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Facing federal funding cuts, Progress Industries looks for help based in Newton, provides residential, employment and day rehab services to more than 350 individuals with disabilities in central Iowa. Recent funding cuts have CEO Sandy Ham concerned about what lies ahead for the organization.

“Frankly, we don’t have a lot of excess cost in this organization,” Ham said. “Where we can

By David Dolmage Newton Daily News U.S. Rep Dave Loebsack was back in Newton Monday afternoon to meet with representatives of Progress Industries to address its funding concerns in light of ongoing attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Progress Industries,

we’re doing things to be very proactive with our cost structure.”

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David Dolmage/Daily News U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-IA, stands with Progress Industries CEO Sandy Ham Monday afternoon in Newton. Loebsack was in town to meet with Ham and staff at Progress Industries.

Family, friends remember Food pantry shortage at longtime teacher at Salvation Army memorial service ‘This was home for her’

By Kayla Singletary Newton Daily News Many local families in need lean on the Newton Salvation Army and its resources. Inside the organization’s food pantry, shelves are not always packed tight with canned goods, boxed meals, peanut butter and pastas. Currently, items are scarce, and the Salvation Army is in need of donations, especially as the holidays are quickly approaching.

Food pantry coordinator Ed Poe said he struggles with the need when he packs food up for families on a daily basis. For the past six years, Poe has seen the food pantry serve around 170 families per month, but that number has risen to 280 families and at times more than 300 families.

Poe said families who are eligible can come to the Salvation Army once a month for a donation from the food pantry. Throughout the years, he said he has come in contact with the same families and has gotten to know them when he loads up their cars.

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heresa Comer can’t help herself. Even though she knows it won’t be there, every time she drives by Thomas Jefferson Elementary she looks for her mother, Lenette Swanson’s car.

Swanson, who taught at Thomas Jefferson for 24 years passed away from cancer this spring, but her memory lives on at the school where she taught third grade for so many years. On Monday, friends, family and coworkers gathered to plant a tree in her honor, place a memorial stone at the school and to celebrate the impact her life had on so many others.

“This was kind of home for her,” Trisca Mick, the principal at Thomas Jefferson said.

Mick and Swanson taught together for years, and when Swanson’s children approached her about putting a memorial for their mother at the school, she was glad to help. Family members covered the cost of the tree, an Autumn Blaze Maple, and planted it alongside a marker in front of the school.

“We’re just going to take care of it and enjoy it,” Mick said. “I’m glad we did this, and I’m glad that I got to be a part of it.”

Thomas Jefferson Elementary had always been a central

David Dolmage/Daily News Trisca Mick, the principal at Thomas Jefferson Elementary pulls a cluster of balloons off a tree planted at the school as a memorial to Lenette Swanson, a former teacher who died of cancer this spring.

part of Swanson’s life. Her husband, Doug went to school there, and so did all three of Swanson’s children.

Living just across the highway the Swanson kids were used to spending time at Thomas Jefferson, helping their mom put together bulletin boards and grade assignments.

“We knew we had to do something with the school; she brought teaching to every part of her life,” Comer said. “The people here, it was a family.”

It was the day before teachers were due to report back at the start of the 2014-2015 school year that Swanson got the diagnosis. What she’d believed was a stomach ulcer was stage 4 stomach cancer. Initially, she took a year-long sabbatical to fight the disease, planning to

be back in time for the start of the next school year. For two years and nine months, she fought the cancer, enduring 49 chemotherapy treatments without complaint.

“She never complained once, a lot of the time she was just miserable, but her family was always her concern,” Comer said.

The cancer was a surprise to everyone, including Swanson. Over the years she’d built up more than a 100 days of sick time, never wanting to miss a day at the school. Everywhere she went in Newton, she’d run into former students, who were always amazed to find out that their third-grade teacher still remembered their name.

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The City of Newton is continuing its long relationship with Project AWAKE and the Krumm Center and Newton Arboretum at Agnes Patterson Park. City council approved a resolution for a three-year agreement with Project AWAKE for various functions at the facility during its regular Monday meeting.

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Today is Tuesday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2017. There are 75 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 17, 1931, mobster Al Capone was convicted in Chicago of income tax evasion. (Sentenced to 11 years in prison, Capone was released in 1939.)

On this date: In 1777, British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War. In 1933, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

In 1957, the movie “Jailhouse Rock,” starring Elvis Presley, had its world premiere in Memphis, Tenn.

In 1979, Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1987, first lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

In 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern California, killing 63 people and causing $6 billion worth of damage.

In 1992, Japanese exchange student Yoshi Hattori was fatally shot by Rodney Peairs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after Hattori and his American host mistakenly knocked on Peairs’ door while looking for a Halloween party. (Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter, but was ordered in a civil trial to pay more than $650,000 to Hattori’s family.)

Ten years ago: President George W. Bush, raising Beijing’s ire, presented the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal and urged Chinese leaders to welcome the monk to Beijing. Comedian Joey Bishop, the last of Sinatra’s “Rat Pack,” died in Newport Beach, California, at age 89.

Five years ago: Federal authorities in New York said a Bangladeshi student had been arrested in an FBI sting after he tried to detonate a phony 1,000-pound truck bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan.

One year ago: A long-awaited offensive to retake the Iraqi city Mosul from the Islamic State group began with a volley of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and heavy artillery bombardments on a cluster of villages east of the militant-held city.

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That’s Odd Convicted tax schemer is too fat for prison TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The attorney for a 72-year-old Florida man who was convicted in a tax scheme is using obesity to try to keep his client out of prison.

Curtis Fallgatter wrote in a court filing on Monday that Stephen Donaldson Sr. doesn’t have an average man’s life expectancy because he’s 5-foot-9 and weighs 273 pounds. For that reason, the attorney wrote, it’s not right to make him serve six years and four months in prison. Fallgatter wrote that the prison term could translate to 61 percent of Donaldson’s remaining time on earth.

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. RAQQA SAID TO BE LIBERATED FROM ISLAMIC STATE GROUP A commander with the U.S.-backed Syrian forces battling the militants says combing operations are underway to clear the northern city of land mines and extremist sleeper cells.

2. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP Their brutally executed push for a “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq is no more, but forces battling the extremists will have to remain vigilant, while the battle for IS spoils have already begun.

3. TRUMP GETTING MORE OPEN TO CHATTING IN PUBLIC The press-savvy president opines in the Oval Office, stops to talk on the South Lawn, chats on the tarmac as he boards Air Force One and gabs

with reporters aboard the presidential plane.

4. HOW A ‘GRAYING’ SENATE IS IMPACTING LEGISLATION The age and health issues of some senators are complicating Republican efforts to push through a partisan agenda.

5. WHERE COUNSELORS ARE PREPARING FOR AN ONSLAUGHT A week after fleeing in fear of wildfire, tens of thousands of Californians are drifting back into their neighborhoods, facing damage both physical and emotional.

6. HASHTAG ‘ME TOO’ PLACES EMPHASIS ON VICTIMS With a single tweet, actress Alyssa Milano has motivated thousands of women to tell their stories of rape, sexual assault and harassment on social media.

7. MCCAIN CONDEMNS ‘HALF-BAKED, SPURIOUS NATIONALISM’

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The ailing Arizona Republican senator jabs at unnamed pushers of isolationist politics at his National Constitution Center Liberty Medal ceremony in Philadelphia.

