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saline, then attempt to cover his actions by gluing the vials shut and attempting to cover tamper indicators and returning the vi-als to secure storage.

The document says that West would try to avoid having the tampered vials be used on pa-tients by later saying the tam-pered vials had accidentally become broken and having them accounted for as waste.

The hospital began receiving reports from staff about suspi-cions regarding West’s actions in the weeks leading up to his arrest. One nurse became con-cerned because West kept ask-ing her to report as waste con-trolled substances that he said he had dropped.

A check with Omnicell re-cords showed West claimed to have dropped 27 ampules of sufentanil in eight months. A check showed the previous cer-tified registered nurse anesthe-tist had only reported five vials in 14 months as having been dropped or contaminated.

Further investigation by the

county hospital showed West accessing the Omnicells on weekends or after hours when there were no surgeries taking place. West would also log into an Omnicell to get headphones for patients, including at times where there were no patients to wear the headphones, or would log into the Omnicell with no action reported, creating a “null” report.

The arrangemenT of the Om-nicell allowed West access to his anesthesia box when he logged in to retrieve headphones, the report said. He could remove ampules of fentanyl and sufen-tanil from his box and later re-turn the ampules after replacing their medication with saline.

“The unusual accesses in the surgery Omnicell began in July 2017. The unusual accesses in the birth center Omnicell began with consistency in June 2018,” the court document states.

West would occasionally or-der a different pain medication for a patient if he knew tam-pered fentanyl was in the Omni-cell, the document says. In one case he ordered that a patient continue to be administered a different medication, even after

a nurse told him that medication was not working and asked if fentanyl could be given.

After the rest room inci-dent, hospital and law enforce-ment officials examined drugs in the hospital Omnicells and found that at that time 43 vials of fentanyl and sufentanil had physical evidence of product tampering. Testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration national laboratory showed they all contained saline solution.

Under the plea agreement, West agrees to pay full restitu-tion to the Floyd County Medi-cal Center and all victims of his actions, including any damag-es that the court determines the laparoscopic surgery patient is entitled to.

West also said he understands that the imposition or payment of restitution in the criminal case will not restrict or preclude the filing of any civil suits or administrative actions.

West’s nursing licenses were suspended by the Iowa Board of Nursing when he was charged and a judge will decide whether they should be forfeited.

West is free pending sen-tencing, which has not yet been scheduled.

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That means kids in third through the eighth grade mem-orized lines, were taught acting tips, learned stagecraft and did two hours of rehearsal every day. That all led to one final performance up on the big stage in front of a crowd full of family and friends.

“We start them out on Mon-day and we put the show on on Friday,” said Hughes. “We had some jitters this morning. When they get nervous, they speak faster.”

The Charles City Youth The-ater is part of the Charles City Arts Council and Stony Point Players.

“The (movie) theater exists with a charter that says this stage should be available for doing shows. So we’re one

of the groups that does shows with that,” said Krueger.

Krueger said the idea of the play – which took about 20 minutes to perform – is to get the kids up on stage and comfortable with the idea of performing in front of an audi-ence. The 13 kids that signed up for the play were down from last year’s cast of 17 that put on “A Dish for the King.”

“We choose our plays based on the number of children that

sign up,” said Krueger. “We make sure we always have a play that has lines for every-body.”

Hughes said Lynn Bauer also helped out all week with get-ting the play up and running.

“It’s a lot of fun. I often call this my “kid fix.” We’re both re-tired teachers so it’s fun to hang with your kids,” said Krueger.

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Huckleberry Finn mural created by 1969 alum Dan Damjanovic.

The picturesque scene of Huck Finn on his raft overlooking the Mississippi River from the Mark Twain novel of the same name looked almost as vibrant and real as it did 50 years ago. The mural is preserved on the green chalk-board at the back of the class.

“I was expecting it to be erased the next semester,” said Damjanovic, who moved back to Charles City 11 years ago after running a design studio in the Cedar Falls-Waterloo area.

JIm Biwer, who created a website of the 1969 class about 10 years ago, attended Charles City High School for one year after the closure of the Immacu-late Conception High School the year prior in 1968.

“It’s a fun group. Everybody gets along well – a lot of good memories,” said Biwer, who

lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.The year 1969 in America

was known as the “Summer of Love,” and tension remained high with the Vietnam War still years away from a ceasefire. Biwer, who had recently grad-uated, remembers viewing the Apollo 11 moon landing when humans first stepped foot on the surface of the moon on July 20.

“I was over at the Clear Lake Surf watching the Box Tops back then. They had a little black and white TV by the bar. So I got to watch them walk on the moon,” said Biwer.

Patty Dunston Presse, along with her husband, Ken, decided to attend the reunion after trav-eling up to Alaska and travers-ing around the Pacific North-west for well over a month while on vacation. They have been married for 46 years and will return to their home about an hour and a half south of At-lanta later this week.

Throughout their adventures, each has chosen to attempt to mark off all 50 states on a buck-

et list of sorts. Patty, a member of the CCHS Class of 1969 and a former school principal, has walked a 10K race in every state now except four – Hawaii, Con-necticut, Rhode Island and Ohio.

Ken knocked out Washington, Oregon and Idaho off his list of trying to fish in every state in America. He had already fished in Alaska prior to the couple’s recent visit to the largest state. He still has Indiana left on the list in addition to the state’s Pat-ty has not competed in yet. He started the list four years ago.

“Once I made the bucket list is when I started counting,” said Ken, who graduated high school in Culver City, Colorado, in 1965.

They have already planned a trip to Hawaii in April.

The CCHS Class of 1969 held a social hour, followed by dinner and music, on Saturday night at the Columbus Club.

Biwer said 19 states are rep-resented by the CCHS Class of 1969, as well as graduates who now live in Canada, Taiwan and Italy.

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Press photo by Kelly Terpstra

Dan Damjanovic stands by a mural of Huckleberry Finn that he created as a senior at Charles City High School in 1969 and that still remains.

The cast of “The King’s Calen-dar” per-forms Friday at the Charles Theatre.

Press photoby Kelly Terpstra