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DOWN TO THE WIRE Creston/O-M suffered a 28-27 season-opening loss to Boone Friday in a game that came down to the very end. For more on the Panthers, see SPORTS, page 5A. >>
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Effort begins to update CCHS auditorium
By SCOTT VICKER
CNA managing editor svicker@crestonnews.com
A fundraising campaign to update the Creston Community High School auditorium recently began. The campaign, spearheaded by CCHS Speech and Drama Instructor Laura Granger, has already secured a large chunk of money through grants. But, more funds are needed to complete the fundraising goal and actually receive a Dekko matching grant. Creston Community School District received a $15,000 grant from the South Central Iowa Community Foundation and a $30,000 constructing or remodeling a building grant from Dekko Foundation. “Now it’s starting to kick off some more and now we have more of a deadline, which is why we’re trying to spearh e a d some do- Granger
Officials act to protect downtown Houston from Harvey floods HOUSTON (AP) — Officials released more water from Houston-area reservoirs overwhelmed by Harvey early Monday in a move aimed at protecting the city’s downtown from devastating floods but that
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Pictured is a set of tattered and ripped curtains Monday morning in the Creston Community High School auditorium. A fundraising effort has begun to upgrade the auditorium, which has seen few updates since it was built in 1990.
nations,” said Granger, who began the grant-writing process two years ago with help from Pam Hoffman and Jan Knock. “We need $58,000 by August 2018 to get the Dekko grant. That’s when our final report is due.” The fundraising effort is being done grassroot-style,
with the theatre department doing most of the work toward funding the project. With the school district’s budget tightening over the past several years, administrators didn’t think they could set aside more money for the auditorium upgrades. “We’ve done as much as
we can at this point, and now we need the community’s help to make this a reality,” Granger said.
Auditorium The CCHS auditorium has seen few upgrades since the high school was built in 1990. SCHOOLS | 2A
could still endanger thousands of homes, even as the nation’s fourth-largest city anticipated more rain. Harvey, which made landfall late Friday as a HARVEY | 2A
6th Iowa Democrat joins race for US House seat held by Young WEST DES MOINES (AP) — The man who ran U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign in Iowa is joining the Democratic nomination race for David Young’s U.S. House seat. Pete D’Alessandro says progressive agendas need to be at the forefront during the 2018 elections if Democrats hope to make any gains in Congress. He envisions a campaign that
trumpets a new plan for Iowans and Americans rather than just opposing President Donald Trump. He told The Des Moines Register : “We have to be offering a vision.” D’Alessandro served as political director for Gov. Chet Culver before joining Sanders’ campaign in 2016 and is the sixth Democrat to announce a run in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes Des Moines.
GAMBLER 500 IOWA
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TOP LEFT, Scooby Doo sits in front of The Mystery Machine Sunday morning at the Green Valley State Park campground. Scooby Doo’s owners, Tim and Laura of Chillicothe, Mo., who were participating in the Gambler 500 Iowa this weekend, dressed as Fred and Daphne from the cartoon show and painted their van as The Mystery Machine. TOP RIGHT, Shane Sienko of Minneapolis, Minn., starts up his apocalyptic-themed vehicle Sunday morning at the Green Valley State Park campground. Sienko’s vehicle is covered in mud after attempting to jump over a mud hole on a dirt road Saturday during the first Gambler 500 Iowa. AT LEFT, Logan Adams of Kansas City, Mo., stands in front of his team’s cargo van Sunday morning at the Green Valley State Park campground. Adams was part of Team Van Hail’n for this weekend’s Gambler 500 Iowa. The Gambler 500 is a rally where teams use tricked-out vehicles to find waypoints using latitude and longitude coordinates. This weekend’s event was the first Gambler 500 event in Iowa and was held in the Orient and Creston areas. The event drew 30-plus teams from all over the country. For more photos from the Gambler 500 Iowa, visit www.crestonnews.com.
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