PITCHING GEMS
AVENUE OF FLAGS
The Creston baseball and softball teams opened the Hawkeye 10 season with wins over Glenwood Tuesday, thanks to pitching gems from Kadon Hulett and Cali Foglesong. For more on the games, see SPORTS, page 7A. >>
In preparation for Memorial Day, volunteers are needed to help put up the Avenue of Flags at Graceland Cemetery. Flags will go up at 7 a.m. Sunday and will be brought down at 4 p.m. Monday.
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‘Too much brain to contain’
More details released in fatality accident By BAILEY POOLMAN
The accident occurred at approximately 2:30 a.m. April 27, but officers were not notified until 7:10 a.m. Daub and the passenger, Jason Reed Wortman, 28, of Shannon City, were not wearing seat belts. According to the report, Daub was killed as a result of her injuries from the collision. Wortman was extricated by non-mechanical means, treated for injuries and released at the scene. Neither were ejected from the vehicle. The vehicle was totaled. F & M Body Shop in Creston towed the vehicle. Assisting Iowa State Patrol in responding to the accident were the Ringgold and Union County sheriff’s offices, Greater Regional Medical Center and Ringgold County Hospital ambulances, Afton Fire Department and Tingley first responders.
CNA staff reporter bpoolman@crestonnews.com
CNA photo by KELSEY HAUGEN
Five-year-old Bobby Hiatt smiles on his bike with his mother, Amy Thompson, and sister, Brooklynn Hiatt, outside their home in Creston. Bobby is scheduled to undergo neurosurgery in June for Chiari malformation.
Bobby Hiatt, 5, of Creston was recently diagnosed with Chiari malformation and will have surgery June 27 in Omaha, Nebraska. A benefit dinner to help with costs for his single mother will be 5:30 to 7 p.m. tonight at Crest Baptist Church in Creston. n
By KELSEY HAUGEN CNA associate editor khaugen@crestonnews.com
Amy Thompson sits on the front step of her home in Creston, watching her 5-year-old, Bobby Hiatt, and 4-year-old, Brooklynn Hiatt, ride their bikes in the street. They giggle and shriek as they peddle along. “Bobby, you’re supposed to have your helmet on,” Thompson calls out. “No, I’m not!” Bobby yells back.
“Yes, you are. You’re not listening,” Thompson said. She smiles. “See? Defiant.” Bobby grudgingly returns to his mom, who helps him tighten the strap on his helmet. “He just learned to ride his bike without training wheels last week, so he’s all happy about that,” Thompson said. Bobby’s giggles, shrieks and high energy Monday evening seemed to negate the truth of what’s happening inside his head.
The first signs “Last winter, Bobby started having crazy outbursts in the middle of the night, sometimes early in the morning when he’d wake up, where he’d scream and grab his ears and look and point,” Thompson said. “He’d be screaming for 10 or 15 minutes. I couldn’t get him to say anything; he’d just scream and point.” Bobby first described it as “a lady screaming in his head.” But later on, he described it as a ringing in his head, while simultaneously, it appears everything is moving far away, and it scares him. “It happened again and again, and he’s always had headaches but I never really thought anything of it except over-exertion while playing,” Thompson said. These late-night episodes
“HE’D BE screaming for 10 or 15 minutes. I couldn’t get him to say anything; he’d just scream and point.”
SHANNON CITY — New information has been released in the fatality accident that killed Angel Daub, 25, of Creston April 27 near Ringgold-Union Street. According to an updated Iowa State Patrol report, alcohol and drug tests were done on Daub. The blood alcohol content of a tested blood sample from Daub was at .143, nearly double the .08 per se limit. According to the report, Daub, driving a 1997 Ford north on 190th Avenue, failed to obey a posted stop sign at the intersection of 190th Avenue and Ringgold-Union Street, vaulted over the T-intersection and collided with the ditch embankment on the north side of the roadway.
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AMY THOMPSON
Bobby Hiatt’s mother
began happening more regularly, and Thompson wasn’t sure what to do but wanted to first rule out physical problems before considering psychological ones.
