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Students’ love of reading rekindled By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

A county Christmas Allen and Woodson counties have decorated their courthouses in festive lights to celebrate the season. Pictured above, a decorative Christmas tree takes center stage at the bandstand on the Allen County Courthouse grounds. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS At left, candy-cane cutouts and poinsettias highlight the Allen County Courthouse, which features alternating red and green lights. Filtered red and green spotlights also highlight the exterior of the building. The decorations are new this year. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Below, the Woodson County Courthouse and bandstand feature lights and decorative Christmas soldiers. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Congress faces two shutdown deadlines By JENNIFER SHUTT Kansas Reflector

WASHINGTON — Congress is staring down a funding cliff in mid-January and a second one in early February, but neither of those deadlines have inspired House and Senate leaders to broker agreement on the dozen bills that were supposed to become law by Oct. 1. Appropriators are concerned the upcoming election year and competing legislative priorities have pushed their work to the back of the line, increasing the odds that Congress stumbles into a partial government shutdown in the new year. The lawmakers who work on funding bills are equally frustrated that leaders may simply lean on a third stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year, throwing months of work on the dozen full-year spending bills out the window. Senate Appropriations Vol. 126, No. 9 Iola, KS $1.00

Madison Karnes, a sophomore at Iola High School, doesn’t like to be forced to read books. “I’m a slow reader, so I like to go at my own pace and absorb the information,” she said. “I don’t like being forced to keep up with other students.” A new English Language Arts program at IHS gives students more freedom to pick and choose books to read. The goal is to empower students to read and write about subjects they find interesting, so they’ll continue to develop those skills throughout their lives. It seems to be working, according to the five students who spoke to the Register about the new program. Zoie Hess, a freshman,

I just love to learn. When I read, I don’t want to read for fun. I want to learn something — Trevor Tatman, IHS junior

discovered she enjoys reading horror stories. “Last year, I didn’t even read a lot of the books the teacher assigned. It just got boring,” she said. “This year, I’m actually reading books because they are interesting to me. And my reading skills have gotten better.” ALSTON Nelson is the only freshman in a short-story class filled with sophomores and juniors. He scored high on state assessment tests in reading, See READING | Page A3

Iola High School students say a new English language arts curriculum is giving them more freedom to choose the books they want to read, and is resulting in greater interest in reading as well as better grades. Front from left, Madison Karnes and Trevor Tatman; back, Zoie Hess, Brennen Coffield and Alston Nelson. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

United States attempts to avoid veto in Gaza aid

The spending stalemate has aggravated both Democrats and Republicans on the Senate and House Appropriations committees, who say leadership needs to give them the green light to begin talks ahead of the Jan. 19 deadline to enact four spending bills and the Feb. 2 deadline for the other eight appropriations measures. JENNIFER SHUTT/STATES NEWSROOM/KANSAS REFLECTOR

Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., said in mid-December that using a stopgap spending bill, also called a continuing resolution, to fund the government for the entire fiscal year would be “unprecedented and reckless.”

“We cannot just throw up our hands, act like nothing in the world has changed in the past 12 months, abdicate our responsibility to our constituents and box in our nation’s See DEADLINE | Page A4

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States, key allies and Arab nations engaged in high-level diplomacy in hopes of avoiding another U.S. veto of a new U.N. resolution on desperately needed aid to Gaza. The long-delayed vote, last scheduled for Thursday morning, was postponed again. U.S. Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood told reporters as he headed into a Security Council meeting on Syria that “We’re still working it. We’re working it very hard.” He said there needed to be some changes in the text “that would make it worthy of our support.” No new time was set for

a vote, and diplomats said Russia called for closed consultations among the 15 council members Thursday afternoon. The U.S. has been struggling to change the text’s references to a cessation of hostilities in the Israel-Hamas war, but the key sticking point is the inspection of aid trucks entering into Gaza to ensure they are only carrying humanitarian goods. The current draft calls for the U.N. to take over the job from Israel. Nathan Evans, the spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, See GAZA | Page A3

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Thousands starve in Gaza ROME — An interagency U.N. and NGO report finds that a staggering half a million people in Gaza — one quarter of the population — are starving due “woefully insufficient” quantities of food entering the territory since the outbreak of hostilities on Oct. 7. “It is a situation where pretty much everybody in Gaza is hungry. More than 500,000 people, half a million people, are starving. That means that one in every four people is starving in Gaza as we speak,’’ said World Food Program chief economist Arif Husain.

