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Spartans fall to Division I No. 14 Johnson County, 9-3, in nine-inning game Tuesday. Southwestern opens ICCAC Division II play at home on Friday. More on 7A.

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Another murder charge in Dillinger case

By BAILEY POOLMAN CNA staff reporter bpoolman@crestonnews.com

Jennifer Jean Hartley, 43, of Thayer was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday afternoon in Osceola.

Hartley is the half-sister of the late Jerry Ray Dillinger, who pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Loretta Lynn Dillinger and a second victim he claimed was Michael Robinson, both of Thayer, during his February arraignment.

Hartley’s charge is connected to Jerry’s conviction and comes with violation of several sections of Iowa code, including aiding and abetting and joint criminal conduct.

“We’ve pretty much known for awhile there was going to be another arrest, but Jerry did things so fast we didn’t have all the reports

from the DCI for awhile until after he already pled and was gone,” said Union County Sheriff Rick Piel.

“We had to wait for those reports before we could go further.”

Hartley is being held in Ringgold County Jail J. Hartley for Union County on $1 million bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Union County Courthouse, and the Iowa State Public Defender’s Office has been appointed to represent her.

“There’s a lot that goes into a homicide charge, trial and investigation,” said Union County Attorney Tim Kenyon. “There were a large number of interviews, and I think we can say the investigation asso-

ciated with this matter is ongoing.” to kill Loretta. Hartley provided her pistol to Jerry to be used to kill Connections According to a Union County Loretta. Hartley participated in acSheriff report, as a result of investi- tivities after the arson and after the gatory interviews, officers learned murder of Loretthat in August 2015, a plan was ta, which were created to set fire to a residence designed to conin Greenfield and one in Thayer. ceal the death of As part of the plan, Loretta would Loretta.

“The main be involved in setting the fires and clue to us was would be blamed for the fires. the fact that her Prior to Sept. 8, 2015, Hartley Kenyon pistol was used had specific knowledge of the deto commit both tails of the plans to commit arson in Greenfield and Thayer. On Sept. murders, so she has been linked to 8, 2015, fires were deliberately set this for some time. It was a matter in Greenfield and Thayer, and of whether we felt we could estabboth fires are currently still under lish more than just her property beinvestigation by the Iowa State ing there,” Kenyon said. “He may Fire Marshal’s Office. Loretta was have been the one that literally killed to prevent the disclosure of pulled the trigger, OK, but that’s information regarding the arson because you don’t need three people to hold the gun.” fires, the report states.

Hartley participated in the plans Background Hartley’s charge stems from a to commit the arsons and the plan

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Three Mile Lake in Afton will be closed for two weeks this fall while the DNR eradicates yellow bass and common carp from the fishery.

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FTON — Three Mile Lake in Afton will be closed for about two weeks this fall while Department of Natural Resources (DNR) officials apply chemical applications to eradicate both yellow bass and common carp from the well-known southwest Iowa fishery.

Andy Jansen, fisheries biologist with the DNR, said these two fish species have diminished sport fish populations and decimated water quality at the lake over the past five to six years and the problem needs addressed now.

“We’re looking at drawing the lake down 12 feet by late September,” Jansen said. “The lake will be closed for public access at

that time.

We will have signs posted and will send out a news release to media Jansen outlets.”

Jansen reiterated the lake will only be closed for public access for about two weeks. He said the lake will reopen once the chemical in the water is 90 parts per billion or less. He estimates that to happen in mid-October.

A SIRWA official said this morning Three Mile Lake will not be used for water consumption until the

renovation project is complete.

David Lange, an avid fisherman from Osceola, praised Jansen and the DNR for scraping together funds to make this project a priority.

“I’m just thrilled this work is being done now because I think we’ve been playing Russian roulette with those fish getting into Twelve Mile Lake,” Lange said.

Jansen added, once yellow bass and common carp are eradicated, there won’t be a yellow bass within 100 miles of Three Mile Lake.

Ridding yellow bass in southwest Iowa lakes has been a focus of the DNR

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December investigation into the discovery of the body of Loretta, who was found in a rural Union County stock pond Dec. 2, and the body of Robinson, on the property of 401 Fourth St., which is owned

by Hartley and is the former residence of Jerry. Robinson shared children with Shelly Hartley, Jennifer’s daughter.

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Blast kills employee at Madison County quarry

Three Mile Lake in Afton will receive major renovations over the next 10 years with Department of Natural Resources (DNR) officials planning to improve water quality and the boat ramp area. These renovations will be paid for out of the DNR’s annual Lake Restoration Fund.

By KYLE WILSON

“He may have been the one that literally pulled the trigger, OK, but that’s because you don’t need three people to hold the gun.”

“People are traveling long distances to come to this lake. It created a name for itself, especially in the early 2000s, and we want to get it back to its glory days.”

— Andy Jansen

DNR biologist

over the past 10 years or more.

Jansen said the DNR plans to begin restocking bluegill and walleye fingerlings directly after chemical levels are safe again at Three Mile Lake this October. He added pre-spawn adult largemouth bass and LAKE | 2A

EARLHAM (AP) — Authorities say an employee was killed after a blast at a Madison County quarry.

Madison County Sheriff Jason Barnes said in a news release that it appeared that debris struck 42-year-old Tracy Hockmeier of Winterset “following a routine blast” at the Martin Marietta Earlham Quarry Tuesday night.

Barnes said a 911 call was placed around 6:40 p.m., and Hockmeier was pronounced dead at the scene.

An investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Assisting the Madison County Sheriff’s Office at the scene was the Earlham Fire Department, Madison County Medical Examiner’s Office and Madison County Ambulance.

4 injured in one-car accident near Lenox LENOX — Four people were injured after an accident Tuesday afternoon near Lenox.

According to a Taylor County Sheriff report, at 4:12 p.m., a vehicle was westbound on 130th Street near Yellowstone Avenue when the driver lost control on the gravel and the vehicle rolled. Three occupants were ejected from the vehicle and one was trapped.

Three occupants were

transported to area hospitals by air ambulance with critical injuries and one was transported by ground ambulance.

Names have not been released until further investigation into the accident is complete.

Taylor County Sheriff’s Office was assisted in response by Lenox and Bedford ambulances and Lenox and Clearfield fire departments.

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Death Margaret Wimmer Long Creston

Margaret Wimmer Long, 92, of Creston died Monday, March 21, 2016, at Afton Care Center in Afton.

CelebraWimmer Long tion of life services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, March 26, at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Creston. The Rev. Ken Halbur will officiate. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, northeast of Creston. Visitation with family present will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. with rosary services

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walleye fry will be restocked in the spring.

“Essentially, all the quality sport fish that are in the lake now will be put back in the lake,” Jansen said.

Lange asked whether crappie will be restocked in the lake. Jansen explained they will not be restocked because because Three Mile Lake gets plenty of crappie influence from other watershed ponds that already have crappie in them. Jansen said crappie will spawn in those ponds, go through the outflow and into Three Mile Lake.

“We don’t have to restock crappie for that reason,” said Chris Larson, DNR fisheries biologist regional supervisor.

“Also, we don’t want crappie in (the lake) too soon because they can be prolific spawners and can dominate a fishery. We want them to come in slowly to let the bass population build.”

There are no plans for perch or smallmouth bass to be stocked at Three Mile Lake with this renovation project.

