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EASY OPENERCreston’s boys basketball team defeats Mount Ayr 65-29 in season opener Tuesday evening. For more on the game, see page 8A. >>

CNA photo by KYLE WILSON

Thank you: Kirk Levine’s son, Scott, thanks both the Creston and Mount Ayr communities Tuesday evening for all the support his family has received over the past four months while his father received treatments for throat cancer. A benefit during the Creston vs. Mount Ayr basketball game last night raised nearly $10,000 to help pay for treatments. Read more about the game and benefit on page 8A.

Levine family benefit game

MORE ONLINEThe Creston Peppers performed during half-time of Tuesday’s basketball game. Visit www.crestonnews.com and click on the video tab to see the performance.

Lighted Christmas parade in uptown Creston slated Thursday

By SARAH BROWNCNA staff [email protected]

What has become a family tradition for Crestonians over the past six years will contin-ue to bring holiday cheer to town Thursday through Dec. 21 during ‘There’s No Place Like Creston for the Holidays’ festivities.

“There is a little something for almost everyone,” said Ellen Gerharz, executive di-rector for C r e s t o n Chamber of Commerce.

H o l i d a y f e s t i v i t i e s kickoff 9 a.m. Thurs-day with Fes-tival of Trees at American Home Design Center, 101 N. Walnut St., and with Comfort and Joy Quilt Show at Quilts and Other Notions Creativity Center, 201N. Elm St.

Gerharz said it was Quilts and Other Notions’ holiday quilt show, now in its 12th year, that inspired the city-wide event. The annual quilt show features dozens of me-ticulously stitched art in the form of quilts created by local quilters and fiber artists.

But, one of the most popu-lar events of the festival starts 4:30 p.m. Thursday when San-ta and Mrs. Claus arrive at Creston’s Restored Depot, which is made possible by Friends of the Library. While you wait for your photo with Mr. and Mrs. Claus, donuts

and cider are served inside the depot. A photo with Santa available for a fee.

For those unable to visit with Santa Thursday, he will return to the depot 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 13, courtesy of Creston Animal Rescue Ef-fort (C.A.R.E.).

But, it’s the parade itself which draws the largest crowd.

“It’s so neat ... all the entries have to be lighted,” Gerharz said.

Gerharz said some years businesses were unable to par-ticipate because of inclement weather. However, this year, no snow is expected with tem-peratures dropping into the mid-20s by dusk.

Gerharz also encourages ev-eryone to participate.

“Your entry needs to be lighted and needs to be themed,” Gerharz said.

Gerharz said parade partic-ipants do not need to prereg-ister. Instead, participants are asked to line up facing east on Mills Street at Walnut Street

CNA file photosTop, Santa and his helpers from Fansteel/Wellman Dynamics stroll down Adams Street during the 2013 lighted Christmas parade. Above, trees, wreaths and window swag are included in a silent auction to benefit Rural Iowa Crisis Center. The trees and wreaths will be on display until noon Saturday.

DES MOINES (AP) — Advocates seeking more funding for Iowa’s bridges and roads have launched an aggressive advertising cam-paign to build support among residents and lawmakers.

In a television ad that started airing Mon-day, a narrator notes the thousands of struc-turally deficient bridges in Iowa, while foot-age of a bus full of singing school children scrolls across the screen. At the end of the ad, paid for by the Iowa Good Roads Asso-ciation, the voice of an emergency opera-tor says, “We have a bridge collapse with a bus full of school chil-dren.”

David Scott, exec-utive director of the association, said the ad will air in media markets across the state for at least two weeks and is part of a bigger campaign that will cost between $500,000 and $800,000 over several months. Scott hopes the ad, produced by Republican-leaning consulting firm Red-wave Communications, will get people think-ing about road conditions.

“A lot of people just don’t see the problem. They drive across structurally deficient bridg-es, but they don’t know it,” Scott said.

Scott said his group, which includes truck-ing companies and auto dealers, wants to see an increase in dedicated funding for road re-pairs. The group is not directly calling for an increase in the state fuel tax, which has failed

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CNA photo by KYLE WILSONThey’re for her!: Mitch Sorensen points at his daughter Angela after Jack Davis announces him as the winner of two Taylor Swift concert tickets Tuesday evening during the third quarter of the Creston vs. Mount Ayr boys basketball game. The tickets were part of a raffle to raise money for Kirk Levine of Creston who battled throat cancer this fall and is finally done with treatments. All total — including the raffle, silent auction and donation buckets passed around Tuesday — nearly $10,000 was raised to help the Levines pay for treatments. Meanwhile, Sorensen said Angela has selected to take her sister Chelsea to the Swift concert scheduled Oct. 8, 2015, at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

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Melissa R. Maynes Corning

Memorial services for M e l i s -sa R. Maynes, 50, will be 10:30 A M , S a t u r -day, De-c e m b e r 6, 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church, Rev. Ken Rum-mer and Rev. Tim Maxa officiating. Family will re-ceive friends Friday, De-cember 5, 2014 from 5-8 PM at Pearson Family Fu-neral Service in Corning. Inurnment will be at the Brooks Cemetery. Memo-rials may be directed to the Diabetes Association and/or First Presbyterian Church in Corning. On-line condolences may be left at www.pearsonfuner-alhomes.com.

Melissa Renee (Lands-ness) Maynes was born October 8, 1964 at Storm Lake, Iowa and died De-cember 1, 2014 at Univer-sity of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Ne-braska of complications related to polycythe-mia-vera, a genetic blood clotting disorder. Melissa was the daughter of Mar-tha Torkelson Landsness and Leroy Landsness and the granddaughter of Christopher and Ethel Torkelson of Sioux Rap-ids, Iowa. In 1978, Jerry Burkhart joined the fam-ily and became Melissa’s step-father for 19 years. Melissa grew up around in the Sioux Rapids area and graduated from Sioux Rapids-Rembrandt High School in 1982. She played softball, volleyball and basketball, was a mem-ber of the band. After high school, she attended Buena Vista College play-ing softball her freshman year a team that went to the Division III National Championships. She also played volleyball for four years. She graduated with a Bachelor’s in Elementa-ry Education and Physical Education in 1986.

Her first teaching job was at East Union Schools in Afton, Iowa, teaching remedial reading, reme-dial math, physical edu-cation and coaching vol-leyball. She taught there for four years. While teaching she met Arnold Maynes from Lenox, Iowa at the weekly taco night gathering at the Windrow Restaurant in Creston. They dated for nearly a year before being married on December 23, 1989 at the First United Method-ist Church in Sioux Rap-ids, Iowa.

They began their mar-ried life at a farm near Cromwell, Iowa. Over the years, Melissa worked at SWCC in the Learn-ing Resource Center,

was a substitute teacher, coached volleyball at the Lenox High School 1998 season, took some grad-uate classes at Northwest Missouri State University, and most recently was the Executive Secretary for the Southern Iowa Forage and Livestock Committee. Melissa was President of the Adams County Farm Bureau for ten years.

They moved to the farm southeast of Corning in 1998.

Melissa and Arnold were blessed with two children. Evan was born on December 14, 1992 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Sydney was born on Jan-uary 29, 1996, also at Iowa Methodist.

Melissa’s most favor-ite occupation was being a mom and attending her children’s activities. In ju-nior high and high school, Evan and Sydney partic-ipated in musicals, plays, band concerts, athletic events, and 4-H activities and Melissa never missed an event.

Melissa was baptized and confirmed at First United Methodist Church in Sioux Rapids. She and Arnold joined the Crom-well Congregational Church after they were married and joined the Presbyterian Church in Corning in 2006.

Melissa is survived by her husband Arnold Maynes of Corning, their son Evan and his girl-friend, Samantha Bor-land of Corning, daugh-ter Sydney of Maryville, Missouri, her mother, Martha Landsness of Sioux Rapids, Iowa, sis-ter Laurie Besco and her husband Justin of Osceo-la, step-brother Clayton Burkhart and his wife Lori of Trenton, Missou-ri, step-sister Josie John-ston and her husband, Michael of Vancouver, British Columbia, Cana-da. She is also survived by her mother-in-law, Gwen Maynes of Lenox, sis-ters-in-law Kim Brantner (Pete) of Lenox, Karen Downing (Steve) of Cres-ton, Iowa, brothers-in-law Paul Maynes (Marcia) of Lenox, and Lyle Maynes (Bobbi) of Corning. Neph-ews and nieces include: Abe Schweers of Lenox, Susan Kastilhan (Dan-ny) of Chicago, Illinois, Lindsay Stoaks (Shane) of Lenox, Becky Bissell (Kolby) of Corning, Mi-chelle Maynes of Des Moines, Monty Maynes of Ames, Landon Maynes of Ames, Kennedi Maynes of Ames, Kysa Downing of Ames, Chisum Downing of Creston, Chase Maynes of Ankeny, Heath Down-ing of Creston, Caden Burkhart of Trenton, MO and Alix Burkhart of Van-couver, British Columbia, Canada. And Honorary Daughter, Marie Palmer of Corning.

Blanche Gilbert Shannon City

Blanche Gilbert, 101, of Shannon City died Nov. 26, 2014, at Clearview Home in Mount Ayr.

No public services are planned for Blanche. Pri-vate burial will be in Mis-souri. Powers Funeral Home, junction of highways 34 and 25, is in charge of ar-rangements. Online condo-lences may be left at www.powersfh.com.

Blanche Agnes Gilbert, daughter of Dollie Eliza-beth (Nelson) and Wesley Wrex, was born March 23, 1913, in Warrensburg, Mo., and moved to Cameron, Mo., at the age of 2.

On May 23, 1940, Blanche married David O. McKee in Kingston, Mo.

Blanche worked as a re-tail clerk for several stores in Cameron until her retire-ment in 1975.

David died Aug. 3, 1986.On Oct. 12, 1988, Blanche

married Galen I. Gilbert in Creston. They worked and

lived in Shannon City.Galen died Oct. 12, 1998.Blanche is survived by her

daughter Devie (husband Charlie) Bowman of Savan-nah, Mo.; stepsons, John (wife Gail) Gilbert of Kear-ney, Neb., Jim (wife Ginger) Day of Orlando, Fla., Larry (wife Shouna) Palmer of Kansas City, Mo., Wes Gil-bert (special friend Jackie Helberg) and Terry Gilbert (special friend Vera), all of Shannon City, Bill (wife Gayle) Gilbert of Jackson-ville, Fla., and Chuck (wife Maria) Gilbert of Yellville, Ark.; stepdaughters, Con-nie (husband Ray) Franz and Gail (husband George) Jennings, all of Aurora, Ore., Jacque (husband Lawrence) Fletcher of Ke-arney, Neb., and Jennifer (husband Zack) Prosper of Flippin, Ark.; many grand-children, step-grandchil-dren and great-grandchil-dren.

In addition to her hus-bands, Blanche was preced-ed in death by her parents, five brothers, five sisters and stepson Merle Gilbert.

Daniel Thompson Brookings, SD

Daniel Thompson, 71, of B r o o k -i n g s , SD died Monday, D e c e m -ber 1, 2014 at A v e r a M c K e n -nan Hos-pital in Sioux Falls, SD.

Memorial Services are at 2:00 p.m. Friday, December 5, 2014 at Rude’s Funeral Home, Brookings, SD. Vis-itation is one hour prior to the service. Rude’s Funeral Home is in charge of the ar-rangements.

Daniel Charles Thomp-son was born in Creston, Iowa on March 19, 1943 to Charles and Wanda (Farwell) Thompson. Dan graduated from Creston High School in 1961, Drake University in Des Moines, IA in 1967, and was enlist-ed in the Navy from 1967 to 1971. In 1976, he earned a master’s degree from Creighton University in ed-ucation.

Dan married Nancy Young in 1972 and they had two children, Susan and Chad. He taught and coached in Glenwood, IA from 1971 to 1977. From 1977 until 2003, he was principal, coach, and teach-er at Twin Cedars Commu-nity Schools in Bussey, IA.

In 2007, he and Nancy moved to Brookings, SD to be closer to family. Dan loved playing football in high school and college, had an intense interest in history, and enjoyed his hobby of painting.

Dan is survived by his wife Nancy; his children, Susan Hoskins and her husband Bill and their chil-dren Caroline and Daniel of Garretson, SD; Chad Thompson and his wife Ra-chel and their son Josiah of Anchorage, AK; one sister, Barbara Kirkpatrick and her husband Ed of New-port News, VA; two broth-ers, Dale Thompson and his wife Karen of Chucky, TN; Rob Thompson and his wife Kim of Marion, IN.

In lieu of flowers, memo-rials may be given in Dan’s name to the Brookings Arts Council, 524 4th Street, Brookings, SD 57006.

Maynes Thompson

Branstad orders flags be lowered to honor Alons

DES MOINES (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad has ordered that all flags in Iowa be flown at half-staff in hon-or of state Rep. Dwayne Alons.

U.S. flags and Iowa flags under the state’s control will be lowered and flown at half-staff from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to remem-ber Alons, who died Satur-day.

The 68-year-old Alons announced in October that he was battling renal cancer. He was a retired farmer and former Iowa Air National Guard brigadier general. He had represented Iowa House District 4 since 1998.

A memorial service for Alons is scheduled Wednes-day morning at First Re-formed Church in Hull.

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in the Legislature in the past, though that would be one op-tion.

A spokeswoman for Gov. Terry Branstad did not re-spond to a question about the ad campaign but said the gov-ernor was interested in work-ing with lawmakers on infra-structure funding in 2015.

“The governor wants to look at a variety of funding methods to further strength-en Iowa’s road use tax fund,” Greta Johnson said in a state-ment.

Lindsay McQuarry, pol-icy director for Iowans for Tax Relief, said her group opposes any increase to the fuel tax. She said lawmakers should be strategic with the resources available.

“We’ve seen record spend-ing on Iowa roads. It’s a mat-ter of prioritizing needs, not that there’s not funds avail-

able,” McQuarry said.Iowa’s fuel tax — now 22

cents per gallon, including fees — hasn’t been raised since 1989. A commission ap-pointed by Branstad in 2011 recommended an increase of 8 to 10 cents a gallon.

The American Road and Transportation Builders As-sociation reports that 5,043 bridges in Iowa were structur-ally deficient in 2013. That’s 21 percent of the bridges in the state. Iowa ranked second nationally for the number of deficient bridges, based on federal data.

Republican House Speak-er Kraig Paulsen said he hadn’t seen the ad but ex-pected the Legislature to consider transportation fund-ing when lawmakers convene in 2015. It’s too early to say if there was support for a fuel tax increase in the Republi-can-majority House, Paulsen said.

