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STATE QUALIFIERS � Murray robotics team advances to state competition

By AMY HANSEN OST news editor [email protected]

MURRAY — It’s time for the rise of the machines.

On Jan. 11, Murray En-gineering Club’s (MEC) FIRST Tech Challenge’s (FTC) robotics team went to Sergeant Bluff for a compe-tition and won the “Winning Alliance” and “Rockwell Collins Innovate” awards. The team advanced to state competition Feb. 21-22 at the Marriott Hotel in Coralville.

Zac Thacker, a senior, does a lot of the computer programming for the team.

“I’m the only one that re-ally understands it,” Thacker said with a laugh. “I did do some basic programming a couple of years ago. It kind of helped lead into this. I already kind of knew what I was doing and what I was looking for.”

The engineering club was formed four years ago and has 25 members consisting of junior-high and senior-high students.

Eight members of the club are also involved with the FTC robotics team. Their team name is “MECanism.” The team consists of four boys and four girls.What is FIRST Tech Challenge?

FTC is designed for stu-dents in seventh through 12th grade to compete head-to-head using a sports model. Teams are responsible for designing, building and pro-gramming their robots to compete in an alliance for-mat against other teams.

The robot kit is reusable from year to year and is pro-grammed using a variety of languages. Teams, including coaches, mentors and volun-teers are required to develop a strategy and build robots based on sound engineering principles.

Awards are given for com-petition, as well as for com-munity outreach, design and other real-world accomplish-

ments. College scholarships are also available through FTC.How did MEC start?

Even though the engineer-ing club has been around for four years, this is only the second year students have participated in a FTC robot-ics team.

Murray science teacher Andy Hitz helps to coach the

club. The club first originated when students in a physics class wanted to build a T-shirt shooting gun.

“That kind of started the idea that maybe we needed a club here that focused on engineering,” Hitz said. “We had a lot of interest in it. We built rockets … last year we got hooked in with the First Tech Challenge and (the)

robotics program is really cool.”

When students were asked what first interested them in joining MEC, these were some of their responses:

• “I like building things.”• “I’m going to college for

computer science, so it kind of fit.”

Contributed photosAbove, is Murray’s FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team at a com-petition Jan. 11 at Sergeant Bluff. Pictured, top row, from left, are Rileigh Hiatt and Joclyn Bower. Middle row are Kira Barr, Tony Miller, Frank Thacker and Coach Andy Hitz. Bottom row are Sam Rockhold, Allison Peterson and Zac Thacker. Right, the robot named MECatron Mark 3 loads blocks during a com-petition.

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Republicans offer alternative to Obamacare

17 Calif. localities could run out of water

SAN JOSE, Calif. (MCT) — As Califor-nia’s drought deepens, 17 communities across the state are in danger of running out of water within 60 to 120 days, state officials said this week.

In some communities, wells are running dry. In others, reservoirs are nearly empty. Some have long-running problems that pre-date the drought.

The water systems, all in rural areas, serve from 39 to 11,000 residents. They range from the tiny Lompico County Water District in Santa Cruz County to districts that serve the cities of Healdsburg and Cloverdale in So-noma County.

And it could get a lot worse.

“As the drought goes on, there will be more that probably show up on the list,” Dave Mazzera, acting drinking-water divi-sion chief for the state Department of Public Health, said Tuesday.

Most of the affected water districts have so few customers that they can’t charge enough money to pay for backup water supplies or repair failing equipment, leaving them more vulnerable to drought than large urban areas.

The state health department compiled the list after surveying the more than 3,000 water agencies in California last week. The list will be updated weekly, Mazzera said.

State health officials are in discussion with leaders of other agencies, including the state Office of Emergency Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to work on immediate solutions, he added. Those could include everything from trucking in water to the health department providing emergency funds for drilling new wells or connecting fal-tering systems to other water systems.

A similar list of vulnerable communities was compiled during California’s last drought, which lasted from 2007 to 2009. But the cur-rent drought is more severe. Less rain fell in 2013 than in any year since California became a state in 1850.

Even though some rain is forecast for

DROUGHT State officials say some com-munities have 60 to 120 days before running out of water.

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WASHINGTON (MCT) — On the eve of the president’s State of the Union speech, Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Caro-lina on Monday offered a plan to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act, and replace it with a plan he says would lower costs and expand access to cover-age.

His proposal would keep popu-lar elements of the law, commonly known as Obamacare: the ban on limits on lifetime insurance ben-efits and the option for people to keep adult children on their plans until age 26.

But the rest is different, and its rollout the day before the presi-dent’s annual report to Congress helped put Republican ideas on how to replace the law into pub-lic debate, though it has virtually

no chance of passing as long as the Senate is controlled by Demo-crats.

The White House dismissed the plan as “just another repeal pro-posal.”

But Burr in a press statement said it addressed cost problems.

“Our nation’s health care sys-tem was unsustainable before Obamacare, and the president’s health care plan made things worse,” he said.

Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma joined Burr in sup-port of the plan, called the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsi-

bility and Empowerment Act. It would not require Americans to buy insurance, a key element of the health law.

Insurance companies would be allowed to charge older peo-ple five times what they charge younger ones, compared to the 3-to-1 ratio allowed under Obam-acare. The Republican senators say that the result would lower health care costs for many.

One major difference is how people with pre-existing condi-tions would be protected.

Under the Republican propos-al, if they moved from one health plan to another, they could not be

denied a plan based on pre-exist-ing conditions.

There would be a one-time open enrollment period for peo-ple who are uninsured.

The plan gives some details on how this would work, but others have not yet been spelled out, according to Joe Antos, a health policy expert at the American En-terprise Institute, a conservative research group in Washington.

The penalty probably would be higher premiums if people didn’t buy insurance at the enrollment

“Our nation’s health care system was unsustain-able before Obamacare, and the president’s health care plan made things worse.”

— Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina

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Mickey Taddicken Downey Creston

Alma “Mickey” Tad-d i c k e n Downey, 93, of C r e s -ton died Monday, J a n u a r y 27, 2014, at Cres-ton Nurs-ing and Rehab in Creston. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Creston. Fr. Ken Halbur will offici-ate. Burial will be at the St. Edward’s Cemetery near Afton. No visitation will be held. Memorials are to the Operation Smile. Online condolences may be made under the obituary category at www.powersfh.com.

Alma Belle Downey was born May 12, 1920 in Afton, Ia. to Leta Mae (Shiflett) Owens and John Charles Owens. From birth, Alma was nicknamed “Mickey” and was known by that name her entire life. The family farmed, but her fa-ther was disabled and it fell to Mickey to do many of the farm chores, along with a myriad of aunts and uncles who lived on adjoin-ing farms and helped the Owens’.

When Mickey was 14, a brother, Patrick, was born. Patrick remained her shad-ow, her constant compan-ion, and her Best Friend through her life. Mickey went to country school un-til attending Afton High School and graduating in 1937.

While visiting a friend in Creston in 1935, Mickey met Warren “Red” Tad-dicken. There was an im-mediate attraction, and the couple later married at St. Edwards Church in Afton in December, 1938. Red worked for many years as an auto mechanic in Cres-ton, and the couple resided

for almost forty years on Lincoln Street, raising three daughters.

Through the years, Mickey worked at various times for several depart-ment stores in Creston and later as a telephone opera-tor. After Red’s death in 1978, she was employed by the Creston Greater Com-munity Hospital.

Mickey was a faithful member of St. Malachy’s Church (later known as the Holy Spirit Parish) and served on the Altar Soci-ety. She was a member of the American Legion and also did some volunteer work for the American Cancer Society.

In 1980, she renewed an old friendship with Carl Downey of Creston, and the couple married in 1981. Un-fortunately Carl succumbed to a brain aneurysm a few short months later.

Even during times of misfortune and sadness, Mickey maintained a sense of humor and dry wit that amused her friends and family.

In 2008 Mickey moved to Prairie View Assisted Liv-ing in Creston, where she found several friends from childhood, and made many more.

Mickey is survived by three daughters: Patricia (Olaf) Lemon of Canada, Katherine (Robert) West of California, and Cynthia (Michael) Krystkiewicz of California. Also surviving are brother Patrick Ow-ens, three grandchildren, Christopher West, Andrew Miller, and Emily (Paul) Hammer; two step grand-children, Claire Krystkie-wicz and Katie An; three great-grandchildren, Lola and Max Miller, Henry Hammer and many, many close friends. She was pre-ceded in death by her sis-ter-in-law Loretta Owens; two close cousins, Ferne Ross and Shirley Liles, two sisters-in-law, Pearl James and Mary Lou Ethington, and one brother in law, Jack Taddicken.

Downey

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• “I liked it. It was some-thing no other club did.”

• “I like doing things hands-on, and this was a chance to actually give it a shot and do stuff and make awesome things.”

On to stateThis will be the first time

the Murray’s robotics team has advanced to state.

The team designed a ro-

bot to do a series of actions and movements, which in-clude picking up blocks, go-ing up ramps and dispensing the blocks in goals. Their robot’s name is MECatron Mark 3.

Programming the robot for state competition is still in the works.

“They’re looking into what types of upgrades they might do to their robot to let it do more stuff,” Hitz said.

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Thursday, major storms are desperately needed this win-ter and spring to replenish depleted reservoirs, rivers and the Sierra Nevada snow-pack — which on Tuesday stood at 14 percent of nor-mal.

“This is a statewide drought. This is a serious drought,” Bill Croyle, direc-tor of the state Drought Task Force, said Thursday. “It’s all hands on deck.”

Croyle, an official with the state Department of Water Resources, made his remarks at a meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, a state board of water experts.

Asked by board member Hank Nordhoff, a San Diego businessman, where the wa-ter will come from to bail out small systems, Croyle said he’s working on it.

“You are going to get it wherever you can get it,” he said.

Retorted Nordhoff:

“That’s a frightening reply.”Croyle cited the possibil-

ity of new pipe connections to other water systems and trucking in water.

“On the Central Coast, they have in the past looked at desalination,” he added. “So if we lose our groundwa-ter and surface water, we are going to go to the ocean. It is going to be expensive, but you bring in mobile plants and fire them up.”

Since California’s last ma-jor drought, which ran from 1987 to 1992, most major urban areas have spent mil-lions of dollars to store water underground, fund conser-vation programs, build new reservoirs and construct wastewater recycling plants. As a result, their residents are feeling little effect so far.

On Tuesday, the San Fran-cisco Public Utilities Com-mission announced a volun-tary 10 percent cutback for its 2.6 million customers in San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Alameda

counties. Similarly, the Santa Clara Valley Water District has requested a 10 percent voluntary cutback. Others, such as the Contra Costa Water District and the East Bay Municipal Utility Dis-trict, have not yet asked cus-tomers to meet conservation targets.

The story is different in many rural areas.

