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Allen County is recognized as a “model for the nation” Tuesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its progress in providing a healthy lifestyle for its citizens. The day long celebration kicked off on the Iola square. Above, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran addresses a crowd of about 200. Iola elementary students with the Reba E. Davis drumming circle provide entertainment. Below left, David Toland of Thrive Allen County discusses the development of the Lehigh Portland Trails alongside Elks Lake with Dr. Richard Besser, CEO and president of the RWJF. Below right, Brenda Sharpe, CEO of the REACH Healthcare Foundation, delights in a small melon raised by Howard Mukwindidza at the Elm Creek Community Garden. REGISTER/CHRISTIAN GIN and SUSAN LYNN

Spotlight shines on Allen County ‘Culture of Health’ prize notes progress

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

J

ust like a woman looking into the mirror, we in Allen County focus on our flaws.

We see litter, dilapidated buildings, brokendown cars.

So it was a welcome surprise Tuesday when a group of outsiders came to tell us we are, well, beautiful.

“Allen County, you are a winner!” exclaimed Dr. Richard Besser, in formally announcing Allen County is one of eight communities awarded the 2017 Culture of Health Prize by

the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The prize puts Allen County on the map along with now 34 other communities who are successfully working to create a healthy place to live by bringing new jobs, new educational and recreational opportunities, and better healthcare opportunities to the area.

“Perhaps more importantly,” Besser said, “you will have your story told to inspire others and help them learn

from you. And you will be connected in myriad ways to a network of other communities and leaders from across the nation.”

Besser is president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest nonprofit dedicated solely to improving health and well-being for Americans. The Culture of Health prizes have been awarded since 2013.

Along with Besser, healthcare leaders from

across the state joined in Tuesday’s celebration that included tours of the construction site of G&W Foods, the Elm Creek Community Garden and the Lehigh Portland Trails. In the afternoon, Besser participated in a community conversation with about 25 Allen Countians involved in various aspects of public service.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran also addressed the morning crowd gathered in front of the

Death toll rises in Mexico quake MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police, firefighters and ordinary Mexicans dug frantically through the rubble of collapsed schools, homes and apartment buildings early today, looking for survivors of Mexico’s deadliest earthquake in decades as the number of confirmed fatalities stood at 217.

Adding poignancy and a touch of the surreal, Tuesday’s magnitude-7.1 quake struck on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 earthquake that killed thousands. Just hours earlier, people around Mexico had held earthquake drills to mark the date.

One of the most desperate rescue efforts was at a primary and secondary school in southern Mexico City, where a wing of the three-story building collapsed into a massive pancake of concrete slabs.

Journalists saw rescuers pull

Thrive Allen County office on Iola’s downtown square.

By taking a quick break from his Congressional duties in

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at least two small bodies from the rubble, covered in sheets.

Volunteer rescue worker Dr. Pedro Serrano managed to crawl into the crevices of the

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Defendant admits role in concealing Iolan’s death

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

A powerful 7.1 earthquake struck Mexico City Tuesday, collapsing buildings and sending thousands fleeing into streets. ZUMA

Washington, D.C., Moran said, “I’m better off being at a place where people can actually find

James Myers, one of five charged in the March 2016 death of Iolan Shawn Cook, has entered a plea agreement, admitting his role in helping conceal the crime.

Myers, 60, pleaded no contest Tuesday to four counts of interfering with law enforcement by tampering with evidence. In exchange, Allen County Attorney Jerry Hathaway said he was dismissing a first-degree murder charge against Myers.

The pleas came during an Allen County District Court hearing in front of Judge Daniel Creitz.

Myers will be sentenced Nov. 20.

Another plea deal may

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be in the works for one of Myers’ co-defendants, Iolan Rhonda Jackson.

C r e i t z scheduled a hearing for Oct. 23, at which point Hathaway and Robert James Myers Myers, Jackson’s attorney, said they hoped to have the framework for the deal in place.

No other details were announced. If a deal cannot be reached, Jackson’s bench trial will begin Nov. 27.

If Jackson enters a plea agreement, that would leave only one of the five defendants — Joshua Knapp of Fort Scott — still facing the See MYERS | Page A4

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Obituaries Leah Grennell Leah Mae Grennell, 89, Humboldt, passed away Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, in Overland Park.

Leah was born Oct. 9, 1927, in Allen County, the daughter of Roscoe and Ruth (Weatherbie) Wright.

Leah graduated from Humboldt High School in 1945. Leah Grennell On April 1, 1946, Leah married Lee Grennell at the Presbyterian Church in Humboldt.

Leah loved to sit on her front porch swing and read and visit with everyone. She enjoyed playing cards and doing her mission work. She also enjoyed going dancing and would go to Altoona on Saturday nights to dance. Leah enjoyed visiting the nursing homes and entertaining all of the residents. She loved to have fun and could always put a smile on your face. Leah was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Humboldt.

Leah is survived by her children, Mike Grady, Stockton, Mo., Judy Goble, Iola, Gail Collins, Thayer, and Carol Larson, Humboldt; her brother, Lee Roy Wright, Cromwell, Ky.; her sister-in-law, Louise Wright; and numerous nieces, nephews, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

Leah was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lee; and brother, Farley Wright.

Cremation has been requested.

A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Senior Center in Humboldt. Burial will take place at a later date. Leah requested “no weeping or wailing, just remember all the fun times we had, the laughs and stories we’ve told.

Wear purple, even if it’s just your socks.”

Memorials have been suggested to the Humboldt Public Library or ACARF and may be left with or mailed to Countryside Funeral Home 908 Central, Humboldt, KS 66748. Online condolences may be left at www.countrysidefh.com.

Jeanie Morris Alice Jean Morris, “Jeanie” to most, passed away Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, at Via Christi Saint Francis Hospital in Wichita.

She was born Aug. 10, 1947 in Chanute, to Lloyd and Anna (Wade) Booe. She grew up in western Kansas, Chanute and Humboldt. She worked in restaurants, the Tyson chicken plant, Allen County Hospital, housekeeping and caring for her son. She enjoyed playing bingo, shopping, spending time with her family, and collecting angels.

She is survived by three children, Becky Morris, Iola, Danny Morris, of the home, and Brian Morris and Cristie, Yates Center; two grandsons, Brendon and Shawn Morris, Yates Center; three granddaughters, Elizabeth, Brianna and Eden; one great-granddaughter, Agitha; two sisters, Sandy Hurst and husband Richard, Humboldt, and Nancy Culbertson, Moran; two brothers, Rick Booe and wife Vickie, Humboldt, and Rex Booe, Larned; and an uncle, Johnny Wade, Clinton, Ark. She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Danny Bruce Booe; a grandson, Nathaniel; two great nieces and a great nephew.

Visitation will take place 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola. A graveside memorial service will take place at a later date at Mount Hope Cemetery in Humboldt. Contributions in her memory are suggested to the American Diabetes Association or United Cerebral Palsy. Notes for the family can be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump has vowed to “totally destroy North Korea” if the U.S. is forced to defend itself or its allies against the renegade nation’s nuclear weapons program, making his case in a combative debut speech to the U.N. that laid out a stark, good-vsevil view of a globe riven by chaos and turmoil.

Trump’s broadsides Tuesday against “rogue regimes,” North Korea chief among them, drew murmurs from the assembled world leaders and served as a searing salute to his nationalism during diplomatic prime time. He said it was “far past time” for the world to confront Kim Jong Un, declaring that the North Korean leader’s pursuit of nuclear weapons poses a threat to “the entire world with an unthinkable loss of human life.”

“Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime,” Trump said, mocking the North Korean leader even as he sketched out potentially cataclysmic consequences. The president himself decided to work the nickname into his speech just hours before he took the dais, according to aides.

Trump spoke of his own nation’s “patience,” but said that if “forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”

Trump’s overheated language was rare for a U.S. president at the rostrum of the United Nations, but the speech was textbook Trump, dividing the globe into friends and foes and taking unflinching aim at America’s enemies.

North Korea’s ambassador and another top diplomat left the General Assembly chamber before he spoke to boycott his speech, leaving behind two empty chairs.

The president urged nations to work together to stop Iran’s nuclear program and defeat “loser terrorists” who wage violence around the globe. He denounced “radical Islamic terrorism,” an inflammatory label he had shied away from in recent months after trumpeting it on the campaign trail. He called Syrian President Bashar Assad’s gov-

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ernment a “criminal regime.” He said violence-plagued regions of the world “are going to hell.” He made little mention of Russia.

For all of that, he said there was still hope the United Nations could solve “many of these vicious and complex problems.”

But he focused more on the problems than the hopes.

“I will always put America first. Just like you, the leaders of your countries, should and always put your country first.”

