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Thursday October 24, 2013

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Dirt work contractor decided for bus barn project

By JAKE WADDINGHAM CNA staff reporter

jwaddingham@crestonnews.com

he temptation for diesel users to save a few bucks at the pump by filling up with red-dyed diesel could lead to major fines if they are caught red handed by the Iowa Department of Transportation.

Red-dyed diesel should only be used for agricultural purposes in tractors, combines and other equipment that is typically not used for highway travel.

Clear diesel is used in semitrailers and trucks and has a highway tax of 47 cents more per gallon.

“They put a dye in the red diesel so a person can easily look at it and see if it is legal or illegal,” said Iowa DOT Captain Dean House.

If a driver is caught illegally using red-dyed diesel in a semitrailer or truck, the fine is $10 per gallon with a minimum fine of $1,000 for the first penalty by the Iowa DOT. The individual or trucking company is also subject to investigation by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

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By BAILEY POOLMAN

CNA staff reporter bpoolman@crestonnews.com

Creston School Board named a contractor for dirt work for the Creston School District bus barn project during a special meeting Wednesday.

The bus barn will be located in an empty lot north of the original site on the eastern side of the drive.

C and J Conservation of Creston, owned by Cody and John Waltersdorf, was recommended by Superintendent Steve McDermott, and the board voted unanimously for the company. Board member Ron Dunphy was absent.

C and J Conservation put in a bid of $192,680 for the dirt work of bus barn project, which includes excavation, sewer work and parking lot McDermott surfacing.

McDermott said work will begin on the site soon.

“I’d say within the next few days, actually. As soon as possible, actually, because of changing weather conditions,” said McDermott.

An engineer’s projected cost for dirt work at the site was $211,445, which is $18,765 more than C and J Conservation’s bid.

KM King Construction of Burlington also bid for the dirt work project at $276,593. The company’s bid was $65,148 more than the projected cost.

“Both were responsive bidders and had reputations for having done quality work,” McDermott said.

“Both contractors had local ties to the community. It’s nice to see contractors with those ties interested in the project.”

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The risk of saving a few dollars at the pump using red diesel could leave users with large fines down the road ■

what onsite equipment can legally use red diesel. If the fuel usage record does not match up with the equipment, the individual or company is subject to more fines.

In Creston, the new fuel pumps at Farmers Cooperative on Osage Street offers red-dyed diesel for agricultural use and clear diesel for highway use.

Darin Schlapia said the pumps are clearly marked to prevent any confusion for diesel users that need to refuel.

“The pump has a sticker that has road master for the clear and the dyed is called ruby field master,” Schlapia

said.

He said the pump is also labeled under the price, which should be another indication of the difference in dyed and clear diesel.

Higher temptation House said the temptation to use dyed diesel is greater when farmers are in the field planting or harvesting, but he added violators typically run on red diesel year round.

“We’ve caught them all 12 months of the year,” House said. “during regular DOT inspections, during special enforcement projects or if we get a report. It is not uncommon for us to get a call and complaint.”

Please see BUS BARN, Page 2 CNA photo and illustration by JAKE WADDINGHAM and BROOKE McINTOSH

Top, red-dyed diesel is used in tractors, combines and other equipment and is not taxed for highway use. Using it in vehicles for highway travel can lead to large fines from the Iowa DOT and IRS. Above, red-dyed diesel is less expensive than clear diesel because clear diesel has a highway tax of 47 cents more per gallon.

QUICK NEWS USDA resumes payments for CPR land The U.S. Department of Agriculture said farmers should start to receive checks for land in the Conservation Reserve Program (CPR) soon.

Vickie Friedow, chief conservation and compliance specialist, said the USDA was forced to delay checks because of the government shutdown. While the money was still able to come in, no one was in the office to approve the checks and send them out to farmers.

“Most are direct deposit,” Friedow said. “We hope to have a large amount done.”

The payment cycle for CPR land came in Oct. 17, but wasn’t available for counties until the 21st because of the shutdown. Friedow said they have 30 days to make the payment.

The Iowa DOT uses a long, clear tube — similar to a straw — to probe the fuel tank. The officer holds his or her thumb over the straw to trap the fuel and withdraws the tube.

If there is any red tint, he or she then uses a pump to take a sample of the fuel in a sealed container and sends it off for testing.

The reason it is sent off for testing is to make sure the red tint is not from red transmission fluid that is used to clean fuel injectors.

The Iowa DOT also makes random checks at the co-op when farmers are bringing in their crops from the fall harvest.

“They will show up about once a year (randomly) and probe and test everybody’s tanks,” Schlapia said.

House warned there are no special circumstances that allow road vehicles to use red diesel.

“Sometimes they will put it in if they have an emergency and they are low on fuel,” House said. “That still won’t work, they can’t have it in there.”

Creston PTO carnival scheduled Nov. 1 The Creston Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) carnival is slated 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at Creston Elementary/Middle School.

This year’s carnival will include activities like face painting, temporary tattoos, bottle toss, bounce house, speed cup stack, cake walk, celebrity cake auction and more.

Participants can purchase wristbands for the carnival in advance for $13. Wristbands can be used with no limit at most games and activities. Today is the last day to purchase the wristbands for $13. After

today, wristbands for the carnival are $15.

“We are really pushing this event,” said Callie A n d e r s o n , Anderson Early Childhood Center principal. “We have limited some of our other fundraisers and are devoting all our energy to this carnival. This event is parents and teachers working together. All money goes directly back to the classrooms.”

Game tickets can also be purchased individually for 25 cents each. Each game costs between one and eight tickets. Games are slated 5:30 to 8 p.m. The silent auction and raffle begins at 8 p.m.

A walking taco meal deal will be available starting at 5:30 p.m. The meal will cost $5. A concession stand with slushies and popcorn will also be available.

Volunteers are still needed for the event. If you want to volunteer, contact the PTO president via email at ptopresident@crestonpto.org, or

by visitTODAY ing their is the last Faceday to get b o o k page at wristbands Panther for $13.

Pride After today, PTO. they are $15.

T h e carnival is a fundraiser with proceeds going to fund teaching supplies, technology, books and more. The PTO hopes to generate funds to enhance education. Children are asked to come with an adult to the carnival.

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BUS BARN: Continued from Page 1

bids for the steel building and doors Wednesday, as well as bids for initial concrete work.

The next package for companies to bid on will be the sprinkler system pack-

age. Plumbing and heating and cooling work will be done in-house.

“It’s just a matter of bringing these different pieces together, “ McDermott said.

“We need to keep the momentum going. It’s been too long already.”

‘Beardtober’: Raising the banner for right to grow facial hair GRAND FORKS, N.D. (MCT) — Jason Carey’s interest in growing a beard has grown way beyond what he ever could have envisioned, he said.

It’s grown into a mission to celebrate the bearded face, linked with a way to support the local Circle of Friends Humane Society.

A few years ago, the Grand Forks, N.D., man and his friends were talking about how men should not be denied the right to grow facial hair by wives, girlfriends or employers.

“I should be able to grow a beard and not get flack for it,” he said.

What began as kind of a local joke evolved into a campaign when Carey and his friends declared October as “Beardtober,” a month dedicated to facial-hair freedom.

“Last year, we invited others to join us,” Carey said.

Through Facebook, Beardtober attracted more than 260 like-minded folks around the country.

Bearded men post photos of themselves, beard-related humor and pictures that show the progression of beard growth.

There are no rules to participate, Carey said. Beards may be trimmed to a narrow line, shaved to a goat-tee or left to grow naturally.

“People put on pictures that you don’t see a lot on Facebook.” And it’s not just men who’ve taken up the cause, he said. “We have more female members than male in support.”

While he won’t go as far as to say beards make a man look sexier, he said, it may explain the majority female interest.

“It’s kind of a George Clooney thing. It’s fun for the guys.

I think they enjoy getting comments from the ladies on how much more distinguished and attractive they look.”

He’s concluded that “wom-

en like facial hair and like to see it once in a while.”

This year, the Grand Forks Beardtober group decided “if we have that many people, let’s take it to the next level,” he said. “Let’s do something for the greater good.”

So, a fundraising goal has been added, with members voting on which charity should receive the funds. The Circle of Friends Humane Society in Grand Forks was chosen.

Carey designed a logo to imprint on T-shirts which are being sold for $20 each to raise funds. The group also offers an online donation site where 100 percent of the proceeds go to the humane society, he said.

“It’s amazing how many people want to support it,” he said. In addition to area friends, others have signed on from California, Arizona, Massachusetts and North Carolina.

The group has set a goal of $1,000, Carey said. “I just want to see it get as big as it can.”

He and his family are animal lovers and have adopted pets from the humane society, he said. “They rely on a lot of volunteer effort.”

The example he’s setting for his two teenage children is important, too, he said.

“I want to show my kids, you may be one person, but you can do something with your life. They know, when October is coming, dad’s going to grow a beard.”

Celebrating the beard may also help change any lessthan-positive connotations that some may harbor, he said.

“There are times when a beard may give off a certain stereotype about a person.”

He’s noticed some negativity about beards in past professional jobs, he said. His current employer is “absolutely” supportive.

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Police say boy killed by deputy had turned toward him with fake rifle SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. (MCT) — A 13-yearold boy carrying a pellet gun that resembled an assault rifle was fatally shot by a Sonoma County, Calif., sheriff’s deputy when the youth turned the barrel in his direction, police said Wednesday.

A single deputy fired at Andy Lopez, killing him on the sidewalk at the edge of an empty lot in Santa Rosa, Lt. Paul Henry of the Santa Rosa Police Department said during a news conference, according to The Press-Democrat newspaper.

“The deputy’s mind-set was that he was fearful that he was going to be shot,” Henry said.

Lopez, a Santa Rosa eighth-grader, was walking through a southwest Santa Rosa neighborhood carrying a pellet gun that resembled an AK-47 assault rifle when he was spotted about 3 p.m. Tuesday by two deputies on routine patrol, Henry said.

The teen had his back to the two deputies, said Henry, whose department is investigating the shooting.

They stopped, took cover behind the doors of their patrol car and ordered him to drop the weapon, Henry said.

Lopez was 20 to 30 feet away, he said, adding the deputies did not realize he was a boy.

The deputy, a law enforcement veteran, believed the AK-47-styled pellet gun “was an authentic weapon,” Henry said.

“He has quite a bit of experience with this kind of weapon. He’s aware of the kind of damage these kinds of weapons can do,” Henry said.

He also was aware such a weapon can fire ammunition that “can penetrate his body armor, can penetrate the metal of his vehicle, and also the sides of houses and buildings in the area,” Henry said, according to the newspaper.

Earlier Wednesday, Sonoma County Sheriff Steve Freitas said in a statement

that the shooting was a “tragedy” and that he would do everything he could to ensure the investigation was thorough and transparent.

“As a father of two boys about this age, I can’t begin to imagine the grief this family is going through,” he said.

Deputies also found a plastic handgun in the boy’s waistband, said sheriff’s Lt. Dennis O’Leary.

The deputies, who have not been identified, have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard after a shooting, he said.

—————— ©2013 Los Angeles Times Distributed by MCT Information Services

Work begins to demolish Newtown school massacre site NEWTOWN, Conn.

(MCT) — The firehouse is still there, just as it was on the day of the shooting, except for the 26 bronze stars adorning its roof: one for each victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

The school is still there too, a short walk up the road, but not for long. This week, gates guarding one of the nation’s most notorious crime scenes quietly swung open to heavy machinery and construction trucks as work began to demolish the campus where 20 first-graders and six school employees died Dec. 14.

Rarely has a major teardown been conducted in such a hushed manner, but rarely has a project been steeped in such tragedy and debated in the midst of a town in mourning, in full view of those hit hardest. Newtown, though, is moving forward, say residents and leaders, who point to the exhaustive meetings that decided the school’s fate — just five months after the shooting — as proof of the town’s determination.

The town has announced that it will forgo official ceremonies marking the massacre’s first anniversary; it asked for a halt to gifts that for months poured in, from individuals as well as organizations; and it tackled the practical matter of the school’s future before considering whether to erect a permanent memorial. A panel to deal with that issue was not named until this month.

“I think this is really one of the ways in which our community does go forward, in that we are all in this together,” Newtown’s highest elected official, Patricia Llodra, said on May 15 after the 28-member Sandy Hook School Task Force voted unanimously to

demolish the school and build a new one on the same spot.

“We’ve ended up in a place that is the best we could do, under horrible circumstances.”

In an Oct. 5 referendum, the town voted to fund the project with a $49-million state grant. “Yes” votes were 4,504; “no” votes totaled 558.

If all goes according to plan, the demolition will be finished well before the December shooting anniversary.

The work site will be shielded from public view. Every piece of metal, glass, brick and concrete from the low-slung buildings, the playground, the jungle gym and the driveway will be pulverized to prevent chunks of the tragedy from becoming souvenirs. The new school’s entrance will be relocated to save people from having to pass the firehouse where anguished parents waited hours before learning their children were dead.

