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Ten Warhawks traveled to Chariton on Saturday to compete in the Chariton High School Academic Com-petition. North Mahaska fielded two teams. N.M. Red was comprised of Seniors which included Jacob Dahm, Chase Koehler, John Ruby, and Alex Schultz. N.M. White included Gabe Hammen, Jakob Bortell, Carly Eh-ret, Melissa Knoot, Mason Foster, and Zach Davis.

There were 30 teams competing which were put into 5 pools of 6. Each team would play against each team in their pool, with the pool winners and 3 at large teams

would compete in a tournament.NM Red finished pool play 3-2 defeating teams from

Moravia, Chariton, Ankeney and losing close matches to Albia and Boone finishing with a 3 and 2 record. NM White made up all sophomores defeated teams from Boone, Central Decatur, losing to teams from Ames, Wayne, and Chariton finishing 2-3.

It was a great experience for all the students and they are looking forward to competing again in other compe-titions

Front row: Melissa Knoot, Carly Ehret, Gabe Hammen, John Ruby, Alex SchultzBack Row: Mason Foster, Zach Davis, Jakob Bortell, Jacob Dahm, Chase KoehlerNot Pictured: Lydia Strickel was part of the team but did not compete on Saturday.

NM Competes in Academic Competition

Students are from left to right Back Row: Jennifer Richards, Maddie Weller, Kevin Spoelstra, Kaden ShawFront Row: Ms. Foster, Megyn Walston, Elizabeth Moore

Six students from the North Mahaska FFA Chapter rep-resented North Mahaska at the 86th National FFA Con-vention. While the students were at the convention they listened to keynote speakers, attended general sessions, participated in leadership workshops and learned more about the National FFA Organizations. They also toured

several places such as Huber’s Orchard Farms, this farm is over 600 acres and they grow anything from apples, peaches and grapes to sell to their customers. Pictured are the students who posed for a picture inside the win-ery gift shop.

FFA Attends National Convention

The leaves are falling, the temps are changing and the marching equipment has been put away. Now what? It’s Jazz Season of course! Well, not quite yet but we’re on our way. If you remember, last year, NM Jazz commissioned a ballad (That Sunday, That Summer) to be arranged specifically to their needs by jazz composer Mark Taylor. Af-ter several emails back and forth and copyright clearance, Taylor was giv-en the go ahead by Music Publishing Company, Hal Leonard.

NM Jazz performed the piece at concerts and contests last year to rave revues. Jenna Carrico, daugh-ter of Travis and Tara Carrico, per-formed the solo and the band played

it masterfully. And now it’s one year later and a demo recording is in place, thousands of copies have been distributed to music distribu-tion companies and it’s ready for purchase. Under the title you will notice that the North Mahaska name is placed and will remain until the day it becomes, sadly, out of print.

You may hear the demo record-ing by going to Halleonard.com. and type in “That Sunday That Summer” in the search engine and click on the speaker under the picture of the piece. Jazz director, Mr. Bruce Pei-ffer and the band would like to thank you for your continued support of the North Mahaska Band Depart-ment.

Jenna Carrico, featured soloist in NM’s ballad, ‘That Sunday that Summer’.

NM Jazz Records Demo

North Mahaska 8th Graders attended the Indian Hills Career Day on Friday, November 8th. Over 700 8th graders from 11 school districts in south-east Iowa and one from northern Missouri partici-

pated in the day. The 8th graders attended three career presentations presented by either Indian Hills staff or volunteers from the southeast region.

N.M. 8th Grade Career Day

Students being exposed to machinery in the Machine Tool and Welding programs at Indian Hills

Students learning about computer programming and networking

Students learning about electrical engineering

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The absolutely most underrated and overlooked aspect of any home office or small business is backing up data - and nothing is worse than knowing that the only copy of that marvellous presentation, or of your 17 page essay clearly explaining the meaning of life, is sitting on a hard drive that is attached to a computer that won’t boot up any more. Maybe it’s repairable and you won’t lose any work, just a little time, but maybe it’s gone and you regret not having copied it over to your laptop. The more seriously you take your computers, the more you should take advantage of the technology that’s usually sitting in front of you with a few suggestions.

With the cost of hard drives being what it is, extra storage space is becoming easier to get and thus being used for more reasons, and the affordability of CD and DVD burners giving storage options of 650 to 740 megs for CD-R and 4.7 gigs for DVD+R discs. Here are a few ways of making a copy of some of your critical files:

Create a directory on your desktop and call it “Backup Files”, and store all your important files in that directory. Once a month, burn that directory to a CD or a DVD.

Get a second hard drive, and use it as your back up drive. Copy your working folder of important files over to that hard drive once a month, with a separate directory for each month.

Add an older computer to your home network, and give it a few extra hard drives of storage - share those hard drives with your network and use that PC as your “file server” or local library for files - copy anything over that you need to, with more important files copied over more frequently.

Use an external hard drive or USB drive to store your files while you work on them. They are far less likely to suffer any impact from

your computer crashing, however, especially in the case of some of the smaller USB drives, they are small can be either lost or broken because they are so portable.

Other solutions include online storage solutions, from simply emailing the smaller files to yourself on your Hotmail or Gmail account, to subscribing to services which allow you to FTP your files up to a redundant server, which is itself backed up - the company guarantees the reliability of your data by making safe copies that they can restore in the rare event their computers have a hardware failure, thereby making sure that the files are always there when you need them. A simpler version can be just uploading the files to your own webpage hosted by your ISP - most ISPs do similar backups of their systems, letting you get away with a safe copy of your files, as long as you have the space available - as long as your webpage doesn’t link to the files that you upload, you can be pretty sure that no one else will know that they are there. Ultimately, the farther your backup data is kept from your original data, the safer your data will be.

Professional online web servers will typically use tape media to back up their data, with capacities per tape ranging from a few dozen megs up to a few dozen gigs - they will often use several tapes, perhaps one a day for every day of the week, or one tape for every weekday and adding one weekly tape for every full week, and cycling through those tapes repeatedly. The downsides are that getting a tape drive can be costly, and buying enough tapes to complete a cycle, with extra tapes to replace those that fail and a cleaning tape to keep the machinery working, can end up being quite costly - this is why it’s very rare to see in a home office environment, especially when cheaper alternatives are out there.

Backup and Storage Tips

Sitting up at 11:30 writing a drop of news as I have to go to Iowa City tomorrow and need this done before that. I got caught up in Downton Abby and The Paradise on channell 11, All of Dec. season 3 then sea-son 4 begins in January. I could buy them but would I watch them. Re-ally! I bought Prison Break and did not ever watch them again. I put it in the Christmas grab bag and Mark sold them on E-bay for half price. That is Downton Abby. I would be in the servants quarters and not the Mylady part where I was the lady of the castle. I am glad there are not classess in America, well there are the upper class the middle class and the poor massess. But we still have the chance to try and could be presi-dent of the United States. But I have seen in years passed that now it takes millions to be that.

My hair seemed to be giving me fits and I finally figured it out that I missed my hair appointment. Just passed me by and I don’t think I have ever done that before that I can remember. So I go early in the morn-ing first thing.

Snow was coming down fast on Monday of last week, the 11th. Some covered the ground but not for long. Not a first for sure this early. The Prime Timers met Thursday morning at Simones. We had a good crowd and welcome you to join. Sec-ond Thursday of every month. Karen Hensler, Ruthie Johnston, Doc and Colleen Van Kampen, Mary Jo New-burg, Keith and Nancy Harvey, Joe and Jo Borrows, Janice Dahm and myself. We had good fellowship and good breakfast to boot. I don’t know why they call it Prime Timers, how

about the Aches and Pains over 60 Club.

RL went into dominoes on Fri-day night and the only one else there was his sister Martha. They decided to just visit.

