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CCSD phasing in school AP New security upgrades Year’s poll: Americans hopeful for a better 2017 NEW YORK (AP) — Emotionally wrenching politics, foreign conflicts and shootings at home took a toll on Americans in 2016, but they are entering 2017 on an optimistic note, according to a new poll that found that a majority believes things are going to get better for the country next year.

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Pictured is the front entrance of Creston High School. New surveillance cameras have been installed in the parking lots of the high school and will soon be linked to a buzz-in door entry system as part of the school district’s new security upgrades.

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Creston Community School District began phasing in its new school security upgrades just before winter break.

The board approved a $600,000 plan to improve security at the school’s buildings in 2015. That plan included a new phone system, exterior door entry system and more surveillance cameras in buildings.

At the Dec. 19 board meeting, CCSD Superintendent Steve McDermott updated board members on the security upgrades.

“Our cameras are in, and they’re operating,” McDermott said. “We’re working a few bugs out of them.”

CCSD worked with Communication Innovators, headquartered in Pleasant Hill, to replace existing sur-

veillance cameras at school facilities, some of which had been in place for more than 12 years.

High School Principal Bill Messerole said phase one of the camera system at the high school has been completed. Cameras in the parking lots and on the entry and exit doors have been placed.

“Now, we have good coverage in the parking lot,” Messerole said. “Before, it was an antiquated system.

Obviously, it’s a much clearer p i c t u r e . Messerole We still h a v e some tweaks to make on some of our camera angles.

If something happens in our parking lot, we’re able

to pull it up and see it for the most part.”

The new camera system is a major improvement over the previous set of surveillance cameras. In addition to improved clarity, the cameras provide administrators with 24/7 access to the camera feeds.

“They’re terrific. Clarity is good,” McDermott said. “I can pull cameras up across the district on my phone right now, which is really nice security-wise.”

Cameras at the high school were being used for about a week prior to winter break.

“Right now, we’re just trying to get used to them,” Messerole said. “There’s a few things we’ve had to look up if this happened or that happened. It’s just nice to have an updated system where you can make out faces and that type of thing.”

The sun gleans off the ice and water of a partially frozen McKinley Lake in Creston Monday afternoon, as the open water ripples from winds that gusted up to 32 mph.

Creston had a high temperature of 34 degrees Monday, but with the strong winds, the wind chill was 21 degrees.

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The biggest change with the new camera system is that schools will now be keeping track of who enters and exits school buildings.

The cameras will work in conjunction with the new buzz-in door entry systems, which are currently being installed district-wide and could be completed in January.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.-Russian talks on their separate fights against the Islamic State group are improving and becoming more frequent, American officials said, with each side trading information in real time and even outlining some of their strategic objectives in the months ahead. The progress dispels the notion that ties between the former Cold

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“I CAN pull cameras up across the district on my phone right now, which is really nice security-wise.”

Americans weren’t thrilled with the year. Only 18 percent said things for the country got better, 33 percent said things got worse, and 47 percent said it was unchanged from 2015.

On a personal level, they

were optimistic about 2017.

Fifty-five percent said they believe things will be better for them in the coming year than in the year that just concluded. That’s a 12-point improvement from last year’s poll.

Americans interviewed about the poll’s results expressed some of that optimism.

“Next year will be better than this year, because people will have more jobs and they’ll have more money to spend,” said Bourema Tamboura, a Harlem resident behind the wheel of a New York car service.

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DEATHS Helen Lindsay Malden, Mo.

Martha Alice Helen Pauline Williams Lindsay, daughter of the late Abednego Williams and Lora Moore Williams, was born on the family homestead near Ojibway, Missouri, on Oct. 12, 1914, and departed this life at Malden Nursing Center in Malden, Missouri, on Dec. 22, 2016, at the age of 102 years.

Helen lived in Wayne County, Missouri, near Ojibway u n t i l m o v ing to Bernie, Missou- Lindsay ri, between 1932-35. She went to beauty school in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, for nine months and then opened Helen’s (beauty shop) in 1936. She was united in marriage to James Myrl Lindsay on Feb. 8, 1937, at the courthouse in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, by Judge Dean. She and Myrl moved to Afton in 1977, where she was caregiver at Stroud-Lindsay Funeral Home until moving to Creston in 1995. After her son Vane’s death in 2012, she returned to Bernie, Missouri.

Her husband Myrl preceded her in death on March 8, 1989, at the hospital in Creston. She was also preceded in death by her siblings Junie Mae Williams, Aileen Stafford,

LaRetta Novak Creston

LaRetta LaVaun Novak, 86, of Creston died Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, Dec. 29, at Pearson Family Funeral Service and Cremation Center, 809 Novak W. Montgomery St., in Creston. The Rev. Mel Kendall from Calvary Baptist Church in Ottumwa will officiate. Open visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28, with family present from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed to Creston Mealsite.

Online condolences may be left at www.pearsonfuneralhomes.com.

LaRetta LaVaun Novak, daughter of Walter Lee and Aldah LaVaun (Waggoner) Brown, was born Jan. 8, 1930, in Beaconsfield. LaRetta graduated May 25, 1949, from Beaconsfield High School.

On Feb. 14, 1950, she married George Matthias Novak at Bedford. LaRetta lived most of her life in the Mount Ayr area and moved to Creston in the early 1980s. LaRetta was a homemaker and mother. She worked as a team

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Willis Williams and Leroy Williams; her son Vane Lamar Lindsay on April 20, 2012; and her grandson Shawn Patrick Kelley on Aug. 16, 2009.

Survivors include daughter-in-law Mary Ann Lindsay; grandsons, Andrew Lamar (wife Jean Marie) Lindsay and Lamar Paul (wife Stacey) Lindsay; great-grandchildren, Shianne Eve, Nora Beth Helene and Calum Lamar Lindsay; great-great-granddaughter Riley Marie Kelley; sister-in-law Doris Williams; nieces, Tara (husband Ken) Kifer, Jana Paddock and Lana (husband Darrin) Shipman; nephew Kerry Cameron (wife Cheryl) Williams; grand-nieces and -nephews, Brad (wife Jess) Kifer, Kendra (husband James) Grady, Crystal (husband Sam) Buffaloe, Holly King, Darri Shipman and Cameron Shipman; eight great-grandnieces and -nephews, Bradley, Layla, Josie and Hayes Kifer, Marlee and Laynie Grady, Amelie and James Buffaloe; her beloved caretaker, Joleen (husband Eric) Sherrod; and other extended family and friends, all who loved her dearly.

Per Helen’s request, graveside services will be conducted 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27, in Bernie Cemetery with Reverend Randy Moore officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Bernie Christian Church.

Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie oversees arrangements.

with her husband, George, growing and selling produce.

LaRetta is survived by her husband of 66 years, George Matthias Novak of Creston; children, Georgia LaVaun (Hillman) Walter of Wilbur, Nebraska, Katherine Lee (Andrew) Thomas of Winter Garden, Florida, James George (Felicia) Novak of Tingley, Susan Ann (Joel) Stein of Eagle Grove, Jerry Kay Novak (fiancée Tyann Simmons) of Creston and Jackie Cyril (Mamie) Novak of Creston; grandchildren, Jessica Placek, Tristan Novak, Jamie Storhoff, Joy Stein Van Houten, Katie Barker, Lisa Wiblin, Christopher Novak, Amber Scharf, Mariah Gray, Toni Markowski and Marcus Jones; many great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; brothers, Dwain Homer of Des Moines, Randall Earl of Mount Ayr, Arlan Kay (Linda) of Indianola and Gale Nolan Brown of Neola; sisters, Sharon Sue (David) Robison of Des Moines and Rita Fae (Larry) Freihage of Ellston; sisters-in-law, Leona Brown of Nevada and Kathy Brown of Wagner, South Dakota; and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

LaRetta was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Carroll Lee and Marvin Eugene Brown; sister Joy Ann Brown; sister-in-law JoAnne Brown and brothers-inlaw, Laverne “Bus” (Mary) Novak and Robert “Bob” (Barbara) Novak.

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on explaining to folks in the public how they can enter our buildings,” McDermott said.

“Security equals inconvenience.

We know that. But, we still want to McDermott be friendly with families and want people to understand they can come in; they just have to hesitate a little bit before they can come right in.”

Messerole said once the door entry systems are installed, the high school will have three monitors in its office so visitors can be

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granted access to the building.

“I think that will be the biggest change for students and parents and community members,” Messerole said. “We don’t have doors unlocked everywhere with people coming and going as they wish.”

Access controls will be installed on six doors at Creston Elementary/Middle School, seven doors at the high school and seven doors at the administration building.

Some doors will be capped, meaning the keyhole will now have a metal cap placed over the top of it, restricting entry through that door.

During the August board meeting, McDermott said main entries will be buzzer doors with a few additional doors allowing for entry by Sixty-three percent ranked mass shootings and bombings in Orlando, Florida, and in Belgium, Turkey, Pakistan and France as personally important news stories of the year.

Fifty-one percent said they found news stories about the deaths of people at the hands of police officers, or news about ambush attacks on police in three states, to be among the year’s most important news events.

Fourth on the list are 43 percent who described the spread of the Zika virus as important.

The three events described by the largest percentages of Americans as not too important included the death of Muhammad Ali (50 percent), approval of recreational marijuana use in four states (43 percent), and the death of Fidel Castro (40 percent).

schoolteacher from Peabody, Massachusetts.

“You’ve got to be optimistic, and I’m going to try.”

Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say 2016 was worse for the country than 2015. And Republicans are especially likely to feel that 2017 will be even better for them personally.

University of Miami professor Benjamin Alsup said he needed only three words to explain why 2016 felt worse for him: “Trump, Trump, Trump!”

Robert Greenstone, a New York commercial real estate broker, said the political discourse leading up to Republican Donald Trump’s election as president played havoc with people’s emotions.

“The amount of disinformation made people suspect Top moments in of everything and everyone, pop culture and even their neighbors,” he sports said.

U.S. election leads top news events The U.S. elections top Americans’ list of 10 top news events in 2016.

Three-quarters called the presidential election and Trump’s victory very or extremely important.

Iowa Lottery sales reached record high in 2016, report says DES MOINES (AP) — A new report says sales of Iowa Lottery tickets spiked in the budget year that ended June 30 and generated the most revenue in the program’s 31-year history.

Backed by surging sales of instant-scratch and Powerball tickets, the Lottery brought in $366.9 million in total revenue, a $42 million increase from the prior year.

A state audit released Tuesday says $88 million of that money went to the state’s general fund and to help veteran’s programs, the highest amount for the Lottery since its start in 1985.

More than $221 million went toward prize expenses.

Sales of instant-scratch tickets increased by 10.2 percent to a record $233.7 million. Powerball ticket sales surged by 43 percent to nearly $75 million as players were enticed by a new formula that made for larger jackpots.

electronic fob system for staff members. Sensors will be placed on all other exterior doors so the main computer will be able to tell if doors have been left open or propped open.

Phone system The final component of the security upgrades is the new phone system for the district’s buildings.

According to CCSD Business Manager Billie Jo Greene, all the equipment for the phone systems is in.

“Right now we’re working with Windstream and Arion to make the switch over,” Greene said. “Windstream has put us out a distance of time, so we are looking at different options on getting those services moving forward.”

The current phone system the district uses is nearing 30 A majority of Americans, including 7 in 10 Midwesterners, called November’s World Series win for the Chicago Cubs to end their 108-year drought memorable.

Of nine other pop-culture items tested, two were called memorable by about half of Americans: the death of Prince, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen; and the Olympic victories of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team.

