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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Option sought for apartments

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Iola Industries asked Allen County commissioners Tuesday morning to give it a twoyear option on a portion of the old Allen County Hospital grounds for construction of apartments adjacent to where G&W Foods will build its grocery.

The county would receive a non-refundable payment of $10,000 up front and another $10,000 when the option was exercised.

Immediate response was favorable from two commissioners, Jerry Daniels and Tom Williams. The third, Jim Talkington, was reluctant to make a commitment, saying he had concerns and wasn’t “100 percent on board.”

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Mark Fenton speaks during a stop at Jefferson Elementary School shortly before classes dismiss for the day. Fenton, a leading expert on civil engineering, walkable cities and economics, offered up several suggestions to making class dismissal safer for youngsters. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Iola, Humboldt challenged to do better

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

With all of their strengths, both Iola and Humboldt have challenges that aren’t unique among small, rural communities these days, Mark Fenton admits.

Both have attractive, historic downtown squares — “a lot of raw material that other communities would die to

have,” he noted.

But both also have a shrinking downtown business core, littered with vacant buildings, he noted.

“Are they as lively as I’d like?” he asked. “No.” Fenton, one of the country’s foremost authorities on creating safe, walkable, bike-friendly communities, capped a three-day visit to Allen County Tuesday as

part of a series of events sponsored by the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, and organized by Thrive Allen County. Fenton spoke with the Register after his presentation.

Fenton listed off a series of possible elixirs for both communities Tuesday at a community breakfast hosted

by Miller’s On Madison.

His presentation focused

on five overriding principles: 1. Focus on the downtown.

2. Develop a “complete streets” policy.

3. Make existing trails transportation corridors and enhance connections to them.

4. Design for vibrant businesses.

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The House’s eventful day

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is poised to vote on a bipartisan pact charting a two-year budget truce and Republicans are set to nominate Rep. Paul Ryan as the chamber’s new speaker, milestones GOP leaders hope will transform their party’s recent chaos into calm in time for next year’s presidential and congressional campaigns.

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Local couple celebrates 65 years

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Youngsters invited to Boo Bash Saturday The Iola Police Department and Iola Kiwanis Club are partnering to bring a number of games and activities to Iola’s Riverside Park Saturday as part of their Boo Bash.

With each $5 admission, youngsters will have games to play, inflatables on which they can bounce, a spooky train ride, face painting, hot dog and drink, and a spooky theater with scary tales.

The doors are open from 5 to 8.

Shortly before then, organizers also will host a Halloween costume contest.

The event will coincide with the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Trunk Or Treat, in which adults will park their vehicles outside the Recreation Community Building — free of charge — for youngsters to get their trick-ortreating done in one swoop.

Those interested in setting up a trunk should call Chrissy Powell at 365-6908.

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When he was a youngster living in Altamont, Delbert Rexwinkle’s primary mode of transportation around town was his bicycle.

He remembers vividly one bright, spring day when he spotted a girl, not much younger than he, walking door to door with an armload of May baskets to deliver to the elderly.

He offered young Erma a ride.

She accepted.

That gesture soon blossomed into friendship.

Then a relationship.

Five years later, the couple were married.

Sixty-five years after that, they can reflect on a marriage that has borne three children, 11 grandchildren and 11 greatgrandchildren.

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Iolans Delbert and Ermel Rexwinkle are celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary today. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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Billie Rae Gildart Billie Rae Gildart, 72, rural Thayer, passed away Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, at Via Christi-St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.

Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Thayer Cemetery under the direction of Loran Fawcett Chapel of Neodesha. The family will receive visitors from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to the American Diabetes Association and may be left at Loran Fawcett Chapel.

Billie was born Oct. 20, 1943 in Waverly, to William R. and Edna E. (Bonner) Houston. She graduated from Le Roy High School. She moved to Chanute in 1961 and worked for two years at the Ashley

Clinic and then for Humboldt National Bank as a teller from 1963 to 1972.

Billie married Neil Gildart on May 31, 1969, in Las Vegas. They made their home in rural Thayer.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by one son, Brian and wife Tara Gildart, rural Thayer; sisters Patsy and husband Larry Cann, Pomona, and Barbara and husband Aurthur Lake, Westphalia, and Marcella Trostle, Le Roy; one brother-in-law, Lester Petty, Chanute; and three grandchildren, Taybree, Bryson and Brogan Gildart.

In addition to her parents, she was proceded in death by a sister, Judy Petty, and a granddaughter, Tanner Gildart.

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can leaders in the House and Senate were urging lawmakers to back the agreement, which would resolve fights over defense and domestic spending and federal borrowing until early 2017. Expectations were for House passage today and final Senate approval next week, even as hardright conservatives and farm-state lawmakers arrayed against the deal.

“That’s good news for everybody. It’s a step forward,” President Barack Obama said of the deal Tuesday in Chicago. “And I hope both parties come together to pass this agreement without delay.”

Hours before the vote, Ryan released a statement saying he

will vote for the bill because it makes “meaningful reforms” that strengthen safety net programs like Social Security and provides sufficient resources for the military. He also alluded to the dissension among Republican that led to the resignation of House Speaker John Boehner, now in his last week in Congress.

“What I’ve heard from members over the last two weeks is a desire to wipe the slate clean, put in place a process that builds trust, and start focusing on big ideas,” Ryan said. “What has been produced will go a long way toward relieving the uncertainty hanging over us. ...It’s time for us to turn the page on the last few years and get to work on a

bold agenda that we can take to the American people.”

Boehner, R-Ohio, was pivotal in crafting what amounts to a valedictory legislative prize for his supporters and a whack at his conservative House nemeses. The quartercentury House veteran serves his final day in Congress on Friday, driven into abrupt retirement by rebellious GOP hardliners who scorned his penchant for compromise with Obama and Democrats.

“I have a gift for you, too,” Boehner told his House GOP colleagues at a closed-door meeting Tuesday, after they gave him a golf cart as a parting present. He called the agreement “the best possible deal at this moment for our

troops, for taxpayers and for the American people.”

Without legislation, the government could lapse into an economyjolting default next week. A partial federal shutdown would occur without action by Dec. 11.

Unyielding conservatives like members of the House Freedom Caucus railed against the agreement, calling it a backroom deal that surrendered too much to Obama.

“No wonder so many Americans distrust Congress,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the Freedom Caucus leader.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a presidential candidate, promised a filibuster, calling the package a capitulation.

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ing their 65th anniversary today.

They visited with a Register reporter briefly to discuss how they stayed happy during their extended union.

“When we got married, we said there was not going to be any fussing or fighting,” Delbert recalled. “We’d have our disagreements and we’d settle them. That’s what we’ve always done.”

“Never go to bed angry,” Erma added. “Of course, we were hardly ever angry.”

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the Rexwinkles to stay in Altamont for Delbert to work on the farm.

That changed in 1952, “when Uncle Sam was

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hot on my tail,” he recalled.

Delbert was drafted into the Marines, and after boot camp in San Diego, was stationed at Camp Pendleton in California.

Erma moved out to be with her husband.

She worked briefly while Delbert was in active duty, until Erma became pregnant. She eventually had three children while the Rexwinkles lived in California.

After Delbert fulfilled his military obligations, the Rexwinkles stayed in California for a few years while he worked as a welder and an airplane mechanic at Travis Air Force Base.

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from his government job in 1960.

“There wasn’t much of a chance to farm in California,” Delbert said.

“We decided if we ever wanted to farm, we needed to go back to Kansas now,” Erma added.

The Rexwinkle family returned to Labette County, eventually buying their own farm just outside Altamont.

Delbert farmed while holding down at times two other jobs to make ends meet. His multiple jobs often meant working 16- to 18-hour days.

That changed when Erma became postmistress in Altamont.

“I told her I was going to quit the railroad if she got the postmaster’s job,” he said. “That’s what I did.”

With two incomes, the Rexwinkles eventually put all three of their children through college.

Son Jeff lives near Iola. (He’s the reason the couple moved to Allen County in 2006 after Erma suffered a stroke.)

Other son, Steve, lives on the outskirts of Houston.

Daughter Debra Hanf, who worked as a schoolteacher in Paola, died of cancer in 2006.

“I always told our kids, ‘If your mother says no, don’t come and ask me,’” Delbert said. “‘And if I say no, don’t go ask your mother.’”

