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‘A Night of Jazz’

Ty Rushing/Daily NewsTonight at the Newton Senior High School Centre for Performance, the jazz band will be hosting “A Night of Jazz.” The band will be performing various songs and styles of jazz and doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $5.

By Zach Johnson Daily News Staff Writer

U.S. Navy Lt. Brock Walaska and his wife Rae moved into town on Vet-erans Day. They moved from San Diego, Calif., but were both raised in Iowa. The two ventured to Hy-Vee for the Veter-ans Day breakfast.

“Everyone was very thankful for my service. It was just great to be a part of the commu-nity of vets in Newton,” Brock said. “I could tell the town has a real pride in their veterans. I want-ed to be closer to family, and the quality of life in Iowa is superb.”

Brock, a supply offi-

cer and business manag-er, will be promoted to lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Re-serve next month.

“It was a surprise to me because I wasn’t ex-pecting the promotion for another six months,” Brock said.

Brock served 10 years

of active duty service and joined the reserves in November. He had four deployments on a sub, a deployment to Iraq and a deployment to Japan and South Ko-rea. Brock was a mem-ber of the USS Maine SSBN741 Gold Crew.

Brock was inspired to join the Navy during the turn of the econo-my after the tragedies of 9/11. Brock is a sec-ond-generation veteran, his grandfather having served during World War II.

“I was working on my masters’ at UNI when

U.S. Navy Vet Walaska to be promoted next month

Submitted PhotoU.S. Navy Lt. Brock Walaska served 10 years of active duty service and is now part of the reserves.

Autopsy results in; cause of Frazier’s death ‘blunt force

trauma, stab wounds’By Bob Eschliman

Daily News Editor

An autopsy conducted Thursday on the body of a Colorado man found dead in New-ton earlier this week determined the manner of his death to be homicide.

The Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Of-fice determined Grant Frazier’s cause of death to be blunt force trau-ma and multiple stab wounds. Investigators, however, are still trying to piece together how he and the Iowa woman now charged with his murder became con-nected.

Frazier, 61, was last seen Sunday, Feb. 16, in Colorado Springs with 21-year-old Bionca Rogers. His body was discovered early Tuesday morning in the trunk of his car, which had been parked at the Courtyard Apartments since Thursday, Feb. 20, accord-ing to the complex’s manager.

Rogers turned herself into authorities in Cedar Rapids Wednesday. Prosecutors in Colorado have charged her with first-degree murder, which can be a capital offense in that state.

Online court records indicate she has not been charged with a crime in Iowa.

It still remains unclear how Frazier and Rogers knew each other. Although Frazier’s brother, Guy, has told Iowa media outlets they did not know each other, court records in Colorado indicate family members told police investigators Rogers “appeared to be running from something.”

Main Street community meeting set for March 12

By Daily News Staff

The Newton Main Street Organization will host a community meeting from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednes-day, March 12, at the DMACC Conference Center.

“The meeting will give more information on the Main Street program as well as facilitate the process of community members, business owners and building owners to help create a vision for a thriving downtown district,” Greater Newton Area Chamber of Com-merce Executive Director Darrell Sarmento said.

The Main Street Organization is also assembling its Board of Directors and associated committees. The board will meet monthly and give overall direc-tion and governance to the program, as defined by Main Street Iowa leadership.

The four Main Street committees are: Design, Organization, Promotion, and Economic Restruc-turing. Those interested in serving on the Board of Directors must call (641) 792-5545 no later than Friday, March 7.

Coffee and a Candidate

Ty Rushing/Daily NewsDr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who is seeking the Republican nomination in Iowa’s Second Congressional District, hosted a bevy of Jasper County citizens at her “listening session” on Thursday at Uncle Nancy’s Coffeehouse.

AFSCME Local 0451 to donate to Jasper County Veterans Memorial project

By Bob EschlimanDaily News Editor

Wednesday, March 5, the Jasper County Veterans Memorial project on the courthouse grounds will re-ceive a $2,500 shot in the arm.

Officials with AFSCME Local 0451 will make a donation to the project during a special ceremony that day, beginning at 3:30 p.m. Lo-cal 0451 President Jerry Jones said it is “important to honor our fallen veterans.”

“This monument will help en-sure that future generations of Jasper County residents never forget those

who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country,” he added.

Jasper County Treasurer Doug Bishop, who formerly led the Jas-per County Freedom Flight efforts, has been leading the fundraising ef-fort for the memorial, which will be constructed without the use of public funds. Every Jasper County resident who has been killed in action will be memorialized at no charge.

Bishop will be in attendance at the event, along with members of the Jasper County Veterans Committee.

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Local NewsA Friday, February 28, 2014

Conservation scholarship deadline set for April 1The Emerson Hough Chapter of the Izaak Wal-

ton League is offering a $750 conservation scholar-ship to a graduating Jasper County high school se-nior pursuing a college degree in the field of natural resources or conservation. Applications are available online at www.jaspercountyconservation.com and must be submitted by April 1.

For more information call (641) 792-9780.

Newton CVB board to meet ThursdayThe Newton Convention and Visitors

Bureau Board of Directors will meet at 8 a.m. Thursday at the Newton CVB.

Agenda items include an update on the FAM Mystery Tour on June 17.

CIOA to meet March 8The Central Iowa Ostomy Association will meet

at 10:15 a.m. on Saturday, March 8, at the Newton Public Library in Meeting Room A.

Deb Nilles, registered dietitian from Skiff Medi-cal Center, will be the guest speaker. She will dis-cuss how different foods affect those with ostomies. Joyce Otto, a certified wound ostomy nurse, will also be there to answer questions.

Newton Zoning Board to meet WednesdayThe Newton Zoning Board of Adjustment

will meet at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 5 in City Hall Council Chambers.

Agenda items include a public hearing on Tea Room Conditional Use Permit, 223 W. Fourth St. S. and 414 S. Third Ave. W.

NHS Speech Team on to district competition

Ty Rushing/Daily NewsOn Saturday, the Newton Senior High School Speech Team will travel to Meskwaki Settlement High School in Tama for district competition in individual categories. Categories include improv, public address, musical theatre, storytelling, after dinner speaking, poetry and prose.

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Go GuideMark Your Calendar: Feb. 28 to March 6

• Capitol II Theatre in Newton:“Son of God” (PG-13) —Fri.: 7 p.m.; Sat.: (1), (4), 7 p.m.; Sun.: (1), 7:30 p.m.; Mon. & Tues.: 7 p.m.; Wed.: (2:45), 7 p.m.; Thurs.: 7 p.m.“The Monuments Men” (PG-13) — Fri.: 7:15 p.m.; Sat.: (1:15), (4:15), 7:15 p.m.; Sun.: (1:15), 7:45 p.m.; Mon. & Tues.: 7:15 p.m.; Wed.: (3), 7:15 p.m.; Thurs.: 7:15 p.m.• Valle Drive-In:Closed for the season.(Matinee times in parenthesis)

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PEO to meet TuesdayChapter HS of PEO will meet on Tues-

day, March in the home of Marcy Helms. Refreshments will be served at 12:45 p.m.,

with the meeting and program following at 1:15 p.m.

Art on display at libraryThe prints and paintings by Mary Homei-

er will be on display at Newton Public Li-brary during the month of March.

The display is sponsored by the Arts Con-nection Inc. and is free to the public.

Order carry out dinner from Careage of Newton

Make reservations now for Careage of Newton’s carry out meal from 5 to 6 p.m. March 12.

The $6 take home meal will include chicken and homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, roll and cookie. Proceeds made will go activities department projects. Reserve meals by Monday, March 10, by calling (641) 792-1127.

More snow expected in Jasper County

this weekend

The National Weather Service Office in Johnston is forecasting more winter weather for the weekend, bringing the possibility of up to a half-foot of snowfall.

Beginning this afternoon, light to mod-erate snowfall is supposed to begin in Cen-tral Iowa, continuing through the evening hours. Accumulations from the first round of snow are expected to be around an inch.

A second round of snow is expected to move into Central Iowa after noon Saturday with moderate accumulations during the day and heavier amounts in the evening and overnight hours. Additional accumulations could range from 3 to 5 inches.

A third round of snow is possible Sunday, although the Friday morning forecast put precipitation chances at less than 50 per-cent. An additional one inch of snow could fall with that system.

To get weather alerts on your cell phone via text message, click on the “Text Alerts” link at NewtonDailyNews.com.

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ObituariesMaxine M.

DeppeFeb. 26, 2014

Maxine M. Deppe, 92, of rural Kellogg died Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, at Grandview Heights Healthcare in Marshalltown.

A funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 4. Friends may call beginning at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, with fam-ily present starting at 1:30 p.m. at the Wallace Family Funeral Home

and Crematory in New-ton. Memorials in Max-ine’s name may be left at the funeral home the day of the service.

Those left to honor

Maxine’s memory are her son, Rusty (Kerri) Deppe of rural Kellogg; her grandchildren, Aaron of Iowa City and Blake of Toledo; her great-grand-daughter, Avelynn; and a sister-in-law, Juanita Deppe of Newton.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lorne Deppe in 1990; siblings, Rob-ert Loupee, Myrtle Campell, and George Loupee Jr.; a brother-in-law, Maynard Deppe; and a sister-in-law, Vio-la Paulson.

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Peer Support(For those living with

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Kindergarten Roundup Dates Are SetKindergarten Roundup provides an opportunity for teachers and staff members to become acquainted with the children before they start school in August. It is also a chance for the children to experience for the first time a few of the routines associated with school.

Kindergarten Round-up registration forms will be available at our district’s website: http://www.newton.k12.ia.us/; or at your Kindergarten attendance center:

Berg Elementary 641-792-7742 Thomas Jefferson 641-792-2498

Additional information about Kindergarten Roundup will be provided at parent meetings scheduled at Berg Elementary and Thomas Jefferson schools. Parents may contact their kindergarten attendance centers for more information about the parent meetings.

Parent meeting times are as follows: Berg Elementary - 6:00 pm March 11Thomas Jefferson - 6:00 pm March 11

Actual Kindergarten Round-up dates are:Berg Elementary April 2 & 3Thomas Jefferson April 7 & 8

Berg teachers will be available for conferences on April 9.Thomas Jefferson teachers will be available for conferences on April 16. Please return all forms to your kindergarten attendance center so we can provide you with more information on parent night.

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Stephanie (White) VisserFeb. 26, 2014

Stephanie (White) Visser, 48, of Knoxville died Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, at Hospice of Pella Comfort House in Pella.

A funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Monday, March 3, at the Second Re-formed Church in Pella. Interment will be at the t’Lam Cemetery near Pella. Visitation will begin after 2 p.m. Sunday, March 2, with the family present from 4 to 6 p.m. at the church.

David C. FinchFeb. 27, 2014

David C. Finch, 74, of Newton, died Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, at Skiff Medical Center in Newton.

A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 3, at Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Newton. The fam-ily will greet friends from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 2, at Cornerstone Bible Fellowship. Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory in Newton is handling arrangements.

Students of the Month

Submitted PhotoKiwanis Students of the Month, Derek Wrage and Carley Colville, both NHS seniors, are pictured with Margie Criswell, Noon Kiwanis president-elect (left), and Pam Conklin, secretary (right). A book titled “Let’s Go to the Farm” will be presented to the Newton Public Library in honor of the students.

ABATE of Iowa at Statehouse

Submitted PhotoOn Wednesday, Feb. 26, Rep. Dan Kelley met with ABATE of Iowa in the Capitol. Those in attendance were (from left) John Smith, Scott Deeter, John Frimml, Allen Anthony, James Robinson and Dennis Simon.

Senate approves plan for juvenile facilityDES MOINES (AP) — A plan to

develop a state-run facility for delin-quent girls narrowly cleared the Iowa Senate Thursday, but the odds of the measure receiving bipartisan support moving forward are unclear.

The Senate approved the bill in a party-line vote, with 26 Democrats in favor and 22 Republicans opposed. The legislation now goes to the House, where it could face Republican opposi-tion.

The bill comes in response to Gov. Terry Branstad’s closure of the Iowa Juvenile Home on Jan. 15. It was origi-nally drafted with the intent of re-opening the home, but now just says a state-run center for delinquent girls is needed as soon as possible.

“Today we should focus on do-ing right by these girls,” said Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, who sponsored the bill.

Branstad, who closed the home fol-lowing allegations that teens were im-properly treated and educated at the facility, has opposed the legislation since it was proposed. An investiga-tion by the advocacy group Disability Rights Iowa and stories by The Des Moines Register brought the mistreat-ment to light.

House Speaker Kraig Paulsen, R-Hiawatha, has said Republicans in the House remain focused on doing what’s in the best interest of the girls affected by the closure.

Local OpinionA Friday, February 28, 2014

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Dan GoetzPublisher

Bob EschlimanEditor

Mandi LambAssociate Editor

Jeff HolschuhAd Director

Kelly VestProd./Circulation

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Newton Daily News Editorial Board Give Us Your Views

Letters to the Newton Daily News should not exceed 400 words and should include the writers’ name, address and daytime telephone number. All letters are subject to edit-ing for grammar and punctuation, or to remove potentially libelous material. Send letters to P.O. Box 967, Newton, IA 50208, or to [email protected] via email.Opinions expressed in letters and columns are those of the writers and

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Iowa seniors deserve to live their lives in Iowa with dignity and respect. That’s why we are working on legis-lation this year to prevent elder abuse. The leg-islation is based on recommenda-tions from ex-perts who met last year to ensure Iowa seniors have the protections they deserve.

Unfortunately, Iowa is one of the few states that do not have specific el-der abuse laws. We have dependent adult abuse laws to protect seniors under the care of others. However, that leaves out every senior who is not dependent on others for care, but still

may be taken advantage of or pres-sured to make bad decisions.

That’s why I’m working with a bi-partisan group of legislators to help create a new law to combat elder abuse for all of our seniors. It will protect every senior over 60 from abuse, ne-glect, or financial exploitation. Here are just a few of the components of this legislation:

• New criminal penalties are es-tablished for financial exploitation to stop others from taking advantage of vulnerable seniors

• Establishes an Elder Abuse Re-source and Referral Program in local communities to focus on prevention of and responses to elder abuse

• Creates new protective orders for victims of elder abuse

• Updates training so more Iowans can recognize elder abuse

• Removes confidentiality restric-tions to allow the Attorney General’s Office access to dependent adult abuse and elder abuse information

It is critical for Iowa’s seniors that we get this legislation to the Gover-nor’s desk this session.

