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Kate Malott/Daily NewsGreg Romberg shovels out his sidewalk in southwest Newton on Tuesday morning. Many residential and business owners shoveled 6 inches of snow late Monday night and Tuesday.

Newton digs out after first snowfall of the year

By Kate MalottNewton Daily News

Newton students returned back to school for the start of a new term Tuesday but only after a 2-hour delay due to 6 inches of snowfall that quickly piled up Monday evening.

Other school delays and clos-ings included Baxter and Col-fax-Mingo closing for Tuesday; all other area schools had 2-hour delays.

Once the snow stopped fall-ing, bitter cold set in. A wind chill advisory is in effect until noon Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.

Patchy blowing snow can be expect throughout Tuesday with a high near 7 degrees and wind chill value at -15. Tuesday night the low is expected to be near -12 and a wind chill value to -35.

The forecast for Wednesday isn’t much different, sunny and cold with a high near -4 and an-other cold night with a predicted wind chill near -30.

Thursday will warm up a little with a high near 17 but expect wind gusts as high as 34 mph.

Fans With BenefitsWhile the weather impeded

many activities Monday night, Iowa Speedway President Jimmy Small took the opportunity to connect with local fans.

Using Twitter and the Speed-way’s “Fans with Benefits” mar-keting campaign, Small put out an offer to shovel a fan’s drive-way if they ordered season tick-

ets.Most fans thought Small was

joking, but he eventually con-nected with Connor Fraker and his parents Terry and Cathy, of Lynnville. The family ended up just having Small shovel the front walkway.

Contact Kate Malott at 641-792-3121 ext. 6533 or at [email protected]

Fundraising — at only 8 years of age

By Jason W. BrooksNewton Daily News

The Jasper County Animal Rescue League and Humane Society have long benefited from the generosity of area residents.

However, not all gen-erous residents are only 8 years old.

Ella Dungan, lives in Altoona with her moth-er and stepfather, but has strong ties to Newton. Dungan and her father’s girlfriend, Katie Casper, showed up at the Rescue League last week with more than $100 in cash and many other supplies for the shelter. Dungan

made and sold bracelets, and all of the money she made went toward ei-ther the donation or the supplies.

“It feels really good to help the animals,” Dun-gan said. “Some of the bracelets I made took about 15 minutes. Most of them took five or 10 minutes.”

The Rescue League posted a photo of Dun-gan with supplies she donated, and the photo soon received hundreds of “likes.” Casper point-ed out the bracelets were all sold in the Jasper County area, and there was no announced price — people could donate as much or as little as they desired.

“We have a great community,” Casper said. “Ella sold about

Submitted PhotoElla Dungan, left, shows the generosity of those whose contributed to Dungan’s fundraising efforts for the Jas-per County Animal Rescue League and Humane Society. Dungan, 8, made and sold bracelets, and showed up at the shelter with various animal supplies and a cash dona-tion of more than $100.

File PhotoMode Huis closed its doors recently after 11 years in Newton.

Mode Huis closes its doors

By Jamee A. PiersonNewton Daily News

After 11 years in Newton, Mode Huis women’s clothing store closed its doors, and only a short time later, owner Mary Brillhart passed away, leaving a big hole in the down-town district that will be hard to fill.

Brillhart worked in the business for 40 years, previously in Pella, be-fore moving her store to Newton 11 years ago. For the last 29 years, her daughter Julie worked along side her, both in

the Pella store and in Newton. The store pro-vided unique, high qual-ity clothing, purses and jewelry.

Customers came from as far as Kansas City to purchase her specialty clothing that could not be found in popular retail stores. With personal service and a wide range of brands to choose from, Brillhart’s Mode Huis was a special piece of Newton that customers will be sure to miss.

Brillhart also loaned her clothing to fashion shows that were held

in the area. Mode Huis participated in shows at Wesley Park Centre, the First Presbyterian Church and Shay’s Tea Room before it closed, to name a few. It was a great opportunity for the community to see what was new for the seasons at the shop.

“The Newton Cham-ber and the Newton community and our re-gion are sorrowful for not only losing a busi-ness but the even greater tragedy — the loss of a fine business person. We send out sympathy to her family and we’re go-ing to miss her and miss the business,” said New-ton Chamber of Com-

merce Executive Direc-tor Craig Light. “They were highly regarded

and respected within our membership and the community.”

Contact Jamee A. Pierson at 641-792-3121 ext. 6534 or

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Owner died short time later

Dungan makes donation to animal rescue league

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Submitted PhotoIowa Speedway President Jimmy Small shoveled the front walkway of rac-ing fans Terry, Cathy and Connor Fraker, of Lynnville, as part of his “Fans with Benefits” campaign.

Expansion of herd is main emphasis

In its efforts to encourage Iowa producers to expand their herds to help increase beef pro-duction, the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association is holding two “cow-calf forums” in mid-Jan-uary.

While the association is in-terested in seeing a herd expan-sion in Iowa, there’s also interest in weighing all the costs — both financial and cattle health — to their plans, according to ICA CEO Matt Deppe. These cow-calf forums should help produc-ers focus on the important ques-tions to consider, he said.

The forums will be Jan. 14 at Honey Creek Resort in Mora-via and on Jan. 15 at the Iowa

County Extension Office in Williamsburg. Both forums will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day.

There is no cost, but produc-ers are asked to call reservations into the ICA offices so the noon meals can be planned for appro-priately. That number is 515-296-2266.

Leslie Miller, a loan officer at Iowa State Savings Bank in Knoxville, will speak both days about balancing input costs against returns. While calf and feeder-cattle prices have re-cently been at all-time highs, so have the prices for heifers, cows and other breeding stock.

Kellie Carolan, the seed stock manager for ICA, will also speak both days, helping producers

better understand what critical information to look for when reviewing catalogs for seedstock sales.

Veterinarians will also speak both days to talk about bio-se-curity measures to keep scours and other calf diseases from cut-ting gains short. Dr. Matt Garv-er of the Animal Health Center in Albia is speaking at Mora-via, while Dr. Brian Hudepohl of Williamsburg’s Veterinary Medical Center will speak at the Williamsburg meeting.

ICA will also be holding feedlot forums and pasture walks around the state later this year in order to provide each segment of the cattle industry information on critical topics to them.

NFU honors three Iowans with advocate award

WASHINGTON — National Farmers Union recently announced its recipients of the Golden Tri-angle Award, the organization’s highest legislative honor. The annual award is presented to members of Congress who have demonstrated leadership and support policies that benefit America’s family farm-ers, ranchers, fishermen and rural communities.

“Recipients of the Golden Triangle Award have been strong advocates for family farmers and ranchers, and support similar principles and poli-cies as Farmers Union,” said NFU President Roger Johnson. “We are pleased to honor those who have proven to be true allies of our organization and our members across the country.”

This year’s Golden Triangle recipients were se-lected for their leadership on a variety of issues, in-cluding votes on the farm bill and related amend-ments. The awards will be presented at a reception during NFU’s Annual Legislative Fly-In this Sep-tember.

The Golden Triangle Award is based on NFU’s symbol – a triangle with “legislation” and “coopera-tion” forming the sides and “education” the base. The Golden Triangle Awards have been presented to legislators since 1988.

Rep. Bruce Braley, Iowa; Sen. Charles Grassley, Iowa; and Rep. Dave Loebsack, Iowa were three of the 40 2014 Golden Triangle Award recipients.Cattlemen’s association

to host January forums

File PhotoIowa Cattlemen’s Association will host two free forums in January about reviewing catalogs, healthy calves and other critical cattle industry information.

ISU hosts local food systems workshop Friday

AMES — Agriculture dominates Iowa’s rural landscape, and now leaders in three Iowa cities are learning how to foster a different kind of ag-riculture in their urban landscapes.

The Agricultural Urbanism Toolkit Annual Event workshop will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday at Design On Main, 203 Main Street in Ames. Stakeholders from Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Cresco will discuss a process they’ve followed over the past year to identify activities that could grow the local food sector in their own communities.

The workshop is free, open to the public and hosted by the Iowa State University Community Design Lab and the Leopold Center for Sustain-able Agriculture.

The workshop introduces the Agricultural Ur-banism Toolkit, a process to set common goals related to the local food system, and to create or connect existing activities such as school gar-dens, urban farms, food hubs, mobile markets and farmers markets, to accomplish those goals. Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Cresco were the first three pilot communities in Iowa to complete this process as part of a Leopold Center research grant.

The application process for being involved in the project will be discussed at the workshop.

A light breakfast and lunch will be served and registration is requested.

The full agenda and a link to registration is available on the Leopold Center website at www.leopold.iastate.edu/agricultural-urbanism-tool-kit.

Travel scholarships of up to $50 per vehicle also are available for workshop attendees. Funds are provided by the Iowa Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program administered by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.

For more information, call 515-294-2213.

