The Iola Register, Oct. 22, 2022

Schmidt visits Iola to make case to voters

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Derek Schmidt spelled out Thursday why voters should choose him over his oppo nent, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, in the upcoming Nov. 8 general election.

Schmidt, an Independence native and the Republican nominee, spoke to a group of about 40 at the Iola Com munity Theatre Warehouse during the lunch hour.

Schmidt pointed to three issues he hears about most frequently on the campaign trail: inflation, education and public safety.

“One of the things that has become apparent to me is that there’s a real concern among a lot of Kansas about the direction that our coun try has right now,” Schmidt said. “I hear it from a much wider swath of people than I’ve ever heard it from be fore.”

The largest concerns cen ter on the rising cost of liv ing.

“These are the worst num bers on inflation we’ve had in 40 years,” Schmidt noted.

“Most folks haven’t really dealt with that before, un less you were alive in the 70s and early 80s, so it’s a new, difficult experience for many folks.”

Accordingly, state spend ing is up dramatically, Schmidt continued, as much as 35% when counting feder al dollars sent to state gov ernments in the aftermath of the pandemic.

But even without the fed eral monies, state spending has risen between 25% and 30% over the past four years.

“You can do that if you’re growing in a commensurate manner, but the challenge is our population in this state is largely flat, and has been

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Sigg on the mend

Austin Sigg was burned over 45% of his body

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

When Austin Sigg’s life was hanging in the balance, he could think of only to call his wife, Emily.

“I needed to tell her I love her before I died,” he said.

And for reasons Emily still can’t explain, she answered her phone.

“I never answer my phone at work,” she said. “But when I saw it was from Austin, I did.”

Austin’s voice was faint. “I’m burning,” he said. “And I love you.”

Emily called 911 and dashed to their rural home north of town.

ALMOST SEVEN weeks later, Austin marvels at how “your life can change in a minute.”

“Work was going great, and then in less than a minute my body was engulfed in flames. I thought it was over for me.”

It all began the afternoon of Aug. 30, when Austin, age 35, and his brother Ethan, 24, were working on vehicles at Austin’s business, S5 Ag & Auto. The massive threestall garage is attached to the family home, separated by a firewall. Austin and Emily

and their three children, El liot, 10, Cohen, 6 and Nellie, 5 moved into their new home in November 2021.

AUSTIN can recall the af ternoon vividly. He and his brother were working on separate vehicles when Ethan’s caught fire.

“He was taking the engine out and undid the fuel line,” with the fuel dripping into a pan below. “Then he went to the exhaust pipe and had to use a torch,” catching spilled fuel on fire.

"I’m not blaming Ethan,” he said. “It was a mistake.”

“When Ethan said ‘fire!” I initially thought it wasn’t a big deal and went back to

Iola elementary’s reading night goes to the dogs

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Auri McFadden-Knock, a fourth grader at Iola Elemen tary School, fell in love on Thursday.

The object of her affection was Remy, an 8-month-old Labrador retriever brought to the school by the Allen County Animal Rescue Fa cility (ACARF) for “Paws for a Cause,” a special event that brought students and fam ilies together for a night of reading and animal-themed activities.

Again and again, Auri re turned to pet and hug Remy.

“He’s so beautiful,” Auri cooed as she stroked his black fur. “He just seems like such a sweet boy. He’s my favorite.”

Remy was one of five dogs and two cats ACARF selected for the event. They chose ani mals that love people, shelter director Brittni Israel said. Most of them are used to trav eling and public events, but Thursday’s event with about 300 people was a bit over whelming.

“They’re not used to this many people at once,” Israel said. “Some of them are a lit tle unsure about the crowd.”

Remy, though still a puppy, was selected because he loves people, handler and ACARF employee Nikki Victor said. But as the throng of children and adults walked through the hallway, Remy sat qui et and cautious in a corner. He perked up when Auri re turned for a second round of petting.

Kaiden Jones, a fifth-grad er, and his brother, Gaberi al, a fourth-grader, said they were most excited to see the animals.

“I’m a dog person,” Kaiden said.

“I’m a dog person, too,” Gaberial chimed in.

“We have a cat. I want a dog but my mom said no,” Kaiden added.

And though the dogs got most of the attention, the two cats, Abu and Berlioz, got a little love, too. Cameron Vaughn, a second-grader, set tled in to read a book to Ber lioz.

The event was intended to encourage students to read to the animals, but most stu dents seemed more interested

in petting them.

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Auri McFadden-Knock, a fourth-grader at Iola Elementary School, pets Remy, a dog available for adoption through the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility. Holding Remy is ACARF employee Nikki Victor. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Kansas Republican gubernatorial candidate Derek Schmidt, center, talks with retiring Rep. Kent Thompson at a campaign stop in Iola on Thursday.

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Emily and Austin Sigg are at home after six-plus weeks at KU Medical Center after Austin was severely burned in an accident at work. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN

Fire: ‘I tried to keep calm .... but the panic was taking hold.’

work. Then the next time I turned around the flames were high.”

In the effort to douse the fire with a hose, wa ter sprayed everywhere.

“You can put out a little gas fire with wa ter, but not a big one. It just makes it spread,” he said.

Unfortunately, the garage lacked fire ex tinguishers. “Usually, I have four. But they had expired two months earlier, and I never got around to replacing them.”

“When the flames started getting high, I went over to help. I didn’t want my house to burn down so we let down the jacks on both sides of the car and started to push it out. It was just a little Suzuki, so it was no big deal. We were pushing out the car when my feet slipped on the wet floor, and I land ed face down beside the car in the drain pan of fuel and splashed it out everywhere.”

When the pan was knocked over the spilled fuel caught fire. Aus tin estimates there was about a gallon of oil and gas in the pan.

Austin rolled out of the flames and Ethan quickly began patting out the engulfing flames.

“I was kicking and screaming, and he was using his bare hands to help me.”

Ethan received sec ond-degree burns on his hands from aiding Aus tin.

Austin received 3rd degree burns — the most serious — on his right arm and his lower torso from about midthigh down and 2nd de gree burns on his left arm. His left foot suf fered burns as well as half of his face.

ABOUT 45% of his entire body was burned.

“I remember see ing my right sock was on fire. I took it off and flung it across the room. Today, you can see where it burned the concrete.”

“I think my right shoe had fallen off. Ethan reached and grabbed my left shoe off my foot. It took a lot of courage for Ethan to do that.

Wherever there was clothing — he was wear ing a cotton t-shirt and shorts, shoes and socks — he escaped injury. A hat protected his head. And where he was wear ing a watch, the skin was undisturbed.

“I have this band of good skin there,” he said.

Though Emily thinks it’s morbid, Austin has held on to the clothing he wore that day. He holds up the Dickies brand shorts that are now just short of trans parent. His shoes are a molten black glob. His shirt is more of a sheet from where the para medics cut it off his body. Only the bill re mains of his hat.

After six weeks at the University of Kan sas Medical Center’s burn unit, Austin was released to come home where he continues daily occupational and physical therapy ses sions at Allen County Regional Hospital with physical therapist Drew Mueller and occupa tional therapist Kailey Clark.

After having to re learn how to walk and use his arms since the

accident, Austin has graduated to “range of motion” exercises.

“I still get stuck in positions,” he said. He’s also working on regain ing his strength by do ing simple gripping ex ercises.

“At the hospital in Kansas City I did this grip test and 30 lbs. is all I could do. Now I’m up to 50. Then my broth er grabs ahold and it’s like 140 lbs. and he’s not even trying.”

Austin’s torso is swathed in bandages. His gait is stiff and slow. Picking up items remains a challenge be cause the nerve endings in his fingers are still damaged and extreme ly tender. The slightest pressure can tear the newly forming skin. Af ter sitting for any length of time it’s a challenge to get up. Likewise, it’s a challenge to sit because the newly grafted skin is “tight.”

“I keep breaking the skin open behind my knees because it can’t seem to stretch far enough. It’ll just take time for the skin tissue to build up.”

And sleeping? “It’s a nightmare,” said Aus tin. “I can’t lay a leg on top of the other leg be cause that hurts. And I wear these boots that keep my feet pointed up because otherwise they want to point down.

“I can almost sleep on my back, but that’s where they’ve taken so many skin grafts and it itches like crazy.”

“That’s a good sign,” Emily says encourag ingly. Austin sighs.

Emily changes his bandages every day — a two-hour process.

“My friends were like, how’s your nurse, you know, kind of jok ing about her. And I’d reply, ‘she’s hot,’” said Austin.

THE YOUNG couple have been married 11 years.

Emily is on leave from her “dream job,” of teaching art at Iola High School.

She recalls that after noon as being surreal.

It began with the phone call.

“Austin usually doesn’t call me during the day and usually I don’t answer my phone when at work. Maybe it’s because it was to ward the end of the day that I looked at my phone when it went off. I thought it was weird to be Austin, so I just hap

pened to answer,” she said.

“He said, ‘I’m burned really bad. I need you to come. I love you.’”

“I called 911 and ran out of the school.”

