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Hastert judge delivered verbal equivalent of public flogging
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Storm damage: A large tree is snapped in half, with a branch falling on the roof, at 504 S. Mulberry St. in Creston Wednesday evening as a storm that produced a tornado moved through town. According to the National Weather Service, a rain-wrapped tornado passed through Creston just before 6 p.m. A trained storm-spotter reported a tornado near the Creston Municipal Airport moving toward town at 5:43 p.m. For a CNA video of the storm passing through Creston, visit www.crestonnewsadvertiser.com and click on the video tab.
Local students compete in contests for Money Smart Week n Creston High School FBLA members aided third-graders in a piggy bank-decorating contest, and local banks sponsored the annual Money Smart Poster Contest.
By KELSEY HAUGEN CNA staff reporter khaugen@crestonnews.com
This week, Creston High School and local banks each encouraged young students to partake in money-related projects in celebration of national Money Smart Week. Created by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 2002, Money Smart Week, which is April 23-30, is a public awareness campaign created to help consumers better manage their personal finances. In Creston, an emphasis of Money Smart Week is beginning to inform people at a young age about the importance of saving money.
Piggy bank contest For the third year, Creston High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) members visited classrooms of Creston Elementary and Mayflower Heritage Christian School third-grade students to teach them about the importance of beginning to
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Cora Green, Creston High School junior and Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) member, teaches third-grade students at Creston Elementary School about the importance of starting to save money early for the FBLA’s Money Smart Week activity with third-graders, which involved them decorating piggy banks.
save at an early age. After teaching the third-graders, FBLA members led the students in decorating their own piggy banks to use to begin saving money. “We talked to the students about how saving money will benefit them in the future, and we asked if they’re saving anything currently and if there’s anything they’d like to save up for,” said Cora Green, Creston High School junior
and FBLA member. “We explained that by saving they could achieve more later on.” The Iowa Money Smart Week committee gives away a $100 prize to the best student-decorated piggy bank. Last year, a Creston student won $100 to add to her savings. This year, 133 Creston third-graders participated, and Shannon Smith, Creston FBLA adviser, uploaded a photo of each student’s
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piggy bank to Pinterest to be voted on. The piggy bank in the state of Iowa with the most “likes” and that is the best decorated will win. To vote, visit https:// www.pinterest.com/jo annekuster/2016-piggy-bank-pageant-creston/ and “like” a piggy bank. “It’s easier to teach them to save when they’re young and have them keep doing it rather than try to change MONEY | 2A
CHICAGO (AP) — When he sentenced Dennis Hastert to more than a year in prison, the judge in the former House speaker’s hush-money case delivered the verbal equivalent of a public flogging. Before imposing the 15-month sentence, a far stiffer sentence than federal guidelines suggested, U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin spent nearly an hour Wednesday rebuking the 74-year-old Republican for sexually abusing high school athletes decades ago, when he was a wrestling coach. Hastert, the nation’s longest-serving GOP speaker who for eight years was second in the line of succession to the presidency, sat almost frozen in a wheelchair, his head slightly bowed as he peered over his eyeglasses. The judge drew special attention to the lies Hastert told federal investigators last year in a desperate bid to keep his dark secret hidden. And he portrayed Hastert’s fall from grace as traumatic, not only for his victims and their families, but for the country. “Nothing is more stunning than to have the words ‘serial child molester’ and ‘speaker of the House’ in the same sentence.” As he adjourned the twohour hearing, Durkin added: “I hope I never see a case like this again.” Had it not been for the statute of limitations on sex crimes running out long ago, the judge said, Hastert could well have been convicted of sexually abusing children. In that circumstance, he would probably have gone to prison for decades. The judge did not say where Hastert would serve time when he reports later this year, but he cited one possibility — a prison in the Rochester, Minnesota, area, that already has many child molesters. In such a place, the judge said, Hastert would be less likely to be singled out by other inmates. Defense attorney Thomas Green sought probation, saying Hastert had already
“Nothing is more stunning than to have the words ‘serial child molester’ and ‘speaker of the House’ in the same sentence.” — Thomas M. Durkin
U.S. District Judge
paid an enormous toll in public shame. Defense attorneys had previously noted how Hastert’s portrait had been taken down from a Capitol Hill hallway shortly after his May 2015 indictment. “Losing your good name is a punishment,” Durkin said. And Hastert’s name has been “obliterated.” But taking down a portrait from a place of honor is not comparable to the devastation endured by someone who is sexually abused as a child. The defense also cited Hastert’s health, saying a blood infection nearly killed him in November and that a stroke has limited his mobility. Durkin accepted that Hastert’s health had deteriorated since he pleaded guilty last fall. But the federal prison system, he said, holds inmates who are older and sicker. The other advantage of the Rochester-area prison, he explained, was that inmates could be treated at the acclaimed Mayo Clinic. The judge, visibly angry at times, said Hastert’s duplicity will make it harder than ever for parents to trust other adults with their children. “If Denny Hastert could do it, anyone could do it,’” Durkin said. Earlier this month, prosecutors went into graphic detail about the sex-abuse allegations, even describing how Hastert would sit in a recliner in the locker room with a direct view of the showers. The victims were JUDGE | 2A
Bedford girl found BEDFORD — Emma Lee Lucas, 15, of Bedford and Matthew Petersen, 17, of Sheridan, Missouri, were located Wednesday on Interstate 80 near Avoca by an Iowa Motor Vehicle Enforcement officer, according
to a Taylor County Sheriff report. Lucas was reported missing Wednesday morning from her residence in Bedford and was likely with Petersen in a white 2005 Chevrolet Silverado.
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