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Mandi Lamb/Daily NewsLocal residents packed downtown Newton for the final 2013 installment of Thunder Nites in September.

Thunder Nites gets approval for 2014By Ty Rushing

Daily News Staff Writer

It looks like the Thunder Nites in Newton bike rally series will continue to roll into the new year.

At its Tuesday meeting, the Jas-per County Board of Supervisors granted Thunder Nites President Bob O’Brien permission to use the courthouse square for the 2014 edition of the series that runs one Friday a month from May through September.

“We think that everything has been going real well and real suc-

cessful. It seems to be getting bet-ter and better and we are doing what we’re supposed to be doing,” O’Brien said. “We’ve brought the American Legion in to help with the event, which we think is go-ing to be a win-win for everybody I believe.”

O’Brien said they expect this year’s rallies to take in between $18,000 and $20,000, all of which he said will be donated to local charities.

Gene Meyer to be the keynote

speaker at Chamber breakfast Thursday

By Zach Johnson Daily News Staff Writer

The Greater Newton Area Chamber of Commerce will be having its first network-ing breakfast of the new year, which will be hosted by DMACC starting at 7 a.m. Thurs-day. Greater Des Moines Partnership Presi-dent Gene Meyer will be the keynote speaker at the breakfast.

“I’m very excited to be going to the Cham-ber breakfast to talk with area citizens and business owners on the partnership between the Newton Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Des Moines Partnership,” Meyer said.

Meyer has extensive professional and po-litical experience in regional strategy devel-opment and implementation. He was elected to the West Des Moines Community School Board, serving three terms from 1988 to 1997. He was elected Mayor of West Des Moines, serving from 1997 through 2006. Gene’s professional career spans 37 years of service at the State of Iowa’s Department of Public Safety, most recently as commissioner.

“I plan to talk on what we’re doing at the Greater Des Moines Partnership to make the relationship between Des Moines and New-ton a profitable one, because, essentially, as a region, we’re all in this together,” Meyer said.

The 2014 Greater Newton Area Cham-ber of Commerce Board will add two new members who will be announced during the breakfast as well as more specific plans on what is in store for the new year.

“The Chamber breakfast is a great way to network with other business owners, but also to learn more about how the Newton Cham-ber of Commerce is a profitable move for any business owner,” Greater Newton Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Darrell Sarmento said.

It is requested you RSVP for the breakfast at the Chamber office.

The Chamber will have two more events this month. Jan. 16, the Chamber of Com-merce and Main Street Initiative will be traveling to the Iowa Economic Develop-ment Authority to give a presentation on why Newton should become a Main Street Community. Newton citizens wishing to at-tend the presentation need to RSVP at the Chamber office.

The last event will be the 116th An-nual Chamber Dinner at 5 p.m. Jan. 30 at DMACC. The dinner will have a new for-mat, and individuals will need to RSVP for the dinner at the Chamber office.

Staff writer Zach Johnson may be contacted at (641) 792-3121, ext. 425, or at [email protected].

Zach Johnson/Daily NewsKaren Hoffmeier runs on the eliptical Tuesday during the Newton Wellness Coalition kickoff event at the Newton Senior High School.

Newton Wellness Coalition kicks off campaign in style

By Zach Johnson Daily News Staff Writer

The Newton Wellness Coalition hosted it’s kick-off event Tuesday night.

“I thought tonight went very well,” NWC member Sheri Benson said.

The main feature of the event was the “local celebrity” calorie burn. The 30 “local celebrities” ran on treadmills and ellipticals for one quarter of basketball during the boys’ game of the Cardinal double header.

“It was a good time with the local ce-lebrities doing the calorie burn,” Benson said. “I was impressed we were able to get 30 local celebrities to come out for our kick-off event.”

The celebrities burned more than 10,000 calories during the event. The NWC kept with a cradle-to-grave age range, and some of the local celebrities included Amelia Schoeneman, Amanda Price, Bruce Hoffmeier and Bob Cal-laghan.

“The coalition brainstormed names we wanted to be a part of the kickoff event, sending out mass emails and connecting with them on Facebook,” Benson said. “We had fitness gurus, lo-cal faces and seniors in the mix, which

made it fun for everybody.”The kickoff event had many activi-

ties to test your mental wellness, nutri-tional wellness and physical wellness. The coalition also had an XBOX 360 with Kinect on-hand for participants to be able to use their bodies as controllers to play video games.

“It’s more of a technological per-spective to wellness, which turned out to have a great response,” Benson said. “We’ll be looking into doing more events throughout the year focusing on free- to low-cost events.”

NWC’s punch card campaign be-gins today, allowing individuals an op-portunity to participate in activities to increase their wellness while collecting punches. The activities will change ev-ery three months. For a list of activities and sponsored events, local residents may contact the NWC on Facebook or pick up a packet at Skiff Medical Cen-ter or the Newton YMCA.

“Keep looking for more information on other future events sponsored by the coalition,” Benson said.


WesleyLife, Park Centre receive employee wellness awardBy Bob Eschliman

Daily News Editor

WesleyLife, sponsor of Park Centre in Newton, recently was presented with a coveted employee wellness award by the Wellness Council of America through its affiliate, the Wellness Council of Iowa.

The Platinum Well Workplace Award, which recognizes organizations for their commitment to the health and wellbeing of their employees, was granted to Wes-

leyLife recently. It is the first health and wellness provider for older adults in Iowa to receive the award.

WELCOA President David Hunnicutt said WesleyLife has made a long-lasting commitment to the health and well-being of its employees.

“Good companies know that their em-ployees are their most valuable asset. Great companies adopt policies that support em-ployees’ efforts to reduce health risks and are bold about motivating them through

bold strategies, programs, and tactics,” he said. “Great companies know that by im-proving their employees’ health, they can reduce health care costs.”

Park Centre encourages not only its res-idents and clients to stay healthy and seek preventive measures, but offers programs for its own team members as well. “We lead by example when it comes to health

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USDA extends deadline for CSP applications

DES MOINES — USDA’s Natural Resources Conserva-tion Service is extending the deadline for new enrollments in the Conservation Stewardship Program for fiscal year 2014, from Jan. 21 to Feb. 7. Produc-ers interested in participating in the program can now sub-mit applications to their local NRCS office.

“Extending the enrollment deadline will make it possible for more farmers and forest landowners to apply for this im-

portant conservation program,” said Iowa NRCS State Con-servationist Jay Mar. “Through their conservation efforts, these good stewards are ensuring that their operations are more pro-ductive and sustainable over the long run.”

CSP is offered through a continuous signup, but NRCS periodically makes funding se-lections. Last year, Iowa NRCS obligated more than $3.8 mil-lion through 381 contracts cov-ering 175,346 acres.

The program emphasizes conservation performance — producers earn higher pay-ments for higher performance. Through CSP, producers install

conservation enhancements to make positive changes in soil health, soil erosion, water qual-ity, water quantity, air quality, plant resources, animal resourc-es and energy.

A CSP self-screening check-list is available to help produc-ers determine if the program is suitable for their operation. The checklist highlights basic infor-mation about CSP eligibility re-quirements, stewardship thresh-old requirements and payment types.

To access the self-screening checklist or to learn more about CSP, visit the Iowa NRCS web-site or your local NRCS field office.

Ostomy Support Group to meet Saturday

The Central Iowa Ostomy Support Group will be meeting at 10:15 a.m. Saturday in the Newton Public Library Meeting Room A.

The informal meeting for anyone with an ostomy (colostomy, ileostomy or uros-tomy), their caregiver or health care provid-ers. Meetings are held every two months. It is a casual, information meeting with a ques-tion and answer time. If you have questions, contact Lori Samson at (641) 791-1283.

Heart and stroke screening at St. Luke’s

The public is invited to the HeartReach Mobile Lab, scheduled to be at St. Luke United Methodist Church parking lot, 501 E. 19th St. N., on Thursday.

This is a unique traveling heart disease and stroke screening program from UnityPoint Health — Des Moines. To learn more or make an appointment, call 1-866-935-5432 or visit www.iowahealth.org/heartreach.aspx.

SIAC to meet ThursdayThe first general meeting of the Newton

Community School District’s School Im-provement Advisory Committee will be at 5 p.m. Thursday at Emerson Hough Confer-ence Room 125.

Agenda items include Vision and Mission Statements, sub-committee structures, cal-endar recommendations and options.

Subway Classic Girls Basketball Tournament

Submitted PhotoForty-five teams from around Iowa will be in Newton on Saturday competing in Subway Classic Girls Basket-ball Tournament. The second annual tournament is being hosted by the Newton YMCA and Newton Senior High School boys and girls basketball programs and is sponsored by Subway of Newton. Pictured are Joel Tharp, owner of Subway in Newton, and YMCA Executive Director Tom Vanderlaan. The public is invited to attend the Subway Classic tournament with tip off set for 8:30 a.m. at the YMCA, NHS and Berg Middle School gyms. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for students. Proceeds from the tournament admissions and concessions will benefit the YMCA and NHS basketball programs.

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Iowa to remove question for felons on voting formIOWA CITY (AP) — Iowa is mov-

ing to revise its voter registration ap-plication to help clear up widespread confusion over felons’ voting rights, ac-cording to an administrative rule pub-lished Tuesday.

The change, adopted by a bipar-tisan commission, would remove a question that some voters have errone-ously marked indicating they are fel-ons without the right to vote. Another revision would explain that convicted felons aren’t qualified to vote until they have their rights restored by Gov. Terry Branstad. Prospective voters still would have to attest that they are not felons without voting right when signing the application.

If the changes go into effect, as ex-pected, a new application will be in use starting April 9. The state will gath-er public comment on the proposed changes through Jan. 28, and a legisla-tive rules committee will review them in February.

Anyone convicted in Iowa of an “in-famous crime” — including all felonies and some aggravated misdemeanors —

loses their right to vote and hold pub-lic office. To get those rights back after they serve their sentences, they have to apply for and obtain clemency from Branstad under an executive order he signed in 2011.

“The widespread confusion about voting for people with criminal convic-tions in Iowa has played out in a num-ber of unfortunate ways since the gov-ernor made the policy more restrictive,” American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa attorney Rita Bettis said in a statement. “This change will help clarify the law in Iowa for voters and provide useful information that people with felony convictions can have their right to vote restored through the governor’s office.”

Branstad, a Republican, in 2011 signed an order that reinstated the indi-vidual application process, making Iowa among the more difficult states for of-fenders to win back their voting rights. The move rescinded a 2005 executive order signed by former Gov. Tom Vil-sack, a Democrat, that automatically re-stored voting rights to felons once they completed their sentences.

Branstad says his policy helps ensure that former offenders are paying restitu-tion, court costs and fulfilling other re-sponsibilities before they can vote. Crit-ics say that the policy is too harsh and disenfranchises too many voters.

The prior policy means some felons who finished their terms before January 2011 had their voting rights restored automatically. Those who have finished their sentences since then have to apply for clemency.

Adding to the stakes, an investiga-tion by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office has led to criminal charges against some felons who were ineligible but registered to vote or voted anyway. Even some who have been charged said they had no fraudulent intent and were simply confused.

The misunderstood question on the voter registration application added more confusion.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the League of Women Voters peti-tioned for the changes in October, say-ing that some voters were erroneously

marking “no” to the question asking: “If you have previously been convicted of a felony, have your rights been restored?”

Some county auditors reported simi-lar confusion about the question, which was added as part of a revision to the application that took effect last year.

