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Shipley, Ernst win big in primary races In the race for U.S. Senate, poll predictions held true with Joni Ernst winning the primary over Mark Jacobs and others. Ernst will face Bruce Braley in the general election this fall.
By JAKE WADDINGHAM
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As the primary election results started to flood in, the severe weather moving across the southern half of Iowa left District 11 State Senate hopeful Republican Tom Shipley of Nodaway in the dark. “In light of the storm, our electricity at home was out,” Shipley said. “I couldn’t get online, I couldn’t watch TV, so when I started getting congratulatory phone calls, I still didn’t have any idea. I was still wanting some kind
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of an official conformation.” Shipley won by a large margin over fellow Republican Art Hill in the Republican primary race. The Des Moines Register reports he won 70.3 percent of the total vote. In Union County, he earned 407
votes to Hill’s 148. “I am humbled as much as anything with the margin,” Shipley said. “I can’t begin to describe the amount of support I had from people across the district.” The primary race was Shipley’s biggest hurdle en route to the state capitol. Right now there is not a Democrat opposing him for the
general election later this year. Shipley said he believed the biggest difference was his attention to representing the rural constituents and their issues. “That maybe carried the day rather than getting hung up on issues that don’t affect their everyday lives,” Shipley said. “I learned there are a lot of good people
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throughout the district, which probably is a good representation of the same thing across Iowa. They are good people trying to live their lives day to day, get things done and live the right way.”
Local results
Union County did not have any contested primary races. Supervisor Ron Riley received a total of 598 votes in the Republican primary and Paul Hayes had 78 votes in the Democrat primary. County Treasurer Kelly Busch, Please see PRIMARY, Page 2
Porcelain painters featured at First Friday in Creston
Strong thunderstorms pound southwest Iowa damaging this barn near Diagonal and tossing tennis ball size hail and 5 1/2 inches of rainfall near Corning. ■
By SARAH BROWN
CNA staff reporter sbrown@crestonnews.com
CNA photo by SARAH BROWN
The roof of a barn owned by Dale and Marla Bickel of Diagonal was destroyed by 80 to 100 mph winds. Up close, holes created by golf ball sized hail are also visible.
Long night By KYLE WILSON and SARAH BROWN CNA staff reporters
kwilson@crestonnews.com
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ind gusts reaching nearly 100 miles per hour during Tuesday’s severe storms snapped trees and power poles in several small towns across southwest Iowa. Corning, Clearfield, Diagonal and Lenox were hardest hit in the Creston News Advertiser coverage area by the severe thunderstorms that began near 4 p.m. Tuesday and moved out early this morning.
Diagonal A farm north of Diagonal owned by Dale and Marla Bickel suffered severe damage. Their barn (see photo above), buildings and crops were hit by 80 to 100 mile an hour winds and hail. The roof of the barn was blown off and windows were broken at their nearby rental property. Dale and his son Brian also reported 300 acres of
CNA photo by SARAH BROWN
A group of volunteers tarped the home of Arlene and Carol Sobtoka, 100 E. 1st St. Diagonal, during the night after removing a 50-foot tree limb that split their roof open Tuesday.
alfalfa and corn were flattened during this storm. “The corn was knee high yesterday,” Brian Bickel said. “It just makes you sick.” Ed and Jan Johnston, owners of Diagonal Printing Museum, reported broken windows there. They were cleaning up broken glass and puddles of water this morning. Ed was thankful, though, someone saw the broken windows at
the museum Tuesday night and boarded them up. “That tells you what kind of people live in this town,” Ed said.
Lenox
John Borland, general manager at Lenox Municipal, said high winds during the first line of severe thunderstorms around 6 p.m. Tuesday snapped five power poles on the transmission line in the southern part of Lenox.
“A total of 100 people were without power last night,” Borland said. “This morning we have about 40 homes without power and our guys are working on getting them back on by the end of this morning.” Borland added the town will continue to be powered by a generator until this afternoon when CIPCO Please see STORM, Page 2
Creston:Arts presents the work of the Creston Area Porcelain Painters 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Creston:Arts Gallery, 116 W. Adams St. The creative collective of artists, which started in 1998, includes Judy Gile, Joyce Anderson, Sheryl Bolton, Jill Jackson, Glida Jones, Polly McCoy, Ann Moore, Beverly Moss, Deloris Plymesser, Carolyn Stamper, Judith Wachter, Mary Reitsmier and Margie Patch — some of which travel to Creston from towns as far as Winterset, Lenox and Greenfield. Judy Gile of Creston said each artist has her own technique, subjects and themes, ■ Artists despite working with from Creston, the same medium. “That’s the beauty Winterset, of the club,” said Lenox and Gile. While motifs such Greenfield will as flowers and fruit present their were popular in the work 6 p.m. Victorian era, modern day porcelain Friday at the painters have taken Creston:Arts the craft to a new gallery at level. Gile, who paints the restored human and animal Creston Depot. portraits, said the artists paint on a variety of unsuspecting objects such as tiles, mugs, vases and China or porcelain eggs. “We try to get people to think beyond the box,” said Gile. “Art shouldn’t be in boundaries.”
Process
Giles said porcelain painting is not for anyone looking for instant gratification because of the length it takes to complete one piece. Most porcelain or China paints are a dry powder and must be mixed with some type of oil. Gile said, even though there are supplies available from art stores and online, she has used everything from mineral oil to transmission fluid in some of her porcelain pieces. Please see FIRST FRIDAY, Page 2
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