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Confederate flags not likely to be seen at state fair ISF marketing director says she hasn’t received inquiries

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News DES MOINES — A representative of the Iowa State Fair said the Hawkeye State seems to be following suit with what other state fairs are doing regarding the Confederate flag emblem — but not necessarily by way of a rule change.

Mindy Williams, the marketing director for the Iowa State Fair, said the topic hasn’t been a contentious one so far in the weeks leading up to the fair.

“To my knowledge, we haven’t received any inquiries on the issue,” Williams said.

The marketing director said the Iowa State Fair hasn’t made a formal rule change regarding the flag, but that might not end up being necessary.

“We haven’t changed any policies, but we have checked with our vendors, and as far as we know, there will not be any Confederate flags for sale at the Iowa State Fair,” she said.

Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and New York are among the states whose organizers have decided not to allow sale of Confederate flag merchandise at state fairs this year.

Indiana State Fair administrators asked vendors not to sell it or display the flag.

Pastor Richard D. Streeter of the Colfax United Methodist Church said he feels the more commonly

AP Photo The U.S. flag and Mississippi state flag flies over the state house in Jackson, Mississippi. The state flag contains both the original Confederate state flag stripes and the “stars and bars” Confederate emblem associated with racism in modern years.

displayed Confederate symbol — stars inside of blue stripes in a X over an orange background — is a racist symbol that shouldn’t be displayed. However, he feels the original Confederate

flag, which is two red stripes and a white stripe with 13 stars in the corner, is a proud symbol of Southern heritage and unity.

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Four finalists selected for Newton Police Chief

By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News Two local officers are part of the final four candidates selected for the Newton Police Chief position.

Lieutenants Rob Burdess and Wes Breckenridge, along with Tennessee Senior Consultant Jon Fehlman and Creston Police Chief Paul Vermeer are the four finalists for the position and will begin the interview process Wednesday.

“I’m really pleased with the four that we have,” City Administrator Bob Knabel said.

Burdess, a 16-year veteran of the NPD and Breckenridge, who has served 22 years on the force, are current lieutenants at the Newton Police Department. Breckenridge is currently working as the acting police chief, while Burdess served that role previously.

Fehlman is a senior consultant in Murfreesboro, Tenn. and was formerly chief of police in Bainbridge Island, Wash. He also served in the police department of Santa Rosa, Calif., Knabel said.

Vermeer is the current Creston Police Chief and formerly served for the Carroll Police Department.

“I think we have a great mix of candidates, great experience and this will give us options and choices in terms of experience and education,” Knabel said.

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checks and other considerations, Knabel said.

“We will take a list of candidates that will be seriously considered to the civil service commission. They would be placed on a list that would need to go to the council, then I would be authorized to hire from that list,” Knabel said.

The process is expected to be completed in August with the city tendering an offer in mid- to late August. A transition date of Sept. 1 is expected.

Retiring Police Chief Jeff Hoebelheinrich has been utilizing vacation days since April 7 and is set to officially retire Aug. 31 is planned.

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

Questions answered, costs Walking across the country for troops discussed at Crime-Free Housing workshop

By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News The council chambers were packed once again for the second and final workshop for the Crime-Free Multi-Housing program Monday.

City Administrator Bob Knabel opened the workshop with answers to questions asked at the previous gathering.

The first question Knabel addressed was why should the program apply to just rental properties and not single family homes that cause

similar problems.

“The answer is that all properties that have chronic issues with law enforcement should be dealt with consistently.

We should be treating that law enforcement problem equally,” Knabel said.

Current city code has language in the nuisance ordinance police use to address the private, single-family homes that have issues. The department has begun this enforcement and will continue to do so, he said.

Another question was whether the Crime Free

Multi-Housing program should encompass all types of rental properties. Knabel acknowledged single-family units were found to have fewer calls for police service, however, landlords eho own numerous properties should be treated equally with those large multi-housing units.

Knabel’s recommendation is for landlords with three or fewer properties to not be required to participate in the program.

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Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Tom Connolly is an actor and comedian who is walking from his home in Los Angeles to his hometown of Windsor, Conn., and he passed through Newton on Monday.

He is raising money for a nonprofit called Operation Gratitude, which sends care packages to troops serving overseas. He left Los Angeles on April 27, and has seen all sorts of weather conditions during his journey, which he is making with a backpack and a pack wheel that has lost nearly all its tread. His fundraising effort can be viewed here: bit.ly/1NSoktF

Newton school board hires firm to crunch reconfiguration data Former KinderCare building at center of lengthy discussion

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News

Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Dr. Dave Stoakes speaks at Monday night’s Newton Community School District meeting. Stoakes spoke on behalf of Robert Schwarz Planning, which was awarded a contract by the district to come up with enrollment and boundary analyses as the district prepares for a 2016-17 reconfiguration.

In its preparation for its school reconfiguration at the start of the 2016-17 school year, the Newton Community School District has a long laundry list of tasks

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One of those complex tasks is to assemble data and re-draw elementary-school boundaries for what will be four K-4 campuses, and the NCSD board of education took a step toward completing that task

Monday.

At its regular meeting, held in the Emerson Hough conference room, the board voted by a 5-0 vote to hire Robert Schwarz Planning to compile a large amount of enrollment, demographic and city and county data to help the district plan its

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Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Holly Giombi talks about the Natural Resources Conservation Service planning process during the NRCS’s July 21 presentation at the Jasper County Fair. The NRCS used the fair as a venue to get the word out about cover crops and other assistance programs available.

Presentation, field day show ways to prevent erosion NRCS presents at Jasper County Fair

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hue said. “We’re not a regulatory organization. Yes, we have taken on more responsibilities in the last 20 years. But that’s not our primary mission, and we’re not here to go after people. Our goal is to help people help the land.”

Donahue said it’s important for farmers and others to realize the plan that the NRCS comes up with might not be intended to produce the exact same results a farmer has in mind, or use the same tactics. He said the NRCS wants to see farmers succeed by getting land conditions to cooperate as much as possible.

NRCS conservationist Holly Giombi also talked about the planning process. Erosion is a common problem brought up by farmers, and Giombi outlined what happens when an issue is first reported, and the steps that are followed to achieve a resolution.

Off-season cover crops were discussed extensively in the presentation. Donahue answered a question about how many farmers are using cover crops statewide by saying about 5 percent, but it’s tough to tell, as not all

When young people get ready to make a presentation at a county fair, there might be an American flag involved. Or a goat. Or a horse.

However, there were no flags or animals involved with the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s July 21 presentation at the Jasper County Fair. In fact, there weren’t any dams, streams or grass water channels on display at the initial presentation; just old-fashioned, plain-language spoken words about what the NRCS does and doesn’t do.

Curt Donahue, a district conservationist from the NRCS, talked about his agency’s mission.

“People are sometimes hesitant to contact the NRCS if they think there might be some kind of law compliance issue,” Dona-

cover-crop users necessarily have their processes documented by any type of government-based program.

Mark Johnson, the Iowa State University field agronomist whose territory includes Jasper County, made an extensive presentation to more than 50 farmers in Monroe in June, and he was at the county fair for last week’s field day. He said he’s a supporter of cover crops because of erosion prevention and because these crops help prevent nitrates and other elements from escaping into downstream watersheds.

The session ended with a short trip out to a local farm to see how cover crops are set up.

Johnson said getting localized information is important to making cover crops a more prevalent element of Iowa farming.

“Farmers want to know what will work in their area,” Johnson said. “An Iowa farmer doesn’t want to go to a workshop or look in a book or online and see what works in southern Indiana.”

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Jasper County USDA Farm Service Agency Executive Director Katie Kramer announced the nomination period for local FSA county committees forms must be postmarked or received in the Jasper County FSA Office by close of business on Aug. 3.

“County Committees are unique to FSA and allow producers to have a voice on federal farm program implementation at the local level,” Kramer said.

To be eligible to serve on the FSA county committee, a person must participate or cooperate in an agency administered program, be eligible to vote in a county committee election and reside in the local administrative area where they are nominated.

This year, nominations and elections will be held in LAA 2, which includes the following townships: Palo Alto, Buena Vista, Richland, Fairview East, Fairview West, Elk Creek and Lynn Grove.

Producers may nominate themselves or others as candidates. Organizations representing minority and women farmers and ranchers may also nominate candidates. To become a nominee, eligible individuals must sign form FSA-669A. The form and more information about county committee elections are available online at: www.fsa.usda.gov/elections.

Northey encourages farmers to update Iowa hay, straw directory DES MOINES — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey encourages Iowa hay and straw producers to register or update their listing on the Iowa Hay and Straw Directory. The directory lists Iowa producers with hay and straw for sale, as well as organizations and businesses associated with promoting and marketing quality hay and straw.

“The directory has been a great tool for both buyers and sellers and we hope farmers will take the time to review and update their information so that it remains a valuable resource,” Northey said. “This directory can serve as a critical link for those producing hay and those looking to buy, so we encourage Iowans to take advantage of this free directory.”

The listing is available to interested buyers throughout the nation, however only sellers from within Iowa can be included on the list.

Farmers interested in listing should visit the Department’s website at www.IowaAgriculture.gov.

An application form can be found by going to the “Bureaus” link and then selecting “Agricultural Diversification and Market Development.” Then click on “Hay & Straw Directory” on the right side of the page under “Directories.”

For those without Internet access, please call the Hay/Straw Hotline at 800-383-5079. The Department will fax or send a printed copy of the application to be filled out.

Poultry industry, government meet in Iowa on bird flu DES MOINES (AP) — A bird flu that resulted in the deaths of 48 million chickens and turkeys has finally waned, but industry officials and government researchers will gather this week in Des Moines to discuss next steps if the virus returns this fall or next spring.

The Georgia-based U.S. Poultry & Egg Association has organized meetings Tuesday and Wednesday in Des Moines, where industry officials and government researchers will discuss what caused the outbreak and how to respond more effectively to future problems.

The organization, which represents egg and meat chicken companies as well as businesses handling turkeys, ducks and breeding stock, opted to largely close the meetings, saying they wanted participants to feel comfortable talking freely. Only speeches by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack,

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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds are open to reporters, though the public won’t be allowed in even to those events.

Association president John Starkey said in a statement the goal of the gathering was to “assist the poultry industry and its stakeholders in preparing for potential, future exposure to high pathogenic avian influenza.”

The last reported case was in Iowa just over a month ago, an indication that the H5N2 virus is no longer active. Since March, the virus has hit operations in 15 states with Iowa and Minnesota suffering the worst losses.

In Iowa, 32 million birds died, mostly chickens, and in Minnesota, nearly 9 million turkeys have died.

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Vilsack told The Associated Press he’ll discuss lessons learned from the outbreak and touch on the need to improve biosecurity and efforts to develop a vaccine.

He told members of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee last week that a vaccine strain has been developed that halts the virus in chickens and tests are underway to determine effectiveness in turkeys. If it works, licensing agreements will be signed with manufacturers and federal funding sought for stockpiling supplies of the vaccine targeted at the H5N2 version of bird flu that struck in the United States this spring.

Using a vaccine, however, is controversial, with turkey producers generally more supportive than those who raise chickens. That’s largely because chick-

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en producers export products valued at $5 billion a year to some countries that threaten to shut off purchases if vaccine is used. Vilsack said discussions are being held with trade partners to minimize impact if a vaccine is needed to control another outbreak.

The USDA is hiring 400 temporary workers to be deployable quickly and respond wherever the virus may surface, said Dr. Jack Shere, a veterinary services administrator with the USDA, in a conference call update on the outbreak last week.

Shere said the Des Moines meeting is part of a continuing effort to work with the poultry industry to improve response.

“Part of what’s going to happen at that meeting is they’re going to talk about options, tools, and biosecurity things needed to bring to bear to deal with this virus,” he said.

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Local News Housing Continued from Page 1A with the law, they should be dealt with consistently, and Knabel recommended they be required to join the program.

A question that was brought up several times by multiple people at the previous workshop was: why should landlords that already do background checks be required to pay the city for the checks?

“It is felt that consistency is important so that all landlords are receiving appropriate information concerning the status of their tenants,” Knabel said.

He said the landlords can conduct their own background checks, if they follow certain crite-

School Continued from Page 1A transition. Board member Travis Padget abstained, and another member, Andy Elbert, wasn’t at Monday’s meeting.

Newton Schools, which has used Schwarz Planning in the past, will pay the consulting firm $13,800 for its services — $9,000 for an enrollment analysis, and $4,800 for a boundary analysis. There will be a $3,000 fee for each community forum the firm hosts in Newton in the months ahead, and a $500 maximum fee for each report generated.

Dr. Dave Stoakes, an accomplished Iowa educator himself, made a short presentation at the meeting on behalf of Schwarz Planning. He talked about the redrawing of school boundaries within the district, and how Schwarz will likely use a lunchroom, auditorium or gymnasium for a community-input meeting.

“Anyone who has a stake in your community — residential, industrial — will need to be involved,” Stoakes said.

“They (Schwarz) will divide your planning areas, but local input is needed. On one project, there was a plan to divide a community through the middle of a large open space. What we didn’t know was that kids from

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ria, and then the cost of the proposed fee would decrease.

A highly debated question among staff and landlords was why the city would include the cost of the training and education in the annual permit fee when landlords can obtain the same training for less cost.

“There are two main reasons for the city requiring its own landlord training. One, it allows for a connection between police personnel and landlords,” Knabel said.

“Secondly, it ensures that the training is consistent with the city’s program.”

He said although the city staff feels those reasons are important, alternatives could be an option — the city could host sessions or develop a syllabus, inviting outside

trainers and facilitating it to ensure it meets the program needs.

If the city goes that route, there would be a charge to attend the class instead of including the $5 cost in the fee increase.

Still another option would be for the landlord to attend any class that meets the city’s accreditation. The landlord would then need to bring in a copy of his or her certificate of completion.

Finally, Knabel proposed a fee increase of $10 per permit fee. The increase would help to cover the city’s costs for the program, since the current program does not cover all of the costs.

Landlord Fred Rhodes then spoke before the city staff with a lengthy list of suggestions to be considered.

He said there are ways to enact the program without charging additional fees that would be passed on to tenants who may not be able to afford them.

“Ames, Council Bluff, Davenport, Dubuque, Iowa City, Marshalltown and Waterloo do not charge for this program,” Rhodes said. “I am told by them that the program is so beneficial to the city and its residents that they are glad to absorb the cost.”

He suggested looking into grant programs to help pay for background checks, citing Dubuque as a city that receives $35,000 a year. Another avenue to save money is to partner with an outside agency, such as the Central Iowa Property Association, to coordi-

both sides of that space used it as a park, and all knew each other. We needed people with close ties to point out those things.”

The board held a special work session recently to have the Schwarz firm present its body of work. That was the only item on Monday’s agenda directly related to reconfiguration, but a 20-minute discussion took place on another topic that could end up being a part of facilities discussions.

Board President Sheri Benson said the Jasper Community Foundation approached the district about possibly purchasing a building owned by the foundation, which formerly housed Newton KinderCare until it closed a little more than a year ago.

Superintendent Bob Callaghan said he realizes that when Newton Schools began to offer preschool, businesses in town that offer similar or nearly identical services were not pleased.

He said it’s important for the district to “be transparent” and have discussions about the building’s possibilities at open public meetings.

