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D ES MOINES — Creston/Ori-ent-Macksburg wrestling coach

Darrell Frain sent out a mass text to team members late Saturday evening, calling them to meet on the floor of Wells Fargo Arena for a picture holding the Class 2A second-place trophy.

Tayler Pettit quickly re-plied from his cell phone, “I might be a little late, coach.”

The fact that the popular team member had regained his wit was indication of his recovery from a scary situa-tion three days earlier.

Pettit, a senior at Cres-ton High School, sent the text message from his room at Mercy Medical Center, where he underwent a sur-gical heart procedure Friday after being admitted in criti-cal condition Wednesday.

Pettit, 18, collapsed mo-ments after Creston/O-M wrestled in the semifinals of the State Dual Tournament Wednesday afternoon.

Paramedics had seconds to save his life, and those emergency medical workers were honored in a ceremo-ny Saturday morning prior to that day’s session at the state tournament.

Among those honored were Creston athletic train-er Chris Leonard, the first person to notice the P a n t h e r w r e s t l e r was hav-ing dis-t r e s s e d breathing; and tournament physician Dr. Dennis Zach-ary, who correctly surmised Pettit might be having an ep-isode related to Wolff-Par-kinson-White Syndrome (see related story, right).

Others in the honored group were from Iowa State University training staff, Mercy Medical EMT crew and Iowa Event Center staff. Former Creston/O-M wrestler Jordan Hayes was a part of the ISU training staff

working the tournament.“It was just a great way

to recognize the team of people that helped in the whole situation,” Leonard said. “Obviously, the more prepared, the more you’re ready for that kind of thing, the better things go. We had a great team of people from top to bottom that helped with the whole process.”

Paramedics said Pettit had seizure-like activity from a sudden lack of ox-ygen to his brain and went into ventricular fibrillation, which can be a life-threaten-ing heart rhythm.Several shocks

Paramedics had to shock him with an automated ex-ternal defibrillator twice on mat 5 where he collapsed, and six more times on the way to Mercy Medical Cen-ter, which is just a few blocks north of the arena.

At the same time, Leon-ard was involved in chest compressions conducted in combination with the elec-trical shocks for about five minutes as Pettit was rushed to the hospital.

Pettit’s mother, Melis-sa, was in attendance for the ceremony honoring the medical team Saturday morning. She told them her son had been upgraded from critical to serious on Thursday, and then to fair condition by Saturday. He was discharged from the hospital Sunday.

That was great news to Leonard, who was in the midst of the quick action to save Pettit’s life when he had stopped breathing and had only a faint, erratic pulse.

Although Pettit’s condi-tion was not related to his wrestling, it was shortly af-ter his match Wednesday that Leonard noticed out of the corner of his eye that the Panther senior was not act-ing like himself.

“The team was still wres-tling, and I spotted him off to the side and he was winc-ing a little bit,” Leonard said. “He never complains, and he wouldn’t come to me and say anything. So I went over and checked on

him. He was mostly just short of breath at first, and said he felt sore by his left ribs. It just kind of pro-gressed from there. It was a little like hyperventila-tion, and in fact one time he said it almost felt like he was having a panic attack or something.”

When the dual meet with Union of LaPorte City was over, Pettit got up and tried to join his teammates in a line shaking hands with their opponent. He quickly had breathing issues again, and was bent over with his hands on his knees as the team huddled with coach Frain.

“Earlier, when I was checking his pulse, there were just too many things that didn’t feel good,” Leonard said. “So when they got up to go through the line, I told Darrell to hang onto him, that I’d be right back. I went to get the supervising doctor at that point. I wanted Doc Zach-ary to take a look at him.”

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Medical team honored for saving Pettit’s life

CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONSeven men and women who assisted in saving the life of Creston/Orient-Macksburg wrestler Tayler Pettit Wednesday at Wells Fargo Arena were recognized before the start of Saturday morning’s session at the State Wrestling Tournament. The honorees included, from left, Creston athletic trainer Chris Leonard of Greater Regional Medical Center, Iowa Events Center staff, tournament physician Dr. Dennis Zachary of Mercy South Medical Clinic, training staff from Iowa State University and Mercy Medical EMT crew.

By LARRY PETERSON CNA sports writer [email protected]

DES MOINES — Creston/Ori-ent-Macksburg wrestler Tayler Pettit was discharged from Mercy Medical Center late Sunday afternoon.

Pettit suffered a heart-related med-ical emergency during the Iowa State Dual Wrestling Tournament Wednes-day. Life-saving techniques were used until he was taken by ambulance to Mercy Medical Center, where he un-derwent surgery Friday.

Following is a statement released Sunday by the hospital staff on behalf of Scott and Melissa Pettit, Tayler’s parents.

“Our son Tayler and his team-mates from Creston Orient Macks-burg (COM) were focused on bringing home a state team wrestling champi-onship when they took the mat in Des Moines on Wednesday. Shortly after completing his second match Tayler complained of shortness of breath to trainer Chris Leonard, assigned to the team by Greater Regional Medical Center, and COM head coach Darrell Frain.

“Tayler collapsed, experienced sei-zures and went into cardiac arrest. Within seconds an Iowa High School Athletic Association team of medical professionals staffing the tournament

Pettit discharged from hospital; family issues statement

Contributed photoTayler Pettit is shown with teammates Chase Shiltz (left) and Spencer Wray Saturday before the two Panthers wrestled in state championship matches. Pettit watched the matches on his hospital room television.

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By BAILEY POOLMANCNA staff [email protected]

CORNING — Well-Strung, a group of four men from New York, took the stage at Corning Opera House in Corning Friday night and wowed the local audience.

Well-Strung, made up of Edmund Bagnell, Chris Marchant, Daniel Shevlin and Trevor Wadleigh, per-formed music by classical art-ists as well as modern singers.

Slowly, the group and au-dience members warmed up

to each other, with help from jokes and stories the group members told about their lives and how music became such an important part of them.

The mix of music was re-freshing; Well-Strung started out with a classical tune be-fore blending it with vocals of a pop song by singer Kelly Clarkson. The group includ-ed classical music by compos-ers such as Beethoven, as well as orchestral arrangements of pop songs like “Grenade” by Bruno Mars and “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus.

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bringing emotions to each note and musical change, such as during their instru-mental arrangement of Whit-ney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”

The clear tones of the string instruments brought pure emotion to the crowd, and the crowd rewarded them with a standing ovation.

Bagnell, Marchant, Shevlin and Wadleigh all made them-selves available after the per-formance for the public. The performance was a precursor to an appearance Saturday at North Iowa Area Communi-ty College in Mason City.

Well-Strung group members, back from left, Edmund Bagnell, Trevor Wadleigh, Chris Marchant, and front Daniel Shevlin, perform on their string instruments for a crowd at Corning Opera House Friday night. The four group mem-bers performed classical pieces, as well as some modern pop songs.

CNA photo by BAILEY POOLMAN

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Cindi Beardsley Creston

Cindi Beardsley, 63, of

Creston died Feb. 22, 2015, at Greater Regional Medical Center.

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

Burke Gerharz Creston

Burke Gerharz, 66, of Creston, I o w a , died Sat-u r d a y , F e b r u -ary 21, 2015 at his home. C e l e -b r a t i o n of Life Mass will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Cres-ton. Father Ken Halbur will officiate. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery, west of Creston. Open visitation will be from 2 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, with family re-ceiving friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, at the Powers Funeral Home junction of highway 34 and 25 in Cres-ton. In lieu of flowers, me-morials are to the Creston Endowment Fund held at South Central Iowa Com-munity Foundation. Online condolences can be given at www.powersfh.com.

Anthony Burke Gerharz, son of Helen Imogene (Mc-Daniel) Gerharz and An-thony Gerharz, was born May 20, 1948 in Billings, Mont. He graduated from Billings Central Catholic High School in 1966 and the University of Portland in 1971 with a Degree in Fi-nance. He went on to work as an accountant for the National Park Service at Yellowstone National Park.

On January 14, 1978, Burke married Ellen Rum-mel in Rawlins, Wyo. They lived and worked through-out southern California and Montana, where Burke did

accounting for U.S. Gyp-sum for many years. Mov-ing to the Los Angeles area, Burke accepted a position as Chief Financial Officer for Thomas Nix. Years lat-er, they returned to Mon-tana to work. In 1999, they moved to Creston, where Burke did accounting for Papetti’s and later, for Southern Iowa Resources for Families, until his health required him to slow down.

Burke was a proud Port-land Pilot Alumni, but bled black and gold and support-ed the Iowa Hawkeyes as his own. Burke was also a lifelong Los Angeles Dodg-ers Fan. In his spare time, he enjoyed photography, reading, fishing, crossword puzzles and upland bird and duck hunting.

Survivors include his wife, Ellen Gerharz of Creston; two daughters, Jennifer Gerharz of Iowa City and Jessica (husband Isaiah) Scales of Los An-geles, Calif.; a son, Antho-ny Gerharz, Jr. of Billings, Mont.; his four-legged son, Baron and grand-dog, Gus; two sisters, Christie (hus-band Thomas) Gorman of Olympia, Wash. and Julie (husband Ben) Webinger of Spokane, Wash.; moth-er-in-law, Marilyn Rummel of Saratoga, Wyo.; brother-in-law, Floyd (wife Luanne) Rummel of Lead, S.D.; sis-ter-in-law, Cynthia Suarez of Taylors, S.C.; nine nieces and nephews; several great nieces and nephews; and a brother, John (wife Diane) Gerharz of Billings, Mont.

Burke was preceded in death by his parents, his father-in-law, Floyd Rum-mel, Jr., two aunts, Ann and Margaret Gerharz and an uncle, Joseph Gerharz.

Carolyn Jane MetzTulsa, Okla.

Carolyn Jane Metz was born No-v e m b e r 16, 1931 in Cres-ton, Iowa to Car-roll T. And Ada I r e n e (Hayner) Lamb. She passed from this life Tuesday, February 17, 2015 in Tulsa at the age of 83. After her father’s death, her mother married Marvin J. Taylor who later adopted Carolyn.

Carolyn was a 1949 grad-uate of Creston High School and attended Creston Ju-nior College, graduating in 1951 with an Associate of Arts degree. Carolyn then taught elementary school for five years in both Bed-ford and Iowa City, IA. On August 22, 1953 she mar-ried Don Metz in Creston, IA. They lived in Iowa City for three years while Don completed his degree.

They moved to Bartles-ville, OK in 1956. During this time they had three children Mike, Pat, and Suzanne. The family then

moved to Tulsa, OK in 1971. During this time Carolyn devoted her life and her love as a wife and mother.

Carolyn is survived by her husband of 62 years, Don Metz; her children, Mike Metz and his wife, Erin of Scottsdale, AZ, Pat Metz and his wife, Kelli of Edmond, OK and Suzanne Thompson of Coweta, OK. She is also survived by nine grandchildren, Austen Metz and wife, Jen of Scott-sdale, AZ, Blythe Cayson Metz and Grace Metz also of Scottsdale, Mackenzi Nichols and her husband, Chance of Oklahoma City, Cooper Metz and Corbin Metz of Edmond, OK, Jack Thompson, Callie Thomp-son and Nick Thompson all of Coweta, OK; a niece, Kim Taylor of Plymouth, MN; nephews, Dan Taylor of Mason City, IA and Jack Taylor of Ames, IA. Caro-lyn was preceded in death by her parents, her adop-tive father and her brother, Gordon Taylor.

A funeral mass was held 10:00 AM Monday, Febru-ary 23, 2015 in the Marian Chapel at the Church of St. Mary.

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Berniece Downing, 90, of

Creston died Feb. 23, 2015, at Greater Regional Medical Center.

Services are pending at Pearson Family Funeral Ser-vice, 809 W. Montgomery St.

Gerharz

Metz

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Critical momentsBy the time Zachary and

Leonard returned to Pettit’s side, he was starting to lose consciousness.

“Then it progressed really quick,” Leonard said. “I told the supervisor of the event athletic training staff that it’s AED (automated external de-fibrillator) time. He had gone into seizure at that point, and was coming out of it when the EMTs came over with the AED.”

Pettit’s coloring had changed by then from lack of oxygen throughout the body, and teammates, coaches and Pet-tit’s family were obviously dis-traught at how quickly his con-dition had deteriorated.

“C’mon Tayler! C’mon buddy, stay with us!” a frantic coach Frain pleaded, as team-mates joined in the support and encouragement.

