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Wrestlers gear up for Allen Co. Fair

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Sure, the ribbons and banners are nice.

Chanlynn Wrestler has made a habit of experiencing immediate success at the Allen County Fair.

The 16-year-old daughter of Derek and Molly Wrestler earned a purple ribbon the first time she took part in the style review, the first time she showed a pig, even the first time she entered a foods project.

Younger brother Ryker, 11, is following a similar path, earning a purple with his first ever woodworking project.

But as much as the early success has brought personal satisfaction, preparing for the fair is about the learning — and the teaching.

“I really enjoy helping people out,” Chanlynn explains. “We’ve been showing pigs from Day 1, but a lot of my friends haven’t, so they don’t really know what they’re doing. There are people who need help.”

So as they’re preparing their own animals to enter the show arena, it’s nothing for Chanlynn and Ryker to offer up helpful tips to younger 4-H’ers about what

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showing the same courtesy to others as they were shown when they were first starting.

Chanlynn explains: “When we first got started, we didn’t know anything

about showing,” she said.

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The works of Gary Hawk will be the focus of Sunday’s Allen County Historical Society meeting.

Debbie Smail, the late Iola artist’s daughter, will lead the program on the history of Hawk Studio and discuss some of his most famous pieces of work.

Hawk began working as an artist for Hallmark and then a designer for IMP Boats before changing his career as a full-time artist.

His watercolor pieces — usually with a western theme — netted him several honors, including being

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Judge decries KHP’s ‘Kansas Two-Step’ with traffic stops

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

Lanie Mileham pretends to microwave food as she acts out “What’s in the box?” during an exercise for the Children’s Summer Theatre Workshop. Behind her are Ellison Kent, left, and former student Lexie Vega, who returned to provide technical support. Students will show off their new acting chops with a performance at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

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CSTW stage fun spans generations

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Over the course of its 26-year run, the Children’s Summer Theatre Workshop has become something of a family.

Creative director John Higginbotham and his sister took part in the program as children. Now, his

children Easton and Eliana are learning all about acting and improv; youngest Emersyn won’t be old enough until next year. His niece also takes part. The same for the Olson boys, Jim and Mat, whose mother, Paige Olson, and aunt, Madison Luken, took part as children before helping teach classes in

high school.

“It’s kind of fun to start to see that happen,” Higginbotham said. “But now I feel old.”

CSTW offers a chance for children from third grade through high school to learn all about the theater. They play games that teach

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A tactic known as the “Kansas Two-Step” that’s been used by the state Highway Patrol for years to detain out-of-state motorists long enough to find a reason to search their vehicles for illegal drugs violates motorists’ constitutional right against unreasonable searches, a federal judge declared Friday.

Senior U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil also notified the patrol that she is ready to impose changes in its policing practices and appoint a special master to audit its work for at least four years.

The changes would include a requirement that troopers specifically inform motorists they stop that they have the right to reject a search or to revoke consent for one at any time — when under the

Chanlynn, foreground, and Ryker Wrestler will enter their hogs and other exhibits in the Allen County Fair this week. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

do in front of the judges. The way they figure, it’s a matter of paying it forward, to

Gary hawk

Obituary

Myron Rush

Myron Gene Rush, 91, of Iola, died Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at Medicalodges of Iola.

Myron was born July 20, 1931, in rural Erie, to Guy O. Rush and Nina G. (Heaton) Rush.

Myron and Betty Young were married Jan. 6, 1950, in Iola.

She survives, as do a daughter, Brenda Leonard, Iola; a son, Phill (Janine) Rush, Broken Arrow, Okla.; 13 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; 10 stepgreat-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Myron was preceded in death by sons David Rush and Rick Rush and grandson, Kevin Rush.

A visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 25, in The Venue at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola.

Memorials are suggested to First Christian Church, Iola, and may be left with the funeral home.

Excavator digs yard of suspected serial killer

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators have been digging in the yard at the Long Island home of Rex Heuermann, who was charged earlier this month with killing at least three women and burying their remains on a remote stretch of beach highway.

A yellow excavator that had been seen scooping dirt in the backyard Sunday was still at the house Monday morning. In Associated Press drone footage, a man could also be seen operating a piece of equipment that can be used to scan for buried objects.

Over the weekend, police dismantled a wooden deck at the house.

“They yelled ‘lift’ and brought it up in one big

McPherson rakes in $1B with anonymous donor

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — McPherson College secured endowment pledges to meet requirements of a $500 million challenge donation from an anonymous donor who committed another half a billion dollars to the small liberal arts college in Kansas.

The agreement with the benefactor allowed the large donation to be paid out over time or upon the donor’s death to give the college access to $1 billion. A majority of smaller matching gifts made to meet the challenge were estate commitments.

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the endowment is deployed to reimagine and construct the campus of the future, build a much-needed rural health pipeline in Kansas, create a center for the future of automotive engineering and work to make college more affordable for all our students.”

“I am incredibly grateful to our anonymous donor for giving us an unprecedented opportunity — and responsibility — to build and implement our strategic vision of becoming a destination learning community,” he said.

Domestic battery alleged

Iola police officers are requesting a charge of domestic battery be filed against a suspect tied to a dispute reported Saturday evening in the 900 block of North Washington Avenue.

Walmart thefts reported

Iola officers cited Derek Holland, 40, Iola, for suspicion of theft after a set of earbuds were reported stolen at Iola Walmart, Iola police officers said. In a separate inci-

dent July 17, officers cited Carl Hoggatt, 39, of Iola, for suspicion of theft from Walmart.

Package stolen

Iolan Linda Potts told officers July 18 somebody stole a package from the Townhouse East Apartments in the 200 block of North Street.

Citation issued Iola police officers cited Christopher Newton for suspicion of cruelty to animals the morning of July 17 in the 400 block of South Third Street.

piece, as if it was a cover,” a neighbor, Barry Auslander told the AP.

The porch has been replaced by a white tent, with a state medical examiner’s truck parked nearby.

Investigators with shovels could be seen scraping through the freshly upturned earth in Heuermann’s yard.

Investigators are trying to determine whether any of the killings happened inside the Massapequa Park home that Heuermann shared with his wife and two children.

Authorites have pulled more than 100 firearms from the house, along with a large doll encased in glass and a portrait of a woman with a bruise on her face.

“Now, the work begins to build a bridge to our future endowment,” said Michael Schneider, the college’s president. “We need to carefully plan how the income from

Schneider affirmed the initial $500 million double-match had been secured during a meeting with about 200 faculty, staff and others. News of the second $500 million gift from the unnamed donor also was announced Friday in McPherson.

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Carlyle Presbyterian Church

Pastor Steve Traw’s message Sunday, “Refuge in God,” was taken from the Old Testament Book of Ruth 3:1-9.

“Just as Boaz was Ruth’s kinsman redeemer, so God is the Believer’s redeemer or refuge”, Pastor Traw said. You can watch the church service

Unity Club picks officers

shortly after 10 a.m. Sundays via Facebook.

Rita Sanders played “It Is Well with My Soul” for the prelude and “Jesus Loves Me” for the offertory.

Richard Klingensmith sang a medley “In the Garden”/ “Gentle Shepherd” accompanied by Cheryl at the piano. There is no Bible study this week.

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“Two-Step,” patrol officers avoid telling motorists they are free to go.

Vratil issued a scathing, 79-page order in two separate lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three motorists and two passengers traveling in 2017, 2018 and 2019 from neighboring Colorado, which has legalized recreational marijuana use.

Vratil concluded that the patrol targeted motorists traveling along Interstate 70 to or from states that have legalized either the medical or recreational use of marijuana. Kansas has authorized neither.

With the “Two-Step,” troopers finish the initial traffic stop, issuing a ticket or a warning, and start to walk away, then turn back to talk more to the motorist. That allows them to keep looking for grounds for a vehicle search or to buy time to get drug-sniffing dogs to the scene.

Vratil said the patrol “waged war on motor-

ists.”

“The war is basically a question of numbers: stop enough cars, and you’re bound to discover drugs. And what’s the harm if a few constitutional rights are trampled along the way?” she wrote.

