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‘Show your love’ winner namedBy SARAH BROWNCNA staff reporter [email protected]

More than 150 people showed their love for Union County by n o m i n a t i n g their favorite Union County e n d o w m e n t during Union County South Central Iowa C o m m u n i t y Foundation’s “Show your love” campaign in February.

Of the 150 entries, Teresa Kre-jci’s entry was drawn, awarding I

Think I Can Child Care endow-ment with $1,000.

I Think I Can Child Care Board President Rick Fyock said one parent put a sign up at the entrance of the child care facility asking parents to take part.

“We had parents go around and collect (CNA) papers and cut out the coupons,” said Fyock. “It’s like a lottery, luck of the draw. The more you had the bet-ter chance you had at winning.”

Krejci, chief financial officer at Southwestern Community Col-lege, said it was her coworker Erin Kiley who asked her to vote.

“Both of my kids went there,” said Krejci. “She (Kiley) men-

tioned to me there was this thing in the paper, so, I went home that night, found it, decided to fill it out and send it in.”

Fyock said the $1,000 award will be added to a previously established endowment, which helps offset costs of the child care and is used for supplies and projects such as updating the playground.

“As I tell people, there aren’t many nonprofit daycares around anymore,” said Fyock. “We’ve always tried to keep our costs as low as possible.”

SWCC budget hearing TuesdayBy BAILEY POOLMANCNA staff reporter [email protected]

Southwestern Community College has proposed its budget for fiscal year 2015, July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015.

A public hearing for the proposed budget is set 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the college’s administration building, dur-ing the college’s regularly scheduled board of directors meeting.

The FY2015 tax levy is 79.6 cents, slightly less than this year’s levy.

The estimated taxes levied on prop-erty in the FY2015 SWCC budget would be $2.18 million. This is an increase of approximately $50,000 from the current year’s budget of $2.13 million.

SWCC is the fifth-highest taxing enti-ty in Union County. The highest is Cres-ton School District, followed by the city, county and Greater Regional Medical Center.

There is an increase of $2,062,374 in other resources for the FY2015 budget.

“That’s the line item that we use to

estimate if we have nay issuances or any projects. I just increased it because we can’t go over our budget,” said SWCC Chief Financial Officer Teresa Krejci. “It (also) allows for unknowns.”Other hearing

SWCC Board of Directors is holding a separate hearing during their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday concerning a $4 million increase in the current fiscal year’s budget.

“I had already put some money in

Condominium tour this weekend

A mix of interested Creston citizens and city officials will take a 70-minute bus trip to Atlantic Saturday morning to view condominiums built by private de-veloper Don Sonntag.

Sonntag has built more than 175 con-dominium units in the Atlantic area. In January, Sonntag made a presentation to Creston City Council proposing to build at least 14 condominium units in the Cot-tonwood Subdivision.

The city council is considering his pro-posal, but wanted an up-close view of the condominiums.

The News Advertiser will be on the tour Saturday, and will have a full story in Monday’s print edition of the News Ad-vertiser. Also, video of the condominium units will be posted at www.crestonnews.com

Reminder: Daylight saving time begins this weekendDon’t forget to move your clocks for-ward one hour for daylight saving time (DST) 2 a.m. Sunday. This change makes sunrise and sunset both occur about one hour later starting Sunday.

DST was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, but modern DST did not take hold until 1895.

The United States set a law in 1918 to standardize the beginning and end of DST, but fed-eral government does not require states or territories to make the change.

Dairy Queen reopensAfter being closed for the winter, Dairy

Queen on Highway 34 in Creston re-opened Thursday. Store hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. everyday.

Creston/O-M football schedule released

High school football schedules for 2014 were released this morning by Iowa High School Athletic Association for all class-es. Below is the football schedule for the Creston/O-M Panthers.

Aug. 29 — Norwalk Sept. 5 — @ Clarinda Sept. 12 — Winterset Sept. 19 — @Greene County (Jeffer-son) Sept. 26 — @Glenwood Oct. 3 — ADM (Adel) Oct. 10 — @Harlan Oct. 17 — Dallas Center Grimes Oct. 24 — @Atlantic

All other high school football schedules in the Creston News Advertiser coverage area for 2014 can be viewed on page 2A of today’s paper.

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CNA photo by SARAH BROWNUnion County South Central Iowa Community Foundation board members present I Think I Can Child Care with $1,000 after the center’s endowment was selected from more than 150 entries in SCICF’s “Show your love” opportunity drawing. Pictured, from back left, are Penny Cheers, Don Sheridan, Mary Seales, Teresa Krejci, Rick Fyock, Luanne Merrill, Cory Wintermute, Ellen Gerharz and Krystal Van Whye. Front, from left, are Brooke Huck, Hunter Kiley, Reese Strunk and Macy Van Whye.

Fire it upBy BAILEY POOLMAN

CNA staff reporter • [email protected]

CORNING — It’s been seven years in the making, and a Corning City Council meeting March 20 will play a part in when Corning Fire Department will have a new fire station.

After Adams County flooded in 2007 and 2008, a meeting was held for the people of the city of Corning to discuss refurbishment of buildings.

“We had had a meeting of the city, I mean people of the city, with the RC and D (resource conservation and develop-ment) board,” said Corning Fire Chief Don Willett. “They threw out a whole bunch of things, and the thing that was at the top of the list was a new fire station. And, we were declared a disaster county because of the flood.”Money

Part of the building will be paid for with a grant.

“We could get a grant through USDA (United States Department of Agricul-ture). We were notified of that, we ap-plied, we got the grant,” Willett said. “And, so consequently, it took off from there.”

The original budget was $1.5 million, and a plan was drawn up for a $1.4 mil-lion project. Bids for general contractors for the project were opened in August 2013.

“When we opened up the bids, the first one was $2.1 million, or something like that,” Willett said. “We had four bids, but they were all way over.”

New plans for the building were drawn up, with a projected cost of about $1.2 million.

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CNA photo by BAILEY POOLMANCorning Fire Department’s building will be demolished, and a new build-ing erected in its place, thanks to a grant the department received to replace the station. The new station will be a metal building twice the size of the current one.

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n A public hearing is slated for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the college’s administration building for FY2015

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the for the new residence hall,” said Krejci. “But, that wasn’t enough money to cover the residence hall and

ACE (accelerated career education) project.”

The ACE project was the refurbishment of the 100 hallway in the instructional center.

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City council When bidding is open,

general contracting compa-nies will put in a bid for the project, with smaller aspects of the buildling as sublet. These aspects include things such as electric and heating and cooling.

“Hopefully, we have more than four bids for gen-eral contractor,” Peckham said. “We don’t have a gen-eral contractor here in town, so that’s why we hope they (local businesses) have a chance through the general contractor.”

Corning City Council will open bids March 20. Then, the plan of action will begin.

“We’ve been excited for seven years,” Peckham said. “We hope it’s coming to a climax here this spring.”Building

The building, modeled af-ter stations in Stanton, Bed-ford and Elk Horn, will be completed about 270 days after the start of construc-tion. It will run double the size of the current station, with measurements of 100 feet by 95 feet. The meet-ing room size will double, and there will be men’s and women’s bathrooms and of-fices. The bay area will also be larger.

The bay area will be heat-ed with radiant heat, which heats objects and people within a room or building

rather than heating the air. There will be no air condi-tioning in the bay area. The other parts of the building will be heated and cooled.

“Right now, we cant get all of our equipment in here,” Willett said. “We’ve got two grass rigs sitting outside right now. We’ve got some other equipment stored around, like our Red Cross cots and and blankets and so forth are stored in a warehouse right now. The new facility will have storage for all that. Plus, it will give us room to go with a tanker truck if we decide to.”

Until the building is com-plete, equipment will be stored in other buildings in Corning.

“We’ve got a contract with the school, and they’ve got a four-bay bus barn that they can’t get their buses in now because their buses are all too long. We’ve had our fire trucks in there, and they will

be parked down there,” Wil-lett said. “That is two blocks from the station. Bunker gear and trucks will be there. All other stuff right now will be stored in part of a city shed.”

Meetings will also be held in the shed near Southwest Valley High School, which used to be an armory.

The new fire station will be taller than the current building, also, which will al-low for the department to purchase trucks without spe-cial ordering ones that are shorter and fit inside.Location

The current building’s po-sition on Davis Avenue is where a demolition crew will tear down the building be-fore construction on the new fire station will start.

“The site had been a problem. At first, we had a site picked out out on the highway,” said Corning City

Council member Bert Peck-ham. “But then, after the floods in 2010, when Cedar Rapids and Iowa City got flooded so bad, ... they raised the flood plain.”

If the station were to be built at the first chosen site, the city would have lost the grant money and would have had to pay flood insurance because the flood plain was changed from a 500-year to a 100-year. A flood plain is the area near a body of water that experiences flooding, and how often it is flooded is known by the year amount.

So, the original location was decided upon by a com-mittee of local people

“Try finding another spot in Corning,” Peckham said. “This is basically easy ac-cess to all the highways, just down the hill. It just, we looked in a lot of spots, and it was finally determined that this would be it.”

Land behind the station, which the new plan extends into, was owned by Adams County. However, the coun-ty is giving the property to the city for the building.Corning Fire

Corning Fire Depart-ment’s current building was erected in 1964 and dedicated in 1965. Since the dedication, the depart-ment’s coverage area has expanded to 227 square miles, including four miles into Taylor County.

There are currently 27 active volunteer firefight-ers with Corning Fire De-partment.

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CNA photo by BAILEY POOLMANThis is the inside of Corning Fire Department’s bay area. When the new fire station is built, the building will be twice the size of the current one, with measurements of 100 feet long by 95 feet wide.


Endow Union County

This is the first year Union County South Central Iowa Community Foundation board awarded the $1,000 “Show your love” gift.

According to board mem-ber May Seales, the foun-dation awards tens of thou-sands of dollars annually to Union County nonprofits.

In 2013, board members from Union County South Central Iowa Community Foundation awarded 20 nonprofit organizations at a total of $103,458.41 for com-

munity enhancement proj-ects.

Board Member Don Sher-idan said the foundation has more than $400,000 — and growing — in an endow-ment fund which will benefit Union County humanitar-ian, educational and cultural nonprofit organizations for perpetuity.

For more information about how an organization may apply for a grant, visit www.scicf.org, contact the foundation office at 641-217-9105 or visit with a Union County board member: Peg Anderson, Penny Cheers, Jan Knock, Mary Seales or Don Sheridan.

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(MCT) — Farmers will likely have to exercise some patience with spring planting after a winter of deep frosts and pro-longed low tempera-tures, an Iowa State Universi-ty Extension field agronomist said.

“It all depends on what happens weather-wise be-tween now and then,” Mark Johnson, field agronomist at the ISU Extension office in Nevada, said. “I could see it being a week or 10 days later than normal.”

While the unpredictable nature of Iowa weather makes it difficult say exactly when fields will have thawed and be ready to plant, if the winter’s trend of below nor-mal temperatures continues, Johnson said, then planting could be delayed by a couple weeks.