The Iowa Department of Ag-riculture released Market News Interior Iowa Daily Grain Prices closing cash grain bids offered to producers as of 1:30 p.m. Friday. Dollars per bushel, delivered to Interior Iowa Country Elevators.

US 2 Yellow Corn Prices were mostly 1 cent lower for a state av-erage of $3.65. US 1 Yellow Soy-bean Prices were generally 16 to 17 cents lower for a state average

of $ 9.53.In Iowa, the north central re-

gion sold Yellow Corn at a range of $3.59 to $3.72 with an average of $3.68 and Yellow Soybeans at a range of $9.47 to $9.58 with an average of $9.54.

In the south central region, Yellow Corn sold at a range of $3.54 to $3.66 with an average of $3.58 and Yellow Soybeans at a range of $9.52 to $9.58 with a

range of $9.54.Corn basis to state average

price for the CBOT MAR con-tract is -.31. Soybean basis to state average price for the CBOT MAR contract is -.55.

This report was prepared by the Marketing Bureau, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. An audio version is available at 800-383-3755.

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Submitted PhotoPictured is Rick Hartz, market president of U.S. Bank presenting a U.S. Bancorp Foun-dation Grant of $3,000 to Linda Klepinger and Dan Skokan for the Centre for Arts & Artists and the Iowa Sculpture Festival. Also pictured are bank employees: Brad Sam-mons, Jenny Edwards, Carol Trease, Kim Browning and Michelle Lambert. Represent-ing the Centre & the Festival are Herman Deaton, Terri Ayers, Margaret Caldwell and Natalie Umstead.

Bridge to Reading picture book awards at the Newton Public Library

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Stop by the Newton Public Li-brary to check out one of the “Bridge To Reading” picture book nominated books.

Classrooms and daycares are en-courage to read the book and vote on their favorite, ballots are available at the library. For questions, contact Youth Services Librarian Phyllis Peter at 641-792-4108.

Following is more information about the “Bridge to Reading” Picture Book Award:

The Youth Services subdivision of the Iowa Library Association an-nounces the top ten nominees for the “Bridge to Reading Picture Book Award.” This award will be bestowed on a recently published picture book based on overall quality and good “read aloud” characteristics.

The award’s purpose is to promote early literacy for area children through the introduction of quality picture books into child care, preschool, kin-dergarten, and family reading times. Ten books were nominated for the award by early education leaders. Young children will be directly in-volved with the selection process.

Early education providers and fami-lies will read the books aloud to chil-

dren and then vote for their favorite book. Ballots will be available at many childcare sites, schools, and public li-braries or online at www.bridgetoread-ing.com between February 1 and April 30. The Bridge to Reading website will offer downloadable activity sheets, book plates, and spine labels to comple-ment reading times. More information can be found at www.bridgetoreading.com. The book with the most votes and winner of the annual Bridge to Reading Picture Book Award will be announced in May 2015.

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Eric Litwin• “Windblown” by Edouard

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Murphy• “I’m My Own Dog” by David

Stein• “Baby Bear Counts One” by Ash-

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40 bracelets. Even one of the pharmacists from Walgreens contributed.”

Ella’s mother, Kayla Dungan-Vanderploeg of Altoona, said her daughter is especially shy, and a fundraiser that involved meeting and talking with new people was a positive experi-ence.

“This really helped her break out of her shell,” Dungan-Van-derploeg said. “Once she un-derstood how it could work, the whole fundraiser was a real con-fidence builder for her.”

While Dungan lives in Al-toona, she stays with her father,

Chase Plumb, and Casper on weekends in the Newton area. That’s where she began working on the fundraiser.

While most of the brace-lets were completed by around Thanksgiving, Dungan didn’t start trying to sell the bracelets until about one month ago. “I was really nervous — especially at first,” Dungan said. Casper said she did initiate some con-versations in trying to get dona-tions, but Ella did a great deal of the talking.

After all, the expert on brace-lets would be the bracelet maker herself, who has been crafting the same type of bracelets for about three years. “Katie helped me a lot,” Dungan said. “But I helped everyone pick out the

bracelet they wanted.”Dungan-Vanderploeg said

her daughter isn’t new to being on the “supply” side of char-ity endeavors. Helping shop for toys to donate to charity is one of the ways she’s encouraged Dungan to think of others.

Dungan said she’s grateful to Casper and all those who helped her make a donation to the shelter. She also wants Jas-per County residents to think of the Rescue League when giving old goods away.

“Thank you to everyone who helped,” Dungan said. “Please donate things to the shelter, like old blankets and towels.”

Contact Jason W. Brooks at 641-792-3121 ext. 6532 or [email protected]

BraceletsContinued from Page 1A

Submitted PhotoElla Dungan shows how she made bracelets that she sold as part of charity effort. Dungan, 8, made and sold brace-lets, and showed up at the shelter with various animal supplies and a cash donation of more than $100.

Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse hosts

new culinary classNewton Daily News

Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse will host a culinary class, Secrets of a Johnny’s Chef, the second Tuesday of each month starting at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 13.

Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, Chef Daniel Frank will reveal concise, easy to master techniques in a fun and relaxed at-mosphere. January’s class will demonstrate Italian Wedding Soup, Pork Tenderloin with Butternut Risotto and Apple Tart with Cara-mel Sauce.

The culinary class is $45 per participant and includes: two glasses of wine, gen-erous samples of each course, recipe cards, class fee, tax and gra-tuity (or two martinis for $50). Tickets make a great gift idea. Space is limited; for more in-formation or to sign up, please call Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse in Altoona at 515-957-9600

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When I was a kid, my family was filled with French-Canadian im-migrants who spoke only French or a mix of French a n d E n g -lish. All t h o s e peop le h a v e d i e d . French, w h i c h I don’t read well, got pushed to the back of my brain. In the ‘90s, there was a brief vogue for Cajun music and I often translated lyrics for my friends, as kind of a trick. Other than swearing, prayer and talking to one or two people over 70, I don’t use my French much anymore.

Or I didn’t.In the last 10 years or

so, we’ve seen a boom-let of immigration from Haiti, where they speak not only French but a dialect of French called Haitian Creole.

And one day in the market, I found myself clumsily translating for a Haitian woman who could not make herself clear to the checkout person. The paper where I work had a Haitian janitor for a while and we spoke French to each other.

One day, another em-ployee remarked, casu-ally, that the janitor was a black man and I said, “I don’t think of him as black.”

“What do you think of him as?” my bemused colleague asked.

“French,” I said.I found out that

some Haitians speak only Creole while some speak Creole and stan-dard French. Bear in mind that my growled, ungrammatical French-Canadian dialect is not

at all “standard French.” A high school French teacher in Missouri once informed me that I did not, in fact, speak “French.” My father told me the teacher spoke French “like she learned it from a book,” which he meant as an insult.

The other day I real-ized that I hadn’t spoken French to a white person in several months.

Which is, I suppose, America.

We grind against each other, babbling in a hundred tongues, cast in dozens of shades, com-peting for jobs and for the culture of the nation.

But, here and there, on the frontier, there is the Pakistani store owner who learns to count change in Spanish or the cop who learns a dozen stiff but necessary phrases in Khmer.

My grandmother, who lived in America for 60 years, spoke only French, having lived in French tribal neighbor-hoods all her American life. She used to tell me that she preferred shop-ping in the small stores owned by Jews because, “The Jews learn how to say some things in French. They know col-ors, the sizes, prices. You don’t have to go there and point at what you want like a baby.”

I thought of my grandmother when I stepped forward in the grocery store and asked that Haitian woman, in French, if she needed some help. She was one who taught me that “Eske ou pale kreyol,” is Haitian Creole for “Do you speak Creole?”

I don’t intend to for-get that phrase in Cre-ole, and I’m going to learn more. My white grandmother would have wanted me to.

Marc Munroe Dion is a nationally syndicated columnist.

Education models should include regular assessments, quality teachersSue AtkinsonBaxter

If you have not been reading the national and international reports on education, it would be understandable to have a misperception about what is happening. The U.S. made a bad decision to abandon the model of education successfully used for thousands of years to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, has paid a heavy price, and is now attempting to get back on track.

The bad, pseudo-education, model of memorization relied on dumbing down the assess-ment tests every three to four years when at least 50 percent of the students were unable to pass them (thus lowering standards and inflating results). Most oth-

er states have now adopted the grade-level 65th NPR as the stu-dent proficiency standard, and 38 of them have teacher training programs working toward this standard, but Iowa remains at the 41st NPR standard and fails to achieve even this in student proficiencies.

Results seen by the public are based on this low standard of in-flated test results. A simple anal-ogy would be to take a score of 10 and divide it by .41 (which equals 24), and then divide this same 10 by .65 (which is 15). Equivalent grade levels shown on the Iowa Assessments are also inflated by almost two years as a result of using the lower standard of 41st NPR.