Jansen did say there will

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County Sheriff report, Jerry confronted his ex-sister-inlaw Loretta and the second victim, and during the confrontation, Jerry shot and killed both victims Sept. 22.

According to autopsy results, Loretta was identified by her tattoos, and the cause of death was homicide by

at 9 a.m. Saturday at Powers Funeral Home, junction of highways 34 and 25, in Creston. Memorials may be given to Holy Spirit Catholic Church and Hospice of Central Iowa.

Online condolences may be left at www.powersfh.com.

Margaret L. Wimmer Long, daughter of Mary (McGinty) and Harry Kelley, was born Jan. 25, 1924, in Shannon City. Margaret graduated from Shannon City High School in 1942.

On April 27, 1945, Margaret married Charles Daniel Wimmer at St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Afton. Margaret and Charles established a home on a farm northeast of Creston where she worked as a homemaker and mother.

While still living on the

farm, Margaret worked at McGregor and McNab Furniture Store. After employment at the furniture store, she accepted a position at the Creston Water Office. In 1968, the family moved to a farm along the county line, and Margaret worked as an administrative assistant to the dean of the vocational school at Southwestern Community College in Creston. In 1973, Margaret worked in the Creston constituent office for Congressman Tom Harkin until 1982.

Margaret and Charles moved from the farm into Creston in 1975. In 1983, she continued her political career by working for Sen. Leonard Boswell, retiring in 1991.

In 1993, Margaret married Darrell Long at Holy Spirit

be some fish salvage prior to the chemical being applied.

The DNR plans to transplant walleye from Three Mile Lake to Green Valley Lake near Creston and bass to Walnut Creek Marsh in Ringgold County and Sand Timber Lake in southern Taylor County.

Jansen said this initial project, which will include fish renovation and watershed assessment in the spring, will cost approximately $400,000. The project will be paid for through the DNR’s Lake Restoration Program, which accumulates about $9.6 million annually.

Jansen said the DNR does have a long-term plan at Three Mile Lake to improve water quality through shoreline armory and improvement to the current sediment retention structure on the lake’s upper end.

As well, the DNR plans to renovate the boat ramp area that sees much traffic. A specific timetable has not been released yet for those projects, but Jansen said they are to be completed within the next five to 10 years.

Jansen said these updates will have a strong economic

impact in Union County over the next decade. He said a study done in the past year shows 84 percent of people who come to Three Mile Lake travel from more than 25 miles away.

“People are traveling long distances to come to this lake.

It created a name for itself, especially in the early 2000s, and we want to get it back to its glory days,” Jansen said.

gunshot wound.

“During the investigation, we have identified more detail as to the timing and location of both deaths,” Kenyon said. “And, they (Loretta and Robinson) were not killed at the same time as previous indications may have implied.

Jerry pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without parole during the arraignment at Union Coun-

ty Courthouse, and then killed himself in his Oakdale prison cell at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville.

DCI, Union County Sheriff and Union County secondary roads, Iowa State Patrol, Creston Police, Department of Natural Resources, State Medical Examiner and North American Police Work Dog Association all aided in this investigation.

Catholic Church in Creston.

Margaret and Darrell made their home in Creston.

Margaret was a member of Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Creston and she served as choir director at both Holy Spirit and St. Edward’s parishes. She also was a member of the neighborhood card club.

Margaret is survived by sons, Gary (Janene) Wimmer of Creston and Bill Wimmer of Urbandale; brother Bill Kelley of Boise, Idaho; sister Bernadine Follett of Des Moines; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Margaret was preceded in death by her parents; brother Bernard Kelley; husband Charles Wimmer in 1983 and husband Darrell Long in 1996.

Senate OKs bill to carry firearms on ATVs, snowmobiles The Senate passed a bill allowing a person to carry a loaded firearm while operating, riding a snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle ■

DES MOINES (AP) — The Democratic-controlled Senate has passed a bill that would allow a person to carry a loaded firearm while operating or riding a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle.

The Senate voted 43-4 Tuesday for the legislation, which would allow such a

person to carry a loaded firearm whether it’s concealed or not. The Senate added additional language that would create rules for gun owners who are on their private land and those who are not on such property.

The Republican-majority House passed the bill 78-20 in February. The changes in the Senate mean it will be sent back to the House before it can reach Gov. Terry Branstad.

The legislation is one of several gun bills this session. A bill that would legalize gun suppressors got final approval Tuesday in the House.

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Iowa lawmakers reach deal on K-12 education funding DES MOINES (AP) — Iowa lawmakers compromised Tuesday on increasing K-12 education spending by 2.25 percent for the upcoming fiscal year, a deal some educators quickly described as insufficient to preventing financial hardship for school districts around the state.

Members of a special committee representing the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican-majority House said the deal was the best option, given the limited new dollars available for the upcoming budget.

Rep. Ron Jorgenson, a Sioux City Republican who is co-chair of the designated Conference Committee, said the financial commitment “shows that education funding does remain a priority in Iowa.”

Some Democratic lawmakers offered sharp criticism to that assessment, with Sen. Herman Quirmbach, of Ames, saying that the state’s several years of tax revenue

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cuts have slowly diminished available funds.

“The budgetary constraints are a self-inflected wound,” said Quirmbach, chair of the Senate Education Committee.

The state spends about $3 billion total on K-12 education. House Republicans estimate the state will spend about $153 million more than in the current budget, including money for teacher leadership training mandated by state law. Senate Democrats and Gov. Terry Branstad’s office later released an estimate closer to about $138.8 million.

Education groups say the proposed funding will not be enough to prevent overcrowded classrooms and potential staffing cuts. The proposal “will continue to starve our schools and force them to make choices that will negatively impact students,” Tammy Wawro, president of the Iowa State Education Association, said in a statement.

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quire formal approval in both chambers before Branstad can review it. His spokesman, Ben Hammes, said via email that the compromise “is a step forward for students and schools statewide.”

At the beginning of this year’s session, lawmakers again didn’t agree on how much more money should go toward schools — Democrats pushed for 4 percent growth and Republicans sought 2 percent growth. But a panel of state budget experts released data that showed Iowa had lower-than-expected revenue, which helped form a new calculation of legally available funds for the upcoming fiscal year.

That new estimate, roughly $7.5 billion, appeared to help negotiations enter a new phase.

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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.

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Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, noon to 5 p.m., 308 W. Union St. Friends Helping Friends Bereavement Support Group, 3 to 5 p.m., Homestead Assisted Living private dining room, 1709 W. Prairie St. Women’s Narcotics Anonymous (NA), 6 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. Southwest Iowa Dancers Jam Session, 6 to 9 p.m., Chicken Inn, 3 miles west of Creston on Hwy 34.

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Blue Grass Optimist Club of Creston, noon, Pizza Ranch.

Celebrate Recovery (a Christcentered 12-step program), 6 p.m., Crest Baptist Church, 1211 N. Poplar St.

Southwest dance jam and pot luck, 6 to 9 p.m., Villisca Community Center.

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., 308 W. Union 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.

Saturday

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

Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, 9 a.m. to noon, 308 W. Union St. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 7:30 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

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Creston News Advertiser | Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Dolecheck’s details Department of Revenue extends farm return deadline Last weekend, the Iowa Department of Revenue announced that it will grant a filing extension to some taxpayers on their 2015 Iowa individual income tax returns without underpayment of their estimated tax penalty.