Emily kept Austin on the line while driving the 14 miles home.

Fortuitously, Michael Burnett, Allen County EMS director, was just down the road from the Sigg’s home where he was haying a field, when he heard the 911 call over his radio.

“He took one look at me and called for the he licopters,” Austin said. One for Ethan and an other for Austin.

Once Emily arrived, she stayed by Austin, whose breathing had become shallow and quickened.

“I tried to keep calm and to take deep breaths. The panic was starting to take hold.

The two credit Levi Ballou of the Iola Fire Department for his re sponse to the situation.

“He knew exactly what to do,” Emily said, including administer ing pain medications and intubating Austin once loaded in the am bulance.

With the inside of Austin’s mouth burned, it wasn’t known at the time whether his air ways were as well. Had they swelled, it would have been too late to aid his breathing.

The morning after Austin arrived at KU Med the intubation was removed.

“They lowered the ox ygen and the sedation to see how he would do.

Immediately, he began breathing on his own with no problems,” Em ily said. Altogether, he was on oxygen for less than 24 hours.

Taking care of Aus tin’s burns has been time consuming and painful.

The first 12 days in the hospital, Austin was

heavily sedated and re members nothing.

Even in that state, he underwent physical therapy.

“It began on Day 3,” Emily recalls. “They don’t take days off in PT. It was grueling for Austin, but I trusted what they said.”

After 17 years in the National Guard, Austin said he viewed his re covery as a work order.

“I was like, give me a checklist, what do I have to accomplish to get home to be with my kids.”

To treat his legs, a procedure called an es charotomy was done where long strips of flesh were removed to relieve the pressure from the swelling.

Doctors also placed the skin from cadavers over where his dead skin had been removed as part of the healing process.

“They want to make sure your body will ac cept the skin because they don’t want to waste your own skin if it’s going to be immediate ly rejected,” explained Austin. “They stapled it on in patches. I have pic tures, but you probably don’t want to look,” he teased.

Austin underwent four skin graft surger ies where they removed skin from his upper tor so and placed it on his legs and arms.

One surgery to re move skin from his mid section to place on his left leg and right arm required eight hours.

“There’s this thin line between where my skin was burned and where it’s been grafted,” Aus tin said. “They figure

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with 45% percent of my body burned, anoth er 45% of my skin was needed for grafting.”

The couple shake their heads at the mira cles of medicine.

“A 1-inch patch of skin can be made to cov er a 3- or 4-inch square,” Emily said.

The worst part in Aus tin’s regimen was what is referred to as “tank ing,” which is a surgical table that resembles a pool table that has wa ter pumping through the gutters. The proce dure required scrub bing Austin’s wounds to remove the dead skin to prevent infection.

Because it was so painful, Austin was se dated for the procedure that occurred every oth er day.

“The worst was on my hands,” he said. Aus tin removes a protec tive glove and explains, “there were these little holes in my hands that captured germs and stuff. They would take my hand and just scrub and scrub, including under my cuticles. On one hand, she’d spend 30 minutes.”

Were the nurses not so nice, Austin might be bitter about the expe rience. Instead, he only has words of praise for their dedication.

Emily, too, found pil

lars of strength. A woman whose hus band had been badly burned was also in the burn unit with Emily and Austin.

“He had been burned several weeks before Austin, so she could help prepare me for what to expect,” Emily said.

“She became a moth er to me. If she saw me crying, she’d come give me a hug and sit with me. She helped me through a lot because she understood what I was going through.”

THE NERVES in his hands are slowly repair ing. With one glove off, Austin places his hand on the countertop and grimaces.

“It’s almost unbear ably cold,” he said.

On his right hand, his fingertips are exposed through a glove. On his left, only two — his thumb and his index fin ger — are exposed.

“I’m starting to get some sensation there,” he said.

“In my legs, it’s strange because I can’t really tell if they’re cold or hot.”

That’s because third-degree burns go deep, killing the nerve endings even further below the surface.

A danger in the show er is turning the water too hot and burning his skin or on the opposite end of the spectrum get ting too cold and getting hypothermia.

Austin spent five-plus weeks in the burn unit at KU Med followed by one week in an in patient rehabilitation unit. Forty-six days.

“They said you could expect to stay one day for every percentage of burn,” said Emily.

AUSTIN and Emily think of all the bless ings they’ve encoun tered from the ordeal.

A cousin’s husband who works as a respi ratory therapist at KU Medical Center was there to greet Austin when his medical trans port landed.

Friends and family members were a con stant source of support.

“In my six weeks at the hospital, I spent only one night alone,” he said.

He and Emily decided she would return home to be with the children two nights a week. In her absence, others took her place.

Emily is grateful to Scott Carson, Iola High

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Austin Sigg returns to the garage where he was seri ously burned while working on a vehicle. At right, he shows the neoprene gloves he wears to protect the nerves in his fingertips as they heal.

Pfizer: COVID vaccine will cost $110 to $130 per dose

By TOM MURPHY The Associated Press

Pfizer will charge $110 to $130 for a dose of its COVID-19 vaccine once the U.S. govern ment stops buying the shots, but the drugmak er says it expects many people will continue re ceiving it for free.

Pfizer executives said the commercial pricing for adult doses could start early next year, depending on when the government phases out its program of buying and distributing the shots.

The drugmaker said it expects that people with private health in surance or coverage through public pro grams like Medicare or Medicaid will pay nothing. The Afford able Care Act requires insurers to cover many recommended vaccines without charging any out-of-pocket expenses.

A spokesman said the company also has an in come-based assistance program that helps eligible U.S. residents with no insurance to get the shots.

A Pfizer executive said Thursday that the price reflects increased costs for switching to single-dose vials and commercial distribu tion. The executive, Angela Lukin, said the price was well be low the thresholds “for what would be consid ered a highly effective vaccine.”

Pfizer’s two-shot vac cine debuted in late 2020 and is easily the most common preven tive shot that has been used to fight COVID-19 in the U.S.

More than 375 mil lion doses of the orig inal vaccine, which Pfizer developed with the German drugmak er BioNTech, have been distributed in the U.S., according to the Cen ters for Disease Control and Prevention.

That doesn’t count another 12 million dos es of an updated boost er that was approved earlier this year.

The vaccine brought in $36.78 billion in reve nue last year for Pfizer and was the drugmak er’s top-selling product.

Analysts predict that it will rack up another $32 billion this year, ac cording to FactSet. But they also expect sales to fall rapidly after that.

More than 90% of the adult U.S. population has already received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, ac cording to the CDC. But only about half that population has also re ceived a booster dose.

Sigg: Full recovery from fire will take time

School principal.

“He was just awe some, asking me if there was anything he could do to help me. I told him to just find a really good sub for me. And he did. Claire Mo ran is now teaching my classes, and she is amazing,” Emily said.

The couple noted the help of their parents.

Angie and Mark Lar son, Emily’s parents, frequently kept their grandchildren over night and made several trips to Kansas City.

Austin’s parents, Car la and Jim Metcalf and Dan and Jan Sigg also visited them in Kansas City several times.

Austin credits Mason and Chase Sigg of Sigg Tire in rescuing his business. “They’re tak ing care of my service calls and keeping my customers happy.”

Emily’s sister, Kelsey Johnson, and her hus band Lake, often took care of Emily and Aus tin’s children.

Austin notes the help of Dakota Milner “who came by our place ev ery single day just to check things out.”

“Jake Mueller has kept our lawn mowed. Nick Mueller came over that day and made sure all the vehicles were locked up and put away.”

“Jake and Nick, Co rey Emerson, and Ma son and Chase visited me several times in KC,” Austin said.

Emily recalled how Maegan Emerson “came in and cleaned my whole house one day, including my re

frigerator and all our laundry.”

Rosalyn Lillis, Kelly Sigg’s daughter who lives close to the KC hospital, “was a huge support, bringing us meals, washing our clothes and checking in a lot,” said Emily.

And Becky Carlson

and Mason Sigg are or ganizing Sunday’s golf tournament and raffle at the Allen County Country Club to help benefit Austin and Em ily.

AUSTIN realizes a full recovery will take time.

“My body is still try ing to heal itself and then it’s going to start getting stronger,” he

said.

“I’m looking forward to returning to work and the Guard, though it’s going to be awhile before I can do 100 push-ups.”

Coming home has been a piece of heaven.

“I walked out this morning and yelled to Emily to come join me. ‘Come smell the fall,’ I told her.” And she did.

Help for the Siggs

A fundraiser to help support Austin Sigg’s road to recovery is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Allen County Country Club. Activities include a free-will meal, raffle, auction and golf tournament.

Austin Sigg takes a break on the porch with his daughter, Nellie. A recent haircut by local hairstyl ist Tai Lee, who came to Sigg’s home, was “much appreciated,” he said. “It’s those little things that make such a difference to how I’m feeling about myself.”

Austin Sigg was wearing these shoes during the fire.

The Iola Area Symphony Orches tra will present their Fall Concert at 7 tonight at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center under music director Raul Mun guia. Allen Com munity College Mu sic Director Jeffrey Anderson will play a piano concerto. Admission is a free will donation.