The two least-notable events for Americans, of the 10 possible choices in the poll, were the Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt divorce filing and the “Pokemon Go” app game phenomenon, each described by most as forgettable.

Ringing in the New Year About half of Americans plan to celebrate the New Year at home. About 2 in 10 plan to go out to a friend or family member’s home, and 1 in 10 to a bar or restaurant.

years old.

In terms of security, McDermott said the new phone system will be an improvement in that each building’s phone system will be independent. So, if one building experiences a power outage, it won’t knock out the phone system across the whole district.

“We’ve begun to see a decay in that (current) system. Some units aren’t functioning like they should and we’re getting some inconsistencies with our phones,” McDermott said during the August board meeting, when board members approved the new phone system. “It will do the typical phone functions and it will do a lot more in terms of entry systems and switching calls and messages over to individual staff members’ cell phones.”

About a quarter don’t plan to celebrate at all.

About 6 in 10 plan to watch the Times Square ball drop, nearly all of whom will watch on TV. ––––– The AP-Times Square Alliance Poll of 1,007 adults was conducted online Dec. 9-11, using a sample drawn from GfK’s probability-based KnowledgePanel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The poll is a cooperative effort between AP and the organizers of the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration, the Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment. The Alliance is a nonprofit group that seeks to promote Times Square, and Countdown Entertainment represents the owners of One Times Square and the New Year’s Eve Ball Drop.

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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.

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Millsap was being held on $300 bond.

—————— Ealy Melvin Tucker, 40, of Longmont, Colorado, was charged with trespassing 5:50 p.m. Thursday at Wal-Mart.

According to a Creston Police report, Tucker entered Wal-Mart, located at 806 Laurel St., while being restricted from all WalMart properties because of a theft incident. Tucker admitted he knew he was not permitted in Wal-Mart stores and also admitted he entered the store with the intention of stealing items from the store.

Tucker was being held on $300 bond.

—————— Jessica Marie Larkin, 22, 306 N. Vine St., was charged with public intoxication 2:46 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Swigart and North Pine streets.

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was charged with fifth-degree criminal mischief and simple domestic assault 6:45 p.m. Friday at 500 N. Cherry St., and additionally charged with violation of a protection order 11:35 a.m. Saturday at Union County Law Enforcement Center.

According to a Creston Police report, Parmenter kicked the passenger side rear door of a vehicle a female victim was driving while trying to gain access.

There is a large dent in the door consistent with being kicked. Parmenter and the female victim were arguing.

When Parmenter went to the vehicle to get his things, he bent the female’s finger back, turned the vehicle off, held the female down and would not let her leave.

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Larkin was being held on $300 bond in Ringgold County Jail for Union County.

—————— Anthony Gross, 43, 308 S. Division St., was charged with probation violation 12:01 p.m. Friday at WalMart.

Gross was released on promise to appear and transferred to the custody of Madison County Sheriff.

—————— Rebecca Lynn Pettit, 53, 301 N. Vine St., was charged with third-degree harassment 1:50 p.m. Friday at Union County Law Enforcement Center.

According to a Creston Police report, Pettit had a Christmas card left on the vehicle of a male subject after being told not to have contact with him and after being served a no-contact request.

Pettit was released on promise to appear.

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Gambler’s Anonymous, 7 p.m., Assembly of God Church, 801 N. Fillmore St., Osceola.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) open meeting, 7:30 p.m., St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. DivorceCare, a divorce recovery seminar and support group, 6 to 9 p.m., Crest Haven Care Centre, 1000 E. Howard St. Contact person: Andrea, (641) 346-2532.

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Thoughts on leaving Word really does travel fast in a small town.

Since telling just a few people I’m moving at the end of the month, it seems everywhere I go, someone asks where I’m going and what I’ll be doing. And, no, it’s not because I’ve made any sort of impact in this town.

It’s because the people of Creston care. They care far beyond surface-level conversation. They genuinely care about how you’re doing. They make you feel like you’re an irreplaceable part of the community. And, if you’re new in town, they’ll make you feel welcome on day one.

That’s what I’ll miss most about Creston. I was invited into a rural community here unrivaled by any I’d had previously in Lincoln, Nebraska.

My time here was so shortlived, but its impact will be lasting.

When former managing editor Kyle Wilson hired me in July 2015, I was so inexperienced (still am). But, he encouraged reporters daily by always complimenting stories and photos, urged me to write a bimonthly column (Never agreed to it. This is my first and

Kelsey Haugen associate editor

last column. Sorry, Kyle.) and sought to convince me I was capable of more. I learned from him encouragement in the workplace is essential.

Since current managing editor Scott Vicker took over in May, the newsroom has been a bit crazier, as it’s been hard to keep young reporters around (sorry for being another statistic), but Scott has handled much of the craziness with a level head and patience.

I’ve learned patience is necessary in a hectic work environment, especially when you’re in a position of leadership.

I, of course, have learned quite a bit from the old guy, Larry Peterson. I’ve used him as a resource numerous times (sometimes, he didn’t even know it). Simply reading his stories provides a multitude of lessons in detailed reporting, presenting the “full picture” and creative writing.

The most unique part of my experience at the CNA has been my co-workers, who double as friends. Not all can say some of their closest friends are people they work with, but for real, my co-workers are the best.

Bailey Poolman and I clicked from the start, matching in sassiness and sarcasm. We spent many evenings watching “The Hunger Games” and the all-too-creepy TV show “Hannibal” or going to Casa De Oro. She has taught me about writing, weight lifting, firefighting and everything in between. I’ll dearly miss that one.

I first got to know Scott and Larry as the crazy sports guys who worked late-night hours. Now, it’s Ryan Kronberg and Kaleb Carter. Despite our completely opposite work schedules, the sports guys have become my friends, and I so appreciate their kindness and sarcasm. I guess sarcasm is prevalent at the CNA. The news clerk, Melody Stoll, enjoys laughing at Bailey and I as we give each other a hard time daily. She, too, has been an irreplaceable resource.

I’ve also had an encouraging publisher, Rich Paulsen. And, I

have loved exchanging sassy comments with the loud, quirky people in advertising. All the CNA staff members are a joy to be around.

Speaking to Creston as a whole, I will miss my homes-away-fromhome, the places I spent much of my time and where people invested in me and I strived (failing often) to invest in them: the CNA, Crest Baptist Church, Southwestern Community College (my beat) and Adams Street Espresso, to name a few.

To answer that question I’ve been asked lately, I’m moving back to Nebraska to get my master’s degree.

In undergrad, I completed my bachelor’s in journalism and psychology. While seeking a career path, I had a hard time deciding between taking a journalism job or going to grad school to eventually become a counselor.

As I completed solely journalism internships, I decided to give a reporter job a try. While I truly loved this job and its variety (Oh, the variety. I hung out with, wrote about and photographed farmers, welders, attorneys, hunters, musicians, mechanics and much

more), I have been pulled toward the other option.

I’ve always had a thirst for listening to people’s stories, and journalism quenched that for a bit. But, I want to be able to encourage and help those I listen to, as well. In mid-January, I will begin the professional counseling program at Grace University in Omaha, a Christ-centered institution. After four years in total (ugh), my credentials will be LIMHP (licensed independent mental health practitioner).

I look forward to the opportunity to gain more education, eventually help others struggling with mental illness or everyday problems and either offer others Biblical encouragement, if in a Christian setting, or simply encourage others through Christ in me.

My last day at the CNA is Friday. I will deeply miss the Creston community and southwest Iowa as a whole, which is home to countless hardworking, kind, selfless people. Thanks to all of you wonderfully caring people who have crossed paths with me. I’ve learned so much and will not forget this one-of-a-kind community.

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HOLLYWOOD – God Bless America, and how’s everybody?

The Weather Channel aired footage of torrential rainstorms pounding Southern California on Wednesday night. It was the third rainstorm to drench Los Angeles in the last three weeks. Since the election the California drought has been reduced by 10 percent and that’s just from all the crying.

Prince Harry urged young people to stop spending so much time texting on their smartphones and taking selfies and then posting them. It’s a generational obsession that grates on older people.

I think it’s cruel that after two years, nobody’s told Millennials that selfie sticks are also lightning rods.

Men’s Health prescribed sex as a healthy exercise for men in its study of men’s sexual activity and its role in a healthier lifestyle. The study says for men, having sex burns the same number of calories as running 5 miles. That’s ridiculous, who in the world can run 5 miles in 30 seconds?

Caitlyn Jenner announced Friday she’ll undergo breast enhancement and facial feminization surgery to enhance her self-esteem. The news was a welcome distraction. The public is turning its focus back to the Kardashian family because the presidential election was too absurd and over the top.

President Obama extended hol-

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iday good wishes to the American people Sunday the same day President-elect Trump wished everyone a Merry Christmas.

The country needs both political parties. Democrats are here to remind us that life is unfair while Republicans are here to make sure that it is.

Saudi Arabia agreed to an OPEC vote to reduce oil production with U.S. shale oil flooding the market to try to prop up prices. The U.S. is now on track to become the world’s largest oil producer. If history has taught us anything, it’s that the United States will soon be invading the United States.

Germany weighed restrictions on Muslim entry after the terrorist attacks in Berlin. The issue of banning Muslims has revived far right German parties. It’s like the husband who thought his vasectomy would keep his wife from getting pregnant, and all it did was change the color of the baby.

Berlin terrorist Anis Amri was killed by police in Milan Friday after he’d driven a stolen truck into Christmas shoppers in Germany.

He left behind a video pledging allegiance to ISIS and vowing

to slaughter Christians. Angela Merkel’s government’s still looking for a motive for the attack.

Donald Trump was quick to call the terror attack on Berlin an attack by Islamic terrorists. The culture difference is self-explanatory.

Women in Saudi Arabia can fly airplanes but they are not allowed to drive cars, because driving a car into the side of a skyscraper doesn’t have the same effect.

Vladimir Putin said Russia does not want a nuclear arms race with the U.S. after Trump vowed to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal Thursday. It was the first step backwards Putin has ever taken publicly. When Trump made Ivanka fly coach to Hawaii, it was a language the Russians understand.

A Brooklyn lawyer berated Ivanka Trump about her father as she sat in coach on a Jet Blue airliner before takeoff Thursday.

The crew kicked him off the plane immediately. For all the flight attendants knew, Donald Trump had just bought Jet Blue Airlines and this was an episode of Undercover Boss.

Florida beauty pageant winner Vanessa Barceol was arrested by Miami Shores cops Thursday for assaulting a man with an aluminum baseball bat during a drunken Christmas party she hosted.

This stuff is always happening in Florida. If stupidity were oil, Florida would be OPEC headquarters.

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Pop superstar George Michael dies of heart failure at 53 Lininger anniversary LONDON (AP) — George Michael’s moment of liberation followed what seemed at first to be a time of deep humiliation.

He was blessed with sensual good looks and an exquisite voice, attributes he used to become first a teenybopper heartthrob and then a mature solo artist with videos that played up his considerable appeal. He kept his own sexual orientation private, until he was arrested in 1998 for lewd conduct in a public toilet in Los Angeles after being spotted by a male undercover police officer.

In an earlier era, that might have doomed his career. Instead of retreating, however, he made a single and video — “Outside” — that ridiculed the charges against him and mocked the Los Angeles police officers who busted him.

The memorable image of the two uniformed policemen kissing in the video — both funny and outrageous at the time — helped Michael come out as a proud gay man. He was unashamed, unapologetic and ready to poke fun at himself even as he produced a steady stream of hits.

