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The bus, a needed addition to the SWCC fleet, will carry 35 people and cost more than $150,000 from a sales repre- sentative out of Dexter. “We’ve been looking at this for probably two years,” said Tom Lesan, SWCC vice president of economic development. “With the starting up of the new activities, with larger numbers of partici- pants ... than I anticipated, we are running into a lot of conflicts.” In January, February and March, there are 17 conflicts be- tween different scheduled athletic and organization activities. Vehi- cles are rented through a company in Arispe to make up for any con- flicts; however, the cost to rent is $1,400, which adds up to approx- imately $24,000 if used for all 17 conflicts. “It’s going to positively affect our athletes, and further than that, all our activities on campus,” said Todd Lorensen, SWCC athletic director and head men’s basketball coach. “It’s just going to give us more flexibility and help us treat our students in a much better fashion.” Shuttle “Our proposal right now is to keep the current bus, to keep the current shuttle and to add a 35-pas- senger shuttle, at least to get us till summer of 2015,” Lesan said. The approved shuttle was bid by Master’s Trans- portation Inc., out of Dexter for $157,980. It is a 2015 Ford F-650, and is already built. The other bid was for a shuttle costing $161,124 from Colonial Bus Company out of Monrovia, Md. The shuttle has storage space for any sports or mu- sic equipment that does not take away from seating. The cost will come out of the college’s transporta- tion fund. Lesan Lorensen Creston wrestling boards still on walls — more to come? By BAILEY POOLMAN CNA staff reporter [email protected]Boards depicting the histor- ical success of Creston’s wres- tling program are still up in the athletic hallway at Creston High School, despite recent controversy. The boards are four-feet- wide by eight-feet-tall black composite material with red stenciled lettering (see photo, right). The boards include ev- ery CHS wrestler who placed at state, from four-time cham- pion Jake Marlin to the many state qualifiers. The boards were installed roughly a couple weeks ago, according to Jeff Bevins, Cres- ton athletic director. Issue Before the boards were in- stalled, acknowledgment of wrestling champions included the 2007 individual tourna- ment and dual tour- nament champi- onship team in the gym and first-place champions in the CHS commo ns area. There are also team cham- pions for each sport at Creston High School displayed in the gym. “There’s really nothing out there that shows anything oth- er than the first place (cham- pions),” Bevins said. “There’s a first time for everything.” Steve McDermott, Creston and Prescott superintendent, said one of the main concerns he has received was the size of the boards. “Once they were installed, everybody realized how large they were,” McDermott said. “The actual size, they just took up more space than an- ticipated.” Another issue that was present, according to McDer- mott, was the lack of fairness. “They’re very sharp, they look nice. I think the issue now is fairness for all pro- grams,” McDermott said. McDermott said he has worked with building admin- istrators and Darrell Frain, Creston/Orient-Macksburg head wrestling coach, and they have made good head- way. “We’re hoping to go ahead and build on that idea,” Mc- Dermott said. “We feel like we’re in a better place today.” History The boards have been in the works more than a year, thanks to coaches and Creston High School students. “There was a group over a year ago that decided to pur- sue this idea,” McDermott said. “The coaches worked with the EAST (environ- mental and spatial technol- ogy) program, and then the students kind of took it from there.” EAST students fundraised to purchase the materials, then created the boards. They got permission by Creston School Board members to put the boards on the walls, but did not do it right away. The boards sat in a pile for a long time. Eventually they were screwed into the walls in the high school’s athletic hallway, just beyond the gym entranc- es, by the wrestling team’s supporters, which includes parents. Changes Currently, the plan is to continue with the idea of the record boards with other sports and activities. “We’re also looking at considering how to do some similar boards for other ac- tivities, so we are the same across the board,” McDer- mott said. McDermott mentioned suggestions of consolidat- ing boards to make room for those dedicated to other activities. He also suggested moving some of the wrestling boards into the wrestling room at the high school. “I like them, but I also like that we’re going to include a lot of our individual sports,” Bevins said. Another issue is the mate- rial the boards are made out of. There is an investigation into if the materials are com- bustible. If they are not, the plan is to continue with the idea of creating more record boards. However, if they are, a change of material might be in order. ALL BOARDED UP CNA photo by BAILEY POOLMAN These boards, made of black composite material with red lettering, hang in the athlet- ic hallway at Creston High School. The boards cover all individual wrestling champi- ons. McDermott Bevins Please see SWCC, Page 2 CNA photos by SARAH BROWN Hay bale fire: Creston Firefighter Ray Ott hoses down hay bales during a fire Wednesday on the property of Jerry Young of Shannon City. Creston Fire Department reported approx- imately 100 hay bales were on fire upon arrival. The cause is still under investigation. Read the full report on page 3A. Creston News Advertiser 503 W. Adams Street | Box 126 Creston, IA 50801-0126 2014 2014 PRICE 75¢ CONNECT WITH US Copyright 2015 COMPLETE WEATHER 3A crestonnews.com | online 641-782-2141 | phone 641-782-6628 | fax Follow us on Facebook If you do not receive your CNA by 5 p.m. call 641-782-2141, ext. 6450. 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ICCAC VICTORYThe Southwestern Spartans men’s basketball team opened ICCAC play Wednesday evening with a 70-64 win over Ellsworth. Jaylon Smith led the Spartans with 25 points. More in SPORTS, page 10A. >>
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2015
BRIDAL SECTIONWhat will the wedding hair trends be for 2015? Local beauticians Gretchen Baker of Salon G and MaKenzi Vonk of Reflections Beauty and Tanning Salon in Creston make their predictions in our bridal section on pages 6 and 7A.
SWCC to purchase new $150Kshuttle for activities By BAILEY POOLMANCNA staff [email protected]
Southwestern Community College Board of Di-rectors unanimously approved the purchase of an activities shuttle during their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday.
The bus, a needed addition to the SWCC fleet, will carry 35 people and cost more than $150,000 from a sales repre-sentative out of Dexter.
“We’ve been looking at this for probably two years,” said Tom Lesan, SWCC vice president of economic development. “With the starting up of the new activities, with larger numbers of partici-pants ... than I anticipated, we are running into a lot of conflicts.”
In January, February and March, there are 17 conflicts be-tween different scheduled athletic and organization activities. Vehi-cles are rented through a company in Arispe to make up for any con-flicts; however, the cost to rent is $1,400, which adds up to approx-imately $24,000 if used for all 17 conflicts.
“It’s going to positively affect our athletes, and further than that, all our activities on campus,” said Todd Lorensen, SWCC athletic director and head men’s basketball coach. “It’s just going to give us more flexibility and help us treat our students in a much better fashion.”
Shuttle“Our proposal right now is to keep the current
bus, to keep the current shuttle and to add a 35-pas-senger shuttle, at least to get us till summer of 2015,” Lesan said.
The approved shuttle was bid by Master’s Trans-portation Inc., out of Dexter for $157,980. It is a 2015 Ford F-650, and is already built. The other bid was for a shuttle costing $161,124 from Colonial Bus Company out of Monrovia, Md.
The shuttle has storage space for any sports or mu-sic equipment that does not take away from seating. The cost will come out of the college’s transporta-tion fund.
Lesan
Lorensen
Creston wrestling boards still on walls — more to come? By BAILEY POOLMANCNA staff [email protected]
Boards depicting the histor-ical success of Creston’s wres-tling program are still up in the athletic hallway at Creston High School, despite recent controversy.
The boards are four-feet-wide by eight-feet-tall black composite material with red stenciled lettering (see photo, right). The boards include ev-ery CHS wrestler who placed at state, from four-time cham-pion Jake Marlin to the many state qualifiers.
The boards were installed roughly a couple weeks ago, according to Jeff Bevins, Cres-ton athletic director.
IssueBefore the boards were in-
stalled, acknowledgment of wrestling champions included the 2007 individual t o u r n a -ment and dual tour-n a m e n t c h a m p i -o n s h i p team in the gym and first-place champions in the CHS commons area. There are also team cham-pions for each sport at Creston High School displayed in the gym.
“There’s really nothing out there that shows anything oth-er than the first place (cham-pions),” Bevins said. “There’s a first time for everything.”
Steve McDermott, Creston and Prescott superintendent, said one of the main concerns he has received was the size of the boards.
“Once they were installed, everybody realized how large they were,” McDermott said. “The actual size, they just took up more space than an-ticipated.”
Another issue that was present, according to McDer-mott, was the lack of fairness.
“They’re very sharp, they look nice. I think the issue now is fairness for all pro-grams,” McDermott said.
McDermott said he has worked with building admin-istrators and Darrell Frain, Creston/Orient-Macksburg head wrestling coach, and they have made good head-way.
“We’re hoping to go ahead and build on that idea,” Mc-Dermott said. “We feel like we’re in a better place today.”
HistoryThe boards have been in
the works more than a year, thanks to coaches and Creston High School students.
“There was a group over a year ago that decided to pur-sue this idea,” McDermott said. “The coaches worked
with the EAST (environ-mental and spatial technol-ogy) program, and then the students kind of took it from there.”
EAST students fundraised to purchase the materials, then created the boards. They got permission by Creston School Board members to put the boards on the walls, but did not do it right away. The boards sat in a pile for a long time.
Eventually they were screwed into the walls in the high school’s athletic hallway, just beyond the gym entranc-es, by the wrestling team’s supporters, which includes parents.
