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Current cases ................. 37 Total cases* ................... 1,329 Deaths........................... 20 *Since the start of the pandemic

By JOHN HANNA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH The Associated Press

Sources: Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments, Kansas Department of Health and Environment

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Sharon Moreland is the new director of the Iola Public Library and the Southeast Kansas Library System. She is an unapologetic fan of romance novels, and is pictured in the library’s romance section. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Ready to lead at the library

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Sharon Moreland believes a public library offers something unique: A free, open space to relax, read, learn and even conduct business.

“You can come and read the paper, go to children’s

story time and learn to read, come and use our WiFi or the copy machine. We welcome everybody, whatever your age or socio-economic status,” Moreland said.

“I think libraries help make American life more equitable.”

Moreland is the new direc-

tor of the Iola Public Library and the Southeast Kansas Library System.

She succeeds Roger Carswell, who served as the director for 29 years until his retirement earlier this month.

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County talks ambulances, budgets

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

The county’s ambulance contract discussion continues.

Carl Slaugh, speaking as a resident rather than in his capacity as city council member, shared information with the commission relevant to the ambulance agreement between the City of Iola and Allen County.

Slaugh shared a bit of history regarding the agreement, as well as some statistics on the number of emergency workers employed by the city and how many calls they responded to over the past couple years.

“Because we run both fire and EMS,” he said, “there are times when a decision

tal cost.”

A decision on the ambulance contract should be on the horizon in the coming months.

Commissioner David Lee talks about installing storm shelters across the county while commissioner Jerry Daniels listens.

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has to be made of which one has priority. That becomes an issue infrequently, but with limited resources, somebody makes the decision. That’s why we exercise mutual aid, mostly with Chanute.”

“We feel like it’s a savings

overall for the county,” said Slaugh of the current arrangement. “I think there’s some who feel like somehow the county is subsidizing the Iola fire operation, ... but I don’t think financial figures bear that out in terms of to-

Capitol attack: ‘Kill him,’ racial slurs and more

By BRIAN SLODYSKO The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — During emotional, tense and sometimes angry testimony, four police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 vividly recalled the violence they endured while fighting against a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters.

“I was grabbed, beaten, Tased, all while being called a traitor to my country,” said Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone at the first hearing Tuesday of the new House investigation into the insurrection.

Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Harry Dunn. (ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/ ABACAPRESS.COM/TNS)

The Jan. 6 insurrection, an attempt to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s win, came after then-President Trump held a rally in

Washington where he urged his followers to march on the Capitol and “fight like hell.” Yet despite extensive documentation of the violence, some Republicans have sought to deny and downplay the carnage that unfolded.

In telling their stories, officers said they wanted to set the record straight about the “hell” they experienced.

Here are highlights from the testimony of Fanone, fellow Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, as well as Sgt. Aquilino Gonell and Officer Harry Dunn of the U.S.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Officials in two major Kansas health care systems on Tuesday urged people to resume weari n g masks indoors even if they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 because of the faster spreading delta variant.

The comments from administrator-doctors at Stormont Vail Health in northeastern Kansas and the University of Kansas Health System came just before the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that even vaccinated people wear masks indoors in places where the coronavirus is surging. Their comments also came the day after the board of education in one of Kansas’ largest public school districts approved a mandate for elementary students to wear masks when classes resume in mid-August.

Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas immediately criticized the CDC’s new guidance, suggesting it would cause more people to hesitate to get vaccinated.

Marshall, an obstetrician and not an epidemiologist, also argued that the CDC’s change in guidance was unnecessary.

Kansas has seen its daily average for new COVID-19 cases increase for nearly five weeks because of the delta variant and the state’s low vaccination rate, to numbers last seen in mid-February.

State data showed that Kansas averaged 653 new cases a day for the seven days ending Monday. While that’s a fraction of the worst peak in mid-November, it’s more than six times the average of 96 new cases per day for the seven days that ended June 23.

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Can Biden’s plans build more factory jobs?

Ed Stokes

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press

Edward “Ed” Thomas Stokes, age 67, passed away Friday, July 23, 2021, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute.

Ed was born August 13, 1953, to Harlen B. and Bessie “Revona” Odam Stokes in Iola. He graduated from Iola High School with the Class of 1972. Ed married Barbara Ann (Vest) Ed Stokes Stokes on June 14, 1974, in Iola. Ed was the owner and operator of B&E Repair in LaHarpe.

Ed loved gardening, racing, fishing, pony pulls, and tinkering with anything mechanical. He was quite the story-teller. He took excellent care of his family and enjoyed helping out with all of his nieces and nephews. He was also a very dedicated brother.

Every Friday and Saturday night you could find him at the race track with Trent. He was very generous with his time and his talent. It didn’t matter what people needed, he was always willing to lend a hand.

He will be remembered for his caring heart.

Ed is preceded in death by parents, Harlen B. and Revona Stokes; brothers, Archie Stokes, Delbert Stokes and Harlen L. Stokes; and sister, Donna Hollingsworth.

Ed is survived by his wife of the home, Barbara Ann Stokes; brother, Willis Stokes and wife, Barbara Kay; sisters, Linda Lee Cole and Lois Mix and husband, Doug; sister-in-law, Cindy Stokes; many nieces and nephews; and numerous other family members and friends.

A funeral service to honor the life of Ed is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service in Iola. Burial will follow at the LaHarpe Cemetery in LaHarpe. Family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday in The Venue at the funeral home the night prior to the service.

Memorials in honor of Ed are suggested to the Edward Stokes Memorial Fund and may be left with the funeral home or mailed to 1883 U.S. Highway 54, Iola, Kansas 66749.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will be trying to connect with blue-collar workers Wednesday when he travels to a truck factory in Pennsylvania to advocate for government investments and clean energy as ways to strengthen U.S. manufacturing.