— President Trump

His lashing of North Korea was a vigorous restatement of what’s been said by U.S. leaders before, but delivered with new intensity in the august setting of the General Assembly. After a litany of accusations — the starvation of millions, the abduction of a Japanese girl and more — he questioned the legitimacy of the communist government by referring to it as a “band of criminals.”

Trump, who has previously warned of “fire and fury” if Pyongyang does not back down, claimed that “no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well-being of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea.” And he scolded that it was “an outrage” to enable and trade with North Korea, seeming to point a finger at China, although he did not mention it by name.

Despite the speech’s bombast, it signaled little in the way of policy change. Trump stopped short of demanding regime change, which North Korea regards as the ultimate American intention and treats as a reason for its development of nuclear weapons. That may offer some reassurance to China and Russia, which have urged the U.S. to tone down its rhetoric and restart dialogue with North Korea.

Trump, who frequently belittled the U.N. as a candidate, urged the world leaders to embrace their

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own “national sovereignty to do more to ensure the prosperity and security of their own countries.

“I will always put America first. Just like you, the leaders of your countries, should and always put your countries first,” he said. “We can no longer be taken advantage of or enter into a one-sided deal in which the United States gets nothing in return.”

Trump’s blistering speech came just minutes after U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres put “nuclear peril” as the gravest threat facing the world and warned that “fiery talk can lead to fatal misunderstandings.”

On Iran, Trump called the government a rogue state whose chief export is “violence, bloodshed and chaos.” He accused Tehran of squandering Iran’s wealth by supporting Syria’s Assad, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia and Yemen’s Houthi rebel group.

Trump called the U.N.backed Iran nuclear deal “an embarrassment” to the United States and suggested it was one of the worst international pacts ever struck. And he hinted that his administration, which has accused Tehran of aiding terrorism in the Middle East, could soon declare Iran out of compliance with the deal, which could unravel it.

“I don’t think you’ve heard the end of it,” Trump said. “Believe me.”

The administration must decide in mid-October whether it will certify that Iran is still in compli-

ance with the agreement.

He also decried the “disastrous rule” of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and urged the U.N. to step in.

The speech drew varying reactions from leaders on the two sides of Trump’s black-andwhite ledger. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a Trump ally, wrote on Twitter, “In over 30 years in my experience with the UN, I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech.”

Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of Iran, wrote that “Trump’s ignorant hate speech belongs in medieval times — not the 21st Century UN — unworthy of a reply.”

Domestically, reaction largely broke down along party lines: Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said Trump used the U.N. “as a stage to threaten war.”

Onetime Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney tweeted that Trump “gave a strong and needed challenge” to the U.N. Outside of an oblique reference to a threat to Ukraine’s sovereignty, Trump made no mention of Russia or its president, Vladimir Putin.

He chastised the U.N. for what he said was a bloated budget and bureaucracy but did not reiterate previous threats to cut Washington’s commitment to the world body. Instead, he pledged the United States would be “partners in your work” to make the organization a more effective force for world peace.

Financial Focus Five Tips for Women Business Owners

Women are an integral part of the workforce, but they have had to overcome many obstacles along the way.

Of course, challenges still remain, but women’s success in the working world is worth commemorating – which will happen on American Business Women’s Day Sept. 22. Are you a woman considering “setting up shop” on your own? If so, here are five tips to consider: • Balance your goals. It’s possible – perhaps even likely – that your business goals will conflict with your personal financial goals. After all, if you’re purchasing new equipment or services for your business, you’ve got less money – at least for the time being – to put away for your own retirement or your children's education. Hopefully, your investment in your business will pay off in greater income, but, in any case, you will need to balance your personal and professional goals.

• Create a retirement plan. As mentioned above, your ability to contribute to a retirement plan may be affected by the amount you put into your business – but that certainly doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a retirement plan. In fact, for your future financial security, it’s essential that you launch such a plan.

Fortunately, small-business owners have a choice of plans, including an “owner-only” 401(k), SEP-IRA and SIMPLE IRA. Although the various plans have different requirements and contribution limits, they all offer taxdeferred earnings, which means your money has the opportunity to grow faster than if it were placed in a vehicle on which you paid taxes every year. (Taxes are due upon withdrawal, and withdrawals prior to age 59 ½ may be subject to a 10% IRS penalty.) Plus, your contributions to a retirement plan may be tax deductible.

• Arrange for “backup.” Virtually all working women are familiar with the conflict between their careers and their roles as caregivers. Women are still more likely than men to drop out of the workforce for an extended period of time to care for young children or elderly parents. And your caregiving responsibilities won’t end just because you are now a business owner.

Consequently, you need to have someone you trust available to step in for you when your family obligations call you away from work.

• Design a succession plan. When you want to retire, would you like to keep the business in your family? If so, you’ll need to create a succession plan that works for you and whomever you’d like to take control. Such a plan can be complex, so you will need to work with your legal and tax advisors – and you’ll want to give yourself plenty of time to work out the details.

• Build an emergency fund. Maintaining an adequate cash flow will always be a key task – one that involves your sales, billing cycles, inventory and other elements of your business. One way you can help yourself avoid troubles is to maintain an emergency fund consisting of a few months’ worth of your business expenses.

You’ll want to keep this fund in a liquid, low-risk account.

Running your own business can be extremely rewarding, but it’s never going to be an easy road.

However, with perseverance and careful planning, you can smooth out some of the bumps along the way — and give yourself reason to celebrate American Business Women’s Day. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club member Hailey Gillespie, center, competed in Sheep Showmanship at the Kansas State Fair Sept. 9-10. Seekers Not Slackers members had several items exhibited in Hutchinson in a wide variety of projects including projects such as clothing, foods, photography, home environment and fiber arts. TYLER GILLESPITE/SEEKERS NOT SLACKERS REPORTER

Don’t forget Colony’s annual fall Citywide Yard sales is Oct. 6-7.

You may register by phoning Marla Bain at 620-852-3321, City Hall at 620-852-3530 or email colonygarages@hotmail. com. Registering is free and gets your sale advertised.

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Crest USD 479 Board of Education members met Sept. 11.

Leo Ramsey presented information on the bus fleet, while members discussed the possibility of trading and purchasing a bus. Members also discussed making up school days in event of inclement weather.

Connie Edgerton was approved as as drama coach and Richard Klingensmith as substitute bus driver.

Members approved a 1.7 percent raise in salary for classified employees.

Superintendent of Schools Chuch Mahon reported an open house was held Aug. 30. The Colony United Methodist Church provided ice cream and cookies.

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T h u r s d a y - C o u n t y Mary A. bus to Iola, phone 24 Luedke hours before you need a ride, 785-448-4410, any 852-3379 weekday; Sept. 27-City Council meeting, City Hall Community Room, 7 p.m.; Fire Department meeting, fire station, 7 p.m.; Sept. 28-30-Kincaid encing Scripture from John 10:4-5.

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Derrick Gates, a local, football at Chetopa, 7 p.m.; Monday-high hometown boy, will be school volleyball at St. guest speaker Oct. 8.

Paul, 5 p.m.; middle Northcott Church Sept. 28 — Northcott school volleyball and football at Uniontown, Women of Faith at 6:30 5 p.m.; Tuesday-high p.m.; dinner menu is a school volleyball at St. waffle bar. Sept. 30-Orville Crouch’s birthday.

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Bible Study, 9:28 a.m.

Meal site Friday-chicken fried Worship 10:28 a.m. every steak, mashed potatoes, Sunday. Contact Leon gravy, Caribbean blend LaGalle, 620-228-2644. veggies, wheat bread, UMC The Canticle of Moapple cranberry mix; ses and Miriam with Monday-turkey burger, raw veggie salad, peas, Scripture from Exodus bun, apricots; Sept. 27- 14:19-31, Romans 14:1-12 live music, Vision card and Matthew 18:21-35 accepted — beef veggie was presented at Sunsoup, cottage cheese and day’s United Methodist orange salad, crackers, Church service. Pastor Dorothy Welch presentpeaches.

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The 107th (109th years Christian Church Scripture presented of traditional) Kincaid Sunday was Revela- Farmers Free Fair will tion-22:1-5. Pastor An- be Sept. 28-30.

Queen contestants are drew Zoll’s sermon was “Words and Worship.” Macie Martin, daughMen’s Bible study-Tues- ter of Stoney Martin day, 7 a.m.; prayer meet- and Trena Jacobs is ing-Tuesday 10 a.m. at a junior and attends the church; October is Iola High School; Jewel Pastor Appreciation Armstrong, daughter of Month; Oct. 1-Church Mike and Jennifer Armpotluck breakfast, 9:30 strong, a junior attenda.m.; Oct. 11-Working ing Crest High School, Wonders CWC, 7 p.m. at Summer Starr, daughter the church — All women of Will Starr and Miare invited. Best Choice chelle Ray, a sophomore Labels, Box Tops for that attends Crest High Education and used ink School; Shyla McCutchcartridges are needed en daughter of Trilla sophomore before the end of Sep- Miller tember to send to Cook- attending Crest High School and Rebecca son Hills.

