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By KYLE WILSONCNA asst. managing [email protected]

More than 800,000 federal employ-ees were forced off the job Tues-day as Congress

plunged the nation into a government shutdown, all because Republicans and Democrats continue to wran-gle over Obamacare and the spending plan for the new fiscal year.

That Washington conflict has meant temporary job loss here at home.

All county Farm Services Agency (FSA) offices in the Creston News Adver-tiser area are closed. Dan Wells, FSA ex-e c u t i v e d i r e c t o r in Adair C o u n t y , said a to-tal of six employees were furloughed (temporar-ily laid off without pay) in his office.

“There is nothing we can do about it,” Wells said. “All we can do is wait until a bill is passed.”

Also, Wayde Ross, district conservationist for National Resource Conservation Ser-vice (NRCS) in Creston, was notified Tuesday by email he and five other employees in his office are furloughed until the conflict in Wash-ington is resolved.

“Due to the lapse in bud-get funding the (NRCS) of-fice is closed and will not reopen until the day after the budget is passed and the president says he will sign it,” Ross said. “We are hopeful the budget will get worked out so we can can get back to serving the peo-ple again.”

Corning National GuardSgt. William Dooley with

Iowa Army National Guard said this morning the shut-down will affect about 70 soldiers who report to the Corning National Guard ar-mory.

Dooley said soldiers are required to complete one weekend drill each month.

Soldiers are compensated for the drill weekend.

“However, we were forced to cancel this weekend’s four-day drill,” Dooley said, “essentially because we have no money to pay them.”

Dooley said all weekend drills are cancelled “until this all gets sorted out.”

Latham’s officeLaura Hartman, regional

assistant for Congressman Tom Latham, said she is currently furloughed and Latham’s office will be closed until the budget is passed. However, Hartman doesn’t feel the government shutdown will last long.

“I’m not terribly wor-ried,” Hartman said. “I don’t think this will last very long. That’s my gut feeling. This is not something either side of the aisle wants to go on very long.”

The last time the govern-ment had a shutdown was in 1995 under the Clinton ad-ministration. The shutdown lasted 21 days. There have been 17 government shut-downs or “spending gaps” in the United States since 1976.

Not affected by shutdownAlan Carr, park ranger

at Green Valley Park, con-firmed his staff was not fur-loughed because they are state funded.

“It’s business as usual for us,” Carr said.

Other federal offices in Creston not immediately impacted include: Social Se-curity, U.S. Postal Service, county or city government. However, the shutdown will delay Social Security pay-ments, passport and visa ap-plications.

Creston City Administra-tor Mike Taylor said there may be delays in federally-funded grants because of the shutdown, but otherwise the city won’t notice much.

“It hurts the economy in general,” he said. “But, it won’t have much of an im-pact on us directly.”

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNcauses temporary job loss in Creston News Advertiser coverage area

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Today will be overcast with a 50 percent chance of rain this afternoon. Rainfall amounts are predicted near .20 inches. High temperature will be 81 degrees.

Tonight, WHO13 reports potential for severe weather, especially in south-west Iowa with the biggest concerns being large hail and gusty winds, but isolated tornadoes cannot be ruled out with this system.

There is another chance for severe storms on Friday.

Cold air blows in Saturday with strong west winds, and Sunday will be chilly with highs in the 50s.

New Creston Police officerCreston Police will soon have a new of-ficer on the force. Creston City Coun-cil approved the hiring of Shannon Arends during a regularly-scheduled meeting Tuesday. Arends’ first day on the job is tentatively slated for Oct. 14.

Arends, 42, is a current sheriff’s deputy in Ringgold County.

High Lakes banquetThe eighth-annual High Lakes Out-door Alliance ban-quet is slated for 5:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at Three Mile Lodge in Afton.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. A prime rib dinner — pre-pared by Up in Smoke Barbecue in Afton — will be at 6 p.m., and auction and raffle starts at 7 p.m. For tickets, contact Doug Jones at 641-344-3680.

Citizen of the year deadlineNominations for Creston citizen, vol-unteer and youth of the year are due Friday at Creston Chamber of Com-merce, 208 W. Taylor St. in Creston. Last year’s citizens of the year were John Kawa and Gary Borcherding with Creston Parks and Rec Board and McKinley Park restoration committee.

QUICK NEWS

The longer the shutdown, the greater risk for GOP WASHINGTON (MCT) — Re-

publicans are taking a big political risk if the government shutdown persists.

Polls are emphatic — people hate this shutdown. They blame Repub-licans more than Democrats. And Republicans remain divided about how to proceed, a schism that has already triggered some ugly parti-san primary fights.

Republicans still have some im-portant advantages, enough so that analysts predict they will hold onto their House of Representatives ma-jority and have a decent shot to con-trol the Senate. But those forecasts could change if the partial closings

that began Tuesday drag on.For now, damage to Republicans

is cushioned by the protection in-cumbents enjoy, thanks to a politi-cal system rigged to protect them. Congressional districts are carefully drawn for the benefit of current officeholders, and in recent years, Republicans have been in charge of drawing a lot of them. Incum-bents also prosper from an ability to amass huge campaign treasur-ies, thus scaring off their potentially strongest challengers.

What threatens Republicans most is that party split over how to manage this drama. While Repub-licans are unified in their disdain

for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, they disagree sharply on strategy.

One group, generally conserva-tives backed by tea party activists, continues to want any move to keep the government open contingent on a delay or dilution of Obamacare. The other, usually veteran lawmak-ers or those from swing districts, would rather debate the issue at another time and keep the govern-ment open.

Party members Tuesday tried to emphasize how the opposition to Obamacare has emerged as a uni-fier for a party that badly needs one.

“Any disagreement is about tac-

tics. It’s not really a split,” said Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio, who is close to Speaker John Boehner of Ohio.

But scratch the surface and the crevice appears.

“We are in a fight taking all the oxygen out of the room when we should be focusing on the unravel-ing of Obamacare, which is taking place,” protested Sen. John Mc-Cain, R-Ariz.

Republicans have no consen-sus on a logical endgame, and that bothers McCain and his allies. In the House, that faction quietly tried Monday night to mount a rebellion, hoping to derail the effort to tie changes in Obamacare to govern-

ment funding. It went nowhere.The practical coalition remains

concerned about the party brand. They’re well aware Obama has the bully pulpit. If he makes a shutdown statement, as he did Tuesday, cable news channels instantly interrupt programming to air his remarks. Republicans don’t command that kind of attention.

Adding to the conciliatory wing’s woes is that the Republican right is feeling unusually muscular. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., was asked how he justified a shutdown

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� SICOG projects delayed, organization still running By BAILEY POOLMANCNA staff [email protected]

The federal government shut-down has hit many organiza-tions and businesses hard, but Southern Iowa Council of Gov-ernment (SICOG) isn’t exactly one of them.

SICOG, an economic devel-opment conduit between the local community and federal money given through grants, is affected only in that project money is not coming in.

“We can still do the work, we just can’t request money

� WIC stays open amid government shutdown

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By SARAH BROWNCNA staff [email protected]

Women, Infants and Chil-dren (WIC) in Creston is not closing.

Karla Hynes, director of WIC and Maternal Child Health in Creston, said the USDA is sus-pending — not terminating — contracts with all local agencies this week, but they will continue to fund Iowa WIC until Oct. 31.

What does this mean?As it stands, vouchers will be

issued for October, but not No-vember and December.

“We still want people to

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Lucie Clayton Creston

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No ser-vices will be held for Lucie. Powers Funeral Home, junc-tion of highways 34 and 25, is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be given to Afton Care Center. Online condolences may be left at www.powersfh.com.

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Lucie graduated from high school at Saint Maur in Gu-rat, France, and graduated from Sorbonne College in Sorbonne, France.

On March 14, 1959, Lu-cie marred Richard Wayne Clayton in Creston.

They made their home in Creston, where Lucie was a homemaker.

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S e r -vices will be 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, at Pow-ers Funeral Home, junction of highways 34 and 25. The Rev. Doug Brunell will of-ficiate. Burial will be in Hill of Zion Cemetery, east of Orient. Open visitation will be 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday with family present 4 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home. Memori-als may be given in her name or to Abundant Life Family Church in Creston. Online condolences may be left at www.powersfh.com.

Evelyn Pauline Hoepker, daughter of Josephine (Klos) and Claude Ray Eivins, was born May 17, 1923, in Macksburg.

Evelyn graduated from Macksburg High School in 1941.

On April 1, 1944, Evelyn married Elton August Ho-epker at the Wesley Chapel

near Macksburg.They settled in the Zion

area, where she was a home-maker and farmwife.

Elton died March 15, 1991.Evelyn moved into Cres-

ton in 2003.Evelyn was a member

of Abundant Life Family Church of Creston and had been active with the Stone-croft Ministries Bible study. She was a former member of Hill of Zion Church and 40-year member of the Zion Area Hobby Club.

Evelyn is survived by her daughters, Carolyn (hus-band Jim) Collins of Bedford and Joan (husband Doug) Brunell of Creston; sons, Keith Hoepker (Jane White) of Creston, James (wife Cin-dy) Hoepker of Urbandale, Dale Hoepker of Orient and Gary Hoepker of Cres-ton; grandchildren, Mindee Hanson, Curtis Hoepker, Shannon Terry, Jessica Ho-epker and Aaron, Ashley, Crista and Austin Brunell; five great-grandchildren, sis-ter Elsie (husband Clarence) Lamb of Iowa City and two close friends, Ethel Baugh-man and Elaine Lilly.

In addition to her hus-band, Evelyn was preceded in death by her parents, daughter Catherine Kay in 1962 and brothers, Harold and Lee Eivins.

Ruth Wynn Creston

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Clayton

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when polls showed that peo-ple dislike it.

“I think we’re principled. That’s what we’re looking at,” he said. “Far too often people see Republicans un-willing to stand. Republicans are consistent now.”

Backing him is a vocal echo chamber of tea party conservatives and like-mind-ed groups.

“Senate Democrats de-livered a triple-whammy: shutting down government, bringing chaos and uncer-tainty to health care which affects American lives, and sticking American families with massive cost increases due to Obamacare — which most Americans don’t want,” said Jenny Beth Martin, the Tea Party Patriots’ national coordinator.

She’s partly right. A Quin-nipiac poll released Tuesday showed Americans split over Obamacare.

But it also had a more em-phatic finding: By more than 3-to-1, Americans oppose shutting down the govern-ment as a way of blocking implementation of the new health care law.

“Americans are certainly not in love with Obamacare,

but they reject decisively the claim by congressional Re-publicans that it is so bad that it’s worth closing down the government to stop it,” said Peter Brown, the Quinnipiac polling institute’s assistant di-rector.

Both political parties Tues-day claimed the shutdown will give them momentum heading into the 2014 con-gressional campaigns.

Both parties were already out Tuesday with ads and statements charging oppo-nents with being irrespon-sible.

“Ami Bera Voted Against Repealing Obamacare. Ami Bera Voted Against Delay-ing Obamacare,” declared a National Republican Con-gressional Committee press release.

The California Democratic freshman is considered one of the more vulnerable House of Representatives members; the NRCC has sent out simi-lar statements targeting other Democrats.

Democrats launched their own initiative. Starting Tues-day, the party is directing automated phone calls to the districts of 63 vulnerable Re-publicans.

“While you were sleeping, Congressman (fill in name) shut down the government. You heard that right,” the caller says.

Republicans have one big advantage. They were in the right places at the right time. “They had a timely wave in 2010,” said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which studies

congressional races at the University of Virginia.

Republicans that year won a House majority and did well in gubernatorial and state legislative races, allow-ing the party to control the congressional redistricting in many states.

Lines were drawn so that even in some states Obama won last year, Republican House members were able to survive. Obama won Pennsylvania and Ohio, yet Pennsylvania has 13 House Republicans and five Demo-crats, while Ohio has 12 Re-publicans and four Demo-crats.

Whether Republicans can grow those numbers remains uncertain.

Party officials worry the party is often seen as intran-sigent, even intolerant.

Two Senate candidates lost winnable seats because of what were seen as insensitive comments about rape.

If the shutdown keeps go-ing, and Obama keeps railing against Republican stubborn-ness, the political prediction map could change.

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because no one is there to do the work,” said Tim Os-troski, SICOG executive director. “We will still do what we do on a daily ba-sis.”

Projects through SICOG have federal funds attached to them. One example Os-troski used was the wage rates for workers doing sewer and water projects.

Because the Department of Labor is shut down, SI-COG can’t submit wage requests for the project workers, which means the contractor can’t begin work.

SICOG staff is still work-ing on a daily basis because a council of government is not a federal agency. It is a nonprofit organization that works with local govern-ments.

SICOG covers Adair,

Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Madison, Ringgold, Taylor and Union counties.

“It’s more logistical things at this point that are affecting us,” said Ostroski. “It doesn’t mean money is leaving, it means there are delays in the projects.”

Ostroski said current projects in Union County won’t be affected because they have already received funds.

“We will certainly have delays in projects ... be-

cause lack of dollars will cause people not to work,” Ostroski said. “And, those primarily are on new proj-ects. Any projects that are already moving forward, those have already secured the funds.”

However, Ostroski said

he doesn’t expect problems with funding for different projects.

“I don’t think any of these projects will have any problems in the near term,” said Ostroski. “In my expe-rience, these things don’t take long periods of time.”

SICOG:


keep their appointments,” said Hynes.

By not keeping appoint-ments, recipients might ex-perience a delay in receiv-ing future vouchers, should funding come through.

In the event funding is not approved, Hynes said WIC will still offer health checks

and wellness classes.Hynes said she is opti-

mistic funding will come through because “WIC has always had bipartisan sup-port.”

MATURA’s low-income home-energy assistance pro-gram will continue to accept applications. The food pan-try is also open, however, to clear up confusion, Hynes

said formula is not available at the food pantry. Formula will be at the pantry only in the event a parent returns formula because to allergies.

“It would be a very hard-core government if they were to cut funding for women, infants and chil-dren,” said Hynes. “They are a very vulnerable popu-lation.”

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“Americans are certainly not in love with Obamacare, but they reject decisively the claim by congressional Republicans that it is so bad that it’s worth closing down the government to stop it.”

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For the record

Markets

Today's WeatherLocal 5-Day Forecast

Fri

10/4

81/53Partly cloudy andwindy with isolatedthunderstorms possi-ble.

Sunrise Sunset7:17 AM 6:54 PM

Sat

10/5

57/37Windy with a fewclouds. Highs in theupper 50s and lowsin the upper 30s.


Sun

10/6

53/39Partly cloudy. Highsin the low 50s andlows in the upper30s.


Mon

10/7

68/42Abundant sunshine.Highs in the upper60s and lows in thelow 40s.


