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Former NPD officer pleads guilty to OWI, weapons charges Hamell to be sentenced Dec. 28

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News A former Newton Police officer pleaded guilty this week to operating while under the influence and weapons charges and will be sentenced later this month.

Dustin S. Hamell, 30, pleaded guilty last month in

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district court to both carrying weapons and operating a vehicle while intoxicated, first offense.

He’s set to return to court Dec. 28 for sentencing.

The charges stem from an Aug. 30 arrest in which Hamell — who was an off-duty NPD officer at the time — was pulled over on Interstate 80 between Mitchellville and Colfax and was found to have a loaded weapon within his reach.

According to the Iowa State Patrol, shortly after 10 p.m. on Aug. 30, state troopers received a radio call about an eastbound truck that was

“all over the road” near mile marker 149. A state patrol vehicle caught up to the truck near mile marker 151, observing the truck swerving, nearly striking a concrete construction barricade, and varying speed between 40 and 60 mph.

State patrol pulled the vehicle over east of the construction zone near Colfax.

Hamell had slurred speech and he told police he had

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both loaded and unloaded handguns in the driver’s side door and was taken back to a patrol car for interviewing.

Hamell refused all impairment tests except the breath test, which revealed a .231 blood alcohol level — nearly three times Iowa’s legal limit.

He was unsure how much alcohol he had consumed that evening.

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‘Safe at Home’ allowed for voting Program began in 2015

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News

District 29 representative-elect Wes Breckenridge (D-Newton) and Rep. Mark Smith (D-Marshalltown) listened to concerns about the process of dealing with Medicaid MCOs, promising to take those concerns with them into the upcoming 2017 Iowa legislative session.

The three held a similar listening post forum in Baxter in August. Tuesday’s forum didn’t have as

Much of the discussion about counting votes in last month’s general election was about how many people in certain demographic groups voted. There’s one group that was able to vote without having its safety or personal data made available to those who might harm them, according to the Iowa Secretary of State.

Paul Pate, the Iowa Secretary of State, announced the Safe at Home program allowed many Iowans to vote in the Nov. 8 election with the assisPate tance of his department. While exact numbers weren’t released, the department aided Safe at Home program participants in about one-third of Iowa counties with confidential voting.

Safe at Home is a free state-sponsored program that supplies a confidential address for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, stalking and trafficking. The Secretary of State’s office helps provide participants a legal substitute address, mail-forwarding service and confidential voter registration.

Actual physical address of participants will not appear on public records.

“It’s obvious there is a need for this program,” Pate told the Newton Daily News. “I am pleased to report that around one-third of Safe at Home program participants voted in the November 2016 elections. Some of them told it this was the first time in many years they had voted.”

Pate and his staff have made a concerted effort to publicize information about the program and how it can aid victims. Shortly after a widely supported 2015 legislative bill, SF 383, set up the provisions of the program in 2015, Pate came to Newton and traveled to other cities for roundtable discussions about Safe at Home.

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Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Sen. Chaz Allen, left, listens as state representative-elect Wes Breckenridge speaks during Tuesday’s public forum in Colfax.

The forum was held for local residents to voice their concerns about Medicaid. The forum gave Allen, Breckenridge and Rep. Mark Smith an updated picture of the concerns surrounding the three private managed-care organizations and the way providers are being paid for services.

Treatment pre-authorization remains an issue

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News COLFAX — One of the first thoughts expressed at Tuesday’s Medicaid privatization forum at the Colfax Senior Center was a rare sentiment.

Scott Pritchard and Amy McGhghy of Clearview Recovery in Prairie City offered up something

to three state leaders they haven’t heard often regarding Iowa’s three managed-care organizations: praise.

“We’ve actually started to make some progress with AmeriHealth Caritas,” said McGhghy, a substance counselor at Clearview. “The other two (Amerigroup Iowa and United HealthCare),

we’re still struggling most of the time. The hardest part is when we tell them what level of care a client needs, and we’re told, no, this level is authorized. So the MCOs are dictating what level of care (residential, outpatient, halfway house) our clients can receive.”

While the praise was few and far in between, the three officials who arranged the forum seemed to accomplish their mission. Sen. Chaz Allen (D-Newton), House

Parking restriction fails following citizen outcry

By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News

Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News Newton resident Bonnie Benesh talks with the city council about how she feels there does not need to be parking restriction on East 16th Street North. Council decided to not move forward with the restrictions after receiving feedback from several citizens against it.

Citizens voiced their concerns and opinions on parking restrictions proposed for East 16th Street North and Newton City Council listened.

The third consideration of an ordinance to ban parking on the east side of the street between the 400 through 900 blocks failed to gain a motion after several

citizens spoke against the proposal at the city council meeting on Monday.

“I’ve lived in my home since 1988 and parking has never really been a problem on this street,” Bonnie Benesh said. “I was kind of shocked to see it come up in the spring.”

Benesh said in her experience, there is never more than three cars parked in the street on any given day or night.

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of the emergency type that has come into our neighborhood and it wasn’t a problem them.”

Keith Laube, director of public works, said the city only addresses streets when citizens raise concerns. A notice was given to the city in June about an unspecified issue which lead a survey to be sent out to 40 residences along the road.

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As far as parking being a safety concern, she believes there is no issue.

“There used to be a lot of emergency traffic at the house next to me and we’ve had as many as two ambulances, three police cars and one fire truck that were at that house and there was never a problem getting that number of vehicles to that house,” Benesh said. “I can’t imagine there has been any more complex set of vehicles

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Going beyond the gift at Church of The Way

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Soup and Carols at Holy Trinity Sunday Holy Trinity, Newton, is celebrating the season with “Soup and Carols” this coming Sunday.

Soup will be served following the 10:30 a.m. worship service. People attending are invited to join in singing their favorite Christmas carols after the soup luncheon. For those who wish to stay longer into the afternoon, Christmas Bingo will be played.

The community is invited to worship, to enjoy a bowl of soup, and to join in singing Christmas carols with members and friends at Holy Trinity.

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Kayla Langmaid/Daily News Tricia Groves, director of operations at the Newton Church of the Way, organized a program this year to ensure Jasper County children with incarcerated parents receive a Christmas gift. The church has had an Angel Tree up the last few weeks with 20 children’s names. There will be a gathering Dec. 13 for the children to receive their present.

By Kayla Langmaid Newton Daily News A group of children who are in a unique circumstance will be guaranteed a gift this Christmas.

Twenty Jasper County children who have incarcerated parents, and who might not otherwise receive a gift this year, are a part of a new program at the Newton Church of The Way. These children have their very own Pick an Angel tree located in The Way’s north entryway on the lower level.

The Angel Tree program is through an organization called Prison Fellowship, which makes partnerships with various churches nationwide.

Prison Fellowship states that 2.7 million children in the U.S., may be filled with the abandonment, loneliness and shame that comes from having a mom or dad in prison.

For some children, it may also include following their parents down the same destructive road to incarceration. Prison Fellowship reaches out to the children of prisoners and their families with the love of Christ, Prison Fellowship states.

Tricia Groves, director of operations at The Way, headed up the program. Groves said the church saw there was a need within the county to assist children who are in a tough situation. The program reaches out to children and families who won’t see their loved one this holiday season.

“Angel Tree filtered all the local kids, and we set up the tree,” Groves said. “Church members and the congregation have been picking up tags.”

Each tag contains a very special message the incarcerated parent chose to send to their child, letting them know to have a Merry Christmas. One tag said, “I wish I could be there.”

The tags include children who are infants to age 14. The tree was dwindling down with only two tags left last week.

“I feel it’s important to bless not only our kids and the parent but bless the whole family,” Groves said. “Overall, we want to go above and beyond by letting them know we care.”

After all the gifts are brought to the church, there will be a gathering Dec. 13 for the families and children of the incarcerated parent.

Elders and deacons of the church will bless and pray for the families, Groves said.

“It is going beyond the gift,” she said. “It’s extra nice to go local and invite them in and we can have conversation.”

Wrapped gifts are due back at the church by Sunday.

St. Luke United Methodist Church is once again holding its annual Christmas Cookie and Candy Sale starting at 9 a.m. Saturday at the church, 501 E. 19th St. N. The community is invited to come, get a red bucket and a glove for your own hand to fill it full of decorated and fancy Christmas cookies and candies for only $15.

A Night in Bethlehem at Monroe Church The Monroe United Methodist Church invites families to join them for a Night in Bethlehem. From 6 to 9 p.m. on Dec. 15 and 16, families are invited to come and experience what it might have been like the very first Christmas.

Learn about Jesus’ birth through songs, crafts and stories as you walk through the town where our Savior was born.

The Monroe United Methodist Church is located at 407 N. Monroe St.

Contact Kayla Langmaid at 641-792-3121 ext. 6513 or klangmaid@newtondailynews.com

Chris Rose to share message via live stream

‘Celebrate Christmas’ concert is Sunday an Lizzie Lou. The Morgans, based out of Kansas City, are no strangers to Newton, having presented their music at several churches in the area.

“We always love singing in Iowa,” Pam Morgan said. “The people here are so welcoming and really make us feel at home.”

The annual Christmas tour has become a much anticipated part of the Morgans yearly schedule. Once again they will be joined by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Tresa Mote from Linn Valley, Kan. A new addition this year is Beth Irvin from Peculiar, Mo., whose portrayal of Missouri Hillbilly Liz-

zie Lou promises to be a highlight of the evening.

The matinée performance starts at 4 p.m.

Sunday. Also performing will be Newton’s own Unbroken Praise quartet. Admission is free with a love offering received for the Morgans 2017 ministry outreach.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

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Chris Rose of Christ Rose Ministries, who has spoken at several local churches, will be giving a message via live stream Dec. 13-14.

Those interested in hearing his message about his struggle with addiction and how he was delivered from those sins are invited to log on to wggs16.com at 7 p.m. Dec. 13 where Rose will be speaking from a church in North Carolina. The message will be played again at 7 a.m. Dec. 14.

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In the driver’s door panel, state patrol found a Ruger LC9 handgun with one round in the chamber and three rounds in the magazine. Hamell also had unopened cans of Bud Light in his truck.

Newton Police Chief Rob Burdess declined to say if Hamell’s NPD employment later ended mutually or in a resignation or termination.

“After the arrest, Hamell was placed on administrative leave,” Burdess said. “Hamell separated from employment with the City of Newton on Oct. 7. Due to this being a personnel issue, I cannot comment further.”

Hamell was placed on paid leave last year after a July 2015 incident in which a domestic abuse charge was filed against him by his former fianceé. He returned to regular duty in October after both a jury trial acquittal and an internal NPD investigation.

Hamell was hired by NPD in August of 2012 prior to attending the state’s police academy. The 2004 Carlisle High School graduate served six years in the Air Force in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and was awarded a Purple Heart.

The maximum sentences are two years of incarceration on the weapons charge and one year on the OWI charge. Both sentences can include as much as thousands of dollars in fines.

many clinicians in attendance as the Baxter forum, but the ones who came to Colfax focused heavily on pre-authorization and how tough it is to get proper care approved.

