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No school Wednesday There will be no classes held Wednesday in the Creston School District. School is cancelled so students can watch the Creston wrestling team compete in the state dual competition at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

Creston/Orient-Macks-burg (16-0) will wrestle fifth-seeded Clear Lake (23-4) at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Class 2A state duals. The winner meets either top-ranked Mediapolis (23-5) or No. 8 Sergeant Bluff-Luton (20-0).

Results from the meet Wednesday will be posted at www.crestonnews.com and in Thursday’s Creston News Advertiser.

Best burger contest beginsIt’s that time again. The fifth annual Io-wa’s Best Burger Contest is now under way with nominations forms available at www.iabeef.com.

Last year, more than 300 Iowa res-taurants were nominated in the contest. Elm’s Club in Creston was named a top 10 finalist in the contest that’s hosted by Iowa Beef In-dustry Council and Iowa Cat-tlemen’s Asso-ciation.

But, Elm’s Club did not win. The crown went to 61 Chop House in Mediapolis. If you would like to nominate the Elm’s Club again this year or another area restaurant, nomination forms must be turned in by 5 p.m. March 17.

For more information about this con-test, visit the Iowa Beef Council Facebook page or www.iabeef.com.

Powerball jackpot swellsWith no weekend winner, the Powerball lottery jackpot will increase to an estimat-ed $400 million for Wednesday’s drawing. That would be the sixth-largest lottery jackpot ever.

However, your chances of winning the jackpot aren’t good. Powerball’s official website gives the odds of winning the grand prize at roughly 1 in 175 million.

Relay for Life team meetingA team meeting for Southwest Iowa Re-lay for Life will be held 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday at The Lobby. This is the first team kickoff meeting of the year. New and existing teams are encouraged to come and get signed up online, pick up lu-minaria bags and get information.

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Tech talk: Cinda Long, left, gets help from Creston High School student Ben Mullin at Saturday’s technology talk sponsored by Creston Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and Adams Street Espresso. Topics ranged from spreadsheets and transferring music to Google drive and how the cloud works. FBLA also held a Twitter in Business workshop at Quilts and Other Notions Activity Center Sunday. Students showed participants how to use Twitter to promote their business.

On to state: Mount Ayr junior Joe Ricker lets out a celebratory scream after pin-ning Panorama’s Garrett Johnston in just 20 sec-onds in the 285-pound finals at Saturday’s Class 1A dis-trict tournament in Greenfield, sending Ricker to the 2014 State Wrestling Tournament. For more on the Class 1A district tourna-ment, see page 8A.

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By SARAH BROWNCNA staff [email protected]

This winter’s cold tempera-tures are making water main repairs difficult for Creston Water Works employees.

Since Dec. 1, Creston has experienced 15 breaks in their water mains. The culprit — a combination of corroding pipes and deep, penetrating soil frost.

“In 24 years, this is the deepest I have seen (the frost),” said Rick Reed, Cres-ton Water Works distribution manager.

Reed said, in some places, the frost reaches approxi-mately 48 to 60 inches below the surface.

Reed said the lack of mois-ture in the soil because of last summer’s drought mixed with cold winter temperatures has compounded the problem.

“When the ground is dry, it tends to pull away from the pipes and doesn’t support them as well,” said Reed.Cost

The cost of a water main break varies greatly depend-ing on the amount of water loss and the size of the break.

In December, a 12-inch wa-ter main broke near uptown Creston, causing the water levels in the tower near the business district to drop 12 feet. By the time crews were able to repair the break, “a couple hundred thousand” gallons were lost, according to Creston Water Works Gen-eral Manager Steve Yarkosky.

Yarkosky said the break cost nearly $10,000 in repairs and water loss.

“That cost a lot of man hours and was very labor in-tensive,” said Yarkosky.

However, not all water main breaks cost the same. Sometimes, workers are able to solve the problem by placing a clamp over the leak. Other times, large pipes are cut and r e p l a c e d . Also, some breaks are a slow leak, while others result in a more rapid water loss.Prevention

Frost that reaches depths of 4 to 5 feet pose a problem for the city, because some of Creston’s water mains are as shallow as 3 feet. Many of these shallow mains are the older and more fragile, cast iron pipes.

Reed said, the reason for shallow mains is because of the city’s expansion over time. As land for new roads or structures are leveled, soil is removed from the surface. So, for a main that was once 10 feet deep is now much closer to the

surface.As a preventative measure,

Creston Water Works staff has budgeted for upgrades to the 90 miles of water mains running through the ground in Cres-ton.

“To date, Creston Water Works is very aggressive in doing just that,” said Yar-kosky. “As time goes on, more and more will be re-placed.”

Yarkosky said approxi-mately 50 percent of the wa-ter mains have been replaced with PVC and some with

ductile iron, which provide a little more give to handle the ground as it contracts and wa-ter surges.

“Someday we will have 100 percent replaced, but, it takes a lot of time and a lot of mon-ey,” said Yarkosky. “From an infrastructure standpoint, you budget and plan and try to do some every year.”

Creston Water Works staff prioritizes preventative main-tenance based on the history

This winter’s main problem� Creston has experienced 15 water main breaks this winter. Frost in some areas is 48 to 60 inches deep.

CNA file photoCity employees use heavy machinery to clean up an icy mess caused by an overnight water main break on Summit Street in Creston in January. This was one of 15 water main breaks in Creston this winter.

CNA photo by SARAH BROWNA Creston Water Works employee uses a jack hammer to access a broken water main Wednesday on Montgomery Street.

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Ivan BennettLenox

Ivan Bennett, 85, of Lenox died Feb. 9, 2014, in Creston.

Funeral s e r v i c -es were 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, at Clearfield U n i t e d Methodist C h u r c h . Interment was in North Fair-view Cemetery in Lenox. Ritchie Funeral Home, 124 S. Main St., Lenox, was in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be given in Ivan’s name.

Online condolences may be left at www.ritchiefuner-alhome.com.

Ivan Warner Bennett, son of Bernice Marga-ret (House) and William Donald Bennett, was born April 25, 1928, southeast of Lenox.

He attended Clearfield Christian Church and changed to Clearfield Meth-odist Church when he mar-ried.

Ivan attended two coun-try schools and graduated from Clearfield Community School in 1947.

On March 26, 1950, Ivan married C. Jane Bliss in Mount Ayr.

Ivan lived his entire life in Platte Township. He farmed with his father and later his two sons and owned two Century Farms.

Ivan worked part time hauling propane for Spur-rier Brothers and also drove a school bus for Clearfield School’s extracurricular ac-tivities. He was also a 4-H leader for the Calvary Go-Getters.

Ivan and Jane were mem-bers of Seventeen Card Club and Clearfield Lions Club. He served on Clearfield School Board, MFA Board, Lenox Sunrise Apartments Board and more than 30 years as a committee mem-ber of Taylor County FSA.

Ivan and Jane moved to Lenox in 1991. Ivan joined the Seniors Golf League.

Jane died in February 2003. Ivan continued to be active on the farm. He moved to Vintage Park Apartments in 2009 and then to Lenox Care Center, after suffering a fall in No-vember 2011.

Ivan is survived by his children, Diane (Roger) Knudson of Omaha, Neb., Marilyn (Bob) Hildner of Berkley, Mich., Bar-bara (Jim) Parrish and Keith (Jacquie) Bennett, all of Lenox and Tim (Ja-net) Bennett of Clearfield; grandchildren, Jill (Knud-son) and Brian Dyer, Kelly (Knudson) and Kyle War-ren, Bree Hildner, Megan (Hildner) and Rick Wood, Lauren Hildner, Andy and Brenda (Israel) Parrish, Dane and Lisa (Shawler) Parrish, Cody Parrish (fian-cé Kristen Leonard), Marc Parrish, Nicole Fry, Sean and Hannah Bennett, Lo-gan and Tyler Sheffield and Cory and Dillon Bennett; 12 great-grandchildren, special friend Darlene Freeman; sis-ters, Lois Rodman of Lenox and Joan Parker of Omaha, Neb.; sister and brother-in-law, Mary Ellen and Harry Steele of Pinedale, Wyo., and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

In addition to his wife, Ivan was preceded in death by his parents, brother-in-law Daryl Rodman and niece Debra Ramsey.

Robert RobinsonCreston

Robert W. Robinson, 91, of Creston died Feb. 13, 2014, at C r e s t o n N u r s i n g and Rehab Center.

T h e r e will be no visitation or funeral service at this time. There will be a private committal service at Hawkeye Cemetery at a later date. Powers Funeral Home, junction of highways 34 and 25, is in charge of ar-rangements. Memorials may be given in Robert’s name to either First United Method-ist Church in Creston or Bel-la Vista Community Church in Bella Vista, Ark. Online condolences may be left at www.powersfh.com.

Robert Walter Robinson, son of Belle Cedra (Brown) and Walter Clarence Robin-son, was born Dec. 29, 1922, near Hawkeye.

Robert enlisted and served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater in WWII from April 1943 until April 1946.

Robert graduated from UIU after the war. He re-ceived his master’s degree in 1955 from the University of Iowa.

On Aug. 22, 1948, Rob-ert married Anna Elizabeth

Chamberlain at Hawkeye Methodist Church.

Robert was as an educa-tor for a total of 35 years; including at Sutherland and Peterson, before moving to Creston in 1959. Robert was the elementary supervisor of schools and helped initi-ate and supervise the special education department at Creston School District for 27 years.

Robert and Elizabeth re-tired to Bella Vista, Ark., in 1986 where they resided un-til September 2013.

Robert was active in the Creston community dur-ing his years here. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church and Rota-ry Club and many other or-ganizations. He belonged to the American Legion, Bella Vista Community Church, Crime Watch and Garden Club in Bella Vista, Ark.

Robert is survived by his wife Elizabeth of Creston, brother Lloyd (wife Donna) Robinson of Hawkeye; sons, John (wife Jeannine) Rob-inson of North Waterboro, Maine, their children, daugh-ter Jessica Robinson of Bos-ton, Mass., son Robbie (wife Jasmin) Robinson and their two boys Mattimeo and Link of Standish, Maine, and son William (wife Shelly) Robin-son of Creston, their daugh-ters Amanda Robinson of West Des Moines and Em-ily Robinson of Creston and family and friends in Bella Vista and Iowa.

Lyle FluckeyArispe

Lyle Adam Fluckey, 94, of Arispe died Feb. 15, 2014, at G r e a t e r R e g i o n -al Hospice Home in Creston.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday , Feb. 18, at Powers Funeral Home, 612 N. Dodge St., Afton. The Rev. Lila Green will officiate. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery east of Afton. Open visita-tion will be 2 to 8 p.m. to-day with family present 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be given to Shannon City Community Church and/or will be used for a memorial bench to be placed in the Arispe park.

Lyle Adam Fluckey, son of Lilley Floy (Adams) and Harley Fluckey, was born Oct. 14, 1919, at home in rural Afton.

Lyle graduated from Arispe High School in 1937.

On Sept. 28, 1940, Lyle married Esther Dobson in Mount Ayr. They lived on and helped with the fam-ily farm and then moved to their Arispe farm in 1942.

Lyle farmed all of his life.Lyle was active in the

community holding po-sitions as the mayor of Arispe and on the school board. He was a member of Shannon City Community Church.

The couple continued to farm until health problems forced him to retire.

Lyle is survived by his children, Janice (husband Gary) Matson of Cedar Rapids, Sharon (husband Red) Cox of West Des Moines, Leslie Fluckey (wife Hayley) of Algon-quin, Ill., and Carolyn Boll-man of Creston; grandchil-dren, Melissa Stenberg, Mike and Mark Matson, Erin Miller and Jason and Shawn Fluckey; 10 great-grandchildren and many other family and friends.

Lyle was preceded in death by his parents, wife and sister Ilene Hohneke, formerly of Albia.

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Billy BelewShannon City

Billy Belew, 72, of Shan-non City died Feb. 16, 2014,

at his son’s home in Afton.Services are pending at

Powers Funeral Home, junc-tion of highways 34 and 25, Creston.

Garland TownsendCreston

Garland Townsend, 102,

of Creston died Feb. 16, 2014, at Creston Nursing and Rehab Center.