8. TECH GIANTS MAY FIND FUTURE SHAPED BY EUROPE For companies like Facebook, Google and Apple, Europe’s culture of tough corporate oversight, not America’s lighttouch regulation, may soon rule their industry.

9. RUTH BADER GINSBURG’S PERSONAL TRAINER SPEAKS OUT In his new book, Bryant Johnson details the workout regimen that has kept the 84-year-old Supreme Court justice on the bench.

10. COMMISSIONER, NBA GREAT DIFFER Adam Silver believes super teams — like the Warriors and Cavaliers — are good for business.

Hornets owner Michael Jordan fears a league where the other 28 teams are “garbage.”

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Actress Marsha Hunt is 100. Actress Margot Kidder is 69. Astronaut Mae Jemison is 61. Country singer Alan Jackson is 59. Movie critic Richard Roeper is 58. Movie director Rob Marshall is 57. Animator Mike Judge is 55. Actor-comedian Norm Macdonald is 54. Reggae singer Ziggy Marley is 49. Singer Wyclef Jean is 48. World Golf Hall of Famer Ernie Els is 48. Singer Chris Kirkpatrick (‘N Sync) is 46. Rapper Eminem is 45. Thought for Today: “To talk to a child, to fascinate him, is much more difficult than to win an electoral victory.

Me Too: Alyssa Milano elevates Harvey Weinstein conversation NEW YORK (AP) — Alyssa Milano was in bed with her two young children when a friend of a friend on Facebook suggested something that struck her as a great way to elevate the Harvey Weinstein conversation. She took the idea to Twitter, posting: “If you’ve been sexually harassed or

assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.”

That was Sunday night.

By Monday night, more than 53,000 people had left comments and thousands of women had declared “Me Too,” sharing their stories of rape, sexual assault and harassment across social media, including some

for the first time.

T h e hashtag was tweeted nearly half a million times in 24 hours, according Milano to Twitter.

Some left it at, simply: “Me Too,” without explanation, and a small contingent of men have posted: “I Have,” noting shock at the groundswell and remorse for their own past misdeeds.

Milano said the idea was to elevate the Harvey Weinstein conversation, placing the emphasis on victims rather than perpetrators and offering a glimpse into the number of women who continue to be victimized. The disgraced film mogul has been accused by more than three dozen women of harassment or abuse.

“My hope is people will get the idea of the magnitude, of just how many people have been affected by this in the world, in our lifetimes, in this country,” Milano said in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Monday.

“The most important thing that it did was to shift the conversation away from the predator and to the victim.”

Lauren Taylor hopes “Me Too” grows into something more than a passing hashtag. She shared her own story as well.

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ly street harassment, from men yelling vile things at out of car windows to boys chasing her as she rode her bike. A longtime women’s activist, the 60-year-old Taylor founded a training organization 20 years ago called Defend Yourself, helping women learn “empowerment defense” to ward off physical and emotional attacks in all aspects of their lives.

“The ‘Me Too’ thing has had a transformative affect that is more complex than people probably thought in the beginning,” Taylor said.

“Women are disclosing that they’ve been harassed, attacked or abused, sometimes for the first time, and if it isn’t for the first time, it’s for the first time this publicly. The sheer number are unbelievable, and a lot of men are saying, ‘Really, that many?’”

From New York where she now lives, 30-year-old Texan Aly Tadros added her voice on Facebook.

Evoking “Me Too,” she said she was sexually assaulted at 19, by a bar owner years older than she was in her hometown of Austin.

He had money and connections. Despite that, she went straight to the hospital, where police were called.

She pressed charges but in the end he struck a plea deal that included court-mandated therapy, probation and a letter of apology.

Tadros, a singer-songwriter, considers herself among the lucky. She had the help of an advocacy organization in navigating the legal system. She could afford counseling. Still, she feared the stigma, choosing to keep the attack under the radar both personally and professionally in the beginning.

Local & State News Donations Continued from Page 1A “I enjoy the people the most — I know most everyone, what they drive and their names,” Poe said. “I am always able to cheer them up and they always cheer me up.”

Large families typically receive 55 pounds of groceries per box plus meat. Smaller families receive 25 pounds of food plus meat.

“I have the boxes pre-made and then I just have to take it out to their car,” Poe said. “We also have frozen meat — chicken, beef, hamburgers and turkeys.”

The food pantry receives donations from the Food Bank of

Funding Continued from Page 1A the Democratic lawmaker on Monday afternoon, Ham detailed some strategies under consideration. Progress Industries maintains 16 residential homes in the area that provide 24-hour support for individuals in need. Currently, each of those homes are staffed around the clock, but Ham said they’d like to consider using cameras to monitor at night and have a staffer make the rounds nightly instead of having someone stationed at each home. Doing so

Council Continued from Page 1A operations at the facilities.

“The biggest highlight or change is with no city staff working at the Krumm Center anymore, we are not going to be shoveling the sidewalks there. We will continue to plow the entrance and the parking lot of our parking

Iowa and from residents in the community and churches.

“We used to receive 14,000 pounds of food from the Des Moines food bank a year,” Poe said. “Now it has been cut down to about half that with 6,000 to 7,000 pounds.”

Poe said the cut is due to the large need for food statewide. In addition, the community and churches donate approximately 30,000 pounds of food per year.

Most of those donations filter in around the holidays and are much lighter around the summer months.

“We typically see the most donations around the holiday months and they will fill up the entire pantry and the chapel,” Poe said. “I really want to thank the community for all their would give the residents more privacy and cut down on the manpower required to staff each home, Ham said.

“If we can get to the point where we can have technology provide that support we could move from a 1 on 1 ratio to 1:10,” Ham said.

Staff members at Progress Industries have also used Skype, the online video messaging system, to communicate with a client in a test case. Checking in with a client via video twice a day is a way for staff to meet with more clients in less time, a critical factor when it comes to managing the budget, Ham said.

lots route,” community services manager Brian Laube said. “We have also tightened up things in terms of points of contact. The city will continue to assist them with basic office needs, we are going to handle the rentals but if there is a problem Project AWAKE will be the contact.”

Along with those changes, the city will also

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efforts and without them we wouldn’t stay open.”

The Salvation Army is also preparing to distribute Thanksgiving and Christmas food boxes, which Poe said he usually starts putting together around this time of year. The food pantry is also in need of plastic bag donations.

“Usually I’m able to start

putting them together, but since we are low on food I haven’t been able to start,” Poe said.

“The Thanksgiving meals usually include corn, green beans, macaroni and cheese, cream of mushroom soup, sweet potatoes and a turkey.”

Upcoming events at the Jasper County Salvation Army include the annual Quilt and Basket Auction Fundraiser with a chicken and noodles supper from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 3 until the auction beginning at 7 p.m.

Proceeds from the event will go to the programs the Salvation Army provide to assist the community.

Captain Janelle Cleaveland said there will be around 20 baskets and eight quilts set to be auctioned off.

“I would encourage people to come and support our quilters and those who are in need of help and hope,” Cleaveland said.

In addition, the Red Kettle Campaign is set for Nov. 18 through Dec. 23. The Jasper County Salvation Army has a goal of $33,000 for the kettles alone.

“The kettles will be located at six locations and will run from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.,” Cleaveland said. “If you have someone at a kettle, you are most likely to raise more money and it’s up to you how much you interact with people passing by.”

Funding these technology upgrades is the biggest challenge facing Progress Industries.

While Ham said the organization does receive some grants, it isn’t enough to cover the costs associated with researching and developing new methods to deliver services. Using technology would help bridge the gap as Progress Industries staffers travel between Jasper, Polk and Story counties to meet with clients.