Pritchard, Clearview’s director for the past 12 years, said his facility reunites mothers who are in substance abuse recovery with their children, and treatment authorized typically was nine to 12 months under Magellan before the three MCOs were brought in

by Gov. Terry Branstad. Now, not only has Clearview had clients stay for shorter times, but the staff is constantly on the phone getting seven-day re-authorizations or similar extensions or maintaining levels of care.

“It could get to the point where we can’t house women and their children together,” Pritchard said. “Well, that’s what we do.”

Smith said the need is urgent, but with a Republican majority in both houses of the Legislature, he isn’t sure

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Safe Continued from Page 1A “We also still have a lot of work to do in promoting it to the people of Iowa so that those folks who might be looking for a way out of an abusive situation can take that step,” he said. “We also have new business card-sized brochures that are available at every Iowa rest stop.”

Pate said voters would not have been able to cast a ballot without exposing their home address if they were not participating in Safe at Home.

However, one-third participation in voting is a statistic he’d like to change.

“This shows the program is working,” he said.

“These folks have been able to return to a sense of normalcy and become active citizens again. That’s what Safe at Home is all about, but we would like all of them to participate in elections in the future.”

For more info on Safe at Home, visit SafeatHome.iowa.gov or 515-725-SAFE email SafeatHome@iowa.gov. Information is also available through the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence at 1-800-770-1650 and the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault at 1-800-284-7821.

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

Parking Continued from Page 1A Of the 40 survey sent out, seven were returned with four in favor of restricting parking and three against it. The city then reviewed the area and found that having parking on both sides of the street could hinder an emergency vehicle.

“Restricting parking is solely for the purpose of emergency vehicle access,” Laube said. “Our concern was when there are two vehicles parked side-by-side on a 24-foot street, that only leaves about an 8-foot pathway for emergency vehicles.”

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Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Amy McGhghy, a substance abuse counselor at Clearview Recovery in Prairie City, talks about issues with Medicaid pre-authorization in Tuesday’s forum in Colfax as Clearview Director Scott Pritchard listens. McGhghy said a major issue with the state’s three managed-care organizations is that levels and durations of care are dictated to clinical staff, rather than the other way around.

what kind of Medicaid oversight the three Democrats and other members of their party will see enacted this year. Allen said legislators can at least use their early-morning point of privilege time at the start of daily sessions to drive home the importance of Medicaid oversight.

One couple at the forum, who asked their names not be used in print, talked about their

sick child and the runarounds they received trying to get pre-authorization for long-term treatment. Colfax Mayor David Mast was also among the small crowd at the forum.

Breckenridge, who was elected to he Legislature last month, didn’t make many statements, but asked many questions of those in attendance.

Smith told the group he’d continue to have

Medicaid oversight high on his agenda.

“The belief is that 25 percent of Iowans will need some form of mental health or substance abuse services within the next year, and Medicaid is a huge component of that,” Smith said. “We’ll keep doing whatever we can.”

erations for restricting parking are based on where fire hydrants and power poles are located and if there are “T” intersection and multiple driveways along the street.

Newton resident Dave Claseman brought up additional concerns about restricting parking in the area other than how it would effect emergency vehicles.

“Our mailboxes are at the curbside, so if we allow parking on the westside, possibly people could park in front of them, blocking them,” Claseman said. “On our block also a lot of the houses on the east side have single stall garages

and shorter driveways, so you are helping them by allowing them to park on our side because we have longer driveways further set back from the road.”

Councilwomen Evelyn George and Lin Chapé also voiced their opinions on the restrictions.

“I drove that street several times in the past week,” George said.

“It does jog when it is on the south side but I didn’t see very many cars on the street when I was there.”

She said although it does not seem to be an issue, it is always important to put safety first if necessary.

“I’ve driven up and down that street several times and I didn’t see any parking problems,” Chapé said. “What bothers me with this one is the fact that a survey was done and the responses were four votes to three, just one vote difference.”

The rest of the council agreed with the observations and the ordinance change failed to gain a motion to move forward to a vote and eventually adopting the measure.

The ordinance change did pass the first two reading by the council unanimously.

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

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ometime several decades ago — probably about the time giant corporations that own low-end department store and fast-food restaurant chains gained power — the United States’ minimum wage lost its way.

The idea of a raising the minimum wage to an astounding $15 per hour, or even $10 per hour, were popular campaign concepts among Democrats and a handful of other groups during the 2016 presidential caucus and campaign seasons, as well as the 89th Iowa Legislature.

It became a divisive issue that demonized those opposed, even in part, to whatever exact dollar amount sought by a proponent, as if anyone who didn’t wholeheartedly supported a $15 hourly minimum couldn’t possibly love children, puppies, the flag or American-made products.

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Babbling Brooks Jason W. Brooks ed role. The purpose of establishing a legal minimum wage is not to force businesses to pay everyone a “living” wage. It’s to keep an arbitrary legal base wage for part-time work.

Jacking it high enough and quickly enough to artificially raise the amount of disposable income people will not help in the long run. It’s not simply about how millions will be put out of work or how automation will replace people more quickly.

It’s about providing another government subsidy that bankrupts the system instead of addressing framework that would create more meaningful, long-term, free-market solutions.

Most Americans think of minimum wage as an absolute — a constant that has always been there, with its movement through the decades as a historical time marker. It’s often mentioned in context:

In the case of my particular entry into the work force, Skid Row’s first few hits were on the radio, the Chicago Cubs won 93 games and the National League East title and the federal minimum wage was $3.35 per hour.

However, minimum wage has not always been universally embraced — not even throughout all of the last 100 years.

After Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933, a series of Supreme Court and Congressional actions followed in the ensuing years, though the last challenge was in 1941.

Legal minimums are not meant to drive commerce or help individual workers progress financially. These types of laws are merely protection for workers against exploitation. Being paid at a level that doesn’t allow an adult to amply provide for themselves and/or their children is not exploitation — it simply means government needs to get cracking and find ways for more businesses to succeed.

Municipalities that pass a higher standard are in a different boat than states and nations in terms of wages. Not only must

a city still be prepared to still staff its own government with the lifeguards and park employees that might work at or close to a raised minimum, it’s not so tough for a large city to live with the adjustments made by restaurant and hotel giants that can offset the cost with higher prices.

However, if whole states or the entire nation suddenly went to $15 per hour, even the businesses that survived the transition would have no incentive to pay beyond the minimum. Already, franchised stores are using their wage — well above the minimum — on recruiting banners and window posters. Creating a competitive market does far more to drive wages up than artificial and what amounts to temporary government interference.

An extremely gradual minimum wage increase would work for states and for the federal rate. The Iowa Legislature shouldn’t cave in to a short-term band-aid when it could be addressing the cooperate subsidies and big-business tax breaks that created the wage gap in the first place.

Contact Jason W. Brooks at jbrooks@newtondailynews.com

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Why does the left go easy on dictators?

When evil Cuban dictator Fidel Castro finally died last Friday, the left seemed deeply ambivalent.

President Obama noted “the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation,” as though Castro had been some sort of high school guidance counselor. Former President Jimmy Carter recalled all the wonderful times he spent by the sea with Castro, the sun gleaming off the waves. He said, “We remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — aka handsome Bernie Sanders — described Castro as “remarkable ... a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century.”

Meanwhile, around the world, dictators wept in solidarity with Castro. Palestinian Authority dictator Mahmoud Abbas, who is currently in the 11th year of a four-year term in office, ordered the flags dropped to half-staff around his trashed territory.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to Cuban President Raul Castro, saying, “Free and independent Cuba, which (Fidel Castro) and his allies built, became an influential member of the international community and became an inspiring example for many countries and nations.” Chinese dictator Xi Jinping called Castro “a close comrade and a sincere friend,” adding, “His glorious image and great achievements will be recorded in history forever.”

What were Castro’s great achievements? He presided over the economic destruction of one of the most quickly developing countries in Latin America; he arrested and imprisoned hundreds of thousands of dissidents; he caused the self-imposed exile of millions of Cubans; he watched and participated in the drowning of thousands of Cubans attempting to escape his prison island; he worked with mass murderer Che Guevara to murder political opponents.

Castro was, simply put, one of the worst people in a century full of awful human beings.

So why did the left emerge to pay its respects this week?

Because at least Castro sought utopia.

Radical leftism believes that the quest for a utopian world, a world free of unfairness, justifies any cruelty against individuals. Individual rights are obstacles to communal greatness. The bricks of the tower of Babel will be mortared with the blood of those sacrificed on behalf of the vision. That’s because the state — which is really just an extension of “the people,” who only exist en masse, never as individuals — is the source of all rights. No rights can be violated if the state declares them defunct.

That’s why the left only pays token homage to those who suffer at the hands of history’s greatest monsters — as Josef Stalin apocryphally put it, you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. No wonder the left defended Stalin all the way until news broke in 1956 that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had criticized Stalin’s purges. Until then, Walter Duranty of The New York Times had whitewashed the murder of millions in the Ukrainian Holodomor — he declared that he had seen the future, and it worked.

And Hollywood even portrayed Stalin’s show trials in a positive light in “Mission to Moscow.” Today, Hollywood produces fawning biopics like “Che” (directed by Steven Soderbergh) and “The Motorcycle Diaries” (produced by Robert Redford), and The New York Times titled its obituary for Castro, “A Revolutionary Who Defied the U.S. And Held Cuba in His Thrall.”

Dictators everywhere are safe so long as leftism reigns. And leftism will continue to reign so long as men dream of a collective heaven on Earth rather than of individual rights protected from such utopian totalitarians.

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Remembering Pearl Harbor, 75 years later “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” As President Roosevelt stated those words across the airwaves, a Fairfield, Iowa family was glued to their radio desperately trying to receive information on their loved one Russell Otto Seaman.

Seaman was a sailor stationed on the USS Arizona and was the brother of Newton resident Liz Braun. Unfortunately, Russell Seaman was one of the 1,177 Sailors and Marines that lost their lives on the Arizona that day.

“He enlisted in 1939 and loved serving on the Arizona,” Braun said. ”He and my oldest brother James both served in the Navy.”

Like thousands of his fellow service members, Seaman planned on another quiet Sunday at Pearl Harbor. That soon would end.

“Russell worked in the ammo magazine room on the ship,” Liz said. “They told my mother that he died instantly when the first Japanese bomb hit there.”

Sixteen ships were damaged or sunk on that fateful day. A total of 2,403 Americans lost their lives and many are still entombed on the Arizona — including Russell Seaman.

Newton native Bob Thorson shared his story of another Jasper County resident William W. Henderson, of Colfax. Thorson was still in high school and stopped in the local arcade during the summer of 1941.

Another View Doug Bishop He noticed a young sailor in his dress uniform playing pinball. The sailor, when finished, strolled over to Thorson and his friends, introduced himself as Bill Henderson and visited with them about the Navy. As he left, he flipped Thorson a quarter and said, “consider the Navy, it’s a good gig.” Thorson reminisced about that chance meeting. “I remember when Pearl Harbor was bombed. It was a rough day for all of us. I was in shock later when I saw the same sailor Bill Henderson in the arcade had went down with the Arizona.

He inspired me and is the reason I joined the Navy.” Thorson went on to serve on the USS Kaskaskia in the south Pacific throughout the end of the war.

Jasper County’s last known Pearl Harbor survivor, Leland Lester, passed away last year. He had served on the Pennsylvania and spent many years sharing his stories of that historic day.