Also, this week, Iowa’s three state universities joined a national public-private initiative launched to help

develop manufacturing jobs in the Midwest. On Tuesday, the White House announced the creation of two new “manufacturing innovation institutes,” in Chicago and Detroit, aimed at connecting universities with the private sector in hopes of bridging the gap between research and product manufacturing.

The University of Iowa will con-tribute $3 million in its role with the Chicago-based institute, which is part-

nering with 73 companies, nonprofits and universities focused on digital manufacturing and design technolo-gies. All of those dollars will stay in the state of Iowa to support research and manufacturing here. Iowa compa-nies from the private sector involved in the Chicago consortium include Rockwell Collins, Proctor & Gamble, and Deere and Company. I’m hopeful this will lead to more manufacturing opportunities in our state.

• • •I am proud to represent Newton, Baxter, Col-

fax, Kellogg, Lambs Grove, Mingo, Ira, Prairie City, and Valeria. Feel free to contact me any-time via phone at 641-521-9260 or by email at [email protected]. Please visit my website at www.electkelley.com. And of course, on Facebook, I look forward to accepting your friend request.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve you.

Iowa seniors deserve dignity, respectKelley at the Capitol

By Dan KelleyIowa House District 29

Tom Gary and Curry Harter will close out the Blues Under the Blue Roof concert se-ries at 5:30 p.m. Tues-day, March 4. Out of Tom’s work at Blues on Grand in Des Moines, he formed the Central Iowa Blues Society and the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame to preserve and promote blues music and blues musicians.

Tom has been con-tinuously active playing keyboard and singing blues for all of his adult life in Des Moines. He recently formed the Open Blues Jam held

every Sunday evening in Des Moines at Hull Av-enue Bar.

Curry Chris Har-ter has been playing harmonica and sing-ing Gospel and blues in Iowa and across the con-tinent for decades. Since 2007 He’s played har-monica and sung with most of Central Iowa’s blues musicians.

You may have seen Curry before perform-ing with Bryce Janey at the 20th Annual Bowl-ful of Blues, and the First Avenue Speakeasy here in Newton.

Thanks to the Li-brary Foundation, Arts Connection, Friends of the Library and most

importantly the South Skunk Blues Society for making these per-formances possible. All performances will be in the Library Meeting Room and are free and open to the public!

Coffee & Movie: ‘A League of Their Own’

We will show “A League of Their Own” at 10:30 a.m. Wednes-day, March 5, in the li-brary meeting room.

Synopsis: The All-American Girls’ Profes-sional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asia fighting World

War II. The league flourished

until after World War II when all the men re-turned home. The story begins as a candybar tycoon enlists agents to scour the country to find women who could play ball.

Adventure KidsAfter-School ClubJoin Miss Phyllis and

Jasper County Con-servation at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, at the Newton YMCA for a free after school pro-gram series. Activities will be fun and hands-on.

The program will end with a pool party at

the Newton YMCA on March 12. This program does require Registra-tion is required, so call the Newton YMCA to-day to get registered.

This program series is free and open to chil-dren aged 8 to 12 years old. Questions? Contact the Newton YMCA at (641) 792-4006.

Tax Forms AvailableFind federal forms

and instruction booklets near the information desk. A reminder that Iowa tax forms are no longer shipped to us by the state; we can either print off the forms for you at the desk for $0.10 a page or provide you

with the phone number to call for forms to be shipped to your home.

If you have any ques-tions, call (641) 792-4108.

ProgrammingSchedule for AdultsOur Programming

Schedule for adults has been released. Find it at the circulation and information desk or on-line at www.newton.lib.ia.us/adults/programs.

• • •Don’t forget to follow us on

Facebook at www.facebook.com/NewtonPublicLibraryIA or on Twitter @NewtonPubLib. Find out what is happening at the library besides our pro-grams!

Sexual assault is a terrible crime, one for which there is no excuse. It occurs in communities across Iowa, and in every state — and it occurs on our college campuses.

Here at the Univer-sity of Iowa, we are con-fronting this problem head on. We are taking action to educate stu-dents, support survivors, and hold offenders ac-

countable.As part of our efforts,

we are communicating frankly with our stu-dents. When we learn of an incident, we send an email to the entire cam-pus. We do this because federal law requires it. We do it to raise aware-ness and to provide safe-ty information. And we do it to send the mes-sage to offenders that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated.

C o m m u n i c a t i n g

more about sexual as-saults has created the impression that more incidents are occurring in Iowa City. That’s not the case.

What’s happening is that we are getting more reports — and that’s a good thing, because when people report, it allows us to get them the help they deserve, and it gives police and campus authorities the chance to investigate.

Shortly after I be-

came president of the University of Iowa, I mandated training for every employee, and in 2013 we achieved 100 percent compliance. We began this in 2008—six years before the federal government required all universities to do so.

We also require every student — undergradu-ate, graduate and pro-fessional — to take and pass an online course on this topic before they enroll. And we offer vol-

untary “bystander inter-vention training,” which more than 5,200 people have taken this year al-ready.

In 2009, I created a coordinator position that reports directly to me and is charged with assuring that all depart-ments of the university are working together to address the issue. We were one of the first uni-versities to have such a position. We are also one of a small handful of

universities to be consis-tently recognized by the U.S. Department of Jus-tice as a national model for our efforts.

As university presi-dent, I take this issue very seriously. I believe that there is no excuse for sexual assault. It is a crime, and it is never the fault of the survivor.

Our actions and poli-cies are clear. We never tolerate sexual miscon-duct, and we always hold offenders accountable.

Blues Under the Blue Roof concludes Tuesday

U of I President: Sexual assaults must stop

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By Sally MasonPresident, University of Iowa

To the editor:I feel I must speak up about Dr.

Twyner. We started with him after Drs. Norris and Forsyth retired. We continued with Dr. Twyner until he was shut down.

Dr. Twyner is a very good doc-tor. He was always very personable and took time for us. We were never rushed or never left his office before we were taken care of.

Dr. Tywner’s nurse, Cindy, prob-ably drew blood better than anyone we’ve ever had. And Mary, the office secretary, and Linda were the best.

I don’t want to stick my nose in this case, but who doesn’t know that mix-ing alcohol and drugs is deadly?

Dr. Twyner, you are loved and are in our prayers. We miss you.

Joe & Nancy AnneeNewton

Twyner was a ‘very good doctor’; will be missed

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9/11 happened,”Brock said. “Job opportunities in the field went away due to economy. It was dif-ficult to find a job, and I felt the call to serve after 9/11.”

The opportunities for employ-ment in his career field came after his active duty.

“I was offered a job while on ac-tive duty. The military experience

made it easier to find a job due to the responsibilities as a naval of-ficer,” Brock said.

In his 10 years of active duty, Brock has had many meaningful and rewarding experiences.

“During my tour to Iraq, I was a contracting officer. I wrote contracts to improve nearby com-munities in Iraq. Making repairs to sewer and sanitation systems,” Brock said. “I trained local Iraqi business owners on how to do business with the U.S. govern-

ment and other business owners in the U.S. on meeting government standards — just how business is done. This gave them opportuni-ties to work with the government or other contractors.”

Brock is employed by State Farm in the Agency Training Pro-gram and plans to open his own branch in Newton.

Staff writer Zach Johnson may be contacted at (641) 792-3121, ext. 425, or at [email protected].

WalaskaContinued from Page 1A

According to Colo-rado court documents, two days after Frazier disappeared, Rogers was alleged to have been in Newton, with Frazier’s cell phone.

The night before his disappearance, Rogers was stopped by an El

Paso County, Colorado, sheriff ’s deputy while riding in a stolen car with loaded guns. Her 4-year-old daughter also was a passenger.

Two loaded guns were found in the car and Rogers’ daughter was not in a car seat, court documents say. She later told police she had wedged a third gun between the center con-

sole and her seat cush-ion.

At the time of Fra-zier’s disappearance, Rogers was wanted on warrants for child abuse and unlawful carrying of a concealed weapon.

Daily News Editor Bob Es-chliman may be contacted at (641) 792-3121, ext. 423, or at [email protected].

HomicideContinued from Page 1A

Local 0451 represents employees at the Newton Correctional Facility and at the Iowa Correctional

Institution for Women in Mitchellville, which are part of the Iowa Department of Corrections.

Daily News Editor Bob Eschliman may be contacted at (641) 792-3121, ext. 423, or at [email protected].

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Rogers

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DEAR ABBY: My wife of 45 years is having an online affair with a man who is a former business client. I found out when she inadvertently left an email message open on her laptop. Her phone records confirm daily long-distance conversations, as well. Although I know they have never met personally, they plan to meet during a weekend conven-tion at a hotel in his hometown next month.

Despite problems in our marriage, neither of us has strayed, and I’m con-fident she doesn’t want to lose me nor do I want to lose her. My dilemma is whether to tell her I know what’s go-ing on prior to her trip, or confront her when she returns with pictures taken by a private investigator. I can’t let her be-trayal continue. — CONFLICTED IN THE SOUTH

DEAR CONFLICTED: Tell her sooner rather than later, so she can can-cel her trip to the convention. If she’s willing to do that and work on repair-ing your marriage, there is a chance that your problems are fixable. If she isn’t, then face it — your stressed marriage is over. Photos from a private investigator are beside the point. The email you read is proof enough.

DEAR ABBY: Recently, my friend went to a wake and told me the person in the casket was holding a fork. My friend told me there is a story behind this custom. Can you tell me what it is? — DAILY READER IN WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.

DEAR DAILY READER: The story, titled “Keep Your Fork,” has been widely shared on the Internet. It ap-peared in “A Third Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul” and was authored by Roger William Thomas.

It concerns a young woman who had been given only a short time to live, and who instructed her pastor that she would like to be buried with a fork in her right hand. She went on to say, “In all my years of attending church potluck

dinners, when the dishes of the main course were being cleared, someone would say, ‘Keep your fork.’”

She said the main course was her fa-vorite part of the meal because she knew “something better was coming ... some-thing wonderful, and with substance.” What she wanted was to convey to her loved ones at her funeral her belief that something better was to come.

DEAR ABBY: I have reconnected with my high school sweetheart. We plan to be married late this summer. My problem is she wants to keep her ex-husband’s name as her middle name for the sake of her kids.

I feel she shouldn’t have another man’s name if she’s married to some-one else. I have explained that it upsets me, but she doesn’t care. What are your thoughts? — TRADITIONAL MAN

DEAR TRADITIONAL: I think her reason for wanting to retain her married name (and probably hyphen-ate it with yours) is a valid one. It will prevent confusion for her children at school.

However, one line in your letter con-cerns me. It’s the one in which you say it upsets you, “but she doesn’t care.” If she didn’t care about you, she wouldn’t be marrying you. But her children MUST come first, and unless you can accept that fact, you shouldn’t marry her.

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Newton’s boys basketball program has been a tale of two eras.

First, there were the golden years in the 1960s and ‘70s, when Newton was a perennial state contender. Years such as those are what the current sizable gymnasium was built on.

“Going to state was an expecta-tion,” Newton as-sistant coach Tom Weeks said.

Fast forward to 2014, and the pro-gram has experi-enced quite a few lean years, but this year’s team is on the verge of chang-ing the narrative.

The 12-win Cardinals travel to Iowa City tonight to take on City High in a substate semifinal matchup. It ’s the farthest the Cardinals have advanced in more than a decade.

“I’m excited to get going,” Newton junior Tyler Wood said. “Because we haven’t been to a semifinal game in how long?”

“2001,” senior Chandler Sturtz chimed in.

“Yeah, 2001, so we’re all pretty pumped and ready for the game,” Wood continued.

In 2001, the four seniors on the squad were in kindergarten, and Sturtz made it clear that knowing that history will make playing in this game even more memorable.

“I’m feeling re-ally excited,” he said. “The seniors are really excited because it ’s win or go home. I think we’re all really pre-pared for it. It ’s been a great season. We kind of started off slow, but about midseason, we fi-nally hit our stride. We came together as a team and won our last nine of 12.”

Newton’s biggest trouble with City High will likely be something the Cards have had work against them all season — size. Although the Car-dinals have actually out-rebounded the Little Hawks this season, 656 to 640, City High’s 6-8 Austin Withrow could give the Car-dinals trouble in the post on offense and on the boards at both ends.

“They’re really big compared to us, very athletic, active on the perimeter,” Newton head coach Nick Wilkins said. “Defensively, we think they’re go-ing to pound it inside. They have a 6-8, 260 kid and we have a 6-3, 200 kid. But I think if we have great help defense, we’ll be in good shape.”

“We’ve got to block out and make them reach over the top of us to get rebounds so hope-fully we can get some fouls called,” Wood added.

The mantra of “help defense” has gotten through to the players. Scor-ing has not been a problem for the

Cardinals all year. Newton ranks third in Class 4A with 169 3-pointers made, and of the six teams to have made at least 160 threes, the Cards are the only team making the long range shot at above 41 percent. Wood and Sturtz have been a big part of that, accounting for 115 of those makes this season.

“Our defensive execution is going to be huge here, be-cause we know our shots are going to

fall. We have good shooters, but if we can keep their big guys in check, we should be alright,” Sturtz said.

Following the emotional victory over Ottumwa on Monday, Newton’s players were a bit sluggish, according to Wilkins, “but that’s to be expect-ed,” he said. De-spite that, Wilkins is enthusiastic with the amount of work the team has put in going into tonight’s game.

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we had a really good practice. They started to buy into it as far as our strategy go-ing into the game,” he said. “(Thursday) we just kind of sured up what to do and get some shots up so we’re ready to go. I think we’re ready to. It’s just a matter of executing.”

The game tips off tonight at City High at 7 p.m.

Sports writer Dustin Turner may be contacted at (641) 792-3121, ext. 440, or at [email protected].

NEWTON — Going off the beaten path is not always a bad thing. It may be challenging, but that’s not a bad thing either.

During the spring sports season, New-ton high school stu-dents — boys and girls — have an op-portunity to do just that. Since 2007, the Newton Trap Club has allowed NHS students with interest in competitive trap shooting to compete in the Iowa High School Clay Target Association (IHSC-TA) and the Scholas-tic Clay Target Pro-gram (SCTP).

Current Newton Trap Club coach

Paul Klein said this is a growing sport for Newton. When the club program was begun Al Keninger in 2007, there were three students com-peting.