On Monday, as autumn leaves fell like golden flakes across the hilly neighborhood surrounding the shuttered school, workers were in the beginning stages of the project, one of dozens the task force considered.

Even if construction proceeds as planned and the new school opens in 2016, some of the more than 400 children displaced from Sandy Hook and sent to a temporary school in neighboring Monroe will have reached middle school by then. They will never spend time in the new structure.

That concerned some parents of Sandy Hook kids, who spoke at the task force’s five meetings and at a public forum Jan. 13. Voices shook in frustration at times as speakers opposed to the demolition argued that it was a waste

of money and that it would deny traumatized children the chance to return to familiar, comfortable surroundings.

Many speakers grew up in Newtown and attended Sandy Hook themselves. Tearing it down, they said, would be akin to destroying part of the neighborhood’s soul and surrendering to the evil carried out by the shooter — 20-yearold Adam Lanza — whose name rarely is uttered here.

“The hardest thing I’m having to deal with is ... the feeling that we didn’t just lose 20 children and six adults. We’re letting him take the building too, and he’s winning,” said one parent, Peter Barresi, whose son was a first-grader at Sandy Hook when the shooting erupted.

Since then, Barresi’s little boy, now in second grade, has attended class in the Monroe school, which was built for middle school pupils. Its classrooms are too small to accommodate the games and nap times of younger children, and the toilets are too high for

them to reach without stools, he said.

But other parents, and most employees of the Sandy Hook school, said they could not imagine entering the school again or dropping their children off there.

“Our family has not asked for anything since Dec. 14, except that the building ... be razed and the new Sandy Hook school be located at a new location,” Brian Engel, the father of shooting victim Olivia Rose Engel, 6, told the task force as it debated moving Sandy Hook elsewhere in the neighborhood.

Other proposed sites came with their own issues, including the possibility that some residents could be forced to sell their properties to make way for the construction.

“As a community, we’ve all been hurt. Let’s not hurt anyone else and take away their houses,” resident Michael Coppola pleaded during one meeting. say goodbye.”

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Driver’s license

Schedule of driver’s license examiners: Bedford: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Taylor County Courthouse, 407 Jefferson St. Corning: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., treasurer’s office, Adams County Courthouse.

Driving tests on Wednesday mornings by appointment.

Creston: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., treasurer’s office, Union County Courthouse, 300 N. Pine St. Driving tests Wednesdays. Call 782-1710 for an appointment.

Greenfield: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., treasurer’s office, Adair County Courthouse, 400 Public Square.

Mount Ayr: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., treasurer’s office, Ringgold County Courthouse, 109 W. Madison St. Osceola: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Clarke County Courthouse, 100 S. Main St. Winterset: Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., Madison County Courthouse, 112 N. John Wayne Drive.

Thursday

Celebrate Recovery (a Christcentered 12-step program), 6 p.m., Crest Baptist Church, 1211 N. Poplar St. Gambler’s Anonymous, 7 p.m., Assembly of God Church, 801 N. Fillmore St., Osceola.

Al-Anon, 7:30 p.m., Crossroads

Mental Health Center, 1003 Cottonwood Road.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) open meeting, 7:30 p.m., St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

Friday

Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 107 W. Howard St. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) brown baggers, noon open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. No smoking.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 12 by 12 study, 7 to 8 p.m., United Church of Christ, 501 W. Montgomery St. Use east door.

Narcotics Anonymous (NA), 8 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

Prairie Lawn Cemetery Association annual meeting, 7 p.m. Saturday, home of Scott and Dixie Moore.

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Southwestern Community College Board of Directors, 7:30 a.m. Monday, president’s office, Administration Center.

Agenda includes: consideration of contracts for architect and construction manager for dormitory project; set date for hearing on earthwork and major utilities and footings and foundations; consider resolution instituting proceedings to take additional action and directing publication of notice for the sale and issuance of not to exceed $10,000,000 dormitory revenue bonds, series 2014; consider resolution declaring an official intent under treasury regulation 1.150-2 to issue debt to reimburse the community college for certain original expenditures paid in connection with specified projects.

Police

Creston Men’s Fellowship non-denominational Bible study, 7 a.m., The Windrow.

Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, 9 a.m. to noon, 107 W. Howard St. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 7:30 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

Sunday

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), noon open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 7:30 p.m. open beginners meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

Monday

Union County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m., Union County Courthouse boardroom.

between 8 a.m. and noon Friday to make four online purchases.

Loss estimate is $153.89.

—————— Kristina Adamson, 607 N. Maple St., reported there was an attempt to break in to her residence between midnight and 12:10 a.m. Wednesday.

Adamson did not believe anything was taken.

Damage estimate is $50.

Miscellaneous Traffic stop, 12:15 a.m., Wednesday, North Sumner Avenue.

Domestic dispute, 1:44 a.m., Wednesday, North Poplar Street.

Talk to officer, 8:23 a.m., Wednesday, South Pine Street.

Talk to officer, 8:39 a.m., Wednesday, North Maple Street.

Incomplete 911 call, 9:34 a.m., Wednesday, Commerce Road.

Talk to officer, 10:34 a.m., Wednesday, Academic Avenue.

Accident, 12:09 p.m., Wednesday, North Elm Street.

Reckless driving, 1:13 p.m., Wednesday, South Sumner Avenue.

Suspicious person, 2:35 p.m., Wednesday, North Elm Street.

Harassing communication, 2:43 p.m., Wednesday, North Sycamore Street.

Vandalism, 2:54 p.m., Wednesday, South Cherry Street.

Talk to officer, 3:45 p.m., Wednesday, West Montgomery Street.

Accident, 3:49 p.m., Wednesday, West Taylor Street.

Traffic stop, 4:17 p.m., Wednesday, South Sumner Avenue.

Escort, 5:19 p.m., Wednesday, North Oak Street.

Trespassing, 7:41 p.m., Wednesday, North Pine Street.

Christopher Keller, 22, 604 S. Maple St., was charged 4:24 p.m. Wednesday in the U.S. Cellular parking lot with driving while revoked.

According to a Creston Police report, an officer observed Keller operating a motor vehicle. The officer knew Keller’s license was either suspended or revoked, and performed a traffic stop. The officer confirmed Keller’s license was revoked when he failed a test for operating while intoxicated.

Keller was being held in the Union County jail on $1,000 bond.

Fire —————— Miscellaneous Kayla McDonald, 301 S. Medical, 10:44 a.m., Elm St., reported her debit Wednesday, West Townline card information was used Street.

Markets Grain prices quoted at 10 a.m. today: • Farmers Co-op, Creston: Corn — $4.30

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Creston News Advertiser Thursday, October 24, 2013

OPINION The change of weather is upon us

It looks like we are finally getting into the real fall weather this week. The trees are at the height of their glory. The colors are looking really nice and this weekend should be a good time to drive around southwest Iowa and take in all the splendor. The amount of ducks and geese flying around seems to be higher than usual.

The harvest is also in full swing, and I always like to stop and watch a field or two being picked. The mountain of corn is starting to grow at the local co-op. Get out and take a look around — nature is working overtime right now. As I look out the window right now, snow showers are making their first appearance of the year.

What’s up Rich Paulsen publisher

Halloween A week from today all the little goblins will be out trick or treating.

If the extended forecast is any indication, it may be a nice Halloween this year. The forecast I read is calling for temps in the mid-50s during the day and cooling off toward the evening.

Bright Eyes, the annual fundraiser and good time for kids in the park, is this Saturday. The good

time is at McKinley Park and always attracts a lot of kids and businesses to the event. It’s a good way to spend a few hours with your little goblins.

Flu shots Don’t forget to get your flu shot.

It is that time of year where the “creeping crud” starts to rear its ugly head. At least if you get a flu shot, you might have a good chance of missing out on the fun.

Sports The end of the fall sports season is getting close. This weekend is the end of the football regular season and volleyball is also getting near the state playoffs. Several of the area high school teams look to make the playoffs. Also, cross

country and swimming regionals are about to take place.

Apples I think I have eaten about 100 apples over the past month. The apples this year sure are good. The wet and cool spring got the apples off to a good start. Some of the apples I have bought at the orchard in Nebraska City are just “humongous.” Some of the honeycrisp apples I purchased are about the size of grapefruits. Plus, they are just super sweet this year. Remember “an apple a day...keeps the doctor away.”

Monday This Monday is the Creston News Advertiser’s Holiday to Holiday event out at the SWCC gym. The

fall event has more than 30 booths brought to you by local merchants.

It will also give you many ideas for the coming holiday season. Plus, a number of the booths have goodies to sample — always a plus.

Tickets are $5 in advance and $8 at the door, and it is an entertaining evening. Lots of door prizes will be given away, too.

Thought for the week: “Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars.” — Orson Welles, Halloween 1938. Many took the message seriously and panicked.

Kanye West rented a stadium and orchestra HOLLYWOOD — God bless America, and how’s everybody?

Kanye West rented a stadium and orchestra to propose to Kim Kardashian Monday in San Francisco. Wise move. If you’d just had a baby with a girl whose godfather is O.J. Simpson and a Nevada judge just ruled he could get out in a year, you’d put a ring on it too.

USA Today reported a huge increase in medical school enrollments this year. Do the math. You take four years of college, add four years of medical school and three years of residency, it’s still faster than waiting online for ObamaCare, plus you get to treat yourself.

President Obama urged Americans to have patience while trying to enroll in ObamaCare and he vowed to fix the website. He has got a point. If millions of Americans bailed out on every Internet website that was difficult to navigate they might go without sex for years.

The ObamaCare website asked applicants about their diet, exercise regimen, sexual habits and drinking habits on the application form. It’s personal but necessary.

They cross-check your answers with the NSA to make sure it’s really you applying for Obamacare.

The White House press secretary fumed when a reporter compared the ObamaCare rollout to the Hindenburg. That’s a really unfair comparison. The Hindenburg, after all, had a swastika on its tail wing, and so far ObamaCare only fines you for disobeying orders.

President Obama’s Rose Garden speech was halted when a pregnant woman fainted behind him Monday. She’s okay.

Topical humor Argus Hamilton

President Obama’s first instinct was to add smelling salts to ObamaCare, while Bill Clinton would have apologized for being so much like Elvis, and George W. Bush would have patted her belly and vowed that we will get whoever did this.

President Obama urged Congress to work together in a bipartisan way to get things done Monday. However cooperation is just not in their DNA . By and large Republicans hate new legislation, while Democrats don’t care what’s in a bill, as long as it’s mandatory.

Russia said state revenues have doubled since they adopted a low flat tax and ended high taxes on the rich. That’s telling. So the Cold War didn’t end twenty-five years ago, it was just halftime and at halftime the teams switch sides and defend the opposite goalposts.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington Tuesday reported that a record ninety million Americans are out of the workforce. It’s not just emotionally debilitating.

The latest research shows that unemployment plays a role in early death, unless you’re a miner.

Google stock soared Monday as the rollout for Google Glasses neared. These glasses record and post everything you see and everything that is spoken to you.

The possibilities are so exciting it’s sparking a movement to give Bill Clinton a third term in the Oval Office.

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GLITCH.GOV In a White House speech, President Barack Obama assured the public that his new health-care law is up and running even in the absence of a functioning website.

He told people they can call an 800 number instead of buying coverage online. Reporters duly called the number and got busy signals, or when getting through and following the directions, got referred back to healthcare.gov.

This, no doubt, is another “glitch,” the administration’s catchall word for the fact that it is almost impossible to enroll for insurance under Obamacare. It is a sign of just how bad it is that a new word has been added to describe the dysfunction, which is now occasionally referred to as “glitches and kinks.” If the website ever has to be abandoned entirely, the president and his spinners will surely maintain it was undone by “glitches, kinks, snags, bugs and hiccups.”

Euphemism aside, it must be dawning on the White House that it is presiding over a fiasco that not only threatens the viability of its health-care law, but President Obama’s central conceit that the mandarins of the administrative state are wise and capable enough to manage a large portion of our national life. They aren’t even wise and capable enough to develop a website when given three years and $400 million to do it.

The initial excuse for the failure of healthcare.gov was sheer volume, but only the molten core of the president’s loyalists still mouth this line. People whose job it is to

King Features commentary Rich Lowry

successfully use the website have barely been able to successfully use the website. It took a CNN reporter a week to create a login and two weeks to proceed with her application. Healthcare.gov is worthy of a Joseph Heller novel.

Consumer Reports tried to give potential users some advice. First, follow very carefully the needlessly complicated instructions for creating a password that has at least seven characters and at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one number and one symbol. Second, as soon as you encounter a problem logging on, start over, since you can’t believe what the error messages tell you.

If you happen to make it through, keep a sharp eye out for an email confirming your account, or you’ll soon be timed out. Finally, when verifying your identity on the site, you may want to do it from a different browser than the one you registered from.

