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Grocer may get a helping hand

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

New tower may cost $250k

Paul Sorenson, a man about town, set the tone Tuesday for county commissioners to discuss what may occur in the months ahead with G&W’s plans to build a grocery in Iola.

“I want to encourage you and others to help G&W,” Sorenson said. “I support (the store’s construction) and I

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

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Medicaid expansion bill goes to governor

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Republican-controlled Legislature approved an expansion Tuesday of state health coverage to thousands of poor adults under former President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, days after the collapse of GOP leaders’ repeal effort in Washington.

The bill would expand the state’s Medicaid program for See MEDICAID | Page A3

County Commissioners will discuss ways to help G&W Foods erase a $500,000 budget gap to build a new grocery store at the old Allen County Hospital site in Iola. REGISTER/SHELLIE SMITLEY

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An evening of visual, audio sensations Artist reception, concert Saturday at Bowlus An evening of music and visual art will fill the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Saturday.

Activities kick off at 6 p.m. with an artist reception for Ann Snyder, a painter from of Mountain View, Ark., and sister of Iolan Donna Houser.

There, a wide array of oil, acrylic and watercolor pieces are on display in the Mary Martin Art Gallery.

“Painting is fulfilling,” Snyder said in a press release. “But most rewarding is sharing and teaching what

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Ann Snyder I have learned, especially when I can express the energy that comes from painting, and to see people who have never painted get excited about unfolding their hidden talent with art.”

Snyder’s workshops have

taken her to Mississippi, Wyoming, the Carolinas, Arizona, Kansas and elsewhere in Arkansas. She has exhibited in galleries in Arkansas and Kansas, as well as in private art galleries across the United States.

Doors open at 5:30. The reception is free of charge.

ONE OF Canada’s most renowned guitar ensembles See BOWLUS | Page A3

Parting from traditional gender roles

By SHELLIE SMITLEY The Iola Register

Nina Froggatte and her boyfriend, Cory Eisenbart COUR-

Allen County commissioners were told Tuesday a new tower to hold antennas and other equipment at the rear of the 911 emergency services center might cost as much as $250,000.

Tommy Lewis, project manager for Hayden Tower Services, Topeka, gave the

estimate and then showed photographs of badly rusted parts of the current 150foot tower. “If there is rust on the outside,” as the photos clearly showed, “there’s rust on the inside,” he said.

Commissioners first learned of the tower’s structural problems a week ago from Angie Murphy, 911 di-

HUMBOLDT — March is National Women’s History Month.

The 2017 theme honors women who have successfully challenged the traditional role of women in the workplace. Stacey Burton, 49, Humboldt, is a local woman who has not only challenged the role of women in the paid labor force but also challenged herself to go outside her comfort level.

Although Burton just start-

g randmother of 10 worked at Twin Motors Ford for a short time, and between the years of 1996 and 1998 worked for O’Reilly Auto Parts in Chaunte.

Customer service skills are not all that Sta“I have alcey Burton can boast. She does most of her ways worked in a man’s world,” own car repairs. REGISTER/SHELLIE SMITLEY she said.“Don’t tell me I can’t ed selling parts last week at O’Reilly Auto Parts, Iola, she do something. I will prove is no stranger to automo- you wrong.”

That “man’s world” inbiles. The mother of four and

cludes construction and operating heavy equipment.

Shawn Schlotterbeck, manager of the Iola O’Reillys, said Burton was hired because she has several years’ experience of working for the company.

“She knew what she was talking about and seemed confident about herself,” he said. “She had a personality to her that deals good with people.”

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By SHELLIE SMITLEY The Iola Register

This is part one of a 14- part series following Nina Froggatte’s journey through police training at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, Hutchinson. The police academy is a 14- week part of Kansas University’s curriculum.

Froggatte began the training March 20, and is set to graduate June 23. The Iola Register will publish weekly updates of her progress.

Lenten feast Skylar Stark holds her 7-week-old daughter, Rachel, at this morning’s Lenten breakfast at Iola’s First Presbyterian Church.

In the background is Donna Kaehr. At right, the Griffeth family joins the feast. They are, from left, Kaden, Beth, Bailey and Zane. Next Wednesday’s 7 a.m. breakfast is at Wesley United Methodist Church. REGISTER/SHELLIE SMITLEY

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Luella Mae Fuhrman, 77, Moran, passed away on Monday, March 27, 2017, at the KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan. Luella was the third of four children born to Aloysius and Marie (Yohon) Diebolt. She was born on Sept. 4, 1939, in Iola. Luella grew up in Piqua, attending St. John’s and St. Martin Catholic Luella School before going to Iola High Fuhrman School, graduating in 1957. She then attended the Iola Junior College earning an associate’s degree. On Sept. 5, 1959, she married Louis Wayne Bradford in Piqua. They had five children together. They made their home at rural Moran. Wayne later died on Sept. 5, 1976. On Aug. 11, 1978, she married Leroy Fuhrman in Iola. Luella loved to garden and cook for her family. Her grandchildren were a special source of joy to her.

She enjoyed sharing the holidays and birthdays with her family.

Luella was preceded in death by her parents and her first husband, Wayne.

She is survived by her husband, Leroy Fuhrman, Moran; her children, Susan Lewis and Doug, Moran, Sherry Henry, Moran, Roger Bradford, Bronson, Sandra Ellefsen, Marshall, Mo., and Debbie Jones and Jeffrey, Paola; nine grandchildren, Tyler and Tanner Lewis, Morgan Henry, Ashton Troxel and Gabriel Ellefsen and Vincent, Maximus, Grady and Ella Jones; two brothers, Marion Diebolt, Moran, and Vernon Diebolt, Piqua; and a sister, Marcella Wagner, Independence, Mo. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. John’s Catholic Church, Iola, following a Parish Rosary at 9:30. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, Iola. Memorial contributions may be made to Wings for Warriors. Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

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gatte, detective for the Iola Police Department, and Wendy Froggatte, nurse for Humboldt USD 258, entered the academy the morning of March 20, anxious about finding her way around.

Employed by Humboldt Police Department only since Dec. 1, 2016, enrollment in the academy is another major change she has made in recent months.

She began as animal control officer and code enforcement with no prior law enforcement experience.

“She was the best candidate for the job,” Chief of Police Brian Dillow said. “She did not have any police experience but she has really good customer service skills and she is a people person. We knew that right off the bat.”

Nina, 24, graduated from Iola High School in 2011. She held various waitress positions throughout high school and for a few semesters while attending Allen Community College. She still intends to complete a business degree.

“I am not currently enrolled right now. I was kind of hoping to get out of the academy before I put more on my plate,” Nina said.

Nina’s plate is always full. She worked as a crop insurance adjuster for Rain and Hail for over three years, traveling throughout Kansas and to parts of Oklahoma and Nebraska. Though she liked the job, practicality dictated that she resign, she said.

“The down times during the year, when there aren’t many crops, there isn’t much work,” she said. “It was getting hard to make it a full-time job.”

Then Nina tried her hand as a receptionist, but discovered sitting at a desk all day was not her style.

That she took to law enforcement was no surprise.

When she took career tests in high school, law enforcement-related occupations came up every time, she said. Still it has been a career path she has been hesitant to pursue because of the long hours it involves, long hours she has seen her dad take on. Jared Froggatte started out in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Honolulu when Nina was born. Since then he has worked as a specialist for the Army National Guard, a deputy for the Allen County Sheriff ’s Department, a patrol officer for the Humboldt Police Department, and twice for the Iola Police Department, where he is currently employed as

Nina Froggatte’s desk sits empty, awaiting her return from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center. REGISTER/SHELLIE SMITLEY a detective since 2013.