He warned that if the war continues at the same levels and food deliveries are not restored that the population could face “a fullfledged famine within the next six months” with widespread outbreaks of disease. The report released Thursday by 23 U.N and nongovernmental agencies found that the entire population of 2.2 million Gazans are in a food crisis or worse: 478,000 are at crisis levels, 1.17 million are at emergency levels and 576,600 are at catastrophic — that is starvation — levels.

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Greenhouse offers indoor movie night LAHARPE — TLC Garden Center will bid adieu to 2023 with a look to the past — and the future — with a movie. Owner Savannah Flory will show “Back To the Future” at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 29 in TLC’s greenhouse area. Tickets can be purchased in advance at tlcgc.com. Attendees are encouraged to BYOB (as in “bring your own blanket.”)

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Kelly won’t ‘horse trade’ on proposal for Medicaid expansion, school vouchers By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

Maury Povich gives DNA results to zoo orangutan By the Associated Press

Initially unsure of which orangutan was the father of a new baby primate, the Denver Zoo decided to have a little fun and turned to former daytime talk show host Maury Povich. Just as he would do on his long-running show, Povich pulled the purported DNA results for 4-month-

old Siska out of an envelope and declared: “Berani. You are the father!” The zoo posted the video on social media this week. The zoo’s communications director said after the zoo got the results of the orangutan’s paternity tests, he could think of no one better to deliver the news. Povich recorded the video Saturday.

TOPEKA — Top priorities of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Republican Senate President Ty Masterson collide in January when the Kansas Legislature convenes for the 2024 session. Kelly left no doubt her central objective would be to convince at least 63 representatives and 21 senators — simple Republican Senate President Ty Masterson and Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. majorities of the House (SHERMAN SMITH/KANSAS REFLECTOR) Sunday Today Saturday and Senate — to vote for cil organization of state picking up 10%. Kansas passage of a bill expand- at-risk kids,” Kelly said. She said she didn’t legislators dedicated to is among 10 states to reing eligibility for govgovernment, fuse expansion of Medernment health benefits believe the state should limited through Medicaid to pour cash into private said 10 states imple- icaid since 2014, which 150,000 lower-income schools because “public mented or expanded so far has blocked infudollars ought to go to subsidies for private ed- sion of $7 billion into Kansans. ucation in the past year. Kansas’ health care sysSenate President Ty public schools.” 59 62 59 49 47 52 During the 2023 ses- tem. All four surroundMasterson and House sion, the Kansas House ing states have accepted Speaker Dan Hawkins, School choice a key the GOP centers of powMasterson said school narrowly advanced a Medicaid expansion. 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Gaza: Entire 2.2 milllion population experiencing a food crisis Continued from A1

stressed that the resolution’s goal is to expand aid getting into Gaza. “There are still serious and widespread concerns that this resolution as drafted could actually slow down delivery of humanitarian aid by directing the U.N. to create an unworkable monitoring mechanism,” Evans told The Associated Press. “We must ensure any resolution helps and doesn’t hurt the situation on the ground.” Both the U.N. and aid groups worry that if the U.N. is placed in charge of inspections, it would delay deliveries into Gaza and may not even be possible. Israel insists it must maintain the lead on inspecting deliveries. A council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because discussions were private, said the U.S. and Egypt are engaging directly to ensure any aid monitoring mechanism can work for everyone. In a sign of intense U.S. efforts, President Joe Biden told reporters on his way back from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, late Wednesday that “we’re negotiating right now at the U.N. the con-

