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Firefighters train on donated grain rescue equipment

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Even though he was only buried in corn up to his waist, Chad Rieck could feel the pressure when he said he was able to feel his heart beat in his legs.

When firefighters managed to dig him out, Rieck’s legs were speckled red and imprinted with the outline of corn kernels. But, Rieck went back in. Rieck was a volunteer victim for a grain rescue training held Tuesday evening at Gavilon.

Creston Fire Department hosted the class and Afton firefighters also attended.

Creston Fire Department also received a donation of a rescue tube, plastic buckets and panel driver from Farm Bureau in Creston. Crop Production Services and Farmer’s Cooperative also CNA photo by SCOTT VICKER donated toward the equipChad Rieck, center, lifts a bucket of grain to Creston volunteer firefighter Dean Schulte, right, during a grain entrap- ment and training. ment class Tuesday evening at Gavilon Grain. Employees of Gavilon donated the space for Afton and Creston fire “There’s a grant that’s departments to have a grain rescue training course. Also pictured are Creston volunteer firefighter Jake Winkler, left, available through Farm Outstate Data training coordinator Craig Berg, back left, and Gavilon Assistant Superintendent Tim Fiala, back right.

Source: Kansas boy who died at water park was decapitated KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 10-year-old boy who was killed at a Kansas water park while riding on a 17-story waterslide was decapitated, a source told The Associated Press Wednesday.

A person who is familiar with the investigation but is not authorized to speak about it said Caleb Schwab was decapitated Sunday on the “Verruckt” ride at the Schlitterbahn WaterPark in Kansas City, Kansas.

Caleb, the son of a Kansas lawmaker, was in a raft with two adults who were not related to him when he was killed on the 168-foot tall ride, which is billed as the tallest in the world. The other two people were treated for facial injuries.

At least two people who rode in the last year on “Verruckt” — German for

“insane” — say nylon shoulder straps came loose during the raft ride.

It’s unclear whether the straps played any role in Caleb’s death. Police and Schlitterbahn have not provided any other details of Caleb’s death.

A spokeswoman for the waterpark on Wednesday declined to discuss the circumstances of the boy’s death.

The park said Tuesday that the ride would be closed for the remainder of the season.

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This illustration shows both the existing Gibson Memorial Library, on the right, and the expansion to be made on the south side of the building. The 8,995-square-foot expansion will begin once the full $2.9 million is raised, and the facility will eventually develop into Creston Area Library and Cultural Center (CALCC).

After its kick-off fundraising event, Gibson Memorial Library is inching toward the estimated $2.9 million needed for its planned expansion. n

By KELSEY HAUGEN CNA associate editor khaugen@crestonnews.com

About $50,000 has now been raised toward the estimated $2.9 million needed for the expansion of Gibson Memorial Library.

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provement, and we thought there would be a need. We talked about it as a board, we talked about recent events and decided that would be where we would try to apply for the grant and support the fire department,” said Matt Ramaeker, Farm Bureau board member. “It’s pertinent to farming. It’s a cause that’s near and dear to Farm Bureau and we really felt the department needed it.”

“Fire departments don’t have a whole lot of expendable money,” said Craig Berg, training coordinator with Outstate Data of Elbow Lake, Minnesota.

“It’s thanks to donations, like with Farm Bureau, and Gavilon for letting us train here. It’s things like this that let us do these trainings.”

The training was held at Gavilon as part of the donated services.

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The 8,995-square-foot expansion to the south side of the Creston library will begin once the funds are available, and the facility will eventually develop into Creston Area Library and Cultural Center (CALCC).

On Sunday alone, about

$5,000 was raised during the library’s event “A Sunday with Matilda” kicking off its capital campaign for the project, which will provide more space for children’s programming and public meetings.

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plans to expand the library and cultural center. This was our first big effort to involve the community on a grassroots basis and to cultivate large-scale involvement in the community.”

Upon evaluating numbers, Hargrove said about 125 people attended the kick-off fundraiser.

“There were folks I had not met previously, so I can’t say it was just our most loyal supporters,” Hargrove said.

The expansion The initial estimate for the expansion was $4.7 million in August 2015.

The now scaled-back $2.9 million design still restores an east entrance to the library on Maple Street with a large handicap ramp leading to the new addition. It also increases space for the children and adult collection areas to be on the second floor as well as the rest of the print collection.

There will also be a large meeting room on the first floor where the current children’s area is located.

That meeting room will have the capacity to host 75 people. The plan allows for geothermal heating and cooling, as well, which will lower utility costs at the library.

Some of the major cuts that brought the original estimate down to $2.9 million include not finishing the cultural center and additional meeting spaces on the first floor. That space will be unfinished concrete floors and walls.

The project architect, Denny Sharp with FEH Design, said it will look “just like an unfinished basement in your house.”

“That space will still be available for activities,” Hargrove said. “It won’t be so unfinished we can’t use it.”

Importance of expanding Hargrove said a main perk of the expansion will be more space and options for children’s programming.

“Right now, we can only hold up to 30 kids at a time and that’s uncomfortably packed,” Hargrove said. “We have nearly 3,000 schoolaged children in Union County and a lot of them, whose parents don’t bring them in regularly because we can only host so many at a time, are deprived of a public library experience at an early age. If we can hold 70, 80, 100 kids at a time, we can bring those large groups in and make t h e m aware of all the re- Hargrove sources available to them in the library.”

The expansion will also provide more room for others in the community to meet.

“Creston has almost no public meeting space; the best spot is the mealsite at the Depot, and there’s generally activites planned there during the day,” Hargrove said. “An important part of the library’s mission is to have safe, comfortable, technologically up-to-date spaces for small and large groups to gather.

That’s how libraries have continued to remain vital to their communities and, as it stands, we just don’t have that.”

Future fundraising

While the kick-off event Sunday featured mostly entertainment – from live music to on-site artists – Sharp was also on hand to speak with local residents about the expansion.

“He answered a number of good questions for folks who wanted to know about the plan and how it was affected by the cost revisions,” Hargrove said.

“I would say (FEH Design is) very committed to libraries. They’ve extended a number of courtesies to us that contractually they were not obligated to do, so they’ve shown good faith to our library throughout this project.”

Hargrove said the library board is trying to raise about $1.9 million locally and $1 million through national, and possibly international, corporations and foundations.

“Going forward, members of the library board, Capital Campaign Committee and other champions – strong-leading supporters of the project – will host some smaller gatherings and more fundraising events,” Hargrove said.

He hopes to have the fundraising part of the project wrapped up within one to two years.

To donate, contact David Hargrove, any member of the library board or visit Gibson Memorial Library at 200 W. Howard St. “I would like to express my deep gratitude to ... all those who have assisted us with our capital campaign, particularly this last weekend’s event,” Hargrove said.

“It’s all about the efforts of volunteers who are making this happen. These are people who care deeply about Creston and, in particular, our public library. They want to see it move forward.”

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community and to be able to help the fire departments, b o t h Creston and Afton,” said Dean Michaelson, Gavilon manager. “We Michaelson thought it was important to have a space to demonstrate this product and enhance the chance of successful rescues down the road.”

Equipment The new rescue tube is made of removable metal panels to adjust the size of the tube. The panels have steps on the outside for rescue teams to stand on, and some have rungs on the inside for victim and rescue team use. The driver is used to push the panels further into the grain when the strength of a rescuer isn’t enough.

“You can add panels to expand or whatever the situation may call for,” Berg

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to a finishing pool. Along the way, riders clutch ropes along the inside of the raft.

Riders are harnessed in with two nylon seatbelt-like straps — one that crosses the rider’s lap, the other stretching diagonally like a car shoulder seatbelt. Each strap is held in place by long Velcro-style straps, not by buckles.

Ken Martin, a Richmond, Virginia-based amusement park safety consultant, questioned whether the straps were appropriate for what he called “nothing more than a roller coaster with water.”

In early tests, rafts carrying sandbags flew off the slide, prompting engineers to tear down half of the ride and reconfigure some angles.