ChangesCurrently, the plan is to
continue with the idea of the record boards with other sports and activities.
“We’re also looking at
considering how to do some similar boards for other ac-tivities, so we are the same across the board,” McDer-mott said.
McDermott mentioned suggestions of consolidat-ing boards to make room for those dedicated to other activities. He also suggested moving some of the wrestling boards into the wrestling room at the high school.
“I like them, but I also like that we’re going to include a lot of our individual sports,” Bevins said.
Another issue is the mate-rial the boards are made out of. There is an investigation into if the materials are com-bustible. If they are not, the plan is to continue with the idea of creating more record boards. However, if they are, a change of material might be in order.
ALL BOARDED UP
CNA photo by BAILEY POOLMANThese boards, made of black composite material with red lettering, hang in the athlet-ic hallway at Creston High School. The boards cover all individual wrestling champi-ons.
McDermott
Bevins
Please seeSWCC, Page 2
CNA photos by SARAH BROWN
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2A Creston News AdvertiserThursday, January 15, 2015
Twyla Johnson Creston
Twyla Johnson, 78, of C r e s t o n died Jan. 14, 2015, at Mercy Hospice in Johnston.
C e l e -b r a t i o n of life s e r v i c e s will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at Powers Funeral Home, junction of high-ways 34 and 25. The Rev. Jim Morris will officiate. Burial will be in Atlantic Cemetery at approximately 3 p.m. Open visitation will be 2 to 7 p.m. Friday with family present 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Me-morials may be given to the Twyla Johnson Memorial, P.O. Box 431, Creston, IA 50801. Online condolences may be left at www.powers-fh.com.
Twyla Rae (Wohlhutter) Johnson, daughter of Vel-ma (Bristol) and Leonard Arthur Wohlhutter, was born Sept. 4, 1936, in Cor-ley.
Twyla graduated from Harlan High School in 1955 and went on to Commercial
Extension Business School in Omaha, Neb. In Omaha, she worked at Mutual of Omaha in health and acci-dental accounting for 2 1/2 years, before moving to At-lantic.
On Jan. 25, 1963, Twy-la married Duane Edward Johnson in Atlantic at the Methodist Church.
In Atlantic, she worked at Walnut Grove Feder-al Company in accounting from 1958 to 1964. She moved to Creston in 1972 and worked as a home-maker. She later worked at M&M Motors as the acounting bookkeeper from November 1975 to 1995, retiring because of health problems.
Twyla was a member at the United Methodist Church in Creston, and was formerly involved in two bridge clubs.
Twyla is survived by her husband Duane of Cres-ton; sons, Joel (wife Mary) Johnson of Lee Summit, Mo., and Martin and Mark Johnson, both of Des Moines; sisters, Janelle Mein of Johnston and Sha-ron Hartvigsen of Harlan; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Twyla was preceded in death by her parents.
Beulah HutchinsonMount Ayr
Beulah C. Hutchinson, 79, of M o u n t Ayr died Jan. 14, 2015, at R i n g g o l d C o u n t y H o s p i t a l in Mount Ayr.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Sat-urday, Jan. 17, at the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr. The Rev. Chris Conk-lin and the Rev. Ed Shields will officiate. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery in Mount Ayr. Open visita-tion will be noon to 8 p.m. Friday with family present 6 to 8 p.m. at Watson-Arm-strong Funeral Home, 205 W. Monroe St., Mount Ayr. Memorials may be given to Mount Ayr Band Boost-ers and Mount Ayr Drama Club. Online condolences may be left at www.watso-narmstrongfh.com.
Beulah C. Hutchinson, daughter of Betty (Als-bury) and Joe Hill, was born Oct. 11, 1935, at the family home just outside of Allendale, Mo., in Worth County.
Beulah attended rural schools through the eighth grade and then graduat-ed from Grant City High School in 1953 at the age of 16.
After her graduation, Beulah attended Missouri Methodist School of Nurs-ing, graduating in 1956 with a R.N. degree.
On April 7, 1957, Beu-lah married Raymond
Hutchinson.Beulah was a nurse and
worked at Ringgold Coun-ty Hospital.
Beulah is survived by her daughters, Kelli (Derrick) Bucy of Red Oak, Karla (Jerry) Hynes of Creston, Karen (Richard) Hanisch of West Des Moines and Tracee (Steve) Knapp of Redding; grandchildren, Lindsay (Chris) Blaine of Cumberland, Damon (Codi) Bucy of Glenville, Neb., Lacey (Andy) Frank of Liberty, Mo., Melanie Bucy of Maryville, Mo., Adam Hanisch of Hornick, Joshua Hanisch of West Des Moines, James (Nata-sha) Hanisch of Urbandale, Sandra Knapp of Wichita, Kan., and Lew, Reas and Trace Jet Knapp, all of Red-ding; great-grandchildren, Natalie and Nellie Blaine of Cumberland, Zara and Camden Emick of Jeffer-son, Tucker and Haiden Bucy and Tanner League, all of Glenville, Neb., Harper and Finley Frank of Liberty, Mo., Hunter, Han-nah and Hayden Hanisch, all of Urbandale, and Iaden Aleman of Wichita, Kan.; siblings, Althea Spillman of Bethany, Mo., Pat Hill of Cameron, Mo., and Edna Magnuson of Apache Junction, Ariz.; and sisters-in-law, Shirley Hill of Cam-den Point, Mo., and Judy Hill of St. Joseph, Mo., and Lois Hill of Overland Park, Kan.
Beulah was preceded in death by her parents; husband; daughter Kayla Hutchinson; brothers, Ben, Don and Bill Hill; and sis-ters, Lacasta Lindsay and Dee (Hill) Norris.
Phyllis Greene Bedford, Texas
Phyllis Greene, 88, passed a w a y Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, af-ter a long illness.
Funer-al: Mass of Chris-tian Buri-al will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Rita Catholic Church, 5501 E. Lancaster Ave., Fort Worth. Interment: Shannon Rose Hill Ceme-tery. Rosary: will begin at 6 p.m. Friday at Thompson’s Harveson & Cole Funeral Home with visitation fol-lowing until 8 p.m.
Memorials: In lieu of flowers, please send dona-tions to Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County, 320 South Freeway, Fort Worth, Tex-as 76104.
Phyllis was born July 29, 1926, in Quinn, S.D., and was raised in Afton, Iowa, the third of four children born to Agnes and William Connelly. She was a regis-tered nurse, receiving her degree from Mercy Hos-pital School of Nursing in 1947 through the U.S. Ca-det Nurse Corps. She met and married her husband of 62 years, Clifford Greene,
in Honolulu, Hawaii. They married Aug. 2, 1952, and raised five children togeth-er. The couple moved to Fort Worth in 1960 and were longtime parishioners of St. Rita Catholic Church.
Phyllis devoted her time to raising her children and volunteering with numer-ous ministries at her parish and the wider community, including driving for Meals on Wheels for more than 25 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Leo and Monsignor Paul Connelly, all of Iowa.
Survivors: Her husband, Cliff, 91; sister, Maureen Rasmussen of Hemet, Ca-lif.; sister-in-law, Darlene Connelly of Lorimar, Iowa; sons, Mike Greene (Vic-ki Trusselli) of Rockport and Mark Greene (Kelly) of Fort Worth; daughters, Kealia Folck (Stephen) of Platte City, Mo., Vailoa Greene of Bedford and Ju-lie Greene of Euless; grand-children, Elizabeth Greene (Chris Hathcock) of Bed-ford; Celeste Greene (Tim Bowman) of Amarillo, Jar-rod Greene of Lewisville and Page Folck of Platte City, Mo.; great-grand-children, Haley and Brody Hathcock of Bedford; and numerous nieces and neph-ews.
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An extra cost will include logos for the vehicle, which it currently does not have.
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In other SWCC board news:
• Board members ap-proved the revised retire-ment policy for one year. There are currently 26 staff members at SWCC eligible for retirement.
• SWCC board members approved a March 10 pub-lic hearing to choose con-tractors for a renovation to the Allied health and science center. The renova-tion comes after the college received approximately $1 million in grant money from United States Department of Labor and decided to cre-ate a health care simulation laboratory.
• A report on residence hall Spartan Court will be given to board members in February.
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UV IndexFri
1/162
Low
Sat1/17
2Low
Sun1/18
2Low
Mon1/19
2Low
Tue1/20
2Low
The UV Index is measured on a 0 -11 number scale, with a higher UVIndex showing the need for greaterskin protection.
Day’s RecordFrom Creston Offi cial Weather Station: high past 24 hours (31), low past 24 hours (17) and precipitation ending 7 a.m. today (.0)
Today's WeatherLocal 5-Day Forecast
Fri1/16
48/32Partly cloudy skies.High 48F. Winds Sat 10 to 20 mph.
Sunrise Sunset7:40 AM 5:15 PM
Sat1/17
47/29Windy with a mix ofsun and clouds.
Sunrise Sunset7:39 AM 5:16 PM
Sun1/18
44/27Sunshine. Highs inthe mid 40s andlows in the upper20s.
Sunrise Sunset7:39 AM 5:17 PM
Mon1/19
43/28Morning clouds fol-lowed by afternoonsun.