Most of their extended family members reside in Princeton, which is where Nina grew up.

She also lived in Pomona. She moved to Iola in 2002.

When the position of animal control and code enforcement became vacant in Humboldt, it was her dad who suggested she give it a try, Nina said.

“I thought well I will just go ahead and apply and do something out of my comfort zone and see what I think about it,” Nina said. “So far, it’s been good.”

Nina said she could be considered to be an animal lover and admitted that after one dog had been impounded for two months she debated bringing it home.

Although Nina grew up on a farm and has been around animals all of her life, there has been some challenge to the animal control position, she said.

“Humboldt is a pretty small town and so people will know ‘well it’s so and so’s dog.’

It takes me a little bit longer to figure out whose dog is out,” she said.

Learning all of the codes and the processes of addressing code violations has a certain amount of challenge attached to it as well.

Nina said she was accustomed to working with the public but wearing a uniform and adjusting to the public’s perception of law enforcement brought a new dimension to customer service.

Her training over the next 14 weeks will better equip her for her current position as well as the added responsibilities of a police officer when she returns.

“Not everybody is happy when you are coming to pick up their dog or happy about getting code violations,” Nina said.

Nina has dated Cory Eisenbart for seven years. Those public perceptions and sticky situations are the reasons he is a little nervous about her new career choice, Nina said. But they both agree that attending the police academy will better prepare her for patrolling the

streets.

“He just wants me to be safe,” she said.

Nina said she is a family-oriented person and spending extended amounts of time away from home is the biggest stress factor for her right now. Even though she traveled as a crop adjuster, she normally made it home every night.

“Being gone throughout the week is probably going to be the hardest part for her,” Jared Froggatte said.

Nina stays at the academy from Sunday through Friday evenings. Anyone caught with a cell phone in class is immediately kicked out, according to Nina.

For the first six weeks the curriculum includes a lot of class time. She studied state statutes and case law her first week. Her first exam was scheduled for last Monday.

Throughout the 14 weeks she will receive instruction in areas like defense tactics, driving in a police chase and firing a handgun.

“Anytime you handle a gun it’s a little nervewracking but I am looking forward to getting more experience with that,” Nina said.

What she worries about the most is the EVOC training which includes driving at high speeds around traffic cones through an obstacle course.

“I am not the world’s best driver, I’m sure, so it makes me nervous to be driving that fast,” she said.

Her dad is the one who taught her to drive.

“I taught her to drive in a 1973 Chevrolet two-ton truck in the pasture,” he said. He has no doubt about her ability to ace that part of the training.

One exercise that might fill others with apprehension more than it does Nina, is getting sprayed in the face with pepper spray and then running through an obstacle course afterward.

“I think I will do OK with that, I am not looking forward to it (necessarily) but I am not really nervous about it,” she said.

“Other people have

had it done and survived, I am sure I will be fine. But I am sure it will not be the most enjoyable thing I have ever done either.”

Nina’s first week at the academy included meeting her roommate, Sarah from Manhattan. Although Nina does not know her last name, that is no indication of how the two are hitting it off. Sarah has more law enforcement experience than Nina has.

“She’s kind of a good sounding board for any questions I might have,” she said.

The daily routine this week included a 7:45 a.m. line-up for drills, uniform inspections and gun draw practice. The rest of the days were filled with classes, an hour for lunch, and then classes that end between 5-5:30 p.m. Nina’s evenings consist of dinner and studying.

She said she got really lucky when it came to uniforms. Each student officer wears the attire from the department they work for. Her uniform includes tactical khaki pants and a polo shirt.

“A lot of people have to wear something more similar to what a state trooper wears,” she said.

There are an unusually high number of girls during this training period, according to Nina. The class includes a total of 67 students ranging from 21 to 50 years old. There are 14 females. She said there is a “brotherhood” that exists between all officers whether male or female.

“The staff is really accommodating and understanding that a lot of us are quite a ways from home and there are things that we will need that we might not necessarily have time to get,” she said.

The most surprising part of her first week, she said, is how strict the academy rules are.

Preparing for her first exam was somewhat overwhelming as well, she said. Not knowing the format the test would take and going over the lengthy Fourth Amendment, Nina said she had her work cut out for her.

“I am very proud of her,” Jared Froggatte said. “From what I know of my daughter she can handle herself in any situation that comes up.”

Dillow shares that confidence.

“She catches on quick,” he said. “She’s an intelligent woman and she’s done really well and that’s why we decided to go ahead and send her to the police academy as soon as possible and get her trained.”

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Calendar

Thursday-Little League meeting, 6 p.m.

City Hall Community Room; Monday-Cemetery Board meeting, City Hall Community Room, 7 p.m.; April 5-Lions Club, United Methodist Church basement; April 6-Community Church Missionary meeting, Church Annex, 1:30 p.m.; United Methodist Women, Fellowship Hall, 7 p.m.; County bus to Garnett, phone 24 hours before you need a ride, 785-4484410 any weekday; 7-Recycle trailer on Cherry Street near City Hall area Friday, leaves Tuesday

School Calendar

Monday-Dental Screenings, all day; April 6-Middle School tract at Pleasanton, 3:30 p.m.; High School track at Eureka, all day;

Meal Site

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April 12-Working Wonders CWC, 7 p.m. at the church. All women are welcome. April 14-Good Friday Services for all churches at 7 p.m at our church. April 16-Easter-regular service

Cowboy Church

fruit cup; Monday-taco salad, lettuce, red beans and rice, tortilla chips, plums; April 5-Friendship Day-roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, roll, peanut butter pie. Phone 620-852-3437 for meal reservations.

Christian Church

Scripture presented Sunday was Revelation 4:1-11. Pastor Andrew Zoll’s sermon topic:”Worship: The Ultimate Hits.” Cross training classes are at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday; worship service at 10:45; men’s Bible study at 7 a.m. Tuesday.

April 9-Palm Sunday;

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Highlighting John 17:20-23, Jesus’ prayer for believer. On Sunday, Pastor Jon Petty told the crowd Jesus gave the same glory to us as believers that God gave to Him; therefore believers should be united in their calling.

The praise team, Cindy Beckman, Terri Louk, Billy Beckman and Eldon Wright, led in worship music prior to the service. Following the service, Leo and Kathy Ramsey led the Sunday School class.

Northcott Church

Announcement: April 9-Board meeting following church services; Birthday-April 11-Dany

Williams; All SundaysBible Study, 9:28 a.m.; Worship, 10:28; All Wednesday evenings Bible Study canceled through winter.

Prayer Focus-President Trump and Vice President Pence, Pastor Search, Cherokee County education and liberal media. Contact Leon LaGalle, 629-228-2844.

UMC

Scripture presented Sunday at the United Methodist Church was 1 Samuel 16:1-13, Romans 5: 1-11 and John 4:4-42.

Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon,” Open Your Eyes.”

Cleanup Week

Anderson County will have free dumping at the landfill during April 1014 and Sept. 11-15 this year. This will be open to Colony also.

City Cleanup for Colony has not yet been set.

Jolly Dozen

Eight members attended the March 20 meeting of the Jolly Dozen Club. Charlene Tinsley served as hostess. Roll call was answered with the name of a spring flower. Discussion was held on the forthcoming Colony Day which is Sept. 2 this year. Debbie Wools received the hostess gift, a Shamrock plant. Charlene served lime pie. The April 17 meeting will be hosted by Dixie Ward at the City Hall Community Room.

Colony Native

Colony had a native (Merle Smith) who amused Colony with his barnstorming feats in the early days of the airplane. In 1977 he was named to the Aviation Pioneers Hall of Fame.