Lompico County Water District, in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Felton, has long-standing water supply issues and is exploring a pos-sible merger, but so far has been stymied by nearly $3 million in needed upgrades — a hefty bill for the dis-trict’s 500 customers.

“We have been unable to take water out of the creek since August and well pro-duction is down, and we didn’t have that much wa-ter to begin with,” said Lois Henry, a Lompico water board member.

Henry said she hopes the state comes with funding to

help the agency find more reliable water. The district could soon have to begin trucking in water, she said.

“I’m frankly worried,” Henry said. “I know people turn their faucet on and say, ‘Oh, everything’s fine.’ And I know it’s not.”

In Cloverdale, where 9,000 Sonoma County residents draw their water from four wells, low flows in the Rus-sian River prompted the City Council last week to put in place mandatory 25 percent rationing, which includes a ban on lawn watering. The city raised water rates 50 per-cent to put in two new wells, which should be completed by July, said City Manager Paul Caylor.

“Hopefully,” he said, “we’ll be able to get through the summer and the develop-ment of this project will pay off.”

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time, he said.The proposal also would

give small businesses help with the high costs of insur-ance through a tax credit. People with incomes of up to 300 percent of the feder-al poverty level — $34,470 for an individual — would be eligible for a refundable tax credit to buy health coverage or pay health bills.

The amount could be modest. A person age 18 to 34 who earns 200 per-cent of the poverty level — $22,980 for an individual — would receive $1,560,

according to an outline of the plan.

In addition, it would rely on high-risk pools to help people with expensive health problems who don’t have insurance.

The Republican sena-tors also said they would not expand Medicaid, as the president’s health law does, to provide insurance to the poor who haven’t had it. Instead they would encourage state reforms of the Medicaid system. States would receive fed-eral grants to help low-income children and fami-lies, elderly people and those who are disabled if

they aren’t able to buy in-surance.

“We believe our propos-al is roughly budget neutral over a decade,” the sena-tors said in a question and answer sheet. They said that the insurance, Med-icaid and tax changes they recommend would lower costs.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Mon-day that it looked like “just another repeal proposal, another attempt to raise taxes on the middle class, to keep uninsured Ameri-cans with pre-existing con-ditions locked out of the market, to raise costs on

seniors, and to take away Medicaid from the millions of Americans who stand to gain coverage, thanks to the expansion that was part of the Affordable Care Act.”

It also would give insur-ance companies the power to deny people coverage because of pre-existing conditions and charge women more than men, Carney said, adding: “We strongly believe that’s the wrong course of action.”

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ington BureauDistributed by MCT In-

formation Services

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Air Force widens cheating investigation at nuclear facility WASHINGTON (MCT)

— An Air Force investigation into alleged cheating by crews that handle nuclear missiles has broadened to include roughly twice as many offi-cers as the Pentagon’s initial announcement last week that 34 individuals were under sus-picion, two officers said Tues-day.

The Air Force Global Strike Command confirmed that the number of officers

under investigation has in-creased, but it refused to say how many “to protect the in-tegrity of the investigation.”

Lt. Col. John Sheets, a spokesman for Air Force Global Strike Command, said that new cases are all at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, where the first 34 were implicated, and involve the same test that prompted the initial investigation.

Sheets said additional offi-

cers have been removed from launch duty and that officers not under investigation at the base continue “to perform its mission.”

The two officers who said that several dozen more of-ficers now are under investi-gation insisted on anonymity because they were not autho-rized to discuss details of the probe.

The Air Force announced Jan. 15 that an officer at

Malmstrom had shared an-swers to a monthly proficien-cy test by text messages with 16 other officers at the base, and that 17 additional airmen apparently knew about the cheating but failed to report it.

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Markets

Today's WeatherLocal 5-Day Forecast

Thu

1/30

37/14Windy with on andoff snow showersduring the morning.High 37F.

Sunrise Sunset7:30 AM 5:32 PM

Fri

1/31

22/14More clouds thansun. Highs in the low20s and lows in themid teens.


Sat

2/1

25/6Sunshine. Highs inthe mid 20s andlows in the mid sin-gle digits.


Sun

2/2

30/11Mix of sun andclouds. Highs in thelow 30s and lows inthe low teens.


Mon

2/3

28/12Clouds giving way tosun . Highs in theupper 20s and lowsin the low teens.


Des Moines36/13

Cedar Rapids33/5

Sioux City30/10

Creston37/14

Iowa At A Glance

Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 25 1 sn shower Davenport 35 10 sn shower Marshaltown 32 5 sn showerAtlantic 33 13 sn shower Des Moines 36 13 sn shower Mason City 25 -4 snowAubudon 33 12 sn shower Dubuque 31 5 sn shower Onawa 32 12 sn showerCedar Rapids 33 5 sn shower Farmington 42 14 mixed Oskaloosa 40 12 sn showerCenterville 41 14 mixed Fort Dodge 29 5 sn shower Ottumwa 40 13 sn showerClarinda 40 17 windy Ft Madison 41 14 sn shower Red Oak 37 16 sn showerClarion 27 2 sn shower Guttenberg 29 1 sn shower Sioux Center 24 4 sn showerClinton 33 8 sn shower Keokuk 41 15 mixed Sioux City 30 10 sn showerCouncil Bluffs 34 15 sn shower Lansing 29 0 snow Spencer 23 1 sn showerCreston 37 14 sn shower LeMars 27 7 sn shower Waterloo 29 1 sn shower

National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 42 25 sunny Houston 62 53 pt sunny Phoenix 76 53 pt sunnyBoston 31 23 sunny Los Angeles 74 52 pt sunny San Francisco 62 53 cloudyChicago 32 10 sn shower Miami 78 65 rain Seattle 48 43 rainDallas 62 49 windy Minneapolis 18 -13 sn shower St. Louis 47 27 windyDenver 47 24 mixed New York 31 26 sunny Washington, DC 37 27 sunny

Moon Phases

LastJan 24

NewJan 30

FirstFeb 6

FullFeb 14

UV IndexThu

1/301

Low

Fri1/31

2

Low

Sat2/12

Low

Sun2/22

Low

Mon2/32

Low

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 Offi cial Weather Station: high past 24 hours (18), low past 24 hours (-8) and precipitation ending 7 a.m. today (.0)

Today's WeatherLocal 5-Day Forecast

Thu

1/30

37/14Windy with on andoff snow showersduring the morning.High 37F.


Fri

1/31

22/14More clouds thansun. Highs in the low20s and lows in themid teens.


Sat

2/1

25/6Sunshine. Highs inthe mid 20s andlows in the mid sin-gle digits.


Sun

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30/11Mix of sun andclouds. Highs in thelow 30s and lows inthe low teens.


Mon

2/3

28/12Clouds giving way tosun . Highs in theupper 20s and lowsin the low teens.


Des Moines36/13

Cedar Rapids33/5

Sioux City30/10

Creston37/14

Iowa At A Glance

Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 25 1 sn shower Davenport 35 10 sn shower Marshaltown 32 5 sn showerAtlantic 33 13 sn shower Des Moines 36 13 sn shower Mason City 25 -4 snowAubudon 33 12 sn shower Dubuque 31 5 sn shower Onawa 32 12 sn showerCedar Rapids 33 5 sn shower Farmington 42 14 mixed Oskaloosa 40 12 sn showerCenterville 41 14 mixed Fort Dodge 29 5 sn shower Ottumwa 40 13 sn showerClarinda 40 17 windy Ft Madison 41 14 sn shower Red Oak 37 16 sn showerClarion 27 2 sn shower Guttenberg 29 1 sn shower Sioux Center 24 4 sn showerClinton 33 8 sn shower Keokuk 41 15 mixed Sioux City 30 10 sn showerCouncil Bluffs 34 15 sn shower Lansing 29 0 snow Spencer 23 1 sn showerCreston 37 14 sn shower LeMars 27 7 sn shower Waterloo 29 1 sn shower

National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 42 25 sunny Houston 62 53 pt sunny Phoenix 76 53 pt sunnyBoston 31 23 sunny Los Angeles 74 52 pt sunny San Francisco 62 53 cloudyChicago 32 10 sn shower Miami 78 65 rain Seattle 48 43 rainDallas 62 49 windy Minneapolis 18 -13 sn shower St. Louis 47 27 windyDenver 47 24 mixed New York 31 26 sunny Washington, DC 37 27 sunny

Moon Phases

LastJan 24

NewJan 30

FirstFeb 6

FullFeb 14

UV IndexThu

1/301

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Fri1/31

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Sat2/12

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

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

DivorceCare, a divorce recov-ery seminar and support group, 6 to 9 p.m., Crest Haven Care Centre, 1000 E. Howard St. Contact person: Andrea, (641) 346-2532.

FridayHoly Spirit Rectory ReRun

Shop, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 107 W. Howard St.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) brown baggers, noon open meet-ing, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. No smoking.

AA, Prescott Friday Night Group, 6 p.m., United Church (Disciples of Christ), 401 Sixth Ave., Prescott. Use east door.

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

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

SaturdayCreston Men’s Fellowship

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

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

Family Caregiver Support Group, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Boz’s Kitchen in Corning. For more information, contact Jaleyn at 641-782-4040.

Meeting Green Hills AEA Board of

Directors negotiating teams and Education Association, 4 p.m. Thursday, Halverson Center for Education, Coun-cil Bluffs, with electronic site in Creston.

Agenda includes: presen-tation to Green Hills AEA board’s proposal for the 2014-15 collective bargaining agreement.

Birth GRIMES — Mark and

Kate (Gammell) Hargrafen of Grimes are parents of a son born Jan. 20, 2014. Rocco Tully Ray weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounc-es and was 18 inches long.

Grandparents are Eldon and Margy Gammell of Cres-ton and Gayle Hargrafen of Maquoketa.

Sibling is Barron Mathew George Hargrafen, 1.

Police Gregory Fox, 40, 806 N.

Vine St., was charged on a Union County warrant for failure to report on child support matters 4:09 p.m. Tuesday at Union County Law Enforcement Center.

Fox was being held await-ing sentense completion and payment of fines.

— — — — — —Dustin Lyden, 20, of Di-

agonal was charged with fifth-degree theft 7:50 p.m. Tuesday at Wal-Mart, 806 Laurel St.

According to a Creston

Police report, Lyden pos-sessed items from Wal-Mart in Creston and attempted to leave the store without pay-ing for the items.

Lyden was released on promise to appear.

— — — — — —Molly Schimp of Hampton

reported a wallet and keys to her vehicle were taken from her vehicle while it was parked at 305 New York Ave. between 1 and 10:40 a.m. Saturday.

Loss estimate is $50.Miscellaneous

Alarm, 12:50 a.m., Tuesday, Grand Avenue.

Traffic stop, 6:38 a.m., Tuesday, North Mulberry Street.

Harassing communication, 9 a.m., Tuesday, North Pine Street.

Accident, 11:37 a.m., Tuesday, North Pine Street.

Nuisance, 2:03 p.m., Tuesday, North Poplar Street.