Several ideas were mentioned regarding the former KinderCare building, both in terms of how it could be used as is, renovated or how the Emerson Hough building could be used if preschool were relo-

cated. Callaghan said he believes the foundation might be willing to sell the building to the district at an extremely reasonable price.

However, he also acknowledged any separate school building would likely need its own certified administrator as a principal, and Business Director Gayle Isaac said there is currently no funds available for either the purchase or the staffing of another building.

No action was taken by the board regarding the building, except to place it on the agenda for discussion at the next School Improvement Advisory Committee meeting.

A planned action item regarding a bus camera system purchase was taken off of Monday’s agenda. Only one bid was submitted, and Callaghan said there was concern that not enough potentially interested parties had a chance to see the request for proposal, which will be re-issued soon.

The board’s next regular meeting is Aug. 10.

In other action Monday, the board: • Heard from Isaac regarding school board elections. The deadline for filing a petition is Thursday, and as of Monday, only one person — Ann Leonard — had turned in her paperwork. Board members Donna Cook and Bill Perrenoud told

the Newton Daily News they each plan to seek re-election in the Sept. 8 election; Nat Clark said “I don’t know yet.”

• Discussed the formation of a bond planning committee to meet with an architect to participate in the design proposal of the new Berg Complex in anticipation of a Feb. 2, 2016 public bond vote. Citizens, teachers and members of the Newton business community will be sought for a committee than will be number between 18 and 25 people.

• Approved Hiland as the milk provider and Bimbo/Sara Lee as the bread provider for the district for 2015-16.

Food Service Supervisor Cristy Croson said delivery is a key strength with Hiland, and likewise, there were delivery problems with Pan-OGold, the previous bread supplier.

• Approved Seals Construction for a number of concrete repair projects around the district this summer. Maintenance Supervisor Jack Suttek said two other local firms had too much work this summer to accept any of the district’s concrete work.

• Approved student-teaching agreements with both Central College and William Penn University.

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a lot of times discussions happen between council members from input that they receive from individuals,” Hansen said. “This is how it is suppose to work. It was time to have a workshop so we could have a more in-depth conversation and share ideas.”

He said he was more than happy to work with the Central Iowa Property Association and work to make the program cost-free. He said the goal is to provide a safe living environment for all of those involved in Newton.

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Flag Continued from Page 1A “The one we see everywhere, that’s a racist flag, and I would hope there would be no one selling it at a fair,” Streeter said. “But the one the Confederacy originally used, that continues to be a part of history.”

Streeter said he recently took a trip to Alabama, Mississippi and other places in the South, and the “stars and bars” flag is as commonly flown as ever.

He said a visit to a church where four young girls were killed in a 1963 bombing was “overwhelming,” and the original Confederate flag represents all of America’s struggles with racial and other conflicts.

The decades-old controversy over the flag emblem was rekindled by the massacre of nine black worshippers at a church in South Carolina last month. The white man who was indicted last week in the slayings, Dylann Storm Roof, had posed with the Confederate battle flag in photos that were posted online before the attack and authorities say he was motivated by racial hatred.

The flag issue led to the removal of the flag from the South Carolina and Georgia statehouses and has led to discussion of not only no longer honoring Confederate leaders and war heroes, but even U.S. presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, who both owned slaves.

Iowa contributed the largest percentage of its population to the Civil War effort of any Union state. With an 1860 population of about 675,000, there were 76,242 Iowa men who served in the military during that time, many in combat units attached to the western armies. More died of disease than from combat wounds, with 13,001 killed and 8,500 Iowa men wounded.

Cemeteries throughout the South contain the remains of Iowa soldiers that fell during the war, and there are both Union and Confederate soldiers buried in Iowa.

Streeter said with all the issues confronting the United States today, flag displays are probably not at the forefront. “We’ve got a heck of a lot more important things to worry about than a piece of cloth,” he said.

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John Beck, of Krupp Properties, told staff about his experience with Crime-Free Housing, which he enacted on his own two years ago.

“It was simply a program I thought might be good fit for Krupp Rentals. I was tired of having the police come out for stupid, petty things that I thought I could find a different conclusion to those,” Beck said. “I truly have to spend zero money on it.”

Mayor Mike Hansen concluded the meeting telling those at the workshop they have “a council that listens to its citizens.”

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Making a home at our ‘blue house’

By Jamee A. Pierson Staff Writer

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We did it. After about a three month process, we have finally moved into our new house. There were times I thought it might not happen, but after signing my name to the last line, it was finally ours.

The house we moved to was one I had always liked in town. It is on large lot with several acres of land in town with a creek running along the south property line. My neighbors are the golf course and a corn field — it really can’t get any better.

I grew up in a large house with a large lot that didn’t have neighbors I could touch if I reached out my window.

I always wanted something similar when I was “grown up” and had my own family.

The house went on the market last fall, and we were quick to check it out. We weren’t quite in the position

to buy it and just crossed our fingers that it wouldn’t sell before we would be ready to buy it. Fall went by, we celebrated Christmas and watched as the leaves began to turn green again. I’m not sure what prompted us to give the homeowner a call, but one April day, on a whim, we asked if the house was still available.

That call set in motion what would result in us buying the house. We met with the homeowner once again and expressed our sincere interest in her home. The land is beautiful — it is the perfect size with a bedroom for each of my girls and extra space in the basement for my crafts. It even has an extra garage for whatever my husband wants to do.

After somewhat formally agreeing to buy the house, we immediately placed a for

sale sign at our current home.

That day, we received several calls and set up a couple of showings for the house. In a short two weeks, we had made a deal and the house was off the market.

Although our “yellow house,” as my girls call it, could be a real pain with steep basement stairs to the downstairs laundry and not quite enough space, I still love it. It was the perfect house for us moving from Pleasant Hill, and it put us in the position to be able to buy our dream home only a couple of years later.

So after months of dealing with the bank and the lawyers and almost pulling my hair out — just ask my co-workers — everything was done.

We received a bag of keys and were given the final tour of the ins and outs of the house.

We closed on a Wednes-

day, which gave us a couple of days to paint the girls’ rooms before we moved everything in on Saturday. I can’t thank everyone enough for the help we received moving. It made the process go so much faster than I had expected, yet I hope to never move another box until my girls head off to college.

I can’t say I’m quick to unpack everything, because we didn’t unpack after moving from our last house. Meanwhile, my mom decided everything from my childhood needed to come to the new house as well.

We have the kitchen set up, and the girls are good to go and now it will just be a few boxes at a time as we settle in to our “forever home.”

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

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Support for Iowa schools is critical My number one priority in the Iowa House is making Jasper County a great place to live, work and raise a family.

Support for our schools is critical to accomplish this goal. Our kids deserve it.

Unfortunately, earlier this month a bipartisan compromise, which was approved by By Dan Kelley Democrats and Iowa Republicans and Representative provided critical support for our schools, was derailed by the governor. Gov. Branstad’s veto of $56 million in K-12 funding is a disaster for Iowa’s most important resource: our kids.

Newton schools are losing out on $329,451 in school funding as a result, which means larger class sizes, fewer quality teachers and higher property taxes. Schools in Baxter, Prairie City and Colfax are in the same bad situation.

I’ve been in close contact with teachers and education leaders in Jasper County and throughout the state. One school district said it will operate in a deficit next year because of the veto.

Unfortunately, the school funding crisis and governor’s veto prove that educating our kids isn’t a priority for some at the state capitol any longer. In fact, one

state senator told teachers to “quit whining” about school funding and suggested schools should just “economize” to make up for the shortfall in state funding. While some legislators complain about various state-by-state rankings of Iowa schools, I know we have high quality educators and kids ready to learn in Jasper County.

I’ll keep fighting to make K-12 public education the top priority at the Capitol, and I’m going to keep pushing because the future of Iowa’s economy depends on it.

Despite our growing economy, basic school funding has slipped dramatically since Republicans took over the House and Governor’s Office. For the last five years, school funding has slipped to about a 1.85 percent annually, including one year when they left schools with zero. Their education funding policies don’t reflect Jasper County’s values. We put our kids first here. I will continue to make local schools a top priority.

With 6 percent growth projected for the state next year and an additional $1 billion in surplus and reserves, we can afford to make a solid investment in our schools and it needs to happen now. Our kids can’t wait.

That’s why I’m standing with parents, teachers and school leaders and calling for a special session to override the governor’s veto to make educating our kids a top

priority again. I’ve joined many of my colleagues in the Iowa House and Senate to request a special session of the Iowa Legislature to make educating Iowa students a top priority again. It’s really the only option left for our schools. If two-thirds of lawmakers agree to come back for a special session, we can overturn the governor’s veto and put our kids first again.

I’ll admit, it’s a longshot, but that doesn’t mean it’s not the right thing to do. I’ll always support what’s best for Jasper County’s kids regardless of the odds.

I hope you’ll join the call for a special session along with over 6,000 Iowans and sign this petition at www.change.org/p/ members-of-the-iowa-legislature-call-for-a-special-sessionto-restore-school-funding. Our kids deserve it. If you’d like to sign the petition in person, give me a call, and I’ll bring it to your front door.

Serving as your state representative is a year-round job. While the session, and pay, ended a couple months ago, I’ll keep working year-round at home and the capitol. I’m always accessible to you and welcome hearing your ideas to make Jasper County a great place to live, work and raise a family. Our comeback belongs to all of us. Call me at home, 641521-9260, or email dan.kelley@ legis.iowa.gov.

Donald Trump says stupid, bigoted, ignorant things because he’s a boss.

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On a résumé, I’d say “ r e porter,” but, if I were honest, By Marc Dion I’d put down my occupation as “employee,” because everything else is just Photoshop.

Middle to bottom of the barrel, that’s been me this lifetime. I’ve propped up the stock price in dozens of ways.

I’ve done it with a broom, a computer and with my own aching back. The people at the top never see me and thank God, because I am mutinous and unclean in my speech.

But I have spoken often to the other bosses, the little ones. Shift bosses and restaurant managers and editors and Eddie — good old Eddie — out on the loading dock.

Eddie was a bornagain Christian of the most annoying kind, a man who’d turned his high school education loose on the Bible and come back with enough misunderstanding to fill Noah’s Ark. And he told it all to me, on the third shift, while I was sucking coffee in the break room.

“I didn’t know that was in the Bible,” I’d say to Eddie while he explained how the Jews needed to be in Israel so Jesus could come again.

Yeah. Old Eddie, who ruined at least a third of my breaks with holy babble from God. And Tom, who loved to tell me about his sex

life with his wife.

“So, last night, we’re in bed,” Tom would start and I’d stand behind the bar, washing glasses and listen to his wormy little couplings, nodding appreciatively every so often.

“Thereyago,” I’d say.

The bosses who were always wrong, and I mean every time, and who sent me out to do the wrong thing backwards.

“I’ll get right on that,” I’d say.

Oh, you learn, you who do not own any stock in the company, you learn the way I learned.

Do it backwards, do it sideways, do it upside down and listen to the boss’ whack job political theories with a bigas-a-barn-door smile.

Trump comes right out of that world, the world of the solid color tie and infallibility. Only the lawyers can ever really tell you you’re wrong, and you can always get new lawyers. The next bunch will tell you you’re right.

You can say anything because you can fire anyone. In America, where we print your job high up in your obituary, that’s all that counts.

Every bad boss has his/her followers, too, those prime little underlings who know they can become assistant managers if they’ll just agree louder than anyone else.

Trump’s good theater, but he’s a bad boss.

Worst of all, he’s forgotten who does the hiring on this job.

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

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Thanks to Jasper County Fair supporters

Mike Guy Newton We have cleaned up after another Jasper County Fair.

On behalf of the fair board, I want to thank everyone who helped us make it possible.

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Records Obituary Keith K. Stratton July 27, 2015 Keith Stratton, 83, of Newton, died Monday evening, July 27, 2015, at his home at Park Centre, in Newton.

Funeral services for Keith are pending and the Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton, have been entrusted with the arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.pencefh.com.

Local FFA member selected as member of National FFA Band I N D I A NA P O LI S — Emily Zahurones, a member of the Baxter FFA chapter, will be on stage and in the spotlight Oct. 29-Nov. 1 during the National FFA Convention & Expo in Louisville, Ky. Zahurones, a junior and the daughter of Dale and Beth Zahurones, has been selected to play clarinet in the National FFA Band.

Zahurones submitted an audition tape and was selected to help bring full instrumental balance to the band from a pool of applicants from across the country and will join fellow band members in Louisville three days before the event for rehearsals.

The National FFA Band will perform several times during the national convention and expo.

The National FFA Organization provides leadership, personal growth and career success training through agricultural education to 579,678 student members in grades seven through 12 who belong to one of 7,570 local FFA chapters throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

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Community Calendar

‘Evening of Story Telling’ at St. Stephen’s Author David Nelson, a former Dubuque resident, will present “An Evening of Story Telling” on 7 p.m.

Wednesday at St. Stephen’s Church. All are welcome.

An authority on child abuse, Nelson has written three books related to this subject. “The Shade Tree Choir,” which can be found at the Newton Public Library, deals with the specific physical and emotion-

al abuse he suffered as a child. “PALS: Part One” takes the reader through the teenage years and how five friends helped him to cope. “PALS: Part Two” shows how he experienced success after abuse. He has just released “If Hilld Could Talk” (short stories set in Dubuque and Tennessee) and “My Treasure” (a book of poetry).

Nelson is a retired physical therapist, office

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• Newton Farmers’ Market will begin at 4 p.m. Tuesday on the north and west sides of the Jasper County Courthouse in Newton. For more information, contact Andrew Bassman at the Newton Main Street office at 641-7925545 or andrewjbassman@gmail.com.

• A Streetscape Open House will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Newton City Hall, 101 W. Fourth St. S. The public is invited to view the preliminary designs for the Downtown Historic Preservation design guidelines and master plan. The open house will end at 8 p.m.

• 12 Women of the Bible women’s study will meet at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday at Hephzibah House, 721 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

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

• Newton Noon Kiwanis will meet at noon Wednesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Newton, for lunch and a program titled “Jasper County Extension Water Quality” by Mark Johnson. Anyone interested in the program or in learning more about Kiwanis is welcome to be a guest for lunch. For information or to make a reservation for lunch, call Margie Criswell at 641-521-9482. Visit www. newtonkiwanis.org to learn more about the service club.

• Overcoming Emotions that Destroy will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Hephzibah House in Newton.

• Culver’s Cruise Night will begin at 5 p.m.

Wednesday at Culver’s in Newton.

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

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m.

Wednesday at the Masonic Temple in Prairie City.

• LinkedIn and Advanced LinkedIn will meet beginning at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Career Connection Center, DMACC Campus, 600 N. Second Ave. W., Room 241 in Newton. LinkedIn is similar to Facebook for professionals. Register for one 90 minutes class or both. Contact Miranda Kulis at 641-7910424.

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

• Breaking Free women’s study will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday at Hephzibah House in Newton.

• Wine Down Thursday will begin at 5 p.m.

Thursday at Van Wijk Winery, 802 Fourth St. in Sully. Wine Down social members enjoy wine and gather to create an informal social club to network and meet new friends.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon Friday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Newton.

• Battlefield of the Mind women’s study will meet at 1 p.m. Friday at Hephzibah House Newton.

