listed above will help you reduce food waste, including shopping from a list. Proper food storage is also key. Use thermom eters in your refrig erator and freezer to ensure food is kept at a safe temperature (40°F or less for the refriger ator and 0°F or less for the freezer). Implement the “first in, first out” storage method to en sure the food you buy first is used first. For more food storage tips, check out the USDA FoodKeeper app at bit. ly/AppFoodKeeper.

Please contact Clara Wicoff, Nutrition, Food and Health Extension Agent, for more infor mation at clarawicoff@ ksu.edu or 620-365-2242.

The fall bird migra tion looks a little differ ent this year in South east Kansas due to low water levels in area ponds, lakes, and rivers. Fall has also brought a resurgence of highly pathogenic avian influ enza (HPAI) nationwide, and last week the Kan sas Department of Agri culture identified HPAI in two Kansas counties: Johnson County and Neosho County.

According to a news release from the Kan sas Department of Ag riculture, both new HPAI locations are in non-commercial mixed species flocks, and KDA is working closely with USDA–APHIS on a joint incident response. KDA officials quarantined the affected premises, and birds on both prop erties will be depopulat ed to prevent the spread of the disease.

Hunter Nickell Extension Agent for Livestock Production PIXABAY.ORG

Anyone involved with poultry production from the small back yard chicken owner to the large commercial producer should review their biosecurity activi ties to assure the health of their birds. Find guidance on biosecurity on the KDA Division of Animal Health webpage at agriculture.ks.gov/ AvianInfluenza. Go ing forward, any addi tional confirmed cases will be shared directly with local communities and announced on the KDA Avian Influenza webpage, rather than through a statewide

Prairie Dell 4-H

Square B installs officers for 2022-23

The monthly meet ing of the Square B 4-H Club was held Oct. 10, at Iola’s Riverside Park.

President Abigail Meiwes called the meeting to order. Flag salute and 4-H pledge were led by Henry Kramer and Bryce Cul bertson. Roll call was answered by “What is your favorite vegeta ble?” Song leader Kira Culbertson led the club in singing “Hap py Birthday” to those born in October. Rec reation leader Cassie Hecks led the group on the playground equip ment. Eight members, two leaders and four parents attended.

Secretary Carly Kramer read the com munications letter re ceived by the Kiwanis Club. They are looking for volunteers to help ring the bell for the Sal vation Army. Members voted to help with the effort. Square B also will host a bake sale at Walmart the same day. Members will take turns ringing bells and working the bake sale.

For the program, club leader Kelli Kram er led the club with the installation of officers for 2022-23. She com pared the officers’ du ties to the ingredients

in making cookies; and by working to gether, the club will make great cookies.

(She also brought a plate of cookies for club members to en joy.)

Former club lead ers led a small cere mony. President Kel li Kramer, the new leader, received a certificate and note book.

The next club meeting will be at the Extension office Nov. 14. The Meiwes fami ly will bring snacks. Roll call is “What is your favorite Thanksgiving food?”

The program will feature Parents Night.

— Katelyn Hicks, reporter

Noise complaint leads to arrests

Iola police officers were called to the 400 block of Eisenhower Drive Friday evening because of a noise com plaint, which led to a subsequent search war rant.

After executing the warrant, offi cers arrested Kyleigh Schwilling-Crites, 22, and Michael Schwill ing-Crites, 20, both of Iola, for suspected possession of mari

News from Carlyle

Pastor Steve Traw’s message Sunday, “Re turn to the Land,” was taken from Ruth 1.

You can watch the church service via its Facebook page short ly after 10 a.m. Sun days.

Pianist Myrna Wild schuetz played “Give

Them All to Jesus” for the prelude and “He Touched Me” for the pf fertory.

The church fellow ship dinner followed the morning worship services.

Pastor Traw leads a Bible Study at 3 p.m. Tuesdays on the Book of Ezekiel.

juana and drug para phernalia, interfering with law enforcement, criminal use of weap ons and possession of a firearm by a person addicted to a controlled substance.

news release.

Highly pathogen ic avian influenza is a highly contagious viral disease that can infect chickens, turkeys and other birds and can cause severe illness and/or sudden death in infected birds.

This outbreak has seen illness and mor tality in a wider scope of bird species than past outbreaks, includ ing wild and domestic waterfowl. Attentive ly monitor your birds for symptoms of HPAI which include: cough ing, sneezing, nasal dis charge, and other signs of respiratory distress; lack of energy and ap petite; decreased water consumption; decreased egg production and/or soft-shelled, misshapen eggs; incoordination; and diarrhea. Avian in fluenza can also cause sudden death in birds even if they aren’t show ing other symptoms.

If these symptoms are observed in your birds, immediately contact your veterinarian. If you don’t have a regular veterinarian, contact KDA’s Division of An imal Health office tollfree at 833-765-2006.

According to the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the recent HPAI detec tions do not present an immediate public health concern. Birds and eggs from the infected flock will not enter the food system. As a reminder, the proper handling and cooking of all poultry and eggs to an internal temperature of 165 ˚F is recommended as a gen eral food safety precau tion.

As part of existing avian influenza re sponse plans, federal and state partners are working jointly on addi tional surveillance and testing in areas around the affected flocks. The United States has the strongest avian influen za surveillance program in the world, and USDA is working with its part ners to actively look for the disease in commer cial poultry operations and live bird markets and in migratory wild bird populations.

For more information about HPAI, including current status of the confirmed cases in oth er states as well as more information about bios ecurity for your flock, go to KDA’s avian influenza webpage at agriculture. ks.gov/AvianInfluen za or call KDA at 833-7652006.

Hunter Nickell is a K-State Research and Extension Livestock Agent assigned to South wind District. He may be reached at nickell99@ ksu.edu or 620-365-2242.

Roll call at the Oct. 9, 2022, meeting of the Prairie Dell 4-H Club featured members recit ing their birthdays.

Kai Griffeth and Lisa Wicoff led the Pledge of Allegiance and 4-H Pledge.

Luke Wicoff reported that the 4-H week win dow display is at Deep Creek.

Officers were remind ed that their training

will be on Oct. 23 at 3 p.m. at the Moran City Park. The 4-H Coun cil meeting will follow. 4-H Achievement Night will be Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 6 p.m. at Iola High School.