The Iowa Secretary of State’s Office said that it was still registering those who had mistakenly responded “no” by comparing their names against a data-base of known Iowa felons who do not have voting rights.

The petitioners argued the question was unnecessary, given the database check and the affidavit requiring voters to affirm under penalty of perjury that they were not ineligible felons.

The bipartisan Voter Registration Commission unanimously adopted the change last month. The commission also agreed to add a line in bold font at the top of the application to explain: “In Iowa, you are not qualified to vote if you have been convicted of a felony and have not received a restoration of voting rights. You may apply to the Governor to restore your voting rights.”

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Cross-country snowshoe, ski clinics to be offeredSeveral cross-country ski and snowshoe

clinics, led by Jasper County Conservation staff, will be offered from 1 to 3 p.m. Satur-days, Jan. 18 and Feb. 1 and 15, at the Jacob Krumm Nature Preserve.

Both beginners who wish to learn how to ski or snowshoe and the more advanced who wish to sharpen their skills are encouraged to attend. A limited number of snowshoes, skis and boots will be available for a $10 equipment fee, or participants can bring their own equipment.

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ObituariesByrdene Winn

KendallJan. 5, 2014

Byrdene (Brodersen) Winn Kendall, 97, of Newton died Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014.

A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton. The family will greet friends from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at the funeral home. The family will also greet friends im-mediately following the funeral service at the Elks Lodge in Newton. Burial at the Palo Alto Cemetery in rural New-

ton will be held at a later date.

Memorials to Skiff Hospice or to the Reas-nor United Methodist Church may be left at the funeral home. Memori-als may also be mailed to the funeral home, please add Attn: Winn Kendall Family on the envelope.

Those left to hon-or Byrdene’s memory are her son, Calvin (Kathy) Winn of New-ton; grandsons, Michael (Terri) Gilbert of New-ton and Tony Pherigo of Marshalltown; her step daughter-in-law, De-lores Kendall of Rock-port, Texas and her step daughter, Betsy (Tom) Miller of Apache Junc-tion, Ariz.; step grand-children, step great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband, Ken-neth W. Winn in 1966; her second husband, Bill Kendall in 1988; and step son, Billy Kendall.

Police BlotterNewton Police Department

• Shari L. Bauer, 49, of Newton was charged at 6:50 p.m. Sunday with possession of drug parapher-nalia in connection with an incident that occurred at 5:51 p.m. Dec. 13 at her residence. Authorities went to her residence searching for a wanted person, and Bauer consented to a search of the apartment. Bauer alleg-edly had a methamphetamine pipe with burnt meth residue under her bed. She was charged and released to appear in court.

• Casey W. Edwards, 20, of New-ton was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after authorities went to 604 E. Third St. S. in New-ton at 6:53 p.m. Sunday to serve a charge. While officers were leaving the residence, they located two males. One was identified as Edwards, who was found to be wanted on a Jasper County warrant for operating while intoxicated, second offense. Edwards also was charged for allegedly having a marijuana pipe in his possession. He was transported to the Jasper County Jail.

• Steven D. Petro, 38, of Newton was charged with public intoxication, third or subsequent offense, after authorities were dispatched at 2:44 a.m. Jan. 1 to the 200 block of North Second Avenue West in reference to a fight in progress. Authorities lo-cated two males in the 100 block of West Third Street North, and neither one was wearing a shirt. One of the men, Petro, smelled of alcohol and admitted to drinking alcohol. He was charged and released to appear in court.

• Russell G. Quick Sr., 57, and Rus-sell G. Quick Jr., 31, both of Newton, each were charged with criminal tres-pass after authorities were dispatched to Walmart at 12:53 p.m. Monday in reference to two subjects trespassing.

Loss prevention workers informed police both men previously had been served no-trespassing paperwork for shoplifting. The men had been ob-served in the store at 12:07 p.m. They were located at 8:28 p.m. at 106 N. 15th Ave. W. and transported to the Jasper County Jail.

• Kurt D. VanDam, 49, of Newton was charged with criminal trespass after authorities responded to a com-plaint at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 28 at a resi-dence in the 200 block of West 13th Street South in Newton. VanDam was charged for entering the house without permission. He was charged and released to appear in court.

• Laura E. Whitson, 24, of Newton was charged with driving while li-cense barred after authorities stopped her at 3:19 p.m. Monday in the 900 block of North Sixth Avenue East for driving a vehicle without license plates. Authorities determined her license had been barred and trans-ported her to the Jasper County Jail.

Jasper County Sheriff ’s Office• Mark G. Haunsperger, 63, of

Kellogg was charged with operating while intoxicated after authorities responded to a complaint at 11:45 p.m. Saturday of a motorist swerv-ing all over the roadway. The sus-pect was stopped at Railroad Street and Highway 224 and identified as Haunsperger. He smelled of alcohol and failed three field sobriety tests. A Datamaster test indicated a BAC of .125. He was transported to the Jas-per County Jail.

A criminal charge is merely an accu-sation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. It is the policy of the Newton Daily News to release the names of individu-als charged with a crime who are 16 and older.

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FARMLAND FOR SALEPUBLIC AUCTION

Offered for sale by Ronald A. Durr, Trustee Elsie I. Durr Revocable Trust and Linda L. Schumacher, is the following land in Jasper County, Iowa: Tract 1The NE¼ of the SW¼, and the NW¼ of the SE¼ of Section 21, Township 80 North, Range 17 W of the 5th P.M., Jasper County, Iowa (80 acres more or less)

Tract 2The SE¼ of the SW¼ and the SW¼ of the SW¼ of Section 21, Township 80 North, Range 17 W of the 5th P.M., Jasper County, Iowa, and the NE¼ of the NW¼, and the N½ of the NE¼ of Section 28, except that part of said N½ of the NE¼ of said Section 28, de-scribed as beginning at the NE corner of the NE¼ of Section 28, and running thence S 13 rods, W 12¼ rods, N 13 rods, thence E 12¼ rods to the place of beginning, all in Township 80 North, Range 17 West of the 5th P.M., Jasper County, Iowa, subject to public highways (199 acres more or less)

Tract 3Tracts 1 & 2

General InformationFSA records are open for inspection by prospective buyers. Notice of Termination of farm lease has been given to current tenant. Property sold “as-is, where-is”.

Sale Procedure1. Public auction will be held on January 13, 2014 2:30 P.M. at the American Legion, 1101 W. 4th St. S., Newton, Iowa. 2. Successful bidders will execute an Iowa State Bar Association short form contract immediately following auction.3. Sellers reserve the right to reject or accept any bid at any time.4. Assumption and indemnification of CRP contracts required.

Terms and PossessionCash. 10% down on day of sale, January 13, 2014, entire balance due February 17, 2014 upon delivery of deed, abstract showing merchantable title and possession. Taxes to be prorated to date of possession.

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Iowa State Fair cashless plan draws criticismDES MOINES (AP)

— A plan to eliminate cash sales at food ven-dors and other Iowa State Fair attractions has drawn criticism from some longtime fairgoers.

Patrons will no lon-ger buy items with cash. Instead, they will buy tickets at about 50 fairgrounds spots and

pay for food and bever-ages with those tickets. Fair officials said in an-nouncing the system Tuesday that it will be more secure and speed up food purchases be-cause vendors won’t have to make change.

Some fairgoers say the hassle of lines or figuring out how many

tickets they’ll need could be enough to make them stay home.

Seventy-one-year-old Andi Blume told The Des Moines Reg-ister that “it’s just all an inconvenience.” She says she and her hus-band don’t attend other events that use a similar ticket system.

Your next TV: Will it be Ultra HD?

LAS VEGAS (AP) — After at-tempts to hawk 3-D and OLED TVs fizzled in recent years, television manufacturers are taking small steps toward making a new technology, Ul-tra HD, more viable for mainstream consumers.

It’s the first TV format to be driven by the Internet video-streaming phe-nomenon, and at the International CES gadget show this week, major streaming players Netflix and Ama-zon said they’ll offer movies and TV shows in the format, and Sharp in-troduced a relatively inexpensive TV with near-Ultra HD quality.

The moves are meant to coax con-sumers to pedal faster on their TV upgrade cycles. At the moment, most Americans buy new TVs about once every seven years. TV manufacturers would love to create another wave of buying like the one that sent millions of people to stores a few years ago to upgrade from standard definition, tube TVs to flat-screen HD models.

Unlike the 3-D TV trend, which quickly eroded into a tech fad in re-cent years, analysts say Ultra HD may actually catch on. With screens that house four times more pixels than reg-ular HD TVs, Ultra HD is a simple enough upgrade to gain widespread adoption in the next few years. Aside from being visually jarring, 3-D re-quired sometimes pricey special glass-es and gave some people headaches. Because Ultra HD content can be delivered over a standard high-speed Internet connection, it isn’t likely to get bogged down in a format war that plagued the Blu-ray disc standard.

“You see it, you get it. It’s a big, awesome picture,” said Ben Arnold, a consumer electronics analyst at NPD Group. “Consumers will be interested in it as prices come down. Consumers are also moving toward bigger screens. All of this is good news for (Ultra HD).”

In side-by-side comparisons, Ultra HD is remarkably crisper than HD. It displays richer skin textures, finer details and less pixelation. The extra resolution becomes more important as consumers spend more money on big-ger screens that amplify images.

But Ultra HD, or 4K, is in its very early stages. Although prototypes and demonstration models have been around for years, the first sets for con-sumer use didn’t hit the market until 2012 with prices in the tens of thou-sands of dollars. Only about 60,000 Ultra HD sets were sold last year in the U.S., with 485,000 estimated this year, according to the Consumer Elec-tronics Association.

Netflix Inc. CEO Reed Hastings made the rounds at news conferences Monday to declare that the stream-ing video company is working on dis-tributing 4K video over the Internet. Hastings said all Netflix original se-ries are being shot in 4K and that the company is working with studios on formatting movies and TV shows in 4K, with one of the first series being Sony’s “Breaking Bad.”

Both Amazon.com Inc. and Hulu are shooting original series in 4K, and Amazon said it was working with ma-jor content producers Warner Bros., Lionsgate, 20th Century Fox and Dis-covery to make 4K content available.

Judge seals report

IOWA CITY (AP) — A judge says an inter-nal report detailing the firing of Iowa Division of Criminal Investiga-tion agent Larry Hed-lund will not be disclosed during a murder case in which Hedlund is a key witness.

Judge Kurt Wilke ruled Friday that the report has no informa-tion that defense lawyers could use to discredit Hedlund during the first-degree murder trial of Derrick McElroy.

McElroy is charged with shooting 19-year-old Brandyn Preston in the neck at a party in Fort Dodge in May 2011, leaving him paralyzed. Preston died in January 2012. Hedlund oversaw an investigation that led to McElroy’s arrest.

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Last Saturday, all of America was exposed to something that Kansas Citians have known about for years: the Kansas City Sports Curse.

How else do you explain the Chiefs going from having a 28 point lead, to los-ing by one point? It’s simple really; we as a fan base are cursed. If this were baseball, we would be the Chicago Cubs and pre-2004 Boston Red Sox (and the Royals). If this were hockey, we would be the Toronto Ma-ple Leafs and if this were basketball we would be the Clippers, Warriors and Knicks rolled into one historically losing package.

Our curse is often overshadowed by fellow Midwestern city Cleveland’s, but trust me, the Kansas City Curse is every bit as real as theirs.