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prior to the parade, which begins at 7 p.m.

New to this year’s festivi-ties is caroling by Southwest-ern Community College’s men’s and women’s basket-

ball teams 5 p.m. Thursday, followed by Christmas car-ols by The Union County Ministerial Alliance at 6 p.m.

“I always think music adds to the atmosphere,” Ger-harz.

HOLIDAYS:

December schedule Dec. 4Comfort and Joy Quilt

Show, 9 a.m. until after the parade, Quilts & Other Notions Creative Center, 201 N. Elm St.

Festival of Trees, 9 a.m. until after the parade, American Home Design Center, 101 N. Walnut St.

Quilt Block Walk in Uptown Creston

Santa & Mrs. Claus at Creston’s Restored Depot hosted by Friends of the Library, 4:30 to 7 p.m.

Model Railroaders at Creston’s Restored Depot, 4:30 p.m. to close.

Creston:Arts Gallery at Creston’s Restored Depot, 4:30 p.m. to close.

Dancers in the Snow Globe, Leslie’s Dance Emporium, 218 N. Pine St., 4:30 to 6 p.m.

ASP soup supper at Creston’s Restored Depot, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

SWCC Men’s & Women’s Basketball teams caroling in Uptown Creston, 5:15 to 6 p.m.

Union County Ministerial Alliance caroling in Uptown Creston, 6 to 7 p.m.

Handmade Holiday Boutique, 6 p.m., Upper Crust Culinary Creations, 201 W. Adams St.

Lighted Christmas Parade, 7 p.m., Uptown Creston.

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Dec. 5Comfort and Joy Quilt

Show, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Quilts & Other Notions Creative Center, 201 N. Elm St.

Festival of Trees, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., American Home Design Center, 101 N. Walnut St.


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Dec. 6 Comfort and Joy Quilt

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Festival of Trees, 8 a.m. to noon, American Home Design Center, 101 N. Walnut St.



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36/29More clouds thansun. High 36F.Winds SE at 10 to20 mph.

Sunrise Sunset7:26 AM 4:49 PM

Fri12/5

41/23Mostly cloudy. Highsin the low 40s andlows in the low 20s.


Sat12/6

38/26A few clouds. Highsin the upper 30s andlows in the mid 20s.


Sun12/7

42/27Afternoon showers.Highs in the low 40sand lows in the up-per 20s.


Mon12/8

35/24Partly cloudy. Highsin the mid 30s andlows in the mid 20s.


Des Moines36/30

Cedar Rapids33/28

Sioux City42/28

Creston36/29

Iowa At A Glance

Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 31 24 pt sunny Davenport 34 30 cloudy Marshaltown 33 27 cloudyAtlantic 40 29 pt sunny Des Moines 36 30 cloudy Mason City 32 24 pt sunnyAubudon 39 28 pt sunny Dubuque 33 29 pt sunny Onawa 42 28 pt sunnyCedar Rapids 33 28 cloudy Farmington 35 30 cloudy Oskaloosa 35 29 cloudyCenterville 35 30 cloudy Fort Dodge 32 26 pt sunny Ottumwa 35 30 cloudyClarinda 40 30 cloudy Ft Madison 36 32 cloudy Red Oak 40 29 pt sunnyClarion 31 25 pt sunny Guttenberg 33 28 cloudy Sioux Center 38 27 pt sunnyClinton 34 29 cloudy Keokuk 37 33 cloudy Sioux City 42 28 pt sunnyCouncil Bluffs 42 29 pt sunny Lansing 33 27 pt sunny Spencer 35 25 pt sunnyCreston 36 29 cloudy LeMars 40 28 mst sunny Waterloo 33 27 pt sunny

National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 67 46 pt sunny Houston 70 60 cloudy Phoenix 68 52 rainBoston 41 26 mst sunny Los Angeles 64 56 rain San Francisco 64 56 rainChicago 32 30 cloudy Miami 79 71 pt sunny Seattle 44 36 pt sunnyDallas 66 57 cloudy Minneapolis 29 23 pt sunny St. Louis 41 38 rainDenver 57 35 cloudy New York 43 34 mst sunny Washington, DC 46 35 cloudy

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LastDec 14

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41/23Mostly cloudy. Highsin the low 40s andlows in the low 20s.


Sat12/6

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National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 67 46 pt sunny Houston 70 60 cloudy Phoenix 68 52 rainBoston 41 26 mst sunny Los Angeles 64 56 rain San Francisco 64 56 rainChicago 32 30 cloudy Miami 79 71 pt sunny Seattle 44 36 pt sunnyDallas 66 57 cloudy Minneapolis 29 23 pt sunny St. Louis 41 38 rainDenver 57 35 cloudy New York 43 34 mst sunny Washington, DC 46 35 cloudy

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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.

WednesdayFriends Helping Friends

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

YMCA Clover Kids, 4 to 5 p.m. meeting, First Christian Church.

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

ThursdayBurlington Northern and

Santa Fe Railroad retirees coffee, 9 a.m., The Windrow Restaurant.

Alegent Health At Home/

Family Home Care free blood pressure clinic, 11 a.m. to noon, Corning Community Center. Open to public. Donations appre-ciated.

Celebrate Recovery (a Christ-centered 12-step program), 6 p.m., Crest Baptist Church, 1211 N. Poplar St.

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

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

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

FridayHoly Spirit Rectory ReRun

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

Southern Prairie YMCA 55 Plus, 11:45 a.m., Summit House. Bring $3 for pizza and an item $5 or less for Christmas grab bag.

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

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.

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.

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

Caregiver Support Group, 1 p.m., Crest Haven Care Centre.

Meeting Union County Board

of Supervisors special ses-sion, 10 a.m. Thursday, Union County Courthouse boardroom. (Note the time change).

Agenda includes: 10:05 a.m. acceptance of initial union proposal for the Sec-ondary Roads Department.

Hospital Debra Gordon is recover-

ing from surgery at Univer-sity of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. Cards may be sent to her at 7RCS No. 7093, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Dr., Iowa City, IA 52242-1009.

Police An employee of Walmart,

806 Laurel St., reported an unknown female entered the store and took merchandise without paying for it be-tween 7:30 and 8 p.m. Nov. 26. Items taken were two cans of paint, a heater, two wiring kits, cable, two DVD players, two CD players, toi-let paper, paper towels and other unidentified merchan-dise.

Loss estimate is $362.— — — — — —

Chris Deboard, 401 N. Stone St., reported checks belonging to him were tak-en and cashed against his checking account without his consent between noon Nov. 12 and noon Thurs-day.

Loss estimate is $640.Miscellaneous

Parking complaint, 7:47 a.m., Tuesday, West Mills Street.

Talk to officer, 9:01 a.m., Tuesday, North Maple Street.

Theft, 9:15 a.m., Tuesday, West Townline Street.

Traffic stop, 10:47 a.m., Tuesday, North Cherry Street.

Violation of court order, 10:48 a.m., Tuesday, North Pine Street.

Narcotic, 12:56 p.m., Tues-day, North Pine Street.

Theft, 2:37 p.m., Tuesday, North Pine Street.

Accident, 2:50 p.m., Tues-day, West Taylor Street.

Harassing communication, 4:24 p.m., Tuesday, North Pine Street.

Information, 5:44 p.m., Tuesday, North Division Street.

Traffic stop, 6:42 p.m., Tuesday, West Prairie Street.

Talk to officer, 9:04 p.m., Tuesday, North Pine Street.

Information, 9:47 p.m., Tuesday, East Howard Street.

Traffic stop, 10:46 p.m.,

Tuesday, Park Street.

Fire Miscellaneous

Mutual aid, 2:09 a.m., Sun-day, Orient.

Medical, 7:39 p.m., Sun-day, South Poplar Street.

Medical, 8:13 a.m., Mon-day, North Poplar Street.

Grain prices quoted at 10 a.m. today:

• Farmers Co-op, Creston:Corn — $3.34

Soybeans — $9.30• Gavilon Grain:Corn — $3.38Soybeans — $9.45

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Presents for People We Care About accepting donations

It’s that time of year again. Creston Schools will once again be participat-ing in “Presents for Peo-ple We Care About.” This will be the week of Dec. 15. Children will be shop-ping by classrooms Mon-day through Thursday that week.

This is all based on dona-tions, and there is no money involved.

The program is accepting donations of knick knacks,

crafts, jewelry, items for men, candles, figurines and other items. People may also provide wrapping paper, gift boxes, bags, tape and gift tags. The deadline to drop things off is Dec. 12.

Volunteers to help chil-dren shop and wrap gifts are also needed. The program runs 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For more information, contact Jane Shantz, Stu-dent Success coordinator, at 782-1155.

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H O L L Y W O O D — H a p p y Wednesday, everybody, and God bless America.

NBC will air a Peter Pan Live special on Thursday starring NBC anchor Brian Williams’s daugh-ter Allison Williams as Peter Pan as he takes the Darling children to Neverland to battle Captain Hook. The telecast is tailored for today’s viewer. Every ten minutes you get to vote off one of the Dar-ling children.

Walking Dead’s season finale set ratings records for AMC Sun-day with a huge number of young viewers. It’s begun affecting elec-toral politics. Americans are no longer worried about Russia and China, the polls now ask which candidate would you trust to be president during a Zombie Apoc-alypse.

The Weather Channel aired footage of torrential rainstorms lashing Los Angeles that loosened steep hillsides and propelled huge boulders to roll down onto Pacific Coast Highway. Contrary to pop-ular misperception, Los Angeles has four seasons. They are earth-quake, mudslides, verdict and ri-ots.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer opens with a frightened young black man in a Star Wars space uniform looking frantically at the landscape where his space-ship landed. His panic is real. It seems the Gateway Arch is still standing after a thousand years, and St. Louis still makes him ner-vous.

The NFL refused to to pun-ish five St. Louis Rams who ran

on the field with their hands and arms in the air before Sunday’s game as a racial protest gesture. It’s ruined Sunday for many. Evangelical Christians can no lon-ger pray in church without feeling like they’re surrendering to the Ferguson police.

Washington D.C. protestors blocked expressways Monday in protest of the Ferguson grand jury decision while protestors jammed Times Square demanding racial justice. The outrage is spreading. Not to be outdone, Bill Cosby’s accusers will be looting and burn-ing a Jello factory tonight.

President Obama hosted lead-ing liberal civil rights leaders at the White House Monday to dis-cuss what actions to take follow-ing the Ferguson riots. He needs coaching on cultural issues. When Barack Obama was a communi-ty organizer in Chicago he once hosted a Passover Seder at Der Wienerschnitzel.

President Obama met with Al Sharpton and civil rights leaders Monday to bemoan the violence inflicted on black men by the au-thorities. It’s bad. Last month, U.S. voters inflicted such a ter-rible beating on Barack Obama that Johnnie Cochrane came to him in a dream and told him he’s got a case.

My first trip to Chicago over the Thanksgiving holiday probably won’t be my last, but it did reaf-firm that I prefer living at a slower pace — or at least one with a little more elbow room.

I enjoyed checking out the tour-ist stops in the city. Pam and I took a selfie with “the bean” in Millen-nium Park and we strolled down the breezy Navy Pier. We even braved the cold weather and took the Divvy bikes for a spin.

You can check out the bikes at one of the many Divvy stations around Chicago. It is a cheaper and more enjoyable way to see the city compared to a taxi. You just have to be a little more careful the driv-ers don’t run you over as they bus-tle about the city.

All weekend we had to weave around shoppers taking advantage of the sales. Lines curved out of store doors and down the block. Our weekend was more about the

sights, so we were able to avoid wasting time waiting.

Pam and I were only a couple blocks away from the Nordstrom shooting Friday night on our way to dinner with a friend. We heard the sirens, but didn’t know what had happened until the next day.

Getting away from the daily rou-tine was nice, but I struggled to relax in the big city. I focused too much on the negative details and let it distract me from the enjoy-able parts of the trip.

Surviving the mass of runners at the Living History Farm cross country race the previous weekend was much easier. While I lost con-tact with the rest of my team mere

minutes after arriving, I still felt surrounded by friends in the sea of runners.

All but one of the creek crossings were frozen solid, so I was able to stay a lot drier compared to previ-ous attempts.

As always, the beef stew and treats after the race were amazing, capping off another great Living History Farm event.

In case you missed itBill Krejci will be the second

person elected into the Southwest-ern Community College Hall of Fame Saturday.

Come for a cake and punch re-ception at 12:15 p.m. prior to the women’s tip off against Simpson JV. A ceremony will take place at approximately 2:30 p.m. before the start of the men’s game with Wil-liam Penn.

Krejci put in a lot of extra hours waking up early to throw batting practice to area baseball players.

As SWCC’s former athletic di-rector, it was always nice seeing him travel to a couple cross coun-try meets each year to cheer on the athletes.

Let’s give a little of our time and pack the house to cheer the Spar-tan basketball teams to victory and give Krejci a huge welcoming to the SWCC Hall of Fame.

Miles of trialsJake Waddinghamassociate editor

TopicalhumorArgus Hamilton

Walking Dead’s season finale set ratings records

Thoughts on Iowa School Board Association Convention

From Ron DunphyCreston

A report on my attendance (pub-licly funded) at the recent Iowa School Board Association Con-vention and Delegate Assembly follows.

The Delegate Assembly voted to prioritize three of the resolutions our local school board choose as priorities for the upcoming legisla-tive session. See the IASB website for an explanation.

Every time I have attended the convention I come home energized and fortified with information to do “better” for our children. In the words of an old and deceased friend, Fred Pritchard, each deci-sion should be based on the criteria of “is it good for the kids?”

I attend four informative sessions offered. The day began with musi-cal performances; music immersion being the sole student extra-cur-ricular activity that spurs kids to do better – for life. Will Richard-son was the featured speaker who linked advancing technology with learning in a “Globally Networked World.”

Kevin McCarville, president of KeBecca Educational Services, spoke of alternatives in offer-ing quality, cost-effective special education programs where his co-workers might fit into the pic-ture with the school district as inde-pendent educational contractors. I

was not aware such opportunities and services even existed.

I choose to take in a “Dialogue with Springfield Public Schools: How We Made Learning Personal for Students.” The Missouri district program might be referred to as a “magnet” called “Wolf.” Spring-field community leadership is key to the success of the program as is the associate superintendent, Ben Hackenwerth. Business provided space along with marketing and market research. The community was involved with “visioning” and the school board listened to ideas for an international school focusing on health services and sciences.