Neither the patrol nor Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach’s office responded immediately to text and email messages seeking comment Friday. The patrol has defended its tactics as a response to I-70 serving as a major “corridor” for drug traffickers.

Vratil listed nearly four pages of restrictions on the patrol’s policing that she plans to impose, giving the parties in the lawsuits until Aug. 7 to tell her in writing why she shouldn’t.

Troopers would be required to get a supervisor’s approval to conduct a vehicle search, and the patrol would have to keep a log of all such requests and who approved them.

The judge, an appointee of Republican President George H.W. Bush,

said she would require troopers to “affirmatively inform” motorists of their right to refuse to allow searches of their vehicles. She concluded that that troopers “are more than happy to exploit (motorists’) lack of knowledge of their legal rights” and “pressure drivers to submit to extended detentions,” so that they “do not feel free to leave.”

The ACLU of Kansas and other civil rights advocates have argued for years that the patrol has subjected out-of-state motorists to searches that violate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures.

“This is a huge win — for our clients and for anyone else who travels on Kansas highways,” Sharon Brett, the ACLU of Kansas’ legal director, said in a statement.

“It also demonstrates that courts will not tolerate the cowboy mentality of policing that subjects our citizens to conditions of humilia-

tion, degradation, and, in some tragic cases, violence.”

Questions about the patrol’s tactics became more visible after Colorado legalized recreational marijuana almost a decade ago. Missouri did the same in 2022, and Oklahoma allows the medical use of marijuana. Only a handful of states don’t allow at least medical use.

Vratil wrote that state traffic laws create a host of possible reasons to stop a motorist initially. But she added that the factors troopers used to justify having a “reasonable suspicion” about a possible drug crime — such as a motorist’s travel plans — “are so ordinary and benign” that they could apply to thousands of drivers.

The judge also noted that troopers are trained to end their initial traffic stop with phrases such as “have a safe trip,” “take care,” or “have a good day.”

“The KHP trains troopers not to inform a motorist that he or she is free to go,” Vratil wrote.

Unity Club members have announced their officers for the 2023-24 year. The officers were listed during Unity Club’s July 17 meet at the St. John’s Conference Room. They are, President Judy Arbeiter, Vice President Donna Lower-Nord, Secretary Linda Brocker and Treasurer Charyl Link.

The 10 members in attendance shared

books they read during the summer break. Judy Arbeiter conducted the meeting. Committee assignments and hostesses and programs for the upcoming year also were approved. The next meeting is set for 1:30 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Frederick Funston Meeting Room. Club officers will host; Ellen Thompson will lead the program.

Public notices

(Published in The Iola Register July 25, 2023)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KIMBERLYNN COOPER, DECEASED AL 2023 PR 000028

NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed on July 17TH 2023 in this Court by Dan Foust, Jr., as Petitioner and heir-at-law of Kimberlynn Cooper, deceased, praying for the determination of descent of personal and real property

(Published in The Iola Register July 25, 2023)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DIVISION

In the Matter of the Estate of HAROLD K. THORNHILL, Deceased

AL2023-PR-000029

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified a Petition was filed on July 18, 2023, in this Court by Tina Kelley, praying for the appointment of Tina Kelley as executor of the estate of Harold K. Thornhill, and for the issuance of Letters Testamentary.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or

in Kansas, or interest therein, owned by the decedent at the time of her death. You are hereby required to file your written defenses to such Petition on or before the 18th day of August 2023 at 8:30 a.m. of said day in said Court, in the City of Iola, in Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon such Petition. /s/Dan Foust, Jr. Petitioner JOHNSON SCHOWENGERDT, PA Daniel Schowengerdt P.O. Box 866 Iola, Kansas 66749 (620) 365-3778 Attorney for Petitioner (7) 25 (8) 1, 8

before the 18th day of August 2023, at 8:30 a.m. of

Fair: Wrestler kids use shows as learning opportunities

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Buffalo, the farmer from whom they purchased their first hogs, did. So did the Leck family of Neodesha, also renowned for their work with swine.

“They really told us what to do,” Chanlynn said. “Mike and the Lecks really became part of our team and came out here and helped us. We learned so much from them and grew successful.” The Wrestlers will hope to build on that success with the 130th Allen County Fair, which runs through Sunday at Iola’s Riverside Park.

THE FAIR is in the midst of a jam-packed schedule for the Wrestler siblings.

The Wrestlers also take part in the Eastern Kansas Swine Show Series during the spring, and will travel to the Kansas Junior Livestock

Show in Hutchinson, on top of the Kansas State Fair, and then the American Royal in Kansas City later in the fall.

And then there’s school, which starts in mid-August, and sports season. Chanlynn, who will be a junior at Humboldt High School, plays volleyball, basketball and softball. Ryker, who is about to enter sixth grade at Humboldt Middle School, is entering his first year of football, so morning and evening practices are a constant.

“We have to remind the kids when school starts about all the things they have to look forward to,” explained Molly Wrestler, their mother.

Tending to the animals takes a large amount of their schedule as well, usually an hour or more a day to get their hogs used to following commands, to feed them and now

— Molly Wrestler, mother of 4-H’ers Chanlynn and Ryker Wrestler, on competing at livestock shows

as the fair arrives, to get them cleaned up for the show.

“You have to have dedication,” Chanlynn said. “First, you have to break them, to get them to turn the way you want them to. If you don’t know your pig, you’re not going to do well. And we’re learning new things every day.”

BECAUSE of their five-year age difference, the Wrestlers compete against each other sparingly, which is probably a good thing because of

their competitive nature, their mother noted with a chuckle.

“If I win, he gets mad,” Chanlynn said. “If he wins, I get mad.”

But with that competitive spirit lies an even deeper spirit of cooperation. If one is away for a game or practice, the other will handle each other’s chores.

“We’re a team,” Chanlynn said. “We both want each other to win in our own classes.”

RYKER has become a quick learner as well.

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them how to think and react quickly, using their voices and bodies in new and creative ways. They learn not only how to control themselves on stage but also how to be a respectful and supportive audience members for others.

But the most important thing CSTW teaches, Higginbotham said, is confidence.

“I hope they take the confidence they learn here into school, into their daily lives,” he said. “I see them come in as third-graders and grow into leaders. And I hope they find someone they can look up to and make new friends.”

This year’s CSTW session began last week at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center with students learning the basics. They came up with a number of suggestions which staff used to write a short play over the weekend. On Monday, students auditioned for roles in the play and will spend the rest of the week learning their lines and practicing.

At 9 o’clock Saturday morning, the students will show off the skills they learned and present the play on stage in front of family and friends. There is no charge to attend the show.

Regina Christiensen and Higginbotham are co-directors.

This year also features a special improv session for high school students. Halie Luken with the Iola Community Theatre will teach the class.

During Monday’s session for students in third through fifth grade, Higginbotham directed them to play the game “What are you doing?” Students take turns pretending to do an activity, and others guess.

“This is where you learn to read people,” Higginbotham told them.

That game was fol-

lowed by “What’s in the box?” Students pretended to pick something out of a box and others had to guess what it was.

Those two games are returning favorites. Higginbotham said he always tries to introduce new games and activities, but students always ask for the classics.

During “What’s in the box?” Finley Nelson pretended to hammer something together, which students easily guessed. But they were stumped when she mimed serving drinks and food. She had built a lemonade stand.

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named Kansas Artist of the Year in 1977.

Hawk died on Jan. 1, 2022, at the age of 89.

Many of his paintings are on display at the Historical Society.

Smail, who now oversees her father’s studio, will lead the free program.

Snacks will be provided. For those unable to attend, the meeting will be streamed live via Facebook.

The next game, “To Be or Not To Be,” asked students to each say that line as a character, and the others had to mimic them. It was about learning how to project your voice and show action.

This year’s teaching staff included recent Iola

He was crowned the 2022 champion swine showman at the Allen County Fair.

And then earlier this year he earned a banner for placing in the top five at an Eastern Kansas Swine Show Series event, against some of the top competitors from the region.

“What I really want is a buckle like my sister got,” Ryker said.

