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Allen County Regional Airport may soon be expanding.

But what does that mean exactly?

To find out more, this Register reporter sat down with Jonathon Goering, economic development director at Thrive Allen County, and Allen County Commissioner, Jerry Daniels, both of whom have been closely involved with the project.

To begin, they suggested that the phrase “airport expansion” is a bit tricky, since the primary goal at this stage is to simply have utilities installed on 24 acres in the northwest corner of the airport property (which is owned See AIRPORT | Page A5

Jonathan Goering, economic development director at Thrive Allen County, gestures toward a swath of land in the northwest corner of the airport (24 acres), which is being considered for a utilities expansion. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG

International students find their place Bartholomew is an adoptable pet at ACARF.

National fundraiser headed here

Gaia Figus, front, left, with the Curry family, Kashyn in front; back, Brett, Briana, Jenna and Reese. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Henrik Sieh REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Italian fits into new family

A surprised homecoming king

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Gaia Figus visited a pumpkin patch in October with some of her friends from the Iola High School volleyball team, including fellow exchange student Veronica Agostini and local junior Jenna Curry.

During the trip, she also met Jenna’s mother, Briana Curry, who works for the school district.

Making that introduction would soon prove invaluable.

About a week later Jenna called her mom with an

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important request. Gaia’s placement with a host family hadn’t worked out, and she needed to find a new host family, or go home.

“Can she live with us?”

Jenna asked.

Briana called her husband, Brett, who was in Texas on a work trip to consult him.

“What are your thoughts on taking in a foreign exchange student?” she asked him.

He indicated he’d be open to it.

“Good,” Briana replied.

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They don’t have homecoming kings at high schools in Germany.

The nomination for winter homecoming royalty in January surprised international student Henrik Sieh.

First of all, he was on the wrestling team. He thought only basketball players would be nominated.

“Then my name got announced and I had no clue what all that means, but it seems to be a big deal,” he realized.

By the Register staff

Then came Spirit Week, where the entire student body dressed up for silly themes every day, like “Pajama Day” or “Super Hero Day.” His date for homecoming was Becca Ann Sprague.

“Me and my homecoming date were always trying to dress the same this week, and we had games. Like, my homecoming date was sitting on a blanket and I had to pull her across the gym floor.”

He especially enjoyed getting to pick out a tuxedo from Audacious Boutique.

Then came the big night.

See HENRIK | Page A7

A local animal rescue shelter and its residents are about to go viral.

Jordan’s Way announced plans to visit the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility (ACARF) in LaHarpe, as part of a special fundraising and awareness social media event that travels to shelters across the country.

The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and will be broadcast on Facebook Live. Area residents are encouraged to attend virtually. The event includes pie dares, donation pushups, prison escapes and other fun challenges for staff and others.

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Why are side effects worse after a second dose of vaccine?

By AMINA KHAN Los Angeles Times (TNS)

When it comes to the onetwo punch delivered by twodose COVID-19 vaccines, it’s the second shot that really wallops.

Kristen Choi can attest to that. Choi, a nursing researcher at UCLA, ended up with a host of symptoms, including a fever that peaked at 104.9 degrees, after she got her second shot last year. But the effects

soon passed — and they were well worth the much-needed protection against the pandemic, she said.

“I’m very grateful to have gotten the vaccine and to be able to have that protection, and really want to see that opportunity be made available to everyone,” Choi said.

As more Americans line up for the COVID-19 vaccine, some are anxious about the second-dose side effects, See VACCINE | Page A3

A healthcare worker administers a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine in Florida. (JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

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Obituaries

Kelly: Senate plan sabotages K-12 education

Mary Mueller

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

Mary Frances Mueller, age 93, a lifelong resident of Humboldt, passed away Wednesday, March 17, 2021, at Heritage Healthcare, Chanute. Mary was born June 24, 1927, in Humboldt, the daughter of James and Amelia (Dietrich) Weiner. She was an only child.

Mary graduated from Humboldt Mary Mueller High School in 1945. Her first job was at a doctor’s office as a receptionist for seven years.

She then went to work for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company as a switchboard operator for 18 years. She worked in the company’s Humboldt office and later in the Chanute office.

Mary and Martin “Irvin” Mueller were married on May 7, 1966, in Humboldt.

Mary was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church. She loved to travel in her spare time.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.

Mary is survived by her nieces and nephews.

A visitation for Mary will take place from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 25, at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Humboldt, followed by a funeral service at 1 p.m. Burial will be in the Mount Hope Cemetery, Humboldt.

Memorials are suggested to St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Humboldt or Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice, and may be left with Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 US Highway 54, Iola, KS. Condolences for the family may be left at www. feuerbornfuneral.com.

Eric Lakin Eric W. Lakin, 45, passed away Tuesday, March 16, 2021, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.

Eric loved motorcycles and his dogs.

He is survived by his mother, Sandy Lakin, of Humboldt; daughter, Alexis Lakin, of Holden; and three grandchildren.

No services are scheduled at this time.

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly responded with contempt to a feeling of deja vu after the Kansas Senate voted to rely on federal COVID-19 funding rather than Kansas tax dollars to cover as much as $568 million in public education obligations in a proposed two-year state budget.

The Republican-controlled Senate wants to explore opportunities to earmark COVID-19 assistance to cover the state’s obligations to Kansas for public education, but not make a final decision until May. Passage of Senate Bill 267 signaled the Senate would delay final K-12 budget decisions a couple months to seek clarity on the state’s tax revenue picture and to await guidance from the federal government on spending pandemic aid funneled into the Elementary and Secondary School Emer-

gency Relief Fund.

“If Senate Bill 267 becomes law it would cut funding for Kansas public schools by more than half a billion dollars,” Kelly said. “The last thing Kansas needs — just as our teachers are vaccinated and our kids are returning to in-person learning — is to sabotage our education system by subverting critical COVID recovery funds.”

Kelly, a Democrat, was serving in the Kansas Senate during a national recession more than a decade ago when temporary federal stimulus money was rolled into Kansas’ education budget to free state tax dollars for other purposes. The move offered immediate relief from budget pressures, but reliance on one-time money eventually meant the state faced a budgetary reckoning.

The Legislature dealt with its post-recession budget problems by abandoning

Gov. Laura Kelly said the budget bill passed by the Kansas Senate would inappropriately replace $570 million in state funding to K-12 education with one-time federal COVID-19 aid. (Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector)

school-funding promises and passing aggressive income tax cuts embraced by thenGov. Sam Brownback.

The inevitable lawsuit filed by public school districts led to intervention by the Kansas Supreme Court, which affirmed the Legislature’s constitutional duty to suitably finance K-12 public schools.

The Supreme Court retained jurisdiction over the latest lawsuit in anticipation legislators

might again fail to complete a muli-year plan to improve funding of public education. Much of the Brownback tax program was repealed in 2017.

“I promised when I became governor that Kansas would not make the mistakes of the past, and that we would fulfill our constitutional obligation to fully fund our public schools, and I will keep that promise,” Kelly said.

Wings of Warriors

Carlyle News

LAHARPE — Wings of Warriors gathered for the club’s monthly meeting March 11 at the LaHarpe Veterans building, with 10 members attending.

There, they learned the organization distributed 10 gift cards to can-

The Carlyle Church will resume Joanne Sunday morning McIntyre church services at 9:30 a.m. on Easter Sunday, April 4, fol365-0365 lowed by Sunday School at 11 a.m.

cer patients last month.

Members also discussed T-shirt colors — brown with white lettering — and the group’s plans to get a post office box in Gas. The next meeting is April 8.

Spring forecast: Drought will worsen By the Associated Press With nearly twothirds of the United States abnormally dry or worse, the government’s spring forecast offers little hope for relief, especially in the West where a devastating megadrought has taken root.

Weather service officials warned of possible water use cutbacks in California and the Southwest, increased wildfires, low levels in key reservoirs such as Lake Mead and Lake Powell and damage to wheat crops.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s official spring outlook Thursday sees an expanding drought with a drier than normal April, May and June for a large swath of the country from Louisiana to Oregon. including some areas hardest hit by the most severe drought. And nearly all of the continental United States is looking at warmer than normal spring, except for tiny parts of the Pacific Northwest and southeast Alaska, which makes drought worse.

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“We are predicting prolonged and widespread drought,” National Weather Service Deputy Director Mary Erickson said. “It’s definitely something we’re watching and very concerned about.”

NOAA expects the spring drought to hit 74 million people.

Several factors go into worsening drought, the agency said. A La Nina cooling of parts of the central Pacific continues to bring dry weather for much of the country, while in the Southwest heavy summer monsoon rains failed to materialize.

Meteorologists also say the California megadrought is associated with climate change.

Thursday’s national Drought Monitor shows almost 66% of the nation is in an abnormally dry condition, the highest mid-March level since 2002. And forecasters predict that will worsen, expanding in parts of Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota, with small islands of relief in parts of the Great Lakes and New England.

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Easter Bunny Coloring Contest Pick up your

BUNNY SHEET TODAY! Color your best bunny and return by April 1st.

Winners will be contacted Saturday April 3rd.