“We worked on him all the way to the ambulance and to the hospital,” Leonard said. “It’s awesome that it was that close. If this was going to hap-pen, it’s great that it happened here. They had 15 people just waiting at the door of the hos-pital for him.”

ER staff continued to work to get Pettit’s heart back into normal rhythm. A breathing tube was applied to give his body a break from the stress it had been under.WPW symptoms

Wolff-Parkinson-White syn-drome is a heart rhythm prob-lem that can cause a very fast heart rate. In WPW, an extra pathway becomes a bypass tract for the electrical connec-tion linking the upper cham-

bers and lower chambers of the heart. Those with the condition are more prone to have atrial fibrillation, or atrial flutter, and develop rapid heart rates of more than 250 to 300 times per minute.

This may result in fainting or cause sudden death.

The condition had never sur-faced before for Pettit, active in three sports at Creston High School (football, wrestling and soccer).

“You just never know when, or if, they experience the symp-toms,” Leonard said. “At the time we wondered if some-thing was caused by impact of getting slammed in his wres-tling match, but now we know it was just a defect that he had. I think (basketball players) Hank Gaithers and Reggie Lewis were similar cases. The good thing is, surgery went well and he should have full recov-ery, from what the doctors said. They go in and cauterize that extra channel that caused his heart rate to get out of sync.”

Everyone close to Pettit was shuddering at the thought of symptoms occuring in a loca-tion with less accessibility to emergency medical care.

“He likes to hunt and fish,” Leonard said. “If it happened somewhere else, who knows? We were very fortunate it hap-pened here where there were EMTs with an AED handy.”

“We would be planning something completely differ-ent, that’s what,” Melissa Pettit said Sunday, as she was assist-ing her son with paperwork associated with his discharge from the hospital.

“We are so grateful to ev-eryone for their quick action to save our son’s life,” Melissa Pettit said.

HONORED:

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joined Chris and Darrell and began helping Tayler as he began fighting for his life. Paramedics, train-ers and physicians started CPR and tried to revive him. An AED was avail-able in the arena and was used to shock his heart back into rhythm. We be-lieve this rapid care and al-ways having someone with Tayler saved our son’s life.

“The biggest question for us was how did this happen? As a three sport athlete Tayler had never experienced seizures or heart problems. The phy-sicians at Mercy Children’s Hospital Pediatric Emer-gency and the Pediatric In-tensive Care Unit started care and used a respirator to help him breathe while a cardiologist monitored his heart. By Wednesday night they were able to remove his breathing tube and we discussed testing.

“The tests were per-formed Thursday by Iowa Heart Center cardiologists and they found the cause. Tayler’s heart did not fibrillate from a blow to the chest during his wrestling match and it had nothing to do with maintaining or losing weight. The test found an extra electrical pathway in his heart that caused a rapid heart rate. The cardiologist called it Wolff -Parkinson-White Syndrome. We never knew Tayler had a heart issue and the cardiologist said he could have had it since he was born. We were told the syndrome is the most com-mon cause of rapid heart rate disorders, especially for infants, children and adolescents.

“Friday, Tayler had a surgical procedure called an ablation to correct the extra electrical pathway and reduce the potential of future problems. He has continued to gain strength and our cardiologist said Tayler should have a com-plete recovery and be able to return to sports and play soccer this spring.

“We are overjoyed by the outcome but it would not have been possible without all of the support, prayers and caring from our wrestling community and people we don’t even know. You have all given us strength.

“We’d like to thank our trainer Chris and our coach Darrell; for not leaving Tayler alone for a second. We thank the Iowa High School Athlet-ic Association for its med-ical planning and assem-bling a great medical team to deal with injuries, or in this case a life or death emergency. The physi-cians and staff with Mer-cy Children’s Hospital Emergency and Intensive Care Units provided great care. Our cardiologists with Iowa Heart Center at Mercy helped us under-stand Tayler’s heart prob-lem and fixed it.

“As parents, our expe-riences made it very clear how important it is to have an AED available and know how to use it. AEDs can save lives and we can’t imagine not having them readily available at athlet-ic, school and community events. We hope everyone will learn more about these devices so you can help someone should they expe-rience a medical emergen-cy.”

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Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 35 12 windy Davenport 36 10 windy Marshaltown 36 11 windyAtlantic 41 18 pt sunny Des Moines 41 17 pt sunny Mason City 33 8 windyAubudon 40 16 pt sunny Dubuque 36 6 windy Onawa 43 22 pt sunnyCedar Rapids 37 7 windy Farmington 42 17 windy Oskaloosa 41 14 windyCenterville 42 17 pt sunny Fort Dodge 36 13 pt sunny Ottumwa 43 15 windyClarinda 45 19 mst sunny Ft Madison 41 17 windy Red Oak 43 19 mst sunnyClarion 34 11 windy Guttenberg 35 7 windy Sioux Center 37 16 pt sunnyClinton 36 9 windy Keokuk 42 19 windy Sioux City 43 22 mst sunnyCouncil Bluffs 43 22 sunny Lansing 36 6 pt sunny Spencer 36 13 windyCreston 40 17 pt sunny LeMars 41 18 pt sunny Waterloo 35 8 windy

National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 46 31 mixed Houston 50 44 cloudy Phoenix 65 44 sunnyBoston 19 14 pt sunny Los Angeles 64 48 mst sunny San Francisco 65 49 sunnyChicago 32 8 windy Miami 82 62 pt sunny Seattle 56 36 sunnyDallas 39 34 cloudy Minneapolis 28 3 windy St. Louis 41 23 mst sunnyDenver 48 23 sunny New York 24 21 pt sunny Washington, DC 32 25 mst sunny

Moon Phases

NewFeb 18

FirstFeb 25

FullMar 5

LastMar 13

UV IndexTue

2/243

Moderate

Wed2/25

1Low

Thu2/26

3Moderate

Fri2/27

4Moderate

Sat2/28

2Low

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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MondayTOPS No. 1338, 5 p.m., First

United Methodist Church.AA, 5:30 p.m., Crossroads

Mental Health Center, 1003 Cottonwood Rd. Open meeting.

Union County Genealogy Society, 6 p.m., Gibson Memorial Library. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Southwest Iowa Dancers, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Mount Ayr American Legion.

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

TuesdayShannon City Breakfast Club,

9 a.m., The Windrow, 102 W. Taylor St.

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

OLE Club, noon, congregate meal site, restored Creston Depot.

Postscript Club, 12:30 p.m., congregate meal site, restored Creston Depot.

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

Chautauqua Circle, 1:30 p.m., hostesses Pat Butcher and Betty Wallace.

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

I Think I Can Child Care Center Board of Directors, 5:30 p.m., I Think I Can Child Care Center.

Eagles Aerie, 7 p.m., Eagles

Lodge.Southwest Iowa Dancers, 7

to 10 p.m., the Junction (Hwys 2 and 65) east of Leon. Homemade buffet for free will offering before dance.

Eagles Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., Eagles Lodge.

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

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

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

Blood pressure clinic by Crest Haven Care Centre nurses, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Lorimor City Hall.

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

Southwest Iowa Dancers Jam Session, 6 to 9 p.m., Chicken Inn, 3 miles west of Creston on Hwy 34.

ThursdayBlue Grass Optimist Club of

Creston, noon, The Pizza Ranch.Celebrate Recovery (a Christ-

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

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

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

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

Meetings Creston City Water Works

Board of Trustees, 5 p.m. Wednesday, boardroom.

Agenda includes: 5:02 p.m. Patrick Smith, Brad-shaw, Fowler, Proctor and Fairgrave: executive closed session pursuant to Iowa Code Section 21.5(1)(c) to discuss strategy with counsel in matters that are presently in litigation where its disclo-sure would likely result in prejudice or disadvantage in the litigation; adjourn closed session; enter into open ses-sion; discuss issues relative to water account at 231 S. Chestnut.

— — — — — —Union County Board of

Health, 8 a.m. Thursday, public health office, Suite 105.

Agenda includes: LouAnn Snodgrass, director report; Robin Sevier, public health nurse: outreach/public health services monthly report; Union County Environmen-tal Health: discuss raise for environmental specialist for fiscal year 2016 and month-ly report; Jo Duckworth, bio terrorism/emergency ser-vices report; Karla Hynes, WIC/MCH director: first quarter report.

Police Jason Donald Willey, 34,

615 N. Mulberry St., was charged with theft, forgery, second-degree burglary and trespass 8:26 p.m. Friday at 1001 S. Sumner St. Apt. 22.

According to a Creston Police report, at 4:52 a.m.

Feb. 6, officers received a report of a stolen vehicle. The vehicle was last seen before the victim went to bed. The victim woke up to go to work, and noticed his vehicle was gone. The stolen vehicle was a 1991 Buick Regal, blue in color. On Feb. 7, there was a call for a wrecked vehicle in the county. Deputies located the vehicle, and the vehicle came back to the stolen car that was reported Feb. 6. Text messages from Willey said he wrecked the vehicle outside of town about five miles, with a missing check book. It was the only vehi-cle reported missing in the county Feb. 7.

On Feb. 6, Union County sheriff’s deputies received a report from a resident of 1541 Jaguar Ave., that at approximately 5 a.m. the home owners heard some-one leave through the base-ment door. The home own-ers noticed two pops had been drunk, and the bot-tles were left by the door. The home owners were asleep while Willey was in the basement. Text mes-sages from Willey said he was chilling in the farmer’s basement after he wrecked the car he was driving. The neighbor at 1525 Jaguar Ave., reported at approx-imately 5:15 a.m. a male subject came to his door wanting a ride to Creston. The neighbor identified the subject as Willey during a lineup.

On or about Feb. 6, offi-

cials at State Savings Bank, 602 Sheldon St., were noti-fied checks on the account of Thressa Willey had been reported as missing. Bank of-ficials were also notified that Thressa Willey died on or about Oct. 11, 2014. Shortly after 1 p.m., Jason Willey pre-sented a check in the amount of $500 to State Savings Bank employees, and requested the check be exchanged for cash. The check was drafted on the account of Thressa Willey. The checked was purported to be issued to Jason Willey, and was endorsed by Jason Willey.

Willey was also found stay-ing in a vacant apartment lo-cated at 316 W. Montgomery St. several weeks ago. He was told by building man-agement to vacate and not return. On Feb. 9, Willey was found in another vacant apartment at that location.

Willey was being held on $10,000 cash-only bond, and $300 cash surety.

— — — — — —Joshua Ray Derry, 312 W.

Montgomery St., reported his vehicle had been operat-ed without his consent, and a 20-volt impact wrench, two sockets and two and a-half ton floor jack were taken from the vehicle between 4 and 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Loss estimate is $810.

MiscellaneousTraffic stop, 7:37 a.m., Fri-

day, West Townline Street.Traffic stop, 7:45 a.m., Fri-

day, West Townline Street.Traffic stop, 8:08 a.m., Fri-

day, Sheldon Street.Talk to officer, 8:45 a.m.,

Friday, South Lincoln Street.Traffic stop, 11:05 a.m.,

Friday, North Spruce Street.Traffic stop, 11:31 a.m.,

Friday, West Montgomery Street.

Accident, 12:43 p.m., Fri-day, East Summit Street.

Assistance, 1:01 p.m., Fri-day, North Pine Street.

Assistance, 1:35 p.m., Fri-day, East Adams Street.

Theft, 1:36 p.m., Friday, Sheldon Street.

Talk to officer, 2:07 p.m., Friday, North Pine Street.

Traffic stop, 4:04 p.m., Fri-day, Laurel Street.

Assistance, 4:11 p.m., Fri-day, North Cherry Street.


Theft, 7:23 p.m., Friday, South Sumner Avenue.

Assistance, 7:59 p.m., Fri-day, South Sumner Avenue.


Fire Miscellaneous

Medical, 10:35 a.m., Fri-day, Clover Avenue.

Good intent call, 8:46 p.m., Friday, Ringgold-Union Street.

Medical, 7:56 a.m., Satur-day, West Adams Street.

Medical, 8:45 a.m., Satur-day, Laurel Street.

Grass fire, 11:38 a.m., Sat-urday, 170th Street.

Medical, 12:23 p.m., Satur-day, Summit Lake Avenue.

Medical, 12:50 p.m., Satur-day, West Prairie Street.

Medical, 12:55 p.m., Satur-day, West Prairie Street.

Medical, 9:36 p.m., Satur-day, South Vine Street.