Smith built his first plane in a Colony field in a 1923 and was an airplane mechanic until

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1932, when he joined the Inman Brothers Flying Circus. In 1937 he went to Cordova, Alaska and formed Cordova Airlines. He was president of the airline until 1967 when it merged with Alaska Airlines.

I had the pleasure of knowing his mother (Mary Smith). She was a correspondent of the Iola Register for years.

Around Town

Some of the families of Kendal and Christy spent the Crest school break by skiing in the Colorado mountains.

Iola will open its first Farmer’s Market April 13 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the southeast corner downtown square. Don’t radishes, onions, spinach, sound good?

On May 2 they will open on Tuesdays 8:3011:30 a.m. at the old Country Mart parking lot on State Street.

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the poor, disabled and elderly so that it would cover up to 180,000 additional adults who aren’t disabled. It now heads to conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.

The collapse of efforts

by President Donald Trump and top Republicans in the U.S. House to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act buoyed supporters of expanding Medicaid in Kansas.

But the move’s success in the GOP-leaning state also reflected elections last year that brought

more moderates and liberals into the Legislature.

“I’m ecstatic! I am, and I’m high on happiness,” said state Sen. Barbara Bollier, a moderate Kansas City-area Republican and retired anesthesiologist. “The citizens of this state took a stand in November and said we wanted change, and now you’re seeing it.”

But lawmakers on both sides of the debate expect Brownback to veto the measure. He has long been a vocal critic of Obama’s health care law and endorsed a

plan pursued by Trump and GOP congressional leaders. The term-limited governor declared in January that expanding Medicaid under the law would be “airlifting onto the Titanic,” though he hasn’t said whether he would veto this bill.

The failure of Republicans in Washington to quickly repeal Obama’s health care law has created speculation that more states will consider Medicaid expansion.

Democratic governors are pursuing expansions in North Carolina and Virginia; an initiative is on the ballot in

November in Maine.

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that he will give its Republicans another chance at passing a health care overhaul but did not offer a timeline.

“I don’t think it makes any sense to jump on expanding Medicaid when the rules could change significantly,” said Kansas Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, a conservative Kansas City-area Republican.

The bill would not have passed the Kansas Legislature last year. At least eight new state senators replaced Republi-

cans who were likely to have opposed expanding Medicaid. In the House, the same could be said for at least 20 members.

But the 25-14 vote Tuesday in the Senate was two votes shy of the two-thirds majority necessary to override a veto. The House approved the bill last month on an 81-44 vote , three votes short of a two-thirds majority.

Obama’s Affordable Care Act encouraged states to increase the number of people eligible for Medicaid by promising to pay most of the costs. Thirty-one states, including some led by GOP governors, have expanded Medicaid.

Kansas critics argued that expanding Medicaid still would be too expensive for the state, which is facing projected budget shortfalls of more than $1 billion through June 2019 following massive personal income tax cuts championed by Brownback.

Kansas’ Medicaid program covers about 377,000 poor, disabled and elderly residents, but poor adults under

65 who aren’t disabled and don’t have children aren’t eligible. Brownback’s administration projected the extra costs of expanding the program at $66 million total for the state’s 2018 and 2019 budgets.

“There’s no question in my mind that this would be a huge cost to the state,” said Shawn Sullivan, the governor’s budget director.

But the Kansas Hospital Association projects a net gain for the state, arguing in part that an influx of federal dollars would ripple through the state’s economy.

Hospitals were a crucial part of the lobbying for the bill; supporters believe the expansion would prevent some hospitals from shuttering.

“What I saw were people who couldn’t afford insurance using emergency rooms, not getting adequate care,” said freshman Republican state Sen. Ed Berger, a former central Kansas community college president who led his local hospital’s board. “Those hospitals were having to absorb a lot of that.”

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A young Bill Mentzer served in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953 in the Korean War. Once safely home, Mentzer embarked on a career of farming and banking including stints at Piqua State Bank, Humboldt National Bank and Allen County State Bank. Today, Mentzer, 86, and his wife, Marjorie, are enjoying a well-earned retirement.

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The Montreal Guitar Trio will perform a wide variety of musical genres.

Winner of the 2011 Opus Award for “concert of the year” in the Jazz & World Music category, the Montreal Guitar Trio has released seven albums, including “Der Prinz” on Analekta label, which earned him a nomination at ADISQ 2014 for the “Instrumental Album” of the year.

The group’s most recent release “Danzas,” pays tribute to the great composers of Spanish music, including Paco de Lucia and Manuel de Falla.

The trio, composed of guitarists Marc Morin, Glenn Lévesque and Sébastien Dufour, has given hundreds of concerts in some of the most prestigious venues across North America, Europe, New Zealand and Australia, including the legendary Con-

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The trio has collaborated and shared the stage with world-renowned ensembles and artists, such as the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Jorane and Solorazaf.

Their most memorable collaboration to date was, without a doubt, with the California Guitar Trio (CGT), when both ensembles joined forces to give an unforgettable concert, brilliantly performing some of the greatest rock classics from The Beatles, Radiohead, David Bowie, a few “spaghetti western” themes

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Burton: Barriers cleared

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rector. The tower is thought to have been built in the 1960s, and rests on a concrete pad behind the building, protected by security fencing topped by razor wire.Lewis assured towers erected today had a lifespan of 75 to100 years.

Lewis said a new tower might meet immediate needs at a height of 120 to 130 feet, but replacing the one in use with another of 150 feet “would leave the top for something you may need later.” He also noted Hayden’s work is turn-key, meaning it would do all construction, from the 20-by-20-foot base sunk well into the ground for stability to the erection of the tower and fitting antenna and wiring to it.

Because of the financial magnitude of the project, bids will be sought once all specifications are in hand, said County Counselor Alan Weber. Hayden will be a bidder.

Before many years, a second tower reaching 480 feet is planned near the county landfill southeast of LaHarpe to give greater distance and clarity to radio and other transmis-

skills are not all that Burton can boast of. She does most of her own car repairs.

“I do my own brakes, change batteries, do my own oil changes. I have done as much as tear engines apart and put them back together,” she said.

A lot of Burton’s automotive background stems from her dad, Charles Reagan, Santa Maria, Calif., and her grandpa, Clifford Slawson, Pismo Beach, Calif.

“Back when I was about 9 years old I started helping my dad work on his 1963 Ford pickup,” Burton said.“I always followed my grandpa around and helped him do stuff like that, too.”

Burton grew up in California and first moved to Iola in 1983. She has lived in Ohio, Indiana and Arizona since then.

“Now I am back,” she said of living in Iola once again for more than three years.

Schlotterbeck said hiring women is not new to O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. He said he recently attended a corporate event in which approximately one third of the managers were female. That accommodating attitude, however, has not always been shared with Burton.

“Some of them, until they get to know me, are kind-of iffy because I am a woman, but

Allen County’s communications tower on North State Street is covered with rust and corrosion. COURTESY PHOTO sions. A repeater antenna positioned 370 feet above ground was put in service a few years ago at LaHarpe, and opened parts of southeast Allen County to calls from the Iola tower had had difficulty reaching.

No estimate of construction date or cost of the second tower near the landfill was made.

If bid specifications are ready for distribution in time for a mid-May construction start, the new 911 tower should be operational by late July.

COMMISSIONERS designated April as Child Abuse and Neglect Month in the county, at the behest

of Aimee Daniels, CASA director. Representatives of Hope Unlimited also were on hand.

Daniels said 192 children were removed from homes in the 31st Judicial District — Allen, Neosho, Woodson and Wilson counties — in 2016 because of abusive situations, including 70 in Allen County. CASA volunteers were assigned to represent 67 children, and between 250 and 300 children are in care in the 31st District at any one time.