“Ryker is so competitive there were times that if things didn’t go well, he’d get upset,” Molly noted. “What we’ve taught them is that coming out of the ring, you can be upset, but you have to know it’s a lesson learned. It’s not always something you’ve done. It could be the pig, or the way the pig looked.”

Knowing the judges helps as well.

For example, if a judge comes from Oklahoma, the Wrestlers have learned they need to stay their animal when facing the judge. (In Kansas, judges prefer the competitor stay in front of their pig.)

For Ryker, prepping his pig beforehand, with the grooming, is his favorite part of the competition, and helps calm his nerves.

Chanlynn, meanwhile, looks forward to catching up with friends, either classmates or others she’s met at various shows. Showing the animal comes somewhat naturally, she

admitted.

“I’m usually pretty focused in there,” she said.

IN ADDITION to their swine, the Wrestlers will enter foods once again this year, under the tutelage of their grandmother, Lisa Wrestler.

And after a brief hiatus, Chanlynn will once again take part in the clothing buymanship competition for the Style Revue. “I don’t really know how I got that lucky to get a purple my first year,” she laughed. “I have so many clothes, and when we go to shows, I’ll stop at a boutique and think, ‘Oh, that’s cute.’”

But buymanship is more than knowing what’s cute.

Competitors also must know about the material, how to properly wash and care for their clothing, and then learn the proper modeling technique.

“You learn to walk in a star pattern,” Chanlynn said.

RYKER also is putting the finishing touches on his woodworking project, a fishing pole holder large enough for 10 or so rods and reels and tackle box.

Like his earlier woodworking projects, a stepstool and a birdhouse, Ryker is mentored in the woodshop with his grandfather, Larry James. “That’s their time together,” Molly said. “He’s learned a lot.”

High School graduates Maci Hoag and Kaiden Cloud, and current IHS students Cole Moyer and Tessa Brutchin. Lexi Vega, a 2020 IHS graduate now studying theater at Emporia State University to become a teacher, returned to offer technical support.

Olivia Appling, left, and Ellison Kent pretend they are shivering during a game at the Children’s Summer Theatre Workshop on Monday. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

What we’ve taught them is that coming out of the ring, you can be upset, but you have to know it’s a lesson learned.

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‘Spa day’ offers chance to relax

The Southwind Extension District is hosting a “Spa and Relaxation Program” in Iola this summer.

Youth from ages 7 to 18, along with their mom, grandma, or guardian, are invited to attend a one-day session where they will learn relaxation and stress relieving tips while with making body butter, a foot scrub, and

Summer’s heat waves make for faster-chirping crickets

By ELIZABETH REMBERT Harvest Public Media

A chorus of cricket chirps isn’t just summer background music — it can also be a temperature gauge.

Crickets chirp faster when it’s hotter outside, according to a scientific article published in 1897. In “Cricket as Thermometer,” Amos Dolbear wrote that counting the number of chirps in 15 seconds and adding 40 gets you the temperature in Fahrenheit.

Heat waves are pushing temperatures up this summer and breaking records across the world. It’s affecting people, crops and crickets. The cold-blooded insects chirp faster as temperatures rise. JIM

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Urbana-Champaign.

Clara Wicoff Extension Agent for Nutrition, Food and Health

a body scrub. The participants will also put together self-care baskets to take home during the session.

This one-time session Wednesday, July 26 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Iola.

This series is free, but registration is required at bit.ly/southwindspa. Get your registration in soon.

For more information, contact Southwind Extension District Intern Gwenyth Fry at (620) 223-3720 or gwenyth@ksu.edu.

Russia targets Ukraine’s farm storage sites after hitting port

KYIV, Ukraine (AP)

— Russia followed its withdrawal from a grain export deal by expanding its attacks from port infrastructure to farm storage buildings in Ukraine’s Odesa region Friday, while also practicing a Black Sea blockade.

Other Russian missiles damaged what officials described only as an “important infrastructure facility” southwest of the port city of Odesa, in what appeared to be an effort to cripple Ukraine’s food exports.

Attacks in recent days have put Odesa in Russia’s crosshairs after Moscow abandoned a wartime deal that allowed Ukraine to send grain through the key Black Sea port. In the attack on the storage site, two low-flying cruise missiles started a blaze, then another struck during firefighting efforts, regional Gov. Oleh Kiper said. The barrage injured two people, damaged equipment and destroyed 100 metric tons (110 tons) of peas and 20 metric tons (22 tons) of barley, Kiper said.

Russia targeted Ukrainian critical grain export infrastructure after vowing to retaliate for what it said was a Ukrainian attack that damaged a crucial bridge between Russia and the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.

“The enemy is continuing terror, and it’s undoubtedly related to the grain deal,” said Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s Operational Command South.

Both Russia and Ukraine have announced they will treat ships traveling to each other’s Black Sea ports

as potential military targets.

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin clarified the Defense Ministry’s announcement earlier this week that Moscow has declared wide areas in the Black Sea dangerous for shipping. The ministry said it would consider incoming vessels as laden with weapons and treat the country of its flag a participant in the conflict on the Ukrainian side.

Vershinin said the Russian navy will inspect the vessels to make sure they aren’t carrying military cargo before taking any other action.

“There is no longer a sea humanitarian corridor, there is a zone of increased military danger,” he told a news briefing.

Vershinin added that Russia will fulfill the needs of African countries despite the deal’s termination. President Vladimir Putin has promised to provide poor countries in Africa with free grain.

The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said the recent strikes against port and grain infrastructure and threats of escalation at sea “are likely a part of a Kremlin effort to leverage Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative and exact extensive concessions from the West.”

In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Western countries should address Russia’s demands to restore the Black Sea grain corridor.

“Russia has some expectations. If these are overcome, Russia is in favor of the active work of this grain corridor,” said Erdogan, who helped negotiate the deal. “We know that

(Putin) has some expectations from Western countries. Western countries need to take action on this issue.”

He reiterated he would talk to Putin by phone and hoped to meet him in Turkey next month.

In comments reported by state-run news agency Anadolu and other media, Erdogan warned that the end of the grain initiative would raise global food prices, increase famine and unleash new waves of migration.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he spoke with Erdogan by phone Friday, and they “coordinated efforts to restore the operation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative.”

“Unlocking the grain corridor is an absolute priority,” Zelenskyy said on the Telegram messaging app.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the navy conducted drills that simulated action to seal off a section of the Black Sea. In the maneuvers, a missile boat fired anti-ship cruise missiles at a mock target.

Crickets are cold-blooded animals. Kyle Koch, an entomologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said heat helps their muscles warm up to scrape their wings together and produce the chirps.

“Crickets’ bodies are affected by the ambient temperature,” he said. “As the temperature rises, they can have those muscle contracts occurring more rapidly which allows them to have a higher frequency. And as temperatures fall, that chirp rate also starts to decrease.”

Koch said it’s similar to how, for humans, it’s easier to go on a run in June than it is in January. Record chirping?

Crickets could be chirping faster than ever this year. Many experts predict 2023 could be the hottest in modern history.

It’s already been a scorchingly hot summer in parts of the world, like El Paso, Texas. Daily highs there have broken records set more than 40 years ago, as residents experienced at least 36 straight days of heat above 100 degrees.

El Paso’s National Weather Service office has a cricket chirp converter, which calculates the temperature based on how many chirps people hear in 15 seconds. But Jason Laney, the office’s warning coordination meteorologist, joked counting chirps may not be very useful amid an intense heat wave.

“Unfortunately, down here we’ve lost track of the tempera-

ture because now we have fried crickets,” he said. “The crickets don’t have a chance. They’re going to rub their poor little wings off.”

Extreme temperatures impact humans, too. Laney said this long stretch of high temperatures is dangerous to human health.

“We could all be resilient to one or two days of excessive heat,” he said. “But what makes this stand out is the duration of the high temperatures.”

El Niño — a weather pattern that brings warm water to the Pacific Ocean near the equator and tends to raise global temperatures — is contributing to the record-breaking conditions in El Paso and elsewhere.