The bad model of memoriza-tion also relied on the scapegoat-ing of students and not counting low test scores (further inflat-ing the results so schools looked better) rather than performing a regular impartial assessment of the process being used. No

Child Left Behind put a stop to not counting some test scores as part of their intervention to get back on track. When educators today scapegoat students as an excuse for failing to get profi-ciencies back up to grade level, they are documenting their poor training as part of the bad model rather than the proven success-ful model used by the rest of the world for thousands of years.

According to international re-ports from the O.E.C.D., other countries have almost no profi-ciency gaps among demographic groups because they focus on regular assessments of the pro-cess and only hire teachers with the skills to effectively teach at grade level. Their cost of educa-tion is about $9,000 per student while Iowa spends about $12,000 per student (55 percent of Iowa’s budget). The successful model costs less, is provably more effi-cient, and provably more effec-tive, with almost no achievement gaps in proficiencies.

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All children are different and my two girls are no exception. Although they are only a little more than 15 months apart in age, sometimes it seems that they were born to different families.

My oldest is pretty close to a mini me. I see a lot of myself in the things she does and says. She is particular, does not like her feelings hurt and is very kindhearted.

A more comical feature she has is her lack of a sense of hu-mor. She does not like to be called anything but her name. Silly, goofy or any other de-scriptive word just won’t do. Only a couple nicknames get

by, mainly because she has been hearing them since she was born. Otherwise we are quickly told she is to be called by her birth name — first, middle and last — and that is it.

It is always entertaining to get a look from her like — what are you an idiot? — when we try to joke around about something that clearly isn’t what we say it is.

She also has a memory to rival my own. If I tell her we are going somewhere or doing something, she may not hound me about it like most kids, but that day the topic will come up and questions will start. A funny story involv-ing my dad and her was when he said she was full of hooey. Of

course, she said she wasn’t but he was. Any time we say that grandpa is silly, grumpy or any-thing else, she retorts that, no, he is full of hooey, end of story.

My youngest, on the other hand, got her temperament from my husband. She is a very go with the flow, laugh at dumb jokes, not take things too se-riously type of girl. It is really refreshing to see and I hope it rubs off on her sister a bit.

A quality I love in her is her love to cuddle. She gives great, meaningful hugs and will sur-prise me with a kiss on the cheek. If we are sitting on the couch, she is never sitting next to me, but using me as a chair,

which most of the time, I don’t mind at all.

Like my husband, who was the second child as well, she loves to watch her big sister and learn from everything she does. It cracks me up with their monkey see, monkey do routine, and occasionally she mimics something so closely I will think it was her sister.

I can’t wait to see how they keep growing and changing and the influence they have on each other as they get old-er.

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Eske Ou Pale Kreyol

Mini me’s

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Mary BrillhartJan. 4, 2015

Mary Jane (Arm-strong) Brillhart, 81, of Pella, died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2014. M a r y , o w n e r of Mode Huis in Newton, was the wife of Lyle F. Brillhart; the mother of

Jeff Brillhart of Phila-delphia, Pa., Julie Brill-hart of Pella, Joel ( Jane) Brillhart of Portland, Ore., the late Jamie (Denise) Brillhart of Pella; and grandmother to five grandchildren. A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 8 at First Reformed Church in Pella. Visitation will begin Wednesday after-noon at the church with the family present from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Newton.

• Discover Hope 517 will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Newton Church of The Way, 2306 S. Third Ave. E. in Newton. Discover Hope 517 is offered for any adults (18+) who have struggled with addiction and are ready to make changes in their life. This ministry meets each Tuesday in The Way Cafe.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon Wednesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Newton.

• Newton Noon Kiwanis will meet at noon Wednesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Newton for lunch and a program titled “Annual White Elephant Auction.” Anyone interested in the program, or in learning more about Kiwanis, is welcome to be a guest for lunch. For information, or to make a reserva-tion for lunch, call Margie Criswell at 641-521-9482. Visit www.newtonkiwanis.org to learn more about the service club.

• Alcoholics Anonymous beginners support group will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Newton.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Prairie City Masonic Lodge.

• Jasper County Community Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the YMCA in Newton.

• Jasper County Democratic Central Com-mittee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Wesley Park Centre Garden Room in Newton.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Newton.

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• Erin M. Simpson, 27, of Monroe, is charged with driving while license sus-pended after authorities pulled her over in the 500 block of South 13th Avenue East at 6:18 p.m. Dec. 24. She was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

• Vanessa L. Trotter, 22, of Newton, is charged with driving while license sus-pended after authorities pulled her over in the 1000 block of East 12th Street South at 9:40 p.m. Dec. 25. She was cited and release to

appear.• Tony J. Farver, 54, of

Newton, is charged with driving while license sus-pended after authorities pulled him over at 1024 E. 12th St. N. at 10:29 a.m. Dec. 26. He was cited and released to appear.

• Trevor B. Gearhart, 22, of Newton, is charged with driving while license sus-pended after authorities pulled him over for reckless driving in the 100 block of West 15th Street North at 3:51 p.m. Dec. 27. He was cited and released to appear.

• Kaitlin M. Keeling, 20,

of Newton, is charged with driving while license sus-pended after she was pulled over in the 2800 block of North 11th Avenue East at 11:17 p.m. Dec. 27. She was cited and released to appear.

• Lonnell D. Conley, 42 of Newton, is charged with div-ing while license suspended after authorities pulled him over in the 1100 block of North 19th Avenue East at 6:29 a.m. Dec. 29. He was cited and released to appear.

• Frank E. Cannon, 34, of Newton, was arrested on a Buchanan County, Mo., warrant after authorities

were called to First Street South and South Third Av-enue East at 12:20 a.m. Dec. 27. He was taken to the Jas-per County Jail to wait for extradition to Missouri.

• A 17-year-old juvenile is charged with minor us-ing tobacco after she was pulled over in the 400 block of North Third Avenue East at 10:06 p.m. Dec. 26. Offi-cers observed a pack of ciga-rettes in the car after she was pulled over for an inoperable brake light. She was cited and released to appear.

• Charles S. Vaughn, 50, of Newton, was arrested on

a Jasper County Warrant for failure to appear and is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and inter-ference with official acts after authorities found Vaughn at 812 N. Eighth Ave. E. at 1 a.m. Dec. 27. Officers saw Vaughn and knew he had a warrant. They exited their vehicle and yelled for him. When he noticed them, he began running away. Even-tually the officers caught up to him and placed him under arrest. While searching him they found a meth pipe in his coat. He was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

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OWLS exploring Jasper County parksJasper County Con-

servation Board will host an Older, Wiser, Livelier Seniors pro-gram Jan. 14 at the Jas-per County Commu-nity Armory/Annex, 1030 W. Second St. S.

in Newton. The pub-lic is invited to come for 10 a.m. coffee and a program about our Jasper County parks. Learn about great places to explore and activities that you can

do right here in Jasper County all year long. This program is free and open to the public.

The OWLS pro-gram is a conservation program that encour-ages seniors to stay

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For more informa-tion, contact the Jasper County Conservation Office, at 641-792-9780.

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Alice GarlockJan. 2, 2015

Alice Garlock, a nearly lifetime resident of the Newton area en-tered The C h u r c h T r i u m -p h a n t Jan. 2, 2015, in Madison Heights, M i c h . , at the age of 105. She had been living with and near her daughter for the past 10 years in Oak Park, Mich.

Alice was born in Malaka Township,

northeast of Newton, Aug. 15, 1909, to Os-car Edwin and Min-nie (Riffenberg) Korff. She also lived in Sher-man and Mound Prai-rie Townships before moving to Newton in 1949. After graduat-ing from Newton High School in 1927, she taught in Jasper Coun-ty rural schools for 10 years. Her employment in Newton, was at the Iowa State Telephone Co., Winpower Mfg. Co., and McLaughlin-Johnson Jewelers, later Johnson Jewelers and Herteen Jewelers, from which she retired in

1981. Through the years Alice was a member of Palo Alto Grange, Home Economics Club, Business and Profes-sional Women, Newton Woman’s Club, Clio Club and various groups in her church, First Lu-theran Church. She en-joyed cooking, garden-ing, traveling, and being with her family.

She is survived by her daughter, Sandra Kay (Russell) Ayers, of Oak Park, Mich.; grandson, Mark Edgren (Laura) Ayers; great-grand-son, Rune; and great-granddaughter, Malea, of Kailua, Hawaii; and

step-family, Dorothy (Morden) McFadden of Cedar Falls, and Kathi and Kerry McFadden. Preceding her in death were her parents; hus-band Vergil Garlock; former husband Er-nest Edgren; and step-grandson, Brian Mc-Fadden.

Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Fri., Jan. 9 at First Lutheran Church, preceded by visitation at 10 a.m., with interment in Newton Union Cem-etery. Memorials may be designated to First Lu-theran Church, Jasper County Historical Soci-ety or Project AWAKE.

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DEAR ABBY: I was single for four years and recently remarried. I didn’t intend to marry again, but then I met “Bob.” He was so kind and attentive that I was attracted. He proposed to me every day, several times a day, and eight months later I married him.