But Michael, whose death from heart failure at 53 was announced Sunday, struggled in his later years, fighting health issues and substance abuse problems.

His voice remained golden — at times it seemed there was almost no limit to his range — but his behavior in public became ever more erratic.

Despite his great talent, he never found a niche for himself as a senior statesman of the rock world. His fans stuck with him despite it all, and many expected one more comeback. People rooted for Michael, even as they felt he was slipping away, giving in to his torment.

Michael shot to stardom at an early age in the teen duo WHAM! and moved smoothly into a solo career.

It was a classic showbiz story — a lad named Georgios Panayiotou with strong Greek Cypriot roots takes the name George Michael and forms a band with Andrew Ridgeley that brings him wealth and worldwide fame.

Photos and videos from that era show Michael with long locks, piercing eyes and a show-stopping smile.

He was made for MTV, which was emerging as a dominant force, and he

had a powerful video presence, borrowing some of his dance moves from Elvis Presley and sometimes styling himself as a motorcycle rebel who would have made James Dean or Marlon Brando proud.

He seemed to be on top of the world when he graduated from WHAM! and started scoring his own hits, but later said he was struggling with his sexuality and remembers his late 20s as a very depressing period.

The AIDS crisis was hitting the gay community extremely hard at the time, and he lost one partner to the disease. He said it took him several years to recover.

“I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24,” he said. “I lost my partner to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.”

He was unsettled and unhappy and, at the same time, became that rare artist who enjoys both chart success and tremendous respect from his peers. He sold well over 100 million albums, walked away from awards dinners weighed down with trophies, and recorded duets with the giants in his field.

The long list of people who recorded with Michael includes all-time greats: Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Luciano Pavarotti and Elton John, for starters.

Their willingness to share the spotlight was a sure sign of the way Michael’s talents were appreciated by fellow musicians.

Critics generally viewed his WHAM! songs as catchy but disposable pop and gave his solo efforts far higher marks. His first solo album, 1987’s “Faith,” sold more than 20 million copies, and he enjoyed several hit singles including the raunchy “I Want Your Sex,” which was boosted by a provocative video that received wide airplay on MTV. The song was controversial not only because of its explicit nature, but also because it was seen as encouraging casual sex and promiscuity at a time when the AIDS epidemic was at its height. Michael and his management tried to tamp down this point of view by having the singer write “Explore Monogamy” on the leg and back of a model in the video.

His career was peaking, but a protracted legal dispute with his record company, Sony, took a toll.

As the hits slowed, he became better known for health scares and brushes with the police. He was fond of marijuana and prescription sedatives, a dangerous combination that had an effect on his driving. Several times he was found slumped over his car’s steering wheel, not moving.

Some made jokes about his erratic driving, but the underlying problems were serious. In 2010, his driver’s license was finally revoked for five years after he drove his Land Rover into the side of a Snappy Snap photo shop with so much force that his vehicle dented the wall.

A witty passer-by remembering Michael’s early career wrote the word WHAM on the spot his SUV had hit.

He was arrested a second time in public toilets — this time in North London in 2008 for drug use, an incident that prompted him to apologize to his fans and promise to get his life in order. He seemed to sense that he was wearing out

his welcome with the public, offering an apology to everybody “just for boring them.”

He said at a press conference in 2011 that he felt he had let young people down with his misbehavior and had made it easier for others to denigrate homosexuals. By that time, many of his songs had become popular gay anthems, including those written and released before he revealed his sexual preference.

Despite these personal setbacks, Michael’s musical performances remained strong even as his material moved farther from the teen tunes that first brought him to stardom.

The Telegraph newspaper in 2011 described a London concert appearance as an impressive event, calling his voice, “A rich, soulful instrument, it’s capable of serious emotional heft, expertly matching the confessional tone of his own material.”

He was straightforward about his reasons for first starting a ska band with Ridgeley and later forming WHAM! “I wanted to be loved,” he said. “It was an ego satisfaction thing.”

card shower planned The family of Robert and Shirley Lininger is hosting a card shower in honor of the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary Dec. 30.

The couple married Dec. 30, 1956, at Arispe United Methodist Church in Arispe.

Cards may be sent to them at 809 Golden Shores, Creston, IA 50801.

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Carlisle birthday open house, card shower planned The family of May Huss Carlisle is hosting an open house and card shower in honor of her 100th birthday Jan. 5.

The open house will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Jan. 7 at

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church fellowship hall, 800 N. Sumner Ave., in Creston.

Cards may be sent to her at 705 N. Oak St., Creston, IA 50801.

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Creston News Advertiser | Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Obama, Japan’s Abe to seek reconciliation at Pearl Harbor GIVE YOUR FITNESS HONOLULU (AP) — Putting 75 years of resentment behind them, the leaders of the United States and Japan are coming together at Pearl Harbor for a historic pilgrimage to the site where the devastating surprise attacks thrust America into World War II. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit Tuesday with President Barack Obama is powerful proof that the former enemies have trans c e n d e d Abe the recriminatory impulses that weighed down relations after the war, Japan’s government has said. Although Japanese leaders have visited Pearl Harbor before, Abe will be the first to visit the memorial that now rests on the hallowed waters above the sunken USS Arizona.

For Obama, it’s likely the last time he will meet with a foreign leader as president, White House aides said. It’s a bookend of sorts for the president, who nearly eight years ago invited Abe’s predecessor to be the first leader that Obama hosted at the White House.

For Abe, it’s an act of

symbolic reciprocity, coming six months after Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in Japan, where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb in hopes of ending the war.

“This visit, and the president’s visit to Hiroshima earlier this year, would not have been possible eight years ago,” said Daniel Kritenbrink, Obama’s top Asia adviser in the White House. “That we are here today is the result of years of efforts at all levels of our government and societies, which has allowed us to jointly and directly deal with even the most sensitive aspects of our shared history.”

More than 2,300 Americans died on Dec. 7, 1941, when more than 300 Japanese fighter planes and bombers attacked. More than 1,000 others were wounded. In the ensuing years, the U.S. incarcerated roughly 120,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps before dropping atomic bombs in 1945 that killed some 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki.

Abe will not apologize for Pearl Harbor, his government has said. Nor did Obama apologize at Hiroshima in May, a visit that he and Abe used to emphasize their elusive aspirations for

a nuclear-free future.

No apology needed, said 96-year-old Alfred Rodrigues, a U.S. Navy veteran who survived what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called a “date which will live in infamy.”

“War is war,” Rodrigues said as he looked at old photos of his military service.

“They were doing what they were supposed to do, and we were doing what we were supposed to do.”

After a formal meeting in the morning, Obama and Abe planned to lay a wreath aboard the USS Arizona Memorial, which Obama is accessible only by boat. Then they’ll go to nearby Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, where both leaders will speak.

Meanwhile, China criticized Abe’s visit as an insincere attempt to absolve Japan of its wartime aggression.

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“Japan can never turn this page over without reconciliation from China and other victimized countries in Asia,” she said. “Japanese leaders should stop being so evasive and dodging, and instead take a responsible attitude toward history and future, deeply and sincerely reflect upon the history of aggressive war, and draw a clear break with the past.”

Abe’s visit is not without political risk given the Japanese people’s long, emotional reckoning with their nation’s aggression in the war. Though the history books have largely deemed Pearl Harbor a surprise attack, Japan’s government insisted as recently as this month that it had intended to give the U.S. prior notice that it was declaring war and failed only because of “bureaucratic bungling.”

“There’s this sense of guilt, if you like, among Japanese, this ‘Pearl Harbor syndrome,’ that we did something very unfair,” said Tamaki Tsukada, a minister in the Embassy of Japan in Washington. “I think the prime minister’s visit will in a sense absolve that kind of complex that Japanese people have.”

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With markdowns 40 to 60 percent off All Citizen watches 50% off Our Holiday Hours Wednesday • Thursday • Friday 10am-8pm Christmas Eve 10am-4pm December 26-30 10am-6pm

Have a Healthy 2017!

The Staff at Mercy Corning and CHI Health Corning, Lenox & Bedford Clinics encourage you to have a healthy 2017! Here are some hints to help you out: » Utilize your health insurance benefits which are ‘no deductible needed’ when you use a network provider: (this is not a comprehensive list but some common ones to use!)

- Well Child appointments through age 21: these are more thorough than school physicals & covered by insurance; scheduled at your convenience - Well Woman: annual physical, pap smears and cervical screening

- Blood pressure screening - Cholesterol Screening - Mammogram for over age 40 - Diabetes Screening for at risk individuals - Health Counseling for weight, diabetes or alcohol

- Colorectal cancer screening

Our Regular Days and Hours Starting in January Wednesday • Thursday • Friday 10am-6pm Saturday 10am-3pm

Watch Batteries Professionally Replaced

Over 37 years Experience

» Maintain a Healthy Weight - Take a Healthy Cooking Class - Come to pre-diabetes workshops » Develop Healthy Habits

Accepting Repair, Sizing and Restyling of Jewelry

Closed

Mon

Tues

By By Appointment Appointment

Wed 10am-6pm

Thur 10am-6pm

Fri

- Join our Wellness Center

- Stretch daily

- Take a Group Fitness Class

- Set Goals for yourself

- Hire a personal trainer to get on track

- Take personal time to rest and rejuvenate

- Start Walking more » Get Support - Consider joining our cancer support group

STARTING IN JANUARY 2017 Sun

- Get Nutritional Counseling

Sat

10am-3pm Later by 10am-6pm Appointment

- Get a personal trainer

- Come to Exhilirate the New You support group for weight loss surgery

» Have access to MyChart - Make Appointments

- See messages from your provider

- Review Test Results » Have option of 24/7 Care with Virtual Care at

usenbarrick Fine Jewelry 155 E. Kansas, Afton, IA 50830 641-347-8705

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FAMILY CIRCUS®

by Bil Keane

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE® by Chris Browne

BEETLE BAILEY® by Greg & Mort Walker

ZITS® by Scott & Borgman

BLONDIE®

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DUSTIN® by Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker

HINTS FROM HELOISE It’s personal – so remember it!

HOROSCOPE For Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This continues to be a powerful time for you to speak to parents, bosses and VIPs. They will listen to you because you speak with authority, energy and purpose.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20)Go ahead with travel plans that you are contemplating. In particular, you might enjoy visiting someplace you’ve visited once before.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is a good time to wrap up loose details with red-tape issues, because you are fiery and confident. You have your back covered!

CANCER (June 21 to July 22)You might have a vigorous discussion with a partner or close friend today. (He or she might blow the hair back over your ears.) Be prepared.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is a powerful day for you at work because you easily will take command. In fact, others will hear the authority in your voice.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is a wonderful, creative day for your sign. Whether you work with your hands or your voice, you will be motivated and talented today.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You care about the appearance of your home, and today you will do something about it. You will tackle repairs, move furniture around or do something to make things look better.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)You can convince anyone of anything today, because your powers of persuasion are tops.

This is a strong day for writers, teachers and actors as well.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Value your moneymaking ideas today, because you are full of energy and enthusiasm when it comes to financial matters. You also can persuade others to go along with your ideas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You have the gift of gab today, which is why you will have no trouble getting others to agree with your ideas. People also will do whatever you tell them to, because your words are like gold.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Any kind of research you do will go well today, because

you have the focus, endurance and energy to keep looking for what you need. Solutions to old problems are at hand.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20)Excited conversations with people from your past, especially younger people, might take place now. It’s good to have a history with others.

YOU BORN TODAY You are competent and organized. You appear cheerful, optimistic and flexible, which is how you like to look to the outside world.