The strategy worked.

“We’ve had three wonderful kids,” he said.

The Rexwinkle children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren will be in town on Thanksgiving to celebrate Delbert and Erma’s milestone.

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cord on the option, will be for County Counselor Alan Weber to prepare a contract, which commissioners and principals of Iola Industries will review.

“I’m perfectly fine with the idea,” Williams said, allowing that he would concede to those who would design the apartment buildings and decide how they would fit in with the grocery.

G&W engineers also would be expected to have input.

Talkington’s concern was the retaining wall that fronts Madison Avenue as it curves into East Street (both parts of U.S. 54) just northwest of the site. He suggested removing the wall to give motorists a better line of sight.

Williams countered he was unaware of a proliferation of accidents because of the curve, and that finding out the number over recent years might be a good precursor to proposing any changes in terrain.

Weber said he thought such a requirement would make building the apartments directly north of the grocery more difficult. That site is favored by the developer, he added.

Iola Industries has been in talks with Tom Carlson, a Springfield, Mo., developer.

According to a letter from John McRae, Iola Industries president, “discussions have centered on constructing up to 40 new apartment units ... surrounding the property being purchased by G&W Foods.

These units would be two-bedroom, marketrate units (no subsidies or set-asides for low/ moderate income residents).” The intent also is to have the project be financed locally by Allen County banks.

Carlson previously constructed 60 housing units near Iola’s Cedarbrook Golf Course.

“The discussions with

Mr. Carlson are now at an advanced stage,” McRae continued. Two phases of 20 apartments would cost about $1.5 million each to build. The third phase, six to eight townhouses/duplexes, would cost $800,000.

The apartments would be north and east of the old hospital, the third phase on half a block, including a vacant house today, south of Madison Avenue where it extends on to the east, between First and Second streets.

If the county agrees, construction could begin as early as spring.

“A project of this magnitude has a high degree of risk and requires a leap of faith by all parties,” McRae said. “It has tight margins and is largely speculative — it literally has been decades since the last market rate apartment complex was built in Allen County. However, we are confident the development team that is being assembled is geared for success. With the county agreeing to this proposal, we can construct a new neighborhood that will be a source of pride for the entire county.”

DEVELOPING apartments adjacent to the G&W grocery would fit into proposals made by Mark Fenton, an engineer who has been in the county the past two days to give tips on how to make communities more cohesive. He also has mentioned how such things can affect economic development.

“I really like the idea of apartments near the grocery,” Fenton told the Register Tuesday, pointing out residents, and others living nearby, could walk to the store.

He also had some suggestions (they’re fleshed out elsewhere in today’s Register) for making U.S. 54 safer for pedestrians — school kids often cross at or near its intersection with First Street — and motorists.

Notice (First published in The Iola Register, Oct. 28, 2015) Legal Publication for U.S.C. 49-5310 Allen County Services to the Elderly Van is submitting an application for U.S.C. 49-5310 federal capital grant funds to be provided through the Kansas Department of Transportation. Persons wishing to make comments on the application are requested to do so in writing no later than 4:30 p.m. on November 20, 2015.

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Calendar

Nov. 3-Cemetery Board meeting, City office, 7 p.m.; Nov. 4-Ozark and Indian Creek Townships vote at City Hall, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Nov. 5-Lions Club, United Methodist Church basement, 7 p.m.; Fire meeting, Fire Barn, 7 p.m.; Working Wonders Christian Women’s Council, Christian Church Fellowship Hall, 7 p.m.; Nov. 6-County bus to Garnett, phone 24 hours before you need a ride 785-448-4410 any weekday; Community Church Fellowship Hall, 1:30 p.m.; United Methodist Women, Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 1:30 p.m.; Nov. 7-11-Recycle trailer at Broad and Pine in business area Friday morning, leaves Tuesday.

School calendar

Nov. 3-Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades attend presentation at Bowlus Fine Arts, Iola, 1 p.m.; Scholar’s Bowl at Uniontown; Nov. 4-Football Bi-District; Nov. 6-Scholar’s Bowl at Chanute, 4 p.m.; Middle School Basketball at Crest with Waverly, 5 p.m.; Nov. 7-No Schoolteacher professional and development work day.

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Christian Church

Kyle Schafer, Ozark Christian College, presented the sermon Sunday. Martha Lang accompanied Kyle Schafer.

Oct. 27-Prayer meeting at the church, 7 p.m.; Nov. 2-Pastor Mark McCoy and his bride, Erica, will return.

UMC

Scripture at Sunday’s service of the United Methodist Church were Psalms 90:1-6 and 13-17, I Thessalonians 2:1-8 and Matthew 22:34-46. The annual Kincaid-Selma conference was held in the afternoon. District Superintendent Rev.

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Ron King conducted the meeting.

Story hour

Books read Tuesday morning were “Baby Animals” and “It Hardly Seems Like Halloween.”

Ghost lollipops were made and Halloween decorations were colored. Charlene Tinsley baked pumpkin cookies for the children. Charlotte Wallace handed out popcorn balls.

4-H

The Seekers-notSlackers 4-H Club met Oct. 20 at Kim Ellis’s house with a Halloween cookout and hayrack ride. There were 16 members, two leaders, and 14 guests in attendance.

The flag salute and 4-H pledge were lead by Samantha Fletcher. Roll call was taken by Erin Steedley and answered with “dressed as you are.”

It was voted to pay the flower bill. For recreation, parents and leaders judged costumes. Dal Lacey won most original; Haley Freelove prettiest costume; Samantha Fletcher scariest and Emily Frank funniest.

Members also played pass the pumpkin, guessing game, hide and seek, and guess the amount

of candy corn in a jar, which was won by Eli Johns.

After the meeting adjourned everyone went on a hayrack ride and had fun.

On Oct. 5, 10 members, two leaders and five parents attended the Colony Christian Church for their 4-H Sunday church visitation. On Oct. 13 new leaders met at the Lone Elm community building for an informational meeting; refreshments were served.

— Reporter Haley Freelove Jolly Dozen

Nine members met at the home of Delma French on Monday evening. Vivian Barnett furnished the refreshments. Pictures of this year’s Colony Day festivities were given to vice-president Claudette Anderson to place in the club’s scrapbook. Wilma Goodell won the hostess gift. The Nov. 17 meeting will be hosted by Goodell at the community room.

New officers will be elected.

Around town

On Oct. 17 Blaine Allen King celebrated his first birthday at his home with a Blue’s Clues themed party. Those in

attendance were Blaine’s parents, Kenton and Denise King; grandparents Dennis and Cathy Allen, rural Colony; Karen King-Moore, Humboldt; great-grandparents Ed and Billie King, Chanute; great-grandmother Phyllis Meredith-Shetlar and Charles, Iola; Uncle Denny, Aunt Kerry and cousins Kaylee and Aubrey Allen, Colony, Aunt Kellie and cousin Melanie Hallacy, Humboldt.

Guests enjoyed cake and ice cream. Blaine received lots of presents.

Mary Decker was 89 on Oct. 27. A birthday party was held Oct. 26 hosted by Bonnie Rook. Attending were grandson Jeff and wife Lisa Hoggatt and children Jacob and Daniel, Wichita; granddaughter Janna Burke and children, Wichita; Connie and Rick Thompson, Kincaid; Blake, Hannah and Owen Thompson, Kincaid; Justin, Erin, Brylee and Brekyn Zook, Garnett; Nick Thompson, Iola; Garry, Paula and Luke Decker, Welda; Jenna Decker and friend, Vince, Miami, Okla.; Paul, Cathy, Caleb and Sydney Stephens, Colony; Dick Crabtree, Delma French, both of

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Elton Francis celebrated his 87th birthday when his daughter, Janila and husband Lewis Preston of Uniontown took him and his wife Myrtle to the Country Diner on the evening of the 22nd.

We welcome Sirena Young to our town. She is residing on East 5th Street.

To Those Concerned: Marge Hamm’s obituary included Dean’s girls as she considered them family also. She was a considerate person and I’m sure she did not wish to offend or cause concern. We have Colony children that are members of the Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club.

Correction: Nov. 9 is the birthday of Bonnie Rook (not Decker). We are sorry for this oversight in the last items.

Sympathy is extended to friends of Howard Thompson, 75, former Colony resident who died Sunday at Harry Hynes Hospice Service at Via Christi St. Francis, Wichita.