Sprague, daughter of Cowboy Church Pastor Jon Petty Joel and Stacy Sprague, spoke on “Hearing” a freshman attending Sunday at High Point Iola High School.

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cards will be divided between participating sports.

Six officers from the Crest FFA will attend the FFA National Convention Oct. 23-26. Dr. Randy Watson, commissioner of education, will visit the school on Sept.

28.

The Colony Lions Club donated an electric sign to the school with Weldon Goodell memorial funds.

4-H

The Seekers not Slackers 4-H Club August meeting was held Aug. 21 at the Lone Elm Community Building.

The meeting came to order and roll call was answered by “your favorite song.” Blaine King led the club in singing “This Old Man.” The club leaders discussed 4-H record book due dates in September, 4-H Week Promotion planning and upcoming officer elections. In addition, several committees will be formed: the Kincaid Fair Float committee, Parents Committee and Fall Committee.

The winners of the Club Tour and Scavenger Hunt were announced.

The winning team was Rebecca Sprague, Zane Hermreck and Hailey and Braden Gillespie.

For the program, Truett Vermillion gave a demonstration on grooming cattle. After program the club had a rock, paper, scissors contest for recreation.

The winner was Hayden Newton.

After recreation, the meeting was adjourned by saying the 4-H motto.

The next regular 4-H club meeting was Monday at the Lone Elm Community Building for Parents Night. — Tyler Gillespie, reporter

Around town

Wallace Strickler is home following hospitalization at Overland Park Hospital. His wife, Delores, is thankful for those who helped her get to the hospital and home during his time there.

Cheryl Luedke, your correspondent’s daughter, felt very blessed when volunteers appeared at her front door last week to clean up her back yard from all the tree branch and stump pile left behind Hurricane Irma’s wrath.

Cheryl lives in St. Augustine, Fla. Colony has received 3½ inches of rain since Saturday.

Northeast of Colony received 4½ inches. It was very much needed.

Allen County commissioners listened attentively to presentations to do with seeking national recognition of the Marsh Arch bridge over the Neosho River at the west edge of Humboldt Tuesday morning — but made no commitment.

First, Carolyn Whitaker, who likes to crow about historic aspects of Humboldt, said she had started the National Register of Historic Places recognition process and would make application at the state level in early 2018. If accord comes there, the next step is a petition for national acceptance.

The county being owner of the bridge, commissioners have final say.

“It is the most important bridge to the county,” the only other than the U.S. 54 span west of Iola that cross the Neosho, said Jerry Daniels. He alluded to it being a lifeline to agricultural interests west of the river.

An inspection is due in 2018, “and we’ll know more then” where the county stands, Daniels said.

Reality is, he added, “we know the bridge will be closed and replaced someday.” The issue is will a new bridge, in however many years, be in addition to the Marsh Arch antique — relegated to a foot bridge or scenic wonder — or in place of it.

“After the inspection we’ll have a plan,” Daniels said.

Whitaker, fortified in her observations

by Amanda Loughlin, National Register coordinator for the Kansas Historical Society, said she had concerns about condition of the bridge, notably its underside where concrete has disintegrated to the point structural rebar is evident, and brush lodged against its center pier.

She thinks the debris, coupled with pressure from river flow, endangers the pier. Mitch Garner, director of Public Works, thinks otherwise, noting engineers have told him it is not in structural danger,

that the pier was constructed to withstand such external forces.

Loughlin said “there is grant money out there” that might be available for repairs and enhancement.

Application for historic recognition may be readied and held in abeyance until commissioners decide its future, Loughlin said.

Garner offered an observation: Kansas Department of Transportation, if involved in a new structure, would pay 90 percent of construction cost, but, Garner said he was told, “KDOT won’t touch it (a project) if it’s on the Register.”

While commissioners Daniels and Williams made no commitments, Jim Talkington said he was “appreciative of your enthusiasm (to Whitaker) but I’m not with you,” and that he would want to proceed cautiously.

In the 1980s Kansas bridges were surveyed and several Marsh Arch bridges were placed on the National Register. The architecture of the Humboldt bridge is somewhat unique, and having others in Kansas recognized would not preclude Humboldt’s, Loughlin said.

Allen County has four places listed on the National Register.

Two are in Iola, the Allen County Jail Museum on North Jefferson and the Northrup House, East and Cottonwood streets, and two in Humboldt, the City Square Park Bandstand and Lander’s Wagon and Carriage Shop, on west Bridge Street.

IN OTHER NEWS,

commissioners: — Reappointed Mandy Specht, rural Iola, to the executive board of the Southeast Kansas Library System. Its director and Iola librarian Roger Carswell said appointment duty fell to county commissioners by way of legislative action last session. Previously the governor made appointments.

— Approved a request from Ron Holman, maintenance supervisor, to remove a dying tree on the courthouse lawn. A new tree will be planted.

Laude family reunites YATES CENTER — The families of Herbert and Leola Laude hosted the 12th biannual reunion Saturday.

Thirty-one attended the reunion in the commons area at Yates Center High School.

Visiting, taking pictures and awarding prizes preceded a bountiful potluck lunch.

Attending from Velora’s family were Joetta Asbury, Lyndon; Evelyn Ehrsam, Topeka; and Glenn Coffield, Iola.

Attending from Marjorie’s family were Kenny Peck, Smithville, Texas; Helen and Paul Stoll and Quentin and Maria Stoll, Isaac, Sierra and Noah,

Yates Center; Marilyn Carroll, Stillwater, Okla.; and Caysia Crellin, Chanute.

Attending from Lucille’s family were Dean Becannon, Chanute; Betty Woods, Tonganoxie and Michael Moore, Lenexa.

Attending from Elaine’s family were Irene and Alvin Clark, Iola; Jeanie Ames, Lenexa; Michelle Hole, Little Johnny and Emmie, Humboldt; and Breanna, Chanute.

Attending from Ruth’s family were Cindy Michael, Iola; Gary Bennett, Dakota, Montana and Tacoma, Wichita; and Anna Parker, Michael and Abby, Olathe.

The next reunion is the third Saturday of September 2019.

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Enbridge assist Brent Rush, of Enbridge Energy Company, Inc., was in Moran Tuesday to present the Regional Rural Technology Center with a check for $5,000. The donation will be used to offset fees for students wanting to enroll in the LaHarpe-based tech center’s newly installed production welding program. “The type of training they’re doing out here is exactly aligned with the type of work our folks do,” said Rush, “so this [gift] just makes good sense. It’s unique to see this kind of program happening here.” The award was facilitated by Jeff Cokely, the president of Iola-based Impact Charitable Solutions, LLC. Pictured above, left to right, are: Cokely; USD 257 Superintendent Stacey Fager; Uniontown Superintendent Bret Howard; business owner and RRTC prime mover, Ray Maloney; St. Paul Principal Craig Bagshaw; Marmaton Valley Jr./Sr. High Principal Kim Ensminger; USD 257 board member Tony Leavitt; USD 257 board president Dan Willis; Rush; and Marmaton Valley Superintendent Ken McWhirter. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

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something to do about healthcare.”

Moran congratulated those gathered “for working together to help other people live healthier lives. That helps us all. You are not only a role model for Washington, D.C., but a role model for communities across the state.”

“This award,” Moran said, “speaks volumes about the people who decided to make a difference for their community.”

ALLEN COUNTY was selected from more than 200 communities who underwent a rigorous application process.

“Right when I read your application, I scrawled in big letters ‘WINNER’ across the top,” said Julie Willems Van Dijk of the University of Wisconsin. Van Dijk is the director of the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps and the RJWF Culture of

Sen. Jerry Moran speaks Tuesday at a rally in Iola as part of Allen County’s celebration for receiving the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Culture of Health” prize. REGISTER/CHRISTIAN GIN Health Prize.

Communities use the national health rankings as a marker in fighting things such as chronic diseases, smoking, obesity and poverty. Consistently, Allen County ranks in the lowest quartile in the state for advancing against such things.

“You demonstrated a community spirit that says ‘we’re all in this to-

gether,’” Van Dijk said.

“That ‘nobody is going to tell rural Kansans that we can’t get something done. Yeah, things might be tough, but we’re scrappy.’

“You showed that you have community systems, like the community garden, that not only creates a garden but is also a place to socialize, a place to provide healthy food for people

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original first-degree murder charge. Knapp’s jury trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 13.

Amber Boeken pleaded guilty in February to a charge of seconddegree murder, in exchange for her testimony against the other defendants. She has yet to be sentenced.

The final defendant, Jessica Epting, pleaded guilty in January to obstruction of justice, and was given a suspended jail sentence. Epting is back in custody on an attempted murder charge stemming from an unrelated incident in Iola in July.