In some places the ground, which is frozen more than 3-feet deep in some areas, will thaw from the top down, in others from the bottom up, leaving a strip of frozen ground in the middle.

“The problem is because it’s frozen down there, that means it’s really squishy in between…that makes a lot of compaction in the soil,” Johnson said, which could set planting back even farther.

Soil compaction would set crops up for a difficult summer, Johnson said, since

the U.S. Drought Monitor lists Story and surrounding counties as having moderate drought conditions.

Corn prices are also much lower than the past few years. Johnson said corn has been around $7.50 a bushel for the past few years, but that farm-ers could expect to see prices around $4.30 this year.

“They need to really be thinking hard about each expenditure,” he said. “This would be a good year to be a little more cautious with that extra money.”

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Markets

Today's WeatherLocal 5-Day Forecast

Sat

3/8

35/23Considerable cloudsearly. Some de-crease in cloudslater in the day.

Sunrise Sunset6:41 AM 6:16 PM

Sun

3/9

52/36A few clouds. Highsin the low 50s andlows in the mid 30s.


Mon

3/10

63/38Times of sun andclouds. Highs in thelow 60s and lows inthe upper 30s.


Tue

3/11

47/27A few showers pos-sible, windy.


Wed

3/12

39/25Considerably cloudy,windy. Highs in theupper 30s and lowsin the mid 20s.


Des Moines32/22

Cedar Rapids29/12

Sioux City34/21

Creston35/23

Iowa At A Glance

Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 24 14 mst sunny Davenport 33 12 pt sunny Marshaltown 26 12 pt sunnyAtlantic 33 24 pt sunny Des Moines 32 22 pt sunny Mason City 24 12 pt sunnyAubudon 32 21 pt sunny Dubuque 32 11 pt sunny Onawa 33 23 mst sunnyCedar Rapids 29 12 pt sunny Farmington 37 19 cloudy Oskaloosa 34 18 pt sunnyCenterville 35 21 pt sunny Fort Dodge 27 13 mst sunny Ottumwa 35 18 pt sunnyClarinda 38 25 pt sunny Ft Madison 35 18 cloudy Red Oak 37 26 pt sunnyClarion 24 12 mst sunny Guttenberg 31 9 pt sunny Sioux Center 28 17 pt sunnyClinton 31 10 pt sunny Keokuk 37 20 cloudy Sioux City 34 21 mst sunnyCouncil Bluffs 36 25 mst sunny Lansing 31 6 mst sunny Spencer 27 17 pt sunnyCreston 35 23 pt sunny LeMars 31 18 sunny Waterloo 26 11 pt sunny

National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 67 44 mst sunny Houston 68 48 t-storm Phoenix 76 49 mst sunnyBoston 45 23 mst sunny Los Angeles 75 55 windy San Francisco 62 49 pt sunnyChicago 30 12 cloudy Miami 76 63 sunny Seattle 59 42 pt sunnyDallas 55 36 rain Minneapolis 28 14 mst sunny St. Louis 45 26 rainDenver 49 29 mst sunny New York 50 30 mst sunny Washington, DC 61 35 mst sunny

Moon Phases

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FirstMar 8

FullMar 16

LastMar 24

UV IndexSat3/84

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Sun3/94

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Mon3/10

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Tue3/11

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Wed3/12

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63/38Times of sun andclouds. Highs in thelow 60s and lows inthe upper 30s.


Tue3/11

47/27A few showers pos-sible, windy.


Wed3/12

39/25Considerably cloudy,windy. Highs in theupper 30s and lowsin the mid 20s.


Des Moines32/22

Cedar Rapids29/12

Sioux City34/21

Creston35/23

Iowa At A Glance

Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 24 14 mst sunny Davenport 33 12 pt sunny Marshaltown 26 12 pt sunnyAtlantic 33 24 pt sunny Des Moines 32 22 pt sunny Mason City 24 12 pt sunnyAubudon 32 21 pt sunny Dubuque 32 11 pt sunny Onawa 33 23 mst sunnyCedar Rapids 29 12 pt sunny Farmington 37 19 cloudy Oskaloosa 34 18 pt sunnyCenterville 35 21 pt sunny Fort Dodge 27 13 mst sunny Ottumwa 35 18 pt sunnyClarinda 38 25 pt sunny Ft Madison 35 18 cloudy Red Oak 37 26 pt sunnyClarion 24 12 mst sunny Guttenberg 31 9 pt sunny Sioux Center 28 17 pt sunnyClinton 31 10 pt sunny Keokuk 37 20 cloudy Sioux City 34 21 mst sunnyCouncil Bluffs 36 25 mst sunny Lansing 31 6 mst sunny Spencer 27 17 pt sunnyCreston 35 23 pt sunny LeMars 31 18 sunny Waterloo 26 11 pt sunny

National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 67 44 mst sunny Houston 68 48 t-storm Phoenix 76 49 mst sunnyBoston 45 23 mst sunny Los Angeles 75 55 windy San Francisco 62 49 pt sunnyChicago 30 12 cloudy Miami 76 63 sunny Seattle 59 42 pt sunnyDallas 55 36 rain Minneapolis 28 14 mst sunny St. Louis 45 26 rainDenver 49 29 mst sunny New York 50 30 mst sunny Washington, DC 61 35 mst sunny

Moon Phases

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FullMar 16

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UV IndexSat3/84

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FridayHoly Spirit Rectory ReRun

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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 12 by 12 study, 7 to 8 p.m., United Church of Christ, 501 W. Montgomery St. Use east door.

Union Squares, 7:30 to 10 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 400 N. Elm St. Caller Elaine Smuck. Baby picture contest.

Narcotics Anonymous (NA), 8 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

SaturdayCreston Men’s Fellowship

non-denominational Bible study, 7 a.m., The Windrow.

Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, 9 a.m. to noon, 107 W. Howard St.

Family Caregiver Support Group, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Alzheimer’s Association office, 228 N. Pine St. For more information, contact Jaleyn at 641-782-4040.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 7:30 p.m. open meeting, St.

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SundayAlcoholics Anonymous (AA),

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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 7:30 p.m. open beginners meet-ing, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

MondayUnion County Board of

Supervisors, 9 a.m., Union County Courthouse boardroom.

Greater Regional Medical Center Auxiliary, 9 a.m., Greater Regional Medical Center Classroom.

Creston Rotary Club, noon, Greater Regional Medical Center cafeteria conference room.

Narcotics Anonymous (NA), noon open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. No smoking.

TOPS No. 1338, 5 p.m., First United Methodist Church.

AA, 5:30 p.m., Crossroads Mental Health Center, 1003 Cottonwood Rd. Open meeting.

AA, 7:30 p.m., United Church of Christ, 501 W. Montgomery St. Use east door.

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Agenda includes: claims; public forum; discuss and take action on hangar own-ers who have failed to pro-vide proof of insurance per the contract: Brian Gay, Daryl Lilly, Greg Wurster and Clayton Gay; other items.

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College Board of Directors, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, board room.

Agenda includes: public hearing on fiscal year 2015 budget; public hearing to amend published fiscal year 2014 budget; items to be considered: fiscal year 2015 budget, amendment of pub-lished fiscal year 2014 bud-get, rejection of awarded bid for acoustical ceilings, bid for acoustical ceilings, competitive quotes for bid package 3.18 electrical alter-nate 3 and dormitory room and board fees and deposit; CEO evaluation; person-nel; discussion of monitoring process; president’s report: Spartan Court update and April board meeting date; IACCT report; closed ses-sion in accord with provi-sions of Iowa Code Section

21.5(1)(i); adjournment; col-lective bargaining strategy session in accord with provi-sions of Iowa Code Section 20.17(3).

— — — — — —Union County Board of

Supervisors, 9 a.m. Monday, board room.

Agenda includes: 9:05 a.m. open forum; 9:10 a.m.. Paula White, county re-corder: quarterly report; 9:30 a.m. Gary O’Daniels, resignation of Veteran Af-fairs Director; 9:45 a.m. Sandy Hysell, county au-ditor: set public hearing for county FY2014 bud-get amendment, set public hearing for comments on mental health plan, appoint Jones Township clerk and trustees, transfer resolu-tion; 10 a.m. public hearing for county budget FY2015; 10:30 a.m. public hearing for new motor grader lease/purchase; 10:45 a.m. Steve Akes, county engineer: maintenance activity re-port, tile line crossing per-mit application; 11:30 a.m. public funding resolution, claims/handwritten claim.

Police Miscellaneous

Talk to officer, 6:02 a.m., Thursday, West Taylor Street.

Motor vehicle accident,

10:32 a.m., Thursday, Indus-trial Parkway.

Traffic stop, 10:42 a.m., Thursday, Sheldon Street.

Information, 11:15 a.m., Thursday, North Pine Street.

Bus violation, 2:22 p.m., Thursday, South Sumner Avenue.

Talk to officer, 3:24 p.m., Thursday, North Elm Street.

Disorderly conduct, 4:22 p.m., Thursday, North Syca-more Street.

Bus violation, 5:08 p.m., Thursday, North Pine Street.

Assistance, 6:03 p.m., Thursday, North Vine Street.

Animal call, 6:26 p.m., Thursday, South Maple Street.

Public intoxication, 9:41 p.m., Thursday, West Union Street.

Talk to officer, 11:01 p.m., Thursday, North Pine Street.

Fire Miscellaneous

Medical, 2:38 p.m., Thurs-day, West Townline Street.

Union County Sheriff

Alex Keith Harkins, 22, of Gravity was charged 10

p.m. Wednesday in Creston on a Department of Cor-rections warrant for proba-tion violation of an original charge of fourth-degree theft.

Harkins was being held in Union County Jail on $1,000 bond.

Lenox Police Gerald S. Price II, 52, of

Lenox was charged 4 p.m. Monday on a Marshall County warrant for failure to appear.

Price was transported to Taylor County Sheriff’s office and was being held without bond for Marshall County.

Grain prices quoted at 10 a.m. today:

• Farmers Co-op, Creston:Corn — $4.64

Soybeans — $13.93• Gavilon Grain:Corn — $4.62Soybeans — $14.00

LotteryIowa’s Pick 3: 0-1-1Hot Lotto Sizzler: 3-4-8-25-47 (17)

CHS calendar March 8-15Monday7 p.m. CHS band concertTuesday4 p.m. Teacher conferencesWednesdayNo activities scheduled

Thursday4 p.m. Teacher conferencesFridayNo school. End of third

quarter.SaturdayNo activities scheduled.

Southwest Iowa Google Summit to be held in June

The 2014 Southwest Iowa Google Summit will be June 23 and 24 at Glenwood High School.

There will be three keynote speakers, including Angela Maiers, Scott McLeod and Eric Sheninger. In addition to these keynotes, there will be informative break-out ses-sions on the use of Google apps in the classroom.

Registration cost is $100 per person before June 23, or $125 at the door. To register, go to http://goo.gl/RJwPH7 and complete the online form.

Green Hills AEA is also looking for quality presenta-

tions. Individuals interested in presenting may submit a presentation proposal online at www.ghaea.org; click on the link to the 2014 South-west Iowa Google Summit. Presenters are not charged a registration fee.