Funeral services were Thursday, Oct. 30 at Kincaid Selma United Methodist Church.

Personalities will stand out at tonight’s GOP debate WASHINGTON (AP) — Expect the 10 candidates participating in the third Republican presidential debate to highlight rising tensions in the unsettled field.

Political outsiders Donald Trump and Ben Carson are the frontrunners in national polls, and they may take aim one another during the 7 p.m. debate in Boulder, Colo. But the anticipated sparring among the experienced politicians in the race could prove just as intense, given the dwindling time for them to stand out in the crowded contest.

The 2016 voting starts Feb. 1 in Iowa.

Some things to look for in the two-hour debate: JEB THE REASSURER

Jeb Bush’s standing in the race has never been weaker. The former Florida governor is the son and brother of presidents. Because of his overwhelming financial advantage, he was considered the front-runner for several months, even when he started to lag in the polls. But his campaign showed signs of financial distress last week by announcing a

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ET TU, RUBIO

No one is better positioned to benefit from Bush’s struggles than his Florida protege, Marco Rubio.

Especially after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker quit the Marco Rubio race, t h e 44-year-old first-term senator is considered one of the few candidates who can bridge the GOP’s warring factions by appealing to estab-

lishment and hard-line wings. Bush’s team has identified Rubio as its greatest threat. The two may be longtime friends, but expect Bush to go on the attack. Rubio has largely avoided getting dragged into the backand-forth so far. He may have no option Wednesday night.

IT’S NOT BRAIN SURGERY

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, may be one of the least known candidates despite his topof-thepack polling. After playing bit parts in the Ben Carson first two d e b at e s, Carson has become a higher priority for his rivals, particularly those chasing the antiestablishment vote. None has gone after Carson more

aggressively than billionaire businessman Donald Trump, who has questioned Carson’s energy, policies and religion. The soft-spoken Carson has refused to counterattack, but expect him to defend himself and explain his positions in the face of mounting pressure. His aides also hope he will tone down the rhetoric; during the campaign he’s made references to Nazis and slavery.

TRUMP LOOKING UP

Only in the past week or two has Trump shown signs of vulnerability, but the showman is the ultimate wild card on the debate stage. He has shown a willingness to say or do virtually anything on national television, and heading into the debate, he has jabbed at just about every challenger — none more so than Carson.

Based on the ratings in previous debates, people

are drawn to the Trump show, but are they growing tired of his act?

THE OTHERS

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was a political powerhouse not long ago. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was among the most interesting figures in politics.

Texas S e n .

T e d C r u z Ted Cruz was a champion college debater.

Former technology executive Carly Fiorina was an earlier debate winner. Yet all came into Wednesday night’s debate as supporting actors. With 10 candidates on the stage for two hours, there simply won’t be enough time for everyone to stand out — and some of them need to.

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Kansas education’s new vision focuses on nonacademic skills WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Education Commissioner Randy Watson on Tuesday unveiled a new vision for schools that would create individualized education plans for each student, placing equal focus on academic and nonacademic skills to help graduates be successful in the workforce.

Watson, who took the state’s top education job in July, shared the State Board of Education’s vision during the Kansas Department of Education’s conference in Wichita. The ideas presented stem from a series of community meetings held across the state this year to find out what people want from

K-12 education.

“We are going to lead the world in the success of every one of our students,” he told them.

“The journey starts today, but it wouldn’t be done tomorrow.”

Carrying out the vision will mean having different graduation requirements and less emphasis on standard-

ized tests, he said. School counselors will have new roles that include crafting individualized education plans tailored for each student — something Watson acknowledged does not happen now because schools have cut so many counselors that they typically have just one counselor for every 400 students.

“We may have to hire a lot of them,” he said of school counselors.

Businesses will be asked to play a larger role through internships and job shadowing, and community service also should be involved more, Watson said.

“Academic skills are very important — no one is saying that they

are not,” he said. “But what we can’t do is teach to a specific test that doesn’t matter to that student about anything else in their life.”

When reporters asked Watson about the cost of the vision after his talk, he quipped that legislators were invited to the education conference “to figure that out for us.”

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School” plan.

Fenton’s background includes competing at the international level as a speed walker. In addition, he serves as civil engineer. The MIT graduate also has a minor in economics.

Focus on the downtown

“One of the most important things a community can do is restore the economic vibrancy of a downtown,” Fenton said.

The clearest path to a revitalized core in both Iola and Humboldt is to focus on second-story housing in and near both town squares.

“You need people populating those (upstairs apartments).

They’re the first customers for the downtown businesses,” Fenton said. “The second are people who live a block or two or three away.”

Iola’s plans to build a grocery store and nearby apartment complexes at the old Allen County Hospital site is particularly encouraging, Fenton said.

“Make it phenomenal for the residents, and then it’ll be a place people want to come visit,” he said. “If you try to make it just a place to visit, you’re going to find yourself struggling to find the latest gimmick.

“It also means towns have to make this courageous decision to slow development out on the edge,” he continued.

“You’ve got finite energy for development. If you let it all happen out

by Walmart, it’s going to undermine what happens here.

“That means you have to have the guts to say we’re not going to rezone agricultural land for another housing subdivision on the north side. Encourage that developer to do some second-story development down here, or do neighborhood housing.

If your goal is more houses on the edge, those people are going to drive to Walmart to shop. They’re not coming to downtown.

“I’m not knocking Walmart,” he concluded. “It just shouldn’t be at the exclusion of these downtown businesses.”

Complete streets policy

“Complete streets is a broad principle,” Fenton said. “It says, at the heart, every time we touch a road, we’re going to take into account pedestrians, bicyclists, transit and motor vehicle traffic. We’re not just going to design for cars, and if there’s room, stick a bike lane on it.”

That could mean anything from adding bulbouts or curb extensions downtown, to making it easier for pedestrians to cross the street.

Fenton also suggested

The community has to collectively own this. This is not Thrive’s job to do this. I want everybody from the health department to the public works department, to the planning and public safety to anybody who cares about public development, they all have to have to be in on this, just regular concerned citizens. There are a lot of reasons downtown businesses should be passionate about this.

— Mark Fenton, civic planner and healthy living advocate

both Iola and Humboldt adopt “reverse diagonal parking” around their squares, to make it safer for children to exit vehicles, and less cumbersome — and dangerous — for passing cyclists in the street.

Another example, in light of the new grocery store, would be to re-engineer the hospital curve and turn it into a roundabout, thus slowing all traffic in every direction, and making U.S. 54 easier to cross for students walking to or from school.

He also suggested both Iola and Humboldt consider reducing their four-lane traffic into three-lane corridors, with one lane in both directions, a turning lane in the middle, and room on the outside for a bike path.

He noted a similar suggestion being adopted within the past year at Hutchinson.

Such a move for Humboldt also seems wise, Fenton said, because Old 169, or Ninth Street, soon will have a higher number of large trucks passing through town as Monarch Cement opens a new quarry north of town.

Turning trails into transportation corridors

“You have this phenomenal trail system from Humboldt to Ottawa,” he noted, with Iola developing another trail area near the old Lehigh Cement Plant south of Elm Creek.

By connecting those trails to roads, Iola can effectively create an easy way for Gates employees to ride bicycles or walk to work without having to take the old highway, Fenton said.

“When you ride the trail, you should see a big sign that says, ‘See America’s largest downtown square,’” Fenton said. “There’s one out on 169. Why isn’t it on the trail, too?”

The trails also should have more signage directing visitors to places downtown, from restaurants to motels.

Speaking of motels....

Design for vibrant businesses.

Iola has two motels, America’s Best Inn and Regency Inn, that are

within a stone’s throw of the Prairie Spirit Trail, “but they don’t promote it.”

“You should be inviting people from the trail into your hotel, and vice versa,” he said.

Fenton suggested both inns have a handful of bicycles to loan out to guests for recreational purposes.

“You can create a business climate where this form of transportation is actually a positive,” Fenton said.

“Businesses could have a few bikes for employees to ride during lunch hour. It’s the best employee wellness you could possibly have.

Your employees are out being physically active, using the trails. It could be really cool.”

Safe Routes to School

Fenton and a group of Iolans watched classes dismiss Monday at Jefferson Elementary School, and saw how a stream of cars came from all four directions to pick up students.