Got it? The publication’s bottom line: “Stay away from Healthcare. gov for at least another month if you can.”

Going old school isn’t much easier. Megan McArdle of Bloomberg View talked to a representative at an Obamacare call center who said you could fill out a paper form,

but it would take three weeks for it to be sent to your house and, after you send it back, a couple of more weeks until you are notified of your eligibility for subsidies.

The representative wasn’t clear on what happens next.

The Medicare and Medicaid agency running the healthcare.gov project took upon itself the overall tech management of it rather than handing that task off to a contractor. Managing a tech project of this size is not a core competency of government, but then again, neither is taking over the individual insurance market. Obamacare already risked creating a so-called adverse selection death spiral, i.e., sick people disproportionately signing up for the exchanges. The website increases the chances of it by deterring less motivated consumers from enrolling.

Presumably the administration can get the website to work eventually, although it will almost certainly be more difficult than the promise of a “tech surge” suggests. Once government has fouled up a project like this, it isn’t so easy to untangle.

Britain undertook a program to upgrade the information technology of the National Health Service in 2002. Nine years and 6 billion pounds later, the government had to scrap the program entirely.

It must have run into a glitch.

Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com (c) 2013 by King Features Syndicate

CHURCH Afton ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH, Browning and Filmore Streets, William Richardson, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship service. Wednesday, 7 p.m.

Bible study and youth. Saturday, 7:25 a.m. “In the Mirror” radio program on Creston Radio.

ST. EDWARD CATHOLIC CHURCH, 104 W. Union St., Rev. Ken Halbur, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m.

Mass (this week only); after Mass, breakfast and Confession.

Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. Mass.

Wednesday, 6:15 p.m. religious education classes; 6:30 p.m. devotions. Thursday (10/31), 7 p.m. All Saints Holyday Vigil Mass.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Joel Sutton, pastor.

Sunday, 9:45 a.m. worship.

Monday, preschool. Tuesday, preschool. Wednesday, preschool; 6 p.m. Wednesday school.

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UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Joel Sutton, pastor.

Sunday, 8:45 a.m. worship. Monday, 1 p.m. Quilters.

Thursday (10/31), 9 a.m. Quilters.

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UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Rick Hawkins, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship service.

Clearfield

AREA BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH, Ron Christian, pastor; Keith Lorenz, associate pastor; 641-336-2409; website www.areabiblefellowship.org.

Sunday, 10 a.m. worship service; 11:15 a.m. Sunday school.

Weednesday, 6:30 p.m. AWANA. CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Sherry Wiley, lay speaker.

Sunday, 9:15 a.m. worship; 10:30 a.m. Sunday school.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Shurmaine McAlpine, pastor.

Sunday, 8 a.m. Sunday school; 9 a.m. worship.

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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 907 Grove Ave., Ken Rummer, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. worship services.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 901 Nodaway St., Andrew Bardole, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. adult Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship service.

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH, Dan Lamgo, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. worship service. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. prayer service.

MESSIANIC MISSION SEVENTH DAY, 405 11th St. Sabbath services, second and fourth Saturdays. Call 641-3223386 for time and place.

REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH, 800 17th St., Philip Ritter, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school and adult Bible study; 10:45 a.m. worship with Holy Communion. Wednesday, 9 a.m.

Bible study.

ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 504 Grove, Ave., Lazarus Kirigia, pastor.

Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Mass.

Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Mass; 7 p.m. youth group. Wednesday, 2 to 5 p.m. religious education classes.

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ABUNDANT LIFE FAMILY CHURCH, 500 S. Birch St., Douglas R. Brunell, pastor, (641) 782-5766, email alfc@ iowatelecom.net; website www.

AbundantLifeFamilyChurch.com.

Sunday, 10:30 a.m. children’s church and worship service; 6:30 p.m. evening worship service.

Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. worship and Kid’s Club. Thursday, 6:30 a.m. Men of Honor; 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Light Switch teens.

APOSTOLIC LIGHTHOUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, 600 N. Lincoln St., Paul Vandevender, pastor, 782-5594.

Sunday, 10 a.m. Sunday school and worship service; 5:30 p.m. prayer time; 6 p.m. worship service. Wednesday, 7 p.m. worship service. Home Bible study, call 782-5594.

RIVER OF LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD, 417 Wyoming Ave., Karen Norton, lead pastor, 641782-4236, e-mail crestonrolag@ gmail.com.

Friday, Movie Night, “Courageous,” at the Norton home.

Snacks provided.

Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Church Work/Cleanup Day. Bring lunch and tools/cleaning supplies. Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school classes for all ages; 10:35 a.m. morning worship; children’s church ages 5-12, nursery available upon request; 5 p.m.

Bonfire/weiner roast at Linda and Joe Hewitt’s home in Afton.

Monthly fellowship time honoring October birthdays and anniversaries. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. prayer time in the sanctuary; 7 p.m. Family Night Activities; Kids Klub (ages 4-12), fellowship hall; CYOF, youth room; adult Bible study (Ephesians), sanctuary.

Thursday (10/31), 7 to 10 a.m.

Coffee Cafe. Bring a coffee mug and hang out in fellowship hall.

Mini muffins included.

CHURCH OF CHRIST, 510 S. Poplar St., Timothy L. Haynie, evangelist.

Sunday, 10 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m. worship service; 7 p.m. J.O.Y. class adult study hour. Wednesday, 7 p.m. youth group at 216 N. Walnut St., adult group at the church.

COMMUNITY OF CHRIST, Creston Congregation (RLDS), 820 N. Elm St., Elder Gary O’Daniels, pastoral coordinator.

Sunday, 9:15 a.m. praise and inspiration, Rochelle Porter; 9:30 a.m. church school class; 10:30 a.m. morning worship, Darl Ferguson, presider; Ken Mallas, speaker.

CREST BAPTIST, affiliated with Southern Baptist Convention, Poplar and Townline streets, Chuck Spindler, pastor. Website: www.crestbaptistchurch.com.

Today, 6 p.m. Celebrate Recovery; 6:30 p.m. Women’s Bible study at the home of Peggy Stroburg. Friday, 8:30 a.m.

“Operation World” prayer meeting; 9:30 a.m.

Women’s Bible study at church.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Bible study (all ages); 10:45 a.m. worship; 6 p.m.

Legacy Journey. Wednesday, 6:30 a.m. prayer meeting; 6:30 p.m. TeamKid/Youth ministry.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 1001 N. Lincoln St., David Tebbenkamp, pastor; Dan Fields, youth pastor.

Today, 6 p.m. CBM Banquet, Maranatha Baptist Church in Grimes. Sunday, 8:45 a.m. worship service with special speaker Doug Admundson; 10:15 a.m. Sunday school hour; noon Dynamic Ambassadors carry-in lunch; 4:45 p.m. adult choir cantata practice; Melody Makers (grades 1-6) and Faithful Followers (grades 7-9) choir practices; 6 p.m. family worship service with special speaker Doug Admundson; 7 p.m. all-church meal, fellowship hall. Tuesday, 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Ladies Bible study, “Anxious for Nothing” by John MacArthur, Chapter 4 at Loy Christensen’s, 1000 N. Vine.

Wednesday, 6 p.m. Triumphant Praise choir rehearsal (senior high); 6:30 p.m. AWANA clubs and junior high trek; senior high youth group; adult prayer meeting and Bible study. Thursday (10/31), 6:30 p.m. “Light the Darkness,” Treat ‘N Trunk.

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST), 301 E. Townline St., Dianna Clark, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. adult and children’s Sunday school; 10 a.m.

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Sunday, 9 a.m. worship; 10 a.m. Sunday school.

Prescott United Church dinner planned PRESCOTT — Prescott United Church will host an Election Day dinner 5 to 7 p.m.

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Menu includes: ham and meatballs, sweet poworship service. Tuesday, 9 a.m. parish nurses in; 9:15 a.m. staff meeting; 1:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Tootles. Wednesday, 6 p.m. praise and worship service.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, 104 N. Oak St. Sunday, 11 a.m. church service.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 702 W. Prairie St., the Rev. Jim Woodworth, interim pastor.

Friday, 1:30 p.m. craft workshop. Sunday, 9:15 a.m. worship, “A Simple Thank You,” Psalm 107:1-3; 10:30 a.m. Sunday school; 11:30 a.m. ASP thank you dinner. Tuesday, 1 p.m. Stitch, Knit and Quilt. Wednesday, 9 a.m. Revelation Bible study; 5:30 p.m. Joyful Noise; 7 p.m. choir practice.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 400 N. Elm St., Gideon Gallo, pastor, Jim W. Morris, associate pastor. Call 641-7822427 for a ride.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. worship services; 9:15 a.m.

Sunday school. Tuesday, 9 a.m.

Summit House Bible study.

Thursday, 12:05 p.m. United Methodist Men. GOD’S OUTREACH DELIVERANCE, 306 N. Oak St., 641-278-1173, Pastor JoAnna and Tyrone Davis, 515-249-3364.

Monday through Saturday, 8 to 10 a.m. prayer and worship.

Today, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Women’s service. Friday, 7 p.m. Friday Night Fire service. Saturday, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Men of Christ breakfast (first and third of month); noon Saturday Sack Lunch for Kids; 2 to 3:30 p.m. drama/ dance practice for youth; 5:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday Night Live for youth. Sunday, 10:30 a.m. worship service; 6:30 p.m. evening service.

Monday, 5 p.m. Monday Night Meal.

Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. evening service. Wednesday, 5 to 6 p.m.

Intercessory prayer.

HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH, 107 W. Howard St., Rev. Ken Halbur, pastor.

Friday, 7 a.m. Mass, St. Malachy Chapel; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ReRun shop. Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon ReRun shop; 4 to 5 p.m. Confession; 5:15 p.m.

Mass. Sunday, 8:15 to 8:45 a.m.

Confession; 9 a.m. Mass; 1 p.m.

First Reconcilation parent/student meeting, St. Malachy School.

Monday, 5 to 6 p.m. Adoration, St. Malachy Chapel; 6 p.m. Mass, St. Malachy Chapel; 6:30 p.m.

Scripture study, St. Malachy School library; 7:15 p.m. Board of Education meeting, St. Malachy School. Tuesday, noon to 5 p.m.

ReRun shop. Wednesday, 9:15 a.m. St. Malachy School Mass; 7 p.m. religious education classes (grades 1-8), St. Malachy School; 7 p.m. Knights of Columbus officers meeting, hall. Thursday (10/31), 7 a.m. Mass, St. Malachy Chapel; 7 p.m. RCIA, hall.

JERUSALEM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Gideon Gallo, pastor, Jim W. Morris, associate pastor.

Sunday, 8 a.m. Bible study; 9 a.m. worship service.

KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, 1000 Cottonwood St. Sunday, 10 a.m. public talk and Watchtower study. Thursday, 7:30 p.m. congregation Bible study, ministry school and service meeting.

PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF

GOD I.M. “Mana del Cielo,” 417 Wyoming Ave. The Rev. Miguel Delgado, phone 515-473-2527.

Saturday, noon worship.

Sunday, 1:30 p.m. worship.

PLATTE CENTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 6 miles south on P27 (High and Dry Road), 1 mile west, one-fourth mile south, Delores Doench, pastor.

Sunday, 9:15 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. fellowship time; 10:30 a.m. worship.

SALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH, 602 W. Townline St., 641-7822920, Ben McIntire, pastor.

Website: www.salemluth.net.

Blog: www.benmcintire.wordpress.com.

Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday school and adult education; 10 a.m. worship service. Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.

Quilters. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Confirmation class; 7 p.m. choir practice.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 104 N. Oak St., Jared Miller, pastor, 515-897-7919, email jaredandkatiem@gmail. com.

Saturday, 9 a.m. worship service; 11 a.m. Sabbath school.

SOLID ROCK MINISTRIES, 1216 N. Cherry St. (corner of Townline and Cherry streets).

Sunday, 9:45 to 10:15 a.m.

Sunday school; 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. coffee and fellowship; 10:45 a.m. worship service.

ST. JOHN’S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, 601 S. Maple St., Dan Moore, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship service and Sunday School.

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMS), 800 N. Sumner Ave., the Rev. Jonathan C. Watt, pastor, 641782-5095, www.TrinityCreston. org.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Divine Service with Communion; 11 a.m. Sunday school and Bible classes. Monday, 12:30 p.m. preschool; 6:30 p.m.

LifeLight Bible study. Tuesday, 6:30 a.m. Early Risers Bible study at fellowship hall; 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. preschool; 1:30 p.m. LifeLight Bible study.

Wednesday, 12:30 p.m. preschool; 6:30 p.m. Confirmation classes. Thursday (10/31), 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. preschool.

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST (Congregational), 501 W. Montgomery St., the Rev. Jim Woodworth, interim pastor.