The Democrat will tour the Lehigh Valley operations facility for Mack Trucks, a chance to touch base with the plant’s 2,500 workers, a majority of whom are unionized. Biden has made manufacturing jobs a priority, and Democrats’ political future next year might hinge on whether he succeeds in reinvigorating a sector that has steadily lost jobs for more than four decades.

The administration is championing a $973 billion infrastructure package, $52 billion for computer chip production, sweeping investments in clean energy and the use of government procurement contracts to create factory jobs. Biden will be briefed Wednesday on Mack’s electric garbage trucks.

“This is all part of his effort to lift up and talk about his Buy American agenda as well as the infrastructure package,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday in previewing the visit.

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Marge Stillings Marjorie Louise “Marge” Stillings, 94, of Baldwin City, died Friday, July 23, 2021, in Baldwin City.

Marjorie was born on her parents homestead in rural McPherson, on Feb. 7, 1927, a daughter of Mae Ruth (Siebert) and John Gottleb Schafer.

Marjorie Lousie Schafer was united in marriage to Joe Stillings on Feb. 11, 1949, at the Naval Station Chapel, Key West, Fla. Graveside Service will take place at McPherson Cemetery, McPherson, at 2:30 p.m. on Friday with Reverend Chris Whitacre officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Douglas County Visiting Nurses, and can be sent in care of the Glidden-Ediger Funeral Home, 222 West Euclid Street, McPherson, Kansas 67460.

of past administrations to revive a manufacturing sector at the heart of American identity. Failure to bring back manufacturing jobs could further hurt already ailing factory towns across the country and possibly imperil Democrats’ chances in the 2022 midterm elections.

Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, said Biden should siphon off unspent money from his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package to cover the investments in infrastructure, instead of relying on tax increases and other revenue raisers to do so.

“Hopefully, he will use his visit to learn about the real, physical infrastructure needs of Pennsylvanians — and the huge sums of unused ‘COVID’ funds which should pay for that infrastructure,” Toomey said in a statement.

Deindustrialization has been a thorny problem for Democrats seeking voters during elections.

Layoffs of white factory workers led communities to vote for Republican challengers and turn against Democratic incumbents, according to a 2021 research paper

by McGill University’s Leonardo Baccini and Georgetown University’s Stephen Weymouth.

They found a connection between deindustrialization and greater racial division as white voters interpreted the layoffs as a loss of social status.

Areas with more factory layoffs also became

U.S. President Joe Biden waves as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

more pessimistic about the entire economy. The trends documented in the research were most pronounced in 2016, when Donald Trump won the White House while emphasizing blue-collar identity and racial differences.

One challenge for Democrats is that they’re not being forced to deal with the most recent manufacturing job losses, but layoffs that began decades ago.

“Biden would benefit from an improved manufacturing jobs outlook,” Weymouth said. “But a lot of economists think that many of these jobs are gone for good. And so, it’s an uphill battle. There’s alternatives: The president can pursue a more substantial social safety net for people who lose their jobs or investments in these communities that declined for decades.”

The Biden administration is separately trying to help domestic manufacturers by pro-

posing Wednesday to increase the amount of American-made goods being purchased by the federal government.

Administration officials who insisted on anonymity to discuss the measures said they’re proposing that any products bought by the government must have 60% of the value of their component parts manufactured in the United States. The proposal would gradually increase that figure to 75% by 2029, significantly higher than the 55% threshold under current law.

Manufacturing has improved since the depths of more than a year ago during the coronavirus pandemic-induced recession.

Labor Department data show that factories have regained about twothirds of the 1.4 million manufacturing jobs lost because of the outbreak. Factory output as tracked by the Federal Reserve is just below its pre-pandemic levels.

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Vince Falbo Richard Vincent (Vince) Falbo, age 71, of Colony, passed away at his residence on Sunday, July 25, 2021. He was born June 30, 1950, in Sacramento, Calif., to Vincent C. Falbo and Rose M. (Laskowski) Falbo.

Vince and Dorothy Brown were married May 15, 1971, in Belton, Mo. Memorials are suggested to Colony First Responders, and may be left with Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 US Highway 54, Iola Kansas.

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Capitol Police.

MEDIEVAL BATTLEFIELD

They were armed with flags, steel pipes, table legs, chemical weapons, guns — even a cattle prod.

The officers said they were expecting a routine protest the day of Trump’s Jan. 6 rally. But they weren’t prepared for thousands of his angry supporters to overrun them during fierce hand-to-hand combat that transformed the Capitol grounds into what Gonell described as a “medieval battlefield.”

“Is this all the manpower you have? Do you really think you’re going to be able to stop all these people?” Hodges said one of the rioters told him.

“Get your machete,” someone in the crowd could be heard saying.

Fanone, at one point was separated from his fellow officers, was pulled into the mob, beaten and repeatedly shocked with a stun gun.

“I heard chants of ‘kill him with his own gun.’ I can still hear those words in my head

today,” he said.

He blacked out and estimates he lost consciousness for four minutes. Doctors later told him that he had a heart attack.

Elsewhere, Gonell was guarding an entrance when he was crushed by rioters. He could feel himself losing oxygen. “This is how I’m going to die,” he recalled thinking.

RACIAL SLURS

Dunn told lawmakers about an exchange he had with rioters who had fully bought into Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen and believed “nobody voted for Joe Biden.”

When Dunn, who is Black, told the rioters he voted for Biden and his vote should be counted, a crowd of Capitol intruders hurled the N-word at him.

“One woman in a pink ‘MAGA’ (Make America Great Again) shirt yelled, ‘You hear that, guys, this n—— voted for Joe Biden!’” Dunn said. The crowd of roughly 20 people began hurling the slur at him.

No one had ever called Dunn, an officer with more than a dozen

years on the force, the N-word while he wore his Capitol Police officer uniform, he told the panel.

However, Dunn was also speaking to the experience of being an African American police officer, who make up 29% of roughly 2,300 officers and civilians serving on the Capitol Police force.

Dunn said another Black male officer told him that, while confronting the rioters on Jan. 6, he was told to “Put your gun down and we’ll show you what kind of n—— you really are.”