Coming up with the money to implement new technology isn’t the only roadblock, Progress Industries also needs to lobby for changes in state and federal regulations to be able

to work on those projects. Still, Ham said she believes incorporating additional technology is the best option for Progress Industries, as well for the people they serve. Many of their clients yearn for greater independence, and technology is way to provide that feeling of freedom while still being able to provide support Ham said.

Loebsack said he’s concerned about the “general instability” he’s seeing in Washington, D.C., and he warned Ham it’s possible organizations like Progress Industries may be susceptible to “dramatic cuts.”

“Programs like what you

folks do, those are subject to huge cuts,” Loebsack said.

This isn’t the first time Loebsack has been to Progress Industries, and on Monday he said he feels often disabled Americans go unnoticed in our society, something he’s determined to change.

“These people here, they aren’t seen on a daily basis, it’s easy for them to be overlooked,” Loebsack said. “We need to keep them in the forefront of our consciousness.”

Items needed at Salvation Army: Canned green beans Canned corn Canned fruit Stove top stuffing Canned sweet potatoes Macaroni and cheese Packaged fried french onions

continue to assist with occasional grounds maintenance needs such as tree reLaube movals, annual spraying, other minor projects requiring equipment and maintaining responsibilities for all state and American flags. In turn, the city will have free use of the facility, if needed, for periodic weekday

or weeknight event meetings. The city will not use the facility on Fridays or on any weekends or holidays.

The city expects labor costs at less than $500 for the items already being done by city staff.

A provision was also added for the ability to reopen the agreement for revisions prior to its expiration should both parties be in agreement.

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A little superstitious

Keeping me on my toes Jamee A. Pierson

Editor’s note: This column originally ran Nov. 8, 2016. f you asked me if I was a superstitious person, I would probably tell you no. I have never thought of myself as superstitious but after the Cubs’ run to become World Series Champions, I started to rethink that position.

I recently bought a new blue hooded sweatshirt, a color that tends to work well with my complexion and my eye color. Without much thought, I happened to wear it when the Cubs played in the second game of the World Series, which they ended up winning.

I threw the sweatshirt in the laundry and didn’t think anything about

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it. I pulled hoodie out of the closet to wear during Beggar’s Night and, as luck would have it, the Cubs won again that night.

It was after that night a thought struck me, maybe I have a lucky sweatshirt. I am a logical person, and I know that me wearing a certain sweatshirt 300 to 600 miles away from the game, depending on the Chicago or Cleveland location, really has nothing to do with how the baseball game went. But once it was in my head, there was no way I wasn’t going to wear the sweatshirt during the next game.

Game six came and went with another Chicago win and my beliefs firmed that I needed to wear the

sweatshirt, no matter what.

To get a little extra luck, I decided to wear the sweatshirt the entire day of game seven. Since we are experiencing a rather warm November, by the time the game came around I was a little hot, but for the Cubs, I kept it on.

The game, if you didn’t watch, was very intense and ended up going into extra innings. I was sweating and wanted nothing more than to take off the sweatshirt, but if something went wrong and the Cubs didn’t pull off the win, I would always have it in the back of my mind.

Well, as most people have heard, the Cubs did win their first World Series in 108 years. I know my new blue sweatshirt really had nothing to do with the success, but I like it think I helped where I could.

After my sweatshirt experience, I started to think of other areas where I am a little superstitious. I always wear

Hawkeye gear on game day, all day, even with a win or loss.

I also dress my kids in Hawkeye apparel when there is a game. Since they are kids and tend to get dirty, sometimes they end up in different clothes before or during the game. Now, I know the Hawks aren’t having the greatest year, but it felt like they started playing worse if the girls changed so now, if possible, I keep them dressed as little Hawkeyes, at least until the game is over.

My husband also joined in last year when he declared he wasn’t shaving his beard until Iowa lost. We could have never predicted a 12-0 regular season or how unruly his beard could really be, but he did stick it out for more than three months.

I know it is all silly and my choice of clothing has nothing to do with the outcome of any sporting events, but it is still fun to play along.

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Living and Dion Marc Dion

Trump should take the rap Despite my age, which is 60, and my wardrobe, which is tweed, plaid and khaki, and my color, which is white, I like rap music. Oh, I still like country music, my first favorite, but something has always drawn me to the beats and the rhymes, and the “urban” station is a preset on my old-school car radio.

So I wasn’t completely out of the loop when rapper Eminem dropped his President Trump diss on television the other night. “Lose Yourself ” is one of the songs I play when I write. t was good work. The lines about veterans coming back from Iraq and being told to go back to Africa were strong, and true, and that’s all you can ask from anyone’s writing.

So far, and I haven’t checked Twitter for a couple hours, Trump has not responded to Eminem’s onpoint geopolitical, yet locally biting rap, and if he’s smart, he won’t. Slim Shady doesn’t have anything to lose, and he’s quicker with a syllable than Trump.

Snoop Dogg took a swing at Trump a while back, too. Snoop is another personal favorite. Not being content with listening to him on the radio, I own some of his albums.

Yeah. It seems Trump isn’t going over well with what we coyly call “the urban market,” which, like the phrase, “the Arab street,” hides darker words and thoughts.

It’s not enough.

What we need here is a rap anti-Trump anthem, and while Eminem’s freestyle from the other night may have made some noise, I want something bigger.

Remember, “We Are The World,” that nauseating, sappy charity anthem of some time ago?

I want something like that but good, edgy and danceable. Something suitable for the club, the corner and the car.

Get ‘em all together. Get Snoop. Get Lil Wayne.

Jay Z. Lil’ Kim. Dr. Dre. Hell, get Sir Mix-a-Lot in there. Anybody you can think of who might want to join.

Turn ‘em loose, these writers and rhymers. No limits. Nothing is in bad taste, because we’re playing

by Trump’s rules. Rap about Puerto Rico, health care, Las Vegas, the NRA, taking a knee, long weekends on the golf course, Oxycontin, heroin and the Russians.

Turn those fellas loose on Melania. What won’t they say about her naked pictures?

There’s gonna have to be a sanitized airplay version, but turn it all loose. Ludacris, I think, is the one to spit the Melania rhymes.

When you do the video, use holographic images of Tupac and Biggie and Eazy-E, rapping about health care and tax returns, and police shootings and riots. Make it a big video, 100 rappers, and Beyonce dressed up like Melania but with a little more junk in the trunk.

And for political cred, put Barack Obama in the back, sipping Hennessy and puffing a pipe, wearing a red velvet smoking jacket like a cool black Hugh Hefner. Keep it ex-presidential, but make sure the camera gets him bobbing his head.

When you release the single, announce that all proceeds will be donated to Black Lives Matter.

It’ll sell, and, like all rap music, it’ll sell to teenage white kids who live in the suburbs, because simple math says rap couldn’t have become successful without teenage white kids from the suburbs. It’ll sell in rural areas, too. What do you think white kids in Appalachia listen to — banjo music? Yeah. In 1930.

It took black football players to show us what the flag really means, and what a lot of white people think it means. Maybe 100 black rappers can finally get everyone to understand what Donald Trump really means.

It’s the best idea I’ve ever had, and nobody has to pay me a dime. I’d like to meet Snoop, though. I like meeting other writers.

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JCAA hosts original artist in Newton The Jasper County Concert Association brought a wonderful artist to Newton on Oct. 9.