RL has been under the weather this past week and our RN daugh-ter Karol came over to check on her father and make sure he was doing what she told him to. Josh came over to so some work for Grandpa as he is a bit bored from doing nothing until school starts again in January. Glad to be home from North Dakota.

Sunday, Terry and Connie Ste-vens, Dale and Barb Heishman and Dean and Bev Heishman met for dinner at Carnsforth.

Club is Wednesday at Mary Lu’s a pot luck at noon. Forest Home!

Our church is putting up the steel rafters and soon will close it all in. If you are a guest on Suday the 24th. you will receive a voucher for a tur-key and a fruit basket. Come and join us for a special service. Be our guest tell them I sent you!

On Saturday evening our son Mark and Vonna and Abigail and her friend Anna from Traer stopped by on the way home from Pella. They had gone down to take in the final football game and to take their son Jacob Watson out then to supper. We had not seen them for a while.

This month will soon speed past and Thanksgiving will be over and I don’t remember one day from the next. How about you, is your calen-dar as full. Yikes!

Happy Birthday to Abigail Wat-son, #17 on the 18th and to Arvin DeBoef and Dahl Wickham on the 25th. How old are you???

Jean Williams celebrated her birth-day on Nov. 14th.

The fire department will have their monthly training on Nov. 21st at 7:00 P.M. at the fire station.

Don’t forget to take your recy-clables to the recycle bin in town. It is located in the alley on the north side of City Hall.

The Barnes City Betterment Club is having a community pop can drive. The money from donated pop cans will go to the Christmas toy fund for the Barnes City Community Christmas to be held in Dec. Cans may be dropped off in the trailer at Don Baker’s at 500 Elm Street.

Last Saturday the Barnes City card makers and scrapbookers got together at Jen Henry’s house. Those joining Jen were Phyllis Rauch, Lareta Sanders, Doris Free-born, and Mollie Loving. Jen made cheeseburger chowder for lunch.

On Nov. 22nd Jen will be having a Christmas card class at her home.

Last Sunday Marvin and Doris Freeborn traveled to Stanberry, Mis-souri to the home of Karen (Free-born), Laverne, Emily, Marissa, Vincent, Calvin, and Trevin Smith-son. They celebrated Trevin’s 1st birthday.

Basketball practice has started at North Mahaska for both girls and boys. The JV and varsity girls will be having their first games on Nov. 22nd at home against Belle Plaine.

North Mahaska will dismiss school at 2:00 P.M. on Nov. 27th to start the Thanksgiving holiday. Then there will be no school on Nov. 28th and 29th.

I’ll be back next week with more exciting news from Barnes City!

Lower Grove Newsby Rosemary Schmidt

A week ago after church, I went to the family restaurant to eat. Gor-man & Ladonna Rozendaal came in and I asked them to sit with me. We enjoyed a nice visit and talked about the Cowboy Church which is now located in Newton. Gorman has been instrumental in helping in its organi-zation. Then I went ‘table hopping’ and stopped to visit with Uncle Vir-gil & Flora Kooistra. Next was a stop at Wilma Van’t Sant and Sandy Van Steenis’ table. Wilma had foot surgery and is now getting around some. She has one of those ‘scooter looking things’ with wheels. She puts her knee on the scooter and then she can use the other leg to walk on.

Sunday evening was a fun time of visiting with Norma Conover and Lois Ann (Wehrle) Van Wyk. I in-vited them for supper and served a chicken and dressing casserole along with green beans, potatoes and on-ions accompanied by cabbage slaw and cucumbers. Also cranberries to compliment the dressing. I sent them both home with ‘doggie bags’, but I don’t think the doggies got served any! I love to cook and find that people like to eat. Therefore, I also enjoy the visiting and eat more so I will gain weight.

Saturday evening was our Low-er Grove Neighbor potluck supper. We held it at the Peoria gymnasium. Then we didn’t have to worry about the weather as it was getting kind of late in the year. Next year I need to set the date up sooner in the summer. We had a nice crowd and enjoyed visiting with the neighbors. Cheri Klyn was there with her 3 daugh-ters, Jennifer, Jessie and Aliysa along with their brother Aric. Jen, Jess and Alisya each had babies this past year. We all ooed and awed over each of them. Boy, Grandma Cheri and Great Grandma Charlene will have a lot of fun with them all being so close together in age.

If any of you went to see the Mickey Gilley show over the years you will remember Joey Riley (his old comedian). We found out that he had died in July 2013 and I won-dered what happened. Went on the internet, read the obituary and he was 43 years old when he died after a battle with colon cancer. He was married to his wife, Kelli Riley. He was no longer with Mickey but per-forming on the Clay Cooper show at the time of his death.

A week ago, Charlene, Darlene and I went to the Pella Christian High

School play. It was a musical production about the music man in the town of River City, Iowa. Cory Van Gilst played the lead male role of Harold Hill and Jessi Vos played lead female role. The cast was quite extensive and included small chil-dren consisting of 4, 5 and 6 year olds. The live band was exception-ally good at playing for the entire play. A talented Mrs. Marcy Stravers played the keyboard. I had met her when she played for a performer on the Sammie Lee Show many years ago.

I was so glad to hear from Barb (Jackson) Vos recently and she is finishing up her recent treatments. Said she was getting along as well as could be expected. Also heard from

Janice (Van Baalen) Vander Linden.Keep Coleen (Moore) Readshaw

in your prayers as she had surgery and is not getting along as well as could be.

Tuesday I went to Pella to join Beverly Graves for lunch at the Monarchs restaurant. After lunch I was planning on doing a little shop-ping, but then Karl called and want-ed to come and do a little work for me so I went back home. Karl put the box cover over the air condition-er, then washed the windows and put the storm windows on. Also did a few things in the house that required getting on the step ladder. Didn’t feel like I should be climbing around on ladders. I am so fortunate to have both of my children close by to help me out when I need it.

This week I made a sour cream raisin pie and a chicken/dressing casserole. I sent it to town with Car-rie (my daughter-in-law) for her mother Vera Ver Steegh as she has returned from the hospital and is feeling much better.

One of my little Eden Pure heat-ers quit blowing hot air so I looked up the warranty. We bought in 2011 and Sam ran it all winter while I was in the hospital, so it had a lot of use. Found out that it was still under war-ranty, so called the company and they are sending me the part that is needed along with a CD video on how to repair it. I’m sure Kalvin can do that for me as he is very good with technical things and mechanics.

Friday I stopped at the skilled care at the hospital and visited with Galen and Wilma Dykhuis. Galen is doing therapy for his hip and the therapy unit there is helping him to walk again. Wilma is just starting to walk again after having broken her ankle. They are allowed to share the same room. While there I found out the Marilyn (Wilbur) Veenstra was also in the hospital so stopped in to visit with her.

On Saturday I got up early and baked a pumpkin pie. Then put a pan of scalloped corn in to bake. At 11:30, I went to Pella and picked up Mildred Boyd and went to son Karl’s for the birthday dinner. Granddaugh-ter Randi Lynn (Schmidt) Sincox and Great-granddaughter Layne Kindley were the November birth-days. Randi turned 31 and Layne is the ripe old age of 18.

About 4:00 on Saturday, I called Sally Bruinekool and asked her to go to Oskaloosa with me. Stopped to get gas at Walmart for $2.71.9. Had a little shopping to do and then we went to Wendy’s for chicken sand-wiches. It gets dark so early now and the evenings can get long, so we thought this was a great way to do our own time adjustment.

****THINGS I HAVE LEARNED

1. That the best classroom is at the feet of an elderly person.

2. That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

3. That being kind is more im-portant than being right.

4. No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

5. Life is like a roll of toilet pa-per, the closer it gets to the end the faster it goes.

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Brrr, it is cold today. Started out at 11 degrees above and I am not physically ready for this. The outside chores have been taken care of, but just don’t like that chilly air when I go outside…. Just get used to it I tell myself. It is Iowa after all!!!