Friday, 7 p.m. AA. Sunday, 9:30 a.m. adult Sunday school; 10:45 a.m. worship, “A Simple Thank You,” Psalm 107:1-3. Monday, 1 to 3 p.m. clothing store open; 7:30 p.m. AA. Tuesday, 5 to 6 p.m. Open Table. Wednesday, 8 a.m. TOPS. Thursday (10/31), 5 p.m. SIRF.

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CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, Dan Moore, pastor.

Sunday, 10 a.m. fellowship; 10:30 a.m. worship and Sunday school; Reformation Sunday.

Monday, 12:30 p.m. prayer group, sanctuary; 1 p.m. Quilters.

Wednesday, 1 p.m. Quilters.

Diagonal

UNITED CHURCH OF DIAGONAL, Ed Shields, pastor, office 641-734-5704, www.diagonalchurch.com.

Sunday, 10 a.m. church.

Ellston

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Robin Thomas, pastor.

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UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Dwayne Henrichs, pastor.

Sunday, 10 a.m. children’s Sunday school; 11 a.m. worship service.

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CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST), 107 W. Temple St., Brian Kleinschrodt, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. worship.

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, 702 W. Ohio St. Stanley Price, branch president.

Sunday, 10 a.m. sacrament meeting; 11:15 a.m. Sunday school; 12:10 p.m. relief society, priesthood, young women and young men; 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. primary. For local information, contact Clinton Allen, (641) 3224494.

COUNTRY ROADS BAPTIST CHURCH, at 202 E. Temple (old lumber yard), Mitch Green, pastor. Website: countryroadslenox. com.

Sunday, 10 a.m. worship.

Wednesday, 6 p.m. meal and study.

MERCER CENTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 4 miles north, 4 miles west of Lenox, Franklin Rogers, pastor.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. worship service.

SALEM CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, 4 miles north, 1 mile west of Lenox.

ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 600 W. Michigan St., Lazarus Kirigia, pastor.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. Mass with religious education classes afterward. Wednesday, 7 p.m. CYO. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 103 W. Michigan St., Shurmaine McAlpine, pastor.

Sunday, 9:15 a.m. adult Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship service and Sunday school for children.

UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 401 W. Michigan St., Tim Maxa, pastor, 641-333-4214.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship service. First and third Sunday, youth fellowship. Wednesday, Evening Bible study.

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Lorimor CHURCH OF GOD, Ben Turner, pastor.

Sunday, 9:45 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship service.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Lorimor, George Henriksen, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. worship service.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Joel Sutton, pastor.

Saturday, Fall supper. Sunday, 11 a.m. worship.

Macksburg

HEBRON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Ben Carter-Allen, pastor.

Sunday, 10 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m. worship service.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Ben Carter-Allen, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship service with supervised nursery during church; 10 a.m. Sunday school. Third Thursday, United Methodist Women.

Murray

BAPTIST CHURCH, Alex Bauman, pastor.

Sunday, 9:45 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. worship services. Wednesday, 7 p.m.

Midweek Bible study and prayer meeting. Third Thursday of the month, 7 to 9 p.m. Missionary meeting.

CHURCH OF CHRIST, 430 Third St., Brian McCracken, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship services; 7 p.m. Bible Study.

Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. JAM for elementary ages; 7 p.m. junior and senior high youth groups.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Sandy Smith and Brandon Campbell, pastors.

Sunday, 10 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m. worship.

Orient

P L Y M O U T H CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 311 W. First St., Phil Price, minister.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. brunch; 9 a.m. worship services; 10 a.m.

Sunday School.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 124 S. Maple St., Cathy Nutting, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship service.

Prescott

PRESCOTT UNITED CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST), 401 6th Ave., the Rev. Steven Wainwright.

Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. worship.

Shannon City

SHANNON CITY COMMUNITY CHURCH, Lila Dell Greene, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. church service; 10 a.m. Sunday school.

Sharpsburg

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Shurmaine McAlpine, pastor.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. worship.

UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Tim Maxa, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship service; 10 a.m. Sunday school.

Stringtown

STRINGTOWN COMMUNITY CHURCH, junction of Highway 34 and Sycamore Ave., the Rev. Richard Queener, pastor.

Sunday, 9:45 a.m. worship service. Wednesday, 1 to 4 p.m.

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Thayer

PLEASANT VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Dwayne Henrichs, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship service; 10 a.m. Sunday school.

Tingley

CHRISTIAN CHURCH Sunday, 10 a.m. Sunday School; 11 a.m. worship service.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Robin Thomas, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship.

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Today, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Men’s Fraternity: “The Quest for Authentic Manhood” and “Chase” Women’s Bible study.

Saturday, 6:30 a.m. Men’s Bible study on Philippians at The Corner on the square. Sunday, 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. worship service; 11 a.m. congregational meeting; noon all-church potluck; Missions Team meeting after potluck; 6 to 8 p.m. 20s/30s group, Banks/Thompsons group, Homebuilders and The Truth Project. Wednesday, 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Cornerstone Youth Choir; 6:20 to 8 p.m. AWANA; 7 to 8:45 p.m. youth group Harvest party.

ST. JOHN’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 213 N. E. Elm St., Kenneth Gross, pastor. Website: www.stjohngreenfield.parishesonline.com.

Saturday, 4:30 to 5 p.m.

Reconciliation; 5:15 p.m. Mass.

Sunday, 8 a.m. Faith Formation (high school); 8:15 a.m. Mass.

Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Faith Formation (preK-eighth).

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 108 S.W. 5th St. Sunday, 9 a.m. worship service; 10 a.m. coffee and fellowship; 10:30 a.m. Sunday school.

Tuesday, 3:30 to 6 p.m. food bank and children’s clothes closet open; 6:30 p.m. worship service.

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Horoscope Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a wonderful day to entertain at home. Invite family over for good food and drink.

You might feel sympathetic to someone in particular.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your optimism and positive attitude attract others to you today. In fact, you might encourage someone (in a group) to approach a situation with greater sympathy and understanding.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You feel rich today and might be throwing money around.

Business and commerce are favored in the morning — less so in the afternoon. Ka-ching!

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You feel warmhearted and generous to others today. In fact, if you can do anything to alleviate the suffering of others, you will. You also want to have fun!

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Because you feel selfless today, you’re willing to put the wants and needs of others before your own. You’re not being a martyr. Quite the opposite; helping others will reward you with a sense of satisfaction.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Group activities will be friendly and enthusiastic today. Accept invitations to join others in sports, physical activities or meetings in general. You’ll be glad you did.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You make a great impression on people in authority today — bosses, parents, teachers, VIPs and the police. They see you as affable, successful and pleasant. (You might turn this to your advantage.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You will love to travel today, because you want to broaden your horizons. You’re up for adventure and are enthusiastic to learn something new. You’ll be sympathetic to people from a different culture.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Keep your pockets open, because gifts, goodies and favors from others might come your way today. This morning is a good time to ask for a loan or mortgage.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Enjoy warm relations with others today. People are in a great mood and want to have a good time. Work with others

today, because they will help you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Work-related travel is likely today. Be careful you don’t overspend money or misjudge an important financial decision, especially this afternoon.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is a romantic, playful day.

Love at first sight could spring up out of nowhere for some of you. Enjoy social outings and fun times with others.

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Others depend on you. You want your surroundings to be organized the way you want them to be. That is because you need a reliable resource to give shape to your ideas. This year, a major change might take place, perhaps something as significant as what happened around 2004.

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Taylor Rice Alex Nielsen

I began the “no social media challenge on Monday, October 14, in hopes to go without Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, And Facebook for a week. I failed miserably. I found out tha social media is definitely an additction.

I went most of the first day without getting on anythig. I was so tempted throughout the school day to reach for my phone, but I didn’t. It was later that night after football practice that i gave in and had to check Snapchat and Twitter.

Throughout those hours where I will still going strong on the challenge, I felt very disconnected from the world, because I use these sites for ways of communication: and also for ways of finding out information. I think that’s where the common misconception is.

Many people think these social media sites are just drama filled, and people just gossiping and telling their sob stories, which I see why they would think that.

Also these sites can be very useful in finding scores, giving advice, and also school information such as what time a bus leaves, etc.

“Twitter’s where I get a lot of my news. What I get in one scroll would take me 6 or 7 websites”, explained teacher Mr.Jacobson Social networking is taking over our planey whether we like it or not. It is a huge part of our daily lives, and even some jobs.

My advice to you is, use social media the right way.

Don’t be stupid about what you are doing on there, think before you post, and there should be not problems with social media.

I challenge everyone, children, teens, and adults, THINK BEFORE YOU POST.

And We’re Marching, to the Beat Madison Phelps & Allsion Norton

Heart pounding, pressure rising. Wait what am I supposed to be doing? “Creston, you may take the field in competition.” Oh No! At Valleyfest, the Creston High School band received a fifth place ranking in the 3A class proving their approximately nine hours of hard work and dedication do pay off. Jordan Phillips Phillips, a freshman in the band, said, “Practices do pay off. We get like first place in competitions from our hard work.”

“This year, because of the difficulty of the show, we had a long way to go, but we kept getting better and better,” said band director Mike Peters.

“A couple of weeks before Clarinda I was wondering if it would come together, but it did.”

Even though they practice for hours some continue to get nervous around contests and performances.

“I don’t get nervous anymore because I have gotten used to it,” said senior Ben Mullin. “However, I feel nervous especially for All-State because it’s so competitive.”

“I get nervous because I think I’m going to fall,” says freshman Olivia Hartman.

Olivia Hartman “I get a little nervous from the pressure and high expectations,” added Phillips.

“I was nervous freshman year because I didn’t know what I was doing, and senior year it was that feeling that it’s over,” said senior Kimba Shaw. “Not so much sophomore and junior years.”

“I constantly get nervous because you’re relying on 75 people to remember what to do and where to go at the same time and in sync,” said Peters.

Band kids decided and continue to decide to stay in band because of certain factors in their lives. “Music is my life, whether I’m listening to it or playing it. I view band as a stress reliever, so I go there and I enjoy it with my friends and pour my heart out with the music I play,” said Shaw.

“I’m in band because I really like music and I come from a musical family,” Mullin said.

“One, because my parents make me and two, band is my forte,” said Hartman.

The Creston High School band has a reputation with students not in band. “The high school band is very entertaining, and open to students.

Even after a few hours of no social media, I felt like I was already having withdrawals. Five days without social media was going to be a challenge, but I was up for it.

The first two days were the hardest. Even though I could communicate with friends, I felt completely disconnected. Being “out of the loop” freaked me out.

At first it was scary not knowing what was going on around me. Then I realized how relaxed and calm I was, not knowing about all the social media drama. Everything was out of sight and out mind.

It became very peaceful not knowing about all of the gossip going on in the school. It made me think about how much people thrive off of drama in high school. There are a lot more important things to be worrying about.

Being unplugged from the chaos of social media has helped me to focus more on the important things. In three hours I applied for college, studied for a test, and cleaned my room. With social media slowing me down that would have never been possible.

Unfortunately I didn’t make it all five days.

On the fourth day I got on social media to announce my acceptance to college, I wanted everyone to know.

For four days I completely unplugged from social media, which I was extremely proud of.

However, this social media cleanse really has shown me how much social media impacts my everyday life. I can’t go forever without it, but I can go a day or two.

Fox News reports that Americans spend on average, 16 minutes of every hour spent online on social networking sites. the researchers at Harvard University learned through a study that the act of sharing information about oneself activates the same part of the brain that is associated with the sensation of pleasure. The same pleasure that we get from eating food, getting money, or having

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Conquering Clarinda Taylor Suiter It’s a miraculous feat when a band of 75 can conquer bands of 120+ members.

Saturday October 12th, at the Clarinda Band Jamboree, the Creston High School marching band proved that they were up to the challenge as they took first in the 3A division parade competition and the 3A field competition. Last year Creston won the esteemed Glen Miller Award I feel that it helps people grow and requires hard which is given to the best overall band from all work,” said sophomore Lorelei Herrod. “I think it’s of the classes. This very organized and I enjoy watching it because it’s year they did not disappoint as they took home nice seeing people work together, and doing what the award for the they love. It seems very vigorous, fun, and challengsecond time in a row over returnee school Saing; altogether self-fulfilling.” vannah High School from “I think they do a really good job at performing,” said sophomore Shastin Morrison. “I Savannah, Missouri and the 4A schools of think marching band would be stressful with learn- Thomas Jefferson and Louis Central of Iowa. ing to multitask everything you have to do.”

“We’re pretty good, but there’s always room for improvement. There’s a lot of confidence, Creston has officially won the Glen Miller which is good because it shows pride within the award three times since band,” freshman Alex Miller said. entering the Clarinda Band Jamboree in 1957.

Creston High School band may have a Creston won the Glenn good reputation but it takes a lot of hard work and Miller Award in 1999, 2012, and 2013. Since support from everyone. ‘Change one thing, Change 1957 Creston has won everything.’ parade competition 11 times and the field competition 14 times.