He spoke of the fear, “it was chaos, you could see the Japanese pilot’s faces as they flew over.

They were that close.” Lester was a mainstay of Veterans Day ceremonies and school presentations. He often stated, “I lost a lot of friends in that Harbor. I want to make sure their sacrifice is never forgotten.”

America was forever changed on Dec. 7 1941. Thousands of families placed gold stars in their windows signifying the loss of a family member in the

line of duty. When asked about her memories of her brother, Liz Braun fondly remembered, “The boys all made it home for Christmas in December 1940.

My mother was delighted to have all of her children gathered together once again. We didn’t know it would be our last Christmas together. My mother mourned on Dec. 7, every year, for the rest of her life.”

“Remember Pearl Harbor” still echoes today, 75 years later.

We can never thank our veterans enough for the sacrifices each has underwent in order to preserve our freedoms. As is often stated — freedom is not free; it comes at a very high price.

Seventy five years ago, 2,403 of our fellow Americans made the ultimate sacrifice while in service to our country. Let us, as Americans, never forget that.

Submitted Photo Liz Braun poses with a photo of her brother, Russell Seaman, one of 1,177 people who lost their lives 75 years ago on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.

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Obituaries Amanda Jean Allen Dec. 6, 2016 Amanda Jean Allen, 36, of New Castle, passed away the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. Born in Iowa City Oct. 25, 1980, she was a

daughter of Timothy Van Brogen of Iowa and Catherine Hendricks of Arizona.

On Oct. 13, 2000, she married Shawn Allen. He survives her at home in New Castle.

Amanda was a graduate of Rhema Christian Academy, New Wilmington. She was a homemaker who loved her husband, kids, dogs, camping, quads, motorcycles and billiards. She belonged to a billiards league. She also loved white tigers, dolphins, butterflies and the color

purple.

Besides her husband and parents, Amanda is survived by three sons, Robert Blake, Brandon Michael and Dakota James Allen of New Castle; a step-mother, Cheryl Van Brogen; her maternal grandparents, William and Charlotte Mabe Hendricks; her mother-in-law and father-in-law, Harry L. and Cynthia Aeschbacher Allen; seven uncles; and four aunts.

She is preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Donald

and Jeanette Van Brogen.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday at the R. Cunningham Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc., 2429 Wilmington Road, New Castle, Pa. A memorial service will be at 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home with Pastor Robert Cypher officiating. Instead of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. Online condolences may be offered to the family at www. cunninghamfh.com.

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Pet photos with Santa at NCT Newton Community Theatre Host Animal Rescue League Fundraiser from 6 to 8 p.m.

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All are invited to take pet pictures with Santa in front of the fireplace.

Bring your camera to get some great Christmas card photos. Enter at the stage door west of the main entrance, 1701 S. Eighth Ave. E.

Colfax Christmas Tour of Homes The Colfax Christmas Tour of Homes is set from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The tour includes the homes of Joe and Peggy Dvorak, Nancy Webb, Ray and Ruth Casper and Jeff and Darcy Brown.

Advance tickets will be on sale through Thursday for $13 each.

Tickets can be purchased Friday and Saturday at the Colfax Main Street office at 1 W. Broadway for $15 each or calling 515-674-9071.

Visit www.colfaxmainstreet.com for more information on our 2016 Christmas Tour of Homes.

Submitted Photo Newton Rotary Club welcomed Newton High School seniors Katherine Thorpe and Trey Vanderlaan as November students of the month. Pictured is Thorpe, Vanderlaan and Newton Rotary Club President Jerry Sawin.

Meeting set to discuss landowner suit against eminent domain for Dakota Access Pipeline Newton Daily News Local residents are invited to a community meeting at 10:15 a.m.

Saturday at the Newton Public Library, to discuss the Dec. 15 hearing for nine Iowa landowners’ lawsuit against the state for misuse of eminent domain in the case of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

“The use of eminent domain for a private company sets a dangerous precedent for all Iowans,” Kathy Holdefer, Mingo landowner, said. “It’s crucial that we share our views

about how the pipeline was ‘sold’ to the public, and also the specifics about how eminent domain was used to seize land for the profit of a private company.”

Dakota Access, the company building the pipeline across Iowa, was given the power of eminent domain earlier this year to build a privately-owned oil pipeline, even though 74 percent of Iowans oppose the use of eminent domain for that purpose.

The Dec. 15 hearing will be at 9 a.m. at the Polk County Court-

house in Des Moines.

Various groups are holding a press conference prior to that hearing, and a rally and march after.

The Dec. 10 meeting in Newton is open to all who want to share views and learn more.

The meeting will last approximately one hour. Homemade pie and coffee will be available.

For more information about the meeting, contact Kathy Holdefer at 515-491-8468. For information about the hearing and rally, visit www.boldiowa.org.

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Three scenes from the shepherds in the field to the manger

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• 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.

• Free Community Meal will begin at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday at First United Methodist Church, 210 N. Second Ave. E. in Newton. Those interested may enter the church through the glass/ elevator doors on the Second Avenue East side or through the single glass door off the north parking lot. The meals are open to the public and everyone is welcome.

• Pet Pictures with Santa will begin at 6 p.m.

Wednesday at Newton Community Theatre, 1701 S. Eighth Ave. E. in Newton. The event is an Animal Rescue League Fundraiser. Bring your camera to get some great Christmas card photos.

Please enter at the stage door west of the main entrance.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m.

Wednesday at the Masonic Temple in Prairie City.

• Newton Area Chamber of Commerce December Breakfast will begin at 7 a.m. Thursday at First Assembly of God, 1029 E. 19th St. N. in Newton. Speakers will be Newton Chief of Police, Rob Burdess and his brother, Detective Jeremy Burdess of the Jasper County Sheriff ’s Office.

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

• Central Iowa Property Association will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday at Pizza Ranch in Newton.

The featured speaker will be local Service Master owner Kerry Walker.

• Holiday Celebration will begin at 6 p.m.

Thursday at DMACC Newton Campus, 600 N. Second Ave. W. Bring your children to help decorate the giant gingerbread house with candy.

Located in the lobby of DMACC Newton Campus.

• Pink Ribbon Support Group will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Skiff Medical Center, 204 N. Fourth Ave. E. in Newton. The Christmas gathering will be in the Inservice Room. Dinner provided. Bring cookie/treat and recipe for dessert and exchange. A grab bag gift also. RSVP Carol

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• Newton DMACC Inaugural Holiday Celebration will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday in the front lobby at Newton DMACC. Bring your children of all ages to help decorate an enormous gingerbread house. Other activities include storytelling, movies, hot coca and a visit from Santa. Free to the public.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m.

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DEAR ABBY: My husband of five years has confessed to affairs that resulted in two children. I suspected that something was up when after a year of marriage he seemed distant. Despite our almost 15-year age difference, I never in a million years thought he would do something like this.

A few months ago, he started disappearing again. At first it was a day here and a day there, but then it became weeks. I finally confronted him, and he confessed about the affairs. He claims the mother of the newborn is a prostitute and that it was a “mistake.” He wants to be involved in the 3-year-old little girl’s life, but not the newborn’s.

At that point I told him he needed to leave and remove his belongings from the house.

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Ex-owners of bar plead guilty to tax fraud DES MOINES — The former owners of a West Des Moines bar have pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges. Prosecutors say the charges against 66-year-old James Perin and his wife, 62-year-old Mardeen Perin, arise from their operation of Sully’s Irish Pub in 2013. The prosecutors say the Perins failed to report some cash income. Mardeen Perin pleaded guilty Monday to aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false return.

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Prosecutors say 34-year-old Mandy Whipple was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison. She’d pleaded guilty in June to mortgage fraud for falsifying loan papers to buy a house in Fremont County. Prosecutors say a report of delinquent payments led to the discovery.

MASON CITY — A January trial has been scheduled for a man accused of killing two people and trying to kill another in Mason City. Peter Veal, 30 of Lake Mills, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.

His trial is set to begin Jan. 24. Officers sent to a home to check on a shooting report Nov. 17 found the bodies of 37-year-old Caleb Christensen and 54-year-old Melinda Kavars.

School board member arrested in sex abuse case WEBSTER CITY — Webster City police say a local school board has been arrested and charged in a sex abuse case.

Police said 64-year-old Paul Steven Stenger, of Webster City in central Iowa, has been charged with lascivious acts with a child and second-degree sexual abuse.

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Three missing teens found dead in wreckage OSCEOLA — Authorities in southern Iowa say that three missing teens have been found dead in rural Clarke County.

Osceola police said the bodies of 16-yearold Elaina Critz, 16-year-old Lauren Barker and 19-year-old Jesse Robinson — all of Osceola — were found Tuesday at the wreckage of a car that had run off a rural road and into a creek. Authorities say the teens were found in a culvert.

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Two county positions adjusting titles, roles

By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News With multiple retirements expected to come in the new year, the county is looking to adjust responsibilities and titles for a couple of positions.

The Jasper County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve an office coordinator position for the Jasper County Health Department and the community development director position for planning and zoning.

“We currently have an office secretary under our union contract that is labeled executive secretary,” director of human resources Dennis Simon said.

“Sheryl Simatovich has submitted her resignation at the end of March and we would like to develop this position to be more modern, more effective on what the position will actually be doing such as electronic files and paperless billing.”

A new position would not be created in the county, instead the previous position of executive secretary will be repurposed to take on additional duties.

The pay will remain the same for the position.

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Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News Dennis Simon, director of human resources for Jasper County, explains how two position in the county are adjusting titles to better fit the responsibilities that are required of the jobs.

will be made with the director of planning and zoning position.

Current director Larry Ryan has talked about retirement, and with that opening the, Simon said, they hope to adjust the title to better fit the responsibilities of the position.

“The title ‘planning and zoning’ doesn’t truly fit what Larry’s responsibilities in the area of development he has moved into,” Simon said. “Working with Larry we have created the job description and

would like to create the position of community development director.”

Both positions will go before the supervisors before a new individual is officially approved for hire.

In other business: • Curtis Helms was approved for hire as a part-time transport officer for the Jasper County Sheriff ’s Office. His starting pay rate is $13.28 per hour with an effective date of Tuesday.

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An aide to President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that Trump has offered to nominate Republican Gov. Terry Branstad for the ambassadorship, and that the governor is expected to accept.

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Officer won’t be charged in shooting that paralyzed man IOWA CITY (AP) — A white police officer will not be charged in a shooting that left an unarmed black motorist paralyzed and sparked protests in Iowa’s second largest city, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

A grand jury declined to return an indictment against Cedar Rapids police officer Lucas Jones in the Nov. 1 shooting of Jerime Mitchell, Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden said, marking the second time since last year that Jones has been cleared after using deadly force.

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Survivor recalls fear, anger on day of Pearl Harbor attack PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Surprise, fear, anger and pride overcame Jim Downing as Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor.

Then a newlywed sailor, he recalled a Japanese plane flying low and slow in his direction as he rushed to his battleship from his home after hearing explosions and learning of the attack on the radio.

“When he got the right angle, he banked over, turned his machine guns lose,” Downing, now 103, said in an interview at a Waikiki hotel, “But fortunately he didn’t bank far enough so it went right over my head.”

