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A ir quality concerns heighten conflict with pig farms

DES MOINES (AP) — From Washington state to North Carolina, federal lawsuits are chal-lenging the efficient, prof-itable livestock industry to change its ways. The arguments found in the suits are based on stud-ies that increasingly show the impact phosphorous, nitrate and bacteria from fertilizer and accumulated manure have on lakes and

rivers as well as air pollu-tion that may be harmful to respiratory health.

Large-scale livestock farmers insist they’re us-ing techniques to keep manure and fertilizer from draining into water-ways, though fifth-gener-ation Des Moines farmer Bill Couser says, “We realize this is not going to happen overnight or in two years.”

However, those who rely on rivers and lakes for drinking water or live near such farms — es-pecially in the top two hog-producing states of Iowa and North Carolina — are growing impatient, and their lawsuits serve to highlight the debate be-tween the right to raise

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Spring enrollment at SWCCgrows despite state trend By IAN RICHARDSONCNA staff [email protected]

Southwestern Community College’s springtime enroll-ment continues to rise in the face of a downward trend in community college growth statewide.

During the SWCC Board of Directors meeting Tues-day morning, Beth Kulow, SWCC dean of students, said enrollment has increased 2 percent from last spring and credit hours have increased 5.5 per-cent.

K u l o w said the head count of full-time and part-t ime s t u d e n t s combined is 1,509, up from 1,481 last spring. Cred-it hours have increased from 13,994.5 to 14,820.5.

According to the Annual Condition of Iowa’s Com-munity Colleges Report 2014, which was released by the Iowa Department of Education in January, state-wide community college enrollment has decreased every year since 2010. How-ever, SWCC’s has increased since 2013.

Kulow said she believes location, campus appear-ance and the student life aspect have made SWCC an appealing campus for in-coming students.

“What we’re trying to package together at SWCC is low cost and campus life,”

she said.Looking to the future,

Kulow said one of SWCC’s admissions goals is to con-tinue attracting graduates of regional high schools. She also mentioned attract-ing non-traditional students while still focusing on cre-ating a lively student life atmosphere for traditional students.

In other SWCC news:• Tom Lesan, vice pres-

ident of economic devel-opment, said the newest SWCC residence hall, Spar-tan Court, came in at almost $9,700 under budget, costing $5.72 million instead of the budgeted $6.42 million, ac-cording to numbers present-ed at the meeting.

• The board agreed to have a public hearing for next fiscal year’s budget on March 10 at 5:30 p.m. The Creston News Advertiser will provide more informa-tion on the budget as the hearing date approaches.

• The board approved early retirement for four SWCC employees. They were Deb Andrews, pay-roll and benefits clerk; Jean Gibbons, health educa-tion occupation coordina-tor; Terry Wangberg, early childhood program director; and Darwin Wetzel, welding technology instructor.

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Cross coming home for Creston’s ‘Night of Comedy’ By IAN RICHARDSONCNA staff [email protected]

A familiar face will be adding some fresh flair to next month’s Creston Parks “Night of Comedy.”

Brandon Cross, a 1997 Creston High School grad-uate, will take the stage March 7 as a member of Omaha-based improvisa-tional comedy group Work-house Entertainment.

Other featured come-dians will be Eric Green, Randy Wallace and Dave DeLong.

While growing up, Cross worked for the Creston Parks and Recreation De-partment as a mower in McKinley Park and life-guard at the pool. Following his graduation from CHS, he attended one year at Southwestern Community College before moving to Iowa City to study theatre arts at the University of Iowa.

Cross currently lives in Council Bluffs, where he manages a Texas Road-house. He has been per-forming with Workhouse

Entertainment for about two years and said he has been trying to make it work to do a comedy show in Creston.

“I thought it would be perfect to come back,” Cross said. “I’m pumped that it’s all coming together the way it is.”

John Kawa, chairman of the board of the Creston Parks and Recreation De-partment, said the Creston Parks comedy night has supported projects rang-ing from new restrooms to walking trails. This year’s event will specifically raise

funds to clean the “swamp area” at the north end of McKinley Park near Adams Street. It will also help with the installment of a new re-stroom on the north end. Kawa said the projects will start this summer and be completed next year.

The event will begin with a social hour at 5 p.m. At 6:30 p.m., a smoked prime rib dinner will be served, followed by a small auction. Then the comedians will take the stage, performing a couple of individual stand-up routines followed by a group improvisation routine.

Kawa said the improvisa-tion, which has never been done at a Creston Parks night, should be a fun new feature.

“We have never had an improv. We’ve aways just

had a single act,” Kawa said. “I think an improv when they all get together, from what I’ve seen on television, is pretty funny.”

Cross said live improv is an art form that people may have never seen performed in this area, and he’s excited to bring it to town.

“I thought it would be a great way to introduce to an-other comedy artform that, other than TV, not many people get to experience,” he said.

Tickets are $30 each, or $340 to reserve a limited number of eight-seated ta-bles closest to the perfor-mance. There are 300 tick-ets available, and they can be purchased at the Eagles Lodge, Creston News Ad-vertiser or from any Parks board member.

COMEDY NIGHT DETAILSThe comedy night event will begin with a social hour at 5 p.m. March 7. At 6:30 p.m., a smoked prime rib dinner will be served, followed by a small auction. Then the comedians will take the stage. Tickets are $30 each, or $340 to reserve a limited number of eight-seated tables closest to the performance.

DES MOINES (AP) — Closing some of Iowa’s four state mental hospitals might be needed, but people who work in the field warn that any changes should be made carefully.

Gov. Terry Branstad said last month he plans to close state mental institutions at Clarinda and Mount Pleas-ant this summer and move any remaining patients to the other two state institu-tions in Cherokee and In-dependence or to private

programs.Ron Honberg with the

National Alliance on Men-tal Illness told the Des Moines Register it can be dangerous to close facilities like this quickly.

“If there’s not a good plan in place, it’s frankly a prescription for disaster,” said Honberg.

As officials plan to close the two state mental insti-tutions, Iowa is also work-ing to improve community mental health services.

Regional agencies are adding programs, such as crisis centers where people can stay for a few hours or days. Those programs are supposed to be an alterna-tive to expensive hospital-izations.

Suzanne Watson, CEO of the new, nine-county Southwest Iowa Mental Health and Disabilities Re-gion, said she hopes the new crisis center in Clarinda is ready by the time the Clar-inda hospital closes, but she

would like to have more time to prepare.

“These are great pro-grams,” she said of the new alternatives. “We’re just jumping the gun a little bit. It would be great to have about a year to plan.”

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Rich Jones Shannon City

Richard Jones, 69, of S h a n n o n City died Feb. 13, 2015, at his home from Alz-h e i m e r ’ s disease.

Celebra-tion of life services will be 2 p.m. Tues-day, Feb. 17, at Powers Fu-neral Home, 612 N. Dodge, Afton. The Rev. Jim Morris will officiate. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery in Shan-non City. Open visitation will be 1 to 6 p.m. today with family present 4 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be given to the family. Online condolences may be left at www.powersfh.com.

Richard Arlen Jones, son of Bernadine (Hoffman) and Glee Jones, was born July 13, 1945, in Creston.

Richard graduated from Afton High School in 1963.

Richard joined the Iowa National Guard after high school and served for six years.

On June 16, 1968, Rich-ard married Marcia Ella Ti-sue at the United Methodist Church in Afton. They first lived in Shannon City and owned and operated Jones Service in Afton.

In 1976, they moved to Afton where Richard and Marcia owned and operated Jones G & G.

Later, they sold the busi-ness and moved to a farm west of Shannon City where Richard raised cattle and hauled hogs for Murphy Brown.

In 2010, Richard retired.Richard was a member

of the United Methodist Church in Afton.

Richard is survived by his wife Marcia Jones of Shan-non City; daughters, Darci (husband David) Campbell of Afton and Sheri (Jones) McNamara of West Des Moines; sons, David (wife Mindy) Jones of Shannon City and Brad (wife Julie) Jones of Winterset; grand-children, Cole Campbell, Patrick and Madilyn Mc-Namara, Kyle Campbell, Elizabeth McNamara and Jake, Brock, Kennedy and Samantha Jones; brothers, Ron (wife Lucille) Jones of Afton and Ted (wife Kate) Jones of Shannon City; brothers-in-law, Phil (wife Linda) Tisue of Knoxville, Tenn., and Roger Tisue of Bettendorf; and several niec-es, nephews and other rela-tives.

Richard was preceded in death by his parents; and niece Tiffani (Jones) Bra-man.

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Ear buds, computers needed for new standardized tests

STOCKPORT, Ohio (AP) — Sixth-grader Kayla Hunter considers herself pretty tech savvy. She has a computer at home unlike about half her classmates at her elementary school. And it matches up well with the one she’ll use this week to take a new test linked to the Common Core standards.

Still, the perky 11-year-old worries. During a recent practice exam at her school in Ohio, she couldn’t even log on. “It wouldn’t let me,” she said. “It kept saying it wasn’t right, and it just kept loading the whole time.”

Her state on Tuesday will be the first to administer one of two tests in English language arts and math based on the Common Core standards devel-oped by two separate groups of states. By the end of the school year, about 12 million children in 29 states and the District of Columbia will take them, using computers or electronic tablets.

The exams are expected to be more difficult than the traditional spring standardized state exams they replace. In some states, they’ll require hours of additional testing time because stu-dents will have to do more than just fill in the bubble. The goal is to test stu-dents on critical thinking skills, requir-ing them to describe their reasoning and solve problems.

The tests have multimedia compo-nents, written essays and multi-step calculations needed to solve math problems that go beyond just using rote memory. Students in some states will take adaptive versions in which questions get harder or easier depend-ing on their answers.