For more information, contact David VanHorn, Green Hills AwEA associ-ate administrator at 641-782-8843, 800-432-5804 or [email protected].

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Saturday, March 8, 2014ARIES (March 21 to April

19) Discussions with relatives and siblings will be important to you today. Because there is something emotional at stake from your point of view, you want to hear what they have to say.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You might not want to lend something that you own to anyone today because you feel possessive for some reason. That’s totally OK. (It happens.)

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Today the Moon is in your sign, dancing nicely with your ruler, Mercury. This makes all your communication with oth-ers warm, lively and interest-ing.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You feel content to work alone or behind the scenes today if you can. Nevertheless, you’re just as happy to talk to others, especially about secrets or hid-den matters. (Do tell.)

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Conversation with a female acquaintance will be lively and enjoyable today. Share your ideas for the future in case someone has helpful hints.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You can impress people in authority today. Don’t hesitate to make suggestions to bosses, parents, teachers, VIPs and the police.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Because you long for adven-ture and a chance to learn something new, go some-where you’ve never been before. Shake up your routine. Why not take a different route home?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is fine day to dis-cuss shared property or details about inheritances, insurance matters and anything you own jointly with others. People will be reasonable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Be prepared to go more than halfway with people today, because the Moon is opposite your sign. This is no biggie. Just be cooperative and accommodating with others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan 19) Co-workers will be sup-portive of whatever you pro-pose or what you want to do today. Therefore, be confident and ask for help if you need it. Likewise, offer help if some-one else needs it. (What goes around comes around.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb.

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this. You feel the need for pri-vacy and an urge to withdraw from the busyness of the world around you; plus you want to be in familiar surroundings.

YOU BORN TODAY You are

an intellectual with a wonderful imagination. You value tradi-tion; yet you are an individual-ist. You have a great zest for life and often are rebellious. You are loyal to your friends and work well with groups. People are attracted to you. This year, something you’ve been involved with for nine years will end or diminish to make room for something new.

Birthdate of: Camryn Manheim, actress; Boris Kodjoe, actor; Lester Holt, jour-nalist.

Dear Heloise: Please ad-vise your readers of the proper way to handle mail that has been MISDELIV-ERED. Return it to the post office (or box) for proper delivery. Under no circum-stances is misdelivered mail to be opened. In the past, I have had private, sensitive financial statements opened, retaped and marked “opened by mistake.” — A Reader, via email

You are right that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should mail be opened if it is not addressed to you. Ac-cording to the U.S. Postal Service, there are two ways to handle misdelivered mail:

• Delivered to WRONG ADDRESS: Simply place the item back in the mailbox for your mail carrier to pick up and deliver correctly. Do not mark on the item.

• Delivered to right ad-dress but WRONG PERSON (the person no longer lives at that address): Write “Not at this address” on the item and place in the mailbox, or take to a post office.

Never write or mark over the address or any informa-tion on the item. Hope this helps clear up any confusion. Accidents do happen, and the

Postal Service moves millions and millions of pieces of mail daily! — Heloise

P.S.: To help get your let-ter to the correct location, try to PRINT the address if you have hard-to-read writing. Don’t forget the ZIP code, either!

TRAVEL HINTDear Heloise: Here are

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• Keep loose change and single dollar bills handy to pay for toll roads. You get through faster with exact change.

• Keep a pad and pen in the glove compartment so you can keep a record of gas ex-penses, mileage or overnight stays.

• If you stay in a hotel/mo-tel overnight, be sure to check all sliding doors to make sure they are locked.

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quick-and-easy homemade facial scrub? To make the scrub, just mix 3 parts bak-ing soda with 1 part water. Use your usual cleanser to clean your face, then apply the baking-soda mixture and gently scrub your face for a healthy glow. Rinse, pat dry and apply face cream. Baking soda is a versatile household product that can be used in any room in the house. Want to know what else you can do with it? Order my pamphlet Heloise’s Baking Soda Hints and Recipes. Send $5 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (70 cents) envelope to: He-loise/Baking Soda, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. To quickly clean your fingernails, sprinkle baking soda on a nailbrush and scrub away the dirt, then rub in some hand cream or ol-ive oil. — Heloise

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HEALTHHEALTH

Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen column feature brought to you by Hammer Medical Supply of CrestonDr. Oz and Dr. Roizen column feature brought to you by Hammer Medical Supply of Creston

(BPT) - More than 50 million surgeries occur ev-ery year and patient safety is always the top priority for surgeons or physician anesthesiologists involved in medical care. If you’re scheduled for surgery and have weeks or even months to prepare, important ac-tions to improve your health, such as exercising and eating right, can help make surgery as safe as possible. They will also de-crease your chances of com-plications and help you get back on your feet faster.

“Surgery is usually the so-lution to a problem, whether to replace a painful knee or repair a hernia, but there are always risks,” says Dr. Jane C.K. Fitch, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). “Physician anesthesiolo-gists, surgeons and other medical specialists work with patients before, during and after surgery to help en-sure a successful outcome.Patients can take control of their own health by having critical conversations with

their physicians and getting healthy before surgery.”

So, what can you do to get yourself in shape for sur-gery? The ASA suggests pa-tients follow these tips:

• Eat healthy: Adjusting your diet to include healthi-er choices in the weeks lead-ing up to your surgery can help you become stronger and recover quicker. If you have a loss of appetite or recently lost weight without trying, be sure to tell your doctor, who might suggest you see a registered dieti-tian. The dietitian may pre-scribe a nutritional supple-ment to boost your immune system, help prevent infec-tions and shorten your stay in the hospital.

• Stop smoking: Among the many reasons to kick the habit is that smoking and an-esthesia - which you’ll need during surgery — don’t mix. If you smoke, your heart and lungs are compromised and don’t function at full capacity. You are also far more likely to suffer breath-ing and lung-related com-plications during surgery

and are more likely to need a ventilator after surgery. By quitting smoking before surgery, you’ll not only de-crease the likelihood of these risks, but you’re also less likely to have a wound infection, heart attack or other complication.

• Boost your breathing: Taking deep breaths on a spirometer - a simple device

that helps you exercise your lungs and improve their function - is a routine activ-ity after most surgeries. Do-ing these exercises before surgery can help strengthen your lungs so you’re less likely to develop pneumo-nia.

• Control your blood sugar: People with diabetes whose blood sugar (glucose)

is not controlled, are more likely to suffer potentially fatal complications follow-ing surgery. If you have dia-betes, make sure your blood sugar is controlled. If you don’t, your immune system may be weaker, making you more vulnerable to pneu-monia and other infections. Controlling your blood sug-ar will help you heal faster and you’ll likely spend less time recovering in the hos-pital.

• Disclose medication use: Prior to surgery, be sure to tell your surgeon and physician anesthesiolo-gist what vitamins, supple-ments, as well as prescrip-tion and over-the-counter medications you are taking. You may need to stop tak-ing some of them until after your surgery because they make your blood less likely to clot and increase the risk of bleeding. The long list of risky medications includes blood thinners such as as-pirin, pain relievers such as ibuprofen and common sup-plements such as St. John’s wort and vitamins C and

E. Do not stop taking any supplements or medications without asking your physi-cian first.

• Get (or stay) active: If you exercise, keep it up, and if you don’t, try to respon-sibly increase your activity level in the weeks before surgery. The sooner you begin to move around after surgery, the less likely you are to develop blood clots and pneumonia. Consider getting into an exercise pro-gram - it can reduce compli-cations and shorten hospital stays.

• Reduce consumption of alcoholic beverages: People who have more than two alcoholic drinks a day are more likely to suffer com-plications after surgery than light drinkers and those who drink heavily are more than twice as likely to suffer com-plications that can result in death. Heavy drinkers are also much more likely to get an infection after surgery, have difficulty breathing, and be admitted to the in-tensive care unit than non-drinkers.

Moviegoers love a good secret. There are more than 200 movies with the word “Secret” in the title — in-cluding, we kid you not, “The Secret Lives of Den-tists” and “The Secret of the Ooze.” Those secrets can set you back $12 and waste your time, but Secret Salt hidden in food at the con-cession stand and on store shelves, well, that can knock you off your feet.

A new survey from Dr. Mike’s Cleveland Clinic shows how much we don’t know about secret sodium sources (hint: they’re most often found in prepared foods). Today’s top 10? Numero uno is bread, and three-quarters of you told the clinic’s researchers you had no idea it was in there! The list continues with cold cuts and cured meats, pizza, poultry, soups, sandwiches, cheese, pasta dishes, meat dishes and snacks.

Why does this matter? Chances are, like most North Americans, you take in around 3,300 mg of so-dium a day. But anyone with high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes or kidney problems — that’s 60 percent of you — should have only 1,500 mg. And for some with salt-sensitive high blood pressure (thank heav-ens it’s less than 0.5 percent of you), excess intake of so-dium is deadly. To avoid salt bombs, prepare fresh foods so you control the saltshak-er; skip fast foods and pack-aged meals. For the rest of you, just cut back; the excess elevates blood pressure a lit-tle, which can promote heart disease and stroke. But you don’t need to be overly compulsive about cutting salt, just a little careful.

LATEST NEWS ON NSAID SAFETY

When Texas legend Red Adair capped an oil-well fire, he detonated explo-sives to deprive the inferno of fuel. But when inflam-mation rages in your body, you may choose a non-ste-roidal anti-inflammatory drug, such as COX-2 in-hibitors (coxibs), ibuprofen or naproxen, to extinguish the pain. (Aspirin is also an NSAID, but more about it later.)

You may have heard how risky almost all NSAIDs are, especially if you regu-larly take high doses: They can cause gastrointestinal woes and cardiovascular complications, such as heart attack.

The exception? We know aspirin offers protection from arterial diseases, in-cluding heart attack and stroke, as well as from nine types of cancer. (You can help protect your GI tract from by taking aspirin with a glass of warm water before and after.) But up to now, no one had figured out the unique risks and benefits of the other NSAIDs. So it’s great news that, thanks to three major metastudies, there’s finally SOME cred-ible info about those other NSAIDs’ differing qualities.

High-dose coxibs, diclof-enac and ibuprofen may increase heart attack or stroke risk by about 33 per-cent. Heart failure risk is doubled with all non-aspirin NSAIDs. And a Food and Drug Administration panel evaluating NSAID risks voted 16 to 9 against the suggestion that naproxen

causes fewer cardiovascu-lar problems than other NSAIDs.

So, if you’re taking a NSAID, talk to your doc about the risk versus reward of specific medications. We like the pain-relieving pow-ers of meditation and cog-nitive therapy, weight loss and appropriate exercise (whether your pain is from arthritis or another condi-tion), and taking 900 IU daily of anti-inflammatory DHA omega-3.

THE MIGHTY POWER OF MICROGREENS

Toward the end of the 17th century, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek created a micro-scope that revealed there were tiny creatures swimming in every drop of water. The world never looked the same again! The microchip was invented in 1959 by Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby (working sepa-rately), and once again the world was transformed by thinking small. Now, mi-crogreens are transforming how you eat your veggies.

