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On the coverDennis Fitch is the pilot who helped save 184 people in the July 19, 1989, crash-landing of United Flight 232 that killed 111 people at Sioux Gateway Airport. Fitch died Monday. He was 69. Page 10

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Steve Martin, one of the most diverse performers in the entertain-ment industry today, has been suc-cessful as a writer and actor in some of the most popular movies of recent film history. Martin released his second full length bluegrass album “Rare Bird Alert” in 2011.

Joined by the Steep Canyon Rangers, who toured exten-sively with Martin over the last year, Martin brings his act to the Orpheum Theater on June 22 to help raise funds for the Saturday in the Park music festival.

Martin’s “Rare Bird Alert” fea-tured 13 new Martin-penned tracks, including a live version of “King Tut,” and was produced by Tony Trishka. Paul McCartney and The Dixie Chicks make special guest vocal appearances on the album. Steve Martin’s 2009 banjo album “The Crow / New Songs For The Five-String Banjo,” won a Grammy in 2010 for Best Bluegrass Album.

Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers

The Associated PressSteve Martin, third from left, and the Steep Canyon Rangers arrive at the 54th annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 12 in Los Angeles.

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For nearly a century, the Milwaukee Railroad Shops have been standing in a valley nestled between the Loess Hills Bluffs and the Big Sioux River along State Highway 12, Loess Hills National Scenic Byway. Located in the north Riverside area of Sioux City, the Milwaukee RailroadShops are historically important as one of the nation’s largest surviving collections of buildings and structures associated with a steam locomotive servicing terminal and rail car repair facility.

The Milwaukee Railroad Shops were built in 1917 on sixty acres of land. The complex originally consisted of a 30-stall roundhouse with turntable, eighteen backshop buildings, a power plant, two water towers, a wood coal tower, and two sand towers. Today, the Milwaukee Railroad Shops cover 30 acres with a six-stall roundhouse, turntable, four backshop buildings, one wood sand tower and several foundation remnants.

The Milwaukee Railroad Shops were originally built to function as workplaces for railroad workers to repair and maintain the Milwaukee Road’s fleet of steam locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars. During its peak years of operations in the 1920s and 1930s, over 500 craft and trades workers serviced and repaired approximately 850 steam locomotives a month and tens of thousands of rail cars a year.The workers were employed in craft professions such as boiler makers, machinists, carpenters, pipefitters, steam fitters, and many other trades.

The railroad downsized the complex during the early 1950s when the railroad industry transitioned from steam locomotives to diesel engines. The railroad abandoned the shops in the 1980s and subsequently sold the complex to a local salvage operator. The Siouxland Historical Railroad Association bought the complex in 1996 and began its historic preservation work to transform the Milwaukee RailroadShops into a railroad museum.

In converting the Milwaukee Railroad Shops to a railroad museum, the volunteer developers are preserving the features of the roundhouseand other structures to give visitors an understanding of what work went on in the buildings and why this site has historic significance.

The Milwaukee Railroad Shops are designated a historic district eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and arerecognized as an official project of the Save America Treasures Program. The railroad shops are home to Sioux City’s iconic steam locomotive, Great Northern Railway No. 1355.

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By TERRy TURNERPrime columnist

Not long ago I was in the dentist’s office having my six-month clean-ing and check up. As I was waiting for the dentist to come in and check me over I thought back to those days many years ago when I was first introduced to those some-times fearsome and many times misunderstood members of the medical profes-sion – dentists.

I must have been 6 or 7 at the time when my mother told me we were going to the dentist. I was to later learn we weren’t really going I was actually the one going to see the dentist, she was just taking

me. I was of course apprehensive about this since I had no idea what a dentist was. My mother assured me he was just going to check my teeth to see if I had any cavities what ever the heck those were. My big brother who normally did all in his power to make my life miserable was sur-prisingly helpful on this occasion. “There’s nothing to it,” he reassured me, “he’s just going to look at your teeth and fill any cavities. You won’t feel a thing. They call him “painless” Carr.” His actual name was Dr. Carr but I have to admit I liked that “pain-less” moniker attached to it.

The day finally arrived for my appointment and we climbed aboard the streetcar for the short ride to the dentist’s office which was located near the corner of 30th and Ames Ave in North Omaha. I had been in that neighborhood before because the Beacon Theater was there and my buddies and I would go almost

every Saturday to see the matinee. I knew this wasn’t going to be nearly as much fun as seeing Superman fighting the Mole Men at the Beacon.

We entered the office and I took a seat while my mother talked to the receptionist. The first thing I noticed was a distinctly medicine-like smell. Not a good sign, I thought to myself thinking back to getting shots in the doctor’s office. Smells a lot like a doctor’s office. Hmmmmmm. I looked around for an escape route but my mother came over and grabbed my arm saying, “It’s time to see the doctor.”

“Doctor?” I stammered. “I thought you said this guy was a dentist.”

“He’s a doctor who works on teeth,” she explained.

As I pondered that last statement I was led into a bright room with a big, funny-looking chair. A nurse was with us and she told me to, “Hop up in that chair, young man.” I got in the chair but I didn’t hop. Even at that young age I was a rebel.

Then she put a bib on me. Oh good, I thought, I am getting a little hun-gry. I was about to order a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when the doctor/dentist walked in. “Good morning young man and Mom,” he said. “And how are you today?” I was about to tell him I’d be fine if I wasn’t here but before I could answer he pushed the chair back so I was looking at the ceiling. Then he grabbed a fist full of tools and a mir-ror and told me to, “Open wide.”

I reluctantly opened my mouth and suddenly he had fingers and tools all jammed inside my gapping pie hole. As he worked around in there he would occasionally make a comment like “Ah ha.” or “Hmmmm.” After a few minutes of this he said, “Well, Mrs. Turner it looks like Terry has a cavity that needs to be filled. “We’ll take care of that and you’ll be on your way,” he said patting me on the shoulder.

