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Thursday, November 28, 2013 Volume 148 • Number 48
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Norton wins final week Football Contest
There were only two entries missing 3 games on this week’s football contest - Melissa Wubbena, Allison and Pat Norton, Clarksville. Determined by the tie-breaker, Pat was the 1st place winner and will receive $35 in football bucks while Melissa placed 2nd and will receive $15 in football bucks. Football bucks can be spent like cash at any of the locations listed on the football contest pages, and may be picked up at either newspaper office. Each week’s first place winners will have the chance to compete for a grand prize of $500 in Football Bucks. They will be sent an entry form to make their choices on the college bowl games. A big THANK YOU to the Football Contest sponsors this year: 2 Guys Interior Focus, Waverly; Tom Barnett Seed - Kruger Seed, Clarksville; Butler-Bremer Communications - Plainfield, Clarksville, Shell Rock; Coonradt Ford, Waverly; Cooper Motors, Allison; Dralle’s Plumbing and Heating, Allison; Dumont Implement; Gade’s Appliance, Waverly; George’s TV & Appliance, Waverly; Grant Insurance Agency, Waverly; J&C Grocery, Allison & Dumont; K&S Grocery, Clarksville, Greene Lumber Company, Orly’s Meat Market and Locker, Clarksville; and Pete & Shorty’s, Clarksville.
Clarksville Library to host Holiday Open House
The Clarksville Library’s Holiday Open House will be held on Saturday, December 7, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Enjoy some refreshments as you stroll through the winter wonderland and forest of Tiny Tim Trees! Santa will be making a special visit to the library from 9:00-11:00 am, and there will also be treats, stories and crafts for the kids!
Pearl Harbor Day service set for December 8
The Clarksville AMVETS Post #30 will be holding their annual Pearl Harbor Day service on Sunday, December 8, at 2:00 p.m. at the AMVETS Hall. Honored veterans will be Lawrence Kollmann, Vern Jacobs, Kenneth Bertram, Dave Nieman, and James W. Hoerman. Everyone is welcome to attend. Gift Certificates available for Camping at Wilder Park Have friends or relatives that enjoy camping? Then for Christmas, or other occasions, consider a camping gift certificate at beautiful Wilder Park at Allison. The cost per night of camping is $12.00. In addition to 52 spacious campsites; campers may enjoy 18 holes Frisbee golf, miniature golf, walking and bike trails, fishing ponds, three shelter houses, an enhance playground, tether ball, sand volleyball, a giant chess/checker board, wildflower prairies, shower house, dump station , entertainment center and eight tent camping sites. Wilder Park is one of a very few campgrounds that has extreme storm shelters. The gift certificates are available at Allison City Hall, 319-267-2245.
Turkey Day Fun Facts • The Pilgrim leader, Gov. William Bradford, organized the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621. He invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians to the feast. • The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days. • Lobster, rabbit, chicken, fish, squashes, beans, chestnuts, hickory nuts, onions, leeks, dried fruits, maple syrup and honey, radishes, cabbage, carrots, eggs, and goat cheese are thought to have made up the first Thanksgiving feast. • Sarah Josepha Hale, an American magazine editor, persuaded Abraham Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday. She is also the author of the popular nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb. • The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade tradition began in the 1920s. • In 1939, President Roosevelt proclaimed that Thanksgiving would take place on November 23rd, not Nov. 30, as a way to spur economic growth and extend the Christmas shopping season. • Turkeys will have 3,500 feathers at maturity. • Turkeys have heart attacks. The United States Air Force was doing test runs and breaking the sound barrier. Nearby turkeys dropped dead with heart attacks. • Turkeys have poor night vision. • A 16-week-old turkey is called a fryer. A five to seven month old turkey is called a young roaster.