Donita Garner, Child Advocacy Center Coordinator for Hope Unlimited, said her group handled 60 cases of sexual abuse of children last year.

Dont tell me I can’t do something. I will prove you wrong.

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once they realize that I know what I am talking about they will even come ask me with questions,” Burton said.

O’Reilly’s openness toward hiring females also does not guarantee how male customers respond to her, she said.

“Most of the older men, they have a hard time with a woman being in the auto parts business. On multiple occasions I have had to literally prove myself with my knowledge to win them over,” she said. She does, however, get a favorable response from female customers.

“They actually like it that they can talk to another woman who knows what she is talking about,” Burton said.

Burton said one of her daughters, Lindsay Eisenburg of Phoenix, also loves to work on cars.

The advice that Burton passes down to any female wishing to work in a role traditionally thought of a man’s is, “If you can do it, set your mind to it and it can be done,” she said.

G&W: County encouraged to assist grocery chain owners Continued from A1

hope all three of you will as well. If the store went down, it would be a real blow.”

An hour later commissioners said they would enter negotiations to help G&W overcome a $500,000 difference, announced in Monday’s Register, between what the company budgeted for the store’s construction and the initial bid.

Iola Industries will be financial partner with the county in negotiations, although limits of what the county and the economic development group might contribute were not made public.

Comment on support limits occurred during two executive sessions covering 25 minutes, protected under provisions of discussing “trade secrets of a corporation.”

In open session, Commissioner Tom Williams said he was not eager to give anymore support “unless absolutely necessary. I’m very reluctant.” He also wanted all discussions in open session, but lat-

er deferred to requests for secret consideration of how county and Iola Industries might proceed.

The county sold a parcel of land on the old Allen County Hospital site to G&W for $20,000, after it had spent between $250,000 and $300,000 to maintain the structure while efforts were made to sell or lease it, and then to have it razed and land leveled.

All three commissioners — Jerry Daniels and Jim Talkington in addition to Williams — said they had received numerous telephone calls after a story in Monday’s Register left some doubt about G&W’s path forward. That’s when the company announced the $500,000 over-budget bid for construction.

Daniels said most of his calls favored the county lending a financial hand. Talkington said his were split, about 12-to-12 on the issue of tax money being used to encourage G&W any further.

Daniels also put to rest an argument that the hospital was razed

specifically for G&W. “Not true,” he said. “We were spending $125,000 a year for utilities, insurance and maintenance.”

“You tried for two years to get rid of it,” said David Toland, Thrive Allen County executive director. “It was an albatross when you finally demolished it.”

He also pointed out that G&W was in the habit of buying older stores and remodeling them, which presented a different dynamic than building from scratch as was the plan for Iola, and caught the company off-guard.

“We all know if you remodel a bathroom, by the time you’re done it’s going to cost more than you planned for,” Toland laid out. “The same was true of Eastgate (the apartment complex built on the north edge of the ACH property). It came in 35 percent over budget and had to be cut back.”

John Masterson, president of Allen Community College, mentioned similar occurrences at the college, and said construction in rural

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“It’s been a learning curve (in local construction costs),” Toland added. “G&W was surprised; we were surprised.”

He pointed out that to be competitive in the market for new business and industry, a community had to accept financial facts of life in the wooing process.

“Chanute provided $5.1 million in incentives for Orizon (Aerostructures), and $196,000 for the travel center,” at the south edge of Chanute along U.S. 169.

Toland also cited a professional study that showed Iola shoppers and those living within four miles, which includes Gas, were spending $9.7 million a year for groceries outside of Iola. “Part of that is going to Moon’s in Humboldt, which is good, but a big chunk is leaving Allen County,” mainly to Chanute.

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Jim Gilpin of Community National Bank reiterated that G&W abandoning its business model of remodeling older stores with a new one in Iola “was a leap of faith” on its part. “We have to be visionary.” The store “will increase sales tax (collections) and will be paying property taxes in 10 years. Look at Russell Stover, it’s paying $500,000 a year in property and personal property taxes.”

“People aren’t lined up to come to rural areas and I see this as a springboard” for economic development in Allen County, said Bill Maness, Thrive’s new economic development director. “The residual effect could be profound. Anytime you talk development, the word grocery store comes up.”

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Having a G&W store here will have “massive economic impact,” Toland said. “It will bring 35 jobs and reverse the trend” that has seen stores closing downtown, and may be a catalyst for other development. “We have 12 new apartments on the site and G&W is the last piece of the puzzle.”

After listening to comments, Williams said, “I have no problem in giving some help. They (G&W) have us over a barrel,” with Iola Industries having invested in the apartments in part as a result of G&W announcing a new store.

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Letter to the editor Dear Editor,

If there is a petition to show support for the Bowlus, then the first seven names on that petition need to be ours—the Bowlus Trustees.

We are afraid that there is a big misunderstanding about what the Bowlus Trustees are doing with the Bowlus petition and asking the judge for guidance. It has nothing to do with the defeat of the school bond — the Bowlus is NOT our scapegoat. The whole reason the Trustees are doing this is because we support the Bowlus and want to ensure that it continues to be the treasure and benefit it has been for the last 50 years for the coming 150 years plus.

We are asking for guidance to direct the Bowlus to ensure that it is a Fine Arts Center for more than 150 years from now. The world has changed a lot in the last 50 years, and as we move forward it is sure to change more. Any entity that wants to be successful in the future must be able to adapt and change. The future years of the Bowlus may not look like the last 50 years, but in order for it to thrive that change may be necessary. We are positioning ourselves to make informed decisions in the future, not simply to resign as Trustees and abandon the Bowlus.

In preparing the current Bowlus petition, Trustees had meetings with the commu-

nity and several Trustees met repeatedly with the Bowlus Commission and Bowlus Director Susan Raines over the last year to get their input and support. We had a meeting with city and county officials that was open to the public.

In all of those meetings it was made very clear that with the uncertainty in Topeka over school finance that it would be in everyone’s best interest to simply know the facts as to what the “rules” are in regard to the Bowlus so as not to put the Bowlus in jeopardy.

The Trustees did not want to do anything that would go against the will of Thomas

Bowlus. If the Trustees did not care about the Bowlus, then they could have just taken whatever action they wanted to and tried to interpret their duties on their own. However, the smarter and best approach is for the Bowlus Trustees to ask the court to give them and future Trustees direction and guidance so that the Trustees are acting in and properly carrying out their fiduciary obligation to the trust and its beneficiaries.

Additionally the court, when the trust was initially litigated in the 60’s, anticipated that there may be a time when future interpretation may be needed. That is

what we, as Trustees, are doing.

Are the current trustees, who are unpaid volunteers and also school board members, supporters of the Bowlus? Yes, and that is why we have taken the huge amount of time, effort, and expense to put a petition before the judge to ask for guidance on the Bowlus. As elected officials it is our responsibility to do the best we can for now and to provide for the future. In presenting the petition we feel we are doing the very best we can to get guidance and direction for the future of the Bowlus to ensure that it remains

the wonderful asset that it is.

In your editorial on this subject on September 2, 2016 you stated: “NO MATTER how the court rules, it’s time for the broader community to assume funding for the Bowlus and to look at it not so much as a schoolhouse but as a municipal auditorium.”

We support that view and greatly appreciate the City’s contribution as well as Allen County’s — who currently have only agreed to one year for $100,000, but we hope they can continue to provide the Bowlus with that funding.

We would hope that the community would appreciate our foresight and effort in looking forward and doing the best to provide for the future. We have the same goals, we live in the same community, we are your neighbors and friends, and we want what is best for our kids, the schools, the Bowlus, our community, and our future. In doing this, we are trying to better prepare and provide for the Bowlus and its future.