PUSHING BACK ON TRUMP

Ever since the attack, Trump has repeatedly tried to downplay the role he and his supporters played. In a video belatedly released hours after rioters breached the Capitol, Trump called for them to “go home in peace.” But he also added: “We love you. You’re very special.”

Since then, he’s insisted many attendees were “loving” people who were “hugging and kissing the police and the guards.”

The four officers would have none of it.

“I’m still myself recovering from those hugs and kisses,” Gonell said. “If that was all hugs and kisses we should go to his house and do the same thing to him.” Later in the hearing he apologized for the comment.

Dunn appeared to compare Trump to a hit man and urged the committee to explore his role in the insurgency.

“There was an attack on Jan. 6. And a hit man sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that,” he said.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, a Trump ally, said he wouldn’t name any House Republicans to serve on the committee conducting the probe after Speaker Nancy Pe-

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“Many in my party have treated this as just another partisan fight. It’s toxic and a disservice to the officers and their families.”

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Why is Suellentrop’s DUI case moving so slowly?

Gene Suellentrop’s highspeed chase on Interstate 70 is sure getting slowplayed in the courts.

After his arrest last March for DUI, high-speed wrong-way driving and attempting to elude law enforcement, Suellentrop’s Kansas Senate colleagues said the then-Senate majority leader deserved due process. But four months later, the process seems pretty darn overdue. The case can’t even get scheduled for a scheduling hearing, odd as that sounds.

Shawnee County District Court in Topeka tried to get the case on a Criminal Assignment Docket in June, then earlier this month, and will try again “by agreement of the parties” Aug. 5. Again, even that is just a hearing to get the case scheduled for real hearings.

What is taking so long?

Do you think you’d get a summer by the pool if this were you?

Delays in court proceedings are routine, certainly.

But this case isn’t exactly an Agatha Christie murder mystery to unravel. Either he drove drunk something close to 90 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone, and on the wrong side of I-70 in downtown Topeka in the wee hours, or he didn’t.

Among the five charges against him, none is for threatening a law enforcement officer, which the high-ranking legislator also is alleged to have done — calling the officer “doughnut boy” and boasting that he could take the officer in a fight.

At some point, you have to wonder if the Republican state senator from Wichita — still technically in good standing as a legislator, although March 16 he apparently could hardly stand at all — is filibustering the proceedings. To what end? And how can others get that kind of deal?

Suellentrop’s integrity was always going to be in question after this debacle,

in which he was just stupid lucky not to have killed someone on the road. But now the criminal justice system’s integrity is the issue. Will a formerly powerful and well-connected legislative leader truly be held to account for his alleged reckless actions, which include the felony of attempting to elude law enforcement?

His hold on legislative power got the same peaceful, easy treatment: For a long time after his arrest, Suellentrop was allowed to keep his Senate majority leader position. And The Star Editorial Board discovered that he really didn’t back away from his leadership role and influence, despite a promise to do so.

Ultimately it took an unbridled mutiny of rankand-file Kansas Senate Republicans to strip Suellentrop of his leadership position. There are claw marks where Suellentrop clung desperately to the mantle.

As for the remaining Republican legislative leaders, what don’t they understand about all this that the rest of us do?

That these are serious, even outrageous charges — flying drunk down the wrong side of an interstate, which generally gets people killed, and not just bumping a median on the way home after one glass of wine too many? Do they not understand that the slow-motion, no-accountability path this case is on will only tar the Kansas Legislature and all public officials with Suellentrop’s own behavior?

The longer this case flop, flop, flops along like it’s had stop sticks deployed against it, the more the public will suspect that rank political influence is being brought to bear, whether that’s true or not.

Get on with it, for heaven’s sake. And for the sake of the criminal justice system.

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Let’s protect voting for all Kansans

By GRETCHEN EICK Kansas Reflector

Nov. 3, 2020, saw the highest turnout of voters in U.S. history. Now, at least 18 state legislatures have passed laws to reduce voter turnout and restrict U.S. citizens’ access to their constitutionally guaranteed right to vote, especially targeting people of color. Kansas is among them.

The Kansas Legislature passed a law making it a crime to engage in activity that “gives the appearance of being an election official.”

The law is so vaguely worded that organizations doing voter registration, foremost among them the nonpartisan League of Women Voters, have suspended registering and educating voters. They fear their well-informed members who register voters may be charged with impersonating election officials, a felony.

This law has halted 100 years of LWV voter registration of new citizens and voters of all political parties.

The Kansas Legislature also has decided to rush the process of drawing new voting districts. The Kansas Constitution’ deadline for drawing new boundary lines is the end of the legislative session — May 2022. The Republican majority is considering setting boundaries that would dilute Black and Latino voting strength by assigning their communities to Republican-majority areas.

The responsibility for redistricting in Kansas is assigned to the Legislature.

New boundaries — based on census data to be released Aug. 16 — will be drawn for the four districts that elect Kansas’ four members of U.S. Congress, the 40 districts that elect Kansas state senators, and the 125 districts that elect Kansas House members. The Republican majority’s redistricting commission is led by Senate President Ty Masterson, R-Andover. The governor has the right to veto a redistricting plan.

What does redrawing district lines for the U.S. House, the Kansas House, the Kansas Senate, and schools have to do with restricting voters from exercising their right to vote?

Senate President Ty Masterson will lead efforts to draw new district lines for the U.S. House, legislative seats and school boards.

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Federal law requires districts to have nearly equal populations (plus or minus 5%) and prohibits new boundaries from discriminating against voters on the basis of race or ethnicity. Where the boundaries of these districts run can greatly affect the power of your vote if you are Latino, Black or white, and live in urban areas where the population has increased since 2010. Rural Kansas continues to lose population while urban and northeastern Kansas gains population.