He then moved an ominous look-ing device into position next to me I was to soon learn was a drill. “OK,” he said as he bent over me, “now I’m going to put something on your tooth

so you won’t feel anything.” After seeing that drill I thought that might be a very good idea. He stuffed my mouth with cotton balls which I’m sure made me look like a lopsided chipmunk. While we were waiting for what I now assume to be Novocain he gave me some exciting news. “My father owns the hobby shop next door and if you tell him you were in here you get a discount,” he said.

I looked at my mother who was sit-ting in the corner. I smiled and tried to mouth the word “pleeeeease” without spitting out the cotton balls. She smiled back and nodded. Once the Novocain took effect Dr. Carr proceeded to drill out the cavity and replace it with a filling. All the while I was thinking about that hobby shop. I loved model airplanes and cars. I couldn’t wait to get in there.

The tooth was filled in no time and I felt great with the exception that I couldn’t feel anything on one side of my face but I didn’t care. We were going to a hobby shop. We went out to the reception room again where my mother paid for the procedure. I couldn’t wait to get to next door. We finally left the dentist’s office and entered the magical world of the hobby shop. It was filled from floor to ceiling with every type of model plane and car available. I was in heaven. I picked out a model plane. It was a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk with a paint scheme used by the Flying Tigers of WWII fame. I couldn’t wait to get home and put it together.

Since that time I’ve never been afraid to go to a dentist. I’m sure my lack of fear of dentists was a combi-nation of Dr. Carr’s skill and the fact that I was going to the hobby shop. That combination made that first trip to the dentist a pleasant experience and it’s stayed with me for all those years.

Now if I could just get my dentist today to put in a hobby shop next door I’d really enjoy getting my teeth checked.

Terry Turner is a Prime writer who can be reached at [email protected].

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By MIKE STOBBEAssociated Press

ATLANTA | For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepati-tis C.

Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a one-time blood test to see if they have the liver-destroying virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in draft recommendations issued Friday.

Baby boomers account for more than 2 million of the 3.2 million Americans infected with the blood-borne virus. It can take decades to cause liver damage, and many peo-ple don’t know they’re infected.

CDC officials believe the new measure could lead 800,000 more baby boomers to get treatment and could save more than 120,000 lives.

“The CDC views hepatitis C as an unrecognized health crisis for the country, and we believe the time is now for a bold response,” said Dr. John W. Ward, the CDC’s hepatitis chief.

Several developments drove the CDC’s push for wider testing, he said.

Recent data has shown that from 1999 to 2007, the number of Americans dying from hepatitis C-related diseases nearly doubled. Also, two drugs hit the market last year that promise to cure many more people than was previously possible.

The virus can gradually scar the liver and lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer, and is the leading cause of liver transplant. It can trigger damage in other parts of the body as well. All told, more than 15,000 Americans die each year from hepa-titis C-related illnesses, according to the CDC.

The hepatitis C virus is most com-monly spread today through shar-ing needles to inject drugs. Before widespread screening of blood donations began in 1992, it was also spread through blood transfusions.

Health officials believe hundreds of thousands of new hepatitis C

infections were occurring each year in the 1970s and 1980s, most of them in the younger adults of the era — the baby boomers. The hepatitis C virus was first identified in 1989.

Today, about 17,000 infections occur annually, according to CDC estimates.

About 3 percent of baby boomers test positive for the virus, the CDC estimates.

Of those, some manage to clear the infection from their bodies with-out treatment, but still have linger-ing antibodies that give a positive initial test result. That’s why confir-matory tests are needed.

Still, only a quarter of infected people are that lucky. Most have active and dangerous infections, Ward said.

The agency’s current guidelines recommend testing people known to be at high risk, including current and past injection drug users.

But as many as a quarter of infected baby boomers say they don’t recall engaging in a risky behavior.

It’s possible some people were infected in ways other than injection drug use or long-ago blood transfu-sions. Some experts say tattoos, piercings, shared razor blades and toothbrushes, manicures and sniffed cocaine may have caused the virus to spread in some cases.

Those kinds of experiences might not raise flags in the minds of many patients or their physicians, experts said.

A recent Harris Interactive sur-vey of 1,000 baby boomers found other forms of ignorance about hepatitis C. Fewer than 20 percent knew they belonged to the genera-tion most likely to be infected, and only a similar percent were aware it can be cured in many patients.

Also, only about 25 percent said they had been tested, according to the survey, done on behalf of the American Gastroenterological Association and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which makes one of the hepatitis C medications.

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Health

By John QuinlanPrime staff writer

SIOUX CITY | Blind Siouxlanders like Ed Winfrey, 66, of Sioux City are finally getting to “read” their home-town newspaper now that the Sioux City Journal has been made available over the telephone through NFB-NEWSLINE.

The Journal, on Nov. 22, joined the 330-some news-papers and about 36 maga-zines in the United States, and a few translated foreign newspapers, that make their content available through the National Federation of the Blind of Iowa, at a toll-free, centralized call-in center that provides service on demand to any subscriber, 24 hours a day, Winfrey said. And for a news hound like him, that’s a good deal.

“When you’ve got an informed electorate, those people will do a better job running your community or sharing information,” said Winfrey of his NEWSLINE newspaper habit.

A Chicago native, he moved to Sioux City in 1969 to attend Briar Cliff College. After

dropping out of Briar Cliff to become a hippie for a while, he said he finished his stud-ies at Morningside College, worked for a few years as a therapist, helped raise three kids and had his own record-ing studio for years. Retired at 66, he still plays congas every Thursday with the jazz band, New Horizons, at Ray’s Midbell.

