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Our roots were established as far back as the 1920s.

The providers of Newton Clinic have been caring for this community for more than 80 years.

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We want to make you better when you are sick, keep you healthy when you are well, help you grow your family when a little one is on the way, and help you say goodbye in peace when your journey is done.

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Our clinic continues to grow to meet your needs. Whether you want a male provider or a female one, a new graduate or a veteran doc, we have the right health-care provider for you.

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July 11 Prairie City Farmers’ Market Garden Square Park

July 1 Kindness Rocks The farmers’ market is Painting available every Thursday in Maytag Park Pool Prairie City through September. For more information, Pavilion Paint your own “Kindness Rocks” at this fun drop-in paint program for all ages.

Paint rocks with the words or designs of your choice, then keep your rocks as decorative garden art, or hide in the park for another lucky rock-hunter to find. All program materials will be provided. Attendees are encouraged to wear painting clothing. Children should be accompanied by an adult caregiver. You may choose to attend either the 10:30 a.m. session or the 5:30 p.m. session.

contact the event organizers at prairiecityfm@gmail.com.

Event runs from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

July 11 Summer Concert Series Maytag Park in Newton Featuring the Newton Municipal Band. The public is invited to the annual Summer Concert Series at Maytag Bowl. Shows kick off at 7 p.m. and are free. Those attending are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets as well as their own food and beverage as they enjoy the music.

July 2 Farmers’ Market Newton Downtown Square July 12-14 The Newton Farmers’ MarBaxter Fun Days ket returns to Newton for the season. The market will take City of Baxter place every Tuesday until Sept. 24. For more information, contact the Newton Main Street office at 641-792-5545.

Event begins at 4:30 p.m.

July 4 Fourth of July Activities Annual parade will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Downtown Newton. Food and festivities, live entertainment and a fireworks display will be at dusk at Agnes Patterson Park.

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“Come Together” for the annual event in Baxter. Include a variety of events and games, including a co-ed softball tournament, tractor pull and more. For more information, visit www.facebook. com/baxterfundays/

Fourth of July

Halen. Event begins at 6 p.m.

July 13 Pamper your Princess Baqara Coliseum

An event for the princesses in your life. All are invited to join for an afternoon of princess storytime, photo shoot, sweet treats and more. Jasmine and Belle will be joining the party, too. Tickets are available by calling 515-4442394 or on eventbrite.com.

July 19 Fancy Nancy Tea Party Newton Public Library

July 19-25 Jasper County Fair Jasper County Fairgrounds in Colfax

“Welcome to Fairadise” at the 2019 Jasper County Fair.

Visit jaspercofair.com for a complete schedule of events.

July 20 Coffee with the Enjoy a special Fancy Nan- Mayor cy storytime, craft and tea Newton Public Library party. Attendees are invited to dress in their fanciest attire.

Event begins at 10:30 a.m.

July 13 July 19-20 Thunder Nites Newton DMACC west Race Weekend Iowa Speedway parking lot Enjoy bike night in Newton with featured performers Next

flag at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.

Following the race, NAPA Auto Parts Concert Series presents Dokken. Race action resumes Saturday with the IndyCar competition. The NTT IndyCar Series 300 begins at 6 p.m.

The ARCA Racing Series Iowa 150 will take the green

Mayor Michael L. Hansen will host a Coffee with the Mayor the third Saturday of each month from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Newton Public Library, 100 N. Third Ave. W. This is an opportunity for the Mayor to meet with residents, hear their concerns and connect with the citizens of Newton.

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July 26-28 Prairie Days Prairie City Annual event held in Prairie City. Come to small town Iowa to enjoy games, contests, food and more.

Monroe Old Settlers

August Aug. 2-4 Monroe Old Settlers City of Monroe Annual festival held in Monroe. Event includes a parade, games, contests and more.

Aug. 3 Bison Day Neal Smith Refuge

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Aug. 24 Colfax Demolition Derby Jasper County Fairgrounds The event popular event will take place Saturday evening at the fairgrounds. Come enjoy several classes of demolition fun.

September Sept. 1 Bowlful of Blues Maytag Park Annual event presented by South Skunk Blues Society.

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Get to know:

Jasper County Supervisor Brandon Talsma

Residence: Rural Newton a couple miles Education/Employment Background: I graduated from Pella Christian High School in 2005 and have an Associates Degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in Homeland Security from DMACC. My fulltime job is Land and Wildlife management and work part time on a farm in the spring and fall.

Tell a little about yourself and family: I was born and raised on my family’s farm here in Jasper County. Immediately after graduating from high school I joined the Army. I spent 6 1/2 years in the 1st Infantry Division and deployed twice to Iraq. While in the Army I met my wife Holly and have been married for 11 years. We meet through a mutual friend shortly before I deployed to Iraq for the first time in 2007 and married shortly after I returned. I would not have been able to get through the campaign or get elected without all her help. We have five kids ranging from 8 years old to 5 months.