The next aviator might have better aim, Downing remembers thinking. And with nowhere to hide, “I was afraid,” he said.

Downing plans to return to Pearl Harbor Wednesday with a few dozen other survivors to mark the 75th anniversary of the attack that plunged the United States into World War II and left more than 2,300 service people dead.

Those who gather at the ceremony on a pier overlooking the harbor are expected to observe a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m. — the same moment Japanese planes began their assault.

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AP Photo Jim Downing, 103, poses in a Navy uniform in Honolulu, with a photo of himself taken when he was about 20 years old. Downing is among a few dozen survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor who plan to gather at the Hawaii naval base Wednesday to remember those killed 75 years ago.

members of the public are expected to attend and watch via a livestream feed.

Downing said he comes back to Hawaii for the anniversary commemorations to be with his shipmates.

“We get together and have a great time and compare our stories,” said Downing, a resident of Colorado Springs,

Colorado.

His ship, the USS West Virginia, was hit by nine torpedoes.

“We were sinking and everything above the water line was on fire,” he said.

Downing said he felt proud while watching sailors balance the capsizing ship by allowing water to seep in. The

tactic let the giant battleship slide into mud below.

“They just instinctively did the right thing at the right time without any thought about their own lives or safety,” he said.

The West Virginia lost 106 men. Downing spent two hours fighting fires and checking the name tags of the

Time to reconcile: Two cities overcome Pearl Harbor legacy TOKYO (AP) — Seventy-five years after a Japanese admiral led the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, the mayor of his hometown is joining his Honolulu counterpart to mark the anniversary — as friends.

Tatsunobu Isoda, the mayor of Nagaoka, Japan, will lay flowers at the main memorial event on Wednesday and join a smaller ceremony a day later co-organized by Japan and the U.S. for the first time.

His presence is the fruit of nearly a decade of effort by his predecessor, Tamio Mori, who in 2014 became the first Japanese municipal leader invited to the commemoration in Hawaii.

“To many Americans, Pearl Harbor was a sacred place for the survivors and their animosity, and a place to glorify the war dead,” said Nagaoka city official Yusuke Nishiyama, who has organized peace education and youth exchange programs with Honolulu for several years.

Nagaoka, a city of 270,000 people on the Japan Sea, is the hometown of Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval commander who masterminded the surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941, that killed 2,400 sailors, Marines and soldiers.

Mori reached out to then-Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann at an international conference in the Hawaiian

AP Photo In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, part of the hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma is seen at right as the battleship USS West Virginia, center, begins to sink after suffering heavy damage, while the USS Maryland, left, is still afloat in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.

capital in 2007.

Introducing himself as the head of Yamamoto’s hometown, he proposed youth exchanges for peace education to restore friendship.

It took five years for Nagaoka and Honolulu to become sister cities, and even longer to build a deeper trust.

“We continued our exchanges, not just on milestone anniversaries but year after year, and it was last year when we finally heard the word ‘reconciliation’ mentioned (by the Americans)

for the first time,” said Nishiyama, the Nagaoka official.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced this week that he will visit Pearl Harbor with President Barack Obama in late December to pay respects to the war dead as a gesture of reconciliation.

Nagaoka is famed for its fireworks, and displays of them in Hawaii have become a symbolic part of the exchange, including one at the ceremony last year marking the 70th anniversary of the end World War II.

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dead so he could write their families personal notes about how they died.

“I thought that would give them more closure that just a cold note, ‘your son was killed in action,’” said Downing, who also served as the ship’s postmaster.

Ray Chavez was out on a minesweeper, the USS Condor, in the early hours before the attack. He remembers noticing with his shipmates that a mysterious submarine was lurking off the harbor.

“At 3:45 a.m. on Dec. 7, I look out and spotted a submarine that wasn’t supposed to be in that area,” the 104-year-old Chavez said.

The sailors reported the sighting and Chavez went home to sleep. He told his wife not to wake him because he hadn’t gotten any rest during the busy night.

“It seemed like I only slept about 10 minutes when she called me and said ‘we’re being attacked.’ And I said ‘who is going to attack us?’ She said ‘the Japanese are here and they’re attacking everything,’” Chavez said.

These days, many people treat Chavez and other Pearl Harbor survivors like celebrities, asking them for autographs and photos. But Chavez said it’s about the people who were lost.

“I’m honoring them, not myself,” he said.

Children who lived through Pearl Harbor attack remember HONOLULU (AP) — In some ways, it could be any class photo from the 1940s. The sepia-toned image shows 30 fifth-graders — 26 girls and four boys — at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Waikiki. Most are smiling, some look stern. A few have no shoes.

Yet this picture is different in one striking way: Each child is holding a bag containing a gas mask, a sign of how war had suddenly broke apart the routines of their adolescence on Dec. 7, 1941.

Three of the students, now in their mid-80s and all friends who have kept in touch over the years, reflected recently on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago and the mark it left on their childhoods.

Joan Martin Rodby remembered the carefree walks to school, and her family building an air raid shelter in their yard.

Florence Seto, who is Japanese-American, recalled sharing ice cream with Rodby, and being worried that her family would be taken away.

Emma Veary reminisced about her days sing-

ing, and her family covering the windows at night so Japanese pilots couldn’t use the light of homes to guide them.

On the morning of Dec. 7, a Sunday, Japanese bombers flew across Oahu and began their assault.

Some children climbed onto the roofs of homes to see what was happening.

The planes were so close to the ground in some cases that they could make out the Rising Sun insignia.

Soon, smoke rose over the water, about 10 miles from Veary’s home near Waikiki.

Veary, then 11, climbed atop a neighbor’s house.

Back then, Waikiki didn’t have any high-rise hotels and condominiums to block the view, so she could see all the way to the naval base. Her parents yelled at her to get down as soon as they heard about the attack.

Seto, who lived a few blocks away near homes belonging to Navy families, remembered a neighbor rushing out of her home, screaming about how the Japanese, using an epithet common at the time, had attacked Pearl Harbor.

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WA S H I N G T O N (AP) — Time magazine on Wednesday named Donald Trump its Person of the Year, bestowing what the president-elect called an “honor” even as he derided the idea that he’ll lead “the Divided States of America.”

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Time editor Nancy Gibbs said the publication’s choice was a “straightforward” choice of the person who has had the great-

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Trump climbed from fiery underdog in the race for the GOP presidential nomination to winning the White House and defeating Clinton in the Nov. 8 election. Trump won 306 electoral votes, easily enough to make him president when the

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The pop star leads the 2017 Grammys with nine nominations, including bids for album of the year with “Lemonade,” and song and record of the year with “Formation.” The singer, who already has 20 Grammys and is the most nominated woman in Grammy history with 62 nods over the course of her career, is also the first artist to earn nominations in the pop, rock, R&B and rap categories in the same year.

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Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Setting a solid pace, NCMP sophomore Adam Hunter swims the 400-meter freestyle in Tuesday’s home dual meet with Des Moines East. Hunter won the race as the only competitor to post a time less than five minutes. Des Moines East’s Scarlets pulled away from NCMP Cardinals to win the varsity dual, 106-66.

NCMP wins four events in home water

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News

Adam Hunter has swam the 400-meter freestyle race before. He said he usually comes in fourth or fifth.

Not on Tuesday. The NCMP sophomore pulled away from the field in the dual swim meet against Des Moines East to win in 4 minutes, 54.31 seconds.

Zane Pettis of East was second

in 5:11.96. NCMP’s Jacob Nedder finished fourth in 5:30.64.

“It’s an event I normally swim, but it felt good to win it,” Hunter said after the meet.

“I felt a lot stronger swimming it tonight. My pace was a lot better.”

NCMP’s Cardinals were the smaller team — number-wise — Tuesday as the Scarlets’ depth pushed them to a 10666 win at the Newton YMCA.

The Cardinals won four individual events and made all three relay races close.

“Even though we didn’t win any of the relays tonight, we were really close,” Hunter said. “I swam the backstroke in the medley relay, which I’ve never done before. It was cool to watch Caleb (Gaylor) come back and almost help us win the two freestyle relays.”

Gaylor claimed first in the

200 freestyle race in 2:05.29 and in the 200 butterfly in 1:05.45. He swam the anchor legs on the NCMP 200 and 400 freestyle relays.

Clay Trotter turned in the fastest time in the shortest race of the night, the 50 freestyle, winning in 26.78 seconds.

Trotter was the anchor on the 200 medley relay to start the night and led off the 200 freestyle relay for the Cardinals.

In the medley relay race, Nedder, Carter Briggs, Mason Lee and Trotter finished second in 2:06.70. The NCMP team of Hunter, Paul Maharry, Clay Meyer and Logan Zaabel placed fourth in 2:23.43.

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Cardinals thump Cubs to move to 3-0

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News Newton High senior Trey Vanderlaan lived up to his first name, hitting six 3-pointers in the Cardinals’ runaway non-conference win on Tuesday.

Vanderlaan buried five of his treys in the first half of the 75-35 victory over visiting Nevada.

“It was fun to see Trey get going again,” New- Vanderlaan ton head coach Bill Liley said. “That team wasn’t as bad as the score indicates. We just played well, and it was the best game we’ve played so far this season.”

The Cardinals shot 53 percent, 28-of-53, from the field overall. They ramped things up late in the first quarter from the field, shooting 64 percent by the end of the first half.

Defensively, Newton gave

up just five field goals — three 2-pointers and two 3-pointers — in the first half. The Cubs finished the game, 14-of-36, from the field for 39 percent.

The Cubs were up 3-1 early in the first quarter, but by the close of the first quarter, the Cardinals were in control, 2210. Newton went on a 19-6 run in the second period on its way to a commanding 41-16 halftime advantage.

“We had great energy from our team and great ball movement,” Liley said. “Sharing the ball is a big part of who we are as a team.

Passing is a major strength for this group. Their unselfishness really showed tonight.”

Newton had 19 assists and three players in double-digit scoring. Vanderlaan ended up with 18 points and three assists while senior Connor Gholson hit for 19 points. Junior Garrett Sturtz had 16 points and five assists. Senior Morgan Maher Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News dished out four assists.

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games of the season. Here senior Morgan Maher, right, grabs the rebound. Newton outrebounded visiting Nevada on Tuesday night. The Cardinals won their third straight game, 75-35, to stay undefeated.

Third-quarter surge pushes PCM boys past host CMB

By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News BAXTER — Coll i ns - Ma x we l l / B a x te r coach Zach Hasselbrink wasn’t sure exactly when the Heart of Iowa Conference contest against Prairie City-Monroe got away from his Raiders on Tuesday night.

CMB led after one quarter and scored four quick points to tie the game at the start of the third quarter, but PCM junior Jackson Thomas scored 10 points during a 16-5 run to end the frame, and the Mustangs never looked back during a 67-53 win in Heart of Iowa Conference play.

Thomas finished with 24 points and seven rebounds. Sophomore An-

drew Van Ryswyk collected a double-double as the Mustangs rebounded from their first loss of the season.

PCM hit nine 3-pointers in the game, and its man-to-man defense slowed down CMB in key moments during the second half.

