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Local couples use internet to find love again By SARAH BROWN
CNA staff reporter sbrown@crestonnews.com
In June 1993, Roger and Terri Richter of Orient got married for the first time. Except, not to each other. Roger, 56, was living in Omaha, Neb., when his wife suddenly died of a heart attack in 2005. One year later, Terri, 49, also living in Omaha, Neb., unexpectedly lost her husband to a brain aneurysm. As time passed, their friends encouraged them to move forward with meeting a new companion. “My friends encouraged me to
set up a profile on eHarmony,” said Terri. “They heard about it and wanted me to meet someone.” Perhaps Terri’s friends were on to something. A 2013 study published in the journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined the status and satisfaction of 19,131 people who tied the knot between 2005 and 2012. The results of the study indicate more than one-third of marriages in America begin online. Additionally, couples who met online were found less likely to separate or divorce than couples who met through traditional channels such as friends, family or
Creston Schools to have heated bus barn
work. According to the study, couples who met online also reported to be more satisfied with their spouse than those who did not meet their spouse online. Roger and Terri, who began their search for a companion online in 2008, started by filling out questionnaires on eHarmony, which collected information such as personal preferences, physical characteristics and personality traits. When eHarmony indicated Terri was compatible with Roger, he decided to contact her.
Roger and Terri Richter of Orient met each other on eHarmony. Terri recalls Roger telling her on their first day, “I’m going to marry you someday.” The Richters will celebrate their five year anniversary in April. Contributed photo
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Finally honored
By BAILEY POOLMAN
CNA staff reporter bpoolman@crestonnews.com
Turn up the heat. Creston School District’s bus barn will have heated concrete after findings from a state code came to light during the regularly scheduled December board meeting. According to the code, the bus barn will have to have a concrete floor. Originally, the board decided to store some buses outside, but through a city code, it was discovered all vehicles had to be housed in a building. Then, the board decided to give the building a gravel floor, but then the Iowa code came to light. “There’s an actual state fire code that determines what sort of surface can be constructed in a facility like the one we’re planning,” said Steve McDermott, Creston School District superintendent. “For some reason, that code says that surface must be a hard surMcDermott face.” This change also changed the cost of the building. Insurance will cover 57 percent of the cost of the building, based on the original building cost, while the school district will pay for the remaining 43 percent. And, because of the concrete floor, radiant heat will be used in the steel building. Radiant heat is a process that transfers radiant energy from one heat source to another. It is a common heating process for outdoor buildings, and can be placed under the floor, in walls or in ceiling panels, and heats people or objects rather than air, which is a more direct path for heat to travel. “We have determined that, actually, it will be more thrifty to do radiant heat in the floor rather than plugging in engine block heaters into every bus overnight,” McDermott said. McDermott said the plans for the building have been altered, and he hopes the final drawings will be done in the near future. “Those will then be checked by the state fire marshal’s office before they go out for bids,” said McDermott. McDermott also said there’s a four-week turnaround for the plans to be checked by the fire marshal’s office. “But, right now,” said McDermott, “in general terms, our timeline is to be breaking ground in April and certainly to have the building completed by the start of school in the fall.”
Alvin “Red” Benson, 93, of Creston receives purple heart during pinning ceremony Thursday at Prairie View Assisted Living. ■
After nearly 70 years, Alvin “Red” Benson —a World War II veteran with the 101st Airborne Division — finally received his purple heart medal for an injury he sustained during combat. Benson — pictured above — was honored Thursday at Prairie View Assisted Living with a pinning ceremony with friends, family and other veterans present. Gary O’Daniels — commander of VFW Post 1797 —pinned the purple heart medal on Benson at the ceremony. Joining Benson was his 23-yearold great-grandson Brant Kuhns, who is also a purple heart recipient. Kuhns — pictured right — is stationed in Fort Polk, La., with the 1/509 Airborne Infantry Battalion D-TRP. During a tour in Afghanistan, Kuhns was injured when an improvised explosive device hit the ve-
hicle in which Kuhns was traveling. Also at the ceremony, Denny Abel with the local VFW read a letter from Sen. Tom Harkin and Creston Middle School students sang a song for Benson and presented him with a scrapbook. For a video of the ceremony, visit www.crestonnews. com and click on the video tab at the top of the webpage.
Want to see a video from the ceremony? A one-minute video of the pinning ceremony for Alvin “Red” Benson can be viewed on the Creston News Advertiser website at www.crestonnews.com and clicking on the video tab at the top of the webpage.
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