I’ve been a Chiefs fan my entire life and I witnessed firsthand all eight of our consecutive losses in the playoffs (an NFL record, mind you). If I had to choose an order to my top cursed moments, last Saturday’s debacle in Indianapolis is Number 1, (congratu-lations Lin Elliot for finally moving down to Number 2).

This game started off with Jamaal Charles, one of the best players period in the NFL, getting concussed within the first three minutes of the game. Seriously, who else has their MVP candidate running back get injured on the first drive of the game?

The Curse is real.At this point, I had given up all

hope and then somehow the rest of the Chiefs rose from the ashes of Ja-maal’s burning star crashing down and stepped their game up. We scored on that first drive, but we didn’t stop there. We continued to pile on points, and the Colts uncharacteristically continued to make mistakes.

We were up 31-10 at halftime and I thought, “Maybe we can finally beat The Curse.”

Seriously, I really thought we had a chance. Alex Smith, who we traded to get from San Francisco, was looking like the second coming of Joe Mon-tana, another 49ers castoff we traded

for, and the last quarterback to win a playoff game for the Chiefs. In fact, Montana had us one win away from the Super Bowl before he was knocked out of the game — with a concussion, of course.

At 6 years old, I found out the hard way: The Curse is real.

However, this year’s team seemed to be the one destined to break the curse’s stranglehold over Kansas City. I mean, what team can blow a 28 point lead? Well, apparently my team can and did just that.

For some reason, The Curse likes to see Chiefs fans get the slightest glimmer of hope on their faces before it robs us of the ability to smile and have pleasant thoughts for the next few weeks.

When Colts quarterback Andrew Luck picked up a goal line fumble and dove his bearded, lanky form over the bodies of both Chiefs and Colts play-ers alike to score, I knew what the out-come of this game would be, despite us still having the lead.

After that, every other moment of that game seemed to pass by me in a blur of anger, shock and disbelief. When it was all said and done, the Chiefs lost by one point, five starters and one key backup were injured and once again the Colts beat us in the playoffs.

The Curse is real.One of my favorite things about

social media, is I can connect with all of my fellow Chiefs fans at home and nationwide and we can celebrate and suffer (mostly suffer) together. One of my favorite sportswriters, Bill Reiter of Foxsports.com, even retweeted my response to his tweet:

“I was 6 for our last playoff win and I will be 27 next week. I want this win!”

It should come as no surprise to me that we lost this game in the most unrealistic way possible. Seriously, you couldn’t pull that comeback off in a video game, but that doesn’t make it hurt any less. At least this game makes my memory of them losing on my birthday in 2011 slightly less painful.

So as I spend this week wallowing in self-pity after another Chiefs defeat, I guess I should be glad to celebrate my 27th birthday tomorrow, but I want to make one thing perfectly clear:

The Curse is real.

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For the first time since my early childhood, I did not watch the ball drop or see Times Square explode into a confetti firebomb. I did not party until the wee hours.

I did not drink or make poor deci-sions. I did not light ille-gal fireworks. I did not count down the last 10 seconds of the year, kiss friends, clink Champagne glasses or sing the single verse to “Auld Lang Syne” that I have memo-rized.

This year, I rang in the new year under the covers, securely in dream land.

It. Was. Awesome.Why had no one told me the

sheer joy of staying home and go-ing to bed early on New Year’s Eve? How am I just now learning of this life-changing experience? Not that I would have ever willingly acqui-esced to such a crazy notion.

This year, I planned to host the New Year’s party. The nursery was set up with playpens for babes to sleep in so their parents could get moderately irresponsible in the next room. The Champagne was chilled; the hors d’oeuvres were bought; the New Year’s tiara was sufficiently broken in. Alas, a last-minute bout of flu caused a can-cellation mere hours before friends were intended to show up in their silly hats, kazoos in tow.

By 7 p.m., my baby was in bed — a true indicator that my little man was feeling under the weather — and at 7:15, the husband was knocked out by NyQuil. I was left awake, all alone in my messy home, with no one with which to celebrate. I considered cleaning but no one was coming over.

Instead of taking care of what I should have been taking care of, I decided to enjoy my New Year’s Eve, to embrace my night in and all facets of the lame factor that comes with being a first-time par-ent. I put on slippers, broke out

the Snuggie and sauntered into the kitchen to pour myself a mugful of Champagne. No need to hand-wash fancy Champagne glasses tonight!

While we were away on vaca-tion, a neighbor had brought over a homemade chocolate pudding pie as a thank-you gift for our helping out when her husband had fallen and couldn’t get up. I had intended on serving the pie to our friends at the party. Instead, I served myself. There is little in life more satisfy-ing than gliding your index finger through the thick decadence of chocolate, coating your finger in a mountain of sinful goodness and licking off every last calorie. And that is how I devoured a pie in one evening. Fingers crisscrossing the top layer, making trails that were widened as the night ran on, mark-ing the dessert as my territory. Hey, at least I didn’t urinate on the pie to claim it as mine.

After watching some bad televi-sion and gaining some impressive points on “Words With Friends,” I was ready for bed. It was 8:52 p.m. PST. Just eight minutes to go be-fore I could watch the ball drop in Times Square. I considered stay-ing up, but you know what? It just wasn’t worth it.

The best part of a New Year’s Eve night in? Not having sleep deprivation to contend with when my toddler woke me up at 5 a.m.

Did you know that you can actually get things done on New Year’s Day? No, seriously! It’s true. I had half of my to-do list crossed off by 9 a.m.

It turns out that when you don’t party until sunrise and thus sleep until dinner, New Year’s Day actu-ally feels like a bit of a vacation. As if it’s a national holiday or some-thing.

If everyone had gone to bed at a reasonable hour, I bet we could have created world peace by lunch. Or at least toasted to the idea of it.

That’s it; I’m embracing my in-ner J.D. Salinger. Every Dec. 31, lock me away in a cave with mugs of Champagne, Snuggies and chocolate pie. Who needs a ball drop when you can drop your head on a pillow?

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“It is bringing attention back down to Newton, I hope,” O’Brien said of Thunder Nites. “And we are giving back to the community, so I’m here to tell you thank you. Thank you very much for letting us use it in the past and to please let us use the courthouse lawn again this year.”

After the board approved the measure, newly appointed board chair Joe Brock commented that Thunder Nites “sound’s like its been quite a success.”

Jasper County Sheriff John Halferty got approval for a new communications project at the Jasper County Armory/Annex, which was an item he previously had the board table.

“First we went out to solicit some more bids and we sent the specs out to other vendors and Spring Valley, again, was the only one to come back with a bid,” Halferty said.

Previously, Perry-based Spring Valley Wireless had submitted a quote of $16,595 for the project. Halferty said he has spent time since the original Oct. 15 meet-ing searching for ways to get a better deal for the county.

“But, in the meantime, I’ve been working with Jim Sparks from Emergency Management and we had the opportunity to apply for some grant funding that pays for all the materials and

equipment and the only cost to the county would be the labor cost,” Halferty said.

The grants Halferty and Sparks applied for will lower the county’s cost to $8,635 and the board ap-proved the selection of Spring Valley to build a new north tower and conduct upgrades on the south tower.

“The south tower will include all of the amateur radio equip-ment and the north tower will be a new tower and provide the equipment we need for our back-up communications,” Halferty said. “This is for our backup dis-patch or if we were to have a di-saster, or some type of emergency,

we would open up the armory building and emergency commu-nications center and they would have the ability to communicate from there.”

Halferty also received approval for Jason Cunningham to be ap-pointed as the newest deputy for the Jasper County Sheriff ’s Of-fice. Cunningham started work on Jan. 2 with a three-year con-tract and Halferty said he will be sent to the Iowa Law Enforce-ment Academy to become certi-fied.

In other business:• The board approved the rate

of 56 cents per mile to reimburse county employees for business miles, 23.5 cents per mile for medical or moving miles, and 14 cents for miles driven to conduct charitable services.

• County Engineer Russ Stutt received approval for two mea-sures that would ensure an Iowa Department of Transportation bridge replacement project could begin on March 18. The bridge will be located at S. 126th Ave. E. over the South Skunk River.

• The board approved the Izaak Walton League’s request for a li-quor license.

• The board reappointed mem-bers to more than a dozen boards and will be seeking two people to serve on the Compensation Board.

Staff writer Ty Rushing may be con-tacted at (641) 792-3121, ext. 426, or at [email protected].

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and well-being,” says Brad Boatright, Execu-tive Director. “We know — and research proves — healthier team mem-bers mean happier team members interacting with older adults empowering their own personal health and well-being while cre-ating meaningful rela-

tionships.”Park Centre Lifestyle

Director Lori Griffin said a healthy well-be-ing is part of the Wes-leyLife culture. She said on-site fitness centers and weekly devotionals are offered, which help promote spiritual, in-tellectual and physical well-being in the work place.

The Wellness Coun-cil of Iowa was founded

in 1985 by nine employ-ers from the Iowa busi-ness community. The Well Workplace Awards initiative is driven by a rigorous set of criteria outlined in WELCOA’s seven benchmarks to a result-oriented Well Workplace.

Since its inception in 1991, more than 1,000 organizations have joined the list of “Amer-ica’s Healthiest Com-

panies” by receiving the Well Workplace Award.

“WesleyLife worked hard to successfully meet the rigorous stan-dards set by the Well Workplace process,” Wellness Council of Iowa Executive Direc-tor Craig Hanken said. “It is our pleasure to rec-ognize them as the new-est Iowa employer to achieve Well Workplace status.”

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Sister City Month

Zach Johnson/Daily NewsMayor Mike Hansen and the members of OPEN kicked off Sister City Month this morning Pictured (from left) are Jane Johnson, David Pitz, Larry Hesson, Sheri Benson, Tori Reynolds, Jane Ann Cotton, Sveta Miller, Mike Hansen, John McNeer, Tom Hoover, Warren Erickson and Jeff Price.

Arctic air eases its grip on much of U.S.

ATLANTA (AP) — An arctic blast eased its grip on much of the U.S. on Wednesday, with winds calming and the weather warm-ing slightly a day after temperature records — some more than a century-old — shat-tered up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

In Atlanta, where a record low of 6 degrees hit early Tuesday, fountains froze over, a 200-foot Ferris wheel shut down and Southerners had to dig out winter coats, hats and gloves they almost never have to use. It shouldn’t take too long to thaw out, though. The fore-cast Wednesday was sunny and 42 degrees.

In the Midwest and East, where brutal polar air has lingered over the past few days, temperatures climbed but were still expected to be below freezing.

In Indianapolis, Timolyn Johnson-Fitzgerald returned to her home after spend-ing the night in a shelter with her three children because they lost power to their apartment. The water lines were working, but much of the food she bought in prepara-tion for the storm was ruined from a combi-nation of thawing and then freezing during the outage.

“All my eggs were cracked, the cheese and milk was frozen. And the ice cream had melted and then refroze. It’s crazy, but we’re just glad to be back home,” she said.

On Tuesday, the mercury plunged into the single digits and teens from Boston and New York to Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville and Little Rock — places where many people don’t know the first thing about extreme cold.

“I didn’t think the South got this cold,” said Marty Williams, a homeless man, origi-nally from Chicago, who took shelter at a church in Atlanta. “That was the main rea-son for me to come down from up North, from the cold, to get away from all that stuff.”

The cold turned deadly for some: Au-thorities reported at least 21 cold-related deaths across the country since Sunday, in-cluding seven in Illinois and six in Indiana. At least five people died after collapsing while shoveling snow, while several victims were identified as homeless people who ei-ther refused shelter or didn’t make it to a warm haven soon enough.