Bob moved here from out of state and hasn’t been able to find work. It has been challenging. My daughter lives with us and is in college.

Bob’s mood swings have been dras-tic lately. He doesn’t want me to talk to anyone else, do anything without him (hang with my friends, my daughter, etc.). I have a great job and work part-time in the evenings to make ends meet. I try to stay calm, but he yells, uses pro-fanity and is highly manipulative.

I am at a loss. I would like to help him, but his depression is tearing us apart. I also believe he is addicted to marijuana. He has threatened suicide, but I don’t know if he would actually go through with it.

Abby, I have worked very hard to get where I am. I know I need to take care of myself and my daughter, but I don’t want to just throw this away, ei-ther. Help! — TORN IN TWO IN TEXAS

DEAR TORN IN TWO: With-out more information, it’s hard to tell whether your husband’s depression makes him act the way he does, or whether you have been seduced by an abuser.

Among the warning signs of an abus-er are:

— Pushes for quick involvement; — Isolation: tries to isolate you from

friends or family members; — Makes others responsible for his/

her feelings: The abuser says, “YOU make me angry” instead of “I am an-gry,” or, “You’re hurting me by not doing what I tell you”;

— Hypersensitivity: is easily insult-ed, claiming hurt feelings when he or

she is really mad. Rants about the injus-tice of things that are just a part of life;

— Verbal abuse: constantly criti-cizes or says blatantly cruel things — degrades, curses, calls you ugly names. May also involve sleep deprivation, waking you with relentless verbal abuse;

— Sudden mood swings: switches from sweet to violent within minutes.

This is only a partial list — there are 15 in all, which is too long for this col-umn. However, they can be precursors to serious physical violence.

Urge your husband to get counseling for his depression and insecurity. If he refuses, then be smart and contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or online at thehotline.org for help in safely separating from him before your husband’s behavior es-calates.

DEAR ABBY: At a black-tie-op-tional wedding, is it appropriate for a man to come wearing a cowboy hat and keep it on at the dinner table? — CU-RIOUS IN PALM DESERT

DEAR CURIOUS: Hat etiquette decrees that it should be removed when a man is indoors. And according to The Campfire Chronicle (at stargazermer-cantile.com), “If you’re in a restaurant that serves anything that isn’t coated in barbecue sauce, it’s probably best to lose the hat.”

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Police charge man in Marshalltown shooting

MARSHALLTOWN — Police have arrested and charged a 31-year-old Mar-shalltown man with attempted murder af-ter finding a woman suffering a gunshot wound to the chest in a motel.

The Marshalltown Police Department said in a statement that officers responded to a shooting early Sunday and found the woman. She was taken to a Marshalltown hospital and then later to a Des Moines hospital. Her name and condition aren’t being released at this time.

Man crushed by truck door when it hit vehicle

SIOUX CITY — Authorities say a 43-year-old Sioux City man has been killed after falling partway out of his pickup. The accident occurred about 1 a.m. Saturday. The Iowa State Patrol says Davon Kieler was driving alone when he fell out of the driver’s side door and lost control of the truck. The patrol says the door crushed Kieler when his truck side-swiped a parked vehicle.

3 Man loses wedding ring he’s worn faithfully since ‘45

HAMPTON — A Hampton man who’s been married for nearly 70 years has lost his wedding ring.

Alvin Andersen says he thinks he lost it when taking off his gloves in Mason City a couple of weeks ago while at Wal-Mart, Hy-Vee or KFC. Andersen says he’s worn it faithfully since marrying his wife, Maurine, on Sept. 2, 1945, in Clarion. He says the ring has more sentimental value than monetary worth. He says his wife wants him to buy a replacement if the old one doesn’t turn up.

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Ex-teacher accused of sex with student takes plea deal

GLENWOOD — A former Glenwood teacher accused of having a sexual relation-ship with a student and of giving alcohol to a minor has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge as part of a plea deal. Russell Crouch, 39, was arrested and charged in May with sexual exploitation by a school employee and supplying alcohol to a minor. Crouch was given deferred judgment, meaning if he suc-cessfully completes a year of probation, the charge of misdemeanor aggravated assault will be removed from his record.

Hoover Presidential library raises admission

WEST BRANCH — The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Muse-um is raising the cost of admission for the first time in nearly a decade.

The library has increased ticket prices for adults between the ages of 16 and 61 from $6 to $10. The price for senior citi-zens increased from $3 to $5. Admission for children between the ages of 6 and 15 is now $3, when it used to be free.

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A year before 2016, Iowa attracts presidential long-shotsThe Associated Press

ALTOONA — Soft laugh-ter rippled through the au-dience in an Iowa church meeting room when a woman punctuated her question to the keynote speaker, Bernie Sand-ers, with, “when you’re presi-dent.”

The reaction was a gentle acknowledgment that the Vermont senator, whose self-described socialist positions appeal to the hardest-core liberals, is a long shot for the Oval Office.

Yet while Democrats and Republicans are waiting for Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jeb Bush and other major pros-pects to formally kick off the 2016 race in the state with

the first presidential caucuses, other lesser known or more unlikely aspirants are already active in Iowa, letting every-one know they’re available.

They’re following a long-established ritual, based on the notion that even far-fetched dreams can come true in a place where friendly people will come out to hear candi-dates and the media is ever alert for political tremors.

Along with Sanders, for-mer Virginia Sen. Jim Webb and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley among Democrats, and neurosurgeon Ben Car-son, a Republican, are among the non-short-listers mak-ing contacts in the state, giv-ing speeches and road-testing their messages.

Most don’t actually say they’re running. They’re just saying hello.

“I don’t know if it’s an ad-vantage as much as it is lay-ing down a marker, starting to bend the arc of the conversa-tion,” said Sue Dvorsky, for-mer Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman.

And this being campaign-steeped Iowa, most seem to draw an audience.

On a two-day mid-De-cember trip, Sanders, who is among the Senate’s most lib-eral members, made a series of stops in which he touted expanding government regula-tion of banking, universal gov-ernment-funded health care and a $15-per-hour minimum wage. Sanders is one of only

two senators who don’t identi-fy as Democrat or Republican, though he caucuses and votes with Senate Democrats.

Sanders, hunched over a hotel ballroom podium with his tussled shock of white hair, declared that it’s time to break up the nation’s big banks.

“If Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, he would say, and we should say, if these guys are too big to fail, they are too big to exist,” Sanders said.

Sanders’ populist pitch bears some resemblance to that of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the rising star of the Democratic left. But she has said she won’t run for president, leaving room for Sanders to hope.

Ron Rosenblatt, a finan-

cial services company owner, cheered Sanders along with about 150 invited Democrats in the Altoona hotel ballroom. “I like his ability to generate enthusiasm,” he said, but at 73, “he’s at an age that would make it difficult.”

O’Malley, known for de-fending gay marriage and repealing the death penalty, visited Iowa four times last year and contributed more than $45,000 to Iowa candi-dates and party organizations, which made him friends in convenient places. Governors often make good presidential candidates, and O’Malley, 51, would be one of the few in the Democratic field, fitting somewhere to Clinton’s left on the political spectrum.

Judge retires months after testifying about pressure

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IOWA CITY — An administrative law judge says he’s retiring early, months after testifying about a hostile work environment in Iowa Workforce Development.

Marlon Mormann, of the unemployment appeals bureau, retired Monday. He’s worked at the agency since 1990.

The 58-year-old says he’s disappointed after enduring “the worst year of my career” but that it was time to leave an uncomfortable situation.

Mormann testified to a legislative panel in August, saying judges faced pressure and excessive caseloads under Director Teresa Wahlert. He says the exhaustion affected rul-ings.

Mormann objected to Wahlert ’s decision to eliminate a chief judge position who man-aged the bureau and assume that responsibil-ity herself. Mormann says being supervised by a non-lawyer and political appointee raised ethical issues.

Agency spokeswoman Kerry Koonce con-firmed Mormann’s retirement but disputed that judges are overworked.

Iowa Democrats say economic bills will be among priorities


DES MOINES — Iowa’s Democratic lawmakers plan to focus on ways to help Iowa businesses and workers in 2015, though the state’s top Senate Democrat said Monday that in-creasing Iowa’s minimum wage will be a challenge in the divid-ed Legislature.

Democratic Senate Major-ity Leader Mike Gronstal, of Council Bluffs, said that two priorities for Democrats will be strengthening the preference given to Iowa companies in the awarding of state contracts and ensuring that employers are not stealing wages from Iowa work-ers.

“Those are two areas that I think make sense, that would strengthen the middle class and grow Iowa’s economy,” Gronstal

said.Similar bills have failed in

previous years, but Gronstal ex-pressed optimism that lawmak-ers can find common ground in the Legislature, where Demo-crats control the Senate and Republicans hold a majority in the House.