I heard of a free survey service to every school district in Iowa termed “BrightBytes” by Clarity. The purpose is to identify oppor-tunity in technology integration, digital citizenship and profession-al development. All three areas of instruction/work seemed to be on our “plate” currently. Clarity is used in Woodward-Granger; per-sonnel from the district presented along with a favorite educator of mine, Scott McLeod. Using Clar-ity data, all spoke to transforming ‘”technology practices and teacher/student learning.”

The last session I attended was “Overcoming the Challenges of Poverty”; presenters were board members and employees of the Boone, Atlantic and Des Moines school districts. Creston is not

alone in dealing with the challenges of poverty. The social condition “is unbiased in its reach.” All agreed transportation is the number one problem regardless of approach. All three districts have made the mitigation of the negative impact of poverty a priority.

Short visits to the exhibit area gave rise to opportunity for vis-its with three architects. All three professionals said we are entitled to disappointment in the outcome of planning and much delayed state approval of our bus barn. I also discussed with different college recruiters their thoughts on the im-portance of interviewing potential employees from a diverse cultural and educational background.

The only negative in education today, not given much discussion, was the overall lack of participa-tion by some parents in classroom work. I was promised next year’s convention would address the chal-lenge.

The four trips to/from Des Moines were safe as I avoided all of the deer in “rut.”

“Perhaps God would want you to become acquainted with many different people in the course of your life, so that when you meet the right ones, you can be grateful for them!” I remain grateful for the opportunity afforded me to serve on our local school board (this on Thanksgiving eve).

Letter to the editor

Trying not to get lost in the crowd

CNA photo by JAKE WADDINGHAMMy girlfriend Pam and I in front of The Cloud Gate — more commonly known as “the bean” — in Millennium Park during our Thanksgiving holiday trip to Chicago.


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FFA members attend leadership conference Two hundred twelve de-

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Creston FFA’s freshmen members Taylor Sorrells and Jordan Moreland took on the challenge of starting their FFA leadership journey by attending the Nov. 15 212 Leadership Conference.

The 360 degree leadership conference took Creston FFA members Livi Hartman and Rebecca Watson full circle in chapter leadership development. The confer-ence covered every angle for developing action plans for the chapter. This conference focused on chapter develop-ment, and the theme centered around the concept of vision – having a vision for personal and chapter goals.

The 212 and 360 leadership conferences are sponsored by

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of the National FFA Founda-tion.

Business grows in Iowa DES MOINES – Iowa

Secretary of State Matt Schultz and Iowa Econom-ic Development Authori-ty (IEDA) Director Debi Durham announced that through a partnership with IASourceLink and the Iowa Economic Development Authority, the Iowa Secre-tary of State’s office is now providing Iowans with more resources to help start a business. The business de-velopment resources found at http://sos.iowa.gov/ia-sourcelink contain a variety of services from funding, to business planning informa-tion, information regarding regulations, site location as-sistance and more.

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Adair County 4-H, FFA to weigh beef Dec. 29 GREENFIELD — Market

beef weigh-in for Adair Coun-ty 4-H and FFA members has been set for Dec. 29 at Adair County Fairgrounds in Green-field. All market steers and heifers must be tagged and weighed to be eligible to ex-hibit at the 2015 Adair County Fair slated for July 15-19.

Each youth may weigh and identify up to six head of mar-ket beef for the lead compe-tition. The lead competition includes separate classes for market steers and heifers, and

returning market bucket/bot-tle calves. Youths planning to exhibit in the junior feeder pen division can weigh up to six head. If a youth is a mem-ber of both 4-H and FFA, they may identify that many head for each organization.

4-H’ers planning to show market beef at the Iowa State Fair or AK-SAR-BEN must bring their animals to the weigh-in between 8:30 and 9:15 a.m. Youths wishing to nominate for either of these shows need to notify Adair

County Extension by Dec. 26. FFA members and 4-H’ers who plan to exhibit at the county fair only will be able to weigh animals between 9:15 and 11:30 a.m.

There is a $1.50 charge to pay for the ear tag for each market beef animal. Nomi-nation fee for Iowa State Fair will be $10 per head (includes ear tag). Nomination fee for AK-SAR-BEN will be $5 per head.

The 4-H beef project pro-vides an opportunity for

youths to learn basic animal care and management and re-cordkeeping skills. All animals are weighed in December so rate of gain can be calculated at the county fair. Rate of gain is one of the major factors in determining profitability in a beef enterprise.

For more info about the 4-H market beef project, the live beef performance – no fit class (new for 2015) or the weigh-in, call Adair County Exten-sion at 641-743-8412 or 1-800-ISUE399.

New beef performance class added to 2015 Adair County Fair

GREENFIELD — 4-H and FFA county fair beef exhibitors will want to check out the new class added to the 2015 county fair beef show. In an effort to in-crease the number of beef exhibitors and animals com-ing to the fair, the county fair beef committee is in-troducing a class new to the Adair County Fair.

Following are the guide-lines for the Live Beef Per-formance – No Fit Class – each 4-H or FFA member may identify a maximum of six steers and show three at the county fair. The steers must be weighed and tagged at the county weigh-in on Dec. 29. Exhibitor must declare at the weigh-in that the steers are to be entered in the Live Performance –

No Fit Class. Entries can-not be chosen from steers identified for a junior feeder pen and cannot be entered in any other class, except showmanship.

Steers must be halter bro-ken and manageable by the exhibitor by county fair. Animals will be judged in the show ring on live perfor-mance and expected carcass evaluation. Each animal competing in the live show must be entered in the Beef Performance Contest and sent to the processing plant.

For more information about the Live Beef Per-formance – No Fit Class or any other county fair beef classes, contact Donna at Adair County Extension at 641-743-8412 or email [email protected].

Contributed photoCreston FFA chapter members Livi Hartman and Rebecca Watson spend time learning how to build their FFA chapter’s program. Hartman and Watson attended the FFA 360 Leadership Conference Nov. 22 at the Iowa FFA Enrichment Center on the DMACC campus in Ankeny.

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TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Unexpected gifts from oth-ers will come your way today. This window of opportunity is brief, so be quick to say yes!

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Friends and partners will sur-prise you in some way today. Alternatively, you might meet someone who is a real char-acter today. Anything can hap-pen!

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your work routine will be interrupted today but hopeful-ly, pleasantly so. Expect the introduction of high-tech new equipment. Meanwhile, staff shortages and canceled meet-ings are likely.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Accept spontaneous invita-tions to party or see movies, the theater or sports events. You won’t have very long time to think about this, just say yes. Parents should be vigilant about their kids to avoid acci-dent-prone situations.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Something unexpected will happen at home or with-in your family dynamic today. Someone might knock on your door and surprise you. Admittedly, small appliances might break down. Grrr.

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YOU BORN TODAY You are courageous, feisty and aggres-sive. You accept any challenge, because you like to overcome the odds; plus it’s important to feel you are in control of your world. This is the year you have been waiting for. It’s a time of expansion and great activity. A major change might take place, perhaps as significant as what occurred around 2005. It’s time to try your wings!

Dear Readers: As prom-ised, here are more KITCH-EN MISHAP stories, and boy, are some of them a hoot:

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By LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

GREENFIELD — Cres-ton/O-M opened the wres-tling season with two con-vincing victories Tuesday night, outscoring Interstate 35 57-21 and a shorthanded Nodaway Valley team, 70-12.

In other duals, Winterset topped I-35, 49-25; and Win-terset matched the Panthers by defeating Nodaway Val-ley 70-12.

In both cases, the two Wolverine victors were mid-dleweights Ben Freese at 126 pounds and JD Lyman at 132 by falls. Nodaway Valley filled only six weight classes in both duals.

The Panthers won 10 of 14 contested matches against I-35, including nine pins by Wyatt Thompson (138), Joey Huntington (145), Cam Leith (152), Tayler Pettit (170), Jackson Mikkelsen (182), Kadon Hulett (195),

Seth Maitlen (220), Jake Gutschenritter (285), and Brody Frain (126). Trevor Marlin won a 9-7 decision at 120 pounds.

“I-35 has ranked kids at 160 and 132 and a lot of re-turning kids,” Creston/O-M coach Darrell Frain said. “Now in 1A they will com-

pete very well. I thought it was a good start for us.”

The Panthers concluded the night by winning four of six contested matches

against Nodaway Valley, in-cluding pins by Leith, Alex


133Points scored by VMI in Tues-day’s 133-62 victory over Mid-Atlantic.

NatioNalDigest

The Numbers Game

TCU jumpsThe top four in the

College Football Play-off rankings going into the final weekend of the regular season is as fol-lows: Alabama, Oregon, TCU and Florida State.

The question is: Short of a loss by one of those teams, is there anything a team on the outside can do to get in on Sun-day when the final rank-ings are announced and the field for the first playoff is set?

“We’re at the point, we’re waiting for results now,” selection commit-tee chairman and Ar-kansas athletic director Jeff Long said Tuesday night. “We’re waiting for teams to complete their body of work.”

TCU (10-1) moved up to No. 3, becoming the latest team with a loss to jump past undefeat-ed Florida State, and further distancing itself from Big 12 rival Bay-lor (10-1). The Bears, who beat TCU 61-58 in Waco, Texas, in Octo-ber, are sixth and Ohio State sits in between them and the Horned Frogs at fifth.Hoke fired

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Brady Hoke was fired Tuesday after Michigan stumbled to a 5-7 record and missed the postseason in his fourth year at the helm. Interim athletic direc-tor Jim Hackett’s an-nouncement ended weeks of speculation over Hoke’s future and put one of college foot-ball’s most storied pro-grams in the market for a new coach.

Hoke’s record fell well short of Michigan’s standards. He went 31-20 with the Wolverines, and the team declined steadily after an 11-2 mark in his first season. Hired after the tumultu-ous tenure of Rich Ro-driguez, Hoke was sup-posed to help Michigan regain its place among college football’s elite, and his familiarity with the program’s culture and tradition helped make the initial transi-tion a successful one.

Michigan has not won the Big Ten since 2004, and the Wolverines are now 1-10 in their last 11 games against Ohio State.Hunter returns

M I N N E A P O L I S (AP) — Torii Hunter is coming back to the place it all began.

Hunter agreed to a $10.5 million, one-year contract to return to the Minnesota Twins, a per-son with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condi-tion of anonymity Tues-day because the agree-ment had not yet been announced.

A five-time All-Star outfielder who turns 40 in July, Hunter became a star with the Twins from 1997-07 before signing a $90 million, five-year contract with the Los Angeles Angels. He then signed a $26 million, two-year deal with Detroit.

Panthers swarm Raiders early in 65-29 victoryBy LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

Creston opened the 2014-15 boys basketball season with a bang, going 4-of-5 from 3-point range in taking a 16-2 lead over Mount Ayr here Tuesday night.

Senior guard Sam Hart-sock sank t h r e e 3 - p o i n t -ers in the o p e n i n g t h r e e m i n u t e s as the Panthers’ t r a p p i n g halfcourt defense rattled the Raiders and forced four turnovers during the same stretch.

Mount Ayr, coming off a season-opening win at La-moni Monday night, never got its offensive rhythm in a 65-29 loss. The Panthers led 27-7 after one quarter and stretched it to a 44-11 spread at halftime.

Reserves played out the fourth quarter and the lat-ter portion of the third, as Jay Wolfe led the scor-ing with 18 points. Hart-sock tallied 13 points and

Christian Groumoutis had 12. Reserve center Jed McCreary led Mount Ayr with eight points.

Mount Ayr coach Bret Ruggles said Creston’s quickness and long reach on the perimeter with the likes of Wolfe, Groumou-tis and McClain Haines made clean passes diffi-cult. At times Creston was in a trapping 1-3-1 zone defense, other times it was an aggressive man-to-man or a 2-3 zone.

“As a 1A team, we can’t get that simulation in prac-tice,” Ruggles said. “Their length really bothered us all night. Their pressure defense is very good. And I was really impressed with their shooting. We knew Wolfe would shoot it well, but they really did a nice job of shooting the ball as a team.”

The Panthers made eight 3-pointers in the game. Hartsock had three, Grou-moutis had two and Wolfe, Haines and Cody Craw-ford each made one.

“That was nice to see Sam come out shooting like that,” Panther coach Brett Watson said. “We have to be multi-dimen-

sional. A lot of guys can step up. It helps to have six seniors with experience.”

Mount Ayr didn’t score until Creston had opened

up a 10-0 lead three min-utes into the game. The Raiders had difficulty even getting a shot off against the harassing Panther de-

fense in the early going.“We wanted to pressure

CNA photo by KYLE WILSONCreston’s Jay Wolfe (30) blocks a shot taken by Mount Ayr guard Nick Wurster during the first half of Monday evening’s contest. Wolfe finished with 18 points and nine rebounds in the victory.

Coaches, family laud community’s generosityBy LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

Creston came out on top on the scoreboard, but the real winners in the event at Creston High School Tues-day night were the Kirk Levine family and the play-ers on both teams who felt

the rewards of a greater cause.

A strong early-season crowd from both commu-nities showed up with gen-erosity as the Creston and Mount Ayr boys squared off in a benefit game for the Kirk Levine family.

Levine — 1972 Creston High School graduate, fa-

ther of Mount Ayr assis-tant coach Jeff Levine and a longtime sports official in Iowa as well as past minor league umpire — has recent-ly completed treatments for throat cancer. The Raiders and Panthers came togeth-er in an event organized by Mount Ayr coach Bret Rug-gles to help raise money for

the family’s mounting medi-cal costs.

A silent auction was held with several sports mem-orabilia items, tickets for major university games and a raffle for two Taylor Swift concert tickets in the lower bowl of Wells Fargo Arena. Organizers estimated that approximately $10,000 was raised during the event.

“I can’t even talk,” said an emotional Kirk Levine during the game. “That’s why I live here. Great friends and family.”

Regardless of the out-come of the game, both head coaches said the les-sons learned by the players of neighbors helping neigh-bors were more valuable.

“It’s been a great expe-rience for our guys,” Rug-gles said. “I think they saw there is more to it than just the basketball game itself. Kirk’s family has been a top-notch family and that’s evident by the support. We were on the bench as they were announcing the auc-tion, and there was a (Goose Gossage) signed baseball, and we didn’t even know that was out there! People just kept bringing stuff. It

was amazing.”Likewise, Watson said

it was a good event on the heels of the Hall of Pride scrimmage with Lenox last week that served as a collec-tion of non-perishable food items for local food pantries.

“It’s more than just bas-ketball,” Watson said. “I don’t personally know the Levine family, but from ev-erything I’ve heard they are just awesome people. Kudos to coach Ruggles for every-thing he put into it.”

