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A group of Humboldt volunteers’ years-long effort to host a museum exhibit dedicated to baseball history netted the group the biggest prize of all Friday evening.

The Humboldt Smithsonian Hometown Teams Exhibition, sponsored by the Historic Preservation Alliance, brought home the Donna Talkington Award at Friday’s annual Thrive Allen County banquet.

Presenter Allen Weber lauded Humboldt’s exhibit, calling it “a unique a community effort, which as far as we know, is without precedent in Allen County.”

The exhibit was not simply a static museum display, We-

With equal parts reflection and projection, David Toland spoke Friday about Thrive Allen County’s ambitious plans for 2016 and beyond.

Toland’s comments came during Thrive’s annual awards banquet at Miller’s On Madison, in front of a capacity crowd of more than 250.

Thrive’s growth as an organization dedicated to improving health and lifestyles in Allen County has become evident in tangible, measurable ways, Toland noted.

He pointed to several ex-

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ber explained, with events including a 19th century baseball exhibition game, calf roping and a professor’s lecture on James Naismith and his invention of basketball.

“Of course nobody in Allen County should be surprised the small but mighty Humboldt received this national recognition to be selected for the higher honor by the Smithsonian,” Weber said. “Project director Jan Coykendall labored tirelessly to bring this once-ina-lifetime project to fruition.

Jan formed 30 committees responsible for parts of this logistically challenging sixweek event. As we understand it, she made 30 calls

amples, such as the development of the Lehigh Portland Trail, which should open in 2016; serving each community in Allen County in whatever means possible through community conversations; and seeing civic events such as the Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life or the Portland Alley Pedalfest continue to grow.

“We’ve tried from the start to be meaningful and relevant everywhere in the county,” Toland said. “We did a good job in some areas. Other areas we need to do better.

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Eileen Robertson is assisted to the stage by her husband, Ellery, to receive an award at the annual Thrive Allen County Banquet. In back is David Toland. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Weather extremes have reignited farmers’ interest in planting cover crops, a traditional farming practice that is gaining renewed popularity in Kansas and other states as a way to help combat climate change and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to it.

A New York-based environmental group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, released a report Thursday on the benefits of cover crops — typically non-commodities that protect the soil between harvests of cash crops. The practice not only cuts crop See CROPS | Page A2

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The Humboldt Smithsonian Hometown Teams Exhibition, sponsored by the Historic Preservation Alliance, received the Donna Talkington Award at Friday’s Thrive Allen County Banquet. Presenter Alan Weber, at left, is with committee members Carolyn Moore, Jan Coykendall, Helen Harrington and Chris Bauer. Also a part of the presentation was Jacki Chase, daughter of the late Donna Talkington.

TARKIO, Mo. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials are raising concerns about a proposed northwest Missouri wind farm they say could have an impact on the migration of birds into the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge.

Lenexa, Kansas-based Tradewind Energy plans to build roughly 150 wind turbines as part of the Rock Creek Wind Project in central Atchison County. The 500-foot-tall turbines would be between Tarkio and the Tarkio Prairie Conservation Area in the eastern part of the county.

There already are about 100 turbines on the county’s west side, the St. Joseph News-Press reported.

The Tradewind project places the turbines in the migratory corridor for species that fly into Squaw Creek from Iowa, said Janet Sternberg, policy coordinator for the Missouri Department of Conservation.

“We try to encourage the wind companies to go to already disturbed lands to site turbines,” she said. “We also ask them to stay away from forested patches primarily See BIRDS | Page A2

Ranking presidential hopefuls on climate change knowledge EDITOR’S NOTE — This story, assessing political claims that take shortcuts with the facts or don’t tell the full story, is part of an occasional series focusing on the science, the costs and the challenges of climate change around the world ahead of a summit in Paris.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to climate science, two of the three Democratic presidential candidates are ‘A’ students, while most of the Republican contenders are flunking, according to a panel of scientists who reviewed candidates’ comments.

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sociated Press, eight climate and biological scientists graded for scientific accuracy what a dozen top candidates said in debates, interviews and tweets, using a 0 to 100 scale.

To try to eliminate possible bias, the candidates’ comments were stripped of names and given randomly generat-

ed numbers, so the professors would not know who made each statement they were grading. Also, the scientists who did the grading were chosen by professional scientific societies.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the highest average score at 94. Three scientists did not

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assign former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley a score, saying his statements mostly were about policy, which they could not grade, instead of checkable science.

Two used similar reasoning to skip grading New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and See CLIMATE | Page A2

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one did the same for businesswoman Carly Fiorina.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had the lowest score, an average of 6. All eight put Cruz at the bottom of the class.

“This individual understands less about science (and climate change) than the average kindergartner,” Michael Mann, a Pennsylvania State University meteorology professor, wrote of Cruz’s statements. “That sort of ignorance would be dangerous in a doorman, let alone a president.”

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, with an 87, had the lowest score among the Democrats, dinged for an exaggeration when he said global warming could make Earth uninhabitable.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush scored the highest among Republicans, 64, but one grader gave him a perfect 100. Bush was the only Republican can-

This individual understands less about science (and climate change) than the average kindergartner. That sort of ignorance would be dangerous in a doorman, let alone a president.