Services are pending at Powers Funeral Home, junc-tion of highways 34 and 25.

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Also, those interested in donating or volunteer-ing for Relay for Life are encouraged to come. This year’s Relay for Life event is scheduled June 20-21. New this year, the event will run from 6 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday.

For more information, contact Chantel Klejch at 641-344-8499.

SWCC blood drive re-scheduled for today

Southwestern Community College will host a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday. The event was pre-

viously scheduled for Feb. 5, but inclement weather forced the American Red Cross Midwest Blood Ser-vices Region to postpone the event. The winter weath-er has forced multiple blood drive cancellations across the country, putting a strain on the total blood supply.

Because the Red Cross is attempting to reschedule several events, the reduced staff will only be able to collect a total of 38 units. SWCC Admissions Coordi-nator Caitlyn Lesan said the goal of the blood drive is to fill the maximum quota of 38 units.

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of the water mains, how many breaks have occurred in various areas, number of homes potentially affected and making sure adequate water flow is provided for fire protection.

And, the improvements Creston Water Works is making may be helping.

Yarkosky said, the aver-age number of water main breaks for the previous five years is 24 annually. In 2013, 28 water main breaks oc-

curred — greatly reduced from the 49 water main breaks that happened in 2012.

Working togetherResidents can help by re-

porting any water seepage or “anything unusual” to Creston Water Works from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday by calling (641) 782-5817.

To report a suspected break after hours, contact the Union County Law En-forcement Center at (641) 782-8402.

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Accused Craigslist kill-er, 19, confesses to 22 slayings, report says

(MCT) — A Pennsyl-vania teenager accused of killing a man she met on Craigslist has confessed to the slaying — and to killing more than 20 other people after joining a satanic cult at age 13, according to an interview she gave to a lo-cal newspaper.

The information in the interview could not be cor-roborated on Sunday.

Miranda Barbour, 19, re-portedly had been married only three weeks when she and her husband, Elytte Barbour, 22, stabbed and strangled Troy LaFerrara, 42, after meeting up with him on Nov. 11, accord-ing to police in Sunbury, Pa. Both Miranda and Elytte Barbour, who wed in North Carolina, were arrested a month later in Pennsylvania.

They are in custody and facing charges that include criminal homicide, assault and robbery, according to court records.

In a jailhouse interview published Saturday, the Daily Item in Sunbury, Pa., reported that Miranda Barbour admitted to kill-ing LaFerrara and to being part of a satanic cult since she was 13 years old.

Barbour said she be-gan killing people shortly after she joined the cult while living in Alaska and “stopped counting” when “I hit 22” slayings, accord-ing to the newspaper.

(Barbour’s attorney and Sunbury police could not immediately be reached for comment by the Los Ange-les Times on Sunday.)

Sunbury Police Chief

Steve Mazzeo told the Dai-ly Item he couldn’t confirm her claims but said “we are seriously concerned and have been in contact with the proper authorities” in other jurisdictions.

A spokeswoman for the FBI, Carrie Adamowski, told the Los Angeles Times in an email Sunday that “the FBI’s Philadelphia di-vision has recently been in contact with the Sunbury Police Department regard-ing Miranda Barbour and will offer any assistance re-quested in the case.”

Barbour reportedly told the Daily Item that she had participated in killings in Alaska, Texas, North Car-olina and California, with the majority happening in Alaska.

“I feel it is time to get all of this out,” Barbour said, according to the newspa-per, which reported that Barbour had requested the interview. “I don’t care if people believe me. I just want to get it out.”

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Today's WeatherLocal 5-Day Forecast

Tue

2/18

39/27Partly cloudy skies.High 48F. WindsWSW at 15 to 25mph.

Sunrise Sunset7:09 AM 5:54 PM

Wed

2/19

47/25Times of sun andclouds. Highs in theupper 40s and lowsin the low 30s.


Thu

2/20

48/34Rain and snowshowers. Highs inthe low 40s and lowsin the low 20s.


Fri

2/21

45/26More clouds thansun. Highs in the low40s and lows in thelow 20s.


Sat

2/22

44/23Snow showers attimes. Highs in thelow 30s and lows inthe upper teens.


Des Moines39/26

Cedar Rapids33/25

Sioux City54/31

Creston39/27

Iowa At A Glance

Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 37 27 sn shower Davenport 32 25 snow Marshaltown 32 22 sn showerAtlantic 46 30 frz rain Des Moines 39 26 mixed Mason City 33 25 sn showerAubudon 46 32 frz rain Dubuque 28 25 snow Onawa 52 34 pt sunnyCedar Rapids 33 25 sn shower Farmington 37 27 sn shower Oskaloosa 35 24 mixedCenterville 38 27 mixed Fort Dodge 39 28 sn shower Ottumwa 36 24 mixedClarinda 46 28 frz rain Ft Madison 35 27 mixed Red Oak 47 29 frz rainClarion 36 25 sn shower Guttenberg 30 23 snow Sioux Center 46 30 pt sunnyClinton 31 23 snow Keokuk 35 26 mixed Sioux City 54 31 pt sunnyCouncil Bluffs 50 36 pt sunny Lansing 31 25 snow Spencer 40 27 sn showerCreston 39 27 mixed LeMars 48 30 pt sunny Waterloo 31 24 sn shower

National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 62 46 pt sunny Houston 74 60 cloudy Phoenix 81 56 pt sunnyBoston 28 12 sunny Los Angeles 70 50 mst sunny San Francisco 62 49 pt sunnyChicago 30 23 snow Miami 81 66 mst sunny Seattle 47 41 rainDallas 71 45 pt sunny Minneapolis 34 28 sn shower St. Louis 45 28 frz rainDenver 59 35 pt sunny New York 32 25 sunny Washington, DC 52 37 mst sunny

Moon Phases

FullFeb 14

LastFeb 22

NewMar 1

FirstMar 8

UV IndexTue

2/183

Moderate

Wed2/19

3

Moderate

Thu2/20

3

Moderate

Fri2/21

3

Moderate

Sat2/22

3

Moderate

The UV Index is measured on a 0 -11 number scale, with a higher UVIndex showing the need for greaterskin protection.

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Day’s RecordFrom Creston Official Weather Station: high past 24 hours (67), low past 24 hours (30) and precipitation ending 7 a.m. today (.0)

Today's WeatherLocal 5-Day Forecast

Tue

2/18

39/27Partly cloudy skies.High 48F. WindsWSW at 15 to 25mph.


Wed

2/19

47/25Times of sun andclouds. Highs in theupper 40s and lowsin the low 30s.


Thu

2/20

48/34Rain and snowshowers. Highs inthe low 40s and lowsin the low 20s.


Fri

2/21

45/26More clouds thansun. Highs in the low40s and lows in thelow 20s.


Sat

2/22

44/23Snow showers attimes. Highs in thelow 30s and lows inthe upper teens.


Des Moines39/26

Cedar Rapids33/25

Sioux City54/31

Creston39/27

Iowa At A Glance

Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 37 27 sn shower Davenport 32 25 snow Marshaltown 32 22 sn showerAtlantic 46 30 frz rain Des Moines 39 26 mixed Mason City 33 25 sn showerAubudon 46 32 frz rain Dubuque 28 25 snow Onawa 52 34 pt sunnyCedar Rapids 33 25 sn shower Farmington 37 27 sn shower Oskaloosa 35 24 mixedCenterville 38 27 mixed Fort Dodge 39 28 sn shower Ottumwa 36 24 mixedClarinda 46 28 frz rain Ft Madison 35 27 mixed Red Oak 47 29 frz rainClarion 36 25 sn shower Guttenberg 30 23 snow Sioux Center 46 30 pt sunnyClinton 31 23 snow Keokuk 35 26 mixed Sioux City 54 31 pt sunnyCouncil Bluffs 50 36 pt sunny Lansing 31 25 snow Spencer 40 27 sn showerCreston 39 27 mixed LeMars 48 30 pt sunny Waterloo 31 24 sn shower

National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 62 46 pt sunny Houston 74 60 cloudy Phoenix 81 56 pt sunnyBoston 28 12 sunny Los Angeles 70 50 mst sunny San Francisco 62 49 pt sunnyChicago 30 23 snow Miami 81 66 mst sunny Seattle 47 41 rainDallas 71 45 pt sunny Minneapolis 34 28 sn shower St. Louis 45 28 frz rainDenver 59 35 pt sunny New York 32 25 sunny Washington, DC 52 37 mst sunny

Moon Phases

FullFeb 14

LastFeb 22

NewMar 1

FirstMar 8

UV IndexTue

2/183

Moderate

Wed2/19

3

Moderate

Thu2/20

3

Moderate

Fri2/21

3

Moderate

Sat2/22

3

Moderate

The UV Index is measured on a 0 -11 number scale, with a higher UVIndex showing the need for greaterskin protection.

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Driver’s licenseSchedule of driver’s license

examiners:Bedford: Monday through

Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Taylor County Courthouse, 407 Jefferson St.

Corning: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Adams County Courthouse. Driving tests on Wednesday mornings by appointment.

Creston: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Union County Courthouse, 300 N. Pine St. Driving tests Wednesdays. Call 782-1710 for an appointment.

Greenfield: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Adair County Courthouse, 400 Public Square.

Mount Ayr: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Ringgold County Courthouse, 109 W. Madison St.

Osceola: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Clarke County Courthouse, 100 S. Main St.

Winterset: Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., Madison County Courthouse, 112 N. John Wayne Drive.

MondayDiabetic Support Group, 1

p.m., Greater Regional Medical Center Cafeteria Conference Room.

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

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

Friends of the Creston Public Library Board, 6:30 p.m., Gibson Memorial Library, 200 W. Montgomery St. Meeting open to all members.

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

Use east door.

TuesdayODO Club, 11:30 a.m. luncheon,

Creston Family Restaurant, 802 W. Taylor St.

Creston Lions Club, noon luncheon, The Pizza Ranch, 520 Livingston Ave.

Creston Kiwanis Club, noon, The Windrow, 102 W. Taylor St.

Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, noon to 5 p.m., 107 W. Howard St.

Free community meal, 5 to 6 p.m., United Church of Christ (Congregational), 501 W. Montgomery St.

Creston City Council, 6 p.m., council chambers, restored Creston Depot.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 7:30 p.m. closed meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

WednesdayTOPS 116, 9:30 a.m., United

Church of Christ (Congregational), 501 W. Montgomery St.

J.C. Penney former employees coffee, 9 a.m., The Windrow.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) brown baggers 12x12 study, noon open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. No smoking.

Friends Helping Friends Bereavement Support Group, 3 to 5 p.m., Prairie View Assisted Living room 114, 1709 W. Prairie St.

ThursdaySuper 8 Club, 1 p.m., Regency

Park.Celebrate Recovery (a Christ-

centered 12-step program), 6 p.m., Crest Baptist Church, 1211 N. Poplar St.

Gambler’s Anonymous, 7 p.m., Assembly of God Church, 801 N. Fillmore St., Osceola.

Al-Anon, 7:30 p.m., Crossroads Mental Health Center, 1003 Cottonwood Road.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) open meeting, 7:30 p.m., St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

MeetingsMount Ayr City Council,

6 p.m. today, meeting room.Agenda includes: public fo-

rum; Snyder and Associates: consider adopting water sys-tem study and rate analysis; consider action to approve Live Healthy Iowa 5K route April 12 event date; 2013 wa-ter systems improvements: KM King pay applications No. 3, community develop-ment block grant draw down request No. 5 and SRF draw down requisition No. 4; Ed Rotert, Mount Ayr Fire De-partment: request for action to approve 28E agreements with Red Oak and Clarinda fire departments and Adams County and Cass County sher-iff’s departments; set date for public hearing on proposed budget for fiscal year begin-ning July 1, 2014; resolution on application for tax abate-ment for William H. French; Superintendent Wise report; treasurer’s report; claims.