In Missouri on Monday, a 1-year-old boy was killed when the car he was riding in struck a snow plow, and a 20-year-old woman was killed in a separate crash after her car slid on ice and into the path of a tractor-trailer.

In a phenomenon that forecasters said is actually not all that unusual, all 50 states saw freezing temperatures at some point Tuesday. That included Hawaii, where it was 18 de-grees atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano.

“It is bringing at-tention back down to Newton, I hope. And we are giving back to the com-munity, so I’m here to tell you thank you. Thank you very much for letting us use it in the past ...”

— Thunder Nites President Bob O’Brien

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DEAR ABBY: When my daughter was 20, she met a guy who one minute showered her with roses and the next would beat her up. She stayed with him thinking she could change him, and be-came pregnant. On her 21st birthday, she tried to get away from him. He chased her up the road and went to punch her in the stomach. When she turned to avoid the blow, it landed, hitting the baby in the head and killed the child.

Abby, once a beater, always a beater. I hope all women in abusive relationships will see this letter. My daughter is fine now, married and expecting. I pray for the women and girls out there who are going through what she once had to. — PENN-SYLVANIA MOM

DEAR PENNSYLVANIA MOM: I’m glad you wrote, because your letter re-minds me that it has been some time since I printed the warning signs of an abuser. Here they are:

(1) PUSHES FOR QUICK IN-VOLVEMENT: Comes on strong, claiming, “I’ve never felt loved like this by anyone.” An abuser pressures the new partner for an exclusive commitment al-most immediately.

(2) JEALOUS: Excessively possessive; calls constantly or visits unexpectedly; prevents you from going to work because “you might meet someone”; checks the mileage on your car.

(3) CONTROLLING: If you are late, interrogates you intensively about whom you talked to and where you were; keeps all the money; insists you ask permission to go anywhere or do anything.

(4) UNREALISTIC EXPECTA-TIONS: Expects you to be the perfect mate and meet his or her every need.

(5) ISOLATION: Tries to isolate you from family and friends; accuses people who are your supporters of “causing trouble.” The abuser may deprive you of a phone or car, or try to prevent you from holding a job.

(6) BLAMES OTHERS FOR PROBLEMS OR MISTAKES: It’s al-ways someone else’s fault if something goes wrong.

(7) MAKES OTHERS RESPON-SIBLE FOR HIS OR HER FEEL-INGS: The abuser says, “You make me

angry” instead of “I am angry,” or says, “You’re hurting me by not doing what I tell you.”

(8) HYPERSENSITIVITY: Is easily insulted, claiming hurt feelings when he or she is really mad. Rants about the in-justice of things that are just a part of life.

(9) CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OR CHILDREN: Kills or punishes animals brutally. Also may expect children to do things that are far beyond their ability (whips a 3-year-old for wetting a diaper) or may tease them until they cry. Sixty-five percent of abusers who beat their partners will also abuse children.

(10) “PLAYFUL” USE OF FORCE DURING SEX: Enjoys throwing you down or holding you down against your will during sex; finds the idea of rape ex-citing.

(11) VERBAL ABUSE: Constantly criticizes or says blatantly cruel things; de-grades, curses, calls you ugly names. This may also involve sleep deprivation, waking you with relentless verbal abuse.

(12) RIGID GENDER ROLES: Ex-pects you to serve, obey, remain at home.

(13) SUDDEN MOOD SWINGS: Switches from sweet to violent in minutes.

(14) PAST BATTERING: Admits to hitting a mate in the past, but says the person “made” him (or her) do it.

(15) THREATS OF VIOLENCE: Says things like, “I’ll break your neck” or “I’ll kill you,” and then dismisses them with, “Everybody talks that way,” or “I didn’t really mean it.”

Readers, if you feel you are at risk, con-tact the National Domestic Violence Ho-tline at 800-799-7233 or www.thehotline.org.

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Fillies edge the Cardinals

NEWTON — Senior Lizzie Stock squared up outside the three-point arc in the corner and put up the shot. Stock’s aim was true, netting a 3-pointer with 9.2 seconds remain-ing in the game and pulling Newton’s Cardinals to within two points of Dallas Center-Grimes.

Following a quick timeout called by NHS head coach Brandon Sharp, the Cardinals fouled Dani Heritage as soon as the inbounds pass came to her. Heritage missed the fi rst of two free throw attempts but downed the sec-ond to put the Fillies up 44-41.

The Fillies took a timeout with 7.6 seconds on the game clock.

“We had the perfect play drawn up for a 3-pointer to tie it. It was there. They (the Fillies) played right into it,” Sharp said following the three-point loss. “We didn’t excute the play. It just comes down to decision making and turnovers for us right now.

“Our girls played with great effort tonight.”

The Cardinals pushed the Class 4A, 12th-ranked Fillies to the brink at home Tuesday night. Newton held the Fillies to three points in the fi rst 7:58 of the game.

Shelby Gray’s bucket midway through the fi rst quarter put the Cards up 4-3. Sydney Jenkins scored for Newton at the 2:43 mark and Stock scored with 20 seconds left to push the lead to 8-3. DCG’s Allison O’Brien broke a four-minute scoring drought for the Fillies at the end of the period.

Mach Masching dropped in two free throws for DCG to open the sec-ond period. The Cardinals scored in transition with Jenkins passing the basketball to Alex Hutchinson under the basket for the two points.

Dallas Center-Grimes got a basket from Selena Nolte at the 6:01 mark. The Fillies would not score again be-fore halftime. Newton’s defense held off the Fillies and the Cardinals got baskets from Stock, Gray and Sarah Kalkhoff in the fi nal four minutes to open a 16-9 lead at the break.

“The girls played well, especially in the fi rst half. We played hard and dis-ciplined basketball,” Sharp said. “We came out of halftime with a focus.”

Stock had the opening bucket of the second half. Gray’s shot crawled in and Newton was in front 20-9 with 6:39 left in the third quarter.

Sharp was assessed a technical foul a minute later with Heritage sinking both free throws for DCG. Heritage was 10-of-13 from the line in the game to end up with 16 points.

Michaela Jacobsen swiped the bas-ketball from the Fillies and scored, which had the Cardinals up 22-11. Newton led 23-15 when Heritage drilled back-to-back 3-pointers for the Fillies.

Jacobsen answered with a basket. The Cardinals maintained their lead, 25-22, heading into the fourth quar-ter. Throughout the second half, the Cardinals had opportunities to stretch their lead but a pass was just a few inches off.

“We’re 10 games into our season. We need our ‘young’ players to step up and make better decisions. Turn-overs are really hurting us. We had 31 tonight,” Sharp said. “At the end, we didn’t recognize we had what we wanted for the tying 3-pointer.”

Heritage downed two charities to put the Fillies in front for the fi rst time since early in the game. Dallas Center-Grimes held a 31-27 lead but the Cardinals came back. Jacobsen hit both ends of a one-and-one and Han-nah Rhoads sank two free throws to tie the game, 31-31, with 4:32 left.

The game was tied at 35-all and 37-all. The Fillies got back-to-back bas-kets from Lexi Rosa. O’Brien hit two free throws to make it 43-38 with 18.9 seconds left. Then came Stock’s three.

Jacobsen led the Cardinals with 13 points. Newton went 10-of-12 from the line while Dallas Center-Grimes was cashed in on 20-of-26 free throws. O’Brien scored 10 points for the Fillies.

Newton is 2-2 in Little Hawkeye Conference play and 2-8 overall. The Cardinals go to Grinnell on Friday in conference action.

In the junior varsity contest, Dal-las Center-Grimes held on for a 37-

31 win. Jessica Reynolds led Newton with 10 points and Victoria Jordan added seven points.Newton 8-8-9-16—41DCG 5-4-13-22—44Newton — Jenkins 1-0-0-2, Stock 3/1-0-4-9, Rhoads 0-2-4-2, Gray 3-0-4-6, Jacobsen 4-5-

4-13, Kalkhoff 1-2-4-4, Alex Hutchinson 2-1-0-5. TOTALS: 14/1-10-20-41.Dallas Center-Grimes — O’Brien 3-4-1-10, Peyton 1-3-15, Dunphy 0-0-1-0, Kramer 1-0-3-2, Masching 0-2-0-2, P. Lowary 0-0-2-0, R. Lowary 0-0-1-0, Heritage 0/2-10-2-16, Rosa 3-1-2-7, Nolte 1-0-3-2. TOTALS: 9/2-20-16-44.

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily NewsPutting the squeeze on Dallas Center-Grimes’ Brooke Kramer are Newton sopho-mores Hannah Rhoads (32) and Sydney Jenkins (10) to produce a turnover by the Fillies in the fi rst half of Tuesday’s game at NHS. The Cardinals pushed the 12th-ranked Fillies to the brink but came up short, 44-41, in Little Hawkeye Conference play.

By Jocelyn SheetsDaily News Sports Editor

Defensive breakdowns hamper Cardinals against Mustangs

NEWTON — Defensive execu-tion is just as important as offensive execution on the basketball court.

Newton’s Cardinals had a game plan on defense going into Tuesday night’s home Little Hawkeye Con-ference contest against the Class 3A fourth-ranked Dallas Center-Grimes Mustangs. They were going to double up on the Mustangs’ 6-8 post player Austin Rix each time he touched so he’d have to pass the ball.

“It was a good game plan. We didn’t execute it. When you don’t execute against a really good team, you’re go-ing to struggle,” said Nick Wilkins, Cardinal head coach, following a 76-58 loss to the Mustangs.

Rix ended up with 22 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Mustangs. Wilkins pointed even to the fact that Nick Drucker, “who never posts up,” went inside because of the mis-match-es against the Cardinals and scored. Drucker fi nished with 13 points and 10 rebounds.

“We’re alright offensively. Our guys played hard. Our problem is that we don’t work as hard defensively as we do offensively,” Wilkins said. “We struggle to get stops. We can score but we don’t get enough stops on the de-fensive end.”

An example of that came in the sec-ond quarter. The Cardinals fell behind 10-2 in the fi rst period and worked back to trail 20-15 on a 3-pointer from Connor Gholson by the end of the opening quarter.

Rix sank two free throws for DCG to begin the second period. Chan-dler Sturtz, who led Newton with 20 points, triggered in a 3-pointer. The Cardinals were down 22-18 at the 5:54 mark of the stanza.

But the Cardinal defense allowed Reese Iversen to hit a 3-pointer then Drucker connected on a three that al-most turned into a four-point play but he missed the free throw. The defi cit was 10 again and the Cardinals never got any closer.

The Mustangs outscored the Car-dinals 22-10 in the second period to forge a 42-25 halftime lead. A trey by Iversen and a bucket by Rix pushed it further in the opening minute and a half of the third quarter.

Jake Bennett came off the bench and hit a 3-pointer for Newton to be-gin a back-and-forth game the rest of the second half. The Mustangs led 61-40 when Newton’s Nick Glotfelty hit a 3-pointer to end the scoring in the third quarter. Each team tossed in 15 points in the fi nal eight minutes.

“Every game is going to present match-up problems for teams. We

have to learn how to take advantage of those better or counter them defen-sively,” Wilkins said. “We didn’t at-tack the rim in the fi rst half. When we started attacking the rim in the second half, we played right with them.