But there’s been controversy.The tests have been caught up in the

debate playing out in state legislatures across the country about the feder-al role in education. Although more than 40 states have adopted Common Core, which spells out what reading and math skills students should mas-ter in each grade, several have decid-ed not to offer the tests — known as the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, and Partnership for As-

sessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC. Some states are introducing other new state standard-ized tests this year.

The Common Core tests fulfill the requirement in the federal No Child Left Behind law for annual testing in reading and math in grades three to eight and again in high school. But as Congress seeks to rewrite the educa-tion law, there’s debate over whether the tests should be required by Wash-ington, and whether students are being tested too much. Parents in pockets of the country have joined a movement to “opt out” of these standardized tests.

Questions also have been raised about students’ keyboarding skills and schools’ computer capacities.

In the Appalachian foothills where Kayla attends Morgan South Elemen-tary School, administrators and teach-ers worry that they don’t have the bandwidth to provide reliable Inter-net connectivity on testing day. Both tests offer a paper option. PARCC of-ficials anticipate that about a quarter of students will use the paper version; Smarter Balanced officials estimate roughly 10 to 20 percent will take it on paper.

Just eight days before the test, the Morgan Local School District in rural southeastern Ohio ordered 200 more Chromebooks, which worked best during the practice run.

The week before the test, Kayla and her classmates huddled in pairs shar-ing what devices were available at the school. “They’ll be more comfortable with the technology, but it is a worry of mine that, as far as the content that’s on it, there’s still stuff I could be do-ing to prepare for the test,” says their teacher, Carrie Young.

Eleven-year-old Colton Kidd says the screens on the Chromebooks are too small. Classmate Josie Jackson, 12, prefers pencil and paper. But Liam Montgomery likes computerized tests: “It’s easier to get the answers down, because I don’t have to flip back and forth.”

In some places, school administra-tors and state leaders are only grudg-ingly moving forward.

Referencing federal law, Illinois State Board of Education officials threatened to withhold funds from any district that didn’t administer the PARCC exam. Chicago Public Schools officials cited technology concerns in announcing they won’t give the exam

in a majority of its schools.Trisha Kocanda, superintendent of

the Winnetka Public Schools in Illi-nois, told parents that she’s concerned about the length of the tests and the “excessive rigor.”

“We grow wary,” Kocanda said, adding, that they believe “this test continues the over-emphasis on stan-dardized assessments as evaluation tools for students and schools.”

In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s effort to stop the PARCC exam was derailed by a state judge who said the governor’s actions were harmful to parents, teachers and students. Jindal has said he took the action because he opposes what he views as federal in-tervention in the adoption of the stan-dards.

Officials from the testing groups stand by the tests. In each of the states, students will see something that’s fa-miliar and something that’s “new, dif-ferent and exciting,” said Tony Alpert, executive director for Smarter Bal-anced.

“Smarter Balanced took the best of what states had in their previous sys-tems and we made sure each state had access to that,” Alpert said.

Laura Slover, the chief executive of-ficer of PARCC, said the tests have an important equity component because parents can compare how their stu-dents are doing in comparison to stu-dents in other states.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said states are going to “figure this out together.”

“I think change is hard but anyone who thinks we should just do fill in the bubble tests and not look at critical thinking ... I don’t quite understand that,” Duncan said.

� The tests have multi-media components, writ-ten essays and multi-step calculations needed to solve math problems that go beyond just using rote memory.

Federal requirement

The Common Core tests fulfill the requirement in the federal No Child Left Behind law for annual testing in reading and math in grades three to eight and again in high school. But as Congress seeks to rewrite the educa-tion law, there’s debate over whether the tests should be required by Wash-ington, and whether students are being tested too much. Parents in pockets of the country have joined a movement to “opt out” of these standardized tests.

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livestock and the right to clean water and air.

Earlier this year, a federal judge in eastern Washington ruled that an industrial dairy farm’s manure management practices posed an “immi-nent and substantial endan-germent” to the environment and to thousands relying on well water. And Des Moines’ water utility has recently filed a notice of intent to sue farmers in three counties populated by 1.2 million pigs and a million turkeys, as the water it sources from two central Iowa rivers must be run through a costly system to strip out nitrates.

About 68 percent of the nation’s lakes, reservoirs and ponds and more than half of its rivers and streams are im-paired, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, whose reports show the main culprit is agriculture.

“Pork is cheap and cheap to produce in large factories because they don’t pay for cleaning up the Des Moines water supply and they don’t pay for the asthma neigh-bors get, they don’t pay for polluting downstream water that used to be potable and they don’t pay for the loss of property values,” said Steve Wing, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill epi-demiologist.

The hog industry’s national shift from small family farms to large-scale farms is dramat-ic — from more than 200,000 in the early 1990s to just over 21,600 in 2012. A driving force behind some of the farms is Murphy-Brown LLC, which is part of China-based WH Group — the world’s largest pork producer. WH Group aims to feed China’s appetite for meat with cheaper hogs from the U.S., according to lawsuits.

Advocates of locally grown food and animal-rights and environmental activists are behind many of the suits, but in some cases, farmers are go-ing after farmers.

Barb Kalbach has fought against the construction of huge hog operations in Iowa, where pork is a $7 billion in-dustry and there are seven times more hogs than hu-mans. “I have in the back of my mind this idea that we have thousands of miles of clean water, which is a gift in this state and we just throw manure in it,” the 61-year-old crop farmer said.

The choice, says Iowa State University economist Cather-ine Kling, will come down to consumers: “We don’t know how to produce food and fuel from this incredibly rich land without having nitrogen and nutrient pollution, so society has to figure out what balance it wants.”

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Now, fewer than 300 pa-tients are being treated at the four state institutions at any one time.

But advocates of the state programs aren’t happy with the decision to close the fa-cility. Mike Olson drove 75

miles to testify at a commu-nity hearing and urge offi-cials to reverse the closure.

Olson said his daughter, Erika, spent several months at Mount Pleasant about six years ago and was able to find an approach that’s working for her bipolar dis-order and problems with drugs and alcohol.

“Please don’t deny others what we got here,” he said.

Shelly Chandler, exec-utive director of the Iowa

Association of Community Providers, said she thinks private agencies can expand services to help the people who have been treated at the state institutions.

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Driver’s licenseSchedule of driver’s license

examiners:Bedford: Monday through

Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Taylor County Courthouse, 407 Jefferson St.

Corning: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Adams CountyCourthouse. Driving tests on Wednesday mornings by appointment.

Creston: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Union CountyCourthouse, 300 N. Pine St. Driving tests Wednesdays. Call 782-1710 for an appointment.

Greenfield: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Adair County Courthouse, 400 Public Square.

Mount Ayr: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., trea-surer’s office, Ringgold County Courthouse, 109 W. Madison St.

Osceola: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Clarke County Courthouse, 100 S. Main St.

Winterset: Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., Madison County Courthouse, 112 N. John Wayne Drive.

MondayTOPS No. 1338, 5 p.m., First

United Methodist Church.AA, 5:30 p.m., Crossroads

Mental Health Center, 1003 Cottonwood Rd. Open meeting.

Friends of the Creston Public Library Board, 6 p.m., Gibson Memorial Library, 200 W. Montgomery St. Meeting open to all members.

Southwest Iowa Dancers, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Mount Ayr

American Legion.AA, 7:30 p.m., United Church

of Christ, 501 W. Montgomery St. Use east door.

TuesdayODO Club, 11:30 a.m. luncheon,

Creston Family Restaurant, 802 W. Taylor St.

Creston Lions Club, noon luncheon, The Pizza Ranch, 520 Livingston Ave.

Creston Kiwanis Club, noon, The Windrow, 102 W. Taylor St.

Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, noon to 5 p.m., 107 W. Howard St.

Free community meal, 5 to 6 p.m., United Church of Christ (Congregational), 501 W. Montgomery St.

Creston City Council, 6 p.m., Council Chambers, restored Creston Depot.

Southwest Iowa Dancers, 7 to 10 p.m., the Junction (Hwys 2 and 65) east of Leon. Homemade buffet for free will offering before dance.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 7:30 p.m. closed meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

WednesdayTOPS 116, 9:30 a.m., United

Church of Christ (Congregational), 501 W. Montgomery St.

J.C. Penney former employees coffee, 9 a.m., The Windrow.

Friends Helping Friends Bereavement Support Group, 3 to 5 p.m., Prairie View Assisted Living private dining room, 1709 W. Prairie St.

Southwest Iowa Dancers Jam Session, 6 to 9 p.m., Chicken Inn, 3 miles west of Creston on Hwy 34.

ThursdaySuper 8 Club, 1 p.m., Regency

Park.

Meetings Lenox School Board,

6 p.m. today, high school building.

Agenda includes: presen-tation on the Iowa Public School insurance program; discuss resignations; ear-ly retirement applications; new hire; E-rate proposal; 2015-16 technology budget, capital outlay expenses and calendar; continue shared wrestling program with Bed-ford; administration/board reports; consider entering into closed session under Iowa Code 21.51(1)i.

— — — — — —Mount Ayr City Council, 6

p.m. Monday, meeting room.Agenda includes: 6 p.m.

public hearing on proposed plans and specifications, form of contract, and es-timate of cost for the con-struction of the 2015 street improvement; consider res-olution approval; review construction bids for 2015 street improvement proj-ect; consider resolution agreement with the IEDA to participate in the city en-ergy management program as a pilot local government organization; set date for public hearing on proposed budget fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016; store cred-it policy; transfer of funds; Superintendent Brent Wise report; treasurer’s report; claims.

— — — — — —Creston City Council, 6

p.m. Tuesday, council cham-

bers, restored Creston De-pot.