Concert tonight Police reports

Arrest reported Iola police officers arrested Ben Myrick for suspicion of sex ual battery Wednes day in the 800 block of Garfield Road North.

Vehicles collide

Paul W. Nance was westbound on Mon roe Street Oct. 12, when he struck a car driven by Alberto M. Carranza, who was turning onto Mon roe from Washing ton Avenue.

Neither was in jured.

Pickups collide Joseph L. Folk was crossing U.S. 54 while northbound on First Street Oct. 13, when his pickup struck a westbound pickup driven by Ka lan D. Wright. Neither was hurt.

Vehicles collide

Carson Keller was traveling through the Pump N Pete’s carwash parking in the 1700 block of East Street Oct. 15, when he collided with a car driven by Jimmie L. Maloney.

Neither was in jured.

Cell phone stolen

Charles Flying man told Iola police officers Tuesday a cell phone was sto len from an apart ment in the 10 block of North Walnut Street.

Obituaries

Marlene Stephens

Marlene Kathryn Stephens, 84, our much loved mother, wife, sister and friend, passed into heaven to be with Our Lord Jesus Christ on Sept. 18, 2022.

Marlene thrived almost 40 years in the communities of Selma and Kincaid as a farm wife, school bus driver, avid cook, gardener, and Anderson County’s premier home canning activist. We loved her dill pickles.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Steve; her parents, Albert and Bertha Will; and sister, Anna Will.

Marlene is survived by her sisters, Jean Eveatt and Peggy Horn, both of LaJunta, Colo.; daugh ter, Kim Hagman and husband Kelly of Hutchin son; a son, Michael LeBlanc and wife Christina of McPherson; and son, Chris Alan Stephens of Overland Park. She will be missed by her grand children, Levi Winger, Christian Winger (Ashley), Stephanie LeBlanc, Haley Jarvis (Johnny), Zacha ry LeBlanc, Aimee LeBlanc, Reagan Stephens and Alexa Stephens. And, she lived to see the arrival of her first great-grandchild, Kennedy Jarvis.

Memorial services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Kincaid-Selma United Methodist Church in Kincaid. Inurnment will follow in the Kincaid Cemetery.

For the hour prior to the memorial service, they will have coffee and pastries in the church Fellow ship Hall. The family would be honored to have you join them. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Kincaid-Selma United Methodist Church and left in care of Feuerborn Family Funeral Ser vice.

Condolences may be sent to www.feuerbornfu neral.com

Sandra Romine

Sandra Romine, age 61, of Humboldt, died on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022.

She was born on Feb. 6, 1961, in Chanute, to Wayne Homer Romine and Mildred Ina (Laver) Ro mine.

She was preceded in death by her parents and an infant brother, Keith Alan Romine.

Survivors include her brothers, DeWayne and Mike Romine of Humboldt; and nieces and neph ews.

Feuerborn Family Funeral Service of Iola is assisting Sandra’s family with arrangements for cremation. Condolences to the family may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Smith.

Wauneta served her country from Dec. 7, 1941, to Sept. 2, 1945, in the U.S. Navy, Naval Intelli gence, during World War II. The Naval Intelli gence team with which she served successfully broke several codes during the war, including a Japanese code.

Wauneta and John Seibert were married Dec. 21, 1946, in Seattle. He preceded her in death.

Wauneta is survived by daughter, Kathleen (David) Haar, Maineville, Ohio; son, Charles (LeAnn) Seibert, Iola; five grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

A visitation to honor Wauneta’s life will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, in The Venue at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola. A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tues day at the funeral home. Burial with military honors will follow in Highland Cemetery, Iola.

Memorials are suggested to the Alzheimer’s Association, which may be left with the funeral home.

Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfu neral.com.

Billy Doolittle

William (Billy) Alan Doolittle, 47, LaHarpe, died Sept. 20, 2022, at Salina Regional Health, Sa lina. Billy was born Sept. 10, 1975, in Iola, to Bill Doolittle and Patricia (Wright) Doolittle.

Billy was preceded in death by his parents, one sister, Kelly Sue Doolittle and two brothers, Lyle Scott Doolittle, Jeffrey Ray Doolittle.

Billy is survived by his children, Michael Doolittle, Lexi Doolittle, Kyle Doolittle, Dylan Doolittle, Hunter Doolittle and Evan Kent; six grandchildren; and numerous other relatives and friends.

A memorial service will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, in the chapel at Feuerborn Family Fu neral Service, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola. Inurnment will follow in the LaHarpe Cemetery.

Memorials are suggested to Allen County Ani mal Rescue Facility (ACARF), which may be left with Feuerborn Family Funeral Service.

Condolences for the family may be left at www. feuerbornfuneral.com.

Johnson eyes comeback as UK prime minister

LONDON (AP) —

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson — ousted by ethics scan dals just three months ago — jockeyed to make a comeback Friday as one of several contend ers seeking to replace Liz Truss, whose rapid downfall threw the coun try’s leadership into dis array at a time of severe economic challenges.

The governing Con servative Party has or dered a lightning-fast race that aims to install a new prime minis ter within a week. The

leadership uncertainty comes at a time of weak economic growth and as millions struggle with higher borrowing costs and rising prices for groceries, fuel and other basics. A growing wave of strikes by train and postal workers, lawyers and others has revealed mounting discontent as a recession looms.

Johnson has not de clared he is running, but a political ally who spoke with him told Sky News he is “up for it” and bookmakers have made him one of the fa vorites to win the con test — a reflection of the disarray in the party as it picks its third prime minister this year. It would be an astonishing recovery for a polarizing figure forced out by a welter of ethics scandals

Truss quit on Thurs day after a turbulent 45 days, conceding that she could not deliver on her tax-cutting econom ic package, which she had to abandon after it caused turmoil in finan cial markets.

House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt was the first candidate

to declare she is running to replace Truss, saying in a tweet that she rep resented “a fresh start.”

The straight-talking 49-year-old Royal Navy reservist, who briefly served as U.K. defense secretary in 2019, is bookies’ third favorite. Relatively little known to the public, outside Conservative circles she remains best known for appearing on the 2014 reality TV diving show “Splash!”

Leading the pack in lawmakers’ support, though yet to declare, is former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, who was previously runner-up to Truss. Sunak, 42, had repeatedly warned Con servatives that Truss’ tax-cutting plans would be disastrous — as proved to be the case. The former hedge-fund manager’s supporters consider him a steady hand for an ailing econ omy.

Popular Defense Sec retary Ben Wallace, who was touted as a possible contender, ruled himself out of the race on Friday.

The wild card is John son, who was forced

from office in July and still faces an inquiry into whether he lied to Parliament while in of fice that could lead to his suspension as a lawmak er.

His allies in Parlia ment are working to gather support for an “I’m Backing Boris” campaign. One of them, lawmaker James Dud dridge, told Sky News that the former prime minister would fly back from a Caribbean vaca tion to run in the lead ership race and was “up for it.”

Johnson, 58, is still adored by some Conser vatives as a vote winner with a rare common touch who led the party to a big election victo ry in 2019. He is more popular with the party’s grassroots than with lawmakers — and he is reviled by some for the chaos and scandal that marred his term in office.

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Tours of the Iola Elementary School will be available from 4 to 8 p.m. Tues day.

The district of fered tours at an open house in Au gust, but some com munity members were unable to at tend and have asked for another opportu nity, Superintendent Stacey Fager said.

Tuesday evening is also Parent-Teach er Night, so it seemed like a good opportunity to allow tours since teachers and faculty will be in the building at the same time, Fager said.

If you need a tour, stop by the office that evening. Principals and others should be available to help.

School tours Tuesday Road work begins Monday

The Kansas De partment of Trans portation will begin resurfacing a 13mile stretch of K-3 Highway north of Bronson Monday.

The project in cludes a mill and inlay with rock edge wedge, according to a KDOT press release, stretching from U.S. 54 at Bron son to K-31 near Blue Mound.

Flaggers and a pilot car will guide one-lane traffic through the work zone during daylight hours.

Motorists should expect delays of up to 15 minutes.

Weather permit ting, the road work will be finished in a month, according to KDOT.

Pearson Construc tion LLC, Wichita, is overseeing the $2 million project.

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Bannon gets 4 months behind bars for defying 1/6 subpoena

WASHINGTON (AP) —

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was sentenced Friday to serve four months behind bars after defying a subpoena from the House committee in vestigating the Jan. 6 insurrec tion at the U.S. Capitol.

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U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols allowed Bannon to stay free pending appeal, a poten tially lengthy process, and also imposed a fine of $6,500 as part of the sentence. Bannon was convicted in July of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposi

tion and the other for refusing to provide documents.

Nichols handed down the sentence after saying the law was clear that contempt of Congress is subject to a man datory minimum sentence of at least one month behind bars. Bannon's lawyers had

argued the judge could've sen tenced him to probation in stead. Prosecutors had asked for Bannon to be sent to jail for six months.

