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determine if it meets the criteria of the D&D program. Criteria for the program includes determining whether it is a blight to the neigh-borhood, if it is beyond repair, whether acquisi-tion costs would be low or that it has redevelop-ment potential, along with additional criteria.

Properties that are notice or order worthy

are not typically ac-quired by the city.

“When they are no-ticed and order worthy they are degraded to such a point that they are a danger to the com-munity. It is the respon-sibility of the property owner to fix that danger whether it be rehab the property or tear it down themselves,” Chambers said.

In most cases, if the order goes ignored, the city will enter and tear down the property.

The average price of purchase for properties in the D&D program is about 30 cents on the dollar of the assessed value. In addition to the purchase price, the city also has additional costs

Kellogg man leads authorities on

high-speed pursuitBy Mike Mendenhall

Newton Daily News

MONROE — A Kellogg man was sub-dued with a stun gun by c o u n t y law en-f o r c e -m e n t Wednes-day night f o l l o w -ing a p u r s u i t on gravel roads off Highway F62 East near Monroe.

According to a re-port from the Jasper County Sheriff ’s Office, Russell Quick Sr., 58, eluded deputies follow-ing a traffic stop at 7:17 p.m. the intersection of Highway F62 East and

Rifle Street.Quick was stopped

after he was recog-nized by authorities as a barred driver. The dep-uty observed a long gun in the subject’s pickup truck during the stop, and Quick reportedly fled when the officer at-tempted to arrest him.

The pursuit lasted roughly 16 minutes, reaching high rates of speed when Quick’s ve-hicle drove into a farm field northeast of Mon-roe, eventually coming to a stop near a creek bed.

Following the pursuit, deputies report they ob-served Quick putting on camouflage clothing and moving around the

Jamee A. Pierson/Daily NewsLand located at 222 N. Fourth Ave. W. will become the site of a large residential living space exclusively for adults 62 and older. These apartments will be high quality but at an affordable price, according to Newton’s Director of Finance and Development Bryan Friedman.

Newton Place Apartments available next summer

By Kate MalottNewton Daily News

The community voiced a need and the City of Newton listened. By working with the Miller-Valentine Group, the city implemented the develop-ment and construction of a large residential living space near downtown Newton, set to open next summer.

The apartment home com-munity is located four blocks from the Newton square at 222 N. Fourth Ave. W. and is de-signed exclusively for adults 62 and over.

Based off feedback from the Community Housing Assess-ment Team survey, local resi-

dents expressed a need for more affordable housing options for independent seniors.

The Newton Housing Devel-opment Corporation took the lead with seeking out interested developers and connected with Cincinnati-based Miller-Valen-tine Group, according to New-ton’s Director of Finance and Development Bryan Friedman.

The city endorsed the part-nership with MV and provided incentives to the project such as a $150,000 infrastructure grant and 10 years of partial property tax rebates. MV was also ap-proved, in a very competitive process, for tax credits from the State of Iowa for the Newton Place Apartments.

The homes will be two bed-room, one bath units with many amenities for its residents such as kitchens with breakfast bars and islands, energy efficient ap-pliances, large closets and step in showers.

Newton Place Apartments will also be equipped with a fit-ness center, media room, busi-ness center and a community room with kitchen and seating as well as 24-hour maintenance service.

Pete Schwiegeraht, MV Res-idential Development Devel-oper, visited the Newton City Council meeting Monday eve-ning to give a project update.

Due to an unstable site and a large amount of precipitation, the project has had a few setbacks but is still on track for a comple-tion date for summer 2015.

Jamee A. Pierson/Daily NewsProperties, like the lot south of Skiff Medical Center, were cleared after being acquired through the D&D program and are available for purchase to citizens from the city.

Property available after rehabilitationBy Jamee A. Pierson

Newton Daily News

Over the past two years, 24 properties have been addressed by the city through the Dangerous and Dilapidated (D&D) Program, leaving lots available for possible purchase to the pub-lic. Whether a citi-zen would like to sell a property to the city or is interested in purchasing a lot that has already been ad-dressed, the planning and zoning depart-ment is the place to go.

“The process (to potentially sell a prop-erty to the city) begins with contacting the planning and zoning department. If you own a property that is dilapidated and be-yond repair, feel free to contact out office,” said Erin Chambers, director of Planning and Zoning.

The city will in-spect the property and

Elderly free ride service program in need of help

By Ty Rushing Newton Daily News

More and more seniors are taking advantage of the Jasper County Ride-share program, which is a good news. The bad news is the program is in need of more volunteers to keep up with the increase, ac-cording to the program’s coordinator.

Rideshare is one of the many components that makes up the Jasper County Retired Senior Volunteer Program, how-ever, it’s the one giving Denice Fischer, RSVP’s program coordinator, the most issues at the mo-ment.

“Currently, our trans-portation program has the largest need for volun-teers. In particular, drivers who are willing to travel

out of town. Although we have 20 drivers on our list, they aren’t all available at one time,” Fischer said.

“We have several driv-ers that are not available at different times of the year. A couple of our drivers’ farm and fall is a busy time for them; we also have one that travels west for the winter. Another one just had knee surgery and an-other informed me recent-ly that he will be moving to Des Moines.”

Being short on drivers is nothing new for Fischer and she said she’s pretty understanding of the cir-cumstances.

“They all earn their retirement and we work around their schedules be-cause that is important to us and them,” Fischer said.

Ty Rushing/Daily NewsPaul Koeppen recently helped a senior make it to a medi-cal appointment. Koeppen is a member of Jasper County Retired Senior Volunteer Program’s rideshare initiative, which is in need of more volunteers.

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Zumba KidsTuesdays — 4 to 4:45 p.m. The routine features aerobic/fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms.

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Fearing Ebola? Doctors say get a flu shotCHICAGO (AP) — Fe-

ver? Headache? Muscle aches? Forget about Ebola — chances are astronomically higher that you have the flu or some other common bug.

That message still hasn’t reached many Americans, judging from stories ER doc-tors and nurses swapped this week at a Chicago medical conference. Misinformed pa-tients with Ebola-like symp-toms can take up time and resources in busy emergency rooms, and doctors fear the problem may worsen when flu season ramps up.

That’s one reason why doc-tors say this year it’s especially

important for patients to get their flu shots: Fewer flu cases could mean fewer Ebola false alarms.

“The whole system gets bogged down, even if it’s a false alarm,” Dr. Kristi Koenig said during a break at the Ameri-can College of Emergency Physicians’ annual meeting.

Since the first Ebola diag-nosis in the U.S., on Sept. 30 in a Liberian man treated in Dallas, doctors say they’ve had to reassure patients with many fears but none of the risk fac-tors.

Flu and other airborne dis-eases can be transmitted by indirect contact with infected

people. By contrast, the only way to get Ebola is through di-rect contact with blood, vomit and other body fluids from Ebola patients, experts say.

While Ebola can be quickly ruled out for many patients by asking about recent travel to West Africa and contact with Ebola patients, “there’s still some concern about anybody with symptoms that could be Ebola because it’s so much in the news right now.”

That means a patient with the flu could trigger a full-court press in the ER, includ-ing isolating the patient and ER staff grabbing the hazmat suits until Ebola is ruled out.

Ebola was among hot top-ics at the meeting, and hun-dreds packed sessions on how to handle a disease they most likely will never have to treat.

Only four people have been diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, and experts doubt that Ebola will become widespread in this country. But if more Ebola cases do oc-cur, getting vaccinated against the flu now “would make the screening process a lot easier,” said Dr. Daniel Bachmann, an emergency medicine physi-cian at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center.

So far, flu activity is low na-tionwide and only one death

has been reported, in a child earlier this month.

But unlike Ebola, flu con-tributes to thousands of U.S. deaths each year and many more hospitalizations. And unlike Ebola, there’s a vaccine to protect against the flu, rec-ommended annually for adults, teens and children starting at 6 months of age.