Warrant, 3:50 p.m., Tuesday, North Pine Street.

Burglary, 4:52 p.m., Tuesday, West Spencer Street.

Talk to officer, 5:02 p.m., Tuesday, South Maple Street.

Talk to officer, 5:40 p.m., Tuesday, North Oak Street.

Suspicious person, 5:54 p.m., Tuesday, South Peterson Street.

Accident, 7:36 p.m., Tuesday, West Townline Street.

Traffic stop, 6:04 p.m., Tuesday, West Taylor Street.

Fire Miscellaneous

Odor investigation, 9:07 p.m., Tuesday, West Townline Street.

Medical, 9:42 p.m., Tuesday, Grand Avenue.

Medical, 1:45 a.m., today, North Maple Street.

Grain prices quoted at 10 a.m. today:

• Farmers Co-op, Creston:Corn — $4.19

Soybeans — $12.30• Gavilon Grain:Corn — $4.20Soybeans — $12.44

LotteryIowa’s Pick 3: 6-5-3Hot Lotto Sizzler: 5-15-35-39-42 (4)

Banana Punch to perform Saturday Banana Punch, the oldest

established permanent float-ing sketch comedy group in Des Moines, is coming to Corning Opera House Cultural Center, 800 Davis Ave., Corning, 7 p.m. Satur-day.

The comedy group was founded in 2009. The troupe specializes in smart, laugh-out-loud comedy of-ten based on a “What if?” premise, as in “What if Joan of Arc couldn’t lead the French into battle because it was a school night?” or “What if Dr. Seuss and his wife had an argument in Seussian rhyme?” Clean comedy (PG) for the whole

family.Banana Punch consists

of six of the Des Moines area’s funniest sketch com-edy and theater veterans, including John M. Dono-van, Rebekah Maxwell, Michelle Parkison, Preshia Paulding, Ross Peterson and Dave Williams. They can be reached through their Facebook page, www.f a c e b o o k . c o m / b a n a n a -punchcomedy.

Adult tickets are $12 and student tickets are $8, and may be purchased online at www.CorningOperaHouse.com, Corning Opera House Facebook page or at the door.

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We Challenge U blood drive to be held at SWCC OMAHA, Neb. — To

help ensure a sufficient blood supply this winter season, Southwestern Com-munity College is hosting an American Red Cross We Challenge U blood drive 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 5 in room 180 of the Instructional Center. During this special blood drive, all presenting donors will receive a com-memorative We Challenge U T-shirt, while supplies last.

“An hour of your time could help save up to three lives,” said Caitlyn Lesan,

admissions coordinator, Southwestern Community College. “I challenge stu-dents, staff and support-ers to roll up a sleeve and give blood at our upcoming drive. Donating blood is an easy way to volunteer, and it helps patients in need.”

To make an appointment to donate or for more infor-mation, Southwestern Com-munity College students, faculty, staff and alumni may call Deb Peterson at 641-782-1421 or visit red-crossblood.org.

College and high school

blood drives account for as much as 20 percent of dona-tions given through the Red Cross. The We Challenge U program encourages col-lege students to get involved in the community by orga-nizing blood drives and re-cruiting friends and faculty to give blood during winter months.

Prior to donating blood, donors will register, com-plete a brief health-his-tory screening and have

their blood pressure, pulse rate, temperature and iron level checked. The entire donation pro-cess takes about an hour, but the actual blood dona-tion takes about 10 min-utes. Refreshments are provided at the end of the donation process.


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Aaron Swartz: The life we lost and the day we fight backPARK CITY, Utah — A year

after Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz’s suicide at the age of 26, a film about this remark-able young man has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, titled “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz,” directed by Brian Knappenberg-er, follows the sadly short arc of Aaron’s life. He committed suicide while under the crushing weight of unbending, zealous federal pros-ecutors, who had Aaron snatched off the street near the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology, ac-cusing him of computer crimes.

At the age of 14, Aaron helped develop RSS, “Really Simple Syn-dication,” which changed how people get online content. He co-founded one of the Internet’s most popular websites, Reddit. In the year before his death, he helped defeat a notorious bill before Con-gress, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would have grant-ed corporations sweeping powers of censorship over the Internet. Now, another fight for the freedom of the Internet has begun. This one will have to be waged without Aaron.

A coalition of Internet activists, technologists and policy experts are joining together on Feb. 11 for “The Day We Fight Back.” As they say on their website, reflect-ing on the victory against SOPA, “Today we face a different threat, one that undermines the Internet, and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass surveillance. If Aaron were alive, he’d be on the front lines, fighting against a world in which govern-ments observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action.” Before Edward Snowden made “NSA” and “mass surveillance” house-hold terms, Aaron was speaking out against the National Security Agency’s bulk collection programs. His brother, Noah Swartz, told me, “I think Aaron’s message that we can all take with us is that ... we can see the change we want to see in the world by participating, rather than feeling helpless and useless.”

The legal case that was over-whelming Aaron was brought by Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen P. Heymann and U.S. Attorney Car-men Ortiz. When Aaron was a fel-low at Harvard University, he went to nearby MIT, which allowed members of the public to use its computer network, and to access resources on it, including the data-base of digitized academic research articles maintained by the non-profit company JSTOR. He wrote a computer program that allowed a laptop to automatically download articles, and proceeded to down-load millions of them. JSTOR no-ticed and contacted MIT, and MIT in turn contacted the police.

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was enacted in 1986 to prose-cute people engaged in credit-card fraud or threatening national secu-rity. Since Aaron, like any mem-ber of the public, had permission to use MIT’s network, he was not committing fraud. Aaron felt that the academic articles represented a cultural commons that should be shared. JSTOR decided not to press charges. Yet the federal pros-ecutors went ahead anyway.

Aaron’s father, Bob Swartz

(who, ironically, is a consultant for the MIT Media Lab), says what followed was a “nearly sadistic prosecution.” Aaron’s defense at-torney, Elliott Peters, told me, “Aaron wasn’t a thief. ... He cer-tainly downloaded more of JSTOR than they wanted, but it wasn’t to steal anything.” Aaron refused to accept a plea bargain, which would have made him a felon. He was fac-ing 35 years in prison and a $1 mil-lion fine.

Bob Swartz is incensed at MIT, who, he said, “cooperated with the prosecutor. They provided the prosecutor evidence without a subpoena and a warrant. They vio-lated any number of laws. ... They also refused to cooperate with us, give us evidence, and we had very significant difficulty even getting them to respond.” Peters alleges prosecutorial misconduct, saying that Heymann withheld exculpa-tory evidence and more. Even now, a year after Aaron’s death, Peters and the Swartz family are still try-ing to get all the documentation from federal prosecutors. They are also working with Congress-member Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., to pass “Aaron’s Law,” which would

reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to eliminate the over-broad language that gives prosecu-tors a license to charge trivial com-puter behavior as a felony.

In the meantime, his brother, Noah, is actively organizing for the Feb. 11 Day We Fight Back against mass surveillance. In a speech after the defeat of the SOPA bill, Aaron Swartz recounted the truly grass-roots, global nature of the protests. He left the crowd with this call to action: “If we let them persuade us we didn’t actually make a differ-ence, if we start seeing it as some-one else’s responsibility to do this work ... then next time they might just win. Let’s not let that happen.”

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President Obama proclaimed a Year of Action

HOLLYWOOD — God bless America, and how’s everybody?

Justin Bieber didn’t appear at the Grammy Awards Sunday fol-lowing his drunken and drugged driving, drag racing and egging a house. He needs to lie low. Jus-tin Bieber’s image is so terrible that Canadians now pretend to be Americans when they’re traveling in Pakistan.

President Obama proclaimed a Year of Action in his State of the Union speech Tuesday to Con-gress. He had just received some unexpectedly welcome polling news. It turns out so few people have signed up for Obamacare that not that many people are an-gry about it.

President Obama implored the GOP Congress to work with him and pass his agenda. It was ever thus. He ended his speech by pre-dicting a new era of bi-partisan cooperation in Washington D.C., which follows the first rule of show business, always leave them laugh-ing.

President Obama asked Con-gress to help spread the Wall Street prosperity to working Americans. His and Congress’s job approval are way down. Wall Street’s big-gest concern is that the value of politicians will drop so low that

ordinary citizens can afford to buy them too.

Mitt Romney was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and promoted the new documentary about Mitt Romney’s home life. It reveals his wild side. In it we learn that Mitt’s favorite drink is Diet Caffeine-Free Coke, which Mormons be-lieve is a gateway drug to Moun-tain Dew.

Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Sea returned to Miami after another cruise liner full of Ameri-cans caught a stomach virus. They suffered vomiting and diarrhea. Cruise lines should stop promoting all the sights you’ll see and start advertising all the weight you’ll lose.

Dennis Rodman’s agent an-nounced he checked into an al-cohol and drug rehab hospital after returning from his North Korea trip. Everyone hopes he gets well. After five days of de-tox, the doctors examined Dennis Rodman and diagnosed that he’s addicted to dictators.

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Hospice care interferes with hospital businessFrom Jim StalkerCreston

“Greater Regional to exit busi-ness of hospice care.” The key word here is “business.”

For several years, my wife and I were involved with trying to de-velop tourism in Union County. It all started with Lois Hunt, who worked with Iowa State Extension. The word went out that volunteers were needed to help develop tour-ism. What started out as a simple foray into the possibility of pull-ing more people into the county to see and do all the fun things that each county had to offer, with just a few volunteers, developed into a nine county group dedicated to the promotion of such. Each month, we would meet to eat and plan our approach. This devel-oped into a booth at the state fair,

with points of interest about each county. Eventually, we put out a newspaper annually boasting our attributes. Remember, all manned by volunteers.

At some point, money became available to hire one volunteer to oversee the nine counties. The group was becoming more sophis-ticated, more organized, but at that point, still controlled by volun-teers. Then, Union County hired a person to handle the tourism.

All of a sudden, we were thrust into an arena we were not so com-fortable with. From that point on, we became a business. We had to earn enough money to pay for stamps, miscellaneous office mate-rials, officers were voted on, events had to pay for themselves, and eventually, decisions were made before the workers, the volunteers, had a voice in those decisions. As

volunteers, we jumped out at that point. I have no clue how its being run now, I could care less. It’s a business. They still put out a paper every year and that’s good, but I think the volunteerism that we saw in the beginning, that raw enthusi-asm, is long gone. Of course, I’m always open to be pulled out onto the carpet and proven wrong.

Something similar, it appears, has happened to hospice care at Greater Regional. When it comes to be my time to have someone tell me its okay to pass on and be com-forted, will I be adding a burden to the burden of the hospital’s busi-ness policies?

What started out as a hand ex-tended to people’s last days, be-came, unfortunately, a business – in the eyes of the hospital. At that point, hospice took a dangerous turn in the wrong direction.

