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Salvation Army food supplies at a typical summer low

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News Think of the sounds you typically hear around town each December. The ringing of the Salvation Army kettle bell is probably one of those sounds.

However, there aren’t any bells ringing at the Newton Corps Community Center of the Salvation Army. And donations aren’t coming in to the food pantry as readily, either, as supplies are struggling at what have become typical midsummer low levels.

While the holiday season — and winter, in general — seem to cause people to think about the less fortunate, summer seems to have the opposite effect.

“Summer donations do tend to be down a little,” said Mikey Carter, co-Major of Newton’s Salvation Army center. “People go out of town, and go on vacations. They have a lot of things on their minds this time of year.

However, people need to eat every day/.”

The Newton food pantry seems to be deficient in several non-perishable food categories. Carter said the pantry could use many items, including spaghetti (and sauce), boxed mashed potatoes, ramen noodles,

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News

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hen Matt h e w Brown first came to the Newton Correctional Facility’s minimum-security wing, he didn’t really have a sense of how a certain program was going to change his outlook.

Brown now has a stronger understanding, he said, of what it takes to care for another living being — and what it takes for a community to get along well.

Last week, the facility’s warden, Terry Mapes, allowed the Newton Daily News inside the facility, including a dorm-style housing area, to get a glimpse of how offenders involved with the “Pups on Parole” program live and work with dogs they’re training and rehabilitating for adoption.

“There’s no doubt, working with these dogs and these guys has helped change how I see things,” Brown, who is set to leave the facility soon, said. “I’ve had mixed emotions about seeing the dogs move on, knowing they’re getting homes, but also sad to see them go. We’ve come to care and love every single one that comes through here.”

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Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Rodney Ostdahl implores a dog named Jersey to jump for a treat. The Pups on Parole program, which allows offenders housed at the Newton Correctional Facility’s minimum-security complex to train dogs from the Jasper County Animal Rescue League, recently had its 300th dog adopted since the program began in 2009.

The Pups on Parole program, established in 2009, recently celebrated its 300th adoption in its history. It’s a collaboration between the Correctional Release Center (the complex of the Newton facility that houses minimum-security offenders about to be paroled) and the Jasper County Animal

Rescue League and Humane Society.

“We were a bit apprehensive before we started the program,” Deputy Warden Jill Dursky said.

“But this has turned out to have the most calming effect on a unit. It helps the morale of both the offenders and the staff, and makes everything a little

more easy-going.”

Brown is the current mentor, as one of the offenders who has been working with the dogs the longest. He’s been at CRC for about 22 months, which is longer than most offenders are at the high-turnover facility.

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Jason W. Brooks/Daily News The food pantry shelves at the Salvation Army’s Newton center are tough to keep stocked when local residents are busy with summer activities. Needs this year include several pasta and canned items.

Stop, yield signs D&D lot sold for new construction approved on third reading

By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News

By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News A slew of ordinance changes were approved Monday on third considerations by the Newton City Council.

Several included the additions of stop or yield signs to multiple intersections in town while “add-in” options to the trailer, watercraft and motorhome parking and storing code were also given the go ahead.

“Citizens have expressed safety concerns at the intersection of East Second Street South and South Fifth Avenue East,” City Administrator Bob Knabel said in a council report.

“City staff also reported safety concerns at two intersections located

northeast of the Newton High School.”

Signs will be added at the following intersections: • At East Second Street South and South Fifth Avenue East northbound and southbound traffic currently stop. Because the line of sight is an issue when advancing from the stop signs the intersection will become a four-way stop to improve sight viewing safety issues.

• A stop sign will be added at the uncontrolled “T” intersection at East Fourth and a Half Street South and South Seventh Avenue East stopping traffic on South Seventh Avenue East.

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A dangerous and dilapidated property at 615 S. Fourth Ave. E. was sold Monday with the intention of new construction at the Newton City Council meeting. Jim Skokan of Skokan Construction in Newton purchased the lot for $1,500 and has plans to build a ranch-style home.

“This is a property that we acquired and are in the process of demolishing the property, which is suppose to be done very soon,” Planning and Zoning director Erin Chambers said.

The city originally purchased the 83x161 foot property for $5,000 on Feb. 16 from Habitat for Humanity.

The organization was restructuring back into a county-based organization and did not

Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News A D&D lot at 615 S. Fourth Ave. E. was sold to Jim Skokan of Skokan Construction with the intention of building a new ranch style home on the property.

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It was approved for demolition during a May 18 council meeting and work is being done

by Howe Excavating at a price of $10,333.

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Feeding Iowa — one ear at a time

Jasper County Iowa State Extension to host farmland leasing meeting Monday Newton Daily News

Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Hannah Harvey helps with the picking. Harvey and her Jason W. Brooks/Daily News father, Matthew, and sister, Hadley, are Des Moines Hadley Harvey hands corn to her father, Matthew. The residents who came out to help with the picking.

Des Moines residents came out to help with the picking.

Jasper County Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will host a farmland leasing meeting from 7 to 10 p.m. Monday at Newton DMACC, 600 N. Second Ave. W. ISU Farm and Ag Business Management Specialist Steve Johnson will present information and updates on many topics including cash rental rates, land values, writing and terminating a farm lease and determining a fair cash rent for 2016. Attendees are asked to register by email or phone on or before Wednesday. Registration is $20 per individual or $30 per couple, payable at the door.

For more information or to register, contact the Jasper County Extension and Outreach Office at 641-792-6433 or welcher@iastate.edu.

Majority of Iowa corn, soybean crop in excellent condition, ag secretary says

Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Kevin Van Mannen helps pick corn during his family farm’s July 28 donation. The Van Mannens, especially Kevin and Julie’s children, Emily and Jacob, who own J & E’s Sweet Corn, donated an acre of sweet corn to food banks around the state, and it came to about 24,000 ears of corn.

Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Lindsey Foss of the Iowa Food & Family Project was one of about 30 volunteers who helped pick an acre of sweet corn July 28 as part of food bank donation effort. The Food & Family Project, the Iowa Food Bank Association, the Food Bank of Iowa, Hy-Vee and Farm Credit Services of America all participated.

Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Brent Duey tosses corn into a palleted box during the picking. More than 30 people helped picked an acre of corn in the fields of the Van Manen family farm, west of Kellogg, on July 28 as part of a donation project. In less than three hours, 24,000 ears of corn were picked by the volunteers, and an hour later, the harvest was in the process of being delivered to food banks in Dubuque, Waterloo, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. The team effort involved the Iowa Food & Family Project, the Iowa Food Bank Association, the Food Bank of Iowa, Hy-Vee and Farm Credit Services of America. Several Farm Credit employees from Newton were at the event. Jacob and Emily Van Manen operate J and E’s Delicious Sweet Corn, with a helping hand from their parents, Kevin and Julie.

DES MOINES — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey commented Monday on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service.

“Crops continue to mature and the outlook remains generally good with 83 percent of corn and 79 percent of soybeans in good to excellent condition.

Some areas continue to be challenged by the weather while others face weed, insect or disease issues,” Northey said.

The report summary follows here: Although heavy rains were reported in some areas of the State; drier than normal conditions prevailed in other areas. Overall, Iowa farmers had 4.6 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Aug. 2, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Activities for the week included cutting hay and fungicide and insecticide applications.

Humidity and heat aided crop development, but precipitation made harvesting hay and oats difficult in some areas. There were reports of weed and insect problems in soybeans and fungus in corn fields.

Topsoil moisture levels rated 0 percent very short, 6 percent short, 80 percent adequate and 14 percent surplus. South central Iowa saw the largest increase in topsoil moisture levels, with 60 percent surplus, up from 51 percent the prior week.

Ninety-three percent of the corn crop reached the silking stage or beyond, with 30 percent reaching the dough stage or beyond. Corn condition rated 83 percent good to excellent. Soybeans blooming or beyond reached 87 percent, two days behind 2014.

Fifty-seven percent of soybeans were setting pods.

Soybean condition rated 79 percent good to excellent this week, up 3 percentage points from the previous week. Seventy-eight percent of the oat crop for grain or seed has been harvested, five days ahead of last year, but slightly behind the five-year average.

The second cutting of alfalfa hay reached 79 percent, three days behind last year, and one week behind the average, due to continued wet conditions.

The third cutting of alfalfa hay is 13 percent complete, eight days behind average. Hay condition was rated at 69 percent good to excellent, while pasture condition rated 76 percent good to excellent. Livestock experienced normal summer heat stress.

Save the Monarch campaigns grow across Iowa, nationally DES MOINES (AP) — Overwhelmed by global warming? See no solution to dirty water?

Save the monarch butterfly.

The iconic black-and-orange butterfly has become nature’s celebrity and a rallying symbol of agreeable, grass-roots environmentalism after news spread over the past two years of a stark decline in its population — 90 percent in the last 20 years.

The growing number of campaigns to save monarchs range from initiatives launched by President Barack Obama to those by an eastern Iowa Facebook group, from university research scientists to Iowa farmers. Even bicyclists in the middle of their own zany migration on RAGBRAI got into the act on a recent Friday, The Des Moines

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David Osterberg, professor of occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa, helped mold milkweed seed balls to the size of a big marble for the Monarchs in Eastern Iowa group to hand out to RAGBRAI riders, who tossed them into ditches on the way out of Mount Vernon.

He said climate change involves complex layers of policy and deep social change, “but this is something we can do. We don’t see polar bears. The closest we get is a Coca-Cola advertisement. You’ve seen a monarch in your backyard; you’ve touched one.”

Monarchs danced in the breeze through our childhoods and inspired novels, documentaries and poetry.

Their 3,000-mile migration from

overwintering grounds in Mexico to the Canadian border and back again is a wonder of nature. But destruction to their overwintering grounds and habitat loss, especially along their migratory path through Iowa, has caused the decline. Along the way, monarchs lay eggs and dine upon several varieties of milkweed, largely eradicated from the row crop fields in Iowa, which cover two-thirds of the state.

Planting milkweed is seen as one answer to rally around. Efforts were mounted quickly on all levels.

The Obama administration launched a plan in March to increase the number of pollinators and monarchs by seeding habitat along the Interstate Highway 35 “monarch flyway” from Texas to Minnesota.

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When it comes from the highest levels, says U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Doug Helmers, you know it’s a movement. As the private lands coordinator for the agency in Iowa, he has worked with Iowa landowners on a series of small patches of more than 10 acres of land to grow milkweed, using a $200,000 budget, half of it from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

He has seen more enthusiasm for the project than any he can remember.

“Whether you are urban or rural, people everywhere can identify with the monarch. You’ve seen them raised in school,” Helmers said.

Bicyclists played a part largely because Patty Ankrum of Mount Vernon remembers those childhood days.

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Local News Pups Continued from Page 1A He’ll be handing over the reins to Paul Warner, one of 15 offenders whose full-time “jobs” at the prison is to complete an eight-week basic obedience training for dogs brought in by the rescue league staff.

“Pups on Parole is a valuable program for JCARL,” JCARL director, Sarah Siperstein said. “It allows us to care for and house more dogs that our building has space for and gives a second chance for dogs who would otherwise be considered unadoptable.

The one-on-one training these dogs receive gives them a chance to get out of the shelter environment and make them better adoption candidates.”

The program also sends crews of offenders — eligible to work off-

site in a day work-release setting — to help work side-by-side with the JCARL staff at its Newton facility.

“The program is crucial to the mission and function of JCARL and we couldn’t do it without them,” Siperstein said.

Mapes said the program is only for pro-social, positive offenders who are actively working toward re-entry into society. Convictions that involve domestic violence or crimes involving animals would disqualify an offender from the program.

Richelle Seitz, the program’s coordinator, said pit bull breeds aren’t considered, because of how some people view the breed. She said the process begins when JCARL recommends a dog be brought from the shelter for about eight weeks worth of obedience training.

Todd Carter prepares to put a scarf on a dog named Charlie, as Paul Warner looks on. Warner is about to take over as mentor of the Pups on Parole program.

www.newtondailynews.com | Tuesday | Aug. 4, 2015 | 3A Each dog is matched up with one of the 15 offenders who are paid a small salary (less than 50 cents per hour) to care for the animals and train them to respond to basic commands. There are also about 35 more of CRC’s 360 offenders who volunteer to help with the dogs.

Last week, in the dorm, some of the dogs could respond to commands, while others seemed a bit too excited by having a visitor in the area to respond to directions. However, all of the animals seemed mostly friendly and well-adjusted, and none seemed threatened or bothered by a visitor.

“Just as not all offenders are suited for this program, some dogs won’t work well here,” Seitz said. “There are some that are simply too aggressive, or don’t do well with other dogs or in certain situations.”

Dursky said there are considerations for having some offenders in Newton’s medium-security unit work with the dogs as well. The trainee dogs would have to be kept out of sight and earshot of the corrections canines that work the facility.

A corrections department wouldn’t typically offer this type of program to a “lifer” who is in prison for life; it’s intended to be a part of a greater re-entry process.

There were 63 adoptions of dogs from Pups on Parole in 2011, and

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macaroni and cheese, canned soups, peanut butter, pork and beans, canned tuna, tuna-helper type boxed mixes, canned fruit, tomato sauce and cereal.

Last year, a social media movement called the “Fill Up Trunk Challenge” began on Facebook after the Newton Daily News reported a shortage at the Salvation Army food pantry. The effort was even endorsed by the Salvation Army.

The center took to social media again regarding this summer’s shortage. Friday, its Facebook page, called “Salvation Army Newton, Iowa,” featured a plea for specific items, most of which Carter detailed further on Monday.

According to SalvationArmyUSA.org, the organization serves about 60 million meals to anyone in need through its many soup kitchens, sitdown meal programs, food pantries, mobile meals and community gardens. The meals assist homeless people of all ages, as well as individuals and families who may be down on their luck, or simply in need of some extra assistance at that moment.

The Salvation Army celebrates its 125th birthday as an organization in 2015.