AT TUESDAY’S hearing, Hathaway spelled out the basis for each of the the tampering charges levied against Myers prior to and following Cook’s death on March 13, 2016.

— Myers loaned his pickup to Knapp, and then when Knapp returned the pickup, took the vehicle to a car wash to clean Cook’s blood out of the back. (One of Knapp’s co-defendants, Amber Boeken, testified previously that Knapp and she took Cook to a remote location in Al-

len County in Myers’ vehicle, whereupon Knapp stabbed Cook. The pair eventually transported Cook to another vehicle — Myers’ pickup was low on fuel — and Cook was taken to the Neosho River northwest of Iola, killed and dumped in the river.)

— After washing the truck, Myers removed the truck’s bed liner in an attempt to hide it, although the liner later was found by police.

— Myers took and destroyed Cook’s cell phone.

— After Boeken and Knapp returned Myers’ truck, Myers took a bag of their soiled clothes — “wet, muddy and covered with blood,” Hathaway said — to a remote location in Allen County and burned them. The burn site, too, eventually was found by law enforcement.

Neither Myers nor his attorney, Brian Duncan, disputed any of those statements, with a caveat.

Duncan said Myers was unaware why Knapp originally asked to borrow his truck.

He also said Myers was unaware it was Cook’s phone he destroyed, nor did Myers know the

contents of the bag he burned.

Following Myers’ plea, Creitz agreed to lower Myers’ bond, to $100,000.

He denied a defense request to allow Myers free on his own recognizance, after Hathaway pointed out that while the tampering charges were significantly less serious than first-degree murder, “he was responsible for concealing a lot of evidence to cover up somebody’s death.”

Kansas sentencing guidelines for tampering with evidence — considered in this case a non-person felony — range between seven and 23 months in prison.

Probation also is possible for such crimes, depending on the defendant’s criminal history.

Creitz scheduled a presentence investigation to determine Myers’ criminal history prior to his Nov. 20 sentencing.

COOK’S death on March 13, 2016, triggered a countywide manhunt a few days after his family reported him missing. His body was found more than two weeks later along the banks of the Neosho in rural Coffey County.

who might not be able to afford it, and an entity that teaches people life skills.

“That’s just one example of how you take one thing across so many levels.”

Van Dijk looked across to Ray Maloney, LaHarpe, who helped spearhead the Regional Rural Tech Center.

“You showed us you can say, ‘I’m going to cut through the red tape of educational bureaucracy and we’re going to get something done because we need jobs here.’

“And jobs are about health.

“We also were impressed with the way you use your resources. The way you use data. The benevolence of your community.”

MANY OF the institutions that help fund local initiatives were represented at Tuesday’s event by their presidents and CEOs including Dr. Robert St. Peter of the Kansas Health InSee RWJF | Page A6

classroom, but found all of its occupants dead.

“We saw some chairs and wooden tables. The next thing we saw was a leg, and then we started to move rubble and we found a girl and two adults — a woman and a man,” he said.

“We can hear small noises, but we don’t know if they’re coming from above or below, from the walls above (crumbling), or someone below calling for help.”

A mix of neighborhood volunteers, police and firefighters used trained dogs and their bare hands to search through the school’s ruins. The crowd of anxious parents outside the gates shared reports that two families had received WhatsApp messages from girls trapped inside, but that could not be confirmed.

Rescuers brought in wooden beams to shore up the fallen concrete slabs so they wouldn’t collapse further and crush whatever airspaces remained.

The federal Education Department reported late Tuesday that 25 bodies had been recovered from the school’s wreckage, all but four of them children. It was not clear whether those deaths were included in the overall death toll of 217 reported by the federal civil defense agency. Pena Nieto had earlier reported 22 bodies found and said 30 children and eight adults were reported missing.

In a video message released late Tuesday, Pena Nieto urged people to be calm and said authorities were moving to provide help as 40 percent of Mexico City and 60 percent of nearby Morelos state were without power. But, he said, “the priority at

this moment is to keep rescuing people who are still trapped and to give medical attention to the injured people.”

People across central Mexico already had rallied to help their neighbors as dozens of buildings tumbled into mounds of broken concrete. Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said buildings fell at 44 sites in the capital alone as highrises across the city swayed and twisted and hundreds of thousands of panicked people ran into the streets.

The huge volunteer effort included people from all walks of life in Mexico City, where social classes seldom mix. Doctors, dentists and lawyers lined up alongside with construction workers and street sweepers, handing buckets of debris or chunks of concrete hand-to-hand down the line.

Even Mexico City’s normally raucous motorcycle clubs swung into action, using motorcades to open lanes for emergency vehicles on avenues crammed with cars largely immobilized by street closures and malfunctioning stoplights.

Dust-covered and exhausted from digging, 30-year-old Carlos Mendoza said two people were pulled alive from the ruins of a collapsed apartment building in the Roma Sur neighborhood during a threehour period.

The official Twitter feed of civil defense agency head Luis Felipe Puente said 86 dead had been counted in Mexico City and 71 in Morelos state, which is just south of the capital.

It said 43 were known dead in Puebla state, where the quake was centered.

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Farming more than what is seen on surface With ample rainfall, generous sunshine and absence of adverse weather such as hail and windstorms, the life of a Kansas farmer doesn’t get much better. Or does it?

Let’s not forget prices paid for crops at harvest time, when they often drop, not only because of what is coming from Kansas fields but also those in other farm belt states; even from other countries that have seized on ag technology to boost yields to exportable levels.

Corn is a staple in southeast Kansas, but soybean crops put bread and butter on the table and make it possible for Joe Farmer to replace equipment and meet everyday obligations that we all have.

So, it is disheartening when a farmer looks at a field of robust soybeans to find worms feasting on leaves. Or, notices a patch where plants are dying for no apparent reason, possibly from sudden death syndrome, a soybean enemy that is relatively new to the lexicon of farmers.

SDS is caused by fungal spores that attack tap roots.

The first overt appearance is yellow spots, usually on upper leaves, that form a mosaic. Results vary, but may include severe retardation that causes flowers and pods to abort, and beans not to mature as well as anticipated.

Pesticide sprayed aerially or from booms attached to high-wheel implements is successful in dealing with worms, and other critters that find fine dining in soybean fields. Add a fungicide to the spray and SDS, as well as several other forms of related infestations, are removed from the inventory of natural soybean enemies.

Where does this leave farmers in their annual effort to make a profit?

Spraying may cost as much as $40 an acre, depending on delivery and effectiveness. In the best of years that is equivalent of what four or five bushels of beans will fetch at the elevator.

Add to that cost of seed, fertilizer, fuel and equipment depreciation and we’re at the bottom line.

Right? Not quite. A farmer also has to amortize insurance costs, taxes and cost of land itself, either through ownership or lease agreement.

What this all means is that in the best of years the profit margin is not as great as casual observers in coffee shop roundups might think.

Consequently, when farmers talk about soybean yields of 40 or 50 bushels an acre, quite good most years, and prices of $8 to $10 a bushel, they are not describing a path to unbridled wealth.

However, most farmers in business today are well-founded in what they do, and plan ahead to cope with financial valleys and not get too excited when all comes together in a peak year — otherwise they wouldn’t be farming.

Also, when someone rails about federal subsidies farmers receive, set them straight. Those who derive greatest value from federal support are consumers, in the form of cheaper food prices than what is found in most other nations. Also, it should be noted, more than half of the farm bill subsidies flow to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or, to put it in common context, food stamps.

— Bob Johnson

Missing the boat on Medicaid It should come as no surprise that the percentage of uninsured Kansans is now higher than the national average.

According to new U.S. Census Bureau data, in 2013, 12.3 percent of Kansans were uninsured compared with 14.5 percent nationally. In 2016, 8.7 percent of Kansans were uninsured compared with 8.6 percent nationally. Kansas ranked 21st in 2013, but had fallen to 32nd by 2016. Only seven states and the District of Columbia had smaller drops in the percentage of uninsured from 2013 to 2016 than Kansas.

The health insurance data is further evidence that Kansas’ stubborn refusal to participate in Medicaid expansion allowed by the Affordable Care Act has hindered Kansans — the poor in particular — from getting health insurance coverage.

Gov. Sam Brownback has been an outspoken critic of the ACA, or Obamacare as it’s more commonly known.

As a member of Congress in 2009, Brownback voted against the legislation creating the ACA. And since being elected governor in 2010, Brownback has fought Obamacare at every turn.

Kansas ill-equipped to handle elderly Proof that our public policy hasn’t caught up to the needs our aging population abounds.

Oh sure, we all give lip service to respecting our wise elders and pay tribute to the “Greatest Generation.” We say that we should provide a safety net for our seniors. But our policies don’t match up with those platitudes.