— Michael Pann, Penn State professor on Ted Cruz’s comments about global warming

didate who got a passing grade on climate in the exercise.

Below Clinton’s 94 were O’Malley with 91; Sanders, 87; Bush, 64; Christie, 54; Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 47; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, 38; Fiorina, 28; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 21; businessman Donald Trump, 15; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, 13; and Cruz with 6.

For the Republicans, climate change came up more in interviews than in their four debates.

But Rubio did confront the issue in the Sept.

16 debate in a way that earned him bad grades from some scientists.

“We are not going to make America a harder place to create jobs in order to pursue policies that will do absolutely nothing, nothing, to change our climate, to change our weather, because America is a lot of things, the greatest country in the world, absolutely,” Rubio said. “But America is not a planet.

And we are not even the largest carbon producer anymore. China is. And they’re drilling a hole and digging anywhere in the world that they can get ahold of.”

Scientists dispute Rubio’s argument that because China is now the top emitter, the U.S. can

do little to change the future climate. The U.S. spews about 17 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, “so big cuts here would still make a big difference globally,” said geochemist Louisa Bradtmiller at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Rubio’s inference that China is not doing much about global warming “is out of date. The Chinese are implementing a cap-and-trade system in their country to reduce emissions,” said Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University.

At an August event In California’s Orange County, Cruz told an interviewer, “If you look at satellite data for the last 18 years, there’s been zero warming. ...

The satellite says it ain’t happening.”

Florida State University’s James Elsner said ground data show every decade has been warmer than the last since the middle of the 20th

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losses but could also save trillions of gallons of water and suck carbon from the air.

“It is actually something old that is all of a sudden new again,” said Steve Swaffar, executive director of No Till on The Plains, a Kansas-based producer group that advocates growing crops from year to year without disturbing the soil.

Cover crops were used fairly regularly by farmers in the 1800s and early 1900s, but they fell out of favor.

Swaffar said he now sees more farmers every season using them.

In Kansas, cover crop use remains low.

The NRDC report cited government statistics showing that in 2012 roughly 322,000 acres of cover crops were planted in Kansas, just 1.5 percent of the state’s total cropland.

NRDC examined historical data on crop losses and projected climate change impacts focused on the nation’s top 10 agricultural states: California, Iowa, Texas, Nebraska,

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because it’s beneficial for the bats, and the larger raptor species will use those larger patches for nesting, so you’re kind of helping keep projects away from those areas, too.”

Neither the state Conservation Department nor the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has regulations governing the placement of wind turbines, Sternberg said, though representatives of the agencies attend meetings with the wind energy companies.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has suggested that Tradewind do an environmental assessment and apply for permits to allow protected species such as eagles to be killed at the facility. Companies operating without a permit for protected species are risking federal penalties, the agency said.

Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Indiana.

NRDC concluded that planting cover crops on half of the corn and soybean acres in those 10 states could suck more than 19 million metric tons of carbon from the air annually, a result of biological processes such as photosynthesis.

The researchers likened it to taking more than 4 million cars off the road.

Farmers in those 10 states lost more than $25 billion worth of crops over the last five years because of weather extremes including drought, heat, heavy rain and flooding, according to the report. Its

authors suggest using cover crops and other soil conservation practices to conserve soil moisture and build soil health, which would reduce crop losses.

Halstead farmer Ryan Speer has been using cover crops since 2007 at his farm in southcentral Kansas where he grows corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum. He put in a blend of triticale, rye and other grains as a cover crop on some 1,700 acres. Come spring, he’ll plant the new crop in those same fields without tearing out his cover crop.

“We started out small, but now we are doing it on almost 100 percent of our

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Cover crops control evaporation during the heat of summer, capture rainfall and control weeds, he said, adding he also uses fewer chemicals and needs to irrigate less.

Kansas is particularly vulnerable to weather extremes, and the state had 661 U.S. Department of Agriculture county disaster declarations between 2012 and 2014 due to drought or flooding. The 2012 drought cost farmers more than $3 billion in crop losses, and the drought in 2011 cost $1.8 million.

century and satellite data-based observations “show continued warming over the past several decades.”

In fact, federal groundbased data, which scientists said is more reliable than satellites, show that 15 of the 17 years after 1997 have been warmer than 1997 and 2015 is on track to top 2014 as the warmest year on record.

Scientists singled out Sanders for overstatement in the first Democratic presidential debate.

“The scientific community is telling us that if we do not address the global crisis of climate change, transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy, the planet that we’re going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren may well not be habitable,” Sanders said.

Dessler said, “I would not say that the planet will become uninhabitable. Regardless of what we do, some humans will survive.” Harvard’s Jim McCarthy also called the comment an overstatement, as did other scientists when Sanders said it. Recent research on the worst heat projections in the hottest area,

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TRUMP brought out some of the more colorful and terse critiques.

“It could be warming and it’s going to start to cool at some point,” Trump said in a September radio interview.

“And you know in the 1920s people talked about global cooling. I don’t know if you know that or not. They thought the Earth was cooling.