The next Prairie Dell 4-H Club meeting will be on Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Allen County Extension Office.

— Luke Wicoff, reporter

Joanne McIntyre

The Prairie Dell 4-H Club window display can be seen at Deep Creek Engineering in Iola. COURTESY OF TERRI KRETZMEIER

NASA defends us against killer asteroids

By SASWATO R. DAS Los Angeles Times/TNS

The stock market is dip ping, inflation is on the rise and there is no end in sight to the war in Ukraine. But not all the news is bad: Our planet just got a bit safer, thanks to NASA.

In a feat previously rele gated to the realms of sci ence fiction, NASA scien tists successfully deflected an asteroid from its path.

On Sept. 26, DART, a spacecraft the size of a com mercial dryer, hit a non threatening asteroid called Dimorphos — and proved that we humans might be ca pable of mounting an Earth ly defense, should a killer as teroid one day head our way.

Such a scenario is not farfetched. Every school kid knows that the reason we don’t see dinosaurs roaming the Earth is that the impact of a giant asteroid wiped them out some 66 million years ago.

In a modern example, an object — perhaps a rocky as teroid, perhaps an icy com et — the size of a 15-story skyscraper exploded over the Tunguska River in Sibe ria in 1908, releasing energy equivalent to approximate ly 12-15 megatons of TNT (about a thousand times as powerful as the atom bomb that destroyed Hiroshima).

Most asteroids and com ets that enter Earth’s atmo sphere vaporize quickly be cause of the heat produced by friction. The object in Si beria, however, got within 10 miles of the planet’s surface. It flattened 80 million trees over 230 square miles. It left no crater, but the circular pattern of immense destruc tion is sobering.

Evidence of such events exists all over Earth. Scien tists think an explosion sim ilar to Tunguska destroyed Tall el-Hammam, an ancient walled city close to the Dead Sea, around 1650 BC.

One tell-tale sign of a planetary asteroid impact is the presence of the mineral coesite, a variant of quartz that forms only under in tense heat and pressure. Mile-wide Meteor Crater in Arizona contains a lot of coesite, as do other sites across the globe. Fortunate ly, collisions involving an asteroid of the size (about 100 to 170 feet across), make up and speed that produced

Meteor Crater are infre quent, happening once every few hundred years, and are much more likely to hit open ocean or empty territory than a population center.

Still, such a collision could spell the end of a city like Los Angeles, and bigger asteroids could spell the end of the human race. There are thousands of these orbiting rocks in our solar system, and quite a few are on paths that bring them perilously near Earth. NASA has been finding and tracking them for more than two decades in a program sanctioned by Congress. So far none has posed a real threat.

But because the chance is not zero,

had indeed been diverted, it also revealed that its experi ment worked better than had been predicted. Calculations had estimated that Dimor phos’ orbit around its larg er parent asteroid Didymos, which was 11.9 hours, would speed up by 10 minutes after DART crashed into it. The actual time observed was 32 minutes.

Outcome of hearings: Americans’ trust in elections is slipping

By PAIGE MASTEN The Charlotte Observer

The biggest issue in the 2022 election might be the fact that we haven’t moved on from the last one. We’re still living in the shadow of former President Donald Trump’s Big Lie — a baseless assertion that he and his al lies refuse to let go of.

The claim that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” or “rigged” is de monstrably false. And, as the House’s Jan. 6 committee detailed Thursday in what was likely its final hearing, Trump knew it was false — but he wanted to “keep fighting” the results anyway. He publicly insisted he had won the election even after privately admitting he had lost, the committee’s presen tation revealed.

Despite the compelling evi dence presented by the Jan. 6 committee in its nine public hearings, it often felt like its members were shouting into a void. The most powerful members of the Republican Party have either ignored the hearings or tried to dis credit them altogether, and while the com mittee’s work has changed some minds, it may not have changed enough.

joint effort to “ensure secure and legitimate election pro cesses,” calling themselves the North Carolina Election Integrity Team. The group is part of a nationwide “elec tion integrity” strategy spearheaded by Trump at torney Cleta Mitchell, who aided the former president in his scheme to overturn the 2020 election.

Their work includes training poll observers and sniffing out suspected elec tion law violations, accord ing to reporting published by The Assembly. They’ve overwhelmed local boards of elections with records re quests pertaining to the 2020 election, which has made it harder for those officials to do their actual jobs.

“Election integrity” also happens to be a phrase long used by Republican lawmak ers to justify suppressive legislation. That, too, has increased thanks to the Big Lie: hundreds of restrictive voting bills have been intro duced in state legislatures across the country since the 2020 election, including here in North Carolina.

Ironically, the poli ticians behind said ef forts to ‘restore trust’ in our elections are the same ones responsible for breaking it.

Watching NASA’s live telecast made for fascinating viewing.

DART’s camera spot ted Dimorphos only an hour before impact, as a faint spot of light, and it was just five minutes before the crash that the asteroid really came into focus.

NASA has looked to de velop a de fense mecha nism. DART (short for Dou ble Asteroid Redirection Test) tested the feasibility of changing the orbit of an asteroid, steering it away from Earth by bump ing it into a new trajectory.

DART CRASHED into Dimorphos at a speed of just over 4 miles per sec ond. More than three dozen telescopes around the world were watching the impact, as were the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes and the LICIACube, an Italian spacecraft designed express ly to observe DART’s slam ming into Dimorphos.

On Tuesday, when NASA announced that Dimorphos

Watching NASA’s live telecast on Sept. 26 made for fascinating viewing. DART’s camera spotted Dimorphos only an hour before impact, as a faint spot of light, and it was just five minutes before the crash that the asteroid re ally came into focus. In the final seconds before DART made contact, the asteroid’s surface — looking like a rocky, boul der-strewn field — filled the screen. Then, true to plan, the screen went dark and the scientists watching it sent up a cheer.

The DART mission isn’t over yet; the data it gener ated is still being analyzed. The results are nonetheless in: DART has to be classed among the most successful spacecraft NASA has ever launched. For the first time in the history of our spe cies, we‘ve shown we might be able to defend the planet from a massive invader from space.

About the writer: Sas wato R. Das, a physicist by training, writes about sci ence and technology.

Hundreds of candidates who dispute the results of the 2020 elec tion could take office next year if they win in Novem ber, but that’s only part of the problem. What’s even more concerning is the fact that a large part of the elec torate might actually believe what they say.