Thank you for supporting March of DimesFrom CHS Student Government, cospon-sors Cara Soukup and Peg Krambeck Eblen, and Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and advisor Shannon SmithCreston

Creston High School Student Government and Future Busi-ness Leaders of America (FBLA) would like to thank everyone who supported the “Battling for Ba-bies” fundraiser on Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the Creston Orient-Macks-burg wrestling meet.

Our student leaders invested time and energy into planning and conducting this event because

many of them feel passionately about the work done by March of Dimes. However, the event would not have been successful without the involvement of many people and organizations.

Congratulations to Coach Frain, his coaching staff, and the C/O-M wrestlers for their victories over Red Oak and Shenandoah. Thank you for hosting our event.

Thank you, First National Bank and Ferrara, for purchasing spon-sorships. We are also grateful for the donations from Tyler Insur-ance and Great Western Bank.

We appreciated the individual wrestling fans who agreed to make pledges per pin; your pledge made each match a little more exciting

and contributed to our overall fun-draising efforts. Thanks.

We are grateful to the CHS Pep-pers and art students who gave of their time to paint faces and finger-nails. Your presence helped create a fun atmosphere at our event.

Finally, we want to acknowl-edge the help of Mr. Messerole, Mr. Bevins, CHS custodians, and Claudia Peppers. Thank you to all teachers and school employees in Creston and at O-M who assisted in the distribution and collection of T-shirt orders.

At this time, we believe the Pur-ple Out event on Tuesday raised approximately $1,600. Thank you so much for your generous support to benefit March of Dimes.

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“We feel this year’s sign-up provides extraordinary conservation funding oppor-tunities for Iowa farmers,” said Jay Mar, state conser-vationist for NRCS in Iowa. “CSP is a great way for farm-ers to enhance conservation activities on their farms.”

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The program emphasizes conservation performance — producers earn higher payments for higher perfor-mance. Through CSP, pro-ducers install conservation enhancements to make posi-tive changes in soil health, soil erosion, water quality, water quantity, air quality, plant resources, animal re-sources and energy.

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BUSINESS/FARMBUSINESS/FARM Olson begins work at Natural Resources Conservation Service

Josiah Olson started work-ing for C r e s t o n N a t u r a l Resources Conserva-tion Service ( N R C S ) Jan. 13.

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FSA election results released Elections for the 2013

Farm Service Agency County Committee were determined Jan. 23. The following were elected to the Adams-Union County Committee.

Producers in LAA 1, con-sisting of Lincoln, Wash-ington, Carl, Douglas and Quincy townships in Adams County, elected Douglas James of Prescott.

Producers in LAA 2, consisting of Prescott, Nod-away, Jasper, Mercer and Grant townships in Adams County, elected Marnie Cline of Prescott.

Producers in LAA 3, con-sisting of Colony and Union townships in Adams County and Spaulding and Douglas townships in Union County, elected Mary Elaine Gor-don of Creston.

Producers in LAA 4, con-sisting of Lincoln, Dodge, New Hope, Union and Jones townships in Union County, elected Harold Dalton of Afton.

Producers in LAA 5, con-sisting of Highland, Platte, Grant, Sand Creek and Pleasant townships in Union County, elected Jean Ide of Creston.

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New officers: Bluegrass Board of Realtors attend the board’s monthly meeting Jan. 16 at The Pizza Ranch. Les Sulgrove, regional vice president of Iowa Association of Realtors was the guest speaker and gave an update on activities and meetings that are planned for 2014 at the state association. He also administered the oath of office to the new officers and board members who were at the meeting. Pictured, from left, are Roger Saxton, Stewart Realty board member; Drew Henderson, Hometown Realty sec-retary/treasurer; Jewel Baseley, Stewart Realty board member; Bill Callahan, Callahan Realty board member; Korina Loudon, Green Valley Realty 2014 president; and Sulgrove. Board members voted to donate $350 to CARE and Union County Ministerial Alliance.

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Capitol visit: Rep. Jack Drake, R-Griswold, left, welcomes members of East Union FFA to the capitol to participate in “FFA Day” on the hill. Pictured are Kyle Seales, Katlin Weinkoetz, Rylie Martinez, Taylor Friend and Marla Shifflett in the well of the Iowa State House.

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TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Today’s New Moon is your best chance of the year to think about your life’s direction in general. Are you headed where you want to go? What are your goals?

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) What further education or training can you get that will improve your job skills and your career success? What can you do that will enrich your life?

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Today is the only New Moon all year that urges you to look at your debt scene and clear up loose details with insurance matters, inheritances, taxes, bills and shared property. Just do it.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) The New Moon today is the only New Moon opposite your sign all year. That’s why you will focus on friendships and part-nerships. What can you do to improve them?

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Give some thought today to how you can improve your health. (I started drinking hot water with lemon in it, and I love it. Makes me feel clean, pure and healthy!)

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) What vacation plans are on the back burner for you? Today is a good day to think about how you can bring enough play into your world of work.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Think about what you can do to improve your home as well as your relationships with family members. Today is the only New Moon all year that emphasizes this.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Examine your style of communicating with others, especially siblings, relatives and neighbors. Do you listen to others? Do you listen to yourself?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) This is a good day to think about how much you owe and how much you own. Information is power, espe-cially when it applies to your finances.

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Dear Heloise: I have a WOODEN CUTTING BOARD that I constantly use and chop fresh garlic on. For some reason, as much as I clean and scrub it, I can’t get the odor of the garlic out.

Should I toss it out and buy a new one? I’m afraid it’s go-ing to be the same all over again once I start chopping garlic. — Sally F. in Texas

Don’t toss it! Try this to “deodorize” that garlicky wooden board: Sprinkle with a lot of baking soda, then either pour on some lemon juice and scrub with a brush, or just use half of a lemon and scrub away. Let sit awhile, rinse well and air-dry (or use paper towels).

The other solution is a mixture of 1 tablespoon unscented, liquid chlorine bleach and a gallon of wa-ter to “sanitize” the cutting board. Let the mixture stand for 15-20 minutes, rinse and hand-dry.

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Panthers shake up H-10 race with win over KuemperBy SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

Creston sent shockwaves through the Hawkeye 10 Conference here Tuesday with what head coach Billy Hiatt said might be the big-gest win of his coaching stint at Creston.

The Panthers knocked off Class 2A sixth-ranked and Hawkeye 10 leader Carroll Kuemper Catholic, 69-62.

The win improves the Panthers to 8-7 for the sea-son and 5-3 in the Hawkeye 10 Conference. Kuemper Catholic drops to 11-3 over-all and 7-1 in the Hawkeye 10.

“It’d be up there. Prob-ably one of the top two or three. Maybe the top one,” Hiatt said about the win. “Kuemper is really good this year. Coach is doing a great job with them. We’ve kind of been up and down this year, so this one means a lot to hopefully get us go-ing again.”

The turning point in the game came in the third quarter — a quarter that has plagued the Panthers throughout the year.

Creston entered the third down four and quickly tied it up at 31-31, but Kuemper took a 40-33 lead on an Alex Gunnerson 3-pointer mid-way through the quarter.

The Panthers responded with a 7-0 run, capped off by a Brandon Phipps drive to the basket with 2:44 left in the quarter.

After a timeout, Kuemper took the lead again at 44-41. It would be the last lead of

the game for the Knights, as Creston finished the quarter on another 7-0 run thanks to a 3-pointer by Cole Craw-ford, a bucket by Jay Wolfe and then Wolfe knocking down two technical free throws.

That gave Creston a 48-44 lead at the end of the third quarter.

“We’ve been having

r o u g h t h i r d q u a r t e r s t h r o u g h -out the year, so w e ’ v e been fo-cusing on w o r k i n g hard that third quarter,” said Wolfe, who led all scor-

ers with 25 points. “We had a good third quarter, and I’m proud of our guys.”

Hiatt said once he found the right combination of players to have on the floor, his team started to pick things up in the third quar-ter.

“Give Kuemper credit, they were about to put us down. They were going for

the knockout punch,” Hi-att said. “We finally got the right combination in, hit a couple of shots and kind of started pulling back out and went with it.”Big plays

The Panthers got a hand-ful of big plays from a num-ber of players down the stretch in the fourth quarter.

With the score 50-46, Cole Crawford missed a 3-point-er, but McClain Haines flew in through the lane, grabbed the offensive rebound and put the ball back up and in while still in the air to give Creston a six point lead.

Wolfe then got back-to-back baskets to put Creston up 56-48.

Kuemper cut the lead to 56-51 and looked to have Wolfe trapped in the back-court with its press, but Wolfe fired the ball into the front court to a wide open Trey Benson who got a la-yup to make the score 58-51.

Creston’s lead stretched to as much as 11 at 63-52 when Phipps found Benson for another layup.

Kuemper cut it to 63-59 on a Sam Brincks post up, and then had a chance to draw closer with less than :30 left.

Benson had what ap-peared to be a clean block on Brincks, but was called for a foul and then whistled for a technical. That gave Kuemper four free throws and the ball.

But, the Knights went just 2-for-4 at the line and

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERCreston senior Trey Benson goes up strong for a bucket in the post while being guarded by Carroll Kuemper Catholic’s Sam Brincks in the first half of Creston’s 69-62 win over the Class 2A sixth-ranked Knights. Benson finished with eight points, including two key baskets in the fourth quarter.

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Wolfe

Defense sets tone for Creston girls in win

By SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

The Creston girls basket-ball team held Chariton to three single-digit scoring quarters in a 41-29 win over the Chargers here on Tues-day.

The Panthers held Chari-ton to just 22.9 percent shooting from the field and forced 16 turnovers in the win, the team’s second non-conference win in as many nights.

“Defensively, we were pretty good tonight for the most part,” Creston head coach Larry McNutt said. “When you hold a team to three points in the first quarter ... I thought we did a lot of good things. We kind of set the tone.”

Chariton managed just three points in the first quarter, scored eight in the second quarter and just six

in the third quarter.Meanwhile, the Panthers

controlled the boards early in the game, leading to easy buckets.

Sophomore post player Jenna Taylor scored the first eight points of the game, with her first six c o m i n g on of-f e n s i v e rebounds and put-backs. Taylor finished the game with 17 points and 10 rebounds for a double-double.

“We did a nice job of getting in there,” McNutt said. “You miss some shots, and it’s not a big deal if you can get some offensive re-bounds and putbacks near the basket.”

Creston shot just 31.2 percent from the field, but

finished the game with 13 offensive rebounds, many of which ended in baskets for Creston.

Creston led 10-3 after the first quarter and scored 17 points in the second quar-ter to build a 27-11 lead by halftime. The lead grew to as much as 21 points in the third quarter after a Nata-lie Mostek 3-pointer and a Taylor jumper from the free throw line.

The Panthers got a bal-anced effort behind Tay-lor’s 17 points. Chelcee Downing and Camryn Somers both scored six points, while Mostek added five. Taylor Briley scored four.