Sunrise Sunset7:38 AM 5:18 PM
Tue1/20
44/23Mainly sunny. Highsin the mid 40s andlows in the low 20s.
Sunrise Sunset7:38 AM 5:19 PM
Des Moines45/32
Cedar Rapids32/27
Sioux City42/24
Creston48/32
Iowa At A Glance
Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 34 25 pt sunny Davenport 33 25 pt sunny Marshaltown 35 27 pt sunnyAtlantic 50 32 mst sunny Des Moines 45 32 pt sunny Mason City 31 26 cloudyAubudon 45 30 pt sunny Dubuque 32 23 pt sunny Onawa 43 26 pt sunnyCedar Rapids 32 27 pt sunny Farmington 39 31 pt sunny Oskaloosa 41 29 pt sunnyCenterville 45 33 pt sunny Fort Dodge 34 28 pt sunny Ottumwa 42 30 pt sunnyClarinda 52 32 mst sunny Ft Madison 38 32 pt sunny Red Oak 51 31 mst sunnyClarion 33 26 pt sunny Guttenberg 35 24 pt sunny Sioux Center 36 25 pt sunnyClinton 30 23 pt sunny Keokuk 38 31 pt sunny Sioux City 42 24 pt sunnyCouncil Bluffs 51 32 pt sunny Lansing 36 24 pt sunny Spencer 36 23 pt sunnyCreston 48 32 pt sunny LeMars 39 25 pt sunny Waterloo 34 27 pt sunny
National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 52 31 sunny Houston 58 38 mst sunny Phoenix 71 46 sunnyBoston 34 3 pt sunny Los Angeles 74 49 sunny San Francisco 63 49 pt sunnyChicago 28 21 mst sunny Miami 73 58 cloudy Seattle 48 45 rainDallas 60 40 mst sunny Minneapolis 28 23 pt sunny St. Louis 46 33 pt sunnyDenver 60 29 pt sunny New York 38 17 mst sunny Washington, DC 43 26 mst sunny
Moon Phases
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FirstJan 27
FullFeb 3
UV IndexFri
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Driver’s licenseSchedule of driver’s license
examiners:Bedford: Monday through
Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Taylor County Courthouse, 407 Jefferson St.
Corning: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Adams CountyCourthouse. Driving tests on Wednesday mornings by appointment.
Creston: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Union CountyCourthouse, 300 N. Pine St. Driving tests Wednesdays. Call 782-1710 for an appointment.
Greenfield: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Adair County Courthouse, 400 Public Square.
Mount Ayr: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Ringgold County Courthouse, 109 W. Madison St.
Osceola: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Clarke County Courthouse, 100 S. Main St.
Winterset: Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., Madison County Courthouse, 112 N. John Wayne Drive.
ThursdayCelebrate Recovery (a Christ-
centered 12-step program), 6 p.m., Crest Baptist Church, 1211 N. Poplar St.
Gambler’s Anonymous, 7 p.m., Assembly of God Church, 801 N. Fillmore St., Osceola.
Al-Anon, 7:30 p.m., Crossroads Mental Health Center, 1003 Cottonwood Road.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) open meeting, 7:30 p.m., St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.
FridayHoly Spirit Rectory ReRun
Shop, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 107 W.
Howard St.CW Club, noon, congregate
meal site, restored Creston Depot.
Southern Prairie YMCA 55 Plus, 11:45 a.m., Summit House. Bring $3 for pizza and change for bingo.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) brown baggers, noon open meet-ing, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. No smoking.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 12 by 12 study, 7 to 8 p.m., United Church of Christ, 501 W. Montgomery St. Use east door.
Union Squares, 7:30 p.m., Creston First United Methodist Church. Call Bob Cooper at 782-4403 for more information.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA), 8 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.
SaturdayCreston Men’s Fellowship
non-denominational Bible study, 7 a.m., The Windrow Restaurant.
Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, 9 a.m. to noon, 107 W. Howard St.
Southwest Iowa Dancers, 6 to 9 p.m., Chicken Inn, 3 miles west of Creston on Hwy. 34.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 7:30 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.
SundayAlcoholics Anonymous (AA),
noon open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.
MondayUnion County Board of
Supervisors, 9 a.m., Union County Courthouse boardroom.
Creston Rotary Club, noon, Greater Regional Medical Center cafeteria conference room.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA), noon open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. No smoking.
Diabetic Support Group, 1 p.m., Greater Regional Medical Center Cafeteria Conference Room.
Meeting Union County Emergen-
cy Management, 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, 208 W. Taylor St.
Agenda includes: claims; ALERT Iowa agreement – Taylor County to sign; final-ize fiscal year 2016 budget for publication; discussion on office move; coordinator report.
Police Michelle Jones of Exec-
utive Apartments, 1301 N. Elm St., reported change boxes were taken off wash-ing machines at the apart-ment complex between 3 p.m. Monday and 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Loss estimate is $267.50.Miscellaneous
Traffic stop, 7:53 a.m., Tuesday, South Sumner Av-enue.
Drive off, 1:07 p.m., Tuesday, North Sumner Avenue.
Harassing communication, 3:18 p.m., Tuesday, North Division Street.
Theft, 3:22 p.m., Tuesday, North Elm Street.
Reckless driving, 3:43 p.m., Tuesday, West Taylor Street.
Talk to officer, 4:17 p.m.,
Tuesday, Wyoming Ave-nue.
Warrant, 4:36 p.m., Tues-day, West Mills Street.
Warrant, 5:56 p.m., Tues-day, West Montgomery Street.
Warrant, 5:56 p.m., Tues-day, West Montgomery Street.
Domestic dispute, 6:54 p.m., Tuesday, North Divi-sion Street.
Talk to officer, 7:51 p.m., Tuesday, Livingston Ave-nue.
Alarm, 11:29 p.m., Tues-day, East Taylor Street.
Information, 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, West Montgomery Street.
Accident, 3:46 p.m., Tues-day, North Sycamore Street.
Traffic stop, 5:47 a.m., Wednesday, North Spruce Street.
Talk to officer, 6:18 a.m., Wednesday, Grand Ave-nue.
Talk to officer, 8:13 a.m., Wednesday, West Taylor Street.
Assistance, 1:50 p.m., Wednesday, North Pine Street.
Traffic stop, 2:23 p.m., Wednesday, North Oak Street.
Traffic stop, 11:42 p.m., Wednesday, West Mills Street.
Traffic stop, 11:53 p.m., Wednesday, West Mont-gomery Street.
Domestic dispute, 12:18 a.m., today, West Spencer Street.
Traffic stop, 1:38 a.m., to-day, North Cherry Street.
Narcotic, 6:42 a.m., today, North Pine Street.
Fire Creston Fire Department
responded to a hay bale fire 10:22 a.m. Wednesday in Shannon City.
According to a Creston Fire report, firefighters were called for hay bales
on fire at 1713 240th St., Shannon City. Upon arriv-al, firefighters found 100 bales on fire. Afton Fire Department was called for mutual aid. Firefighters saved approximately 150 of 500 bales.Miscellaneous
Medical, 11:02 a.m., Tues-day, South Elm Street.
Medical, 5:54 p.m., Tues-day, Green Valley Road.
Medical, 11:07 p.m., Tues-day, South Sumner Street.
Director’s workshop to be held at Corning Opera House
CORNING — Corn-ing Opera House Cultural Center, 800 Davis Avenue, Corning, is hosting a direc-tor’s workshop for those interested in learning more about directing a play or musical 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 20. John Olson of Shenandoah will be leading the workshop that costs $15 per person.
Olson has a vast amount of theater experience. He has a theater minor at the University of Iowa and has worked on about 70 produc-tions in Iowa, Missouri and
Nebraska theaters. Olson has won numerous awards for directing, set design, act-ing, costume design, and as a playwright. In 2012, he was awarded Best Director for the Iowa Community The-ater Association.
Registration is requested but not required. To reg-ister, leave your name and phone number at Corning Opera House, 641-418-8037, email [email protected] or through the website www.CorningOperaHouse.com.
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HOLLYWOOD — God Bless America and how’s everybody?
The Hollywood Reporter an-nounced Woody Allen signed to create his very first television series on Tuesday. It’s a great ex-ample of how lightning can strike in show business. For Woody Al-len, it was a totally unexpected op-portunity, but when the networks canceled Bill Cosby, a time slot opened up.
The Golden Globes aired live from the Beverly Hilton Sunday and drew forty million viewers to NBC. It was held in the hotel ball-room. The Golden Globes last-ed so long that by the end of the show, the kid from Boyhood had passed through puberty and was old enough to order a drink at the open bar.
Florida’s George Zimmerman was arrested for assault and do-mestic violence after his girlfriend called the cops late at night. It was his third arrest for domestic violence. The police report states George threw a wine bottle at his girlfriend, but to be fair, she was wearing a hoodie and eating Skit-tles.
The GOP presidential candi-dates began angling to line up
donor support Monday. Anyone can run. Yesterday, Jeb Bush hosted a luncheon for twenty-four donors in Manhattan and raised three million dollars, and the next morning, Mitt Romney had break-fast by himself and raised twenty million.
John Boehner thanked the FBI for arresting an Ohio country club bartender who had discussed a de-sire to kill Boehner by slipping po-lonium poison in his drinks. Sign of the times. It’s just like today’s educational system to teach young people that anyone can grow up to be the president of Russia.
