THROWBACK NEWS
Twenty years ago, 27 motorcycles participated in a toy run, parading through town. To see what else happened 10, 20 and 50 years ago, see THROWBACK THURSDAY, page 2A. >>
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The Creston volleyball team’s season ended Wednesday in a tough 3-2 loss to Shenandoah. For more on the Panthers, see SPORTS, page 10A. >>
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Wet conditions slowing SWCC Week harvest to a halt 2017 highlights
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alcohol awareness By ALEX FELKER
CNA staff reporter afelker@crestonnews.com
Next week is SWCC Week 2017 at the college’s Creston campus, and students can look forward to a variety of fun activities throughout. For the first time, the college has decided to combine alcohol-awareness activities with its seventh annual SWCC Week. Alongside activities like 18 holes of “Twisted” putt-putt — in which students will use items like toilet seats or tennis rackets to putt — and
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Tim Dunphy operates the combine at left in a corn field north of Highway 34 along Iris Avenue east of Creston in October 2016, while Todd Dunphy hauls the trailer at right. With soybeans having a moisture content too high for harvesting at the time, the cousins switched to corn fields in an attempt to make up for lost time in a rainy harvest season. Above average rainfall totals over the past week have once again put area farmers behind in their harvesting efforts.
By SCOTT VICKER
CNA managing editor svicker@crestonnews.com
Frustrating. That’s how Gavilon Grain Manager Dean Michaelson described this year’s harvest. “It’s just been frustrating being able to get into the fields,” he said. “It was too dry in July when you needed the rain. We had a cool August. It’s been frustrating on soybeans these last three weeks, because just
when it gets ready to go, it rains again. That’s the biggest frustration.” After a wet spring, Union County and surrounding areas, especially to the east in Clarke and Decatur counties, experienced drought conditions for much of the summer, beginning in late May and extending through August. The average rainfall amount for Creston in July is 4.39 inches for the month, but Creston received just .76 inches.
According to Harry Hillaker, state climatologist with the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Creston received 1.42 inches of rain this past weekend. Rain totals for the weekend in Ringgold County were .75 inches in Mount Ayr and .67 inches in Beaconsfield. “This time of year, you typically get .6 inches per week,” Hillaker said. “So, for the area, anywhere from a normal rainfall week to about double the usu-
al week. And, that wasn’t all the rain we had this past week. In the Tuesday night Hillaker t i m e frame (Oct. 10), would have been a fair amount of rain over your area, as well.” Ringgold County farmer Matt Daughton is in the HARVEST | 2A
a zombie escape room, students will learn about alcohol while making mocktails and participating in a drunk driving simulator. “We do it every year,” said Southwestern Community College (SWCC) Director of Marketing and Enrollment Managing Terri Higgins, “and we try to vary the activities from year to year so Higgins SWCC | 2A
The Haunted Trail returns to Afton By TYRA AUDLEHELM Sharman Lowenburg’s Mini CNA staff reporter taudlehelm@crestonnews.com
Ghosts and ghouls will help raise funds and inventory for the East Union ASPIRE “More” Food Pantry during the Haunted Trail. The third-annual Haunted Trail will be 7-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at Dale and
Golf Course south of Afton. “You’ll be terrified,” Sharman said. There will be spooky treats served for adults and children of all ages. The Haunted Trail is a guided walk, and the scare factor will be lowered according to TRAIL | 2A
SCOUT KINDNESS Creston Girl Scout donates 125 cases of water to disaster relief ■
By ALEX FELKER
CNA staff reporter afelker@crestonnews.com
A local Girl Scout recently raised 125 cases of water to be donated to the Salvation Army for hurricane and disaster relief. Kaya Fiebelkorn, 8, is a third-grader at Creston Community Elementary School. On Saturday and Sunday of this past weekend, Kaya raised money outside of the Creston Hy-Vee with the support of Store Manager Jeremy Odem. “As people started to come in, and she gained more and more momentum, she just got more and more excited, and how can you say no to that?” said Odem. “She was smiling,
and excited, and it just gets you excited too. Especially for something like this that Odem doesn’t even benefit her.” Kaya has been a member of the Girl Scouts for four years. She is a Brownie, Juliette, meaning she doesn’t belong to a particular troop of scouts. Kaya works on her own toward earning badges, raising money for camps and completing service trips. According to Kaya, she has earned “a lot” of badges during her time with the Scouts — though her favorite one was kayaking. In one excited sentence, Kaya explained, “I earned it by — when I was in Exira — I went kayaking and got lost and a person helped me paddle the way back when I was tired!”
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Pictured, from left, is Creston Hy-Vee Store Manager Jeremy Odem, Millie Fiebelkorn and daughter Kaya Fiebelkorn and Assistant Manager Brian Davis Wednesday afternoon, standing among 125 cases of bottled water Kaya raised for hurricane and disaster relief.
But Kaya’s reasoning for starting up a relief drive here in Creston, all on her own, was well beyond her
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years. “Because people that are getting in danger, and people that are getting
hurt don’t have any water probably,” Kaya said. “Because it either got caught in the fire or damaged by
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