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Cruz, Clinton take Jasper County in Iowa Caucuses

AP Photo Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders speak at their individual caucus night parties Monday in Des Moines. The two Democratic presidential hopefuls were locked in a tight race as the final precincts reported caucus results.

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton were the big winners in Jasper County in Monday night’s Iowa Caucuses, which was mostly consistent with what went on statewide.

It was also a year when many county residents went to a caucus for the first time, as was the case around the state.

Cruz carried Jasper County with about 35 percent of

the Republican vote. He was followed by Donald Trump, who had 25 percent and Marco Rubio who had 18 percent. Ben Carson pulled in 9 percent while Rand Paul had 4 percent.

On the Democratic side, Clinton and Sanders were close in Jasper County, just as they were on the state level.

Clinton took slightly more than 51 percent of the vote in the county, about six percentage points more than Sanders, with O’Malley getting

AP Photo Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a caucus night rally, Monday in Des Moines. Cruz sealed a victory in the Republican Iowa caucuses, winning on the strength of his relentless campaigning and support from his party’s diehard conservatives.

less than 5 percent.

O’Malley announced after the caucuses that he is drop-

Deadlocked Clinton, Sanders locked in extremely tight duel for Iowa DES MOINES — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were locked in an extremely tight duel in Iowa’s leadoff presidential caucuses Monday as the two rivals offered Americans a stark choice between political pragmatism and revolution.

Deep into the vote count, Clinton appeared before voters to declare she was “breathing a big sigh of relief.”

But she refrained from claiming victory and declared herself ready to press

forward in “a real contest of ideas.”

Sanders, for his part, said the outcome looked like “a virtual tie.” And he held out the tight margin as a strong message from Iowans that “it is just too late for establishment politics and establishment economics.”

At presstime Monday night, more than dozen precinct results were missing.

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ping out of the race, as did Republican Mike Huckabee.

County Democratic Chair Taylor Van De Krol, who endorsed O’Malley and worked hard campaigning for the former Maryland governor, said he was frustrated with his candidate not being “viable” per the Democrats’ caucus procedures but wasn’t shocked O’Malley dropped out.

Van De Krol said things went well with the caucus county-wide, to his knowl-

edge, with only a couple of minor glitches with a new Microsoft app designed to streamline the reporting of results to the Iowa Democratic Party.

Jasper County Republicans Chair Patrick Payton said he felt things went exceptionally well, especially at Community Heights Alliance Church, where he both caucused and helped oversee four other precincts.

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Cruz tops Trump in Iowa DES MOINES (AP) — Ted Cruz, the self-proclaimed outsider and tea party champion, was warmly embraced by conservative Iowa Republicans, whose historic turnout sealed his victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday.

The win in the first Republican contest injected Cruz’s campaign with an adrenaline that will make him a dominant presence as the presidential race hurtles forward. The first-term Texas senator now heads to New Hampshire with clear support from a base of diehard conservatives, a position of strength for drawing in evangelical voters and others who de-

fine this election as the opportunity to make an abrupt break with President Barack Obama’s policies and legacy.

Cruz greeted his supporters in triumph at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.

“You want to know what scares the Washington cartel,” Cruz asked.

The crowd shouted back, “You!” But Cruz said: “What scares them is the old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives. We’re seeing conservatives and evangelicals and Libertarians and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one and that terrifies Washington, D.C.” CRUZ | 3A

NHS speech team City working on unified marketing plan prepping for state

By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News

Newton Daily News A strong performance by the Newton High School speech team at a Jan. 23 qualifier in Grinnell led to nearly the entire qualifying for this week’s state competition.

NHS advisor Niki Hively said the team nine of its 12 groups for state based on its performance at the district level and will take 28 of its 32 participants.

Newton’s team will compete in the Saturday’s state competition in Cedar Rapids.

“Newton had a fantastic day (in Grinnell) and the kids gave awe-

some performances,” Hively said.

The groups advancing on to state are: Radio News: Joe Malsom, Alicia Miller and Emily Bollhoefer.

Musical Theater: Leah Hunter, Matt Moran, Chase Kolpin, Alex Burkett and Cheyenne Schaeffer.

Improv: Zoya Urbanowicz, Mitch Faidley, Isaac Friedman, Savannah Eadens, Jaci Reeves, Alex Burkett, Allison Bollhoefer, Taylor Carpenter, Brianna Fuller, Joe Malsom and Kyle Hansen.

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In an effort to establish an integrated, unified marketing plan for Newton, city council approved plans to bring the city and its stakeholders together with an outside marketing firm to begin work on a new approach for the community. Happy Medium, of Des Moines, was selected to provide marketing services in hopes of establishing a more cohesive look for the city to those searching it out.

“City council identified the desire for marketing across agencies that is more targeted, uses more consistent messaging and is a more efficient use of city resources, especially in a way that can be measurable,” said city director of finance and development Bryan Friedman. “City staff worked to develop a path forward to enable

Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News The City of Newton, along with its stakeholders, are working to bring a more unified marketing plan to the city by using Happy Medium, an advertising agency out of Des Moines.

the community to have a more integrated marketing presence.”

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Agriculture and life sciences job fair postponed until Thursday

Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Creeks and streams like this one, located in the Lambs Grove area, are affected by the recently enacted “Waters of the U.S.” rule. U.S. Senate Democrats recently filibustered an amendment that had been vetoed by President Barack Obama, and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican, is one of those who isn’t happy about what he calls overreach of the EPA.

Grassley miffed at Waters of U.S. veto, filibuster Senator said court action might be next

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley isn’t happy about one of President Barack Obama’s most recent vetoes. He’s also upset with the way Congress blocked one of his Iowa colleague’s attempt to reign in the control of the EPA. A joint resolution introduced in September and sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst, S.J.R. Res. 22, was vetoed by President Barack Obama on Jan. 19. The resolution would have blocked the new federal “waters of the United States” regulations that would affect the streams, ponds and rivers in Jasper County and across Iowa.

Grassley, speaking to the Newton Daily News on Friday during his weekly Capitol Hill Report media conference, praised Ernst for her work on a resolution, and said he was “frustrated” with Obama’s veto.

Waters of the U.S., an environmental rule, went into effect on Aug. 28, 2015. The day the rule went into effect, so did an injunction protecting 13 states — not including Iowa — from its reach. In October, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals approved an injunction for all 50 states.

The rule clarifies the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army under the Clean Water Act

in cases of smaller bodies of flowing water.

Grassley, a Republican, is one of those who isn’t happy about what he calls overreach of the EPA. “We’ve tried three things now to try to overcome Waters of the U.S.,” Grassley said. “There was Sen. Ernst’s resolution. Another one was to change the laws so they couldn’t write it in the first place, and Sen. ( John) Barrasso (R-Wyo.) thought that one up, but it got hung up on not having 67 votes to override the veto. Putting a rider on an appropriations bill was the third one; that didn’t get done before Christmas.”

Obama told Congress the new rule “is critical to our efforts to protect the nation’s waters and keep them clean.” The president stated he could not support Ernst’s resolution because it blocks progress and denies the public “the regulatory certainty and clarity needed to invest in projects that rely on clean water.”

The veto was the ninth of Obama’s presidency.

“I’m disappointed that President Obama and Senate Democrats have repeatedly ignored the legitimate concerns raised by folks across the country who are directly impacted by the WOTUS rule and chose instead to stand with an unchecked federal agency in Washington, D.C.,” Ernst said after the veto.

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cy Director Carol Balvanz said the concern among farmers isn’t merely more EPA control over regulations on water released downstream. It’s about preventing regulations that stop farmers from potentially not being able to do any work at all around a body of water without paying a fee and getting a permit.

“It’s both a potential money grab and a potential land grab,” Balvanz said. “All the comments submitted (during open-comment periods to the EPA) seem to make no difference. It’s been said the EPA won’t attempt to hamper normal farming activities, but that’s the agency that will be allowed to determine what comprises normal farming activities.”

Grassley said court challenges to the rule might take a while. The rules are suspended under injunction, so Obama’s veto had no immediate direct effect on any water regulations, but to be on the safe side, some agencies have told farmers to act as if the law’s provisions are already in place.

“Thank God the checks and balances are working, or this power grab by the Democrats would be successful,” Grassley said. “I don’t think we’ll get a final answer until it gets to the Supreme Court, unless we get a new president and can take more Congressional action.”

Contact Jason W. Brooks at 641-792-3121 ext. 6532 or jbrooks@newtondailynews.com

AMES — The forecast of a winter storm for most of Iowa has forced the postponement of the Iowa State University Agriculture and Life Sciences Career Day until Thursday.

The career fair was originally scheduled for Wednesday, with 110 organizations planning to recruit students.

“Because of the expected storm, I realize we may lose some participants, but I prefer to err on the side of caution for people traveling to the event,” said Mike Gaul, director of Career Services for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

The job fair on Thursday will be in the same location in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

It will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and is open to the public.

The organizations that had confirmed for this week’s career fair are listed at www.career.cals. iastate.edu/cals-career-day/current

Iowa State to host farmland owners workshop Feb. 12 ALTOONA — Iowa State University will host Farmland Owners Workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Feb. 12 at the Polk County extension and outreach office, 1625 Adventureland Drive, Suite A, in Altoona.

Workshop topics include Farmland Research Overview, Farmland Considerations in an Estate Plan, The Planning Ahead Checklist, and Farmland Leasing Strategies.

Doors open at 8:30 a.m.

Registration is $35 per person or $50 per couple and includes a catered lunch and training materials. Registration deadline is Feb. 9.

To register, call 515-957-5760 or email nancyike@iastte.edu.

State century, heritage farm application deadline June 1 DES MOINES — The State of Iowa 2016 Century and Heritage Farm Program applications are now available and must be postmarked by June 1. The program is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and recognizes families that have owned their farm for 100 years in the case of Century Farms and 150 years for Heritage Farms.

“These awards are an opportunity to recognize the hard work and commitment by these families that is necessary to keep a farm in the same family for 100 or 150 years,” Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey said.

Applications are available at www.IowaAgriculture.gov by clicking on the Century Farm or Heritage Farm link under “Hot Topics.”

Applications may also be requested by calling 515-281-3645, emailing Becky Lorenz at Becky.

Lorenz@IowaAgriculture.gov, or writing to Century or Heritage Farms Program, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Henry A. Wallace Building, 502 E. Ninth St., Des Moines, IA 50319.

Ag secretary releases water quality initiative report DES MOINES — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey highlighted Friday the Iowa Water Quality Initiative 2016 Legislative Report during his presentation to the Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee.

“We continue to see engagement and investment in water quality efforts and it is exciting to see the progress that is being made. Thanks to the support we have received from the Governor and Legislature the Iowa

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Water Quality Initiative continues to expand and work with additional farmers. This report provides an update on the initiative to legislators and outlines our request for the next fiscal year,” Northey said.

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A copy of the report can be found at www.IowaAgriculture.gov under “Hot Topics” or at http://www.cleanwateriowa.org/news-and-blog.aspx.

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ter quality practices. The report also gives and update on Tracking/Accountability and efforts by the Iowa Nutrient Research Center at Iowa State University. The Iowa DNR also provided an update on the efforts of point sources that is included in the report.

During the hearing Northey also highlighted the $10 million request for the Water Quality Initiative would allow the Department to continue offering cost share statewide to farmers

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The vote was a clear setback for Donald Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul who had parlayed his fame into large rallies and national poll numbers that before Monday night had established him as the Republican front-runner.

But Trump came in second, only slightly ahead of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who achieved a credible showing by nearly besting Trump. Rubio’s stronger-than-expected finish could help cement his status as the favorite of mainstream Republican voters who worry that Cruz and Trump are too caustic to win the November general election.

Trump doubled down on winning the nomination and besting either Hillary Clinton or Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“We will go on to get the Republican nomination and we will go on to easily beat Hillary or Bernie or whatever the hell they throw up there,” Trump told supporters.