When it comes to measurable commitments, society often fails to value and care for people as they enter their later decades. In Missouri, a board managing senior services hasn’t met for at least three years and possibly far longer, said Randall Williams, director of Department of Health and Senior Services.

The last record the state can cite is a phone meeting in January 2014. This, despite

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the fact that the average Mis- is more evidence that seniors sourian lives an 30 years lon- are too often an afterthought ger than they did 100 years and that our institutions simago. One in four Missourians ply aren’t equipped to meet will be over 65 in 10 years. their growing needs.

Seniors in Kansas aren’t In both Missouri and Kanfaring any better. sas, lawmakers must step up Federal officials slammed efforts to plan for a graying the state recently for failing population. From ensuring to follow up on flagged prob- that nursing homes are safe lems in nursing homes. The environments to providing problem was partly a matter basic services for seniors, of under-staffing inspectors, both states are falling short. and the audit found that no While government has a large one was actually checking role to play, so, too, do comoutcomes in about half the munity groups. Nonprofit orcases handled in ganizations, 2014. churches, And now, a other Everywhere we turn, and program that prog r o u p s there is more evidence should help vides daily hot meals for seniors that seniors are too fill in some in Kansas City often an afterthought of the gaps soon will begin and that our institu- that are bedropping off frocoming intions simply aren’t c r e a s i n g l y zen entrees only once a week. The equipped to meet apparent. change makes their growing needs.

The eldersense from an efly ought to ficiency standbe a considpoint. It will yield eration in evcost savings that ery facet of will allow more elderly shut- public and private planning, ins to receive meals. be it transportation, housing, But it ignores the fact that social services or public spacthe program provided more es. In virtually all settings, we than just food. The workers should ask, “Who isn’t seated who delivered the hot meals at the table and yet needs to also provided the elderly with be considered in the decisions other intangible benefits, in- that will be made here?” cluding daily human contact Consistently, the answer and even friendship. should be “seniors.”

Everywhere we turn, there — The Kansas City Star

Most recently, Brownback vetoed a bipartisan Medicaid expansion bill during the 2017 session. That bill would have expanded Medicaid coverage, or KanCare, to all individuals with incomes up to 133 percent of the poverty level.

State officials estimated the bill would have extended coverage to an additional 152,000 people in Kansas. That’s more than half of the 249,000 Kansans the Census Bureau says are uninsured.

Robert St. Peter, president and CEO of the Kansas Health Institute, said the statistics show Kansas government has mostly ignored opportunities to use Obamacare to help residents.

“For example, the level of outreach and enrollment to let people know that they may be able to buy affordable, private insurance on the marketplace. Or that even without expansion, they or their children might already be eli-

gible for Medicaid or CHIP,” he said. “To the extent states failed to do that, it undoubtedly led to fewer persons being insured, especially among working families that are low or middle income.”

The good news is that Kansas will soon have the opportunity to try again. Brownback is expected to be confirmed as ambassador at large for international religious freedom in the coming weeks, and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer will take over as governor. Colyer has been a vocal opponent of Obamacare and Medicaid expansion. But with strong legislative and voter support for expansion and recent bipartisan overtures in Congress about fixing Obamacare, Medicaid expansion could be a priority in 2018.

Maybe then Kansas can go back to being a leader in health insurance coverage for its residents.

— Lawrence Journal-World

‘Pharma Bro’ sees his sorry tale come to a halt For the next four months, the perpetually smirking Martin Shkreli will sit in federal detention in Brooklyn in far grimier conditions than the white collar “Club Fed” experience he was expecting.

Dubbed “Pharma Bro” by a media scandalized by his penchant for hiking the price of lifesaving drugs by 4,000 and 5,000 percent when he was a pharmaceutical executive, there isn’t a large reservoir of public sympathy for him.

Quite the opposite.

Shkreli, who was convicted for lying to investors about the performance of two of his hedge funds, violated the conditions of his $5 million bond. The 34-year-old posted a bounty on Facebook in which he promised $5,000 to anyone who could grab hair from Hillary Clinton during her book tour for “What Happened.”

Because this is America where the chances are 100 percent that someone would attempt to take Shkreli up on the offer to assault the former presidential candidate for both the notoriety and the cash, U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto revoked his bond and ordered him to cool his heels at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Correctional Center until he is formally sentenced in January.

Predictably, Shkreli, who failed to take any of his legal proceedings seriously and defied his lawyers by ignoring gag orders during his trial, claimed the bounty on Ms.

Clinton’s head was “a joke.”

Well, the joke’s on him.

Judge Matsumoto ordered him to report to a prison that lacks any of the amenities that the convicted felon expected. His predictions that he would work on his tennis game and Xbox skills might come true once he’s sentenced in January, but until then, he’ll be locked up in a cell without internet connections, fresh air or sunlight.

Many will say that being sent to a Brooklyn prison that provides the kind of experience one might expect to undergo at a Third World prison represents the kind of rough justice Shkreli deserves. Given his track record as one of the most notorious price-gougers in the corporate world, few elicit the kind of knee-jerk revulsion that Shkreli does.

What isn’t clear is why Martin Shkreli, who surely has an inkling of how unpopular he is, would threaten Clinton and antagonize a judge who would not hesitate to banish him to a dungeon even before his sentencing in January. Perhaps the quirky, arrogant former executive fails to pick up on cues that are obvious to the rest of us.

In any event, he’ll be out of sight until January. Then he will be sentenced to prison.

It looks as if the long arc of justice, if not karma, curved correctly in this case.

— Pittsburgh PostGazette

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stitute, Virginia Barnes of Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Blue Health Initiatives, Billie Hall of the Sunflower Foundation, Dr. Bridget McCandless of the Greater Healthcare Foundation of Kansas City, Steve Coen of the Kansas Health Foundation, Brenda Sharpe of the Reach Healthcare Foundation, Krista Postai of the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas and Ashley Goss, deputy secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

Also attending were state representatives Kent Thompson, LaHarpe, and Monica Murnan, Pittsburg, who serves on the Health and Services Committee.

These leaders attended a “working lunch” to share their perspectives on the challenges that face Allen County.

Postai, of the Pittsburg-based CHCSEK, explained its presence in Allen County came from an invitation by Thrive Allen County because a needs assessment study showed a shortage of dentists in the area.

From a dental clinic in 2007, the clinic expanded in 2013 to medical clinic adding Drs. Glen Singer and Brian Wolfe to staff.

“Partners for 30 years, they called me and said they were tired of telling people they couldn’t help them because they didn’t have money.

They didn’t want to open another chart to see they couldn’t help someone because they had an outstanding bill.”

As a federally qualified health center, the CHCSEK treats patients on a sliding scale according to their income.

“We provide care regardless of someone’s ability to pay,” Postai said.

In order to accommodate mental health and pharmacy services, the clinic plans to start construction of a new 15,000-square-foot facility on North State Street later this year.

The CHC clinic tends to more than half of the county’s population, Postai said. Of those, about 95 percent are living at 200 percent of the federal poverty level or below.

“The shift is definitely coming, though,” Postai said. “We’re moving to more preventative care. We’re shifting from the sickness model to the wellness model. It’s so exciting. I can’t tell you how much the staff is enjoying catching people before they are in dire circumstances.

At the dental clinic we used to primarily pull teeth. Now we are able to restore teeth because we’re catching people earlier and helping them learn preventive measures.

We’re able to give people their smiles back.”

“Allen County has many opportunities for improvement,” Postai said, noting the high rate of drug overdoses here. “We see an opportunity for intervention here. It’s a nationwide problem. The difference here is that you have people who identify the problem and then say what can we do about it.

“We love data,” Post-

Helen Ambler, top left, participates Tuesday afternoon in a community conversation with representatives of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as do Josh and Jessa Works, center, Humboldt retailers, and Tom Williams, Iola, a county commissioner. The Allen Countians shared their reasons for locating in their respective towns and their hopes for the future. Julie Willems Van Dijk and Dr. Richard Besser of the RWJF, bottom right, discuss their impressions of how Allen County is making great strides in providing healthier communities. At bottom left, students with the Ruby E. Davis drumming circle provide entertainment at the opening celebration.

ai said, to which Besser asked how they use it, specifically.

DAVID Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County, jumped into the conversation.

“We dig into the data and ask what’s the most appalling statistic that we can find that we can actually do something

about.”

Upon discovery that 27 percent of expectant mothers in Allen County smoke, Toland said Thrive worked to galvanize support for smoking cessation programs.

An instance is “Tobacco 21,” a program passed by the city of Iola in 2016 that requests merchants not sell tobacco prod-

ucts to youth under the age of 21.

“It all starts with the data.

“But I have to say, it’s humbling when we look at the county health rankings and realize we haven’t moved the needle very much, mainly because of the lives here lost prematurely.

But health behaviors, the things we can influ-

ence in the shorter term, we are getting better at,” Toland said.