“That’s kind of what we need,” McNutt said. “We can’t have one or two peo-ple doing all the scoring. We did a good job of that

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERCreston junior Maria Mostek (24) looks for a teammate to pass the ball to while Chariton’s Allyson Showers defends her near the top of the circle. Mostek grabbed two rebounds in Creston’s 41-29 win over Chariton.

Lenox sweeps Tussey vs. Tussey matchupBy LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

LENOX — Sue Tussey, mother of East Union coach Thad Tussey, would normally be cheering for her son’s team.

But on Tuesday night, the Eagles happened to be play-ing against the Lenox Tigers, co-coached by Jesse Cox and her husband, Steve Tussey. So, she wore neutral gray and black colors and had a strat-egy.

“I clap for every basket, no matter what,” she said.

For Steve Tussey, he said it’s also not easy, after the Tigers completed a season sweep with a 45-27 victory. Earlier this season, Lenox won 44-40 at Afton.

“If I had a choice I would not do it,” Steve Tussey said. “The first time there was a lot of hype on the outside. But it’s nice that we can go to clinics

together, do some scouting together and talk about op-ponents. It’s just that for two nights, it’s not so easy.”Familiar tactics

The elder Tussey, known for a defensive, controlled brand of basketball for years at Orient-Macksburg, had to counter that strategy Tuesday when his son had such an up-set-minded recipe.

“We’re usually the ones controlling the tempo against other people against us,” Steve Tussey said. “He want-ed to control the tempo to-night. He would have been happy to keep it really low scoring and close. Tonight we wanted to pick it up because he wanted to slow it down. They have been in almost ev-ery game, playing good peo-ple close.”

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CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONJesse Akers of East Union (23) rises for a jump shot in the lane as Lenox guard Dawson Tullberg watches. Akers had four points in the Eagles’ 45-27 defeat.

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SPORTSSPORTS8-11Shooting in the last min-ute of games over the past two years by Creighton’s Doug Mc-Dermott.

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Overtime lossIOWA CITY — Keith

Appling scored 16 points to lead 7th-ranked Michi-gan State to a 71-69 overtime win over 15th-ranked Iowa. The loss is the first at home this sea-son for Iowa.

Matt Costello had 11 points and 12 rebounds for the Spartans (19-2, 8-1 Big Ten), who played without starters Adreian Payne and Branden Daw-son.

Costello’s tip in, fol-lowed by Russell Byrd’s triple gave Michigan State a six point lead, 70-64, with 34 seconds left, but Iowa came back as Mike Gesell missed a driving layup at the buzzer that would have sent the game to a second overtime.

Devyn Marble led Iowa (16-5, 5-3) with 21 points, but missed a shot at the regulation buzzer. The Hawkeyes went the final 10 minutes of regula-tion and most of overtime without a field goal.

Aaron White had 10 points for the Hawkeyes, who made 19 more free throws than the Spartans.Jays hold on

OMAHA — Doug McDermott hit a three-pointer with less than three seconds left to fin-ish with a season-high 39 points as 20th-ranked Creighton beat St. John’s 63-60 on Tuesday in Omaha.

St. John’s overcame an 18-point second half deficit and tied the game on Rysheed Jordan’s two free throws with 11 sec-onds remaining.

The Jays have won 13 of 14 and are now 18-3 overall and 8-1 in the Big East. St. John’s is 12-9, 2-6.Media day

NEWARK, N.J. — Following his NFC Championship Game ti-rade, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sher-man regretted his actions, and believes the cameras shouldn’t just be focused on him on Sunday.

“I think I have the best teammates in the world,” Sherman said during Super Bowl media day Tuesday. “I think these cameras could be any-where, they could be on all my teammates and they deserve them.”

Sherman and the Se-ahawks defense are looking forward to the challenge of going up against Broncos quar-terback Peyton Man-ning, who is playing in his third Super Bowl. “I think he’s one of the best in the history of the game,” Sherman said of Manning. “He’s a living legend right now; he’s been a living legend for years.”

Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll added that he isn’t worried about his team having little Super Bowl experience. “It’s a great opportunity for us and we’re very blessed to have this,” he added,

Second-year quarter-back Russell Wilson be-lieves this team has a shot to take home the Lom-bardi Trophy.

“I expect to play at a high level and I expect to be fighting for a Super Bowl every year,” Wilson said. “Our goal is to go 1-0.”


Lenox girls finish sweep of Eagles

By LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

LENOX — Just like the first time, a potential Pride of Iowa Conference win got away from the East Union girls against Lenox.

On Dec. 13, Lenox came from behind to force over-time and defeat the Eagles, 67-60.

In the return matchup Tuesday at Lenox, the game was tied 44-44 after three periods and the Ea-gles seized an eight-point lead (54-46) with five min-utes to play.

Then the Lenox defense came up with steals leading to fast breaks, and Sydney Barker and Aurora Are-valo sank five free throws to lead the Tigers’ rally for a 61-58 victory.

Barker ran a good tran-sition offense for Lenox that found freshman Han-nah Mitchell for one layup behind the Eagle defense, and moments later Mitch-ell fielded a Barker pass and quickly flipped to a streaking Shantelle Brown for an open layup.

East Union coach Carol McGuire, whose team was controlling the offensive boards earlier in taking the lead, couldn’t believe it was happening again.

“We would throw up a shot or they would get a steal and they would take off and score on us,” McGuire said. “It was frustrating. Last time we played them it was back and forth every quarter by a point or two, and we went overtime. I thought it

was our turn to win.”Freshman Kacie Rip-

p e r g e r s c o r e d 20 points with eight steals in her first start for the Ea-gles, now 0-12 in the Pride of Iowa and 2-14 overall.

Arevalo finished with 29 points and 10 rebounds for Lenox, improving to 2-10 in the league and 4-12 overall.

“ R o r y played a really good game,” coach Mandy Stoaks said. “She was skying for rebounds.

Sydney had a good sense of the court on the break there in the fourth quarter. It was good to see our girls finish a game with inten-sity.”

The Tigers survived foul trouble by junior Ka-tie Dukes, who finished with seven points and five rebounds despite sitting much of the first half.

EAST UNION (58) — Kacie Ripperger 10 0-3 20, Chelsea Hoyt 5 0-2 10, Mara Weis 5 0-1 10, Emily Eckels 4 0-0 8, Kelsey Hoff 2 0-0 4, Danielle Riley 1 1-4 3, Stacia Bryson 1 1-2 3. Totals — 28 2-12 58. 3-point goals — None. Rebounds — Bryson 9, Hoyt 8, Riley 7, Hoff 5. Steals — Ripperger 8.

LENOX (61) — Aurora Arevalo 13 3-4 29, Shantelle Brown 4 0-0 8, Katie Dukes 3 1-2 7, Sydney Barker 1 4-4 6, Taylor Foster 1 2-2 4, Morgan Miller 1 1-2 3, Jacy Stoaks 1 0-7 2, Hannah Mitchell 1 0-0 2. Totals — 25 11-23 61. 3-point goals — None. Rebounds — Arevalo 10, Barker 7, Dukes 5, Brown 4. Assists — Dukes 5, Barker 3. Steals — Foster 3, Barker 3.

East Union — 10 27 44 58Lenox — 10 30 44 61

Mount Ayr 54, Wayne 44

MOUNT AYR — Mount Ayr picked up a big Pride of Iowa Conference win here on Friday, scoring a 54-44 win over Wayne.

“This was a great win for these guys,” head coach Bret Ruggles said. “We really did a great job of handling our defensive game plan, and executed extremely well. I was very proud of the effort from this entire group. I thought our run in the start of the third quarter made a huge impact on this team.”

The Raiders started the third quarter with an 11-2 run to pull away from the Falcons.

Jack Jones scored a t e a m -high 19 points for the Raid-ers. Nick W u r s t e r scored 10 points off the bench with five rebounds. Kyle Dolecheck added nine points with six boards.

Jake Sobotka scored seven points and grabbed a team-high 12 rebounds.

Riley Weehler was held scoreless, but dished out eight assists.Murray 67,Moravia 37

MURRAY — Murray ran away with a 67-37 win over Moravia here Friday in the final tuneup before the Bluegrass Conference tournament.

The Mustangs held a 32-14 lead at halftime.

“This was a game that we got a few more people in to tonight,” head coach Darin Wookey said. “Scott Funke got the start tonight and played pretty well.”

Funke scored six points for the Mustangs. T r e y McHenry led the way with 21 points and four rebounds, four as-sists and three steals. Pat Kilmer added 16 points with six boards and four steals. Sam Rockhold scored six points with five rebounds.Murray 56,Mormon Trail 43

BUSSEY — Murray sur-vived a poor defensive ef-

fort to pick up a 56-43 win over Mormon Trail here on Monday, advancing to the semifinals of the Blue-grass Conference tourna-ment.

“We did not play well defensively tonight,” head coach Darin Wookey said. “By far our worst effort of the year on that end. But, in the fourth quarter, we finally got the stops we needed. Pat Kilmer played well tonight and Sam Rockhold did a great job on the boards.”

Kilmer scored a game-high 17 p o i n t s with nine rebounds and six b l o c k e d s h o t s . Rockhold a d d e d e i g h t points and pulled down 12 rebounds. Trey McHenry scored 15 points with six boards and five assists.

Braydon Held scored nine points with seven rebounds, while Andrew Rider added seven points with three assists.

Murray advances to play Seymour in the semifinals on Thursday in Seymour.

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CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONLenox freshman Hannah Mitchell eyes the basket on a fast break late in Tuesday’s 61-58 victory over East Union as Kacie Ripperger chases the play. Ripperger led East Union with 20 points in her first start.

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“They’re a big team, they’re physical,” Hiatt said. “We had to have other guys step up. The pressure they were giv-ing, we got them spread out and that’s where we got some easy buckets with Benson. I’m real happy with every-body. They came in and kind of grew up. They had to.”

Three Panthers finished in double figures. In addition to Wolfe’s 25 points, Phipps and Crawford scored 10 apiece. Alex Nielsen and Benson each added eight.

“We’re just focusing on get-ting better every single day,” Wolfe said. “We’ve had a rocky year, but we continue to get better and hopefully we can peak at the right time. We realized what we can do tonight. We can compete with anybody.”

Creston returns to ac-tion Friday at home against Shenandoah, now 10-6 over-all and 4-3 in the Hawkeye 10 Conference.

KUEMPER (62) — Cole Neary 8 6-10 23, Alex Gunnerson 6 2-6 16, Sam Brincks 5 3-4 13, Alex Drees 1 2-2 4, Chase Rupiper 1 0-0 2, Ben Hicks 1 0-1 2, Josh Irlbeck 1 0-0 2. Totals — 23 13-23 62. 3-point goals — 3 (Gunnerson 2, Neary 1). Team fouls — 20. Fouled out — none.