— — — — — —Lenox School Board, 6

p.m. today, high school.Agenda includes: 6 p.m. pre-

sentation of the 2014-15 school calendar for discussion; sec-ond reading to amend policy 602.20; discussion on contract reduction; new hires; E-rate proposal; 2014-15 technology budget; presentation and pos-sible approval of elementary parking lot and playground fence design plans; painting bids; consider 2014-15 capital outlay expenses; presentation of 2013-14 Iowa assessment results; consider MAP assess-ment and Mid-Iowa School

Improvement Consortium membership purchase; sec-ondary educational program-ming changes; first reading to amend policy 605.4; purchase of computers for pilot one-on-one program; 2014-15 school calendar; continue sharing wrestling program with Bed-ford; sharing agreement with Prescott to share librarian and guidance services, Villisca to share agricultural teacher and Creston to share physi-cal education for the 2014-15 school year; discussion of pay increase for officials; adminis-tration/board reports; consider entering into three closed ses-sions per Iowa Code 21.5(1)i.

— — — — — —Creston City Council, 6

p.m. Tuesday, council cham-bers, restored Creston De-pot.

Agenda includes: public forum; public hearing on the city making application for financial assistance with the USDA Rural Development to partially finance the pur-chase of a new police cruiser; construction payment No. 3 of $3,415.22 to Kimrey Electric for work completed on the airport lighting improvements project; immediate safety en-hancement (ISE) application for Creston Municipal Airport for an existing height limitation easement for the approach to runway end 34; set bid date for 2 p.m. March 13 and public hearing and bid letting 6 p.m. March 18 for airport pave-ment maintenance project; appoint Tadd Carr to the Air-port Commission with term expiring Nov. 11, 2015; revised

professional services agree-ment with Calhoun-Burns and Associates for Phase I prelimi-nary design phase engineering for the replacement of Ad-ams Street Bridge over Lake McKinley; request from Cres-ton Middle School Student government class to change the name of Parkway Street to Patriotic Parkway based on recommendation of Planning and Zoning Commission; set public hearing 6 p.m March 4 for the purpose of accept-ing comment on Ordinance No. 14-151 amending chapter 136 Section 3 and adding new subsections 4 and 5 provisions pertaining to sidewalk regula-tions; discuss and possibly take action on request to open Park Street north of Howard Street; discussion of Chapter 10 com-mercial property tax exemp-tions; discussion of Sontag Property Development/Cot-tonwood subdivision.

BirthGreater Regional Medical Center

Amanda and David Rupp of Creston are parents of a daughter born Feb. 12, 2014. Alyssa Belle-Barbara Rupp weighed 7 pounds and was 19 inches long.

Grandparents are Tony Rupp of Bedford, Dee O’Neill of Bronson, Kan., and Rhonda Rupp of Creston.

Great-grandparents are Wayland Rupp of Bedford, Lorretta Ulrey of Larnard, Kan., and Joyce Dudenhofer of Bronson, Kan.

Sibling is Gracie Rupp, 1 1/2.

PoliceBenjamin Dean Rafter, 24,

909 W. Mills St., was charged with possession of a scedule 1 narcotic, marijuana, 11:15 p.m. Feb. 15 on New York Avenue.

According to a Creston Po-lice report, Rafter was a pas-senger in the back seat of a vehicle stopped for a headlight out and broken rear light. Dur-ing the stop, officers noticed actions of the occupants of the vehicle appeared nervous and the driver’s hands were trem-bling, consistent with actions by someone involved in ille-gal activity. The driver of the vehicle agreed to speak with officers and gave consent to search the vehicle. During the search, alcohol was discovered near Rafter. Rafter was of le-gal drinking age, but the driver and other passengers were underage. Rafter spoke with officers, and admitted he was in possession of marijuana. He retrieved a small bag of a green leafy substance from his shoe and gave it to the officers.

Rafter was released on $1,000 bond.

FireMiscellaneous

Medical, 8:10 a.m., Friday, South Sumner Avenue.

Medical, 8:32 a.m., Friday, South Stone Street.

Medical, 3:29 p.m., Friday, East Montgomery Street.

Medical, 6:48 a.m., Saturday, Miller Drive.

Medical, 7:29 a.m., Saturday, Lake Avenue.

Accident, 10:46 a.m., Saturday, New York Avenue.

Medical, 9:39 p.m., Saturday, South Sumner Avenue.

Medical, 11:15 p.m., Saturday, North Cedar Street.

Grain prices quoted at 10 a.m. today:

• Farmers Co-op, Creston:

No markets available.• Gavilon Grain:No markets available.

LotteryIowa’s Pick 3: 9-6-4Hot Lotto: 18-24-27-37-45 (3)Powerball: 2-9-14-21-23 (3)

Melanoma program to be held at SWCCA mini medical school

program, Saving Your Skin: Advances in Melanoma Research and Treatment, will be presented 6 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at Southwest-ern Community College, Instructional Center Room 180.

Join the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine for a special mini medical school program to learn what melanoma is, who is at risk and why. UI

Carver College of Medicine researchers and physicians will also discuss new ways to prevent and treat melano-ma, as well as new research breakthroughs.

To register go to www.m e d i c i n e . u i o w a . e d u /minimedicalschool or call 877-MED-IOWA or direct at 319-335-8886.

This free educational pro-gram is open to the public.

Space is limited, so reser-vations are required.

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Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014ARIES (March 21 to April 19)

A friend or someone in a group might be critical of you today. Or perhaps you feel intimidat-ed by this person. Either way, don’t let this get you down. Tomorrow is a better day.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a poor day to ask authority figures for permis-sion or approval, because they will likely reject you because people are quick to criticize today. (It’s a grumpy day.)

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your efforts to study some-thing might meet with obsta-cles today. Similarly, travel plans might get bogged down with rules and regulations. Ditto for all your activities. Oh well.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) News from your bank or some-one else about shared prop-erty, debt, taxes, inheritances and insurance matters might be bleak. No money! This is a discouraging day; wait until tomorrow.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Because people are inclined to be critical of each other today, conversations with partners and close friends might be a bummer. Just say something nice.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Co-workers are not encourag-ing, and bosses are downright discouraging today. It’s one of those days. It’s not a good day to ask for cooperation or per-mission.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Children feel like an increased responsibility today. This hap-pens sometimes. Romantic relationships are a bit sour as well. Just grin and bear it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is not an ideal day to talk to authority figures in the family (parents or older relatives) because they will be critical and discouraging. It is what it is. Postpone these dis-cussions until tomorrow.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You might fall into worry mode today, which is not good for your sign! Sagittarians need to be opti-mistic and physically active to survive.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Financial matters and cash flow might discourage you today. This is a poor day to pitch new ideas at work or ask other people for money. People are tightfisted.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Tackle heavy metal work that requires dis-ciplined thinking

today. Your critical faculties are sharp, and you will excel doing routine, detail-oriented work.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is an excellent day for research, because you will not overlook anything. Nothing is too much trouble, because you want to do the job well. Plus, you want results.

YOU BORN TODAY You have

a basic philosophy of life and set of core beliefs that guide you. Because of this, you have focus and direction. You are not distracted by what does not interest you. Personally, you are magnetic, attractive and very alive! This year something you’ve been involved with for nine years will diminish or end to make room for something new.

Birthdate of Toni Morrison, author; Greta Scacchi, actress.

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Dear Readers: Here is this week’s SOUNDOFF, about businesses and posting ad-dresses:

“I work for a company that sends me to other towns and a neighboring state. Most of the commercial businesses do not post addresses or busi-ness names on their building, or they are too small to read from the street. Some towns do not even have street signs on the corners. Some address-es do not show on our GPS. How do they expect visitors to get around their town? — Pat, via email”

Pat, you must be reading my mind! Many times, I have had to park the car and walk up to the door to read the tiny print. — Heloise

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other uses for coffee filters:• Use to make crafts with

children.• Make into sachets.• Dampen and use to cover

food before microwaving.

• Use to line the bottom of plant pots.

• Use as a makeshift bowl for snacks.

— HeloiseOLD ELECTRIC BLAN-

KETDear Heloise: I need some

hints on what to do with old electric blankets. The controls no longer work, but the blan-kets are in good condition. — Tammy P., Ozark, Mo.

Once the wires are removed, you still have a perfectly good blanket. In the colder months, you can layer it between the sheets and comforter on a bed for more warmth. You also can wrap plants in it to protect them. You can use it to cover furniture, etc., in storage, make it into a pet bed or fold it and use as a cushion. There are many things you can use it for. If it is still in good shape, definitely don’t throw it out. — Heloise

LETTER OF LAUGH-TER

Dear Heloise: This is in re-sponse to your comment on

where the Box Tops for Edu-cation labels are found. Imag-ine my surprise when I found one on the bottom of a pack-age of adult disposable under-wear! I loved it — now they are targeting grandparents! And I’m saving them for my grandkids. Smart marketing! — K.M., Tyler, Texas

TEXTBOOK IDDear Heloise: College stu-

dents should write their name and phone number on a sticky note and put it in each text-book just in case it gets lost. I usually put mine on the back side of the cover page. — Ali-son in San Antonio

Great hint, Alison! You can write your information on an inside cover in pencil or ink, too. Then later just erase it, or cover over with marker. — Heloise

BATHROOM HOOKSDear Heloise: A woman

complained about missing hooks for purses in public re-stroom stalls. My hint is this: If the hook is missing, I loop my purse’s strap over the cor-ner of the stall door. That way, it does not touch the ground, and I can still grab it if some-one tries to take it. — Tedra H., Auburn, Ind.

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Other Chapter Activities Include:12th at District Soils Judging • Northwest Missouri State University Career Development Events

Greenhand Fire-Up Camp • ACRES Program • AG Impact ConferenceBronze medal at National Forestry Career Development Event • Iowa Beef Expo

FFA Sub Districts: Gold in Radio Braodcasting & Job Interview, Silver in Public Speaking & Creed SpeakingNational FFA Week Activities

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National FFA Week Feb. 16-22, 2014

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FFA Week: Guest Speakers, Faculty Breakfast, Dress Up Days ending with Greenhand and Tractor Day on Friday. James Leonard, South Central District President from Newton will be our guest speaker to kick off FFA week.

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Creston/O-M sends seven to statePanthers cruise to district title

By LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

ATLANTIC — The Creston/O-M wrestling team advanced seven of its 12 dis-trict qualifiers to the state tournament while dominating the Class 2A district competi-tion here Saturday.

The Panthers easily topped the field of nine teams with 164.5 points and seven state qualifiers. Clarinda and At-lantic each had five state qual-ifiers in scoring 89 and 81.5 points, respectively.

The seven state qualifiers is the second-highest num-ber in Creston school history, ranking only behind the eight Panther qualifiers in 2004 and 2007. Other years with seven to state were 1972, 1973, 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2012.

Creston/O-M took second in the state with seven quali-fiers in 2008 after winning the state title with eight qualifiers in 2007.

This year, however, coach Darrell Frain said Mediapo-lis, Albia and Davenport As-sumption are the top team contenders, all with between six and nine state-ranked wrestlers. But he’d like to see the Panthers contend for a spot in the top 10.

“Once you get past those top three that are loaded, it’s kind of wide open,” Frain said. “I don’t think it’s unre-alistic to hope for a chance in the top five, even. We just have to build from today and get those seven to do the best they can on Thursday.”

Class 2A first-round and first-round consolation matches are held 9 a.m. to

noon on Thursday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines (see related story).

The four district champi-ons for Creston/O-M were Kruz Adamson (113 pounds), Chase Shiltz (145), Trevor Frain (170) and Adam Baker

(182). Joey Huntington (138), Tayler Pettit (160) and Seth Maitlen (195) all finished sec-ond for the Panthers.

Huntington earned his run-ner-up finish the hard way, by taking an 8-6 decision in the wrestleback round against

Clarinda’s Trey Stickler. The decisive points were scored on a takedown with 12 sec-onds left.

“I started clubbing and clubbing and he eventually fell straight down to his knees, and I just circled around,”

said Huntington, who placed third at the district level last year as a freshman.

Earlier, Huntington struck first in a scoreless match by

CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONState tournament qualifiers for Creston/O-M from Saturday’s district tournament in Atlantic are, from left, Trevor Frain, Tayler Pettit, Chase Shiltz, Kruz Adamson, Joey Huntington, Seth Maitlen and Adam Baker.