“I think the truly lasting damage of the Big Lie is not January 6, as traumatic as January 6 is, but the loss of faith by a significant portion of Americans in the archi tecture of their democracy,” Asher Hildebrand, a pub lic policy professor at Duke University, told me. “And it’s more than just a loss of trust — it’s an emerging belief that the election is only legit imate if their side wins.”

Nearly a third of Ameri cans — and a majority of Re publicans — still believe that Joe Biden is not the rightful winner of the 2020 election. And in North Carolina, near ly half of Republican voters have little to no confidence that their vote in the 2022 election will be counted ac curately, a recent WRAL poll found.

Election deniers across the state have launched a

Ironically, the politicians behind said efforts to “re store trust” in our elections are the same ones responsi ble for break ing it. Trump may be at the center of this election denial ism, but he isn’t the only one at fault. Far too many Re publican politicians enabled Trump’s clearly false claims of election fraud in the wake of the 2020 election, and nearly two years later, plenty more still spread them.

It’s almost no surprise, then, that voters might not believe in the legitimacy of our elections. Why would they, when so many elected officials have told them they shouldn’t, and not enough have insisted they should?

The committee’s hearings have given us much-needed answers, and hopefully those answers will also lead to ac countability and reform, too. They’ve made a difference in an important way, but in perhaps the most important way, they might not.

“You really do get the feel ing that, whatever opportu nity there may have been to put a lid on the open embrace of the Big Lie and the idea of subverting future elections, that opportunity seems to be passing behind,” Hildeb rand said. “And of course, it wasn’t the January 6 com mittee’s job to stop all of that.”

A look back in t me.

A look back in t me.

65 Years Ago October 1957 Self Service Grocery in Iola will be closed all day tomor row because of the funeral of H. Craig Graham, found er of the store. Graham was one of the pioneers of the serve-yourself technique of operating grocery stores — a method which is now all but universal. He opened the first store of that type in Southeast Kansas in 1922 when he set up his “Self Serve” store in Cha

nute. He opened his Iola store two years later with the late George Young as his partner. His partner now is Joe Earl.

Henderson’s Home and Auto Store, which has been at 207 S. Washington for sev eral years, is opening in its new location on the north side of the square. The store is now in the building for merly occupied by the Cut Rate Grocery which closed last summer.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) team, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, and guests at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory cheer as they receive confirmation of DART’s collision with Dimorphos on Sept. 26. PHOTO BY NASA

A television at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaver al, Florida, captures the final images from the Double Aster oid Redirection Test (DART) just before it smashes into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26. TNS PHOTO

Polio: Gates Foundation donates

needs $4.8 billion to reach 370 million chil dren annually with po lio vaccines and other essential health ser vices through 2026. As of last week — before Gates’ latest pledge — it had indications of only $2.2 billion in support, after the U.K. and Nor way, historically key do nors, cut their planned contributions.

Gates said he hopes the gap will be narrowed when Germany co-hosts a pledging event at the World Health Summit on Tuesday.

“We’re a little disap pointed that some of the other donors aren’t as generous as they were historically,” Gates said. “There’s so many distractions right now, it’s more challenging than you’d think, given the value of getting this eradication done.”

The U.K. government made a pledge to the polio program before lowering its aid spend ing to 0.5% of gross national income from 0.7% in 2021. “Some things they prioritized and some things they didn’t,” Gates said. “But this one seems pretty urgent. It is a bit ironic that now we have some poliovirus being sampled in envi ronmental samples, not only in London, but also in New York City.”

Testing of wastewa ter can detect the pres ence of the virus in an area.

Disease eradication

Smallpox remains the only human disease eradicated so far. World health leaders went after polio in 1988, ex pecting to complete the task within 12 years, the same time it took to vanquish smallpox. Ending polio, however, has proven a more elu sive goal.

Almost $19 billion in financial support and heroic efforts to vacci nate hundreds of mil lions of children have cut polio cases by 99.9%. That’s left Pakistan and Afghanistan as the only two countries in which the ancient foe has nev er been stopped. From that tenacious strong hold, the wild poliovi rus has spread back into southeastern Afri ca.

In May, it led to Mozambique’s first outbreak in 30 years, prompting three na tional vaccination cam paigns targeting more than 4.5 million chil dren.

“While these viruses exist anywhere in the world, the whole world’s at risk,” said Carol Pan dak, the Chicago-based director of the Polio Plus program at Rotary International, whose members launched an immunization cam paign in the Philippines in 1979 that helped in spire the Global Polio Eradication Initiative nine years later. “It’s in our own interests to see

this through to the end, to remove that risk for all populations.”

Gates is focusing on Pakistan, where eradi cation had become “su per close,” with just one strain circulating in an area of Waziristan, a mountainous region bordering Afghanistan. In recent months, floods inundated a third of the country, displacing millions of people and fanning the spread of poliovirus.

“Sadly, that’s now flourished and has spread back into other parts of the country,” Gates said. “And with the floods, it’s likely to show up reasonably broadly around Paki stan.” Vaccinations are slated to resume in Wa ziristan next month af ter the acute challenges posed by the floods are met, he said.

Gastrointestinal tract

Polio, known medi cally as poliomyelitis, is a highly infectious disease caused by one of three poliovirus types that replicate in the human gastroin testinal tract. Infected people shed the virus in their feces, enabling it to spread easily in areas without good san itation and hygiene. It’s difficult to eradicate because fewer than 1 in 100 people who catch it show signs of illness or are aware of the in fection, enabling them to silently transmit the virus to others.

Mann: Candidate in Humboldt

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losing the career I loved, this calling that I had.

“I was fortunate to have an amazing family, strong friends and even stronger faith,” he said. “And I was able to turn that pain into purpose, to still help victims of crime, just in the court room instead of the street.”

Mann returned to school and earned a law degree from Washburn University.

He worked as a pros ecutor in Wyandotte County, where he han dled everything from traffic tickets to mur ders. Then, he went to work for the state and prosecuted white-collar criminals who preyed on the elderly.

When his church sent out a call to find a way to help those who were less fortunate, Mann opened a law firm to provide services defending the indigent. He specialized in helping victims of drunk driving.