Republican House Speaker Kraig Paulsen, of Hiawatha, said Republicans are open to proposals on these topics, though he noted there are al-ready some contracting rules in place. He said GOP lawmakers will continue to prioritize a bal-anced budget, as well as look-ing at cutting income taxes this year.

Gronstal said Democrats continue to support raising the state minimum wage, currently set at $7.25 an hour. But he said it will be difficult to make that

change with the divided legisla-tive control.

“Many of us think it ’s time to do that, but we recognize the political reality,” Gronstal said.

As of January 1, minimum wage increases had gone into effect in 20 states and the Dis-trict of Columbia — due to au-tomatic increases in some states and the result of legislation or ballot initiatives in others. A total of 29 states and the Dis-trict of Columbia have mini-mum wages above the federally mandated $7.25 an hour, in-cluding Nebraska, South Da-kota and Minnesota, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Democrats also plan to again seek to expand publicly funded 4-year-old preschool and pro-vide more job training oppor-tunities.

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Jury selection starts in Boston Marathon caseThe Associated Press

BOSTON — Some of the prospective ju-rors who could decide Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s fate got their first look Monday at the young man accused of bomb-ing the Boston Mara-thon, and they seemed transfixed by the sight of the shaggy-haired 21-year-old.

Tsarnaev, for his part, rose to his feet and nod-ded, slightly and awk-wardly, as he was intro-duced to the first group of about 200 citizens.

So began what could be weeks of jury selec-tion in the nation’s most closely watched terror trial since the Oklaho-ma City bombing two decades ago.

Security was tight, with dozens of police officers stationed inside and outside the federal courthouse along with bomb-sniffing dogs.

The potential ju-rors seemed riveted by Tsarnaev and by U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr.’s explanation of the gravity of what they will be asked to do

if they are picked: They must decide not only whether the former col-lege student is guilty or innocent, but also what his punishment will be if he is convicted — life in prison or execution.

The judge told the potential jurors not to think of the trial as “an annoying burden,” but as a needed service and an “important duty of citizenship.”

Tsarnaev is accused of planning and carry-ing out the twin pres-sure-cooker bombings that killed three people

and wounded more than 260 near the finish line of the race on April 15, 2013.

O’Toole briefly out-lined the 30 charges against Tsarnaev, which include using a weapon of mass destruction. He is also accused of killing an MIT police officer as he and his brother, now dead, made their get-away.

Tsarnaev, flanked by his attorneys, sat at a table at the front of the room. Wearing a dark sweater and khaki pants, he looked down much

of the time and picked at his beard.

He nodded to the first group of potential jurors in the morning. When he stood for a second group of 200 in the afternoon, he looked down at the floor.

Over three days, a pool of about 1,200 prospective jurors will be summoned to court. Twelve jurors and six al-ternates will ultimately be selected. The judge said testimony in the trial will begin on Jan. 26 and last three to four months.

Baby snatched

by gunman found dead


LONG BEACH, Calif. — Detectives try-ing to determine who abducted a 3-week-old infant after shooting her parents and uncle at a Southern Califor-nia home have few clues and are asking for the public’s help, officials said Monday.

The baby, a 10-pound girl named Eliza Dela-cruz, was found dead Sunday in a trash bin in Imperial Beach, about 120 miles south of Long Beach, where her rela-tives were shot the day before.

Her body was discov-ered by a transient just a few miles from the Mexican border, rais-ing the possibility that the assailant crossed or hoped to cross into Mexico.

Long Beach detec-tives believe the family was targeted for some reason but do not yet know the motive, po-lice spokeswoman Mar-lene Arrona said. They would say only that they are looking for a male suspect who is either black or Hispanic.

The Long Beach resi-dence showed no sign of forced entry, and noth-ing was taken, homicide Lt. Lloyd Cox told the Long Beach Press-Tele-gram on Sunday.

“We believe that this is not a random act,” Cox said. “We are go-ing through the back-grounds of all the indi-viduals who live here, but it appears to be very personal.”

Homicide detectives referred calls Monday to Arrona. Authorities in San Diego County re-ferred inquiries to Long Beach police.

The baby’s father was released from the hospi-tal Sunday. Her mother and uncle remain hos-pitalized and were listed in critical condition late Sunday. Their names have not been released.

Police on Monday defended their decision not to issue an Amber Alert for the child be-cause they had no de-scription of the suspect’s vehicle.

“One of the criteria for that is having a li-cense plate number. We don’t even have that,” Arrona said.

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Big threat for Obama’s climate efforts from GOP-run CongressThe Associated Press

WA S H I N G T O N — President Barack Obama’s determined ef-forts to combat global warming face their big-gest trial yet as Republi-cans take full control of Congress this week. The GOP vows to move fast and forcefully to roll back his environmental rules and force his hand on en-ergy development.

The GOP’s first order of business: the Keystone XL pipeline. The Re-publican-led House has repeatedly passed legisla-tion to approve the pipe-line, which would carry tar sands oil from Canada deep into the United States. The bills died in the Senate when Demo-crats were in control, but that will change Wednes-day when a Republican-led Senate committee holds a Keystone hearing.

“The president is go-

ing to see the Keystone XL pipeline on his desk and it’s going to be a bell-wether decision by the president whether to go with jobs and the econo-my,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Sunday.

Success for Republi-cans on the climate front would jeopardize a key component of Obama’s legacy. And the rami-fications would likely ricochet far beyond the United States.

Later this year, na-tions are supposed to sign a major global climate treaty in Paris. Aggres-sive action by the U.S. under Obama has upped the pressure on other governments to get seri-ous about climate change, too. But if Obama can’t make good on his com-mitments at home, it’s unclear whether poorer nations will still feel com-pelled to act.

“The American gov-

ernment has been re-sponsible for sending very strong political and economic signals with what they have an-nounced so far,” former Mexican President Felipe Calderon, now a global climate leader, said in an Associated Press inter-view. “I know that there is a risk that those will be overcome by the new po-litical reality in the U.S.”

Obama has made clear he will use his veto power if Republicans succeed in getting hostile bills to his desk — especially on climate change. “I’m go-ing to defend gains that we’ve made on environ-ment and clean air and clean water,” he has said.

And Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, says the Republicans aren’t likely to overturn his veto. That would require a number of Democrats to vote against the presi-dent.

Gay marriage ban ends as couples wed throughout Florida


KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage ended statewide at the stroke of midnight Monday, and court clerks in some counties wasted no time, issuing mar-riage licenses and performing weddings for same-sex couples in the early morning hours.

But they were beaten to the punch by a Mi-ami judge who found no need to wait until the statewide ban expired. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel presided over Florida’s first legally recognized same-sex marriages Mon-day afternoon.

Still, most counties held off on official cere-monies until early Tuesday, when U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle’s ruling that Florida’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional took effect in all 67 counties.

“It’s been a long time coming. We’re just so excited and so happy,” said Osceola County Commissioner Cheryl Grieb moments after she married Patti Daugherty, her partner of 22 years, at a courthouse in Kissimmee, just south of Orlando. In matching white pants and white embroidered shirts, the couple stood under a canopy of lace and ribbons as County Clerk of Court Armando Ramirez officiated and U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., served as a witness. Supporters counted down to mid-night, with a clock ticking away at the front of the room.

Florida — the third-most populous state, with 19.9 million people — becomes the 36th state where gay marriage is legal. Seventy per-cent of Americans now live in states where same-sex couples can legally wed.

In several of the Deep South states sur-rounding Florida, gay marriage bans remain in place. That puts Florida — a state much changed since the 1970s, when former beauty pageant queen and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant started her national campaign against gay rights in the 1970s — in place to potentially serve as a mecca for gay couples who could travel there for weddings.

But while the end of the ban was met with cheers or even shrugs from Florida’s more lib-eral enclaves, political and cultural divisions remained in the battleground state, especially farther north, where more conservative Florid-ians live.

In Jacksonville, Duval County Court Clerk Ronnie Fussell shut down the courthouse cha-pel, saying no marriage ceremonies — gay or straight — would be allowed there. At least two other counties in northeast Florida did the same.

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Olaseni has career-high 18 as Iowa downs NebraskaIOWA CITY AP) —

Iowa center Gabe Olaseni has emerged as one of the Big Ten’s top big men off the bench.

The Hawkeyes might not be able to afford to keep bringing him off the pine much longer.

Aaron White had 23 points, Olaseni scored a ca-reer-high 18 and Iowa beat Nebraska 70-59 on Monday for its first 2-0 start in the Big Ten in 12 years.

Jarrod Uthoff had 15 for the Hawkeyes (11-4, 2-0), who prevailed thanks largely to a 31-13 edge on made free throws.

Twelve of those came from Olaseni, who added five re-bounds, three crucial field goals and plenty of energy in just 22

minutes.“We were

determined to go inside and get to the free throw line. He’s just play-ing with such conf idence,” Iowa coach Fran McCaf-fery said.

Nebraska’s Shavon Shields led all scorers with 25 points. But the Cornhuskers (8-6, 0-2) had just two points in the final 2:43, and Iowa held Cornhuskers star Ter-ran Petteway — who fought through a shin bruise suffered early in the first half — to just 11 points.