Thank you, The Bowlus Trustees/ USD257 Board of Education Members Tony Leavitt, President Doug Dunlap, Vice President Mary Apt Darrel Catron Buck Quincy Jen Taylor Dan Willis

Brownback’s chance to do what is right

Amusement park regulations needed Kansas made important strides last week in the effort to make amusement park rides safer.

A House committee held two days of hearings on a bill that would tighten inspection requirements for amusement rides. The legislation was introduced following the tragic death of Caleb Schwab at the Schlitterbahn Water Park last year.

The bill would require an annual inspection of permanent rides by a qualified inspector. Temporary rides would need to be inspected 30 days prior to use. The

proposal also tightens insurance requirements for rides and record-keeping standards.

Some ride operators and members of the Legislature said lawmakers should avoid “undue” regulation of amusement rides. We see nothing in the bill, sponsored by the Committee on Federal and State Affairs, that would make it unreasonably difficult or expensive to operate rides safely.

Minor amendments may be in order, but the state House and Senate should put the bill on the gover-

nor’s desk before adjournment.

We remain concerned about oversight of amusement ride design. Rides might be maintained and operated correctly, yet still be dangerous because of how they were constructed.

Congress should hold hearings on amusement ride design standards and oversight. A federal review of ride design remains an important goal.

There can be no excuse for another tragedy like the one at the Schlitterbahn park.

— The Kansas City Star

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29 — Clifford Clark, dean of the School of Business at the University of Kansas, has resigned there to become vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Binghampton, N.Y. 30 — Steven T. Avery, 22, of Iola, was discovered shot to death with

two other persons in a car two miles south of Ottawa, yesterday. Also found shot dead in the car were Avery’s mother, Mrs. Hazel Avery of Lawrence, and a friend, Gary Longfellow, also of Lawrence. Avery was employed at FEEM Products, Inc. in Iola. His wife, Diane, is employed at Intercollegiate Press. They have a one-year-old daugh-

ter. The family lived in a trailer south of town. The Averys moved to Iola only a few months ago from Lawrence. Delbert Longfellow, Gary’s father, said Mrs. Avery had asked him to accompany her to pick up Gary who had been hitchhiking to Iola but became stranded in Richmond. There have been no arrests made.

A measure to expand Medicaid coverage in Kansas will be laid on Gov. Sam Brownback’s desk.

The bill, which drew bipartisan support in each house of the Legislature, passed its final test in the Senate on Tuesday, 25-14, after first-round approval in the chamber on Monday, 25-13.

Sen. Caryn Tyson, who represents Allen County, was absent on Monday, and then cast a “no” vote on Tuesday.

Advantage is up to 180,000 additional non-disabled Kansans — elderly and poor — will have medical coverage under provisions of the Affordable Care Act. That the bill has advanced this far shows that the majority of legislators recognize that helping the poor, elderly and disabled is the morally correct thing to do.

Trump’s decision to pull the Republican health care bill as a replacement for the ACA — or Obamacare, if you prefer — gave Medicaid expansion in Kansas legs.

Had Freedom Caucus Republicans in D.C. not turned a thumbs down on the GOP substitute, the ACA would have been largely defunded, and Medicaid expansion severely threatened.

That there are Kansans who live day-to-day in fear an illness or accident will plunge them into poverty, has gone on too long. They could have had coverage starting in 2010, but Brownback, with a legion of ultra-conservatives at his beck and call, made feeble excuses for not taking advantage of the ACA provision to expand Medicaid, almost entirely on the fed’s nickel. His bullheadedness became legendary.

A second and also extremely important handicap to not having expanded Medicaid is that Kansas hospitals have been adversely affected financially. They lost millions of dollars when bills went unpaid, many of which would have been if adequate Medic-

aid reimbursement was available.

Public hospitals legally are required to treat whoever walks in the door suffering ailment or injury. Often, those who would qualify for Medicaid are in no position financially to pay more than a meager portion of costs, if that.

When Mercy Hospital in Independence closed in October 2015, one of the reasons was its revenue stream was drying up, in large part due to lack of Medicaid compensation.

THE NEXT hurdle is what Brownback will do.

He has been firm in his opposition to making Medicaid coverage available to more Kansans, and, as he did with the effort to restore income tax cuts of 2012-13, Brownback has said he would veto this bill.

Kansas Medicaid currently covers 377,000 poor, disabled and elderly people, but excludes poor adults under 65 who aren’t disabled and don’t have children at home.

Brownback’s recent reaction, the Associated Press reported, was to write with other Republican governors to congressional leaders last week that expanding Medicaid under Obama’s policies would move the program away from its “core mission” of helping the truly vulnerable — as if someone 64 years old and just existing wasn’t vulnerable.

If he does veto the bill, the House is likely to muster the 84 votes — of 125 members — necessary to override, just as it did earlier with the income tax bill.

The Senate’s approval margin of 24-15 means three additional members of the chamber would have to join the 24 voting for Medicaid expansion for a veto override.

The better approach would be for Brownback to sign the bill, or at the very least let it sit unsigned for 10 days and then become law on its own accord.

— Bob Johnson

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Kansas congressional candidates face off in televised forum

By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Democrat James Thompson advocated Tuesday for an impartial panel to investigate allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. election, while Republican Ron Estes portrayed the world as “a dangerous place” without addressing the issue posed during a televised forum in the race to fill the House seat vacated by CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

The April 11 vote will be the first congressional election since President Donald Trump’s victory.

Republicans have held the House seat for more than two decades in a district that Trump won last November with 60 percent of votes cast.

The forum hosted by KWCH-TV comes after the revelation last week that the FBI is investigating possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and associates with the alleged Russian attack on

the presidential election.

Estes, the state’s treasurer, tried to deflect the question on how to best investigate those allegations by asserting that both presidential campaigns, as well as members of Congress, had contact with the Russians.

Libertarian Chris Rockhold argued for open communication with all foreign leaders, not just the ones the country agreed with.

“We need to make sure that our country is secure,” Thompson said.

“That means not just the borders, that means making sure other countries are not trying to influence our elections and having an undue influence on our different branches of government — including our president.”

Republicans have represented the district that encompasses the state’s largest city of Wichita since Todd Tiahrt unseated veteran Democratic Rep. Dan Glickman in 1994. Pompeo won the state’s 4th District seat in 2010, when

13 states urge court to OK Trump travel ban RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A group of 12 state attorneys general and one governor is backing President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban targeting six predominantly Muslim countries, telling a federal appeals court Monday that the Republican acted lawfully in the interest of national security.

The states are urging the 4th U.S. Circuit Court

more with less — that’s how you engineer real change.”

Thompson, a civil rights attorney and Army veteran, talked about growing up in poverty and recounted how he was homeless at one point in his youth. A

oral arguments in the Maryland case for May 8.

The administration urged the court in a brief also filed Monday to put the lower court ruling on hold and let the executive order take effect while its appeal is pending. Lawyers for Trump said the people named in the case haven’t shown they will suffer “substantial harm” and that the nationwide injunction blocking the ban is “fatally overbroad.”

teacher’s interest made him realize the importance of education.

The candidates also diverged on the issue of immigrant issues, particularly given the implications to agricultural communities in Kansas. Estes cited the

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Citizens from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are temporarily barred from entering the country under the order, though there are exceptions.

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The states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and West Virginia. Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi also joined.

of Appeals to overturn a lower court judge’s ruling that blocked part of the president’s revised executive order. The states say the administration’s action is not a “pretext for religious discrimination” and does not violate the constitution.