• Penny Bingo will meet at 1 p.m. Friday at Jasper County Senior Citizens Center, 702 E. Third St. S. in Newton.

• Live Music will begin at 7 p.m. Friday at Rock Creek State Park, 5627 Rock Creek E. St. in Kellogg. Featured band will be County Line, next to the boat dock and concession stand. Freewill offering for the band.

ergonomist and national public speaker. A storyteller, he is the Cowboy Poet Laureate of Tennessee and has performed across America. His book, “The Campfire Collection of Cowpoke Poetry” is filled with his poems and stories.

Wednesday, Nelson will be highlighting his works and will also be selling and signing his books. This event is sponsored by The Newton Page Turners Book Club.

Steenhoek named Skiff DAISY Award winner Brenda Steenhoek, registered nurse at Skiff Medical Center, was recognized for going above and beyond during the organization’s third 2015 DAISY award ceremony on July 17.

The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses was presented to Steenhoek following the nomination from Tammy Stapp, Home Care Director.

“Brenda has a reputation for going above and beyond for her patients,” Stapp wrote. “Every day she shows service and kindness to everyone she meets. Her happy and cheerful attitude makes her visits an experience that each of her patients look forward to when she comes to see them.

There are lots of stories about her and ways that she tries to make her patients feel appreciated and special.”

Steenhoek was joined by two other nurses nominated for this quarter’s DAISY Award: Patty Habel and Jessica Molitor.

The DAISY Award, presented in collaboration with The American Organization of Nurse Executives, is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform

Submitted Photo Brenda Steenhoek received the third 2015 DAISY award in a ceremony July 17.

every day. The nonprofit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, Calif., and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, a little-known but not uncommon auto-immune disease (DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System). The care Patrick and his family received from nurses while he was ill inspired this unique means of thanking nurses for making a

profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.

Nomination forms are available throughout Skiff Medical Center. The nominations are reviewed and award winners are selected on a quarterly basis by the Nursing Coordinating Council, which consists of professional nursing representatives from all areas of the organization.

To learn more about Skiff, call 641-787-5433, visit www.skiffmed.com or “like” Skiff at www. facebook.com/skiffmed.

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Police Blotter Newton Police Department • Marlene Yacoub, 40, of Des Moines, is charged with driving while license suspended after authorities pulled her over at the intersection of East 19th Street North and North 19th Avenue East at 4:45 a.m. Thursday. She was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

• Evan M. Tibe, 35, of Newton, is charged with operating while under the influence after authorities pulled him over in the 1200 block of West 18th Street South at 1:25 a.m. Saturday. Officers were called about a reckless driver who was having a hard time maintaining lanes, speeding and almost hitting bridges. Officers identified the vehicle and made contact with Tibe who smelled of alcohol. He admitted to drinking about four beers earlier in the day. He was cited and released to appear.

• Hector D. Bonilla, 32, of Newton, is charged with disorderly conduct after authorities were

called to 400 N. Second Ave. E. at 10:57 p.m. Friday. Officers spoke with several people who said Bonilla had gone out of his apartment and was intoxicated, cussing and threatening individuals in the apartment. He was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

• Jonathon L. Arends, 40, of Newton, is charged with interference with official acts, driving while barred, possession of drug paraphernalia and was arrested on a Poweshiek County warrant for fifth-degree theft after authorities were called to Hy-Vee at 1:11 a.m.

Friday. Officers saw a vehicle in the parking lot at Hy-Vee and recognized Arends who was entering the store. As officers began walking inside the store Arends exited and began walking toward the vehicle. Officers spoke with him and asked if his name was Jon Arends and he said no, his name was Jonathan. Officers told him of his arrest warrant and instructed him to stay by the patrol vehicle. He

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• Paul G. Schleiger, 22, of Newton, is charged with domestic abuse assault impeding flow of air/blood after authorities were called to 923 E. 16th St. N. at 1:45 p.m. Saturday. Officers spoke with the victim who had a small scratch on her right leg and noticeable discolored and red right ear. The victim said she was having an argument with her boyfriend, Schleiger, when he allegedly threw his wallet at her, which had a heavy metal object in it. He then allegedly put her in a headlock. She said that her airflow was not blocked, but she did start seeing spots. He was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

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Woman discovers man’s eyes aren’t wandering by accident DEAR ABBY: I am a 58-year-old, twice divorced, hard-working, middle-class female. I spend most of my time working and involved with my three adult children. About a year ago I started dating someone. He is 63, very helpful and claims he’s madly in love with me and appreciates this opportunity for a normal, wholesome life.

Occasionally I’ll catch him staring at women’s butts. It bothers me a bit, but oh well, he’s a man. Last week our family went camping. At least a dozen times I saw him position himself so that he could stare at my 40-year-old daughter’s behind. Keep in mind, my daughter dresses VERY conservatively, and this trip was almost all jeans and T-shirts.

As we were packed up and ready to head home, she said she had to relieve herself and headed into the bushes (this is a remote campground). Instead of my boyfriend looking the other way as we all did, he stared and gawked in her direction obviously trying to sneak a peek!

Abby, I am devastated and disgusted. Please give me your take on this.

— NORMAL OR NOT IN NEW YORK DEAR NORMAL: For a man to look at women’s body parts is normal, but what your boyfriend did goes beyond that. For him to try to sneak a peek at your daughter while she relieved herself indicates that he is a voyeur. Now you must determine whether he just takes advantage of an opportunity or he actively seeks it out, which could present a problem in the future.

DEAR ABBY: My daughter is a 29-year-old new mother. I know times have changed since I was a new mom, but the restrictions my daughter has put on visiting her and my new grandson are unrealistic.

Since his birth three weeks ago, I have seen him only once — at the hospital. She has taken him on two

outings: one where there were 10 people and another where there were more than 100. (My grandson has not yet received any of his childhood vaccinations.)

My daughter now says that when I visit, I must change into freshly washed clothes before entering her house. She’s afraid that the secondhand smoke will harm him.

I’m not unintelligent. I have bought disinfectants to spray on myself, as well as breath strips. I also wash my hands, arms and face before I hold him. Am I unrealistic in thinking she’s asking too much, or should I say something to her and let her know how much she has hurt me? — CRYING DAY AND NIGHT DEAR CRYING: I do think you should talk to your daughter. What she may be trying to do is encourage you to quit smoking. I doubt that she’s doing it to be hurtful.

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Hundreds get buzz cut to support 5-year-old with cancer MONTICELLO — Hundreds of people volunteered this weekend to have their heads shaved in an effort to set a world record and show their support for a 5-yearold boy who lost his own hair during treatment for cancer. The boy, Austin Smith, is the son of Monticello Police Chief Britt Smith and was diagnosed around six months ago after doctors discovered a brain tumor. Austin’s grandfather, Kevin Smith, was the first person in line among the more than 400 people.

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IOWA CITY — An eastern Iowa man accused of torturing his roommate’s cat last year has been given probation.

Leo Nopoulos, 21, of West Liberty, was sentenced Monday to two years of probation under supervision on charges of animal torture and animal abuse. He also received 30 days in jail on a separate drunken driving charge from an arrest in May.

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COUNCIL BLUFFS — Authorities have arrested two people for an illegal fireworks manufacturing operation at their home in Council Bluffs.

According to police, 55-year-old Craig Woodward and 22-year-old Katelyn Reynolds were arrested Monday afternoon. They have been charged with manufacturing fireworks without a license.

Lt. Keith Jones said investigators found hundreds of illegally produced fireworks inside a garage after receiving a tip.

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MOSCOW — An estimated 100 people gathered Saturday at the Kaufmann Family Cemetery in eastern Iowa as part of a full weekend of activities for an annual family reunion. Jeff Kaufmann, a former state legislator and current chairman of the state’s Republican Party, was the chief organizer of the reunion, which began in 1916. His great-great-great grandparents, Gottlieb and Dorothea E. Kaufmann, arrived in America from Germany in 1847 with 13 family members.

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Clinton aims high in green energy plan The Associated Press DES MOINES — Calling climate change one of the “most urgent threats of our time,” Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out elements of a sweeping plan Monday that Clinton would see every U.S. home powered by renewable energy by 2027, even as she declined to take a position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline opposed by environmental activists.

The Democratic presidential candidate called for installing 500 million solar panels by 2020 as part of a plan she likened in its ambitions to President John F. Kennedy’s moonshot in the 1960s.

“I know these goals will test our capacities, but I know they are within our reach,” Clinton said after touring a regional bus station that was built using some recycled materials and uses solar panels and rainwater to save energy.

But Clinton again would not be pinned down on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the $8 billion project that would transport oil from Canada’s tar sands to refineries on the Gulf of

Mexico. Environmentalists say the project would contribute to global warming by distributing dirty oil. Clinton said she wanted a State Department review started when she was secretary to run its course.

“I put together a thorough, deliberative, evidence-based process to evaluate the environmental impact and other considerations on Keystone,” said Clinton. “I’m confident that the pipeline’s impact on global greenhouse gas emissions will be a major factor in that decision, as the president has said.”

Climate change has become a key issue in the Democratic presidential primary, where Clinton is the heavy favorite. Billionaire Tom Steyer has led an effort to promote the issue. The California-based Steyer raised money for Clinton in May. Environmental groups praised Clinton for setting the goals but said they wanted to see details and a conviction that she would follow through.

Bill McKibben, an environmental activist and the co-founder of 350.org, said Clinton was “half the way there” but needed to show she understood “the other half of the climate change equation” by standing against fossil fuel projects like offshore and Arctic drilling, coal

leasing in the Powder River basin in Montana and Wyoming — and the Keystone XL pipeline.

“Growth in renewables doesn’t mean enough if we’re simultaneously kicking the decarbonization can down the road with more pipelines and more extraction on public lands,” McKibben said.

Surveys released last week by Quinnipiac University in three potential presidential battleground states — Colorado, Iowa and Virginia — found that more than 6 in 10 voters in each state think climate change is caused by human activity, siding with the widespread scientific view that some Republican candidates challenge. Yet less than 45 percent in each state called climate change a moral issue, as it was defined by the pope in his recent encyclical.

Among Clinton’s 2016 opponents, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been vocal about the need for action to curb climate change and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley released a plan in Iowa several weeks ago that deals not just with consumer energy use, but also industrial and transportation, as he aims to make the U.S. entirely powered by renewable energy by 2050.

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Former editor reaches settlement The Associated Press A former Iowa newspaper editor who said he was fired for expressing his religious beliefs on a personal blog has reached a settlement over a discrimination complaint.

Liberty Institute, a nonprofit legal group, said Monday that its client, Bob Eschli-

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Eschliman was editor when he posted online that gay organizations are trying to reword the Bible “to make their sinful nature ‘right with

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Submitted Photos Cousins Elizabeth Collins, 8, and Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10 were abducted near Meyers Lake in Evansdale on July 13, 2012. Their bodies were found five months later, on Dec. 5, 2012, in a wooded area 24 miles to the north in rural Bremer County at Seven Bridges Wildlife Area.

‘We’d really like to have some answers’

The case of two missing cousins who were abducted in Evansdale in 2012 continues to frustrate investigators

By Lyle Muller IowaWatch.org VANSDALE — The theories have been plenty.

Most lead to nothing.

Yet, investigators keep listening because they hope that hidden in the often-irrelevant information is a nugget that, crazy as it may seem at first blush, will help them catch whoever killed Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins.

“I don’t want people to go, ‘Oh, they’ll think I’m crazy,’ and not call in,” Evansdale Police Chief Jeff Jensen said.

Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Collins, 8, were abducted near Meyers Lake in Evansdale on July 13, 2012.

The cousins’ bodies were found five months later, on Dec. 5, 2012, in a wooded area 24 miles to the north in rural Bremer County at Seven Bridges Wildlife Area.

“It frustrates me, it frustrates my department and anybody that’s working on it,” Jensen said of the three-year-old case with no resolution. “I mean, we’d really like to have some answers.”

Investigators are keeping close to the vest anything they learn that helps them in the case. Heather and Drew Collins, Elizabeth Collin’s parents, are fine with that.

“That guy’s going to be the only one to know how they murdered my daughter and niece,” Heather Collins said. “So we asked (investigators) not to put out how (the girls) were killed.”

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Miller, 5. The big break in that case came when the convicted killer, Casey Frederiksen, told fellow prisoners in jail while serving time for child pornography details about the death that had not been made public.

Coping with the loss is a dayby-day experience, Heather Collins said.

“My husband and I wake up and we just pray every day for answers and for God just to give us peace and calmness, and to guide us through the day,” she said. “And to help our children get through another day without their sister because they honestly, truly miss her every day.”

The Collinses have three other children. The family has kept a high public profile with hopes that doing so will help find the killer or killers.

They’ve learned lessons along the way, one of them while searching for the girls when they were missing in 2012.

“We paid a friend who has his pilot’s license to go up in the air to where a psychic said that they would be,” Heather Collins said. “They weren’t there. We’ve done that many times. And then all of a sudden we just came to the conclusion after maybe three months, we said, ‘no more psychics, we’re not listening to them.’”

Lyric Cook-Morrissey’s parents also have been in the news. Her father, Daniel Morrissey, is serving a 90-year prison term with a mandatory 30 years for multiple drug offenses, and mother Misty Cook-Morrissey is serving 10 years for selling methamphetamine in a separate case.

Investigators have not indicated

whether they believe the Morrisseys’ drug problems are a factor in the girls’ deaths.

They investigated Michael Klunder, who had a history of abducting Iowa girls and women, in the case but concluded last year that he was not involved. Klunder committed suicide in 2013 after abducting two teenagers and killing one of them, Kathlynn Shepard, 15, of Dayton.

Investigators’ efforts to unlock information led them to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Virginia, for advice in January.

They believe the killer or killers were familiar with the Meyers Lake and Seven Bridges Wildlife Area and with the children. Investigators also suspect whoever did this might be following news accounts of the case.

Since the cousins’ deaths, the city of Evansdale has turned a small island at Meyers Lake into Angels’ Park Memorial Island. It is a memorial not only to the girls but also to Evelyn Miller; Donnisha Hill, a 13-year-old Waterloo girl abducted in 2006 and found murdered in Illinois; and Lindsay Nichols, 22, murdered in March 2012 in Jesup by her boyfriend.

“This community took a hard hit back in 2012,” Tom Nichols, Lindsay Nichols’ father, said.

The memorial helps, but will not bring closure, Heather Collins said.

“We’ll have an answer to who did this to our niece and to our daughter. But how you have closure when someone did some horrific thing to your daughter, you know?,” she said.

“There’ll never be closure until it’s

Iowa’s Cold Case Unit shut down in 2011

By Jeff Reinitz DES MOINES — In its three years in operation, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation’s Cold Case Unit brought to close two unsolved homicide cases dating as far back as the 1970s.

The unit was shut down in 2011 after the federal grant that funded it ran out. But DCI officials said they continue to investigate homicides cases that have gone years, or even decades, without justice.

The unit started with a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs approved in 2008. The money funded two full-time agents and one criminalist with the DCI laboratory, and the unit started operation in 2009. The plan was to set up and maintain a database of unsolved homicides and identify cases that had the potential for being solved, said Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of field operations for the DCI. The unit focused on homicide cases where the evidence was still preserved and had the possibility of being tested for DNA. “Anything biological that would give us a biological profile,” Mortvedt said. He said such cases had the probability of quick resolution.