Microgreens — tasty, nutrition-packed seedlings — are grown from the seeds of amaranth, arugula, beets, basil, red cabbage, celery, ci-lantro, chard, chervil, cress, fennel, kale, parsley, radish and other plants. They’re turning up in salads and stews, on 100 percent whole-grain pizzas, sandwiches and bagels, and as a garnish with grilled salmon or tossed in cooked whole grains and quinoa.

One study found that most of these mighty minis

have four to six times the nutritional content of their full-grown versions. Of the 25 varieties tested, red cabbage had the highest concentration of vitamin C; cilantro, the most carot-enoids; amaranth, the most vitamin K; and green daikon radish was tops in vitamin E.

Interested? All you need is a plastic container filled with 1 1/2 to 2 inches of organic soil set on a drain-ing tray and a sprinkling of seeds (mixed is good). Press them gently into the soil. Now you need a south-fac-ing windowsill, a watering can and a couple of weeks (although some take four to six weeks). Snip the shoots at the soil line when they’re 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches long and there’s a set of partially de-veloped microleaves. Wash well and enjoy!

WOMEN AND STROKE PREVENTION

You all know the phrase “different strokes for dif-ferent folks.” But it’s taken the medical community un-til now to figure out that women have different risk factors for stroke and need targeted interventions to in-crease prevention.

More than 60 percent of stroke-related deaths in North America happen to women. And a recent study reveals that female stroke survivors have a lower qual-ity of life than male stroke survivors. But you can turn that around! New guidelines from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association suggest that you take steps to pre-vent stroke if you have the following risk factors.

—Migraine headaches, especially with aura. Mi-graine is three times more common in women and in-creases stroke risk three to

six times.—You’re post-menopaus-

al with a 35-or-more-inch waist or a triglyceride level over 128 mg/dL. That in-creases stroke risk five-fold.

—Going on birth-control pills. Get screened for high blood pressure; taking hor-mones plus HBP ups stroke risk. Tip: Ask your doc about taking two low-dose aspirins daily (with half a glass of warm water before and after) to decrease stroke and breast cancer risk.

—If you have HBP be-fore becoming pregnant, talk to your gynecologist or obstetrician about tak-ing low-dose aspirin and/or calcium supplements along with your vitamin D-3 and prenatal vitamins to lower your risk of preeclampsia. Preeclampsia doubles your stroke risk later in life.

For stroke prevention, control blood pressure; maintain a healthy weight; and get regular exercise at every age. Take HBP-lowering meds, along with statins, and anti-migraine drugs, if prescribed. And try laughing. It may lower your blood pressure and soothe your heart and soul!

CANCER SURVIVORS LIVE LONGER WITH EXERCISE

Sharks aren’t the only animals that need to keep moving forward to survive. We know that people who get at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise five days a week have a sig-nificantly younger RealAge and live longer than non-ex-ercisers. And now it seems those benefits also come to cancer survivors who exer-cise regularly.

According to a 20-year study, male cancer survivors (average age 71) who exer-cised regularly were 38 per-

cent less likely to die of can-cer and 49 percent less likely to die of heart disease than other cancer survivors who didn’t exercise regularly.

The best results came to the guys who expended more than 12,600 calories per week in extra physi-cal activity. Translation: A 176-pound man walk-ing briskly for 90 minutes a day, five days a week burns that many calories. (We like 10,000 steps a day with two days a week of strength training for 20-30 minutes.) But shorter bouts also provide benefits: Women who’ve had breast cancer and get 150 minutes of ac-tivity a week (21 minutes daily) slash their risk of dy-ing from breast cancer by 25 percent.

Getting enough physical activity also helps solve two of cancer survivors’ tough-est challenges: reducing stress and improving sleep (60 percent of cancer sur-vivors report trouble sleep-ing). That’s important for daily quality of life and to stay healthy. Snoozing for seven to eight hours a night eases stress, regulates hor-mone levels and boosts im-mune strength, which may kill cancer cells and help prevent cancer from spread-ing. So get started walking away from cancer!

* * *Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host

of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit www.sharecare.com.

(c) 2014 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D.

Distributed by King Fea-tures Syndicate, Inc.

Shake off the salt

Weekly healthy tipsDr. Mehmet Oz, M.D. andDr. Michael Roizen, M.D.

Shape up for surgery: Tips to improve your health, safety and outcome


Three Panther bowlers on top district team

Three Creston/O-M bowl-ers received first-team hon-ors in Class 1A District 6 as the all-district teams were announced Wednesday.

Named to the girls first team were Panther se-nior Dev-on Eddy and soph-o m o r e M a d i s o n H a n c e . S o p h o -m o r e Charlie Parcher made the second team and junior Jen-na Hayes received honor-able mention.

Creston/O-M senior C h a n t z Davidson made the boys first unit. Soph-omore Bal-ke Eddy was named to the sec-ond team, and junior Darin Hatfield received honorable mention.

S t a t e champion H a y d e n Berry of Red Oak is the Boys Bowler of the Year, while Alec Brungardt of Denison-Schleswig took the top girls honor.

All-District 6Girls first team

Devon Eddy, Sr., Creston/O-M; Alec Brungardt, Sr., Denison-Schleswig; Kendra Hardy, Jr., Red Oak; Madison Hance, So., Creston/O-M; Peyton Brungardt, Fr., Denison-Schleswig; JaCee Hogue, So., Shenandoah.

Girls second teamShaely Nowels, Fr., Red Oak;

Charlie Parcher, So., Creston/O-M; Hailey Anderson, Jr., Harlan; Justine Marsh, So., Shenandoah; Lexi Weltz, Jr., Denison-Schleswig; Nicole Dahleen, So., Denison-Schleswig.

Girls honorable mentionRuthie Eikenberry, Jr., C.B.

Thomas Jefferson; Jenna Hayes, Jr., Creston/O-M; Alexa Gilliland, Fr., Red Oak; Casey Beam, Sr., Denison-Schleswig; Morgan Montgomery, Sr., Lewis Central;

Panther coach praises strong finish

By LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

Creston’s girls basketball team fought through adver-sity — both injuries and ill-nesses — to tie for the third-most victories since the school went to five-player basketball in 1993-94.

That’s why coach Lar-ry McNutt and assistant Mendy McCreight both s p o k e of their pride in this year’s group at T h u r s -d a y ’ s t e a m banquet. It was a team that played its best basketball down the stretch of a 9-13 season.

Creston was 6-5 in the last 11 games of the season. Probably of no coincidence is the fact that junior leader Natalie Mostek was finally playing at 100 percent after prolonged effects of a se-vere concussion suffered in a preseason scrimmage at Adair-Casey.

However, the team also had to deal with the loss of junior point guard Brenna Baker, who underwent knee surgery after aggra-vating an injury on Jan. 7.

Illnesses also cost some key Panthers playing time during the season. Sopho-more Taylor Briley became an integral presence in the varsity guard court, and ju-nior Maria Mostek filled in at times for Baker and Chelcee Downing, when illness affected the senior sharpshooter.

McNutt became a chess master, moving players like Natalie Mostek and sopho-more Camryn Somers to various positions, where-ever they were needed at a particular time.

Sophomore post player Jenna Taylor became the team’s primary scorer, fin-ishing with a 14.2 average while setting program re-cords for free throw per-centage (85.4) and field goal percentage (55.7).

Seniors Olivia Nielsen and Sadie Jones ended up contributing more minutes than first projected, when Mostek and Baker encoun-tered their issues. And speedy sophomore Caitlin McIlravy was inserted for defensive work in certain situations.

It all made for an inter-esting set of challenges for McNutt in his third season at the helm.

“We dealt with injuries and sickness all season,” McNutt said after a pizza buffet was provided to the players and families from proceeds associated with team events. “Someone else came in and played. That’s what a team does. They played their best ball to-ward the end of the season. And the games we lost, we were right there. I’m proud of what they did.”

The 9-13 record ties the teams of 2011-12 (McNutt’s first) and 2005-06 for the third-most wins since the conversion to five-player basketball. The only teams

ahead of that are 15-9 in 2006-07 and 10-12 in 1998-99.

That 2006-07 team fea-tured the program’s all-time leading scorer in Katie McKim (856 points), who is also the clear leader in ca-reer made 3-pointers (145).

This year’s team set a school record for free throw percentage (67.5) and few-est points allowed in one game (18) against Orient-Macksburg in a 58-18 win at the Mount Ayr tournament.Highlights

McNutt cited several season highlights during his presentation Thursday, including free throw shoot-ing by Baker and two key putbacks by Jones off the bench in a come-from-be-hind victory over the host Raiderettes. Downing also had exceptional 3-point shooting success in that tournament.

Beating Clarinda 61-48 on senior night was a high-light as well, McNutt noted. He also mentioned the sea-son sweep of Atlantic, and two good challenges of a 16-8 Red Oak team that was a regional finalist.

In a home game played at Southwestern Community College because of a sched-uling conflict at the high school, Creston beat Inter-

state 35, which went 14-9 and took second to Cen-tral Decatur in the Pride of Iowa at 12-4.

“Beating I-35 at SWCC was a good win for us,” McNutt said. “They were within a basket of a confer-ence championship. This was a very coachable group, which always made it fun to go to practice.”

Although all of the se-lections haven’t been an-nounced yet with Harlan still playing, Taylor and Natalie Mostek received all-conference honorable mention, and Jones was on the Hawkeye 10 All-Aca-demic Team.Three seniors

As with any postsea-son gathering, much of the night was devoted to the three departing seniors.

“Olivia was our first player off the bench, and she had a really good senior year,” McNutt said. “She’s a good rebounder for us and we couldn’t’ have done what we did without her.

“Chelcee improved so much from last year,” he said. “When Brenna went down, she took on more ball-handling responsibili-ties. And she hit some key

East Union’s Ripperger wins AAU state mat title

DES MOINES — Mem-phis Ripperger of East Union was a state champion in the fifth-sixth grade divi-sion at 110 pounds at the AAU state wrestling tour-nament last weekend at Wells Fargo Arena.

Rylan Luther of Creston placed third at 120 pounds in the fifth-sixth division, topping Drew Venteicher of Lenox in the third-place match. Derek Venteicher placed fourth at 152 pounds in the seventh-eighth divi-sion.

The Super Pee Wee state tournament is this weekend.

Area results made avail-able to the News Advertiser included:

Creston

Third-fourth grade70 pounds — Isaiah Fenton

(DC Elite) major dec. Corbyn Vicker (Creston), 14-1; Hayden Hoffmeyer (IronHawk) major dec. Corbyn Vicker (Creston), 11-2.

Fifth-sixth grade60 pounds — Caleb Hunter

White (Team Valley Wrestling Club) by injury default over Brodie Starlin (Creston), 1:44; Caleb Reitz (Ida Grove) by inju-ry default over Brodie Starlin (Creston).

110 pounds — Matthew Hucker (Maq. Valley) dec. Brant Looney (Creston), 10-5; Brant Looney (Creston) dec. Nathaniel Genobana (Centerville), 7-2; Maysen Clark (Bettendorf Wrestling Club) dec. Brant Looney (Creston), 2-0.