Agenda includes: public forum; possible resolutions to adopt proposed budget for fiscal year 2016 and set pub-lic hearing on 6 p.m. March 3 or the adoption of final budget for fiscal year 2016; set public hearing for 6 p.m. April 7 for tobacco hearing notice, Hy-Vee Food Store; set public hearing 6 p.m. March 3 for application of United States Department of Agriculture grand for fire grass truck; early retirement program; consider approval of contract with A.M.E., Inc. on behalf of artist Double Vision for Party in the Park June 20 and pay $1,500 de-posit, as recommended by Park and Recreation Board; consider approval of con-tract with Glen Carroll on behalf of The Sticky Fingers Band for Party in the Park, and pay $1,800 deposit, as recommended by the Park and Recreation Board; coun-cil to discuss comprehensive plan proposal from South-ern Iowa Council of Gov-ernments; consider granting a conditional use permit to Jack Willis.

Fire Miscellaneous

Medical, 8:06 p.m., Friday, North Walnut Street.

Medical, 8:30 a.m., Satur-day, North Maple Street.

Medical, 12:23 a.m., Sun-day, North Oak Street.

Medical, 8:16 a.m., Sun-day, North Maple Street.

Grain prices quoted at 10 a.m. today:

• Farmers Co-op, Creston:Corn — $3.67

Soybeans — $9.36• Gavilon Grain:Markets are unavailable

today.

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Rural Practice Committee to hold meeting in Creston Tuesday

A Rural Practice Com-mittee meeting will be held Tuesday in Creston. There will be a meet and greet at 11:45 a.m. at A&G Pizza,

Steakhouse and Lounge, and then the meeting will be 1:30 p.m. at Southern Iowa Ru-ral Water Associaiton, 1391 190th St.

GREENFIELD — This past holiday season, Shopko Hometown collected signa-tures from customers as part of its Help Us Give Back ini-tiative, a program that was run in all 178 store locations across the country. Custom-ers could sign up Dec. 1-24 and for every signature the Shopko Foundation donated $1, up to $2,000.

Because of community support, the Shopko Foun-dation donated $2,000 to the Nodaway Valley Communi-ty School District.

“Shopko Hometown is proud to support schools in the communities where we do business,” said Peter McMa-hon, Shopko CEO. “We are thankful for your community’s strong commitment to students and look forward to supporting your schools in the future.”

The Shopko Foundation supports accredited schools

and 501(c)3 organizations. Grants are awarded through-out the year to support pro-grams which further the

Foundation’s purpose of pro-moting the health and edu-cation of Shopko teammates and customers. Over all of its

178 stores, the Shopko Foun-dation will donate more than $300,000 to school districts across America.

Shopko Foundation makes donation to Nodaway Valley

Contributed photoNodaway Valley Superintendent Dr. Casey Berlau, left, accepts a $2,000 check from Greenfield Shopko Store Manager Cory Townsend.

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Record nine Panthers headed to stateCreston/O-M wins 7 weight classes; Clarinda sends 6 to state

By LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

ATLANTIC — The depth in Creston/O-M’s wrestling lineup paid off in an undefeated dual season and a trip to the Dual State Tournament on Wednes-day.

On Saturday, that depth also spelled a school record for state qualifiers.

A record nine Panthers will participate in the 16-man brackets at the Class 2A state tournament be-ginning 1:30 p.m. Thurs-day at Wells Fargo Arena. That surpasses the mark of eight Panthers from the 2004 team that placed third in the state in Class 2A, including state champion Daniel Scarberry.

Crowned district cham-pions Saturday were Trev-or Marlin (120), Spencer Wray (138), Joey Hun-tington (145), Chase Shiltz (160), Seth Maitlen (195), Kadon Hulett (220) and Jake Gutschenritter (285).

Going to state as dis-trict runners-up are Wyatt Thompson (138) and Tay-ler Pettit (170).

Bedford/Lenox is send-ing two wrestlers to state as district c h a m -p i o n s in fifth-r a n k e d J a r e d H e n s l e y at 113 p o u n d s and No. 1 - r a n k e d

D u s t e n Reed at 132.

C r e s -t o n / O - M s c o r e d 1 6 2 . 5 points to top the 11 participat-ing teams. Atlantic quali-fied only four of 12 district wrestlers but took second with 107 points. Clarinda had six state qualifiers in scoring 86 points in third place.Returnees

Some of the Panther state contingent has experi-ence there. Shiltz was state runner-up as a freshman at 145 pounds last year. Mait-len placed eighth last year as a sophomore. Hunting-ton and Pettit each won a match at state a year ago.

Thompson qualified for state two years ago and ran into a loaded district field last year, as did Hulett as a freshman, losing out to two state placewinners at district.

Only four Panthers are ranked individually, and the team is still not in The Predicament’s top 10 of 2A tournament teams — the Panthers are fifth in the dual ratings — and yet it’s a team that keeps perform-ing at an elite level when it counts.

The team’s mantra — “Gunnin’ for Gold” — per-tains to a quest to end the season with championship hardware in both the dual and individual tourna-ments. So far, both are in

play.“I think it’s pretty im-

pressive for this team to set the (qualifiers) record, be-cause we’ve had some pret-ty talented groups come through, including the state championship and run-ner-up groups,” coach Dar-rell Frain said. “This is not a flashy group. They just come in and do their job, and it showed on the mat. A lot of these matches went just like our practice does.”

Frain said the team’s depth is a daily factor in improvement, citing the head-to-head battles be-tween Hulett and Maitlen, who are both state-ranked, and the daily middleweight battles of qualifiers like Thompson, Wray and Hun-tington, along with district qualifiers Mitchel Swank and Cam Leith.

“We might have a guy who has been getting beat on in our room for two days straight,” Frain said. “You get to the third period, you better be scoring a lot of points before then, or you could be in trouble. Our guys are battling well in the third period.”Tight matches

Indeed, there were some dramatic finishes in getting the Panther qualifier list up to nine on Saturday.

In an important heavy-weight semifinal match for Gutschenritter, the only scoring was his second-peri-od escape in a 1-0 win over Missouri Valley’s Seth Jim-merson.

Then, in the finals, he and Clarinda’s Jared DeVoe

were tied 1-1 at the end of reg-u l a t i o n , and nei-ther wres-tler scored in the first o n e - m i n -ute over-time period. Then came the two 30-second riding peri-ods, and Gutschenritter was able to escape with 11 sec-onds left in the first one. He then rode out DeVore in the

next 30 seconds to hold on for a 2-1 victory.

“He’s as athletic or more athletic on the mat than the guys are going to foot-ball at South Dakota State (DeVore) and Iowa Central (Atlantic’s Skyler Svoboda). He outscrambles those guys every time. When he rides those bigger guys, he really digs in and he’s on them hard the whole time.”

Wray fell behind 2-0 and was still tied 3-3 early in the second period before locking

up Atlantic’s Austin Wil-liamson in a fall in 2:55.

“Spencer is never out of a match and he has a chance to score on anybody,” Frain said. “He really deserves this. Every single day, even when he was ineligible the first semester, he came in and worked hard. He made other kids better because of it.”

A rival of Wray’s last year,

CNA photo by LARRY PETERSONJoey Huntington of Creston/O-M has Jacob Koke of Harlan stacked in a predicament on the way to winning a 15-0 technical fall in the 145-pound district semifinals Saturday. Huntington was one of seven Panthers winning district championships.

Four advance to state in 1ABy SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

TRURO — East Union advanced two wrestlers to this week’s State Wrestling Tournament, while Mount Ayr and Nodaway Valley each pushed one wrestler through.

East Union’s Brogan Kin-yon and Mount Ayr’s Joe Ricker each won district titles here Saturday at the Class 1A District 2 Tour-nament, while East Union junior Mike Ward and Nodaway Valley junior Ben Freese each finished as run-ner-up to advance to state.

First round matches for Class 1A begin 6 p.m. Thurs-day at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.Champs

Kinyon, who finished as runner-up at the sectional meet at 170 pounds to South-east Warren’s TJ Dierking, opened his district tourna-ment with a 9-5 decision over AHSTW’s Dustin Engel, who was the sectional champ from the Audubon sectional meet.

“That was a pretty big deal,” East Union head coach Steve Kinyon said. “When we came in, we were kind of looking like we were

sitting third. Then when he beat that Engel kid, that was a big deal.”

That set up a rematch of the previous week’s section-al final against Dierking, who scored a 10-8 decision in overtime against Kinyon at the sectional meet.

“When we wrestled TJ at sectionals, we though we could get him, but not by pin,” coach Kinyon said.

After surrendering an early takedown and getting off his back, Kinyon turned things around in the finals.

Dierking chose the bottom position to start the second period, and after scramble, Kinyon caught him in a cra-dle, pinning his shoulders to the mat just as time expired at the end of the second pe-riod.

The pin caused a roar from the East Union fans in atten-dance and got coach Kinyon and assistant coach Bryson Kinyon to leap from their chairs in the corner of the mat in celebration.

“Scrambles happen all the time. Sometimes I’m good with them, sometimes I’m not,” Kinyon said after his match. “It just feels like to-day I wrestled the best I have all season. I can’t really de-scribe it. I felt so great. I was not only wrestling for myself. I was wrestling for my fans

out there, too.”It will mark Kinyon’s first

trip to the state tournament.Meanwhile, Mount Ayr se-

nior Ricker breezed through yet another tournament, winning the district title.

Ricker, ranked first in Class 1A at 285, scored a 45-second pin in his first match a g a i n s t G u t h r i e C e n t e r ’ s Tom Her-ron, and then pinned Riverside’s Coy Maher (43-15) in 2:30 in the finals.

It marked Ricker’s 50th consecutive win dating back to last year’s state tourna-ment, and leaves him two wins short of 175 for his ca-reer — a mark he’ll likely hit Friday at the state tourna-ment.

“It’s totally awesome,” Mount Ayr co-head coach Kurt Wallace said. “It’s great to have a kid that’s been there already once, has the experience of being there. He’s rated pretty high in state. Has set high goals and

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKEREast Union senior Brogan Kinyon locks in a cradle on Southeast Warren’s TJ Dierking during the second period of his 170-pound finals victory over Dierking. Kinyon pinned Dierking in 4:00, earning his first trip to state.