“There’s lots of traffic, and some of it’s not safe,” he said.

Fenton recommended following the “Five E’s” in creating safe routes to school.

— Educate both parents and kids on the benefits of getting to school by means other than a car.

— Encourage walking or biking. Perhaps a designated pickup point for buses, within walking or biking distance of a neighborhood, could be set up.

— Enforce safer means to pick up kids.

That could mean anything from greater police presence, to a line of traffic cones to prevent cars from darting to the curb when a parent sees his child on the sidewalk. “It may move the line of cars more slowly, but sometimes that’s good, because it encourages people to walk or ride a bike. And it’s not like it’s half an hour slower. It’s more like a minute, or even 45 seconds slower.”

— Engineering for such things as roundabouts or three-lane streets with crosswwalks and curb extensions could make it easier and safer for kids to cross the street. “A lot

of these things are connected,” Fenton said.

— Evaluate. Talk with parents and children to learn why they’re not walking or biking to school. What would it take to get them to go by foot? Perhaps it’s parents not feeling safe.

Could walking groups be set up? Could more lights along a trail be turned on for better illumination?

FOR SUCH A mindset to flourish, it must have a collaborative effort, Fenton said.

“What you need, the community has to collectively own this,” Fenton said. “This is not Thrive’s job to do this.

I want everybody from the health department to the public works de-

partment, to the planning and public safety to anybody who cares about public development, they all have to have to be in on this, just regular concerned citizens.

“There are a lot of reasons downtown businesses should be passionate about this.”

Fenton rejects naysayers.

“I don’t accept the argument we don’t know technically how to do things like this,” he said.

“One of the rebuttals, to not do curb extensions in Iola is that it’s a pain to plow snow; that it’s too hard.

“That’s just not true,” he continued. “You have to teach your plow drivers, and they have to learn how to do it. It’s

a different way to plow, but it’s not impossible.

You might even have a place to store the snow on the extensions. It can be done.

“I don’t suggest stuff that’s not technically viable,” Fenton said.

“That’s not my job. My job is to go with what the evidence shows us.”

There are also creative ways to do curb extensions inexpensively, he added.

“Curb extensions can be made out of paint or bollards. Repainting for three lanes when 54 is going to be repaved anyway won’t change the price dramatically. But what it does cost is political capital. And you need the entire town.

Everybody has to be in on this.”

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U.S. should reduce role in the Mideast The idea that the United States take a back seat to affairs in the Middle East has saber-rattlers such as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at their wit’s end.

For these hawks, it’s more boots on the ground that ensures peace.

For the last 14 years the United States has had a significant role in trying to convert civilian uprisings into fledging democracies across the Middle East.

Nowhere, has democracy truly taken root, with elections in Iraq, Libya and Egypt being democratic in name only.

A good many of our young families today first became aware of the troubles in the Mideast in 2003 when President George W. Bush waged war in Iraq.

We naïvely believed its malevolent dictator Saddam Hussein was the root of the problem and that once removed, the Iraqis would be eager to sign on to a democratically elected government.

Americans, hopefully more then than now, also had an outsized ego that somehow authorized us to believe we — and our system of government — were the envy of the world.

We also were led to believe Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction” targeted at our shores and that for our own safety we needed to act posthaste.

So we invaded, and have ever since learned more about the differences between Islamic sects than we ever wanted to know.

Our reliance on oil from the Gulf Arab states also helped sway our decision to intervene. Today, the United States is on its way to overtaking Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer of crude oil, and while that doesn’t mean we

won’t work to keep it as an ally, it does mean the more we wean ourselves from foreign oil, the less tethered is our foreign policy to our energy needs.

More and more, Saudi Arabia and the Middle East are becoming less and less attractive places to do business. Its politics and economics are dysfunctional; its human rights deplorable; its unemployment astronomical; and its overall outlook bleak.

THIS IS NOT to say we should close the door on the Mideast, but rather to return to more diplomatic tactics.

Diplomacy can be every bit of a threat as armies.

The unique relationship between the United States and Israel, though currently strained, tells its adversaries we have their back.

Iran is fully aware any military action against Israel will immediately retrigger the hated sanctions only recently eased in the nuclear deal.

No place is in more need of increased diplomatic efforts than Syria.

If President Bashar alAssad — a ruthless dictator to be sure — were to be deposed today, radical Islamists would fill the vacuum much the same as has happened elsewhere in recent years.

The only way to keep this tragic story from repeating itself is if the parties involved, including Russia, the United States and Iran, negotiate some sort of peace plan and form of government acceptable to the Syrian people.

Strengthening diplomacy, not military intervention, is how the United States can help make the world a better place.

— Susan Lynn

Today in history In 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.

In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba;

in return, the U.S. secretly agreed to remove nuclear missiles from U.S. installations in Turkey.

One year ago today: The World Series was evened at three games each as the Kansas City Royals routed the San Francisco Giants 10-0.

Broad support for prison reform Even as Congress and the country appear hopelessly divided on almost everything, criminal-justice reform makes sense to everybody from President Obama to Charles Koch.

Lower crime rates, crowded prisons and tight budgets are among the factors fueling the movement. But so is new thinking about the nature of punishment, and a recognition that mandatory minimum sentences are neither fair nor fiscally prudent.

As the president noted in a discussion with law enforcement leaders on Thursday, “our criminal-justice system should treat people fairly regardless of race, wealth, station” and incarceration is one tool among others including drug diversion and treatment, effective re-entry programs, and prevention programs aimed at children.

Koch, CEO of Wichitabased Koch Industries, recently told Forbes magazine that criminal-justice reform can help fix poverty, and has raised concerns about prosecutorial abuses and inadequate legal representation as well as unduly harsh and disparate sentences.

The Charles Koch Institute is sponsoring a New Orleans summit Nov. 4-6 called “Advancing Justice: An Agenda for Human Dignity and Public Safety,” with speakers drawn from across the political and legal spectrums. The Kochs also have been involved in advocating for changes in civil asset forfeiture policies, and Koch Industries has stopped asking job applicants whether

they’ve ever been convicted of a crime.

In a commentary early this year in Politico Magazine cowritten with Koch Industries general counsel Mark Holden, Koch said: “After a sentence is served, we should restore all rights to youthful and nonviolent offenders, such as those involved in personal drug use violations. If ex-offenders can’t get a job, education or housing, how can we possibly expect them to have a productive life?”

In a key sign that the advo-

toward a similar goal.

Because congressional action would only apply to federal crimes and prisons, the movement must find favor in more states as well. Last week saw the launch of a campaign by Kansans United for Youth Justice to stop sending low- and moderate-risk youth offenders to prison or other out-of-home confinement but focus instead on local rehabilitation programs. A juvenile justice work group also is pursuing reform recommendations to present to the 2016

After a sentence is served, we should restore all rights to youthful and nonviolent offenders, such as those involved in personal drug use violations. If exoffenders can’t get a job, education or housing, how can we possibly expect them to have a productive life?

— Mark Holden, general counsel for Koch Industries

cacy is leading to action, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 15-5 Thursday to advance a bill to the full Senate that would give judges more flexibility in sentencing of certain low-level drug offenders, create programs to reduce recidivism and better prepare inmates for release — without going easy on violent offenders and drug traffickers.

To his credit, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., last week became a co-sponsor of the bill, which also has been endorsed by the NAACP and American Civil Liberties Union. The House is working on its own legislation

Legislature.

Of course, just as common sense promises to prevail on the nation’s over-incarceration problem, an election approaches. Campaigns tend to bring out the ads touting toughness on crime as a saintly trait.

But the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of its prisoners. It’s time to stop devoting so many tax dollars to incarcerating so many nonviolent offenders, and destroying lives and communities in the process.

— The Wichita Eagle

Pace picks up in Kansas GOP’s disappointing attacks on schools Rep. Scott Schwab, Olathe, proved this week that he’s an outspoken Republican foot soldier in promoting Gov. Sam Brownback’s attacks on Kansas schools.

In an email to Olathe School District employees, Schwab unleashed his fury at district leaders, singling out Superintendent Marlin Berry, who has dared to point out problems in the Kansas Legislature’s new school funding strategy.

Schwab’s email included many of the same points Brownback and some other GOP legislators have used this year while criticizing Kansas educators.