By “artist” I mean musician, composer and visual artist Scott Kirby. Kirby weaves together his original piano music and paintings with spoken narrative and video footage. The first half of Kirby’s show, Main Street Souvenirs, evokes images and music from America’s past. We watched images of John Philip Sousa and his band as Kirby played an intricate arrangement of “El Capitan,” followed by wonderful renditions of Scott Joplin and Eubie

Clean water should not be political More than 750 Iowa waterways are polluted with toxic algae blooms and signs that caution against recreational use.

The problem: an oversaturation of factory farms. Iowa leads the nation in corporate farms, with 10,000 at last count and potentially 5,000 more that DNR recently found via aerial images.

They produce billions of gallons of manure — too much for nature to purify by soil filtration.

The evidence is overwhelmingly clear that this excessive raw waste

Blake rags — reminding us of the roots of our great American music in ragtime and blues. Kirby ended the first half of his performance with his own “Boogie in C,” leaving no doubt about his years spent in New Orleans as a street performer.

The second half focused on Kirby’s original compositions, paintings, photography and a narrative exploring historical and visionary dimensions of the American Great Plains and Prairies. His paintings make one think of Grant Wood and Andrew Wyeth and have buildings that appear to curve with the earth and skies that go on forever. The piano compositions have lush harmonies that veer this way or that with the wind and have an impressionistic

quality that fits nicely with his paintings. Often the music had a continuous train-like movement to it, as in his “Pine Ridge Toccata”. My favorite was “Echoes from the Schoolyard,” which shifted back and forth between minor and major tonalities with a wistful, desolate feel and featured quite a bit of left-hand melody, while we viewed old photographs of schoolhouses and children seemingly all alone on the prairie. Kirby’s music was haunting and poignant and his narrative was heartfelt and full of depth of understanding and feeling. Thank you, Jasper County Concert Association for bringing this original artist to our town.

flows into our waterways, carrying disease-causing E. coli and nitrates, potentially carcinogenic.

That’s important to those of us who are cancer survivors.

The DNR manages natural resources and we logically expect them to value our environment and health. Yet for nearly two decades, experts and citizen groups, like Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, have asked the DNR to set a moratorium on corporate farms and keep them farther away from water sources but DNR refuses to budge.

As it turns out, the governor strategically appoints all members of the DNR oversight board, the Environmental Protection Commission. Some have con-

flicts of interest and backgrounds clearly at odds with water quality.

The DNR should be accountable to all Iowa citizens — not just corporate agriculture. I am incredulous that I need to beg public officials to protect my water.

There is something we can do to counteract this alarming failure of oversight. As we move into the 2018 legislative session demand that state leaders take unquestionable action. No more facades like voluntary monitoring or “partnership” study committees. A moratorium and strict standards are urgently needed to fix the only water we will ever have.

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Obituaries Christopher J. Meyer Oct. 12, 2017 Christopher James Meyer passed away at his home Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, at the age of 40 after battling c a n c e r.

An Open House Celebration of Life will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20 at the American Legion Newton Post 111, 1101 W. Fourth St. S. Memorials in memory of Chris may be made to his family. Online condolences may be shared at pierschbacherfuneralhome. com.

Chris was born Oct. 20, 1976, in Waterloo, to Dobbie and Barb Taft Meyer. He attended school in Grundy Center until the fourth grade and Tama until the seventh grade. He then moved to the Chi-

Judith A. Anderson Oct. 14, 2017 Judith Ann Anderson, 82, of Newton, died Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.

A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, Oct. 19 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

cago area where he graduated from high school.

After high school he enlisted in the United States Marines serving from 1995 until 1999.

He was very proud to be a Marine, and very loyal to his brothers and sister in the service.

Chris was married to Nicole Murdock June 18, 2011. He worked in the information technology field for several years, last working for JELD-WEN. Chris was such a people person and decided he needed to get away from IT for a while so he bartended at the Scoreboard in Newton, and DJ’d with a dear friend for a couple years. Everybody loved him and the charisma he radiates, he certainly excelled. He ended up back in the IT field for the kids so he could be home every night with them.

As everyone knows he was a devoted Chicago Bears fan to say the least. Probably one of the most loyal Bears fans ever, he even talked Ni-

cole into a Bears themed wedding. Chris and Nicole renewed their vows Sept. 9 because while Nicole loved their wedding, Chris knew she wanted a rustic wedding so with the help of friends and family, he made sure Nicole had the wedding she always wanted.

He was a dedicated Chicago Blackhawk fan as well. His humor was one of a kind to say the least; he could brighten up any situation, literally.

He was incredibly devoted to not only Nicole and his kids, but also the best kind of friend anybody could want. He was a true inspiration to so many people with his fight and determination, he took on multiple treatments, knowing they likely wouldn’t work because he wanted to watch their kids grow, and he always did it with a smile. Their story touched many lives.

People often said they hope to find a love like theirs. His love for their families, especially the children was never taint-

ed by cancer. The family motto became “cancer doesn’t define us, love does.” He was humble, he was compassionate, he was kind and he was hilarious. You couldn’t be in a bad mood around this man.

Chris was preceded in death by his father, Dobbie Meyer; his stepfather, Jim Koth; and grandparents, Jim and Gladys Taft and Bud and Edna Meyer.

He will be greatly missed by his wife, Nicole Meyer; his children, Jaxson and Piper; his mother, Barb Koth of Tama; stepmother, Karilyn Meyer of Colorado; siblings, Shayla (Kevin) Thomas, James (Stephanie) Koth Jr., Tina (Chris) Popielar and Becky Koth; his uncle, Gary Meyer; and 13 nieces and nephews; along with his motherin-law, Sharla (David) Murdock; and brothersin-law, David (Tiffany) Murdock, Curtis Murdock and Jacob (Lacey) Murdock; and many relatives and friends.

in Newton. The family will greet friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18 at the Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory. Memorials to the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church may be left at the funeral home.

Judy, the daughter of Wesley and Elsie (Brodersen) Barnett, was born Oct. 17, 1934, in Newton. She attended rural Jasper County schools and graduated from Newton High School in 1953. Judy worked in the accounting department at Newton Manufactur-

ing for many years. She also was a waitress at the Newton Country Club.

Judy was a talented quilter and enjoyed making quilts for others. She was an active member of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and the Thursday Quilting Group at the Salvation Army. Judy was a Red Cross volunteer and had volunteered in New York City after 9-11. She had also served on mission trips to El Salvador and Tanzania.

Judy enjoyed crafting and painting.

Judy is survived by her

grandchildren, Joe Kintz, Tina (Richard) Berryman, Kari (Jed) Kinion, Misty Whittley, Ashley (Josh) Warnell, Richard Anderson, Justin (Mega) Anderson, Robert (Tanya) Anderson, Brandi Wince and Kasie (Kenny) Lamb; many great-grandchildren; her sister, Janet (Chuck) Eilers of Creston; and her nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Carl R. Anderson; sons, Mark and Dean Anderson; and daughter, Terry Anderson.

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• Dinners on Tuesday, a free meal, will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Christian Life Church, 421 S. Second Ave W. in Newton. Everyone welcome.

• Discover Hope, a faith-based addiction support group, will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at 219 N. Second Ave. W. in Newton.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 8 p.m.

Tuesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

• Roadside, Forest and Aquatic Pest Management CIC will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday at ISU Extension, Jasper County, 550 N. Second Ave. W. in Newton. Contact Tammy Welcher at 641-7926433 or welcher@iastate.edu with questions or for registration.