“They processed a number of cases and resubmitted evidence.”

Many of the cases originated from before DNA testing was used or widespread. When they found genetic material, the DNA profiles were loaded into CODIS, the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System database, to check against other profiles.

At least two closures have been accredited to the Cold Case Unit.

• In November 2012, authorities arrested Robert Eugene Pilcher, of Des Moines, for murder in the 1974 death of Mary Jayne Jones, of Ottumwa.

Jones, 17, had been found dead in a farmhouse in rural Wapello County on April 9, 1974. She had been shot in the head and chest and sexually assaulted.

The Cold Care Unit resubmitted evidence in the case to the DCI’s lab.

Using technology not available in 1974, criminalists found DNA that matched Pilcher’s profile. Authorities said Pilcher’s cousin owned the farmhouse property and had been out of town on the day of the crime.

After a January 2014 trial ended with a hung jury, Pilcher pleaded to a reduced charge of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Now 69, Pilcher is

housed at the Iowa Department of Correction’s Medical and Classification Center near Oakdale.

• In January 2014, authorities revealed that DNA examined from a 1984 triple slaying spanning Davis and Wapello counties matched a man convicted in another homicide.

The body of 20-year-old Justin Hook Jr. was found near his torched mobile home in rural Drakesville on April 13, 1984. His mother, Sara Link, 41, was found dead in a farm field off of a gravel road in Eldon three days later, and on April 18, 1984, the body of Hook’s girlfriend, Tina Marie Lade, 19, was discovered in a ravine half a mile from Link’s remains.

All three had been beaten to death with a blunt object, investigators said.

The Cold Case Unit reviewed the slayings with Davis and Wapello sheriff ’s deputies in August 2011, and some of the evidence was resubmitted to the DCI lab for further testing. In March 2012, the lab determined that genetic material on the inside of the Lade’s jeans matched the DNA profile of Andrew Wessel Six, who had been a suspect back in 1984. Investigators also determined that Six and Hook had been at odds over a vehicle.

Gone Cold: Exploring Iowa’s Unsolved Murders is a yearlong collaborative effort by Iowa news organizations to revisit some of the most brutal and mystifying homicides in Iowa’s history.

In the following weeks, we’ll share information about many of the state’s 438 unsolved homicides.

It is our hope that by sharing these stories with a broad audience, justice will come for some of these victims.

Victims include Brown University graduate Adam Lack, who was murdered on the night of July 13, 2008 in Nora Springs — his family’s second casualty in their fight for clean water. And realtor Dorothy Miller, who on Aug. 18, 1969, was raped and stabbed while showing an unoccupied house in Burlington.

For the next year, Iowa news organizations will explore cold cases — those that law enforcement no longer has any clues on which to follow up. A case can go cold weeks, months or even years after the death.

Each case can be reopened if new evidence is introduced. There is no statute of limitations on murder.

Getting away with murder Midwest killers identified only about half the time

By Jason Clayworth The killers behind roughly one third of American murders go unidentified by law enforcement.

In the Midwest, it’s even less likely a killer will be caught: Just over half — 52 percent — are identified, according to FBI data referred to as “clearance rates.”

Criminologists and forensic death consultants such as Jim Adcock estimate more than 200,000 homicides have gone unsolved in the United States since 1980.

And the longer a case goes unsolved — the colder it becomes — the harder it is to crack.

Advances in forensics and social media have helped identify some killers, but the bitter truth for victims’ families is that the national clearance rate has remained relatively static for more than 20 years.

Why? “It’s a tough question to answer,” Adcock said, noting the number of murders in the U.S. has dropped from around 25,000 in 1993 to 13,000 today. “We have half as many homicides. Why aren’t we solving more?”

Adcock, a longtime law enforcement instructor and author of several cold case books, says the answer is tied to a complex web of issues. Among the hurdles to finding justice, he said: too little money for law enforcement investigations, witnesses’ fear of the killers and public apathy.

There’s also something called the “white woman syndrome,” a term used by social scientists to explain the short-lived news coverage and lack of public interest when murder victims are members of minority groups.

“If you are blonde and blue-eyed, you’re most likely to get more attention from the news media,” Adcock said.

“And if you’re a prostitute or homeless, you’re also less likely to get at-

tention from the news media and even potentially from the police.

These are what I call devalued victims.”

From 2009 to 2011, Iowa had a special cold case unit that was part of the Iowa Department of Public Safety.

But its two agents and a criminologist were reassigned after a federal grant, which pumped $500,000 into the program, ended.

The state continues to follow up on leads in the roughly 160 cold cases that are part of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation’s files.

But with no full-time staffing dedicated to it, far less time is spent seeking new leads, said Mike Motsinger, the special agent with the public safety department who was in charge of the cold case unit.

Among the unit’s first tasks in 2009 was to evaluate and identify cases — some going back to the early 1960s — with evidence that could be tested for DNA. Of 40 cases tested, 34 DNA profiles were identified.

Most did not result in a hit in a national DNA database of felons, but are nonetheless critically important if law enforcement agents can match the samples to a suspect, Motsinger said.

The results of some of the cold case work were made public in 2012 with the arrest and subsequent conviction of Robert “Gene” Pilcher.

He pleaded guilty last year to murder in the 1974 death of 17-yearold Mary Jayne Jones.

Jones had been sexually assaulted and shot twice at a Wapello County farmhouse.

Pilcher was questioned in Jones’ murder in 1974 but didn’t face charges until DNA evidence linked him to the killing.

“These cases are important. They affect a family forever,” Motsinger said. “You and I hear about these cases for a day, maybe a week. But, until there is closure, that family is stuck in that moment in time.”

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By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News A room full of current Prairie City-Monroe girls basketball players took part in deciding who their next coach would be.

And honesty was the best policy, according to Jeff Lindsay.

“I was straight forward with them. I wanted them to know what kind of person and what kind of coach I was,” said Lindsay. “I didn’t want to tell them just what they wanted to hear.”

Whatever Lindsay told the players and PCM Athletic Director Greg Bonnett, it was enough to land him the girls basketball job as Lindsay was officially named Mustang coach when the school board approved the hire at its monthly meeting last Monday.

Lindsay previously served as the Twin Cedars boys basketball coach for seven years and spent several years as Colfax-Mingo’s girls basketball coach.

With his oldest son Trey now graduated and his two other children not yet ready for high school athletics, Coach Lindsay thought it was the perfect time to work his way back into a head basketball coaching position.

“I always loved coaching basketball,” Lindsay said. “You have to be quick on your feet and make adjustments as the game goes on. This job appealed to me because it’s close to where I work and it allows me to do what I love to do and still be a family man.”

Lindsay will continue to teach physical education at Colfax-Mingo. He guided the Tigerhawk girls hoops team to a 14-6 record during the 2007-08 season before leaving the program two seasons later.

Lindsay also coached the Colfax-Mingo baseball team for several years and the girls golf team. He has been a volunteer assistant on the PCM boys basketball squad the past four seasons and served as an assistant baseball coach for the Mustangs since 2010.

“Coach Lindsay has been

Troy Hyde/Daily News Prairie City-Monroe High School hired its new girls basketball coach and it will be former volunteer boys assistant coach Jeff Lindsay, far right. The PCM Board of Education made the hire official at its monthly board meeting on July 20. Lindsay spent several seasons as Twin Cedars’ boys coach and also was the head girls coach at Colfax-Mingo before joining the boys staff at PCM.

coaching for a long time,” Bonnett said. “I just know he’ll be a good fit for this program.”

The program Lindsay inherits from former head coach Bret Grier includes three seniors who were lost to graduation. That trio of Rachel Freland, Courtney VanHouweling and Rachel Gulling averaged a combined 34 points per game last year, but Lindsay does get an experienced group to work with in his first year.

“I’ve been able to watch them play a lot, and it’s a very athletic bunch,” Lindsay said.

“There’s a good deal of experience coming back, and they all have lots of skills.”

Included in that list of returnees is junior-to-be Rachel Stafford. She was one of seven current players who got to sit in on interviews for the final two candidates. The other six included Katie VandeWall, Kayla Jennings, Kaylee Townsend, Karina Van Dyke, Jaiden Rogers and Abby Waddell.

Stafford is looking forward

NDSU favored over Illinois St in MVFC poll FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The two teams that gave the Football Championship Subdivision a thrilling finish last season were tabbed Monday by Missouri Valley Football Conference followers to once again decide the league title — and maybe more.

A poll of league coaches, media and sports information directors gives four-time defending FCS champ North Dakota State a slight edge over the Illinois State Redbirds, who took the Bison down to the final seconds of January’s title game before falling 29-27. The two teams had tied for the conference crown.

NDSU earned 32 of a possible 40 first-place votes for 389 points. Illinois State received the other eight first-place votes and 366 points.

Northern Iowa was picked to finish third in the league, followed

by Youngstown State, South Dakota State, Indiana State, Southern Illinois, Western Illinois, Missouri State and South Dakota.

Bison coach Chris

Klieman, who was an assistant coach during NDSU’s first three titles before taking over for Craig Bohl last season, said his team and Illinois State were separated by one play. The Bison rallied to win when quarterback Carson Wentz scored a touchdown with 37 seconds left. It still took an interception

by Esley Thornton in the final seconds to seal the victory.

“They’re a team that we think will be around at the end and have every opportunity to compete for a national championship,” Klieman said of the Redbirds.

The league also released its preseason all-conference team.

Northern Iowa led the way with six first-team selections, followed by five for South Dakota State, four each for Illinois State and Indiana State, three each for NDSU and Youngstown State, two for Western Illinois and one for Missouri State.

The Missouri Valley has six national titles in its 30 years as a conference.

to a fresh start under Lindsay’s guidance.

“I am trying to just go into the season with a completely open mind,” said Stafford, who averaged 2.4 points and two rebounds per game last year. “I am very excited to finally have a coach and get to work.

“I love that Coach Lindsay when asked what is the perfect defense or offense for him replied ‘whatever best fits the team.’ I also really enjoy that I can tell he has a passion for the game. He loves basketball and it shows. He will be a coach that will fight for his players.”

The Mustangs are coming off a 16-8 campaign and a second place finish in the Heart of Iowa Conference.

Included in those eight defeats were two losses to Class 3A state champion Nevada, state-ranked Saydel, Mediapolis, which ended the regular season ranked No. 1 and 3A state-ranked Pella.

Knowing that he is coming in at time that doesn’t give the

Mustangs an advantage, Lindsay hopes that the experience of the current core players will help get the squad catch up quicker.

“I think being an experienced team helps,” Lindsay said. “It was a young group, it might be tough. We are going to have some open gyms soon and I just want to get in there and let them know what I am looking for.”

Stafford said her biggest priority during the interview process was to find a coach who can coach a team to best fit the players on the roster.

“We also wanted someone who is fun, flexible and will push us to be better players but also better people,” Stafford said. “I like the fact that it’s another coach from our community, not completely fresh blood. We will just have to wait and see how it all plays out.”

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Reds’ potential firesale benefits Royals I love watching firesales from afar. But when the firesale is happening in your favorite baseball team’s city, it’s not so fun.

N o one can ever pre- By Troy Hyde dict the Newton Daily outcome News of fire- Sports Writer sales, but it appears the Cincinnati Reds’ trade of Johnny Cueto to the Kansas City Royals is a potential win-win for both teams.

Cueto gives the Royals that front-end starter they sorely needed, and the Reds get three strong pitching prospects for a superstar they likely would have been unable to sign at season’s end anyway.

Cueto may not be back in Kansas City next year. He will draw a big price tag. But if the Royals win a World Series, the trade will no doubt be worth it.

As a Reds fan, I will be pulling for the Royals to finish the deal this season. It was hard to see Cueto go, but I want him to have success and I am glad the Reds got a solid return.

The Reds aren’t done making deals. I would guess there are about four or five players who are untouchable in the trade market. Everyone else is fair game.

Mike Leake will likely be out the door next. Marlon Byrd and Brayan Pena also could be traded soon.

It’s been one of those years for the Reds. And it’s been that way ever since the franchise fired Dusty Baker. I am not sold on Bryan Price as a manager. There is too much talent in that clubhouse to finish in last place.

Hopefully, stockpiling these talented prospects in a potential firesale will lead to something in the right direction. Getting an all-star catcher back and healthy should help, too.

But as I watched the Reds-Cardinals game last night at the office, you can tell what franchise has it figured out.

The Cardinals are perhaps my least favorite team, but I also respect what they have done over the years.

No matter what happens — injuries, tragedies or trades — they always find themselves at the top of the division.

It’s a team that buys in every year and knows how to win.

The Reds were a winning team under Baker, but have been anything but with Price at the helm.

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Submitted photo From left: Eight-year-olds Peyton Sanders of Montezuma, Cali Sampson of Newton, Libby Hargis of Barnes City and Breckyn Schilling of New Sharon show off their third-place medals at the 11th annual Des Moines Area Community College Wild Wild West 3-on-3 basketball tournament. This year, the DMACC West Campus hosted more than 60 teams. Proceeds from the tournament go to the DMACC Foundation, an organization that funds student scholarships.

Kyle Busch sweeps NASCAR races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — There was no celebratory burnout — Kyle Busch has done plenty of those the last few weeks — just another big, fat kiss at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Busch’s triumphant return following a horrible crash the day before the season-opening Daytona 500 continued Sunday with one of the biggest wins of his career. He grabbed an elusive victory at Indy, where Busch won the Brickyard 400 for a weekend sweep at the historic track.

Busch missed the first 11 races of the season with a broken right leg and broken left foot. He returned in late May and has won three consecutive Sprint Cup Series races and four of the last five.

His latest win was celebrated with the traditional kissing of the Yard of Bricks, where he was accompanied by his wife and son, who was born in May. “Being away for 11 weeks, it was tough. It was pretty hard times,” Busch said. “It was tough to fight through all those things that I had to go through, Samantha had to go through while she was pregnant. She was helping me. All the steps that we went through to get back into the race car were quite challenging.

“But once we’ve been back, I felt like I just continued right on my stride. This has been a phenomenal return. I won’t say phenomenal year because it was a dismal year to start, but I guess I’ll take that 11week vacation any year if it’s going to look like this.”

Now he has a prestigious Brickyard victory to give him one of NASCAR’s elusive crown jewels. His Indianapolis victory ranks alongside his Southern 500 win at Darlington Raceway as the biggest of

his career.

“Maybe I found my happy place,” Busch said in victory lane when asked if he has found a new perspective since he was injured in a crash the day before the season-opening Daytona. 500.

Busch, who also won the second-tier Xfinity Series race Saturday at Indianapolis, moved 23 points away from cracking the top 30 in the standings. NASCAR granted him a waiver that will make him eligible for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship should he be ranked inside the top 30 in points.

“We’re a championship contending team, we just need to be championship eligible,” Busch said.

The win for Joe Gibbs Racing was the first Sprint Cup Series victory at Indianapolis for Toyota, which has now won at all 23 active tracks.

Toyota has won the last six national series races dating back to Busch’s win at Kentucky, and JGR has won four consecutive poles and four consecutive races.

Chevrolet had entered the race on a 12-year winning streak and had won 16 of the 21 Brickyards. The manufacturer also won the Indianapolis 500 in May with Roger Penske driver Juan Pablo Montoya.

