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Fire crews: City should keep EMS

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

If Iola firefighters have their say, the city will retain its ambulance crews, even after a contract to provide countywide emergency medical services expires Dec. 31.

The entire Iola Fire Department has penned a letter to the Iola City Council, asking the city to continue offering ambulance services inside Iola’s city limits, separate from the Allen County EMS system, in 2022 and beyond.

“The Iola Fire Department has been running an EMS service in some capacity since 1959,” the letter reads.

“Our members are 100% committed to providing quality care and compassion to the citizens of Iola and Allen County.”

The letter comes after Allen County commissioners voted Tuesday to negotiate a new EMS contract with a private company, thus allowing its contract with the city to expire on Dec. 31.

What that means for the Fire Department will be discussed Monday evening at the next Council meeting.

If Iola retains its own ambulance service, it would create a system in place for four years prior to when the city and county reached an agreement to consolidate their ambulance services under the IFD umbrella in 2013.

City Councilman Carl Slaugh, who was Iola city administrator during the negotiations that led to the city-county pact that year, opposes running a separate service.

“I had hoped the county would decide to go with the

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Assessing Afghanistan

Allen County

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Current cases.................. 47 Total cases*.................... 1,486 Deaths............................ 20

Kyle Griffeth, who served as an Army bomb tech in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011, worries about what happens next in the country now that the Taliban has taken control.

He knows it’s typical for the U.S. military to leave some equipment and weapons behind when they leave a conflict zone. But such equipment usually winds up in the hands of their allies.

“Most of it goes to the military we were working with and not the terrorist organization we were fighting against,” he said. “They were beating us with mostly lamp cords, alternator wires and mortars. Now they have everything we have. It makes a big difference in what they can do.”

The Taliban seized power in just 10 days, about two weeks before U.S. military troops were set to withdraw

COVID-19 Case Count

*Since the start of the pandemic Sources: Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments, Kansas Department of Health and Environment

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Kyle Griffeth, far right, poses with friends Joe Czikalla and Jason Buck while serving in Afghanistan. from the country after 20 years.

The Taliban, a militant group, took control of the country in 1996 but were ousted from power during a U.S.-led invasion in 2001. The U.S. has spent more than $2 trillion on the effort since then, and more than 2,448 U.S. servicemen and women died during the conflict.

Many fear the Taliban’s re-

turn to power will be a return to their harsh interpretation of Islamic law that severely restricts the rights of women and enforces harsh punishments, including stoning.

Griffeth said he’s disappointed with the way the withdrawal has been handled.

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VFW offers open table

By The Register staff

Military veterans and their families are invited to come to the LaHarpe VFW Post today to discuss the current situation in Afghanistan or other issues.

The VFW will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for veterans to come and talk about their thoughts and feelings regarding Afghanistan, learn about the Veterans Administration program, or talk about any other issues, Terese Yetzbacher, service officer, See VFW | Page A7

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Poppies for projects LaHarpe VFW members offer poppies for a donation Thursday at the Allen County Farmers Market. Money raised will help local veterans with various projects. From left, Lonnie Henkle; Doug Northcutt, commander; Bill Ebert; Don Gay, quarterman; Terese Yetzbacher, service officer; and Kim Swearingen, junior vice commander. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

FCD concert to feature Dillon Carmichael

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Vaccination station Iola High School and Iola Middle School offered a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for students and faculty on Friday, in cooperation with Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas.

About 15 to 20 IHS students were expected to take advantage of the opportunity, and 18 at IMS. Here, Kimberly Whitaker, RN and vaccine compliance coordinator with CHC/SEK, finishes giving a shot to senior Eve Ard. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

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The Oct. 17 concert is a departure from previous FarmCity Days shows in that it will be held at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, organizers noted.

Tickets will sell for $15, although sales have not yet begun.

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Iola man banned from doing business in Kansas An Iola man has been banned from doing business in Kansas and ordered to pay more than $58,000 in restitution and penalties for failing to provide goods after being paid, and making unfair transactions.

Don Diebolt, who does business as Diebolt LLC, was permanently banned from doing business in Kansas, Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced Thursday.

According to court records, Diebolt’s company was contracted on at least two projects in 2017 that were never completed.

The company was contracted for the construction of a building, and was paid $40,000.

Diebolt’s company abandoned the project, the court records read. The plaintiff said he was due a refund of $2,899.27.

Another consumer paid $15,484.84 for supplies and construction of a pole barn, but never received any services or material, according to court records.

After more than 20 attempts by the consumers to resolve the matter, complaints were filed with the 31st Judicial District alleging viola-

Iolan attends Boys State Sean Hurst of Iola and a student at Yates Center High School was elected as Powell County Commissioner at the Aug. 1-7 Boys State summer program.

Boys State is sponsored by the American Legion with the goal of instilling civic responsibility and a

tions of the Consumer Protection Act. Diebolt failed to respond to the complaints, and District Judge Daniel Creitz ordered a default judgment in the case.

Schmidt then banned Diebolt from doing business in the state.

Diebolt was ordered to pay $18,384.11 restitution to the two consumers, and fined $40,000 in civil penalties as well as costs of the attorney general’s investigation.

Diebolt also owns multiple rental properties in the area and is the former owner of Diebolt Lumber.

The lumber business closed and sold at auction in 2015. Diebolt said at the time he hoped to use proceeds from the sale to finance his new contracting business to manufacture custom homes and post frame buildings.

Multiple lawsuits have been filed against Diebolt in recent years, often for mortgage foreclosure on his properties.

The Limited Liability Company status for Diebolt LLC was forfeited on Oct. 15, 2021, for failing to renew, according to the court documents.

Carly Kramer and Henry Kramer represented Southwind Extension District 4-H in the State Horticulture Judging Contest Aug. 14 in Manhattan.

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Local 4-Hers compete in state judging contest Southwind Extension District 4-H members from Allen County competed Aug. 14, in the State Horticulture Judging Contest at Throckmorton Hall on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan.

They had to identify 50 different plants, place eight different categories of plants on quality, and were tested on their knowl-

Prairie Dell 4-Hers plan to attend events

Police report Arrests On Aug. 10, Jermey Shultz, 31, of Iola, was arrested by Iola Police on suspicion of criminal damage to property and criminal trespass after a report of a break-in in the 400 block of South Sycamore Street. Melissa Spease and StevenYates of Iola also were arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass.

Incidents

On Aug. 15, Melissa Spease, 29, of Iola, was cited for lewd and lascivious behavior in the 200 block of North Washington Ave.

Accidents

On Aug. 10, a vehicle driven by Sandra L. Simeon backed into a yard and struck a gas meter in the 700 block of North Walnut Street.

On Aug. 9, a vehicle driven by James A. Snavely struck the overhang of City Hall’s drive-thru at North Street and West Jackson Avenue.

On July 2, an unknown vehicle backed

By LUKE WICOFF Prairie Dell 4-H Club

into the Machine Shed parking lot and struck a parked vehicle owned

by Jeffrey A. Falk. The incident was reported Aug. 4.

On Aug. 4, a vehicle driven by Matthias T. Hirt was headed south on State Street and struck the back of a stopped vehicle driven

by Helen L. Uitts, who was waiting to turn onto West Monroe Street.

On Aug. 2, Karyssa L. Bruner was driving a vehicle into an alley near the 1200 block of North Sycamore Street and struck a parked utility trailer owned by William J. Hobbs.

On July 31, a vehicle driven by Quentin R.L. Sutterby backed out of a parking stall at Jump Start on East Street and struck a vehicle driven

by Ricky E. Keeler.

On July 28, a westbound vehicle driven

by Roger J. Madl failed to yield at a red light at Buckeye Street and U.S. 54, and struck a northbound vehicle driven by Darci M. Lisher.

The Prairie Dell 4-H Club met on Aug. 9, at Heartland Meadows for its annual project tour.

Lainey Church led the club and the residents in singing “If You’re Happy and You Know It” as well as in saying the Pledge of Allegiance and the 4-H Pledge.

Roll call, what ribbons you received at the fair, was answered by the members.

For the program, members showed their projects to the residents. Lainey Church showed her two art projects and gave a short talk about her baking project. Luke Wicoff showed his baked goods, and his dried mint. Luke also showed his photos, which he took in Italy this summer. The resi-

Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Braden L.M. Autry, Iola, reckless driving, failure to yield, speeding, $755, diversion Karyssa L. Bruner, Neosho Falls, driving a vehicle on property and causing damage, $305 Robin J. Dickey, LaHarpe, no seat belt, $30 Darrell J. Edrington, Iola, no child passenger safety restraint, improper driving, $255 Deaon S. Harrison, Iola, 52/35, $197 Matthias T. Hirt, Westphalia, inattentive driving, $395, diversion Mikayla L. Jackson, Iola, dog running at

The Sunflower Quilter’s Guild will meet Monday at the Humboldt United Methodist Church, Fellowship Hall, 806 N. Ninth.

The board meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. and the Guild meeting at 10.

Susan McMillan will present a program on sewing machine accessories.

large, dangerous animal, $375 Christopher L. Northcut, Iola, parking violation, $30 Ralph C. Shafer, Iola, inattentive driving, $195

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dents enjoyed getting to see the projects.

After reports of officers, Luke Wicoff gave the parliamentary report, which was about why we do club tours.

In new business, the club decided to help Heartland decorate its van for the Iola Veterans Day Parade in November, and to walk next to the van in the parade.

Club members decided to attend Lainey Church’s church in Kincaid for 4-H Sunday.

Luke Wicoff will set up the club display for 4-H Week in October.

For recreation, the club went on a tour of the farm animals that Heartland Meadows has, looking at the chickens and petting the goats.

The next meeting will be Monday, Sept.

6 at 8 p.m. at Riverside Park Community Building.

Lainey Church will give a talk.

Restrictions return in some parts of Kansas WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Officials in some Kansas communities are battling a rise in COVID-19 cases by mandating masks for kids, issuing emergency orders and requiring vaccines.

The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Kansas has risen over the past two weeks from 605.14 new cases per day on Aug. 3 to 797.14 new cases per day on Tuesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

In the Lawrence area, Douglas County leaders approved a health order Wednesday that will require children ages 2 to 12 to wear masks while in indoor public spaces. The decision followed four hours of public comment that included jeering and interruptions from a largely maskless crowd, the Lawrence Journal-World reports.

Douglas County’s health officer, Dr. Thomas Marcellino was momentarily drowned out by laughter and heckling from the crowd when he tried to explain the reasoning for the order.