Scott Levine, 2004 Cres-ton graduate and youngest son of Kirk and Ann Levine, expressed gratitude to the crowd at the conclusion of the game.

“On behalf of the entire Levine family, we’d just like to say thanks to ev-erybody,” Scott said. “We didn’t expect this. It’s not just Creston. It’s the Mount Ayr community, and entire southwest Iowa community that has come out and sup-ported us. I know I speak for my wife, my brothers, my parents and grandfather here tonight, that we’re es-pecially proud to say we’re from Creston, Iowa.”

CNA photo by KYLE WILSONTom Eagan of Creston bids on a silent auction item prior to the Creston vs. Mount Ayr boys basketball game held Tuesday evening in Creston. All money from the silent auc-tion went to Kirk Levine of Creston, who battled throat cancer this fall and is finally done with treatments. Funds raised will go toward paying for Levine’s treatments.

Please seePANTHERS, page 10A

CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONCreston/O-M senior Tayler Pettit secures the head of Interstate-35’s Logan Adair while reaching for a takedown during their 170-pound match Tuesday night in Greenfield. Pettit won by fall in 1:41 and won by forfeit in the Nodaway Valley dual to open the 2014-15 season.

Hartsock

Panthers cruise in opening duals

Please seeWRESTLING, page 11A

SPORTSSPORTS


Lenox 50, O-M 38ORIENT — After a

high-scoring first quarter, things slowed down a bit here Tuesday as Lenox posted a 50-38 win over Ori-ent-Macksburg.

The Tigers held a 21-17 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Spencer Brown posted a double-double for Le-nox with 12 points and 15 re-b o u n d s , w h i l e D a w s o n T u l l b e r g scored a team-high 14 points for the Tigers to go with four assists.

Carson Cline added eight points with 12 boards, as Kaleb Anderson and Leevi Marshall each scored six points. Colton Hogan added four points for Lenox.

Dylan Nichols led Ori-ent-Macksburg with 14 points, as J o r d a n T h o m p -s o n chipped in nine. Lo-gan Hol-ste, James S u l l i v a n and Jesse J o h n s o n

each scored four points and Seth White added three.

Thompson pulled down 10 rebounds to lead the Bulldogs, as Sullivan fin-ished with six. Nichols and Thompson each recorded three steals.

“Hard fought game on both ends of the floor,” O-M head coach Drew Dornack said. “We just couldn’t over-come our cold shooting in the second half.”Shenandoah 63,SW Valley 24

SHENANDOAH — Southwest Valley didn’t score until the second quar-ter here Tuesday in a 63-24 loss to Hawkeye 10 Confer-ence Shenandoah.

The Mustangs held a 19-0 lead through one quarter and outscored the Timber-wolves 25-13 in the second quarter, before holding Southwest Valley scoreless yet again in the third quar-ter.

“Turnovers were the key to the game,” Southwest Valley head coach Andrew Focht said. “Shenandoah came out early and forced turnovers and shot well from the field. We were unable to get into any type of flow on the offensive end with the stingy defense Shenandoah played.”

Colten Drake led the Tim-berwolves with eight points,

while Scott Vanderhoof added six. Bryan Pearson chipped in four points. Thad Bruning scored three points, as Wyatt McAlpin netted two points and Clint Mullen finished with one point.Murray 56,Lamoni 40

LAMONI — Murray picked up a 56-40 sea-son-opening win over Lam-oni here Tuesday.

Senior Trey McHenry had a big night, s c o r i n g 25 points on 8-of-11 s h o o t i n g from the floor and 8-9 shoot-ing from the free throw line. He also grabbed eight re-bounds and had a team-high six steals.

Braydon Held also reached double figures, scoring 11 points with three rebounds, five steals and two assists. Thane Sim-mons grabbed a team-high 12 rebounds and scored two points to go with five steals, two assists and three blocked shots.

Bryce Keller added nine points with nine boards. Jack Jones scored six points with five rebounds and Cody Mann scored three points.

8th grade girlsFONTANELLE — Cres-

ton pulled away from a close first quarter to defeat the Nodaway Valley eighth-grade girls Monday, 45-24.

Creston led 25-14 at half-time and outscored the Wol-verines 20-10 in the second half. Brielle Baker scored 10 points and Kesia Stewart added nine for Creston. An-nie Herr scored eight points for Nodaway Valley.

“NV played a zone and forced our girls to shoot out-side,” coach Sarah Stephens said. “The girls really came alive in the second half. They did a nice job pressing the opponent and forcing

turnovers, and did a great job on the boards.”

Creston won the B quar-ter, 12-5, with Devon Bulls scoring eight points and Emma Pingree adding four.

“The girls did a nice job getting open looks at the basket and hustled well as a team,” Stephens said.

Creston (45) — Brielle Baker 10, Kesia Stewart 9, Saige Rice 6, Taylor Buxton 6, Megan Haley 4, Jesse Vicker 3, Grace Root 2, Breanna Ross 2. Rebounds — Buxton 12, Vicker 5, Baker 5, Haley 5, Steart 5, Rice 4. Steals — Baker 4, Stewart 4, Root 3, Vicker 3, Rice 2, Buxton 2.

Nodaway Valley (24) — Annie Herr 8, Selena Rubio 6, Addie Lamb 6, Alyssa Welsch 4.

Creston B (12) — Devon Buls 8, Emma Pingree 4. Rebounds — Kelsey Watson 3, Rachel Wignall 3, Pingree 2, Kaitlyn Osmun

2. Steals — Sophia Schuler 2, Osmun 2. Assists — Wignall 3.

Nodaway Valley B (5) — Stormy France 4, Bailey Bakerink 1.

7th grade girlsFONTANELLE —

Nodaway Valley pulled away from a 17-11 halftime lead to post a 43-14 victo-ry over the Creston sev-enth-grade girls Monday.

Alyssa Davis scored 14 points and Clarissa Smith added 12 for Nodaway Valley. Heylee Shields had seven points and five steals to lead Creston. Kylee La-Masters had four points and

Shields named district coach of the year Six area players earn all-district volleyball honors

Murray coach Jerry S h i e l d s w a s n a m e d the Class 1A South C e n t r a l D i s t r i c t Coach of the Year in all-dis-trict vol-leyball announcements by the Iowa Girls Coaches As-sociation.

Three of his players — se-nior Hannah Barber, junior Jade Lecy and sophomore Brandi Gilbert — were also named to the 1A South Cen-tral District team.

Another coach named district coach of the year is Meg Jackson of Wood-ward-Granger, Creston na-tive and sister of Creston head coach Polly Luther. Three of Jackson’s players were also named all-district in seniors Abby Musser and Tori Manning, and sopho-more Mary Hansen.

Creston senior Natalie Mostek was named all-dis-trict in Class 4A along with senior Marie Palmer of

Southwest Valley in Class 2A and Mount Ayr sopho-more Kelcie Shields in Class 1A.

Three Bedford players earning 1A all-district hon-ors are juniors Rachel Arm-strong, Callie Calfee and Callyn Bonde.

The all-district teams in this region:

4A WestNatalie Mostek, Creston, Sr.;

MacKenzie Swanson, Harlan, Sr.; Olivia Scarborough, Glenwood, Jr.; Bianca Irlbeck, Carroll, Jr.; Shelby Miller, Carroll, Sr.; Grace Hanno, Sioux City Heelan, Jr.; Jess Schaben, Harlan, Sr.; Mariah McPartland, Boone, Sr.; Abby Bergsten, Lewis Central, Sr.; Reghan Coyle, Lewis Central, Sr.; Taylor Frederick, Harlan, Jr.; Asia Kloewer, Harlan, Sr. Coach of the Year — Angie Spangenberg, Harlan.

3A WestSerena Parker, Shenandoah,

Sr.; Angela Mahoney, Red Oak, Jr.; Jessica Harald, Sioux Center, So.; Abby Lohrman, Carroll Kuemper Catholic, So.; Megan Jensen, Estherville Lincoln Central, Sr.; Brooke Runneberg, Pocahontas Area, Sr.; Kate Walker, Red Oak, Sr.; Jill VanderPlatts, Sioux Center, Sr.; Madison Beaver, Sioux Center, Sr.; Maria Dentlinger, Carroll Kuemper Catholic, Sr.; Grace Blomstedt, Red Oak, Sr.; Sydney Nielsen, Shenandoah, Sr. Coach of the Year — Julie Oldenkamp, Sioux Center.

2A SouthwestHallie Linhart, Central Decatur,

Sr.; Marie Palmer, Southwest Valley, Sr.; Allison Eikenberry, Tri-Center, So.; Emma Myers, Treynor, Jr.; Tori Masker, Tri-Center, So.; Brooke Cooper, Underwood, Sr.; Madison Paulson, Treynor, So.; Katelyn Schechinger, IKM-Manning, Sr.; Emma Bonnet, Underwood, So.; Matti Munger, Council Bluffs St. Albert, Sr.; Maddy Powell, Underwood, Jr.. Coach of the Year — Kali Huisman, Treynor.

1A South CentralMarissa Pope, Belle Plaine,

Sr.; Samantha Williams, Moravia, Sr.; Jade Lecy, Murray, Sr.; Caleigh Greiner, Keota, Sr.; Karli Smith, Lamoni, Sr.; Jordan Carter, Sigourney, Sr.; Madison Sheetz, Keota, Sr.; Hannah Barber, Murray, Sr.; Kendall Brown, Moravia, Jr.; Shelby Davis, Lynnville-Sully, Sr.; Brandi Gilbert, Murray, So.; Elisa Wenger, Moravia, Jr. Coach of the Year — Jerry Shields, Murray.

1A SouthwestMacey Williams, Fremont-

Mills, Sr.; Rachel Armstrong, Bedford, Jr.; Logan Wagg, Stanton, Sr.; Anne-Marie Maher, Nishnabotna, Sr.; Jessie Doyle, East Mills, Sr.; Callie Calfee, Bedford, Jr.; Grace Hoflen, Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton, Sr.; Marlia Rossell, Griswold, Sr.; Sydney McLaren, Griswold, Fr.; Taryn Williams, Fremont-Mills, Sr.; Delaney Langfelt, Fremont-Mills, Jr.; Haley Weis, Stanton,. Sr.; Callyn Bonde, Bedford, Jr.; Lexy Larson, Sidney, Jr.; Kelcie Shields, Mount Ayr, So. Coach of the Year — Tracy Malcom, Fremont-Mills. 2A Central Coach of Year — Meg Jackson, Woodward-Granger.

Shields

Griswold 43,SW Valley 36

CORNING — Southwest Valley had an opportunity to win the game here Mon-day, but couldn’t overcome 35 turnovers in a 43-36 loss to Griswold.

“Griswold played a solid press against us and we made rushed decisions throughout the game,” Southwest Val-ley head coach Allen Nau-gle said. “When you turn the ball over 35 times in a game, it is tough to win. We did a great job of getting to the hoop and getting free throw opportunities.”

But, Southwest Valley shot just 46 percent from the free throw line on 12-of-26 shooting.

Marie Palmer recorded a dou-b l e - d o u -ble for the Tim-berwolves with 15 p o i n t s and 11 re-b o u n d s . Lexi Bron-ner add-ed seven points with nine rebounds. Katie Taylor scored four points and had five steals. Janelle Gibler recorded three points and seven boards.

Shelby Cooper, Kelsey Means and Regan Jessen each scored two points, while Jade Petersen chipped in one point and grabbed six rebounds.South Page 51, Diagonal 34

DIAGONAL — South Page broke open a close game with a 22-10 advan-tage in the fourth quarter

here on Monday, defeating Diagonal 51-34.

Kaitlyn Klommhaus scored sev-en points to lead the Ma-roonettes. K a t i e S o b o t k a scored six points, as did Alli-son Norris. Cassidy Becker grabbed a team-high eight rebounds to go with two points.

Madison Lohmann scored five points and had two steals. Kasydi Klommhaus netted four points and pulled down four rebounds with two steals. Jaci Haid-siak also scored four points, finishing with six rebounds.

The loss dropped Diago-nal to 1-1 for the season.Lenox 51, O-M 34

ORIENT — Lenox im-proved to 1-1 for the season with a 51-34 road win over Orient-Macksburg here on Tuesday.

Aurora Arevalo posted a dou-b l e - d o u -ble with 12 points and 16 re-b o u n d s , while Ka-tie Dukes filled the stat sheet with 18 points, six rebounds, three assists and four steals.

Hannah Mitchell add-ed seven points with two boards. Jacy Stoaks scored four points with five re-bounds and two assists, while Mika Weaver added four points with four re-

bounds and two assists.Nodaway Valley 57, Clarinda 53

CLARINDA — Nodaway Valley overcame 19 turn-overs and 22 Clarinda offen-sive rebounds to defeat the Cardinals 57-53 here Tues-day.

“Clarinda always plays us a very competitive game,” Nodaway Valley head coach Tom Thompson said. “They were more physical than us tonight, as we gave up 22 offensive rebounds. We also turned it over 19 times, so they got several more shot attempts than us. Fortunate to get the win on the road.”

Jessica Nelson had a big game for the Wol-v e r i n e s , s c o r i n g 22 points with nine rebounds and four assists to lead the t e a m . Paige McElfish recorded another double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds to go with two assists and two steals.

Josie Clarke scored 10 points with five rebounds and four blocked shots. Mercedes Harter added sev-en points with six rebounds and two assists. Josie Carter scored five poitns with five boards, five assists and three steals.

The Wolverines, now 2-0 for the season, open Pride of Iowa Conference play at East Union on Friday.

Area girls basketball

Palmer

Klommhaus

Arevalo

Nelson

Please seeGIRLS, page 12A

Area boys basketball

Tullberg

Nichols

McHenry

Middle school basketball

Please seeMS, page 12A

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them a little bit and not let them get comfortable,” Watson said. “They were comfortable against La-moni and hit some shots. We didn’t want to give them those open looks. We try to get into those passing lanes and make our defense create some of our offense. We wanted to beat the zone down the floor.”

When Wolfe scored in transition from a Haines assist, the margin grew to 18-2. A Groumoutis 3-pointer and basket by Cooper McDermott closed out the 27-7 opening quar-ter blitz.

At halftime the all-stater Wolfe was the team’s third-leading scorer with 10 points, as Hartsock had his 13 and Groumoutis 12. The Raiders, meanwhile, had more turnovers (19) than points (11).

Ruggles said the game was helpful, despite the lopsided score.

