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“One of the important things I’ve been doing in explaining human trafficking is talking about what it is not,” Ferjak told the group. “We’re taught to think of it as prostitution or human smuggling, but it’s not.

It’s slavery. You are owned. Prostitution, for better or worse, is viewed as a choice. In trafficking, there is only one choice, one time: Go with this person, for whatever lure presented.”

The Newton Police Department and the local group “Newton Says No to Human Trafficking” collaboratively sponsored the event.

Two men who escaped from the Newton Correctional Facility Release Center south of Newton Saturday night remain at-large.

It was initially reported Michael P. Amodeo, 27, and Jessy E. Foley, 30, walked away from the minimum security facility between 6:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday. The Iowa Department of Corrections later clarified the discovAmodeo eries were made at 9:25 p.m. and 10:05 p.m., respectively, during routine counts.

Both subjects are described as 5 feet 10 inches tall with brown eyes and brown hair. They were last seen wearing gray sweatshirts, blue shirts and blue jeans.

Foley Amodeo began serving a 10-year sentence in August for possession of a controlled substance from Polk County and prohibited acts-meth from Warren County.

Foley is serving for possession of controlled substance, prohibited actsmeth and voluntary absence from Polk County. His 27-year sentence began in 2004.

Anyone who has information about their whereabouts is asked to call 911.

This marks the second time an inmate has recently escaped from the minimum security release center. Edward N. Shorter left the facility on Jan. 23 and was later apprehended in Des Moines.

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Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Michael Ferjak speaks in Newton to a group of about 40 business people, local leaders and law enforcement officers about human trafficking signs as a way to spread awareness of the nationwide problem.

Horrors of human trafficking focus of local training 40 people attend presentation in Newton

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News About 100,000 people are either in transit or are otherwise bound in some form of slavery in the U.S. each day.

That’s an example of one of the statistics used by Michael Ferjak in his presentation to a gathering of about 40 business leaders, government employees and leaders and law enforcement personnel at Friday’s presentation on human trafficking. Designed to educate the Jasper County community about the dire human trafficking situation and

how to spot it, Ferjak spent about an hour at the Newton armory building explaining the depth of the issue.

Ferjak is the Iowa Department of Justice senior investigator for a number of task forces and units related to Internet crimes and crimes against children. The U.S. Army veteran is the director of the Human Trafficking Enforcement and Prosecution Initiative.

The director said the term “trafficking,” as he uses it, doesn’t necessarily have to do with kidnapping or moving people across state or national boundaries, the way drugs or weapons might be smuggled.

Sheriff’s legislative priorities involve Prairie City concealed-carry permits, more under boil order

By Alex Olp Newton Daily News PRAIRIE CITY — After several reports of complete water loss by Prairie City residents Sunday afternoon, the Department of Natural Resources issued a boil order and will conduct tests on the water Monday.

The boil order will be in effect until the tests come back clear. According to public works employee Carl Van Der Kamp, the DNR should receive the results some time Tuesday.

Until then, Van Der Kamp recommends Prairie City residents either boil city water or consume bottled drinks.

To prevent cancellations at Prairie City-Monroe Middle School and Prairie City Elementary, Newton Hy-Vee donated 2,800 bottles of water to the schools Monday.

Troubles with the town’s water began early Sunday morning as Prairie City experienced low water pressure after a pump malfunction caused drainage in the tower.

According to city administrator Manny Toribio, a signal was lost in one of the wells in Colfax preventing water from being pumped into Prairie City’s tower. Residents were asked to conserve water until the issue was resolved.

The pressure returned to normal at about 10:30 a.m., but due to reports of complete water loss a boil order was issued.

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E911 funding also a top priority

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News A county sheriff is required to be many things. Fortunately, being a tech genius isn’t one of t h o s e things.

Howe v e r , Jasper County SherHalferty iff John Halferty must stay up to speed on some technology aspects, especially dispatch and radio equipment and software.

Working toward getting more first-responder agencies on the same page in communica-

File Photo Carmen Keith, foreground, and Kim Balmer work in the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office dispatch center. Jasper County Sheriff John Halferty says legislation to help fund new technology in 911 dispatch centers is a priority for county sheriffs this legislative session.

tions, and securing the funding needed, is a top priority for county sheriffs in Iowa, and among the dozens of items Halferty and his peers are watching closely as the Iowa Legislature moves through its 86th session.

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By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News MONROE — After more than 50 years at its current location, Van Ryswyk Plumbing and Heating is moving. To help make way for several new grain bins at Two Rivers Cooperative, Van Ryswyk’s is taking its operations across the street from its current 416 S. Monroe St. location.

“It felt like I couldn’t stop the progress. They’d have to go out of town and I think the town needs all of the business they can get. That is the only reason I finally said I would consider selling,” company founder John Van Ryswyk said.

The 62-year-old business will make a new home at a building Van Ryswyk has owned for several decades. Construction began in October on an addition to the building, adding a new shop on the south end along with remodeling work to the original structure.

“The new building is a lot bigger. I have actually owned it for about 40 years but we added on to it,” Van Ryswyk said. “We built the new shop on the end of it making it more than 100 feet long.”

The larger size was built in part to make more room for material storage. At the current building, some materials are stored outside and with theft issues, the business is working to keep everything under lock and key.

The plumbing and heating company was established in 1954 when Van Ryswyk and his brother Carl bought the business at the ages 16 and 15 years old. The business started out as plumbing, heating and cement work, along with any odd end jobs people needed help with.

“My father-in-law had this place as a blacksmith shop.

He had a heart attack, and we moved in to help him. Then we bought the place and built the building overtop the original shop, making it five times bigger than the original,” Van Ryswyk said.

In 2000, John’s sons, Dean and Steve bought the company from him and have been run-

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Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News Van Ryswyk Plumbing and Heating founder John Van Ryswyk stands in front of the building he established his business in more than 50 years ago.

The company will move across the street to a new building on April 1.

ning it over since. Current services include plumbing, heating, farm tiling, well pumps and bull-dozer work.

Van Ryswyk said he is sad to leave the building he built his business in and will hate to see

it go when construction begins on the new grain bins. However, he is excited for the growth of another local business in Monroe.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Saturday that the nation’s economy is in better shape than the presidential candidates make it seem, though businesses like his still face challenges.

In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett didn’t name specific candidates or issues but noted that the negative drumbeat about the economy, health care reform and income inequality may get voters down about the future.

“It’s an election year, and candidates can’t stop speaking about our country’s problems (which, of course, only they can solve),” wrote Buffett, who has endorsed Democratic Hillary Clinton. “That view is dead wrong: The babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history.”

Buffett struck an optimistic tone in the wide-ranging letter, which largely focused on what contributed to his conglomerate’s $24 billion profit last year and discussed Berkshire’s prospects for the future. The letter also touched on climate change.

Buffett defended the lending practices at its mobile home unit, Clayton Homes, and Berkshire’s association with the 3G Capital investment firm.

Clayton’s lending practices have been questioned over the past year in stories by The Seattle Times and The Center for Public Integrity that suggested the company was using predatory lending practices. Buffett said Clayton follows state and federal regulation and retains ownership of every mortgage it finances.

States reduce jobless checks, adding pressure to unemployed ​JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — When Demetrius White recently lost his job as a $10-an-hour forklift driver loading pallets of shampoo, he applied for unemployment benefits to help support his family.

That aid will not last as long as it once did, because White is among the first group of people affected by a new Missouri law reducing the duration of jobless benefits. His $200-a-week checks will last no more than three months — just half as long as what has typically been available.

“That’s a dramatic change, really,” White said. “Thirteen weeks, I don’t know if I’ll be able to find a job.”

States traditionally have offered up to half a year of aid for the unemployed as they search for new jobs. But since the end of the Great Recession, eight states have reduced the number of weeks that people can draw benefits, while others have cut the amount of money the unemployed can collect.

The cutbacks generally are intended to help shore up unemployment insurance trust funds, which went insolvent in 35 states following the recession that began in 2008. The changes could save hundreds of millions of dollars for businesses that pay unemployment taxes.

President Barack Obama is pushing

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The Republican-led Congress appears unlikely to approve the president’s plan during an election year.

GOP governors and state lawmakers initiated many of the recent cutbacks to unemployment benefits. And they point to declining unemployment rates as evidence that jobs are getting easier to find.

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“When there’s more jobs available, it’s kind of common sense — you shouldn’t need as long as a duration of unemployment benefits,” said Missouri Senate Majority Leader Mike Kehoe, a Republican who handled the legislation reducing benefits.

The 1935 Social Security Act prompted states to enact unemployment programs, which typically pay people about half the amount of their previous paychecks. In 1938, more than four-fifths of the states offered benefits for 16 weeks or less. But all states gradually increased their benefits to at least 26 weeks. South Carolina was the last to do so in 1968.

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Trafficking Continued from Page 1A In addition to Linda Pierce and Lynn Keller of the local group, Newton Police Chief Rob Burdess, Newton Police Lt. Wes Breckenridge, Newton Mayor Mike Hansen and Iowa Sen. Chaz Allen also spoke briefly during the event.

The presentation was also attended by representatives of between 10 and 15 county businesses, as well as Gabe Wilson of the Monroe Police Department and Baxter Police Chief Rick Nichols.

The Iowa Speedway was mentioned as the type of large public venue where a spike in human trafficking takes place, especially during events such as race weekends. Ferjak presented a number of statistics about the increase in arrests and victims found in areas the

Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Michael Ferjak, left, talks with Monroe police officer Gabe Wilson after Friday’s presentation. Ferjak is an Iowa Department of Justice investigator and director of a state initiative on human trafficking. Ferjak came to Newton to inform a group of about 40 business people, local leaders and law enforcement about trafficking signs and to spread awareness of the nationwide problem.

weeks surrounding a Super Bowl; the Iowa State Fair has the same sort of effect on Des Moines.

“If you ask local law enforcement if there’s a prostitution issue locally, in most places, the answer is usually ‘yes,’”

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call for an increased surcharge to help fund purchases of new equipment and software for agencies that take 911 calls.

The Jasper County Sheriff ’s Office is home to the 911 dispatch center for the county.

Halferty said seeking funding for equipment is tricky because some items, such as one-time appropriations, are marked in ways that are spend-or-lose within a certain budget year, making it difficult for departments to save $500,000 until a new year to match it and then purchase $1 million in upgrades.