120 pounds — Rylan Luther (Creston) pinned Gage Voshell (Oelwein Huskies), :23; Rylan Luther (Creston) pinned Logan McCoy (Alta-Aurelia Junkyard

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERRylan Luther of Creston squeezes tight for nearfall points during his Class B 120-pound quarterfinal match against Logan McCoy of Alta-Aurelia. Luther got the pin in 1:46 on his way to placing third at last weekend’s AAU State Wrestling Tournament at Wells Fargo Arena.

D. Eddy

Hance

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The emotional roller-coaster was busy during this postseason The thing about covering the

postseason tournament beat — besides 18 straight nights on the job (Sundays were huge writing nights) — is that you ride an emo-tional roller coaster from night to night.

Or, as in my case on Feb. 21, the huge ups and downs occur on the same night.

State wrestling week is always a blur, especially when the Pan-thers are starting the week early with their regular appearance in the state duals. But, we also have to keep tabs on the some huge regional basketball games taking place at the same time.

So, since I was primarily writ-ing Class 2A for state wrestling,

which was done early in the day on Friday, I headed south on In-terstate 35 to Murray for the Lady Mustangs’ regional semifinal battle with Bedford. Scott Vicker had arrived at Wells Fargo Arena to pick me up and handle the 1A wrestling, after road conditions prevented his journey Thursday night as I pulled double duty.

Bear in mind, I had already cov-ered some huge highs and lows for

Creston/O-M in wrestling that day. I was just feet away from a leaping Seth Maitlen as he won a consola-tion match that assured his child-hood dream of standing among the medal winners, and participat-ing in the Grand March Saturday night. That was cool.

And, there was the joy of Chase Shiltz winning a tough semifinal match to reach the state finals in his first year of high school wres-tling. Again, there was elation and celebration.

But, many of us — none more strongly than the wrestler himself — had been hoping all winter to see what Panther senior Trevor Frain could do in a state champi-onship match. As it turned out,

neither No. 1-ranked Adam Drain of Mediapolis (slowed by a bro-ken hand) nor the second-ranked Frain reached the finals.

Coach Darrell Frain said Trev-or’s semifinal loss, in which he seemed to secure at least three takedowns that weren’t called at the mat’s edge, was the most gut-wrenching experience of his coaching career, for obvious reasons. And, in the one take-down awarded to Tyler Lutes of BCLUW in a 2-2 regulation tie,

Frain was out of it so instanta-neously, it almost could have not been a takedown.

Lutes shot in deep early in the overtime period and Frain was un-able to ward it off. He stayed ly-ing on the mat for a moment, in apparent disbelief to what had just occurred. It was a tough moment.

I’ve had to interview parents whose children died. Families of victims of all sorts of tragedy, in my news career. So, this wasn’t at that level.

But in sports, this was as tough as it gets, when a really good kid with a solid approach to a dream

StraightshotsLarry Petersonsports writer

Frain

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CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONSeniors honored at Thursday’s Creston girls basketball banquet are, from left, Chelcee Downing, Sadie Jones and Olivia Nielsen.

SPORTSSPORTS48

Franchise-record margin of defeat for the Los Angeles Lakers Thursday against the Clippers, 142-94.

NATIONALDIGEST

THE NUMBERS GAME

League honorsPELLA — Central

College Dutch players received Iowa Confer-ence post-season hon-ors.

Senior Matt Green-field was named the conference player of the year. Greenfield aver-aged 19 points and 9.9 rebounds a game for the Dutch this season.

Senior Kevin Kaerwer was named to the all-conference first team. Ju-nior Nile Eckerman and freshman Colby Tay-lor of Creston received honorable mention.Coach Craig Douma was named league coach of the year.Hawks tumble

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Travis Trice posted a season-high 17 points as No. 22 Michi-gan State (23-7, 12-5 Big Ten) upended 24th-ranked Iowa 86-76 at Breslin Center.

Roy Devyn Marble finished with a game-high 24 points for Iowa (20-10, 9-8).Drake loses

ST. LOUIS — D.J. Balentine poured in 30 points on 9-of-19 shoot-ing as the Evansville Purple Aces knocked off the Drake Bulldogs 69-61 in the first round of the Missouri Valley Conference Tourna-ment at the Scottrade Center.

The ninth-seed Pur-ple Aces (14-18) will contend with top-seed Wichita State in the next round. Richard Carter paced the eighth-seed Bulldogs (15-16) with 26 points and seven assists.Harlan advances

DES MOINES — The Harlan Cyclones will play for the girls state basketball champion-ship Saturday night.

The top-ranked Cy-clones improved to 25-0 with a 45-42 win over sixth-ranked Carlisle in a Class 4A state semifi-nal Thursday night.

Harlan will play eighth-ranked West-ern Dubuque at 6 p.m. Saturday for the state championship. The Bob-cats defeated Ballard 30-23 in the second semifi-nal Thursday.

Harlan connected on 4-of-4 free throws in the final 15 seconds.Bowling scores

Creston league bowl-ing scores will be pub-lished in Monday’s News Advertiser.


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falls short by the narrowest of margins. It’s certainly no wonder that he wasn’t him-self the next day in two con-solation defeats. The “edge” was gone from that year-long quest.

So, driving down to Mur-ray, that was on my mind. As a parent I had expe-rienced a one-point state basketball semifinal loss to Harlan, with my son on the court, and in a way I felt coach Frain’s pain. That’s why I didn’t even attempt an interview that evening. Sometimes a little cushion of healing time is needed.

A Murray team with two outstanding seniors — all-stater Kate Patton and all-district Megan Oswald —

was battling that night with a sophomore-dominated Bedford team. It was the last shot for four of these Murray kids who had a state dream.

But an athletic, spunky Bedford team that would later knock off Stanton just presented too many prob-lems for Murray defensive-ly, and pulled out a 59-54 win.

After the wrestling tour-nament, it was back to bas-ketball and I saw a Creston boys team hopeful of reach-ing a substate game against Harlan, fall short at Atlan-tic. To make matters worse, it was played on the court of a lower-seeded team and the roads were treacherous coming back. But, part of

the life lessons of athletics is “dealing” with situations beyond your control.

Meanwhile, Scott Vicker had covered the Creston girls coming up short against Glenwood, and he attended state bowling with some nice individual efforts by Creston/O-M kids.

Then came another snowy trip to Atlantic for me to watch Nodaway Valley take on East Mills in a substate fi-nal. Again, there was disap-pointment felt by the team we covered, as East Mills snagged an overtime win over an NV team many of us hoped to watch at Wells Fargo Arena.

Coach Darrell Burmeis-ter and his squad handled the loss with class, as did

the fans. We’re supposed to be detached, but you can’t help but feel bad for people you’ve developed a relation-ship with by working along-side them over some time.

With Bedford knocked out by No. 1-rated New-ell-Fonda this week, I’ve run out of teams with any regional affiliation. I can just go up there and watch games, without an emotion-al investment.

That might be refresh-ing at this point. Congrats, again, to all of those kids who provided us with terrif-ic entertainment and com-petition in the high school athletic arena this winter.

Contact the writer:Twitter: @larrypetersonEmail: lpeterson@creston-

news.com

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Dogs), 1:46; Thomas Even (Jesup Iron Hawks) pinned Rylan Luther (Creston), :19; Rylan Luther (Creston) pinned Tevin Statzer (High Voltage), 2:14; third place - Rylan Luther (Creston) pinned Drew Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club), 1:00.

Seventh-eighth grade135 pounds — Rodney

Schwartzhoff (Warrior Mat Club) pinned Trevor Kinyon (Creston), 1:34; Trevor Kinyon (Creston) dec. John Groves (North Mahaska), 4-0; Gunnar Grunsted (High Altitude Wrestling Club) tech fall Trevor Kinyon (Creston), 19-4.

260 pounds — Ryne Fuller (South Hardin Storm Chasers) pinned Blake Sevier (Creston Express), 2:18; Blake Sevier (Creston Express) dec. Daequan Poole (Bettendorf Wrestling Club), 4-2; Noah Pittman (Team Bosco) dec. Blake Sevier (Creston Express), 1-0.

East UnionFifth-sixth grade

90 pounds — Zane Ziegler (Cobra Wrestling Club) dec. Sherman Hayes (Muscle Mat Club), 3-2; Sherman Hayes (Muscle Mat Club) pinned Ryan Kammerer (unattached), :38; Sherman Hayes (Muscle Mat Club) dec. Drew Snyder (Trojan Wrestling Club), 7-2; Elliott Sinnwell (Charles City Comets) dec. Sherman Hayes (Muscle Mat Club), 4-0.

110 pounds — Memphis Ripperger (Muscle Mat Club) pinned Harmon Miller (Little Lions Wrestling), :52; Memphis Ripperger (Muscle Mat Club) pinned William Cam (Sioux Center Riptide), 2:33; Memphis Ripperger (Muscle Mat Club) dec. Abe Michel (Young Guns), 2-1; Memphis

Ripperger (Muscle Mat Club) major dec. Ashton Stoner-DeGroot (Hammerin Hawks Wrestling Club), 9-0; First place - Memphis Ripperger (Muscle Mat Club) major dec. Colby Tool (Mustang Mat Club), 9-0.

Seventh-eighth120 pounds — Brennan Swafford

(DC Elite) pinned Matthew Wittstock (Muscle Mat Club), 1:32; Matthew Wittstock (Muscle Mat Club) major dec. Eric Steele (Team Predators), 12-4; Matthew Wittstock (Muscle Mat Club) dec. Lucas Deinhart (Unattached), 8-6; Trever Brown (Team Bosco) dec. Matthew Wittstock (Muscle Mat Club), 7-5.

145 pounds — Sanden Cheers (High Altitude Wrestling Club) dec. Alex Dollen (Griswold), 7-5 OT; Sanden Cheers (High Altitude Wrestling Club)dec. Dalton Roberts (BGM), 4-3; Bryce Wederman (Lisbon) pinned Sanden Cheers (High Altitude Wrestling Club), 3:22; Tristin Langmaid (Newton Wrestling Club) pinned Sanden Cheers (High Altitude Wrestling Club), 2:29.

LenoxFifth-sixth grade

120 pounds — Drew Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club) pinned Jake Barretta (High Altitude Wrestling Club), :14; Drew Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club) dec. Carter McCombs (Boone Youth Wrestling), 7-0; Thomas Even (Jesup Iron Hawks) pinned Drew Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club), 1:26; Drew Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club) dec. Max Mashek (Louisa Muscatine), 4-0; Drew Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club) dec. Mason Griffin (Little E’Hawks), 2-0; Drew Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club) dec.

Zachary Rairdin (Hammerin Hawks Wrestling Club), 4-2; Third place - Rylan Luther (Creston) pinned Drew Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club), 1:00.