Medical, 3:12 p.m., Sun-day, North Walnut Street.

Medical, 7:17 p.m., Sun-day, North Palm Street.

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TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is an excellent day to make behind-the-scenes plans, especially for your long-term future. However, some of you will be planning secret love affairs!

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You will get a lot accomplished if you sit down with others in small groups or large confer-ences to plan for the future. You will want practical results to come together in an agree-able way.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Relationships can become stronger today if each partner is open to sensible solutions. It’s a good day to talk things out.

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Dear Readers: Here is this week’s SOUND OFF, concern-ing borrowed library books:

“I am an avid reader of books and a veteran user of public libraries. My Sound Off is about people who turn down the corners of pages to mark their place. It is so simple to use bookmarks. This doesn’t damage books, as when the corners are turned down and eventually break off.” — Ruth D., Colorado Springs, Colo.

Ruth, as a lover of reading books, I’m with you. Would you do this if a friend loaned you a book? I think not! It’s not hard to find a scrap of pa-per, a page from a magazine or, oh my goodness, an actual bookmark! — Heloise

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— HeloiseBEET-JUICE STAINDear Heloise: Can you of-

fer suggestions for how to get a fresh beet-juice spill out of an oriental-type carpet? I have already tried soaking it up with white bread, blotting up as much of the red stain as possi-ble, and using an oxygen-based cleaner, without much success. Is it too late for club soda? Would ammonia work, or would it ruin the carpet? — Dee K., via email

Dee, you seem to have tried the basic first steps. However, do let me clarify one “hint” that is rather old and, frank-ly, that I would not suggest or even waste my time testing. Soak it up with a piece of white bread? Someone has been drinking one too many “beet-juice cocktails” or mixed up some old hints. White bread is absorbent, but it won’t work as well as a handful of paper tow-

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All that’s left is for you to attempt to “match” the stain by trying to “dye” the rest of the carpet with beet juice. You might be surprised. — Heloise

Note to readers: Dee said the carpet was NOT expensive.

ICE MELTDear Heloise: My mother,

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Good hint, but know that dogs or cats still should have their paws wiped off when coming inside. This product can be troublesome to small animals if ingested. — Heloise

ROOM DEODORIZERDear Heloise: I use my old

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‘Field of Dreams’ lawsuit over planned sports complex reaches trial

DUBUQUE (AP) — The trial over plans to develop a sports complex at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in eastern Iowa is underway.

Neighboring landowners filed the lawsuit to challenge the way city officials decided to rezone the area around the site for commercial use. The trial began last Monday and was expected to last sev-en days.

Opponents of the All-Star Ballpark Heaven project worry about the increased traffic and noise that would accompany the planned complex of youth sports fields.

Dyersville officials said there wasn’t anything wrong with their actions.

“They’re entitled to do what’s in the best inter-est of their constituents,” said Doug Henry, who rep-resents Dyersville.

The opponents say the

city of Dyersville failed to consider the project’s po-tential negative impact on neighbors and didn’t follow proper procedure for the 2012 zoning decision.

“I’ve waited a long time for this,” opponent Sharon Ameskamp said. Finally it’s time to “bring it home,” she said.

The lawsuit slowed prog-ress on the project because organizers have had trouble raising money for it. But it’s not clear if the outcome of the lawsuit will decide the fate of the ballparks.

Dyersville Mayor Al Haas has said that if the city loses the case, the council would probably redo the annex-ation and rezoning of the field.

But the project is relying on $16.5 million of state tax credits that could be jeop-ardized if the city loses the lawsuit.

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Gov. Branstad’s cannabis oil idea faces roadblocks

DES MOINES (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad’s suggestion that Iowa resi-dents could one day head to neighboring Illinois to buy canna-bis oil has major leg-islative roadblocks if it’s ever seriously considered, accord-ing to people follow-ing the industry who say it highlights the dilemma for states that allow some med-ical marijuana without a clear path to access it.

At a news conference this month, Branstad said he was open to working with Illinois officials so Iowa residents could visit that state to purchase canna-bis oil for the treatment of severe epilep-sy. He noted a dispensary was planned in the Quad Cities area, just over the Mississippi River.

“This is an area that I think we need to be very thoughtful and very careful about,” he told reporters. “We want to

do what we can to try to help the fami-lies, but we don’t want to create a lot of unintended consequences.”

At least one Illinois lawmaker in-volved with passing that state’s medical marijuana law said it’s unrealistic.

“Not plausible at all. Probably will never be proposed,” said Rep. Lou Lang, a Democrat from Skokie. “The governor of Iowa is talking nonsense.”

Branstad’s spokesman, Jimmy Cen-ters, didn’t respond to Lang’s comment but said Branstad wants to meet with Il-linois Gov. Bruce Rauner to talk about the idea while both men are attending meetings in Washington.

“The governor wants to explore op-portunities and reasonable solutions with neighboring states that would allow those suffering from severe epilepsy to obtain the cannabis oil,” Centers said in an email.

Catherine Kelly, Rauner’s press sec-retary, did not answer questions about Branstad’s remarks, but released a state-ment saying, “The governor will careful-

ly review and consider any proposals re-garding the medical marijuana program that cross his desk. He has always said he wants to make sure the law is fol-lowed, and the safety and well-being of the people of Illinois are protected.”

Illinois approved legislation in 2013 to create a pilot program for the produc-tion and distribution of medical marijua-na. The law specifies that only registered Illinois residents can access it, meaning Illinois law would need to be changed.

Lang, who authored Illinois’ medical marijuana bill and pushed it for years before it got enough support, said he’s already having trouble extending the pi-lot program past 2017, when it expires. He certainly doesn’t see support for making changes like allowing out-of-state residents to buy the product.

Branstad signed a bill into law last year that allows some residents with ep-ilepsy to use oil with an ingredient de-rived from marijuana for treatment. The oil has little of the ingredient in marijua-na known to give people a “high.”

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The Murray FFA in Murray, Iowa will celebrate National FFA

Week, February 21-28th. This year’s theme is Go All Out! and it embraces more than 80 years of FFA traditions while looking forward to the organization’s future. More than half a million members will participate in National FFA Week activities at local, state and national levels. These members have a passion for agriculture.

Designated as National FFA Week in 1947, the week of George Washington’s birthday is FFA Week, and runs from Saturday to Saturday. FFA Week gives FFA members an opportunity to educate the public about agriculture.

During the week, chapters conduct a variety of activities to help others in their school and community learn about FFA and agricultural education. Murray will celebrate National FFA Week by participating in the following activities:

Dress Up Days:

Monday- “Agriculture/FFA embraces all colors of the rainbow”- Color War

Tuesday- “You won’t catch Agriculture/FFA sleeping”- Pajama Day

Wednesday- “We are MURRAY FFA”- FFA T-shirt Day

Thursday- “Wearing your Blue and Gold with Pride”- Official Dress Day

Friday- “Everyone LOVES Flannel”- Flannel Friday

In appreciation for the support and encouragement from our faculty and staff at

Murray Community Schools, chapter members have planned a surprise for the teachers after school one day. Our chapter will host our 9th Annual Farmer Breakfast Wednesday, February 25th from 7:15- 8:15 in the new multi-purpose room. We invite local agriculturalists in for breakfast prepared by our students. Monsanto’s America’s Farmers Grow Communities along with donor Raymond and Betty Johnston will be on hand Wednesday morning for a $2500 check presentation.

Thursday, February 26th we

will partner with the Murray FCCLA to sponsor the annual Sweetheart Dance. FFA members and FCCLA members voted on the Sweetheart candidates (Guadalupe Carranza, Jade Lecy, Shelby Myers, Samantha Prescott and Deena Snyder) and Beau candidates (Seth Baumfalk, Braydon Held, Jack Jones, Trey McHenry and Owen Tracy) to represent our organizations. Voting will take place during the week and the Sweetheart and Beau will be crowned at the dance. The dance will be held in the Jerry Brown Gymnasium from 7-10 pm.

Throughout the year Murray FFA members also participate in: FFA National Convention,

State Convention, Mrs. Claus and her Elves blanket creation and donation, Fruit Sales, Candy Canes for a Cause, Chapter Banquet, Elementary Petting Zoo, Derby Cleanup, 3rd Grade Field Day, Monthly Chapter Meetings, Clarke County Fair, Iowa State Fair, Greenhand Fire up, Servers at the Cattlemen’s Banquet and Murray Development meeting, C.O.L.T, Leadership Conferences, Graceland Ag Day, Hospital Petting Zoo, Spring Break Field trips, SAE Visits, FFA Week, Farmer Breakfasts, Baby Contests, Rodeos, Swines Shows, Sweetheart Dance, Participation in Grant applications, and Career Development Events (CDEs) including Soil Judging

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Unranked Panthers tie forsecond in wild 2A team race

Five Creston/O-M wrestlers place to cap emotion-filled week

By LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

DES MOINES — Three days earlier, they anxiously watched emergency medical workers assist fallen team-mate Tayler Pettit as he lay unconscious on a mat at the state dual tournament.

Saturday night, the Cres-ton/Orient-Macksburg wres-tling team wrapped up an incredible week by sharing second place in Class 2A with Union (LaPorte City), passed by Mediapolis late in the evening when Steven Hollo-way’s second state title at 195 pounds lifted the Bulldogs to their first-ever state title.

And, one year after plac-ing second in the state at 145 pounds as freshman, Chase Shiltz won an 11-3 major de-cision at 160 pounds for Cres-ton/O-M’s 27th state cham-pionship in history. He is the 16th Creston wrestler to stand atop the state tournament medal stand.

On Sunday, Pettit was dis-charged from Mercy Medical Center after undergoing a surgical procedure for a heart defect that had not surfaced until after wrestling his second match on Wednesday.

“We got a trophy, we got a state champion and Tayler is coming home,” said Cres-ton/O-M coach Darrell Frain. “That’s a pretty good ending

to our week.”After placing fourth in the

state dual tournament, Cres-ton/O-M — unranked all season as a tournament team — was lodged firmly in a four-way battle for the 2A champi-onship.

Heading into Holloway’s match Saturday night, Union and Creston/O-M were tied at 86 points, trailed by Medi-apolis with 85. Crestwood had won its only championship match and was fourth at 83.5 points.

Union caught Creston/O-M by winning two of three title matches, while the Panthers

Shiltz climbs to the top, Wrayrunner-up for Panthers

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DES MOINES — Twelve months earlier, after losing 5-2 in the 145-pound champi-onship match as a freshman, Creston/O-M wrestler Chase Shiltz said he would train all year not to experience the feeling he had standing one step from the pinnacle of the medal stand.

Shiltz accomplished that goal in a big way — scoring an 11-3 major decision that put the Panthers in a sec-ond-place tie with Union in the Class 2A trophy chase

— in winning the Class 2A 160-pound title Saturday night.

“I just trained my hardest so I could be on top of the podium,” said Shiltz, who un-derwent arthroscopic knee surgery in November. The meniscus was clipped and he was able to return in Janu-ary, rather than face several weeks of rehabilitation.

“We went from thinking we may not have him at all, and now he’s a state champi-on,” coach Darrell Frain said. “His first workout was the Tuesday after Christmas, be-fore the Lewis Central dual. He’s a special kid. We’ve seen it last year in wrestling,

this year in football, and now here. He’s unfazed by the big stage and he steps up.”

Shiltz is the 16th wrestler in Creston history to win a ti-tle, and in the process picked up the program’s 27th indi-vidual crown overall. Shiltz concluded a 31-0 season in defeating No. 3-ranked Zach Johnston of ADM, who end-ed up 41-3.

Also wrestling in Satur-day night’s finals was eighth-ranked Spencer Wray, de-feated by top-ranked Brady Jennings of Osage, 7-3.

Reed, Ricker fall short in bids for perfect season

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DES MOINES — Seniors Dusten Reed of Bedford/Le-nox and Joe Ricker of Mount Ayr each entered Saturday night’s State Wrestling Tour-nament finals with an oppor-tunity to complete a perfect season.

Both were dominant throughout the course of the season and survived through the first three rounds of the state tournament.

But their dreams were dashed Saturday night, as each suffered his first loss of the season in the state finals.

Top-ranked Reed entered the Class 2A 132-pound fi-nals with a record of 50-0, but lost to Centerville’s sec-ond-ranked Bradley Irwin by a 4-1 score.