"In my view, Mr. Bannon has not taken responsibility for his actions," Nichols said be fore he imposed the sentence.

"Others must be deterred from committing similar crimes."

The House panel had sought Bannon's testimony over his involvement in Trump's ef forts to overturn the 2020 pres idential election. Bannon has yet to testify or provide any documents to the committee.

IN CONFORMANCE WITH KSA 19 547, I HAVE FILED ON OCTOBER 1, 2022 AN ABSTRACT OF THE UNPAID 2021 TAX WARRANTS, (AS RETURNED BY THE SHERIFF) PUBLICATION FEES, COURT COST AND INTEREST CALCULATED TO OCT 1ST, WITH THE CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT.

THE COUNTY TREASURER SHALL SERVE NOTICE, IN WRITING, TO THE COUNTY ATTORNEY OF SUCH FILING. (ADDITIONAL INTEREST WILL BE CALCULATED AT TIME OF PAYMENT ) DAROLYN MALEY, ALLEN COUNTY TREASURER Personal Property Name Address Town Amount Anderson, Ken Po Box 248 Gas, KS 325.76

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(First Published in The Iola Register, October 8, 2022)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of Sydney H Koon, deceased CASE NO: AL-2021-PR-000032

You are hereby notified that on June 29, 2022, an Amended Peti tion For Probate of Will and Issu ance of Letters of Administration was filed in this Court by Frederick J Works praying that Barbara Kling be appointed as Administrator cta and be granted Letters of Admin istration in the above estate.

(Published in The Iola Register Oct. 22, 2022)

49 U.S.C. 5310 (rural public transpor tation)

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED AND TO: Marian Cross, Francine Koon, Diane Koon, Jim Koon, Pamela Koon, Brenda Koon, Evane Koon, Butch Harris, and to any one claiming by or through them:

NOTICE OF HEARING

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before November 4, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. in the Allen County Dis trict Court, Iola, Kansas, at which time and place the matter will be heard. Should you fail, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Frederick J Works Petitioner

FREDERICK J. WORKS, PA 6 East Jackson Iola, Kansas 66749 Attorney for Petitioner

Thrive Allen County is submitting an application for capital and operating as sistance for transportation under the 49 U.S.C. 5310 (ru ral public transportation) of the Federal Transit Act. The application will be for cap ital funds to add a vehicle to our current fleet and for operating funds to help pro vide transportation services in the area. Written com ments and questions in re gards to this application are encouraged and will be ac cepted until 5:00pm on No vember 18, 2022 and should be sent to: 9 S Jefferson Ave, Iola, KS 66749 or email to info@thriveallencounty.org. (10) 22 (Published in The Iola Register Oct. 22, 2022)

49 U.S.C. 5311 (rural public transporta tion)

Allen County, Kansas Gov ernment is submitting an ap plication for operating assis tance for transportation under the 49 U.S.C. 5311 (rural public transportation) of the Federal

Transit Act. The application will be for operating funds to help provide transportation services in the area. Written comments and questions in regards to this application are encouraged and will be accepted until 4:30pm on November 18, 2020 and should be sent to: County Clerk at: 1 N Washington, Iola, KS 66749 or email to coclerk@allencoounty. org. (10) 22

Opinion

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Future of Kansas depends on Nov. 8 election

Susan Lynn Register editor

Dear readers, here are some of my picks on the Nov. 8 ballot and why.

United States Senator Sen. Jerry Moran earns our support be cause he upheld the U.S. Constitution as one of the first Republican members of Congress to admit Joe Biden was le gitimately elected presi dent, albeit three weeks after the Nov. 3 election. Moran also voted to cer tify Biden as president in the wee hours after the horrific Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capi tol.

Moran also works across the aisle, by ev idence of his Sept. 30 vote to extend the fed eral government’s Sept. 30 fiscal year deadline to Dec. 16, continuing to fund not only vital ser vices but also provide additional assistance to Ukraine.

Moran’s most dis appointing vote was against Ketanji Brown Jackson as the next jus tice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Nevertheless, Mo ran’s 26-year Con gressional tenure has earned him significant leadership roles includ ing appropriations, de fense and veterans’ af fairs, to the advantage of us Kansans.

U.S. Rep. 2nd District Patrick Schmidt is the more centrist candidate.

Jake LaTurner’s first days as a U.S. Congress man were spent trying to stop the certification of Electoral College votes confirming Joe Biden as president.

It’s been downhill from there. LaTurn er has aligned him self with the far right group-think. Some of his more disappointing votes have been against the reauthorization of the Community Devel opment Block Grant program, a primary funding mechanism for small communities to repair their aging streets and municipal water and sewer sys tems and most recently his vote against giv ing Ukraine addition al aid and keeping the U.S. government’s vital governmental services funded through the end of the year.

Schmidt, his oppo nent, said it was the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol that stirred his conscience to run for office.

“The only thing Con gressional Republicans and the previous ad ministration’s enablers learned that day is that they didn’t go far enough,” Schmidt said at a meet-and-greet in Iola.

Schmidt served in the U.S. Navy as an intelli gence officer.

Governor/ Lt. Governor

Why mess with suc cess? The Laura Kel ly-David Toland ticket is the dream team for

working Kansans. Over the past four years, the Kelly administration has secured more than $14 billion in new busi ness investment in Kan sas and created over 52,000 new jobs. Employ ees have never been so valued.

Also under the Kel ly administration, the Kansas budget has not only balanced, but for the first time in 20 years the rainy day balance is a robust $969 million.

Kelly has seen that public schools are ade quately funded. And she has held steadfast in her commitment to elimi nate the state food sales tax.

Best of all, she’s a “middle of the road” governor who celebrates others, by evidence of her commitment — still denied by Republican legislators — to expand the Medicaid health in surance program that would provide an addi tional 150,000 Kansans with coverage.

She’s also a champion of women’s rights, in cluding access to abor tions and contraception.

After the Aug. 2 vote that affirmed abortion as a constitutional right, Kelly tweeted: “Kansans stood up for fundamen tal rights today. We re jected divisive legisla tion that jeopardized our economic future and put women’s health care access at risk.”

Derek Schmidt, her primary opponent, has become a stranger to moderate Republicans.

As attorney general, Schmidt signed Kansas onto lawsuits that sup ported the Big Lie that the 2020 election was rigged and opposed the legality of the Afford able Care Act, including its provision for Medic aid expansion, which is supported by more than 75% of Kansans.

The Aug. 3 vote to remove Constitutional protections for abortion was the brainchild of Schmidt and ultra-con servative legislators. That it failed so decid edly is more proof that Schmidt is out of lock step with the majority of Kansans.

Attorney General Chris Mann is the most qualified candi date for Kansas Attor ney General mainly because his primary opponent, Kris Kobach, would hijack the office to pursue his own agen da of self-aggrandize ment.

Kobach has made it

clear that he intends to use the office to at tack President Biden, promising he’ll spend his waking moments considering “what our next lawsuit against Joe Biden is going to be.”

Kobach is also a bro ken record when it comes to voter fraud, most recently promis ing to rid Kansas of vot er ballot boxes if elected attorney general.

While Kobach’s goal has been to make head lines, Mann’s has been in service first as a po lice officer and then as an attorney. He first served as prosecutor with the Wyandotte Dis trict Attorney’s Office followed by a stint as a special prosecutor with the Kansas Securities Commission focusing on white collar crimes such as fraud and em bezzlement. In 2017, Mann started his own law firm with special emphasis on victims of drunk driving acci dents.

Mann sees his role as attorney general to defend our laws, not at tack our constitutional rights.

Secretary of State Incumbent Scott Schwab has admirably defended the integri ty of the Secretary of State’s office.

The office’s primary duty is to ensure our elections are secure. Despite accusations, primarily from Repub lican peers, Schwab has ensured that ballots cast, whether in person, by mail, by drop box, in electronic format or with a No. 2 pencil, are secure and accurately counted.

In 2020, no cases of election fraud were determined in the 105 counties of Kansas.

You can’t beat that.

Kansas House Repre sentative District 9

On a local level, Alana Cloutier has made it her business to help revive downtown Humboldt. Now, she wants to take that experience and de termination to the state level, working to see that Southeast Kansas is a good place to live and work.

Cloutier’s ambitions for this neck of the woods is what makes her the better candidate against Fred Gardner, a semi-retired veterinari an from Garnett.

Cloutier has said she would fight for the sales tax on food to be removed immediately,

rather than in a tiered plan designed by Repub licans.

She also thinks more money for cities and counties is available if legislators agree to rein state the Local Ad Valor em Tax Relief Fund that benefits local govern ments with leftover tax revenues. In its place, local governments have been forced to raise property taxes.

Kansas Supreme Court Justices

Kansas has a distinct advantage because its Supreme Court Justices are first determined by merit before they are put before the public vote. About one-third of states decide on justices in this manner. After their one-year appoint ments, the justices run for election every six years.

The value of the sys tem is that the judges’ previous experience as lower court judges plays more of a role in their selection than their po litical affiliation.

