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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Council says no to moving meetings

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

The Iola City Council will continue to meet on the second and fourth Mondays of each month at the New Community Building at Riverside Park.

The decision came after a debate Monday among Council members and Iolan Larry Walden, who first brought up the idea of the city switching its meeting dates.

Walden’s reasoning is that Iolans have five governing bodies that rely in some capacity on taxes — the city,

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Allen County, Allen Community College, the hospital and USD 257.

The hospital, county and ACC all meet on different nights of the month. However, USD 257 and City Council both meet at 6 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday

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of the month.

Because the city established those meeting nights in 2012, after going from a three-member commission to an eight-member council, Walden figured it was up to the city to change its meeting nights.

Council members, after hearing a number of options given by City Administrator Sid Fleming, thought otherwise.

The first option, switching to the first and third Monday of the month, conflicted with 4-H and Family Com-

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

A November fundraiser to help local residents pay their utility bills was a success, Iolan Tracy Keagle said, but with such a high demand, those funds are being drained rapidly.

Keagle, on behalf of Humanity House, approached Iola City Council members Monday with her group’s

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Ruling throws wrench in Brexit exit

By EILEEN SULLIVAN The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Pompeo was sworn in Monday night as director of the CIA at a crucial time for U.S. national security as intelligence — traditionally Mike Pompeo a nonpartisan issue — has been thrust into the political arena.

“You are stepping up to lead the finest intelligencegathering operation the world has ever seen,” Vice President Mike Pence said during the nighttime swearing-in ceremony. “The men and women serving under your command give true meaning to the word courage.”

The Senate earlier Monday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the CIA despite some Democratic objections that the Kansas congressman has been less than transparent about his positions on torture, surveillance and Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election.

The vote was 66-32.

Trump has been critical of intelligence agencies since their assessment of Russian involvement to help him win the election, but the new president also has said he is fully behind them.

Senate Republicans had hoped to vote on Pompeo’s nomination Friday, after Trump’s inauguration. But Democrats succeeded in stalling action until they could debate.

Democratic Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden on Monday said Pompeo was the “wrong man for the job.”

“He has endorsed extreme policies that would fundamentally erode liberties and freedoms of our people without making us safer,” Wyden said. He said Pompeo’s answers to questions from some senators have been “vague” and “contradictory,” making

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Humanity House plans to host a twoday craft fair March 25 and 26.

K e a g l e Tracy Keagle said rental fees from booth vendors will go to Humanity House. She

By DANICA KIRKA The Associated Press

Freedom Ministries’ new home Iola’s Freedom Ministries, which provides evangelical outreach for jail and prison inmates across the state, has relocated to 204 S. State St. from the old Hawk Travel offices on South Washington Avenue. Shown here is the Freedom Ministries team, from left, Tom Bevard, Richard Olson, Jerry Taylor, Steve Traw and Randy Bevard. Not pictured is Lucy Bevard. REGIS-

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government must get parliamentary approval before starting the process of leaving the European Union, the Supreme Court ruled today, potentially delaying Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to trigger exit negotiations by the end of March.

The 8-3 ruling from the judges forces the government to put a bill before Parliament, giving pro-EU politicians a chance to soften the terms of Brexit — Britain’s exit from the EU. “Leave” campaigners had objected, saying Parliament shouldn’t have the power to overrule the electorate, which voted See BREXIT | Page A2

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Lt. Gov.: Politics played role in KanCare ruling

By ANDY MARSO Kansas News Service

As Kansas lawmakers move forward with efforts to increase oversight of KanCare, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer says Brownback administration officials are addressing the issues that federal regulators cited in denying a one-year extension of the program last week.

Colyer still says he thinks politics played a role in the decision, which came in the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency.

But hours after returning from the inauguration of President Donald Trump, he said in a phone interview Saturday that the state will resolve regulators’ concerns with KanCare, which provides health coverage to more than 425,000 Kansans.

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ply with the federal rules, and there have been a number of discussions that have gone on with them,” Colyer said. “But we believe that we can address any of these issues and are happy to do so.”

Officials with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave Kansas until mid-February to submit a plan to solve compliance issues, which included a lack of reliable data on the provider networks maintained by the three private insurance companies that administer KanCare.

Colyer said he could not personally vouch for the accuracy of the network data.

He left that to leaders of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

“I’m not the expert on that,” Colyer said. “The pol-

Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer said in an interview Saturday he thinks politics played a role in the federal denial of a one-year extension for KanCare, but added the state is working to resolve the issues that federal regulators cited. KANSAS NEWS SERVICE FILE PHOTO icy of the state of Kansas is we want to make sure that we do have an excellent network and if there are concerns, of course we want to deal with

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P.A. joins clinic in Humboldt HUMBOLDT — The Allen County Regional Clinic, which opened its doors in Humboldt Nov. 28, has hired JoAnna Curl as a physician’s assistant.

Curl, of Moran, will join the medical team led by Dr. Brian McNeely.

Curl earned a bachelor of science degree in biology from Pittsburg State University and a master of science physician assistant degree from Wichita State University.

Most recently, Curl worked as a physician assistant at Community Health Center in Southeast Kansas in Iola. Prior to that, she worked with Panacea Family Medicine in Chanute.

She lives in Moran with her husband and child.

Arrests reported

Fight reported

Iola police officers arrested Ricardo Guerrero-Hernandez, 35, Iola, for allegedly driving without a valid driver’s license Sunday in the 300 block of North State Street.

Officers arrested Matric Scott, 16, Iola, for suspicion of disorderly conduct following an incident in the 300 block of Briarwood Drive.

Jesse Green Jr., Neosho Falls, was arrested at Walmart Friday afternoon for suspicion of trespassing, theft, criminal damage to property and possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.

Jesse J. Belsher, 39, Iola, was arrested Friday morning in the 600 block of North Colborn Street for allegedly driving after being declared a habitual violator.

Officers investigated a reported fight involving four juveniles Friday near the intersection of Elm and Lincoln streets. No charges are being requested, officers said.

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to leave the bloc in a June 23 referendum.

The Supreme Court’s decision doesn’t mean that Britaiƒn will remain in the EU — but it could delay the process. Still, May’s Brexit secretary, David Davis, told the House of Commons today that the government timetable remained on track, and that officials would introduce a bill within days.

“There can be no turning back,” Davis said. “The point of no return was passed on June 23 last year.”

May had said she

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Trail vandalism Iola police officers were told Friday morning that several street lights along the Prairie Spirit Trail have been damaged.

Travis L. Walters, 23, was turning west onto Madison Avenue from South Street Saturday evening, when his vehicle was struck by Clareissa L. McCulley, 18. McCulley was eastbound on Madison when the accident occurred. Neither driver was injured, nor was a passenger in Walters’ vehicle.

Vandalism reported

Bicycle stolen

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Ciara Klubek told police Saturday somebody stole her 10-speed bicycle from the 300 block of North Buckeye Street.

The bike was a tan 1976 Motobecane Grand Touring Road Racer,

would use centuries-old powers known as royal prerogative to invoke Article 50 of the EU treaty and launch two years of exit talks. The powers — traditionally held by the monarch —permit decisions about treaties and other issues to be made without a vote of Parliament.

“The referendum is of great political significance, but the act of Parliament which established it did not say what should happen as a result, so any change in the law to give effect to the referendum must be made in the only way permitted by the U.K. Constitution, namely by an act of Parliament,” the president of the Supreme Court David Neuberger said in reading the judgement.

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Morgan Cheung told police Saturday somebody threw a rock through her vehicle’s window in the 100 block of North State Street.