Climate change and insects

The pattern is exacerbating an already-hotter planet. Earth has warmed roughly 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the 19th century.

Heat and other impacts of climate change pose serious implications for insects beyond noisier crickets, according to May Berenbaum, an entomologist at the University of Illinois

Higher temperatures have caused some species to increase reproduction rates, or migrate north in search of cooler conditions.

Insects might also find themselves out of sync with the plants and other organisms they rely on, Berenbaum said.

“Pollinators might respond to climate change differently than the flowers they depend on,” she said. “If you’re an insect that only has one host plant and you emerge when the leaves are no longer edible, then you’re out of luck.”

Impacts will vary across the millions of species, with some winning and others losing when their environments change. But, Berenbaum said, the chance that some populations could decline shouldn’t seem like a silver lining to climate change.

“They’re all a part of global biodiversity and we don’t know how they interact. What seems to us to be a species that will be missed by no one, could turn out to have an important ecological role,” she said. “We only see a tiny sliver of how insects interact with the rest of the world.”

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Bowlus showcased Liverpool Legends to their fullest

Once again, the Bowlus Fine Arts Center proved its value Friday night as it played host to Liverpool Legends, a tribute show to The Beatles.

More than 500 attended the show that brought many to their feet and even out into the aisles and down in the orchestra pit as they danced to the music of yesterday.

The Bowlus is unparalleled in this neck of the woods in its ability to host anything so large in such a professional manner. The sound, lighting and stage remain top-notch. And the plush seating is always appreciated.

After a 15-year standing gig, Liverpool Legends no longer calls Branson home. The band last performed in Iola in 2015.

“They called us,’’ Daniel Kays, Bowlus director, said of Friday’s performance, which occurred outside of the Bowlus’s standard season.

That the band contacted Kays “is the only way we could afford them,” because it allowed the fine arts center to forego any scheduling fees.

In 2015, the group’s booking fee was $9,000. Today, they charge $20,000 to schedule a show.

The band set the cost of tickets, which at $40 apiece for downstairs and $30 for the balcony, were too steep for many, Kays said. The band’s Branson show charged $90 a ticket.

“It was a risk on their part to come to Iola,” in

terms of sales, Kays said.

“But they were very pleased. When all was said and done, we were able to cut them a check for $15,000,” Kays said.

The group and its entourage spent Friday night in Iola hotels, Kays said.

On Saturday, they were headed to perform on a cruise liner bound for Alaska.

THE 2022-23 Bowlus season was a disappointment in terms of single ticket sales, Kays said, but reassuring in season ticket sales at a 75 percent renewal rate. A side note: Season tickets are a bargain. For every four shows, one is free.

Kays credits the affordability of tickets, typically in the $19 - $27 range for single-event tickets, in keeping the seats filled.

“The work done in the 1980s to establish legacy gifts to the Bowlus is huge,” Kays said, noting that strong base of bequests helps fund up to 85 percent of programming, keeping ticket prices affordable.

“That’s what keeps the dream of Thomas Bowlus to bring the arts to Allen County alive,” Kays said. “Building on that success is our goal.”

The 2023-24 performance season kicks off next month.

The Bowlus is considered the jewel in Iola’s crown of amenities. It requires our support to keep it shining.

— Susan Lynn

Barbie led to lawyer’s career

By LORI ANDREWS Chicago Tribune/TNS

Can dolls change your life? Barbie and Ken changed mine. I wouldn’t be a lawyer if it weren’t for them.

When I was 7 years old, Barbie was my first doll that might need a job instead of a diaper change. I imagined my Barbie as an archaeologist or a veterinarian or, a few years later when the space race began, an astronaut. Her future was unfettered.

In 1961, Mattel released the first Ken doll. For one year only, the debut Ken had flocked felt hair. And, woe is me, my Ken doll started going bald.

At age 10, I wrote a complaint letter to Mattel — and got action. They sent me a new Ken head with blond plastic hair. By popping the heads on and off, my Barbie could have two boyfriends — a wise, balding older guy or a somewhat clueless but hunky surfer dude.

That experience could have inspired me to be a bigamist. Instead, my successful complaint letter led me to consumer advocacy.

freedom of association they had offline.

Other women got a head start thinking about careers from Barbie as well. In 1986, Mattel released the board game We Girls Can Do Anything. The playing pieces reflected your aspirations — including doctor, pilot, musician or fashion designer. Television ads for the game had the refrain, “Nothing worth doing that we girls can’t do.” Although, in looking at the game pieces, you had to do everything (even major surgery) wearing hot pink dresses and high heels.

When the Barbie brand took a misstep on the career issue, the base pushed back. Teen Talk Barbie, released in 1992, uttered the phrase, “Math class is tough.” Way to discourage girls from considering careers in STEM! Activists calling themselves the Barbie Liberation Organization visited stores, bought talking Barbies and G.I. Joes and switched the voice boxes. Then they put the dolls back on the shelf.

run by women make twice as much money as startups run by men, a Boston Consulting Group analysis found. This deprives the economy of $85 million in revenue. That could purchase a lot of Barbie dream houses!

MATTEL AND I clashed again a few years ago. The Wi-Fi-enabled Hello Barbie, released in 2015, worked with an app on parents’ phones. The conversations little girls had with the dolls (as well as the conversations of anyone else in the vicinity) were recorded by an affiliated company, ToyTalk, for marketing purposes. The connection was easily hacked, allowing outsiders to learn about little girls’ locations and plans.

Eventually, Mattel did the right thing. It withdrew Hello Barbie from the market.

Now Mattel touts Judge Barbie, complete with a Ruth Bader Ginsburg-style collar, with this enthusiastic description: “Barbie Judge dolls inspire girls to imagine everything they can become — like protecting the rights of others and ruling on legal cases!”

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50 Years Ago July 1973

Gas City is the home of a champion. His name is Ch. Ironpride’s Delta Transcender and he is a Labrador retriever belonging to Tim Boyd. The dog, nicknamed “Rusty,” is undefeated in numerous competitions in the Midwest, culminating with a best-of-breed title in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. That

honor completed a necessary stream of championships to allow the dog to carry the “Ch.” title in front of his name. With those two letters, Rusty’s value went up from $500 to about $2,500. Boyd owns Town and Country Kennels in Gas City where he raises and trains Labradors. He also trains bird dogs and retrievers for hunting.

As a lawyer, I analyze the impact of new technologies on ordinary people. I chaired the ethics advisory board to the Human Genome Project and worked on laws to prevent employment and insurance discrimination against people who were healthy currently but whose genes indicated a higher chance of cancer or heart disease later in life. When Facebook started invading people’s privacy, I wrote a Social Network Constitution and helped pass laws ensuring people the same online rights to privacy, freedom of speech and

Customers who unwittingly bought the altered dolls found themselves with G.I. Joes that said, “Let’s plan our dream wedding” and Barbies that shouted, “Eat lead, Cobra.”

Within a few months, Mattel dropped that phrase — and even offered to replace the dolls that claimed they were math-deficient with math-savvy versions.

In the meantime, I was using my legal skills to suggest policies to address discrimination against female scientists in research funding and the grant of patents. Female innovators garner less than 2% of venture capital investments, even though startups

Coming full circle, I can finally retire and let the next generation of Barbie-inspired consumer advocates protect our rights. Perhaps I’ll move west and become Malibu Lori. Unless, of course, Barbie needs me for legal advice. She’s 64 now and might need a will or help with her Medicare paperwork.

About the author: Lori Andrews is an emerita professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law. She directs the school’s Institute for Science, Law and Technology.

KDOT’s zipper merge is policymaking in the real world

Do we need to re-learn how we merge on the freeway? The Kansas Department of Transportation says yes. But are we open to re-thinking something we have done the same way for years?

Since 2016, KDOT has been promoting the “zipper merge” for the construction zones along US 69 in Johnson County. Now, they also want us to use it along sections of K-10 that are under construction between Olathe and Lawrence, near Eudora. They may expand it further.