One person called him a liar and disgusting,

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and some in the crowd started chanting “no more masks.”

One public commenter even compared maskless children being excluded from activities to racial segregation.

There are various exceptions to the proposed order, including youth with a medical condition, mental health condition or disability that prevents wearing a face covering.

In the Wichita area, hospital status was changed to critical Wednesday, as about 150 COVID-19 patients fill beds there, The Wichita Eagle reports.

Amid the increase, Sedgwick County health officer Dr. Garold Minns is considering proposing that masks be worn again.

He said he should reach a decision before the end of the week, although the Sedgwick County Commission will have the final say on any mask mandate.

In the Topeka area, Shawnee County is once again under a state of disaster emergency regarding COVID-19, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports.

CONGRATULATIONS! Pierce Beasley

graduated from Humboldt’s Virtual Academy this May, more than a year ahead of schedule.

We’re so proud of you and eager to see where life takes you!

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edge on various aspects of plant science.

There were 53 youth competing in the competition.

Representing Southwind Extension District were Carly Kramer and Henry Kramer. Accompanying them was their coach, Terri Kretzmeier.

Kramer placed 6th in the intermediate division.

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The camp is held on the campus of Kansas State University.

For information on becoming a delegate, visit ksbstate.org.

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US: Food aid runs out this week in Ethiopia

By CARA ANNA The Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States is warning that food aid will run out this week for millions of hungry people under a blockade imposed by Ethiopia’s government on the embattled Tigray region.

Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said in a statement late Thursday that less than 7% of the needed food aid has been reaching the Tigray region of some 6 million people, and USAID and other aid groups “have depleted their stores of food items warehoused in Tigray” after nine months of war.

“This shortage is not because food is unavailable, but because the Ethiopian government is obstructing humanitarian aid and personnel, including land convoys and air access,” she said. USAID has warned that up to 900,000 people in Tigray face famine conditions in what has been called the world’s worst hunger crisis in a decade.

The Associated Press has reported that scores of people have starved to death.

Ethiopia’s government, on the defensive after resurgent Tigray forces retook much of the region in June, has accused humanitarian workers of arming and supporting the fighters, and aid workers have described intense searches and confiscation of personal medication, cash and communications equipment as they try to enter the region on rare convoys or flights. The government also suspended the operations of Doctors Without Borders’ Dutch section and the Norwegian Refugee Council, accusing them of spreading “misinformation.”

A spokeswoman for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Billene Seyoum, rejected Power’s allegations: “That is not the case.”

Security is the top priority and there will be “continuous checks and processes” for aid entering Tigray, and any “hiccups” are discussed with affected partners, she told reporters on Friday.

Power’s remarks came shortly after United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters that humanitarian conditions in Ethiopia are now “hellish.” On Friday a U.N. humanitarian spokesman, Saviano Abreu, told the AP that if the current situation continues, it poses an “imminent threat” to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people facing famine.

Guterres called for an immediate cease-fire, unrestricted aid access, the return of basic services and the creation of conditions for an Ethiopian-led dialogue.

Dialogue is highly unlikely. Ethiopia’s government this year declared the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which dominated the country’s government for 27 years before Abiy came to power, a terrorist group after a

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political fallout turned into fighting. Asked about a peace process, the prime minister’s spokeswoman said the unilateral cease-fire that Ethiopia’s government declared as its forces retreated from Tigray in June was an “olive branch that the TPLF refused to accept.”

Power’s statement urged the Tigray forces to withdraw immediately from the neighboring Amhara and Afar regions, where they say they are trying to pressure Ethiopia’s government to end the fighting.

Ethiopia’s government, however, has called on all able citizens to stop the Tigray forces “once and for all.”

“The TPLF’s offensive into other regions will only prolong this conflict and the suffering of the Ethiopian people,” Power said, also urging the Amhara regional government to withdraw its forces from western Tigray and neighboring Eritrea to remove its forces from Ethiopia permanently.

Caught in the middle are civilians. Thousands have died.

An aid worker who recently visited the Tigray region told the AP that conditions are so dire, and resources so constrained, that at least one large aid group’s staffers had been forced to begin rationing their own food, let alone have enough means to help others.

With bank services still cut off along with telephone and internet access, aid groups are running out of money, the aid worker said.

And while access inside Tigray is safer and easier than before the turn in the war in June, fuel is in such short supply that it’s only available on the black market and diesel prices are five times higher than before, the aid worker said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

If the cash and fuel shortages can’t be resolved, aid work “will grind to a halt,” the aid worker said, adding that some groups already had stopped some work altogether.

While the aid worker saw shops stocked with supplies, many people didn’t have the means to buy them. “One definition of famine is not a lack of food, it’s the lack of access to food,” the aid worker said, adding that farmers had largely missed the crucial planting season.

The latest U.N. humanitarian update on Tigray, released on Thursday, said 100 trucks of supplies — 90 of them with food — must enter Tigray every day to help meet the needs of more than 5 million people. But just 316 trucks had entered the region between July 12 and last Sunday.

Now hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in Amhara and Afar, creating a new humanitarian crisis. Abiy’s spokeswoman accused the Tigray forces of indiscriminate shelling and the destruction of hospitals there. Spokesman for the Tigray forces Getachew Reda has denied targeting civilians.

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Brant McGhee gave the Communion meditation “Difficult.”

For something to be considered difficult, it must take much effort or skill; it is not simple or easy. God gives us many simple instructions that can seem difficult: Loving others, being kind, being helpful. We need the skills God gives each of us to accomplish these tasks.

Pastor Chase Riebel gave the sermon “The Unknown God?”, over Acts 17:16-34. When traveling through Athens, Paul was deeply troubled by all the idols he saw. And then Paul came across one that was labeled “To an unknown god.” These people were worshipping in ignorance.

You need to know what you’re worship-

During the past several weeks, we’ve welcomed several new Chamber members to the community, including Jefferson Lines, US Cellular and INA Alert, Inc. Jefferson Lines has provided safe, reliable, convenient, and affordable motorcoach transportation since 1919.

Their network now serves 170 communities in 14 states spanning the Midwest and beyond. Iola hosts their bus stop at Pete’s truck stop along Highway 54 at Iola’s east entrance.

US Cellular is a nationwide network that offers cell and home phones, internet, hotspot, Smart Home and more. Visit their location at 704 N, State St,, in Iola to shop their products and services and meet their staff.

INA Alert, Inc. is a woman-owned small

ping, Paul said, and began preaching to them about the one true God. We must get to know God in a relational way. We are called to give up our lives, let go of old friends or bad habits, and release all control to God. If you just take that first step, you’ll find him there waiting for you.

Men’s Bible study is at 7 a.m. on Tuesdays; in the church basement. Women’s Bible study is at 9 a.m. Tuesdays at the parsonage.

The Mary & Martha’s life group is at 6 p.m.

Tuesdays at the parsonage. Men on Fire life group will be the second Friday of the month. Adult Bible study at the parsonage, and youth group at the church, are at 7 p.m. every Wednesday.

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Carlyle Presbyterian Pastor Steve Traw’s message “One by One’ was taken from Ephesians 12. Pastor Steve said as a young boy attending the Christian Church the congregation would sing the old hymn “Win Them One

By One.”

Traw said his mother would point her finger at him as they sang the chorus, “If you bring the one next to you and I’ll bring the one next to me, in no time at all we’ll have them all, so win them, win them one by one.”

We as Christians are to share the good news of Christ with those next to us.

David Loomis led the morning song service.

Pianist Myrna Wildschuetz played “Without His Amazing Grace” for the prelude and “He the

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Pearly Gates Will Open” for the offertory.

Rev. Tom Bevard sang “In the Garden” for a special number.

The church fellowship dinner followed at noon. Bible Study is 3 p.m. on Tuesdays with Pastor Steve.

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This week’s message:

He answered them, “Whoever has two shirts should share with the person who doesn’t have any. Whoever has food should share it too.”

~ Luke 3:11

Carlyle

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

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

Presbyterian

Church

620-365-9728

Livestream on our services: facebook.com/IolaNaz/

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

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

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

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

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

Cowboy Church & the Arena of Life

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

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

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

620-637-2298

781 Hwy. 105, Toronto, KS

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

620-365-8001

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

Fellowship fellowshipregionalchurch@yahoo.com

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

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

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

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

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Jared Ellis Luke Bycroft

Travis Boyt, Pastor

801 N. Cottonwood St., Iola

First

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

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

302 E. Madison, Iola

Presbyterian

Rev. Daniel M. Davis

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

Church

620-365-3481

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

302 E. Madison Ave., Iola

Grace Lutheran Church 117 E. Miller Rd., Iola

Tony Godfrey, Pastor

Steve Traw, Pastor

29 Covert St., Carlyle

C H U R C H

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

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

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

620-365-3688 2001 N. State 401 S. Walnut, IolaSt., Iola Sunday Main Worship 9 a.m. and 10:45 am Wednesday Youth Group 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday Harvest Kids 6:30 p.m. 8 p.m. (preK-5th grade) Tony Godfrey, pastor

Humboldt United Methodist Church hbciola.com

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

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

Rev. Marge Cox, Pastor 620-473-3242

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806 N. 9th St., Humboldt

Iola First Assembly of God

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

Paul Miller, Pastor 620-365-2492

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

Parking is around back!)

“Nothing is Impossible for God”

New York Valley Church

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

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

1432 Hwy. 54, Yates Center

Listen in on 97.7 FM & KSNP/Burlington

South Church of Christ

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

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

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

2205 S. State St., Iola

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

620-365-2277 Father David Michael

Richard Schmidt, Pastor 620-625-3060

620-365-0145 Weekend Masses Sat. - 5:30 p.m. - Iola (Confession 4:30 - 5:20 p.m.)

Sun. 8:30 a.m. - Yates Center (Confession 8 - 8:25 a.m.)

10:30 a.m. - Iola Weekday Masses Mon., Tues., Fri., Sat. - 8 a.m. - Iola (Confession 7:30 - 7:55 a.m. M, T, F, S) Wed. - 6:30 p.m. - Iola (Confession 6 - 6:25 p.m.)

Thurs. - 5:30 p.m. - Yates Center

Wesley

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

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

United Methodist Church

Rev. Bruce Kristalyn

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

620-365-6468

301 E. Madison Ave., Iola

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

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Task force crafting procedures for handling DNA in cold cases

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Members of the Legislature’s task force developing protocol for use of newly discovered DNA evidence in criminal cases endorsed better training of law enforcement officers, prosecutors and defense lawyers to keep valuable information from slipping through cracks of the justice system.