There are 2 age groups: 4 thru 7 and 8 thru 11 Pick up your bunny picture from one of our cashiers. Return your colored bunny picture to the store before Thurs., April 1st. Be sure to have your name, phone number and age listed on your sheet. Colored sheets will be judged and winners notified on Sat., April 3rd.

$25.00 Cash Prize

Plus 2 Digorno Pizzas, 2 2 Liter Pepsi and 1 1/2 gallon of ice cream.

One winner from each age group.

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Vaccine: Symptoms Historical scavenger Continued from A1

hunt in full swing Lindsay Myers

The Chamber and the Allen County Historical Society kicked off their spring Allen County Scavenger Hunt on Monday. The event gives the community a fun way to get out and explore Allen County as the weather gets nicer.

Participants must turn in their scavenger hunt sheets to the Chamber office or the Allen County Historical Society office by Friday, April 16 in order to be considered for the prize drawing.

The challenge is to identify the locations of 15 photos, each related to a specific business in Allen County.

The scavenger hunt sheet is available on the Chamber’s Facebook page or at the Chamber office at 205 E. Madison in the basement of the Bowlus or at the Historical Society, 20 S. Washington.

Participants will be entered into prize drawing. The Chamber and Allen County Historical Society are grateful to The Iola Register, Audacious Bou-

Iola Chamber of Commerce tique, Pete’s, KwiKom Communications, PSI, Allen Community College, Storage & RV of Iola and Emprise Bank for donating prizes to the drawing. The Allen Sunday Worship . . . . . .9:30 a.m.

County Historical SociBible Study . . . . . . .Tuesday 3 p.m. ety also donated to the Presbyterian prizes. To see what prizes will be offered, visit Steve Traw, Pastor the Chamber’s Face29 Covert St., Carlyle 620-365-9728 book page.

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Rains close Missouri roads MISSION, Kan. (AP) — More than 100 roads are closed across largely rural areas of Missouri as waters rise following recent rain, putting officials on guard as repairs continue on some levees that were damaged previously.

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grees for the rest of the day. By the next morning, her symptoms had vanished (except for a sore, swollen bump at the injection point).

Choi described her experiences in an essay published in December in JAMA Internal Medicine. Since then, she said she’s received emails from hundreds of people, many of whom said they came across her account and said it was comforting to know these reactions were common, and OK. (Choi learned after publication that she had indeed received the vaccine and not a placebo.)

To be clear, it’s rare to have symptoms as intense as the ones Choi experienced: Only 4 out of a subset of 8,183 participants in the larger clinical study experienced fevers above 104 degrees (and two of them were in the placebo group), according to data published in the New England Journal of Medicine and posted on the CDC website.

In fact, besides arm pain, the most common side effects after the second dose were fatigue and headache.

While there have been a few instances of severe allergic reactions with both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, they are exceedingly rare. Just to be safe, the CDC advises people to be monitored for 15 to 30 minutes after receiving their shot so they can get immediate treatment if necessary. Anyone experiencing symptoms such as throat swelling, itchiness, hives or trouble breathing after leaving the vaccination site should seek emergency medical care immediately, experts said.

Those who have an “immediate allergic reaction” to a first dose of either the Moderna vaccine or the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine should not receive a second dose, the CDC says. But for everyone else, the experts agree: Get the second shot.

Compared with suffering through an actual bout with COVID-19 — not to mention the possibility of contending with long-term complications from the disease — there’s really no contest, said Lee, the pediatric infectious diseases expert.

“Vaccines are a far safer way to develop immunity,” she said.

And if you’ve never been infected with this coronavirus, you need that second dose of vaccine to ensure your immune system’s response is strong, and will last over time, experts said.

Choi noted that people ages 55 and younger appeared to suffer more from side effects than the senior crowd.

There’s a reason for that, she said: “If you are younger, your body has a stronger immune system and a little bit more capacity to mount that immune response.”

So as more vaccine becomes available and younger people step up for their shots, it’s important to let them know what to expect, and that side effects are a completely normal part of the process.

“It’s a signal that the vaccine is working,” she said.

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which tend to be stronger than the first. But experts say that the symptoms, which range from a sore arm to headaches and nausea, are a sign that the second dose is doing its job: turbo-charging the immune system’s response to the initial dose, and thus providing more vigorous and long-lasting protection against the virus.

Two of the three vaccines that are authorized for use in the U.S. — one made by Pfizer and BioNTech, the other

by Moderna — require two doses, spaced three and four weeks apart, respectively. (Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine is a one-shot deal.)

There’s no special secret sauce to that second dose: Both the first and second shots are exactly the same. The first simply primes the immune system so that it’s ready to launch a more robust response when it’s time to roll up a sleeve once again.

“It’s just an amplification, basically, of the same process that happens the first time around,” said Dr. Diane Griffin, an infectious diseases expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Common side effects include pain, redness and swelling on the arm that receives the shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Typical side effects elsewhere in the body include tiredness, headache, muscle pain, chills, fever and nausea.

And if you don’t experience side effects, that’s “totally fine,” said Dr. Grace Lee, a pediatric infectious diseases expert at Stanford Children’s Health. Your body is still doing its job.

“The good thing is not everybody gets a reaction,” Lee said.

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work by giving the body’s cells a blueprint to make a replica of the virus’ spike protein. Before an immune cell responds to the offending replica by destroying it, the defender develops a memory of the protein so that it can attack again in the future.

“The fever, headache, etc., that you experience is because of the inflammatory proteins doing their work in the body to get rid of what it believes to be an outsider,” Dr. Jasmine Marcelin, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, explained in an email.

Choi experienced this firsthand. She volunteered for a clinical trial testing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and got her first shot in August.

There were virtually no side effects — just a sore arm.

But after Choi’s second dose, her arm quickly became far more painful at the injection site. By the end of the day, she was suffering from chills, nausea and a splitting headache.

Around midnight, she woke up with an arm so painful she could barely lift it. At 5:30 a.m., she logged a scarily high fever.

She took Tylenol and drank water. Her fever hovered around 99.5 de-

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Absence of energy plan could hurt Kansas

Police report

By BRIAN GRIMMETT Kansas News Service

Deer hits vehicle Gladys Clark was westbound on Oregon Road, just west of Kentucky Street Thursday morning when a deer struck the side of her sport utility vehicle, Iola police officers reported.

Clark was buckled

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — Nearly 70 years ago in a newly formed suburb of Kansas City, Kansas City Power & Light Co. built what it thought was a vision of the future — an all-electric home full of the latest technology.

“It was advertised as the lazy man’s paradise,” said Johnson County Museum curator Andrew Gustafson.

The house was a showpiece meant to sell electricity and the prospect of an all-electric future. It had outlets every few feet, buttons in the bedroom could turn on and off lights throughout the house, and it even had a fireplace, fake of course, powered by an electrical motor that simulated the sights and sounds of a crackling fire.

“So flick of the switch and your television appears,” Gustafson said.

“It’s not hooked up now, but it originally would have turned on, as well, after that painting goes back.”

The TV behind the painting gimmick feels dated now, but another, less sexy feature of the home is even more rel-

evant today: an electric heat pump.

At the time, heat pumps were basically unheard of. Today, they’re seen as a way to eliminate the need for natural gas and the climate warming emissions that come with it.

In many ways, Kansas has been a leader in clean energy development since that time.

Most obviously, it’s harvested the low-hanging fruit: wind. The open plains also make massive solar energy farms a real possibility.

But other states are catching up and Kansas is one of only a handful of states without an energy plan. Some people think that’s a big mistake.

“There are opportunities there, but if they’re going to compete with neighboring states that have similar endowments — similar wind quality, similar solar quality, maybe a little bit closer to the cities — they’re going to have to probably take proactive steps to be as attractive as possible,” said Jesse Jenkins, a researcher at the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment at Princeton University.

He recently helped craft some guidelines

for getting the U.S. to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The models don’t predict what will happen, but they offer potential pathways the country could follow to hit that target.

The suggestions focus on plans for generating energy where it’s cheapest. Wind from the Great Plains, solar energy from the Southwest and so on. In several scenarios, Kansas lags behind states like Missouri and Iowa which are closer to energy hungry population centers.

But Jenkins said that’s where state policies, goals and incentives come in. Kansas, with its abundant wind, solar and agricultural resources, could play a larger role and retool itself for the new energy economy.

Except … Kansas doesn’t have any plan.

And it far exceeded the only goal it ever had — 20% renewable energy by 2020.

“A plan can show people outside the state that, ‘Hey, we’re serious about this,’” State Rep. Mark Schreiber, a Republican from Emporia, said. “We want to be part of this transition.”

Schreiber introduced a bill this year that would have demanded the state create a state energy plan. The bill died.

(A year earlier, the Legislature killed Gov. Laura Kelly’s plans to remake the state’s energy office.)

“There’s some fear out there that this is going to be some new expensive ‘Green New Deal’ kind of thing and the stop arm comes up,” he said.

In the past, the Legislature tried to limit the growth of wind farms.