The extension applies to taxpayers who earn at least two-thirds of their income from farming or commercial fishing and would give those taxpayers until at least April 30 to file and pay their 2015 returns. The deadline was scheduled to be March 1, but given the uncertainty of Iowa coupling with federal code—the deadline needed to be extended.

State revenue officials said the filing extension was ordered by Gov. Terry Branstad. The Iowa code does provide that the director of the Department of Revenue can allow further time for filing returns if a good cause exists (such as the coupling issue remaining unre-

State Representative Cecil Dolecheck Iowa House District 24

solved).

Knowing the importance of taxpayer certainty, the House approved House File 2092 back in January. That bill (coupling bill) basically conformed Iowa’s tax laws with changes to federal tax law. That bill is in the Senate now awaiting further action.

Career and technical education reform The House acted this week on a bill to reform Iowa’s career and technical education delivery system, passing it in a bipartisan manner. The bill was presented to the Legislature after two years’ worth of effort on the part of the task force convened to look at the issue.

The recommendations and legislation look at updating and mod-

ernizing what hasn’t been touched substantively since the late 1980s.

The current economy is increasingly driven by knowledge and innovation. Technological change and globalization are changing the state’s economy and the jobs being created today require a higher skill level than in the past. In some sectors, there are education and skill gaps which result in essential positions being left vacant, hampering economic growth. It is with this in mind that the task force was created.

The bill voted on by the House tried to capture the message sent in the task force report. It focuses on primarily secondary education, grades nine through 12, ensuring students in those grades are not only college-ready, should they choose that route after high school, but also career-ready. It provides a mechanism through regional planning partnerships to ensure that school districts have the resources necessary to expose students to a

wide variety of career options that might begin right there during their high school career with on-the-job opportunities in skilled occupations that are in need of employees in Iowa.

Much work is already going on in the state to create some of these opportunities for students. But it’s not everywhere and it’s often not consistent. These regional partnerships will ensure that the high quality opportunities available to some students now are available to all students, making sure none are left at a competitive disadvantage. The bill attempts to provide a cohesive framework in which these delivery systems can function while not prohibiting any of the good work already underway.

Public safety bills advance to the Senate Several key bills from the House Public Safety Committee have advanced from the House to the Senate, for their consideration.

HF 2311 - Traffic cameras This bill prohibits local authorities from placing any automated traffic camera upon any highway under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation without permission from the department. The language in this bill is currently in rule, but representatives wanted to codify the language to clarify any confusion about who has authority over traffic cameras on highways.

HF 2337 - Peace officer personal information This bill allows a peace officer to file a request with local officials to have the officer’s name, address and telephone number removed from any internet site maintained by the local official. Local officials include county auditor, county treasurer, county recorder or local assessor. This does not remove the officer’s information from the public record, but it does remove it from websites maintained by the local official.

Donald Trump gave a rousing pro-Israel speech HOLLYWOOD — God Bless America, and how’s everybody?

Hulk Hogan got a jury award of one hundred million dollars from Gawker website for posting the wrestler’s sex video. Last week a jury awarded Erin Andrews fifty-five million for her nude video.

In today’s culture the presidency could go to the first candidate who calls for equal pay for equal skin.

Donald Trump gave a rousing pro-Israel speech to AIPAC in Washington on Monday. People must stop the Trump- Hitler comparisons. There was no Hitler Hotel and Casino, no Hitler steaks, no Hitler University and Hitler never got a standing ovation from the Israel lobby in Washington D.C. Queen Elizabeth agreed to meet with President Obama at Windsor Castle in April rather than in London. They pose a contrast. The Magna Carta prevented absolute monarchy and autocratic rule by decree for five hundred and sixty years until the Americans rebelled and created the U.S. presidency.

President Obama arrived for his historic visit to Cuba Sunday along with hotel executives who will build three American hotels in Havana. They’re thinking well ahead. Cuban law requires the Cuban government to be half-owner of the hotels but if Bernie Sanders is elected, that’ll be a bargain.

President Obama was reportedly told in December he could go to Havana and restore relations with Cuba and make history. But he’d have to stay on an island with no golf courses for three days. The reason many Republicans secretly like Obama is because he had to

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think it over for three months.

USA Today polls show the Millenial generation don’t support Donald Trump’s campaign for president and they don’t support Hillary Clinton’s campaign, either.

It really doesn’t matter. The Millenial generation won’t vote on Election Day anyway after they discover they can’t text their vote.

Donald Trump met with reporters at a Washington D.C. Press Club conference where he called for the GOP to unify around him going into the convention. He was entertaining as always. Trump even released a partial list of his foreign policy advisors, but he wisely didn’t mention Dr. Strangelove.

Donald Trump rallies in Arizona overcame road blockades by protesters who were organized by leftist and pro-amnesty agitators. The entertainment begins when the protesters encounter the bouncers. The Donald Trump rallies are so violent that Ring magazine has begun rating the fighters.

Hillary Clinton was in Washington D.C. on Monday to give a campaign speech to the American Israel Political Action Committee. It’s a powerful and influential group.

In an obvious effort to court favor with the audience, Hillary cheerfully noted that her husband’s last girlfriend was Jewish.

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President Obama’s Che moment President Barack Obama inadvertently found the perfect photo-op for his Cuba visit at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Jose Marti Memorial in Havana.

A news photo at Revolution Square caught Obama standing together with American and Cuban officials, with an enormous mural of the iconic revolutionary Che Guevara looming over his shoulder on the adjacent Ministry of the Interior building.

Che is, of course, ubiquitous on dorm-room walls and T-shirts in the United States, and a hero of the Cuban revolution. He also was a coldblooded killer who set up the Cuban gulag and presided over summary executions of political prisoners (trials were, per Che, “an archaic bourgeois detail”). No doubt, he would have been astonished at the Yanqui president coming to Revolution Square to pay his respects -- and exceedingly pleased.

President Obama’s trip is self-consciously historic. As the president’s introducer at an event at the U.S. Embassy put it, Obama often said, “Yes, we can,” and now we can say, “Yes, we did.”

But did what? The trip ensures that the first visit to Cuba by an American president in almost 90 years will be part of Obama’s legacy, and seeks to make his opening to Cuba, announced in December 2014, irreversible. If that means extending credibility and a financial lifeline to a Castro regime that has no intention of reforming, so be it.

The regime made it clear that it wouldn’t bother with maintaining a pretense of relaxing its grip with

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the arrest of protesters at a march of the dissident group Ladies in White while President Obama was en route to the country. A reporter with a government news outlet told The New York Times that he and colleagues had been warned not even to discuss Obama’s visit with friends.

At a press conference with President Raul Castro on Monday, Obama spoke in euphemistic terms of our “two different systems,” eliding the fact that one system is open, democratic and prosperous, while the other is closed, dictatorial and economically ruinous.

Castro railed against alleged human-rights abuses in the United States -- Obama obligingly said he welcomed the dialogue -- and El Presidente denied holding any political prisoners when reporters dared ask about it.

There is no sign of greater openness in Cuba since President Obama forged his break with long-standing U.S. policy. Political arrests have accelerated. There were more than 8,000 in 2015, four times as many as in 2010. The exodus of desperate Cubans to the United States has picked up. And the country still ranks below Zimbabwe and Iran on Internet connectivity.