tours of a resolution that we may be able to agree to.” Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh of the United Arab Emirates, which sponsored the Arab-backed resolution, said earlier that high-level discussions are underway to try to reach agreement on a text that can be adopted. “Everyone wants to see a resolution that has impact and that is implementable on the ground,” she told reporters after the 15 council members held closed consultations early Wednesday afternoon and agreed to the delay. “We believe today, giving a little bit of space for additional diplomacy, could yield positive results.” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to the foreign ministers of Egypt and UAE late Wednesday, according to a US official, but the results of the call were unclear. As part of the U.S. push at the U.N., Blinken spoke Wednesday with the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom and stressed the need for urgent humanitarian aid to Gaza, “the imperative of minimizing civilian casualties,” and

90 percent of the Gaza population is regularly going wihout food for a full day. preventing further escalation of the conflict and “underscored the U.S. commitment to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. Nusseibeh said the UAE is optimistic, but if the negotiations yield no results by Thursday “then we will assess in the council to proceed ... to a vote on the resolution.” The vote was first scheduled for Monday. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has said Gaza faces “a humanitarian catastrophe” and that a total collapse of the humanitarian support system would lead to “a complete breakdown of public order and increased pressure for mass displacement into Egypt.” According to a report released Thursday, Gaza’s entire 2.2 million population is in a food crisis or worse and

Reading: Students choose books Continued from A1

so he was placed in a higher-level class. He’s been reading classic short stories like “The Masque of the Red Death’’ and “An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge.” The class started by reading Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour.” He enjoys finding analogies and hidden meanings in the stories. “I like having the ability to choose. It makes classes feel more personal, like we have a say in what we’re doing,” he said. “It feels like there’s a better connection within the entire class. Everyone is more engaged and more thoughtful. And I think everyone is getting better grades than last year, from what I’ve heard.” BRENNEN Coffield made a similar observation. “We have smaller classes this year, so everybody talks more and gets involved in the discussion,” he said. He’s even heard students discuss books outside of class.

“Being able to learn about what you’re interested in creates interest in learning about other things,” he said. “I heard people talking about their true crime class. That sounds fun. Maybe I’ll want to take that class next year.” With the new curriculum, students take a semester of reading classes and a semester of writing classes. They can choose different genres to read, and different styles of writing such as fiction, non-fiction, poetry or technical writing. Coffield likes to learn about history. He prefers non-fiction books and wants to learn more about research writing to prepare him for a future career. “I’m not exactly sure what I’ll be doing, but I feel like being able to read and write about technical information will be valuable in a lot of different situations. That’s one of the reasons I picked that class.” JUNIOR Trevor Tatman also is taking a non-fiction He picked

the class because he heard it teaches a lot of life skills and is taught by Catherine Dean. “I just love to learn. When I read, I don’t want to read for fun. I want to learn something,” he said. The first book the class read was “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” by Malcolm Gladwell, “which taught us pretty good lessons about social skills.” Then, he read Stephen Covey’s “Seven Habits for Highly Effective People.” “It taught us a lot about being proactive and how everything stems from that.” Now, he’s reading “Shoe Dog,” a memoir by Nike creator Phil Knight. He also likes to read books about automotive repair, something he’s studying as a possible career. “It’s much easier to read when you’re learning about what you want to learn about,” he said. “It’s easy to get bored when you’re being forced to read something. At least now we have a little bit of freedom.”

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current Israeli inspection of aid entering the strip. Mercy Corps Vice-President Kate Phillips-Barrasso said a resolution calling for a suspension of hostilities is critical to delivering aid to starving people. “We urge that an exclusive, independent

mechanism be part of that agreement both in principle and in practice,” she said. “As in other conflicts, independent monitoring mechanisms are critical to ensuring aid gets to people quickly and does not involve parties to the conflict determining what gets in and how fast.”

