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food tastes really good.”

Another figure showed how citizens would travel across the continent for work to provide a life for their families.

“We’re in the middle of Ukraine, and they would go down to Crimea to get the salt then they would go to Europe to sell it and make some money, then they would go back to Crimea, get salt and go home,” Dovganyuk said.

Covering the walls were many pieces of art along with portraits of the artists responsible for them.

Featured was artist Taras Chevchenko, who worked to preserve the Ukrainian culture while the area was under Russian rule.

PRAIRIE CITY — A small group gathered for the first Coffee with the Mayor event of 2017 on Saturday at the Prairie City Library.

Prairie City Mayor Chad Alleger along with Rep.-elect Wes Breckenridge, D-Newton, Sen. Chaz Allen, D-Newton and Jasper County Treasurer Doug Bishop, D-Baxter, touched on several topics relevant in the state, county and city along with light-hearted talk over coffee and doughnuts.

“What does the city of Prairie City need?” Allen asked.

Right off of the bat one attendee identified the need of an assisted living facility for those wanting to stay in the community but need a little extra help.

“There is not a care facility in Prairie City, Monroe, Colfax, the closest one is in Mitchellville,” Sue Ponder said. “I would say the majority of the people who have moved out of Prairie City in the last five years have moved to assisted living.”

Allen suggested looking into a partnership with a care facility in Newton to build a starter assisted living facility in Prairie City and as the need arises the residents could move to the Newton facility for more extensive care.

Along with assisted living, senior housing and housing in general was also brought up as a need for the community. Alleger said the city does have a land lock issue but talks with land owners have been encouraging in recent meetings.

Another issue brought up was voter identification requirements.

Ponder asked the officials why it is a problem for people to show their ID when going to vote.

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Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News After working for more than a year, Mariya Dovganyuk proudly shares her Ukrainian museum she created with her family. Filled with hundreds of items from her Ukraine, Dovganyuk covers the history of the country, what is was like to live there and the culture and artists of note who kept the spirit of the country alive during hard times.

A touch of Ukraine

Newton woman shares native country with museum

By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News The Newton community is rich with many cultures and after working for more than a year, Mariya Dovganyuk shared her’s at her own Ukrainian museum.

Filled with hundreds of items brought from her native land, Dovganyuk radiated pride as she explained her country’s many centuries of history and culture through the government, work and home life and the arts.

“I decided to do my Ukrainian room because I have so many things, and I need to put them together,” Dovganyuk said “We have been talking about this for three years ... this year I said, I will be 60 years old,

you need to do this for my birthday, this is my present, and we did.”

Dovganyuk moved to the United States in 2005 and brought with her decades worth of knowledge and artifacts from Ukraine.

After a lot of hard work by her and her family, Mariya’s Ukrainian Museum is open for interested community members to learn about the history of a country across the world.

Located in her basement, she leads the tour in authentic Ukrainian clothing. She begins where many Ukrainian men would end their day by taking their hats off before coming in the house. Displayed in the stairway are three varieties of hats used for formal attire, in the military and

while they are at work.

She shows guests a variety of maps detailing the history of Ukraine dating back hundreds of years to present day Ukraine.

“Kieven Rus was the second biggest country in Europe,” Dovganyuk said.

“In 11th century, we have a library in our capital and we also had a lot of schools where kids could read and write. They were very educated.”

Artifacts including cooking pots and figures show how Ukrainians lived, cooked and worked.

“They cooked food here (wood stove). It is made from bricks or stones. They burn wood and charcoals spread in the sides,” Dovganyuk said. “They put their food in special clay pots and

New fitness business, Cornfed CrossFit opens in Newton Local couple operating fitness center

By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News The greater Newton area has a new option to get their fit on.

Cornfed CrossFit is open for business and owners Josh and Julie Britton are excited to share the fitness experience they have grown to love.

“CrossFit is awesome.

It works out for anybody of all fitness levels,” Josh Britton said. “Whether or not your goal is just to move and lift better

or if you goal it make it to the CrossFit games. It is awesome, and we love it.”

The couple started CrossFit in September 2013 after hearing about the workout regime from friends. Both having what can be physically challenging jobs at the Jasper County Sheriff ’s Office and Newton Police Department, they were looking for a way to be active and stay in shape. A week into the program the two were hooked and eventually became certified trainers in 2015.

After more than a year of work, Cornfed CrossFit, located at 200 E. 12th St. S., Suite B in Newton, is now open

Monday through Friday with classes scheduled at 5:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. An open gym workout time is also available from 8 to 10 a.m. on Saturdays.

“Typically a class will come in, we will do a warm up as a group to make sure everybody is ready to go,” Josh Britton said. “We will do a skill or weight lifting whether it be working on pullups or jump rope and even going into doing bar work for Olympic lifts. Then we will do a work out and we can go anywhere from two minutes to an hour taking up the whole class. It could be running a mile CROSSFIT | 3A

Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News Led by owner Josh Britton, participants demonstrate various CrossFit skills and workouts at the open house for Cornfed CrossFit on Saturday in Newton. The new fitness center is open Monday through Friday with classes at 5:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. An open gym workout time is also available from 8 to 10 a.m. on Saturdays.

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Ashland named Theisen’s director of IT Theisen’s Home, Farm, Auto has announced the hiring of Jared Ashland for the position of Director of IT. In this role, Ashland will direct all functions related to technology and information systems.

Ashland will begin his responsibilities on Jan. 16.

Ashland joins Theisen’s Home, Farm, Auto with years of information technology experience, including six years in various, expanding roles at Jewelers Mutual Insurance Company, including VP of Information Technology where he was involved in Ashland system strategies, security, project management and IT capabilities/assessment.

Ashland holds a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Luther College, Decorah, and a Masters Certificate in Software Development from the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minn.

“Having Jared fill this key IT role is exciting for Theisen’s, as technology continues to be a keystone of success for all retailers,” Brannon Dixon, President of Theisen’s said.

Ashland and his family plan to relocate to the Dubuque area from their current location of Appleton, Wis. in the near future.

Kayla Langmaid/Daily News The Lemon Tree Teahouse and Restaurant owner Megan Pryke formally owned the Hunter Mansion in Newton. Pyre opened the new teahouse in October. The new location is 309 First Ave. W.

The Lemon Tree Teahouse & Restaurant opens on First Avenue Former Hunter Mansion business relocated in October

By Kayla Langmaid Newton Daily News Step inside The Lemon Tree Teahouse & Restaurant and find a whimsical setting, the scent of scones baking and warm tea awaiting. Business owner Megan Pryke wanted to carry over the same tea time traditions to her new location that were previously found at the Hunter Mansion in Newton.

Since October, Pryke has been settling into the new location located at 309 First Ave. W. The yellow two-story house is filled with quaint tables that are always set up for guests.

Pryke said when she knew she would be moving to a new location, the yellow house that sits off of First Avenue caught her eye.

“This house had just been completely updated, redone and painted,” Pryke said. “It felt like it was the right move to make.”

The next step was to find a name that better suited the house.

Ideas for a new name were tossed around, and Pryke’s choice was The Lemon Tree Teahouse.

“We do a lot of things with lemon,” Pryke said. “We ended up putting names into a hat, and I ended up picking the one that I really wanted.”

That name has gotten a lot of attention around town, according to Pryke.

“The other name fit that house,

it was appropriate there, but it didn’t feel like it fit here,” Pryke said.

Pryke said a positive change that occurred with the new location is now having a house that stands out.

“I’m getting a lot of calls from people locally who had forgotten about the other location,” she said. “We are definitely drawing more attention here, which was one of the major goals.”

In addition to a location change, a few changes have been made to the restaurant’s menu.

“We wanted to be more friendly for the people working downtown, so we have added a lunch special,” Pryke said. “Because I have a little more space now, once a month on the third Thursday of the month, we are going to start doing a nice formal dinner.”

This month the dinner will consist of butternut squash soup, house salad, an herb stuffed beef tenderloin or a honey glazed salmon with a drink included.

“Because I’m here, and I stand out more it gives me the ability to expand and because of that I have had to hire on two extra people,” Pryke said. “It was all about growth and development and it is just terrific.”

Pryke said she has also received guests from out of town, which has allowed her to promote Newton and its other small town businesses.

“It gives me the opportunity to have people here and then to send them out to other stores in town to really see what Newton has to offer, and I think that is a great thing,” Pryke said.

Pryke also prides herself in buying a lot of food and meat from local farmers. Pryke’s chicken and eggs come from a local farmer in Sully, and her pork comes from the Malcom Meat Locker.

“Everything we use we try to use as much locally as possible,” she said. “Every week we go to the grocery store and we get fresh vegetables, it is really important to me to have things as fresh as possible and as much taste as possible.”

Favorite foods you can find at The Lemon Tree Teahouse include the chicken salad croissant, quiche, hot ham and apple cheddar melt, scones, fresh soup and dessert.

“I have had customers tell me that the scones are the best they’ve ever had and that is a huge compliment,” Pryke said.

The Lemon Tree Teahouse is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday. Reservations are preferred but not required.

The restaurant also offers catering services.

Get to Know Newton leadership class seeks participants The Newton Development Corporation is again partnering with the Jasper Community Foundation and the DMACC Newton Campus to offer the Get to Know Newton Leadership Class. The class is held on Tuesday evenings in room 258 at the Newton DMACC Campus. The eight week course runs from Jan. 31 through March 28. There is no class on March 14.

Class size is limited to 22 participants. Information about the class is available at the Newton Development Corporation office at room 268 at DMACC or visit www.newtondevelomentcorporation.com and click on “Get to Know Newton” on the front page.

Contact Kayla Langmaid at 641-792-3121 ext. 6513 or klangmaid@newtondailynews.com

Obama’s final jobs report: Big pay gain, slower hiring WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ paychecks rose in December at the fastest pace in more than seven years as steady hiring and low unemployment led some businesses to pay more to attract and keep workers.

Employers added 156,000 jobs, a decent total that shows that moderate hiring remains sustainable 7½ years after the recovery from the Great Recession began. The report provided the last major snapshot of the economy President-elect Donald Trump will inherit from President Barack Obama.

The figures also reflect the job market’s vast improve-

ment from the deep layoffs and surging unemployment rate that prevailed when Obama took office in January 2009. Last month, the jobless rate was just 4.7 percent, up from a nine-year low of 4.6 percent in November, but far below the painful 10 percent peak of October 2009. Employers have added jobs for 75 straight months — the longest streak on record.

Even so, the job market remains a mixed picture. Hiring slowed last year, with the economy adding 2.2 million jobs, the smallest full-year gain since 2012. Job growth averaged 180,000 a month — enough to lower the un-

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employment rate over time — but down from 229,000 in 2015.

And many people, particularly men without a college education, have suffered as the job market has shifted away from blue collar work in manufacturing and mining toward industries that either require higher skills, like information technology, or that pay less, such as health care. The proportion of men in their prime working years who either have a job or are looking for one has continued to drop.

In addition, the number of part-time workers who would prefer full-time work, while

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percent from a year earlier, a welcome change from the sluggish wage growth that has been a longstanding weak spot in the economic recovery.

Many companies will likely raise prices to offset the cost of raises, which in turn would lift inflation. If inflation accelerates, the Federal Reserve may raise short-term interest rates at a faster pace this year.

“Pay raises, while good for workers, represent cost increases for firms,” Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at employment website Glassdoor. “The Fed pays attention to that.”

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Those weak spots will likely challenge Trump as much as they did his predecessor.

“More people are back at work than at any point since the recession,” noted Jed Kolko, chief economist at the job site Indeed. “However, Trump will inherit an economy that’s riding high but faces long-term challenges. Fewer adults are at work than before the recession, manufacturing is lagging despite an uptick in December and the acceleration in wage growth, while great for workers, could raise inflation fears.”

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Local & State News Needs Continued from Page 1A “You go to get the ID and the voter ID is free but if they get a regular ID they have to pay for that one,” Bishop said.

Bishop also explained that while in Jasper County a visit to get an ID can take as little as 20 minutes, in more urban areas people have to take a day of vacation to get in line early in the morning

in hopes of getting an ID that day.

They have also seen cases where older citizens no longer drive and their ID has expired or may have never applied for a driver’s license and the process of having to get a new or updated ID would hinder them from getting out to vote, he said.

“The system we have in place seems to work pretty well and I am anxious to see if it is truly go-

www.newtondailynews.com | Monday | Jan. 9, 2017 | 3A ing to suppress and make it harder for some elderly people to vote, is it going to be a cost factor on the state, where is it going to land,” Breckenridge said.

All of the elected officials encouraged citizens to engage with them whether it be at gatherings like the coffee or through email or a call to their office.

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Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News Sen. Chaz Allen, D-Newton, makes a point during the first Coffee with a Mayor event of 2017 Saturday in Prairie City. Hosted by Mayor Chad Alleger, the event also featured Jasper County Treasurer Doug Bishop, D-Baxter, and State Rep.-elect Wes Breckenridge.

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“When Ukrainian land was under Russia we were not able to speak Ukrainian and we were not able to write, everything was in Russian,” Dovganyuk said.

“Chevchenko was a slave writing in Ukrainian and he was very talented.

When he and his owner moved to St. Petersburg, when he didn’t work he would run to the park and paint. Some famous people saw him and saw he was very talented and they decided to buy him and send him to school.”