Tue

10/8

73/49Sunshine. Highs inthe low 70s and lowsin the upper 40s.


Des Moines82/57

Cedar Rapids86/61

Sioux City73/43

Creston81/53

Iowa At A Glance

Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 74 55 t-storm Davenport 88 65 t-storm Marshaltown 80 54 t-stormAtlantic 79 47 t-storm Des Moines 82 57 t-storm Mason City 73 54 t-stormAubudon 79 50 t-storm Dubuque 85 66 t-storm Onawa 77 46 t-stormCedar Rapids 86 61 t-storm Farmington 89 62 t-storm Oskaloosa 85 55 t-stormCenterville 85 57 t-storm Fort Dodge 78 56 t-storm Ottumwa 86 58 t-stormClarinda 81 46 t-storm Ft Madison 88 66 windy Red Oak 81 46 t-stormClarion 74 54 t-storm Guttenberg 82 63 t-storm Sioux Center 70 45 t-stormClinton 87 64 t-storm Keokuk 88 65 pt sunny Sioux City 73 43 t-stormCouncil Bluffs 79 46 t-storm Lansing 79 65 t-storm Spencer 72 48 t-stormCreston 81 53 t-storm LeMars 72 43 t-storm Waterloo 80 57 t-storm

National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 85 62 sunny Houston 90 73 pt sunny Phoenix 89 64 sunnyBoston 73 56 rain Los Angeles 74 59 pt sunny San Francisco 71 56 mst sunnyChicago 85 66 t-storm Miami 87 76 t-storm Seattle 57 44 mst sunnyDallas 91 67 pt sunny Minneapolis 61 51 rain St. Louis 88 68 pt sunnyDenver 41 29 rain New York 80 65 t-storm Washington, DC 88 68 mst sunny

Moon Phases

LastSep 26

NewOct 4

FirstOct 11

FullOct 18

UV IndexFri

10/45

Moderate

Sat10/5

5

Moderate

Sun10/6

5

Moderate

Mon10/7

5

Moderate

Tue10/8

5

Moderate

The UV Index is measured on a 0 -11 number scale, with a higher UVIndex showing the need for greaterskin protection.

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Day’s RecordFrom Creston Offi cial Weather Station: high past 24 hours (84), low past 24 hours (57) and precipitation ending 7 a.m. today (.0)

Today's WeatherLocal 5-Day Forecast

Fri

10/4

81/53Partly cloudy andwindy with isolatedthunderstorms possi-ble.


Sat

10/5

57/37Windy with a fewclouds. Highs in theupper 50s and lowsin the upper 30s.


Sun

10/6

53/39Partly cloudy. Highsin the low 50s andlows in the upper30s.


Mon

10/7

68/42Abundant sunshine.Highs in the upper60s and lows in thelow 40s.


Tue

10/8

73/49Sunshine. Highs inthe low 70s and lowsin the upper 40s.


Des Moines82/57

Cedar Rapids86/61

Sioux City73/43

Creston81/53

Iowa At A Glance

Area CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Algona 74 55 t-storm Davenport 88 65 t-storm Marshaltown 80 54 t-stormAtlantic 79 47 t-storm Des Moines 82 57 t-storm Mason City 73 54 t-stormAubudon 79 50 t-storm Dubuque 85 66 t-storm Onawa 77 46 t-stormCedar Rapids 86 61 t-storm Farmington 89 62 t-storm Oskaloosa 85 55 t-stormCenterville 85 57 t-storm Fort Dodge 78 56 t-storm Ottumwa 86 58 t-stormClarinda 81 46 t-storm Ft Madison 88 66 windy Red Oak 81 46 t-stormClarion 74 54 t-storm Guttenberg 82 63 t-storm Sioux Center 70 45 t-stormClinton 87 64 t-storm Keokuk 88 65 pt sunny Sioux City 73 43 t-stormCouncil Bluffs 79 46 t-storm Lansing 79 65 t-storm Spencer 72 48 t-stormCreston 81 53 t-storm LeMars 72 43 t-storm Waterloo 80 57 t-storm

National CitiesCity Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.Atlanta 85 62 sunny Houston 90 73 pt sunny Phoenix 89 64 sunnyBoston 73 56 rain Los Angeles 74 59 pt sunny San Francisco 71 56 mst sunnyChicago 85 66 t-storm Miami 87 76 t-storm Seattle 57 44 mst sunnyDallas 91 67 pt sunny Minneapolis 61 51 rain St. Louis 88 68 pt sunnyDenver 41 29 rain New York 80 65 t-storm Washington, DC 88 68 mst sunny

Moon Phases

LastSep 26

NewOct 4

FirstOct 11

FullOct 18

UV IndexFri

10/45

Moderate

Sat10/5

5

Moderate

Sun10/6

5

Moderate

Mon10/7

5

Moderate

Tue10/8

5

Moderate

The UV Index is measured on a 0 -11 number scale, with a higher UVIndex showing the need for greaterskin protection.

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Alegent Health At Home/Family Home Care free blood pressure clinic, 11 a.m. to noon,

Corning Community Center. Open to public. Donations are appreciated.

Celebrate Recovery (a Christ-centered 12-step program), 6 p.m., Crest Baptist Church, 1211 N. Poplar St.

Gambler’s Anonymous, 7 p.m., Assembly of God Church, 801 N. Fillmore St., Osceola.

Al-Anon, 7:30 p.m., Crossroads Mental Health Center, 1003 Cottonwood Road.

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

FridayHoly Spirit Rectory ReRun

Shop, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 107 W. Howard St.

Southern Prairie YMCA 55 Plus, 11:45 a.m., bring $2 for pizza and change for bingo.

CW Club, noon, congregate meal site, restored Creston Depot.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) brown baggers, noon open meet-ing, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St. No smoking.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 12 by 12 study, 7 to 8 p.m., United Church of Christ, 501 W. Montgomery St. Use east door.

Narcotics Anonymous (NA), 8 p.m. open meeting, St. Malachy Rectory, 407 W. Clark St.

SaturdayCreston Men’s Fellowship

non-denominational Bible study, 7 a.m., The Windrow.

Holy Spirit Rectory ReRun Shop, 9 a.m. to noon, 107 W. Howard St.

Police Mark Hulbert, 807 W. Jef-

ferson St., reported a pack-age delivered to his resi-dence Wednesday had been taken.

Loss estimate is $22.Miscellaneous

Warrant, 8:11 a.m., Wednesday, North Pine Street.

Harassing communication, 9:34 a.m., Wednesday, North Oak Street.

Traffic stop, 11:32 am., Wednesday, West Mills Street.

Parking complaint, 12:25 p.m., Wednesday, North Elm Street.

Information, 2:25 p.m., Wednesday, West Adams Street.

Escort, 4:56 p.m., Wednes-day, West Montgomery Street.

Talk to officer, 5:10 p.m., Wednesday, North Pine Street.

Information, 8:10 p.m., Wednesday, West Adams Street.

Information, 8:15 p.m., Wednesday, North Pine Street.

Disturbing the peace, 8:47 p.m., Wednesday, Livingston Avenue.

Talk to officer, 9:46 p.m., Wednesday, North Pine Street.

Fire Miscellaneous

Medical, 11:04 a.m., Wednesday, West Taylor Street.

Ditch fire, 4:51 p.m., Wednesday, 210th Street.

Union County Sheriff

Robert Kerrigan of Afton reported numerous tools, an air compressor, generator and drop cords were taken from a location on 130th Street in Afton between Sept. 25 and 26.

Loss estimate is $1,575.

Grain prices quoted at 10 a.m. today:

• Farmers Co-op, Creston:Corn — $4.39

Soybeans — $12.24• Gavilon Grain:Corn — $4.40Soybeans — $12.37

LotteryIowa’s Pick 3: 2-2-8Iowa Cash Game: 13-18-22-23-35Hot Lotto: 5-20-35-36-37 (8)Powerball: 4-6-25-42-51 (17)

Indoor farmers’ market to start Friday Creston’s indoor farmers’

market will have a “soft” opening 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at She-nae’s, 311 W. Montgomery St.

There will be produce, baked goods, eggs, meats and more.

On Friday, lunch will be served by Back 40 Barbe-cue beginning at 11 a.m. On the menu is prime rib sand-

wiches, baby back ribs, tur-key legs, burgers, brats and beverages.

Vendors may contact Matt Brummett at 641-344-5336.

Follow the market on Facebook at www.facebook.com/CrestonMarket.

The market will contin-ue Fridays and Saturdays through late December.

Crisis fund needs your help Three-fourths of the year

is over, and it’s time to share a report of how the Union County Ministerial Alli-ance’s crisis fund has done, so far, this year. This report was written by the Rev. Jim Morris, who administers the fund.

The needs in the com-munity have grown this year, and funds are about 14 percent above last year’s figures. If disbursements continue at the present rate, the fund will provide more than $36,500 in emergency assistance in 2013. And this is in addition to the food vouchers, which are given out from the Christmas Bas-ket fund.

Administrators of the fund continue to work to deal with attempted abuses of the system, and have placed several individuals on a “permanently ineligible” list.

To date this year, $27,441.54 has been dis-tributed and approximately

1,125 family units have been assisted. The balance, as this is written, is down to $191.11. While funds have not run out for several months, there is a probabil-ity of doing so Monday.

The fund has only re-ceived $22,448.54, and re-serves have depleted.

Union County Ministerial Alliance appeals to church-es, individuals and organiza-tions in the county to help out in this hour of need, as the holiday season is upcom-ing.

Fifteen of the 19 churches in the county participate in the crisis fund, and the alli-ance is thankful to them for their commitment to people in crisis in Union County.

If anyone has any ques-tions, comments or sugges-tions, direct them to Morris, who coordinates the fund, or to any clergyperson in the county. Call Morris at 782-2427 or 782-2715. Leave a message, and he will call you back.

More than 13,000 southern Iowans makeus a part of their lives each weekday!

Creston News Advertiser

Union County Public Health urges annual influenza vaccination

Union County Public Health/Greater Regional Medical Center Outreach Ser-vices joins the Iowa Depart-ment of Public Health and Center for Disease Control in urging an annual flu vaccina-tion for everyone 6 months and older as the best way to protect against influenza. By getting a yearly flu-vaccine, individuals can protect themselves from ill-ness, and protect those around them. Residents of Union County should get vaccinated as soon vaccine is available in their community.

“The best way to protect you and your family is to receive an annual influenza-vaccination,” said Robin Sevier, RN, Union County Public Health nurse.

“In Union County, our flu clinics are scheduled to be offered each Thursday be-ginning October 3 through November 21 between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,” Sevier said.

To add convenience for the public, the flu clinic will be held in the Medical Arts

Plaza. Use the south en-trance.

Influenza is a respira-tory illness that most often causes fever, headache, ex-treme tiredness, coughing, sore throat and runny or stuffy nose. Occasionally, nausea and diarrhea can accompany the respiratory symptoms. The flu virus is spread when people who are ill cough or sneeze without covering their mouths and noses, sending tiny droplets of saliva into the air for oth-ers to breathe in and get sick. A person can also get the flu by touching a surface or ob-ject (such as a door handle) that has been touched by someone with the flu (who coughed into their hand), and then touching their own mouth, eyes or nose.

For more information about influenza, visit www.idph.state.ia.us/Cade/Influ-enza.aspx.

For information about seasonal influenza clinics in Union County, call 641-782-3682.


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I climbed the ladder and stepped onto a roof of wooden shingles and moss. The slant made it hard to climb, as did the uncertainty of whether the wood would give. I followed firefighters Lee Freeman and Jake Winkler up near the peak, and Jake and I got to work.

Lee gave me the choice between a chainsaw or K12 power saw. I chose the K12, but after it kept dy-ing, I picked up the chainsaw.

Tuesday was the first time I’d ever used a chainsaw. My shoul-ders tensed with the weight of the saw as I leaned over and made five cuts into the roof of the beach house at Green Valley Lake. In what felt like hours, Lee and Jake

talked me through cutting the hole for vertical ventilation.

Jake pushed the wood through the roof, a loud crack sounding up from the cement below, and we made our way over the soft shingles and chunky green moss to the ladder. When I hit land, I took off my helmet, air tank, gloves and jacket, and breathed.

Creston Fire Department orga-nized the hands-on training Tues-

day at the lake. We practiced using the dump tank as a water source and cutting holes in the roof for vertical ventilation, then burned down the beach house north of the glassy water.

I always knew just how physi-cally and mentally exhausting fire-fighting was. It started with my, admittedly, limited knowledge stemming from movies and TV shows. Then, I learned more about what firefighters really do as I got older and read the news.

After a few months in Creston, and seeing firsthand what goes into a rescue or putting out a fire, the importance of a fire depart-ment hit me. But, there is so much more to a department than spout-

ing water onto a fire.Every training session, I’m im-

mersed deeper into the world that is firefighting. The camaraderie, adrenaline and impact that comes with saving lives and property, that is firefighting.

Creston firefighters, while not the only important department in southwest Iowa, have a unique bond with each other because they spend more time with each other. Being the only paid department in the area, you learn a lot when you spend 12 hours or more with other firefighters. You learn to put up with jokes and get around any dis-likes because what firefighters do requires that of you.

Firefighters understand what other firefighters go through to improve, too. I appreciate hav-ing such an understanding group of men and women in Creston to learn from and lean on. Heaving a piece of sharp equipment up a ladder to cut a five- by five-foot hole in a roof, while fire rages be-low, requires mental and physical strength that few people have, and to say I’m surrounded by so many, is a thing of pride for me.

Needless to say, the Green Val-ley beach house training and burn was a success, all thanks to the many firefighters dedicated to learning more about how to save life and property in Creston.

Girl on fireBailey Poolmanstaff writer

CrestonChamberEllen GerharzExecutive Director

Yellowstone Park closed due to the government shutdown

HOLLYWOOD — God bless America, and how’s everybody?

President Obama declared ObamaCare the law of the land in a speech Tuesday. Civil disobedi-ence is widespread. Many Ameri-cans would rather go to jail than enroll in ObamaCare now that O.J. Simpson has taught us that cookies are free in the prison caf-eteria.

Yellowstone Park closed due to the government shutdown inWashington. It’s so rich in history. President Clinton visited Yellow-stone fifteen years ago and the photo of him standing next to OldFaithful hangs in the lobby of a hundred comedy clubs across America .

The White House held a cer-emony to encourage Americans to enroll in the Affordable Care Act exchanges. The first day of Obam-aCare did not go well for Republi-cans. Dick Cheney went to the chi-ropractor, who examined him and referred him to a paleontologist.

The U.S. government furloughed eight hundred thousand workers this week for the shutdown. Air traffic control and border guards remain on duty. The Bureau of Al-cohol, Tobacco and Firearms has been consolidated into the Depart-ment of Texas Birthday Parties.