Cultivate a headspace so that

you are ready to take advantage of opportunities that will arise in 2017, because this is the year you’ve been waiting for! Expect a major change, perhaps as significant as what occurred around 2006. It’s time to test your future!

Birthdate of: Seth Myers, actor/TV host; Denzel Washington, actor; Gayle King, journalist. (c) 2016 King Syndicate, Inc.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Features

Dear Heloise: I work for a cleaning company that cleans a car dealership at nights after hours. I normally don’t have any interactions with the customers of the dealership. However, one night while I was working, a customer wouldn’t leave me alone about his glasses that he LEFT IN A VEHICLE that he test-drove before the dealership closed.

My hint is for anyone who test-drives or is a sales representative for a car dealership: Look for any personal belongings that may still be in the vehicle, or remind the customer about any personal belongings. – After-Hours Cleaner, via email Whether test-driving a car or taking a cab, bus or subway, it is a good hint to check your surroundings for personal belongings before you exit any vehicle. – Heloise SHELF LIFE Dear Heloise: Does baking soda have a shelf life, and if so, how long is it? – Jeff W., Lincoln, Neb. If you are using the baking soda for baking, there definitely is a shelf life. Follow

the expiration date on the box, which typically is around three years. As a food product, be sure to store it where it cannot absorb odors, and keep it away from moisture.

However, if you are cleaning with it, it can last indefinitely. Baking soda is one of my favorite money-saving cleaners. To order my Heloise’s Baking Soda Hints and Recipes pamphlet, go online to www.Heloise.com, or send $5 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (68 cents) envelope to: Heloise/Baking Soda, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. Don’t just throw away the old box of baking soda that was used to absorb refrigerator odors.

Keep it to use for cleaning the kitchen sink and faucets.

– Heloise STORING ORNAMENTS Dear Heloise: Having been in the military for many years and moving around quite a bit, we have found that apple and orange boxes with the rounded divider layers are very functional and useful for storing Christmas ornaments. Besides being

free at the produce section or store market, they protect the ornaments very well. We think they are better than the plastic boxes you have to pay for. – Eric, via email KEEP CLOSED Dear Heloise: I have a pair of French doors that I could not get to stay closed. Mainly, the dog or cat would press on one side or the other and cause both doors to open. Finally, I grabbed a large rubber band (like those found on broccoli) and wrapped it around both of the doorknobs. It worked! The animals would still press on the doors, but they could not open them wide enough to get through. – Angie Y., via email MATCH MAKEUP Dear Heloise: When I need to replace a lipstick or other makeup, I take the old one with me to the store.

That way, I can match the color for the new replacement in case the color number has changed or no longer exists. – Jan in Oregon (c)2016 by King Features Syndicate Inc.

RUSSIA: accusations against one another over the devastation in Aleppo and Moscow’s claim that relations are now “frozen on all practical levels.”

The confidential military discussions aren’t focusing on the two countries’ opposing positions in Syria’s civil war, where Russia is fighting alongside the government and the United States has backed rebel groups, officials said.

But U.S. officials with knowledge of the ongoing conversations are crediting both sides with putting aside much of the public animosity, which has included Washington’s accusations of Russian war crimes in Aleppo and Moscow’s charges of American support for terrorist groups such as al-Qaida.

Much of the talk has concerned the two nations’ immediate operations.

Since Dec. 15, the U.S.led coalition has conducted airstrikes on about two dozen locations around Palmyra, destroying air defense weapons, tanks, aircraft shelters, storage bunkers and other vehicles and equipment. At the same time, U.S. and Russian officials having been ensuring that the two militaries’ don’t cross paths in the airspace above the city that IS militants seized for

the second time earlier this month, and that American strikes don’t mistakenly hit Russian or Syrian forces.

But the talks have gone beyond the granular and even touched on broader U.S. and Russian plans, according to several U.S. officials, who weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the confidential discussions and demanded anonymity.

The Russians have spelled out that after they retake Palmyra, they want to move on IS militants congregated in Deir elZour, a city closer to the Iraqi border. Succeeding in Deir el-Zour, according to one U.S. official, could take Russia several months.

Palmyra became a more urgent mission after Islamic State militants ended the Syrian government’s ninemonth hold over the city, seizing Russian and Syrian military equipment and weapons in the process.

These include dangerous air defense artillery that could be used against coalition and friendly forces.

According to officials, the U.S. and Russian military have been communicating regularly, often in real time as strikes have been about to launch to make sure innocent troops aren’t at risk. The new concentration of U.S. strikes around Palmyra in the past week has made the effort especially important for Russia, one senior U.S. official said.

The scope of the discus-

JAPAN:

Arthur W.R. Radford. bor and the National MemoOther prime ministers rial Cemetery of the Pacific, have since visited Pearl Har- known as Punchbowl.

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Since the war, the U.S. and Japan have built a powerful alliance that both sides say has grown stronger during Obama’s tenure.

There are questions about what the relationship will look like under Donald Trump.

During the campaign, Trump suggested that Japan and South Korea should obtain nuclear weapons so the U.S. would no longer be burdened with the costs of defending them, a disquieting notion in many Asian capitals.

But after Trump’s election, Abe became the first foreign leader to meet with him, sitting down in Trump Tower with the business mogul and Trump’s daughter Ivanka.

Though no Japanese prime minister has visited the USS Arizona Memorial, former Japanese leader Shigeru Yoshida visited Pearl Harbor in 1951, six years after Japan surrendered. He stopped there on his way home from signing the San Francisco peace treaty with the U.S. and others, and paid a courtesy visit to the office of Adm.

Mall fights send post-holiday shoppers scrambling for exits

sions suggests the two sides are pulling back from some of the extreme rhetoric in recent months, mainly colored by Russia’s support for the successful Syrian military effort to retake all of Aleppo. While Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed hopes that Donald Trump will improve U.S.-Russian cooperation, it appears some of the groundwork already is being done.

U.S. officials have legal constraints on how far they can go. American law prohibits any military-to-military relations with Russia in the aftermath of its 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.

But as Syria’s various conflicts have escalated, it became more critical for the U.S. and Russia to make sure they avoid crashes and other problems in the increasingly crowded skies — as happened when the U.S. mistakenly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in airstrikes near Deir elZour in September.

“We certainly don’t want to have a repeat of that,” said Air Force Col. John Dorrian, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria.

Palmyra poses particular difficulties. Several hundred IS forces are believed to be in the city. But Syrian government and Russian troops are also there, making it difficult to tell them apart.

BEACHWOOD, Ohio (AP) — Fights broke out at malls around the country Monday night sending shoppers, who were looking for post-holiday deals, scrambling for the exits.

No one was seriously injured in the mall melees, which, during the panic, also prompted numerous false reports of gunfire.

Police in Ohio told Cleveland.com that officers used pepper spray to disperse a large crowd following a fight at an upscale shopping mall in Beachwood, just outside of Cleveland.

A report of shots fired was later determined to be unfounded.

One male juvenile was arrested for allegedly trying to hit an officer during the incident, which police said appeared to have been “loosely organized on so-

cial media.”

There were similar disturbances at malls around the country including in New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, where chaos erupted at a mall in Fayetteville and emergency medical personnel were called in to assist someone who had a medical episode while fleeing.

In Memphis, Tennessee, police arrested several people following fights at two malls there. No one was injured and no gunshots were fired, despite reports indicating otherwise.

“Somebody yelled ‘gun!’ and youths stampeded through the mall,” Deputy Chief Terry Landrum told The Commercial Appeal.

Police in Aurora, Colorado, near Denver, evacuated a mall due to multiple skirmishes.

The trouble reportedly began during an arrest when an unruly crowd surrounded the scene.

Aurora police spokesman Sgt. Chris Amsler said that as the suspect was being taking into custody, the crowd, which mushroomed in size to about 500 people, advanced on the officer and fights broke out. Five juveniles were arrested. No one was hurt.

In Aurora, Illinois, outside of Chicago, a mall there was temporarily shut down due to a large disturbance. Videos posted on Twitter showed mall security trying to get the situation under control.

There was no official word on whether any of the fights, which were also reported in Arizona, Texas, Indiana and Connecticut, were connected.

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DINKLA, DYLAN ..........................110.00 Markets are up since DOTSON, WILL .............................125.00 DRAMATISTS PLAY Trump won the general SERVICE, INC.................................387.30 EBLEN, PEG ...................................145.00 election, although not by ENERGY BASKETBALL LLC...1,600.00 that much.

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GILES, SCOTT ...............................110.00 GLEN'S REFRIGERATION...........267.50 As for holiday spending, GRANGER, LAURA ........................24.91 auditing and accounting GRAPHIC DISPLAYS....................150.00 GRAPHIC EDGE..........................4,568.68 firm Deloitte projected in GRAVEN, TRAVIS ........................110.00 GREEN HILLS AEA.........................20.80 September that total 2016 GTM SPORTSWEAR......................488.00 holiday sales expectGUNSOLLEY, GINA were .......................70.00 HAGGERTY, KYLIE .....................145.00 ed to exceed $1 trillion, HARMISON'S HOMETOWN FUNDRAISING............................4,681.30 representing a 3.6 percent HOPKINS, TERRI ..........................155.91 HOWARD to 4.0 CLOTHING percent increase in & SPORTING................................2,549.60 holiday sales from NovemSTORE..................607.61 HY-VEE FOOD IHSMA..............................................140.00 ber through January. But IOWA HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL COACHES ASSN............................312.00 that can’t be credited to KERN, DAN ....................................125.00 Trump because the projecMATT .........................75.00 KROGMAN, L.D.E. INC........................................145.02 tion came before the elecLORENSEN, TODD .........................95.00 LYNCH, tion. CHRIS ..............................125.00 M-F ATHLETIC.................................57.00 McCANN, STEPHEN E ...................55.00 McKIM, RYAN ...............................200.00 MOLDEN, RICK .............................110.00 MONAGHAN, MICHAEL A ...........70.00 OLSON, CHARLES ........................110.00 OMNI CHEER..................................148.50 RITTMAN, DAVE ..........................125.00 ROBERTS, MATTHEW ................110.00 ROMESBURG, RANDALL ...........636.00 SCHEELS - DES MOINES.............977.50 SCHLAPIA, PATRICK ....................32.94 SCHWAB, JEB ..................................75.00 SEIDL, BRIAN ................................110.00 SMITH, KALIAN ........................3,685.54 SOCCER.COM.................................139.19 SORENSEN, DIRK ...........................75.00 STOAKS, TODD .............................110.00 SWIBA..............................................125.00 TEPLY, LARRY .............................110.00 THOMAS, CHRISTOPHER ...........125.00 TROPHY SHOP...............................200.65 TYLER, LESLIE .............................400.00 VEITZ, JEFF ....................................165.00 WALKER, BEN ..............................135.00 WALMART COMMUNITY BRC..890.01 WARNER, AJ ...............................1,009.68 WEISSMAN.....................................979.90 WIGGINS, RANDY ........................125.00 WILSON, JIM ..................................110.00 WOODCOCK, SETH ........................65.00 NOVEMBER 2016 PAYROLL..............................1,110,501.50

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NY AG: Trump can’t dissolve foundation during investigation WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump cannot move ahead with his plan to dismantle his charitable foundation because state prosecutors are probing whether the president-elect personally benefited from its spending, the New York attorney general’s office said Tuesday.

“The Trump foundation is still under investigation by this office and cannot legally dissolve until that investigation is complete,” said Amy Spitalnick, spokeswoman for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

The statement came after Trump announced that he wanted to dissolve the Donald J. Trump Foundation, part of what his presidential transition team says is an effort to erase any potential conflicts of interest before he takes office Jan. 20.