Another famous artist, Kateryna Bilokur, was a self-taught mater of primitive art and decorative fold painting who caught the eye of notable artist including Pablo Picasso. Her art included flowers and fruits in gardens, orchards, fields; still life; and several portraits and self-portraits. Her paintings display originality, vivid coloring and great attention to detail.

“She never went to school, it is not what she did everyday, it was just between doing things,” Dovganyuk said.

Like most countries, Ukraine has a variety of traditions, many connected to major holidays. Dovganyuk shared two featured at Christmas and Easter time.

Every year, a large Christmas tree is set up on Independence Square, but due to the protest in Dec. 2013, the tree became a barri-

to doing sprints, doing heavy barbell workout. We can do everyone from an experience CrossFit athlete to people are just beginners.”

He said, as a certified CrossFit instructor, a lot of he and his wife’s time during the class is spent making sure everyone is completing the moves properly and are at the right skill levels. While CrossFit athletes can often completing complicated, intense skills, they said people of any skill level are welcome to start at CrossFit. “It is scalable,” Julie Britton said. “Say you haven’t worked out in a couple of years, come in and we’ll get you getting body work movements. We start slow, we don’t want injuries.”

During open gym on Saturdays, people can come in and work on areas of focus or catch up on a workout from earlier in the week.

“You can come in and work on stretching or work on a skill,” Julie Britton said. “Say you want to get a pull up done, we can work on progressions so we can get you to that level. Also, if you missed a workout during the week and want to do it that day, you can come in. We have the equipment, just come in and use it.”

After a month under their belts, the couple is excited to continue to share CrossFit and see their workout community grow.

“We hope and pray that as we learn and grow our gym/box family we can offer a better way of life to not only our friends and family, but to the same people that we serve and protect everyday,” Josh Britton said. “We want to be able to help people be courageous and be able to be strong enough for themselves, both physically and mentally.”

For more information about Cornfed CrossFit visit www.cornfed-crossfit.com or call 641-5219550.

Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News Authentic Ukrainian art is on display such as ornately decorated Easter eggs, in Mariya Dovanyuk’s newly opened museum.

dolls are thought to be guardian of the house, a symbol of wisdom and connection between generations. It is believed to protect the house, bring good luck and prosperity to families.

Another tradition is for the girls to begin working on sewing pieces to place in a trunk to bring to their future husband when they get married.

“Usually a girl, before she married, she would cross stitch and would put it in her chest and when she was married she would bring to her husband,” Dovganyuk said.

“If you look in the chest if the stuff inside is pretty then you know she will be a good wife but if it isn’t then she might not be as good,” Sveta Miller, Dovganyuk’s daughter, add-

Trivia night set for Saturday A trivia night will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the McCann Center in Newton.

The entry fee is $100 per table and teams can have up to eight people at a table. Doors open at 7 p.m.

A prize will be given at the end of the evening for the best decorated table/players using the theme, Emoji. Attendees are invited to bring their own snacks and beverages for the table.

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Also in the collection is a variety of clothing pieces, photos from their home city, art and history books and many pieces of art and life from Ukraine. To complete the experience, Dovganyuk provided authentic dishes from Ukraine including Nalesniki, a crepe with farmers cheese and raisins, Kampot, a homemade fruit drink and Varenyky, dumplings with potatoes and chicken.

The museum does not have regular hours but is open by appointment to those interested seeing and learning about the Ukrainian culture. For more information call 641-521-7145 or visit her Facebook page Mariya’s Ukrainian Room.

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caded area that citizens then draped with flags to create their own tree.

Dovganyuk has a replica tree which was created

by Volodymyr Sukhinin, an Iowa State University student who is originally from Donetsk in Ukraine.

Another tradition are pysank, or the Ukrainian Easter egg. The word “pysanka” comes from the verb pystay, “to write,” as the designs are not painted on but written with beeswax.

In family life, Dovganyuk shared how she grew up making her own toys and sewing, in preparation to marry some day.

“I remember when I was a child we didn’t have toys to play with.

We would make dolls with yarn and from fabric,” Dovganyuk said.

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ome stories begin in the middle where the oddity lies. This one involves a giant marshmallow sculpture, a Guinness World Record attempt and a woman who would do anything to engage her community.

I met Tina, who was then serving as the executive director of the Marshalltown Central Business District, when I began volunteering for the Main Street Iowa organization. As oftentimes happens when you’re sitting together in long meetings, organizing events and actively involved, Tina and I became friends.

I soon discovered Tina’s unwavering passion for her career and family. A mother of three daughters, Tina’s husband traveled frequently for work, so her girls were almost always in tow outside of school hours.

While she helped spur downtown de-

velopment, she also was responsible for the success of many events that helped celebrate the district. She brought the farmers’ market back to Main Street and transformed it into an event not to be missed. But the marshmallow sculpture idea was created for the annual holiday stroll.

Now we didn’t mess around with the stroll. I was chairing the kickoff to the holiday season this particular year and activities included a live nativity, ice sculpture carver, lumberjack contest, lighted parade and flash mob.

Somehow Tina happened across a Guinness World Record for a marshmallow sculpture and insisted we give it a shot. The next thing I know she had hundreds of bags of marshmallows donated to the effort, arranged for the venue to build the thing, consulted an engineer and en-

listed the help of dozens of volunteers for the construction leading up to the holiday stroll event.

This story did not end with a record-breaking success. It did engage the community and garnered some food donations for the Salvation Army, since that was a criteria for participation. Mostly it was a sticky mess, many funny moments, and it meant we would keep trying new things.

As a newspaper journalist you discover some stories are routine — board meetings, weather, event coverage. Others are unrelenting and heartbreaking.

Those stories I typically assign to reporters to avoid dredging up the emotion and the possibility of sharing a box of tissues with a suffering family. But then there was Tina, diagnosed with stage four colon and brain cancer and I couldn’t turn away.

At first, there were the many calls to her husband Alex and about the surgeries, prognosis and outcomes, but before long I was writing about a cancer survivor.

Three years ago I was following Tina

as she organized her Relay for Life team, participated in the Livestrong cancer survivor program at the Y and mothered her girls and loved them wholly. The headline read “Fighting Back” and described how the disease catapulted her into the battle for her life — it was a story about her cancer-free diagnosis.

But she would have to continue fighting with cancer and for her life. Two days before Christmas she lost her battle, and the following week I said goodbye at her funeral.

Tina demonstrated to me that you can have it all — career, family, commitment to community, faith and even some fun.

Our friendship taught me there’s time to work 50-plus hours a week, volunteer, workout, do nice things for your friends and get your kids fed every night.

The three little girls who were always in tow are growing up smart and fearless like their mother. They are embracing the same things I learned from Tina, and so much more. And that’s just the story so far.

Contact Abigail Pelzer at apelzer@newtondailynews.com

Eye on America John Stossel

The Trump Years Two more weeks until the new administration begins!

I wonder if President Donald Trump will stick to his campaign promises — like reducing immigration and slamming consumers by imposing a 35 percent tariff.

Hope not.

But it could have been much worse.

Bernie Sanders wanted to make college free, even though professors say classes are filled with privileged students who party and just kill time.

Both Sanders and Hillary Clinton promised a higher minimum wage and a thousand other new commandments that would do more harm than good.

Every Republican candidate vowed to increase defense spending, even though the U.S. is going broke and already spends more than the next seven biggest nations combined, while half the democratic world freeloads off America’s armed forces.

I’m relieved that many of Trump’s promises were vague or contradictory. That allows me to hope that he’ll only do things that I like.

At this point, I’m in somewhat of an infatuation period, like that afflicting a teenager excited about a new boyfriend or girlfriend.

No, I’m not infatuated with Trump. His magical thinking scares me. What gives me optimism are many of Trump’s appointments. He’s surrounded himself with people who “get it,” who understand the harm done by overregulation and the benefits created by economic growth.

Larry Kudlow as economic advisor?! Paul Atkins, Andy Puzder and Betsy DeVos in important positions?!

Who would have thought that?! Not me.

I bet Mitt Romney wouldn’t have appointed them.

I also celebrate waking up and realizing that our new president-elect is not Hillary Clinton. We don’t have to suffer through more years of progressive sanctimony.

So what will Donald Trump’s presidency bring? Will America be “great again”? Will we “have win after win” until we “get sick and tired of winning”? I doubt it.

It would be easier to judge progress had the Libertarian Party candidate won. We could measure whether the party kept its promise to shrink government, cut spending, lower taxes, decrease overseas military commitments, deregulate and butt out of people’s private lives.

Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, sounding like the Founders of our nation, often answered reporters’ grandiose questions by saying, “I’m not running for king .” Unlike Donald Trump, a narcissistic bully who often tells us he’s “in charge,” Johnson understood that decision-making power is best left in the hands of individual citizens.

Libertarians also respect Friedrich Hayek’s insight: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they know about what they imagine they can design.”

Will such modesty carry weight in Trump’s administration? I’m still hopeful. So are stock market investors.

But none of us knows enough to be sure.

I assume 2017 will be about the same as the years before, even with someone as unusual as Trump in the White House.

He talks about “draining the swamp,” but we’ve seen how quickly he can pivot back to business as usual.

Many Iowa voters love the federal government’s ethanol subsidies (even though they’re cruel and expensive to most of America), so during Iowa’s Republican primary, Trump joined the ethanol-praising club. In fact, he said regulators should force gas stations to increase the ethanol they use.

It was a pander to try to take votes from Trump’s main Iowa rival, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who courageously said the ethanol mandate should be phased out.

Trump is a businessman, so I assume he knew that the ethanol mandate is a special interest scam. But in Iowa, Trump just said, “Ethanol is terrific.”

I fear that 2017 will bring us more of the same: politicians doing what they think will make the loudest voters happy.

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Get to know Newton taxes

Newton’s taxes are outrageous.

We tax like crazy, our city property tax levy rate is only topped by four other cities in Iowa. The average for cities in Iowa with a population over 10,000 is $14.12,

we are at $17.15. Our aggregate property tax rate is $42.40 in Newton. Both of these numbers are alarming.

If you travel 30 minutes to the south you can enjoy an aggregate tax of only $33.01 in Pella, or travel 25 miles to the west and you can be in Altoona with only a

$9.94 city property tax levy. I will echo recent letters to the editor and say the spending is atrocious in this community. With a population that has not increased in 50 years, maybe lowering the taxes would help?

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​ edical aid in dying: M A hallmark of patient-centered care

By Barbara Coombs Lee and Kim Callinan One thing the national election did not change: as the nation’s 75 million baby boomers retire, an ever growing number grapple with the reality that people die in circumstances they would not choose. At a time when the country is divided, the election showed one issue unites us: personal choice in end-of-life care.

The most recent proof? By a nearly 30-point margin, Colorado voters approved a citizen-led Endof-Life Options ballot initiative on Nov. 8. The new law gives terminally ill adults the option to get a doctor’s prescription for medication they may decide to take to end unbearable suffering, by dying peacefully in their sleep. Voters across a broad demographic range supported Prop. 106, according to exit polling conducted for The Associated Press and television networks in Colorado.

This Colorado victory stands in a line of advances for the endof-life choice movement over the past two years. 1) California enacted a medical aid-in-dying law that took effect in June; 2) the District of Columbia Council passed medical aid-in-dying legislation and

the mayor signed it Dec. 19; and 3) lawmakers in 19 states introduced medical aid-in-dying bills this year.

The question before us is why is the issue of medical aid in dying gaining so much momentum? And how can we leverage this momentum to improve general end-of-life care?

During the past 20 years, our country has made little or no progress on key quality indicators: non-beneficial treatment is still on the rise; advanced directives are still ignored; and admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) in the last 30 days of life continue to rise. People want to die at home, but twothirds die in institutions.

Respected policy makers publicly acknowledge that we won’t change these key quality indicators until a populist movement rises to drive a transformation. Obviously, the consumer movement already exists. But to harness the power of this movement, the palliative care community and medical establishment must embrace patients’ desire for self-determination, including shortening an intolerable dying process.

The American public has embraced medical aid in dying because it puts patients firmly in charge of their own decisions about

end-of-life care. To patients, it is a prime litmus test of person-centered care. It exemplifies a medical system that respects patients by allowing them to assert their values and priorities as death approaches.

However, Medical Aid in Dying is only a start. To truly transform end-of-life care in this country, we need to stop the conveyor belt of over treatment and false promises.

We need to ensure that healthcare providers give people complete information about all their end-oflife care options. It is the only way to ensure patients make fully-informed treatment decisions.

Today, we call upon leaders within the medical, policy and palliative care communities to recognize the growing consumer movement. We call on them to unite around a new definition of “patient-centered care.” A definition that respects patients’ values and priorities around death as paramount...even if they differ from those of the healthcare community.

Only by working together will we finally make noticeable, significant improvements on key quality indicators of end of life care. Then people will finally be able to die the way most of us want: peacefully, at home, and in the arms of our loved ones.

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Obituaries Richard A. Hansen Dec. 31, 2016 Richard (Dick) Alan Hansen, 62, of Bloomington, Ill., passed away Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016.

Dick was b o r n in Des Moines Feb. 26, 1954. His parents were Charles Summerfield Hansen and Ruth (Swanson) Hansen Allen.

Dick’s family moved

Sean Patrick Ryan Jan. 4, 2017 Sean Patrick Ryan, 14, of rural Newton, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at Mercy Me d i c a l Center in Des Mo i n e s .