“The Executive Order’s temporary pause in entry by nationals from six countries and in the refugee program neither mentions any religion nor depends on whether affected aliens are Muslim,” the states write in the brief with the Richmond, Virginia-based court. “Thus, the Executive Order is emphatically not a ‘Muslim Ban.’” The states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and West Virginia. Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi also joined.

The appeal stems from a ruling from a federal judge in Maryland earlier this month. That ruling and a separate one in Hawaii were victories for civil liberties groups and advocates for immigrants and refugees, who argued that Trump’s temporary ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim countries violated the Constitution.

The Trump administration argued that the revised executive order,

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High School Softball: Burlington 5, Iola 4; Iola 11, Burlington 4

Fillies deposit trio of homers in opener against Burlington

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

Iola senior first baseman Riley Murry connects on a pitch against Burlington on Tuesday in Burlington. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

H.S. Baseball:

Cubs crush Neodesha in opener

HUMBOLDT — It is difficult to imagine a more dominant start to the season than the one Humboldt’s baseball team enjoyed on Tuesday at home against Neodesha.

Game one starter Daylon Splane allowed a double to Neodesha’s second batter of the game, but after that the Cub pitchers didn’t allow another base runner for the entire doubleheader.

As dominant as the pitchers were, the Humboldt offense may have been even better.

Both games ended because of the 15-run rule after three innings as Humboldt picked up a pair of 15-0 victories.

In game one, Cub freshman Conor Haviland was the offensive star by going 3-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored.

Splane pitched all three innings and allowed only the one base runner while striking out six.

In game two, Lance Daniels drove in five runs while going two-for-two with a double and a triple. Rayce Hoepker also had two hits and scored three runs while notching a pair of RBI. Hoepker pitched two perfect innings in game two and Wyatt Seufert struck out the side in the third inning to end it.

Humboldt’s next game is at Erie on Thursday.

BURLINGTON — Last season, the Fillies hit one home run all season and that came in the substate game off the bat of Jadyn Sigg.

In the first game of 2017, the Fillies have already tripled that total.

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Iola senior first baseman Coleson Wiggin squares up a Burlington delivery during Tuesday’s season opener in Burlington. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

PITCHER’S PARADISE

Mustangs split with Wildcats in low-scoring season opener

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

BURLINGTON — The conditions in Burlington were not exactly conducive to hitting on Tuesday night and that was reflected in the scores as the Mustangs and Wildcats exchanged 3-2 victories in their seasonopening doubleheader.

“We weren’t playing our best base-

Royals relief pitcher Peter Moylan throws in the eighth inning against the White Sox during spring training in Surprise, Ariz., on Tuesday. The Royals won, 7-4. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

2017 Royals look to rebound star outfielder having signed a new long-term contract.

Both fell back to earth in disappointing fashion.

The Royals stumbled through a dismal July that left them in no man’s land, too far See ROYALS | Page B3

ball, so it was huge to at least pick up one game,” Iola senior Ben Cooper said.

Iola pushed across one run in the first inning of game one, but Burlington responded with two runs before Iola sophomore Derek Bycroft could settle into his rhythm in the first inning. Then the conditions and pitchSee MUSTANGS | Page B6

College Basketball: 2017 Associated Press All-American Team

Mason gets unanimous All-American selection

By JIM O’CONNELL The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals and Alex Gordon were both flying high a year ago, the team coming off its first World Series title in three decades and the

Gardner evidently wanted to prove that her first blast was no fluke because she repeated the feat in the third inning with another roundtripper.

The Fillies’ power wasn’t relegated to just Gardner. Sigg came to the plate two batters

High School Baseball: Burlington 3, Iola 2; Iola 3, Burlington 2

Major League Baseball: Royals Preview

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

Junior third baseman Chloe Gardner — the second batter to come to the plate in the first inning — took one for a ride over the left field fence to open the scoring.

“I hit it and I was like, ‘That looks really high in the air,’ and then I was like, ‘Oh my, I actually hit that.’” Gardner said. “It was pretty awesome.”

Frank Mason III was a last-minute recruit for Kansas. He turned into the Jayhawks’ latest All-American.

The senior guard was the only unanimous selection to the 2016-17 AP All-America team Tuesday, receiving all first-team votes from the same 65-member national media panel that selects the weekly AP Top 25.

“I love the kid and I think he knows how I feel about him, but I’ve never been more proud — not that he’s won a postseason award — but he’s done everything that he’s supposed to do,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.

“He’s been a great teammate, he’s been tough as nails, he’s worked his butt off, he’s loved by everyone in the academic departments, graduated, and to see him reap these benefits after putting in so much time is an unbelievable honor.”

The rest of the All-America team includes guards Josh Hart of Villanova and Lonzo Ball of UCLA, plus forwards Caleb Swanigan of Purdue and Justin Jackson of North Carolina. Votes were based on the regular season and conference tournaments.

Mason averaged 20.8 points, 4.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists while shooting 48.7 percent from 3-point range.

“My goals were always just

Kansas guard Frank Mason III (0) puts up a shot after a foul on West Virginia forward Esa Ahmad (23) in overtime, Feb. 13 at Allen Fieldhouse. LAW-

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Royals: Key players look for bounce-back season in 2017

the ninth? Joakim Soria needs to bounce back after a frustrating season, while youngster Matt Strahm has the makings of the next strong-armed superstar.

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out of contention to make a serious run at the division title yet not far enough out that they began selling off. And the result was an 81-81 record and third-place finish in the AL Central that left nobody content.

Gordon was already struggling in late May when he broke his wrist in a collision with third baseman Mike Moustakas, who wound up missing the rest of the year with a torn ACL. Gordon eventually returned, but hit just .220 with 17 homers and 40 RBIs. Now, team and player are hoping for big bounce-back years.

“You have to learn to deal with failure,” Gordon said. “Be a man about it. Look yourself in the mirror and keep working hard.”

Many view this season as the Royals’ last, best chance to chase a division crown, at least for the next few years.

Moustakas, first baseman Eric Hosmer, shortstop Alcides Escobar and several others so instrumental in dragging a moribund franchise to the pinnacle of baseball are due to hit free agency next offseason, which means their window to contend may last just one more year.

Or even a few more months, if they’re out of contention by the trad-

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POWER SURGE: Kansas City has relied on defense and small ball to win the past few years, but look for an uptick in homers this season.

Soler has flashed some big potential to drive the ball, and new DH Brandon Moss comes with a reputation for hitting it out — and striking out.

The Kansas City Royals’ Brandon Moss, left, is congratulated by Alcides Escobar after hitting a fourth-inning home run against the Chicago White Sox during spring training in Surprise, Ariz., on Tuesday. The Royals won, 7-4. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS ing deadline.

The Royals have made some moves this offseason to address that looming possibility, trading All-Star closer Wade Davis for outfielder Jorge Soler (currently out with a strained oblique), and shipping speedy outfielder Jarrod Dyson to Seattle for pitcher Nate Karns. Davis and Dyson also were due to hit free agency, and Kansas City got in return two players who will likely contribute for the foreseeable future.

“We don’t buy into

the assumption that our window is going to close on our team,” general manager Dayton Moore said. “Rosters do change.

You’ve got to learn to manage change effectively.”

What no one envisioned was the car crash that killed young pitcher Yordano Ventura in the Dominican Republic.

The Royals saw Ventura as a piece of their starting rotation for years to come, and his death just prior to spring training shook the organization to the core.

But that core has been to a pair of World Series, and remains one of the most tight-knit in baseball. And that’s why expectations are again bright as opening day approaches.

“These guys really enjoy playing with each other. They cherish every game they play together,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “Do I expect us to bounce back?