Senior night blitzBy SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

Friday night’s home fi-nale for the Creston boys basketball team was all about the team’s six se-niors.

Seniors Sam Hartsock, McClain Haines, Christian Groumoutis, Jay Wolfe, Alex Nielsen and Jake Miller combined to score 65 of the team’s 73 points in a 73-45 blitzing of Clar-inda here Friday.

The Panthers bolted to a 30-9 lead after one quar-ter, as Creston went on a 16-4 run during the open-ing quarter.

“That was the pregame speech, that was the post-game speech. It was all about these seniors,” Cres-ton head coach Brett Wat-son said. “Those six guys have bought into every-thing we’ve been trying to do. Can’t say enough about their character, their work ethic and just the type of kids they are. They’re a joy to coach. Tonight was about them.”

Creston hit four 3-point-ers during the opening quarter, as Hartsock scored 10 points in the quarter and Wolfe added eight.

“We played with a lot of emotion,” Watson said. “You could just tell, with the pregame stuff, we came out and just blitzed them. First time we played them, we didn’t start off as well, so we kind of talked about that. Against any Hawkeye 10 Conference team, to score 30 points (in one quarter), that means we’re clicking on a lot of cylinders.”

Wolfe scored 10 more points in the second quar-ter and nine in the third quarter. He added five

more in the fourth q u a r t e r before ex-iting the game to a round of applause with a d o u -ble-double of 32 points and 11 rebounds.

“It was pretty special,” Watson said about Wolfe’s performance in his fi-nal home game. “He’s a special player. It’s pretty amazing, when you put in the time, you’re rewarded for it. He’s one of those great kids with great char-acter. Was nice to see him have a great night to-night.”

Groumoutis and Hart-sock also scored in double figures for the Panthers, scoring 12 and 11 points, respectively.

The Panthers improved to 15-5 for the season with the win, while Clarinda ended the regular season with a record of 1-19.

Creston hits the road Tuesday to play Harlan (14-5), a 59-57 victor over the Panthers in Creston on Dec. 16. The game will be a preview of the Feb. 23 district opener in Atlantic.

“We want to play to win, that’s the bottom line,” Watson said about Tues-day’s matchup. “First of all, they were two points better the first time, so we have to avenge. We have to be better there. And then we can kind of assess from there some things we need to change, improve upon. It’s kind of a dress rehearsal to see how do we

Contributed photo by TERRY FREEMANCreston senior Sam Hartsock pokes the ball loose from Clarinda guard Elijah Bix during Creston’s 73-45 senior night victory over the Cardinals. Hartsock scored 11 points in the win.

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Red Oak’s Tanner Mertz, brought a 39-7 record into the day but lost to Hunting-ton in the 145-pound finals, 6-4. Huntington also trailed 2-0, gradually took over the lead and escaped late for the final 6-4 margin.

“If you’re going to beat Joey, it has to happen the first one or two minutes, be-cause he will push the pace on you in the third period,” Frain said.

For the second week in a row, Maitlen had to score in overt ime to defeat C l a r -i n d a ’ s Christian L a u r i t -sen. He turned a single-leg shot into a double-leg takedown with two seconds left in the first one-minute overtime period for a 3-1 win.

Leith worked a third-pe-riod tilt to gain a 3-2 victo-ry in the third place match at 152 and earn a wrestle-back chance against Clar-inda’s Luke Strong, who was pinned in the finals by Atlantic’s Reid Nich-ols. Strong snared second place with a 12-4 major de-cision over Leith.

“Cam took Nichols to the wire in the semis,” Frain said. “He beat a pret-ty good kid from Missouri Valley and had a chance there in the wrestleback.”

Pettit had to earn his spot at state through the wrestleback round, after getting pinned by Clarin-

da’s J.J. Clark in the finals. P e t t i t dominat -ed At-l a n t i c ’ s D r a k e R o l l e r , w i n n i n g by fall in 1:46.

“Clark is just pret-ty physical and got us to our back,” Frain said. “I thought Tayler would be fine in the wrestleback.”Rated matchup

In a battle of state-ranked wrestlers, the No. 1-ranked Shiltz methodi-cally put t o g e t h e r a 7-2 vic-tory over C e n t r a l Decatur’s C o l t o n Ranney (a 50-match w i n n e r ) in the 160 finals.

“It wasn’t a big score, but Ranney is really good and Chase wasn’t really threatened. It was proba-bly good for him to go out and wrestle hard for six minutes,” Frain said.

Shiltz had time to get two takedowns before win-ning his semifinal match in just 22 seconds.

Marlin’s continued im-provement was cited by Frain as a big factor in the record-setting perfor-mance.

“Before John Harris, I’m not sure anybody would have picked him as a district champion,” Frain said. “He’s wrestling with

confidence now.”“Underneath I’m trying

to stay moving and not just sit there waiting for him to do stuff,” Marlin said. “I’ve been w o r k i n g with Matt ( L o n g ) and work-ing the w r i s t s m o r e on top, k n o w -ing more what to do on top. Just staying off my knees is a big thing.”

With nine competitors, Frain is hopeful of accu-mulating enough points to be a factor in the tro-phy race (top three). How they fare Thursday will go a long way in determining that.

“Day one is going to be huge,” Frain said. “If we can keep people going into Friday, then everybody is a match from placing and the points start racking up. You never know.”

Class 2A DistrictAt Atlantic

Team scoring — 1. Creston/Orient-Macksburg 162.5; 2. Atlantic 107; 3. Clarinda 86; 4. Central Decatur 51; 5. Winterset 44.5; 6. Bedford/Lenox 39; 7. Kuemper Catholic 19; 8. Shenandoah 18; 9. Missouri Valley 17; 10. Red Oak 14; 11. Harlan 10.

106 — Semifinals: Logan Allen (Wint) tech fall Skylor Rice (Shen), 18-1 (5:36); Kole Hansen (Atl) major dec. Wyatt Dale (CD), 11-1. Champ: Hansen (Atl) dec. Allen (Wint), 3-0. Third: Dale (CD) pinned Rice (Shen), 3:45. Wrestleback: Allen (Atl) pinned Dale (CD), 1:02.

113 — Semifinals: Jared Hensley (B-L) tech fall Brandon Trevino (Harl), 17-1 (3:34); Carter Cox (Atl) dec. Britton Gibson (Wint), 7-2. Champ: Hensley (B-L) pinned Cox (Atl),

4:29. Third: Gibson (Wint) dec. Trevino (Harl), 9-2. No wrestle-back.

120 — Semifinals: Trevor Marlin (C/O-M) major dec. Colby Sorensen (Atl), 10-0; Derek Koster (Wint) dec. Elias Shaeffer (Harl), 9-3. Champ: Marlin (C/O-M) dec. Koster (Wint), 6-0. Third: Shaeffer (Harl) pinned Sorensen (Atl), :56. No wrestleback.

126 — Semifinals: Austin Gutknecht (Clar) major dec. Marshal McDermott (Atl), 8-0; Nick Rounds (MV) major dec. Mitchel Swank (C/O-M), 10-2. Champ: Rounds (MV) dec. Gutknecht (Clar), 6-4. Third: McDermott (Atl) dec. Swank (C/O-M), 6-5. No wrestleback.

132 — Semifinals: Dusten Reed (B-L) pinned Tanner Mauk (Atl), :37; Wyatt Thompson (C/O-M) major dec. Tim Sibbel (CK), 12-1. Champ: Reed (B-L) tech fall Thompson (C/O-M), 15-0 (3:05). Third: Sibbel (CK) major dec. Mauk (Atl), 10-1. No wrestleback.

138 — Semifinals: Spencer Wray (C/O-M) pinned Jake Johnson (Shen), 5:49; Austin Williamson (Atl) dec. Jacob Jenkins (Wint), 3-2, OT. Champ: Wray (C/O-M) pinned Williamson (Atl), 2:55. Third: Johnson (Shen) dec. Jenkins (Wint), 6-2. Wrestleback: Williamson (Atl) dec. Johnson (Shen), 9-8.

145 — Semifinals: Joey Huntington (C/O-M) tech fall Jacob Koke (Harl), 15-0 (5:18); Tanner Mertz (RO) pinned Justin Smith (Wint), 5:20. Champ: Huntington (C/O-M) dec. Mertz (RO), 6-4. Third: Smith (Wint) major dec. Koke (Harl), 20-9. No wrestleback.

152 — Semifinals: Luke Strong (Clar) dec. Nathan Haynes (MV), 6-5; Reid Nichols (Atl) dec. Cameron Leith (C/O-M), 6-3. Champ: Nichols (Atl) pinned Strong (Clar), 4:59. Third: Leith (C/O-M) dec. Haynes (MV), 3-2. Wrestleback: Strong (Clar) major dec. Leith (C/O-M), 12-4.

160 — Semifinals: Chase Shiltz (C/O-M) pinned Winston Veatch (MV), :22; Colton Ranney (CD) major dec. Zac Stork (Atl), 8-0. Champ: Shiltz (C/O-M) dec. Ranney (CD), 7-2. Third: Stork (Atl) pnned Veatch (MV), 2:39. No wrestleback.

170 — Semifinals: J.J. Clark (Clar) pinned Drake Roller (Atl), 1:25; Tayler Pettit (C/O-M) pinned Zane Harvey (MV), 4:36. Champ: Clark (Clar) pinned Pettit (C/O-M), 1:06. Third:

Roller (Atl) pinned Harvey (MV), 1:34. Wrestleback: Pettit (C/O-M) pinned Roller (Atl), 1:46.

182 — Semifinals: Trenton Wells (CD) dec. Travis Petersen (Atl), 9-2; Trey Stickler (Clar) pinned JD Lewis (Shen), 1:15. Champ: Wells (CD) dec. Stickler (Clar), 1-0. Third: Lewis (Shen) pinned Petersen (Atl), 6:43. No wrestleback.