“Different sources have different rules,” Halferty said.

“We search hard for grant op-

Ferjak said. “But I don’t get the same answer for human trafficking, because you don’t see it.

It’s nearly all women and girls, but it’s hidden — these slaves are paired with ‘hobbyists’ (johns) in hotels, private

portunities, but state legislature aid is always needed as well.”

The bill made it past the first funnel cutoff by being recommended for approval by the House Public Safety Committee.

Another bill Halferty and other sheriffs were following is HF 2206 and its Senate companion bill, SF 2258, which would update guidelines for child services procedures to include sex-trafficking victim law enforcement and social-services follow-up. Rep. Dan Kelley (D-Newton), Sen. Chaz Allen (D-Newton) and Rep. Greg Heartsill (R-Columbia) are local legislators who have brought this subject up more than once in public venues this session.

residences, rest areas, in a vehicle by the side of the road — any place two people can be together.”

Ferjak praised local law enforcement and volunteers for raising awareness and admit-

Unfortunately, these bills didn’t make it past the first funnel cycle. However, other similar anti-human trafficking measures, such as HF 2191, HF 2192, SF 2191 and SF 2217 did make it past the funnel by being approved by the full Senate by 50-0 votes.

Halferty said he is monitoring various legislative pieces that would give law enforcement and social services more tools and guidelines for children living in homes where illegal drugs are discovered. Allen is also a supporter of this type of legislation.

HF 2314 is still alive. It’s a weapons permit reform that includes ensuring the names of permit holders are better protected and simplifies the permitting and renewal process and training require-

ting human trafficking might be going on in Newton, as it happens nationwide.

The Internet has created a new means of meetups to further a centuries-old form of slavery, Ferjak said. Sites such as Craigslist and Backpage offer meetups that are legal in terms of phrasing, but often lead to trafficked, enslaved victims being sold for sex as many as 15 to 20 times per day.

“This has become their new normal,” Ferjak explained. “They’ve been trained not to speak to or trust anyone.”

Ferjak said some of the ways to spot human trafficking vary whether it’s an everyday citizen or business owner looking for signs versus the ways uniformed law enforcement would interact with the public.

For example, he said, if a police officer asks to see the ID of female passen-

ments for permits to carry weapons. It would also increases the penalty for straw purchases.

“We just don’t want to see the ‘hard cards’ issued by the state,” Halferty said. “We’d like to see those continue to be issued at the county level.”

HF 2132 also survived the funnel. It would allow first responders to obtain a supply of opioid antagonists, such as Narcan, a nasal spray medicine, to be administered in the event of a drug overdose.

Narcan, and other drugs like it, can delay an overdose long enough for first responders to get the victim necessary help, Halferty said.

“There are a lot of liability concerns to be worked out,” Halferty acknowledged.

“First responders administer-

gers in a vehicle, and it seems they have no ID and no purse or other hand-held possessions, that is one of many types of red flags.

Ferjak encouraged citizens to watch for out-of-the ordinary movement, control or spatial relationships.

However, he also cautioned against intervening.

“We don’t want civilians trying to intervene,” Ferjak said. “Call the police, and tell them facts about what you saw — not what it looks like, or what you think it is.”

Newton Says No to Human Trafficking will hold its regular monthly at 5:30 p.m. March 15 in the McCann Center of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 1115 S. Eighth Ave. E. in Newton. Anyone interested in attending is welcome.

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

ing an opioid is challenging territory on many levels. But it could save some lives. And shouldn’t first responders be as prepared as possible?”

Halferty said law enforcement is generally opposed to any legislation that only requires one license plate, as front plates greatly aid officers in identifying vehicles quickly.

Regarding body cameras, Halferty said he’s not opposed to having his officers being required to wear and operate those devices. However, he doesn’t want counties to get stuck with an ever-growing bill not only for hardware, but also data storage.

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

Audit report on the City of Newton now available Newton Daily News Gronewold, Bell, Kyhnn & Co. P.C. CPAs have released an audit report on the City of Newton.

The auditors reported that the city’s receipts for its governmental funds totaled $26,055,792 for the year ended June 30, 2015.

The receipts included The Salvation Army Thrift Store 114 E. 3rd St. N. Newton

$6,917,971 in property tax, $341,759 in other city taxes, $1,318,757 in local option sales tax, $2,444,811 in tax increment financing collections, $2,367,974 from intergovernmental sources, $123,333 from use of money and property, $323,716 from licenses and permits, $1,730,308 from charges for services,

$18,911 from special assessments, $99,333 from sale of assets, $9,495,000 from debt proceeds and $873,919 in miscellaneous revenues. The city’s receipts for its proprietary funds totaled $4,985,307, of

which $4,569,476 was from charges for services.

Disbursements for its governmental funds totaled $22,554,959, and included $6,618,231 for public safety, $3,063,416 for public

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This report contains recommendations to the city council and other city officials. The city has responded that corrective action is being taken for each item.

A copy of the audit report is available for review in the state auditor’s office and the city administrator’s office.

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The gunman’s screaming was the first thing we heard, followed by the sound of shots fired. We were in a staff meeting in a conference room and knew we had to act quickly.

Shutting the door and crawling underneath the table seemed the most logical strategy, but he found us. All but two of us were shot.

As we exited the conference room the Jasper County Sheriff ’s deputies explained the dangers of simply hiding from a violent intruder. This was part of our ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) training we received on Wednesday. By Thursday afternoon the latest mass shooting occurred in Hesston, Kan. killing three and injuring 14 others.

If your business isn’t prepared for a violent intruder it should be. Gun violence in

America is real, and while many of us will pray for the victims of the repeated mass shootings in our country, we should also be preparing. We’re fortunate that both the Jasper County Sheriff ’s Office and Newton Police Department provide this free training to businesses, schools and others seeking training.

Newton Schools staff have received ALICE training and it’s reviewed annually. New staff members are trained as part of their orientation. Most schools in Jasper County have taken advantage of the ALICE training and have incorporated it as part of emergency preparedness.

Tornadoes and fires in schools aren’t very common.

Yet we can all likely remember practicing these drills with some regularity. We have protocols for these unplanned events.

In the aftermath of the Columbine massacre, in which 13 people were killed and 20 wounded, it became evident the “shelter in place” procedure was insufficient. It became regularly communicated the average time for law enforcement to arrive on scene in situation like this is five to six minutes. The common practice in schools nationwide moved from locking down and hiding to the “run, hide, fight” methods featured in the ALICE training.

I became a proponent of these concepts after initially receiving the ALICE training about four years ago. Developing plans, having situational awareness and talking to others about it has made me feel more prepared.

There are people, and even dear friends, who will reference their concealed carry permits and how that’s all

the preparedness they need.

While I have no qualms with people legally and safely protecting themselves, there are limitations. Perhaps the business you’re visiting doesn’t allow weapons on the premises, maybe you forgot your gun at home because your boss called an early meeting or your kids are sick or any number of other life situations. Developing plans in a number of different scenarios is ideal.

In Hesston, Kan., a city with a population of 3,700, is grieving last week’s violent attack at local factory. Many other communities across this country continue to mourn the effects of gun violence. We should know by now that it can happen anywhere, anytime.

Contact Abigail Pelzer at 641-792-3121 ext. 6530 or apelzer@newtondailynews.com

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Legislature weighing tax breaks for small businesses, farmers The Iowa Legislature needs to adopt policies and laws that are more favorable to small businesses and farmers.

As a former mayor, I know small businesses are the heart and soul of most Iowa communities. The Iowa economy often rises and falls By Chaz Allen with the chang- Iowa Senator ing climate of the farm economy.

Many constituents have contacted me this session about a proposal to couple with recently-passed federal tax code changes. By some estimates, if the Legislature and Gov. Terry Branstad coupled with changes to the federal tax code, small business owners, farmers and other Iowans would benefit by an estimated $96 million for tax year 2015. The biggest benefit would be extending Section 179 expensing.

Unfortunately, Gov. Branstad’s budget proposal did not include any coupling.

When asked last month why he didn’t support coupling, the governor offered this explanation: “I think it’s important to look at the impact it’s going to have and what it will mean for school aid next year and in the future. What I have been told is that it would basically wipe out the opportunity or dramatically reduce our ability to provide additional funding. I always try to look at it — not just one year —but the whole picture.

Not only Fiscal Year 16-17, but 17-18, 18-19 and beyond…. So, we’re coupling where we can, but not with 179 just because we feel that that impact on the budget would really make it impossible for us to meet the goals that we have for education funding and elsewhere.”

David Roederer, director of the Iowa Department of Management, echoed the Governor’s fiscal analysis during a meeting of the Senate Ways & Means Com-

mittee.

Earlier this week, the Governor indicated he is now interested in working on the issue. Legislators await his revised budget that includes coupling. We have not seen any details at this time.

Section 179 expensing allows taxpayers the ability to expense, rather than depreciate over time, the first $500,000 of equipment costs. The federal government made Section 179 expensing permanent after offering short-term extensions of this policy in previous legislation.

Iowa has coupled with Section 179 expensing in recent years, as the federal government offered it on a short-term stimulus policy.

The Governor’s proposal does not include bonus depreciation or Section 179 expensing, and does not couple with any other provisions until tax year 2016, which are taxes that are due next year.

To contact Allen during the week, call the Senate switchboard at 515-281-3371 or 641-521-6297 or email him at chaz.allen@legis. iowa.gov

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According to Betfair. com, Jennifer Lawrence probably won’t win best actress at the Oscars S u n day. I’m rooting for her, though — not because of her By John Stossel acting, but because the movie she stars in, “Joy,” celebrates the difficulty of entrepreneurship.

Lawrence’s character is based on real-life entrepreneur Joy Mangano, who invented the self-wringing Miracle Mop and other “Ingenious Designs,” as her company is known.

Now she hawks them and other products on the Home Shopping Network.

The film accurately depicts struggles businesses face. Joy goes deep into debt to finance her idea, overcomes manufacturing problems, persuades skeptical marketers and deals with such menaces as patent trolls.

Patent trolls are usually lawyers/parasites who don’t even come up with working prototypes for inventions they later claim as their own. They just grab someone else’s idea, or buy a bunch of them, register patents with the government and wait.

When someone with real technological and business skill creates something useful that’s similar, the troll threatens to sue.