“We have 27 signed up for this season,” Klein said. “The goal of the team is to promote safe fi rearms use while exposing par-ticipants to the clay target sports. It is not a cheap sport, and we’re looking for sponsors to help off-set costs of registra-tions for the fi ve or six competitions for our athletes.”

Klein pointed out that each student pays for his or her own ammunition. The club provides clay pigeons to shoot

during practices., which take place at the Izaak Walton League facilities in Newton.

With 18 team members a year ago, Klein said the team went through 45 cases of clay pigeons. Receiving donations to help defray the cost of the practice pigeons is helpful, he said.

Practices for the 2014 season begin March 15, which is a Saturday. Klein said they schedule the fi rst practice on a Saturday to not rush the new athletes to the team. The team practices on Tues-day and Thursday after school during the season, March through the fi rst week of June.

Competitions be-gin in April and con-clude at the state trap meet in Cedar Falls. Klein said at the state meet last year, there were 2,200 athletes, and it is projected to increase to 2,600 this year.

“You compete with a fi ve-man squad, which can be made up of boys and girls. Some competi-tions give awards out for top male and top female shooters but it is a coed sport,” Klein said.

Klein said al-though the trap shooting club is not a sanctioned “high school” sport, the club has great sup-port from Newton Senior High School. Students competing in the sport of clay

target shooting still have to meet aca-demic requirements to be eligible.

“Also each mem-ber of the team must passed the Iowa DNR’s hunter safety course,” Klein said. “To compete in the state tourna-ment in June, they have to have at-tended at least six practices and com-pete in at least four competitions, plus be in good academic standing.”

Klein said he at-tempts to keep com-petitions the team travels to close to Newton. In the past, the Newton team has hosted a home meet at the Jasper Gun Club. He said he was trying to do that again this season. Varsity shooters also compete in sporting clay shoots, which are walking courses much like a hunting course.

“The fun of the sport for me is watching these kids improve in the sport,” Klein said.

Any individuals, businesses or orga-nizations interested in donating to help sponsor the Newton Trap Club may con-tact Klein at (641) 792-6164.

Trap shooting a challenging sport for Newton students

Newton’s boys prepared for semifi nal Local Sports

By Dustin TurnerDaily News Sports Writer

Friday, February 28, 2014

Dustin Turner/Daily NewsFreshman guard Connor Gholson (40) takes on the much taller Nic Young (50) from Ottumwa during the Cardinals’ substate quarterfi nal game on Monday. Size has been a challenge for Newton, and City High will personify that on Friday.

Courtesy photoNewton Trap Club is a spring sport for Newton high school boys and girls. It is a club sport with high school competitions throoughout the area and a state competition in June. The trap club is looking for sponsors to help defray costs of practice clay pigeons and meet registrations for the 2014 season.

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I Can’t Hear You Full disclosure: I went to the Uni-

versity of Oregon, whose fans have, at times, been accused of let’s call it “over enthusiastic” behavior at sport-ing events.

Uncovered, I have stood in a foot-ball stadium in the pouring, freezing rain with 59,000 other people for three plus hours screaming things that if I wrote them, would get me fi red. I’ve rushed the court of a college bas-ketball game, even though the win was our fi rst in the then-PAC-10 that season… and it was February. I have screamed at the television, jumped up and down, broken furniture, punched walls, gone catatonic and frightened my pet, all while watching a game.

Clearly frightened, my girlfriend asks from time to time, “Are you even having fun?” My answer is always the same: “This IS how I have fun.”

Kissing sanity goodbye for a couple hours is commonplace as a fan. While that may not seem like normal or even healthy behavior to some people, that’s life as a diehard sports fan, and those people couldn’t be more wrong. Letting go happens to be the second best part of being a sports fan (the fi rst is winning a championship). I give up complete control of the situa-tion when I watch a game. I’m partak-ing in something bigger than myself, which humbles even the most cocky individual.

Joining together with a commu-nity of people transforms lives. Some of my best experiences involve people whose names I will never know and whose faces I don’t recall, but they reveled in the same joy I did, and in that moment, people feel like they’re all part of the team.

Over the past few months, I’ve no-ticed a disappointing trend. Newton’s boys basketball team recently won its 12th game of the season, which Tom Weeks informed me was the most in the past 20 years.

Cardinal Basketball has hardly been Alabama Football or Oregon Track and Field over that time, and I real-ize how easily it is to become discour-aged. After all, the point of the game is to win. Nobody likes to lose. Part of being a fan is enduring those tough times, and I can tell by the amount of bumper stickers and T-shirts I see around town that there is no short-age of support for NHS, which makes what I’ve perceived at the games to be so puzzling to me.

Each home game I have been to this season, which by my count is about seven, the crowd has been thin and the vocal support lacking. I can understand that people have work to do, and every high school team makes the playoffs. So, for some of those games, I can give Newtonians a pass, but this most recent game broke the camel’s back for me.

Looking to get the most wins by a Newton team in 20 years, against a team with a 2-20 record, with a chance to keep the season alive on the line, the crowd was as thin as ever. It appeared, at least by my count, that visiting Ottumwa brought with them more fans than Newton had in the gym that night. Those fans were vocal too. It wasn’t until late in the game, when the Cards were on the brink of losing, that the Newton side became involved.

Yelling and screaming to support your team makes everybody better. Playing in front of a crowd gets the players more amped up for the game, and seeing the players pumped up gets the crowd more involved. You can make that gym rock and roll, and the team will roll right along with it.

Not that all of the Newton fans are to blame. There are some who try to start chants and jump in the stands, but when I look up and see students in the back row taking self-ies with snapback hats on, it makes me cringe.

Please, I implore you Cardinal fans! The boys play a substate semifi nal in Iowa City tonight. It’s not a terribly long drive to support the school, play-ers and team you love. I will be there, and I hope to see plenty of you there, as well.

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Ashton ChapelNext to Ashton Park, near

intersection of Hwy 330 and F17 (8887 W. 122nd St. N., Mingo,

IA) Sunday School 9:00am; Worship 10:00am. Pastors: Larry

Craig and Mark Eddy

Bar None Cowboy ChurchBuilding next to Culver’s Newton, David Rex, Pastor, 641-521-4354, 7pm Thursdays. Music featured

each week. www.barnonecowboychurchofiowa.com

Baxter Evangelical Free ChurchEast Avenue, Eugene Bucklin,

Pastor. Church service every sunday at 10:00am. Children’s

church during regular services. AWANAS every Wednesday night

6:30 – 8:00.

Bethany United Church of Christ5627 N. 95th Ave. W., Baxter,

(one mi. E. of Baxter on Station St.)Pastor Wanda Seydel. Sunday

after Labor Day through Memo-rial Day: 8:30 Junior Choir; 9:15 Sunday School; 10:30 Worship.

Sunday after Memorial Day through Labor Day: 9:30 Wor-ship; Women’s Fellowship First Thursday 2pm. Sunday’s in July feature 10:30 prayer and study of

the Lords Prayer.

Bible Missionary Church909 N. 95th Ave. E. 641-840-2093

Pastor Lucas. Sunday School 9:45am, Morning Worship 10:45,

Evening Service 6:00pm. Mid-week Service 7:00pm

Center FriendsNortheast of Newton, Karen Mendenhall, pastor, Dallas

Gilreath, pastor, Cheri Doane, assistant pastor; 9:30am Sunday

school, 10:30am Worship. Call 641-792-2473.

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Prairie City, 9:00am Sunday school, 10:00am Worship.

Christian Life Church421 S. 2nd Ave. W., Interim Pas-tor James Miller; Phone Number:

641-521-9294. Coffeetime 9:30am, Worship 10:00am.

Lunch Served at noon. Bible Study: Tuesday 10:00am.

Christian Reformed ChurchPrairie City, Matthew Mc-

Clure, pastor; 9:30am Worship, 10:45am Sunday school, 6:30pm Worship. E-mail:[email protected]

Jasper County Church of Christ1100 N. 3rd Ave. E., 9:30am Bi-ble classes, 10:30am & 1:30pm

Worship; Thursday evening 7:00pm Bible Study.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

1405 N. 11th Ave. E., Branch President-Gregory O. Rivers, 316 E. 8th St. S., Newton, IA 50208.

9:30am Sacrament meeting, 10:40am Sunday School & Pri-

mary, 11:45am Priesthood, Relief Society & Young Women.

Colfax United Methodist ChurchS. Locust St. & Division St.,

515-674-3782. 10:00am Sunday School, 10:00am Family Worship.

Rev. R.D. Streeter

Community of Christ1805 S. 8th Ave. E., 791-7834, Bill Conklin, pastor, Church

School Classes 9:30am; Worship Service 10:30am; Wednesday

Prayer Service 6:30pm.

Community Heights AlliancePastor Cory Stout, Senior Pastor; Pastor John Patterson, Associate

Pastor; Tyler Kramer, Youth Pastor; Mike Osterbauer, Pastor of Worship and Young Adults. Sunday Worship Services 8:15am, 10:30am & 5pm; Sunday School 9:30am; Sr. High Youth Group Wednesday 7:45pm; Wednesday Prayer Meetings 6am, noon & 6:30pm; Jr. High Youth Group 6:30pm; Awana 6:30pm;

Nursery available for most events. Handicapped accessible.

2500 S. 13th Ave. E. 792-1620. www.communityheights.org.

Congregational United Church of Christ-Baxter

217 S. Main Baxter, Rollin Watters, pastor, Sunday School

9:30am, Regular worship service, 10:30am

Congregational United Church of Christ-Newton

308 E. 2nd St. N., Newton, Rev. Jessica Petersen, Pastor; Sunday Worship 10:00am, Nursery pro-

vided; Fellowship Time 11:00am. Accessible to all. Bible Study

Wednesdays 10:00am. Christian Education for children of all ages Wed. 6:00pm(infant-8th grade). 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month 7:00pm - Adult Christian Education. No matter who you are or where you are on life’s

journey, you are welcome here! facebook.com/NewtonUCC

Cornerstone Bible Fellowship1000 E. 12th St. S., Newton; Pas-tor Steve Bundy, Associate Pas-

tor Brian Keeton. Sunday School 9am, Sunday Worship 10:15am, 6:30pm youth group on Sunday,

7pm Wed Bible study,

Faith BaptistPrairie City, 9:30am Bible School, 10:30am Worship, 6:00pm Gospel service, 7:00pm Wed., Bible study.

First Assembly of God1029 E. 19th St. N., Newton, www.newtonassembly.com;

Pastor Don Hayes, senior pas-tor; 9am Sunday School, 10am Worship, 7pm Wed. mid-week

service.

First Baptist ChurchColfax, Rev. Phil Butler, pastor, 674-3752. Family Fellowship

9:00 am; Sun. School 9:15 am; Morning Worship 10:30 am; Eve.

Service 6:00 pm. Wed., 7:00 pm Hour of Power.

First Baptist Church (Newton)620 S. 8th Ave. E., phone: 792-7113.Web:www.NewtonFirst-Baptist.com and on facebook. Pastor Aaron Loree, Family Education Time 9:00a.m.,

Powerkidz infants - 5th grade 9:00 a.m.; Sunday School for

teens 9:00a.m.; Worship Service 10:15a.m. Men’s group meets on

the first Sat. of every month at 7:30pm.

First Baptist810 S. Commerce, Monroe, Senior Pastor Shank, Youth Pastor Jason Burns. 9:30 am

Sun. School, 10:30 am Worship, 6:00 p Evening service, 6 p.m.

Christians in Action grades 6-12, Wed. Awana at 6:15 p.m. during school year, Wed. Bible Study

& Prayer 8:15 pm during school year & 8 p.m. during summer.

First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

314 E. 2nd St. N. Pastor Mark Young. Sunday: 9:00 a.m. Faith Village & Sunday School. 10:15 Worship. 11:30am coffee fellow-ship. 5:45pm Wed; Family Unity Night. Thurs; 6:00 Choir Prac-tice, 7:10 Atonement Practice.

www.fccnewton.org 641-792-5850, Nursery provided.

First Church of Christ Scientist616 6th Ave., Grinnell, 10:30 am

Services.

First Lutheran Church - ELCA309 E. 3rd St. N., Newton. Pastor Zachary Bey. Sunday Worship at 9:30 am; Sunday School and Fel-

lowship to follow at 10:45 am;High School Youth Group every

other Wednesday evening.641-792-3934. All are welcome!

http://www.newtonfirstlutheran.org/

First Presbyterian220 N 2nd Ave E Newton

Interim Pastor Linda Curtis-Stolper Adult Sunday School

9AM Kids Action Hour 9:15AMWorship 10:30AM Fellowship 11:30AM Nursery Provided

Handicapped Accessible Everyone Welcome! Mens Group 1st & 3rd Thursdays 6:30AM & 9AM Womens Bible Study Wed

9:30AM WOW Wed 4:30PM 792-2790

www.newton1stpresbyterian.org

First United Methodist210 N. 2nd Ave E.Rev Gary Marzolf

Worship 8:30 AM, 11:00 AMFellowship 9:30 AM

Sunday School 9:45 AMYouth Group 6:00 PM

Handicapped Accessible Nursery Provided

9:00 AM “First Church on the Air” – KCOB

www.newtonfirst.org

Foursquare Church1510 S. 8th Ave. E., Pastor Dot-tie Black and Associate Pastor

Dustin Black, 9:45 a.m. Sunday morning worship service, 6:30

p.m. Sunday night Sunday School and prayer meetings 10

a.m. Tuesdays and Fridays, 7 p.m. Wednesday and 9:15 a.m.

Sunday until service time.

Grace Church“A Family Of Friends”, 1620

N. 11th Ave E., Newton; Pastor Dan Hayton; Sunday Morning

Refreshments 9:30 am, Worship Service with nursery care 10:00 am. The Edge: 5 yr olds to 5th

grade & The Kids Commu-nity Pre School age, Sunday at

10:00am. Experience God Bible Study Wed. at 7am; Life Student

Ministries Wed. 6:45-8pm641-792-1793

www.gracenewton.com

Grinnell Church of Christ1402 3rd Ave., Grinnell, Iowa

50112, Bible study Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7:00 p.m., Wor-ship services Sunday 1030 a.m.

[email protected] or www.grinnellcoc.com

Haven Vineyard Church207 1st Ave. E, Newton; Pastor

Caz & Jane Cibula; 641-526-3157; 10 am Sunday Service.

Heart of Worship14283 Hwy F62, Lynnville

Pastor Tom Pool, Worship: 9 a.m., Children’s Church: 9:45 a.m.