Around here, most use the early merge. When we see that a lane is closed, we move over into the open lane as quickly as possible. We treat drivers that do not do this as “cheaters.” Any attempt to cut in line may be met with a refusal to open a

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space, dirty looks, or even a famous, obscene hand gesture. Once, in construction around Olathe, I saw a semi truck driver steer his truck so it was straddling both lanes, just to block these line cutters. Didn’t the teachers in elementary school teach us not to cut in line? They did, but they also taught us to take turns. The early merge is fine if there is not much traffic, but when things get busy, drivers may slow down looking for a chance to merge early, slowing traffic further or even

causing accidents. The zipper merge calls for drivers to stay in their lane until the merge point, and then take turns, one car from each lane at a time, so that the traffic closes up like the teeth of a zipper. No more viewing drivers who stay in the tobe-closed lane as “cheaters,” no more blocking, no more gesturing. Signs warn drivers “Stay in your lane,” and “Take turns merging.”

TRAFFIC IS AN excellent example of how what we think is intuitively right, is often wrong. It reminds me of a debate I had with a family member when they were younger. Frustrated that we were running late, they suggested that the city needed to re-time the traffic light where we were waiting. I replied that a citywide traffic study might be in order.

Baffled, they replied that no such thing was necessary — this particular traffic light need only be reprogrammed. I disagreed. After all, re-timing just one traffic light could cause traffic to back up on the feeder streets, which in turn could cause traffic to back up on the feeder streets to those streets, and so on — a ripple effect that could be felt for many miles.

This complexity is why study of traffic is an academic subject in its own right — just ask the experts at K-State’s University Transportation Center. Traffic flows are complicated, and easing congestion often calls on drivers to re-learn what we think we know, among other changes.

This is policymaking in the real world — complicated, sometimes counterintuitive challenges to our estab-

lished ways of thinking and doing, which rely on the assumption that people are ready to make the change. Sometimes, half of us embrace the change and half of us do not, creating further confusion if not outright chaos, and making us angry with one another. This helps explain how issues that should not be part of the culture war get sucked into it — issues like gas stoves or Covid-19 protocols. There are bigger problems in the world today than how we merge at construction sites, but few have such a direct, immediate impact on our everyday lives — or exemplify just how difficult policy change is.

About the author: Michael Smith teaches political science at Emporia State University.

Ryen Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in “Barbie.” (COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES/TNS)

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Iola AA Indians cruise to state title

In the bottom of the third, Hull grounded a ball to second base which he reached due to an error to plate Brandon McKarnin and Henry White for the 5-0 edge. Gavin Page then grounded out to shortstop to bring home Hull and make it a 6-0 ball game.

Weir flied out to center field to score Church for the 7-0 advantage in the fourth. Sommer then shot a sacrifice fly to right field to bring home Logan Page for the 8-0 lead.

Church came through with the game-winning hit, a two-run single to right field to score Kaiden Barnett and Gavin Page, for the 10-0 victory in five innings.

Concordia managed only two hits off Sommer, one in the second and the other in the fifth.

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

CONCORDIA — The Iola AA Indians were crowned Kansas American Legion state champions for back-to-back times in Concordia Sunday.

The Indians (29-6) soaked in the feeling of another state championship victory in dominance. They were led by Trey Sommer, who pitched another complete-game

shutout with seven strikeouts and also hit a two-run home run in a 10-0 whopping. “It just shows that baseball is definitely the biggest sport in our area,” Iola head coach Ethan Tavarez said. “It’s back to back now and we’re planning on doing it again next summer. It’s important encouraging these guys to come out and be a part of a winning team.”

With the championship secured, Iola moves on to the Kansas American Legion Super-State series against Pittsburg AAA Post 64 on Friday in Humboldt. Sommer was brilliant both on the mound and at the plate for the Indians while Rogan Weir, Sam Hull and Trevor Church each drove in two runs. The Indians also scored runs in four of the five innings they batted.

Humboldt Speedway has Kids Night

By MATT COVINGTON The Humboldt Speedway

HUMBOLDT — It was a great night for the kids at the Humboldt Speedway Friday. The kids were invited to go down to the front stretch to meet the drivers who handed out hero cards and maybe even a special goody bag at intermission. Once everybody was cleared off the front stretch, it was time for the A features to finish the night.

We started off all the A features with the Home Savings Bank Factory Stocks.

There was a first-time visitor in 2023, Matt Collins in the 21C picked up the win but is familiar with the winner’s circle at the Hummer as he has raced here in the past. Matt Collins started 3rd but picked up the win in commanding fashion.

The second-place car was the 12V of Chris Vannoster. Third went to the 9R of Ronnie Kitterman and fourth went to the 7 of Dallas Joyce who started 15th on the

night. The top 5 was rounded out by the #3 of Derrek Wilson. USRA Tuners hit the track next and only had seven cars for the night. Picking up another win at Hummer was the 4T of Trenton Wilson who started sixth on the night in the A Feature. Taking second was the 412 of Jordan Blevins, his first night out at Humboldt Speedway in the USRA Tuners. Third went to the 15 of Travis Bockover and 4th went to the 707 of Larry Trestor. Rounding out the top-5 was the 3B of Mike Brown. Extrusion Inc. Midwest Mods had 24 cars competing. That class has been doing well all year long with

car count. The 16 of Mathew Kay got on track again by picking up the win. The Second-place car of the 01 JR Tyler Davis had challenged everybody with a great run but came up just a little bit short. Third went to the 7 of Brady Folk and 4th went to the 99 JR of Blake Sutton who is the points leader by only 19 with only three nights to go. Fifth place went to the 09 of Tret Bailey.

In the ARMI Contracting USRA Modifieds we only had nine cars checked in. Picking up the win was the 65 of Tyler Davis who started 5th in the race but got himself up front and picked up the victory. The 2nd place car was

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“It’s nice when you’re pitching and you can help yourself out at the plate, too,” said Sommer. “It’s nice to have the pitching we have coming into these tournaments and the coaches did a good job spreading it out. I didn’t think the home run was going to get out, but it did.”

Iola jumped on top in the bottom of the first when Weir singled to center field to score Logan Page for the 1-0 lead. Sommer then delivered with his two-run homer to left center field for the 3-0 advantage.

“It’s huge that we have guys that can go a whole game throwing strikes and we can trust them pitching,” said Tavarez. “It helps us in these tournaments because we’re only down two guys when we get to the championship. It’s an advantage because we have guys that come in and do their jobs.”

Sommer led at the plate with a team-high three RBI’s and two hits while McKarnin added two hits and Weir, Hull, Barnett and Church each had one hit. Tre Wilson walked a team-high two times.

Biles, Ledecky look for Olympic encores in Paris

By EDDIE PELLS The Associated Press

The city itself will be one of the brightest stars at the Paris Olympics, with ceremonies on the Seine, beach volleyball by the Eiffel Tower and a marathon route that passes through Versailles.

In the end, though, it will be the 10,500 athletes who will grab the spotlight once the festivities begin one year from Wednesday (July 26). Simone Biles is on a comeback, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone never left. A skateboarder who also likes to surf named Sky Brown is in contention to win gold medals in two events some 9,000 miles apart (more on that in a moment) and Katie Ledecky is still swimming strong heading into her fourth Olympics.

Some athletes to watch next year in Paris include:

SIMONE BILES

Biles will be 27 by the time the Paris Games open, which is considered retirement age for most American female gymnasts. But Biles has been redefining what’s possible ever since she burst onto the scene 10 years ago. Her game-changing legacy included the decision to exit the competition at the Tokyo Olympics two years ago, conceding her mental health was not where it needed to be to risk her life in pursuit of an Olympic gold medal. Over the last two years, Biles took time off and got married. She recently committed to a comeback, and her first competition on that road is set for Aug. 5. That and a few other meets this year will give the world a sense of where Biles stands, but if she makes the Olympic team, she will go in as its biggest star.