“Newspapers are really important. When a person that’s blind is allowed access to a newspaper, he is being allowed access to a product or a service that isn’t going to cost any money directly to that newspaper, I’m not going to go out and buy a newspa-per. I can’t read it, but I will read here,” he said, speak-ing from the comfort of his

apartment. “So you’re not los-ing anything.”

Though Hillary Clinton once introduced him to a group as “profoundly blind,” Winfrey said that made it sound like he just died.

“Blindness is as individual as a fingerprint. I have reti-nitis pigmentosa,” he said of a genetic eye disorder that causes incurable blindness. “I have two brothers who have it.”

Contrary to popular opinion, things don’t go black for all blind people. When you have retinitis pigmentosa, all of a sudden everything gets really white, he noted. But either way you look at it, there is no way to read the black and white of a newspaper.

And nothing can beat the local newspaper, he said, explaining that to find out about what is going on regarding the Trayvon Martin case in Florida, his tendency is to log onto NEWSLINE and read what the Miami Herald has to say about the case.

“The local newspapers, I stay on them more,” he said.

NEWSLINE lets a sub-

scriber choose that day’s, the previous day’s or the previ-ous Sunday’s issue of any newspaper in the service. Winfrey said he can choose which newspaper, section and article to read by using his touch-tone telephone. The menu provided allows him to change the speed and voice settings, spell out words or search for a particular word or subject.

The electronic voices, male and female, have improved over the years, he noted. He prefers the male voice, not-ing that men and women he knows who use the service always seem to prefer their own gender when it comes to picking the NEWSLINE voice.

As a bonus, NEWSLINE offers a TV Guide service that lets Winfrey know what shows are on from hour to hour. He also has access to some box store ads. And the magazines range from Rolling Stone and The Economist to the Mathilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind.

There are about 1,500 NFB-NEWSLINE subscribers in Iowa.

NEWSLINE lets blind subscribers ‘read’ newspapers

Journal photo by Tim HyndsEd Winfrey uses his telephone to dial up the National Federation of the Blind’s Newsline service at his Sioux City home. The service allows the blind man to access the content of newspapers from across the country.

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NCIS agent and former Navy SEAL Lincoln Miller is on vaca-tion in the Florida Keys, hang-ing out under the water in a submersible. Chaos ensues when dead fish start to slam into his vehicle. Forced to the surface, Miller finds himself surrounded by red flakes falling from the sky. He quickly discovers he cannot breathe, but with the help of oxygen tanks and a respirator, he makes it to land.

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The quest for answers and more oxygen tanks leads Miller to a vast conspiracy with tentacles rooted in the final days of a country supposedly con-quered at the end of World War II. The combination of

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Cover story

By DON BABWINAssociated Press

CHICAGO | Airline pilot Denny Fitch was hitching a ride home on a DC-10 in 1989 when heard an explo-sion somewhere in the back of the

jet. He soon made his way to the cockpit to see if the crew needed help.

Inside, he found three men desperately try-ing to keep the giant plane in the air after los-ing all hydraulic power needed to

control direction and altitude. Fitch took a seat in the only space avail-able — the floor — and helped oper-ate some of the only equipment still working — the wing engines — to try to land the aircraft carrying nearly 300 people.

Fitch, who died Monday at 69, used everything he knew about flying to confront an emergency that engi-neers never imagined could happen to a modern jetliner.

When the crippled plane crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa, more than half of the passengers survived — one of the most admired life-saving efforts in aviation history.

After the accident, aviation experts

conducted simulations in which test pilots and trainer pilots tried to land similarly stricken aircraft.

“I’m not aware of any that replicat-ed the success these guys had,” said Mike Hamilton, a United pilot who flew with Fitch. None of the simula-tor pilots were able to make a surviv-able landing.

“Most of the simulations never even made it close to the ground,” Hamilton said.

More than two decades later, the teamwork of Fitch and the others on the flight deck is still a model for the industry.

“To be one of those pilots, they are all heroes, and he played in instru-mental role in saving all those lives,” said Susan Callander, a flight atten-dant on United Flight 232. “What they all did, all working together as a team, now for the rest of history

will be part of the training” of flight crews.

Fitch, who had suffered from brain cancer, died at his home in the Chicago suburb of St. Charles. His role began with a small, seemingly meaningless decision he never under-stood: to get on Flight 232 instead of another flight scheduled to depart five minutes earlier on July 19.

Sitting in a window seat in the last row of first class, Fitch had just fin-ished his lunch and asked for a cup coffee.

Suddenly, the explosion spilled his coffee. As an instructional pilot, he had just spent days training fellow airmen for every conceivable kind of problem — hydraulic failure, immov-able flaps, fires and more. He tried to assure a worried flight attendant that everything was going to be fine.

“She said, ‘No, you don’t under-

stand, we’ve lost control of the plane,’” Fitch’s widow, Rosa, said Wednesday.

The engine in the plane’s tail had exploded, sending chunks of metal into the jet’s three hydraulic systems. What the crew knew was this: The only thing they could do was turn right by using the engines to vary the amount of thrust on each side.

So for more than 40 minutes, the aircraft flew in circles as it aimed for the Sioux City airport. Al Haynes, the captain who understood as well as anyone the danger of the situation, asked air traffic controllers to keep the jet away from the city.

In an interview for a documentary about the crash, Fitch talked about how his life, anybody’s life, can change in an instant.

“What makes you so sure you’re going to make it home tonight?” he

‘It was a really tough time’

Sioux City Journal fileIn this July 19, 1989, file photo, emergency workers treat injured passengers following the crash landing of a United Airlines DC-10 jet that killed 111 people at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa. Dennis Fitch, of St. Charles, Ill., the pilot who happened to be a passenger and helped save 184 people after the crash, died May 7, 2012, after suffering from brain cancer. He was 69.