Seventh-eighth grade152 pounds — Derek Venteicher

(High Altitude Wrestling Club) pinned David Chaffin (Lynnville-Sully Hawks), 2:23; Derek Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club) dec. Beau Lombardi (DC Elite), 3-2 OT; Alex Ward (Dubuque Wrestling Club) pinned Derek Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club), 1:59; Derek Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club) dec. Braydon Fisher (Nashua-Plainfield), 8-2; Derek Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club) dec. Hunter Connor (Louisa-Muscatine), 7-1; Derek Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club) dec. Harrison Goebel (Delaware County Wrestling Club), 7-5 OT; Third place - Jessen Chapman (Team Elite) dec. Derek Venteicher (High Altitude Wrestling Club), 10-8.

Southwest ValleyThird-fourth grade

155 pounds — Dalton Calkins (Southwest Valley) pinned Landon Pratt (Nashua-Plainfield Huskies), 1:40; Eli Cline (Keokuk Kids Wrestling) pinned Dalton Calkins (Southwest Valley), :55; Treyten Rath (Doc’s Dukes) dec. Dalton Calkins (Southwest Valley), 4-2; Fifth place - Dalton Calkins (Southwest Valley) pinned Landon Pratt (Nashua-Plainfield Huskies), :34.

Seventh-eighth grade140 pounds — Collin Hushagen

(Johnston Wrestling Club) pinned Logan Calkins (Southwest Valley), 1:44; Logan Calkins (Southwest Valley) dec. Bryan Graves (Oelwein Huskies), 8-1; Bryce Schutters (Rising Knights Wrestling Club)

pinned Logan Calkins (Southwest Valley), 2:00.

Mount AyrThird-fourth grade

60 pounds — Gable Porter (High Voltage) dec. Drew Ehlen (Mt. Ayr Wrestling), 2-0; Drew Ehlen (Mt. Ayr Wrestling) dec. Garrett Burkle (Wilton), 9-2; Drew Robinson (East Central Story Titans) dec. Drew Ehlen (Mt. Ayr Wrestling), 8-3.

80 pounds — Jaydon Knight (Mt. Ayr Wrestling) dec. Lincoln Holub (Eastern Iowa Wrestling Club), 8-6; Damon Schmid (K-P Little Panther Wrestling) pinned Jaydon Knight (Mt. Ayr Wrestling), 1:38; Jaydon Knight (Mt. Ayr Wrestling) dec. Drake Collins (West Liberty Wrestling Club), 6-0; Garrett Seaba (Team Valley Wrestling Club) major dec. Jaydon Knight (Mt. Ayr Wrestling), 15-4.

85 pounds — Lawson Losee (Unattached) pinned Adler Shay (Mt. Ayr Wrestling), 1:31; Adler Shay (Mt. Ayr Wrestling) pinned Levi Langel (Rising Knights Wrestling Club), 1:18; Adler Shay (Mt. Ayr Wrestling) dec. Logan Huckfelt (Iowa Great Lakes Wrestling Club), 4-0; Parker Davis (DC Elite) major dec. Adler Shay (Mt. Ayr Wrestling), 11-2.

Fifth-sixth grade75 pounds — Trae Ehlen (Mt.

Ayr Wrestling) dec. Joe Foreman (DC Elite), 3-0; Jack Gaukel (SBL Warriors) major dec. Trae Ehlen (Mt. Ayr Wrestling), 13-0; Kyzer Engen (Sebolt Wrestling Academy) major dec. Trae Ehlen (Mt. Ayr Wrestling), 10-0.

Seventh-eighth grade260 pounds — Conway Feisel

(North Tama) dec. Cauy Bickel (Mt. Ayr Wrestling), 1-0; Daequan Poole (Bettendorf Wrestling Club) pinned Cauy Bickel (Mt. Ayr Wrestling), 1:42.

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3-pointers to extend the de-fense.

“Sadie may not have played a lot of varsity minutes, but at Mount Ayr I remember back-to-back putbacks that were key to us winning that game. She always worked hard and had a positive influence on the team. Sadie is the ulti-mate team player.”

McCreight spoke about the 11-8 junior varsity team that compiled nine consecutive victories, and the freshman team that went 9-3.

Jones scored 175 points to lead the JV, followed by Mc-Ilravy with 173 and Cammy Rutherford with 127.

LetterwinnersSeniors — Chelcee Downing,

Olivia Nielsen, Sadie Jones.Juniors — Natalie Mostek,

Brenna Baker, Maria Mostek.Sophomores — Jenna Taylor,

Camryn Somers, Taylor Briley, Caitlin McIlravy.

Participation awardsSophomores — Jessica Beatty,

Becca Ross.Freshmen — Cammy Rutherford,

Logan Pettit, Madison Callahan, Rachel Shepherd.

All-ConferenceHonorable mention — Natalie

Mostek, Jenna Taylor.Academic all-conference —

Sadie Jones.New records(Five-player)

Best free throw percent, team — 67.5 percent.

Fewest points allowed/single game — 18 vs. Orient-Macksburg on Nov. 25, 2013 (58-18).

Free throw percent/single sea-son — Jenna Taylor, 76-89 (85.4 percent). Surpasses Heidi Hellyer, 52-66 (79 percent).

Field goal percent/single season — Jenna Taylor, 117-210 (55.7 per-cent). Surpasses Jessica Moeller, 68-122 (55.7 percent).

New to rankingsScoring/single season — 6.

Jenna Taylor, 312 points.Scoring/single game — 5. Jenna

Taylor, 24 (vs. Orient-Macksburg, Nov. 25, 2013); 9. Jenna Taylor, 23 (vs. Winterset, Dec. 2, 2013).

Rebounds/single season — 7. Natalie Mostek, 163; 12. Jenna Taylor, 152.

Assists/single season — 5. (tied) Chelcee Downing, 7 (vs. Atlantic, Feb. 8, 2014).

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Bailey Portwood, So., Harlan; Allie Gluck, So., Shenandoah.

Boys first teamDavid Terry, Sr., Red Oak; Jordan

Schiltz, Jr., Denison-Schleswig; Tyler Satre, Jr., Denison-Schleswig; Dylin Keat, Jr., Red Oak; Jacob Drustrup, Jr., Lewis Central; Chantz Davidson, Sr.

Boys second teamHayden Berry, Sr., Red Oak; Josh

Hatton, Sr., Denison-Schleswig; Blake Eddy, So., Creston/O-M; Paul Renshaw, So., Lewis Central; Shane Majerus, Jr., Red Oak; Tyler Hoyt, So., Shenandoah.

Boys honorable mentionThomas Olsen, So., C.B.

Thomas Jefferson; Darin Hatfield, Jr., Creston/O-M; Ryan Plambeck, Jr., Red Oak; Nathan Fastje, Sr., Denison-Schleswig; Zach Drustrup, Jr., Lewis Central; Chase Hiser, So., Shenandoah.

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Rasmussen Ag Solutions plans to sub-mit a Notice of Intent to the Iowa Depart-ment of Natural Resources to be coveredunder NPDES General Permit No. 2"Storm Water Discharge Associated withIndustrial Activity for Construction Activ-ities".

The storm water discharge will be fromconstruction activities for Rasmussen AgSolutions Site Development, located nearthe intersection of North Townline Roadand Highway 25; SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 ofthe SW 1/4 of Section 5, Township 75 N,Range 31 W; Adair County, Iowa

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Regular SessionFebruary 24, 2014

The Union County Board of Supervi-sors met in Regular Session on Monday,February 24, 2014. The meeting wascalled to order at 9:00 AM with the fol-lowing members present: Dennis Brown,Ron Riley, and Lois Monday.

AGENDA: Motion by Monday andseconded by Riley to approve the Agenda.All voting aye, motion carried.

MINUTES: Motion by Riley and sec-onded by Monday to approve the minutesfrom February 18, 2014. All voting aye,motion carried.

OPEN FORUM: Karon Finn spoke atopen forum.

CONSERVATION BOARD AP-POINTMENT: Motion by Monday andseconded by Riley to appoint Brenda Sedl-mayr to the Conservation Board per rec-ommendation of Doug Jones and othermembers of the Union County Conserva-tion Board. All voting aye, motion carried.

ENGINEER: Steve Akes, Union Coun-ty Engineer, presented and discussed theweekly maintenance activity report, theproposed Courthouse parking lot expan-sion north of the Courthouse on HowardStreet, and the 5 year construction pro-gram.

28E AGREEMENT FOR SOUTH-ERN HILLS REGIONAL MENTALHEALTH: Motion by Monday and sec-onded by Riley for the chair to sign the28E Agreement for Southern Hills Re-gional Mental Health with the changesmade per the State of Iowa. All voting aye,motion carried.