“It can be difficult for a victim of crime to nav igate the criminal jus tice system,” he said. He believes his public safety experience — as both a law enforcement officer and an attor ney — will allow him to work on issues facing Kansans, such as com bating consumer fraud, Medicaid fraud, domes tic violence and violent crime.

MANN will face Re publican Kris Kobach in the Nov. 8 election.

He said the two have very distinct differenc es: “My opponent says he’s going to wake up every morning and for breakfast he’s going to find a new way to sue the federal government.

“You can’t sue your way to public safety.

You can’t sue your way to better communities. It takes doing the hard work, and that’s exact ly why I’m running, to make sure we’re focus ing on the issues affect ing everyday people.”

Regarding consum er and Medicaid fraud, Mann said, “Every dollar lost is a dollar desperately needed by someone who needs medical care.”

He also talked about an increase in violent crime over the past de cade: “We need to work with law enforcement to help fill the gaps in prosecutions, but we also need to work with our communities and law enforcement to find ways to drive down vio lent crime.”

His work as a police officer and later as an at torney taught him how to relate to a diverse community.

“Every community has different problems, and different reasons behind those problems. There’s no one-size-all solution. We have to work together.

“I would love to give you politically conve nient answers, but it just takes going commu nity by community, do ing the hard work.”

Mann said he put together a committee of those from various law enforcement back grounds to advise his campaign. He’s also been visiting domestic violence shelters and advocates to learn more about their needs.

“I found shelters bursting at the seams. They’re overwhelmed. They’re underfunded.

The domestic violence problem increased during the pandemic and it’s not stopping.”

Should he win the election, Mann said he

would continue to do the work he’s been doing on the campaign trail — touring the state, meet ing with law enforce ment groups and others in communities and lis tening to their needs.

That’s what helped him earn the endorse ment of the Kansas Livestock Association. He met with the group to discuss ongoing and future litigation, in par ticular regarding water rights.

“That’s the sort of work I’ll do. It’s not as atten tion-grabbing,” he said. “But people want a dif ferent way to do govern ment. They want some one to listen to them.”

LARA STAKER, a Chanute resident who teaches secondary math in Fredonia, traveled to Humboldt to hear what Mann had to say. Her husband is a public de fender for the state, fo cusing on violent crime, and supports Mann.

She asked the can didate about domestic violence and human trafficking. As a teach er, she sees the impact of domestic violence on children. School is a safe place for them.

Staker told Mann her daughter is going to college in Wichita, but is concerned about re ports of human traffick ing in the city.

“That ties into the need for domestic vi olence shelters. They also work with victims of human trafficking,” Mann responded. “And that’s another area law enforcement needs help to work on.”

Staker said she also supports Mann.

“I never thought as a teacher I’d have to be po litically active, but put ting the right people in office matters.”

Smallpox, in com parison, is easily iden tified by the character istic red rash it causes, speeding the identifica tion of outbreaks and the commencement of vaccination programs in response. The cow pox-based vaccine used against smallpox pro tected almost everyone after a single inocu lation, whereas with the oral polio vaccine — used in about 150 countries as recently as 2016 — three or more doses are required to fully protect 85% of children.

That vaccine, devel oped by Albert Sabin, uses a live, attenuated form of the poliovirus. If the weakened virus is transmitted from person to person over a prolonged period in an under-vaccinated com munity, it can undergo genetic changes that turn it back into the pa ralysis-causing form. Such a strain caused polio in an unvacci nated man from New York’s Rockland County in June.

Crest coronation

Brinley McGhee, left, was crowned Crest Homecom ing queen after the game against Marais des Cygnes Valley High School on Friday night. Stetson Setter was crowned king. For a summary of the game, see page B3. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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Iola falls at Prairie View

LA CYGNE —

The Iola High School football team looked dazed and confused in a 32-13 loss at Prairie View on Friday.

In what was a strong start for both the Iola (2-5) offense and defense turned into a tough night on each side, turning the ball over multiple times and allowing some explosive plays defensively.

The Mustangs came out firing on offense. Drayden Reiter rushed in for a touchdown on the opening drive. Reiter’s run came from one yard out and put Iola ahead early, 7-0.

“Our game plan was to get him the ball a lot,” said Iola head coach David Daugharthy. “He’s a great runner. Somebody said it best, every time he’s running the ball, he’s falling forward, so it doesn’t matter whether he has 10 people or one person on him, he’s falling forward.”

The opening drive touchdown was set up by a Tre Wilson opening kickoff return to around midfield.

Things continued to look bright for Iola. On the opening kickoff to Prairie View, Mat Drago hopped on a loose ball for the Mustang fumble recovery.

The big special teams play set up Iola at the Buffalo 22-yard line but the blue and gold were not able to stick it in the end zone.

By the end of the first quarter, Iola led Prairie View, 7-0.

The Buffalos quickly scored in the second quarter when Parker Schwartz ran in a one-yard score. Prairie View was unsuccessful on See IOLA | Page B6

Fawson competes at state

PRAIRIE VILLAGE —

Keira Fawson represented the Iola High School tennis team at the state tournament Saturday.

Fawson was the fifth seed in her division and faced off against Augusta’s Richardson in her first matchup. Fawson fell in the match to move on to the back side of the bracket, 6-3 and 6-0.

“It seemed like every time during changeovers Keira knew exactly what to do to fix any mistakes, or how to adjust to the opponents’ play style. That is very good to know as a singles player,” said Iola head coach Chris

Belknap.

Fawson then stumbled to Topeka-Hayden’s Funk in her final match, 9-4.

“She is an excellent player that has a lot of skill set and is very coachable when it comes to making corrections. I really enjoy coaching Keira,” Belknap said. “She represented Iola very well getting to state for the second time in her high school career and she will continue to do well and represent us all going forward.”

The top five spots in the singles play went to first place Hay’s Zuleta, second place Chapman’s Frieze,

Wichita Trinity Academy’s Sebits in third, Independece’s Veile in fourth and Colby’s Bellamy in fifth place overall.

Humboldt runs over Cherryvale

CHERRYVALE — Humboldt High stuck primarily to the ground with devastating effect Friday.

The Cubs attempted only five passes, while rushing for 275 yards in a 46-0 thrashing of Cherryvale.

The win lifts Humboldt to 5-2 on the season and 2-2 in district play, with the regular season finale set for Friday against West Franklin. Class 2A playoffs begin the following week.