Seven area wrestlers qualify for state

By SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

GREENFIELD — Bed-ford/Lenox qualified three individuals to the 2014 State Wrestling Tournament, while Mount Ayr and South-west Valley both advanced two to the state tournament from the Class 1A District 4 Tournament here Saturday.

East Union and Nodaway Valley are both without any individual qualifiers for the state tournament.

Bedford/Lenox finished third in the team standings on Saturday with 60 points, thanks to one district cham-pion and a pair of runner-up finishes. Mount Ayr finished sixth with 44 points, while Southwest Valley was 10th with 32 points. East Union took 11th with 9.5 points and Nodaway Valley failed to score any points.Bedford/Lenox

Three of the five Bedford/Lenox wrestlers who com-peted at the district tourna-ment on Saturday advanced to this week’s state tourna-ment, highlighted by district champion Jared Hensley.

The freshman 113-pound-er, who has lost just one match all season, won a 7-3 decision in the finals over

Southwest Iowa’s Craig Rice.

“Hensley at 13, he looked tough,” Bedford/Lenox head coach Eddard Chris-tensen said. “Looked tough all year. He wrestled really smart. He’s just got super balance. Real pleased with his outcome.”

Dusten Reed at 120 pounds and Hunter Russel at 145 both finished runner-up for Bedford/Lenox. Nei-ther had to compete in a wrestleback match.

Reed lost a 5-2 decision to Ogden’s Shawn Heaning in the finals, while Russel lost an 8-1 decision to Southeast Warren junior Alex Mitch-ell.

“Reed, he struggled with that first match against the (Jonathon) Hardy boy, but he came back that sec-ond match and wrestled a lot tougher match against the Ogden boy,” Chris-tensen said. “Hunter Rus-sel wrestled good the first match and really good the second match. The Mitchell kid from Southeast Warren is very tough. They’re all tough. When you get to this point, they’re all tough.”

Freshman Konner Martin (106) and senior Zach Mc-Millin (220) both finished third for Bedford/Lenox, as neither got an opportunity

for a wrestleback.“Konner Martin wrestled

well today,” Christensen said. “Zach is a senior and he came back and took third place, so that tells you how much heart and how much guts he really has.”Mount Ayr

The Mount Ayr Raid-ers sent five wrestlers to the district tournament and crowned two district cham-pions in Erik Freed (138) and Joe Ricker (285).

Freed looked to be in trouble in his finals match against Lane Rummelhart of Guthrie Center, trailing 5-3 late in the match. But Freed scored a takedown and got three nearfall points in the final :30 of the match to earn an 8-5 decision.

“I think he gets nervous before that finals match,” Mount Ayr head coach Eric Ehlen said about Freed, who had to scramble in his dis-trict finals match last year, as well. “We talk about tak-ing it one match at a time. I’m glad they came out and got it done today.”

Ricker, meanwhile, had a hard day’s work, spending a total of 45 seconds on the mat in his two matches.

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERBedford/Lenox 120-pounder Dusten Reed works to turn his finals opponent Shawn Heaning of Ogden to his back. Reed lost a 5-2 decision, but advanced to state by placing second at 120 pounds.

Groumoutis’ shooting sparks Creston to victoryBy LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

CLARINDA — Junior reserve guard Christian Groumoutis made seven of Creston’s 11 3-pointers to lead the Panthers to a 76-60 victory Friday night.

Groumoutis scored a team-high 21 points as the Panthers (11-9) gained their fifth win in their last seven games. It was a nonconfer-ence game, leaving the Pan-thers at 6-3 heading into Tuesday’s senior night con-test against league-leader Harlan.

Clarinda dropped its eighth game in the last 10, falling to 6-15 for the season.

But without Groumoutis and company firing from long range, the outcome could have been different against a Cardinal club led by 6-foot senior Noah Bix,

a quick jumper who gained most of his 23 points in the lane.

The 3-point bombing be-gan in the second quarter when Creston trailed 20-18. Groumoutis sank four 3-pointers in the quarter and McClain Haines fired in an-other as the Panthers took a 40-31 halftime lead.

With an extra Cardinal de-fender assigned to Panther junior Jay Wolfe, the Hawk-eye 10’s leading scorer, coach BIlly Hiatt called on Grou-moutis to take advantage of openings around the perim-eter of Clarinda’s defense.

“Coach said they’re wide open and I need you to go in and hit a couple of threes for me,” Groumoutis related. “They were box-and-one on Jay, so I knew I was going to be open.”

Groumoutis said he was

CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONCreston guard Christian Groumoutis (23) advances the ball on a fast break past Troy Aldrich of Clarinda (22) during Friday’s game at Clarinda. Groumoutis made seven 3-pointers while scoring 21 points in Creston’s 76-60 victory.

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By LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

An eagerly-awaited Frain vs. Drain matchup could occur in the 170-pound state finals in Class 2A.

But a lot of wrestling must take place before Saturday’s state finals at Wells Fargo Arena.

In his third trip to state, including a fourth-place finish last year, Creston/O-M senior Trevor Frain as the second-ranked wrestler is placed in the opposite bracket of UNI recruit Adam Drain of Mediapolis, the No. 1-ranked wrestler. They could only meet in Saturday’s state finals.

“Yeah, Drain is considered the best

kid, so that part of it is good,” said Creston/O-M coach Darrell Frain.

However, on Frain’s side of the brack-et is a huge first-round match between third-ranked Dalton Folkerts of Albia and No. 8 Tyler Lutes of BCLUW. The

No. 2 Frain, No. 1 Drain of Mediapolis in opposite brackets at 170

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Bird passedOMAHA — Passing

Larry Bird on the all-time scoring chart is one thing, but what Doug McDermott really cher-ished about Sunday was that his Creighton team moved ahead of Villa-nova in the Big East.

The 18th-ranked Bluejays combined an-other virtuoso perfor-mance by McDermott with big-time produc-tion from the bench to produce a 101-80 victory over the sixth-ranked Wildcats.

The victory, in front of a raucous turnout of 18,797 at Century-Link Center, improved Creighton to 21-4 and 11-2 in the Big East.

Villanova, losing for the first time in six games, dropped a half-game behind Creighton in the standings at 10-2 while slipping to 22-3. One of the Wildcats’ losses is to No. 1 Syra-cuse, with the other two coming to the Bluejays.

McDermott tied his season-high with 39 points that came on a dazzling array of shots.

McDermott scored Creighton’s first 11 points, and his ninth came on a free throw to complete a three-point play with 16:56 left in the first half. That moved him past Otis Birdsong (2,832 points) and into 14th place.

He passed Bird, the former Indiana State great, with 13:22 left when he knocked down a 3-pointer from the cor-ner. Bird had stood 13th with 2,850 points in his three seasons with the Sycamores.Miller medals

KRASNAYA POLY-ANA, Russia — Norwe-gian Kjetil Jansrud won a thrilling men’s super-G race Sunday one week after earning bronze in downhill.

It was Norway’s fourth straight super-G gold. Andrew Weibrecht charged late at Jansrud’s time of 1 minute, 18.14 seconds to take a sur-prise silver, edging U.S. teammate Bode Miller and Jan Hudec of Cana-da into a tie for bronze.

Miller, 36, became the oldest ever Olympic Al-pine medalist, surpass-ing the mark Aamodt set when he won the super-G at Turin in 2006 at age 34.

And with his sixth career Olympic medal, spread over 12 years, Miller took sole posses-sion of second place on the all-time men’s Al-pine medal list, two be-hind Andre Aamodt of Norway.East wins

NEW ORLEANS — Kyrie Irving had 31 points and 14 assists and was voted the MVP, Carmelo Anthony made a record eight 3-point-ers and scored 30 points, and the East stopped a three-game losing streak with a 163-155 victory over the West on Sun-day night in the highest-scoring All-Star game ever.


Raiderettes advance to regional quarterfinals By SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

MOUNT AYR — Mount Ayr head girls basketball coach Thad Streit was ner-vous all the way till the end of the game here Saturday.

“I thought the energy was there,” he said. “But the free throws! Those just had me shaking in my boots.”

Luckily for Streit, the Raiderettes made enough free throws down the stretch to pull away from Southwest Valley in a 47-36 win in the Class 2A Region 7 opener.

Southwest Valley tied the game at 26-26 with 1:28 to go in the third quarter on a Sydney Maynes drive to the basket.

But, Mount Ayr respond-ed with a 10-0 run started by a Paige Daughton basket and free throw, and capped off with a Brook Rych-novsky 3-pointer to give the Raiderettes a 36-26 lead.

“I think she hit that three and it was a desperation three, because nobody was getting the ball reversed and nobody was around to throw

it to,” Streit said. “She just chucked it up and it went in. She’s on fire. That’s good. We’re going to have to hit a couple over there at Central Decatur.”

Marissa Drake got a bas-ket in the post to cut the Mount Ayr lead to eight at 36-28 with 5:15 left in the game, but that was the clos-est Southwest Valley would get the rest of the way.

Tess Shields, Allie Shields and Rychnovsky all hit free throws down the stretch to neutralize any threat of a Southwest Valley run.

For the game, Mount Ayr shot 16-of-29 from the free throw line, compared to 6-of-16 by Southwest Valley. For a team that has struggled at times from the free throw line this year, St-reit said he was pleased with how his team shot from the line down the stretch.

“I’m glad we made our free throws down the stretch,” he said. “You put the ball in your ballhandlers’ hands and hope to finish the dang thing.”

Southwest Valley held an early lead at 6-3 after a Lexi

Bronner basket, but it was the last lead the Timber-wolves held in the game.

Mount Ayr’s fullcourt pressure defense caused problems for the Timber-wolves at times, and South-west Valley struggled to make shots during stretches of the game.

Southwest Valley turned the ball over 22 times and shot just 33 percent from the field.

“I think we went back into a pattern we played them with in December and we never really got our con-fidence to what we could have done,” Southwest Val-ley co-coach Sandy Winter said. “We also fell into some cold shooting. I think that affected us tremendously. Those are hard things to overcome.”

Even so, the Raiderettes were never able to pull away from Southwest Valley until the fourth quarter.

“We didn’t run our of-fense,” Streit said. “We got

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERMount Ayr freshman Sadie Frost beats Southwest Valley senior Kelsie Kinman to the basket for a layup during the second half of Mount Ayr’s 47-36 win over the Timberwolves on Saturday.

Panther girls 4th, boys 7th at first H-10 Tournament By SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

COUNCIL BLUFFS — The first ever Hawkeye 10 Conference Tournament for bowling didn’t go quite as well as Creston/Orient-Macksburg head coach Ron Pendegraft had hoped it would.

The Panther girls placed fourth with a score of 2221 and the Panther boys fin-ished seventh with a score of 2568.

Denison-Schleswig took the girls team title with its score of 2564, while the Lewis Central boys cruised to the Hawkeye 10 championship with a score of 3237.

“To say we did our best would not be true,” Pendegraft said. “We did bowl better than our score indicates, though. Pocket shots were not our prob-lem today. The kids did a good job of putting the ball on the head pin on the first shot, but we were left a lot of single pins and were left with our share of splits.”

The Panthers did have one representative from each the boys and girls teams earn all-conference honors.

Seniors Chantz David-son and D e v o n E d d y b o t h p l a c e d in the top 10 to earn a l l - c o n -f e r e n c e

honors.Davidson finished 10th

in the boys competition with his two-game series of 407, w h i l e E d d y p l a c e d fourth in the girls c o m p e -t i t i o n with her series of 348.

For the girls, Madi-son Hance bowled a 311 and Ashley Knipfer fin-ished close behind with her score of 308. Jenna Hayes recorded a series of 272 and Charley Parcher rounded out the team scoring with her series of 254. Aly Downey finished the day with a score of 230.

On the boys side, Blake Eddy rolled a 362 series. Darin Hatfield finished with a 330 and Brett Cheers totaled a 325. Re-ece Kramer rounded out the team scoring his series of 274. Tyler Shepherd rolled a 211 series for Creston/O-M.

“I am somewhat disap-pointed with the results, but I can still see that we are so very close to break-ing out and having a big day,” Pendegraft said. “The tough thing about having days like this is that we tend to let it get to us and that makes it hard to stay positive. But hav-ing said that, both teams did finish on a positive note, even though we only bowled agonizingly aver-age today.”