Why did you decide to run for supervisor: Joe Brock not running for re-election was my main reason. With Joe not seeking re-election I wanted to make sure somebody with agricultural ties remained on the board. I also saw a lot of things going on, or not going on, in the county I felt should be.

From a lack of a proactive approach on our gravel roads to a lack of development in the county. Jasper County has remained pretty well stagnate since the 1950’s and when you have the Des Moines Metro just 20 minutes down the interstate growing the way they are there is no reason we don’t try to cash in on that as much as Jasper County can. There also seemed to be a lack of priorities established in the county such as roads, law enforcement, economic

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development, an outdated comprehensive plan and illegal dumping. I honestly didn’t like the way the county was starting to look or what shape it would be in for my kids. I believe leadership, on any level, needs to be proactive in every aspect and always have the long-term goal and outcomes in mind.

What have you learned during your first few months in the role: It’s kind of hard to narrow down. I try to approach everything with an open mind and learn something new every day. My first realization was that as prepared as somebody may think they are it is baptism by fire as soon as you swear in. I realized early on that I would have to improve my time management skills in order to fulfill this role properly. Between responding to citizens, a variety of meetings or classes and trying to accomplish larger projects allocating my time properly is vital. Also, a person, in any elected position, needs to always keep in mind what the consequences of any decision they make may be. Not just the short term consequences but the long term ones as well. Before deciding anything, I must always have that in the back of my mind.

Do you have a goal for your time as a supervisor: First and foremost, putting in place a long-term comprehensive plan for our gravel roads. Developing and implementing a fiscally responsible and sustainable plan that will address the state of the gravel roads and get them back to the level that they should be. Next, I would like to work towards a fully funded and staffed Sheriff ’s department. Both areas revolve around public safety and I think that is the top priority any government body should have — the safety and wellbeing of its citizens.

My family has lived in Jasper County for four generations, my children are the fifth, and really my only goal is to leave the county in a better position for them than it currently is in. Jasper County and its communities are a great place to live and grow, I feel like so much is just passing us by. Since taking office we have gotten the ball rolling on redoing the comprehensive plan, signing the contract with the company just a couple weeks ago. We have been aggressively pursuing the issues with the gravel roads since late February and will continue to do so until we have a long-term sustainable plan in place for them. There are several different things that we have decided to play around with this year to try and figure out how we can stretch our dollars the furthest and attain the results we desire the quickest.

What do you want people to know about you that they might not know: I don’t know what people may or may not know about me so here are just some fun facts. I’m heavily involved with Jasper County Pheasants Forever and have been for a couple of years. There is a book written about my unit’s deployment during the surge in Iraq called “The Good Soldiers.” I try to be proactive in everything I approach but at the same time not rush into anything. I am trying to be an open and accessible public official and respond to everybody who contacts me.

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Washed out roads a common discussion point for citizens and supervisors Even though her Prairie City home is sequestered near the borders of roughly three other counties, Jodi Johnson knows when she has arrived in Jasper County just by looking at the condition of the roads.

“As soon as you cross the Jasper County line,” she said, “the roads totally change.”

Huge ruts carve into the roadways like a gash in need of stitches. Shoulders crumble and erode away, forcing drivers to think twice about positioning their vehicles anywhere close to the edge of the gravel roads. Some areas are thick with recently placed rock, a sign that crews have tried to fix the affected section.

Meanwhile, tire tracks continue to dig uneven lines all over the dirt surface, searching for traction.

Labeling herself as an “often caller” to the Jasper County Engineer’s Office, Johnson described unstable and possibly dangerous terrain in the more rural areas of the county. Any sign of moisture turns the roadways into hazards for drivers, with some of the more saturated areas being near impassable.

“I almost took out somebody because you couldn’t get off to the side far enough for them to pass coming the other direction,” she said.

Conceding that other roads in the county are in far worse shape than the ones near and around her home, Johnson still worries about the problems she and her neighbors face in the southwestern portion of Jasper County. Without a high center vehicle or four-wheel drive, Johnson claimed drivers’ cars may need repairs if they cruise over any of the deep ruts or potholes.

Even when the roads have been “dry as a bone” they are still soft, Johnson said, and conditions are even worse when the roads get wet. Frequent rainfall in Jasper County this spring and summer have not helped in the slightest. Sometimes, she added, drivers can feel their vehicle sinking into the road.

“I know some don’t even leave their house when it rains because they’re fearful of getting sucked into the ditches,” Johnson said to the Jasper County Board of Supervisors during its meeting May 21 inside the courthouse. “So I was just curious on the status of things are going.”