Fitch helped land crippled jet in 1989

Dennis Fitch

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said. “I was 46 years old the day I walked into that cockpit. I had the world ahead of me. I was a captain on a major U.S. airline. I had a beauti-ful healthy family, loving wife, great future. And at 4 o’clock I’m trying to stay alive.”

High above the cornfields, the pilots knew the difficulty of their task. Without the flight-control sys-tems, their landing would be about twice the normal speed.

As the plane made its final descent, Fitch recalled hearing and smelling everything.

“I’ve never been so alive in my life,” he said for a newspaper story marking the 15th anniversary of the crash.

Just above the runway, the right wing plowed into the ground, send-ing the jet into a terrifying cartwheel and tearing the fuselage into three chunks as it skidded across the pave-ment into a cornfield — a scene that was captured on video.

Most of those who were killed were in the first-class area where Fitch had been seated before he went to the cockpit.

Fitch suffered several broken bones, a punctured lung and other injuries that required nine opera-tions, Rosa Fitch said.

The emotional scars were even deeper.

“To find out that 112 people didn’t make it, that just about destroyed me,” he once said. “I would have given my life for any of them. It was a really tough time.”

Fitch became a motivational speak-er, who advised others that they should let their family and friends know how much they’re loved.

Fitch, whose first wife died of brain cancer in the late 1990s, met Rosa in March 2000, when the two were working — he as a pilot and she as flight attendant — on an overseas flight.

“When I got home, the phone was

ringing and it was him,” she said. “He’d gone through two years of recuperation from the crash and two years of procedures for his wife’s illness, and he was looking for some normalcy in his life.”

Three months later, they were mar-ried, and she said that her husband

took his own advice throughout their marriage.

“He couldn’t pass me without hug-ging me or telling me how much he loved me,” she said.

Besides his wife, Fitch’s survivors include three grown children, two stepchildren and 10 grandchildren.

Associated Press fileIn this July 25, 1989, file photo, officials look over the fuselage of United Airlines DC-10 that crash-landed, killing 111 people, at the airport in Sioux City, Iowa.

Associated Press fileIn this July 22, 1989, file photo, two National Transportation Safety Board investigators check over the burnt remains of a jet engine from a United Airlines DC-10 that crashed-landed, killing 111 people, in Sioux City, Iowa.

“What makes you so sure you’re going to make it home tonight? I was 46 years old the day I walked into that cockpit. I had the world ahead of me. I was a captain on a major U.S. airline. I had a beautiful healthy family, loving wife, great future. And at 4 o’clock I’m trying to stay alive.”

Dennis Fitch Flight 232 pilot

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By JOANNE FOXPrime staff writer

SIOUX CITY | Gathering deer hides seems an appropriate task for one Siouxland organization with an ani-mal name.

But the Sioux City Elks Lodge No. 112, estab-lished locally in 1889, does so much more for the community it repre-sents.

With more than 850,000 members and 2,000 Lodges nationwide, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, or BPOE, or Elks Lodge, or simply the Elks is an American fraternal order and social club founded nationally in 1868.

Bill Hanson, current Exalted Ruler, joined the lodge in 2009.

“My brother had been a member for 18 years previous,” he said. “I was always impressed with the work the Elks did for members of our military and the needy of our community.”

Hunters who bag a buck or doe may help disabled veterans with the donation of their deer hides to the Elks, Hanson explained.

“The deer hide pro-gram is a great event we conduct every year,” he said “We treat every donated hide and then transport them to the tanning facility where one tanned hide in every four donated is delivered to the veterans homes across the country and there, the veterans make items that they sell for fundraising events.”

Hanson called the Elks

Christmas basket pro-gram, “one of the most gratifying events we conduct.”

“We start by collect-ing donated items to be auctioned off the first Saturday of December,” he said. “We then take the proceeds from the auction and purchase enough food to fill approximately 300 bas-kets with a retail value of $125. We also add mit-tens and stuffed animals for every home that has children.”

The Elks Lodge has been the kick-off sponsor for the drug awareness program in Siouxland schools for as long as anyone can remember, Hanson noted.

“We distribute thou-sands of red ribbons and drug awareness materi-als every year to the area youth and have a kickoff celebration at the Long Lines Recreation Center where we rent the facility and provide pizza and prizes to all in attendance,” he said.

Fraternal order has served since 1889

DetailsWhat: Elks Lodge Who: Any adult, American citizen can apply for mem-bership Dues: $100 a year When: Meetings are the first and third Thursday of every month; but the Elks Lodge is open to members from 4 to 11 p.m., Monday through Saturday Where: Elks Lodge, 1001 Tri-View Ave ContaCt: 252-3399 or email [email protected]

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By TERRy TURNERPrime staff writer

SANTA ROSA, N.M. – For James Cordova what started as a hobby has grown into a passion. Cordova who’s affectionately known around Santa Rosa as “Bozo” has a passion for cars and for the famed highway that runs through his town. Route 66 that originally ran from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., is still an important part of Santa Rosa.

Even as a young boy growing up in Santa Rosa Cordova was fascinated by cars and anything associated with

them. He started building model cars at a very young age.

“I built my first model car when I was six years old,” remembered Cordova. “It was a ’49 Ford.”

He continued his passion for cars as an adult and began repairing and restoring them. Eventually he opened his own business on Route 66 appropriately called, Bozo’s Garage. Along with restoring his customer’s vehicles he also did a few of his own. Actually it was more than a few.

Drive by the Route 66 museum

Terry Turner, Sioux City JournalKirk and Terri Sidener and their son Gabriel of Los Osos, Calif., look over a 1931 Chevy race car in the Route 66 Museum in Santa Rosa, N.M. The museum located on the historic highway has 40 restored cars and a huge collection of Route 66 memorabilia..