Ricker was also ranked first, and entered the Class 1A 285-pound finals with a mark of 49-0, before losing to sec-ond-ranked Levi Paulsen of Woodbury Central.Tough turn

Reed had never faced Irwin before in his career, but knew Irwin would be quick on his

feet.That proved to be true

when Irwin scored a take-down just 18 seconds in to the match to go up 2-0.

The Centerville senior rode out Reed the remainder of the first period.

Trailing 2-0, Reed chose the top position to start the second period in an attempt to earn back points to get back into the match.

“He got that takedown and I knew I was going to have to do something to get points on the board, so I chose top be-cause that’s my strongpoint,” Reed said. “So I went top and just couldn’t turn him. He just sat there and balled up.”

Irwin eventually got a re-versal with 1:07 left in the second period and rode Reed out for the final minute-plus of the period. Irwin chose the down position to start the third period, giving Reed one last chance to turn him.

“The kid was blocking off on the left side over there, crunching his elbows in,” Bedford/Lenox head coach Gail Christensen said. “He finally got one for stalling. That’s what we were trying to do, get the legs in there and

put the power half in.”Irwin gave up one point

for stalling with :15 left in the match, as Reed never success-fully turned him to his back.

“I was going to have to put up points, and that I did not do,” Reed said. “I didn’t even score points. If you don’t score any points, you’re not going to win the match.”

Reed was in search of Bed-ford/Lenox’s first state cham-pionship since the two schools combined wrestling pro-grams. Thomas Hess was the last champion for Bedford, winning in 2005 and 2006, while Todd Parish was the last Lenox champion in 2003.

He ends his career as Le-nox’s all-time career wins leader, and after having nev-er placed at the state tourna-ment before this year, finishes his career with a silver medal.

“Last match of my career was in the state finals, so it was kind of cool, but it didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to be,” Reed said.

“I tell you what, you can’t put it in words, because his work ethic in the practice

Hensley, Freese earn medals at stateBy SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

DES MOINES — Bed-ford/Lenox sophomore Jar-ed Hensley improved his placing from last year and Nodaway Valley junior Ben Freese exceeded expecta-tions at the State Wrestling Tournament here Saturday.

Hensley placed third in the Class 2A 113-pound bracket, while Freese finished sixth in the Class 1A 120-pound bracket.Improvement

Hensley finished fourth in Class 1A at 113 pounds last year, but moved up a class and one spot on the podium this year.

The Bedford/Lenox soph-omore lost an 11-3 major de-cision to eventual runner-up Derek Holschlag of Union, LaPorte City.

He then reeled off four straight victories in the con-solation bracket to finish third, capping the tourna-ment with a 5-4 win over Sergeant Bluff-Luton senior Devin Phaly.

Hensley also won by fall, a 6-3 decision and a 10-0 major decision in the consolation bracket.

The 6-3 decision in the consolation quarterfinals came against top-ranked

Tristan Birt of Dubuque Wahlert.

After having a chance to scout out Phaly, Hensley knew he had to push the pace against him.

“I knew I had to push the pace against him and wear him down, because all of his other matches he got tired pretty quick,” Hensley said. “I knew if I kept the pace and kept pushing him, eventually he’d wear out.”

Phaly opened the scoring with a first-period takedown, but Hensley scored an escape at the end of the period to get momentum back on his side.

Starting the second peri-od from the down position, Hensley got a reversal to take a 3-2 lead.

“I knew I had to get out and at least get an escape or a reversal to get momentum equaled out and on my side,” Hensley said. “I got an es-cape at the end of the first, so that helped me out.”

Hensley surrendered an escape to tie the score at 3-3, but got another takedown with :40 remaining in the sec-ond period to go up 5-3. He held on for the 5-4 victory.

“Jared Hensley, he de-serves a medal. He got a medal, but I tell you what, he beat a lot of really good kids on the way to that third-place medal,” Bedford/Lenox head coach Gail Christensen

said. “I tell you what, proud as heck of him, because he had a tough, tough tourna-ment.

“For him to come back af-ter losing quarterfinals, and come back in there and go 4-0, he has no reason to hang his head.”

Hensley said he was pleased with how he per-formed during the tourna-ment.

“I felt pretty strong for most of my matches,” he said. “I could have been a little tired on some of them. I definitely felt confi-dence-wise was good. Body felt good. One place better. Gotta keep getting better ev-ery year now.”

Hensley ended the year with a record of 48-3.Freese medals

Nodaway Valley’s Freese entered his first trip to the state tournament as an un-ranked district runner-up.

Freese lost his first-round match to eventual champion, undefeated Bryce West of Highland Riverside by a fall in 26 seconds.

He then reeled off four straight victories in the con-solation bracket to reach the consolation semifinals and guarantee himself a spot on the podium.

“At the beginning, my goal was just to make it to the sec-ond day,” Freese said. “But as I started winning more matches and kept going, I started setting my goals even higher, see where I could from there.”

Freese went into Satur-day’s consolation semifinal with a chance to place as high as third. He lost by fall in 2:45 to Alta-Aurelia’s Sky-lar Solko in the consolation semifinals and then lost by fall in :54 to Wapsie Valley’s Colin Scrader to finish sixth.

“I feel pretty good over-all,” Freese said. “It’s my first time going to state and I got sixth place, which I’m feeling pretty good about that.”

CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONCreston/Orient-Macksburg tied Union of LaPorte City for second place in Class 2A at the State Wrestling Tournament. Shown in front are team members Trevor Marlin, Chase Shiltz and manager Tanner Webb. Standing in rear from left are manager para-professional Steve Wilson, assistant coach Eric Ehlen, Kadon Hulett, Seth Maitlen, Jake Gutschenritter, Spencer Wray, head coach Darrell Frain, Wyatt Thompson, assistant coach Cody Downing and Joey Huntington. Not pictured, state qualifier Tayler Pettit.

CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONCreston sophomore Chase Shiltz has his arm raised as champion of the Class 2A 160-pound division after defeating Zach Johnston of ADM, 11-3. Shiltz is the 16th Panther to win at least one state title, and claimed the program’s 27th championship overall.

Please seeFINALS, page 11A

Please seePANTHERS, page 9A

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERBedford/Lenox senior Dusten Reed (top) works in a power half on Centerville’s Bradley Irwin during their championship match at 132 pounds Saturday at the State Wrestling Tournament. Irwin won a 4-1 decision over Reed, handing Reed his first loss of the season.

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERBedford/Lenox sophomore Jared Hensley (left) con-trols Sergeant Bluff-Luton’s Devin Phaly during their 113-pound third-place match Saturday at the State Wrestling Tournament. Hensley won a 5-4 decision.

Please seeFREESE, page 12A

Please seeRICKER, page 10A

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Panther girls fall in regional semifinal By SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

INDIANOLA — The Creston girls basketball team got out to a good start here Saturday, putting it-self in a position to knock off Indianola on its home floor in a Class 4A Region 7 semifinal.

But the Panther offense fizzled out in the second half, as Indianola went on to post a 47-29 win, advanc-ing to Tuesday’s regional final against a Winterset team the Panthers defeat-ed earlier this season.

Winterset advanced with a 63-58 win over Perry.

After leading 18-17 at halftime, Creston’s offense stalled in the third quarter, as Indianola outscored the Panthers 18-9 in the quar-ter.

Creston seemingly had a chance to gain some mo-mentum back going to the fourth quarter, but a con-troversial call thwarted that opportunity.

Officials blew a whistle at the end of the third quarter as junior guard Taylor Bri-ley was fouled in the act of shooting a 3-pointer, just before the buzzer sounded.

But the officials then called off the foul, send-

ing the Panthers into the fourth quarter down eight.

“There was a crucial call at the end of the third quar-ter,” Creston head coach Brent Douma said. “They blew the whistle and waved it off. Taylor got fouled on a three. It was an o b v i o u s foul and and it was o b v i o u s -ly before the horn b l e w . They de-cided to wave it off. And there was no explanation for that, either. Those three free throws could have made it a five-point game going into the fourth quarter.

“Their (Indianola) coaching staff even threw their hands up in the air, because they thought we were going to shoot three free throws, too.”

Creston still had a chance in the final quarter, but couldn’t get enough shots to fall. Play got rough in the fourth quarter, as well.

“We still were playing hard. We were compet-ing,” Douma said. “Things got very rough. There were eight held balls just in the fourth quarter alone. I’ve

never seen that. That’s go-ing very aggressively at the ball and there was no fouls called. We’re not used to that. I was upset last night, to be honest. But we did play hard, and the second half, everything just kind of changed.”

Senior Natalie Mostek led the Panthers with 11 points and 11 rebounds, recording a double-double in her final game. Briley added 10 points with four assists and three rebounds.

“We played a really good first half,” Douma said. “Third quarter, played pretty well defensively, just having trouble scoring. Game got pretty rough. Just scoring became an is-sue for us.”

Creston held Indianola freshman Grace Berg to just three points in the first half and 11 points for the game.

“She’s a good player,” Douma said. “Their coach really complimented us after the game about what a good job we did on her. The night we saw her when we scouted last Friday night, she had 18 points in the first six minutes of the game. She’s going to be a really good basketball player by the time she grad-uates from high school.”

Brenna Baker, along with Natalie and Maria Mostek played their last game as Panthers.

Creston ends its season with a record of 12-10, its first winning season since 2006-07.

“Great season. Great group of girls. They were so enjoyable to work with,” Douma said. “The team chemistry was just so good this year. We’re going to miss the three seniors. With all the injuries we had to overcome this year, it was just a very enjoyable year.”

INDIANOLA (47) — Maddie Glascock 11, Grace Berg 11, Kristina Quijano 10, Haley Vesey 10, Paige Nicholson 5. 3-point goals — 7 (Glascock 3, Vesey 2, Nicholson 1, Quijano 1).

CRESTON (29) — Natalie Mostek 11, Taylor Briley 10, Jenna Taylor 3, Brenna Baker 3, Lexie Little 2. 3-point goals — 3 (Briley 1, Taylor 1, Baker 1). Rebounds — Mostek 11, Taylor 7, Little 4, Briley 3. Assists — Briley 4. Steals — Little 4.

Indianola — 11 17 35 47Creston — 9 18 27 29

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Girls basketballSaturday’s scores

Class 3ARegion 8 Final

Red Oak 72 Kuemper Catholic 69 - OT

Class 4ARegion 1 Semifinals

Sioux City Heelan 41 LeMars 34

Spencer 67 Humboldt 58Region 7 Semifinals

Winterset 63 Perry 58Indianola 47 Creston 29

Region 8 SemifinalsHarlan 67 ADM 30Lewis Central 69 Glenwood 41

Friday’s scoresGirls basketball

Class 1ARegion 2 Semifinals

Exira/EHK 58 Glidden-Ralston 26

George-Little Rock 58 Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn 48

Region 7 Semifinals

Bedford 49 Mount Ayr 44Martensdale-St. Mary’s 45

Grand View Christian 37Region 8 Semifinals

Fremont-Mills 52 Essex 36Adair-Casey 67 Ankeny

Christian 31Class 2A

Region 8 SemifinalsIKM-Manning 62 Treynor 56Central Decatur 59 Interstate

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Contributed photo by TERRY FREEMANCreston senior Natalie Mostek (45) draws a foul on Indianola’s Grace Berg (43) during a 47-29 loss to the Indians Saturday in a Class 4A Region 7 semifinal. Both Mostek and Berg scored 11 points.

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were 1-1 in the championship round, with No. 1-ranked Brady Jennings of Osage topping Spencer Wray at 138 pounds, 7-3.

Creston/O-M and Union would be co-champs if Wash-ington’s Brad Skubal — a 4-3 semifinal winner over Pan-ther junior Seth Maitlen — could pull off the upset of the top-ranked Holloway.

The Mediapolis senior answered the challenge by winning 9-2, leaving Media-polis with a Class 2A-best 89 points.

“We were in a position to win it,” said Panther coach Darrell Frain, who could only speculate the scoring that Pettit, a 170-pound qual-ifier, could have provided if healthy. “Nobody outside our wrestling room would have picked us to be in this posi-tion. Our depth gave us kids that all had a chance to get a win or two and every single one helped us.”

Nine Panthers qualified for the state field, which topped Class 2A. Eight wrestled, and five ended up as placewin-ners.