A promotional video about building the slide includes footage of two men riding a raft down a half-size test model and going slightly airborne as it crests the top of the first big hill.

“I think they designed this ride, and they figured since stuff was flying out, we better do something to keep people from flying out,” he said. “I think we have a serious issue with the restraint system. Period.”

said. “If there’s a leg sticking out or an arm sticking out, you can make it bigger, do a side wall or a wall-towall rescue. A lot of other products out there can’t do that.”

Also in the donation was several plastic buckets to be used to remove grain from around the victim. Berg advocates the use of the buckets because they cannot create a spark, which in a grain-dust-dense enclosed space could cause a fire.

An auger arrived today as part of the donation from Farm Bureau, and brushless drills will also be donated to Creston Fire Department for future rescues.

“In situations like Murray, if we get a worker or farmer who gets trapped in grain, then we make our chances of a rescue a little better (with this equipment),” said Todd Jackson, Creston fire chief. “I think this was a good beginning training. We’ve had other grain bin rescue trainings and we’ll continue to do that to supplement. This was more specific to the piece of equipment.”

Because all Outstate Data equipment is made the

same, the panels donated to Creston Fire Department will also fit with the ones Afton Fire Department received in May 2015 from Farm Credit Services of America, if either responds as mutual aid for the other.

According to statistics gathered by Purdue University in 2010, between 1964 and 2005, 74 percent of grain entrapments across the country resulted in death. However, those statistics are slowly decreasing.

In 2008, the percentage was down to 45, and in 2009 it was 42.

Berg, who has done about 600 trainings in six years, 20 of which were done in Iowa in the past six weeks, thinks part of this is because of the push for education on the subject.

“We’re out there training and we’re educating firefighters and fire departments,” Berg said. “Prior to us getting out there and educating, they were just trying to cut down sheets of plywood.”

Creston Fire Department last responded to a grain entrapment within

the district in 2003 in a grain tower at Gavilon, which was DeBruce Grain at the time. Creston firefighters also responded to mutual aid December 2015 in Murray when Eric Reasland fell into a grain bin.

“Too often with these types of situations, our nature and agricultural nature is: somebody is in trouble and we have to do something about it,” Jackson said. “If we don’t k n o w w h a t Jackson we’re doing or how to do it, then our rescue outcome is less effective.”

Since the push of grain entrapment education for first responders, Berg said there are more survivors of entrapments and because the techniques to save victims have improved, the rescue time has decreased.

For more questions about grain rescue training and equipment, contact Berg at 320-491-2055.

Although he has not seen or ridden Verruckt, Martin said a more solid restraint system that fits over the body — similar to those used in roller coasters — may have been better.

Jon Rust, a professor of textile engineering at North Carolina State University, said the material used on the straps, commonly called hook and loop, isn’t designed to keep a person in the seat. It also can get old and degrade with use.

“It’s got to be used in a safe manner, and that doesn’t include stopping someone’s fall or preventing someone’s ejection,” Rust said.

Paul Oberhauser told local television station KCTV that his shoulder restraint “busted loose” on his Verruckt raft July 26. The Nebraska man said he “just held on,” and a video shot by his wife shows the strap loose at the ride’s end.

Oberhauser said he reported the matter to park workers.

Kenneth Conrad told WDAF-TV that during his trip down the waterslide last year with a friend, the friend’s shoulder strap came “completely off.” Conrad’s wife snapped a photo at the end of the ride showing the strap missing, and Conrad

didn’t file a complaint with the park.

The park’s spokeswoman said in a statement that “a limited portion” of the park would reopen Wednesday.

Each rider on the Verruckt must be at least 54 inches tall, and the group’s weight is limited to a total of 400 to 550 pounds. Caleb was seated with two women unrelated to him and who sustained minor facial injuries.

Police were investigating the death as a criminal case although police spokesman Cameron Morgan said Tuesday that designation did not mean they suspect foul play.

Caleb’s parents — Republican state Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife, Michele — have requested privacy and have not spoken publicly since the death of Caleb, whose funeral is Friday.

Verruckt’s 2014 opening repeatedly was delayed, though the operators didn’t explain why. Two media sneak preview days in 2014 were canceled because of problems with a conveyor system that hauls 100-pound rafts to the top of the slide.

Kansas statutes governing amusement rides don’t specifically mention waterslides. State law leaves it to

the Kansas Department of Labor to adopt rules and regulations relating to certification and inspection of rides, adding that a permanent amusement ride must be scrutinized at least once a year by “a qualified inspector.”

Regulations require only that owners of permanent amusement rides retain records for a year and rides are randomly selected quarterly for a records audit.

Documents released Tuesday by the state department showed that in June 2012, a records audit found that the park was not maintaining records of testing for current and previous years. The report said that instead of such testing, “visual inspections are conducted annually and daily.” There was no record of a state response, and the audit was marked “pass.”

There were no indications of further records audits, and department officials did not immediately answer questions about why that was so.

The state requested documentation from Schlitterbahn “to ensure all safety requirements have been followed.” Department officials didn’t immediately provide additional details.

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Schedule of driver’s license examiners: Bedford: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Taylor County Courthouse, 407 Jefferson St. Corning: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., treasurer’s office, Adams County Courthouse.

Driving tests on Wednesday mornings by appointment.

Creston: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., treasurer’s office, Union County Courthouse, 300 N. Pine St. Driving tests Wednesdays. Call 782-1710 for an appointment.

Greenfield: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., treasurer’s office, Adair County Courthouse, 400 Public Square.

Mount Ayr: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., treasurer’s office, Ringgold County Courthouse, 109 W. Madison St. Osceola: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Clarke County Courthouse, 100 S. Main St. Winterset: Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., Madison County Courthouse, 112 N. John Wayne Drive.

Wednesday

Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, noon to 5 p.m., 308 W. Union St. Friends Helping Friends Bereavement Support Group, 3 to 5 p.m., Homestead Assisted Living private dining room, 1709 W. Prairie St. Women’s Narcotics Anonymous (NA), 6 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. Southwest Iowa Dancers Jam Session, 6 to 9 p.m., Chicken Inn, 3 miles west of Creston on Hwy 34.

Thursday

National Association of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees Inc. Unit No. 54, 9 a.m., The Windrow.

Southern Prairie YMCA 55 Plus, 11:30 a.m., Southern Prairie YMCA. Blue Grass Optimist Club of Creston, noon, The Pizza Ranch.

Kent Dinner Club, 5:30 p.m., The Pizza Ranch.

Celebrate Recovery (a Christcentered 12-step program), 6 p.m., Crest Baptist Church, 1211 N. Poplar St. Southwest dance jam and pot luck, 6 to 9 p.m., Villisca Community Center.

American Legion Auxiliary, 7 p.m., American Legion Post Home, 119 N. Walnut St. Gambler’s Anonymous, 7 p.m., Assembly of God Church, 801 N. Fillmore St., Osceola.

Al-Anon, 7:30 p.m., Crossroads Mental Health Center, 1003 Cottonwood Road.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) open meeting, 7:30 p.m., St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

Friday

Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 308 W. Union St. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) brown baggers, noon open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. No smoking.

Union County Historical Complex open, 1 to 4:30 p.m., McKinley Park.

Southwest Iowa Dancers, 6 to 9 p.m., Tingley, featuring Jimmy Georges’ Band, with a potluck.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 12 by 12 study, 7 to 8 p.m., United Church of Christ, 501 W. Montgomery St. Use east door.

Narcotics Anonymous (NA), 8 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

Saturday

Creston Men’s Fellowship non-denominational Bible study, 7 a.m., Windrow Restaurant.

Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, 9 a.m. to noon, 308 W. Union St. Family Caregiver Support Group, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Alzheimer’s Association office, 228 N. Pine St. For more information, contact Jaleyn at 641782-4040.

Union County Historical Complex open, 1 to 4:30 p.m., McKinley Park.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 7:30 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

Sunday

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), noon open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. Union County Historical Complex open, 1 to 4:30 p.m., McKinley Park.