195 — Semifinals: Seth Maitlen (C/O-M) pinned Aaron Johannsen (Harl), 2:48; Christian Lauritsen (Clar) dec. Keagan Hosfelt (Atl), 5-1. Champ: Maitlen (C/O-M) dec. Lauritsen (Clar), 3-1 OT. Third: Hosfelt (Atl) pinned Johannsen (Harl), 1:47. No wrestleback.

220 — Semifinals: Kadon Hulett (C/O-M) major dec. Tom Rief (MV), 8-0; Trace Carson (CD) dec. Seth Gehling (CK), 6-5 OT. Champ: Hulett (C/O-M) pinned Carson (CD), :58. Third: Gehling (CK) pinned Rief (MV), 1:34. No wrestleback.

285 — Semifinals: Jake Gutschenritter (C/O-M) dec. Seth Jimmerson (MV), 1-0; Jared DeVoe (Clar) pinned Skyler Svoboda (Atl), 3:02. Champ: Gutschenritter (C/O-M) dec. DeVoe (Clar), 1-0, OT. Third: Svoboda (Atl) pinned

Jimmerson (MV), 5:17. No wrestleback.

State tournamentThursday, 1:30 p.m.

(State rating)113 — No. 5 Jared Hensley

(B-L) vs. No. 7 Travis Pulse (Davenport Assumption).

120 — Trevor Marlin (C/O-M) vs. Freddie Seeley (Webster City).

132 — Wyatt Thompson (C/O-M) vs. No. 6 Chase Leinhard (Crestwood); No. 1 Dusten Reed (B-L) vs. Drew Davis (Independence).

138 — No. 8 Spencer Wray (C/O-M) vs. No. 7 Austin Moen (Saydel).

145 — Joey Huntington (C/O-M) vs. Zack Konz (Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley).

160 — No. 1 Chase Shiltz (C/O-M) vs. Trevor Nelson (Solon).

170 — Tayler Pettit (C/O-M) vs. No. 3 Beau Sorensen (Forest City).

195 — No. 7 Seth Maitlen (C/O-M) vs. No. 3 Zach Lamphere (Oelwein).

220 — No. 8 Kadon Hulett (C/O-M) vs. Zach Ostendorf (ADM).

285 — Jake Gutschenritter (C/O-M) vs. Colten Smolders (Sioux Center).

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Nodaway Valley 68 Clarinda

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worked hard to achieve them.”

Co-head coach John Ford said there’s potential for Ricker to do some big things at the state tournament.

“Right now he’s on a 50-match winning streak,” Ford said. “I just hope the bracketing falls so that (Levi) Paulsen and us don’t meet until finals. That’s luck of the draw.”

Ford can breathe a sigh of relief. Second-ranked Paulsen is on the opposite side of the bracket as Rick-er, setting up the potential for a 1 vs. 2 showdown in the finals Saturday night.Runners-up

Ward and Freese also earned their first trips to the state tournament, as each finished second in their re-spective weight classes.

Ward opened up at 195 p o u n d s S a t u r d a y with a 12-1 major d e c i s i o n over Exi-ra/EHK’s Lane Ring. He got an-other crack at South-east Warren’s Ty Schneider (43-2) in the finals, but lost by fall in 1:40.

Ward did not have to wrestle back, when Ring won a 5-3 decision over AHSTW’s Erik Jorgensen in the third-place match.

“Mikey, he had wrestled that kid (Ring) before,” coach Kinyon said. “We were hoping he could get by him. We were kind of think-ing we could do OK with Ty. Ty is a big kid and wrestles real well.”

Coach Kinyon said that with his son and Ward qual-ifying for the state tourna-ment, they are the second and third state qualifiers he has had in 17 years as head coach of the Eagle wrestling program. His son Bryson was the first in 2012.

For Nodaway Valley, Freese cruised into the

120-pound finals with a 44-second pin over River-side’s Ethan Rankin.

In the finals, he met up with Griswold’s Hadley Ogg (44-5) for the fourth time this season, where he fell by a 6-2 decision.

“That was one of the bet-ter matches we’ve had with him,” Nodaway Valley head coach Jeff Ohnemus said. “Wrestled hard for six min-utes. He’s improving, get-ting better. That’s a big step for him there.”

Freese had to wrestle back after Inter-state 35’s N a t h a n P h i l l i p s won a 6-4 d e c i s i o n in over-time in the third-place m a t c h , but Freese stuck Phillips in just 1:08 to earn true second place.

“It’s nice to get one through this year, since we didn’t get anyone through last year,” Ohnemus said. “He’s worked hard, so he’s earned the right to go on. He wrestled tough today and put himself in that po-sition.”

Southwest Valley’s Ty-ler Bissell (160), Mount Ayr’s Grant Staats (145) and Nodaway Valley’s JD Lyman (126) each finished their high school wrestling careers with fourth-place finishes Saturday in tough brackets.

Wolverine junior Dylan Cornelison finished third at 138 pounds, but did not get a chance to wrestle back. East Union sophomore Kessler Tomas earned a chance to wrestle back at 220 pounds, but lost by fall to Southeast Warren’s Tate Van Dyne.

Class 1A District 2At Truro

Team scores — 1. Southeast Warren 147.5, 2. Interstate 35 66, 3. Audubon 57.5, 4. Riverside 55.5, 5. Guthrie Center 53, 6. AHSTW 43, 7. East Union 41, 8. Exira/EHK 27.5, 9. Nodaway Valley 25, 10. Mount Ayr 20, 11. Martensdale-St. Marys 19.5, 12. Griswold 17, 13. Wayne 8, 14. Clarinda Academy 0, 14. Southwest Valley 0, 14. West Central Valley 0.

Individual results

106 — 1. Blake Bauer (SEW) dec. Tatem Bluml (Riv), 11-5; 3. Brayden Egli (I-35) pinned Zach Fees (GC), :15. No wrestleback.

113 — 1. Brady Kyner (SEW) pinned Joel Becerra (AHSTW), :51; 3. Zac Willey (I-35) pinned Chris Gaynor (Riv), 1:07. No wrestleback.

120 — 1. Hadley Ogg (Gris) dec. Ben Freese (NV), 6-2; 3. Nathan Phillips (I-35) dec. Ethan Rankin (Riv), 6-4 (SV-1). Wrestleback: 2. Ben Freese (NV) pinned Nathan Phillips (I-35), 1:08.

126 — 1. Austin Pontier (I-35) dec. Christian Danker (AHSTW), 3-2; 3. Brock Beeler (GC) pinned JD Lyman (NV), :42. Wrestleback: 2. Christian Danker (AHSTW) dec. Brock Beeler (GC), 4-2.

132 — 1. Jake Hunerdosse (SEW) pinned Tucker Bluml (Riv), 1:34; 3. Andrew Malloy (Aud) pinned Jake Catron (MSM), 1:08. Wrestleback: 2. Tucker Bluml (Riv) pinned Andrew Malloy (Aud), 5:06.

138 — 1. Jake Mulford (Aud) dec. Jacob Vogel (Riv), 10-9; 3. Dylan Cornelison (NV) major dec. Tanner Flesher (SEW), 13-0. No wrestleback.

145 — 1. Brad Kerkhoff (Aud) dec. Gabe Henderson (SEW), 5-2; 3. Lane Rumelhart (GC) major dec. Grant Staats (MA), 11-0. No wrestleback.

152 — 1. Logan Schumacher (MSM) pinned Trevor Smith (Aud), 3:45; 3. Blayde Baker (Wayne) dec. Jacob Dickenson (Gris), 6-5. No wrestleback.

160 — 1. Jacob Hoch (SEW) dec. Sal Arzani (I-35), 10-8 (SV-1); 3. Timmy Barr (AHSTW) dec. Tyler Bissell (SWV), 5-2. No wrestleback.

170 — 1. Brogan Kinyon (EU) pinned TJ Dierking (SEW), 4:00; 3. Dustin Engel (AHSTW) pinned Teddy Daggett (GC), 2:38. Wrestleback: 2. TJ Dierking (SEW) pinned Dustin Engel (AHSTW), 3:48.

182 — 1. Evan Hansen (EEHK) tech fall Austin Laabs (GC), 25-10 (5:40); 3. Dante Arzani (I-35) pinned Nathen Jimenez (SEW), 1:37. No wrestleback.

195 — 1. Ty Schneider (SEW) pinned Mike Ward (EU), 1:40; 3. Lane Ring (EEHK) dec. Erik Jorgensen (AHSTW), 5-3. No wrestleback.

220 — 1. Cale Crowder (GC) pinned Tate Van Dyne (SEW), 6:42; 3. Kessler Tomas (EU) pinned Christian Sousley (CA), 1:09. Wrestleback: 2. Tate Van Dyne (SEW) pinned Kessler Tomas (EU), 1:18.

285 — 1. Joe Ricker (MA) pinned Coy Maher (Riv), 2:30; 3. Elijah Williams (SEW) dec. Tom Herron (GC), 5-2. No wrestle-back.

State TournamentThursday, 6 p.m.

(State rating)120 — Ben Freese (Nodaway

Valley) vs. No. 2 Bryce West (Highland Riverside).

170 — Brogan Kinyon (East Union) vs. Jordan Woodward (Lisbon).

195 — Mike Ward (East Union) vs. Jed Van’t Hoff (West Lyon)

285 — No. 1 Joe Ricker (Mount Ayr) vs. No. 4 Tim Butcher (Manson Northwest Webster).

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CLARINDA (45) — Jett Kettwick 4 2-2 12, Austin Smith 2 6-8 11, Jacob Degase 3 0-0 7, Alex Stull 1 2-2 4, Jacob Carlson 2 0-0 4, Dedric Kettwick 1 0-2 3, Josh Espinosa 1 0-0 2, Elijah Bix 1 0-0 2. Totals — 13 10-14 45. 3-point goals — 5-17 (J. Kettwick 2, Degase 1, D. Kettwick 1, Smith 1). FG shooting — 15-52 (28.8 per-cent). Rebounds — 28 (Stull 11). Assists — D. Kettwick 3. Steals — Degase 3, J. Kettwick 3. Team fouls — 21. Fouled out — Carlson.