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Iola’s AA Indians won the Kansas American Legion state championship in Concordia on Sunday. At front, holding the plaque, is coach Theo Church. Front row, from left, is head coach Ethan Tavarez, Logan Page, Kaiden Barnett, Henry White, Tre Wilson, Gavin Page, Brandon McKarnin and coach TJ Taylor. Back row, from left, is Trevor Church, Ashton Hesse, Grady Dougherty, Trey Sommer, Sam Hull, Jack White, Rogan Weir and coach John Taylor. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Iola’s AA Indians line up pregame. From left, is Trevor Church, Jack White, Gavin Page, Kaiden Barnett, Sam Hull, Brandon McKarnin, Trey Sommer, Rogan Weir and Tre Wilson. REGISTER/ QUINN BURKITT

Iola’s Trey Sommer delivers a pitch to Concordia. REGISTER/ QUINN BURKITT

Road & Bridge Department Supervisor

Anderson County, Kansas, is seeking an experienced manager to lead our Road and Bridge Department as Supervisor. is complex position requires business management skills (including personnel and nancial management, professional communication, and excellent public relations) as well as some technical knowledge about construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, culverts, and related structures.

e Supervisor will be responsible for administrative and supervisory duties such as ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, applying for funding and compliance with reporting requirements, planning and recommending projects, overseeing contracted projects, addressing citizen concerns, and collaborating with technical sta , contracted engineers, and management of the department to ensure safe, e cient, e ective service delivery. e Supervisor is highly involved in development of annual operating budgets and oversees all resources of the department.

Salary is dependent on experience. Applications are due August 10, 2023. Submit application to Anderson County Clerk’s o ce, 100 E 4th Ave, Garnett, KS 66032. For more information contact the Anderson County Road & Bridge department at 785-448-3724 or jwettstein@andersoncountyks.org. Job description available upon request. Anderson County is an equal opportunity employer.

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Sophia Smith scores twice, USA defeats Vietnam 3-0

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Freshfaced newcomer Sophia Smith teamed with captain Lindsey Horan to give the United States a balanced performance as the Americans breezed to another opening victory at the Women’s World Cup.

Smith scored twice and the two-time defending champions beat tournament first-timers Vietnam 3-0 Saturday for the Americans’ 13th straight victory in a World Cup match. Smith, who turns 23 next month and is playing in her first tournament, is the second-youngest U.S. women’s player to score multiple goals in a World Cup game.

Horan, the team’s co-captain with Alex Morgan, added a goal

for the favored Americans, who have won four World Cups overall and are vying for an un-

precedented three-peat in this year’s tournament.

“I love playing with

Lindsey, she’s such a great player. She has such a good eye for things that a lot of play-

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SKY BROWN

When Brown won a bronze medal in skateboarding in Tokyo at age 13, she was exactly what the Olympics were looking for in their long-running effort to reshape their image for a new generation. In 2024, the Japanese-born prodigy, who competes for Britain, will try to take her game(s) to an entirely new level. The Summer Games’ action-sports icon will also try to qualify in surfing, an event that will be held more than 9,500 miles away in Tahiti. The schedule presumably lines up for Brown to try this intercontinental double, though waves can often dictate the pacing of a surf contest, which would be first up if Brown makes it. She recently told olympics. org that if she could pick a superpower, “I think teleporting would be real cool.” Given her goals for 2024, it would be very useful, as well.

KATIE LEDECKY Ledecky burst onto the Olympic scene as a teenager. She’s now 27 and swimming against women she inspired to get into the sport. “I’ve looked up to her for so long,” 17-year-old U.S. swimmer Jillian Cox said after finishing second to Ledecky last month at U.S. nationals.

Ledecky already has 10 Olympic medals, seven

of them gold. She won two gold and two silver in Tokyo and was the most decorated U.S. female athlete for the second straight Olympics. If she’s vulnerable anywhere, it’s in the shorter freestyle races, but it’s hard to bet against her anytime she dives into the pool.

SYDNEY McLAUGHLIN-LEVRONE

Whether it’s breaking her own world record or competing in a new event, every time McLaughlin-Levrone steps onto the track, she has a chance to make history. McLaughln-Levrone has set the record in the 400 meter hurdles four times, most recently lowering it to 50.68 seconds at last year’s world championships. The 50-second barrier beckons, though it’s no sure thing McLaughlin-Levrone will go for that in Paris. This year, she has been running in the 400-meter flat races, where earlier this month she won the national championship in the year’s best time, 48.74 seconds. Whether she’ll go for one, or both, gold medals in Paris has yet to be seen. Either way, it seems she’ll be a favorite.

AN SAN

In Tokyo, South Korea’s An San became the first archer to win three gold medals at the same games since 1904. She has won world championships and the World

Cup finals since then, and finished first in the world ranking in 2022. South Korea has won every women’s team event at the Olympics since the event was introduced for the Seoul Games in 1988.

YUASA AMI

Breakdancing, known officially as breaking, makes its debut in Paris, which puts Ami onto center stage. Japan’s top breaker won the inaugural BC One title in 2018, the breaking World Championship title a year later and took gold at the World Games last year.

“B-Girl Ami” got into hip-hop dancing as a kid, but saw breaking and immediately knew that was her thing. She was perfecting moves within a week of first trying them. “Winning a battle, of course, is so amazing, but at the same time, meeting people from all over the world has become an inspiration for me,” she said in a recent interview in Forbes. “These precious encounters and experiences with different dancers means so much to me.”

REBECA ANDRADE

The Brazilian finished runner-up to America’s Sunisa Lee in Tokyo and won the 2022 world all-around title in Liverpool, becoming the first world gymnastics champion from South America.

Inspired by Brazil’s

great gymnast of the early 2000s, Daiane dos Santos, Andrade suffered through three major knee injuries in the lead-up to Tokyo — an experience that taught her to listen to her body more as she goes through the rigors of training. Andrade could very well go into Paris as the favorite to win the all-around.

ERRIYON KNIGHTON

Everything about the American 200-meter specialist screams “This is the future of track.” He holds the world under-18 record (19.84 seconds) and the world under-20 record (19.69), both marks that were held by Usain Bolt before Knighton broke them. Knighton is the newly crowned U.S. champion at 200 meters. The 19-year-old is also the first person to win the World Athletics male rising star of the year award not once, but twice. He won the bronze medal at world championships last year. Standing in his way — Noah Lyles, who ran 19.31 last year at world championships to topple Michael Johnson’s hallowed American record and hold off Knighton for yet another year. They’ll meet again at worlds in August, and the Knighton-Lyles showdown is expected to be one of the best races in Paris.

ers don’t see,” Smith said. “She understands my game. She understands the runs I’m making before I even make them.”

Vietnam drew comparisons to Thailand, the team the Americans routed 13-0 in in their 2019 World Cup opening game. But Vietnam was surprisingly resilient, kept the game closer than expected, and goalkeeper Tran Thi Kim Thanh stopped Morgan’s firsthalf penalty attempt.

Morgan was knocked to the field clutching her calf after trying for the rebound off her missed penalty, but she quickly returned. It was just her second penalty miss for the United States.

Smith, one of 14 Americans playing in their first World Cup, showed why she was named both U.S. Soccer’s Player of the Year and the National Women’s Soccer League MVP last year with her two firsthalf goals. She scored when Morgan directed a pass from Horan to her in the 14th minute. Smith and Horan celebrated with a choreographed handshake after the goal.

Smith scored again in first-half stoppage time to make it 2-0 going into the break. The United States was at first flagged as offside before a video review confirmed the goal.

The U.S. team was infused with young

talent including Smith and Trinity Rodman after settling for a disappointing bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

“They’re confident, they’ve been in pressure situations. Soph Smith, look what she did. She does that every single day in training so it’s no shock to me,” Horan said. “But it’s always great to have the first game to really calm everyone’s nerves and get the three points.”

Among the veterans, 38-year-old Megan Rapinoe made her 200th international appearance against Vietnam.

Rapinoe, who scored in the World Cup final in France and was named that tournament’s best player, did not start. She announced before the team left for New Zealand that this would be her last World Cup and she would retire from her professional team at the end of the season.

Rapinoe and midfielder Rose Lavelle, who were both limited by injuries in the runup to the tournament, both came in as substitutes in the 63rd minute. Rapinoe sported bright blue hair.

“It feels old to reach that,” Rapinoe joked afterward. “My legs are like ‘You’ve earned it.’ It feels great, obviously, to have it be in a really meaningful game like a World Cup.”