This year, it’s considering a bill that would tell local governments they can’t ban natural gas hookups in new buildings. That’s generated criticism from environmentalists.

“We need to be talking about how to, A: get Kansas fully integrated into the clean energy economy that is upon us and, B: how do we deal with climate changes that are happening in Kansas,” said Rabbi Moti Rieber, a climate activist and executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action.

“Claiming that climate change isn’t real and tilting against wind turbines is not going to get us there.”

Public notices

(Published in The Iola Register March 20, 2021) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, the 21st of April at 5:30 p.m., at City Hall, 2 W. Jackson in Iola, Kansas; the Planning Commission of Iola, Kansas will hold a public hearing on the written application of J. D. Harris; filed in the office of Code Services, requesting a sewer connection for a house located outside the City limits, for the following property: HARLEM ADD TO IOLA, S36, T24, R18, BLOCK 1, LOT 2

(Published in The Iola Register March 6, 2021) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS

In the Matter of the Estate Of HOWARD E. RUSSELL, Deceased Case No. 2020 PR000003 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed on March 3, 2021, in this Court by Susan Ellis and Riley Ellis, Co-Executors of the Estate of HOWARD E. RUSSELL, Deceased, praying for a final settlement of the Estate, approval of acts, proceedings and accounts as Executor, allowance for attorney’s fees and expenses, determination of the heirs, devisees and legatees entitled to the Estate and assignment to them in accordance with the Will of HOWARD E. RUSSELL, Deceased.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before March 30, 2021 at 8:30 a.m. on such day, in the District Courtroom, 302 S. Washington, Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and

& 3; AKA: 519 S Ohio Said application is being filed for under the provisions Article 4, Section 15-402 of the City of Iola Unified Development Code.

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place such cause will be heard.

If you appear in person face masks and social distancing per posted rules are required.

If rules or conditions for access result in denial of access to the courtroom you must call 620365-1425 to seek assistance in advising the Court of your appearance and objection to the Petition. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said Petition. The deadline or time requirement for response to the Petition is not subject to the suspension of deadlines and time limitations under Kansas Supreme Court Administrative Order 2020-PR-058 and extensions thereof.

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Airport: Runways, location are advantages for Allen County Continued from A1

by the county).

Bids are currently being sought to see what those utilities might cost, and if the price is right, the next step will be to develop an Airport Master Plan, and to more assertively court those entities that might be interested in building.

“I’m ultra-conservative when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars,” said Daniels. “If it’s too much, we may wait” on the utilities installation. “But as long as it’s reasonable, we have to try.”

And, according to the Kansas Department of Commerce, there likewise exists the possibility that federal funding may soon be available to assist with projects of this kind.

So where’s the impetus for expanding airport utilities coming from?

Consider the following example: Orizon Aerostructures in Chan-

An aircraft hangar at the Allen County Regional Airport. ute, which specializes in manufacturing complex aircraft components.

When Orizon was still anonymous, searching for a building location under the name “Project Bluebook,” the company had wanted airport property on which to develop, explained Daniels.

But because Allen County’s airport didn’t have adequate utilities,

this was one reason it was passed over.

“Look to the future,” Daniels said. “What if there’s another Orizon? … I like being prepared.”

That’s especially the case, he added, as securing an industry like Orizon would mean both an improved tax base as well as a significant number of new jobs.

Why would industrial developers choose

Allen?

For one, Allen County’s airport has several features that make it attractive to builders, explained Goering.

It has one of the longest and widest runways in Southeast Kansas, has plenty of space, sits between two cities and is situated near a major highway.

Daniels also added that “our FAA rep is

excited because they don’t see many projects of this kind in airports across the state.” That is, taking place in rural areas with industrial possibilities.

He also pointed out how the very existence of the airport is a magnet for development, since “large businesses, they’ve got that transportation need.”

Being able to manufacture a product next to your very own shipping point is very attractive.

Indeed, the county is almost always seeking out modes of economic development, “it’s [just] the cherry on top that it’s at the airport,” said Daniels. “But that might be the one thing that pushes the situation in our favor.”

What are some other possible forms of development?

According to Daniels, “package delivery has gone through the roof,” and so the opportunity may exist to bring in a

smaller facility of this kind.

“FedEx, UPS … a lot of those delivery locations are at an airport,” Daniels added.

He also shared a story linked to Murphy Tractor in Humboldt, where the company had wanted to come to town but, again, “utilities were the one thing that they needed.”

Once installed, however, the company was ready to rock-n’-roll, which for Daniels, reemphasized the lesson about the importance of preparedness.

“Who’s ready for some funding? Who’s got the plan and who’s done the legwork?” he asked rhetorically.

In short, he and Goering want Allen County to be able to answer in the affirmative.

For them, a modest investment by taxpayers up front means bringing more jobs to the community and improved tax benefits for everyone.

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“I’ve already filled out the paperwork.”

Meanwhile, their three daughters — Jenna, Reese and Kashyn — started cleaning out a storage room where they had decided Gaia could stay.

If one of their girls had traveled to another country and needed to find a place to stay, they would want someone to take her in, the Currys decided.

“This is a big experience for her to come over to the States. If it were one of our girls, we wouldn’t want it to be a bad experience, so we didn’t want Gaia to have a bad experience,” Briana said.

“If it were our daughter, we would want someone to take care of her,” Brett said, then joked, “Now, we’re like, ‘Why did we say yes?’”

Everyone laughed, and this reporter asked Gaia, “Do they tease you a lot?”

Gaia scrunched up her face, confused at the unfamiliar word. Her face is very expressive, even if she struggles with the language.

“Give you a hard time,” Briana suggested. Gaia’s face lit up and she started laughing.

“Oh! Yes. Yes.” Briana explained:

“They told us, out of the five international students that came to Iola this year, she had the most broken English.

I feel like she’s come a long way.”

Indeed, the teenager who sat across the table seemed very different from our first interview in August.

At that time, she struggled to understand most words and spent the interview consulting a translator on her phone. That article included just one direct quote from Gaia: “It’s very different.”

This time, though, she spoke freely, excited and laughing. Though her English is still limited, she consulted her phone only once and that was to find “New Zealand” when asked what other country she’d like to visit.

It was a very dramatic difference.

“My English, I think, now it’s better,” she said.

“Sometimes I understand. Sometimes I don’t understand. But I think, now, it’s better.”

She enjoyed being part of the volleyball team and made friends with her teammates.

She’s especially close to fellow Italian Veronica, and they hang out or speak to each other ev-

ery day. She’s also bonded with Riccardo Barbarossa, another Italian student currently living in Iola.

She decided not to try playing basketball but was considering softball.

“I like to watch basketball but I hate to run, so I don’t play basketball,” she said. “Now I think maybe I will try softball.”

“You know, there’s running in softball, too,” this reporter pointed out.

It didn’t dissuade her from considering it. She shrugged. “In Italy, we don’t play much softball.”

GAIA is quiet and keeps to herself a lot, the Currys noted.

She especially enjoys watching Italian shows in her bedroom. They want to give her space and privacy, but also want to introduce her to activities. It can be difficult to find that balance, but it seems to work.

Gaia clearly feels comfortable interacting with the family. Over the course of this interview family members filtered into the kitchen to join Gaia in the backand-forth conversation.

She laughed easily and enjoyed listening to their perspectives.

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She likes having three American sisters, especially since she had already developed a friendship with Jenna.

“This is a big family.

In Italy, my parents are divorced. I don’t have a sister or brother. So it’s fun,” she said.

For Christmas, the family took a trip to Branson where Gaia enjoyed seeing the holiday lights.

“We talked about trying to take her to Colorado, but with COVID it’s hit or miss what you do or don’t do,” Brett said.

“And the girls being so busy with volleyball and basketball makes it tough.”

“Branson, it was cool.

It was a good experience. I like new experiences,” Gaia said.

“I make her eat a lot of new things,” Briana interjected, challenging Gaia’s love of “new experiences.”

“Tell her about the cheeseburger,” Brett added.

Gaia scrunched up her nose but didn’t elaborate. “I like meat not so much. I like chicken.

Here, it is good Mexican food. I like tacos and burritos.”

She has cooked an Italian meal for the Curry family. She spoke wistfully of the food in her home country. Apparently, Americanized Italian food is a poor substitute.

“The cuisine is so different. I miss Italian food. Here, the Americans eat much trash food.”

She meant fast food, but the error made everyone laugh.

“In Italy, we cook much at home.”

ANOTHER BIG difference, Gaia revealed, is the weather.

The interview took place at the start of the bitter cold weather snap in February. Temperatures were dropping and it had snowed some, but the worst was still yet to

come.

In Italy, Gaia lives on an island with a temperate climate.

“I have seen snow before, maybe one time.

Two times. Not much,” she said. “I like seeing the snow, the white environment. It’s cold and my skin is delicate so it’s really bad for me. I much prefer to stay in the house.”

She speaks to her mother in Italy every day, and frequently talks and texts her family and friends in Italy.

She’s looking forward to returning home at the end of May, and hopes some day the Curry family can come visit her.

“I told her, ‘I think you’re really brave for coming here,’” Briana said, then laughed. “She was like, ‘What does brave mean?’ So I had to explain that.”