The Texas senator visited all 99 of Iowa’s counties — and convinced voters that he would deliver on promises to end Obamacare and use extensive aerial bombing campaigns to stop Islamic State militants in the Middle East.

Cruz backer Shane VanderHart, 43, of Pleasant Hill, Iowa, said he believes Cruz will actually repeal the health insurance program introduced by Obama in 2010, a longtime but pledge

by Republican candidates.

“When he says he’s going to repeal it, I believe him because he’s followed through on his campaign promises in the Senate,” VanderHart said.

Michael Napuunoa, 25, an electrician from Des Moines, said he liked Cruz’s promise to strengthen the military and fight terrorism.

There were two people who wanted to register to vote on site after volunteers had run out of registration forms.

“Overall, I’d say we did we pretty good on having enough supplies,” Payton said.

“We had two precincts that had a much bigger turnout than expected, so, naturally, those took longer to count.”

Many first-time caucus-goers made it out to their local party sites Monday. One of those first-timers was 83-year-old Jim Douglas, who has lived in Newton since 1957 but had never caucused before.

“There were a few things different, like having undecided voters in the room,” Douglas said.

Bri Meyer was the precinct captain for the O’Malley campaign in Newton Precinct 4-2, which caucused in the Newton High School Center for Performance. In her precinct, O’Malley made it through the first two rounds of voting before he became non-viable.

Some of the voters then decided not to join either the Clinton or Sanders camps. A handful of the non-viable O’Malley group went with Sanders, which ended up tied with the Clinton total, 35-35.

Clinton and Sanders will each take five delegates from Precinct 4-2 to next month’s county convention.

Even though her candidate didn’t succeed, Meyer said she would gladly be a precinct captain again.

“I met so many people just from walking around my neighborhood, and talking to people,” Meyer said.

“And I learned how important every vote can be. We had 76 people here, and O’Malley was four votes short of being viable. I know I talked to at least four more people who said they’d caucus for him.”

Next door to the Center for Performance, in Newton High School’s Room 11, O’Malley only had one supporter among

Dems Continued from Page 1A Even a narrow victory for Clinton over an avowed socialist could complicate her quest for the nomination. But Clinton has deep ties throughout the party’s establishment and a strong following among a more diverse electorate that will play a larger role in primary contests beyond New Hampshire, where Sanders is favored.

Clinton, who entered the race as the heavily favored front-runner, was hoping to banish the possibility of dual losses in Iowa and in New Hampshire. Two straight defeats could set off alarms within the party and throw into question her ability to defeat a Republican.

Sanders, for his part, was hoping to replicate President Barack Obama’s pathway to the presidency by using a victory in Iowa to catapult his passion and ideals of “democratic socialism” deep into the primaries. He raised $20 million during January and hoped to turn an Iowa win into a fundraising bonanza.

Clinton, in her speech, offered herself to supporters as “progressive who gets things done,” one in a long line of reformers who challenge the status quo.

Those remarks drew jeers and boos when they aired inside Sanders’ caucus night party.

Sanders, in his turn at the microphone, offered himself as the true reformer, saying he was ready to press a “radical idea” — an economy that for works for working families, not the “billionaire class.”

Portia Boulger, a 63-year-old Sanders supporter from Chillicothe, Ohio, declared a razor-thin outcome as good as a victory for Sanders.

“The political revolution is here and it’s started in Iowa,” she declared. “Win, lose or draw we have won.”

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more than 100 Newton Precinct 3-1 caucus-goers. Eventually, the lively group’s vote gave eight delegates to Clinton and six to Sanders.

Other precincts around the county were similarly even on the Democratic side. The Kellogg precinct, which includes some of the eastern county communities, gave seven delegates each to Clinton and Sanders and one to O’Malley.

At a Democratic precinct at Colfax-Mingo High School, part of the debate between Sanders and Clinton supporters was about electability. Before the caucus began, Clinton voter Linda Darrock walked around the room with a pan and spatula, trying to coax Sanders supports over to the Hillary camp with her homemade brownies.

Sanders ultimately came out on top — three delegates to one.

But the cordial debate began with Darrock arguing the self-described socialist might have trouble against Republicans in the general election.

“The question I’d like to ask the Bernie supporters is who can win in November?” she said across the school library. “A Democrat’s going to have to be elected. They have to be electable — I’m very worried that he’s not.

You talk about how he’s not taking big money but he’s going to have to have big money to win the White House.

So somewhere along the line he’s going to be beholden to somebody.”

But Sanders supporters pushed back that electability and experience were the same augments made against President Obama — who won the Iowa Caucus in 2007 — when he squared off against Clinton.

“Eight years ago, these are exactly the same questions that were asked about Obama. He couldn’t possibly be electable, he was going to ruin the budget and yet he was elected,” said Margaret Blom, a Sanders supporter. “I think people are looking for

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something that really is different … In my opinion, and as a rabid feminist it’s hard for me to say this, but Bernie represents that. He represents absolute change from the status quo.”

Griffin Engel, the 17-year-old son of Laura and Kevin Engel, started the day by having one of the candidates, O’Malley, visit with supporters at his family’s Newton home.

By the end of the day, the NHS senior had caucused for the first time, and said he has learned some valuable lessons from the caucus process.

“As an upstanding adult, you should be politically informed,” Engel said. “People can

push pretty hard, and one vote really matters.”

Brooks Brinstad is another young Newton voter who has not yet finished high school, but he already has one Iowa Caucus behind him.

“I caucused for Sanders, because I agree with a lot of the things he says, and he cares about middle-class people,” Brinstad said. “I didn’t really know what to expect with the caucus, and there a few surprising things. I’m glad I did it.”

— Mike Mendenhall and Alex Olp contributed to this article.

Contact Jason W. Brooks at 641-792-3121 ext. 6532 or jbrooks@newtondailynews.com

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Keeping Me on My Toes

In their own words

By Jamee A. Pierson Staff Writer

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I have two kiddos with very different personalities which are definitely beginning to flourish. They both have their own ideas, dreams and way of doing and saying things all their own. Currently, they think they do things because of five little people working in their brains thanks to the Disney Pixar movie “Inside Out,” which although not completely correct, has a little truth to it.

My oldest daughter has always been more serious. She takes after me in so many ways, both good and bad, and is a people pleaser with a mischievous streak. I can just see as her mind is churning and growing with each question she asks.

She is very sure in what she says and asks pointed, direct

questions. My current favorite thing about her is her vocabulary. She is confident in the words she chooses, even when they are incorrect. A few of my favorites include “smarshsmallow” for marshmallows, “demote” for remote and the “simpsmins” for the Simpson’s.

She says them with conviction, and I don’t have the heart to correct her directly because it is so cute.

I also love the way she describes items when she doesn’t know the name of them. One of her favorite snacks are Lay’s Stacks sour cream and onion chips. As that uses words she is not familiar with, she came up with her own name for the treat: yellow chips with green sparkles. They will forever been known as yellow chips with green sparkles in the

Pierson house.

In a realm that is a bridge to cross later, I am fairly certain she believes all animals, including humans, come from eggs. It is not uncommon that there is a blanket wrapped little girl on the floor, pretending to be a cat, hatching from her egg. I know it isn’t correct, but it works for now.

My youngest daughter is the opposite. She is like her dad — more carefree, go with the flow and easy to get over things. She adores her sister but is her own person who is more likely to play on her own than need a playmate.

She also has her own vocabulary and distinct way of saying things. Right now, her favorite thing to eat is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

This is a pretty big step be-

cause prior to the new found love, she ate no bread at all.

When asking for this treat, she has a unique was of explaining what she would like.

It usually goes, “Mommy, I would like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with jelly and peanut butter on it.” I chuckle a little every time she says it.

She also says “oh tay” in place of OK and likes to be “snuggled in” at night instead of just tucked in. I know babies are cute and cuddly, but I like this stage just as much.

Seeing their personalities come through makes every day exciting and makes me look forward to what is coming next.

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

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Human trafficking is modern day slavery Iowa is not immune to sex and labor human trafficking. Jasper County is at risk. It is time to work together to find solutions, enact protections and ensure justice. Denial and dismissal are unacceptable.

I’m helping with bi-partisan efforts to craft and push legis- By Dan Kelley lation to protect Iowa vulnerable Io- Representative wans of all ages, especially children. We must empower educators, parents, doctors, judges, law enforcement and mental health professionals with the tools to protect Iowa’s children and those forcefully transported through our state for the purposes of sexual exploitation and labor trafficking.

Victims of sex and labor trafficking, many of them teenage girls or young women, are exploited through physical and emotional abuse. Oftentimes, brainwashing techniques are used. Homelessness, hunger and drug addiction are among factors making teens and others vulnerable.

During a meeting I took part in recently, at the capitol, an expert advocate for victims of human trafficking, Teresa Downing-Matibag, singled-out Newton as a town where teenagers are at risk. Her statement was based upon interviews with teenagers in various parts of central Iowa. She cited a toxic combination of drug concerns as well as interstate access from Chicago and other cities, just hours

away, in making our county’s rural towns in need of heightened awareness.

What we heard at the Capitol wasn’t pleasant, but it’s irresponsible to deny or explain-away this comment. While we have heard the easy, knee-jerk reactions; “not here” and “our problem isn’t as bad as the next town,” I urge a pro-active approach to this crisis. We don’t have time for denial and excuses. Kids’ lives are at stake.

Instead, let’s be honest with ourselves. The expert was right.

Our teens are at risk. We fit the profile of a vulnerable community. Three main factors include: • drug concerns • proximity to major interstates and cities • child poverty First, drug addiction is often a major problem for trafficking victims. Sex traffickers often supply drugs to their victims in order to control their actions.

Traffickers benefit from having victims become dependent upon drugs.

To those who choose denial of a local drug problem. I say, take a look at your local newspaper.

Lately, the front page is littered with mug-shots for drug-related crimes.

Second, let’s be aware of our location. Interstate 80 is a major roadway. Millions of travelers pass through every year.

We are just hours of drive time from Chicago, Omaha, the Quad-cities and Minneapolis.

Des Moines is just minutes away.

According to experts, frequent trafficking patterns among the top metropolitan hubs for sex trafficking include some routes through Iowa, including I-80.

We must focus not only on keeping local kids and teens safe, but also be vigilant in ensuring the safety of victims of all ages who are forcefully transported along I-80 for the purposes of sex and labor slavery. It is our moral obligation.

Third, many victims of human trafficking seek an escape from poverty. An ugly truth we must face in Jasper County is the number of children who live in poverty. According to “Iowa Kids Count, an initiative of the Child and Family Policy Center,” 8,155 Jasper County citizens are under 18 with 2,434 under the age of 6. In 2014, 1,155 of these children lived in poverty. In Jasper County, we have a childhood poverty rate of 14.1 percent. This represents a 91 percent increase since 2000.

Painful to hear? Yes. Should we deny it to feel better? Absolutely not. We must acknowledge our challenges to have any hope of finding solutions.

How can you help? Public awareness plays a key role, given the hidden nature of sex trafficking. Educating yourself about the signs of trafficking can help to identify victims and may assist in the investigation of cases. There are numerous organizations focused on public awareness.

Let’s not play the “blame game.” It’s a waste of time. Let’s find solutions, protect the victims, and fight for justice. Denial of human trafficking and drug issues is a mistake. It’s time for our best effort to solve these problems in Iowa, Jasper County and Newton.

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I had to go buy a little bottle of artificial tears for my mother tonight.

T h a t ’s an odd thing to be buying in America right now — crying is very n e a r l y By Marc Dion forbidden.

She’s 87. She has dry eye. The rest of us don’t cry because it means we’re weak and we have feelings for things.

School shootings. The homeless. The poor. We argue over those things, and we use them to score points, but we do not cry.