CRESTON (69) — Jay Wolfe 6 11-14 25, Brandon Phipps 3 2-2

10, Cole Crawford 4 0-0 10, Alex Nielsen 1 6-8 8, Trey Benson 4 0-0 8, Cole Thompson 1 3-4 5, McClain Haines 1 1-2 3. Totals — 20 23-30 69. 3-point goals — 6 (Phipps 2, Crawford 2, Wolfe 2). Rebounds — Wolfe 9, Benson 3. Assists — Thompson 4, Phipps 2, Wolfe 2. Steals — Thompson 4. Team fouls — 17. Fouled out — none.

Kuemper — 11 31 44 62Creston — 11 27 48 69

JUNIOR VARSITYThe Creston JV team fell to

7-5 for the season on Tuesday with a 59-44 loss to Kuemper Catholic.

Cooper McDermott led the way for the Panthers with 14 points, while McClain Haines added 11. Christian Grou-moutis scored nine.

“It was a tough loss,” Cres-ton JV coach Michael West said. “They’re a lot bigger

than us. The guys didn’t feel like they were in it. We came out pretty flat. For the most part, we pushed them pretty hard. We gave them a good fight, but in the end, we came up short.”

Creston (44) — Cooper McDermott 14, McClain Haines 11, Christian Groumoutis 9, Sam Hartsock 3, Brandon Jones 3, Nick Walsh 2.

Kuemper Catholic (59)The Panther JV team

picked up a 58-38 win over Winterset on Saturday.

Haines led the way with 15 points, while Groumoutis scored 13 and McDermott added 10.

“It was a great team win,” West said. “Everyone got in the game and played well.

Nice to see the guys having fun.”

Creston (58) — McClain Haines 15, Christian Groumoutis 13, Cooper McDermott 10, Jake Miller 7, Brandon Jones 6, Sam Hartsock 3, Chris Foster 2, Nick Walsh 2.

FRESHMENThe Creston freshmen

dropped to 4-8 for the season with a 61-45 loss to Kuemper Catholic on Tuesday.

Cody Crawford scored 17 points to lead the Panthers, while Deaven Reese and Kyle Somers each scored eight.

Creston (45) — Cody Crawford 17, Deaven Reese 8, Kyle Somers 8, Seth Thompson 6, Brenden McDowell 3, Quinton Scadden 2, Gavin Woods 1.

Kuemper(61)The Panther freshmen

picked up a 56-45 win over

Winterset on Saturday, giving the Panthers a second straight win.

Crawford scored 21 points to lead the way. Somers and Reese each scored in double figures, scoring 12 and 10 points, respectively.

“Played four quarters of solid basketball,” Creston freshman coach Anthony Do-nahoo said. “Dominated the offensive glass with our bigs and got second and third chance opportunities. Was nice to get back-to-back wins, and we’ll continue to work to get better.”

Creston (56) — Cody Crawford 21, Kyle Somers 12, Deaven Reese 10, Brenden McDowell 6, Seth Thompson 5, Gavin Woods 2.

Winterset (45)

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tonight. A lot of the girls who got in scored.”

McNutt was able to empty his bench, giving everyone playing time in the game.

It was an opportunity for bench players Sadie Jones, Caitlin McIlravy and Maria Mostek to get valuable play-ing time in a varsity game.

“It’s been tough to do that this year,” McNutt said. “It

was good to build a lead and get them a chance to get in there. Tried to get them in there and reward them for working hard at practice. They’re all good kids. They’re all team players, and so it makes it fun when you can get them in there.”

Creston improved to 7-10 for the season. The Panthers return to action Friday at Shenandoah. Chariton falls to 4-11.

CHARITON (29) — Maria Blong 3 1-1 7, Allyson Showers 2 02-6 6, Carley Arnold 2 2-2 6, Emily Seuferer 2 0-0 4, Alexis Curran 0 2-2 2, Emily Grismore 1 0-0 2, Emma Fuhs 1 0-0 2. Totals — 11 7-12 29. FG shooting — 11-48 (22.9 percent). 3-point goals — 0-1. Steals — 14. Rebounds — 22. Turnovers — 16. Team fouls — 14. Fouled out — none.

CRESTON (41) — Jenna Taylor 7 3-3 17, Chelcee Downing 2 2-2 6, Camryn Somers 2 2-2 6, Natalie Mostek 2 0-2 5, Taylor Briley 1 2-2 4, Olivia Nielsen 1 0-0 2, Caitlin McIlravy 0 1-2 1. Totals — 15 10-13 41. FG shooting — 15-48 (31.2 per-cent). 3-point goals — 1-5 (Mostek

1). Rebounds — 37 (Taylor 10, Mostek 9, Somers 5, Briley 4, Nielsen 4, Downing 2, Maria Mostek 2). Assists — 12 (Briley 3, Somers 2, Taylor 2, Nielsen 2). Steals — 9 (Somers 2, Taylor 2, N. Mostek 2). Blocked shots — 1 (Taylor 1). Turnovers — 22. Team fouls — 15. Fouled out — none.

Chariton — 3 11 17 29Creston — 10 27 34 41

FRESHMENThe Creston freshmen

trailed through three quarters, but pulled out a 42-39 win over Chariton here on Tuesday.

The win improves the Pan-thers to 5-3 for the season.

Cammy Rutherford had a big game, recording a double-double with 22 points and 10 rebounds. Madison Callahan added 16 points.

Creston (42) — Cammy

Rutherford 22, Madison Callahan 16, Logan Pettit 4. Free throws — 10-16. Rebounds — 23 (Rutherford 10, Pettit 6, Lexie Little 5, Callahan 2). Steals — 3 (Pettit 1, Rutherford 1, Callahan 1). Assists — 6 (Callahan 3, Rachel Shepherd 2). Team fouls — 12. Fouled out — none.

Chariton (39)

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It was working in Lenox’s favor early, taking leads of 10-2 and 28-9 after the first two periods.

“You can’t win if you can’t score,” Thad Tussey said. “We went the first seven min-utes without scoring. Another six-minute stretch. Just six made two-point baskets and 0-for-2 on free throws. These numbers show we aren’t ag-gressive or assertive enough on offense to get good shots within the movement of the offense. Defensively we gave them too many good oppor-tunities.”

But East Union junior Cole Campbell put on a 3-point shooting show in the third quarter, draining four shots from behind the arc as the Eagles shaved it to single dig-its at 30-21 with 3:04 to go in the third period.Held ball

After Dawson Tullberg scored for Lenox to make it 32-21, the Tigers regained possession and held the ball as the final three minutes of the

period wound down, trying to draw the Eagles out of their zone defense. It was a men-tal tug-of-war, as Thad Tus-sey was content at that point to stay in his zone defense to protect the lane against the likes of Tiger post players Caleb Lange and Spencer Brown.

“We were either going to be down 11, or down by 13 or 14, at the end of the quar-ter,” Thad Tussey said. “We had the defense that was best suited to our personnel on the floor and how to guard them. I’d rather have more guys in the lane than not. We had some trouble fronting the post in the second quarter.”

Steve Tussey said the team in the lead is content to let time expire in that situation, rather than force a bad shot against the zone.

“He’s in a zone and we’re up 11,” Steve Tussey said. “If he goes man, we’re back to normal. We weren’t stall-ing. It’s a tactic to get them to play the defense you want. He hadn’t played man yet and we’re pretty good against a man-to-man.”

The Tigers, meanwhile, finally started containing Campbell’s 3-point shooting and extended the lead back to 13 points (38-25) with 3:20 remaining. East Union had a 12-4 advantage in the third period and prompted two Lenox timeouts.

“We went straight man-to-man and had Dustin Gor-don on Campbell,” Cox said. “He’s our stopper. I like to change up defenses all the time. We’d gone 1-3-1, 2-3, then man. But we stopped matching up or got in the wrong places in the zone for awhile. In the first half we did some nice stuff on defense.”

Campbell finished with 14 points to lead East Union, which fell to 3-12 overall and 1-11 in the Pride of Iowa Con-ference. Steve Tussey said he can relate to his son’s experi-ence as a rookie high school coach. Things started slowly for him at Woodbine, where he later led a team to the state tournament.

“My first year at Woodbine I won five games,” Steve Tus-sey said. “I had the exact same experience. I told him as long

as they’re learning and getting better, it will be fine. They’re learning and improving and hanging in there.”

Lange shot 6-of-6 at the free throw line and fin-ished with 19 points and 11 re-b o u n d s for Lenox, now 7-5 in the league and 9-6 o v e r a l l . Spencer Brown had nine points, eight rebounds and five blocked shots. Francisco Martinez used his quickness for six steals, five assists and four points.

EAST UNION (27) — Cole Campbell 5 0-0 14, Jesse Akers 2 0-0 4, Dustin Hoyt 2 0-2 4, Brandon Hulsey 1 0-0 3, Mason Gossman 1 0-0 2. Totals — 11 0-2 27. 3-point goals — 5 (Campbell 4, Hulsey 1). Team fouls — 15. Fouled out — Hoyt.

LENOX (45) — Caleb Lange 6 6-6 19, Spencer Brown 3 3-6 9, Todd Stoaks 3 1-2 7, Dawon Tullberg 3 0-0 6, Francisco Martinez 2 0-0 4. Totals — 17 10-14 45. 3-point goals — 1 (Lange 1). Rebounds — Lange 11, Brown 8. Assists — Martinez 5. Steals — Martinez 6. Team fouls — 6. Fouled out — None.

East Union — 2 9 21 27Lenox — 10 28 32 45

LENOX:

Lange

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Regular SessionJanuary 20, 2014

The Union County Board of Supervi-sors met in Regular Session on Monday,January 20, 2014. The meeting was calledto order at 9:00 AM with the followingmembers present: Dennis Brown, LoisMonday, and Ron Riley.

AGENDA: Motion by Riley and sec-onded by Monday to approve the Agenda.All voting aye, motion carried.

MINUTES: Motion by Riley and sec-onded by Monday to approve the minutesfrom January 13, 2014. All voting aye,motion carried. Motion by Riley and sec-onded by Monday to approve the minutesfrom January 15, 2014. All voting aye,motion carried. Motion by Monday andseconded by Riley to approve the minutesfrom January 16, 2014. All voting aye,motion carried.

OPEN FORUM: Rich Paulsen ad-dressed the Board.