“We’ve tried several defenses this season and have not found one that really works for us. It’s a learning pro-cess on defense for us and we’ll keep working on it.”

Tyler Wood added 12 points for the Cardinals. Newton was 4-of-11 from the free-throw line.

Dallas Center-Grimes (8-1) got 12 points from Iversen. The Mustangs

cashed in on 10-of-20 attempts from the charity stripe.

Newton is 3-6 overall and 2-2 in Little Hawkeye Conference play. The Cardinals travel to Grinnell in confer-ence action Friday.Newton 15-10-18-15—58DCG 20-22-19-15—76Newton — Sturtz 6/2-2-2-20, Shores 0-0-1-0, Wood 4/1-1-4-12, Bennett 1/1-0-4-5, Al-len 1-0-4-2, Easley 1-0-2-2, Banfi eld 2-1-2-5, Gholson 0/3-0-0-9, Glotfelty 0/1-0-0-3. TO-TALS: 15/8-4-19-58.Dallas Center-Grimes — Borchers 1-0-2-2, Kramer 3-0-3-6, Drucker 4/2-2-3-13, Cham-bers 3-0-0-6, Washington 1-0-1-2, Heritage 3-0-0-6, Iversen 1/2-4-4-12, Rix 9-4-1-22, Bal-zer 2-0-1-4. TOTALS: 27/4-10-15-76.


Jocelyn Sheets/Daily NewsAttacking the rim is Newton senior guard Chandler Sturtz (4) as he sails past Dallas Center-Grimes’ Trey Washington (30) to get two of his team-high 20 points in Tuesday’s home Little Hawkeye Conference game for the Cardinals. The Class 3A fourth-ranked Mustangs controlled the game from the outset, winning 76-58.

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8Sports

ThursdayHigh School Wrestling

Oskaloosa at Newton, 6:30 p.m.Colfax-Mingo, Saydel at Roland-Story, 6 p.m.PCM at CMB, 6:30 p.m.

Middle School WrestlingNewton at Oskaloosa, 4:30 p.m.

FridayHigh School Basketball

Newton at Grinnell, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.Sigourney at Lynnville-Sully, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.Norwalk at Pella Christian, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.Roland-Story at CMB, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.Nevada at PCM, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.Gilbert at Colfax-Mingo, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

SaturdayHigh School Wrestling

Newton at Ottumwa Invitational, 10 a.m.Colfax-Mingo, Lynnville-Sully at PCM Invita-tional, 9 a.m.CMB at BCLUW tournament

BowlingNewton, Oskaloosa at Knoxville, 11 a.m.Pella Christian at Norwalk, Noon

Boys’ SwimmingNewton at Waterloo Invitational, 10 a.m,

High School BasketballPella Christian boys at North Polk, 6 p.m.

Sports Calendar

SULLY — Lynnville-Sully’s Hawks were way too much for the visiting Trojans of Tri-County, Thornburg, Tuesday.

The Hawk girls handled the Trojan girls, 70-32, in the opener of the South Iowa Cedar League doubleheader, and the Hawk boys closed with a 62-12 thumping of the Trojan boys.

“Our defensive intensity was excellent tonight and that carried over to the offensive end,” said Nick Harthoorn, Lynnville-Sully boys’ head coach. “I thought we shared the ball offensively and had different guys looking to impact the game in different ways.”

The Hawk boys (6-3) held the Trojans to a frigid 12 percent, 5-of-41, shooting from the field. The Trojans only scored three points in the second half. Lynnville-Sully was up 31-9 at halftime, and out-scored Tri-County 21-0 in the third quarter.

Darin Hofer had a double-double with 15 points and 10 re-bounds. T.J. Cunnigham poured in 13 points. The Hawks shot 45 per-

cent, 27-of-60, from the field. Ben Trettin had nine points.

Jake Brand scored seven points and Kyle Van Dyke had six. Caleb James and Sage Ehres-man each added five points. Canyon Kuhl-mann had two points.

The fourth-ranked Lynnville-Sully girls used a 15-2 run in the first quarter to set the tone for their 10th win of the season.

The Trojans battled back with 14 points in the second period but the Hawks added 16 to lead 31-16 at the break.

Lynnville-Sully overpowered Tri-County 19-6 in the third pe-riod.

The Hawks finished the game on a 20-10 surge.

“In the second half, we ran our offense very well and we got out and ran the floor well,” Lynnville-Sully girls head coach Jerry Huls-ing said. “At times, our defense forced turnovers, but we need to be

more consistent with our pressure and rotations. It was good to see us have balanced scoring.”

The Hawks forced 27 Trojan turnovers and held the Trojans to 25-percent shooting from the field. The Hawks connected on 27-of-56 from the field for 48 percent. Lynnville-Sully had a 34-29 edge in rebounding.

L y s a n -dra James led the way for the Hawk girls with 19 points, plus she grabbed nine rebounds. Lyndsay Terp-stra fired in 13 points followed by Madison Rasmusson with 11 points and Ra-chel VanWyk with 10 points. Van-Wyk pulled down nine rebounds.

Becca Vos scored eight points for Lynnville-Sully. Cassie Cullen and Marissa Vos each had four points. Bayli Van Manen scored two points.

Virginia Schmidt scored 13 points to lead the Tri-County.

Lynnville-Sully’s teams host Sigourney Friday.

SAYDEL — It was a clean sweep for Prairie City-Monroe’s Mus-tangs over Saydel’s Eagles on Tues-day night. The boys extended their undefeated record to 8-0, while the girls picked up their fi rst road win of the season, but neither of the wins came easy.

PCM’s girls had to fi ght hard for their fi rst road victory. The Eagles got out to a hot start and stifl ed the Mustang offense in the second quar-ter, taking a 30-20 lead into halftime.

The Lady Mustangs came out de-termined to score in the second half, closing the gap to just fi ve points heading into the fi nal quarter, and a dominating fourth quarter gave PCM a fi ve-point victory, 59-54.

Four Mustangs scored in double fi gures, led by senior Abbi Gilson, who dropped 20 points on 8-for-14 shooting. All of her misses came from outside the 3-point line. Courtney

Van Houweling had 15 points. Lexi Kain had 10, and junior transfer Rachel Gulling put up 11.

PCM shot 21-for-51 as a team and re-bounded well above its season average with 27 on the night.

FOR THE BOYS, the Eagles challenged them early. Saydel kept pace with the Mustang offense through two quar-ters, taking a 36-34 lead into the sec-ond half.

PCM tightened up its defense in the third quarter, only allowing seven points and retaking the lead. A back-and-forth fourth quarter capped off by some solid 3-point shooitng from senior Ryan Jennings secured the 63-57 win for PCM.

Sophomore Logan Gilman led the team in scoring, putting up 21 points

on an effi cient 9-for-13 shooting. Senior DIllon Bruxvoort continued his strong play with a double-double of 16 points and 14 rebounds. Senior Zach Uhlen-hopp also put up a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds.

PCM’s teams continue Heart of Iowa con-ference play on Friday. The Mustangs will host Nevada.

Girls gamePCM — 14-6-18-21 — 59

Saydel — 18-12-13-11 — 54PCM — Gilson 22, Van Houweling 15, Gulling 11, Kain 10

Boys GamePCM — 19-15-15-14 — 63Saydel — 15-21-7-14 — 57

PCM — Gilman 21, Bruxvoort 16, Jennings 10, Uhlenhopp 10

Hofer

James


Hawk teams overpower Trojans

Boys and girls Mustang teams sweep Eagles By Dustin Turner

Daily News Sports Writer

Gilson

Uhlenhopp

BAXTER — Collins-Maxwell/Baxters basketball teams both made quick work of their Tigerhawk coun-terparts on Tuesday night. CMB’s boys took out Colfax-Mingo 63-20, and the Raider girls took down the Tigerhawks 55-29.

The Raider girls got on top of the Tigerhawks from the onset. CMB jumped out to a double-digit lead af-ter one quarter, 16-4. C-M struggled from the fi eld in the early going, and although the Lady Tigerhawks were able to put together one of their best offensive quarters of the season, it came too late to make a difference.

C-M trailed 28-10 going into half-time and 41-14 going into the fourth quarter, which is when the Tigerhawks were able to get into a rhythm, scor-ing 15 points. Despite the output late, the Raiders came away with a 55-29 victory.

Four Raiders scored in double fi gures with junior Lexi Breon lead-ing the way with 14 points. Abbie

Haupert had a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Bridget Hur-ley came off the bench and added 11 points, hitting two 3-pointers. Mack-enzie Schmitz scored 10.

McKenzie Cogley led the way for the Tigerhawks. She had 15 points and seven rebounds, both team-highs. Jade Lewis had her best output of the season, picking up 12 rebounds and adding six points.

“The player who truly stood out in this game was Jade Lewis,” C-M coach Michelle Grant said. “She had six points and 12 rebounds, six of which were offensive. Jade played a great de-fensive game, executed her defensive assignments, was an offensive threat, and fought hard the whole game.”

CMB’s boys also took control of the Tigerhawks from the early going and improved their record to 7-3. The Raiders took a 34-10 lead into half-time and proceeded to pile it on in the third quarter, scoring 20 points to C-M’s fi ve.

Junior Bryce Kemp took the reigns on offense with 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting. Senior Zach Samson was

the other Raider in double fi gures with 13 points on 6-of-7 from the fi eld.

CMB shot 25-of-43 from the fi eld for an impressive shooting percentage of 58. The team also pulled in 29 re-bounds and dished out 18 assists, led by Kemp’s fi ve.

Sophomore Jake Lietz led the way for C-M with seven points. Fellow sophomore Jared Myers chipped in four points.

C-M, still winless at 0-8, will take on Gilbert in Colfax on Friday, while the Raider teams will stay at home for a matchup against the Norse and Norsemen of Roland-Story.

Girls GameC-M — 4-6-4-15 — 29

CMB — 16-12-13-14 — 55C-M — Cogley 15, Lewis 6, Jena Teed 6, Jessica Albright 1, Dakota Hostetter 1CMB — Breon 14, Haupert 12, Hurley 11, Schmitz 10, Mikayla Eslinger 6, Katie Ziesman 2

Boys GameC-M — 3-7-5-5 — 20

CMB — 16-18-20-9 — 63C-M — Lietz 7, Myers 4, James Stoecker 3, Juan Gon-zales 2, Michael Deal 2, Colin Lourens 1, Nate Smith 1CMB — Kemp 16, Samson 13, Joey Nissen 9, Tommy Galloway 8, Seth Balke 6, Brady Stover 3, Colin Thom-son 3, Patrick Girard 2, Brad Ritter 2

By Dustin TurnerDaily News Sports Writer

Raider teams take out Tigerhawks

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Se-nior point guard DeAndre Kane was supposed to be a one-year stopgap for Iowa State.

Kane has evolved into one of the most versatile players in the country — and the surging Cy-clones look like one of the best teams in the nation because of it.

Kane had a season-high 30 points with nine assists, eight rebounds and fi ve steals as No. 9 Iowa State rolled past No. 7 Baylor 87-72 on Tuesday night, setting a school record with its 14th straight win.

“He’s a mismatch nightmare

out there, when you have a guy who is 6-foot-5, 210 pounds, strong as an ox and he’s ex-perienced,” Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg said of Kane, who transferred from Marshall in the offseason. “He’s a smart player.”

Melvin Ejim added 18 points for the Cyclones (14-0, 2-0 Big 12), who outscored Baylor 47-34 in the second half and rolled to a surprisingly decisive win over a fellow Big 12 title con-tender.