Since 2010 Kansas has gained 84,762 people, exceeding predictions by 25,000. But one way to equalize district populations is to divide Wyandotte and Douglas Counties, areas which tend to vote Democratic, and assign neighborhoods of urban, Democratic voters to new districts where rural Republicans are in the majority. This would alter the outcome of elections to benefit Republican candidates. It would diminish the effectiveness of these residents’ votes, discriminating against them.

For Republican legislators seeking to advantage their party in the next decade of elections, redrawing boundaries to reassign Democratic areas of Kansas to adjacent Republican and western counties seems a brilliant strategy. Except it violates federal law. The U.S. Constitution is silent on redistricting, but it is not silent on reducing the right to vote for people according to their race or color. Section 1 of the Fifteenth Amendment to the

U.S. Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Citizens of color and city-dwellers more frequently vote for Democrats. Reassigning the areas in which they live to districts predominantly white and Republican would reduce the power of their vote and violate their constitutional right to vote.

Forty-two of our 50 states require state legislative districts to accommodate political boundaries, i.e., to keep people of a city, county or town in the same district. If the Kansas Legislature tries this strategy of dividing districts where people of color reside, they will not only violate the U.S. Constitution.

They will also set Kansas up for an extended and expensive court battle. Remember what happened after the 2010 census? The Kansas Legislature did not finish redrawing the lines before their session ended — its legal deadline.

For the first time in history, the federal courts had to draw new district boundaries for Kansas.

The right to vote must not be politicized. Gov. Laura Kelly is right to call for a nonpartisan committee not composed of partisan legislators to do the redistricting.

The Legislature plans to hold 14 town halls to gather feedback from residents.

Kansans should fill those meetings and demand an equal right to vote for all.

Time to knock out the virus, with or without the unvaccinated The virus is not behind us.

It is still in lots of us. That’s becoming clearer, more troubling and more frustrating by the day.

The troubling part, of course, is that the number of deaths attributable to the virus is continuing to increase. Many of those deaths are needless. The frustrating part is that the vast, vast majority of these deaths come from people who are eligible to get a vaccination but just wouldn’t.

Perhaps there are some among us who believe we shouldn’t get frustrated over people failing to protect themselves. If that’s all this were, that would be a fair enough — although callous — argument.

But a person’s decision to forgo vaccination doesn’t just impact that person. When they get sick and need a hospital bed, they’ll get one. No hospital denies care because a person refused to get vaccinated. When the hospital fills up, there will be people who did their part to get vaccinated that will need a hospital

bed — probably for something other than COVID — who won’t be able to get one. A lack of care will cause some of them to suffer or die, even though they did what they were supposed to do during a public health emergency while others who did not suck up a limited supply of health care. That’s not fair.

The more worrisome part is that the longer we allow this virus to spread among the unvaccinated, the greater chance it has to mutate into a new version that evades our current vaccines. At that point, the country and the world would largely be back to square one. That would be devastating on both a physical and an emotional level.

Excuse the language, but we have the virus on the ropes. We need to knock its ass out.

That’s tough talk, and we could use more of it. It was encouraging to see the governor of Alabama — a Republican — deliver such a message to her state’s residents, who have generally have been awful at getting vaccinated.

“It is time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks,” Gov. Kay Ivey said. “It is the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.”

She also said people are “supposed to have common sense,” which should lead them to get vaccinated, and that the unvaccinated are “choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain.”

It is good to hear that tough talk from a Republican leader, given that the vaccination issue clearly has a partisan lean. But, it is still just talk.

For a few it may cause them to get off the fence and get a vaccine. But for the ones who have really made up their mind, talk is not likely to get the job — or the jab — done.

There are actions, though, that may cause some to get the shot, even if reluctantly. Once the vaccines move from emergency-use approval to full approval, that should be the trigger for the federal government and others to get more aggressive in requiring vaccines for certain activities. President Joe Biden has

Illustration of the COVID-19 virus. (PIXABAY PHOTO.) suggested such final approval could come this fall.

It would be nice to just have a nationwide vaccination requirement, but states’ rights and the political environment in many states probably would ensure that strategy results in more in-fighting than inoculations. But there is quite a bit the federal government could do without any assistance from the states. For example, require all federal employees to be vaccinated.

Require anyone receiving a federal student loan to be vaccinated. Tie K-12 education grant money to vaccination requirements. Make proof of

vaccination part of the TSA screening process at airports.

The list could go on.

All of that will create a lot of angst among certain segments of the population. But remember two things. First, vaccination requirements are nothing new. School children and others live with them every year.

Second, delivering a knockout punch can be an uneasy act. It can make you queasy. It can make you uncomfortable.

But sometimes, it is what has to be done to ensure that the good side wins.

Let’s knock this out.

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tive, they did not allocate any money to the Auxiliary at this time.

“We were just wondering about your coffers, and whether there was an opportunity to be self-sufficient,” said commissioner Bruce Symes.

“In our current financial situation, we’re looking for opportunities to save every penny ourselves,” he added.

work with Carswell for a few weeks before his retirement, learning the ropes and making introductions to other directors and staff across the region.

“We had lots of windshield time to talk,” she said. “He has left both organizations in such great shape. I get to do all the fun stuff.”

Of course, the “fun stuff ” still brings its challenges. Moreland already is working on grants to help improve the facilities. She’s excited to get the adult reading program and other activities restarted after the pandemic, and wants to increase the number of patrons who regularly use the library’s services.

The “fun stuff,” though, might include something as simple as rearranging the furniture.

“I like to do stuff like that, change things up a little,” she said. “We have a great crew. I’m open to whatever ideas the staff bring to me. This is a time of transition, but it’s also a time that we can transform into whatever it is that we want.”

CHELSIE Angleton, 911 director, spoke with commissioners about mutual aid agreements between counties, where one county can take emergency calls for another in the event that a dispatch system goes down, etc.

Angleton said that, for example, Allen County had recently fielded calls for Anderson County.