Judges, after all, are bound by the state con stitution, not a political party, in making their decisions.

“Our own personal beliefs don’t matter,” said Chief Justice Mar la Luckert in a recent public forum. “You can say that’s why we wear black robes because we leave everything be hind. We have to make unpopular decisions sometimes.”

For ultra-conserva tives, none has been more unpopular than the court’s 2019 decision that said the Constitu tion guarantees peo ple’s bodily autonomy and, therefore, a right to abortion, which is be hind the recent move to boot the Justices.

We believe that on the whole, the Justices have interpreted the Consti tution fairly, giving us good schools and a just society.

This election, six of the seven members of the Supreme Court are on the ballot.

They all deserve re election as do the mem bers of the Kansas Court of Appeals and magistrate judges.

Constitutional Questions

1. The request is noth ing but a power grab by state legislators to overturn decisions by a sitting governor. If approved, the measure is especially dangerous for Kansas because it

Here’s my ballot

Susan Lynn, Register publisher

US SENATE David C. Graham Libertarian Overland Park

Mark R. Holland Democratic Kansas City

Jerry Moran Republican Manhattan

US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jake LaTurner Republican Topeka

Patrick Schmidt Democratic Topeka

KANSAS GOVERNOR/ LT GOVERNOR Seth Cardell/ Libertarian Evan Laudick-Gains

Laura Kelly/ Democratic David Toland

Dennis Pyle/ Independent Kathleen E. Garrison Derek Schmidt/ Republican Katie Sawyer

ATTORNEY GENERAL Kris Kobach Republican Lecompton

Chris Mann Democratic Lawrence

SECRETARY OF STATE Cullene Lang Libertarian Paola

Jeanna Repass Democratic Overland Park

Scott J. Schwab Republican Overland Park

KS HOUSE REP #9

Alana Cloutier Democratic Humboldt

Fred Gardner Republican Garnett

KANSAS SUPREME COURT

Shall the Kansas Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and magistrate jus tices remain in office?

Yes (to all) No

CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS

1. Shall the legislature be allowed to revoke or suspend rules and regula tions from the executive branch with a majority vote?

Yes No

2. Shall county sheriffs be chosen by a popular vote of the citizens of each county?

Yes No

would eliminate any semblance of a bal ance of power because Republicans hold a su per-majority in both the House and Senate. Cur rently, a two-thirds ma jority vote is required to overturn a governor’s decision. The ballot measure would change

that to a simple majori ty vote. It’s a dangerous precedent and should be stopped in its tracks.

2. County sheriffs should be elected by popular vote and not by in-house committees or advisory boards as some would like.

As Gov. Laura Kelly’s second in command, Iola native Lt. Gov. David Toland has the ear of Southeast Kansas residents. This is all the more reason we should support the Kelly-Toland ticket in the Nov. 8 general election. Pictured above, David and Beth Toland at the Farm City Days parade. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

School: Animal-based activities delight

fered in the spring.

This event celebrated the IES library, which also had a ribbon cut ting ceremony with a proclamation read by Mayor Steve French, declaring Thursday as Iola Elementary School Library Day.

The library gave each student a free book. Ac tivities were organized around the award-win ning children’s book, “Because of Winn-Dix ie.” Part of the library also was decorated as a grocery store to honor the book.

Angela Henry, SAFE BASE director, said she felt the evening was a success.

The new elementary school brought together students from preschool through fifth grade under one roof, which makes it easier to or ganize such large-scale

events. The COVID-19 pandemic also limited attendance at events the previous two years.

“The families and the staff had a great time with the activities. We are also showing USD 257 families the types

of family-engagement events they expect from us,” she said.

She gave credit to the partnerships between different entities. Along with the school groups and ACARF, the Iola Public Library’s chil

“These partnerships make our activities so much better,” she said.

AURI, the student who was so enamored with Remy, didn’t have much time to spend on the numerous activities offered Thursday night.

She could have taken part in the pickle tast

ing contest. Or made dog biscuits. Or creat ed a dog collar. She did, however, take a moment to guess how many dog treats were in a jar.

She barely made time to talk to a newspaper reporter.

“I’m sorry,” she said, mid-conversation. “I see a dog I have to go pet.”

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dren’s librarian Lesa Cole also comes to SAFE BASE each week to help students increase their literacy skills.

Parker McKarnin, left, and Gensen Sinclair taste-test pickles.

Second grader Cameron Vaughn reads to Berloiz, an adoptable cat at ACARF.

Twins Elias, left, and Adrian Jackson make dog col lars.

Hunter Cooper makes dog biscuits.

USD 257 Superintendent Stacey Fager, center left, and Mayor Steve French cut the ribbon to officially open the Iola Elementary School Library. They are surrounded by board members, school administrators, library staff and ACARF representatives, both human and canine.

Schmidt: Gubernatoral candidate visits

for a long time.”

Population numbers even declined slightly in 2021, he added.

“That’s the wrong di rection.”

And the state’s labor force has shrunk even more, Schmidt contin ued.

“It’s true the unem ployment rate is low, but the reason the rate is so low… is there are so many fewer people in the workforce seeking jobs.”

That, in turn, leads to hiring difficulties.

“We have some real challenges, and that all goes into the basket,” Schmidt said.

KELLY’S DECISION to close schools in the spring of 2020 — the first state in the country to do so — has affected the quality of education dramatically, Schmidt noted.

On top of test scores down significantly, Schmidt spoke on the mental health aspect of students kept out of school for extended pe riods.

Schmidt said the number of students con sidering suicide since the onset of the pan demic has skyrocketed,

as has the demand for mental health services for children, describing it as “mushrooming” of behavioral issues.

Additional, teachers are leaving the pro fession in droves, he continued, leading to a teaching shortage un seen in recent memory across the state.

Schmidt ended his speech by touching on the dangers of phentan yl, “which I tend to refer to as a poison and not a drug.”

Unlike past forms of illicit and illegal drugs,

the lethality of phentan yl is much greater than such things as meth amphetamine, Schmidt noted, proclaiming its spread is is possible be cause it’s manufactured in China, shipped to Mexico and smuggled across the United States’ southern border.

“It is very much much our problem as it is for the rest of the country,” Schmidt said.

Schmidt reflected on his early days in the Kansas Legislature, where he represented Allen County and the rest of southeast Kansas

in the State Senate, pri or to his election as the state’s attorney general.

“I very much have enjoyed representing Allen County over the years in different ca pacities,” he said. “We have a lot of good mem ories from here; memo ries that are good in the sense that we felt like we really were engaged with helping the com munity.”

“I hope,” Schmidt concluded, “to have the opportunity to serve and do some good going forward.”

Jan. 6 panel issues subpoena to Trump

WASHINGTON (AP)

— The House commit tee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena Friday to Donald Trump, exer cising its subpoena power against the for mer president who lawmakers say “per sonally orchestrated” a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The nine-member panel issued a letter to Trump’s lawyers, demanding his testi mony under oath by Nov. 14 and outlining a request for a series of corresponding doc uments, including personal communi cations between the former president and members of Congress as well as extremist groups.

“We recognize that a subpoena to a for mer President is a sig nificant and historic action,” Chairman Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney wrote in the letter to Trump. “We do not take this action lightly.”

It is unclear how Trump and his legal

team will respond to the subpoena. He could comply or negotiate with the committee, announce he will defy the subpoena or ignore it altogether. He could also go to court and try to stop it.

The subpoena is the latest and most strik ing escalation in the House committee’s 15-month investiga tion of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, bringing members of the panel into direct conflict with the man they have investigated from afar through the testimony of aides, al lies and associates.

The committee writes in its letter that it has assembled “over whelming evidence” that Trump “person ally orchestrated” an effort to overturn his own defeat in the 2020 election, including by spreading false alle gations of widespread voter fraud, “attempt ing to corrupt” the Jus tice Department and by pressuring state officials, members of Congress and his own vice president to try to change the results.

Ukrainian forces bombard river crossing; Kherson a fortress

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces bombarded Russian positions in the oc cupied and illegally annexed southern Kherson region, tar geting resupply routes across a major river while inching closer Friday to a full assault on one of the first urban ar eas Russia captured after in vading the country.

Russian-installed officials were reported desperate ly trying to turn the city of Kherson, a prime objective for both sides because of its key industries and major riv er and sea port, into a fortress while attempting to evacuate tens of thousands of resi dents.

The Kremlin poured as many as 2,000 draftees into the Kherson region — one of four provinces Moscow ille gally annexed and put under Russian martial law — to re plenish losses and strengthen front-line units, according to

the Ukrainian army’s general staff.

The Dnieper River figures prominently in the regional battle because it serves criti cal functions — crossings for supplies, troops and civilians; drinking water for southern Ukraine and the annexed Crimean Peninsula; and pow er generation from a hydro electric station. Much of the area, including the power sta tion and a canal feeding water to Crimea, is under Russian control.

Kremlin-installed Kherson officials said Ukrainian shell ing of a Dnieper River ferry crossing killed two journal ists working for a local TV station they set up under oc cupation. At least two other people were reported killed and 13 wounded.

Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern operational command, confirmed the

Ukrainian military struck the Antonivskyi Bridge but only during an overnight cur few Russian-installed officials put in place to avoid civilian casualties.

“We do not attack civilians and settlements,” Humeniuk told Ukrainian television.

Earlier Ukrainian strikes had made the Antonivskyi Bridge inoperable, prompting Russian authorities to set up ferry crossings and pontoon bridges to relocate civilians and transport supplies to Rus sian troops in Kherson, which sits on the Dnieper’s western bank.

Russian-installed officials are trying to evacuate up to 60,000 people from Kherson for their safety and to allow the military to build fortifi cations. Ukraine’s military reported Friday that bank employees, medical workers and teachers were relocating as the city’s infrastructure

wound down.

“The situation is really difficult,” the deputy head of Kherson’s Kremlin-installed regional administration, Kirill Stremousov, said in a video he posted on Telegram. “Today we are preparing the city of Kherson as a fortress for defense and are ready to defend to the last. Our task is to save people, build defenses and protect the city.”

Kherson city, with a prewar population of about 284,000, was one of the first urban areas Russia captured when it invaded Ukraine, and it re mains the largest city it holds.

Another flashpoint on the Dnieper River is the Kakhov ka dam, which creates a large reservoir, and associated hy droelectric power station, about 44 miles from Kherson city. Each side accuses the other of targeting the facil ities. Russian-installed offi cials claim Ukrainian forces

have been attacking the facil ities in part to cut the water supply to Crimea.

Ukrainian President Volo dymyr Zelenskyy contends the Russians plan to blow up the dam and power station to unleash 4.8 billion gallons of water and flood Kherson and dozens of other areas where hundreds of thousands of people live. He told the Eu ropean Council on Thursday that Russia would then blame Ukraine.

None of the claims could be independently verified.

Russian President Vladi mir Putin annexed Ukraine’s Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions last month even though his forces don’t control all the territory. Putin declared martial law in the regions as of Thursday to assert Russian authority in the face of military setbacks and strong international crit icism.

Derek Schmidt, Republican candidate for Kansas governor, speaks at a campaign stop in Iola on Thursday.

KU set to defend title

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP)

— Kansas had a reputation in some corners of college basketball as being a great regular-season team, one that would dominate the Big 12 and win high-profile non-conference games, only to struggle in the postsea son.

The Jayhawks squelched all that talk in April.

Leaning on one of the most experienced lineups in the country, Bill Self guided the Jayhawks to the Final Four in New Orleans, where a historic comeback against North Carolina in the championship game al lowed them to raise a ban ner in Allen Fieldhouse for the first time since 2008.

“We talk about this all the time, you know, it’s much easier to have a great team than a great program,” Self said this week, “because it’s just a snippet of time and things could fall just right for one year, and you want to do it where there’s a foun dation of consistency that you can, you know, be in the game. And I think we’ve done that. But still, though, in order to validate the first one you have to get a second one.”

Self paused, smiled, then added: “Then maybe to vali date a second, you got to get a third one. I don’t know.”

Whether Self needs an other on a resume that has already landed him in the Hall of Fame is up for de bate. But regardless, that’s exactly what the fifthranked Jayhawks are chas ing when they open the sea son in a couple of weeks as defending champs.

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Yates Center caps season

NEODESHA — The Yates Center High School volley ball team dropped a pair of matches against Neodesha and Eureka at Neodesha on Tuesday.

The Wildcats (11-25; 5-7) opened by falling to Eureka in close sets, 25-16 and 25-19.

Kamdyn Trahan led the Yates Center offensive at tack with four kills, in front of Grace Westerman’s three kills and Kinley Morrison’s two kills.

Molly Proper and Lau ren McConaghie led at the serving line with two ace serves, followed by Emma Grogg, Trahan and Wester man’s one ace apiece. Proper, Trahan and Westerman led with a perfect 100% serving rate while McConaghie reg

istered an 87.5% mark from the serving line and Grogg served to the tune of 83.3%.

Proper led defensively with nine digs, Callyn Miller had eight, Westerman had four and Grogg and McConaghie collected three digs apiece.

“We went up against two very good teams and I felt like we competed. We may not have won the matches, but the girls had some very tough rallies and went point for point with the two teams at varied times in the match es,” said Yates Center head coach Carrie Cummings.

Against Neodesha, Yates Center then let Blue Streaks get ahead even more in set losses of 25-8 and 25-16.

Westerman and Trahan led offensively inmatch with

four and three kills, respec tively. Kinley Morrison also made two kills. Proper was able to knock two ace serves while Trahan made one ace serve.

Five Wildcats served a perfect 100% from the line including Trahan, McCo naghie, Westerman, Morri son and Proper. Grogg also recorded a 66.7% from the serving line.

Defensively, McConaghie, Proper, Trahan and Wester man each knocked four digs while Miller made three digs.

“We are a very capable team. We just have to put all the pieces together,” Cum mings said.

Yates Center will compete in the 1A Sub-State at Madi son High School on Saturday.

NLCS heads to Philly tied at 1-1

The Associated Press San Diego Padres pitch er Joe Musgrove is hoping to keep things quiet in his part of South Philly. To si lence Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber and the Phillies, at least.

The sports complex home to three stadiums will be jammed Friday night with a Smashing Pumpkins concert at the Wells Fargo Center and Temple hosting Tulsa in college football at Lincoln Financial Field, both taking place at the same time as Game 3 of the NL Championship Series.

Musgrove starts for the Padres with the best-ofseven matchup tied at one game apiece.

Musgrove survived a TSA-worthy pat-down and tossed one-hit ball over sev en shutout innings in an NL Wild Card Series win over the Mets and then pitched six strong innings to help beat the Dodgers in the NLCS.

Left-hander Ranger Suárez, who walked five in 3 1/3 innings in his Game 2 NLDS start at Atlanta, pitches for the Phillies.

Musgrove, who grew up rooting for the hometown Padres, said he’s mentally more prepared to handle the anticipation, nerves and pressure of the postsea son more than 2017 when he pitched for the World Series champion Houston Astros.

“I’ve been beat down by the crowd, at times, in my postseason career,” Mus grove said Thursday. “I think ultimately, I’ve got a way better understanding

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of myself and how things work. Certain triggers that I have, and what it is that really gets to me and being able to have some awareness of what those things are before I got into a mo ment like this. It’s very helpful.”

It’s up to Suárez to disarm the Padres in front of a raucous home crowd. The Phillies are 2-0 at home this postsea son and outscored At lanta 17-4 in two home Division Series games; the Padres are 3-2 on the road.

“We feel pretty good being home here for the next three games in front of our own fans,” manager Rob Thomson said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

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At 0 for 23 and stuck in the longest hitless streak in major league history to begin a post

season, this isn’t the October slumping Hous ton star Jose Altuve pic tured. Still, he’s a huge fan favorite at Minute Maid Park.

Before the ninth in ning Thursday night in Game 2 of the ALCS against the Yankees, a man ran onto the field and asked the Astros second baseman to take a selfie with him.

“He kind of hugged me and said something like: ‘OK, we better win today, because I spent all my money on the tick et,’” Altuve said. “He pulled his phone from his pocket and tried to take a selfie, and I was ready to take it, but then security guys got there and did their job.”

A group of six secu rity guards and police officers pulled the man away before he could shoot a picture with his cell phone. An As tros spokesperson con firmed to The Associ ated Press the man was arrested.

Altuve said he wasn’t alarmed when he spied the fan heading his way because the man was wearing the proper gear.

“I saw someone run

UK’s Herron journeys back to court after open-heart surgery

By Mark Story The Lexington Herald

As the University of Kentucky class of 2026 spent its first month on campus, Tionna Her ron could only watch her college classmates via a Snapchat story.

From Herron’s home in DeSoto, Texas, she watched her fellow UK freshmen having fun at Kentucky Wildcats football games and eat ing in “The 90,” a cam pus dining facility.

“There were over 2,000 people in that Snapchat story, and it looked like everybody was having fun on campus,” Herron says. “And I was at home.”

Having to undergo open-heart surgery in August of one’s fresh man year of college tends to put a crimp in one’s plans for campus life.

“Tionna Herron” will always be the an swer to a University of Kentucky sports triv ia question. A 6-foot-4 center off of a pow erhouse DeSoto High School team, Herron was the first recruit to commit to UK after Kyra Elzy replaced Matthew Mitchell as Wildcats women’s bas ketball head coach.

In choosing the Cats, Herron said no to scholarship offers from Arizona, Florida, Florida State, Louis ville and Mississippi, among many others.

Yet after she first reported to Lexington this summer for UK’s preseason condition ing, Herron began to experience chest pains.

Those raised con cerns because Herron, from the time she was found to have an ab normal heartbeat at age 8, had been under the supervision of a cardiologist. “At that time, her chest pain she was complaining of was thought to be

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ning and I said: ‘Astros jersey; I’m fine,’” Altuve said of the man’s white Craig Biggio shirt.

