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Chat Mobility will host an open house at its Creston location Wednesday. For more on activities planned for Chat Mobility’s open house, see page 10A. >>

The Creston/O-M football team’s scrimmage against Des Moines Roosevelt Friday night was cut short by inclement weather. For more on the Panthers, see SPORTS, page 5A. >>

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DHS waives Class project spurs ISU student’s rising video career sanctions at start of Iowa’s new Medicaid system DES MOINES (AP) — The state agency overseeing Iowa’s transition to a privatized Medicaid program waived any possible sanctions against three insurance companies during the first two months of the new system, and it didn’t inform health advocates or lawmakers about the plans. The Iowa Department of Human Services issued no written warnings or corrective action plans in April and May to the insurance companies that now run the

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John Walters, left, Iowa State University director of broadcasting, and ISU junior Evan Nielsen of Creston have been co-workers at Cyclones.tv since Nielsen submitted a self-produced ISU football video in spring 2016.

Cyclones.tv hires Nielsen as video goes viral ■

By LARRY PETERSON CNA senior feature writer lpeterson@crestonnews.com

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on the work at Cyclones.tv by Iowa State University student Evan Nielsen of Creston. AMES — A random conversation, spawned in part out of boredom, changed Evan Nielsen’s life in April. He had a rapidly approaching deadline for a photography class coming up, but he wanted to “tweak” it by making it a video project. As a manager for the Iowa State University football team, the 2014 graduate of Creston High School was on the sideline

while the team went through plays in a spring practice session. Next to him on that day was a new employee of the ISU football team, brought over from Toledo, Ohio, by new head coach Matt Campbell. He was holding a video camera, getting footage for the coaches to review. “I was literally holding a chain on the sideline at practice,” said Nielsen, starting his junior year at ISU today. “I was part of the chain gang. Ted Wilhelm, the director of new media, was next to me and I saw him taking pictures and doing video. I just started talking to him, asking him about his camera. I told him I had this project I want to do for a class and asked if he could help. He asked me, ‘Can we use it?’ I thought, ‘Yeah, that’s what I was wanting to

happen!’” Wilhelm helped Nielsen get the players and setup arranged for his class video titled, “A Storm is Brewing” about ISU football. What transpired during a three-day period during finals week opened huge professional doors for Nielsen. He is now a student assistant in the office of Cyclones.tv and considered a rising star in the mind of John Walters, ISU’s director of broadcasting and 14-year play-by-play announcer for ISU football and basketball. It was the Cyclones.tv office where Nielsen landed in hopes of getting the video converted to an MP4 file so it could be posted online through social media sites. The video is a mix of players working in drills, “storm” images to go with the Cyclone theme and mu-

Southwestern Community College students Kevin Torres of Jacksonville, Florida, left, and Jake Baudler of Fontanelle, front right, assist Scott Kemble of Panora with moving a couch into Kemble’s daughter’s room at Spartan Hall Saturday morning. Saturday marked move-in day for Southwestern students.

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Instant impression Employees in the Cyclones.tv office were immediately impressed when they viewed the video. It wasn’t long before Nielsen was a student employee there, and his football managing days were left behind. (Angelo now fields one of those managing positions, and Nielsen’s brother Alex is a volunteer student assistant for the Cyclone football recruiting office.) “Evan came to Tyler Rutherford, our director of NIELSEN | 2A

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Trump says he’s not flip-flopping on immigration WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Donald Trump insists that he’s not flip-flopping when it comes to his proposal to deport the estimated 11 million people living in the United States illegally — even though his new campaign manager now says his stance is “to be determined.” Trump said in an interview with Fox & Friends on Monday that he’s “not flip-flopping,” but wants to come up with “a really fair, but firm” solution. Trump had previously proposed using a “deport a t i o n force” to remove the 11 million people liv- Trump ing in the United States illegally— a

proposal that excited many of his core supporters, but alienated Hispanic voters who could be pivotal in key states. Republican leaders fear that Trump can’t win — and could drag down GOP congressional candidates — if he doesn’t increase his support beyond his white, male base. Trump met Saturday with Hispanic supporters, representatives of a community that has been wary of the billionaire businessman’s deportation proposals and his plans to build a giant wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Questioned on whether Trump still intends to deploy the deportation force, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Sunday: “To be determined.” Trump’s comments come as Republican officials insist TRUMP | 2A

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sic background including a subtle piano version of the Cyclone fight song provided by Nielsen’s Creston and ISU classmate Logan Angelo. It’s designed like a movie trailer to entice interest in the upcoming ISU football season.

state’s Medicaid program, according to information obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request. Fees for any purported violations were also waived. Written warnings, corrective action plans and fees are among the compliance measures that DHS can take under state contracts signed with Amerigroup, AmeriHealth Caritas and UnitedHealthcare. The department had discretion to hold off on

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Battle float: Avery Graham, 7, of Creston winds up an attack Friday night during Southern

Prairie YMCA’s battle float game as part of Family Fun Night. The object of the game was to flip the opponent off his or her hot dog.


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