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Deadline: Democrats and Republicans in stalemate over debt limit Continued from A1

future by putting the government on autopilot,” Murray said. Maine Sen. Susan Collins, the top Republican on the committee, has also rejected the idea of Congress using another continuing resolution, saying during a floor speech in late November the “temporary funding patches lead to harmful uncertainties, needless inefficiencies and wasted taxpayer dollars.” “A year-long continuing resolution would simply fail to provide the resources needed to protect our nation,” Collins said. A full-year stopgap spending bill would cut defense spending by $34.6 billion compared to what the Senate spending panel approved in its bipartisan bill, she said. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said Tuesday that using a continuing resolution to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year is “unacceptable.” “It’s devastating, particularly for defense and we’ve got all of these wars going on,” McConnell said. “So we need to reach an agreement on the topline and get about getting an outcome as soon as possible.”

that have delayed the House and Senate from heading to conference committees to hammer out their differences. Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said before that chamber left for a threeweek winter break that he agreed the spending bills should be written to the funding levels in the debt limit law. But he argued the Senate bills are above those numbers. “We’re awaiting the other team, the other side, the other chamber to come forward with a number that we can agree upon that we write to,” Johnson said. “And that’s the impasse and that’s what we’re waiting on. But the law is the law.” Collins said Tuesday that her preference would be for the final bills to reflect the topline spending level in the debt limit law “plus the side deal plus filling in with some emergency spending that” she and Chair Murray agreed to. The stalemate has aggravated both Democrats and Republicans on the Senate and House committees, who say leadership needs to give them the green light to begin talks ahead of the Jan. 19 deadline for four spending bills and the Feb. 2 deadline for the other eight appropriations measures.

Arkansas Republican Rep. Steve Womack, chair of the Financial Services spending panel, said last week that congressional leaders should have told the committee weeks ago what the total spending level would be for

A year-long continuing resolution would simply fail to provide the resources needed to protect our nation. — Susan Collins, Main Republican Senator

the current fiscal year, known as the topline. “We’re just in a bad spot. We’ve needed these topline numbers,” Womack said. “I’m anxious to go home for Christmas, but at the end of the day, I know if they gave us a topline today, we are just going to absolutely kill our staffs. These do not happen overnight.” ‘Chaotic’ month predicted

Maryland Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer, ranking member on the Financial Services spending panel, said January will be “chaotic” since the GOP leaders have

“created a crisis.” “They have created a chaotic, almost impossible situation for themselves and the country,” Hoyer said. A shutdown, he said, is “more likely than it should be because of the timeframe and because of the irresolution and the deep division within the Republican Party.” Kentucky Rep. Hal Rogers, the top Republican on the Commerce-Justice-Science spending subcommittee, said not having spending levels puts meeting the Jan. 19 and Feb. 2 deadlines in “severe jeopardy.” Rogers said he believes Speaker Johnson understands the importance of getting agreement on the spending levels, but said that is challenging at the moment. Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, chair of the Defense spending subcommittee, said Congress should use the topline spending levels that were put in the debt limit law that Republicans and Democrats voted to approve. Tester said he would work to get agreement between the Republican House and Democratic Senate on his bill before funding expires on Feb. 2, but said he wasn’t sure that could happen. “It’s got me very worried because there are

Spending levels in debt limit deal

Congress and the Biden administration agreed to spending levels for fiscal year 2024, which began back on Oct. 1, as well as fiscal year 2025 when they brokered the debt limit deal last summer. The Senate Appropriations Committee wrote all 12 of its annual government funding bills to roughly that level and the committee approved them all following broadly bipartisan votes. The House spending panel, however, wrote its bills more than $100 billion below those levels and added in dozens of conservative policy changes that infuriated Democrats. Those differing spending levels are among the many issues

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At a time when female achievement is at an all-time high, abortion rights have been revoked and child care costs are soaring. From left, entertainers Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, gymnast Simone Biles and tennis player Coco Gauff. PHOTOS BY TNS