Postai added, “The rankings help direct us on where we need to go.

Obviously tobacco use is a huge problem in southeast Kansas. We smoke at twice the state rate.

All the elements of poverty contribute to this.

“We know as a health center we can’t improve

the economy. We can’t recruit a company to locate here. But we can improve the health of the employees,” she said.

Both Reps. Thompson and Murnan said they recognized the importance of expanding Medicaid in Kansas and were disappointment the legislature failed to override Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto of such legislation by only four votes.

“I have two critical care access hospitals in my district,” Thompson said. “There are nine hospitals in Kansas on the brink of insolvency.

They don’t know how to pay the bills next week.”

Passage of Medicaid expansion in Kansas would mean a $1 million difference in federal reimbursements to Allen County Regional Hospital through the Affordable Care Act.

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Junior High Volleyball: Iola Ponies

Pony volleyball 8th-graders have little trouble in hosting Prairie View

By TIMOTHY EVERSON The Iola Register

The Iola 8th grade volleyball team hosted Prairie View on Monday with their A and B teams rolling to a win while the C-Team fell in a close loss.

The A-Team played a three out of five match while the B and C-teams played best two out of three.

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The A-Team swept Prairie View in three sets (25-15, 25-12, 25-20) Logan Ulrich was the standout, recording five aces, six kills and an assist.

“Logan Ulrich had a solid game and played with great control,” head coach Terri Carlin said. “She has been working on keeping her hits and serves in and finding open

spots.”

Chloe Sell also had a great night serving and setting the ball with 7 aces and 7 assists and Jenna Curry continued to be a force at the net racking up 8 kills and 3 blocks.

Ally Ellis pitched in an ace, 3 assists and 2 kills, Reece Murry had 2 aces and 3 kills and Triniti Loveall had an ace and a kill.

The B-Team continued the dominance, sweeping the Lady Buffalos in two sets (25-8, 27-25).

Mariah VanNice had 5 aces, 2 assists, and 1 kill, Miah Shelby had 4 aces and 1 kill, Triniti Loveall had 5 aces and a kill and Hannah Hall added an ace and a kill.

The C-Team recorded the Ponies’ only loss of the night

losing set one 20-25, winning set two 25-11 and falling in set three 13-15.

VanNice was the leading server with 8 aces. She also had a kill.

Shelby had 4 aces and an assist, Hall had 3 aces and Noah, Elizabeth Baker and Eve Ard each added an ace.

The Ponies will host Burlington on Thursday.

High School Cross Country: The Doc Stiles Invitational

Fillies fall to Santa Fe Trail and Osawatomie

By TIMOTHY EVERSON The Iola Register

The Iola Fillies volleyball team (5-8) went 0-2 on Tuesday at Osawatomie, falling to both host Lady Trojans and Santa Fe Trail.

Iola struggled with Santa Fe Trail, falling in two sets (25-16, 25-15).

Senior Colbi Riley had a team high 4 aces and 3 kills in set one to go along with a block and a dig.

Junior Piper Moore had 5 assists and a kill.

Things didn’t improve in set two as the Fillies recorded only 1 ace and 5 kills while hitting at zero percent.

Moore recorded 5 assists and a dig while Karli McGuffin and Shaylee Sutterby both had one block.

Iola regained some of its footing in the second match, falling 2-1 to Osawatomie (25-10, 22-25, 20-25).

The Fillies had their best set of the night in set one with Moore not doing anything on the scoring end but passing the ball well, recording 7 assists and a dig.

Sutterby had 3 kills while Riley led the team in aces with 3.

Iola almost got a sweep to close out the day in set two but fell just short.

Six different Fillies contributed on the offensive end with Moore and senior Katie Bauer leading the way with 2 kills. Moore also contribSee FILLIES | Page B3

Area runners made their way out to Allen Community College on Tuesday to compete in the Doc Stiles Invitational cross country meet. Runners from varsity down to junior varsity and seventh and eighth graders competed. From left, Marmaton Valley senior Shelby Yoho had a top-five finish in the varsity race, freshman Mustang Jack Adams continued to impress, finishing first in the varsity race, Humboldt eighth-grader Drew Wilhite finished first in his race and Filly Elka Billings took second in the varsity race. Iola varsity boys and girls and the junior varsity girls finished first while the junior varsity boys finished second. Check back Thursday for complete meet results. REGISTER/ TIMOTHY EVERSON

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Mustangs and Fillies shine at Doc Stiles Invitational at Allen County Community College on Tuesday

Major League Baseball: Blue Jays 5, Royals 2

Royals’ Ian Kennedy returns in loss to the Blue Jays

By RUSTIN DODD The Associated Press

TORONTO — About a week ago, as his right shoulder ached and his season lay in ruins, Royals starter Ian Kennedy stood in front of a mirror.

He had put up a putrid 9.57 ERA in the month of August and logged two mediocre starts in September. He would sit 10 days to rest a fatigued rotator cuff.

It was the kind of performance that could spur some self reflection. Yet as Kennedy took stock, he noticed something else: His beard was out of control.

“Might be the longest it’s ever been,” he said.

Dark reddish and un-

kempt, the follicles offered a brief history of his volatile season. The last time he trimmed it short — around April — he felt good. As it filled out, everything went wrong. He strained his hamstring in May. He pitched poorly thereafter. He found his mechanics in July _ only to have his shoulder betray him in August.

On Tuesday night, Kennedy returned to the mound in a 5-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. For five innings, he resembled something close to his best self, commanding his fastball and filling the strike zone. He was done in by an misplaced change-up to Toronto’s Darwin Barney in the sixth and a Royals of-

fense that remained sleepy all night.

The changeup — which came on an 0-2 pitch in

a scoreless game — was whacked over the left-field fence for a two-run homer.

The Blue Jays tacked on three more runs against the Kansas City bullpen.

The offense managed just one against Toronto starter Marcus Stroman, who lasted seven innings.

Big picture: The Royals lost for the fifth time in Royals’ Eric Hosmer follows through on a six games, fallground out with the bases loaded to end the ing to 73-77. The stretch has hasseventh inning during a game against the tened their exit Chicago White Sox on Sept. 13 at Kauffman from the AmeriStadium. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

can League wild card race and left them stumbling toward the finish line.

On Tuesday, Salvador Perez, Mike Moustakas and Lorenzo Cain were back in the lineup following a day out of the lineup on Sunday and the season’s final off day on Monday. Their presence did little to spark production.

Moustakas recorded a sacrifice fly in the seventh.

Alex Gordon hit a solo homer in the eighth that instantly became a part of history.

Gordon’s blast represented the 5,694th home run of the 2017 major-league season, setting the all-time record with 12 days left.

By the end, it was simply a bit of trivia.

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High School Volleyball: Marmaton Valley Lady Wildcats

Marmaton Valley volleyball finds some success over past week

By TIMOTHY EVERSON

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Marmaton Valley volleyball has been busy over the past several days. The varsity participated in the Humboldt Tournament on Saturday and the junior varsity played in the Fort Scott Invitational on Saturday in addition to playing Humboldt and Crest at Humboldt on Tuesday.

Humboldt Invitational The Lady Wildcats fell 0-2 to Waverly to start the tournament (19-25, 21-25).

Paige Becker had 7 points, Bailey Griffith recorded 6 points and 3 kills and Patricia Out-

and 2 blocks.

The Lady Wildcats kept it close versus Marais des Cygnes but fell 2-0 (20-25,23-25) Shayla Brooks recorded 6 points and 3 kills while Ensminger had 6 points and 3 kills and outlan had 5 kills.

To wrap it up, Marmaton Valley had a rematch with Yates Center with the blue and white Wildcats winning 2-1 (25-23, 11-25, 15-25).

Ensminger had 6 points and 3 kills, Brooks and Outlan had 5 kills and Griffith had 7 points and 5 kills.

Fort Scott Invitational The junior varsity took on Iola to start off and split with the Fillies 1-1.

lan had 3 kills and 4 blocks.

They rebounded versus Yates Center, beating the other Wildcats 2-0 (25-20, 25-20).

Clara Boyd had 9 points while Becker had 7 points. Outlan soared with 11 kills.

They continued their success versus AltoonaMidway, grabbing their second sweep of the night 2-0 (25-6, 25-11).

Boyd had 11 points, Griffith had 9 points and Megan Ensminger had 7 points.

The wins ran out in set four. Marmaton Valley fell 0-2 to PittsburgColgan.

Trinitee Gutierrez had 8 points, Outlan had 3 kills and 4 blocks and Griffith had 4 kills

Haylee Meiwes had 4 aces and 2 kills while Sarah Spillman had 5 digs. Julianna Sprague had 3 assists.

Next, the Lady Wildcats beat Frontenac 2-0 (25-20, 25-18) Mykayla Ard had 3 aces while Sprague had 3 assists and Rachel Schaffer had 2 blocks and 2 kills.