Two prosecutors on the task force were drawn Thursday to the idea of an ongoing educational program to boost appreciation for information on DNA matches available through the KBI’s Laboratory Information Management System, or LIMS. Prosecutors have access to LIMS, but there was consensus not all in the state were aware of this evidence trove. It was presumed many defense lawyers didn’t know much about LIMS or their ability to request database information on cases.

“Education is a huge component that I think we need to be developing,” said Darrin Devinney, the Butler County attorney and a member of the Alvin Sykes Cold Case DNA Task Force.

“Not just for prosecutors, not just for law enforcement but it’s also for defense counsel. It’s for those individual defendants.”

The value of DNA evidence at trial and on appeal resonates in Kansas, where Floyd Bledsoe’s convictions for first-degree murder and sex crimes were vacated in Jefferson County in 2015. Bledsoe spent 16 years in prison for crimes committed

Sen. David Haley, a Democrat on the Legislature’s task force on DNA evidence related to closed or cold cases, said Kansas officials should set the standard for distribution to prosecutors, law enforcement and defense attorneys relevant matches from DNA testing databases. (SHERMAN SMITH/KANSAS REFLECTOR) by his brother, Tom, who left a suicide note implicating himself as previously untested DNA evidence emerged indicating Bledsoe was wrongfully convicted.

Sen. David Haley, a Democrat on the task force from Kansas City, Kansas, said the Legislature had an opportunity to place Kansas at the forefront nationally by implementing effective protocol for notifying everyone who should be informed of emergence of DNA evidence from crime scenes.

The process needs to guarantee all parties in closed or cold cases are made aware when a match is found in DNA registries, he said.

Two task force attorneys who work on cases of people who may have been falsely convicted of crimes expressed concern an imprecise approach to sharing DNA information among the KBI, local law enforcement agencies, forensics labs or the offices of prosecutors could deny individuals evidence capable of setting them free.

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Kansas appeals court blocks enforcement of ‘ag-gag’ law

By ROXANA HEGEMAN er’s consent or to enter them under false preThe Associated Press

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court has blocked enforcement of provisions in a Kansas law that ban the secret filming at slaughterhouses and other livestock facilities, finding that the statute seeks to stifle speech critical of animal agriculture.

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a split decision Thursday ruled that even if deception is used to enter private property, Kansas may not discriminate based on whether the person intends to harm or help the enterprise.

“But that is the effect, and stated purpose, of the provisions at issue,” the appeals court said.

“And the statute is not limited to false speech lacking constitutional protection. Instead, it punishes entry with the intent to tell the truth on a matter of public concern.”

The decision upholds a permanent injunction issued last year by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil.

Kansas’ “ag-gag” law, enacted in 1990, made it a crime for anyone to take a picture or video at animal facilities without the own-

tenses.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Center for Food Safety, Shy 38 Inc., and Hope Sanctuary sued.

“Kansas has hindered the ability of whistleblowers to expose inhumane conditions associated with factory farms for more than three decades while infringing on First Amendment rights,” Stephen Wells, executive director for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, said in a news release. “The Tenth Circuit’s decision is a victory for animals throughout the state who are forced into industrial animal agriculture and suffer in secret, behind closed doors.”

The Kansas attorney general’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund said courts have struck down similar provisions in Iowa, North Carolina, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals last week cleared the way for a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ law, while a lawsuit in North Carolina is pending in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.

executive director of the Midwest Innocence Project in Kansas City, Missouri, said a defense attorney could file a request for prosecutors to conduct a LIMS search in Kansas. She suggested there ought to be clear legal requirements aimed at having DNA database reviews performed competently and results reported promptly.

“We might train people to log into it to look, but that’s not really a guarantee that somebody is looking,” she said.

Task force member Justin Edwards, a deputy district attorney in Sedgwick County, said a statewide education process regarding LIMS should eliminate excuses for failure to pass DNA information to defendants. The KBI and the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association could play roles in that training.

“Hopefully,” Edwards said, “the expectation would be these reports are not just sitting in a cabinet somewhere and not being turned over to the defense.”

Without safeguards

in law there remains a risk exculpatory forensic reports may not be provided to incarcerated people who don’t have pending cases affording them rights of discovery, said Alice Craig, a task force member with the University of Kansas’ Project for Innocence and Post-Conviction Remedies.

Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita attorney and among four state legislators on the task force, said lawmakers should pass a statute spelling out how district and county attorneys as well as law enforcement officials were expected to reveal DNA database findings. The information ought to flow regardless of whether it is viewed as helpful or damaging to a defendant’s case, he said.

“There needs to be a bright line that judges can look at to determine whether or not a defendant’s rights have been violated,” Carmichael said.

Rep. Fred Patton, a Topeka Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the task force was granted a one-year extension until Dec. 1 to complete recommendations for timely transfer of data on DNA hits related to solved and unsolved cases. The people included in the information loop could include prosecutors, defense lawyers, crime victims, surviving relatives and organizations working for release of wrongfully convicted people.

The task force named for Sykes, a Kansas civil rights activist who died in March, is also expected to develop procedures for conducting “reasonable and timely” investi-

gations of DNA hits.

State and local law enforcement officials in Kansas also make use of CODIS, or the Combined DNA Index System. It’s the searchable database supported by the FBI linking known DNA profiles from offenders to unknown DNA profiles from crime scenes. There are

federal restrictions on access to reports generated by CODIS. Brian Hill, the Shawnee County sheriff and a task force member, said he recalled that while working as a Topeka homicide investigator notification of law enforcement officers of CODIS hits was unnecessarily delayed.

Kansas to pay $2.2M in child welfare lawsuit TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that Kansas must pay more than $2.2 million in attorney fees to the groups that filed a lawsuit over problems in the child welfare system.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree also ordered the state to pay more than $72,000 in expenses.

The Kansas Department for Children and Families said in an emailed statement after the decision that it “continues to focus on improving services for youth in foster care.

This has been our priority even before the settlement.” The agency said it was reviewing Thursday’s ruling and would have no further comment at this time.

Crabtree approved a settlement to the lawsuit in January, saying at the time that it provided a real value to the more than 7,000 children in the foster care system and addressed the need to end extreme housing disruption and inadequate mental health care.

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IHS Class of 1966 celebrates reunion The Iola High School Class of 1966 celebrated their 55th reunion on July 2 and 3.

Classmates were hosted by Georgia and Craig Abbott on July 2 at the Allen County Country Club. The reunion continued July 3 at the country club with breakfast. Later on, some classmates took part in a tour by USD 257 Superintendent Stacey Fager and IHS Principal Scott Carson of the renovated stadium, press box and restrooms. They also learned of the new science and technology building and new elementary school.

A monetary donation was made to help with the football field sod, as well as for Project Shelf to help with library books for the new elementary school library.

Classmates attending were: From Kansas: Stephen (Nicole) St Clair, Mary (Coltrane) John Reid, Craig (Georgia) Abbott, Vic Tomlinson, Vickie (Wilson) Larkins, Virginia (Potter)

Nelson, Rex McCulley, Walter (Cindy) Kuekendall, Roy (Colleen) Riebel, Sharon (Shields) and John Rohlmeier, Kim Swearingen, Ken (Ann) Shetlar, LC and Mary (Yates) Lacy, Daniel Roush, Randy (Lela) Hurlock, Pat (Henry) Spencer, Dr. David Henderson, Richard Shafer, Tonie (Vest) Dix, Jeanne (Blohm) Ulrich, Don and Mickey (Strunk) Rutledge, David Cescon, Joanne Audley, Bruce (Judy) Cochran, Diana (Diebolt) and Buddie David, Penny (Gregg) and Phil Ebert, Davis Redfern, Jake (Peggy) Marple, Dean Head.

From Missouri: Clinton (Jackie) Hawk, George (Nancy) Freeman, Eugene Stroud, Judy (Lynch) Baker.

Other states: Phillip Fretz, Florida; Raymond Hagerman, Wisconsin, and brother Roger from Kansas; Fred (Trish) Patterson, Becky (Dailey) and Larry Burmeister, Colorado; Connie (Heard) Albrecht, Tennessee; and Jim Sinclair and Donna (Oklahoma).

Scheibmeirs gather for family reunion Descendants of Ed and Velda Scheibmeir held an annual reunion on July 31 at the Bresner Building in Yates Center.

The Gloria Westerman family hosted the reunion. They also celebrated her 80th birthday.

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by Big Brad’s BBQ, of Lebo. He’s also a cousin.

Those present were: Larry Scheibmeir, Dennis and Lisa, Deb and Kelly Hemphill, Karen and Kleet Clarke, Daryl and Rosie Scheibmeir.

Ed and Deby Scheibmeir family: Brad, Amy, Michael and Noah, and Coley, Dylan and Adley.

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Grace is a hurricane and Henri will be soon

By ALES HARRIS and MICHELLE MARCHANT The Miama Herald

Forecasters are monitoring a new disturbance in the eastern Atlantic.

They’re also watching the newly re-strengthened Hurricane Grace and Tropical Storm Henri, which is forecast to turn into a hurricane soon.

A Hurricane Henri could be the first one in 30 years to make a direct landfall in New England, the region of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The new disturbance over the eastern Atlantic was producing a broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms several hundred miles to the southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands early Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Forecasters expect the tropical wave will interact with another wave emerging off the African coast in the next few days before entering “marginally favorable” environmental conditions, which could lead to some slow development by early next week.

Tropical Storm Henri is still chugging along the Atlantic and is expected to become a Cat 1 hurricane by Saturday, according to the hurricane center. Parts of the northeastern United States are now under storm surge, tropical storm and hurricane watches, including Martha’s Vineyard.

Maximum sustained winds were near 65 mph with higher gusts, according to the hurricane center’s 8 a.m. Friday advisory.

Henri was moving toward the west-northwest near 9 mph and is expected to turn toward the northwest later Friday before another turn north.Forecasters are uncertain about Henri’s track and intensity, though nearly all of the models show the storm reaching the coast of southern New England.

The hurricane center expects Henri will quickly weaken once

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it slows over the colder waters south of New England. However, they say “it may not be quick enough to keep Henri from reaching the coast as a hurricane.”

If Henri retains hurricane strength and hits eastern New England, it would be the first hurricane to do so in 30 years.

The last time? In 1991, when Hurricane Bob came ashore with 100 mph winds, according to CBS News.

GRACE is a hurricane again. As of 8 a.m.