When asked how she had changed during her time in Iola, Gaia paused for a moment to collect her thoughts.

“Probably my adaptation. I think, now, I’m more mature. My English is better so I’m learning a new language. I think the change in me is positive.”

She paused again, then nodded very emphatically. “Yeah. It’s good.”

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Me-first nationalism defeats efforts to vaccinate the world I can understand President Joe Biden putting Americans first in getting vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. And I really appreciate his efforts to ramp up vaccine production through the Merck and Johnson & Johnson partnership.

But I disagree with what, up until Thursday, has been his reluctance to send vaccines to other parts of the world.

On Thursday, the U.S. agreed to send millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Mexico and Canada.

The U.S. has yet to approve AstraZeneca — but will — and has been stockpiling it for that day.

Meanwhile, our neighbors have far less than necessary to vaccinate their most vulnerable. Sending them vaccines is not only the humane thing to do, but the smart thing to do.

First, the danger of letting vaccine schedules lag elsewhere is that it gives the COVID-19 virus the chance to mutate at an ever more rapid pace. So far, the current vaccines seem to cover these variations, but scientists say the more mutations are created, the less effective the vaccine becomes. The only way to reduce the number of variants is to get more vaccines into the arms of people.

Otherwise we’re leaving ourselves open to the possibility of another destabilizing outbreak.

Second, vaccine diplomacy is smart for geopolitical reasons.

This is no time for mefirst vaccine nationalism.

The global pandemic has killed more than 2.7 million people — and it’s far from over in countries without vaccines. If we fail to do what we can for others during this crisis, then it lessens our chances for receiving cooperation to address the next pandemic, terrorist threat, weather event, cyber crime, nuclear weapons acquisition or any other challenge that requires collective action.

Diplomacy is based on partners willing to share information. If we threat-

Susan Lynn Register editor en those relationships by hoarding vaccines, it puts us at further risk when the next crisis arises, whatever it may be.

IN THE MONTHS since the Dec. 14 vaccine rollout, nine countries have received 80% of the world’s doses, including the United States. In terms of low-income countries, only four out of 29 have even started administering vaccine doses. There are 86 countries, representing 1.5 billion people, who have yet to administer a single dose.

To ease your conscience, the United States is administering the vaccine at a rate consistent with its cases. That’s because our infection rate of 29% is the highest per capita in the world. Other countries with extremely low rates of infection, such as Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Chile, are vaccinating more people than their health situation demands.

The solution to this problem should have been addressed during the race to discover a vaccine. Unfortunately, leaders were slow to take up the mantle to coordinate global distribution. It’s only been in the last couple of weeks that Covax — the World Health Organization’s vaccine-sharing program — has been able to start disseminating vaccines to third-world countries.

In the case of Israel, for example, it has many times over the number of doses needed. Today, a 16-year-old can receive a vaccine there.

Meanwhile, there’s not one vaccine available in all of Haiti.

It’s incumbent on the world’s wealthy countries, including the United States, to address these shortfalls.

Else, we’ll all rue the consequences.

The upside-down KS Legislature “Once there lived an Upside-Down, who was the talk of all the town.

If he was told to turn to right, he turned left out of spite.”

— Alexander Kushner, Russian poet The 2021 Kansas Legislature is Upside-Down-land, filled with lawmakers who focus their attention on non-problems, while purposefully ignoring the state’s real issues.

Reflecting the nutty fixation of Senator Roger Marshall, statehouse Republicans have focused immense attention on the burning question of whether Kansas transgender female athletes, perhaps five in total, should be able to compete in women’s sports. As with many other states’ partisans, Kansas Republicans studiously avoid important issues by obsessing on the bright shiny object of transgendered students, who are among the state’s most vulnerable citizens.

In passing an anti-trans athletes measure through an “emergency” (sic) process, Kansas risks the fate of states experiencing boycotts after passing such bills, including North Carolina’s misguided “bathroom bill” that lost that state more than $400 million in events revenues.

Contrast this with the legislators’ intransigent unwillingness to address Medicaid expansion, which would directly address the needs of more than 100,000 Kansans.

This gross neglect over the past decade, which has cost Kansas more over $3 billion in

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funding, is even more shameful and stupid in 2021, given provisions of the American Recovery Plan (ARP).

Aside from many other positive health care provisions, the ARP offers new, enhanced incentives for Kansas to expand Medicaid, most notably an extra $450 million in benefits over the next two years, compared to increased expenditures of $210 million. The state would come out a big fiscal winner in tough times and up to 150,000 thousand Kansans would receive health coverage.

For Republican legislators, these generous, humane Medicaid provisions might as well not exist. In their Upside-Down world, even the possibility of some future increased expenses is enough to ignore every positive. Lawmakers simply avert their eyes, choosing to attack the mythology of trans athletes, while also seeking to exact a pound of flesh from Kansas universities.

Indeed, this latter subject – forcing universities to refund up to $150 million in tuition for those students whose classes moved from in-person to remote teaching – represents an Upside-Down two-fer for GOP legislators. That is, they can create a non-issue (refunds)

that would further damage a higher education system already reeling from huge Covid-related fiscal losses, including $75 million for the University of Kansas alone.

Saddling Kansas universities with tens of millions in extra expenses would be crippling, yet for many lawmakers it is a point of pride, in that they would rather score political points than bolster 150 years of state investment in higher education.

Why this Upside-Down divergence between symbolism and substance for many Republican legislators, both in DC and Topeka? Largely because they have no serious policy agenda, as witnessed by their unwillingness to write a national party platform in 2020. Rather, they just said, “Our program is whatever Donald Trump wants.”

In Topeka, this translates to “Whatever Governor Laura Kelly supports, we oppose, even though we have little to offer in its place.” For deep-red Kansas, that may be enough, as trans students, the uninsured working poor, and state universities become targets for Republican lawmakers who provide no serious policies. At the same time, real issues of health care, a Covid-weakened economy, higher education, and yes, actual discrimination against trans students, go unaddressed.

Upside-Down, indeed.

Burdett Loomis is an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Kansas.

No, Kansas cannot and should not use COVID relief to fund tax cuts Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Derek Schmidt of Kansas are at it again.

The two have co-signed a letter to the Treasury Department expressing outrage that the new COVID-19 bill blocks states from using their federal grants to pay for, what else, massive tax cuts.

“Such federal usurpation of state tax policy would represent the greatest attempted invasion of state sovereignty

by Congress in the history of our Republic,” the letter says.

Really? George Wallace, call your office.

The COVID-19 relief bill sends $350 billion to state and local governments to help them recover from the pandemic. The idea is to use the cash to pay for teachers and firefighters and health care costs, and to plug holes

in state budgets decimated by unemployment.

Kansas is scheduled to receive roughly $1.6 billion and Missouri, $2.8 billion.

At the insistence of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, however, the law precludes states from cutting their own taxes and then using the federal cash to bail them out.

This makes enormous sense: The federal money is a onetime supplement, not a replacement.

Imagine your reaction if your boss offered you a onetime 10% raise, but took away your health insurance forever. You’d be no better off. The same principle applies here.

To Schmitt and Schmidt, however, and 19 other Republican attorneys general, it’s a legal disaster. “Fundamental to our Constitution is separate federal and state sovereigns, who can each set their

own taxing policies based on their own independent legislatures,” the letter says.

Sure they can. But state legislators retain their power to set tax policy under the new law. What they cannot do is slash taxes and plug federal dollars into the budget hole.

There’s a way out of the mess. Kansas and Missouri could simply refuse to take the coronavirus relief money and cut taxes to their hearts’ content, as Schmitt and Schmidt know, or should know.

That would be incredibly dumb, and would seriously damage both states. But it could be done, and we know that because Kansas and Missouri have done it before, with Medicaid expansion.

For years, both states have refused billions of dollars in federal money to expand

Medicaid. It’s been foolish, but it was — and is — legal.

The two states could turn down COVID-19 money, too.

Schmitt and Schmidt seem to understand this. They just don’t like it. “Many states put to the Hobson’s choice of taking this financial support or maintaining their sovereign independence … will be hard pressed to decline the federal funds,” the letter says, in a desperate attempt to have it both ways.

While both AGs are wrong on the law, they’re also wrong on the policy. The federal money only lasts for a year or two. After that, states that permanently reduce tax rates will be faced once again with cutting services to balance their books.

Cutting taxes across the board now would create enormous hardship a few years from now.

We’d urge Kansas and Missouri to approach the federal grants with the same caution cities should use: modest state worker wage increases, expanded health programs, money to protect schools, one-time building projects, and fund reserves.

The states should also be allowed to pursue revenue-neutral tax reform. Cutting the sales tax on food, for example, could be offset by higher income taxes on the rich. We’re confident such an approach would be legal even if Kansas or Missouri takes federal COVID-19 cash.

What the states should not do is decimate their own tax bases for political reasons and expect the rest of the nation to pick up the tab. That’s precisely what Schmitt and Schmidt propose, and it’s deeply wrong.