Now it’s global warming. Actually, we’ve had times where the weather wasn’t working out so they changed it to extreme weather and they have all different names, you know, so that it fits the bill.”

McCarthy, a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called Trump’s comments “nonsense,” while Emmanuel Vincent, a climate scientist at the University of California, Merced, said, “the candidate does not appear to have any commitment to accuracy.”

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Thrive basks in shining the spotlight on success of thers At a parent-teacher conference the credit, or blame, for a student’s performance most times makes its way back to the parents and whether they are providing a nurturing environment for excellence.

Yes, the student gets the credit, but every educator knows that it’s the behind-the-scenes effort that makes the difference.

Such was the case Friday night when individuals and organizations were publicly recognized for their contributions at the annual Thrive Allen County banquet. In almost every instance, Thrive played a background role in helping launch ideas and efforts.

But, like a good parent, Thrive directed the spotlight on its “students,” bringing them up to the stage with awards and standing ovations.

THRIVE began about 10 years ago through the efforts of locals wanting to make Allen County a better place to live with a primary focus on health and wellness.

Significant grants helped launch programs to those ends, including backto-school health checkups for area students, Navigators to help people secure health insurance, activities to inspire people to become more physically active, and programs to help the unemployed secure the needed resources to keep engaged as productive citizens.

Over the years, Thrive

has broadened its vision as to what it takes to be a healthy region, including an area’s economic viability. There’s not a town in Allen County that doesn’t feel threatened by the future. To a one, we continue to lose population.

To that end, Thrive also has a focus of economic development to help stanch the bleeding. It was instrumental in helping build consensus that Allen County build a new hospital. And, most recently, it helped attract G&W Foods to locate in Iola.

The region’s rail trails marry all of Thrive’s goals.

Not only do they encourage people to get outside and be physically active, but they also lure tourists to the area, helping drive our economic engine.

Thrive also provides a good example of how working together, we are greater than the sum of our parts.

As Thrive’s executive director, David Toland is no stranger to city and county leaders. To some, he is undoubtedly a thorn in their sides as he urges them to think outside of the proverbial box in efforts to make Allen County stand out against its peers.

It’s because of those efforts that across the county leaders have endorsed new sidewalks, parks, signage, community centers and even housing and retail developments, all pointing to a brighter future.

Take a bow, Thrive Allen County.

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A new music store, known as Jack-N-Joe’s Music Mart, will be opened in Iola tomorrow by Jack McCrate, local band leader, and Joe Rovito of Chanute.

It will be located on the second floor over the J.C. Penney Store on the south side of the square. The two will sell band instruments and accessories, sheet music, record players and music text books.

State’s goal: Welfare of the wealthy Take stock of what has happened to Kansas tax policy, and then ask the question, “Who benefitted?” Here’s a hint: It wasn’t middle class or low income Kansans.

Big changes in Kansas tax policy began in 2012 when Gov. Sam Brownback signed sweeping tax cuts into law. Income tax rates were lowered across the board and individuals who receive their income through “business” sources were exempted entirely from paying state income taxes.

Yes, in that action, income tax rates went down for everyone, but at the same time, lawmakers also raised the sales tax and took away credits that helped low-income Kansans.

Even with the offsetting sales tax increase, the income tax cuts proved so costly that they triggered a severe budget crisis.

In the first year, general fund revenue dropped $701 million, more than 11 percent, jerking the state budget badly out of balance. Lawmakers covered the ballooning gap between expenses and rapidly falling income by using up all of the state’s financial reserves.

With the bank account emptied, lawmakers tried to close the gap by cutting programs, including school funding.

And they transferred unimaginably large sums of money from the highway fund and from virtually every other fund in the state treasury that had cash. Despite these irre-

Duane Goossen Kansas Center for Economic Center sponsible actions, they fell far short. At that point, even the most conservative lawmakers decided to raise taxes.

Sales tax rates rose again.

Lawmakers hiked cigarette taxes sharply, and eliminated most income tax deductions.

Property taxes continued to go up, largely because school districts tried to survive reductions in state aid.

What’s the net result of all those tax changes?

For the 20 percent of Kansans who earn the least, below $23,000 a year, average taxes actually went up by $197 a year. For the next 20 percent, net taxes also jumped higher.

Middle income Kansans essentially broke even. But the top 20 percent of Kansas earners came out far ahead, and the top 1 percent, those who earn more than $500,000 a year, picked up an average tax break of about $25,000.

All these figures come from the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, a group that has developed probably the best model for measuring these types of changes in any state.

But it doesn’t take a study to tell us what has happened.

Any Kansan can see it. A sales tax hike takes a far bigger bite out of a small income than a large one. Lower income Kansans spend a much higher proportion of their resources on food and other items subject to sales tax than wealthy Kansans do.

Kansas now has the second highest state sales tax rate on food in the nation. The shift to sales tax has contributed to making our state’s tax system one of the 10 most regressive.

The poor pay a far higher percentage of their income in taxes than the wealthy, not a statistic of which Kansans can be proud.

Yet even after shifting the burden of state taxes onto middle class and low-income Kansans, the budget is still not working. The tax breaks for the wealthiest of Kansans produced such a huge revenue loss that the state budget remains in the red. Just this month, state officials announced yet another downward revision of the revenue forecast. So more “fixes” are ahead.