Fellowship: 10:15 a.m., Sunday School: 10:45 a.m.

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, ELCA

1409 S. 8th Ave. E., Pastor Ken Ahntholz, 9:00 am Sunday

School; 10:15 am Worship, easy access - no steps.

Hope Assembly of God126 W. State St., Colfax, Sunday school 10 am, Worship service 11 am, Sunday Evening Prayer

Service 6:30 pm. 641-674-3700.

Howard Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Rev. Tom Burns, pastor. 10:30 am Morning worship. Sunday school 9-10am all ages; K-5 Wed after school; Jr. High &

High School 7-8pm; Howard and Locust Colfax.

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church

305 E. Howard St., Colfax, 515-674-3711; Decaon Joe Dvorak; 11:00am Sunday Mass, 9:00am

Wednesday Communion Service; www.immaculateconceptioncolfax.org

Immanuel Baptist(GARB) 1300 N. 4th Ave. E., Ken Van Loon, Pastor, 9:30

am Sunday school, 10:45 am Worship, 6:00 pm Worship, Wed

6:30-8:00 pm Youth, 6:30 pm Wednesday Awana Clubs (during school year), 7:00 pm Wednes-

day Prayer Fellowship. Call 792-4470.

Ira United Church Karen Fausch, pastor, 9:00 am

Worship, 10:15 am Sunday School.

Iron Sharpens Iron Church1305 E. 10th St. S. Newton

Cheryl Palmer, Doug Cupples - Ministers 10:00am Sunday Morning Worship. Bible study and fellowship follow morning service. Mid-week

Service 7pm Wednesday with Merlin Hamilton.

Kellogg Christian (Disciples of Christ) 321 Bolton

St., Kellogg, 10:30 am Worship.

Kellogg United Methodist417 2nd St., Kellogg, Pastor Tim Morgan, Sunday School 9:30am - nursery, kids, young adult, middle

adult & adult classes; 10:30am Morning worship; Worship Lit Sat-urday’s 7:00pm; Open Hand Supper 3rd Saturday of the month 6:00pm.

Killduff United MethodistRev. Randall McNeer, Worship

10:45am Communion first Sunday of each month.

Living Word FellowshipDoug Bradey, Pastor, 321 E. Rob-

inson St., Knoxville 641-828-7119, Wed. Night Service: 6pm prayer,

7pm worship, 6:15pm Fuzion Youth Service; Sun. Morning Service: 8:30

am prayer, 9 am Life Groups, 10 am Worship Service, Nursery and Children’s Ministry available.

Lynnville FriendsMark Porter, Pastor, 9:00 am Morning Worship, 10:30 am

Sunday School, 6:30 pm Bible Study Hour.

Metz Community3253 W. 62nd St. S., Newton, 791-9568, Pastor David Rex;

Sunday School 9:00 am. 10:10 am service.

Mingo United Methodist202 W. Main, Mingo, Rev. Kurt DeVance, 515-339-8819; Chil-dren’s Sunday School - 9:30 am and Adult Sunday School - 9:45 am. Church time is 10:45 am.

Monroe Presbyterian Church

115 So. Main, Monroe, Rev. Ann Johnson, Sonlight Service

8:00 am; 9:00 am church school, 10:00 am Traditional Worship, communion on 1st Sunday of month, 6:00 pm Session Com-mittees 2nd Sunday of month, 7:00 pm Session Meeting 2nd

Sunday of month.

Monroe United Methodist407 N. Monroe St., Monroe, 641-259-2822; Pastor Stephen Taylor; Jubilee Service 8:15 am; Sunday School 9:00 am; Worship 10:15

am; Office Hours: Mon. - Thurs. 8-Noon;

[email protected]

New Life Baptist Church124 E. Howard St., Colfax,

515-674-3103, Sunday School 9:45 am, Worship Service 10:45, Evening Service 6 pm, midweek

service 7 pm Wednesdays. Independent Fundamental

Baptist Church.

Newton Baptist Temple(A Fundamental Independent Church) 621 E. 12th St. N., Ross McIn-tyre, pastor. 10:00 am Sunday

School, 11:00 am Worship, Wednesday and Sunday 6:00

pm Worship, Bus transportation available, 6:00 pm Wednesday

Bible study.

Newton Christian Reformed Church

511 S. 5th Ave. E., Aaron Gun-saulus, Pastor, 9:30 am Morning

worship, 10:50 am Church school, 6:00 pm Sunday Evening

worship.

New Life Community Church of the Nazarine

605 W. 8th St. N., P.O. Box 1021, Rev. Lauris Meek, Sunday School 9:30 am, Morning Wor-ship 10:30 am, Sunday Evening 6:00 pm, Wed. Children’s Night & TNT (Teen) 7:00 pm, Junior quizzing 7:00 pm, Thurs. Youth

7:00 pm , Thurs. Bible Study & Prayer 7:00 pm, Fellowship Hall. Nursery for all services.

Parsonage 792-6171 or Church 792-5363.

Newton Church of The Way2306 S. 3rd Ave E., 792-7300 Pastor Steve Heerema. Sunday

Morning: 7:45 Classic; 9:00 and 10:30 Ignite, Nursery during both

Ignite Services (for newborn through 2 years old). Journey

252 Children’s Ministry 10:30am (for children 3 years through 6th

Grade) The Way Café 8:30 to 10:30am, 5:00-7:00pm Prayer of Blessing, Wednesday 6:30 –

8:30pm Route 146 Youth, Satur-day Nite Ignite 7:00-8:00pm

Everyone Welcome! Other vari-ous group studies and classes are offered. Check out our Facebook page, our weekly bulletin on our website, or call/email the office for more information. Email:

[email protected] Web: www.newtonway.org

Our Savior Lutheran Missouri Synod

1900 N. 4th Ave. E., Rev. John M. Moore, Pastor, Sunday Wor-ship 9:00 am; Adult Bible Study

Sundays 10:30 am; Sunday School Kingdom Quest 10:30 am; High School Youth Group

Sunday 10:30 am & Wednesdays 7:00 pm; www.oursavlutheran.

com (641( 792-1084.

Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church

151 60th Ave, Prairie City Rev. Medea Saunders

Sunday 9:30 a.m. Worship Ser-vice;10:30 a.m. Sunday School [email protected] 515-994-2354

Pleasantview United Methodist8454 S. 28th Ave. E., Newton, Pastor Tim Morgan; 9:00 am worship; 10:15 am Sunday

School.

Prairie City Church of the Brethren

12015 Hwy S 6G, Corner of S 6G & F70 W, 5 miles south of Prairie City on S6G, 515-994-

2940; Mon., Tues., Thurs. & Fri. 8:15-11:15 am; Pastor Timothy Peter; Sunday: 9:30am Sunday

School; 10:45am WorshipService/Children’s Church;

Nursery provided.

Prairie City First Reformed Church

300 E. 5th St., P. O. Box 178, 515-994-2250, frcprairiecity@

aol.com; 9:30 am Worship, 10:50 am Sunday School.

Prairie City United Methodist Church

706 W. McMurray, Prairie City Rev. Medea Saunders

Sunday 8:45 a.m. Sunday School for all ages. Office hours 8:30

a.m. - 2:00 p.m. M-TH [email protected] 515-994-2354

Rock Creek Hickory Grove Church

3 1/2 miles north of Rock Creek Lake, 9:15 am fellowship, 9:30 am Sunday School, 10:30 am

worship.

Reasnor United MethodistRev. Randall McNeer, Worship

8:45am. Communion first Sunday of each month.

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

1115 S. 8th Ave. E., Rev. William Reynolds, pastor, Saturday:

4:00 pm Mass, Sunday: 9:00 am Mass.

Salvation Army301 N. 2nd Ave. E., Captains

Jeff and Mikey Carter, Sunday - 9:45 am

Sunday school, 10:45 am Worship.

Seventh Day Adventist1409 S. 8th Ave E., Newton

Pastor Joshua PlhockySaturday Services 9:00 am; Worship

11 am Sabbath school, Prayer Meeting Thursday

Eve at 7:00 pm

Solid Rock Church115 Main St., Reasnor;

Pastor John Hlad 641-842-2440; Sunday Bible study all ages

9:30 a.m.; 10:30 a.m. worship; Wednesday Bible study all ages

7 p.m.

St. Aidan’s Anglican Church4900 Meredith Dr., (NW 46th

Ave.), Des Moines, The Bishop L.W. Faulk, 9:10 am Morning prayer, 9:30 am Holy commu-

nion.

St. Luke United Methodist501 E. 19th St. N., Pastor Rev.

Audrey Young, 8:00 am worship followed by Coffee time. 9:15 am Sunday School for all ages,

including two adult classes. 10:30 am Worship followed by

Coffeetime. 641-792-5736

St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church5 mi. west of Sully, Pastor Nancy J. Pick, Worship 9:30 am; Adult Forum 10:15 am; Women of the ELCA meet 1:30 pm on the 2nd

Wednesday of the month; Church Council meets 2nd Tuesday of

the month at 7 pm.; Contact Par-ish office 641-798-4651.

St. Stephen’s Episcopal223 E. 4th St. N., Newton, ph. 792-6971. Rev. John Thorpe,

Rector, Rev. Merle Smith, Deacon; Sunday 8:00 am Holy

Eucharist & 10:00 am Holy Eucharist; Mon. - Thurs. 7:30 am Morning Prayer; Wed. 5:00 pm

Evening Prayer.Saturday Evening Worship

Service 5:30 p.m.

Sully Community ChurchPastor Jerry Morningstar, 9:30 am Sunday school, 10:30 am Worship, 5:00 pm Quiz team practice; 6:00 pm Worship,

Thursday night adults, youth 7:00 pm.

Sully Christian ReformedPastor Brian Ochsner. 9:30 am

Morning worship, 6:00 pm Eve-ning worship, 10:45 am Sunday School. 9:30 am Tues. Coffee

Break for women, Nursery and preschool classes provided. 7:15

pm Wed - Gems, Cadets and High School Youth, Prayer for Country - everyone welcome.

8 Bible studies call 594-4440.

Sully First Reformed ChurchRev. Wayne Sneller, senior

pastor, Diana Scandridge, Youth & Education Director. 9:30

am Worship, 11:00 am Sunday school, 6:00 pm Worship; Thurs-day Night Family Night 7:00 pm Sept. - March. www.sullyfrc.org

United Pentecostal813 E. 7th St. N., Rev. Robert A. Shaw, pastor, 10:00 am Sunday Worship, 6:00 pm Sunday Wor-

ship, Prayer and Bible study Tues-day 6:30, Super & Youth Church

Wednesday starts 7:00-8:00.

United Presbyterian209 N. 2nd Ave. E., Rev. Donald

Freeman, 9:30 am Sunday School, 10:30 - 11:30 am wor-

ship service (broadcasted live on KCOB radio); 11:30 am Fellow-ship; Wednesday choir rehearsal

6:00 p.m.; Nursery provided on Sundays.

Westfield Community Church4164 20th St., Grinnell,

Pastor Jann Braaksma, Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School;

Sunday 10:30 a.m. Worship; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Youth

Group; www.westfieldwitness.org

Wittemberg ChurchRt. 1, Newton, pastor Rev. Roger K. Swanson 10:15 am Worship.

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February 28

February 10, 2014 - 6:30 p.m.Regular meeting of the Board ofEducation at Emerson Hough -Conference Room 125President Andrew Elbert con-vened the board to order at 6:31p.m. Present: Sheri Benson, NatClark, Donna Cook, Andrew El-bert, Travis Padget (7:08 PM),Bill Perrenoud, Bob Callaghan,Gayle Isaac, and Christine Daw-son.Absent: Robyn FriedmanOthers Present: Chris Bieghler,Jeremy Burdt (JCSO), ElizabethCastillo (student rep), Cristy Cro-son, Brian Foster (NPD), JohnHalferty (JCSO), Brenda Hodnett,Jodi Morgan-Peters, Ty Rushing,Sandy Scotton, Jack Suttek,Randy Van, Holly VanderPol (stu-dent rep), Brandon VanRoekel.CommunicationsUnderwriter's Laboratory to berecognized at February 24, 2014Board Meeting for recent dona-tions to NCSD.Board Members accepted Mr.Callaghan's invitation to recog-nize Excellence in Educationaward recipients at next BoardMeeting. Second Semester StudentReps - Elizabeth Castillo andHolly VanderPolStudents received information ontheir iPADS regarding upcomingcommunity forums.APPROVAL OF CONSENTAGENDA - ACTION # 9235Donna Cook moved, Nat Clarkseconded, to approve consentagenda.Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert, andBill Perrenoud.Open ForumNo one requested to speak dur-ing Open Forum.Superintendent Callaghan'sReport:A. Excellence in Education Re-port - Six teachers were present-ed with Excellence in EducationAwards at the Chamber of Com-merce Dinner held January 30,2014. B. SIAC Sub Committee Re-ports a. Facilities -Met January 29,2014. Next meeting February 12,2014.b. Staffing -Met February 3,2014.c. Budget - To meet February 11,2014.C. Newton Community ForumsReport - Two community forumswill be held February 13 (NHS)and February 18 (BMS) regardingthe 2014/2015 school calendar.D. Maintenance/Facilities Up-date - Jack Suttek reported thatcontrols at the Berg campus con-tinue to be a problem. There willbe a retro-commissioning and fa-cility study to gain information onthis issue.E. Technology Update - ChrisBieghler reported that the DistrictTechnology Committee will meetFebruary 13, 2014 to review draftplan and make final revisions. Safety & Security - NewtonCommunity School District(Discussion Item)a. Police Department and Sher-iff's Representatives -explainedsafety and security efforts in theNCSD and featured JCSO's K9“Nuke”, trained to detect the odorof specific narcotics. Therewould be no expense to theNCSD for this service.b. Prevention Measures - Vari-ous measures already in placewere discussed. Mr. Callaghanoffered that K9 services would beanother reason for kids to say“no”. c. Data - SRO Brian Fostershared there has been a total ofeight drug charges during the2013/2014 school year. Consideration of ContractLease to AT & T of PropertySouth of Newton High School(Action Item) - ACTION # 9236An Option and Lease Agreementbetween the NCSD and New Cin-gular Wireless PCS, LLC (AT &T) was shared. NCSD received aphone call requesting the issuebe tabled. Mr. Callaghan's rec-ommendation is that with theamount of time the District hasbeen considering this agreement,legal fees, and potential length ofthe contract, they are “asking fora lot of sugar for a dime.” Sheri Benson moved, DonnaCook seconded, to discontinueConsideration of the ContractLease to AT & T. Ayes: Sheri Benson, DonnaCook, Nat Clark, Andrew Elbert,Travis Padget, and Bill Perre-noud.Consideration of Daily Pay forNurse Substitutes (Action Item)- ACTION # 9237The district is considering align-ing substitute nurse rates withsubstitute teacher rates. RN full-day rate would increase from$85.00 to $110.00 ($55.00/half-day rate). LPN full-day ratewould remain at $85.00($42.50/half-day rate). Donna Cook moved, Bill Perre-noud seconded, to approve Con-sideration of Daily Pay for NurseSubstitutes. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Travis Padget, and Bill Perre-noud. Classified Seniority Report (Ac-tion Item) - ACTION # 9238Mr. Callaghan presented BoardMembers with a copy of the NCS-D's Classified Seniority Report(December 2013) and sharedthat the union has approved it aspresented. Nat Clark moved, Travis Padgetseconded, to approve the Classi-fied Seniority Report.Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Travis Padget, and Bill Perre-noud. Consider Adoption of BoardOperating Procedures (ActionItem) - ACTION # 9239Mr. Callaghan proposed that heand Ms. Dawson work with IASBon the process of Board Operat-ing Procedures. Nat Clark moved, Sheri Bensonseconded, to postpone Consider-ation of Adoption of Board Oper-ating Procedures to a future date.Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Travis Padget, and Bill Perre-noud. “Kids First” Cardinal Project(Action Item) - ACTION # 9240Sheri Benson explained theBoard of Director's “Kids First”Cardinal Program, which is de-signed to randomly award NCSDstaff for putting students FIRST.Donna Cook moved, Sheri Ben-son seconded, to adopt the “KidsFirst” Cardinal Project.Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert, andTravis PadgetNays: Bill Perrenoud APPROVAL OF BILLS (ActionItem) - ACTION # 9241Mr. Isaac provided explanation ofNCSD bills via a Business OfficeReport, which included an expla-nation of the Physical Plant andEquipment Levy (PPEL). Donna Cook moved, Nat Clarkseconded, to approve the bills aspresented. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Travis Padget, and Bill Perre-noudBusiness Services Update (Dis-cussion Item) - No additional in-formation. New Business - Old Business“What's New(ton)?” BrandingNewton community rally to beheld February 11, 2014.Budget Work Session to be heldFebruary 15, 2014 (9:00 - 11:00AM). IASB District Meeting to be heldFebruary 27, 2014 (Dallas - Cen-ter Grimes, IA). EdCamp Iowa to be held March8, 2014 (Pleasant Hill, IA).Education on the UpcomingPhysical Plant and EquipmentLevy (PPEL) Election DuringNewton Community Forums -Mr. Callaghan encouraged BoardMembers to attend upcomingCommunity Forums on2014/2015 School Calendar op-tions (180 days vs. 1,080 hours).An informational flyer will be pro-vided on upcoming PPEL Elec-tion, to be held April 1, 2014.ADJOURN - ACTION # 9242Bill Perrenoud moved, and NatClark seconded, to adjourn themeeting at 8:28 p.m.Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Travis Padget, and Bill Perre-noud.