I went to a dollar store on an urban street, across from a Chinese restaurant whose menu includes fried plantains, next to a Pakistani-run cigarette and convenience store, two doors down from an auto parts store.

When I got to the register at the dollar store with my $2.15 bottle of tears, there was an old-style school bell on the counter and a hand-lettered sign reading, “ring bell for service.”

I rang.

A woman in her 30s, short and round, came in from outside, where she’d been standing, smoking a cigarette.

“Sorry,” she said.

“It’s all right,” I said.

“You were on your break.

I get breaks on my job.”

“Especially when you’ve been here since 8,” she said.

It was 7 p.m.

“I just got off,” I told her. “I started at 9.”

“I’m here till 10,” she told me.

“You win,” I said. “I’m working 11 days straight, though. You?” “I’m off Sunday,” she said.

“I win that one,” I told her.

She laughed.

“We’re even then,” she said. “You want a little bag for that?”

“That’s OK,” I said.

I put the bottle of tears in my pocket and left the store.

I’m writing this and it’s 8:30 p.m., so I guess we’re both still working, but at least I’m doing it in my own home, in stocking feet, smoking a pipe.

If I want to go to the bathroom, I don’t have to put a little bell and a note on my desk.

It strikes me, in my cold little home office, next to an un-insulated wall, that those of us who work at anything should love each other, should care for each other and, yes, should cry for each other.

A million cruel voices tell me to look down on that woman, to climb up on my master’s degree and look way down at her and she should have tried harder. Hundreds of angry political voices tell me the working poor are funny tattooed clowns who earn exactly what they’re worth. See the slumped little man sweeping the floor in the bank? Dumb good-for-nothing.

He oughta learn English if he’s gonna come here.

And the funny thing is, the guys at the very top can’t tell the difference between white-collar me and the guy sweeping the floor. They set us at each other’s throats and they pay us the lowest wages they can. Suburb hates trailer park. Trailer park hates black ghetto. Everybody knows the guy one step further down the ladder deserves to be there because he’s lazy.

We all have dry eye.

Marc Munroe Dion is a nationally syndicated columnist. Dion’s latest book, a collection of his best columns from 2014 is called, “Marc Dion: Vol. I” and is available for Nook and Kindle.

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Obituaries Robert A. Parsons Jan. 29, 2016 Robert Alan Parsons, 54, of Soldotna, Alaska, formerly of Kellogg and Newton passed away of cancer on F r i d a y, Jan. 29, 2016.

T h e eldest son of Daryle W. and Judy Callison Parsons-Jones, he was born in Grinnell on Nov. 3, 1961.

Bob received his elementary education in the Kellogg Schools, Graduating From Newton Community High School in 1980. He re-

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ceived a Maytag Scholarship. He was awarded a degree in architectural drafting from DMACC in Ankeny.

His childhood found him in little league and Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts where he held all offices. He was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout.

He enjoyed the campouts tremendously.

High school days found him managing several sports teams, of which he enjoyed very much.

Bob served in the U.S. Navy for 11 years, stationed in Japan as well as many other places.

He served in the Desert Storm conflict with his ship anchored on shore if needed.

Formerly employed

by Cline Tool in the computer field, he most recently enjoyed his photography business taking photos of Alaska’s beautiful scenery.

Bob married Jolene Michelle Gordon in Conroe, Texas, while in the Navy, on Oct. 12, 1991.

Highlights of his life were deer hunting in Texas with his fatherin-law, Charlie Gordon.

Those left to honor his memory are his wife, Jolene, of Alaska; mother-in-law, Annette Gordon of Texas, his mother, Judy Parsons-Jones of Newton/ Kellogg; his step-father, Albert Jones, also of Newton/Kellogg;

his two brothers, Kevin of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Jeff Parsons of Kellogg. He is also survived by his four stepsisters, Pam (Dwight) Cleverley and Denice Smith of Goodman, Mo., Laura Lee Danley of Newton and Susan (Rob) Ham of Reasnor, as well as three nephews and two nieces of the immediate family.

Bob was preceded in death by his father, Daryle Parsons, on Oct. 15, 2007; his father-in- law, Charlie Gordon June 9, 2015, as well as his maternal and paternal grandparents.

No services are scheduled locally. His body has been cremated.

Call for Entries: Decorate your own Iowa State Fair statue for display at the fair DES MOINES — Be a part of the Iowa State Fair 2016 theme, “Nothing Compares to My State Fair,” by decorating your very own State Fair logo.

The 2016 Iowa State Fair will be showcasing a limited number of 3 foot tall painted Iowa State Fair logos throughout the grounds, August 1121. Individuals, clubs and companies are invited to submit their own designs for their own unique statue depicting what makes the Iowa State Fair special to them.

To enter, submit your entry form along with a written description and detailed drawing of the proposed paint design. Entry forms can be downloaded from the Iowa State Fair website: www.iowastatefair.org/ fair-attractions/contests/.

All entries must be received or e-mailed to tcook@iowastatefair.org

by May 15. The chosen designs will be contacted by June 1 and a $140 entry fee is due at statue pick up.

A panel of judges will

award prizes for completed statues based on originality, creativeness and overall look in both the professional and novice divisions. Participants will be judged in the “professional” category if 25 percent or more of their income comes from graphic design or is artistry related. Winners will receive a prize package including an Iowa State Fair plaque, Fair admission tickets, parking and more. The first, second and third place winners will also receive $150,

Iowa Lottery announces Jasper County winners Newton Daily News Nathaniel Sudbrock, of Newton, was the latest big instant-scratch game winner in Jasper County during calendar year 2015, winning $50,000 playing $5 Did I Win? with a ticket purchased at Colfax Food Mart.

Jeffrey Gladson, of Newton, won $30,000 playing Powerball with a ticket purchased at a Casey’s General Store in Newton.

Iowa Lottery players won a total of $196.9 million in prizes in fiscal year 2015, the latest complete year for which the lottery has records.

However, there are a significant number of prizes that expire each year without being claimed.

The lottery reminds its players to double-check their tickets. In fiscal year 2015, more than $1.3 million in lotto prizes expired in Iowa without being claimed.

Prize money left unclaimed after redemption deadlines goes into the lottery’s prize pools for future games and promotions, so it will be used to pay prizes, just not those particular prizes that have expired. On the lottery’s website at www. ialottery.com, there is a current list of unclaimed

$100 and $50 cash prizes, respectively. Winning artists’ names will be displayed alongside their painted sculpture during the Fair.

Send entries by May 15 to: Tonya Cook, Special Events Director, Iowa State Fair, P.O. Box 57130, Des Moines, Iowa 50317-0003; or email all materials to tcook@iowastatefair.org For questions about the contest, contact Tonya Cook at 515-2623111, ext. 215 or tcook@ iowastatefair.org.

• 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 12 p.m.

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

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

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m.

Wednesday at the Masonic Temple in Prairie City.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon and 7 p.m. Thursday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon Friday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

Lottery Monday Midday Pick 3: 8 4 6 Pick 4: 4 3 7 1 All or Nothing Game: 1 4 6 11 14 15 16 17 18 19 23 24 Monday Evening Pick 3: 8 3 9 Pick 4: 2 6 6 1 All or Nothing Game: 1 2 6 9 10 15 19 20 21 22 23 24

Congregate Meals Wednesday BBQ chicken, Parmesan potatoes, broccoli Normandy, plums, banana and skim milk Thursday Smothered pork chop, cheesy Texas potatoes, Lima beans, apricots, fruit cocktail and skim milk For reservations or information about congregate and home-delivered meals, call 641-792-7102 or 866-9427102 toll-free.

Newton Main Street receives donation

lotto prizes of $10,000 or more.

Claiming Prizes Players in Iowa have up to 365 days from the date of the drawing to claim prizes in Powerball, Mega Millions, Hot Lotto and All or Nothing. Players have up to 90 days from the date of the drawing to claim prizes in Iowa’s Pick 3 and Pick 4 games. If the expiration date for a particular prize falls on a weekend or holiday when the lottery’s offices are closed, the winner has until the close of business on the next business day to claim the prize.

Submitted Photo U.S. Bank Branch Manager Tricia Maher presents a U.S. Bank Foundation Grant of $1,750 to Graham Sullivan, board president of Newton Main Street. Also pictured are bank employees Brian Buch, Alex Hicks, Shawna Wanders and Samantha Brown with Andrew Bassman representing Newton Main Street.

Police Blotter Newton Police Department • Robb P. Gammon, 40, of Newton, is charged with domestic abuse assault with intent to inflict serious injury after authorities were called at 9:36 p.m. Friday to the 200 block of West Ninth Street South. Officers were called about a domestic fight and spoke with the victim. She looked upset and frightened

and had a large swelling on her left ear. She said Gammon had hit her injured ear. She was taken to the hospital to drain blood from her ear. He was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

• Jennifer R. Honea, 30, of Newton, is charged with fifth-degree theft after authorities were called at 3:24 p.m. Wednesday to 1323 First

Ave. W. Officers spoke with an employee who said Honea was in the store and took a bottle of pain reliever valued at $2.13. A video showed a female identified as Honea putting the bottle in her pocket.

She was cited and released to appear.

• Candice S. Clemens, 46, of Newton, is charged with fifth-degree theft after author-

ities were called at 5:17 p.m.

Friday to 1501 First Ave. E. Officers were called to Hy-Vee and spoke with an employee who pointed out a female that had placed items in her vehicle she had not purchased. Officers identified Clemens, who admitted to taking the items totaling $77.70. She was cited and released to appear.

• Ricky L. Donnelly, 39,

of Newton, is charged with fifth-degree theft after authorities were called at 4:25 p.m. Thursday to 120 N. Third Ave. E. Officers were called to Fareway where they spoke with an employee who saw Donnelly conceal a freeze deli sandwich valued at $1.99.

He then paid for his beverage and left. He was cited and released to appear.

Program set for adult children supporting aging caregiving parents Newton Daily News Does your mom or dad take care of a loved one (perhaps one cares for the other)? Do you know what your parents are going through? Your parent is in a new role of caregiver when helping a spouse with things he/ she cannot do because of a medical condition’s

disabling effects. How do you better support your parent during this time?

Caregiving Relationships: Conversations on Aging is a program for adult children supporting their aging caregiver parents. The workshop is scheduled for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m Feb. 22 at the Jasper County

Extension Office, 550 N. Second Ave. W., in the Newton DMACC building. There is no cost to this workshop.

“My mom took care of my dad in his last years. He suffered from dementia and tended to wander. As a family caregiver, my mom made challenging decisions and her daily routine

changed dramatically,” shares an adult daughter.

Research shows that spousal caregivers are more likely to provide care with help from adult children than to accept help from community supports or nonfamily members. “You are a son or daughter to your parent(s) regardless of age, but your role

description can change when your parent is in the role of a caregiver,” said Joy Rouse, Human Sciences Specialist, Family Life.

“The program helps adult children learn to recognize how caregiving affects relationships.

It helps them discover their role in making decisions about their

parents’ later life,” says Rouse. It also helps adult children build talking and listening skills and gain ideas on how to start difficult conversations.

For more information and register for the workshop, contact the Jasper County Extension Office 641-7926433.

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Neighbors’ neglected dog is causing a big stink

DEAR ABBY: We recently bought a new home and have discovered that our elderly neighbors are caring for their grandson’s dog.

The dog lives in a 3-by-6-foot area right next to our patio. The poor animal receives little attention and is rarely cleaned up after. As a consequence, our patio reeks of dog feces, and we are overwhelmed by flies.

