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By KYLE WILSON
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venience-type, 24-hour-type deal,” Hanson said. As a 24-hour fitness center, members will have a card to slide in front of a reader to get in the building for times when staff are not on duty at
More than 40 people attended an informational meeting and hard-hat tour Wednesday afternoon at the new, million-dollar memory care unit being built at Prairie View Assisted Living in Creston. Amy Edmonson-Bonebrake, administrator at Prairie View, told those in attendance the construction of the memory care unit is about 70 percent complete and is expected to open sometime in March. The 7,300-square-foot memory care unit will house people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. “We are excited for it to be finished,” Edmonson- EdmonsonBonebrake said. “In the Bonebrake past, we had to discharge de- ■ Creston mentia patients to a higher memory care level of care, but we will no unit expected longer have to do that now to open in that we have this unit. We’ve March had great feedback from the community and professionals who see the need for this memory-care service in Creston.” There will be 12 private apartments in the unit — whereby tenants will have a view of either the courtyard, walking trail or houses in the James Addition. Those attending the tour Wednesday received an up-close view of the entire addition. Many attending praised the open floor plan in the new unit, which Edmonson-Bonebrake said, allows the staff to see all residents. “We will also use that big open space for lifeenriching activities like exercise, trivia time, social circle and crafts,” Edmonson-Bonebrake said. Joedy Wynn will be the coordinator of the
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Treadmills are lined up at Hanson Fitness, 530 Livingston Ave., Wednesday. There will be treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bicycles and a stair climber available for cardiovascular exercise at the fitness center, as well as free weights and machines for strength training.
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A line of treadmills are set up against the north wall, with stationary bicycles and ellipticals in a row behind them at what will soon be Hanson Fitness. Hanson Fitness, a physical fitness and health facility located at 520 Livingston Ave., Suite C, in Creston, will cater to a variety of lifestyles. Tyler Hanson, 32, and his wife Tori are opening Hanson Fitness, as well as re-opening Tori’s salon, The Color Secret, within the space. The projected opening date is Feb. 1.
Hanson Fitness The idea of Hanson Fitness became a reality in November 2013, when Hanson and his wife finalized the lease on the space, attached to the west side of The Pizza Ranch. “I’ve been in fitness my whole entire life, started when I was 12 years old,” Hanson said. “The opportunity came up. I had a friend that owned a gym in Waukee, and he was looking to get out, so he offered me a pretty good deal on all this equipment.”
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Free weights wait to be organized at Hanson Fitness Wednesday, less than one month before the personal fitness facility opens to the public.
Hanson, a 2000 graduate of Creston High School and 2006 graduate of Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Mo., with a degree in corporate health and wellness, will offer cardio, resistance training and personal training at Hanson Fitness. “I thought Creston could use something, you know, with more con-
Count gives Iowans chance to see Golden Eagle (MCT) — Golden eagles, until recently thought be rare or accidental visitors to the Driftless area of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, have been shown to be predictable winter residents of those scenic bluffs and valleys. Participants in wintering golden eagle surveys, conducted one day a year since 2005 under the auspices of the National Eagle Center in Waubasha, Minn., regularly have counted more than 100 golden eagles in those states’ rugged blufflands. Most have been observed in Minnesota and Wisconsin, but scientists believe that may be, at least in part, because most of the counting occurs there, rather than in Iowa, where
Lansing residents Ric and Betty Zarwell have often been the only survey participants. “I think the actual numbers are much greater than recognized in the survey,” said Ric Zarwell, who has organized a Jan. 11 seminar in Decorah to recruit and train participants for the tricky task of identifying goldens and thus to greatly expand the number of Iowa participants in the annual count, to be held Jan. 18. “We’re trying to recruit Iowa birders to participate, but it takes some specialized training” to identify likely haunts and to distinguish golden eagles from other raptors, especially immature bald eagles, he said.
“Bald eagles stand out. Golden eagles blend in. The key to finding them is knowing where to look,” said survey coordinator Scott Mehus, education director at the National Eagle Center and the presenter at the upcoming Decorah training session. Mehus said he has long wanted to increase the number of observers in Iowa. “I think they are probably as common in northeast Iowa as they are in southeast Minnesota. The terrain is similar in both areas,” he said. Creatures of habit, the goldens often can be found sitting on the same branch of the same tree year after year, Mehas said.
Zarwell said he and his wife have had their best luck along south-facing, cedar tree-covered slopes in the Upper Iowa River valley. Positive identification, he said, almost always requires the use of optical equipment. “You just don’t get that close to them. They are warier and less tolerant of people than the bald eagle,” he said. During the first survey, 24 observers counted 21 goldens. Last year, 160 observers counted a record 132 goldens, according to Mehus. With more routes in Iowa, stretching from Dubuque to the Minnesota border, that number could increase again this year, he said.
Raptor expert Jon Stravers of McGregor said he long has been aware of golden eagles wintering in the wild wooded hills of the Yellow River State Forest-Effigy Mounds National Monument complex that straddles the border of Clayton and Allamakee counties. “This isn’t something that just came up. This has been going on for eons,” he said. Stravers credited Mehus with lifting the veil of mystery surrounding wintering golden eagles. “He’s got a line on them – same bluff, same tree,” he said. Stravers described the golden as “a fearless predator,” known to attack the bigger and stronger wild turkey.
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