Maitlen and 132-pound ju-nior Wyatt T h o m p -son placed fourth, and sophomore 220-pound-er Kadon H u l e t t p l a c e d s i x t h . Two oth-er Panthers wrestled Friday and were eliminated in the second-round consolations. Wyatt Rhoads of Gilbert, son of Iowa State football coach Paul Rhoads, defeated 145-pound junior Joey Hun-tington, 6-4.

Heavyweight Jake

Gutschenritter, who was edged 2-1 by No. 1-ranked Logan Linderbaum, dropped a 5-2 decision to Brock Cav-iness of Knoxville. Cavi-ness was coached by former Nodaway Valley coach Doug Hatch and his son, former Wolverine state placewinner Tyler Hatch.

“We had guys winning close matches and that’s what did it for us,” Frain said. “In that last round Saturday morning, I think maybe we were running out of gas a little bit. (The Panthers dropped four straight matches after starting off 2-0.) I don’t think anybody we wrestled in that last round had to wrestle on Wednesday, and I don’t care what anybody says, there is a big difference there. Our goal all along was to bring home trophies, and that’s what we did.”

Thompson, unranked, was one of the key contributors in the charge to second place. He won 6-3 in overtime in the consolation second round, and got a third-period escape to edge No. 6 Chase Lienhard of Crestwood 1-0 in the con-solation semifinals to reach the third-place match.

“I realized I can wres-tle with the best of them,” Thompson said after receiv-ing his medal Saturday night. “Now I just have to think about what I need to do to get better.”

Thompson said the team had Pettit in their thoughts — each qualifier had a shirt with an inscription “Doing it for Pettit.” In fact, he received a text message after he stood on the awards stand in a tele-vised presentation.

“We always had him in the back of our minds,” Thomp-son said. “He just texted me and said I did a good job, and that he was proud of me. It’s exciting for us to finish so high

as a team.”Creston has one team

championship in history (2007) and has now finished second three times. The oth-ers were 1975 and 2008. There have been several third-place finishes.

With the two awards this year, Creston/O-M has earned 16 state trophies since 2002.

An unheralded team with-out one of its key members — Pettit is known as a pin-ner capable of scoring bonus points — joins the elite teams in program history.

“Nobody expected us to do this,” Hulett said. “It shows our character and drive to do something that’s not expected from us. It was a rough week, thinking of Tayler, because he’s your friend and brother who has done all of the morn-ing runs and workouts with us. We were doing it for him.”

Maitlen stopped and re-flected on everything that happened over a four-day pe-riod at Wells Fargo Arena.

“It’s been a crazy week,” he said. “Everything seems to be ending well for us.”

Class 2ATeam scoring — 1. Mediapolis

89; 2. (tie) Creston/Orient-Macksburg and Union (LaPorte City) 86; 4. Crestwood 83.5; 5. Clear Lake 65; 6. North Fayette Valley 58; 7. Osage 53.5; 8. Hampton-Dumont 47; 9. (tie) Ballard and Independence 44; 11. Davenport Assumption 43; 12. Bedford/Lenox 37.5. Also, 26. (tie) Central Decatur and Clarinda 24.; 37. (tie) Red Oak 14; 62. (tie) Atlantic 3; 73. (tie) Winterset 1.

Friday’s matchesQuarterfinals

138 — Spencer Wray (Creston/O-M) pinned Pierce Gelhaus (Forest City), 5:59.

145 — Tyler Thomas (Crestwood) pinned Joey Huntington (Creston/O-M), 1:01.

160 — Chase Shiltz (Creston/O-M) dec. Trevor McLaughlin (Union), 5-2.

195 — Seth Maitlen (Creston/O-M) major dec. Nick Jacobs (Charles City), 12-3.

220 — Kadon Hulett (Creston/O-M) dec. Alex Paulson (Forest City), 4-2.

285 — Logan Linderbaum

(Solon) dec. Jake Gutschenritter (Creston/O-M), 2-1.

Second-round consolation132 — Wyatt Thompson

(Creston/O-M) dec. Austin Leopard (Louisa-Muscatine), 6-3 UT-2.

145 — Wyatt Rhoads (Creston/O-M) dec. Joey Huntington (Creston/O-M), 6-4.

285 — Brock Caviness (Knoxville) dec. Jake Gutschenritter (Creston/O-M), 5-2.

Semifinals138 — Spencer Wray (Creston/

O-M) dec. Cole Fritz (Solon), 8-3.160 — Chase Shiltz

(Creston/O-M) dec. Jake Juhl (Independence), 3-1.

195 — Brad Skubal (Washington) dec. Seth Maitlen (Creston/O-M), 4-3.

220 — Carter Isley (Creston/O-M) dec. Kadon Hulett (Creston/O-M), 2-0.

Third-round consolation132 — Wyatt Thompson

(Creston/O-M) major dec. Connor Ascherl (MOC-Floyd Valley), 9-1.

Saturday’s matchesConsolation semifinals

132 — Wyatt Thompson (Creston/O-M) dec. Chase Lienhard (Crestwood), 1-0.

195 — Seth Maitlen (Creston/O-M) dec. Darin Greenfield (Sheldon/South O’Brien), 5-3.

220 — Tyler Johansen (North Fayette Valley) pinned Kadon Hulett (Creston/O-M), 1:39.

Third place132 — Nathan Macki (Ballard)

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195 — Izaak Shedenhelm (Denver-Tripoli) dec. Seth Maitlen

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220 — Travis Vander Streek (Central Lyon/George-Little Rock) dec. Kadon Hulett (Creston/O-M), 10-7.

Championship

138 — Brady Jennings (Osage) dec. Spencer Wray (Creston/O-M), 7-3.

160 — Chase Shiltz (Creston/O-M) major dec. Zach Johnston (ADM), 11-3.

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room and what the kid does and he works hard, team leader,” Christensen said. “He came up here and he controlled the tournament. He wrestled his style. I’m just proud to death of him. He’s that type of kid. You want kids like that that work hard in the room all the time.”Heavyweightshowdown

The final weight class of the night pitted two first-team all-state football linemen against each other in No. 1 Ricker against No. 2 Paulsen.

Ricker looked to become Mount Ayr’s second individ-ual state champion, joining Curt Braby in 1977 on that list.

The two heavyweights went through the first period scoreless. Paulsen scored first, getting an escape 10 seconds into the second period after choosing the down position.

Ricker was hit with a stall-ing warning with 1:05 to go in the second, and then with :26 remaining in the period, was taken down for the first time all season.

The two grapplers were near the edge of the mat when Paulsen lunged at Rick-er’s legs. Ricker went out of bounds, as Paulsen clung onto his foot.

The official awarded Paulsen two points, putting him up 3-0.

“If he didn’t get the take-down, we would have prob-ably gone to overtime 1-1,” Ricker said. “Going back, I probably shouldn’t have tried running out of there. I should have sat back instead of let-ting him get the two. It really changed the match, because that’s what allowed him to be in position to win.”

Ricker got an escape just four seconds into the third

period, but was never able to get in position to take Paulsen down. The Woodbury Cen-tral senior scored another takedown with :02 left in the match to post a 5-1 victory.

“It really seemed like two very similar-styled guys and he could block us enough to knock us out of our rhythm,” Mount Ayr co-coach John Ford said. “We had one take-down in the second period where we quit wrestling when we went out of bounds, and I think that was the difference. I think it got to his head a little bit.”

Ricker said Paulsen’s length made things difficult for the Raider to get in good position during the match.

“He stayed in really good position,” Ricker said. “And he has length on me. I couldn’t get in on him where I needed to be. On those taller guys, you really want to be up underneath them where they can’t reach you, and I didn’t do a good job of getting un-derneath him.”

Paulsen, along with his twin brother Landan, will go on to play football at the University of Iowa next year. Ricker is still undecided what he will do next year. Both wrestling and football are possibilities.

“Pretty sad right now,” Ricker said. “That was the last (high school) match I’m ever going to wrestle. Just feel like I didn’t do as good as I could. I would like to redo that match, get a little better. Just do what I do better. I re-ally let him get me out of po-sition. He really stopped what I’m good at doing. I just feel disappointed in myself.”

Ricker picked up his 175th career victory Friday night during the quarterfinal round. He finishes his career as Mount Ayr’s all-time career wins leader with 176, and also set the school’s all-time re-cord with 102 pins.

“Still has nothing to hang his head about,” Ford said. “Second and third place (last year), 176 career wins. Broke our fall record. I think he had 102 career falls. Nothing to hang his head about. He’s had a great career.”

“There’s a lot of young men that would trade places with him in an instant,” co-coach Kurt Wallace said. “He’s worked hard for it. He’s de-served to get where he’s at, it just didn’t fall right for him. It’s not from lack of effort, not from lack of working hard. It’s just one of those things that happened. You pick yourself back up and you go on from there, because that’s all you can do. It was a great season. He should hold his head high, feel proud about what he’s ac-complished.”

State Wrestling TournamentClass 2A

FridayQuarterfinals

132 — Dusten Reed (Bedford/Lenox) tech fall Stuart Schafer (Davenport Assumption), 17-0 (2:16).

Semifinals132 — Dusten Reed (Bedford/

Lenox) dec. Carter Barkema (Hampton-Dumont), 7-4.

SaturdayFinals

132 — Bradley Irwin (Centerville) dec. Dusten Reed (Bedford/Lenox), 4-1.

Class 1AFriday

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Semifinals285 — Joe Ricker (Mount

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Finals285 — Levi Paulsen

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RICKER:

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERWoodbury Central senior Levi Paulsen (left) uses his length to keep Mount Ayr’s Joe Ricker from getting good positioning during their 285-pound championship match Saturday at the State Wrestling Tournament. Ricker suffered his first loss of the sea-son, 5-1.

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Wray had an impres-sive charge to the finals, as a key contributor to the team’s runner-up finish. In the quarterfinals Friday he pinned 10th-ranked Pierce Gelhaus of Forest City in the final second of the match.

In the semifinals he rolled to an 8-3 victory over Solon’s Cole Fritz. Realizing a boyhood dream of wrestling on Sat-

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“After the match, I kind of looked down at the mat to make sure I wasn’t dreaming,” he said. “Then I looked up and saw the crowd cheering, and I was like, hell yeah, I just did that!”

He was unable to gen-erate his usual scrambling offense against the taller Jennings in the finals, who rode out much of the first

and third periods to fin-ish a 54-2 season. Wray, becoming eligible in the second semester, finished 30-3.

“It’s not what he want-ed, but his exact words to me as he walked off the mat was that the kid out wrestled him,” Frain said. “He was better. But Spen-cer had an unbelievable year. He wrestled as hard as he could all the time.”

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nings. I was working, using every ounce of energy I had. My legs were a little dead going into the second period. I was hoping to win and give us four more points and bring home the (gold) trophy.”

Shiltz was also tested on his way to the title. He won two tough rematches from the state dual tournament — 5-2 over fifth-ranked Trevor McLaughlin of Union and 3-1 over No. 4 Jake Juhl of Indepen-dence. Shiltz had scored an escape to edge Juhl 1-0 in the dual tournament.

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“I knew he was going to be tough. He’s strong, and I had to get in on quick shots,” Shiltz said. “It’s an awesome feeling, that the hard work paid off. It’s been a dream of mine since I was a little kid.”

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“Being here (finals) last year helped me a lot this year,” Shiltz said. “Last year in my free time I was getting a little nerved up. This year I knew what I had to do.”

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“He had a good weekend,” Nodaway Valley head coach Jeff Ohnemus said. “We were pretty happy he made it. Then we weren’t real sure what was going to happen once we got up here. So he had a good tournament, wrestled hard.”

Ohnemus said his junior wrestler was determined to win Friday’s matches to guar-antee a placing.

“Yesterday was just pure determination,” he said. “He wanted to win yesterday real-

ly bad, just was going out and getting after it, getting to his offense. It worked for him.”

Freese outlasted district champion Hadley Ogg of Griswold, who had beaten Freese four times during the year. Ogg did not place, af-ter being eliminated by Fort Dodge St. Edmond’s Ryan Szalat with a 7-5 decision.

Freese then pinned Szalat in the consolation quarterfi-nals in 3:51.

“I feel pretty good. I like proving people wrong,” Fre-ese said. “I always surprise people.”

Freese ends the year with a record of 38-11.

FREESE:

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERNodaway Valley junior Ben Freese earns back points against Fort Dodge St. Edmond’s Ryan Szalat during a 120-pound consolation quarterfinal. Freese won by fall and went on to place sixth.