With senior Trey Sommer again behind center in place of the injured Blake Ellis, the Cubs rushed 30 times.

Sommer handled most of the workload, churning out 207 yards on 12 carries and three touchdowns.

And, on the few occasions Sommer went back to pass, he was equally as effective. Sommer completed all three of his passes for 91 yards.

Cole Mathes rushed for 53 yards, while Sam Hull had two receptions — both for touchdowns, covering 40 and 45 yards. Freshman Mason Sterling completed his only pass attempt of the night, a 41-yarder to Dakota Slocum.

All told, Humboldt racked up 407 yards of offense.

Mathes racked up 10 tackles followed by Logan Page’s nine to pace the Cub defense.

Chase DeMeritt hauled in an interception.

Head coach Logan Wyrick rotated so many players on defense throughout the game, a whopping 18 had at least one tackle.

Stat leaders:

Passing Humboldt — Trey Som-

See CUBS | Page B6

Allen men and women take down Hesston

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

The Allen Community College women’s and men’s soccer teams defeated Hesston Community College on Sophomore Day on Saturday, 4-0 and 5-3, respectively.

Women’s Soccer

The Lady Red Devils (104; 4-1) scored early and often in their shutout victory over the Larks which featured a pair of goals off the foot of Rebecca Lord.

Allen also recognized nine sophomores before the match including Daniela Gonzalez, Hannah Meadwell, Mirla Chavarria, Autumn Wyatt, Catherine Harold, Alejandro Ortego, Andrea Gutierrez, Sarah Navidad and Kate Giblin.

Lord began the match scoring 16 minutes into regulation off an assist from Kate Giblin for the early one goal lead. She struck one again 17 minutes into the second half off another assist from Giblin for the 2-0 advantage.

“She had the golden goal at Pratt and she had two today so I’ll be putting her up for player of the week in the

said Allen head coach Jeremy McGinnis.

“She started sharing some time on the wing with Jess

(Allen) and then I started trusting her a little bit more.”

Jessica Allen was able to get by Hesston’s goalkeeper only four minutes later for the 3-0 lead. Vivian Fota dos San assisted Allen in the goal.

Noa Korssen then struck for Allen’s final goal with nine minutes remaining for the big 4-0 lead. Lizeth Suarez provided the assist on Korssen’s first goal of the season.

“I knew as soon as we got the second goal I was pretty confident, this team is known for giving up a goal. As long as we score two goals, I feel pretty confident, but one is pretty tough to sit on with this group,” McGinnis said.

Allen managed 19 total shots as opposed to Hesston’s two shots.

Allen and Lord led the offensive attack for Allen with six and three shots, respectively. Both also kicked three shots on goal apiece while Korssen and Giblin footed two shots on goal apiece.

“The motto of our season has been if we take care of

Allen men’s soccer player Thiago Fernandes (9) plays keep away with a Hesston defender. REGIS-

TER/QUINN

Iola’s Keira Fawson competes at regionals in Chanute on Oct. 8. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Fawson delivers a serve at Chanute. REGISTER/QUINN B.

Lancers win as key showdown awaits

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

COLONY — There were several opportunities for distraction Friday for Crest High’s Lancers, with homecoming on the same night the school honored its talented senior class.

But the Lancers weren’t in much mood to fool around.

Crest scored early and often, pounding visiting Marais des Cygnes Valley, 64-0, in a game called at halftime via Kansas eight-man mercy rules.

The victory, Crest’s fifth in a row, puts the 6-1 Lancers in a key district showdown next Friday at Lebo.

The winner will take home the district championship.

“They’re a tough team,” Lancer head coach Nick McAnulty said. “They’re big up front, and physical like we are. They’ve got some athletes. We’ve got to make sure we’re at our best.”

Even without leading rusher Holden Barker, who remains sidelined with a hand injury, Crest had little trouble with the overmatched Trojan squad.

The Lancers’ first three scoring drives lasted 31, 14 and 28 seconds. Ethan Godderz got things started with a seven-yard run before Stetson Setter scored on

runs of 17 and 31 yards to push the Lancers ahead 20-0 within the game’s first 4½ minutes.

The relentless Crest defense made sure there was no hope for an MdCV comeback.

Unofficially, the Trojans took 34 offensive

snaps, and lost yardage on 10 of them, and were limited to three yards or fewer on 11 others.

“This is the point of the season we’ve got to figure out who we’re going to be,” McAnulty said. “We need to lock everything in, and be

laser-focused. We can’t have those mental mistakes we might have had earlier this season. Defensively, we were flying to the ball.”

The Lancers extended their lead to 34-0 by the early portion of the second quarter after God-

derz scored on runs of 22 and 18. Setter’s 24-yard touchdown run — his third score in as many carries for the game — pushed the lead to 42-0.

Godderz dialed up a 65-yard scoring strike with Karter Miller on the Lancers’ next play from scrimmage to push the spread to 50-0.

The Trojans followed with their most successful offensive output of the game, advancing to midfield, before Crest senior Trevor Church ended the drive with an interception at the Lancer 10.

But he wasn’t satisfied with the pick.

Church zigged and zagged his way downfield to finish off the 70yard touchdown return for a score.

With the lead at 580, McAnulty gave his starters the rest of the evening off. But the Lancers still weren’t done scoring.

Ryan Golden recovered a bad Trojan snap at the MdCV 6-yard line.

Drake Weir raced into the end zone two plays later to complete the scoring.

Unofficially, Godderz accounted for 150 yards of total offense and four touchdowns, 81 yards rushing and 69 passing. Setter’s three carries totaled 72 yards, while Blaufuss churned out 65 yards on five carries.

Miller’s lone reception covered 65 yards.

Senior running back Ryan Baker, one of the Trojans’ key performers in a playoff win over Crest last November, was limited to 33 yards on 13 carries.

“They’re a young team, and he’s a good player. He hurt us quite a bit last year,” McAnulty said. “We knew we needed to key on him.”