Yeah, absolutely.”

THE ROTATION: Inconsistent starting pitching was the biggest

downfall of the Royals last season, and as a result, the rotation looks vastly different this year.

Danny Duffy will serve as an anchor, followed by veteran Ian Kennedy and Jason Vargas. Newcomers Jason Hammel and Karns will round it out.

THE BULLPEN: Davis has been one of the game’s best closers the past few years, but Kelvin Herrera showed late last season that he can handle the job. The bigger question is who will get the ball to him in

ROOKIE WATCH: Infielder Raul Mondesi Jr. got a taste of the big leagues last year and was soundly overmatched.

But nobody has been better in spring training, and the shortstop — or second baseman — of the future will be counted on to help this season, even if not right away.

CRUCIAL STRETCH: The Royals begin the season on April 3 with a sixgame road trip to Minnesota and Houston, and getting off to a good start is crucial. But the key stretch could be in midJuly, when the Rangers, Tigers and White Sox visit Kansas City. If the Royals are still in contention after that point, they may go all-in at the trade deadline in pursuit of a third World Series title.

Mason: 2017 AP All-American Team Continued from B1

to be successful as a team, do whatever I can do to make sure we’re successful and really change it at the defensive end and get after it,” Mason said. “Yeah, that’s pretty cool to see my name alongside those great KU players, it means a lot to me, but nothing would be possible without my teammates and coaching staff.”

Mason is the first AllAmerican from Kansas since Thomas Robinson in 2012.

Hart, a senior who was key to Villanova’s 2016 national championship, averaged 18.9 points and 6.5 rebounds for the Wildcats. He received 62 first-team votes.

“It was definitely a goal,” Hart said of the All-America recognition. “Now that it happened, it’s humbling. A great honor. I’ve got to thank everyone that voted for me.”

Coach Jay Wright

called Hart “the perfect combination of talent, hard work, intelligence and humility.”

“He never let any single year’s accomplishment deter him from getting better,” Wright said.

“I think he’s one of the most complete basketball players in the country.”

The sophomore Swanigan led the nation with 26 double-doubles and was the only player in Division I to average 18 points (18.5) and 12 rebounds (12.6) while shooting 53.4 percent, 43.1 percent on 3s.

“He’s a very knowledgeable guy, now he’s been through it in terms of experience, understanding scouting reports and those types of things,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said. “He really gets it. I think he really separated himself from a lot of people with the consistent play.”

Ball, who has already declared for the NBA draft, took the country by storm as a freshman. He averaged 14.6 points, 6.1 rebounds and 7.9 assists while putting UCLA back on the national map in a hurry.

He received 54 first-team votes.

Coach Steve Alford called Ball “very deserving of the recognition.”

“He’s been special for us all year,” Alford said.

“He’s been an incredible teammate, and everything that he’s done has been contagious throughout our team.”

The last All-American from UCLA was freshman Kevin Love in 2008.

Jackson, who received 24 first-team votes, helped lead the Tar Heels to a second straight Final Four. The junior averaged 18.1 points and 4.6 rebounds this season.

“He’s a better player overall,” North Carolina coach Roy Williams said. “He’s better defen-

sively, better rebounder, he can score the basket and he’s just had a year for us.

“He’s been the leader of our team on the court, on the stat sheet.

I couldn’t be happier for him because he’s really got it the old-fashioned way,” Williams said.

“He’s worked, he’s put in the sweat.”

Nigel Williams-Goss of Gonzaga led the second team and was joined by fellow juniors Dillon Brooks of Oregon and Johnathan Motley of Baylor, sophomore Luke Kennard of Duke and freshman Malik Monk of Kentucky.

The third team included freshmen Josh Jackson of Kansas, Markelle Fultz of Washington and Lauri Markkanen of Arizona, junior Bonzie Colson of Notre Dame and sophomore Ethan Happ of Wisconsin.

There has been at least one unanimous AllAmerica pick the last four seasons.

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Fillies: Gardner hits a pair of homers, Sigg hits one Continued from B1

Box Scores SOFTBALL GAME 1 Burlington 5, Iola 4 Iola Player ab r h bi Sydney Wade 4 1 2 0 Chloe Gardner 4 2 2 2 Riley Murry 4 0 1 1 Jadyn Sigg 3 1 2 2 Sierra Snavely 4 0 2 0 Mia Aronson 4 0 1 0 Madi Holloway 3 0 0 0 Scout Rush 3 0 0 0 Carly Cescon 3 0 0 0 Iola 102 000 1 -- 4 Burlington 000 311 x -- 5 Pitching Player ip h r er b b so Snavely 6 7 5 3 0 1 HR - Gardner 2 (2), Sigg 1 (1). SB - Wade. ERR Gardner, Aronson, Murry.

GAME 2 Iola 11, Burlington 4 Iola Player ab r h bi Sydney Wade 5 3 3 0 Chloe Gardner 4 3 3 1 Riley Murry 5 3 3 3 Jadyn Sigg 4 1 3 2 Sierra Snavely 4 0 2 1 Mia Aronson 4 0 0 1 Madi Holloway 3 0 0 0 Kendra Sprague 2 0 0 0 Carly Cescon 3 1 0 0 Iola 003 411 2 -- 11 Burlington 301 000 0 -- 4 Pitching Player ip h r er b b k Snavely 7 7 4 2 0 5 2B - Gardner, Sigg, Murry, Wade. SB - Murry, Gardner. ERR - Murry, Holloway.

BASEBALL GAME 1 Burlington 3, Iola 2 Iola Player ab r h bi Ben Cooper 3 0 0 0 Isaac Vink 4 1 1 0 Derek Bycroft 3 1 1 0 Coleson Wiggin 2 0 1 1 Ethan Tavarez 3 0 1 1 Blake Ashmore 2 0 0 0 Kane Rogers 3 0 0 0 Cal Leonard 3 0 0 0 Calvin Delich 2 0 0 0 Iola 100 001 0 -- 2 Burlington 200 000 1 -- 3 Pitching Player ip h r er b b k Bycroft 6 4 2 2 4 7 Tavarez 0.1 1 1 1 3 1 SB - Vink, Delich.

GAME 2 Iola 3, Burlington 2 Iola Player ab r h bi Ben Cooper 2 1 0 0 Isaac Vink 3 0 1 1 Derek Bycroft 4 0 1 0 Coleson Wiggin 1 0 0 1 Ethan Tavarez 3 0 0 1 Blake Ashmore 3 0 0 0 Brady Wiggin 3 0 0 0 Cal Leonard 1 1 0 0 Calvin Delich 2 1 0 0 Matt Karr 1 0 0 0 Iola 120 000 0 -- 3 Burlington 000 011 0 -- 2 Pitching Player ip h r er b b so Cooper 5 5 2 0 0 6 Grnwalt 1.1 0 0 0 2 1 Leonard 0.2 0 0 0 1 0 SB - Vink. ERR - Bycroft.

later in the third inning and launched a Burlington pitch over the right-center fence for her second home run in as many games — even if nine months separated the two games.

“I didn’t expect it to go over because Chloe had just hit two, so I was like, ‘There is no way,’” Sigg said.

Iola coach Chris Weide says the power doesn’t shock him because he knows how talented this year’s group is.

“I’m not surprised,” Weide said. “They are great athletes and it showed today.”

Unfortunately for the Fillies, all of their blasts were solo home runs and they built only a 3-0 lead.

After three shutout innings, Iola sophomore Sierra Snavely gave up three runs in the fourth and one each in the fifth and sixth innings.

Iola was able to get another run in the seventh on a Sigg RBI to cut the margin to 5-4, but that was as close as Iola would get as they suffered the onerun defeat.