Monday

Union County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m., Union County Courthouse Board Room.

Creston Rotary Club, noon, Greater Regional Medical Center cafeteria conference room.

Narcotics Anonymous (NA), noon open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. No smoking.

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Domestic dispute, 8:44 p.m., Tuesday, Osage Street.

Traffic stop, 11:55 p.m., Tuesday, West Jefferson Street.

Traffic stop, 1:37 a.m., today, West Jefferson Street.

Traffic hazard, 1:42 a.m., today, West Howard Street.

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Grandparents are David and Ruth Leiser of Creston Fire and Joe Harrison of Gowrie. Miscellaneous Great-grandparents are Medical, 1:17 p.m., TuesJoe Leiser of Dubuque, Nada day, North Poplar Street.

Davison of Nora Springs and Ruth Harrison of Jefferson. Afton Police

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John Foster, 34, 703 W. Jefferson St., was charged on a Union County warrant for violation of probation on an original charge of third-degree or subsequent domestic abuse 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Union County Law Enforcement Center.

Foster was being held on $2,000 bond.

Miscellaneous Welfare check, 7:39 a.m., Tuesday, Quiet Harbor.

Welfare check, 7:43 a.m., Tuesday, East Mills Street.

Escort, 9:02 a.m., Tuesday, South Sumner Avenue.

Theft, 11:43 a.m., Tuesday, North Pine Street.

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Ongoing criminal investigation, 12:01 p.m., Aug. 1.

Talk to officer, 9:42 a.m., Aug. 2.

Information, 10:17 a.m., Aug. 2.

Animal call, 11 a.m., Aug. 2.

Talk to officer, 11:07 a.m., Aug. 2.

Traffic stop, 9:30 p.m., Aug. 2.

Traffic stop, 5:10 p.m., Friday.

Traffic stop, 5:27 p.m., Friday.

Traffic stop, 9:15 p.m., Friday.

Traffic stop, 7:35 p.m., Saturday.

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November’s chaotic election HOLLYWOOD – God bless America, and how’s everybody?

The Wall Street Journal predicted a chaotic election in November due to the hateful campaign rhetoric being slung by both sides. The market is unsure.

Stockbrokers are advising investors that whether Clinton or Trump wins, the smartest buys right now are canned goods, water and ammunition.

The Olympic Summer Games got started with a spectacular opening night ceremony in Brazil Friday that included the parade of nations. The atmosphere was described as exhilarating.

Most oddsmakers pick Germany to win the most gold medals in Brazil because of the home field advantage.

U.S. Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps won his 23rd and 24th career Olympic medals in Rio. He reported the next morning that after he won, he went back to Olympic Vil-

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lage and ate a pound of spaghetti. That should put to rest any rumors that he’s smoking pot again.

Black Lives Matter movement issued its demands to the U.S. government over past grievances Friday. It followed La Raza’s demands for Latin Americans and LGBT demands over bathroom designations. The U.S. would have the greatest economy in history if only being offended paid better.

National Geographic says archaeologists in San Antonio believe they may have finally found the front door of the Alamo. During the battle, it took 5,000 Mexican troops two weeks to conquer 200 cowboys. It just shows the problems you face

when you pay people by the hour.

A Boston restaurant called Tasty Burger is threatening legal action against Chipotle’s for calling its new burger restaurant chain Tasty Made. It won’t end up in court. If it comes to a lawsuit, Chipotle is ready to go to with their Plan B, using the alternate name, I Can’t Believe It’s not E-Coli.

The New York Times says that graduates of prestigious Eastern law schools the last five years are finding it impossible to find a job in a law firm. It’s bad. Yesterday morning, a woman working in the McDonald’s drive-thru window spilled hot coffee on my lap, and then offered to represent me.

Iran released a video showing the U.S. hostages not being allowed to take off until the U.S. cargo plane landed in Iran with the $400 million in cash. It’s a hot campaign topic. Donald

Trump has bounced back in the polls by insisting he could have saved us 40 percent on the ransom money.

Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Americans use their Second Amendment rights to stop Hillary from naming judges if elected. He later clarified he Trump meant gun owners are unified. Donald Trump’s great skill is saying whatever’s on his mind and afterwards making it look like mental illness.

Hillary Clinton visited a Miami health clinic where she blamed Republicans for the Zika virus Tuesday. It’s ominous. While she was in Miami Hil- Clinton

lary got bit by a Zika mosquito, and the mosquito spent all day sucking the blood out of people in exchange for access to State Department contracts.

Donald Trump complained Tuesday that the moderators assigned to the presidential debates are biased.

Ratings will be huge. The prospect of a showdown between Hillary and Trump is of great benefit to three groups – the voting public, the TV news industry and comedians with mortgages.

Tim Tebow will showcase his baseball talents for Major League Baseball scouts from all 30 teams.

He’s going to take live batting practice. Hopefully they won’t use a Major League pitcher, or they may have to call Child Services after Uncle Charlie Tebow gets finished with Timmy in the batter’s cage.

A pointless anti-nuclear gesture

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The Obama administration is entering its final months, but it’s never too late to further diminish U.S. influence and discomfit our allies.

President Barack Obama is considering adopting a policy of “no first use,” i.e., declaring that the United States would never use nuclear weapons except after a nuclear attack on itself or its allies. From Obama’s perspective, this change would have the dual advantage of being something he can legitimately do on his own and representing a radical departure in the country’s nuclear doctrine.

For 70 years, presidents of both parties have maintained a posture of nuclear ambiguity.

We wanted enemies to have to contemplate the possibility of a U.S. nuclear response to acts of aggression. This added an extra element of uncertainty and risk to potential attacks on us or our friends, in the hopes of deterring them in the first place.

For the advocates of no first use, the very fact that ambiguity has been our policy for so long is a reason to abandon it. They urge that we get beyond “Cold War thinking,” a favorite line of President Obama’s as well.

The end of the Cold War indeed changed the strategic environment, but it didn’t make nuclear weapons obsolete, or render age-old concepts like deterrence inoperative, or eliminate international conflict.

The paradox of nukes is that they are weapons of cataclysmic

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destructive force at the same time that they have proven to be a guarantee of peace. As the strategist Bernard Brodie wrote at the dawn of the nuclear age: “Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them.” It is thanks in part to the advent of nuclear weapons that we have averted the total wars between great powers that made the first half of the 20th century a vast killing field.

Declaring no first use would kick away an element of our nuclear deterrent. Yes, we no longer have to worry about deterring a massive Soviet army facing west. But Vladimir Putin has already changed the borders of Europe through force, and there’s no reason to think he’s necessarily done. A RAND Corporation study says that Russian forces could reach the capitals of the Baltic States in less than 60 hours.

Why would we make Putin’s calculation any easier in considering such a move, or ease the minds of other potential aggressors like China and North Korea? We might never use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional attack, no matter

how brazen. Obviously the risks in resorting to nuclear weapons would be mind-boggling, but taking the possibility off the table serves no purpose. If we are going to have nuclear weapons, we should take advantage of their deterrent effect.

Relying entirely on conventional forces for deterrence would require more military spending and more forward-deployed assets by us and our allies. Of course, the analysts and activists who argue for no first use tend to be the same ones who think we spend too much on defense. One of these things does not go along with the other.

Our allies are freaked out about the prospect of no first use.

They have long relied on our nuclear umbrella, and if it is being pulled back, countries like South Korea and Japan will need to reconsider their decisions to forswear nuclear weapons. This is why no first use would contradict President Obama’s opposition to nuclear proliferation, and make Global Zero – the disarmament movement’s goal of a world free of nuclear weapons – even more of a pipe dream.

In short, there is nothing to recommend no first use unless you are a lame-duck president heedless of strategic reality and looking to make a gesture of anti-nuclear righteousness. No first use would make the world, at the margins, a more dangerous place – and be a perfect parting shot for President Obama.

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Creston News Advertiser | Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Hoakison named rehab services director at GRMC Greater Regional Medical Center (GRMC) recently announced Jill Hoakison, PT, DPT has been appointed director of rehabilitation services overseeing the physical Hoakison therapy, occupational therapy, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and

athletic training services.

