The Iola Register, July 27, 2023

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Fundraiser helps couple with cancer

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

LAHARPE — April Colborn isn’t big on discussing her woes.

It’s why she and husband Bob were initially reluctant when approached by friends hoping to host a fundraiser to benefit the couple, both of whom have been diagnosed with cancer within the past year.

“It’s not because I don’t want anyone to know,” she explained. “It’s that I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me.”

It was only after her friends’

persistence — they can be stubborn, too — that the Colborns agreed. On Friday, the Iola Elks Lodge will host a benefit, starting with a taco dinner at 5:30, followed by a live auction with scores of donated prizes at 7 o’clock, and culminating at 7:30 with a raffle drawing for a wood pellet grill and smoker donated by Iola High School’s Class of 1988. “I don’t know if I can express how thankful we are,” April said, citing the individual efforts of organizers Kelli

Frazell, Shannon Zoglmann and Jenna Sprague. “These kids have worked so hard at this.”

THE COLBORNS’ troubles began last September, when Bob, 69, — a retired lineman for the City of Iola and a retired special forces veteran — began experiencing severe bouts of heartburn and nausea. He went in for a colonoscopy, which after about eight weeks of study, led to a liver

Business owners break ground on drive-thru coffee shop

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

Myra and Gabe Gleason ceremoniously broke ground Wednesday morning on Wild Bloom Coffee, a drive-thru coffee and pastry shop on the east side of U.S. 169 at North Dakota Road.

The Gleasons also own Fillmore Coffeehouse & Plant Cafe on the Iola square.

“We chose ‘Wild Bloom’ because we’re growing as a community,” Myra Gleason told a crowd of about 30 who gathered on a warm and windy morning. “This is truly a land of opportunity.”

Gabe Gleason noted the drive-thru’s convenience. “People won’t have to get out

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Senior 4-H’er soaks it all in

By VICKIE MOSS

Carly Dreher always sets lofty goals for herself when competing at the Allen County Fair. She wants to do well, both locally and at the state fair in September.

But, mostly, she just wants to soak it all in.

“I’m a little sentimental because the county fair is where it all started,” she said.

This is her last year in 4-H and her last year competing

in the fair. She is a member of City Slickers 4-H Club.

She recently graduated from Iola High School and plans to attend Butler Community College in the fall, joining the program’s renowned livestock judging team.

She’s already secured an internship for next summer, working for the Indiana breeder who has provided her hogs and given her guidance and support for years. She’s not sure exactly what kind of

career she wants to have but she knows it’s going to include swine in some way.

“My time in 4-H has been great and I’ve been super successful and achieved a lot of goals, but now it’s time for me to give back to the younger generation,” she said.

“I’ve learned so many lessons in 4-H and it is one of the best organizations. It gets you started at a young age.” She wouldn’t be where she is now if not for the support-

Council ponders discrepancy between bids for breaker

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Typically when seeking bids for equipment, vendors’ bids are in the same ball park.

Not so with Iola’s attempts to purchase a new 1,200-amp breaker for its Oak Street substation.

City Council members approved Monday a bid from KMEA/Mid-States out of Salina, for $40,625.

That cost is comparable to the 18 or so breakers the

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city has purchased over the past 15 years, electric plant superintendent Mike Phillips told the Council.

It was the two losing bids that caught the Council’s eye.

A bid from N&M Power came in at $136,750; a third from MP Predictive Technologies, Inc. of Orlando, Fla, for $278,656.79.

Phillips was uncertain why there was such a jaw-dropping discrepancy.

“I don’t know if Mid-

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Carly Dreher has high hopes for showing her breeding gilt at the Allen County Fair. She will also take the animal to the Kansas State Fair. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Myra and Gabe Gleason, center holding logo and shovel, break ground on

Road, with help from the Iola Chamber of Commerce, friends and supporters. They hope

Halloween. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Bob and April Colborn

Elections 101: County clerk details voting process

By BRUCE SYMES Iola Kiwanis Club

Shannon Patterson, Allen County clerk, described her job responsibilities for Iola Kiwanis Club members at their Tuesday meeting, focusing on the election process.

Patterson’s office is central in most county functions, she noted. In addition to keeping minutes and historical records for the County Commission, the clerk’s office is involved in varying degrees with payroll and human resources, property transfers, taxation, and other functions of local government.

“Our office works with just about every other office in about everything the county does,” she said.

As county election officer, that task is chief among Patterson’s responsibilities. She oversees every official vote that takes places – upcoming Nov. 7 are elections for city positions

and school boards in Allen County, as well as a probable bond election for courtroom expansion at the county courthouse – and handles staffing, training, equipment, materials and recording elections at four polling places: Iola, Humboldt, Gas, and Moran. In addition, early voting often takes places in the courthouse downstairs assembly room.

Volunteer election workers are always needed, she said, and those helping are paid $10.60 per hour for two to three hours of training and about 13 hours

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of work on election day. A typical countywide election requires 30 volunteers, as well as Patterson and her office staff.

Election protocols come from the Kansas Secretary of State’s office, and Patterson ensures integrity is maintained for each election locally.

Allen County programs its own “hardened” computers –which means they are connected only to electrical outlets and not to the internet, phone or any other outside line – for each election, and staff creates the ballots given to voters. Poll workers check records to make sure people are eligible to vote, and any questions results in a “provisional” ballot – for no picture identification, non-current addresses, party affiliation questions and the like – which are then determined valid or not by Patterson and the County Commission.

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Donnie David

Voters can choose paper ballots, filled in with pencil, or “express voting” which is done by pressing choices on a machine’s monitor and printing a ballot generated by those choices. Patterson said an overwhelming majority of Allen Countians prefer machine voting for convenience, but some stay with paper ballots or choose them to save time when voter traffic is heavy and machines aren’t available without a wait.

“If I had unlimited machines, I really feel I’d have very few paper ballots,” she said.

The tabulation process is open to the public, and the county clerk’s office welcomes residents wishing to watch counting of ballots in the evening after an election takes place.