Karl put up a new shepherds hook to hang a bird feeder on, as I wanted it south of the house where we used to have it. Kalvin had also put one right outside my kitchen window where I watched the birds all last winter. But, this one is out-side the front room window where I can see it from both rooms. Car-rie put the bird feed in it, but the birds haven’t found it yet or maybe they are getting enough seeds in the fields. Then yesterday I bought a suet holder and suet to also hang out there as it has a pole with two hooks on it.

Last Sunday I went to Sunday School and Church and then to lunch with Darlene Kool and Karen Mati-ce. Leona Van Wyk sat down to visit with us and I accused her of ‘table hopping’. She is always a fun person to visit with and of course she had a big laugh about being a ‘table hop-per’!

Monday when I wanted to email my column to the paper, the tele-phone wire to the computer was not functioning properly. Thought maybe it was the modem, but when the telephone man came he said it was the filter. You know, things used to be a lot simpler. But, then we couldn’t email things either, we had to make a trip to New Sharon back then.

We also had the first measur-able snow on Monday, November the 11th. It covered the ground, but did not pile up so I was happy. I just stayed home and peeled apples all day. Darlene Kool and I had picked up apples at a friends house. There are about 3 more buckets full sitting on my porch yet. I slice, cook and put them in the freezer. That way they are ready to make apple crisp or pie in the winter.

Wednesday I washed 3 loads of clothes, did more apples and then went to Pella shopping. Always have to go to Walmart, Fareway, and Hy Vee. The van needed washing so I went thru the drive-in car wash, but it did not clean the wheel wells out good. It is suppose to rain next week and with this gravel road, it will just get dirty again. Next time I may have to get out and do it manually.

After doing all that I stopped at the hospital to see Galen & Wilma Dykhuis. Galen’s sister Shirley is also in there so I went up another floor to see her. After that I stopped by Dorothy Van Gorp’s and gave her some peaches I had frozen. She has always been good to let us pick ap-ples at her place and I wanted to do something for her and John.

Kalvin stopped in on Thursday and put some more anti-freeze in the Cadillac because it was a little low. Sure don’t want that to freeze up if it goes to minus degrees and we all know that can happen here in the Iowa.

Thurday evening I went to Sul-ly and rode with Sammie’s brother Fred and sister Norma to Cowboy Church in Newton. The Aalderks Family performed with the father playing the piano and mother & daughter singing. One of the daugh-ters had lost a baby and the father wrote a song about that and sang it for us. For those who had lost a baby, it was a heart wrenching rendition. Pastor Dave’s sermon was about Je-sus and the disciples on the Sea of Galilee in a big storm. How they and how we in fail to trust Jesus with the problems in our lives.

The farmers are scurrying around to get the crops all out and have nearly accomplished that job.

Was wondering if the crops south of me were going to get harvested, but today they came and got that job done. I don’t even know who farms it now since is owned by someone not living here. Times have changed and sometimes we don’t know ev-eryone…imagine that.

On Friday I stayed home all day and evening. Guess that is not quite true because I did drive up to Peo-ria to the cemetery and put some winter flowers on Dad & Mom’s grave. Also freshened up Sammie’s bouquet and stuck a few peacock feathers in with the flowers. Francis Schippers had given them to Sam-mie many years ago and I thought it was appropriate to put them there. It was such a nice day and there were a few things I wanted to get out of the back shed and thought it sure would be nicer to do it while the sun was shining. Needed to get the artificial Christmas tree out as I am having Thanksgiving & Christmas both here this year. The kids and grand-children like to come here and they gave me the menu to fix….Chicken & noodles, mashed potatoes, corn and they will bring the other stuff. I like to cook, so that was agreeable with me. Later in the day, I decided to clean the freezer out (the one in the top of the refrigerator). That is where I stick the leftovers thinking I will use them up later. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t!!! Does anyone else have that problem? Anyway things seem to pile up and need a good cleaning out.

On Saturday I went to Sully to join Lois Ann (Wehrle)Van Wyk and Norma Conover. We traveled to Marshalltown to shop at Younkers. They had a good sale and with some coupons that Lois had, I purchased two pair of slacks and a jacket for a reasonable price. We ate lunch at the Pizza Ranch and then stopped at a big Walmart. While there it rained and rained. You know how loud the rain sounds on the metal roof at Walmart. Almost sounded like hail, but it was just a hard rain. I thought the weatherman had said that there were just going to be light showers. Sure did get that wrong!!

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IN CHURCH BULLETINS1. The ladies of the church have

cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the church basement.

2. This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.

3. Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the fellowship hall after the B.S. is done.

4. The eighth graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

5. Weight Watchers will meet at 7 pm at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use the large double door at the side entrance.

After a gorgeous fall with splashes of vividly colored leaves, the last couple of rains and wind have pretty much stripped everything down to bare branches. Still it isn’t really very cold yet—a couple of nights in the low 20’s and then back up to the 30’s and 40’s. No hardship there. I expect everyone is grateful for yet another rain. We had thunder and lightning and more rain just last night for awhile, as I write this on Sunday afternoon. Since the drought was broken on September 19, we have enjoyed several such rains.

Not too much happening this week at our house; a few doctor appointments which I’m glad are out of the way. Our Mission Board met Tuesday evening where we elected our chairman for the new year as our church’s year goes from October to October.

Recently, some friends gave us a 40-year-old Conn organ they did not want. We already knew it didn’t play, so had a repairman look at it this past week. He said the speaker system was shot and doubted he could even find the parts to replace it. We got the lights around the keyboard to come on, but no sound. I was very disappointed as it is a beautiful organ—beautiful wood—two rows of keys and bunches of stops—I so wanted to sit down and play it just to hear what it sounded like. I guess many folks are choosing the smaller, more compact keyboards—and I don’t blame them—but wish we could have found a way to get it repaired. Now it looks like it will have to go to the dump. And that is hard for me to bear.

If anyone knows of an older organ we could get a part off of, I wish you would let us know—641-594-4297. It’s a long shot, I know, but I have pretty much explored all others. Or even if you could use it for parts? It’s such a shame to just let it be trashed.

Since the various interviews about my book have come out over KNIA/KRLS, the Knoxville Journal Express, and the Jasper County Magazine, I have been receiving calls wanting a copy. Last Thursday we drove down to Pella for a few errands and then to the Next Chapter in Knoxville to replenish their supply of The Quiet Road. I am grateful for each and every sale and people still say how much they enjoy the story. Afterwards we stopped at Lawrence and Norma’s for some coffee time

along with Gaylor and Dorothy Carter.

On Friday, Loren had an appointment in town and I worked some on the upcoming Missionary Prayer Calendar. Next week will be here before we know it. On Saturday I was able to accomplish a task that has been hanging over my head for way too long—sorting through the pile of office papers and recording items concerning my book such as expenses, etc. Everything in here in my office is now cleared off and dusted and I felt like celebrating! Doesn’t it feel good when you get something done you have been putting off for one reason or another? It surely does.

Upcoming book signings for this lady is this coming Saturday, November 23, at Riverside Junction antique store and eatery in Lynnville. Located just a hop, skip and a jump from the North Skunk River bridge, Jaci Vander Krol has newly expanded her store into the space next door and will be hosting a Christmas Open House on that day.

Jaci is open Tuesdays through Saturdays and features antiques in the way of furniture, some neat collectibles and many other interesting items, such as vintage, and even old windows and doors. Lots and lots of items including jewelry and even some hand knitted items.