“When they went to man, we weren’t hitting our spots and hitting our checkpoints,” Hasselbrink said. “We weren’t confused by it, but we just weren’t getting the shots we wanted. We rushed too many shots.

We just need to settle down a little bit.”

The two teams combined for 19 3-pointers.

The difference in the game though was PCM’s ability to penetrate to the basket and either

finish at the hoop and dish off for a better shot.

Three Mustangs reached double-figures and another guy scored nine. The Mustangs went in front for good after outscoring CMB 19-13 in the second quarter.

The lead grew to double-digits in the third after a 16-9 advantage.

“It makes it easier when you hit shots,” PCM coach Fred Lorensen said. “It was a good combination of hitting shots from outside and getting some good looks inside.

That makes the offense a little bit easier when you can do both.”

CMB recovered in the opening quarter after PCM jumped out to a 7-0 lead.

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Troy Hyde/Daily News Prairie City-Monroe freshman Derek Brown, center, shoots between Collins-Maxwell/ Baxter defenders Will Clapper, left, and Braydon Aker during the Mustangs’ 67-53 win in Baxter on Tuesday.

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SPORTS CALENDAR Thursday Boys Swimming Boone at NCMP, 5:30 p.m.

Basketball Newton girls at Marshalltown, 9th 4:45 p.m., varsity 6:15 p.m.

Newton boys at Marshalltown, JV 4:45 p.m., 9th 6:15 p.m., varsity 7:30p.m.

Oskaloosa at Newton 8th girls, 4:30 p.m.

Newton 7th girls at Oskaloosa, 4:30 p.m.

Wrestling PCM, Nevada at North Polk, 6 p.m.

CMB at Gilbert quadrangular, 5:30 p.m.

Colfax-Mingo, Roland-Story at Saydel, 6 p.m.

Friday Basketball Newton girls at Dallas Center-Grimes, JV 4:45 p.m., varsity 6:15 p.m., 9th 7:30 p.m.

Newton boys at Dallas Center-Grimes, JV 4:45 p.m., 9th 6:15 p.m., varsity 7:30 p.m.

CMB at Gilbert, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

Colfax-Mingo at BGM, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

Montezuma at Lynnville-Sully, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

Wrestling Newton at Council Bluffs Classic, 1 p.m.

Newton 7th/8th at South Tama, 4:15 p.m.

Saturday Wrestling Newton at Council Bluffs Classic, 10 a.m.

PCM at Ankeny Centennial Invitational, 10 a.m.

Lynnville-Sully, CMB at Saydel Invitational, 9 a.m.

Newton JV at Southeast Polk Boys Swimming NCMP at Marshalltown Invitational, noon Basketball Grand View Christian at CMB, girls 2 p.m., boys 3:30 p.m.

Monday Bowling Des Moines North at Newton, 3:45 p.m.

Basketball Newton girls at Williamsburg, 9th 5:30 p.m., JV 7 p.m.

Knoxville at Newton 8th boys, 4:30 p.m.

Newton 7th boys at Knoxville, 4:30 p.m.

Wrestling Newton JV at Knoxville Invitational, 5 p.m.

Montezuma sweeps Tigerhawks

By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News MONTEZUMA — The Montezuma basketball teams jumped out to early leads against Colfax-Mingo on Tuesday and cruised to easy home victories during South Iowa Cedar League action.

The Class 2A No. 14 Bravettes, who led 23-7 after one quarter and 44-13 at halftime, got 21 points apiece from junior Breck Goodman and freshman Shateah Wetering during a 71-43 victory, while the Montezuma boys basketball team downed Colfax-Mingo 80-38.

Junior McKeely Tjaden scored 14 points for Colfax-Mingo, which dropped to 1-4 overall and 1-2 in the SICL. Sophomore Payton Rhone added a pair of 3-pointers and 12 points, while senior Dakota Hostetter scored seven points, grabbed 10 rebounds and finished with six steals.

The Montezuma boys led Colfax-Mingo 29-11 after one quarter. The Braves outscored the Tigerhawks (1-3, 1-2) 5127 the rest of the way.

Dakota Strong led the Braves (3-1, 3-0) with 23 points. He made five of Montezuma’s 12 3-pointers. Logan Price chipped in 17 points in the win.

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PCM girls bounce back against CMB

By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News BAXTER — When the game was on the line, and the Prairie City-Monroe girls basketball team needed some momentum on the road, the Mustangs went back to what has always worked in the first two seasons under coach Jeff Lindsay.

Trailing 15-12 after one quarter against Collins-Maxwell/Baxter, the Mustangs ramped up their defense. They held the Raiders to a single point in the second quarter and never looked back during a 56-40 road win in Heart of Iowa Conference play.

“We lost a couple of their shooters early on. We talked about it before the game, and we had a good idea of who to cover up from outside,” Lindsay said. “We lost them a few times early, and they made us pay.

“We tightened things up after that, and our press may have wore them down a little bit.”

The Raiders stayed within striking distance the entire game, but PCM put the finishing touches on its fifth win of the year when the Mustangs hit all 11 of their free throw attempts in the fourth quarter.

PCM was 25-of-34 from the foul line in the game.

“That right there, is a huge plus for us,” Lindsay said. “We have talked about improving our free throw shooting. You need to hit those even if its a double-digit lead. I hope it gives us some confidence at the line moving forward.”

CMB matched a season-high with six 3-pointers.

Three of those came in the first quarter as the Raiders went in front after back-to-back makes by junior Brianda Bane.

Senior Emily Coughenour drained another trey in the frame, and two free throws apiece by seniors Mikayla Eslinger and Kathleen Baldwin gave the Raiders a 15-12 lead after one quarter.

CMB (3-3 overall, 1-3 in the HOIC) couldn’t hang onto the momentum though. PCM out-

Troy Hyde/Daily News Prairie City-Monroe senior Kayla Jennings, right, defends Collins-Maxwell/Baxter junior Brianda Bane during a Heart of Iowa Conference game in Baxter on Tuesday. Jennings led PCM with 19 points, while Bane scored 11 for CMB.

scored the Raiders 13-1 in the second frame and led by nine at halftime.

“The difference was they switched to a man-to-man defense, and we didn’t handle it well,” CMB coach Eric Padget said. “I am not sure why them switching to man confused us, but it did. It took us a quarter and a halftime talk to figure it out, and you can’t do that against a good team.

Lindsay said it took his team about a quarter to play the lock-down defense they have played all season.

“Once the girls got an idea of what CMB liked to do, we were able to make adjustments and anticipate the passing lanes,” Lindsay said.

Freshman Regan Freland tied the game at 15-all, and then the Mustangs went ahead for good following three straight buckets by seniors

Bailey Brodersen, Kayla Jennings and Freland.

PCM led by as many as 15 points in the third quarter. Senior Katie Vande Wall scored six of the Mustangs’ first 10 points of the frame to put her squad up 35-20. They led 4128 after three quarters.

“We were just timid against a team that likes to put lots of pressure on the outside,” Padget said. “The fact that we were timid made the pressure look even worse.”

The Raiders hit their final three 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, and that helped the hosts stay within striking distance.

Jennings kept PCM in front though as she scored 11 of her game-high 19 points in the fourth quarter. She was 9-of-9 from the line in the frame and 10-of-11 overall.

“Outside of the fouling at

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Prairie City-Monroe 12-13-16-15 — 56 Collins-Maxwell/Baxter 15-1-12-12 — 40 PCM (FG/3-pt-FT-F-TP) — Freland 2-1-2-5, Vande Wall 3-8-2-14, Stafford 3-0-2-6, Jennings 4/1-10-4-19, Brodersen 2-2-4-6, Townsend 1-4-3-6, Timmins 0-0-2-0. Totals 14/1-25-19-56.

CMB (FG-3pt-FT-F-TP) — Hinegardner 0-0-2-0, Coughenour 3/3-2-4-11, Ziesman 0-4-4-4, Baldwin 0-4-4-4, Eslinger 2-6-310, Bane 3/3-2-4-11. Totals 8/6-18-21-40.

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side in the fourth. Thomas and Van Ryswyk each connected from downtown, while CMB got another 3-pointer from Thomson and a pair of treys from Damman.

CMB couldn’t get closer than 11 the rest of the way.

Thomas hit four 3-pointers his 24 points set a new career-high. Van Ryswyk added a season-high 13 points and 10 rebounds, while Boell chipped in a career-high 11.

Sperfslage hit three 3-pointers and scored nine while dishing out six assists and collecting a pair of steals. Four of Bruxvoort’s points came in the first few minutes of the game.

He finished with six and added eight rebounds and five assists. “(Thomas) has been playing lights-out. We have several kids who can do some things.

It may shake out differently every game from a scoring standpoint,” Lorensen said.

Damman scored a career-high 14 points, including four 3-pointers. Thomson also hit four treys and scored a career-high 12 points and pulled down four boards. Clapper put in 12 points and grabbed five rebounds.

McWhirter scored eight points and corralled five boards, while Lindemoen dished out three assists.

Continued from Page 1B An 11-4 run to end the period put the Raiders up two after eight minutes. CMB got treys from sophomore Ian Thomson, senior Hunter McWhirter and freshman Cole Damman during that stretch.

While 3-pointers at the offensive end helped CMB take a lead after the first quarter, treys at the other end of the floor by PCM helped the Mustangs regain the lead.

Junior Elijah Sperfslage drilled back-to-back triples to put his team up four. Thomson kept CMB close with another 3-pointer but PCM went up nine following another long ball from Sperfslage and three buckets from junior Dayton Boell.

“We were really bad on rotations some of those times, and the other part is that I am asking my big guy to get out and cover the baseline,” Hasselbrink said. “He’s not always fast enough. They hit some shots with a hand in their face, too.”

CMB got within four by halftime after a pair of baskets from McWhirter and a 3-pointer by Thomson just before the buzzer.

The Raiders (1-4 overall, 0-3 in the HOIC) tied it up quickly following another trey by Damman. CMB buried a season-high 10 shots from long range in the loss, but PCM’s run at the end of the third was just too much to overcome.

“I knew we could shoot it from back there, but I think we probably took a few too many tonight,” Hasselbrink said. “It’s natural to shoot a few more when they go in, and we forgot about our big guys down low.

We have to feed them more.”

the end of the game, we played even with them if you take away that second quarter,” Padget said. “We only gave up one 3-pointer and played pretty good defense, and that’s what we had to do to have a chance.”

Vande Wall scored 15 points and grabbed five rebounds in the win.

No other Mustang reached double-figures but Brodersen and seniors Kaylee Townsend and Rachel Stafford all scored six and Freland added five.

“They did a good job defensively, too,” Lindsay said. “We have to be sharper on our passes and just take what is given to us. We rushed too many shots.”

Brodersen and Townsend each had five rebounds, Stafford chipped in three boards and three assists and Freland collected three steals.

Bane and Coughenour combined to bury all six of the Raiders’ 3-pointers and both players scored 11 points.

Bane added seven boards, and Coughenour finished with three steals.

Eslinger tallied 10 points and five rebounds and Baldwin delivered four points, five rebounds, four assists and two steals.

“We have shown so far that we are not a one-man team,” Padget said. “We have other players besides (Bane) who can score so that should help us moving forward.”