The Ku Klux Klan had to can-cel a scheduled rally at GettysburgNational Park due to the U.S. gov-ernment shutdown Tuesday. The groups face an identity crisis lately. If the KKK really believes that white people are superior, why do they dress like Muslim women?

Breaking Bad’s final episode Sunday set a ratings record forbasic cable on AMC with ten mil-lion viewers. The series ended in death, violence and tragedy. At the end of the show, Walter White was

fired in the middle of the night by USC athletic director Pat Haden.

House Republicans pointed out Tuesday that the government shut-down halted House probes into the Benghazi fiasco and the IRS scan-dal. It’s just as well. The Demo-crats don’t have any skeletons in-side their closet, that’s just Harry Reid looking for his umbrella.

The New York Health Depart-ment said Monday twenty-five percent of New Yorkers are now obese. It’s a new world. Young people won’t believe it, but there was a time in the late Seven-ties when two people could getinto the hot tub without flooding the patio.

The New York Senate passed a bill designating a safe-text area onstate expressways where motor-ists may text and drive. It should be made as difficult as possible. People in Los Angeles honk if they love Jesus, and they text while driving if they want to meet him.

Michael Jackson’s fam-ily’s wrongful death suit against AEF went to the jury Mon-day in L.A. The family’s law-yer painted him as a wrongedangel. Several days before he died, Michael met with a priest, but notfor spiritual advice, they went on a double-date.

Rap music mogul Jay Z told Vanity Fair he learned how to be agreat businessman by dealing co-caine successfully in Brooklyntwenty-five years ago. Now he owns part of the New Jersey Nets. It’s theonly basketball arena where the nosebleed seats are courtside.

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Creston Chamber of Commerce happenings October is designated Salute to

Industry Month. Creston is very fortunate to have as many indus-tries as we do, which produce such a wide variety of products and are such great community members.

Even beyond this, think of the jobs these industries bring to Cres-ton, the events they help sponsor and promote, local groups they as-sist, the countless volunteer hours they devote to the community, businesses they frequent and buy from and how they improve our industrial and commercial tax base to name, but a few areas.

If you know of someone who works at one of our industries, now is a great time to say thank you. Let them know how much we appreci-ate them being part of Creston, not just this month, but for the entire year.

Creston Chamber of Commerce would like to publicly recognize and say thank you to our industry members: Bunn-O-Matic Corpo-ration, BNSF Railway Company, Creston Publishing Company, Ferrara Candy Company, Gavilon Grain, Green Valley Chemical Corporation and Midwest Car-bonic, Innovative Industries, Iowa Tool and Manufacturing, Petznick Printing Company, Precast Con-crete Company, Precision Optical Group, R.E. Lewis Refrigeration, Vanmark Equipment and Well-man Dynamics Corp.

Taste of the TownRemember the third annual

Creston’s Taste of the Town will be held Oct. 11-12 at participat-ing businesses citywide. This event gives shoppers the opportunity to sample tasty treats around Creston as they shop, visit or stop by.

October activitiesThere are several activities and

promotions that will take place in the community this month.

The High Lakes Outdoor Alli-ance banquet and auction will be held Oct. 10 at Three Mile Lake Lodge.

The Southern Prairie YMCA annual wine tasting and auction is Oct. 12 at Supertel Inn and Confer-ence Center.

The first ever Uptown Creston Food Crawl will take place Oct. 19.

CARE’S Bright Eyes in the Park will be held Oct. 26 for all the trick-or-treaters to enjoy at McKinley Park, while Creston’s citywide trick-or-treating will take place 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31.

Please visit the chamber website for a complete calendar of events.

Civic and service clubs and vol-unteer organizations

The Creston Chamber maintains a civic and service clubs and vol-unteer organization list if you are looking to become more involved. You can either stop by the cham-ber for the list or go online at www.crestoniowachamber.com. for the information.

Hi-Five HonorsThe following individual and

business received the Hi-Five Honor in October. Congratula-tions Travis LaTour, Upper Crust Culinary Creations and Charlie Brown Auto.

The Hi-Five for Service allows us to recognize those who make

shopping and doing business in Creston a rewarding and positive experience.

Gold Star Business honoredThe chamber honored Iowa

State Savings Bank, 401 W. Ad-ams St., as the October Gold Star Business in Creston. They were nominated by a fellow Crestonian because of the appearance both in-side and out of their building and property. Congratulations.

September Honor Yards of the Month

The following yards were select-ed as the September Honor Yards of the Month. Congratulations to 502 W. Mills, 401 E. Prairie and 415 New York Ave. These yards join the August honorees at 1718 W. Prairie St., 408 S. Elm St. and 1016 North Mulberry; July honorees at 402 W. Lucas, 609 N. Cherry and 1407 Elm Dr.; and the June honor-ees at 505 McKinley, 1202 W. Jef-ferson and 705 W. Irving. Keep up the good work everyone.

The Image Enhancement Com-mittee would also like to recognize and acknowledge flowerpots in Creston that look great. Congratu-lations to Vernie’s Drapery.

Please call the chamber to honor a business, individual, flowerpot or yard with any of the above honors for October.

Upcoming eventsI would like to end this month’s

column by passing on a couple of dates for upcoming events. The always popular Lighted Christ-mas Parade will be Dec. 5th and “There’s No Place Like Creston for the Holidays” activities will run Dec. 5-8. Please mark your calen-dars.

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CHURCHCHURCH Afton

ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH, Browning and Filmore Streets, William Richardson, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship service. Wednesday, 7 p.m.Bible study and youth. Saturday, 7:25 a.m. “In the Mirror” radio program on Creston Radio.

ST. EDWARD CATHOLIC CHURCH, 104 W. Union St., Rev. Ken Halbur, pastor.

Sunday, 10:45 a.m. Mass; after Mass, Confession. Tuesday, No Mass; 6 p.m. Catholic Daughters of America Rosary, dinner meet-ing, Holy Spirit hall. Wednesday, 6:15 p.m. religious education classes; 6:30 p.m. devotions.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Joel Sutton, pastor.

Friday, Mormon dinner. Sunday, World Communion; 9:45 a.m. worship; 2 p.m. nurs-ing home service; CROP Walk. Monday, preschool. Tuesday, preschool. Wednesday, pre-school; 6 p.m. Wednesday school.

ArispeUNITED METHODIST

CHURCH, Joel Sutton, pastor.Sunday, World Communion;

8:45 a.m. worship. Monday, 1 p.m. Quilters. Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. breakfast; Fall supper. Thursday (10/10), 9 a.m. Quilters; No WCF.

BeaconsfieldUNITED METHODIST

CHURCH, Rick Hawkins, pastor.Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-

vice.

ClearfieldAREA BIBLE FELLOWSHIP

CHURCH, Ron Christian, pastor; Keith Lorenz, associate pastor; 641-336-2409; website www.are-abiblefellowship.org.

Sunday, 10 a.m. worship ser-vice; 11:15 a.m. Sunday school. Weednesday, 6:30 p.m. AWANA.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Sherry Wiley, lay speaker.

Sunday, 9:15 a.m. worship; 10:30 a.m. Sunday school.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Shurmaine McAlpine, pastor.

Sunday, 8 a.m. Sunday school; 9 a.m. worship.

CorningFIRST PRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH, 907 Grove Ave., Ken Rummer, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. worship services.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 901 Nodaway St., Andrew Bardole, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. adult Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. wor-ship service.

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH, Dan Lamgo, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. worship service. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. prayer service.

MESSIANIC MISSION SEVENTH DAY, 405 11th St.

Sabbath services, second and fourth Saturdays. Call 641-322-3386 for time and place.

REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH, 800 17th St., Philip Ritter, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school and adult Bible study; 10:45 a.m. worship with Holy Communion. Wednesday, 9 a.m. Bible study.

ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 504 Grove, Ave., Lazarus Kirigia, pastor.

Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Mass. Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Mass; 7 p.m. youth group. Wednesday, 2 to 5 p.m. religious education classes.

CrestonABUNDANT LIFE FAMILY

CHURCH, 500 S. Birch St., Douglas R. Brunell, pastor, (641) 782-5766, email [email protected]; website www.AbundantLifeFamilyChurch.com.

Sunday, 10:30 a.m. children’s church and worship service; 6:30 p.m. evening worship service. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. worship and Kid’s Club. Thursday, 6:30 a.m. Men of Honor; 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Light Switch teens.

APOSTOLIC LIGHTHOUSE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, 600 N. Lincoln St., Paul Vandevender, pastor, 782-5594.

Sunday, 10 a.m. Sunday school and worship service; 5:30

p.m. prayer time; 6 p.m. worship service. Wednesday, 7 p.m. wor-ship service. Home Bible study, call 782-5594.

RIVER OF LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD, 417 Wyoming Ave., Karen Norton, lead pastor, 641-782-4236, e-mail [email protected].

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school classes for all ages; 10:35 a.m. morning worship, “It’s Time to Run to the Battle”; children’s church ages 5-12, nursery avail-able upon request; 3 p.m. CROP Walk at McKinley Park, regis-ter at 2:30 p.m.; 6 p.m. small group study at the Norton home, “Change Before You Have To.” Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. prayertime in the sanctuary; 7 p.m. Family Night Activities; Kids Klub (ages 4-12), fellowship hall; CYOF, youth room; adult Bible study (Ephesians), sanctuary. Thursday (10/10), 7 to 10 a.m. Coffee Cafe, bring a coffee mug and hang out in fellowship hall, mini muffinsincluded.

CHURCH OF CHRIST, 510 S. Poplar St., Timothy L. Haynie, evangelist.

Sunday, 10 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m. worship service; 7 p.m. J.O.Y. class adult study hour. Wednesday, 7 p.m. youth group at 216 N. Walnut St., adult group at the church.

COMMUNITY OF CHRIST, Creston Congregation (RLDS), 820 N. Elm St., Elder Gary O’Daniels, pastoral coordinator.

Sunday, 9:15 a.m. praise and inspiration, Mallas; 9:30 a.m. church school classes; 10:30 a.m. morning worship, Ray Powell, presider; Gary O’Daniels, speak-er.

CREST BAPTIST, affili-ated with Southern Baptist Convention, Poplar and Townlinestreets, Chuck Spindler, pas-tor. Website: www.crestbaptist-church.com.

Today, 6 p.m. Celebrate Recovery; 6:30 p.m. Women’s Bible study at the home ofPeggy Stroburg. Friday, 8:30 a.m. “Operation World” prayer meet-ing; 9:30 a.m. Women’s Bible study at church. Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Bible study (all ages); 10:45 a.m. worship; 6 p.m. “The Legacy Journey” series by Dave Ramsey. Wednesday, 6:30 a.m. prayer meeting; 6:30 p.m. TeamKid/Youth ministry.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 1001 N. Lincoln St., David Tebbenkamp, pastor; Dan Fields, youth pastor.

Sunday, 8:45 a.m. worship service; 10:15 a.m. Sunday school hour and Baptism class; 3 p.m. Deacons meeting; 4:45 p.m. Adult choir cantata prac-tice; Melody Makers (grades 1-6) and Faithful Followers (grades 7-9) choir practices; 6 p.m. family worship service “The Panorama of the Bible” and Lord’s Table; 7 p.m. senior high committee meetings. Monday, 1 p.m. Ladies Bible study, Deloris Barnett’s, 3037 Indian Ave., Orient; 6:30 p.m. Ladies Bible Study with Dee Travis at Tammy Reeves’ home, 1108 W. Prairie, Week 3 of Beth Moore, Deuteronomy: The Law of Love. Wednesday, 6 p.m. Triumphant Praise choir rehearsal (senior high); 6:30 p.m. AWANA clubs and junior high trek; senior high youth group; adult prayer meeting and Bible study.

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST), 301 E. Townline St., Dianna Clark, pas-tor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. adult and chil-dren’s Sunday school; 10 a.m. worship service; 3 p.m. CROP Walk. Tuesday, 9 a.m. parish nurses in; 9:15 a.m. staff meet-ing; 1:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Tootles. Wednesday, 6 p.m. praise and worship service; 7 p.m. Board meeting. Thursday (10/10), DWF executive meeting.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, 104 N. Oak St.

Sunday, 11 a.m. church ser-vice.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 702 W. Prairie St., the Rev. Jim Woodworth, interim pastor.

Friday, 1:30 p.m. crafting work-shop. Sunday, 9:30 a.m. wor-ship; 10:30 a.m. Sunday school. Tuesday, 1 p.m. Stitch, Knit and Quilt. Wednesday, 9 a.m.

Revelation Bible study; 5:30 p.m. Joyful Noise; 6:30 p.m. youth group; 7 p.m. choir practice.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 400 N. Elm St., Gideon Gallo, pastor, Jim W. Morris, associate pastor. Call 641-782-2427 for a ride.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. worship services; 9:15 a.m. Sunday school. Tuesday, 9 a.m. Summit House Bible study. Thursday, 12:05 p.m. United Methodist Men.

GOD’S OUTREACH DELIVERANCE, 306 N. Oak St., 641-278-1173, Pastor JoAnna and Tyrone Davis, 515-249-3364.

Monday through Saturday, 8 to 10 a.m. prayer and worship. Today, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Women’s service. Friday, 7 p.m. Friday Night Fire service. Saturday, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Men of Christ break-fast (first and third of month); noon Saturday Sack Lunch for Kids; 2 to 3:30 p.m. drama/dance practice for youth; 5:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday Night Live foryouth. Sunday, 10:30 a.m. wor-ship service; 6:30 p.m. evening service. Monday, 5 p.m. Monday Night Meal. Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. evening service. Wednesday, 5 to 6 p.m. Intercessory prayer.

HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH, 107 W. Howard St., Rev. Ken Halbur, pastor.

Friday, 7 a.m. Mass; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ReRun shop. Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon ReRunshop; 4 to 5 p.m. Confession; 5:15 p.m. Mass/Food Pantry drive. Sunday, 8:15 to 8:45 a.m. Confession; 9 a.m. Mass/Food Pantry drive; after Mass, Knights of Columbus breakfast, hall. Monday, No Adoration or Mass; 6:30 p.m. Scripture study, St. Malachy School library. Tuesday, noon to 5 p.m. ReRun shop; 6 p.m. Catholic Daughters of America, dinner meeting, hall. Wednesday, No St. Malachy School Mass; 6:30 p.m. high school youth kickoff, St. Malachy School; 7 p.m. religious edu-cation classes (grades 1-8), St. Malachy School. Thursday (10/10), No Mass; 6 p.m. Liturgy Committee meeting, hall; 7 p.m. RCIA, hall.

JERUSALEM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Gideon Gallo, pastor, Jim W. Morris, associate pastor.