• Community Table Supper will begin at 5 p.m.

Wednesday at Monroe United Methodist Church, 407 N. Monroe St. The Monroe United Methodist Church invites you to a free Community Table Supper.

• Alcoholics Anonymous Beginner’s Support Group will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

• A Community Meal will begin at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday at First United Methodist Church in the basement in Newton. Everyone welcome. Donation accepted.

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Congregate Meals Wednesday Turkey supreme, whipped potatoes and gravy, asparagus, applesauce, cake and skim milk Thursday Beef stroganoff over egg noodles, green beans, orange, fruit crisp and skim milk For reservations or information about congregate and home-delivered meals, call 641-792-7102 or 866-9427102 toll-free.

Police Blotter William Gordon Duncan Oct. 15, 2017 William Gordon Duncan, loving husband and father, passed away Oct. 15, 2017, under hospice care at Skiff Medical Center in Newton.

B i l l was born April 24, 1926, to Donald

and Ella (Lowe) Duncan in Colfax. He was a graduate of the Monroe High School then went on to attend Iowa State University. He enlisted in the U.S. Naval Air Corps and served from 1944-1946.

After that he lived and farmed in What Cheer.

Bill moved to Newton, and taught agriculture classes at Marshalltown Community College.

On April 12, 1979, Bill married Beverly Bailey.

They moved to California and made their home in Lake San Marcos.

There he sold real estate.

He was very successful, receiving several prestigious awards. Bill and Beverly remodeled and flipped homes before it was popular. He was an accomplished carpenter and could fix anything.

He also enjoyed playing golf and tennis.

After 23 years, Bill and Beverly returned to Iowa, making their home in Polk City. In 2015, they came full circle making their home in Newton.

Bill is survived by his wife, Beverly; daughter, Anne (Jim) Christianson; his son, Chris

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Bailey; his three granddaughters, Lisa Rucker, Elizabeth Pettigrew and Emily Vesley; and his four great-granddaughters. Bill was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers; a sister; and two sons, Kim and Brad.

A private graveside service will take place at a later date. Memorials may be designated to the Jasper County Animal Rescue League and may be directed to Beverly at 5 Chancery Court, Newton, Iowa 50208 or to the Pence-Reese Funeral Home.

Newton Police Department • Kristen M. Beach, 37, unknown address, was charged with third-degree burglary at 1:01 p.m Sept. 16 after police took a burglary report at 12:52 p.m. Oct. 2 at Woodshed Storage at 409 N. 23rd Ave. W. The victim was contacted by the Woodshed Storage owner about her storage unit being broken into and ransacked. Surveillance footage from Sept. 16 showed Beach taking property from the storage unit and loading it into a vehicle. Beach was arrested and taken to the Jasper County Jail Saturday.

• Teresa L. Campbell-Hambrick, 55, of Newton, was charged with simple assault at 1:39 p.m.

Friday after police saw Campbell on North Fifth Avenue assaulting the victim by pulling her hair at the front door of the residence. The victim didn’t have injuries that required medical attention. Campbell was released and issued a citation to appear in court.

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Afternoon delight ends when wife stops to take a call DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married for many years, work long schedules, and actually sleep when we go to bed at night.

Saturday afternoon, we had “nothin’ to do,” so I suggested some hanky-panky. We were just getting into it when the phone rang.

I told her to let it go to voicemail, but when our married daughter’s name was caller-ID-announced, she said she had to take the call because they had been playing phone tag all day. There was no important matter, just idle chit-chat. What a mood killer!

Am I wrong to be angry that my needs were ignored so my wife could say, “Hello, how are you?” to our daughter (who calls eight times a day anyway)? — THWARTED IN MICHIGAN DEAR THWARTED: Wrong?

I don’t think so. I think it’s time to calmly ask your wife WHY she prioritized taking that call over the opportunity to be intimate with you.

P.S. The next time you’re in “HP” mode, put both of your phones on “do not disturb.”

DEAR ABBY: I was diagnosed with lung cancer last year. After months of chemo, I had surgery and my lung was removed. Fifteen months after my diagnosis, my husband is still smoking cigarettes.

I feel so hurt and alone going through this. I thought he would have stopped smoking for his own health as well as moral support to me. He says I don’t have the right to change him and quitting is too hard, even though he refuses to get help to stop.

Am I being overly sensitive to think he should stop smoking? I don’t think he is being fair to our children because of the potential of them having to watch another par-

ent receive the same diagnosis. — NEEDS MORAL SUPPORT DEAR NEEDS: You are not “overly sensitive.” People have been known to get cancer from secondhand smoke. Face it, you are married to an addict. Not only is he being unfair to the children, he is being unfair to you and himself. Because he’s unwilling to even try to quit, my advice is to insist that he do it outside and away from you.

DEAR ABBY: A few days ago, my daughter had a sleepover at a friend’s house, and the girl’s dad broke my daughter’s eyeglasses by accidentally stepping on them. He said he would pay for them. In the meantime, I glued them together.

Fast forward to two days later, and our dog finished the job and broke the side that was still OK. Is the dad still responsible for paying or is he not, since my dog used the glasses as his chew toy? — BLIND AS BATS IN FLORIDA DEAR BLIND AS BATS: The man who stepped on your daughter’s glasses should pay to replace them as promised, and in the future, when those glasses are not on your daughter’s nose, they should be safely stored in their case and in a secure location!

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AMES — School district leaders have declared their support for members of a central Iowa high school marching band who protested inequality in the nation by leaving the football field during the national anthem.

The incident happened before Ames High School’s home football game against another school Friday night. Some other band members reportedly did not play their instruments during the performance. A statement from school district leaders Monday praises the students.

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SIOUX CITY — Sioux City area agencies have been searching the Missouri River for a car reportedly driven off a road into the water. The search was called off around 8 p.m. Monday because of darkness. Rescue crews had been sent to the scene near Larsen Park around 4:20 p.m.

Sioux City Fire Rescue Capt. Dave Ahlers says authorities aren’t sure whether anyone was inside the car.

DES MOINES — Rain has kept Iowa and Nebraska farmers out of corn and soybean fields in the past few weeks significantly delaying the harvest.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says just 32 percent of the Iowa soybean crop has been harvested, the lowest percentage harvested by this date since 1985 and only 13 percent of the corn crop for grain is finished, the smallest percentage harvested by this date since 2009. In Nebraska corn is 17 percent finished behind 32 percent last year.

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PELLA — With a legacy of 50 years serving discerning architects, builders and homeowners in the San Francisco high-end custom window and door market, Bonelli Windows and Doors has joined Pella Corporation as its latest acquisition. Bonelli’s West Coast presence and focus on their customers is a great fit in Pella’s luxury portfolio. “Bonelli is an exceptional business that has built a highly reputable name in the luxury market,” said Cole Adrian, vice president of the Pella Luxury Division.

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Chicken owners object to proposed 15-bird limit DES MOINES — Chicken owners are pushing back against a proposal to limit the size of flocks in Des Moines and ban roosters in the city.

Sgt. Jim Butler, the police department’s chief humane officer, has proposed a 15-chicken limit per home and the rooster ban, saying the changes are in response to neighborhood complaints about noise, smells and chicken running loose.

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City to review Sunset Park designs with open house

By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News Newton residents are invited to a Sunset Park Design Concept Open House to view ideas conceived for Sunset Park. The open house will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday in the council chambers at Newton City Hall, 101 W. Fourth St. S. “Open houses and public meetings are a way for us to seek citizen input, this absolutely helps shape the concept and features we will try to incorporate into the final design,” Newton Public Works Director Jody Rhone said.