Iowa holds the rare dis-tinction of two road wins over

ranked opponents after win-ning at Ohio State last week.

The Huskers made the Hawkeyes work to earn their best league start since 2002-03.

Shields helped Nebraska take a one-point lead mid-way through the second half. Iowa rallied with an 11-3 run — capped with a rare White 3-pointer — to move back in front 61-54 with 4:39 left.

The Hawkeyes were the aggressors early on, which allowed them to maintain a slim lead despite yet another stretch of cold shooting from the perimeter. Iowa got to the line 19 times in the first half and converted 15 times for a 35-28 lead.

Iowa’s offense grew stag-nant to start the second half though. Nebraska’s did not,

and the Huskers pulled ahead 51-50 with 8:09 left.

Back-to-back 3-pointers from Uthoff and Anthony Clemmons gave Iowa the lead back, and the Hawkeyes never gave it up.

“We were also getting stops, so it’s a combination of both. We weren’t trading baskets. We got a little bit of separation,” McCaffery said.

Nebraska finished with just five assists against 10 turn-overs, and it committed 24 fouls.

“Play hard without foul-ing. That’s what we’re trained to do,” Nebraska coach Tim Miles said. ‘I was just disap-pointed that we weren’t able to play better defense.”

The Hawkeyes offered free hot chocolate to all of the

fans that braved the weather to attend the game, as a snow storm ravaged Iowa Mon-day night and left the arena half-empty. Those who made it watched a team that could be on the verge of rejoining the Top 25. Iowa received 63 points in Monday’s poll, which was second among teams who didn’t get ranked.

White set a new school re-cord with his 517th made free throw late in the first half. He broke the mark set by Iowa great Roy Marble from 1986-89. But that shooting form has rarely translated from 20 feet out. White is just 24 per-cent on 3s this season, which made his crucial 3-pointer so promising for the Hawkeyes.

Iowa hosts Michigan State on Thursday.

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Had No Game

Jocelyn Sheets/Daily NewsNewton High’s girls were to have played at Ballard Monday night but the inclement weather postponed all activities Monday night. Newton’s Michaela Jacobsen (40) and the rest of the Cardinals will play at Ballard Jan. 24. The Newton wrestling team’s double dual with Urbandale and host Ames on Monday was rescheduled for Jan. 13. Lynnville-Sully’s basketball games against Iowa Valley at Marengo Monday were postponed.

Stuart Scott was in his element, working a “Mon-day Night Football” game, when he was forced to leave for an appendix operation.

D o c t o r s discovered a tumor dur-ing surgery and Scott was diag-nosed with cancer. But he made a point of con-tinuing to live his life — at work and outside of it.

“You beat cancer by how you live,” he would later say. “So live. Live. Fight like hell.”

That fight ended Sunday when Scott, the longtime “SportsCenter” anchor and ESPN personality known for his enthusiasm and ubiquity, died at age 49.

Scott remained dedi-cated to his craft even as he suffered through che-motherapy, radiation and surgery.

Kirk Ferentz has done a lot for the Iowa football program. He has fin-ished in the top 10 of the national polls four times, won two Big Ten titles and guided the Hawkeyes to two Orange Bowl appearances.

But, after another bowl game loss and a disappointing 7-6 year in 2014, the Iowa fans are starting to turn. And they likely won’t go back the other di-rection unless Iowa Athletic Gary Barta makes a change in leadership.

According to former University of Iowa Sports Information Director Phil Haddy, there has never been a worse turnout of Iowa fans for a bowl game in the Ferentz era.

Haddy went as far to say that he thought the turnout was also worse than any bowl game Hayden Fry coached in. And Haddy has attended every bowl game since then.

The real question of how hot Fe-rentz’s seat is will come in the offsea-son when fans decide if they want to

renew their season tickets.I personally know two friends who

have had four season tickets for the past 10 years and both of them have said openly to me that 2014 will likely be their last for a while.

None of that bothers Ferentz though. He has bigger issues to dedi-cate his time to.

“We had a coach to the west of us (Nebraska’s Bo Pelini) that won a lot of football games that got fired,” Ferentz said after the 45-28 loss to Tennessee in the TaxSlayer Bowl. “If you’re in this profession, that’s part of the deal. If I’m going to sit around listening to the temperature, reading the temperature on the outside, more what I need to do is take the energy that I can put towards the job and put it on our improvement. That’s typical-ly what we’ve tried to do for 16 years.”

Ferentz will have to put some of his energy toward finding out who his quarterback is, if both Jake Rudock and C.J. Beathard return to Iowa City.

He also needs to figure out why a defense that prides itself on playing physical football suddenly has issues with tackling.

The punting game is bad. The re-cruiting has taken a dip. And Iowa

hasn’t won a bowl game since it de-feated Missouri back in 2010. In fact, the Hawkeyes are just 26-25 overall since that game.

“I don’t believe it’s going to go down the drain. That’s what I believe and how I live. It’s how I look at the world,” Ferentz said.

Barta admitted earlier this season that 7-5 seasons are not acceptable at Iowa. He later said that Ferentz would return in 2015. But after Tennessee took Iowa to the woodshed in Friday’s bowl game, Barta also admitted the angst around the program is greater than at any time since he arrived in 2006.

Has the end come for Ferentz? If so, what’s next? Where does Iowa go from here? If not, how many more 7-5 seasons can the program take before the fans completely say goodbye to at-tending games on Saturdays.

Letting go of Ferentz won’t be easy. He has a $13.3 million buyout that is part of the 10-year contract Barta helped him sign. That contract in-cludes a longevity bonus of $525,000 that comes up due on Jan. 31.

“I made the decision [on the deal] based on results, based on market-place, and based on my comfort that

Kirk would continue to lead us toward expectations,” Barta told the Cedar Rapids Gazette. “And some years we do, and some years we don’t, and I un-derstand there’s angst right now. But at the end of the day I’m still going to make the decision whether or not Kirk’s ability to lead the program back is strong or not regardless of the con-tract.”

It’s hard to think things could get much worse with the fans. And I don’t know what Ferentz can do at this point to turn them back to his favor.

But as long as the football program continues to bring in some of the larg-est dollars in the nation, Iowa Presi-dent Sally Mason and Barta may look the other way, despite the results on the field.

Can declining ticket sales be enough alone to pull the trigger? We may all soon find out.

Either way, it looks like the Uni-versity of Iowa football program will have an interesting offseason.

Buckle up. The path to spring prac-tice could get a little bumpy.

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SPORTS CALENDAR

TuesdayBasketball

Grinnell at Newton, girls 6:15 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.Lynnville-Sully at English Valleys, girls 6 p.m., boys 6 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.Roland-Story at CMB, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.

ThursdayWrestling

Newton at Osklaoosa, 5:30 p.m.CMB at PCM, 6:30 p.m.Roland-Story, Saydel, Panorama at Colfax-Mingo, 5:30 p.m.Newton 7th, 8th at Oskaloosa, 4:30 p.m.

BasketballOskaloosa at Newton, 9th boys, 6 p.m., JV boys 7:30 p.m.Norwalk at Newton 8th boys, 4:30 p.m.Newton 7th boys at Norwalk, 4:30 p.m.Newton 7th girls at Sully Chris-tian, 4:30 p.m.

BowlingNewton at Clarke, 4 p.m.

FridayBasketball

Newton at Oskaloosa, girls 6:15 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.Lynnville-Sully at Keota, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.PCM at Gilbert, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.North Polk at Colfax-Mingo, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.CMB at Saydel, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.Pella at Newotn 8th boys, 4:30 p.m.Newton 7th boys at Pella, 4:30 p.m.

SaturdayBowling

Norwalk at Newton, 9 a.m.Boys’ Swimming

Newton at Waterloo West Invita-tional, 10 a.m.

WrestlingNewton at Ottumwa, 10 a.m.Lynnville-Sully, Colfax-Mingo at PCM Invitational, 9 a.m.CMB at BCLUW tournament, 8 a.m.

ESPN President John Skipper said in a statement that Scott was “a true friend and a uniquely inspirational figure” and that his “en-ergetic and unwavering devotion to his family and to his work while fighting the battle of his life left us in awe, and he leaves a void that can never be replaced.”

Fans and players at games around the Unit-ed States on Sunday stopped to observe mo-ments of silence, includ-ing at the Bengals-Colts NFL playoff game in In-dianapolis, Lions-Cow-boys in Arlington, Texas; the Mavericks-Cavaliers NBA game in Cleveland and at several college basketball games.

Some of the world’s most famous athletes expressed their grief online. LeBron James wrote on Instagram: “Thank you so much for being u and giving us inner city kids someone we could relate to that wasn’t a player but was close enough to them.”

“Stuart wasn’t cover-ing heroes & champi-ons, it was the other way around,” Tiger Woods said on Twitter.