Marmaton Valley split their next game versus Central Heights (24-26, 25-13).

Kennadee Redburn had 6 aces while Meiwes had 4 aces and 2 kills. Ard had 3 kills and Spillman had 6 digs and 3 aces.

The Lady Wildcats fell to Paola 2-0 (25-15, 25-3).

Spillman had 3 digs,

Meiwes had 2 kills and Kaylee Becker had a kill and 3 assists.

They closed out the tournament with a 2-0 win over Burlington (2519, 25-23).

Sprague had 7 aces and 6 assists while Schaffer had 6 kills and Becker had 4 aces.

Versus Crest and Humboldt Marmaton Valley opened up with Humboldt and kind of ran into a wall, falling in two sets (25-15, 25-13).

Meiwes held serve for five consecutive serves, Ard had 1 kill and Schaffer recorded a block.

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Bulk also led the team in assists with 5.

The Lady Wildcats took on Crest next, beating the Lady Lancers 2-0 (25-14, 25-10).

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Kristen Lamb had 2 kills.

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Royals fan rises above the World Series thing to donate ‘Royal kidney’ to Giants fan

By LISA GUITERREZ The Kansas City Star

He is a Royals fan, lifelong.

She roots for the San Francisco Giants, the team that crushed Kansas City’s soul when it won the 2014 World Series at Kauffman Stadium.

Turns out, they’re a good match.

And on Wednesday, Giants fan Kelly van den Berghe will become forever Royal when her friend, 38-year-old Hutchinson, Kan., native Josh Harrold, gives her one of his kidneys.

They both live in California, he in Orange County, she in Santa Cruz. The operation will take place at Stanford Hospital.

Because Josh is the

ing to kidney failure, according to the PKD Foundation, based in Kansas City.

Van den Berghe’s grandmother, mother and brother had PKD. Transplants. Dialysis.

Her family has been down this road before.

But her personal nightmare has been lack of appetite, painful leg cramps, mood swings, holding water in her belly, trouble sleeping, unquenchable thirst, panic, anxiety, lower back pain and unrelenting tiredness that banishes her to bed for 18 hours at a time.

“I knew this was going to happen someday,” van den Berghe said. “I just enjoyed all the things I could do now that I knew I wasn’t going to be able to do later.

kind of guy who believes in and earns a living making grand gestures, he worked with the Royals and Giants to create a moment his friend would not forget — the day he told her she was getting a “Royal kidney,” as he calls it.

It happened last November at AT&T Park in San Francisco.

It was epic: He got a Giants fan to wear a Royals jersey.

(Now she thinks she jinxed the Giants, currently last place in the NL West.)

Harrold and others close to van den Berghe have known she has PKD? — polycystic kidney disease. The chronic, genetic disease causes cysts to grow uncontrollably in the kidneys, eventually lead-

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“It was just a matter of time. And it’s my time.”

Her friends didn’t know how sick she’d become until last August when she got honest and blunt and told her Facebook family she needed a kidney.

“Asking someone for a kidney is not an easy thing to do,” van den Berghe said. “For example, I have a stepsister who would have been a really, really good match. But she has two small children and she just wasn’t ready for it.

You can’t be angry at someone for not doing it.

“I just put it out there, once. And just through the chain of social media lots of people went and got tested.”

She had a big pool to

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uted 4 assists and was one of three Iola players (including Bauer) to record an ace.

Riley had the team’s only block.

In set three, Moore had 4 aces, 2 kills, 4 assists and 3 digs as the Fillies lost another close one.

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fish in. She is a retired roller derby queen, a star in Santa Cruz where she skated as “Roxy Scarmichael” and her jersey hangs from the rafters.

And then there was the juggernaut family of “Survivor” fans. Her husband, Lex van den Berghe, competed on “Survivor: Africa” and “Survivor: All Stars.”

The transplant folks told her they’d never seen so many people sign up to be tested as a possible donor for one person, van den Berghe said.

People have also donated $24,000 to a GoFundMe campaign set up to pay what insurance won’t cover.

Harrold was shocked and alarmed to see his positive, upbeat friend get so real, so publicly, about her deteriorating health.

“I knew she had been in pain for quite some time, but I never knew the extent of it,” Harrold wrote in a blog post on Medium last November urging people to become organ donors.

“Kelly is one of those people that you can’t help but smile around.

Her hair is the brightest pink you’ve ever seen, and her soul shines even brighter.”

He read her Facebook post around noon that day and thought about it for hours. He wondered whether he would be a match, even though he had no idea about her blood type, or his own for that matter.

He didn’t want to say anything to van den Berghe about getting tested until he talked with his wife, Erica, whose own body has fought her, too.

Erica had surgery on a brain tumor four years ago and has more chemotherapy to complete.

“Erica has always been the bravest woman I know,” said Harrold.

“But knowing how much she’s been through I wanted to talk through the possibility of donating a kidney.”

When Harrold got home that day, Erica had already read van den Berghe’s post and knew “without a doubt,” she said, that her husband should help their friend.

“He exudes class and kindness. He inspires me with his generous nature and spirit. He has

my admiration. He is, in the most beautiful way, unselfish. He is exactly the person my heart told me he was,” Erica wrote in a Facebook post in November.

“I am incredibly proud and honored to not only call him my husband, but also a LIVING DONOR.” Harrold went online and watched videos and read articles about kidney transplants, and nothing he saw gave him pause.

“To me it was fairly simple,” he said. “I don’t think I could ever live with myself if I just stood on the sidelines and did nothing.

“Ultimately I only need one kidney to live a full and happy life.

There’s really no sense in me living with two kidneys when one of mine will give my friend the same full and happy life.”

From the get-go, van den Berghe hoped Harrold would be her match.

Both felt they would be.

After he learned in October that he was, Harrold cooked up a big, bold way to tell her. Big and bold is kind of his thing.

After Harrold graduated from Pepperdine University, Yoo-hoo hired him and a buddy as national spokespeople to travel the country and promote the chocolatey drink.

One summer they drove around in a garbage truck painted yellow with chocolate-colored flames, Harrold’s face painted on the driver’s door. They preached the “chocolately goodness” of Yoo-hoo at concerts, skateboarding meets, anywhere they could find young dudes ages 14 to 24 hanging out.

They put Yoo-hoo into the hands of celebrities, too — pro surfers, BMX riders. Sometimes they made it onto a movie set.

Harrold happened to read in Lex van den Berghe’s “Survivor” biography that he loved Yoo-hoo. So he delivered a palette of the drink to the van den Berghe home and all that chocolately goodness led to a 15-year friendship.

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Major League Soccer: Sporting Kansas City

Sporting KC to meet Red Bulls for US Open Cup championship

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — There was a time not so long ago that the U.S. Open Cup was an afterthought, a nice trophy to win for a Major League Soccer club but nothing compared to the league’s MLS Cup. That’s not how Sporting Kansas City and the New York Red Bulls have treated it.

And perhaps more than any other reason, that’s why the two teams will meet Wednesday night to decide the nation’s oldest ongoing soccer competition.

Three-time champion Sporting KC and the Red Bulls, who lost in their only other finals appearance, have fielded some of their strongest lineups throughout the single-elimination com-

petition. That’s a stark contrast to many other MLS clubs, which have often fielded backup lineups to keep their top players fresh for the league schedule — especially against lower-division teams in the early rounds.

“When I first came to Red Bulls, I was aware of the fact that this organization and many of the managers here had not always taken this tournament seriously,” New York manager Jesse Marsch said. “When I came here, this was going to be something that we emphasized, and we’ve played a lot of good lineups in my three years here and this year we managed to survive four tough games.”

Indeed, neither Sporting KC nor the Red Bulls were given any free passes.

The charm of the U.S. Open Cup is that, along with the MLS clubs, it includes teams from the North American Soccer League, the United Soccer League and top amateur leagues. While none of those clubs has won the title since 1999, they occasionally pick off a few MLS clubs along the way.

That can produce an easier road for other MLS clubs to the finals.

But Sporting KC had to knock off Minnesota United, the Houston Dynamo, defending champion FC Dallas and the San Jose Earthquakes to reach the finals. New York beat New York City, the Philadelphia Union, New England Revolution and USL powerhouse FC Cincinnati to reach the championship match.

“We only played MLS

teams, so we knew the matches would be very tough. We had to be prepared for them,” said Sporting KC manager Peter Vermes, who led his club to titles in 2012 and ‘15. “I think anybody goes into this competition with everything they have. The games are very difficult.”

There was another reason Vermes largely played his top guys, though.

“Our players need to get to a place where they can play three games in a week,” he said. “Your main guys need to be able to play on a regular basis. So it’s something we worked toward in the offseason, making sure we were in a position to play that way.”

It’s not as if the two clubs don’t have designs on winning the MLS Cup.