If the real goal was to shift more resources to the wealthiest Kansans, this policy has worked like gangbusters. But if the goal was to adequately fund state programs with a fair taxation system, it’s a wreck. The state budget is in shambles. Unless we change course, the lowest income Kansans and the Kansas middle class will bear even more of the burden of fixing it.

Kansans plagued by a dismal budget short on dollars and hope The latest downbeat facts about the Kansas economy are at odds with the unrealistic pronouncements spouted

by Gov. Sam Brownback.

But don’t take our word for it.

Check out a federal employment survey published Friday and a report released Thursday by Brownback’s own officials, legislative researchers and economists from three state universities.

State officials desperate to balance the budget are raiding programs that benefit children and repair roads, while conceding that tax revenues will grow even more slowly than once predicted.

These actions are damaging the state’s ability to deliver crucial services to Kansans.

The income tax cuts that Brownback and the Legislature trumpeted in 2012 as the savior for the economy have failed abysmally. The Legislature needs to rescind parts of them in 2016 to raise funds and make the tax system fairer.

Among reasons for pursuing those outcomes: • The expected growth rate of Kansas’ gross state product has been slashed to 1.2 percent for 2015, only half of

the expected rate for the U.S. gross domestic product. This information was released by the Kansas Legislative Research Department and the Division of the Budget.

• The same officials concluded that personal income in Kansas, once predicted to surge by 3.4 percent in 2015, is now estimated to go up only 2.2 percent. Again, that’s just half of the expected growth rate for U.S. personal income.

• Total employment in Kansas for October was 10,900 higher than in October 2014, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.

But those gains were below what state officials had predicted. And the growth rate of 0.8 percent for the last year was about half the national average (sound familiar?) and was tied for the 10th worst year-over-year rate among U.S. states.

Most Kansans are dismayed by Brownback’s leadership. Indeed, in a survey released Friday, he by far had the lowest approval rating of America’s governors.

And we haven’t even come to the most concerning news.

Earlier this month state officials announced cuts of more than $120 million in the

2016 fiscal year budget that began July 1. That included yet another large diversion — this time of $50 million — from future highway projects.

Even after all the spending reductions, Kansas is expected to have a paltry $5.6 million in reserves by June 30, 2016. And that’s if everything goes great in the next eight months and the state collects as much money as predicted.

In 10 days, the Kansas Department of Revenue is scheduled to release revenue numbers for November. Uneasy legislators and other government officials will be on pins and needles waiting for that report because the state has failed in all four months of the 2016 fiscal year to meet expectations.

State officials and economists earlier this month reduced future predictions, so the numbers should be easier to hit.

Problem solved? Not nearly.

The National Association of State Budget Officers’ most recent fiscal survey showed that Kansas would have the ninth worst rate of total balances compared to spending for the 2016 fiscal year. However, that was before the estimates of reserves plummeted

to $5.6 million. Take that into account, and Kansas could have the worst rate of total balances.

The reserves are critical because the lower they are, the greater the fear that a big miss in revenues or a natural disaster in Kansas could easily wipe out money needed for a rainy day. That could lead to more, unanticipated cuts to existing budgets of state departments, such as social services and education.

Then there’s the pesky problem of state sales tax receipts.

Yes, they are up for the year by about 7 percent but only because Brownback and legislators who purport to be so interested in slashing taxes actually approved a big jump in the sales tax rate in 2015. But sales tax revenues haven’t yet come close to matching early estimates.

Finally, there’s the possibility that legal rulings could compel the Legislature to spend a lot more money on education.

A court could decide that the new K-12 block grant funding formula approved by Brownback and the Legislature is unconstitutional.

The biggest victory for K-12

schools would be a Kansas Supreme Court decision ordering the state to provide hundreds of millions of dollars a year in extra funding for education. Obviously, the state does not have that money on hand, especially after the Brownback administration has spent down the reserves over the last three years.

All of these actions by Brownback and other state officials have real consequences.

In their budget cuts of early November, state officials included a $9 million sweep from the Children’s Initiative Fund. Budget Director Shawn Sullivan said programs would not be affected.

But Kansas Action for Children officials who oversee the children’s fund recently said the state’s move “will reduce grant awards already promised to 20 Kansas programs....

These programs produce some of the most impressive early childhood outcomes in Kansas, and they are being sacrificed for a failing tax plan that has spiraled out of control.”

That about sums up the depressing state of the Kansas budget.

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Awards: Thrive volunteers, groups bring home awards Karen Gilpin said. “This particular sidewalk is one of the busiest in Iola, getting significant traffic from a cross-section of the community that particularly includes low-income residents lacking vehicles who previously had to risk life and limb just to buy food.”

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requesting help for the 30 committees. She received 30 yes answers in the response.

“This is the spirit of what Thrive Allen County is all about,” Weber said. “It’s the spirit Donna Talkington showed throughout her decades of her community life.”

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The Rotary Clothes Closet received Thrive’s Excellence in Education Award, by providing new clothing for grade school children in Iola, Humboldt and Moran.