GOP conservatives crafted a Homeland Security bill Monday that removes money for Obama’s order shielding illegal aliens from deportation. There was no short-age of hypocricy in this bill. Vot-ing for Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the first time that most U.S. Senators ever hired a Latina on the books.
Florida’s George Zimmerman was arrested for assault and domestic violence
TopicalhumorArgus Hamilton
Europe’s immigration problem The New York Times ran a
front-page article after the Char-lie Hebdo massacre on Europe’s “dangerous moment.” As terror-ists rampaged through Paris, ul-timately killing 17, what was the cause of this particular alarm? That anti-immigration parties in Europe might gain.
The Times article captured per-fectly the reaction of polite opinion to the Paris attacks, which is driven almost as much by fear that some-one might notice that Europe has an immigration problem as it is by fear of the terrorism itself.
Europe’s anti-immigration par-ties run the gamut, from the loath-some (Greece’s Golden Dawn), to the unsavory (France’s Nation-al Front), to the more or less re-spectable (Britain’s UKIP). What they all have in common is that they benefit from the refusal of mainstream parties to admit the obvious: If a country is manifestly having trouble assimilating the im-migrants it already has, it shouldn’t add to their numbers willy-nilly.
Much more important than soli-darity and unity — stirring as those things are, exemplified in the mas-sive march in Paris over the week-end — would be a dose of honesty and realism on this issue.
The case of France is stark. Roughly 12 percent of its popu-lation is foreign-born, about the European average, according to the Migration Policy Institute. But it also has a particularly high percentage of descendants of im-migrants. Because of France’s co-lonial history in Algeria and other countries in the Maghreb, many of them are Muslim.
It has the largest Muslim popu-lation of any Western European country, both in absolute numbers and in percentage terms. These immigrants have tended to cluster in the suburbs of Paris, where they have become self-reinforcing re-ligio-ethnic islands in the broader French sea.
Some of the Paris suburbs are in-famously known as “no go” zones, where there is essentially no of-ficial footprint. These areas are not just alienated from the French state; they are actively hostile to it. After cataclysmic rioting emanat-ing from these suburbs in 2005, the phrase “the French intifada” began to gain currency. In a book of that title, author Andrew Hussey de-scribes it as “the guerrilla war with police at the edges and in the heart of French cities.”
This conflict is, Hussey argues, the continuation of France’s long, fraught interaction with colonial populations by different means and on different terrain. It is exacerbat-ed by the tension Muslims feel be-tween their religious identity and the secularism of the French state, with Islamic radicalism beckoning as a source of perverse purpose.
Although France’s problem has peculiarly French characteristics, bound up in its history and nation-al identity, a version of the Paris attacks easily could have happened in Britain, Sweden, the Nether-
lands or Germany. They, too, have Muslim populations that, in some areas, haven’t fully integrated.
Why does the United States not have the same problem (although it has experienced its own home-grown attacks)? Its assimilationist machinery, for all its flaws, is in better working order. It is an open, economically dynamic society. But this is partly a function of numbers. Immigrants to the U.S. still large-ly come from Christian countries and don’t feel the powerful pull of a religious identity putting them at odds with their new country.
This is a rather basic point: The quantity of immigration inevitably affects the quality of assimilation. The elite’s reflex on immigration is always to say “more.” The pop-ulations of many European coun-tries want to say “less.” Their case is stronger after the horrors of the last week, although all the usual obloquy will be heaped on it, and much intellectual and political en-ergy will be devoted to denying that the Paris attacks had anything to do with immigration or Islam.
Addressing a long-ago crisis in Athens, Demosthenes said of those demanding to know his alternative, “I will first give them this answer — the most just and true of all — ‘Do not do what you are doing now.’” On immigration, that is the counsel that Europe needs to hear, and to heed.
When we are horrified, the usu-al preference is for prayers for those lost in a violent and unex-pected moment that resembles warfare, or it is reduced by a few words to terrorism — bloodshed on the cheap — which supposedly says it all. Perhaps it does not tell us all that we seem to need know-ing. Since recent horrors take place in the underdeveloped world or in impressive modern cities like Paris, maybe it would be good to look at the Wikipedia definition of a popular underground theater of-fering what might remind us of the appetite had by the public, espe-cially those loving the sensational and what is mostly the repellent:
“Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol was founded in 1894 by Oscar Me-tenier, who planned it as a space for naturalist performance. With 293 seats, the venue was the small-est in Paris.
“A former chapel, the theatre’s previous life was evident in the boxes — which looked like con-fessionals — and in the angels over the orchestra. Although the architecture created frustrating obstacles, the design ... ultimately became beneficial to the market-ing of the theatre. The opaque furniture and gothic structures ...
exude a feeling of eeriness from the moment of entrance. People came to this theatre for an expe-rience, not only to see a show. The audience ... endured the terror of the shows because they wanted to be filled with strong ‘feelings’ of something. Many attended the shows to get a feeling of arous-al. Underneath the balcony were boxes (originally built for nuns to watch church services) that were available for theatre-goers to rent during performances because they would get so aroused by the action happening on stage. It has been said that audience members would get so boisterous in the boxes, that actors would sometimes break character and yell something such as, ‘keep it down in there!’ Conversely, there were audience members who could not physically handle the brutality of the actions taking place on stage. Frequently, the ‘special effects’ would be too realistic and often an audience
member would faint and/or vomit during performances.
“The theatre owed its name to Guignol, which was a traditional Lyonnaise puppet character, join-ing political commentary with the style of Punch and Judy.
“The theatre’s peak was be-tween World War I and World War II, when it was frequented by royalty and celebrities in evening dress.”
That seems a prediction of what has ruined so much of our con-temporary world, the assertion of decadence and totalitarianism as forms of religious and social “free-dom.” There are only so many active freedoms in the world, and they usually come down to sex and destruction. Sex because it fulfills the principle of love -- real or imagined or defiled; destruction because the act of literal destruc-tion is always much faster than building. It moves at tremendous velocity, a high-speed bit or mass of destruction -- the World Trade Center, the Jews, the blacks, the Arabs or whomever is available. One bullet fired into the skull undoes sensations of memory, thoughts or dreams. That is why ethnic cleansing remains so popu-lar, from the killing of small crea-
tures to the killing of dangerous game in the animal world or dan-gerous human game.
There are those who like it raw, like the feeling of having blood on the teeth, usually symbolic. But as things go, what used to be called “murder mouthing” in the streets, meaning stuff no more threaten-ing than Styrofoam suits of armor, has become vastly possible, as in the City of Light, where 12 people were shot into oblivion recently.
Those in our nation given to “fighting the power” were perhaps thrilled but kept quiet, expressing fake empathy, as different from the real thing as it could be. That is one of the things proven by the new film “Selma,” which shows on one level the importance had by television on the civil-rights move-ment. A brilliant performance is put forth by Tim Roth as Gov. George Wallace, speaking before the Ku Klux Klan and pretend-ing before Lyndon Johnson that he has no power to stop Alabama troops from brutalizing civil-rights activists on a march. Roth reminds us of contemporary conservatives making a pretense of having never known they were speaking before the KKK — here, there or any-where.
The bombing of the four little girls in Birmingham allows us to understand how important the movement in the segregated South was to all of us as Americans. It also was a symbol of victory for all those oppressed or suffering under totalitarian rule. Yet there is always the irony that the most bestial of all stereotypes won at the same time, combining sex, vi-olence and degrading attitudes too often embraced by young men and women as “cool.” It is now as if all of those who sacrificed or were sacrificed missed the mightiest mark, the shifting human sensibil-ity.
In our nation, millions of people are now much more open to what is called “diversity,” but that can still be used to justify and defend the sale of garbage. Hustlers nev-er die. These days, they only de-fend their products, floating in the waters and called no more than tough-smelling bouquets from the streets.
(c) 2015 Stanley CrouchDistributed by King Features
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AftonASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH,
Browning and Filmore Streets, William Richardson, pastor.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship ser-vice. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Bible study and youth. Saturday, 7:25 a.m. “In the Mirror” radio pro-gram on Creston Radio.
ST. EDWARD CATHOLIC CHURCH, 104 W. Union St., Rev. Ken Halbur, pastor.
Sunday, 10:45 a.m. Mass; after Mass, Confession and Parish Council meeting. Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. Mass. Wednesday, 6:15 p.m. religious education classes; 6:30 p.m. confirmation class, St. Malachy School; and devotions.
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Joel Sutton, pastor.
Sunday, 10 a.m. worship; 5:30 p.m. potluck supper, open to the public; 6:30 p.m. Sunday evening worship service. Aspire Food Pantry dropoff site.
ArispeUNITED METHODIST
CHURCH, Joel Sutton, pastor.Sunday, 11 a.m. worship.
BeaconsfieldUNITED METHODIST
CHURCH, Rick Hawkins, pastor.Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-
vice.
ClearfieldAREA BIBLE FELLOWSHIP
CHURCH, Ron Christian, pastor; 641-336-2409; website www.are-abiblefellowship.org.
Sabbath services, second and fourth Saturdays. Call 641-322-3386 for time and place.
REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH, 800 17th St., Philip Ritter, pastor.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school and adult Bible study; 10:45 a.m. worship with Holy Communion. Wednesday, 9 a.m. Bible study.
ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 504 Grove, Ave., Lazarus Kirigia, pastor.
Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Mass. Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Mass; 7 p.m. youth group. Wednesday, 2 to 5 p.m. religious education classes.
CrestonABUNDANT LIFE FAMILY
CHURCH, 500 S. Birch St., Douglas R. Brunell, pastor, (641) 782-5766, email [email protected]; website www.AbundantLifeFamilyChurch.com.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m. children’s church and worship service. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. worship and Kid’s Club. Thursday, 6:30 a.m. Men of Honor; 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Light Switch teens.
APOSTOLIC LIGHTHOUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, 600 N. Lincoln St., Paul Vandevender, pastor, 782-5594.
Sunday, 10 a.m. Sunday school and worship service; 5:30
LIFE CHURCH, ASSEMBLY OF GOD, 417 Wyoming Ave., Karen Norton, lead pastor, 641-782-4236, e-mail [email protected], website lifechurch-creston.com.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school for all ages; 10:35 a.m. morning worship, “The Parables of Jesus, Week 1.” Tuesday, 7 to 10 a.m. Coffee Cafe, fellowship hall. Bring a friend for coffee and conversation. WiFi is available; 6 p.m. Vistion Team meeting. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. prayer time in the sanctuary; 7 p.m. Family Night Activities; adult Bible study, Romans, santuary; Life Youth, lower level youth room; and Kids Club, lower level fellowship hall. Thursday, 7 to 10 a.m. Coffee Cafe, fellowship hall. Bring a friend for coffee and con-versation. WiFi is available.
CHURCH OF CHRIST, 510 S. Poplar St., Timothy L. Haynie and Nathan Langford, evange-lists, 641-344-3201.
Thursday, 3:30 p.m. SIRF. Friday, 7:30 p.m. AA meeting. Sunday, 10:45 a.m. worship ser-vices. Monday, 7:30 p.m. AA meeting. Tuesday, 3 p.m. Crisis fund center open, 5 p.m. Open table. Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. TOPS.
COMMUNITY OF CHRIST, Creston Congregation (RLDS), 820 N. Elm St., Elder Gary O’Daniels, pastoral coordinator.
Sunday, 9:15 a.m. praise and inspiration, Mallas’; 9:30 a.m. church school class; 10:30 a.m. morning worship, Ray Powell, presider; Jim McKinney Sr., speaker.
CREST BAPTIST, affiliated with Southern Baptist Convention, Poplar and Townline streets, Chuck Spindler, pastor. Website: www.crestbaptistchurch.com.
Today, 6:30 p.m. Celebrate Recovery, GriefShare. Saturday, 8 a.m. prayer meeting. Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Bible study (for all ages); 10:45 a.m. worship; 6 p.m. Men’s Bible study. Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. Women’s Bible study; 9 to 10 p.m. Creston Salt Company resumes at SWCC room 120. Wednesday, 6:30 a.m. prayer meeting; 6:30 p.m. TeamKid, youth ministry, DivorceCare and adult Bible study.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 1001 N. Lincoln St., David Tebbenkamp, pastor; Dan Fields, youth pastor.
Thursday, 3:15 p.m. “Embracing God’s Grace” Ladies Bible study, welcome center. Friday-Sunday, youth group winter meltdown, IRB Camp. Sunday, 8:45 a.m. worship ser-vice; 10:15 a.m. Sunday school hour; 5 p.m. annual meeting. Monday, 1 p.m. “Overview of the Gospel of John” Ladies Bible study, Deloris Barnett’s. Wednesday, 6 p.m. Triumphant Praise choir rehearsal – senior high; 6:30 p.m. AWANA clubs and junior high Trek; senior high youth group; adult Bible study and prayer meeting.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST), 301 E. Townline St.
Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. worship service with guest speaker Rev. Arlene Drennan; 11 a.m. coffee fellow-ship and DWF pie sale in fel-lowship hall. Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. Tootles (games/crafts) in fellow-ship hall. Wednesday, 6 p.m. praise and worship service.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, 104 N. Oak St.
Sunday, 11 a.m. church ser-vice.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 702 W. Prairie St., the Rev. Jim Woodworth, pastor; Mary O’Riley, pastoral intern.
Today, 7:30 p.m. Ida Scudder
Circle, hostess Judy Gale. Friday, 1:30 p.m. crafting workshop. Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school – all ages; 10:45 a.m. worship services, scripture James 1:12-18, “The Devil Made Me Do It”; 6 p.m. new member class begin. Monday, 6 p.m. Membership and Evangelism meeting; 7 p.m. Worship and Music meet-ing. Tuesday, 1 p.m. Stich, Knit and Quilt; 6:30 p.m. Christian Education. Wednesday, 9 a.m. Pastor’s Bible study; 5:30 p.m. Joyful Noise; 6:30 p.m. youth group; 7 p.m. choir practice; 8 p.m. ASP.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 400 N. Elm St., Gideon Gallo, pastor. Call 641-782-2427, 641-782-7267. E-mail: [email protected]. Facebook: Creston First United Methodist Church. Office hours: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday; 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday and Friday.
GOD’S OUTREACH DELIVERANCE INTERNATIONAL, 306 N. Oak St., 641-278-1173, Pastor JoAnna Davis.
Thursday, 6 p.m. Women’s Bible study, church. Friday, 7 p.m. Friday Night Fire service, church. Sunday, 9 to 10 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. church service; 6 p.m. church service. Monday, 4 to 5:45 p.m. children’s ministry (preschool through 11 years old); 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. youth ministry (12 years old and up). Wednesday, first and third, 7 p.m. Men’s Bible study, Outreach Center, 124 N. Maple St.
HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH, 107 W. Howard St., Rev. Ken Halbur, pastor.
Friday, 7 a.m. Mass, St. Malachy Chapel; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ReRun shop. Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon ReRun shop; 4:30 to 5 p.m. Confession; 5:15 p.m. Mass. Sunday, 8:15 to 8:45 a.m. Confession; 9 a.m. Mass. Monday, 5 to 6 p.m. Adoration, St. Malachy Chapel; 6 p.m. Mass, St. Malachy Chapel; 6:30 p.m. CRHP Ladies meeting, St. Malachy library; 7 p.m. Finance Council meeting, hall. Tuesday, noon to 5 p.m. ReRun shop; 7 p.m. Parish Council meeting, St. Malachy School. Wednesday, 9:15 a.m. Mass, St. Malachy Chapel; 6:30 p.m. confirmation class, St. Malachy School; 7 p.m. religious education classes. Thursday (1/22), 7 a.m. Mass, St. Malachy Chapel; 7 p.m. RCIA, hall.
JERUSALEM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 1965 REA Road, Rev. Jim W. Morris, pastor.
Sunday, 8 a.m. Bible study; 9 a.m worship.
KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, 1000 Cottonwood St.
Sunday, 10 a.m. public talk and Watchtower study. Thursday, 7:30 p.m. congregation Bible study, ministry school and ser-vice meeting.
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD I.M. “Mana del Cielo” The Rev. Miguel Delgado, phone 515-
473-2527.Saturday, noon worship.
Sunday, 1:30 p.m. worship.P L A T T E C E N T E R
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 2396 Eagle Ave., south of Creston, Rev. Delores Doench, pastor.
SOLID ROCK MINISTRIES, 1216 N. Cherry St. (corner of Townline and Cherry streets).
Sunday, 9:45 to 10:15 a.m. Sunday school; 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. coffee and fellowship; 10:45 a.m. worship service.
ST. JOHN’S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, 601 S. Maple St., Dan Moore, pastor.
Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-vice and Sunday School.
TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMS), 800 N. Sumner Ave., Creston; 111 E. South St., Mount Ayr; the Rev. Jonathan C. Watt, pastor, 641-782-5095, http://TrinityCreston.org.
Sunday, Mount Ayr: 8 a.m. Divine Service with Holy Communion; 9:30 a.m. Bible class and Sunday school; Creston: 9:45 a.m. Divine Service; 11 a.m. Sunday school and Bible classes; 7 p.m. adult instruction class. Monday, 12:30 p.m. preschool. Tuesday, 6:30 a.m. Early Risers Bible study in fellowship hall; 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. pre-school. Wednesday, 12:30 p.m. preschool; 6 p.m. Confirmation classes. Thursday (1/22), 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. preschool.
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST (Congregational), 501 W. Montgomery St., the Rev. Jim Woodworth, pastor; Mary O’Riley, pastoral intern.
Today, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. SIRF. Friday, 7:30 p.m. AA meeting. Sunday, 9:15 worship services, scripture James 1:12-18, “The Devil Made Me Do It.” Monday, 7:30 a.m. AA meeting. Tuesday, 9 a.m. to noon pastor’s office hours; 3 to 5 p.m. Crisis Fund Center open/HUSH deer meat dis-tribution; 5 to 6 p.m. Open Table (Jerusalem Church). Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. TOPS.
OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, 702 W. Ohio St. Stanley Price, branch president.
Sunday, 10 a.m. sacrament meeting; 11:15 a.m. Sunday school; 12:10 p.m. relief society, priesthood, young women and young men; 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m.primary. For local information, contact Clinton Allen, (641) 322-4494.
COUNTRY ROADS BAPTIST CHURCH, at 202 E. Temple (old lumber yard), Mitch Green, pas-tor. Website: countryroadslenox.com.