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Terry Turner, Sioux City JournalA beautifully restored 1957 Chevy convertible is just one of 40 cars on display in the Route 66 Museum in Santa Rosa, N.M.

If you goThe Route 66 Museum is located 2766 Will Rogers Ave. (Historic Route 66) in Santa Rosa, N.M., just off Interstate 40 at Exit 275 or 277. The museum is open Monday through Saturday 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. from April to October. From November to March, the museum is open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.For more information about the Route 66 Museum visit their website at rou-te66automuseum.com or call (575) 472-1966.

route 66: Did you know?• Route 66 is 2,448 miles long.• It was commissioned in 1926 using as much existing road as possible.• The highway crosses 8 states and 3 time zones. Those states are Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.• Route 66 starts in Chicago and ends in Santa Monica, CA.• Oklahoma has more miles of the original Route 66 than any other state.• Arizona has the longest stretch of the historic highway still in use today.

Today his collection of beauti-fully restored cars mainly from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s now number around 40.

In June, 2000 Cordova who along with wife Anna and their 4 children opened the Route 66 Museum and put the growing collection of cars on display for the public to see. Today the museum not only has his cars but also an impressive collec-tion of Route 66 memorabilia. Included in the collection are such things as signs that once stood by businesses along the highway, vintage gas pumps, photographs and a large mural

showing the path Route 66 took across the U.S. The museum also features a large gift shop and a snack bar.

The lure of Route 66 and its history seems to attract people from just about everywhere.

Cordova said he gets visitors from all over the country and many from other parts of the world.

I’ve had people come in from England, Denmark and all over,” he said.

Local & Government ServicesSiouxland Directoryof Elderly Services

Sioux CityBetter Business Bureau:

1-800-222-1600City Hall: 405 Sixth St.,

279-6109Department of Human

Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833

Elder Abuse Awareness: 1-800-362-2178

Emergency: 911Fire Department: 279-6314

Police Department: 279-6960 (general)

Post Office (Main): 214 Jackson St., 277-6411

Siouxland Aging Services: 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900. Information and referral services, case management. Senior Advocacy Program, Chris Kuchta, program director.

Social Security Office: 3555 Southern Hills Drive, 255-5525

South Sioux CityCity Hall: 1615 First Ave.,

494-7500Department of Social

Services: Dakota City, Neb., 987-3445

Emergency: 911Fire Department: 494-7555Police Department: 701

West 29th St., 494-7555Post Office: 801 West 29th

St., 494-1312

Adult Day ProgramsAdult Day Program:

Alzheimer’s Association, 420

Chambers St. 279-5802. A safe, nurturing group environment for functionally impaired adults who need supervision. Available Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

CounselingCatholic Charities: 1601

Military Road, 252-4547Heartland Counseling

Service: 917 West 21st., South Sioux City, 494-3337

Cherokee, Iowa

Sheldon, Iowa

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712-258-3251

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Lutheran Social Service: 4240 Hickory LaNeb.276-1073

Mercy Behavioral Care Center: 801 5th St., 279-5991

Siouxland Mental Health: 625 Court St., 252-3871

Vet Center: 1551 Indian Hills Drive, No. 204, 255-3808

Employment and Volunteer Service

RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program): Center for Siouxland, Johnalyn Platt, 252-1861, ext. 21

Senior Community Service Employment Program: 2700 Leech Ave., Cindy Thomas, 274-1610

Experienced Works: Siouxland Workforce Development Center, 2508 Fourth St., assistant; Faye Kinnaman, 233-9030 ext. 1020

Senior Companion Program: 4200 War Eagle Drive, 712-577-7848 or 712-577-7858

Financial AssistanceCommission of Veterans

Affairs: 702 Courthouse, 279-6606

Iowa Department of Human Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833

Salvation Army: 510 Bluff St., 255-8836

Social Security Administration: 3555 Southern Hills Drive, 255-5525

South Sioux City Community Center: 2120 Dakota Ave., 494-3259

Center for Siouxland: 715 Douglas St., 252-1861, Tax Counseling

Community Action Agency of Siouxland: 2700 Leech Ave., 274-1610, energy assistance

Financial, Insurance and Tax Counseling

Consumer Credit Counseling Service: 705 Douglas St., 252-5666

Siouxland Senior Center: 217 Pierce St., 255-1729, tax counseling

SHIIP (Senior Health Insurance Information Program): Information available from either Mercy Medical Center, St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center, or The Center

Center for Siouxland: 715 Douglas St., 252-1861. Conservatorship service,

provides money management and protective payee services

Woodbury County Extension Service: 4301 Sergeant Road, 276-2157Food

Iowa Department of Human Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833

Meals on Wheels: Siouxland Aging Services, 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900, deliver noon meals, suggested donation $3.72 per meal

Salvation Army: 510 Bluff St., 255-8836

Le Mars SHARE: Betty Dutcher, (712) 548-4229 (Distribution Site: Assembly of God, 410 First St. S.W.)

Mid-City SHARE: Center for Siouxland, Johna Platt, 252-1861, ext. 21, (Distribution Site: Mary TreglIowa.900 Jennings St.)

Sioux City SHARE: Center For Siouxland, Lisa Thomas, 259-7412 (Distribution Site: DAV, 5129 Military Road)

South Sioux City SHARE: Sherry Stubbs, 494-6477 (Distribution Site: First Lutheran Church, 3601 Dakota Ave.)