The Iola Kiwanis Club meets weekly, noon Tuesdays, at Allen Community College and welcomes interest in membership. Email kiwanisiola@gmail.com.

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Donnie Ray David, age 69, Moran, was called home to be with the Lord Monday, July 24, 2023.

He was born on March 8, 1954 in Iola, the son of Glee and Needa E. Holland David.

He graduated from Marmaton Valley High School. He then attended Allen County Community College and then received a Bachelor’s Degree from Pittsburg State University.

Donnie David

He worked as a computer engineer and never becoming complacent, always learning new ideas and concepts in the industry. He was a talented photographer and videographer.

He collected Invicta watches, liked NASCAR, traveling, and hunting turkey. He enjoyed many types of food as long as it was a “well” prepared meal. However, he was most happy and at peace when he was surrounded by and spending time with his family.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a grandson, Darius David, two brothers, Glee David Jr., and George David.

Donnie is survived by a son, Andrew David and wife Brandy, a daughter, Casie Herrmann, two brothers, Buddie David and wife Diana, and Big John David and wife Anna, two sisters, Glea Pullium, and Phyllis Miller, and three grandchildren, Thaddeus Herrmann and wife Megan, Coawan David and Ellieanna David.

A graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 2, at the Bronson Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1, at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Mound City Chapel.

Memorial contributions are suggested Bourbon County Care to Share or Pancreatic Cancer Research. Condolences can be left at www. schneiderfunerals.com

Whistleblower: US is hiding evidence of UFOs

WASHINGTON (AP)

— The U.S. is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects, a former Air Force intelligence officer testified Wednesday to Congress. The Pentagon has denied his claims.

Retired Maj. David Grusch’s highly anticipated testimony before a House Oversight subcommittee was Congress’ latest foray into the world of UAPs — or “unidentified aerial phenomena,” which is the official term the U.S. government uses instead of UFOs. While the study of mysteri-

ous aircraft or objects often evokes talk of aliens and “little green men,” Democrats and Republicans in recent years have pushed for more research as a national security matter due to concerns that sightings observed by pilots may be tied to U.S. adversaries. Grusch said he was asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programs relating to the task force’s mission. At the time, Grusch was detailed to the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that operates U.S. spy satellites.

Allen County Clerk Shannon Patterson

South Florida waters hit the hot tub level

By SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press

The water temperature around the tip of Florida has hit triple digits — hot tub levels — two days in a row. Meteorologists say it could be the hottest seawater ever measured, although some questions about the reading remain.

Scientists are already seeing devastating effects from prolonged hot water surrounding Florida — coral bleaching and even the death of some corals in what had been one of the Florida Keys’ most resilient reefs. Climate change has set temperature records across the globe this month.

The warmer water is also fuel for hurricanes.

Scientists were careful to say there is some uncertainty with the reading. But the buoy at Manatee Bay hit 101.1 degrees Monday evening, according to National Weather Service meteorologist George Rizzuto. The night before, that buoy showed an online reading of 100.2.

“That is a potential record,” Rizzuto said.

“This is a hot tub. I like my hot tub around 100, 101. That’s what was recorded yesterday,” said Yale Climate Connections meteorologist Jeff Masters. If verified, the Monday reading would be nearly 1.5 degrees regarded as the prior record, set in the waters off Kuwait three summers ago, 99.7 degrees.

“We’ve never seen a record-breaking event like this before,” Masters said.

The consequences for sea corals are serious.

NOAA researcher Andrew Ibarra, who took his kayak out to the area, “found that the entire reef was bleached out. Every single coral colony was exhibiting some form of paling, partial bleaching or full out bleaching.”

Some coral even had died, he said.

This comes on top of bleaching seen last week by the University of Miami, when NOAA increased the alert level for coral earlier this month.

Wimsett wins big at Fashion Revue

Aspen Wimsett was the big winner of the Allen County Fair Fashion Revue on Tuesday evening at Iola High School.

Wimsett won champion intermediate girls’ buymanship and champion intermediate clothing construction, a clothing skills award for her work us-

ing striped material, and overall champion. Other champion awards were given in the buymanship category to junior girl Tessa Francis, senior girl Cassidy Friend; boys’ buymanship junior champion Elijah Mentzer, intermediate Henry Kramer and senior Ro-

han Springer; and clothing construction junior Elijah Mentzer. Those who qualify to compete at the Kansas State Fair are Cassidy Friend, Rohan Springer and Teghen Jaro.

Two “Friends of 4-H” awards were given to volunteers Jill and JD Wilks and Jennifer Jackman.

Ruins of ancient Nero’s Theater discovered near Vatican

ROME (AP) — Rome’s next luxury hotel has some very good bones: Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero’s Theater, an imperial theater referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found, have been discovered under the garden of a future Four Seasons Hotel steps from the Vatican.

Archaeologists have exca-

vated deep under the walled garden of the Palazzo della Rovere since 2020 as part of planned renovations on the frescoed Renaissance building. The palazzo, which takes up a city block along the broad Via della Conciliazione leading to St. Peter’s Square, is home to an ancient Vatican chivalric order that leases the space to a hotel to raise mon-

ey for Christians in the Holy Land.

The governor general of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, Leonardo Visconti di Modrone, confirmed during a news conference announcing the archaeological discovery that the incoming hotel chain was the Four Seasons. News reports have said the hotel is expected to be

open in time for the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee, when an estimated 30 million people and pilgrims are expected to flock to Rome.

Officials hailed the findings from the excavation as “exceptional,” given they provide a rare look at a stratum of Roman history from the Roman Empire through to the 15th century. Among the dis-

coveries: 10th century glass colored goblets and pottery pieces that are unusual because so little is known about this period in Rome.

Marzia Di Mento, the site’s chief archaeologist, noted that previously only seven glass chalices of the era had been found, and that the excavations of this one site turned up seven more.

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cancer diagnosis, brought on by cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy.

Six months of immunotherapy have shown marked improvement for the cancer.

“Bob’s cancer isn’t technically in remission, but the cancer has shrunk enough that he can undergo maintenance treatment and go back for quarterly MRIs,” April said.