CRESTON (73) — Jay Wolfe 12 3-6 32, Christian Groumoutis 3 5-6 12, Sam Hartsock 4 1-2 11, Cooper McDermott 3 0-0 8, Alex Nielsen 2 2-4 6, McClain Haines 1 0-4 2, Jake Miller 1 0-2 2. Totals — 26 11-24 73. 3-point goals — 10-23 (Wolfe 5, McDermott 2, Hartsock 2, Groumoutis 1). FG shooting — 26-48 (54.2 percent). Rebounds — 28 (Wolfe 11, Miller 4, Nielsen 3, Hartsock 3, Haines 3, Chris Foster 2). Assists — 16 (Haines 5, Nielsen 5). Steals — 13 (Groumoutis 4, Wolfe 3, McDermott 2, Hartsock 2, Haines 2). Blocked shots — 4 (Wolfe 2, Hartsock 1, Haines 1). Team fouls — 15. Fouled out — None.

Clarinda — 9 26 33 45

Creston — 30 44 61 73

JUNIOR VARSITYThe Creston JV team

posted a 67-52 win over Clarinda on Friday, led by the shooting of Kyle Somers.

Somers dropped in 26 points and made six 3-pointers in the win for the Panthers. Chris Foster added 11 and Cody Craw-ford scored 10 points.

Creston (67) — Kyle Somers 26, Chris Foster 11, Cody Crawford 10, Deaven Reese 6, Evan Jacobson 5, Brenden McDowell 4, Tucker Flynn 3, Ian Burns 2.

Clarinda (52)

FRESHMENThe Creston freshmen

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Cole Higgins led the Panthers with 13 points, while Tucker Flynn add-ed 10. Dustin Merritt grabbed a team-high eight rebounds.

Higgins and Dalten Bi-

erle combined for four 3-pointers in the second half.

“We were able to come out and play well offen-sively and defensively,” freshman coach Todd Ja-cobson said. “It was great to see Cole Higgins and Dalten Bierle come out and hit from the perimeter in the second half. We fin-ish our season at Harlan on Tuesday.”

Creston (55) — Cole Higgins 13, Tucker Flynn 10, Evan Jacobson 9, Joe Eblen 7, Dalten Bierle 6, Dustin Merritt 6, Jaden Driskell 2. Rebounds — Merritt 8. Assists — Jacobson 3, Driskell 3. Steals — Bierle 4, Jacobson 4. Halftime score — Creston 28, Clarinda 5.

Clarinda (14) — Lucado 10, Goudie 3.

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Part-timeSales Associate

If you love fashion and great prices, you’ll love our store.

Applicants must be fashion oriented, reliable and eager to

please the public. Responsibilities include

Sales • Customer Service • Store Presentation

Flexible schedule would include some daytime, weekend & evening hours.

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Chef Manager Do you enjoy operating you own business unit? Do you have experience

as a chef and in supervising others? Do you thrive in a busy work environment? Treat America has an opportunity at it’s Creston, IA location. • Requires at least 5 years experience as a Lead Cook or Chef; culinary degree preferred • Minimum 3 years of previous food service management experience • ServSafe certification required or able to obtain • Strong leadership skills • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications • Basic understanding of P&L accountability

Apply at: www.treatamerica.comEOE

EOE

A Better Life for Patients. A Better Career for You!

We offer case-speci c training, exible hours, and bene ts.

Universal Pediatrics is immediately hiring RNs/LPNs to provide home healthcare in

Fontanelle. Hours include PRN positions for Days & Evenings. Apply today!

To apply or for more information contact: Universal Pediatrics 712-792-1921 www.universalpediatrics.com

Part-time Teller Position

Applications available at602 Sheldon Ave., Creston, IA 50801

Please remit applications and/or resume to:

State Savings BankPO Box 635, Creston, IA 50801

Equal Opportunity Employer

HELP WANTEDExperienced Backhoe and

Dozer Operators CDL

Preferred

Contact Dave 641-340-0219David Downey Construction

503 W. AdamsP.O. Box 126

Creston, IA 50801Fax: 782-6628

641-782-2141 Ext. 64418:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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WANTED: OUTSIDEDOG Kennel, 6'x6'x8'minimum, call Renea641-202-8036.

WANTED: 3 OR MOREbedrooms house torent, by March 1st, 641-202-8833.

1979 BUICK RIVIERACoupe, 53K actualmiles, mint condition,641-202-1147.

BEAUTIFUL NEWACOUSTIC BASS GUI-TAR with case, $150.00,641-202-4214.

HELP WANTED: Heavyequipment operator withshop experience, 712-542-7486.

1 BEDROOM APART-MENT for rent in Cre-ston, $450/mo., all utili-ties included, 515-401-6616.

HOUSE FOR SALE: 3bedroom ranch on ap-prox. 1 acre, Crestoncity limits, $142,000,641-202-1147.

JVC BOOMBOX: AM/FMwith tape player/dubber,detachable speakers,super bass, $25.00641-782-7169

MCNEILL TREE SER-VICE. Topping, Trim-ming and Removal. FreeEstimates, insured. CallDavid at 641-344-9052.

LOCAL HONEY FORSALE: 8oz. - $4.00;12oz. - $5.00; 16oz. -$6.00; 3LB - $16.00;Brennan Apiary 641-782-3795.

WORK FROM HOME.Before you send moneycall the Federal TradeCommission to find outhow to spot work-at-home scams. 1-877-FTC-HELP.

2 BEDROOM APART-MENT appliances in-cluded, coin operatedwasher and dryer, nopets, no smoking,$550/mo. plus deposit,702 S. Poplar,515-321-8247.

CRESTON, GREEN-FIELD, OR ORIENT AR-EAS Caregivers needed.Assist seniors withhousekeeping, meals,etc. $9.00/hour plusbonus, you chooseschedule. Call Caretech1-800-991-7006.

PLUMBERS & HELPERSNew Construction Paidholidays, paid vacation,health & dental insur-ance, 401k with employ-er match. Cook Plumb-ing Corporation,1425 Fuller Road, WDMEOE

3 BOOKCASES – (2)-4shelf ones and (1)-3shelf, $3.00 each; woodcoffee table with blacktop, $5.00; three leggedswing set with twoswings and ring set,$10.00; call 641-202-3332 after 4:30 or leavea message.

INVESTING? PROMISESOF big profits oftenmean big risk! Beforeyou send money callIowa Securities Bureau1-800-351-4665 or theFederal Trade Commis-sion at 877-FTC-HELPfor free information. Orvisit their Web site atwww.ftc.gov/bizop.

FULL TIME POSITIONwith local company.$11.00 to $14.00 perhour plus benefits. Noexperience necessary.High school graduate,valid driver's license, &background check re-quired. Duties includefertilizing, spraying,mowing, landscaping, &snow removal. CallGreen Valley Pest Con-trol & Lawn Care, 641-782-4540 for an appli-cation or info.

FOUND: MALE GER-MAN SHEPHERD, looksapprox. 1-2 yrs. old, hasbeen found in Cromwell.He's a friendly guy, redcollar, no tags. He lookswell taken care of sowe're hoping his familyis looking for him! Ifyou're missing your dogor have any info that canhelp us reunite him withhis family, please con-tact Robin Campbell, at641-782-8574; 641-202-2573; or contactJanel McLain, of DogGone Rescue at, [email protected].

IOWA SELECT FARMShas local openings forSow Farm Techniciansand Class A CDLdrivers. Technicians areresponsible for the dailycare of animals. Posi-tions start at$28,000/year and in-crease to $31,000 afterjust one year plus fullbenefits. Class A CDLdrivers ideally live nearCreston, Afton or Osce-ola and transport pigswithin our productionsystem five days aweek, home EVERYDAY. Benefits, competi-tive salary and $1200SIGN ON BONUS. CallAllyson at 641-316-3251 for more info!

TO OURREADERS

Creston PublishingCompany does notknowingly accept ad-vertising which is inviolation of the law.We do not knowinglyaccept advertisingthat is fraudulent orhas malicious intent.

While we attemptto screen advertisingwith potential offraud, it is impossibleto screen all potentialproblems.

We strongly en-courage readers toexercise caution andcommon sense, par-ticularly when dealingwith unfamiliar com-panies.

STORE CLERK

Hog Slat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of parts, equipment and turn-key construction to the swine

& poultry industries is seeking a Store Clerk

with excellent customer service, reasoning and

management skills to join our team in Decatur, IA.This position requires; ability to lift and move

50 lbs. regularly and Understanding of Microsoft Office

products. Knowledge of parts & equipment used in modern hog facilities and fork lift

certification are a plus. In addition to helping

customers with finding the right equipment to meet their needs, you’ll also be responsible for maintaining a clean and

orderly warehouse as well as helping the in-store

team with receiving and shelving parts.

Visit our Decatur location to apply:

Hog Slat, Inc.200 SE 4th St.

Decatur, IA 50067(888) 446-3940

Or e-mail resume to:[email protected]

E.O.E

WAREHOUSE SHIPPING CLERK/ROUTE DRIVER

Is in search of a Warehouse Shipping

Clerk/Route Driver. Your primary responsibilities

will include pulling, shipping and tracking

orders. Duties will also include pulling and

loading parts for route deliveries and making

deliveries. This position will be based out of our location in Decatur, IA.

Qualified candidates will possess a valid driver’s license and have a satisfactory driving record that

dates back 5+ years, and the ability to lift and move 50 pounds on a

regular basis. Hog Slat offers a

competitive salary and full range of benefits, a stimulating, challeng-ing environment and

growth potential.

Visit our Decatur location to apply:

Hog Slat, Inc.200 SE 4th St.