Setter was crowned 2022 Homecoming King in postgame festivities, along with queen Brinley McGhee. MdCV 0-0-x-x—0 Crest 26-38-x-x—64

First quarter Crest — Godderz 7 yard run (White pass from Godderz)

Crest — Setter 17 yard run (pass failed)

Crest — Setter 31 yard run (pass failed)

Crest — Godderz 22 yard run (pass failed)

Second quarter

Crest — Godderz 18 yard run (Blaufuss run)

Crest — Setter 24 yard touchdown (Chambers pass from Godderz)

Crest — Miller 65 yard pass from Godderz (Nolan run)

Crest — Church 67 yard interception return (Barker run)

Crest — Weir 7 yard run (run fail)

Statistics (uno cial)

Rushing Crest — Godderz 7-81; Setter 3-72; Blaufuss 5-65; Weir 1-7; Trester 1-(-1); Rodriguez, 1-(-5)

Passing Crest — Godderz 2-4-69; Setter 0-1-0

Receiving

Crest — Miler 1-65; Setter 1-4.

Gabriel propels Sooners to 52-42 romp over Jayhawks

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Dillon Gabriel looked all healed up.

The Oklahoma quarterback passed for 403 yards and two touchdowns in his first game back after a concussion, and the Sooners defeated No. 19 Kansas 52-42 on Saturday to end their three-game losing streak.

Gabriel was injured in the second quarter of Oklahoma’s loss to TCU on October 1, and the team’s offense had sputtered in nearly seven quarters without him heading into the Kansas game. But a week after the Sooners were held to 195 yards against Texas, Oklahoma (4-3, 1-3 Big 12) exploded for 701 yards against the Jayhawks.

Gabriel had been in concussion protocol, but he passed tests during

the week, clearing the way for him to play.

“I’m grateful for every opportunity I step out there because I know this game is aggressive,” he said.

Gabriel also ran 10 times for 37 yards and a touchdown, often sliding well before Kansas defenders had a chance to hit him.

“It’s football,” he said. “I’m going to get hit. Just being smart. Trying to protect myself, but also not taking any unnecessary hits.”

Kansas had been one of the nation’s darlings so far this season, surprising experts by winning five straight games to start the season and pushing TCU before losing 34-27 the previous week.

But Eric Gray ran for 176 yards, Marvin Mims had a career-high nine

catches for 106 yards and Brayden Willis had five catches for a career-best 102 yards for the Sooners, who relieved some of the pressure that had been building for firstyear coach Brent Venables.

It was Oklahoma’s 18th straight win over Kansas, with all the victories coming by double digits. The Sooners haven’t lost to the Jayhawks since 1997.

“I love seeing our guys in victory formation there at the end,” Venables said. “It was a good, hard fought win, dragging ourselves off the mat and getting back on the saddle.”

Filling in for the injured Jalon Daniels (shoulder), Jason Bean passed for 265 yards and four touchdowns for Kansas. Daniels was hurt in the loss to TCU.

Lawrence Arnold had 113 yards and two touchdowns receiving and Mason Fairchild had 106 yards and caught two touchdown passes for Kansas. The Jayhawks (5-2, 2-2) lost their second straight and missed out on the chance to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2008.

Gabriel completed 21 of 29 passes for 304 yards in the first half to help the Sooners take a 35-21 lead. The Sooners’ 487 yards in the first half were the second-most gained in a half in school history, trailing the 507 gained in the first half against Missouri in 1986.

“They came out clicking on all cylinders,” Kansas coach Lance Leipold said. “They played very well, very aggressive. I think we were on our heels most of the day. It was like they were play-

ing downhill.”

Gray had 124 yards rushing in the first half, eclipsing his previous high as a Sooner before the break. The Sooners kept the Jayhawks at bay in the second half, controlling the ball for more than 17 minutes.

“Their backs were to the wall a little bit in this situation, and they came out and played extremely well,” Leipold said. “And we didn’t quite match that. And we’ve got to find a way if we want to be that type of team, that we can do that.”

THE TAKEAWAY

Kansas: If not for three Oklahoma turnovers and a goal-line stand by the Jayhawks on the final play of the second quarter, the Sooners would have done even more damage.

Oklahoma: The Soon-

ers showed they could run the ball and chew up the clock if necessary. They ran for 298 yards and had the advantage in time of possession for the first time this season.

POLL IMPLICATIONS

Even though Oklahoma has the reputation and was favored, Kansas lost to an unranked team and subsequently dropped out of the Top 25.

INJURED JAYHAWK Kansas cornerback Cobee Bryant left the game after suffering an injury to his left ankle in the closing seconds of the first half.

Bryant left on a cart and received a standing ovation from the crowd. Leipold said it is a “waitand-see” situation.

UP NEXT Kansas visits Baylor on Saturday.

Crest High’s Karter Miller (40) pulls down a long pass from Ethan Godderz that he turned into a 65-yard touchdown Friday against Marais des Cygnes Valley. The Lancers won, 64-0. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Wildcats fall in district showdown with Lebo

MORAN — Marmaton Valley High’s hopes to host a playoff game were doused Friday, with a 46-0 loss to visiting Lebo.

The Wildcats fell to 2-2 in district play (3-4 overall) with the loss, meaning they can finish no higher than third in the final district standings. The top two teams in each district will host a playoff game Oct. 27. The third- and fourth-place teams will be on the road the same evening.

The third-place seed will be determined this week when Marmaton Valley travels to St. Paul. The Indians also are at 2-2 in district action.

Marmaton Valley’s potent offense was kept in check by Lebo’s stifling defense.

Jaedon Granere led the Wildcats with 59 yards rushing and 26 yards receiving on three catches.

Brayden Lawson rushed for 46 yards and passed for 26 yards.

Allen’s late TD pass rallies Bills past Kansas City, 24-20

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Josh Allen threw for 329 yards and three touchdowns, including the go-ahead toss to Dawson Knox with 1:04 remaining, and the Buffalo Bills beat the Kansas City Chiefs 24-20 on Sunday to exact a small measure of revenge for their epic overtime loss in last year’s playoffs.

Stefon Diggs had 10 catches for 148 yards and a touchdown, and Gabe Davis also had a TD catch after torching Kansas City for four of them in January, as the Bills (5-1) finally walked out of Arrowhead Stadium a winner.

Along with last year’s divisional loss, the Bills had their season end against Kansas City in the previous AFC title game.

Patrick Mahomes had one last chance to rally the Chiefs (4-2) in the final minute. But after an incomplete pass, Buffalo cornerback Taron Johnson jumped Mahomes’ pass to Skyy Moore, picking him off with 51 seconds left to effectively end the

game.