Kane had 17 points in the fi rst half, helping his struggling teammates take a two-point lead. The rest of the Cyclones

got untracked early in the second half, blowing past the Bears with a 28-12 run to se-cure their most impressive win of the season.

“I came here to win,” Kane said. “I just wanted to be a part of something special.”

Gary Franklin and Brady Heslip both had 15 points for Baylor (12-2, 0-1), which saw its win streak snapped at six games.

The Bears, like many teams before them, had no answer for Kane’s unique skill set.

He is averaging 16.1 points on 52 percent shooting to go along with 7.1 rebounds and

6.3 assists a game.“When you see him in per-

son, the size, the strength and the speed. He affects the game in a variety of ways,”Baylor coach Scott Drew said. “Coming in I heard he was good. But I think he has far surpassed what peo-ple might have thought.”

Baylor couldn’t have asked for a tougher draw to open Big 12 play. The Cyclones had already beaten ranked teams Michigan and Iowa at home this season and entered play 39-3 in Ames since 2011-12.

The Bears hung around until early in the second half, when Iowa State slowly but

surely overwhelmed yet anoth-er visitor.

Baylor, which fi gured to have a serious size advantage with Isaiah Austin and Cory Jefferson, was outscored 47-26 in the paint.

Austin had 10 points and 12 rebounds and Jefferson fi nished with seven points for Baylor, which had 19 turnovers

“They did a great job of doubling. I thought they were very aggressive. On fi lm, we thought we could exploit it more, and I was wrong. We’ll have to work on that and be a lot more effi cient playing out of a double team,” Drew said.

No. 9 Iowa State Cyclones beat No. 7 Baylor 87-72

Pipe bursts at Waterloo wrestling museum

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — An of-ficial says no pieces of wrestling his-tory or other memorabilia have been damaged by water that rushed out of a burst pipe at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo.

Museum director Kyle Klingman says he suddenly heard rushing wa-ter while he was working in his office around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday.

He soon discovered a deluge com-ing from what had been a frozen water pipe in a wall.

Klingman says he called the Water-loo Fire Department and then joined other staffers in putting memorabilia out of the water’s reach.

An estimated 7,500 gallons of water covered the floor in about half of the museum.

Skier Vonn out of Sochi with knee injury

Lindsey Vonn will miss the Sochi Olympics because of a right knee inju-ry, leaving the Winter Games without one of its biggest stars.

The 29-year-old from Vail, Colo., announced her decision Tuesday, ex-actly one month before the opening ceremony in Russia.

Her publicist, Lewis Kay, said in a statement that Vonn “will have surgery shortly.”

In a posting on Facebook, Vonn said she is “devastated” to miss the Olym-pics, “but the reality has sunk in that my knee is just too unstable to compete at this level.”

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THE IOWA DISTRICT COURTJASPER COUNTYIN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OFHAROLD L. VAN DER HART,DeceasedProbate No. ESPR036420NOTICE OF PROBATE OFWILL, OF APPOINTMENT OFEXECUTOR, AND NOTICE TOCREDITORSTo All Persons Interested in theEstate of HAROLD L. VAN DERHART, Deceased, who died on orabout October 7, 2013:You are hereby notified that onthe 20th day of December, 2013,the last will and testament ofHAROLD L. VAN DER HART, de-ceased, bearing date of the 25thday of April, 2006, was admittedto probate in the above namedcourt and that Larry D. Van DerHart was appointed executor ofthe estate. Any action to setaside the will must be brought inthe district court of said countywithin the later to occur of fourmonths from the date of the sec-ond publication of this notice orone month from the date of mail-ing of this notice to all heirs of thedecedent and devisees under thewill whose identities are reason-ably ascertainable, or thereafterbe forever barred.Notice is further given that all per-sons indebted to the estate arerequested to make immediatepayment to the undersigned, andcreditors having claims againstthe estate shall file them with theclerk of the above named districtcourt, as provided by law, dulyauthenticated, for allowance, andunless so filed by the later to oc-cur of four months from the sec-ond publication of this notice orone month from the date of mail-ing of this notice (unless other-wise allowed or paid) a claim isthereafter forever barred.Dated this 7th day of January,2014.Larry D. Van Der HartExecutor of estate8816 S 128 Avenue WMonroe, IA 50170Address*Designated Codicil(s) if any, withdate(s)Bruce Nuzum,ICIS PIN No: AT0005885Attorney for executorCaldwell, Brierly, Chalupa, &Nuzum, PLLC211 First Avenue W, Newton, IA50208AddressDate of second publication 15thday of January, 2014Probate Code Section 304

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THE IOWA DISTRICT COURTJASPER COUNTYIN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OFHAROLD L. VAN DER HART,DeceasedProbate No. ESPR036420NOTICE OF PROBATE OFWILL, OF APPOINTMENT OFEXECUTOR, AND NOTICE TOCREDITORSTo All Persons Interested in theEstate of HAROLD L. VAN DERHART, Deceased, who died on orabout October 7, 2013:You are hereby notified that onthe 20th day of December, 2013,the last will and testament ofHAROLD L. VAN DER HART, de-ceased, bearing date of the 25thday of April, 2006, was admittedto probate in the above namedcourt and that Larry D. Van DerHart was appointed executor ofthe estate. Any action to setaside the will must be brought inthe district court of said countywithin the later to occur of fourmonths from the date of the sec-ond publication of this notice orone month from the date of mail-ing of this notice to all heirs of thedecedent and devisees under thewill whose identities are reason-ably ascertainable, or thereafterbe forever barred.Notice is further given that all per-sons indebted to the estate arerequested to make immediatepayment to the undersigned, andcreditors having claims againstthe estate shall file them with theclerk of the above named districtcourt, as provided by law, dulyauthenticated, for allowance, andunless so filed by the later to oc-cur of four months from the sec-ond publication of this notice orone month from the date of mail-ing of this notice (unless other-wise allowed or paid) a claim isthereafter forever barred.Dated this 7th day of January,2014.Larry D. Van Der HartExecutor of estate8816 S 128 Avenue WMonroe, IA 50170Address*Designated Codicil(s) if any, withdate(s)Bruce Nuzum,ICIS PIN No: AT0005885Attorney for executorCaldwell, Brierly, Chalupa, &Nuzum, PLLC211 First Avenue W, Newton, IA50208AddressDate of second publication 15thday of January, 2014Probate Code Section 304

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December 16, 2013 - 7:00 p.m.Regular meeting of the Board ofEducation at Newton Senior HighSchool, Library (relocated)President Andrew Elbert con-vened the board to order at 7:14p.m. Due to a potential pipebomb related to a vehicle stopnear Emerson Hough, police andfire requested relocation of boardmeeting originally scheduled atEmerson Hough ConferenceRoom 125.Present: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark(7:15 p.m.), Donna Cook, AndrewElbert, Robyn Friedman, TravisPadget, Bill Perrenoud, BobCallaghan, Gayle Isaac, andChristine Dawson.Others Present: SydneyBergman, Chris Bieghler, ConnorClaypool, Cristy Croson, BarbHackworth, Jen Norvell, Bill Pe-ters, Curt Roorda, Tina Ross, TyRushing, Laura Selover, EvanShimon, Lucinda Sinclair, andJack Suttek.COMMUNICATIONSStudent Representatives to theSchool Board introduced currentevents at the high school. FFAwill be hosting districts January20, 2014 and they may be look-ing to Board Members to serveas judges.APPROVAL OF CONSENTAGENDA - ACTION # 9201Ms. Benson moved, Ms. Fried-man seconded, to approve theconsent agenda - as amended toinclude: change in meeting loca-tion, and omitted agenda item IVD (November Financials). Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark(abstain), Donna Cook, AndrewElbert, Robyn Friedman, TravisPadget, and Bill Perrenoud.No one requested to speak dur-ing Open Forum.No one was present to file objec-tions to the proposed purchase oflaptop computers (7:21 p.m.).Superintendent Callaghan's Re-port:A. SIAC and Committee Report- Mr. Callaghan requested inputfrom board members to completethe SIAC Committee (3 membersneeded). Those expressing inter-est were: Donna Cook, Andy El-bert, Robyn Friedman, and BillPerrenoud. An introductorymeeting will be held December18, 2013 at 4:00 PM at EmersonHough, Conference Room 125. Sheri Benson volunteered to beon the Jasper Co Assessors Of-fice Conference Board.B. Book Study Consideration -Mr. Callaghan requested that werevisit this in May 2014.C. School Board OperatingProcedures - Mr. Callaghan re-quested that this be put on theagenda for the January 13, 2014board meeting.D. Ed Camp IA 2014 - will beheld Saturday, March 14, 2014 inPleasant Hill, IA. E. Technology Report - ChrisBieghler shared thateSchoolView has been selectedas the web host for Newton CSD.He will have a demo of the newsite, with plans to go semi-liveJanuary 2014, and upcomingtraining dates. The new site willinclude an anonymous tips/bully-ing component.F. Transportation Report - CurtRoorda shared that busses havebeen running okay so far, evenwith recent colder weather. Driv-er training with Officer Foster hasbeen completed. Newton CSDdid reach out to Colfax CSD withrecent bus accident; they are un-der contract so no assistancewas needed. G. Facilities Report - Jack Sut-tek shared that recent snow re-moval efforts went well. He isworking with Woodman Controlson the Berg HVAC, as the systemis in need of upgrades. A lumensmeter has been purchased, andlighting is being measured atschools (lumens/ square foot)with concern at Berg too. Early Retirement Policy 410.1,410.2, 410.3 (First Readings)Mr. Callaghan explained pro-posed edits to Early Retirementpolicies 410.1, 410.2, 410.3. Early Retirement IncentiveConsideration (Action Item) -ACTION # 9202There was some discussion on410.2 (Voluntary Early Retire-ment Benefits - Full Time Em-ployees) and rewarding employ-ees vs. cost savings. Mr.Callaghan shared that 17 em-ployees are of age for early re-tirement, with 16 of them having164+ sick days. Employees areallowed to accumulate 15 daysper year, at 180 day max. Retire-ment incentive comes out of theManagement Fund vs. the Gen-eral Fund. Mr. Clark moved, Ms. Cook sec-onded, to approve the first read-ings of the Early Retirement Poli-cies and the Early Retirement In-centive Consideration. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, and TravisPadget. Nays: Bill Perrenoud.Physical Plant Equipment Levy(PPEL) Election Dates (ActionItem) - ACTION # 9203Mr. Isaac presented a list of pos-sible Special School ElectionDates for the Physical PlantEquipment Levy (PPEL). His rec-ommendations would be: April 1,September 9 (2014) and Febru-ary 3, June 23 (2015) and if ap-proved, he will coordinate withAhlers & Cooney, P.C. to getelection set up. Ms. Cook moved, Mr. Perrenoudseconded, to approve the PPELelection dates as presented.Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud. Consideration of Food ServiceEquipment Bids (Action Item) -ACTION # 9204Cristy Croson presented a com-parison bid for various food ser-vice equipment items includingsteamer/convection ovens, dish-washer, and mixers with recom-mendation to go with MartinBrothers $84.445.31. Funds willcome out of the Food Service ac-count. Ms. Benson moved, Ms. Fried-man seconded, to approve thepurchase as presented. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud.Consideration of Purchase ofLap Top Computers (ActionItem) - ACTION # 9205Chris Bieghler presented a Re-quest For Bid for 130 ComputerLaptop Systems to upgradewhere necessary enabling everyteacher to have a lap top. Therecommendation is to go withDell at $814.97 per unit for a totalcost of $105.946.10. Funds willcome out of Sales Tax money.Once the technology is inteacher's hands, training will beimplemented. Ms. Cook moved, Ms. Bensonseconded, to approve the pur-chase as presented. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud. NCSD Annual Financial HealthReport (Discussion Item)Mr. Isaac presented Board Mem-bers with the Newton CommunitySchool District Annual FinancialHealth Report (prepared Decem-ber 1, 2013). There was somediscussion on page 4 indicatorratios. Board Members were en-couraged to review pages 1-3(Description of Financial IndicatorRatios & Executive Summary).Mr. Isaac offered to answer anyquestions regarding the FinancialHealth Report at the next BoardMeeting.Line Item Budget (DiscussionItem)Mr. Isaac presented Board Mem-bers with the Newton CommunitySchool District 2013-2014 LineItem Budget. He noted a correc-tion to page A8 Source Code1111 Property Tax - the 2013-2014 estimated should be$7,183,126 which would amendthe Total on page A9 to$29,860,278. Mr. Isaac request-ed that Chris Bieghler put theLine Item Budget on the website.Mr. Isaac offered to answer anyquestions regarding the Line ItemBudget at the next Board Meet-ing.Operating Budget (DiscussionItem)Mr. Isaac presented Board Mem-bers with the Newton CommunitySchool District 2013-2014 Oper-ating Budget. Mr. Isaac request-ed that Chris Bieghler put the Op-erating Budget on the website.Mr. Isaac offered to answer anyquestions regarding the Operat-ing Budget at the next BoardMeeting.Modified Allowable Growth(MAG) Update (Discussion Item)Laura Selover shared currentstrategies utilized by MAG coach-es that help improve at-risk stu-dent success in areas such as at-tendance, social skills, home-work, parent involvement, etc. Itis estimated that 6 ½% of the stu-dent population, or approximately200 students are included in thisprogram.Modified Allowable Growth(MAG) Budget (Action Item) -ACTION # 9206Laura Selover presented the2014-2015 Modified AllowableGrowth Application for DropoutPrevention - Budget Proposaland MAG Request. The pro-posed request is $545,876 or$0.78 per $1,000 valuation. Mr. Clark moved, Ms. Bensonseconded, that the MAG requestbe approved as presented. Ayes:Sheri Benson, Nat Clark, DonnaCook, Andrew Elbert, RobynFriedman, Travis Padget, and BillPerrenoud.Consideration of NHS 2014-2015 Academic Planning Hand-book Changes (Action Item) -ACTION # 9207Bill Peters shared the NewtonHigh School Academic PlanningHandbook Changes (updatedcopy) which outlined coursesomitted, courses added, and re-vised course descriptions for2014-2015. The updates are de-signed to incorporate students ingeneral education classes, withsupports added. The updatesare also designed to better definepathways to academies. Ms. Cook moved, Ms. Friedmanseconded, to approve thechanges as presented. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud. APPROVAL OF BILLS - AC-TION # 9208Mr. Clark moved, Ms. Cook sec-onded, to approve the bills aspresented. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud(included above)New Business - Old BusinessBoard Meeting Time - Mr.Callaghan requested that an itembe put on the January 13, 2014Board Meeting agenda to discusswhether to move meeting timesback to 6:00 PM.Public Hearing - Mr. Callaghanrequested that an item be put onthe January 13, 2014 BoardMeeting agenda requesting apublic hearing in regards to anAT & T cell tower (5th Street,South of Newton High School). Apublic hearing and vote would beheld at the January 27, 2014Board Meeting.Ed Camp Iowa - Mr. Callaghanrequested that an item be put onthe January 13, 2014 BoardMeeting agenda regarding EdCamp Iowa. School Board Operating Proce-dures - Mr. Callaghan requestedthat an item be put on the Jan-uary 13, 2014 Board Meetingagenda regarding School BoardOperating Procedures. Ms. Ben-son suggested that Board Mem-bers complete the ProtocolsWorksheet and return it to Mr.Callaghan by January 3, 2014 sodata can be compiled prior to thenext meeting. An email reminderwill be sent to Board Members.Budget Questions - Board Mem-bers can submit budget ques-tions to Mr. Isaac from the Finan-cial Health, Line Item Budget,and Operating Budget reports byJanuary 3, 2014 so he can com-pile questions and be prepared toanswer them at the January 13,2014 Board Meeting. An emailreminder will be sent to BoardMembers.ADJOURN - ACTION # 9209Nat Clark moved, and Bill Perre-noud seconded, to adjourn themeeting at 8:53 p.m.Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud.