The problem is the damage the cancer has already done to the liver. “The liver failure is still in play, however, which is really hard for me,” she continued. “He just can’t do what he once did.”

IT WAS partially because of her dedication to her husband, and her already jam-packed schedule that April often neglected her own well-being.

She figures she’d known for the better part of 18 months that she, too, likely had something wrong.

Part of her reasoning was that as a self-employed executive home director — a fancy name for a home-caregiver — she was working without health insurance.

“I just wasn’t feeling well,” she said.

And despite doing little in terms of exercise or watching her calories over the winter, April

was shedding pounds at an alarming rate. She estimates she lost nearly 40 pounds despite doing no exercise.

Yet, she put off a trip to the doctor.

In fact, it was her client, 86-year-old Audra Stine, who insisted April see a doctor earlier this spring.

April’s colonoscopy confirmed the worst. She had stage 4 colorectal cancer that had metastasized and spread to her lungs.

“I’m so thankful for Audra,” she said. “God bless Audra. And not just her, but her four girls who are so loving, so kind. I’ve never met a sweeter family.

“If it wasn’t for them, I’d have probably put it off longer,” April added. “The sad part is, I’m sure I probably could have died from it.”

Since her diagnosis, April has begun an aggressive chemotherapy regimen, with a pair of five-month chemo sessions around a threeweek break.

The entire treatment is scheduled to last for two years.

“I’m two months into this now,” she said. “The treatments are so aggressive because it had spread.”

A fellow churchgoer at Carlyle Presbyterian Church also suggested April visit an Amish healer in Garnett, where she takes various oils on a regular basis, purport-

edly to rid the body of toxins.

“I was worried because I don’t want it to work against the chemotherapy,” she said. “I’ve only been doing it a few weeks, but so far, it seems to have helped.”

April remains confident the treatments are working. And in fact, a recent scan showed nodules in her body have shrunk slightly. She’s cautiously optimistic she won’t have to go through the entire chemo schedule.

“I’m always very positive,” she said. “I don’t care what it takes to live.

I am not laying down.”

APRIL, 53, credits her faith for the positive outlook.

“I can’t worry about what the outcome is,”

she said. “It’s time to trust Him, to know that He will get us through this.

“God gets me through every day,” April continued. “When you find out you have cancer, your whole life changes. Nothing matters but your family and your friends.

“Jesus is first and foremost in my morning,” she said. “I start my day with Him, I end my day with Him, and I walk with Him all day. I don’t know how else you get through this in a positive manner. He’s given me the grace and mercy to smile everyday and to live life to the fullest. Every minute counts.”

To that end, the Colborns have made a point of reaching out to fami-

ly and friends more often, even if it means just coming to the house for a visit.

They have five children, 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchidlren.

“I don’t care if we have to drive to Topeka one night, we’re going to do whatever we can to make a memory. We’re going to make them more often. Every day with a memory is a great day.”

The diagnosis also has made her something of an introvert, a far cry from her outlook to anyone who’s known her when she managed Iola’s Sonic Drive-In for 25 years, or the Greenery for six more.

“I think everyone in town knows me,” she laughed. “I’m a hugger.”

Yet since her diagnosis, April would frequently enter grocery stores with her head down to avoid any unwanted attention.

It rarely works.

She recounted a trip to Walmart when she was greeted at the front door by two or three old acquaintances

“I just went down the line giving hugs,” she laughed. “That’s all they wanted, was a hug.”

If there’s one thing banned from their house, it’s self-pity.

“Of course, I’m praying for miracles,” she said. “I’ve been told so many times that Stage 4 is just a stage. Doesn’t mean you’re gonna die.

“I don’t feel like it’s a death sentence,” she said. “I feel like it’s a wakeup call.”

Aspen Wimsett, holding purple ribbons and a trophy, won champion intermediate girls’ buymanship and champion intermediate clothing construction, a clothing skills award for her work using striped material, and overall champion. She is shown with other contestants and received the award from Abigail Miewes, at right. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Political groups see Kansas school boards as key battleground

By SUZANNE PEREZ KMUW

At a national summit this month, a co-founder of the conservative group Moms for Liberty asked anyone to stand if they had served on a local school board, spoken at a school board meeting or lobbied lawmakers on education issues.

Everyone stood.

“You are the courage in America right now,” said Tina Descovich, a former school board member from Florida. “We are in a fight for liberty. We are in a fight for the future of this country.”

As national culture wars seep into education debates, political groups — especially on the right — see school boards as key battlegrounds. In Kansas, conservatives increasingly organize with schools in mind, forming coalitions and recruiting candidates to boost their influence on a wider scale.

Moms for Liberty, founded by Florida women who campaigned against pandemic school closures and mask mandates, recently established its first Kansas chapter. Members put flyers on cars in Johnson County defending the removal of some library books and criticizing local students’ scores on state tests.

New groups or off-

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shoots are forming, too.

The conservative Kansas Policy Institute recently launched the Kansas School Board Resource Center, a right-leaning option for school board members seeking guidance on education issues.

“From what I hear from school board members, they have trouble getting things done,” said Ward Cassidy, director of the center and a former Republican state legislator. “We need board members in the state of Kansas who will get involved and make real changes.”

The center holds online and in-person workshops for board members and crafts model policies on topics like parents’ rights and student discipline. In November, it will hold its first conference in Wichita.

Cassidy said the group wants students to learn

more and school boards to make wiser use of tax dollars.

“It would be interesting to see what would happen … if they actually lowered a property tax some year because they had the money they needed,” Cassidy said. “There’s a lot of school districts that could do just that.”

But the education establishment sees a blatant effort to undermine public schools.

Leah Fliter, assistant director for advocacy with the Kansas Association of School Boards, said some groups use culture-war debates to serve their own political interests, including a push to divert tax money away from public schools and toward private and religious schools through proposed voucher programs.

“It’s a long game that folks are playing,” Fliter

said. “They’re using these political issues to undermine public schools so that they can criticize them and defund them.”