I feel bad for the couple, and I resent the grandson for allowing his dog to be neglected and for failing to have any consideration for the stench that makes our patio off-limits to us. How can I politely ask my new neighbors to clean up after their dog so we can enjoy our new home without offending them or creating a bad neighbor situation? — “SHOO FLY” IN BAKERSFIELD, CALIF. DEAR SHOO FLY: If your neighbors are unable to properly care for their grandson’s dog, they shouldn’t have it. A dog is a responsibility — the animal needs feeding, exercise, social contact and to be cleaned up after. To shirk that responsibility is cruel.

It would not be offensive to inform these neighbors that the odor and flies from their dog run are so overwhelming that they prevent you from enjoying your patio. Speak up, or they’ll think you haven’t noticed. If this continues, call animal control or a pet rescue group.

DEAR ABBY: I have been in a rocky relationship for 10 months, and I’m not sure how you get out.

I have tried multiple times to leave, but every time I tell her, she begs me not to, says horrible things and threatens to kill herself. She says she’ll never be happy again, that I “always do this” and it hurts her so much. It makes me feel so bad I just

give in and give her what she wants.

She doesn’t trust me. I have to give her all of my passwords and she checks my phone daily. She has to know everything I’m doing, and if I don’t tell her, look out! The next world war is going to happen.

I have told her many times that if she can’t trust me, there’s no way we can be together because it will make a miserable life for both of us.

Her constant worrying whether I’m going to leave her is starting to get to me. I really can’t take this anymore. I have considered some extreme things to get out because I’m so unhappy, and I know she is, too. I have tried everything.

Please help me. — STUCK IN A NIGHTMARE DEAR STUCK: It is time you realize that you can’t fix what’s wrong with this woman. Her insecurities are a bottomless pit. You have described a hostage relationship, not a loving one.

So pack your things and get out of there NOW. If she threatens suicide and you know how to contact her family, alert them after you have gone. But do not pause, do not explain and do not look back. Your safety and your sanity depend upon it.

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DUBUQUE — A dangerous stretch of U.S. 20 is set to be reconstructed in the next few years in an effort to improve traffic safety near Dubuque. The Iowa Department of Transportation plans to smooth out a curve of the four-lane highway at a Peosta intersection beginning in 2019. The $26 million project will also add a wider median, enabling turning vehicles entering U.S. 20 to cross only one direction of traffic at a time. The department’s data shows that wrecks in the area led to 18 injuries in the past five years.

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Neighbors help save man who fell into cold pond BETTENDORF — Two neighbors have helped save a Bettendorf man who fell into a retention pond’s freezing water. Ronald Simmering, 72, was trying to save his dog, which had fallen into the pond after being lured by a decomposing deer and other wildlife Saturday afternoon. Simmering fell in as he tried to lift the 80-pound dog out of the water. Tim Raymon got on his belly and held onto Simmering before medics arrived.

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Judge overturns murder conviction in pub shooting DES MOINES — A judge has overturned a murder conviction in the 2000 shooting of a federal drug informant at a Des Moines pub. Judge Karen Romano ordered a new trial Monday for James Wright Jr. in the death of Ollie Talton.

Prosecutors contended Wright was part of a group responsible for killing Talton, who was shot in the bathroom of the Hickman Pub. Prosecutors said they killed Talton because he was giving information to federal prosecutors about drug dealers.

SHENANDOAH — The route for a popular bike ride across Iowa has been set.

RAGBRAI begins July 23 in Glenwood and ends July 30 in Muscatine. The course covers 419.9 miles, with a total climb of 18,488 feet. Organizers say this year’s scenic RAGBRAI course will be easier than most.

It’s the third-shortest in the event’s 44-year history and ranks as the 24th flattest course in that same period. The ride will also pass through Shenandoah, Creston, Leon, Centerville, Ottumwa and Washington.

5 New Waterloo restaurant shut down by late-night fire

WATERLOO — A newly-opened restaurant in Waterloo is now closed for at least a week to clean up from a fire. The fire broke out in Tokyo Bay just after 3 a.m. Saturday. Investigators say restaurant video cameras captured the start of the fire, which was caused when hot fried food was placed in a plastic container on a countertop that later ignited. There was a lot of smoke damage to the restaurant.

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SIGN OF PROGRESS

Kellogg Lions Club leads fundraising effort for new sign on Iowa 224

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News

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ELLOGG — It has served its purpose for an estimated 35 years or so, but its days are numbered.

Unfortunately, its replacement won’t be cheap.

The Kellogg community sign — the main signal folks driving north along Highway 224 are about to head into town — is showing signs it won’t last much longer. The Kellogg Lions Club is raising money to replace it, but that’s taking many steps and small fundraising events.

The manually operated sign, which requires climbing onto a precarious ledge to change the letters on the lighted message board, has starting to crack in some spots and trying to find parts for the sign is becoming more difficult all the time. A new double-sided LED sign, depending on how many features it has, will cost the community between about $20,000 and $24,000, based on about eight initial estimates.

Al Ricks and Conrad VanMaaren, both past presidents of the Kellogg Lions Club, are among the five Kellogg Community Sign Project committee members. The committee and others have been working hard to raise money toward the goal, and are about one-fourth of the way toward $20,000 goal.

“Not only do people tend to fall off the platform while changing the message, but the letters blow off in the wind,” Ricks said.

“Those have always been issues.

The main problems that are going to become insurmountable are the scarcity of parts and the condition of the sign. The fiberglass on the back is starting to come apart.”

Jim and Jeannie Boettcher are the main ones who change out the sign, VanMaaren said, but Jeannie had an unrelated accident last year and wasn’t on “sign duty” for several months. The idea is to get an LED sign that multiple users could control remotely on a laptop, phone or tablet.

It isn’t clear yet whether the support post will need to be re-

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Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Al Ricks, left, and Conrad VanMaaren stand at the base of the aging community sign along Highway 224 at the south edge of the city of Kellogg. The Kellogg Lions Club is leading a fundraising effort to replace it with a modern LED sign that will might cost more than $20,000.

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A chicken noodle supper held Jan. 22 was the latest small fundraiser to inch toward replacing the sign. A pancake supper was held at about the same time as last summer’s sesquicentennial (150th) birthday celebration for Kellogg.

VanMaaren said the committee is looking at a medium-resolution sign, based on industry products available — similar to the recently installed LED sign in front of Newton High School.

An elaborate video board, such as the ones found at large arenas and stadiums, isn’t what Kellogg needs, though it requires more resolution than the simple message boards used on interstates.

“We went to the city, and they basically wanted more information,” Ricks said. “So we went to some companies and learned about LED signs.”

Members of the committee went to a company in Oskaloosa in December to see how a sign works internally.

However, before the Lions can ask the City of Kellogg to get formally involved in a process to award a bid on a new sign, more fundraising must be done. The committee, which

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also includes Kellogg-area residents Kathy Klemm, Mary Ann VanMaaren and Brenda Aldrich, is hoping to find some donors to help make the sign happen. There are a few grants the committee might be able to obtain.

“We have one anonymous donor who is willing to match a donation, up to $4,500,” Ricks said.

The Jasper Community Foundation, headed by executive director Dan Skokan, is taking donations and maintaining an account for the sign committee. Earmarked, tax-deductible donations can be made to the foundation to support the LED sign project.

The sign could be used for small-community announcements such as individual birthdays and also for the somewhat cosmopolitan function of road closures and weather events.

More importantly, Ricks said, a new sign.

“It will show that we’re still alive,” Ricks said. “It will show that Kellogg is still here, and it’s thriving.”

Contact Jason W. Brooks at 641-792-3121 ext. 6532 or jbrooks@newtondailynews.com

Bureau, Newton Development Corporation, Newton Housing Development Corporation and Newton Main Street and developing an action plan for the city to be used in implementing the existing branding and new branding guidelines document across all stakeholder groups.

“The path forward at this point includes a proposal to analyze the current marketing being done, especially through websites. The city has our city of Newton government website but also the Get to Know Newton website, figuring out how that really establishes a presence in the world in conjunction with all of the other websites that market our community,” Friedman said.

For website analysis, Happy Medium will work with the city to analyze its web presence on the basis of mobile friendliness, page speed, content, general branding and organization as they relate to visitors, developers, residents and new residents of Newton. From there, the marketing firm will provide suggestions for improvement and updates based on their analysis.

“I know the key to marketing the community of Newton starts on the web. That’s where people are going first to get information whether they are a business, developer, visitor or someone that is looking to relocate to a new community or even our own citizens. I think we have an opportunity here to do even better service for our citizens that are here,” councilwoman Evelyn George said.

Further marketing efforts in Newton include Happy Medium conducting in-person meeting with team members and stakeholders groups.

In the meetings, Happy Medium will discuss the organization’s history, public perceptions, strengths, internal and external challenges, competition and goals, existing branding, marketing plans, goals and difficulties.

Following those meetings, Happy Medium will map out how the branding implementation process will work, specifically how best to use the existing branding most effectively through marketing efforts. They will then meeting with all stakeholders as a whole and individually to answer any questions, get additional information and develop a comprehensive action plan.

Using all information gathered, Happy Medium will develop an action plan for Newton that will outline future and ongoing branding integration efforts. It will include deliverables, a timeline and cost.

The total cost for the discovery, analysis and action plan process by Happy Medium is $7,000 with funds coming from marketing services line items in TIF budgets and the housing initiative.

No clear timeline for the process has been set, but the city is planning to more aggressively on the project and hopes to have feedback by spring.

“When people search there first mode to find something out about the community, they are going to the web. They need to be able to find you immediately,” Councilman Craig Trotter said. “This makes sense. I’m excited and I think this will be fantastic.”

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

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Iowans write first chapter of 2016 election The Associated Press DES MOINES — Iowa voters passed judgment Monday on a wide-open Republican presidential race dominated for months by Donald Trump, and a Democratic matchup pitting the first woman with a strong shot at the White House against an avowed socialist who’s put up more of a fight than anyone expected.

The Iowa caucuses, a tradition-steeped exercise in untraditional times, opened voting in the slog to November as people filed into schools, churches and veterans’ halls with a looming snowstorm appearing to hold off long enough not to mess up voting night.

Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Laura and Kevin Engel and their son, Griffin, hosted an organizing event for Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley and dozens of supporters at their home on Monday. O’Malley expressed gratitude for all the support he received from Jasper County leading up to Monday night’s Iowa Caucuses, although he would later announce he was terminating his candidacy for the presidential nomination.

O’Malley drops out of Democratic race for president DES MOINES (AP) — Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley ended his Democratic presidential campaign Monday midway through vote-counting in the Iowa caucuses, terminating a bid that failed to gain traction against rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

O’Malley’s decision to drop out of the race came even before a winner had been declared but as early results showed O’Malley garnering negligible support in the first primary contest. His plans were disclosed by two people familiar with his decision, who weren’t authorized to discuss the decision publicly and requested anonymity.

The former two-term governor and Baltimore mayor campaigned as a can-do chief executive who had pushed through key parts of the Democratic agenda in Maryland, including gun control, sup-

port for gay marriage and an increase in the minimum wage.

A veteran of Colorado Sen. Gary Hart’s presidential campaigns in the 1980s, O’Malley sought to portray himself as a fresh face for a party searching for new ideas. He launched some of the toughest critiques of the race, accusing Clinton of being on “three sides” of the gun control debate and offering “weak tea” when it came to policing Wall Street.

But the ex-governor struggled to raise money and was mired in single-digit polls for months, despite an active operation in Iowa and New Hampshire. His campaign was forced to accept federal matching funds in the fall and he failed to become Clinton’s chief alternative as Sanders tapped into the party’s liberal base.

Along the way, O’Malley’s campaign dealt with poor timing

and some bad breaks. His campaign kickoff was complicated by riots in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, bringing fresh scrutiny of O’Malley’s law enforcement record as the city’s mayor.

He entered the race after Sanders, who quickly generated massive crowds around the country and a loyal following in the early states. Sanders’ appeal with liberals — and his online fundraising machine — gave O’Malley little room to become the face of the party’s smaller anti-Clinton wing.