The youngest player on the team, 18-yearold Alyssa Thompson,

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the young man of Wyatt Gaggero in the 15 from Wichita. Third went to the 3J of Lewis Jackson who had a good run-on Friday. Kenton Allen in the 9-car picked up 4th and 5th went to the 65B of Brett Davis.

Finishing out the night was the Ray’s Metal Depot USRA B Mods. Henry Chambers in the 17-car picked up another win at the Hummer.

The driver in the 22 car, Brian McGowen, had a good run and came home in 2nd. Third went to the 54

of Tyler Kidwell and 4th went to the 31of Luke Phillips. Rounding out the top 5 was the 189 of Jackson McGowen.

With only three weekly shows left for the season we are going to have some point battles coming up here in the next few weeks.

Next week, hitting the track will be the Ray’s Metal Depot USRA B-Mods, Extrusions Inc. Midwest Mods, Home Savings Bank Factory Stocks, USRA Tuners, and the ARMI Contracting USRA Modifieds.

Sophia Smith (11) of the USA Women’s National Team dribbles the ball against the Wales National Team in the first half of the Send Off Match at PayPal Park on July 9 in San Jose, California. THEARON HENDERSON/GETTY IMAGES/TNS

Iowa is Woodstock on wheels

SIOUX CITY, Iowa

(AP) — What bills itself as “the world’s longest, largest and oldest recreational bicycle touring event” was more like the world’s biggest traffic jam Sunday as riders, packed together in a sinewy stream of brightly colored jerseys and shorts, churned across the Loess Hills on the western edge of Iowa.

It’s called RAGBRAI — the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa — and it promised to be bigger than ever this year, as the brainchild of two writers from The Des Moines Register celebrated its golden anniversary with a route similar to its first.

That meant a start in Sioux City, where ambitious riders ceremonially dipped their rear tires in the Missouri River, and a finish for those with the legs and the temerity to last that long seven days later in Davenport on the Mississippi River.

Along the way there is plenty of pie, more than enough beer, and countless spaghetti dinners served in church basements in tiny towns that dot the heartland. There are riders on bikes that cost the equivalent of a down payment on a house, others on hand-me-downs that announce their arrival with every creaking pedal stroke. The riders themselves come from all corners of the globe, including one intrepid group from Australia, and represent just about every U.S. state.

“Participating in

RAGBRAI is an extraordinary experience. It’s truly a source of pride for many of us in the cycling community, especially if you call anywhere in Iowa home,” said Lisa Carponelli, who along with business partner Kim Hopkins used the ride in 2015 to help launch their business, Velorosa, which produces cycling gear for women.

“You’ll meet countless interesting people in every town and along every stretch of pavement,” she said. “Everyone is participating in a great outdoor activity, and you’ll always have something to talk about: the weather, the hills — don’t think it’s only flat here — the scenery, bike issues, and where to find the best food and the coldest beer in every town.”

Oh, and Carponelli promises it will be hot. Temperatures during this year’s 500-mile journey could hit triple digits.

So what exactly is the allure? Why has such a ride in Iowa, of all places, become an event that cuts across generations?

Mostly it boils down to the people.

Two of them, to start:

John Karras, an avid cyclist and features writer for The Des Moines Register, and Don Kaul, who wrote a column called “Over The Coffee.” Karras thought it would be fun for Kaul to write his column as he crossed the state, so the two got the support of their editors and set off that first year — on August 26, 1973 — with about 300 people tagging along.

“The early years were great because they were freewheeling, so to speak. It was new. It was fun. It was unique,” said Bob Molsberry, who watched that first ride go through Iowa City as a college student and joined in the following year. He will be riding part of RAGBRAI for the 30th time this year with his daughter and two grandchildren.

“Even Kaul and Karras were surprised at the response,” Molsberry said. “They had a couple of hundred show up that first year and didn’t have hotels or anything. People just showed up. The second year they had a truck that carried our gear, but people were just kind of on their own. Then it grew up gradually as the bicy-

Denny Hamlin wins record 7th at Pocono

LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Denny Hamlin chalked up his record seventh win at Pocono Raceway — “Eight, right?” he quipped — to nothing more than coming out ahead after a hard, respectful duel with Kyle Larson over the furious final laps.

Hamlin’s take: His Toyota held firm in the middle lane while Larson’s Chevrolet ran out of room on the outside when it got choked in a tight aerodynamic situation and sailed into the wall.

That made Hamlin the first disqualified Cup winner since April 17, 1960, when Emanuel Zervakis’ victory at Wilson Speedway in North Carolina was thrown out because of an oversized fuel tank.

“That was a bitter disappointment for us last year,” team owner Joe Gibbs said. “Hopefully today, that’s not going to be the case and we get through inspection.”

cling craze caught on.”

The ride really took off during the 1980s, when Greg LeMond put American cycling on the map with his three triumphs at the Tour de France, and the 1990s, when Lance Armstrong — a frequent RAGBRAI rider — was wearing the yellow jersey.

Some of the quaintness of the ride has been lost, of course, as commercialism took root along the route. Some of the dedicated charters these days carry gear from town to town, cook food each night and even set up riders’ tents before their arrival.

The charm of the ride still exists, though.

It was evident in the man pulling his kid in a wagon down the road, and the youngster doling out fruit snacks (two for a dollar) and granola bars to other weary riders. Or the riders that stopped just outside Sioux City to help a stranded rider helplessly holding his broken chain. Or the myriad teams that continue to rip the seats out of old school buses, paint them in often garish colors, pack them full

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Larson’s view: His so-called good buddy Hamlin ran him up the track, smashed him into the wall and derailed his chance at the win.

Larson was furious. Hamlin shrugged it off. After all, he had the win at Pocono — and this time it counted.

Hamlin returned to victory lane Sunday a year after his first-place finish was thrown out, giving him a track-record seven wins and 50 overall in his Cup career.

Hamlin won for the second time this season and also gave Toyota its 600th NASCAR victory. Afterward, he stood firm that he did not even brush Larson. “I’m not here to defend anything,” Hamlin said. “How can you wreck someone you don’t touch?”

Hamlin passed Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon — for the second straight year — for most wins at the trioval track. Hamlin and his former Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch had their 1-2 finishes stripped a year ago by NASCAR for aerodynamics violations.

They did. Hamlin laughed as he referenced the reason for the DQ, saying, “there’s no tape on the car this time.”

But Hamlin might have to go to the videotape to see if his No. 11 Toyota really did make contact with Larson. The pair bumped and battled over the final laps before the three-time Daytona 500 winner pulled away on the final restart and won with the caution flag out.

“Damn, man, we’re all racing for a win and I guarantee you, roles reversed, it goes the same way,” Hamlin said.

The sold-out crowd — Pocono’s largest since 2010 — showered Hamlin with boos.

“I love it,” Hamlin said. “They can boo my rock out of here in a few years.”

Pocono paints rocks outside the garage to honor of some of NASCAR’s greats, such as Jimmie Johnson and Richard Petty. Hamlin swept two races at Pocono in his rookie season in 2006, and added wins in 2009, 2010, 2019 and 2020. Larson faded to 20th and blamed Hamlin for shooting the No. 5 Chevrolet into the wall.

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Americans: Take down Vietnam at Women’s World Cup

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was also a second-half sub.

Saturday’s Cryptoquote:

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. — Alice Walker

Horan scored into a wide-open net off a pass from Smith, who was rushed by the goalkeeper and deftly sent the ball back to her. Horan, who was recently engaged, kissed her ring in celebration.

There was early drama when Rodman, the daughter of former NBA great Dennis Rodman and one of the

young newcomers on the team, appeared injured after falling hard on her back when she was tackled by defender Tran Thi Thu. Rapinoe warmed up on the sidelines and a stretcher was brought out on the field, but Rodman stood and returned to the match a few moments later.

Saturday’s game was the first meeting between the United States and Vietnam. The Vietnamese lost two exhibi-

tion matches ahead of the tournament and fell 9-0 to Spain in a closeddoor tune-up match in Auckland last Friday.