The Kansas Association of School Boards started more than 100 years ago. It’s financed with membership fees from local districts. Cassidy said the Kansas School Board Resource Center is funded by multiple donors, but its parent organization has ties to Wichita billionaire Charles Koch.

Another new group founded by evangelical Christian church leaders — the City Elders of Oklahoma — recently expanded into Kansas and is recruiting people to run for school boards. Leaders of the Sedgwick County Republican Party promoted the group in its newsletter to members.

“Government-funded, government-subsidized education has been the greatest adversary of faith, family and freedom for a generation,” founder Jesse Leon Rodgers says in a video on the group’s website. “It’s social engineering and secular humanism at its best.”

Since the pandemic, conservatives have been winning more school board races. Three conservatives who won seats on the state Board of Education last fall have raised objections

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of a network of family, friends and others in the swine industry.

She credits her parents, Jerry and Cathy Dreher, and older sister, Caitlyn, for giving her a great start. Her sister, who is seven years her elder, was already showing pigs when Carly joined 4-H.

“I’ve really been showing pigs ever since I could walk,” Carly said. “I was kind of thrown into it, but there’s nothing else I would rather do.”

Sure, she’s shown other animals before.

In fact, she’s shown all four livestock species: swine, cattle, sheep and goats.

“I had a lamb one year. He weighed more than I did. He was huge,” she recalled.

Swine is still her favorite.

“Pig personalities are awesome. Every one of them is different. You have to get to know them,” she said.

“And the people in the swine industry are so supportive. It really takes a team to get started and be successful.”

Her first pig came from the Nemecek family. Carla Nemecek is the coach of the Southwind District’s livestock judging team, and the two families are close friends. Carly looked up to Brody Nemecek as a mentor. Though she has often competed against both Brody and younger brother Kyser, they all cheer for each other.

“We’re lucky to know them. It sounds cheesy but you have to have a support group behind you. Having those people there, always rooting for you no matter what and being happy when you win, that’s one of the best things,”

she said.

“On the national level, it gets very competitive, so finding the people who always support you is important.”

Now, she buys her pigs from an Indiana breeder, Austin Thompson, with Platt Show Pigs.

“He’s put in so much time and effort, and he truly wants the best for us. I would not be where I am without him.”

As an example of his support, Carly explained that Thompson grew up in Kansas. “His goal was always to win the state fair and he never achieved it.”

The pigs he bred and sold to Carly, though, helped her reach that goal. She has twice won Grand Champion at the Kansas State Fair, most recently last year.

“We’re a team,” Carly explained. “He had that goal growing up, and he’s happy to see us accomplish that.”

She also noted that her father and grandfather both showed cattle at the county fair. She’s happy to continue that tradition, albeit with swine.

“I’m proud that as a family, even though we don’t have a huge history in the swine industry, we’ve learned a lot and

worked really hard to get where we are,” she said. “It’s bittersweet to see that journey coming to an end.”

THIS YEAR, Carly is showing a breeding gilt and a Duroc market hog. Both have done well in spring shows. Her breeding gilt will continue on to the state fair.

“I’m excited for her future,” she said. “She’ll go on to raise more pigs.”

Carly is particularly fond of her gilt because of her strong personality.

“The first time I clipped her head, I had to talk her into it. I scratched her belly and she let me. She’s almost a best friend. We’ve traveled a lot of miles together.”

But the Allen County Fair will be the end of the line for her Duroc. He’ll be sold at the livestock auction at the end of the fair on Sunday.

“Saying goodbye is always hard. I always seem to be more attached to the ones that do better,” she said. “But the saddest part for me is seeing all the younger kids on sale night.”

It does get a little easier as you get older, she reassures them.

FOR CARLY, even the

to federal COVID-relief funding, library books and the school lunch program, among other issues.

losses have been lessons.

“I’m super competitive,” she said. “When you want to win so badly and you don’t, it can be very disappointing. I can really get down on myself. I try to remember how far we’ve come, how we started with a little hut in the dirt. I’m super thankful to have those experiences.”

She watched as her father helped a family in Woodson County find success showing swine. It inspired her to do the same for other families.

On Tuesday morning, she traveled to the Anderson County Fair in Garnett to work with a family who was showing swine. They won their class for the first time.

“Giving back to the younger generation is the best,” she said.

She encourages young people to set a goal and work hard to achieve it. Find a team to stand behind you and help you reach your goals.

“My advice to someone who is just getting started in 4-H is to reach out. Just ask for help. We all start somewhere and you don’t know until you learn. There’s always someone willing to lend a hand.”

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!

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of their cars — or PJs — for a good cup of coffee and muffin.”

they get good service and a good cup of coffee with us, then I’m hoping it will pique their interest as to what else Iola has to offer,” she said.

They hope the drive-thru will be open for business by Halloween.

As a frequent traveler to both Kansas City or Tulsa, Myra noted the lack of “good coffee” along the route.

“You can go two hours without any opportunities along the highway,” she said.

“I’m also hoping this will draw people into Iola,” she said. “If

The Gleasons plan to staff the drive-thru with high school and college students. Their hours will be from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

IN ADDITION to the drive-thru, the Gleasons have long term goals of developing the site into a Farmers Market on Saturdays as well as a gardening spot. The Gleasons are leasing the land from Jennifer Chester.

The Iola Chamber hosted Wednesday’s groundbreaking.

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States just buys that many,” he said.

Regardless, Council members were happy to go with the low bid, with a 7-0 vote. (Councilman Nickolas Kinder was absent.)

The new breaker will improve the reliability of one of the substation’s circuits, Phillips explained. “It will be a good asset,” he said.

IN OTHER business, Council members approved the purchase of a hydro vacuum excavation machine from Vermeer Great Plains of Goddard, for $46,486.50.

The machine will greatly enhance the city’s ability to get to underground utilities without having to dig with a traditional excavator or backhoe, gas, water and wastewater superintendent Mitch Phillips said.

The machine injects a high-power water spray into the ground, and immediately vacuums out the debris.

With the influx of buried cables, “it’s almost impossible to ‘old-school’ it,” he said. “We can start tearing stuff up left and right if

we’re not careful. We’ll have 101 uses for it. We probably should have had it five years ago.”