There were 40 fouls called in the game. CMB made more 3-pointers (6) than 2-pointers (2). The Raiders stayed close by connecting on 18-of-23 from the line.

Troy Hyde/Daily News Collins-Maxwell/Baxter freshman Cole Damman, right, scores two of his career-high 14 points against Prairie City-Monroe junior Dayton Boell on Tuesday in Baxter. Boell had 10 points for the Mustangs, who won 67-53.

After CMB tied it at 32-all, PCM got a putback from Van Ryswyk, a reverse layup from junior Noah Lanphier and two 3-pointers and a pair of buckets inside from Thomas. Junior Mark Bruxvoort finished off the quarter with a layup.

The only points CMB got during that stretch was a bucket inside from sophomore Will

Clapper and a trey by junior Travis Lindemoen.

“We just went to a man-toman defense. We tried to locate their shooters, and we did for the most part,” Lorensen said.

“They still hit some from outside, but we were much better defensively in the second half.”

The two teams continued to knock down shots from out-

Prairie City-Monroe 13-19-16-18 — 67 Collins-Maxwell/Baxter 15-13-9-16 — 53 PCM (FG/3-pt-FT-F-TP) — Sperfslage 3/30-1-9, Bruxvoort 3-0-3-6, Boell 5-1-1-11, Thomas 10/4-0-1-24, Lanphier 1-1-0-3, Van Ryswyk 5/2-1-2-13, Brown 0-1-0-1.

Totals 27/9-4-10-67.

CMB (FG/3-pt-FT-F-TP) — Lindemoen 1/1-0-1-3, Thomson 4/4-0-0-12, McWhirter 3/1-1-3-8, Damman 5/4-0-0-14, Aker 2-0-2-4, Bacon 0-0-2-0, Clapper 5-2-1-12, Gunderson 0-0-1-0, Galloway 0-0-1-0.

Totals 20/10-3-11-53.

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Lynnville-Sully basketball teams overpower HLV

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News VICTOR — Lynnville-Sully’s girls and boys stayed perfect for the 2016-17 basketball season with a sweep of South Iowa Cedar League conference games against host HLV on Tuesday.

The Hawk girls posted a 5621 win over the HLV Warrior girls to improve to 5-0. The Class 1A fourth-ranked Lynnville-Sully’s boys dominated the first half, leading 40-9, on their way to a 70-23 victory over the Warriors to go to 4-0.

“In the first half, we were a little slow. We didn’t have the energy we needed on defense and were standing too much on offense,” Lynnville-Sully girls’ head coach Jerry Hulsing said.

The Hawk girls had a 13-4 lead after one quarter of play and were up 21-9 at halftime. In the third quarter, the switch was on full force as Lynnville-Sully outscored

HLV, 19-2. The Hawks finished the game on a 16-10 run the fourth period.

“We came out with a lot better energy in the second half, forcing several turnovers which led to some easy baskets. We had better ball movement and attacked the rim better,” Hulsing said.

The Hawk girls shot 44 percent, 20-of-45, from the field while holding the Warrior girls to 14 percent, 6-of-41, from the field. Lynnville-Sully cashed in on 14-of-20 free throw attempts. HLV was 6-of-22 at the free-throw line.

Jelissa Rozendaal paced the Hawk girls with 16 points and eight rebounds. Carson Fisk fired in 15 points, grabbed nine rebounds, made four steals and handed out four assists. Mariah Vos scored eight points.

Brenna Lanser tossed in seven points, dished out five assists, pulled down seven rebounds and had three steals.

Scoring four points apiece

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were Christine Nikkel and Camryn Russell. Jataya Meyer scored two points.

Haley Coats hit three 3-pointers for the Warrior girls, leading them with 11 points. The Warriors had 25 turnovers.

“We were able to create 24 turnovers, which led to some easy baskets,” Lynnville-Sully boys’ head coach Nick Harthoorn said as the Hawk boys powered past the Warriors.

Up 21-8 at the end of the first quarter, the Hawks’ defensive play held the Warriors to one point in the second pe-

riod. Lynnville-Sully added 19 points to the scoreboard for its 40-9 halftime lead.

The Hawks held a 19-10 scoring edge in the third quarter and finished the game on an 11-4 run in the final eight minutes.

Eleven players saw action for the Hawks, and all 11 scored. Lynnville-Sully shot 54 percent, 27-of-50, from the field and downed 9-of-15 free throw attempts.

“It was good to see everyone get into the scoring column for the Hawks. Hopefully we can continue to work hard in practice and keep making strides in the right direction,” Harthoorn said.

Tanner Foster led the way for Lynnville-Sully with 13 points and made four steals.

Rylan James scored 12 points and collected six rebounds. Tyler Van Zante had nine points.

Jesse Van Wyk had eight points and pulled eight of the team’s 32 rebounds. He also

had five assists. Brevin Hansen dished out four assists and scored seven points.

John Trettin and Grant Wehrle each had five points and Drake Ehresman scored four points. Tyson Vander Linden had three points while Ryan Hofer and Kemper Lukehart had two points each.

HLV’s boys shot a cool 28 percent, 10-of-36, from the field and hit 2-of-8 free throw tries. They had 19 rebounds.

Ben Toyne was the Warriors’ leading scorer with six points.

Mitch Thys and Kody Timm each had five points each.

On Friday, Lynnville-Sully hosts Montezuma in conference play at Sully. The Hawk girls play at 6 p.m. against the Class 2A No. 14 Bravettes. The No. 4 ranked Hawk boys have a showdown with the No. 5 ranked Montezuma boys at 7:30 p.m.

Contact Jocelyn Sheets at 641-792-3121 ext. 6535 or jsheets@newtondailynews.com

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Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News Mason Lee swims the butterfly leg of the varsity 200-meter medley relay race for NCMP in Tuesday’s home swim dual against Des Moines East at the Newton YMCA.

NCMP Continued from Page 1B over in the pool. East’s anchor swimmer Parker Bartz out-touched Gaylor, 1:48.41 to 1:48.89. NCMP’s other relay team of Lee, Briggs, Izaak Miller and Nedder was third in 2:00.46.

The 400 freestyle relay was much the same as East had the lead with NCMP’s Heisdorffer, Hunter and Nedder staying close. Gaylor was able to close the gap in the final 50 meters. East won the race in 4:12.06 to NCMP’s 4:12.99.

NCMP’s other 400 freestyle relay foursome of Meyer, Miller, Zaabel and Lee took fourth in 5:06.21.

“We were outmanned tonight. With 14 guys, it was tough, and we had some guys who weren’t feeling

the greatest tonight,” NCMP head coach Sarah Patterson said. “Before the meet, we told the guys when you’re feeling good, that’s when it is easy. When your tired and not feeling your greatest, you have to just work through it, and we did a pretty good job of that tonight.”

Patterson said East had a lot of depth with three strong places in most of the races. She said they mixed up the lineup a bit with swimmers gone because of illness.

Maharry swam his first 200 individual medley of the season finishing ahead of his best time of the event a year ago. Hunter placed fourth in the individual medley race in 2:50.37 and Maharry was fifth in 2:54.23.

Heisdorffer placed fourth in the 200 freestyle in 2:27.45 while Lee was fourth in the

50 freestyle in 28.89 seconds and Meyer was sixth in 32 seconds. Trotter took third in the 100 freestyle in 1:03.18 and Heisdorffer was fourth in 1:04.57.

Meyer turned in a second-place finish in the 100 backstroke in 1:24.40.

Briggs and Maharry went 2-3 in the 200 breaststroke race in 1:20.60 and 1:24.70, respectively. In the 100 butterfly, Briggs placed fourth in 1:22.94 and Miller was fifth in 1:37.36.

“There’s little things we need to work on. The guys have to do that. We coaches can’t do it for them,” Patterson said. “Overall, it was a pretty good meet. We have a stretch here where we have a lot of meets right now. We have to stay focused and keep competing.”

In the junior varsity division, East beat NCMP, 109-18.

Zaabel placed second in the 400 freestyle race in 7:11.42. The 200 medley relay team of Parker Sherwood, Miller, Spencer Elbert and Joe Busch was second in 3:05.70. The same foursome took second in the 200 freestyle really in 2:42.30.

Busch was fourth in the 50 freestyle in 40.90 seconds with Sherwood in fifth at 41.35 and Elbert in sixth at 44.57. Sherwood placed fourth in the 100 freestyle in 1:36.40 followed by Elbert in fifth at 1:37.33 and Busch in sixth at 1:40.98.

The NCMP Cardinals host Boone at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday at the Newton YMCA. They will compete in Saturday’s Marshalltown Invitational.

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Liley said Nevada pressed the Cardinals, but “we don’t give into another team’s press.” The Cardinals attacked and got some baskets in transition.

Newton had only three turnovers in the game.

There was no letdown coming out of halftime for the Cardinals.

Liley They outscored the Cubs 18-8 to push their lead to 59-24. In the final period, Newton held a 1611 scoring edge.

Another edge the Cardinals had came on the backboards as they outrebounded yet another taller team, 25-18. Sturtz led the charge on the boards with nine rebounds. Newton had 12 steals with Gholson and Vanderlaan having three apiece.

“Nevada’s starting front line went 6-6, 6-5, 6-5. One of our objectives each game is win the rebounding battle. I’m proud of our guys being able to do that against three bigger teams so far this season,” Liley said.

Nevada was led by Trent Stahl with 10 points. The Cubs (1-2) had 18 turnovers in the game.

They were 5-of-7 from the freethrow line while the Cardinals sank 8-of-10 foul shots.

Nevada won the junior varsity game, 55-46. Kyle Long was Newton’s leading scorer with 19 points. Quintrail Coley had seven rebounds and McKenna Davis pulled down six rebounds.

In the freshman game, Nevada netted a 47-44 win over Newton.

Cody Hamilton scored 12 points and William Cheng tossed in 10 points for Newton.

Newton (3-0) travels to Marshalltown on Thursday for a non-conference girls-boys doubleheader. The girls’ game tips at 6 p.m. followed by the boys’ game.

The Cardinal teams are on the road again on Friday for a Little Hawkeye Conference doubleheader at Dallas Center-Grimes.

The DCG girls are ranked 14th in Class 4A and the DCG boys are 10th in Class 3A. The girls’ game is at 6 p.m. followed by the boys at 7:30 p.m.

Nevada 10-6-8-11—35 Newton 22-19-18-16—75 Newton (FG/3-pt): Sturtz 6/1-1-1-16, Graham 1-0-2-2, Gulling 1/2-0-2-8, Gholson 3/2-7-019, Vanderlaan 0/6-0-0-18, Ventling 3-0-2-6, Maher 3-0-2-6. TOTALS: 17/11-8-9-75.

Nevada (FG/3-pt): Stahl 1/2-2-0-10, Henry 1-0-0-2, Higgins 2-0-1-4, Matuska 1-0-2-2, Merfeld 1-0-1-2, Strottman 1-0-2-2, Wilkerson 1-0-2-2, Sanders 1-2-1-4, Chitty 3-1-1-7. TOTALS: 12/2-5-10-35.

Contact Jocelyn Sheets at 641-792-3121 ext. 6535 or jsheets@newtondailynews.com Jocelyn Sheets/Daily News NCMP’s Parker Sherwood churns the water doing the backstroke for the NCMP junior varsity 200-meter medley relay team in Tuesday’s home dual meet against Des Moines East.