But Obama’s opening has produced a financial windfall for the

regime. The Cuban military occupies the commanding heights of the economy and controls the tourism business, which has been thriving with the influx of American tourists. Starwood Hotels and Resorts just got special permission from the U.S. Treasury to operate three hotels in Havana, in a boost, not for the free market, but for the Cuban government.

If Cuba were a repressive, small-minded military dictatorship of the right, Obama’s visit and accommodationist attitude wouldn’t be considered so broad-minded.

But a patina of revolutionary romance, embodied by that image of Che looking down on President Obama, still hangs over Cuba. It makes its human-rights abuses, theft and lies an afterthought, or even excusable, for the American left.

After the Cuban missile crisis, Che said that in the event of a U.S. attack, “if the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression.” It would have been beyond his imagining that so many decades later, with the revolutionary regime cash-strapped and decrepit, the imperialist Goliath would come bearing gifts, and asking for nothing substantial in return, except a line in President Obama’s Wikipedia entry.

Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com) (c) 2016 by King Features Syndicate

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Creston News Advertiser | Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Creston FFA members attend South Central District FFA Convention Saturday, March 12, 38 Creston FFA members attended the South Central District Leadership Convention at Graceland University campus in Lamoni.

The members successfully participated in 11 leadership contests, accepted academic achievement award honors and represented the chapter in delegate sessions, as well as accepted the Supreme National Chapter award.

Leadership contests are an opportunity for members to gain life skills that are applicable to many careers in and out of agriculture industry. Creston’s FFA Parliamentary Procedures team, consisting of Caitlin McIlravy, Macy Evans, Mattie Wheeler, Morgan Shawler and Logan Pettit, earned a gold rating and advanced to state on April 18. The Chapter Program team, consisting of Jordan Moreland, Paige Parsons and Taylor Sorrells, earned a gold rating and also advanced to state.

The Experience the Action Team, consisting of Maura Kinsella, Hailey Walter, Devon Buls, Billie

Fogle, Laura Weis, Hank Looney, Kelsey Watson and Kolten Phelps, received a gold rating and is an alternate to state. The treasurer’s book, prepared by Wheeler, earned gold and is an alternate for state.

Proficiency awards for SAE projects saw two Creston FFA members advance to state – Evans for beef production and Wheeler for goat production. The top two participants in each of the leadership contests advance to state.

Additional contests competing at the 2016 South Central District Convention included: Extemporaneous Speaking by Maddie Travis – silver; Ag Issues and Perceptions by Trevor Marlin, Tom Steinbach, Seth Steinbach, Brenden McDowell, Mason Kinsella, Will Gordon and Dakota Burgmeier – silver; Chapter Quiz by Cali Foglesong, Alexis Baker, Kelsi Kautz and Gavin Sickels – silver; secretary’s book by Evans – silver, reporter’s scrapbook by Morgan Shawler and Parsons – silver.

Nine of Creston FFA’s graduating seniors were awarded and recognized for their outstanding academic achievements during their FFA membership. Members receiving the Iowa FFA academic achievement award include McIlravy, Gracie Russell, Sydney Dunphy, Wyatt Thompson, Emily Gravlin, Rebecca Watson, Cooper McDermott, Jessica Beatty and Travis.

Nine of Creston FFA’s junior and members have earned the highest award presented by the Iowa FFA Association, the Iowa FFA Degree. Members must meet scholastic, leadership and financial requirements to earn such and honor through the FFA association. The 2016 Iowa FFA Degree recipients include: Will Gordon, Evans, Wheeler, Shawler, Olivia Hartman, Pettit, Cali Foglesong, Travis and Marlin.

Members will receive their degree certificate and gold Iowa FFA Degree medallion at the Iowa FFA State Leadership Conference on April 19th on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames.

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Thirty-eight Creston FFA members participated in 11 leadership activities at the 2016 South Central District FFA Convention. Members gained knowledge and skills in various real-life events that will prove beneficial to members as they secure careers in the agricultural industry.

The Creston FFA Chapter continues to be recognized as one of the top 25 chapters in the State of Iowa by earning the Supreme National Chapter Award. The chap-

ter has earned such prestigious recognition due to our continued efforts in building our members, our chapter and our community. Creston will be recognized at the

Iowa FFA State Leadership Conference in April as well as the National FFA Convention in October 2016, which will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Increase in caregiver needs are seen COUNCIL BLUFFS – Iowans are living longer than ever before, with one out of every five residents now age 60 or older. That number is expected to grow over the next few decades, with the vast majority of individuals stating they would prefer to age in their homes and communities of choice. As the growth in the aging population continues, the need for support to the more than 317,000 caregivers in the state is only increasing, according to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).

During a recent 12-month period, 80 percent of all new inquiries to LifeLong Links – Iowa’s Aging and Disability Resource Center – were from caregivers. Caregivers, anyone who regularly or periodically supports another with activities of daily living, increasingly seek information and options to support planning and long-term independent living. Caregivers, many of whom are working caregivers, include spouses, children, friends and neighbors.

Over the past three years, Iowa’s Area Agencies on Aging, through 15 coordination centers and a cen-

tralized call center, have provided significant funding to LifeLong Links – a resource center that supports all Iowans – aging, individuals living with disabilities, veterans and caregivers of all walks of life. More than 100,000 Iowans are supported annually. LifeLong Links connects Iowans to Iowans – those in need with those who provide home and community-based services every day.

“The need for LifeLong Links is rising exponentially as our state ages. LifeLong Links is cost-effective, efficient and creates positive outcomes for families and individuals across Iowa,” said Jim Cushing, executive director of the Iowa Association of Area Agencies on Aging. “The Area Agencies on Aging need funding support from the Iowa Legislature to maintain the service for Iowa and meet the growing demands of our state.”

“We want to continue providing support to Iowans in our region’s communities, but we are facing some great financial challenges,” said Barb Morrison, CEO of Connections. “I have recently had to implement waiting lists for my two largest

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Horoscope Thursday, March 24, 2016 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You have strong ideas about politics, religion and racial issues today, and you want to express them. This could cause a problem with a friend or partner.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Behind-the-scenes research reveals how you can get funds or assistance. Nevertheless, be prepared for interruptions to your work day. Computer crashes, canceled meetings and staff shortages are examples.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You can convince anyone of anything today because your mind is alert and energetic!

Parents should be vigilant about potential accidents for their kids.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This is a great day to talk to bosses and authority figures because they will be impressed with you. Nevertheless, this could upset someone at home or in your family.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is an accident-prone day. Your daily routine will be interrupted — you can count on this.

Allow extra time so that you have wiggle room to deal with things.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Keep an eye on your money today, because you might find money or you might lose money. Guard your possessions against loss or theft. Be leery of someone who sweet talks a deal.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) A close friend or partner might surprise you today. One thing is certain: Conversations will be dynamic and productive!

Expect fast action.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You will impress work colleagues today, because your mind is in overdrive and you see everything clearly. (This also will help you to cope with unexpected interruptions on the job.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Be vigilant, as this is an accident-prone day for your kids. However, this also is a creative day for those who work in the arts and an active day for those in sports.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Family discussions will be dynamic today. You will want to give your two cents’ worth.

Stay light on your feet, because

it’s a fast-changing day!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Your daily routine will change today because of canceled meetings, minor accidents and surprises. Pay attention to everything you say and do. Fortunately, you’re on top of things!