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Henrik: Recent thunderstorm was a first Continued from A1

Although the crowd was limited because of coronavirus restrictions, Henrik still felt nervous.

“I was excited for sure. All the people were sitting there, and we walked in last. They were still announcing all the candidates, and then this guy pulled out a letter and read the names and it was my name,” Henrik recalled.

“I was very honored to get the crown and I love the basketball they gave me. I would be happy to come back next year, but I will have one more year of school in Germany so I don’t think I will be able to do so.”

Henrik knows it’s very unusual for an international student to be crowned homecoming king. He fidgeted uncomfortably when asked about his level of popularity at IHS. He played on the football and wrestling teams, so he made a lot of friends that way, he said.

“It’s really easy to connect with people when you have the same interests,” he said.

“The homecoming thing, I think that helped a bit. But the other (nominees), they have spent four years in the high school and they definitely deserved it.”

Instead, he said, he believes he was voted homecoming king as a gesture of kindness and support from the entire student body.

“I feel like they were being very nice.”

Iola High’s McKenna Orear was crowned Iola High School’s 2021 Homecoming Queen, and Henrik Sieh the Homecoming King in January. FILE PHOTO BEING CROWNED homecoming king wasn’t Henrik’s only “first” during his time here.

He also got to witness his first thunderstorm.

“You don’t have thunderstorms where you live?” this reporter asked, surprised.

He shook his head.

“No, not at all. I live right on the coast and we don’t get super warm air. We just get cold air from Scandinavia. We have season changes, it’s just not that extreme. It doesn’t change in, like, two weeks,” he said.

“So, yeah, I’ve gotten to experience, already, quite a few different kinds of weather.”

To fully appreciate the thunderstorm, his host father, Jonathan Adams, drove them out to a dark, empty spot in the country. Jonathan is a photographer, and wanted to capture the storm’s beauty, in photos filled with clouds and lightning.

“It was very amazing,” Henrik said.

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rik said he feels he has changed quite a bit since he first arrived in Iola in August.

Maybe the biggest change, he said, is “not necessarily” a good thing.

“I kind of stopped cooking for myself,” Henrik admitted, sheepishly.

“I’m going out to eat a lot more. A lot of fast food.”

It’s the American way.

Other changes have been more positive.

He’s developed a close relationship with his host family, Jonathan and his wife, Dr. Dawnie Barnhart.

He’s met lots of American friends.

He’s read several English books about finance, which he plans as his future career after a stint in the military. He enjoys reading English books because they teach him about grammar and spelling.

“I’m more independent. It’s hard being 5,000 miles away from my family,” he said.

“But this exchange here really helped me because in Germany,

because of COVID, almost everything is shut down. My family tells me I made the right decision to come here.”

It wasn’t an easy decision, Henrik admitted. He worried about coming to an unfamiliar country during a global pandemic, not knowing what might happen.

“My biggest concern was that I would come here and it would just be a waste of time and money,” he said. “But I’m really glad I made this decision because it’s one of the best experiences of my whole life.”

He encourages other students to consider opportunities to study abroad, and said he really appreciates the way the local community has embraced him.

“People are really interested in where you come from, what your culture is like and the differences. I’m really glad for their interest, because it helped me integrate myself here.”

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Jordan’s Way was created to increase visibility for animal shelters across the country.

The event began after founder Kris Rotonda adopted a dog, Jordan, from an animal shelter 11 years ago. After the dog died from cancer in 2018, he made a promise to help shelter animals. He’s now on a 50-state tour, selecting several shelters in each state as the target for his fundraising efforts.

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Iola’s Animal Control Officer Elisha Womelsdorf nominated ACARF for the fundraiser.

“We are all so tickled to do this,” Julie Payne, with the ACARF board, said. “It will be loads of fun. Kris has thousands of followers on Facebook, and so does ACARF, so this should be an exciting event.”

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Birth announcement Savannah and Levi Flory welcomed Hazel Ann into the world on Jan. 14 at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute.

She weighed 8 lbs., 4 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.

Hazel joins two sisters, Leanna, age 8, and Jayde, age 4.

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On the boys’ side, Crest’s Kobey Miller and Sean Hurst of Yates Center earned first team All-TRL honors, while Crest’s Tyson Hermreck and Yates Center’s Cash Cummings were joined by Marmaton Valley’s Quincy Adams on the second team.

Yates Center had a third player, Preston Hurst, who earned honorable mention as well.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Drake’s small, energetic contingent of fans sounded like it had waited forever to let loose.

The several hundred blueclad supporters who got to see the Bulldogs in person on Thursday night ended up witnessing the team’s first NCAA Tournament win in a half-century.

Joseph Yesufu scored 21 points and Drake held on to beat Wichita State 53-52 in a tense First Four matchup between former Missouri Valley Conference rivals.

Drake’s last tournament victory had been 50 years ago to the day —- March 18, 1971, against Notre Dame.

“To get a win for our program that hasn’t happened in 50 years — it’s really ex-

MILLER led the Lancers with 14.6 points and nearly 6 rebounds a game while Crest went 8-13 on the season. The record may be a bit deceiving. The Lancers played one of the tougher Class 1A schedules around, and missed by one game

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Capsules of American League Central teams, listed in order of finish last year: Minnesota Twins

2020: 36-24, first place, lost to Astros in first round of playoffs.

Manager: Rocco Baldelli (third season).

He’s Here: SS Andrelton Simmons, RHP Alex Colomé, LHP J.A. Happ, RHP Matt Shoemaker, RHP Hansel Robles, RHP Shaun Anderson, OF Kyle Garlick, OF Keon Broxton.

He’s Outta Here: LF Eddie Rosario, RHP Sergio Romo, RHP Trevor May, RHP Jake Odorizzi, INF/OF Marwin Gonzalez, LHP Rich Hill, RHP Tyler Clippard, RHP

Nelson Cruz will return to the Twins in 2021 with 417 career home runs in tow, 57 of them in two seasons with Minnesota.

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Rotation: RH Kenta Maeda (6-1, 2.70 ERA), RH José Berríos (5-4, 4.00), RH Michael Pineda (2-0, 3.38 in 5 starts), LH J.A. Happ (2-2, 3.47 for Yankees), RH Matt Shoemaker (0-1, 4.71 in 6 starts for Blue Jays).

Key Relievers: RH Alex Colomé (2-0, 0.81, 12/13 saves for White Sox), LH Taylor Rogers (2-4, 4.05, 9/11 saves), RH Tyler Duffey (1-1, 1.88, 24 strikeouts in 31 innings), RH Hansel Robles (0-2, 10.26 in 16 2/3

innings for Angels), RH Jorge Alcalá (2-1, 2.63).

Outlook: The Twins have returned largely the same team that won the last two AL Central titles, aiming to end their major league-record 18-game postseason losing streak. The pitching staff was superb during the pandemic-shortened 2020 schedule, and Happ and Shoemaker have added value and experience to the rotation with Randy Dobnak moving to a long-relief role after making 10 starts last year. Maeda and Berríos make for a solid one-two punch, but whether the pitching is deep enough for a postseason run remains to be seen. Signing away CoSee AL CENTRAL | Page B6

Area girls earn Three Rivers League recognition Five area high school girls earned postseason honors for their work on the basketball court this season.

Crest High senior Aubree Holloran was joined by Marmaton Valley High’s Janae Granere and Yates Center’s Morgan Collins on the allThree Rivers League second team Meanwhile, Marmaton Valley’s Kaylee Becker and Yates Center’s Molly Proper earned honorable mention.

Holloran, a senior at Crest, averaged 14.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.5 steals a game, easily leading the team in those categories. She also averaged one assist per contest.

Granere, one of only two freshmen to earn TRL recognition, along with Pleasanton’s Erin Sabine, paced Marmaton Valley with 11 points, 3 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game.

Collins, a junior, led Yates Center with 10 assists and 4

From left, Marmaton Valley High’s Janae Granere, Crest High’s Aubrey Holloran and Yates Center High’s Morgan Collins earned second-team Three Rivers League postseason honors. PHOTOS BY KATHE HAMMAN and RICHARD LUKEN

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citing,” Bulldogs coach Darian DeVries said.

“These guys have fought through so much, and for them to be the ones to get us one, I think is really deserving.”

Attendance was limited because of the coronavirus pandemic, leaving most of the seats at Mackey Arena empty, and the Drake crowd finally made some noise at the end of a game that deserved a much bigger audience.

Wichita State’s Dexter Dennis made a 3-pointer with 8 seconds remaining to trim Drake’s lead to a point. The Bulldogs got the ball in to Yesufu, who was fouled.

He missed the front end of a 1-and-1 to give the Shockers a chance, but Wichita State’s Alterique Gilbert settled for a long 3-pointer that hit the front rim as time expired.

The Bulldogs were hardly overmatched in this year’s tournament field — they came in with 25 wins, second most of the 68 teams behind top overall seed Gonzaga. The win was extra validation for DeVries, who was rewarded this week with a contract extension through 2028-29.

Above, Crest’s Tyson Herrmreck, and Marmaton Valley’s Quincy Adams, 23, at right, earned second-team Three Rivers League honors. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

TRL: Hardwood excellence recognized Continued from B1

winning the Three Rivers League crown.