Friday, the storm was speeding across the Gulf of Mexico at 15 mph with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph with higher gusts. Tropical-storm-force winds extend up to 150 miles from its center and hurricane-force winds extend out 35 miles.

“Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion” along the coast of mainland Mexico from Puerto Veracruz to Cabo Rojo, which are under a hurricane warning, according to the hurricane center. Grace should move across the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, where it should restrengthen into a hurricane again, before making landfall along the coast of mainland Mexico late Friday.

It should then weaken rapidly as it moves inland into the mountains of central Mexico.

“The remnants of Grace are expected to move into the Pacific where they are likely to spawn a new tropical cyclone,” forecasters wrote.

In an effort to get students vaccinated for COVID-19 before coming to campus, Wichita State University is offering a $250 award for incoming students who can show proof of vaccination, according to a WSU news release.

Participating students will also be eligible to receive one of 20 scholarships worth $5,000 each for the spring 2022 semester, which will be awarded through a random drawing.

Not to be outdone, Pittsburg State University is offering $500 scholarships for all on-campus students who provide proof of vaccination.

Participating students will also be eligible to win one of two $8,500 grand prizes that are equivalent to a semester’s worth of full tuition, fees, meals and housing, according to a PSU news release.

“We’re doing everything we can to protect our campus,” said Howard Smith, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs.

“The more people on our campus vaccinated, the less likely disruptions will happen to our fall operations, students won’t miss as much class or as many activities, and everyone can have a safer, more productive semester.”

Vaccines are available for free.

At Emporia State University, students who can prove vaccination against COVID-19 will be eligible for two $500 scholarships, two

$250 scholarships, two $100 scholarships, five $25 gift certificates and 10 $25 gift cards.

Fort Hays State University is offering $400 to all faculty, staff and students who get fully vaccinated against the virus.

The University of Kansas is offering students who are fully vaccinated a chance at winning three cash prizes equivalent to one semester’s worth of tuition, valued at $5,091; three $5,000 cash prizes; two “gold” parking permits; four $1,000 stipends in KU Dining Dollars as well as smaller gifts, including tickets to the men’s basketball games.

“We know that vaccination is the best way each of us can protect ourselves and our community against the effects of COVID-19 and the delta variant,” said Andrew Foster, KU’s emergency management coordinator.

At Kansas State University, prizes will be awarded weekly from mid-August through Oct. 8 for students who are fully vaccinated.

Prizes include an Apple Watch, iPad, video games, noise-canceling headphones and gift cards.

On Oct. 15, the university will draw the name of one student who will have a choice between a Sony PlayStation 5, a Macbook Air, or $1,000 in cash.

FACE MASKS are required at all Kansas public universities, regardless of one’s vaccination status.

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Country’s growing diversification weaves a stronger social fabric Over the last decade, the population of the United States increased by 7.4%, according to the 2020 Census.

Sadly, we’re not seeing that growth here. Allen County is down by 6.3%, along with just about all of rural America. Our population is now just below 12,500.

The growth is concentrated in the cities and came primarily from Hispanics, Latinos and Asians, which now comprise 42% of the population, with whites at 58%.

Curiously, a big sector of growth came from those that identify themselves as belonging to two or more races. These multi-racial numbers more than tripled in the last decade, from 9 million to almost 34 million and account for 10% of the population.

I read this as a beautiful sign of greater understanding and acceptance among us.

This diversification is also what keeps us youngish. The share of children in the U.S. declined because of falling birth rates, while it grew for adults, driven by aging baby boomers.

Those 65 and older comprise 16.5% of the population.

Still, we’re a far cry from the old gray mare, Japan, where close to 30% is over 65 — the oldest population in the world.

As a result, programs like Social Security and Medicare are increasingly restricted. If a country doesn’t have enough young people to work and pay taxes, such benefits are simply too costly.

Japan’s population is in a downward spiral for primarily two reasons.

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One is that women are choosing their careers over starting a family primarily because Japanese society remains stuck in the Dark Ages when it comes to men accepting greater responsibilities in child rearing and household duties.

If a woman is expected to not only have a career but also carry the burden of raising children and maintaining the house, then something’s gotta give.

Japan’s government now projects that unless the birth rate changes, the country’s population of 126 million will fall below 100 million by 2053.

The second reason Japan is desperate for more young and strong backs is that until only a few years ago its doors were closed to non-Japanese immigrants.

Even now, the restrictions on immigration are severe, and frankly, inhospitable: Workers cannot bring their families and stays are limited to five years with no paths to citizenship.

Unless it wants more of the same, Japan needs to fling its doors wide open.

Besides helping keep a country young, the best argument for welcoming those from abroad is that it makes for a diverse country, which in turn makes it stronger.

A look back in t me.

40 Years Ago August 1981

Construction continues on the new Mack Colt, Inc., office building at the corner of Jefferson and Monroe.

The two-story building will replace the firm’s offices at 110½ South St. ***** KINCAID — The nine apartment units in a Farmers Home Administration project for the elderly were completed nearly 90 days ahead of schedule and have been turned over to Richard Prather of Prather Realty to be rented to qualified applicants. The project cost $215,000. Renters must be 62 or older. Rent will be 25% of the adjusted gross income of the applicant. ***** Iolans will soon lose their telephone business office in order for Southwestern Bell to consolidate its customer records and better use its computers in a central location. Customers will be given a toll-free number to use to place orders for service or discuss their bills, said Don Vaughn, manager of the Iola business office. Vaughn said Bell employees will continue to be stationed in Iola to handle installation and maintenance duties. The office at 222 S. Sycamore will close by Jan. 29. Presently, Bell has

nine persons employed in Iola. After the closing there will be eight. ***** Riley Pope, new sales manager for IMP Boats, said the firm’s prospects are good.

“I’d say any boat manufacturer in the country which survived 1979 and is still in business is pretty lucky.” He believes the key to selling boats will be to tap young adults born after World War II. ***** MORAN — An expansion of the Klein Tool Co. plant that could bring employment to between 400 and 500 people within five years is back on track as a result of the purchase of the natural gas distribution system by Gas Service. John Smith, manager of Klein, said a consulting engineer would be in Moran within two weeks to begin an extensive review of the current operations and plan for the expansion. ***** Klein Tool Co. of Moran played host Friday afternoon to visitors from over the county as part of Iola’s Farm-City Days celebration.

Klein manufactures hand tools for an international market. Parts are forged with 18 huge drop hammers as well as a new $1,200,000 press. Klein now hires 148.

A Hispanic tradition is to celebrate when a young woman turns 15. Nataly Contreras, 14, tries on a quinceanera dress as her sister-in-law, Cristal Contreras, right, and Peaches Boutique owner Barb Surdej, left, help at the boutique on Feb. 27, 2021, in Chicago. (JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/TNS)

KS Hispanics slow to act on their growth The recent release of additional 2020 Census numbers is a treasure trove of fascinating data about Kansas.

While redistricting and the urbanization of Kansas have dominated the political chatter about these data, they also tell an interesting story about our state’s growing Hispanic population.

Let’s clarify some concepts.

The Census measures “Hispanic” as an ethnicity that crosses racial lines. However, studies on racial identity show that most Americans, including most self-identified Hispanics, perceive Hispanic as a race itself.

Further, Gallup and Pew surveys find that about 60% of self-identified Hispanics in America prefer the term “Hispanic” when asked to label themselves, about a third prefer “Latino,” and less than 5% prefer “Latinx.”

That said, let’s talk numbers.

Both the country and Kansas grew more racially diverse since 2010 as the White percentage of the population declined. The Hispanic percentage of the American population grew from 16 percent in 2010 to 19 percent in 2020. In Kansas, Hispanics grew from 10.5 percent of the state to 13 percent.

Put differently, Kansas’s Hispanic population grew roughly 25% since 2010. In contrast, Kansas’s population overall grew just 3% last decade. And Hispanics grew as a share of the population in all but nine Kansas counties, even as 80 of 105 counties lost population. So, Hispanics are disproportionately driving

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Kansas’s modest population growth.

Kansas Hispanics remain concentrated in Southwest Kansas, where Finney, Ford, Seward, and Grant counties are majority Hispanic. Elsewhere, Hispanics are more concentrated in urban communities, especially Wichita, Topeka, Emporia, Salina, Hutchison, Newton, Kansas City, and Olathe.

WHAT ARE the politics here, especially for Kansas Hispanics to achieve greater political power as they grow?

First, the voting weight of Kansas Hispanics doesn’t reflect their numbers. Take Ford County, for example. In the 2020 Census, 58 percent of residents were Hispanic.

However, the Census’s American Community Survey puts the county’s citizen voting age population at 63 percent non-Hispanic White.

Add to that comparatively lower voter registration and turnout rates among Hispanics. The result is that — for now — majority Hispanic Kansas communities have majority White electorates and often no elected Hispanic representation.

Second, most voter mobilization happens through partisan campaign activities,

but neither party has strong incentives to target Hispanic Kansas voters. Hispanics skew significantly Democratic and often more liberal than Whites on issues, giving Republicans little reason to engage them. Democrats likely win more votes by focusing their more limited resources on blueing high turnout White suburbanites.

Barriers to voting aside, to effectively mobilize Hispanic voters in Kansas, that push likely has to come from community organizations, perhaps from within the Hispanic community itself, that operate outside of traditional campaigns.

Third, gerrymandering in some communities, especially for local office, limits Hispanic political representation. For example, some Kansas counties drawn county commission lines that divide more concentrated Hispanic neighborhoods across multiple districts, sometimes using questionably legal non-contiguous districts. This prevents Hispanic voters from being concentrated enough in any one district to elect a Hispanic candidate.

As Kansas’s Hispanic population grows, the political power that their growth merits won’t just magically appear. Starting at the local level, it will necessitate promoting engagement within that community, changing the electoral calculus of political establishments, and eliminating institutional barriers to Hispanic representation. It won’t happen overnight, but if demographics are destiny it will happen.

Vaccines and masks a must to beating COVID Shifting away from his Afghan debacle, President Joe Biden on Wednesday went back to that other war, COVID-19, with a two-prong attack on the enemy: vaccines and masks. This fight cannot be victorious unless all Americans join together — so we urge Donald Trump, winner of 74 million votes, to be patriotic and get his booster shot before the cameras and urge his followers to follow him. He can even get Tucker Carlson to join him and call it a party.

Pleading to the 30% of eligible Americans 12 and older who haven’t gotten the vaccines, Biden rightly said that those 85 million people are the reservoir for the disease to thrive in. Almost all the

COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are from that group. There is every reason to get the protection and no good excuse to avoid it.