Carter said the Salvation Army is very grateful for the church and school programs around the county that either feed or supply food to people in need, as the center can’t go it alone. She said families who live near one of the sites where the Newton Community School District offered lunches were often able to take advantage of that summer service, which ended last Friday.

“We are extremely grateful to everyone who donates or volunteers with one of these programs,” Carter said. “It’s just that we’re at a point in the year when people aren’t as active in thinking about picking up a couple of extra food-pantry cans of beans when they go to the grocery store.”

If you would like to donate to the food pantry, visit the Salvation Army, located at 301 N. 2nd Ave. E., from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays, or call 641-792-6131.

• Traffic will stop on South Sixth Avenue East at the currently uncontrolled intersection of East Fifth Street South and South Sixth Avenue East. The intersection has a poor line of sight.

• Several intersections will have stop signs added on East 14th Street South. To provide neighborhood uniformity, the Traffic Safety Committee looked at all intersection bounded by East 12th Street South, East 19th Street South, South Eighth Avenue East and South 13th Avenue East.

Because of higher traffic volume in that neighborhood, East 14th Street South was selected as it runs continuous through the intersections. Current uncontrolled intersections at South Ninth Avenue East, South 10th Avenue East, South 11th Avenue East and South 12th Avenue East will add stop signs that control east/west traffic.

• The uncontrolled “T” intersection at East 13th Street South and South 12th Avenue East will now stop traffic on

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Photos by Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Christopher Robinson successfully commands Astro to “sit.” The Pups on Parole program allows offenders housed at the Newton Correctional Facility’s minimum-security complex to train Jasper County Animal Rescue League dogs in basic obedience.

75 in 2012, but largely, the numbers have been closer to about 35 per year. There have been 26 so far in 2015.

The program has gone through some changes in the six years that it’s been around.

Mapes joked that there was initially an attempt to limit it to dogs of a certain size or smaller, but now the rule is “no bigger than, say, a horse.”

A “leader dog” program at the Newton

CRC was recently discontinued. From 2009 until June of this year, offenders trained dogs to work with the blind, sending a total of 63 dogs into the Rochester, Mich. community that had sent the animals to Iowa for training. The leader dog program is now the exclusive responsibility of the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility.

Seitz said getting to know what the dog will do in the program

South 12th Avenue East.

• The uncontrolled “T” intersection at East 16th Street South and South 11th Avenue East will now stop traffic on South 16th Street South.

• The uncontrolled intersection at East 17th Street South and South 11 Avenue East will stop traffic on East 17th Street South.

A yield sign will be added at the uncontrolled “T” intersection of East 12th Street South and South 11th Avenue East. Because on the intersection geometry and good visibility, a yield sign was recommended to be placed for the eastbound traffic on South 11th Avenue East.

A portion of the 600 block at South Ninth Avenue West was requested by the Newton School District for parking restrictions and approved by the council. Currently, parking is restricted on the north side of South Ninth Avenue West and the west side of West Seventh Street South.

“Vehicles traveling westbound on South Ninth Avenue West are stacked in queue to drop off or pick up children,” Knabel said.

At the intersection

of South Ninth Avenue West and West Seventh Street there is an “L” interaction and the street is at a width of 25 feet.

These conditions, Knabel said, create a safety concern for motorists turning at the intersection. Parking will now be restricted on the south side of South Ninth Avenue West extending from the flow line of West Seventh Street South east 90 feet.

The manager at Bristol Square Apartments also requested that the no parking area on the west side of the 300 block of First Street South be extended 43 feet south to allow access of the HIRTA transport vehicles and delivery trucks. There will also be signs labeled “No Parking Between Signs Loading Zone” added.

Also approved were the “add-in” options for the outside parking and

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is tough, but it usually doesn’t take long to see what their issues might be.

“For the first 48 hours a dog is here, they wear a sort of ‘don’t touch me’ scarf that lets others know not to approach them yet,” Seitz said.

“We can see if the animal cowers, cringes, lashes out or seems depressed.”

Many shelter dogs were surrendered by owners who couldn’t or didn’t care for them properly, so it isn’t surprising for the 15 caretakers to have to work on both physical and psychological issues.

Administering medicine and monitoring weight and diet are just part of the job.

There is a gymnasium and some outdoor spaces that allow the offenders to help train the dogs. The CRC is a facility that is for offenders who have privileges not typical at higher-level secure facilities.

One of the dogs, named Hayse, can launch a treat that is resting on its snout, and catch it in midair.

Brown said he’s grateful for the chance to mentor others in Pups on Parole, and for having been exposed to so many dedicated, loyal dogs.

“It definitely has helped make me a better person,” Brown said.

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

storing of trailers, watercraft and motorhomes.

Earlier this spring, the council amended the code and discussed additional options but did not pursue them at the time.

The additions include containment of gravel surfaces on an owner’s property, vehicles that are stored outside are also required to be located on an all-weather surface, having a maximum amount of impervious surface for a residential property limited to 60 percent and adding an agricultural property exemption.

Unlike the previous amendment, council did not receive a great amount of feedback from the public during the reading process of this ordinance change.

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

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A love, hate relationship

By Jamee A. Pierson Staff Writer

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My family has a love, hate relationship with carpet. My husband loves it, and I hate it.

In the first house we built, the building company put in what we found out to be the cheapest carpet they could find. It looked good for about the first week, then after walking on it, and our then-puppy marking his spot in more ways than one, it went to junk.

What once was a light tan colored rug turned into a gross brown color with matted spots and chunks missing. Even in the rooms that weren’t used very often, it didn’t hold up that great.

We eventually pulled up all of the carpet on our main floor and laid laminate flooring, which was a little piece of heaven for me. Upstairs, we kept the carpet but invested in some large rugs to cover our icky carpet.

Once we moved, we had no carpet in our new house, not a shred. It was my dream house.

The floors weren’t great, they were only finished around the edge of the room where the rugs didn’t cover.

We decided to refinish the floors and stain them a darker brown, which created problems.

Although I definitely had feelings of hate toward my floors, they more than made up for it when the girls spilled juice or milk and all I had to do was wipe it up.

We still have our dog, and he now weighs more than 100 pounds and is great at shedding tons of thick, black hair. On my nice wood floors, it all just swept up nice and neat. Also, anytime it rained, I didn’t have to scrub out mud and wet dog from any carpet in the house.

Now at our new house we have carpet — lots and lots of carpet.

It covers every square inch of our house, except the kitchen.

A change from our first house, it is nice, plush carpet. I can’t say I hate it under my feet and will

probably appreciate it more in the winter. But when, on the first day we lived there, a juice glass was dropped and red liquid began soaking into the white — yes white carpet — I let out a big sigh.

My husband, on the other hand, couldn’t be happier. As I point out the rooms I would rip it out and put wood flooring, he bears down and defends the carpet and all of its flaws. I think it is one of his favorite things about the house.

All three bedrooms in our house have white carpet. I would not have picked the color and have tried to help defer some of the spills with carpets in each of the girls rooms, but already it is getting a little polka dotted.

The other rooms are a little better with tan speckled carpet that hides spills and dirt a little more, but I have invested in several carpet cleaners to keep it in the best shape possible.

Finally, our dog once again made the move with us and is loving the carpet. When we first put in wood flooring in our first house, he was not very pleased, sliding everywhere, unable to get a grip in the wood.

Now, he is completely in love with the soft carpet that serves as a bed anywhere he chooses to lay.

Next to our bed is his preferred sleeping place, therefore I have noticed a large black spot starting to form in the white carpet.

Luckily, the vacuum I bought when we were first married still works and is sucking up all of the loose hair and everything else that is left in carpet. It might putter out on me sooner rather than later with all of the work it now has with daily, sometimes multiple times a day, cleaning our whole house.

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

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Learning styles concepts still failing

Sue Atkinson Baxter Each of us has one, or a combination, of the three learning styles: visual, tactile, or auditory.

For decades, public schools have used a memorization curriculum and memorization teaching methods, which failed two of the three learning styles. Struggling students have been blamed, thus denying them the education to which they are entitled. An analogy might be a hospital or doctor only trained to treat patients with the blood type O; those with blood type A or B have disastrous results (such as diminished lives). The No Child Left Behind intervention attempted to get schools to recognize their error and correct it.

Schools that have upgraded the curriculum to now include concepts once again, but have

failed to train the teachers to effectively teach these concepts to all three learning styles continue making the same mistakes that brought the government intervention. One big example of the continuation of a major mistake is teaching reading with memorized sight words, which has disastrous results for two groups of learning styles. Continuing to do the same thing but expecting different results is the classic definition of insanity, and yet Iowa schools are doing exactly this.

Iowa school superintendents are finalizing their first strategic plans, so ask them if they have included the action of administering a simple 20-question test to each student to diagnose the learning style and compare it to the latest test results for concepts (not the Iowa Assessment) to form a baseline from which to gauge how well the school is effectively teaching concepts to all

learning styles. Plans failing to include this action are doomed to failure, costing students in future earnings and taxpayers in misspent funds.

The 2014 NAEP reading scores for Iowa fourth-graders show only 39 percent of students at grade level for reading. The Iowa Department of Education released a public statement in May identifying the five concepts of reading that are now required to be taught, but all three learning styles must be accommodated, and teachers lack training.

Iowa’s teacher training programs fail to include all five, just as they fail to include training in the three learning styles as they pertain to concepts. Comparisons to the national average miss the point that U.S. 15 year olds are actually losing ground in reading on international PISA exams.

By May 2017, third-graders not at grade level will be held back through no fault of their own.

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There are kids all over this country, and they go online and become “radicalized.”

They go on a white supremacy site, and they become drooli n g racists cleani n g their g u n s every night a n d By Marc Dion wearing Confederate flag T-shirts.

They go on an ISIS site, and they grow a beard and they start cleaning their guns every night and wearing T-shirts with Quranic verses on the front.

And it ends in murder.

Meanwhile, what’s your oldest doing? You know, your son, Shawn, the one who hasn’t had a job since Blockbuster Video went out of business?

He’s online, all right.

He’s playing “World of Magic,” an online game in which his character is a female elf named Shymala. He’s online, all right. He’s online looking at Southeast Asian transvestite porn. He’s online chatting with his anorexic little nasty of a girlfriend, is where the little putz is.

And Shawn doesn’t own any guns to clean.

He has a collection of “action figures” which, face it, are dolls.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. I don’t think dopey little Shawn should join any kind of group which will eventually lead him to kill black people or white people or soldiers or just regular folks who happen to be sitting in the wrong White Castle.

We’re not going to have that kind of trouble with Shawn. Not our boy. The kid’s a jellyfish, and not the kind of jellyfish that stings you to death, either. Shawn’s the kind of jellyfish who

just floats round like, well, like a big glob of jelly.

You know why we have to keep sending the National Guard to all of our little, wrongheaded wars? It’s because Shawn did not rush down to the Marine recruiting office right after 9/11. He’s not headed down there now, either, no matter how many recruitment officers get gunned out.

Don’t you wish your kid had just a little of that ISIS/white supremacist commitment?

Don’t you wish he’d at least go to junior college?

I know, I know, those Muslim extremists are all crazy, just like those shaven-headed white supremacists. They’re as crazy as my uncle Albert was when he dropped out of high school at 16 to go fight Nazis.

Yeah. You can’t shift Shawn off the couch with a crane and other guy’s kids are getting radicalized and believing in things and killing and dying for their beliefs. If everybody on the other side wasn’t crazy, you’d be embarrassed.

Don’t worry about Shawn, though. He’ll get a job at a Dollar Store and, eventually, because of his 85 percent attendance record, he’ll become the manager.

And, one day, when an armed radicalized individual bursts through the door screaming the name of Allah or some dribble-drabble about, “If it ain’t white, it ain’t right!” Shawn will be killed in the name of the Dollar Store. The next day, your suburb will break out in flags and candlelight vigils and Shawn will go home to heaven like a hero.

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

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Obituaries Floyd E. Engle Aug. 1, 2015 Floyd E. “Donnie” Engle, 86, of Newton, died Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, at his home. A funeral service will be at 2:30 p . m . , Wednesday, Aug. 5 at the Wa l l a c e Family Funeral Home in Newton. The family will greet friends from 5 to

8 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 4 at the funeral home.

Memorials in Donnie’s name may be left at the funeral home.

Memorials may also be mailed to the Wallace Family Funeral Home.

Please add, Attn: Engle Family on the envelope.

Those left to honor Donnie’s memory are his children and their families: son, Donnie ( Janice) Engle and their children, Dustin (Andrea) Engle, and their daughters, Autumn and Alyce, and Dawn Engle (Mike Shaw)

Elizabeth R. Aalbers Aug. 3, 2015 Elizabeth R. (Hoksbergen) Aalbers, 99, formerly of Pella, died Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, at the West Ridge Nursing and Rehab Center in Knoxville.

A funeral service will be

and their sons, Colter, Carter and Conner; son, Tuck (Kathy) Engle and their children, DeAnn Engle and her family, Malloy Maple (Tanner Nearmyer) and their son, Brantley; Marcus Maple, and Marshall Maple, Danny (Amy) Engle and their family, Elise, and Gus, and Doug ( Jennifer) Engle and their son, Tucker; son-inlaw, Larry Nikkel and his children, Lynnette (Steve) McRoberts and their children, Connor, Delaney, Dylan, Kody

at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8 at Trinity Reformed Church in Pella. Interment will be made in the Oakwood Cemetery in Pella.

Open visitation will be Friday at Van Dyk-Duven Funeral Home. Visitation with family present will be one hour prior to services on Saturday at the church.

and Hallie, Michelle (Damon) Berger and their family, Payton, and Teryn, and Krista (Bob) Gordon and their family, Olivia, Urban and Espn; and daughter, Dee ( Joel) Bucklin and their children, Michael Bucklin (Lacy Sudbrink) and Steven Bucklin; and two sisters, Doris Booth of Denver, Colo., and June Veverka of Colorado.

He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Darlene in 2013; and daughter, Debbie Nikkel in 1989.