But Penske was denied his first Brickyard 400 win when Joey Logano finished second to Busch on Sunday in a Ford.

“Geez, I guess Kyle’s back,” Daytona 500 winner Logano said. “It’s just so frustrating running second at the Brickyard. Second hurts.”

Busch knows that all too well. He finished second in two of the previous three Brickyards.

Kevin Harvick was third in a Chevrolet, followed by Mar-

tin Truex Jr., Busch teammate Denny Hamlin and Clint Bowyer. Matt Kenseth, another Gibbs driver, was seventh, followed by Kurt Busch and Kyle Larson.

Penske driver Brad Keselowski rounded out the top 10.

Jeff Gordon’s final Brickyard 400 was a huge bust as an early spin caused considerable damage that eventually sent him to the garage for repairs.

Gordon, who has a record five victories at Indianapolis, finished 42nd. He’s retiring at the end of the year.

“It was disappointing,” Gordon said. “I have had an amazing career here in Indy.

The fans have been spectacular. I am not going to let a couple races overthrow the races that have gone well.”

Two-time Brickyard winner Tony Stewart was strong early but strategy backfired on the Indiana native and he finished 28th.

NASCAR used a track-specific rules package Sunday that was designed to improve the racing on a track that has proven to be incredibly hard to pass at since the heavy stock cars began racing on the Brickyard.

But the low-drag package didn’t appear to be much of an improvement as drivers complained all weekend that the turbulence was too strong around their car when they’d close in on another. In the end, there were 16 lead changes among six drivers and Harvick, who called Sunday’s race “a science project,” led a race-high 75 laps.

“I think everybody put in a lot of effort to really try to make everything a lot better, spent a lot of money, but I don’t know that we accomplished everything that we were looking to accomplish,” Harvick said.

MARSHALLTOWN SPEEDWAY Marshalltown Speedway Shawn’s Custom Hay Grinding Night July 24, 2015 results Coors Light IMCA Modifieds Feature - 1. 26 Brian Irvine (Oelwein);2. 83G Josh Gilman (Earlham); 3. 19 Jimmy Gustin (Marshalltown); 4. 10K Ronn Lauritzen (Jesup); 5.

18J Jake Strayer (Newton); 6. 26J Joel Rust (Grundy Center); 7. 43S Scott Simatovich (State Center); 8. 12X Trent Jackson (Marshalltown); 9.

7SR Shawn Ritter (Keystone); 10. 40RC Rod Clement (Rhodes); 11. 17R Derek Reimer (St. Anthony); 12. CH19 Colby Heishman (Brooklyn); 13.

69X Jon Snyder (Ames) Miller Lite IMCA Stock Cars Feature - 1. 93 Michael Jaennette (Newton); 2. 94 Steve Meyer (Grundy Center); 3. 22R Todd Reitzler (Grinnell); 4. 89B Tim Fobian (Dike); 5. 3W Jeff Wollam (Marshalltown); 6. 45 Matt Deaton (Newton); 7. 16 Nick Thelen (Kellogg); 8. 25 Trent Murphy (Scranton); 9. 2 Dave Atcher (Marshalltown); 10. 35 Donavon Smith (Lake City); 11. 50X Kevin Balmer (Garwin); 12. 21K JD Kennedy (Ackley); 13. 5A Tyler Pickett (Boxholm); DNS/14. 19J Jay Schmidt (Tama) Karl Chevrolet IMCA Northern SportMods Feature - 1. 22H Curt Hilmer (Dysart); 2. 80J Jared Van Deest (Holland);

3. 8L Lyle Sathoff (Adel); 4. 69JR Johnathan Logue (Boone); 5. 98 Bill Hildreth (Marshalltown); 6. 57R Ryan King (Montour); 7. 67X Brandon Williams (Des Moines); 8. 77 Frank Packer (Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia); 9. 9 Scott Williams (Atkins); 10. 73RH Rich Harris (Estherville); 11. 5JR Jami Ritter (Keystone); 12. 16 Austin Schuring (Newton); 13.

7V Jesse VanDerWal (McCallsburg); 14. 95J Jason Hall (Grinnell); 15.

32N Neil Follett (Conrad); 16. 777 Jayme Duinink (Pella); 17. 198 Sam Wieben (Dysart); 18. T17 Tom Rawlins (Kellogg) Toby K’s Hideaway IMCA Hobby Stocks Feature - 1. 4X Gary Pfantz (State Center); 2. T56 Tim Barber (Story City); 3. 14T Mitchell Thomas (Marshalltown); 4. 42Z Brandon Pitts (Ames); 5. 85M Dillon Million (Marshalltown); 6. 14B Keith Burg (Adel); 7. 17 Andy Peck (Newton); 7. 10D Brian Derry (Boone); 8. 3X Craig Lovig (Marshalltown); 9. 5 Dustin Lynch (Ames); 10. 83 Eugene Nicklas (Grinnell); 11. 7B Eric Stanton (Carlisle) Mod Lites Feature - 1. 89 Travis Stensland (Nevada); 2. 99 Josh May (DeSoto); 3. 6 Mike Morrill (Altoona); 4. 82 Charlie Brown (Nevada); 5. 65 Randy Bryan (Ames); 6. 3G Joe Glick (Des Moines); 7. 88 Justin Rankin (Madrid); 8.

11R Jason Whitehead (Nevada); 9. DC5 Tim Gannon (Des Moines); 10. 7 Erin Turner (Newton); 11. 4M David Simpson (Ankeny)

Chris Froome wins second Tour de France PARIS (AP) — All for one, one for all, and all bathed in yellow.

Arms over each other’s shoulders, linked together in a long line of happiness, Tour de France winner Chris Froome and his teammates pedaled slowly over the finish line, soaking up the applause Sunday on the Champs-Elysees.

Three weeks of furious racing, of beating back both a tenacious Colombian, Nairo Quintana, and doping suspicions that are Lance Armstrong’s poisonous legacy to cycling, were over.

Time for the winner’s speech.

“The Maillot Jaune is special, very special,” Froome said, using the yellow jersey’s French name.

“I understand its history, good and bad,” he said. “I will always respect it.”

Firesale Continued from Page 1B I can’t blame it all on Price.

But Baker had most of these same core players and got the Reds into the playoffs.

I’d take a playoff appearance at this point.

Walt Jocketty hasn’t blown me away with his moves. It’s a combination of several things.

And with Pittsburgh becoming a powerhouse and the Cubs making the climb out of the cellar, who knows when this crop of Reds will get back to the postseason.

Maybe a firesale is the right move. Start fresh.

But it seems like this

The Tour is still French.

But British riders have won three of the last four: Bradley Wiggins in 2012 and now two for Froome, following his first win in 2013. That puts Britain equal with the United States.

Under suitably British weather, on rain-slickened roads, Froome took it easy on the last Stage 21, his work done having grimly resisted Quintana’s late assault on his hardwon Tour lead the previous day on the final Alpine ascent.

The tired 160 riders — of 198 who started — didn’t bother racing for much of the largely flat 110-kilometer (68mile) ramble from Sevres, in the French capital’s southwest.

To minimize risk of crashes, Tour organizers stopped the clock early, on the first of 10 laps up and down the Champs-Elysees’ cobblestones. season has been filled with innings where the Reds get two or three guys on base with less than two outs and walk away with nothing.

Monday, the Reds had the bases loaded with no outs against the hated Cardinals and scored only one run.

The Cardinals took advantage of their bases-loaded situation on their very next at-bat with what turned out to be the deciding grand slam by Kolton Wong.

It’s been another tough year for us Reds fans.

Time to start thinking about the pigskin.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Major League Baseball At A Glance All Times CDT

By The Associated Press American League East Division

W L Pct GB New York 56 42 .571 — Toronto 50 50 .500 7 Baltimore 49 49 .500 7 Tampa Bay 50 51 .495 7½ Boston 44 56 .440 13 Central Division

W L Pct GB Kansas City 60 38 .612 — Minnesota 52 46 .531 8 Detroit 48 51 .485 12½ Chicago 47 50 .485 12½ Cleveland 45 53 .459 15 West Division

W L Pct GB Los Angeles 55 43 .561 — Houston 55 45 .550 1 Texas 47 51 .480 8 Seattle 46 54 .460 10 Oakland 44 56 .440 12 Monday’s Games Baltimore 2, Atlanta 1, 11 innings Chicago White Sox 10, Boston 8 Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 2 Kansas City 9, Cleveland 4 N.Y. Yankees 6, Texas 2 Arizona 4, Seattle 3, 10 innings Tuesday’s Games Atlanta (Teheran 6-5) at Baltimore (U.Jimenez 7-6), 6:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Morgan 1-2) at Toronto (Doubront 1-0), 6:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 7-5) at Boston (Miley 8-8), 6:10 p.m.

Detroit (Price 9-3) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 5-6), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City (C.Young 8-6) at Cleveland (Bauer 8-7), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Capuano 0-4) at Texas (M.Perez 0-1), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 8-7) at Houston (McHugh 11-5), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 6-4) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-7), 7:10 p.m.

Arizona (Godley 1-0) at Seattle (Iwakuma 2-1), 9:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 10-4) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 5-5), 9:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Detroit (Verlander 0-3) at Tampa Bay (Archer 9-7), 11:10 a.m.

Kansas City (Guthrie 7-6) at Cleveland (Kluber 5-11), 11:10 a.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 6-6) at Minnesota (E.Santana 2-0), 12:10 p.m.

Arizona (Corbin 1-3) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 12-5), 2:40 p.m.

Atlanta (Banuelos 1-2) at Baltimore (Tillman 7-7), 6:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (J.Williams 3-7) at Toronto (Dickey 4-10), 6:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-9) at Boston (Porcello 5-10), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 7-3) at Texas (Lewis 10-4), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 10-7) at Houston (McCullers 4-3), 7:10 p.m.

National League East Division

W L Pct GB Washington 52 45 .536 — New York 51 48 .515 2 Atlanta 46 53 .465 7 Miami 41 58 .414 12 Philadelphia 37 63 .370 16½ Central Division

W L Pct GB St. Louis 64 35 .646 — Pittsburgh 57 41 .582 6½ Chicago 52 46 .531 11½ Cincinnati 43 54 .443 20 Milwaukee 43 57 .430 21½ West Division

W L Pct GB Los Angeles 56 44 .560 — San Francisco 55 44 .556 ½ Arizona 47 51 .480 8 San Diego 47 52 .475 8½ Colorado 42 55 .433 12½ Monday’s Games Baltimore 2, Atlanta 1, 11 innings Chicago Cubs 9, Colorado 8 St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 1 Arizona 4, Seattle 3, 10 innings San Francisco 4, Milwaukee 2 Tuesday’s Games Atlanta (Teheran 6-5) at Baltimore (U.Jimenez 7-6), 6:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Morgan 1-2) at Toronto (Doubront 1-0), 6:07 p.m.

San Diego (Shields 8-3) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 4-5), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 8-5) at Miami (Fernandez 3-0), 6:10 p.m.

Colorado (Flande 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Beeler 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 6-4) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-7), 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 8-5) at St. Louis (Jai. Garcia 3-3), 7:15 p.m.

Arizona (Godley 1-0) at Seattle (Iwakuma 2-1), 9:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 10-4) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 5-5), 9:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 1-5) at San Francisco (M.Cain 2-1), 9:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh (Liriano 6-6) at Minnesota (E.Santana 2-0), 12:10 p.m.

Colorado (E.Butler 3-6) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 5-8), 1:20 p.m.

Arizona (Corbin 1-3) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 12-5), 2:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Fiers 5-8) at San Francisco (Peavy 2-4), 2:45 p.m.

Atlanta (Banuelos 1-2) at Baltimore (Tillman 7-7), 6:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (J.Williams 3-7) at Toronto (Dickey 4-10), 6:07 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 6-8) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 9-9), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Fister 3-6) at Miami (Koehler 8-6), 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (DeSclafani 5-7) at St. Louis (Lackey 9-5), 7:15 p.m.

Oakland (Pomeranz 4-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 8-6), 9:10 p.m.

Oakland (Pomeranz 4-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 8-6), 9:10 p.m.