“Our guys got rat-tled pretty quick. After some deflections, now all of a sudden you’re sec-ond-guessing every pass you throw and every shot you take,” Ruggles said. “But I told them afterward,

this will be the toughest team we play all year. It’s a really good ballclub. Other teams may try to get up in us and pressure us like that, and we l e a r n e d s o m e things to-night.”

T h e R a i d -ers begin Pride of Iowa Conference play Fri-day in hosting Southwest Valley. Creston embarks on this year’s Hawkeye 10 schedule with a game at Glenwood. The Panthers will be at a height disad-vantage.

“They are big, with 6-8 and 6-7 kids back,” Watson said. “They are going to be good. In the Hawkeye 10, any road win is a good win. We’ll have to compete for 32 minutes.”

MOUNT AYR (29) — Jed McCreary 3 2-2 8, Connor Giles 2 1-1 5, Rhett Murphy 2 1-1 5, Riley Weehler 1 0-0 3, Caleb Schnoor 1 0-0 2, Lincoln Martin 1 0-0 2, Trevor Gooding 1 0-0 2, Jake Ricker 1 0-0 2. Totals — 12 4-4 29. 3-point goals — 1-6 (Weehler 1). FG shooting — 12-33 (36.3 percent). Rebounds — 18 (McCreary 4, Ricker 4, Kyle Dolecheck 4). Assists — 8 (Nick Wurster 2, Martin 2). Steals — 8 (Schnoor 4). Team fouls — 9. Fouled out — None.

CRESTON (65) — Jay Wolfe

8 1-2 18, Sam Hartsock 5 0-0 13, Christian Groumoutis 3 4-4 12, Jake Miller 3 0-0 6, Alex Nielsen 3 0-0 6, McClain Haines 1 2-2 5, Cody Crawford 1 0-0 3, Cooper McDermott 1 0-0 2. Totals — 25 7-8 65. 3-point goals — 8-21 (Hartsock 3, Groumoutis 2, Haines 1, Wolfe 1, Crawford 1). FG shooting — 25-48 (52 percent). Rebounds — 27 (Wolfe 9, Nielsen 5, Groumoutis 4). Assists — 19 (Hartsock 6, Haines 5, Wolfe 3). Steals — 13 (Wolfe 4, Nielsen 3, Groumoutis 3, Hartsock 2). Blocked shots — 3 (Nielsen 2). Team fouls — 5. Fouled out — None.

Mt. Ayr — 7 11 17 29Creston — 27 44 60 65

JUNIOR VARSITYCody Crawford scored

23 points as the Creston JV opened the season with a 46-39 victory over Mount Ayr.

“I liked our defensive intensity,” Creston coach Michael West said. “We got a lot of steals that got us into transition.”

Crawford drained three 3-pointers in his 23-point night and Kyle Somers added 11 points for the Panthers.

Creston (46) — Cody Crawford 23, Kyle Somers 11, Seth Thompson 3, Ryan Kucera 3, Chris Foster 2, Quinton Scadden 2, Ian Burns 2. 3-point goals — Crawford 3, Thompson 1, Somers 1, Kucera 1. Free throws — 8-9.

Mount Ayr (39) — Young 12, Holmes 9, Wurster 8, McCreary 6, Campbell 4. 3-point goals — Young 2, Wurster 1. Free throws — 4-14.

PANTHERS:

CNA photo by KYLE WILSONCreston’s Sam Hartsock (4) plays aggressive defense on Mount Ayr’s point man in the opening half Monday evening. The Panthers defeated the Raiders 65-29 in their regular season opener.

Ruggles

CNA photo by KYLE WILSONMount Ayr’s Kyle Dolecheck (23) elevates for a rebound in Monday evening’s contest against the Creston Panthers. Dolecheck finished with four rebounds for the Raiders.

Animal Shelter DONATION DRIVE!

Our local animal shelters depend on the generosity of the community to sustain them. All donations collected at the Creston News Advertiser will go directly to Creston Animal Rescue Effort and Dog Gone Rescue in support of homeless cats and dogs in our community!

Creston Animal Rescue Effort Needs: (new or good used) collars, leashes, toys, we use alot of canned food and cat litter, stainless steel dog dishes (med. to large size), cardboard

cat scratchers, bleach, dish soap, hand sanitizer, sponges, hand towels, wash rags, small blankets, copy paper, stamps, printer ink (#901).

Volunteers are always needed!We are a very small group and more hands would be great.

Contact 641-782-2330 for more info.

Monetary Donations can be mailed to C.A.R.E.

c/o Mycale Downey304 W. DeVoe, Creston, IA 50801

Dog Gone Rescue Needs: Dog/Cat Dry & Canned Food, Dog/Cat Stainless Steel Bowls, New or Used

collars & Leashes, Scoopable Cat Litter, Kennels (indoor & outdoor), Dog HousesBuilding supplies for Dog Houses, such as: 2x4’s, wafer board, paint, screws/nails

& straw for the winter months.Dog/Cat Pet Beds & Blankets, Dog/Cat Toys & Treats (cat scratchers & catnip would be good too!) Dog Bones - Need durable items for dogs- natural, nylon..

even antlers are good for their teeth! Grooming Supplies: dog/cat brushes shampoo, conditioner, nail clippers.

Cleaning Supplies: bleach, dish soap, garbage bags.We are in need of Foster Families! Fosters are a valuable asset to helping provide young, old, injured and sick,

abused and death row dogs a second chance to live, grow or heal before finding their forever homes. Fostering is a wonderful experience for you and your family, you can feel good knowing you have helped save a dog’s life! If interested

in becoming a Foster, please contact us at [email protected], for more information.

Monetary Donations can be mailed to:Dog Gone Rescue c/o Janel McLain

205 S. Sumner Ave., Creston, IA 50801

To view current pets awaiting adoption from both rescues go towww.crestonanimalrescue.petfinder.com or www.doggonerescue.com

For each item donated,

will donate $1.00 (up to $100) to the shelters.

For each item donated,

$1.00

Our local animal shelters depend on the generosity of the community to sustain them. Our local animal shelters depend on the generosity of the community to sustain them. Our local animal shelters depend on the generosity of the community to sustain them. Our local animal shelters depend on the generosity of the community to sustain them. Our local animal shelters depend on the generosity of the community to sustain them. Our local animal shelters depend on the generosity of the community to sustain them. Our local animal shelters depend on the generosity of the community to sustain them. Our local animal shelters depend on the generosity of the community to sustain them. Our local animal shelters depend on the generosity of the community to sustain them. All donations collected at the Creston News Advertiser will go directly to Creston Animal Rescue Effort All donations collected at the Creston News Advertiser will go directly to Creston Animal Rescue Effort All donations collected at the Creston News Advertiser will go directly to Creston Animal Rescue Effort and Dog Gone Rescue in support of homeless cats and dogs in our community!and Dog Gone Rescue in support of homeless cats and dogs in our community!

304 W. DeVoe, Creston, IA 50801

To view current pets awaiting www.crestonanimalrescue.petfinder.com

Now through December 19th, stop by the Creston News Advertiser, 503 W. Adams, and drop off a donated item for the local animal shelters!

KiwanisChildren’s New or Gently Used

Coat DriveCoats can be donated by dropping

them off in the Kiwanis boxes at the Creston YMCA, The Windrow,Creston News Advertiser or the

Casey’s at 200 South Elm.Donation Deadline is January 1, 2015.

The coats will be distributed through local agency programs.

For more information contact:Victoria Brammer ~ 641-782-2888



Fargo and Thompson. Hun-tington won a 13-4 major decision. The Panthers had eight straight forfeit victories after starting out with a 16-0 lead.

“Nodaway Valley has their best kids at 126 and 132,” Frain said. “I thought our effort was great. Even in the losses, the kids did a lot of really good things. One night after working on some things on top, we had kids doing things we had just practiced. Now we just have to keep getting better.”

Creston/O-M participates in the Dallas Center-Grimes Tournament at 10 a.m. Sat-urday, while the JV travels to the Winterset tourney.

Creston/O-M 57,Interstate 35 21

138 — Wyatt Thompson (C/O-M) pinned Jacob Steinlage (I-35), 1:54; 145 — Joey Huntington (C/O-

M) pinned Austin Beener (I-35); 152 — Cam Leith (C/O-M) pinned Cole Dickenson (I-35), 1:47; 160 — Sal Arzani (I-35) pinned Alex Fargo (C/O-M), 4:27; Tayler Pettit pinned Logan Adair (I-35), 1:41; 182 — Jackson Mikkelsen (C/O-M) pinned Dante Arzani (I-35), 5:58; 195 — Kadon Hulett (C/O-M) pinned Wyatt Jones (I-35), :35.

220 — Seth Maitlen (C/O-M) pinned Garrett Thompson (I-35), 3:33; 285 — Jake Gutschenritter (C/O-M) pinned Delaney Harper (I-35), 1:59; 106 — Lance Thompson (I-35) pinned Kelby Luther (C/O-M), 1:45; 113 — Zac Willey (I-35) pinned dec. Carson Wheat (C/O-M), 11-7; 120 — Trevor Marlin (C/O-M) dec. Brody Nelson (I-35), 9-7; 126 — Brody Frain (C/O-M) pinned Colton Kyle (I-35), 5:09; 132 — Austin Pontier (I-35) pinned Mitchel Swank (C/O-M), 3:19.

Creston/O-M 70,Nodaway Valley 12

145 — Joey Huntington (C/O-M) major dec. Dylan Cornelison (NV), 13-4; 152 — Cam Leith (C/O-M) pinned Billy Bakerink (NV), 2:41; 160 — Alex Fargo (C/O-M) pinned Josh Allsup (NV), 1:17; 170 — Tayler Pettit (C/O-M) won by forfeit; 182 — Jackson Mikkelsen (C/O-M) won by forfeit; 195 — Kadon Hulett (C/O-M) won by forfeit; 220 — Seth Maitlen

(C/O-M) won by forfeit.285 — Jake Gutschenritter

(C/O-M) won by forfeit; 106 — Kelby Luther (C/O-M) won by for-feit; 113 — Carson Wheat (C/O-M) won by forfeit; 120 — Garrett Dahl (C/O-M) won by forfeit; 126 — Ben Freese (NV) pinned Brody Frain (C/O-M), :42; 132 — JD Lyman (NV) pinned Mitchel Swank (C/O-M), 1:50; 128 — Wyatt Thompson (C/O-M) pinned Jared Corder (NV), 1:20.

Winterset 70,Nodaway Valley 12

138 — Jacob Jenkins (W) pinned Jared Corder (NV), :50; 145 — Justin Smith (W) pinned Dylan Cornelison (NV), 5:57; 152 — Mitchell Holcomb (W) major dec. Billy Bakerink (NV), 12-1; 160 — Brandon Ryerson (W) pinned Josh Allsup (NV), 1:55; 170 — Caleb Grose (W) won by forfeit; 182 — Charles Woodcock (W) won by forfeit; 195 — Nick Tank (W) won by forfeit.

220 — Parker Maynes (W) won by forfeit; 285 — CJ Baker (W) won by forfeit; 106 — Logan Allen (W) won by forfeit; 113 — Britton Gibson (W) won by forfeit; 120 — Derek Koster (W) won by forfeit; 126 — Ben Freese (NV) pinned JD Gordon (W), 3:28; 132 — JD Lyman (NV) pinned Tegan Smith (W), :43.

Winterset 49, Interstate 35 25

WRESTLING:

CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONNodaway Valley 126-pounder Ben Freese locks up a pin against JD Gordon of Winterset in Tuesday’s double dual in Greenfield. Freese also won by fall against Creston/O-M’s Brody Frain.

Predicament wrestling ratingsPREDICAMENT

WRESTLING RANKINGSCLASS 2A TEAM

1. Mediapolis; 2. Union (LaPorte City); 2. Davenport Assumption; 4. Clear Lake; 5. Central Lyon; 6. Osage; 7. Albia; 8. Independence; 9. Dubuque Wahlert; 10. Crestwood (Cresco).

INDIVIDUALS106— 1. Josh Keller, jr.,

Columbus Junction; 2. Noah Fye, fr., New Hampton; 3. Rhyker Sims, fr., Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 4. Gable Sieperda, fr., Central Lyon; 5. Dante Tacchia, so., Iowa Falls; 6. Wil Beach, sr., Harlan; 7. Andrew Busch, sr., Denver-Tripoli; 8. Levi Sawyer, sr., Humboldt; 9. Michael Millage, fr., Crestwood (Cresco); 10. Shea Ruffridge, fr., Pocahontas Area.

113— 1. Tristan Birt, jr., Dubuque Wahlert; 2. Connor Cleveland, jr., New Hampton; 3. Brennan Doebel, sr., Clear Lake; 4. Jared Hensley, so., Bedford-Lenox; 5. Derek Holschlag, so., Union (LaPorte City); 6. Deivn Phaly, sr., Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 7. Travis Pulse, sr., Davenport Assumption; 8. Cody Huckfelt, sr., Spencer; 9. Nick Meling, so., East Marshall; 10. Carter Cox, so., Atlantic.

120— 1. Brock Rathbun, jr., Center Point-Urbana; 2.

Brayden Curry, so., Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 3. Brandon Mayer, sr., Crestwood (Cresco); 4. Ryan Schmalen, sr., Clear Lake; 5. Jacob Fenske, jr., Davenport Assumption; 6. Kyle Anderson, so., Washington; 7. Nate Lasher, so., Charles City; 8. Logan Johnson, jr., Aplington-Parkersburg; 9. Dalton Husmann, jr., Monticello; 10. Kade VanKirk, jr., Perry.

126— 1. Ryan Leisure, so., Clear Lake; 2. Johnny Etherington, sr., Charles City; 3. Shea Swafford, jr., Mediapolis; 4. Louis Gnida, sr., Solon; 5. Parker Witthuhn, sr., Roland-Story; 6. Brice Everson, jr., Camanche; 7. Tristan Clark, sr., PCM (Monroe); 8. Kirk Mommsen, jr., Davenport Assumption; 9. Treyton Virtue, jr., Central Lyon; 10. Gisaveri Niyibizi, jr., Perry.

132— 1. Brock Jennings, so., Osage; 2. Stuart Shaefer, jr., Davenport Assumption; 3. Chase Lienhard, jr., Crestwood (Cresco); 4. Connor Ascheryl, so., MOC-Floyd Valley; 5. Max Forsyth, jr., Charles City; 6. Dusten Reed, sr., Bedford-Lenox; 7. Nathan Macki, sr., Ballard (Huxley); 8. Mitch Van Beek, so., Central Lyon; 9. Cody McNeil, jr., Mediapolis; 10. Dylan Beaver, sr,. Benton (Van Horne).