Schwab contended the Olathe district has plenty of money. He said the district should be grateful for the new block grant funding the Legislature approved in early 2015 — even though a court panel already has found some parts of it violate the Kansas Constitution. And Schwab parroted Brownback in his opposition to stances held by the Kansas National Education

Association.

“Dr. Berry sent a very depressing email on or around July 17 talking about the dire disposition of the district’s finances,” Schwab wrote to Olathe district employees. “It is difficult to go with passion into your daily work when the district’s top leaders are pulling your heart out of it. It was sad to see such poor leadership.”

This is all reminiscent of how Brownback has acted during his own rebukes of school officials. He has absurdly lashed out at the Kansas City, Kan., School District for buying a grand piano, blamed districts for somehow creating their own budget shortfalls and spoken out on how Kansas schools should use their reserve funds.

And just last month, Melika Willoughby, the governor’s deputy communications director, crassly blasted a system that allegedly forces Kansas to spend “millions more on new schools, administrative facilities and technology,

while educators complain about the lack of operational funds.”

In their response this week to Schwab, Olathe school board members said, “We find it unfortunate that an elected leader chose to interrupt your workday and misuse the taxpayer funded email system the district provides for you to communicate with parents and peers.”

Olathe, the largest district in Johnson County, with almost 30,000 students, has had other problems with state legislators.

School officials in August asked for $458,000 in “extraordinary needs” funds to help educate more than 100 extra students this fall. But a special state panel, which included Brownback, gave Olathe nothing.

Meanwhile, the Kansas City, Kan., School District — which is part of a lawsuit aimed at boosting future K-12 funding by hundreds of millions of dollars a year — requested about $2 million to

deal with higher enrollment but received just $400,000.

In coming months, the Legislature and educators need to work on developing a responsible funding formula for the most critical basic service financed by Kansas taxpayers.

On Friday, at a meeting of the Special Committee on K-12 Student Success, legislators gathered information on spending for classroom education, school bonds and teacher pensions. The panel’s next meeting is in November.

However, this committee needs to be much more than a Republican excuse for further shortchanging school districts.

Future meetings must take serious looks at how the state can funnel more money into classrooms while continuing to support excellent extracurricular programs, student support services and top-flight administrators who care deeply about the children in their care.

Part of this initiative should be providing clear ex-

planations to Kansans on not just how much money is being spent on K-12 education but exactly how it’s used. As we have noted, for instance, the state actually spends $6 million less on general classroom aid than it did five years ago.

GETTING

SOMETHING

positive done will be made tougher by Brownback’s absolute refusal to reduce his excessive income tax cuts, which went into effect in 2013.

Those cuts have badly failed to produce the jobs and revenues once promised.

In recent months, Brownback and the Legislature have sliced funding for some state programs and diverted money from other accounts simply to keep schools functioning.

For now, as Schwab’s recent email and Brownback’s continued comments show, GOP lawmakers seem content to bully school districts that dare to speak out on how taxpayers could finance better K-12 education in Kansas.

— The Kansas City Star

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Royals come back to win Game 1 against the Mets in a 14-inning marathon KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An inside-the-park home run.

A power failure that blacked out the TV audience. Crazy bounces, great plays and key errors.

The longest World Series opener ever had a little bit of everything. And more than five hours after they began, Alcides Escobar and the Kansas City Royals also had just enough energy to outlast the New York Mets.

Saved by Alex Gordon’s tying home run in the ninth inning off Mets closer Jeurys Familia, the Royals won in the 14th when Escobar dashed home on Eric Hosmer’s sacrifice fly for a 5-4 win late Tuesday night.

“It was a great night,” Royals manager Ned Yost said.

“Two things you don’t want in Game 1 of the World Series: One is to go 14 innings and the other is to lose.”

This tied for longest Series game ever and ended at 12:18 a.m. From the get-go, it was wild and weird.

Escobar hit an inside-theparker on the very first pitch from Matt Harvey. Later, that power problem caused fans and the team’s replay rooms at Kauffman Stadium to go dark.

The nearer it got to midnight — and beyond — the

The Kansas City Royals’ Alex Gordon ties the game in the ninth with a solo homer in Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. JILL TOYOSHIBA/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS more oddly the ball bounced.

In the 11th, Salvador Perez grounded a single that hit the third-base bag and caromed high in the air. In the 12th, Daniel Murphy struck out on a pitch that got past Perez — it ricocheted off the backstop

to the Royals catcher, who threw out Murphy at first.

About the only thing missing? A home run by Murphy, who had connected in a record six straight postseason games. The MVP of the NL Championship Series did

contribute a pair of singles.

“Yeah, there was a lot of baseball out there,” Murphy said.

In the 14th, Escobar reached on an error by third baseman David Wright. Ben Zobrist’s single put runners

at the corners and an intentional walk to Lorenzo Cain loaded the bases with no outs.

Hosmer atoned for a key error by lifting a flyball measured at 300 feet, and Escobar barely beat right fielder Curtis Granderson’s throw home.

“I wanted to redeem myself for what happened earlier,” Hosmer said. “That’s the beauty of this game.”

Chris Young pitched three hitless innings for the win.

Bartolo Colon gave up an unearned run and took the loss.

“Their team, one of the things we know about them is they’re never down and out,” Mets manager Terry Collins.

“We’ve got to put them away.

We’ve got to do a better job.”

Game 2 is tonight, with Jacob deGrom starting for the Mets against Johnny Cueto. It’s a hairy matchup: DeGrom’s flowing tresses vs.

Cueto’s mop of dreadlocks.

Anyone who’s ever seen the Royals play — especially in October — knows they’re called resilient for a reason.

Once again, they reinforced their reputation.

Gordon shook the ballpark when he tagged Familia, hitting a solo drive with one out over the center field wall.

The star closer hadn’t blown a save since July 30 and had See ROYALS | Page B3

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The fifth and sixth grade Iola Mustangs football team defeated the Garnett Bulldogs 6-0 on Tuesday night to win their league championship.

The contest was knotted at 0-0 until late in the fourth quarter when sixth-grader Rylan Green scored the

game-winning touchdown with just under 2 minutes left.

Iola’s defense then held strong against Garnett’s offense to seal the victory and take the league title.

The Mustangs finished the year unblemished, recording an 8-0 record.

3rd/4th grade football results

Royals fans learning to have fun KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Only two years removed from a decade in which Kansas City had one of the worst teams in baseball, Royals fans got a crash course last year in how it feels to have a team not only playing in the postseason, but advancing to within two runs of winning the World Series.

As victories have mounted, interest in the Royals has expanded from the core diehards to a whole new generation of fans who weren’t around in the late 1970s and early ’80s when Kansas City was a perennial contender.

Along the way several iconic characters emerged at Kauffman Stadium, their celebriSee FANS | Page B4

Top row (left to right): Matt Boeken, Kris Collins, Chris Mathews, Nick McAnulty and John Taylor.

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GARNETT — The third and fourth Iola Mustangs football team defeated the Garnett Bulldogs 12-0 on Tuesday night to win their league championship.

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Volquez loses father before World Series start KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Edinson Volquez strode purposefully to the mound for Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday night, apparently unaware his father had passed away hours earlier in the Dominican Republic.

The right-hander with the easy smile proceeded to hold the New York Mets at bay for

six gritty innings, departing with the game still tied. Kansas City went on to a 5-4 victory in Edison Volquez 14 innings, matching the longest game in World Series

history.

It was only after he left, Royals manager Ned Yost said, that Volquez learned his 63-year-old father, Daniel Volquez died earlier in the day from heart failure.

“It was just, you know, it was sad, a sad situation,” Yost told a few reporters gathered in the clubhouse. “You find

out an hour before the game that your starting pitcher's father passed away, and it was hard. But again, you wanted to honor the family’s wishes, and they requested, ‘Don’t tell Eddie. Let him go out and pitch Game 1 of the World Series.’”

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Professor gets apology 53 years after his firing WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) — In the thick of the Cold War, the small Pennsylvania college where Larry Gara was an outspoken history professor called him a bad teacher, labeled him a Communist and unceremoniously showed him the door.

Now, 53 years later, the school says it’s sorry.

Gara’s firing from Grove City College in 1962 briefly stirred up a national debate over institutional autonomy vs. academic freedom.

He moved on with his life, eventually settling

Stephen F. Austin University in Texas who decided to delve into Gara’s firing with hope of turning it into a publishable research project.