EMPLOYEE FYTD EARNINGS REPORT JULY 1, 2014 - JUNE 30, 2015 AGAN, DIANA................4,890.00 ALLEN, TARA..............19,451.71 ALLSPACH, GARY......11,497.37 ALLSPACH, HARRIETT.4,441.86 ALTHOF, CRAIG............5,060.00 ALTHOF, JACKIE.........10,065.61 ANDERSON, BRENDA. .7,593.43 ANDERSON, JULIE.....18,300.04 ANDERSON, THOMAS.....926.75 ANSLEY, CAROLYN......9,405.00 ANTHONY, ELOISE.......8,800.00 ANTLE, AMY................60,631.04 ANTLE, TINA.....................226.42 ARENDS, DONALD.....72,204.86 ARTIS, ALESHA...........11,935.82 ASTELLE, MEGAN......38,838.75 AVIS, KARA.................42,850.50 BABCOCK, DIANE.......76,414.11 BAKER, DEAN...............5,021.08 BAKER, RITA.................4,455.00 BAMBROOK, BRENT. .39,187.00 BANFIELD, SHANNON..1,760.00 BANWELL, MICHELLE................ .....................................62,770.00 BANWELL, SETH.........62,635.00 BARR, JODY................63,025.00 BARR, NICHOLE.........50,332.56 BARTELLO, JESSICA..27,869.00 BARTELLO, JILL..........12,880.67 BARTELLO, THOMAS .66,737.00 BARTELS, MARY.........72,336.75 BARTON, BONNIE.......17,581.55 BATES, CARLA............24,652.51 BATES, WANDA.................12.50 BAUER, SCOTT...........95,565.00 BAUMGART, SANDRA................ .....................................52,683.66 BAUMGARTNER, KRISTA........................63,446.75 BAYLES, ANYA.............9,108.70 BEAL, KEITH................16,688.41 BECK, JOHN..................4,707.83 BEERENDS, JAMES....65,729.00 BENNETT, MELISSA...59,422.50 BESTELL-EIDE, MEGHANN.....................4,218.96 BIEGHLER, CHRISTOPHER...........73,731.26 BILLINGS, PAUL............1,213.78 BIRECH, ELLEN..........41,736.86 BLATCHFORD, GREGORY...................26,964.65 BLATCHFORD, LESA..29,759.42 BLOM, BRANDON.........2,271.50 BLOOM, CLARISSA.....28,844.86 BOEYINK, LOIS.............9,900.00 BRATLAND, MIRANDA................ .....................................56,965.00 BRAU, MARTHA..........71,668.00 BRICKER, LORRAINE.45,396.21 BRIGGS, CURTIS........71,668.00 BRISEL, DUSTIN.........12,569.50 BROWN, HENRY..............207.50 BRUHN, MARY..............2,750.00 BUCKLEY, BETTY.......29,274.12 BUCKLIN, HEATHER...11,976.17 BURGER, WADE.........58,689.86 BURNETT, BARBARA .76,931.25 BURNETT, MARK........68,910.00 BURNS, ALBERTA........1,320.00 BURTON, MALANEY...12,702.72 BUTLER, ROSE...........14,603.34 BYLO, KRISTEL...........40,807.75 CALLAGHAN, ANDREA.2,255.00 CALLAGHAN, ROBERT............... ...................................164,376.00 CALVIN, PHILIP...........48,928.00 CARTER, JOSIE..........27,927.83 CASS, ROBERT...........14,257.56 CASTINGS, MIKE........75,745.50 CAVES, LORA.............53,441.00 CAZETT, ANDREW.....66,322.25 CAZETT, KACY..............1,131.17 CAZETT, KARLA..........68,631.00 CHHOUY, EMILY...........6,777.22 CIBULA, DANIEL...........3,025.00 CIBULA, JANE.............67,812.61 CLAPPER, JILL..............8,745.00 CLARK, JANET............25,965.37 CLARK, KATHY...........17,848.08 CLARK, SHANNON.....38,311.86 CLAYTON, HOLLY.......46,055.75 CLEVELAND, BRIAN...65,097.00 CLUTE, BILLIE.............71,949.25 CLUTE, JON..................6,207.01 CLUTE, STEPHANIE.. .47,625.00 COEN, LINDA................7,480.00 COLE, JESSICA...........56,265.36 COLLINS, LYNDA........13,627.65 COLLINS, ROGER.........8,101.25 COMER, RYAN............48,319.00 COMER, THERESA..........569.25 CONES, SARA.............14,121.82 CONWAY, BRIAN........54,274.74 CONWAY, DENNIS........4,620.00 CORY, MARLA.............74,741.50 COX, LISA....................12,127.58 CRANDELL, CHRISTINE............. .....................................11,791.32 CRANDELL, JACK.........8,148.48 CREECH, JULIE..........12,160.92 CROSON, CRISTY.......59,834.84 CUE, JEREMY.............42,128.00 CULTICE, PAULA........61,740.50 CUPPLES, COURTNEY.............. .......................................7,801.95 CUPPLES, TONI..........18,189.87 CURRY, SARAH..........51,285.00 CUTTS, DOUG..................901.46 DAEHLER, KAITLYN. . .41,336.11 DAMMEIER, DIANE.....18,918.18 DAMMEIER, MURRY...16,035.54 DANIELS, KERRI...........1,961.67 DAVIS, ERIK................50,531.99 DAWSON, CHRISTINE................ .....................................40,580.36 DEARBORN, STEVEN.40,185.51 DEE, DAWN.................10,788.07 DEGOEY, CARL..........17,547.32 DENHARTOG, RUTH...82,451.25 DEPPE, FARRAH........52,517.66 DETERMAN, BREANNE.............. .....................................40,897.61 DICKINSON, CHASE...54,824.50 DOEDEN, CAITLIN........3,575.00 DOLAND, CHRISTY.....16,980.33 DOLAND, KAREN........16,228.64 DOLAND, LYNAE................43.50 DOLAND, MICHELLE. .21,108.83 DOUGAN, JEANANN.....1,749.00 DOUGAN, JULIE..........12,146.86 DOWNS, KERIN................107.35 DOYLE, LAURA................885.50 DUNCAN, SCOTT........31,297.24 DUNHAM, TATE............8,305.00 DUNSBERGEN, CHRISTINE..................28,570.13 DYKSTRA, LISA...........13,448.02 ECKERT, BRITTANY...10,505.00 EDGAR, WILLIAM........43,445.00 EDWARDS, DON...........6,490.00 EHRESMAN, RONALD. .5,830.00 EILANDER, ALYSSA........765.42 EILANDER, BILLIE.......17,549.13 ELBERT, JENNIFER....61,132.61 ELY, TERESA..............10,919.03 ENGLE, KARYL...........15,083.98 ENYART, SCOTT.........70,156.11 ERGENBRIGHT, ARTHUR......................14,057.81 ERGENBRIGHT, EDWIN............. .....................................69,824.00 ESPERANZA, PEGGY.10,346.70 ETTER, NANCEE.........16,094.32 FARLAND, JAMES.......13,172.62 FARVER, CAROL........94,585.00 FITZGERALD, DONALD.............. .....................................74,092.00 FITZGERALD, PATRICIA............ .......................................7,865.00 FITZGERALD, RANDI....3,080.00 FITZGERALD, SHELLY............... .....................................69,009.00 FLORKE, KIMBERLY...71,522.86 FOREMAN, JACQUELINE...............13,817.87 FORSYTH, CHRISTINE............... .....................................77,937.11 FORSYTHE, MORGAN................ .....................................38,585.00 FRANCISCO, JULIE....69,765.20 FREESE, ANDREA......12,035.72 FREESE, JAYNE.........56,605.11 FREHSE, MEGAN........54,993.33 FULLER, DIANE...........12,768.35 FUNKE, PEGGY..........12,219.80 GALE, LAURA................4,605.98 GALLAGHER, RILEY...37,221.16 GAMBLE, JOYCE..........2,555.00 GARRETT, CARRIE.....52,965.03 GARVIS, SCOTT..........94,503.00 GEARHART, JILL.........35,468.93 GEER, STACI...............48,331.61 GIFFORD, APRIL.........16,552.33 GILBERT, JAMES......109,283.96 GILCHRIST, MELISSA.12,454.29 GILDHARRY, MELANIE............... .....................................35,545.00 GILL, REGINA..............47,744.09 GILMORE, LORI..........60,625.16 GODFREDSEN, THOMAS......................72,516.76 GONZALES, MICHELLE.............. .......................................6,465.44 GORZNEY-COMER, JOLENE.......................89,923.00 GRABE, ERIC..............49,237.95 GRAN, MARY...............63,121.25 GRANT, DENISE.........13,202.42 GRIER, ALISON...........73,951.00 GRIFE, ESTHER..........14,165.82 GRIMM, NORMAN.......60,751.00 GUARINO, KRISTEN...40,542.36 GULLING, DEBORAH. .14,644.06 GULLING, KAREN.......31,864.09 GUMEROV, JENNIFER .1,831.50 GUNSAULUS, MICHAELA...................26,237.34 HACKWORTH, BARBARA....................54,795.50 HALE, ADAM................43,073.11 HALL, CAROLE............72,987.36 HAMAND, JENNIFER. .12,650.00

FULLER, DIANE...........12,768.35 FUNKE, PEGGY..........12,219.80 GALE, LAURA................4,605.98 GALLAGHER, RILEY...37,221.16 GAMBLE, JOYCE..........2,555.00 GARRETT, CARRIE.....52,965.03 GARVIS, SCOTT..........94,503.00 GEARHART, JILL.........35,468.93 GEER, STACI...............48,331.61 GIFFORD, APRIL.........16,552.33 GILBERT, JAMES......109,283.96 GILCHRIST, MELISSA.12,454.29 GILDHARRY, MELANIE............... .....................................35,545.00 GILL, REGINA..............47,744.09 GILMORE, LORI..........60,625.16 GODFREDSEN, THOMAS......................72,516.76 GONZALES, MICHELLE.............. .......................................6,465.44 GORZNEY-COMER, JOLENE.......................89,923.00 GRABE, ERIC..............49,237.95 GRAN, MARY...............63,121.25 GRANT, DENISE.........13,202.42 GRIER, ALISON...........73,951.00 GRIFE, ESTHER..........14,165.82 GRIMM, NORMAN.......60,751.00 GUARINO, KRISTEN...40,542.36 GULLING, DEBORAH. .14,644.06 GULLING, KAREN.......31,864.09 GUMEROV, JENNIFER .1,831.50 GUNSAULUS, MICHAELA...................26,237.34 HACKWORTH, BARBARA....................54,795.50 HALE, ADAM................43,073.11 HALL, CAROLE............72,987.36 HAMAND, JENNIFER. .12,650.00 HANKINS, MEGAN......40,024.86 HANSON, JULIA..........18,553.60 HARDENBROOK, BETH.............. .....................................12,170.85 HARRIS, JENNIFER....54,164.86 HARRISON, PAMELA..13,562.57 HARTGERS, BARBARA.............. .......................................6,988.95 HARTGERS, KELLIE.. .26,851.09 HARTGERS, STEPHANIE.................14,124.48 HARTSCHEN, ROSEMARY...................7,315.00 HARTZ, JANET............17,694.65 HARTZ, STEVEN.........15,153.60 HASHMAN, ANGELLA.12,001.32 HAUG, CHRISTOPHER............... .....................................68,752.00 HAYES, REBECCA......24,025.66 HEATH, COOPER........44,600.11 HECK, JOHN................14,154.99 HECK, NICK.................15,284.80 HEISDORFFER, MCKENNA........ ............................................63.44 HEISDORFFER, MICHELE.....................25,923.20 HEMANN, TIMOTHY....75,068.86 HENDRICKSON, STEFANIE....................43,016.60 HENRY, HELEN.............4,847.55 HERIFORD, TAMMY....68,801.75 HILL, THOMAS.................440.00 HINSHAW, ROGER.....12,202.72 HIVELY, NICOLE.........50,516.86 HOBBS, DONNY..........46,290.66 HODNETT, BRENDA...68,645.00 HOFFMAN, BRIGITTE .14,558.62 HOFFMAN, MARIE........2,980.00 HOGELAND, ANDREA................ .....................................68,637.00 HOLLENBECK, CHAD.14,394.01 HOLLEY, HEIDI............72,747.25 HOLMES, ANITA............2,665.44 HOLMES, LOIS............73,188.11 HOOK, DAVID..............75,380.50 HOOK, JILL..................36,351.51 HOPMAN, KATHRYN. .12,074.64 HORN, JAMES.............73,071.84 HORN, NEISHA.............5,005.00 HOSKINS, FRANK............770.00 HOSKINS, KIMBERLY.42,641.97 HOSKINS, NICHOLAS...5,483.00 HOWE, GEORGE.........12,927.06 HUBBARD, CASSIDY. .12,777.88 HUBBARD-HEIDEMANN, INABELLE....................72,311.50 HUFFAKER, TESHA.........179.36 HUGGINS, MARLENE .72,345.25 HUGHES, SHERRY.....12,794.72 HUMKE, RYAN............43,093.15 HUMMEL, MAGGIE.....12,115.70 HUMMEL-GULLING, MIGUAEL.....................13,355.23 HUNT, ESTHER.............1,014.75 HUNTER, LINDA..........10,329.42 HURT, DARREN..........70,491.00 HURT, KAREN.............44,117.00 HURT, TANNER.............4,070.00 HUTCHINSON, JON.........108.68 ILLINGWORTH, KAREN.............. .......................................8,852.21 ISAAC, GAYLE...........113,923.00 ISRAEL, SARAH..........40,142.86 JACK, NATALIE...........41,018.00 JACKSON, VICKIE.........8,965.00 JACOBS, BRETT...........4,541.50 JAMES, TRISHA............1,603.25 JENSEN, JENNIFER....12,065.20 JOHNSON, ANGELA.. .12,933.37 JOHNSON, JANE..............715.00 JOHNSON, JESSICA...55,369.35 JOHNSON, PAM..........12,065.77 JOHNSON, TERESA. . .50,627.00 JOHNSTON, DEBORA.54,901.00 JOHNSTON, JORDAN...1,100.00 JOLIVETTE, AMY........45,547.41 JONES, MELISSA..........3,584.32 JONES, NORMAN.......33,735.32 JORDAN, ERIC..............2,132.00 JUNKER, JEFFREY.....50,474.86 KALKHOFF, DAVID.....96,211.00 KALKHOFF, LORRAINE.............. .....................................73,446.06 KAMPMAN, LISA.........11,291.06 KAYS, BRIAN...............10,070.92 KEETON, LANITA........67,697.50 KEITH, JANE................11,991.16 KELLER, JOHN..............2,090.00 KELSEY, NOLAN.........19,576.26 KERBER, ROBERTA.. .63,688.41 KESSLER, JAMES.........6,765.00 KIBBLE, LARRY....................1.84 KIES, DESIA................50,465.86 KING, KAREN..............18,693.34 KLING, VICKI.................6,863.01 KLINGENSMITH, CORY.............. .....................................35,182.53 KLINGENSMITH, DENNIS........................48,899.88 KLOSTERBOER, PAULA............. .....................................73,972.00 KLYN, ALEXANDER......1,210.00 KLYN, SHARI.................6,575.25 KNOTT, VERNEIL..........2,339.79 KONO, TINA.................12,071.00 KOON, CAROL............39,734.37 KOPET, KIMBERLY.....12,134.40 KRAMER, LAURIE.......33,770.00 KREMER, MICHAEL....43,007.11 KREMER, MOLLY........47,181.61 KUKER, ANDREW.......61,671.50 KUKER, BROOKE........50,823.00 LAMB, HEIDI.....................269.50 LAMB, JOAN..................7,492.78 LAMONT, ABIGAIL......14,644.96 LAMPE, NICOLE..........68,554.11 LANDGREBE, JEFF.......6,425.43 LANDGREBE, JERRY .31,776.86 LANGSTRAAT, STEPHANIE...................1,523.00 LARSON, JANEE...........5,252.40 LARSON, JOHANNAH...2,205.33 LARSSON, GARY........76,439.50 LATCHAM, CORI.........65,786.16 LAW, DORIS................17,592.83 LAW, MARK.................50,319.00 LEAVENS, JUDY...........7,550.34 LENGELING, LAURA...73,153.00 LESTER, FLORENCE....4,374.42 LEWIS, ALYSSA..........61,985.86 LINN, JOELLEN...........74,910.25 LIPPERT, REX.............33,237.15 LISTON, JUSTIN..........54,853.86 LOGUE, REBECCA.....10,492.79 LOPEZ-SANDERS, LORI.............................12,373.12 LOURENS, JUDY.........12,062.37 LUCAS, DAWN............54,137.00 LUCAS, TODD.............71,294.86 LUETJE, ANDREA.......50,024.50 LUREMAN, PAULA......65,595.75 LUSE, CYNTHIA..........13,095.79