George B. Van Zee Aug. 3, 2015 A celebration of life for George B. Van Zee of Newton, will be at 11 a.m., Friday, Aug. 7 at the Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton. Visitation with the family will be one hour prior to the service with a lunch following the service. Burial will be in Waveland Cemetery near Prairie City.

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Submitted Photo The Newton Rotary Club made a $1,500 donation to Newton Village. Pictured, from left, are Brenda Colvin of Newton Village, Craig Armstrong Newton Rotary Club president and Annette West of Newton Village.

taken to the Jasper County Jail.

• Brandon J. Miller, 18, of Newton, is charged with operating while under the influence after authorities pulled him over in the 1600 block North Fourth Avenue East at 1:49 a.m. July 12.

Officers made contact with Miller and he had bloodshot, watery eyes and smelled of marijuana.

Lab results indicated a positive screen for marijuana. He was cited and released to appear.

• Allie J. King, 26, of Newton, is charged with fourth-degree theft after authorities were called to Walmart at 4:40 p.m. Thursday. Officers spoke with the loss prevention employees who said King removed several Magic Trading Cards from the front of the store and walked throughout the store. She then opened them and removed the inner package that held the cards placing them in her purse. Six items of children’s clothing were also taken and she drank half a bottle of tea while walking around the store.

King said she was bored, and she collected the cards and admitted she was going to leave without paying. The items totaled $252.07. She was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

• Micheal S. Lee, 33, of Des Moines, is charged with interference with official acts and consumption of alcohol in public place after authorities were called to 627 First St. S. at 5:21 a.m.

Friday. Officers were called about a suspicious male and found Lee who had an open bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade. After plac-

• 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.

• Book Signing by Dr. Tom Hoover will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Uncle Nancy’s in Newton. Hoover’s book is “How We Made The Gyrofoam, The Story of Two Midwestern Farm Boys Who Changed Washday Mondays Forever.” Copies of the book will be sold as well.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 8 p.m.

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

• 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 “Newton Update” by City Administrator Bob Knabel. 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, 721 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

• The Newton Lions Club will be working at the Newton Pizza Ranch on Wednesday for tips. Money raised will be used to help members of the Newton community with eyeglasses and hearing aids, as well as other projects. For further information contact Jeanine at 641521-9750.

• 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, 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m.

Wednesday at the Masonic Temple in Prairie City.

• Lambs Grove City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Newton.

• 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, 721 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

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

• Battlefield of the Mind women’s study will meet at 1 p.m. Friday at Hephzibah House, 721 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

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

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Police Blotter Newton Police Department • Nathan W. Dewar, 26, of Newton, is charged with unlawful possession prescription drug and possession of drug paraphernalia after authorities were called to 2901 Rusty Wallace Drive at 5:43 a.m. Wednesday. Officers were called about suspicious activity and found Dewar. He was being investigated about a possible burglary and officers found three pills that he did not have a prescription for. They also found a syringe on the floor of the vehicle he had been in. He was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

• Barbara A. Pence, 66, of Newton, is charged with failure to obey traffic control device after authorities were called to the intersection of First Avenue West and West Fourth Street North at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday. Allison Simmons was traveling west on First Avenue when Pence entered the intersection and her vehicle hit Simmons’ vehicle. She said she was looking at a sweet corn stand and did not realize that she had a red light. Pence had approximately $2,000 in damage and Simmons had approximately $1,200 in damage. She was cited and released to appear.

• Duane G. Loshaw, 45, of Newton, is charged with contempt, violation of no contact/ protective order and domestic abuse assault after authorities were called to 800 block of North Seventh Avenue West at 10:42 p.m. July 26. Loshaw allegedly entered the residence, grabbed the victim and shook her. He was

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ing the bottle on the roof of a car, he was instructed to pull his hands out of his pockets and turn around. He turned and ran with the officers chasing him. He ran behind the Newton Healthcare Center and officers lost sign of him. The Iowa State Patrol arrived and found him in the woods south of South Eighth Avenue East. He was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

• Leah G. Murphy, 24, of Newton, is charged with fifth-degree theft after authorities were called to Walmart at 5:09 p.m. Friday.

Officers spoke with employees who said Murphy concealed items from the store in her purse and tired to walk past the last point of sale. She was stopped by the employees and said she wanted some things she could not pay for. The items were various clothing and cosmetic items and totaled $37.54. She was cited and released to appear.

• Tiffany R. Huffaker, 28, is charged with fifth-degree theft after authorities were called to Walmart at 12:26 p.m. Saturday.

Officers spoke with loss prevention staff who saw Huffaker take a purse and then put HDMI cables inside of it. The items totaled $146.56. She was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

• Chad A. Shores, 45, of Newton, is charged with driving while license denied after authorities pulled him over at the intersection of South Fifth Avenue East and East 12th Street South at 1:54 a.m. Sunday. He was cited and released to appear.

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The concert begins at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Maytag Bowl. The concert is free and all ages welcome.

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Grandma feels disrespected when her advice is ignored DEAR ABBY: Whatever happened to respecting one’s elders and recognizing grandparents as head of the family? I recently returned from visiting my son, his wife and my new grandchild. My son’s wife and I had many disagreements on how to care for my grandchild. Instead of respecting my years of experience as a mother and appreciating my help, she chose to ignore my instructions and advice.

After I returned home, I was told by my son that I was no longer welcome to visit my grandchild unless I apologized to his wife for trying to undermine her parenting. I told him she should apologize to ME for not showing me respect as the grandmother.

How can I make my son see that it is his wife who is wrong, and not me?

— UNAPPRECIATED GRANDMA DEAR UNAPPRECIATED: It would be interesting to know how closely you adhered to your parents’ and in-laws’ parenting advice, because when your children came along I’ll bet you had your own ideas on the subject.

Showing respect and following your orders are not the same thing. It is a mother’s right to care for her baby as she sees fit, and you should show HER the respect she deserves by allowing her to do that and not turning it into a power struggle. Unless you do, you will be seeing very little of any of them.

DEAR ABBY: I’m 26 and still live with my mother, helping her with bills and rent. A couple of months ago I got an opportunity to move out, but the fear of leaving my mother alone with her medical conditions stopped me.

Now that I have another chance to move out and live alone, I don’t know how to tell her, or even if I should go.

When both of my sisters moved out, Mom got really depressed. My fear is she will find herself alone and try to

harm herself. What should I do? — YOUNG ADULT IN FLORIDA DEAR YOUNG ADULT: The mark of a successful parent is having raised her children to be self-sufficient.

Because you are afraid your mother might become so depressed she might harm herself if you move, you should discuss this with her physician and explore what social services in your community can do to help her adjust.

Many hospitals have social workers on staff, and that would be a place to start asking what is available.

DEAR ABBY: When we visit my parents’ graves, we always leave flowers. Invariably there are flowers also at my father’s — not put there by my wife and me. Because Dad has been gone since 1963, we can’t figure out who could be putting flowers on his grave only. My sister thinks he had a secret girlfriend. I don’t think so. What’s your opinion of this? — STUMPED IN SACRAMENTO DEAR STUMPED: Your dad is dead and gone. I assume he was good to your mother, and there wasn’t a breath of scandal. Why look for trouble where none exists? Suggest to your sister that she should focus on the positive, and be glad someone cared enough about him to continue to honor his memory.

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Father charged after baby rescued from hot car PELLA — A 33-year-old man has been accused of leaving his infant daughter inside a hot car in a central Iowa parking lot.

Court records say Trent Steinhart, of Sigourney, is charged with neglect or abandonment of a dependent person. He was arrested Saturday in Pella, where police say a passer-by spotted the baby alone in the locked car. Police say the heat index at the time was 92 degrees and that she’d been in the car for at least 15 minutes. Officers used a special tool to unlock the car door.

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Law enforcement student accidentally shoots herself JOHNSTON — An official says a student accidentally shot herself in a leg during a drill at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy in Johnston. The shooting occurred around 2:15 p.m. Monday.

Academy director Judy Bradshaw said the student shot herself in a thigh when drawing her gun during the drill. Bradshaw says the bullet went through the thigh and didn’t hit any bones.

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CORALVILLE — An attorney for a man accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old woman inside an Iowa mall says he wants his client’s upcoming trial to be moved to a different county.

Peter Persaud said at a hearing Monday that he will file a motion for a change of venue for 22-year-old Alexander Kozak’s trial. He says media attention of the June 12 shooting at Coral Ridge Mall will make it difficult to find an impartial jury in eastern Iowa.

IOWA CITY — A former University of Iowa wrestler has taken a plea deal in his Linn County burglaries case. Ross Lembeck, 19, pleaded guilty to being an accessory to a felony and to drunken driving. Prosecutors dismissed nine burglary counts and other charges in exchange for Lembeck’s pleas. He was fined more than $1,300 last month and was ordered to serve a weekend program on drunken driving.

Lembeck is one of three former Hawkeye wrestlers arrested to face burglary charges after several vehicle break-ins in Marion.

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DES MOINES — Federal officials say they cannot determine the cause of a fire that destroyed a historic downtown Des Moines building last year. A 36-page report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives states the origin of the fire at the former Younkers building in March 2014 is “undetermined.”

It says damage from the fire prevented a more extensive examination.

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National Park Service buries report on effigy mounds scandal The Associated Press IOWA CITY — The National Park Service has shelved a blistering internal report that details a “decade of dysfunction” as the agency allowed dozens of illegal construction projects to cause significant damage to an ancient Iowa burial ground that Indian tribes consider sacred.

Titled “Serious Mismanagement Report,” the document blasts the park service’s failed stewardship of the Effigy Mounds National Monument from 1999 to 2010 and says the case should serve as

a wakeup call for agency employees at all levels to avoid similar violations.

Last week, NPS deputy regional director Patricia Trap told a resident who requested a copy of the 15-page report that it didn’t exist. She later told The Associated Press that it did exist but hadn’t been “agency approved.” She said the document will contribute to — but be replaced by — another review that is looking at the root causes of problems as well as what went right during that time.

Critics say the agency is trying to suppress the harsh

Branstad touts STEM learning, defends education funding veto DES MOINES (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad touted Iowa’s progress with science, technology, engineering and math education Monday as he continued to defend his recent veto of some one-time education spending.

Branstad said he wants to provide resources to specific priorities, like programs focused on STEM disciplines. His comments came not long after he vetoed $55.7 million in one-time school funding, something educators have criticized, saying it will lead to larger class sizes and less money for supplies.

Branstad said he will not use one-time money for ongoing budget needs, calling it a bad budgeting practice. He also said the state is investing in other ways, including in early childhood reading and a teacher training program started under his watch.

“We want to become best in America again.

That’s going to take specific and strategic investments in education that focus on things that really make a difference,” Branstad said, speaking at a weekly news conference.

report to soften its findings.

“They’re trying to avoid accountability, which goes all the way to the director. That’s why this report ‘doesn’t exist,’” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which helped uncover the damaging projects.

“Apparently, the park service doesn’t want a wakeup call.”

The monument, in northeast Iowa along the Mississippi River, includes more than 200 ceremonial and burial mounds that are considered sacred to the descendants of the builders, who

are affiliated with numerous tribes.

The report says 78 construction projects costing a total of $3.4 million were approved there in violation of federal laws meant to protect archaeological resources and historic sites. The construction of boardwalks, bridges, roads and a shed damaged land around the mounds, and many had a “complete lack of compliance” as employees failed to conduct the mandatory environmental reviews and tribal consultation.

The report was written by a four-person review team

led by National Park Service special agent David Barland-Liles, who conducted a lengthy criminal investigation into the violations. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Cedar Rapids declined to charge then-superintendent Phyllis Ewing and monument maintenance chief Tom Sinclair with violating the Archaeological Resources Protection Act in 2012 after concluding the agency’s “weak and inappropriate initial response” undermined a criminal case and would make them sympathetic defendants, the report reveals.

Appeal planned in traffic camera lawsuit case The Associated Press DES MOINES — Seven car owners who claim Des Moines violated their constitutional rights when the city used a speed detection camera on Interstate 235 to issue traffic tickets plan to appeal a judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit, their attorneys said Monday.

“Our clients respectfully yet strongly disagree with the court’s ruling and I anticipate that an appeal will be filed to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals,” said Jim Larew, the Des Moines lawyer representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

A federal judge in Des Moines said in an order filed Friday that previous rulings by the Iowa Supreme Court and another federal judge in Cedar Rapids established the legality of automated traffic enforcement cameras. He concluded that claims made in

the lawsuit — that the cameras violate constitutional due process and equal protection rights and the right to freely travel through Des Moines — are without legal merit.

The cameras take pictures of speeding cars, and the owners are mailed a citation with a civil fine for speeding attached to the photos.

The judge said the radar speed cameras do not deprive drivers of due process or any fundamental liberty.

“Plaintiffs simply had no right to violate Iowa laws governing highway speed nor to disrespect the city’s reasonable method of detecting and penalizing speed violations with modest fines,” he wrote.

Des Moines City Attorney Jeff Lester said the city has ample authority to proceed with automated traffic enforcement.

“We are glad the Iowa Supreme Court and the federal district court agree with the city’s position on this vital public safety issue,” he said in a statement.

In February, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld Sioux City’s traffic camera ordinance. The justices concluded cities have a public interest in holding responsible the owner of a car issued speeding tickets by cameras. The court also rejected the argument that automated systems are an unreasonable exercise of police power.

State and federal courts in Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Tennessee and Ohio also have upheld automated traffic camera ordinances.

In the Cedar Rapids case, a federal judge found the city’s 2011 ordinance constitutional and dismissed the lawsuit brought by several Iowa and out-of-state drivers ticketed using the camera system.

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Burlington’s oldest cold case continues to baffle investigators

By Andy Hoffman Burlington Hawk Eye BURLINGTON — Sociopath. Sexual deviant. Serial killer.

While familiar terms today, they were chilling, terrifying, almost unexplainable to Burlington residents nearly a half century ago.

Local and state police used them to describe the person they believed raped, then killed a popular 48-year-old Burlington grandmother.

Dorothy Miller was found murdered Aug. 19, 1969, in a vacant two-story house in central Burlington.