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Three cheers for the end of this Mercury retro-grade! Unfortunately, the celebration will be brief, as tomorrow begins the retrograde of Mars, followed by Saturn’s backward journey, which starts Sunday. Use the brief window of clarity provided on this eve of the new moon to make the kind of short-term plans that will add up to long-term success.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 28). Love is the theme in this new chap-ter, and the next four weeks of romance set the tone. In March, you’ll contribute to a circle of people you admire. In April, a situation you thought was hopeless improves to the point of being an amazing gift in your life. Family sup-ports your June move. You earn applause in July. Capricorn and Aries people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 28, 24, 44, 30 and 15.

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What’s Happening for the week of March 3 - 7

Newton Community School DistrictMonday: 3 to 5:30 p.m., Girl Scouts at Woodrow Wilson Elementary; 5:30 to 8 p.m., Children’s Choir at Berg Elementary; 6 p.m., Boy Scouts at Woodrow Wilson Elementary; 6:30 p.m., Boy Scouts at Aurora Heights Elementary. Tuesday: 5:30 to 8 p.m., FFA at Newton High School; 6 p.m., PTA meeting at Thomas Jefferson Elementary; 7 to 8:30 p.m., Spring Athletics Parent & Student Athletes Meeting at Newton High School. Wednesday: 6:30 p.m., Boy Scouts at Aurora Heights Elementary; 7 to 8:30 p.m., After Prom parent meeting at Newton High School. Thursday: 6 p.m., Berg Elementary spring concert at Berg Middle School; 6:30 p.m., boys basketball banquet at Newton High School; 6:30 p.m., boys swimming banquet at Berg Middle School. Friday: 7 to 10 p.m., spring play at Newton High School. Sunday: 3:30 p.m., girls basketball banquet at Newton High School.

Area students named to Buena Vista University fall dean’s listSTORM LAKE — Brooke Berkey of Colfax and

Stephanie Hayden of Prairie City were students have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at

Buena Vista University. Students named to the dean’s list must have a minimum grade point average of 3.5 for the semester and must have taken at least 12 hours.

What’s Cooking for the week of March 3 - 7Newton Schools Lunch Menu

Monday: Meatball sub, sweet potato tots, celery and dip, mixed fruit and Teddy Grahams. Tuesday: Chicken bacon wrap with cheese, lettuce and salsa, black bean salad, Mandarin oranges and yellow cake with topping. Wednesday: Shrimp poppers, macaroni and cheese, steamed vegetables and a banana. Thursday: Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, broccoli and cheese, apple slices and a homemade roll. Friday: Italian Dunkers and sauce, green beans, mixed salad and peaches.

Newton Schools Breakfast MenuMonday: Cereal, toast, 100% juice and milk. Tuesday: Egg omelet, toast,100% juice and milk. Wednesday: Breakfast Frudel (cheery or apple), yogurt, 100% juice and milk. Thursday: Egg, cheese and sausage on a biscuit, 100% juice and milk. Friday: French toast sticks with syrup, 100% juice and milk.

The Newton Daily News recently visited middle school classrooms at Newton Christian School and asked the following question:

What is your most challenging subject in school?

Abby Ambroson

“Probably math. Because we have to do all the problem solving, and it’s not just a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answer.

Mason Lee

“It’s probably math. Just because there are so many rules and variables, and it’s hard to keep track of. It’s just a bit overwhelming.”

Katie Larson

“Math. It’s kind of confusing for me, and I’m not very good at calculating and graphing.”

Parker Schnell

“Probably social studies. Because of all the dates and times and different people.”

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Submitted PhotoDes Moines Area Community College Newton Career Academy students Korey Exline and Dakota Tim-mins captured eighth place in the 22nd annual DMACC/Iowa Automobile Dealers Association Automotive Skills Contest held Friday at the DMACC Ankeny campus. They each received tools and supplies donated by the IADA and scholarships provided by the DMACC Foundation.

Career Academy has provided more than 7,000 credit hours of education


Since its inception five years ago, the Jasper County Career Academy has provided a wealth of post-secondary educational opportunities for high school students in Jasper County.

“With the cost of college tu-ition going up ... it’s expensive,” Newton Senior High School Principal Bill Peters said. “We feel very good to be able to of-fer that kind of opportunity to our students.”

The career academy pro-vides educational opportuni-ties in several vocational career fields to augment what Jasper County high schools are al-ready offering their students. It benefits from the many grow-ing manufacturing businesses

in the area.The career academy pri-

marily serves Jasper County students from the Baxter, Colfax-Mingo, Lynnville-Sul-ly, Newton and Prairie City-Monroe school districts. When there are occasional openings in the program, students from other outlying school districts, such as Knoxville, also partici-pate.

“The schools are billed for the students who go through,” career academy director Terry Norton said. “They gener-ate additional student funds, which are used to offset the bill their school district gets from DMACC.”

The training the students get is offered in a state-of-the-art environment. Training pro-grams include:

• automotive technology,• auto collision repair,• building trades,• welding,• culinary arts,• information technology,• criminal justice,• teacher academy,• health occupations, and• Certified Nurse Assistant.“We’re not trying to replace

what the schools are providing their students but to enhance it,” Norton said. “I don’t pick at random which classes we’re going to add. Instead, I go out and ask the schools what pro-grams they want us to add, what programs are going to be most beneficial to meet the needs of the high schools.”

Ty Rushing/Daily NewsSuperintendent Bob Callaghan is fairly new to Newton, but has played a major role in reshaping things in the city and in the New-ton Community School District.

Superintendent Callaghan accepts challenge of being ‘face’ of district

By Ty Rushing Daily News Senior Staff Writer

Bob Callaghan has been superintendent of the Newton Community School District for less than a year, and yet it seems as if he has been a part of the community forever.

Callaghan sits on several boards, including the board behind the “Get to Know

Newton” campaign. He won the “Thanks with Franks” hot dog eating contest last Sep-tember, and he often speaks to clubs and organizations. Most importantly, his mes-sage of “Kids First” seems to have been universally adopted by parents and district staff alike.

So how does he feel things are going for him just a little

past the halfway mark of his first school year in Newton?

“I hope they are going well,” Callaghan said. “I be-lieve the biggest obstacle — with such a large school dis-trict — is developing those relationships that are central to my leadership style.”

Developing technological skills important to students’ futureBy Kate Malott

Daily News Staff Writer

The times they are a changing. It’s true in many aspects of life, and certainly within technology.

As many parents know, the Newton Commu-nity School District has implemented the use of iPads at the high school so that each student gets their own iPad tablet, often times referred to as 1:1. It’s one of the biggest initiatives the school has done this year to enhance the learning capa-bilities of students. Basics and Beyond students also participate 1:1.

The school district created a small technology research committee that had many discussions and site visits to determine the best device for students.

“We decided on the iPads because what it re-ally came down to was the number of apps it has. When you take the number of apps that Apple had at the time compared to everyone else, it was an easy decision,” NCSD Technology Supervi-sor Chris Bieghler said.

School Improvment Advisory Committee

helping guide Newton school district


In late 2013, the Newton Community School District’s Board of Education approved a measure to re-establish committees within the school dis-trict. One of those new committees was the School Improvement Advisory Committee.

Since its inception, the committee, which is made up of more than 20 community members, students and various district staff, has acted as an advisory tool for the board.

“The purpose of this was to meet the letter of intent of the law, which is to have a school improve-ment committee,” NCSD Superintendent Bob Cal-laghan said. “SIAC is intended as an outlet for peo-ple to participate in the educational process.”

SIAC has three subcommittees — facilities, staff-ing and budget — that meet separately and bring their collective thoughts to SIAC’s monthly meet-ing.

Co-teaching improving students in classroom, out of the classroom

By Zach Johnson Daily News Staff Writer

In an effort to better provide for special edu-cation students, the Newton Community School District has implemented a process called “co-teaching.”

Co-teaching is the process of having a general education teacher and special education teacher operate in the same classroom. It is offered at ev-ery grade level at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School and the teams there range in co-teaching experience.

Marla Cory is a kindergarten teacher and has 30 years of experience in teaching. She has been co-teaching with kindergarten special education teacher Lisa Pagler since the beginning of the 2013-14 school year.

“I love being able to co-teach with Lisa,” Cory said. “We started out just teaching math together and now we’re starting to evolve into everything. There’s somebody else doing the observations with you and to do the planning with you. There’s so many benefits for the kids and for us as teach-ers.”

Cory pointed out it may sound like it makes their workload heavier but noted the extra work and planning is done to make co-teaching suc-cessful in all grades throughout Thomas Jefferson.

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Submitted PhotoA para-educator reads a book to Emerson Hough Preschool students during center time. Center time is a daily occurrence for preschoolers in the Newton Community School District.

School district’s preschool program fills a needBy Bob Eschliman

Daily News Editor

In today’s world, the earlier a child begins his or her educa-tion, the better. That was one of the guiding principles that led the Newton Community School District to implement its 4-year-old preschool pro-gram.

“Four years ago, we wrote a grant through the State Volun-tary Preschool Grant program,” Director of Elementary Edu-cational Services Jim Gilbert

said. “We hadn’t had a 4-year-old preschool program before that, although we did have the 3-year-old program, which we still have.”

The 3-year-old program is intended as a means to provide early integration for students with special needs. Students who have been identified as needing special education are integrated with non-special-needs students from volunteer families in the community.

The newer, 4-year-old pro-gram is separate from that and

has entirely different goals.“At the time the grant was

offered, we conducted a longi-tudinal study of the elementary students, and we asked what percentage of kindergarteners had preschool experience; we found 20 percent did not, which became the impetus for the go-ing forward,” Gilbert said. “We worked with area providers, be-cause we obviously didn’t want to tread on their market, so we

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NCS focuses on academic, character developmentBy Kate Malott


The consensus at Newton Christian School is that teachers, parents and students col-laborate in an extended family atmosphere, with everyone helping, car-ing and having the same goal: to live and learn to a higher standard.

The Newton Chris-tian School has been in existence since 1957 and currently represents a total of 15 congrega-tions.

Two years ago, the NCS had an enrollment of 50, but this year the school has seen an up-ward spike in numbers and now has 67 students in attendance and a staff of 15.

The NCS offers a Christ-centered edu-cation, believing that Bible teaches God’s truth, and the staff pro-vides their students and families that educational perspective.

“We believe that it’s really the philosophy of the teacher to explain all subject matter in the light of the Bible,” New-ton Christian School Dean of Students and Spanish teacher Mary Patterson said. “We’re teaching science in the light of ‘What does God say about science?’ We have curriculum, and some of our curriculum is from Christian pub-lishers, but not all of it.”

The teaching philos-ophy of the Bible shows not only in the books but in the social interac-tions the kids have and their emotional devel-opment.

The school focuses not solely on the aca-demic development of

students but on their social, psychological and spiritual self as well.

“Sometimes we tell parents it is like a three-legged stool — church, home and school — and if their child is learn-ing the same thing in all three of those places, it feels stable,” Patterson said.

Last spring, the Iowa General Assembly ap-proved independent third-party accredita-tion, such as Christian Schools International. The NCS has been ap-proved as candidates of CSI and is in the pro-cess of doing an accredi-tation self-study and site

visit in the fall.“The accreditation

allows us the freedom to be able to teach from that biblical perspective without some of the re-strictions that there may be in other schools, pub-lic for instance,” NCS School Board President and parent Josh Wer-mager said. “An accredi-tation also allows the school the opportunity to still partner with area education state agencies and other state resourc-es, and it gives us the credibility of an accred-ited school.”