BECKY Voorhies, health programs director for Thrive Allen County, spoke with commissioners about the effort to install storm shelters across the county,

Carl Slaugh shares information on the City of Iola’s ambulance calls over the past year.

Becky Voorhies, director of health programs at Thrive Allen County, along with Chelsie Angleton, 911 director, speak with commissioners about grants for installing storm shelters. especially with an eye to unincorporated communities.

Voorhies mentioned that, during the process of applying for federal grant dollars, it might be necessary for the communities in question to have resident income data collected, to ensure that a certain percentage were considered low-to-moderate income.

Chelsie Angleton also chimed in on the question, and shared details on what features the shelters would need in order to be eligible for FEMA dollars, such as restrooms and diaper-changing stations.

DURING his weekly report, public works director Mitch Garner said that dust control measures had been taking place starting Monday, and looked to finish up by today.

He also mentioned that county crews had been out mowing, trimming trees and cleaning up brush.

Chip-seal repairs are

slated for next week, Garner added, once dust control is complete.

Garner also said that the county was once again making gravel (road rock), following a quarry blast on Monday.

Ditch-work was likewise on Garner’s to-do list, but he said that progress had been hampered by wet conditions.

LASTLY, auditor Rodney Burns was on-hand once again to help commissioners stay within the limits of their budget for the upcoming year.

Several departments had volunteered to make cuts, including ambulance, district court and planning, but a lengthy discussion followed to see where additional dollars might be saved, such as salary and cost of living (COLA) increases.

Commissioners also looked at putting certain projects on the back-burner, such as plans to build a new hangar at the Allen County Regional Airport.

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MORELAND’S career has been marked by ambitious goals.

She grew up in Manhattan, the daughter of the librarian at Kansas State University’s Hale Library.

She worked parttime at the Kansas City

Public Library and joined a continuing education program to become a librarian.

She thought she’d be a children’s librarian, until she learned about the responsibility of a library director.

“I said, I want that job.”

She served as the director in Tonganoxie

“I think the library is an important part of the City of Iola, so I want to make sure we’re capitalizing on that as best we can,” she said. “As for SEK, so many of our libraries are struggling to recover from COVID and helping them get patrons back in the door is something we’re all

... so many of our libraries are struggling to recover from COVID and helping them get patrons back in the door is something we’re all thinking about.

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for a few years, before moving on as the technology consultant for the Northeast Kansas Library System.

“When I learned about what a library system is, I said, I want that job.”

She enjoyed learning about the different governance models for libraries.

She moved to Philadelphia to work for a non-profit library until the COVID-19 pandemic began. She came back to Kansas and took a position with a district library in Linwood, a community of just over 300 people.

The Iola library and SEK library system are just a much larger version of the type of program she worked in Linwood, she said.

thinking about.”

MORELAND considers herself “a hardcore public librarian.”

She grew up around librarians, particularly in an academic setting, and perhaps that made her comfortable in that kind of space.

But perhaps being a librarian just fits her personality. She enjoys customer service and working with a wide range of people.

It’s also a great way to learn.

“It definitely fits my desire to see constant improvement. I appreciate knowledge. I appreciate entertainment,” she said.

Plus, all her friends are librarians.

“It’s a fabulous profession for strong, smart women.”

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Notice: All families will be required to fill out a home economic survey. Students whose family income would qualify for free lunches will have the textbook fee waived. Students whose family income would qualify for reduced lunches will have one-half of their textbook fee waived. Home economic survey will be available at the time of enrollment or may be picked up at the board office, 801 new york street, prior to enrollment. After enrollment, surveys can be picked up at each attendance center office.

Tech Fee: Grades 4 - 12 $25

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Eloy Jimenez of the Chicago White Sox runs the bases after hitting a home run against the Kansas City Royals Tuesday. GETTY IMAGES/ED ZURGA/TNS

Late blast sinks KC KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Eloy Jiménez logged his first big hit of the season, launching a go-ahead, three-run homer in the eighth inning that sent the Chicago White Sox over the Kansas City Royals 5-3 Tuesday night.

The 24-year-old slugger, who was the 2019 AL Rookie of the Year and then kept up his power surge during the pandemic-shortened season, tore a pectoral muscle in spring training. He hadn’t played in the majors until going 0 for 4 Monday night.

But Jiménez quickly made up for lost time in his second game. After hitting a single in his first at-bat, he came up in the eighth after a twoout intentional walk to Jose Abreu with Chicago trailing 3-2.

Jiménez connected for a 459-foot drive to left-center off Kyle Zimmer (4-1) to cap See ROYALS | Page B2

TOKYO (AP) — Katie Ledecky has finally collected her first gold medal of the Tokyo Games.

Ledecky has won the 1,500-meter freestyle, which made its Olympic debut for women this year. That helped the American star make up for what has so far been the worst showing of her Olympic career.

About an hour after finishing fifth in the 200-meter freestyle, Ledecky held off teammate Erica Sullivan to win the metric mile in 15 minutes, 37.34 seconds.

Sullivan claimed the silver in 15:41.41, while Germany’s Sarah Kohler grabbed the bronze in 15:42.91.

Meanwhile, Ariarne Titmus gave the Australian women their third individual swimming gold with a victory in the 200-meter freestyle. Titmus set an Olympic record of 1 minute, 53.50 seconds to make it 2-for-2 against the American star, following up a thrilling vic-

Katie Ledecky celebrates after winning the Women’s 1500m Freestyle Final at Tokyo Aquatics Center. LOS ANGELES TIMES/ROBERT GAUTHIER/TNS tory in the 400m freestyle.

ELSEWHERE in Tokyo, The U.S. team of Stefanie Dolson, Allisha Gray, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young won the first women’s gold medal

Team USA’s Margaret Steffens competes in a women’s water polo match during the Tokyo Olympics. BRIAN CASSELLA/TNS

in the new Olympic sport of 3-on-3 basketball.

Plum scored all five of her points early to help the Americans take the lead and they held on for an 18-15 win over the team representing the Russian Olympic Committee.