But the foundation’s inner workings have been the subject of Schneiderman’s investigation for months and could remain a thorny issue for Trump’s incoming administration.

Democrats nationally have said they are ready to raise any legal or ethical issues from Trump’s global business empire during his presidency.

Trump’s charity has admitted that it violated IRS regulations barring it from using its money or assets to benefit Trump, his family, his companies or substantial contributors to the foundation.

The admissions by the

PUBLIC NOTICE Board of Directors December 19, 2016 Creston Community School District The Board of Directors of the Creston community School District met on Monday, December 19, 2016, in the Board Room at 6:00 p.m. Dr. Brad James, President, presided and the following answered role call: Eagan, Dr. James, Snodgrass, Gee, and Zumbach.

Administrators present were: Callie Anderson, Jeff Bevins, Billie Jo Greene, Steve McDermott, Bill Messerole, and Kevin Teno.

The news media and visitors were present.

Gee moved, Eagan seconded the agenda be approved as presented. Motion carried 5-0.

Zumbach moved, Gee seconded to approve the minutes of the November 21, 2016, regular meeting, the financial reports, bills, resignations: Martha Boehlke - Basketball Cheer Co-Coach; and contacts with Taycey Post - Paraprofessional, Stacey Cass - Paraprofessional, Julia Roberts - Basketball Cheerleader Sponsor ¾, Tammy Holmes - Crossing Guard, and Kim Fourez - Instructional Coach. Motion carried 5-0.

Gee moved, Eagan seconded not to offer the Early Retirement Program for this year. Motion carried 5-0.

The Board recognized the following students and staff: Peppers, Salts and Peppers, and Winterguard performance on December 1 and 2: Fourth place in Class 2 Colorguard out of 12 guards - Division 1 rating, Performers (includes performers and set-up students) Jessica Arevalo, Mackenzie Bodell, Emma Christensen, Alyssa Cook, Morgan Eblen, Sadie Green, Ben Irr, Paige Keller, Matthew Kunz, Dylan Linch, Sydney Martin, Calista Mason, Taylor McDonald, Tyler Peters, Tessa Powers, John Reasoner, Katie Reed, Maya Struhar, Jordan Swedlund, David Qualseth, and Livi Hartman; Salt and Salt and Peppers Routines - Jazz (received Division 1 rating), Lights (received Division 1 rating), and Coed (received Division 1 rating and 3rd place overall - small school coed), Performers were Morgan Shawler, Macy Evans, Leah Schuler, Maya Struhar, Kiersten Latham, Cassity Conley, Ashton Carter, Kayla Luther, Emma Christensen, Sadie Green, Rachel Wignall, Brielle Baker, Micha Stephens, Paige Busch, Sara Keeler, Payton Burg, Danika Schultes, Tristan Travis, Tucker Flynn, Devon Peterson, Tyler Peters, Mitchel Swank, Dustin Merritt, Eli Loudon, Quinton Scadden, Cole Higgins, Lee Normandeau, Brant Looney, Ashton Willis, Bryce Fitzgerald, Cody Wagner, Hank Looney, Nathan Pudenz, and Spencer Lane.

Kevin Cooper and Mike McCabe presented information on the PE curriculum and Bill Mullin presented information on the Industrial Education and Technology curriculum.

Snodgrass moved, Eagan seconded the Board approve the following fundraisers: Publications - candy cane sales; Publications - dance; Student Council - 3 point shot and HS dance, fund goes to The Native Fund. Motion carried 5-0.

The Board reviewed budget alignment which included Steve McDermott giving an update on staff reduction, cost savings of facilities, the wrestling room heat system, and LED lights.

Zumbach moved, Gee seconded the Board approve the Resolution to Consider Participation in the Instructional Support Program. Motion carried 5-0.

Gee moved, Zumbach seconded the Board approve At-Risk / Dropout MAG Request for Modified Supplemental Amount of $400,107. Motion carried 5-0.

Jon Thomson presented information on Middle School Technology.

Jeff Bevins presented calendar updates.

Kevin Teno presented the Annual Report of Special Education Data.

Billie Jo Green presented an IPERS Compliance update.

Steve McDermott presented information on the support staff union (AFSCME); the safety and security cameras are in and being used; key fob doors are being installed; and the phone equipment is being installed.

The Board discussed solar field; STEM; mulch needs to be in place before spring; the Elem/MS sign needs raised; and cameras on busses.

Snodgrass moved, Gee seconded to adjourn the meeting at 7:12 p.m. Motion carried 4-1 with Zumbach - Nay. Future Meeting: Regular Board Meeting: January 16, 2017, with Public Hearing at 6:00 p.m.

Pending Board Approval http://www.crestonschools.org/board-minutes

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S LEVY AND SALE In the Iowa District Court for Union County State of Iowa Union County Docket No. (Sale No.):16-1888(1) Court No.: EQCV018002 SPECIAL EXECUTION Plaintiff: FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION ("FANNIE MAE"), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs.

Defendant: MEDINA, MARIA A - IN REM Defendant: MEDINA, EDUARDO - IN REM Defendant: STATE OF IOWA - IN REM As a result of the judgment rendered in the above referenced court case, an execution was issued by the court to the Sheriff of this county. The execution ordered the sale of defendant(s) rights, title, and interest in Real Estate Property to satisfy the judgment. The property to be sold is: A PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN JOHNSON'S SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 72 NORTH, RANGE 30 WEST OF THE FIFTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, UNION COUNTY, IOWA, FURTHER DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: THE NORTH 175 FEET OF LOT NUMBERED 5, THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT NUMBERED 10, 190 FEET EAST BY 175 FEET NORTH, AND THE WEST 190 FEET OF LOT NUMBERED 9, ALL IN THE ABOVE NAMED SUBDIVISION, SAID AREA CONTAINING 5.01 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, UNION COUNTY, IOWA AKA A PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN JOHNSON'S SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER (SW 1/4) OF SECTION SEVEN (7), TOWNSHIP SEVENTY-TWO (72) NORTH, RANGE THIRTY (30) WEST OF THE 5TH P.M., IN UNION COUNTY, IOWA, FURTHER DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: THE NORTH ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE (175) FEET OF LOT NUMBERED FIVE (5), THE NORTHWEST (NW) CORNER OF LOT NUMBERED TEN (10), ONE HUNDRED NINETY (190) FEET EAST BY ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE (175) FEET NORTH, AND THE WEST ONE HUNDRED NINETY (190) FEET OF LOT NUMBERED NINE (9), ALL IN THE ABOVE NAMED SUBDIVISION, SAID AREA CONTAINING 5.01 ACRES, MORE OR LESS Street Address: 905 S Cherry St, Creston, Iowa The described property will be offered for sale at public auction for cash only as follows: Date of Sale: 01/24/2017 Time of Sale: 10:00 AM Place of Sale: East Steps Inside the Union County Courthouse, Creston, Iowa.

X This sale not subject to redemption.

Property exemption: Certain money or property may be exempt. Contact your attorney promptly to review specific provisions of the law and file appropriate notice, if applicable.

Judgment Amount: $128,900.21 Costs: Plus interest 4.625% per annum on $114,160.33 from 11/30/2016 until satisfied.

Attorney: Benjamin W Hopkins (515) 222-9400 Sheriff: Rick L. Piel Date: 12/16/2016

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role call: Eagan, Dr. James, Snodgrass, Gee, and Zumbach.

Administrators present were: Callie Anderson, Jeff Bevins, Billie Jo Greene, Steve McDermott, Bill Messerole, and Kevin Teno.

The news media and visitors were present.

Gee moved, Eagan seconded the agenda be approved as presented. Motion carried 5-0.

Zumbach moved, Gee seconded to approve the minutes of the November 21, Donald J. Trump Foun2016, regular meeting, the financial reports, bills, were resignations: dation in aMartha 2015Boehlke tax - Basketball Cheer Co-Coach; and confiling madePostpublic after tacts with Taycey - Paraprofessional, Stacey Cass - Paraprofessional, a presidential election Julia in Roberts - Basketball Cheerleader Sponsor which was - revealed that ¾, TammyitHolmes Crossing Guard, and Kim Fourez - Instructional Coach. Motion Trump carried 5-0. has used the charEagan seconded not to ofityGeetomoved, settle lawsuits, make fer the Early Retirement Program for this a $25,000 political contriyear.

Motion carried 5-0.

The Board the items, following bution andrecognized purchase students and staff: Peppers, Salts and Peppers, Winterguard performance on Desuchandas a painting of himcember 1 and 2: Fourth place in Class 2 self, that displayed at1 Colorguard out was of 12 guards - Division rating, (includes performers one ofPerformers his properties. and set-up students) Jessica Arevalo, The 2015 filing was Mackenzie Bodell,tax Emma Christensen, Alyssa Cook,on Morgan Eblen, Sadie Green, posted the nonprofit Ben Irr, Paige Keller, Matthew Kunz, Dylan Linch, Sydneywebsite Martin, Calista Mason, monitoring GuideTaylor McDonald, Tyler Peters, Tessa Star on Nov. 18 by somePowers, John Reasoner, Katie Reed, Maya Struhar, Jordan Swedlund, David one using an email address Qualseth, and Livi Hartman; Salt and Salt from theRoutines foundation’s law Diand Peppers - Jazz (received vision 1 rating), Lights (received Division firm, Morgan, Lewis & 1 rating), and Coed (received Division 1 - small school rating and 3rd place overall Bockius, said GuideStar coed), Performers were Morgan Shawler, spokeswoman Jackie EnMacy Evans, Leah Schuler, Maya Struhar, Kiersten Latham, Cassity Conley, Ashton terline Fekeci.

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Washington drew budget alignment The Board reviewedPost which included Steve McDermott giving attention toreduction, some cost of savings the an update on staff room heat sysof facilities, the wrestling foundation’s purchases. tem, and LED lights.

T r u m moved, p Zumbach Gee seconded the to Consider Board aParticipation s s eapprove r t e indthetheResolution Instructional Support Motion carried 5-0.

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Kevin Teno tion waspresented the Annual Report of Special Education Data. run Billie effiJo Green Trump presented an IPERS Compliance update. ciently.

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Snodgrass moved, Gee seconded to adjourn the meeting at 7:12 p.m. Motion carried 4-1 with Zumbach - Nay. Future Meeting: Regular Board Meeting: January 16, 2017, with Public Hearing at 6:00 p.m.