A memorial service will be at noon Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Wallace Family Funeral Home and

to Newton in 1963, after Ruth married Robert Allen. Dick was known for being a hard worker and always wanting to earn money. He had an early morning paper route delivering the Des Moines Register then worked for Shell gas station as a teenager.

After graduating from Newton High School in Newton in 1972, Dick started working for Lloyd Versteegh’s Roto-Rooter Service.

Dick was married to Pam (Badger) Hansen in 1974. They had one son, Cristopher Richard Hansen. They left Newton in 1982, when

he purchased the Marshalltown Roto-Rooter franchise.

Dick moved to Peoria, Ill., when he purchased a Roto-Rooter franchise there. Later Dick married and he and Paula had two daughters, Jordan and Jacie Hansen, as well as two step-daughters, Shannon and Holly. Dick moved to Bloomington, Ill., where he owned Clogbusters Sewer Drain Cleaning.

Dick’s family and many friends called him Red because of his red hair. He was full of life and everyone knew that he loved to tell a joke or a story and relive

old memories. He had a great sense of humor and loved to laugh.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents and parents. Left to honor his memory are his son, Cris (Sarah) Hansen of Columbus, Ohio; his two daughters and step daughters; his sister, Debi (Carl) Danielson of Wilmington, N.C.; his brother, Bill (Angela) Hansen of Des Moines; his sister, Diane (Larry) Plumb of Newton; his aunt, Kay Swanson of Liberty, Mo.; and several cousins and nieces and nephews. A private family memorial is being planned.

Crematory. The family will greet friends from 10 a.m. until the time of service at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials in Sean’s name may be left at the funeral home.

Sean, the son of Jim and Jennifer (Cook) Ryan, was born Aug. 11, 2002, in Park Ridge, Ill. As a child Sean lived in Wisconsin where he attended Forest Park Elementary and John Paul II Academy; in Omaha where he went to Neihardt Elementary and Millard North Mid-

dle; and most recently in Newton, where he was an eighth grader at Berg Middle School.

Sean was a member of the Berg Middle School basketball team and also ran track and cross country. He was a spontaneous, risk taking, adrenaline junkie that wanted to be a U.S. Marine. Sean loved his family pets and was affectionately known as the “chicken whisperer.”

He was also very handy and enjoyed working on projects from plumbing, to wiring, to building a

chicken coop.

Sean is survived by his parents, Jim and Jennifer “Darby” Ryan of rural Newton; sister, Shannon Ryan of rural Newton; maternal grandmother, Mary Cook of Roanoke,Va.; and the Ryan and Cook families including his aunts, uncles and cousins; and his many, many friends. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandpa, George Richard Cook; paternal grandparents, John “Jack” and Doris Ryan; and an uncle, John Ryan.

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Paul E. Neufarth, 80, of Flint, Mich., died Dec. 30, 2016 in Flint.

Paul was born April 29, 1 9 3 6 , to Paul H. and L a Ve s t a (Morrow) Neufarth in Newton. He married Grace Foreman Aug. 1, 1969. Paul graduated fro the Iowa School for the Deaf. He love to fish and spend time with his family.

Paul is survived by one son, Nathan (Terri) Neufarth; and sister, Cynda Doland. He is preceded in death by his parents; brother, Merlin; and grandparents.

Samuel Buckingham, 91, of Prairie City, died Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, at Courtyard Estates in Pleasant Hill.

A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 9 at the Prairie City Church of The Brethren, with burial following at Griffis Cemetery.

Condolences may be left for the family at www.coburnfuneralhomes.com.

Eloise Krajnovich Jan. 9, 2017 Eloise Krajnovich, 97, of Newton, died Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at Newton Village Care Center in Newton. Services are pending at Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton.

Jan. 6, 2017 Helen Mae Cushatt Faidley, 92, of Prairie City, died Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, at her home. A funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10 at Coburn Funeral Home in Prairie City. Burial will follow at Newton Union Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 8 at the funeral home. Condolences may be left for the family at www.coburnfuneralhomes.com.

Jan. 7, 2017 Irene Elizabeth, 89, of Newton, died Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, at Accura Healthcare of Newton West.

Funeral services for Irene are pending, and the Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton, have been entrusted with the arrangements.

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

Maxine Atwood Maxine Atwood, 95, of Newton, died Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at Nelson Manor in Newton.

Services are pending at Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton.

Jan. 6, 2017 Shirley Ray, 93, of Newton, died Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. Services are pending at Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton.

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• January Book Club will meet at 6:15 p.m.

Monday at Baxter Community Library, 202 E. State St. to discuss “The Last Original Wife” by Dorothea Benton Frank.

• Prairie City TOPS Open House will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Family Life Center on East Jefferson Street in Prairie City. For more information call 515-994-2200.

• Newton Golden “K” Kiwanis will meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the activity room at Newton Village, 110 N. Fifth Ave. W. in Newton.

• Congressman Dave Loebsack’s District Representative Bri Dennison will host open office hours at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Uncle Nancy’s Coffeehouse & Eatery, 114 N. Second Ave. W. in Newton.

• Newton Rotary Club will meet at noon Tuesday at Newton DMACC. The program will be presented by Gary Parsons on the history of the Newton Rotary Club. Anyone interested in attending and learning more about the Newton Rotary Club is welcome. For more information, or to make reservations for lunch, call Jerry Sawin at 641-792-9861.

• January Early Out Club will meet at 1 p.m.

Tuesday at Baxter Community Library, 202 E. State St. Early out club is the first early out of the month and meets to make crafts and play games.

• 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.

Dinner will be in the basement of the church.

• 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.

• Monthly Potluck will meet at noon Tuesday at Jasper County Senior Center in Newton.

Golden Agers Club and the senior center host its annual luncheon. Entertainment, meeting and Bingo will be included at the event. Bring your own place setting and a covered dish to share or a donation.

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Key to wife’s hoarding may be in her genes

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I and our 13-year-old son live in a nice home we have been remodeling for the last eight years. The problem is, my wife has a hard time getting rid of anything, and she constantly brings home “new projects” that take up space but never get done. At one point, we hired a professional organizer because we had reached the point of having “goat trails” as the only means of navigating our way around the house. We also have a barn that is chockablock full.

I have heard that the root cause may be due to an anomaly on a chromosome. How should I approach my wife about getting some genetic testing done? Her mom is also a professional pack rat. The clutter is taking its toll on our relationship — we are in marriage counseling — and on our family. We have so much stuff I can’t breathe. — SUFFOCATING IN MONTANA DEAR SUFFOCATING: It is interesting that your wife’s mother also has this problem. Hoarding is related to obsessive-compulsive disorder, which can run in families, and has been known to be associated with depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder.

It couldn’t hurt if your wife had genetic testing done, but the suggestion might be better coming from the marriage counselor rather than from you, because if she hears it from you, she might become defensive or resistant.

DEAR ABBY: I have worked at the same small company for 25 years.

All but one of the employees have been with this company for more than 20 years. “Grace” has been here only three years. She is pleasant, funny, trustworthy and easy to be around.

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If something is in the refrigerator,

she feels it is fair game to eat it. If I bring something she wants, she will come up to me, take the bag and ask, “What’s for lunch this week?”

I keep snacks in my desk, and she knows which drawer I keep them in.

When I reach for something to hold me over, sometimes the drawer will be empty and the bag will be on her desk or in her trash. It infuriates me.

I have made subtle comments on how this upsets me. I have progressed to no longer bringing my lunch. I know she can afford her own lunch.

She earns more than I do and doesn’t have children or a mortgage. How do I tell this woman to keep her hands off my lunch and snacks? — HUNGRY IN HOUSTON DEAR HUNGRY: How “trustworthy” can Grace be if she steals your food? When her outrageous behavior and petty thievery started, you shouldn’t have hinted — you should have TOLD the woman to keep her hands off your lunch and out of your desk drawers. If she didn’t respect your wishes, you should have reported it to your supervisor or your boss.

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DAVENPORT — Police have charged a Davenport woman with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of her husband while he slept.

Police arrested 52-year-old Shiela Jo Jasper after responding to her home Saturday night to investigate a death.

Officers found 64-year-old Mark Jasper dead from a gunshot wound.

An arrest affidavit states that Jasper told police she shot Jasper in the head while he was asleep on a living room chair.

SUMNER — Authorities have identified the man killed during a weekend home invasion in northeast Iowa.

The Bremer County Sheriff ’s office says 46-year-old Steven Anthony of Davenport, Iowa, died during after a shooting in the home in Sumner on Friday night.

Another person was injured in the incident, but Sheriff Dan Pickett declined Sunday to identify the other people who were in the home. Pickett described the incident as a home invasion.

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Man gets life for girlfriend kidnapping, attack BURLINGTON— A Burlington man accused of refusing to let his 16-year-old girlfriend leave then using a machete and skateboard to attack her has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, a required sentence in Iowa for first-degree kidnapping. Dakota Poland, 21, was sentenced Friday he repeatedly interrupted attorneys. When allowed to speak he told prosecutors that what they’d done to him would “be on your shoulders for the rest of your life.”

IOWA CITY — Investigators are trying to determine what caused a house fire that killed one person in Iowa City.

The Iowa City Fire Department says firefighters were called to the home around 1:45 a.m. Sunday.

When crews arrived, they found a fire burning in the basement and heavy smoke billowing through the home.

One person died in the fire.

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Autopsies planned on bodies found in home FORT DODGE — Autopsies are planned on the bodies of a man and woman found in a Fort Dodge home.

The bodies were found Friday afternoon but their identities haven’t been released.

Fort Dodge Police Chief Kevin Doty says foul play isn’t suspected. The bodies were taken to the state medical examiner’s office in Ankeny for autopsies.

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GOP could make sweeping changes in Legislature

By Barbara Rodriguez The Associated Press DES MOINES — Following an election that gave them strong majorities in the state Senate and House, Republicans will take charge of the next session of the Iowa Legislature on Monday with ambitious plans to restrict abortion, decrease collective bargaining power for unions and cut taxes despite looming budget constraints.

Democrats don’t hold a majority in either chamber for the first time in nearly 20 years, so they can do little to stop GOP lawmakers. And action could come quickly as outgoing Gov. Terry Branstad has said he plans to sign legislation into law before he resigns to become the next U.S. ambassador to China.

Here’s a look at some key issues: COLLECTIVE BARGAINING Branstad has said he wants to eliminate language in Io-

wa’s collective bargaining law that allows unions to negotiate health insurance coverage for public workers. Branstad argues the state could simplify that process and save money, though he hasn’t released a specific plan or projected savings. Unions say the move would hurt those workers by raising their health care costs.

At a press conference at the Capitol on Thursday, some of those workers expressed reservations about changes to the law, which could extend past health care provisions.

Pleasant Hill police officer Adam Choat said the current law ensures officers have a voice on important issues regarding their pay, training and safety. “We should try not to fix what is not broken,” he said.

ABORTION Republicans confirm they will explore a range of abortion restrictions, though they’ve been mum so far on specifics. A new coalition of anti-abortion groups will

April hearing set in open records dispute on police shooting BURLINGTON (AP) — A judge could hear arguments from an Iowa newspaper in April as it seeks records related to a fatal 2015 police shooting in Burlington.

An April 19 hearing has been scheduled in its effort to obtain police videos and other records.

Burlington officer Jesse Hill accidentally shot 34-year-old Autumn Steele in January 2015 while responding to a fight between Steele and her husband.

The newspaper and Steele’s family want to see investigative files related to the shooting.

Burlington police and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are resisting the open records request. They say they have fulfilled what the law requires by releasing basic details about the shooting and a 12-second video from Hill’s body camera.

The agencies’ lawyers argue that the Division of Criminal Investigation went beyond what was required by releasing the video clip, so they have filed motions to dismiss the records case. The judge will rule on those motions before deciding whether to go forward with the April hearing.

The case centers on the question of whether the exemption from open records law for law enforcement investigative records is absolute.

And the case could help establish the circumstances under which recordings from police body and dashboard cameras should be released to the public. Special prosecutor Mark McCormick, who was appointed to help the Iowa Public Information Board in this case, said there isn’t a clear law stating when those videos must be released.

lobby for a comprehensive bill during the first week of the session that could include six to 10 items, according to Jenifer Bowen, executive director of Iowa Right to Life.

Bowen said the bill won’t include proposals to remove funding for Planned Parenthood or a ban on abortions at certain weeks of pregnancy. Some variations of a socalled 20-week ban are in effect in more than a dozen states. Bowen said exclusions in the bill don’t mean those measures can’t turn up in other legislation.

VOTER ID Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate has announced a bill that would require voters to have identification at the polls, despite little evidence of fraudulent voting in the state. Pate’s office is seeking $1 million to implement the bill, which would require an Iowa driver’s license or other approved ID to vote. College students wouldn’t be able to use their

school-issued identification card, a system that is currently allowed. Pate’s office said those students and others could receive free special identification cards, but Democrats contend that process will disenfranchise them and other groups of voters. Monica Biddix with the Iowa Democratic Party said in a statement, “Iowans cannot afford to spend about a million dollars to combat a non-existent problem for the sole purpose of impeding Iowans’ access to the polls.”