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is a strong day for business and commerce. You will persuade others to agree with you. However, something unexpected will catch you offguard, so be prepared.

YOU BORN TODAY You are well-liked because you are generous and courageous. You often choose the path of leadership.

Something you’ve been involved with for about nine years will end or diminish now to make room for something new. This will be a year of service. It is also a good year to travel. Prepare for a fresh new cycle waiting in your future!

Birthdate of: Jim Parsons, actor; William Morris, textile designer/artist; Alyson Hannigan, actress. (c) 2016 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Consecutive wins for the Thunder when Russell Westbrook records a triple-double.

By SCOTT VICKER

CNA sports editor svicker@crestonnews.com Westbrook

National Digest

Rays beat Cuba HAVANA (AP) — When Kevin Kiermaier slid into home for the Tampa Bay Rays’ first run of the day, President Barack Obama flung his arms wide to signal “safe.”

Then he turned to his left and shook the hand of his seatmate and Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro.

The scene was a remarkable milestone for sports diplomacy as the two presidents try to set aside more than 50 years of Cold War hostility, during which about the only thing the countries agreed on was a shared love of baseball.

Obama and Castro even joined in when fans were doing “the wave.”

In the landmark game, the first visit by a major league team to the communist island since 1999, the Rays beat the Cuban national team 4-1 on Tuesday.

James Loney homered and drove in three runs, and Matt Moore and the Tampa Bay pitchers shut out the Cubans until Rudy Reyes homered in the ninth inning.

But the day will be remembered less for the final score than for the two men sitting in the front row at Havana’s Estadio Latinoamericano, the last stop on Obama’s trip to Cuba this week in a bid to further pave the road toward normalized relations.

BYU advances PROVO, Utah — Freshman Zac Seljaas made 5 of 6 3-pointers and scored 19 points and BYU used a big second half to beat Creighton 8882 on Tuesday night in the NIT quarterfinals.

The Cougars (26-10) will face Valparaiso (29-6), which beat BYU’s fellow West Coast Conference member Saint Mary’s, at Madison Square Garden on March 29.

Seljaas nailed an open 3-pointer to give BYU its first double-digit lead at 61-51 with 11:19 left. Then Seljaas and Nick Emery hit 3s on the Cougars next two possessions to cap a 12-1 run for a 67-52 lead.

Kyle Collinsworth missed two free throws with 41.2 seconds left and Cole Huff made a contested layup to cut Creighton’s deficit to 8277. But Emery made 4 of 4 free throws from there to secure it.

Kyle Davis added 18 points for BYU. Emery had 17 and Collinsworth battled through the flu bug to finish with 10.

Geoffrey Groselle led Creighton (20-15) with 22 points. Huff had 18 points and 11 rebounds.

Triple-double OKLAHOMA CITY — Russell Westbrook’s recent play has been on par with some of the game’s all-time greats.

The dynamic point guard had 21 points, 15 assists and 13 rebounds to help the Thunder beat the Houston Rockets 111107 on Tuesday night.

Westbrook has 15 triple-doubles this season and 34 in his career. It’s the most triple-doubles by a player in a season since 1988-89, when Magic Johnson had 17 and Michael Jordan had 15. It was also Westbrook’s sixth triple-double in March.

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Creston News Advertiser | Wednesday, March 23, 2016

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — The Southwestern Community College baseball team dropped to 5-15 for the season with a loss here at No. 14 Johnson County Community College on Tuesday.

After Southwestern cut Johnson County’s lead to 3-2 in the top of the fourth inning, Johnson County pulled away for the 9-3 win in the single nine-inning game.

Trailing 3-0 in the fourth inning, Alexander Rios started the Spartan scoring rally with a double, followed by a Victor Perez double.

Jake Duren’s single scored both runCNA photos by SCOTT VICKER ners to cut Duren Above, Creston senior Maddie Travis participates in a passing drill during Monday’s first official day of girls soccer practice, while teammate Abbie Cook (left) and head coach the score Kim Lauffer (right) look on in the background. Below, members of the Creston girls soc- to 3-2. cer team run a sprint at the end of Monday’s afternoon practice session.

Southwestern tallied one more run in the sixth inning when Rios singled and advanced to second b e f o r e Perez scoring on Perez’s single.

Rios and Perez each finished with two hits apiece, while Duren and Samuel Vega had one hit apiece.

“Compared to Sunday, we had better at-bats overall,” Southwestern head coach Pedro Hernandez said. “We didn’t get that hit when we needed to. One

inning we had runners first and second with two outs.

We hit the ball to right field hard, but right at the guy’s hand. At least the at-bats were better, but unfortunately we couldn’t find an opening there. But that was a good sign.”

Ricky Hernandez pitched a solid three innings for the Spartans, keeping the team in the ballgame.

Hernandez allowed just two hits and two walks in three innings, surrendering three runs and striking out two.

“He was keeping them off balance. We wish he would have thrown a little more strikes,” Hernandez said. “I think if he would have done that, it would have been an even better outcome. He competed really hard and at least he gave us a shot. When he left the game it was 3-2, so he kept us in the ballgame.”

Rauvardo Torres threw 2 1/3 innings and gave up seven hits and five runs with one strikeout. Emilio Candelario gave up no runs and walked only one with one strikeout in 1 2/3 innings.

Ian Torres gave up one run on one hit and two walks in 2/3 inning, while Joey Marcus pitched the final out.

“With it being one nine-inning game we tried to give opportunities to guys to be in different situations,” Hernandez said. “Ricky gave us a really good outing. Rauvardo threw well, he just left pitches high and the wind was blowing out. They hit a home run that hurt him really bad. We committed a couple of errors in the outfield and that cost us.”

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Iowa State coach Prohm helps Iowa looks to move on following Rose Cyclones reach Sweet 16

By LUKE MEREDITH Bowl blowout AP Sports Writer

AMES (AP) — Few coaches in the country faced a bigger challenge than Iowa State’s Steve Prohm in replacing Fred Hoiberg.

With a win Friday over top-seeded Virginia in the Sweet 16, Prohm will have taken the Cyclones further than “The Mayor” ever did — to the Elite Eight.

Prohm inherited a preseason top 10 team that wound up finishing just sixth in the Big 12.

Now he’s Prohm got Iowa State playing its best basketball at exactly the right time.

The fourth-seeded Cyclones (23-11) won their first two NCAA Tournament games by an average of 15 points. They all credit Prohm for preparing them to peak in March and for putting them in position for the program’s first Elite Eight appearance since 2000.

“He’s coached his (butt) off in both tournament games and he has all season. A lot of people don’t understand how tough of a job he had, trying to replace Fred,” junior Matt Thomas said. “Some people though he was blessed with all this talent, but that’s tough because you have such high expectations you have to meet.

He’s done a great job handling all of that pressure.”

Prohm felt the heat from the moment he left Murray State to replace Hoiberg last spring.

He kept popular Hoiberg assistant T.J. Otzelberger on his staff — even though Otzelberger was a finalist for the head coaching job as well— and convinced starter Abdel Nader (13.2 points, five rebounds per game) not to leave the program with Hoiberg.

Eight games into the season, veteran starting guard Naz Mitrou-Long, whose leadership was easily as important as the 12 points a game he averaged, went down because of ailing hip injuries.