“On defense, we might have had some first-game jitters and that goes for coaching, too,” Weide said. “I made a few mistakes and I told the girls that we are all going to make mistakes and we just have to pick it up next game and that is what we did.”

Game two didn’t have the offensive power display that game one provided for the Fillies, but the offense was more balanced and that allowed the run production to be even more potent as Iola cruised to an 11-4 victory.

“The best thing about these girls is how they fight every

The Fillies’ starters for game two in Burlington on Tuesday night gather around coach Chris Weide between innings. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA game. We picked it up in the second game and showed just how good we can be,” Weide said.

Snavely allowed Burlington to jump out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning, but the sophomore ace was stellar the rest of the game.

The Fillies racked up 14 hits in game two and they all came from the team’s top five hitters.

Sydney Wade, Riley Murry, Sigg and Gardner each had three hits apiece while Snavely had a pair.

“It is great to see that and it is exciting for everybody,” Weide said. “It builds everybody’s confidence... We have a supersolid top-six and it is one of those deals where if one of them is hitting, it is really contagious.”

No balls sailed over the fence in game two, but Wade, Murry, Sigg and Gardner each had a double to add to the day’s extra-base hit tally.

CATCHER BATTLE Scout Rush started behind the plate in game one while Kendra Sprague got the nod in game two.

Neither recorded a hit, but Weide saw positives from each player and he says the battle to replace

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“Scout does a good job catching and blocking, but we have to work a little bit on her throwing to

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We are going to continue to use two catchers for a while and work to figure

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Cause of blood-loss-induced anemia is elusive Dear Dr. Roach: My mother, who is now 81, has very low iron. She has to have iron infusions. The infusions last from six to eight weeks.

Afterward, the iron level is fine for a little while, and then she has to go back again. They have done several tests, including a colonoscopy and a bone marrow biopsy, but they don’t know why she is losing blood or where it is going. This has been going on for way too long. She also has said that her siblings have to take iron supplements, but she is the only one losing blood and having transfusions.

— V.C.D. Answer: I have seen people hospitalized with this condition because the blood loss is so much of a problem. It sounds like your mother’s blood loss isn’t quite that rapid, but here are some lessons I’ve learned from taking care of many people like your mother.

By far the most com-

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health mon place to lose blood is in the GI tract, but it can happen anywhere from the mouth to the anus. The colon is the first place to look, and sometimes the source of blood loss can be missed on the first colonoscopy, especially if the preparation wasn’t perfect. I don’t think they would have missed a cancer or a large polyp, but small abnormal connections between arteries and veins, called AV malformations, can bleed.

They might be a source of blood loss. Because the blood contains iron, the blood has to leave the body in order for iron levels to go down. A second colonoscopy may be necessary.

However, other parts of the GI tract can be

affected, especially the stomach, the small bowel and the liver and biliary tract. A bleeding scan, done with radioactively tagged red blood cells, can find small amounts of bleeding, but the bleeding has to be active at the time of the scan.

I’ve seen a few cases of nosebleeds causing this problem, when the blood went backward, down the esophagus, rather than out the nostrils.

Blood loss from the bladder is a rare cause.

Sometimes the problem is absorption. Several conditions can keep the body from absorbing iron, the most common of which is celiac disease. Given the family history, that might be worth testing for.

Dear Dr. Roach: Could you tell me the difference between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and COPD?— D.L. Answer: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a rare, but increasingly

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Boyfriend needs to think before judgement Dear Carolyn: I have been with my boyfriend for almost a year, and in many ways he is the best guy I’ve ever been with, but there is one recurring issue we’ve had. To make a long story short, we work for the same organization but different offices. We met during a threeday work trip and hooked up after spending a night at the bar. Two days later, he told me he was married but it was complicated; he didn’t wear a ring so I didn’t know. We went back home and didn’t talk again for almost a month.

During that month, he left his wife. During that month, an old “friend with benefits” had also come to town for a couple days that I hooked up with.

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in my life), changed my phone number, changed my email address, etc., but he still doesn’t trust me and brings this mistake up on an almost daily basis. I’ve offered to go to counseling with him but he doesn’t want to.

In every other way, we have a great relationship, and I feel like if we can just get past this issue, everything else would be perfect. Do you have any advice for us? — Trust Issues Trust Issues: If I can just get past the unremitting smell of raw sewage from the treatment plant next door, this would be my dream house.

If I can just get past his daily reminder that he thinks I’m a bad person just waiting for my

chance to cheat on him, this would be the best guy I’ve ever been with.

Please revoke your consent to be treated like dirt.

You don’t have a great relationship. You can’t, not when someone is fixated on your perceived deficit(s).

For the sake of argument, let’s say your leaving him is the jolt he needs to become permanently untroubled by your seeing someone else before you actually got into a relationship with him (ahem). You, then, will still have to reckon with his hypocrisy: His messing around with you motivated him to get out of his marriage to date you. Your messing around with benefits-guy motivated you to end that arrangement to date Mr. Ex-Married. Same thing, except that his was orders of magnitude worse.

Yet he not only carried this hypocrisy around with him for almost a year, but also beat you over the head with it daily. And

HE’s the one claiming the high ground? HE doesn’t TRUST you? “Perfect” my chair-bound butt.

It’s such an obvious outrage that your lack of outrage concerns me.

Why wasn’t it your first reaction to say, “You are judging me? Bye.” No one, no one is more valuable to us than basic decency.

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by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman BLONDIE

by Mort Walker BABY BLUES

by Chris Browne

HI AND LOIS

by Young and Drake

by Kirkman & Scott

by Chance Browne

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

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The Iola Register

Mustangs: Iola splits in Burlington Iola freshman Cal Leonard pitches in Burlington on Tuesday in the Mustangs’ 3-2 win. REGISTER/

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ers took over and neither team scored until the top of the sixth when Ethan Tavarez singled to score Bycroft and tie the game at 2-2.

Bycroft shut the Wildcats down in the sixth inning and the teams went to the seventh tied at two.

The Mustangs were unable to score in the top of the seventh and with Bycroft nearing the new state pitch-count limit, Iola coach Mark Percy was forced to take Bycroft out of the game.

Percy turned to Tavarez, who had caught the previous six innings.

Tavarez couldn’t find his command early and walked the bases loaded with nobody out.

The junior responded with a strikeout to restore some hope for the Mustangs, but Burlington got a walk-off single from its next batter.

The Mustangs respond-

JON DYKSTRA

ed well in game two behind Cooper’s arm.

“That is the best I’ve pitched this year, it is better than any practice so far,” Cooper said.

Iola scored one run in the first and two in the second inning to jump out to an early lead and Cooper

was able to shut Burlington out through the first three innings.

The Wildcats scratched across a run in the fourth and another in the fifth to draw within one run.

With Cooper tiring, Percy turned to his bullpen.

“His arm isn’t ready

yet, he hasn’t thrown enough to pitch more,” Percy said. “When he was finishing up, I was keeping my eye on him and he said he was done.”

Darius Greenawalt pitched the sixth and retired the Wildcats in order with a trio of ground balls to second baseman Blake Ashmore.

Percy brought Greenawalt back out for the seventh, but after recording a strikeout, the senior allowed a pair of walks. Percy went back to the bullpen again and brought in freshman Cal Leonard to close the game.

“I didn’t think it was much pressure,” Leonard said.

Leonard got the second out on a ground ball to Bycroft at third, who was able to flip to an alert Kane Rogers, who hustled over from his spot at shortstop to record the out.

Leonard walked the next batter to load the bases, but was able to induce a ground ball to Rogers to seal the 3-2 victory and record a save.

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