Creston/O-M now shifts its attention to the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet here on Tuesday at Pan-ther Lanes.

Bowling starts at 11 a.m. on Tuesday.

“We have now reached the point in the season where it is win or we’re done,” Pendegraft said. “I know the kids have been trying very hard this year to make it to this point in order to give themselves a good shot at making it to state. Bowling at home will be a plus and with the teams that will be at our regional, we will need to be in top form.”

Hawkeye 10 Conference Tournament

BoysTeam standings — 1. Lewis

Central 2174-1063—3237; 2. Denison-Schleswig 1928-1045—2973; 3. Red Oak 2007-918—2925; 4. Harlan 1879-856—2735; 5. Shenandoah 1759-905—2664; 6. Council Bluffs St. Albert 1788-844—2632; 7. Creston/O-M 1698-870—2568.

Creston/O-M (2568) — Chantz Davidson 187-220—407, Blake Eddy 171-191—362, Darin Hatfield 182-148—330, Brett Cheers 181-144—325, Reece Kramer 141-133—274, Tyler Shepherd 87-124—211. Totals — 1698-870—2568. Baker Rotation — 181, 147, 179, 171, 192—870.

GirlsTeam standings — 1.

Denison-Schleswig 1691-873—2564; 2. Red Oak 1714-764—2478; 3. Harlan 1487-778—2265; 4. Creston/O-M 1493-728—2221; 5. Shenandoah 1506-620—2126; 6. Lewis Central 1376-715—2091; 7. Council Bluffs St. Albert 629-213—842.

Creston (2221) — Devon Eddy 188-160—348, Madison Hance 175-136—311, Ashley Knipfer 138-170—308, Jenna Hayes 161-111—272, Charley Parcher 113-141—254, Aly Downey 118-112—230. Totals — 1493-728—2221. Baker Rotation — 161, 114, 136, 135, 182—728.

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DIAGONAL — Diagonal set the tone early and then had an answer for every Mor-mon Trail run as the Maroons ran away to a 67-48 win over the Saints here on Friday.

Sophomores Gerad Naill and Levi Jarred both hit 3-pointers to start the game for Diagonal, giving the Ma-roons momentum early.

When Jacob Taylor sank two technical free throws, the Maroons led 12-3.

“I’m just thrilled with the way we played tonight,” head coach Matt Warren said. “Mormon Trail is a good team coming off a win against Mur-ray, who is second place in our conference. So you knew they had a lot of confidence.”

Diagonal’s quick start seemed to take away some of that Mormon Trail confi-dence.

The Saints cut the lead to 18-12 by the end of the first quarter, but Diagonal quickly made it a 10-point lead after a pair of Blake Butler free throws.

Mormon Trail put together another run to cut it to 22-20, but Diagonal responded with an 11-3 run to get the lead back to 10. Diagonal took a 36-28 lead into halftime.

“We’re playing our best basketball right now, and that’s when you want to be doing that — at the end of the season,” Warren said. “We wanted to come off on a high note, our last home game, and we did. I’m just so proud of the guys tonight.”

The second half was all Di-agonal. The Maroons scored the first four points of the half to stretch the lead to 12.

Mormon Trail never got closer than 10 points the rest of the way.

When Jarred hit a deep 3-pointer followed by Butler slashing his way to the hoop through the Mormon Trail defense, Diagonal led 45-30.

Butler led all scorers with 26 points. He was one of four Maroon players to finish in double figures. Taylor added 15, Jarred 12 and Naill fin-ished with 10.

“We were pushing the ball, sharing the ball and shooting the ball really well,” Warren said. “That’s when we’re at our best — when we don’t depend on one or two guys to do all the scoring, every-body’s chipping in making shots. That’s how we try to play offensively — balanced, hitting the open guy and mak-ing shots.”

Taylor scored nine of his 15 points in the fourth quarter, helping the Maroons to even-tually build a lead of 67-40 be-fore Mormon Trail scored the final eight points of the game.

Taylor nearly recorded a triple-double. He finished with team highs in rebounds (11), assists (nine), steals (five) and blocked shots (two). But-ler finished one rebound short of a double-double.

Diagonal had plenty of suc-cess getting out and running in transition off of Mormon Trail turnovers and missed shots.

“Mormon Trail hits the boards hard,” Warren said. “So that leaves us open. When we do get it, we’ve got to try to push, beat them down the floor. When we do that, we’re tough to stop.”

Diagonal caps off the regu-lar season with a record of 14-7. Diagonal won five of its final six games and 10 of its final 13 games of the season.

The Maroons open district play Thursday against Lenox (13-8) in Lamoni. Game time is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

Diagonal defeated Lenox 35-34 on Jan. 16 in Lenox.

“Lenox, another very good team,” Warren said. “Very good rebounding. Strong de-fensively, just like Mormon Trail. It’s going to be about the same. We’re going to need to rebound, get stops and make open shots. Lenox is a good team. We know that. We’re going to need to bring it just like we did tonight.”

MORMON TRAIL (48) — Kelton Stansberry 6 11-13 23, Jakob Horton 3 3-3 10, Kale Horton 1 4-5 7, Brett Leer 2 1-2 5, Andrew Reed 0 2-4 2, Joel Funk 0 1-2 1. Totals — 12 22-29 48. 3-point goals — 2 (K. Horton 1, J. Horton 1).

DIAGONAL (67) — Blake Butler 10 5-7 26, Jacob Taylor 6 2-2 15, Levi Jarred 4 2-4 12, Gerad Naill 3 1-2 10, Colter Pickering 2 0-1 4. Totals — 25 10-16 67. 3-point goals — 7 (Naill 3, Jarred 2, Taylor 1, Butler 1). FG shooting — 25-46 (54 percent). Rebounds — 35 (Taylor 11, Butler 9, Naill 5, Pickering 5, Kenneth Weaselhead 2, Jarred 2). Assists — 17 (Taylor 9, Naill 3, Jarred 3, Butler 2). Steals — 8 (Taylor 5). Blocked shots — 5 (Taylor 2). Team fouls — 18. Fouled out — Weaselhead.

MT — 12 28 39 48Diagonal — 18 36 51 67

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERDiagonal junior Blake Butler slashes through the Mormon Trail defense for a layup dur-ing the first quarter of the Maroons’ 67-48 win over Mormon Trail on Friday. Butler had a team-high 26 points and grabbed nine rebounds in the win.

First placeDUBUQUE — Central

College beat the Univer-sity of Dubuque 80-74 and is now in first place in the Iowa Intercollegiate Ath-letic Conference.

Central has now won eight in a row. Colby Taylor of Cres-ton had 11 points and seven rebounds, and fel-low Cres-ton starter S p e n c e r

Bakerink had eight points and four rebounds.Runner-up

DUBUQUE — Universi-ty of Iowa freshman redshirt wrestler Jake Marlin took second place at 141 pounds at the Duhawk Hawk Open Feb. 1 at Loras College.

Marlin won two matches and was defeated by junior Jameson Oster of North-western in the finals, 7-5 in overtime.

Next up for the former four-time state champion from Creston is participa-tion in a freestyle tourna-

ment April 1 in Las Vegas at 66 kg (143 pounds).

For the season to date, Marlin is 4-1 with one pin w h i l e wrestling u n a t -tached in open tour-naments . B r a n d o n Sorensen, a n o t h e r r e d s h i r t freshman who joined Marlin as Iowa’s most recent four-time prep champions last year, is 24-4 at 157 pounds.

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Team PointsPine Valley 22Clausen Underground 18Bushwackers 17Eagles 14WTF-O 123 Fingers Deep 12TADA 12High team with

handicap:Pine Valley, 2583 pins.

High team scratch: Pine Valley, 2583 pins.

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Series 600 and over: Dan Fulton 625; Rod Cheers 603; Tom Redding 645; Jesse Still 623; T.J. Redding 743; Chad Sprague 710.

Games - men 200 and over: Dan Fulton 226, 220; Ron Simmons 204; Chad Dryden 223; Dan Hudson 231; Rod Cheers 204, 226; Jeremiah Johnson 242; J.R. Lett 209; Chad Sparague 244, 201, 265; T.J. Redding 257, 208, 278; Tom Redding 255, 207.

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Boys basketballFriday’s games

Denison-Schleswig 70, Glenwood 51

Earlham 56, Interstate 35, Truro 45

Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 65, Nodaway Valley 52

Lenox 62, Red Oak 59Martensdale-St. Marys 51,

Murray 45Diagonal 67, Mormon Trail

48Creston 76, Clarinda 60Harlan 68, Lewis Central 52Bedford 60, Stanton 43Centerville 74, Clarke,

Osceola 49Orient-Macksburg 53, East

Union, Afton 50 (OT)Shenandoah 73, Riverside,

Oakland 38Saturday’s games

Lewis Central 64, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 52

Mormon Trail, Garden Grove 71, Orient-Macksburg 57

Girls basketballSaturday’s games

Earlham 46, Nodaway Valley 43

Interstate 35, Truro 45, Chariton 37

Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 49, Gilbert 40

Mormon Trail, Garden Grove 55, Orient-Macksburg 48

Mount Ayr 47, Southwest Valley 36

North Polk 65, Clarke,

Osceola 41Red Oak 56, Atlantic 53Shenandoah 48, Clarinda 33

St. Albert, Council Bluffs 54, Underwood 27

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scoring the first takedown late in the second period with a spinning counter move against Stickler’s shot.

“Huntington has beat him the last three weeks,” Frain said. “Take away the head-lock that was called (for Stick-ler) and it wasn’t as close. But he was good enough to over-come it.”

Spencer Wray also quali-fied for the wrestleback round, but injured a shoulder early in the match and ended up losing a 16-0 technical fall to Jordan Challen of Greene County (Jefferson). Ninth-ranked Alexander Schmitz of Carroll Kuemper beat Wray 10-6 in the opener and edged Challen 4-3 in the finals.

“That kid beat us at our tournament also,” Frain said. “We knew we had to wrestle well.”

This was the first Panther team to have 12 wrestlers win matches at districts. Brody Frain (106), Alex Fargo (126) Wray, Gavin Leith (152) and Kadon Huletet (220) each placed third. Only Wray got a wrestleback chance.

“All of them knew that first-round match was the big one,” Frain said. “Wrestle-back would have been lucky. That’s what you’re facing. But we still have those guys with us Wednesday in the state du-als.”Breakthrough

Adamson continued his strong run since dropping to 113. His only loss in that time was to Bedford/Lenox state 1A qualifier Jared Hensley in the John J. Harris finals at Corning.

The Panther senior, a four-time district qualifier never

advancing to state until Sat-urday, scored two first-period pins in dominating the weight class Saturday. He enters state with a 35-6 record.

“I’ve always been that one match away,” Adamson said. “It was my last chance, and I kept repeating in my head that I want it.”

Adamson pinned Perry’s Kade VanKirk in 1:36 after VanKirk had won a major decision over Red Oak’s Da-kota Petty.

“I took a sweep and he kind of fell into a chin whip,” Ad-amson said. “I whipped him to his back. I have more confi-dence at 113.”

“Kruz is wrestling well,” Frain said. “Ever since he decided to go to 113 pounds, I didn’t think anyone in our sectional or district could come close to beating him. Hopefully he goes up there (state) and gets on a roll.”Freshman wins

As a freshman, Shiltz domi-nated the 145 weight class that might have been the toughest of the meet. Jared Eis-cheid of C a r r o l l Kuemper, who lost a decision to Shiltz in the Hawkeye 10 finals, is ranked 10th and Harlan’s Broghan Kelly was ranked early in the season and had a 33-8 mark com-ing in. Shiltz (46-4) is ranked sixth.

Shiltz pinned Kelly in 2:39 after building a 7-0 lead, then edged Eischeid 5-3 in the fi-nals. His sweeping takedown with 23 seconds left added a

cushion from a 3-2 lead.“Early in the year Kelly and

Eischeid were ranked fourth and fifth in the state,” Frain said. “So they were both high-quality kids. Chase is quality, too. The finals was the type of match I expected.”