Siouxland Senior Center: 217 Pierce St., 255-4240, congregate meal site

Siouxland Tri State Food Bank: 215 Douglas St., 255-9741

South Sioux City Community Action Center: 2120 Dakota Ave., 494-3259

South Sioux City Senior Center: 1501 West 29th St., 494-1500, congregate meal site

St. Luke’s Heat-n-Eat Meals: 2720 Stone Park Blvd., 279-3630, Cindy Hanson

Center for Siouxland: Food pantry, 715 Douglas St., 252-1861

Community Action Agency of Siouxland: 2700 Leech St., 274-1610

Health Care Information

Alzheimer’s Association: 420 Chambers St., 279-5802. Referral and information about Alzheimer’s disease, support groups and respite care

Dakota County Health Nurse: 987-2164

Iowa Department of the Blind: 1-800-362-2587

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Local & Government Services

Lifeline: Personal emergency response system: St. Luke’s, 279-3375, Jenny Herrick; Mercy Medical Center, 279-2036, Karen Johnson

Marian Health Center: Community Education, 279-2989

Siouxland Community Health Center: 1021 Nebraska St., 252-2477

Siouxland District Health: 1014 Nebraska St., 279-6119 or 1-800-587-3005

St. Luke’s Health Professionals: 279-3333

Home Health CareBoys and Girls Home and

Family Services: 2101 Court St., 293-4700

Care Initiatives Hospice: 4301 Sgt. Road, Suite 110, Sioux City, Iowa, 712-239-1226

Geri-Care: Transit Plaza, 276-9860

Home Instead Senior Care: 220 S. Fairmont, 258-4267, non-medical home health

Hospice of Siouxland: 4300 Hamilton Blvd., 233-4144,

nursing care, home health aide/homemaker, social services

Mercy Home Care: 801 Fifth St., Suite 320, 233-5100, 1-800-897-3840, home health aides/homemaker services, therapy services

REM Health of Iowa Inc.: 2212 Pierce St., Suite 200, 233-5494, skilled nursing care, home health aides, homemaker services, waivers

Siouxland District Public Health Nursing: 1014 Nebraska St., 279-6119, skilled nursing care in home, home health aide, homemaker services

St. Luke’s Home Care: 2905 Hamilton Blvd., 279-3279. In-home nursing, therapy, home medical equipment and supplies, lifeline program.

Tri-State Nursing Services: 621 16th St., 277-4442, skilled nursing care, Home Health aide services, services ordered by a doctor

Synergy Home Care: Kim Kreber, 600 Stevens Port Drive, Suite 102, Dakota Dunes, S.D., (605) 242-6056.

Home MaintenanceSiouxland Aging Services:

2301 Pierce St., 279-6900, CHORE service, yard maintenance, heavy cleaning (Riley Fields)

SOS of Siouxland Inc.: Center for Siouxland, 715 Douglas St., 252-1861. Non-profit organization which uses volunteers to provide repair services. Serves veterans, senior citizens (especially women) and handicap persons. Services based upon need.

HospitalsMercy Medical Center: 801

Fifth St., 279-2010St. Luke’s Regional Medical

Center: 2720 Stone Park, 279-3500

Siouxland Surgery Center: 600 Sioux Point Road, 232-3332

HousingSioux CityBickford Cottage Assisted

Living: 4042 Indian Hills Drive, 239-2065, Troy Anderson.

director. 36 apartments, family owned and operated. We take pets.

Bickford Cottage Memory Care: 4022 Indian Hills Drive, 239-6851, Joy Beaver, director. 36 apartments, three levels of care depending on need.

Countryside Retirement Apartments: Lilac LaNeb.276-3000

Floyd House: 403 C Street, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, 712-943-7025, Affordable, multiple levels of care, studio, one-bedroom, respite

Holy Spirit Retirement Apartments: 1701 West 25th St., 252-2726

Lessenich Place Apartments: 301 Fifth St. Contact Connie Whitney or Pat Trosin at (712) 262-5965

Maple Heights: 5300 Stone Ave., 276-3821, contact Jennifer Turner. This is subsidized low-income housing with rent based on income

NorthPark Senior Living Community: 2562 Pierce St., 255-1200. 48 independent living apartments, 57

supervised living apartments and three respite apartments

Northern Hills Retirement Community: 4000 Teton Trace, 239-9400. Studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments.

Northern Hills Assisted Living: 4002 Teton Trace, 239-9402. Studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments.

Oakleaf Property Management: 1309 Nebraska St., 255-3665, contact leasing department. Martin Towers, 410 Pierce St.; Shire Apartments, 4236 Hickory LaNeb.Centennial Manor, 441 W. Third St. This is subsidized housing, rent is based on income.

Prime Assisted Living: 725 Pearl St., 226-6300. Affordable, spacious 1 bedroom assisted living apartments for persons 65 and older. Income guidelines apply. Accept all sources of payment including Title 19 and private pay.

River Heights: 2201 Gibson St., 276-4930. This is subsidized housing that is not

handicapped accessible.Siouxland Aging Services

Inc: 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900. This is subsidized housing, rent based on income. Evergreen Terrace, 2430 West St., 258-0508; Riverside Gardens, 715 Brunner Ave., 277-2083; Fairmount Park Apartments, 210 Fairmount St.

Sunrise Retirement Community: 5501 Gordon Drive, 276-3821. 64 one and two bedroom ground level homes with attached garage, some with den and sunroom.

War Eagle Village Apartments: 2800 W. Fourth St., 258-0801, subsidized housing based on income

Community Action Agency of Siouxland: 2700 Leech Ave., 274-1610. Carnegie Place Apartments, Sixth and Jackson sts.

South Sioux CityAutumn Park Apartments:

320 East 12th St., 494-5393Dacotah House: 316 East

16th St., 274-9125. Subsidized housing, you must be over 62 or handicapped

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Senior ActivitiesNutrition program

Persons 60 years of age and older and their spouses may participate in the elderly nutrition program in Siouxland. In Sioux City, meals are served Tuesday-Friday at Riverside Lutheran Church, 1817 Riverside Blvd.; on Monday at Riverside Gardens’ Community Room, 715 Bruner Ave., Fairmount Park, 210 S. Fairmount St., and Centennial Manor, 441 W. Third St.