Sunday, 10 a.m. worship. Wednesday, 6 p.m. meal and study.
MERCER CENTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, four miles north, four miles west of Lenox, Franklin Rogers, pastor.
Sunday, 8:30 a.m. worship ser-vice.
SALEM CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, 4 miles north, 1 mile west of Lenox.
ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 600 W. Michigan St., Lazarus Kirigia, pastor.
Sunday, 8:30 a.m. Mass with religious education classes after-ward. Wednesday, 7 p.m. CYO.
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 103 W. Michigan St., Shurmaine McAlpine, pastor.
Sunday, 9:15 a.m. adult Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. wor-ship service and Sunday school for children.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 401 W. Michigan St., Tim Maxa, pastor, 641-333-4214.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship ser-vice. First and third Sunday, youth fellowship. Wednesday, Evening Bible study.
LorimorCHURCH OF GOD, Ben Turner,
pastor.Sunday, 9:45 a.m. Sunday
school; 10:30 a.m. worship ser-vice.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Lorimor, George Henriksen, pas-tor.
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Ben Carter-Allen, pastor. Sunday, 9 a.m. wor-ship service with supervised nursery during church; 10 a.m.Sunday school. Third Thursday, United Methodist Women.
MurrayBAPTIST CHURCH, Alex
Bauman, pastor.Sunday, 8:45 a.m. Sunday
school; 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. wor-ship services. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Midweek Bible study and prayer meeting. Third Thursday of the month, 7 to 9 p.m. Missionary meeting.
CHURCH OF CHRIST, 430 Third St., Brian McCracken, pastor. Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship services; 7 p.m. BibleStudy. Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. JAM for elementary ages; 7 p.m. junior and senior high youth groups.
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Sandy Smith and Brandon Campbell, pastors.
Sunday, 10 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m. worship.
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 311 W. First St., Phil Price, min-ister.
Sunday, 8:30 a.m. brunch; 9 a.m. worship services; 10 a.m. Sunday school and adult Bible study. Monday, 7 p.m. Council meeting. Wednesday (1/7), 2:15 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday school.
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 124 S. Maple St., Cathy Nutting, pastor.
Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-vice.
PrescottPRESCOTT UNITED CHURCH
(DISCIPLES OF CHRIST), 401 6th Ave., the Rev. Steven Wainwright.
Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. worship.
Shannon CitySHANNON CITY COMMUNITY
CHURCH, Lila Dell Greene, pas-tor.
Sunday, 9 a.m. church service; 10 a.m. Sunday school.
SharpsburgUNITED METHODIST
CHURCH, Shurmaine McAlpine, pastor.
Sunday, 8:30 a.m. worship.UNITED PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, Tim Maxa, pastor.Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-
vice; 10 a.m. Sunday school.
StringtownSTRINGTOWN COMMUNITY
CHURCH, junction of Highway 34 and Sycamore Ave., the Rev. Richard Queener, pastor.
Sunday, 9:45 a.m. worship service. Wednesday, 1 to 4 p.m. Help Center open.
CHURCH, Bruce Giese, pastor.Sunday, 9 a.m. worship; 10:30
a.m. Sunday school.
UCC Church food distribution to be held Sundays
Starting Sunday, Jan. 18, UCC Congregational Church, 501 W. Montgom-ery, will be distributing food from the food pantry 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be no food distribution on
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Union Country Ministeri-al Alliance assistance fund will still be distributed on Tuesdays.
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Local beauticians predict 2015 wedding trends By BAILEY POOLMANCNA staff [email protected]
With 2014 behind us, and 2015 ahead of us, trends fall out of style while new ones fall in.
Local wedding hair trends from last year in-cluded boho-styled hair, with braids and loose curls, or the slightly more for-mal half-up and half-down styles. Other trends includ-ed hair pieces.
Gretchen Baker, owner and stylist of Salon G, lo-cated at 113 N. Maple St., has similar predictions to previous occasion trends.
“Trends will be a low side bun, or the low m e s s y , t h o s e types of t h i n g s , ” B a k e r said. “More half-up and half-down, or more natural styles, I would say. That’s what I gravitate to because my salon’s organic.”
Salon G has been open in Creston for two months. The salon is completely organic, using organic hair products and color for styl-ing. The salon also services
those in need of manicures, pedicures and tanning, and eventually will have a mas-sage table available.
MaKenzi Vonk, owner and stylist of Reflections
Beauty and Tanning Salon, located at 500 W. Union St., has similar predictions for the upcoming wedding season.
According to Vonk, the
upcoming wedding season will include a variety of styles, such as half-up and half-down, bold and laid back.
“It goes from one ex-treme to the next, which is fun be-c a u s e weddings aren’t just a catego-ry of ‘this is what it’s sup-posed to look like,’” Vonk said.
Clients of Vonk and her associate Cassie Mahan who book for a wedding can get many services, in-cluding waxing and make-up. Usually, according to Vonk, they book for both hair and makeup services.
“When I’m in a consulta-tion with them (clients), I ask to see what their dress looks like, if they have a veil, if they’re wearing a headpiece of any kind, be-cause that makes a big dif-ference in the style of their hair,” Vonk said.
Packages are available at Reflections that in-clude a consultation and have a practice hair-styling
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10 questions to ask before hiring your wedding photographer
(BPT) - Some moments are simply too important to trust to a camera phone.
Your wedding will be one of the most memora-ble times of your life and no one can capture it better than a professional photog-rapher. So how do you find the right one? As you begin the interview process, here are 10 questions to help you determine if you’ve found the best photographer for your wedding.
1. Does the photographer have a gallery of wedding images you can review?
Reviewing sample work allows you to see the pho-tographer’s strengths and weaknesses - don’t fool yourself, every photogra-pher has them. You’ll also be able to get an idea of their style. Are they for-mal with an eye for the perfect picture or do they love to capture the hidden moments when no one is looking? Look for images
that you can see yourself in. Think of three words that describe you and share those with your photogra-pher. Every photographer has a style and reviewing their gallery can help you determine if theirs is right for you.
2. What is the photogra-pher’s working style?
Some photographers are orderly and operate like wedding planners. Others prefer to sit back and let the events of the wedding unfold. It’s important that you find someone who can understand and meet your expectations. Discuss this ahead of time and ask away, so that you understand how well the photographer’s working style matches your own.
3. Is the photographer available for an engage-ment session?
Make your big day as unique as you are
(BPT) - Weddings are steeped in tradition - no matter whom you are or where you live. But what if you’re not interested in wearing the same dress your mother did, getting married in the same lo-cation your sister did or wearing something blue?
Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Plenty of brides search for ways to make their special day as unique as they are. Here are five ways to put your own spe-cial spin on this classic tra-dition.
* A guest book you’ll use. Signing the guest book is a common tradition at most weddings; you’ve proba-bly signed a few in your lifetime. After the wed-ding is over, however, this priceless keepsake often disappears into a box nev-er to be seen again. Break from tradition by creating a guest book you’ll actu-ally use. Take a trip to the book store with your part-ner and browse the coffee table books. Once you find one that interests both of you, claim it as your guest book. Your wedding guests
can sign their names in the margins and afterwards you’ll be left with a perma-nent, functional guest book to display for visitors and friends.
* Dance under the stars. Looking to create a one-of-a-kind wedding? Don’t rent the same ballroom as all of your friends. Host your reception outdoors. You can rent a dance floor from a local rental facility and trained tech-nicians will arrive to set it up easily. You’ll dance on a traditional wood floor while looking up at the stars - what could be more original than that? Don’t forget to rent a tent so that weather doesn’t dampen the mood. You can find more unique flooring ideas at RentalHQ.com, where you can locate your local rental store.
* Treasure the memories. Get your guests involved in the event by placing blank cards and pens at each seat
location. Ask your guests to write about their favor-ite memory of you and/or your spouse. Collect all of these cards and turn them into a scrapbook for a trea-sured keepsake.
* Prepare a menu that is uniquely you. Choco-late fountains were once unique and elegant, but now they’re commonplace. Don’t despair, though, be-cause there are plenty of unique edible snack op-tions you can include in your special day. If you’re
getting married in the blis-tering heat, rent a snow cone machine to offer your guests some sweet relief. If you and your spouse are big movie buffs or your wedding has a Hollywood theme, rent a popcorn ma-chine to complete the look. And for the bride who’s still a kid at heart, nothing captures that better than renting an authentic cotton candy machine.
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session done in advance.According to Vonk, veils
are less popular than they used to be, while hair piec-es are probably going to be more popular.
This is in part because headpieces cost less than veils. She also said crystal will be more popular than pearls, but that it depends on the bride’s dress and style of wedding.
A basic wedding day style session lasts from 8 a.m. to noon, and that in-cludes hair and makeup for the bride and bridesmaids.
One suggestion Vonk has for those preparing for their nuptials is to be
prepared in all aspects of beauty.
“One thing I always rec-ommend to my brides or my clients that book with us for weddings is that they get, as weird as it sounds, their armpits waxed,” Vonk said.
An underarm wax al-lows for cleaner wedding photos, and no stubble throughout the big day.
“Even on the grooms, as far as that goes, getting their eyebrows waxed,” Vonk said. “We have lots of men that get their eye-brows waxed.”
Vonk also suggests men and women both use skin care products before the ceremony and reception.