Sign damaged A sign at China Palace was damaged in the 100 block of North State Street Friday.

Kevin Stoll told officers Saturday somebody stole a decorative Philadelphia Eagles license plate from his vehicle in the 1400 block of North Cottonwood Street.

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principles stretching back many centuries,” he said.

The case was considered the most important constitutional issue in a generation, clarifying who ultimately wields power in Britain’s system of government: the prime minister and her Cabinet, or Parliament.

Financial entrepreneur Gina Miller sued to force the government to seek Parliamentary approval before invoking Article 50. Leaving the EU will change the fundamental rights of citizens and this can’t be done without a vote of lawmakers, she argued.

May had argued the referendum gave her a mandate to take Britain out of the EU and that discussing the details of her strategy with Parliament would weaken the government’s negotiating position.

Fannie Sue Whitworth Fannie Sue Whitworth, El Dorado, Ark., passed away peacefully at the age of 94 at Windsor Place in Iola. She was born Oct. 16, 1922 in Texarkana, Texas, the daughter of Lawrence Lee and Mary Kate Young.

She grew up in Texarkana and graduated from Texarkana High School. She then attended busiFannie Sue ness school in Austin,Texas.

On Sept. 22, 1941, Fannie Sue Whitworth married Wilburn J. “Whit” Whitworth. After Whit’s service in World War II, they moved to El Dorado, Ark., in 1945 where they lived with their son, Jerry Lee. Fannie Sue was an active member of First Christian Church, where she was involved with CWF, circle, Sunday school, church bazaars and fellowship dinners. She was known for her culinary skills as a great “Southern cook” and loved baking and taking her pies and cakes to neighbors or others in need.

She was a secretary for Lincoln Income Life Insurance, worked for McWilliams Furniture, and The Honey Tree. She loved selling children’s clothes and was quite the fashion expert.

She enjoyed square dancing with friends, camping in Colorado with family, and picking peaches, blackberries and blueberries; especially with her grandchildren.

Travel was a passion for Fannie Sue, who was truly a woman on the go. She and husband Whit traveled to Europe several times, took numerous bus mystery trips with friends, cruises and car trips in order to see all of God’s handiwork in the USA. Preceding her in death was her beloved husband, Wilburn J Whitworth, and a brother, Billy Young.

Survivors include a son, Jerry Lee Whitworth and wife Sharon, Iola; granddaughter, Tara Hartman and husband Brett, Mechanicsburg, Pa.; grandson, Charlie Whitworth and wife Jill, Burlington; seven great-grandchildren, Caleb, Nathan, Seth and Anna Hartman and Cooper, Tucker and Karlie Whitworth.

Visitation will be Friday in El Dorado, Ark., at Young’s Funeral Home, with a graveside service following at Columbia County Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to First Christian Church, 420 N. Madison, El Dorado, AR 71730 or the Pregnancy Resource Center in Iola.

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ability of the KanCare companies’ provider lists Monday at a hearing of the House Health and Human Services Committee. Wilson requested data on the number of providers on the lists that had actually billed KanCare during the past year in order to determine which were actively seeing patients on KanCare.

The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee also bombarded state officials with questions about the CMS denial letters Monday. Like Colyer, KDHE Secretary Susan Mosier said she thought federal officials were being unfair.

But she said the administration now supports legislation to install an independent inspector general and an ombudsman to provide more oversight of KanCare.

Under bills already introduced, an inspector general position within KDHE that has been vacant for almost three years would move under the Kansas Attorney General’s Office and the ombudsman would move out of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.

Advocates for Kan-

sans in KanCare have pushed for those reforms for years, but their efforts found little traction until last year’s elections created a more centrist Legislature.

Sen. Vicki Schmidt, chairwoman of the Senate health committee, said having the Brownback administration’s support of the independent positions should make for quick passage now.

“It would be important to note, I think that both bills on ombudsman and I.G. were introduced early on in the session,” Schmidt said. “So, regardless of the CMS letters, we in the Legislature already recognized the importance of that.”

Colyer said the state will meet the current CMS deadline for a corrective action plan and continue to plan for a one-year extension of the KanCare program.

Then he and the rest of the Brownback administration will begin writing new Medicaid contracts — with added flexibility he predicted the Trump administration would write into Medicaid.

“Everybody needs to recognize that there is a major change underway in Washington, D.C., and we will work with the existing staff and the new staff as they go on,” Colyer said.

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Trump: Illegal ballots cost me popular vote WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump asserted in a private meeting with congressional leaders Monday night that he would have won the popular vote in the 2016 election if 3 million to 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally hadn’t voted.

Trump made the debunked claim, without offering any evidence, at a White House meeting with Democratic and Republican leaders, according to a Democratic aide familiar with

D-Calif., said, “I the exchange who spoke on won’t even go condition of into that.”

There has been anonymity to discuss the prino evidence of widespread tamvate meeting.

House Mapering or hackjority Leader ing that would change the reKevin McCar- Donald Trump thy, R-Calif., sults of the presialluded to it, telling dential contest. Trump reporters that Trump won the Electoral Coland the lawmakers lege by a comfortable talked about “the differ- margin but Democratic ent Electoral College, rival Hillary Clinton popular vote.” Asked won the popular vote by if anything surprised nearly 2.9 million votes.

Throughout the camher about the meeting, House Democratic paign, Trump pushed Leader Nancy Pelosi, false claims about the

propensity of voter fraud, telling his supporters the election had been “rigged” against him.

Trump has made the unverified claims before, tweeting in late November that he would have won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” He also alleged at the time that there had been “serious voter fraud” in California, New Hampshire and Virginia and complained that the media wasn’t covering it.

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it impossible to know what Pompeo believes.

“I see no real commitment to transparency and his views on the most fundamental analysis of the day - the involvement of Russia in our election - seemed to shift with those of the president,” Wyden said.

In written responses to questions from the Senate, on Jan. 3, Pompeo said only that intelligence agency assessments in general should be taken seriously. After Trump conceded Russia was behind the cam-

paign hacks, Pompeo on Jan. 12 told the Senate intelligence committee that particular assessment was “solid.”

“We need a CIA director who is direct about his beliefs and his assessments,” Wyden said.

Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said Democrats were playing politics in its efforts to delay and derail Trump’s choice to run the CIA. One of Trump’s first stops as president was Saturday at the CIA’s

headquarters in Northern Virginia, where he made a speech that focused more on falsely accusing the media of lying about how many people attended his inauguration than on the role the CIA plays protecting the U.S. In its final days, President Barack Obama’s administration announced intelligence findings that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election with the goal of getting Trump elected. Trump himself has denied most of the assessment,

though eventually conceded Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic emails during the campaign.

Pompeo, a conservative Republican from Kansas and a member of the House intelligence committee, faced a mostly friendly confirmation hearing Jan. 12.

He enrolled as a teenager at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and graduated first in his class in 1986. He served in the Army at a time when the Soviet Union was America’s No. 1 adversary.

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munity Education meetings.

Moving the meetings to other sites — the old Trinity United Methodist Church, the college and Bowlus Fine Arts Center all were investigated — created other issues, Fleming said, such as accessibility, parking and having to move recording equipment in order to broadcast the Council meetings each month.

Walden opined that since the Community Building was owned by the city, it should have priority over such things as 4-H meetings.

“I’m not opposed to moving the dates, but I oppose the idea we should even be considering moving people out of here,” Councilman Jon Wells responded.

“This isn’t necessarily our building. This is the people’s building.

We’re merely represent-

ing them. To say, ‘Tough, sorry kids, we’re adults, let us do our business here, have fun and find something new,’ philosophically rubs me the wrong way.”