Female stars prove economic might in 2023. Voting can give every woman that clout By MISTY HEGGENESS Special to the Kansas City Star

2023 was the year of the economic woman. Will it last? You get to decide. I was born in 1976. My mother was 26 years old and recently married. The Vietnam War was over. Fat Elvis played Las Vegas. Jimmy Carter beat out Gerald Ford in the presidential elections. Straight, white women from economically sound families went to college in search of a spouse — and career. Their households thrived on one breadwinner’s income (but wouldn’t for long). By my calculations from U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, almost three-fourths (72%) of 26-year-old women in 1976 were married and 6% had already divorced. Two-thirds of these married women were mothers, slightly fewer than half (46%) of whom worked in the labor market — my mother among them. Abortion was a legal right. Women had gained the ability to have independent bank accounts in their name — a right established in 1974. Unilateral divorce laws expanded, leveling bargaining power in relationships and helping women escape bad ones. Fast forward to 2023. Taylor Swift is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year and broke the Guinness World Records with the highest grossing tour of all time (more than $1 billion). Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Pink and their fellow entertainers sparkled on stage, adding to local economies across the globe as their female-leaning fan base bought tickets, accommo-

dations, meals and merch. Barbie graciously held Oppenheimer’s hand walking into box office stardom, eventually joined by Swift’s “The Eras Tour” and Beyonce’s “Renaissance” movies. Together, they reinvented movie theater experiences across the country. While women let their glitter shine, men jumped on the fashionista bandwagon at spring awards shows such as the 2023 Oscars. Footballers, not wanting to be left behind, touted their fall NFL pre-game fits, and Rihanna gave us the ultimate Super Bowl halftime pregnancy announcement we didn’t know our Grinchy hearts needed. More watched Coco Gauff US Open tennis than men’s

I love 2023, not for what it says about the immensely talented, but for what it says about all the rest of us — like those of us with extra paper in our pockets and a desire to experience joy from art that expresses our deepest inner truths. Like the dads who love their daughters (and sons) so much, they were willing to spend their hard-earned cash and precious time to sit through the ”Barbie “ movie or wait outside a football stadium for their kids to exit a concert. We used our economic clout to boomerang entertainers and athletes to new heights. Viewers of the U.S. Open Women’s Championship surpassed men’s when 3.4 million tuned in to watch Coco Gauff versus Aryna Sabalenka. Taylor Swift and Simone Biles increased the National Football League’s viewership and fan

base, and NFL leadership welcomed them with open arms like a parent whose child has just married up into a wealthier, more economically stable family. We saw a record number of women in the U.S. Congress (1 in 4 members), and more female CEOs than any other time in history (10%). Women’s labor force participation patched the tattered quilt of our labor market, reaching the highest point ever for both prime-age women without children (78%) and mothers (73%), and we now have real in-depth and relatable stories being told about us in the media on a daily basis. We are all responsible for the economic drive of women in 2023, not just the famous who lovingly and graciously gave it all to us. Reproductive rights rollback, child care costs rising

But. Yet … If I had told you in 1976 that reproductive rights such as abortion access would no longer be a guaranteed in 2023, would you have believed me? Or that less than one-third (27%) of 26-year-old women (my mother’s age when she had me) would be married and that only 28% of them would have children? Would you have expected public spending on education to be $712 billion, or health care spending to be $4 trillion (17% of U.S. GDP), or child care prices to be rising at twice the rate of inflation? Would you have been surprised if I told you that almost half (41%) of women would experience some type of violence against