Plum led all scorers in this tournament. She finished with 55 points over the course of the five-day event in which the U.S. played nine games and only lost one.

China beat France 16-14 for the bronze medal and Serbia defeated Belgium 2110 in the men’s third-place game.

TENNIS player Novak Djokovic’s Golden Slam bid is alive and well.

The top-ranked Serb beat training partner Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain 6-3, 6-1 to reach the quarterfinals at the Tokyo Games.

Djokovic is attempting to become the first man to

achieve a Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic gold in the same calendar year.

He has already won the Australian and French Opens plus Wimbledon this year. So now he needs the Tokyo Games title and the U.S. Open trophy to complete the unique collection.

Djokovic is scheduled to play again later with Serbian partner Nina Stojanovic against Marcelo Melo and Luisa Stefani of Brazil in the opening round of the mixed doubles competition.

Djokovic’s quarterfinal opponent in singles will be Kei Nishikori of Japan.

Nishikori reached his third straight Olympic quarterfinal by beating Ilya Ivashka of Belarus.

CHINA has won its third gold medal in diving. Wang See OLYMPICS | Page B2

Chiefs veterans enter 2021 season with something to prove KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mecole Hardman knows the exhilaration of walking off the field as a Super Bowl champion. Last February, he and his Kansas City Chiefs teammates also experienced the bitter disappointment of losing the biggest game of the season “You still got that bad taste in your mouth,” Hardman said of his team’s 31-9 loss to Tampa Bay in the Super Bowl. “I think as a collective group we’re just all trying to get back to get that taste out of our mouth from losing that game.”

Kansas City’s veterans filed into Scanlon Hall dormitory on the campus of Missouri Western State University on Monday, ready to set aside last season’s disappointment and focus on the new opportunity at hand. The full squad starts training camp workouts on Tuesday, and it’s the beginning of a “prove-it” year for many players, such as Hardman who are nearing crossroads in their careers.

Hardman posted a solid rookie campaign in 2019 with 26 catches for 538 yards and

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Mecole Hardman is taken down by Cleveland Browns safety Jovante Moffatt in the first half of their Jan. 17 playoff game. KANSAS CITY STAR/RICH SUGG/TNS six touchdowns. Big plays, however, eluded the receiver last season as he saw his yards per reception plummet from 20.7 to 13.7 yards. He finished the campaign with 41 catches for 560 yards and four scores.

The 23-year-old is banking on breaking out in year three.

He admits that his rookie season was overwhelming at times, and last year’s pandemic-wrecked offseason stunted his potential growth.

“I think it’s helping me a

lot coming into this training, this OTAs that I didn’t really have the last past two years because I was still in the water trying to swim for real,” Hardman said. “Now it’s like I’m going to float, I’m ready, I’m ready to go. It’s that time

to take those challenges headon and try to prove myself.”

One reason Hardman and the Chiefs offense struggled in the Super Bowl loss stemmed from injuries up front along the offensive line. The club sent their firstround selection in this year’s draft to Baltimore to acquire Orlando Brown Jr. to help anchor a rebuilt offensive line at left tackle. Brown is entering the final year of his rookie contract in 2021 and faces the challenge of illustrating to the Chiefs why he’s worth a long-term extension after the season.

That’s nothing new for Brown as he enters his first training camp with the club.

“I’ve taken it upon myself through my life to really feel like I’ve got something to prove,” Brown said. “I’m a very limited athlete as a player, as a person I’m not the shortest of guys, obviously I don’t often win a leverage battle, so I’ve always felt like I’ve got a lot to prove.”

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Zongyuan and Xie Siyi won men’s 3-meter synchronized springboard.

They finished with 467.82 points after leading throughout the sixdive contest.

Andrew Capobianco and Michael Hixon of the U.S. earned silver at 444.36. It’s the same color medal that Hixon won five years ago in Rio with a different partner.

Germany’s Patrick Hausding and Lars Rudiger rallied from sixth to take bronze at 404.73.

China earlier won gold in women’s 10-meter synchro and women’s 3-meter synchro.

The Chinese took silver in men’s 10-meter synchro.

THE U.S. women’s water polo team lost at the Olympics for the first time since 2008, falling 10-9 to Rebecca Parkes and Hungary in group play.

The U.S. was a big favorite to win its third straight gold medal coming into Tokyo, but it was pushed hard by China during a rugged 12-7 victory Monday and

then it struggled against Hungary. Even with the loss, it still should be able to advance to the knockout round.

Hungary trailed 9-8 with 2:28 left, but captain Rita Keszthelyi scored from deep and Parkes got the game-winner when she connected on a no-look goal with 45 seconds left. Parkes finished with a team-high three goals.

The U.S. had the ball in the final seconds but turned it over.

It was the United States’ first loss at the Olympics since the 2008 final against the Netherlands. It had a draw in London, but it went 6-0 on the way to the title in Rio. SIMONE Biles will not defend her Olympic title.

The American gymnastics superstar withdrew from Thursday’s all-around competition to focus on her mental well-being.

USA Gymnastics said in a statement that the 24-year-old is opting to not compete. The decision comes a day after Biles removed herself from the team final following one rotation because she felt she wasn’t mentally ready.

Jade Carey, who finished ninth in qualifying, will take Biles’ place in the all-around. Carey initially did not qualify because she was the third-ranking American behind Biles and Sunisa Lee. International Gymnastics Federation rules limit countries to two athletes per event in the finals.

The organization said Biles will be evaluated daily before deciding if she will participate in next week’s individual events. Biles qualified for the finals on all four apparatuses.

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THE U.S. men’s volleyball team has improved to 2-1 in pool play at the Olympics by beating Tunisia 3-1.

The Americans bounced back from a loss to the Russians on Wednesday. They knocked off the lowest-ranked team in their group 25-14, 2325, 25-14, 25-23.

The victory keeps the U.S. in good position to advance to the quarterfinals as one of the top four teams in Pool B. Tunisia has lost all three matches so far in Tokyo.