The bid for the machine came via a contract with Sourcewell, a purchasing agent that acts on a municipality’s behalf in order to secure the lowest bid.

The cost will be divided between the gas and water reserve funds. Both departments will have to be adjusted, with future delays in other equipment possible.

Phillips said multiple departments within the city will be able to take advantage of the machine.

COUNCIL members also approved a $3 increase in trash collection fees, to $15 a month, with the additional revenue earmarked for the city’s general fund.

The hike was agreed upon previously by the Council, to offset a larger increase in property tax levies that are likely to be incurred as the city sets its 2024 budget.

The Council must approve the budget by September.

the school board in 2021. Similarly, candidates in Johnson County who campaigned against an anti-racism curriculum, calling it “critical race theory,” won board seats in Shawnee Mission, Blue Valley and Olathe. COLD FUNNEL CAKE FRAPPE SPECIAL

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The Gleasons estimate it will take six weeks to build the structure, “and we will finish it out,” Myra said, including drywalling.

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Law & order in Israel: Judicial bill weakens more than its courts

When Israel was born as a modern Jewish state 75 years ago, its declaration of independence said that “it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture.”

For 75 years those rights and protections under law have been safeguarded by an independent judiciary, a judiciary established by the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, for as like in Britain, home of the original Parliament, there is no written constitution in Israel.

But the lack of a governing document in either the U.K. or Israel doesn’t mean that their courts lack integrity and accountability, as courts can be true and impartial without a written constitution. Conversely, even here, home to the world’s oldest written constitution, our highest court’s recent actions have caused many Americans to question it, both on decisions and the ethical behavior of its justices.

Which brings us to the fight in the Knesset chamber in Jerusalem and in the streets of Israel, as Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has used his narrow majority to push through a bill to undermine the independence of the Israeli Supreme Court and its 15 judges.

The measure, passed with 64 votes as all 56 members of the opposition boycotted the roll call, revokes the high court’s power to overrule government actions found by the judges to be “unreasonable in the extreme.”

Netanyahu and his allies argue that the democratically elected Knesset should not be

second guessed by unelected judges who are appointed by the apolitical president from a list compiled by a broad-based committee. As the Knesset is elected by the whole of the public, it should not be subservient to such a court, goes the thinking. But that is the entire idea of an independent court system; that it doesn’t take its orders from the ruling government of the day. The Israeli Supreme Court is accountable to its prior decisions and the concept of judicial review, first established by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1803, which lets a court knock down laws that violate the fundamental rules of a society, like those rights written into the Israeli declaration of independence.

Netanyahu feels he had to do this to satisfy his coalition, but fooling around with the courts is not a sign of political strength, but weakness, blaming judges who are duty bound to follow the law.

Israeli democracy remains robust and the hundreds of thousands protesting should challenge their energy into votes at the next election. What this Knesset does, the next Knesset can undo. That assumes the new bill survives a judicial challenge.

Netanyahu has won the day, but he says he’s not done and wants to give politicians greater say in selecting judges, which sounds like another bad idea.

Passing this bill doesn’t end the matter. Israel’s main labor union, Histadrut, said after the vote that it was looking at perhaps calling a general strike, shutting down the country in protest.

Netanyahu had the 64 votes he needed, but may have created more problems than he thinks he solved. Not so smart for an MIT grad.

— New York Daily News

UPS averts strike; ups wages

Labor peace has come at a price for United Parcel Service, which is offering a generous contract to dodge an imminent strike. The deal shows workers’ strength in a tight labor market, but it could also help the company position itself for the future.

The Teamsters labor union announced Tuesday that it had struck a deal with UPS on a five-year labor agreement. The deal averts a strike by 330,000 UPS workers, who had voted to walk off the job as soon as Aug. 1 if no agreement was reached. Formal talks stalled in early July, but the high stakes of a stoppage kept the company at the table.

The offer that the Teamsters agreed to this week includes large, rapid wage gains. Part-time workers, who make up more than half of the UPS workforce, will get their pay raised immediately to a minimum of $21 an hour, the union says. That’s a huge jump from the current $15.50 minimum, which UPS had previously offered to raise to $20 by 2025 — and it adds up to about 7% a year over five years. Tenured drivers will get a bump too, up

to an average top rate of $49 an hour from $42 today, or about 3.4% a year over five years.

These hefty raises will help Teamsters chief Sean O’Brien sell the deal to the rank and file, who will have to approve the agreement in coming weeks. Mr. O’Brien wanted a big top-line increase for sales purposes, as did the White House, which wants to boast that Bidenomics helps union workers.

UPS was willing to pay this price to avoid a strike, which the Anderson Economic Group estimated would have cost the company $816 million over a mere 10 days. The group also estimated a loss of $7 billion across the economy in the event of a strike, since UPS delivers some 25 million packages a day.

UPS was also willing to pay to achieve its goal of greater flexibility in work schedules and new technology. The company isn’t boasting about it, but we’re told the agreement will allow more warehouse and delivery shifts on Saturdays and Sundays, which are currently understaffed.

One risk for the union is

that the big raises, especially for part-timers, will give UPS an incentive to replace workers with robots and technology. The Teamsters’ UPS membership has grown along with the company in recent years, but this contract might be the high-water mark for the union’s UPS rolls.

The UPS-Teamsters deal raises the stakes for other labor negotiations, especially the United Auto Workers in their talks with the Big Three U.S. car makers. The big wage gains will also get the attention of the Federal Reserve, which views rising wages as an inflation threat. We think the UPS wage hikes are catching up with recent inflation more than they are driving more price increases. But the Fed’s economists think of this as a wage-price spiral.

The deal’s merits will play out over years for both parties, but the best news is that it’s a relief for shoppers and businesses. Contract standoffs are common when workers are in high demand, but the public wins when a strike is averted.

— Wall Street Journal

Russia’s Vladimir Putin endangering the world’s food sup-

Since he withdrew on July 17 from a year-old agreement that allowed Ukraine to continue exporting its wheat and corn through the Black Sea, which his navy patrols, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has compounded the harm not only to his neighbor but also to millions of people across the world who rely on it for grain.