them in their lifetime? We still have work to do. Do not let up on this acceleration pedal that is the year of the economic woman. Press down on it and go. Now is not the time to get lazy. Harness that economic power straight into the voting booth. Equality and equity for all of us hang in the balance. There is still much more work to do on reproductive rights, affordable child care and eldercare, and equalizing the invisible mental load of domestic housework. Policymakers appear not to see caregivers or, at least, do not prioritize us with real resources. If they did, it would be just as easy to get funding for affordable, accessible child care as it had been to bail out the automotive or airline industries. In 2024, women can turn their economic power into political clout. Equality won’t be ours until we are equally and fully represented in houses of power. Let’s do the work. Make it your New Year’s resolution to register to vote (it’s easy at vote.org). Then get out and vote in November for policymakers who manifest your own values, priorities and beliefs. Your single vote counts. If you make your voice heard in 2024, we are all guaranteed to shine bright like a diamond well into the future. About the author: Misty L. Heggeness is associate professor of public affairs and economics and co-director of the Kansas Population Center at the University of Kansas. She is the author of the upcoming book, “Swiftynomics: Women in Today’s Economy.”

Kelly’s concessions on Medicaid an unexpected gift One of the great themes of the Christmas season is surprise. Every child excited for Christmas morning understands it: the sense of wonder that comes along with an unexpected gift. From a Savior born in a manger to a present that reveals the care of a co-worker or friend, this season is all about surprises. Politics is rarely characterized by wonder, and it would be wrong to put legislative bills or government actions on the same level as Christmas gifts, whether earthly or divine. Yet, I fear this legitimate caution might lead us to wrongly ignore just how surprising Governor Kelly’s latest proposal for Medicaid expansion really is. This Christmas season, it’s worth reflecting upon — and upon the responses to it from other legislative leaders too. Everyone knows that Medicaid expansion, something that has been enacted by ev-

Russell Fox Insight Kansas ery state around Kansas and has the support of 70% of all Kansans, has always been Kelly’s largest legislative aim, and also the one which the Republican leadership has been most determined to deny her, regularly refusing to allow votes on the topic, even as a majority of Republicans state-wide agree with the need to expand the policy. In this latest proposal, Kelly calls the Republican opposition’s bluff, by gifting them concessions on practically all their specific policy objections. In regards to the objection that Medicaid must be

denied to the working poor so as to protect funds earmarked for Kansas’s most vulnerable citizens, the proposal has a work requirement (something that puts our governor at odds with the Biden administration). In regards to objections that Medicaid might be used to support reproductive services which many Kansans morally oppose, the proposal limits any medical support for abortion solely to cases of rape, incest, or where the life of the mother is directly threatened (something that puts our governor at odds with her own Democratic party, and possibly the Kansas Supreme Court as well). Obviously no policy proposal will ever come through legislative debates and deal-making unscathed, so it’s possible to see these concessions as feints that the governor assumes won’t survive anyway. Republican

leaders like Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins and Senate President Ty Masterson have both treated it that way, condescendingly praising the governor for validating their concerns but dismissing her proposal as “smoke and mirrors” nonetheless. That is, I think, an ungenerous response. Why not instead recognize this proposal for what it is: a genuinely remarkable offering, putting some truly surprising options on the negotiating table? After all, work requirements have a contentious history, with complicated enforcement rules, little track record of success, and deep opposition from welfare advocates. And in the wake of the strong defeat — heavily influenced by young women voters — of the abortion-rights-denying Value Them Both amendment last

year, proposing rules that would limit the exercise of those rights seems like the last thing a Democratic politician like Kelly would do. And yet here both of them are, waiting to be torn into by Republican legislators, like wrapped presents beneath a tree. I think this is the best way to view Governor Kelly’s Medicaid proposal: not as a gambit, but as a gift, a surprising attempt by an outgoing governor to make certain all the elite objections to this overwhelmingly popular policy are heard and met. Unexpected Christmas surprises are not always well-received, and unfortunately, this one likely won’t be either. But in the spirit of the season, we should appreciate it nonetheless. Dr. Russell Arben Fox teaches politics at Friends University in Wichita.