The city has been working with HBK Engineering to create a new design concept for Sunset Park, 110 N. Sixth Ave. E. Renderings of park designs will be on display at the open house along with city representatives to explain the ideas and gather public response.

Additions to the park following HBK’s work include a trail system, fitness equipment, a new playground, na-

ture play area and an additional parking lot and shelter on the northeast side of the park. The little league field would also be replaced with multi-purpose field and a terrace was sketched out to complement the existing shelter at the park.

When discussed at the September Park Board meeting, the board suggested tying the trail system into the surrounding buildings including Skiff Medical Center, Park Centre and Newton Village, a possible shelter at the top of the sledding hill and adding a dog park.

“It is planned to be a very senior friendly park,” park board chair Amanda Price said. “It is a good time for everybody to come and tell us what they like and don’t like about the designs.”

For more information about the open house, call 641-792-6622.

Contact Jamee A. Pierson at 641-792-3121 ext. 6534 or jpierson@newtondailynews.com

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Lawsuits seek changes to University of Iowa sexual assault policies

IOWA CITY (AP) — The law firm that won a landmark gender discrimination case against the University of Iowa athletics department will challenge what it calls the school’s biased handling of sexual assault and harassment complaints next.

Des Moines-based Newkirk Zwagerman filed two lawsuits Monday seeking changes to how the school responds when female students report assault and harassment, arguing that a culture of “victim blaming, implicit gender bias and gender stereotypes” hinders how cases are investigated and resolved.

The lawsuits highlight an issue that has put universities on the defensive nationwide over their practices, including how they balance the rights of the accuser and the accused.

In one University of Iowa case, a graduate student claims school officials treated her harshly after she reported being sexually assaulted while improperly reducing sanctions against her perpetrator to avoid ruining his career in political science. In the second, a student activist claims the university failed to reprimand its now-retired assistant public safety director for allegedly making lewd gestures toward her after a campus protest, an allegation he denied.

The cases argue the school is failing to “deliver on its legal and moral obligation” to protect students from assault and harassment and the emotional backlash that occurs after such incidents. They seek orders requiring the university to make several changes, including surveying stu-

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University spokeswoman Jeneane Beck declined comment Monday.

In May, Iowa agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle discrimination lawsuits brought by former athletics administrator Jane Meyer and her partner, former women’s field hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum. The payment included $2.68 million for Newkirk Zwagerman, which represented both women. A jury ruled that Iowa discriminated against Meyer based on her gender and sexual orientation, retaliated against her and paid her less than a male counterpart. The firm raised issues of implicit bias and gender stereotypes in

those cases, and the university has launched reviews of its employment practices.

The new lawsuits recount Iowa’s struggles to confront sexual assault during the last decade, starting with a 2007 case in which two football players took turns assaulting an intoxicated female athlete. Two administrators were blamed for mishandling that investigation and fired by then-UI President Sally Mason, who promised changes.

Mason caused protests in 2014 after she told an interviewer that sexual assault probably couldn’t be eliminated because of “human nature.”

Amid the ensuing outcry, Mason launched a widely-praised plan to crack down on offenders, increase support for survivors and better train employees.

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Swanson Continued from Page 1A On Monday, as each of Swanson’s children and grandchildren untied a blue balloon from the tree to release into the sky they shared their memories with each other. The balloons were blue, because that was her favorite color. Swanson’s children picked a tree with vibrant fall colors, because that was their mom’s favorite season.

“We took a fall trip as a family every year, and once they said something about the colors that kind of sealed the deal for us,” Comer said. “It’s nice to have the tree here, we’ve all got young kids, we want to come back every year and take a picture with the kids, to see them grow and to see the tree grow.”

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Bannon-backed PAC backs Wisconsin, Arizona Senate candidates DES MOINES (AP) — The political action committee affiliated with former presidential strategist Steve Bannon acted Monday on his pledge to lead a “populist nationalist conservative revolt,” endorsing state Sen. Kelli Ward over Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake — the first sitting Republican senator to be formally targeted by the pro-Donald Trump group.

“Americans are tired of the inaction from the Washington swamp and demand Senate Republicans get off their backsides and pass President Trump’s America First

agenda,” Ed Rollins, chief strategist for Great America PAC, said in a statement.

Bannon is promoting a field of primary challengers to take on incumbent Republicans in Congress, especially the Senate. Flake has been among the Senate Republicans’ most outspoken Trump critics.

The group also announced Monday it was supporting retired Marine Kevin Nicholson in Wisconsin over state Sen. Leah Vukmir in the GOP primary to challenge Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat seeking her second term.

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‘Shoes That Fit’ campaign underway in Newton area At least 200 local elementary students from Aurora Heights Elementary and Emerson Hough Elementary in Newton will benefit from the annual “Shoes That Fit” campaign which is now underway to help supply children in need with shoes, boots and winter coats. The nonprofit community outreach program is led by Mediacom, along with FNNB. The purpose of “Shoes That Fit” is to fulfill specific shoe and clothing needs matched to individual children identified by school liaisons. The donations collected are often the only genuinely “new” items available to children whose needs have been confidentially assessed in recent weeks. Com-

munity residents are encouraged to participate this month by purchasing need-specific items. The “Shoes That Fit” campaign is conducted in October to meet a pressing need for children’s shoes, boots and

ISU College of Human Sciences announces 201718 scholarships AMES — The Iowa State University College of Human Sciences announces scholarships awarded by the college to sophomores, juniors, and seniors for the 2017-18 academic year.

Allison Ergenbright, of Newton, will receive the Smith Anderson FCS Scholarship from the Iowa State University College of Human Sciences. Ergenbright is studying family and consumer sciences education and studies.

Kali Umble, of Monroe, will receive the College of Human Sciences Dean’s Chair Unpaid Internship and Student Teaching Scholarship from the Iowa State University College of Human Sciences. Umble is studying kinesiology and health.

Wendy Vargas, of Monroe, will receive the Benjamin Mericle Scholarship from the Iowa State University College of Human Sciences.

Vargas is studying child, adult, and family services.

The Iowa State University College of Human Sciences and its academic departments awarded more than $1.3 million in student scholarships and awards for this academic year.

coats before winter weather arrives. Donors can be assured that their donations are used locally to benefit children in the Newton area.

The “Shoes That Fit” program is about more than

shoes, said Robert Montgomery, Mediacom’s vice president for OnMedia ad sales.

“In many classrooms, teachers will see a child with only one pair of worn-out shoes and no real option for a good winter coat or boots. This affects a child’s self-esteem, and it means that learning takes a back seat to embarrassment,” Montgomery said.

The program is underway now through Nov. 3. In the Newton area, the FNNB has set up a donor station to encourage customers, employees and others to select needs cards and then donate the specified items. Each donor card describes the needed item and specifies the child’s gender and size. Individu-

al donors shop for the items, return them to the business (unwrapped), and then Mediacom ensures prompt delivery to students through the school liaison. Only new shoes, coats and boots will be accepted.

This year marks the 16th year in which Mediacom and its OnMedia employees have coordinated the “Shoes That Fit” charity in central Iowa.

The campaign has partnered with more than 50 elementary schools in Des Moines, Newton, Marshalltown, Fort Dodge and Ames to collect more than 100,000 donations of new shoes and clothing for local children in need.