Submitted PhotoNewton Christian School elementary coloring contest winners share their posters. Pictured (front row, from left) are Derek Wermager, Pay-ton Berger and Harper Bar-ton and (back row) Lauren Dunsbergen and Jackson Mace-Maynard.

Kate Malott/Daily NewsBelow: Elementary student Jonathan Breckenridge paints a picture of a bicycle on display in art class at the Newton Christian School.

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“(Christian Schools In-ternational) has some pretty rigid standards, but they’re also more in line with what we believe,” Patterson said.

New to students this year, on a smaller scale, the school has added a few more op-tions to their exploratory op-tion classes for seventh and eighth grade students — auto mechanics, gardening and baking and cake decorating.

The exploratory classes give older students a chance to choose their own study dur-ing a four-week period in the spring. The subjects might in-clude topics they can go on to pursue in a high school class-room or as a hobby.

Staff at the NCS is cur-rently using the same reading curriculum that the Newton Community Schools used last year.

“We don’t try and compete with the public school, but there are things we collabo-rate with them on. It’s just a different philosophy of edu-cation that we want to pro-vide and provide this option for parents,” Patterson said.

“We’re actually consulting with some of those teachers to see how they are adapting to their new curriculum and their thoughts on it. We’re consulting with them and

other area Christian schools,” NCS second-grade language arts and math teacher Pat Van Wyk said.

Like the public school, the Christian school students get some of the same extra-curricular opportunities to perform, compete or learn in conjunction with other schools.

For instance, the students just finished competing at the South Central Iowa

Bandmasters Association solo and ensemble contest, as did Newton Community School District students.

In April, the middle school students have a track and field day in Oskaloosa, where other area Christian schools combine; in March, a fine arts fair will be held in Sully; and in the fall, the stu-dents participate in a joined band and choir for the an-nual fall festival held at Pella

Christian High School.Some of the kids will dual

enroll with the middle school to participate in sports or music activities.

The NCS is different than the public school is that many grades are paired together. For instance, fifth- and sixth-grade classes are joined.

“They can see other grades and also help out, learn what other students are learning,”

Wermager said. “It also gives them the opportunity to mentor other students in the grades below them with their studies or character, and I think they like that.”

The parents and students at NCS are pleased with the atmosphere and education the children are receiving.

“We just love the teach-ers and staff there. Their heart is for the Lord, and they are reinforcing what we are teaching our children at home, from a biblical, moral character perspective,” Wer-mager said. “Academically, our children our doing very well. It also helps with a low-er student-to-teacher ratio.”

“I like being at the Chris-tian school because you get to learn about Jesus, and there’s really no bullies here. You can kinda just be your-self and not worry about if people are going to laugh at you,” fifth-grade student Brianna Bower said. Her fa-vorite subjects are “physical education, art and, once in awhile, math.”

For more information about the Newton Christian School, located at 1710 N. 11th Ave. E., visit its website at www.newtonchristian-school.com.

Staff writer Kate Malott may be contacted at (641) 792-3121, ext. 422, or at [email protected].

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Kate Malott/Daily NewsEighth-grade student Sarah Urias and seventh-grade student Mason Lee read along with teacher Emily Paterson in an activity in the students Bible class at the Newton Christian School on Monday. The middle school aged students also studied band, reading, novels, social studies and science on that day.

Basics and Beyond students succeed in place they call ‘their own’ By Zach Johnson


Basics and Be-yond Alternative High School is preparing to graduate 36 students this spring after finish-ing its second year at the Emerson Hough location, which has been described as a successful transition.

“The students have

become more engaged after the transition with having a space to call their own,” Basics and Beyond Princi-pal Laura Selover said. “We have been focus-ing on making sure the seniors have all the credits needed to grad-uate this spring.”

Basics and Beyond students have taken part of many activities

throughout the school year, which serves as incentives for students who remain on track to graduate. The students attend a homeroom class, which gives them a chance to interact not only with other stu-dents but teachers as well.

“Homeroom is a chance to create an in-teraction in the school,

not just between stu-dents but also with teachers,” Selover said. “It has made the tran-sition to Emerson Hough to be more suc-cessful and smooth.”

Basics students will be finishing their sec-ond trimester this week and heading toward the end of the year. The students will have their annual school picnic,

which will be the last event of the school year.

“We just want stu-dents to remain fo-cused on their studies heading into the end of the year,” Selover said.

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Callaghan wants to develop re-lationships with all district staff, as impossible as it may seem. In his of-fice, he has a dry-erase board with the names of every teacher in every building written down. He is known to pop in for visits at the district’s various campuses and offices, and one new thing he has implemented is “S(o)up for Lunch,” during which he has lunch with different groups of employees at school buildings.

He also has some clear-cut personal goals he wants to accomplish this year.

“Developing trust within the teaching staff and within the com-munity and promoting the excellent educational opportunities within the district,” Callaghan said. “With that said, sometimes it’s easier for people to focus on the negatives. There is no perfect organization, whether it’s the school district, the newspaper, the ra-dio station, business and industry in town — nobody’s perfect — and we all strive to be as strong and positive as possible.”

During a work session last year, the school board challenged Callaghan to become “the face” of the district, which is how he became the hot dog eating champion and why he is so ac-tive within the community.

“I’m feeling spread pretty thin,” Callaghan said half-jokingly. “We have made a strong effort to be out in

the public, meeting with the groups and organizations — Kiwanis clubs, Rotary — becoming part of the New-ton Development Corporation, work-ing with the city in branding Newton.

“I’ve met with fraternal organiza-tions, some local coffee clubs, been at a couple of the churches in town, and I’m always available to go out and speak and try to promote the district and (explain) what it is we are doing and be available to answer questions,” he continued. “I’ve had many indi-viduals from the community come in and speak with me, and as much as humanly possible, I’ve been available to people.”

Callaghan said he has an open-door policy and is open to talking to anyone about school-related issues.

Another focus of Callaghan’s is helping the district form a technology committee and a comprehensive tech

plan. One key component to this plan, which is still being finalized, is the 1:1 Initiative, which placed iPads into the hands of every high school student at Newton Senior High School and Ba-sics and Beyond Alternative School.

“The 1:1 Initiative, from the stu-dent perspective, has been very posi-tive,” Callaghan said. “The students express they love the instantaneous access and the flexibility provided by the (iPads). I believe the biggest chal-lenge, from the school district side, is the large amount of responsibility the school district has had to take in re-gards to keeping the devices current, active and at the same time, place re-strictions on students’ unfiltered ac-cess to places.”

“The world is moving toward the electronic age, and based upon that, it’s been a huge success,” he contin-ued.

Callaghan, an Iowa native, and his family moved to Newton after he ac-cepted this position. Prior to this job, he had been the superintendent of the Rogers Independent School Dis-trict in Rogers, Texas, and had spent the majority of his educational career working in Texas.

It didn’t seem he needed much time to adjust back to Iowa and made some maneuvers that have created an instant impact within the district. Callaghan played a crucial role in the implementation of the three district-wide learning days — 9/11, Veterans Day and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day — the district-wide staff com-mitment ceremony, where staff vowed to “doing whatever it takes” for kids and of course, popularizing the man-tra of “Kids First.”

When the 2013-14 school year comes to a close, Callaghan will have completed his first year in Newton and has already started developing his vision for the 2014-15 school year.

“I’d like the community to feel that we are being good stewards of their tax dollars and that we are providing excellent opportunities for the next generation of adults that we will help develop. (We want) strong citizens, with values and the ability to think creatively,” Callaghan said.

Senior staff writer Ty Rushing may be con-tacted at (641) 792-3121, ext. 426, or at [email protected].

Callaghan: Superintendent has open-door policy to discuss school issuesContinued from Page 1C

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“The subcommittees really look in-depth at specific issues,” Cal-laghan said. “Then, they will come back and report to the en-tire committee. There is equal representation in each of the groups and individuals were given the opportunity to chose the committee that they gravitated to-wards.”

While SIAC may be a new group, it has played a major role in helping shape the future school calendar for the district. School districts all over Iowa have been debating between the 180 days vs. 1,080 in-structional hours school calendar and SIAC rec-ommend the district go with the later.

“The calendar is still a big one,” Callaghan said. “The state of Iowa wanted us to make a de-cision on the 180 days versus the 1,080 hours calendar. I believe that as long as people keep kids first, and when presented with factual and accurate informa-tion, building consen-sus can be kind of an easy thing.”

Just this week, the school board selected the 1,080 hours method to develop the school calendar based on the committee’s recom-mendations.

SIAC also has helped narrow the amount of committees the district utilized in previous years.

“In the past, we have used a large number of committees to complete these tasks,” Callaghan said. “My focus was to develop one commit-tee (that is) committed to school improvement.

The goal was to im-prove communication and increase participa-tion. We take minutes, we produce those min-utes and post them on our website, just like we would do a school board meeting.”

Several school board members, who also serve on SIAC, voiced their support for the committee in recent meetings.

“I thought it was productive meeting and we did accomplish a lot,” school board/SIAC member Bill Per-renoud said during a January board meeting. “There was a lot of dif-ferent input from a lot of different venues and it was very open and transparent. I think this

committee is going to be very successful.”

Callaghan also strongly supports SIAC and believes this com-mittee will serve a valu-able need to the district.

“There has been 100 percent attendance at each of the subcom-mittee meetings and there was 100 percent attendance at the large SIAC meeting,” Cal-laghan said. “I’ve been extremely impressed that everyone has dedi-cated themselves and committed themselves to the school improve-ment process.”

Senior staff writer Ty Rushing may be contacted at (641) 792-3121, ext. 426, or at [email protected].

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In the previous four years, students have earned more than 7,000 credit hours from DMACC.

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The bulk of the students who have participated in the career academy — somewhere between 400 and 500 — came from Newton Senior High School. Principal Bill Peters said he hasn’t yet added up the combined credit hours earned by those students but guessed it totaled between 3,000 and 4,000 college credits.

“It’s all different, depend-ing on which strand they get into,” he said. “They get themselves there around 7:30 a.m. and stay through the en-tire first block, or until about 9:44 a.m. That translates dif-ferently in credit hours, de-pending on the college cours-es they’re taking.”

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“If that’s something they want to do, and they’re eli-gible, we’ll work to carve up their schedule so they can at-tend classes during the morn-ing,” Peters said. “It’s not

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Academy: About 775 have completed academy program since its inceptionContinued from Page 1C

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Preschool Coordinator Jamie Cranston said this is the fourth full year for the preschool program in the Newton Community School District. The program for 4-year-olds has been housed at Emerson Hough since its inception, and the program has continued to grow from its original program with just two teach-ers and a part-time coordinator.

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Gilbert said the earlier parents become involved in their children’s education, the easier it is for both the parents and children to value that education. He said studies have shown that children who have their education reinforced at home have a higher rate of success in school.

Another element helping teachers in the class-room, now in its third year in the preschool program, is the Teaching Strategies Gold assessment system. Cranston said the system requires teachers to make anecdotal notes periodically to show individual stu-dents’ growth in certain areas.

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how to do it, and for the past year and a half, we’ve been using it to inform our teaching,” she said. “Ev-ery Wednesday morning, we get together to make our groups based on what kids need to learn.”

In a way, the program allows the teachers to tailor their teaching to the individual needs of their stu-dents.

The current school year has resulted in another big change with the preschool program. Two of the pro-gram’s teachers moved to Berg Elementary to teach kindergarten and transitional kindergarten, and the promotion of Cranston from part-time teacher/part-time coordinator to full-time coordinator, have re-sulted in a almost entirely new slate of teachers.

“We needed another section to deal with the wait-ing list for the program, and the coordinator was moving to a full-time position,” Cranston said. “So, this year, we hired four brand-new teachers, which means our staff is all new, which is very exciting.”

Cranston also noted the amount of training the preschool’s paraeducators receive each year. Gilbert said it adds to the district’s goal of high quality as-surance for the program.

“They get extra training, beyond what the nor-mal paras or associates get in the elementary schools. There’s training from the AEA and background checks, which result in formal licensure,” she said. “We also provide additional training on anything we train our teachers on, usually about four times a year. It’s something we pride ourselves on.”


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Submitted PhotosEmerson Hough Preschool students look at a sewing machine during their study of clothes. Throughout the study, students learned how clothes were made and were able to sew with teacher assistance. The hands-on learning experience is one of the new elements added to the school district’s preschool program this year.

“We’re always striving for paren-tal involvement, like our Parent Night. We’re doing well, but we want to make it stronger.”

—NCSD Preschool Coordinator Jamie Cranston


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“We meet daily and we have one day a week to plan and organize lesson plans,” Cory said.

While the lesson plans and the meetings are very important, all the teachers agreed it’s the re-lationship between the two teachers that makes co-teaching successful.

“It’s all about the relationship between the two teachers,” said Cory and Pagler agreed.

“It’s like a marriage,” TJ third-grade teacher Megan Frehse said.

After four year’s of working together, Thomas Jefferson’s third grade co-teaching team, made up of Freshe and special education teacher Lucinda Sinclair, is the most experienced co-teaching team in the district

“Our personalities is the key to our success, you can’t force this type of partnership to work,” Sin-

clair said.Sinclair and Frehse started co-teaching togeth-

er with math and expanded from there.“It took a lot of collaboration to find out what

was the best fit for all our students,” Sinclair said.“There’s time where Megan will say, ‘That’s a

great idea’, but we also need to fulfill our higher skill student needs.”

All of the co-teachers have seen improvement in their students on not just a learning level, but also a social level.

“In the past, special education students were pulled out of classrooms to get their individual in-struction but now were able to incorporate those into the regular classroom,” Sinclair said. “The stu-dents hardly know the difference between regular and special education students. They’re all playing outside together like there wasn’t a difference.”

The third -grade class uses groups and partner-

ships for learning, but also implements social skills lessons to all the students in their classroom.

“We have implemented partnerships and groups mixing special education and regular education students together, which challenges kids to be able to work with others,” Sinclair said.

A few members of the board of education have observed the third-grade co-teaching team and given them praise.

“School board member Sherri Benson wanted to see where we marked our book on where to pause because we were so in tune with what the other was thinking,” Sinclair said jokingly.