Public noticeREGULAR MEETING OF THE

CRESTON CITY COUNCILFEBRUARY 17, 2015

The Creston City Council met in reg-ular session at 6:00 o'clock p.m. on theabove date in the Council Chambers ofthe City Hall Complex with MayorWoods presiding.

Roll call being taken with the follow-ing Council members present: Loudon,Lybarger, Koets, Wilson, Madison andWhite. Levine was absent.

Motion was made and seconded toapprove the agenda. All voted aye. Mo-tion carried. Levine was absent.

Motion was made and seconded toapprove the consent agenda, which in-cluded approval of minutes of February3, 2015, regular meeting; claims of$192,951.00; and liquor license renew-al for Walmart. All voted aye. Motioncarried. Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to Adopt the Proposed Budget forFY 2016 and set a Public Hearing onMarch 3, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. for theAdoption of the Final Budget for FY2016. All voted aye. Resolution passed.Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to set a Public Hearing on April 7,2015, at 6:00 p.m. for a Tobacco Hear-ing Notice to Hy-Vee Food Store. Allvoted aye. Resolution passed. Levinewas absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to set a Public Hearing on March 3,2015, at 6:00 p.m. for application of aUSDA Grant for a Fire Grass Truck.All voted aye. Resolution passed.Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to approve an Early Retirement Pro-gram. All voted aye. Resolution passed.Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to approve a contract with A.M.E.,Inc., on behalf of artist Double Visionfor Party in the Park on June 20, 2015,and payment of $1,500.00 deposit,based on recommendation of the Park& Recreation Board. All voted aye.Resolution passed. Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to approve a contract with Mr. GlenCarroll on behalf of The Sticky FingersBand for Party in the Park on June 20,2015, and payment of $1,800.00 de-posit, based on recommendation of thePark & Recreation Board. All votedaye. Resolution passed. Levine was ab-sent.

City Administrator Mike Taylor dis-cussed a Comprehensive Plan Proposalfrom SICOG with Council. He ex-plained that he and Tim Ostroski hadbeen discussing this for a year and itwould be nice to have the City's updat-ed, but the timing is not good with thebudgetary cuts. There is nothing bud-geted for this in FY 2015 or FY 2016;however, they may want to look at thistoward the end of this fiscal year to seeif there will be any money available.

Motion was made and seconded todefinitely postpone discussing theComprehensive Plan Proposal fromSICOG until the June 16, 2015 CouncilMeeting. All voted aye. Motion carried.Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to grant a Conditional Use Permit toJack Willis to place a manufactureddwelling at 627 New York Avenue. Ly-barger, Koets, Wilson, White andLoudon voted aye. Madison voted nay.Resolution passed. Levine was absent.

Motion was made and seconded toadjourn the meeting. All voted aye.Levine was absent. Council adjournedat 6:24 p.m.

Warren Woods, Mayor Attest: Lisa Williamson, City Clerk

These are a condensed version of theproceedings of the regular meeting ofthe Creston City Council. Copies ofthe complete version may be obtainedat the Clerk's office during normal of-fice hours.

FUND REPORT FOR CLAIM PERIOD ENDING

FEBRUARY 17, 2015CLAIMS BY VENDOR:ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES INCSUPPLIES................................. 898.61 AGRILAND FS INCSUPPLIES.............................. 6,154.83 AGRIVISIONSERVICES............................. 1,786.57 AKIN BUILDING CENTERSUPPLIES................................... 41.99 ALLIANT ENERGYSERVICES........................... 25,805.40 ARAMARK UNIFORMSERVICES.................................. 28.50 AVONDALE VETERINARY HOSPITSERVICES................................ 532.62 BANKERS LEASING COSERVICES................................ 243.67 CARROLL, GLENSERVICES............................. 1,800.00 CENTRAL SERVICE & SUPPLYSUPPLIES............................ 26,239.50 CHARLIE BROWN AUTOSUPPLIES................................... 65.00 CHAT MOBILITYSERVICES.................................. 22.66 CRESTON CITY WATER WORKSSERVICES.................................. 24.30 CRESTON PUBLISHING COSERVICES................................ 544.69 CRESTON VET CLINIC PCSERVICES................................ 264.34 D J GONGOL & ASSOC INCSUPPLIES................................. 413.12 ECHO GROUP INCSUPPLIES................................... 19.48 F&M BODY SHOP INCSERVICES................................ 337.50 FARM & HOME SUPPLY INCSUPPLIES................................. 126.02 FRANK MOYER, AME INC.SERVICES............................. 1,500.00 GRAY, SHERRY S.SERVICES............................. 1,500.00 GRIMES ASPHALT & PAVING COSUPPLIES.............................. 1,080.40 HEIMAN FIRE EQUIPMENT INCSUPPLIES................................. 324.55 HYGIENIC LABORATORY-ARSERVICES................................ 648.50 INDACOM ELECTRICAL SERVICESERVICES................................ 375.00 INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIES INCSERVICES................................ 500.00 INT'L CODE COUNCILSERVICES................................ 125.00 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONSERVICES................................ 150.00 IOWA DEPT OF AGRICULTURESERVICES.................................. 75.00 IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMYSERVICES................................ 650.00 IOWA LEAGUE OF CITIESSERVICES.................................. 60.00 JENSEN, TONYREIMBURSEMENT................. 327.54 K & J HARDWARE INCSUPPLIES................................. 101.96 *KABELFLEX.......................................... 80.00 LYNCH DALLAS, PCSERVICES................................ 691.68 MARGARET MANDY GAULT HOUKSERVICES............................. 2,454.00 MC CANN, REBECCAREIMBURSEMENT................... 20.00 MOCICSERVICES................................ 150.00 NARDY, BECKY OR DENNISREIMBURSEMENT................. 500.00 O'HALLORAN INTERNATIONAL SUPPLIES................................. 270.63 OFFICE DEPOTSUPPLIES................................. 177.66 PAYROLL - GROSS INCLUDING BENEFITS2/13/15............................... 102,795.91 PETTY CASH FINANCE...........7.14 PETTY CASH POLICE...............6.49 PETTY CASH SANITATION...15.97 PINE VALLEY GOLFSERVICES................................ 300.00 RELIANT FIRE APPARATUSSUPPLIES................................... 41.97 SECRETARY OF STATESERVICES.................................. 30.00 SERVICE TECHS INCSERVICES.................................. 40.00 SETTLEMENTONE SCREENINGSERVICES.................................. 27.00 SOUTHERN HILLS VET SVC INCSERVICES................................ 214.00 SUPREME CLEANERSSERVICES.................................. 29.75 SWCCSERVICES.................................. 63.00 SWICAA TREASURERSERVICES.................................. 20.00 TREAT AMERICA FOOD SERVICESERVICES.................................. 30.32 *TRISTAR BENEFIT ADMINISTRATORSSERVICES........................... 63,915.18 UNION CO AUDITORSERVICES............................. 5,696.11 UNPLUGGED WIRELESS LLCSUPPLIES................................. 204.50 UPSSUPPLIES................................... 61.58 WASTE MANAGEMENTSERVICES........................... 38,557.71 WEST AVIATION INCPER FBO CONTRACT......... 3,445.76 ZEE MEDICAL INCSUPPLIES................................... 29.80 ZIMMER & FRANCESCON INCSUPPLIES.............................. 3,104.00 TOTAL............................$295,746.91 *MANUAL CHECKSGENERAL FUND..............137,052.47ROAD USE TAX..................26,741.41PAYROLL TAX BENEFIT..............................67,037.84FIRE/POLICE RETIREMENT......................8,726.67POLICE FORFEITURE..........705.98RESTRICTED GIFTS-MCKNLY P...............................................3,600.00RESTRICTED GIFTS-LIBRARY...............................2,454.00SEWER OPERATING FUND....................................49,086.02ANIMAL SHELTER ...............342.52TOTAL.............................$295,746.91

REGULAR MEETING OF THECRESTON CITY COUNCIL

FEBRUARY 17, 2015The Creston City Council met in reg-

ular session at 6:00 o'clock p.m. on theabove date in the Council Chambers ofthe City Hall Complex with MayorWoods presiding.

Roll call being taken with the follow-ing Council members present: Loudon,Lybarger, Koets, Wilson, Madison andWhite. Levine was absent.

Motion was made and seconded toapprove the agenda. All voted aye. Mo-tion carried. Levine was absent.

Motion was made and seconded toapprove the consent agenda, which in-cluded approval of minutes of February3, 2015, regular meeting; claims of$192,951.00; and liquor license renew-al for Walmart. All voted aye. Motioncarried. Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to Adopt the Proposed Budget forFY 2016 and set a Public Hearing onMarch 3, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. for theAdoption of the Final Budget for FY2016. All voted aye. Resolution passed.Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to set a Public Hearing on April 7,2015, at 6:00 p.m. for a Tobacco Hear-ing Notice to Hy-Vee Food Store. Allvoted aye. Resolution passed. Levinewas absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to set a Public Hearing on March 3,2015, at 6:00 p.m. for application of aUSDA Grant for a Fire Grass Truck.All voted aye. Resolution passed.Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to approve an Early Retirement Pro-gram. All voted aye. Resolution passed.Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to approve a contract with A.M.E.,Inc., on behalf of artist Double Visionfor Party in the Park on June 20, 2015,and payment of $1,500.00 deposit,based on recommendation of the Park& Recreation Board. All voted aye.Resolution passed. Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to approve a contract with Mr. GlenCarroll on behalf of The Sticky FingersBand for Party in the Park on June 20,2015, and payment of $1,800.00 de-posit, based on recommendation of thePark & Recreation Board. All votedaye. Resolution passed. Levine was ab-sent.

City Administrator Mike Taylor dis-cussed a Comprehensive Plan Proposalfrom SICOG with Council. He ex-plained that he and Tim Ostroski hadbeen discussing this for a year and itwould be nice to have the City's updat-ed, but the timing is not good with thebudgetary cuts. There is nothing bud-geted for this in FY 2015 or FY 2016;however, they may want to look at thistoward the end of this fiscal year to seeif there will be any money available.

Motion was made and seconded todefinitely postpone discussing theComprehensive Plan Proposal fromSICOG until the June 16, 2015 CouncilMeeting. All voted aye. Motion carried.Levine was absent.

A resolution was offered and second-ed to grant a Conditional Use Permit toJack Willis to place a manufactureddwelling at 627 New York Avenue. Ly-barger, Koets, Wilson, White andLoudon voted aye. Madison voted nay.Resolution passed. Levine was absent.

Motion was made and seconded toadjourn the meeting. All voted aye.Levine was absent. Council adjournedat 6:24 p.m.

Warren Woods, Mayor Attest: Lisa Williamson, City Clerk

These are a condensed version of theproceedings of the regular meeting ofthe Creston City Council. Copies ofthe complete version may be obtainedat the Clerk's office during normal of-fice hours.