Flu vaccination rates are low; a little over half of eligible U.S. children and teens and just 42 percent of adults got vaccinated in the 2012-13 flu season, CDC data show.

Flu season often peaks be-tween December and Febru-ary and then tapers off.

During the American Dia-betes Month this November, the American Diabetes Asso-ciation is continuing its efforts to stop diabetes by challenging local residents to begin living a healthier lifestyle through the America Gets Cooking to Stop Diabetes campaign, presented by Sun Life Financial.

This initiative is designed to engage and empower the pub-lic to cook nutritious and deli-cious food and encourage them to be more active. Through so-cial media and an interactive landing page on DiabetesFore-cast.org, the Association will share healthy cooking tips, dia-betes and nutrition facts, reci-pes and more, as well as ideas on how to raise funds to help stop diabetes in communities across the country.

“Nearly 30 million children and adults in the United States are living with diabetes,” said Doug Bickford, executive di-rector of Iowa/Nebraska/South Dakota Markets.

Cooking healthfully and staying active can be a chal-lenge, but these are key com-ponents to managing diabetes and preventing type 2 diabetes.

Our goal for American Dia-betes Month and beyond is to show Americans that it ’s not too late to start living a healthy active lifestyle and you can even have fun while doing it.”

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Prevalence• Nearly 30 million children

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• Another 86 million Amer-icans have prediabetes and are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

• Recent estimates project that as many as one in three American adults will have di-abetes in 2050 unless we take steps to Stop Diabetes.

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with diabetes die from heart disease or stroke.

• Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure.

• Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults.

• The rate of amputation for people with diabetes is 10 times higher than for people without diabetes.

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people with diabetes have mild to severe forms of nerve dam-age that could result in pain in the feet or hands, slowed di-gestion, sexual dysfunction and other nerve problems.

Cost of Diabetes• The American Diabetes

Association estimates that the total national cost of diagnosed diabetes in the United States is $245 billion.

• Direct medical costs reach $176 billion and the average medical expenditure among people with diabetes is 2.3 times higher than those with-out the disease. Indirect costs amount to $69 billion (disabil-ity, work loss, premature mor-tality).

• One in 10 health care dol-lars is spent treating diabetes and its complications.

• One in five health care dol-lars is spent caring for people with diabetes.

For great tips, recipes and more each week, visit the As-sociation’s interactive web page at www.diabetesforecast.org/ADM.

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“There were some known environment issues with the site as we started excavation, but because of some contaminated soils it was going to lead to a slow site work process,” Schwiegeraht said.

Developers budgeted for at least 70 geopiers, a tool inserted 30 feet into the ground to provide settlement support and stabilize structures. The building will not be built on the soil, but posi-tioned on geopiers. The need for geopiers is not uncommon in redevelopment of land where homes were once in place like the land on North Fourth Avenue West.

“While we did all sorts of geotech investigation, we found six surprised foundations from those old buildings as we went along as well.”

The summer rainfall conflicted with the foun-dation schedule, and a retaining wall has been built to provide even more structure protection. Portions of the foundation were poured last week while the remained are scheduled for next week.

The building will go vertically by the end of the year, Schwiegeraht said.

MV has plans for an extensive marketing effort beginning after the new year. It has received calls and projects the occupancy to fill up fast.

“We’re happy to give seniors in the Newton an opportunity to age in place, age locally and stay in-dependent. That’s the key, is to allow those to stay independent,” Schwiegeraht said.

This fall, MV made an additional application for downtown development and available funding from the State of Iowa. This project would be de-signed for young professionals, or DMACC stu-dents, and those interested in the downtown en-vironment.

The project would total $6 million dollars in de-velopment for the building of a “quality, workforce-oriented housing” structure that would include 33, one to three bedroom units, a theater, fitness center and business center.

MV will find out if its received funding for the project on Jan. 5, 2015.

Contact Kate Malott at 641-792-3121 ext. 6533 or kmalott@newtondailynews.com.

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There are 252 clients in RSVP’s rideshare database. Not all of them use the services regularly but Fischer said they’ve serviced 115 clients so far this year.

“Some of these clients will be served multiple times in the year or even the same month — dependent on their medical needs. We are currently scheduling about 15-20 rides per week,” Fischer said.

Despite the need for more volunteers for the ride-share program, Fischer cautions that there are still pro-tocols that must be met to be part of the program.

“Since we are the Retired and Senior Volunteer Pro-gram, our volunteers are 55 and older. There is some intake paperwork involved as a way to gauge their inter-est areas and experiences in order to make a good match for our volunteer opportunities. We are also required to perform a background check on all of our volunteers,” Fischer said.

For those interested in obtaining a free ride through the program, there are also guidelines. Riders must be over the age of 65, be disabled, a veteran or meet low-income requirements.

The need for more drivers aside, Fischer said she is grateful for the support this program receives from the United Way of Jasper County, the county, the City of Newton, Skiff Medical Center, the Jasper County Veterans Affairs Office and the local ISU Ext. Office, which houses RSVP’s office.

To obtain a ride or volunteer, call the office at 641-792-6433.

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Aktion Club makes donation

Jamee A. Pierson/Daily NewsThe Newton Aktion Club represented by Stephanie Jenness, Matthew Northway and Tamara Lloyd presented Steve Knight of the Courthouse Lighting Committee a $100 check Wednesday to go toward the holiday lighting of the courthouse.

in demolition and rehab of the lot, that make keeping the purchase price low a priority.

“Any of the D&D properties that are torn down and cleared, if any-one is interested in it, they can give Planning and Zoning a call. Once it certifies that the contract work is complete and the lot is closed out we would consider selling them at any point in time,” Chambers said.

If a citizen is interested in a cleared property they can contact planning and zoning to begin a two part process. First, the city coun-cil has to set a public hearing for a hearing on a sale of city property. At the first meeting, the council will set a public hearing likely for the next meeting. Once the hearing is set, the public has until 4 p.m. the day of the hearing to submit additional bids. The bids are kept in a sealed envelope until 4 p.m. when they are opened and prepared for the coun-cil meeting. At the meeting, council will review any bids and make a de-cision on whether or not to sell the

property.Some properties that have high

redevelopment potential the city may choose to hold on for future use. The property that Newton Village sits on was first a part of the D&D program the city sold for redevelopment.

The program, which is more than 25 years old, was started by former building official Mike Jones. When it first started, the main focus of work was the downtown area. After going largely unfunded for a number of years, the program received a mil-lion dollar boost from the housing initiative to start work again.

“With the housing initiative and replenishing the D&D program we have been able to accomplish a lot more. We have been focusing mostly on neighborhoods at this point in time,” Chambers said. “That is a fi-nite amount of funds so we are going to triage our neighborhoods right now. Deal with a lot of the blight and then hopefully we will have a lot cleaner neighborhoods and people will feel motivated also take care of their own properties.”

Contact Jamee A. Pierson at 641-792-3121 ext. 6534 or jpierson@newtondailynews.com.

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Iowa KidsNet celebrates National Adoption Month Newton Daily News

Iowa KidsNet is proud to join child wel-fare advocates and fam-ilies across the country in celebrating Novem-ber’s National Adoption Month, a time to raise awareness for the more than 104,000 children in the United States who are waiting to be adopted from foster care and to recognize the people who make a difference in their lives.

“Every child and teen deserves to have a forev-er family, a permanent connection to a caring and supportive adult,”

said Theresa Lewis, project director for Iowa KidsNet. “This Novem-ber, we encourage more Iowans to consider be-coming foster or adop-tive parents, especially for older youth, or to get involved in other ways.”