He is using his authority to order that in all nursing homes receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds — just about all of them — employees must be vaccinated, adding to the no jab, no job movement spreading among private employers.

Meantime, the 70% who have gotten the lifesaving shots will wisely start getting their boosters eight months after the completion of their initial round. The start date is Sept. 20, which is eight months since Jan. 20 and Trump and his wife had their vaccinations in January

before the end of his term.

Trump might even get an invite to return to the White House for the shot; Biden, in the name of unity, should welcome that if his predecessor is amenable.

As the majority gets additional protection, it’s always a good time for the unprotected to join in. The main group who can’t are kids under 12, which is why masks in schools are essential. To his further credit, Biden is taking action to stop governors like Florida’s reckless Ron DeSantis from interfering with local schools that want to require masks. The one-two-punch of vaccines and masks are our way — our only way — to defeat COVID-19.

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Reports of targeted Taliban killings fuel Afghans’ fears

LaHarpe VFW member Lonnie Henkle gives a memorial poppy to Shannon Simpson at the Allen County Farmers Market Thursday. “My grandparents always had these when we were kids,” Simpson said. The poppies are a fundraiser to help local veterans.

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said.

The event is organized in response to the current crisis in Afghanistan.

Several members of the military have discussed their feelings about the situation with her.

“A lot of veterans are angry,” she said.

The current situation doesn’t just affect veterans who served in Afghanistan, she said. Several veterans who served in Vietnam shared comparisons to the two conflicts.

“We did the same thing in Vietnam, the only thing is in Vietnam they had a plan to get civilians out first,” Yetzbacher said. “When you are in the military, you take care of your brothers and sisters.

You don’t leave anyone behind.”

Saturday’s event will give them a chance to talk, share their experiences and feelings, and access resources if they need additional counseling or other services.

It will be limited to veterans and their families, to help them feel more comfortable discussing sensitive matters.

After the event, Yetzbacher will write a summary and assessment to send to Sen. Jerry Moran. She wants the senator to understand how veterans in Allen County feel about the situation. Moran is the Republican ranking member of the Veterans’ Affairs committee.

Other VFWs in the region have organized similar events, she said.

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that they have what they have.”

Griffeth also said he believes every taxpayer should be outraged about the billions of dollars in military equipment now in the hands of the Taliban.

“The Taliban said they won the war. If you look at it monetarily — what we spent compared to what they spent — and how the war went, they probably did.”

GRIFFETH, who grew up in Iola and played basketball for Allen Community College upon graduating from high school in 2003, joined the military when he was 23 years old. He served six years in the Army as part of the 89D Explosive Ordnance Disposal, more commonly known as a bomb tech. He was stationed in Afghanistan with the 705th company from November 2010 to November 2011.

He’s now medically retired from the military, from permanent joint damage caused by hauling a massive pack full of explosives up and down mountains, along with malnutrition and four IED blasts that leveled him to the ground.

He’s recently spoken with other veterans who also are disappointed about the recent turn of events. Many wonder if their efforts were in vain, or if they made a difference.

Griffeth, though, isn’t surprised at the out-

The Taliban said they won the war. If you look at it monetarily — what we spent compared to what they spent — and how the war went, they probably did.

— Kyle Griffeth, U.S. Army

come. The Taliban were dangerous, but working with the Afghan National Army was always unpredictable, he said.

He shared a story, which he said happened during his time of service, of an Australian military force who were teaching members of the ANA how to use a large machine gun mounted to a Humvee.

During the training, the ANA members “turned around and shot the whole team that was training them.”

“Most of the ANA are only trustworthy day by day,” he said.

He also worries what will happen to the civilians, interpreters and others who helped American military forces and their allies.

“Obviously, they’re going to have a target on their back. The Taliban says they’re not going to do that, but I wouldn't take them at their word,” Griffeth said.

“I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like now.”

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Reports of targeted killings in areas overrun by the Taliban mounted Friday, fueling fears that they will return Afghanistan to the repressive rule they imposed when they were last in power, even as they urged imams to push a message of unity at Friday’s prayers.

Terrified that the new de facto rulers would commit such abuses and despairing for their country’s future, thousands have raced to Kabul’s airport and border crossings following the Taliban’s stunning blitz through Afghanistan.

Others have taken to the streets to protest the takeover — acts of defiance that Taliban fighters have violently suppressed.

The Taliban say they have become more moderate since they last ruled Afghanistan

Afghans raise the national flag of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, despite the presence of Taliban fighters around them on Thursday. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)

in the 1990s and have pledged to restore security and forgive those who fought them in the 20 years since a U.S.led invasion. Ahead of Friday prayers, leaders urged imams to use sermons to appeal for unity and urge people not to flee the country.

But many Afghans are skeptical, fearing that the Taliban will erase the gains, especially for women, achieved in the past two decades. An

Amnesty International report provided more evidence Friday that undercut the Taliban’s claims they have changed.

The rights group said that its researchers spoke to eyewitnesses in Ghazni province who recounted how the Taliban killed nine ethnic Hazara men in the village of Mundarakht on July 4-6. It said six of the men were shot, and three were tortured to death. Hazaras are Shi-

ite Muslims who were previously persecuted by the Taliban and who made major gains in education and social status in recent years.

The brutality of the killings was “a reminder of the Taliban’s past record, and a horrifying indicator of what Taliban rule may bring,” said Agnes Callamard, the head of Amnesty International.

The rights group warned that many more killings may have gone unreported because the Taliban cut cellphone services in many areas they’ve captured to prevent images from being published.

Separately, Reporters without Borders expressed alarm at the news that Taliban fighters killed the family member of an Afghan journalist working for German’s Deutsche Welle on Wednesday.

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city,” Slaugh told the Register. “But since they haven’t, I’d prefer the city give up the whole operation to the county.

“It’s more costly to try to run two services,” Slaugh explained. “At least it would be for the city. This would put us back in the same situation where we were 10 years ago.”

Part of the city’s decision may hinge on what sort of agreement is reached between the county and American Medical Response (AMR), a national ambulance service company that operates ambulances in cities and counties in 39 states across the country, including Linn County in eastern Kansas.

Mayor Jon Wells noted the contract between the county and AMR — details have yet to be worked out — may necessitate some sort of EMS crew remain at IFD, such as if a backup unit is needed during emergencies, or if multiple ambulances are dispatched simultaneously for long-distance patient transfers.

County commissioners voted, 2-1, to pursue a contract with AMR, with Jerry Daniels and David Lee in favor, and Bruce Symes opposed.

Symes said he preferred extending Iola’s contract.

SO WHAT are the options for the Fire Department?

Slaugh envisions a department staffed to fight fires and handle other emergencies around town, similar to the Chanute Fire Department.

In Chanute, a 17man fire department handles primarily firefighting duties, but does offer support on certain ambulance calls.

(Ambulances in Chanute and elsewhere in Neosho County are under the direction of Neosho County Regional Medical Center.)

Slaugh said it’s highly unlikely for the Council to make Iola’s fire service a volunteer department.

“There have been a few people who have asked that question,” he said. “But once

you establish a service people are accustomed to receiving, it’s very difficult to go back to a volunteer department, particularly with the number of businesses we have here.”

Likewise, Mayor Wells told the Register he envisioned Monday’s talks to center on a paid fire service.

AMBULANCE service for the city and county has been an occasionally touchy subject for more than a decade.

For the last quarter of the 20th century, Iola and Allen County worked together in a cooperative agreement, in which the county was responsible for EMS, while ambulances in Iola were run by Iola firefighters in exchange for an annual subsidy.

A split occurred in 2009 after county commissioners announced their intentions to assume all EMS responsibilities for the county.

In response, the Iola officials started up a city-only ambulance service.

Wary of the costs of running duplicated services, including having ambulance stations just a few blocks from each other, the two sides reached agreement on a contract in 2013 in which Iola over-

saw countywide EMS, a system that’s been in place since 2014.

The original contract was scheduled to expire at the end of 2020, but was extended a year amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

MONDAY’S 6 p.m.

City Council meeting will be in the New Community Building at Iola’s Riverside Park.

Council members also will discuss a $142,449 Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks grant to extend the Mo-Pac walking

and biking trail from near Iola High School to beyond the new Iola Elementary School site on the east edge of town; and a request from Thrive Allen County to conduct a labor study for “better understanding the current health and well-being of its labor force.”

Council members also are expected to ratify the city’s 2022 budget, which is supported by a property tax mill levy of about 48 mills, nearly identical to what taxpayers paid this year.

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LOS ANGELES – The rise of the delta variant has upended previous optimistic projections of herd immunity and a return to normal life, with many health experts believing mask mandates and tougher vaccine requirements will be needed in the coming months to avoid more serious coronavirus surges.

While there are promising signs that California’s fourth COVID-19 surge may be starting to flatten, the fall and winter will bring new challenges as people stay indoors more often and vaccine immunity begins to wane.

The rapid spread of delta among the unvaccinated — and the still relatively small number of “breakthrough” cases among the vaccinated — shows that significant increases in inoculations will help stop the spread. In fact, officials are now preparing to provide booster shots to those who already got their first series of vaccinations, saying the extra dose is needed to keep people protected.

Still, “the vaccines themselves are not going to likely be sufficient.

And during times of increased transmission, we’ll need other tools available to protect all of us — and particularly those who, at this time, can’t be vaccinated, like our children,” said UC San Francisco epidemiologist Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo.

California is in a better position than other states because of relatively higher vaccination rates, and there is little appetite for a return to stay-at-home orders. But in settings where more people gather, strategies that can be used to keep COVID-19 controlled include ensuring people are either vaccinated, have a recent negative coronavirus test or both, Bibbins-Domingo said.

“There will be a time when we have

going to have to be prepared that if we’re in an environment when there’s more virus around, that it is sensible that we have another layer of protection — and that will be masks,” Bibbins-Domingo said.

“And I don’t think we’re going to be totally throwing our masks away anytime soon, frankly.”

Policies like mandatory masking and requiring vaccines or regular testing in workplaces “are going to be very important if we are ever going to get over this pandemic,” said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, a medical epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

It was once thought that as soon as 70% to 85% of a population was vaccinated, communities would reach a high enough level of herd immunity that the threat of COVID-19 would be mostly behind us. Now, “that’s out the window,” Bibbins-Domingo said, and computer models suggest the coronavirus will be with us for the foreseeable future. “Almost certainly, we’ll be dealing with it this winter.”