The Creston Marching Band performing the Butterfly Effect. The color guard uses butterfly silk to capture the theme.

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Motion by Eslinger, second by White, TUITION.........................................$165.00 to approve the completed Consolidated LATHAM LAWNCARE Plan (C-Plan) Report. Motion carried MOWING.......................................$275.00 LONG, DAN unanimously.

Motion by Eslinger, second by White, PHYSICAL.......................................$60.00 to approve bid from Excel Mechanical for MARC water/gas piping to greenhouse in the SUPPLIES.........................................$65.64 amount of $3,450 which includes a $200 MARTIN BROTHS. shut-off valve to be funded by sales tax PRE SUPPLIES................................$43.22 revenue. Motion carried unanimously.

MINNESOTA CLAY Motion by Hensley, second by White, ART SUPPLIES.............................$310.15 to approve two board policies, 905.2 Debt NAPA Management Policy and 704.2 PARTS/OIL/FILTERS...................$101.87 Tobacco/Nicotine-Free Environment, and NOLTE, CORNMAN waive second reading. Roll Call vote AUDIT FEE.................................$2,100.00 showing Eslinger, Hensley, Mikkelsen, PALS, JACK FITNESS CENTER Ray and White voting aye. No nay votes.

REIMBURSEMENT........................$25.00 Motion carried unanimously.

Motion by White, second by QUILL Mikkelsen, to approve the SBRC Special SUPPLIES.........................................$76.11 Education Allowable Growth subject to RIEMAN any DE adjustments. Motion carried unan- BAND SUPPLIES..............................$8.09 SCHOOL BUS SALES imously.

Motion by White, second by Hensley, PARTS............................................$160.67 to adjourn meeting at 7:40pm. Motion car- SCHOOL OUTFITTERS CHAIR............................................$152.72 ried unanimously.

Next regular meeting will be held SCHOOL SPECIALTY SUPPLIES.......................................$219.46 November 11, 2013, at 6:30pm.

SEMINOLE Eldon Ray, Board President Julie Frederick, Board Secretary NATURAL GAS..............................$96.44 SEVIER, PAT GENERAL FUND PHYSICAL.....................................$100.00 ACCESS COPIER SUPPLIES.......................$762.92 SIRWA SEWER...........................................$225.00 ADAIR CO FP ADVERTISING................................$38.00 TASC CAFETERIA PLAN.......................$123.00 ADAIR CO HOMECARE HEP VACINE...................................$87.00 THINKING CAP QUIZ BOWL REGRISTRATION........................$146.00 AGRILAND LP.................................................$2,843.08 VERIZON CELL PHONE..................................$66.06 AKIN SUPPLIES.........................................$44.83 VISA TECH SUPPLIES/LEARNING A-Z/ ALLIANT NATURAL GAS............................$124.20 TAG.................................................$504.30 WALLACE, MCKENZIE AMERICAS BEST SERVICE AGREEMENT.............$500.00 SUPPLIES.........................................$49.68 WALMART BYERS LOCK KEYS.................................................$18.95 SUPPLIES.......................................$225.93 WICKS, CLARK CAM VINYL NAME TAGS.................................$179.00 TRAVEL.........................................$136.50 WOODWIND & BRASS CHANNING BETE CPR HANDBOOK...........................$89.27 MUSIC SUPPLIES...........................$43.97 ZELLMERS CITY OF ORIENT WATER...........................................$526.75 CULLIGAN......................................$59.00 NUTRITION CITY OF ORIENT ELECTRICITY...........................$3,746.00 AE MILK/FOOD...............................$2,104.11 CLAIMAID ADMIN FEE.......................................$5.17 BIMBO FOODS BREAD/BUNS...............................$425.34 CRESTON PUBL ADVERTISING................................$12.76 BOLTON & HAY SPOONS............................................$28.00 DES MOINES STAMP ELDON STAMP...............................$47.95 MARTIN BROTHERS FOOD/SUPPLIES.......................$4,486.54 DICK BLICK ART SUPPLIES...............................$14.74 MEYER LABORATORY CHEMICALS.................................$120.14 ECHO BULBS..............................................$28.51 PPEL EMC ACCESS SUPPLIES.........................................$95.34 COPIER LEASE.............................$762.92 EXCEL LOST REPAIRS.....................................$1,951.04 EXCEL FASTENAL AIR CONDITIONERS...............$9,660.00 SUPPLIES.......................................$130.73 NATIONAL CONTRACTORS GHAEA SHADES......................................$4,520.00 PRINTING......................................$144.20 ....................................................$40,504.03 GHAEA FIDUCIARY PREPAIDS ASSOCIATION DUES..................$125.00 RETZLAFF, ADAM GRANTHAM SANI CPR TRAINING.........................$2,960.00 GARBAGE.....................................$300.00 POSTMASTER GREEN VALLEY PEST STAMPS...........................................$92.00 PEST CONTROL.............................$71.00 IASBO HILLYARD RENEWAL.....................................$175.00 SUPPLIES.......................................$432.95 ORIENT EXPRESS HOFFMANN, ALEXA FUEL...............................................$864.54 PAINT...............................................$27.97 CLEARING HY-VEE ASLHEY WEST FCS FOOD......................................$187.73 FAIR PREMIUM..............................$11.60 IHSMA BALLARD ASSOCIATION DUES....................$37.00 XX ENTRY FEE..............................$55.00 ITEC CONFERENCE BLAKE EDDY ITEC ANNUAL CONF. REG.......$210.00 FAIR PREMIUM................................$4.08 JOHNSON WELDING BLUE GRASS CONF SUPPLIES...........................................$5.65 ANNUAL DUES............................$300.00 JW PEPPER BRANDEN SAMMONS BAND MUSIC..................................$70.43 FAIR PREMIUM................................$7.52 KIRKWOOD CASEY JAMES TUITION.........................................$165.00 FAIR PREMIUM..............................$21.80 LATHAM LAWNCARE COLE TANNER MOWING.......................................$275.00 FAIR PREMIUM..............................$12.24 LONG, DAN EAST UNION PHYSICAL.......................................$60.00 VB TOURNEY.................................$75.00 MARC ED HANSEN SUPPLIES.........................................$65.64 OFFICIAL.........................................$85.00 MARTIN BROTHS. F & M BAND PRE SUPPLIES................................$43.22 B STARTUP...................................$150.00 MINNESOTA CLAY F & M BANK ART SUPPLIES.............................$310.15 JR CLASS STARTUP......................$80.00 NAPA GARY O'DANIELS PARTS/OIL/FILTERS...................$101.87 OFFICIAL.........................................$85.00 NOLTE, CORNMAN GRAPHIC DISPLAYS AUDIT FEE.................................$2,100.00 KOOZIES..........................................$75.00 PALS, JACK GRAPHIC EDGE FITNESS CENTER XX T'S.............................................$203.70 REIMBURSEMENT........................$25.00 IHSSA QUILL CONVENTION..............................$230.00 SUPPLIES.........................................$76.11 JOE FISHER RIEMAN OFFICIAL.........................................$90.00 BAND SUPPLIES..............................$8.09 JOE FISHER SCHOOL BUS SALES OFFICIAL.........................................$90.00 PARTS............................................$160.67 JOSTENS SCHOOL OUTFITTERS YEARABOOKS..........................$2,725.55 CHAIR............................................$152.72 KEVIN CABBAGE SCHOOL SPECIALTY OFFICIAL ........................................$90.00 SUPPLIES.......................................$219.46 MARK COOLEY SEMINOLE FAIR PREMIUM................................$6.24 NATURAL GAS..............................$96.44 MARTIN BROTH SEVIER, PAT MILK MACHINE SUPPLIES.........$99.23 PHYSICAL.....................................$100.00 MARTIN BROTH SIRWA CONCESSION SUPPLIES............$273.06 SEWER...........................................$225.00 MERRITT CAVINESS TASC FAIR PREMIUM................................$4.08 CAFETERIA PLAN.......................$123.00 MIKE VITTETIE THINKING CAP QUIZ BOWL OFFICIAL.........................................$90.00 REGRISTRATION........................$146.00 MIKE VITTETOE VERIZON OFFICIAL.........................................$90.00 CELL PHONE..................................$66.06 MORGAN JAMES VISA FAIR PREMIUM..............................$17.72 TECH SUPPLIES/LEARNING A-Z/ NATIONAL FFA ORG TAG.................................................$504.30 CONF REG.....................................$860.00 WALLACE, MCKENZIE NIAAA SUPPLIES.........................................$49.68 ACTIVITY DIRECTOR................$145.00 WALMART NICK KEEFE SUPPLIES.......................................$225.93 OFFICIAL.........................................$90.00 WICKS, CLARK ORIENT EXPRESS TRAVEL.........................................$136.50 JR CLASS SUPPLIES...................$245.48 WOODWIND & BRASS SORENSEN ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC SUPPLIES...........................$43.97 PROM DEPOSIT...........................$100.00 ZELLMERS VISA CULLIGAN......................................$59.00 T-SHIRTS.......................................$799.20 NUTRITION WINTERSET AE ENTRY FEE CC...............................$45.00

North Dakota pipeline spill raises questions amid state’s oil boom WASHINGTON (MCT) — About sundown one Sunday in September, North Dakota farmer Steven Jensen noticed that his combine was running over wet, squishy earth in a wheat field he was harvesting. When he took a closer look, he saw that oil had coated the wheels and that it was bubbling up about 6 inches high in spots.

That was Sept. 29; Jensen contacted authorities immediately. At least 20,600 barrels of oil leaked onto the Jensens’ land from a pipeline owned

by Tesoro Logistics, one of the largest land-based spills in recent history. Neither the pipeline company nor the state informed the public of the spill for 11 days.

Since then, why there was a delay in disclosure has proved to be one of several fundamental questions that Tesoro and state authorities have yet to answer. No one knows how long the pipeline was leaking before Jensen discovered it, nor why sensors on the pipe failed to detect the leak. Neither the state nor the company could say what the pipeline’s capacity was. Experts on pipeline spills question the accuracy of Tesoro’s leak estimate, disputing its methodology.

Jensen estimates that more than 20 acres have been affected by the spill and cleanup effort. He says Tesoro appears to be working hard to contain the spill, but he worries that it could seep into groundwater.

The questions have stirred concerns about North Dakota’s handling of a major spill, especially because thousands of miles of pipe are being installed as part of the state’s oil boom.

“If there is a spill of any sort, the public should be told immediately, so that they have confidence that their officials are responding appropriately,” said Mac Schneider, a Democrat from Grand Forks and the minority leader in the state Senate. Schneider said he knew only what he “read in the papers.”

Tesoro said it sent a news

release about the spill on Oct. 10. Kris Roberts, who is leading the North Dakota Health Department’s work with Tesoro on the cleanup, said the state saw no need to publicize the spill immediately because the site was remote.

“It’s on top of a low hill, in the middle of a wheat field, in an area with no residents at all,” Roberts said. “The public has a right to know.

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS But do bid I have a responsibility Sealed proposals will be accepted for the following project: to run out and tell the public Workscope: Dry Automatic Fire every time there’s a spill that Sprinkler System Project: Creston Community Schools isn’t going to threaten them Bus Barn 802 the Academic Avenue or environment, and that Creston, Iowa 50801 the company Project No: 12-2288is aggressively Owner: Creston Community School cleaning up?”

District North 801The North Elm Street Dakota spill Creston, Iowa 50801 comes amid a national debate Construction Manager: TC3, LLC 1025 Ashworth Roada federal perover granting Suite 201 mit giant XL West to Desthe Moines, IowaKeystone 50265 Architect: Alan Christiansen Architects pipeline, which would trans1163 24th Street port tar sands oil from Canada Suite 100 Des Moines, Iowa 50311 to Texas.

In March,School an Exxon Creston Community District will accept bids from qualified Contractors pipeline burst in Mayflower, for the construction of the bus barn locatArk., 5,000 ed at 802spewing Academic about Avenue, Creston, Iowa 50801of until: barrels oil into a subdiviBid Time: 2:00 PM CDT Bid 7, 2013 sionDate: andThursday a lake.November In Michigan, Location of Bid: Creston Community cleanup continues on a spill School District Office 801 North Elm Street of more than 20,000 barrels of

Creston, Iowa 50801 Pre-bid Site Access: Contact Tom Stockdale, TC3, at 515-210-5630 or Roy Stroud, CCSD, at 641-782-7028 Bids shall be submitted on the Bid Form provided in the Instructions to Bidders. No oral, facsimile or telephonic bids or modifications will be considered. Bids received after the Bid Time will be rejected. The Owner will open the bids publicly and read them out loud. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and to waive any formalities or irregularities in bidding.

All contractors submitting a bid for the work are representing that they have carefully examined the site and are familiar with all conditions that may affect the Work under the Contract.