“The program has been a lifesaver for kids, who through no fault of their own, found themselves lacking the most basic necessities to be ready to learn,” presenter Tosca Harris said.

The Farm-City Days Committee received the Recreation Award. Pre-

Iola was honored Friday by Thrive Allen County for its State Street sidewalk extension project. From left are City Council members Austin Sigg and Bob Shaughnessy, Assistant City Administrator Corey Schinstock, Council members Aaron Franklin and Nancy Ford and award presenter Karen Gilpin. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

senter Randy Rasa explained how the newly formed committee had just a few scant months to prepare for the annual fall festival after the previous committee resigned en masse. “The result was a Farm-City Days celebration that was everything these organizers and the community as a whole had hoped for, and more,

The city’s Street and Alley crews overcame complicated rights-ofway challenges, driveways, signs and bad weather to complete the sidewalk in a timely manner.

“The project also helped silence critics who once said that sidewalks are a waste of money because nobody uses them,” presenter

and which has restored the festival back to its rightful place as the Iola area’s marquee event.”

The City of Iola’s State Street Sidewalk project earned Thrive’s Excellence in Health and Wellness Award.

The 4,000-foot, 6-footwide sidewalk connects the State Street shopping plaza to the Prairie Spirit Trail.

BANKS FROM Iola, Humboldt, Gas and Moran pooled together to present Unsung Heroes awards to residents from eastern Allen County, Humboldt and Iola.

Honored from Moran was Bill Bigelow, who serves on both the Moran City Council and the Marmaton Valley USD 256 Board of Education.

He also volunteers as a coach with the Moran Ball Association and with each Moran Day. Bigelow served with the Marines in Kosovo, and is a member of the American Legion.

Honored from Humboldt was Eileen Robertson, who has “been involved in everything big and small,” in Humboldt, presenter Heather Curry said. Robertson was involved in the establishment of the Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area, and Humboldt’s inclusion in the area, from her reenactment with Humboldt’s Civil War Days.

She also serves with the Humboldt Chamber of Commerce, Biblesta Committee and Downtown Action Committee.

Iolan Wanda Lytle was recognized for her volunteer work with the Veterans Day Committee. She was involved with the original construction of the Veterans Wall on the courthouse square, and its recent expansion. She also helps with annual Veterans Day services, and is a member of the American Legion Auxiliary.

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We need to hold our legislators accountable for expanding Medicaid in the state. It has a financial impact. Not to mention, it’s morally reprehensible not to.

— David Toland, Thrive Allen County

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“We need more tools,” he said. “We need a revolving loan fund in this county so that we can help incubate small businesses. We need good incubator spaces, physical spaces to get small businesses off the ground. But, we are very grateful for the spirit of partnership and coop-

Administrator) Corey Schinstock has made sure that when a street is redone, there are sidewalks and curb cuts.

They’ve done it right.

We want to make sure this has the force of policy or law.”

Toland also commended Iola commissioners for installing new sidewalks, especially the one on north State Street from the Iola Shopping Plaza to Walmart.

THRIVE WILL remain an outspoken advocate of Medicaid expansion in Kansas, which state lawmakers have resisted.

“We enroll people in health insurance at Thrive,” Toland said.

“We have people come in who work at McDonald’s or Walmart. Or in the case of a single mother who has three jobs, none of which provides health insurance..

She earns $12,000 a year between the three. If she were by herself, she’d be in the sweet spot, meaning she could get financial support to get health insurance.

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child,” he continued.

“And because she has a child, she doesn’t make enough money to get help, which makes no sense. It’s a disincentive to do the right thing.

That’s because Kansas has refused to expand Medicaid.”

Medicaid has a direct impact on every Allen Countian, he noted, because of the long-term sustainability of Allen County Regional Hospital.

Expanded Medicaid would mean as much as $1 million annually to ACRH, Toland said.

Toland also spoke about the closure of Independence’s Mercy Hospital.

“We are very fortunate that we’re in a much, much stronger position because we’re a critical access hospital, but if that kind of thing can happen in Independence, nobody’s safe. We need to hold our legislators accountable for expanding Medicaid in the state. It has a financial impact. Not to mention, it’s morally reprehensible not to,” to which the audience broke out into sustained applause.

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TOLAND’S most pointed comments came at the conclusion of his 20-minute presentation, when he spoke about Thrive’s advocacy efforts.

Thrive is working in league with Allen Community College students to promote a tobacco ban at the Iola campus.

“We want this to be a student effort and student-led,” Toland said.

Thrive also is promoting a “complete streets” ordinance in both Humboldt and Iola.

“That means when a street is repaved or rebuilt, you take into account pedestrians and bicycles,” Toland said.

“In the 1950s, when we stopped building sidewalks, you can see nationally how obesity rates started to climb.

People got less healthy.”

Iola has begun to adapt in recent years, by adding sidewalks to its street improvement effort.

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The Rural Health Initiative continues to grow in other ways, “and it’s really gained its own legs,” by having different entities, such as the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center, the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department, Hope Unlimited and USD 257 and 258 involved.

“We’re also constantly in the process of reconsidering everything we do,” Toland said. “Nothing is sacred. That means a lot of things we once did, we cut. Who remembers the Allen County Meltdown. We used to have the Portland Alley Marathon. This year, we’re spinning off the Jingle Bell Jog” which is being coordinated this year by the Iola High School track team.