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a four-run rally.

The White Sox increased their AL Central lead to 9 1/2 games.

They’ve been winning all season despite a lack of power — they began the game next-to-last in the AL with 106 homers, three more than the Royals.

Yoán Moncada had an RBI grounder in the eighth that got Chicago within 3-2.

The loss snapped a six-game winning streak for Kansas City.

Reynaldo Lopez (10) picked up the win in relief. Liam Hendriks earned his 25th save.

The Royals wasted a stellar effort by Brad Keller, who allowed one run on four hits over seven innings. He pitched on his birthday for the first time in his professional career as he turned 26.

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Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and Japanese baseball great Sadaharu Oh are attending the opener of the Olympic baseball tournament and were on the field for the ceremonial first pitch in Fukushima.

Baseball was restored to the Olympic slate this year for the first time since 2008. The sport will be dropped again for the 2024 Games in Paris but is expected to again be played in Los Angeles in 2028.

NEW U.S. beach volleyball partners Jake Gibb and Tri Bourne will have some more time at the Olympics to get to know one another.

The Americans had never played together before their first match in Tokyo on Sunday. They beat Switzerland 21-19, 2321 on Wednesday to improve to 2-0 in the round-robin.

They have one more match remaining, against Qatar on Friday night.

Gibb qualified for the Tokyo Games with Taylor Crabb as his partner. But Crabb tested positive for COVID-19 and withdrew, allowing Gibb to replace him.

Bourne was on the third-place U.S. team in the qualifying race; each country is limited to a maximum of two spots.

ter throwing only three in his first 17 starts.

Chicago starter Dylan Cease also had a quality start, giving up two earned runs and six hits in six innings. He walked one and struck out six.

White Sox right fielder Andrew Vaughn dropped a line drive, helping the Royals score twice in the second.

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Chiefs: Super Bowl loss leaves players motivated for 2021 nine seasons playing right tackle for Chiefs head coach Andy Reid in Philadelphia.

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reer in his eighth season in the league. He slimmed down during the offseason, entering training camp at 231 pounds, and spent more time running this offseason than in years past.

Labeled as “the glue” of the Kansas City defense by coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, the 29-year-old Hitchens remains under contract through the 2022 season, but the Chiefs could save $8.5 million by releasing the veteran after this season. That makes this a contract year of sorts for Hitchens, but he says that’s not on his mind entering training camp.

“Usually I don’t even think about things like that because I just prove it to myself,” Hitchens said. “It’s way more deeper than proving to a coaching staff and the organization. It’s more about my personal goals, and I have my own goals. I don’t share

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MARMATON MARMATON VALLEY VALLEY BACK TO SCHOOL Back to school 2019-2020

2021-2022

MISSION STATEMENT USD 256 is committed to providing an educational environment that promotes the maximum mental, physical and social development of each individual. We will provide a safe and conducive learning environment. Instilling a lifelong love of learning and a need for knowledge.

USD 256 BOARD OF EDUCATION

USD 256 ADMINISTRATION

Kim Ensminger.................................. Superintendent Sherry Henry .................................................. Clerk Steve Becker .............................................President Bill Bigelow......................................... Vice President Cynthia Johnson........................................ Treasurer Kris Smith ......................................... Board Member Bob Rhodes ....................................... Board Member Jim Armstrong ................................... Board Member Mark Spillman .................................... Board Member

Kim Ensminger........................... Elementary Principal Brian Campbell........................... Jr./Sr. High Principal Brian Campbell............................... Activities Director Niki Ard................................... Jr./Sr. High Secretary Cynthia Johnson........................Elementary Secretary Cindy Ritchie .......................... Food Services Director Denny Lasley ........................ Maintenance Supervisor

School Hours for ALL Students -

MARMATON VALLEY 2021-2022 SCHOOL CALENDAR August 4-5 August 16-18 August 19 September 3 September 6 September 29 September 30 October 1 October 15 October 18 November 12 November 24-26 December 17 Dec. 20 - Jan. 2 January 3 January 4 January 17 January 21

Enrollment P-12 Teacher In-Service Classes Begin Progress Reports Labor Day (no classes) Parent Teacher Conference 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Parent Teacher Conference 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

No School End of 1st Quarter / 40 days No School - Teacher Inservice Progress Reports Thanksgiving Vacation End of Semester / 41 Days / 81 Days Winter Break No School - Teacher Inservice A.M. / Work Day P.M. School Resumes No School - Martin Luther King Day Progress Reports

February 16 February 17 February 18 February 21 March 10 March 11 March 14-18 April 8 April 9 April 15 May 14 May 18 May 18 May 19 May 30

Parent Teacher Conference 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Parent Teacher Conference 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

No School No School- President's Day End of 3rd Quarter / 45 Days / 126 Days No School - Teacher Inservice Spring Break Progress Reports Prom No School-Good Friday/Weather Make Up Day Graduation Last Day of School for Students End of Semester 42 Days / 87 Days / 168 Days No School - Teacher Inservice AM / Work Day PM Memorial Day/Offices Closed

8 a.m.-3:20 p.m.

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3rd Hour...........10:18-11:08 4th Hour...........11:12-12:02 Jr. High Lunch....12:06-12:30 Sr. High Lunch....12:09-12:39 5th Hour............12:42-1:32 6th Hour...............1:36-2:26 7th Hour...............2:30-3:20

Note: See www.marmatonvalley.org for more details

Marmaton Valley USD 256 Jr./Sr. High School offers an “hourly” school format allowing students the ability to participate in various online courses on site. Students are also offered access to the Regional Rural Tech Center in LaHarpe.

Courses at the RRTC are dual-credit courses with a Math and English credit embedded in the content.

Both online and RRTC courses are available for juniors and seniors in good academic standing. This will provide an educational experience second to none.

Technology Mission Statement USD 256 Marmaton Valley is dedicated to providing access to all students to appropriate educational technologies for instruction, remediation, enhancement, production, information, communication and creativity.