Councilwoman Nancy Ford also disagreed with Walden’s contention, noting the value 4-H offers youth by encouraging them to become active in the community.

She noted that Council meetings are broadcast on YouTube and via the city’s public access television channel, allowing residents to attend school board meetings and watch the Council sessions later.

“Anybody can watch that and anybody can come and be a part if they want to,” she said.

“I don’t think we should move our meetings, I don’t think we should change buildings and I really don’t think we should be kicking out groups from a building

they’ve been using.”

“I didn’t ask you to kick people out,” Walden responded. “I simply said change the meeting dates. I didn’t say leave this facility.

If want you to keep the camera here, keep the camera here. That camera works on Wednesdays, or Thursdays, or Fridays, or believe it or not, the weekend. It works all the time.”

Ford said Walden has been the only resident who has brought up the idea of switching meeting dates, and brought the motion to a vote.

Councilman Aaron Franklin said he preferred to see the council be flexible, “but at the same time, when I ran for this seat, I knew the date and time. It’s not an issue I want to force on the council. I knew what I signed up for.”

The vote to keep the meetings at the

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same date and time passed, 7-0, with Councilman Bob Shaughnessy absent.

IN A RELATED matter, Franklin suggested the city meet once or twice a year in joint meetings with both USD 257 and Allen County. He had no particular topic in mind, but said all would be better served

by having “proactive discussions, and maybe not reactionary. … It’s good to develop more familiarity. We’re too small a community to have that kind of time lapse without open discourse.”

COUNCIL members agreed, 7-0, to changes in the city’s energy cost adjustment for electric

customers.

The adjustment isn’t expected to cost customers any more; rather it will allow the city to capture potential savings from new power sources through the Southwind Energy Group.

The savings will be used to strengthen the city’s lagging electric reserve fund.

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hopes to have as many as 100 booths set up.

Council members allowed use of the Recreation Community Building and waived its normal rental fee.

In addition, Keagle asked the city to consider incentives for schoolchildren who earn good grades.

She suggested the city offer free pool passes to each student who earned an A during the school year.

Keagle admitted she had few particulars — she hadn’t yet approached USD 257 officials about the idea — but thought the promotion would be an effective enticement for children.

The real costs to the city would be mitigated, she continued, “because the pool is open regardless of whether you have one kid or 100 kids.”

THE IOLA Police Department brought in $9,129 in forfeiture funds in 2016, plus a 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe valued at about $5,000, Police Chief Jared Warner reported.

The police department was notified by the state last year after an audit noted Iola had no such annual report for seized or forfeited property.

Warner explained

those line items instead were included in the city’s regular budget process.

Regardless, the state requires a separate report, he continued.

The forfeitures came from drug-related arrests through the year.

On top of the income, the department spent $5,536 on new fencing for the city’s impound lot, and sent another $2,119.80 to the Allen County attorney’s office.

The state requires 15 percent of the forfeited money to go to the county attorney, Warner explained.

As for the Hyundai, Warner said the department’s detectives are using the vehicle to replace one of the patrol vehicles that had been totaled in a wreck last year.

The use of forfeited or seized cash is regulated by the state, Warner explained. For example, the money cannot be used for regular operating expenses, such as payroll.

Rather, that money must go for other expenses, such as the impound lot fence.

As can be expected, forfeiture totals vary from year to year, Warner said, depending on police activity.

That said, 2016 was an active year, in part because the department

now has two full-time detectives.

“That allows us to do more drug-related arrests,” Warner said.

FIVE new faces are joining the Iola Fire Department.

Council members approved the hiring of Chris Bailey, Jason McManus, Bryan Braden, Adam Ferguson and Levi Ballou.

The goal was to hire four firefighters, Fleming explained, filling vacancies that had occurred over the past several months. A fifth candidate was hired because the department anticipates at least two retirements in 2017.

“And we had some good applicants,” he said.

As part of the personnel actions, the city removed the interim label from ambulance director Michael Burnett’s title.

In a related matter, Council members approved a memorandum of understanding with the State Fire Marshal’s Office.

The memorandum spells out when departments are dispatched to other places for mutual aid — the 2011 Joplin tornado and Hurricane Katrina, for example — and opens the door for the assisting agencies to be compensated.

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Girard to host market workshop Leadership series coming up The Kansas Department of Agriculture, KState Research and Extension and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment will host a regional workshop in Girard on Saturday, Feb. 11, to assist farmers’ market vendors and managers. This is the third of four regional workshops which are being hosted by the KDA this year.

Kansas farmers’ markets not only provide a fresh food source, but also stimulate the local economy. In 2016, 75 farmers’ markets were registered with KDA’s Central Registration of Farmers’ Markets.

“Selling food directly to consumers through farmers’ markets provides growers a chance to tell their farm’s story, but there are also legal, safety and financial parameters that farmers need to understand before choosing this marketing tool,” said Londa Nwadike, consumer food safety specialist with KState Research and Ex-

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tension and the University of Missouri.

Workshop topics will include: * Keynote speaker on Successful Farmers’ Market Vending * Double Up Food Bucks SNAP matching program * Sales tax for farmers’ market vendors * Pricing to ensure a profit * Kansas Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Certified Farmer Training * Cover cropping and other soil health strategies * Farm tour of Misty Morning Farms — high tunnel produce growing KDA’s weights and measures program will

also offer free scale certification at the workshop for attendees.

The workshop will be held at Greenbush Education Service Center (Dave DeMoss Education Building), 947 W. 47 Highway, in Girard. Onsite registration will open at 8:30 a.m. and the workshop will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude by 4 p.m.

Registration for this workshop is now open and is $20 per participant, which includes lunch. Lunch cannot be guaranteed for those registering after February 2.

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Area colleges eye $15,000 tuition TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas higher education leaders aren’t sure how they’ll meet Gov. Sam Brownback’s challenge to provide a way to earn certain bachelor’s degrees for no more than $15,000 but they’re willing to try.

Brownback issued the challenge in his State of the State speech earlier this month and said he would award $1 million in scholarships to the first Kansas college or university to set up a program. He said he wanted to focus on high-risk and other students whose families don’t have the financial means to fund a traditional four-degree.

“My dream would be that it would be really targeted at first generation college students where their parents haven’t gone to college,” Brownback said.

The effort, inspired by programs in Texas and Florida, would focus on degrees in high-need fields such as health care, IT and education.

It would create ways to earn degrees with credits earned in high school, at a community college and at a university. Brownback said he’s also open to other options colleges might devise.

Still, bringing the cost of a degree down will be difficult, and some are skeptical.

“Fifteen thousand dollars is ridiculous, and I can’t say that strong enough,” said state Rep. Barbara Ballard, a Lawrence Democrat and associate director of the University of Kansas’ Dole Institute of Politics.

Ballard said she thought she paid more than $15,000 for her bachelor’s degree in the 1970s, and prices and wages have risen significantly.

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rate in their first year and remain locked in at that rate for four years.

Tuition and fees at Kansas average $10,489 this year, and a four-year bachelor’s degree would cost about $45,580 for a student who opted in to the university’s locked-in tuition rate. Four years of tuition and fees at Fort Hays State University would cost at least $19,534 based on today’s rates.

The Kansas Board of Regents, which coordinates efforts of the state’s 32 universities, community colleges and technical schools, and college officials will take on the issue. Regents president and CEO Blake Flanders said he couldn’t say yet whether it’s possible but the board and schools will pursue it.

Other states have created similar programs.

The Florida College System offers 75 $10,000 degree programs through 26 community colleges. Chancellor Madeline Pumariega said the colleges looked for businesses willing to provide scholarships and federal financial aid to help bring costs down.