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Much of the prep work to add a nine-hole disc golf course at Iola’s Meadowbrook Park is in place, with construction expected to begin in the spring. Members of the Iola Disc Golf League worked with the city and Iola’s Community Involvement Task Force/PRIDE Committee through the year, first on designs, and then on securing enough donations to turn the course into reality. A pair of recent fundraisers in the form of a couples tournament Nov. 11, and then a “Space Race” glow disc tournament a week later put the group over the top in terms of funding needed to move forward. “We’re really excited about it,” said John Higginbotham, a disc golf league member and one of the tournament organizers. “We’ve gotten a lot of good support from the community.” The course will be tailored for youth or beginners, with shorter, easier holes than Iola’s Elm Creek Disc Golf Course. City crews will handle the installation. The original layout at Meadowbrook allowed for six holes, noted Chelsea Beasley, a CITF/PRIDE member, but as organizers reconsidered the design, they realized it was spacious enough for nine. That’s vital, because most tournaments are 18 holes. “We really want to be able to host sanctioned events,” Higginbotham said. “If we can grow the sport here, we can really get Iola’s name out there.” As an aside, the Elm Creek course has 13 holes. “We’d love to get it to 18 but we’re pretty much landlocked,” Higginbotham said of the Elm Creek course.

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Improved Raiders defense awaits KC Logan Booth poses for a picture after acing Hole 6 at the Elm Creek Disc Golf Course during a doubles tournament Nov. 11, one of a pair of recent fundraisers to help pay for a new micro disc course at Iola’s Meadowbrook Park. Construction on the new course is expected to begin in the spring. PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOHN HIGGINBOTHAM While the city has other parcels nearby, they are not contiguous. One of the disc golf league members farms property adjoining the Elm Creek Course, and allows temporary use to expand the course to 18 holes for certain events, but only if there are no crops in the ground, Higginbotham said. HIGGINBOTHAM envisions youth clinics as a centerpiece for the new golf course, and is eager to work with the city to get other activities on the See DISC GOLF | Page B6

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‘Like how killers do it in the movies’: Ex-player admits strangling woman By STEVE HENSON Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Former NBA player Chance Comanche has admitted to working with his girlfriend to strangle a woman to death in Las Vegas earlier this month, according to authorities and court documents. The former Beverly Hills High basketball star admitted to Las Vegas homicide detectives that he conspired with Sakari Harnden to kill Marayna Rodgers in the early hours of Dec. 6, a court filing said. Comanche, 27, who played briefly for the Sacramento Kings in October and Portland Trail Blazers in April, was playing for the Stockton Kings of the NBA G League at the time of the killing. The team was in Las Vegas for a game the night of Dec. 5, and the court filing alleges that

he and Harnden planned the killing days earlier through numerous text messages — some including emojis of a gun, a ghost and a coffin. After they were unable to find someone to kill Rodgers for $3,000, Comanche and Harnden, 19, decided to carry out the killing themselves, the filing said. In a text message to Harnden on Dec. 4, Comanche wrote, “If you get a nice little thick piece of rope or sum sturdy I can do it from the back seat. Like how killers do it in the movies.” According to the court filing, Harnden and Rodgers, 23, were prostitutes and acquaintances who had argued over a Rolex watch and the fact that Rodgers had revealed to others that Harnden had cooperated with police about a boyfriend’s involvement in a double homicide in Stockton earlier this

year. The boyfriend, Iosua Sataua, was arrested in May along with a 16-year-old boy in the case. The night of the killing in Las Vegas, Harnden told Rodgers that Comanche was a trick who was into kinky sex and wanted to tie them up and have sex with both of them, according to the court filing. Rodgers agreed, and while sitting in the front passenger seat of Harnden’s Mercedes-Benz willingly allowed Harnden to tie her hands together with zip ties, the filing said. Comanche told detectives he strangled Rodgers with an HDMI cord from the backseat and that Harnden strangled her with both hands around her neck, the filing said. “Chance made reference to fluid coming out of Marayna’s mouth, which caused them to believe Marayna was

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