Sunday, 8 a.m. Bible study; 9 a.m. worship service.

KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, 1000 Cottonwood St.

Sunday, 10 a.m. public talk and Watchtower study. Thursday, 7:30 p.m. congregation Bible study, ministry school and ser-vice meeting.

PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD I.M. “Mana del Cielo,” 417 Wyoming Ave. The Rev. Miguel Delgado, phone 515-473-2527.

Saturday, noon worship. Sunday, 1:30 p.m. worship.

P LA T TE CE N TE R PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 6 miles south on P27 (High and Dry Road), 1 mile west, one-fourth

mile south, Delores Doench, pas-tor.

Sunday, 9:15 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. fellowship time; 10:30 a.m. worship.

SALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH, 602 W. Townline St., 641-782-2920, Ben McIntire, pastor. Website: www.salemluth.net. Blog: www.benmcintire.word-press.com.

Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday school and adult education; 10 a.m. wor-ship service with Communion; 11 a.m. Women of ELCA meet-ing. Monday, 6 p.m. Finance. Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. Quilters; 4:45 p.m. Outreach. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Confirmation class; 7 p.m. choir practice. Thursday (10/10), 6 p.m. Council; 6:30 p.m. Financial Peace.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 104 N. Oak St., Jared Miller, pastor, 515-897-7919, email [email protected].

Saturday, 9 a.m. worship ser-vice; 11 a.m. Sabbath school.

SOLID ROCK MINISTRIES, 1216 N. Cherry St. (corner of Townline and Cherry streets).

Sunday, 9:45 to 10:15 a.m. Sunday school; 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. coffee and fellowship; 10:45 a.m. worship service.

ST. JOHN’S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, 601 S. Maple St., Dan Moore, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-vice and Sunday School.

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMS), 800 N. Sumner Ave., the Rev. Jonathan C. Watt, pastor, 641-782-5095, www.TrinityCreston.org.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Divine Service; 11 a.m. Sunday school and Bible classes. Monday, 12:30 p.m. preschool; 7 p.m. LifeLight Bible study. Tuesday, 6:30 a.m. Early Risers Bible study at fellow-ship hall; 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. preschool; 1:30 p.m. LifeLight Bible study. Wednesday, 12:30 p.m. preschool; 6:30 p.m. Confirmation classes.Thursday (10/10), 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. preschool.

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST (Congregational), 501 W. Montgomery St., the Rev. Jim Woodworth, interim pastor.

Friday, 7 p.m. AA. Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:45 a.m. worship; congregational potluck. Monday, 1 to 3 p.m. clothing store open; 7:30 p.m. AA. Tuesday, 5 to 6 p.m. Open Table. Wednesday, 8 a.m. TOPS. Thursday (10/10), 5 p.m. SIRF.

CromwellCONGREGATIONAL UNITED

CHURCH OF CHRIST, Dan Moore, pastor.

Sunday, World Communion; 10 a.m. fellowship; 10:30 a.m. worship and Sunday school; CROP Walk. Monday, 12:30 p.m. prayer group, sanctuary; 1 p.m. Quilters. Wednesday, 1 p.m. Quilters; 7:30 p.m. Council meet-ing, church basement.

DiagonalUNITED CHURCH OF

DIAGONAL, Ed Shields, pastor, office 641-734-5704, www.diago-nalchurch.com.

Sunday, 10 a.m. church.

EllstonUNITED METHODIST

CHURCH, Robin Thomas, pastor. Website: www.ellstonumc.org.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship; 10 a.m. Sunday school.

GreenfieldCORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIP

EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH, 2158 Highway 92, Jeff Banks, pastor, office 641-743-0221. Website: www.welcometocorner-stone.org.

Today, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Men’s Fraternity: “The Quest for Authentic Manhood” and “Chase” Women’s Bible study. Friday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. J.O.Y. (Just Older Youth). Saturday, 6:30 a.m. Men’s Bible study on Philippians at The Corner on the square; 7 to 8:30 p.m. Gideons meeting at Cornerstone. Sunday, 7 a.m. MP3: Men’s Praise, Prayer and Pancakes; 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. worship service; 10:45 to 11:10 a.m. Cornerstone Cafe; 11:10 a.m. to noon Christian Living Classes; 5 p.m. Elder-led corpo-rate prayer time. Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m. Mom’s Time Out; 6:30 p.m. Worship Team meeting. Wednesday, 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Cornerstone Youth Choir; 6:20 to 8 p.m. AWANA; 7 to 8:45 p.m. youth group.

ST. JOHN’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 213 N. E. Elm St., Kenneth Gross, pastor. Website: www.stjohngreenfield.parish-esonline.com.

Saturday, 4:30 to 5 p.m. Reconciliation; 5:15 p.m. Mass. Sunday, 8:15 a.m. Mass.Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Faith Formation (preK-eighth). Thursday (10/10), 8:30 a.m. prayer service.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 108 S.W. 5th St.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-vice; 10 a.m. coffee and fellow-ship; 10:30 a.m. Sunday school. Tuesday, 3:30 to 6 p.m. food bank and children’s clothes closet open; 6:30 p.m. worship service. Thursday, 12:30 p.m. worship service.

LacelleUNITED METHODIST

CHURCH, Dwayne Henrichs, pas-tor.

Sunday, 10 a.m. children’s Sunday school; 11 a.m. worship service.

LenoxCHRISTIAN CHURCH

(DISCIPLES OF CHRIST), 107 W. Temple St., Brian Kleinschrodt, pastor.


CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, 702 W. Ohio St. Stanley Price, branch president.

Sunday, 10 a.m. sacrament meeting; 11:15 a.m. Sunday school; 12:10 p.m. relief society, priesthood, young women and young men; 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. primary. For local information, contact Clinton Allen, (641) 322-4494.

COUNTRY ROADS BAPTIST CHURCH, at 202 E. Temple (old lumber yard), Mitch Green, pas-tor. Website: countryroadslenox.com.

Sunday, 10 a.m. worship. Wednesday, 6 p.m. meal and study.

MERCER CENTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 4 miles north, 4 miles west of Lenox, Franklin Rogers, pastor.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. worship ser-vice.

SALEM CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, 4 miles north, 1 mile west of Lenox.

ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 600 W. Michigan St., Lazarus Kirigia, pastor.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. Mass with religious education classes after-ward. Wednesday, 7 p.m. CYO.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 103 W. Michigan St., Shurmaine McAlpine, pastor.

Sunday, 9:15 a.m. adult Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. wor-ship service and Sunday school for children.

UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 401 W. Michigan St., Tim Maxa, pastor, 641-333-4214.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship ser-vice. First and third Sunday, youth fellowship. Wednesday, Evening Bible study.

LorimorCHURCH OF GOD, Ben Turner,

pastor.Sunday, 9:45 a.m. Sunday

school; 10:30 a.m. worship ser-vice.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Lorimor, George Henriksen, pas-tor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. worship service.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Joel Sutton, pastor.

Sunday, World Communion; 11 a.m. worship.

MacksburgHEBRON UNITED METHODIST

CHURCH, Ben Carter-Allen, pas-tor.

Sunday, 10 a.m. Sunday school; 11 a.m. worship service.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Ben Carter-Allen, pas-tor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-vice with supervised nursery during church; 10 a.m. Sunday school. Third Thursday, United Methodist Women.

MurrayBAPTIST CHURCH, Alex

Bauman, pastor.Sunday, 9:45 a.m. Sunday

school; 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. wor-ship services. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Midweek Bible study and prayer meeting. Third Thursday of the month, 7 to 9 p.m. Missionary meeting.

CHURCH OF CHRIST, 430 Third St., Brian McCracken, pastor.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship services; 7 p.m. Bible Study. Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. JAM for elementary ages; 7 p.m. junior and senior high youth groups.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Sandy Smith and Brandon Campbell, pastors.


OrientP L Y M O U T H

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 311 W. First St., Phil Price, min-ister.

Saturday, 11 a.m. until gone, chicken and noodle dinner. Sunday, 9 a.m. ecumenical wor-ship services, Orient Methodist Church.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 124 S. Maple St., Cathy Nutting, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-vice.

PrescottPRESCOTT UNITED CHURCH

(DISCIPLES OF CHRIST), 401 6th Ave., the Rev. Steven Wainwright.


Shannon CitySHANNON CITY COMMUNITY

CHURCH, Lila Dell Greene, pas-tor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. church service; 10 a.m. Sunday school.

SharpsburgUNITED METHODIST

CHURCH, Shurmaine McAlpine, pastor.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. worship.UNITED PRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH, Tim Maxa, pastor.Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-

vice; 10 a.m. Sunday school.

StringtownSTRINGTOWN COMMUNITY

CHURCH, junction of Highway 34 and Sycamore Ave., the Rev. Richard Queener, pastor.

Sunday, 9:45 a.m. worship service. Wednesday, 1 to 4 p.m. Help Center open.

ThayerPLEASANT VALLEY

CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Dwayne Henrichs, pastor.

Sunday, 9 a.m. worship ser-vice; 10 a.m. Sunday school.

TingleyCHRISTIAN CHURCHSunday, 10 a.m. Sunday

School; 11 a.m. worship service.UNITED METHODIST

CHURCH, Robin Thomas, pastor.Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday

school; 10:30 a.m. worship.

Prime Time Connection luncheon planned

Arispe UMC fall dinner to be held Wednesday

Creston Prime Time Connection invites wom-en to a country fair lun-cheon 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at First United Methodist Church, 400 N. Elm St.

There will be a silent auction of baked goods and donated items. Proceeds will go to Stonecroft Min-

istries Christamas offering.Nancy Brydges of White

Bear Lake, Minn., will speak on “The Challenge of Change.”

Cost is $7.50. Reserva-tions may be made by call-ing 782-8478 or 743-2877 by Sunday. Reservations are to be used, given to a friend or canceled.

ARISPE — Arispe United Methodist Church’s annual fall dinner will be Wednesday. Serving starts at 5 p.m.

Menu includes: roast beef, ham balls, mashed po-

tatoes, vegetables, salads, rolls, pie and coffee.

Cost is $8 for adults, $4 for children, and children younger than 5, free.

The church is handicap accessible.

Friday, Oct. 4, 2013ARIES (March 21 to April

19) Today’s New Moon is the perfect time to ask yourself what you can do to improve your closest relationships. What kind of friend or partner are you?

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Every month, the New Moon is a chance to make resolutions. Think about what you can do to improve your job as well as your health. (That covers a lot.)

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Our focus on work and success often overshadows our need to express our creative energy. Children love to be creative. Adults often dismiss it. Do you take time to be creative?

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This is a good day to think how you can improve family relationships and also how you can improve where you live. These are important aspects of your life.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) We are social creatures, and communication with others is important. Observe your style of communicating today. Do you really listen? Do you really care?

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Take a few moments today to ask yourself what really mat-ters to you, from your point of view. If you know what mat-ters, you’ll know how to spend your time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Today, the only New Moon in your sign all year is taking place, which

means this is the perfect time to look in the mirror to see how you can improve your image. Any ideas?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) It’s good to know what your spiritual values are, because these are your guidelines. Give some thought to this today. What helps you make impor-tant decisions?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Today’s New Moon urges you to study your friends. Do you hang out with quality people? Your friends actually can influence your future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) How do you want to be per-ceived by others? Today’s New Moon is your chance to think about why you want others to respect you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) What further training or education could you get to

improve your job? What fur-ther education or travel might enhance your life? Think about this today.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) It’s sometimes frustrating when we deal with people and their values are not our values. But that doesn’t mean we can dismiss their values. Today’s New Moon is the time to pon-der this.

YOU BORN TODAY You can schmooze anywhere, success-fully, because you know how to work a room with your charm,

humor and intelligence. You have excellent taste and dig-nity, which helps you to sub-tly assume authority. Danger holds some attraction for you, because you like to beat the odds. This year your primary focus will be on relationships —especially partnerships and close friendships.

Birthdate of: Susan Sarandon, actress; Buster Keaton, actor; Rachael Leigh Cook, actress.

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Dear Heloise: Our RE-FRIGERATOR DIED — the day after grocery shopping. The fridge was getting warm. Luckily, the freezer was still holding cold, but we knew it wouldn’t last. It would take a few days to get a new refrig-erator. We saw that our two picnic coolers would not be nearly enough space.

My husband looked at the fridge and noted that it’s a pretty well-insulated box. We dashed to the grocery store and bought some dry ice. We put two small blocks on the top shelf of the fridge part and two in the freezer part. (Be sure to handle dry ice only with very thick gloves, as dry ice can “burn” you very quick-ly.) We added a little more dry ice each day and opened the doors as little as possible.

The temperature stayed below 40 F (and the freez-er stayed frozen). The dry ice wasn’t cheap, but it was cheaper than buying a fridge full of food. The new refriger-ator arrives tomorrow, and we didn’t lose a thing. — Christy Ruther, Mission Viejo, Calif.

Very smart, and good think-ing on your part! Do be care-ful with dry ice, and as you said, don’t open that door un-less necessary! — Heloise

GIFT-CARD HOLDERDear Heloise: I recently

got a business-card holder as a promotional giveaway. I didn’t really need it, since I don’t have reason to hold on to business cards. I found that it was the perfect size for a gift card. So, when I gave my niece a gift card, I put it in the busi-ness-card holder. It worked perfectly. — Shelly R. in Min-neapolis

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Dear Heloise: Quite a few years ago, you ran a hint on how to remove the wires from an electric blanket. Can you please reprint it? Thanks. — E.D., via email

I would be happy to reprint this for you and other readers who may have a blanket that needs its wires removed. It’s easy to do!

Feel where the wires are at either the top or the bottom of the blanket. Make a little inci-sion in the material, carefully grab the wires and pull them

out. The thermostat usually is a bit bigger, so you may need to enlarge the hole to get it out. Next, with a few stitches, the blanket is a “new” light-weight blanket. — Heloise

LAUNDRY HINTDear Heloise: In your col-

umn in The (Danville, Ky.) Advocate-Messenger, you asked for laundry hints.

When I dry sheets, I always make sure I have “untwisted” each one and shaken it out. I dry only one sheet at a time, and I throw a tennis ball into the dryer. The tennis ball works great, and this is a hint I got from the washing instruc-tions on a down vest. I now use the tennis ball in all my dryer loads. — Phyllis in Stan-ford, Ky.

If it works for you, that’s good enough for me! — He-loise

Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Anto-nio, TX 78279-5000, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to [email protected]. I can’t answer your letter personally but will use the best hints received in my column.

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Panthers go for three straight over CyclonesBy LARRY PETERSONCNA sports writer • [email protected]

Can the Panthers make it three in a row over Harlan?

