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News, pg. 1: New chief nursing officer settles in at E-Free Church Home.Sports, pg. 4: Good effort by BHS girls in battle with 2009 state champs.

News, pg. 10: Check out exclusive photos from inside the Meyers Building.

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NEWS REPUBLICANIRHS ANNUALMEETING

The Iowa RailroadHistorical Society willhold its annual meetingSaturday, Jan. 16 at 6:30p.m. in the BooneCounty FairgroundsCommunity Building,1601 Industrial ParkRoad. All members areencouraged to attend themeeting.

MLK DAY DIN-NER EVENT

Come help the RuralHomeless Youth Projectand Boone NationalHonor Society celebratethe life and service ofMartin Luther King Jr.by joining them for afree spaghetti dinner onJan. 18 from 5 p.m. to 7p.m. at the BooneCounty HistoricalCenter, 602 Story St.

Students will spendtheir day off of schoolpreparing the meal whilelearning about what itmeans to serve oneanother.

Information will beavailable to learn aboutthe Rural HomelessYouth Project and howyou can get involved.

BE A PART OFTHE SWEET LIFE

The Boone CampFire group will be host-ing “The Sweet Life” onFeb. 13, where partici-pants will have a chanceto taste-test a variety oflocally-made dessertsand vote on theirfavorites.

Local sweet-makerscan enter their owndesserts in the fundraiserby contacting ShellyHall at (515)432-5941and requesting an entryform.

Those interested inthe taste-testing canattend on Feb. 13 from 1p.m. to 3 p.m. at theBoone CountyHistorical Society. Thecost is $2 for a judgingballot, and Camp FireCandy will also be soldat the event.

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LION’S CLUBPANCAKE DAYS

The Boone LionsClub “Pancake Days”will be held on Friday,Jan. 29 from 4:30 p.m. to7:30 p.m. on Saturday,Jan. 30 from 7 a.m. to 12p.m. at the BooneCounty FairgroundsCommunity Building,1601 Industrial ParkRoad. There will be acost for tickets, whichcan be purchased at thedoor or from any BooneLions Club members.Carry-outs will also beavailable. Patrons areasked to note that theserving hours listed onthe tickets are incorrect.

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Boone native’s band to perform locally SaturdayRenegades ofSound return forBoone show

MATT OLIVERStaff Writer

Boone native NickNystrom’s band, theRenegades of Sound, will bereturning to town to performand showcase its wide arrayof musical interests at 9:30p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 16 atThe Southside, 1215 S. StorySt.

Nystrom, the son ofBoone residents Curt andLori Nystrom, graduatedfrom Boone High School in2001, and has since been thelead vocalist and acousticguitar player for the Des

Moines-based band theRenegades of Sound.

The Renegades of Soundinfuse a mix of rock, techno,blues, jazz, funk and hip hopto create their own sound.

“We kind of have a lot ofinterests within our band justbecause there is a wide rangeof musical tastes in ourband,” Nystrom said.

Nystrom said that a num-ber of musicians comprisethe band members’ musicalinfluences, including thePhiladelphia alternative hip-hop band G. Love andSpecial Sauce, theMinneapolis-based hip-hopgroup Atmosphere, theCalifornia band SlightlyStoopid and the DaveMatthews Band.

Aside from Nystrom, thefive-member band includes

keyboardist and vocalist ScottKacher, saxophonist andflutist Don Brown, drummerRyan Barnes andscratcher/disc jockey PatWilliams, who’s betterknown as DJ Phase II.

The age range of the bandis an attribute that Nystromsaid gives the Renegades ofSound an eclectic appeal.

“Me and the drummer arein our 20s,” he said. “Our DJand keyboard players are intheir 30s and our sax player isin his 50s, so we have a real-ly broad and diverse soundbecause of the musical gener-ations that we all have beenborn and raised in.”

Nystrom said it’s difficultto classify the Renegades ofSound as one musical genre.Rap artists from the 1990s,such as Snoop Dogg and Dr.

Dre, have also had an influ-ence on the band members’musical tastes.

“When it comes to covers,we do a lot of Snoop Dogg,Dr. Dre, Tupac, Atmosphere,Michael Jackson, Prince – alot of rap and hip-hop blues,”he said. “It’s really a uniquesound. Not many bands arereally doing what we do asfar as the sound we havegoing on.”

The band primarily per-forms in clubs and aims toutilize their improvisationskills.