What seems like every week for the past few months, citizens have been sharing their complaints and concerns about the gravel road conditions during the board of supervisors meetings. As of June, those conversations have begun to die down. However, Johnson’s worries are not the first to be heard, nor will they be the last.

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or a compliment or a question or a request for updates regarding a specific project.

But ever since the substantial snow melt in early March, citizens have aired their grievances about the saturated roadways they travel through every day, as well as the people who work to maintain the roads.

Those who have visited the supervisors this past year argue the roads have never been this bad.

Curt Heinselman, of Kellogg, said to the board, “We’ve lived where we’ve lived for 45 years, and until the last probably five or six years we never had gravel road problems like we’ve got now.”

Amy Malek, also of Newton, said, “In the three years we’ve lived out there, I’ve never seen that entire stretch of road covered in rock.”

Jack Topp, of Newton, read aloud a letter, written by his wife, that was addressed to Jasper County Supervisor Doug Cupples: “My husband Jack and I have lived in Jasper County since 1994 and have never seen the road in this poor of condition … Not only is driving through these rutted areas difficult, it is also dangerous while driving up and wanting to be on the right side of the road to avoid oncoming traffic.”

Supervisors respond the same answers almost every time. It seems they’ve said all that they can say.

Same goes for Jasper County Engineer Russ Stutt, who is often a target of citizens’ complaints. The Jasper County Supervisors said they frequently receive and respond to emails and phone calls from citizens about the roads.

Jasper County Supervisor Denny Carpenter said to Johnson of her road concerns, “I know somebody will be out there to look at it. Somebody will.”

Cupples added, “This board and Russ — it might not feel like it living out there — but we are aggressive to fix this problem.”

The county often prioritizes the some of the very badly damaged and the heavily traveled county roads first. Jasper County Supervisor Brandon Talsma said he agrees with Stutt’s strategy to target the roadways that are a little worse for wear.

“Russ’ guys are going pretty much nonstop trying to catch up with them and keep up with them and trying to get them addressed,” Talsma said in midMay. “We don’t have enough time, enough personnel or enough money to fix them all within a two-month timespan. We’re doing the best that we can.”

In March, a devastatingly perfect combination of melted snow packs, thawed ground and heavy rainfall turned roads into mudslides. Soggy surfaces resulted in delayed response time to a garage fire in Reasnor that same month.

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Cont. pg 13 Sully Fire Department Captain Jason Allbee told the Newton Daily News crews took 15 minutes longer than anticipated to report to the scene.

Two firetrucks got stuck in the mud while leaving the scene.

Reports from the National Weather Service in March warned of flood watches in the area, prompting the Jasper County Board of Supervisors

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to call for an emergency meeting. To mitigate damages of B-level roads, the supervisors voted to approve an embargo on gravel roads for vehicles 10,000 pounds and heavier. The embargo could last up to 60 days.

Travel was not advised.

When the embargo had lifted, the supervisors estimated the county suffered roughly $853,321 of infrastructure damage from the flooding, which had also affected several other counties across the state. Out of Iowa’s 99

counties, 56 were listed — including Jasper County — in a disaster declaration issued in late March by President Donald Trump.

Flooding most damaged county culverts and washed out gravel roads, some of which were pronounced closed by the county engineer. In May, the Newton Community School District alerted students and parents that bus routes would be hard surfaces only, which bus crews said was not commonplace.

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Lookin’ cool by pool Swimmers should notice something about Maytag Pool this year

by Christopher Braunschweig Maytag Pool looks a little different these days.

A number of lifeguards noticed as soon as they walked through the main gate for a mid-May in-service training day. Returning staff breathed sighs of relief, thankful of the new changes designed to either spruce up the place or address some of the pool’s aging features.

Others had already seen the major aesthetic changes that had taken place since the closing of the previous pool season.

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are the rehabilitated water slides on the northeast side of the facility. The once shabby and weatherbeaten accessories have been refurbished completely and given new coats of paint to enliven the look of the slides and the pool itself.

Contractors with the Oronogo, Mo.based Slide Pros painted the old green tube slide into a vibrant yellow, while the gray flume received a dual-color scheme with a white interior and blue exterior.

After the rehab job, it may be difficult for pool guests to believe those two water slides are more than two decades old at

this point.

Community services manager Brian Laube remembers exactly when the slides and the surrounding pool basin were first installed in Maytag Park and were seen as replacements to the old facility. No, he wasn’t working for the City of Newton at the time 22 to 23 years. Curiously enough, he was the project’s inspector.

“I was down there every day for that project,” he said. “I was down there for pretty close to a year from the time they started tearing the old pool out until the

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Cont. pg 17 time the new pool was all done with the water slides and everything that we built.”