Her unsolved killing is Burlington’s oldest cold case.

It will be 46 years next month since her death, but her case file remains open and every Burlington police officer who becomes a detective is familiar with the case.

“Everyone in the department still knows about it,” said Lt. Jeff Klein, commander of Burlington’s criminal investigation division.

“We send every officer to a two-week homicide school when they become a detective.

When they return from the school, we hand them the Dorothy Miller file and ask them to review it to see if we have missed anything.”

Despite those persistent efforts, Miller’s murder remains a mystery.

“About the only thing I am confident saying is we don’t believe the person responsible was from the Burlington area,” said

The Hawk Eye Photo Burlington police Lt. Jeff Klein opens the box of evidence from the 1969 murder of Burlington real estate agent Dorothy Miller Wednesday at the Burlington Police Department in Burlington. Miller was found murdered in a vacant two-story house in central Burlington. At the time, she was the only female real estate agent in Burlington. The murder is the city’s oldest unsolved case.

Klein, as he and Maj. Dennis Kramer, recently sifted through boxes of witness statements and photographs.

“It’s my belief it was an individual who happened to be passing through Burlington. Being the small community it is, something would have stood out about who was responsible if that person had been local.”

Investigators and area mental health experts at the time had the same conclusion. Coinciden-

tally, a carnival was in town that week.

The timeline “The murder seemed to be so well planned and carried out that I feel the killer is a sociopath with previous experience,” Harold B. Lee, a psychiatric social worker with the Southeast Iowa Mental Health Center, said a few days after police discovered Miller’s body.

The petite real-estate agent’s hands were

bound in front of her with a rope. After she was raped, Miller was bludgeoned with a brick, stabbed 22 times and left semi-naked in an upstairs closet of a vacant house she was showing at 118 Grand St. She was found the next morning by police after her husband, Fred Miller, reported her missing.

Detectives discovered a rope they believed was used to bind Miller and a brick used to beat her.

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Miller told police his wife left their home about 7 p.m. that evening to meet with a “prospective buyer” of a house for sale.

Unlike her normal routine showing property for Bolick Realty, Miller decided on this night to meet the potential buyer without a chaperone. She had met him once before, two days earlier, when they visited the same property.

Only that time, her husband accompanied her.

After talking with the man, who identified himself as Robert Clark, they agreed to meet again. Two days later, Clark called Miller. They agreed to meet at 7:30 p.m. to see the Grand Street home. Her husband of 29 years had to drive a truck early the next morning so he decided not to go with her that night.

Miller, who died in 2002 without knowing his wife’s killer, told police she had agreed to pick up Clark at the Maple Leaf Tavern, then

hood canvass that eventually led to more than 200 people being interviewed. However, no one could provide viable clues of her killer’s identity.

The Iowa State Bureau of Criminal Investigations was called for assistance. Investigators eventually cleared family, friends and acquaintances of Miller’s death.

But with that knowledge, investigators became fearful the murderer left the area and was making plans for his next victim.

It was clear to police the killing was not a random act of violence.

As investigators dug deeper into the killing, the one major clue they developed was a description of a stranger who was seen at the Maple Leaf Tavern, 904 Maple St., a few hours before the killing. Patrons there told police they had never seen the man before.

They described him as a 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-11, good-looking, clean-cut man between 20 and 30 years old. He weighed about 175 pounds.

The patrons said the

“We don’t believe the person responsible was from the Burlington area.”

— Lt. Jeff Klein, commander of Burlington’s criminal investigation division

drive to the vacant house.

Miller told police he went to sleep about 8:30 p.m. and when he woke up about 5:30 a.m. and realized his wife had not returned home, he called his daughter, Patricia Craven. They drove to the Maple Leaf Tavern, where they found Miller’s car parked a block away.

They immediately drove to the police station to report her missing.

Not a random act of violence Burlington detectives went to the vacant house and found her body.

The Burlington Police Department, which had 32 full-time officers, including two detectives in 1969, began a neighbor-

D&D Continued from Page 1A With the sale of the property, the city will no longer be responsible for maintenance including regular mowing, which is approximately $2,500 per year.

It also returns the property to the tax base.

“I think what he is proposing here is what we need in a lot of other areas throughout town,” council member Jeff Price said.

The council also accepted two abandoned properties at the meeting: one located at 603 E. Fourth St. N. and the other at 315 E. 12th St. S. As a part of the efforts associated with the housing initiative, the city identified those two properties as meeting the criteria of an abandoned building. Using Iowa Code 657A.10A, the city petitioned the court for the titles of the prop-

man was driving a dull, black cab-over engine pickup truck. The only thing he mentioned was he was from the Des Moines area and planned to move to Burlington.

Interestingly, investigators determined Clark had Miller call him at the Maple Leaf to set up the showing. Witnesses reported seeing Clark leave the tavern shortly after receiving a telephone call.

Police reports indicate witnesses saw Clark leave the tavern, go to a black truck and remove an unidentified object. A few minutes later, other witnesses saw Miller pick up Clark as he walked outside Riepe Pharmacy at 918 Maple St. erties, both owned by Duane Carlson.

“Staff has found that this section of code has been a useful tool utilized across the state,” city administrator Bob Knabel said. “The process provides a more permanent solution in dealing with and cleaning up properties that are stuck in a constant state of abandonment for various reasons.”

On July 2, the court ruled in favor of the city. There were no acquisition costs other than legal fees which totaled $7,700 for both properties.

Carlson did file an appeal to the judge’s ruling on July 29 for both properties. Upon completion of the appeal process, if it is found favorable for the city, plans are to move forward with the demolition of the properties.

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By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News Junior Drew Stout played the “hot corner” for Newton High’s Cardinals this baseball season. Tyler Wood had a strong senior campaign on the mound and at shortstop for the Cardinals.

The two NHS players were among the six unanimous selections to the 2015 All-Little Hawkeye Conference baseball first team. The conference coaches’ selections were announced this week.

Stout was named to the first team as an infielder and Wood as an utility player. Five other Newton players received recognition from the conference coaches — senior Jordan Travis as pitcher, sophomore Connor Gholson as infielder and senior Jeff Stanton as an outfielder on the second team and seniors Mike McCormick and Michael Barr earned honorable mention honors.

Newton finished fourth in the Little Hawkeye Conference at 9-6 behind Pella at 15-3, Oskaloosa 11-7 and Dallas Center-Grimes at 10-8. Norwalk posted a 7-9 conference mark followed by Grinnell at 4-13 and Pella Christian at 4-14.

Several conference games were rained out for the season.

Pella and Dallas Center-Grimes advanced to the Iowa Class 3A state tournament, facing each other in the first round. Pella won 2-1, then lost to Harlan, 6-5, in the semifinals.

The other unanimous selections were Grant Judkins, Marcus Wittmer and Tyler Hillman of Pella and Jacob Mueller of Dallas Center-Grimes.

Stout was a steady force for the Cardinals at third base all season.

He finished with an .885 fielding average for the season. Stout was credited with 25 putouts and 52 assists, and had 10 errors. Routine was the rallying cry for the Cardinals in 2015 — make the routine plays — and they had 26 errors in conference play, which was third best in the LHC, and 44 overall.

Pella had 17 errors in LHC play and 44 for the season. Pella Christian had 24 errors in conference play.

Stout had an on-base percentage of .395 and finished in the top 15 in stolen base attempts — 11 of 13. He led the Cardinals in runs scored with

Drew Stout, First Team

Tyler Wood, First Team

Jordan Travis, Second Team

Jeff Stanton, Second Team 24. Stout and Wood tied for most hits on the team at 32. Stout had two doubles and drove in six runs.

Wood is a three-time All-LHC first-team selection. He pitched and played shortstop for Newton.

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Michael Barr, Honorable Mention

Ehn takes over PCM volleyball program

By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News Prairie City-Monroe Activities Director Greg Bonnett admitted to being worried about who was going to guide the Mustangs’ volleyball program this fall after Mollie Keitges put in her resignation.

Then longtime volleyball coach Krystal Ehn “fell into his lap.”

“I was worried about finding a reEhn placement, but things worked out well for us,” Bonnett said. “I really liked what I saw from coach Ehn at an open gym. She will relate well with the kids.”

Ehn will take over PCM’s volleyball program after serving the last four years as a Collins-Maxwell/ Baxter assistant coach.

Ehn had coached at the lower levels before but feels she is ready to

make the jump to the varsity level.

“I am ready to take on the responsibilities and challenges that come with coaching a varsity team,” Ehn said. “I am excited to be a part of PCM’s amazing athletic programs.”

Ehn takes over for Keitges, who guided PCM to a 9-25 record last year.

The Mustangs lost nine of their final 11 matches and will have to replace its top producer in kills, aces and digs in Courtney VanHouweling.

They also lost Mackenzie Clarke (328 digs) and Emma Williams (114 assists) to graduation.

“We lost three starters to graduation, but we return a very skilled and strong core of players,” Ehn said.

“We should be in pretty good shape.”

Ehn hasn’t had a chance to work with her players all summer like some other programs, but the Mustangs had two to three open gyms per week in July and attended a scrimmage camp at Central last week.

“I will coach the kids in a positive way,” Ehn said. “We want to be skill

oriented, and I need to make sure the players are game ready every day. Focusing on improving our weaknesses is also something I will do regularly. We want to find a good mesh of players that enjoy working well with each other.”

Ehn was the Raiders’ head JV coach the past three years and served as the freshman coach during her first year at CMB. She will remain a special education teacher at Baxter Community Schools, but she lives in Monroe and her daughter graduated from PCM and played on the Mustang volleyball team.

Despite losing VanHouweling, Clarke and Williams to graduation, Ehn brings back four of her top six attackers, including senior Ashley Van Gorp (139 kills) and junior Katie VandeWall (99 kills), as well as junior Kayla Jennings (134 assists) and sophomore Regan Olson (49 kills).

The Heart of Iowa Conference’s 10-team league in 2015 consisted of four Class 3A schools, five 2A programs and one 1A team.

Collins-Maxwell/Baxter junior pitcher Brady Stover wasn’t prejudiced

against any class. He dominated nearly every opponent he faced this year on his way to earning second team all-state honors by the Iowa Newspaper Association.

In his first start of the year against 3A Greene County (19-11), Stover allowed four hits and two earned runs while striking

This & That

Iowa Speedway rolls out red carpet for Kenny Wallace’s final race

during his third start of the year. Against the Norse, who advanced to this year’s state tournament, the junior lefty fanned nine and allowed four hits in a complete-game win that went just 5 1/3 innings.

His toughest challenge came on June 15 when the STOVER | 2B

WALLACE | 2B

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out 15.

The Rams went 19-11 on the year but didn’t have an answer for Stover’s stuff on that night.

In his next start, Stover struck out 13 and allowed only one hit in a win over 2A South Hamilton.

If that wasn’t convincing enough, Stover dominated 2A Roland-Story (25-15)

Mike McCormick, Honorable Mention

There wasn’t any particular reason why Kenny Wallace chose Iowa Speedway for his final race. But if the NASCAR veteran had to do it all over again, I imagine he wouldn’t change a thing.

Wallace was given the red-carpet treatment this past weekend. And he soaked up every second of it.

The only thing that would have made his weekend better would have been driving his No. 20 U.S. Cellular By Troy Hyde Toyota into victory lane. Newton Daily Even with a great race News car, Wallace, who admit- Sports Writer ted to being a ‘B’ driver during a press conference on Friday, needed a lot of things to go his way to pull off a win in his final race.

But it wasn’t all about the win.

Wallace was greeted with a #ThanksKenny billboard above Turn 2, and he had a few #ThanksKenny signs placed along the inside of the pit road wall so all fans in attendance could see them.

He was grand marshal of Friday’s NASCAR K&N Pro Series race, which also was named the #ThanksKenny 150 in his name.

“This is great,” Wallace said to Iowa Speedway President Jimmy Small just

CMB’s Stover tabbed for INA second team all-state

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Connor Gholson, Second Team

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Honors Continued from Page 1B Wood was 6-4 on the mound with a 1.99 earned run average. He led the team with 42 strikeouts in 59 2/3 innings of work. He allowed 45 hits and 29 runs. Wood had six errors defensively. He had a .937 fielding average.

Wood made 39 putouts and had 50 assists.

Wood finished with a .330 batting average, which led the team and was 11th in the LHC. He had a .412 slugging percentage and a .381 on-base percentage. Wood led the team with six doubles and had one triple. He had 14 RBIs and scored 21 runs. Wood was 8 of 9 on stolen base attempts.

Travis earned second-team honors as a pitcher for the Cardinals. He also played catcher and in right field. Travis went 4-5 on the mound and had one save. He ended up with a 1.98 ERA, allowing 57 hits and 24 runs in 56 2/3 innings of work. He racked up 41 strikeouts, and he walked 19 and hit five batters.

Travis tied with Barr with the top slugging percentage, .465, for the team, which put them tied for 11th in the conference. Travis was a .319 hitter with 22 hits, three doubles, two triples and one home run. He scored nine runs and had 12 RBIs. As a catcher for the Cardinals, Travis threw out 10 base runners in 12 stole base attempts against him. That was the third most runners thrown out by a conference catcher behind Jayden Gibson of Grinnell with 16 and Newton teammate Duncan Lee with 13.

Gholson was named to the second team as an infielder playing shortstop for Newton. He also pitched for the Cardinals. He ended with a .924 fielding average and seven errors defensively.

Gholson hit at a .258 clip with an on-base average of .313. He had 23 hits, and had five doubles, 10 RBIs and scored 18 runs. He was 5 of 6 on stolen base attempts. As a pitcher, he went 5-1 and had one save with a 2.03 ERA. He pitched 51 2/3 innings, gave up 50 hits 15 walks and 21 runs while striking out 35 batters.

Wood, Travis and Gholson were fourth, fifth and eighth, respectively, in most innings pitched for the conference pitchers.