How long the pandemic will last depends on any new variants that emerge, the ability to adapt the vaccines to them and temporary measures that may be needed to tamp down surges, Bibbins-Domingo said.

There are several key factors that have altered what we previously understood about COVID-19 and underscore just how far off the end of the pandemic still is.

The first is the emergence of the delta variant — at least twice as transmissible as the previous dominant variant, Alpha, and capable of producing a viral load up to 1,000 times greater in the upper throat.

“The big challenge with delta is that it’s so much more transmis-

Dr. Vickie L. Cartwright, Broward County Public Schools interim superintendent, visits Dolphin Bay Elementary School in Mirarmar on the first day of school, Wednesday. (JOE CAVARETTA/SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL/TNS) sible than the original strain. ... And really, this is possibly an unprecedented change in terms of the amount of the” shift in the so-called R-naught, or the basic reproductive rate of the coronavirus, Shane Crotty, a vaccine researcher at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, recently told a forum at UC San Francisco.

Originally, a person infected with the ancestral strain of the coronavirus spread it to 2.5 other people on average.

But the delta variant is estimated to spread to five to eight other people. That means that within 10 cycles of transmission of the virus, in a population with no immunity to the virus, instead of fewer than 10,000 people being infected, more than 60 million will be infected, Dr. Carlos del Rio, an Emory University epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert, said at the same UC San Francisco forum.

This is why vaccine mandates will become more important, especially at places of employment, del Rio said. “I think the going phrase that we’re hearing over and over is: ‘No jab, no job.’ And I think mandates are going to make a big difference,” he said.

Second, breakthrough infections — in which fully vaccinated people become infected with COVID-19 — are still uncommon but no lon-

ger rare. “I think vaccinated persons are much safer than unvaccinated persons, but they’re not completely safe. Breakthrough infections occur often enough with delta that you will see them,” del Rio said.

While a vaccinated person with a breakthrough infection can transmit the virus to others, he or she is likely to be infectious for a significantly fewer number of days, del Rio said.

“And therefore your contribution to transmission is much lower if you’re vaccinated than if you’re not.”

And that’s why wearing masks indoors remains important. Del Rio said many infectious-diseases doctors never stopped masking indoors, even after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it wasn’t necessary for fully vaccinated people.

Vaccinated people with breakthrough infections have much more mild illnesses because the body is already equipped to defend itself against the virus and likely can avoid lung illnesses or hospitalization, said Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, a deputy health officer for Orange County. But without prior immunity, the virus can lodge deeper into the body and cause more severe illness, eventually making it very difficult to breathe.

In Los Angeles Coun-

ty in April, fully vaccinated people accounted for 5% of all coronavirus cases; by July, they accounted for 30%. But fully vaccinated people, who now account for 55% of L.A. County residents of all ages, continue to be well-protected against hospitalization.

Unvaccinated older adults — age 50 and above — are 12 times more likely to be hospitalized than their vaccinated counterparts, and unvaccinated younger adults are 25 times more likely to be hospitalized than those who are fully vaccinated in that age group.

Federal officials also now say there’s evidence that the effectiveness of vaccines to protect against mild and moderate illness decreases over time.

A preliminary study from the Mayo Clinic that reviewed vaccine effectiveness against infection among 80,000 vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals found that it declined over time — from 76% to 42% for those who got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and from 86% to 76% for those who got the Moderna vaccine, according to CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.

There also are reports from Israel and elsewhere that suggest an increased risk of severe disease in people who were among the first to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Walensky said.

That’s why officials signaled a federal plan, pending a review by the Food and Drug Administration, to offer COVID-19 booster shots to fully vaccinated adults for those inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines eight months after having received the second dose, beginning Sept. 20. Boosters likely will also be needed for people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Decreasing efficacy of the vaccines could mean “we need to start shifting our thinking from eradication and disease elimination in COVID anytime soon to more disease management,” del Rio said.

Finally, there’s emerging evidence underscoring how relying on a past COVID-19 infection, rather than vaccination, may leave people vulnerable to reinfection.

A study conducted in Kentucky found that among those previously infected with the coronavirus in 2020, unvaccinated residents had more than twice the odds of being reinfected with the coronavirus than people who were fully vaccinated.

And the latest data continue to demonstrate that unvaccinated people are, on the whole, significantly more likely to be infected. In California, between Aug. 9 and 15, unvaccinated residents were being infected at a rate of 51 cases for every 100,000 unvaccinated people a day. That’s more than six times worse than the rate for vaccinated people, which was 7.6 cases for every 100,000 residents.

Unvaccinated children — some too young to be eligible — are also at greater risk of illness if their families haven’t received their shots. At Children’s Hospital of Orange County, officials have noticed a pattern in which “the children who are hospitalized for COVID are unvaccinated and their families are also unvaccinated,” Chinsio-Kwong said.

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The country music duo Southerland, featuring the talents of South Carolina’s Matt Chase and Georgia’s Chris Rogers, will serve as the opening act.

THIS YEAR’S FarmCity Days celebration will not have a carnival, as organizers reported earlier this month, after being unable to secure a carnival company.

A nationwide labor shortage, exacerbated by a cutback in visas for foreign workers, has led to several carnivals struggling to stay afloat amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The bulk of the activities, including a parade, will be held in downtown Iola on Oct. 16.

In a related matter, Elsmore’s Ruritan Club president announced this week the 2021 Els-

more Rural Town Day celebration has been canceled due to resurgence of COVID. Ruritan President Johnny Gillham said club members have

grown concerned about the potential spread of the coronavirus in a county with a vaccination rate of under 50%.

“Our club does not want to hold an event

that could further spread COVID, especially crowd activities held inside City Hall,” Gillham wrote in a statement posted on social media.

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By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

ST. JOSEPH, The Kansas City Chiefs have been required to make changes to their coaching staff over the years, the natural byproduct of success, as top assistants such as Doug Pederson and Matt Nagy got hired away for better jobs elsewhere.

This past offseason, though, Andy Reid made some changes that seemed unnecessary at first glance.

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MORAN — Who says you can’t go home again?

Just one year after her old classmate (and former Iola High girls basketball coach) Becky Carlson returned to coach at her alma mater, Marmaton Valley High’s Jamie Cole is doing the same.

Cole, along with Carlson,

is a part of Marmaton Valley’s Class of 1976.

She’s returning to Moran this year to become the Wildcats’ head volleyball coach.

“They told me they had a need for a coach,” Cole said.

“I thought, ‘OK, I’d love to do it.’”

Unlike Carlson, whose coaching career kept her largely in Kansas, Cole saw her path diverge a bit.

After college, she coached and taught at Elkhart five years, before moving to Colorado.

Cole then spent the next 30 years in parks and recreation services, before an even more adventurous move beckoned.

Cole moved to Singapore.

“I just decided I wanted to do something different,” she said.

There, Cole worked at an

international school, in the athletic department, where she coached basketball, volleyball and became head of water play for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds.

“That’s the best job ever,” Cole chuckled. “Those kids are always excited to come to school.”

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Basketball star finds another passion: helping stutterers

By MICHAEL JENSEN The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Michael Kidd-Gilchrist’s basketball career can sound like a fairy tale. A McDonald’s All-American in high school in New Jersey, national player of the year, and co-MVP of the McDonald’s game itself.

On to Kentucky where KiddGilchrist didn’t just start as a freshman, he helped Kentucky win an NCAA title.

Next stop, NBA, where KiddGilchrist was the No. 2 overall draft choice, chosen by Michael Jordan himself.

“It was kind of everything that …”

Here, Kidd-Gilchrist paused for a second. “... like, as a person who stutters, that I didn’t want,” Kidd-Gilchrist said. “As crazy as that sounds.”

Each milestone meant literal spotlights hauled into

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist TNS PHOTO the room, cameras focused on every word. University of Kentucky basketball is one of the great fishbowls in sports. For star players, all your words matter. The Final Four ... way more cameras and tape recorders. Moving on to the NBA? High draft status guaranteed lengthy inter-

views with teams, your words picked apart.

Kidd-Gilchrist was not complaining about any of this. He kept reaching his goals, quickly. They just came with this price tag often only he could see.

“It’s the difference between my life and my career,”

Kidd-Gilchrist said. “Looking back, I don’t know how I got through all that stuff. …

Sad, lonely, frustrated, mad. I went through all that.”

About to turn 28 years old in September, Kidd-Gilchrist has had a productive and profitable NBA career, 446 games played over eight seasons, 356 games started. Not an All-Star run, with serious injuries often part of the package, just as he was hitting his prime. (News alert during his fourth season: “Charlotte Hornets forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist suffered a torn labrum after dislocating his shoulder during Feb. 10′s game against the Indiana Pacers. He will not return this season.”)

He had five seasons averaging at least 9 points a game, and five with at least 5 rebounds a game. A career not really defined by numbers, though. Ask those who

worked closest with KiddGilchrist as a pro, they might talk about a grounded person, a teammate who took every single loss to heart.

“At the end of the season, he wrote a thank-you note to each member of the staff,” said one former Charlotte assistant.

“I still have mine. He literally bought a Hallmark card. Probably a first and only …”

Kidd-Gilchrist, raised in Somerdale, Camden County, now living in Charlotte with his wife and two children, has come to define his stuttering as a way to see the world as it is, not as it should be.

When you’re 8, 9, 10 years old and the words struggle to make it out, what you feel right then, he said, is … lonely. Nobody else in class is stuttering. The words keep flying all around you.

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Shunned from Olympics, Richardson gets crack at Tokyo medalists

By CALLIE CAPLAN Dallas Morning News

BUT

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(fourth), Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambungji (sixth) and American Teahna Daniels (seventh).

And there will be the chance for Richardson — albeit on a smaller stage with Olympic redemption still three years away — to prove her bold, brash, soaring stardom would’ve contended with the best this summer.

A press conference set for Friday marked her first media interview since she told NBC’s Today show in early July that she ingested marijuana at the trials to cope with the “emotional panic” of

learning about her biological mother’s death.

But Richardson hasn’t stayed quiet the last couple of months, even while half a world from her Olympic dream.

Soon after the first rounds of the 100 meters races finished in Tokyo, Richardson tweeted: “Missing me yet?”

After the final, she lauded the Jamaican sweep and “powerful, strong Black women dominating the sport.”

Richardson’s personal-best 100 meters time of 10.72 seconds, which she logged in April, would’ve ranked second in the Olympic final.

Thompson-Herah set an Olympic record with 10.61 seconds in her victory, breaking the longstanding mark of Richardson’s sprinting role model, Florence Griffith-Joyner.