She also serves assorted flavored coffees, teas and other beverages along with baked items daily, as well as something appetizing for lunch every day. Because of the newly expanded area, Jaci plans to increase both the dining space as well as the lunch menu. Our Women’s Christian Fellowship will be going down to Lynnville on Wednesday to tour the Old Mill Museum and then to enjoy the baked potato bar at Riverside Junction for lunch.

Jaci also features her own Jaci Vande Krol Photography studio and is available for senior portraits, weddings, family, and children’s photographs. You can call Jaci at her store/studio at 641-527-3833 for more information about any of this.

Jaci’s Open House this Saturday will be from 9 am to 2 pm this Saturday and my book signing of The Quiet Road will be from 10 am to noon. Perhaps we will see you there!

I guess that is pretty much it for this week, so see you all next time!

It’s just a bit past 3:00 p.m. on Friday, November 15, as I take my place in front of my computer; I ‘m trusting that I’ll be able to create a “Reflections” column before the bell rings to tell it is supper time at Fair Haven East. It was about ten min-utes ago that I said good-bye to two good friends who live in Lynnville (which I’ve considered my home-town for many years.) Yes, it was Virginia Vos and Garnet Gertsma who drove to Pella this lovely Fri-day afternoon to visit me. It was good to visit with them and to “catch up” on the news of the town where I had lived. It’s hard to believe that I’ve already lived in this Fair Haven apartment for almost half a year. And it’s hard to believe that we will soon be observng two major holi-days, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Since it seems I’m having some difficulty writing this column, I’ve decided to “borrow” from “The Des Moines Register” dated Decembe 31, 1999. It gives some interesting history about the Iowa coal mines of that era. The headline of the story is “Life in the Mines” and is printed as follows: “Even by Depression standards, the Somsky family lived a bleak life around the Dallas Coun-ty coal mines in the 1930s. Miner Thomas Somsky and his wife, Anna, had 11 children born in Smokeyhol-low, Wanlock. and other Iowa coal towns from 1910 to 1932. At the Dal-las Coal Camp near Woodward, the family shared a four-room unpainted house. Toilets were outdoors, frigid in the winter and steamy in the sum-mer, with mail-order catalogs as toilet paper. Dirt roads made every-thing dusty or muddy. (Those last two sentences describe the realities on the farm where I lived with my parents and three sisters in the 1930-1940 era. w.k.)

“I did not realize the squalor of it all,” Joe Somsky, the eighth child, would recall. “This was life, and I enjoyed being. I didn’t know it was a miserable existence.” Patty Bittner and Sue Varley, granddaughters of Thomas and Anna, compiled the family history for a 1908 reunion. They gathered the memories of Joe,

who had written about the family’s history before his death in 1997. This account is adapted from that history.

Thomas Somsky, a Slovakian immigrant who moved about wher-ever mines were hiring, went ahead of the family to Dallas County to rent a home in the “coal camp,” shacks built to house miners and their families. The family followed, walking the last five miles from Granger. “Picture this,” Joe recalled. “The entourage: Ma, Marge, Agnes, George, Tommy, Cattherine, John and Joe - along with Gypt, the big German Shepherd dog.”

Anna, the oldest child, left home at age 15 to become a housekeeper. The younger three children, Doro-thy, Paul, and Albert would be born in Woodward. Anna Somsky did the laundry with “no washing machine, no dryer, just a tub and washboard and the water heated on a coal-fired stove,” Joe said. “After the hand washing and hand wringing, the clothes were hung onn a line outside, summer and winter. I remember the stiff-frozen clothes being carried back into the housel”

Feeding so many mouths was a similarly huge task. “Always Ma was cooking,” Joe said. “She seemed to be baking every day. Homemade bread, we always had homemade bread. It became a rare treat to have store-bought bread.” Dorothy re-membered “going with Catherine and Margaret Abramavich to get milk from a farmer every day. We had to take our special pail with a lid on it to carry the milk home.” Jo-sephine Somsky, widow of George, told how Thomas and the boys con-tributed to the family diet. “In the winter they hunted rabbits and squir-rels to put meat on the table. In cold weather, rabbits and squirrels were hung on the clothes line after being skinned and dressed.”

The Somsky parents, who had only a few years of school them-selves, took education seriously. “I can hear to this day, especially Ma, urging, ‘Get the schooling - you will get nowhere without it, Joe re-called.”

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The Taintor Ladies Circle met on Monday, Nov. 4 at the home of Trudy Wehrle. Present were Esther Van Wyk, Bev Flanders, Linda Go-emaat and Ruth Van Wyk. Ruth led the devotions on “Set apart Christ in your heart.” Esther provided the re-freshments.

On Sunday, Nov. 3, Lyn Kinney attended a dinner at the Lunville City Hall hosted by Todd and Reggie Kaldenberg for family and friends.

Bernice Smith enjoyed having lunch with Jim and Joyce Hart of Marshalltown.

Last week Carrol and Carolyn Bandstra hosted a cousin reunion at their home for a coffee time. At-tending were Gary and Kathy Miller, Carman Gretsma, Shirley Vore, Bet-ty Maasden, Sheryl Gahagher, Wil-ma Blom, Geneva Rozeboom and Tony Bandstra. They discussed the recent five-year Bandstra reunion and talked about plans for the next big Bandstra reunion.

Monday, Nov. 4 morning visitors of Trudy Wehrle were Linda Go-emaat and her granddaughters Kris-ten and Hayley Figland. In the af-ten and Hayley Figland. In the af-ten and Hayley Figland. In the afternoon, Linda, Kristen and Hayley enjoyed making cookies together.

Glenna Budding attended a brid-al shower held at the Pleasant HIll Church of Christ Church for Jamie Bartell. Jamie was married to Joey Spevey in October. Joey is the great grandson of Glenna.

The Taintor Church youth group meets at 6:00 p.m. and the bible study group meets at 7:00 p.m. on Thursdays.

Teryn and Jax Vander Beek spent Saturday and overnight on Satur-

day with their grandparents Dot and Denny Zylstra while their mother Kari was in Puerto Rico running in a half marathon (13 miles).

Celebrating birthday in Novem-ber are Marea Gertsma on the 18th, Theresa Anderson on the 19th and Ron Williams and Denny Zylstra both on the 22nd.

Lorrie Ludwids travelled to Chi-cago to visit her sister Lois Arthur and her son and daughter-in-law Alan and Makha Griffin.

Lorrie and Lois then went to In-dianapolis to babysit Lorrie’s grand-daughters Imari and Alysssah Grif-daughters Imari and Alysssah Grif-daughters Imari and Alysssah Griffin. WHile there mother Taniqua was on military drill with the Navy and their father Bros was gone for his work.

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, Carrol and Carolyn Bandstra attended the Senior Saints Night with the Peo-ria CRC Youth Group at the Peoria Youth Building. They all enjoyed supper together and then had a time of fellowship playing board games together.

Visitors of Lyn Kinney during the past week were Jeanine Dowd of Gilman; Will Purscoll of Colfax; Todd, Reggie and Zack Kaldenburg of Sully; Eileen Miller, Pastor Mark Porter, Betty Sprangenburg and Ha-zel Hamilton all of Lynnville. Lyn is recovering from hip surgery.

Keep Pastor Mike Murrell and his family in prayer in the passing of his mother.

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Monday, November 25 B: Omelet, Toast, Fruit Cocktail, Milk L: Chili/Crackers, Baby Carrots/Broccoli w/ Ranch, School Made Cinnamon Rolls, Peaches, 100% Grape Juice, Milk

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With Veteran’s Day behind us and Thanksgiving approaching quickly, I thought I’d address the issue of Christmas shopping and decorat-ing just to hear your reactions. We have all noticed how much earlier in the year those items seem to be ap-pearing on store shelves. And I have also noticed how many more people are grumbling about this situation. I used to be one of those people. But let me explain why I’ve changed my attitude.