Astros manager Dusty Baker said he didn’t notice the fan on the field “until the crowd started going cra zy.”

“I mean, what he did was wrong, but he looked harmless. It looked like he was do ing it out of love and re spect for Altuve. And I think Altuve handled it very well,” Baker said.

The three-time bat ting champion went 0 for 4 in the Astros’ 3-2 win and passed light-hitting Dal Maxvill, who went 0 for 22 in the 1968 World Series for the Cardinals.

Future Hall of Fam er Gil Hodges notably went 0 for 21 in the 1952 World Series for Brook lyn against the Yankees.

Altuve, an eight-time All-Star and the 2017 AL MVP, hit .300 with 28 homers during the regu lar season.

Houston leads the Yankees 2-0. The Astros planned to travel to New York on Friday and the series resumes Satur day at Yankee Stadium.

muscular,” says Angel Worlds, Herron’s moth er. “At that time, it was ‘Just take Ibuprofen and keep doing your every-five-year check ups.’”

In August of last year, however, Herron underwent a pair of surgeries unrelated to her cardiac care.

Over the course of those operations, doc tors detected an ab normality in Herron’s heart they had not be fore noticed. A CT scan revealed that Herron had a rare congenital heart defect, Anoma lous Aortic Origin of a Right Coronary Artery, that is seen in less than 1 percent of people.

In layman’s terms, “Her artery wasn’t where it was supposed to be,” Worlds says.

To determine wheth er or not Herron would need surgery, doctors performed a series of tests. “And they were all normal,” Worlds says.

That allowed Her ron to play her senior season of high school hoops. Though play ing on a DeSoto team that featured six other NCAA Division I sign ees in its class of 2022, Herron managed to make her own mark.

While helping DeSo to to its second straight Texas Class 6A state ti tle, Herron averaged 12 points, eight rebounds and three blocked shots a game.

In back-to-back games last winter in an ESPN-sponsored girls’ basketball showcase in Minnesota, Herron faced the nation’s topranked player, 6-foot-7 center Lauren Betts of Colorado’s Grandview High School, and its top-ranked team, Sid well Friends School from Washington, D.C.

Herron dropped 16 points on Betts, then came back with 19 against Sidwell Friends. Those perfor mances encouraged the idea that Herron might start in her first season playing for Elzy at UK in 202223.

‘My hands were shaking’

When Herron re ported to Kentucky this summer, Worlds says the same tests doctors had given her daughter in Texas to determine whether she should have heart

surgery were repeated. “They were normal, too,” Worlds said.

However, once Her ron complained of chest pains in work outs, medical person nel at UK reasoned that her condition is so rare, it made sense as a precaution to have a specialist examine her. Herron was sent to Georgia’s Emory Uni versity School of Med icine. “The specialist there ... recommended she do a heart catheter — where they stuck a little camera in there,” Worlds says.

That procedure was performed in July. “That’s when it was discovered she had re stricted air flow, which probably was the cause of her having chest pains,” Worlds says. “All the other tests, had been normal. That was the only one saying, ‘OK, there’s something wrong.’ And that’s when we made the de cision to correct this issue.”

On the night before doctors at Houston’s Texas Children’s Hos pital were slated to operate on her heart, Herron told herself not to be afraid. “I wasn’t scared,” she says.

However, in the early morning of Aug. 24, af ter Herron was wheeled back for surgery prep, “as soon as I got in that room, I was shaking,” she says. “You could tell my hands were shaking.”

An eight-hour sur gery yielded a suc cessful outcome and a repaired heart. Yet re covery from open-heart surgery creates its own set of challenges.

“My neck was sore,” Herron says. “My back was sore. For like, two or three, weeks, I was so sore.”

An SEC-caliber ath lete now felt like she had to relearn how to walk, how to breathe, even how to sleep. Nor mally a side-sleeper, in the immediate after math of her operation, Herron was mandated to sleep on her back. “I had never slept on my back,” she says. “It was terrible.”

In the days after her surgery, Herron endured one setback, when fluid formed around her heart and she had to be readmit ted to Texas Children’s Hospital.

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K-State’s Tang seeks to rebuild Wildcats in mold of Baylor

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

Jerome Tang had plenty of opportunities to leave Baylor for head jobs over the years, but the Bears always seemed to be on the upswing and his close relationship with Scott Drew made it difficult to envision leaving Waco.

Once the Bears won the national championship, though, there was a feeling that Tang had accomplished all he could as an assistant, and the time was coming to take a leap of faith and head out on his own.

He landed at Kansas State.

Now, the longtime assistant — known both for his sideline acumen and recruiting chops — will try to return the Wildcats to Big 12 relevance after the departure of Bruce Weber following a third consecutive losing season.

“It’s obviously a process building chemistry, but when you bring in good kids that care about the right things, that part of it becomes easier,” Tang said. “We have a team that likes each other. They spend a lot of time on and off the court. We still have to work on them understanding each other’s strengths on and off the court and that takes experience.”

Especially given the

number of newcomers on the Kansas State roster.

Fourteen of the 16 players last season graduated or transferred, including star freshman Nijel Pack, who ended up at Miami. Markquis Nowell and Ismael Massoud stuck around, and they’ll form the cornerstones of a team that Tang quickly rebuilt through the prep ranks and a heavy dose of the transfer portal.

The most intriguing name is Keyontae Johnson, the Florida forward who was once a preseason SEC player of the year but who hasn’t played since collapsing during a game in December 2020. Johnson spent 10 nights in the

hospital and, while his family has never said what doctors believe caused the episode, Kan-

sas State has medically cleared him to play.

That was something doctors at Florida and

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win titles,” Self said, “so we needed to do that to validate the success that we’ve had throughout the course of many, many seasons. ... It certainly felt like a burden was lifted after we won.”

The Jayhawks look a whole lot different, and younger, than they did a year ago.

Gone are veterans Ochai Agbaji and Christian Braun, both of them first-round NBA draft picks, along with space-eating big man David McCormack, ballhandler Remy Martin and veteran sharpshooter Jalen Coleman-Lands.

In their place are a bunch of youngsters surrounding Texas Tech transfer Kevin McCullar Jr. and returning starters Dajuan Harris Jr. and Jalen Wilson, making the Jayhawks one of the youngest teams in the country.

As the saying goes at Kansas, though, names

and faces may change but the expectations are always the same.

“All I want to do is reach that moment again,” Wilson said of the title game. “Coach talked about how fun it will be, you know, but you don’t really understand until you get there. But once you get there, it’s like, man, it’s the greatest moment of your life. And so I have an opportunity to do it again. Motivates me every single day.”

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A handful of players transferred within the Big 12 this past offseason, but perhaps nobody’s decision made a bigger impact on two programs than McCullar. The defensive dynamo left a big void at Texas Tech by filling one at Kansas.

“This is just the best fit for me, you know? I knew it was time for me (to move on),” he said, “to grow as a play-

er. The next step in my journey was to compete for Coach Self. It was the best decision for me.”

FRESH FACES

The Jayhawks brought in two forwards and two posts in a four-man recruiting class, and Self said all of them will play. The highest profile belongs to Gradey Dick, a 6-foot7 shooter, while MJ Rice will remind Kansas fans of Wayne Selden. Sixfoot-10 center Ernest Udeh Jr. and 6-8 big man Zuby Ejiofor will provide size in the paint.

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Because of their experience last season, the Jayhawks didn’t need to rely on their talented 2021 recruiting class. But all four are back after a year in the program. Point guard Bobby Pettiford Jr. and forwards Zach Clemence and K.J. Adams Jr. played sparingly last season while Kyle Cuffe Jr. spent the year as a redshirt.

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The Jayhawks often played through McCormack in the paint last season, but without an established post presence, there’s a good chance they will be hoisting up a lot of 3s this season. Even forwards such as Dick and Clemence that have size to guard a center almost prefer to shoot from the outside, and they have the touch to do it consistently.

many other schools were unwilling to do.

“I’ve been through the tournament, some of the other guys on the team haven’t been, so that’s what coach is telling me,” said Johnson, who did say he takes medications before practice. “I know the experience, I know what it takes. So trying to use my voice to help lead the younger guys on the team.”

The Wildcats have three other Power Five transfers in David N’Guessan from Virginia Tech, Jerrell Colbert from LSU and Cam Carter from Mississippi State. Desi Sills played 126 games for Arkansas State. Other transfers include Tykei Greene (Stony Brook) and Abayomi Iyiola (Hofstra) and junior college transfers Anthony Thomas and Nae’qwan Tomlin.

Then there’s freshmen Dorian Finister and Taj Manning, a pair of three-star recruits.

“They ranked us 10th (in the conference), but we definitely have a chip on our shoulder,” Nowell said. “The expectation is higher. There’s a different level of intensity that we have each and every day.”

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The last time Tang was a head coach was in 2003, when he was on the sideline at Heritage Christian Academy in Cleveland, Texas. He was an assistant at Baylor until 2017, when he was elevated to associate head coach.