Taaffe got access to the papers of J. Howard Pew, the Sun Oil Co. president who was the major benefactor and chairman of the Grove City College board when Gara came aboard in 1957. Pew thought Gara’s liberal anti-war political views were disruptive and that he was sympathetic to the hated Soviet Union.

Pew wanted him gone

I laid [my research] out, and I said here’s the evidence I have, and I think that Larry Gara was railroaded and that the college ought to do something about it. — Steven Taaffe, whose examination of the case led to the college’s tardy apology

into a teaching job at Wilmington College in Ohio. He figured the Grove City chapter was behind him for good.

So no one was more surprised than the now 93-year-old Gara when someone showed up at his front door recently to apologize.

No one directly involved with his firing is alive today, but the August visit from Richard Jewell, a former president of the Presbyterian college, was a curious and satisfying development for Gara, who had successfully meshed his social-justice activism with a long, distinguished teaching career at Wilmington in southwestern Ohio. “I never thought they would come around,� says Gara, whose memory of the events of 1962 — and many of the other highs and lows in his life — remains remarkably in focus.

In the scheme of things, actually, Gara losing his job at the 1,500-student western Pennsylvania college should barely register a blip in a life filled with seismic events. The Texas native decided to become a Quaker at age 18, and then spent three years in federal prison for refusing to register for the draft during World War II. Once behind bars, he protested because the white and black inmates weren’t allowed to eat together.

Later, after earning a master’s degree and getting a yearlong teaching job at Bluffton College in Ohio for 1948-49, he was convicted of counseling a student not to register for the draft, which he still claims he didn’t do. He was sent back to prison for another seven months, which got national attention because it led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision against him in a First Amendment case.

The mea culpa from Gara’s old employer recently was a direct result of the work of Grove City College alumnus Steven Taaffe, a history professor at

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After finishing the research a few years ago, Taaffe took it to Jewell, who was president of the college at the time. “I laid it all out, and I said here’s the evidence I have, and I think that Larry Gara was railroaded and that the college ought to do something about it,� Taaffe says.

After the article was published in a book a few months ago, Jewell got in touch with Gara and dropped in on him and his 89-year-old wife, Lenna Mae. “Out of the blue, I got a call from him and he said he wanted to talk to me,� Gara says. “He came out to the house and was a friendly guy.

He said, ‘I want to express my regret and the regret of the college about how they treated you.’�

Jewell, who had retired as president last year, followed up with a letter noting that the college’s actions against Gara in 1962 were “inappropriate and unfair.� Jewell declined to comment further for this article.

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Although retired since the early 1990s, Gara — rail thin, with a head of wild white hair and a walrus mustache — still speaks to students at Wilmington from time to time.

The man once known on campus as the “90-pound anarchist� says he’s less highstrung these days and better able to have conversations with people who don’t share his views.

I’m more mellow,� he says. “History does that.�

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The Kansas City Royals’ Alcides Escobar (2) celebrates with teammate Ben Zobrist (18) after hitting an inside-the-park home run on Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. JILL TOYOSHIBA/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS

Royals: Cueto to start next Continued from B1

save since July 30 and had been nearly perfect this postseason.

Known more for his glove than his bat, Gordon connected when he said Familia tried to quick pitch him, and got a huge hug in the dugout from Hosmer.

A two-time Gold Glove first baseman, Hosmer’s error gave the Mets a 4-3 lead in the eighth.

“I was the happiest person in the stadium when Gordon homered,” Hosmer said. “I told him, ‘I just want to hug you right now.’

I think a lot of people in Kansas City want to hug him.”

Escobar provided the early excitement. He loves to swing at first pitches, and this time the MVP of AL Championship Series produced his best result yet.

A mix-up by Mets outfielders Yoenis Cespedes and rookie Michael Conforto helped Escobar wind up with just the second insidethe-parker to lead off a Series game. Ol’ Patsy Dougherty of the Boston Americans did it in 1903 — his came in the second game ever of

what became known as the Fall Classic.

“As I ran after the ball, I looked at Conforto and by the time I looked back up I had lost the ball,” Cespedes said through a translator.

Cespedes never put his mitt up and the ball glanced off his leg, darted along the warning track and let Escobar score standing up.

Harvey brushed aside the misplay and quickly settled in. The Mets, meanwhile, soon caught up with Royals starter Edinson Volquez, who did his best on the day his father died in the Dominican Republic.

Volquez left the stadium before the game ended and headed home. Most the Royals didn’t know about his dad.

“I found out in, I think it was the 14th inning, right before we won the game,” Gordon said. “I was standing next to Ned and he told me, he said, ‘Let’s win this game for Volquez.’”

For both teams, this began as a lucky day.

Exactly 30 years earlier, on the same field, Bret Saberhagen

and the Royals routed St. Louis in Game 7 for their most recent crown. The next year, also on Oct. 27, Darryl Strawberry homered to help the Mets beat Boston in Game 7 for their latest title.

By the time the Royals won early Wednesday, they’d already made Oct. 28 a day to remember, too.

UP NEXT

Mets: DeGrom is 3-0 this postseason, with each win coming on the road. He has struck out 27 in 20 innings against the Dodgers and Cubs in the playoffs.

Royals: Cueto, acquired from the Reds in late July, will make his first World Series appearance. He is 1-1 with a 7.88 ERA in three postseason starts this year.

TOUGH START

This is the Mets’ fifth time in the World Series, and they’ve lost Game 1 all five times.

They wound up winning the title in 1969 and 1986, and lost in 1973 and 2000. The Mets have gone to extra innings at least once every year they’ve reached the Series.

Minnesota coach retires citing health issue MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota coach Jerry Kill abruptly retired because of health reasons on Wednesday, ending his efforts to rebuild the Golden Gopher football program during a tenure that included a series of game-day seizures.

No specific reason was cited in Minne-

sota’s retirement announcement, but Kill has epilepsy and had to take a leave of absence from the team in 2013 while dealing with seizures. The surprising announcement came one day after Kill missed a scheduled meeting with the media.

Kill missed at least a portion of five games

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He also had game-day seizures in 2001 and 2005.

house with his family by the time reporters were allowed in after the game, but Royals pitcher Jeremy Guthrie spoke to him briefly.

“I could tell he was devastated,” Guthrie said. “I had never seen him like that before.

He was very subdued, very quiet. I could tell he was in a lot of emotional pain.”

Earlier Tuesday, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that Volquez was given the news of his father’s death on the way to the ballpark.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter.

“Your heart goes out to Volquez and his whole, entire family,” Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer said.

“The way he went out there and battled for us, you hate to hear news like that. But it’s another angel above watching us, behind us the whole way.”

The elder Volquez, a mechanic in the Dominican Republic, introduced his son to the game when he was about 10 years old.

Edinson Volquez often returned home to visit his parents, and said not long ago that they were his biggest sup-

porters while trying to make it in the big leagues.

“Most guys didn't know. I found out, I think, in the 14th inning,” Royals outfielder Alex Gordon said.

“I was standing next to Ned and he told me, he said, ‘Let’s win this game for Volquez,’ and explained what happened. I don’t think he knew. I don’t think most guys knew.”

The 11-year veteran appeared to warm up as if nothing was amiss on a misty evening in Kansas City, then marched to the mound for his World Series debut as the crowd roared.

His first pitch to Mets leadoff hitter Curtis Granderson went for a called strike, and the righthander went on to retire the side in the first inning. He fanned Daniel Murphy, the hottest hitter this postseason, as the crowd inside Kauffman Stadium chanted, “Eddie!

Eddie!”

“It’s almost superhuman," Guthrie said, “to do that when someone so important to you and someone you care about so much passes away like that.”

In a heartbreaking coincidence, Volquez’s father became the third parent of player on the Royals’ World Series roster to die in

the past three months.

Connie Moustakas, the mother of third baseman Mike Moustakas, passed away on Aug. 9 after a battle with cancer.

Moustakas honors her every time he steps into the batter's box by scribbling her initials in the dirt with the end of his bat.

Charles Young, the father of Chris Young, also died of cancer on Sept. 26 — the day before his son made his first start for Kansas City in two months.

Young proceeded to throw five no-hit innings, honoring his father with the performance, before leaving to be with his family.