FUND REPORT FOR CLAIM PERIOD ENDING

FEBRUARY 17, 2015CLAIMS BY VENDOR:ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES INCSUPPLIES................................. 898.61 AGRILAND FS INCSUPPLIES.............................. 6,154.83 AGRIVISIONSERVICES............................. 1,786.57 AKIN BUILDING CENTERSUPPLIES................................... 41.99 ALLIANT ENERGYSERVICES........................... 25,805.40 ARAMARK UNIFORMSERVICES.................................. 28.50 AVONDALE VETERINARY HOSPITSERVICES................................ 532.62 BANKERS LEASING COSERVICES................................ 243.67 CARROLL, GLENSERVICES............................. 1,800.00 CENTRAL SERVICE & SUPPLYSUPPLIES............................ 26,239.50 CHARLIE BROWN AUTOSUPPLIES................................... 65.00 CHAT MOBILITYSERVICES.................................. 22.66 CRESTON CITY WATER WORKSSERVICES.................................. 24.30 CRESTON PUBLISHING COSERVICES................................ 544.69 CRESTON VET CLINIC PCSERVICES................................ 264.34 D J GONGOL & ASSOC INCSUPPLIES................................. 413.12 ECHO GROUP INCSUPPLIES................................... 19.48 F&M BODY SHOP INCSERVICES................................ 337.50 FARM & HOME SUPPLY INCSUPPLIES................................. 126.02 FRANK MOYER, AME INC.SERVICES............................. 1,500.00 GRAY, SHERRY S.SERVICES............................. 1,500.00 GRIMES ASPHALT & PAVING COSUPPLIES.............................. 1,080.40 HEIMAN FIRE EQUIPMENT INCSUPPLIES................................. 324.55 HYGIENIC LABORATORY-ARSERVICES................................ 648.50 INDACOM ELECTRICAL SERVICESERVICES................................ 375.00 INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIES INCSERVICES................................ 500.00 INT'L CODE COUNCILSERVICES................................ 125.00 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONSERVICES................................ 150.00 IOWA DEPT OF AGRICULTURESERVICES.................................. 75.00 IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMYSERVICES................................ 650.00 IOWA LEAGUE OF CITIESSERVICES.................................. 60.00 JENSEN, TONYREIMBURSEMENT................. 327.54 K & J HARDWARE INCSUPPLIES................................. 101.96 *KABELFLEX.......................................... 80.00 LYNCH DALLAS, PCSERVICES................................ 691.68 MARGARET MANDY GAULT HOUKSERVICES............................. 2,454.00 MC CANN, REBECCAREIMBURSEMENT................... 20.00 MOCICSERVICES................................ 150.00 NARDY, BECKY OR DENNISREIMBURSEMENT................. 500.00 O'HALLORAN INTERNATIONAL SUPPLIES................................. 270.63 OFFICE DEPOTSUPPLIES................................. 177.66 PAYROLL - GROSS INCLUDING BENEFITS2/13/15............................... 102,795.91 PETTY CASH FINANCE...........7.14 PETTY CASH POLICE...............6.49 PETTY CASH SANITATION...15.97 PINE VALLEY GOLFSERVICES................................ 300.00 RELIANT FIRE APPARATUSSUPPLIES................................... 41.97 SECRETARY OF STATESERVICES.................................. 30.00 SERVICE TECHS INCSERVICES.................................. 40.00 SETTLEMENTONE SCREENINGSERVICES.................................. 27.00 SOUTHERN HILLS VET SVC INCSERVICES................................ 214.00 SUPREME CLEANERSSERVICES.................................. 29.75 SWCCSERVICES.................................. 63.00 SWICAA TREASURERSERVICES.................................. 20.00 TREAT AMERICA FOOD SERVICESERVICES.................................. 30.32 *TRISTAR BENEFIT ADMINISTRATORSSERVICES........................... 63,915.18 UNION CO AUDITORSERVICES............................. 5,696.11 UNPLUGGED WIRELESS LLCSUPPLIES................................. 204.50 UPSSUPPLIES................................... 61.58 WASTE MANAGEMENTSERVICES........................... 38,557.71 WEST AVIATION INCPER FBO CONTRACT......... 3,445.76 ZEE MEDICAL INCSUPPLIES................................... 29.80 ZIMMER & FRANCESCON INCSUPPLIES.............................. 3,104.00 TOTAL............................$295,746.91 *MANUAL CHECKSGENERAL FUND..............137,052.47ROAD USE TAX..................26,741.41PAYROLL TAX BENEFIT..............................67,037.84FIRE/POLICE RETIREMENT......................8,726.67POLICE FORFEITURE..........705.98RESTRICTED GIFTS-MCKNLY P...............................................3,600.00RESTRICTED GIFTS-LIBRARY...............................2,454.00SEWER OPERATING FUND....................................49,086.02ANIMAL SHELTER ...............342.52TOTAL.............................$295,746.91

Prescott Community School DistrictBoard of Directors February 18, 2015

Regular Board MeetingThe Board of Directors of the

Prescott Community School Districtmet on Wednesday, February 18, 2015in the Board Room at 6:05 PM. Presi-dent Cooper presided and the followinganswered roll call: Birt, Cline, Wain-wright, and Gee.

Administrators present were: Busi-ness Manager Billie Jo Greene.

Gee moved and Cline seconded ap-proval of the agenda. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 5-0

Visitor s were welcomed there wereno correspondence received.

Wainwright moved and Birt second-ed that the minutes of the January 21,2014 regular meeting and Financial Re-port and bills are approved as present-ed. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 5-0

Gee moved and Cline seconded thatthe meeting adjourn. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 5-0

Next Regular Board Meeting will be,Wednesday March 11th; WednesdayApril 8th in the Board Room.

Meeting adjourned at 6:40 PMChecking GENERAL FUNDACCESS SYSTEMSOVERAGE.................................846.88ADAMS COUNTY FREE PRESSPUBLIC NOTICE.......................191.10CHRISTENSEN SANITATIONSANITATION..............................85.00CRESTON COMM SCHOOLSCONCURRENT ENROLLMENT..........................469.38CRESTON PUBLISHING CONOTICE........................................47.72GRAY, MIKESNOW REMOVAL.................1,200.00GREEN HILLS AEANEWSLETTER............................62.83GREEN VALLEY PEST & LAWN CAREPEST CONTROL.........................58.00HEARTLAND TIRE & AUTOTIRE REPAIR..............................29.90IOWA ASSN OF SCHOOL BOARDSIDATP DUES.............................205.00LENOX COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTSPED TUITION.....................14,767.38NAPA-CRESTONPARTS........................................235.20OFFICE DEPOTSUPPLIES....................................49.17SIRWAWATER........................................93.50VISA/ISSBSUPPLIES/POSTAGE.............1,007.58Fund Total:...........................19,348.64Checking PPEL FUNDDE LAGE LANDENCOPIER LEASE.........................808.63Fund Total:................................808.63Checking NUTRITIONANDERSON ERICKSON DAIRYMILK..........................................605.90KECK INC.FOOD..........................................262.37Fund Total:...............................868.27

NOTICE OF MEETING OF THEBOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THESOUTHERN IOWA RURAL WA-TER ASSOCIATION, STATE OFIOWA, ON THE MATTER OF THEPROPOSED AUTHORIZATION OFA LOAN AGREEMENT AND THEISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED$10,000,000 WATER REVENUEREFUNDING CAPITAL LOANNOTES, AND THE PUBLIC HEAR-ING ON THE AUTHORIZATIONAND ISSUANCE THEREOF

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby giventhat the Board of Directors of theSouthern Iowa Rural Water Associa-tion, State of Iowa, will hold a publichearing on the 27th day of February,2015, at 8:00 o'clock A.M., in the 1391- 190th Street, Creston, Iowa, at whichmeeting the Board proposes to take ad-ditional action for the authorization of aLoan Agreement and the issuance ofnot to exceed $10,000,000 Water Rev-enue Refunding Capital Loan Notes, inorder to provide funds to pay the costsof refunding outstanding water obliga-tions of the District, including$735,000 Water Revenue Capital LoanNote, Series 1999 (FHA TaylorIV/Clarke Rural Water No. 1 -- USDA91-36); $1,050,000 Water RevenueCapital Loan Note, Series 2002 (S.W.Madison- Overrun -- USDA 91-60);$1,834,000 Water Revenue CapitalLoan Note, Series 2002B (OsceolaBuy-In -- USDA 91-56; USDA 91-54;USDA91-59); $1,182,500 Water Rev-enue Capital Loan Note, Series 2002C(Corning Treatment Plant Buy-In --USDA 91-51); $2,088,000 Water Rev-enue Capital Loan Note, Series 2005(SE Cass -- USDA 91-65); and$4,400,000 Water Revenue CapitalLoan Note, Series 2007 (NW AdairCounty -- USDA 91-01; USDA 91-06).The Notes will be payable from and se-cured by the Net Revenues of the WaterUtility System of the Southern IowaRural Water Association.

At the above meeting the Board shallreceive oral or written objections fromany resident or property owner of theDistrict, to the above action. After allobjections have been received and con-sidered, the Board will at this meetingor at any adjournment thereof, take ad-ditional action for the authorization of aLoan Agreement and the issuance ofNotes or will abandon the proposal toissue the Notes.

This Notice is given by order of theBoard of Directors of the SouthernIowa Rural Water Association, State ofIowa, as provided by Sections 357A.11,384.24A and 384.83 of the Code ofIowa, as amended.

Ethel CampbellSecretary of the Board of Directors

Southern Iowa Rural Water Association

Regular SessionFebruary 09, 2015

The Union County Board of Supervi-sors met in Regular Session on Monday,February 09, 2015. The meeting wascalled to order at 9:00 AM with the fol-lowing members present: Lois Monday,Ron Riley, and Dennis Brown.

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

MINUTES: Motion by Brown and sec-onded by Riley to approve the minutesfrom February 02, 2015 and February 05,2015. All voting aye, motion carried.

OPEN FORUM: No one spoke in openforum.

VETERAN AFFAIRS: CommissionResignation: Motion by Riley and sec-onded by Brown to accept, with regret,Robert E. Jungst's resignation from theVeteran Affairs Board as of March 4th.All voting aye, motion carried. MonthlyReport: Motion by Brown and secondedby Riley to accept the monthly VeteranAffairs report. All voting aye, motion car-ried.

ENGINEER: Steve Akes, UnionCounty Engineer, presented and discussedthe weekly maintenance activity report,the final payment for project FM-C088(45)-55-88 on REA Road for the east boxculvert, and motor grader replacement op-tions. Utility Permit Application: Mo-tion by Riley and seconded by Brown toapprove a utility permit application byWindstream Iowa Communications, Inc.to replace old 3 pair with new 12 pair cop-per telephone cable (1100 feet of cable)from the intersection of 240th Street andClover Avenue to 2468 Clover Ave.

CONSERVATION REAP FUNDRESOLUTION: Motion by Brown andseconded by Riley to approve Conserva-tion REAP Fund Resolution #22 FY2014-2015. Now on this 9th day of Febru-ary, 2015, the matter of an operating trans-fer comes before the Union County Boardof Supervisors. WHEREAS it is desired totransfer monies from the ConservationREAP Fund (0023) to the ConservationCapital Project Fund (1510), andWHEREAS said operating transfer is inaccordance with Section 331.432 of theCode of Iowa. BE AND IT IS HEREBYRESOLVED that the sum of $2162.30 isordered to be transferred from the Conser-vation REAP Fund (0023) to the Conser-vation Capital Project Fund(1510), effec-tive this 9th day of February, 2015. TheAuditor is directed to correct the books ac-cordingly, and to notify the Treasurer ofthis operating transfer accompanying thenotification with a copy of this resolutionand the record of its adoption. Roll callvote; Riley aye, Brown aye, and Mondayaye, motion carried.

CLERK'S REPORT: Motion by Rileyand seconded by Brown to accept the Jan-uary Clerk's Report. All voting aye, mo-tion carried.