Often the inventor pays just to keep the business alive. It’s extortion. But when lawyers do it, it’s legal extortion.

In Joy’s case, a lazy rival claims to have come up with her idea first; Joy risks a physical confrontation to defend her invention. I won’t spoil the details of the movie — but since the real Joy Mangano went on to make millions, you can guess that it has a happy ending.

Writer/director David O. Russell, like many in Hollywood,

has made movies critical of capitalism and businesspeople, so I’m glad he saw a spark in Joy Mangano, the driven businesswoman.

Hollywood may not understand economics or government regulation, but there are things Hollywood often gets right. Hollywood celebrates heroic individuals who fight injustice and corrupt establishments.

Hollywood also has a healthy suspicion of the power of covert government activities.

Sure, the “Mission Impossible” crew and plenty of other Hollywood heroes are secret agents — and Hollywood consults with real cops, secret agents and military advisers to capture details more accurately. That helps the government shape messages to its liking. But plenty of Hollywood government agents end up being villains anyway.

The film “Sicario,” nominated for three Oscars, shows an ordinary cop, played by Emily Blunt, lured into the dark world of the CIA’s cross-border drug war.

She thought she was just going to be stopping bad guys a little farther from home but discovers that she might be part of an elaborate assassination plot.

I’m biased in favor of Emily Blunt movies because we both are stutterers, but I’d appreciate “Sicario” without that connection, too.

“Sicario” is informative because throughout the movie, even the cops aren’t sure who the good guys are, and almost no one has any idea what the rest of the government is up to. It makes it clear that average citizens don’t stand a chance of finding out. This is a realistic picture of the drug war.

Corruption and lack of transparency are inevitable when government takes on a mission as hopeless as a war on a substance that lots of people want. When there’s demand, customers tend to get what they want, even if other people don’t approve.

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Obituaries Lillian Lee Feb. 22, 2016 Lillian Louise Thompson Lee, 89, of Dallas, Texas, passed a w a y Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, at h o m e s u r rounded by family and friends. She was born in Yazoo City, Miss., Oct. 15, 1926.

Lillian graduated high school in Helena, Ark., in 1944. She worked in civil service as a government secretary on the U.S. Air Force base in Greenville, Miss., and later in life had a full-time ca-

Cynthia S. Main Feb. 26, 2016 Cynthia Main, of Newton, passed from this life Friday morning, Feb. 26, 2016, at Mercy Hospice in Johnston.

Cynthia Sue M a i n , 62, was born April 16, 1953, in Mt. Vernon, Ill., the daughter of Noble Kenneth and Carmen Sue (Bravard)

reer as a housewife and mother. She married Charles L. Lee Aug. 19, 1950, at The First Methodist Church of Greenville, Miss. Lillian had a passion for Jesus Christ, children of all ages and anyone in need. She was a woman of strong Christian faith — which she carried with her every day, was devoted to her family and had a strong compassion for others.

Lillian was an example of what unconditional love looks like. She was a longtime member of Arapaho United Methodist Church.

Lillian is preceded in death by her husband of 61 years, Charles, L. Lee; father, Jim Love Thompson;

mother, Clara Augusta Huffman Thompson; sister, Becky Knowles and husband Buck; and son-in-law, Matt Denniston. She is survived by her brother, Jim Thompson and wife Eloise; son, Art Lee; daughters, Becky Lee-Denniston and Sheryl Wallace and husband Danny; son, David Lee; grandchildren, Justin Lee and wife Christel, Stacie Elliott, Ramon Elliott and wife Susan, Darla Grieco, Courtney Elliott, Lindsey Sales and husband Dave, Thompson Lee and Georgianna Lee; and great-grandchildren, Tyler Lee, Jaquoriun Elliott, Colten Lee, Draven Hullum, Katelynn Lee, Lillian

Elliott, Arabella Freeman, Taylor Beers and Brooke Beers.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 29 at Sparkman Richardson Funeral Home. A funeral service will be at noon Tuesday, March 1 at Sparkman Richardson Funeral Home, followed by interment at Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery at 2:30 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Lillian’s name to The Alzheimer’s Association in honor of her late husband, Charles.

Arrangements under the direction of Sparkman Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Richardson, Texas.

Ezell. She attended and graduated from the Zearing Senior High and received her associate nursing degree from Des Moines Area Community College and BSN from Drake University. She lived in Mt. Vernon, Ill., Zearing, St. Charles and Des Moines, prior to moving to Newton. She was employed for 42 years by Mercy Medical Center and Iowa Heart in Des Moines. Cindy was a loving mother, grandmother, sister and friend. She will be

greatly missed by those who knew and loved her. She enjoyed her job, reading and shopping.

Cindy is survived by her daughter Melissa Main; her son and daughter-in-law, Anthony and Tasha Main; her two grandchildren, Dylan and Denea Main; two sisters and two brothers, Kim Anderson, Allison (Kyle) Simmons, Andrew (Melissa) Ezell and Michael Ezell; and many friends.

She was preceded in

death by her parents; a brother Stephen Ezell; and her grandparents.

A time of remembrance and visitation with Cindy’s family will be from 5 to 7 p.m.

Tuesday, March 1 at the Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton, who has been entrusted with the arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be left in Cindy’s name with her family or a charity of your choosing.

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

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• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m.

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

• Leap Year Soup Supper will begin at 4 p.m.

Monday at Cabin in the Park in Kellogg.

• Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday at 219 N. Second Ave. W. in Newton.

• Blues Under the Blue Roof will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Newton Public Library, 100 N. Third Ave. W. Event is free and open to the public. Del “Saxman” Jones will be the featured performer.

• Sugar Grove Cemetery Association Annual Meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Monday at the home of Dean Lane. Any questions, contact Lane at 641-521-9426.

• Newton Golden K Kiwanis will meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Newton Village for social time, coffee and a program. Anyone interested in the program or learning more about Golden K Kiwanis is welcome to come as a guest. For more information contact the Rev. Thomas Lloyd at 641-792-3612.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon and 8 p.m. Tuesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

• The Newton Rotary Club will meet at noon Tuesday at the First Baptist Church located at 620 S. Eighth Ave. E. in Newton. The program will be presented by Margie Criswell of the Newton Village. Anyone interested in attending and learning more about the Newton Rotary Club is welcome. For more information, or to make reservations for lunch, call Miranda Kulis at 641-4179174 or Andrew Davis at 330-322-5111.

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

• Jasper County Human Service Providers will meet at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Salvation Army in Newton. Evy Tews will be discussing the services provided by Crisis Intervention Services.

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

Lottery Barbara Ann Stiffler Feb. 26, 2016 Barbara Ann “Bob” Stiffler, 85, of Newton, died Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, at Skiff Medical Center. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m.

Tuesday, March 1 at the Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory.

Glen L. Britt Feb. 25, 2016 Glen L. Britt, 93, of Colfax, passed away Feb. 25, 2016, surrounded by his loved ones. A funeral service will be at 10 a.m.

Wednesd a y , March 2 at Merle Hay Funeral Home. A visitation will take place from 5 to 7

The family will greet friends from 1 p.m. until the time of service and again after the service with a coffee time at the funeral home. Memorials to the Jasper County Animal Rescue League may be left at the funeral home.

Barb, the daughter of Matthew Madison and Sarah (McDonald) Lindsey, was born Nov. 18, 1930, in Mingo. She graduated from Colfax High School in 1949.

Barb lived most of her life in Newton where she was the deputy clerk

for the Jasper County Clerk’s Office for 30 years, retiring in 1996.

She enjoyed embroidery work, reading and most of all spending time with her grandchildren.

Barb was a loving mom, grandma, great-grandma, sister, aunt and friend.

Those left to honor Barb’s memory are her children, Tony Ver Dught of Warsaw, Ill., and Jodi (Duane) Rozendaal of Newton; grandchildren, Ethan Ver Dught of Warsaw, Josh ( Jenna) Ver

Dught of Glenn Carbon, Ill., Trent Brisel of Newton, Brad (Liz) Rozendaal of Newton, and Todd Rozendaal of Des Moines; her great-grandchildren, Hunter, Peyton, Lane, Haylee and Jovie; her very good friend and adopted daughter from a different mother, Wyvonne Bell of Newton; sister, Darlene Willson of Des Moines; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and many brothers and sisters.

p.m. Tuesday, March 1 at the funeral home.

Glen was born April 5, 1922, in Brooklyn.

He lived in the Colfax area for the majority of his life. Glen served our country in the U.S. Army during World War II where he was awarded the Purple Heart. He married Catherine Jones in 1946. Glen worked for Maytag for 32 years.

Glen is survived by his daughters, Glenda (Al) Bernard and Virginia (David) Peci-

novsky; grandchildren, Justin (Kelly) Bernard, Andrea (Scott) Atkinson, Stephanie Bernard, Carrie ( John) Deprill, Maureen (Sean) Whittmore and Jonathan (Christy) Pecinovsky; great-grandchildren, Fiona, Wyatt, Meredith, Jonah and Elizabeth; and sister, Helen Britt. He was preceded in death by his wife, Catherine; parents, Oscar and Lucinda Britt; grandson, Adrian Pecinovsky; and five siblings.

Lenten service in Colfax Howard Street Christian Church in Colfax is hosting Lenten services beginning with coffee time at 5 p.m. and a concert at 6 p.m., where a free will offering will be accepted. The Ambassadors will be featured March 6.

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Wife can’t get past anger at husband who cheated

DEAR ABBY: My husband cheated on me and told me to find somebody else. He moved in with the other woman and spread lies about me, telling my in-laws that I had cheated on him. He was on probation, so I reported to his probation officer that he was lying about where he was living. He was arrested for it.

He is now incarcerated and facing a two-year prison sentence. We’re trying to work on our marriage, but I haven’t told him that I’m the person who reported him to his probation officer. I’m still angry at him for cheating on me. When I write him, I tend to bring up what he did when he was out. I have told him I forgave him, but lately, I don’t even take time to respond to his letters. What should I do? — JUST PLAIN ANGRY DEAR ANGRY: You’re not writing to your husband because you are still angry with him, and this is another way of punishing him for leaving you. What you should do is ask yourself, honestly and rationally, if it’s worth it to try and get past the fact that he not only cheated, but tried to damage your reputation as well.

What you should NOT do, for your own safety, is tell him that the person who turned him in for a parole violation was you.