January 8

December 16, 2013 - 7:00 p.m.Regular meeting of the Board ofEducation at Newton Senior HighSchool, Library (relocated)President Andrew Elbert con-vened the board to order at 7:14p.m. Due to a potential pipebomb related to a vehicle stopnear Emerson Hough, police andfire requested relocation of boardmeeting originally scheduled atEmerson Hough ConferenceRoom 125.Present: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark(7:15 p.m.), Donna Cook, AndrewElbert, Robyn Friedman, TravisPadget, Bill Perrenoud, BobCallaghan, Gayle Isaac, andChristine Dawson.Others Present: SydneyBergman, Chris Bieghler, ConnorClaypool, Cristy Croson, BarbHackworth, Jen Norvell, Bill Pe-ters, Curt Roorda, Tina Ross, TyRushing, Laura Selover, EvanShimon, Lucinda Sinclair, andJack Suttek.COMMUNICATIONSStudent Representatives to theSchool Board introduced currentevents at the high school. FFAwill be hosting districts January20, 2014 and they may be look-ing to Board Members to serveas judges.APPROVAL OF CONSENTAGENDA - ACTION # 9201Ms. Benson moved, Ms. Fried-man seconded, to approve theconsent agenda - as amended toinclude: change in meeting loca-tion, and omitted agenda item IVD (November Financials). Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark(abstain), Donna Cook, AndrewElbert, Robyn Friedman, TravisPadget, and Bill Perrenoud.No one requested to speak dur-ing Open Forum.No one was present to file objec-tions to the proposed purchase oflaptop computers (7:21 p.m.).Superintendent Callaghan's Re-port:A. SIAC and Committee Report- Mr. Callaghan requested inputfrom board members to completethe SIAC Committee (3 membersneeded). Those expressing inter-est were: Donna Cook, Andy El-bert, Robyn Friedman, and BillPerrenoud. An introductorymeeting will be held December18, 2013 at 4:00 PM at EmersonHough, Conference Room 125. Sheri Benson volunteered to beon the Jasper Co Assessors Of-fice Conference Board.B. Book Study Consideration -Mr. Callaghan requested that werevisit this in May 2014.C. School Board OperatingProcedures - Mr. Callaghan re-quested that this be put on theagenda for the January 13, 2014board meeting.D. Ed Camp IA 2014 - will beheld Saturday, March 14, 2014 inPleasant Hill, IA. E. Technology Report - ChrisBieghler shared thateSchoolView has been selectedas the web host for Newton CSD.He will have a demo of the newsite, with plans to go semi-liveJanuary 2014, and upcomingtraining dates. The new site willinclude an anonymous tips/bully-ing component.F. Transportation Report - CurtRoorda shared that busses havebeen running okay so far, evenwith recent colder weather. Driv-er training with Officer Foster hasbeen completed. Newton CSDdid reach out to Colfax CSD withrecent bus accident; they are un-der contract so no assistancewas needed. G. Facilities Report - Jack Sut-tek shared that recent snow re-moval efforts went well. He isworking with Woodman Controlson the Berg HVAC, as the systemis in need of upgrades. A lumensmeter has been purchased, andlighting is being measured atschools (lumens/ square foot)with concern at Berg too. Early Retirement Policy 410.1,410.2, 410.3 (First Readings)Mr. Callaghan explained pro-posed edits to Early Retirementpolicies 410.1, 410.2, 410.3. Early Retirement IncentiveConsideration (Action Item) -ACTION # 9202There was some discussion on410.2 (Voluntary Early Retire-ment Benefits - Full Time Em-ployees) and rewarding employ-ees vs. cost savings. Mr.Callaghan shared that 17 em-ployees are of age for early re-tirement, with 16 of them having164+ sick days. Employees areallowed to accumulate 15 daysper year, at 180 day max. Retire-ment incentive comes out of theManagement Fund vs. the Gen-eral Fund. Mr. Clark moved, Ms. Cook sec-onded, to approve the first read-ings of the Early Retirement Poli-cies and the Early Retirement In-centive Consideration. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, and TravisPadget. Nays: Bill Perrenoud.Physical Plant Equipment Levy(PPEL) Election Dates (ActionItem) - ACTION # 9203Mr. Isaac presented a list of pos-sible Special School ElectionDates for the Physical PlantEquipment Levy (PPEL). His rec-ommendations would be: April 1,September 9 (2014) and Febru-ary 3, June 23 (2015) and if ap-proved, he will coordinate withAhlers & Cooney, P.C. to getelection set up. Ms. Cook moved, Mr. Perrenoudseconded, to approve the PPELelection dates as presented.Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud. Consideration of Food ServiceEquipment Bids (Action Item) -ACTION # 9204Cristy Croson presented a com-parison bid for various food ser-vice equipment items includingsteamer/convection ovens, dish-washer, and mixers with recom-mendation to go with MartinBrothers $84.445.31. Funds willcome out of the Food Service ac-count. Ms. Benson moved, Ms. Fried-man seconded, to approve thepurchase as presented. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud.Consideration of Purchase ofLap Top Computers (ActionItem) - ACTION # 9205Chris Bieghler presented a Re-quest For Bid for 130 ComputerLaptop Systems to upgradewhere necessary enabling everyteacher to have a lap top. Therecommendation is to go withDell at $814.97 per unit for a totalcost of $105.946.10. Funds willcome out of Sales Tax money.Once the technology is inteacher's hands, training will beimplemented. Ms. Cook moved, Ms. Bensonseconded, to approve the pur-chase as presented. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud. NCSD Annual Financial HealthReport (Discussion Item)Mr. Isaac presented Board Mem-bers with the Newton CommunitySchool District Annual FinancialHealth Report (prepared Decem-ber 1, 2013). There was somediscussion on page 4 indicatorratios. Board Members were en-couraged to review pages 1-3(Description of Financial IndicatorRatios & Executive Summary).Mr. Isaac offered to answer anyquestions regarding the FinancialHealth Report at the next BoardMeeting.Line Item Budget (DiscussionItem)Mr. Isaac presented Board Mem-bers with the Newton CommunitySchool District 2013-2014 LineItem Budget. He noted a correc-tion to page A8 Source Code1111 Property Tax - the 2013-2014 estimated should be$7,183,126 which would amendthe Total on page A9 to$29,860,278. Mr. Isaac request-ed that Chris Bieghler put theLine Item Budget on the website.Mr. Isaac offered to answer anyquestions regarding the Line ItemBudget at the next Board Meet-ing.Operating Budget (DiscussionItem)Mr. Isaac presented Board Mem-bers with the Newton CommunitySchool District 2013-2014 Oper-ating Budget. Mr. Isaac request-ed that Chris Bieghler put the Op-erating Budget on the website.Mr. Isaac offered to answer anyquestions regarding the Operat-ing Budget at the next BoardMeeting.Modified Allowable Growth(MAG) Update (Discussion Item)Laura Selover shared currentstrategies utilized by MAG coach-es that help improve at-risk stu-dent success in areas such as at-tendance, social skills, home-work, parent involvement, etc. Itis estimated that 6 ½% of the stu-dent population, or approximately200 students are included in thisprogram.Modified Allowable Growth(MAG) Budget (Action Item) -ACTION # 9206Laura Selover presented the2014-2015 Modified AllowableGrowth Application for DropoutPrevention - Budget Proposaland MAG Request. The pro-posed request is $545,876 or$0.78 per $1,000 valuation. Mr. Clark moved, Ms. Bensonseconded, that the MAG requestbe approved as presented. Ayes:Sheri Benson, Nat Clark, DonnaCook, Andrew Elbert, RobynFriedman, Travis Padget, and BillPerrenoud.Consideration of NHS 2014-2015 Academic Planning Hand-book Changes (Action Item) -ACTION # 9207Bill Peters shared the NewtonHigh School Academic PlanningHandbook Changes (updatedcopy) which outlined coursesomitted, courses added, and re-vised course descriptions for2014-2015. The updates are de-signed to incorporate students ingeneral education classes, withsupports added. The updatesare also designed to better definepathways to academies. Ms. Cook moved, Ms. Friedmanseconded, to approve thechanges as presented. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud. APPROVAL OF BILLS - AC-TION # 9208Mr. Clark moved, Ms. Cook sec-onded, to approve the bills aspresented. Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud(included above)New Business - Old BusinessBoard Meeting Time - Mr.Callaghan requested that an itembe put on the January 13, 2014Board Meeting agenda to discusswhether to move meeting timesback to 6:00 PM.Public Hearing - Mr. Callaghanrequested that an item be put onthe January 13, 2014 BoardMeeting agenda requesting apublic hearing in regards to anAT & T cell tower (5th Street,South of Newton High School). Apublic hearing and vote would beheld at the January 27, 2014Board Meeting.Ed Camp Iowa - Mr. Callaghanrequested that an item be put onthe January 13, 2014 BoardMeeting agenda regarding EdCamp Iowa. School Board Operating Proce-dures - Mr. Callaghan requestedthat an item be put on the Jan-uary 13, 2014 Board Meetingagenda regarding School BoardOperating Procedures. Ms. Ben-son suggested that Board Mem-bers complete the ProtocolsWorksheet and return it to Mr.Callaghan by January 3, 2014 sodata can be compiled prior to thenext meeting. An email reminderwill be sent to Board Members.Budget Questions - Board Mem-bers can submit budget ques-tions to Mr. Isaac from the Finan-cial Health, Line Item Budget,and Operating Budget reports byJanuary 3, 2014 so he can com-pile questions and be prepared toanswer them at the January 13,2014 Board Meeting. An emailreminder will be sent to BoardMembers.ADJOURN - ACTION # 9209Nat Clark moved, and Bill Perre-noud seconded, to adjourn themeeting at 8:53 p.m.Ayes: Sheri Benson, Nat Clark,Donna Cook, Andrew Elbert,Robyn Friedman, Travis Padget,and Bill Perrenoud.