Decatur, IA 50067(888) 446-3940

Or e-mail resume to:[email protected]

EOE

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Le Mars Antique Show & Flea Market 3/27/15 - 5pm-9pm, 3/28/15 - 8am-4pm. Le Mars Convention Center 275 12th St SE Le Mars, IA 51031 Vendor Infor-mation: www.lemar-santiqueshow.com or (712) 546-7218 (INCN)

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

ATTN: COMPUTER WORK. Work from anywhere 24/7. Up to $1,500 Part Time to $7,500/mo. Full Time. Training provided. www.Work-Services3.com (INCN)

HELP WANTED- TRUCK DRIVER

Hiring Regional Class A CDL Drivers. New Pay Package. Home Most Weekends, and $1500 Sign-On Bo-nus! Call 1-888-220-1994 or apply at www.heyl.net (INCN)

Wynne Transport Ser-vice, Inc. Immedi-ately seeking Owner Operators to haul Anhydrous Ammonia and other commod-ities for the spring and summer seasons. For more information contact Wynne Trans-port at 800-383-9330 or apply online www.wynnetr.com (INCN)

Class A CDL Local Drivers for IA & MINN. $20.00/hr some jobs up to$35.00/hr plus Bene-fits. Call Monson & Sons @ 1-800-463-4097 ext 110/109. EOE (INCN)

Butler Transport Your Partner in Excellence. CDL Class A Drivers Needed. Sign on Bonus. All miles paid. 1-800-528-7825 or www.but-lertransport.com (INCN)

INSTRUCTION, SCHOOLS

AIRLINES CAREERS- Get FAA certified Aviation Maintenance training. Financial aid if qual-ified -Job placement assistance. CALL now. Aviation Institute of

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Siding & WindowsGAULE EXTERIORSSteel and vinyl siding, replacement windows and seamless guttering. Quality craftsmanship, over a decade of professional service in Southwest Iowa. 641-782-0905.

WESTMAN WINDOWS. Replace-ment windows tilt for easy cleaning and rebates bays, bows, sliders, etc. Any custom size and shape, 30+ years in Creston. I sell, service and install, for no-pressure estimate call Charlie Westman 641-782-4590 or 641-344-5523.

BOWMAN SIDING & WINDOWS. All major brands of vinyl and steel siding, Heartland, Traco and Revere thermal replacement windows. Re-cipient of the Revere Premium Reno-vator Award. Seamless guttering and Leaf Relief gutter covers. 33 years of continuous reliable service in South-west Iowa, free estimates, 641-322-5160 or 1-800-245-0337.

Computer RepairBUILTNETWORKS, 805 Wyoming Ave, Creston, IA, 641-782-4765, Computer sales, repair, network-ing. Over 25 years experience. PC & Mac.

StorageSHARP’S SELF-STORAGE Boats, records, inventory, furniture. You store it, lock it, take the key. Industrial Park, Creston, 641-782-6227.

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PlumberSCHROEDER PLUMBING and ELECTRICAL. Central air repair/new installations, new breaker boxes, lighting fixtures, softeners, water heaters. Specialize in manufactured and mobile homes. Free estimates, licensed, insured, 641-202-1048. Accept Visa & Mastercard.

HOME SERVICES DIRECTORYFind the right people for the job,

right here.

GlassQUALITY GLASS CO. Automotive, home, business and farm. Commercial lock service and trailer sales. Hwy 34 East, in Creston 641-782-5155

Auction CalendarComplete sale information is published in the

Wednesday edition of the Creston News Advertiser and/or the Southwest Iowa Advertiser

Advertise your auction in the CNA Classifieds and we will include it in our “Auction Calendar.”

Sun. Mar. 15- 11:00AM Creston, IA. Guns, Ammo and related Sporting Goods. Auctioneers: Darwin West, Todd Crill, Zach Ballard.Mon. Mar. 23- 10:00AM Creston, IA. Annual Spring Farm Machinery Consignment Auction of Tractors, Farm Machinery, Livestock Equipment, and Misc. Auctioneers: Darwin West, Steve Bergren, Tom Frey, Todd Crill, Brandon Frey, Zach Ballard.

Advanced Ag Seed is currently looking for

seasonal personnel for the months of April-May-June.

Responsibilities include:Servicing and promoting

Pioneer Brand seed, loading and unloading of seed, seed delivery and potential crop scouting. Candidate must have a clean driving record.

Please call 641-782-0751.

Audiological Services, Inc.Patient Care Coordinator

Audiological Services, Inc. is a large well established Audiological Practice in Southwest Iowa.

We are looking for a part time self-motivated, energetic individual to join our Southwest Iowa practice in Creston, Iowa location. Candidate must be self motivated, have experience in patient

communication and office skills.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:· Prepare paperwork for audiologist· Prepare and Send in Hearing Aid Orders· File · Send out recall cards· Answer Phone Calls · Knowledge in Excel and Word

If you are looking for the benefit of working in a locally owned, fully

independent private practice, please send your resume and cover letter to: [email protected] or fax to 712-623-9316. Or

contact Jessica at 712-623-4802 for questions.

Looking for great people for all shiftsNow Hiring:

• Crew PeopleStarting at

$7.50 per hourWe offer flexible hours, competitive pay, free uniforms, employee meal

plan and much more!

This independent McDonald’s Franchise is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed

to a diverse and inclusive workforce.

McDonald’s Creston 608 Wyoming Avenue

Creston, IA 50801

Apply online at: www.mcstate.com/6077

TILLABLE FARM ACRES FOR RENTRoscoe Brown Farms and David

Brown are offering a total of 652 TILLABLE acres for cash rent in

Adams County, Grant Township, Sec. 16: Grant , Sec.22: Grant, Sec. 27 and Taylor County, Platt

Township, Sec. 13.Bids accompanied by letter of credit

must be postmarked no later than February 25th with notification of the

accepted bid by March 1, 2015.

BIDS SHOULD BE SENT TO: Roscoe Brown Farms

3025 250th St.Lenox, IA 50851

Payment will be due at signing of contract. Copies of area maps of farms and/or contract can be supplied upon

request. PH: 641-333-4156.

WANTING HEALTHCARE EXPERIENCE?Universal Workers

Vintage Park Apartments, located in Lenox, Iowa is currently seeking dedicated, friendly, and caring individuals to join our

team. The ideal candidates must possess good communication and written skills, the ability to work independently and as

part of a team. Universal Workers are primarily responsible for assisting our residents with their daily routines but may also assist in other areas as needed. If you enjoy working with the

elderly in a team atmosphere and have an outgoing personality, this is the opportunity for you!

Vintage Park Apartments offers a full benefit package including an excellent 401k match, health, vision, and dental insurance and the

ability to earn paid time off. Please apply in person or contact Doug Junker by phone at 641-333-2233 or by email at

[email protected].

Vintage Park Apartments810 E. Van Buren Street • Lenox, Iowa 50851

EOE/Drug Free Workplace

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIESPayroll Clerk

Full Time, Day Shift, Occasional Weekend Day, Holidays (Must work every 1st of the month regardless of day of the week or Holiday)Payroll experience needed, preferable with ADP

DishwasherFull Time, Swing Shift, Weekends, Holidays

CookFull Time, Swing Shift, Weekends, Holidays

Buffet Host/CashierPart Time, Shift may vary, Weekends, Holidays

Guest Service Center SpecialistPart Time, Grave Shift, Weekends, Holidays

Guest Service Center SpecialistFull Time, Grave Shift, Weekends, Holidays

Guest Room AttendantFull Time, Day Shift, Weekends, Holidays

Hotel Front DeskFull Time, Various Shifts, Weekends, Holidays

ValetFull Time, Shift may vary, Weekends, Holidays

Apply Online at www.AffinityGaming.com

Call Pam in HR, (641) 223-8538, with any questions

Iowa Focus is seeking trustworthy, honest individuals

for full-time and part-time

Direct Support proviDerS in Creston

Applicants must be personable and have good communication skills, complete paperwork in a timely manner, flexible

hours, and a team player. Experience working with people with

disabilities preferred, HS Diploma/GED and Drivers License is required.

Starting wage is $9.75, training included.INTERESTED APPLICANTS MAY APPLY

IN PERSON AT

Iowa Focus, 105 W. Adams Ste A,

Creston IA 50801EOE

Creston Nursing & Rehab Center1001 Cottonwood, Creston, IA

641-782-8511EOE/AAP Disability & Vets

Creston Nursing & Rehab Center is looking for a

NurseSIGN ON BONUS

$1000 Full-time • $500 Part-time

If you are interested in making a difference in the lives of our residents please contact:

Bailey Hodge, Business Manager

or online at www.careinitiatives.org

Maintenance Tech$18.50 for entry level, with experience negotiable

Instrument & Controls Technician$26.00

Process Tech $19.25

Boiler Operator$24.25 for entry level, with experience negotiable

Flour Loadout Technician$17.50

Flour Process Tech$19.25

Pre-employment physical, drug screen, and background check are required.

Apply online at: www.chsinc.comEEO/AAP Employer

CHS Inc., a Fortune 100 Company, has exciting career opportunities at our soybean facility in Creston, IA!

MIDWEST OPPORTUNITIES INC.www.midwestopportunities.org

Providing specialized residential and day services to individuals with disabilities.

Are you ready for a change?

MOI is NOW HIRING direct support professionals to work part time evenings or overnights. All shifts available for substitute (PRN) employees. No direct care experience is necessary; on the job and classroom training provided. We offer $9.00/hour starting wage, flexible schedule, casual dress code and a supportive and fun work environment. Paid Time Off provided for part time and full time employees along with health insurance and other benefit options for full time employees.