Stanton patrolled center field for the Cardinals and was recognized with second-team honors as an outfielder. He ended up with a .969 fielding averages and had two errors. Stanton had a .237 batting average and a .324 onbase average. He had 22 hits, two doubles and one triple. Stanton stole five bases and drove in

Stover Continued from Page 1B Raiders traveled to 3A No. 6 Gilbert. But once again, Stover was up to the challenge.

Despite walking six batters, Stover allowed five hits and struck out 13 in a 4-3 loss.

Stover gave his team a 3-0 lead through Stover 5 1/2 innings, but Gilbert (30-5) plated four runs in its final two atbats to steal the win. Stover only gave up two earned runs in the game.

Unfortunately, that effort took a toll on Stover, whose pitch count reached more than 140.

Stover, a South Dakota State recruit, needed a few weeks of rest to an injured shoulder after that loss, but not even that slowed down the Raider ace.

His next two appearances came in relief.

Stover fanned all six batters he faced in two innings of work against South Hamilton

www.newtondailynews.com | Tuesday | Aug. 4, 2015 five runs.

McCormick was Newton’s starting second baseman with a .951 fielding average. He was credited with 38 putouts and 59 assists, and made five errors.

McCormick had an on-base average of.340 and was 11 of 11 on stolen base opportunities.

He drew 10 walks and had 21 hits. He cranked out five doubles, scored nine runs and drove in nine runs. He had a .253 batting average.

Newton had just three home runs for the season. Barr, who was tied with Travis with the top slugging percentage on the team, delivered two of them. He finished as a .319 hitter.

A shoulder injury sidelined Barr for a couple of weeks this season. He had 22 hits, two doubles and one triple. He drove in 10 runs and scored 10 runs. He played first base early in the season with no errors with 40 putouts and two assists. Barr was the designated hitter at the end of the season.

Contact Jocelyn Sheets at 641-792-3121 ext. 6535 or jsheets@newtondailynews.com 2015 Little Hawkeye Conference All-Conference Baseball Selections First Team *Grant Judkins, Pella, Jr., pitcher Cole Baker, Dallas Center-Grimes, Sr., pitcher Cole Rice, Norwalk, Sr., catcher *Drew Stout, Newton, Jr., infielder *Marcus Wittmer, Pella, Sr., infielder *Tyler Hillman, Pella, So., infielder Peyton Crouse, Oskaloosa, So., infielder *Jacob Mueller, Dallas Center-Grimes, Sr., outfielder Jason Holwerda, Pella Christian, Sr., outfielder Avery Van Zee, Pella, Fr., outfielder *Tyler Wood, Newton, Sr., utility Tanner Wood, Pella, Sr., utility Dillon Branderhorst, Pella Christian, Sr., utility *unanimous selection Second Team Jordan Travis, Newton, Sr., pitcher Justin Fisher, Norwalk, Sr., pitcher Scott Haveman, Pella Christian, So., catcher Connor Gholson, Newton, So., infielder Ethan Arnold, Oskaloosa, So., infielder Austin Kloewer, Dallas Center-Grimes, Jr., infielder Garrett Jay, Grinnell, Sr., infielder Noah Daniels, Norwalk, Sr., outfielder Jeff Stanton, Newton, Sr., outfielder Colton Swanson, Oskaloosa, Sr., outfielder Klay Klocko, Norwalk, Jr., utility Parker Schutt, Dallas Center-Grimes, Sr., utility T.J. Boyle, Oskaloosa, Sr., utility Honorable Mention: Newton-Mike McCormick, Sr., Michael Barr, Sr.; Pella-Lucas Hileman, Jr., Landon Vander Leest, Fr.; Oskaloosa-Joe Sterner, Jr., Mitchell Schaffner, Sr.; Dallas Center-Grimes-Matt Graham, Sr., Tanner Draisey, Jr.; Norwalk-Sam Acri, Sr., Ryan Kennedy, So.; Grinnell-Luke Rodabush, So., Matt Wray, Sr.; Pella Christian-Kade Vander Molen, Fr., Jaden Rolffs, Fr.

and then tossed the final three innings and struck out eight in recording the save against 1A Colfax-Mingo.

The next time he walked up on the mound was in the 2A playoffs, and he threw in all three of CMB’s postseason games.

In the Raiders’ opener, Stover came on in relief against Madrid and earned the win after allowed two hits no earned runs with three strikeouts over the final 2 1/3 innings.

His best performance of the year may have come in an upset win over top-seeded and host Ogden in the district semifinals.

In that 5-3 win, Stover allowed three hits and three earned runs while fanning 15.

Then in the district finals against HOIC rival North Polk, Stover entered the game in the third inning and shut down the defending champions in the final four innings of a 4-3 loss.

He trailed 4-2 when he entered the game and gave the Raiders a chance to rally following a five-hit, two-walk, six-strikeout performance.

Stover averaged more than two strikeouts per inning in 2015 as he fanned 91 over 44

1/3. He ended up 5-2 with one save and had an earned run average of 1.58. Opponents hit only .171 against him.

Stover’s two losses came against 3A schools — Gilbert and Saydel.

And his only poor start of the year came against the Eagles when he was working through a shoulder injury.

Pella’s Grant Judkins and Tanner Wood and Dallas Center-Grimes’ Cole Baker were all first-team picks in 3A. Earning a spot on the 3A third-team was Gilbert’s Evan Johnson and Nick Day as well as Saydel’s Devin Porter and Pella’s Marcus Wittmer.

Roland-Story junior Tyler Hovick was a third-teamer in 2A. BGM’s Tanner Jansen earned third-team honors in 1A. The captains in each class were: Kaden Wadle of Mason City Newman Catholic (1A), Brock Adams of Clear Lake (2A), Jake Velky of Waverly-Shell Rock (3A) and Zach Daniels of Cedar Rapids Kennedy (4A).

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Chiefs’ Charles finally feeling healthy again ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Jamaal Charles had holes in his shoes on the first day of training camp.

The Chiefs running back was trying out a new pair, and they apparently were a bit tight in the toes. So Charles made incisions on each shoe that allowed his big toe to poke though.

Entering his eighth year in the league, they might be the only holes in his game.

Charles is coming off his third consecutive 1,000-yard season, despite battling nagging injuries all year. He also had at least 35 receptions for the third straight year.

“It’s a compliment,” Charles said of the attention. “As long as I play in this league, and play on a high level, I always

feel like a team is going to have to stop me. I feel like sometimes I’m the LeBron ( James) of football, especially at my position because I can do so much.”

Provided Charles is healthy, of course.

He missed most of the 2011 season after tearing his ACL, then dealt with one injury after another last season, even if he never let on to them.

It began during the offseason program when he picked up some bumps and bruises.

It continued in training camp, when he bruised a foot while carrying a box out of Scanlon Hall when the team was finishing workouts at Missouri Western.

And then when the season began, it seemed like just

about every week there was a new ailment, some more serious than others.

The Chiefs understand how important Charles is to a successful season.

So to ensure he’s on the field late in the year, when Kansas City hopes to be in the playoff hunt, the teams’ brain trust spent much of the offseason dreaming up ways to keep him healthy, not only in training camp but beyond.

“You want to make sure he is healthy late in the season,” offensive coordinator Doug Pederson said, “so if that means giving a guy like Knile Davis some reps — whatever you have to do, number one, to keep him healthy for 16 games, and you do that each week.”

Troy Hyde/Daily News NASCAR Xfinity driver Kenny Wallace signed a lot of autographs this past weekend at Iowa Speedway as he was competing in his final Xfinity race.

Wallace Continued from Page 1B before saying “drivers, start your engines” on Friday night. “I have never been treated so well in my career.

This has been fun.

“I am more proud and honored than anything else.

It’s a neat deal.”

It wasn’t all fun. When he wasn’t running practice laps on Friday or qualifying or driving his Toyota in the U.S. Cellular 250 on Saturday, he was speaking to the media, signing autographs and trying to find time to hang with his family in an Iowa Speedway suite.

“I told my wife (Thursday), and I wasn’t mean by any means, I said, ‘OK, y’all have to let me race now.’ It’s been a little difficult. I didn’t think it was going to be,” Wallace said.

“I’ve had people call and ask, ‘Can you get me in the Newton Club?’ And I’m like, ‘Really? The most important race of my life and you’re calling me for damn tickets?’”

If you were around Wallace at all on Friday, you could tell he was having fun.

He introduced himself at a Friday press conference before a NASCAR official was even ready for the presser to start.

“Oh sorry, you can do your job now,” Wallace said to the official with a smile

and his famous laugh attached.

He posed for numerous pictures, signed plenty of autographs and did his own unique version of “drivers, start your engines.”

There wasn’t much he would have changed about the weekend, except maybe a better finish.

But why choose to retire now? And why do it at Iowa Speedway?

“Everyone (else) is afraid to say they’re done and, hell, I’m just done,” the 52-yearold Wallace said. “It’s like taking an orange and squeezing it, and there’s no more to come out. I’m real happy and I love this sport, but to be honest with you, I’m exhausted trying to find money. For me, at my age to drive a car, you’ve got to bring money.

“All these things collectively; it’s just the right time.”

Wallace competed in 900 races in NASCAR’s three biggest series, including a record 547 starts in the Xfinity Series.

His final race ended with two spin outs and a 15thplace finish.

“I am trying to do this on Kenny time,” Wallace said.

“I’d be lying to you if I said I wasn’t a little bit nervous. I wanted to perform.”

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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 59 45 .567 — Baltimore 54 51 .514 5½ Toronto 55 52 .514 5½ Tampa Bay 53 54 .495 7½ Boston 47 59 .443 13 Central Division

W L Pct GB Kansas City 62 42 .596 — Minnesota 54 51 .514 8½ Detroit 51 54 .486 11½ Chicago 50 54 .481 11 Cleveland 48 57 .457 14½ West Division

W L Pct GB Houston 60 47 .561 — Los Angeles 56 49 .533 3 Texas 52 53 .495 7 Seattle 49 58 .458 11 Oakland 47 60 .439 13 Monday’s Games Toronto 5, Minnesota 1 Texas 12, Houston 9 Tampa Bay 5, Chicago White Sox 4 Seattle 8, Colorado 7 Baltimore 9, Oakland 2 L.A. Angels 5, Cleveland 4 Tuesday’s Games Boston (Owens 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 7-4),6:05 p.m.

Minnesota (P.Hughes 10-6) at Toronto (Estrada 8-6), 6:07 p.m.

Kansas City (D.Duffy 4-5) at Detroit (Verlander 1-3), 6:08 p.m.

Houston (Fiers 0-0) at Texas (Gallardo 7-9), 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 9-8) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 9-6), 7:10 p.m.

Seattle (Nuno 0-0) at Colorado (J.Gray 0-0), 7:40 p.m.

Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 9-7) at Oakland (Bassitt 0-4), 9:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 11-8) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 5-7), 9:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay at Chicago White Sox, 1:10 p.m.

Seattle at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Oakland, 2:35 p.m.

Cleveland at L.A. Angels, 2:35 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 6:08 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

National League East Division

W L Pct GB New York 56 50 .528 — Washington 54 50 .519 1 Atlanta 48 58 .453 8 Miami 43 63 .406 13 Philadelphia 41 65 .387 15 Central Division

W L Pct GB St. Louis 67 38 .638 — Pittsburgh 61 43 .587 5½ Chicago 57 47 .548 9½ Cincinnati 47 56 .456 19 Milwaukee 44 63 .411 24 West Division

W L Pct GB Los Angeles 60 45 .571 — San Francisco 57 48 .543 3 San Diego 52 54 .491 8½ Arizona 51 53 .490 8½ Colorado 44 60 .423 15½ Monday’s Games Arizona 6, Washington 4 Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, ppd., rain N.Y. Mets 12, Miami 1 Atlanta 9, San Francisco 8, 12 innings San Diego 13, Milwaukee 5 Seattle 8, Colorado 7 Tuesday’s Games Arizona (Corbin 2-3) at Washington (Scherzer 11-8), 6:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 11-6) at Pittsburgh (Happ 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 7-6) at Philadelphia (J.Williams 3-8), 6:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Niese 5-9) at Miami (B.Hand 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Peavy 2-4) at Atlanta (S.Miller 5-8), 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lackey 9-6) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 6-7), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (Cashner 4-10) at Milwaukee (Nelson 8-9), 7:10 p.m.

Seattle (Nuno 0-0) at Colorado (J.Gray 0-0), 7:40 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Seattle at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

Arizona at Washington, 6:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Miami, 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Atlanta, 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m.

