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This week’s 4-H spotlight is with an eighth-grader in the Wiggles and Wags club. More with him on page 3A of today’s paper.
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Creston Middle School boys’ track coach Dick Clark points along the running track after warm-up laps and exercises are finished April 12 at the Creston track north of Creston High School. Clark, a Creston Middle School science teacher, also coaches middle school football and boys’ basketball.
Day in the life: Dick Clark By BAILEY POOLMAN CNA staff reporter bpoolman@crestonnews.com
A cool breeze blew on April 12. The pattering sound of feet hitting the ground echoed as Dick Clark walked up the track toward a group of boys, slowly growing as more boys completed warm-up laps. Clark then watches as the middle school track boys line up and do warm-up sprints and karaoke drills. “The bottom line is, I’m in this business so the kids can grow and develop and have fun. That’s the bottom line. I want them to grow up and be solid citizens and good people,” Clark said during an interview with the Creston News Advertiser after the middle school boys track practice. Clark, 62, has been a coach in Creston since 1999, coaching middle school football and boys’ basketball and track.
Day in the life
A day in Clark’s life starts like any other day for the Creston Middle School science teacher. Wednesday, Clark spent his free time during work putting together the schedule for the boys track meet in Clarinda Thursday. “You’re just trying to see who’s got the best times and try to put a relay together,” Clark said. “You’ve got so many kids and you have to shift them around. Probably took me two hours to do that in-between things.” After a full day of teaching middle-school students, there are a few more hours with the boys during practices and the meets and games. “Training for track, you know you want to build up that lung power, that speed. You take those into consideration,” Clark said. “You warm up, then you got to do the drills and things for form running and hand-off drills
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Dick Clark, Creston Middle School boys’ track coach, eyes the middle school track boys during warm-up laps April 12 at the Creston track north of Creston High School. Clark has been the track coach since 1999.
and your field events. You like to do that first because then they’re not tired.” On a meet day, after school the students and Clark get on a bus and head to one of the towns nearby, like Clarinda, for the competition they’d been practicing for. “You sign in, get everybody a sheet so they know what they run. They have to pay attention. There’s rules. Paying attention to the speaker so when your event comes up, you’re up. Don’t leave the shot behind. Pick up after yourself,” Clark said of the kids. Clark said his favorite part about coaching is the competition between the young men during meets and games, and helping them achieve new levels in their fitness and camaraderie. “I like to help kids play. Kids can’t do it by themselves. They need to be organized and get together and enjoy themselves and compete with other kids,” Clark said. “As long as they’re enjoying themselves and learning something, that’s the CLARK | 2A
DICK CLARK MEMORIES “Adam Baker, Brandon Phipps, the Irr boys, I remember them breaking the half-mile records. It’s pretty neat because you automatically know if they break a record at a meet. It doesn’t happen a lot, but it’s cool when it does.” —————— “I took the girls to a basketball game. ... They kept telling me, ‘We’re supposed to wear green, Mr. Clark.’ ‘No, it’s an away game. We wear white.’ They said, ‘No, we wear green.’ ‘No, we wear white.’ So sure enough, they were right. God, they were mad. They had to put on those little pullover things a different color because the other team was about the same color. Oh, man, did I get my butt chewed on that. They wouldn’t talk to me for days.” —————— “I took all my girls that first year to a six-on-six tournament. My wife just had a baby, and she rode with us to the games. ... I’d loaded them all on the bus, and a couple other chaperones, and we headed to the state tournament. Snow (was) piled 8 feet high. God, it was snowy that year. All the girls and the baby, and that, that was a fun experience. Sean (my son) pooped his pants and filled his sleeper clear full. Oh, God, it was horrible. In Vets Auditorium.” —————— “One bunch of boys I had, they’d probably be about juniors or seniors in college now. Oh, my God. Every time we’d have a scrimmage there’d be shoes and pads and things. What? They couldn’t keep their clothes on. I mean, we’d run a play, land in a pile. You’d start picking up junk. Guys, can’t you tie your shoes? Can’t you put your pads in? What a bunch of knotheads. I don’t know, it’s just like they exploded.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Competing on home turf, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton hoped to emerge victorious from Tuesday’s primaries in New York, contests that offer big delegate hauls and an opportunity for the front-runners to inch closer to their parties’ nominations. Even before the New York results were in, Clinton’s campaign was declaring the Democratic race virtually over and warning rival Bernie Sanders that he risks damaging the party’s eventual nominee if he keeps up harsh criticism of the former secretary of state. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Sanders faces a “close to impossible path to the nomination” and predicted New Trump York would result in Clinton taking “an important step to the nomination.” Sanders needs to win 68 percent of the remaining delegates if he hopes to clinch the Democratic nomination. The lead-up to Tuesday’s voting created surreal scenes in New York, a state that hasn’t seen competitive primaries in decades. Can- Clinton didates blanketed every corner of the state, from Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs to the working class enclaves in Buffalo and Syracuse. Trump and Clinton were hoping to win in part on the strength of their local ties. Clinton was twice elected senator from New York, while Trump was born in Queens and lives in a building bearing his name in Manhattan. “We love this city,” Trump said Monday in brief remarks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower. “You look at the other folks that are running, they couldn’t care less about New York.” For Trump, New York is an opportunity to
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