That question would have seemed absurd for the the decades the Cyclones domi-nated the football series with Creston/Orient-Macks-burg.

But, now, at least the possibility is reality when the Panthers visit Harlan’s homecoming Friday night at Merrill Field.

Creston/O-M owns two successive wins over Harlan, by a combined margin of 76-34. Last year’s 34-14 Pan-ther homecoming triumph was only the fourth victory in the series’ 44-game his-tory.Last year

In that contest last year at Panther Field, Creston/O-M took an early 13-0 lead on two early Harlan turnovers, including an 87-yard inter-ception return by Brandon Phipps, who now succeeds Luke Neitzel at quarter-back.

Harlan righted itself and took a 14-13 lead into halftime, but the Panthers sealed up the home vic-tory on the strength of a 14-0 fourth quarter. Bryce McIlravy gained 111 of his 129 rushing yards in the second half as the Panthers controlled the ball, and the clock. Neitzel finished with 130 yards rushing and three touchdowns.

Defensive end Keaton Hulett had three tackles for

losses as the Panthers put good presssure on quarter-back Adam Juhl, who went 20-of-37 for 218 yards with one touchdown and three costly interceptions.

Juhl and 6-foot-7 tight end Trey Lansman, the team’s leading receiver, return this year in a similar scenario. Harlan is unbeaten in dis-trict play at 2-0 and 4-1 overall, while the Panthers are looking to get back into contention with one district loss, also 4-1 overall.

“We’re in the same boat,” Panther coach Brian Mor-rison said. “If we can beat Harlan, then only Lewis Central can control its own destiny, and we haven’t played them yet.”

Last year Neitzel and Mc-Ilravy got injured before the Lewis Central game, which ended up a 16-7 loss as the Panthers tumbled to the fourth and final playoff position in District 1 after contending for the champi-onship all season.Current Cyclones

Morrison knows the sev-enth-ranked Cyclones are a big challenge in continuing a strong district run in 2013.

“Overall they are a good football team,” Morrison said. “They return a lot in their passing game. (Nate Gettys) is a strong runner and it looks like they’re trying to be more balanced this year. They’re decent up front.”

Morrison said the keys to victory are not complicated. Don’t let Juhl and company have a lot of opportunities,

and keep him uncomfort-able.

“Offensively, we have to run the football and control the clock,” Morrison said. “Defensively, we can’t give up big plays and we have to keep the ball in front of us. We know they like to use their middle screens, revers-es and draws to hit people

with big plays. Our kids are aware of what they do.”

One tool not at Morri-son’s disposal in neutral-izing the 6-7 Lansman as a receiving threat is 6-2 safety Alex Nielsen. He suffered an ankle sprain last week and won’t resume practice until sometime next week.

“It would be nice to have

Nielsen in our package and just keep him on the tight end side,” Morrison said. “But we don’t have that op-tion. We’ll have to do a good job of keeping Lansman on the line of scrimmage with

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Ranked teams collide in Van MeterBy SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

VAN METER — Two undefeated, state-ranked teams will walk onto the football field here Friday night when Mount Ayr and Van Meter square off in a key Class 1A District 7 con-test.

Only one will walk away as the last remaining un-beaten in District 7.

Mount Ayr enters at 5-0 overall and 2-0 in District 7. Van Meter is 5-0 overall and 3-0 in district play.

“Definitely the winner of the game is in much better position when it’s all said and done,” said Delwyn Showalter, co-head coach of the second-ranked (Des Moines Register) Mount Ayr Raiders. “It’s going to be a battle, no doubt about it. They bring almost every-one back. We bring a lot of people back. I expect noth-ing less than a hard-fought game. It’s going to be a lot of fun. We’re excited for the challenge.”Run defense

In last year’s contest, played in Mount Ayr, the Raiders came away a 25-13 victor. Mount Ayr was suc-cessful in containing Van Meter’s rushing attack in that contest, holding the Bulldogs to just 90 rushing yards in the contest.

Van Meter averaged 150 rushing yards per game last year.

“I thought we kept them from getting to the corner,” Showalter said about last year’s game. “We forced them back to the inside quite a bit. We were able to get a lot of guys to the ball, took away their cutback lane and didn’t give them a lot of opportunities to get to the outside.”

Mount Ayr’s defensive line came up big in that game. Showalter expects the Raiders’ defensive line to be one of the biggest keys in Friday’s matchup once again, as the Raid-

ers attempt to shut down Brandon Brittain and Cody Blackwell in the run game again.

Blackwell averages 113.6 rushing yards per game, while Brittain provides a dual-threat at the quarter-back position, averaging 100 rushing yards per game.

“Those two definitely carry the load for them,” Showalter said. “Brittain is a dangerous runner be-cause you have to rush the quarterback when he’s in his throwing mode, but if you get upfield too far, he’ll pull it down and run on you. Blackwell does a nice job on their power game. He’s a strong runner with a good burst of speed.”

The Mount Ayr defensive line appears to be rounding into top shape at the right time for this challenge, however.

“Our front four might be the best front four since I’ve been here in the last 16 years,” co-head coach Der-

ek Lambert said. “They’re extremely quick and big. That’s a good combina-tion.”

“They’ve gotten better every ballgame,” Showal-ter added. “They’re doing a good job as a unit. We’re quicker than we were up front a year ago, and we had a lot of speed up there last year. There’s not a substi-tute for speed.”

Joe Ricker, Jake Ricker, Mason Mercer and Jed Mc-Creary form the nucleus of Mount Ayr’s defensive line, and the four of them have combined to record 87 tack-les this year, including solo tackles for loss and four solo sacks.

The Raider defense will have to be prepared to stop the passing game, as well. Brittain is 52-of-97 passing this year for 766 yards and five touchdowns compared to four interceptions.

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERMount Ayr junior Lincoln Martin evades a Colfax-Mingo defender while returning a kickoff during Mount Ayr’s win over the Tigerhawks earlier this season. The Raiders travel to Van Meter in a showdown of ranked teams in Class 1A District 7.

Area teams look to keep playoff hopes aliveBy SCOTT VICKERCNA sports editor • [email protected]

Week six of the high school football season could turn out to be one of the most important weeks of the season for Nodaway Valley, Lenox and East Union.

All three teams are har-boring hopes of making the postseason, and a win in week six would make those dreams one step closer to coming true.

Nodaway Valley, which scored 35 points in the fourth quarter last week to defeat West Central Valley and improve to 2-1 in Class 1A District 8, travels to Tri-Center, Neola to take on the 1-4, 0-2 Trojans.

A win for the Wolverines would guarantee them of at least tying for fourth place in District 8, and would give Nodaway Valley head-to-head tiebreakers over Mis-souri Valley, West Central Valley and Tri-Center.

But the Wolverines will have to shut down the run-heavy Trojans in order to accomplish that. Tri-Cen-ter has thrown for just 196 yards in five games, but is averaging 283 rushing yards per contest.

Ben Wellman leads the Trojans with 754 yards on 127 carries. He has punched the ball into the end zone nine times, with a long touchdown run of 78 yards.

Nodaway Valley senior Zach Brewer continued his hot streak last week with 159 yards and four touch-downs rushing. He is aver-aging 146 rushing yards per game through four games this year after sitting out the opener against Mount Ayr.

Sophomore quarterback Jackson Lamb was efficient last week, passing 7-of-12 for 140 yards and two touch-downs, spreading the ball around amongst four differ-ent receivers.Lenox

The Lenox Tigers, at 4-2 overall and 3-2 in Eight-Man District 8, will look to bounce back from last week’s 47-16 loss to South-west Valley.

The Tigers host 2-4, 2-2 CAM in a critical game for district positioning. Includ-ing the game against CAM, the Tigers have just two district contests remaining, with the other coming at Fremont-Mills to close the season.

A win by Lenox guaran-tees the Tigers of at least ty-ing for fourth place in Dis-trict 8, and would give them head-to-head tiebreakers over CAM, Essex/South Page, Stanton and Nishna-botna.

With a loss, the Tigers would have to beat Fre-mont-Mills to give them-selves a shot at the playoffs.

Junior quarterback Trace Ticknor makes the CAM offense tick. He’s thrown the ball for 870 yards and eight touchdowns and has a team-high 488 rushing yards with 13 touchdowns this year. Dylan Amdor also provides a threat out of the backfield, with 396 rushing yards and six scores.

Lenox came out of last week’s game with South-west Valley banged up, as quarterback Dustin Gordon was nursing an ankle injury and running back Hugo Montiel left the game in the first half with a leg injury.

Southwest Valley, cur-rently sitting third in Dis-trict 8, has a bye week this week before hosting Exira/EHK next week in non-dis-trict action.East Union

For East Union, 2-4 over-all and 1-2 in Eight-Man District 6, a win at home over 5-1, 2-1 Lamoni would create a logjam in the dis-trict.

If East Union wins, as

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Rays advanceCLEVELAND —

The Tampa Bay Rays are not going home yet.

The Rays, who have been on the road since Sept. 24, will continue their journey Friday at Fenway Park after beat-ing the Indians in the AL wild-card game, 4-0, before a sellout crowd of 43,579 at Progressive Field Wednesday night.

Tampa Bay will face the Red Sox in the best-of-five Division Series. The Rays won nine of their final 11 regular-season games, including the wild-card play-in game at Texas.

Alex Cobb threw 6 2/3 shutout innings to spoil the first playoff game for the Indians since 2007. Cleveland, which won its final 10 regular-season games to earn a playoff berth, had nine hits, but went 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position.

Former Yankee Nick Swisher continued his October futility by going 0-for-4 with two strike-outs and leaving five men on.Games on

W A S H I N G T O N , D.C. — Navy’s football game with Air Force is on for this weekend, according to the Navy Athletics twitter feed. Kickoff is set for 11:30 a.m. on CBS.

The Department of Defense suspended in-tercollegiate athletics across all three service academies Tuesday in the wake of the govern-ment shutdown, putting the Falcons’ and Mid-shipmen’s Commander in Chief’s Trophy game and Army’s trip to Bos-ton College in jeop-ardy. ESPN reported Wednesday, however, that academy officials had agreed on a plan to hold both games and that all that was needed was approval from the Secretary of Defense.

A decision on Army’s game could be made to-day.Texas starter

AMES — Case Mc-Coy will replace David Ash as Texas’ quarter-back in today’s 6:30 p.m. game against Iowa State Jack Trice Stadium, Longhorn officials con-firmed Wednesday.

Ash, the top return-ing passer in the Big 12 Conference, suffered a concussion against BYU in the second game of the season.

After missing a game, Ash played Sept. 21 against Kansas State until leaving with a similar injury. McCoy has completed 36 of 57 passes for 330 yards and a touchdown in four games. He has just seven yards rushing.Freeman fined

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Sports Illustrated has learned that Josh Freeman has been fined twice by the Tampa Bay Bucs in the last month, including once in the last week, for conduct detri-mental to the team.


Clarke InviteOSCEOLA — The South-

west Valley girls cross country team finished a distant second to Davis County here Tues-day at the Clarke Invite.

The Timberwolves finished with 82 points, behind Davis County’s 27, and just ahead of Albia (89) and Pride of Iowa Conference foe Interstate 35 (92). Mount Ayr was sixth with 122 points.

Steph Shuler paced the Timberwolves with a 15th-place finish in 17:53. Diana Berggren finished 20th in 18:50 and Kendra Top was 21st in 19:08.

Mount Ayr junior Adrian Richards finished sixth in 16:36, while Lenox sopho-more Rebekah Kroese earned her first medal of the

season with a 17th-place fin-ish in 18:23, taking more than one minute off her time from Monday’s meet at Orient-Macksburg.

The Southwest Valley boys team finished fifth with 134 points, while Mount Ayr fin-ished seventh with 148 points.

Mount Ayr senior Noah Larsen finished second to Albia’s Colton Dorpinghaus, running 18:22. Teammate Jack Jones was 13th in 19:44.

Garrett Newton led South-west Valley with a 15th-place finish in 19:57. Lane Peterson finished 24th in 20:54.

Jacob Bolinger led Lenox with a 26th-place finish in 21:16.

Clarke InviteGIRLS

Team standings — 1. Davis County 27, 2. Southwest Valley 82, 3. Albia 89, 4. Interstate 35 92,

5. Wayne 108, 6. Mount Ayr 122.Lenox — 17. Rebekah Kroese,

18:23.Mount Ayr — 6. Adrian

Richards, 16:36; 34. Naomi Richards, 20:57; 37. Neesie Brand, 21:09; 40. Megan Warin, 21:42; 42. Christiana Overholtzer, 22:31.

Southwest Valley — 15. Steph Shuler, 17:53; 20. Diana Berggren, 18:50; 21. Kendra Top, 19:08; 25. Darien Keefe, 19:20; 27. Aunica Harvey, 19:32; 28. Chloe Keefe, 20:13; 38. Christine Shipley, 21:38.

BOYSTeam standings — 1. Albia 31,

2. Davis County 38, 3. Interstate 35 118, 4. Central Decatur 125, 5. Southwest Valley 134, 6. Clarke 145, 7. Mount Ayr 148.

Lenox — 26. Jacob Bolinger, 21:16; 41. Daniel Boschee, 23:17; 52. Riley Haidsiak, 26:03.

Mount Ayr — 2. Noah Larsen, 18:22; 13. Jack Jones, 19:44; 53. Quintin Chumbley, 26:11; 55. Clint Bounds, 27:04; 60. Heath Andresen, 31:59.

Southwest Valley — 15. Garrett Newton, 19:57; 24. Lane Peterson, 20:54; 33. Trevor Sorensen, 22:28; 38. Quentin Oldenkamp, 23:01; 40. Connor Haggerty, 23:13; 49. Evan Baldwin, 25:24; 54. Mike McCormick, 26:21.

Streak snappedSEYMOUR — Murray’s

14-game winning streak to start the season came to a halt here Tuesday, as ninth-rated Grand View Park Baptist knocked off the 10th-rated Mustangs 25-17, 25-17 in a Bluegrass Conference trian-gular.

Murray bounced back to defeat host Seymour 25-19, 25-7 in the finale of the night.

“Grand View Park Baptist did a good job of taking away the net from us offensively and defensively,” Murray head coach Jerry Shields said. “We came back well against Seymour to start the win streak again.”

Hannah Barber led the Mustangs with 20 kills for the night and nine digs. She also served 17-of-17 with four aces.

Kate Patton served 24-of-25 with seven aces and set 29 assists. Megan Oswald con-tributed six kills and went 16-of-17 on serve receive, while Cheyanne Ashby had five

kills and three blocks.Madison Gonseth served

15-of-16 with two aces, and McKenzie case had seven digs while going 15-20 on serve re-ceive.