Hermreck, like Miller a senior, averaged 10 points and 7 boards a game for Crest.

YATES Center’s standout trio was led by Sean Hurst, who averaged 12.3 points, 6.7 rebounds,

2.7 assists and 1.3 steals per game. He also led the Wildcats with four double-doubles on the season.

Cash Cummings came on late in the season to average 7.4 points per game, including a memorable 20-point output against Humboldt to wrap up the regular sea-

son, capped by his buzzer-beating 3-pointer.

Preston Hurst, Sean Hurst’s younger brother, earned honorable mention for his all-around game as well. He averaged 7.3 points, 5.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1 steal per game.

AN OTHERWISE un-

dermanned Marmaton Valley squad struggled through a winless season, but the Wildcats could rely on one constant — the determined, fearless leadership of the rangy MV junior Adams.

He easily led the squad at 16.5 points, 5.7 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 1.7 assists per game.

Tremell Murphy added 11 points for 11th-seeded Drake (264), which advanced to play sixth-seeded Southern California in the West Region today.

Morris Udeze scored a career-high 22 points and Dennis added 13 for Wichita State (166), which made just 11 of 22 free throws.

It was the 152nd meeting between the former MVC rivals.

Wichita State left for the American Athletic Conference in 2017.

Both mid-major powers were given at-large bids into the NCAA field, and their matchup was dominated by defense — Drake shot 38% while Wichita State shot 34%.

The Shockers reached the NCAA Tournament after an offseason of turmoil.

Seven players left the program, and longtime coach Gregg Marshall resigned before the season amid allegations of verbal and physical abuse. Isaac Brown was promoted to interim coach.

Wichita State removed Brown’s interim tag last month as the Shockers won eight straight late in the season before closing with a one-point loss to Cincinnati in the AAC Tournament.

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‘Falcon’ may become Black Capt. America NEW YORK (AP) — When Steve Rogers handed Sam Wilson his Captain America shield at the end of Marvel’s massive 2019 event “Avengers: Endgame,” Wilson tried it on for a beat. “How does it feel?” the wrinkled Rogers asked. “Like it’s someone else’s,” Wilson responded.

That reluctance and skepticism is frontand-center as Wilson’s story continues in “The Falcon and the Winter Solder,” a new sixepisode Disney+ series that promises an exploration of patriotism and race alongside its shootouts and soaring chase scenes. The series launches Friday.

While “Endgame” appeared to promise a

quick transition for Anthony Mackie’s Falcon to take up the Captain America mantle, as he has in the comics, the creator of “Falcon” promises only complications. Malcolm Spellman said the series will explore “the conflict for a Black man confronting those stars and stripes.”

He said the Wilson/ Falcon character is set to “emerge from this story as a hero of the times and a hero of the people today. And that journey of whether it’s even appropriate to deal with the symbol, the Stars and Stripes, to me, felt super, super relevant and timely.”

So will there be a Black Captain America by the time the final credits roll in April?

Mackie, steeped in Marvel’s renowned secretkeeping after playing Falcon since 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” will only say this: “I’m very happy with the end of ‘Falcon,’ and I feel like I have one of the most unique, coolest characters in all of comic book movies.”

Unlike the mostly insular “WandaVision,” the first Marvel series launched after “Endgame,” “Falcon” promises a larger scope of globe-trotting adventure with implications for multiple characters in upcoming series and films.

Spellman drew inspiration from raceconscious “buddy twohanders” like “Lethal

Weapon,” “48 Hours” and “The Defiant Ones,” highlighting the warm chemistry between Mackie and Sebastian Stan, who joined Marvel movies as Bucky Barnes in 2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger.”

In comics, Barnes has also taken up Cap’s shield, lending an inherent tension to the series titular pairing.

Stan says “Falcon” allowed the two actors to find new shadings to their roles, even after so many film appearances, by “honoring the things that we have understood about them so far in the movies and then also staying open to taking them down a new path and finding the middle ground between those things.

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He wants to help a flagging friend Dear Carolyn: Many years on from high school graduation, I have the opportunity to visit classmates, including a peripheral friend from our small graduating class.

Many succeeded (traditional view) through life; some have not. This person was described to me as hard to reach and seemingly down on his luck, maybe even homeless. So when visiting this old “friend,” how do I approach it? Just listen, flat-out offer help, talk?

— Anonymous Anonymous: Visit?

You sure? Covid?

Assuming pandemic precautions: Treat him as you would any old friend — show an interest, let him tell you how to proceed. To be down on one’s luck already exacts a heavy price in security, social standing and peace of mind; regarding him as your equal in simple dignity and humanity is your best chance not to add another emotional cost to his bill.

Share of yourself, too, as you would with any peer. Since you have

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some knowledge of his circumstances, be mindful of them and sensitive in your choice of topic, of course — no robber-baron reminiscences — but that’s no different from the way you approach someone you’re meeting cold, right, whose circumstances you don’t know?

You don’t just tromp into a conversation without testing the ground first.

Same applies here.

Dear Carolyn: So, a while back I wrote in about how my mom wanted grandkids and I don’t want to have them.

(Pretty common issue, it seems.) Eventually, I told her how I felt, and she took it well enough.

Until yesterday. She brought it up again, and I responded by reiterating my position — I don’t want them. After trying to convince me that I

DID actually want kids (which I didn’t appreciate), she ended the call, sounding upset — like I’d really disappointed her. There was no yelling or anything, just a firm “No, and that’s it.”

She later emailed to cancel a (pickup-only) lunch outing we’d planned, and which I was looking forward to.

She didn’t say why and didn’t respond when I inquired if that was the reason. I can’t think what else it was.

I’m feeling very annoyed with her now. I know she wants grandkids and this sucks to hear, but it feels like I’m being punished for not doing something she wants me to do (and which would suck for a grandkid, having a parent who isn’t fully committed). I just don’t know what to say to her next time we talk.

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Dear Dr. Roach: I participated in a research study and received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Nov. 30. I have lab-confirmed antibodies. Gyms are known to be especially susceptible to the virus spreading, but is it reasonably safe to return to the gym after having the vaccine and taking normal precautions? I haven’t been to the gym in almost a year, and as a 60+ male, I know I need more cardiovascular exercise. — H.C. Answer: It is still wise to use proper social distancing, hand hygiene and masks, even after getting any COVID-19 vaccine. It’s

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health certainly very good news you got the vaccine, and like more than 90% of those who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, you have antibodies. However, no vaccine is perfect, and recent data showed the vaccine to be 85% effective at preventing severe COVID infection.

You are right that gyms are a known source of infection.

Many people infected and contagious with COVID-19 have no

symptoms, and feel perfectly well enough to go to the gym, but pose a risk to their fellow exercisers. Working out leads to heavy breathing, which increases the risk of infection to others. That could put you, and then anyone you may live with, at risk.

Also, YOU could be the asymptomatic person potentially spreading virus. We don’t know for 100% that the vaccine prevents transmission.

For yourself, your family, and others, it’s best to avoid places of risk until the pandemic is under better control.

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ing kids.

Because you’ve said everything and don’t want to say it again.

It’s actually as simple as it appears. Stop explaining. Choose not to engage. “Mom.” Pause.

“Next topic.” Repeat till you don’t need to.

I urge you not to complicate things emotionally, either. You say that “it feels like I’m being punished for not doing something she wants me to do” — and, I do get it, she canceled something you wanted. It feels like a consequence for your actions. But you’re ascribing a motive to her decision that you don’t have enough information to support.

So instead of “I’m upset that you punished me for not doing something you wanted” — which puts you into her business — say, “I’m disappointed you canceled.”

Which keeps you within your business.

It takes practice to get into this habit. When in doubt about how to respond to something, stay on your choices, your feelings, your side of the line.

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lomé from their primary division competitor ought to pay off over the long haul, but to stay ahead of the White Sox, the offense will have to produce more like 2019 than 2020. Kirilloff made his major league debut in the playoffs after tearing up the team’s alternate training site with an otherworldly hitting display. The Twins could keep him in Triple-A to start and let Rooker, another of the organization’s top prospects, show off his bat. Garlick or Broxton could stick around for depth in the meantime.

Keeping Buxton and Donaldson healthy figures to be the biggest key to success for the lineup, after a balky calf kept Donaldson from doing much in his debut with the Twins last year.

The arrival of Simmons has given the infield defense a big boost and allowed the offense-oriented Polanco to move to a position that’s a more natural fit. There should be a winning team waiting for Twins fans who file back into Target Field, starting at about 25% capacity.

What ultimately matters, though, after the summer fun is whether this talented club can finally win a game in the fall.

Cleveland Indians

2020: 35-25, second place, lost to Yankees in first round of playoffs.

Manager: Terry Francona (ninth season).

He’s Here: OF Eddie Rosario, INF Andrés Giménez, INF Amed Rosario, RHP Bryan Shaw, OF Harold Ramirez.

