ROADRUNNER LOSS
TALENT SEARCH
Interstate 35’s softball team fell in the Class 2A semifinals Thursday, despite 12 strikeouts by Carlyn Stanley. For more on the Roadrunners, see SPORTS, page 6A. >>
The Bill Riley Talent Search contest comes to Creston Saturday, July 29. For more information on the contest, see page 8A. >>
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Orient man wins Hy-Vee guitar giveaway Tim Osborne was contacted Tuesday about winning Hy-Vee’s Kenny Chesney guitar. ■
By BAILEY POOLMAN CNA staff reporter bpoolman@crestonnews.com
Tim Osborne of Orient is a regular customer at Creston Hy-Vee, and has a special place in his heart for the K-9 cause. Osborne, 35, was contacted by Hy-Vee management Tuesday about his win, and he said he was shocked at first. “At first I was kind of shocked that I won something,” Osborne said. “They just called and said that I won a guitar for the K-9 thing in Creston HyVee.” Osborne is a weekly shopper at Hy-Vee, and also understands the cause better than some. Osborne is a former police officer. He served the communi-
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Creston Hy-Vee Store Director Jeremy Odem presents Tim Osborne of Orient with a Kenny Chesney autographed guitar Friday morning. Osborne won the guitar in Creston Hy-Vee’s raffle drawing as part of the fundraiser for the Creston Police Department’s K-9 unit.
ties of Corning and Villisca, and donates regularly to law enforcement fund-
raisers. “I’m big in the K-9 unit because my father-in-law
CNA photo by CARTER ECKL
Royalty: From left, second runner-up Olivia Hartman; 2017 Union County Fair Queen Macy
Evans and first runner-up Allison Hadley pose Thursday night for photos after the final results are announced at the Queen Coronation during the Union County Fair. The fair runs through Wednesday.
O.J. Simpson triumphant, others devastated as he gets parole Although he still adamantly maintains he was trying to retrieve his personal property when he barged into a hotel room with five other men in September 2007, he acknowledged repeatedly Thursday that it was something he never should have done.
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• WHERE DO YOU TRAVEL TO FOR
SHOWS? Wherever I get contracts. Mostly in Iowa, but I get up into Wisconsin and Minnesota as well.
• ARE PIGS YOUR FAVORITE ANIMAL? I raise
all species back home on my farm, but swine are my specialty. They’re what I’m most comfortable with.
• WHAT’S THE MOST UNUSUAL NAME YOU’VE HEARD FOR A PIG? I’ve heard it all. Anywhere from Ham, Bacon, Sausage to any other given name. They’re all unique in their own way.
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Adair County Fair swine judge
• WHAT’S SOMETHING YOU’VE LEARNED ON THE
JOB? I’ve learned to ask questions of the kids. It makes them more comfortable, helps with their nerves, even if the questions don’t go into my decisions and judging.
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mental class Thursday evening at the Adair County Fair poultry show in Greenfield. Boldon has been judging poultry shows since 1991. The Adair County Fair runs through Sunday, and takes place at the Adair County Fairgrounds in Greenfield.
SHOWS DO YOU JUDGE? Just swine. Only swine.
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JUDGING? For about 10 years now –since I graduated college.
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used and they’re a great asset.” Osborne’s daughter,
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LOVELOCK, Nev. (AP) — Barring any last-minute snafus, O.J. Simpson will walk out of prison a free man in about three months, having persuaded a Nevada parole board the bungled hotel-room heist he pulled nearly 10 years ago was a monumental error in judgment and one he will never repeat.
was in the K-9 unit in Decatur County,” Osborne said. “I’ve seen the K-9
Carter, 10, was excited her father won the guitar. Osborne said she was sitting next to him when he got the call and told him, “I want it.” Brandon McDonald, manager of perishables, has been the front runner of this fundraiser since its inception several weeks ago. After two Saturday meals with approximately five dozen purchases, sales of Kenny Chesney’s Blue Chair Bay rum, a doughnut sale and straight monetary donations, Hy-Vee customers helped the store raise $1,000 to be donated toward Creston’s K-9 police unit. “We were just looking for something and given the opportunity with the guitar,” McDonald said. “We were fortunate enough to find something in the community that we could give back to and it’s nice we could help out with the K-9 unit.” Creston Police Department has been without a
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