Murray returns to action at home Monday against Mount Ayr.Nodaway Valley 3, Mount Ayr 0

GREENFIELD — Nod-away Valley swept Mount Ayr on senior night here Tuesday, 25-10, 25-21, 25-13.

Sidney Hohertz had a match-high eight kills and also set 11 assists for the Wolver-ines. She served 13-of-14 with four aces. Emily Schildberg added seven kills for Nod-away Valley.

Katy Ehrsam finished with a team-high 13 digs and served 8-of-10 with two aces. Rachel Jacobson had a big night at the service line, going 22-of-22 with five aces. Cor-rine Jones finished 12-of-13 with four aces.

Megan Eblen and Megan

McIntosh each finished with two total blocks for Nodaway Valley.

“Last night was senior night, so emotions are always high,” Nodaway Valley head coach Hannah West said. “Our girls came out deter-mined to win their final home game for the seniors. This was the most fun I have seen our girls have all season long.”

Kelcie Shields led Mount Ayr with five kills and served 7-of-7 with one ace. Allie Shields served 11-of-11 and had two total blocks. Tessa Shields served 6-of-6 and had three total blocks.

Brook Rychnovsky finished with 14 digs for the Raider-ettes and Paige Daughton added 10 to go with her two total blocks. Shelbie Greene served 6-of-7 with one ace.

“They wanted it a lot more than we did,” Mount Ayr head coach Tori Braby said. “We need to start playing with a lot more excitement and get the momentum on our side of the court.”

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKERA pack of Southwest Valley runners including, from left, Aunica Harvey, Kendra Top and Steph Shuler run together during the early stages of Tuesday’s girls 4K race at the Clarke Invitational. Shuler paced the Timberwolves to a second-place team finish.

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Sports briefs Murray on TV

DES MOINES — Adair-Casey’s 84-57 win over Mur-ray last Friday is getting cen-tral Iowa television coverage this week.

WOI-TV (channel 5) chose that game for its Friday Night Blitz Ex-tra, from 11:05 to 11:30 p.m. Friday night, after its 10:30 p.m. Friday Night Blitz, a look at highlights from that night’s games.The Murray vs. Adair-Casey game had microphones on both coaches, and several camera angles were used throughout the night to give a behind-the-scenes look at the game.Girls clinic

The Creston Panthers Girls Basketball Fall Clinic for girls in grades 3-8 will

be held on four afternoons later this month at Creston Middle School/Elementary School gyms.

Sessions are scheduled from 3:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21; Monday, Oct. 28; Tuesday, Oct. 29; and Thursday, Oct. 31.

Cost of the clinic is $15 which includes a T-shirt. The fee can be brought to the first clinic session or sent to coach Larry McNutt at Cres-ton High School, 601 W. Townline St., Creston, IA, 50801. Checks are payable to Creston Basketball.

Skills stressed at the clinic are fundamentals of shoot-ing, dribbling, passing, re-bounding, defense, footwork and offensive skills.Warrior win

WAUKEE — The Wau-kee High School swim team defeated Mason City Tues-day, 121-64.

Camryn Somers of Cres-ton, swimming for Waukee, won the 200 intermediate medley in 2:24.42 and led off the Warriors’ winning 200 freestyle relay that clocked 1:42.85.

Outdoor newsWildlife cover

Fall tillage practices, even reduced tillage techniques such as disking and chisel plowing, can eliminate waste grains and crop residue that provides important food and cover for species such as pheasants, quail, partridge, turkey, and deer.

Studies of harvested un-tilled crop fields show wildlife consume 55-85 percent of the waste corn and soybeans be-tween fall harvest and the fol-lowing spring.

The corn stubble and stalks remaining in untilled corn-fields also provide conceal-ment cover for pheasants, quail, and partridge, so the birds are not so exposed to predators when feeding in the winter, said Todd Bogen-schutz, wildlife research biolo-gist with the Department of Natural Resources.

Research shows even re-duced tillage methods, such as disking and chisel plowing, reduce waste grains available to wildlife by 80 percent and reduce crop stubble by 50 per-

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our defensive line.”Junior Bryce Briley

played safety the final three quarters against Perry and draws Friday’s starting assignment. The secondary’s job will be made easier if the work up front approaches last year’s level.

“The teams that played well against Harlan this year, Glenwood and Car-roll, their defensive lines got after them and they blitzed a lot,” Morrison said. “We don’t run all of the same schemes, but we’re going to throw some wrinkles at them and hope-fully put some pressure on the quarterback. The key will be stopping the run-ning game, and get them in third-and-long situations.”

Juhl has completed 59 of 116 passes (50.9 percent) for 768 yards with seven touchdowns and five in-terceptions. Lansman has 19 receptions for 253 yards and five TDs, including the winning grab in a shared possession situation with Glenwood 5-10 corner-back Scout Crow in the end zone last week with 5:01 left.

“I thought Scout had good position,” said Glen-wood coach Cory Faust, a former Nodaway Val-ley player. “Credit them. The kid (Lansman) is 6-7, he’s a playmaker. I think it looked like a simultaneous catch.”

Harlan outgained the Rams 366-249 in total of-fense, including 203 on the ground.

Harlan opened district play in a 42-14 road win at Perry, a team Creston/O-M tangled with on even terms last week until scor-ing late for a 28-21 victory.

The Cyclones racked up a season-high 506 total yards against the Blue-jays. Gettys rushed for 199 yards.Panther leaders

Coming off a strong out-ing last week as Perry con-centrated on stopping the run, Creston/O-M quar-terback Brandon Phipps is now 55-of-95 passing (57.9 percent) for 679 yards and eight touchdowns with

four interceptions. His quarterback rating of 145.3 is higher than Juhl’s 117.8.

Maxx Walters has 14 receptions for 200 yards and Trevor Frain, now the backup to Phipps with Nielsen injured, has 11 catches out of the back-field and six rushing TDs. Adam Baker has 615 yards rushing in five games on 105 carries.

On the BCMoore com-puter power rankings — ia.bcmoorerankings.com — Harlan is ranked

No. 5 in Class 3A with the ninth-toughest schedule in the class. Creston/O-M is ranked 20th with the 42nd-toughest schedule. Offensive rankings have Creston/O-M eighth and Harlan 19th, and defen-sive rankings show Harlan ninth and Creston/O-M 19th.

The end result on the Moore power list is Harlan favored by 18.8 points.Injuries

Besides Nielsen, there

are two other players not available this week. Junior linebacker Alex Tamerius, a starter last season, suf-fered another ACL injury last week in his first game since recovering from a similar knee mishap in soc-cer last spring. He’s out for the season.

Sophomore quarterback and defensive lineman Josh Reed was injured in

Monday’s JV game and will be sidelined approxi-mately two weeks with concussion symptoms, Morrison said. That leaves running back Trevor Frain and freshmen Brody Frain and Seth Thompson as the only players who have practiced at quarterback besides Phipps.

“Knock on wood, hope-fully we’ll be fine there

Friday night,” Morrison said.

The weather outlook isn’t nearly as clear and mild as the mid-week prac-tice days have been. That’s fine with the Panther coach, whose team faces the passing game challenge of Harlan’s offense.

“I hope it pours,” Mor-rison said, with a grin.

PANTHERS:

Creston/O-M (2-1, 4-1)OFFENSE

WR Jesse Rathe 5-9 160 Sr.TE Levi Eblen 6-1 165 Sr.T Jake Gutschenritter 6-1 225 Jr.G Tayler Pettit 6-1 180 Jr.C Nathan Haley 6-2 250 Sr.G Seth Maitlen 6-2 210 So.T Trey Benson 6-5 220 Sr.WR Maxx Walters 5-8 140 Sr.QB Brandon Phipps 6-0 170 Sr.RB Trevor Frain 6-0 195 Sr.FB Adam Baker 5-11 185 Sr.PK Conner Pals 5-8 150 Jr.

DEFENSEDE Adam Baker 5-11 185 Sr.DT Jordan Thompson 6-2 210 Jr.NG Cory Rathe 5-8 180 Jr.DE Alex Chapman 6-2 195 Sr.OLB Gavin Leith 6-1 170 Sr.ILB Trevor Frain 6-0 195 Sr.ILB Seth Maitlen 6-2 210 So.OLB Jesse Rathe 5-9 160 Sr.CB Maxx Walters 5-8 140 Sr.CB Conner Pals 5-8 150 Jr.FS Bryce Briley 6-0 158 Jr.P Gavin Leith 6-1 170 Sr.

Harlan (2-0, 4-1)OFFENSE

LT Nic Klein 6-1 205 Sr.LG Joe Anderson 5-10 195 Sr.C Max Langenfeld 6-0 280 So.RG Dallon Bendorf 6-2 225 Sr.RT Nate Cave 6-4 215 Sr.TE Trey Lansman 6-7 215 Sr.QB Adam Juhl 6-1 160 Sr.FB Allan Hopp 5-10 160 Sr.SE Luke Hall 6-1 175 Jr.FL Gabe Ferry 6-3 190 Sr.or Will Lansman 6-3 195 So.PK Ethan Knudson 6-2 155 So.

DEFENSELDE Jeremiah Bieker 6-0 180 Sr.DT Max Langenfeld 6-0 280 So,DT Cale Stork 6-4 210 Sr.RDE Nic Klein 6-1 205 Sr.LB Nate Cave 6-4 215 Sr.LB Michael Sorfonden 6-1 180 Jr.MB Dirk Johnston 5-10 160 Sr.S Derek Leinen 6-3 185 Sr.S Connor Clayton 6-1 155 Sr.CB Will Lansman 6-3 195 So,CB Josh Kloewer 5-10 145 So.P Cale Stork 6-4 210 Sr.

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Public notice

Board of Directors-September 16, 2013Creston Community School DistrictThe Board of Directors of the Creston

Community School District met on Mon-day, September 16, 2013 in the BoardRoom at 6:00 PM. President Snodgrasspresided and the following answered rollcall: Dunphy, Flynn, Fyock, Snodgrassand Zumbach.

Administrators present were: CallieAnderson, Brad Baker, Scott Driskell, BillMesserole, Steve McDermott and RoyStroud.

The news media and visitors werepresent.

Dunphy moved and Zumbach secondedthat the agenda be approved as presented.Motion carried 5-0.

Zumbach moved, Dunphy secondedthat the Board approve the minutes of theAugust 19 regular meeting, the bills in-cluding the schoolhouse fund, the finan-cial reports for August 2013, resignationsfrom Jennifer Walsh, paraprofessional;Bonny Campbell, paraprofessional; An-thony Donahoo, 7th grade boys basket-ball; and contracts with Anthony Dona-hoo, 7th grade boys track coach and 9thBoys Basketball Coach; Kristopher Hayes,7th grade boys basketball coach; SteveBirchard, ass't. boys high school trackcoach; Chris Olesen, Head 7/8 WrestlingCoach; Wendy Hartsock, MS StudentGovernment (1/3); Lesa Downing, MSStudent Government (1/3); Carol King,MS Student Government (1/3); StephanieWallace, Special Ed Paraprofessional;Robert Crawford, Student Transport Para-professional and Interoffice school maildelivery; Jim Hyde, Ass't 7/8 Girls Basket-ball; and Robert Stow, Custodian/BusDriver. Motion carried 5-0.

Lucy Iyagbaye presented informationon the Christiana Iyagbaye Sr. MemorialFoundation. She made a formal requestthat the former administrative building onMaple Street be donated to her organiza-tion. She further provided a handout,which provided information about her or-ganization.

Mr. Rich Flynn was recognized andpresented a plaque in appreciation for hismany years of service to the Creston Com-munity School District.

The canvas of the annual school boardelection was not available for review.

President Snodgrass adjourned themeeting of the 2012-2013 Board of Direc-tors 6:23 PM.

Roy Stroud, the Board Secretary of theCreston Community Schools called the2013-2014 Organizational Meeting to Or-der and the following answered roll call:Dunphy, Eagan, Fyock, Snodgrass andZumbach. The Oath of Office was given tothe newly elected Board Member Tom Ea-gan.

Galen Zumbach was nominated for theoffice of President of the Board of Direc-tors. Dunphy moved and Snodgrass sec-onded that the nominations cease. GalenZumbach was duly elected. Motion carried5-0.

Ron Dunphy was nominated for the of-fice of Vice President of the Board of Di-rectors. Snodgrass moved and Zumbachseconded that the nominations cease. RonDunphy was duly elected. Motion carried5-0.

Fyock moved, Snodgrass seconded thatthe Board name Iowa State Savings Bankof Creston as the official depository forthe Creston Community Schools. Motioncarried 5-0.

Snodgrass moved, Fyock seconded thatthe Board name Creston News Advertiseras the newspaper for official publicationsduring the 2013-2014 school year. Motioncarried 5-0.

Snodgrass moved, Fyock seconded thatthe Board appoint Roy Stroud as SchoolBoard Secretary for the 2013-2014 schoolyear. Motion carried 5-0.

Dunphy moved, Snodgrass secondedthat the Board appoint Patricia Moeller asSchool Board Treasurer for the 2013-2014school year. Motion carried 5-0.

Snodgrass moved and Eagan secondedthat the Gruhn Law Firm be appointed asthe District's attorney for the 2013-2014school year. Motion carried 5-0.

We realize that our students are contin-ually achieving success in many areas. We will be reporting these at a futuremeeting.

Fyock moved, Snodgrass seconded thatthe Board approve Galen Zumbach as theIASB Delegate Assembly representative.Motion carried 5-0.

Fyock moved, Snodgrass seconded thatthe Board approve Ron Dunphy as the al-ternate IASB Delegate Assembly repre-sentative. Motion carried 5-0.

Fyock moved, Dunphy seconded thatthe Board approve the Title One Applica-tion and the School Wide Plans for theCreston Elementary and Creston EarlyChildhood Center's Title One applicationas presented. Motion carried 5-0.

Fyock moved, Dunphy seconded thatthe Board approve the Iowa School s Em-ployee Benefits Agreement. Motion car-ried 5-0.

Snodgrass moved, Dunphy secondedthat the Board approve the completion ofthe ballot casting for the AEA Board ofDirectors. Motion carried 5-0.

The board will discuss the former ad-ministration building plan at the nextboard meeting.

Snodgrass moved, Fyock seconded thatthe Board approve the physical educationwaiver as presented. Motion carried 5-0.

Snodgrass moved, Fyock seconded theBoard adjourn. Motion carried 5-0.

Meeting adjourned at 7:58 PM.