CLAIMS AND HAND WRITTENCLAIMS: Motion by Monday and sec-onded by Riley to pay claims 119999-120073. All voting aye, motion carried.0001 GENERAL BASIC FUNDACS GOVERNMENT.................1,100.00 ALLIANT ENERGY.........................19.31 ARAMARK.......................................12.17 BM SALES......................................241.50 BROWN.............................................20.00 CARPENTER UNIFORM CO.........82.14 CHAT MOBILITY..........................127.79 CRESTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES.......................................460.40 CRITTENDEN...................................20.00 DES MOINES CNTY SHERIFF OFC....................................................26.10 FAREWAY STORES.....................490.00 HEARTLAND TIRE & AUTO........34.97 HY-VEE INC................................2,963.93 INTERNL MED CONSULTNTS INC...................................................357.00 LINES...............................................350.00 MAIL SERVICES LLC..................465.34 MILLER...........................................581.68 MULLIN............................................90.40 NISSLY..............................................31.00 OFFICE MACHINES COMPNY INC...................................................829.20 QUEE.................................................20.00 RECORDERS ASSOCIATION.......20.00 RICHARD L WILSON PC...............45.33 RINGGOLD CO SHERIFFS OFFIC............................................3,824.00 SHOPKO PHARMACY...................59.66 SHRED-IT USA - DES MOINES.............................................59.65 THATCHER....................................609.04 THE TONER PLACE.....................300.00 THOMPSON......................................20.00 TITUS.................................................90.40 TREASURER STATE OF IA (MH)..............................................4,058.79 UNION CO LEC FUND..............4,392.97 WALKER D O...................................35.00 0001 GENRAL BASIC FUND TTL: ...........................................21,837.77 0002 GENERAL SUPPLEMENTALACCESS SYSTEMS LEASING.........................................289.20 YOUTH & SHELTER SERVICES.......................................699.75 0002 GNRAL SUPPLMNTAL TTL: ................................................988.95 0010 MH-DD SERVICES FUNDRICHARD L WILSON PC.............124.75 TREASURER STATE OF IA (MH)..............................................9,566.31 0010 MH-DD SERVICES FND TTL: .............................................9,691.06 0011 RURAL SERVICES BASICACCESS SYSTEMS LEASING......24.00 ALLIANT ENERGY.........................67.88 HUSBAND.........................................20.39 MEDIACOM.....................................73.11 MID COUNTRY MACHINERY, INC...................................................271.29 NEOPOST USA INC........................34.42 OFFICE MACHINES COMPANY INC.....................................................21.27 SERVICE TECHS INC...................107.36 0011 RURL SERVICS BASIC TTL: ................................................619.72 0020 SECONDARY ROAD FUNDACCESS SYSTEMS LEASING....120.00 ADVENTURELAND......................443.52 AGRILAND FS INC..................12,399.91 ALLIANT ENERGY.......................437.69 ARNOLD MOTOR SUPPLY...........40.08 CALHOUN-BURNS & ASSOC INC................................................2,346.90 CFI TIRE..........................................359.18 CRESTON AUTOMOTIVE INC.....79.31 CROSS-DILLON TIRE INC.......6,506.00 EAGAN ELECTRIC.......................148.78 FASTENAL COMPANY..................51.60 G&K SERVICES...............................40.00 HAWKEYE TRUCK EQUIPMENT...............................7,695.00 HI CREST, INC............................1,627.47 ICPA.................................................525.00 INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIES.......250.00 IOWA DEPT TRANSPORTATION.....................128.00 IOWA PRISON INDUSTRIES...............................1,618.00 IA STATE ASSOC OF COUNTIES......................................140.00 JIM'S TRUCK REP & SANITATION...................................75.00 MEDIACOM...................................292.42 MID-IOWA SALES CO...................97.25 MURPHY TRACTR &EQUIPMNT CO..................................................1,199.11 NEOPOST USA INC........................34.43 T & S INDUSTRIES INC...............135.81 UNITY POINT CLINC-..................296.00 0020 SECNDRY ROAD FUND TTL: ...........................................37,086.46 0022 FLOOD & EROSIONFIFE...............................................1,661.50 0022 FLOOD & EROSION TOTAL: ......................................1,661.50 4000 EMERG MANAGEMNT FNDALLIANT ENERGY.......................300.00 COOK VIDEO & APPLIANCE.....948.99 DUCKWORTH..................................80.93 IOWA STATE SAVINGS BANK.................................................72.80 MEDIACOM...................................133.26 OFFICE MACHINES COMPANY INC..................................................389.47 4000 EMERG MANGEMNT FND TTL: .............................................1,925.45 4004 LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTRARAMARK.......................................15.58 MEYER LABORATORY INC.........82.95 O'KEEFE ELEVATOR COMPANYINC...................................................788.80 UNION COUNTY AUDITOR.........69.00 VERIZON WIRELESS...................360.21 4004 LAW ENFORCMNT CENTR TTL: .............................................1,316.54 4100 CNTY ASSESSMENT EXPENSECHAT MOBILITY............................12.34 HANER............................................275.52 4100 CO ASSESSMNT EXPNSE TTL: ................................................287.86 4960 SANITARY LANDFILLAGRILAND FS INC.......................448.53 CASEY'S GENERAL STORE.......138.01 TRUE VALUE HARDWARE & RENTAL..........................................157.72 4960 SANITARY LANDFILL TOTAL: ..........................................744.26 8500 COUNTY HEALTH INSURANCEEMPLOYEE BENEFIT SYSTEMS..................................85,020.09 8500 CNTY HEALTH INSURNCE TTL: ...........................................85,020.09 GRAND TOTAL:...................161,179.66

ADJOURNMENT: There being nofurther business, the meeting was ad-journed at 11:25 AM.ATTEST: SANDY HYSELL, AUDITORBY: DENNIS J. BROWN, CHAIRMAN,BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
































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Vintage Park Apartments801 East Van Buren, Lenox, IA 50851

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Due to expansion, Vintage Park Apartments Assisted Living in Lenox, Iowa is excited to be seeking a dedicated, committed and experienced part-time Maintenance Assistant. The ideal candidate must possess experience with apartment and grounds maintenance including lawn and snow removal, refurbishing apartments, replacing fixtures and equipment, completing work orders as assigned and environmental safety. If you enjoy working with the elderly in a team atmosphere this is the opportunity for you!

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is seeking a 2 quarter-time members to serve with the Union County Extension Office. Members will lead youth activities through the extension office. Members are provided a living stipend and an education award which can be applied to past educational loans or future tuition. Interested candidates need to email their resumes and/or any questions to: Haley Jones at [email protected]

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Fri. March 7- 10:00AM Creston, IA. Land Auction- 100 Acres M/L, Knox Twp, Clarke Co. IA, Sec. 18 for Dan Garrett.Auctioneers: Tom Frey, Darwin West, Todd Crill.Sat. March 15- 10:30AM Rural Osceola, IA. Tractors, Hay Equipment, Planting and Tillage Equipment for Larry Reynolds Estate. Auctioneers: Jim Smith, Curt Pierschbacher.Mon. March 24- 10:00AM Creston, IA. Spring Machinery Consignment Auction. Auctioneers: Tom Frey, Darwin West, Todd Crill, Steve Bergren.Sun. March 30- 11:00AM Creston, IA. Guns, Ammo and Sporting Related Items from the Estate of Jon Early & Others.Auctioneers: Tom Frey, Darwin West, Todd Crill, Steve Bergren.

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BOWMAN SIDING & WINDOWS. All major brands of vinyl and steel siding, Heartland, Traco and Revere thermal replacement windows. Recipient of the Revere Premium Renovator Award. Seamless guttering and Leaf Relief gutter covers. 33 years of continuous reliable service in Southwest Iowa, free estimates, 641-322-5160 or 1-800-245-0337.

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StorageShARP’S SELF-STORAGE Boats, records, inventory, furniture. You store it, lock it, take the key. Industrial Park, Creston, 641-782-6227.

Tree ServiceMINERS TREE SERvICE. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding, fully insured. Free estimates. Justin Miner, 712-621-4847.

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job fair!!Wednesday, March 12th

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EXCELLENT CAREER OPPORTUNITY!If you like working with animals and wish you worked for a fun,

employee-oriented company then AMVC is the fit for you!

AMVC Employee Services is looking for top-notch candidates for:

Full time Swine Specialists - Will be caring for animals during and after the birthing process. Positions are for full and part time. Candidates must

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Assistant Manager - Swine production experience required; previous management experience desired. Seeking leaders who can provide

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Supported Employment Job Coach

Innovative Industries, Inc. is looking for a Job Coach to support individuals with disabilities in maintaining employment in the community. Excellent oral and written communication skills and computer knowledge are required. Position may be full or part time. Requires at least High School Diploma. Experience with people with disabilities preferred but not required.

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Deadline for applications is March 7, 2014

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Job Duties include assisting disabled individuals in their home and

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Diploma/GED and drivers license is required. Starting wage is $9.00,

training included. Includes overnights and weekend days and

weekend nights

Interested applicants may apply in person at

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Creston, Iowa EOE

MATERIAL PLANNERResponsibilities Include:

• Evaluate and act upon the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) suggestions for assigned commodities. • Coordinates all activities related to procurement of a commodity beginning with intent to purchase through delivery.• Investigates and/or interviews potential suppliers to determine if they meet the specified requirements.• Advises team members or management on the appropriate supplier to be used.• Negotiates the lowest possible cost for the commodity taking into consideration quality & schedule needs.• Assures that the commodity is delivered on schedule, at the negotiated price, and meets quality standards.• Confers with vendors to obtain product information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.• Prepares purchase orders.• Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority.• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.

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including troubleshooting and preventive maintenance. Mechanical aptitude needed.

Process Technician • $19.25/Hr.Operate processing plant equipment. Perform

general cleanup and material handling. Processing background desired.

Warehouse Technician • $16.50/Hr.Perform warehouse operations of finished

product. Insure accountability for all products scheduled to be shipped. Forklift and material

handling experience desired.

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Process and warehouse technician positions are on 12-hour shifts.

The plant will operate 365 days per year. Working on nights, weekends, and holidays required.

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Women and Minorities encouraged to apply. Oldcastle Materials is an EEO/AA

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Retiring conservation board member: Paul Downing — who retired from the Union County Conservation Board in February — is shown here receiving a plaque for his 20 years of service. Pictured, from left, are board members Rick Rice, Brenda Sedlmayr, John Tapken, Downing, Doug Jones, Don Sheridan and Tom Lesan. “There is something to be said for someone who volunteers to do anything for 20 years,” Jones said. “Paul was on the board when all the developments at Three Mile Lake took place — taking it from nothing but a cornfield to a high-use recreation area. He’s always had a willingness to serve and we’re glad he did.” Sedlmayr was recently appointed by Union County Board of Supervisors to fill the vacancy.

Study: Iowa should not release more casino licenses

DES MOINES (MCT) — Tim Hurley came away from Thursday’s Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission feeling a little more secure about the future of Waterloo’s casino -- and more certain it will not face competition from Cedar Rapids.

“We’re probably feeling as positive as we have been” since the Cedar Rapids casino project first was proposed, said Hurley, a former Wa-terloo mayor and chairman of the Black Hawk County Gaming Association.

The commission is antici-pated to decide next month whether to grant Cedar Rap-ids Development Group a license to operate the the pro-posed Cedar Crossing casino on the west side of downtown Cedar Rapids, heaviest dam-aged by the 2008 flood.

“I would say I’m coming away a bit more confident that the commission will make the right decision - to deny,” Hurley said. “Now, saying that, we have a long way to go and about anything can hap-pen.” The Racing and Gam-ing Commission is scheduled to visit the Cedar Rapids site April 3. A vote is anticipated at the April 17 commission meeting in Council Bluffs.

Two commission-retained consulting firms presented more detail of their market studies of the impacts addi-tional casinos would have on the existing ones. Both studies concluded the gaming market is saturated in Iowa and ad-ditional casinos would “can-nibalize” revenues from the others.

That’s even more true with

“insular” casinos inside the state and not on its borders, Hurley said, including the Isle Casino Hotel Waterloo, Riverside Casino and Golf Resort and Meskwaki Casino near Tama.

The commission-retained consultants said those casinos derive 95 percent of their rev-enues from within the state, and would most certainly suf-fer from an additional in-state casino like the one proposed for Cedar Rapids.

The consultants “only clari-fied what we had read” in the executive summaries of their studies, Hurley said. “Number one, the market is saturated in Iowa and weaker than it was. It’s not fully recovered from the recession. And now we’re facing competition from other states.”

State gaming regulators had few questions for the au-thors of the market studies

Representatives from Mar-quette Advisors of Minneapo-lis and Union Gaming of Las Vegas each presented reports to the commission Thursday morning during its meeting at Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Altoona.

Both studies came to simi-lar conclusions.

“We do not believe there are any underserved counties in Iowa,” Rich Baldwin, man-aging director of Union Gam-ing Analytics. “We believe (the state) should refrain from issuing any additional casino licenses.”

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COMMUNITY Friday March 7, 2014

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VFW Post 1797 met Feb. 11 at the Elk’s Lodge. Twen-ty members and guests were present for dinner.

Commander Gary O’Daniels called the meet-ing to order at 7 p.m. with 16 members present.

The post draped the char-ter for veterans Darlene Va-derplum, Alvus West, Wil-liam Bonn, Richard Briner and Ronney Ford.

Minutes and QM reports were read and approved.

Service officers report was honor guard 44 hours, com-munity service 14 hours and hospital 51 hours for a total of 109 hours.

The post surgeon has vis-ited veterans at both nursing homes.

On old business, calender sales were $270.

In new business, Red Ben-son’s Purple Heart ceremo-ny was held Feb. 13 at Prairie View Assisted Living.

