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Members of the Nodaway Valley baseball team display their state qualifier banner to their fans after a 9-6 win Wednesday over MartensdaleSt. Marys gave the team its first trip to the State Baseball Tournament in program history. For more on the game, see page 8A.
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New security cameras approved by Creston Schools By SCOTT VICKER
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Jayson Lens waits for Pokemon to appear on his tablet while he plays Pokemon Go as his father, Nathan Lens of Creston, watches on. Jayson plays the augmented reality game with his father regularly by driving and walking to the various Pokestops around Creston.
Pokemon Go hits the streets in Creston. ■
By BAILEY POOLMAN CNA staff reporter bpoolman@crestonnews.com
After about 20 years of playing hand-held games on gaming consoles in search of creatures called Pokemon, the American company Niantic finally created a phone app for players to do just that in augmented reality. The end result is Pokemon Go. The app, which can be
found for both Apple and Android products, allows a person to follow streets and sidewalks to search for Pokemon and capture them. “I think I jumped on about three or four days after it came out,” said Nathan Lens of Creston. “I just heard a lot of people talking about it, so I decided to give it a try.” Nathan was about 14 when the original Pokemon Red and Blue video games for hand-held Gameboy came out in 1996, and he didn’t play it like other people who were younger at the time. But, since he started playing the game on his cell
phone, his son, Jayson, also began catching them all. The game utilizes specific spots throughout the town, such as Gibson Memorial Library, Creston Fire Department and McKinley Park, and turns them into what are called Pokestops. At each stop, you can gain items like Pokeballs, which help the player catch Pokemon, potions to revive the creatures during battles or eggs, which after walking a certain distance will hatch into the Pokemon. A common spot for people to spend time is Rainbow Park, where two Pokestops, one at the fountain and the
other at the mural, overlap. “Sometimes we go to Rainbow Park and sit right in the middle where the two Pokestops are,” Jayson said. “We put down a lure module and we can catch Pokemon and get more Pokeballs.” There are three teams a player can side with in the game: Team Valor, Team Mystic and Team Instinct. Each team is based on a fire, ice and electric bird Pokemon from the original Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow Gameboy games, as well as the anime series and first movie.
New security cameras will be implemented as part of a $600,000 plan to improve security, the Creston Community School District board approved unamiously during a regular board meeting Monday. The board approved the security plan that included a new phone system, exterior door entry system and more surveillance cameras in buildings more than a year ago. At the time, the board budgeted $200,000 per year for three years to phase in the new security upgrades. With no action being taken last year, CCSD now has $400,000 available this year to begin the security upgrades. “Within the camera portion of the security system, we’ll do some phasing in,” CCSD Superintendent Steve
McDermott said. “We’ll also phase in those other significant portions and watch our funding along the way so that McDermott we don’t undercut one part of the system overspending on another. We have time and funding to do this the right way, so we want to balance the systems we have installed.” CCSD will work with Communication Innovators, headquartered in Pleasant Hill, to replace existing surveillance cameras at school facilities, some of which have been in place for more than 12 years. McDermott said cameras will primarily be placed in the three buildings that house students, but there will SCHOOLS | 2A
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Police shoot autistic man’s caretaker as he lies in street MIAMI (AP) — A Florida police officer shot and wounded an autistic man’s black caretaker, authorities said, in an incident purportedly captured on cellphone video that shows the caretaker lying down with his arms raised before being shot. North Miami Assistant Police Chief Neal Cuevas told The Miami Herald that officers responded to the scene Monday following reports of a man threatening to shoot himself. Officers arrived to find 47-year-old Charles Kinsey, a therapist
who works with people with disabilities, according to WSVN-TV, trying to get his 27-year-old patient back to a facility from where he had wandered. Cuevas says police ordered Kinsey and the patient, who was sitting in the street playing with a toy truck, to lie on the ground. The video shows Kinsey lying down and putting his hands up while trying to get his patient to comply. An officer then fired three times, striking Kinsey in the leg, Cuevas said. No weapon was found.
The latest shooting comes amid weeks of violence involving police. Three law enforcement officers were fatally shot and three others wounded Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by a shooter whom police also gunned down. Two weeks earlier, two white officers in Baton Rouge killed a black man, Alton Sterling, 37, on July 5 during a scuffle at a convenience store. That shooting, captured on cellphone video, provoked widespread protests about police treatment of the black community.
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On July 6, another black man, 32-year-old Philando Castile, was killed in Minnesota when a police officer pulled him over. The next day, a sniper killed five Dallas police officers as they guarded a peaceful protest. In Florida, Kinsey’s attorney, Hilton Napoleon, provided a cellphone video to the Herald on Wednesday taken moments before the shooting. It shows Kinsey lying in the middle of the street with his hands up, asking the officers not to SHOOTING | 2A
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Adair County Fair Queen Riley Lonsdale, back center, smiles with her court after the coronation Wednesday evening at Adair County Fairgrounds in Greenfield. In front, from left, are Little Mister Dominic Breheny and Little Miss Grace Eshelman. In back are Miss Congeniality Mackenzie Meisenheimer, 18, of Greenfield; Lonsdale, 17, of Greenfield; and first runner-up Zoey Dinkla, 18, of Casey.
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