CLAIMS: Motion by Riley and sec-onded by Brown to pay claims 123053-123178. All voting aye, motion carried.0001 GENERAL BASIC FUNDABEL..................................................92.00 ACS GOVERNMENT.................1,100.00 AFTON STAR ENTERPRISE.......530.36 AGRIVISION....................................31.21 AKIN BUILDING CENTER..........262.09 ALLIANT ENERGY....................3,385.30 BM SALES......................................150.50 BROWN.............................................92.58 BRUS................................................350.00 BUILT NETWORKS...................1,019.85 CASEY'S GENERAL STORE.......100.00 CENTURY LINK..............................71.10 COURTNEY......................................92.00 CRESTON FARM & HOME SUPPLY ..........................................565.81 CRESTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES.......................................127.34 CRESTON PARK APARTMENTS...............................157.00 CRESTON PUBLISHING CO....1,103.65 CRITTENDEN...................................20.00 CULLIGAN.......................................27.25 CULLIGAN.......................................11.50 ECHO GROUP, INC.........................23.03 FAREWAY STORES.....................419.43 FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP...2,362.39 GALLS-QUARTERMASTER.........34.93 GREEN VALLEY PEST CONTROL.........................................47.00 HAWKS.............................................13.33 HAWKS...............................................9.53 HEARTLAND TIRE & AUTO......106.97 IOWA COUNTY RECORDERS ASSOC.............................................220.00 IOWA DIVISION OF LABOR SERVICE...........................................80.00 IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY......................................270.00 IOWA STATE SAVINGS BANK....47.71 JIM'S TRUCK REP & SANITATION.................................205.00 KENYON...........................................28.67 M & M MOTORS...........................406.20 MAIL SERVICES LLC..................399.70 MASTERCARD/ISSB......................97.54 MAYHEW.......................................156.70 MID-STATES ORGANIZED CRIME.............................................100.00 MILLER...........................................150.00 MPH INDUSTRIES INC................121.77 NEW LIFE FAMILY MEDICINE PC.....................................................205.00 NISSLY..............................................81.00 OFFICE MACHINES COMPANY INC...................................................112.79 O'REILLY AUTO PARTS..............129.99 POKORNY BP & AUTOMOTIVE SERVIC............................................284.99 POLK COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER.....................................161.30 RESERVE ACCOUNT................2,500.00 SERVICE TECHS INC...................101.94 SHRED-IT USA - DES MOINES....59.92 SIDDENS, TERI................................25.00 SOUTHERN IA COUNCIL OF GOVER.....................................535,897.00 SOUTHERN IA RURAL WATER ASSC................................................965.69 STHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE..........................................42.00 STALKER CHEVROLET................36.70 SUPREME CLEANERS...................85.00 THATCHER......................................92.00 TITUS.................................................92.00 UNION COUNTY ENGINEER.....446.88 US AUTO FORCE..........................686.78 US CELLULAR..............................147.83 WASTE MGMT OF CRESTON......81.36 WILBUR-ELLIS CO.......................193.00 WINDSTREAM...........................1,850.95 0001 GENERAL BASIC FUND TOTAL: ..................................558,868.56 0002 GENERAL SUPPLEMENTALACCESS SYSTEMS LEASING....281.93 CENTRAL IOWA DETENTION CTR..................................................632.57 CITY OF CRESTON.................10,761.93 EMC INS DES MOINES BRANCH.........................................500.00 HYSELL...........................................191.30 RESERVE ACCOUNT................1,750.00 0002 GENERAL SUPPLEMENTAL TTL: ...........................................14,117.73 0010 MH-DD SERVICES FUNDUNION COUNTY AUDITOR....5,733.99 0010 MH-DD SERVICES FUND TOTAL: ......................................5,733.99 0011 RURAL SERVICES BASICALLIANT ENERGY.........................44.04 BANKERS LEASING CO................29.10 GREATER REGIONAL MEDICAL CNTR............................................5,975.35 HUSBAND.........................................14.00 MATHES SEED & CHEMICAL...461.50 SERVICE TECHS INC...................101.92 0011 RURAL SERVICES BASIC TTL: .............................................6,625.91 0020 SECONDARY ROAD FUNDAKIN BUILDING CENTER............24.04 ALLIANT ENERGY....................2,818.40 AMERICAN CONCRETE.............395.00 BANKERS LEASING CO..............175.13 BIG BOYZ TOYZ.............................96.00 CALHOUN-BURNS & ASSOC INC................................................3,144.20 CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORP................................................477.40 CRESTON FARM & HOME SUPPLY INC.....................................37.79 FRANKS SERVICE.....................1,030.60 GREATER REGIONAL MEDICAL CNTR.................................................90.00 IOWA PRISON INDUSTRIES......651.31 O'HALLORAN INTERNATIONAL INC...................................................253.88 SERVICE TECHS INC.......................3.96 TRANSIT WORKS.........................362.60 US CELLULAR.................................60.76 ZIEGLER INC..............................2,044.20 0020 SECONDARY ROAD FUND TOTAL: ....................................11,725.27 0023 REAP PROGRAMAKIN BUILDING CENTER.......2,162.30 0023 REAP PROGRAM TOTAL: ......................................2,162.30 3500 CARE - HIXINBAUGH TRUSTFUNDWOOD TV INC...............................470.00 3500 CARE/HIXINBAUGH TRSTFNDTTL: ................................................470.00 4000 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENTFNDALLIANT ENERGY.......................300.00 DUCKWORTH..................................84.52 IOWA STATE SAVINGS BANK............................................1,256.40 MEDIACOM...................................141.76 4000 EMERG MANAGEMENT FNDTTL: .............................................1,782.68 4003 EMPOWERMENTALEGENT HEALTH AT HOME-CORNING....................................3,316.46 DISCOVERY KIDS PRESCHOOL..................................856.00 EAST UNION COMMUNITY SCHOOLS....................................1,620.00 MATURA ACTION CORP............100.00 RINGGOLD COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH.......................................2,072.24 SICKELS......................................3,907.15 SOUTHERN IOWA TROLLEY....257.40 STHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE....................................6,499.18 WINTERSET LITTLE HUSKIES PRESC................................................90.00 4003 EMPOWERMENT TOTAL: ....................................18,718.43 4004 LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTERALLIANT ENERGY....................3,512.18 BM SALES........................................55.00 BOB BARKER COMPANY INC....73.52 COUNSEL OFFICE & DOCUMENT...................................139.87 CRESTON PUBLISHING CO.........29.44 FIRST COMMUNICATIONS LLC.....................................................27.82 GREEN VALLEY PEST CONTROL.........................................36.00 IOWA DEPT OF PUBLIC SAFETY........................................1,473.00 MAINSTAY SYSTEMS INC......4,490.00 MASTERCARD/ISSB....................143.74 MEDIACOM...................................135.90 OFFICE DEPOT-CATALOG ORDERS..........................................156.99 OFFICE MACHINES COMPANY INC...................................................436.56 ORR HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING............................257.50 PETZNICKS......................................28.25 WASTE MGMT OF CRESTON......81.35 WINDSTREAM...........................1,657.67 4004 LAW ENFORCEMENT CNTR TTL: ...........................................12,734.79 4100 COUNTY ASSESSMENT EXPENSEACCESS SYSTEMS.......................110.00 BANKERS LEASING CO..............103.54 PUDENZ..........................................119.31 US POST OFFICE...........................209.00 WINDSTREAM..............................113.00 4100 CO ASSESSMENT EXPENSE TTL: ................................................654.85 4960 SANITARY LANDFILLAGRILAND FS INC.......................566.23 AGRIVISION....................................34.35 ALLIANT ENERGY....................2,600.00 A-TEC RECYCLING INC.............417.04 BARKER LEMAR & ASSOC INC................................................1,975.00 BRICK GENTRY P C..................2,025.00 CAROLINA SOFTWARE INC......250.00 CLEAN HARBORS.....................7,359.53 CORNING RENTAL........................50.00 CRESTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES.........................................20.00 CRESTON PUBLISHING CO.......288.23 FASTENAL COMPANY..................41.96 GRP & ASSOCIATES....................197.50 HJC, LLC....................................44,890.46 HJC, LLC......................................2,000.00 KING..................................................40.83 MASTERCARD/ISSB....................141.08 METRO WASTE AUTHORITY.............................21,028.40 PARMENTER...................................53.19 US POST OFFICE...........................105.00 WACHA...........................................217.58 WASTE MGMT OF CRESTON....................................3,269.58 WINDSTREAM..............................172.44 4960 SANITARY LANDFILL TOTAL: ....................................87,743.40 GRAND TOTAL:...................721,337.91

ADJOURNMENT: There being nofurther business, the meeting was ad-journed at 11:35 AM.ATTEST: SANDY HYSELL, AUDITOR

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2014-2015 Nodaway Valley High School FFA MembersFront Row: Paige McElfish, Cheyenne Wenstad, Casey Ehrsam, Megan Feick, Hollie Perrin, Jacob Baudler (President), Christina Wilson, Josee Herrman, Kayla Abell, Shelby Brewer, Shawna Abell. Second Row: Kynli Erlandson, Sidney Hohertz, Beau Weinheimer, Adrienne Cass, Koy Brandt, Wyatt Low, Spencer Thompson, Joe Herr, Kadee Eblen, Hannah Thompson, Alex Brown, Riley Lonsdale, Sydney McElfish. Third Row: Heath Downing, Kaitlyn Blazek, Makenna Lilly, Max Kuhns, Mackenzie Meisenheimer, Noah Cooper, Chanler Clarke, Wes Davis, Rachel Bruns, Thomas Britten, Shane Breheny, Skyler Rawings, Blake Anderson (Advisor). Not Pictured: Mark Baudler, Jodi Baulder, Abbi Hoyka.

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Jurors find Iowa woman not guilty of 2 killings in 1983

WATERLOO (AP) — An Iowa woman was ac-quitted of two counts of first-degree murder Fri-day in the slayings of her husband and his girlfriend more than 30 years ago.

After nearly seven hours of deliberation and 10 days of testimony, jurors found Theresa Supino not guilty in the 1983 killings of Steven Fisher and Meli-sa Gregory, whose bodies were found on the Copper Dollar Ranch northwest of Newton. Supino, 54, was ar-rested in March in connec-tion with the slayings.

Jurors weighed wit-ness testimony and crime scene evidence present-ed throughout the nearly three-week trial in which prosecutors said Supino killed Fisher and Grego-ry out of anger over their relationship. The defense maintained that the mur-ders could have been re-lated to the former ranch owner’s drug trafficking and dismissed claims that Supino had made three confessions, saying that two couldn’t be confirmed and

one was taken out of con-text.

During closing argu-ments, defense attorney Steve Addington also re-minded jurors that they had been instructed that they required more than a con-fession to find a defendant guilty. Since police found no physical evidence at the scene, he said, jurors need-ed something aside from Supino’s alleged confes-sions.

The jury of eight women and four men were tasked with finding Supino guilty of first-degree murder, guilty of second-degree murder or not guilty, the Waterloo-Cedar Fall Cou-rier reported.

Officials told the Newton Daily News that the case is now closed and there will be no active investigation into the murders unless new leads become available.

Once dismissed, Supino hugged her attorneys and family members and said she’s felt “like a caged ani-mal” over the past year.

“I just want to go home,” she said.

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‘Birdman’ tops Oscars defined by advocacy, originality

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood is smarter than you thought. Whether by design or chance, the 87th Academy Awards elegantly and subtly shifted the tone of the season from a reduc-tive fixation on snubs and fact-checking to a positive celebration of original film-making and purposeful ad-vocacy for causes as diverse as immigration, suicide and equal rights.

The self-obsessed indus-try might have given its best picture and director prizes to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarri-tu’s “Birdman,” a trenchant examination of actorly narcis-sism, but the vanity seemed to stop with the opening of the envelopes. Even in their moments of singular glory, most of the winners chose to talk about something other

than themselves.The Mexican-born Inar-

ritu, who’s “Birdman” also won for cinematography and original screenplay, said he prays his native country finds “a government we deserve” and that immigrants to the U.S. “can be treated with the same dignity and the respect of the ones who came before and (built) this incredible im-migrant nation.”

Host Neil Patrick Harris set the tenor of the evening, toeing the line between rev-erent merriment and self-ref-erential parody, with a biting joke about one of the sea-son’s most criticized truths. “Tonight we honor Holly-wood’s best and whitest — I mean brightest,” he said in his opening, referencing the lack of diversity in the slate of nominees.

Patricia Arquette, who won the supporting actress award for her portrayal of a mother finding herself in Richard Linklater’s “Boy-hood,” also took a stand for equal rights and pay to the public delight of fellow nomi-nee Meryl Streep.

“It is time for women. Equal means equal. The

truth is the older women get the less money they make,” she said backstage.

Best actress winner Juli-anne Moore (“Still Alice”) and best actor Eddie Red-mayne (“The Theory of Ev-erything”) followed suit, us-ing their speeches to discuss the afflictions of their char-acters — Alzheimer’s and ALS, respectively.

“This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS,” said Redmayne.

John Legend and Com-mon took their win for the song “Glory” to speak of the importance of “Selma,” the now infamously snubbed civ-il rights drama.

“We say that ‘Selma’ is now, because the struggle for justice is right now,” said Legend.

As the young Graham Moore, who talked about his depression and a suicide at-tempt during his acceptance speech for best adapted screenplay for “The Imita-tion Game” put it backstage: “I might as well use it to say something meaningful.”

But in a season full of fore-gone conclusions, many of

which came true at the Dol-by Theatre, including a best supporting actor win for J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”), the Oscars still had a few sur-prises up its tuxedo sleeves, including the fact that all of Sunday’s big winners were first-timers.

Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making “Boyhood,” a critical favor-ite of the year and one that was once considered a top contender for the evening’s top prizes left with only an award for Arquette. The formal ambitions of “Bird-man” proved to be the more compelling — even if its lead Michael Keaton was passed over in the acting race.

There was also clear re-gard for uniqueness in the evening’s other multiple prize winners. Damien Cha-zelle’s “Whiplash,” a pulsat-ing and vibrant independent film about a driven jazz stu-dent and his ruthless instruc-tor, won three awards, for supporting actor, editing and sound mixing.

Director Wes Anderson’s dark WWII-set fable, “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” meanwhile, won four.

� Even in their moments of sin-gular glory, most of the winners chose to talk about something other than them-selves.

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