In fact, within hours, Russia unleashed drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s export infrastructure, including silos containing hundreds of tons of grain and vital port structures. Those attacks, renewed daily, were expanded Monday to hit a Ukrainian port on the Danube River that provided Kyiv an alternative outlet for grain exports via Europe. The effect of these Russian attacks is to make it harder for Ukraine to resume shipments if and when current or future diplomatic efforts to revive the agreement from which Moscow withdrew succeed. World grain prices rose 17 percent in eight days after Russia pulled out.

Mr. Putin’s ostensible position is that the grain deal, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, put too many restrictions on the export of its own goods, and that Moscow would immediately rejoin if its terms were

renegotiated to the Kremlin’s liking. In fact, within hours, Russia unleashed drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s export infrastructure, including silos containing hundreds of tons of grain and vital port structures.

Those attacks, renewed daily, were expanded Monday to hit a Ukrainian port on the Danube River that provided Kyiv an alternative outlet for grain exports via Europe.

The effect of these Russian attacks is to make it harder for Ukraine to resume shipments if and when current or future diplomatic efforts to revive the agreement from which Moscow withdrew succeed. World grain prices rose 17 percent in eight days after Russia pulled out.

Mr. Putin’s ostensible position is that the grain deal, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, put too many restrictions on the export of its own goods, and that Moscow would immediately rejoin if its terms were renegotiated to the Kremlin’s liking.

Ukraine is a major grain producer, accounting for one-tenth of the world’s wheat supply, 13 percent of its barley, 15 percent of its corn and half of its sunflower oil. Thus, Moscow’s latest actions raise the prospect of future global food insecurity even if bumper crops this year in other countries, including Brazil, might postpone acute shortages. Though their death toll was blessedly modest, some

of the latest Russian missile attacks constitute potential war crimes, including one on the historic city center of Odessa that badly damaged the monumental Transfiguration Cathedral. (Ukraine has also hit some sites of no apparent military use, but at a minuscule scale compared with Russia’s strikes.)

Moscow’s targeting also represents a risky escalation in another sense: By attacking the Ukrainian grain stores on the Danube, Mr. Putin hit a target directly across the river and just a few hundred feet from Romania, a member of NATO. It is Moscow’s closest such strike to NATO territory since Mr. Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine 17 months ago.

Russia is cynically trying to blame the West for weaponizing food supplies, but Moscow’s own guilt is evident in the explosions and fires that have devastated Ukrainian grain stores and facilities, the product of Russian drone and missile strikes. That stark fact should not be lost on African leaders headed for Moscow later this week for a two-day summit with Mr. Putin.

A number of Africa’s 54 nations are especially at risk from Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea grain

pact, because of their dependence on shipments from Ukraine. Mr. Putin on Monday offered what he calls “assurances” that, in the absence of Ukrainian shipments, Russia would make up for them by supplying grain either on commercial terms or, in some cases, for free to impoverished African countries. Mr. Putin says Russia will have a record grain harvest this year; if so, it might be able to make up for some limited quantities of Ukrainian grain, but it still would not have the volume required to replace them completely.

A top U.S. Treasury Department official is planning to use a trip to Kenya and Somalia to offer some counterprogramming in response to Mr. Putin’s blamethe-West summit with African officials. This is smart. African countries, which would suffer the brunt of Putin-generated food shortages, have real diplomatic leverage. Having alienated itself from the rest of Europe and much of the rest of the world, Russia needs all the friends it can get. African decision-makers should bear that in mind — and make it clear to Moscow that friends don’t let friends threaten the world food supply.

— The Washington Post

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By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

A trio of Iola High golfers are wrapping up their summer play.

Xander Sellman, Chris Holloway and Brennen Coffield have been competing on the Wichita Junior Tour and the Central Links Tour this summer.

Coffield has earned trips to the championships of the Central Links and Kansas City Tours, finishing in the top-30 of the golfers on each tour. Coffield finished in 10th at Buffalo Dunes Country Club in Garden City on the Central Links Tour.

Indians eyeing Super State title

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

The Iola AA Indians are about to face their biggest test this summer.

The Indians (29-6) were named the AA American Legion state champions Sunday. With no time to rest on their laurels, they’ll play Pittsburg’s AAA Post 64 for the Super State title at Humboldt on Friday.

“If we play our game and we’re consistent with it, I see us moving way up high in the regional and national levels,” said Iola head coach Ethan Tavarez.

Iola’s team consists of eight players. All earned AllState honors this spring.

Those players are Iola’s Brandon McKarnin and Tre Wilson, Humboldt’s Trey Sommer, Sam Hull and Logan Page as well as Crest’s Trevor Church, Rogan Weir and Jack White. The Humboldt Cubs also reached the Class 3A state tournament, where they came in third.

Tavarez believes Iola has all the pieces necessary to take down AAA Pittsburg. The Indians defeated Post 64 earlier this season.

“If we want any chance at going to Alabama or beating a team we know we can

beat, even though they’re a so-called bigger and better team, we definitely need to start where we left off Sunday after our last game,” said Tavarez. “We can’t come out and act like we took a break.”

The 5-4 win over Pittsburg was July 6. Wilson had an inside-the-park home run in the third for the final score.

Logan Page earned the win on the mound, tossing five innings of four-run, seven strikeout ball and also had a solo home run.

“That second game we

came back and played very well as a team,” Tavarez said of the win against Pittsburg. “Communication was great, bats were staying hot and we had guys that made something happen when they came up to the plate which is huge.

“Pittsburg threw a hard-thrower so the fact we were still able to hit and win that game shows our guys can face any kind of pitching and be dominant,” said Tavarez.

The Indians wrapped up

the state tournament with a 10-0 championship victory over Concordia. Sommer pitched a complete-game shutout and also slugged a two-run home run in the first inning, en route to driving in a team-high three runs.