Long’s departure forced Prohm to put Thomas in the starting lineup.

Though Thomas excelled as a starter, Prohm didn’t have anyone to adequately fill Thomas’s role as a sixth man.

Iowa State spent the entire season in the Top 25 anyway.

“The best thing that he does is he just keeps rolling with the punches.

Something might happen, and he just keeps going,” star Georges Niang said.

“He took the chall e n g e h e a d on and pushed us to be a better team and Niang come together and play for a big-

ger purpose. To do that, you really have to believe in your vision.”

The depth-challenged Cyclones struggled at times in the Big 12, which plays a round-robin schedule. They started 1-3, nearly knocking themselves out of league contention before February.

Consecutive home wins over Oklahoma and Kansas got the Cyclones back on track in a league that sent 70 percent of its teams to the NCAA tournament.

They finished 10-8.

“I couldn’t be more happy for our guys. They’ve weathered a lot of storms since last June, probably last May, and to be in the Sweet 16 — you see how these games go. It’s a blessing to be in the Sweet 16,” Prohm said.

One of the biggest storms involved center Jameel McKay, a senior starter who went through discipline issues during league play.

McKay was suspended for two games during league play for breaking team rules, and Prohm sat him for another without giving a reason. Prohm then brought McKay off the bench until he was certain McKay was focused.

McKay responded, hauling down at least nine rebounds in each of his last five games.

“You really start to see that, we sort of have a genius coaching us. Because he’s good at bringing guys together and playing for each other,” Niang said.

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By LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer

IOWA CITY (AP) — Iowa’s memorable 2015 season ended with a blowout loss in the Rose Bowl that will be tough to forget.

The process of moving on starts in earnest Wednesday with first session of spring practice.

The Hawkeyes, who started 12-0 and easily won the Big Ten West before losing to Michigan State in the league title game and Stanford in Pasadena, open the 2016 season on Sept. 3 against Miami (Ohio).

“If you have a tough year... (or have) a tough ending like we did last year, (do) you respond to it or you get in the fetal position and let people run you over?” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said Tuesday.

“Now the other challenge is how do you handle a little Ferentz bit of success?”

The first step for the Hawkeyes in moving past their sluggish finish is to find some new starters.

Iowa’s biggest hole might be in the middle of its line, which paved the way for its offense to control nearly every game last season.

Center Austin Blythe and guard Jordan Walsh have graduated after helping the Hawkeyes rush for nearly 3,000 yards — and free up space for four different

backs to have at least 200 in a single game.

Sean Welsh, the third member of Iowa’s impressive interior, is back and listed as both a starting center and a guard on the initial spring depth chart.

Though Welsh will be just a junior in the fall, Ferentz compared him to former Iowa lineman Marshal Yanda, now a four-time Pro Bowler with Baltimore.

“Wherever we move him, he seems to handle it really well. He’s not 6-foot-6 and 330 pounds or any of that stuff, but he’s just a really good football player, really productive on the field. We make a living off players like that, really that type of guy.

He’s got an unbelievable attitude,” Ferentz said.

James Daniels, the rare true freshman to start for Ferentz, is out for the spring after offseason surgery but should be ready to compete for starting time at center by the fall.

Iowa also returns tackles Ike Boettger and Cole Croston and guard Boone Myers, who has the flexibility to play tackle as well.

“We’re certainly in a little different situation than a year ago. We had a lot of question marks about how guys would produce in game situations,” Ferentz said.

“At least we’ve seen all these guys in a game situation now.

But that being said, there is a lot of growth to be had.”

Iowa’s defensive line remains in flux, mostly because senior Drew Ott is still waiting to hear back on his IOWA | 8A

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Creston News Advertiser | Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Sports briefs Bowling banquet

The Creston/O-M bowling postseason awards banquet is scheduled for Wednesday, March 30 in the Creston High School commons at 6 p.m.

SWCC: CONT. FROM | 7A

Southwestern is scheduled to open ICCAC Division II play at home Friday and Saturday against Iowa Lakes (2-5 overall), with games beginning at 2 p.m.

Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday.

Weather could force Saturday’s games to Monday, however.

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“And the biggest thing in March — and he’s been talking about March since he got here — is ‘Which team is going to play as a team?’ And that’s what he’s been building toward for the whole time, through the suspensions, the struggles, the losing streaks, everything.”

Want the ultimate proof the Cyclones have rallied

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petition for a sixth year of eligibility after going down early last season with a torn ligament in his right knee.

Ott’s case seems to have dragged on longer than in should, and Ferentz still isn’t sure when the NCAA will issue its final ruling.

But if the Hawkeyes can get Ott back with tackles Jaleel Johnson and Nathan Bazata and sophomore end Parker Hesse — who shone in Ott’s absence — they’ll have one of the Big Ten’s

It is a potluck banquet, with families asked to bring two dishes each. Bowlers are asked to bring their uniforms if they have not already turned them in.

“Overall we need to have more consistency,” Hernandez said. “Today we’re playing the No. 14 team in the nation. We have already proven we can battle against those kinds of teams. We just need to have consistency and play disciplined baseball. If we play disciplined baseball, I think we’re going to have a good shot in this conference opener.”

around Prohm?

Even McKay, who butted heads with Prohm more than once, has come around on his new coach.

“Coming from Fred, it was a great hire. A home run hire. And us making the Sweet 16 just proves it — and we’ve still got games to go” McKay said. ___ Follow Luke Meredith on Twitter at www.twitter. com/LukeMeredithAP and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LukeMeredithAP

best fronts entering the fall.

Though he wasn’t able to perform in drills, Ott was tested at the recent NFL combine in case his eligibility suddenly runs out.

“I’m not going to make judgment on that. It’s just really hard to put a finger on. It’s what it is. We’ll bide our time,” Ferentz said. “Everybody’s working hard on it. You have to get the right people all together.” ___ Follow Luke Meredith on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ LukeMeredithAP and on Facebook at www.facebook. com/LukeMeredithAP

Spieth back at his old college home for Match Play

By DOUG FERGUSON try to conserve as much energy AP Golf Writer

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Dustin Johnson had driver in hand on the eighth hole when he said what has been a common refrain at the Dell Match Play.

“Where do I go?”

Golf’s most unpredictable tournament adds a new dimension this week by moving to Austin Country Club, which has never hosted the world’s best players. That excludes Jordan Spieth, though he was only 18 and a long way from being No. 1 in the world.

Spieth was a freshman at the University of Texas, and the team used to play this course to see who qualified to play in the next college tournament.

“It’s a place I’m very familiar with and feel I have an advantage at,” Spieth said Tuesday. “They made some changes, but for the most part it’s the same golf course, with newly sodded areas. They’ve done just a phenomenal job with it, and I think it’s going to be a fantastic match play course.”

Jason Day will have to take his word for it.

Coming off his first victory of the year at the Arnold Palmer Invitational two days ago, Day arrived Tuesday and planned to walk the course.

He won’t play it for the first time until he squares off against Graeme McDowell on Wednesday.

“It is quite breezy out there, so I don’t want to create any bad habits with my swing,” Day said. “I’m going to go out and probably walk around and

as I can, because this week is a very long week and it can be very taxing — not only physically, but mentally, as well — on the body.”

That’s the hope, anyway.