TRUST NOTICEIN THE MATTER OF THE TRUST:The Duane Wilson TrustTo all persons regarding Duane E. Wil-

son deceased, who died on or about 27thday of August 2013. You are hereby noti-fied that Sheila Brown is the trustee of theThe Duane Wilson Trust dated the 9th dayof July, 2010. Any action to contest thevalidity of the trust must be brought in theDistrict Court of Union County, Iowa,within the later to occur of four (4) monthsfrom the date of second publication of thisnotice or thirty (30) days from the date ofmailing this notice to all heirs of the dece-dent settlor and the spouse of the decedentsettlor whose identities are reasonably as-certainable. Any suit not filed within thisperiod shall be forever barred.

Notice is further given that any personor entity possessing a claim against thetrust must mail proof of the claim to thetrustee at the address listed below via cer-tified mail, return receipt requested, by thelater to occur of four (4) months from thesecond publication of this notice or thirty(30) days from the date of mailing this no-tice if required or the claim shall be forev-er barred unless paid or otherwise satis-fied.

Dated this September 30, 2013.The Duane Wilson Trust

Sheila Brown2079 Minnow AvenueCreston, Iowa, 50801

Arnold O. Kenyon ICIS PIN# AT0004182Attorney for Trustee211 N. Maple Street Creston, IA 50801Date of second publication: Oct. 10, 2013

Greater Regional Medical CenterNews Release

For Release: September 30, 2013Contact: Matt McCutchan, Chief FinancialOfficerGreater Regional Medical Center

Denman and Company, LLP, releasedan audit report on Greater Regional Medi-cal Center, Creston, IA.

Denman and Company, LLP, reportedthe following summarized results for yearended 6-30-2013:Net Patient Service Revenue. .$39,424,831Other Revenue.............................2,973,133All other including county taxes, invest-ment income,...................................446,904 Interest expense, and contributionsTotal revenues had increased 1% from theprior year..................................$42,844,868Nursing service expenses..........$9,131,572Other professional service expenses.....................................16,443,451General service expenses............2,791,178Fiscal and administrative and unassignedexpenses.....................................10,540,388Provision for depreciation...........3,628,044Total Expenses........................$42,534,633

Total expenses had increased 10% fromthe prior year.

A copy of the audit report is availablefor review in the office of the Auditor ofState and the Medical Center's Chief Fi-nancial Officer s office.

Greater Regional Medical CenterSalaries for Fiscal Year End 6-30-2013

Accounting......................................282,695Administration................................264,435Ambulance......................................107,635Clinics..........................................5,175,608Business Office...............................692,833Cancer Center..................................415,011Community Outreach Services......133,765Continuum of Care/Marketing.......101,706Dietary.............................................673,269Emergency Room...........................944,042Hospice............................................886,597Housekeeping/Laundry..................379,280Human Resources...........................179,740IT - Computers................................301,887Laboratory.......................................543,331Maintenance/Facilities....................300,456Medical Records.............................530,493Medical/Surgical Nurses.............1,734,735Obstetrics.........................................454,115Pharmacy.........................................488,739Purchasing (Central Stores)...........196,894Quality Assurance...........................167,992Radiology........................................668,283Rehab Services................................629,154Respiratory Therapy.......................197,002Senior Housing.................................79,496Surgery.........................................1,339,476Volunteer Services............................20,821Wellness/Infection Control.............51,055 ...................................................17,940,546

REGULAR SESSION September 23, 2013

The Union County Board of Supervi-sors met in regular session on Monday,September 23, 2013. The meeting wascalled to order at 9:00 AM with the fol-lowing members present: Dennis Brown,Lois Monday, and Ron Riley.

AGENDA: Motion by Monday andseconded by Brown to approve the Agen-da. All voting aye, motion carried.

MINUTES: Motion by Brown andseconded by Monday to approve Septem-ber 16, 2013 meeting minutes. All votingaye, motion carried.

OPEN FORUM: Karon Finn spoke inopen forum about violations made on amanure spill in Union County that she hadfound out through CCI. Teri Queck-Matzie reported that if it was a severe spillthe DNR would have notified the CrestonRadio Station.

INTERVENTION AND ADVOCA-CY CENTER: Johna Sullivan, ExecutiveDirector and Kacey Barrow, DART/SARTCoordinator, of Crisis Intervention andAdvocacy Center, discussed what they aregoing to offer in Union County. Sullivanand Barrow are currently looking for amain office in Union County to assist theten county regions for Adair, Adams,Clarke, Dallas, Decatur, Guthrie, Madison,Ringgold, Taylor, and Union.

ENGINEER: Steve Akes, Union Coun-ty Engineer, presented and discussed theweekly maintenance activity report andthe Bridge Replacement Program. WaterLine Crossing: Motion by Brown andseconded by Monday to approve a waterline crossing for Robert Brown locatednear the center of Section 5, Jones Town-ship, 1704 Mt. Pisgah Road, Thayer in ac-cordance with the specifications estab-lished by the County Engineer. All votingaye, motion carried. Temporary RoadClosing: Motion by Monday and second-ed by Brown to approve resolution #5 forFY 2013-2014. WHEREAS, the UnionCounty Board of Supervisors is empow-ered under authority of the Iowa Code totemporarily close a roadway, andWHEREAS, the City of Afton has re-quested a short term closure on the exten-sion of East Grand Street for the purposeof holding a running event in conjunctionwith a citywide celebration, NOWTHEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BYTHE UNION COUNTY BOARD OF SU-PERVISORS that East Grand Street ex-tended from the East corporation line ofAfton to High School Drive will be closedbeginning at approximately 9:00 AM onOctober 19, 2013 and it will be reopenedat approximately 10:00 AM or when therunning event has been completed. Rollcall vote; Monday aye, Brown aye, andRiley aye, motion carried.

TAX SUSPENSION: Motion by Mon-day and seconded by Brown to approvethe tax suspension on 405 West Monroe inCreston. All voting aye, motion carried.

CLAIMS: Motion by Monday and sec-onded by Brown to approve claims118661-118783. 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CO........386.00CRITTENDEN...................................20.00CULLIGAN........................................33.00FAREWAY STORES .....................326.79GALLS-QUARTERMASTER..........37.48HEARTLAND TIRE & AUTO.........98.97HOYT DO.........................................300.00HYSELL ..........................................112.15HY-VEE INC.................................1,840.00I THINK I CAN CHILD CARE CTR...................................................228.00IACCVSO VETERANS AFFAIRS .30.00ISCTA.................................................55.00KIBURZ..............................................20.00KLINGENSMITH..............................20.00MAYNES LAW OFFICE................525.00MEDICAP PHARMACY #8034.......21.99MEYER LABORATORY INC.......216.00MILLER............................................351.98OFFICE MACHINES COMPANY INC....................................................356.10PITNEY BOWES INC.....................171.00POWERS FUNERAL 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ADAMS............................................227.13BURKHALTER...............................119.00BUSCH................................................27.12CARTER...........................................119.00CHAPMAN.......................................127.50CIHAK..............................................116.25CITY OF CRESTON....................1,958.81CRESTON PUBLISHING CO........468.00DAVENPORT..................................127.60DAVENPORT..................................133.88DROTTZ.............................................90.00EYBERG...........................................176.63FARGO.............................................100.89FLAM................................................105.05HUBATKA.........................................39.33HUFFMAN.........................................97.50HYSELL.............................................87.71KRUSE .............................................168.45LOOMIS ..........................................105.05MOBERG ...........................................18.75NEW LORIMORIAN........................64.00OSHEL..............................................128.58PERRY..............................................127.50PETERSON, ASHLI..........................30.75POLK COUNTY TREASURER.....705.31RAYMOND........................................97.50RUTLEDGE ....................................109.21SHERIDAN........................................41.59WARD.................................................21.25WEIS...................................................68.74YOUTH & SHELTER SERVICES........................................839.70YOUTH EMRGNCY SERV & SHELTR........................................1,446.150002 GENERAL SUPPLEMNTL TOTAL:........................................8,093.930010 MH-DD SERVICES FUND ADAMS COUNTY AUDITOR.. .6,125.51ALEGENT HEALTH.......................338.00COMMUNITY CARE INC..........2,869.67JENNIE EDMUNDSON HOSPITAL.......................................309.00NEW HORIZONS............................322.50SOUTHERN IA MENTAL HLTH CTR...................................................117.17WARREN COUNTY MH/DD COMM SVCS..............................................1,578.240010 MH-DD SERVICES FUND TOTAL:......................................11,660.090011 RURAL SERVICES BASIC ALLIANT ENERGY..........................39.16BARKER IMPLEMENT (CRESTON)..................................1,369.94GREATER REGIONAL...............7,125.29HOLLEN...........................................400.00HUSBAND.......................................106.79OFFICE MACHINES COMPANY INC......................................................18.32T & S INDUSTRIES INC..................19.39WINDSTREAM...............................136.340011 RURAL SERVICES BASIC TOTAL:........................................9,215.230020 SECONDARY ROAD FUND ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.................................................1,986.82AKES...................................................21.09ALLIANT ENERGY .........................13.50ARNOLD MOTOR SUPPLY............13.99BAUM HYDRAULICS CORP ......132.01CHAT MOBILITY & RADIO SHACK...............................................27.98CITY OF LORIMOR.......................335.00COPY SYSTEMS INC....................127.50ECHCO CONCRETE LLC..........2,662.50ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE SRVS IN...........................................225.00FASTENAL COMPANY................100.84G&K SERVICES ...............................25.92GREATER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTE................................................60.00HEARTLAND TIRE & AUTO.........84.00JIM'S TRUCK REPAIR...................135.00METAL CULVERTS INC.........15,815.40NORSOLV SYS ENVIRONMENTAL SRVS.................................................149.95PERU QUARRY INC...................4,180.85PREMIER CONCRETE PUMPING.........................................669.50U S CELLULAR................................56.97UNITY POINT CLINC......................37.00WINDSTREAM...............................392.97ZEE MEDICAL INC........................159.65ZIEGLER INC..................................164.650020 SECONDARY RD FUND TOTAL:......................................27,578.094000 EMERGENCY MANGEMNT FUND ALLIANT ENERGY.......................300.00CHAT MOBILITY & RADIO SHACK...............................................88.95DUCKWORTH..................................80.69IOWA STATE ASSOC OF COUNTIES.......................................150.00IOWA STATE SAVINGS BANK............................................1,869.26MEDIACOM....................................131.86OFFICE MACHINES COMPANY INC....................................................719.79VICKER PROGRAMMING & SERVICES........................................435.114000 EMRGNCY MANGEMNT FND TTL:.....................................3,775.664004 LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER ARAMARK........................................15.58CRESTON PUBLISHING CO..........73.48MEDIACOM....................................136.71OFFICE DEPOT-CATALOG ORDERS...........................................110.14VERIZON WIRELESS....................522.834004 LAW ENFRCEMNT CENTR TTL:..................................................858.744100 COUNTY ASSESSMENT EXPENSE BANKERS LEASING CO..............103.54CHAT MOBILITY.............................12.34GE CONSUMER FINANCE...........219.974100 CNTY ASSESSMNT EXPNSE TTL:..................................................335.854960 SANITARY LANDFILL U S CELLULAR..............................148.184960 SANITARY LANDFILL TOTAL:...........................................148.188500 COUNTY HEALTH INSURANCE EMPLOYEE BENEFIT SYSTEMS...................................82,665.258500 CNTY HEALTH INSURANCE TTL:............................................82,665.25GRAND TOTAL:....................226,583.44

ADJOURNMENT: There being no fur-ther business, meeting was adjourned at12:00 PM. ATTEST:SANDY HYSELL, AUDITOR

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WHAT’S ON TAP?

QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions ...

and maybe a few actual answers

SPEED FREAKSA couple of questions we

just had to ask — ourselves

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Do you have questions or comments about NASCAR This Week? Contact Godwin Kelly at [email protected] or Ken Willis at [email protected]

HOT TOPICS: 3 ISSUES GENERATING A BUZZ

Sprint Cup points leader Matt Kenseth, who won the fi rst two Chase races, fi nished seventh at Dover on Sunday and watched his points lead shrink. Kenseth, the 2003 Cup champion, holds an eight-point advantage over Dover winner Jim-mie Johnson, heading into Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway. Kenseth, who is in his fi rst season with Joe Gibbs Racing, had these comments after the Dover race:

Are you disappointed with a seventh-place fi nish?

“When you look up, it’s everybody that

fi nished in front of you; it’s all cars that you’re racing for points. Overall, for how bad I felt like we struggled with the car, that was a decent fi nish.”

Did you feel like you held steady?“Not really. We kind of missed it, but

there’s times we ran a lot better than that. We got caught with being the last car on two tires and restarting on the inside, which was really bad. Still salvaged a respectable fi nish, but certainly I wanted to do better.”

Were you happy to see the last cau-tion?

“Actually, from the driver’s seat, I don’t really know what’s all going on. But, no, I really wasn’t because we were running second, I think, and Jason (Ratcliff, crew chief) said nobody could really make it. None of the guys that were going to win the race were going to make it and a lot of those cars that I think were trying to make it were already a lap down, so I wish it would have went green to the end. I think that would have got us a top-

three or four.”

Do you look at Dover like you put another race behind you and still have the lead?

“No, if we would have won I would say that, but, no, not really. I mean, I feel like it’s one of our best race tracks and you want to do better than seventh at one of your best tracks. Overall, it was a solid day, but we wished for a little more.”

Matt Kenseth’s 2-race win streak ends with 7th-place fi nish

SPRINT CUP POINTS STANDINGS

DOVER REWIND

SPRINT CUP: Hollywood Casino 400SITE: Kansas City, Kan.SCHEDULE: Friday, practice (Fox Sports 1, 12:30 p.m.), qualifying (ESPN2, 5:10 p.m.). Saturday, practice (Fox Sports 2, 11 a.m. and 1:50 p.m.). Sunday, race (ESPN, coverage begins at 1 p.m.; green fl ag at 2:15 p.m.) TRACK: Kansas Speedway (1.5-mile oval) NATIONWIDE: Kansas Lottery 300SITE: Kansas City, Kan.SCHEDULE: Saturday, race (ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.)TRACK: Kansas Speedway (1.5-mile oval)

WEEKLY DRIVER RANKINGS — BASED ON BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE

1. Matt Kenseth 21492. Jimmie Johnson -83. Kyle Busch -124. Kevin Harvick -394. Jeff Gordon -396. Greg Biffl e -417. Ryan Newman -488. Clint Bowyer -519. Kurt Busch -5510. Dale Earnhardt Jr. -5711. Carl Edwards -6512. Joey Logano -6613. Kasey Kahne -7814. Jamie McMurray -133015. Brad Keselowski -135016. Martin Truex Jr. -136817. Paul Menard -138118. Aric Almirola -140819. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. -142220. Jeff Burton -142521. Marcos Ambrose -142822. Juan Pablo Montoya -143523. Casey Mears -155224. Tony Stewart -155525. Denny Hamlin -159726. David Ragan -160727. Mark Martin -161928. Danica Patrick -162029. David Gilliland -1651

DALE EARNHARDT JR.