Pending Board Approval http://www.crestonschools.org/board-minutes GENERAL FUND ACER SERVICE CORPORATION...........................2,491.57 AGRIVISION EQUIPMENT GROUP...............................................84.13 AHLERS AND COONEY, P.C.......400.00 AKIN BUILDING CENTERS.....1,036.34 AMAZON.COM............................1,559.81 ANDERSON, CALLIE .....................54.17 APPLE COMPUTER INC...............678.00 B.M. SALES INC..........................1,228.50 BYERS LOCK SHOP........................33.00 C & J WRECKER LLC....................250.00 CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM..................................648.00 CENTERPOINT ENERGY SERVICES INC....................................................332.61 CENTURYLINK................................79.32 CLIVE POWER EQUIPMENT.......390.33 CONSTRUCTION SAFETY PRODUCTS......................................491.12 CORNING RENTAL.........................90.00 CREATIVE BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL LLC.......................9,420.00 CRESTON CHIROPRACTIC PC...180.00 CRESTON FARM & HOME..........171.43 CRESTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES.....................................2,133.25 CRESTON PUBLISHING CO........324.98 CRESTON TRUE VALUE HARDWARE & RENTAL..............166.74 CUMMINS CENTRAL POWER, LLC................................3,540.60 DISCOVERY KIDS PRESCHOOL INC........................7,023.00 DRISKELL, SCOTT .........................12.50 EMC.....................................................28.23 FARLOW, SHAWN ........................403.20 FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS' HOME..................................132.84 FIRST TO THE FINISH INC............10.99 FOX WELDING COMPANY...........20.00 GREEN HILLS AEA.......................281.64 HAINES, ASHLEY ...........................24.09 HARVEST BARN..............................90.00 HAWKEYE 10 SUPT ASSN.............50.00 HEARTLAND AEA 11......................90.00 HEARTLAND TIRE & AUTO.........26.16 HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY FUND.................................................75.00 HILLYARD SUPPLY CO.................32.60 HOTSY CLEANING SYSTEMS INC.............................1,667.00 HY-VEE FOOD STORE..................683.48 HY-VEE PHARMACY 1095..........400.00 IA SCHOOL FINANCE INFORMATION SVC.....................238.50 IA SCHOOLS EMPLOYEE.........6,012.02 IBBOTSON, LINDA .......................114.24 INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIES INC....................................................600.82 INTERSTATE POWER SYSTEMS.........................................168.03 IOWA TURFGRASS OFFICE........245.00 JENSEN, TONY ..............................144.00 JIMS TRUCK REPAIR & SANITATION INC.......................1,783.00 JOHNSON, JODI ...............................33.85 JOSTENS INC..................................719.40 KRETZINGER, TERRI ....................59.80 LAKESHORE LEARNING MATERIALS....................................203.47 LONE STAR PERCUSSION............92.66 LYELL, BRENDA ............................13.20 MAILFINANCE...............................436.11 MATURA ACTION CORP/CRESTON HEAD START...............................9,420.00 McCRACKEN, JAMES ....................29.68 MCNAMARA, SHERI ......................59.49 MICK'S REPAIR & SERVICE....4,064.96 MOELLER, PATRICIA ....................42.00 MORAN, RONALD ..........................20.18 NAPA.............................................1,248.14 OFFICE DEPOT INC.......................142.09 OFFICE MACHINES CO..................42.76 PEPPER & SON INC, J.W. ............161.38 PIZZA RANCH..................................49.96 RIEMAN MUSIC, INC....................168.90 SCHOLASTIC READING CLUB. .112.00 SCHOOL BUS SALES CO..........1,194.25 SCHOOL SPECIALTY...................447.43 SOCIAL THINKING PUBLISHING...................................204.40 SOUTHWESTERN COMM COLLEGE.........................................100.00 ST. MALACHY PRESCHOOL.. .2,198.00 TANGIBLE PLAY INC...................352.00 TEAMSNAP.....................................129.99 THOMAS BUS SALES OF IOWA INC.....................................1,406.25 TRINITY PRESCHOOL...............5,966.00 U S CELLULAR...........................1,202.54 U.S. SCHOOL SUPPLY..................323.35 UNITED FARMERS COOPERATIVE............................3,944.98 UNITED PARCEL SERVICE...........12.95 US TOY CO/CONSTRUCTIVE PLAYTHINGS....................................62.88 VOINEA, KARINNA ........................68.50 WALMART COMMUNITY BRC................................................1,294.15 WATT, WAUNITA ...........................17.86 WEST, DARWIN ..............................11.20

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Crest Haven CARE CENTER is currently filling positions for full time

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While we attempt to screen advertising with potential of fraud, it is impossible to screen all potential problems.

We strongly encourage readers to exercise caution and common sense, particularly when dealing with unfamiliar companies.

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Mon., Jan. 16- 10:00AM Grand Junction, IA. Tractors, Combine, Pulling Tractor, Tillage & Planting Equip., Harvest Equip., Trucks, Pickups, Trailers, Hay Equip,. for Nick Webb. Auctioneers: Tom Frey, Steve Bergren, Brandon Frey, Darwin West.

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Auctioneers: Tom Frey, Steve Bergren, Brandon Frey, Darwin West.

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ExtraCare Services a division of HCI Care Services and VNS of Iowa is looking to hire Home Health Aides in the Creston area.

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Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs awards $125K in arts funding

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Scavengers: These trail camera photos taken in rural Union County show bald eagles

(above) and a coyote (below) scavenging on a deer carcass. The photo of the bald eagles was taken Dec. 13, and the photo of the coyote was taken Dec. 20.

Iowa woman gets back class ring she lost 30 years ago MONTICELLO (AP) — An eastern Iowa woman says she’s gotten back the class ring she lost 30 years ago.

Theresa Martin, of Monticello, told Cedar Rapids television station KCRG that her sister called her a few weeks ago to say she’d seen a Facebook post about a ring that had been found.

A man named Curtis Rose had posted an item about it, asking whether anyone knew a woman who’d gone to Monticello High School with the initials TKM, which he found on the ring. Classmates saw the post and put Rose and Martin in contact.

Martin says Rose told her he’d found it about two years ago while working at an ethanol plant job site in Cedar Rapids.

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Cowboys roll ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — If Jason Garrett chooses to sit some starters Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles, the Dallas Cowboys coach will feel pretty good about how his offense is playing entering the playoffs following the first-round bye.

The Cowboys dismantled the Detroit Lions 42-21 Monday night, showing the offensive diversity that should make them the most feared team in the NFC. Dak Prescott had his fourth game of the season with three touchdown passes and completed 15 of 20 passes for 212 yards. Ezekiel Elliott had two touchdown runs and finished with 80 yards on 12 carries. Things went so well he did not get a fourth-quarter carry.

Dez Bryant matched a season high with two touchdown catches and threw a touchdown pass — yes, threw a touchdown pass — to Jason Witten.

As a result, the Cowboys have won 13 games for just the third time in franchise history.

Health scare NEW YORK (AP) — Jets coach Todd Bowles was scheduled to meet with his doctors on Monday after being hospitalized late last week.

Bowles was hospitalized Friday and missed the team flight for Saturday’s 41-3 loss to New England. He flew the day of the game and was on the sideline for the team’s sixth loss in seven games.

Bowles, 53, told reporters after the game the problem was “kidney stones, gall stones, gall bladder” and that he wasn’t certain he would be able to make the game at all.

Solid No. 1 (AP) — Villanova starts its fourth week as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 and the ranked teams stay the same from the last poll except for Florida, which replaces fellow Southeastern Conference member South Carolina.

The Wildcats (12-0) received 56 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel to maintain its big lead over UCLA (13-0), which received three No. 1 votes.

Kansas (11-1) was third, followed by Baylor (12-0), which got the other six first-place votes.

Duke remained fifth while Louisville jumped from 10th to sixth following its 73-70 victory over Kentucky last week.

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WRESTLING RANKINGS

Panthers fourth in IWCOA rankings STAFF REPORT

The first installment of the dual team wrestling rankings were published Dec. 20 by the Iowa Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association. The IHSAA assists the IWCOA in collecting data for the online system provided by the athletic association for the sake of determining rankings.

(Records as of Dec. 17) Creston/Orient-Macksburg wrestling comes in at No. 4 in the Class 2A rankings, just behind No. 3 Atlantic, who the Panthers fell to in a dual 36-32 in a double dual at Red Oak on Dec. 6.

The Hawkeye 10 was also represented by Glenwood, which came in at No. 10 in Class 3A. Creston/O-M wrestling participated in the Kansas City Stampede on Dec. 16 and 17 and took 19th out of 40 teams.

The Pride of Iowa’s Southeast Warren, who took second place at Saturday, Dec. 17’s conference tournament in Afton, came in at No. 13 in the Class 1A rankings.

Class 1A IWCOA Class 1A Dual Team Rankings, 12/20/2016 School Record through 12/17/16 Overall Ranking Lisbon, 14-3 1; Don Bo-

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Creston/Orient-Macksburg senior Jackson Mikkelsen works atop an opponent during a match earlier this season.

Mikkelsen is one of several ranked members of the Class 2A fourth-ranked Panthers as determined by the IWCOA.

sco, Gilbertville 11-3 2; Sibley-Ocheyedan, 9-0 3; Missouri Valley, 10-1 4; Logan-Magnolia, 12-1 5; Lake Mills, 11-2 6; Westwood

Sloan, 13-0 7; Wapsie Valley Fairbank 9-1 8; Dike-New Hartford, 5-0 9; Sigourney, 9-0 10; MFL MarMac, 9-2 11; Maquoketa Valley Delhi

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By KALEB CARTER

CNA sports reporter kacarter@crestonnews.com

A new year of Creston and Creston/Orient-Macksburg athletics is here and things start with a bang across several sports.

Here’s a look at thefirst week of 2017 schedule for Panther sports.

What: Creston/ O-M Wrestling When: Saturday, Jan. 7, 2 p.m.

Notes: Thursday, Jan. 5 Quad at Kuemper The quad at Kuemper Catholic (Carroll), includes the Knights, Clarinda and St. Albert.

Kuemper’s roster features Tim Sibbell, Class 2A’s seventh-ranked wrestler, who would go up against the Panthers’ Mitchel Swank, who is third in The Predicament’s rankings at 145 pounds in Class 2A. ------

What: Creston/ O-M Wrestling Who: East Marshall, Johnston, Norwalk, Solon, Webster City When: Saturday, Jan. 7 9 a.m.

Where: Marshalltown High School Notes: On a day the Panther wrestlers would have been competing against smaller local schools, instead, they end up in Marshalltown taking on a few of the state’s finest.

Solon is the No. 2 team in Class 2 as ranked by the Predicament and in the IWCOA rankings published Dec. 20.

Solon seniors Bryce

and Drew West are tops in 2A at 120 and 126 pounds respectively.

Senior Ben Carr is the sixth-ranked grappler at 138 pounds. Seniors Graeson Dall is ninth at 152 Trevor Nelson is tops at 160, Dillon Diltz is ninth best at 182, and junior Tyler Lindebaum is fifth among the heavyweights.

The Panthers will have their hands full with lower weights against the Johnston Dragons.

Johnston junior Zach Price is No. 2 as ranked

by The Predicament at 126 pounds. Sophomore Cade Moss is ninth in the state at 132 for the Dragons. Johnston junior Sterling Brunk comes in seventh in the state at 138 pounds. Dragons sophomore Nick Graham is the fourthranked 145-pounder in the Hawkeye state. Junior Elliot Palmer at 152 is 10th in 3A and junior Collin Hushagen is ninth at 160.

Norwalk has a 3A state-ranked wrestler at 145.

Webster City has 2A state-ranked grapplers at 120 and 285.

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What: Creston/ O-M Bowling Who: Harlan When: Saturday, Jan. 7 Where: Pine Valley

Notes: The match at Pine Valley pits the Creston girls, who are 2-1, against the Harlan girls who are 1-2.

The Cyclone boys squad is 2-1 and goes up against the 0-3 Panther boys. The Panther girls are coming off a come from behind when versus Clarke where the Panther girls rallied in the Baker round to prevail.

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What: Creston boys basketball Who: Lewis Central When: Jan. 3, 7:30 p.m Where: Panther Gym Notes: The 3-5 Panther boys basketballers play host to the 6-0 Titans.

Lewis Central is outscoring opponents by 26.2 points per game and has five players averaging at least 9.3 points per game.

Chad Moran leads the way at 17.3 per contest and just over four assists per game.

Kyle Arrington’s 12.7 rebounds per game leads Lewis Central and he is scoring 14.5 per game.

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What: Creston girls basketball Who: Lewis Central When: Jan. 3, 7:30 p.m.