He’s Outta Here: SS Francisco Lindor, RHP Carlos Carrasco, 1B Carlos Santana, LHP Brad Hand, OF Tyler Naquin, LHP Oliver Pérez, RHP Adam Cimber, OF Delino DeShields Jr., INF Mike Freeman.

Projected Lineup: 2B César Hernández (.283, 3 HRs, 20 RBIs, 35 runs), CF Óscar Mercado (.128, 1, 6 in 36 games), LF Eddie Rosario (.257, 13, 42 with Minnesota), 3B José Ramírez (292, 17, 46, 45 runs, 10 steals, .993 OPS), DH Franmil Reyes (.275, 9, 35, 69 Ks), Jake Bauers (spent

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2020 season at alternate training site) or 1B Bobby Bradley (spent 2020 at alternate training site), RF Josh Naylor (.247, 1, 6 in 40 games for Padres and Indians) or Jordan Luplow (.192, 2, 8 in 29 games), C Roberto Pérez (.165 1, 5 in 32 games, won Gold Glove), SS Andrés Giménez (.263, 3, 12 in 49 games for Mets).

Rotation: RH Shane Bieber (8-1, 1.63 ERA, 122 Ks, led majors in all three categories), RH Zach Plesac (4-2, 2.28, 57 Ks in 55 1/3 innings), RH Aaron Civale (4-6, 4.74), RH Triston McKenzie (2-1, 3.24), RH Cal Quantrill (2-0, 2.28 in 18 games for Padres and Indians) or LH Logan Allen (3.38, 3 games).

Key Relievers: RH James Karinchak (1-2, 2.67, 53 Ks in 27 innings), RH Emmanuel Clase (23, 2.31 in 2019 for Rangers, suspended in 2020 for PEDs), RH Nick Wittgren (2-0, 3.43 in 20 games), RH Phil Maton (3-3, 4.47 in 23 games), LH Oliver Pérez (1-1, 2.00 in 21 games, .185 vs. lefties), RH Adam Plutko (2-2, 4.88), RH Bryan Shaw (1-0, 18.00 in 6 innings for Mariners).

Outlook: Expectations have fallen following Lindor’s trade this winter, but the Indians believe they have enough talent to compete for the AL Central title. They certainly have the pitching. At just 25, Bieber has become one of baseball’s best starters, and the right-hander anchors a staff with big arms but limited experience.

Karinchak is the new closer following Hand’s departure, and Clase, with his 100 mph fastball, gives Francona another back-end weapon. Ramírez was more consistent than Lindor last season, and he’ll

need to carry an even heavier offensive load.

Eddie Rosario’s signing to a one-year contract — he pounded Cleveland pitching with Minnesota — should offset some of the power lost with Lindor and Santana leaving, and he brings needed quality to an unsettled outfield. Francona’s return after missing most of last season due to health issues is another positive for the Indians, who will probably be known by another name in 2022. Cleveland will host fans in April at 30% capacity at 34,788seat Progressive Field.

Chicago White Sox

2020: 35-25, third place, wild card, lost to Oakland in first round of playoffs.

Manager: Tony La Russa (first season of second stint with team).

He’s Here: Manager Tony La Russa, RHP Liam Hendriks, RHP Lance Lynn, OF Adam Eaton, C Jonathan Lucroy.

He’s Outta Here: Manager Rick Renteria, DH Edwin Encarnación, C James McCann, RHP Alex Colomé, 2B Yolmer Sanchez, LHP Gio Gonzalez, CF Jarrod Dyson, RHP Dane Dunning, RF Nomar Mazara.

Projected Lineup: SS Tim Anderson (.322, 10 HRs, 21 RBIs), CF Luis Robert (.233, 11, 31), 1B José Abreu (.317, 19, 60, AL MVP), 3B Yoán Moncada (.225, 6, 24), LF Eloy Jiménez (.296, 14, 41), C Yasmani Grandal (.230, 8, 27), DH Andrew Vaughn (.278, 6, 36 at Arizona Rookie League and Class A Kannapolis and Winston-Salem in 2019), RF Adam Eaton (.226, 4, 17 with Washington), 2B Nick Madrigal (.340, 0, 11).

Rotation: RH Lucas Giolito (4-3, 3.48 ERA, 97

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Ks, 28 BBs), LH Dallas Keuchel (6-2, 1.99), RH Lance Lynn (6-3, 3.32, 84 IP with Texas), RH Dylan Cease (5-4, 4.01, 44 Ks, 34 BBs), LH Carlos Rodon (0-2, 8.22) or RH Reynaldo López (1-3, 6.49).

Key Relievers: RH Liam Hendriks (3-1, 1.78, 14/15 saves, 37 Ks, 3 BBs in 25 1/3 IP with Oakland), LH Garrett Crochet (0-0, 0.00, 8 Ks, 0 BBs in 5 appearances), RH Michael Kopech (1-1, 5.02 in 4 starts in 2018), LH Aaron Bummer (1-0, 0.96), RH Evan Marshall (2-1, 2.38), RH Matt Foster (6-1, 2.20), RH Codi

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Outlook: The White Sox made the playoffs for the first time since 2008 and ended a run of seven losing seasons last year. Now, they’re aiming for the biggest prize of all. Chicago loaded up in the offseason while other teams were cutting expenses, hoping to bring home its first World Series championship since 2005 and only the second since 1917. The club made an eye-opening change in the dugout when it brought back Hall of Famer and three-time champion La Russa to

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The move came 34 years after the White Sox fired La Russa, who went on to win a title with Oakland and two more with St. Louis. But he hasn’t filled out a lineup card since the Cardinals won the World Series in 2011. Something else to watch: How will he relate to a vibrant, fun-loving team? That wasn’t the only big move the White Sox made. They added arguably the game’s best closer when they signed Hendriks to a $54 million, three-year See ROYALS | Page B7

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deal. The Australian was on the mound when Oakland knocked off Chicago in their wild-card series. The White Sox also acquired Lynn from Texas, adding a workhorse starter to go with Giolito and Keuchel. The hard-throwing Kopech is back following Tommy John surgery in 2018 that sidelined him for the following season and a decision to opt out in 2020. The lineup — anchored by AL MVP Abreu and 2019 major league batting champion Anderson — is deep. And fans will get a chance to see them in person, at least on a limited basis. The White Sox and crosstown Cubs got the green light from the city to allow spectators with capacity capped at 20% — 8,122 at Guaranteed Rate Field and 8,274 at Wrigley Field.

Kansas City Royals

2020: 26-34, fourth place.

Manager: Mike Matheny (second season).

He’s Here: LHP Mike Minor, 1B/DH Carlos Santana, OF Andrew Benintendi, RHP Wade Davis, RHP Ervin Santana, CF Michael A. Taylor, RHP Carlos Sanabria, 2B Hanser Alberto.

He’s Outta Here: LF Alex Gordon, OF Franchy Cordero, RHP Ian Kennedy, 3B Maikel Franco, RHP Glenn Sparkman, RHP Matt Harvey.

Projected Lineup: RF Whit Merrifield (.282, 9 HRs, 30 RBIs, 12 SBs), SS Adalberto Mondesi (.256, 6, 22, 24 SBs), C Salvador Perez (.333, 11, 32), DH Jorge Soler (.228, 8, 24), 1B Carlos Santana (.199, 8, 30, 47 BBs with Indians), 3B Hunter Dozier (.228, 6, 12), LF Andrew Benintendi (.103, 0, 1 in 14 games with Red Sox), CF Michael Taylor (.196, 5, 16 with Washington), 2B Nicky Lopez (.201, 1, 13).

Rotation: RH Brad Keller (5-3, 2.47 ERA), LH Danny Duffy (4-4, 4.95), LH Mike Minor (16, 5.56 with Rangers and Athletics), RH Brady Singer (4-5, 4.06), LH Kris Bubic (1-6, 4.32).

Key Relievers: RH Josh Staumont (2-1, 2.45), RH Scott Barlow (2-1, 4.20), RH Tyler Zuber (1-2, 4.09), LH Jakob Junis (0-2, 6.39), RH Greg Holland (3-0, 1.91, 6 saves), RH Kyle Zimmer (1-0, 1.57), RH Wade Davis (0-1, 20.77 with Rockies).

Outlook: The first wave of college arms that the Royals drafted a few years ago started to arrive last season with Singer and Bubic showing promise in the rotation. They could soon be joined by LHP Asa Lacy, the No. 4 overall pick last summer, and fellow first-rounders LHP Daniel Lynch and RHP Jackson Kowar. If all those youngsters are able to show progress on the mound, the Royals could return to .500 and perhaps compete for a playoff spot given the investment GM Dayton Moore made in the rest of the roster. He signed Santana, a longtime AL Central nemesis, to handle first base, and swung a three-team trade for Benintendi.

Throw in the signings of veteran pitchers Mi-

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Detroit Tigers

2020: 23-35, fifth place.

Manager: AJ Hinch (first season).

He’s Here: Manager AJ Hinch, C Wilson Ramos, OF Nomar Mazara, OF Robbie Grossman, INF Renato Nunez, RHP Jose Urena, RHP Julio Teheran, LHP Derek Holland, RHP Wily Peralta, RHP Drew Hutchison, LHP Robbie Ross Jr., LHP Miguel Del Pozo, C Dustin Garneau, RHP Erasmo Ramirez,

INF Greg Garcia.