MARK MARTIN

Dale Earnhardt Jr. vs. Mark Martin: The only hint of driver irritation at Dover was when Junior said he got trapped behind a slowing Martin going into the pits.

Godwin Kelly gives his take: “These are the two most honorable drivers in racing today. There’s a better chance of dragons attacking Toyko than these two exchanging barbs or blows.”

Getty Images/SEAN GARDNER

Just think a few weeks ago we thought Jimmie was running on fumes.

How big does Jimmie Johnson look in Matt Kens-eth’s mirror?GODSPEAK: Just imagine that mirror on a bicycle with two fl at tires and you are being chased by zombies. Yes, scary.KEN’S CALL: Imagine Jimmy Spencer, if he got stung by bees. That’s big.

Any chance a fourth driver makes a run up the standings?GODSPEAK: Harvick. He has raced with little or no emotion (it seems). If he turns up the wick, he could crash the top-3 party.KEN’S CALL: Only if the top three all make a wrong turn near Topeka this week.

Getty Images for NASCAR/RAINIER EHRHARDT

Sure, he looks tame here, but as long as Kyle Busch keeps pace, there’s a chance for big fun.

Were you wrong about Jimmie Johnson?

Well, yeah, but good grief, when a guy is fi nishing behind the start-and-parkers every other week, you tend to assume he’s forgotten the where-abouts of the gas pedal. Yes, it was suggested that Jimmie’s fans were kidding themselves if they assumed he’d simply hit the “GO!” switch once the Chase started.

What happened?Um, he hit the “GO!” switch. Appar-

ently, Chad Knaus found it — like the rest of us, he was probably looking for Scotch Tape or the good scissors, when he found it next to a Slinky. Never underestimate the ability of a crew chief who has sat at fi ve head banquet tables.

Is it offi cially a 3-team title hunt now?

It has that feel, of course, and a lot of folks seem depressed about it. But last year it was similar — through three Chase races, three drivers had separated themselves. And none of them was Kyle Busch, who, assuming he keeps pace, will likely make this one interesting in one way or another.

It’s a bummer to fi nish second in a Sprint Cup race, but it stings just a bit more when it is your teammate beating you and you have an advan-tage. That is what happened to Dale Earn-hardt Jr. on Sunday at Dover International Speedway.

On his last pit stop, he took four fresh tires, while Jimmie Johnson took just two. Johnson had the lead when the race resumed, but Earnhardt, who restarted fourth, could not catch his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, despite having a fresher set of tires.

“I’ll be honest with you, it sucks to lose regardless of who wins,” said Earnhardt, who hasn’t won in more than a year. “It’s probably harder to run second than it is fi fth or 10th. When you have a car like we had, you don’t get good cars every week, you like to capitalize.

“It doesn’t bother me that it was Jimmie. I know Jimmie is going to be good here. Plus, he’s my team-mate. I want to see him do well. When he does well, it indirectly affects us and benefi ts us.”

BAD KARMA?Kurt Busch was

not happy with his pit crew in the fi rst two Chase races and engineered a major change for Race 3. The No. 78 Furni-ture Row Rac-ing Chev-rolet used a Nationwide pit crew supplied by Richard Childress Rac-ing at Dover.

The end result? His right rear wheel came loose, which required an unscheduled pit stop, which led to his 21st-place fi nish, three laps down to the winner.

ANOTHER SHOTBobby Labonte, the 2000 Cup

champ, isn’t ready to let go of the racing life just yet. Even though the 49-year-old loses his ride in the No. 47 Toyota at season’s end, Labonte told the Motor Racing Network that he wants to continue racing.

“If you enjoy what you’re doing and you’re able to do it, that’s what you

want to do,’’ Labonte told MRN.Would Labonte take another role in racing if

he wasn’t driving after this season? “Racing is Plan A,” he said. “We’ll worry about Plan B if Plan A

doesn’t work.”

DALE DOWNER AT DOVER

Associated Press/NICK WASS

JIMMIE JOHNSONNot running

second in our standings

MATT KENSETH

Should write champion-

ship speech in pencil

KYLE BUSCH

Solid favorite to win

Busch Cup

JEFF GORDON

Making the most of his

Chase mulligan

KEVIN HARVICKHanging

around, just in case

RYAN NEWMAN

See Gordon

GREG BIFFLE

Destined to be background

Chaser

JUNIOR EARNHARDTSigns of life

at Dover

KURT BUSCH

Cinderella didn’t wear fi reproof

shoes

CLINT BOWYER

Still in recovery

mode

Godwin Kelly is the Daytona Beach News-Journal’s motorsports editor and has covered NASCAR for 30 years. Reach him at godwin.

[email protected]

GODWIN’S KANSAS PICKSWinner: Greg Biffl eRest of the top fi ve: Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski, Carl Edwards, Joey LoganoDark horse: Juan Pablo Mon-toya

Disappointment: Jeff GordonFirst one out: Michael McDow-ellDon’t be surprised if: The top three Chase drivers have prob-lems and the standings tighten.

Even the National Guard can’t escort Junior back to Victory Lane.


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Ben Flaherty leads the team with 16 catches, in-cluding three for touch-downs last week against Central Decatur, with 235 yards. Logan Crawford has 15 receptions for 312 yards and two scores.

“They do a good job of reading the defense,” Show-alter said. “Those two and Brittain are on the same page. If the defense is play-ing them inside, they’ll run a fade route. If the defense is playing them outside, they’ll run a quick slant.”Ranks

The Raiders enter the game ranked second in Class 1A by the Des Moines Register and seventh by the Associated Press. Van Me-ter is ranked eighth in the Des Moines Register rank-ings and 10th in the AP poll.

The BCMoore Rankings, which uses a computer to rank teams based on offen-sive and defensive averages, as well as strength of sched-ule, has Mount Ayr ranked eighth in Class 1A and Van

Meter ninth.The Raiders come in with

the eighth best offensive av-erage in Class 1A at 39.40 points per game, compared to Van Meter’s 41.80 points per game, ranking the Bull-dogs seventh.

Mount Ayr owns the sec-ond best defensive average in the state at 5.80 points per game, while Van Meter ranks 10th at 12.20 points per game.

“You look at them, and it really is an awful lot like looking at our team,” Show-alter said. “We play similar styles on the offensive and defensive side. They have a big, strong running quar-terback. It is an awful lot like looking in a mirror. We have to go out and execute, and that is the big thing.”

Lambert feels the Raid-ers are up to the challenge.

“Van Meter is a tremen-dous football team,” he said. “This ought to be the week for us to have a really good challenge. It’s that time of the season our guys need a challenge, and play four solid quarters of foot-ball.”

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many as four teams could have two district losses at the end of Friday’s slate of games. An East Union win also keeps the Eagles right in the thick of the playoff hunt.

Lamoni features a triple threat out of the backfield with seniors Daniel Ansong and Beau Bjorland and ju-nior Colton Ranney.

Ansong leads the Demons with 439 rushing yards, while Ranney has 303 yards and seven touchdowns. Bjorland has 298 rushing yards and six touchdowns.

Jacob Williams also has

seven rushing touchdowns, while Darin Martin has add-ed five rushing scores.

Bjorland has completed 50 percent of his passes this year for 586 yards and 12 touch-downs, compared to just three interceptions.

East Union features a bal-anced rushing attack of its own, with Trevor Barnett, Mike Ward and Jonathan Weis.

Murray, also in District 6, takes the week off from dis-trict play as the Mustangs, 4-2 overall and 3-1 in district play, travel to Moravia to take on the 0-6, 0-4 Mohawks.

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District football standingsCLASS 3ADistrict 1

Team Dist All Pt. Diff.L. Central 2-0 2-3 11.50Harlan 2-0 4-1 8.50Creston/O-M 2-1 4-1 6.33ADM 2-1 3-2 0.33Glenwood 1-2 3-2 -0.33Atlantic 0-2 1-4 -13.00Perry 0-3 1-4 -11.00

CLASS 1ADistrict 7

Team Dist All Pt. Diff.Mount Ayr 2-0 5-0 13.00Van Meter 3-0 5-0 11.00Ogden 2-1 4-1 3.00Pella Christian 1-1 3-2 0.00DM Christian 1-2 1-4 -1.00C. Decatur 0-2 3-2 -13.00Colfax-Mingo 0-3 2-3 -13.00

District 8Team Dist All Pt. Diff.C.B. St. Albert 3-0 5-0 Treynor 2-0 4-1 4.50Nodaway Valley 2-1 2-3 5.33Panorama 2-1 3-2 3.33Tri-Center 0-2 1-4 -10.50Missouri Valley 0-2 0-5W. Central Valley 0-3 2-3 -9.00

EIGHT-MANDistrict 6

Team Dist All Pt. Diff.Adair-Casey 5-0 6-0 13.00Murray 3-1 4-2 6.50Lamoni 2-1 5-1 4.33Colo-Nesco 2-2 2-4 -0.75East Union 1-2 2-4 -3.33GV Park Baptist 2-2 2-3 -5.00Mormon Trail 0-3 1-4 -10.33Ankeny Christian 0-4 0-5 -10.00

District 8Team Dist All Pt. Diff.Fremont-Mills 3-0 4-1 12.33Sidney 3-0 5-0 10.00SW Valley 4-1 5-1 9.60Lenox 3-2 4-2 2.60CAM 2-2 2-4 0.50Essex/S. Page 0-3 0-5 -13.00Stanton 0-3 1-4 -13.00Nishnabotna 0-4 0-5 -13.00


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Computer glitches still ail some state health care signup sites

WASHINGTON (MCT) — For the second straight day, computer problems continued to stymie online visitors hoping to compare health plans or enroll in coverage on state insurance marketplaces under the new health care law.

Federally operated web sites and those run by states had similar problems as their computer systems once again struggled to accommo-date large numbers of people trying to access the market-places at the same time.

The delays, crashes and glitches have marred the Oc-tober debut of the market-places, which serve as a one-stop, online shopping mall for 2014 health insurance coverage required under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which provides the oper-ating systems for 36 state marketplaces, is adding ad-ditional capacity to handle the high user volume. Nearly 5 million unique visits and 104,000 web chat requests were logged on the depart-ment’s healthcare.gov web site on Tuesday, along with 190,000 calls to its 24-hour telephone call center, at 800-318-2596.

Those numbers “exceed-ed anyone’s expectations,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday on MSNBC. “We were planning on a lot of people being interested. We had no idea of quite how many.”

Sebelius said call center wait times had been reduced on Wednesday, and checks with the system showed this to be true. In separate calls, a reporter reached a human operator in less than 30 sec-

onds.The federal web sites

also performed better on Wednesday, but in states like Florida, many people were once again unable to get past the first step: creating an ac-count necessary to verify eli-gibility for government sub-sidies, shop for health plans and enroll for coverage.

Florida’s federally run web site had been jammed since Tuesday’s opening, and Wednesday was more of the same. Consumers at the Jes-sie Trice Community Health Center in Miami, where many of the area’s uninsured seek medical services, were still having no luck register-ing on the site.

Paul Salazar, a federally certified application coun-selor, was stationed with a laptop at the center, hop-ing to help people learn more about the health care law and apply for coverage through the web site. But he ran into the same delays that millions encountered on the first day.

“At first, it was showing, ‘Page not found,’ “ he said, “and now it’s just saying there are too many people on the site and try again lat-er.”

Kentucky’s state-run web site resolved its computer problems about 3 p.m. Tues-day and enrolled 2,000 of nearly 90,000 site visitors into coverage on the first day, according to state offi-cials.

California’s health ex-change, Covered California, had 645,000 total visits to its web site Tuesday between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. The ex-change received 7,143 ap-plications for insurance, said Covered California spokes-man Larry Hicks. In all, its call centers received 19,000

phone calls, he said.But in Maryland, where

the state-run system crashed shortly after its 8 a.m. de-but on Tuesday, users re-ported similar problems on Wednesday.

“It’s pretty much still very, very heavy traffic until it’s just bottlenecking the system and making it difficult for us to get in online,” said Sheila Mackertich, vice president of health reform initiatives at HealthCare Access Mary-land, which has hired 33 “navigators” to help enroll people into coverage across the state.

With the system down, Mackertich said navigators were mainly educating the public about the ins and outs of the complicated health care law. They’re also offer-ing to do paper applications, “but for the most part, we’re encouraging people to come back when the system comes up,” she said.

So far, though, computer problems have not appeared to frustrate consumers, Mackertich said.

“I think most of them weren’t ready to really en-roll in anything just yet,” she said. “Most just want to find out, ‘Does this law affect me?’”

To help educate the pub-lic about Obamacare, Enroll America, a nonprofit health care enrollment organiza-tion, is launching a $5 mil-lion advertising campaign to encourage uninsured Ameri-cans to sign up for health coverage by messaging them on their computers, through social media and on their mobile phones.

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Candidates announced for Adair County city elections GREENFIELD — City

elections will be Nov. 5. Voter preregistration dead-line is 5 p.m. Oct. 25.

The law now allows vot-ers to register on Elec-tion Day, however, it is a lengthy process and takes extra time at the polls.

Polls will open at noon on Election Day.

Candidates who have filed papers for the city elections in Adair County are as follows:

• AdairCity Council – elect 2Richard A HaysRick StanleyMayor – elect 1John M LarsenDennis J Weigel

• BridgewaterCity Council – elect 2No candidates filed pa-

persCity County To Fill Va-

cancy – elect 1No candidates filed pa-

persMayor – elect 1No candidates filed pa-

pers

• FontanelleCity Council – elect 2Rodney DukesRon ReedJim WarriorMayor – elect 1No candidates filed pa-

pers

• GreenfieldCity Council – elect 3

Kevin HallDebra HoughtalingJohn SelleckPark Board – elect 2Robert Guikema

• OrientCity Council – elect 3Justin BoswellMarvin D McGinnisLoretta UmbonhowerMayor – elect 1

Cecilia K McGinnis

• StuartCity Council – elect 3Bryan BeldenMatt FunkNeal CrawfordMayor – elect 1Dick CookAbsentee ballots are

now available in the audi-

tor’s office for the cities of Adair, Bridgewater, Fon-tanelle, Greenfield, Orient and Stuart.

Voters may vote in the Adair County Auditor’s office 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, or they may request a ballot be mailed to them.

The deadline to request an absentee ballot by mail is 5 p.m. Nov. 1. The last day to vote absentee in the auditor’s office is 8 to 11 a.m. Nov. 5.

Absentee ballot re-quest forms are available in the auditor’s office, or they can be downloaded at the secretary of state’s website at http://www.sos.state.ia.us.

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