DEAR ABBY: I don’t know what to do with my parents’ wedding album. My mother gave it to me as a gift when I was a teen, and I assume it was a coming-of-age consideration.

I’m now in my 30s with a career that has me moving around frequently. I have moved once a year for at least the last five years, and I have had to pack up this album and box it every time.

I think that when my mother gave it to me, she figured I would pass it on to grandchildren, but I have chosen to not reproduce. My parents’

marriage was anything but storybook.

What little I remember was abusive and chaotic, and my parents split up before I reached kindergarten.

While these photos are fantastic imagery of a certain era, I do not want to move them around anymore.

My father has since passed, and my mother lives in a small apartment on limited means, so I don’t want to return it to her. She is also quite sentimental, and I’m afraid that handing this heirloom back to her will be disruptive.

I’m getting ready to move again and don’t want to schlep this unwanted item to yet another location. Any advice? — BREAKING WITH THE PAST DEAR BREAKING: I see no reason why you should feel compelled to hang onto a memento of your parents’ failed, unhappy marriage. However, I do not think you should get rid of it without first offering it back to your mother. Although her apartment is small, she might want to make room for it not only because she’s sentimental, but also because it is a part of her history — like any other family album.

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City of Carlisle looking to increase local sales tax CARLISLE — Voters in south-central Iowa will decide next week whether to approve a local city sales tax increase of 1 percent.

The vote on Carlisle’s proposed sales tax increase will be held Tuesday.

Carlisle city officials say the increase would give the city new funds it needs to improve. City Administrator Andrew Lent says the city is not able to keep up with expenses, and the increase would help.

DUBUQUE — A hearing will be held this spring to determine whether a Dubuque man is competent to stand trial on sexual assault and murder charges.

A judge decided a competency hearing will be held for 20-year-old Helmon Betwell on April 4.

Betwell’s attorney, Thomas Goodman, said in his motion for the hearing that a mental disorder is keeping Betwell from understanding the charges against him.

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Police using social media tools to connect IOWA CITY — Police officers in Iowa are finding ways to use social media tools to share information and connect better with the people they are trying to protect.

Police in Iowa City, Coralville and at the University of Iowa post regularly on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Periscope. Officers said social media lets the department share serious information like photos of suspects and light-hearted posts.

unemployment overpayments DES MOINES — The nearly 1,600 people who were overpaid a total of nearly $434,000 in unemployment benefits won’t have to return the money.

The Iowa Workforce Development Board voted Friday to let the recipients keep the money, which was paid in 2014 as a result of a faulty phone system.

State officials said Friday that several of the Iowans were told to keep the money, under the advice of the agency’s former director.

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Pedestrian killed in parking lot, Davenport police say DAVENPORT — Authorities say a pedestrian died after being hit by a pickup in the parking lot at All Saints Catholic School in Davenport.

The accident occurred around 3:10 p.m. Sunday. Police say the person struck was taken to a hospital and declared dead on arrival. Details about the accident and the names of those involved haven’t been released.

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Johnson County workers and Bus driver accused of hitting student to businesses clash over higher wage be sentenced DES MOINES (AP) — A former Johnston school bus driver who hit a 15-year-old special needs student last year could face up to three years behind bars when sentenced next month.

Robert Scarbrough was arrested in October, after police determined he had grabbed the boy’s coat, hit him in the face and pushed him to the floor.

Police said the altercation, which was recorded on cellphone video, began when the student refused to heed his seating assignment and directed an inflammatory comment at the bus driver.

Scarbrough, 61, is scheduled to be sentenced March 31 in Polk County District Court. Scarbrough pleaded guilty this month to assault causing injury and child endangerment. The assault count is punishable by up to a year in jail, and the child endangerment charge carries a penalty of up to two years.

Cellphone video of the incident shows other students screaming at the driver and demanding he stop the assault. When Scarbrough stopped the bus at a drop-off site, some students spotted a sheriff deputy’s car, got off the bus and reported the assault to the deputy.

The assaulted student, who has a mental disability, was treated in an ambulance but not taken to a hospital.

School officials have said Scarbrough had worked for the district fewer than three months when the assault occurred. He underwent a background check and training to learn how to deal with inappropriate student behavior before being hired, officials said.

No other complaints were lodged against Scarbrough.

DES MOINES (AP) — Nearly four months after Johnson County became the first in Iowa to gradually increase its minimum wage above the federal standard, workers are welcoming the change while some business owners say they’re unsure how to handle the extra expense.

Workers like Ghada Jameel, a 38-year-old daycare worker who is also taking classes at Kirkwood Community College, said the first 95 cent increase that took effect Nov. 1 has already made life easier for her and her husband, who works at a taxi driver. And she’s ecstatic about two more raises that will bring her pay to $9.15 in May and $10.10 an hour on Jan. 1, 2017.

“I think I’m gonna be rich.

Ten is good for me,” she said.

Johnson County supervisors approved the increases last fall in an effort to help low-wage workers, who haven’t seen an increase in Iowa’s $7.25 hourly minimum wage since 2009.

Amarilys Saldana, an 18-yearold freshman at the University of Iowa, said she lives as frugally as possible. Any extra money earned would be put toward her tuition, she said.

“Right now with what I’m making, I’m so conservative with

it,” she said. “I don’t like to go out, eat out because that’s money that I could be saving.”

Saldana, who works 10 to 15 hours a week at a university apparel and book store, said higher wages are necessary for students who are paying their own tuition.

“Some people may not think it’s a huge difference, but for students it’s definitely a big change,” she said.

Nationally, 32 cities and counties have raised minimum wages, according to the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ken Jacobs, the center’s chairman, said most of the increased wages were approved recently, mostly often in metro areas that are more liberal than their states as a whole.

That fits Johnson County, but not everyone in the county is on board with the trend.

City Councils in the small cities of Solon, Swisher, Shueyville and Oxford opted not to adopt the new county minimum wage.

And some business owners said the initial increase was manageable, but they worry about future raises.

Doug Alberhasky, who owns John’s Grocery, said the small

Iowa City business known for its beer and wine selection will either increase prices or reduce staff.

“In a small business you can’t dictate how many customers are coming through the door. You can’t dictate what they’re buying, but you can dictate how many people you have on the sales floor,” Alberhasky said.

Jammie Goedken, who has run the coffee shop T.Spoons near the University of Iowa campus for 15 years, said she has always paid slightly higher than the state minimum, but she’s concerned about the timing of the May increase, as it will come just as students are leaving for summer.

“May is going to be a little bit of stretch just because that’s when Iowa City kind of clears out and I don’t think people have thought that through,” she said.

Advocates of the minimum wage increase hope it could prompt other counties or the state to follow suit and raise pay.

In Linn County, supervisors have created a committee made up of business and labor representatives from a number of cities that will study whether to approve a similar increase.

Doctors detail autopsy in former Boone man’s murder trial DECORAH (AP) — Two doctors who testified for the prosecution at a man’s first-degree murder trial reached slightly different conclusions about how his wife died in her Boone home.

Dr. Michele Catellier conducted an autopsy on Emily Fazzino’s body, and Dr. Brad Randall reviewed the results.

Both doctors testified Friday

in a Winneshiek County court.

Alexander Fazzino is charged with first-degree murder in his wife’s January 2012 death. He told police he found her submerged in a bathtub. The case has received state-wide attention because his wife’s family owns Fareway Stores.

Alexander Fazzino has pleaded not guilty, contending

she accidentally drowned in the bathtub. Prosecutors argue she was strangled and possibly drowned.

Catellier couldn’t determine the cause of death but she favored homicide, noting Emily Fazzino had bruising on the inside of her throat that “could be” from strangulation.

She didn’t find definite signs of drowning.

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“I can say she might have drowned. Or she might not have. I don’t know,” she testified.

Catellier also noticed a bump on Emily Fazzino’s forehead that suggested she struck something with an edge. She also discovered more bruises on multiple parts of the woman’s head, which she said occurred after something hit

the head or her head hit something.

“I would probably favor more than one blow,” she said.

Catellier said she considered homicide as a possibility but the evidence wasn’t compelling enough.

Randall ruled the death a homicide because her neck injuries did not “fit” an accident, natural causes or suicide.

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Alex Olp/Daily News Norma Beerends, right, reaches for her cards while several people gather around her table displaying custom designed wedding desserts by Sweet Creations during Newton’s annual Bridal Fair Sunday.

Alex Olp/Daily News Magg Family Catering gives free food samples to visitors during the 14th Annual Bridal Fair at the Newton DMACC Conference Center Sunday.

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Hawks fall in 1A substate final against Rebels

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News CEDAR FALLS — When John Trettin buried a 3-pointer to open the fourth quarter and pull Lynnville-Sully’s Hawks to within three points of the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Rebels, Saturday’s Class 1A Substate 5 championship was still up for grabs at UNI’s McLeod Center.

The Rebels, who were held to their lowest total score of the season by the Hawks, were able to net the next seven points to push out to a 10-point lead. Lynnville-Sully had trouble getting shots to fall in the last seven minutes.

Sixth-ranked Gladbrook-Reinbeck turned back 10th-ranked Lynnville-Sully 49-41 to win the Substate 5 title and a berth in the 1A state tournament. The Rebels are out to defend their 2015 1A state championship.

“These guys have invested so much into the program. I’m extremely proud of what they were able to accomplish,” Lynnville-Sully head coach Nick Harthoorn said. “It’s tough right now to see it, but it was an amazing season for the Hawks. Going 23-2 Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News — there aren’t many Trying to finish a shot is Lynnville-Sully’s Tyler Van Zante after being fouled on a fastbreak by Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s Colton Dinsdale (14) with the teams which have had a Rebels’ Josh Cooley (24) trailing on the play. Van Zante missed the shot but hit the two free throws in the second half of Saturday’s Class 1A Subbetter season.” state 5 championship game at UNI’s McLeod Center in Cedar Falls. The 1A defending champion Rebels held off Lynnville-Sully’s Hawk, 49-41.

Harthoorn said it came down to his team’s the ball to go down to- We made them work to of the game. Joe Smoldt went to the G-R bench nior Canyon Kuhlmann inability to get shots night. We didn’t take bad score, and to hold them hit his fourth 3-point- with his third foul after drilled a 3-pointer to to go in the basket. He shots. We just couldn’t to 19 points in the first er of the game for the scoring 14 points. open the second quarsaid the Hawks had get it to fall,” Harthoorn half is a great defensive Rebels at the 5:12 mark Lynnville-Sully’s de- ter for the Hawks, and good looks at the basket said. effort.” of the second quarter. fense continued to be he swiped the ball from throughout the game.

