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No infectious Knock announces retirement from ISSB disease verified at Greater Regional
Employees at Greater Regional Medical Center took precautionary measures after a potential infectious exposure yesterday morning in the Medical Arts Plaza at the hospital. Since then, GRMC Executive Director LouAnn Snodgrass reported there was no verified infectious disease at the hospital. Precautionary measures at the hospital included clos-
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From left, Iowa State Savings Bank President Kevin Stewart, ISSB CEO Karl Knock and ISSB CFO Adam Snodgrass share a laugh Tuesday afternoon at Stewart’s desk. Knock announced his retirement as CEO during the bank’s 2017 annual meeting held Jan. 25. Snodgrass will move into the role of CEO upon Knock’s retirement.
By SCOTT VICKER
Karl Knock retirement party
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Iowa State Savings Bank has been owned by Karl Knock’s family for 77 years, since his grandfather S. Ray Emerson and Ike Menzer rode in the backseat of Cal Menzer’s car to a baseball game in St. Louis, brainstorming prominent citizens in Creston who might buy shares of the bank. That ownership was passed down from Emerson to his son-in-law Joe Knock and then to Karl. After spending the past 27 years with Iowa State Savings Bank, Karl announced his retirement as chief executive officer during the bank’s annual meeting held Jan. 25. Karl, 66, will remain involved with the bank, continuing his role as chairman of the board of directors, a
ISSB is hosting a retirement party to honor Karl for his many years of service to the bank and the communities served by Iowa State Savings Bank. The party will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, at ISSB, located at 401 W. Adams St., in Creston.
position he has held since 1994. “Between the cross-training we’ve done and the solid management team that was surrounding me, the ESOP way of transition of ownership and the fact we’re having our first grandbaby, this is a good time for me to make the transition,” Karl said in his office Tuesday afternoon. With Karl’s retirement, Chief Financial Officer Adam Snodgrass is promoted to CEO. Kevin Stewart remains president of the bank and will continue to
comprise the bank’s executive management team with Snodgrass. Karl pointed to Stewart’s and Snodgrass’ experience as making for a seamless transition of leadership at the bank.
History ISSB was founded by a group of community members in 1884, and the bank recently celebrated its 132nd anniversary. Emerson and a group of investors then kept the bank open after the previous owners announced their intent to close the
business in 1940. Karl’s father, Joe, came to ISSB in 1949 as the bank’s agricultural loan officer and became president in 1950. Karl began working at the bank in high school and continued to work there during the summers while he was in college. “My dad and I both thought I needed wider experience,” Karl said. “I applied for and was accepted to work for the FDIC. That was in the early ‘80s when banks were failing. ... I got detailed to the division of liquidation and went to Tennessee where I worked in the investigations unit regarding significant fraud conducted by a couple of brothers who had 29 banks in Tennessee.” After his stint in Tennessee, Karl’s career with the FDIC took him to Chicago KNOCK | 2A
ing the clinics until 1 p.m. yesterday, and those entering the Medical Arts Plaza for New Life Family Medicine, Creston Vision Clinic, specialty physicians and services, Urgent Health Clinic and Union County Public Health were requested to don a mask before entering the building. Pediatric appointments were also recommended to be rescheduled until after 1 p.m.
Iowa GOP lawmakers OK bill to defund Planned Parenthood DES MOINES (AP) — Iowa will pass up millions in federal dollars in order to remove state funding for Planned Parenthood under a bill approved Tuesday by a group of Republican lawmakers, and the measure has strong support in the new GOP-majority Legislature. The 8-5 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee followed hours of stalled debate over the measure, which proposes creating a state-run program that distributes money for family planning services to organi-
zations that don’t provide abortions. No family planning dollars are now spent on abortions in Iowa, a point that highlights the philosophical differences in the Iowa statehouse after the Nov. 8 election. Democrats lost control of the Senate for the first time in years, and they had previously stopped such legislation from advancing. Sen. Amy Sinclair, a Republican member of the committee, emphasized the bill would redistribute money to rural health clinics that IOWA | 2A
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CNA photo by BAILEY POOLMAN
Kick it: St. Malachy student Zoey Wagner kicks a soccer ball into a goal assisted by teachers,
from left, Ann Levine and Dawna Mitchell during a students-versus-teachers sporting event held Tuesday at the school. The students won the event, which included a variety of sporting events. Also pictured, far left, is student Whisper Leeps waiting her turn.
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Harvest: Aaron Breneman, right, strips tobacco plants from a hanger while his father, Dave Breneman, plucks leaves from the stalks Tuesday at their greenhouse in rural Mount Ayr. The family plants, grows and weeds the tobacco crop, all by hand, throughout the year before harvesting and drying the plants in a greenhouse Jenifer Breneman runs, called Walnut Creek Farm Greenhouse. While the crop is drying, they add moisture to make the plants leathery, then, in winter, they pluck the leaves, put them in a tobacco press and package them into 50-pound bales to be transported to commercial facilities for cigarette and chew tobacco production.
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