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Among Thrive’s other 2016 plans are to continue with its Community Engagement Initiative, designed to help communities accomplish their diverse goals with a grant provided by the Kansas Health Foundation. “We’re not here to say what (the communities’) goals are. We’re here to make it happen.

“We’re also focused in a laser-like way on reducing the number of uninsured in Allen County,” Toland continued. “With Lisse Regehr leading the effort, in the last three years in Allen County, we’ve cut the number of uninsured from 1,800 to 1,200.

That’s a big deal.

“That’s been made possible because we’ve been aggressive about going out and making sure people understand that the American Healthcare Act is here, it’s here to stay, it’s here to help, and it’s a resource.”

Toland also spoke about Allen County’s Connectors Program, a group of local volunteers who steer those in need to potential resources for help.

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on Saturday.

“And I’m not good with that.”

The Lady Red Devils were At this point last year, the within eight of the MaverLady Red Devils were 1-8 icks by the end of the first overall with a whole lot of half and within seven midlosing still remaining in front way in the second half. of them.

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And the San Diego Chargers? Their free-fall shows no sign of letting up.

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rebounds. The sophomore needed just 16 minutes to earn the double-double.

Long finished with 14 points, Kyle Hultgren had 12 and Darius and Darren

Spruill each had 11. Tremaine Fraiser added 10 points.

Allen will host Labette on Tuesday at 7 p.m. before its Thanksgiving break.

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On Friday, coach Andy Shaw’s defense stepped up late to help Allen defeat Penn Valley, 81-78.

After allowing the Scouts to shoot 63 percent in the first half, the Red Devils buckled down and limited Penn Valley to shoot just 32 percent from the floor after the break.

Jermaine Long and JahKobe Womack each had 15 points to help Allen squeeze out another late-game victory.

On Saturday, Allen had its best offensive game of the year in a 112-68 win over Wentworth Military Academy.

The 112 points were the most by the Red Devils this season. All 13 of Allen’s players scored at least once with six of them recording doubledigit scoring performances.

Jameel Henson led the team with 16 points and 10

returned an interception 17 yards for a touchdown as the Kansas City Chiefs embarrassed the Chargers 33-3 Sunday.

With Alex Smith victorious again at Qualcomm Stadium, the Chiefs (5-5) won their fourth straight game following a five-game losing streak.

The Chargers (2-8) lost their sixth straight.

The Chiefs brought some defensive heat, even on offense.

After Charcandrick West was stuffed from the 1-yard line on third down on the Chiefs’ second possession, they went on fourth down, this time giving the ball to Poe. He got air and went in for his first NFL TD. “I smelled the end zone, man,” he said. “At that point you’ve got to do whatever you need to get in there. I saw a couple of bodies there and didn’t want to take a chance.

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KSU snaps losing skid MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State coach Bill Snyder couldn’t help but laugh when asked about the enthusiastic locker room he had just stepped out of.

Over the last six weeks, the Wildcats squandered leads, came up short in frantic comeback attempts and been blown out - culminating in the program’s worst losing streak since 1989.

But on Saturday there was finally reason to celebrate.

Jack Cantele kicked a 42-yard field goal with three seconds left to cap Kansas State’s 38-35 come-from-

behind victory over Iowa State.

“They enjoyed the daylights out of it,” Snyder said. “I told them that I had been here for a couple 100 years and I have never seen our locker room like that.

We always say, ‘Act like you’ve been there before.’ We didn’t act like we’ve been there before, but we needed that.”

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amid rising political activism among black students at the University of Kansas and other colleges, as well as the national Black Lives Matter movement. “I think that things have been brewing, and they simply were not addressed,� said Melody McCray-Miller, a former legislator who is now a vice chairwoman of the Kansas Democratic Party. “I think that with the Black Lives Matter movement, it has empowered, particularly younger African-Americans, younger people period. Because it’s not just a black thing.

anyone younger than 40 — black or white. KBLC leaders acknowledged that mobilizing young voters has been a challenge across the political spectrum in recent years. But they intend to push their agenda out to young voters through social media and other platforms. “It’s all about making the issues relevant to them,� Gooch said. “And if we can connect the issues to them, and why it’s important, I think we can pull them out. And that’s going to be a challenge, but I don’t think it’s going to be that big of a challenge, based on this agenda.�

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The study released Thursday by Trust for America’s Health, a nonprofit health advocacy group, shows that Kansas’ overall drug overdose death rate for 12- to 25-year-olds was 5.9 deaths for every 100,000 youths. That compares to 7.3 deaths nationally for every 100,000 youths, The Wichita Eagle reported.

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‘Stomach flu’ is not actual flu Dear Dr. Roach: With the flu season coming on, would you please discuss the difference between what people call the “stomach flu” and what the flu really is? I have two friends who last year said they weren’t getting the flu shot anymore because despite having it, they got the flu. They each described several hours of throwing up, but feeling better the next day.