Thanks to the many Iowans who already serve as foster and/or adoptive parents, as caregivers and in other supporting roles, many children and teens are safely reunited with their parents, cared for by relatives or adopt-ed into loving forever homes. However, Lewis said there aren’t enough

adoptive families to keep more than 26,000 teens nationwide from aging out of the foster care system each year without permanent family connections.

“Children and teens enter the foster care system through no fault of their own, and they’re no different than other youth you know, except they shoulder the wor-ries of where they will live next month, where their siblings are and how to adjust to new schools, homes and environments,” Lewis said. “More than any-thing, they need the en-

couragement, love and trust of a family who will provide a stable home and help them succeed.”

More foster adoptive homes are also needed for sibling groups and children with special needs or behaviors, who may have experienced abuse or neglect. There is also a need for more African American and Latino families to be-come foster or adoptive parents.

For more informa-tion on post-adoption support, contact Kara Magnison at 319-337-4523.

backside of the truck as deputies formed a pe-rimeter.

According to the re-lease, Quick refused to comply with officers and visibly moved ob-jects in and outside his vehicle. While officers attempted to arrest the subject, he reportedly resisted and officers deployed a Taser to subdue Quick. Investi-gators found three fire-arms in the vehicle.

Quick is charged with two Class D felo-ny charges as a result of the incident including OWI (third offense) and eluding officers. He is also charged with driving while license barred, interference with official acts and possession of a con-trolled substance.

The incident re-mains under investiga-tion Thursday, and ad-ditional charges my be filed in the case.

The Monroe and Prairie City Police Departments, Marion County Sheriff ’s Of-fice and the Iowa State Patrol assisted Jasper County deputies dur-ing the incident.

Contact Mike Mendenhall at mmendenhall@newtondailynews.

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Debacle. Bloodbath. Drubbing. Call it what you will. For Demo-crats, this was an ugly Election Day. But there’s no mandate for right-wing poli-cies in its after-math.

Arkansas vot-ers chose to raise the minimum wage while electing a sena-tor who opposes doing so. Colo-rado voters are pro-choice and elected a senator who isn’t. Voters want action on climate change and gave the Senate over to those who are in the pocket of Big Oil.

The most rational voters — given what’s coming in Washing-ton — were those in the District of Columbia and Oregon, who chose to make marijuana legal.

The 2014 mid-term elections were fundamentally about frus-tration with a recovery that most people haven’t enjoyed. The Re-publicans blamed this on Presi-dent Barack Obama and claimed Democrats were guilty by associa-tion. That aroused the GOP base as candidates played down their conservative stances on reproduc-tive choice and went silent on marriage equality.

Democrats chose not to run nationally against Republican ob-struction, under the assumption that their broad opposition to right-wing social positions would mobilize their own base.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who drove the Republican strategy to obstruct every Obama initiative and then paint Obama a failure, is now warbling the soothing tones of bipartisan cooperation.

Any “cooperation” will, of course, be on Republican terms. GOP leaders will invite Obama to join in on “reforms” like reduc-ing corporate tax burdens, paring Social Security benefits, approving budgets that savage the vulnerable and lard the Pentagon, and cutting ruinous trade deals that under-mine American workers.

To pay for infrastructure, the Republican-led Congress will champion the “repatriation” of the dough that corporations have stashed abroad, handing those tax dodgers a massive tax break and an incentive to avoid even more taxes in the future.

This is the Wall Street “bipar-tisan” agenda and it’s ready to go. Immigration and renewable en-ergy? You can bet they’re off the table.

The White House faces a choice. Will it lay out what the country needs? Will President Obama make his case against those who would take the country backward? Or will he just provide political cover for global deals that stack the deck even more for the powerful and against the rest of us?

He shouldn’t be left to make that choice by himself.

In the circular firing squad al-ready blasting away, Democrats will blame these losses on their own liberalism. Conventional wis-dom will urge them to move right-ward and cooperate with newborn “moderate” Republicans. They’ll be told that the way back to power is to embrace “centrist” policies

on trade, tax reform, and entitle-ments.

But this election exposed the Democratic establishment’s falla-cies. Social issues alone, which in-creasingly favor Democrats, can’t spur victory. Sophisticated cam-paign targeting and get-out-the-vote operations can’t substitute for the passion, clarity, and vision that motivate the Democratic base to vote.

Democrats won’t win votes by adopting a corporate agenda. They must drive an agenda that will bring about an economy that works for everyone.

There’s a populist majority waiting to be forged. Millions will rally for full-employment eco-nomics, for fairly taxing the rich and corporations, investing in re-building the country and educat-ing all children, strengthening re-tirement security, making college affordable, lifting the minimum wage, taking on the corruption of our politics by big money, and transitioning to the new and more sustainable energy options that will create good-paying jobs.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has it right: Voters think the government is corrupted and doesn’t work for them. If our country is to deal with the real challenges it faces — extreme in-equality and economic decline for the majority, catastrophic climate change for the whole world, an oppressive war on working people — we the people have to stand up and fight.

Democrats will have to make it clear that they’re ready to join in.

Robert Borosage is the co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, a center for ideas and action that works to build an enduring majority for progressive change.

We held our pets close and bowed our heads. Men with caps removed them. Most of the t w o -d o z e n or so peop l e attend-i n g the pet b l e s s -ing had d o g s , b u t t h e r e w a s also a little boy with a cockatiel in a cage. I didn’t see any cats (wisely). The Reverend Regan Stoops raised his hand and, reading from his smart phone, said a prayer of blessing for our pets. After all, our pets bless us every day, in every way.

The occasion was the second annual pet blessing held by the First Baptist Church in Mt. Pleasant. I thought it a little unusual for Baptists to be blessing pets. I knew Catholics did such things, bless homes and animals, but not Baptists. Oh, well. I figured it would be a good outing for Buddy.

I wasn’t wrong. And for once, with so many other pets in atten-dance, Buddy wasn’t the center of attention. Although, Buddy did find a little boy who let Buddy curl up on his lap. The boy got his face washed real good.

The pet blessing was held in October because October is the birth month of St. Francis of Assisi. Legend has it that St. Francis went out into the wilds and blessed a wolf that was terrorizing a village. After the blessing, the wolf, in return for food, became friendly with the villagers, and the wolf and the villag-ers lived in peace and harmony thereafter. St. Francis was also known to bless birds and fish.

A year or so ago there was a violent storm in Mt. Pleasant. The veterinarian build-ing that houses stray dogs and cats was dam-aged, and some of the

dogs escaped. The story around town has it that the animal control offi-cer in Mt. Pleasant was able to capture all of the escaped dogs, except one — a male shar pei. The shar pei was quite wily, and became well known in Mt. Pleasant for alluding capture. People would discover dog food eaten that they had left out for their dogs, and began purposely leaving food out for what was soon to be known around town as, “Ole Sharpie.”

John, the animal control officer in Mt. Pleasant, was beside himself in trying to capture Ole Sharpie. But Ole Sharpie, af-ter his escape from the animal shelter, was way too smart. He was a good looking dog. Peo-ple would try to lure him into their home or car with bits of food, but Ole Sharpie would have nothing to do with that.

Where Ole Sharpie slept was a mystery. He seemed to move around — a backyard shed here, a drainage pipe there. He made it through last winter, which if you remember, was quite cold and hard. Shar peis don’t have a very thick coat. People would look out a kitch-en window, and there would be Ole Sharpie, trotting across a back yard, always looking over his shoulder.

Well, as fate, luck, or coincidence would have it, at the pet blessing at the Baptist Church, Ole Sharpie was seen off in the distance, un-der some bushes, ob-serving intently. Maybe he was lonely, or maybe he was drawn to the other dogs, or maybe it was the smell of the doggie treats. Or may-be, just maybe, Ole Sharpie needed a bless-ing too.

St. Francis would be pleased.