Bidders may view bid documents from any of the following locations: Creston Community School District Office, 801 North Elm Street, Creston, Iowa 50801 TC3 Office, 1025 Ashworth Road, Suite 201, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265 Omaha Builder Exchange, 4255 South 94th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68127 Des Moines Plan Room, 221 Park Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309 Electronic copies of the bid documents are available from the Construction Manager by sending a request to: tstockdale@tc3cs.com.

Please direct questions regarding this project to the office of the Construction Manager, 515-267-2488.

Bids may not be withdrawn within 45 days after the date of the bid opening.

Bids shall be accompanied by Bid Security in the amount of 5% of the total bid amount. Bid Security must be in the form set forth in the Instructions to Bidders and submitted in a separate sealed envelope clearly labeled Bid Security. Bid Security must be one of the following forms: Certified Check, Cashier's Check, Certified Share Draft, Bank Draft or Surety Bond.

Should the successful bidder fail or neglect to furnish satisfactory performance/ payment bonds, refuse to enter into a Contract on the basis of the bid, or fail to meet the requirements of this Notice, the Bid Security may be retained as liquidated damages by the Owner.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds equal to 100% of the Contract Amount and a Certificate of Insurance as defined in the Instructions to Bidders.

All bids will be governed by applicable provisions in the Iowa Code.

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Public notice ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bid proposals will be accepted for the following project: Workscope: Dry Automatic Fire Sprinkler System Project: Creston Community Schools Bus Barn 802 Academic Avenue Creston, Iowa 50801 Project No: 12-2288 Owner: Creston Community School District 801 North Elm Street Creston, Iowa 50801 Construction Manager: TC3, LLC 1025 Ashworth Road Suite 201 West Des Moines, Iowa 50265 Architect: Alan Christiansen Architects 1163 24th Street Suite 100 Des Moines, Iowa 50311 Creston Community School District will accept bids from qualified Contractors for the construction of the bus barn located at 802 Academic Avenue, Creston, Iowa 50801 until: Bid Time: 2:00 PM CDT Bid Date: Thursday November 7, 2013 Location of Bid: Creston Community School District Office 801 North Elm Street Creston, Iowa 50801 Pre-bid Site Access: Contact Tom Stockdale, TC3, at 515-210-5630 or Roy Stroud, CCSD, at 641-782-7028 Bids shall be submitted on the Bid Form provided in the Instructions to Bidders. No oral, facsimile or telephonic bids or modifications will be considered. Bids received after the Bid Time will be rejected. The Owner will open the bids publicly and read them out loud. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and to waive any formalities or irregularities in bidding.

All contractors submitting a bid for the work are representing that they have carefully examined the site and are familiar with all conditions that may affect the Work under the Contract.

Bidders may view bid documents from any of the following locations: Creston Community School District Office, 801 North Elm Street, Creston, Iowa 50801 TC3 Office, 1025 Ashworth Road, Suite 201, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265 Omaha Builder Exchange, 4255 South 94th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68127 Des Moines Plan Room, 221 Park Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309 Electronic copies of the bid documents are available from the Construction Manager by sending a request to: tstockdale@tc3cs.com.

Please direct questions regarding this project to the office of the Construction Manager, 515-267-2488.

Bids may not be withdrawn within 45 days after the date of the bid opening.

Bids shall be accompanied by Bid Security in the amount of 5% of the total bid amount. Bid Security must be in the form set forth in the Instructions to Bidders and submitted in a separate sealed envelope clearly labeled Bid Security. Bid Security must be one of the following forms: Certified Check, Cashier's Check, Certified Share Draft, Bank Draft or Surety Bond.

Should the successful bidder fail or neglect to furnish satisfactory performance/ payment bonds, refuse to enter into a Contract on the basis of the bid, or fail to meet the requirements of this Notice, the Bid Security may be retained as liquidated damages by the Owner.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds equal to 100% of the Contract Amount and a Certificate of Insurance as defined in the Instructions to Bidders.

All bids will be governed by applicable

Orient-Macksburg Community School District Board of Directors -Regular Meeting October 14, 2013 - 6:30pm The Board of Education of OrientMacksburg Community School District met in regular session at 6:30pm on Monday, October 14, 2013, in Superintendent's Office. Members present were Wendi Eslinger, Randy Hensley, Stephanie Mikkelsen, Eldon Ray and Doug White.

Also present were Superintendent Clark Wicks, Principal Teresa Thompson, Secretary Julie Frederick, Jennifer Ray, Mark Patten, Chantz Davidson, Allison Metzger, Kimberly Still and Wyatt Hensley.

President Ray called meeting to order at 6:30pm.

Motion by Eslinger, second by Hensley, to approve the Agenda. Motion carried unanimously.

Motion by Hensley, second by Mikkelsen, to approve minutes of the regular and annual organizational Board of Directors meetings of September 16. Motion carried unanimously.

Motion by White, second by Hensley, to approve Invoices, Summary of Bills and Financial Reports as presented with the exception of obtaining additional information regarding the Alliant and Seminole gas bills. Motion carried unanimously.

Motion by Hensley, second by White, to approve one open enrollment out to Creston. Motion carried unanimously.

Motion by Eslinger, second by White, to approve the completed Consolidated Plan (C-Plan) Report. Motion carried unanimously.

Motion by Eslinger, second by White, to approve bid from Excel Mechanical for water/gas piping to greenhouse in the amount of $3,450 which includes a $200 shut-off valve to be funded by sales tax revenue. Motion carried unanimously.

Motion by Hensley, second by White, to approve two board policies, 905.2 Debt Management Policy and 704.2 Tobacco/Nicotine-Free Environment, and waive second reading. Roll Call vote showing Eslinger, Hensley, Mikkelsen, Ray and White voting aye. No nay votes.

Motion carried unanimously.

Motion by White, second by Mikkelsen, to approve the SBRC Special Education Allowable Growth subject to any DE adjustments. Motion carried unanimously.

Motion by White, second by Hensley, to adjourn meeting at 7:40pm. Motion carried unanimously.

Next regular meeting will be held November 11, 2013, at 6:30pm.

Eldon Ray, Board President Julie Frederick, Board Secretary GENERAL FUND ACCESS COPIER SUPPLIES.......................$762.92 ADAIR CO FP ADVERTISING................................$38.00 ADAIR CO HOMECARE HEP VACINE...................................$87.00 AGRILAND LP.................................................$2,843.08 AKIN SUPPLIES.........................................$44.83 ALLIANT NATURAL GAS............................$124.20 AMERICAS BEST SERVICE AGREEMENT.............$500.00 BYERS LOCK KEYS.................................................$18.95 CAM VINYL NAME TAGS.................................$179.00 CHANNING BETE CPR HANDBOOK...........................$89.27 CITY OF ORIENT WATER...........................................$526.75 CITY OF ORIENT ELECTRICITY...........................$3,746.00

Special Events Business Services FALL JEWELRY SALE: Assortment of jewelry at reasonable prices. For more info call 641-3445892.

MCNEILL TREE SERVICE. Topping, Trimming and Removal. Free Estimates, insured. Call David at 641-344-9052.

IOWA'S LARGEST ARTS and Crafts Show, Oct. 26-27, UNI-Dome, Cedar Falls, Iowa. Over 300 Talented Exhibitors, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-4.

Adm.$6. A Fantastic Shopping Event.

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ATTENTION! BE WORRY FREE! Ron & Dora's Handyman Service provides yard mowing, snow removal and landscaping, house/property clean up.

Also buy-out Estates and storage units!

SWEET POTATOES, Call for any questions, pesticide free. Will be at Ron 641-782-0521 or Creston Farmers Market Dora 641-782-0520. (located at She-Nae's) Fridays & Saturdays, CLARK'S TREE & starting Oct. 4th, STUMP Removal. Free 641-772-4395.

Estimates, Insured. Call 641-782-4907 or 641342-1940.

Bright Eyes

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McKinley Park Safe and Fun Trick-or-Treating $ 5 per child Treat Bags Provided Halloween Pictures by...

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PET SITTING AND DOG WALKING Services available, call Mitzie Cellan at 641-782-6144 to discuss details.

CONVERT useful but nolonger-needed items into extra spending money with a low-cost Classified Ad. 641782-2141.

Employment USPS JOB OPPORTUNITIES NON CAREER POSTAL POSITIONS City Carrier Assistant (CCA) Salary $15.00, Rural Carrier Assistant (RCA) $15.87, Postal Support Employee Clerk (PSE) $14.89 Apply at www.usps.com Click on Careers at the bottom of the page Create your profile and apply Select IOWA Watch for postings for Creston, Afton, and the 508 area.

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Thank You

There are no words to adequately express our appreciation for all the kindness extended to our family during Ruth’s illness and death. She received wonderful and loving care at GRMC Hospice House and Crest Haven Care Center. The staff at both facilities went out of their way to make her comfortable and she enjoyed everyone’s visits who stopped by to see her. A special thanks to Alice, Sara and Kaitlyn. Also many thanks to Dr. Reeves and his staff, Joe Powers, Sam and Jerry Beaty, Pastor Dianna Clark and Jim Morris for the beautiful service, the First Christian Church ladies for a great luncheon after the services, everyone who sent cards, memorials, and expressions of sympathy and to anyone else we may have forgotten to thank.

Please know you have our deepest gratitude.

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Miscellaneous TO OUR READERS Creston Publishing Company does not knowingly accept advertising which is in violation of the law.

We do not knowingly accept advertising that is fraudulent or has malicious intent.

While we attempt to screen advertising with potential of fraud, it is impossible to screen all potential problems.

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The popularity of this trend has grown from the demand for the unexpected rustic touches, warmth and story that reclaimed wood adds to your home. “It’s easy to change up a room to create a dramatic new style with these unique floors,” says Erinn Valencich, Los Angeles-based interior designer, style expert and design partner for Quick-Step, a laminate flooring leader.

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District football standings

The Numbers Game

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The number of consectuvie World Series wins, matching the Reds for longest streak.

National Digest

Sox cruise BOSTON — Given a bit of help by the umpires and a lot more by the Cardinals, the Boston Red Sox turned this World Series opener into a laugher.

Mike Napoli hit a threerun double right after the umps reversed a blown call, Jon Lester made an early lead stand up and the Red Sox romped past sloppy St. Louis 8-1 Wednesday night for their ninth straight Series win.

A season before Major League Baseball is expected to expand instant replay, fans got to see a preview. The entire sixman crew huddled in the first inning and flipped a ruling on a forceout at second base — without looking at any video.

“I think based on their group conversation, surprisingly, to a certain extent, they overturned it and I think got the call right,” Boston manager John Farrell said.

Most everything went right for the Red Sox. David Ortiz was robbed of a grand slam by Carlos Beltran — a catch that sent the star right fielder to a hospital with bruised ribs — but Big Papi later hit a two-run homer following third baseman David Freese’s bad throw.

The Red Sox also capitalized on two errors by shortstop Pete Kozma to extend a Series winning streak that began when they swept St. Louis in 2004.

Oden returns NEW ORLEANS — Greg Oden made a surprising debut for the Miami Heat on Wednesday night and showed how far he has come in his long-term recovery from chronic knee issues.

Oden checked into the second quarter of the Heat’s preseason game in New Orleans, the first time he had played in an NBA game since Dec. 5, 2009, a span of more than 1,400 days.

On his first possession, the Heat ran a post-up play for Oden, who turned and dunked the ball. He played an eventful 80 seconds of game time in the first half, picking up the basket, two rebounds, a turnover and a foul.

He ended up playing four minutes total in the Heat’s 108-95 win against the Pelicans.

“It’s been a long time,” Oden said. “It’s been a long road for me, just to get that off my back, my first step tonight. I’m happy I’m able to walk off this court and I’m able to play another day.”

Mattingly to return LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers will bring back manager Don Mattingly for at least one more season, team president Stan Kasten confirmed Wednesday evening.

“Of course,” Kasten said. “I never had any thought he would renege on his contract. It was never a question for me.”

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Area volleyball: Murray, O-M advance to regional quarterfinals

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Playoff home game on line Friday Titans fighting for playoff spot

By LARRY PETERSON

Baker joins exclusive 1,000-yard club

CNA sports writer • lpeterson@crestonnews.com

It’s really quite simple.

Both Lewis Central and Creston/O-M will be playing with a sense of urgency Friday night at Council Bluffs.

While Lewis Central’s situation might be a little more dire, neither circumstance is ideal should a loss occur Friday.

A defeat could bump the Titans out of the playoffs altogether, if Harlan beats ADM and Glenwood moves into contention with a win over last-place Atlantic.

Creston/O-M, meanwhile, can lock up second place and a home game with a win over the Titans Friday, provided Harlan defeats ADM. A loss likely drops the Panthers to fourth, creating a situation identical to 2012 with a trip to No. 1 Sioux City Heelan looming in the playoff opener Wednesday.

A win, and a second-place finish, likely means a home game hosting Spencer. Two years ago Creston/O-M won a district title and was upset at home by fourth-place Spencer in the first round.

