Thursday, October 31, 2013 Volume 148 • Number 44
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Blockhus wins this week’s Football Contest There were 3 entries with perfect games on this week’s football contest - Dave Reints and Jim Blockhus of Allison and Pat Norton of Clarksville. Determined by the tie-breaker, Jim was the 1st place winner and will receive $35 in football bucks while Pat placed 2nd and will receive $15 in football bucks. The 3 tie-breaker scores were within 10 points of each other. Those missing only 1 this week were: Shane Buss, Kelly Thorne, and Ryan Mittelstadt all of Allison; Dennis Hippen, Aplington; Cindi Hoodjer, Clarksville; Darla Ubben, Conrad and Richard Ubben, Dumont. Football bucks can be spent like cash at any of the locations listed on the football contest pages. Football bucks may be picked up at either newspaper office. Check inside for this week’s featured games and submit your picks for a chance to win!
CHS Veteran’s Day program November 11 Clarksville High School will be holding a Veteran’s Day Program honoring all local Veterans on Monday, November 11, at 10:00 am in the east gymnasium. Following this year’s program, all Veterans and their spouses, or members of the ladies auxiliary, are invited to the school cafeteria to join them for lunch. Any veterans and their spouses, or auxiliary members, planning on staying for lunch should RSVP Clarksville High School by calling 319-278-4273 by Wednesday, November 6. They look forward to recognizing our Veterans for their service to our country. Clarksville Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center sets Trick-or-Treating The Clarksville Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is inviting all children through 5th grade to Trickor-Treat in costume on Thursday, October 31, from 4-5 p.m.
Corn-fed with Rice on the Side by Kim Fenneman Author perseveres stereotypes, adversity to find inner-self
by Pat Racette Kim Fenneman’s life started out as normal as apple pie, but then a fire changed everything. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she was adopted as a baby by Gary and Linda Fenneman, who lived in Clarksville, Iowa. As an Asian American, Asian or American, she was treated equally, growing up with brothers and a sister in the country. It wasn’t until she was 9 years old when her family’s farmstead burned down, forcing them to move to Garland, Texas. Her recently released book, cleverly entitled Corn-fed with Rice on the Side, encounters life after childhood in Clarksville. In collections of memories from her daily life, Fenneman makes chapters and subheads to make reading easier. Playful titles like Oh, Me so Pretty! Say Cheese, Ready for Duty, Sir and Life… It Happens give the book a personality of its own. But in reading through Fenneman’s experiences, one has to wonder if our culture really has improved upon our prejudices from the past. Dealing with people’s preconceptions, she holds steady as a rock by remembering her childhood days
Color Run… Clarksville After Prom hosted the Color Run last Saturday (Oct. 19) at Heery Woods. Juniors and parents put together the fundraiser, with Julie Becker organizing the walk/run through the woods. A total of 106 individuals participated, with kids throwing powder paint on runners. At the end of the race, runners celebrate with some powder throwing [pictured] (Submitted Photo). See Run on page 2
Craft Expo draws record numbers where she fit in and was treated equal. Those memories give her determination to see the haze of misconceptions. The most hostile situation occurred in a hair salon. An Asian guy gave her highlights, and twisted her words and accused her of not being a real Asian. In the chapter Travels, Fenneman visits the place it all began in Seoul, South Korea. But again, she doesn’t get the feeling she fits in as Koreans dismiss her when they find out she’s and American adoptee.
See Fenneman on page 2
Clarksville Trick-or-Treat set for November 1 Clarksville has set their Trickor-Treat night for Friday, November 1, from 6-8 p.m. It was moved from Thursday, October 31, due to a conflict with the fall concert at the school. The Clarksville Fire Department will be serving hot dogs beginning at 6 p.m. at the fire station. The Clarksville Commercial Club provides the hot dogs.
Community UMC Soup Supper to be held Saturday The Clarksville Community Church annual soup supper will be held on Saturday, November 2, with serving from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The all you can eat menu includes chicken noodle soup, hamburger vegetable soup, and chili along with homemade bread and pie for a freewill donation. Carry outs are available. For meal delivery in Clarksville, call 2781069 or 278-1144. The church is located at 309 W. Superior, Clarksville, and is handicap accessible.
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Author Kim Fenneman signs her new book, Corn-fed with Rice on the Side, at the Clarksville Public Library for Joyce Smith [right], with her mom, Linda [left], looking on. (Pat Racette Photo)
Members of the community and surrounding areas packed Clarksville’s gymnasium Saturday to shop for knick-knacks, decorations and various crafts and homemade materials. The school’s cafeteria was also filled up with vendors selling food goods and more. (Pat Racette Photos) The 10th annual Craft Expo was Several exhibitors had their best eas around 10 a.m., and noted cars held Saturday at Clarksville High to date, feeling 2013 brought the from 14 different counties.” School. largest crowd since the exposition The event is sponsored by ClarksA large crowd of shoppers arrived started. Show organizer Jeff Kolb ville Commercial Club, with both 9 a.m., hustling inside to the high estimated over 2,000 shoppers went Jeff and Cindy Kolb as show orgaschool gymnasium and multi-pur- through the doors. nizers. pose room. Seventy exhibitors from “This was the first year that we A thanks goes out to the Clarksacross Iowa set the scene, with aisles had exhibitors actually sell out of ville Boy Scout Troop, who were on filled to capacity until noon, before it their inventory,” Kolb said. “We did hand to help exhibitors load in Frislowed down a bit. a quick walk through the parking ar- day night and move out Saturday.
Dairy Robotics Future Thoreson travels to European research centers for glimpse of dairy future By Pat Racette The future of dairy farms likely lies in Northern Europe. The capital of the world’s automatic milking systems has engineers constantly working at research centers and farms to come up with technology advancements. Starting in the Netherlands, automatic robotic dairy systems have worked their way out into Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Recently, Allison’s Dale Thoreson ventured abroad with friend Larry Trannels on a two-week study tour
of the robotic dairy industry to see what they were doing and thinking of next. Thoreson went as a volunteer for Iowa State University Extension, while Trannel is an ISU Field Specialist in dairy in northeast and southeast Iowa. “What we wanted to do on this tour is try to get to the manufacturing plant and talk with some of the key people that were developing some of this equipment,” Thoreson said. “We were successful in getting that done with a couple of them, and then get on to farms and see what was going on.” The giant five automatic milking companies that the duo targeted was: Delaval (Sweden), Insentec BV (Netherlands), Lely Industries (Netherlands), BouMatic (Madison, Wis., priorly Gasgooine Milot in
Netherlands) and GEA Farm Technologies (Germany). They managed to find a farm that was testing mainly Delaval robots. Spending half a day with the assistant manager there, the ISU specialists witnessed an add-on machine to the box (automatic milking system) that engineers were using to hold numerous tests. “They are dealing with what they call a navigator device that will test the milk for pH,” Thoreson said, “and tell us whether it has mastitis (breast inflammation) or not, test the blood for ketone to tell us whether they have ketosis, or whether we ought to feed them additional something to keep them from getting ketosis.”
See Dairy on page 2
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Iowa State University volunteer and field specialist in dairy Dale Thoreson and Larry Trannel visited a farm involved in testing robotic milking machines. Pictured is an add on machine called a navigator device engineers were working on to find out more about a cow while in the box.
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