“We love making improv-isation,” Nystrom said.“Being able to feed off eachother on any given night, byimprovising off what some-body else is doing or the

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Behn joinsBranstadelectioncommittee

BOB ZIENTARAW-H News Service

Former gubernatorial can-didate and State Sen. JerryBehn, R-Boone, and formerStory County RepublicanParty leader Russ Cross areamong 19 Mid-Iowansnamed Wednesday to TerryBranstad's campaign com-mittee for governor.

In all, the group includes300 people across all ofIowa's 99 counties, accordingto officials at Branstad'sUrbandale campaign head-quarters.

Cross, who led the StoryCounty Republican Partythrough the end of 2008, saidhe chose to support Branstad"because of his experienceand his success leading thestate in extremely difficulteconomic times."

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BOONE COMMUNITY THEATRE HOLDS WINE AND CHEESE FUNDRAISER

Murder...at the Mardi Gras

Photo by GREG ECKSTROMBoone Community Theatre members rehearse for its “Murder at the Mardi Gras” feature to be presented thisSaturday and Sunday, at 7:30 p.m. each night, as part of its annual Wine and Cheese fundraiser.

STAFF REPORTSBoone News-Republican

Who killed Pierre DuPre? Was it hismuch younger bride of three months, orthe resentful daughter? Perhaps thecreepy author that lives next door or thefamily lawyer was the murderer, or one

of the other friends, relatives or employ-ees of the wealthy DuPre.

Area residents are invited to theBoone Community Theatre this week-end to help solve the mystery. Theannual Wine and Cheese fundraiser forthe theatre will be held on Friday, Jan.15 and Saturday, Jan. 16, starting at 7:30pm. The theatre is located at 106 S

Webster St., and tickets for the eventwill be available at the door.

At this audience interactive event,guests will be invited to question thesuspects, and accuse the one theybelieve used the antique Mardi Grasbeads to strangle Mr. DuPre, all whileenjoying snacks and beverages in aMardi Gras atmosphere.

New chief nursing officer settles in at E-Free Church HomeHinrichs joins staffof Evangelical FreeChurch Home

MATT OLIVERStaff Writer

Providing care is EllenHinrichs’ business. She’sworked in hospitals, clinicsand senior care for threedecades. Recently beingnamed the chief nursing offi-cer at the Evangelical FreeChurch Home gives Hinrichsthe opportunity to return to afield of work that’s alwaysbeen close to her heart.

“My history and my firstlove has always been sen-iors,” said Hinrichs, whoassumed duties as the E-Free

Church Home’s chief nursingofficer on Jan. 4.

Hinrichs joins the E-FreeChurch Home staff afterbeing employed as the direc-tor of nursing at the StoryCounty Medical Center inNevada for the past six years.Her desire to become a nursehowever began when she wasa teenager.

Her first involvement insenior care was in 1977 atValley View and EldoraRehab in Eldora, where shewas a certified nurse’s aide,certified medication aide anda certified restorative aide.Her early years in the profes-sion laid the foundation forher not only to be a nurse, butto lead staff in workingtogether for positive out-comes.

Hinrichs said her interestin nursing stems from herfamily, how she was raisedand the fact that she beganactively visiting seniors at arelatively young age. Hermother was a nurse, three ofher brothers have their doc-torates and one of her threesisters is also a nurse.

“I think that nurses reallyare not made, they’re kind ofborn,” Hinrichs said. “It’s alove I was instilled in at avery young age.”

Hinrichs graduated fromNew Providence CommunitySchool in 1978. Followinghigh school, she didn’t wasteany time and jumped into thefield of nursing immediately.

Following her first posi-

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Photo by MATT OLIVEREvangelical Free Church Home Director Nan Sloan,left, stands with Ellen Hinrichs, the new chief nursingofficer at the facility.

H1N1activitydeclines

STAFF REPORTSBoone News-Republican

Overall influenza activityin Iowa and the United Stateshas decreased over the pastmonth; 2009 H1N1 influenzaremains at low levels, andseasonal influenza has not yetbeen detected in the state.Boone County Public Healthreminds residents there is stillpotential for both H1N1 fluand seasonal flu activity torise and to continue for sever-al more months.

Boone County residentsare urged to take advantage ofthe H1N1 vaccine.

“We want to encouragemore people to get vaccinat-ed,” said Boone CountyPublic Health Director Vicki

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