Senior Trevor Frain, ranked second at 170, wasn’t challenged again as he took less than a minute for both of his pins Saturday. He decked Dusty Swindler of Clarinda in 55 seconds after a 12-second fall in the first round against Kuemper’s Issack Anderson.

Frain, 47-3, has to get lon-ger tests in the practice room, his father and coach said.

“We’re pushing him in the room as much as we can,” coach Frain said. “That’s kind of a concern. He’s only had a couple of full matches since Kansas City.”

Baker hadn’t won a tourna-ment in his career before the Hawkeye 10 meet, and now owns three titles in a row. He also fulfilled a pledge to his father (Roger), a former Pan-ther state champion.

“These last few weeks have been a good experience,” Baker said. “I’ve been look-ing forward to the state tour-nament several years now. I told my dad I was going to pin my way through the tour-nament, and I’m not sure he completely believed me.”

Baker pinned Kuemper’s N a t h a n B e c k e r in 1:41 and then decked his sectional opponent, Cain Jo-hanns of Clarinda, in 3:02.

“I’m excited for Adam,” Frain said. “He is just a hard worker.”

Pettit was in a crucial first-r o u n d m a t c h a g a i n s t A d a m Scharfen-kamp of Kuemper, since Clar-inda’s J.J. Clark was a favorite to win the title from the other semifinal match. Pettit relied on his favorite move, a cradle, to get back points in building an early 4-0 lead on the way to beating Scharfenkamp, 9-1.

Clark then pinned Pettit in the first period, but there was no wrestleback after Scharf-enkamp won the consolation match against Kaleb Car-stearphen of Perry.

“I’m not sure people picked Tayler to go to state when the year started,” Frain said, “but

once we saw the sectional and district posted, I really thought he had a legitimate chance. The kid he wrestled first bumped up from a load-ed 152 thinking he could beat Pettit. Tayler did what he had to do to win it.”Quick rematch

A much-anticipated cham-pionship match at 195 didn’t last long. Maitlen, ranked seventh, took on Harlan’s sixth-ranked Cale Stork. At the conference tournament, Maitlen was leading until Stork recorded a takedown and nearfall points in the final seconds.

This time, Stork wasted lit-tle time, taking Maitlen to his back in 23 seconds after both wrestlers had won by first-pe-riod falls in the semifinals.

“He got his head down and let him underhook with the same move,” Frain said. “We practiced against it. But, sometimes the draw of a dis-trict runner-up (at state) helps

you and doesn’t hurt you.”Maitlen (35-10) had hoped

for a better chance to avenge the conference loss.

“I tried taking a shot and he got me in an over-under, which I knew he would try to do,” Maitlen said. “I just got caught in the wrong thing. But I made it to the next step, and that’s what it’s all about.”

Leith (21-6), making a comeback from a shoulder injury in December at Kansas City, fell victim to the 10th-ranked Jeremy Scheuermann of Greene County in the first round, 10-2. His chance for a wrestleback faded when Scheuermann lost to Perry’s Seth Stetzel (36-5) by a 4-3 decision. Leith pinned Clar-inda’s Luke Strong in the con-solation round.

The Panthers begin Class 2A State Dual Tournament action 11 a.m. Wednesday against Clear Lake, before the traditional state tourna-ment gets under Thursday.

PANTHERS:

CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONBrandon Trevino of Harlan tries to arch his shoulders off the mat as Creston/O-M 113-pounder Kruz Adamson tries to finish a pin in 1:13 at Saturday’s district tourna-ment in Atlantic. Adamson then pinned Perry’s Kade VanKirk for the district title and his first state tournament berth.

Class 2A DistrictAt Atlantic

Team scoring (state qualifi-ers) — 1. Creston/O-M (7) 164.5; 2. Clarinda (5) 89; 3. Atlantic (5) 81.5; 4. Greene County (4) 68.5; 5. Harlan (3) 56; 6. Carroll Kuemper Catholic (2) 50; 7. Perry (2) 49; 8. (tie) Red Oak (0) 10, West Central Valley (0) 10.

106 — Champ: Carter Cox (Atl) dec. Wil Beach (H), 5-3. Conso: Brody Frain (C/O-M) dec. Brandon Gross (CK), 4-0. No wrestleback.

113 — Champ: Kruz Adamson (C/O-M) pinned Kade VanKirk (P), 1:36. Conso: Dakota Petty (RO) pinned Brandon Trevino (H), 1:28. No wrestleback.

120 — Champ: Blake Luna (Clar) dec. Dillion Cox (Atl), 5-4. Conso: Gisaveri Niyibizi (P) dec. Jacob Challen (GC), 6-5. No wrestleback.

126 — Champ: Darrian Schwenke (Atl) tech fall Dylan Forkner (GC), 19-3 (5:20). Conso: Alex Fargo (C/O-M) pinned Ivan Garcia (P), 1:59.

132 — Champ: Alexander Schmitz (GC) dec. Jordan Challen (GC), 4-3. Conso: Spencer Wray (C/O-M) pinned Tanner Mertz (RO), 5:48. Wrestleback: Challen (GC) tech fall Wray (C/O-M), 16-0 (3:05).

138 — Champ: Tommy Bradshaw (GC) major dec. Joey Huntington (C/O-M), 18-5. Conso: Trey Stickler (Clar) pinned Jacob Thompson (P), 4:49. Wrestleback: Huntington (C/O-M) dec. Stickler (Clar), 8-6.

145 — Champ: Chase Shiltz (C/O-M) dec. Jared Eischeid (CK), 5-3. Conso: Broghan Kelly (H) dec. Reid Nichols (Atl), 6-3. Wrestleback: Eischeid (CK) pinned Kelly (H), 5:54.

152 — Champ: Seth Stetzel (P) dec. Jeremy Scheuermann (GC), 4-3. Conso: Gavin Leith (C/O-M) pinned Luke Strong (Clar), 4:41. No wrestleback.

160 — Champ: J.J. Clark (Clar) pinned Tayler Pettit (C/O-M), 1:40. Conso: Adam Scharfenkamp (CK) pinned Kaleb Carstarphen (P), 5:35. No wrestleback.

170 — Champ: Trevor Frain (C/O-M) pinned Dusty Swindler (Clar), :55. Conso: Gabe Wagner (WCV) pinned Issack Anderson (CK), 1:59. No wrestleback.

182 — Champ: Adam Baker (C/O-M) pinned Cain Johanns (Clar), 3:02. Conso: Tray Binkley (GC) pinned Nathan Becker (CK), 1:41. No wrestleback.

195 — Champ: Cale Stork (H) pinned Seth Maitlen (C/O-M), :24. Conso: Mitche Rohe (CK) pinned Christian Terry (P), 1:56.

No wrestleback.220 — Champ: Tyler

Christensen (Atl) dec. Dallon Bendorf (H), 5-1. Conso: Kadon

Hulett (C/O-M) dec. Seth Gehling (CK), 7-6. No wrestleback.

285 — Champ: Dakota Calfee (Clar) dec. Jezidiah Phippen

(Atl), 5-1. Conso: Joe Olvera (P) pinned Rene Guzman (GC), 1:28. No wrestleback.

Class 2A district wrestling at Atlantic

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garbage points tonight, I felt. We’ve got to run our offense. We looked good in practice, but then we freak out in the game. We need to execute Tuesday night.”

Daughton led Mount Ayr with 15 points and grabbed eight rebounds to go with nine steals and five as-sists, just m i s s i n g a triple-d o u b l e . Rychnovsky added 11 points for the Raid-erettes.

Maynes scored 10 points to lead Southwest Val-ley while Mikayla Dolch scored eight points.

It was a disappoint-ing end to the season for a Southwest Valley team that had been playing some of its best basketball of the season in the past few weeks with wins over Interstate 35 and Pride of Iowa Conference champi-on Central Decatur.

“I told the girls in the locker room ... those are our highlights, so build off of that,” Winter said. “We did a nice job of bringing two teams together that were from two totally dif-ferent programs. I’m proud of the girls. Nine seniors, it’s hard to blend that to-gether.”

Southwest Valley fin-ishes the season with a re-cord of 8-14, while Mount Ayr improves to 12-10 and earns a quarterfinal game at Central Decatur at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

Streit said the key for his

team to compete on Tues-day is simple.

“Execute on offense,” he said. “We’ve stymied them when we’re on defense. We know what’s com-ing, we’ve just got to ex-ecute on offense. Our bigs should have a good game. We scored one point in the second quarter and they beat us by 14, so we can’t have lulls like that.”

SOUTHWEST VALLEY (36) — Sydney Maynes 4 2-6 10, Mikayla Dolch 3 2-4 8, Lexi Bronner 3 0-0 6, Gentry Johannes 3 0-1 6, Katie Taylor 2 0-1 4, Marissa Drake 1 0-2 2. Totals — 15 6-16 36. FG shooting — 15-45 (33 percent). 3-point goals — 0-5. Steals — 7 (Kelsie Kinman 2, Bronner

2). Rebounds — 29 (Drake 7, Kinman 5, Bronner 5, Maynes 5, Dolch 3, Taylor 3). Turnovers — 22. Team fouls — 23. Fouled out — Dolch.

MOUNT AYR (47) — Paige Daughton 6 3-7 15, Brook Rychnovsky 3 2-4 11, Tess Shields 1 6-7 8, Sadie Frost 1 4-4 6, Ashton Johnson 2 0-0 4, Macy Larsen 1 0-5 2, Allie Shields 0 1-2 1. Totals — 14 16-29 47. FG shooting — 14-45 (31 percent). 3-point goals — 3-11 (Rychnovsky 3). Rebounds — 34 (T. Shields 13, Daughton 8, A. Shields 5, Frost 4, Rychnovsky 2, Kelcie Shields 2). Assists — 12 (Daughton 5, Rychnovsky 3, T. Shields 3). Steals — 16 (Daughton 9, Frost 3, Rychnovsky 2). Blocked shots — 2 (Frost 1, K. Shields 1). Team fouls — 15. Fouled out — none.

SWV — 6 18 26 36MA — 13 22 29 47

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CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERSouthwest Valley senior Mikayla Dolch looks to cross over Mount Ayr freshman Macy Larsen during the first half of Mount Ayr’s 47-36 win over the Timberwolves in a Class 1A regional opener on Saturday. Dolch was one of nine seniors who played her final game for the Timberwolves. Rychnovsky


struggling with his shot 24 hours earlier, so he didn’t see his hot shooting streak coming on Friday.

“Yesterday I couldn’t even hit anything in practice,” the 6-1 junior said. “I stayed af-ter for about a half-hour and shot. The whole day at school today, I was worrying about my form. Then (JV coach Mi-chael) West just told me to go out and play. I hit some in the JV game and was feeling good about it.”

Creston, which defeated Clarinda 67-53 earlier in con-ference play, was seemingly cruising to another victory with a 16-point lead (57-41) on Groumoutis’ sixth 3-pointer late in the third quarter.

At the same time, Clarinda’s big 6-4 center Jared DeVoe picked up his fourth foul. He had also drawn Panthers Trey Benson and Alex Nielsen into some foul problems.

Suddenly, the Cardinals had life. Senior Justin Ca-been scored nine consecutive points to lead a 17-2 Clarinda run that closed the gap to one point at 59-58.

Groumoutis stopped the streak with his seventh 3-pointer, and the Panthers got some driving baskets and free throws from Wolfe and Nielsen down the stretch to finish the game with a 17-2 run of their own. Wolfe’s two free throws ended a 12-0 run to make it 71-58.

Cole Thompson’s free throws and a driving basket and free throw by Benson ac-counted for the final points and a 16-point margin that was down to one just two minutes earlier.

Nielsen finished with 15 points, Wolfe managed 12 and Benson had 10 points along with a team-high seven re-bounds.

“We went to our bench to help us when we were shoot-ing the ball a little sluggish there in the first half,” Creston coach Billy Hiatt said. “Chris-tian is a good 3-point shooter.

He just kind of needed the game to slow down a little for him at the varsity level. To-night they were sitting in that box-and-one and left things open for him. We got some energy tonight from some dif-ferent guys.”

With three 3-pointers made in the JV game, Groumoutis had 10 total triples for the night. Had they all been in one game, it would have been the third-best total in Iowa histo-ry. Two players have made 12 in a game, and five have made 11, according to the Iowa High School Athletic Association.