ADM is the two seed with a win and a Creston/O-M win over Lewis Central, dropping the Panthers to number three.

That could mean a trip to Carroll if standings hold in District 2. (Harlan would probably be matched with District 2 fourth-place Le Mars.)

So, while Spencer is no slouch — rated No. 2 in the state earlier this season — meeting the Tigers at home

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CNA sports writer • lpeterson@crestonnews. com

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKER

Creston/Orient-Macksburg senior receiver Jesse Rathe makes a catch and hangs on to the ball while a Winterset defender tries to bring him down. The Panthers travel to Lewis Central on Friday with a home playoff game on the line.

shapes up as more favorable than trips to either Carroll or Heelan.

Rams in hunt If Glenwood wins and Lewis Central and ADM both lose, points would determine the final two spots between those three.

Glenwood stayed alive with last week’s 28-17 victory over Lewis Central. Glenwood takes the number four spot with a win and wins by ADM and Creston/O-M, forcing

Lewis Central out.

Currently, Harlan is locked in as champion at 5-0.

Creston/O-M, LC and ADM are each 3-2, with Glenwood a step back at 2-3. Only Perry (2-4) and Atlantic (0-5) are out of contention.

“If they lose, Lewis Central could be completely out of it, so this is big for LC,” Panther coach Brian Morrison said.

“For us, we’re essentially looking at it as two or four, at least that’s the way we see it. Certainly, we’d like to win

Plenty to be determined in week nine

By SCOTT VICKER

CNA sports editor • svicker@crestonnews.com

Moving into week nine of the 2013 high school football season little has been decided.

Here’s what has been decided for our area teams: • Southwest Valley, Murray and Nodaway Valley are in the playoffs.

• East Union and Lenox have been eliminated from playoff contention.

That leaves plenty to still be decided in the final week of the regular season.

For instance, will Mount Ayr finally clinch its spot in the playoffs? Also, what seeds will Southwest Valley, Murray and Nodaway Valley earn?

Here is a breakdown of each team’s final regular season game, and the different playoff scenarios.

Mount Ayr Just three weeks ago, Mount Ayr looked to be sailing into the playoffs.

Now, the Raiders find themselves needing a win against Pella Christian in week nine to clinch a playoff spot.

“It’s a big game,” Mount Ayr co-head coach Delwyn Showalter said. “It’s the difference between the three and fourseed. The o t h e r t h i n g is, it’s a c h a n c e Showalter to build a little momentum going into the postseason. There’s a lot to play for.”

Mount Ayr can earn a playoff spot even with a loss to Pella Christian, but would also need losses

by Des Moines Christian against Van Meter and Central Decatur against Ogden.

The Raiders have lost two of their past three games, with the two losses coming against Van Meter and Ogden, the top two teams in Class 1A District 7. Pella Christian has lost to both Van Meter and Ogden by the same score of 14-13.

Mount Ayr is the three seed in District 7 with a win over Pella Christian. A loss to Pella Christian, and the Raiders would either fall to the fourth seed, or could miss out on the playoffs entirely if Des Moines Christian and Central Decatur win, and also pass the Raiders in point differential.

“We’ve got to cut down on turnovers and penalties,” Showalter said.

“That’s kind of a song we’ve been singing all year.

We’ve been our own worst enemy most of the time. If we can keep from stopping our own drives, that’s a big key.”

Another key for Mount Ayr, Showalter said, will be to stop Pella Christian’s power run game. The Eagles average 212.5 rushing yards per game this season.

The Raiders also need to be prepared to stop a rarely used, but effective, passing game from Pella Christian.

Southwest Valley The Timberwolves of Southw e s t Valley square off against EightMan District 8’s last-place team Essex/South Page.

Southwest Valley enters week nine in a three-way

tie for first place in District 8 with Fremont-Mills and Sidney.

Every team in the district has beaten Essex/South Page by at least 13 points this season. If all three teams tied for the district lead win, then the Timberwolves need only to defeat the Trojans by 13 points in order to sew up a district championship and the opportunity to host either Boyer Valley or West Harrison in the first round.

A win by less than 13 points, or a loss by the Timberwolves, could see them drop as far as third place in the district, depending on what else happens in the district.

“I think there’s still a good sense of urgency the job isn’t finished,” Southwest Valley head coach Kent Bass said. “The kids understand anything can happen this week.

We’ve got a lot of things to work on, but there is a good Bass sense of urgency to finish out this season the right way.”

Bass said keys to victory for his team this week include controlling the line of scrimmage, taking care of the ball and playing great defense.

“Defense has been one of our strong suits this year,” Bass said. “We have to come out and play strong, fundamental football and tackle well.”

the football game and have a chance to play at home.”

Last year, Creston/O-M went into week nine with a chance to finish first in the district, and tumbled to fourth in a tiebreaker after losing to the Titans, 16-7. Quarterback Luke Neitzel suffered a strained thumb on his throwing hand in practice, and saw only limited snaps at quarterback in the game, and the Please see PANTHERS, page 4S

When Creston/O-M senior Adam Baker rushed for 269 yards, including a 77-yard touchdown, last week against Winterset, he ran his season total to 1,051 yards, with at least two games remaining.

Not bad for a converted guard from the 2012 lineup.

Prior to last year, the 5-11, 185-pounder played running back, so the duties aren’t unfamiliar. His speed is underrated, having had success in track as a sprinter as a younger athlete. Nonetheless, it’s a strong varsity debut in the rugged District 1 competition.

“Adam runs the ball really hard,” coach Brian Morrison said. “The guys up front and (fullback) Trevor Frain have done a great job blocking, as well.”

Baker has seven touchdowns for the season. Frain, often the feature back in the direct-snap “Tank” formation, has tallied nine rushing touchdowns while Please see BAKER, page 4S

Spartans sweep Marshalltown

By SCOTT VICKER

CNA sports editor • svicker@crestonnews.com

MARSHALLTOWN — Southwestern Community College picked up yet another three-set sweep here Wednesday against Marshalltown Community College, improving to 28-9 for the season and 7-2 in ICCAC play.

The Tigers dropped to 1817 overall and 3-6 in the ICCAC. Southwestern sits just one game behind co-leaders Kirkwood and DMACC in the conference standings.

Southwestern cruised to a 25-16 win in game one, battled back for a 25-19 win in game two and won a back-

and-forth game three 27-25 to finish off the sweep.

“This was a very scrappy Marshalltown team,” Southwestern head coach Melissa Blessington said. “Our girls knew going out that they had to stay on their toes, because it was going to be a lot of balls coming back at us. We did a good job fighting each play, and I’m happy to come out of there in three sets.”

Marshalltown took a 1615 lead on Southwestern in game two, but the Spartans scored five straight points to take a 20-16 lead en route to the 25-19 win.

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Murray Murray travels to Lamoni to close out the regular Please see AREA, page 2S

CNA photo by JAKE WADDINGHAM

Southwestern’s Allyson Kocour stuffs a spike attempted by Southeastern (Nebraska) Community College’s Hannah Mitchell during the second game Tuesday night at SWCC.

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season in a game that determines whether the Mustangs will host a first-round playoff game, or whether they will hit the road for the playoffs.

The Mustangs and Lamoni both enter the contest with records of 5-1 in district play.

The winner earns the second seed in the district, behind Adair-Casey, and the loser earns the third seed.

Murray will need to slow

down the triple threat rushing attack of Daniel Ansong, Colton Ranney and Beau Bjorland. Those three have combined to accumulate 1,707 rushing yards this season with 30 touchdowns.

Nodaway Valley The Wolverines play a non-district game at Clarinda Academy in week nine, so their fate rests in the hands of Treynor.

If Treynor (3-2) defeats Panorama (4-1), then the Wolverines are the second seed in Class 1A District 8,

behind champion Council Bluffs St. Albert. If Panorama wins, then the Panthers clinch the second seed and Nodaway Valley is the third seed.

As the second seed, Nodaway Valley could play host to either Mount Ayr or Pella Christian. As the third seed, the Wolverines would travel to Ogden.

Eight-Man Back in Eight-Man games, Lenox closes its season at Fremont-Mills with a chance to play spoiler.

Panther lineup

Fremont-Mills is one of three teams tied for first place in District 8. A Tiger win would spoil any hopes the Knights have of winning a district crown.

East Union, meanwhile, finishes its season on the road against a Grandview Park Baptist team that has already wrapped up the fourth seed in District 6.

Be sure to check www.crestonnews.com Friday night for scores from around the area, along with the latest on the playoff scenarios.

Creston/O-M (3-2, OFFENSE WR Jesse Rathe 5-9 TE Levi Eblen 6-1 RT Jake Gutschenritter 6-1 RG Tayler Pettit 6-1 C Nathan Haley 6-2 LGG Cory Rathe 5-8 LT Trey Benson 6-5 WR Maxx Walters 5-8 QB Brandon Phipps 6-0 RB Trevor Frain 6-0 FB Adam Baker 5-11 PK Conner Pals 5-8 DEFENSE DE Adam Baker 5-11 DT Jordan Thompson 6-2 NG Cory Rathe 5-8 DE Alex Chapman 6-2 OLB Gavin Leith 6-1 ILB Trevor Frain 6-0 ILB Levi Eblen 6-1 OLB Jesse Rathe 5-9 CB Maxx Walters 5-8 CB Conner Pals 5-8 FS Bryce Briley 6-0 P Gavin Leith 6-1

District football standings CLASS 3A District 1 Team Dist Harlan 5-0 Creston 3-2 L. Central 3-2 ADM 3-2 Glenwood 2-3 Perry 2-4 Atlantic 0-5 District 2 Team Dist S.C. Heelan 5-0 Carroll 4-1 Spencer 4-1 Le Mars 3-2 SB-Luton 1-4 Storm Lake 1-5 Denison 0-5 CLASS 1A District 7 Team Dist Van Meter 5-0 Ogden 4-1 Mount Ayr 3-2 Pella Christian 2-3

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Southwestern then held a 17-14 lead in game three, but Marshalltown fought back to take a 22-21 lead before Southwestern closed out the victory with the 27-25 win.

Alex Duffy led a balanced attack at the net for the Spartans, finishing with 13 kills. Janaya Fox added 11 and Shelby Sullivan had nine kills.

Cassidy Yong set 41 assists

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and Molly Schimp played a good defensive match with 21 digs.

SWCC 3, Marshalltown 0 Attacks (kills) — Alex Duffy 13, Janaya Fox 11, Shelby Sullivan 9.

Blocks — Janaya Fox 3, Allyson Kocour 2, Mel Mangrum 2, Shelby Sullivan 2.

Serving (aces) — Ashley Strong 16-16 (2), Alex Duffy 15-15 (3), Janaya Fox 15-15 (1).

Setting (assists) — Cassidy Yong 41.

Digs — Molly Schimp 21, Janaya Fox 9, Ashley Strong 8.

Marshalltown Times-Republican assistant sports editor Troy Hyde contributed to this report.

Area volleyball Murray 3, Lamoni 2 MURRAY — The Murray Mustangs survived a scare from upset-minded Lamoni here Tuesday in a Class 1A regional opener, winning 3-2.

Murray came from behind to pick up the 23-25, 25-12, 17-25, 25-18, 15-11 win over Lamoni.

“A very hard fought battle in front of a nice crowd saw the Lady Mustangs pull one out after being down 2-1,” Murray head coach Jerry Shields said. “Our play at the net was big tonight, as we had 26 blocks.”

Jade Lecy led the Mustangs with 12 blocks, while Megan Oswald contributed

eight and Madison Gonseth had four.

Hannah Barber finished with a team-high 23 kills, followed by Oswald’s 14 and Cheyanne Ashby’s seven.

Kate Patton set 49 assists.

Murray advances to take on Southeast Warren at home on Tuesday in the regional quarterfinal.

O-M 3, Clarinda Acad. 0 ORIENT — OrientMacksburg knocked off Clarinda Academy in straight sets, 25-6, 25-11, 25-5 here on Tuesday, advancing to the regional quarterfinals where the Bulldogs will take on East Union.

Shyla Waldhauser served 15-of-17 with eight aces to lead the Bulldogs. Courtney Neal served 7-of-7 with four aces and Amber Rinke served 16-of-17 with four aces. Harper Spurrier finished the night 9-of-9 with three aces.

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Eads also finished with two kills for Orient-Macksburg.

The Bulldogs return to action Tuesday against East Union with play starting at 7 p.m. in Lenox in the regional quarterfinals.

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QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions ... and maybe a few actual answers

SPEED FREAKS

A couple of questions we just had to ask — ourselves

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Jimmie will decide how many guys can play Chase.

Is it now a four-man Chase again?

GODSPEAK: Yes, it’s the “Fearsome Foursome,” and Jimmie himself is the “Iron Wall.”

KEN’S CALL: If Jimmie wants three others to play, then it’s a four-man race.