One of the reasons I witnessed myself happened when I owned my consignment store. Many of my customers were hard working people who still struggled to make ends meet. In effort to make sure they bought gifts for all the loved ones on their list, they started their search early in order to spread the debt incurred out over a period of paychecks instead of cramming it all into the last few of the year. That also allowed them a little wiggle room to buy food and other necessi-ties when Christmas Day drew near. I have so much respect for the single moms, grandmothers, and friends who were always on the look out for a present someone would like. They bought when they could afford to in-stead of whipping out the credit card and wasting money on high interest rate payments after the rush of the Holiday season was over.

I also think we are stuck in the 70’s. (I wish times were still like this) Back when all family members gathered for a big meal, everyone sat around a perfectly set table and actually talked to each other, we all enjoyed a home made meal com-plete with lumpy mashed potatoes, the men retired to the living room to watch some sports or discuss

politics, the women gathered in the kitchen to do all of the clean up work and complain about the men lazily lounging in the other room (haha!), and the cousins all scattered to vari-ous bedrooms of the house to play with dolls or discuss the latest teen idol they heard on the radio. Not everyone has a Hallmark movie life now. Just think about how everyone is different.

So you don’t want to see Santas for sale on shelves before Novem-ber 29? What if Christmas is the one time of year that makes someone very happy? They should be able to dress up their home whenever they want to improve their mood. What if someone is hosting the big family gathering at their address this year and they want to get a jump start on the work that lays ahead of them? Just because things are available to purchase doesn’t mean YOU have to buy them. Close your eyes and keep walking. Or just imagine the newlyweds that will be sharing their first special Christmas together and they choose to build their collection a little at a time as they are still try-ing to figure out how to budget their combined incomes and expenses.

Here’s the big topic of the year. Certain stores are going to open ON Thanksgiving? Whoa! Stop the presses! But guess what? People are going to still wait in line for the doors to open that day. Are you go-ing to be one of them? If not, then don’t worry about it. This Black Friday turned Black Thursday shop-ping thing has really turned into a friend and family outing for some. I’ve heard of groups going hunting on Thanksgiving. What’s the differ-ence? As long as people are spending time together, let them choose what

they want to do. I remember when I was single and lived in Ankeny. My entire family had plans with their in-laws. I had no where to go. Do you have any idea how empty someone feels when they are all alone on a day where being with your loved ones is shoved down your throat? I’m sure there are quite a few loners out there who will be happy to spend the day of giving thanks surrounded by the chatter of others rather than sitting in a quiet house.

I realize some of you think about the employees that have to be at your service on that day. That is very kind of you. But most of them are work-ing for less than getting rich wages and most of them will welcome the Holiday pay. They also have family to buy for. And while you are con-cerned about their schedule, make sure you also show respect for their work. Put things back where you found them, try to re-fold those t-shirts you held up to see what the front said, and slide those jeans back into the same size slot they should be in. I just have to share this. I was standing outside the dressing room at Old Navy the other day and I hap-pened to be in the youth boy’s clear-ance section. A couple of nice ladies were picking out a bunch of items at reasonable prices and decided to narrow their selection after they accumulated a large pile to choose from. For every article they vetoed, one lady would just put it back on the rack where her arm would reach. And I stood there and moved the returned clothing from the size 14 rack where she stuck it back up to the size 8 spot where they originally retrieved it from. After the third time of me doing this and them being oblivious to the hint, I finally said, “I apologize. I used to be in retail and these details make a difference. I will put these back in the correct size so the next person that comes along can find what they need, just like you did.” And do you know what

that lady said? “Oh, I never thought of that!” Well of course you didn’t. Start thinking, people!

The main reason I no longer get upset about the early arrival of Christmas is because of the idiots out there that seem to be offended by anything that doesn’t suit what they believe should happen in their perfect world. I don’t want to be like them. Instead of delaying when we are allowed to start celebrating the birth of Jesus, I’m just going to embrace the fact that we still can at all. And the sooner we can portray that to anti-nativity scene advocates, the better. I am tired of a few self centered protesters trying to take away our rights and traditions that this country was founded on. I have come to accept that stores will start stocking up for the shopping season sooner for many reasons. And they will also be open on occasions some don’t think they should but that oth-ers might find beneficial.

Let’s be honest here. It’s the pub-lic’s fault that all of this is happening anyway. If you are one of the rare few that hasn’t jumped on the mate-rialistic bandwagon of what Christ-mas is all about, you can’t really point fingers. It has turned into the gift giving season and the retailers are only offering what the customer demands. So try to find peace with the fact that some patrons will make a family outing of buying bargains on Thanksgiving Day. Be grateful we can still purchase figurines of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus. Re-member that not everyone has the perfect life of a wealthy, unbroken family who all live close by so they can gather together on the same day. And relish the fact that you can ex-ercise your right to shop or to stay at home on any day that you choose. It seems we are legally losing more and more of these personal choices as time goes on. And most important of all....SHOP LOCAL!

The warmer temperatures of the past weekend must have been the last gasp of Indian summer. Whatever it was, it was very welcome. The only downer was the gusty strong winds that blew leaves everywhere. I ob-served several folks trying to pick up leaves Saturday and they were hav-ing a time trying to catch the elusive leaf. Most of the leaves were headed north, but by Sunday afternoon they were headed back to the south.

Saturday I was able to get several things done in preparation for win-ter. I trimmed my rose bushes down to about a foot high and cut several other plants back as well. With all the new bulbs that were planted and the roses coming back strong, we should have plenty of color next spring.

I was itching to get on the golf course this weekend, but other com-mitments derailed my plans. I did get my November round in last week so I am on schedule. Now we will see if I can do it in December, January and February. The past two winters I have been able to play at least once every month, but those winters have been pretty mild.

Wednesday I went to Cedar Rap-ids for the state volleyball tourney. Since the tourney was in Cedar Rap-ids, I had a chance to make a few other stops that needed to be made. On the way up I made stops at the banks in North English and Belle Plaine. On the way home I was able to visit the Amana Colonies and get the details finalized for a Christmas day tour that I have scheduled in De-cember.

I really enjoyed the volleyball tourney and watching Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont win. The Rock-ets took on a mighty fine team from Council Bluffs St. Albert and pulled out a tough four set win. Karlie Tay-lor and Tasha Alexander had out-standing games at the net for EBF. Taylor smashed down 33 kills which set a single match record for Class 2-A. Taylor was also named to the all-tournament team and she was a second team pick on the Des Moines Register All-State team. Sigourney’s

Jordan Carter was a second team pick in Class 1-A.

In the semi-finals the Rockets faced off against the same Dike-New Hartford team that took them out in the regional last year. D-NH had won the past two state titles and they won the third one this year. In my opinion, they just might be the best team of all the classes. The Rockets stood toe-to-toe with them, but just could not get over the hump.

It has still been a monumental season for the Rockets with lots of great memories. With Alexander be-ing the lone senior starter, the cup-board is still well stocked at EBF. There are several freshman and sophomores that I feel will get noth-ing but better. The target will be on their backs, but somehow I feel that this group kind of relishes the oppor-tunity.

Just a few other notes of con-gratulations from the volleyball season are in order. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont coach, Gladys Genskow, has been named as one of the coaches for the Senior Volleyball All-Star Classic at Carroll Kuemper this weekend. And members of the Academic All-State Volleyball Team include; Tiana Slaney and Taiylor Morgan of Pekin and Morgan De-

Ruiter and Logan DeGraaf of Pella Christian.

I did not get to go to the UNI Dome this week for any playoff games. If Albia had been playing at any other time than the evening game, I would have been there. We had a event scheduled for Saturday evening that the Ancient-ess and I were responsible for, the game was out. I did get home in time to watch the second half on TV. The Albia boys gave it their all, but just could not keep pace with a big and physi-cal Waukon team in a 27-21 loss. The loss brought to an end a fantas-tic season for coach Jerry Staton and his team.