TAXES Republicans have said for weeks that they want to make changes to Iowa’s tax rules this session, including cuts to corporate and income taxes. “We’re frankly looking at a large multitude of different policies at this stage,” said Sen. Bill Dix, a Republican from Shell Rock who will be elected as Senate majority leader on Monday. But they may face

Trials for brothers charged in Iowa lottery scandal delayed until July DES MOINES (AP) — Trials for brothers charged with ongoing criminal conduct in Iowa for allegedly fixing lottery games to collect jackpots have been delayed.

District Court Judge Bradley McCall entered an order Wednesday moving the trial for Eddie Tipton to July 10. His trial had been scheduled to begin Feb. 13.

His brother, Tommy Tipton, a former Texas justice of the peace, was facing trial Jan. 23. His trial date was moved to Sept. 11.

Attorneys for both sides agreed to the rescheduling.

Eddie Tipton was a lottery computer technology official at the Urbandale, Iowa-based

Multi-State Lottery Association whose job was to write software designed to randomly pick numbers for lottery computers used for various games by 37 state and territorial lotteries.

Prosecutors allege he took advantage of a false random number generating program he designed and placed in lottery computers that allowed him to predict winning numbers on specific days of the year.

He’s accused of recruiting his brother and an old friend in Texas, Robert Rhodes, to help him cash winning tickets.

Tommy Tipton’s attorney has filed a motion to dismiss the charge, saying the state cannot prove he committed a crime and Eddie Tipton’s attorney says the

DES MOINES (AP) — A special election has been scheduled for a House seat that was vacated by an incoming state senator.

Gov. Terry Branstad signed a proclamation Friday that directs a

special election be held Jan. 31 for House District 89, which includes parts of Scott County in eastern Iowa.

The House seat was held by Democrat Jim Lykam, who reProud to Offer

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The outcome of the race will not affect Republican majorities in either state chamber. The Iowa Legislature convenes Monday.

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Eddie Tipton was previously convicted of a separate lottery fraud and faces an additional charge of money laundering at his upcoming trial.

Assistant Iowa Attorney General Rob Sand, who is prosecuting the cases, alleges the conspiracy netted more than $2 million in winnings from two 2005 Colorado lottery tickets, a 2007 Wisconsin MegaBucks ticket, two 2010 Kansas 2by2 tickets and a 2011 Oklahoma Hot Lotto ticket.

Rhodes agreed to a plea deal and is expected to testify against the Tiptons.

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MINIMUM WAGE The Iowa Legislature hasn’t increased the state’s minimum wage in a decade, and it’s a fact that’s become more pronounced as nearly all surrounding states raise their wages above the $7.25 federal level. Republicans have not disclosed any plans to increase the rate, but they have confirmed intentions to ban counties from raising their local wages. The issue would impact Johnson, Linn, Wapello and Polk counties, where local officials have approved gradually increased minimums that will top out at different rates, from $10.10 to $10.75.

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10 things to know for today The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. MERYL STREEP JABS TRUMP The actress, accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes, uses the occasion to chastise Donald Trump, without using his name.

2. WHERE BAD WEATHER IS ROLLING IN Hundreds of homes are evacuated in Nevada as thunderstorms arrive as part of a massive winter storm that could be the biggest to slam the region in more than a decade.

3. ‘LA LA LAND’ DOMINATES GOLDEN GLOBES Damien Chazelle’s bright-hued Los Angeles musical takes home seven awards — a Golden Globes’ record.

4. AP POLL: OBAMA FELL SHORT AS NATION’S LEADER Less than half of Americans say they’re better off or that Obama brought the country together in his eight years in office.

5. WHY CHINA’S COAL HABIT WILL BE TOUGH TO BREAK Many Chinese still burn coal for warmth — a dependence that

points to the challenges Beijing faces in trying to curb the nation’s choking smog.

6. NO LET-UP IN TENSION WITH PYONGYANG With Trump getting ready to become president, North Korea is talking about launching an ICBM. Washington officials say they’ll shoot down anything that threatens the territory of the U.S. or its allies.

7. IN TEHRAN, GRIEF AT DEATH OF EX-LEADER Iranians pay respect to former Iranian President Rafsanjani as the nation observes three days of mourning.

8. WHAT’S THREATENING TOYOTA’S BIG MONEY-MAKER The Camry has ruled as the top-selling car in the U.S. for 15 years, but now it’s under siege from the SUV craze.

9. SIXTEEN ARRESTED IN KARDASHIAN THEFT Police in Paris link the suspects to the October theft of more than $10 million worth of jewelry from Kim Kardashian West.

10. TIDE ROLLS BEHIND ‘SABAN WAY’ Coach Nick Saban’s system has carried Alabama to the brink of yet another national football championship.

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Streep, Trump trade barbs amid actress’ Globes speech BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Meryl Streep’s acceptance speech after receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes turned out to be the opening volley in a war of words with President-elect Donald Trump.

The actress never mentioned Trump by name, but it was clear who her target was in pointedly saying that a performance from the past year that stunned her came from the campaign trail. She noted an incident where “the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country” imitated a disabled reporter from The New York Times.

“It kind of broke my heart when I saw it,” she said. “I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life.”

Streep said that “when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.”

Trump responded in a series of early morning tweets, calling Streep “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood” and “a Hillary flunky who lost big.”

He also defended himself against claims that he was mocking Times reporter Serge Kovaleski.

Streep’s comments on Trump also drew a backlash among conservatives

AP Photo This image released by NBC shows Meryl Streep accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday.

on social media, including Senator John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, a Fox News host who has been critical of Trump.

“This Meryl Streep speech is why Trump won. And if people in Hollywood don’t start recognizing why and how — you will help him get re-elected,” McCain tweeted.

Streep used the Globes, which are handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, to highlight the diverse background of several of her colleagues and defend journalists.

Streep noted that “Hollywood” is a reviled place. But she said that it’s really a community filled with people from other places united in the mission to show different people and make audiences feel what they feel.

“Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if we kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts,” she said.

Streep put in a plug for vigorous journalism, urging that contributions be made to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Besides endorsing Clinton for president, the actress has been aligned with President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama; the president lauded her (and admitted a crush on her) when he presented Streep with the Presidential Medal of Freedom award in 2014, the highest civilian award in the nation; she traveled with Mrs. Obama as part of the first lady’s Let Girls Learn initiative. Streep was also in attendance at the Obamas blowout farewell party at the White House on Friday with a host of other A-list celebrities.

17 arrested over Kardashian West jewelry heist PARIS (AP) — French police arrested 17 people Monday in connection with the October theft of more than $10 million worth of jewelry from Kim Kardashian West, finding weapons and a large amount of cash during multiple raids.

Paris police officials said the arrests took place starting around 6 a.m. in different locations in the Paris region and the south of France. The suspects, ages 23 to 72, were already known for prior robberies and other crimes, according to one official.

Multiple firearms, including an automatic pistol, and $147,500 in cash were found during the raids, the official said.

The police sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak publicly about the continuing investigation.

The Paris prosecutors’ office confirmed the 17 arrests, but declined to say whether the five people that police have said took part in the actual robbery, including two who forced their way into Kar-

dashian West’s rented apartment, were among those taken into custody.

The suspects can be held for up to 96 hours before police must either charge them or let them go.

Jean Veil, the French lawyer for Kardashian West, said the news of arrests is “a great satisfaction.”

“These arrests are a nice surprise because we might be able to find the jewels,” Veil told the French magazine L’Express Monday.

He said his client could be

interviewed again by investigators and might have to face the suspects.

On Oct. 3, robbers forced their way into the private Paris residence where Kardashian West was staying, tied her up, held her at gunpoint and then locked her in a bathroom before making off with her jewelry. The reality TV star was in Paris attending fashion week shows.

Media reports said police tracked down the suspects through DNA evidence found at the apartment. One official,

also speaking on condition of anonymity, said many were already known for robbery and other crimes.

Earlier this month, the starlet broke her silence on the robbery in a teaser for the family’s reality show, telling two of her sisters her thoughts at the time: “They’re going to shoot me in the back. There’s no way out.”

Police said the thieves stole a jewelry box containing valuables worth $6.7 million as well as a ring worth $4.5 million.

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By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News Before a packed house, the Little Hawkeye Conference showdown at Newton High’s gym Friday night was like a boxing match. Newton High’s Cardinals and the Class 3A second-ranked Pella Little Dutch traded punches right to the end of regulation and into an extra round.

The contest was as even as it gets — 25 2-point field goals and six 3-point field goals per team, nine turnovers each, 28 rebounds for Newton and 27 rebounds for Pella, Newton shot 52.5 percent from the field and Pella shot 48 percent from the field, Pella hit 16-of-25 free throw attempts to Newton’s 15-of-19 at the line.

Pella junior Landon VanderLeest drained a 3-pointer from the corner with less than seven seconds remaining in overtime. The Cardinals took a time out with 6.5 seconds on the clock trailing 84-81.

Cardinal senior Connor Gholson fired up a trey in an attempt to tie the game but missed. Gholson was fouled on the shot sending

him to the free-throw line with no time on the clock. Gholson needed to hit all three attempts to force another extra period.

Gholson’s first free throw was off the mark, which gave the win to Pella. He downed the final two shots to leave the Cardinals one point shy, 84-83.

“I’m proud of our guys. Pella is a very good 3A team and can go up against the 4A teams as well. So can we,” Newton head coach Bill Liley said after the loss. “This was a playoff game atmosphere with a great crowd. The fans got their money’s worth. This game will help us get better.”

Newton had an opportunity to win the game at the end of regulation.

Junior Garrett Sturtz’s shot came up short, but senior Morgan Maher was fouled battling for the rebound as time ran out. Officials put .05 back on the clock as Maher faced a one-and-one. Maher missed and the teams went into a four-minute overtime tied 71-71.

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Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Swiping the ball away from Pella’s Tyson Wassenaar (55) is Newton High senior Josh Ventling, back, in going after a rebound in Friday’s game. The game was up for grabs between the NHS Cardinals and the visiting Pella Little Dutch. Pella prevailed 84-83 in overtime.

Cardinal girls fall to No. 1 Pella NCMP wins

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Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Newton High senior Courtney Jacobsen, left, fires up a 3-pointer in the first half of Friday’s home game against visiting Pella. The top-ranked Lady Dutch beat Newton, 70-35.

Playing the best teams offers opportunities for Newton High’s Cardinal girls to become a better basketball team. The Cardinals are in the right conference as the Little Hawkeye Conference has five teams ranked with three in Class 4A, Class 5A top-ranked Indianola and one ranked in 2A. Senior Courtney Jacobsen connected from outside the 3-point arc with 58 seconds left in the first quarter for Newton High’s first basket of the game.

The Cardinals were still in the game Friday against Class 4A top-ranked Pella.

The Cardinals trailed the Lady Dutch 8-4 at the end of the first quarter. They kept battling through the second stanza to face a 10-point halftime deficit.

“It was that third quarter when the game got completely away from us,” Newton head coach Brandon Sharp said after the Cardinals lost 70-35

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to the visiting Lady Dutch in Little Hawkeye Conference play. “We competed, but our shots didn’t fall like they did Tuesday.”

Newton was down 22-9 midway through the second quarter. Senior Ryanne Rausch scored but it was back-to-back 3-pointer by Jacobsen and junior Taylor Ryan which cut the deficit to seven, 24-17 with 2:32 left in the period. Pella held a 29-19 halftime lead.

The Lady Dutch used a 13-0 run to stretch out the margin as the third quarter began. The Lady Dutch outscored the Cardinals 18-3 in the period for a 47-22 lead heading into the fourth period.

“It was another opportunity to play one of the best teams to become better ourselves,” Sharp said. “We tried to go with a slower-paced offense in the second half to stay in the game. We didn’t execute it as well as we needed to and our level at the defensive end suffered.”

WATERLOO — The Waterloo Invitational swim meet was a great way for NCMP’s boys to get back into competitive swimming. NCMP head coach Sarah Patterson said Saturday’s meet was not scored.

“It was nice to come back from break with a low-pressure competition. Our whole team had a fantastic meet, and we had many time drops and season bests,” Patterson said.

In a meet of relays, there were two individual events contested.

Trotter NCMP’s Cardinals won one of the individuals and was second in the other. NCMP won three of the nine relay events.

Clay Trotter captured first place in the 50yard freestyle race in 23.87 seconds with Clay Meyer taking sixth in 26.86. Nick VerSteeg competed in his first meet of the year, placing 16th in a field of 30 in 30.92 seconds. Spencer Elbert placed 24th in 36.14.

Logan Heisdorffer finished second in the 100 freestyle in 55.85 seconds. Adam Hunter claimed fourth in 57.35 and Grant Hamand had a personal-best time of 1 minute, 6.32 seconds.

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PCM crowns four champs at host invitational Mustang girls rout North Polk C-M’s Fitch wins title, L-S’ Johnson finishes 2nd​

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By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News MONROE — Area wrestlers had the chance to show what they were made of Saturday during the PCM Invitational.

Prairie City-Monroe sophomore Jarron Trausch had the chance to get his season back on track after dropping out of the rankings earlier this season.

Trausch’s teammate, sophomore Lucas Roland, faced somebig-time adversity against another ranked wrestler, too.

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Troy Hyde/Daily News Prairie City-Monroe sophomore Lucas Roland, standing, finished first in the 160-pound weight bracket at the PCM Invitational on Saturday.