“We had a really good It was 19 points in The Hawks were down solid while the offense HAWKS | 2B “We struggled getting defensive game plan. the first seven minutes by eight, 19-11. Smoldt picked up the pace. Se-

Newton renews rivalries Hawk, Tigerhawk girls garner SICL honors for non-district games

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News

Area football teams learn schedules for 2016, 2017

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News Four of the five area high school football teams open the 2016 season at home in August. The other one is just down the road against one of those four teams.

Newton, Prairie City-Monroe, Collins-Maxwell/Baxter, Colfax-Mingo and Lynnville-Sully learned their 2016 and 2017 football schedules when the Iowa High School Athletic Association announced those Friday morning.

When the IHSAA released the new football district assignments in January, Newton High’s Cardinals learned they had been moved back into Class 4A after eight years of Class 3A play.

PCM and CMB stayed put in Class 2A, but in different districts. The same thing happened to Lynnville-Sully and Colfax-Mingo, remaining in Class A but in different districts for the next two years.

The 4A districts have seven teams in them while the 2A and A districts are comprised of eight teams each.

That means there were three non-district scheduling slots left for Newton, and two non-district scheduling slots for the other area teams.

Teams open the 2016 football season on Aug. 26. CMB hosts Nevada, PCM hosts Pella Christian and Lynnville-Sully hosts Colfax-Mingo. Newton begins the season at home against Ottumwa.

“We wanted to play some schools which were in the same situation as we were,” Newton head football coach

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Newton High head football coach Ed Ergenbright says the Cardinals are ready to accept the challenge of playing Class 4A football for the next two years.

Ed Ergenbright said. “I like the three non-district teams we have and to start this coming season with back-to-back home games is great.”

Newton is renewing a history of playing Ottumwa, Waterloo East and Des Moines North. Ottumwa and North were in the CIML when Newton was in the conference. Waterloo East and Newton were in the Big 8 Conference together in the 1960s and 1970s.

Waterloo East comes to H.A. Lynn Stadium on Sept. 2. The Cardinals concluded their non-district slate at Des Moines North on Sept. 9.

Newton opens Class 4 District 4 play taking its longest trip of the season to Burlington, a team Newton has never played before, on Sept. 16. It is 320-mile round trip for Newton and Burlington the next two years. Burlington is out of the Mississippi Athletic Conference.

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Seven area girls received honors from South Iowa Cedar League basketball coaches. The SICL girls’ coaches recently released their 2016 All-South Iowa Cedar League basketball all-conference team selections.

Fourteenth-ranked Lynnville-Sully had two first-team AllSCIL selections in senior Marissa Vos and junior Brenna Lanser.

Lanser was one of four unanimous selections by the coaches. The Hawks, who finished second in the new conference format, had senior Kasiah Ehresman named to the second team.

Four area players garnered honorable mention honors. They were junior Makenzy Rozendaal and sophomore Camryn Russell of Lynnville-Sully and junior Dakota Hostetter and sophomore Ries Wilson of Colfax-Mingo.

The conference coaches awarded three Golden Awards this season, which go to all-conference caliber players who missed a long portion of the season because of injury.

Lanser

Vos

Ehresman

Hulsing

J. Rozendaal

Albright

Colfax-Mingo’s Jessica Albright and Lynnville-Sully junior Jelissa Rozendaal were two of the recipients.

Lynnville-Sully’s Jerry Hulsing was named the 2015-16 SICL Coach of the Year.

The Hawks went 15-1 in SICL play, tying with Montezuma atop the SICL West.

They lost the conference title game against the SICL East champion Iowa Valley. Lynnville-Sully (21-3) lost to Kee in the regional final.

In their first season in the SICL, Colfax-Mingo’s Tiger-

hawks finished fifth in the SICL West and overall in the conference, winning the crossover contest against English Valleys.

The Tigerhawks were 6-12 in SICL play and 6-16 overall.

Lanser, a 5-foot10-inch forward, led Lynnville-Sully with 337 points, which was fourth best in the conference, and shot a team-leading 44 percent, 121-of-273, from the field. She hit 16-of50 3-pointers and went 79-of-123, 64 percent, from the free-throw line.

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Loving’s 25 points help Ohio State stun No. 8 Iowa COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Marc Loving scored 25 points, including both ends of a 1-and-1 with less than 2 seconds to go, and Ohio State rallied from a late deficit to stun No. 8 Iowa 68-64 on Sunday.

Keita Bates-Diop added 19 points while Kam Williams added 11 for the Buckeyes, who ended the game on a 12-2 run.

After Bates-Diop preserved a two-point lead for Ohio State (19-11, 11-6 Big Ten) by blocking Mike Gesell’s layup with under 5 sec-

onds to go, Loving made the free throws to ice the game.

Williams gave the Buckeyes a 63-62 lead with a jumper with 2:04 left after Iowa led for most of the second half. He added a 3-pointer a little over a minute later to stretch Ohio State’s lead to four.

Gesell and Jarrod Uthoff led Iowa (20-8, 11-5) with 16 points apiece while Peter Jok had 12.

Iowa led by as many as six points in the second half.

Iowa host No. 18 Indiana on Tuesday.

Iowa State beats Kansas State AMES (AP) — Matt Thomas scored 20 points and Georges Niang added 17 to help Iowa State beat Kansas State, clinching its fifth straight 20-win season.

Jameel McKay scored 14 points with 17 rebounds off the bench for the notoriously thin Cyclones (20-9, 9-7 Big 12), who got 24 points from their reserves.

Iowa State strung together 13-0 runs in each half, which proved to be the difference.

The Wildcats pulled as close as 65-59 before backup Hal-

lice Cooke’s 3 with just under four minutes left swung momentum back in favor of the Cyclones.

D.J. Johnson had 22 points and nine rebounds for Kansas State (15-14, 4-12), which shot 4 of 18 from 3-point range.

Iowa State’s dream of a share of the Big 12 title ended last weekend when Kansas secured its 12th league win.

The Cyclones close out their home schedule Monday night against Oklahoma State.

Honors Continued from Page 1B Lanser led the Hawks in blocked shots with 18, which was eighth in the conference.

She had a team-leading 62 steals, ninth in the SICL. Lanser was second on the team in rebounding with 197 rebounds and had 56 assists.

Vos poured in 310 points for the Hawks, which was second on the team and led them with 205 rebounds, which was fourth best in the SICL. The 5-foot-10-inch forward shot 44 percent, 115-of-260, from the field and went 79-of-173 from the line. She had 12 blocked shots, 50 steals and 17 assists.

Ehresman, the Hawks’ 5-foot-4-inch point guard, was the team’s third-leadng scorer with 260 points.

She led the team in 3-point shooting, 35-of-121, for 29 percent and shot 33 percent, 78-of 237, overall from the field.

Ehresman was a 70-percent free throw shooter, hitting 69-of-98 attempts, to lead the Hawks. She dished out a team-high 57 assists, which as seventh in the conference. She had 56 steals and 65 rebounds.

Russell finished with 80 points, 47 rebounds, 36 assists and 27 steals as a guard for Lynnville-Sully. She hit 18 3-pointers for the season. Makenzy Rosendaal, another guard, scored 56 points, claimed 74 rebounds, had 19 steals and dished out 23 assists.

The Tigerhawks’ lead scorers and rebounders earned honorable mention.

Hostetter, a 5-foot-9-inch forward, led the team in scoring with 168 points, which was 18th among SICL players. Wilson, a 6-foot post player, was second in scoring for the team with 153 points.

Wilson controlled a teamhigh 213 rebounds, which was third best in the conference, and she blocked 19 shots, which was seventh among SICL players. She shot 34 percent from the field, 59-of-173, and was a 69-percent free throw shooter, cashing in 22-of-32 attempts.

Wilson led the Tigerhawks with 28 assists. She had 31 steals. She hit 13of-45 3-point field goal attempts.

Hostetter was the Tigerhawks’ leader in steals with 56, which was fourth in the

Hostetter

M. Rozendaal

Wilson

Russell

conference. She pulled down 191 rebounds and dished out 26 assists. She shot 33 percent, 60-of-184, from the field and went 48-of-95 from the free-throw line.

South Iowa Cedar League All-Conference Basketball teams 2015-16 Season First Team *Brenna Lanser Lynnville-Sully Jr Marissa Vos Lynnville-Sully Sr Katie Maschmann Montezuma Sr *Marissa Ward Iowa Valley Sr Sarah Kavanh Iowa Valley Sr Morgan Straight Belle Plaine Sr *Sierra Davis Sigourney Sr *Jolissa Kriegel BGM Sr Michaela Lundy Tri-County Jr *DENOTES UNANIMOUS SELECTION Second Team Kasiah Ehresman Lynnville-Sully Sr Breck Goodman Montezuma So Cherisse Ward Iowa Valley So MacKenzie O’Brien Belle Plaine Jr Autum Barthelman Sigourney So Whitney Kline BGM Sr Brooke Kuesel HLV Jr Audrey Grove English Valleys So Honorable Mention Makenzy Rozendaal Lynnville-Sully Jr Camryn Russell Lynnville-Sully So Saphire Gatton Montezuma Jr Shelby Helm Montezuma So Chandler Sims Iowa Valley Sr Andrea Healey Iowa Valley Fr Rachel Montgomery Belle Plaine Jr Kenzie Mantz Belle Plaine Fr Brooke Waechter Sigourney So Anna Ohland Sigrourney Jr Amber Hall BGM Sr Aimee Hockstetler BGM Jr Emma Cheney HLV So Kelsea Shaull HLV Jr Dakota Hostetter Colfax-Mingo Jr Reis Wilson Colfax-Mingo So Emma Bair Tri-County Sr Virginia Schmidt Tri-County Sr Emily Westhoff English Valleys Jr Sydney Olson English Valleys Jr Andrea Loving North Mahaska Sr Kalleen Chamberlain North Mahaska Jr Raigan Sprouse Keota Jr Golden Award: Jelissa Rozendaal Lynnville-Sully Jr Jessica Albright Colfax-Mingo Sr Katlyn Little Tri-County Jr Coach of the Year: Jerry Hulsing, Lynnville-Sully

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Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Eye level — Lynnville-Sully senior Canyon Kuhlmann, left, puts pressure on Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s Joe Smoldt, right, in the first half of Saturday’s Class 1A Substate 5 final at Cedar Falls.