MAACH, BRUCE...............423.50 MAACH, LESLIE............2,805.00 MACHIN, MEGGAN.....37,197.75 MALEK, AMY.................1,654.49 MARTER, LORNA........20,445.00 MARZOLF, JAN...........12,099.37 MASSMAN, DANIEL....14,677.12 MASTERSON, TIMMY.12,582.07 MASTERSON, VICKY..14,096.55 MAXWELL, MICHAEL..10,441.17 MCCLEARY, JAMES. . .11,552.56 MCCLELLAN, ELIZABETH.......... .......................................3,409.04 MCCLURE, DWAIN...........220.00 MCCONNELL, JULIE...19,685.69 MCDERMOTT, GRANT.....360.00 MCDERMOTT, KATHY................ .....................................18,145.23 MCFARLING, DOROTHY...................19,202.63 MCLENNAN, MEGAN. .47,550.66 MCNEW, KRISTINA.......2,284.50 MCNICHOLS, ALLISON............... .....................................40,516.70 MCVAY, GARY............43,469.08 MEREDITH, PAIGE........1,828.00 METCALF-VANHAAFTEN, PATRICIA.....................66,298.36 METZ, SUSAN.............10,902.18 MEYER, GARY............31,954.42 MEYER, JOLEE...........41,461.11 MEYER, KENNETH.....32,567.98 MEYER, NICOLE...........4,960.50 MIELKE, RICHARD......12,917.38 MILLER, DEBRA..........12,377.72 MILLER, MELISSA.......17,788.94 MILLER, MELISSA.......14,630.00 MILLS, HAROLD............3,939.00 MODLIN, MICHELLE. . .51,459.11 MOORE, AMY..............59,533.35 MOORE, NANCY.........12,165.26 MOORE, PAMELA.......11,970.96 MORAN, MICHAEL......65,472.35 MORGAN, ALLISON....40,151.73 MORGAN, TIMOTHY...11,905.33 MORGAN-PETERS, JODI.............................52,011.34 MORRISON, DEBBIE. .12,098.34 MOSS, RONALD..........17,450.35 MOTTA, SANDRA........72,775.25 MOUCHKA, JENNIFER............... .....................................24,866.19 MOUCHKA, RUTH.......14,476.70 MUDRA, RONDA.........15,091.53 MULBROOK, JUDY.....12,086.46 MULLINS, CHRIS.........55,144.75 MURPHY, DANIELLE. .45,698.00 MURPHY, JEFF.............8,573.76 MURPHY, KELLY...........1,495.50 NABERHAUS, ROBYN................ .....................................52,774.00 NAISBITT, BONITA......12,387.05 NELSON, ANN.............77,893.00 NELSON, CHRISTOPHER.......... .......................................6,985.00 NEWELL, BRENDA......55,896.75 NIEUWSMA, EMILY.....39,162.20 NIKKEL, NANCY LEA. .14,231.25 NISSLY, JUDY.............65,552.00 NOEL, CHRISTINE......71,836.75 NOLIN, CASSIA...........57,967.00 NORVELL, JENNIFER.73,842.86 O?HARRA, ELKE.........12,383.13 O?LEAR, ELIZABETH..38,168.25 O?ROAKE, CHERYL. . .71,738.00 OLESON, MATTHEW. .65,570.75 OSBY, KRYSTEN........56,939.50 OWENS, ASHLEY........38,484.86 OWENS, JACKIE.........12,398.00 OWENS, KENNETH.....35,386.87 OWENS, MARILYN......13,746.43 PAGELER, LISA...........56,034.00 PANOSH, GEORGE.....78,293.00 PARRIOTT, TAMARA. .67,600.25 PARTLOW, NICOLE....38,554.25 PASCHKA, CINDY.........2,756.80 PATTERSON, JOHN....69,946.00 PATTERSON, SARAH.73,153.00 PAYTON, ADELLA.......12,295.02 PEARSON, STEVEN. . .71,754.25 PEIPER, ZACHARY.....10,059.08 PENNING, BRENDA.........187.50 PESKA, TAYLOR.........18,182.26 PETERS, KAITLYN......40,399.00 PETERS, KRISTI.........55,258.75 PETERS, WILLIAM....112,749.00 PHILLIPS, BRIANNA....38,187.00 PLOWMAN, ANN.........11,148.50 PLUMB, DIANE............27,254.11 PLUMB, DONNA..........26,734.96 PLUMMER, LEE.............1,523.00 POOLE, BARBARA........3,369.71 PORTNER, JODI..........11,646.92 POTTER, BRENDA........3,957.76 POTTER, SHELBY.........9,180.69 POWELL, KATHLEEN .54,122.00 POWERS, KIMBERLY .56,466.61 POWERS, TRENTON. .55,604.61 PRICE, JANICE............12,095.68 PRICE, JOANNE..........71,936.75 PRIME, WAYNE...........64,487.00 PROVIN, JOEL.............17,628.39 PUTZ, SONYA.............18,947.66 RANARD, SUSANNE...12,187.63 RANKIN, ANN..............48,431.50 RATCLIFF, JENNIFER......437.00 RATLIFF, ANDY...........48,272.54 RAU, AMY....................58,766.00 RAUSCH, CRYSTAL....28,438.48 REED, PAIGE................1,133.00 REED, PATRICK..........63,749.00 REEVES, STACI..........16,856.72 REX, AUDREY.............14,332.01 REX, DENNIS................2,890.00 REYNOLDS, COLLIN.....5,483.00 REYNOLDS, CYNTHIA................ .....................................63,140.00 REYNOLDS, DARCEY.47,192.25 RILEY, PATRICK.........67,714.00 RINEHART, LEROY.....13,057.98 ROBERTSON, CONNIE....118.25 RODEWALD, JUDY.....56,341.86 ROJOHN, DAVID.........18,173.17 ROJOHN, KYLE................624.00 ROORDA, CURTIS......62,868.00 ROORDA, MINDY........46,926.25 ROSE, DEBORAH.......80,745.11 ROSS, HEATHER..........2,437.00 ROSS, TINA...............109,232.00 ROUSH, JEFF..............17,222.90 ROUSH, LYDIA..............2,750.00 ROUTIER, CARROYL. .42,233.00 RUNNELS, JESSICA...12,304.62 RUSSELL, JAYLA........12,010.75 RUSSELL, NICOLE......11,314.43 RYAN, ASHLEY...........44,293.75 SALASBERRY, SHELLY............. .....................................20,987.61 SAMSON, SHARON....14,005.03 SANDER, BAILEY........40,024.86 SASH, CRAIG................9,788.62 SAUNDERS, TIMOTHY............... .....................................44,143.45 SCHAEFFER, JULIE....13,044.38 SCHAPER, LINDA.........9,418.03 SCHNOEBELEN, DONALD......... .....................................51,510.43 SCHOBER, SARA........51,037.36 SCHRADER, MARCIA .71,780.00 SCHROYER, ROBERTA.....77.00 SCHUMANN, ELLEN.....7,595.50 SCHURING, BEVERLY..9,927.80 SCHUSTER, TODD......87,358.00 SCHUTTE, LORI..........16,402.74 SCHWARCK, LYNN.....72,902.11 SCHWARZ, CARA.......57,010.75 SCHWICKERATH, NANCY.........................12,140.73 SCOTTON, SANDRA...28,285.87 SECKAR, CRYSTAL......6,227.80 SELOVER, LAURA......99,733.00 SHANNON, JOANN.......4,809.74 SHARP, BRANDON.....45,448.00 SHARP, LISA...............89,922.00 SHARP, REGAN...............357.50 SHARP, SHARAEAH.....2,031.00 SHAW, MARVIN...........17,093.21 SHAW, MARY..............18,618.68 SHEEKS, SUSAN........55,423.00 SHERRATT, LAURA....53,283.00 SHOCKEY, SARA........51,156.92 SHROYER, BECKY.....13,861.84 SHUGAR, DEBRA........12,308.28 SIMMONS, KRISTON. .44,409.45 SIMMONS, PETER......39,194.60 SIMON, JENINE...........11,939.54 SIMPSON, GLORIA.......4,620.00 SINCLAIR, LUCINDA...51,048.16 SLYKHUIS, ROGER......3,312.00 SMIT, SANDRA..............2,255.00 SMITH, BRENDA..............330.00 SMITH, BRENT............56,809.00 SMITH, BRIAN.............71,555.88 SMITH, CARL.................4,646.65 SMITH, DAN...................5,788.71 SMITH, DONNA JO...........330.00 SMITH, DOUGLAS.......42,550.11 SMITH, JANET...............2,805.00 SMITH, MELISSA.........12,328.78 SMITH, SONJA............25,943.77 SMITH, SUSAN..............3,346.00 SMITH, TONYA............25,080.00 SMITH, TROY..............17,307.16 SOMMARS, MELISSA .73,555.50 SORENSON, KELLY....16,823.10 SOULE, DARCY...........73,176.25 SPANGENBURG, DARCY.........................26,748.15 SPRINGER, BRIAN......45,177.50 SPRINGER, JENNIFER............... .....................................63,097.00 SPROUSE, LAURIE.....27,339.34 SQUIRE, CONNIE...............45.00 STAMMEYER, JOSEPH.....39.88 STAMMEYER, TINA....61,493.61 STANTON, JILL...........67,474.86 STARCEVIC, JEAN ANN............. .....................................49,174.00 STEINBACH, NICHOLAS............ .......................................2,741.00 STEINBACH, VALERIE................

SHUGAR, DEBRA........12,308.28 SIMMONS, KRISTON. .44,409.45 SIMMONS, PETER......39,194.60 SIMON, JENINE...........11,939.54 SIMPSON, GLORIA.......4,620.00 SINCLAIR, LUCINDA...51,048.16 SLYKHUIS, ROGER......3,312.00 SMIT, SANDRA..............2,255.00 SMITH, BRENDA..............330.00 SMITH, BRENT............56,809.00 SMITH, BRIAN.............71,555.88 SMITH, CARL.................4,646.65 SMITH, DAN...................5,788.71 SMITH, DONNA JO...........330.00 SMITH, DOUGLAS.......42,550.11 SMITH, JANET...............2,805.00 SMITH, MELISSA.........12,328.78 SMITH, SONJA............25,943.77 SMITH, SUSAN..............3,346.00 SMITH, TONYA............25,080.00 SMITH, TROY..............17,307.16 SOMMARS, MELISSA .73,555.50 SORENSON, KELLY....16,823.10 SOULE, DARCY...........73,176.25 SPANGENBURG, DARCY.........................26,748.15 SPRINGER, BRIAN......45,177.50 SPRINGER, JENNIFER............... .....................................63,097.00 SPROUSE, LAURIE.....27,339.34 SQUIRE, CONNIE...............45.00 STAMMEYER, JOSEPH.....39.88 STAMMEYER, TINA....61,493.61 STANTON, JILL...........67,474.86 STARCEVIC, JEAN ANN............. .....................................49,174.00 STEINBACH, NICHOLAS............ .......................................2,741.00 STEINBACH, VALERIE................ .....................................29,565.77 STEPHENS, SANDRA...1,141.25 STEVENS, NANCY......11,946.49 STEWART, TYLER......41,544.11 STICE, MELANIE..............244.69 STICKEL, CINDI...........28,948.30 STIER, CHARITY.........16,795.92 STILLMAN, MATTHEW................ .....................................25,026.31 STOKER, MICHELLE...62,812.00 STONEHOCKER, JOYCE............ .......................................6,467.55 STORM, SHAWNEE......1,375.00 STOULIL, DEBRA........73,926.11 STRAND, MELISSA.......1,695.75 STRATTON, DEBRA....12,044.06 STRATTON, MARTIN.......880.00 STURTZ, MALLORY....45,721.86 SUPINO, CARLO.........32,113.80 SUPINO, CAROL.........17,402.08 SUTTEK, JACK............66,258.84 SWANK, DEBBIE.........44,969.40 SWANSON, LENETTE.71,263.10 SWARTS, CHELSEA.....4,464.17 SWEDENHJELM, ANDY.............. .....................................57,785.00 SWIHART, CLAYTON..58,195.25 TEDROW, JAN...............5,600.00 THOMAS, BEVERLY. . .72,983.00 THOMAS, CONNIE.............38.04 THOMAS, MARK...............992.50 THOMAS, MICHELLE. .12,866.07 THOMASON, TRICIA...50,506.00 THOMPSON, GARY.....17,983.25 THOMPSON, PAULA...17,518.28 TIBBEN, JIMMY.............3,198.92 TIPTON, RACHELLE.....5,563.00 TISDALE, DARIN.........44,195.44 TISDALE, THOMAS.....14,412.61 TOMAS, RACHEL........59,760.00 TOWNSEND, DENISE.67,499.75 TREMEL, KELLY..........50,203.00 TRIBBY, KENDRA.......11,951.57 TRIER, ROBERT..........45,205.00 TURNER, WENDY.......73,251.00 TYSON, CATHERINE....2,255.00 UMBARGER, KELLY. . .11,897.91 VANARKEL, TRACEE..76,782.00 VANBAALE, MICKEY.....3,251.42 VANBROGEN, DEBRA. .5,908.28 VANBROGEN, LESLIE. .2,549.74 VANDALEN, LORI........65,321.13 VANDAM, DARCY.......65,583.25 VANDENOORD, MARIA.............. .....................................53,967.77 VANDERLAAN, KIMBERLY...................46,953.11 VANDERPOL, HOLLY......247.50 VANDERVELDEN, ERIC............. .....................................66,531.86 VANFLEET, MARY...........893.06 VANMAAREN, MARY ANN..................13,318.93 VANMANEN, SARA.....63,565.75 VANSICE, ROWENA.....7,702.75 VANSICKLE, BAUSTON...110.57 VANSICKLE, BRADY..........56.19 VANSICKLE, BRENNER.............. .......................................1,076.63 VANSICKLE, EVELYN.13,772.10 VANWYK, COURTNEY.......80.00 VANWYNGARDEN, AMANDA........................3,381.58 VANZEE, SHAWNA.....14,888.10 VANZEE, STEVEN.........4,140.00 VASKOVA, ELENI...............49.50 VASSEAU, REBECKA .17,620.91 VEENSTRA, NEALA......6,969.00 VENTLING, KATHLEEN.............. .....................................56,195.00 VERSTEEGH, JEFFREY............. .....................................47,685.00 VERSTEEGH, JOCILE.12,554.06 VERSTEEGH, JOSHUA.6,875.00 VERSTEEGH, KENNETH....................13,567.05 VERSTEEGT, LINDA...12,802.07 VERWERS, JENNIFER................ .....................................37,323.94 VIRAVONG, SACDKA....4,264.00 VOSS, BRITTANY........41,268.86 WALKER, JACQUELINE...120.00 WALKER, MINDI..........12,177.94 WALLACE, KATHERINE.............. .....................................39,532.25 WARD, DOREE............80,354.00 WARD, KAYLEA............2,244.00 WATTS, SUSANNE.....14,085.93 WEAVER, AMY............66,284.50 WEBER, KRISTINA........1,495.50 WEEKS, STEVEN........48,100.00 WEEKS, THOMAS.......13,092.84 WELLIK, STEPHANIE....2,913.33 WERDEN, KYLIE.........42,464.25 WHIPPLE, RAYMOND.72,170.00 WICKLIFFE, ASHLEY.......655.00 WIERSCHKE, FREDICK.............. .......................................7,547.82 WIGNALL, MICHAEL.....1,485.00 WILEY, CLYDE..............3,630.00 WILKENING, GEORGE..3,080.00 WILKINS, NICHOLAS....6,092.00 WILLIAMS, BROOKE.....3,635.51 WILLIAMS, CANDICE....2,860.00 WILLIAMS, CASSANDRA............ .......................................2,899.91 WILLIAMS, JULIENNE...6,987.67 WILLIAMS, MICHELLE................ .....................................25,686.26 WILLIAMS, THERESA .32,728.04 WINCHELL, MICHELLE............... .....................................12,064.48 WINTHER, MICHELLE.17,409.21 WITTE, DEBORA.........16,902.74 WITTE, DENNIS.............3,726.19 WOLFE, SHAUN..........13,081.98 WOLKEN, COURTNEY................ .....................................51,260.00 WOOD, MICHAELA.......4,874.00 WOODY, ALICE.............2,976.28 WOODY, LEONARD....18,162.00 WOOLLUMS, HEIDI.....58,287.00 WORMLEY, CINTHIA. .17,287.71 WORTHINGTON, MELINDA.....................40,087.00 WORTHINGTON, MICHELE.......................2,530.00 WRIGHT, JENNIFER.. .27,452.11 WRIGHT, JODY.............3,555.00 WRIGHT, JOURDAN....50,691.86 WUNDERLICH, DANIEL.............. .......................................3,183.70 WUNDERLICH, RHONDA.....0.00 WYLIE, LARRY............40,582.63 WYLIE, VERNELLE.....32,274.62 YOAKUM-HUFFAKER, MICHELLE...................17,908.83 YOUNG, RANDALL......72,300.00 ZEHR, ERIC...................6,092.00 ZEHR, TARA................51,888.61 ZERLEY, BRIANNA.......1,218.50 ..............................19,994,782.99 July 28

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Public Notices CITY COUNCIL CRIME FREE WORKSHOP MINUTES JULY 13, 2015, 7:00 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS The City Council of Newton, Iowa met in special session at 7:00 P.M. on the above date in the Council Chambers at 101 West 4th Street South. Mayor Hansen Present Council presided.