MONROE — Playing winless South Hamilton in the first game back from break can be a good thing and a bad thing.

The lack of competition allowed the Prairie City-Monroe girls basketball team to get its feet under them after a long break, but it also didn’t get the Mustangs prepared to face the stiffer challenges in the Heart of Iowa Conference.

The Mustangs got one of those stiffer challenges Friday night, and the difference in competition likely led to a slow start Troy Hyde/Daily News during a 51-31 victory Prairie City-Monroe senior Kaylee Townsend, over North Polk. right, knocks the ball away from a North Polk MUSTANGS | 2B

player during the Mustangs’ win over the Comets on Friday in Monroe.

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SPORTS CALENDAR Monday Basketball Newton boys at Norwalk, 9th 6 p.m., JV 7:30 p.m.

Newton 9th girls at Norwalk, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday Basketball Norwalk at Newton, JV girls 4:45 p.m., varsity girls 6:15 p.m., varsity boys 7:30 p.m.

Colfax-Mingo at Belle Plaine, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

Lynnville-Sully at Sigourney, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

CMB at Nevada, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

PCM at Greene County, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

Wrestling CMB at Colfax-Mingo, 6 p.m.

Thursday Basketball Newton boys at Pella Christian, 9th 6 p.m., JV 7:30 p.m.

Newton 7th girls at Pella, 4:30 p.m.

Pella at Newton 8th girls, 4:30 p.m.

Wrestling Colfax-Mingo at Montezuma quadrangular, 6 p.m.

BGM, Iowa Valley at Lynnville-Sully, 6 p.m.

CMB at Nevada triangular, 6 p.m.

Greene County, South Hamilton at PCM, 6 p.m.

Friday Basketball Newton at Pella Christian, JV girls 4:45 p.m., varsity girls 6:15 p.m., varsity boys 7:30 p.m.

Keota at Colfax-Mingo, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

English Valleys at Lynnville-Sully, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

CMB at Greene County, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

PCM at Roland-Story, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

Norwalk at Newton 8th boys, 4:30 p.m.

Carlisle at Newton 7th girls, 4:30 p.m.

Newton 8th girls at Carlisle, 4:30 p.m.

Newton 7th boys at Norwalk, 4:30 p.m.

Wrestling Newton at Bettendorf Invitational, TBD Saturday Wrestling Newton at Bettendorf Invitational, TBD Lynnville-Sully at Wayne tournament, 9 a.m.

PCM at Centerville tournament, 10 a.m.

Bowling Bondurant-Farrar at Newton, 9 a.m.

Boys Swimming Newton at Fort Dodge Invitational, 12:30 p.m.

Basketball PCM at Pella, girls 1 p.m., boys 2:30 p.m.

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New lineup sparks PCM against North Polk

By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News MONROE — The Prairie City-Monroe boys basketball team adjusted its starting lineup over the holiday break.

Two games into the new starting five, PCM coach Fred Lorensen thinks the change is here to stay.

Senior Mark Bruxvoort put in a season-high 17 points and grabbed nine rebounds, junior Elijah Sperfslage scored another 10 points and sophomore Andrew Van Ryswyk recorded a near double-double during the Mustangs’ 58-35 victory over North Polk during Heart of Iowa Conference play Friday night.

Lorensen inserted sophomore point guard Reed Worth into the starting lineup, and the four-guard lineup appears to be something the Mustangs will use moving forward.

“I think it will be OK,” Lorensen said. “Putting Reed into the lineup gives us another shooter with Elijah and Jackson. He has been playing well, and he helps get us into a more up-tempo style of play.”

Worth replaced junior Noah Lanphier in the starting lineup last Tuesday and the Mustangs nearly handed Class 2A No. 9 South Hamilton its first loss of the season. Worth dished out a team-high five assists and had three steals in the win over North Polk on Friday.

Lorensen said the lineup change wasn’t made because of something Lanphier wasn’t doing. The veteran head coach still plans to use Lanphier a lot with a second unit that is much taller and more dominant in the post.

“We moved Noah inside, and we think that change will be really good for him,” Lorensen said. “He has some nice post moves that will benefit us in the future.”

Bruxvoort played his best game of the season to help make up for the first off night of the season for junior Jackson Thomas.

Thomas came into the game averaging nearly 18 points per game, but North Polk held him to two points.

Colo-NESCO sweeps CMB hoops squads

By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News COLO — The Collins-Maxwell/Baxter boys basketball stayed within striking distance of Colo-NESCO for the first three quarters during a non-conference road game Saturday.

The Raiders simply didn’t make enough shots from outside on the offensive end though during a 77-55 loss.

CMB connected on 23-of-60 from the floor. The Raiders were especially off from outside, making just 7-of-31 from 3-point range.

Damman Colo-NESCO (9-2) led CMB 34-26 at halftime. The Raiders stayed within 10 after three quarters, but the Royals won their sixth straight game after outscoring CMB 26-14 in the final quarter.

Sophomore Will Clapper led the Raiders (28) with 14 points, five rebounds, three assists and two steals, while senior Hunter McWhirter added 12 points, two rebounds and two assists.

Freshman Cole Damman chipped in 11 points, four rebounds, three assists and five steals, and junior Travis Lindemoen collected 11 points and five assists.

Colo-NESCO got 20 points from Garrett Tiarks, while Matthew Hill (15), Sean Cutler (12) and Jacob Clatt (12) all scored in double-figures, too.

The Colo-NESCO girls, ranked fourth in Class 1A, improved to 12-2 with a 59-34 victory.

CMB fell to 6-6 after the loss. Statistics for the Raider girls were not available at press time.

CMB plays at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Nevada.

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Troy Hyde/Daily News Prairie City-Monroe junior Elijah Sperfslage, right, shoots over North Polk’s Austin McArthur during the Mustangs’ 58-35 win over the Comets. Sperfslage scored 10 points in the win.

Bruxvoort made sure the Mustangs still came out on top.

He scored nine of PCM’s first 12 points of the game. Bruxvoort’s effort, along with some crisp ball movement and nifty passing, helped the Mustangs get out to an early lead and the home team wasn’t challenged after pushing the lead to 17-8 after one quarter.

“We are trying to get them to do that better,” Lorensen said of the ball movement.

“We have a lot of guys who like to dribble so we worked over break on trying to pass the ball around to get good shots. We did a nice job tonight.

“When we pass and cut, we can be really hard to guard.

That’s something we will keep

harping on. Hopefully we can keep getting better at it.”

Worth buried a pair of 3-pointers in the second quarter to lift the Mustangs. A 12-4 advantage in the period helped PCM lead 29-12 at the break.

North Polk (2-8 overall, 1-5 in the HOIC) scored as many points (12) in the third quarter as it did in the entire first half, but the Comets were too far behind. PCM still outscored North Polk 29-23 in the final two quarters.

Sperfslage put in five of his 10 points in the first two possessions of the third quarter.

He added three assists and three steals in the game.

Van Ryswyk tallied nine points, 11 rebounds and three

Mustangs Continued from Page 1B Once PCM got things going though, the Mustangs cruised to another victory.

Leading 8-4 after one quarter, PCM more than doubled its output in the second frame, and the Mustangs never looked back in the 20-point home win during HOIC play.

North Polk was within one at 5-4 midway through the first quarter, but PCM blasted the Comets with a 22-6 run and led 27-10 at halftime. The lead never fell below 17 in the second half as the Mustangs grabbed a firm grip on second place in the conference standings.

“It was just a matter of playing a good team and finally getting to do what we worked on over the break,” PCM coach Jeff Lindsay said of overcoming the slow start.

“We weren’t challenged on Tuesday. North Polk is good though.

They are big, athletic and they get out of the ball.

“We controlled our nervous energy. We backed it down a bit and played with more poise. We were able to make the right passes to get open shots.”

Senior Katie Vande Wall scored six of the Mustangs’ eight first-quarter points.

In the second quarter, freshman Regan Freland connected on a runner in the lane and then drilled a trey to put the Mustangs up 13-5.

Freland and senior Kayla Jennings each scored seven points in the second, and PCM was off and running.

“I thought they were getting tired to be honest,” Lindsay said.

“We were able to sustain enough of our energy to keep the lead. We got after it and wore them down.

Troy Hyde/Daily News Prairie City-Monroe senior Lexi Timmins had six points and nine rebounds in the Mustangs’ 51-31 win over North Polk on Friday.

The girls did a great job tonight.”

With sophomores Camryn Wignall and Avery Stock likely lost for the season due to knee injuries, Lindsay’s rotation now goes just seven deep.

The thin bench forces the veteran coach to be smarter with timeouts and substitutions.

For the most part, the Mustangs had no issues with stamina Friday.

PCM scored the first seven points — four by senior Kaylee Townsend — of the third quarter to push the lead to 24 points. The Mustangs outscored the Comets 13-7 in the third and led by 23 after three.

North Polk’s Rachel Scott hit three 3-pointers in the fourth to keep North Polk within 20. All but four of PCM’s 11 points were scored from the free-throw line,

steals for the Mustangs, who are now 5-3 overall and 5-2 in the HOIC. North Polk 8-4-12-11 — 35 PCM 17-12-15-14 — 58 North Polk (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP) — Markert 0-0-0-0, Peterson 0-1-3-1, Parkins 3/30-1-9, Lomica 5-2-1-12, Cupp 0-1-0-1, Capaldo 0-0-2-0, Deitch 1-0-1-2, Spaulding 1-0-1-2, Parker 1-0-1-2, Hood 1/1-0-0-3, McArthur 1/1-0-0-3, Twedt 0-0-1-0, Hammond 0-1-0-1. Totals 13/5-4-10-35.

PCM (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP) — Sperfslage 3/1-3-0-10, Bruxvoort 7/1-2-0-17, Worth 2/2-0-0-6, Thomas 1-0-0-2, Van Ryswyk 4/1-0-3-9, Warrick 0-0-1-0, Boell 1-1-2-3, Van Wyk 1-0-0-2, Dredge 1-0-0-2, Lanphier 1-0-1-2, Brown 1-2-0-4, Van Dyke 0-1-0-1.

Totals 22/5-9-7-58.

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and the Mustangs hit enough freebies to close out the win.

PCM hit 16-of-28 from the line in the win, but Lindsay is not concerned because he has seen his team make them before.

“The good news is we weren’t short,” Lindsay said. “The shots looked good. We just missed them tonight.”

Jennings and Freland each scored 13 points to lead the Mustangs. Jennings added five rebounds, four assists and three steals, while Freland chipped in three steals.

Vande Wall collected nine points, eight rebounds and three steals, while senior Lexi Timmins added six points and nine rebounds off the bench. Townsend scored seven points and grabbed five boards, while senior Rachel Stafford also had five rebounds.

Scott scored 10 of her teamhigh 11 points in the fourth quarter, but it was too little, too late for the Comets, who fell to 7-4 overall and 5-2 in the HOIC. PCM (8-2) broke the tie with the Comets in the conference standings after the win. The Mustangs are now in sole possession of second place in the HOIC at 7-1.

PCM travels to Greene County for the opener of a HOIC varsity doubleheader at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

North Polk 4-8-7-14 — 31 PCM 8-19-13-11 — 51 North Polk (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP) — Gill 2-0-3-4, Ley 1-2-3-4, Katie Scott 1/1-1-1-4, Becker 0-0-3-0, Hill 1-0-4-1, Rachel Scott 4/3-0-2-11, Riley Murphy 0-0-1-0, Bruggeman 0-0-1-0, Brown 0-1-0-1, Paine 1-0-0-2, Steffen 0-0-2-0, Jaedon Murphy 2-0-2-4. Totals 11/4-5-22-31.

PCM (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP) — Freland 5/2-1-0-13, Vande Wall 3-3-3-9, Stafford 0-2-3-4, Jennings 5/1-2-0-13, Townsend 2-3-2-7, Timmins 1-4-26, Brodersen 0-1-4-1. Totals 16/3-16-14-51.

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Cardinal basketball teams knock off Panthers

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News KNOXVILLE — Bouncing back from tough losses at home Friday night, Newton High’s basketball teams claimed road wins in non-conference action at Knoxville Saturday.

Newton’s girls broke out of a two-game losing skid with a 42-29 win over the Knoxville Panther girls. The Cardinal boys regrouped from an emotional overtime loss the night before to notch a 50-33 victory against a Panther squad with just one loss.

Senior Ellie Horn had a career-high 19 points in leading the Cardinal girls to victory. She went 3-for-3 at the free-throw line.

Newton led 9-8 after one quarter and was up 20-16 at halftime. The Cardinal girls outscored the Panthers, 15-10, in the third period.

They held Knoxville to three points in the final eight minutes while scoring seven points.

“We grinded out one. We didn’t shoot the ball well from outside, so we made an adjustment and pounded it into Ellie and Ali (Bestell),” Newton head coach Brandon Sharp said. “They did a nice job finishing. I’m very proud of how we gutted it out.”

Ali Bestell, junior, finished with eight points. Ryanne Rausch fired in nine points. Marcelina Marvelli and Courtney Jacobsen each had three points.

Knoxville got 11 points from Katie Keitges and eight points from Kendrea Richardson.

The Cardinal boys handed the Panthers their second loss of the season led by senior Connor Gholson and junior Garrett Sturtz. Gholson fired in 21 points, moving his NHS career total to 1,048, which is 27 points off the Cardinal all-time mark of 1,076 held by Tyler Wood.