Dustin Weeden, a policy specialist for the National Conference of State Legislatures, said competency-based learn-

Weeden said a student could pay for a semester but finish courses as they demonstrated competency, meaning they might be able to finish more than a traditional semester’s worth of courses at the same price as a traditional model.

The Kansas proposal comes at a time when colleges and universities are facing budget cuts.

In 2012, tuition became a larger part of universities’ budgets than state aid. Senate Vice President Jeff Longbine, an Emporia Republican, said he thought that would make the low-cost tuition difficult to offer.

A former Democratic lawmaker and regent had a similar reaction.

“I find it funny for the governor who has gutted funding for higher education to now ask for a discounted price for a product that he has spent seven years not funding,” said Ed McKechnie of Pittsburg.

Students get what they pay for, McKechnie said, and a cheaper education might not have the same value as a traditional one.

K-State Research and Extension is conducting a series of Board Leadership workshops across the state Feb. 21, 23, 28 and March 2. In the Southwind District, the Series will be conducted in Fort Scott, at the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes.

Designed to provide basic training for members of communitybased boards, the series will be hosted by local Extension professionals at locations across the state.

“Informed and committed board members are the key to healthy, effective boards and committees in our Kansas communities. K-State Research and Extension’s Board Leadership Series will provide an opportunity for board members to learn the basics of being a good board member,” said Trudy Rice, extension community development specialist.

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The Feb. 23 session will cover Understanding Fellow Board Members and Conflict Management. Participants will explore how personalities and generational differences affect the decision-making process, and learn how to manage conflict in a way that is productive, not destructive, to the board.

On Feb. 28, the topic will be Fundraising, Fund Management, Legalities and Ethics.

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Strategic Planning will be the final topic on March 2. Participants will learn about establishing a common mission and vision for the board, and how to plan priorities for the future.

All sessions will be conducted from 6 to 8 p.m. Workshop participants will meet at host sites throughout the state to take part in web-based instruction and locally facilitated discussion, which will be held at the Lowell Milken Center in Fort Scott.

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K-State student accidentally shot MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Kansas State University student has accidentally shot and wounded himself in a residence hall.

The university said in a news release Monday that the 19-year-old student remains hospitalized and that his last known condition was stable. The shooting

happened Sunday night in the student’s room at Goodnow Hall.

The release didn’t say what the student was doing when the firearm went off. The release says police are investigating.

Firearms aren’t currently allowed in campus buildings or residence halls, although that’s on

track to change. Starting in July, a Kansas law will allow concealed guns on state college campuses unless a legislative effort to undo the law is successful.

Faculty and student organizations generally have been strongly opposed to concealed guns on campus, as have administrators.

Historic Kansas trail turns 150 WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The historic Chisholm Trail that helped start the Old West era in Kansas celebrates its 150th anniversary.

The Wichita Eagle reports the trail is named after Jesse Chisolm and was developed by Joseph McCoy, an Illinois livestock trader, in 1867. Chisholm had a trading post in Wichita and often traded with Native American tribes in the region.

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School vouchers would be painful to public sphere Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, has many educators screaming foul.

Her nomination, said American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, “makes it loud and clear that her education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public education in America.” A very severe indictment.

Why do educators think so? The conservative billionaire is a longtime backer of charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools. The DeVos family — her fatherin-law is co-founder of Amway, her brother founder of Blackwater, the mercenary security firm — has donated at least $200 million to right-wing causes.

Vouchers have been a pet project of some Kansas legislators. They also often are on the lips of those who donate millions to ultra-conservative organizations, i.e. the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Prosperity, etc. In Allen County the greatest impact vouchers might have would be to financially entitle those who home-school their children.

Another consideration is movement of students from one district to another — USD 257’s is a wash with 54 going out, 54 coming in.

Reality is the local district has at times suffered from far more taking exit than arriving, and if students were to leave because of dissatisfaction, vouchers

would pave the avenue with greenbacks if they choose private education Vouchers would be a onetwo punch for public school aid in Kansas, first taking money away from the state pool, which would make it more difficult to fund local districts in any case and particularly if a new formula, assuming legislators and Gov. Sam Brownback can get together on one, replaces the block grant scheme.

However, the strong critical reaction that accompanied DeVos’ nomination may have been tinged a bit with hyperbole. During her confirmation hearing DeVos made reference to education decisions being local and state issues. Perhaps that precludes a significant federal role in changing funding schemes.

FOR ALLEN County districts vouchers would seem to have less impact than in many other places. We have private schools in southeast Kansas, parochial in one manner or another, but charter schools are seldom found where population isn’t dense and incomes tend toward the lower end.

Vouchers could come in play with home-schooled children, as aforementioned, and that would be the most painful burr under local districts’ saddles.

In nearly any formula that can be conceived for distributing state aid enrollment is a factor; fewer kids, less state aid.

— Bob Johnson

Letter to the editor To the editor,

The results of the presidential election that proceeds an inauguration can affect everyone, no matter what an individual’s political vent may be: Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, independent or other. Some people may like the results while others may not. We are all human, and each of us form our own opinions from our life experiences. We all live together and hopefully can get along with each other. But the election process is still news that should be reported.

On January 20, 2017 the United States of America inaugurated the country’s 45th president. It was the result of an often contentious election process that is held every four years. Both events are important to the country’s continuing democratic process. It is also news.

Will I disagree with the practice, I can understand a newspaper leaning in one political direction. However, if the news can or does affect everyone, the news should be reported no matter what direction the newspaper leans.

Print your opinions as editorials. To not cover and print important news that can affect everyone in the nation, not to mention those living in Allen County, is wrong.

The Iola Register published frequent commentary

of the election events leading to the inauguration. Regardless of any inferred political direction by the newspaper in covering the election process and results, at least it was reported as news.

However, as of this writing, it appears that the inauguration of our 45th President was a non-news event.

In the past, if a news event occurred late Friday or over the weekend, coverage was provided on Monday. While late, the news made it into print.

Not the inauguration. If a visitor to Iola was to glance at a copy of the Iola Register, the inauguration never happened. Not only is that a disservice to the people of Allen County, but it’s also a slam at the highest position in this country.

In all fairness, one small photograph was published.

It had less fanfare and covered less print space than a local accident or a heavy rainstorm. Sad. While many people obtain news from a variety of sources: radio, Facebook, cable, the Internet; many do not. They depend on their local newspaper. If a local newspaper cannot publish news important to everyone, why have a newspaper?

Respectfully, Dave Jackson, Iola, Kan.

Letters to the editor must be signed and include the writer’s address and telephone number. Letters should be no more than 500 words. Please send your letters by email to editorial@iolaregister.com or by traditional means to The Iola Register, 302 S. Washington, Iola, KS 66749.

Spokesman’s surprising act of humility WASHINGTON — This is probably as close as we’ll get to a mea culpa in Trump World.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer came out for his first official briefing Monday afternoon resembling not at all the madman who unleashed his fury from the same podium Saturday evening. He smiled. He didn’t shout. His suit fit. The lectern had been lowered so he could see over it.

And he took questions — not just from friendly outlets but from American Urban Radio (which has an African-American audience) and Univision, the Hispanic network Donald Trump disparaged during his campaign.

He tried, in his way, to climb down from his preposterous performance on Saturday, acknowledging that he spouted untruths — innocently, he proposed.

“I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts,” Spicer declared. “There are certain things that we may not fully understand when we come out, but our intention is never to lie to you.”

Actually, Trump and his aides spent much of the past 18 months disagreeing with the facts, and it defies credulity that it wasn’t intentional.