At a forum in Arizona last July, O’Malley’s appearance was disrupted by Black Lives Matters’ activists and he told the crowd, “Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter,” drawing heckles from the crowd. He later apologized, saying he meant to say that “we’re all in this together.”

In one Iowa town, democracy plays out in its own unique way NEVADA (AP) — In this Iowa town, Ward 2 Democratic precinct chairwoman Kathy Johnson kicked things off on an upbeat note at precisely 7 p.m. local time.

“The cool thing about our caucus,” Johnson said to 105 people seated on metal folding chairs in Nevada’s community center, “you get a chance to publicly say which candidate you support and you get a chance to influence your neighbors. You will feel like you have been part of democracy.”

And here is what democracy looks like in Nevada, a community of nearly 7,000 located roughly 40 miles north of Des Moines: While Republicans cast private ballots, Democrats break into groups that publicly declare their support for a candidate. If the number of people in any group is less than 15 percent of the total, they can either choose not to participate or can join another candidate group.

As the caucus began at Gates Memorial Hall, a few blocks from the city’s downtown, the group got up from their chairs and moved to opposite sides of the room, toward tables decorated with signs and flyers for each candidate.

Supporters of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders made up the bulk of the room. The effort for former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley faded quickly, when only three people stood beneath his lone sign. They quickly joined the Sanders ranks.

“We couldn’t get another 13 people to join us,” said Dario Zaffarano, 68, of Nevada. “I’m not surprised. I’m not disappointed.”

AP Photo Precinct chair John Anderson, center, directs voters before a Republican party caucus in Nevada Monday.

Luke Spencer, 34, who served as a precinct captain for Sanders, said he’s long been sold on the Vermont senator.

“I believe in what he’s talking about,” said Luke Spencer, 34, who served as a precinct captain for Sanders. “I want to get big money out of politics.”

The move of the O’Malley supporters to Sanders, as well as some who originally said they were uncommitted, drew cheers and gave Sanders a slight advantage — but under the caucus’ arcane rules, the delegate split was a tie between Sanders and Clinton.

Bobby Jo Pohlman, 38, who moved from uncommitted to Sanders, said it was for his education policies. “I think raising the minimum wage is huge,” she added.

The turnout in Ward 2 was slightly lower than the roughly

120 that showed in 2008, when future President Barack Obama helped lift turnout to historic levels. They met in a room sandwiched between two Republican ward caucuses.

Next door, at Republican Ward 4, many voters walked into the community room, crowded with folding chairs that quickly filled.

Many of the participants were unclear which of the candidates they would support.

Charlie Good, the 57-year-old owner of a gasoline station and convenience store in Nevada, said he was choosing between businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Good, who’s in the business of ethanol and other biofuels, said he liked Cruz but was troubled by his call to end the renewable fuel standard, which requires that gasoline be blended with ethanol.

OBAMA’S SHADOW In the first wave of caucus-goers, six in 10 Democrats said they wanted a candidate who would continue President Barack Obama’s policies, according to preliminary entrance polling.

Hillary Clinton worked assiduously in the Iowa campaign to associate herself with the president she served as secretary of state.

Half of those interviewed while entering Republican caucuses said they are deeply unhappy with the way the federal government is working — four in 10 said they were angry.

FRONT-RUNNERS Through the Iowa campaign, Trump and Ted Cruz most effectively tapped the anger of outsiders while a quartet of Republican rivals more closely associated with the establishment competed to break through on their own — an outcome that might tamp down the insurgency so worrying GOP leaders. Among those four, Marco Rubio, a senator from Florida, appeared to make late progress in creeping up on the front-runners.

Clinton, again the presumed favorite for the Democratic nomination, fought to avoid a repeat of her 2008 failures, when Barack Obama won Iowa on his way to the presidency. Her foil this time: Bernie Sanders, who never tired of saying he started out at 3 percent in the polls only to head into the caucuses in an apparent dead heat.

But all of that positioning came before the verdict was handed off to voters.

THE DEMOCRATS The bracing Sanders-Clinton contest came down to a struggle between practicality and passion, with both candidates from the left but Sanders farther to the left.

Clinton, plenty ambitious in her own policy goals, went hard after Sanders for “magic wand” ideas, like substituting government-paid health care for the hard-won and landmark health law everyone knows as Obamacare.

She called herself a “progressive who wants to make progress and actually produce real results in people’s lives.”

Said Sanders, “You don’t make progress unless you have the courage to look reality in the eye.”

THE REPUBLICANS From one provocative comment to the next, Trump has been the man to beat in Iowa, just as he will be in New Hampshire next week. He flouted convention at every turn and capped his iconoclastic ways by blowing off the final Iowa debate in a snit with Fox News.

The New York billionaire also proved to be the most polarizing figure in the race, with polls finding him with more support than other candidates but also a disapproval rating higher than those of his major rivals.

“This is the day we take our country back,” Trump said at his final Iowa rally, in Cedar Falls. He also warned people to watch for flying tomatoes, having been tipped by security that protesters might make mischief.

Cruz, a Texas senator who campaigned and organized exhaustively in Iowa, put into motion what was expected to be a strong ground game to get Iowans to the caucuses. The breadth of Trump’s precinct-by-precinct organization was more in doubt.

IOWA VOTERS SAY...

— “I think he’s got leadership written all over him.” Wayne Wagemann said of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Wagemann, 35, was among more than 2,000 people at a concert hall in Clive, where Rubio appeared with his wife and four children.

— “I had an easy choice of who to pick. I don’t want another Bush, I don’t want another Clinton. And the truth is I don’t want a politician.

It’s going to take somebody who can handle big money. He can. ... I’m just fascinated by him.”

— Steve Hoffman, 66, of Denver, on why he’s caucusing for the first time and backing Donald Trump.

“I look for real. I look for transparent. I look for a statesman, not a politician. I look for a heart.”

— Jane Gaines, 66, of Churdan at a pre-caucus Ted Cruz rally, with a pile of his pamphlets and a children’s Cruz-themed activity book next to her seat. She was going to the caucus undecided, leaning to Ben Carson.

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AP Photo Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a campaign event at the Grace Baptist Church Monday in Marion.

AP Photo Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump speaks at his caucus night rally Monday in West Des Moines.

Polls: Values propel Cruz past Trump to victory The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republican caucus-goers who said they want a candidate who shares their values propelled Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to victory in Iowa, according to entrance poll interviews of those arriving at caucus sites.

Two-thirds of caucus-goers were born-again Christians, and Cruz was favored over billionaire businessman Donald Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio among that group, according to the survey conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks.

On the Democratic side, the race between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was tight, with a distinct age gap between their supporters.

Here’s a closer look at the attitudes of the electorate: VALUES COUNT More than 4 in 10 Republican caucus-goers said the candidate quality that mattered most to their vote was that the candidate shares their values. Among those who said so Cruz on the support of more than 3 in 10, versus just

2 in 10 for Trump or Rubio.

Trump edged out Cruz to gain the support of the 2 in 10 wanting a candidate who can bring needed change, while Rubio was the top choice of the 2 in 10 who said they want a candidate who can in November.

Two-thirds of those who wanted a candidate who “tells it like it is” supported Trump, but that quality lagged behind the others as the most desirable.

AGE GAP More than 8 in 10 Democratic caucus-goers under 30 came to support Sanders, as did 6 in 10 of those between 30 and 44. But nearly 6 in 10 caucus-goers between 45 and 64 and 7 in 10 of those 65 and over came to support Clinton.

Sanders worked hard to appeal to young caucus-goers with his populist campaign focused on issues including income inequality and affordable college.

Clinton won strong support among those who wanted a candidate who could beat the Republican nominee and who had experience, while Sanders was supported by those who wanting a candidate who is honest or cares

Mike Huckabee ends second bid for president WA S H I N G T O N (AP) — Mike Huckabee ended his second campaign for the White House on Monday amid a dismal showing in the Iowa caucuses that he won in his first bid eight years ago.

As caucus results were still streaming in, Huckabee wrote on Twitter that he was “officially suspending my campaign.” He thanked his backers for their loyal support, adding the hashtag #ImWithHuck.

Calls to the Huckabee campaign for comment were not immediately returned.

The former Arkansas governor announced his 2016 bid in May in the hometown he shares with former President Bill Clinton, joining what would become a crowded Republican field that included many political newcomers.

His campaign failed to take off early on, with candidates like billionaire Donald Trump, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio dominating the race.

In 2008, he captivated evangelical Republicans but couldn’t build wide enough support to win the Republican nomination. After ending his 2008 campaign, he took up hosting a weekend cable show on FOX News, but then stopped

about people like them.

VOTER DISCONTENT Four in 10 Republicans said they are angry and half say they’re dissatisfied with the federal government. Angry caucus-goers were split Trump and Cruz as their top candidate.

Of the 5 in 10 who said they wanted a candidate from outside the political establishment, Trump was supported by nearly half. Rubio edged out Cruz as the top choice of those who said they want someone with political experience.

Trump and Cruz both have been trying to tap into voter discontent on the campaign trail.

BIGGEST ISSUES Government spending was the top issue for just over 3 in 10 Republicans, followed closely by the economy and terrorism. Just over 1 in 10 said they cared most about immigration.

Among those who say immigration most important, more than 4 in 10 supported Trump, but just over 1 in 10 said that was the most important issue.

A third of Democratic caucus-goers said the economy is the top issue facing the nation, while about the same proportion chose health care and slightly fewer said income inequality. Less than one in 10 say terrorism is the top issue.

More than half of Democratic caucus-goers want a candidate who will continue President Barack Obama’s policies.

VOTER SUPPORT Cruz was the top choice among very conservative caucus-goers, while Trump was the top choice of moderates.

Those who said they were somewhat conservative split between Rubio and Trump, followed by Cruz.

Forty-five percent of GOP voters said they decided on a candidate in the last week, and they broke for Cruz and Rubio over Trump.

On the other side, caucus attendees who identify as Democrats were more likely to support Clinton, while 7 in 10 independents favored Sanders.

Clinton was favored by moderates and Sanders by those who said they are very liberal, while those who were somewhat liberal were split

between the two.

Women were more likely to support Clinton, while men were more likely to support Sanders.

FIRST TIMERS Over 4 in 10 Democrats say they’re first-time caucus attendees, about the same proportion who said so in 2008. Six in 10 of first-timers favored Sanders , while 6 in 10 previous caucus attendees favored Clinton.

Similarly, more than 4 in 10 GOP caucus-goers say they have not attended a caucus previously. Three in 10 first-timers favored Trump, while 3 in 10 who had attended a previous caucus supported Cruz.

The survey was conducted for AP and the television networks by Edison Research as voters arrived at 40 randomly selected sites for Democratic and Republican caucuses in Iowa. The survey includes preliminary results from interviews with 1,660 Democratic caucus-goers and 1,794 Republican caucus-goers. The survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points for both Democrats and Republicans, with higher margins of error for subgroups.

What to watch in New Hampshire and beyond

The day after the big day

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sure, the Iowa caucuses packed suspense. But there will be plenty of intrigue to track on the day after, too.

What to watch Tuesday:

Mike Huckabee before announcing his latest White House bid.

A populist but no Democrat, he did not endorse a minimum-wage increase, instead calling for policies encouraging a “maximum wage” for workers. But he did align himself with labor interests in criticizing “unbalanced trade deals” and describing President Barack Obama’s immigration policy as a way to “import low-wage labor, undercut American workers and drive wages lower than the Dead Sea.” The ordained minister — he was Arkansas Baptist Convention president before getting into politics — has played up the cultural conservatism learned in this small town where many of his relatives — and a few Clinton relatives — still live. He stood by his opposition to abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

CLAIMING VICTORY: There’s more than one way to define victory: Multiple candidates on one or both sides will try to claim victory as they barrel out of Iowa — some simply by exceeding low expectations.