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Continued from Page 1B the Rebels for a layup to cut the deficit to five when Smoldt delivered his trey.

“We got the steal and a layup in there to help us get going. We strung a couple baskets together at that time,” Harthoorn said. “We just had a hard time repeating that in the second half.”

Senior guard Sage Ehresman sank one of two free throws followed by baskets from senior post player Kyle Van Dyke and Trettin.

Van Dyke, who faced foul trouble in the second half, scored on the inside again to make it 19-18 then junior Tyler Van Zante swiped the ball from the Rebels to score.

Lynnville-Sully led 20-19 at halftime and opened the third quarter with a threepoint play by Van Dyke. On a jumper in the lane by Ehresman, the Hawks were up 25-21 with 6:07 remaining in the period.

Tyler Eifler came off the Rebel bench to score seven straight points and draw two fouls on Van Dyke. Van Dyke went to the Hawk bench with

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Continued from Page 1B The rest of the district teams are CIML teams — 2015 semifinalist West Des Moines Valley, Southeast Polk, Marshalltown, Indianola and Fort Dodge. In the final football poll of the 2015 season, Valley was ranked No. 7 and Fort Dodge No. 11. The Cardinals make the 240-mile round trip to Fort Dodge this season on Sept. 30.

Newton is the smallest Class 4A school with an enrollment figure of 631 for football classification. Valley is the largest school in the state at 2,170 enrollment for football classification.

“It is a challenge for us having two of the biggest and perennial powers in 4A football — Valley and Southeast Polk — in our district,” Ergenbright said. “It’s a challenge we accept. I believe there are winnable games on our schedule, both non-district and district.”

CMB’s two non-district opponents are Heart of Iowa Conference members Nevada and North Polk. The two Class 3A teams will get the Raiders ready for Class 2A District 3 play. There are two HOIC teams in the district in Roland-Story and Saydel.

PCM stays with the rightdown-the-road rivalry with Pella Christian, a Class 1A team. The Mustangs play Montezuma, a solid Class A opponent, then jumps into Class 2A District 6 play.

Colfax-Mingo and Lynnville-Sully filled their two non-district slots with South Iowa Cedar League teams.

The two SICL conference

three fouls and his team trailing 27-25 at the 3:15 mark.

Van Zante connected from beyond the 3-point arc to make it 30-28, but Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s Matt Roeding scored his only two baskets of the night. The Rebels took a 34-28 lead into the final eight minutes of play.

Gladbrook-Reinbeck sealed the win from the freethrow line. The Rebels sank 8-of-10 foul shots in the last two minutes. They were 17of-26 from the line for the game while the Hawks went 6-of-9.

Van Dyke finished with 13 points and nine rebounds for Lynnville-Sully. Van Zante added 10 points. Ehresman pulled down 10 of the team’s 30 rebounds and dished out four assists. Kuhlmann had two steals.

The Hawks shot 31 percent, 15-of-47, from the field. The Rebels connected on 13-of-37, 35 percent, from the field.

“Our success this year starts with great leadership from our three seniors. They are really hard workers and are all about the team. They play unselfish basketball,” Harthoorn said.

“It starts with those three guys and just goes right down

the ladder.

“Our kids don’t care who was scoring the points or getting the credit. We were successful because of their hard work and unselfishness. These guys have been a joy to coach this year.”

Gladbrook-Reinbeck was led by Smoldt with 19 points, which was below his 25-point average. The Rebels averaged 69.5 points a game as a team this season. Eifler added 11 points.

The Rebels open defense of their 2015 1A state title playing No. 8 Jesup in the first-round of the state tournament March 7 at Wells Fargo Arena.

Jesup defeated Janesville, 56-52, for the Substate 3 title Saturday in the first game of the doubleheader at McLeod Center.

members play each other in the first week. The Tigerhawks host North Mahaska at Colfax in week two while Lynnville-Sully’s Hawks travel to play BGM. Colfax-Mingo is in Class A District 5 with two more SICL teams in Belle Plaine and BGM. Lynnville-Sully is in Class A District 6 which includes SICL teams Montezuma and North Mahaska.

Here are the schedules for 2016 and 2017 for the five area football teams:

09/09 Albia 09/16 @Centerville 09/23 @Central Lee, Donnellson 09/30 Chariton 10/07 @Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont 10/14 Davis County, Bloomfield 10/21 Clarke, Osceola PCM 2017 Schedule 08/25 @Pella Christian 09/01 Montezuma 09/08 @Albia 09/15 Centerville 09/22 Central Lee, Donnellson 09/29 @Chariton 10/06 Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont 10/13 @Davis County, Bloomfield 10/20 @Clarke, Osceola Class A Colfax-Mingo 2016 Schedule 08/26 @Lynnville-Sully 09/02 @North Mahaska, New Sharon 09/09 Hudson 09/16 Belle Plaine 09/23 @Grand View Christian School 09/30 North Tama, Traer 10/07 @GMG, Garwin 10/14 B-G-M, Brooklyn 10/21 @Gladbrook-Reinbeck Colfax-Mingo 2017 Schedule 08/25 Lynnville-Sully 09/01 North Mahaska, New Sharon 09/08 @Hudson 09/15 @Belle Plaine 09/22 Grand View Christian School 09/29 @North Tama, Traer 10/06 GMG, Garwin 10/13 @B-G-M, Brooklyn 10/20 Gladbrook-Reinbeck Lynnville-Sully 2016 Schedule 08/26 Colfax-Mingo 09/02 @B-G-M, Brooklyn 09/09 @North Mahaska, New Sharon 09/16 Cardinal, Eldon 09/23 Winfield-Mt. Union 09/30 @Pekin 10/07 New London 10/14 @Danville 10/21 Montezuma Lynnville-Sully 2017 Schedule 08/25 @Colfax-Mingo 09/01 B-G-M, Brooklyn 09/08 North Mahaska, New Sharon 09/15 @Cardinal, Eldon 09/22 @Winfield-Mt. Union 09/29 Pekin 10/06 @New London 10/13 Danville 10/20 @Montezuma

Class 4A Newton 2016 Schedule 08/26 Ottumwa 09/02 Waterloo, East 09/09 @Des Moines, North 09/16 @Burlington 09/23 Marshalltown 09/30 @Fort Dodge 10/07 Southeast Polk 10/14 @Valley, West Des Moines 10/21 Indianola Newton 2017 Schedule 08/25 @Ottumwa 09/01 @Waterloo, East 09/08 Des Moines, North 09/15 Burlington 09/22 @Marshalltown 09/29 Fort Dodge 10/06 @Southeast Polk 10/13 Valley, West Des Moines 10/20 @Indianola Class 2A CMB 2016 Schedule 08/26 Nevada 09/02 @North Polk, Alleman 09/09 @Roland-Story, Story City 09/16 West Marshall, State Center 09/23 East Marshall, LeGrand 09/30 @Saydel 10/07 @Aplington-Parkersburg 10/14 Dike-New Hartford 10/21 @South Hardin CMB 2017 Schedule 08/25 @Nevada 09/01 North Polk, Alleman 09/08 Roland-Story, Story City 09/15 @West Marshall, State Center 09/22 @East Marshall, LeGrand 09/29 Saydel 10/06 Aplington-Parkersburg 10/13 @Dike-New Hartford 10/20 South Hardin PCM 2016 Schedule 08/26 Pella Christian 09/02 @Montezuma

Lynnville-Sully 6-14-8-13—41 Gladbrook-Reinbeck 14-5-15-15—49 Lynnville-Sully (FG/3-pt): Kuhlmann 1/10-5-5, Van Wyk 0-0-5-0, Van Zante 1/2-20-10, Ehresman 2-1-2-5, Trettin 1/2-0-1-8, Van Dyke 5-3-4-13. TOTALS: 10/5-6-17-41.

Gladbrook-Reinbeck (FG/3-pt): Dinsdale 0/1-3-2-6, Smoldt 3/4-1-5-19, Cooley 0/13-1-5, Roeding 2-2-1-6, Eifler 1/1-6-1-11, Pierce 0-2-3-2. TOTALS: 7/6-17-11-49.

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There was no new business.

There was no old business.

Moved by Chapé, seconded by Mullan to move into closed session in order to discuss and determine strategy in regard to collective bargaining issues, which discussions are exempt from the open meetings law pursuant to the provisions of Section 20.17(3) Code of Iowa 2016. AYES: Six, NAYS: None.

Motion carried. Mayor Hansen asked for a five minute recess in order to clear the Chambers.

At 6:45 P.M. with all Council members present they returned to open session.

Moved by Chapé, seconded by Trotter to Introduce a Resolution approving Teamsters Local 120 2016-2019 Collective Bargaining Agreement. AYES: Six. NAYS: None. Resolution No. 2016 - 039 adopted.

Moved by George, seconded by Kulis to Introduce a Resolution approving Public Professional And Maintenance Employees Local 2003 2016-2019 Collective Bargaining Agreement. AYES: Six. NAYS: None.

Resolution No. 2016 - 040 adopted.

Moved by Kulis, seconded by Mullan to Introduce a Resolution approving Newton Association of Professional Fire Fighters 20162019 Collective Bargaining Agreement. AYES: Six. NAYS: None. Resolution No. 2016 - 041 adopted.

Moved by Trotter, seconded by Mullan, to adjourn the meeting at 6:47 P.M. Motion unanimously carried by voice vote.

Michael L. Hansen, Mayor Katrina Davis CMC, City Clerk February 29

EXECUTOR, AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Richard E. Russell, Deceased, who died on or about February 14, 2016: You are hereby notified that on February 22, 2016, the Last Will and Testament of Richard E. Russell, deceased, bearing date of March 25, 1999, was admitted to probate in the above named court and that Kathryn Masterson was appointed executor of the estate. Any action to set aside the will must be brought in the district court of said county within the later to occur of four months from the date of the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice to all heirs of the decedent and devisees under the are will whose identities reasonably ascertainable, or thereafter be forever barred.

Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and creditors having claims against the estate shall file them with the clerk of the above named district court, as provided by law, duly authenticated, for allowance, and unless so filed by the later to occur of four months from the date of the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice (unless otherwise allowed or paid) a claim is thereafter forever barred.

Dated February 24, 2016.

Kathryn Masterson Executor of estate PO Box 321, Monroe, IA 50170 Randal B. Caldwell, ICIS PIN No: AT0001375 Attorney for Executor Caldwell, Brierly, Chalupa & Nuzum, PLLC Address: 211 1st Ave. W., Newton, IA 50208 Date of second publication March 7 , 2016 February 29 & March 7

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THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT JASPER COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ARNOLD L. STIER, Deceased.

Probate No. ESPR 036800 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Arnold L. Stier, Deceased, who died on or about October 1, 2015: You are hereby notified that on the January 13, 2016, the undersigned were appointed Administrators of the estate.

Notice is hereby given that all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and creditors having claims against the estate shall file them with the clerk of the above named district court, as provided by law, duly authenticated, for allowance, and unless so filed by the later to occur four months from the date of the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of the mailing of this notice (unless otherwise allowed or paid) a claim is thereafter forever barred.

Dated this 13th day of January 2016.

BRUCE NUZUM, ICIS PIN No: AT0005885 Attorney for the Administrators CALDWELL, BRIERLY, CHALUPA & NUZUM, PLLC 211 First Avenue West, Newton, Iowa 50208 Raymond O. Stier and Jamie A. Stier, Administrators of the Estate 4739 Quail Avenue, Monroe, Iowa 50170 Date of second publication: 7th day of March 2016 February 29 & March 7

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S LEVY AND SALE Jasper County Sheriff Office 2300 Law Center Drive Newton, IA 50208 641-792-5912 IN THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR JASPER COUNTY STATE OF IOWA JASPER COUNTY SS CIVIL NO. (SALE NO.) 16-000156 CASE # EQCV118924 SPECIAL EXECUTION PLAINTIFF: DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF GSAMP TRUST 2004 HE2, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004 HE2 vs DEFENDANT: JEFFREY BEENER AND KATHREN BEENER; IN REM As a result of the judgment rendered in the above referenced court case, an execution was issued by the court to the Sheriff of this county. The execution ordered the sale of defendant(s) Real Estate Property to satisfy the judgment. The property to be sold is: THE EAST 63 FEET OF LOT 1, 38, IN MONROE, BLOCK JASPER COUNTY, IOWA Property Address 611 W. SOUTH ST. MONROE, IA The described property will be offered for sale at public auction for cash only as follows: Sale Date 03/22/2016 Sale Time 10:00 AM Place of Sale JASPER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE 2300 LAW CENTER DRIVE, NEWTON, IA This sale not subject to redemption.

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Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and creditors having claims against the estate shall file them with the clerk of the above named district court, as provided by law, duly authenticated, for allowance, and unless so filed by the later to occur of four months from the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice (unless otherwise allowed or paid) a claim is thereafter forever barred.

Dated this 22nd day of January, 2016.

ANN RATLIFF Executor of estate 410 S. HIGH STREET, BAXTER, IA 50028 Date of second publication: 7th day of March, 2015 Probate Code Section 304 February 29 & March 7 REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FEBRUARY 15, 2016, 6:00 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS The City Council of Newton, Iowa met in regular session at 6:00 P.M. on the above date in the Council Chambers at 101 West 4th Street South. Mayor Hansen presided.

Present Council Members: Chapé, Biondi, George, Trotter, Mullan, Kulis.

Absent: None.

REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FEBRUARY 15, 2016, 6:00 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS The City Council of Newton, Iowa met in regular session at 6:00 P.M. on the above date in the Council Chambers at 101 West 4th Street South. Mayor Hansen Present Council presided.

Members: Chapé, Biondi, George, Trotter, Mullan, Kulis.

Absent: None.

Mayor Hansen asked everyone present to join in saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

Police Chief Robert Burdess Recognized the services of Reserve Police Officer John VanDalen.

There was no citizen participation.

Moved by Chapé, seconded by Biondi, to approve consent agenda items 4-12.

4. February 02, 2016 Regular City Council Meeting Minutes.

5. February 08, 2016 Budget Workshop Meeting Minutes.

6. Approve Class C Beer Permit and Sunday Sales for CSOI, Corporation Dba: Newton 66 #963 at 1806 S 12th Ave W.; Class B Wine, Class C Beer (Carryout Beer), and Class E Liquor for Fareway Stores, Inc. #848 at 120 N 3rd Ave E.; Class C Liquor License and Sunday Sales for Newton Post No. 111 Dba: American Legion, 1101 W 4th St S. 7. Resolution appointing Umsted Deputy City Clerk. Resolution No. 2016 - 028 adopted.

8.

Resolution levying assessments for costs of abatement and nuisance providing for the payment thereof (Schedule 16-1). Resolution No. 2016 - 029 adopted.

9. Resolution fixing the Amounts to be assessed against individual private property for the abatement of nuisance violations (Schedule 16-2). Resolution No. 2016 - 030 adopted.

10.

Resolution Approving Applications for Exemption in the City-Wide Urban Revitalization Area. Resolution No. 2016 - 031 adopted.

11.

Resolution accepting completion of the Asbestos Project 2015-06.

Abatement Resolution No. 2016 - 032 adopted.

12. Approval of Bills AYES: Six. NAYS: None.

Consent agenda items approved.

Mayor Hansen stated that this is the time and place for a public hearing on a Resolution accepting purchase proposal for property at 326 East 11th Street North in Newton. There were no written comments.

Erin Chambers, Director of Planning & Zoning, indicated that one bid was received from Robert Farrell in the amount of $1000 for additional yard space to the property at 334 East 11th Street North. Chambers recommended approval of the bid from Farrell.

Moved by Chapé, seconded by Mullan to close the public hearing.

AYES: Six. NAYS: None. The public hearing was closed.

Moved by Kulis, seconded by Trotter, to adopt the resolution. AYES: Six. NAYS: None. Resolution No. 2016 - 033 adopted.

Moved by Trotter, seconded by Chapé to Remove from the Table a Resolution ordering bids, approving plans, specifications and form of contract and notice to bidders, and ordering Clerk to publish notice and fixing a date for receiving same, and for a hearing on plans, public specifications, form of contract and estimate of costs for the 2016 S. 2nd Ave Street TJ Improvements Project.

Dykstra with Hawkeye Mutual Insurance Associates indicated that they approved the original plans with parallel parking as the head in parking makes it difficult to pull out from the alley with a clear view.

They were also concerned about the standing water issue. Keith Laube, Public Works Director, indicated that the new plan would address the water issues by installing a storm Police Chief Burdess intake. confirmed there have been no significant accidents in that area.

Moved by Chapé, seconded by Trotter, to amend the resolution approving the updated plans with head in parking.

Moved by Trotter, seconded by Mullan, to adopt the resolution. AYES: Six. Resolution No. NAYS: None.

2016-034 adopted.

Moved by Chapé, seconded by George to Introduce a Resolution amending the agreements for residential solid waste collection residential recycling and collection with Dodd's Trash Hauling and Recycling, Inc. AYES: Six. NAYS: None.

Resolution No. 2016 - 035 adopted.

Moved by Kulis, seconded by Biondi to Introduce a Resolution setting a public hearing date to approve the 2016-17 Operating Budget for the City of Newton.

None.

AYES: Six. NAYS: Resolution No. 2016 - 036 adopted.

Moved by Mullan, seconded by George to Introduce a Resolution Amending the Newton Housing Initiative Single-Family Incentive Program.

AYES: Six. NAYS: None. Resolution No. 2016 - 037 adopted.

Moved by Chapé, seconded by Kulis to Introduce a Resolution Approving an Agreement Concerning the Relocation of Commercial or Industrial Enterprise. AYES: Six. NAYS: None. Resolution No. 2016 - 038 adopted.

Natalie Umsted, Senior Analyst updated Council on the Economic Development Action Plan progress. Staff is moving forward with the South 2nd Avenue reconstruction project. shared Council adopted a strategy plan that has also been adopted by 7 other partners.

Staff is actively working with property owners to promote additional retail. Community is still invested in working to become a Skilled Iowa Community; at this time we have not quite met the criteria so we are refocusing towards skills and education.

There was no new business.

There was no old business.

Moved by Chapé, seconded by Mullan to move into closed session in order to discuss and determine strategy in regard to bargaining issues, collective which discussions are exempt from the open meetings law pursuant to the provisions of Section 20.17(3) Code of Iowa 2016. AYES: Six, NAYS: None.

Motion carried. Mayor Hansen asked for a five minute recess in order to clear the Chambers.

At 6:45 P.M. with all Council members present they returned to open session.

Moved by Chapé, seconded by Trotter to Introduce a Resolution approving Teamsters Local 120 2016-2019 Collective Bargaining Agreement. AYES: Six. NAYS: None. Resolution No. 2016 - 039 adopted.

Moved by George, seconded by Kulis to Introduce a Resolution approving Public Professional And Maintenance Employees

Randal B. Caldwell TRUST NOTICE IN THE MATTER OF THE Philip D. Troyke & Margaret C. Troyke Family Trust UNDER AGREEMENT DATED 05/05/1992 To all persons regarding Philip D. Troyke, deceased, who died on or about 31st day of January, 2016.

You are hereby notified that Margaret C. Troyke is the trustee of the Philip D. Troyke & Margaret C. Troyke Family Trust dated the 5th day of May, 1992.

Any action to contest the validity of the trust must be brought in the District Court of Jasper County, Iowa, within the later to occur of four (4) months from the date of second publication of this notice or thirty (30) days from the date of mailing this notice to all heirs of the decedent settlor and the spouse of the decedent settlor whose identities are reasonably ascertainable. Any suit not filed within this period shall be forever barred.

Notice is further given that any person or entity possessing a claim against the trust must mail proof of the claim to the trustee at the address listed below via certified mail, return receipt requested, by the later to occur of four (4) months from the second publication of this notice or thirty (30) days from the date of mailing this notice if required or the claim shall be forever barred unless paid or otherwise satisfied.

Dated February 25, 2016.

Philip D. Troyke & Margaret C. Troyke Family Trust UA dated 05/05/1992 Margaret C. Troyke 500 1st St. N., Apt. 331 Newton, IA 50208 Randal B. Caldwell, ICIS PIN#: AT0001375, Attorney for Trustee Caldwell, Brierly, Chalupa & Nuzum, PLLC, 211 1st Ave. W., Newton, IA 50208 Date of second publication March 7, 2016.