Any donations can be dropped off at FNNB, 100 N. Second Ave. W. in Newton.

DMACC received more than $500,000 grant from U.S. DOE Grant will assist DMACC in providing child care services to low-income students Des Moines Area Community College has been awarded a $139,530 per year grant from the U.S. Department of Education under their Child Care Access means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program. The grant is renewable for four years, meaning DMACC could receive $558,120 over the lifetime of the grant.

The CCAMPIS program, authorized by the Higher Education Act and administered by the U.S. Department of Education, supports the participation of low-income parents in post-second-

ary education through the provision of campus-based childcare services. DMACC’s Child Development Center is a CCAMPIS funded program. The program was funded for the first time in October 2017.

The goal of the CCAMPIS program is to provide grants to institutions of higher education to assist the institutions in providing campus-based child care services to low-income students.

“We are thrilled to have been selected as a recipient of the CCAMPIS grant and look forward to

reaching our goals of providing affordable, quality care for children and families in the Child Development Center,” said DMACC Child Development Center Program Coordinator Sherri Sciarrotta. “We hope to impact student persistence and retention by expanding three full-time child care slots in our infant program for low-income families. We will provide scholarships for childcare tuition for qualified families in the infant, toddler and preschool programs.”

“I am extremely excited about the CCAMPIS award since it will directly benefit our low-income, student-parents striving for a brighter future,” said DMACC Health and Public Services Academ-

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By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News NCMP’s Aquagirls have two more swim meets this week to finish the regular season. They have the second annual Little Hawkeye Conference meet Tuesday in Indianola where they go in as defending champions.

On Saturday the Aquagirls compete in the North Central Iowa Conference meet at Decorah.

Then they turn their attention to the 2017 regional swimming meet on Oct. 28.

NCMP has been assigned to the regional hosted by Johnston at Summit Middle School in Johnston. Swimming events begin at noon on Oct. 28.

Regional diving is at 5 p.m. on Oct. 26 at Summit Middle School. NCMP does not have divers.

Joining NCMP and Johnston in the regional will be Ames, Boone, Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, Des Moines East, Des Moines Hoover, Des Moines Roosevelt and Mason City. The first-place finishers in each

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Senior Jaclyn Michener swims in a 50-meter freestyle race at home for NCMP. The NCMP Aquagirls finish regular-season meets this week. They prepare for the regional swim meet on Oct. 28 at Johnston.

race automatically qualify for the 2017 Iowa High School Girls’ Swimming and Diving

Championship meet on Nov. 4 in Marshalltown.

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Spectators must have e-tickets purchased to enter the YMCA/YWCA gym when it opens at 9:00 a.m. for Saturday’s swim meet. Regular tickets (tickets not purchased electronically) will also be available for purchase at the north gate at the Marshalltown YMCA/YWCA at 4 p.m. Friday and 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

More information regarding e-ticketing will be available prior to tickets being available on Oct. 23.

Contact Jocelyn Sheets at 641-792-3121 ext. 6535 or jsheets@newtondailynews.com

Yankees break into ALCS win column at home NEW YORK (AP) — Back in the Bronx, the big guys delivered.

Greeted by an array of “All Rise” signs in a ballpark that fits their style, Aaron Judge hit a three-run homer and made a pair of sparkling catches, leading CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees over the Houston Astros 8-1 Monday night and cutting their deficit to 2-1 in the AL Championship Series.

Todd Frazier hit a go-ahead, three-run homer into the short porch in right field in the second inning against Charlie Morton.

The 6-foot-7 Judge entered in a 4-for-31 (.129) postseason slump that included one home run, four RBIs and 19 strikeouts. The slugger capped a five-run fourth with a laser of a drive to left field off Will Harris and robbed Yuli Gurriel and Cameron Maybin of ex-

tra-base hits.

Sabathia, almost as big at 6-foot-6, allowed three hits over six scoreless innings for his first postseason win in five years. The Yankees stopped a seven-game ALCS losing streak dating to Sabathia’s victory over Texas in 2010 — when Judge had just started his freshman year at Fresno State.

After a pair of 2-1 losses in Houston, the Yankees led 8-0 after four innings and improved to 4-0 at home this postseason.

Houston scored on a bases-loaded walk in the ninth before postseason star Jose Altuve grounded into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded.

Sonny Gray starts Game 4 for New York in the best-of-seven series on 11 days’ rest Wednesday against Lance McCullers Jr.

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Newton’s Josh Meyer, left, Jack Suttek (11) and Gavin Urias (27) pursue and tackle Valley’s Bryden Hart (88) in Friday’s final home freshman football game for Newton. Valley won 41-0.

Newton’s freshmen conclude the 2017 season this Friday at Indianola.

Cardinal crowd was in The Pink on Senior Night

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Newton High’s student body cheering section reacts to the Cardinals scoring a touchdown in Friday’s home game against No. 3 West Des Moines Valley. Not only was it Senior Night at Newton’s H.A. Lynn Stadium Friday but it was Pink Out Night for cancer awareness. The Newton fans cheered on the Cardinals in a Class 4A District 4 clash with the Valley Tigers with the Tigers clawing out a 38-28 win.

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SPORTS CALENDAR Tuesday Girls Swimming NCMP at Little Hawkeye Conference meet, Indianola, 4:30 p.m.

Volleyball Regionals Class 1A Region 3 Colo-NESCO at Baxter, 7 p.m.

Class 1A Region 4 Collins-Maxwell at Lynnville-Sully, 7 p.m.

Class 2A Region 5 Colfax-Mingo at Pella Christian, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Volleyball Class 4A Region 4 Newton at Carlisle, 7 p.m.

Class 3A Region 6 PCM at West Marshall, 7 p.m.

Thursday Cross Country Regionals Newton at Class 4A, Marshalltown, 4 p.m.

PCM at Class 2A, Pella, 3 p.m.

Baxter at Class 1A, Mount Ayr, 4 p.m.

Colfax-Mingo, Lynnville-Sully at Class 1A, Ottumwa, 4 p.m.

Football Indianola at Newton JV, 6:15 p.m.

Saydel at Newton 8th, 4:15 p.m.

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Baxter at Easton Valley, 7 p.m.

Saturday Girls Swimming NCMP at NCIC conference meet, Decorah, 1 p.m.

Nebraska tabs Moos to lead athletic programs LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — One of the first anecdotes Bill Moos told at his introductory news conference Sunday was about tuning into those classic Nebraska-Oklahoma games when he was growing up on a ranch in eastern Washington in the 1960s.

Moos was hired as Nebraska’s new athletic director and comes to Lincoln from Washington State, where he’s been athletic director since 2010. The 66-yearold agreed to a five-year contract with a base annual salary of $1 million, plus incentives. He’ll start his new job Oct. 23.

The university announced Moos’ hiring four weeks after the firing of Shawn Eichorst.

Eichorst was let go the week after the Huskers lost to Northern Illinois at home. Moos was announced as his replacement less than 24 hours after Nebraska was routed 56-14 by Ohio State.

AP Photo Iowa State linebacker Joel Lanning tackles a ball carrier from Kansas during the Cyclones’ 45-0 win on Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium.

Surprising Cyclones clamping down on Big 12 offenses AMES (AP) — Take a peek at the latest Big 12 Conference football statistics and focus on the defensive numbers for a moment.

Yep, that’s Iowa State giving up the fewest points and the fewest yards in league play.

The Cyclones are getting stingy on that side of the ball, a surprise given that defense was the team’s biggest question mark going into the season.