Hoakison attended Iowa State University in Ames where she received her Bachelor’s of Science degree in exercise science and obtained her Doctorate of Physical Therapy at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

Prior to joining GRMC, Hoakison worked for Unity Point-Des Moines in the acute and skilled setting.

“My husband, Caleb, is a Creston native,” Hoakison

said. “We moved to southwest Iowa to surround ourselves with family and to raise our sons in a close-knit community. I am appreciative for the opportunity to work for GRMC knowing we provide excellent, compassionate care across the continuum of life.”

Hoakison, her husband, Caleb, and sons, Brantley and Theo, reside north of Creston. In her spare time, Jill enjoys running and traveling with family.

Mediacom named nation’s top cable operator DES MOINES – Mediacom Communications has been named the nation’s top cable operator by a leading industry publication.

In its annual “Top Ops Awards” issue, Cablefax announced Mediacom, with its record-setting performance in 2015 and impressive start in 2016, edged out larger cable companies to earn the coveted “MSO of the Year” award. The award honors the multiple cable system operator (MSO) that has best demonstrated excellence in overall operations during the prior year.

“Reinvesting in the plant and offering new services,” wrote Amy Maclean, editorial director of Cablefax, “is the playbook of MSO of the Year Mediacom.”

Following a recent wave of industry consolidation,

Mediacom now holds the distinction of being the fifth-largest MSO in the United States.

In March, the company marked the 20th anniversary of its first cable system purchase by announcing plans to invest $1 billion over the next three years to, among other projects, upgrade and expand its national broadband network. Headlining the list of planned initiatives is “Project Gigabit,” the wide-scale deployment of 1 gigabit per second broadband services to virtually all of the three million homes and businesses within the 1,500 communities located in Mediacom’s 22-state footprint.

“For over 2 decades, Mediacom’s guiding principle has been to offer the smaller communities we serve

the same or better communications services than are available in America’s largest cities,” said Rocco B. Commisso, Mediacom founder and CEO. “To be recognized by Cablefax as the nation’s top cable operator is a testament to the work our 4,600 employees do each and every day to serve our customers. With our plans to invest $1 billion over the next three years to fund Project Gigabit and other exciting initiatives, I think it is safe to say that the best is yet to come.”

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Wallace tops lamb performance contest GREENFIELD – Halee Wallace earned the top prize in the 4-H/FFA lamb performance show at the 2016 Adair County Fair. Her 156-pound entry produced .359 pounds of boneless retail cuts per day on feed. The lamb gained 1.06 pounds per day on feed and had a 3.67-square-inch ribeye area. Halee is the daughter of Doug and Julie Wallace of Creston.

Shelby Brewer claimed reserve honors with her 134-pound lamb. Her entry produced .332 pounds of boneless retail cuts per day on feed and had a 3.22-square-inch ribeye area. Shelby is the daughter of Kim Brewer of Green-

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Others placing in the contest included: Purple – Shelby Brewer (2).

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US women gymnasts, Phelps, Ledecky all golden again RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Good old Michael Phelps, golden again.

For teenagers Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles, their star turns in the Summer Olympics might be just beginning.

From the pool to the gymnastics floor, Team USA had nice day at the Rio de Janeiro Games.

Not all the American stars were winners Tuesday, though. Serena Williams lost on the tennis court and the U.S. women’s soccer team gave up a late goal and ended up in a draw with Colombia.

But a new generation of U.S. athletes is ready to take up the banner of Olympic standard-bearer from Phelps, a grizzled veteran at 31.

Phelps earned his 20th career gold medal after taking the 200-meter butterfly. He erased the bad memories from his loss in the same race in London to South African Chad le Clos.

Phelps got off to a rousing start at the Rio Games by leading his 4x100 freestyle team to the gold medal on Sunday.

On Tuesday, Phelps’ face bared a familiar scowl as he walked out on to the deck. He held off Japan’s Masato Sakai by four-hundredths of a second, with Hungary’s Tamas Kenderesi taking the bronze.

His 21st gold came later Tuesday night after swimming the anchor leg on the 4x200-meter relay.

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Public notice Regular Session August 1, 2016 The Union County Board of Supervisors met in Regular Session on Monday, August 1, 2016. The meeting was called to order at 9:00 AM with the following members present: Lois Monday, Dennis Brown and Ron Riley.

AGENDA: Motion by Monday and seconded by Brown to approve the Agenda. All voting aye, motion carried.

MINUTES: Motion by Riley and seconded by Brown to approve the minutes from July 25, 2016. All voting aye, motion carried.

OPEN FORUM: No one spoke in Open Forum.

END OF MONTH/END OF FISCAL YEAR REPORT: Motion by Monday and seconded by Brown to accept the June End of Month/End of Fiscal Year Report as presented by Union County Treasurer Kelly Busch. All voting aye, motion carried.

ENGINEER: Steve Akes, Union County Engineer, presented and discussed the weekly maintenance activity report and a road closure request by Arvin Van Hall. Grading Agreement: Motion by Brown and seconded by Monday to approve a Grading Agreement between Clinton Hoffman and Union County for ditching along with dozing the fence line with tree and brush removal on the south side of Daisy Avenue in Section 3 of Platte Township. All voting aye, motion carried.

Grading Agreement: Motion by Monday and seconded by Brown to approve a Grading Agreement between Clinton Hoffman and Union County for ditching along with dozing the fence line with tree and brush removal on the south side of Daisy Avenue in Section 4 of Platte Township. All voting aye, motion carried.

Grading Agreement: Motion by Brown and seconded by Monday to approve a grading Agreement between Karen Denney and Union County for ditching along with dozing the fence line with tree and brush removal on Tulip Avenue in Section 20 of Jones Township. All voting aye, motion carried. Replacement Bridge Bid: Motion by Brown and seconded by Monday to approve the low bid of $577,720.07 from Herberger Construction for the Bridge Replacement Project on Primrose Drive. All voting aye, motion carried.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES/CLERKS RESOLUTION: Motion by Monday and seconded by Brown to approve Resolution #1 FY 16/17. NOW, on this 1st day of August, 2016, in the matter of filling the offices of township trustee and township clerk. WHEREAS, the trustee and clerk within Dodge, Douglas, Grant, Highland, Jones, Lincoln, Platte, Sandcreek, Spaulding and Union townships are filled by appointment by the Board of Supervisors and; WHEREAS, the trustee and clerk within New Hope and Pleasant townships are filled by election and; WHEREAS, the Union County Board of Supervisors are in favor of filling the offices of trustee and clerk within a township by appointment of the Board; WHEREAS, CH

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by Brown to approve the Agenda. All aye, motion Atvoting the other end carried. of Olympic MINUTES: Motion by Riley and secPark, the U.S. women’s gymonded by Brown to approve the minutes from July team 25, 2016.

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by Monday the low bid $577,720.07 matto approve is changing forofTokyo in from Herberger Construction for the 2020 Replacement so that only team Bridge Projectfour on Primrose Drive.

All voting motion carried. members willaye,take part in the TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES/CLERKS team competition.