EXIT STRATEGIES: Does Iowa turn into a knockout blow for some bottom-tier candidates who were hanging in there until they saw some real votes?

Day-after departures from the race aren’t unusual: In 2012, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, who finished sixth in Iowa, said on caucus night that she planned to carry on with her campaign. By noon the next day, she’d bailed.

SPIN CYCLE — WHY IOWA DOESN’T MATTER: Poor performers in the caucuses will look for ways to play down the importance of Iowa. One traditional tactic: argue Iowa’s electorate doesn’t represent the country at large. Republican Jon Huntsman, who skipped Iowa to put his emphasis on New Hampshire in 2012, said of the Iowa results, “Nobody cares.” (He called it quits after a disappointing showing in New Hampshire.)

SPIN CYCLE — WHY IOWA MATTERS: Winners and those who exceeded expec-

AP Photo Supporters cheer as caucus returns are reported at Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, caucus night rally Monday in Des Moines.

tations will be happy to play up the significance of the Iowa results. Just how far do they stretch that victory lap?

WHERE NEXT? It’s not just where the candidates point their planes next, but where they ship all those Iowa staffers who will be packing their bags Tuesday. With New Hampshire just a week away, the state already is flooded with campaign staff and advertising dollars. While most candidates focus on New Hampshire, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has stops Tuesday in both New Hampshire and South Carolina; he thinks his conservative message may resonate better in the latter state.

ADS, ADS, ADS: For Iowans, it’s now safe to turn on the TV; viewers in New Hampshire, beware. From Tuesday

forward, presidential candidates and the outside groups helping them are set to spend $11 million on TV and radio ads in the state, according to advertising tracker Kantar Media’s CMAG.

By New Hampshire primary night, spending in the state will have topped $116 million. If the month of January is a guide, look for Trump with a side of Trump.

Political ads already are popping up in states with later primaries and caucuses: Nevada has $1.7 million in ads scheduled.

MONEY CHASE: Beware of inbox overload. Wins and losses have one thing in common: They’re both fundraising opportunities. Expect many breathless emails from the candidates that convert their Iowa performances — fantastic or dismal — into pleas for campaign cash.

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Caucus night around Jasper County

Kate Malott/Daily News A precinct captain begins a Republican caucus meeting Monday evening at Community Heights Alliance Church in Newton. Voters heard from precinct captains and candidate representatives before participating in a vote.

Kate Malott/Daily News Republican Jack Maples speaks to caucus-goers about a presidential candidate during his precinct caucus Monday night at Community Heights Alliance Church.

Kate Malott/Daily News Precinct captains in Newton Precinct 4-2 take a moment to count delegates for their Democratic caucus on Monday night. The precinct met at Newton High School Center for Performance and tied Hillary Clinton, five, and Bernie Sanders, five.

Alex Olp/Daily News Caucus-goers line up inside Prairie City-Monroe Middle School at the town’s only Republican precinct Monday night.

Ted Cruz ultimately won receiving more than a third of the vote.

Mike Mendenhall/Daily News Bernie Sanders spokesperson Cole Schroder defends his candidate’s credentials for labor unions and working class at a precinct in the Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School media center. The Colfax caucus location went for the Vermont senator three delegates to one.

Kate Malott/Daily News Democratic Precinct 3-1 chair Mike Jacobsen instructs caucus-goers of the procedures during the meeting Monday night at Newton High School. Hillary Clinton won with eight delegates and Bernie Sanders was given six.

Kate Malott/Daily News Calvin Winn, left, picks up sign-in sheets while Mike Jacobsen, right, calculates viability Monday night during a Democratic precinct caucus.

Kate Malott/Daily News Margaret Caldwell greets Bette Newel prior to the start of the Republican party caucus Monday night at Community Heights Alliance Church in Newton. Five Republican precincts met at the church for separate caucuses.

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Cardinals fall short in showdown with No. 9 Chargers

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News It was billed as a shootout.

Newton High’s student section came dressed in western wear and cowboy hats.

Fans got their shootout.

Unfortunately for the Newton Cardinal faithful, the Class 3A ninth-ranked Chariton’s Chargers had just a little more firepower on the court. The Chargers cashed in on 32-of-41 free throw attempts to walk away with a 7470 win.

“I’m so proud of my guys and how they never gave up. They didn’t quit and they fought to the end,” Newton head coach Bill Liley said. “I have a locker room full of players who don’t quit.”

The Cardinals found themselves in deep foul trouble in the second half. They led 31-27 at halftime on a three-point play from sophomore Garrett Sturtz.

Newton junior Connor Gholson began the second half with a steal, breaking away for a dunk.

Gholson swiped the ball again and Sturtz’s follow shot lifted the Cardinals to a 35-27 lead.

Chariton’s Lim Chuol rattled off seven unanswered to cut the margin to one point. A basket by senior Joseph Banfield at the 3:19 mark pushed Newton back in front by five, 39-34.

A basket by Chuol and a

3-pointer by Daric Laing tied the game. Laing, who was 14-of-19 at the line, sank a free throw to give the lead to the Chargers.

Senior guard Jwan Roush drove the lane for Newton, drawing two defenders, and passed the ball to Banfield for a layup.

As the third quarter came to a close, Newton saw Chariton’s T.J. Hockenson complete a threepoint play. Most importantly, Gholson was charged with his third foul.

Chariton took a 43-41 lead into the fourth quarter and didn’t give it up. The Chargers began the fourth quarter much like they opened the game. They scored seven unanswered.

Newton began missing pointblank shots and the fouls began mounting. It was 59-49 with 3:22 left in the game.

Gholson fouled out with 2:16 on the clock and was fouled by Josh Ventling. Still behind by 10, Roush drilled a 3-pointer for the Cardinals.

Newton began fouling to stop the clock and extend the game.

Chariton hit enough foul shots down the stretch to thwart the Cardinals’ upset bid.

Roush hit four more treys in that span to keep the Cardinals comeback alive. They ran out of time.

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Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Newton High senior Jwan Roush (12) finds room on the outside to shoot over Chariton’s Daric Laing (4) for a 3-pointer in Monday’s non-conference contest in Newton. Roush drained six 3-pointers, scoring 20 points for the Cardinals, who fell 74-70 to Class 3A No. 9 Chariton.

Cardinal girls roll to victory over Chariton

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Pulling down a rebounding in between two Chariton players is Newton High senior Hannah Rhoads during Monday night’s non-conference home game. Rhoads had 11 points and nine rebounds in the Cardinals’ 76-48 victory.

Sydney Jenkins poured in 22 points in the first half of Monday’s non-conference game to guide Newton High’s girls to a 3926 halftime lead. That earned her special attention from visiting Chariton’s Chargers in the second half.

Jenkins finished with 28 points, so the boxand-one defense slowed her down. Her Cardinal teammates took up the slack to claim a 76-48 victory.

“When they came out in the second half with the box-and-one on Syd, it took us a little while to recognize what was happening,” Newton head coach Brandon Sharp said.

“We called the timeout and talked the players through that change.

It was nice to see us grow in that area of our basketball IQ.” The Chargers scored

the first four points of the second half to cut the margin to nine points.

Junior Ryanne Rausch and senior Hannah Rhoads touched off an 11-2 run by the Cardinals. It was the second big run of the night for Newton.

“We had a couple of stretches where we extended the lead on them,” Sharp said. “The second one put us in the driver’s seat.”

The first run came in the second period after Chariton rallied from a 17-10 first-quarter deficit. Chariton’s Saydee Terrell hit a 3-pointer and a field goal to tie the game at 22-all with 4:18 left in the second quarter.

Jenkins drained one of her four 3-pointers on the ensuing possession for Newton. The Cardinals were on their way in a 17-4 surge to close out the first half.

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Newton girls open 4A regional play at home against Bondurant-Farrar

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News Newton High’s Cardinal girls have beaten two teams and lost to two teams in Class 4A’s Region 7. The Cardinals learned Monday the seedings and pairings for the basketball playoffs when the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released the Class 4A and 5A regional pairings.

Newton (8-8) hosts Bondurant-Farrar (4-12) at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 in the quarterfinals of the regional. The other quarterfinal matchup is Carroll (1-15) at Perry (8-9) on the same night.

Awaiting the winner of the Newton and Bondurant-Farrar game is 4A eighth-ranked Pella (15-2). The game is at 7 p.m. Feb. 20 at Pella.

Class 4A 12th-ranked Boone had the other bye in the regional. Boone

will host the winner of the Perry versus Carroll game at 7 p.m. Feb. 20.

The Region 7 championship game is at 7 p.m. Feb. 23 hosted by the highest remaining seeded team in the regional.

Regional champions advance to IGHSAU 4A state tournament Feb. 29-March 5 at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

Newton defeated Bondurant-Farrar, 61-24, in November to open the

season. The Cardinals lost to Pella 7133 in Little Hawkeye Conference play on Jan. 12 and plays the Lady Dutch again Feb. 9 in Newton.

The Cardinals beat Perry, 56-47, in November. They dropped a 50-27 decision to Boone on Jan. 19.

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Sports

SPORTS CALENDAR Tuesday Basketball Lynnville-Sully at Colfax-Mingo, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

Thursday Basketball Grinnell at Newton boys, Varsity 7:30 p.m., upper gym Grinnell at Newton girls, JV 4:45 p.m., Varsity 6:15 p.m., upper gym Oskaloosa at Newton boys, 9th 4:45 p.m., JV 6:15 p.m., lower gym Saydel at PCM, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

Lynnville-Sully boys at Iowa Valley, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

SICL Girls Crossover Games Lynnville-Sully vs. TBD Colfax-Mingo vs. TBD Saturday Boys Swimming District Meet Newton at Johnston, 12:30 p.m.

Wrestling Sectional Meets Class 2A Sectional 11 CMB at Adel, noon Class 2A Sectional 12 PCM at Albia, noon Class 1A Sectional 9 Colfax-Mingo, Lynnville-Sully at Belle Plaine, noon

Panthers knock off S. Illinois CEDER FALLS (AP) — Bennett Koch scored 22 points with 11 rebounds — both career highs — and Northern Iowa knocked off Southern Illinois 67-58 on Sunday.

Koch went 8-of9 from the field with three blocked shots for the Panthers (12-11, 4-6 Missouri Valley).

Wes Washpun scored 16 points and Matt Bohannon added 12. The Panthers made 3-of-19 from beyond the arc but made up for that with 20 made free throws.

Southern Illinois (18-5, 7-3) was paced by Anthony Beane with 16 points and Sean O’Brien with 14.

Northern Iowa closed the first half with a 12-4 run — including a 3-pointer and pair of free throws by Bohannon — to forge a tie at 29.

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Ranked Grand View Christian sweeps CMB

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Troy Hyde/Daily News Collins-Maxwell/Baxter senior Brad Ritter, right, scores two points inside the lane against Prairie City-Monroe’s Jackson Thomas in a Heart of Iowa Conference game earlier this season. The Raiders played outside the conference Monday and lost to Class 1A No. 9 Grand View Christian, 72-36.

land-Story in Baxter.

ANKENY — Collins-Maxwell/Baxter’s boys basketball team played right with Class 1A No. 9 Grand View Christian during the first quarter of Monday’s non-conference contest.

The Thunder scored the first 16 points of the second quarter though and never looked back during a 72-36 home win.

CMB trailed 21-16 after one quarter but the 16-0 run by GVC (16-0) made it 37-16 midway through the second.

It was 49-21 at halftime, and the Raiders trailed 6632 after three quarters.

Will Clapper had 12 points to lead the Raiders (2-15). No one else scored more than six as CMB lost its eighth straight game.

Noah Burt had 17 points to lead Grand View Christian, while Robbie Seyler scored 13 and Stephen Glenn chipped in 10.

The Thunder were 11of-21 from 3-point range, while CMB was 0-for-7.