Also in Group E are the Netherlands and Portugal, which meet Sunday in Dunedin. Portugal is also making its first World Cup ap-

pearance.

The group plays all of their matches in New Zealand, which is co-hosting the tournament with Australia.

The United States plays the Netherlands in a 2019 final rematch on Thursday in Wellington.

Should the United States top the group, the team will head to Sydney for the round of 16. Back home in the United States, a sign was erected on the North Lawn of the White House that said “Go Team USA! We are all behind you.”

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Rolen, McGriff inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame

COOPERSTOWN,

N.Y. (AP) — The greatest moment of Scott Rolen’s 17-year career didn’t come during his 2006 World Series run with the St. Louis Cardinals or even during his outstanding first full season in 1997 with the Philadelphia Phillies, which earned him unanimous National League Rookie of the Year honors.

For Rolen, one of two players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, that honor was reserved for an unexpected moment with his parents after he was called up for his first major league game in 1996.

“Seeing Mom and Dad walk to their seats from my position at third base was a feeling never topped again in my 17 years,” Rolen said during his 16-minute acceptance speech.

It took six tries, but Rolen’s parents, Ed and Linda, finally got to see their son earn his bronze Hall of Fame plaque. He was joined by Fred McGriff, elected unanimously by the Contemporary Baseball Era Players

Committee in December after falling off the writers’ ballot in 2020.

Rolen was the only player to receive more than the 75% of the votes needed to qualify for induction. He received 297 votes (76.3%) from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in January. A year earlier, he got 63.2% of the vote.

“I’m grateful for this grand gesture,” Rolen said. “At no point in my lifetime did it ever occur to me that I would be standing on this stage.”

Rolen, a multi-sport high school star from Indiana, received a Division I offer to play basketball before the Phillies selected him straight out of Jasper High School in the second round of the 1993 amateur draft.

The third baseman spent six of his 17 seasons with the Cardinals, where he earned four of his seven AllStar selections and three of his eight Gold Gloves.

Rolen batted .281 with 316 homers and 1,287 RBIs in 2,038 games. He batted a team-best .421 during

the 2006 World Series, which St. Louis won in five games over Detroit.

Rolen credited his parents for the values they instilled in him.

“I was not raised to be a Major League

Baseball player,” he said. “I was raised to be honest, to work hard, to be accountable for my words and actions, and to treat people with kindness and respect.”

Joining Rolen on

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“I’ve never had to apologize to him about anything, anything I’ve done on the racetrack,” Larson said. “I can count four or five times where he’s had to reach out to me, ‘Oh, man, I’m sorry I put you in a bad spot there.’ Eventually, like he says, you have to start racing people a certain way to get the respect back.”

Hamlin won his 50th race in 635 career Cup starts spent entirely with Gibbs.

“He has been so loyal to us,” Gibbs said. “We went through one half of a year with Denny racing in Xfinity. We were struggling with our Cup car and we put him in there. It’s been going on 18 years.”

OTHER FINISHES

Tyler Reddick was second and Martin Truex Jr., who won last week at New Hampshire, was third. Kevin Harvick and Ty Gibbs rounded out the top

five. HELMET TOSS

Austin Dillon chucked his helmet at former teammate Reddick’s car after the two were involved in a wreck. Dillon’s Ford slammed into the wall and its passenger side crumpled. Dillon threw his helmet as he walked off the track.

“I was just trying to hit him,” Dillon said. “They’re going probably 65. If I had started at the front of the car, I might have got him at the door.”

OH, WHAT A FEELING!

Toyota now has 177 wins in the Cup Series, 196 in the Xfinity Series and 227 in the Truck Series.

Joe Gibbs Racing is Toyota’s winningest organization with 148 wins in Cup and 190 in Xfinity since Gibbs and Toyota partnered together in 2008. Kyle Busch has 203 victories with Toyota and Hamlin has 61.

career

CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW

Joey Logano’s rough race ended with a bumpy ride to pit road. Logano, who won the first stage, later hit the wall, blew four tires and finished 35th. The Team Penske driver criticized NASCAR for the jittery ride to the pits in his Ford and said the tow truck caused additional damage to the car.

“You get this long, horrible ride back. It’s rough,” Logano said. “Your head’s bouncing around in there. It’s stupid. It’s just really dumb that we can’t just put four tires on a truck. I saw a whole bunch of them earlier today. ... It’s not fun for anybody. The poor guy driving the tow truck. The poor driver getting his head knocked around for 2 miles and the poor team that’s got to fix the underbodies of these things after they’re dragged

around.”

SHE WEARS THE FIRESUIT

Logano took a jab at Kevin Harvick after a run-in at the 2010 Pocono race, saying, “It’s probably not his fault, you know, his wife wears the firesuit in the family.”

The quip has lived on but the feud between the two Cup champions has long since dissipated. Harvick, in his final NASCAR season, sold T-shirts this year for charity that read “I wear the firesuit in this family.” Harvick gave a $12,000 check from money raised from the sale to Logano for his charity foundation. Harvick’s young daughter wore a firesuit on Sunday with the slogan across the front.

UP NEXT NASCAR heads to Richmond. Larson won the race in April while Harvick is the defending winner of last summer’s race.

Iowa race: A storied bike ride

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of refreshments and set off down the road for a week in the Iowa sun. The charm is evident in Victor Fassano, a retired sheet metal worker from New York, who decided he wanted to start doing “epic adventures” at this stage of his life. He was on his way to the start when the transmission in his group’s car blew up. But rather than stew over the crater it just put in their wallets, the group’s first thought was: How do I get to Iowa now?

After some frantic hours, they managed to rent a pickup truck with a hitch for their bike racks and were on their way.

“For me,” Fassano says, “as a kid having a bicycle was freedom. I wanted to get that feeling back as an adult. I ride in groups, which is so much fun, and every once in a while just heading out by yourself to clear my head is

the best.” There is no heading out by yourself this week.

There are 20,000 registered weeklong riders, and another 9,000 that have secured day passes. But they are joined by

the stage was McGriff, who made sure to shake the hands of nearly all of the 50 Hall of Famers who welcomed him.

“I’m humbled and honored to be standing in front of you and now to be part of this fraternity,” McGriff said during his 20-minute speech.

“When your career is validated by former players and executives that saw you play, that’s as good as it gets.”

The lanky first baseman was drafted by the New York Yankees in the ninth round of the 1981 amateur draft out of Thomas Jefferson High School in Tampa, Florida. McGriff, who was affectionately nicknamed “Crime Dog” by ESPN’s Chris Berman, batted .284 with 493 homers and 1,550 RBIs in 2,460 games over 19 seasons. He played for six teams, was a five-time All-Star and helped the Atlanta Braves win the 1995

World Series. The players on the writers’ ballot who fell short of induction this year included Todd Helton (72.2%), Billy Wagner (68.1%), Andruw Jones (58.1%), Gary Sheffield (55%), Carlos Beltrán (46.5%), Jeff Kent (46.5%), Alex Rodriguez (35.7%), Manny Ramirez (33.2%), Omar Vizquel (19.5%), Andy Pettitte (17%), Bobby Abreu (15.4%), Jimmy Rollins (12.9%), Mark Buehrle (10.8%), Francisco Rodriguez (10.8%) and Torii Hunter (6.9%).

Three others were honored during Hall of Fame weekend. Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine received the Buck O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award, longtime Detroit Tigers beat writer John Lowe won the BBWAA’s Career Excellence Award, and Cubs radio broadcaster Pat Hughes was the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award.

thousands more who crash the ride, which means there could be more than 50,000 on the road some days this week. Get ready for more traffic jams. Or just go slowly and enjoy the ride.

Due to the high forecasted temperatures, the Turtle Race and Best Dressed Pet Contest on Saturday, July 29 are canceled.

Sorry to disappoint, but the safety of people and animals is very important on these hot days.

The barn will remain open with many critters for you to come and visit. See you there!

Sincerely, Becky Robb

Tampa’s Fred McGriff, left, was joined by fellow inductee Scott Rolen, right. MARC TOPKIN/TNS