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AREA EVENTS Calendar of Events for Clayton County Thursday, December 24 – Christmas Eve Clayton County Extension Office Closed Friday, December 25 – Christmas Day Clayton County Extension Office Closed Tuesday, January 5, 2016 – Commercial Manure Applicator Training at 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Clayton County Extension & Outreach Office Thursday, January 7, 2016 -- Clover Kid Day Planning Meeting at 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Clayton County Extension & Outreach Office
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Holiday greeting section inside today’s Outlook Inside today’s paper you will find our Holiday Greeting Section. As we wrap up the year, we are happy to acknowledge all the individuals, customers, neighbors and friends who have made doing business here such a pleasure. Inside the pages you will find feature stories, letters to Santa and much more. Letters to Santa may be
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Dear Santa, I have been good. I help my mom do to the laundry and I help my dad to clean the garage and I help my neighbors. I want nail polish and paints and Barbies. From, Julia 1st Grade
Dear Santa, I helped my grandma clean a room. I want an iPod or whatever you want to give me. What I want most is an iPod for Christmas. From, Landon 1stGrade
Dear Santa, I have been helping my mom for Christmas. Can you give me for presents an iPod with a case and I want a mannequin doll house that I can fit in too. From, Lauryn 1st Grade
Dear Santa, I have been very good this year. I helped Blake sharpen his pencil. I want a real tree. I want a sister. I want Bryce home.
From, Ben 1st Grade
Dear Santa, I want Legos. I want Oreos, I want a dog. I want lamps. I want stuffed animals. I want nail polish. I help my sisters. I have been good. From, Kennedy 1st Grade
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Dear Santa, I have been good. I helped my brother clean. I want Beyblades, Beyblade Stadium and Rare Beyblades. From, Ty 1st Grade
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affordable nor is it good quality health care.” Also among the crowd were a number of MFL MarMac students. MFL MarMac Social Studies teacher Adam Simon was in attendance and had emailed his students about the event the night before encouraging them to attend as well. “I actually just found out about the Carson opportunity the night before from one of the kids and I thought what an excellent opportunity. We don’t often get Presidential candidates to come to our school district.” Simon said that he hopes seeing a candidate in person will help the students learn “that politicians are people just like the rest of us and sometimes they have that bigger than life persona when you see them on TV all the time. And now it’s like, yeah, they’re just like us.” Dr. Carson stepped on to the stage promptly at 9 a.m. and was met with a subdued crowd who were intent to listen to what the candidate had to say but didn’t go so far as to wave the campaign signs that had been placed on their seats. Carson began his speech by talking about his love of rural America and then segued into stories that illustrate his relationship with his faith. One story recounted a particularly risky surgery on a man’s brain stem. There was no better than a
it’s going to require common sense to get out of this situation, singling out the media and power brokers as the architects of doom who “have had control for decades and have gradually molded us and changed us. They are at the cusp of being able to accomplish the fundamental transformation of America.” The topic of ISIS and global terrorism also dominated Carson’s speech. In referencing the latest topic to populate the headlines, the question of whether Muslims should be welcome in the United States, Carson said, “I pretty much adopt the Teddy Roosevelt philosophy. In 1907, Teddy Roosevelt said, ‘We are a nation of immigrants. Anyone is welcome to come here from anywhere as long as you are willing to become an American, as long as you are willing to accept American values and American ways.’ I think that makes perfectly good sense because there is an American culture. Whether you’re in rural Iowa, New York City, New Mexico or Tallahassee, Florida, we basically share the same language, same culture, and largely the same values.” Regarding the rise of ISIS, Carson asserted that it’s important to keep the fight away from the homeland. “In order to protect ourselves at home,” he said, “we have to extinguish them over there. The longer we allow them to grow and to strengthen themselves, the more attacks are going to occur here.” Carson said he would rely on special ops for fighting. He said he also thinks it’s important to make sure revenue sources for ISIS dry up even if that means bombing oil tanker trucks. “You can’t fight a politically correct war,” Carson continued. “If you’re going to fight a politically correct war, then just say no war.” Carson outlined a plan to “strangulate command and control centers,” let them flee and then keep them on the run. “That’s the way that wars have been caught in the past when they have been successful,” Carson claimed. Dr. Carson took two questions from the audience, one about Fukushima and the other about the Affordable Care Act, before wrapping up the rally. The audience had the opportunity to meet the candidate immediately following the event.