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Drake coach Ray Giacoletti resigns with team at 1-7

Troy Banning/Webster City Daily Freeman-Journal Prairie City-Monroe senior Xavier Miller, left, went 3-0 with three pins in duals on Tuesday in Monroe. The Mustangs went 2-1 on the night, losing by one point to Sigourney Keota.

PCM grapplers win two, lose by one to S-K

By Troy Hyde Newton Daily News MONROE — Senior Xavier Miller and sophomore Wes Cummings both competed at a heavier weight Tuesday night, but it hardly mattered.

Miller (152), Cummings (160) and sophomore Jarron Trausch (170) all went 3-0 on the night, helping the Mustangs finish 2-1 in a quadrangular at PCM High School.

Class 2A sixth ranked Cummings (152) and sixth-ranked Trausch (170) stayed unbeaten on the season, Chace Palm, Leevi Telfer and Chase Shirk all went 2-1 and the Mustangs defeated Bondurant-Farrar (44-24) and Pleasantville (48-27) and lost by a point to Sigourney-Keota (40-39).

With 2A No. 2 Roland being out of the lineup because of a knee injury, Cummings and Miller had to wrestle up a weight class.

Cummings started and ended his night with pins but the middle match was a 10-5 win over 1A No. 8 Griffen McBride of Pleasantville.

Miller won all three of his matches by fall, while Trausch had a win by fall, technical fall and forfeit.

Bondurant-Farrar led 18-6 in the early stages of the opening match of the night. Eight straight wins though helped the Mustangs rally. PCM was handed two forfeits, too.

The Mustangs flipped the script against Pleasantville. The Trojans led 9-0 before five straight wins gave PCM the lead for good. Short-handed Pleasantville handed the Mustangs five forfeits.

Sigourney-Keota rallied from an early 12-0 deficit in the final dual.

Trailing 33-10, Sigourney-Keota won five straight matches to take a seven-point lead with one match to go.

Clay Van Wyk of PCM won two matches on the night, both by way of forfeit.

PCM wrestles at 6 p.m. Thursday at North Polk.

Contact Troy Hyde at 641-792-3121 ext. 6536 or thyde@newtondailynews.com

DES MOINES (AP) — Drake coach Ray Giacoletti abruptly resigned Tuesday after three-plus seasons, saying it was time for a “new voice” to lead the Bulldogs out of a skid that has them just 1-7 so far this season.

Giacoletti, a former coach at Utah, went 32-69 at Drake and will be replaced by assistant Jeff Rutter for the rest of the season. Athletic director Sandy Hatfield-Clubb wouldn’t speculate on Rutter’s status following the season.

Giacolleti’s stint with the Bulldogs got off to a promising start, as he finished 15-16 in 2013-14 at a program with just one NCAA Tournament appearance since 1971.

But Drake finished 9-22 and 7-24 in the next two seasons. The Bulldogs’ only win so far in 2016-17 came against Division III Simpson College, and last week they went through a brutal stretch that included two-point losses at DePaul and Fresno State.

“It felt like this was the right move,” Giacoletti said. “I’m a big boy.

I understand how this thing works.

It’s year four, and where our team needs to be, in my opinion, not anybody else’s opinion, where I believe our team should be, I’m accountable for that. I didn’t feel like we were there, and I didn’t feel like there was a whole lot of how I could help it change.”

The promotion was bittersweet for Rutter, a close friend of Giacoletti’s who will be a Division I head coach for the first time.

Rutter has spent 30 years in coaching, including a stint as the head coach at Division II Wisconsin-Parkside from 1996-2003. He left to join Greg McDermott at Northern Iowa and followed McDermott to Iowa State, where the pair worked together for seven seasons.

“There’s no wholesale change,

some magic formula. (It’s about) guys believing in playing efficiently, playing hard, playing together, and just trying to get over the hump and hope getting over the hump snowballs in a positive way,” Rutter said.

Giacoletti’s resignation was just the latest in a long line of struggles for Iowa’s most downtrodden Division I program.

After reaching the Final Four in 1969, the Bulldogs went through decades of lackluster play.

Tom Davis, who had recently been let go at Iowa, took over in the early 2000s and made the program competitive before handing the program over to his son.

Keno Davis led Drake on a remarkable run in 2007-08, winning the Missouri Valley Conference and earning a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament. He left for Providence after that season and was replaced by Mark Phelps, a strong recruiter who couldn’t make the Bulldogs a winner in five seasons.

Hatfield-Clubb thought she had found the right guy in Giacoletti, a former head coach at Utah and a Gonzaga assistant who hoped to follow the blueprint that Mark Few used to maintain sustained success with the Zags.

Unless Rutter can show marked improvement with this year’s roster, she’ll likely have yet another coaching search on her hands this spring.

“Our team is not where we expected to be when we originally talked about that vision,” Hatfield-Clubb said.

Deonte Burton’s strengths shining for No. 25 Iowa State AMES (AP) — There are times when senior Deonte Burton can be the most spectacular and maddening player on the floor for No. 25 Iowa State — often in the same sequence.

Harnessing Burton’s strengths and minimizing his weaknesses will be a big challenge for both Burton and coach Steve Prohm this season.

Burton has been occasionally spectacular for Iowa State.

The 6-foot-5, 250-pounder is averaging 14.1 points, a team-high 7.6 rebounds and is shooting 47.4 percent from 3-point range.

If Burton can continue to overcome the little mistakes that hold him back, like forced shots and the nearly two turnovers per game so far in 2016-17, the Cyclones can

be a serious threat in the Big 12. Iowa State travels to face Iowa (4-5) on Thursday.

“Some of those shots that he shoots, you’re like ‘Oh man,’” Prohm said. “But those are lessening. Now the biggest thing we’ve got to get him to do is to make that extra pass, and I think he’s seeing that.

But he’s just an offensive talent.”

Last season, Burton was a role player for a team with plenty of scoring options.

This year, the Cyclones are counting on him.

Burton was a top-50 recruit coming out of Vincent High in Milwaukee, and he earned Big East All-Rookie honors for Marquette as a freshman.

But after losing his mother to breast cancer just before the start of his sophomore season, Burton opted for a change and

left Marquette after just eight games.

Like so many transfers before him, Burton found a home with the Cyclones. He became eligible last December and was immediately inserted into a rotation that had just lost starting guard Naz Mitrou-Long to injuries.

Burton averaged a career-high 9.7 points and 3.9 rebounds.

But with frontcourt stars like Georges Niang and Abdel Nader leading the way and a first-year coach in Prohm that he barely knew, Burton’s focus wasn’t always where it needed to be.

“He’ll tell you. Last year... he wasn’t hard, necessarily, to coach. But he wasn’t easy to coach, either,” Prohm said. “I really just talked to him about my expectations, what I want-

ed him to do to help him ... the way you go about things, the way you prepare, the way you work, the way you handle yourself. He’s done all that.”

Prohm also said at media day in October that he wanted Burton to get a double-double “every game.” Burton is talented enough to come close.

Burton has scored at least 20 points three times this season, including a 29-point performance in a 73-71 loss to No. 8 Gonzaga.

Burton has shown a knack for getting hot and scoring points in bunches — like when scored the first 13 points in Monday’s win over Nebraska-Omaha — but he’s learning not to do that without disrupting Iowa State’s game plan.

“If I start hitting some shots, then I start taking bad

NASCAR hopes sponsor Monster attracts needed younger fans LAS VEGAS (AP) — NASCAR’s top circuit has been called the Winston Cup, Nextel Cup and Sprint Cup. Starting in 2017, the sport could have a Cup-less name, one of many changes expected as Monster Energy takes over as title sponsor with a desire to attract younger fans to a sagging sport.

“Young people set trends in fashion and then older people adapt,” said Mark Hall, Monster’s chief marketing officer.

“Fashion is set by a small group of influencers. The challenge is to make your product relevant to that group and then have them influence the others. If we’ve been successful in the past, we’ve followed that model.”

A decade ago, NASCAR was the cool sport, drawing record television ratings and numerous sponsors as it branched out from its Southeastern roots.

The recession hit the sport hard, then the fans started to scatter and TV ratings dwindled. Sprint, which inherited the sponsorship of the sport’s top series when it merged with Nextel, announced in December 2014 it wouldn’t renew.

It took nearly two years to find a replacement, and it’s believed Monster is paying much less. But NASCAR hopes the relationship with the California-based maker of caffeine-filled energy drinks will reinvigorate an aging fan base.

NASCAR Chairman Brian France kept saying “fun” and “edgy” in describing Monster at Thursday’s news conference announcing the agreement.

“They get at a millennial audience in a different way than we’ve ever been associated with,” France said. “They know what they’re doing.”

France declined to say what the name of the circuit will be in

2017. NASCAR’s press release of the multiyear agreement referred to NASCAR’s “premier series,” hinting the Cup name will go away.

An official announcement of the name and logo is expected within a couple weeks.

NASCAR and Monster will have to move quickly. A marketing plan, signage and other sponsorship issues are pressing ahead of the Feb. 26 season-opening Daytona 500.

“It’s a brand that can translate to the youth,” said driver Kurt Busch, whose car has been sponsored by Monster since 2012. “Yet it’s a brand that’s respected in all of motorsports.”

The culture change from a cellular company as face of the sport to an energy drink targeted to millennials was apparent as models in form-fitting outfits flanked both ends of the stage at Thursday’s announcement.

shots. So I just try to keep with the flow of the game,” Burton said.

That 91-47 win over Omaha also featured a sequence that encapsulated Burton’s game.

Burton grabbed a tough defensive rebound, but then threw a careless left-handed outlet pass the Mavs stole.

Burton stayed under the hoop, blocking the ensuing layup try and allowing the Cyclones to get back up the floor in transition.

If Iowa State can get those types of plays from Burton — minus the miscue — it will be much closer to reaching its full potential.

“I think Deonte is playing a lot smarter right now. And we need him to,” Prohm said.

NFL STANDINGS National Football League At A Glance The Associated Press All Times CST AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA New England 10 2 0 .833 319 207 Miami 7 5 0 .583 255 278 Buffalo 6 6 0 .500 305 274 N.Y. Jets 3 9 0 .250 206 307 South

W L T Pct PF PA Houston 6 6 0 .500 207 257 Indianapolis 6 6 0 .500 311 311 Tennessee 6 6 0 .500 308 296 Jacksonville 2 10 0 .167 224 313 North

W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 7 5 0 .583 256 207 Pittsburgh 7 5 0 .583 290 236 Cincinnati 4 7 1 .375 245 259 Cleveland 0 12 0 .000 197 352 West

W L T Pct PF PA Oakland 10 2 0 .833 345 299 Kansas City 9 3 0 .750 281 242 Denver 8 4 0 .667 286 229 San Diego 5 7 0 .417 334 319 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA x-Dallas 11 1 0 .917 333 228 N.Y. Giants 8 4 0 .667 245 237 Washington 6 5 1 .542 303 295 Philadelphia 5 7 0 .417 268 245

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W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 7 5 0 .583 386 331 Tampa Bay 7 5 0 .583 277 285 New Orleans 5 7 0 .417 347 335 Carolina 4 8 0 .333 283 321 North

W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 8 4 0 .667 275 251 Green Bay 6 6 0 .500 295 302 Minnesota 6 6 0 .500 233 209 Chicago 3 9 0 .250 204 270 West

W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 8 3 1 .708 264 194 Arizona 5 6 1 .458 276 251 Los Angeles 4 8 0 .333 180 262 San Francisco 1 11 0 .083 234 370 x-clinched playoff spot Thursday’s Game Oakland at Kansas City, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Denver at Tennessee, noon Cincinnati at Cleveland, noon Minnesota at Jacksonville, noon Arizona at Miami, noon Houston at Indianapolis, noon Washington at Philadelphia, noon Pittsburgh at Buffalo, noon San Diego at Carolina, noon Chicago at Detroit, noon N.Y. Jets at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 3:25 p.m.