A suggested contribution is $2.75 or what each person can afford without causing a financial hardship.

Reservations are required a day in advance by calling the Sergeant Bluff site, 943-5356, or the Siouxland Aging Services nutrition office at 279-6900, ext. 15. For more information about other available meal sites, call Siouxland Aging Services at 279-6900.

Siouxland Center for Active Generations

Siouxland Center, 313 Cook St., is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

JuNe CAleNdAr:June 1: Exercise Plus 50, 8:30 a.m.; fitness

with Sandy, Wii practice, 9:30 a.m.; blood pressures, 10 a.m.; bridge group, noon; bridge & 500, scrabble, dance with Jerry O’Dell & His Country Flavor Band, 1 p.m.

June 4: Exercise Plus 50, 8:15 a.m.; advanced tap class, intermediate tap class, 9 a.m.; guitar practice, Wii practice, intermediate tap class, 9:30 a.m.; beginner tap class, 10 a.m.; duplicate bridge, 11:30 a.m.; movie “War Horse,” Mah Jong, pinochle, woodcarving, 1 p.m.; fitness with Kelly, 2 p.m.

June 5: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m.; Spanish seminar, senior yoga, 9 a.m.; genealogy, painting class, 9:30 a.m.; creative writing, walking off pounds, 10 a.m.; tap practice, noon; painting class, pitch, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m.

June 6: Chorus, senior yoga with Dixie, 9 a.m.; painting class, novice dup. bridge game, 9:30 a.m.; beginner tap practice, 3 mile walk, 10 a.m.; talk show, “Cell phone questions answered here,” 10:30 a.m.; bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Women’s Bible Study, scrabble, 500, 1 p.m.; 1 mile walk warm up, 2:40 p.m.; fitness with Kelly, 3 p.m.; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m.

June 7: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m.; beg. 1 line dance, 8:45 a.m.; walking off pounds, 9 a.m.; Beg. 2 line dance, 9:45 a.m.; Library Book Club, senior yoga, Men’s Club, beginning

German, 10 a.m.; advanced line dance, advanced German, 11 a.m.; canasta, inter. line dance, woodcarving, bridge group, cribbage, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m.

June 8: Exercise Plus 50, 8:30 a.m.; fitness with Sandy, Wii practice, 9: 30 a.m.; blood pressures, 10 a.m.; bridge group, noon; bridge & 500, scrabble, free dance with Burt Heithold Band, 1 p.m.

June 11: Exercise Plus 50, 8:15 a.m.; advanced tap class, intermediate bridge

class, 9 a.m.; guitar practice, Wii practice, intermediate tap class, 9:30 a.m.; beginner tap class, 10 a.m.; duplicate bridge, 11:30 a.m.; birthday party, Mah Jong, pinochle, woodcarving, 1 p.m.; Super Strong Seniors with Kelly, 2:30 p.m.

June 12: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m.; Spanish seminar, senior yoga, 9 a.m.; genealogy, painting class, 9:30 a.m.; walking off pounds, creative writing, 10 a.m.; crafts, 10:30 a.m.; tap practice, 12:30 p.m.; painting class, pitch, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m.

June 13: Chorus, senior yoga with Dixie, 9 a.m.; painting class, novice dup. bridge game, 9:30 a.m.; beginning tap practice, 3 mile walk, 10 a.m.; talk show, “Living the

Good Life Bingo,” 10:30 a.m.; bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Women’s Bible Study, scrabble, 500, 1 p.m.; 1 mile walk warm up, 2:40 p.m.; fitness with Kelly, 3 p.m.; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m.

June 14: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m.; beg. 1 line dance, 8:45 a.m; walking off pounds, 9 a.m.; beg. 2 line dance, 9:45 a.m.; senior yoga, Men’s Club, beginning German, 10 a.m.; advanced line dance, advanced German, 11 a.m.; canasta, inter. line dance,

woodcarving, bridge group, cribbage, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m.

June 15: Exercise Plus 50, 8:30 a.m.; fitness with Sandy, Wii practice, 9:30 a.m.; blood pressures, 10 a.m.; bridge group, noon; bridge & 500, scrabble, dance with Terry & the Remnants, 1 p.m.

June 18: Exercise Plus 50, 8:15 a.m.; advanced tap class, intermediate bridge class, 9 a.m.; guitar practice, Wii practice, intermediate tap class, 9:30 a.m.; beginner tap class, 10 a.m.; duplicate bridge, 11:30 a.m.; movie “The Family Man,” Mah Jong, pinochle, woodcarving, 1 p.m.; fitness with Kelly, 2 p.m.

June 19: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m.; Spanish

seminar, senior yoga, 9 a.m.; genealogy, painting class, 9:30 a.m.; creative writing, walking off pounds, 10 a.m.; tap practice, noon; painting class, pitch, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m.

June 20: Senior yoga with Dixie, chorus, 9 a.m.; painting class, novice dup. bridge game, 9:30 a.m.; beginning tap practice, 3 mile walk, 10 a.m.; talk show, 10:30 a.m.; karaoke & treats, bridge, 12:30 p.m.; scrabble, 500, 1 p.m.; 1 mile walk warm up, 2:40 p.m.; fitness with Kelly, 3 p.m.; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m.

June 21: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m.; beg. 1 line dance, 8:45 a.m.; walking off pounds, 9 a.m.; beg. 2 line dance, 9:45 a.m.; senior yoga, Men’s Club, beginning German, 10 a.m.; advanced line dance, advanced German, 11 a.m.; canasta, inter. line dance, woodcarving, bridge group, cribbage, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m.

June 22: Exercise Plus 50, 8:30 a.m.; fitness with Sandy, Wii practice, 9:30 a.m.; blood pressures, 10 a.m.; bridge group, noon; bridge & 500, scrabble, dance with Art & Gwen, 1 p.m.