“We can practically finish each other sentenc-es,” Frehse said.


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The biggest thing for next school year is to look at the K-6 plan. Bieghler hopes to get more labs into each of the elementaries each year.

“What we see the trend being, when we look at assessment based needs, we’re looking at more of a Chromebook type of set up for ele-mentary aged students,” Bieghler said. “If you’re looking for a device to get online, and use in assessments, then the Chromebook is the best option.”

Bieghler explained that with technology, it is important to not necessarily do what has been done before but to make sure school of-ficials are making the right decisions for the right reasons based on the budget and need.

“The high school, with what they’ve planned out are using iPads. The discussion at the middle school although its not set in stone, as far as what they’re asking students to do with technology, they’re probably learning more towards Chrome-books,” Bieghler said.

Newton students will learn how to use a di-verse set of devices while in school. This will de-velop their technological skill set.

“We will have some type of netbook, some type of tablet and those PC labs will be here for awhile, just because I think if we’re still trying to prepare a kid, they’re going to have to use a diverse set,” Bieghler said. “Even if they may not use a Chromebook, iPad and PC at their work, the thought pro-

cess of how to use those devices will help them develop their skills.”

As students are con-tinuously learning how to adapt and use new products, teachers too have to learn how to adapt, use and most im-portantly, appropriately incorporate technology into the classroom.

“Part of the challenge and frustration with technology is that we have such a diverse set of staff, that tech-wise are trying to keep up with the student,” Bieghler said. “The biggest chal-lenge we’re seeing is not necessarily with the de-vise, but how to incor-porate these devises into the classroom, and it is intimidating.”

Paula Klosterboer is a fifth-grade teacher at Aurora Heights El-ementary School who uses technology daily in her classroom. She said the school has done a

good job of teaching her and her colleagues about the devices and provid-ing her professional de-velopment to keep up with the changing tech-nology.

Klosterboer has been a teacher for more than 20 years and has seen many changes occur over that period of time.

Attendance, progress reports, planning and many teacher edition textbooks are supplied online, as well as many education resources and tools.

With the Common Core, a set of academic standards that articulate what concepts and skills Iowa students need to master in math, science, English, language arts and social science, and Reading Wonders, the elementary reading cur-riculum program, K-6 students are doing a lot of reading on the web-site, and they get to use

a Chromebook for those purposes.

All of Klosterboer’s students have a Google account including a Gmail address and Google Drive. This al-lows teachers to have access to the students school work and see their progress. It also opens up the accessibil-ity of communication between teachers and students.

“Students will often times email me ques-tions they have about homework, and that’s been really cool because they’re getting interac-tion and feedback im-mediately,” Klosterboer said.

There are a lot of re-sources that are continu-ally changing because their web-based.

“As a teacher, just having that available to me makes me more effi-cient and more effective because I can find things

that meet my students needs,” Klosterboer said.

Nowadays, just like adults, students are con-nected to the web all of the time. The challenge is mending any discon-nect between routine in-ternet use at home and use at school.

“If done in the right way, utilizing the tech-nology with the kids will be more of a seemless transition from home to school and they’ll be more connected to school as well.”

Technology is some-thing we take for grant-ed, often times too. Klosterboer said she uses “Elmo,” a docu-ment camera to show all of her students infor-mation, or show other students work and to do demonstrations.

“I can’t live without my Elmo and my pro-jector,” she said. “It’s so much more efficient than the overhead pro-

jector was. See, we take those things for granted because we’ve been us-ing them so often.”

The ultimate purpose of the teacher is to teach, train and prepare a stu-dent to be a productive, healthy and adaptable citizen, Klosterboer said.

Whether a student wants to be a doctor, architect or plumber, whatever they want to be will require strategic thinking and adapting to technological advanc-es in business.

“We want to devel-op technology skill in the overall preparation of students. The main reason to adapt is that when they leave here, they’re prepared because it is very competitive to get a job,” Bieghler said.


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Submitted PhotoA Berg Middle School student in Shelly Fitzgerald’s third period uses the “DIGITS” math program on a Chromebook. DIGITS is expected to help BMS students raise math scores over the next few years and is one of the many new technolgy-based tools the district has implemented.

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Ty Rushing/Daily NewsEmily Ring, who began working as a dietician at Hy-Vee in October, wants to help people in Newton and Jasper County live a healthier lifestyle.

Hy-Vee’s newest dietician is here to help


When the Newton Hy-Vee opened its health foods section last October, they also brought in a new face to health keep Newtonians healthy.

Emily Ring joined the Hy-Vee family around the same time, and serves as one of the stores dieticians along with Jenny Thompson. Emily moved to Iowa from Ohio and earned her bachelor’s in nutri-tion and dietetics from Kent State Uni-versity in Kent, Ohio.

“I’ve been a dietician since 2008,” Emily said. “I think it ’s really important and that people’s health is so important. I feel like we’ve gotten to the point where we work on health after we’re

unhealthy. And yes, I still work with people with diabetes or heart problems, but the big focus for me to go into this field was let ’s try to catch people when their still healthy and get them on the right track.”

Although she is new to the commu-nity, and knows how daunting the task may seem to try and live a healthier life-style, Emily doesn’t want people to be shy about approaching her.

“I’m definitely very easy to get along with and easy to talk to,” Emily said. “If there’s people that have questions about their diet, don’t be afraid to come into the store and ask to talk to me — that’s why I’m here. I don’t judge based on what people might be currently doing with their diet and I know some people are afraid to talk to a dietician sometimes.”

Ty Rushing/Daily NewsJasper County Board of Supervisors Chairman Joe Brock and Jasper County Community Services Direc-tor Jody Eaton discuss a few items regarding the county’s mental health services after a board of supervisors meeting. Brock and Eaton helped transition the county’s mental health services into the Central Iowa Com-munity Services Region last year. They also represent the county in various aspects of CICSR.

Jasper County officials happy to see community services

region up and runningBy Ty Rushing

Daily News Senior Staff Writer

After nearly two years of additional work and research, outside of her regular job duties, Jody Eaton can finally relax.

Eaton serves as Jasper County’s community services di-rector and the project that’s taken so much time for her to complete, was helping the county transition its mental health services towards a regional service.

“It’s been a lot of work, quite a bit,” Eaton said. “We probably have a meeting at least once a week, either a com-mittee meeting or an admin team meeting.”

Eaton, along with Jasper County Board of Supervisors Chairman Joe Brock, represent Jasper County in the Cen-tral Iowa Community Services Region, which the county joined on June 25.

CICSR is a mental health service region that also in-cludes Boone, Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Madison, Marshall, Poweshiek, Story and Warren counties.

Regions were created to meet state mandates that coun-ties must be in an operational region by the start of the 2014 fiscal year. This law was created to ensure that all Iowans have adequate mental health services and coverage.

Although Jasper County is part of CICSR, Brock and Eaton wanted local mental health service providers to still have their voices heard on matters.

“We also have a local advisory group that is made up of providers and individuals served that meet with Joe and I

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Home Care, Public Health nursing offers wide array of services


The Home Care, Public Health & Hospice office at Skiff Medical Center is driven by one mindset: “There’s no place like home” when it comes to health care.

With that in mind, the of-fice provides an array of servic-es meant to serve the specific needs of its clients — in their homes. These include:

Registered nurses — RNs provide skilled nursing care to promote and maintain health, prevent disease and disabilities, and assist in the rehabilitation of the sick and disabled.

Home care aides — Certi-fied Home Health Aides pro-vide assistance with personal grooming and care, and a vari-ety of home management ser-vices.

Speech therapy — Speech therapists identify, evaluate, and treat persons who are un-able to understand or appropri-ately use speech and language, or assist with swallowing dif-ficulties.

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Other services — Includ-ing infusion therapy, well-child clinics, visits to new mothers and babies, care for elderly at home, immunization clinics, blood pressure screenings, lifeline health education through teach-ing and counseling and commu-nicable disease follow-up.

“Our goal is to meet the needs of the patient, so we are assessing,” Director of Home Care/Public Health & Hospice Brenda Smith said. “Is their environment safe? Can they get in or out of the shower? Do they need rehabilitative ser-vices? Are their personal cares being met, like housekeeping? We set up their medications, and we communicate to both the patient’s physician and the family, if any are available.”

Most typically, these services are provided at the request of the patient’s physician, with a goal of keeping the patient in the home for as long as pos-sible. The type of insurance the patient has, however, often dic-tates the types of services avail-able.

“The overall goal of home care is do whatever we can to help patients stay home — and be safe in their homes — as long as they can,” Smith said. “We help them stay at home, because most want to stay as long as possible.”

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Special Olympics brings Newton man closer to brotherBy Kate Malott


“Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the at-tempt.”

The Special Olympics athlete oath is one that all SO athletes live by, one that two Newton brothers know all about.

Kenard and Kyler Prunty are brothers with intellectual dis-abilities who have become closer through their shared participa-tion in the Special Olympics of Iowa. Together, they support, en-courage and train.

Special Olympics is an inter-national nonprofit organization

that strives to empower individu-als with intellectual disabilities to become physically fit, productive and respected members of society through sports training and com-petition.

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cording to its website.Kyler, 27 years old, has tuber-

ous sclerosis complex, a disease that creates tumors which affects his organs and his speech.

“We were told that he wasn’t going to live until the age of 11,

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“(Special Olympics) changed Kenard’s life. He is more confident in himself and is meeting and making true friends.”

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Newton DMACC to offer culinary arts program this fallBy Zach Johnson


This fall semester, Newton DMACC campus will be offering a culinary arts program for college stu-dents.

Although a diploma culinary arts program has been offered to high school students for the past four years,

DMACC now will offer program in which culinary arts students may re-ceive an associate’s degree in life sci-ences.

“Newton campus will offer a one-year program for a diploma, but to finish your degree in culinary arts you will need to complete the program at the Ankeny Campus,” academic advi-sor Angie Neville said.

The program in Newton will cover three semesters before students need-ed to transfer to the Ankeny campus. In the first year of the program, stu-dents will be required to complete a work-study in Ankeny.

“We are still trying to find a local location to have a work-study to re-duce travel time for students,” Neville said.

The culinary arts program has re-cently turned 20 years old. According to DMACC, in 2010-2011, students who earned a diploma had a starting wage of $16,640 a year, and students who earned a two-year degree had a starting annual wage $22,157.

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Newton Wellness Coalition near end of first quarterBy Zach Johnson


The Newton Wellness Coalition soon will be fin-ishing its first quarter of ac-tivities for participants after partnering with many groups and events across town to promote wellness in the community of Newton this year.

The Newton Wellness Coalition was formed late last year with the purpose of being committed to grow-ing community wellness through awareness, advocacy and action. The group will have quarterly campaigns

throughout the year, focus-ing on nutritional, physical, social and emotional well-ness.

The NWC kicked off its initial campaign Jan. 7 at Newton Senior High School during the boys and girls var-sity basketball doubleheader.

The event featured well-ness activities and informa-tion on NWC on the upper level of the gym. NWC’s

main attraction for the kick-off event was the group and “local celebrity” workouts.

“We were excited about the response from the local celebrities and the students who have volunteered to help the coalition,” NWC member Sheri Benson said.

NWC invited 30 “local celebrities” from multiple businesses around Newton to workout during the boys’

game. The local celebs either ran on the treadmill or ellip-tical for one quarter of bas-ketball and then rotate. At the end of each quarter, the amount of calories burned was announced.

Another event that took place during half-time of the boys basketball game, a just-for-fun crowd exercise con-ducted by Newton YMCA Health and Fitness Director

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Participants were pleased with the Newton Wellness Coalition’s kickoff event.

“I thought the kick-off event went very well,” NWC member Sheri Benson said.“It was a good time with the local celebrities doing the calorie burn.”

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“Newton will be the second cam-pus to offer the program to the col-lege students,” Neville said. “When you graduate from our program, you’ll have graduated from one of the finest culinary arts programs in the country. Accredited by the American Culinary Federation, the DMACC culinary arts program will give the culinary foundation an international flavor that will start students off on an amazing career.”

The program will begin Aug. 21, and registration for the program be-gins in April. The lead instructor of the program in Ankeny will be teach-ing in Newton.

“Chef Julie Drew has been an in-structor for several years and led high school programs on all DMACC campuses,” Neville said.

Students will gain experience in classes and work-study in food prep-aration, nutrition, meal planning,

purchasing, baking, international cuisine, restaurant management and advanced culinary cuisine.

“Students will take the beginning classes and core classes at the New-ton campus and more classes to com-plete the degree in Ankeny,” Neville said.

The culinary arts classes offered at DMACC has many advantages compared to major college programs that include instruction from faculty chefs in a host of culinary specialties, nutrition, food preparation and other facets of culinary arts; small classes that focus on each student; an educa-tion that gives students a well-round-ed business knowledge experience in all aspects of restaurant management and staff management; a staff and faculty that gives students personal, professional and career support while they are in school and long after they have graduated.

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on a monthly basis,” Eaton said. “They talk about the decisions that are going on with the (CICSR) Governing Board and maybe give recom-mendations on how to vote on decisions. I think Joe is find-ing that very helpful.”

“Jody has been really good about organizing that and they aren’t really formal meet-ings anyone can share,” Brock chimed in. “They get to look at the (CICSR) agenda and that gives them an opportu-nity to put input in and I can take that to the board.”

Eaton said she’s not certain if the other counties within CICSR use local advisory groups, but is a strong sup-porter of the idea.

“We are looking at this as it needs to be a team approach,” Eaton said. “This effects the county and it also effects the providers and the consum-ers. So how can we best work together to make the right decisions and that’s why we wanted to set it up this way.”

Both Brock and Eaton

have previously admitted the transition period was strenu-ous for them, but both have become huge supporters of CICSR. They also spoke on how local service providers felt about the big change.

“That’s why we felt like it would be a good idea to meet monthly and discuss the changes that are happening and how its effecting them,” Eaton said. “I think most of our providers really do feel like this is a partnership and that there are ways that we will be able to improve and expand services.”

“I think as for as the re-gionalization piece is con-cerned, they are coming at it with a very positive attitude,” she continued.

Something they both felt

was a significant challenge, for them personally, was tran-sitioning from thinking coun-ty first, to region first.

“There’s issues that we’ve always controlled locally that we are no longer able to con-trol, so that’s an adjustment that we are having to make,” Eaton said. “I think Joe and I had this conversation, on the way up to governing board meeting, that this something that we have to do.”