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It’s not easy to pick a pump-kin in the dark. But given my sometimes unconventional work schedule, it’s necessary to engage the simpler parts of life when ever I can to maintain work-life bal-ance. But late-night excursions can reap unexpected rewards.

I walked through the pumpkin patch off a gravel road south of Prairie City with my girlfriend, the flashlight apps on our iPhones illuminating the scattered vines. We found our soon-to-be jack-o-lantern and cut the stem with a stiff pair of pruning sheers. We put the pumpkin in a steel wagon and wheeled it back to our car.

After packing away our prize in the trunk, we turned off our flashlights and could not help but look up. The dark zone in ru-ral Iowa offered a spectacle. The cloudy band of light originating from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy was easily visible. The constellations Sagittarius, Coper-nicus and the Large Magellanic Cloud dotted the sky overhead.

I pulled out a stellar map app on my phone to get information about the star Fomalhaut in the constellation Pisces. It gave me the “stellar coordinates” measured in right ascension and declina-tion. I could see its visual mag-nitude — or how bright it looks to us here on Earth — and lumi-nosity — or its actually bright-ness. This star happens to be the equivalent of 16 Suns.

The world’s space-faring na-tions have had two space-related setbacks — one resulting in a pilot’s death — within the last week. The Antares rocket which exploded just seconds after igni-tion Oct. 30 in Virginia was car-rying 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the interna-tional space station. The company contracted to operate and provide the rocket for the NASA mission, Orbital Sciences Corporation, manually aborted the launch after finding a catastrophic malfunc-tion. To avoid hurting anyone they detonated the $200 million

rocket so it would not crash over a populated area.

Test pilot Mike Alsbury died and his co-pilot was injured last week after the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo prototype caught fire and crashed in the Mojave desert. These are both examples of private companies beginning to set the stage for the commercial space age. These setbacks cannot deter other entrepreneurs or the U.S. taxpayer-funded missions at NASA from continuing to push the boundaries of our capabilities.

Exploring space beyond low-earth orbit is and will always be expensive, tedious and assuredly dangerous, but when humans find that first microbe in the oceans of Jupiter’s moon Europa or a familiar DNA signature fro-zen in time on a comet, our per-spective, philosophies and world will change. And that change will be profound.

In a day in age when main-stream culture is embracing the once nerdy realm of “Star Trek,”

“Marvel/DC Comics” and the mind-bending space travel epic of Christopher Nolan’s “Interstel-lar,” I believe we are on the verge of renewed enthusiasm with sci-ence. Just as “Buck Rogers,” “The Twilight Zone” and “The Outer Limits” ignited imaginations to the adventure and mystery which lies beyond our stellar neighbor-hood, the sci-fi cinema, television and science education technology of today will create a new group of young enthusiasts.

People once huddled around their television in the late 1960s and early 1970s to catch live tele-vision broadcasts beamed from astronauts on the moon. Are we approaching a similar day when families will come together around their iPad or Smart TV to watch the first human put his or her footprint in the rosy dunes of Mars — coming in peace for all man kind? I think so.

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Mary Ellen Anderson

Oct. 2, 2014

Mary Ellen (Moor-man) Anderson, the daughter of Jesse M i l t o n and Mary C a r o -line Parry M o o r -man, was born Oct. 29, 1930, at 1:30 p.m. in Centerville in Ap-panoose County. Mary

went home to be with the Lord Oct. 2, 2014, at the Skiff Medical Center in Newton at the age of 83, following a short bout with acute leukemia.

Mary graduated from Centerville High School in 1948. She married David Stephen Ander-son on June 25, 1949. David and Mary moved to Newton in 1952, and she lived there till pres-ent. Mary was employed at Lincoln Elementary School Cafeteria, New-ton Elks Club for 16 years, Hy-Vee and the

Newton Daily News for 12 years. Mary had a happy storytelling per-sonality and enjoyed her home, flower gardens and crocheting. She loved to laugh, sing and yodel. She was a very de-voted mom especially, af-ter the premature death of her husband, David, Aug. 25, 1969.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, David Stephen; seven grandchildren pri-or to birth; three sisters, Opal Blanche Sweeden, Ruby Moorman in in-

fancy and Garnet Moor-man; and four brothers, Jesse Milton, Jr., Arthur Clyde, Harry James and Richard Wayne Moorman. Surviving are her two daughters and sons-in-law, Debra Sue and Floyd Faber and Judith Elaine and Steven Breese, all of Des Moines; and two grandsons, Steven Sky-lar Breese of Ames and David Preston Breese of Des Moines.

Services were held in October at Wallace Family Funeral Home.

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• Beauty for Ashes women’s study will meet at 9 a.m. Friday at Hephzibah House, 721 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

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

• Penny Bingo will begin at 1 p.m. Friday at Jasper County Senior Citizens Center, 702 E. Third St. S. in Newton.

• Narcotics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. Friday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

• Grinnell Chapter of the DAR will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday at Drake Library, in Grin-nell. Coffee and social begins at 9 a.m. with the meeting starting at 9:30 a.m. Program is on the History of Red Rock.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, in Newton.

• Central Iowa Ostomy Association infor-mal meeting will begin at 10:15 a.m. Saturday at Newton Public Library meeting room A, in Newton. Joyce Otto, RN, BSN, CWON, will be sharing information on skin care and other issues for the ostomate. Anyone with an ostomy, support person, or medical staff is welcome to attend. There will be a question and answer period. Call Lori at 641-791-1283 with questions.

• Peer Support for those living with mental illness will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday at Opti-mae Life Services, 1730 First Ave. E. in New-ton.

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James Lowell “Mac” McConnell, 67, died at his Allouez, Wis., home Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, after a short but defiant battle with acute my-eloid leukemia. He was born Oct. 19, 1947, in Detroit, Mich., to the late Rev. Lowell Mor-rison and Mary Fran-ces (Taggart) McCon-nell. His childhood and early high school years were spent in Newton,

where he formed many close and lasting friend-ships and enjoyed a great many Maid-Rite sandwiches. He was inducted into the U.S. Army on Sept. 12, 1969, and served a two-year tour of duty, including a year in Vietnam. After his service, Jim returned to his awaiting job with the H.C. Prange De-partment Store in Green Bay. He then worked for Goodwill Industries of North Central Wiscon-sin in their Menasha headquarters. On July 2, 1977, in St. Charles,

Mo., he married Chris-tine Wertz.

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Mason St., Green Bay, Wis., and from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11 at the First United Meth-odist Church, 501 Howe Street, Green Bay, Wis. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at the church.

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Margaret BealsNov. 4, 2014

Margaret Beals, Tom-ahawk, Wis., died Nov. 4, 2014, at her residence under hospice care. Marge was born July 7, 1931, in Chicago, the daughter of Fred and Magdalena (Baermann) Pietales. Marge was united in marriage to Ralph “Bud” Beals on Aug. 9, 1952, in New-ton. There she worked at Maytag Company. She then moved to Muscatine in 1961. Lat-er in life, after her family was raised, she attended the University of Iowa, graduating with a B.S. in nursing in 1986. She and Bud moved back to Tomahawk, Wis., in 1988.

Survivors include her husband, Ralph “Bud” Beals, of Tomahawk,

Wis.; sons, Mike (Pat) Beals of Tomahawk, Wis.; Randy (Lori) Beals of Des Plaines, Ill.; Doug ( Jackie Firkus) Beals of Toma-hawk, Wis.; and two grandsons, Matthew and Timothy. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Louis and Charles; and a sis-ter, Mary.

A celebration of life for Marge Beals will be at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10 at the Krueger Fam-ily Funeral Home in Tomahawk. The fam-ily will receive friends at the funeral home on Monday from 2 p.m. until the time of service at 4 p.m.