Sturtz ripped the nets for four 3-pointers on his way to 19 points. He also had eight rebounds and three steals. Gholson had a double-double by controlling 10 rebounds.

Trey Vanderlaan added six points and four assists for Newton. Grayson Graham had four points and three assists.

Newton pushed out to an 11-8 lead by the end of the first quarter. The Cardinals controlled a 25-17 halftime advantage. Knoxville outscored Newton 13-10 in the third quarter to close to within five, 30-35.

The Cardinal defense took over in the final eight minutes, giving up just three points. Newton had a 15-point fourth quarter.

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Continued from Page 1B Sharp said it was nice to get Jacobsen going early in the game. Jacobsen hit four 3-pointers on her way to 12 points. Rausch had 12 points, six rebounds and two assists.

Newton had 24 turnovers. Pella held a 3730 edge in rebounding.

Kiara Bradley tossed in 25 points and Emily Holterhaus added 17 points.

Pella won the junior varsity game, 36-24.

Anna Coyle and Emily Valtman each scored seven points for New-

Trent Davis led the Panthers (7-2) with 16 points.

Ben Olson added six points.

In junior varsity action, Newton won the girls’ game, 31-23, led by Abbie Barr with 10 points, and Knoxville won the boys’ game, 51-48. Aaron Bartels had 11 points for Newton followed by Kyle Long with 10 points and 10 rebounds and McKenna Davis with 10 rebounds.

Knoxville won the freshman girls’ game, 31-24.

Kameron Nehring scored 10 points fro Newton, Courtney Dawson had five rebounds and Liv Whitten had two assists and two steals. Newton’s freshman boys lost 39-33 to Knoxville with William Cheng scoring 12 points.

Newton’s girls (4-6) and the Newton boys (7-2) get back into Little Hawkeye Conference play Tuesday at home against Norwalk. The varsity girls’ game is at 6:15 p.m. and the boys’ varsity game is at 7:30 p.m.

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Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Newton senior Ellie Horn, right, shoots over a Grinnell defender in a home game on Tuesday. Horn had a career-high 19 points for the Cardinal girls in Saturday’s 42-29 win at Knoxville.

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Leaning to get a shot up is Newton senior Connor Gholson (22) against a Pella defender in Friday’s home game, which Newton lost in overtime. Gholson led the Cardinals to a 50-33 win on the road Saturday at Knoxville.

ton while Abbie Barr had five points.

Newton (1-4 LHC) plays against Norwalk in LHC play at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday at home.

Pella 8-21-18-23—70 Newton 4-15-3-13—35 Newton (FG/3-pt); Rausch 3-6-112, Walters 0-0-1-0, Marvelli 0/10-1-3, Ryan 0/1-0-1-3, Shipley 0-01-0. Jacobsen 0/4-0-3-12, Horn 1-1-0-3, Bestell 0-0-2-0, Blom 0-20-2. TOTALS: 4/6-9-10-35.

Pella (FG/-3-pt): Lambert 0/10-0-3, Pingl 2-4-1-8, K.Bradley 10/1-2-2-25, Buchheit 1/1-0-25, VanderMolen 1-0-1-2, Parks 0/1-0-0-3, VanVliet 2-1-3-5, Holterhaus 8-1-2-17, Miller 0-0-1-0, C. Bradley 0-0-2-0, Held 1-0-0-2.

TOTALS: 25/4-8-14-70.

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Continued from Page 1B “Morgan played a great game for us tonight. I know he’d like to go back to the line and have a re-do,” Liley said. Maher finished with 14 points, four rebounds, five assists and one steal for Newton.

The teams were tied at 76-76 when Pella’s Ryan VanWyk hit a 3-pointer and Drew Pringle sank two free throws to push the Dutch to an 81-76 lead. Gholson drilled a trey, Pella turned the ball over and Gholson dropped in two foul shots to knot it at 81-81 with 51.7 seconds left.

Pella worked time off the clock before taking a timeout with 16.9 seconds on the clock. VanderLeest was left alone in the corner for what would prove to be the winning shot.

“We didn’t play defense to our standard tonight. We gave up 85 points. We don’t do that,” Liley said.

“It’s something we will work on.”

Newton came back from several deficits early. Pella went on

a 7-0 run to open the game. Maher’s third basket of the game tied the game at 10-10 with 2:44 left in the first half. VanWyk led the Dutch to a 22-12 lead by the end of the period.

The Cardinals trailed 28-17 at the 6:25 mark of the second quarter when senior Trey Vanderlaan hit a 3-pointer to trigger a 16-2 run. Newton gained a 32-30 lead with 3:49 left in the second quarte. Sturtz was fouled at the buzzer on a 3-point attempt and hit two of three foul shots to lift Newton to a 43-37 at halftime.

Pella scored the first six points of the third quarter to tie the game at 43-all. It was back-andforth the rest of the way. It was tied 56-56 going into the fourth quarter. The teams traded leads late until VanWyk forged a 71-71 tie on a bucket with 47 seconds left in regulation.

Sturtz led Newton with 31 points followed by Gholson with 25 points. Gholson was recognized before the game as only the third NHS player to reach the 1,000-point career plateau.

After Friday’s game he had 1,028 points and is second on the career scoring list. Tyler Wood holds the NHS record of 1,076 points.

Vanderlaan had seven rebounds while senior Josh Ventling dished out four assists and had six rebounds. Grayson Graham had two steals.

VanWyk paced Pella with 33 points. Donovan Holterhaus added 17 points and VanderLeest had 14 points.

The Little Hawkeye Conference has four ranked teams — three in Class 3A and one in Class 2A. Newton is 3-2 in conference play and the Cardinals host Norwalk at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in LHC action.

Pella 22-15-19-15-13—84 Newton 12-31-13-15-12—83 Newton (FG/3pt): Sturtz 11/1-6-4-31, Graham 0/1-0-0-1, Gholson 7/1-8-3-25, Vanderlaan 1/20-2-8, Ventling 1-0-4-2, Maher 5/1-1-3-14. TOTALS: 25/6-15-16-83.

Pella (FG/3-pt): VanWyk 12/1-6-0-33, Holterhaus 7-3-3-17, VanderLeest 3/2-2-0-14, Pringle 0-2-42, DeJong 2-0-0-4. TOTALS: 25/6-16-15-84.

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CMB’s Fullerton, McFadden finish 5-0 at BCLUW

By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News CONRAD — Collins-Maxwell/Baxter sophomore Caleb Fullerton spent a total of 4 minutes, 23 seconds on the mat during his five matches at the BCLUW dual tournament Saturday.

The end result in all five of his bouts was a pin as he went 5-0 on the day.

Senior Archer McFadden also went 5-0 on the day, but the Raider wrestling team couldn’t crack the win column for the first time this season after losing all five duals.

CMB lost to Rockford 3930, was defeated by Mason

lost an 18-0 lead.

Fullerton began the dual with a first-period pin at 138 and then Andrew Esqueda and Austin Good both followed with pins at 145 and 152, respectively.

The only other points that CMB scored though came by way of forfeits by McFadden Fullerton McFadden at 285 and freshman Carter Davis at 106.

City Newman Catholic 58The next closest dual of the 22, dropped a 42-30 dual to day came against South HamHeart of Iowa Conference ilton. rival South Hamilton, came The Raiders had their up short 58-16 against Iowa hands raised in victory five Falls-Alden and lost to host more times in that bout. FulSouth Hardin-BCLUW 69-12. lerton earned a 27-second pin The Raiders earned five and Esqueda earned another wins against Rockford and win by fall, too.

The other three victories came by way of forfeits from Cody Galbraith(195), McFadden (285) and Davis (106).

Fullerton recorded a 23-second pin against Newman Catholic. McFadden’s win came by way of pin in the second period, Evan Bianchi collected a 12-2 major decision win at 160 and Galbraith grabbed another forfeit win at 195. CMB handed Newman six forfeits.

The Raiders claimed three wins against IF-A and forfeited five matches.

McFadden won by fall in 39 seconds, Fullerton’s pin took 46 seconds and Bianchi won 10-2.

CMB gave up five more forfeits against SH-BCLUW. The only two wins in the dual came from Fullerton and McFadden, who pinned their opponents in 1:11 and 1:10, respectively.

The five wins improved Fullerton to 12-3 and McFadden to13-4 on the season.

Bianchi went 2-3 on the day but is still 9-5 on the year.

The Raiders try to get their first dual victory of the season at 6 p.m. Tuesday when they travel to former conference rival Colfax-Mingo.

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PCM Invite Continued from Page 1B Colfax-Mingo sophomore Cauy Fitch finally got his shot against two quality opponents, while Lynnville-Sully junior Cayden Johnson continued to prove his season could run deep into the postseason.

In all, six area wrestlers reached title matches in their respective weight classes and five were crowned champions.

Fitch perhaps made the biggest impression on the state’s rabid wrestling fraternity when he pinned Class 3A No. 10 Carter Logue of Carlisle in the semifinal round.

In the 113-pound championship match, Fitch blasted 2016 state tournament qualifier Brennan Brown of Westwood Sloan, 11-2. It was the second PCM Invitational title for the Tigerhawk sophomore.

Fitch was joined at the top of the podium by four PCM wrestlers — Trausch, Roland, senior Xavier Miller and freshman Payton Drake.

L-S’ Johnson came up short of the title but claimed runner-up honors at 152 pounds.

“I was nervous coming into today. I wrestled (Brown) last year, so I knew some of his moves, but I didn’t know anything about (Logue),” Fitch said. “Getting three wins feels good. This title was tough. My arms hurt today.”

The four individual championships led the Mustangs to a fifth-place finish in the team standings.

Not having the services of 2A No. 7 Wes Cummings (152) and seniors Leevi Telfer (195) and Jakeb Fenton (120) hurt the host team’s chances at hoisting the team trophy on its home mat.

Cummings and Telfer were projected to win their weight brackets, but both wrestlers did not compete because of illness.

Class 1A Westwood (162) won the team title by two points over 3A Pella (160). Gilbert finished third with 145.5 points followed by Saydel

​Troy Hyde/Daily News Colfax-Mingo sophomore Cauy Fitch, top, fights for position against Westwood Sloan’s Brennan Brown during the 113-pound title match at the PCM Invitational on Saturday. Fitch defeated Brown in a title bout for the second straight season.

(131) and PCM (127.5). Class 3A Carlisle finished 0.5 points behind PCM in sixth.

Moravia ended up seventh with 116.5 followed by Pleasantville (111), Knoxville (109.5) and Colfax-Mingo (81). Lynnville-Sully finished 11th in the 15-team field with 71 points. Chariton (64.5), Riceville (57), Des Moines North-Hoover (52) and Pekin (50.5) completed the field.

Trausch had the most impressive day for the Mustangs.

After falling out of the rankings following two losses at the Ankeny Centennial dual tournament before the holiday break, Trausch appears to have righted the ship.

Trausch had to win four matches to claim his second 170-pound PCM tourney title, but he opened with a pin and a technical fall.

Trausch advanced to the finals with a 10-3 win over Carlisle’s Travis Johnston (16-5) and then dominated 3A No. 10 Ashton Messer (16-2) of Pella in the finals. Trausch is now 20-3 on the season.

“Most of it was just my mentality,” Trausch said. “I got down to a low point when

I lost those two matches at Centennial. It took me a couple weeks to get back into it.

Then, I lost again at Solon, and that was a wake-up call. I know I can be beaten if I am not doing what I have to do. I just changed a lot of stuff, including how hard I worked in practice.”

Roland spent the first few weeks of the season battling an injury.

So with less than 10 matches on the year, the 2016 place winner had not yet proven that he belonged in the top three of the 2A 160-pound weight class. He had the chance to do that Saturday against Pleasantville’s Griffen McBride, who is ranked 10th in 1A and a 2016 place winner.

Roland reached the finals following a technical fall win in the quarterfinals and a 9-3 victory in the semifinals.

McBride scored an early takedown against Roland in the finals. Leading 4-2, McBride rode out Roland in the second and nearly did so again in the third.

However, a third caution violation closed the gap to 4-3.

While trying to earn an es-

Troy Hyde/Daily News Lynnville-Sully junior Sage Zylstra, top, earns back points in one of his 160-pound matches at the PCM Invitational on Saturday. Zylstra placed seventh on the day.

cape point, Roland (9-1) was pushed out of bounds on two consecutive attempts, which gave the Mustang sophomore back-to-back stalling points.

“It was definitely a growing point for me. I had to kind of strap in and decide which way I wanted the ride to go. I just decided that I had to keep working because I have bigger goals later this season,” Roland said.

“It was a good win. I haven’t had a lot of matches yet this year so to go and get a win against a good opponent is just getting me that much closer to being ready for state in February.”

Miller won his third PCM tournament title with three more wins. He is now 20-2 on the season after a win by pin, technical fall and decision at 145 pounds. Miller now has 128 wins in his career.

“I was frustrated that I couldn’t turn him in the finals,” Miller said of his performance on the day. “I need to be able to score more points.

Winning 5-0 is just not good enough for me.

“Other than the two losses, I am happy with the season so far. I just need to figure out how to score more points against guys who don’t do much against me.”

Drake won his first PCM tournament title as the No. 3 seed. He won his first-round 106-pound match 5-4 and then recorded a pair of pins to close out his day. He is now 17-5 on the season.