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Community Christmas nears Clarksville Commercial Club and vol- streets. unteers are ready to Deliver to the ComWarm up with hot beverages available munity a Christmas gift presentation on at several sites, and taste sweet treats Sunday, Dec. 8, for Images of Christmas. served by elves, 4-H ladies and famiFollow Brightly Shining Star (at Gutter lies. Also, a Ho Ho Hobo Stew will be Pro) on Main Street for the first glimpse offered. of The Nativity O Little Town of BethleChurch bells will be ringing all evehem. At 3:30 p.m., the festival begins ning, with beautiful sounds drifting from with the first of five presentations of The Clarksville Community School vocal Nativity. A total of 60 people from and band department, the violins of seven community churches are Bill and Bob Wallin at a Victodelving into the Christmas rian Christmas. story, with music and scripAt the Clarksville Star Welcome to tures each half hour until 6 office (101 N. Main p.m. St.) listen to Immanuel Then at 4 p.m., Miss Church children’s bell Clarksville, McKenna choir and live music Lebeck, and Frosty the from the Parson famSnowman, Santa Claus ily. Also, mail letters to and Mrs. Claus will turn Santa in the red mail box on the new Christmas tree there, as they will later be lights. Clarksville maintenance, published in the newspaper. mayor, city council and employees View the Star’s decorations and helped prepare the area. Christmas tree too. Stroll along Main Street business winHere are some hints to greeting card dows and view It’s Beginning to Look windows, with a full listing of those parLike Christmas, as Twas the Night Be- ticipating and contributing to the festival fore Christmas stockings will be hung. to be published in next week’s Star. Friends, neighbors and business staff Continued on page 14 will welcome participants in to the greeting card setting in windows and along
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Experts investigate Casey’s Experts dug around debris at Casey’s General Store in Clarksville (213 S. Main St.) Tuesday. The professionals were hired by the company to investigate why the shop went up in flames and burnt down on Nov. 5. (Pat Racette Photo) See Casey’s on 14
Small Business Saturday: Nov. 30
Local shops to take part in holiday event
By Pat Racette The fourth annual Small Business Saturday will be held Nov. 30. Though still in its infancy, the event counters the heavyweight conglomerate stores’ Black Friday and Cyber Monday after Thanksgiving. The goal is to remember small businesses by shopping small and helping keep money in town. American Express created Small Business Saturday, and has been promoting the national event since 2010, providing resources on their Web site (americanexpress.com). Several communities in the country have rallied around the event to help maintain downtown shops and organizations for the future. Both Clarksville Lumber and Prairie Rose Fabrics are stepClarksville Lumber co-owner is releasing unique Christmas gifts to help comping up to participate and get local shoppers in the doors. The munity members stay in town to shop on Nov. 30 Small Business Saturday. lumberyard is offering new, She’s created a calendar frame [pictured] to enhance a plain calendar on the unique gifts to help simplify wall. Other unique items she’s presenting are sofa caddies [to hold drinks, reChristmas shopping by staying motes, etc. on couch arm], chalk boards [like bulletin boards for kitchen], small in town, while Prairie Rose is bean bag sets with or without paint, Christmas 2-by-4-inch crafts [trees, snowmarketing 30 percent off regular men, etc.] and more. All gift-wrap will be free as well. (Pat Racette Photo) priced fabric. “During winter months, we “That was the best decision I enjoy working on one-of-a-kind proj- rience six years ago made,” Kolb said, “betaught him to follow ects to suit your needs,” said co-owner cause I found the exact his instinct, instead Renae Hempen. “We’ve recently made same item at the same speaker shelves for a church, storage of caving into the price at a store in the infl uences around cabinets for the school, a hall tree for county, without it beyou during holiday an optometrist, fabric display for a quilt ing ‘on sale.’ Plus, if shopping in the largshop. I did have a problem er stores. Shopping “We can build just about anything down the road, I at Sears with some wooden to suit your needs.” don’t have to hasfriends on Black Friday, with no Prairie Rose Fabrics discount is their sle with boxing it intent of buying anything, Kolb best deal of the year. up and shipping it “It is only with strong local support found a big item on sale for 30 somewhere. There that we can have a vibrant business dis- percent off. Paying for the prodis value to that. uct on the spot, he soon found out trict,” said Holly Fokkena, co-owner of the piece wouldn’t be available Prairie Rose Fabrics. Butler County Development Corpo- until after Christmas due to back See page 2 ration Director Jeff Kolb said an expe- orders and delays. So, he canceled the order.
Congressman King visits Butler County By Pat Racette Butler County’s new congressman since 2012 redistricting, Republican Steve King, made a stop in Allison Monday. In likely one of his first visits to Butler with 39 counties encompassing his district, King said the area felt like home. “This part of the state is not foreign to me,” he said. “I spent my grade school years in Hancock County, and I’ve traveled through all of Iowa on construction and business…A lot of people would sacrifice a great deal to raise their families in the kind of environment you have here.” King, who lives in northwest Iowa in Kiron, started a construction business in 1975, before getting elected Congressman 11 years ago. He sold the business to his eldest son, as they will celebrate 40 years as an establishment in 2014. “Small business teaches you that the sole proprietor that starts out has to know something about everything,” he said. “My concern is regulations keep mounting and are making it harder for small businesses [to exist]. “A common denominator in small communities especially has something to do with leadership that emerges; and when you go into a small robust community on the cutting edge, you think about the leadership that emerges to make the community prosper.” Serving on the U.S. Agriculture Committee as one of the top senior members, King is trying to work with Democrats to have the House of Representatives pass the new farm bill that he helped pen. “The Democrats write into it and other chairmen weigh-in in similar fashion,” he said. “We came together and [it was] contentious. We have had to fight together for the last 2 ½ years to get the five-year farm bill passed. If all goes well, we’ll get it in by Christmas.”
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