Members: Price, George, Chapé, Trotter. Absent: Otto, Mullan.

Additional staff participating on the panel included Lieutenant Rob Burdess, Acting Police Chief Wes Breckenridge, Fire Chief Jarrod Wellik, and Fire Marshall Mike Knoll Mayor Hansen asked everyone present to join in saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

Robert Knabel presented a reviewing the PowerPoint benefits, plan, and costs associated with the Crime Free Multi-Housing Program.

The program is a partnership between the City and rental property managers and owners established to reduce crime and increase safety through lease addendum, education, inspections, safety surveys and communication. increased Benefits associated with the program include reduced police calls, a stable tenant base, increased demand for rental units, lower maintenance and repair costs, improved personal safety, and reduced exposure to civil liability.

Representative speaking for the landlords and owners included Brian Strom, Newbury; Rich Deheer, South Town; John Beck, Alison Needham, Krupp; Newbury; Lori Yoakum; Myron Rhone, Fred Rhodes; Gary Martin; Shawn James; Joyce Prendergast; and Karen Backus.

Various issues were raised by the landlords and owners such as cost, legal aspects of the addendum, police involvement, support, City Magistrate mandates regarding background checks, multi versus single family units, and the inspection process.

Larry Freed, private property owner, spoke regarding living near these complexes and his present concern for his families' safety.

Many thoughts and ideas were Staff will review exchanged. suggestions and a second workshop will take place July 27, 2015 at 7:00 P.M. to follow up.

Moved by Chapé, seconded by Trotter, to adjourn the meeting at 8:34 P.M. Motion unanimously carried by voice vote.

Michael L. Hansen, Mayor Katrina Davis CMC, City Clerk July 28 THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT JASPER COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET ANN ATWOOD, Deceased Probate No. ESPR036715 NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL, OF APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR, AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Margaret Ann Atwood, who died on or about June 30, 2015: You are hereby notified that on the 20th day of July, 2015, the last will and testament of Margaret Ann Atwood, deceased, bearing date of the 12th day of June, 2012, * was admitted to probate in the above named court and that A. Atwood was Thomas 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 date of the second the 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 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 20th day of July, 2015.

Thomas A. Atwood Executor of estate 1409 N. 8th Ave. Pl. E. Newton, IA 50208 Address *Designated Codicil(s) if any, with date(s) Mark A. Otto, ICIS PIN No: AT0005939 Attorney for executor OTTO LAW OFFICE PLLC 123 W. 2nd St. N., PO Box 1356 Newton, IA 50208 Address mark@ottolawyers.com Date of second publication 28th day of July, 2015 Probate Code Section 304 July 21 & 28 NEWTON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEE FYTD EARNINGS REPORT JULY 1, 2014 - JUNE 30, 2015 AGAN, DIANA................4,890.00 ALLEN, TARA..............19,451.71 ALLSPACH, GARY......11,497.37 ALLSPACH, HARRIETT.4,441.86 ALTHOF, CRAIG............5,060.00 ALTHOF, JACKIE.........10,065.61 ANDERSON, BRENDA. .7,593.43 ANDERSON, JULIE.....18,300.04 ANDERSON, THOMAS.....926.75 ANSLEY, CAROLYN......9,405.00 ANTHONY, ELOISE.......8,800.00 ANTLE, AMY................60,631.04 ANTLE, TINA.....................226.42 ARENDS, DONALD.....72,204.86 ARTIS, ALESHA...........11,935.82 ASTELLE, MEGAN......38,838.75 AVIS, KARA.................42,850.50 BABCOCK, DIANE.......76,414.11 BAKER, DEAN...............5,021.08 BAKER, RITA.................4,455.00 BAMBROOK, BRENT. .39,187.00 BANFIELD, SHANNON..1,760.00 BANWELL, MICHELLE................ .....................................62,770.00 BANWELL, SETH.........62,635.00 BARR, JODY................63,025.00 BARR, NICHOLE.........50,332.56 BARTELLO, JESSICA..27,869.00 BARTELLO, JILL..........12,880.67 BARTELLO, THOMAS .66,737.00 BARTELS, MARY.........72,336.75 BARTON, BONNIE.......17,581.55 BATES, CARLA............24,652.51 BATES, WANDA.................12.50 BAUER, SCOTT...........95,565.00 BAUMGART, SANDRA................

MAACH, BRUCE...............423.50 MAACH, LESLIE............2,805.00 MACHIN, MEGGAN.....37,197.75 MALEK, AMY.................1,654.49 MARTER, LORNA........20,445.00 MARZOLF, JAN...........12,099.37 MASSMAN, DANIEL....14,677.12 MASTERSON, TIMMY.12,582.07 MASTERSON, VICKY..14,096.55 MAXWELL, MICHAEL..10,441.17 MCCLEARY, JAMES. . .11,552.56 MCCLELLAN, ELIZABETH.......... .......................................3,409.04 MCCLURE, DWAIN...........220.00 MCCONNELL, JULIE...19,685.69 MCDERMOTT, GRANT.....360.00 MCDERMOTT, KATHY................ .....................................18,145.23 MCFARLING, DOROTHY...................19,202.63 MCLENNAN, MEGAN. .47,550.66 MCNEW, KRISTINA.......2,284.50 MCNICHOLS, ALLISON............... .....................................40,516.70 MCVAY, GARY............43,469.08 MEREDITH, PAIGE........1,828.00 METCALF-VANHAAFTEN, PATRICIA.....................66,298.36 METZ, SUSAN.............10,902.18 MEYER, GARY............31,954.42 MEYER, JOLEE...........41,461.11 MEYER, KENNETH.....32,567.98 MEYER, NICOLE...........4,960.50 MIELKE, RICHARD......12,917.38

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1940'S HULL USA A50 White Pottery Pitcher $45.

Iowa Hawkeyes Tall Glass Mug $15. Dale Earnhardt Jr 1:64 Collectible Cars $12/each. Used tire P225/60/R16 $15. 515313-7803.

2 SINGLE beds, with frames, one with case headboard. $40 & $50.

641-275-0290.

A STAND up fan, on 5' floor stand, in good condition. $40. 641-275-0290.

BLACK 22 7 shot. $225. In good shape, built in USA. Need permit to purchase.

641-275-0290.

BRAND NEW cat toy, kitty pirate ship. $25.00. 641275-0290.

CHAIN SAW - $125, Air compressor - $125. Call for information 641-417-0195 EMPLOYMENT

The Quick Lane at Noble All American in Newton is looking for a well qualified technician.

Applicants must have experience in light duty automotive repair and maintnance. Position is full time with benefits and applicants must own their own tools.

Please apply in person with the service manager or call 641-787-9990 and ask for Matt Lane Located Exit 164 Off I-80 & Hwy 14 in Newton 641-787-9990 or 888-296-9873 www.nobleallamerican.com We are currently accepting applications for employees who enjoy interacting and caring for seniors in a Christian based environment

GREEN LEATHER rocker, good shape $60. 641-2750290 LAZYBOY ROCKER/RECLINER, sage green cloth, like new condition. $85.

641-831-9571.

LIVING ROOM furniture for sale: Flowered sofa & arm chair including ottoman and a small recliner. Asking price $500. Call to view 641-791-0398 NEW LEATHER Brahma Boots, rugged, size 10 ½. $60. 641-275-0290.

PANASONIC MICROWAVE $20., chest of drawers $15., plant stand – new in box $15.

792-4686.

PETCO DOG cage, used once $25., stereo in a cabinet with turn table for records, Kimball organ, make an offer. 641-7926845 or 641-831-9352.

ROUND 36” kitchen table with formica top with 12” leaf. $50. 641-521-8584.

TIRES 215/65 R16 m+s (2), 215/65 R16 98T m+s (1). Good tread. 641-5213699.

TOMATOES, RED, yellow and orange, ready soon.

Call early to get on our list.

641-521-3576.

WALTHER BB Pistol, COZ style,works well, comes with box of COZ Cartridges $70. 641-2750290.

XBOX 360 Games - Several Call of Duty & Grand Theft Auto IV $15/each.

Grand Theft Auto V $20.

641-521-7860.

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

MDS Coordinator Full-time

This individual needs to be a RN with experience preferred.

We are committed to provide quality care to our residents.

We show compassion to all our residents.

We strive for the best customers service and team work.

PLEASE APPLY IN PERSON OR ONLINE

200 S. 8th Ave. E. Newton (641) 792-7440

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JELD-WEN is hiring Production Employees!

JELD-WEN, Inc. Windows and Doors Divisions are now accepting applications for full-time 2nd and 3rd shift production positions. These are direct hire positions working for an innovative and forward thinking company.

Applicants should be dependable, quality conscious and safety oriented. Our skilled workforce uses state of the art equipment to produce high quality JELD-WEN vinyl windows, patio doors, exterior, interior and pre-hang doors to serve the Midwestern, Southern, and Western markets.

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

EMPLOYMENT

If you are interested in joining the JELD-WEN Window or Doors Division, apply in person at either JELD-WEN Grinnell location- 820 Industrial Ave. or 911 Industrial Ave., Grinnell, Iowa 50112. In order to ensure a safe working environment, a pre-employment drug screen is required.

EOE

Make Some Extra Cash!

The Newton Daily News has a Motor Route Opening • Monday - Friday • No Holidays • Makes approx $1,000/month

Full-Time Homemaker Full/Part-Time CNA Part-Time Care Attendant Consider joining a great team as we continue our mission of commitment to compassion, excellence and innovation!

We offer a competitive wage and complete benefit package.

Apply online or send resume to: Brenda Colvin, Administrator Newton Village Health Care Center 110 N 5th Ave W, Newton, IA 50208 E-mail bcolvin@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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REAL ESTATE

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AUTOMOTIVE

AUTOMOTIVE

AUTOMOTIVE

AUTOMOTIVE

1993, 28' Holiday Rambler, travel trailer bumper hitch, has new tires, asking $5,000. 515-669-4966.

AUTOMOTIVE

AUTOMOTIVE

2003 CHYSLER Limited Van. 3.8 Engine. A/C, Electric/Heated Seats.

New Tires. 150,000 miles, clean inside and out. In good running order. Nice van. $4000 OBO. Cash only, no warranty. 641792-6152 2014 Arctic Cat ATV XL550. Only 71 miles. Includes 3k lb winch, rare tungsten metallic color. Always stored indoors. Cost $11,200 new.

Asking $7,800. 641-990-9369

DAEWOO-DD802L DOZER $20,000. 641-792-4332

2005 1 ton Dodge Ram, quad cab. Only 27k miles.

Trailer hitch included. $28000. 641-792-9652 2005 MONTANA Mountaineer 5th wheel 36ft camper. Used very little. $16,000. 641-792-9652

1956 Premier Lincoln 4 door car, body in great shape, interior excellent, air, at,. This car has been in a garage for 25 years, the last time it was started was 20 years ago, we know the brakes don't work, it would be a great car to restore. Asking price is six thousand dollars. No warranty. Can be seen in Newton, Iowa 50208 only serious buyers. Call 715891-2500.

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

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

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

EMPLOYMENT

EMPLOYMENT

2007 Rockwood Premier fold down camper. In excellent condition, non smokers, air condition, thermostatted heater, 3 burner stove, hot-cold water 2.5 cu. ft. refrigerator, power lift 5” heated coil mattresses, outside grill, awning, power converter and tip out dinette, king & queen beds, will sleep 8. $5995. 641-792-8186.

1995 CORVETTE. 64K miles. Excellent condition. $11,000. 641-792-9652.

EMPLOYMENT

EMPLOYMENT

Dental Career Opportunity The Dental Practice is growing and we are ready to add the following positions to our great staff.

• Reception/Business Assistant • Dental Assistant We are seeking applicants with a positive attitude, results oriented and who work for the greater good.

To learn more please call

1-800-603-2308

Walmart in Newton is hiring for a full-time Asset Protection.

This position is for 2nd shift and pays $13 hrs.

Job responsibilities include detering and apprehending shoplifters.

Applicants may apply at http://hiringcenter.walmartstores.com Walmart is an equal opportunity employer.

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

RN/LPN CNA

2nd shift Full-time 3rd shift Part-Time We are committed to provide quality care to our residents.

We show compassion to all our residents.

We strive for the best customers service and team work.

200 S. 8th Ave. E. Newton (641) 792-7440

www.Imgcares.com

Astrograph

There is no one standard of success that applies to all people.

The people who wonder why “so-and-so” hasn’t “made it big” are frustrated in their own lives. As the moon moves from Sagittarius, the station that sees greener grass on the other side, to ambitious Capricorn, try to stay focused on what makes you (and only you) happy.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 28). Your loved ones will consider you to be among the brightest and strongest they know, and you’ll spend much of the year living up to the reputation. That’s why it’s so important to take time for yourself over the next six weeks.

Rest and revel in fun. September brings a career boost. October introduces you to new friends.

Aries and Sagittarius people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 12, 1, 44, 17 and 38.

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

You’ve gotten good at relating to people who are very different from you. Your style works in multiple circumstances. Your soft words spoken with firm confidence will produce impressive results.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

What you don’t understand far exceeds what you do understand. Recognizing all you don’t know is a mark of high

intelligence. As for what you do know, you’ll be asked to teach some of that today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You may feel that your efforts are neither focused nor persistent enough to make a difference.

But it’s the fact that you’re making an effort at all that makes the biggest difference.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

When it comes to being you, you’re the master. Others will make suggestions that you’re not too keen on following.

You’re not beholden to anyone and only have to please yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Arrogance is the daddy of all sins.

Belittling others is a sign of feeling little inside. When deal-

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ing with victims of a superiority complex, just remember that pride is often the hallmark of those with the least to be proud of.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). If you can’t change your mind, you can’t change anything.

That’s why any effort you make to expand your realm of influence should be considered important, even if it seems more like play than work.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Your thoughts of a certain person make you forget to do the ordinary things you would usually do. That’s how you can tell you’re smitten. And when you’re smitten with the same person for a very long time, it’s even more wondrous.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

You have the bright ideas today.

But you also have a difficult group of strong-willed people to contend with. When you make it seem like their idea, they like it more.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You wouldn’t be trying if you didn’t care. That’s what they sense from you now. So don’t worry too much about whether you’re saying or doing it right. It’s a beautiful day when your good intentions effortlessly shine through.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You’re not dreaming it. There really is a lack of organized creativity out there. You’re just the one to capture and apply the stellar ideas before they drift off

into the ether.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

Reconsider your contacts. It’s not who you know; it’s who you can influence. Knowing someone doesn’t count for much if that person isn’t willing to support, help and generally act like a friend.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

The thing about achieving exceptional accomplishments is that after a brief moment of glory you begin to worry about what they’ll expect from you next. Keep doing the work that makes you happy.

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