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headache, fatigue and severe body and muscle aches. Influenza occurs about two days after exposure. There also often are symptoms of cough, sore throat and nasal discharge, just as there are with the common cold, but the sudden onset, fever (commonly 100 to 104 degrees) and muscle aches help distinguish cold from flu.

Gastrointestinal symptoms — such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea — are less common in influenza, and these symptoms in absence of the major manifestations listed above makes the diagnosis of flu very unlikely.

In late fall through early spring, some diarrheal illnesses (mostly viral) are common, but you are correct that these are NOT influenza.

The flu shot contains viral proteins, not live influenza, and it is incapable of causing the flu. Many people will have a sore arm and sometimes mild fever and body aches after a flu shot. This is just part of the body’s reaction, and it goes away by itself within 24 hours.

There is a live influenza vaccine given by nasal spray, which also generally has mild side effects. This may be given to adults under 50.

The flu shot is not perfect: You still can get the flu after receiving the shot. However, the flu shot is effective at reducing the most serious cases of flu, such as influenza pneumonia, which can be life-threatening or fatal.

Dear Dr. Roach: Can you please explain how an MRI machine affects the pigment in a tattoo? My friend’s MRI procedure was stopped because she was experiencing a burning sensation at her lower eyelids, which had previously

been tattooed with black ink. Does this happen only with black ink?

Which colors are safer?

— J.H. Answer: Reactions between the ink in tattoos and MRI scanners are well-documented in the literature. Some inks — mostly black, red and brown — are made with iron or titanium oxides.

Only 1.5 percent of people with tattoos have reported bad experiences in MRI machines.

Iron and titanium oxides conduct electricity, and the strong magnetic field in an MRI scanner can cause a current to travel between different tattoos or different portions of a tattoo — especially those with loops in the pattern. The electric current causes heat, and even can cause minor burns. Cold packs or ice placed on the area during MRI can minimize damage, but some MRI facilities will not perform an MRI on tattooed individuals, especially if the tattoo covers a large area.

by and through the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, praying for in rem judgment against borrowers Robert L. Wilson and Saundra H. Wilson, in the total amount of $92,925.33, which includes the following: the principal sum of $82,528.91 (including unpaid principal of $78,702.14 and advances as follows: escrow replenish of $1,249.00; title of $125.00; escrow of $2,409.36; and late fees of $43.41); and $10,396.42 interest accrued to July 6, 2015 (including principal interest of $10,222.85 and interest on advances of $173.57);

plus daily interest accruing at the contract rate of $12.8889 (including daily interest on principal of $12.6678 and daily interest on advances of $0.2211) per day to the date of judgment herein; together with interest at the legal rate thereafter; plus the costs of this action; and for foreclosure of real estate mortgages executed on July 1, 2004, covering real property located in Allen County, Kansas, described as: Lots One (1), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4) and Five (5), in Block Six (6) in Savonburg, Allen County, Kansas, and you are hereby required to plead

to said Complaint on or before November 24, 2015, in said Court at Topeka, Kansas. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said Complaint. BARRY R. GRISSOM United States Attorney District of Kansas s/ T.G. Luedke T.G. LUEDKE Assistant United States Attorney Ks. S.Ct. No. 12788 Federal Building, Suite 290 444 SE Quincy Street Topeka, KS 666833592 Telephone: 785.295.2850 Facsimile: 785.295.2853 E-mail: tom.luedke@usdoj.gov Attorneys for the United States (10) 19, 26 (11) 2, 9, 16, 23

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ACC: Lady Red Devils drop below .500 for first time Continued from B1

ished shooting 35.7 percent from beyond the three-point arc.

And although Buchanan said his squad reached his goal of getting to the line 25 or more times, Allen was not able to knock down a decent percentage to keep close with Tonkawa. ACC finished the night shooting 15-of-29 from the charity stripe.

The first-year head coach at Allen has made consistency his theme in practice and in the early-going this year, but he said he hasn’t seen much of it during

Left: Josie Reilly (22) is tangled up on the floor.

Top: Haley Wilson attempts a three-pointer.

Right: Coach Todd Buchanan reacts to a play.

their losing skid.

“Quite frankly, I think we talk about it, but we don’t want to be about it,” Buchanan said. “And

that’s what I tell them on and off. And that’s my way of trying to challenge them to be about it and fight back. At times

we’ll do it, but the consistency of it is not near what it needs to be nor frequent enough.”

Buchanan added lead-

ership might be an issue with a young team like Allen.

Without a vocal floor captain that can encour-

age the players when they’re down, a team can have a difficult time overcoming adversity.

Buchanan hopes to find a standout leader in time for the Lady Red Devils’ conference slate, which picks up after the Thanksgiving break.

“This is a huge moment for us,” Buchanan said. “This is very crucial for us.”

Allen will play the reigning NJCAA Division-II national champion in Johnson County Community College tonight at 6 o’clock which should show the resolve of the Lady Red Devils.

KSU: Wildcats complete comeback Continued from B1

Tamba Hali (91) sacks Philip Rivers (17) on Sunday.

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So I just did it man.”

Poe is the heaviest NFL player to score an offensive touchdown, according to STATS. “I needed it. I loved it. My eyes lit up,” Poe said.

Said Houston, with a laugh: “I told him I earned my touchdown.