Fraser-Pryce, whom many expected to be Richardson’s top rival in Tokyo, finished in 10.74 seconds with Jackson (10.76) close behind.

Richardson almost assuredly missed at least another silver medal, too.

Though her suspension ended before Olympic competition started, USA Track and Field declined to include Richardson on its 4x100

Nadal withdraws from U.S. Open; season over MADRID (AP) — The U.S. Open lost some more star power Friday — Rafael Nadal is gone, undone by a chronic foot injury that will sideline him for the rest of the season.

His announcement further depletes the year’s last major tennis tournament, with Roger Federer already out as well as last year’s champion, Dominic Thiem.

Nadal’s absence also clears one more possible hurdle for Novak Djokovic, who now resumes his bid for a calendar-year Grand Slam without one of his longtime rivals in the men’s draw at Flushing Meadows.

“I am very sorry to announce that I won’t be able to keep playing tennis during the 2021 season,” Nadal said in a video on social media. “But, as you know, I have been suffering too much with my foot for the last year now and I missed a lot of

important events for me.”

Federer needs knee surgery and said last weekend he would

not play in New York.

Thiem said this week he is ending his season after injuring his right wrist in June.

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didn’t push back or protest her suspension after the news cycle settled and the outcry from celebrities, politicians and fans quieted.

And her budding stardom didn’t disappear, either.

She starred in a Beats

by Dre ad that doubled as a debut of Kanye West’s new song “No Child Left Behind” and premiered during Game 6 of the NBA Finals.

She prepared to also enter the 200 meters race at the Prefontaine Classic, which will include fellow American stars Allyson Felix and Gabby Thomas (Tokyo bronze medalist).

And she posted a TikTok on Wednesday to flash her hairstyle transformation — from natural afro to extended blonde and blue waves — and new mindset before her return.

“I took some time off to rest,” Richardson mouthed in the clip, mimicking a Nicki Minaj speech. “And now it’s game time, [expletive].”

THE two-month absence was rare for Richardson, who raced yearround in high school, winning eight state titles with Carter and running with DeSoto Nitro Track Club each summer. Then in 2019, she transitioned directly from her national-champion freshman year at LSU to the pro-

fessional circuit.

But one stretch in Richardson’s past set precedent for a breakout after time off.

During her freshman year of high school, her youth coach and father figure, Byron Kirk, held her out of the Carter season while she healed a nagging hip injury.

Over months of their individual work together, Richardson refined her sprinting form because Kirk said she “used to run like a chicken,” trying to plant her feet down as fast as she could, rather than emphasizing the push off her back foot and extending her front leg on each stride.

She lifted weights to increase her explosivity as a 14 year old who barely measured fivefeet tall because Kirk wanted her to “run like you’re six-feet tall and be as strong as if you’re trying to block a 300-pound dude who’s trying to tackle the quarterback.”

And she deepened her resolve to win after watching her peers compete and advance without her.

“When she came out of the gym and hit the track,” Kirk remembered of Richardson from her sophomore year on, “couldn’t nobody in the country beat her running.”

Could Richardson’s exclusion from the Olympics provide a similar motivation?

Viewers — and her would-be Olympic rivals — will find out soon.

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Or is it?

This weekend, the 21-year-old Dallas native will get as close to a rematch as possible.

At the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday in Eugene, Ore., Richardson will race for the first time since she tested positive for marijuana at the U.S. track and field Olympic trials, received a 30-day suspension for the doping violation and was disqualified from the Olympic team.

At Hayward Field — in the same stadium she wowed America two weeks before her suspension became public news — Richardson will run against a 100 meters field almost identical to the group she likely would have faced in Tokyo.

There will be the three Jamaican medalists: Elaine Thompson-Herah (gold), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (silver) and Shericka Jackson (bronze). There will be three other Olympic finalists: Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou

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Gilchrist said.

It’s natural to wonder if all the traits learned on a basketball court carry over, but KiddGilchrist doesn’t go for such an easy trope. He bats it aside like a soft jumper.

“It held me back,” Kidd-Gilchrist said of the stuttering.

“He internalized it,” said one of his early coaches, Aaron Burt.

“I was one who didn’t know how much he internalized it.”

Now, Kidd-Gilchrist has begun this fast break in the other direction, realizing how he wanted to make this life more meaningful.

In the COVID-19 bubble last season, missing his family, he began telling himself, “I’ve got to do more.” But what? It had to be a personal discovery.

“I knew he would come to this place,” said one friend about him landing on this particular field.

He isn’t retired, he wants to make clear. Not currently on a team, after only a brief stint with the Knicks last season, Kidd-Gilchrist suggested there are irons in the fire: “I am fully committed to the game of basketball.”

There’s just this other full commitment. This year, Kidd-Gilchrist founded Change & Impact, Inc., a stuttering initiative with a stated mission to improve access to health care and expand services and resources for those who stutter.

“I am personally on this mission to get speech therapy covered by the insurance firms,” Kidd-Gilchrist said.

“Some insurance companies don’t cover what they call developmental communication disorders,” said Temple professor Kim Sabourin, now part of Kidd-Gilchrist’s informal advisory group.

“Their excuse is, that’s covered by education. … I used to be in private practice. I tried to take insurance, it ended up bankrupting me. One girl was allowed eight visits per lifetime by her insurance. Sometimes there is a dollar cap. Some have needed some medical diagnosis, like after a stroke or an accident.”

Even getting everyone to agree to a definition of terms is impossible. Yes, KiddGilchrist knows the most famous stutterer

“I don’t know when it started, I don’t know how it started. But it made me me. I don’t know me without stuttering.”

— NBA star Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, a lifelong stutterer

Speak Now camp director Kim Sabourin speaks with Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and campers. THE PHILADELHIA INQUIRER/ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/TNS

in the nation is the current President of the United States. But he’s not trying to barge into the Oval Office to talk to Joe Biden just yet. Policy is not generally changed that way.

Through an initial connection, KiddGilchrist reached out to Joseph Donaher, the academic and research program director of the Center for Childhood Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

“I had no idea he was starting a foundation,’’ said Donaher, who also eventually introduced Kidd-Gilchrist to Sabourin. “He was basically interviewing me.”

Donaher became one of Kidd-Gilchrist’s advisers. He’s worked with a number of celebrities who stutter, Donaher said. “No one had this kind of commitment.”

What is common, Donaher said, is the selfdoubt that hits even top-level athletes who stutter. Online ridicule lingers. (One NFL player showed Donaher the YouTube comments he got from draft night, still saved on his phone.) Donaher said he worked with a former client who was an NBA player and more of a shooting specialist. This client said he’d look at his stats at halftime and if he was his team’s leading scorer, “He would get upset.

He knew he’d have to do the press conference afterward.”

“I don’t know when it started, I don’t know how it started,” KiddGilchrist said of his early stuttering. “But it made me me. I don’t know me without stuttering.”

He figures it takes maturity to get past all the negative thoughts, any worries about outside opinions. He wants to speak up. How many people, he said, walk around hiding something?

“I’m just tapping into this whole new avenue and field,” KiddGilchrist said. “I knew if I didn’t do that right now, it would always be a what-if ?”

‘I’m going to fail every day’

There was no introduction.

The Speak Now campers knew an NBA player was coming in, and knew why.

Kidd-Gilchrist, 6-foot-6, still looking like he’s in playing shape, walked into a classroom on Temple’s Ambler campus and quickly slid into a seat. He began helping a couple of boys with the collages they were creating, grabbing some scissors to cut a photo out of a magazine. KiddGilchrist asked if anyone had any glue, was handed a stick.

There were nine campers in the room, ages 11 to 18, most from the Philadelphia area. The day camp is designed to be a place where kids can come together and learn about stuttering and, its camp director said later, “learn how to become more independent in their choices and decisions in reaching their communication goals, and also to build support and friendship from others.”

Every day, adult mentors came in.

“That’s important,” said Sabourin, the camp director, a Temple professor and specialist in stuttering treatment.

“To see people with some stuttering in their

speech speak is really important. You never see the famous people who stutter actually stutter.”

Kidd-Gilchrist asked a boy his name. The boy gave it, then asked KiddGilchrist his name.

“Michael Kidd,’’ KiddGilchrist said, simplifying it. “Are you from Philly?”

The boy was.

“Solid,” KiddGilchrist said.

(The specialists note that saying your name often is a tough one, simply because of how it sounds to outsiders if you don’t get your own name out cleanly.)

Kidd-Gilchrist had just spoken to parents and a couple of grandparents of campers in another room.

“I’m going to fail every day,” Kidd-Gilchrist told them. “But I’m going to get up. I’m going to talk.”

It was a lonely place as a child, he told them, using that word again. Going into a different room, working on exercises with an adult who didn’t seem 100% engaged, didn’t seem to care. …

That was like class, but worse than class.

Eventually, at Kentucky, he found a speech therapist thoroughly

engaged. (He told Donaher that it had been a condition of his recruiting, that he would only consider schools that would provide a speech language pathologist for him to work with.)

The blocks came less frequently, the words arriving a bit easier, and when they didn’t, there were techniques to help.

Tapping on the ground with an Apple AirPods case, to help dislodge a word, still helps.

“I want kids who do stutter to look at it as a superpower,” KiddGilchrist said to the parents.

Part of what he meant is seeing the world with some empathy, and seeing who returns that empathy. Kidd-Gilchrist used the word patience as a key trait he looked for in his friends.

“That’s a weird thing,

from this angle — I had to know who was who, as a real friend,” KiddGilchrist said.

Later, Kidd-Gilchrist told the campers who he was taking classes online, looking to get into the speech language pathology field himself.

“I’m all in,’’ he said later.

After making the collages, Kidd-Gilchrist and the campers went into another room, designed as an Escape Room. Solve a clue, find the next one.

“She got it,” KiddGilchrist said midway through. “She got it.”

A camper read the next clue, “You found the red herring. Look behind who’s gathering.”

A key was soon located to unlock the door.

They were out of the room.

‘Never saw a motor like he had’

Aaron Burt has known Kidd-Gilchrist since Kidd-Gilchrist was in seventh grade, a couple of years before Kidd-Gilchrist began playing for Burt as part of the Team Final AAU program.

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coach at Indiana, opening up a job once held by current Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy. Rather than simply hire someone to replace McCullough, Reid decided to move wide receivers coach Greg Lewis into the role — even though his work with Tyreek Hill and the rest of the Chiefs’ pass-catching crew has been a big reason for their offensive success.

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“I want guys to have the opportunity to grow,” Reid said.