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Diane M. LoganNov. 4, 2014

Diane M. Logan, 69, of Fort Dodge, died Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, at the Fonda N u r s -ing and R e h a b C e n t e r in Fonda. A service honoring D i a n e ’ s life will be at 11 a.m. on Satur-day, Nov. 8, at First Unit-ed Methodist Church in Fort Dodge with the Rev. Andrea Kraushaar officiating. The family will greet friends Satur-day from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. at First United Methodist Church. Me-

morials may be directed to First United Method-ist Church where a me-morial fund in Diane’s name will be established. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Gunder-son Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Fort Dodge.

Diane is survived by her mother Marjorie Logan of Newton; her brother Edward (Bon-nie) Logan of Boone; her nephew Ryan Logan of Boone; her niece An-nie (A.J.) Longnecker, of Manson; her great niece Charlotte and another one on the way. She is also survived by sev-eral cousins; an aunt; an uncle; and many friends, including her special friend Scott Johnston.

Diane was preceded in death by her father.

Diane Marlone Lo-gan, the daughter of Thomas and Marjorie (Cook) Logan, was born Dec. 29, 1944, in Spen-cer. She graduated from Newton High School in 1963, and then from the University of Northern Iowa with a degree in music education. Di-ane was an elementary music teacher for the Fort Dodge Communi-ty Schools for 35 years, serving in many of the elementary schools. She also served as long time accompanist at First United Method-ist Church and played for many weddings and funerals over the years. Diane was also owner

of the ‘Ole Basket Bou-tique’ and taught organ and piano lessons.

Diane was a member of First United Meth-odist Church and was a long time accompanist with Comedia Musica. She was a member of PEO for 52 years and was a past-president of Chapter NJ. She served on the Fort Dodge Sym-phony Board and was a member of the Cho-ral Society. She was a member of Order of the Eastern Star, the Fort Dodge, Iowa and Na-tional Education Asso-ciations, member of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls and a member of the Daughters of the Amer-ican Revolution.

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DEAR ABBY: In reference to “It ’s All Good, Until ...” (Aug. 1), the woman whose otherwise easygo-ing husband turns hypercritical ev-ery evening at dinner, he may have hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) or be pre-diabetic as my husband is.

My story is the same as hers. My husband is even-tempered and a great partner — until his sugar gets low. Then he turns from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde.

My advice to her is to have a doc-tor check her husband for those is-sues. In the meantime, he might start having an afternoon protein snack so his sugar doesn’t drop by dinner if that is, in fact, the problem. Peanut butter crackers are excellent. — SOMEONE WHO KNOWS IN KNOXVILLE, TENN.

DEAR SOMEONE: Thank you for the heads-up. Dozens of read-ers offered similar opinions about the husband’s behavior, including a registered nurse who wrote: “What’s happening may be that his blood sugar or glucose is getting too low at that time and causing personal-ity changes. ... This time of day is crucial for people with either diabe-tes or other insulin problems. Please suggest her husband see a doctor to have this checked.”

DEAR ABBY: “Ingrid” and I have been dating for a couple of months. We’re in our early 50s and both of us have been married before. We get along fine and our relation-ship is proceeding slowly, but appro-priately.

My problem is, when we talk on the phone we don’t really have a conversation. Ingrid will talk with-out interruption, sometimes for five minutes at a time. I can’t get a word in. I can put the phone down and come back and she’ll still be talking. It ’s not quite that bad in person, al-

though she’s still quite a talker. Of-ten, she’ll ask me a question, then interrupt me when I try to answer. It really bugs me.

It has reached a point that I don’t want to talk to her on the phone. The calls can last 30 minutes or more, and I get bored and irritat-ed. How do I address this with her without hurting her feelings or af-fecting our relationship? She’s start-ing to feel my reluctance to call her back. — GETTING AN EARFUL IN ARIZONA

DEAR GETTING AN EAR-FUL: If Ingrid is starting to feel your reluctance to return her calls, I’m guessing she has found a way to let you know. This is your opening for a truth session with your lady friend in which you explain how those phone monologues — notice I didn’t say “conversations” — make you feel.

What she’s doing is rude. The cause may be nervousness, thought-lessness, or that she’s a compulsive talker. If she cares about you, she will want to know if she’s doing some-thing that’s making you back away. Being honest with her is the only way to get this fixed, if the problem IS fixable. At your ages, lifelong hab-its may not be easy to break.

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DAVENPORT — A Davenport man has been convicted of first-degree mur-der in the strangulation death of a man he called his best friend.

A Scott County judge found 36-year-old Stephen A. Boeding guilty Wednes-day. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 4.

Boeding said in a taped police interview played at his bench trial that he choked 48-year-old Kevin O’Connell on May 23, 2013. A bench trial means Boeding waved a jury trial.

Police say 2 killed in car crash in Council Bluffs

COUNCIL BLUFFS — Two people have been killed in a two-vehicle crash in Council Bluffs.

Police says a van was traveling Tuesday morning near Veterans Memorial High-way and South Expressway when it struck another car. A passenger in the second car, 47-year-old Wendy Hastie, of Council Bluffs, was killed. Another passenger in the same vehicle, 50-year-old Tammi Murray,

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MIDDLETOWN — Officials in southeast Iowa say a construction worker was killed when his machinery overturned and submerged underwater.

Officials with the Iowa Army and Am-munition Plant say 31-year-old Troy Snaadt was using an excavator Tuesday morning along the bank of Lake Mathes in Middle-town when the equipment overturned. A dive team later recovered Snaadt’s body. A company spokeswoman says an investiga-tion into his death is ongoing.

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Trial delayed for man shot by Cedar Falls officer

CEDAR FALLS — A trial has been delayed for a northeast Iowa man accused of assaulting a police officer before the of-ficer shot him. The trial date of Jan. 6 has been set for 28-year-old Zachary Church. He’s charged with assault on a peace of-ficer and possession of marijuana for sale. His trial had been scheduled to begin Tuesday. Cedar Falls officer Bob Ander-son has said he approached Church while Church was asleep behind the wheel of a running car on Dec. 25.

Pest control worker accused of bugging Iowa home

RED OAK — A southwest Iowa pest control worker is accused of planting au-dio recording devices in a woman’s home.

Red Oak police say 38-year-old Aar-on Johnson was arrested Monday and charged with misdemeanor electronic and/or mechanical eavesdropping and with being a felon in possession of a fire-arm, which is a felony. Online court re-cords don’t list the name of his attorney.

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DES MOINES — While Iowa Republicans scored big wins on election night and the GOP is poised to dominate the state’s congressional delega-tion, leaders from both parties say the traditionally purple state is unlikely to turn permanently red.

Republican Joni Ernst eas-ily won the competitive Senate race against Democrat Bruce Braley on Tuesday. Incumbent Republican Gov. Terry Branstad coasted to victory over a Demo-cratic lawmaker. And Republi-cans won three of the state’s four congressional seats, as voters expressed dissatisfaction with President Barack Obama and the gridlock that has dominated

Washington, D.C., politics.“I think it was a good Repub-

lican year. I think Republicans who positioned themselves to take advantage of it won,” said Branstad adviser Jeffrey Boey-ink. But he said Iowa is still a political swing state, noting: “I think Iowa’s a purple state. I’m not going to suggest we’re any more Republican than we were in the past.”

For years, Iowa has prided itself on a politically divided political landscape, boasting a congressional delegation evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Now, U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack, who was re-elected in the 2nd District in southeast Iowa, will be the lone Iowa Democrat in Con-gress.

Republicans benefited from general ill will toward the White House, but also from an aggressive organizational push in Iowa over the past year. Branstad led an effort to attract new party activists, install new leadership at the state GOP and improve fundraising and voter outreach programs. Republicans saw a substantial increase in early voting in 2014 and leaders say they are better positioned for

the 2016 presidential contests.“We took a big step in the

right direction,” said Will Rog-ers, chairman of the Republican Party of Polk County, though he said the party needs to continue to work on the ground game and outreach.