138— 1. Brady Jennings, sr., Osage; 2. Colby McINtire, sr., Central Lyon; 3. Mason Buster, jr., Mediapolis; 4. Trevor Harsh, sr., ADM (Adel); 5. Bradley Irwin, sr., Centerville; 6. Jordan Challen, sr., Greene County; 7. Austin Moen, sr., Saydel; 8. Nick Hyland, jr., Vinton-Shellsburg; 9. Trey Pecinovsky, so., Crestwood (Cresco); 10. Colton Dietrich, sr,. Union (LaPorte City).

145— 1. Max Thomsen, sr., Union (LaPorte City); 2. Bryce Leshen, jr., Albia; 3. Caleb Coleman, sr., Bondurant-Farrar; 4. Grant Sherman, sr., Saydel; 5. Ryan Faught, jr., Clear Lake; 6. Tommy Bradshaw, jr., Greene County; 7. Garrett Jay, sr., Grinnell; 8. Thatcher Goodale, sr., Osage; 9. Jake Niichel, sr., Charles City; 10. Wyatt Rhoads, sr., Gilbert.

152— 1. Chase Straw, sr., Independence; 2. Cole Erickson, sr., Mediapolis; 3. Tristen Finch, sr., Davenport Assumption;

4. Micahel Neal, sr., Vinton-Shellsburg; 5. Hunter Morrow, sr., Cherokee; 6. Tyler Thomas, sr., Crestwood (Cresco); 7. Zach Bruns, sr., North Fayette; 8. Blake Lawless, jr., Albia; 9. Shane Poppins, sr., Aplington-Parkersburg; 10. Luke Strong, sr., Clarinda.

160— 1. Zach Johnsotn, jr., ADM (Adel); 2. Trevor McLaughlin, sr., Union (LaPorrte City); 3. Blake Pruisner, sr,. Aplingotn-Parkersburg; 4. Brad Conley, sr., Mediapolis; 5. Andrew Turner, sr., Dubuque Wahlert; 6. Josh Strohman, jr, Algona; 7. Colton Ranney, sr., Central Decatur; 8. Jake Juhl, jr., Independence; 9. Alec Fjelstul, sr., Decorah; 10. Trevor Nelson, so., Solon.

170— 1. JAcob Holschlag, sr., Union (LaPorte City); 2. Beau Sorenson, sr., Forest City; 3. Nick Baumler, jr., North Fayette; 4. Luke Erickson, jr., Mediapolis; 5. Mitchell Sandbulte, sr., Sioux Center; 6.

JJ Clark, jr., Clarinda; 7. Tucker Morrison, so., Columbus Junction; 8. Vic Malloy, jr., Williamsburg; 9. Damon Piatt, sr., Carlisle; 10. Nick HOlt, jr., Independence.

182— 1. Brent Lammers, sr., West Delaware; 2. Gabriel Rangel, sr., Davenport Assumption; 3. Joe Teague, sr., Algona; 4. Riley Hasken, sr., Dubqueu Wahlert; 5. Julio Sanchez, sr., Grinnell; 6. Izzak Shedenhelm, jr., Denver-Tripoli; 7. Ethan Timmerman, jr., Mediapolis; 8. Zach De Jager, sr,. Western Christian (Hull); 9. Adam Mickelson, sr., Humboldt; 10. Trenton Wells, sr., Central Decatur.

195— 1. Steven Holloway, sr., Mediapolis; 2. Brad Skubal, sr., Washington; 3. Zach Lalmphere, sr., Oelwein; 4. Matt McMillan, jr., Independence; 5. Seth Maitlen, jr., Creston; 6. Darin Greenfield, sr., Sheldon; 7. Jace Hadacheck, sr., Union (LaPorte City); 8. Chase Hager,

sr., Davenport Assumption; 9. Christian Lauritesen, sr., Clarinda; 10. Dylan Meister, sr., Denver-Tripoli.

220— 1. Carter Isley, jr., Albia; 2. Kendrick Suntken, sr., Hampton-Dumont; 3. Travis VanderStreek, sr., Central Lyon; 4. Tyler Johansen, sr., North Fayette; 5. Chase Bonner, sr., Estherville; 6. Anthony Clayton, sr., Grinnell; 7. Alex Paulson, jr., Forest City; 8. Kadon Hulett, so., Creston; 9. Logan Hopp, so., New Hampton; 10. Leiv Duwa, so., Mid-Prairie (Wellman).

Hwt— 1. Mario Pena, sr., Hampton-Dumont; 2. Brady Heusinvelt, sr., Denver-Tripoli; 3. Dylan Van-Dusen, sr., West Liberty; 4. Logan Linderbaum, sr., Solon; 5. Alex Silberstein, sr., Ballard (Huxley); 6. Nathan Heath, jr., ADM (Adel); 7. Kyle Davis, sr., Columbus Junction;

Please seeRATINGS, page 12A

Form F-66 (IA-2)(6-11-2014)

STATE OF IOWA

2014FINANCIAL REPORT 16208800600000

FISCAL YEAR ENDEDJUNE 30, 2014

LorimorCITY OF Lorimor , IOWA

DUE: December 1, 2014 (Please correct any error in name, address, and ZIP Code)

WHEN Mary Mosiman, CPACOMPLETED, Auditor of State NOTE - The information supplied in this report will be shared by the Iowa State

PLEASE State Capitol Building Auditor's Office, the U.S. Census Bureau, various public interest groups, and State

RETURN TO Des Moines, IA 50319-0004 and federal agencies.

ALL FUNDS

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Less: Uncollected property taxes-levy year

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TIF revenues

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Charges for fees and service 391,679

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Total revenues and other sources 391,679

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Health and social services 0

Culture and recreation 0

Community and economic development 0

General government 0

Debt service 0

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Total governmental activities expenditures

Business type activities 372,600

Total ALL expenditures 372,600

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Beginning fund balance July 1, 2013 260,829

Ending fund balance June 30, 2014 279,908

Note - These balances do not include $ held in non-budgeted internal service funds; $ 0

held in Pension Trust Funds; $ held in Private Purpose Trust funds and $held in agency funds which were not budgeted and are not available for city operations.

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Prescott Community School DistrictBoard of Directors - November 19, 2014

Public Meeting followed by RegularBoard Meeting

Public meeting was well attendedstarting at 6:00PM. Information wasshared on possible consolidation. TheBoard listened to input from several at-tendees. Data is shared on school web-site http://www.prescottschool.org

The Board of Directors of thePrescott Community School Districtmet on Wednesday, November 19,2014 in the Board Room at 7:38 PM.President Cooper presided and the fol-lowing answered roll call: Birt, Clineand Gee.

Administrators present were: Super-intendent Steve McDermott, BusinessManager Billie Jo Greene and LeadTeacher Terri Kretzinger.

Gee moved and Cline seconded ap-proval of the agenda. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Visitor's were welcomed ByronBrown shared history with the board onprior board decisions.

Cline moved and Gee seconded thatthe minutes of the October 15, 2014regular meeting and November 5, 2014joint board meeting as amended, Finan-cial Report and bills are approved aspresented. Roll Call Vote-Motion car-ried 4-0

Gee moved and Birt seconded ap-prove the request to the SBRC for addi-tional allowable growth for increasingenrollment of $30,089 and Open En-rollment Out $2,448. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Cline moved and Gee seconded ap-prove the Consolidation Petition be-tween Prescott Community School Dis-trict and Creston Community SchoolDistrict. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried4-0

Gee moved and Birt seconded ap-prove Mick Gray to full-fill Mike Graysnow removal contract. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Birt moved and Gee seconded ap-prove to Whole Grade Share in 2015-16 with Creston Community SchoolDistrict if the Reorganization votespasses in April 2015. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Superintendent Steve McDermott re-port: Boiler repair, snow removal andsub bus drivers were discussed.

Lead Teacher Terri Kretzinger: Stoolrepair, MAP testing.

School Business Official Billie JoGreene: Shared Open Enrollment In(14) and Out (49)

Gee moved and Cline seconded ac-cept the resignation from ShardaySwartz Preschool Paraprofessional.Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Gee moved and Birt seconded thatthe meeting adjourn. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Next Regular Board Meeting will be,Wednesday December 17 at 6:30 PM inthe Board Room. Public Forum prior toregular board meeting at 6:00 PM.

Meeting adjourned at 8:39 PMChecking GENERAL FUNDACCESS SYSTEMSCOPIER.................................. $875.00 ALLIANT UTILITIESELECTRICITY..................... $1,025.62AMERICAN FIRE PROTECTIONINSPECTIONS........................ $130.00BRET BATESLAWN CARE.......................... $900.00Capital City Boiler & MachineBOILDER CHEMICAL TEST KIT............................................. $96.75CAPITAL SANITARY SUPPLYBOILER SUPPLIES................ $123.43CHRISTENSEN SANITATIONSANITATION........................... $85.00Creston Chiropractic, PCBUS PHYSICAL....................... $75.00CRESTON COMM SCHOOLSCONCURRENT & OPEN ENROLLMENT................. $15,537.19 CRESTON PUBLISHING COMINUTES/AD........................... $59.32DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONBUS INSPECTION.................. $200.00GADBERRYS TRUE VALUE HARDWARECUSTODIAL SUPPLIES.......... $25.77GREEN HILLS AEAASBESTOS TRAINING........... $60.00GREEN VALLEY PEST & LAWNCAREPEST CONTROL.................... $252.50HY-VEE INC.WRAP AROUND........................ $2.86ICNPHONE SERVICE................... $112.68IOWA DIVISION OF LABOR SERVICESBOILER INSPECTION............. $40.00LENOX COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICOE TUITION/HSAP........... $16,346.65NAPA-CRESTONPARTS..................................... $349.03NEWTON OVERHEAD DOORSBUS GARAGE DOORS.......... $145.00RJ'S PLUMBING & HEATING INCLABOR...................................... $65.00SCHOLASTICSUBSCRIPTIONS................... $652.49SIRWAWATER................................... $173.83SOUTHWEST VALLEY CSDOE TUITION...................... $42,847.00SWCCDRIVER TRAINING................. $50.00WALMART COMMUNITY BRCSUPPLIES................................ $300.16WINDSTREAMTELEPHONE........................... $939.93............................................$81,470.21 Checking NUTRITIONANDERSON ERICKSON DAIRYMILK....................................... $634.18MARTIN BROS DISTRIBUTING CFOOD.................................... $1,907.80...............................................$2,541.98

Prescott Community School DistrictBoard of Directors - November 19, 2014

Public Meeting followed by RegularBoard Meeting

Public meeting was well attendedstarting at 6:00PM. Information wasshared on possible consolidation. TheBoard listened to input from several at-tendees. Data is shared on school web-site http://www.prescottschool.org

The Board of Directors of thePrescott Community School Districtmet on Wednesday, November 19,2014 in the Board Room at 7:38 PM.President Cooper presided and the fol-lowing answered roll call: Birt, Clineand Gee.

Administrators present were: Super-intendent Steve McDermott, BusinessManager Billie Jo Greene and LeadTeacher Terri Kretzinger.

Gee moved and Cline seconded ap-proval of the agenda. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Visitor's were welcomed ByronBrown shared history with the board onprior board decisions.

Cline moved and Gee seconded thatthe minutes of the October 15, 2014regular meeting and November 5, 2014joint board meeting as amended, Finan-cial Report and bills are approved aspresented. Roll Call Vote-Motion car-ried 4-0

Gee moved and Birt seconded ap-prove the request to the SBRC for addi-tional allowable growth for increasingenrollment of $30,089 and Open En-rollment Out $2,448. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Cline moved and Gee seconded ap-prove the Consolidation Petition be-tween Prescott Community School Dis-trict and Creston Community SchoolDistrict. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried4-0

Gee moved and Birt seconded ap-prove Mick Gray to full-fill Mike Graysnow removal contract. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Birt moved and Gee seconded ap-prove to Whole Grade Share in 2015-16 with Creston Community SchoolDistrict if the Reorganization votespasses in April 2015. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Superintendent Steve McDermott re-port: Boiler repair, snow removal andsub bus drivers were discussed.

Lead Teacher Terri Kretzinger: Stoolrepair, MAP testing.

School Business Official Billie JoGreene: Shared Open Enrollment In(14) and Out (49)

Gee moved and Cline seconded ac-cept the resignation from ShardaySwartz Preschool Paraprofessional.Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Gee moved and Birt seconded thatthe meeting adjourn. Roll Call Vote-Motion carried 4-0

Next Regular Board Meeting will be,Wednesday December 17 at 6:30 PM inthe Board Room. Public Forum prior toregular board meeting at 6:00 PM.

Meeting adjourned at 8:39 PMChecking GENERAL FUNDACCESS SYSTEMSCOPIER.................................. $875.00 ALLIANT UTILITIESELECTRICITY..................... $1,025.62AMERICAN FIRE PROTECTIONINSPECTIONS........................ $130.00BRET BATESLAWN CARE.......................... $900.00Capital City Boiler & MachineBOILDER CHEMICAL TEST KIT............................................. $96.75CAPITAL SANITARY SUPPLYBOILER SUPPLIES................ $123.43CHRISTENSEN SANITATIONSANITATION........................... $85.00Creston Chiropractic, PCBUS PHYSICAL....................... $75.00CRESTON COMM SCHOOLSCONCURRENT & OPEN ENROLLMENT................. $15,537.19 CRESTON PUBLISHING COMINUTES/AD........................... $59.32DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONBUS INSPECTION.................. $200.00GADBERRYS TRUE VALUE HARDWARECUSTODIAL SUPPLIES.......... $25.77GREEN HILLS AEAASBESTOS TRAINING........... $60.00GREEN VALLEY PEST & LAWNCAREPEST CONTROL.................... $252.50HY-VEE INC.WRAP AROUND........................ $2.86ICNPHONE SERVICE................... $112.68IOWA DIVISION OF LABOR SERVICESBOILER INSPECTION............. $40.00LENOX COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICOE TUITION/HSAP........... $16,346.65NAPA-CRESTONPARTS..................................... $349.03NEWTON OVERHEAD DOORSBUS GARAGE DOORS.......... $145.00RJ'S PLUMBING & HEATING INCLABOR...................................... $65.00SCHOLASTICSUBSCRIPTIONS................... $652.49SIRWAWATER................................... $173.83SOUTHWEST VALLEY CSDOE TUITION...................... $42,847.00SWCCDRIVER TRAINING................. $50.00WALMART COMMUNITY BRCSUPPLIES................................ $300.16WINDSTREAMTELEPHONE........................... $939.93............................................$81,470.21 Checking NUTRITIONANDERSON ERICKSON DAIRYMILK....................................... $634.18MARTIN BROS DISTRIBUTING CFOOD.................................... $1,907.80...............................................$2,541.98

The Board of Trustees of the South-ern Iowa Trolley met in regular sessionon November 20, 2014. The meetingwas called to order at 1:00 p.m. byChair Myron Manley with the follow-ing members present: Linda England,Gary Boswell, Jerry Murphy. Alsopresent: Leesa Lester, Transit Director.