Seattle at Green Bay, 3:25 p.m.

Atlanta at Los Angeles, 3:25 p.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Baltimore at New England, 7:30 p.m.

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LEATHER SOFA, burgundy, 80 inches wide, very nice $200 or make offer 641-792-7891 MEAT GRINDER, in good condition $50. 641-2750290.

NEW IN box, seat assist to help get up from couch or chair $85. 641-275-0290.

NEW LEATHER Brahma Boots, rugged, size 10 ½. $65. 641-275-0290.

OVAL COFFEE table $20, TV Stand $10, twin or double bed frame $10, pair of end tables $15 641-7924686 REMINGTON 12 gauge shot gun model 870 Wingmaster $300 cash.

Men's brown leather jacket sz 42R w/liner $50 hardly worn. 515-971-9276 ROUND, WOOD dining room table, with 4 chairs, top shape. $80.00. 641275-0290.

SUPERTORO BLOWER / VAC , electric, works good. $ 50. 641-275-0290.

TONNEAU COVER for Honda Ridgeline pick-up, no holes to drill, fits in existing brackets $75. or OBO. Rockcreek lake.

236-3541.

WAHL ELECTRIC hair clippers, in good condition $30.00. 641-275-0290.

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Front tires brand new, good dependable car. $2,500 firm. 641-840-0153

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1989 CORVETTE , 56,791 actual miles, automatic, power everything, removeable glass top, white exterior, red interior, 2 owner, excellent condition. NADA resale value $15,000 asking $10,000.

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Recently fully detailed and new battery. $7,000 OBO. Contact Cody if interested at 515-681-1373 2011 FORD Ranger, 24k miles, extended cab, 2WD. Call for more information.

641-792-0860 2012 MONTANA 4 season 5th wheel RV, new tires, generator, 3 slides, fireplace, micro/convection oven. Always shedded.

New condition. No pets $35,000.

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641-840-0153 1997 FORD Conversion Van. Heavy ½ ton, great for towing. New front end and front tires. Runs great. $2400. 515-778-2792 DAEWOO-DD802L DOZER $20,000. 641-792-4332

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GPI makes and sells the world’s best paper packaging while keeping sustainability as a fundamental principle. We’re operating on 5 continents with over 40 locations, and we lead the pack in paper packaging. We make paperboard (recycled and virgin) in our mills, print advanced graphics on it, and convert it into boxes in our converting plants. Our cartons are then sent out to the world’s companies --- General Mills, Burger King, Anheuser-Busch, Chobani, Heinz, Tyson Foods, and other soft drink and food industry giants.

Ph. 641-227-3655 Ames, IA • Baxter, IA SERVICE TECHNICIANS • Are you mechanically inclined and an excellent trouble shooter?

• Do you bring a safety mind-set and customer focus to all you do?

• Are you experienced in HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, Mechanic, Construction, Transportation or any other related field?

Operations are expanding at the Newton facility, and we are currently accepting resumes for the following positions: • Production Assistants – 3-11 p.m. and 11 p.m.-7 a.m.

Production Assistants work in all areas of the facility and perform a variety of tasks within production. This may include assisting in machine operations and maintenance, inspecting and packing product, moving materials, maintaining Good Manufacturing Practices to maintain certification standards, and all other duties as assigned.

Previous experience in folding carton industry preferred, but not required.

Requirements for all positions: • High school diploma or GED • Ability to work overtime as needed, including weekends • Commitment to safety and quality • Ability to work independently and with a team • Desire and willingness to learn

Benefits: • Competitive Wages • Medical, Dental, and Vision after 60 days • 401k • 11 Paid Holidays • Clean, comfortable work environment

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Founded in 1959, AmeriGas is listed on the New York stock exchange [NYSE: APU].

For more information visit our website at www.amerigas.com We offer, excellent health benefits, 401(K) with company match, paid time off including company holidays, bonus potential, annual performance review, uniforms, propane discount, local territory, career advancement, tuition reimbursement and $1,000 Sign on Bonus!

Job Summary: With a commitment to safety, the AmeriGas Service Technician installs, maintains, and services all customer and company propane installations and equipment while providing excellent customer service.

Duties and Responsibilities: • Complete field repairs of tank valves and seals; finds and repairs leaks at customer sites • Installs and services customer and company equipment • Performs all daily functions in a safe manner. May help cover routes when vacant.

• Maintains excellent customer relations by providing courteous, professional and timely service • Drives a service truck with a crane and boom attached to deliver, install, and remove tanks of various sizes at customer locations

Education and Experience Required: • One to five+ years related experience – High School Diploma or equivalent • Class B or greater CDL (Hazmat and Tanker Endorsement preferred but not required to start) • Certified Employee Training Program (CETP) certificate a plus but not required • Satisfactorily complete DOT physical, drug screen and criminal background check.

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110 N 5th Ave W Newton, IA 50208

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

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Newton Village Health Care Center 110 N. 5th Ave W., Newton, IA 50208

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Newton Health Care Center 200 S 8th Ave E Newton, Iowa 50208

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

We are excited to announce new CNA wages!

New starting wage is $13.00 hours with sliding scale for years of experience and we offer a sign on bonus.

As a Certified Nursing Aide in our facility, you may be eligible for the following benefits: • Pay based on years of C.N.A. experience • Sign On Bonus • PTO available after 90 days of employment • 2 Uniforms provided per year full time and part time staff • Health Insurance for full time staff- Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance

QHC Mitchellville, LLC is committed to "Making a difference in every life we touch and always striving for excellence in Care and Integrity." *All applicants must pass a pre-employment drug test and physical.

If you are looking for an exciting career that allows you to enhance the lives of others and be part of a winning team, we invite you to apply for one of our open positions and discover what sets QHC Mitchellville, LLC apart from the rest.

Please contact Cyndi Gentz, Administrator, or call (515) 967-3726 or apply in person at: 114 Carter Street SW, Mitchellville, lA 50169.

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COLFAX-MINGO COMMUNITY SCHOOL Two Positions Available JR/SR High School Custodian Two Shifts available • 2:00 pm to 7:30 pm • 6:30 pm to 12 Midnight Positions require lifting and climbing ladders. Applicants should be self-motivated and able to stay on task without supervision. When applying, please specify which shift you are interested in.

Applications are available on the school website under Employment, or at Colfax-Mingo Admin Office located at 204 North League Road in Colfax

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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.

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Nurse Force has immediate openings for FT and PT with private duty pediatric home care case in Newton. Shifts are 10 hours a day.

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JELD-WEN Window Division in Grinnell has current opportunities, primarily on the off-shifts, including during just the winter months if desired. Our need to stock windows for the spring requires a full staff and whether FT or seasonal employment fits your needs, you are encouraged to apply in person at 911 Industrial Avenue in Grinnell. Seasonal wages start at $13.50/hr. for the off-shifts. JELD-WEN is a market leader in vinyl windows and patio doors serving the Midwestern market.

We offer the following benefits to our full-time employees: • On the job training • Competitive wages, increasing with experience • 2nd and 3rd Shift premium pay • 401K Retirement Plan with company match • 8 paid holidays • Paid Time Off (PTO) Plan • Health, life, dental, and vision insurance • Safe & clean environment • Stable employment In order to ensure a safe working environment, a pre-employment drug screen is required. If you are interested in joining the JELD-WEN Window Division/Grinnell production team, apply in person between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday at our Grinnell location at 911 Industrial Avenue.

Maintenance Technician Jeld-Wen Door Division/Grinnell is now accepting applications for a self-motivated individual for a Maintenance Technician position on day shift, 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Must be willing to work overtime when required including Saturday.

Responsibilities include but not limited to: • Performing preventative Maintenance • Repairing Machinery • Troubleshooting Machinery • Small fabrication projects • Light grounds work • Small tool repair • Participate in group projects Requirements includes: • High school diploma or equivalent is required.

Two year technical degree preferred.

• Knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, welding, general building wiring, electric motors, lubrication, PLCs, control systems, paint systems, TPM and lean manufacturing is preferred.

• Working at elevation is sometimes required.

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REPRESENTATIVE - In the Ames/Baxter area

Utility Billing Clerk /Receptionist The City of Monroe is looking for an individual for the position of Utility Billing Clerk/Receptionist. This position will handle customers and the utility billing for the City including, but not limited to, general office operation duties and other tasks as assigned by the City Clerk, Mayor and/or Council. The applicant must be bondable, work well with the public, work independently as well as with a team, with good writing, interpersonal and communication skills. PC skills including Word and Excel are a must. Starting salary is commensurate with experience. The Utility Billing Clerk will work a minimum of 30 hours per week. The Billing Clerk will also work in the City Clerk’s absence.

Applications are available at www.MonroeIA.com, or at City Hall, 206 W Sherman Street, Monroe, 50170.

Applications must be turned in to the City Clerk’s office by 4:00 p.m. December 16, 2016. The City of Monroe is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 7). You’ve felt, at times, that you were at the mercy of the fates. But this year you can see how clearly your decisions create your successes in life, and you’re able to repeat the steps that work to generate good results time and again. July and September are months of rapid personal growth and financial luck. Virgo and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 40, 2, 22 and 15.

When Venus moves she takes the love with her to invest in her new celestial residence. Today she packs it up and gives it to the bellboy to unpack again in Aquarius. This bodes well for friendships, group bonding

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ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Everything does not have to be about accomplishing some goal. But if you’re having trouble finding motivation, ask yourself to deliver a measurable result within a particular deadline. It will work wonders to get you going.

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An attractive someone is on your mind. The effort you put into either forging this relationship or steering it in a new direction will pay off and make

Our Company’s focus on employees & our employee’s dedication to customer service will confirm our position as the industry leader.

JOB REQUIREMENTS: • Valid CDL with hazmat Tanker and Airbrake endorsements •Great driving record • Ability to pass a DOT Physical, drug test and background screen.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Before you can overcome your fear you must first be aware of what it is. Identify it and note its parameters. See how it’s something that has attached itself to you, but it’s not you. Peel it away.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You can’t control what other people find interesting.

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it and use this knowledge to your advantage, fashioning your message to make it compelling to your audience.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Blank spaces beg to be filled. Filled spaces, like full elevators, are repellant to newcomers. Take a deep breath and figure out what you need to give away in order to invite fresh energy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

Pop artist Andy Warhol once remarked that two people kissing always look like fish.

Kissing that happens this week will lead you to a feeling of being caught.

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