On Saturday, Spicer, the previously little-known spokesman for the Republican National Committee, became an instant laughingstock when he hauled the press into the White House briefing room and, in a comically big suit, started shouting about a couple of tweets he didn’t like. Like his boss, who asserted the patent nonsense that there were 1.5 million people at his inauguration, Spicer declared: “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.

Both in person and around the globe.” He then stormed off, refusing to take questions.

A social-media meme was born — SpicerFacts — and his White House colleague Kel-

Dana Milbank Washington Post Writers Group lyanne Conway made things worse on Sunday when she asserted that Spicer was giving voice to “alternative facts.”

Derision and mockery rained from the Twitterverse: “The Death Star had no design flaws. Period.”

A semi-contrite Spicer acknowledged Monday that, “knowing what we know now,” he wouldn’t have used bogus figures claiming Metro ridership in Washington was higher for Trump’s inaugural than for Barack Obama’s. He acknowledged that the crowd at Trump’s inauguration was not a record. “I didn’t say in person,” he argued, saying he was referring to “total audience,” including TV. He even seemed prepared to compensate for fleeing without facing questions Saturday.

“I’m going to stay out here as long as you want,” he said.

And he did, for an hour and 15 minutes.

This is good news, in a sense, because it suggests that the Trump White House is not entirely shameless and that, even in the post-truth America, there is some limit to the liberties that will be taken with the facts.

Spicer also climbed down from a number of the promises Trump made during the campaign. Trump had pledged that on his first day in office he would, among other things, rescind Obama’s orders protecting from deportation those brought here illegally as children; begin work on the border wall; suspend the Syrian refugee program and immigration from areas affected by terrorism; announce plans to

withdraw from or renegotiate NAFTA; label China a currency manipulator; and eliminate gun-free zones in schools.

But Spicer on Monday showed no administration interest in deporting the “dreamers” nor in reversing Obama’s executive orders protecting them. He walked away from Trump’s inflammatory pledge to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel Sean Spicer from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (“we’re at the very early stages of that decision-making process”). He had nothing to say about changes to refugee policy. He said that “we have not triggered the trigger” to get out of NAFTA, and he appealed for patience to work with Congress on the border wall and Obamacare.

Politico’s Shane Goldmacher asked Spicer about the broken “Day One” promises: “Why not pursue all those on Day One, as he promised in a contract with the voters?”

Spicer said the Trump administration doesn’t want to “just jam them out in a fire hose.”

Spicer looks like a man who has been drinking from a fire hose. He wore a grim expression before he opened the door fully to the briefing room and flashed a smile for the cameras. He tried a couple of opening jokes about his Saturday antics, but they were met by scant chuckles and groans. He garbled words as he nervously read his opening statement.

Only a fool would think Trump is permanently jettisoning his campaign promises or making peace with the media. But the relatively sheepish and measured Spicer we saw Monday shows that, at least among some in the Trump White House, there is a latent capacity for shame.

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Horace Miller, age 84, civic leader and founder of one of Iola’s industries, died this morning. As a young adult he was involved in the banking business. When the KerrMcFall dress factory began to falter, Miller agreed to take over its management. He purchased the company in 1935 and renamed it H.L. Miller and Son, Inc. The company has sold dresses to outlets in all 50 states and has been

a leading employer in Allen County. Miller turned management of the business over to his son, Edward, over a decade ago but remained intensely interested in the operation of the company until his death. Horace Miller was a charter member of Iola Industries, Inc. and served as a member of its executive committee for many years. ****** Representatives from three community colleges and the Kansas Board of Regents met

at Allen County Community College yesterday to discuss a governance change for community colleges. The meeting was conceived and arranged

by Dr. Ron Garner, president of ACCC. At present, community colleges are governed by the State Board of Education, which also has responsibility to govern the 305 public school districts in the state.

The meeting was to discuss the pros and cons of switching governance to the Board of Regents.

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AFC Championship Game: New England 36, Pittsburgh 17

Patriots return to Super Bowl

By KYLE HIGHTOWER The Associated Press

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — This was supposed to be the year New England’s stranglehold on the AFC could be loosened.

Yet after starting the season without their biggest star, the Patriots find themselves in a familiar place: with a chance to earn a Super Bowl title.

A week after showing flecks of vulnerability in its divisional-round win over Houston, New England put together the kind of dominant

performance that has come to define the Bill Belichick and Tom Brady era, earning a 3617 AFC championship game win over Pittsburgh on Sunday.

Now the Pats will face the Atlanta Falcons with a chance to earn their fifth Super Bowl victory.

“Yeah, it was a good day. I mean, we’re going to the Super Bowl, man,” Brady said.

“You’ve got to be happy now.”

This wasn’t supposed to happen. Not this time.

Not in the shadows of Brady’s four-game “Deflat-

egate” suspension to start the season. And certainly not after his favorite target Rob Gronkowski was lost in December to season-ending back surgery.

Sunday’s performance was yet another entry on the resume for the 39-year-old Brady as maybe the best quarterback ever.

He connected on 32 of 42 passes for 384 yards and three touchdowns — extending his NFL record with his 11th 300-yard postseason passSee PATRIOTS | Page B4

New England Patriots wide receiver Chris Hogan celebrates a first quarter touchdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC championship on Sunday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Matt Freed/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

M.S. Basketball:

NFC Championship Game: Atlanta 44, Green Bay 21

Ponies take three of four in Osawatomie OSAWATOMIE — The Iola seventh-grade varsity boys notched a big 31-20 win over Osawatomie on Monday.

The Ponies got off to a quick start and built a 19-9 halftime lead with Ryker Curry and Karson Sigg leading the way. Curry had 10 points while Sigg added nine.

“Ryker was a team leader tonight, making some good passes to get our posts open and hitting some key shots,” Iola coach Scott Ellis said.

Cooper Riley and Tyler Boeken each scored six points.

“It was a group effort from all the boys,” Ellis said. “Our defense was relentless and it paid off for us.”

Atlanta Falcons fans celebrate beating the Green Bay Packers 44-21 in the NFC Championship game to advance to the Super Bowl on Sunday in Atlanta, Ga. Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS

PARTY CRASHERS Falcons set to face one of the NFL’s blue bloods

By PAUL NEWBERRY The Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) — While the raucous beats of “Welcome To Atlanta” blared through the Georgia Dome, the Falcons partied like it was 1999.

How appropriate.

That was the last time they made it to the Super Bowl.

Matt Ryan and Julio Jones teamed up for another dynamic perfor-

mance, leading the Falcons to the big game for only the second time in franchise history with a 44-21 rout of the Green Bay Packers in the NFC championship game Sunday.

The Falcons led 24-0 at halftime and tacked on another touchdown early in the second half, essentially turning the dome into the world’s largest dance club for the rest of its See FALCONS | Page B4

7TH GRADE JV Brett Willis led the seventhgrade junior varsity to a 20-8 win over Osawatomie with eight points.

“Brett made some nice offensive plays for us,” Ellis said. “He found his spot and hit some big shots.”

Kobe Lord also had a big game with six points and Trenton Varney had three points.

T.J. Taylor had two points and grabbed a team-high six rebounds while Colin Long added one point.

8TH GRADE VARSITY The Trojans were able to top Iola 38-26 in the eighth-grade varsity game by outscoring the Ponies 16-2 in the fourth quarter.

“We let one get by us toSee PONIES | Page B3

Column: Yordano Ventura’s legacy

Ventura: a baseball comet, a precocious Royals talent, and he won’t be forgotten

By SAM MELLINGER The Kansas City Star

The greatest moment in Yordano Ventura’s baseball life is now the one that most rips the heart.

