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‘Virtualization’ approved for sheriff’s office
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By Ty Rushing Daily News Senior Staff Writer “I think we are going to make it more efficient,” Sheriff John Halferty said on Tuesday, when the Jasper County Board of Supervisors approved a virtualization project for his office. Jasper County Information Systems Network Administrator Ryan Eaton said that by virtualizing the office, it would enable the department to have increased digital storage space and it would utilize less physical space for serv-
ers. He also added that this measure was very timely as the office’s current servers use Windows 2003 and that Microsoft was going to discontinue support for those servers next year. “A little over a year ago, we virtualized the servers here in the courthouse and in that time, we put a plan into place to get all of the servers in the county virtualized,” Jasper County IT Director Celia Robertson said. SUPERVISORS See Page 5A
Ty Rushing/Daily News Jasper County Information Systems Network Administrator Ryan Eaton explains the process of “virtualization” at Tuesday’s Jasper County Board of Supervisors meeting.
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United Way of Jasper County introduces new faces and goals
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to the community free of charge at the local cinema. “When I was a kid growing up in southeast Iowa, I remember a private company doing this, which I loved,” Lowe
While most organizations resist change, the United Way of Jasper County is excited for the new possibilities its 2014-15 fiscal year will bring. At the UWJC annual meeting, held at the Newton DMACC Conference Center on Tuesday evening, the organization introduced its new partner agencies and board members, paid tribute to its outgoing board members and welcomed long-time board member Jaime Grout as new board president. Grout said he was excited to have the privilege of being board president and that providing community service to Newton and surrounding areas was a family tradition for him. He said his father helped the Newton Community Theatre and Newton YMCA get situated in their current locations and his mother, who had a journalism background, wrote news releases for the Red Cross. “When I was asked to be on the United Way Board five years ago, I said ‘yes,’ because I have a heritage of being involved in this kind of thing,” Grout said. “I’m looking forward to being the president and doing a lot of things. I’m looking forward to working with all of the partner agencies to increase both financial resources and awareness for the United Way, the agencies and our goals.” Some of the goals Grout set forth for UWJC and the partner agencies were educating the public about what they do, develop more relationships with communities outside of Newton and increasing visibility within the communities they serve.
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Holy Week services at area churches
File Photo Greater Newton Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Darrell Sarmento speaks to local business leaders during the organization’s annual awards banquet last December. Sarmento will be leaving the Chamber in June to take a job with Newton Manufacturing.
Sarmento to leave Chamber for Newton Manufacturing in June
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ing projects he was already working on. “I am very excited for this opportunity and I’m grateful that the team at Newton Manufacturing will be giving me until June to wrap-up my responsibilities with the Chamber,” he said. “We have several important projects we are in the middle of such as launching the Main Street Program, so their flexibility with my start date will allow us to
After four years with the Greater Newton Area Chamber of Commerce, Executive Director Darrell Sarmento will be taking on a new adventure. Beginning in June, he will be the new Senior Sales Manager for the Eastern Division at Newton Manufacturing. In the meantime, he plans to wrap up a few remain-
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Newton YMCA Marketing and Membership Director Jessica Lowe has been the brains behind the community movies at the Capitol II Movie Theatre, partnering with area businesses to bring movies
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Holy Week continues for Holy Trinity Lutheran despite vandalism, theft
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Good Friday service moved to First Lutheran
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YMCA’s Jessica Lowe creating family time, fun memories with community movie
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keep things moving forward.” Chamber Board of Directors chairwoman Sue Nolin of Great Western Bank said Sarmento’s position will be posted on the organization’s website, www.experiencenewton. com, early next week. She said Sarmento was a “huge asset” for the Chamber and Newton.
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Bill Bennett Sr., a member of the Building and Grounds Committee at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, walked into the church Monday morning to find vandals had broken in, stealing a 32-inch computer screen from the sanctuary between Sunday night and Monday morning. “It was a horrific mess. We found glass
spread throughout the sanctuary on the floor and in the pew pads,” Bennett said. The church will have to replace the entire carpet in the sanctuary along with the pew pads. “It was senseless. What they stole amounted to nothing compared to the cost it will take to repair the damage inside the church,” Bennett said. “It leaves you feeling insecure and makes you think about if we should do things differently from what we have been doing.” Holy Trinity pastor Ken Ahntholz and
his wife spent their day preparing for the Seder Meal set for Tuesday evening. Ahntholz returned to the church with a forward-thinking mindset. “My mind went directly towards how do we move forward to make sure things get taken care of,” Ahntholz said. Ahntholz wants the community to know the church will continue to celebrate Holy Week in light of the chaos caused by what he called a “minor inconvenience.” VANDALISM See Page 5A
Zach Johnson/Daily News Holy Trinity Lutheran Church has boarded up the window vandals broke to get into the church. Despite the damage and loss of property, the church will continue with its plans for Holy Week celebrations.