Mahomes finished with 338 yards passing to go with two touchdowns and two interceptions, including one in the end zone early in the game. JuJu Smith-Schuster had five catches for 113 yards and a touchdown.

The down-to-the-wire nail-biter was a fitting follow-up to their playoff game, when the teams combined to score 25 points in the final two minutes of regulation, and the Chiefs won the game on the first possession of overtime.

The teams combined to score on their final six possessions that January night, and they picked up Sunday right where they left off — with a caveat. The Bills and Chiefs both marched the length of the field in the first quarter, chewing up defenses that looked downright lost, only to turn the ball over when they reached the red zone.

Then the similarities to their incredible divisional playoff game re-

ally began.

Mahomes, improvising once again, stayed alive long enough in a collapsing pocket to find Smith-Schuster for a 42yard TD reception. And after the Bills blew another red-zone opportunity, when Allen threw incomplete on fourthand-goal at the Kansas City 3, Buffalo answered with a frantic touchdown drive in the final minute of the half.

Backed up to its own 1-yard line, Allen threw

a dart to Davis for a first down. He hit Dawson Knox, Stefon Diggs and Khalil Shakir on his next three throws, then had Davis beat rookie cornerback Joshua Williams for a 34-yard TD catch.

The drive took 73 seconds, covered 96 yards and gave the Bills a 10-7 lead.

And just like January, the Chiefs answered in seconds. Only instead of using 13 to drive within range of Harrison But-

ker’s 49-yard field goal to force overtime, they had 16 seconds to move 27 yards and set up his 62-yarder to knot the game.

The back-and-forth continued in the second half: Buffalo took the lead after Butker’s 51yard miss when Diggs hauled in a long TD catch, then Kansas City drove 83 yards and Mecole Hardman tied the game with his short touchdown reception.

When the Bills failed

on another fourth-down attempt, Butker added a 44-yarder to give Kansas City a 20-17 lead.

But unlike January, the Bills made the plays down the stretch. Allen’s scrambling, hurdling run on their go-ahead drive got them in position, and his throw to Knox along the sideline gave them the lead. And when Johnson came up with his pick a few minutes later, the Bills had their long-awaited win in Kansas City.

Allen: Sophomores lauded with sweep

us, we don’t have to worry about them,” said McGinnis. “If you can take care of yourself, everything else will fall into place one way or another.”

Allen goalkeeper Daniela Gonzalez had a quiet day in goal, making two saves through the 90 minutes of regulation.

Men’s Soccer

The Allen men took a 5-3 victory over Hesston after initially being behind by one goal but never trailing the rest of the way.

The men’s team recognized a number of sophomores on Saturday including some team leaders in Temesgn Tezera, Samuel Montanez, Thiago Fernandes and Yuki Ikezaki.

Hesston got on the board first when Roman Clevenot scored on a pass from Samuel Musungaie only a few minutes into regulation.

Fernandes then struck twice for the Red Devils to take the lead shortly after, with the first goal coming off an assist from Tezera. Ikezaki then helped set up Fernandes’ second goal for the 2-1 Allen lead.

“Half the time we don’t have to say anything because they’ve already heard it from the captains. They hold each other accountable, whether it’s on the field or off the field,” said Allen head coach Doug Desmarteau. “They respect each other and they fight for each other.”

The Larks scored

again one more time before halftime to knot the match at 2-2 on a Musungaie goal delivered off the foot of Clevenot.

Allen then scored right before halftime to take the lead on a Patrick Alouidor goal off a Daniel Galindo assist for the 3-2 advantage heading to the locker room.

Yuto Kamakura scored following halftime for the Red Devils off an assist from Olomidara Olukayode for the two goal lead, 4-2. Tavar Lawrence followed up for the Red Devils scoring off a Tezera assist.

“Tavar (Lawrence) caused lots of problems for them on the wing,” said Desmarteau. “He kind of came in and created some really good chances for us, obvi-

ously putting the ball away.”

Hesston got on the board one more time when Lark Gen Takahski took another Clevenot assist to the back of the net to cut Hesston’s deficit to two goals.

Allen kicked 15 shots on goal while Hesston managed nine shots on goal. Ikezaki led the Devils with three shots on goal in the win. Romario Tomlinson, Leonardo Andognini, Boikaego Mbaakanyi, Fernandes and Lawrence each had two shots on goal.

Red Devil goalkeeper Montanez made six saves out of the Larks’ nine shots on goal.

Allen will travel to Southeast Community College on Wednesday at 2 and 4 p.m. for their final matches of the regular season.

At left, Marmaton Valley High’s Cesar Morales (48) blocks a Lebo defender Friday in the Wildcats’ 46-0 defeat. At right, Marmaton Valley’s Brayden Lawson (8) and Dylan Drake (25) patrol on defense. PHOTOS BY HALIE LUKEN/ MVHS

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Iola volleyball gets a win over Burlington

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

GARNETT — The Iola High School volley ball team won one of three matchups at Gar nett on Saturday over Burlington.

The Mustangs (621; 2-7) also faced off against Independence and McPherson in which the team dropped both matchups two sets to none.

Iola took their victory over Burlington with set scores of 24-26, 25-9 and 25-16.

Mustang Reese Curry led offensively with 12 kills, followed by Jackie Fager’s six kills and Al ana Mader’s four kills.

Fager led at the serving line where she regis tered three aces while Mader tacked on two aces.

Mader served 92.9% from the line and Fager finished with an 84.6% mark.

Defensively, Rio Lohman and Fager made four solo blocks apiece while Mader and Fager made four block assists apiece. Fager led with eight blocks, fol lowed by Lohman’s six.

Elza Clift managed 18 digs while Kaysin Crusinbery and Curry each had 11 digs to fin ish in double figures.

“We played the best ball of the season during our first match against Burlington. We showed our true poten tial during this game,” said Iola head coach Amanda Holman.

The Mustangs dropped their second matchup against Inde pendence, 25-11 and 2518.

Lohman, Fager and

Curry each led with three kills while Mad er tacked on two kills offensively. Mader hit a lone ace from the serv ing line. Mader regis tered an 85.7% mark from the serving line, followed by Aysha Houk and Fager’s 75% at the line.

Lohman knocked three solo blocks while Mader made one.