San Diego at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

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U...................................$3,306.00 DOERRING, BRET SE...................................$119.05 DOORS INC S/R..................................$169.00 DOUGHERTY, ROD SE...................................$142.50 DRINOUSKY, SHAWN SE.....................................$95.00 DUKE AERIAL EQUIPMENT INC S...................................$1,189.60 DUNCAN, DUANE SE.....................................$90.00 DW TREE SERVICE SE...................................$150.00 EARL MAY SEED & NURSERY S......................................$880.02 EASON, TYLER SE.....................................$95.00 ECHO GROUP INC S...................................$1,469.99 EDGAR, WILLIAM SE...................................$482.31 ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING S.................................$13,015.46 ELLIS, KATHY SE.....................................$74.30 EMPOWER TANZANIA INC S......................................$184.00 ENYART, SCOTT SE...................................$436.73 ERICSON, DAVE SE.....................................$95.00 ETTER, LARRY SE.......................................$5.35 EXLEY, LAURA SE.....................................$27.20 EZ LEASE INC E......................................$100.00 FAREWAY S...................................$1,383.38 FARNER-BOCKEN CO S...................................$1,125.09 FARVER'S TRUE VALUE S/R..................................$307.24 FARVER, CAROL SE.....................................$57.98 FASTENAL COMPANY S...................................$1,811.52 FELD, MARK SE.....................................$95.00 FIRE SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES S......................................$530.75 FISHER SCIENTIFIC E...................................$1,357.01 FISHER, MARK SE.......................................$3.60 FITZGERALD, TOM SE.....................................$50.00 FLAG STORE S........................................$99.95 FLIPPEN GROUP LLC SE..............................$26,300.00 FOLLETT SCHOOL SOLUTIONS INC S...................................$2,023.62 FORBES OFFICE SOLUTIONS E...................................$3,548.39 FREHSE, MEGAN SE.....................................$95.78 FRK ARCHITECTS SE..............................$45,415.45 FRIEDMAN, ROBYN SE...................................$500.00 FRONTLINE TECHNOLOGIES S......................................$583.73 FRYE, DENNIS SE...................................$210.00 FULLER, BRETT SE...................................$105.00 GARVIS, SCOTT SE.....................................$40.00 GBC S......................................$281.02 GEARHART, JILL SE.....................................$40.67 GILBERT, JAMES SE.....................................$89.45

FARVER'S TRUE VALUE S/R..................................$307.24 FARVER, CAROL SE.....................................$57.98 FASTENAL COMPANY S...................................$1,811.52 FELD, MARK SE.....................................$95.00 FIRE SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES S......................................$530.75 FISHER SCIENTIFIC E...................................$1,357.01 FISHER, MARK SE.......................................$3.60 FITZGERALD, TOM SE.....................................$50.00 FLAG STORE S........................................$99.95 FLIPPEN GROUP LLC SE..............................$26,300.00 FOLLETT SCHOOL SOLUTIONS INC S...................................$2,023.62 FORBES OFFICE SOLUTIONS E...................................$3,548.39 FREHSE, MEGAN SE.....................................$95.78 FRK ARCHITECTS SE..............................$45,415.45 FRIEDMAN, ROBYN SE...................................$500.00 FRONTLINE TECHNOLOGIES S......................................$583.73 FRYE, DENNIS SE...................................$210.00 FULLER, BRETT SE...................................$105.00 GARVIS, SCOTT SE.....................................$40.00 GBC S......................................$281.02 GEARHART, JILL SE.....................................$40.67 GILBERT, JAMES SE.....................................$89.45 GORZNEY-COMER, JOLENE SE.....................................$68.58 GRAINGER INC S......................................$122.90 GRANT, DENISE SE.....................................$10.93 GRAPHIC EDGE S......................................$323.23 GREAT AMERICAN OPPORTUNITIES S...................................$3,242.90 GRIMM, MARLYS SE...................................$930.00 GRINNELL-NEWBURG COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT T.................................$21,423.50 GUNSAULUS, MICHAELA SE...................................$151.63 GUTHRIE, SHARI SE...................................$114.00 GUTIERREZ, AGUSTIN SE.....................................$95.00 GUY, JEAN SE.....................................$15.45 GYM CLOSET S......................................$840.03

SE................................$9,271.08 JACK, MYRON SE.....................................$90.00 JACOBS ELECTRIC & AUTO INC S/R..................................$122.33 JACOBSEN, COLLIN SE...................................$310.00 JASPER CONSTRUCTION SERVICES INC R...................................$1,578.21 JF AHERN CO S......................................$250.00 JOHN BENNETT CREATIVE SERVICES S......................................$190.19 JOHN DEERE FINANCIAL S...................................$1,484.66 JOHNSON CONTROLS INC S...................................$3,875.50 JOHNSON, DOUG SE.....................................$90.00 JOHNSON, JESSICA SE.....................................$19.73 JOLIVETTE, AMY SE.....................................$57.65 JONES, MELISSA SE.....................................$75.90 JONES, SCOTT SE.......................................$1.25 JOSTENS SE................................$3,246.77 JW PEPPER & SON INC S...................................$1,231.97 KABEL BUSINESS SERVICES SE...................................$315.70 KALKHOFF, DAVID SE.....................................$40.00 KCOB AM/FM SE.....................................$90.00 KECK INC S...................................$2,789.40 KEY COOPERATIVE S.................................$26,298.15 KRAMER, JASON SE...................................$105.00 KRAMPIEN, JASON SE...................................$105.00 KU CENTER FOR RESEARCH SE...................................$375.00 KU CENTER FOR TSEM LEARNING SE................................$2,500.00 KUSTER, JENNI SE.....................................$21.25 LAKEMARY CENTER INC S...................................$7,768.08 LAKESHORE E......................................$969.30 LANGER, LINDSEY SE...................................$142.50 LANGER, ROB SE.....................................$95.00 LARMIE,RONNIE SE.....................................$95.00 LASER IMPRESSIONS INC S......................................$138.30 LASER RESOURCES E...................................$3,773.97 LATCHAM, CORI SE.....................................$58.08 LEARNING POST S......................................$307.19 LEARNING SHOP SE.....................................$91.32 LEE,WILLIAM SE.....................................$47.50 LIEBL, JOLENE SE.......................................$4.80 LILEY,BILL SE...................................$375.20 COMM LYNNVILLE-SULLY SCHOOL DISTRICT T...............................$100,925.76 M-F ATHLETIC COMPANY S........................................$24.00 MADISON ALL4YOU LLC S......................................$473.98 MADISON NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO SE.....................................$22.32 MARK'S DANCEWEAR S...................................$1,064.24 MARSHALLTOWN SEWING CENTER E...................................$1,050.00 MARTIN BROS DIST CO S.................................$33,629.90 MASTER TEACHER S......................................$497.27 MATCO TOOLS S........................................$34.21 MATTINGLY MUSIC STORE S/R..................................$823.90 MAUCH, LOREN SE.....................................$90.00 MCCAREY, ROBERT SE.....................................$18.55 MCCORMICK, BOB SE.....................................$49.10 MCLENNAN, MEGAN SE...................................$134.10 MCNEER, DAVID SE.......................................$2.75 MEREDITH, PAIGE SE...................................$125.00 MEYER, KRISTI SE...................................$500.00 MID AMERICAN RESEARCH CHEMICAL S......................................$293.05 MIDWEST BUS PARTS INC S...................................$1,092.93 MIDWEST WHEEL S......................................$905.70 MILLER, JON SE.....................................$90.00 MILLER, TOM SE...................................$200.00 MILLS, HAROLD SE.....................................$59.62 MNJ TECHNOLOGIES DIRECT INC S........................................$98.00 MOMENTUM MEDIA S...................................$1,683.00 MOO'S BBQ S......................................$865.00 MORGAN, ALLISON SE.....................................$88.49 MTI DISTRIBUTING S......................................$194.11 MULCH MART LLC S......................................$478.00 MULLINS, JOHN SE.....................................$95.00 MUMM, SEBETHA SE...................................$595.00 MUSIC SERVICES E........................................$45.00 MUTUAL WHEEL R......................................$161.62 NAPA AUTO PARTS S/R...............................$1,468.28 NASC/NASSP S........................................$95.00 NATIONAL CHEERLEADERS ASSN SE................................$2,736.00 NATIONAL FFA ORGANIZATION SE................................$1,365.93 NCEF SE................................$2,127.36 NDA SUMMER CAMPS S...................................$5,918.00 NEFF COMPANY S......................................$166.30 NEOPOST INC S...................................$1,125.09 NETSUPPORT INC S......................................$443.16 NEVADA COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT SE...................................$100.00 NEW LIFE CARPET & FLOOR CARE SE...................................$272.40 NEWS 2 YOU INC S......................................$154.00 NEWS PRINTING CO SE................................$2,209.82 NEWTON ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDEN SE.....................................$75.00 NEWTON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB SE................................$5,320.00 NEWTON CLINIC SE...................................$699.00 NEWTON COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT SE..............................$11,851.30 NEWTON MANUFACTURING S......................................$830.58 NICK'S DJ SERVICE SE...................................$350.00 NOBLE FORD OF NEWTON S/R.............................$72,547.32 NORSOLV S/R...............................$1,816.80 NORTH MAHASKA COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT T...................................$2,448.40 NORTH TAMA COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT T...................................$1,377.23 NORVELL, JENNIFER SE...................................$211.40 NPC INTERNATIONAL S........................................$22.49 NUNNIKHOVEN, JUDY SE.....................................$22.62 O'HALLORAN INTERNATIONAL INC S/R...............................$4,147.13 O'KEEFE ELEVATOR R......................................$834.49 O'LEAR, ELIZABETH SE.....................................$70.27 O'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE STORES INC S/R...............................$1,381.10 O'ROAKE, CHERYL SE...................................$198.54 OLIVER & ANDY'S BOOK CO

NEWTON ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDEN SE.....................................$75.00 NEWTON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB SE................................$5,320.00 NEWTON CLINIC SE...................................$699.00 NEWTON COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT SE..............................$11,851.30 NEWTON MANUFACTURING S......................................$830.58 NICK'S DJ SERVICE SE...................................$350.00 NOBLE FORD OF NEWTON S/R.............................$72,547.32 NORSOLV S/R...............................$1,816.80 NORTH MAHASKA COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT T...................................$2,448.40 NORTH TAMA COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT T...................................$1,377.23 NORVELL, JENNIFER SE...................................$211.40 NPC INTERNATIONAL S........................................$22.49 NUNNIKHOVEN, JUDY SE.....................................$22.62 O'HALLORAN INTERNATIONAL INC S/R...............................$4,147.13 O'KEEFE ELEVATOR R......................................$834.49 O'LEAR, ELIZABETH SE.....................................$70.27 O'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE STORES INC S/R...............................$1,381.10 O'ROAKE, CHERYL SE...................................$198.54 OLIVER & ANDY'S BOOK CO INC S...................................$2,645.10 ORIENTAL TRADING CO INC S......................................$269.98 OSBORNE, JEFF SE...................................$210.00 OSWALT, DIANE SE.......................................$2.60