DISTRICT PHONE NUMBERS Board of Education Office 620-237-4250 Jr./Sr. High School Office 620-237-4251 Elementary School Office 620-237-4381 For any questions or concerns, we encourage you to contact our offices.

High School Football Sept. 3 Sept. 10 Sept. 17 Sept. 24 Oct. 1 Oct. 8 Oct. 15 Oct. 22 Oct. 28

Altoona Crest @ Chetopa @ Dexter Cedar Vale Howard Oswego @ Yates Center Sedan Playoffs

7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

High School Volleyball Aug. 28 Aug. 31 Sept. 7 Sept. 11 Sept. 14 Sept. 14 Sept. 18 Sept. 20 Sept. 21 Sept. 23 Sept. 28 Oct. 5 Oct. 9 Oct. 9 Oct. 12 Oct. 19 Oct. 23 Oct. 29-30

League Tourn. @JHL 9 Madison, Hartford, Crest 4 @ YC, Eureka 5 MV JV Inv. 8:30 Utown, YC, Alt. Var.4 League @ Utown, YC, Alt. JV 8:30 @ Humboldt Tourn.

5 @ Humboldt JV 5 @ JHL, Southeast-league 4 @ Sedan, Caney, Oswego 5 NE, Oswego-league 5 @ St. Paul, Crest-league 5 @ Uniontown Tourn. 8:30 @ Chanute JV Tourn.

9 @ Chetopa, 5 Pleasanton-league 7 @ MdCV, NE TBA Sub State TBA State TBA

High School Cross Country Sept. 2 Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 21 Sept. 30 Oct. 7 Oct. 14 Oct. 23 Oct. 30

Burlington Ft Scott Wellsville Humboldt Central Heights Pleasanton League Regionals State

5:30 4 4 4 3:50 3:45 3:45 TBA TBA

Dec. 7-10 Dec. 14 Jan. 4 Jan. 7 Jan. 11 Jan. 14 Jan. 17-21 Jan. 25 Jan. 28 Feb. 1 Feb. 4

Preseason Tourn @ Humboldt @ Uniontown @ Oswego @ Crest Southeast @ Yates Center Tourn.

Pleasanton @ St. Paul Lebo Yates Center

Feb. 8 Feb. 11 Feb. 15 Feb. 18 Feb. 22 Feb. 24-25 Mar. 3-5 Mar. 10-13

Northeast @ Altoona @ JHL Chetopa Hartford Substate Tourn.

Substate Tourn.

State Tourn.

6 6 6 6 6 TBA TBA TBA

Oct. 2 Oct. 4 Oct. 7 Oct. 11 Oct. 14

Mar. 28 Mar. 31 Apr. 4 Apr. 7 Apr. 11 Apr. 18 Apr. 21 Apr. 25 Apr. 28 May 5 May 16-18 May 26-27

Southeast Crest @ Oswego @ Yates Center Northeast Chetopa Jayhawk Linn @ St. Paul @ Pleasanton @ Uniontown Regionals State

4:30 3 4:30 4:30 4:30 3:30 4:30 3:30 4:30 4:30 TBA TBA

High School Track & Field Apr. 5 Apr. 12 Apr. 19 Apr. 25 Apr. 26 May 5 May 9 May 12 May 20 May 27-28

Oswego Yates Center Waverly @ Burlington JHL Iola Humboldt Iola JV League @ JHL Regionals @ TBA State @ Wichita

3:30 3:15 9:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 TBA TBA

Junior High Football Sept. 2 Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 23 Sept. 30 Oct. 7 Oct. 14

@ St. Paul Yates Center @ Northeast Pleasington @ Yates Center Northeast @ Crest

6 6 6 6 6 6 6

TBA 6 6 6 6 6 TBA 6 6 6 6

Aug. 30 Sept.

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2 9 13 16 20 23 25 27 30

@YC, Thayer, 5 Pleasanton @ St. Paul 5 Yates Center 5 @ YC, Crest 5 @ Northeast, Liberal 5 @ Oswego, Uniontown 5 Pleasanton 5 @ Iola B Tourn.

8:30 Northeast, JHL 5:30 @ Yates Center 5

@ Uniontown A Tourn.

Crest, Utown, Pleasingan, JHL @ Pleasington, Southeast Northeast St. Paul Tourn. @ Crest

8:30

5 5 4:30 5

Junior High Basketball

High School Baseball/Softball

Nov. 2 Nov. 4 Nov. 8 Nov. 9 Nov. 11 Nov. 15 Nov. 18 Nov. 22 Nov. 23 Nov. 30 Dec. 6 Dec. 9 Dec. 11 Dec. 13 Dec. 16

@ Altoona @ Southeast Yates Center @ Uniontown @ Oswego Crest Pleasanton Uniontown @ JHL Northeast @ Crest @ Northeast @ YC A Tourn., Crest, Owsego JHL @ Yates Center

5:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 5:30 4:30 5:30 9 5:30 5:30

Junior High Track Apr. 4 Apr. 12 Apr. 14 Apr. 19 Apr. 21 Apr. 26 May 3 May 5

Pleasanton Iola JHL Yates Center Northeast Uniontown League @ TBA League Rain Date

3:30 9:15 2 3:30 2 3 3 3

Junior High Scholar Bowl Jan. 27 Jan. 31 Feb. 14 Feb. 17 Fev. 24 Mar. 3

Junior High Volleyball

High School Basketball

Hour...........9:24-10:14

Uniontown Marmaton Valley Crest Yates Center Westphalia League @ TBA

4 4 4 4 4 4

Junior High Cross Country Sept. 2 Sept. 16 Sept. 21 Sept. 30 Oct. 7 Oct. 14

Burlington Wellsville Humboldt Central Heights Pleasanton League

5:30 4 4 3:50 3:45 TBA

Band/Vocal Schedule Apr. 6

@ MV

TBA

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