February 29 & March 7 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S LEVY AND SALE Jasper County Sheriff Office 2300 Law Center Drive Newton, IA 50208 641-792-5912 IN THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR JASPER COUNTY STATE OF IOWA JASPER COUNTY SS CIVIL NO. (SALE NO.) 16-000161 CASE # EQCV119481 SPECIAL EXECUTION PLAINTIFF: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION vs DEFENDANT: REBECCA L. SANDER, PARTIES IN POSSESSION, IN REM As a result of the judgment rendered in the above referenced court case, an execution was issued by the court to the Sheriff of this county. The execution ordered the sale of defendant(s) Real Estate Property to satisfy the judgment. The property to be sold is: PARCEL A IN THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER (SE1/4 NW1/4) OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 79 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST OF THE 5TH P.M., JASPER COUNTY, IOWA, AS APPEARS IN THE PLAT OF SURVEY OF RECORD IN BOOK 1125, AT PAGE 225 IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY 7072 E 64TH ST S, NEWTON, IA The described property will be offered for sale at public auction for cash only as follows: Sale Date 03/22/2016 Sale Time 10:00 AM Place of Sale JASPER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE 2300 LAW CENTER DRIVE, NEWTON, IA This sale not subject to redemption.

Property exemption: Certain money or property may be exempt. Contact your attorney promptly to review specific provisions of the law and file appropriate notice, if applicable.

Judgment Amount $139,367.88 Costs $2,435.00 Accrued Costs PLUS Interest $10,984.87 Sheriff's Fees Pending Attorney MEGAN STUMPH 6363 COLLEGE BLVD #100 OVERLAND PARK, KS 66211 (913)663-7600 Date 01/28/2016 JOHN R. HALFERTY JASPER COUNTY SHERIFF February 22 & 29 Randal B. Caldwell, Attorney THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT JASPER COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD E. RUSSELL, DECEASED NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL, OF APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR, AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Richard E. Russell, Deceased, who died on or about February 14, 2016: You are hereby notified that on February 22, 2016, the Last Will and Testament of Richard E. Russell, deceased, bearing date of March 25, 1999, was admitted to probate in the above named court and that Kathryn Masterson was appointed executor of the estate. Any action to set aside the will must be brought in the district court of said county within the later to occur of four months from the date of the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice to all heirs of the decedent and devisees under the will whose identities are reasonably ascertainable, or thereafter be forever barred.

Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and

PUBLIC NOTICE OF STORM WATER DISCHARGE The Iowa Department of Transportation plans to submit a Notice of Intent to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to be covered under National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit No.2 “Storm Water Discharge Associated with Industrial Activity for Construction Activities.”

The storm water discharge will be from highway construction activity located in Jasper County on Interstate Highway 80. The project is deck joint repair on I-80 over Rock Creek 3.2 miles east of junction IA-224.

The Public Lands Survey location is Township 80N, Range 17W, Section(s) 32.

Storm water will be discharged from 4 point sources and will be discharged to the following streams: roadway ditches to Rock Creek Comments may be submitted to the Storm Water Discharge IOWA Coordinator, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Environmental Protection Division, 502 East 9th Street, Des Moines, IA 503190034. The public may review the Notice of Intent from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the above address after it has been received by the Department.

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MOVING SALE March 4th 4-6, March 5th 812 John Deere X485 lawn mower w/snowblade, grass catcher, yard roller, dump cart & sprayer, piano, drum set, kayak, whirlpool stove, furniture, clothes and other misc. 810 S. 29th Ave. E.

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Would you like to join a innovative company? Are you dependable, quality conscious and in need of a challenge? JELD-WEN Door Division/Grinnell is now accepting applications for 1st and 3rd shift production positions.

We offer the following benefits to our full-time employees: • Competitive wages • Insurance Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision) • 401(k) • Off shift wage differential • Employee discounts In order to ensure a safe working environment, a pre-employment drug screen is required. If you are interested in joining the JELD-WEN Door Division/Grinnell production team, please apply in person between the hours of 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (South side of street)

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FRESH WATER Fish (1Tiger Barb, 2-Green Tiger Barbs 2-3”) $20 for all.

Iowa Hawkeyes Large Drinking Glass $10. Dale Earnhardt Jr 1:64 Collectible Cars $12/each.

Vintage “Camp Snoopy” glasses (from 1950's/1960's) $35 for set.

515-313-7803.

SET OF 4 tires P22555R17 Goodyear Eagles off Chevy Impala, good tread $60 515-971-9276 SPLIT FIREWOOD, oak & hickory. $65. You load and haul.

STEVENS MODEL 58C 410, bolt action shot gun, checkered stock, good shape, can't find clip. $65.

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BLACK & Decker TR117 17" Electric Hedge Trimmer, used twice-$20.

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CORNING WARE casserole dish 12” x 10” $5, XL ladies blue sweatshirt w/ doiley design $10, folding green rocker lawn chair w/case $15, 1936 5x7 silhouette pictures w/ pull out calenders from Newton Mfg. $25/pair. BBQ set in case-new $10, 10 shell necklaces $5, 4 child size kitchen utensils-1950's era $10. 641-792-8017 EMPLOYMENT

1956 PREMIER Lincoln 4 door car. Body and interior excellent, motor runs, auto transmission, air, stored, been garaged for 25 years.

Can be seen in Newton.

Call 715-891-1500 or 970290-9135. $4,950. or best offer!

1999 ARCTIC Cat 4wheeler ATV, like new, runs great! $1950. 641831-3821. No calls after 8 pm.

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2002 GRAY, extended cab Chevy Silverado. Fully loaded with towing package, leather, heated seats, automatic seats, mirrors, etc. 207k miles and some very minor dents/scratches. Engine runs perfect.

Recently fully detailed and new battery. $7,000 OBO. Contact Cody if interested at 515-681-1373

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PRICE REDUCED $6,800 2014 ARCTIC Cat ATV XL550. Only 71 miles. Includes 3k lb winch, rare tungsten metallic color. Always stored indoors. Cost $11,200 new. 641-9909369

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Consider joining a great team as we continue our mission of commitment to compassion, excellence and innovation!

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Apply online or send resume to: Newton Village Health Care Center 110 N. 5th Ave W., Newton, IA 50208 rdaniels@elimcare.org www.elimcare.org Elim Care is an EEO/AA Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status *Drug Free Workplace

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1997 FORD Conversion Van. Heavy ½ ton, great for towing. New front end and front tires. Runs great. $2400. 515-778-2792

Part-time Clerk APARTMENTS AVAILABLE

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1984 PRAIRIE Schooner 5th wheel camping trailer, 32 feet, good tires, needs work, used once. $1,200.

792-4334.

1996 JEEP Cherokee. 4 x 4 works great. Electric door locks and windows.

200,xxx miles. 515-4227850

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6 PCS. Land of Lakes cannisters-new-$8. Hull Pottery 6” vase tulip-pink $25, Hull candle holder pinktulip $20, Hull glazed small pitcher 6 ½” lime green/white w/pink base $25, Hull cornucopia #8-57 ½”-pink $50, Men's Wrangler jeans-worn little36x30-$15 a pair or 2/$25, 3 star shape candle holders clear glass $4. 641275-7600

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2 MARY Jane twin bedspreads & shams, white with pink, never slept under. $50. each. 7914627.

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Apply in person 400 1st Ave. W., Newton Help Wanted – City of Sully:

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Tuesday, March 8 • 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM

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Are you looking for something different? Accura HealthCare is different.

We are turning things upside down in long-term care and we invite you to get to know us.

Come to our Nursing Expo at the Best Western in Newton. Meet our staff and owners, hear about the exciting ways we are changing long-term care, and learn about how everything we do is built on a foundation of our values: Trust, Integrity, Accountability, Commitment and Kindness.

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Job requirements will be as follows: • Mowing experience • CDL with air brakes is required or be willing to obtain within three months of acquiring the job • Be able to lift 75 pounds or greater Applications may be picked up at the city office.

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Newton Health Care Center is looking for a caring, energetic, and compassionate individual to become a member of our team.

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JELD-WEN Door Division/Grinnell is now accepting applications for highly motivated individuals for Maintenance Technician positions to work third shift, 11:00 p.m. – 7:00 a.m. Must be willing and able to work overtime when required including Saturday.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Perform preventative maintenance • Trouble shoot • Small projects • Light grounds work • Small tool repair • Participate in maintenance team projects Requirements will include: • High School diploma or its equivalent is required; a two year technical degree is preferred.

• Knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, power systems, PLCs, welding, three phase and DC motors, and paint systems is helpful.

• Working at elevation is sometimes required.

JELD-WEN offers a competitive wage and benefits package. Interested candidates should send cover letter and resume to evanersvelde@jeld-wen. com or apply in person at 820 Industrial Avenue, Grinnell Iowa (South side of street) between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Pre-employment drug screen required.

For questions please call 641-787-2150 Apply at www.WindstreamTalent.com Customer Care Specialist Job # 16000511

Please be sure to attach a resume, including any prior customer service experience Please call 641-787-2150 with any questions

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The Greater Newton Area Chamber of Commerce is seeking a dynamic, professional leader to fill the full-time position of executive director for the Newton Chamber of Commerce.

You can obtain a detailed job description by emailing admin@experiencenewton.com or Stop by the Chamber Office at 113 1st Avenue West Newton, IA 50208 Resume, cover letter and references must be submitted to: Newton Chamber of Commerce 113 1st Avenue West Newton Iowa, 50208 or admin@experiencenewton.com Submission Deadline: March 15, 2016 Please note the Executive Director will need to reside in or be willing to relocate to Newton, IA.

JELD-WEN is hiring Production Employees!

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We offer the following benefits to our full-time employees: offerupthetofollowing to our full-time employees: •We Wages $14.16/hrbenefits for general entry level positions • Wages up to $14.16/hr for general entry level positions • Advancement opportunities to higher skilled positions Advancement opportunities ••2nd and 3rd shift premium payto higher skilled positions 2nd and 3rd shift premium pay ••Employee discounts EmployeeBenefits discounts ••Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision) ••401(k) Insurance Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)

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