Recruiting Event DAY: Wednesday, February 18th TIME: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. LOCATION: 105 W. Adams St., Suite B, Creston (corner of Maple & Adams)

• Watch an informational video to learn more about our program• IMMEDIATE INTERVIEWS will be conducted if you choose• Snacks and Gift Bags

A representative from will be on site during the event

For more information or to request an application, contact: Tami at our Creston site, 641-782-5728, [email protected]

Melody at our Corning site, 641-322-3520, Ext. 151, [email protected]

A representative from will be on site during the event

Now accepting applications for the following position:

Adult Basic Education High School Equivalency Instructor

(in Creston)

Please visit the website for more information:

www.swcciowa.edu/HR

Southwestern Community College 1501 W. Townline St.

Creston, IA 50801

AA; Equal Opportunity Educator and Employer NCRC Acknowledged

Now accepting applications for the

following position:


(in Creston)


www.swcciowa.edu/HR


Creston, IA 50801


Now accepting applications for the

following position:


(in Creston)


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Creston, IA 50801




(in Creston)


www.swcciowa.edu/HR


Creston, IA 50801


•

Welding Instructor


Apply online at www.fccoop.com

FC is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

NOW HIRING Custom Applicator

**Must have or be able to obtain Class A CDL and Commercial Pesticide Applicator Licensing**

Earlham FC is currently seeking candidates for

NOW HIRINGEarlham FC is currently seeking candidates for

Custom Applicator**Must have or be able to obtain

Class A CDL and Commercial Pesticide Applicator Licensing**

FC is an Equal Opportunity EmployerMinorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

Iowa Focus is seeking trustworthy, honest

individuals for a

SITE MANAGER

Position in Creston Full Time Job duties include assisting individuals with disabilities in their

home and community. Teamwork and strong communication skills a must. Experience working with individuals

with disabilities, CNA or nursing experience also preferred but not required. Paid training included. Interested applicants may apply

in person at

Iowa Focus, 105 W. Adams Ste A,

Creston IA 50801EOE

HELP WANTEDAuto Mechanic

Excellent Wages & BenefitsExperience Necessary

Apply in person to Jack or Todd or call 641-782-2107

for appointment”

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“On the Corner of Savings...”

Chrysler • GMC • Dodge • Jeep • Buick • Ram

641-782-2107 or 1-800-767-6994410 S. Sumner • Creston

IMMEDIATE OPENING!Full-time Auto Technician

Full-time Auto Body TechnicianRequirements: Experience working with

50’s & 60’s classic cars in both mechanical and body work.

Looking for a motivated individual who is very dependable with good work history.

Must be a team player with a positive attitude!Well maintained and modern equipped shop

**Competitive Wages**

Apply in person at:R&S Auto Sales

510 Davis Ave. Corning, Iowa641.322.4777

Homestead Assisted Living and Memory Care is now hiring for

Part-time CNACertification preferred, but will train

the right candidate

Please apply online at www.midwest-health.com/careers

For any questions please contact Gloria Rink at 641-782-3131 or [email protected]

Homestead is a drug free workplace and an equal opportunity employer.

1709 W. Prairie St., Creston, IA

Heavy Equipment Operator

Experienced dozer/excavator operator wanted to perform work primarily in Taylor/Adams/Page County areas.

Please contact Jesse Beemer (Gravity, IA) at

712-542-7073

Fill in the BLANK!Find the person you’re looking for in the

Classifieds!

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DISH NETWORK - $19 Special, includes FREE Premium Movie Chan-nels (HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, and Starz) and Blockbuster at home for 3 months. Free installation and equipment. Call NOW! 1-866-820-4030 (MCN)

Switch & Save Event from DirecTV! Packag-es starting at $19.99/mo. Free 3-Months of HBO, STARZ, SHOW-TIME & CINEMAX. FREE GENIE HD/DVR Upgrade! 2015 NFL Sunday Ticket Included with Select Packages. New Customers Only IV Support Holdings LLC- An authorized DirecTV Dealer. Some exclusions apply - Call for details 1-800-269-4217 (MCN)

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

$25,000 REWARD for older FENDER, GIBSON, GRETSCH, MARTIN, MOSRITE, NATIONAL guitars. Paying from $500 to $25,000 or more. Please call Craw-ford White in Nashville, TN at 1-800-477-1233 or email [email protected] (MCN)

PERSONALS

FIND THE LOVE YOU DESERVE! Discover the path to happiness. New members receive a FREE 3-minute love reading! Entertainment purpos-es only. 18 and over. 800-981-0092 (MCN)

MEET SINGLES RIGHT NOW! No paid opera-tors, just real people like you. Browse greet-ings, exchange mes-sages and connect live. Try it free. Call now: 800-357-4970 (MCN)

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Carry-out Only

Pizza Specials2 Large 2 Topping

$18.50 + tax

2 Large Specialty

$24.95 + tax

A&G Steakhouse & Lounge211 W. Adams • Creston • 782-7871

ARTS& CraftsSHOW

IOWA’S LARGESTVARIED INDUSTRIES BLDG.IOWA STATE FAIRGROUNDS

DES MOINES, IOWAFri. 5-9; Sat. 9-5; Sun. 10-4ADM. Just $6.00(10 & under free)

3-day re-entry stamp

FREE PARKINGFree Shuttle Bus

Service from North Parking Lot on both Fri. & Sat.

Over 300 Talented Exhibitors Present & Sell 1,000’s of Unique Creations.

Callahan Promotions, Inc., 563-652-4529

Over300Exhibitors

Bring this ad to show for $1.00 OFF One Admission

A Fantastic shopping event.Feb. 27 - March 1

Clearance Pricing on 2014 Inventory

Check out the HOT 2015’s too!All New F150• All new aluminum alloy body - Built tougher to be lighter, yet more dent and ding resistant• Tougher Frame - High Strength steel, fully boxed frame is lighter, stronger, and more rigid to work harder for you.• Four Engine Choices - More power of more mileage, the choice is yours

All New Mustang• Redesigned inside and out• All New 2.3L EcoBoost engine. Impeccable performance all controlled with your right foot• 50th Anniversary Package to commemorate the Mustang

410 W. Adams • Creston, IA 50801866-782-2179 or 641-782-2179

www.crestonautomotive.com

RESTONUTOMOTIVE

Apply online at: http://jobs.oldcastle.com

Construction Positions Available

Oldcastle provides competitive wages, full benefits package including year round health & retirement options. Women and Minorities encourage to apply. Oldcastle Materials is an EEO/AA employer.

Quality Control Technician

Oldcastle Materials Group (OMG Midwest, Inc.) dba American Concrete Products positions available:


CNA photo by SCOTT VICKER

To the Well: East Union head coach Steve Kinyon (right) and son Bryson Kinyon (left) react to senior Brogan Kinyon’s dramatic pin in the 170-pound finals over Southeast Warren’s TJ Dierking Saturday at the Class 1A District 2 Tournament in Truro. The win secured Brogan Kinyon’s first trip to the State Wrestling Tournament. For more on the Class 1A District 2 Tournament, see page 5A.

Providers: Iowa’s broadbandexpansion will take time, money

DES MOINES (AP) — Even as lawmakers work through Gov. Terry Brans-tad’s latest proposal to expand broadband Internet in Iowa, officials and service providers said the effort will last for years and cost far more than the $5 million now under discussion.

Supporters of Branstad’s grant pro-gram said it’s in-tended to bring at-tention and jumpstart work on a long-term broadband expansion the governor be-lieves is vital to ensuring the state’s rural economy remains competitive as the nation relies more heavily on technology.

The example of Bloomfield, a southeast Iowa city of near-ly 3,000 people, offers a good example of how expensive that expansion could be. Ser-vice provider Citizens Mutual spent more than $4 million to install a robust system of high-speed Internet in the commu-nity.

“We knew that it was a long-term investment,” said Citizens Mutual general man-ager Joe Snyder. “It takes time to do that and it takes a lot of money to do that.”

Figuring out that cost de-pends largely on an area’s pop-ulation and the system that’s installed.

Increasingly, companies are opting for a fiber-optic network. The system of un-derground cables can meet not only current needs but in-creased future Internet speeds.

Bloomfield installed a fi-ber-optic network, and Brans-tad’s bill and a separate broad-band bill in the Senate focus on expanding such systems.

Snyder said it can cost be-tween $3,000 and $3,500 per household to establish a fi-ber-optic network in an ur-ban area, and that figure can jump to $10,000 to $12,000 per household in less populated rural areas.

There are at least 20,000 households in Iowa that have no high-speed Internet, ac-cording to Connect Iowa, an organization that works with communities across the state to expand service.

Branstad’s bill includes a grant program aimed at help-ing service providers with the costs. If the Legislature ap-proves it, Robert von Wolf-fradt, the state’s chief infor-mation officer, will oversee the program. Von Wolffradt said the $5 million included in the program never was intended to pay for all the state’s broad-

band needs.For years, service providers

have been expanding broad-band through a combination of their own money, private loans and federal funding, said Dave Duncan, CEO of Iowa Communications Alliance, a group that represents more than 130 community-based telecommunications providers that offer some type of broad-band.

Von Wolffradt and industry experts said it’s unclear how long it would take to expand broadband throughout the state.

Branstad made broadband a priority last session, but his measure failed as some law-makers cited concerns about language dealing with cell towers for wireless service and others complained the tax breaks for providers were too generous.

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Eagles ‘Liberty’ and ‘Justice’ welcome egg to Riverdale nest

RIVERDALE (AP) — A couple of the world’s most-watched eagles have wel-comed an egg to their nest.

The Quad-City Times reports that the egg was spotted by the Alcoa EagleCam in the nest of the eagles, dubbed Liberty and Justice.

The nest is on the property of the Al-coa Davenport Works in Riverdale.

For the past four years, people have

been able to watch online streaming vid-eo of the eagles.

Company spokesman John Riches says Liberty laid the egg late Friday after-noon.

Riches says the eagle typically lays two eggs, so viewers should be on the lookout for another one in the coming days.

The birds can be seen at www.alcoa.com/eaglecam.

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