“This is legislation and I have to pursue that in the best way that I can and making sure that we have the best sys-tem in place,” she continued. “In my mind, this is the goal and we have to get there. I don’t always agree with every decision, but I have to support those decisions.”

Brock felt similarly to Ea-ton.

“Simply put, it’s a chal-lenge as a supervisor to switch over and think as a region and think in terms of what’s good for the region and not be ded-icated solely to Jasper Coun-ty,” Brock said. “I’m elected by the citizens of Jasper County to represent them and look out for their well-being, but while in this role, I have to think in terms of the region as a whole.”

“And we have a voice on (the board) to deal with prob-lems. If I think Jasper County is being effected adversely or shortchanged, I do have a chance to voice that opinion. But that’s probably the big challenge as a supervisor, to think regionally and what’s

good for the region and not what’s to the advantage of Jasper County every time,” he finished.

Brock says he doesn’t rec-ommend that CICSR accept anymore counties into the re-gion and the region has a com-bined population base of more than 300,000 Iowans. He also wanted to commend Eaton for her work in helping Jasper County find the right region to join and for her input in helping develop CICSR.

“It’s important to note that during this process, Jody has been expected to nearly do two jobs,” Brock said. “She has her role at the county level and to be involved with the regionalization, she’s been hitting it double time for the last year. Jody is highly re-garded throughout the region, she really is and I’ve seen that. It helps Jasper County im-mensely to have Jody repre-senting us.”


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While promoting and teaching people how to live a healthier life-style is her job, Emily admits that even she slips up in her eating habits from time to time.

“I definitely like my not-so-healthy foods from time to time,” Emily said jokingly. “I remember sitting in the lunch room in high school and just eating candy for lunch some days. So, I wasn’t always right on track. But once I got into college, it definitely evened out — less candy and more of the fruits and vegetables.”

Living a healthy lifestyle can prove to be troublesome for peo-ple, especially in today’s fast-paced world.

“That’s another challenge really, is helping people make healthy foods

convenient,” Emily said. “That’s something that I’ve definitely strug-gled with. I like to cook, but I like to cook when I have the time to cook. If I don’t have the time, and I’m get-ting home from work, and I’m really hungry, cooking is the last thing that I want to do.”

One of Emily’s solutions for eat-ing healthily is preparing preplanned meals and snacks.

“Whether it be something that you store in the freezer and pull it out in the morning and throw in the Crock-Pot or frozen burritos. I’ll make my own (burritos), and I’ll

make eight or 10 of them at a time and throw them in the freezer,” Em-ily said. “I’ve done some with qui-noa and some with rice, chicken, beans and all kinds of stuff. It ’s a lot cheaper than buying them.”

She also recommends eating lots of fruits and healthy snacks and add-ed carrots and hummus are one of her favorite healthy snack options.

Emily is at Hy-Vee three days a week and does a “Pick of the Month” healthy food choice for the store. She is also preparing and develop-ing several health related classes to teach at the store and is continually searching for the latest, but feasible, healthy trends for customers.

“I’m here to help,” Emily said.


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“I definitely like my not-so-healthy foods from time to time. I remember sitting in the lunch room in high school and just eating candy for lunch some days. But once I got into college, it definitely evened out — less candy and more of the fruits and vegetables..”

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The celebrities burned more than 10,000 calories during the kickoff event. NWC kept with the concept of cradle to grave age range. Some of the local celebrities included Amelia Schoeneman, Amanda Price, Gary Kirchhoff and Bob Cal-laghan.

“The coalition brain stormed names we wanted to be apart of the kickoff event, sending out mass emails and connect-ing with them on Facebook,” Benson said. “We had fitness gurus, local faces and seniors in the mix, which made it fun for everybody.”

The kickoff event had many activities to test your mental wellness, nutritional wellness and physical wellness. The co-alition also had an XBox 360 with Kinect on-hand for par-ticipants to be able to use their bodies as controllers to play video games.

“It’s a more of technological perspective to wellness, which turned out to have a great re-sponse,” Benson said. “ We’ll be looking into doing more events throughout the year focusing on free to low-cost of events.”

NWC’s punch card cam-paign begins today, in which participants can go do activi-ties to increase their wellness to collect punch cards. The ac-tivities will change every three months. For a list of activities and sponsored events you may contact the NWC on Facebook or pick up the packets at Skiff Medical Center and the New-ton YMCA.

“Keep looking for more information on other future events sponsored by the coali-tion,” Benson said.

The following are additional events the coalition is encour-aging participates to consider for the remainder of the first quarter ending next month.

Fitness Events• Jasper County Conserva-

tion snow shoe and cross coun-try skiing on Feb. 1 and 15 at

Jacob Krumm Preserve.• Sledding day on Feb. 14 at

Sunset Park sponsored by City of Newton Parks and Recre-ation.

• Attend an exercise class at Newton YMCA in February.

• Attend one night of Zum-ba at the Elks Lodge on Mon-day or Thursday through the month of March from 6 to 7 p.m.

• Check out an exercise vid-eo at the library.

• Walk on the YMCA track on a January weekday.

Social Events• Attend Jasper County

Conservation’s Older, Wiser and Livelier Seniors on March 12 at 10 a.m. at the conserva-tion office.

• Create an account on the United Way “Get Connected” website and sign up for the Newton Wellness Coalition Challenge.

• Check out a book to read at the library.

• Attend the Newton Com-munity Theatre Production: “Les Miserables,” showing

March 14-16, 18, 20-22.• Donate blood at DMACC

on March 20 from 1 to 6 p.m.• Attend Newton Senior

High School production of “Pride and Prejudice” on March 7 and 8.

• Attend Band Extravagan-za at the Newton Senior High School on March 11.

Nutritional Events• “Wellness Wednesday” At-

tend a free nutritional movie at DMACC over lunch on Mar. 26 from noon to 1 p.m.

• Attend a Hy-Vee Cooking Class on March 25 at 6 p.m. Cost is $5.

• Attend a pre-diabetes class at Skiff on March 27 at 9:30 a.m.

• Attend Hy-Vee Health Market Sampling March 12 from 4 to 6:30 p.m.

• Catch the Hy-Vee Well-ness Bus on March 15 at Hy-Vee


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The government esti-mates by 2030 there will be more than 72 mil-lion older persons mak-ing up 19 percent of the U.S. population.

With a large senior population in Jasper County, it’s not hard to find many active seniors

who feel that maintain-ing their health and fit-ness helps provide them independence.

Whether it’s at a resi-dential facility, athletic facility or public place, there are many involved

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“I come here because of the people,” JoAnn Smith said. “I have a vas-cular problem and this is the best place on earth to come and keep active.”

Kate Malott/Daily NewsNewton Village residents play balloon ball to get some exercise. Both Newton Village and Park Centre offer fitness options for their resi-dents, and the Newton YMCA also offers fit-ness options for seniors.

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Fellow YMCA member Dotty Mittelstadt agreed.

“I use the Cybex and stationary bike. I do it for my health, and it’s a nice facility, they offer a lot and everyone is very friendly,” Mittelstadt said.

The YMCA offers a variety of fitness courses to people of all ages. Silver Sneakers, Chair Stretch and Yoga and aquatics classes are all available at the YMCA to both members and guests.

“Living isn’t really living unless you remain active and self-sufficient as long as possible,” said Jarred Lackey, Y director of health and fitness. “By partici-pating in our classes and programs at the YMCA, seniors are able to make fitness a habit as well as a social event.”

“I truly believe that the regular participants will remain physically and mentally healthier longer than their peers out in the community that don’t make fitness a habit,” Lackey said.

The staff at the YMCA has taken what they know and learn and passed it along to local residen-tial facilities.

At Newton Village, residents are offered a fit-ness class called Village Sneakers on Mondays and Wednesday, and on Fridays, a balance class.

“We’re never giving up,” Newton Village resident and Village Sneakers attendee Marion Castings said.

“I like it because there’s a little bit of this, and a little bit of that,” resident Paul McGinn said. “It makes me get out instead of laying around in my Lay-Z-Boy chair. I get out and move around. I’ve been doing this for a number of years now and it makes me feel better.”

Park Centre is also home to many senior activi-ties for people at all physical levels.

Whether it’s an aqua class, balance training or wellness walk, Newton residents have many avail-abilities when it comes to wellness activities and learning opportunities.

“Wellness is such an important part of older adult well-being because it preserves independence and physical function,” Park Centre Lifestyle Director Lori Griffin said.

“With several dimensions to well-being, such as physical, emotional and spiritual, many factors contribute to successful aging. Wellness truly is a lifestyle.”

An organized class isn’t the only option for senior fitness in the area.

With spring just around the corner, the track at H.A. Lynn Stadium, hike and bike trails in Newton and throughout area parks are great options to visit once the weather gets a little warmer.

For now, with the weather the way it is, welcom-ing facilities like DMACC and Skiff are also great places and home to a handful of regular hallway walkers who are managing their health, staying ac-tive and socializing.


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Zach Johnson/Daily NewsBruce (top) and Karen (above) Hoffmeier run on ellipticals on Jan. 7 during the Newton Wellness Coalition kickoff event at the Newton Senior High School. The coalition offers everyone an opportunity to get fit and stay healthy.


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and so we made it a point to do everything we could possibly get our hands in,” his mother Vickie Wieck said.

Kyler now lives in Marshalltown and has served on the SOI Board of Directors as an athlete for two years, having the privilege to see how the organiza-tion works and oper-ates on the administra-tive side. Kyler started participating in SO as a child.

Kenard, 32 years old, has cognitive dis-abilities, had an Indi-vidual Education Plan in school and struggled with comprehension. He lives indepen-dently in Newton at a Capstone apartment and works at Walmart. However, Kenard didn’t start participat-ing in SO until 2009, after the lead of his brother.

Their mother, Vick-ie, and step-father, Marvin, act as their coaches and number one fans.

Kenard always went on trips to Ames and Dubuque with his family to support his brother. After help-ing chaperone a winter games trip, he came home and asked Vickie, “Do you think I can do this?”

From there, the two have become very in-volved and active in the organization. Both are athletes. Both are coaches. Both are Global Messengers.

“The GM program is designed for athletes who want to spread the word regarding what Special Olympics has done for them, what it does for others and how it makes them feel,” Vickie said.

They spent time attending speech workshops that teach speech etiquette and proper dressing.

“SO has changed my life, and Global Mes-sengers saved me,” Ke-nard said.

Kenard starting par-ticipating in the Spe-cial Olympics because he was acquainted with the caring, joyful, co-operative environment. He saw the extended family and friends his brother had made.

“Kyler is more ath-letic than me but he has inspired me, and he made me so proud of him and myself,” Kenard said. “He and Kathy Irving (SOIA Director of Special Programs) have been

my inspiration to do the best I can do and to be involved as much as I can in Global Mes-sengers.”

Kenard’s favorite SO sporting event is uni-fied golf. Unified golf is an annual event in the fall in which a per-son with no disabilities is partnered with a per-son with special needs, and they play golf to-gether at Jester Park in Johnston.

“I get together with my partner, we share the event, laugh and we are a team. We’re friends,” Kenard said.

Kenard’s unified golf partner is Dan Down-ing from Creston who has participated with him each year.

“Dan has a love for disabilities and love for people with mental illnesses. He and Ke-nard have a wonderful bond,” Vickie said.

Kenard and Kyler competed in the Win-ter Olympics — Kyler in downhill skiing and Kenard in cross coun-try skiing. They both received medals and enjoyed seeing their friends again.

“SO has changed Kenard’s life,” Kyler said. “He is more con-fident in himself and is meeting and making true friends. We went to the 2010 Nationals in Nebraska and won gold for the Iowa Vol-leyball team, but bond-ed as brothers.”

This spring, Kenard will be helping with the annual Law Enforce-ment Torch Run Car Show and participat-ing in athletics. He and his brother are looking forward to continuing to speak about what the SO has done for each of them, spreading the word about the won-derful organization, the SOI.

The goal of Mar-vin, Vickie, Kenard and Kyler is to spread awareness of the Spe-cial Olympics and to encourage others to get involved.

Marvin and Vickie feel that individuals who work and volun-teer with athletes in the Special Olympics of Iowa are a true bless-ing. The time, dedica-tion and service they give to others brings joy and life many indi-viduals like their sons.

For more informa-tion about how to par-ticipate in an event or volunteer to help, visit www.soiowa.org or call (515) 986-5520.

Staff writer Kate Malott may be contacted at [email protected].

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Submitted PhotosAbove: Kenard (left) and Kyler show off their gold medals from the National Special Olympics held in Omaha in 2010. The two were members of the National Champi-onship Men’s Vol-leyball team.

Left: Kenard (left) and Kyler warm up after both com-peting in the 2014 Special Olympics Iowa Winter Games in Dubuque. The two both compet-ed in different ski events. Not only do they participate in winter games, they are active all year long in other sports such as swimming, bowl-ing, golf, plunging and cycling.


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2014 CHAMBER BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS Board Chair Sue Nolin (2016) Great Western Bank

Vice-Chair Lonnie Portner (2017) State Farm Insurance

Treasurer Kurt Konek (2015) Konek PC - Certified Public Accounting Firm

Secretary Lori McNew (2015) E-Clips Hair & Tanning LLC

Past Chair Steve Long (2015) Skiff Medical Center

DIRECTORS Gerard Schwickerath (2015) Newton Community Theatre

Christine Hopwood (2016) Trinity Structural Towers

Jeff Stolp (2015) Newton Manufacturing

Frank Buckley (2017) Newton YMCA

Brock Patterson (2017) Bridgehouse Coffee

Our Chamber was proud to lead the effort for Newton to be accepted as a Main Street Community. This photo at the State Capitol features Newton Mayor Michael Hansen, representatives of our Main Street Launch Team, and our Chamber Leadership being congratulated by Governor Branstad and his staff. Also present to congratulate us were Senator Dennis Black and State Representative Dan Kelley.

Special thanks to all of the volunteers who helped us reach this milestone, especially all of the businesses and indi-viduals who made a financial pledge to the effort.

Next Main Street Community Meeting! - March 12th at DMACC - 6:00-8:30 PM Join us on March 12th at the DMACC Conference Center as we begin to dream and strategize our community vision for our Downtown District. Leadership from the Iowa Main Street Office will be on hand to guide us through the evening. This will be a great time to learn more about how Main Street will benefit Newton. RSVP at [email protected] or call (641) 792-5545. You can learn more at www.iowaeconomicdevelopment.com/MainStreetIowa

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