Match Play changed last year to a round-robin event instead of single-elimination, which keeps the sponsor and some of the players happy because they are assured of making it through Friday. One player from the 16 four-man groups advances to the weekend and the knockout stage.

Spieth is the top seed and opens up against Jamie Donaldson. Rory McIlroy, the defending champion, plays his first match against Thorbjorn Olesen.

At stake this week is No. 1 in the world.

Spieth won the first tournament of the year at Kapalua, and Day took a big step toward catching up to him with his victory at Bay Hill.

The 28-year-old Australian is so close behind at No. 2 that all he has to do is reach the quarterfinals if Spieth doesn’t win his group.

That’s not what is driving Spieth, though is aware of it.

“The No. 1 gets protected if I do what we set out to do this week,” Spieth said.

There is additional pressure as being the local favorite. Spieth spent only three semesters at Texas, long enough for the Longhorns to win an NCAA title in 2012. Spieth contributed to that victory by beating Justin Thomas of Alabama, and those two longtime friends will play again on Friday.

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Creston 641-782-5155 BOWMAN SIDING & WINDOWS. major brands of vinyl and steel Handyman Service All siding, Heartland, Traco and Revere HANDYMAN. Carpentry, Painting, thermal replacement windows. ReDoors, Windows, Miscellaneous cipient of the Revere Premium RenoHome Repairs. Creston and vator Award. Seamless guttering and Surrounding Areas. 641-208-1730; Leaf Relief gutter covers. 33 years of 641-782-9909. continuous reliable service in Southwest Iowa, free estimates, 641-322Plumber 5160 or 1-800-245-0337.

SCHROEDER PLUMBING and ELECTRICAL. Central air repair/ Storage new installations, new breaker boxes, lighting fixtures, softeners, SHARP’S SELF-STORAGE Boats, water heaters. Specialize in records, inventory, furniture. manufactured and mobile homes. You store it, lock it, take the Free estimates, licensed, insured, key. Industrial Park, Creston, 641-202-1048. Accept Visa & 641-782-6227.

Mastercard.

OPENINGS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON ALL SHIFTS To Apply Contact:

Elite Staffing

100 E. Taylor Street, Creston (641)782-2565 or

Garage Sale

Advance Services Inc. (ASI)

Pay for your garage sale ad in advance and receive a garage sale sign FREE!

NOW HIRING

Don’t forget–a number of our rural readers receive the CNA the day after publication.

Plan ahead and run your ad a day early to allow these readers to see your ad in time to shop your sale.

302 E. Taylor Street, Creston (641)782-3300

Full-time & Part-time Mornings and Days Up to $9.50 per hour We offer flexible hours, competitive pay, free uniforms, employee meal plan, retirement plan and much more!

Call our classified department

641-782-2141 Ext. 6441

McDonald’s Creston 608 Wyoming Avenue Creston, IA 50801 Apply online at: www.mylocalmcd.com/creston

A career where you make a difference!

This independent McDonald’s Franchise is an Equal Opportunity Employer commited to a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Medical Technologist/Medical Lab Tech Under general supervision, performs high quality, complex laboratory analysis and/or routine laboratory analysis in accordance with professional laboratory standards and Hospital policies and procedures.

Residential, Commercial and Agricultural

Gay Lynn Owens, Broker 902 Cottonwood Road Creston, IA 50801

641.202.5004

gaylynnowens@msn.com www.GORealtyLLC.com

Part Time – 32 hours per pay period We provide a competitive and comprehensive compensation package including PTO (Paid Time Off ), IPERS (Iowa Public Employees Retirement System), and a free on-site fitness facility for employees and their spouses.

Apply online at www.madisonhealth.com 300 W. Hutchings St., Winterset, Iowa 50273 Madison County Health Care System is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Advanced Ag Seed

is currently looking for seasonal personnel for the months of April-May-June.

Join our Health Care Team Responsibilities include:

Servicing and promoting Pioneer Brand seed, loading and unloading of seed, seed delivery and potential crop scouting. Candidate must have a clean driving record.

Please call 641-782-0751.

MCHCS HW 2 A 3x4.2 career where you make a difference!

3/22 The Shopper; 3/23 Madisonian Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Whitney Health Trust Physicians Clinic and Emergency Department

Full Time - 36 hours per week

Apply online Under at www.madisonhealth.com physician supervision, performs professional medical services to Emergency

Department and Health Physicians Clinic patients in accordance with professional 300 W. Hutchings St., Winterset, Iowa Trust 50273 standards employer and Clinic and Hospital policies including, but not limited to outpatient MCHCS is an medical equal opportunity assessments, and providing, monitoring, and reviewing all aspects of the patient’s care.

Performs recertification for nursing home patients and makes rounds to ill or injured residents as needed. Completes documentation accurately and in a timely manner. Serves on hospital and clinic committees as assigned.

Auction Calendar Complete sale information is published in the Wednesday edition of the Creston News Advertiser and/or the Southwest Iowa Advertiser

Sat. March 26- 10:00AM Carbon, IA. Combines, Tractors, Trucks and Farm Machinery for Schaffer Farms. Auctioneers: Jack Kretzinger, Dan Kretzinger, Steve Bergren, Tony Douglas.

Sun. April 3- 9:30AM Corning, IA. Furniture, Collectibles, Golf Carts and 4 Wheelers for Haddadin Family & 2 Lenox Estates. Auctioneers: Jack Kretzinger, Dan Kretzinger, Tony Douglas.

Sun. April 3- 1:30PM Rural Orient, IA. Farm Machinery, Tractors, Combine & Heads, Farm Related Equipment for Kramer Land and Cattle. Auctioneers: Darwin West, Tom Frey, Brandon Frey, Steve Bergren.

Mon. April 11- 10:00AM Creston, IA. Annual Spring Consignment Auction at Creston Livestock Auction. Auctioneers: Darwin West, Tom Frey, Todd Crill, Brandon Frey, Zack Ballad, Steve Bergren.

Advertise your auction in the CNA Classifieds and we will include it in our “Auction Calendar.”

Current ARNP or PA license in the State of Iowa. Certification in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).

Full Time We provide a competitive and comprehensive compensation package including PTO (Paid Time Off ), IPERS (Iowa Public Employees Retirement System), and a free on-site fitness facility for employees and their spouses.

We look forward to meeting dedicated professionals seeking career opportunities.

Apply online at www.madisonhealth.com

SOW FARM TECHNICIAN This full-time position is responsible for the daily care of all animals at the worksite. Each technician is a vital member of a team of 10-12 people all dedicated to providing excellent animal care.

This entry level opportunity provides hands-on experience in many of the following areas: animal movements, breeding and gestation, farrowing, piglet care, recordkeeping and farm maintenance.

The ideal candidate will have a desire to work with pigs, a willingness to learn, a high level of dependability and a solid work history.

THIS POSITION OFFERS: • All necessary training and certifications • Base salary starting at $28,000 with potential for quarterly bonuses • All technicians earn $31,000 after only one year • Eligibility to apply for the ENTRY-LEVEL Manager In Training BASE SALARY program after six months employment • Full benefits: health, dental, AFTER 1 YEAR vision, 401(k), Flex spending • Paid holidays, sick days and vacation • Adventureland and Iowa State Fair Family Days • Get hired and refer a friend — we have a $1,560 Employee Referral Bonus!