In making seven 3-point-ers, Groumoutis matches the performance of Wolfe earlier this season against Winterset. That mark is just one behind the Creston school record of eight 3-pointers made in a game by Scott Belger in 1989-90 and G.G. Harris in 1989-90.

Also, the Panthers’ 11 3-pointers against the Cardi-nals Friday is just one short of the school-record 12 made against Red Oak in 2005-06.Senior night

The Panthers have a tough challenge for their senior night contest Tuesday. Class 3A fourth-ranked Harlan is coming off a win over Lewis Central Friday. Harlan point guard Adam Juhl returned from recent knee surgery and Trey Lansman and Gabe Ferry combined for 39 points as the Cyclones fought off a late Titan charge for a 68-52 victory.

Lansman finished with 22 points and 12 rebounds. for Harlan (18-2). Ferry tallied 17 points.

Juhl was released Wednes-day to shoot and Thursday for practice. His start on Friday was a game-time decision, coach Mitch Osborn said.

“It will be a tough contest,” Hiatt said. “They are really good. They’re big and they give us some problems inside. We have to shoot the ball well and finish, get to the free throw line.

CLARINDA (60) — Noah Bix 10 3-3 23, Jett Kettwick 5 1-2 15, Justin Cabeen 6 0-0 13, Jared DeVoe 1 2-4 4, Troy Aldrich 2 0-0 4, Austin Smith 0 1-2 1. Totals — 24 7-11 60. 3-point goals — 5 (Kettwick 4,

Cabeen 1). Team fouls — 21. Fouled out — None.

CRESTON (76) — Christian Groumoutis 7 0-0 21, Alex Nielsen 3 9-11 15, Jay Wolfe 4 3-5 12, Trey Benson 4 2-3 10, Brandon Phipps 2 2-4 8, Cole Thompson 1 3-4 5, McClain Haines 1 0-0 3, Cole Crawford 1 0-0 2. Totals — 23 19-29 76. 3-point goals — 11 (Groumoutis 7, Phipps 2, Haines 1, Wolfe 1). Rebounds — Benson 7, Wolfe 5, A. Nielsen 5, Groumoutis 4. Assists — Thompson 5, Wolfe 4. Steals — A. Nielsen 2, Phipps 2. Team fouls — 13. Fouled out — None.

Clarinda — 12 31 47 60Creston — 13 40 58 76

JUNIOR VARSITYCreston outscored Clarinda

27-14 in the second quarter to take command in a 67-52 junior varsity victory Friday night.

The Panthers held a 40-29 halftime advantage after trail-ing 15-13 through one quarter.

“We were getting a lot of transition baskets,” said Cres-ton coach Michael West. “Our defense jump-started out of-fense.”

Sam Hartsock scored 18 points for Creston (11-6) to lead three scorers in double figures. Cooper McDermott added 16 and Christian Grou-moutis made three 3-pointers in scoring 15.

Creston (67) — Sam Hartsock 18, Cooper McDermott 16, Christian Groumoutis 15, Jake Miller 8, Chris Foster 4, Brandon Jones 4, McClain Haines 2. 3-point goals — Grou-moutis 3, McDermott 1. Free throws — 5-5. Halftime score — Creston 40, Clarinda 29.

Clarinda (52) — Alex Stull 9, Logan Grooke 8, Jacob Degaase 8, Dedric Kettwick 7, Clint Fine 5, Daniel Frey 4, Alex Chambers 3, Elijah Bix 2, Mark Engstrand 2. 3-point goals — Kettwick 2, Fine 1, Frey 1, Brooke 1, Stull 1. Free throws — 8-17.

FRESHMENWith the outside shooting

inconsistent Friday, the Cres-ton freshmen turned inside for some key production in a 37-33 victory over Clarinda.

“We really got good post play, especially Kyle Somers,” said Creston coach Anthony Donahoo.

Somers led the Panthers (7-9) with 14 points and Cody Crawford added eight, includ-ing one 3-pointer.

Creston (37) — Kyle Somers 14, Cody Crawford 8, Seth Thompson 6, Quinton Scadden 4, Deaven Reese 3, Brenden McDowell 2. 3-point goals — Crawford 1. Free throws — 6-9. Halftime score — Creston 24, Clarinda 18.

Clarinda (33) — Deitrich Engstrand 9, Donevan Kelley 7, Connor Pirtle 6, Cody McClarnon 4, Carlton Rahn 3. Free throws — 2-6.

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In a rematch of the John J. Harris Classic champion-ship match that ended with Ricker beating Panorama’s Garrett Johnston 1-0 in overtime, Ricker wasted little time against Johnston Saturday.

Ricker quickly went for a headlock, throwing John-ston to the mat and pinning him in :20 before letting out a celebratory scream.

“I told him he’d have to get a takedown in the first 30 seconds or so,” Ehlen said. “Those big boys get sweaty and are tough to get ahold of. I told him to try his headlock early. He got that reverse headlock and it was perfect.”

Jacob Beamgard earned a wrestleback opportunity at 152 pounds, but got caught by Ogden’s Austin Lentz, who pinned him in 3:38.

Grant Staats (132) and Cal Daughton (145) both placed fourth for Mount Ayr.

Southwest ValleySouthwest Valley went

two-for-two on advancing wrestlers from districts to state, as Kallan Schmelzer (160) was district champion and Zach Barton (182) was district runner-up.

Schmelzer, who has only been taken down once this season, cruised through his opening round match over Tom Brooks of Guthrie Center with a :54 pin and then won a 6-0 decision over Ogden’s Henry Haglund in the finals.

“Schmelzer came out and wrestled a tough match,” Southwest Valley head coach Jason Wetzel said. “Took him down in the first period, got him turned in the second period. That felt good to get that first guy to state.”

Barton had a close first round match, as he and Ogden’s Nick Ross were tied 1-1 after six minutes of wrestling. It went to over-time, where Barton threw

Ross and got the pin in 6:39.In the finals, Austin Laabs

of Guthrie Center threw Barton to the mat and got the pin in 1:10.

“Didn’t expect that,” Wetzel said. “He was try-ing to get out of bounds and must have been scooting across his shoulders. He’ll have to bounce back from that and prepare ourselves for next week.”East Union

It wasn’t the day East Union head coach Steve Kinyon had hoped for when his team entered the compe-tition at the district tourna-ment.

East Union’s three wres-tlers went a combined 1-5, with the lone win by junior Brogan Kinyon in the 160 pound third-place match.

Kinyon won a 16-1 techni-cal fall in 3:20 over Brooks of Guthrie Center, but with Schmelzer winning in the 160 finals, Kinyon didn’t get an opportunity at a wrestle-back.

“We thought we had a pretty decent shot today in the first round,” coach Kin-yon said. “First round didn’t go our way. Second round, we lost two tight ones. Bro-gan, he came up with a nice victory there.”

Austin Wagner (152) and Mike Ward (195) both fin-ished fourth for the Eagles.

Nodaway Valley se-nior Ben Freese was lead-ing Southwest Iowa’s Hunter Rasmussen in the 126-pound semifinals when he was slammed to the mat by Rasmussen, landing on his head.

After a lengthy injury timeout, the match con-tinued, but on the restart, Freese was once again slammed to the mat and ap-peared to be knocked out, stopping the match. Freese was unable to continue, for-feiting the match and injury defaulting the third-place match.

Class 1A District 4Team standings — 1.

Southeast Warren 109.5, 2. Ogden 101.5, 3. Bedford/Lenox

60, 4. Guthrie Center 51.5, 5. Southwest Iowa 45, 6. Mount Ayr 44, 7. Clarinda Academy 43, 8. Panorama 39, 9. Coon Rapids-Bayard 37, 10. Southwest Valley 32, 11. East Union 9.5, 12. Griswold 0, 12. Nodaway Valley 0.

Final round106 — 1. Austin Flynn (O)

pinned Blake Bauer (SEW), :27; 3. Konner Martin (B/L) pinned Kolton Birkby (SWI), :29. No wrestleback.

113 — 1. Jared Hensley (B/L) dec. Craig Rice (SWI), 7-3; 3. Sheldon McMain (O) pinned Micah Hoffman (CRB), 1:15. Wrestleback: Craig Rice (SWI) major dec. Sheldon McMain (O), 16-2.

120 — 1. Shawn Heaning (O) dec. Dusten Reed (B/L), 5-2; 3. Jonathon Hardy (SEW) dec. Hadley Ogg (Gris), 4-1. No wres-tleback.

126 — 1. Jake Hunerdosse (SEW) pinned Hunter Rasmussen (SWI), 1:10; 3. Dalton McCarroll (CA) injury def. Ben Freese (NV). Wrestleback: Dalton McCarroll (CA) pinned Hunter Rasmussen (SWI), 3:34.

132 — 1. Gabe Henderson (SEW) dec. Brett Carstens (CRB), 7-1; 3. Dakota Erickson (SWI) pinned Grant Staats (MA), 2:45. No wrestleback.

138 — 1. Erik Freed (MA) dec. Lane Rumelhart (GC), 8-5; 3. Zach Evans (CRB) pinned Austin Dollen (G), 3:10. Wrestleback: Lane Rumelhart (GC) dec. Zach Evans (CRB), 7-6.

145 — 1. Alex Mitchell (SEW)

dec. Hunter Russel (B/L), 8-1; 3. Logan Sturtz (O) pinned Cal Daughton (MA), 3:27. No wres-tleback.

152 — 1. Jacob Hoch (SEW) tech fall Austin Lentz (O), 17-2 (4:58); 3. Jacob Beamgard (MA) dec. Austin Wagner (EU), 5-3. Wrestleback: Austin Lentz (O) pinned Jacob Beamgard (MA), 3:38.

160 — 1. Kallan Schmelzer (SWV) dec. Henry Haglund (O), 6-0; 3. Brogan Kinyon (EU) tech fall Tom Brooks (GC), 16-1 (3:20). No wrestleback.

170 — 1. Gavin Gremmel (CA) pinned Trevor Wheelock (O), 4:28; 3. Spencer Winnett (CRB) pinned Zayne Dolph (Gris), 5:40. Wrestleback: Spencer Winnett (CRB) pinned Trevor Wheelock (O), 3:33.

182 — 1. Austin Laabs (GC) pinned Zach Barton (SWV), 1:10; 3. Nick Ross (O) dec. Austin Lorenz (Gris), 4-2 (OT). No wres-tleback.

195 — 1. Ty Schieder (SEW) dec. Wilson Solorzano (Pan), 7-5; 3. Karon Pinson (CA) dec. Mike Ward (EU), 5-4. Wrestleback: Wilson Solorzano (Pan) dec. Karon Pinson (CA), 12-10.

220 — 1. Cale Crowder (GC) pinned Marcus Boldy (Pan), 2:29; 3. Zach McMillin (B/L) dec. Bret Blackburn (SWI), 5-2. No wres-tleback.

285 — Joe Ricker (MA) pinned Garrett Johnston (Pan), :20; 3. Spencer Phillips (SWI) pinned Brian Jimenez (SEW), 1:01. No wrestleback.