In July, Scott ac-cepted the Jimmy V Perseverance Award at the ESPYs. During his speech, he told his teen-age daughters: “Taelor and Sydni, I love you guys more than I will ever be able to express. You two are my heart-beat. I am standing on this stage here tonight because of you.”

Scott is also survived by his parents, O. Ray and Jacqueline Scott; siblings Stephen Scott, Synthia Kearney and Susan Scott; his daugh-ters Taelor, 19, and Sydni, 15; and girlfriend Kristin Spodobalski.

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Trio of aces poised to lead Hall of Fame class of 2015NEW YORK (AP)

— Randy Johnson, Pe-dro Martinez and John Smoltz appear to be shoo-ins for election to the Hall of Fame in what is shaping up as the baseball writers’ biggest class of induct-ees in 60 years.

When the Hall of Fame reveals the results Tuesday at 2 p.m. on the MLB Network, hold-over Craig Biggio and perhaps Mike Piazza could join those three first-ballot pitchers who were utterly dominant in a hitters’ era of artifi-cially bulging statistics.

Here are some things to know about the bal-loting, conducted again in a period when who’s elected is as intriguing as whose names were not checked by Baseball Writers’ Association of America voters:

THE THREE ACESJohnson, Martinez

and Smoltz stand out among the 17 newcom-ers to the ballot.

The reed-thin, scrag-gly-haired Johnson is a five-time Cy Young Award winner — four in a row from 1999-2002 — with 303 wins and 4,875 strikeouts. The Big Unit came up big in the postseason, too, sharing MVP hon-ors in the 2001 World Series with Arizona Di-amondbacks teammate Curt Schilling.

Martinez’s antics off the field were nearly as

enthralling as an ever-elusive changeup that helped him to three Cy Youngs — two AL, one NL — and a 2.93 ERA in 18 years. He helped bring the Boston Red Sox their first World Series championship in 86 years.

Smoltz was a steady presence on the At-lanta Braves’ staff for 20 seasons — includ-ing 14 straight divi-sion titles from 1991-2005 — winning the 1996 NL Cy Young. A career starter, Smoltz smoothly moved into the closer role for three full seasons and earned 154 saves. He should join former teammates Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, last year’s in-ductees along with Frank Thomas.

The induction cer-emony in Cooperstown will take place July 26.

BALLOT LOGJAMNot since 1955, when

Joe DiMaggio, Gabby Hartnett, Ted Lyons

and Dazzy Vance all gained entrance into the Hall, have four players received the necessary 75 percent of the vote from the BBWAA.

Five were elected at the same time on just one occasion, and that was the initial Hall class of 1936.

With the ballot jammed by big names from the Steroids Era, the BBWAA has rec-ommended to the Hall’s board of directors that it increase the number of players each voter can select from 10 to 12. That change could come as soon as 2016.

THE PED FACTORSuspected and ad-

mitted users of per-formance-enhancing drugs have been on the ballot since Mark McGwire was a first-timer in 2007. But the real debate over PEDs and players’ credentials heated up when other-wise certain locks Barry Bonds and Roger Cle-

mens became eligible three years ago. Both glamour stars severely tarnished by steroid use accusations received about 35 percent of the vote last year, a slight dip from their first bal-lots.

Piazza, who received 62.2 percent in his sec-ond year on the ballot, and Jeff Bagwell (54.3 percent) are two play-ers who have fallen under suspicion of use but were never caught up in any investigation. Will one more year on the ballot help them get closer to the threshold? Perhaps an enhanced ballot of up to 12 votes per writer next year will give them the nudge they need if they fail this year.

CLOSING INBiggio, the Houston

Astros second base-man-outfielder with 3,060 hits, fell two votes shy of election last year. Piazza, who has more homers than any other

catcher in big league history, went up about 5 percent from the pre-vious year. According to research by Baseball Think Factory, Biggio was up to 82.9 percent of the vote on 158 pub-lic ballots sourced by the website — that’s about 27.7 percent of the vote, based on last year’s to-tals. Piazza was at 76.6 percent late Monday af-ternoon.

Several others on the ballot of 34 candidates are hoping to get a bet-ter look. Tim Raines (46.1 percent last year), hit .294 with a .385 on-base percentage in a 23-year career for six teams. The prototypical lead-off hitter scored 1,571 runs and stole 808 bas-es. Career designated hitter Edgar Martinez received 35.9 percent, Curt Schilling got 29.2 and Mike Mussina 20.3 percent in 2014.

These players get only 10 years on the BBWAA ballot, recent-ly reduced from 15 years maximum.

NEXT YEARNext year’s ballot

should open up some after the election of this year’s expected jumbo class and the amended voting rules. There is one sure thing in the 2016 group: Ken Griffey, Jr. He will be joined by Trevor Hoff-man, Billy Wagner and Jim Edmonds as the chief newcomers.

Johnson Martinez Smoltz

Two US ski team prospects die in avalanche in Austria

Two prospects from the U.S. Ski Team were killed in an av-alanche Monday while skiing near their European training base in the Austrian Alps.

The team said Ronnie Ber-lack, 20, and Bryce Astle, 19, died in the incident near the Rettenbach glacier in the mountains over Soelden, the venue for the annual season-opening World Cup races.

Berlack, from Franconia, New Hampshire, and Astle, from Sandy, Utah, were part of a group of six skiers who were descending from the 3,056-meter Gaislachkogel when they left the prepared slope and apparently set off the avalanche. The other four skied out of the slide and es-caped unhurt.

Officials in the Tyrolean region said an avalanche alert had been declared for the area after days of heavy snowfall and mild temperatures.

“Ronnie and Bryce were both outstanding ski racers who were passionate about their sport — both on the race course and ski-ing the mountain,” U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association Presi-dent and CEO Tiger Shaw said.

“Our hearts go out to the Ber-lack and Astle families, as well as to their extended sport family. Both of them loved what they did and conveyed that to those around them.”

The tragedy has left the U.S. Ski Team “in shock,” Alpine director Patrick Riml told The Associated Press in Croatia, Zagreb, where the American slalom team was preparing for a World Cup race on Tuesday.

Head coach Sascha Rearick left Zagreb shortly after being informed and traveled back to Austria to be with the so-called development team Ber-lack and Astle were part of.

Riml said the athletes were free to decide whether they still wanted to compete in Tuesday’s night race, add-ing the team planned to wear mourning bands.

“We are all very close,” said Riml, an Austrian who was born and grew up in Soelden. “We train a lot in Park City. We’ll see how they handle the whole thing and how they react.”

Riml added “it’s a shock for everybody. Two great boys, great athletes, good skiers. They were fun to have around. We are all in shock, still. It’s very tragic.”

Berlack and Astle were part of a group of 10 skiers on the development team who gained experience in the Europa Cup and were preparing to race on the top-level World Cup.

“They all have the potential (to be on the World Cup),” Riml said. “These two boys were among the other eight boys who are our future. We believed in these guys, that’s why we selected them.”

Berlack was a member of the Franconia Ski Club who recently trained at Vermont’s Burke Mountain Academy. He had earned a spot on the de-velopment team in 2013 and finished 11th in downhill and 17th in super-G at the Na-tional championships that year in Squaw Valley.

Berlack grew up in Fran-conia, the small town in the White Mountains that also produced U.S., world and Olympic champion Bode Miller. Rich Smith, program director at the Franconia Ski Club, said he had known Ber-lack since he was 7.

“There’s not enough words to say what a great guy Ronnie Berlack was and always will be,” Smith said.

In a statement, Burke Moun-

tain Academy said it was dev-astated by Berlack’s death. His father, Steve Berlack, is a coach at the academy. His mother, Cindy, is also a ski coach.

“Only last week Ronnie was here at BMA training with us,” the school said. “Ron-nie was someone we all loved and deeply respected. He had a huge spirit. There is no one who better represents our core values than Ronnie. Our hearts go out to his parents Steve and Cindy, and his sister Carolyn.”

At the Dec. 5 World Cup downhill in Beaver Creek, Berlack was one of the five forerunners, who test a course before the actual race starts. Berlack was also set to be a forerunner during the world championships on the same course next month, U.S ski team spokeswoman Megan Harrod told the AP.

Astle was invited to train with the development team this season after strong early season results, including two top-10 results at NorAm Cup races last month in Canada.

“He was hoping ... to be in the next Olympics, that was his goal,” his mother Laura Astle said, “and he was pretty much on his way.”


INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A development group that includes a company con-trolled by the owner of the St. Louis Rams announced plans Monday to build an 80,000-seat stadium in the Los Ange-les suburbs that could become home for an NFL team.

The proposal that envisions a stadium rising on the site of a former horse track again raised the hopes of fans that Los An-geles could end its two-decade drought without an NFL team. It becomes the latest in a string of stadium proposals in the Los Angeles area since the 1994 exit of the Rams and Raiders from Southern Cali-fornia.