Saturday evening our Happy Wanders group from our church, which the Ancient-ess and I sponsor, spent a delightful evening at Quilted Treasures across from the drag strip near Eddyville. John and Donna Rempe hosted us for a cream can supper, some adult driver education tips and a quilting demonstration. The meal was cooked over an open fire and featured several vegetables, ham and potatoes. The dessert was Dutch Oven cooked peach cobbler and homemade ice cream. Oh my, but my blood sugar level took a hit.

I guess we can put the fall sports to sleep in this area. Nobody is left in the hunt for a title and now we turn to the winter sports scene. We will soon be in the warm gymnasium for basketball or wrestling and I guess that I am ready.

Let’s take a look at what hap-pened in our yesterdays.

100 years ago: Nov. 28, 1913 – Penn and Central battled to a 3-3 tie

in a Thanksgiving Day Classic. Wil-liams nailed a drop kick for 35 yards out for Penn while Vesterfeld tied the score with a 20 yard drop kick.

75 years ago: Nov. 24, 1938- The Lacey girls top Fremont 44-37 while the Fremont boys rolled to a 34-22 win. Erma Leanhart poured in 29 points and Letha DeWitt added 10 to lead Lacey. Dorothy Jean Pomeroy topped Fremont with 23 points. War-ren Newman led the Wildcats with 18 points while Willard Andrews and Kenneth Russell each had six for Lacey.

50 years ago: Nov. 23, 1963 – Hedrick and Tri-County split games. The Hedrick girls squeezed out a 31-28 win with Carolyn Carter scoring 12 points and Janice Gambell add-ing nine. Kathy DeBont and Betty Bender each scored nine for T-C. The Trojan boys claimed a 43-28 win as Wendell Hannum scored 18 points and Loren Schmidt added 13. Ronnie Capps scored 13 for Hedrick. Nov. 23, Fremont sweeps DR-M. The boys rolled to an 87-50 win as Jack Bales led with 15 points, Mike Lee added 13, Larry Lee scored 12 and Bob Swanson tallied 10 points. The Wildkittens romped to a 70-37 win as Judy Martin canned 22 points, Kathy Lake notched 21 and Cathy Clark added 17. Nov. 27- Jim Freeze of Penn was selected as the fullback on the All-Iowa Conference team.

25 years ago: There is no area news for this week. The winter sports season had not yet begun.

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New Sharon Sun Church News Thursday, November 21, 2013 ☼ 5North Mahaska School Board Meeting and Claims

October 21, 2013The North Mahaska Board of Education met

in regular session October 21, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. in the elementary conference room New Sharon, Iowa. Those members present: Dirk Wilkin, Dan Gruber, Tina Layman, Sherrill Stro-bel and Ryan Augustine. Also present: Randy Moffit, Doug Ray, Angela Livezey, Chris Shaw – NM student, Harriett Fox, Ralphi Munson, Jacque Griffin, Duane White and Cindy Quang.

Dirk called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m.A motion was made by Layman and sec-

onded by Gruber to approve the agenda. Mo-tion carried.

A motion was made by Strobel and seconded by Gruber to approve the consent agenda. Mo-tion carried.

COMMUNICATIONChris Shaw, senior at North Mahaska School,

talked with the board on open campus lunch. Chris discussed the advantages of open cam-pus.

Jacque Griffin discussed with the board about bring back May Term for the 2013-2014 school year.

OLD BUSINESSENROLLMENT REPORTMr. Moffit reported enrollment at 492.6 this

year. Enrollment is down 42.8 from 535.4 in 2012-2013.

EARLY RETIREMENTA motion was made by Gruber and seconded

by Augustine to offer the early retirement pack-age for teachers that are eligible. Motion car-ried.

A motion was made by Strobel and seconded by Gruber to limit the early retirement package to three teachers. AYES – Strobel, Augustine, Gruber, and Wilkin; NAY – Layman. Motion car-ried.

SBRC REQUIRED PLANA motion was made by Layman and second-

ed by Strobel to approve the SBRC Required Plan that will implement the procedure that all future CAR, SES and transportation reports be filed timely to the Department of Education. Mo-tion carried.

ELECTRONIC PAYMENTA motion was made by Augustine and sec-

onded by Gruber to accept the PaySchool on-line electronic payment system and to pass any fees applied to the consumers. All consumers will be informed of the fees. Motion carried.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORTMRS. LIVEZEY’S REPORT - ELEMENTARYMrs. Livezey talked about Standard Base

Reporting that the Elementary will be imple-menting.

Mrs. Livezey mentioned the Walk-A-Thon went well. Mrs. Livezey gave a special thanks to Missy Korell head chairperson for her hard work. The Walk-A-Thon raised a lot of money for student fieldtrips.

MRS. LIVEZEY’S – ELEMENTARY GOALS1. To increase the number of students who

are proficient in reading comprehension by ef-fectively implementing the SINA Plan and con-ducting walk throughs.

2. To ensure implementation (with fidelity) of building-wide curricular materials for read-ing (Wonders) in efforts to increase vertical and horizontal alignment of curriculum and in-crease the rigor or reading lessons and student achievement.

3. To ensure implementation (with fidelity) of building-wide curricular materials for math (Everyday Math) in efforts to increase vertical and horizontal alignment of the curriculum and increase the rigor of the math lessons and stu-dent achievement.

4. To support the work of the building wide implementation of Positive Behavior Supports.

MR RAY’S REPORT – SECONDARYMr. Ray talked about the Celebrate My Drive

Campaign that is sponsored by State Farm. Pledges were made by students to drive safe during the national teen drive safety week.

Mr. Ray is working with Mr. Crotts on Career Paths and lining guest speakers to come in and talk with the students.

Mr. Ray mentioned during Wednesday pro-fessional development day we will have a speaker from Indian Hills go over the programs that are available for North Mahaska students. The guest speakers coming from Indian Hills will be talking about the RISE program, welding program, and the Career Academy.

MR RAY’S – SECONDARY GOALS1. Continue conversation with staff on May

Term for the spring of 2014.2. Work with Mr. Hehli and Mrs. Carrico to

make sure our technology and out 1:1 laptop program meets the criteria and needs of 21st century skills in the Iowa Core.

3. Continue to work with Donna Boots on development and support of the talented and gifted program.

4. Work closely with the new agriculture teacher to build a strong program.

5. Continue work with the counselor and the at-risk coordinator on positive approaches to help stop bullying and harassment with pro-grams, assemblies, posters, and words of the week.

6. Continue to work with counselor of setting up monthly career speakers to help students with their post education pathways.

7. Work with staff on PLC’s and book study on “21st Century Skills.”

8. Prepare staff for the state site visit in No-vember.

SUPERINTENDENT’S GOALS1. Coordinate the staff development program

to monitor improvement in student achievement as identified in the Iowa Assessments, the DE accreditation visit, and the C-Plan using data to guide instructional decisions.

2. Follow through on priorities in the areas of staff, student life, educational program, technol-ogy, building and grounds, and community rela-tions and report on updates.

3. Oversee the implementation of the Iowa Core Curriculum, focusing on math, reading and technology.

4. Facilitate the continued development of the one-to-one computer program and the re-sulting revision of the technology curriculum.

5. Prepare the district for the Department of Education Accreditation visit in the fall and fol-low up on recommendations resulting from that visit.

6. Oversee the transition to a new technology coordinator for the district.

NEW BUSINESSSBRC APPLICATIONA motion was made by Gruber and second-

ed by Layman to approve the application for Maximum Allowable Growth for 2014-2015 for students not on our open enrollment roster the previous year and for increased enrollment in the amount of $18,003. Motion carried.

