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Creston News Advertiser Wednesday, October 29, 2014
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Deaths Robert ‘Bob’ DeVore Elk Horn
Robert “Bob” DeVore, 91, of Elk Horn, formerly of Corning, died Oct. 27, 2014, at Salem Lutheran Home in DeVore Elk Horn. Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, at Pearson Family Funeral Service, 701 Seventh St., Corning. The Rev. Fred Bryson will officiate. Interment will be in Carl Cemetery in Adams County. Visitation is open to the public. Visitation with family present will be one hour prior to the service Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials may be given to the family to be determined later. Online condolences may be left at www.pearsonfuneralhomes. com. Robert “Bob” DeVore, son of Millie Louisa (Madison) and Harrison Hayes DeVore, was born April 13, 1923, in Adams County. Robert attended Country Schools in Adams County
Maurice Holtmyer Greenfield
Maurice Holtmyer, 93, of Greenfield died Oct. 27, 2014, at Winterset Health Care Center North. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, at the United Methodist Church in Greenfield. The Rev. Eric Schubert will officiate. Buri-
Vivian Green Glendale, Ariz.
Vivian Viola (Brown) Green, 97, died on Sept. 24, 2014 in Glendale, AZ. She was born to Alfred D. Brown and Bernice (Pot-
and graduated from Corning High School in 1940. Robert entered the U.S. Army in 1944 and served with the 40th Infantry Division during WWII. Bob was honorably discharged in 1946; he returned home and married Mary Drake on Nov. 10, 1946, at the First Baptist Church in Corning. Robert farmed until 1953 and then opened a welding and machine shop in Carl. Robert was a member of Williamson American Legion Post No. 719, Blacksmith and Welder group and the United Methodist Church in Carl. Robert is survived by his daughter Dianne (Dale) Lind of Atlantic; daughterin-law Jeannine (Bob) Harris of Atlantic; grandchildren, Holly (Jason) Wailes, Brad (Lindsey) DeVore and Amber Lind, all of Atlantic, and Adam Lind of Omaha, Neb.; and six great-grandchildren. Robert was preceded in death by his parents; wife; son Rex DeVore; grandson Noah Lind; sisters, Darlene Conatser and Naomi Johnston; and brothers-in-law, Clifton Conatser and Millard Johnston.
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al will be in Hebron Cemetery. Full military graveside rites will be conducted by Greenfield American Legion Head-Endres Post No. 265 and V.F.W. Post No. 5357. Open visitation will be 2 to 7 p.m. today at Steen Funeral Home, 101 S.E. Fourth St., Greenfield. Visitation with family present will be one hour prior to services Thursday at the church.
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tinger) Brown in Prescott, IA on July 12, 1917. Services for Vivian will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, at Prescott United Church in Prescott, Iowa. A luncheon will follow.
scheduled board meetings until the possible February vote. “This is not a sales pitch,” McDermott said. “This is a matter of informing folks so they can make an informed vote when a vote comes along.” Prescott School Board previously discussed consolidation with Lenox and Corning school districts, but discussion didn’t lead anywhere. “They (Prescott board members) would hate to see the district dissolve, so that is why they have gone this direction,” McDermott said. According to McDermott, the tax levy rates will change in Creston and Prescott if the consolidation does continue. After a four-year transition period, tax levy rates in Creston will decrease from its current rate of $15.18, while rates in Prescott will increase from its current rate of $9.57. McDermott also said there are many details, such as school name, that still need to be ironed out before a final decision is made. AEA site Creston board members discussed the future of the former AEA site, located on North Lincoln Street, with Creston administration during the October meeting. “If we are going to get rid of it, just to get rid of it, there might be a use for it,” said Creston Board Member Galen Zumbach. “I guess, as a board
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debris down onto the launch area and into the ocean. Ground crews were ready to access the fire-stricken area of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility at daybreak Wednesday to search for accident debris. The company’s Cygnus cargo ship was carrying 5,000 pounds of experiments and equipment for NASA, as well as prepackaged meals and, in a generous touch, freeze-dried Maryland crabcakes for a Baltimore-born astronaut who’s been in orbit for five months. All of the lost materials will be replaced and flown to the 260-mile-high space station, NASA’s station program manager Mike Suffredini said. The six-person space station crew has enough supplies to last well into spring. The accident is sure to draw scrutiny to the space agency’s growing reliance on private U.S. companies in the post-shuttle era. NASA is paying billions of dollars to Virginia-based Orbital Sciences and the California-based SpaceX company to make station