One bright spot for Demo-crats was that they retained control in the Iowa Senate by a narrow margin. Republicans expanded their majority in the

state House, meaning the par-ties will have to continue to world collaboratively in a di-vided state legislature.

“Our message of work-ing across party lines to solve problems for the state of Iowa worked pretty well,” said Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, a Democrat from Council Bluffs.

Looking to the future, Dem-ocrats said they think they can make up some ground in 2016, a presidential election year, which typically favor Democratic can-didates.

“I don’t feel like there has been a big swing,” said for-mer Iowa Democratic Party chair Tyler Olson. “It’s a totally different group of people that show up in presidential years.”

“I think Iowa’s a purple state. I’m not going to suggest we’re any more Republican than we were in the past.”

— Jeffrey BoeyinkBranstad advisor

Iowa group discusses license for dog racing

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ALTOONA — A trade group expected to take over dog racing in Iowa told a commis-sion Wednesday that the approval of a gam-bling license will allow it to save jobs and keep the industry alive in the state.

The Iowa Grey-hound Association plans to host more than 120 racing days in 2015 and keep employing work-ers at the Dubuque Greyhound Park, said attorney Jerry Craw-ford during remarks to the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission.

“This second chance at Dubuque does something that I think is enormously impor-tant,” he said. “It gives us a chance to keep the nation’s top greyhound breeding program alive.”

The IGA submitted a license application

last month to operate at the park following leg-islation this year that changed the future of dog racing in the state. It ends dog racing in Council Bluffs at the end of 2015 but keeps it alive in Dubuque un-der the IGA.

As part of the leg-islation, casinos that have subsidized dog racing will pay $72 million, half of which will be used to help the IGA with operating in Dubuque. The other half will help pay for a retirement fund for dog owners and breed-ers.

The association needs the gambling li-cense to move forward with its plans. It faced criticism Wednesday from Dean Miner, of the Filipelli/Miner Racing Kennel. He claimed the group has not been transparent with how it will spend its share of the money

and that the legislation doesn’t offer opportu-nities to enough dog owners.

“I don’t think that it serves the best interest of ... the families and farmers and dog own-ers and investors to just take half of $72 million and subsidize a hand-ful of people to race at Dubuque for a few years. I think that’s the definition of inequal-ity. It ’s just not right,” he said.

But Crawford said that the group plans to have enough racing days for plenty of dog owners to participate. The association is in the midst of confirm-ing leasing space with the city of Dubuque and the Dubuque Rac-ing Association, ac-cording to Crawford.

“Everyone involved is committed to the no-tion that no one will be excluded from racing at Dubuque,” he said.

Teen says he thought he killed goblin, not brother

LOGAN (AP) — An Iowa teenager has testi-fied that when he killed his 5-year-old foster brother, he was in a fan-tasy world and thought he was killing a goblin.

Cody Metzker-Mad-sen told the western Iowa jury on Wednes-day that he visits a world only he can reach

whenever he plays with someone. He says he didn’t realize until af-terward that what he thought was a goblin was actually his foster brother, Dominic El-kins.

His lawyer is using an insanity defense.

Authorities say Metzker-Madsen killed

Dominic last year while the two were playing outside of their home near Logan. Metzker-Madsen was 17 at the time.

The boy’s body was found at the bottom of a ravine. An autop-sy showed he died of blunt-force head inju-ries and drowning.

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Jocelyn Sheets/Daily NewsMason Mitchell (left) and Jack Hawkworth know what it is to drive at high rates of speed and compete on Iowa Speedway’s track. Mitchell, a West Des Moines native, is the 2014 ARCA Series Champion who made his ARCA debut at the Newton track in 2012. Hawksworth, a Bradford, England, native, is a Verizon IndyCar driver, who has competed at Iowa Speedway in all three levels of IndyCar racing. He ran in the Iowa Corn Indy 300 in July. The two drivers were in Newton on Wednesday to visit with season ticket holders and racing fans.

Iowa Speedway concluded a week-long flurry of an-nouncements with the re-lease of its full 2015 racing season schedule Wednesday. On hand Wednesday to help kickoff the season ticket sales were 2014 ARCA Racing Se-ries champion Mason Mitch-ell and 2014 Verizon IndyCar Verizon Series rookie Jack Hawksworth.

“It’s pretty neat to have these drivers here on the day we go back on sale with sea-son tickets,” said Iowa Speed-way President Jimmy Small. “Jack is someone we worked with earlier this year in the ethanol promotion going into

the Iowa Corn Indy 300.“With Mason it is great

to have an Iowa driver here to help promote the season. To get ARCA Racing Series back here at Iowa Speedway is one great piece of news, but to have a driver from central Iowa win the ARCA series championship and have him be able to drive here next year when he’s defending his championship — nothing could be better.”

Mitchell, who is a West Des Moines native, had a big announcement of his own Wednesday.

“Hot of the press today. I’m looking to move up in the NASCAR ranks and an-nounced today I will be driv-ing in the NASCAR Camp-ing World Truck Series race at Homestead-Miami Speed-way,” Mitchell said. “We’ll see what happens after that and what it leads to, but if schedule permits I hope I

can come back here and drive in the ARCA race with my own team in front of an Iowa crowd and win.”

Mitchell made his ARCA debut at Iowa Speedway in 2012. Following his first full season of racing in ARCA, Mitchell developed his own racing team Mason Mitchell Motorsports at the end of 2013. Mitchell became the first team owner/driver to win an ARCA championship since 1993.

Hawksworth, a Bradford, England native who lives in Indianapolis now, just fin-ished his rookie season on the Verizon IndyCar Series cir-cuit. Hawksworth has com-peted on the Iowa Speedway track in all three levels of In-dyCar racing. In July, he fin-ished 17th in the Iowa Corn

Indy 300 driving for Bryan Herta Autosport, but that has changed.

It was announced last week that Hawksworth joins A.J.Foyt Racing in 2015. He will be driving a second car for Foyt and ABC Supply Co. has extended and expanded its sponsorship to include Hawksworth and Takuma Sato, who has been Foyt’s sole drive in the Verizon IndyCar Series the past two years.

“If you are into short track racing and seeing cars race wheel-to-wheel, side-by-side all night long, which sounds pretty exciting to me, this is one of the best (tracks) to come to,” Hawksworth said. “Indy-Car drivers and crews love to race here. It’s a great treat to see three (Indy) races back-to-back-back on one day.”

That’s right. Iowa Speed-way becomes IndyCar Cen-tral on July 17-18, 2015.

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racing will be on the Speed-way track on July 18. I o w a Speedway and IndyCar offi-cials announced Tuesday the Speedway will host the In-dyLights presented by Coo-per Tires and the Pro Mazda Championship presented by Cooper Tires prior to the Verizon IndCar Series Iowa Corn 300.

That Friday-Saturday race weekend will also have the ARCA Racing Series pre-sented by Menards on July 17.

Hawksworth and Mitch-ell came to the Speedway Wednesday to call season ticket holders and meet fans.

“For me, winning here at Iowa Speedway is more im-portant than to win at any other track. It is one of the most exciting short tracks in America. A race here, in my opinion, is the coolest event on the schedule,” Mitchell said.

Iowa Speedway announces action-packed 2015 slate

Iowa Speedway 2015 Racing ScheduleDate SeriesMay 16 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East/WestMay 17 NASCAR XFINITY SeriesJune 19 NASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesJune 20 USAC Silver Crown SeriesJuly 17 ARCA Racing Series presented by MenardsJuly 18 Verizon IndyCar Series Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires July 31 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East/WestAugust 1 NASCAR XFINITY Series

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Newton High’s Megan Pressgrove, Fran Lucas and Morgan Allen drew recogni-tion from the Little Hawkeye Conference volleyball coaches recently. The three Cardi-nal volleyball players earned LHC honors for 2014

Pressgrove, a 5-foot-11

sophomore setter and outside hitter, received Little Hawk-eye Conference second-team honors. She earned first-team honors as a freshman.