His touchdown was given.”

It was Houston’s first TD, as well.

Houston had four of Kansas City’s seven sacks of Rivers in the 2014 season finale in which the Chargers were eliminated from the playoff race.

Here are some things that stood out in the Chiefs’ rout of the Chargers: MR. SMITH RETURNS TO SAN DIEGO: Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith, who led Helix High to consecutive city championships at Qualcomm Stadium, completed 20 of 25 passes for 253 yards.

He also ran seven times for 33 yards.

There’s a chance this was Smith’s last appearance at Qualcomm Stadium.

Chargers chairman Dean Spanos has infuriated fans with his intention to move the team to an industrial suburb of Los Angeles, which would require approval of fellow owners.

Smith broke Steve DeBerg’s team record of 233 consecutive passes without an interception. Smith threw his 234th straight pass without a pick on a

47-yard completion to West. Smith extended his record to 253.

CHARGERS MELTDOWN: Rivers had his worst game of the season, going 19 of 30 for just 178 yards. Tight end Antonio Gates was seen jawing at the quarterback on the sideline in the first half.

“Really what was said really doesn’t matter,” Rivers said. “Brothers fuss and fight, for any of you that have brothers. And I Iove Antonio and I think he will tell you the same thing.”

Rivers said Sunday’s face-plant “is about as tough as it gets and not like it hasn’t been tough the last five.

This one, it gets even worse.”

EFFORT QUESTIONED: Some observers wondered if some Chargers didn’t play the full 60 minutes. “’’I will watch the film and look at it,” coach Mike McCoy said. “I want each individual to watch that film and for 60 minutes, ‘What did I do for 60 minutes.’ ...

It means something to play in this game and you need to look in the mirror first and see how you finished that game, and you answer it yourself.”

OTHER SCORES: Cairo Santos kicked field goals of 28 and 24 yards, and Spencer Ware had two 3-yard TD runs in the fourth quarter.

San Diego’s only score was a 52-yard field goal by rookie Josh Lambo.

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State (3-8, 2-6) fumbles in the final seven minutes and rallied from a 35-14 first-half deficit.

Joe Hubener had 216 yards passing and a touchdown, and had 20 carries for 90 yards to lead Kansas State, which needed the win to stay bowl eligible.

Charles Jones ran for 65 yards and two touchdowns.

Jones ran for an 8-yard score, and Hubener threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Kody Cook to make it 35-28 early in the fourth quarter. Warren fumbled with 7:26 to play, and Duke Shelley recovered it at the Cyclones 32. On the ensuing series, Hubener threw an incomplete pass on a fourth-and-6 to stall the drive.

Iowa State elected to not take a knee, and Warren fumbled again with 1:31 to play. Elijah Lee recovered the football at the Wildcat 44.

Jones ran for a 5-yard touchdown to tie it at 35 with 42 seconds left. Marquel Bryant then sacked and forced a Lanning fum-

Jack Cantele (3) celebrates his game-winning 42yard field goal Saturday. BO RADER/WICHITA EAGLE/TNS ble. It was recovered by Charmeachealle Moore on the Cyclone 25 to set up Cantele’s game-winner two plays later.

“A bunch of us seniors were over there and when we saw Iowa State take the ball back with 1:31 we just kind of looked at each other and understood that was it,” Cantele said.

“That was our chance.

That changed quickly, though. It doesn’t take much to spark this team and give us some

hope.”

Kansas State has won eight straight against Iowa State. The Cyclones have not won in Manhattan, Kansas since 1988.

Kansas State’s defense forced a threeand-out on the opening drive of the contest for the first time in seven games. But Iowa State opened the scoring on its next series when Lanning threw a 21yard touchdown pass to Trever Ryen with 9:26 to play in the first

quarter.

The Wildcats pieced together its only offensive scoring drive of the first half with a trick-play. Fullback Glenn Gronkowski threw a 4-yard jump pass to Winston Dimel to cap a 9-play, 65-yard drive.

Lanning ran for a 1-yard score in response, and then threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Lazard to stretch the Cyclones lead to 21-7. Morgan Burns, who was named Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday, returned the ensuing kickoff 100 yards to pull the Wildcats to 21-14.

Warren then had his long touchdown run, and Lanning connected on a 16-yard scoring strike to Lazard with 29 seconds left in the first half to give the Cyclones a 35-14 halftime lead.

“Coach Snyder preaches finish,” Jones said. “Regardless of what the score is on the scoreboard, we’re going to finish and fight until the last second.”

Iola Middle School Pony Stampede results The Iola Middle School girls basketball team hosted the Pony Stampede tournament Saturday, which featured Royster, Independence and Pittsburg.

In the first round for the A teams, Iola lost to Pitt, 39-10. Rebecca Sprague led the Ponies with seven points while adding five rebounds. Lauryn Holloway recorded a teamhigh eight rebounds.

In the third-place

game, Iola lost to Independence, 19-12.

Jenna Miller recorded eight points and nine boards.

“We played much better today,” said coach Marty Taylor.

“Hopefully we can keep it going through the break and into the second half of the season.”

Royster defeated Pittsburg, 58-36, in the championship.

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