Lohman also went for five total blocks, fol lowed by Mader, Crusin bery and Fager’s two to tal blocks apiece.

Defensively, Clift came up with a mon strous 24 digs while Curry and Fager had eight and six digs, re spectively.

“We came out slow against Indy, which hurt us,” said Holman.

The Mustangs dropped their third match to McPherson with set scores of 25-20 and 25-8.

Curry led offensively with three kills while Lohman and Fager each knocked two kills. Fager and Curry each ripped one ace from the serving line while Houk regis tered 60% from the line.

Lohman and Fager knocked one solo block apiece while Fager went for two total blocks and Lohman and Curry ripped one total block apiece. Clift led with 14 digs, followed by Crusinbery’s seven digs and Curry’s five digs de fensively.

“McPherson was a very good team and we played well in the first set. During the second set, we fell apart and struggled to pass the ball,” Holman said.

Iola plays at Burling ton on Tuesday at 4:30.

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their two-point conver sion to keep Iola lead ing, 7-6.

“In the first half, it was definitely a lack of physicality up front and in general that cost us,” Daugharthy said. “Just not playing as a team, not filling as quickly as you can and not trust ing what we’re doing here to be able to do that, not playing team defense.”

Prairie View didn’t take long in the second quarter to take the lead.

Gabe Murillo rushed into the end zone from nine yards out on the next drive for the 12-7 Buffalo advantage.

The Buffalos found the end zone again fol lowing halftime when Murillo ran in another touchdown, this time from only one yard out for the 18-7 edge.

“Our defense was on the field for a long time. We just couldn’t get off the field so that kind of hurt us,” said Daughar thy. “Tonight they con trolled the clock. We couldn’t even get the ball so that makes it pretty tough to build a comeback.”

Near the end of the third quarter a slew of turnovers occurred, be ginning when Prairie View’s Garret Cullor intercepted an Iola pass

at the 24-yard line with 4 minutes remaining be fore the fourth quarter.

Iola’s Drago then jumped on a loose ball two plays later to see the Buffalos get the ball right back.

Prairie View inter cepted their second pass within a matter of minutes on the next Iola offensive drive as Stevie McGuire stepped in front of a pass across the middle for the Buf falos to take back pos session.

“Eliminate mistakes, be more physical and make sure we’re play ing team defense,” said Daugharthy as to how to change course. “Put ting up 32 points against a team we knew exactly what they were going to run, we just didn’t do what we were supposed to do defensively and they were more physi cal.”

The Buffalos made it a 32-7 ballgame when Tanner Meador rushed in from only one yard out for the Buffalo fourth touchdown of the evening.

Courtland Carson scored a touchdown on a five-yard rush but it was too late for any sort of comeback. The final score was 32-13.

Iola travels to Santa Fe Trail next Friday for a 7 p.m. kickoff.

Humboldt takes third at Neodesha

NEODESHA — The Humboldt High School volleyball team earned third place at the Neodesha tournament on Saturday.

The Lady Cubs (264; 2-0) went 4-2 overall defeating Caney Valley, Baxter Springs, South east Cherokee and Erie and slipping to Parsons and Neodesha.

Humboldt first knocked off Caney Val ley with set scores of 2522 and 25-22.

The Lady Cubs then took down Baxter Springs, 25-23 and 25-18.

In their third match, the Cubs defeated Southeast Cherokee, 2515 and 25-18.

Humboldt dropped their fourth and fifth matches beginning with a three- set loss to Parsons, 14-25, 25-20 and 16-25. The second loss was a two-set blunder to Neodesha, 25-6 and 25-14.

The Lady Cubs then toppled Erie, 16-25, 25-17 and 25-23.

“We were not the same team that has competed all year, but

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we did manage to get some wins,” said Hum boldt head coach Terry Meadows.

Karley Wools led from the serving line with 10 aces, followed by Shelby Shaugh nessy’s eight aces and Skylar Hottenstein’s four aces.

Wools also dominat ed offensively where she ripped 36 kills while Shaughnessy knocked 28 kills and Ella Lass man notched 19. Ken nisyn Hottenstein also whacked 15 kills while Ricklyn Hillmon went for nine kills.

Shaughnessy and Wools led defensive ly with eight and six blocks, respectively. K. Hottenstein also made four blocks. Shaugh nessy and Wools fin ished with a dominant 64 digs apiece, behind S. Hottenstein’s 83 digs. Natalie Wells also had 30 digs while K. Hotten stein had 29.

Lassman also man aged 12 digs.

Humboldt plays Blue stem in Leon on Tues day at 5 p.m.

PHOTO BY ANN BATES

Iola Unified Special Olympics on ESPN

Iola High School has been chosen as one of ESPN’s Honor Roll Top 25 Schools out of 8,000 Unified Champion Schools across America.

A Unified Champi on School receiving national banner rec ognition is one that has demonstrated commitment to in clusion by meeting 10 national standards of excellence. These standards were de veloped by a national panel of leaders from the Special Olympics and the education community.

It is a program of fered through Special Olympics that part ners Special Olym pics athletes and their non-disabiled peers to participate and compete together

in different sporting events throughout the school year. This is the school’s fourth year of doing this program at Iola.

“If you see any of these students please congratulate them on this huge hon or! We are so proud of our team, school, and community for becoming parts of the Inclusion Revolu tion,” said Iola coach Ann Bates.

The team members include athletes Xav ior Burrow, Gavin Doolittle, Kaden Prid dy, Guilis Pina, Kyle Schmidt, Mason Sil vey and Jaden Smith. The peer buddies are Kyndal Bycroft, Reese Curry, Stepha nie Fees, Shaun Mc Laughlin, Zach Pfaff and Marlee Westhoff.

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mer, 3-3-91; Mason Ster ling, 1-2-41

Rushing Humboldt — Trey Sommer, 12-207; Cole Mathes, 11-53; Dakota

Slocum, 2-11; Sam Hull, 1-4; Mason Sterling, 3-1; Asher Hart, 1-(-1).

Receiving Humboldt — Sam Hull, 2-85; Dakota Slo cum, 1-41; Cole

Humboldt’s Sam Hull REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

The Iola Special Olympics Unified team is hon ored at an Iola football game with a banner.

The ESPN Top-25 Honor Roll Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools program recognizes Iola High School for its outstanding work.