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An engagement session does more than provide you with priceless images to-gether before you get mar-ried. It’s also your first op-portunity to work with your photographer and develop a relationship that will al-low you to be completely at ease on your big day. Use this session to confirm if the photographer is indeed the right person to capture your wedding.
4. Will the photographer create a detailed shot list?
This list will ensure no important photo is missed during the commotion and excitement of the big day. You should be able to cre-ate that list together, add to the list leading up to
the day and have a copy of that list the day of. Take an honest look at what images really matter and fill your photographer in on situa-tions he or she might need to be aware of in order to prevent awkward moments, and to ensure that he or she can get the shots that mat-ter most.
5. What kind of lighting will be used?
Whether you have an in-door or outdoor wedding, you’ll want to make sure your photographer has professional grade lighting equipment to deliver the images your wedding de-serves.
6. Does the photographer have backup equipment?
You’ve prepared contin-gency plans for every oth-
er aspect of your wedding; your photographer should as well. A true profession-al photographer won’t miss your perfect shot because of a technology issue. He or she will always bring one or two backup cameras, lens-es, flashes, additional light-ing equipment, extra mem-ory cards, and batteries.
7. Does the photographer have liability insurance?
Accidents happen at weddings and if one of your guests trips over your pho-
tographer’s light stand, it’s good to know you both are protected. Your reception venue may even ask the photographer to submit a certificate of liability ahead of time.
8. Will there be one pho-tographer or two?
A second shooter in-creases the probability that no shot will be missed, es-pecially if you are having a large wedding. If there will be two photographers, ask to meet them both to get a
feel for their personalities and how well they might blend in on your big day.
9. What will happen to the images after your wed-ding?
Will your images be backed up to a hard drive or the cloud once pro-cessed? How long will your photographer keep the images afterward? Will they be kept for a couple of years or dumped imme-diately? If you have any concerns about losing your photos, knowing what the photographer plans to do with your images after your wedding is important.
10. When will you get your photos?
No, you won’t get your pictures the day after; no photographer can deliv-
er that quickly. It’s a good idea, though, to get a gen-eral idea of the timeline ahead of time. You might even be able to agree on getting a couple of images ready for social media use very quickly. But obtaining your photos will likely take several weeks. To help with the wait, some photogra-phers will send you a sneak peak with a few images. Just ask ahead of time!
You won’t be able to see everything that happens during your wedding day. The right photographer will capture moments you never knew existed.
To learn how you can find the perfect photogra-pher for your wedding, visit ppa.com/weddingphotogra-pher.
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* Find the color that suits you. Maybe wearing some-thing blue doesn’t suit you, but perhaps you’re not too wild about black and white either. At many venues, though, these colors are the only choices you have when it comes to tablecloths and napkins.
Remember, you don’t have to settle; you can pro-vide your own materials simply by renting them. This opens up a color palette of limitless options. If you are
planning a fall wedding, look for napkins that reflect the colors of the leaves.
Did you meet in col-lege? Choose linens in your school’s colors. Whatever shade speaks to you, you can find it and give your wedding a look no one will expect.
Keep the tradition, but be uniquely you with options limited only by your own imagination.
To learn more about what you can rent and how renting can help you create the wedding you’ve always wanted, visit RentalHQ.
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Friday, Jan. 16, 2015ARIES (March 21 to April 19)
Things might look bleak today, because people are easily despondent. In particular, you might be discouraged about future travel plans or ideas related to politics and religion.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a poor day to dis-cuss how to divide some-thing or share an inheritance, because you will likely lose. Basically, the odds are against you. Someone might choose to deny you what you want.
GEMINI (June 21 to July 22) Play it low key today, and do not ask authority figures for favors or permission. People are more focused on why things cannot be done instead of why they can be done. Yes, negative thinking.
LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Although you might be involved in disputes about shared property, debt, inheri-tances or something that has to do with other people’s resourc-es — postpone these discus-sions until Saturday. Right now, everything is sticky and tough.
VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Ironically, this is a playful time for you. You want to have fun! But today, an authority fig-ure might rain on your parade. (Stay in the shadows.)
LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is one of those days where everything at work is just hard. But we all have these days. In fact, it’s days like this that make you recognize good days!
SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Financial matters will not go your way today, so don’t even try to go there. Just bide your time, because timing is everything, especially when it comes to money.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Saturn in your sign is at odds with fiery Mars today. This ain’t easy for anyone. Be patient with family members. If someone is upset, don’t take the bait.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Don’t be pushy in conver-sations with others, because they will be
pushy back! This is a poor day to challenge anyone older, more experienced or in a posi-tion of authority.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You will have to work hard for your money today. If you
have new moneymaking ideas, today is not the day to run them up the flagpole. Instead, wait until Saturday or Monday.
PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Life is just tough today. But this is nothing you can’t handle. Just go with the flow and keep a low profile. You might need to encourage a friend.
YOU BORN TODAY You are diligent, hardworking and always do your homework. You see the fulfilment and joy of a job well done. You are
realistic about your endeavors. Go slowly this year. There is something important to learn. The first half of this year will seem slow, but soon, your efforts of the past six years will start to show results! Get out into nature this year.
Dear Heloise: Will you please advise people to put their HOUSE NUMBER on the front of their house so that it can be seen from the road? This is a must for the fire de-partment, police and emer-gency vehicles.
Businesses also should have large numbers, high on the building, to be seen quickly and easily when in traffic.
People living in the country should have numbers on both sides of the mailbox for deliv-ery drivers. — Betty in Mans-field, Ohio
Betty, you did, and thank you for the good reminder! Folks, pretend you don’t know your house and try to find the number. On the mailbox? On the curb? On the front door? Is it blocked by bushes? Is the paint faded? Can you even see it?
Your life (or that of some-one you love) could depend on this simple hint! — Heloise
CLEAN SCREENDear Heloise: I’ve found
that the best way to clean a digital TV screen is by us-ing those little spray bottles of eyeglass lens cleaner. No streaks!
I read your column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. — Tim H., McKeesport, Pa.
Tim, thanks for being a loy-al reader, and say “Hi” to my
friends in Pittsburgh. I like your hint, but please be sure to spray the special cleaner on a soft cloth first, NOT directly on the screen. Do use a lint-free cloth; a microfiber one is the best. Keep sending in your hints. — Heloise
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some other ways to use the silica gel pack found in many products:
* Store with sterling silver to help keep tarnish at bay.
* Stash in a box of enve-lopes to prevent the envelopes from sticking to each other.
* Put a pack in a plastic zip-pered bag with important pa-pers to keep them dry.
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Always keep the gel packs out of the reach of children and pets. — Heloise
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Cleaner formula so you can keep your jewelry looking new.
Mix equal parts household ammonia and water in a small bowl or jar. Immerse pieces in the solution and leave for a few minutes. Remove and gently clean with a soft little brush. Rinse with warm water, then dip in a bowl of rubbing alcohol and dry with a hand towel or microfiber cloth.
Caveats: This solution is only for genuine gold and di-amond jewelry. It is NOT for jewelry with pearls or soft stones. — Heloise
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tiful Christmas wreath does triple duty at my house. Af-ter Christmas, I pull anything “Christmas-y” off and add plastic snowflakes and a silver bow. Come February, I tuck in a red heart among the snow-flakes. By March, it’s done its duty. — Jackie in Colorado
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The ninth-ranked South-western men opened up ICCAC play with a 70-64 win over Ellsworth here Wednesday.
The Spartans grabbed a 22-17 lead with 7:43 left in the first half when TJ Bower dished to Jok Kut, who finished at the rim and then completed a tradition-al 3-point play with a free throw.
But Ellsworth ended the final 7:43 of the half with a 17-7 run to take a 32-29 lead into halftime.
“We made a couple of shots early, which can cover up some things that you’re maybe not doing so well,” Southwestern head coach Todd Lorensen said. “I don’t think we were taking bad shots (in the final 7:43), but like I told our guys at halftime, when we got the ball in the paint, we scored at a really high level. So we really wanted to emphasize that going forward and I thought we did a better job of that in the second half.”
Southwestern’s first six baskets of the second half came in the paint, as Matai-ka Koyamainavure scored from the block and flushed a dunk, while Bower hit Jay-lon Smith for an alley oop dunk and Kut threw down a dunk, as well.
Smith led all scorers with 25 points, while Koyamaina-vure finished with 19.
Kut also scored off a cut toward the basket and Ah-mad Newsome tipped in a Bower miss.
“We definitely talked about it halftime and kudos to our guys for doing a good job of executing it when they came out,” Lorensen said. “Mataika played real-ly, really well. We got it in to him.”
Pounding the ball inside opened up good looks from outside, as Kut stepped out
and hit a 3-pointer, and then Newsome’s 3-pointer gave the Spartans a 50-41 lead.
“Ahmad Newsome and Jok Kut, they don’t neces-sarily have crazy stat lines, but they do a lot of things for us defensively that you don’t always see from watching the game. We need them and they played very well for us tonight. Jok step-ping out and knocking down a couple of threes was really big for us, as well.”
Ellsworth eventually cut the lead to three points at 54-51, but never got any closer over the final 10 min-utes of the game, as South-western made enough free throws to hold the Panthers at bay.
The win improved South-western to 15-3 overall and 1-0 in ICCAC play. The Spartans return to action Saturday at fourth-ranked
DMACC, which is currently 16-3 overall and 2-0 in con-ference play.