member, I’m just looking for some input from the administration.” Board members discussed selling the property, keeping it for the district’s own use or sharing it with Southwestern Community College, whose administration has shown interest. Currently, the college is using the property for practicing students taking Zumbach a commercial driver’s license course. “It doesn’t necessarily need to be sold, but it could be,” Zumbach said. “I would support both if the rationale was there.” Board members and administrators came to a decision to speak with SWCC President Barb Crittenden about the possibility of sharing the property in the future. Teacher The move to add another firstgrade teacher came about because of an influx of students in the first-grade class. There are 13 students more than expected. “That number, 13, is significant enough that a Band-Aid I don’t think is the way to go,” McDermott said. The board members considered several options, including hiring a long-term substitute, before deciding on hiring a new teacher. The board also received input from
deliveries, and it’s counting on SpaceX and Boeing to start flying U.S. astronauts to the orbiting lab as early as 2017. It was the fourth Cygnus bound for the orbiting lab; the first flew just over a year ago. SpaceX is scheduled to launch another Dragon supply ship from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in December. “Today’s launch attempt will not deter us from our work to expand our already successful capability to launch cargo from American shores to the International Space Station,” NASA’s human exploration chief, Bill Gerstenmaier, said in a statement following the accident. Until Tuesday, all of the supply missions by Orbital Sciences and SpaceX had been near-flawless. President Barack Obama has long championed this commercial space effort. He was in Wisconsin for a campaign rally and was kept informed. Orbital Sciences’ executive vice president Frank Culbertson said the company carried insurance on the mission, which he valued
Creston first-grade teacher Paula Jacobson, who was present at the meeting. “Right now, kids are pretty pliable still,” Jacobson said. “If it’s someone who has some experience, those kinds of things are the things that sell parents. The first-grade group would still work as a team.” The teacher who is hired at Creston Elementary School could possibly continue up the ladder as a second-grade instructor during the 2015-16 school year. “I just think, right now, we are putting out a lot of fires all day long because of so many kids,” Jacobson said. “That’s why I think a lot of people in our team would feel more comfortable with another section.” Board members planned to discuss the addition with parents before going through with it. In other school board news: • Board members approved the district contract with Pepsi for products to be sold in school. They also approved the district Title I contract. • Anthony Donahoo, EAST instructor, resigned his position as ninth-grade boys’ basketball coach. • Casey Tanner, Creston Middle School math instructor, was contracted as assistant middle school wrestling coach. Donahoo was contracted as ninth-grade girls’ basketball coach. Waunita Watt was contracted as bus driver. Todd Jacobson was contracted as ninth-grade boys’ basketball.
at more than $200 million, not counting repair costs. The explosion hit Orbital Science’s stock, which fell more than 15 percent in after-hours trading. John Logdson, former space policy director at George Washington University, said the explosion was unlikely to be a major setback to NASA’s commercial space plans. But he noted it could derail Orbital Sciences for a while given the company has just one launch pad and the accident occurred right above it. At a news conference Tuesday night, Culbertson and others said everyone at the launch site had been accounted for and the damage appeared to be limited to the facilities. He noted that the cargo module was carrying hazardous materials and warned residents to avoid any contact with debris. “Certainly don’t go souvenir hunting along the beach,” he said. Things began to go wrong 10 to 12 seconds into the
flight and it was all over in 20 seconds when what was left of the rocket came crashing down, Culbertson said. He said he believes the range-safety staff sent a destruct signal before it hit the ground, but was not certain. This was the second launch attempt for the mission. Monday evening’s try was thwarted by a stray sailboat in the rocket’s danger zone. The restrictions are in case of just such an accident that occurred Tuesday. Culbertson said the top priority will be repairing the launch pad “as quickly and safely as possible.” “We will not fly until we understand the root cause,” he said, adding that it was too early to guess how long it might take to make the rocket repairs and fix the launch pad. It will take a few weeks, alone, to assess the damage and extent of potential repairs. Culbertson also stressed that it was too soon to know whether the Russian-built engines, modified for the Antares and extensively tested, were to blame.
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Take flight: With the help of Mrs. Thatcher, center, Katie Maneely and Joshua Lopez experiment with a hair dryer and ping pong ball Oct. 8 at Science with a Twist club at the East Union ASPIRE after school program. Forty-two youths from the science club made predictions and tested their hypothesis about different types of airplanes. The lesson was on air pressure and aerodynamics.
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