Dr. Ben Carson, one of 14 Republicans vying to be the party’s candidate for President in 2016, made a stop in McGregor on Thursday, December 17. Carson took the stage at McGregor’s Landing and gave a thirty-minute speech that touched on topics ranging from foreign policy to the state of the country’s economy. Carson’s stop brought out a crowd of approximately 75 people from around the region. Robert McNamara made the 45-mile trek from his home in Spillville, Iowa to see Dr. Carson. “This will be the third time I will have seen Dr. Carson,” McNamara said. “I just really like the guy. He’s measured in his thinking. He’s not a knee-jerk kind of guy.” While McNamara considers himself a Carson supporter, he has also made a point
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50/50 chance that the man would survive the surgery. “I had so many instances like that where I began to understand that it wasn’t necessarily me. Yes, you had to have a certain amount of skills, a certain amount of knowledge, but it was really God. And that’s how I began to conduct my life … really recognizing who was in charge.” Dr. Carson then began outlining his plans under a Carson administration. Referencing the over $18 trillion national debt, Carson said, “We are undermining the financial stability of our nation. With every extra dollar that we add to that debt we are destabilizing our situation.” He went on to say that
Dear Santa, I have been good, I helped my brother get ready for school but want a Frozen Lego Play Set and a Frozen Sing that comes with a microphone.
Dear Santa, I have been good this year. I helped do dishes with my brother. I want for Christmas a swimming pool and a Barbie Dream House.
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seemed especially pressing for Oftedahl. Having recently lost his job, he was frustrated by the economy and for having to buy his own insurance now that he’s unemployed. “Personally I don’t believe (Obamacare) is constitutional. I don’ t believe the federal government has the authority to fine me – up until recently anyway – has the authority to fine me for something that I am not forced to buy until now. I think it has screwed up the entire insurance industry. I would love to see the whole thing just get repealed. There are better ways for insurance to be affordable. The Affordable Care Act is not
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EMT Class Starts January 11, 2016 Dear Santa, I have been good. I helped my mom decorate the tree. What I want for Christmas is a Ninja Turtle and a toy car and a gingerbread man and a cookie.
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OUTLOOK EDITOR Dear Santa, I have been good. I helped my mom do the laundry and I cleaned my room. My dad was happy. I want an iPod for Christmas and a Tablet and a TV and I want a game. I want Girl Scout Magic Maker.
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found on page one and page seven of the main paper and additional first grade letters are printed inside the special section. Please accept our best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. You are always welcome here and we look forward to seeing you in 2016.
Prepared Childbirth Education Class held at VMH, Waukon
Veterans Memorial Hospital, in cooperation with NICC Business and Community Solutions, will be offering an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course in Waukon. This 138-hour course will begin on Monday, January 11, 2016 at the NICC Waukon Center, 1220 3rd Avenue NW. The class meets two nights per week, Mondays and Thursdays from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. each night and two Saturdays, February 13, 2016 and April 16, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. To register online for the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course or for more information, visit www.nicc.edu/solutions or call NICC Business and Community Solutions at (800) 728-2256, ext. 399. For more information about local EMT service opportunities, contact Jeff Mitchell, EMS Coordinator, at Veterans Memorial Hospital at (563) 568-3411.
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Veterans Memorial Hospital will begin the next Prepared Childbirth Education classes (formerly called Lamaze) on Monday, January 11, and will continue for two consecutive Monday evenings beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room. These Prepared Childbirth Education classes are free to any expectant parents delivering at Veterans Memorial Hospital, and $10 per session for those delivering at another facility. These classes will be offered every three months at Veterans Memorial Hospital. Preregistration is necessary, as seats are limited. Contact Machelle Bulman, RN, at 5683411, or register on-line at www. veteransmemorialhospital.com. The hospital’s next Prepared Childbirth Education courses are scheduled for January 2016.
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of traveling around Iowa to see the other Republican candidates, including Mike Muckabee, Bobby Jindal and Donad Trump. “Carson would be my number one choice,” McNamara declared. “Jindal would have been my second choice probably. I liked Jindal and I liked Christie too because they were both good administrators after Hurricane Sandy. You didn’t have the corruption you had down in New Orleans. And Jindal had to come in and fix Ray Nagin’s corrupt mess. After that, he cleaned it up and got things moving again down there. They had both proven track records in a disaster, which the country is in a disaster. That’s how I feel about it.” Paul Oftedahl traveled from Decorah to see Dr. Carson in person. “I wanted to just be able to see him face to face,” Oftedahl said, “and see him in a situation just meeting the local people. I think he’s quite possibly the most decent person we have running.” Oftedahl also admitted that he came out to the meeting because he recently lost his job and thus finds himself with extra time on his hands. “I have a number of things I would ask him,” Oftedahl said. “Number one thing is a plan for economic recovery. Number two: defense. Number three: repeal of Obamacare.” Two of those questions