S......................................$110.00 SMITH'S SEWER SERVICE SE................................$1,220.00 SMITH, TIM SE...................................$210.00 SOCIAL STUDIES SCHOOL SERVICE S......................................$106.21 SOENEN, MIKE SE...................................$105.00 SOFTWARE UNLIMITED INC SE................................$4,300.00 SOLUTION TREE S......................................$108.35 SOMMARS, MELISSA SE.....................................$45.02 SOULE, DARCY SE.......................................$3.97 SOUTH TAMA COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT SE.....................................$65.00 SOUTHEAST POLK HIGH SCHOOL SE...................................$120.00 SPAHN & ROSE LUMBER S/R..................................$869.50 SPORT SUPPLY GROUP INC S......................................$189.46 SPORTDECALS INC S......................................$641.05 SPRINGER, JENNIFER SE.....................................$44.95 SPROUSE, LAURIE SE.....................................$99.69 STACY'S SWEET STUFF SE.....................................$85.00 STAPLES ADVANTAGE S...................................$1,104.48 STATE STEEL OF DES MOINES S......................................$242.40 STOULIL, DEBRA SE.....................................$56.00 STRATTON, DEBRA SE.......................................$2.00 STRUIK, DARLENE SE.....................................$13.26 STUETELBERG, JAY SE.......................................$8.55 SUBWAY SE...................................$144.00 SUPER 8 MOTEL SE...................................$440.09 SUPPLY WORKS S.................................$30,761.24 SWANSON, LENETTE SE.....................................$13.80 TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC INC S........................................$15.00 TBB & M LLC C.................................$12,635.00 TEACHER DIRECT S........................................$75.28 TEACHER'S DISCOVERY S......................................$312.13 TEAMBUILDER LLC S......................................$500.00 TEKK INTERNATIONAL INC S...................................$1,431.00 THOMAS BUS SALES OF IOWA E......................................$120.81 TIFFANY, CURT SE.....................................$35.10 TIMECLOCK PLUS E.................................$12,356.11 TOLEDO PE SUPPLY CO S......................................$379.82 TOMAS, RACHEL SE.....................................$29.00 TOWNSEND PRESS BOOK CENTER S......................................$136.76 TREASURER, STATE OF IOWA SE...................................$392.71 TROPHY DEPOT S......................................$252.42 TROPHY SHOP S......................................$752.00 TROXELL COMMUNICATIONS INC S......................................$236.82 TSIRULNIKOV, EUGENE SE.....................................$95.00 ULTIMATE OFFICE S......................................$178.84 US BANK SE..............................$15,588.42 US CELLULAR U......................................$493.14 VAN'S SHARPENING SERVICE S........................................$34.96 VANMAANEN ELECTRIC INC SE...................................$439.46 VANMANEN, ERIC SE.....................................$49.00 VANMANEN, SARA SE.....................................$61.41 VANWALL EQUIPMENT S........................................$26.04 VANWYK, PATRICIA SE.....................................$88.92 VARIETY SPECIALTIES S......................................$869.00 VERSTEEGH, LUKE SE.....................................$22.00 VOSS, BRITTANY SE...................................$110.26 VOYEK, RICH SE.....................................$95.00 WADDELL, TODD SE.....................................$95.00 WALMART STORES INC E...................................$6,424.14 WATERLOO COMM SCHOOL DISRICT T........................................$70.74 WAYNE DENNIS SUPPLY CO S/R...............................$2,949.72 WEEKS, THOMAS SE...................................$100.00 WELD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-1 SE................................$6,000.00 WENGER CORPORATION E......................................$950.00 WEST MUSIC CO S......................................$161.41 WESTWOOD GOLF COURSE SE...................................$450.00 WHITE, TOBY SE.....................................$95.00 WILCOX, MAGGIE SE.......................................$0.75 WILLIAMS, AMIE SE...................................$250.00 WILLIAMS, MICHELLE SE.....................................$11.00 WINDSTREAM IOWA COMMUNICATIONS U...................................$1,267.31 WOOD ROOFING CO SE................................$1,780.60 WOODWARD-GRANGER COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT T...................................$6,435.00 WORMLEY, CINTHIA SE.....................................$35.94 WRS GROUP LTD S......................................$289.00 WURTH BAER SUPPLY COMPANY S/R...............................$1,218.52 YARDLEY, LYNDI SE.....................................$82.80 YMCA SE................................$5,994.00 ZEHR, TARA SE...................................$647.77 DISTRICT TOTAL.$1,185,592.11 KEY: C - CONSTRUCTION E = SUPPLIES/EQUIPMENT R = REPAIRS S = MISC. 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Public Notices NEWTON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Paid Bills - June 1-30, 2015 VENDOR DESC AMOUNT A TEAM APPAREL S...................................$1,315.75 A TECH INC S......................................$854.85 A-1 LOCK R......................................$322.50 ACME TOOLS S......................................$249.21 ADAMS, STEPHEN SE...................................$115.00 AG-GROW PLUS LAWN CARE S...................................$3,843.00 AGILE SPORTS TECHNOLOGIES S...................................$2,999.00 AHLERS & COONEY PC SE................................$4,348.80 AJ ALLEN MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS INC SE..............................$11,897.15 ALL AMERICAN TIMING SE...................................$750.00 ALLENDER BUTZKE ENGINEERS INC SE................................$1,475.16 ALLIANT ENERGY SE................................$2,070.00 ALLIANT UTILITIES INC U.................................$40,747.17 AMAZON S...................................$6,267.50 AMERICINN SE...................................$665.28 AMES COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT T...................................$4,974.14 PRINTING & AMSTERDAM LITHO S......................................$198.19 ANACONDA SPORTS INC S......................................$544.50 ANTLE, AMY SE.....................................$53.50 AP PROGRAM S...................................$2,915.00 APPLE COMPUTER INC E...................................$2,274.00 ARAMARK UNIFORM SERVICES SE.....................................$57.71 ASI S......................................$475.00 ASPI SOLUTIONS INC S......................................$294.00 AUTO JET MUFFLER CORP S/R..................................$230.09 AVIS, KARA SE.....................................$19.80 BAD WOLF PRESS S......................................$240.00 BAKER & TAYLOR BOOKS S...................................$1,331.18 BAND SHOPPE S......................................$153.61 BANWELL, MICHELLE SE.....................................$66.83 BARE, JOHN SE.....................................$82.70 BARTELS, MARY SE.....................................$17.00 BATCHER, SCOTT SE.....................................$47.50 BAUER BUILT INC S......................................$835.22 BAUER, SCOTT SE.....................................$40.00 BAUMGART, SANDRA SE.....................................$45.60 BAXTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT T.................................$39,786.50 BAXTER, PATRIC SE.....................................$95.00 BE PUBLISHING S......................................$530.78 BECKHAM, DAVID SE.....................................$53.25 BECKMAN GALLERY SE...................................$197.50 BEHRENS, GARY SE.....................................$95.00 BENNETT, MELISSA SE.....................................$22.70 BERRYHILL, BRAD SE.....................................$37.50 BGM COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT T...................................$1,530.25 BIEGHLER, CHRISTOPHER SE.....................................$69.95 BIO CORPORATION S........................................$42.20 BIRD, PAUL SE.....................................$90.00 BIRECH, ELLEN SE...................................$692.13 BLACK HILLS ENERGY U...................................$7,248.55 BLANK PARK ZOO SE...................................$198.00 BLATCHFORD, GREGORY SE.....................................$40.00 BLOM, BRANDON SE.......................................$5.49 BLOM, DENISE SE.....................................$21.20 BOUND TO STAY BOUND BOOKS INC S......................................$935.09 BRAAFHART, ROBERT SE.......................................$5.40 BROOKER CORPORATION S/R....................................$40.45 BRUGGEMAN, JAMIE SE...................................$210.00 BRYAN ROCK PRODUCTS S...................................$1,132.61 BULBGUY LIGHTING S...................................$3,391.20 BURDORF, AARON SE...................................$115.00 CALDWELL, BRIERLY, CHALUPA & NUZUM PLLC SE...................................$575.00 CALLAGHAN, ROBERT SE.....................................$88.00 CAM COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT T...................................$4,590.75 CAMPBELL, MARV SE...................................$101.51 CAPITAL CITY EQUIPMENT CO E......................................$160.48 CAPPY'S TIRE & AUTO SERVICE SE...................................$141.18 CARDINAL PDC S......................................$218.00 CARDINAL TROPHIES AND AWARDS S........................................$60.00 CENTER FOR EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT LAW S......................................$159.00 CHEMSEARCH S......................................$515.67 CITY OF NEWTON LANDFILL U........................................$81.52 CITY OF NEWTON WATERWORKS U...................................$4,214.03 CITY OF NEWTON SE..............................$54,734.60 CITY SUPPLY CORP S......................................$777.99 CLAIM AID CONSULTING CORP SE................................$5,326.95 CLARK, JANET SE.....................................$21.84 CLAYTON RIDGE COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT T...................................$3,060.50 CLAYTON, HOLLY SE.....................................$96.23 COCHRAN, TAMMY SE.....................................$11.65 COLFAX-MINGO COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT T...................................$6,121.00 COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING CO SE................................$1,400.00

HACKWORTH, BARBARA SE.....................................$44.24 HADSALL, CRAIG SE.....................................$34.60 HALL, CAROLE SE.....................................$39.50 HAMILTONS RADIATOR & GLASS INC R......................................$664.87 HARRIS, JENNIFER SE...................................$238.07 HARWOOD, JORGE SE.....................................$90.00 HAYES INTERPRETING SERVICES SE...................................$175.00 HAYES, REBECCA SE.....................................$18.91 HEARTLAND AEA S...................................$2,235.72 HEISDORFFER, MICHELE SE...................................$166.75 HENDRICKSON GREENHOUSE S......................................$775.43 HENDRICKSON, STEFANIE SE.....................................$36.50 HERMITAGE ART COMPANY INC S........................................$40.02 HERWEHE APPAREL S...................................$1,032.00 HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS LEADER LLC S......................................$225.00 HILAND DAIRY S.................................$24,777.83 HILLYARD-DES MOINES SANITARY SUPPLY S/R..................................$350.55 HINDERBERGER, JOEL SE.....................................$14.60 HIVELY, NICOLE SE...................................$425.00 HODGE, THERESA SE.......................................$8.35 HOFMANN, AL SE.....................................$95.00 HOGLUND BUS COMPANY INC E......................................$191.92 HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS SE...................................$157.00 HOLENBECK, CHAD SE.......................................$0.55 HOPSON, J ROBERT SE................................$1,700.00 HORN, JAMES SE................................$1,039.69 HOTSY CLEANING SYSTEMS S......................................$735.00 HOWE EXCAVATING S...................................$1,525.00 HUFFMAN, BOB SE.....................................$90.00 HUMKE, RYAN SE.....................................$40.00 HY VEE INC S...................................$4,524.11 IHSPA SE.....................................$11.00 IMAGESTUFF.COM S......................................$163.20 INDUSTRIAL ARTS SUPPLY CO S........................................$28.58 INFINITE COHESION SE................................$6,540.00 INNOVATIVE LEARNING CONCEPTS INC S........................................$84.00 IOWA AUDIO VIDEO INC E...................................$3,965.11 IOWA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SE...................................$612.46 IOWA FFA ASSOCIATION SE...................................$905.00 IOWA GIRLS HS ATHLETIC UNION SE................................$1,216.00 IOWA HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC ASSN SE...................................$110.00 IOWA HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH ASSN SE...................................$136.00 IOWA PUPIL TRANSPORTATION SE................................$1,295.00 IOWA READING ASSOCIATION SE...................................$430.00 IOWA SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSN SE...................................$225.00 IOWA SPORTS SUPPLY COMPANY E...................................$4,054.93 IOWA TESTING PROGRAMS SE..............................$13,180.77 ISAAC, GAYLE SE...................................$183.61 ISEBA SE................................$9,271.08 JACK, MYRON SE.....................................$90.00 JACOBS ELECTRIC & AUTO INC S/R..................................$122.33 JACOBSEN, COLLIN SE...................................$310.00 JASPER CONSTRUCTION SERVICES INC R...................................$1,578.21 JF AHERN CO S......................................$250.00 JOHN BENNETT CREATIVE SERVICES S......................................$190.19 JOHN DEERE FINANCIAL S...................................$1,484.66 JOHNSON CONTROLS INC S...................................$3,875.50 JOHNSON, DOUG SE.....................................$90.00 JOHNSON, JESSICA SE.....................................$19.73 JOLIVETTE, AMY SE.....................................$57.65 JONES, MELISSA SE.....................................$75.90 JONES, SCOTT SE.......................................$1.25 JOSTENS SE................................$3,246.77 JW PEPPER & SON INC S...................................$1,231.97 KABEL BUSINESS SERVICES SE...................................$315.70 KALKHOFF, DAVID SE.....................................$40.00 KCOB AM/FM SE.....................................$90.00 KECK INC S...................................$2,789.40 KEY COOPERATIVE S.................................$26,298.15

PJ DELI SE...................................$119.47 PAGELER, LISA SE.....................................$42.17 PAN O GOLD BAKING CO S......................................$967.60 PANOSH, GEORGE SE.....................................$86.22 PARTLOW, NICOLE SE.....................................$35.67 PATTERSON, MARY ANNE SE...................................$142.74 PAULEY, CHRISTINE SE...................................$500.00 PC & MAC EXCHANGE E...................................$8,531.38 PCM COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT T.................................$30,131.24 PEARSON, STEVEN SE.....................................$64.29 PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL SE.....................................$70.00 PELLA HIGH SCHOOL SE.....................................$80.00 PERFECTION LEARNING CORP S......................................$389.28 PERRY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT SE...................................$100.00 PETERS, KRISTI SE.....................................$40.53 PETERS, WILLIAM SE...................................$861.70 PETERSON, EMILY SE...................................$100.00 PETERSON, JAY SE...................................$150.00 PHANTOM TECHNOLOGIES E......................................$500.00 PISARSKI, MATTHEW SE...................................$190.00 PITNEY BOWES SE.......................................$6.09 PIZZA RANCH S......................................$574.57 POSITIVE PROMOTIONS S........................................$88.90 POSTMASTER SE...................................$980.00 PRESTO-X LLC U......................................$975.25 PRUFROCK PRESS S........................................$90.70 PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT INC SE...................................$500.00 QUILL CORP E........................................$74.50 RAMAEKER ENTERPRISES INC S......................................$355.24 RATCLIFF, JENNIFER SE.......................................$8.25 RAYNER & RINN SCOTT INC S...................................$1,052.00 REALLY GOOD STUFF INC S...................................$1,348.46 REGISTAR SYSTEMS LLC SE................................$7,328.00 REINERTSON, RANDY SE...................................$105.00 RENAUD, LANCE SE.....................................$90.00 RIEMAN MUSIC INC S/R...............................$7,780.00 RIGGS PRINTING S........................................$89.00 ROBERTSON, DENISE SE.....................................$14.15 ROCHESTER 100 INC S......................................$172.50 ROSS, TINA SE.....................................$40.00 RW SCHOOL SUPPLY S......................................$139.50 S & C AUTOMOTIVE S........................................$60.00 SADLER POWER TRAIN INC S/R....................................$96.37 SANDHILL AUTO SALVAGE LLC S......................................$650.00 SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIRS S......................................$250.00 SCHOLASTIC INC S......................................$626.50 SCHOOL BUS SALES E........................................$59.74 SCHOOL SAVERS S......................................$521.08 SCHOOL SPECIALITY INC E......................................$940.51 SCHOOLMART S......................................$410.02 SCHUSTER, TODD SE.....................................$40.00 SCHWARCK, LYNN SE...................................$119.78 SCOTT ELECTRIC S......................................$122.00 SELOVER, LAURA SE.....................................$40.00 SHARP, LISA SE...................................$615.67 SHINDIGZ S........................................$69.88 SHIVERS, ANDREW SE...................................$142.50 SHOCKEY, SARA SE.....................................$39.72 SHOMO-MADSENWOYTHALER SE.....................................$27.00 SIGN PRO SE................................$1,208.00 SINCLAIR, LUCINDA SE.....................................$50.59 SLOTH, COACH S......................................$110.00 SMITH'S SEWER SERVICE SE................................$1,220.00 SMITH, TIM SE...................................$210.00 SOCIAL STUDIES SCHOOL SERVICE S......................................$106.21 SOENEN, MIKE SE...................................$105.00 SOFTWARE UNLIMITED INC SE................................$4,300.00 SOLUTION TREE S......................................$108.35 SOMMARS, MELISSA SE.....................................$45.02 SOULE, DARCY SE.......................................$3.97 SOUTH TAMA COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT SE.....................................$65.00 SOUTHEAST POLK HIGH SCHOOL SE...................................$120.00 SPAHN & ROSE LUMBER S/R..................................$869.50 SPORT SUPPLY GROUP INC S......................................$189.46 SPORTDECALS INC S......................................$641.05 SPRINGER, JENNIFER SE.....................................$44.95 SPROUSE, LAURIE SE.....................................$99.69 STACY'S SWEET STUFF SE.....................................$85.00 STAPLES ADVANTAGE S...................................$1,104.48 STATE STEEL OF DES MOINES S......................................$242.40 STOULIL, DEBRA SE.....................................$56.00 STRATTON, DEBRA SE.......................................$2.00

PUBLIC NOTICE OF STORM WATER DISCHARGE Newton Church of the Way plans to submit a Notice of Intent to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to be covered under NPDES General Permit No. 2 “Storm Water Discharge Associated with Industrial Activity for Construction Activities”.

The storm water discharge will be from a Building and Parking Lot Improvement located in the NE 1/4 of Section 35, Township 80N, Range 19W, Jasper County.

Storm water will be discharged from 1 point source(s) and will be discharged to Public storm sewer to an unnamed tributary of the Elk Creek.

Comments may be submitted to the Storm Water Discharge Coordinator, IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Environmental Protection Division, 900 E. Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50319-0034.

The public may review the Notice of Intent from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the above address after it has been received by the department.

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PERSONAL

JEWELRY

ELECTRONICS

SATELLITE

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Meets Sunday, Wednesday and Friday 7:00 PM in Basement of St. Stephan's Episcopal Church

EMPLOYMENT

THE YMCA Child Care has an immediate full-time position available. Pick up an application at the YMCA front desk. If you enjoy working with children, we would like to have you a part of our team. Applications available at the front desk.