June 25: Exercise Plus 50, 8:15 a.m.; advanced tap class, intermediate bridge class, 9 a.m.; guitar practice, Wii practice, intermediate tap class, 9:30 a.m.; beginner tap class, 10 a.m.; duplicate bridge, 11:30 a.m.; movie “The Pallbearer,” Mah Jong, pinochle, woodcarving, 1 p.m.; Super Strong Seniors with Kelly, 2:30 p.m.

June 26: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m.; Spanish seminar, senior yoga, 9 a.m.; genealogy, painting class, 9:30 a.m.; creative writing, walking off pounds, 10 a.m.; crafts, 10:30 a.m.; tap practice, 12:30 p.m.; painting class, pitch, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m.

June 27: Senior yoga with Dixie, chorus, 9 a.m.; painting class, novice dup. bridge game, 9:30 a.m.; beginning tap practice, 3 mile walk, 10 a.m.; talk show, 10:30 a.m.; bridge, 12:30 p.m.; scrabble, 500, 1 p.m.; 1 mile walk warm up, 2:40 p.m.; fitness with Kelly, 3 p.m.; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m.

June 28: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m.; beg. 1 line dance, 8:45 a.m.; walking off pounds, 9 a.m.; beg. 2 line dance, 9:45 a.m.; senior yoga, Men’s Club, beginning German, 10 a.m.; advanced line dance, advanced German, 11 a.m.; canasta, inter. line dance, woodcarving, bridge group, cribbage, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m.

June 29: Exercise Plus 50, 8:30 a.m.; fitness with Sandy, Wii practice, 9:30 a.m.; blood pressures, 10 a.m.; bridge group, noon; bridge & 500, scrabble, dance with Shirley’s Big Band, 1 p.m.

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CalendarArts & Theater

Siouxland Weather Encounters, through June 30, Betty Strong Encounter Center, 900 Larsen Park Road. 712-224-5242. www.siouxcitylcic.com

Douglas Wood Concert, 2-3 p.m. June 3, Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center, 4500 Sioux River Rd. 712-258-0838, www.woodburyparks.comBenefit & fundraiser

River-Cade Fundraiser Auction, 7-8 p.m. June 8, Elk Club, 1001 Tri View Ave. Auction for the Riverssance renaissance festival to be held at Riverside Park.

Wheeling for Women Aware, 7:40 a.m.-2:30 p.m. June 9, Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve, 272 Westshore Dr. 712-258-4174, www.womenawarescia.org

South Sioux City Eagles Fundrasier, 5-7:30 p.m. June 22, South Sioux City Eagles, 801 W. 13th St. South Sioux City. 402-494-2788.Classes & Lectures

Government Corner Walking Tour, 10-11:15 a.m. June 2, Sioux City Public Museum.

The Wonders of Buxton, 6-7 p.m. June 6, Sioux City Public Museum, 607 Fourth St. Presented by the African American Museum of Iowa.Comedy

Great American Comedy Festival, June 13-17, Johnny Carson Theater, Norfolk, Neb. www.greatamericancomedyfestival.comCommunity

Sioux City Farmers Market, Wednesdays and Saturdays through Oct. 31, Tyson Events Center parking lot, Corner of Triview Ave. and Pearl St. www.farmersmarketsiouxcity.com

June 2: Dakota City Annual Rummage Sales, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. June 2, Dakota City, 1511 Broadway, Dakota City, Neb. 402-987-3448.

Movies in the Park: Dolphin Tale, 9 p.m. June 9, Grandview Park.

Jackson Street Walking Tour, 6-7 p.m. June 14, Pierce Street Mansion, 2901 Jackson St. 712-279-6174.

2012 Ice Cream Days Parade, 9-10 a.m. June 16, Le Mars, Iowa. 712-546-8821,.

Juneteenth Celebration, Noon-4 p.m. June 16, Cook Park, 505 Market St. 712-255-0629.

Movies in the Park: Happy Feet 2, 9 p.m. June 16, Grandview Park.

West 7th Street Walking Tour, 6-7 p.m. June 23, corner of West 7th and Wesley Way. 712-279-6174.

Movies in the Park: Smurfs, 9 p.m. June 23, Grandview Park.

Movies in the Park: Soul Surfer, 9 p.m. June 30, Grandview Park.Music

2012 Lakeport Commons Summer Concert Series, 6:30-p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 30. Lakeport Commons, 5001 Sgt. Rd. www.shoplakeportcommons.com

Friday’s on the Promenade, 6 p.m. Fridays through August, Fourth St. Historic 4th and Virginia. Musical acts TBA.

Municipal Band Concerts, 7:30 p.m. Sundays through August, Grandview Park, 24th & Grandview.

Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers, 7:30 p.m. June 22, Orpheum Theatre, 528 Pierce St. www.orpheumlive.com

Chicago, 7:30 p.m. June 28, Orpheum Theatre, 528 Pierce St. 800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.comShows & Festivals

GreekFest 2012, June 8-9, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 900 Sixth St.

Awesome Biker Nights 2012, June 14-16, Historic Fourth Street/Convention Center. 712-224-2759.

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LAST HURRAH

Dr. Laura Giese

The Friendliest Staff in Town

Wheelock, Bursick & GieseGeneral Dentistry

712-274-2038 or 800-728-2038 4100 Morningside Ave. Suite B,Across From McDonald’s

Accepting New Patients

Embassy Rehab & Care Center206 Port Neal Rd.

Sergeant Bluff, IA 51054 Ph. (712) 943-3837Fax: (712) 943-5874

WEL-Home Health Of Sergeant Bluff112 Gaul Drive • Sergeant Bluff, IA 51054

Phone: 712.943.7644 • www.lantisnet.com

Quality Care with

Western Hospitalitywith a smile!

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