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Outgoing Creston/O-M golf seniors lauded for championship legacy during Wednesday’s end-of-the-season banquet. More in SPORTS, page 7A. >>
U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 crossed Neptune’s orbit 32 years ago, becoming the first man-made object at that time to leave the solar system. More Throwback on 2A.
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Mother, daughter duo take over Curves By JAKE WADDINGHAM
CNA associate editor jwaddingham@crestonnews.com
Change stations now. Teresa Thompson, 50, and her daughter Katie Geidel, 25, celebrated their first day as co-owners of Curves in Creston Wednesday, completing a transitional phase that started in early February. “We were standing in the office at school (Orient-Macksburg) and I said, ‘Hey, do you want to buy Curves?’” Geidel said. “We thought it wouldn’t hurt to sit down and talk with them, and now here we are.” Thompson and Geidel met with Mindy and Cari Stalker to discuss becoming part of the Curves franchise. Within a week, they started working on the financial paperwork to buy the business. “We were thrilled when they contacted us with interest in our business,” Mindy said. “Cari and I loved our time with our clients and wanted to see someone with a passion for helping others take it over. We are beyond excited for M. Stalker Teresa and Katie and we are confident they will be successful in their endeavors.” Thompson works full time as the PreK-12th grade principal at O-M. Geidel will still work part time at O-M as a TAG teacher in addition to their duties at Curves. Before they could reopen the store under new management, Thompson and Geidel spent a week training in Waco, Texas, learning the core Curves workouts to better serve their future customers. “It was a lot more technical than I thought,” Thompson said. “We covered a lot
By IAN RICHARDSON
CNA staff reporter irichardson@crestonnews.com
CNA photo by JAKE WADDINGHAM
Teresa Thompson and Katie Geidel are the new owners of Curves in Creston. They recently completed training to help them coach their clients to get the best workout possible during circuit training.
of proper form on each of the machines in the circuit.” Geidel said the 25-minute circuit training is the focal point of each Curves workout, with different recovery options during the metabolic rest stations. The goal is to maintain a consistent heart rate while still having enough recovery to work hard on the machines. “There is a lot of science behind this hydraulic training system,” Geidel said. “It is set up to overload a muscle group and then give it 90 seconds rest before overloading it again.” A point of emphasis for Thompson and Geidel will be actively coaching to help members reach their fitness goals. They want to schedule monthly check ins to help monitor progress and set goals.
“You could buy some machine and put it in your basement and buy a DVD for $10 and go do it, but the benefit for Curves is that individual coaching,” Thompson said. They also want to utilize their stretching machine. Geidel said Creston is one of a select few locations that has stretching equipment. “Stretching for five minutes is just as important as the first 25 minutes of working out,” Geidel said. “Our stretching machine gives a good stretch without having to get on and off the floor.” Thompson and Geidel said they are still in a training phase with the Curves franchise. They will have a Curves mentor stop in periodically to help them during their first two months in the business and take additional nutrition
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— Katie Geidel
Co-owner of Curves
classes. They are planning to have a table at Relay for Life June 19 to meet members of the community and an open house in August.
DALLAS (AP) — A white Texas police officer was not targeting minorities when he wrestled a black teenage girl to the ground and brandished his gun outside a pool party, his lawyer said, but rather was fraught with emotion after responding earlier to two suicide calls. As activists demanded Wednesday that prosecutors charge former officer David Eric Casebolt, his
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“We were standing in the office at school and I said, ‘Hey do you want to buy Curves?’ We thought it wouldn’t hurt to sit down and talk with them, and now here we are.”
While K-12 funding and the Iowa Board of Regents have had most of the press when it comes to the state aid discussion, the late legislative session has also affected budget planning at Iowa’s community colleges. Along with the other community colleges around the state, Southwestern Community College’s state aid will remain the same for the upcoming fiscal year, with an additional, onetime increase in funds equal to 1.25 percent. According to language included in House File 666, the one-time increase cannot be put into ongoing operational expenses, which include salary, support, administrative expenses and other personnel-related costs. “It has to be set aside for one-time expenditure,” Barb Crittenden, SWCC president, said during Tuesday’s Crittenden board of directors meeting. ■ State aid “We are basically not going accounts to build that into our ongo- for 40% ing budget, so we are at level of SWCC’s revenue funding for the next year.” Crittenden said community stream. colleges can usually anticipate an increase in state aid, although this will not be the first time the funding for ongoing operational expenses has remained level. The lateness of the legislature’s decision comes at an inconvenient time for community colleges, Crittenden said, since they already have their staffing mostly set for the coming year. State aid accounts for about 40 percent of SWCC’s revenue stream. For SWCC, the onetime increase is about $58,000. Crittenden said no decision has been made as far as how the college will use those one-time funds, as it will first be looking at managing the budget at level funding. The next step for SWCC, she said, will be to finalize the working budget as an administrative Please see SWCC, Page 2A
Lawyer: Officer didn’t target black teens at Texas pool
Angela Garcia, 4, left, and Yelena Garcia, 3, take refuge inside the “Aqua Dome” fountain Wednesday afternoon at Afton City Park’s new splash pad. With temperatures eclipsing the 90-degree mark, several families took the opportunity to cool off under the splash pad’s fountains, which re-opened after closing Monday and Tuesday to receive a coat of bright blue paint. Splash Pad hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. A grand opening is scheduled for 11 a.m. June 28, during Afton’s Pre-Fourth Celebration. See video of the splash pad in action at www.crestonnews.com.
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attorney Jane Bishkin said Casebolt apologizes for his treatment of the girl and to others offended by his actions Friday at a community pool in the Dallas suburb of McKinney. “With all that happened that day, he allowed his emotions to get the better of him,” Bishkin said of her client, who is known to friends and family as Eric. However, the attorney for Dajerria Becton, the
15-year-old girl whom Casebolt subdued, said that while her client’s family appreciated Casebolt’s apology, his stress is not an adequate defense. “There are appropriate ways to handle stress, and Officer Casebolt’s actions were in no way appropriate,” Hannah Stroud said Wednesday. Stroud also
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