After facing Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, Iowa State (4-2, 2-1 Big 12) has given up an average of just 16 points and 310.3 yards a game in Big 12 play. That second figure leads the conference by a wide margin; Texas is second at 389.3 yards a game.

A big reason for those numbers: The Cyclones are tackling better than they did last season, their first under coach Matt Campbell.

“What that’s attributed to, I think, is just the confidence of the kids being in the system now going into two years and knowing where to align and where to assign,” Campbell said Monday. “I think sometimes on defense when you know where to line up, now you can read your keys and actually react.

Defensive football is so much about reaction and being where you’re supposed to be and when you’re supposed to be there.”

Iowa State is coming off its best defensive performance in decades, a 45-0 thrashing of Kansas in which the Jayhawks managed only 106 yards.

It was the fewest yards the Cyclones had allowed in a conference game since limiting Missouri to 59 in 1963, when offenses were far less sophisticated than they are now.

Kansas is only 1-5, but the Jayhawks had been averaging 450 yards going into that game.

“It just allows us to know what

we can do and what we can’t do,” safety Kamari Cotton-Moya said.

“It allows us to keep going where we need to go because the sky’s the limit for us. We’re trying to do something that’s never been done here before.”

Iowa State’s defense also has been good at getting off the field. Thirty-four times this season, the Cyclones have forced a three-and-out or come up with a turnover before the opponent made a first down.

Just as important, they’ve kept opponents from burning them with big plays.

Oklahoma has the league’s No. 2 offense, but quarterback Baker Mayfield’s longest completion in the upset loss to Iowa State covered 29 yards. In contrast, Mayfield had completions of 42, 44, 54 and 59 yards in a victory over Texas last Saturday.

Kansas’ longest play covered only 14 yards and the Jayhawks did not reach 100 yards until the next-tolast play of the game. Texas, which beat Iowa State 17-7, did not have a play longer than 28 yards against the Cyclones.

But potent offenses come at you weekly in the Big 12 and Iowa State will face one of the best at Texas Tech (4-2, 1-2) on Saturday.

The Red Raiders are throwing the ball with their usual effectiveness and have complemented that with a solid running game, which amassed 313 yards against Kansas earlier this month.

“Just because we came off a big win and then shut someone out doesn’t mean we’re where we want to be,” said linebacker Joel Lanning, the former starting quarterback who leads the team in tackles.

“There’s always room for improvement. We can’t be satisfied. If we are, then the next team still step right over you.”

Newton Red Stars are champs

Submitted Photo The Newton Red Stars claimed the championship in the Target United Cup in Altoona on Oct. 7-8. They competed in the U14 girls division. The Red Stars beat Altoona 2-0, Iowa Rush 6-0 and Pella 5-2. The Newton team made it to the finals, defeating Altoona 3-0 for the U14 Girls’ championship of the tournament.

IOWA CITY (AP) — Iowa nearly made the NCAA Tournament last season despite playing without a traditional center.

The Hawkeyes figure to have a pair of freshman big men capable of providing a presence in the post.

Luka Garza and Jack Nunge, both 6-foot-11, likely will see plenty of playing time this winter as the Hawkeyes look to rebuild following the loss of Peter Jok, the Big Ten’s leading scorer in 2016-17.

Iowa, which earned a top seed in the NIT last season before losing to eventual champion TCU, opens its season on Nov. 10 against Chicago State.

“Both of them are tremendous players. They’re incredibly versatile. They come ready. It’s not like we have to develop them,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said Monday during the team’s annual media day.

“They have versatile skill sets. They can dribble, pass and shoot. When you have two 6-11 guys that can do all those things, then you have high expectations for them, and they’re going to be right in the middle of it.”

In Garza, Iowa might have found itself a future star.

Garza scored nearly 2,000 career points for the Maret School in Washington, averaging 24.6 points, 11.7 rebounds and 2.5 blocks as a senior. Garza, a consensus four-star recruit, then averaged team highs of 22.5 points and 10.3 rebounds during Iowa’s four-game trip through Europe in August.

The Hawkeyes didn’t exactly face stiff competition overseas. But Garza has impressed his coaches and his teammates enough that he might be in line to start from day one.

“He’s relentless,” forward Ahmad Wagner said.

“When you watch him every day in practice, he’s doing the same thing. He’s scoring, he’s rebounding, (providing) effort every day. It’s something you see consistently.”

Nunge was one of four finalists for Indiana’s Mr. Basketball in 2017 after putting up 19 double-doubles and leading his high school team to an undefeated regular season.

Nunge averaged 6.8 points and 5.3 rebounds in Europe. But his status is likely a bit more unsettled, since Iowa also brings back Wagner, senior Dominique Uhl and sophomores Ryan Kriener and Cordell Pemsl — in addition to starter Tyler Cook, a firstteam All-Freshman pick by the Big Ten in 2016-17, and reigning league sixth man of the year Nicholas Baer.

“I think you’ll see a different shot-blocking presence in Tyler Cook this year. Kriener was a shot blocker, Baer was a shot blocker even though he’s only 6-7, and now you have two 6-11 guys that will come in there and protect the rim. That gives us some flexibility with our pressing,” McCaffery said.

“It also provides, if we play zone, the kind of size that you need to limit them to one shot and then trigger our break.”

Iowa will undoubtedly miss Jok, who averaged 19.9 points a game as a senior.

But adding Garza and Nunge to a developing core of young talent should allow the Hawkeyes to focus more on their inside game to compensate.

Kligerman wins NCWTS race at Talladega; Nemechek advances in playoffs TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Parker Kligerman won the Truck Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, where the focus was on John Hunter Nemechek’s desperate push to advance in the playoffs.

Nemechek entered Saturday’s elimination race last in the eight-driver field, but could advance into NASCAR’s Round of 6 with some help.

He got it very early in the race when Chase Briscoe headed to the garage with a mechanical problem, then Kaz Grala wrecked.

Nemechek But Nemechek was involved in his own accident and Briscoe got back on track.

His wounded truck was wrapped tightly in tape, and Nemechek seemed to barely be hanging on as he dodged and weaved several accidents to grab a hard-earned sixth-place finish. It gave him the final spot in the playoffs.

Kligerman won his second career Truck Series race, both at Talladega. This was just his seventh race of the year.

Bell finished second and was followed by Myatt Snider, defending race winner Grant Enfinger and Austin Cindric.

Grala’s first Truck Series race at Talladega was a bust. He was involved in an accident in the closing laps of the first stage and his race ended.

Grala had come into the race with four consecutive top-10 finishes, but was likely in need of a win to advance out of the Round of 8.

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Perhaps the big-ego lifestyle is one that seems vivid and glamorous, but it is also very difficult because of the many demands and expectations that must be met to nourish the big-ego appetite. One could use Mercury’s plunge into the deep waters of Scorpio to go the other way, shrinking the ego through truth-seeking and loving sacrifice.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). A slow, gradual approach will be very favorable for this leg of the journey. You’ll be stronger and more certain by the time you get there, and you’ll be received with confidence and trust.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). To regret wasting your time is an even further waste of your time. So instead, you’ll take action. You’ll plug a leak, break a chain or erase the board and start all over.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It will be difficult to get anything personal done if you involve too many people.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). A large gesture creates a big impression. That it’s the (SET ITAL)right(END ITAL) impression is more important than its size, though. Think about what you’re trying to accomplish, and make a plan instead of rushing forward with the first idea.

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