It was a full-team effort. Hull delivered a walk-off base hit in the bottom of the seventh for a 6-5 win over Colby in the opener. The Indians then totaled 14 hits, including Kaiden Barnett and Hull’s

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“What an accomplishment, to go and compete at that level against the best 13-to-15-yearold golfers in the state. That type of success is monumental,” Iola head coach Jeremy Sellman said. “Brennen has been really consistent in his game and his work ethic is second to none. He is at the course every day working on some aspect of his game. It goes to show hard work pays off with measurable success on the course.”

Coffield will compete at the Tiffany Greens Golf Club in Kansas City next week.

Sellman came in first place on the Wichita Junior Tour at the Tex Consoliver Golf Course by shooting a 79. He finished in sixth place in the season-long points race. He then came in seventh place at the Central Links event at the Wamego Country Club, shooting a 79.

Holloway finished his summer with a third place finish at the Tex Consoliver golf course on the Wichita Junior Tour. He claimed fourth place standing in the season-long points.

“I’m super proud of these boys working

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Messi scores twice in first Inter Miami start

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(AP) — Inter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas has one lasting memory from Lionel Messi’s debut: the image of Messi running to embrace his family after delivering the game-winning free kick and cementing a new era for the club and Major League Soccer.

“That was for the fans. This community is hungry,” Mas said.

Messi’s follow-up performance Tuesday night against Atlanta United in the Leagues Cup showed the impact that one player — the right player — can have on an entire club.

Messi scored twice and had an assist in his first start for Miami, bringing his total to three goals in two games. Inter Miami had a 3-0 lead by halftime, the first such lead in club history.

“There’s going to be a be-

fore and after Messi in football for this country,” Mas said. Miami went on to win 4-0. Messi exited in the 78th minute to a standing ovation, with many in the crowd wearing his No. 10 jersey. Many also headed for the exits themselves once Messi was on the bench.

“With the type of player that he is, it’s justified that this happens,” Miami coach

Tata Martino said. “I would have preferred that the public stayed and pay tribute to the entire team, but I can also understand it.”

Miami swept its group and moved on to the round of 32 in the Leagues Cup, in which it will host a to-be-determined opponent.

In the eighth minute, Messi took a pass from his longtime Barcelona teammate Sergio Busquets, surged for-

ward and sent a strike off the right post before tapping in his own rebound. Then, in the 22nd minute, Messi put Miami ahead 2-0 off a pass from Robert Taylor.

“Since those two have gotten here, the spirit has changed,” Miami’s DeAndre Yedlin said, referring to Messi and Busquets. “Obviously, guys are really excited. But I think just their presence

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three hits apiece in a 13-3 demolishing of Beloit.

Church threw another complete game, shortly after he did so in the zone tournament as well. Church allowed only one run in a 3-1 victory over Garnett’s Post 48 Muddogs. Jack White came up with the big tiebreaking two-run single. That win propelled the Indians to the state championship game against Concordia.

Iola and Pittsburg have faced off numerous times in the past two years.

“In my two years of coaching we’ve played

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hard this summer,” Sellman said. “It will for sure make our team a force to reckon with next season. Having three leaders on the team should drive success for the team and for the season. March needs to hurry up.”

Iola’s AA Indians huddle after winning the AA state championship game. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

these guys eight or 10 times and we know what they’re about,” Tavarez said. “There’s no reason we should be scared of them. I’m hoping the guys come out not even

worried about the team we’re playing.”

Iola and Pittsburg match up in the Kansas American Legion Super State series on Friday at 6 p.m.

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gives everybody more confidence. And I think also the teams that we’re playing against now have a bit of fear in their eyes. When those two are on the field, you know you’re in for a tough game.”

Messi came off the bench in the 54th minute Friday night in Miami’s first Leagues Cup match against Mexican club Cruz Azul. And he provided a moment fans had hoped for when the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner and World Cup champion for Argentina decided to take his talents to MLS. Messi converted the game-winning free kick in stoppage time in front of a crowd estimated at 21,000.

Yedlin had placed the skipper’s armband on Messi when he checked in on Friday, but Messi entered Tuesday’s match wearing the armband just below his right shoulder.

“He’s my teammate now. He’s our teammate,” Yedlin said. “He’s part of this team and he wants to win like everybody else. And he’s been a joy to be around, obviously not just on the field. He’s obviously an amazing talent but off the field he really helps a lot of the younger guys, even older guys like myself.”

Brazilian midfielder Gregore had been the club’s captain before

suffering a foot injury in March.

With Messi rightly commanding much of the attention from Atlanta’s defenders, opportunities opened for other Miami players. Taylor scored in the 44th minute, then made it 4-0 in the 53rd after being set up by Messi.

“There’s times when the coach prepares a certain game in a certain way, but these two players are so good at what they do that they create space,” Martino said about Messi and Busquets.

Goalkeeper Drake Callender preserved the shutout when he stopped a penalty shot by Thiago Almada in the 86th minute.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — USC quarterback Caleb Williams stood behind the lectern at the Heisman Trophy ceremony in December and delivered a speech, reminding his co-finalists that he might have won the hardware, but they were the ones playing in the College Football Playoffs.

“Guess you can’t win ‘em all,” he said. When Williams spoke Friday at the Pac-12 Conference media day, it became clear the same thought has reverberated through him for the past seven months.

“It resonates a lot,” Williams told The Associated Press. “It burns inside that I had said that up there. I didn’t want to say it, but it was the truth and it also got a little laughter ... So it eased up the crowd a little bit.”

What hasn’t eased up is his hunger for a national championship.

Williams, listed on FanDuel Sportsbook as the current favorite to with the Heisman Trophy again at 5-1 odds, said he’s heading into the 2023 season extra motivated after a hamstring injury marred his sophomore campaign. A victory over Utah in the Pac-12 title

game might have catapulted USC into a playoff spot, but Williams was dealing with the nagging injury and the Utes beat the Trojans 47-24.

Had he been healthy for the championship in USC’s remarkable turnaround season — from 4-8 in 2021 to 11-2 and a Cotton Bowl bid in 2022 — Williams said he believes the Trojans would

have enjoyed a different ending.