Laube would not be involved with the pool again until he was hired to work for the city’s community services department a year and half ago. Knowing what the pool looked like when it was first installed, Laube reasoned Maytag Pool does not look its age today, noting the conditions of the pool deck and pool basin look “phenomenal.”

Especially even more so after the approximately $41,000 water slide rehabilitation project and the subsequent smaller additions made to the pool that perhaps aren’t as apparent but are still necessary.

Laube said new windows, poolside basketball hoop, pool deck benches, concession and ticket window awnings and diving boards. Likewise, the picnic tables and the mushroom-like in-pool features were refinished.

“Overall, this freshens up the appearance of the pool,” Laube said. “It’s been 22 or 23 years since that was all done, so I kind of look at it like if you have a 22- or 23-year-old house. You’ll need to replace the windows, you’ll need to replace the furnace, you’ll need to replace a water heater. Things are wearing out, and that’s just kind of what we’re seeing with stuff that was installed back in the mid-‘90s.”

Out of the $80,000 the city budgeted for pool improvements or upgrades, only about $10,000 remains for when staff decide to repaint the bottom of the pool after this upcoming season, which begins June 1.

Conversations between staff and the Newton Park Board continue to brainstorm ideas for future Maytag Pool improvements. Laube said staff are looking at tearing out the concrete structure in the shallow end and possibly add a zero-depth play structure for kids.

Talks of an in-pool climbing wall and inflatable play features have also been toyed with. Installation of a splash pad has probably piqued the most interest from staff and park board members, though final plans or a concrete direction for the project have yet to be confirmed by staff.

Maintaining the quality of the pool is still very much a priority for staff.

“If we continue to have an attractive, functioning city pool we need to keep addressing items, large or small, just to keep up the place appearance wise (and) safety wise and keep it up to code,” Laube said. “We don’t want it to get run down where it’s getting too far gone then people don’t want to put in any money to it or don’t want to come visit.”

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• Developed Downtown Design Guidelines to help building owners keep the historic integrity of their buildings and remain part of the National Register of Historic Places.

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• Partnered with the City of Newton on the Downtown Housing Grant to help renovate and update second-story living spaces.

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Here’s some dates to put on your calendar.

Every Tuesday during the summer — Colfax Farmers’ Market—Every Tuesday from May 21-Sept. 10 at 4:306:30 p.m. Come shop for homemade goods and produce from local vendors in Downtown Colfax during Colfax’s summertime Farmers’ Market. Also the Farmers’ Market will be on Second Saturdays (June 8, July 13, Aug. 10) in June, July, and August at 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Second Saturdays — Downtown Colfax’s awesome shops will be open every second Saturday of the month.

Come check out our beautiful historic downtown and also grab a bite to eat at one of our amazing local restaurants June 29 — Mineral Springs Day — Join us in Downtown Colfax for Mineral Springs Day. Mineral Springs Day is a local celebration celebrating the community of Colfax through family friendly activities. We’ll have games, music, food, vendors, and contests.

Check our “Events” tab at www.ColfaxMainStreet.com and our social media pages for more upcoming information.

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6:30 p.m. Bingo Night at Poppy’s Grub and Pub. $1 per card per round. Winner takes half the pot while the other half helps raise funds for Colfax Main Street. Come early and enjoy Poppy’s delicious home style food and grab a drink. (18+). (124 N. Walnut St., Colfax, IA 50054) July 13 — Colfax Cinema — 7 p.m.

Join us for a free family friendly movie in the Colfax-Mingo High School Cafetorium. Please bring lawn chairs and blankets for seating. The cafeto-

rium is air conditioned. Refreshments will also be for sale. Movie TBA via our social media pages. (204 N. League Road) Aug. 8 — Colfax Bingo Night — 6:30 p.m. Same details and location as July’s Bingo Night.

Aug. 10 — Colfax Cinema — 7 p.m.

Same details and location as July’s free movie night. Movie TBA. Aug. 24 — Colfax Demolition Derby and Colfax Classic Car Show. If you like cars then this event is for you.

The Colfax Classic Car Show will be held at Mineral Springs Park (the corner of Front and Walnut Streets) and will feature beautifully restored classic cars. The Colfax Demo Derby will be held at the Jasper County Fair Grounds (359 N. Walnut St.) and will have a lot of ‘junkers’ smashing into each other.

Event times TBA so please check our website at www.ColfaxMainStreet.com or social media pages for further information.

Sept. 6-7 — Colfax City Wide Garage Sales Sept. 12 — Colfax Bingo Night — 6:30 p.m. Same details and location as previous bingo nights.

Sept. 14 — Colfax Cinema — 7 p.m.

Same details and location as previous Colfax Cinema nights. Movie TBA

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