What does the Talladega win mean for Jamie McMurray’s future?

GODSPEAK: As “Big Mac” watches teammate Juan Pablo Montoya pack his steamer trunk, the win means a bit of job security.

KEN’S CALL: Nothing long term. Outside of the Daytona 500, you can say that about all plate races.

ONLINE EXTRAS news-journalonline. com/nascar Do you have questions or comments about NASCAR This Week? Contact Godwin Kelly at godwin.kelly@news-jrnl. com or Ken Willis at ken.willis@ news-jrnl.com

HOT TOPICS: 3 ISSUES GENERATING A BUZZ

INFORMATION OVERLOAD

Much like Major League Baseball, the Cup Series lends itself to a wealth of statistics. This one, snagged off the NASCAR Wire Service, caught our attention. When Dale Earnhardt Jr. crossed the start/finish line to lead Lap 34 on Oct. 12 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, he logged the onemillionth mile in Cup Series competition since the transition from traditional carburetors to electronic fuel injection.

Why no fanfare? The story said, “It should come as no surprise that the milestone was decidedly under the radar, given that the switch to EFI itself has been smooth, almost seamless and virtually invisible.”

The EFI was introduced in 2012 and hasn’t missed a beat, plus team engineers now have a “cool factor” in the garage when they hook the stock cars to laptop computers and search for engine data.

SCENE STEALER Aric Almirola stole a bit of the Chase spotlight when he earned pole-position honors for Sunday’s 500-miler at Talladega Superspeedway.

Almirola, who wheels Richard Petty Motorsport’s flagship No. 43 Ford, earned the top starting position based on opening practice speeds after qualifying was rained out on Saturday.

Almirola credited teammate Marcos Ambrose, who drives the No. 9 Ford, with helping him take the unexpected honor. They drafted together during practice to nail down fast speed.

The Tampa driver said RPM took Saturday’s weather forecast into consideration before heading into Friday’s practice. The team realized a fast practice speed could become important if time trials were weathered out.

They were right.

“We went into practice with a plan, me and

Martinsville, Va.? Is this really a playoff venue?

Marcos, and we got a big run on the pack and put up a good lap,” Ambrose said.

“We knew that there was a small chance for rain (Saturday). However, obviously under the circumstances we thought it would be good to put up a good lap just in case it did rain — we would be in a good position. We had a plan and we stuck to it and it worked out, so that was good. Anytime you do that and start up front under any circumstances is good.”

Seeing Petty’s equipment on the pole was a nice respite from the Chase, which is under such intense scrutiny for 10 consecutive weeks.

Our guess is, the good folks in ham country better enjoy their place on the schedule. Once the new TV contract kicks in, beginning in 2015, some things will probably change — including the markets where NASCAR settles its championship. Martinsville isn’t likely to lose a race date, which is good news, given how doses of true short-track racing are necessary.

But a tiny market as one of the final four stops on the championship trail?

Kinda like giving the Independence Bowl a BCS date.

OVERCOMING ADVERSITY

Is that a shot at Shreveport, La.?

Michael Waltrip Racing is redefining the term “overcoming adversity.” First, it was all about getting two drivers into the Chase at Richmond. In the days that followed the regular-season finale, the team endured a firestorm of accusations of cheating and race manipulation. It not only cost Martin Truex Jr.’s place in the Chase, but cast a long shadow on the sport’s accountability.

Truex’s sponsor, NAPA, decided to move out after this season concludes. Waltrip Racing announced last week it would be a two-car team, with Truex apparently heading to Furniture Row Racing. The team said it would reduce its workforce by 15 percent in 2014 and the No. 56 will become an R&D car with Waltrip at the wheel.

Just when the team thought it had everything sorted out, Brian Vickers had to be pulled from the No. 55 car because of a blood clot found in his leg.

There’s no telling when he will be back for duty. So, what does Waltrip Racing have going for it? Co-owner Rob Kauffman is a billionaire. Yes, that eases some of the pain.

Sorta, and for what it’s worth, Shreveport’s population is about 16 times more than Martinsville. Listen, we love Martinsville. But when you’re trying to lure big-market viewers and sponsors while competing with football season, it’s time to play hardball.

Speaking of big markets, $25 million for Gordo?

According to real-estate records, Jeff Gordon “flipped” his Manhattan condo for about a $15 million profit.

Bought it for $9.7 million in ’07, sold it recently for about $25 million. They’re not leaving Manhattan, he says … just moving across town. Green Acres will have to wait.

Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach News-Journal for 27 years. Reach him at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com

FEUD OF THE WEEK

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Junior reached a NASCAR milestone … and no balloons? No fanfare? No interview with Jerry Punch? They’re slipping.

SPRINT CUP POINTS STANDINGS 1. Jimmie Johnson 2. Matt Kenseth 3. Kyle Busch 3. Kevin Harvick 5. Jeff Gordon 6. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 7. Greg Biffle 8. Clint Bowyer 9. Kurt Busch 10. Carl Edwards 11. Ryan Newman 12. Joey Logano 13. Kasey Kahne 14. Jamie McMurray 15. Brad Keselowski 16. Paul Menard 17. Martin Truex Jr. 18. Aric Almirola 19. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 20. Jeff Burton 21. Marcos Ambrose 22. Juan Pablo Montoya 23. Casey Mears 24. Denny Hamlin 25. David Ragan 26. Tony Stewart 27. David Gilliland 28. Danica Patrick 29. Mark Martin 30. Dave Blaney 31. Travis Kvapil 32. David Reutimann 33. JJ Yeley

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Jeff isn’t condo shopping in the Greater Martinsville area.

KYLE BUSCH

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Kyle Busch vs. Jamie McMurray: Busch says McMurray blocked him from making a pit stop, which caused him to drive through and pit again.

Godwin Kelly gives his take: “This is more of a minor irritation than a feud, but these little incidents are becoming a growing rash. Busch is bound to scratch that itch by Homestead.”

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Saturday, practice (Fox Sports 2, 10:30 a.m.; Fox Sports 1, noon). Sunday, race (ESPN, coverage starts at 1 p.m., green flag at 1:43 p.m.)

TRACK: Martinsville Speedway (.526-mile oval)

GODWIN’S MARTINSVILLE PICKS Godwin Kelly is the Daytona Beach News-Journal’s motorsports editor and has covered NASCAR for 30 years. Reach him at godwin. kelly@news-jrnl.com

Winner: Jimmie Johnson Rest of the top five: Jeff Gordon, Brad Keselowski, Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne Dark horse: Denny Hamlin Disappointment: Kurt Busch

First one out: David Reutimann Don’t be surprised if: Johnson wins his ninth Martinsville grandfather clock.

CAMPING WORLD TRUCKS: Kroger 200 SITE: Martinsville, Va. SCHEDULE: Saturday, race (Fox Sports 1, 1:30 p.m.)

TRACK: Martinsville Speedway (.526-mile oval)

WEEKLY DRIVER RANKINGS — BASED ON BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE JIMMIE JOHNSON Avoid Martinsville hot dogs, just in case

MATT KENSETH Wishes Martinsville offered bratwurst

KEVIN HARVICK Battling Kyle for trifecta berth

KYLE BUSCH Has commanding lead in the Busch Cup

JEFF GORDON Not really in it, but not quite out

CARL EDWARDS At stake: Head table at Roush picnic

JUNIOR EARNHARDT Chicagoland clunker dug too big a hole

GREG BIFFLE See Edwards

RYAN NEWMAN Has as many 2013 wins as Purdue

CLINT BOWYER Kansans don’t talk football

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compiling 314 yards. Quarterback Brandon Phipps has two rushing TDs with 123 yards, and Conner Pals has contributed 80 yards on 19 carries.

But Baker is the clear leader of the team’s ground attack. By surpassing the 1,000-yard mark, he joins an exclusive club of runners in the era of Dick Bergstrom (33 years) and Morrison (four years) as coaches.

The most recent was last year, as quarterback Luke Neitzel ran for 1,260 yards while also passing for 708 yards. Neitzel came close two other times, running for 954 and passing for 953 as a junior, and running for 890 as a sophomore.

Unofficially, there have been six other 1,000-yard rushers during those years.

Bergstrom’s first playoff team in 1985 included running back Todd Downing, who rushed for 1,010 and 980 yards his final two seasons.

Dennis Shaw ran for 1,200 yards in seven games his junior year in 1988, and followed with 1,142 yards the following season, when the team lost a playoff berth on a coin flip.

Jed Gammell was part of a powerful rushing attack for an 8-2 team in 1992, finishing with just over 1,000 yards.

That squad also included Kasey Downing with 800 yards and running threat B.J. Hellyer at quarterback. Hellyer split running back duties with Gammell the previous year.

Will Carroll rushed for 1,071 yards as a junior in 1994 and 960 yards as a senior.

Tyler Hanson’s knee injury problems halted what appeared to be a record-setting career as a Panther running back. He battled back from that injury, however, to finish with 2,812 career yards on seasons of 822, 890 and 1,100.

Twin brothers Gabe and Zach Stofferahn occupied the Panther backfield for most of three seasons in the early 2000s. As a sophomore running back in 2000, Gabe ran for 1,236 yards. He ran for 800 yards as a quarterback a year later, while Zach compiled 900 yards at running back.

The following season, Gabe started out at running back, but soon switched back to quarterback, while Zach, who also played cornerback on defense, re-assumed running back duties. That year, Gabe ran for 725 yards and Zach rushed for 895.

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Adam Baker takes off on a touchdown run against Glenwood on Oct. 11, one of his six games this season surpassing 100 yards rushing. Going into the regularseason finale at Lewis Central Friday, Baker has 1,051 yards. He is believed to be the program’s eighth 1,000yard rusher since 1977.

the brothers combined for 3,320 rushing yards.

Neitzel and Baker conclude the list of eight Panther 1,000-yard rushers during this 37-year segment of Panther football.

In earlier years of Panther football, Hal Sadler rushed

for a combined 2,651 yards in 1930 and ‘31. Joining Sadler on that 1931` team was Warren “Skeets” Halton, who added another 1,601 yards.

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dangerous catalyst of the LC offense. He was the winning quarterback in the matchup last year, passing 9-of-18 for 134 yards and running for 72 yards at Panther Field.

“He runs some counters and draws, but a majority of Simmons’ yards come when he gets out of the pocket, and he takes off running when the receivers are covered,” Morrison said. “He’s an elusive runner, and probably has the strongest arm we have played against.”

Last week’s outcomes played in Creston/O-M’s favor, with LC and ADM suffering upset defeats to teams below them in the standings.

It created a situation in which

the Panthers can still play for a home playoff game, something that seemed difficult after the last-second, 36-35 loss at ADM after dominating most of the second half.

“We had to fight our way back through a lot of tough teams,” Morrison said. “Now we’re in the position we want to be in, and the focus and mindset is exactly where we want it. I think our last two games have been our best two games of the year.”

Playoff pairings and a brief recap of the Lewis Central game will be available online at www.crestonnews.com late Friday night or shortly after midnight.

PANTHERS: Continued from page 1S

team had already lost running back Bryce McIlravy two weeks earlier.

Neitzel ran for the Panthers’ only touchdown and finished with 91 yards rushing.

Brandon Phipps, this year’s senior starter, was pressed into quarterback duty and went 7-of-12 for 102 yards and no interceptions.

This year, the Panthers’ injury situation seems to be improving rather than deterorating. Last week, safety Alex Nielsen returned from an ankle injury to play about half of the Winterset game.

Linebacker-guard Seth Maitlen saw only limited action, also with an ankle injury, but practiced this week.

While Nielsen and Maitlen aren’t listed as starters, Morrison said both will play Friday.

Also back in the lineup is center Nathan Haley, who suffered a knee injury against Winterset.

The Titans’ record is deceiving, losing to quality crosstown rivals Abraham Lincoln and St. Albert, 3427 and 35-28, in the first two weeks. Indianola then nipped the Titans, 21-20.

Since the 0-3 start, Lewis Central is 3-2, losing to Harlan 24-14 before last week’s loss to Glenwood.

“LC had some untimely turnovers in the red zone against Glenwood,” Morrison said. “They threw two picks.

Both teams were athletic, LC looks fast on film, but they couldn’t stop Glenwood’s run game.”

Lewis Central had the ball inside the Glenwood 10 three times in the second half but came away with just three points by all-state kicker Caleb Shudak, who kicked three field goals against the Panthers last year.

Quarterback Corey Bertini and running back Spencer Smith spearheaded Glenwood’s 432-yard rushing attack against the Titans.

Big-play threat But LC also had offensive success in the game, before the costly turnovers. Quarterback Austin Simmons ran 18 times for 169 yards. He also completed 10 passes for 132 yards and a touchdown to Jake Rodgers, the Titans’ most dangerous receiver and kick returner. Rodgers had six catches for 91 yards.

Titan tailback Ryan Main added 71 yards on 17 carries against the Rams.

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