“Greg actually came to me about wanting the challenge of coaching the running backs,” he continued, “and as you guys know about how I feel about Greg, he’s very, very intelligent, has a great feel for the game, did a phenomenal

job with the wide receivers. And now he’s able to learn that other side — the protection side and all that goes into coaching the running backs and the run game, and still give them tips in the pass game to make them even better than what they are now.”

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Just maybe, Bleymaier will be able to pull something out of them.

“It’s a little unique with Greg still being here, Coach Lewis being just down the hall,” Bleymaier said. “I go to him daily for questions, advice, our guys go to him. I’m the new wide receiver coach, but we kind of just gained an extra receiver coach because Greg is still there, and the guys feel free to go talk to him as well.

So it’s been seamless at least for me.”

As for the running backs room, Lewis brings a unique skillset that could push Clyde Edwards-Helaire and the rest of his buddies to a whole new level.

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ing the ball as running it, and Lewis should be able to help them with releases, refining their routes and even blocking downfield.

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“I don’t see it as a challenge. I see all of us as football coaches,” Lewis said as the Chiefs wrapped up camp at Missouri Western State University, and looked forward to their second preseason game in Arizona on Friday night.

“For me,” Lewis said, “it’s understanding the different aspects of the game. ... Obviously, I haven’t played running back, but I understand football and I’ve been around great players, great coaches, and I think I am going to bring some more insight to just help them develop and help us be better as a group.”

Help: Kidd-Gilchrist reflects on struggles with stuttering Continued from B6

never seen a kid — besides Dajuan Wagner — love basketball the way he loved basketball,” Burt said of KiddGilchrist. “Every day, both ends of the floor.

That’s when I knew he was going to be special.

I never saw a motor like he had on a kid that young.”

It’s easy to view KiddGilchrist’s decision to play high school basketball for New Jersey powerhouse St. Patrick’s through the lens of bigtime hoops. It was. Kyrie Irving was a year ahead of Kidd-Gilchrist there.

Other Jersey greats had been there on their way to the NBA. “I wanted something different for myself,” Kidd-Gilchrist said. “As much as I love home, home had taken my dad away from me. My dad was shot at a young age.

I wanted to be my own light. I wanted to carry a legacy.”

Nope, not a fairy tale life.

“He was always the guy you looked for — something was wrong, it’s going to be all right,” Burt said. “He was always that guy. He was that uplifting person.”

Within the confines of the team, he talked.

“He was never teased,” Burt said.

“It was just Mike. He was never shy about talking.”

There were sacrifices required, not just by him, just getting to St. Patrick’s up in Union County.

“I would wake up around 4:15 a.m., drive to the Hamilton train station for a 5:30 train,” said Kidd-Gilchrist, meaning his mother usually drove him there. “All the credit to my extended family, holding it down, even trusting me.”

Here’s an easy way to say it all paid off: KiddGilchrist has earned over $72 million in his NBA career. His desire to give back comes with knowledge that he can do so.

“I want to help move the needle,” KiddGilchrist said.

Leaving the camp just before noon, he had an afternoon flight to catch, to meet up with a businessman in Texas who also was a stutterer and heavily involved in the kinds of initiatives Kidd-Gilchrist is building. In addition to meeting medical scientific specialists, KiddGilchrist is being introduced to politicians who can push on the

policy front.

“He seems to be enjoying his new role. It’s a much kinder, gentler community,” Sabourin, the Speak Now camp director, said of the stuttering treatment field.

“We appreciate your NBA career. However, we value you for the person you are, as opposed to valuing you for the games that you played.”

“I’m on a mission,” Kidd-Gilchrist said.

“This feels way better than any basketball game.”

His career can’t be dismissed, though. A key part of this path.

How would he describe Michael Kidd-Gilchrist as an NBA player? Is there a way to sum up what his place in the league was?

“From my career, as a whole?”

Yeah.

“Damn, that’s a tough one.”

He paused for a bit, not blocked in his speech, just thinking through how it all added up. Maybe that was an unfair question, maybe the question should be ...

Kidd-Gilchrist interrupted that thought.

“If you never quit,” he said, “you never fail.”

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of a national pastime in Singapore, Cole explained, because of the Southeast Asia island nation’s tropical climate.

Cole decided to return to her native southeast Kansas earlier this year.

“My parents (Moran’s Jim and Anna Cole) are getting older, and I have lots of great-nieces and great-nephews here,” she said. “I want to spend more time with my family, and I’ve been gone for a long time.”

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Cole, coaches the Wildcat boys basketball team, and serves as an assistant coach on the football squad.

Cole is joined on the sidelines by another familiar face.

Hannah Endicott attended high school at Marmaton Valley and Iola High, graduating from IHS in 2014.

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The MV volleyball season starts Aug. 28.

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he first NASCAR Cup Series road course race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was full of drama — for AJ Allmendinger, who led only the last two laps of overtime to secure his second career Cup Series victory Sunday, and for those who fell short of the cherished trophy in an action-packed final few laps.

Denny Hamlin was leading the race on the final restart with two laps to go before being hit from behind by rookie Chase Briscoe in Turn 10, just before Briscoe was supposed to serve a penalty for running off-course earlier in the lap. Instead of winning, Hamlin finished 23rd and Briscoe, 26th.

With those two cars derailed, Allmendinger moved up from third place to take the lead and hold off Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson by .929-second.

Before the race, Allmendinger shrugged off any suggestions that he shouldn’t be considered an odds-on favorite despite his impressive road course background. This season he’s competing fulltime in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Kaulig Racing and Sunday marked only his fourth NASCAR Cup Series start of the year.

But the former open-wheel star has an Indianapolis 500 start, leading 27 laps in a seventh-place finish in 2013 and this iconic track has long been considered hallowed ground by the 39-year old Californian.

“We just won at Indy, what’s up,” Allmendinger yelled toward the grandstands after screaming in excitement on his team radio during his entire victory doughnut celebration in the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet With 11 laps to go, it at Indianapolis’ famed yard appeared Kyle Larson of bricks start/finish line.

“I mean, it was survival would be picking up of the fittest,” Allmendinger his fourth road course said. “We probably had like victory of the year as an eighth, tenth-place car, he held a commanding sped on pit road. I thought we were going to finish 4-second lead on the 12th to 15th and then those field. But a debris restarts were just insane. caution came out “It’s great when you have forcing the team’s hand a car owner that just says, ‘go in pitting or gambling get me trophies’. He doesn’t care if that thing is torn up.” on a better restart As Allmendinger was position. in the midst of his victory celebration, Hamlin walked through the smoke, down Indianapolis pit road to find Briscoe and discuss the incident.

“It’s just lack of awareness,” Hamlin said of Briscoe.

“I agree it’s not on purpose, but my team told me he had a penalty right away and to me, it’s obvious. If you cut the race track and end up in the lead, you’re going to have a penalty.

“Lack of awareness. Race me for a lap. He went right in the back of me. We can’t race that way. I don’t think he did it maliciously. I’ve raced with him for a year now and he’s not that kind of person. Just bad judgement.”

“I can accept it [Briscoe’s explanation to him],” Hamlin continued. “The roles have been reversed a couple times, I mean I’ve been doing this a long time and I’ve been on the giving end of mistakes, so I get it. To me, it’s just a lack of situational awareness. Obviously, you’re going to get a penalty if you go off

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BY THE NUMBERS Average speed of winner: 69.171 mph Time of race: 3 hrs, 20 mins, 59 secs Margin of victory: 0.929 Seconds.

Caution flags: 6 for 25 laps Lead changes: 13 among 11 drivers Lap leaders: W. Byron 1; C. Briscoe 2-13; T. Reddick 14-16; M. McDowell 17; B. Keselowski 18-19; C. Elliott 20-33; T. Reddick 34-36; A. Dillon 37; K. Larson 38-54; D. Hamlin 5562; M. DiBenedetto 63; K. Larson 64-74; D. Hamlin 75-93; Allmendinger 94-95

the race track like he did. I’m not like, furious, it just sucks.”

For his part, Briscoe acknowledged his part of the incident but insisted he did not intentionally wreck Hamlin. He said he was glad to try and sort things out after the race.

“I explained to him that I didn’t even know I had a penalty until I got to Turn 10,” Briscoe said. “If I knew I had a penalty, there was no need for me to even try to pass him for the win.

If I would have known that earlier, I would have done my stopand-go and went on. As I understand it, at the moment in time I could still win the race and I was going for it and got into him accidentally.

“I think at the end [in discussing it) he kind of started to understand. He has been there when you are trying to get your first win and especially in our Playoff situation, you have to do what you have to do.

“That is what I get paid to do and that is what I was trying to do.”

“I’m sorry it ruined his day, that was never my intention,” Briscoe continued. “I don’t want to wreck anyone for the win.

I’ve never done that in my life.”

After winning seven races last season, Hamlin is winless in 2021 with only two races remaining. And his 23rd-place finish cost him the championship points lead he’d held since the second race of the year in February. Briscoe was trying to win his first career NASCAR Cup Series race which is essentially the only thing that could put him in the Playoffs at this point as he is ranked.

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• Capacity: 56,000–137,243 (max.)

Length: 2.0 mi (3.2 km) • Banking: Turns: 18°; Start/Finish: 12°; Backstretch: 5° TRACK FACTS • Groundbreaking took place Sept. 28, 1967. Some 2.5 million yards of dirt were moved to form the D-shaped oval designed by Charles Moneypenny, who previously designed the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. The original layout included infield and exterior roads, which could be combined to form a single 3.1-mile interior/exterior road course, or divided into separate 1.9-mile interior/exterior road courses. The road courses were designed by Formula One great Stirling Moss and are still used on a limited basis for passenger car testing by area law enforcement agencies. The last interior road course race was held in 1984, and the last time the exterior road course was used was in 1973.

• The prime mover in the venture was Lawrence H. LoPatin, a Detroit-area land developer who built the speedway at an estimated cost of $4-6 million.

The saucer-shaped, 18-degree banking provided exciting racing right from the start. The Inaugural Race took place Oct. 13, 1968. The 250-mile Indystyle event posted a purse second at the time only to the Indianapolis 500. Ronnie Bucknum collected $20,088 as the first driver to take the checkered flag.

• Cale Yarborough won the first NASCAR race at the speedway on June 15, 1969, in a thrilling duel with LeeRoy Yarbrough. The two drivers battled door-to-door for most of the final 150 laps. On their final circuit, they touched twice-entering turn one, with Yarbrough brushing the outside wall.

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