He stood on that mound at Kauffman Stadium 27 months ago, looking exactly like himself except more — an assassin’s stone expression on a baby face, cutting into Game 6 of the 2014 World Series, the hat that always looked two sizes too big with a scribbled message for his friend who

had died the night before: RIP O.T. #18.

And, boy, was he fierce that night. That leg kick, that finish, that stare down after strikeouts, with the energy of sports’ most invigorated fan base literally shaking the ground he walked on.

He pitched seven shutout innings. Gave up just three hits. Walked off the mound to a standing ovation. The Royals won big that night. That’s how much of the baseball world met Ventura.

Now, after he died in a car

crash, it’s part of how we’ll remember him.

There is no silver lining here. This is unnecessary tragedy. He died in stomachturning similarity to Oscar Taveras, the Cardinals player he honored in the World Series — late at night in a car wreck in his native Dominican Republic.

Those who loved him and knew him personally, and those who cheered and watched from a distance, will See COLUMN | Page B3

Michael Vittoria writes a message in chalk in front of memorial outside Kauffman Stadium on Sunday in Kansas City, Mo., in memory of Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura, who died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

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Trumps pulls US out of TPP WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he was protecting jobs as he officially pulled out from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

But his ability to help the U.S. economy might depend on whether Trump can strike better deals on his own.

Most analysts say the 12-nation agreement, the product of years of negotiations during the previous administration, would have reduced prices and boosted sales abroad for automakers, farmers and tech companies.

But Trump vowed on Monday that he could do better. Riding a tide of worries about job losses and suspicion of such sweeping agreements, the businessman who wrote “The Art of the Deal” sold himself as a sharper negotiator than his predecessor. He now plans to shun multinational deals and begin focusing on one-on-one agreements with other countries.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters that the decision to abandon TPP “ushers in a new era of U.S. trade policy in which the Trump administration will pursue bilateral trade opportunities with allies around the globe.”

The Trump administration hasn’t spelled out many details about how it would structure these new trade deals to create and keep jobs. Anchoring his trade team would be Wilbur Ross, the billionaire investor in distressed companies who is Trump’s commerce secretary nominee; lawyer Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative nominee; and economist Peter Navarro, a fierce critic of China who would lead a new White House council on trade.

The White House has said it believes it is easier to negotiate bilateral agreements on equal terms, instead of a multinational pact such as TPP where a group of smaller counties can more easily exert their will. Of course, the challenge with bilateral trade deals is that the Trump administration would have to complete far more negotiations and the final rules might not be uniform.

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President Donald Trump intends to withdraw the United States from the TPP trade agreement.

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Mastering arcane details about labor standards and domestic goods could determine whether Trump can deliver on his promise.

Trump could bargain for protections for workers that could be undermined by other sections of the agreement that give companies incentives to move abroad, said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Trade Watch and an opponent of TPP. “You could do half of it right and still end up with the result you don’t want — more offshoring,” Wallach said.

But Wallach stressed that voters will be able to measure Trump’s performance in monthly government reports about employment and trade— the best way to see firsthand if he fulfills his pledge to increase factory jobs and reduce the trade deficit.

The first test of that new approach will come early.

Trump is slated to meet Friday with British Prime Minister Theresa May, who is coming to discuss, among other things, Britain’s departure from the European Union. The exit means May must begin negotiating new trade agreements that could reduce tariffs and give Britain the access to the markets it will lose by leaving the E.U. But the far bigger test will be Trump’s promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. The president also has early meetings planned with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, the NAFTA partners that

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Part of Trump’s solution is to place a border tax as high as 35 percent on companies that move factories abroad and then sell back to U.S. consumers.

His focus on protectionism raises a concern among many trade experts, who say the savings from lower-cost imports get passed to consumers in the form of cheaper prices for cars, clothing and a range of other items.

“Protection is really bad,” said Jeffrey Bergstrand, an economist at the University of Notre Dame. “We all lose from higher prices.”

Saving factory jobs by amending trade agreements will prove especially difficult.

Foreign trade accounted for only 13 percent of lost U.S. factory jobs, according to a 2015 study at Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research.

Almost all that decline came from automation as manufacturers needed fewer workers.

Trump has said little about the effects of automation and repeated a threat to tax any U.S. company that offshores jobs.

“If that happens, we are going to be imposing a very major border tax on the products when it comes in,” Trump said.

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Column: Ventura won’t soon be forgotten in K.C. Continued from B1

struggle in different but real ways to cope. Ventura was 25 years old, his best baseball and happiest days still to come.

We’d already known him in Kansas City long before Game 6, of course.

He came to us as the most precocious and promising of athletes — a pitching prospect with a 100 mph fastball, occasionally devastating curveball, a screw-you swagger that alternated between his best friend and worst enemy, and a flaming baseball tattooed on that magical right arm.

The Royals signed Ventura when he was 16 years old for just $28,000.

At the time, they liked what baseball people call his “arm action.” He was loose. The ball came out smooth, and easy. Back then, his fastball topped in the mid-80s. He was 5-foot-8 and 150 pounds, if he had just had dinner.

Nobody could’ve known what he would become.

But the Royals liked how he competed, and gave him a chance. Within a few years they could tell they had something more. The fastball kept going faster — 88 mph, then 90, then 95, then even 100 and a little more.

He never grew much past 6-feet and had the metabolism that would forever keep him skinny.

Often, that means a career stalls in the minor leagues. Sometimes, a man that size can find his way into a big league bullpen. The Royals never saw him as anything other than a starting pitcher — and a damn good one, too.

Ventura fought. Constantly, he fought. Later, he would become somewhat famous for starting fights on big league fields.

In Anaheim, he seemed to trash talk Mike Trout, the best player in the game, after a single up the middle. In Chicago, he f-bombed Adam Eaton after a groundout, starting a bench-clearing that eventually led to two White Sox pitchers attempting to storm the Royals’ clubhouse.

Against the A’s, Ventura escalated raw feelings into an all-out benchesclearing, fastballs-at-thehead feud. He felt like he was protecting a teammate. Others felt he was immature, and handled it terribly. Both sides had good points.

But, more than anything else, Ventura fought himself.

He fought his mechanics — you could tell by his

Fans add to a memorial outside Kauffman Stadium on Sunday in memory of Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura, who died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS follow-through whether he was right on any given night.

He fought his emotions — opponents tired of his outbursts, and teammates tried every way to help.

He fought his focus — he was once skipped on a minor league playoff start because he didn’t show up to the ballpark on time.

Ventura meant well.

Coaches would tell stories of him being in tears after mistakes, because he wanted so dang much to be great. That was Ventura. Even more than his fastball, that was his greatest strength.

He wanted to be great.

It was also his greatest flaw, because it sometimes pushed him the wrong way, and he never did completely figure out how to push back.

Ventura pitched in the big leagues for the first time on Sept. 17, 2013.

The Royals usually like their pitching prospects to debut in the bullpen, even the good ones, but Ventura was different.

He was the most physically talented pitcher the Royals had, on his first day, even on a staff that led the league in ERA. He was purely himself that night, too. Cold and expressionless on the outside, burning hot on the inside. He walked the first batter he saw, on four pitches, all fastballs, that made it easy on the home plate umpire. Ned Yost would later remember growing a little nervous.

The next batter hit Ventura’s third pitch straight back. Ventura gloved it, pumped once to compose himself, then threw a strike to second base to start the double play. He struck the next man out, the inning ended, and Ventura walked calmly back to the dugout.

A year and a half later, the Royals had turned into the best team in the American League. They

won the pennant, with Ventura starting four times in the playoffs, including that magnificent Game 6.