Approval of the Agenda: Motion byBoswell; Second: England. Motion car-ried.

Approval of the Minutes: Motion toapprove the minutes of the October 16meeting. Motion by Murphy; Second:Boswell. Motion carried.

Ridership and financial reports: Theridership report and financial statementwere discussed. Motion to approve theridership and financial reports as pre-sented. Motion by England; SecondMurphy. Motion carried.

Disbursements - September invoices:Motion to approve payment of currentinvoices. Motion by Murphy; SecondEngland. Motion carried.

Banking Resolution - ISSB andGreat Western - Update: Leesa Lesteraddition as a signatory on both ISSBand Great Western checking accountscomplete.

Mini Van and Bus Update FromHoglund Bus Representative: BraunVan should be done mid-December andthe Glaval Bus beginning of February.

Chariton Valley Grants - DOT:Kristin Haar/DOT - Still waiting onDOT for combined grant money fromChariton Valley. This was approved byChariton Valley board in September2014.

Employee Update / Part-TimeDrivers / Annual Leave ChangeAmendment / Reimbursement ofMeal Expenses Amendment: Hiredone each part-time driver for Adair,Clarke, Decatur, Lamoni, and UnionCounties. All are undergoing trainingwith an expected training completiondate of December 1st. With the additionof the new part-time driver's we are ex-pecting to see a reduction in currentpart-time and full-time over time hours./ Annual leave proposed change to ac-crual amounts from 240 max to 120 ef-fective July 1, 2015. Amendment ap-proved: England; Second by Boswell /Adjustments to hours for allowable re-imbursements when traveling. Amend-ment approved by: Boswell; Second byEngland.

Adjournment at 1:45. - Next meet-ing: December 18th. Motion by Eng-land; Second by Boswell. Motion car-ried.

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Murray 35,Lamoni 28

LAMONI — Trail-ing by seven points at the half, Murray used a 17-4 third-quarter advantage to post a 35-28 win over host Lamoni here Tuesday.

“Coach (Jerry) Brown used to say it might not be pretty, but a win is a win,” Murray head coach Jerry Shields said. “Boy was he

right about that tonight. We never really got going until about halfway through the third quarter. Zadie Hat-field (freshman) started her first game tonight and had some pretty good numbers, i n c l u d -ing only three turn-overs.”

Hatfield p u l l e d down six rebounds and fin-

ished with seven steals to go with four points. Dee-na Snyder led the Lady Mustangs in scoring with 13 points, in addition to seven rebounds. Madi-son Gonseth grabbed a team-high nine boards and scored four points.

McKenzie McIntosh added four points, while Shelby Myers and Chellsea Jones each scored three points. Brandi Gilbert added two points with two assists.

Daryn Nowlin scored 13 points to lead Lamoni.

“We still have to do a better job of shooting the basketball,” Shields said. “All you have to do is put the little brown ball through the orange ring, but sometimes that is eas-ier said than done.”

The win improved Mur-ray to 1-1 for the season. The Lady Mustangs return to action Friday at Diago-nal.

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five rebounds.“We were competing well

against a more experienced team for two quarters,” said Creston coach Larry Peter-son. “We just had too many turnovers to get going again in the second half, and we need to work on helping each other more on defense. We learned a lot in our first game against a team playing its third game.”

Chasity Clayton scored two points for Creston in a 16-2 loss in the extra B quar-ter.

Creston (14) — Heylee Shields 7, Kylee LaMasters 4, Kara Kinsella 2, Haley Wilson 1. Rebounds — LaMasters 5, Kinsella 3. Steals — Shields 5, Sydney Hartsock 3, Lexi Rounds 1, LaMasters 1.

Nodaway Valley (43) — Alyssa

Davis 14, Clarissa Smith 12, McKynna Newbury 7, MyKynli Newbury 4, Naomi Daugherty 4, Kynna Young 2.

Creston B (2) — Chasity Clayton 2. Rebounds — Brittany Linch 1, Abbi Hood 1. Steals — Linch 1, Clayton 1.

Nodaway Valley B (16).

8th grade boysRED OAK — Kylan

Smallwood scored 38 points as the Creston eighth-grad-ers defeated Red Oak 48-32 Monday.

“I was really impressed on how our kids were ready to play for their first game,” coach Scott Wagner said. “Bryce Fitzgerald and Ken-dall Crawford started the game strong for us and we led 14-4 after the first quar-ter, and 24-11 at half. Kylan Smallwood scored 24 points in the second half to help us

pull away. I was pleased at how well we were able to work together.”

Creston won the B game 17-14 in overtime.

“Zac Hague scored five points in overtime, including a critical 3-pointer to help lead our B team to victory,” Wagner said. “It was a close game throughout and I am extremely proud of how our players overcame adversity to come out with the win.”

Creston (48) — Kylan Smallwood 38, Bryce Fitzgerald 8, Kendall Crawford 2.

Red Oak (32).Creston B (17) — Zac Hague 7,

Sheldon Jones 4, Mark Waigand 3, Elyice Stow 2, Christian Gist 1.

Red Oak B (14).

7th grade boysRED OAK — Creston

eighth-grade boys defeated Red Oak 36-11 Monday.

Camden Peterson scored 11 points.

“Pretty good effort for our first game,” coach Mike McCabe said. “We certain-ly have plenty to work on offensively and defensively, but the kids played hard and with good energy.”

Red Oak won the B game 9-8. Terry Hudgens scored four points.

“I’m proud of these kids as they played the same sev-en kids that played the “A” game, and they more than held their own,” McCabe said.

Creston (36) — Eli Loudon 14, Camden Petersen 11, Luke Latham 4, Austin Bloyd 4, Seth Christiansen 2, Jared Moreland 1.

Red Oak (11).Creston B (8) — Terry Hudgens

4, Andy Mills 2, Spencer Lane 2.Red Oak B (9).

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8. Gavin Dinsdale, jr., Webster City; 9. Nolan Geerdes, jr., Central Lyon; 10. Austin Larkin, so., Independence.

CLASS 1-A TEAM1. Alburnett; 2. Woodbury

Central; 3. Southeast Warren; 4. Clarion-Goldfield; 5. Eddyville-Blakesburg- Fremont; 6. Lisbon; 7. Wilton; 8. West Marshall; 9. Sumner-Fredericksburg; 10. Underwood.

INDIVIDUALS106— 1. Justin Portillo, jr.,

Clarion-Goldfield; 2. Brock Henderson, so., North Linn; 3. Brady Kyner, so., Southeast Warren; 4. Cooper Siebrecht, fr., Alta- Aurelia; 5. Tatem Bluml, jr., Oakland (Riverside); 6. Will Portis, so., Rockford; 7. Donny Schmit, fr., Wapsie Valley; 8. Gable Fox, fr., Don Bosco (Gilbertville); 9. Wyatt Crocker, fr., Logan-Magnolia; 10. Kurtis Krager, fr., OA-BCIG (Ida Grove).

113— 1. Drew West, so., Highland (Riverside); 2. Alex Thomsen, fr., Underwood; 3. Jeremiah Colon, jr., Mason City Newman; 4. Ben Moyer, so., Alburnett; 5. Kody Berg, so., Westwood (Sloan); 6. Ross Randall, so., West Marshall; 7. Eric Lenz, sr., Tipton; 8. Coleman Water, sr., Central Springs; 9. Jeremy Schmitz, so., Don Bosco (Gilbertville); 10. Gannon Cook, so., East Buchanan.

120— 1. Josh Portillo, jr., Clarion-Goldfield; 2. Bryce West, so., Highland (Riverside); 3. Briar Cochran, jr., Moravia; 4. Zach Ulven, sr., Westwood (Sloan); 5. Skylar Solko, so., Alta-Aurelia; 6. Craig Rice, sr., Southwest Iowa; 7. Blake Ealy, sr., English Valleys; 8. Shane Funk, sr., Woodbury Central; 9. Chase McLaughlin, so., Lisbon; 10. Kody Kugel, jr., Dike-New

Hartford.126— 1. Nick Williams, jr.,

Lisbon; 2. Lane Nichols, sr., Woodbury Central; 3. Christian Polley, sr., Tri-Center (Neola); 4. Jacob Hansen, so., West Fork (Sheffield); 5. Jacob Krakow, so., Iowa Valley; 6. Ryan Szalat, sr., Fort Dodge St. Edmond; 7. Tanner Greenwald, jr., Wilton; 8. Jake Wulf, jr., OA-BCIG (Ida Grove); 9. Sheldon Ealy, sr., English Valleys; 10. Cole Needham, sr., West Marshall.

132— 1. Carter Happel, jr., Lisbon; 2. Joel Haberman, sr., Clarion-Goldfield; 3. Logan Mays, sr., Wilton; 4. Trent Johnson, so., Dike-New Hartford; 5. Nick Mangrich, jr., Don Bosco (Gilbertville); 6. Dalton Nelson, so., North Butler; 7. Cody Brown, sr., Eddvyille-Blakesburg-Fremont; 8. Austin Pontier, jr., Interstate 35 (Truro); 9. Dylan Schuck, so., Sibley-Ocheyedan; 10. Cooper White, so., West Marshall.

138— 1. Jeren Glosser, sr., Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont; 2. Hunter Washburn, sr., Alburnett; 3. JD Rader, sr., South Hamilton; 4. Jake Hunnerdose, sr., Southeast Warren; 5. Brad Kerkhoff, sr., Audubon; 6. Zach Keppy, sr., Wilton; 7. Cole Fox, sr., Don Bosco (Gilbertville); 8. Jacob Vogel, sr., Oakland (Riverside); 9. Drake Healey, sr., Iowa Valley; 10. Caleb Simacek, so., Manson-Northwest Webster.

145— 1. Blake Marolf, sr., Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont; 2. Conner Shulista, jr., Alburnett; 3. Blake Meyer, sr., Sumner-Fredericksburg; 4. Zach Axmear, so., English Valleys; 5. Luke Klingensmith, sr., Woodbury Central; 6. Jake Mulford, jr., Audubon; 7. Coleby Bratrud, sr., Northwood Kensett; 8. Chris Paulsen, jr., Don Bosco (Gilbertville); 9. Brady Charbonneau, sr., Logan-Magnolia; 10. Garrett Saylor,

so., Sibley-Ocheyedan.152— 1. Bryce Paul, jr.,

Alburnett; 2. Sawyer Amling, sr., Edgewood Colesburg; 3. Alex Mitchell, sr., Southeast Warren; 4. Trevor Smith, sr., Audubon; 5. Noah Bouse, jr., Okoboji; 6. Dakota Drenth, sr., HMS (Hartley); 7. Josh Hopkins, jr., East Mills; 8. Logan Peed, sr., South Central Calhoun; 9. Lane Boender, jr., Sigourney-Keota; 10. Brady Schmidt, sr., Lake Mills.

160— 1. Cody Klingery, sr., Underwood; 2. Kegen Fingalsen, sr., Central Springs; 3. Caleb Wedeking, sr., North Butler; 4. Jacob Hoch, sr., Southeast Warren; 5. Noah Huber, jr, Hudson; 6. Bryce Oveson, so., Wilton; 7. Jared Johnson, jr., West Marshall; 8. Avery Nelson, sr., West Monona (Onawa); 9. Sal Arzani, jr., Interstate 35 (Truro); 10. Trent Kruger, so., Sibley-Ocheyedan.

170— 1. Dale Hilleman, sr., West Marshall; 2. Ryan Hageman, sr., South Winneshiek; 3. Gable Verschoor, sr., Woodbury Central; 4. Austin Lentz, jr., Ogden; 5. Trevor Pagel, sr., Sumner-Fredericksburg; 6. Riley Wohlers, jr., Logan-Magnolia; 7. Jordan Woodward, sr., Lisbon; 8. Daniel Bishop, so., Hinton; 9. Jeff King, sr., South Central Calhoun; 10. Mitch Chapman, sr., Tipton.

182— 1. Evan Hansen, sr., EHK-Exira; 2. Derek Kohlmeyer, sr., Sumner-Fredericksburg; 3. Austin Laabs, sr., Guthrie Center; 4. Jordan Challis, jr., Tipton; 5. Landers Kuboushek, jr., South Winneshiek; 6. Ryan Evne, jr.,

Jesup; 7. Adam Poduska, sr., North Cedar; 8. Zayne Barrett, sr., South Central Calhoun; 9. Nick Ross, jr., Ogden; 10. Slade Sifuentes, so., Lake Mills.

195— 1. Cash Wilcke, sr., OA-BCIG (Ida Grove); 2. Rylan Richardson, jr., South Central Calhoun; 3. Ty Schneider, sr., Southeast Warren; 4. Tyler Larson, sr., Nashua-Plainfield; 5. Hunter Johnston, sr, Eddyville- Blakesburg-Fremont; 6. Andrew Olsen, sr., Lake Mills; 7. Clayton Juhl, sr., North Cedar; 8. Brennen Grimm, sr., English Valleys; 9. Wilson Solorzano, sr., Panorama (Panora); 10. Zach Hickson,sr., Don Bosco (Gilbertville).

220— 1. Ryan Parmely, sr., Maquoketa Valley; 2. Clay Meinders, sr., AGWSR (Ackley); 3. Cale Crowder, sr., Guthrie Center; 4. Logan Reddick, sr., Wilton; 5. Tate Vandyne, sr., Southeast Warren; 6. Andrew Peterson, sr., Woodbury Central; 7. Robbie Carrothers, sr., Alburnett; 8. Matt Naig, so., Sibley-Ocheyedan; 9. Jared Brinkman, so., Iowa City Regina; 10. Colton Hansen, jr., Mason City Newman.

Hwt— 1. Landan Paulsen, sr. ,Woodbury Central; 2. Joe Ricker, sr., Mount Ayr; 3. Cody Thompson, sr., Graettinger Terril; 4. Skyler Popham, sr. Clarksville; 5. Tim Butcher, jr., Mason Northwest-Webster; 6. Avery Jacobs, sr., New London; 7. Bryce Brown, sr., Sigourney-Keota; 8. Luke Worden, jr., Belmond-Klemme; 9. Kyler Schott, so., North Linn; 10. Cole Jensen, jr., MVAO.