Where: @ Lewis Central Notes: Lewis Central comes to town at 7-1, seventh in Class 4A, and its lone loss was to Kuemper Catholic, who defeated Creston 59-48 on December 16th. Maegan Holt leads the Titans at 19.3 points per game.

The Panther girls have lost three straight and lost to the Titans 52-34 last season.

15-2 12; Central Springs 7-1 13; Southeast Warren Liberty Center 4-2 14; Alburnett 4-6 15; North Linn Troy Mills, 8-3 16;

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Kansas sets sights on 13th straight Big 12 championship LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — At first glance, it makes little sense that the Big 12 conducts its men’s basketball tournament at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, considering the state of Missouri no longer has a program in the league.

Then again, perhaps it makes perfect sense.

As the league begins its double-round-robin grind next week, Kansas sets its sights on a 13th consecutive regular-season championship. That almost unfathomable stretch of dominance would match the UCLA teams of the 1960s and ‘70s for the longest streak in major college basketball, and is one that may never again be matched in an era of increased roster turnover and greater overall parity.

And since the Jayhawks reside in Lawrence, a short drive down Interstate 70 from the Sprint Center, the old cliché appears to hold true: The road to the Big 12 title goes through Kansas.

“What Kansas has done, it’s unheard of,” said TCU coach Jamie Dixon, who arrived in the Big 12 from Pittsburgh this season. “I guess it hasn’t been done since UCLA, and that was obviously a different time.”

Baylor coach Scott Drew even called Kansas “a career favorite.”

“But other than that,” Drew added, “it’s a crapshoot. And that makes the league so good.”

Indeed, the league may be Kansas and everybody else, but that doesn’t mean it will be easy on the perennial favorite. The Bears have roared through the rankings after wins over Oregon, Michigan State,

Louisville and Xavier, and are now considered the biggest threat to the Jayhawks’ throne.

West Virginia, TCU, Kansas State and Oklahoma State are among those off to hot starts.

Just like the Jayhawks, who haven’t lost since their opener to Indiana.

“They’ve got a great coach, they’ve got great players, and they never lose at home,” Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins said.

“People have to go into Allen Fieldhouse and win once in a while, because the rest of us all lose at home, and I think if you look at it, that’s without a question the difference. That has a lot to do with the job that Bill (Self) does. Bill does a great job.

And they have really good players.”

There are plenty of good players around the league, though. Here are some of them, along with some of the other story lines that will dominate the league this season: BUILDING MOMENTUM: The Big 12 hadn’t had a Final Four team since Kansas in 2012 before last season, which was rather embarrassing for a league that likes to call itself the toughest around. But the Sooners ended that streak, and now the question is whether the conference can build on it.

FRESHMEN PHENOMS: Kansas forward Josh Jackson could be the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft next year, but there are plenty of other newcomers making a splash. Texas center Jarrett Allen, Oklahoma State BIG 12 | 3S

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PINE VALLEY BOWLING LEAGUES Pine Valley Union League Dec. 1 High team with handicap – Frey Construction, 3118 pins.

High team scratch – Frey Construction, 2821 pins.

High scratch individual series – Ron Pendegraft, 719 pins.

Series 600 and over – Ron Pendegraft 719, Glenn Orr 624, Dave Rhine 620.

Games 200 and over – Nate Studer 217, 229; Ryan Draper 221; Dave Rhine 276; Doug Minnick 222; Rich Downing 210; Casey Willets 203; Ron Pendegraft 244, 238, 237; Dana Frey 201, 220; Brian Newcomb 224; Glenn Orr 262; Scott McKinney 211; Harold Holliday 201; Greg Shawler 217.

Union League Dec. 8 Team Score Rhine Body Repair 26 Frey Construction 24 The Lobby 22 Super Wash 19 Hi-Crest Auto 18.5 Mid State Surveying 17 Webb Roofing 14.5 High team with handicap – Frey Construction, 3064 pins.

High team scratch – Frey Construction, 2782 pins.

High scratch individual series – Ron Pendegraft, 662 pins.

Series 600 and over – Ron Pendegraft 662, Chris Downing 648.

Games 200 and over – Chris Downing 266, 210; Fred Franklin 205; Zeke Craig 220; Brian Newcomb 211; Bob Westcott 202, 201; Nate Studer 222; Todd Downing 221; Ryan Draper 226; Dave Rhine 200; Dana Frey 213, 204; Ron Pendegraft 213, 235, 214; Andy Allen 226; Scott McKinney 231.

Woodpickers League Nov. 28 High team with handicap – Channel Seeds, 2551 pins.

High team scratch – Rhine Body Repair, 2029 pins.

Woodpickers League Dec. 5 Team Score Rhine Body Repair 33.5 Creston Mobile Homes 33.5 M&M Motors 30.5 Channel Seeds 24.5 Wood Smackers 24 Green Valley Chemical 21 2 Rivers Pool 20.5 The Can Place 20.5 High team with handicap – Creston Mobile Homes, 2646 pins.

High team scratch – Creston Mobile Homes, 1971 pins.

High scratch individual series – Stacey Graham, 501 pins.

Astro Mixed League Nov. 5 High team with handicap – Bud Profen, 2418 pins.

High team scratch – Sunday Stars, 2041 pins.

High scratch individual series – Todd Eddy 693, Sue Davis 517.

Series 600 and over – Todd Eddy 693, Brodie Pingree 620, John Coleman 640.

Games 200 and over – Ron Crigger 208; Dave Rhine 212; John Coleman 267; Brodie Pingree 217, 225; Todd Eddy 242, 278; Rusty Zimmerman 200; Mike Briner 212.

Games 190 and over – Sue Davis 194; Tracy Hanson 191.

Astro Mixed League Dec. 4 Team Score Rhine Body Repair 38.5 Ellis Poore 34 Sunday Stars 27 Bud Profen 27 Troublemakers 25.5 Strikers 23.5 Misfits 19 Survivors 13.5 High team with handicap – Rhine Body Repair, 2571 pins.

High team scratch – Rhine Body Repair, 2199 pins.

High scratch individual series – Brodie Pingree 760, Hillary Zimmerman 531 pins.

Series 600 and over – Mike Briner 688, Brodie Pingree 760, Ron Crigger.

Games 200 and over – Ron Crigger 239; Mike Briner 204, 259, 225; Brodie Pingree 266, 242, 252.

Games women 190 and over – Sue Davis 197, Hillary Zimmerman 206.

Classic League Nov. 29 High team scratch – Pine Valley, 2503 pins.

High scratch individual series – Ron Pendegraft, 675 pins.

Series 600 and over – Ron Pendegraft 675, Matt Fletchall 650, Tom Redding 647, Jeremiah Johnson 640, Mike Briner 640.

Games 200 and over – Jeremiah Johnson 204, 213, 223; John Coleman 212; Fred Franklin 205; Matt Fletchall 279; Ron Pendegraft 214, 236, 225; Tom Redding 226, 224; Mike Briner 214, 222, 204.

Classic League Dec. 6 Team Score Pine Valley 139 Quilts 117.5 Rhine Body Repair 113.5 Schroeder Plumbing 30 High team scratch – Pine Valley, 2526 pins.

High scratch individual series – Tom Redding, 786 pins.

Series 600 and over – Tom Redding 786, Mike Briner 608, Jeremiah Johnson 607.

Games 200 and over – Kyle Sand 211; Mike Briner 226; Dave Rhine 216; Rusty Zimmerman 210, 204; Tom Redding 260, 279, 247; Matt Fletchall 200; John Coleman 226; Fred Franklin 200; Jeremiah Johnson 212, 203.

Eagles Mixed League Dec. 4 High team handicap – Cheers, 2468 pins.

High team scratch – Why Knots, 1880 pins.

High scratch individual series – Dan Fulton, 593 pins.

Games 200 and over – Terry Danielson 206; Glen Hoyt 233; Greg Hull 230; Dan Fulton 222, 205.

Eagles Mixed League Dec. 11 High team handicap – The Mixers, 2473 pins.

High team scratch – The Mixers, 1915 pins.

High scratch individual series – Kim Whittington, 547 pins.

Women high series 500 and over – Kim Whittington 547.

Games 190 and over women – Kim Whittington 209.

Eagles Mixed League Dec. 18 Team Score Why Knots 4 Dazed & Confused 4 Sidetracked 2 Cheers 2 The Mixers 2 Just For Fun 2 The Replacements 0 High team handicap – Why Knots, 2480 pins.

High team scratch – Why Knots, 2111 pins.

High scratch individual series – Dan Fulton, 651 pins.

Series 600 and over – Dan Fulton 651.

Games 200 and over – Greg Hull 223; Dan Fulton 236, 226; Ben Moffitt 212.

TGIF League Dec. 2 High team handicap – Eagles, 2552 pins.

High team scratch – Pine Valley, 2491 pins.

High scratch individual series – TJ Redding, 768 pins.

Series 600 and over – Ted Kunz 688, Matt Fletchall 610, TJ Redding 768, Tom Redding 618, Ben Moffitt 646, Jeremiah Johnson 614, Chad Sprague 631.

Games 200 and over – Matt Fletchall 202, 221; Ted Kunz 215, 233, 240; JR Lett 236, 226; TJ Redding 263, 290, 215; Tom Redding 245, 206; Dick Gist 246; Travis Veatch 211; Terry

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Danielson 208; Ben Moffitt 227, 248; Jeremiah Johnson 212, 210; Chad Sprague 224, 209.

Games 190 and over women – Jami Fletchall 208.

TGIF League Dec. 9 Team Score Ten Pin Mafia 26 Slackers 22 Three Fingers Deep 21 Grismore Lawn Care 21 Pine Valley 19 Bushwackers 18 Eagles 18 4 Amigos 15 High team handicap – Grismore Lawn Care, 2517 pins.

High team scratch – Pine Valley, 2407 pins.

High scratch individual series – Tom Redding, 697 pins.

Series 600 and over – Ben Moffitt 632, Jeremiah Johnson 662, Chad Sprague 634, TJ Redding 668, Tom Redding 697.

Games 200 and over – Dusty Mullin 223; Paul Scheel 210; Ben Moffitt 215, 224; Jeremiah Johnson 213, 264; Chad Sprague 245, 215; TJ Redding 243, 209, 216; Tom Redding 224, 257, 216.

Women high series 500 and over – Jami Fletchall 535.

Wednesday Nigh Mix Nov. 30 High team handicap – Bowtie Bandits, 2538 pins.

High team scratch – Goldie & 3 Hairy Bears, 2211 pins.

High scratch individual series – Jason Knight, 670 pins.

Series 600 and over – Jason Knight 670, Jesse Still 636, TJ Redding 611, Adam Hoffman 633.

Games 200 and over – Jason Knight 225, 246; Jesse Still 270; TJ Redding 211, 226; Scott Keeler 202; Adam Hoffman 222, 225.

Women high series 500 and over – Heather McNichols 512.

Games 190 and over women – Heather McNichols 190.

Wednesday Night Mix Dec. 7 Team Score Bowtie Bandits 25 Goldie & 3 Hairy Bears 23.5 Knuckles Deep 22.5 They’re Gonna Laugh 9 High team handicap – Bowtie Bandits, 2519 pins.

High team scratch – Goldie & 3 Hairy Bears, 2148 pins.

High scratch individual series – Adam Hoffman, 662 pins.

Series 600 and over – Adam Hoffman 662, TJ Redding 641.

Games 200 and over – Jason Knight 213; TJ Redding 215, 216, 210; Adam Hoffman 265; Scott Keeler 227.