“He did a remarkable job everywhere he’s been and Baylor wouldn’t have the success we had without him,” said Drew, who is entering his 20th season with the Bears. “We’ll always be brothers for life. And we’ll always cheer for each other when we’re not playing.”

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Nowell averaged 12.4 points and 5.0 assists last season, and will be responsible for running the show at the point, while Massoud is a rangy forward who averaged 6.8 points but had 13 against West Virginia in the Big 12 Tournament.

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It spoke volumes of the progress Tomlin has made in a short time since his arrival that he was picked to join Nowell and Johnson at Big 12 media day. He grew up in New York but didn’t play high school basketball. That journey began at a Texas prep school, and it continued at junior colleges back in New York and at Chipola College in Florida.

Tomlin became a junior college All-American before signing with the Wildcats in early May.

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Tang isn’t the only one on the Kansas State staff with some Big 12 familiarity. His top assistant, Ulric Maligi, was plucked away from Chris Beard’s staff at Texas. The rest of Tang’s staff includes Jareem Dowling, who came from North Texas, and Rodney Perry, who built Link Academy in Missouri into one of the top prep programs in the country.

SCHEDULE Kansas State opens Nov. 7 against Texas-Rio Grande Valley, then heads to California for an early game against another Power Five school. The Wildcats also are in the Cayman Islands Classic, play Nebraska in Kansas City, Missouri, and then play Florida — in what will be an emotional game for Johnson — in the Big 12-SEC Challenge in January.

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Halep, two-time major champ gets provisional drug ban

By HOWARD FENDRICH The Associated Press

Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep was provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency after failing a drug test during the U.S. Open in August.

The ITIA announced the punishment Friday for Halep, a former No. 1 player who is currently No. 9 in the WTA rankings. She won Wimbledon in 2019, beating 23time major champion Serena Williams in the final, and the French Open in 2018.

In a social media post, Halep called the news of her pos-

itive test “the biggest shock of my life,” adding: “Facing such an unfair situation, I feel completely confused and betrayed.”

“I will fight until the end to prove that I never knowing-

ly took any prohibited substance,” Halep wrote, “and I have faith that sooner or later, the truth will come out.”

Halep, a 31-year-old from Romania, announced in September she was taking the rest of this season off after having nose surgery to improve her breathing. She considered retiring early this year after a series of injuries, but then said she felt rejuvenated after teaming up in April with coach Patrick Mouratoglou, who used to work with Williams.

Seeded No. 7 at the U.S. Open, Halep lost in the first round to Daria Snigur of Ukraine 6-2, 0-6, 6-4 on Aug. 30.

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It was the first tour-level win of Snigur’s career.

Spokesmen for the U.S. Tennis Association and Mouratoglou declined comment.

The ITIA said Halep tested positive in New York for the banned substance Roxadustat, a drug approved for medical use in the European Union to treat the symptoms of anemia caused by chronic kidney failure.

Halep said she was told her test showed “an extremely low quantity.”

According to the EU’s medicines agency, which approved Roxadustat last year, it stimulates the body to produce more of the natural hormone eryth-

ropoietin, or EPO, which has long been a doping product favored by cyclists and distance runners.

During a provisional suspension, a tennis player is ineligible to compete in, or attend, any sanctioned events.

Under the World Anti-Doing Code, Halep faces a ban of up to four years for a positive test for a substance like Roxadustat. Athletes can earn a reduction in their ban, likely to three years, if they quickly admit an offense and accept their sanction.

“Today begins the hardest match of my life: a fight for the truth,” Halep wrote Friday.

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Pretty sweet Vegas W for one Joey L.

Penske’s Joey Logano became the first driver to secure a position in the Championship 4 with a shot at the Cup Series 2022 Championship thanks to a valiant surge to victory in the final laps of Sunday’s South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Logano, on fresh Goodyear tires, rallied back through the field following a late race pit stop, passing Trackhouse Racing driver Ross Chastain for the lead with three laps remaining and driving off to his third win at the 1.5-mile Las Vegas high banks - a slight .817-second ahead of fellow Playoff driver Chastain, who led a race best 68 of the 267 laps on the afternoon.

“Let’s go get a championship, baby,’’ the 2018 series champion Logano screamed into his team radio after taking the checkered flag in the No. 22 Team Penske Ford.

That pit stop for Logano with 26 laps remaining, dropped him from a top-10 position on track, but the fresh tires were the difference in making up ground on the leaders who did not pit.

And Logano went forward quickly.

“What a great car, the Penske cars were all fast today,” said the 32-year old Logano, who now has three wins in 2022 and 30 in his 15-year career in NASCAR’s top series.

“A lot of adversity we fought though in the last 50 laps of so. I thought we were going to win then kinda fell out, got some tires and racing Ross was fun. He did a good job air-blocking me and I was just trying to be patient but eventually I was like, ‘I’ve got to go here.’ “

It was a wild action-packed day at the Las Vegas oval with the eight Playoff drivers experiencing both sides of emotion. Five of them were among the 11 race leaders at various points on the afternoon. And four finished in the top five.

Joe Gibbs Racing driver and Las Vegas native Kyle Busch, who had some pit road issues, finished third, followed by a pair of Playoff drivers: Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin, who rounded out the top five. It was an especially impressive performance for Hamlin, who started 31st.

Hendrick Motorsports Playoff teammates William Byron and Chase Elliott had frustrating and disappointing days, finishing 13th and 21st, respectively. Logano’s Penske teammate Ryan Blaney - who won Stage 2 and led 39 lapsfinished 28th after hitting the wall late in the race. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell was 34th after being innocently collected in an early-race accident.

“When you perform that poorly you get poor results, that’s how it works,’’ the regular season champion Elliott said of his day.

Elliott went into this three-race round leading the standings and after Vegas has dropped to third in the championship, 17 points above the cutoff line. Logano earned the automatic advancement Sunday and Chastain is now in second place, 18 points up.

Hamlin’s top five was good enough to move him into that important fourth place in the championship – six points up on

Cup bonus photo: During Stage 2 of the Round of 8 playoff race at Vegas, Bubba Wallace (back) and Kyle Larson wrecked down the front stretch on Lap 94 after the two made contact off Turn 4. Larson admitted to making an aggressive move that led to the wreck. Tempers boiled over after Wallace climbed out of his wrecked car, with the 23XI driver walking toward the 2021 Cup champ and engaging in a shoving match.

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Byron. The 4 “Bs” are now all in the bottom half of the Playoff points. Briscoe is nine points behind Hamlin, Blaney 11 back and Bell is 23 points off the pace.

One of the most talked about incidents in the race involved a pair of non-championship-eligible drivers. Shortly after the re-start following Stage 1, Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson and 23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace – who won Stage 1 - were racing alongside one another toward the front of the field. On lap 94, Larson’s No. 5 Chevy got loose and moved up the track, forcing Wallace’s car into the outside wall.

Wallace’s No. 45 Toyota bounced down off the wall and then he drove into Larson’s car, spinning both - with Playoff driver Bell getting tagged by Larson’s spinning Chevy in the aftermath. After Wallace and Larson’s cars came to rest in the infield, Wallace took his helmet off and marched toward Larson, who was just getting out of his car.

The two exchanged words and Wallace pushed Larson multiple times before walking away.

“You get shoved into the fence deliberately like he [Larson] did trying to force me to lift, the steering was gone,’’ Wallace said, when asked if he intentionally spun Larson. “He just happened to be there. He knows what he did was wrong. He never cleared me and just hate it for my team.’’

For his part, Larson said he realized he got into Wallace and wasn’t entirely surprised by Wallace’s aggression afterward. However, Larson said, he didn’t hit Wallace intentionally.

“I saw him walking over [toward me] so I figured he’d do something. He had every right to be upset and I’d rather him do that [push me] than tear up our cars in a dangerous manner.’’

While the incident ended Wallace and Larson’s days, it also ruined the afternoon for Bell, who won an elimination race just last week to advance to the Round of 8. His Joe Gibbs Racing team was unable to repair his No. 20 Toyota and he pulled off track, finishing 34th in the 36-car field – worst among the eight Playoff drivers.

Playoff action resumes with Sunday’s Dixie Vodka 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. William Byron won the 2021 Homestead race, which was held in February last year.

Homestead-Miami Speedway 3 p.m. ET Sunday, NBC

Homestead–Miami Speedway is located in Homestead, Florida. The track has several con gurations.

Ground break: Aug. 24, 1993

Dedication date: Nov. 3, 1995

Owner: International Speedway Corporation Capacity: 46,000 Construction cost: $70 million

Former name: Homestead Motorsports Complex Cup Series inaugural race: Pennzoil 400 – Nov. 14, 1999; race winner: Tony Stewart X nity Series inaugural race: Jiffy Lube Miami 300 - Nov. 5, 1995; race winner: Dale Jarrett Camping World Truck Series inaugural race: Florida Dodge Dealers 400 – March 17, 1996; race winner: Dave Rezendes

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Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, celebrates with a burnout after winning the Cup Series South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday (Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Simona Halep at the 2021 U.S. Open. TNS FILE PHOTO