The proposal stands out, however, because of the in-volvement of St. Louis Rams

owner Stan Kroenke. His com-pany, The Kroenke Group, has entered a joint venture with Stockbridge Capital Group, which had been developing a 238-acre tract of homes, parks and office space at the former Hollywood Park track in In-glewood, on the edge of Los Angeles.

Kroenke’s company owns an adjacent 60 acres, which would be merged into the overall development. The expanded project would include a stadi-um, a separate 6,000-seat per-formance venue and parking.

“This is a perfect location for a venue like this,” said Christopher Meany, a senior executive for the joint venture, Hollywood Park Land Co., al-luding to its proximity to ma-jor freeways, the Los Angeles

International Airport and The Forum, the former home of the NBA’s Los Angeles Lak-ers. “I don’t know of a place that compares to this.”

A rendering of the project depicts a stadium, shielded by a gently sloping dome, sur-rounded by palm trees and fountains.

Meany was cautious not to characterize the stadium as an NFL venue, emphasizing that any decision on moving a team is “entirely in the hands of the NFL.” He repeatedly referred to the stadium as “multipur-pose,” also capable of hosting soccer games.

The shell of the old race-track would need to be leveled, and stadium construction is not expected to begin before late this year, with a comple-

tion date pegged for 2018.However, its development

would hinge on approval by local voters, Meany said.

The proposal was first re-ported Monday by the Los Angeles Times.

The plan adds pressure on the city of St. Louis to either strike a deal for a new stadium for the Rams, or watch the team return to Southern Cali-fornia, where it played from 1946 to 1994. The team is unhappy in the Edward Jones Dome, which is outdated by NFL standards.

St. Louis is expected to of-fer the team a new proposal by the end of the month.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said in a statement that “St. Louis is an NFL city and I am commit-ted to keeping it that way.”

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JASPER COUNTYIN THE MATTER OF THEESTATE OFDarlene G. Brosig, DeceasedProbate No. ESPR036601NOTICE OF PROBATE OFWILL, OF APPOINTMENT OFEXECUTOR, AND NOTICE TOCREDITORSTo All Persons Interested in theEstate of Darlene G. Brosig,Deceased, who died on or aboutAugust 19, 2014:You are hereby notified that onthe 30th day of December, 2014,the last will and testament ofDarlene G. Brosig, deceased,bearing date of the 31st day ofJanuary, 1992,* was admitted to probate in theabove named court and that LisaBrosig and Myrna Guthrie wasappointed executor of the estate.Any action to set aside the willmust be brought in the districtcourt of said county within thelater to occur of four months fromthe date of the secondpublication of this notice or onemonth from the date of mailing ofthis notice to all heirs of thedecedent and devisees under thewill whose identities arereasonably ascertainable, orthereafter be forever barred.Notice is further given that allpersons indebted to the estateare requested 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 tooccur of four months from thesecond publication of this noticeor one month from the date ofmailing of this notice (unlessotherwise allowed or paid) aclaim is thereafter forever barred.Dated this 31st day of December,2014.Date of second publication: 13thday of January, 2015Probate Code Section 304Hilary Mastio,ICIS PIN No: AT0009928Attorney for the Co-ExecutorsCaldwell, Brierly, Chalupa &Nuzum, PLLC211 First Avenue West, Newton, IA 50208AddressLisa Brosig and Myrna GuthrieCo-Executors of the Estate2102 N. Mulligan, Chicago, Illinois 60639and 110 N. 5th Ave. W. #104, Newton, IA 50208Address*Designated Codicil(s) if any, withdate(s)

January 6 & 13

THE IOWA DISTRICT COURTJASPER COUNTY

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF

Jimmie D. Wilson, Deceased.Probate No. ESPR036613NOTICE OF PROBATE OF

WILL, OFAPPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR, AND

NOTICE TO CREDITORSTo All Persons Interested in theEstate of Jimmie D. Wilson,Deceased, who died on or aboutNovember 5, 2014:You are hereby notified that onthe 23rd day of December, 2014,the last will and testament ofJimmie D. Wilson, deceased,bearing date of the 14th day ofJanuary, 2013, was admitted toprobate in the above named courtand that Marilyn J. Wilson wasappointed executor of the estate.Any action to set aside the willmust be brought in the districtcourt of said county within thelater to occur of four months fromthe date of the secondpublication of this notice or onemonth from the date of mailing ofthis notice to all heirs of thedecedent and devisees under thewill whose identities arereasonably ascertainable, orthereafter be forever barred.Notice is further given that allpersons indebted to the estateare requested 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 tooccur of four months from thesecond publication of this noticeor one month from the date ofmailing of this notice (unlessotherwise allowed or paid) aclaim is thereafter forever barred.Dated this 23rd day of December,2014.Marilyn J. Wilson, Executor ofestate11108 W. 116th St. N.Collins, IA 50055Randal B. Caldwell, ICIS PIN No: AT0001375Attorney for executorCaldwell, Brierly, Chalupa &Nuzum, PLLC211 1st Ave W, Newton, IA50208Date of second publication6th day of January, 2015Probate Code Section 304

December 30 & January 6

IN THE IOWA DISTRICT COURTFOR JASPER COUNTY

CITY OF MONROE, IOWAEQUITY NO. EQCV119226Petitioner,ORIGINAL NOTICEvs.STEWARD L. ROSS;SPOUSE OF STEWARD L.ROSS, IF ANY and UNKNOWNPARTIESDATE PETITION FILED:12/17/2014Respondents.TO THE ABOVE-NAMEDRESPONDENT(S):You are notified that a petitionhas been filed in the office of theclerk of this court naming you asa respondent in this action, whichpetition prays the Court to findthat the property located at 6021/2 N Mechanic Street, Monroe,Iowa and legally described as:Lot "D" and Lot "B" in Block 50, inthe Town of Monroe, JasperCounty, Iowa; also described as:"Part of Lots 5 & 6, Block 50,Monroe, Iowa, described asfollows: Commence 132 feetNorth of the Southwest corner ofLot 4, Block 50, Monroe, Iowa,run thence West 180 feet, North438 feet, East 80 feet, South 120feet, East 100 feet, South 318feet to the place of beginning,also commence at the Northeastcorner of Lot 3, Block 50,Monroe, Iowa, run West 183 1/2feet, North 268 feet, East 183 1/2feet, South 268 feet to the placeof beginning. has beenabandoned within the meaning ofIowa Code Section 657A.10Aand grant the City title to theproperty free and clear of allclaims, liens, or encumbrances.The name and address of theattorney for the petitioner isGilbert R. Caldwell III, Caldwell,Brierly, Chalupa & Nuzum, PLLC,211 1st Avenue West, Newton, IA50208. The attorney's phonenumber is (641) 792-4160;facsimile number: (641) 792-2410. You must serve a motion oranswer on or before February 9,2015, and within a reasonabletime thereafter, file your motion oranswer with the Clerk of Court forJasper County, at the courthousein Newton, Iowa. If you do not,judgment by default may berendered against you for the reliefdemanded in the petition.You are further notified that theabove case has been filed in acounty that utilizes electronicfiling. Unless, within 20 daysafter service of this original noticeupon you, you serve, and within areasonable time thereafter file amotion or answer, in the IowaDistrict Court for Jasper County,at the courthouse in Newton,Iowa, judgment by default will berendered against you for the reliefdemanded in the petition. Pleasesee Iowa Court Rules Chapter 16for information on electronic filingand Iowa Court Rules Chapter16, division VI regarding theprotection of personal informationin court filings.If you require the assistance ofauxiliary aids or services toparticipate in court because of adisability, immediately call yourdistrict ADA coordinator at (515)286-3394. (If you are hearingimpaired, call Relay Iowa TTY at1-800-735-2942) IMPORTANT: YOU AREADVISED TO SEEK LEGALADVICE AT ONCE TOPROTECT YOUR INTERESTS

January 6, 13 and 20

PUBLIC NOTICE OF STORMWATER DISCHARGE

The Iowa Department ofTransportation plans to submit aNotice of Intent to the IowaDepartment of Natural Resourcesto be covered under NationalPollutant Discharge EliminationSystem (NPDES) General PermitNo.2 "Storm Water DischargeAssociated with Industrial Activityfor Construction Activities."The storm water discharge will befrom highway constructionactivity located in Jasper Countyon IA Highway 224. The projectis a parking lot and buildingconstruction at westbound I-80Jasper Rest Area.The Public Lands Survey locationis Township 80N, Range 17W,Section (s) 36.Storm water will be dischargedfrom 1 point sources and will bedischarged to the followingstreams: unnamed ditch andwaterway to Sugar Creek.Comments may be submitted tothe Storm Water DischargeCoordinator, IOWADEPARTMENT OF NATURALRESOURCES, EnvironmentalProtection Division, 502 East 9thStreet, Des Moines, IA 50319-0034. The public may review theNotice of Intent from 8:00 a.m. to4:30 p.m. Monday through Fridayat the above address after it hasbeen received by theDepartment.

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