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CHS Inc., a Fortune 100 Company, has exciting career opportunities at our soybean facility in Creston, IA!

Connections Area Agency on Aging has an immediate opportunity for an Options Counselor/Elder Rights Specialist at

our Creston location. BS preferred but will consider experience equivalent. Must enjoy working with people, have reliable vehicle, have current driver’s license and insurance

and be willing to travel. If interested, submit resume with cover letter to

[email protected]

Homestead Assisted Living and Memory Care is now hiring for

Part-time Day Shift CookDietary Manager

Full-time Evening Shift Cook

Candidates must enjoy working with older adults in a team environment. Flexible hours with competitive

salary and benefit package available.

Please apply online at www.midwest-health.com/careers

For any questions please contact Gloria Rink at 641-782-3131 or [email protected]

Homestead is a drug free workplace and an equal opportunity employer.

1709 W. Prairie St., Creston, IA

JOIN OUR TEAM!

CDL DriverIowa Select Farms has positions open for CDL Drivers responsible for transporting commercial hogs to market facilities. This candidate will be responsible for operating a semi-truck and trailer and following all safety, biosecurity and record keeping protocols. This position requires a Class A CDL with a clean driving record. Five days a week, home every day. $1,200 SIGN ON BONUS!

Manager-In-TrainingThis is a full-time management trainee position available for individuals with swine experience. The Manager-In-Training program is a 16 month program that offers trainees the opportunity to gain experience in all phases of production and ultimately be placed as a sow, nursery or finishing manager within the Iowa Select Farms system.

Nursery TechnicianAs a Nursery Technician, you will work as a team in the process of caring for newly weaned piglets to assure optimum productivity throughout the nursery phase. The candidate will monitor and evaluate the overall health of pigs and help with light facility repair and maintenance as needed.

Sow TechnicianSow Technicians work as a team to provide daily care of sows and piglets at the worksite. This job will provide hands-on experience in many of the following areas: animal movements, breeding and gestation, farrowing, record keeping and farm maintenance. Starting salary of $28,000 and increases to $31,000 after just one year!

Iowa Select Farms has the following full-time, local job openings.

Iowa Select Farms is an equal opportunity employer.

COMPETITIVE SALARY AND EXCELLENT BENEFITS! Apply online at apply.iowaselect.com, call Human Resources at 641-316-3251,

or stop by 101 North Douglas in Afton to complete an application.

Clearfield Manor Apartments

407 4th StreetClearfield, Iowa 50840

Now taking applications for 1 & 2 bedroom unitsProperty offers housing for Elderly

(62 yrs. or older), handicap/disabled, regardless of age.

Rental assistance available for qualified applicants

Call 712-328-2222, ext. 13TDD 1-800-IA Relay

“This institution is an equal Opportunity provider

& employer”

INDUSTRIAL NURSE (LPN/PM/PTA)Osceola Foods, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of a Fortune 500 Company is looking for a full time LPN/PM/PTA for our

second shift (Monday-Friday). Applicants must have current state license or certification as a Licensed Practical Nurse, Paramedic or Physical Therapist Assistant. Successful candidates will work in our modern food processing facility located in Osceola, Iowa, and enjoy competitive wages along with a comprehensive benefit

package. Osceola Foods’ benefit package includes medical, prescription drug, dental and vision plans. Additional benefits include a 401k with company match, vacation, life insurance,

and quarterly Pay for Performance Bonuses. This individual must have a valid driver’s license and excellent communication skills.

Wages based on experience & education. The Industrial Nurse is given regular performance and salary reviews.

Please stop by your nearest Workforce Development Center to fill out an application along with a summary of qualifications and work experience. Applications can also be picked up at

Osceola Foods and mailed back to: Jared Lee, 1027 Warren Ave. Osceola, IA. 50213.

Applications will be accepted from November 24, 2014 thru December 5, 2014

Osceola Foods, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

JOIN US AS A

Iowa Focus is seeking trustworthy, honest

individuals for full time employment as a

SITE MANAGER

Shifts include afternoon and evening hours. Job duties include assisting

disabled individuals in their home and community. Experience working with people with disabilities preferred, HS Diploma/GED and Drivers License

is required. Starting wage for the Site Manager is $10.75, Training included!

Interested applicants may apply in person at

Iowa Focus, 105 W. Adams Ste A,

Creston IA 50801EOE

300 W. Hutchings St., Winterset, Iowa 50273MCHCS is an equal opportunity employer

Full Time - 36 hours per weekApply online at www.madisonhealth.com

Join our Health Care Team

Apply online at www.madisonhealth.com

300 W. Hutchings St., Winterset, Iowa 50273MCHCS is an equal opportunity employer

Supervises daily operations of the med/surg unit and emergency room. Assumes accountability for ensuring the delivery of safe, high quality, cost effective services consistent with the needs of the Hospital within budgetary guidelines. Reviews all admissions for appropriateness of the medical setting, medical necessity of extended stays, and medical necessity of professional services. Maintains awareness of applicable laws and/or regulations affecting areas of responsibility, and assures compliance. Promotes a positive, professional image both internally and externally. Maintains a healthy working relationship with local ambulance service. Takes an active role in community education/public relations. Current RN license to practice nursing in the State of Iowa and certification in advance cardiac life support and pediatric advanced life support required. Certification in trauma nurse core course required within one year of employment. Certified emergency nurse encouraged. Madison County Health Care System is an award-winning organization located just a half hour southwest of Des Moines in picturesque Winterset, home of the Bridges of Madison County and The Birthplace of John Wayne. A modern facility boasts of up-to-date equipment and a staff dedicated to providing outstanding service. Excellent schools and a high quality of life can be found in Madison County. We provide a competitive and comprehensive compensation package including PTO, IPERS and a free on-site fitness facility for employees and their spouses.

Part Time – 48 hours per pay periodNight Shift Position - 12 Hour Shifts, Rotating Weekends & Holidays

RN House Supervisor

WANTED: Full-time

RN & LPNwith 2 years Med Surg

experience Hours 8-5 Monday-Friday

Rarely WeekendsComputer Knowledge

Self MotivatedBring resume to the office to apply

Nurses on Call, Inc.Hwy 34 East & Cherry St., Creston

641-782-4549

Afton’s Annual Arts & Craft Extravaganza

East Union High SchoolSaturday December 6, 2014

9 a.m. – 3 p.m.Breakfast 8 – 10 am by Afton PEO

Lunch 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. by Afton Community ClubPhotos with Santa 10 a.m. to noon by Joyful Sparks Preschool

FREE Admission – Handicap Accessible – Over 40 VendorsSponsored by Afton Community Club

Over 43 Years in Business & Still Truckin’

OTR O/O’S for HOPPERS, DRY VANS & FLATS

• 90% of gross revenue• Fuel surcharge• Your authority or ours• Weekly settlements & direct deposit

• Trailers available for rent• Fuel cards

ALSO HIRING COMPANY DRIVERS & VAN BROKER/ DISPATCHER

1-800-831-5740

CNACreston Nursing & Rehab Center is now hiring caring CNAs with

strong work ethic to join our team. We are proud to invest in you by providing nurse aide membership benefits (NAHCA), online training,

LPN & RN tuition assistance, a generous anniversary bonus, &

much more! Visit us on the web to learn more and apply.

Creston Nursing & Rehab Center

1001 Cottonwood641-782-8511

[email protected]

Not for Profit EOE/AAP Disability & Vets

For Rent

STOREFRONT AT 311WEST ADAMS STREET,Toilet room, $275/mo.,Tenant pays electric.Call R Realty 641-782-9408.

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

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

New Today

For Rent

1 BEDROOM ANDefficiency apartmentsfor rent in Creston,$430-$450/mo., all utili-ties included, no pets,515-401-6616.

2 LARGE OPEN ROOMSfor business or storagewith 2 full baths andsome small rooms.$700 per month + elec-tric/$700 deposit. 1 yearlease. No windows.641-782-9408.

ONE BEDROOM APART-MENT, no smoking, nopets, references and de-posit required, 641-782-9537.

New Today

NICE CLEAN ONE bed-room apartment, stove,refrigerator, a/c, washer,dryer and garage stallprovided, no smoking,no pets, references anddeposit required, 641-782-2923.

New Today

Part-timeSales Associate

$250 Sign On BonusIf you love fashion and great prices, you’ll love our store.

Applicants must be fashion oriented, reliable and eager to

please the public. Responsibilities include

Sales • Customer Service Store Presentation

Opening and Closing DutiesFlexible schedule would include some daytime, weekend & evening hours.

APPLY IN PERSON

Uptown Creston

Apply online at www.christensenfarms.com 1-800-889-8531 Equal Opportunity Employer

Christensen Farms is hiring

Animal Care Workers near Leon, IA

No experience required!

Starting wage at $11.75/hr. with an increase to $12.80/hr. after 180 day training period.

Duties include pig production tasks such as breeding, farrowing,

giving vaccinations, feeding, and record keeping.

Full time schedule with day hours. Excellent benefit package including health, dental, 401K,

vacation, and much more!.

Explore the Possibilities!

Cash, Cows, Corn, Cars- You’ll find them all in Classified Ads. 782-2141.

Shop the

CRESTON NEWS ADVERTISER CLASSIFIEDS!

for a

GREAT BARGAIN?

Creston News AdvertiserClassifieds

are as good as gold!

641-782-2141 ext. 6441

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There’s No Place Like

for the HolidaysDecember 4thComfort and Joy Quilt Show 9 a.m. until after the parade Quilts & Other Notions Creative CenterFestival of Trees 9 a.m. until after the parade American Home Design CenterRibbon Cutting Adams Street Espresso, 10 a.m.Quilt Block Walk in Uptown BusinessesSanta & Mrs. Claus Arrive at the Depot 4:30 to 7 p.m., Pictures available for a fee Friends of the LibraryModel Railroaders Working at the Depot 4:30 p.m. to closeCreston Arts: Gallery Open at the Depot 4:30 p.m. to close

December 4th (continued)Dancers in the Snow Globe Leslie’s Dance & Tumbling 4:30-6 p.m.ASP Soup Supper Depot 5:00-6:30 p.m.Caroling in Uptown Creston by SWCC Men’s & Women’s Basketball Teams 5:15 to 6 p.m.Caroling in Uptown Creston by The Union County Ministerial Alliance 6 to 7 p.m.Cider and Donut Holes at the DepotLighted Christmas Parade, 7 p.m. Uptown CrestonFireworks after the ParadeIowa State Savings Bank Holiday Open House following the Parade, ISSB Uptown Location

December 5thComfort and Joy Quilt Show 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Quilts & Other Notions Creative CenterFestival of Trees 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. American Home Design CenterOpen House 10 a.m., Leslie’s Dance & TumblingQuilt Block Walk in Uptown BusinessesCrest Area Theatre Presents, The Regifters, 7 p.m., Performing Arts Center

December 6thComfort and Joy Quilt Show 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Quilts & Other Notions Creative CenterFestival of Trees 8 a.m. to Noon American Home Design CenterQuilt Block Walk in Uptown BusinessesCrest Area Theatre Presents, The Regifters, 7 p.m., Performing Arts Center

December 7thJoyful Noise Musical Concert 2 p.m. CHSCrest Area Theatre Presents, The Regifters, 2 p.m., Performing Arts Center

December 13thSanta at the Christmas Castle at the Restored Depot, 9 a.m. to NoonModel Railroaders Working at the Depot 9 a.m. to NoonCARE Craft and Goodie Boutique at the Depot 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

December 21stSt. Malachy All School Christmas Concert 2 p.m. Performing Arts Center

For more information contact the Creston Chamber of Commerce,641-782-7021 • www.crestoniowachamber.com • [email protected]

December 4th - 7th & December

13 & 21, 2014 (Events Subject to Change)

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Creston Chamber of Commerce presents

15th Annual Creston Holiday GiveAway 2014

November 28th thru close of business December 16th

Drawing on December 17, 2014 • 10:30 a.m.Second chance drawing on January 5, 2015

2 Grand Prizes of $500 in Creston Bucks5 Prizes of $100 in Creston Bucks

GiveAway Tickets are available at participating businesses.

IOWA STATE SAVINGS BANK ANNUAL

FOLLOWING THE LIGHTED CHRISTMAS PARADEAT OUR ADAMS ST OFFICE

Thursday, December 4thOPEN HOUSE• •

Member FDIC

Comfort & Joy Quilt ShowQuilts & other Notions Creative Center

201 N. Elm St., Creston, IowaThursday, Dec. 4 • 9 until after the Lighted Christmas Parade

Friday, Dec. 5th • 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.Saturday, Dec. 6th • 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

$2.00 Admission or 2 cans of food for Food Pantry

Profit to be donated to Greater Regional Medical Center Foundation for Cancer Patients.

Drawing Dec. 6, 2014 at the end of the show.

Patches & Pieces Quilt Guild

Raffle Quilt84x84 inches

Tickets $1.00 or 6 for $5.00

– 3 Convenient Locations –Creston • Osceola • Mt. Ayr

641-782-7617 Email - [email protected]

lesliesdance.net

Helping Dreams Come True sinCe 1979

Email - [email protected]

HelpingHelpingH Delping Delping reams Dreams D Creams Creams

16th Annual

“Dancers in the Snowglobe”

218 N. Pine, Uptown CrestonDecember 4, 2014 • 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

(before the Lighted Christmas Parade)

The Dance Boutique Open House

602 Sheldon • Suite A • Creston 641-782-7820

M-F 9am-3pm Lobby • M-F 8am-5pm Drive-UpSAT 8:30am-12pm Drive-Up

The Bank That Service

Built

From Left: Maureen Henry, Cindy Kneedler, Scott Coen, Melanie Johnson and Marta Addo.

We’re Open!

Open until after the parade

Open 6:30am til 8:30 pmServing all menu items

Handmade Holiday Boutique by local artists. Stop by Upper Crust December 4

after 6pm for a make and take craft.

We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!We’re Open!Winter SpectacularThursday, December 4th

5:30 - 8:30pm at The Lobby301 West Adams • Creston

Free AdmissionOver 20 vendors

– Food available –

Sandwiches, Christmas Candy, Cupcakes & More

Start your holiday shopping with unique gift items!

There’s No Place

Like Creston for the

Holidays!

Watch the Creston Lighted Christmas Parade!Thursday, December 4Parade starts at 7 PM

Fireworks after the Parade

Make sure you check out the

Uptown Businesses before & after the Parade!


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