LOST & FOUND

ATLAS HYDRAULICS IS looking to add Full-Time, 1st and 2nd shift Manufacturing Positions. Starting wage $12.00 plus differential with competitive benefits including 401k and profit sharing. Please apply at 1801 N. 19th Ave E. Newton, Iowa 50208.

LOST IN Newton on July 16, American Girl doll with long dark hair, wearing pink with polka dot top and black pants. Very sad little girl hopes someone found her. 641-521-2244.

EMPLOYMENT

EMPLOYMENT HOME IMPROVEMENTS

TRUCK DRIVERS-OTR/CLASS A CDL Ashley Distribution Services in Des Moines, IA seeks: •LTL TRUCK DRIVERS (Multiple stop loads to retail stores) Annual avg earning potential $84,000 •Home Weekly •Paid Vacation •Full Benefit Package• Paid Holidays

Class A CDL & at least 1 year current OTR exp.

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

LEAKY ROOF, Missing Shingles???

Flat roof repair & coating.

Chimney repair & removal.

Soffit & fascia repair & cover.

General Repairs

INSULATION

Attic & side walls.

Attic fans & ventilation Leaf Proof Gutter Covers,

We are currently accepting applications for employees who enjoy interacting and caring for seniors in a Christian based environment

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

110 N 5th Ave W Newton, IA 50208

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Gutter cleaning.

Call 641-792-6375

INVESTORS

PAINTING

HORNING'S PAINTING: Interior & exterior painting Drywall Repair & Texturing Free Estimates 641-791-9662

EMPLOYMENT

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

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

Newton Health Care Center

RN/LPN CNA

2nd shift Full-time 3rd shift Part-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.

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

PLEASE APPLY IN PERSON OR ONLINE

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WesleyLife Home Care and Hospice Registered Nurse Full or Part time Position Help us transform aging!

Assist individuals as they remain in their homes.

For more information contact: Betty Stone at 515-271-6510 Or apply online at: Wesleylife.org EOE

REST AREA ATTENDANT Stress Free!

-All Shifts Available-All ages apply(515)635-1882

DOMINO'S PIZZA

OLD MILITARY items: German, Japanese, and American, and old Advertising signs.

641-4856591.

RIDING LAWNMOWERS, push lawnmowers & snowblowers or anything with a motor. 792-2416.

is now hiring pizza makers & delivery drivers!

WANT TO buy 4 speed automatic for a F250 Ford pick up. Need for 460 cubic inch. Call if you have one.

641-417-0195.

EMPLOYMENT

EMPLOYMENT

1606 1st Ave E., Newton

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

Residential Instructors

MDS Coordinator Full-time

EMPLOYMENT

WANTED

Walmart is an equal opportunity employer.

All shifts

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

The Newton Daily News recommends that you investigate every phase of investment opportunities. We suggest you consult your own attorney or ask for a free pamphlet and advice from the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division. Hoover Building, Des Moines, IA 50319. 515-281-5926.

ALAN RITCHEY Inc hiring CDL drivers with 1 year exp to haul mail. Offer a set & predictable schedules out of Des Moines, IA. Making at least $52,000 / year with benefits starting immediately. Contact Gene at 515-321-9234. EOE M/W/Vet/Disability

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) 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

Progress Industries is looking for responsible, outgoing, and open-minded people to provide direct support and teach life skills to adults with disabilities.

Day, evening and overnight shifts available for full-time, part-time and on call positions.

May be required to work every other weekend.

Should have strong computer skills, valid IA driver’s license and insured vehicle, be at least 18 years old, have a HS Diploma or equivalent.

Apply in person, 1017 E 7th Street North or on-line www.progressindustries.org.

EOE Contact Jane Johnson 641-791-2888 with questions

Short on Cash?

If you are interested in making some extra cash we have the PERFECT opportunity for you.

Route packages available Make Approx. $200 every 4 weeks.

Only 5 days a Week NO Weekends NO Holidays NO Collections Great Exercise

Call today for details

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WANTED

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FOR SALE

WANT TO Buy farm toys, pedal tractors and old toy trucks. 521-4715.

1 BEDROOM apartment in a historical building in Colfax. $325 per month. Pets allowed with additional deposit. For more information please call 515-205-1415.

7 DRAWER tool box, 4 jack stands, 6 ton, air wrenchs, sanders, air chisels, ratchets, sockets, Ryobi weed eater $80. John Deere riding mower, L120, 48” deck, 20hp, hydro, 370 hours $1100. White riding mower 19hp, 50” cut, hydro $1000. 641-521-5141.

3 BRAIDED rugs 60”x37”, 71”x24”, 36”x24”, blue, yellow, gray & pink $35. or OBO. 1 pr. Dark rose valances 62” wide $5., 1 pr. Light cream 66”x79” long each panel $30., 1 pr sheer panels, light coffee 60”x79” each panel $15., men's jeans Red Head 38x32 $5., Wangler 38x30 $4., Tom-Tom GPS $20., fresh ruebarb $1.50 lb.

641-831-9571.

SMALL DORM refrigerator $35., beer signs, 2 vintage motorcycle helmets, large mounted fish, deer antlers, great for man cave, Kendell oil banners. 515971-9276.

SMALL SCULPTURE of Queen Elizabeth II, sunlight activated right hand and wrist, in a royal solute.

A gift from Iowa Public TV. Reduced price for purchase. Call 792-3128.

TOPPER LEONARD, dark blue, 6x8, raised in back, nice. John Deere rider stx38 $600. 641-781-0617.

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

Grand Theft Auto V $25.

515-313-7803.

FOR SALEElectric wheelchair, Pronto M41, perfect condition $1000.

641-792-5020.

FOR SALE: all wood futon with best mattress, used very little, purchased at Slumberland, $150, larger dorm refrig, used 8 mos., $100, large navy blue couch, cost $1000, selling for $250. Also selling many flowers due to my health.

Many hybrids and unusual plants $5-$10. Bring shovel and containers. Call Barb Heater 641 840 1052.

FREE OLD magazines, Mother Earth- organic garden, wood working and others, boat trailer $300. includes left boat and motor, tankless water heater, new in box $325. Working good refrigerator (3), make offer. Maytag square tub wringer washer, make offer. Clark floor sander, new bag $325., aluminum extension ladder, 18'-24' $75$80. Near new living room set, wood frame, reversible cushions $40. 641-2752424.

HOLLISTER UROSTOMY supples, 22 boxes of #18402 urostomy pouches, 24 boxes of # 14702 flanges, 10 overnight drain bags, 8 boxes of both pouches & flanges in one box. $150. 792-0367.

MAYTAG GAS stove, double oven, color bisque. $180. 641-275-5675.

OLD ANTIQUE brass ext. large bottle $100. Near new Genesis 26” 21 speed bicycle, large seat, speedometer, rear view mirror $100. 641-7927571.

SEARS PRO Form XP 550 treadmill exerciser, computerized, like new $400.

515-967-4475.

SOLID OAK pedestal claw foot dining table, 48” wide with 2 leafs, 4 matching oak chairs, excellent condition. $550. 641-521-4875.

EMPLOYMENT

EMPLOYMENT

WANTED: APPLES that have fallen for my chicken.

Will pick up. 515-771-6726.

MISCELLANEOUS

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1 & 2 & 3 BDRM apartments: heat, water, stove, refrigerator, drapes all included. Off-street parking.

641-792-4000.

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Pets allowed with additional deposit. For more information, please call 515205-1415.

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COUNTRY KITTENS, friendly, healthy , free to good home. Newton. 515661-3774.

RENTALS

THREE BEDROOM house.

Garage, basement. AC, dishwasher. $675 plus $675 deposit. References & background checked.

No Pets, Non-Smokers.

641-792-7605.

EMPLOYMENT

REGENCY APARTMENTS of Newton 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 1000 sq. feet. On site laundry, pets allowed with additional deposit. $565-$585 per month.

Please Call 515-205-1415 CLEAN, 2 bedroom Apartment. Stove, refrigerator and water furnished. Very quiet building. References and deposit.

641-792-3449.

FOR SALE

Subscription Sales & Marketing Coordinator

The Newton Daily News has an exciting part-time opportunity for a talented and energetic person to join our subscription sales team.

Duties include: selling print and digital subscriptions to the Newton Daily News, renewing existing subscriptions, selling and marketing our publications at community events and retail outlets, working with the circulation and marketing departments to develop and implement sales strategies.

1 PAIR tires, 225 60 16R, Dunlop signature, good tread $75. pr. 641-7927506.

10 FT. Jon boat with accessories.

641-7911126.

2 ALADDIN oil lamp bases- 1 green- 1 clear, Washington Drape $50. each, Fenton tea candle holder, caramel with opalescent fluted top- paneled daisy pattern $8., 25 miniature oil lamps- 4”-12” all $15., 3 card tables for garage sales, 3@ $15., 2 green padded folding chairs $8., Vintage Hanson chicken scale $5. 641-2757600.

2 MEN'S s. sleeve knit shirts- blue/white stripe, solid green, 2 @ $5., women's blue denim Capri's , 24 W $4., 6 pair white ankle socks- women's 9-11 $3., Longaberger items; bowls 12”-10”-8”-6” $40., cookie jar $20., creamer $10., 10”pie plate $10., blue tradition pattern or all $65., 1960's Fisher Price pull toys, bumble bee & xylophone $8. each. 7928017.

4 BRIDGESTONE tires P-265/65-17-6/32 med. tread $150. 641-831-9571.

EAR CORN, pet food or big animal feed. Firewood, any amount, camping ready, up to truck loads, Call any time. 641-4170195.

AUTOMOTIVE

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.

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 2011 FORD Ranger, 24k miles, extended cab, 2WD. Call for more information.

641-792-0860 1997 CHEVROLET Silverado V6 power, air, 127K original miles, 8ft box with matching topper, very clean always garaged.

Regular cab $2,800 firm. 641-792-8073.

1997 FORD Conversion Van. Heavy ½ ton, great for towing. New front end and front tires. Runs great. $2400. 515-778-2792 1999 ARCTIC Cat 4wheeler ATV, like new, runs great! $1950. 641831-3821. No calls after 8 pm.

The ideal candidate must possess a positive attitude, friendly presence, basic computer and typing skills, strong telephone skills, be an excellent communicator, be able to work in a fast paced environment and possess a solid work ethic.

You must possess and maintain a valid drivers license and proof of insurance.

Pre-employment background check and drug screen are required.

Please send resume to:

Dan Goetz, Publisher 200 1st Ave E, P.O. Box 967, Newton, IA 50208 or email to: dgoetz@newtondailynews.com EOE • Skilled Iowa Employer

1983 HONDA VF1100C V65 Magna motorcycle.

116 horsepower. ¼ mile in less than 11 seconds. Water cooled. Shaft drive.

14,400+ one owner miles.

Owner's manual, Honda repair manual, and original magazine articles from 1983. Very good condition and very well maintained.

Ready to cruise. $3200 cash only. 641 521 5809.

AUTOMOTIVE

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 97' FORD F-250 XLT, 4x4, regular cab, power stroke diesel, needs some work. $2,500. 641-798-4402.

AUTOMOTIVE

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

DAEWOO-DD802L DOZER $20,000. 641-792-4332 1950 FORD 2 door, good body, needs restored. $3,600. or OBO. 641-2752424.

2002 DODGE Stratus ES107,000 miles, power seats, locks, and windows. $4,300. Call 641-751-7050 REAL ESTATE

2013 HARLEY Davidson Ultra Glide Trike, low miles, many extras. Asking $28,500 OBO. 515-5376796 1993, 28' Holiday Rambler, travel trailer bumper hitch, has new tires, asking $5,000. 515-669-4966.

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

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The goddess of love and the mack daddy of abundance get together today for a second conjunction of the year, resulting in a stroke of luck for all things involving the heart.

There will be jumping for joy, general giddiness and smiles for miles. When it comes to love, it can’t be hidden, and most wouldn’t want to hide it in the first place.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 4). This is your year for making good on past promises and cashing in on what was promised to you. Organized, expertly executed actions get you attention and love in the six weeks to come. You’ll earn

an award in September for a game well played. October brings a formidable adversary.

Libra and Cancer people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 33, 28, 41, 16 and 39.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You occasionally make mistakes, and that just proves that you’re learning. The best people miss the point from time to time, and saying something less than witty is a phenomenon that happens to even the funniest people.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You are not your body. You’re a spirit inhabiting a body.

Don’t take opinions (yours or

other people’s) personally. The body and mind improvements you make will help keep your spirits high.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

It’s a high-stakes game, but you’re favored for the win. If, by some fluke, you don’t get the win, that’s only because not winning is actually winning.

The best gifts sometimes come in weird packaging.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Aim high, live your fantasies, let down your defenses, give in to optimism and resist printed words telling you what to do, including these. Advice is only as good as it is applicable to the current situation, which only you understand fully.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

Miraculous. Someone understands you, intuits your desires and fulfills them without you ever having to ask a thing.

Praise and deep gratefulness are in order.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

It’s a day for making choices that lead to a well-rounded experience. Avoid overemphasizing one particular relationship. Tend to several people and interests.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Though your talent in and of itself may not be uncommon, what is uncommon is your choice to work on it over all else. Stick with it. You’re close to greatness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You can see when someone needs help even before that person realizes the need.

Your kind consideration may go unrecognized at first, but good karma will catch up to you before your head hits the pillow tonight.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

The cosmic signals seldom follow proper etiquette. They don’t greet you by name. They barely make themselves known at all. But however subtle a sign may be, when you see it, you’ll know it’s for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). People need what you have to offer; they just don’t know it yet. That’s why it’s up to you to communicate clearly and effectively. Persuasion

isn’t necessary. All that’s needed is honesty.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). How do you know the difference between a passing fancy and a passion that will be a permanent fixture in your life? Time will tell. If you don’t have time, consider that passing fancies usually come with a fever.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

The reason you see more than other people do is because, on some level, you are willing to know more. Once you know, you can’t un-know. That’s why awareness takes courage.

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