This year, he realizes what it’ll take to execute coach Lincoln Riley’s gameplan, as the two continue to resurrect the program to national prominence.

“I think when I’m on the field we got the best shot to win,” Williams said. “When I’m healthy, we got even a better shot to win. ... Having a routine that I stick to throughout the season, whether it’s food, lifts, running, whatever the case may be, that’ll help me stay healthy for 15 games.”

In just one season with the Trojans, after following Riley from Oklahoma, Williams ranks 10th all time in the program with 42 touchdown passes. His 333 completions are 13th at the school.

Now, Riley and the rest of the Trojans are hoping the catalyst

who helped thrust USC’s football program back into the national spotlight is ready for an encore performance.

“I think the situation last year, he obviously did a great job, was important for our program, but also I think for his learning and his growth, it was a great situation for him to be in as well,” Riley said. “Great quarterbacks at the end of the day get defined by their teams’ success, their championships. I know he’s very hungry to go close out this year with both.

“There is no one that I would rather go to war with than that guy.”

Williams has already drawn comparisons to Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes for his ability to improvise in a split second

and still deliver precision passes from an array of arm angles.

And considering the former five-star high school recruit out of Washington, D.C., has been in the national spotlight since high school, Williams said he’ll subconsciously be ready for every big moment that’ll confront him.

Whether or not he’s back at the lectern at the Heisman Trophy ceremony again, Williams has his eyes set on a bigger goal. “I play for championships,” he said. “I’d much rather hoist the golden trophy at the end, it means a lot more to me than the bronze trophy. And it doesn’t mean to disrespect the Heisman ... but it’s more or less that’s why you go out there and play football.”

Olympic champion Canada beats Ireland at Women’s World Cup

PERTH, Australia (AP)

— Conceding a goal directly from a corner kick against Ireland on Wednesday, Olympic champion Canada was in trouble in its second game of the Women’s World Cup.

After a disappointing 0-0 draw with Nigeria in its opening match of the tournament, and with iconic forward Christine Sinclair on the bench, Canada’s hopes of advancing from the group stage were under threat.

Up against a determined Ireland, an inspired Katie McCabe and torrential rain at Rectangular Stadium, the odds were stacking up against the Canadi-

ans. But with the character of Olympic gold medallists, a touch of fortune and some help from the bench, Canada recovered. Adriana Leon scored the decisive goal early in the second half to complete a come-from-behind 2-1 win that moved her country to the top of Group B and within sight of the round of 16. That hadn’t looked like being the case when McCabe curled a fourth-minute corner into the back of the net to give Ireland the lead and its first ever goal at a World Cup.

Launching her kick from the right, it was too high for anyone to

get a touch and drifted beyond the reach of Canada goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan before dipping under the bar.

It was a stunning strike and a contender for goal of the tournament. “It’s bittersweet. Of course it’s nice to score and get us off to a good start, but it’s results that matter in this game, at this level and in these type of tournaments,” said McCabe, who was named player of the match and was in tears after the final whistle. “I’m heartbroken for the girls and I felt we deserved something from the game.”

Ireland, in its debut at the World Cup, was

Chargers sign Herbert to megadeal

By JOE REEDY The Associated Press

Justin Herbert is set to become the NFL’s highest-paid quarterback by annual salary, agreeing to a five-year, $262.5 million extension with the Los Angeles Chargers on Tuesday.

Herbert’s total value and $52.5 million average per season surpasses the $260 million, five-year extension ($52 million average) Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson signed three months ago. Herbert will get $218.7 million guaranteed, which is second to the fully guaranteed $230 million deal Deshaun Watson signed with Cleveland in 2022, a person close to the negotiations told The Associated Press.

The person spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity because the Chargers did not release the financial details.

The team and Herbert agreed to the extension on the first day of training camp. The Chargers’ first practice will be Wednesday.

Herbert is the second member of the 2020 draft class to sign a big extension, after Philadelphia’s Jalen Hurts

signed a five-year extension worth $255 million.

Herbert’s contract also sets the playing field for the Cincinnati Bengals and Joe Burrow. Bengals owner Mike Brown on Monday said talks are ongoing.

Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes is in the third year of a 10-year contract worth $450 million, the largest overall deal for a quarterback.

The 25-year-old Herbert — the sixth overall pick in 2020 — is the first quarterback in NFL history to begin his career with three consec-

utive seasons of at least 4,000 passing yards and is one of two players to throw 25 touchdown passes in each of his first three years.

Since entering the league, Herbert is second in the league in completions (1,316), third in passing yards (14,089) and sixth in TD passes (102).

Despite Herbert’s numbers, he hasn’t pushed the Chargers into the echelon of Super Bowl contenders. Los Angeles is 25-25 including the playoffs with Herbert under center.

eliminated after backto-back losses. The Irish lost to co-host Australia 1-0 in their opening match.

“To captain these girls is an absolute honour and an absolute privilege. I’m so proud of each and every single one of them, we’ve done so much to get here and it’s about pushing on now,” McCabe said.

Both teams knew a win was vital to their hopes of advancing from the group.

After her team got off to an underwhelming start against Nigeria, Canada coach Beverly Priestman benched

Sinclair, international soccer’s all-time leading scorer, for the second game.

In her absence, Canada continued to struggle, going behind early and conceding more chances as Ireland applied the pressure.

Vanessa Gilles wasted a chance to even the score when she sent a shot over from close range as Ireland looked set to go into the break in front.

That was until Megan Connolly’s own-goal in the fifth minute of added time at the end of the first half granted Canada a lifeline. Connolly got the slightest touch

on Julia Grosso’s cross to take the ball beyond Ireland keeper Courtney Brosnan. It was a let off for Canada and Priestman responded by making three halftime substitutions, bringing on Sinclair, Sophie Schmidt and Shelina Zadorsky. That depth of quality proved the difference, with Schmidt making a quick impact by providing the assist for Leon’s goal in the 53rd. WHAT’S NEXT Canada plays co-host Australia in Melbourne on Monday, while Ireland and Nigeria meet in Brisbane.

USC quarterback Caleb Williamson Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. SEAN MEAGHER/TNS