Young was scheduled to start Game 4 of the World Series in New York, but he wound up earning the win in the opener Tuesday night with three shutout innings.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been through a year where you’ve gone through something like that,” Yost said. “I’ve lost my dad — my mom is still going. But I know how hard it was for Moose and how hard it was for Chris. And you see Eddie out there, just competing his butt off, and you keep thinking, ‘What’s coming next?’ The news is coming next. It's just hard.”

Bulls hold off Cavaliers, 97-95 CHICAGO (AP) — For all the talk about their fast-paced offense, defense once again lifted the Chicago Bulls in their season opener.

Pau Gasol’s block of LeBron James and a pass deflection in the closing seconds helped preserve the win for new coach Fred Hoiberg. And that had to please the president.

Nikola Mirotic scored 19 points and Derrick Rose added 18 to lead the Bulls to a 97-95 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers with President Barack Obama watching on Tuesday night.

After Gasol blocked James’ potential tying layup in the closing seconds, Jimmy Butler then broke up an inbounds pass in-

tended for James as time expired.

“That is how we are going to win every game,” Rose said.

“It kind of feels good going into every game knowing you have the possibility of winning. You have a chance of winning every game because we are so good and deep.”

James scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, but the Cavaliers came up short against the team they knocked out in the conference semifinals last season.

The Bulls, playing a more open offense with Hoiberg than they did under Tom Thibodeau, did not exactly light it up.

But they came away with a promising win.

Rose, playing with

a mask to protect his fractured left orbital, shot just 8 of 22 after missing almost the entire preseason.

Mirotic, starting over Joakim Noah, nailed three 3-pointers.

Butler added 17 points and two steals to go with that deflected pass. Gasol blocked six shots.

The Cavaliers got 19 points and seven assists from Mo Williams, filling in while Kyrie Irving recovers from a fractured left kneecap. Kevin Love added 18 points and eight rebounds.

“We gave ourselves a chance to win,” James said. “That’s all you can ask.”

James now has 24,938 points. Only 19 players have scored 25,000.

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ty status driven partly by social media and partly by their consistent presence in front of a fan base that eagerly embraces their antics.

Dave Webster had a hunch before the 2014 season that the Kansas City Royals might have a special year, so he came up with the idea of posting a large “W’’ in left field after each home win.

The Royals’ historian — who dresses in old-fashioned uniforms, goes by the name KayCee and shares tidbits of the city’s baseball past with fans filing into the team’s Hall of Fame at Kauffman Stadium — hasn’t missed a home game since.

“The timing couldn’t have been better,” said Webster, now widely known as the “W’’ guy.

The Royals won 89 games last year, pulled out a classic Wild Card win against Oakland and went on to push San Francisco to Game 7 of the World Series before falling two runs short of a championship.

“By ‘special year’ I thought we’ve got a chance to get into the playoffs,” he said. “I never dreamed we’d make it to the Series.”

Neither did most longsuffering Royals fans, he said. But this season is different.

“Last year we kind of came in through the back door of the playoffs,” Webster said. “We snuck in, looked around and wondered if maybe we weren’t supposed to

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be there. This year we came right in the front door.

“It wasn’t a fluke. The fans know that now.”

A year ago a suburban Kansas City businessman thought it would be a hoot to bring a huge set of plastic moose antlers to Game 1 of the World Series as a tribute to the Royals’ gritty third baseman Mike Moustakas.

Craig Rookstool, who runs an aviation company in Lee’s Summit, said he didn’t know what to expect when he tried to bring the antlers into Kauffman Stadium that first time.

“I walked into the right field gate, put it under my arm like I was carrying books and walked in. As I approached the gate, everyone started screaming “Moose.” All of a sudden the security guys were screaming “Moose” and gave me a thumbs up. They waved the wand and I walked in.”

A few minutes later, the head of security came to his seat and said Major League Baseball

was not a big fan of the antlers.

Rookstool offered to take them back to his vehicle before the two came up with a compromise in which he would hold the antlers up if Moustakas was up or made a good play.

“The first time Moose got up and I did my thing and went back to my seat. By the second or third inning, on Instagram or Facebook, there were 50,000-something likes on MLB’s page. At that point I don’t think they were going to tell me to leave because it was a smashing success.”

Today, Rookstool is a partial-season ticket holder who became involved with Royals charities after gaining fame as the Moose Man. At a Kauffman Stadium pep rally before the start of the playoffs earlier this month, children stood in a line — much like they would to see Santa at Christmas — to get their picture taken with the antlers.

He eventually plans to auction them off — unless Moustakas de-

cides he wants them, of course.

John Stoner discovered a wrestling singlet online that had a huge cat’s face painted on it and could not resist buying one for himself and his childhood friend, Paul Long. Then he got that friend to wear the outfit to Derek Jeter’s final series in Kansas City in June 2014 and hold up a sign with him saying “Derek Jeter-One Classy Cat.” Stoner, a microbiology consultant for a Kansas City medical software company, said the two were instant hits — to the extent that it opened the door for him to become involved with the community through charity work such as Habitat for Humanity and fashion shows in which he’s been asked to wear the unitard.

“Everybody loved it,” he said. “The ladies loved it, kids loved it, some of the older men gave us some sideways glances. But most everyone loved it.”

While his kitty attire remains the same this year as he and Long prowl around the outer edges of Kauffman during Kansas City’s postseason run, Stoner believes local fan angst will be much more intense if the Royals fall short of winning a championship.

“Everything last year was gravy,” he said.

“Every round they went to we thought, ‘this is amazing. We’re on top of the world.’

“This year we expected to win.”

30 scores 40 points in Warriors win OAKLAND, Calif.

(AP) — Stephen Curry threw his arm in the air in delight and body bumped teammates after knocking down shots from all over the floor, and it all looked so familiar to what happened here only four months ago.

The NBA MVP showed in a hurry he hasn’t lost a step or his swagger, scoring 40 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 111-95 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night to open their title defense.

Curry, who wears No. 30, put on a shooting clinic, hitting seven of his first nine shots with four 3-pointers for 24 first-quarter points. He finished 14 for 26 with seven assists and six rebounds in a rematch of the first round of the playoffs that Golden State swept 4-0. It was his 10th career 40-point game.

Curry and the Warriors raised the championship banner and received their rings in an elaborate pregame ceremony featuring glitz, glow sticks and fire. Coach Steve Kerr attended, then left for the locker room to rest his surgically repaired back as interim Luke Walton coached the team and received some advice from Kerr beforehand.

“Even just Game 1 of the finals it was just a different feeling,” Curry said. “All that really prepared us to be able to stay in the moment, enjoy the celebration and the ceremony, have fun, joke, dance, all that

stuff, but then lock in and focus on the game.

It would be disappointing to leave out of here 0-1 with a ring as opposed to 1-0. The mood is a lot better and we want to keep that vibe going.”

Golden State built a 10-point halftime lead and was never threatened the rest of the way to win its 19th straight home game dating to Jan. 31 and match the franchise record set last season.

Anthony Davis, who averaged 29.5 points and 12.5 rebounds in two games against Golden State last season, shot 4 for 20 and scored 10 of his 18 points on free throws. In his Pelicans

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Curry walked out to receive his ring to chants of “M-V-P!” from the raucous sellout crowd.

“This is an unbelievable day,” Curry said. “I got kind of goosebumps kind of reliving all the moments that we had.”

Curry had the secondmost points by a reigning MVP in an opener since 1963-64, according to STATS.

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Public notices (First published in The Iola Register, Oct. 28, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS JUVENILE DIVISION IN THE INTEREST OF: NAME: DESHAWNDRA GINNICOLE WHITE DOB: XX-XX-2003 female A minor child under the age of 18 years Case No. 2014-JC-34 NOTICE OF HEARING TO: Larry S. White, [father] [current whereabouts believed to be in or around Clinton, Missouri,

or surrounding areas], his parents and adult relatives and all other persons who are or may be concerned: A motion has been filed in this court pursuant to the Kansas code for the care of children requesting the Court to permanently terminate the parental rights of the children identified above pursuant to the Kansas code for the care of children and, thereafter, enter such orders as circumstances and statutes permit and require.

You are required to appear before the District Court, at the

Allen County Courthouse, 1 N. Washington, Iola, Kansas, for a formal hearing beginning at 9:00 a.m. on November 17, 2015 or prior to that time file your written response to the pleading with the clerk of this court. If, after a child has been adjudged to be a child in need of care, the court finds a parent to be unfit, the court may make an order permanently terminating the parent’s or parents’ parental rights. Prior to that date and time, a parent, grandparent or any other party to the proceeding may file a written response to the pleading with the clerk of the

District Court.