“It’s a real pleasure to be a part of this team,” Drake said.

“I had some success with the cradle today, and I did well with the slide by, too. This will give me some confidence.”

The Mustangs’ lineup included 12 wrestlers. Clay Van Wyk(113) and Caleb Peter (120) both finished seventh, while Brady Fagen (152) and Dalton Schlangen (182) ended up eighth.

Fitch came into the day as the No. 2 seed. He improve dhis overall record to 20-1 and scored bonus points in all three matches. He pinned his way to the finals, and then rallied from an early 2-0 hole against Brown to win by major decision.

Colfax-Mingo junior Colton Lourens reached the semifinals at 220 pounds and finished third. His only loss came by fall to 1A No. 8 Quinton Castell of Moravia. Lourens went 4-1 on the day with four pins and is now 20-3 on the season.

The Tigerhawks only brought nine wrestlers to the tournament.

Freshman Zack Barnes (15-7) placed fourth at 106, seniors Adam Teed (138) and Will Dunsbergen (152) finished sixth in their respective weights and junior Nick Barnes claimed eighth at 195.

Lynnville-Sully also brought over nine wrestlers.

Johnson improved to 10-4 on the season with a win by pin and major decision. His only loss came against Westwood’s Drew Anderson by fall.

Anderson is ranked No. 6 at 160 pounds in 1A. “It was a good day. I had to fight to get to where I was,” Johnson said. “Getting second isn’t ideal, and it’s not what you want, but it’s better than I have ever done here or anywhere really. So this feels amazing.”

Junior Josh Dunsbergen placed fourth for the Hawks at 126 pounds. One of his two losses came against 2A No. 8 Gabe Ruepke of Chariton.

Colten Arment reached the semifinals at 182 pounds but finished sixth on the day.

Senior Caden Dunsbergen (138) and junior Sage Zylstra (160) finished seventh in their weight classes and Jacob Dehoedt placed eighth at 106.

Colfax-Mingo hosts Collins-Maxwell/Baxter in a non-conference dual at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The Tigerhawks wrestle at 6 p.m. Thursday in Montezuma.

PCM hosts a Heart of Iowa Conference rival triangular with South Hamilton and Greene County at 6 p.m.

Thursday.

Lynnville-Sully hosts BGM and Iowa Valley in a South Iowa Cedar League triangular at 6 p.m. Thursday.

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Nichols powers Tigerhawks past Sigourney

By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News COLFAX — Colfax-Mingo junior Jarod Nichols recorded his fourth straight double-double and set a new school record with 23 rebounds Friday as the Tigerhawk boys basketball team won their fourth straight game during a South Iowa Cedar League home contest.

Nichols finished with 17 points and 23 rebounds as Colfax-Mingo downed Sigourney, 46-22.

“The offense was in quicksand tonight, but the defense was killer,” Colfax-Mingo

coach Nick Noring said.

During Colfax-Mingo’s current four-game win streak, Nichols has tallied 95 points and 73 rebounds. The Tigerhawks are now 6-4 overall and 6-3 in the SICL. Colfax-Mingo led 13-0 after one quarter and led 22-10 at halftime.

The Tigerhawks held Sigourney (4-6, 4-4) to 12 points in the second half.

Junior Reegan Van Dyke tallied eight points and grabbed 10 rebounds, junior Jonathan Jacobs had six points and five assists and eight Tigerhawks scored in all.

Colfax-Mingo made 7-of-

Nichols

Hostetter

16 from the free-throw line.

GIRLS Sigourney 50, Colfax-Mingo 31 Dakota Hostetter scored four points, grabbed six rebounds, blocked three shots

and collected three steals, but points were hard to come by for the Tigerhawk girls basketball team during a loss in South Iowa Cedar League play.

The Tigerhawks trailed 2213 against undefeated Sigourney at halftime and couldn’t recover in a 50-31 loss.

Colfax-Mingo made nine baskets in the game, buried four 3-pointers and nailed 9-of-11 from the free throw line.

Sophomore Payton Rhone drained a pair of treys and finished with a team-high six points.

Sophomore Delaney Un-

derwood made 5-of-6 from the foul line to score five points, while junior McKeely Tjaden also put in five points.

Junior Ries Wilson scored four points and grabbed six rebounds.

The Tigerhawks dropped to 2-9 overall and 2-7 in the SICL. Sigourney improved to 10-0 overall and 8-0 in conference play.

Colfax-Mingo plays in an SICL varsity doubleheader at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Belle Plaine.

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Burton re-emerges to save Cyclones against Texas

AP Photo Northern Iowa’s Spencer Haldeman drives to the basket around Wichita State’s Shaquille Morris during the second half in Cedar Falls on Sunday.

Shamet shoots Shockers past host Northern Iowa CEDAR FALLS (AP) — Landry Shamet hit five 3-pointers and scored 17 points and Wichita State beat Missouri Valley Conference nemesis Northern Iowa 80-66 on Sunday.

Rauno Nurger added 13 points and Conner Frankamp 11 for Wichita State (14-3, 4-0).

Northern Iowa came in with a 3-2 record against the Shockers the past two seasons, while Wichita State was 36-2 against the rest of the MVC in that period.

The Shockers hit 55 percent (11-of-20) of

their 3-pointers.

Jeremy Morgan scored 15 points and Jordan Ashton and Klint Carlson had 12 apiece with Carlson grabbing 10 rebounds for the Panthers (5-10, 0-4), who have lost six straight, their longest losing streak since 2000-01.

Frankamp and Reaves hit 3-pointers in the final minute of the first half for a 39-32 lead.

The Panthers stayed in range until a 12-2 run left the Shockers in front by 17, 72-55, with 4½ minutes left.

AMES (AP) — If Iowa State can get Deonte Burton to play as well as he did Saturday more often, the Cyclones just might have a chance in the Big 12.

Burton scored 27 points — two more than he had total in his previous three games — and Iowa State held off Texas 79-70 for its fourth win in five games.

Monte Morris had 22 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and zero turnovers for the Cyclones (10-4, 2-1 Big 12), who won despite not hitting a free throw for more than 30 minutes.

“This was probably his best game offensively all year,” Iowa State coach Steve Prohm said of Burton.

Iowa State pushed its lead to 40-31 by halftime and jumped ahead by 14 early in the second half. Texas (7-8, 1-2) closed to within 68-65 with 3:42 left, but a Matt Thomas 3 after a pair of defensive stops put the game out of reach.

Iowa State went just 5-of-12 from the line and was outrebounded 35-29.

But the Cyclones forced 19 turnovers and put up 14 more shots than Texas.

Kerwin Roach Jr. scored 21 for the Longhorns, Tevin Mack had 15 points and Andrew Jones had 14. Texas struggled from the line, going just 8-for-16.

“I thought our guys did a great job staying in the fight,” Texas coach Shaka Smart said. “They played for each other and helped each other.

But there’s obviously some basketball components of the game we need to do more.”

AP Photo Iowa State guard Deonte Burton drives to the basket past Texas forward Jarrett Allen, right, during the second half Saturday in Ames.

Burton scored 27 points as Iowa State won 79-70.

Iowa flips switch, rallies past Rutgers

Drake distances itself from Evansville late DES MOINES (AP) — Reed Timmer scored 28 points and Ore Arogundade had 17 in leading Drake to an 88-76 victory over Evansville on Sunday.

Timmer and Arogundade combined to shoot 15 for 23 from the floor and Timmer made all eight of his free throws.

The Bulldogs as a team shot 23 for 25 (92 percent) from the freethrow line.

Ryan Taylor made a 3 to give Evansville a 72-70 lead with 4:03 to play. Casey Schlatter

tied it with a pair of free throws, Arogundade hit a 3-pointers and Drake (4-12, 2-2 Missouri Valley) led the rest of the way.

T.J. Thomas made a layup and Arogundade made another 3 for an 80-72 lead. Thomas and De’Antae McMurray each finished with 10 points.

Jaylon Brown led Evansville (10-7, 1-3) with 23 points. Dru Smith and Duane Gibson scored 14 points apiece, and Taylor added 10.

AP Photo Iowa forward Dom Uhl (25) tries to block a shot by Rutgers guard Corey Sanders (3) during the first half Sunday in Iowa City.

IOWA CITY (AP) — Iowa is a young team loaded with potential.

The Hawkeyes were nearly a victim of their own inexperience on Sunday against a Rutgers team that still hasn’t won a Big Ten road game.

Senior Peter Jok scored 18 points with 11 rebounds and Iowa rallied from nine down to beat Rutgers 68-62 and move back to .500 in the Big Ten. Freshman Cordell Pemsl had 13 for the Hawkeyes (10-7, 2-2 Big Ten), who used improved defense to key a late 17-4 run that clinched their seventh win in nine games.

“Instead of rolling over, we decided to come out as a collective unit and get stops that led to easy buckets. We did that down the stretch,” Pemsl said.

Iowa committed 18 turnovers, got crushed

on the offensive glass 19-9 and went more than eight minutes without a field goal. But the Hawkeyes woke up after 30 sluggish minutes, and Jordan Bohannon’s layup off a steal gave the Hawkeyes a 57-55 lead with 3:59 left.

Nicholas Baer’s jumper made it 63-59 with 1:08 to go and Iowa’s Dominique Uhl, ineffective for much of the season, scored 10 points and had eight rebounds.

Deshawn Freeman had 19 points and 13 rebounds for Rutgers (116, 0-4), who fell to 0-21 on the road since joining the Big Ten. “We’re getting better,” Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell said. “We’ve played three out of four on the road against really good teams. We’ve strung together some good halves. (Sunday) we played 34 minutes of real good basketball.

Packers, Steelers, Seahawks, Texans cruise to playoff wins GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers overcame a sluggish start and finished with four touchdown passes, including a momentum-swinging 42-yard heave to Randall Cobb at the end of the second quarter, to lead the Green Bay Packers to a 3813 win Sunday over the New

York Giants in an NFC wildcard game.

Rodgers was 25-of-40 for 362 yards. Cobb finished with five receptions for 116 yards and three scores.

Steelers 30, Dolphins 12 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pounding away relentless at a defense that hardly seemed

interested in stopping him at frigid Heinz Field, Le’Veon Bell ran for a franchise postseason record 167 yards and two scores.

The Steelers overwhelmed the beaten-up and mistake-prone Miami Dolphins 30-12 on Sunday.

Seahawks 26, Lions 6

SEATTLE (AP) — Thomas Rawls rushed for a franchise playoff-record 161 yards, Paul Richardson made one of the catches of the year for his first career postseason touchdown, and the Seahawks beat the Lions 26-6 on Saturday night in an NFC wildcard game.

Texans 27, Raiders 14 HOUSTON (AP) — Brock Osweiler threw for a touchdown and ran for another to lead the Texans to a wild-card playoff win over Oakland.

Jadeveon Clowney, erasing any doubts he deserved to be the top pick in 2014, got his first career interception.

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NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S LEVY AND SALE Jasper County Sheriff Office 2300 Law Center Drive Newton, IA 50208 641-792-5912 IN THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR JASPER COUNTY STATE OF IOWA JASPER COUNTY SS CIVIL NO. (SALE NO.) 16-002095 CASE # EQCV119409 SPECIAL EXECUTION PLAINTIFF: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. vs BRAD L. MCKEE; STATE OF IOWA; CITY OF NEWTON,; IN REM As a result of the judgment rendered in the above referenced court case, an execution was issued by the court to the Sheriff of this county. The execution ordered the sale of defendant(s) Real Estate Property to satisfy the judgment. The property to be sold is: THE EAST 50 FEET OF LOTS 1,2,3 AND 4, OF BLOCK 16 OF EDMUNDSON'S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF NEWTON, JASPER COUNTY, IOWA, AS APPEARS IN PLAT BOOK B, AT PAGE 268 IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY Property Address 1029 N 9TH AVE E, NEWTON, IOWA The described property will be offered for sale at public auction for cash only as follows: Sale Date 02/14/2017 Sale Time 10:00 AM Place of Sale JASPER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE 2300 LAW CENTER DRIVE, NEWTON, IA This sale not subject to redemption.

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By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News OTTUMWA — Blake Cockerton didn’t have a match off during Saturday’s Ottumwa Invitational. The Newton High sophomore had five matches and won all five to claim the 113-pound championship.

Cockerton pinned Ottumwa’s Nathanael Schoemaker in 1 minute, 45 seconds in the title bout. Cockerton recorded two pins, a technical fall and two decisions on the mat. He was the first of two tournament champions for the Cardinals.

At 152 pounds, senior Logan Zibert came up with a 4-3 decision over Burlington’s Brennan Creelman to go undefeated and win his weight class Saturday. Zibert had a first-round bye then won twice by falls and had a major decision victory before his final match.

The Cardinals had a strong day on the mats at Ottumwa with three wrestlers going after weight division titles. Senior Tanner Petro, who won three matches by pins, was pinned

by Sigourney’s Noah Reeves (23-3) in the final match to finish second at 170 pounds.

Newton took third as a team with 164 points. Iowa City High won the team championship with 264 points and Sigourney was second with 175.5 points.

Des Moines East placed fourth with 158.5 points just ahead of host Ottumwa with 157 points. Burlignton took sixth with 136 points and Fairfield had 81 points for seventh.

