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City administrator search continuing By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News
Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News Jerry Ebersole and Michael Stilwell of Patriot Converting and Marty and Franchette Braaksma of Multi Packaging and Printing, Inc. stand with their awards at the Newton Development Corporation’s annual Salute to Business and Industry luncheon on Thursday.
Following a detailed search process, the city council is ready to hire a search firm to help replace the city administrator position. The resolution will come before the council at its regular meeting on Monday. Council started looking for a consulting firm to assist in the search and replacement of former city administrator Bob Knabel, who retired at the beginning of October. After narrowing down the field to three potential candidates, the council conducted interviews with the top selec-
tions. Following the interviews, council has selected GovHR of Northbrook, Ill. to work with the city to start the executive search for a new city administrator. Currently, Newton Fire Chief Jarrod Wellik is searching as interim administrator. Also on the agenda is a resolution to purchase two climbing boulders for Aurora Park. The park was identified in the 2015 bond to include a boulder park with climbing rocks for children and adults of all ages. COUNCIL | 3A
NDC honors Patriot Converting, Trial set for stalking, Multi Packaging & Printing burglary case By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News Two businesses, both in the paper industry, were honored on Thursday at the Newton Development Corporation’s annual Salute to Business and Industry luncheon at the DMACC Conference Center. Patriot Converting, Inc. was recognized for its investment in the community during the business presentation and Multi Packing & Printing, Inc. received the Jim Tyler Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Frank Liebl, executive director of NDC, offered a welcome to the more than 90 business leaders in attendance and Jo Jenkins, chair of the NDC Board, spoke
about work the NDC does in the community and introduced the two recipients. “We try to recruit new businesses to Newton, we work on leads from the Iowa Economic Development Authority, the Greater Des Moines Partnership and many of our present employers, who might want a supplier close to them that they are working with,” Jenkins said. That was the case with Patriot Converting, which was working with Graphic Packaging International, formerly Walter G. Anderson, when they were approached to open a location closer than its original Minnesota plant. The custom paper converting company began work to expand and in 2013 opened its
Iowa plant in Newton. “What a blessing it has been to be in Newton. Communities like this are hard to find, and we are very lucky and blessed to have been here,” executive vice president Mike Stillwell said. “For a small business, having Frank walk us through the process what Newton can do, helped us find our building and continues to help us side by side, there was no way Patriot would have made it down here without Frank and everybody at NDC.” The company currently has plants in Minnesota and Iowa occupying more than 185,000 square feet and running four sheeters, one rewinder and four HONORS | 3A
By Kayla Langmaid Newton Daily News A Newton man accused of stalking a woman and breaking into her home in September is set to appear in court next month where he will face a jury trial. Thomas A. Fitzgerald, 53, is charged with violating a protective order after officials say he contacted a woman more than 1,000 times, tried to pry open her locked doors and broke a window of her Newton rural home. Fitzgerald also allegedly stole the wom-
an’s comp u t e r tower. T h e victim told police she received a comb i n e d Fitzgerald total of m o r e than 1,000 text messages or phone calls from Fitzgerald, despite a no-contact order being in place. In the texts and voice messages, Fitzgerald demands access to her home and threatens
Gambling targeted at Board of Health Awareness campaign includes how to seek help By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, between 3 and 5 percent of all Americans who gamble regularly have a major gambling addiction. A prevention specialist from a Des Moines-area firm came to Thursday’s monthly Jasper County Board of
Health meeting to address this topic. Susan O’Brien of Employee and Family Resources brought along a few visual aids related to gambling addiction when she made a brief presentation at the meeting. She also outlined some of the age-specific curriculums that target certain age groups in spreading awareness about gambling addiction and treatment. “The target age group, really, is from 18 to 49,” O’Brien said. “But we do have some curriculum that’s geared to-
TRIAL | 3A Jason W. Brooks /Daily News Susan O’Brien, a prevention specialist with Employee and Family Resources, shows gambling addiction awareness literature while she speaks at Thursday’s Jasper County Board of Health meeting. O’Brien said different types of curriculums target different age groups in spreading awareness about gambling addiction and treatment.
ward middle schoolers called ‘Wanna bet?’. Our goal is to maintain both community readiness and continue collaboration with organizations in Jasper County and all throughout our region.” As many as 750,000 young people, age 14 to 21 has a gambling addiction. O’Brien also distributed a self-assesment for gambling addiction called the Brief Biosocial Gambling Screen. The three-item survey is designed to help people decide GAMBLING | 3A
Election Central: Q&A with Iowa HD 28 candidates Editor’s Note: The following is part the Newton Daily News’ Election Central coverage ahead of the 2016 General Election. Today’s edition features the replies of Iowa House District 28 candidates, Republican incumbent Greg Heartsill and his Democratic challenger Martin Duffy. Submissions were not edited for grammar, spelling or punctuation. Why are you running for state representative? Greg Heartsill I would like to continue my
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efforts on keeping our children and families safe from predators within our communities. I am also concerned with promoting economic growth in our state via
tax reform; thus bringing more good paying jobs to Iowa and keeping more of Iowans’ hardearned money in their pockets. Additionally, I will remain vigilant in protecting the constitutional rights of Iowa citizens whether that be their freedom of speech, religious liberties, Second Amendment rights, due process rights, privacy rights, and property rights through curbing the governmental abuses of eminent domain. Martin Duffy I have recently retired from
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What is the most important issue Iowa will be facing during your term as a state representative and how do you plan on addressing it? Greg Heartsill Economic growth in Iowa
is stagnate and it has a direct impact on our population and ability to grow our tax base which allows us to address numerous issues in our state that require adequate funding. Tax and regulatory reform is necessary if we are going to jump-start our economy and bring back good paying job opportunities to Iowa. Families already know that we have a great quality of life in our state, we just need more economic incentives to match it. DISTRICT 28 | 10A
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teaching, but my will to serve the public burns as brightly as ever. I see how the lack of vision on issues important to the people of Iowa has caused a stalemate at the Statehouse. I will use my problem-solving skills to keep us moving forward together.
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