(AP) — This has been the year of the penalty in the NFL. Not so much because more flags have been thrown in 2016 — through Week 15 teams were averaging 8.09 flags a game this season compared to 8.10 in 2015 — or because a larger-than-normal number of games have been decided by questionable calls.

More because the questioning of the competence of the officials began, literally, on opening day with a flurry of unflagged hits to the head of the reigning MVP, Cam Newton, and continued, in some form, virtually every week, without a stop.

Patterns? There weren’t any, in particular.

Phantom pass interference calls have been as common as unflagged hits to the head, the likes of which sent Newton to the commissioner’s office to discuss.

There were petty calls for hugging refs (Earl Thomas) and throwing towels (Travis Kelce got ejected ), all underscored by a flurry of flags for celebrations that grew more subversive the harder the NFL tried to curb them.

Replay worked — sometimes. But it didn’t change anything at the end of the Cowboys-Vikings game.

Cedric Thornton wasn’t flagged even though he clearly hit Minnesota quarterback Sam Bradford in the head as Bradford threw for a potential tying 2-point play.

Also not reviewed: The non-call for Richard Sherman’s takedown of Julio Jones at the end of the Seahawks-Falcons game; or a particularly poor spotting of the ball in an especially poorly called game between the Texans and Raiders.

“The scrutiny and the at-

tention are at an all-time high on anything related to NFL, and that is a very positive thing,” said Dean Blandino, the NFL’s senior vice president of officiating.

“And sometimes it can be negative, and we understand that in officiating.”

What to do about all this?

Nothing new here — there is no single answer, but merely a list of remedies the NFL has committed to and could consider in the offseason.

FULL-TIME REFEREES: The league is considering hiring 17 full-time officials and increasing the size of officiating crews from seven to eight. The parttime official has long been a staple of the league, and there’s good reason for it.

Why would an official quit his day job for one with very little job security? Only if the league and the unions representing the players and officials can figure out a way to guarantee full-time officials some job security will this work out. Even then, 17 full-time referees will only represent a bit more than 10 percent of the workforce.

“Over 60 percent of (questions from coaches) are not about calls made but those not made,” Blandino said.

“So we could cover more of the field of play, which of course is a positive.”

PASS INTERFERENCE: It’s an almost annual cry: The NFL should consider changing its long-held rule on penalizing pass interference at the spot of the foul in favor of the more lenient college rule, which calls for only a 15-yard penalty.

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guard Brandon Averette and Jaylen Fisher of TCU have already made their marks.

VETERANS, TOO: Sure, the Big 12 lost Buddy Hield, Georges Niang and several other stars that seemed as if they’d been there forever. In reality, seven of the top eight scorers in the Big 12 last season are gone.

That doesn’t mean teams

wood Cresco, 9-4 8; Denver, 6-0 9; Clarion-Goldfield-Dows, 6-0 10; Mount Vernon, 4-2 11; West Liberty, 7-0 12; Spirit Lake Park, 5-3 13; South Tama County Tama 8-1 14; Central Lyon George Little Rock 7-0 15; Webster City, 6-3 16.

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12; Dowling Catholic WDM 4-4 13; Linn-Mar Marion 9-2 14; Ankeny Centennial, 8-3 15; Iowa City, City High 6-4 16; Iowa City, West 5-5 17; Norwalk 8-0 18; Cedar Rapids, Kennedy 3-2 19; Cedar Rapids Jefferson 3-2 20T; Clinton 2-2 20T; Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson 4-1 22T; Mount Pleasant, 7-1 22T; Ankeny, 5-3 24

aren’t relying on experience this season.

Kansas has Frank Mason III and Devonte Graham in the backcourt. Johnathan Motley of Baylor is an early pick for player of the year.

Oklahoma State’s Jawun Evans, even though he’s been slowed by injury, is one of the game’s best point guards, and Iowa State’s Monte Morris may be even better.

COACHING MATTERS: Huggins reached win No. 800 this season. Self hit the 600 mark. Kansas State coach Bruce Weber reached

400. Throw in the old guard, including Oklahoma’s Lon Kruger, and the newcomers — Dixon at TCU, Brad Underwood at Oklahoma State and Chris Beard at Texas Tech — and the argument could be made that the Big 12 has the best top-to-bottom collection of coaches in college basketball.

“You obviously have to have an understanding of what other teams are doing, what other coaches are doing,” said Texas coach Shaka Smart. “You’d be crazy not to steal some of the stuff that’s successful at oth-

er places. So I’ve got a ton of respect for coaches in this league. They’re some of the best coaches in the country.

Hopefully, when we see something that they do well, we can steal it.”

GAMES TO WATCH: How about all of them?

The double-round-robin schedule means just about every game will factor into the league race. But keep an eye on the first weekend in March, when Iowa State visits West Virginia and Kansas heads to Oklahoma State. It could all come down to those two games.

Boston College holds off Maryland for 36-30 win bowl victory since beating Michigan State at the 2007 Champs Sports Bowl.

“We started to really develop a resolve that you see in the players’ eyes,” Boston College coach Steve Addazio said. “The most critical thing in building your program is having that. And, I really believe we have finally set that platform forward and that’s the most exciting thing to me of all.”

Maryland (6-7) had the ball at its 35 with 1:48 left with a chance to drive for a go-ahead TD. “That’s all you can ask for,” Maryland coach DJ Durkin said. “You’ll take that in any game.”

But the Terrapins didn’t gain a yard before Harold Landry helped finish them off with a possession-ending sack.

Maryland made some big plays on offense, but four turnovers, eight sacks allowed, 11 penalties and poor field position proved to be costly.

In the first half, Perry Hills threw an interception, lost a fumble and was sacked four times.

On the Terrapins’ first snap of the second half, Hills handed off to Ty Johnson and the running back’s fumble was recovered in the end zone by Boston College.

With 4:02 left, the Terrapins got to the Boston

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“The program is headed in the right direction, but we have to learn to not beat ourselves,” Durkin said.

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single thing in the NFL, this would be it.

“You can change the course of a game on one of those calls, and what if a referee’s not sure?” said Pereira, now an analyst for Fox. The con to this is that it would now pay for a badly beaten defensive back to dive and tackle a receiver who was breaking open for a sure touchdown.

Of course, the league could consider a major and minor version of pass interference, though that has the potential to raise as many questions as it answers.

TARGETING REPLAY: Week 14 was Exhibit A, but hardly the only example of an instance in which officials could have used help from the booth to determine whether to eject a player for targeting to the head.

Darren Sproles of the Eagles was moving forward to field a punt when Deshazor Everett of the Redskins launched himself into Sproles and hit him helmet to helmet, knocking Sproles out of the game.

In college, this play might’ve been sent to the booth to determine if the rule calling for an automatic ejection should be enforced.

The NFL does none of that, and Pereira explained that the call wasn’t as automatic as many outraged posters on social media made it sound.

“Sproles didn’t call for a fair catch, and you’ve got a guy running toward him, trying to time the hit with the ball behind him and he can’t see it,” he said. That doesn’t always make it a play worthy of an ejection, Pereira explained, but rather a timing play that went awry.

SPOTTING THE BALL: The Nov. 21 game between

the Raiders and Texans may have been the worst-called game of the season.

Among the misses: a pair of questionable spots with the Texans trying to gain short yardage to keep a potentially go-ahead drive going. Replays indicated the officials may have missed the spots both times. (That Texans coach Bill O’Brien didn’t challenge the first spot is another issue).

The league is looking into technology already used in soccer: inserting a chip into the football that would help officials locate the ball and make more accurate spots.

“It’s not as simple as to simply have a chip in the football,” Blandino said.

“Players get in the way, it doesn’t tell us if the knee is down, and there are other factors that play into it that you don’t have in, say, tennis or soccer.”

NO FUN LEAGUE: It’s become almost a weekly exercise to see which NFL striped shirt will throw a flag for unsportsmanlike conduct on a player trying a new celebration. Thomas hugged an official; Emmanuel Sanders wound up in the manner of a baseball pitcher and threw the football into the wall; Antonio Brown twerked; Odell Beckham Jr. pretended to take a picture of Victor Cruz while Cruz was dancing.

Penalties for celebration were up more than 50 percent from 2015 midway through the season. Blandino said for all the fuss, only 27 had been called through Week 15. But the league will review the rule in the offseason.

“The (competition) committee is really focused on not taking the spontaneous emotion out of the play,” Blandino said, “and not take away that collegial feeling with the fans in the stadium.”

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Patrick Towles threw two touchdown passes and caught a pass for a score in the first half, helping Boston College beat Maryland 36-30 in the Quick Lane Bowl on Monday.

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Simone Biles soars to AP Female Athlete of the Year Simone Biles tried to treat the 2016 Summer Olympics like just your average ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the stage and the stakes were different?

The floor was still the floor. The vault still the vault. The uneven bars still uneven.

The balance beam still a fourinch wide test of Biles nerves.

And the 19-year-old with the electric smile and boundless talent was still the best in the world. Maybe the best of all-time.

Over the course of 10 days in August, the biggest meet of her life ended like pretty much all the others in the four years that came before it: with Biles standing atop the podium, a gold medal around her neck and the sport she’s redefining one boundary-pushing routine at a time staring up at her. Not that she remembers any of it.

“It’s kind of a blur,” Biles said.

Maybe to Biles, but not to the rest of the world.

Her massive haul in Rio de Janeiro — a record-tying four golds to go along with a bronze for the dominant U.S. women’s team — pro-

pelled her to stardom and rendered her last name superfluous. Now there’s one more honor to add to what on Twitter is known simply as #SimoneThings: Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year.

In a vote by U.S. editors and news directors announced Monday, Biles received 31 votes out of a possible 59 votes. U.S. Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, who won four golds and a silver in Rio, finished second with 20 votes. Serena Williams, who won Wimbledon for the seventh time to tie Steffi Graf’s record of 22 Grand Slam titles, and

three-time AP women’s NCAA basketball Player of the Year Breanna Stewart tied for third with four votes each.

The AP Male Athlete of the Year will be announced Tuesday.

Biles became the fifth gymnast to win the honor, joining Olga Korbut in 1972, Nadia Comaneci in 1976, Mary Lou Retton in 1984 and Gabby Douglas in 2012. It’s company Biles joined while completing a run of dominance that included three straight allaround World Championships, an unprecedented run at the top in a sport where

peaks are often measured in months, not years.

The teenager from Spring, Texas, hardly seemed burdened by the outsized expectations. If anything, she embraced them. She opted out of a verbal commitment to compete collegiately at UCLA to turn professional so she could cash in on the lucrative opportunities afforded an Olympic champion, a bit of a gamble considering the window is so narrow and directly tied to success at the Games.

Yet Biles seemed immune to it. At least on the outside.

Inside, there were more than a few butterflies when

she stepped onto the floor during team preliminaries on Aug. 7. They vanished the moment she stepped onto the green and cream colored floor at Rio Olympic Arena as she and the rest of her “Final Five” teammates — Douglas, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian — put on a clinic that showcased how substantial the gap between the Americans and the rest of the world has grown.

Then again, the gulf between Biles and every other gymnast on the planet — even her good friends in red, white and blue — may be even wider.

“In prelims I did very well I kind of shocked myself,” Biles said. “I came in thinking, ‘I’ve been to three worlds.’ Once I got (prelims) out of the way, I just kind of relaxed.”

What followed was a run of brilliance: a team gold as a fitting send off to retiring national team coordinator Martha Karolyi. Another in the all-around two days later, where her score of 62.198 bettered Raisman by more than two full points, the gymnastics equivalent of winning a football game by three touchdowns. A third gold came on vault.

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