$28,000 $31,000

Apply online at

apply.iowaselect.com or give Allyson a call at 641-316-3251 today!

300 W. Hutchings St., Winterset, Iowa 50273 Madison County Health Care System is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Join our Health Care Team

Iowa Select Farms is an equal opportunity employer.

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Creston News Advertiser | Wednesday, March 23, 2016

ASPIRE science club

Contributed photos

LEFT: Young scientists Kaelee Buffington and Hayleigh Cooley, in the East Union ASPIRE science club, use experiential learning to make predictions, test hypotheses and draw conclusions about magnets. RIGHT: Young scientists Kieran Thornton, Evan Hardie and Andrew Hardie, in the East Union ASPIRE science club, are shown learning about magnets.

Iowa Gold Star Military Museum to host ‘Powerful Tools for Caregivers’ class to be offered in Greenfield ribbon-cutting for new WWI exhibit JOHNSTON — The Iowa Gold Star Military Museum, 7105 NW 70th Ave., Camp Dodge, Johnston, will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony dedicating its new World War I exhibit at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 9. The public is invited to attend this event.

One of the many features of this new exhibit is an interactive fighting trench, providing visitors a realistic, immersive sensory experience of soldiers undergoing night-time trench warfare. Visitors can walk through an urban street in a shelled French village, as well as see what life was like for soldiers at Camp Dodge WWI barracks.

Also on display are a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, one of only two known to exist in operating condition, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm light field howitzer and small arms, uniforms and accoutrements from WWI used by Iowans.

There’s also an airfield mural painted by local artist John Neal, depicting aircraft of the Lafayette Escadrille, a French Air Squadron manned with American volunteer pilots.

This exhibit was made possible by funding from the state of Iowa and the Gabus Family Foundation.

In addition to the ribbon-cutting, editor Darrek Orwig, who recently compiled and published “Somewhere Over There: The Let-

ters, Diary and Artwork of a WWI Corporal” by Francis Webster, will give a presentation about Webster, an Iowa National Guardsman from Maquoketa who fought in France and documented his experience through drawings and written accounts.

Webster was killed in action during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and Orwig will be available for booksigning.

Seventeen National Guard divisions, including the 42nd, known as “Rainbow” Division, were assigned to the American Expeditionary Force during WWI. The 42nd Division was comprised of soldiers from many states, including the Iowa National Guard’s 168th Infantry Regiment from southwest Iowa.

The 168th Infantry was commanded by Col. Ernest Bennett and later, by Col. Matthew Tinley.

More than 114,000 Iowans served in the U.S. armed forces during WWI, including 3,576 Iowans who died during the war from battle wounds, injuries and illness. At the conclusion of four years of hostilities during WWI, the 42nd Division was credited with 164 days of actual combat. While 42nd Division casualties included 2,810 killed and 11,873 wounded, the 168th Infantry suffered more than 700 soldiers killed and

3,100 wounded.

Established in 1985, the Iowa Gold Star Military Museum is the only federally recognized repository for military artifacts in the state of Iowa. The mission of the Iowa Gold Star Military Museum is twofold: to preserve Iowa’s military history and honor the military service of all Iowans.

The Iowa Gold Star Military Museum’s permanent exhibits tell the stories of Iowans who have served in defense of their state and nation, beginning in the early settlement of the state in the 1840s through the Global War on Terror. An extensive exhibit honors the 34th Infantry Division known as “Red Bull” Division, which holds the distinction of serving the most continuous days in combat of any division in the European Theater of Operation during WWII. The museum also contains one of the finest military small arms collections in the Midwest. Additionally, an exhibit detailing the history of the Iowa State Patrol is on display.

Museum hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. Use the NW 70th Ave. entrance, which is open 24 hours a day. Photo identification is required for adults to gain admittance to Camp Dodge and a driver’s license is acceptable.

Home and Garden Show SOUTHERN PRAIRIE YMCA

Saturday, April 2, 2016 10am-3pm Ticket Information

Advanced tickets are $4 per adult (Available for purchase the YMCA)

Day of event tickets are $5 at the door Students $2 Children 5 and younger are FREE

The Renegade Gardener Don is a nationally recognized authority on landscaping and garden design. Learn more at www.renegadegardener.com

Sponsored by Creston Hy-Vee and SuperTel Inn and Conference Center.

10:45-11:30 am: Common Gardening Myths and the Mayhem They Cause 12:00-12:50 pm: Really Cool Plants for SW Iowa Gardens 1:30-2:20 pm: Top 10 Gardening Blundersand How to Avoid Them!

PRESENTATIONS IN THE GYM 10:30 am: Container Gardening

Deb Groth, Groth Gardens of Winterset 1:00 pm: Using Color in your Home

Ronda Katzer, American Home Design Center Household Hazardous Waste Recycling Bring paints, cleaners, batteries for free recycling when you visit the Home and Garden Show

service from SWCC parking lot

Activities for kids

Thank you to our sponsors:

Home and Garden Show presented by: Southwest Iowa Homebuilders Alliance Southern Prairie YMCA

perienced leaders conduct each class. Interactive lessons, discussions and brainstorming help you take the tools you choose and put them into action.

Sessions are scheduled every Thursday for six weeks and begin on April 7. Classes will be held at Greenfield Library/City Hall from 6:30 to 9 p.m. There is a $25 fee for the program that covers a workbook and six light meals. For more information or to register, contact Angie Engles at Adair County Extension by emailing powell@iastate.edu or calling 641-743-8412.

Jack Keuter Memorial

Pancake

Jamboree “All the pancakes you can eat!”

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Adults - $6 Advance; $7 at the Door • Children under 12 - $3 at the Door

Serving 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. • 4:30-7 p.m.

United Methodist Church 400 N. Elm • Creston For tickets contact Dave Abildtrup, 641-782-0596

NEW THIS YEAR!

The pancakes will be cooked by Kris Cakes

Creston Kiwanis Club ...contributes to the following projects: • Christmas Basket Fund • • Innovative Industries • • Bloodmobile • • Youth Baseball • • Crestubilee • • SWCC Scholarships • • Parents as First Teachers • • Library • • Camp OK • • 10,000 Crestonians • • Meals on Wheels • • Special Olympics •

• Scouting Program • • School Libraries • • Hospice • • Park Repair • • YMCA Partners • • East Union After Prom •

Special thanks to these fine sponsors:

sponsored by Prairie Solid Waste Agency

$250 in Builder Bucks Door Prize Virtual Shooting Range Concession Stand

stress, improve self-confidence, better communicate your feelings, balance your life, increase your ability to make tough decisions and locate helpful resources.

Iowa State University Extension is sponsoring Powerful Tools for Caregivers in Greenfield in April and May. This program has been tested and evaluated through a grant from the U.S. Administration on Aging. Local support is provided by ISU Extension and Outreach in Adair County.

Classes consist of six sessions, each 2 1/2 hours long, held once a week. Two ex-

Every Year the...

PRESENTATIONS by Don Engebretson,

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GREENFIELD – Do you help take care of an adult with chronic conditions? If so, you are not alone. Over 65 million family caregivers in America provide a vast array of emotional, financial, nursing, social, homemaking and other services on a daily or intermittent basis.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers is an educational series designed to provide tools you need to take care of yourself. If you take good care of yourself, you will be better prepared to take good care of your loved one. As a participant, you will learn how to: reduce

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