January 8

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You are part of a large and diverse group, but you also are uniquely yourself.You may spend the bet-ter part of the day acting toward the purposes of the

collective. First, take the time to address your indi-vidual needs.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You actually may try to be boring on purpose to throw someone off the trail of who you really are. You just don’t want the attention now, and that’s healthy. No one should need all of the attention all of the time.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll be trying to get something important done, and this involves others. Too bad. It would be easier and faster if it didn’t, or if you could control the oth-ers. Alas, communication is your only hope.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Rest assured, you don’t have to go to the expense of traveling far and wide to find more excitement. New people bring even more adventures than do new places.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your heart is so big that you love people who haven’t even been born yet. Metaphorically, you’ll be planting trees that never

will be big enough to shade you in your lifetime, but generations to come will benefit.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your tendency to overes-timate the talents of those you admire goes hand in hand with the bad habit of underestimating your own talent. Stop analyzing, put your head down and work.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Love isn’t an idea; it’s a feeling that produces ideas. If it were an idea, you could think it and fall in love with anyone. But you can’t force yourself to love someone any more than you can force someone to love you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It’s not that you’re so limited in what you can and can’t do today, but your preferences narrow down your choices quite a bit. This is a good thing. It’s what gives you your style.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). “Perfection paralysis” won’t immobilize you willy-nilly. It only freezes you out of doing certain tasks: the ones

you think you’re supposed to do perfectly because you believe it matters big-time. It doesn’t. Be free.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re in a private mood, and you don’t want people to know what time you woke up, who your favorite friends are and what you did last Friday night. But they’ll ask anyway unless you lead the conversation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ll influence the feelings of others by refus-ing to tell them how to feel. You respect every person’s right to his or her own reac-tion, and you look forward to being surprised at what that reaction might be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Fighting ideas is like fighting clouds. You can punch and kick, but what difference will it make? The way to impact the world today is by tack-ling the tangible items.

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Newton Church of The Way to host Alpha program

Newton Church of the Way will be host-ing an 11-week Alpha program starting Tues-day, Feb. 4. The classes will be held every Tues-day night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m through April 15 at The Way, which is located at 2300 S. Third Ave. E.

“The guest can ask questions and discuss opinions freely with others,” Director of

Discipleship and Lead-ership Development Betty Samson said. “The Alpha program is like a Christianity 101 class.”

The group will enjoy a meal and a relaxed lesson every week. Af-ter the learning, it will go into table discus-sion.

The Way recom-mends the Alpha program for people searching for more to life, people interested in investigating Chris-

tianity, newcomers to the church, new Chris-tians, couples prepar-ing for marriage and Christians who want to brush up on the basics.

“We want to empha-size the Alpha program is different,” Sam-son said. “There’s no pressure, follow up or charge.”

The Alpha program covers many of the ba-sic topics of Christi-anity, including “Who is Jesus and why did he die?”, “Why and

how should I read the Bible?” and includes many individual topics, which will be taught by people who attend Newton Church of The Way.

All the participants of the Alpha program must register either online at www.newton-way.org or by phone at (641) 792-7300.

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Local Faith & ReligionFOR HEAVEN’S SAKE

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s secu-rity authorities launched a sweep of arrests of Muslim Brother-hood members on Thursday and warned that holding a leadership post in the group could now be grounds for the death penalty af-ter it was officially declared a ter-rorist organization, stepping up the government’s confrontation with its top political nemesis.

The announcement came as a bomb exploded in a busy inter-section in Cairo Thursday morn-ing, hitting a bus and wounding five people. Though small, the blast raised fears that a campaign of violence by Islamic militants that for months has targeted po-lice and the military could turn to civilians in retaliation for the stepped up crackdown.

The terrorist labeling of the Brotherhood — an unprecedent-ed step even during past decades when the group was banned — takes to a new level the gov-ernment’s moves to crush the group, which rode on elections to dominate Egypt’s politics the past three years until the military removed Islamist President Mo-hammed Morsi in July after mas-sive protests against him.

The Brotherhood vowed to “qualitatively” escalate its protests against the new military-backed interim government, whose au-thority it rejects. The group has struggled to bring numbers into

the streets in past months under a crackdown that has already killed hundreds of its members and put thousands more in prison, includ-ing Morsi and other top leaders — and there was little sign of any protests on Thursday.

The moves — all playing out before the backdrop of increas-ing violence by al-Qaida-inspired militants —raise the potential for greater turmoil as the country nears a key Jan. 14-15 referen-dum on a revised constitution, a milestone in the post-Morsi po-litical transition. The government is pushing for overwhelming pas-sage of the new document, while the Brotherhood vows to stop it with protests.

Ahmed Imam, spokesman for the Strong Egypt Party founded by ex-Brotherhood member Ab-del-Moneim Abolfotoh, warned that the terrorism label “leaves the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters only one choice, which is violence.”

Both sides are showing “a great deal of stupidity,” he said, blam-ing the Brotherhood for failing to firmly distance itself from mili-tant violence and the government for closing doors to reconciliation.

Speaking to military gradu-ates Thursday, military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the man who removed Morsi and is now Egypt’s most powerful figure, vowed the country will “stand

steadfast in confronting terror-ism.”

“Don’t let any of the incidents happening now affect the will of Egyptians. Never,” he said. “Any-one harms you will be wiped from the face of Earth.”

In past months, authorities have used penal code’s various legal justifications for arresting Morsi supporters, from inciting violence to blocking roads. But Wednesday’s terror designation means the Brotherhood’s hun-dreds of thousands of members can be arrested for simple mem-bership under a tough, years-old anti-terrorism law that outlines death penalties or long prison sentences for some crimes. The government says it will leave lee-way for those who renounce the group’s ideology and member-ship, but didn’t explain how since members don’t carry IDs to prove they belong.

The government said it urged other Arab governments to take similar steps under a 1998 re-gional anti-terrorism treaty, to increase pressure on Brotherhood branches, especially in Gulf coun-tries already known for longtime enmity to the group.

Last week, a new trial of the ousted leader and more than 30 others was announced on charg-es of conspiring with terrorist groups before, during and after Morsi’s presidency.

Egypt hikes assault on Muslim Brotherhood

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UCC host program on prejudice and religion

Congregational United Church of Christ (308 E Second St. N, Newton) encourages all to join them on Wednesday, January 15 at 7:15pm as they commemorate the birth-day of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ask-ing the question, “How do the –isms affect our faith?” Dr. Kesho Scott—internationally renowned Diversity Trainer/Consultant, As-sociate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Grinnell College, and award-winning writer—will present and guide us in exploring the ways the –isms (racism, sexism, classism, etc.) impact our spirituality. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Please contact Rev. Jessica Petersen at the church office (641.792.3773) with any questions.

Sacred Heart to host information sessions

Adults who wish to find out more about becoming Catholic Christians are invited to attend an informational session at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 1115 S. 8th Ave. E. The informational sessions will be Mondays, January 13th and 27th , from 7-8:30 p.m. in McCann Center.

These sessions are designed as an oppor-tunity for participants to ask questions about the Catholic Church, its teachings, its rituals, and its way of life. The process for becoming Catholic is also explained.

For more information, call Tammy Nor-cross, Pastoral Minister, 792-2050, ext. 224., or [email protected]

Pope stresses strength, courage in new year

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, laying out his hopes Wednesday for the just-begun year, urged people to work for a world where everyone accepts each other’s differ-ences and where enemies recognize that they are brothers.

“We are all children of one heavenly father. We belong to the same human family and we share a common destiny,” Francis said, speaking from his studio window overlook-ing St. Peter’s Square, jammed with tens of thousands of faithful, tourists and Romans.

“This brings a responsibility for each to work so that the world becomes a communi-ty of brothers who respect each other, accept each other in one’s diversity, and take care of one another,” the pope said.

Setting aside his prepared text for a mo-ment, he expressed impatience with violence in the world. “What is happening in the heart of man? What is happening in the heart of humanity?” Francis asked. “It’s time to stop.”

He told the crowd this reflection was in-spired by a letter he received from a man — “maybe one of you” — who lamented that there are “so many tragedies and wars in the world.”

“I, too, believe that it will be good for us to stop ourselves in this path of violence and search for peace,” Francis said.

In his remarks to the often-applauding crowd, he also expressed hope that “the gos-pel of brotherhood speak to every conscience and knock down the walls that impede en-emies from recognizing that they are broth-ers.”

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