DROP OUT PREVENTION APPLICATIONA motion was made Gruber and seconded by

Strobel to approve the application for Drop Out Prevention allowable growth in the amount of $104,064 for the 2014-2015 school year. Mo-tion carried.

NEGATIVE SPECIAL EDUCATION BAL-ANCE

A motion was made by Layman and second-ed by Strobel to approve the modified allowable growth and supplemental aid for a negative special education balance in the amount of $306,286.82. Motion carried.

APPROVAL OF SIAC COMMITTEEA motion was made by Strobel and second-

ed by Layman to approve the appointment as a group to the SIAC Committee. One year of service remaining: Kraig Van Hulzen, Jeff Fos-ter, Mindy Rozendaal and Amy McBirnie. Two Years of service remaining: Lindsay Miller, Mike Fisher, Mike Dickenson and Jimmah White. Three years of service remaining: Jack New-port, Diane Nutter, Esther Brown and Teresa Miller. Motion carried.

CAPITAL FUNDING PLANNINGMr. Moffit and the board of education dis-

cussed a list of potential projects/equipment that can be purchased with the one cent sales tax money.

APPROVE VOLUNTEER COACHA motion was made by Augustine and sec-

onded by Gruber to approve Scott Simmons as a volunteer wrestling coach. Motion carried.

SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORTTLC REPORT Mr. Moffit mentioned that there

is a Teacher Leadership Committee established for mentoring.

NOVEMBER 21 (THURS), IASB CONVEN-TION, DES MOINES

Mr. Moffit asked if anyone from the board would like to attend let him know.

PHYSICAL POLICYThe board reviewed the Employee Physical

Policy 403.1.NEWSLETTER PRINTINGMr. Moffit asked the board about printing

newsletters for S.W.I.M.BOARD COMMENTSMr. Wilkin mention his experience when he

attended the Montezuma School Board Meeting on October 16th.

REVIEW DE ACCREDITATION VISIT – NOV. 19 – 21

Mr. Moffit reviewed the Department of Educa-tion Accreditation Questionnaire with the board.

ADJOURNMr. Wilkin adjourned the meeting at 10:26

p.m.Cindy QuangBoard SecretaryDirk WilkinBoard President

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This past season will be one that both Mary and I will long remem-ber. First and foremost, we weren’t certain that we would get the oppor-tunity again to coach the sport that we love, in the school system where we graduated, as did our children and quite possibly our grandchil-dren. This sport has been a part of our lives for well over 30 years. We have played, officiated, coached and followed the college career of our daughter Jody for what seems like forever. I would like to take this final opportunity to summarize the 2013 North Mahaska volleyball season.

Our season began on the road against BGM and ended on the road against Winfield-Mt. Union. Both road trips ended in losses. That be-ing verified, what happened in be-tween the two matches was remark-able. The player’s first obstacle was that of “breaking in” a new coaching staff. Maybe I shouldn’t have used the word “new”, but we were new to them. With each coaching change come different ideas and coaching methods. Some of these were ac-cepted and some were tabled due to the brain already being programmed to perform a function in a certain way. Parent and supporter’s com-ments suggested that they picked up on quite a few of the criteria that are necessary to compete in the “Woods” style of volleyball. Going back to our first and last matches, those of you that were present for both out-ings would surely testify that the first 14 points awarded to the Warhawks in the WMU match were the best volleyball you had seen all season. I, for one, was extremely impressed with every facet of our play for those 14 points. THAT was Warhawk vol-leyball at it’s finest. The aggressive serving and hitting, teamwork, de-termination and knowledge of the sport; it was all there. Unfortunately, WMU had more of what it takes to be successful, at that point in time.

We finished the season with a conference record of 7 wins against 3 losses. That put us in a tie for third place honors with Belle Plaine, who we defeated in a 5 set barn burner. Our overall record was 14 wins against 12 losses, which while not a record to chisel in stone; remains

a “winning season”. I should also inform the reading public that of our 12 losses, only 2 of them were to class 1-A schools. We manage to play a fairly tough schedule whereby most of our tournaments are laden with the larger school teams. I would never use this information as an ex-cuse, merely a fact.

As far as post season awards are concerned, Nicole Brand and Carly Ehret took Second Team All Con-ference honors. Michaela Heys and Rachel Sherburne were named to the Honorable Mention squad. Several players garnered All-SICL academic awards. Those that acquired Aca-demic Excellence Awards, which re-quires a GPA of 3.25-3.49, were: Ka-tie McGriff, Samantha Edmundson, Mackenzie Fuller, Emma Long and Kayla Gilman. The conference also gives an Academic Distinguished Award for those student athletes that held a 3.5 GPA or above. The play-ers who received this award are: Michaela Heys, Rachel Sherburne, Julia Groenenboom, Nicole Brand, Carly Ehret, Jensen Kelderman, Katie Koehler and Kalleen Cham-berlain. I typically have mixed feel-ings where post season accolades are concerned. There have been times when certain athletes received none, but truth be told were an integral part of our success.

I will tell you that everyone on the team developed skills over the past 3 months. Some developed vol-leyball skills, while others developed competitive skills. To be an accom-plished athlete you need to have the desire to compete at what I believe to be your individual highest level. When you are around players day to day, week to week, you can see the growth they make. Whether we want to admit it or not, life is about com-petition. You compete for everything from where you will gain your edu-cational, to employment, to spouses and the list goes on and on. One of our goals is to instill the competitive spirit and desire to be the best, in all of our players. Hopefully, that is where we show the highest success rate.

The JV Warhawk team posted a 12 wins and 1 loss overall record, which is extremely encouraging

based on the fact that most of the players will move to the varsity squad in 2014. There will be much improvement needed on their part simply because the level of play will increase from one level to the next. Personally, I feel the players that I now see as those being varsity con-tributors will be able to step up and compete at the varsity level.

For those of you that weren’t aware, North Mahaska has partici-pated in the AAU volleyball program for the past few years. There are cur-rently enough players interested to field (or court) two teams. The win-ter volleyball season typically begins in January and runs through March. Several players in the SICL are in-volved in off season volleyball in either a club or AAU setting. North Mahaska players being involved as well can only strengthen the overall program.

Both Mary and I would like to express appreciation to the adminis-tration, parents, fans and supporters for the opportunities given and the support always shown by the North Mahaska faithful.

It’s Who We Are! Submitted to Coach Woods by

a former Warhawk Volleyball Player It’s the love-hate relationship you

have with your coach. It’s the beat of your heart as you walk on the court. It’s the hours of practice; it’s leav-ing the school every night dripping in sweat. It’s being so tired you can’t think, you can’t walk. It’s being so sore you can’t sit. It’s the two a days that hurt. It’s doing anything to keep the ball up. It’s the tight spandex and long socks. It’s hanging in the air at the peak of your jump. It’s the gym being so hot you could pass out. It’s pushing yourself to a new level ev-eryday. It’s the movement right be-fore you hit the ball. It’s when you’re dead and you manage to six pack a girl. It’s the rush of adrenaline you get after a kill. It’s an ace at the time when your team needs you most. It’s when you’re sick of everything and you want to quit, but you know you won’t. It’s playing with this desire to never stop. It’s playing with the determination of becoming the best. It’s what we call v.o.l.l.e.y.b.a.l.l., and it’s who we are.

NMVB 2013 Final ThoughtsNEW SHARON CITY COUNCILREGULAR MEETINGOctober 16,2013The New Sharon City Council met in regular

session at City Hall, Wednesday, October 16, 2013 @ 6:00 p.m. with Mayor Dustin Hite presiding and the following members answering roll call: Kenneth Ward, Larry Applegate,and Jeff Foster. Others in attendance were Lisa Munn, Jason Davis and Katie Rozenboom.