RESOLUTION: Motion by Monday and seconded

by Brown tostern approve ResoluThe normally Karolyi tion #1 FY 16/17. NOW, on this 1st day broke down when she of August, 2016, in in tears the matter of filling the trustee and townwasoffices toldofoftownship the nickname the ship clerk. WHEREAS, the trustee and team adopted. clerk within Dodge, Douglas, Grant, High-

land, Jones, Lincoln, Platte, Sandcreek, Spaulding and Union townships are filled by appointment by the Board of Supervisors and; WHEREAS, the trustee and clerk within New Hope and Pleasant townships are filled by election and; WHEREAS, the Union County Board of Supervisors are in favor of filling the offices of trustee and clerk within a township by appointment of the Board; WHEREAS, CH 39.22(1) of the Iowa Code permits the Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution and direct the County Commissioner of Elections to submit the following question to the registered voters of each township that elects the offices of trustee and clerk: "SHALL THE OFFICES OF TRUSTEE AND CLERK WITHIN A TOWNSHIP BE FILLED BY APPOINTMENT BY THE BOARD?" BE AND IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the Union County Board of Supervisors are in favor of filling the offices of trustee and clerk within a township by appointment; and BE AND IT IS HEREBY ALSO RESOLVED that the County Commissioner of Elections is directed to submit the question to the registered voters of New Hope and Pleasant townships in Union County, Iowa to fill the offices of trustee and clerk within the township by appointment at the next general election. Passed on this 1st day of August, 2016. Roll Call Vote: Monday, aye; Brown, aye; Riley, aye; motion carried.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RESOLUTION: Motion by Monday and seconded by Brown to approve Resolution #2 FY 2017. This is a Resolution to participate in the planning and development programs of the Southern Iowa Council of Governments. Whereas the Economic Development Administration was assigned to administer the provisions of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965; and Whereas the Southern Iowa Council of Governments has been designated by the Economic Development Administration as an Economic Development District and Whereas the State of Iowa and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has designated the Southern Iowa Council of Governments as the area wide planning organization, and Whereas Union County is an active member of the Southern Iowa Council of Governments and participates in formulation of area wide plans and programs, Be It Therefore Resolved by the UNION COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS that Union County desires to participate in the fiscal year 2017 planning and economic development programs of the Southern Iowa Council of Governments in Iowa Planning Area XIV, consisting of Adair, Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Madison, Ringgold, Taylor, and Union Counties. Be It Further Resolved by the UNION COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS that Union County provides $3,224.00 for the operation of the Southern Iowa Council of Governments planning and development programs. Passed and signed this 1st day of August, 2016.

Roll Call Vote: Brown, aye; Monday, aye; Riley, aye; motion carried.

ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:30 AM. ATTEST: SANDY HYSELL, AUDITOR BY: RON RILEY, CHAIRMAN BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

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Auctioneers Comments: Dan and Vicki are retiring and moving out of state. There will be so much more to sell than what we were able to list. Everything is good, clean, organized and well maintained. Plenty of shade. Come spend the day with us.

FURNITURE & HOUSEHOLD: McGregor and Coens Brothers full size bed w/ornate headboard and curved footboard; mirrored 3 drawer dresser; 2 matching glider rockers w/1 footstool; 46” oak dining table w/24” leaf; vintage china cabinet w/sliding glass; Vizio 37” flatscreen HD TV; lamp end table; 24x48 folding table, small end table; wood 2-drawer file cabinet; Amana mid-size refrigerator w/top freezer; 5’ office desk; 2-5 drawer file cabinets; 36x90 oak harvest table; various straight chairs and office chairs; 4 chairs w/ castors; new sharp cash register; futon; 2 person hammock; 1 person hammock; 2 wire rack displays; Tom Mansanarez signed and numbered 2003 NWTF print mt. lion and mule deer 18x24; set of 4 songbird prints ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES: old floor lamp; 3-4 compartment metal storage cabinets; old chair fabric; old high chair converts to school desk; 2-whiskey barrel planters; 6-hole metal chicken nest w/egg tray; old windows; 2-round firewood holders; old sled; old post office scale; ox yokes; 3 high wheel push cu Hivator; old milk cans; Fairbanks 500# scale; wood carpenters trunk; 2 wheel hand truck; vanity sink; New Idea model 101 steel hay rake; 30 year collection of deersheds; deer skull mounts; hornets nests; owl and crow decoys TOOLS & SHOP: new 30” log tongs; 30 gal. 4 wheeler sprayer w/12v pump; manual tire changer; air ride seat; Wayne pedestal sump pump; Stihl chainsaw head - runs good; large assortments of hand tools; chain binders; log chains; Ryobi metal cut off saw; table saw; Craftsman 5hp wall vac; 4” hand grinder; 3-ton chain hoist; Wizard 230 amp welder & 50’ ext. cord; large assortments of shovels, rakes and garden tools; house jacks; air tanks; sprayer parts; boxes of nails, nuts, bolts, parts; various Hav-a-hart animal traps; greenhouse supplies to include: baskets, pots, garden hoses, soaker hose and grape vine wreaths 1 PM - BELLS, TRACTORS, COMBINES & MACHINERY: 2007 Kubota L5740 Cab, H/A, FWA, loader, 2 sets rear remotes, Quick Hitch, 2900 hrs., very clean, well maintained machine; 6’ 3 point brush mower - rebuilt gearbox; 5’ 3 point brush mower; 50 gal. 3 pt. sprayer; 200 gal. water tank; 2 wheel trailer - good tires; transfer pump; steel posts; several rolls chicken wire; 2 fence stretchers; harrow section; large assortment of tractor wheel weights; 3 pt. stack mover; old spreader wheels and axle.

SPECIAL MENTION: Bells, one 22” and one 36”, small one is marked “Steel Alloy School Bell” came from Kent, Iowa Consolidated School. Large one is marked “Steel Alloy School Bell”, it came from the Kent, Iowa Methodist Church. The 36” bell has both clappers for the “double tone” sound. The Kent Church building was built and bell cast in 1896. According to documented Kent history, the schoolhouse and that bell were constructed the same year. It is believed both bells came from the same company. Both of these bells will be assembled and mounted on wooden bases by auction time. These bells were purchased previously from the Alfred Lucas collection.

GUEST CONSIGNORS: RICK AND JULIE SCHAFER/FREEDOM CREEK PRAIRIE 641-3444722 OR 641-782-0804. Rick and Julie are upgrading several pieces of machinery, therefore they have some inventory reduction items to sell: TRACTORS & MACHINERY: 2006 - 6420 John Deere MFWD, cab, heat, air, buddy seat, 16 spd., 5020 hrs., partial power shift, 18.4x38 rear, 13.6x28 front, set of duals selling separate; 1980 John Deere 6620 Turbo Hydrostat combine, diesel, 4981 hrs., ser# 404182, 28L-26 good rubber, previously owned by Harold Shepherd. This machine is in excellent shape, with many dollars spent on it for routine maintenance; 444 John Deere 4-row corn head - 38” rows; 915 John Deere grain table - both heads in great condition; John Deere 230 - 21’ wingfold, cone blade disc; 2007 John Deere 2320 HST Compact Utility Tractor, 637 hrs., 62” drive over deck; 24.1 hp Yanmar diesel engine, 3 pt., 540 PTO, front weights, loader hook up; Landpride RCM 5015 15’ batwing mower, 1000 RPM; 2 seat, 1 row, custom built, bare root tree planter, 3 pt. hitch, vehicle towable; 60 gal., slide in, UTV spray unit w/detachable 20’ booms and hand wand, 12 volt; Centex 18’ flatbed car trailer, bumper hitch, 2” ball, 7000 GVWR CAMPER, RECREATION & 4 WHEELERS: 2001 30’ American Star by Newmar travel trailer camper, oak front kitchen/dining w/stove, refrigerator, microwave, center living room with couch/sleeper, full bath with stand up shower and bench seat, rear queen bedroom with outside door, no slides, very, very clean unit; 2015 Polaris Sportsman 570 Efi on demand, all wheel drive, 55.6 hrs.; 2008 Honda Recon ES 2x4; Northstar 37 ton log splitter, 1 year old, Honda GX270 gas engine, 4 way splitting head; 17’ Quapaw Canoe w/trailer, 3 seats, Prowler trolling motor and trailer; Gandy regulation size oak pool table, with all accessories (beautiful table)

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Ryan had largely ignored Nehlen in what had been a sleepy primary before Trump thanked Nehlen on Twitter for his comments defending Trump. Nehlen won the backing of some prominent conservative figures, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, but it wasn’t enough to overcome Ryan’s popularity in his southeastern Wisconsin district.

Ryan won by about 70 percentage points, based on unofficial results.

“We knew we were going to do well,” Ryan said. “We got the votes we were hoping and expecting to get all along. The

outcome is exactly what we were hoping for.”