The Ottumwa junior varsity scored nine points for eighth.

Newton seniors Brady Smith and Alex Miller and junior Ross Hull finished third in their respective weight classes — 182, 220 and 126. Taking fourth place were seniors Aren Sorensen at 120 and Noah Hammer at 160 and sopho-

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Newton High sophomore Blake Cockerton turns an opponent on his back during a match earlier this season. On Saturday, Cockerton went 5-0 to win the 113-pound championship at the Ottumwa Invitational wrestling tournament.

more Jaise Gulling at 195.

Gulling opened with a pin of Shai Guido of Ottumwa then lost three straight matches to ranked opponents.

Iowa City High’s Jacob Dykes is ranked sixth in Class 3A, Sigourney’s Kaleb Reeves is sixth ranked in 1A and Fairfield’s Michael Fritz is ranked third in 2A. Miller was pinned by two ranked wrestlers — 3A No. 3 Jordaain Buckland of Iowa City High and Sigourney’s Noah Boender, No. 5 in 1A — at 220. Smith lost 7-2 to 3A third-ranked Spencer Sherwood of Burlingtonat 182.

Newton freshman Noah Cook was sixth at 132 pounds and one of his three losses was to Iowa City High’s Joey Harney, who is ranked No. 10 in Class 3A. Freshman Zane Kohlmeyer, sophomore Coltin Whitten and junior Landon Hansen placed sixth at 128, 145 and 285, respectively.

Newton will compete in the Bettendorf Invitational Friday and Saturday.

Here are the complete Newton results from Ottumwa: Ottumwa Invitational 2017 113 - Blake Cockerton (15-9), 1st Rnd 1 - Cockerton tech fall 19-1 over Ian Tay-

lor (Burlington) (TF-1.5 4:17) Rnd 2 - Cockerton pinned Morgan Lawson (Ottumwa JV) (Fall 1:53) Rnd 3 - Cockerton dec. Michael Santoro (Iowa City High) (Dec 10-7) Championship Bracket - Cockerton dec. Trenton Burkheimer (Des Moines East)(Dec 11-4) 1st Place Match - Cockerton pinned Nathanael Schoemaker (Ottumwa) (Fall 1:45) 120 - Aren Sorensen (3-4), 4th Rnd 1 - Michael Clark (Ottumwa) pinned Sorensen (Fall 1:17) Rnd 2 - Sorensen, Bye Rnd 3 - Sorensen pinned Luke House (Sigourney) (Fall 3:32) Championship Bracket - Christian Milligan (Des Moines East) pinned Sorensen (Fall 0:31) 3rd Place Match - Ryan Ceynar (Iowa City High) dec. Sorensen (Dec 10-8) 126 - Ross Hull (15-10), 3rd Rnd 1 - Hull tech fall 15-0 over Dallas Peebler (Fairfield) (TF-1.5 4:00) Rnd 2 - Hull pinned Thomas Stout (Sigourney) (Fall 0:20) Rnd 3 - Brock Espalin (Des Moines East) pinned Hull (Fall 1:20) Championship Bracket - Lance Bormann (Iowa City High) pinned Hull (Fall 1:07) 3rd Place Match - Hull tech fall 20-4 over Jacob Fitzner (Ottumwa) (TF-1.5 3:52) 132 - Noah Cook (5-13), 6th Rnd 1 - Zach Barnes (Fairfield) pinned Cook (Fall 0:29) Rnd 2 - Joey Harney (Iowa City High) pinned Cook (Fall 1:03) Rnd 3 - Cook pinned Blake Klein (Ottumwa) (Fall 0:46) Consolation Bracket - Cook, Bye 5th Place Match - Bryce Angle (Burlington) dec. Cook (Dec 10-6) 138 - Zane Kohlmeyer (4-3), 6th Rnd 1 - Jack Anson (Iowa City High) pinned Kohlmeyer (Fall 2:58) Rnd 2 - Deville Dentis (Des Moines East) pinned Kohlmeyer (Fall 0:40)

Rnd 3 - Kohlmeyer, Bye Consolation Bracket - Kohlmeyer dec. Calvin Nguyen (Burlington) (Dec 5-3) 5th Place Match - Tyler McCoy (Ottumwa) pinned Kohlmeyer (Fall 1:42) 145 - Coltin Whitten (5-17), 6th Rnd 1 - Alex Kooker (Iowa City High) pinned Whitten (Fall 3:22) Rnd 2 - Jonathan Morales (Ottumwa) won by maj. dec. over Whitten (MD 11-3) Rnd 3 - Tyler Woodyard (Des Moines East) pinned Whitten (Fall 5:50) Consolation Bracket - Whitten pinned Charles Heisel (Fairfield) (Fall 3:58) 5th Place Match - Tyler Woodyard (Des Moines East) pinned Whitten (Fall 1:31) 152 - Logan Zibert (18-3), 1st Rnd 1 - Zibert, Bye Rnd 2 - Zibert pinned Jack Stubbs (Des Moines East) (Fall 2:41) Rnd 3 - Zibert won by maj. dec. over Wilfred Kadohou (Iowa City High) (MD 12-3) Rnd 4 - Zibert pinned Cian Borra (Sigourney) (Fall 1:19) Rnd 5 - Zibert dec. Brennan Creelman (Burlington) (Dec 4-3) 160 - Noah Hammer (3-3), 4th Rnd 1 - Hammer pinned Carter Spalla (Fairfield) (Fall 1:44) Rnd 2 - Hammer dec. Micheal Boylan (Des Moines East) (Dec 6-2) Rnd 3 - Alec Schuster (Sigourney) pinned Hammer (Fall 3:25) Championship Bracket - Kyle Hefley (Iowa City High) pinned Hammer (Fall 5:12) 3rd Place Match - Alec Schuster (Sigourney) pinned Hammer (Fall 1:37) 170 - Tanner Petro (15-10), 2nd Rnd 1 - Petro pinned Brody Johnson (Burlington) (Fall 5:06) Rnd 2 - Petro pinned Tucker Shepard (Ottumwa) (Fall 0:44) Rnd 3 - Petro, Bye Rnd 4 - Petro pinned Brandon Lalla (Iowa City High) (Fall 2:58)

Rnd 5 - Noah Reeves (Sigourney) pinned Petro (Fall 6:00) 182 - Brady Smith (18-7), 3rd Rnd 1 - Smith dec. Tanner Tillotson (Des Moines East) (Dec 5-4) Rnd 2 - Smith, Bye Rnd 3 - Spencer Sherwood (Burlington) dec.

Smith (Dec 7-2) Championship Bracket - Brock Hunger (Iowa City High) pinned Smith (Fall 1:47) 3rd Place Match - Smith tech fall 17-1 over Bryan Corndora (Ottumwa) 13-9 (TF-1.5 5:43) 195 - Jaise Gulling (4-6), 4th Rnd 1 - Gulling 4-6 pinned Shai Guido (Ottumwa) (Fall 5:52) Rnd 2 - Jacob Dykes (Iowa City High) 24-0 pinned Gulling (Fall 2:25) Rnd 3 - Kaleb Reeves (Sigourney) pinned Gulling Fall 3:16) Rnd 4 - Michael Fritz (Fairfield) dec. Gulling (Dec 4-2) Rnd 5 - Gulling, Bye 220 - Alex Miller (15-9), 3rd Rnd 1 - Jordain Buckland (Iowa City High) pinned Miller (Fall 1:09) Rnd 2 - Miller, Bye Rnd 3 - Miller, Bye Rnd 4 - Noah Boender (Sigourney) pinned Miller (Fall 3:00) Rnd 5 - Miller pinned Trenton Sheets (Ottumwa) (Fall 0:50) 285 - Landon Hansen (6-8), 6th Rnd 1 - Cooper Greiner (Sigourney) pinned Hansen (Fall 3:30) Rnd 2 - Jacob Murry(Iowa City High) pinned Hansen (Fall 1:07) Rnd 3 - Hansen, Bye Consolation Bracket - Hansen, Bye 5th Place Match - Broc Garlow (Burlington) pinned Hansen (Fall 2:51)

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Newton bowlers knock down Pella Christian

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News PELLA — Newton High’s bowlers found their grooves on the lanes at Pella’s Excit-A-Bowl Saturday taking on host Pella Christian. The Cardinal teams won the Little Hawkeye Conference dual.

With two bowlers averaging over 210, the Cardinal boys powered past the Eagle boys, 2,770-2,103. Sam Supino opened with a 226 game on his way to a 425 series to lead the Cardinals. Shaiden Simmons had a 199 first game and followed up with a 222 for a 421 series.

“The boys shot really well maintaining a solid lead throughout the entire match,” Newton head coach Seth Banwell said. “The season started out rocky. However, this is the second meet in a row in which the boys’ team has really bowled up to its potential.”

Newton’s boys led the Eagles, 1,936-1,434, going into the Baker Games round in which they combined for an 834-pin count. They had Baker round scores of 152212-174-157-139.

Reid Miller posted the third-highest score of the day for Newton at 383 with games of 165 and 218. Austin Johansen finished with a 381 (198183) and Reece Thurmond had a 326 (153-173). Alex Frymoyer rolled a 307 (153-154).

“The girls started strong obtaining a lead of 355 pins going into the Baker Games. They struggled on unfamiliar synthetic lanes making it difficult to make the right lane adjustments,” Banwell said.

Two Cardinal girls did throw one strong game apiece Saturday were Kaytie Hughes and Alicia Miller. Hughes finished with a 296 series, coming back from a 120

Supino

Hughes

first game to bowl 176 in the second game. Miller opened with a 168 and had a 124 for a final 292.

Lizzy Coyle rolled a 259 (133126) and Keely Birkenholtz had a 255 (131-124). Taylor Johnson finished with a 234 (99-135) and Ashley Loehr had a 198 (110-88).

Newton’s girls were leading Pella Christian, 1,336-981, after the individual games. They had a Baker Games total of 588 on games of 96123-111-120-138.

Newton’s junior varsity boys won 2,007-1,497. Joe Malsom led the way with a 267 (121-146) followed

by Alex Wolfe at 263 (110-153), Carter VanderSchel at 262 (103159), Derek Landgrebe at 260 (141119), John Ladewig at 255 (133122) and Eli Ingle at 251 (112-139).

Devon Hobbs ada 243 (93-150).

In the girls’ junior varsity duel, Newton won 1,634-1,357. Alivia Lawton had the high score of 262 (142120) followed by Mariah Wolfe at 235 (128-107), Danielle Ambers at 222 (103-119), Chloe Butler at 218 (88130), Alyssa Carlock at 175 (82-93) and Kaitlyn Noel at 162 (87-75). Gabby Pickerell had a 120 (54-66).

Newton hosts Bondurant-Farrarr at 9 a.m. Saturday at Cardinal Lanes.

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Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News NCMP senior Logan Heisdorffer swims in a freestyle race at home earlier this season. On Saturday he swam on three winning freestyle relays for NCMP at the Waterloo Invitational

NCMP Continued from Page 1B “Logan hit his goal of swimming a 55, and Grant blew his best time out of the water, dropping from about a 1:10 previous best,” Patterson said. “Dakota Borger posted a fast 109.61 in his first time in the event, placing 15th out of 28.”

Others for NCMP in the 100 freestyle race were Logan Zaabel in 17th at 1:10.18, Joe Busch at 19th in 1:18.91 and Parker Sherwood in 20th at 1:22.47.

The Cardinal duo of Hunter and Heisdorffer won the 2x100 freestyle relay race in 1:51.67. Borger and Zaabel combined for fifth in 2:18.27.

In the 4x50 relay, Trotter, Mason Lee, Paul Maharry and Heisdorffer powered away from the field to win by eight seconds, 1:38.23. The foursome of Izaak Miller, Hamand, Zaabel and

Hunter finished seventh in 1:56.67.

NCMP’s team of Trotter, Hunter, Lee and Heisdorffer put the finishing touches on a strong meet for the Cardinals, winning the final event.

The four combined for a winning time of 3:45.65 in the 4x100 yard relay race.

“They won the event by more than 10 seconds. It was a great race from start to finish,” Patterson said.

The Cardinal team of Meyer, Borger, VerSteeg and Lewis placed fifth in the 4x100 freestyle relay in 4:29.93. The team of Busch, Elbert, James Westbrook and Sherwood was ninth in 5:34.62.

NCMP opened the meet with a second-place finish in the 4x50 medley relay with the team of Lewis, Maharry, Lee and Trotter posting a time of 1:54.70.

Lewis and Maharry combined for sixth in the 2x100 medley in 2:18.23.

Meyer and Lee swam the 2x50 butterfly relay,

taking fifth in 1:01.02.

Lewis and Meyer placed fifth in the 2x50 backstroke relay in 1:05.04, and Sherwood and Borger placed 10th in 1:22.80.

In the 2x50 breaststroke relay, Miller and Maharry finished fifth in 1:10.09.

Zaabel and Hamand took ninth in 1:17.94.

“We did well and are looking forward to strong competition, and a great chance to race this coming weekend at Fort Dodge,” Patterson said. “Although according to the state rankings, we will be seeded fifth out of eight teams at Fort Dodge. We are looking to break into the top three.

The guys have been working hard on endurance, mental toughness, race strategy, and doing all the little things well.”

NCMP competes at 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the Fort Dodge Invitational.

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