He’s Outta Here: Manager Ron Gardenhire, C Austin Romine, RHP Ivan Nova, RHP Jordan Zimmermann, 1B C.J. Cron, 1B Brandon Dixon, RHP Anthony Castro.

Projected Lineup: LF Robbie Grossman (.241, 8 HRs, 23 RBIs with Athletics), 3B Jeimer Candelario (.297, 7, 29), 2B Jonathan Schoop (.278, 8, 23), DH Miguel Cabrera (.250, 10, 35), SS Willi Castro (.349, 6, 24), 1B Renato Nunez (.256, 12, 31 with Orioles), RF Nomar Mazara (.228, 1, 15 with White Sox) or Victor Reyes (.277, 4, 14), C Wilson Ramos (.239, 5, 15 with Mets), CF JaCoby Jones (.268, 5, 14).

Rotation; LH Matthew Boyd (3-7, 6.71 ERA), RH

Spencer Turnbull (4-4, 3.97), RH Casey Mize (03, 6.99), LH Tarik Skubal (1-4, 5.63), RH Jose Urena (0-3, 5.40 with Marlins) or RH Michael Fulmer (0-2, 8.78).

Key Relievers: RH

watch, although none of them have reached the majors yet. Cabrera is on the downside of his career, but he has a chance to reach 3,000 hits and 500 home runs this season. The Tigers have said they’ll consider a six-man rotation, and the lineup could change quite a bit over the course of the season. Isaac Paredes is a candidate to play third base, for example, after making his big league debut last year. A state pandemic order amended in early February said outdoor entertainment and recreational facilities could have no more than 1,000 customers gathered, but Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office said the state health department has had talks with the Tigers about expanding capacity limits at the ballpark.

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Allen VB drops tough match at Coffeyville COFFEYVILLE — Allen Community College’s volleyball team could not complete a scintillating comeback Thursday.

The Red Devils dropped the first two sets Thursday against Coffeyville Community College, then picked up the third set in stirring fashion, going into extra time to win the set, 27-25.

But the comeback ended in the fourth set when Coffeyville finished off a 25-21 set to win, 3-1.

The loss drops ACC

to 9-8 overall and 7-8 in Jayhawk Conference action. The Red Devils will be at home Monday against Johnson County, ACC’s first home match since Feb. 27.

Coffeyville forged ahead with three straight points to end the first set, 25-22, after the Red Devils had scored three straight moments earlier to create the 22-22 deadlock.

The Ravens then kept up their momentum with a 25-16 romp to take control.

That’s when things started getting crazy.

The Red Devils forged ahead 20-14 in the third set before Coffeyville rattled off nine straight points, seemingly well on the way to the sweep.

Alas, the Red Devils staved off three straight match points after the Ravens took a 24-21 lead.

They did so again seconds later when Coffeyville’s serve went out of bounds and the Ravens were up 25-24.

It was the opening Allen needed. Another Coffeyville return landed out of bounds, then

ACC’s Adriana Santiago knocked home the kill for the 27-25 set win.

Things looked even better in the fourth set as the Red Devils blasted ahead to leads of 1811 and 20-13.

Alas, Coffeyville ended the game with an avalanche of points, scoring eight straight to take a 21-20 lead.

Allen scored the equalizer, 21-21, but the Ravens ended the set and match with three straight points.

Statistics for the Red Devils were not available at press time.

Bruins down MSU WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — UCLA showed plenty of fight in its overtime win over Michigan State in a First Four game in the NCAA Tournament.

The Bruins’ Cody Riley hit a foul shot with 26 seconds left and, after the Spartans’ Joshua Langford missed at the other end, Jaylen Clark added two more to send UCLA into a first-round game against No. 6 seed BYU tonight.

Jaquez finished with 27 points, Johnny Juzang added 18 and Riley and Jules Bernard had 11 apiece for the Bruins

(20-7), who entered the tournament on a fourgame losing streak.

Aaron Henry led the Spartans (15-13) with 18 points, five rebounds and seven assists.

The Spartans regained the lead on Malik Hall’s two free throws with 5 minutes to go, then stretched it to five moments later. But after the Bruins came all the way back, and Jaquez’s three-point play knotted the game 77-all with 28.7 seconds left, the Spartans’ Rocket Watts shot an airball on a 3-pointer with 3.3 seconds remaining on the clock.

NASCAR THIS WEEK THROUGH THE GEARS

Q&A

How many winners will there be this season?

So, it’s not just a matter of cubic dollars?

Along with proper fi nancial backing and a solid support system that in­ cludes capable engineers, mechanics and crew chief, somewhere in the war wagon yo u need to place a big ol’ can of patience.

The latest re minder that it usually takes time for a new team to get in gear: Bubba Wallace and the No. 23 group, whose 16th­ place showing at Phoenix is their best through fi ve ra ces. When talk turned to the No. 23 during a post­ Phoenix press confere nce, team co­owner Denny Hamlin mentioned how they’re still “pouring the concrete” on the team’s foundation, and suggested they hope to have Bubba competitive sometime by the fa ll. Not counting Talladega and Daytona, where he and some others always have a shot.

Zach Dean

Daytona Beach News-Journal USA TODAY NETWORK

We’re batting a thousand, baby! Five rac­ es, five different winners as the first month of the 2021 NASCAR season comes to a close, with Martin Truex Jr. breaking a 29­race winless streak Sunday at Phoenix Raceway.

Truex becomes the second Joe Gibbs driver to visit Victory Lane this season, joining young Christopher Bell. Those two, along with Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron and Kyle Larson, make up four of the five winners over the first month.

And then, of course, there’s our feel­ good story from Week 1 — Michael Mc­ Dowell. The 36­year­old won the Daytona 500, and punched that elusive playoff ticket right off the bat.

Or did he?

What are the chances we have 17 dif­ ferent winners qualify for the 16­driver playoff field?

“No chance, Zach!”

You sure?

First gear First, a quick look­back.

In 2014,we got seven different winners to startthe season — that’s the most since this current playoff format began. We’ve gone at least five races (our current mark!) three different times (2014, 2017, 2019).

Jimmie Johnson became a repeat win­ ner in the fifth race of the 2016 season.

Kevin Harvick quickly ended any of hopes of chaos in 2018, winning three straight races after the Daytona 500, and Joey Logano won twice before the shut­ down last season.

Second gear So, how many different winners are we getting over the next 21 regular season races?

Well, guys like Denny Hamlin, Chase

Martin Truex Jr. became the fifth different winner after five races to start the NASCAR Cup Series season on Sunday at Phoenix Raceway. AP Elliott, Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski and McDowell is 23rd in the points after and Joey Logano still haven’t won. De­ season­finale at Daytona, and Wallace spite his nearly year­long struggles now, (assuming here he gets a win) is 19th, Kyle Busch is also a threat to win every Wallace gets in. week. There’s 11 right there.

So, we need six more? How about Ryan Fourth gear Blaney, who has at least one win every season since 2017, and Alex Bowman, Oh yeah, there was a race this weekend. who has a win each of the past two sea­ Let’s quickly get to that. sons.

Truex Jr. continued JGR’s strong run at They give us 13, and Kurt Busch, Aric the start of the season, snapping a winless Almirola and Austin Dillon get us all the streak that dates back to last June. way to the Sweet 16.

Denny Hamlin finished third and is Finally, throw in win from a wild­card — your current points leader, while Christo­ like Bubba Wallace or Ricky Stenhouse Jr. pher Bell (ninth) continues to show that — and you’re there. his road­course win was no fluke.

March Madness!

The Hendrick stable continues to im­ press as well, with three drivers (Chase Third gear Elliott, Kyle Larson and William Byron) finishing in the top 10. Same can be said So, what happens if we do get more about Team Penske, which led 197 of 312 than 16 winners? Well, then it becomes an laps. old­fashioned points­battle between the All Stewart­Haas drivers not named one­race winners (if you’ve won more Kevin Harvick, meanwhile, continue to than one race, you’re in.) struggle.

Under the current format, the tie­ Aric Almirola did manage an 11th­place breaker(s) would go to whichever one­ finish, but Cole Custer and Chase Briscoe race winners have scored the most points have been non­factors through the first throughout the regular season. Simple as five weeks. that.

And on that happy note,we’re on to At­ So, for example, if we get 17 winners, lanta.

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Jimmie’s back! Again?

Shortly after a runner­ up fi nish in the Ro lex 24, plans were quickly put in place for Jimmie Johnson to also ra ce the other three eve nts of the Michelin Endurance Cup, which is a championship within the season­long IMSA championship. So he’s back in the No. 48 Cadillac prototype Saturday for the 12 Hours of Sebring, along with Simon Pagenaud and Ka mui Kobayashi. The four­race Endurance Championship also includes a six­hour ra ce at Watkins Glen and a 10­hour ra ce at Ro ad At lanta. Jimmie’s biggest 2021 project re mains 13 IndyCar ro ad­course ra ces, beginning next month at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama.

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