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Magazine followed up on 1966 feature with ‘where they are now’ By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News
n 1966, the concerns of American teenagers might have ranged from the draft and seeing combat duty in Vietnam to who had listened to the latest Rolling Stones record. A national magazine documenting these concerns and other aspects of 1966 teenage American life interviewed a Newton-area 13-year-old, Bruce Curtis. Curtis was interviewed again recently for Newsweek’s 50-year follow-up on the lives of those same teenagers. “A few of us ended up being successful, and a few of us weren’t,” Curtis said. “I ended up living in places like Oklahoma and New Jersey, and meeting lots of people who don’t know the difference between sweet corn and field corn. Iowans are still friendly, but there’s a little bit faster pace of life now.” Since Newsweek published its follow-up story May 12, Curtis, 63, has been contacted by Iowa radio Courtesy of Twisted Twig Photography stations and other media outlets, Bruce Curtis poses on his family farm near Newton. In 1966, when Curtis was age 13, he was one of the interviewees for a Newsweek magazine article about American teenagers. Now 63, Curtis was recently a part of 50-year follow-up story.
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Survey shows concerns about raising children in Newton By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News Raising children in Newton is still a concern for citizens, the 2016 Community Attitude Survey found. The survey gathered data from more than 600 residents in the areas of providing a safe community, encourage economic development, foster a high quality of life and have an effective, efficient, democratic governance. Foster a high quality of life The city’s purpose is to continue to build upon the high quality of life in Newton by focusing on growing community livability, cultural and historical resources, recreational amenities and community aesthetics in order to benefit existing households and draw young families to choose Newton as their home. “Of the four purposes we are looking at, this is probably the category where we rated the poorest between the two years of the surveys,” Umsted said. “But it helps identify some of the areas we are needing to continue working on or work harder on.” The area the city found most concerning was the declining rating people gave Newton as a place to raise children. In 2014, 9 percent of those surveyed labeled Newton as a poor place to raise child.
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Learning made fun at Colfax’s Quarry Springs Park opens the Energy Fair primitive camping By Mike Mendenhall Jasper County Tribune
Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News Nikelle Birech, of Newton, works to make the wind turbine rotate in order to power a music player attached at its base. Learning about wind energy was one of many energy education booths at the Hometown Rewards Energy Fair on Thursday.
COLFAX — It’s been 18 months since city leaders and the Colfax Parks & Recreation Auxiliary Board announced production at the 480-acre gravel quarry on the north end of Colfax was ending and Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. was donating the property to the city. Now Quarry Springs Park is officially open for business, and May 20 primitive tent camping was allowed for the first time. Colfax natives Bob and Teresa Sink couldn’t wait to get away from the TV with their grandkids Jeremiah and Jonas and take their tent to grab a spot on the park’s northwest lake.
Quarry Springs Park Community Meeting Who: Confluence landscape architects; Colfax Park and Recreation Auxiliary Board What: Park masterplan presentation; Community Q&A, input session When: Wednesday, June 1, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Where: Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School Cafetorium
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Colfax couple arrested for marijuana after 13-year-old found driving By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News Marijuana was found in a vehicle being driven by a 13-year-old resulting in child endangerment and other charges for a Colfax couple. Paul E. Deaton, 51, and Jacqualine R. Deaton, 48, both of Colfax, were charged after being arrested during
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Office traffic stop that happened at 2:18 p.m. Sunday in the 200 block of South Montgomery Street in Colfax. The couple were both passengers in the vehicle, and a 13-yearold child was driving at the time of the stop. A heavy odor of marijuana was coming from the vehicle and both Paul and Jacqualine admitted to marijuana being in the vehicle.
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received additional charges of possession of marijuana and permitting an unauthorized driver. Paul and Jacqualine were taken to the Jasper County Jail. Both were released on $3,300 bond and have an upcoming court date of June 7. Contact Jamee A. Pierson at 641-792-3121 ext. 6534 or jpierson@newtondailynews.com
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Paul then reached behind the seat and grabbed a pipe along with a bag with four grams of marijuana in it. The couple admitted that the 13-year-old should not be driving, as the child was not of age to legally drive. Paul was also charged with possession of controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia following the incident. Jacqualine
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