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Tate Kunze, a sophomore, has also agreed to sing a song.

“I like singing because I’m friends with a lot of people who sing now,” Kunze said. “It motivates me to keep going and I’ve been able to do the musicals for the last couple

of years.”You might remember Kunze

from his roles as “Jack” in Into the Woods and “Lumiere” in Beauty and the Beast.

“I’ve figured out over the last couple of years I actu-ally somewhat have a talent,” Kunze said. “Plus, my parents really want me to perform and I know people are re-ally looking forward to me singing.”

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Ray Sorensen: Update from the Iowa House

I think one of the most maddening things about all this snow is that it all came after Christmas. I love snowy Christmases, but instead I have just had a bunch of perilous drives to the capitol, which is totaling up to ap-proximately 40+ total inch-es this winter. I know that seems like a lot but it isn’t even close to breaking the seasonal record of 72 inches. Even though the mountains of snow continue to pile high outside, things are really start-ing to heat up in the capitol.

In Appropriations this week we announced our targets for the Fiscal Year 2020 budget. The House budget plan for FY2020 spends $7.668 billion, accounting for 97.45% of on-going revenue. This is $9.5 million higher than Gover-nor Reynolds’ FY2020 budget proposal of $7.658 billion.

An important point of those numbers to keep in mind is we are spending 97.45% of on-going revenue. What that means is there will be an, approximately, 300 million dollar cushion in the budget to absorb things like lower than expected revenue (REC meets again in mid-March) or a small recession without having to go through de-ap-propriations.

A little history, when House Republicans came into the majority in 2011, the state budget was a disaster. The state faced a $1 billion struc-tural deficit after years of un-derfunding programs, using one-time funding sources for ongoing needs, and raiding

the state’s reserve accounts without a plan to pay it back.

Since House Republicans have been in the majority, they’ve brought common sense budgeting back to the Statehouse. Our state gov-ernment is leaner, more effi-cient and more effective than it’s ever been. However, the strong condition of our bud-get didn’t happen overnight. It took years of hard work, planning, and smart man-agement to reach this point. I commend those who had to make those hard decisions to put us on the right path.

Now, I think we’ve offered a conservative, responsible budget plan that funds our priorities, limits spending, and puts taxpayers first. This budget plan also allows us to invest in key priorities like education, career training, health care, and public safety.

Fast facts on the budget:$7.668 billion budget for

FY2097.45% of ongoing revenue0.63% increase from FY19

$298M ending balanceThere is room in this bud-

get to fund things like:K-12 educationCommunity collegesRegent universitiesIowa Tuition GrantsFuture Ready IowaMedicaidMental health reformsRural hospitalsBroadband and housing

initiatives for rural IowaPrisons and the Iowa State

PatrolOver the next several weeks,

we will identify priorities and recommend funding levels for each of the individual line items contained in our state budget.

In State Government, we dispensed with the regular committee meeting and in-stead, we all sat in on the sub-committee on sports gam-bling. After hearing what the public had to say about what they liked and disliked about the bill, the subcom-mittee passed it out of their committee and on to the full

committee, which I believe we will take up for a vote sometime next week. Also, in State Government this week, I ran a bill eliminat-ing the education telecom-munications council and re-gional telecommunications councils, which came about from those councils outliving their purpose needing to be struck from our code.

In Commerce, we voted out bills on real estate apprais-ers, demolition reserves on fire real estate claims, and a bill relating to fees on public utilities for the use of public right-of-way.

In Veterans Affairs we heard from Steve Lukan, the Exec-utive Director of Iowa’s De-partment of Veterans Affairs. He gave us an overview of operations of the Iowa Vet-erans Cemetery and the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund.

I was honored to join a group of bipartisan legisla-tors on the Millennial Action Project for the Iowa Future Caucus. The mission of the

Iowa Future Caucus is to foster bipartisan dialogue among young and innova-tive legislators committed to working on the issues facing millennials and future genera-tions. We have members from age 21 to 40 and I consider them all friends. Thanks to the Senator “Zachs,” Wahls (D) and Nunn(R) and Reps Mitchell(R) and James(D) for your work on getting this started. It was said at the kickoff event that 88% of the legislation that goes through up here is complete-ly bipartisan. That’s impor-tant to highlight in the face of some of our media and “keyboard warriors” that seek to divide us. Find out more here: www.millennialaction.org/state-future-caucuses

I am honored to represent House District 20 at the Capi-tol. Thank you for allowing me to serve you and be your voice here in Des Moines and remember, our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain!

4H students attend a Zentangle workshopFive Guthrie County

4H students attended a zentangle workshop taught by Gina Lloyd at her stu-dio, The Art Exchange, in Panora on December 27, 2018.

During the workshop, we learned about the basic elements of design, and then had the opportunity to create our own zentan-gle art. All who attended enjoyed learning this in-teresting art form. Since everyone had such a good experience, we decided to brainstorm some ideas for future workshops at The Art Exchange.

We appreciate the fun time of learning and doing with the instruction and help of Gina Lloyd, Cla-rissa Kelly, Marilyn Dorr, and Valerie McCool.

SESS 4-H Club holds presentation dayOn January 27th the Guth-

rie County SESS Range Find-ers met at the Guthrie County Events Center to clean up af-ter the Cattleman’s banquet, which was held the night be-fore. We appreciate the op-portunity to help this orga-nization!

After the clean-up, the club held their monthly meeting at the Guthrie County Exten-sion office. The meeting was called to order by president Ruby Hummel at 2:54 pm. Pledges were led by the hosts. Roll call was taken by secre-

tary Emma Rutledge with 27 members present. Meeting minutes and treasurer’s report was given and approved. In Old Business, we discussed the selling of tickets for the upcoming raffle at our soup supper on February 9th. New Business was then present-ed. Ruby Hummel presented an update from the Guthrie County Youth Committee ac-tivities. Club members were reminded that YQCA certifi-cation is needed to show live-stock at the county fair. The Community Service Commit-

tee thanked everyone who organized and participated in the Meals from the Heart-land event. More projects are still being scheduled. The Winter Fun Day Committee reported that we will be going to Seven Oaks in Boone for our February meeting. The Fundraising Committee re-ported with reminders of de-tails for the February 9th soup supper fundraiser. Finally, upcoming club and county events were read. Hosts were Kaylee Oberholtz (sentinel), Bryce Betts (snacks) and Ruby

Hummel (drinks). Meeting was adjourned by president Ruby Hummel.

Following the meeting members took turns giving presentations to the club. Natalie Derry presented the importance of club presenta-tions for not only 4-H projects and awards, but also for life skills. Presentation topics in-cluded: Music Theory by Anna Owen, Sport of Climbing by Trever Derry/Max Owen, Ger-man Shepherds by Michelle Brooks, Peru by Parker Owen, and the last presentation was 4-H Record Book Keeping/ Awards by Ruby Hummel.

Friday, March 1•Muffins for Mom @ ele-

mentary 7:30-8:15 a.m.Saturday, March 2•District FFA @ Glenwood.Monday, March 4

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•JH conference band @ Ogden.

Friday, March 8•Muffins for Dad @ elemen-

tary 7:30-8:15 a.m.Saturday, March 9