CMB plays at 7:30 p.m.

Friday against Heart of Iowa Conference foe Ro-

GIRLS Grand View Christian 70, CMB 32 The CMB girls couldn’t hand eighth-ranked Grand View Christian its first loss of the season Monday night.

The Thunder led 45-18 at halftime and cruised to an easy 38-point victory.

Katie Hall had 28 points and Megan Stubbs scored 18 for Grand View Christian, which improved to 16-0 on the year.

Mikayla Eslinger scored 12 to lead CMB, which fell to 2-16 on the season.

Kathleen Baldwin finished with eight and Josie Wierson scored a career-high seven in the loss.

Carter Larson returned from injury but was held to just three points. Elizabeth Jones scored four.

The Thunder made 17of-22 from the free-throw line, while CMB hit 4-of8.

The Raiders play at 6 p.m. Friday against Roland-Story in Baxter.

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Duke out of AP men’s Top 25 poll; Oklahoma stays No. 1

By Jim O’Connell The Associated Press For the first time in more than eight years, Duke is nowhere to be seen in The Associated Press Top 25 — not near the top, not even at the bottom.

This is the first time since the preseason poll of 2007-08 that the Blue Devils are not ranked.

Duke (15-6) has lost four of its last five, including home games with Notre Dame and Syracuse. Last week’s loss to Miami knocked them out from 24th, ending a run of 167 consecutive appearances in the men’s poll.

The Blue Devils still had a ways to go to catch UCLA, which put together a run of 221 consecutive polls from 1966-80. Kansas now has the longest run, 136 polls that began on Feb. 3, 2009, with Arizona next at 72 consecutive polls.

The Duke team that started the run featured five double-figure scorers — DeMarcus Nelson, Kyle Singler, Gerald Henderson, Jon Scheyer, Greg Paulus — and finished 28-6, losing to West

Virginia in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Singler and Scheyer were the key players two years later when Duke won its fourth of five national championships.

Staying Power Oklahoma starts its third week at No. 1, one week short of matching the longest stretch on top this season.

Michigan State held the No. 1 spot for four weeks.

The other No. 1 teams this season were all there for two weeks: North Carolina, Kentucky and Kansas.

Oklahoma has been No. 1 for a total of eight weeks, tying the Sooners with St. John’s and West Virginia for 27th place on the all-time list. UCLA is No. 1 among the No. 1s with 134 weeks.

Back Again The two newcomers to this week’s poll — No. 24 Dayton and No. 25 South Carolina — have both been ranked earlier in the season.

Dayton (18-3) returns to the Top 25 on a six-game winning streak.

The Flyers cracked the poll for one week then were out the

last three.

South Carolina (19-2) was ranked for five straight weeks before falling out last week.

The Gamecocks have won five of their last six, including the loss to Tennessee that knocked them out of the poll.

So Long Duke wasn’t the only team to drop out this week as Notre Dame fell from No. 25.

The Fighting Irish were ranked the first three polls of the season then fell out until last week. They lost to Syracuse last week before beating Wake Forest.

Up and Down Oregon, which swept Arizona and Arizona State last week, had the week’s biggest jump moving from 23rd to 16th.

The biggest drops were by Arizona and West Virginia — both lost one game last week and fell five places.

Ranked Wins Iowa’s five wins over ranked teams still leads the way this season but five schools are just one behind.

Oklahoma, Providence,

Panthers, Broncos take part in media circus SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — What happens when you put Peyton Manning, Miss Universe, an orange-and-blue leprechaun and 200 TV cameras into the same room?

Answer: Super Bowl Opening Night.

The NFL took a good idea gone surreal — what used to be known as “Media Day” — gave it a new name, added a live band and moved it to prime time Monday night to kick off Super Bowl week between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers.

This new and amped-up interview-fest came complete with a guy walking around inside an inflatable football and a newly choreographed players’ introduction that involved 60 players from each team coming out on a four-story-high catwalk.

“I had no idea that was a bridge we were standing on,” Manning said.

Suffice to say, the five-time MVP, who built a career on his impeccable preparation, couldn’t have predicted a lot of what came his way on this night.

Who would play him in a movie? “Maybe a young Robert Redford,” Manning said.

Another reporter — or make that, person with a credential — asked him to look into the camera and wish a Happy Chinese New Year to all his friends in that part of the world.

And then, there was a long debate over whether Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras are this week, or next? (Answer: Next week. We think.)

All of this thoughtfully brought to prime time by the NFL for the first time in the 50year history of the Super Bowl.

For decades, Media Day was a Tuesday-morning affair — set early in the day, early in the week, so as not to interrupt the teams’ schedules too much and to give writers the rest of the week to craft the stories out of the questions they’d asked.

But this year, the NFL moved it to Monday night, where minor details like dress code, off-color banter and 8-year-olds asking football players questions after bedtime barely raise an eyebrow anymore.

NFL spokesman Michael Signora described the scheduling change as one that allows “more fans (to) experience what has grown to become a very unique,

popular Super Bowl event.”

Surprising they didn’t do this earlier. It’s a nod to the reality that “Media Day” has long been a “journalism-free zone” — one in which fans have willingly, for the last five years, paid money for tickets that allow them to sit in the stands and watch the hilarity unfold.

Speaking of which ...

Late in the Broncos media session, Rocky the Leprechaun — a regular at Broncos games over the years — laid a dollar bill out on the blue carpeting of SAP Center and waited to see if someone would pick it up.

Several minutes passed. Nobody did.

The social experiment complete, he waited for a TV crew that needed him for a live shot.

In the meantime, he answered one question: What makes this week so great?

“There’s a lot of happiness,” he said. “This world needs all the happiness it can get.”

Only one team will be happy come Sunday night. The Panthers are favored. Manning is a sentimental favorite; at 39, many people expect he’ll retire after this one.

Syracuse, Virginia and Xavier all have four wins over ranked teams but Syracuse is the only one not currently in the Top 25.

Conference Call With Duke and Notre Dame falling from the ranks of the ranked, the Atlantic Coast Conference no longer has the top spot among the leagues.

The Big 12 and Big Ten have five ranked teams each, one more than the ACC. The Big East and Southeastern Conference are tied with three each and the Pac-12 has two.

Double Ranked Games West Virginia is the only team to be involved in two games against fellow ranked teams this week.

On Monday, No. 2 North Carolina is at No. 19 Louisville. On Tuesday, No. 14 West Virginia travels to No. 13 Iowa State.

The rest of the double-ranked games will be Saturday: No. 3 Villanova at No. 11 Providence; No. 15 Baylor at West Virginia; No. 18 Purdue at No. 4 Maryland; No. 25 South Carolina at No. 8 Texas A&M.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL POLLS The Men’s Top Twenty Five The Associated Press The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 31, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and previous ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. Oklahoma (45) 18-2 1,605 1 2. North Carolina (20) 19-2 1,578 2 3. Villanova 18-3 1,384 6 4. Maryland 19-3 1,366 8 5. Iowa 17-4 1,362 3 6. Xavier 19-2 1,344 7 7. Kansas 17-4 1,233 4 8. Texas A&M 18-3 1,169 5 9. Virginia 17-4 1,086 11 10. Michigan St. 19-4 1,018 12 11. Providence 18-4 900 10 12. SMU 19-1 853 13 13. Iowa St. 16-5 851 14 14. West Virginia 17-4 814 9 15. Baylor 17-4 728 17 16. Oregon 18-4 728 23 17. Miami 16-4 537 15 18. Purdue 19-4 511 21 19. Louisville 17-4 478 16 20. Kentucky 16-5 429 20 21. Wichita St. 16-5 323 22 22. Indiana 18-4 270 19 23. Arizona 17-5 245 18 24. Dayton 18-3 168 — 25. South Carolina 19-2 87 — Others receiving votes: Saint Mary’s (Cal) 63, Southern Cal 40, Utah 33, VCU 33, Michigan 21, Notre Dame 21, Valparaiso 7, Duke 6, Pittsburgh 4, Florida 3, Saint Joseph’s 1, San Diego 1, Stony Brook 1, Texas 1.

The Women’s Top Twenty Five The Associated Press The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 31 total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. UConn (32) 20-0 800 1 2. South Carolina 21-0 765 2 3. Notre Dame 20-1 739 3 4. Baylor 21-1 700 4 5. Maryland 19-2 659 5 6. Texas 20-1 652 6 7. Ohio St. 16-4 590 7 8. Arizona St. 18-3 587 8 9. Oregon St. 17-3 542 9 10. Florida St. 18-4 500 11 11. Mississippi St. 19-4 452 13 12. Texas A&M 15-6 443 10 13. Louisville 17-5 408 14 14. UCLA 16-5 372 15 15. Stanford 17-5 311 16 16. Miami 18-3 292 17 17. Michigan St. 16-4 273 18 18. Kentucky 16-4 248 12 19. South Florida 15-5 212 20 20. Oklahoma 15-5 195 21 21. Missouri 18-4 181 22 22. Florida 18-4 150 — 23. Tennessee 13-8 60 19 24. Washington 16-5 47 25 25. Oklahoma St. 16-4 45 — Others receiving votes: George Washington 40, DePaul 37, West Virginia 26, UTEP 21, San Diego 14, Colorado St. 11, BYU 7, Green Bay 6, Duquesne 5, NC State 3, Purdue 3, Albany (NY) 2, Duke 2.

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Boys Continued from Page 1B “We had a bad game. I expect us to do things right all the time, but it’s not going to happen all the time,” Liley said. “Our guys have done it right more than they have done it wrong this season.”

Roush finished with 20 points, two steals and three assists for the Cardinals. Gholson scored 15 points and had two steals.

Banfield ended up with 15 points, three steals and three assists. Sturtz tossed in 12 points, grabbed five rebounds and had three assists.

Newton only shot seven free throws in the game. The Cardinals made six.

“That’s a team we’re going to have to beat in a run at the state tournament,” Liley said. “Now, we see where we are with them.”

Liley said the Cardinals have to work harder to get better. He said Newton’s schedule gets tougher down the stretch.

“We have to put in some hard practices,” Liley said. “We made a run at the end which shows character.

“I’m proud of their heart, but I also want to be proud of their basketball knowledge and execution.”

Newton is in Class 3A District 12 and Chariton is in District 11. They could meet again in the Substate 6 championship game.

Chariton (17-1) had four players score led by Laing’s 30 points. Chuol had 22 points and Hockenson added 20 points.

Newton (10-5) was to have played at home Tuesday against Grinnell in Little Hawkeye Conference action.

The game has been moved to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Newton’s junior varsity beat Chariton, 51-48. Grayson Graham had 17 points, six rebounds and four steals.

Trey Vanderlaan tossed in 16 points, grabbed six rebounds, made four steals and had four assists.

Chariton won the freshman game, 74-64. Cole Webster scored 23 points and Aaron Bartels had 16 points Newton 15-16-10-26—70 Chariton 18-9-16-31—74 Newton (FG/3-pt): Sturtz 5-2-3-12, Stout 1-0-2-2, Roush 1/6-0-4-20, Bennett 1-0-4-2, Banfield 6-3-5-15, Gholson 4/2-1-5-15, Ventling 2-0-5-4, Maher 0-0-2-0.

TOTALS: 20/8-6-30-70.

Chariton (FG/3-pt): Laing 5/2-14-0-30, Shriver 0-0-10, Krutsinger 0-2-3-2, Chuol 7-8-3-22, T.J. Hockenson 6-8-4-20. TOTALS: 18/2-32-11-74.

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

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Newton High’s Joseph Banfield maneuvers around a Chariton defender to get a shot off at the basket during the second half of Monday’s non-conference home game.

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Continued from Page 1B In the run, Jenkins scored six more points, including a buzzer-beater at the break. Rhoads scored three points and junior Courtney Jacobsen nailed a trey and senior Jessica Reynolds sank two free throws.

