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CLARINDA — The Creston Panther Marching Band kicked off its season the right way Saturday winning best overall band at the 58th annual Southwest Iowa Band Jamboree. Fifty-one bands participated in the jamboree. Creston Panther Marching Band placed first in both the field and parade competition — winning the Glenn Miller trophy for the third time in Creston history. The Panthers also won the trophy in 1999 and 2012. “It’s a great way to start,” said Mike Peters, CHS band director. “We couldn’t be happier, but I also told the kids we have a lot of work to do. We haven’t arrived yet, by any stretch of the imagina- Peters tion.” Creston freshman percussionist Ben Irr was named outstanding marcher at Clarinda Saturday. The CHS marching band will be back in action Saturday performing at Valleyfest — an invite-only event. Also noteworthy, Creston Middle School Band placed third overall in Class 3A at the Clarinda Jamboree. As well, Lenox High School Band placed first in Class 1A.
By BAILEY POOLMAN
CNA staff reporter bpoolman@crestonnews.com
As outside temperatures cool down, Fire Prevention Week heats up. Fire Prevention Week, sponsored by National Fire Protection Association, started Sunday and continues to Saturday, and the theme is “prevent kitchen fires.”
Fire Prevention Week
Gary Thompson, Creston fire captain, said he will be giving PowerPoint presentations to children during the week to teach them about fire safety. “On Monday, I’ll start presentations in the public schools,” said Thompson. “I’m going to do five presentations.” Monday and Tuesday there will be presentations for the first- and second-grade students, and third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students. “The object of the week, of course, is fire prevention,” Thompson said. “We’ve had a couple tragedies here in the Creston area, and it’s obviously much easier to teach kids not to do things.” Thursday and Friday, Thompson will give presentations to students at Mayflower and St. Malachy schools. “That’s our goal, is to reduce fire. If they do have a fire, we make sure we teach them the lessons of what they should do so that they can escape and do it safely,” Thompson said. “We know that we’ve had success from actual fires that we’ve had, when we’ve arrived and the kids have come up to me and say, ‘I did just what you told me,’ and actually, from the stories I can tell you, they may have saved themselves and their brothers and sisters.” Wednesday, Creston Fire
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Creston volunteer firefighters Adam Leith and Patrick Baker wait for an order to douse a fire in water approximately 5 a.m. May 2.
Department is hosting a pancake supper 5 to 7 p.m. at the fire station. After the supper, the firefighters will participate in a training burn of two rooms built side by side by Southwestern Community College carpentry students. One room has a residential sprinkler system, and the other does not. The burn is to teach about the safety of sprinkler systems.
History
Fire Prevention Week initially kicked off in 1951, on the 40th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. The fire in Chicago is so named because the fire burned 3.3 square miles of the city, and killed hundreds of people. There was $222 million in damage to the city, including 17,500 buildings, between two and three million books and 73 miles of roads. One of the most popular stories of how the fire started was of a cow knocking over a lamp in a barn, but many other stories have circulated as to what ignited one of the worst fires in United States history.
Creston food pantry moving
Side-by-side training
MATURA family food bank — currently located at 300 E. Montgomery — will soon be relocating to the MATURA administration office at 207 N. Elm St. MATURA Executive Director Ron Ludwig said citizens wanting to donate food can bring it to the new location starting Oct. 21. “Before that date, food can still be donate at the East Montgomery location,” he said. “Right now, we are doing OK on food, but we will need donations soon just because we are approaching one of the busiest times of the year with Thanksgiving and Christmas.” Ludwig said the reason for the move is to consolidate MATURA services in one building. He added, all services currently being offered will still be supplied at the new location with one exception — they will no longer take donated clothing items. “There are other agencies that provide clothing to those in need,” Ludwig said. “We felt it to be an unnecessary duplication.”
slated Wednesday after pancake dinner Creston Fire Department will have a side-by-side training burn Wednesday after the annual pancake dinner. Money for the training burn came from a grant the department received. Creston Fire Department is one of 15 stations nationwide to receive the grant. Two rooms will be built Tuesday, one with a residential sprinkler system and one without. Southwestern Community College carpentry students will build the rooms. “Todd (Jackson, fire chief) stopped by and asked if we’d be interested in learning some things about residential sprinkler systems, and asked if we’d participate in this burn,” said SWCC carpentry instructor Dennis Downey. “And so, we just agreed it would be a good fit and good learning experience.” The students will build one of the rooms with a sprinkler
system similar to what would be in a commercial building. They will learn many of the same skills building the rooms as they would for a house project. “There’s going to be pressurized sprinkler heads and water lines,” Downey said. Downey said most small towns haven’t adopted part of city code requiring sprinkler systems. “It’s been the code, but the municipality isn’t adoping it, I believe for economic reasons,” said Downey. “I think it’s good the students get training on it.” The rooms will be unfinished, with the sprinkler system and some furniture inside. “I think they’re really excited to watch it burn,” Downey said, “and see the difference between the ‘sprinklered’ room and ‘unsprinklered’ room.”
CNA photo by JAKE WADDINGHAM
Crop walk: About 45 participants from nine churches braved the chilly and wet conditions for the 2013 Crop Hunger Walk in Creston Sunday afternoon. Despite the poor walking conditions, the group raised a record $7,372.19 and not all funds have been collected yet. More than 35 boxes of food and $818.05 was donated to MATURA after Saturday’s food drive at Fareway and Hy-Vee.
Mile-wide tornado
Multiple tornadoes — including one a mile wide — struck Iowa Friday evening with the most extensive damage coming in Sloan and Moville — both located about 20 miles from Sioux City. Sioux City Journal reports the storm damaged and destroyed homes, buildings and crops. Hail was also reported in Moville, where the National Weather Service said a mile-wide tornado touched down. It was seen just before 7 p.m. Friday. Six confirmed tornadoes were reported in Iowa Friday.
Royalty:
CNA photo by BAILEY POOLMAN
Harper Spurrier and Chantz Davidson, from left, are all smiles after winning Orient-Macksburg’s homecoming queen and king Saturday. Candidates for queen, along with Spurrier, were Kortney Frisbie, Rusti Anglin and Lexie Dunmire. Candidates for king, along with Davidson, were Wyatt Hensley, Cody Hagle and Brett Cheers. The theme was “Hollywood Homecoming.”
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