The Royals saw enough to give Ventura a longterm contract worth as much as $46 million. On the day that deal became official, club officials referenced that debut. The calm. The confidence.

The talent.

That deal had five more years on it.

I first met Ventura in New York. This was in July 2013, two months before he’d pitch in the big leagues. We were at the Futures Game, baseball’s prospect showcase over All-Star weekend.

This was the second straight summer Ventura was chosen for this event, and by then, he was already somewhat famous in baseball circles. He was a high-level starting pitching prospect for an organization in desperate need of it.

I’d spent much of the day on the phone with Royals general manager Dayton Moore, assistant GM J.J. Piccolo, and a few scouts from other organizations. I asked them about Ventura, and each time, parts of their answers came in a boyish excitement that you might expect grown professionals to have outgrown.

But Ventura was different. Watching a man his size throw a baseball that hard takes some getting used to. In the beginning, it looks like some magic trick. You feel like you’re watching a movie, and the montage is about to begin.

Being around professional sports means seeing a lot of humans do things you did not think humans could do. Being close enough to hear the mitt pop on a 100-mph fastball from a man the size of a high school possession receiver is as hard to believe as any of them.

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that, by the time I saw Ventura in that hallway at Citi Field. But I’d never spoken to him before.

I introduced myself. Told him I was from Kansas City. He said he would love to talk but wanted to find a translator.

A couple minutes later, he came back with a friend. We shook hands.

I asked him about someday pitching in Kansas City. Ventura lit up. He did not wait for the translation, and his answer came back in pure, perfect, smiling English.

“Oh, yes, that would be great,” he said. “That’s my dream. What I’m working for, every day.

For my opportunity, I just want to keep working hard. I’m so excited about that.”

The greatest part of watching Yordano Ventura on a baseball field is that you never knew.

Watching him pitch meant feeling, at least a little bit, a wonder.

It is often said that every time you watch a baseball game you will see something you’ve never seen before. And that’s true, on some levels. The geometry and skill and small margins of baseball mean a stack of possibilities that more than 100 years have not yet exhausted.

But in some ways, that’s conveniently misguided for those of us who love the game. For the most part, baseball games often look the same. Nine innings, some strikeouts, some hits, a home run or two, maybe a few errors, and one team wins 5-3.

Ventura changed all of that. Everything in baseball is calculated, but Ventura never fit any of the formulas. Anything you could conceive on a baseball field might happen if Ventura was pitching.

His next pitch might pop the radar gun at 100 mph. Or it could be that nasty, biting curveball, the pitch that even more than the fastball scouts thought would someday make him a star.

He might throw a no-hitter. He might give up line drives to the next five batters.

He might make the bat in the cleanup hitter’s hands useless, the man cursing to himself as he walks back to the dugout after a strikeout. Or, he might hit the No. 7 hitter, then puff his chest out like a rooster, the beginning of another confrontation.

Ventura struggled, like a lot of us, to find his way. His world moved faster. His successes and failures were always broadcast louder. Through it all, he was relentless and unapologetic and desperate to be great — both for himself, and for everyone back home for whom it meant almost as much.

His teammates and coaches might occasionally grow frustrated at some of the rougher moments, but they saw a good soul, a big heart, and an earnest learner. It’s easy to support someone like that. Easy to see the best.

Whenever Ventura would have a bad start, or the benches would clear, Royals executives could count on their phones buzzing. Other teams wondered if they could buy low on an enormous talent. Every once in a while, those phone calls would leak and you’d hear speculation on whether the Royals might make a deal.

The truth is the Royals were never going to trade Ventura. They were awed by his talent, and they were forever encouraged by his heart, even through the drama. They wanted to build around him, and to grow with him.

They weren’t sure how it would turn out. But they had a good feeling.

They wanted to know.

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Freshmen Fillies fall at Fort Scott

FORT SCOTT — The Iola freshmen girls’ team suffered a tough 27-24 loss to Fort Scott on the road on Monday.

The Fillies went into the fourth quarter leading 18-16, but were unable to hold that slim margin.

“We came up a little bit short tonight, but these girls are a blast to coach,” Iola coach Chris Weide said. “Each of our freshmen give 100 percent effort during games and practice and it is starting to show. It will be fun to see how good they can become individually and as a team.”

Kelsey Morrison led the Fillies with nine points and Gabby Richards added five.

Nissa Fountain finished with four points while MJ Neises, Ella Taylor and Allie Fager each had two points to round out the scoring.

The freshmen will play in a tournament on Thursday in Garnett.

They will open the tournament with a 5 p.m., tilt against Burlington.

Titan girls lose in LCL Tournament EMPORIA — The Southern Coffey County girls fell to Waverly 5620 in the first round of the LCL Tournament in Emporia.

The Titans were without forward Danielle Kasprzak, who was sick.

Junior Erikah Lyons led the Titans with seven points while Crystal Alumbaugh and Jordyn Stone each had four.

The Titans will play again Thursday at 4 p.m.

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night,” Ellis said. “It felt like we beat ourselves with too many turnovers and missed opportunities offensively. The guys played hard, but it just wasn’t our night.”

Jack Adams had seven points for Iola and Dillon Bycroft had six.

Kole Rogers scored five while Henry Wicoff had four and Drake Sellman and Dillon Slaven each had two.

8TH GRADE JV Iola’s Eli Smith was the star of the Ponies’ 26-11 victory as he outscored Osawatomie by himself.

Smith scored 15 points and was a perfect twofor-two from three-point range.

Gage Turner added four as Josh Kaufman had three and Landen Nading and Riley Jay had two.

“The boys are playing with confidence,” Ellis said.

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Patriots: Brady leads team past Steelers Continued from B1

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Humboldt Middle School battles Eureka EUREKA — The Humboldt Middle School girls swept Eureka on the strength of a 26-15 varsity victory on Monday.

“We didn’t play our best tonight, but we came through when it mattered in the fourth quarter,” Humboldt coach Scott Brady said.

Isabelle Murrow led the Cubs with 14 points and six steals.

Jessica Myers and Madi White each had four points, while Myers added seven rebounds.

Humboldt’s record is now 5-6.

The Cubs’ junior varsity beat Eureka 26-15.

Zoey Wilson led the Cubs with 10 points and Autumn Ballard added six points and seven rebounds.

The Cubs improve their record to 9-2.

BOYS The Cub varsity boys lost to Eureka 37-21.

Drew Schoendaller led the Cubs with 10 points.

“Eureka is one of the top teams in our league,”

Humboldt coach Jeremy Weilert said. “We didn’t do much in the first half, but played much better in the second half.”

Kyle Brinkerhoff and Thane Meadows had four and three points respectively.

The Humboldt junior varsity beat Eureka 30-23.

Ethan Doepke had 15 points and nine rebounds, including 11 fourth-quarter points.

Drew Wilhite and Gavin Page had six and five points respectively.

“We started a little slow, but picked it up when we needed to,” Weilert said. “It was a great team effort.”

The Cub C-Team lost to Eureka 11-4 in two quarters. Hunter Bauer and Andrew Comstock each had two points.

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touchdowns — extending his NFL record with his 11th 300-yard postseason passing game. It was also Brady’s ninth postseason game with three passing touchdowns, tying Joe Montana for the most ever.

The Patriots hold a 4-1 playoff series lead with the Steelers, including winning all three matchups in AFC championship games following wins with Brady at Pittsburgh in 2005 and 2002.

To his teammates, that’s the Brady they’ve come to expect.

“Anytime you’re on the field with No. 12, it’s special. You never take that for granted. He’s the great-

est,” said receiver Chris Hogan — the recipient of two of Brady’s touchdowns .