“It feels really good,” Lo-rensen said about the con-ference win. “It’s going to be like that every single night. You’ve got to be glad to get any of them you can get, and obviously you want to pro-tect your home court.”
ELLSWORTH (64) — Darvell Brown 4 0-0 11, Justin McFadden 5 1-2 11, Cory Scott 5 0-0 10, Kalehl Brown 3 2-2 8, Kalund Brown 3 0-0 7, David Dep 2 0-0 5, Trey Dilworth 2 0-0 4, Darius Fuller 1 0-0 3, Rakim Jackson 1 0-0 2, Mark Kelly 1 0-0 2. Totals — 27 4-6 64. 3-point goals — 6 (Darvell Brown 3, Fuller 1, Dep 1, Kalund Brown 1). Team fouls — 21. Fouled out — Jones, Jackson.
CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERSouthwestern sophomore Jaylon Smith throws down an alley oop pass from TJ Bower during the second half of the Spartans’ 70-64 win over Ellsworth in Wednesday’s ICCAC opener. Smith finished with a game-high 25 points in the win.
Good start keys Spartan women’s victory By LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]
Sophomore Jill Vander-hoof and freshman Cambry Schluter combined for four 3-pointers in the first half to help the Southwestern women ward off a famil-iar problem in their home league opener Wednesday against Ellsworth.
Vanderhoof, 5-8 guard from Villisca, sank three 3-pointers in a 10-point first half as the Spartans took a 33-31 halftime lead on the way to beating the Pan-thers, 62-49.
“One thing that had plagued us all year was starting the game,” SWCC coach Addae Houston said. “Sometimes we’d come out in the second half and we would play well, but we had dug a hole that we couldn’t get out of. This was the best game for us in terms of starting out.”
Southwestern took a 23-17 lead on Vanderhoof’s second 3-pointer, but Ells-worth was able to stay in
contention by making 11-of-14 free throws as South-western committed 13 first-half fouls.
“I told them, the only reason why this game is as close as it is, is because of the fouls and the free throws,” Houston said. “I told them we have to stay aggressive, but we have to play smarter in the second half.”
The Spartans moved to a 10-point lead at 48-38 with eight minutes left.
Vanderhoof, who fin-ished with a team-high 14 points, said the team came together after Monday’s disappointing road defeat at Buena Vista JV.
“We just kind of came back and had a reality check,” Vanderhoof said. “We de-cided that we didn’t want to continue the season the way we were p lay ing . So, we all had a
good attitude at the begin-ning tonight. Everybody was pumped up and focused, ready to play.”
The Spartans have their toughest stretch ahead of them, traveling to DMACC Saturday before facing league powers Iowa Central, Kirkwood and NIACC in succession.
“This is a good step for us and I hope the feeling these girls have tonight carries over into the next games,” Hous-ton said.
Panther girls bowl past Harlan By SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]
The Creston/O-M girls bowling team got back into the win column here Satur-day with a 2299-2115 win over Harlan.
The boys team fell to the Cyclones 2486-1740.
“Our match with Harlan on Saturday went well for the most part,” head coach Ron Pendegraft said. “Our girls are continuing to get better. Our team average improved once again. Their score of 2299 was our sec-ond highest of the year to this point.”
Madison Hance led the way with a two-g a m e series of 418, while t h r e e o t h e r P a n t h e r girls — C h a r l e y Parcher , Mackenzie McKinney and Ashley Knipfer — all bowled better than 300 for their series.
“In the Baker round, our scores went south and we only shot 668 due to poor first and last games,” Pen-degraft said. “Disappoint-ing, but easy to fix. As far as how we fared against Har-lan’s score, we outscored them by over 180 pins, so this was a good win for us
against a good team.”Blake Eddy led the Pan-
ther boys with a series of 303. Reece Kramer bowled a 266, while Jonathan Seals finished with a 236 and Dylan Linch rolled a 231. Evan Taylor finished with a score of 132.
“It was a tough day for our boys,” Pendegraft said. “A couple of our kids were experiencing some health issues, and in spite of a good effort, we just couldn’t get anything going and there-fore couldn’t compete. I’m still proud of the way our kids hung in there in spite of the adversity they were experiencing. It was prob-ably a good experience for them in terms of being pa-tient and working through difficult conditions.”
The Panthers competed at the Red Oak tournament on Tuesday. Results were unavailable at press time.
Creston/O-M hosts the Panther Invitational at Pan-ther Lanes on Saturday, with bowling beginning at 1 p.m.
“I hope to see a good crowd there to support our kids,” Pendegraft said.
VarsityBoys
Varsity match totals — Creston/O-M: 1168-572—1740. Harlan: 1705-781—2486.
High game — Mason Chamberlain, Harlan, 206.
High two game — Zach Thompson, Harlan, 178-196—374.
lege basketball player Col-by Taylor, 6-6 sophomore from Creston, was named Iowa Intercollegiate Ath-letic Conference Athlete of the Week on Monday.
Taylor averaged 29.5 p o i n t s and 10 re-bounds as the Dutch split a pair of games to open the Iowa C o n f e r -ence sea-son. He scored 30 points on 10-of-17 shooting, in-cluding 4-of-9 shooting from 3-point range, and pulled down 15 rebounds in a 79-63 loss to Dubuque. Taylor scored 29 points on 9-of-16 shooting (6-10
from 3-point range), had six assists and fie rebounds in a 92-89 win over Luther on Jan. 10.Ice fishing day
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Deadline to register is Jan. 24.
Participants age 18 and under (those 16 and above need a fishing license) will meet at the north boat ramp (beach area) at 10 a.m. A fish fry meal will begin at 11:30 a.m. Prizes will be awarded.
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Sealed bids will be accepted at theSIRHA office, 219 N. Pine Creston,Iowa 50801 until 3:30 P.M. on Febru-ary 24, 2015. The sealed bids will beopened and read aloud on February25, 2015 at 10 A.M. Bids received af-ter the Bid Closing Date and Time,3:30 P.M. February 24, 2015, will notbe opened or considered.
The Southern Iowa Regional Hous-ing Authority reserves the right towaive informalities and to reject anyand all bids.
All bidders must furnish a bid guar-antee equivalent of 5% of the bid priceand one of the following:
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NOTICE TO BIDDERSThe Southern Iowa Regional Hous-
ing Authority is requesting bids for 32forced air furnaces and 32 central airunits. The furnace and air replacementsare located in scattered elderly/handi-cap apartments located in Creston,Corning, and Lenox.
All interested bidders must contactJAMIE KINYON at 641-782-8585EXT. 1024 to receive a copy of bidspecifications and contractor qualifi-cations. A contractors meeting will beheld at 1204 West Street (WestviewApartments) Corning Iowa on Jan-uary 27, 2015. All contractors want-ing to submit a bid must attend. Con-tractors will be allowed to tour someof the installation sites on this date,so the meeting may take a couplehours to complete.
Sealed bids will be accepted at theSIRHA office, 219 N. Pine Creston,Iowa 50801 until 3:30 P.M. on Febru-ary 24, 2015. The sealed bids will beopened and read aloud on February25, 2015 at 10 A.M. Bids received af-ter the Bid Closing Date and Time,3:30 P.M. February 24, 2015, will notbe opened or considered.
The Southern Iowa Regional Hous-ing Authority reserves the right towaive informalities and to reject anyand all bids.
All bidders must furnish a bid guar-antee equivalent of 5% of the bid priceand one of the following:
1. A performance and payment bondfor 100% of the contract price; or
2. Separate performance and paymentbond, each for 50% of more of the con-tract price; or
3. A 20% cash escrow; or4. A irrevocable letter of creditAll bidders will be required to com-
ply with Davis Bacon Wage Rates andEqual Employment Opportunity Laws.
NOTICE TO BIDDERSThe Southern Iowa Regional Hous-
ing Authority is requesting bids for 32forced air furnaces and 32 central airunits. The furnace and air replacementsare located in scattered elderly/handi-cap apartments located in Creston,Corning, and Lenox.
All interested bidders must contactJAMIE KINYON at 641-782-8585EXT. 1024 to receive a copy of bidspecifications and contractor qualifi-cations. A contractors meeting will beheld at 1204 West Street (WestviewApartments) Corning Iowa on Jan-uary 27, 2015. All contractors want-ing to submit a bid must attend. Con-tractors will be allowed to tour someof the installation sites on this date,so the meeting may take a couplehours to complete.
Sealed bids will be accepted at theSIRHA office, 219 N. Pine Creston,Iowa 50801 until 3:30 P.M. on Febru-ary 24, 2015. The sealed bids will beopened and read aloud on February25, 2015 at 10 A.M. Bids received af-ter the Bid Closing Date and Time,3:30 P.M. February 24, 2015, will notbe opened or considered.
The Southern Iowa Regional Hous-ing Authority reserves the right towaive informalities and to reject anyand all bids.
All bidders must furnish a bid guar-antee equivalent of 5% of the bid priceand one of the following:
1. A performance and payment bondfor 100% of the contract price; or
2. Separate performance and paymentbond, each for 50% of more of the con-tract price; or
3. A 20% cash escrow; or4. A irrevocable letter of creditAll bidders will be required to com-
ply with Davis Bacon Wage Rates andEqual Employment Opportunity Laws.