It was moved by Applegate and seconded by Foster to approve the following consent agenda items:

1. October 2, 2013 Minutes and October 2, 2013 Special Minutes

2. Pending Bills for October 16, 2013AYES: Ward, Foster, ApplegateNAYS: None ABSTENTIONS: None Public Comments: Jason Davis and Katie

Rozenboom were here to discuss having the pet snakes at their residence but nobody was here from the public so no discussion was held.

Requests from the Community: NonePublic Hearings: NoneResolutions/Motions:A motion to approve the purchase of a city

bench to replace the one that was destroyed died due to lack of a motion.

It was moved by Applegate and seconded by Ward to adopt Resolution No.10162013 appointing Lisa Munn as City Clerk and setting the compensation of the City Clerk.

AYES: Ward, ApplegateNAYS: None ABSTENTIONS: Foster It was moved by Foster and seconded by

Applegate to authorize and approve Reserve Officer Mark Casey to carry a weapon in the line of duty pursuant to Iowa Code Section 80D.7.

AYES: Ward, Foster, ApplegateNAYS: None ABSTENTIONS: None Ordinances:NoneDepartment Reports:The Police Report was included in the

packets.Departmental Requests:Mayor InformationReceived proposal from Garden and

Associates for the wall around the pumphouse to be submitted to Fema.

Adjournment:There being no further business to discuss,

it was moved by Applegate and seconded by Foster to adjourn at 6:41 p.m. All in favor, whereupon the Mayor declared said motion approved.

Lisa Munn Dustin D. HiteCity clerk Mayor

NEW SHARON CITY COUNCILREGULAR MEETINGNovember 6, 2013The New Sharon City Council met in regular

session at City Hall, Wednesday, November 6, 2013 @ 6:00 p.m. with Mayor Dustin Hite presiding and the following members answering roll call: Kenneth Ward, Larry Applegate, and Jeff Foster. Others in attendance were Dustin Hite, Lisa Munn, Kevin Lamberson, Jeff Bittner, Gary Strobel, Jim Belzer, Brad and Melissa Korell, Janell Steel, Randy and Candy Fogel, Dahl and Patti Wickham, Travis Minner, Carl Elshire, and James Holz.

Roll Call was answered by:Ayes: Ward, Foster, ApplegateAbsent: LambersonIt was moved by Applegate and seconded by

Ward to approve the following consent agenda items:

1. 10/16/13 minutes2. 11/06/13 Agenda3. Pending Bills for November 6, 2013AYES: Ward, Foster, ApplegateNAYS: None ABSTENTIONS: None Public Comments: Jim Belzer approached

the council asking about purchasing an alley by his house. He was told to fill out the paperwork and he could be on the November 20 agenda

Requests from the Community: Candy Fogel would like no parking signs on their street due to people parking right behind their driveway.

Public Hearings: NoneResolutions/Motions:It was moved by Applegate and seconded by

Ward to approve a building permits for Randy and Candy Fogel for a deck and a shed and set the public hearing for November 20.

AYES: Ward, Applegate, Foster NAYS: None It was moved by Applegate and seconded by

Foster to approve a sale of Lot #3 of the old School Square to Brad and Melissa Korell in the amount of $7000.00 and set the public hearing for November 20.

AYES: Ward, Foster, ApplegateNAYS: None ABSTENTIONS: None It was moved by Foster and seconded by

Applegate to approve a building permit for Brad and Melissa Korell for duplex on lot #3 of old school square and set the public hearing for November 20.

AYES: Ward, Foster, ApplegateNAYS: None ABSTENTIONS: None It was moved by Foster and seconded by

Applegate to table the building permit for Jim Belzer at this time.

AYES: Ward, Foster, ApplegateNAYS: None

ABSTENTIONS: None It was moved by Applegate and seconded

by Foster to have VanMaanen and Associates schedule a financial audit for the city.

AYES: Ward, Foster, ApplegateNAYS: None ABSTENTIONS: None It was moved by Foster and seconded by

Ward to approve a building permit for Travis Minner for 209 W. Market for a porch and set a public hearing for November 20,2013

AYES: Ward, Foster, ApplegateNAYS: None ABSTENTIONS: None It was moved by Applegate and seconded by

Ward to adopt Resolution No 110613A adding Lisa Munn to the corporate agreement at US Bank.

AYES: Ward, Foster, ApplegateNAYS: None ABSTENTIONS: None It was moved by Foster and seconded by

Ward to adopt Resolution No 110613B adding Larry Applegate to the corporate agreement at US Bank.

AYES: Ward, FosterNAYS: None ABSTENTIONS: ApplegateOrdinances:NoneDepartment Reports:a. Water Report- Jeff Bittner discussed water

maps and would like to have the city’s maps updated.

Fema representatives are scheduling a meeting to discuss the pump house

b. Sewer Report- Gary Strobel discussed that he had an aerator pump that burnt up cause not known but new one is here and will be restored.

c. Street Report- Gary Strobel said that the manhole was lifted up on S Park St.

d. Police Report- Kevin was on vacation so he did not have a written report however he reported that the county had 44 calls for New Sharon in the last 2 weeks

e. Cemetary Report- Larry Applegate is going to transfer software to another laptop

f. City Clerk Report- Lisa Munn reported that the office will be closed until 3:00 on Thurs Nov 7th as she is attending Ippers training in Des Moines. Also the office will be closed the entire day on Tues Nov 12 for a budget workshop.

Mayor Dustin Hite gave the okay for the city hall being closed on Friday November 29th and Keri Lamberson will work in the office on Mon Nov 27-Wed. Nov. 27th reduced hours since Lisa is gone that week.

DataTechnologies will be here to do software training for Lisa on Wed November 13th for the day. Cost of this will be $550.00 per day on site training. We will need to pay travel expenses, meals one lunch and one dinner, mileage. They are trying to schedule this with 3 other towns to help with the mileage costs.

Departmental Requests:City Council Information:It was moved by Applegate and seconded by

Foster to appoint Janell Steel as a city council member to fill in the vacancy left by Lisa Munn

AYES: Ward, Applegate, FosterNAYES: NoneMayor Information:Received a nice thank you letter from D&K

Collectibles for the grant to help in remodeling the exterior of their business.

Property at 105 N. Main was discussed. It was decided to pursue this further regarding the city accepting this property.

Adjournment:There being no further business to discuss, it

was moved by Ward and seconded by Foster to adjourn at 6:46 p.m. All in favor, whereupon the Mayor declared said motion approved.

Lisa Munn Dustin D. HiteCity clerk Mayor

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The Des Moines Area Commu-nity College (DMACC) women’s basketball team improved to 3-0 for the season with a 95-41 wins over the American Institute of Business (AIB) junior varsity November 4 at Des Moines.

DMACC put the game out of reach in the first half by outscor-ing the Eagles 50-17 and taking a 33-point lead into intermission.

Sophomore Kate Ray of New Sharon led four players in double figures with 17 points. Sophomore All-American Carlee Schuhmacher of Watertown, Wis., scored 12 points and freshman LaTasha Harmon of Milwaukee, Wis., and sophomore Breanna Hall of Riverside had 11 and 10 points respectively.

Hall grabbed 11 rebounds to stake the Bears to a 64-42 advan-tage on the boards. Schuhmacher, sophomore Taryn Wicks of Jewell and Harmon had eight rebounds apiece and freshman Chelsea Ander-son of Gowrie had seven rebounds. DMACC had 24 offensive rebounds in the game.

Ray, sophomore Jalissa Felici of Bellevue, Neb., and freshman Tiana Thompson of Tama had four assists apiece.

DMACC will play in the Hawks Classic Nov. 8 and 9 at Norfolk, Neb. The Bears will play North Platte Community College on Nov. 8 and will face Northeast (Neb.) Com-munity College on Nov. 9

Sophomore Kate Ray

DMACC Women’s Basketball Team Improves to 3-0 with 95-41 Win