This is Ryan’s first re-election win since becoming speaker last fall.

He went into the primary with massive advantages in name recognition and money. Ryan had outraised the unknown Nehlen by a 17 to 1 ratio through the latest reporting period, and was largely ignoring his opponent and was expected to win easily.

Trump changed all that the week before the primary, when he tweeted thanks to Nehlen for support while Trump was being vilified for remarks about the Muslim American parents of a U.S. soldier slain in Iraq. Trump also said he wasn’t ready to endorse Ryan, who had joined in that criticism.

Trump shifted course a few days later under heavy pressure from Republican leadership, but by then Nehlen had gotten a burst of national publicity.

Ryan responded with a blitz of radio appearances and added a pair of campaign stops the day before the election, determined to avoid the fate that befell House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, when the Virginia Republican lost a primary to a little-known tea party challenger.

Ryan had other advantages, including widespread popularity in the district. Ryan had also worked hard to maintain those home ties, traveling back to Janesville as much as possible to be with his wife and three children.

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South Central Iowa Athletes of the Year Role model for younger athletes Briley honored as South Central Iowa Female Athlete of the Year

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Taylor Briley exemplifies what coaches want in a young athlete. The coaches who instructed Briley at Creston High School seem to be in agreement about that fact.

As a leader, as a worker and as a talent, Briley has been the type of player that people inside and out of her circle can point to as a role model.

When presented with the South Central Iowa Athlete of the Year Award, Briley was gracious but wasn’t overwhelmed by the honor.

Her demeanor was cool and collected, just as it is when she performs.

“She doesn’t take things too seriously. I mean that in the right way,” Creston softball coach Mike McCabe said. “She doesn’t think she’s better than anybody.

As good a teammate as she is as, she’s as good a player in any of those sports.”

Briley played basketball, ran track and excelled in softball.

She was a part of the first two teams in Creston’s time as a five-player basketball

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Creston News Advertiser managing editor Scott Vicker presents Creston’s Taylor Briley with the South Central Iowa Female Athlete of the Year award.

squad to post winning records. She was a state qualifier and conference champion in track. She topped it off as an all-state performer in softball. She was an all-academic performer, as if the athletic exploits weren’t enough.

Briley, the daughter of Treana and Chad Briley, beamed as she talked about receiving the award.

“It’s definitely a great honor because all of the other finalists that were in there, they’re all amazing athletes and I got to play with two of them,” Briley said. “I know the others so getting this award means a lot because there are so many great athletes and to know that I was one of them is a really good feeling and I feel very honored.”

Far from soaking up the

spotlight herself, Briley was quick to credit her teammates for pushing her and being a part of the success she has achieved. It didn’t hurt to have two finalists for this award competing with her in several sports in Jenna Taylor and Alli Thomsen.

“They are who I am. They made me the player I am,” Briley said. “I would love to be able to share it with everybody because without

my teammates I wouldn’t be the person I am. I mean on relays, softball, basketball, you’re never by yourself.

They always are pushing you.”

Family rivalry The Briley family pushes one another. That’s known to Taylor’s coaches, just as it was known to the coaches BRILEY | 2S

Creston Basketball • Ranked second for the Panthers with 11.8 points per game, including 30.4 percent shooting from behind the 3-point arc and 76.8 percent shooting from the free throw line.

• Reached the foul line a team-high 125 times.

• Ranked fifth for the Panthers with 53 rebounds, averaging 2.4 boards per game.

• Led the team with 51 steals and ranked second with 64 assists.

• Named to the Hawkeye 10 Conference’s all-conference second team.

• Finished her career fourth on Creston’s alltime career scoring list for 5-on-5 basketball with 739 points.

Track and field • Finished the 2016 season with Creston’s fastest time in the 400 meters, running a season-best time of 1:02.06. Ranked second for the Panthers in the 800 meters at 2:27.79 and fourth in the 200 meter dash at 28.64.

• Won Hawkeye 10 Conference championships in the 4x800 relay BRILEY BIO | 2S

Leader on and off the court Nodaway Valley’s Lamb named 2016 South Central Iowa Male Athlete of the Year

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GREENFIELD— Jackson Lamb’s numbers on the fields he played on were certainly impressive.

While he was a standout athlete in all four sports he played in, earning all-conference and all-state recognition in all of them, it was off the field where he truly shined.

Lamb drove his teammates to become better. In turn, it elevated the teams he played on at Nodaway Valley to higher levels, and in a couple of cases, their best-ever finishes to a season.

Lamb is honored for his all-around excellence with the South Central Iowa Male Athlete of the Year award.

Lamb is at home with whatever sport is in season.

“You love it,” he said. “I love to compete. That’s my thing.”

Lamb’s drive shows no matter what sport he plays.

“He’s such a competitor,” said Nodaway Valley football and boys golf coach Steve Shantz. “He’s got the things that took him over the top. He wants to compete. He wants to be number one.

“It’s well-deserved for him for his work ethic and all the time he puts into sports at Nodaway Valley.”

Four sports In an era of specialization where athletes concentrate on one or two sports, Lamb made time for four sports.

“He’s a multi-sport kid,”

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Creston News Advertiser managing editor Scott Vicker presents Nodaway Valley’s Jackson Lamb with the South Central Iowa Male Athlete of the Year award.

said Nodaway Valley basketball coach Darrell Burmeister. “That’s really important in this day and age when kids start to specialize.

Urban Meyer at Ohio State, over 90 percent of their football players are multisport kids. That’s what separated Jackson for this award is he’s a multi-sport kid.”

Lamb’s dedication to playing four sports serves as a role model for future Wolverine athletes.

“No matter what was going on with basketball and golf he found time to get in get some throwing if he could,” said Nodaway Valley baseball coach Dan Jameson. “If he can do it being as busy as he is, it shows others that it can be done.”

At a school as small as Nodaway Valley, Lamb’s

contributions on the football field, on the basketball court, on the golf course and on the baseball field were invaluable.

Lamb showed Nodaway Valley athletes multiple sports can not only be played, but played successfully.

“We always tell our kids, it doesn’t have to be your favorite sport,” Burmeister said. “Those kids that went out for basketball, they need you for the other sports. We expect our kids being a 1A school, we need that leadership and athletic skill from all our players in all of our sports.”

He’s seldom had an offseason as a high school athlete, competing in four sports.

And this summer, there

was even less of a break as baseball season went longer than it ever has at Nodaway Valley, culminating with the program’s first-ever trip to the state tournament.

“Usually I have two weeks max of summer time,” Lamb said. “This year’s not the same with baseball going so late.”

He relished what a long baseball season meant.

“As an athlete, you dream of having those long seasons,” Lamb said.

While the summer was busy with all sports, he found ways to focus on each sport in its season.

“When it comes to each sport, you’re in this sport.

You work at it super hard then you go to the next one,” Lamb said. “Like basketball. A lot of people go

to throwing in baseball before and work up their arm.

With basketball, I never did that. I wanted to focus on basketball, be the best I could be at basketball, then I made the transition. It just switches all the time. That’s how it is.”

In football as a junior, he passed for 1,095 yards and 13 touchdowns. He earned second-team all-state honors as a defensive back. He missed his senior year after suffering a finger injury.

On the basketball court his senior year, he scored 26.5 points per game, second in all classes in average.

He led the Wolverines in assists, steals and blocked shots. On the court, he finished as Nodaway Valley’s all-time leading scorer with LAMB | 3S

Nodaway Valley Football • After being named to the Iowa Newspaper Association’s Class A second-team all-state as a junior, saw his season end with a finger injury in the first game of 2015.

Basketball • Ranked second in the state in all classes with 663 points for a 26.5 point-per-game average.

• Shot 48.0 percent from the field, including 37.0 percent (80-216) from behind the 3-point arc and 77.7 percent (143-184) from the free throw line.

• Led Nodaway Valley with 9.2 rebounds per game, totaling 229 boards for the season.

• Posted team-highs in assists (132), steals (74) and blocked shots (19) for the Wolverines.