Brady couldn’t fully articulate the moment.

“It hasn’t sunk in yet,” Brady said. “We’ve looked, every week it’s kind of been one day at a time and one game at a time. I haven’t even said those words (Super Bowl) yet. Well, I said them after the game, but not at all this week or now. It’s unbelievable.”

Belichick has avoided commenting on “Deflategate,” deflecting questions in his typically austere manner on the heels of earning what will be his seventh appearance in a

Super Bowl — a record for a head coach.

“It’s a special year because it’s a special team and it’s a special group in the way they’ve worked together,” Belichick said.

“But there are always challenges that we’ll have to overcome and whatever those are, they are.”

WHERE IS ROGER? Still bitter over Brady’s “Deflategate” suspension, New England fans taunted NFL commissioner Roger Goodell with a chant of “Where is Roger?”

Goodell, who attended the NFC title game in Atlanta on Sunday, has not come to a Patriots home game since the Jan. 18, 2015

AFC championship that started the scandal that led to Brady’s four-game suspension.

Brady declined to comment on the chant or admit to having any special revenge motive. After accepting the Lamar Hunt Trophy, owner Bob Kraft said, “For a number of reasons, all of you in this stadium understand how big this win was.”

Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett called out the commissioner in the locker room after the game.

“Where is he? He’s like Waldo right now,” Bennett said. “He doesn’t want to come here. I don’t know where he’s at.”

Falcons: Atlanta wins NFC Championship straight over the Falcons, most recently in 2013.

The Patriots will have their hands full with Jones, who hauled in nine catches for 180 yards and two touchdowns despite sitting out most of the week of practice with a lingering toe injury.

He had a 5-yard catch for a touchdown with just 3 seconds left in the first half, giving the Falcons a commanding 24-0 lead.

But Jones showed all his talents on Atlanta’s second offensive snap of the second half . He shook off LaDarius Gunter’s attempt to grab him on a cut toward the sideline, hauled in the pass from Ryan, broke Gunter’s diving attempt at tackle, and defiantly knocked away Damarious Randall’s with a brutal stiff-arm for a 73-yard touchdown that finished off the Packers (12-7).

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its final game, the deafening crowd relishing a shot at only the second major sports championship in Atlanta’s history.

“I’m sure the city won’t sleep tonight, including myself,” said Jonathan Babineaux, the team’s longest-tenured player.

The Falcons (13-5) advanced to the Feb. 5 title game in Houston, where they will face Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. They blew out Pittsburgh 36-17 for the AFC championship, earning their record ninth trip to the Super Bowl.

The Patriots opened as a 3-point favorite over the neophyte Falcons, whose only other Super Bowl appearance came 18 years ago. They lost to Denver in John Elway’s final game.

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downs, not to mention his first rushing score since 2012 on a 14-yard run in which he pump-faked a defender and tumbled into the end zone.

“We’ve worked hard to get to this point,” Ryan said. “But the challenge is still in front of us.”

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Restless leg syndrome can cause nocturnal leg cramps Dear Dr. Roach: Would you discuss causes of nocturnal leg cramps?

I have exhausted all of the common remedies without success. ­­— R.S., M.D. Answer: Leg cramps are common. They begin suddenly and affect the calf or foot with an involuntary, painful contraction. The muscle becomes tight and hard, and it is relieved by stretching the muscle, especially by standing or walking. The most common cause of leg cramps at night is “idiopathic,” which is Greek for “one’s own disease,” meaning we do not know the cause. There are some risk factors, such as having flat feet and being sedentary.

However, people with nocturnal leg cramps

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health should be evaluated for common conditions that cause symptoms of leg pain, cramping or discomfort. Restless leg syndrome in particular can cause leg discomfort and involuntary movements.

People with blockages in the arteries of the legs also might have pain and cramping, though these occur with movement rather than at rest in bed.

Other conditions that often are associated with nocturnal leg cramps include neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s; abnormalities in electrolytes, such as

calcium, magnesium or sodium; and metabolic diseases, such as diabetes and hypothyroidism.

Some medications appear to predispose a person to leg cramps, especially some asthma medicines (like salmeterol, a component of Advair) and some types of diuretics, such as hydrochlorothiazide.

I know you have tried common remedies, but let me include them here anyway. Stretch the muscles several times daily, including in the evening and just before bed. To do this, keep the heel flat while leaning forward for 10 to 20 seconds. Hamstring stretches also may be helpful in preventing cramps. Shoes with more support in the heel (ask for a “long-countered shoe”) are better. Avoid alcohol, caffeine and de-

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hydration.

Some of the less common remedies may still be effective. These include vitamin B complex, iron for those with iron deficiency, and possibly magnesium supplements.

On occasion, I have seen verapamil, a prescription medicine normally used for high blood pressure, be effective.

Many people have written to me about the effectiveness of quinine.

Quinine is not recommended, as it can cause serious side effects, including low platelets and abnormal heart rhythms.

Six ounces of tonic water is a way to get a low, but hopefully effective, dose of quinine, but people who use this should know about the potential for bleeding and drug interactions.

Mother’s jealousy leads to recurring fights

Dear Carolyn: After another weekend hosting my parents, I’m at a loss for how to end a recurring fight with my mother. She perceives that we spend more time with my husband’s family and/or enjoy their company more ... and as a result, her feelings are hurt.

We’ve tried to minimize comparisons, not tell her about our activities with his family, ask her to let us know if she doesn’t feel she’s had enough time or wants to do something specific with us — ­ to no avail.

The truth is, although I appreciate that my parents provided me everything I needed growing up, I didn’t have a very happy childhood, I don’t have very many good memories, and I don’t enjoy my parents’ company. So, I spend time with them primarily because I feel it’s the right thing to do.

My husband and I have a great relationship with his family and genuinely enjoy their company. He also has a bigger family, so, more people to catch up with!

Short of saying, “I don’t like you very much and I’m just barely tolerating you so that I don’t have guilt later in life,” how do I stop this cycle of my mother resenting the time I spend with my in-laws

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax

while I resent time spent with her? — RecurringFighter Answer: There’s an easy, surface option here, where you just point out to your mom that if she wants more and happier time together, then perhaps she oughtn’t spend a chunk of that time dredging up an old argument.

Delivered warmly, this line could disarm you both.

Still, it leaves the real problem unaddressed: that she’s on to you. You don’t like your parents, you’d rather be doing something else when they visit, and it shows.

Well, that’s half the real problem. The other half is that your mom is not emotionally healthy enough to tackle this problem in a productive way, and instead defaults to complaints.

Ideally each of you would tackle your half of the problem, meaning she makes a better effort to be pleasant company instead of a bean-counting nag, and you make a better ef-

fort to be pleasant company instead of a resentful box-checker.

But aside from my opening suggestion — to explain that negativity undermines her cause — you can’t make her recognize her part in this, and you can’t make her change it.

So it’s on you to change your part, with love and care: Get out of the past and present rut. Become more thoughtful in planning these visits, for example. Plan to cook together, sightsee, get tickets for a game or show; plan to go to (or meet at) a destination that interests both parties. Note that all of these minimize your need

to make conversation from scratch.

Or, run it by your husband to include your parents in his family’s gatherings.

Or, note your parents’ interests, pick the most palatable to you, and cultivate that interest yourself.

It doesn’t have to become a life goal — just a willingness to read up on X, bingewatch Y, learn to cook Z. These suggestions are all versions of the same thing: Instead of getting by, try getting creative.

Duty gets you there but it doesn’t bring you closer.

Make that your cue to figure out something that will.

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