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The Murray FFA Chapter will cel-ebrate National FFA Week Feb-ruary 15-22, 2014. This year’s

theme is IGNITE, and it celebrates more than 80 years of FFA traditions while eagerly anticipating the organiza-tion’s future. More than 550,000 mem-bers nationwide will participate in Na-

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they are preparing for the more than 300 career opportunities in the food, fiber and natural resources industry. National FFA Week is sponsored by Tractor Supply Company as a special project of the National FFA Foundation and annually encompasses February 22, George Washington’s birthday. Murray FFA members will celebrate National FFA Week by participating in the following activities: All students can participate in the dress up days for the week. Monday the theme is Official Dress Day, as our FFA members will be traveling to Creston High School for the Sub-District FFA contest. Tuesday is “ Show Your True Colors”,so students should wear their favorite John Deere/Case IH or any other agriculture brand of clothing. After the popular song “Hillbilly Deluxe”, Wednesday we will see students dressed in their best Southern Iowa hillbilly attire. Students are encouraged to wear their hats (for a small fee) and boots to school on

Thursday for the theme “Hats off to Agriculture”. To wrap up the week, Friday we will show that “We BURN for blue” and wear our FFA Chapter T-shirt. Those students who participate in the dress up days will be rewarded. We will be challenging all junior high and high school students during their lunch period with activities such as: animal breed identification, guess the weight of a hay bale, guess the number of beans in a jar, give us your best milk mustache and seed spitting contests. To educate about agriculture, during homeroom, our chapter mem-bers will be sharing agriculture facts while students from the different home-rooms compete in Ag Olympics. Each day will be a new contest such as: Meal from the Heartland presenter, Shaving Cream, and Cheese Puff toss, farmer Olympics, Bubble trouble, and Line dancing. In appreciation for the support and encouragement from our faculty and

staff at Murray Community Schools, chapter members have planned a sur-prise for the teachers after school one day. We appreciate the extra effort the faculty and staff put in to allow us to be gone for events and the encouragement for a job well done. Our chapter will host our 8th Annual Farmer Breakfast Friday, February 21st from 7:15- 8:15 in the agriculture shop. We invite local agriculturalists in for breakfast prepared by our students. FFA Week festivities will end on Friday February 27th as we partner with the Murray FCCLA to sponsor the annual Sweetheart Dance. Sweetheart candidates and Beau candidates will be chosen by their fellow FFA and FC-CLA members. Voting will take place during the week and the Sweetheart and Beau will be crowned at the dance. The dance will be held in the Jerry Brown Gymnasium from 7-10 pm. Throughout the year Murray FFA members also participate in: FFA Na-

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winner could be a semifinal opponent of Frain, but either Lutes or Folkerts could face fourth-ranked Brent Lam-mers of West Delaware in the quarterfinals.

So, Frain is one of three wrestlers in the ratings top four on the same side of the bracket. His first-round oppo-nent is Kolton Smith of South Tama. The second round op-ponent would be Mitchell Sandbulte of Sioux Center or Jacob Bair of Osceola Clarke.

“Lutes and Folkerts will be a huge first-round match,” Frain said. “Lammers has beaten Drain, and that’s Drain’s only loss in Iowa. Lehmann has beat some rat-ed kids. He was Trevor’s first match last year.”

Bair lost to Creston/O-M’s Adam Baker in the 182 semi-finals at the John J. Harris Tournament in Corning.

“Honestly, yeah, it will be good to get in some good matches,” said Frain, virtu-ally untested since the Kansas City tournament, except for a decision against 1A qualifier Zach Barton of Southwest Valley in the John J. Harris Invitational. “In practice I’ve been getting some good com-petition.”182 class

Creston/O-M’s Adam Bak-er faces No. 8-ranked Riley Hasken of Dubuque Wahlert in Thursday morning’s first round. The winner takes on either sixth-ranked Connor Nosbisch of Clear Lake or No. 10 Jordan Challis of Tip-ton.

Top-ranked Cash Wilcke of OABC-IG is on Baker’s side of the bracket, opposite of No. 2 Joe Teague of Al-gona.

“The Clear Lake kid is one

of their best ones,” Frain said. “Wilcke is number one, but (Phirom) Peterschmidt is re-ally good.”

Mid-Prairie’s Peterschmidt is ranked fourth and could be a quarterfinal opponent of Wilcke.

“I just have to take it one match at a time,” Baker said. “My goal has always been a state championship.”145 class

Creston/O-M freshman Chase Shiltz, ranked sixth, has an interesting first-round match at 145 against No. 5 Steven Garcia of Sergeant Bluff-Luton, a district loser to second-ranked Zach Skopec of Spirit Lake Park. His sec-ond-round foe could be for-mer Creston resident Garret Jay, a junior at Grinnell, or Webster City senior Jacob Powers.

No. 1 Chase Straw of Inde-pendence is on Shiltz’s side of the bracket and would be a semifinal opponent.

“Garcia is a tough kid who lost to the number two kid, Skopec,” Frain said. “Straw is a legitimate number one overall. (Number three) Cole Erickson is tough on the other side with Skopec.”113 class

Both of the top two ranked wrestlers at 113 are in the opposite bracket of Panther senior Kruz Adamson, who opens against his cousin, In-terstate-35’s Austin Pontier.

Adamson or Pontier will face either fourth-ranked Ryan Leisure of Clear Lake or No. 9 Samuel Klarenbeek of Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley.

The fifth and sixth-ranked wrestlers are also on Adam-son’s side of the bracket. No. 1 Brock Rathbun of Center Point-Urbana and No. 2 Pat-rick Woods of West Delaware could meet as early as the quarterfinals.

“Brody (Frain) wrestled

Pontier in a 12-7 loss,” Frain said. “I like this matchup for Kruz. We know Leisure of Clear Lake is a really good freshman, so that would be a tough second round. Swaf-ford is tough in a possible semifinal. Kruz is certainly ca-pable of making a good run.”138 class

At 138, district runner-up Joey Huntington of Creston/O-M has an un-rated first-round foe in Ki-eran Robuck of Knoxville. Sixth-ranked Cody Naber of Dyersville Beckman is a pos-sible quarterfinal matchup, and No. 1 Max Thomsen of Union, LaPorte City is also on that half of the bracket.

No. 2 Andres Gonzalez of Clear Lake faces Christian Fox of Osage in a first-round match on the other side.

“We did not wrestle the Knoxville kid at Centerville because we were sick,” Frain said. “But from what I saw, I think we have a shot to com-pete with him. Max Thomsen is a legitimate number one. He is nationally ranked.”160 class

The story at 160 pounds in Class 2A is the top of the bracket, where second-ranked Jake Voss of West Delaware faces No. 3 Brett Leshen of Albia in the open-ing round Thursday morning. Waiting in the wings as the likely quarterfinal opponent is No. 4 Jacob Holschlag of Union, LaPorte City.

Creston/O-M’s Tayler Pet-tit is lodged in that half of the bracket, which also includes the fifth and ninth-ranked wrestlers opening against each other. Pettit’s first op-ponent, North Polk’s Landon Schuessler, is not ranked.

“For whatever reason, inju-ry maybe, the North Polk kid doesn’t have a lot of matches coming in at 18-3,” Frain said. “Leshen and Voss is a really

tough first-round match.”Top-ranked Drew Foster

of Mediapolis is on the other half of the bracket. Clarin-da’s J.J. Clark opens against Colton Ranney of Central Decatur.195 class

A similar situation exists at 195 pounds, as No. 2 Carter Isley of Albia takes on Reed Dreyer of Humboldt, ranked third, in Thursday’s first round. They are in the same half of the bracket with sixth-ranked Cale Stork of Harlan.

Seventh-ranked Seth Mai-tlen of Creston/O-M, who took second in the district behind Stork, opens against No. 9 Matt McMillan of Inde-pendence. A possible quarter-final opponent is fifth-ranked Christian Brobst of Sioux City Heelan, who lost to Panther state champ Keaton Hulett last year. Brobst was an all-state defensive end for the state champion Crusaders football team.

Also on that half of the bracket is top-ranked Steven Holloway of Mediapolis, who opens against No. 4 Dylan Fielder of Webster City. Fielder suffered a rib cage injury Saturday and may not wrestle in Wednesday’s state duals.

“We know the Brobst kid is a stud, and Holloway is by far the number one kid,” Frain said. “It’s a good competitive match for Seth to try to get a chance to face Brobst.”

State scheduleClass 2A first round and first-

round consolation — 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Thursday.

Class 2A quarterfinals and second-round consolation — 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday.

Class 2A semifinals — 3:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Friday (after completion of 1A quarterfinals).

Consolation semifinals and finals, all classes (placing matches) — 10 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Saturday.

State championship matches — 6 p.m. Saturday after awards presentations and grand match at 5:45 p.m. Saturday.

BRACKETS:

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKEREast Union junior Brogan Kinyon, wearing a protective mask over his nose, tries to turn his opponent for nearfall points in the 160-pound third-place match on Saturday at the Class 1A district tournament in Greenfield. Kinyon picked up a tech fall over Guthrie Center’s Tom Brooks in the match. CNA photo by LARRY PETERSON

Creston/O-M’s Joey Huntington squares off against Trey Stickler of Clarinda in their wrestleback match for second place at 138 pounds Saturday. Huntington scored a takedown with 12 seconds left to win, 8-6.

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When: Thursday, February 20 @ 6:30-8 p.m. Where: Allied Health & Science Center,

Southwestern Community College Creston, IA

Cost: FREE**In lieu of a workshop fee, free-will donations may be donated towards the SWCC Women in Ag Majors group who organized the event.

In September 2013, EPA Region 7 and the Iowa DNR signed a work plan agreement that established guidelines for evaluations of livestock and poultry farms. This plan obligates DNR to evaluate livestock farms larger than 300 animal units and document whether the farms are in compliance with the Clean Water Act. Over 8,500 livestock farms are expected to be evaluated in the next five years.

“Livestock regulations are complex, sometimes ambiguous and are constantly changing,” says CSIF Executive Director Brian Waddingham. “For Iowa’s livestock and poultry farms to prosper, farmers must know and understand state and federal regulations and the resources available to help them remain viable on the land for generations to come. This workshop will help livestock farmers better understand how the work plan agreement will affect them and their farm.”

Workshop Agenda6:30-7:00 p.m. Welcome & Iowa DNR Explains the Workplan Dan Olson, Iowa DNR Environmental Specialist Senior

7:00-7:20 p.m. How the Workplan Impacts Your Farm Brian Waddingham, CSIF Executive Director

5 minute break Enjoy some cookies and drinks at the refreshment table.

7:25-7:45 p.m. Resources to Help Farmers Worried About an Inspection Brian Waddingham, CSIF Executive Director

7:45-8:00 p.m. EQIP Funding Available to Help Farmers Make Changes Wayde Ross, NRCS District Conservationist

Question/Answer

DNR Regulations for Your FarmAre you in compliance with upcoming farm inspections?

Questions? Contact: Francine Ide, SWCC Ag InstructorPhone: 641.344.2225E-mail: [email protected] 1501 W. Townline St. | Creston, IA 50801 | www.swcciowa.edu | 641.782.7081

A recent workplan signed by EPA Region 7 and the Iowa DNR obligates DNR to evaluate livestock farms larger than 300 animal units and document whether the farms are in compliance with the Clean Water Act. Over 8,500 livestock farms are expected to be evaluated in the next five years. Come learn about the new policies in place and how they impact your livestock operation.

When: Thursday, February 20 @ 6:30-8 p.m. Where: Allied Health & Science Center, Southwestern Community College Creston, IA

Cost: FREE (Light Refreshments Provided)

Questions: Contact Francine Ide, SWCC Ag Instructor Phone: 641.344.2225 E-Mail: [email protected]

1501 W. Townline St., Creston, IA 50801

www.swcciowa.edu

641.782.7081

Front Row, left to right: Merritt Caviness (Reporter), Tyrell Stucker (Sentinel), Wyatt Hensley (Vice President), Chantz Davidson (President), Bobby Hughes (Secretary) and Jordan Thompson (Treasurer). Second Row: Brittany Cruz, Shyla Waldhauser, Rusti Anglin, Jesse Johnson, Aaron Comstock, Logan Holste and Shannon Eads. Third Row: Amber Rinke, Cameron Walker, Carson Wheat, Cody Long, Jackson Mikkelsen, Joey Huntington, Jacob Connolly and Blake Eddy. Fourth Row: Dylan Nichols, Triston Davidson, James Sullivan, Owen Hensley, Keaton Eslinger, Katie Walter and AJ Kralik.

HigHligHts from tHe past year✪ Hosting the second annual O-M Classic Youth Sheep and Swine Show in Greenfield where 209 pigs and 92 lambs were exhibited.✪ Placing 5th at the Iowa Pork Congress Youth Livestock Judging Contest.✪ Winning the State FFA Chapter Website competition.✪ Having 3 Iowa Degree recipients in 2013.✪ Winning the District Soil Judging Contest and receiving a silver award at the state competition.✪ Earning numerous “Grand Champion”, “Reserve Grand Champion”, purple, and blue ribbons at the Adair, Madison, and Iowa State Fair.

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