• Owns Nodaway Valley school records for points in a career (1,838), points per game for a career (18.95), steals in a career (249), field goals made in a career (622), 3-point field goals made in a career (234), free throws made in a career (360), field goals made in a season (223), 3-point field goals made in a season (83), free throws made in a season (143), points scored in a season (663), points per game in a season (26.52), field goals made in a game (16), 3-point field goals made in a game (eight) and free throws made in a game (15).

• Also ranks second in school history in career assists (319), fourth in career rebounding (566) and seventh in career LAMB BIO | 3S

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of her sister, Katlin, and brother Bryce. Katlin played collegiate softball at Des Moines Area Community College and Briar Cliff University, and Bryce is a runner on the cross country team at Northwest Missouri State.

Taylor’s father Chad is a coach on the Creston/O-M football team and played wide receiver and was one of the top punt and kick returners in the country for Drake University. Treana, Taylor’s mother, ran cross country and track for four years and played basketball and softball for two years at Creston when she was in high school.

The athletic genes run rampant in the family. The urge to succeed runs through their veins, and they all push one another to constantly do better.

“I have a lot of people who push me. Definitely my parents and my siblings because we are the most competitive family,” Briley said. “...

We’re always pushing each other saying ‘well I did this, OK well I’m going to do better next time.’ “ The drive instilled in Briley by her family came for several years at track practice from her brother, Bryce.

“In track, my brother would always give me a time to push so I would just be thinking I need to get that time,” Briley said. “But mostly I really think I can do this, I am able, I have the ability, I just need to show my ability and prove I can do it.”

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Now little brother Brandon Briley, who heads into the fifth grade, is next in line to take on the familial pressure as a Panther athlete.

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Hoop dreams Commanding the helm of the offense of the basketball team, Briley handled the point guard duties for a girls basketball program that is finally on the up. With Creston posting records of 12-11 and 13-9 over the last two years respectively, Briley was a leader in bringing the program its first two winning seasons since the Panthers made the move to five-onfive ball.

Briley has reason to be proud of her accomplishments in basketball.

“We showed people that we could play as a basketball team,” Briley said. “Creston girls basketball has not always been seen as a great basketball team. I think now with us and all the younger girls we’ve shown that Creston girls basketball can be a really good team.”

New Creston coach and former assistant Ryan McKim’s view of one of his stars was certainly overwhelmingly positive.

“Teams take on the personality of their leader, whether that’s a coach or kid on the floor,” McKim said.

“Taylor has certainly defined toughness and working hard and comp e t i n g McKim and those are things

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Creston senior Taylor Briley runs in the sprint medley relay at the state track and field meet this season. Briley competed in three sports as a Panther her senior year.

we’ve tried to build in our program.”

Briley was a second team all-conference performer, second on the team in scoring, and used an improved stroke to help lead the team from beyond the three-point line.

“They (basketball coaches) both pushed me a lot in basketball because yeah, basketball wasn’t my favorite sport, but (Brent) Douma telling me that I could shoot, so getting that ability to shoot the three definitely meant a lot,” Briley said.

Sprinting to success

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Creston senior Taylor Briley makes a leaping catch in the consolation semifinal game against Perry at the state softball tournament in Fort Dodge. Briley excelled on the diamond, helping lead the Panthers to state this season.

As a runner, Briley shined most brightly her senior year with the help of teammates.

Even running 400 and 800 meter events well herself, she helped the Panthers track and field team to strong showings at the Hawkeye 10 Conference championships, where she aided the Panthers two relay championships and at later the Co-ed State Track Meet.

“She liked the bright lights,” Creston track and field coach Clay Arnold said.

Briley was a five-time state meet medalist, showing off her speed in multiple different relays and medleys. Arnold noted that Briley came out hungry at state, and that competition fueled her like nothing else.

She is part of two school-record relay teams, and followed a tremendously talented couple of classes.

“The senior class ahead of her had a lot of success and

she was always right there with them, Arnold said.

“I’ll miss (coach) Arnold a lot,” Briley said.

Super slugger A five-year varsity softball career came to an end in Fort Dodge, the second consecutive year that Briley helped lead the Panthers to the state championships.

A second team all-state performer, Briley was near the top of many of the offensive statistical categories for Creston and handled much of the pitching duties as well.

Her performances in the pitching circle proved strong at the right time, as Briley allowed a total of three runs over two games to Winterset and Glenwood to send the Panthers back to state.

“Softball making it to state again was really awesome and so it was a really great senior year to end,” Briley said.

The power and natural hitting ability she demonstrated earned her notoriety. She ended up not only playing in the Iowa Girls Coaches Association All-Star Series, but even signed with National Junior College Athletic Association Division II power Des Moines Area Community College.

In the all-star series at Waukee High School, she played with and against a total of six future teammates.

Briley showed off the power of her bat with a go-ahead three-run home run in the day’s first game. It gave her the confidence and ecstasy to enjoy the day with her future teammates.

It’s far from just her talent that made her enjoyable to coach. McCabe called her a “coaches’ dream.”

“I think she really respects and trusts her coaches, which is a refreshing thing,” McCabe said.

“She just always does what you want, does it at a high level with good en- McCabe ergy and good effort.”

2016 legacy Even with the success that Creston girls athletics have had in sports like softball and track in recent years, Briley has a strong feeling that the class of seniors she was a part of leaves a lasting legacy.

“Coming in to this year people probably didn’t think we were going to be as good because we lost such a great class. I think this group of girls sticks together,” Briley said. “I think showing that we stick together because we’ve had five or six seniors in every sport that I was in this year —and normally you don’t have that many seniors graduate from sports — so we’ve all stuck together and I think it shows if you stick together you can do great things.”

With Briley now headed to DMACC, many will point to her as an example of how athletes must act, work and lead to achieve great things.

(9:57.91) and 4x400 relay (4:13.50).

• Helped Creston run a season’s best time of 4:18.65 in the 1,600 medley relay at the Coed State Track Meet, running a career-best 400-meter time of 1:00.61.

• Ran on Creston’s sprint medley relay team at the state meet, and helped Creston run a season’s best time of 4:10.24 in the prelims of the 4x400 relay at the state meet.

• Split a PR of 2:22.69 on Creston’s 13th-place 4x800 relay team at the state meet, as the Panthers ran a season’s best time of 9:51.56.

• Finished her career as a fivetime state meet medalist. Her medals include fourth-place finishes in the 4x800 relay in 2014 and 2015, sixth place in the 1,600 medley relay in 2015, seventh place in the 4x400 relay in 2015 and eighth place in the 1,600 medley relay in 2014.

• Is a part of two school record relay teams – the 4x800 (9:40.57) in 2014 and the 1,600 medley relay (4:16.19) in 2015.

Softball • Finished second for the Panthers with a .378 batting average, ranking first in slugging percentage at .597 and second in on-base percentage at .426.

• Led the Panthers with two home runs, three triples, 42 runs scored and 35 runs batted in.

Ranked second with 14 doubles.

• Stole 10 bases in 11 attempts.

• Walked nine times and struck out only 12 times.

• Finished with a 14-6 record in the pitching circle for the Panthers.

• Pitched a team-high 122 1/3 innings with a 2.86 earned run average and a .265 opponents’ batting average.

• Struck out 95 batters and walked only 34.

• Posted a .948 fielding percentage in 134 chances.

• Led the Panthers to a second-straight appearance in the State Softball Tournament, following up 2015’s third-place finish with a seventh-place finish this year in Class 4A. • Named to the Class 4A second-team all-state by the Iowa Girls Coaches Association.

• Hit a three-run home run in the IGCA Senior All-Star Games.

• Ranks second all-time in Creston history with 181 runs scored.

• Her 128 career RBI ranks third all-time in Creston history.

• Ranks fifth all-time in Creston history with 200 hits.

• Named Creston’s outstanding female athlete.

• Signed with DMACC to continue her softball career.

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1,838 points, points per game with 18.95, steals with 249 and on down the line.