Lucas, a 5-5 junior, and Allen, a 5-11 sophomore, re-ceived LHC honorable men-tion recognition. Lucas was Newton’s libero, providing strong back-row play and serving. Allen was a middle

hitter and blocker.Pressgrove finished eighth

in the conference with 171 assists. She led Newton with 121 kills. She also had three solo blocks and 16 block as-sists at the net.

Pressgrove was a 92 percent server, 178-of-194 attempts, and she had 21 ace serves. She was second on the Cardinal team in digs with 126.

Lucas was the team leader in digs with 186. She served at a 95 percent clip, going 168-of-177, and had 17 ser-vice aces.

Allen finished with 51 kills, which was third on the team. She was 45-of-49 serv-ing (92 percent) and had one ace serve.

Allen also led the team in blocks with four solos and 22

assists.The Cardinals finished

7-29 overall and 0-6 in Little Hawkeye Conference play. They return all but one player — Sydney Hemann, who was the lone senior on the team — for next year’s squad.

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A select youth foot-ball team made up of fifth and sixth graders recently traveled to Ce-dar Rapids and returned home with a third-place finish out of eight teams in the Cedar Rapids Corridor Classic Youth Football Select Team Tournament.

The Newton “Red” opened up with a team from Mount Pleasant and lost a back-and-forth game, 16-14. Mount Pleasant was the tourney champion.

Newton went on to win its last two games, beating a team from La-crosse, Wis., 34-26, and taking down Davenport Central, 70-40.

Cade Cupples passed for more than 600 yards and scored a rushing touchdown in the tour-nament, while Jay Mc-Guire was his favorite target with 12 catches

and four touchdowns. Zayvier Arguello also had a big weekend with more than 200 rushing yards, multiple recep-tions and six total scores, and Sage Burns gained

more than 200 rushing yards and scored twice.

Gatlin Boel also had a receiving touchdown.

The offensive and de-fensive lines were made up of Lane Arrowood,

Zach Kelley, Austin Brady, Even Grimm, Nelson Lopez, Isa-iah Goodman, Dryden Dekoning, Gavin Tros-tel, Will Schulte and Jordan Becker.

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“Drivers love racing here be-cause of the how it was designed with the progressive banking and the grooves. It creates a lot of ac-tion and high speed,” Mitchell said.

“It doesn’t matter what race you go to — ARCA, IndyCar, NASCAR — the crowd support is unreal. It seems it’s always a packed house.”

Fan feedback is important to Iowa Speedway.

“We’re fully committed here and our 2015 schedule is a good representation of us listening to our fans,” Small said. “They definitely asked for USAC and ARCA. We also heard fans won-dering about more open-wheel racing. IndyCar was very interest-ed in bringing back its lower level series races. It all lined up. Now our fans can purchase one ticket to get three races on July 18.”

The additions of Indy Lights and Pro Mazda Championship to the Verizon IndyCar Series weekend bolster an already im-pressive 2015 schedule which includes the previously released dates for the NASCAR XFIN-ITY Series (currently the NAS-CAR Nationwide Series); ARCA Racing Series presented by Men-ards, USAC Silver Crown Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races.

“It seems like yesterday that I made my ARCA debut here,” Mitchell said. “It was such a cool evening with great fan support. Two years later, I’m the series champion and it means a lot to have ARCA back here. This is where I grew up and I love this

place so much. It’s an awesome racing facility and you get to have so much interaction with the fans.”

Hawksworth, who finished 17th in the IndyCar driver stand-ings as a rookie, said Iowa Speed-way presents a much quicker track for the IndyCar series than the two junior series races. He said he found out in July’s race that things happen a lot quicker in IndyCar racing.

In 2011, Hawksworth moved to the United States, working his way up the Mazda Road to Indy. He dominated in the 2012 Star Mazda Series, breaking the record for most wins, poles and fastest laps in a season. In 2013, Hawksworth competed in the Firestone Indy Lights Series, winning three races and finishing fourth in the championship.

“I was strong here in the ju-nior series races, but July’s race was one of my worse races this past year. It shows how challeng-ing this place is. It is super, super fast in IndyCar and a lot of fun,” Hawksworth said. “I learned something every weekend I raced and it keeps you sharp.”

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Season Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased in three convenient ways: online: www.iowaspeedway.com. Tickets are available 24 hours per day, seven days per week after the on-sale begins; by phone: 866-787-8946; in person: visit the Iowa Speedway ticket office in the administration building between 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday.

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Chris Owens/IndyCar photoIndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon tests the 2015 Dallara IL-15 at the In-dianapolis Motor Speedway back in September.

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Wadley provides spark for Iowa’s rushing offense

IOWA CITY (AP) — Iowa has received sub-par production from experienced running backs for much of the season. Now an unknown fresh-man is providing a spark for the Hawkeyes.

Akrum Wadley turned the first 15 carries of his college career into 106 yards and a touchdown in Saturday’s 48-7 victory over Northwestern. It was the first 100-yard rushing game for an Iowa player this season.

With Jordan Canzeri questionable for this weekend’s game at Minnesota and LeShun Dan-iels Jr. out for at least the rest of the regular sea-son, Wadley is listed as a starter alongside Mark Weisman.

“You never know until a guy gets out there, and the jury is hardly out. He’s got a long ways to go right now,” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. “But he’s a guy that likes football. He’s got a good attitude. He enjoys practice. He enjoys his team-mates.”

Wadley’s emergence was surprising and neces-sary for the Hawkeyes.

They had somehow become a team that strug-gled to run the ball.

The presence of Weisman, fellow senior Da-mon Bullock and Canzeri led to talk that Iowa might be able to control some games on the ground. But the Hawkeyes spent nearly all season looking for a more consistent rushing attack.

It finally came together against Northwestern.Weisman ran for three TDs in the first half as

Iowa jumped ahead 38-7.With the Hawkeyes in control, they went to

Wadley, a 19-year-old Newark, N.J., native whose only Division I offers were from Iowa and Temple.

Wadley redshirted last season and wasn’t ex-pected to play much this year. But he improved to the point where he was the program’s scout team player of the week prior to facing Northwestern, and he was named the Big Ten’s freshman of the week Monday.

“I always listen to coach Ferentz in the meet-ings. He says ‘You never know when it’s going to be your turn. You’ve got to step up.’ It was my turn to step up that day,” Wadley said. “I talked to Weisman and he told me just to take it one rep at a time.”

Though Wadley is 5-foot-11 and 180 pounds, he impressed his teammates by getting many of his yards on the inside runs Iowa relies on.

Wadley also showed a nice array of spin moves and stiff arms once he got past the line of scrim-mage.

“He’s learned. At first, they always want to go outside and make those cutbacks right away,” Weisman said. “He’s learned, he’s conditioned himself and he’s worked on those little details.”

Wadley’s debut was further proof that Iowa ap-pears to have a promising future at running back.

Jonathan Parker, another redshirt freshman, has the team’s longest rushing touchdown (60 yards) and kickoff return (54). The 230-pound Daniels has shown feature-back potential, though he’s been blocked by Weisman for two seasons.

But Weisman and third-down back Damon Bullock are done following this season, and Can-zeri will be a senior in 2015.

Wadley has a chance to prove he’s ready for sig-nificant playing time —provided he gets used to the physicality and the speed of Big Ten play.

“I was very sore. I woke up limping,” Wadley said. “My first carry, I thought it was 5 yards. It was 1 yard. And everything was just so fast and like different from practice and scout team.”

Royals, Orioles each win three Gold GlovesNEW YORK (AP)

— All those snazzy plays by Alex Gordon, Eric Hosmer and Salva-dor Perez earned them more than tips of the hat from their Kansas City teammates.