Sporting KC, which will host the final at Children’s Mercy Park, is currently third in the Western Conference and would comfortably be in the MLS playoffs.

The Red Bulls sit sixth in the Eastern Conference and would also squeak into the bracket.

Yet to choosing to focus on one competition was never an option for Marsch or Vermes, who share a similar vision entering the season: There are three major trophies up for grabs, including the Supporter’s Shield given to the MLS club with the best regular-season record and the MLS Cup itself.

The U.S. Open Cup would be the third one.

“We’ve viewed this in many ways,” Marsch said. “I think it’s really solidified what we’re

doing with our season, and our success has given our team confidence it can win in big situations.”

Especially for the Red Bulls, who have never won the trophy.

Sporting KC hoisted the U.S. Open Cup in 2004, then won twice more in the past six years. But the club then known as the MetroStars lost 1-0 to the Chicago Fire in the 2003 finals.

“I think in this age, you see more teams playing their regular lineups,” Marsch said.

“We played a lot of MLS teams as well, and every MLS team played their full lineup. That made for some really difficult games. But I think our team understands this is a real trophy. This isn’t just a throw-out tournament.”

National Basketball Association: Marcus and Markieff Morris

Man testifies in trial over former Jayhawks’ assault

By CLARICE SILBER The Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) — The man accusing NBA players Marcus and Markieff Morris of aggravated assault was pressed Tuesday by defense lawyers about his financial motives in the case.

An Arizona grand jury indicted the Morris brothers on felony aggravated assault charges. They are accused of helping three other people beat Erik Hood outside a Phoenix recreation center on Jan. 24, 2015.

Two of the other codefendants pleaded guilty Sept. 13 to the same charges. The Morris brothers and the final defendant, Gerald Bowman, have pleaded not guilty.

Hood told Phoenix police he was leaving a high school basketball game when he was approached by a friend of the Morris brothers. Hood said the man was speaking to him when he was punched in the back of the head.

Hood tried to run but fell down before five men, including the Morris twins, punched and kicked him repeatedly, authorities said. All five left in a Rolls Royce Phantom, according to police.

Hood, 36, testified he wanted justice for the incident that left him with a broken nose and other injuries.

The Morris brothers have known Hood since they were promising teenage AAU players, but Hood testified they had a

falling out in 2011.

Hood testified that his relationship with the brothers became strained because of a misinterpreted text message he sent their mother. He said there was nothing “improper” happening with him and their mother.

Defense attorney Timothy Eckstein suggested Hood knew he had no chance of having a professional relationship with the players after the 2011 incident, but Hood insisted their relationship was not based on the twins making it to the NBA. The Morris brothers were drafted back-to-back in the first round of the 2011 NBA draft.

The 6-foot-9 twins became teammates in 2013 when Marcus was traded

to the Suns.

Hood stressed in court that he wasn’t looking at any of the defendants differently from each other.

Hood initially identified both Marcus and Markieff Morris as assailants, but testified that he later changed his statement to police to say Markieff did not physically assault him but had been in the vicinity.

Defense attorneys pressed Hood on his knowing about the NBA players’ substantial assets and asked if he was intent on having a claim on at least one of the Morris twins for his financial gain. Hood denied that claim.

Eckstein reviewed text messages Hood sent to multiple people indi-

cating the Morris twins Wizards.

The two-week trial also would have to pay him millions in financial dam- threatens to disrupt the start of their 2017 NBA ages for the case.

The Morris brothers season, with training face the possibility of camp set to begin for both prison time and disci- players on Sept. 26. pline from the NBA, including a minimum 10game suspension, if they are found g u i l t y.

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Tales, where he creates “immersive visual experiences” for fans at big public events. He does a lot of work with Disney, Nike, Facebook and other high-profile companies.

After he learned he was her match, he lied to his friend and told her he wouldn’t know for sure for another six weeks.

That gave him time to plan a surprise.

“I wanted to make it memorable,” he said.

“This is saving her life, so she should have a great story to tell.

“She bleeds Giants ... and she’s always posting about the Giants. I thought if I could get them to allow me to tell her at the stadium ... “ He called friends hoping to find someone who knew someone with both teams. The Giants offered him the use of the stadium. The Royals, also happy to help, sent customized jerseys for both couples.

The back of Harrold’s says “Royal Kidney 1.”

Van den Berghe’s says “Royal Kidney 2.”

They got van den Berghe to the stadium using the ruse that she and her husband had scored a private ballpark tour.

She was in a wheelchair recovering from a foot injury. When they wheeled her out to home plate, there, on the Jumbotron, she saw this mes-

sage: “Kelly, I know you are a Giants fan ... but you’re about to have a Royals kidney!”

As she was trying to figure out why the Royals were mentioned on the Giants’ scoreboard she saw Harrold out of the corner of her eye, and that’s when it hit her.

She thought: “Oh my gosh, you’re really going to do this! It really is going to be you.”

Like a movie moment she jumped out of the wheelchair and ran toward Harrold on her crutches.

What was this? He had a Royals jersey? For her?

So the woman who loves Buster Posey and Hunter Pence and Will Clark slipped into Royal blue.

So now, after months of preparation including a no-pizza, no-Yoo-hoo diet for Harrold — “they told me in a nice way I was too fat,” he said, laughing — the day is here.

Harrold and van den Berghe are scheduled to check into the Stanford hospital Tuesday. The transplant will happen on Wednesday.

They both have secret gifts ready for each other.

(They might have baseball themes. Shhhhh.)

Both van den Berghes posted affectionate messages to Harrold on Facebook.

Harrold’s Facebook post has a simple message: “Please consider being an organ donor.”

And, he’s found a bar-

becue joint near the hospital for a post-surgery celebration, “being a loyal Kansas boy,” he said.

Both are calm, yet con-

fess to a few jitters.

“I get pretty anxious about things, and I don’t feel that way at all,” said van den Berghe. “I

feel very, very lucky and more lucky because it’s Josh. I love that dude!

“Besides his love for the Royals.”

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Alex Gordon hits MLB’s record-setting 5,694th HR of season

By IAN HARRISON The Associated Press

TORONTO (AP) — Kansas City’s Alex Gordon broke Major League Baseball’s season home run record with 12 days to spare, hitting the 5,694th long ball of 2017 on Tuesday night.

Gordon’s home run off Toronto’s Ryan Tepera broke a mark set in 2000 at the height of the Steroids Era. The drive, which drove in the last run in the Royals’ 5-2 loss, was his eighth this season and the 159th of his 11-year big league career. “A pretty cool thing to be a part of,� Gordon said. “I didn’t hit many this year, but I guess I made one count.�

It was the 17th home run of the night in the major leagues and came just after Detroit’s Alex Presley tied the record when he connected at home against Oakland’s Daniel Gossett.

Gordon said he heard talk of the record on a clubhouse television after Toronto’s Darwin Barney homered in the sixth. “I was kind of aware that we were getting close to it,� he said. “After I walked back to the dugout.

I kind of forgot about it.�

Holding the ball he hit over the right-field wall, Gordon said he didn’t plan to keep the historic memento or anything else from the game. “I’m going to give it to Cooperstown,�

Gordon said. “I figured they’d probably have much more reason to have it than I do.

I don’t really want to remember too much about this season, so I’ll probably just give it away and let them take care of it.�

There were 5,610 homers last year, an average of 2.31 per game, and this year’s average of 2.53 entering Tuesday’s action projects to 6,139. That

would be up 47 percent from 4,186 in 2014. “I don’t know what to make of it,� Royals manager Ned Yost said. “Guys are bigger and guys are stronger. but so are the pitchers. There sure are a lot of home runs being hit.�

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons has noticed the surge in homers but doesn’t have an explanation. “It really looks like the ball is flying,� he said.

Power subsided after

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the start of drug testing with penalties in 2004. The home run average dropped in 2014 to its lowest level since 1992, then started rising during the second half of the 2015 season. “My biggest take on it is that players are trying to hit more home runs,�

San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. “Their philosophy overall, a lot of these position players, is to get the ball in the air and also pull the ball and get the ball in the air and hit it as far as you can. So you’re

increasing the launch angle, whatever you want to call this, stay away from the groundballs. And so they’re sacrificing a little bit more contact to do a little bit more damage.�

When the previous record of 5,693 was set in 2000, Sammy Sosa led the major leagues with 50 home runs and Barry Bonds hit 49.

Miami’s Giancarlo Stanton leads the major leagues with 55 home runs this year, followed by New York Yankees rookie Aar-

on Judge with 44.

Yost said he doesn’t believe more players are swinging for the fences than in years past. “You’re always looking to elevate,� Yost said. “You’re not going to make

a whole lot of money hitting the ball on the ground in this league because the defenders are so quick and athletic. You’ve got to get the ball in the air, I think, if you’re going to be successful.�

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