He was a first-team all-state honoree in Class 1A by the Iowa Newspaper Association for the second straight year.

On the golf course, he led the Wolverines with a 9-hole average of 39.2 and 18-hole average of 80.30, including a low round of 73. He was third in the Pride of Iowa Conference Tournament as the Wolverines won their fourth straight title. He was the individual medalist at the district tournament and placed 10th individually in the Class 1A boys state golf tournament. He led the Wolverines to a third-place team finish, its best-ever finish at state in golf.

On the diamond, he was the Wolverines’ pitching ace going 8-5 with 74 strikeouts against 22 walks in 76 1/3 innings of work. He had a 2.20 earned run average and teams batted only .218 against him. He earned third-team all-state honors by the Iowa Newspaper Association.

He came about his love of sports at a young age in the neighborhood in Greenfield. “(Baseball) coach (Dan) Jameson, his sons were neighbors and just a couple others were always in my back yard,� Lamb said. They played whatever sport they could get their hands on. “We played baseball, basketball, we did about everything,� Lamb said. “That’s where it started from.�

Lamb was also aided by his parents Todd and Lisa. “My dad, he taught us all,� Lamb said.

He watched, learned from his parents.

At times, progress was slow in sports.

He kept pushing onward, striving to be the best he could be. “It takes a lot of work,�

Lamb said. “When I was younger, I wasn’t always the best at everything.�

One instance stood out in Lamb’s mind. “I remember golf. Golf takes awhile when you first start. It’s hitting the ball on the ground and watching your parents hit it in the air,� Lamb said. “I’m like, ‘Mom, why can’t I hit it in the air.’ Then it grows on you. You get better and better and you work at it.�

Lamb had a built-in practice partner at home courtesy of younger brother Spencer. The two can often be found playing various sports. “Just having somebody to play all the time,� Lamb said. “I can say, ‘Hey Spencer, you want to go shoot baskets?’ Not a lot of people have that. We’re fortunate enough to have that.�

Having a younger sibling around at home has been invaluable for Lamb. “I’m fortunate to have a younger brother,� Lamb said. “It helps with everything. I can push him and he pushes me. That helps a lot too.�

At times, Lamb could be considered a gym rat. He and Burmeister would frequently be together in the gym as Lamb worked on his game. “His freshman year I could call him up or he would call me up and he would make 200 threes in the practice gym,� Burmeister said. “He lived in Greenfield. I lived in Greenfield so he could come in here and get in a lot of workouts.�

Team leader Last basketball season, Burmeister noted Lamb was at all but one workout. “He has a great work ethic,� Burmeister said.

Lamb’s found ways to help make his teammates better on the court. “He’s a natural born leader,� Burmeister said. As the years have progressed, Lamb has become more demonstrative as a leader.

He did so in a way that lifted the others up. “He became more of a vocal leader, was able to get on his teammates more in practice, but at the same time, he was able to raise them up

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Nodaway Valley senior Jackson Lamb celebrates after closing out an inning in the Class 1A District 14 final against Lenox. Thanks in part to Lamb’s efforts, the Wolverines baseball team made its first-ever appearance at state this season.

and make them better, try to get them to do things that they could do,� Burmeister said. Lamb’s leadership helped whatever team he was on improve. “He was trying to get people to play up to his level to get things accomplished,�

Jameson said. “Anytime you have a player like Jackson, he makes you want to step up.�

Lamb’s teammates rose to the occasion. “He made everyone around him look better,�

Shantz said. “He’s the type of kid who has the ability to do that. There’s not a lot of kids who do that, who want to make other people look good. “He made the people around him look good.�

Lamb admitted he could drive his teammates crazy sometimes. “That’s my thing. In practice, I always push everybody,� Lamb said. “They probably don’t love me the most. I like to yell at them all the time. I yell at them, try to do my best to not have them keep a grudge on me.�

It was his desire to improve, grow that helped him push his teammates. “I do it for the best of them to help them up,�

Lamb said. “That makes them better. That’s why we were so successful.�

Lamb credited his leadership skills to those who were seniors when he was a freshman. “My freshman year, my senior group was really involved in everything and they were really good,� he said. “I learned from all them and I just kept all the knowledge in. That’s how I kept going.�

Lamb wasn’t just thinking about the play going on.

That knack for knowing what was coming up next served Lamb well. “He has a really good sport sense,� Shantz said. “Not a lot of kids have that.

He could read things real well. He knew his place on the field, where he needed to be and that took him over the top.�

Lamb was especially adapt at knowing what needed to be done on the court. “His greatest strength as a basketball player was he always knew two plays ahead, two plays ahead offensively, two plays ahead defensively,� Burmeister said. “He knew where the ball should go or where the ball was going to go.�

Lamb’s vision, awareness on the court could serve him well past college. “He was a coach out there,� Shantz said. “If he wants to go into that profession, he’d be a great coach.�

As fierce of a competitor as he is on the field, when the game’s over, Lamb’s naturally outgoing personality lends itself to making friends off it.

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Nodaway Valley senior Jackson Lamb stares down a chip shot during Class 1A action at the boys state golf tournament this spring at the American Legion Golf Course in Marshalltown. Lamb placed 10th individually and led the Wolverines to a third-place finish, the program’s highest finish at state in boys golf.

“He’s a great people person,� Burmeister said. “He can really relate to everybody. He can start up a conversation with about anybody.�

Off the court, Burmeister, and his other coaches recognized Lamb did his part to live the right way. “He’s a clean kid,� Burmeister said. “He studies a lot. I might text him and see what he’s doing and a lot of times he’s studying.�

After competing in four sports in high school, Lamb will compete in just one at college. He is set to join the basketball team at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City this fall.

The attributes — the hard work, dedication, perseverance — that served Lamb well in high school will translate well in Woodbury County. “He’s going to be very successful at Briar Cliff both academically and athletically,� Burmeister said.

Lamb will look to make his mark on a program that reached the Elite Eight of the NAIA Division II national tournament last season. “I’m ready to be with the guys, start jelling and just playing good basketball,�

Lamb said. “Briar Cliff is an awesome program. I’m

ready to be a part of that.�

As he departs for Sioux City and Briar Cliff, Lamb has left a lasting legacy on Nodaway Valley athletics. “We’re going to miss him a lot,� Shantz said. “He’s a special kid both on and off the field. He’s a fun kid to be around. He’s been in my Spanish class for four years.

I’ve got to spend a lot of time with Jackson. “I’m going to miss him.�

Fan’s Choice Winners of the Fan’s Choice online poll:

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blocked shots (38). • Earned first-team allstate honors in Class 1A from the Iowa Newspaper Association for the second consecutive year.

Golf • Led Nodaway Valley with an average 9-hole score of 39.20, including a low round of 38, and an average 18-hole score of 80.30, with a low round of 73. • Finished third individually at the Pride of Iowa Conference Tournament, helping lead the Wolverines to their fourth straight conference championship. • Finished as individual medalist at the district tournament, winning with a birdie on the first playoff hole after tying for the top spot with a 2-over round of 73. • Helped lead the Wolverines to their first state tournament berth in 13 years. • Tied for 10th place individually at the Class 1A Boys State Golf Meet, shooting rounds of 78 and 79 for a two-day total of 157, leading the Wolverines to a third-place finish as a team.

Baseball • Ranks fourth on the team with a .329 batting average. Hit one home run, five doubles, one triple and 18 RBI, while walking 18 times compared to only 13 strikeouts. • Has scored a team-high 33 runs and is a perfect 16-of-16 in stolen base attempts. • Has a .990 fielding percentage in 99 chances. • Sported an 8-5 record in 15 total appearances for the Wolverines. • Has logged a team-high 76 1/3 innings on the mound with a 2.20 earned run average and 74 strikeouts compared to just 22 walks, while holding opponents to a .218 batting average. • Led the Wolverines to their first-ever berth in the State Baseball Tournament. • Named to the Iowa Newspaper Association’s all-state third team in Class 1A. • Signed with Briar Cliff University to play basketball.

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