The Royals trio wound up snagging Gold Gloves, too.

Three Baltimore players also were hon-ored by Rawlings on Tuesday for fielding ex-cellence, as was St. Lou-is catcher Yadier Molina for the seventh year in a row.

The Royals paid tribute to each other throughout a run to the World Series, tip-ping their caps after fine plays.

Kansas City lost in seven games to San Francisco — none of the Giants won Glove Gloves.

Gordon, who began his career as a third base-man before becoming a regular left fielder, won for the fourth straight year.

Perez at catcher and Hosmer at first base have two wins apiece.

Perez said he thought Royals outfielder Lo-renzo Cain, third base-man Mike Moustakas and shortstop Alcides Escobar could win Gold Gloves in the near fu-ture.

Managers and coach-es voted for the awards in their own leagues. The Society for Ameri-can Baseball Research’s Defensive Index fac-tored about 25 percent into the results.

Gold Gloves have often been among the most discussed and dis-puted of the postseason awards.

More advanced ways of measuring glovework such as Ultimate Zone Rating and Defensive WAR have sometimes overtaken statistics such as errors and fielding percentage that often determined the winners. Reputation also carried a lot of weight over the years.

Cincinnati and Phil-adelphia, the top two teams in the majors this year by fielding percent-age, didn’t have any win-ners.

Baltimore center fielder Adam Jones won for the fourth time, Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy won his third in a row and teammate Nick Markakis won his second in right field. Markakis has become a free agent since the sea-son ended.

There were six first-

time winners — Mets center fielder Juan Lagares, Miami left fielder Christian Yelich, Colorado second base-man DJ LeMahieu and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke in the National League and Seattle third base-man Kyle Seager and Houston pitcher Dallas Keuchel in the Ameri-can League.

I feel so excited and happy,” Lagares said. “It’s a special honor.”

Other winners were Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez and Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia for the fourth time each, Atlan-ta shortstop Andrelton Simmons, Braves right fielder Jason Heyward and Colorado third baseman Nolan Are-nado.

France felt Keselowski’s move at Texas was fine

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR chairman Brian France, who for at least two years has pushed for racing to become more of a ‘con-tact sport,’ believes Brad Keselowski did nothing wrong in the way he raced Jeff Gordon in the closing laps at Texas Motor Speedway.

Keselowski tried to wedge his car into a gap between Gordon and Jimmie Johnson on a late restart in an attempt by Keselowski to win the race. It caused contact between Keselowski and Gordon, who got a flat tire and spun after the in-cident. Gordon went from racing for the win to a 29th-place finish and confronted Keselowski after the race in a scene that quickly escalated into a brawl between teams.

France felt Keselowski did exactly what NAS-CAR expects from drivers racing for a win.

“He did exactly what I would expect any driver that has that much on the line to look at an op-portunity, shoot a gap is what he did,” France said on SiriusXM Radio. “It was unfortunate that they touched and that Gordon’s tire got cut and all the things that happened for him. Very unfortunate. (But) late in the race, things are going to happen when guys are legitimately trying to win races or compete at a high level.”

Both drivers are trying for one of four berths in the Nov. 16 championship finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

A win in any of the three races of the third round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup cham-pionship earns a driver an automatic berth into the finale, and both Gordon and Keselowski were racing for that spot.

Newton select team takes third in tourney

Submitted photoThe Newton “Red” youth football select team traveled to Cedar Rapids this past week-end and finished third out of eight teams in the Cedar Rapids Corridor Classic Youth Football Select Team Tournament. Newton “Red” went 2-1 on the day, beating a team from Lacrosse, Wis., 34-26, and another squad from Davenport, 70-40. Their only loss on the day was a 16-14 setback to tournament champion Mount Pleasant. The “Red” squad, which was made up of both fifth and sixth graders from Newton, played in the sixth grade bracket. The team gained more than 1,000 yards of offense in three games. Members of the team included Cade Cupples, Zayvier Arguello, Jay McGuire, Josh Meyer, Henry Jensen, Braden Chance, Lane Arrowood, Austin Brady, Nelson Lo-pez, Jaden Lopez, Even Grimm, Dryden Deconing, Brady Romberg, Gavin Trostel, Will Schulte, Jordan Becker, Brody Cazett, Sage Burns, Landon Fenton, Gatlin Boell, Zach Kelley and Isaiah Goodman. The coaches were Ryan Arguello, Doug Cupples, Jason Chance, Rowdy Meyer and Joe Grimm.

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The full moon in Taurus is a passion-swelling lunar experience. Navi-gating our appetites will take maturity beyond what some can muster. What we want, we want so vehemently it’s as though we were born to want it. However, try to keep in mind that under the sobering reality of tomorrow’s light, things won’t seem so urgent.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 6). A partner will touch your life thor-oughly and positively. All your planning and preparation will pay off in December. January brings a study or inves-tigation, and you’ll love what comes of it. You’ll seize the chance to be courageous, and you’ll inspire many in March. May and June are the big moneymaking months. Aries and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 22, 18, 40 and 28.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Recently, you’ve felt as though you haven’t had adequate time to do what you want. No more of that. It dawns on you

that no one is going to give you that time — you have to take it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You now realize how much is riding on your level of commitment. It will be the difference between success and failure, hav-ing and having not.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).Your more gregarious traits will be influenced by the full moon. Get out to see and be seen. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for all the people who will delight in meet-ing you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your friends think you’re changing, but tell them not to wor-ry. Your tastes are always evolving because you take the time to cultivate them. It’s part of what makes you a leader.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). It’s clear that you are missing a few re-sources that you need in order to get to your goal. Make a list, because the act of articulating your

needs and wants has magic in it.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). The theme is: temporary happiness vs. long-term consequences. It’s pretty difficult to rea-son out the latter when the former is winking at you from across the room.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You feel powerful during this once-a-year occurrence of the full moon in your sign, and it will be harder than ever to use that power selflessly. Maybe you shouldn’t. This is your moment. Take it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Some have to try harder than others to be good, and they should be commended for their restraint. They may not be the best ones to hang out with during this full moon, though.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll be judging the merit of a recent ac-tion. Motive matters — in life, in a court of law and in your heart. Doing the right thing for the

wrong reason is worse than doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You feel compelled to add a new thing to your life. Like a child who wants a toy but doesn’t play with it much, the desire for appropriation and ownership may be stronger than the useful-ness of having things.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The difference between opportunity and temptation is that one knocks, while the other leans on your doorbell until you can’t stand it anymore. That still doesn’t mean you have to answer, though.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The concept of low-hanging fruit is reasonable enough, if only you were interested in it. Alas, the fruit at the tippy-top of the tree is more appealing to you now, and you’re willing to lug a ladder over to pluck it.

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LARGE LIFT Chair, boughtfrom Newton Furniture onMay 2013, for $1300. Ex-cellent condition, selling for$500. Firm. Lazy suzzanepuzzle board, for up to1,000 piece puzzle, makegreat Christmas gift. $50.Firm. 641-840-0719.

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MAYTAG ELECTRICStove, Capacity plus,white, very clean $100.Newton. Leave message.641-787-0041 or 515-341-1320.

MAYTAG WASHER andGas Dryer, older models,still in good condition $75.for both. 308-530-3722 or792-0826 (after 4 pm).

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PORCELAIN DOLLS, 19”Symphonic TV, barelyused, $25. 12” SymphonicTV $25. 791-2284.

POWER WHEELCHAIR,Invacare Pronto M-51 SureStep $300 or OBO. New-ton. 641-275-2342.

QUALITY SOFA, flexsteal, gold color fabric, likenew, rarely used $250.Blue settee $25. Blue wingback chair $25. Burgundyswivel chair $25. No pets/no smoke. 641-792-7940.

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