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Eighteen Spotlight tumblers competed at the Iowa State Fair meet on Saturday in Des Moines with many of them placing in the top five. See results on page 14A of today’s paper. >>
A young Creston/O-M Panthers football team will take on No. 3 Norwalk in opener Friday. Read a preview of the game in SPORTS, page 8A. >>
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Henry’s Martial Arts honors the late Chuck Henry By KELSEY HAUGEN
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After Master Chuck Henry passed away nearly a year ago, his son, Mister Josh Henry, became the new owner of Henry’s Martial Arts in Creston. To honor his father, who would have turned 51 years old on Tuesday, Josh held a birthday celebration at the J. Henry martial arts center that evening. Though Josh mainly planned the event to celebrate his father’s birthday, he held a testing for Taekwondo students beforehand.
View a video of Jesse Meggison of Creston and Madalyne Green of Lenox breaking boards at Henry’s Martial Arts online at www. crestonnews.com
“The testing is used for people to move up ranks in the belts, and tonight was white belts – or beginners – working on moving up to yellow belts,” said Josh, 26. “Tonight was their first testing to give them a taste of it and scare them a little bit. Now, we’re just having a little hang out time and celebrating Dad’s birthday.” The testing was held from 6 to 6:30 p.m., and the rest of the evening was set aside to enjoy birthday cake and do martial arts activities, such as breaking boards.
Some people who attended the event had trained with Chuck in the past and returned to celebrate his life. The Taekwondo students who tested Tuesday were: Xavier Shady, 6, of Creston; Nathan Carroll, 7, of Creston; Madalyne Green, 18, of Lenox; and Jesse Meggison, 27, of Creston. These white-belt students will find out within a week whether they have earned their yellow belts. “About four or five years ago, Master (Chuck) Henry, right before he passed away, said he would teach me Taekwondo because I had a lot of anger inside me,” said Meggison, who was Chuck’s nephew. “I didn’t know if Please see HENRY’S, Page 2
Premiere of ‘The Plan’ brings inspiration, tears By IAN RICHARDSON
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There were backslaps, handshakes and tears to go around Wednesday evening as a crowd of nearly 150 gathered in the Creston High School auditorium to watch a young man’s dream come true. Tanner Webb, a 2015 Creston High School graduate who has cerebral palsy, fulfilled an eight-year goal to shoot his first deer last fall with some help from the Holder family of Macksburg as part of their Outdoor Channel series, “Raised Hunting.” Wednesday, the Holders held a special screening of that episode, titled “The Plan,” at the high school, allowing the public — and the Webb family — to see it for the first time. Webb said the story couldn’t have been told any better. “I really have no words other than I’m very very blessed and very very fortunate to have been through this whole experience,” he said. Kevin Webb, Tanner’s father, agreed. “The show itself was beyond what I expected,” he said. “You couldn’t ask for a better outcome.” Tanner had appeared in an episode taped in 2013 titled “Winning,” in which the foundation “Building Brighter Dreams” helped him join forces with the Holders in his quest for a deer. The episode ended with Tanner striking a lasting friendship with Warren Holder, although he never got the deer. In “The Plan,” David Holder creates a strategy to help Tanner. With some help, he creates a larger
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Tanner Webb, right, talks with Warren Holder, left, and Warren’s girlfriend Grace Feekes following the screening of “The Plan” Wednesday. For video of Warren’s father, David, discussing the family’s experience helping Tanner shoot his first deer, visit www.crestonnews.com.
blind, plants a new feed plot, finds a second scope so he can see what Tanner sees during the hunt and finds another “arm” to help steady Tanner’s bow. This time, Tanner gets his doe. The show ends with a tribute to Tanner’s mother, Amy, who died March 30 at age 43. “The tribute at the end to my mom, it was very fitting, and like I told them, even just for a minute she was there and you could feel her,” Tanner said. “It was in- D. Holder credible.” David Holder said he decided to schedule a screening after realizing during production what a powerful story it was. “I’m going through this, and I’m sitting there and
tears start streaming down my face as I’m trying to narrate a show that’s not even complete,” he said. “I’m going, this is not a hunting show — this is something way more.” After everything the Webb family has gone through this year, Holder said, he wanted to share the show with Tanner in a special way before it aired. Among those attending Wednesday was student aide Steve Wilson, who has helped Webb since the seventh grade and sat with him during the hunt in the first episode. “I was in the blind when he didn’t shoot the deer, and I saw the disappointment in his face,” Wilson said. “I felt like just shooting that deer in the episode is really awesome.” Jeff Bevins, Creston Schools activity director, said the show — which offered many laughs as well as tears — captured Tanner’s personality well.
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Nathan Carroll, left, 7, of Creston prepares to break a board held by mixed martial arts fighter Steven Behlers at Henry’s Martial Arts Tuesday evening. Pictured middle is owner Josh Henry.
“He’s got a great sense of humor, can really communicate with people, and he just doesn’t quit,” Bevins said. “He just keeps pushing and pushing and pushing and, like the video showed, he got his deer, he just kept working at it.” Tanner’s next goal: to shoot a buck. But until then, he said he wants his story to inspire others who may be struggling. “I hope that I may reach somebody out there that’s going through a similar situation and be like, ‘Hey, I can do it,’ and maybe just give them that extra boost to get them over the hump,” Webb said. “The Plan” will air on the Outdoor Channel 10:30 a.m. Saturday, 3:30 p.m. Monday and 8:30 a.m. Sept. 4. To see video of David Holder talking about his experience working on the show, as well as reactions to last night’s screening, visit www.crestonnews.com.
Farm profits to fall second consecutive year DES MOINES (AP) — It will be a less profitable year for farmers as low grain, milk and hog prices cut into income, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials say. The abundance of grain leftover from last year’s crop and 2015’s anticipated harvest of the third-largest corn crop and second-largest soybean crop on record have kept prices below the cost of production, while the cost of seed, fertilizer and land has dropped only slightly. Net farm income is expected to decline 36 percent to $58.3 billion, the USDA said in a report released Tuesday. That’s down from last year’s $91.1 billion and the lowest in nine years. Just two years ago, net farm income was the highest ever, $123.7 billion. Last
year, sliding grain prices were offset in part by record livestock prices. This year, both are down; crop receipts are expected to fall 6.2 percent and livestock receipts will be down 9.1 percent. Expenses, however, won’t drop very far — less than 1 percent. The pinch will translate into many farmers having to dip into savings or increase borrowing. “A lot of the cash reserves that we’ve built up over the past few years, that’s what we’re burning through right now to offset this lost income,” said Chad Hart, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University. Farm debt is forecast to increase by 5.8 percent, the report said, but that “financial risk ratios remain in acceptable ranges for now.”
Driver’s license app being tested in Iowa DES MOINES (AP) — The Iowa Department of Transportation employees have started testing a mobile driver’s license app as part of a new pilot program. MorphoTrust USA, the company providing the software for the app, announced the start of testing Wednesday. The pilot program
involves state employees testing the app in various settings. According to department director Paul Trombino, the agency is not ready to release the app for customer use. There is not set date for when the app could be released to the public.
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