The diagnosis “I took him to the doctor, and they drew blood,” Thompson said. “It came out as abnormal white blood cells, so they referred him to a pediatrician to evaluate HIATT | 2A
On to high school:
CNA photo by KELSEY HAUGEN
Mayflower Heritage Christian School graduate Brayton Chesnut shakes the hand of seventhand eighth-grade teacher Erin Long after receiving his diploma this morning during Mayflower’s eighth-grade graduation ceremony at Crest Baptist Church in Creston. The graduate class included Chesnut, Caden Berry, Eli Hartman, Brendan Pearson, Emma Hanson, Fallon Rooks, Lexi Rounds and Jordin Wernli.
Elks track and field results The results for the Elks Lodge track and field event held Monday evening at the Creston High School track have been finalized.
Fourth-grade boys 50-meter dash — 1. Gavin Bolton, Mayflower Heritage Christian School; 2. Austin Evans, St. Malachy School; 3. Logan Weland, Creston Middle School; 4. Dillon Hoepker, Creston Middle School. 100-meter dash — 1. Gavin Bolton, Mayflower Heritage Christian School; 2. Austin Evans, St. Malachy School; 3. Dillon Hoepker, Creston Middle School; 4. Logan Weland, Creston Middle School. 200-meter dash — 1. Gavin Bolton, Mayflower Heritage Christian School; 2. Cael Turner, Creston Middle School; 3. Austin Evans, St. Malachy School; 4. Logan Weland, Creston Middle School. Long jump — 1. Branden Briley, Creston Middle School; 2. Anthony Keeler, Creston Middle School; 3. Dylan Calvin, Creston Middle School, and Sterling Sharp,
Creston Middle School. Football throw — 1. Cael Turner, Creston Middle School; 2. Sam Henry, Creston Middle School; 3. Jagger Luther, St. Malachy School; 4. Dylan Calvin, Creston Middle School. 400-meter dash — 1. Gavin Bolton, Mayflower Heritage Christian School; 2. Austin Evans, St. Malachy School; 3. Cael Turner, Creston Middle School; 4. Logan Weland, Creston Middle School. Fourth-grade girls 50-meter dash — 1. Halli Abiltrup, Creston Middle School; 2. Lexi Henry, Mayflower Heritage Christian School. 100-meter dash — 1. Lexi Henry, Mayflower Heritage Christian School; 2. Halli Abiltrup, Creston Middle School. 200-meter dash — 1. Halli Abiltrup, Creston Middle School; 2. Zoe Ralston, St. Malachy School; 3. Morgan Vangelder, Creston Middle School; 4. Hope Woods, St. Malachy School. Long jump — 1. Halli Abiltrup, Creston Middle School; 2. Zoe Ralston, St. Malachy School. Softball throw — 1. Halli Abiltrup, Creston Middle School; 2. Morgan Vangelder, Creston Middle School; 3. Cecilia Zachary,
St. Malachy School; 4. Lydia Goins, Creston Middle School. 400-meter dash — 1. Halli Abiltrup, Creston Middle School; 2. Zoe Ralston, St. Malachy School; 3. Lydia Goins, Creston Middle School; 4. Morgan Vangelder, Creston Middle School. Fifth-grade boys 50-meter dash — 1. Gannon Greenwalt, Creston Middle School; 2. Trey Chesnut, Mayflower Heritage Christian School; 3. Patrick Varner, St. Malachy School; 4. George Weis, St. Malachy School. 100-meter dash — 1. Gannon Greenwalt, Creston Middle School; 2. Patrick Varner, St. Malachy School; 3. Trey Chesnut, Mayflower Heritage Christian School; 4. Ethan Crawford, Creston Middle School. 200-meter dash — 1. Patrick Varner, St. Malachy School; 2. Trey Chesnut, Mayflower Heritage Christian School; 3. Ethan Crawford, Creston Middle School; 4. Jayden Pettegrew, Creston Middle School. High jump — 1. Gannon Greenwalt, Creston Middle School; 2. Kyle Strider, St. Malachy School;
ELKS | 2A CNA photo by BAILEY POOLMAN
Macy Wiley, 12, of Creston hurls her arm back for momentum as she prepares to throw a softball during the Elks Lodge track and field event Monday evening at the Creston High School track. Boys and girls in fourth, fifth and sixth grades from Creston Middle, St. Malachy and Mayflower Heritage Christian schools participated in the various events, such as 100-meter dash and long jump.
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