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Resurfacing project set for First Avenue Roadway down to one lane Thursday and Friday Newton Daily News First Avenue will be down to one lane during a resurfacing project
Mike Mendenhall/Daily News This table was a tense place Wednesday in the open class building at the Jasper County Fair during the final round of the Oreo Stacking Competition. The event is open to all youth, and volunteers say it is a good way for those not involved in 4-H and FFA to compete in the fair.
Cookies and Creme
Boulton makes first stop in Newton
Oreo stacking draws 101 at Jasper County Fair Boulton By Mike Mendenhall Newton Daily News In the championship round of the Jasper County Fair’s Oreo Stacking competition Wednesday, a threeway tie sent the contest into a towering overtime. Young stackers Hope Good, Emily Miller of Newton, and Morgan DeHaai of Monroe, came to the table one last time to see who was this year’s sandwich cookie queen. The rules are simple. Contestants start with a big tray of Oreos in front of them. Stackers have 1 minute to build Oreo cookies as high as possible without toppling. One hand must be behind the player’s back at all times and the other must
begin on the table. If the cookies fall over before time expires, players can continue to build. But when the timer hits zero, the height of the cookie tower is final. Good entered the final round with an impressive 26 cookies, one shy of the county fair record of 27. She was visibly in shock when fair volunteer and contest organizer Rhonda Guy counted her cookies oneby-one to reveal the round’s final tally. But, in the end, it was Oreo Stacking veteran Emily Miller who took the final round to claim this year’s Grand Stack. Her strategy, she said, is focus. OREOS | 3A
rallies local voters during a campaign stop Wednesday By David Dolmage Newton Daily News
Mike Mendenhall/Daily News Hope Good carefully builds her sandwich cookie tower Wednesday at the Jasper County Fair’s Oreo Stacking competition. Good stacked 26 Oreos to get to the final round. Volunteers said 101 kids participated in the event over a four-day period.
Thursday and Friday. The project extends from the 400 block of First Avenue West to the 1200 block of First Avenue East. Manatt’s will start the project on Thursday and plans to have it complete by Friday, weather permitting. During the resurfacing, traffic will be restricted to one lane with a pilot vehicle and flagger directing traffic.
Democrat Nate Boulton might have been late to his own party on Wednesday night, but it didn’t take him long to set the pace. Boulton, a first term senator, whose district encompasses the east side of Des Moines and Pleasant Hill, was in Newton Wednesday to build support for his campaign for governor. He gave a rousing
speech to the crowd of more than 30 people, warning residents that the race for governorship would be a critical test for Iowa. “We’re going to determine the soul of our state in this election,” Boulton promised. During his speech Boulton focused on his key talking points, improving education, increasing the use of renewable resources in the state and creating a responsible state budget. Boulton also had plenty of jabs to toss at Governor Kim Reynolds, and by extension, her predecessor, Terry Branstad, who is now the United States Ambassador to China. BOULTON | 3A
GPS unit approved St. Luke UMC for landfill dozer welcomes By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News
To continue improving efficiencies at the Newton Sanitary Landfill, a GPS unit will be installed on the landfill dozer. City council approved the purchase of a unit for $17,500 from Carlson RDO Integrated Controls of Bloomington, Minn. at Monday’s meeting. “Last year we put a GPS unit on the compactor to try it out and see how it works and we really like it,” public works director Keith Laube said. “It tells us where we are at in the landfill without having surveyors having to go out there continuLaube ously where we are building a cell.” The city purchased the GPS unit and software for the compactor from Carlson RDO for $60,380. A few months ago, Carlson RDO installed a demonstration GPS unit on the dozer and has subsequently agreed to sell the demonstration unit for the discounted price. The GPS unit is mounted in the cab of the equipment and provides the operator accurate horizontal and vertical position of the equipment. Using GPS on equipment at the landfill extends the landfill cell life and reduces equipment cost city administrator Matt Muckler said. “Basically we are building a pyramid of garbage of cover dirt and having a unit that is compatible GPS | 3A
new pastor
By Kayla Langmaid Newton Daily News St. Luke United Methodist Church welcomed a new pastor this month as the congregation embarks on a new journey. Reverend Chad Jennings and his family made the decision in April to move to Newton. Jennings replaced Rev. Audrey Young who was with the church for 10 years. Jennings was a pastor at Christ Community Church in Marion before he was asked if he would serve in Newton. “They gave me about three or four days to think it over,” Jennings said. “It wasn’t a hard decision.” Jennings grew up in Carlisle and has been in the ministry for 15
years. “I grew up going to a United Methodist Camp. I went to many years in a row,” Jennings said. “The pastor who founded that camp was a pastor here in Newton before he came to Carlisle. Through the course of many years of going to that camp, I grew closer to God and knew He was calling me to something different,” Jennings said. Jennings said he had plans to go to school to be an engineer but God had different plans. That’s when Jennings said yes to becoming a pastor. Jennings received an undergraduate degree at the University of Iowa in communications. He then went on to study at St. Paul School of Theol-
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ogy in Kansas City and earned a masters degree in divinity. “I think it’s a really great job because no day is the same,” Jennings said. “You get to do
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WHERE IT’S AT Astrograph......................5B Calendar..........................5A Classifieds......................4B
Submitted Photo Chad and Wendy Jennings, along with their children Abby and Nathan (not pictured), are being welcomed into the church family at St. Luke United Methodist Church. Jennings took over as pastor on July 1.
Comics & Puzzles...........6A Dear Abby........................6A Local Sports......................1B
Obituaries.......................5A Opinion............................4A State News......................7A
Go & Do this weekend
Check out what’s happening / 8A
different things all the time. I might be writing in the office one day and then out visiting people the next,” Jennings said. PASTOR | 3A
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