“We were playing pretty well as a team. We were sharing the ball well,” Rhoads said of the game. “We know our defense could have been better.

We have to communicate better, and we did communicate more in the second half.”

During the third-quarter run, Rausch had seven points, including a 3-pointer. Rhoads and senior Taylor Moon each added a field goal.

At the midway point of the third period, the Cardinals were in control of a 50-32 lead. Jenkins got back into the scoring with back-toback treys as the lead moved to 20 points, 58-38.

Leading 58-42 with eight minutes left to play, the Cardinals held the Chargers to six points the rest of the game. Newton added 18 in the final period.

Rhoads said the team has been stressing maintaining their enthusiasm throughout the game. She said the Cardinals were up the entire game, playing together and having fun.”

Rhoads and Jacobsen, who hit three 3-pointers, each scored 11 points. Unofficially, Rhoads had nine rebounds and Reynolds had 11 rebounds.

“I wasn’t real happy with the first 12 minutes of the game. I was confident we were going to pull one out tonight, but right now at the end of the season, we don’t want to just pull one out,” Sharp said. “We want to execute properly. We want every win we have to sit well with us because it’s good basketball.”

Newton shot 44 percent from the field, Sharp said. He said the Cardinals’ goal is to be in that 40-percent

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Sydney Jenkins, right, scored 22 points in the first half for Newton High’s Cardinals Monday night against visiting Chariton. Jenkins drives to the basket against Chariton’s Maria Blong (5) in the first half. Jenkins finished with 28 points.

range every game and keep opponents to 33 percent.

The Cardinals were 16-of-24 from the free-throw line and the Chargers hit 11-of-23 foul shots.

Terrell was the only Charger to score in double figures with 12 points. Carley Arnold added eight for Chariton (8-10).

Newton improved to 8-9 overall.

The Cardinals’ Little Hawk Conference game against 4A 13th-ranked Grinnell has been moved from Tues-

day to Thursday at Newton.

It was sweep for the Newton girls against Chariton. Newton won the junior varsity game, 42-36, led by Randi Walters and Taylor Ryan with nine points each and Marcelina Marvelli with eight points.

Newton’s freshmen won 43-19.

Peyton Maher scored 11 points and Rachel Rhoads had 10 points for the Cardinals.

Newton 17-22-19-18—76 Chariton 10-16-16-6—48

Newton (FG/3-pt): Rausch 1/1-2-3-7, Jenkins 5/4-60-28, Moon 1-1-4-3, Hutchinson 2-0-3-4, Reynolds 2-2-3-6, Shipley 0-0-1-0, Jacobsen 1/3-0-2-11, Horn 2-2-1-6, Pressgrove 0-0-3-0, Rhoads 4-3-1-11.

TOTALS: 18/8-16-21-76.

Chariton (FG/3-pt): Curran 2/1-0-5-7, Schaeffer 1-22-4, Fuhs 2-0-0-4, Blong 0-1-1-1, Swarthout 0-2-2-2, Arnold 3-0-3-8, Hardie 0-0-2-0, Richards 1-2-4-4, Terrell 3/2-0-3-12, Bacus 1-4-1-6, Davis 0-0-1-0.

TOTALS: 15/3-11-24-48.

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

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Public Notice IN THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT OF JASPER COUNTY Quicken Loans Inc. Plaintiff, vs.

Travis Blake Clark a/k/a Travis Clark; Cristy Jo Clark; Parties in Possession; State of Iowa; State of Iowa; Midland Funding LLC, et al.

Defendants.

EQUITY NO: EQCV119751 ORIGINAL NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION You are notified that a petition has been filed in the office of this court naming you as a defendant in this action. The petition was filed on January 6, 2016, and prays for foreclosure of Plaintiffs mortgage in favor of the Plaintiff on the property described in this notice and judgment for the unpaid principal amount of $76,551.31, with 4.25% per annum interest thereon from June 1, 2015, together with late charges, advances and the costs of the action including (but not limited to) title costs and reasonable attorney's fees, as well as a request that said sums be declared a lien upon the following described premises from December 19, 2013, located in Jasper county, Iowa: Lot Nineteen of the Subdivision of Lot Thirteen in Block "J" Emerson Hough Place Number Two in the City of Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, as shown

by Plat Book E, at page 151 in the office of the Recorder of said County, commonly known as 904 East 12th Street North, Newton, IA 50208 (the “Property”) The petition further prays that the mortgage on the above described real estate be foreclosed, that a special execution issue for the sale of as much of the mortgaged premises as is necessary to satisfy the judgment and for other relief as the Court deems just and For further details, equitable. please review the petition on file in the clerk's office. The Plaintiffs attorney is Emily Bartekoske, of SouthLaw, P.C.; whose address is 1245 Jordan Creek Parkway, Suite 120, West Des Moines, IA 50266.

NOTICE THE PLAINTIFF HAS ELECTED FORECLOSURE WITHOUT REDEMPTION. THIS MEANS THAT THE SALE OF THE PROPERTY MORTGAGED WILL OCCUR PROMPTLY AFTER ENTRY OF JUDGMENT UNLESS YOU FILE WITH THE COURT A WRITTEN DEMAND TO DELAY THE SALE. IF YOU FILE A WRITTEN DEMAND, THE SALE WILL BE DELAYED UNTIL TWELVE MONTHS (OR SIX MONTHS IF THE PETITION INCLUDES A WAIVER OF JUDGMENT) DEFICIENCY FROM THE ENTRY OF IF THE JUDGMENT MORTGAGED PROPERTY IS YOUR RESIDENCE AND IS A ONE-FAMILY OR TWO-FAMILY DWELLING OR UNTIL TWO MONTHS FROM ENTRY OF IF THE JUDGMENT MORTGAGED PROPERTY IS NOT YOUR RESIDENCE OR IS YOUR RESIDENCE BUT NOT A ONE-FAMILY OR TWO-FAMILY DWELLING. YOU WILL HAVE NO RIGHT OF REDEMPTION THE SALE. THE AFTER PURCHASER AT THE SALE BE ENTITLED TO WILL IMMEDIATE POSSESSION OF THE MORTGAGED PROPERTY. YOU MAY PURCHASE AT THE SALE. You must serve a motion or answer on or before 8th day of March, 2016, and within a reasonable time thereafter file your motion or answer with the Clerk of Court for Jasper County, at the county courthouse in Newton, Iowa. If you do not, judgment by default may be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the petition.

If you require the assistance of auxiliary aids or services to participate in a court action of a disability, because immediately call your District ADA Coordinator at 515-2863394. If you are hearing impaired, call Relay Iowa TTY at 1-800735-2942.

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We offer the following benefits to our full-time employees: ● New Employee Orientation and Training ● Wages up to $16.01 ● 401(k) Retirement Plan ● Service Bonus ● Vacation Pay ● 9 Paid Holidays ● Health Insurance ● Dental Insurance ● Life Insurance ● Safe & Clean Environment ● Stable Employment EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT If you are interested in joining JELD-WEN Door SystemsGrinnell apply in person between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

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Class A CDL & at least 2 years current OTR exp.

Clean MVR/PSP Reports. Call 1-800-837-2241 email: jobs@ashleydistributionservices.com or www.ashleydistributionservices.com to apply under jobs

Positions Available Premium Pay

• MDS Coordinator

• RN/LPN • CNA

• Activity Director • Dietary Aide

Our Grinnell Facility is in need of Production Employees for the following Positions / Shifts: Plating/Packaging Production – 1st Shift and 2nd Shift: previous experience working in a hand assembly or packaging environment; must be able to handle product quickly along with ensuring measurements/weights are accurate; must be able to withstand cold temperatures for 8 to 10 hour shifts – room is a constant 35-40 degrees Prep Cooks – 2nd Shift: ability to follow recipes and combine spices and food products; ability to read measurements and weights; ability to cut, chop, slice vegetables and meat products; previous experience working in a restaurant prep/ kitchen or fast food restaurant a plus Dish Room – 3rd Shift: Cleaning and sanitizing all items used in the food production process – pans, scoops, racks, etc; items must meet HACCP requirements prior to being released for reuse; previous dishwashing experience a plus; must be able to handle working over a sink and using water and soap; environment tends to be wet, so wearing waterproof boots and clothing is recommended; must be able to handle the positions with speed and accuracy.

Sanitation - 3rd Shift: The Sanitation Crew works overnight and is responsible for ensuring the facility is cleaned to meet USDA standards of operation. Team members are required to mop all floors and wipe down all walls, clean all machinery, lines, and tools used for production. Occasionally use a ladder to reach higher levels. Work in both warm and cold room environments.

For all positions, must have a High School degree or GED; must be able to stand on concrete floors for a full 8-10 hour shift; must be able to lift up to 50 lbs occasionally. All candidates must successfully pass a pre-employment drug screen.

2nd shift hours are 3:30 PM – 12 Midnight, with overtime when necessary, $1.00 per hour shift differential 3rd shift hours are 10:30 pm - 7:00 am, with overtime when necessary, $1.50 per hour shift differential If interested, please apply: In-person or By Mail: 810 Blakely Circle, Grinnell, IA 50112 Via Fax: (641)236-9652 Via email: erin.murray@purfoods.com

Grinnell Health Care Center 415 6th Ave W., Grinnell, IA 641-236-6511 Fax: 641-236-3714 Resumes may be emailed to

grinnell.don@chosenhc.com

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The worldly Sagittarius moon oversees the crowds gathering at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania for the ceremonial appearance of Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinaire.

These skies favor the bold. End your own personal winter. Heed the beckoning sun!

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 2).

You’ve no shortage of charisma, and your fan club will grow exponentially. The push you do for your cause this month helps. A special partner will be with you all the way. April is for sorting logistics and overcoming inconvenience. You’ll muscle

through, eye on the prize. June shows you victorious and richer, too! Taurus and Libra adore you.

Your lucky numbers are: 8, 22, 38, 47 and 19.

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Because you want people to feel free to express themselves around you, you sometimes hold back your reactions. That’s smart. The restraint you demonstrate today will garner the deep trust of a dear one.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You’ve no shortage of imagination. You conjure and create to your heart’s content. The next step is to believe what you’ve dreamed up. If you don’t believe

it, the dream is just an exercise instead of a trajectory.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You might not get a second chance, so you’re better off putting everything you have into the opportunity at hand. And if you do get a second chance, it will be because you showed so much enthusiasm the first time around.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

You and another will land in a most riveting dynamic. You will be simultaneously aware of what you lack while seeing that the other person has exactly what is needed. Don’t hesitate! Help each other out.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Clean out the medicine cabinets of your mind. Throw out the old

prescriptions and remedies that are past the expiration date.

Jealousy, misplaced desire, resentment -- all potential poisons to your happiness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

You’ll find a way to share in another person’s dream and still inhabit your own. It’s not that difficult when you’re with people whose goals and talents compliment yours so beautifully.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You shouldn’t have to sacrifice one relationship to make another one work well. If you feel yourself being torn between two people, consider that the disharmony is within you. This is about reconciling two aspects of yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

You’re focusing on the good traits of those close to you. This one simple choice will be the reason this day turns out to be special. Of course, your loved ones will do the same for you, but there’s something more to look forward to.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). While “chase” is a fun game for the elementary school playground, adults who chase are often ultimately thwarted by the dynamic. Hang back and see if you can’t catch your intended through sheer attraction.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). When it comes to your people, you want to be there to celebrate the ups, help with the downs and find ways to make

all the in-betweens a bit more memorable. Your love is a fullservice arrangement.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

You’re emboldened and yet not quite ready to embark. Perhaps you’re still not positive about how to get there. Once you get your hands on a map you’ll be ready to launch.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

You are rarely, if ever, accused of being too rigid. However, you have some strong opinions about how the action should unfold today, and you’d be wise to share. You’ll help to raise the bar when you do.

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