ENGINEER: Steve Akes, UnionCounty Engineer, presented and discussedthe maintenance activity report. Proceed-ing to Bid Letting: Motion by Riley andseconded by Monday to sign the finalplans for both Box Culvert and GradingProjects on H17 West of Lorimor and pro-ceeding to bid letting. All voting aye, mo-tion carried. Resolution to hire a NewEquipment Operator: Motion by Rileyand seconded by Monday to approve Res-olution # 16 for FY 2013-2014 for a NewEquipment Operator. WHEREAS, theUnion County Secondary Roads Depart-ment has the need to hire one additionalemployee for road maintenance and con-struction duties, and WHEREAS, theavailable position was advertised and ap-plications were received and reviewed,NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVEDby the Union County Board of Supervi-sors: The Board of Supervisors hereby ac-cepts the recommendation of the CountyEngineer to Hire Mike Ward as an Equip-ment Operator II at a starting wage of$14.34 per hour with his first day of em-ployment on February 10, 2014. Roll callvote; Monday aye, Brown aye, and Rileyaye, motion carried. Fuel Agreement:Motion by Monday and seconded by Rileyto approve the Fuel Agreement with Agri-land with #2 diesel fuel at $3.25 per gal-lon, and lock in 70,000 gallons with zerodown and gasohol at $2.94 per gallon andlock in 12,500 gallons with zero down,plus any applicable taxes or fees at thetime of delivery. All voting aye, motioncarried.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Dick An-derson, Historical Society, discussed theFY 14/15 Budget Request.

GIBSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY:Marilyn Ralls, Library Director and AnnCoulter, Chair of the Library Board, dis-cussed the FY 14/15 Budget Request.

TYLER INSURANCE: Phil Tyler,Tyler Insurance, discussed the FY 14/15Budget for the County Liability/Work-men's Compensation Insurance. TheCounty is looking at a 5% increase on thereal estate/liability portion and 7% on theWorkers Compensation portion.

RECESS FOR LUNCH @ 11:08 AMRECONVENED @ 1:00 PMBUDGET WORK SESSIONADJOURNMENT: There being no

further business, the meeting was ad-journed at 3:55 PM.

ATTEST: SANDY HYSELL, AUDITORBY: DENNIS J. BROWN, CHAIRMAN,BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT UNION COUNTY

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF

RONALD LEE GOBEN, Deceased. Probate No. ESPR015631

NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL, OFAPPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR AND

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To All Persons Interested in the Estate

of RONALD LEE GOBEN, Deceased onor about January 2, 2014:

You are hereby notified that on the24th day of January, 2014, the last will andtestament of RONALD LEE GOBEN, de-ceased, bearing date of the 25th day of Oc-tober, 1999, was admitted to probate in theabove named court and that Angela RaeKerby and Rodney S. Case was appointedexecutor of the estate. Any action to setaside the will must be brought in the dis-trict court of said county within the later tooccur of four months from the date of thesecond publication of this notice or onemonth from the date of mailing of this no-tice to all heirs of the decedent and de-visees under the will whose identities arereasonably ascertainable, or thereafter beforever barred.

Notice is further given that all personsindebted to the estate are requested tomake immediate payment to the under-signed, and creditors having claimsagainst the estate shall file them with theclerk of the above named district court, asprovided by law, duly authenticated, forallowance, and unless so filed by the laterto occur of four months from the secondpublication of this notice or one monthfrom the date of mailing of this notice (un-less otherwise allowed or paid) a claim isthereafter forever barred.

Dated this 24th day of January, 2014.Angela Rae Kerby

14210 S. 35th StreetBellevue, NE 68123

Rodney S. Case602 S. Maple Street,

Creston, IA 50801Executor of estate

Todd G. NielsenICIS PIN No. AT0005759Attorney for executor KENYON & NIELSEN, P.C. 211 N. Maple Street, Creston, IA 50801Date of second publication: Feb. 5, 2014



Anita Marie Thomas, Deceased. Probate No. ESPR015473

NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL, OFAPPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR, AND


of Anita Marie Thomas, Deceased, whodied on or about June 26, 2011:

You are hereby notified that on the24th day of January, 2014, the last willand testament of Anita Marie Thomas, de-ceased, bearing date of the 11th day ofAugust, 2005, was admitted to probate inthe above named court and that AngelaMarie Jaques was appointed executor ofthe estate. Any action to set aside the willmust be brought in the district court ofsaid county within the later to occur offour months from the date of the secondpublication of this notice or one monthfrom the date of mailing of this notice toall heirs of the decedent and devisees un-der the will whose identities are reason-ably ascertainable, or thereafter be foreverbarred.


Dated this 24th day of January, 2014. Angela Marie JaquesExecutor of estate 44288 905th RdSpringview, NE 68778 Loretta L. Harvey, ICIS PIN No: 15204 Attorney for executor 109 W Montgomery St. P.O Box 85, Creston, IA 50801Date of second publication: Feb. 5, 2014



Anita Marie Thomas, Deceased. Probate No. ESPR015473

NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL, OFAPPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR, AND


of Anita Marie Thomas, Deceased, whodied on or about June 26, 2011:

You are hereby notified that on the24th day of January, 2014, the last willand testament of Anita Marie Thomas, de-ceased, bearing date of the 11th day ofAugust, 2005, was admitted to probate inthe above named court and that AngelaMarie Jaques was appointed executor ofthe estate. Any action to set aside the willmust be brought in the district court ofsaid county within the later to occur offour months from the date of the secondpublication of this notice or one monthfrom the date of mailing of this notice toall heirs of the decedent and devisees un-der the will whose identities are reason-ably ascertainable, or thereafter be foreverbarred.


Dated this 24th day of January, 2014. Angela Marie JaquesExecutor of estate 44288 905th RdSpringview, NE 68778 Loretta L. Harvey, ICIS PIN No: 15204 Attorney for executor 109 W Montgomery St. P.O Box 85, Creston, IA 50801Date of second publication: Feb. 5, 2014

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Wednesday edition of the Creston News Advertiser and/or the Southwest Iowa Advertiser

Advertise your auction in the CNA Classifieds and we will include it in our “Auction Calendar.”

Sat. Feb. 15- 1:00PM Kellerton, IA. Large Farm Machinery, Caterpillar D76 Dozer, John Deere 7200 8 Row Planter for Brad West Estate. Auctioneers: Jim Smith, Curt Pierschbacher.

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AccountantRuth R. Long, CPA-CFP. Complete accounting, financial planning, consulting, electronic filing and tax services for business or individuals. Reasonable fees. 620 1/2 New York Ave. 641-782-7CPA (7272)

Backhoe & Bulldozer

KINKADE INDUSTRIES INC. Complete backhoe service with extra reach bucket. Sanitary systems, basements, crawl spaces, dig footings with tren-cher or hoe. Free estimates. Eb Knuth, 641-782-2290; 641-202-2012.

Computer RepairSPRoUSE ComPUTER SoLU-TIoNS. 120 N. main, Lenox, 641-780-5760 12 years experi-ence. Reasonable & Quality PC repair and tutoring.

Siding & WindowsGAULE EXTERIoRSSteel and vinyl siding, replacement windows and seamless guttering. Quality craftsmanship, over a decade of professional service in Southwest Iowa. 641-782-0905.

WESTmAN WINDoWS. Replace-ment windows tilt for easy cleaning and rebates bays, bows, sliders, etc. Any custom size and shape, 30+ years in Creston. I sell, service and install, for no-pressure estimate call Charlie Westman 641-782-4590 or 641-344-5523.

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

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

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

PlumberSChRoEDER PLUmBING and ELECTRICAL. Central air repair/new installations, new breaker boxes, lighting fixtures, softeners, water heaters. Specialize in manufactured and mobile homes. Free estimates, licensed, insured, 641-202-1048. Accept Visa & Mastercard.

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GlassQUALITY GLASS Co. Automotive, home, business and farm. Commercial lock service and trailer sales. hwy 34 East, in Creston 641-782-5155

WANTED:Part-time Janitor

at the Afton United Methodist Church

in Afton, IowaPlease call

641-347-8847 to apply.

Children & Families of Iowa (CFI) is a private, non-profit organization seeking

Licensed LMSW, LISW or Temporary LMHC Therapists to provide Trauma-Informed Outpatient Mental

Health therapy to individuals/families for children age 4 through adulthood.

Will work with clients of various diagnoses, with a large population from trauma spectrum disorders.Must have knowledge regarding clinical assessment

& evidence-based therapeutic approaches.Submit resume & cover letter to:

Mary De VriesChildren & Families of Iowa

1111 University Ave. Des Moines, IA 50314

[email protected]: 515-288-9109

EOE

Dalton Ag, Inc., located in Lenox, Iowa is a premier manufacturer of fertilizer application equipment. Our products are sold throughout the corn belt and exported to several countries. Dalton Ag became a subsidiary of Dexter Apache Holdings, Inc. in January 2014, allowing us to become 100% employee owned. We are looking for dedicated and career minded people to join our growing and exciting company.

WELDERSFIRST SHIFT

Welding applicants must be proficient with MIG welding and reading blue prints.

Stainless steel welding experience a plus.

All positions must have solid work histories and be able to lift a minimum of 75 lbs. We offer competitive wages, benefits,

and overtime. Dalton Ag, Inc is an employee owned company.

To apply, stop by 602 E. Van Buren in Lenox between the hours of

7 am – 4:30 pm Monday thru Friday. EOE

641-743-6131

“The People Place...more than just a nursing facility!”Greenfield Manor

and Assisted Living

615 S. E. Kent, Greenfield, IA 50849EOE

WANTED: CNAs

Evening ShiftNight Shift

NOW HIRING:Spring Agronomy Personnel

Creston, IA

— Helena is an equal opportunity employer —

Contact: Mike Merchant • 641-782-0123

for work in our agronomy department. Some extended hours and weekends.

Competitive Wages Driver’s License and Drug Screening Required

We operate a drug free environment.

Henry A. Wallace Country Life Center

Valentine’s dinner

Just 10 miles North of Creston on Cherry Street2773 290th Street • Orient

www.wallace.org • 641-337-5019

4-Course Gourmet Meal Prepared by Chef Katie Routh

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Thurs., Feb. 13th at the Gathering Table— 5:30 or 7:30 p.m. —

Reservations required by Feb. 5th

$40 per Person • Live Music • Bring Your Own Wine

Accepting applications for

Clubhouse Manager for Lakeshore Golf & Country Club

in Afton, IA.

Please submit resume to Lakeshore Golf Club,

P. O. Box 225, Afton, IA 50830 by February 13, 2014

Lenox Care Center

is taking applications for

Full-time aCtIVItY DIreCtor

Generous Wages and Benefits

Contact: Gail at 641-333-2226 for more information

JOB FAIRTuesday, February 4Th

Interviews being conducted from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Michael Foods, Inc. in Lenox, Iowa, has immediate opportunities for

employment on 1st, 2nd & 3rd shiftsMichael Foods is a diversified food processor and distributor

with businesses in egg products, refrigerated grocery products and refrigerated potato products.

Previous experience in food manufacturing is not required.

We will train people with a solid work history!

For further information contact Human Resources at (641) 333-4700 or come to the plant

(1009 S. Brooks St.) to apply Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Attn: Human Resources 1009 South Brooks St. • Lenox, IA 50851

Fax (641) 333-4800 • Phone (641) 333-4700 EOE/AAP

Attn: Human Resources

Announcing

recent plant wide pay rate

increases!

INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE

MECHANICSOsceola Foods, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of a Fortune 500 Company is seeking an Industrial Maintenance Mechanic for our second shift. Successful maintenance applicants will have welding ability, maintenance experience with processing equipment, work-ing knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic systems, and the ability to troubleshoot. Successful candidates will work in our modern food processing facility located in Osceola, Iowa, and enjoy competitive wages along with a comprehensive benefit package. A combination of experience and/or training at an accredited technical school will be given consideration. Industrial Mechanics are given regular perfor-mance and salary reviews.

Wages based on experience & education. Starting pay ranges from trainee positions at approximately $14/hour up to mechanic & electri-cian positions starting at approximately $17/hour.

Please stop by your nearest Workforce Development Center to fill out an application along with a summary of qualifications and work experience. Applications can also be picked up at Osceola Foods and mailed back to Jared Lee, 1027 Warren Ave. Osceola, IA. 50213.

Osceola Foods, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Union CountyLand Auction

www.PeoplesCompany.com - Listing #11604

Matt Adams • 515.423.9235 Steve Bruere • 515.240.7500

Friday, February 14th @ 10:00 AMSupertel Inn Conference Room - Creston, IA

Rare opportunity in strong farming area to bid on 311.89 Acres M/L. Property to be sold in two tracts.

Tract 1: 159.89 acres M/L with 147.72 tillable acres and a tillable CSR of 61.9.

Tract 2: 152 acres M/L with 139.16 tillable acres and a tillable CSR of 57.4. Farm is located

north of Creston in Section 11 of Spaulding Township.

AccountAntSouthwest Iowa REc, a member-owned electric distribution cooperative, is seeking applicants for an Accountant position at its Mount Ayr, Iowa office. This position will be responsible for cost and general accounting functions including journal entries, account reconciliations, financial reporting and analysis, accounts payable, work orders, payroll, fixed assets and preparation for the annual financial audit. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of an Associates degree in accounting and 1-2 years experience in a related field, proficient in use of Microsoft Excel software, detail-oriented and be a team player. Southwest Iowa REC offers a competitive wage, commensurate with qualifications and experience, and an excellent benefit package.

Please submit a cover letter, resume and application on or before February 7, 2014 to:

Southwest Iowa REC, 1801 Grove Avenue, Corning, IA 50841

or via email to [email protected].

Applications can be downloaded from our website www.swiarec.coop or picked up at one of our offices. Southwest Iowa REC is an equal opportunity employer.

SouthweSt Iowa RuRal electRIc coopeRatIve

Help wantedAssistant Service Manager/Service

AdvisorFull Time • Benefit Package

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Stalker Chevrolet601 S. Sumner AvenueCreston, Iowa 50801

— must have —• Automotive Knowledge• Excellent Customer Service Skills• Valid Driver’s License• Detail Oriented

STEEL BUILDING BAR-GAINS Allocated Dis-counts. We do deals30x40, 50x60, 100x100and more. Total Con-struction and BlueprintsAvailable www.gosteelbuildings.comSource #18X800-964-8335

1 BEDROOM APART-MENT, stove and refrig-erator furnished, andheat, water, and laundrypaid, deposit and refer-ences required, 641-344-5762.

FOR SALE: PUREBREDregistered black Angusbulls, freeze branded,semen checked, gooddisposition. Also pure-bred open heifers.Bradley Angus Farms,641-344-3875.

(8) STORAGE CONTAIN-ERS, small to medium,50 cents to $2.00; (3)Space Savers, twodrawers, two white andone dark brown, $10.00each; Iowa Hawkeyememorabilia, varying inprices, call 641-782-6144.BLACK 2013 CHEVRO-

LET Silverado pickup,V8, tool box, runningboards, 641-782-8284.

CLARK'S TREE &STUMP Removal. FreeEstimates, Insured. Call641-782-4907 or 641-342-1940.

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2 BEDROOM HOUSE inCreston, $400/mo. plusdeposit and utilities, 612S. Division, no pets,515-401-6616.

Creston SchoolsTransportation

SpecialistsSpecializing in transporting

students.

Application forms available at theAdministration

Office801 N. Elm St.

or contact

Bob Beatty at 641-782-4720

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INVESTING? PROMISESOF big profits oftenmean big risk! Beforeyou send money callIowa Securities Bureau1-800-351-4665 or theFederal Trade Commis-sion at 877-FTC-HELPfor free information. Orvisit their Web site atwww.ftc.gov/bizop.

TO OURREADERS

Creston PublishingCompany does notknowingly accept ad-vertising which is inviolation of the law.We do not knowinglyaccept advertisingthat is fraudulent orhas malicious intent.

While we attemptto screen advertisingwith potential offraud, it is impossibleto screen all potentialproblems.

We strongly en-courage readers toexercise caution andcommon sense, par-ticularly when dealingwith unfamiliar com-panies.

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EFFICIENCY APART-MENTS. Spaciousdowntown Creston one-room apartment fur-nished with frig, mi-crowave, private bath.$425/monthly includesall utilities, plus [email protected], R Realty641-782-9408 or 641-223-0997.

NICE, CLEAN, LARGE1 bedroom apartment inAfton, water/sewer,garbage, internet &DISH, stove/refrigeratorincluded, washer/dryeron premises, $495/mo.,641-344-5478.

2 BEDROOM APART-MENT, $400/month,plus deposit, no pets,NO SMOKING, refer-ences required, 641-344-3201.

FOR SALE: 2-bedroomremodeled house.$25,000. $4000 down,$21,000 financed byowner, 9% interest,$400.00 monthly pay-ments, 641-344-3201.

MCNEILL TREE SER-VICE. Topping, Trim-ming and Removal. FreeEstimates, insured. CallDavid at 641-344-9052.

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Post Office at 641-782-2184.

2 GLASS AND METALend tables, $10.00 forboth; Home InteriorsWine Rack Shelf,$15.00; wooden dollcradle, $25.00; 641-782-0006.

BEGINNERS WEIGHTBENCH, $20.00; modernstyle china cabinet,2 glass doors, 4 legs,65½ ” tall, 36” wide &16” deep, $40.00; 641-782-7714 leave mes-sage.TO GIVE A WAY TO Agood home a very nice,affectionate house cat.Black tortoise shell withwhite markings.Neutered, declawed andlitter trained. Ownertravels a lot and he'svery lonely. Tiggerwould be a great com-panion for an older per-son. Good with kids.Eight years old and cur-rent on all shots. 641-344-0757.

CRESTON SCHOOLSEnglish LanguageLearner (ELL) Parapro-fessional Needed, Span-ish or Mandarin pre-ferred, 7 hrs/day. Ap-plication forms availableat the Administration Of-fice 801 N. Elm St.AA/EOE

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Obama will force federal contractors to raise minimum wage WASHINGTON (MCT)

— For years, liberal groups privately — and unsuccess-fully — pressed President Barack Obama to use the power of the federal gov-ernment’s purse to raise the minimum wage for e m p l o y -ees whose companies had con-tracts with the federal government. Last year, after Obama again failed to act, they changed strategies, launch-ing a public campaign com-plete with employee strikes.

It worked.On Tuesday, Obama,

frustrated that Congress has refused to raise the mini-mum wage for all Ameri-cans, announced that he’ll use his executive power to increase salaries for hun-dreds of thousands of work-ers with the stroke of a pen. It’s the latest example in the evolution of his use of power, from a critic of his predecessor as too prone to executive actions to an in-cumbent increasingly willing to do the same.

In his State of the Union address, Obama planned to say he’ll sign an executive order to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour for employees in-volved in future government contracts as a way to lower turnover, boost morale and increase productivity.

“The announcement to-day is a huge victory for ev-ery worker who took to the streets last summer demand-ing to be paid a wage they deserve,” said Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.

The White House of-fered no estimate of how many workers the change would affect, though sup-

porters guess that the num-ber would reach into the hundreds of thousands, including those who serve food and wash dishes, clean laundry and buildings, and manufacture military uni-forms. Federal spending on contracts reached more than $500 billion in 2012.

Two million Americans work on federal contracts, according to a report by Demos, a public policy orga-nization, though only some of them receive the mini-mum wage. A National Em-ployment Law Project study found that about 75 percent of such workers earn less than $10 an hour.

Obama’s action will be more limited than advocates had hoped, affecting only future or renegotiated con-tracts.

Still, they cheered the de-cision, calling it a “first step” to Congress increasing the minimum wage for all work-ers, a move that most Amer-icans support, according to recent polls.

Obama renewed his call for lawmakers to pass a proposal to raise the mini-mum wage for all workers to $10.10 per hour by 2015. A legislative increase would affect 27 million workers, according to an analysis of census data by the nonpar-tisan Economic Policy Insti-tute.

“The president clearly shares the frustration of working families waiting for Congress to pass an ur-gently needed and over-due increase in the federal minimum wage,” said Chris-tine Owens, the executive director of the National Employment Law Project. “I’m hopeful the president’s leadership will inspire con-gressional leaders to follow suit.”

Obama has known for years that he had the power

to raise the minimum wage, using as a model President Lyndon Johnson’s executive order banning gender and racial discrimination against employees whose compa-nies had federal contracts. Subsequent presidents have used similar actions to regu-late contractors.

But Obama resisted using the power, choosing instead to push Congress to raise the minimum wage.

Obama came into office four years ago publicly skep-tical of using executive pow-ers. But he’s grown more comfortable trying to move his agenda forward, par-ticularly after Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2010. He’s used executive pow-ers on immigration and gun control, climate change and gay rights.

Last September, his ad-ministration announced that it would extend mini-mum wage and overtime protections to nearly 2 mil-lion home-care workers who look after the elderly and people with disabilities by forcing their employers to abide by the Fair Labor Standards Act, the nation’s main wage and hour law.

Republican lawmakers were rela-tively qui-et about Obama’s action, but t h e y ’ v e bristled at the presi-dent’s lat-est procla-mation that he’ll rely on his own power more.

“House Republicans will continue to look closely at whether the president is faithfully executing the laws, as he took an oath to do,” said Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. “Now, I think deal-ing with federal contracts

and the minimum wage, he probably has the authority to do that. But we’re going to watch very closely be-cause there’s a Constitution that we all take an oath to, including him, and following that Constitution is the ba-sis for our republic. And we shouldn’t put that in jeop-ardy.”

Liberal groups pushed the White House for the execu-tive order on the minimum wage throughout Obama’s first term. After he failed to act, they decided to prod him in public, according to

some activists familiar with the lobbying who spoke anonymously in order not to criticize the president publicly for not acting soon-er. Hundreds of federally contracted workers from the Smithsonian museums,

Union Station train station and the Pentagon went on strike over the last seven months.

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Obama

Planning to raise minimum wageIn his State of the Union speech, Obama

said if Congress does not raise minimum wage, he will sign an executive order to raise it from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour for employ-ees involved in future government contracts.

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