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‘THE REGIFTERS’ More than 250 tickets were sold to Crest Area Theatre’s play “The Regifters” over the weekend. Shows were Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the SWCC Performing Arts Center. The play was directed by Jerry Huffman and assisted by Kelly Franklin.
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Program seeks to bring doctors to rural Iowa DES MOINES (AP) — An effort to add more doctors in rural Iowa through a state-run loan forgiveness program moved forward this year, though backers say they still need more funding. The first group of students was awarded funding through the Rural Iowa Primary Care Loan Repayment Program this year. The eight recipients — four from the University of Iowa and four from Des Moines University— will each get up to $200,000 in loan aid in exchange for working for five years in small town Iowa. Dr. Brent Hoehns, a family physician in Knoxville who is board chairman of the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians, said this kind Please see DOCTORS, Page 2
CNA photos by KYLE WILSON
Left, Bridget Henshaw (Pam Hoffman) covers the eyes of her husband Loras (Rod Tostenson) and asks him to guess what she is wearing. Loras guesses incorrectly, then mistakenly tells her her dresses sometimes fit “too snug” during this scene from Crest Area Theatre’s play “The Regifters” Friday evening. Above, Jeff Cunningham (Ronn Vandevender), right, plugs his ears with candy canes after his mother begins telling the birds and the bees during the play held at Southwestern Community College Performing Arts Center in Creston. Left, his wife Lauren (Angie Rounds) doesn’t want to hear the story either.
Peppers, winterguard first at state DES MOINES — The Creston Peppers secured their sixth-straight state title in the light routine competition at the Iowa High School State Dance and Drill Team Competition Thursday and Friday at Wells Fargo Arena and Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines. The Peppers also placed fifth in the alternating performances category for their hiphop routine. Meanwhile, the Creston Salts and Peppers coed dance took second overall. The two teams are under the direction of Meg Haines. Also, Creston’s winterguard performed Friday at the competition and placed first overall in their class. This is the second time the program has won a state title. The other was in 2011. They are under the direction of Lisa Peters. “I’m very proud of this group,” Peters said, “especially because we only had seven practices before the competition. A lot of our winterguard is in marching band and the musical, plus we had the Thanksgiving holiday.”
MORE ONLINE: See all photos from Crest Area Theatre’s play “The Regifters” online at www.crestonnews. com by clicking on the photos tab. Right, Tom Mulligan (Bill Mullin) and Mary Mulligan (Julia WeisshaarMullin) receive a gift from their neighbors the Henshaws, but cannot figure out its purpose. Tom thought it might be an astrolabe. The couple considers selling this “miscellaneous” item on eBay, but instead regifts it to the Cunninghams.
Storm weakens after leaving 21 dead SAN JUAN, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Hagupit weakened into a tropical storm Monday after leaving at least 21 people dead and forcing more than a million into shelters, while sparing most of a central Philippine region still reeling from last year’s monster Typhoon Haiyan. Hagupit made landfall shortly before nightfall in the resort town of San Juan in Batangas province, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Manila, the capital, with maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers (53 miles) per hour and gusts of 100 kph (62 mph). But a few hours later, Manila still was experiencing only slight winds and light rain.
Forecasters, however, said Hagupit could still generate storm surges that could overwhelm coastal villages. In the capital, police officers were asking people to stay away from a promenade beside Manila Bay for safety reasons. More than 2,800 villagers moved to emergency shelters in San Juan, a low-lying and flood-prone town popular for its beach resorts, including 220 people huddled inside a gymnasium as torrential rains pounded. “It’s really scary if you’ve watched what happened during Haiyan,” said Please see STORM, Page 2
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Bill Krejci, escorted by Tracey Evans (right), is greeted at center court by Dr. Barb Crittenden, Southwestern Community College president, at Saturday’s ceremony for Krejci’s induction into the SWCC Athletic Hall of Fame. Evans is SWCC’s student activities coordinator and a longtime colleague of Krejci, who retired this year as athletic director and fundraiser. For more on the induction ceremony, see page 5A.
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