Each parent or other legal custodian of the child has a right to appear and be heard personally either with or without an attorney. The court will appoint an attorney for a parent who is financially unable to hire one.

Brandon R. Bieker, an attorney in Iola, Kansas has been appointed to represent the father. Charles H. Apt, III, an attorney in Iola, Kansas has been appointed as guardian ad litem for the child.

Clerk of the District Court Dina L. Morrison (10) 28, (11) 4

(First published in The Iola Register, Oct. 28, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS JUVENILE DIVISION IN THE INTEREST OF: NAME: ALEXZAY RAY LUCKETT DOB: XX-XX-2000 male A minor child under the age of 18 years Case No. 2014-JC-35 NOTICE OF HEARING TO: Michael Luckett, [father] [current whereabouts believed to be in or around Marionville, Missouri, or surrounding areas], his

parents and adult relatives and all other persons who are or may be concerned: A motion has been filed in this court pursuant to the Kansas code for the care of children requesting the Court to permanently terminate the parental rights of the children identified above pursuant to the Kansas code for the care of children and, thereafter, enter such orders as circumstances and statutes permit and require.

You are required to appear before the District Court, at the Allen County Courthouse, 1 N.

Washington, Iola, Kansas, for a formal hearing beginning at 9:00 a.m. on November 17, 2015 or prior to that time file your written response to the pleading with the clerk of this court. If, after a child has been adjudged to be a child in need of care, the court finds a parent to be unfit, the court may make an order permanently terminating the parent’s or parents’ parental rights. Prior to that date and time, a parent, grandparent or any other party to the proceeding may file a written response to the pleading with the clerk of the

District Court.

Each parent or other legal custodian of the child has a right to appear and be heard personally either with or without an attorney. The court will appoint an attorney for a parent who is financially unable to hire one.

Brandon R. Bieker, an attorney in Iola, Kansas has been appointed to represent the father. Charles H. Apt, III, an attorney in Iola, Kansas has been appointed as guardian ad litem for the child.

Clerk of the District Court Dina L. Morrison (10) 28, (11) 4

(First published in The Iola Register, Oct. 28, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS SIGG FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, Plaintiff v.

JOHN BIRD and ANGELA BIRD, Defendants.

CASE NO. 2013 LM 54 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Under and by virtue of a judgment issued out of the District

Court of Allen County, Kansas, case number 2013 LM 54, in which Sigg Financial Services, LLC, is Plaintiff, and John Bird and Angela Bird are Defendants, I will, on the 18th day of November, 2015, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., offer at public auction at the Allen County Courthouse southern entrance, 1 North Washington, Iola, Kansas, and sell, free and clear of all liens to the highest and best bidder for cash in hand,

the following described personal property: 2004 GMC Yukon XL, VIN 1GKFK66U94J101706; and 2006 Saturn Ion, VIN 1G8AJ55F66Z172642 judgment having previously been entered in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendants in the principal sum of $14,029.04, plus interest from January 25, 2013, and costs and fees. The described personal property will be sold

separately.

Provided, that the terms of sale shall be cash or certified check. Successful bidder must pay the total bid price in cash or by certified check within two hours of the end of the sale. The property may be viewed prior to sale at 1721 East Street, Iola, Kansas.

Bryan J. Murphy Allen County Sheriff (10) 28, (11) 4

(First Published in The Iola Register Oct. 21, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Plaintiff, vs.

Kaylee S. Rourk and David Hart, et al.

Defendants.

Case No. 15CV32 Court Number:

Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Allen County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Front Door of the Courthouse at Iola, Allen County, Kansas, on November 18, 2015, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate:

All of Lot Five (5), and the South Twenty-two (22) feet of Lot Four (4), all in Block Eleven (11), ST. JOSEPH ADDITION to the City of Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas, commonly known as 404 North 7th, Humboldt, KS 66748 (the “Property”) to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case. The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of

the Court. For more information, visit www.Southlaw.com Bryan J. Murphy, Sheriff

Allen County, Kansas Prepared By: SouthLaw, P.C. Mark Mellor (KS #10255) 245 N. Waco, Suite 410 Wichita, KS 67202 (316) 684-7733 (316) 684-7766 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (119787) (10) 21, 28 (11) 4

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US invites Iran into discussions on Syria

WASHINGTON (AP) — This week’s international talks over Syria’s future will have a new player at the table: Iran, a key ally of Syria’s Bashar Assad.

It’s the first time Iran has been invited to the discussions over Syria’s four-year civil war, and today Iran’s state TV and semi-official news agency said Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

sion of a peaceful, secular and pluralistic Syria governed with the consent of its people.

Washington actively opposed Iran participating in two earlier, months-long mediation attempts but recently spoke of the possibility of Iran joining talks in the future. It is now offering Tehran a seat after days of behind-thescenes negotiation, par-

The United States is taking a gamble. Iran has backed Assad’s government throughout the conflict, fighting alongside the Syrian military, and is seen by Western-backed rebels and U.S. partners in the region as a major source of the bloodshed.

will attend the talks, set to begin Thursday and Friday in Vienna.

Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and several top European and Arab diplomats will be attending, a familiar cast that up to now hasn’t included any Iranian representatives.

Kerry departs for the Austrian capital today.

The invitation after the United States declared itself ready to engage long-time foe Iran if it might help halt Syria’s civil war. While the U.S. doesn’t approve of Iran’s “destabilizing activities” in Syria, State Department spokesman John Kirby said American officials “always have recognized that at some point in the discussion, moving toward a political transition, we have to have a conversation and a dialogue with Iran.”

The United States is taking a gamble. Iran has backed Assad’s government throughout the conflict, fighting alongside the Syrian military, and is seen by Westernbacked rebels and U.S. partners in the region as a major source of the bloodshed. The Syrian opposition may balk at Iran’s inclusion in any discussions on what a post-Assad Syria should look like.

On the other hand, all previous international efforts have done nothing to stop the fighting, and Kerry is trying to unite all sides with influence in the Arab country around a common vi-

ticularly with its regional rival Saudi Arabia, according to officials who weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity In a telephone conversation Tuesday, President Barack Obama and Saudi King Salman spoke about cooperating closely to fight the Islamic State and “establish the conditions for a political transition in Syria,” according to a White House statement.

They vowed to build on recent diplomatic efforts. The statement didn’t mention anything about Iran.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had ruled out new negotiations with the United States after they and five other nations clinched a long-term nuclear agreement in July.

But Iran clearly has a stake in Syria’s future, as Assad’s government has helped the Iranians exert dominance over nearby Lebanon and threaten Israel through their proxy, Hezbollah.

The U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey met last week in Vienna, putting forward new ideas to revive diplomatic hopes. However, they remained deeply divided over Assad’s future.

The United States and its partners say Assad can participate in a “political transition,” but would have to leave power at the end of the process if Syria could ever move on from a war that has killed at least 250,000 people and forced more

Mountain lion carcass found near Dodge City DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — The recent discovery of a dead mountain lion in western Kansas brings to five the number of mountain lion confirmations in the state since August.

The state Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism says before 2007, Kansas went more than a century without a confirmed wild mountain lion sighting. But there have been 14 confirmations since 2007.

The Wichita Eagle reported the previous four

confirmations this year have been trail camera photos, sightings and videos. A landowner near Dodge City contacted the department last week after finding an underweight dead mountain lion in a shed.

The department says Kansas is one of many states to have increased mountain lion confirmations over about the past decade. It’s thought many of the cats have wandered from South Dakota or the Rocky Mountains.

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than 11 million from their homes. Russia and Iran reject that demand.

Other sticking points include the length of the transition, and what a new constitution and future elections might look like.

Beyond Iran, this week’s gathering will expand to include countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.

Amid all the talking, Syria’s fighting goes on.

Since last month, Russia has launched hundreds of airstrikes targeting what it says are the Islamic State and other terrorist groups.

The Obama administration, NATO and others say most of the bombs are landing on moderate rebel militias, some backed by the CIA. Meanwhile, violence continues to rage between rebel groups and the Islamic State, and in the Kurdish region in northern Syria, even drawing in Turkey.

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