Union County Veterans Affairs will be holding a vet-erans supermarket May 17 at Supertel Inn and Conference Center. Various documents from the state VA office will be present along with com-munity agencies that provide veterans services to the area. This is co-sponsored by Ad-ams County Veterans Af-fairs, as well.

Guaranteed programs from national was discussed. The next VFW meeting will be election of officers for next year.

O’DanieIs gave a report on state and district VFW. The next district meeting will be May 17 in Ottumwa.

At the state midwinter

meeting, it was decided to discontinue selling calenders for next year.

State VFW meeting will held June 6-8 in Burlington.

The meeting adjourned at 8 p.m. The next meeting will be Tuesday at the Elk’s Lodge with dinner at 6 p.m. and meeting at 7 p.m. All veterans are encouraged to attend.

Union County Genealogical Society

Union County Genealogi-cal Society met Feb. 24 at Gibson Memorial Library. Jane Briley presided with 10 members present. Briley re-ported on the society’s non-profit status.

Correspondence was re-viewed. Printed newsletters from other societies are filed in the genealogy room of the library for all to read. Rog-er Nurnberg reported that Find-A-Grave site on the internet has a backlog of requests of Graceland Cem-etery queries and asked for help in answering these.

Member Saundra Lininger, who is the regional representative for the Iowa Genealogical Society, an-nounced a Monday work-shop in Des Moines on Irish research. She also offered details on a research trip to the Mid-Continent Library in Independence, Mo., on June 9 and 10. For more in-formation, see www.iowage-nealogy.org.

Calvin Huffman gave the five-minute tidbit regarding a bit of research from Des Moines County. Briley gave the program on “Using So-

cial Media for Genealogy.”The March 24 meeting is

set for 6 p.m. at the library. As usual, interested people are welcome.

Chautauqua CircleGFWC Progressive Chau-

tauqua Circle met Feb. 25 at the home of Carolyn Biere. Devotions focusing on help-ing others were given by Sharon Booth. The Home Life program was provided by all members sharing ways to help families.

President Mary Mor-ris conducted the business meeting. In the absence of the secretary, Linda Huff-man conducted the roll call, with 17 members naming something a nature poet might write about. Huffman also read the minutes of the January meeting. Treasurer Connie Edsall gave the trea-surer’s report.

Jerrie Henderson report-ed that $73 was collected in January for gas cards for the Crisis Intervention and Advocacy Center. For this meeting, members brought personal items to be given to the center. Henderson provided members with a donation list of items to be collected for each meeting through December. For the March event, items for chil-dren’s Easter baskets will be collected.

Morris reported Gibson Memorial Library will be hosting a coffee house Mon-day. A scrapbooking event, hosted by Friends of the Library, was held Saturday with several Chautauqua members helping.

Huffman reported a music camp scholarship application

has been submitted to the district scholarship chairper-son.

Pauline McCoy presented a safety report about the dangers of being in a car dur-ing a flood.

The Chautauqua 119th an-niversary party will be held 1 p.m. Tuesday at the home of Judy Woods. Co-hosts will be Sandy Oswald and Lin-da Huffman. Creston High School speech students will provide the program.

KiwanisThe weekly Kiwanis meet-

ing was held 12:05 p.m. Tues-day at The Windrow with 20 members and one guest present. Chris Frederick-son president, presided. Jane Lowe did the prayer, and Ja-mie Travis was finemaster.

The program was Paul Lorenz who spoke about implementing some changes and soliciting new ideas for Pancake Day. Kiwanis Pan-cake Day will be 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 25 at the United Methodist Church. Tick-ets are now available from members.

More information and messages can be sent to the club on its Facebook page Kiwanis Club of Creston, Iowa.

Crest Area for LifeCrest Area for Life met

7:30 p.m. Feb. 25t at the Holy Spirit hall. President Betty Baker opened up the meeting with the right to life prayer. Seventeen members were in attendance.

Secretary Terry Madison read the minutes from the January meeting. They were approved.

Pat Pokorny gave the

treasurer’s report. It was ap-proved.

Velma Reigel sent out 20 baby congratulatory cards.

Under old business, there was discussion about the me-morial service held Jan. 19 at Calvary Cemetery. There was good turnout.

Under new business, the Rev. Richard Queener from Stringtown Church approved a request to put a sign on the church property. It will be discussed at the next meet-ing.

Mike Henry gave a pre-sentation on 40 Days for Life and asked members to come and pray with them.

Phyllis Allan gave a re-port on the March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22 that she attended.

The next meeting will be 7:30 p.m. March 25 at the Holy Spirit hall.

Terry Madison made a motion, seconded by Meg Crawford, to adjourn.

Elzevir Reading Circle

Elzevir Reading Circle met 12:30 p.m. Feb. 14 at The Pizza Ranch. After lunch, President Terry Am-mon opened the meeting by reading “Life Has Loveli-

ness to Sell” by Sara Teas-dale. Members answered roll call by telling of a favorite Valentine memory. The sec-retary and treasurer reports were given and approved.

Linda Topliff read an invi-tation from Gibson Memo-rial Library to a coffeehouse event 6:30 p.m. Monday. Topliff moved to donate to the memorial money for honorary member Jan Nes-bit to the library. Barbara Thomsen seconded and mo-tion passed.

Possible fundraising was discussed, as well as maybe increasing yearly dues. Fur-ther discussion will be held at a later date. Motion to adjourn was made by Mary Burg, seconded by Angela Pullen. The meeting closed with all reciting Mary Stew-art’s Collect.

Carol Harrison gave the program explaining the vol-unteer mission trip she had taken with several others from Iowa in 1995. Within a week’s time, 1,800 pairs of glasses were distributed through the VOSH service project in Palzcuaro, Mexico.

The next meeting will be March 14 at the home of An-gela Pullen with the program given by Barbara Thomsen.

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Tuesday: BBQ pork rib, hot dog bun, succotach, Mandarin oranges.

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While the fun factor asso-ciated with manual transmis-sion vehicles may be difficult to dispute, there are other commonly held beliefs about stick shifts that are far easier to contest. The following are a few things about today’s manual transmission vehi-cles that might surprise even the most ardent automotive enthusiasts.

• Manual transmission vehicles are not necessar-ily cheaper than automatic transmission vehicles. Stick shifts are often less expen-sive than automatics, but that’s not always the case, and certain manufacturers, including BMW, tend to charge the same price for their vehicles regardless of which type of transmission buyers choose. In the past, manual transmissions were almost always a less expen-sive option than automatic transmissions because they were easier for manufactur-ers to install, which enabled automakers to cut back on labor costs, and those sav-ings were passed along to consumers. While that dif-ference in sticker price might once have been significant, nowadays it is often negli-gible, meaning buyers won’t necessarily save substantial amounts of money by opting for a stick shift.

• Stick shifts are not read-ily available in all models. As the popularity of manual transmission vehicles has waned, so, too, has their availability. According to Edmunds.com, 67 percent of 2013 model-year vehicles were offered only with au-tomatic transmissions. While

it might be possible for buy-ers to still purchase such vehicles with manual trans-missions, that opportunity is not guaranteed. Even if it is available, buyers will likely have to pay a premium price to order such custom-made automobiles, and it takes longer to deliver such vehi-cles than it does when buyers simply buy a car already on the lot.

• Stick shifts may not be expensive to maintain. Some drivers of manual transmis-sion vehicles like to bemoan the costs of replacing the clutch on their vehicles, and that raises some concern among buyers considering a stick shift. But skilled stick shift drivers need not be wor-ried about constantly replac-ing the clutch, which tends to be most in need of replace-ment when novice drivers struggle to get the hang of a manual transmission. In ad-dition, manual transmissions are often much less expen-sive to replace than auto-matic transmissions. Also, skilled stick shift drivers who can deftly downshift often note the positive long-term effect that such a practice has on their brake pads and rotors, which can last con-siderably longer on vehicles with manual transmissions than those with automatic ones.

• Stick shifts may not re-pel car thieves or cost less to insure. Because vehicles with manual transmissions require more skill to drive than automatics, some feel

as though this deters car thieves, who may not know how to drive stick shifts. But there is no evidence to support this theory, nor any evidence to dispute it. And while those who subscribe to this theory feel that manual transmissions are therefore cheaper to insure because they are at a decreased risk of being stolen, that is also untrue. While the standards used to determine the price of an insurance policy vary between providers, many in-surance providers view man-ual transmission vehicles as more risky because they take longer to shift, stop and ac-celerate. But manual trans-missions also are less expen-sive to repair, and insurance companies consider that as well when determining the cost of a policy. Such factors may cancel each other out, and drivers will be left with an insurance policy that’s roughly the sameas if the ve-hicle included an automatic transmission.

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But just because fuel ef-ficiency is a good concept does not mean there are not misconceptions about it among drivers and auto-motive professionals alike. The following are some of the more widely held mis-conceptions about fuel ef-ficiency.

• Full tanks conserve fuel. Many people have long believed that a nearly full tank of gas means the fuel within that tank is less likely to evaporate, and that tanks that half-full tanks are losing gas to evaporation. Though this might have been the case years ago, to-day’s vehicle’s are smarter than ever before, and their fuel systems are designed

with vapor recovery systems so drivers traveling around with tanks that are closer to empty than full aren’t losing gas to evaporation.

• Manual transmissions are more fuel efficient. Technology can once again be credited with turning conventional wisdom on its head. In the past, manual transmission vehicles might have been more fuel effi-cient because drivers could more efficiently control en-gine revving with a 5-speed manual transmission than they could with the stan-dard 3-speed automatic transmission. However, au-tomatic transmissions have evolved over the years, and they are now more adept at controlling revs and con-serving fuel than many driv-ers of manual transmission vehicles.

• When you fill up mat-ters. Some drivers have long believed that filling up during the cooler hours

of the day earns them more gas than filling up when the temperatures are at their peak. This theory traces its origins to the fact that liquids are at their most dense when they are cool. But today’s filling stations store their gas in tanks be-neath the ground, which is why you might see a tanker emptying its contents into the ground at the filling sta-tion. These underground tanks are insulated from temperature swings, so you aren’t likely to receive any more gas by filling up in the morning than you will when filling up at night.

• An old vehicle is des-tined to be less fuel effi-cient. Any product that is allowed to fall into disre-pair will prove less efficient than products that are well maintained, and cars are no exception. A poorly main-tained car will not operate at peak fuel efficiency be-cause it’s likely being forced

to work harder to get down the street than it would if it was well kept. But a well-maintained vehicle should not grow less fuel efficient over time.

• Shifting into neutral while stopping saves gas. This is another misconcep-tion that was once true but no longer applies thanks to advances in technology.

When engines still had car-buretors, shifting into neu-tral might have helped con-serve fuel by stopping the flow of gas into the engine while the car was idling. However, fuel injection systems are now computer-ized and capable of sensing when an engine is revving above idle. This shuts off the fuel injectors, prevent-

ing gas from being injected into the engine and prevent-ing gas from being wasted while the vehicle is stopped as a result.

Taking steps to conserve fuel is a good way for drivers to save money and benefit the environment. However, some of the conventional means to conserving fuel are no longer viable.

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