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REGIONAL—Terry Boltjes of rural Primghar went out hunt-ing often during deer season, as he does every year. But this season he spotted and killed fewer deer than he has in the past. “Last year I filled both of my tags,” Boltjes said. “This year I did not fill either one.” According to the Iowa Depart-ment of Natural Resources, the 2011-12 deer season yielded 4.5 percent fewer deer killed than the 2010-11 season. Since 2006, the number of deer harvested has declined by 30 percent. A decreased population now is apparent to hunters, who are becoming discouraged and concerned.

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NIOSC members, city officialsponder recreational area’s fate

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SIOUX CENTER—The city of Sioux Center and Northwest Iowa Outdoor Sporting Complex had hoped to get more clarity about the future of Sandy Hollow Recreational Area last week. I n s t e a d , it’s become even more murky. B y a 3 - 2 vote on Feb. 28, the Sioux C o u n t y B o a r d o f S u p e r v i -sors denied N I O S C ’ s proposal to construct a g u n r a n g e a t S a n d y Hollow, two miles east of Sioux Center. N e i t h e r Sioux Center, which owns the land, nor NIOSC is quite sure what to do next. “I would still like to see us somehow get the complex put together,” said Verlyn Rozeboom, a member of both the Sioux Center City Council and the NIOSC board. The NIOSC board has not officially met since the supervisors’ decision to discuss its next steps for the location where it had hoped to construct

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Area superintendents say lawnot fair assessment of schools


REGIONAL—Mandates imposed by the No Child Left Behind Act could potentially be waived in Iowa after the Iowa Department of Education sub-mitted an application to opt out of complying with guidelines of the act. Many N’West Iowa school administrators see the waiver as a step in the right direction toward student growth and im -provement. “It’s a very positive step from the department of education,” said Sibley-Ocheyedan School District superintendent Tom Becker. “No Child Left Behind, the way it is now, does not meet the needs of kids.” The department of education submitted the

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S SHELDON—Sarah Blundell walked down the imaginary catwalk with poise and style. Dressed in a blue and white striped “Rocko’s Modern Life” tank, a dark gray cardigan and ripped black leggings, Blundell’s 5-foot-7-inch frame was seemingly meant for the makeshift style runway. “I’m a really nice person and I get along well with others,” said the 20-year-old Sioux City resident who works at Michael’s Arts & Crafts. Blundell, along with 32 other aspiring mod-

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REGIONAL—Eight wom-en involved in a Beth Moore Bible study group

based in Sioux Center recently discovered they had much more in common than they initially thought. When meeting after meeting nearly half of the members were showing up toting photos they had taken to share with the group, member Amy Eben pointed out how many of them had cameras. “That kind of got me think-ing about how rich we were with photography experience,” said Laurie Ann Anderson of Orange City. “From Amy’s random comment that started the ball rolling — ‘What can be our hands and feet in this situ-ation?’” Anderson began thinking of ways group members could use their photography talents and people skills to help oth-ers. Using their prior experience in photography and identify-ing a need in Haiti, the women developed “Prom Moms.” During prom season this year, the group of women will travel to various high schools in the area to shoot prom pho-tos. The money raised by tak-ing the photos will go toward building a house and buying a goat for a family in Haiti. “All of the schools do get bids for the photographers to come to the school,” Anderson said. “We thought as long as they’re going to have this service in the

school anyway, why not offer to not only provide the service but let the students fund a worthwhile project?” The Prom Moms sent letters to as many high schools as they could to get the word out about their service and already have inquiries from three schools about hiring the Prom Moms as prom photographers. At prom, the women will assume roles, including pho-tographer, computer operator and fluffer, who will make sure the students look presentable for their photos. “This really addresses the strength of this group,” Ander-son said. She described the Prom

Moms’ dynamic as a lot of fun. The women who know pho-tography will be behind the camera snapping photos. The women who have good organizational skills will arrange the students for the photo and act as the fluffer, and the other women will place orders for photos on a computer. Photographing proms made the most sense to the women because they knew they would be able to get a large pool of participants willing to donate over the course of a couple weekend nights. And, as a former prom pho-tographer, Anderson said shooting proms is a lot of fun.

“I’m excited this is possible,” said Prom Moms member Brenda Schuiteman of Orange City. “We’re called to it, and it’s abroad and in our own back-yard. When you combine the two, you’re living the Bible.” She said God has brought the group members together to share their gifts with others. Although the group has done

service projects in the past, it has never pursued anything to the scale of Prom Moms and never has made an impact on a global level. “When my girls are willing to walk the talk, it’s really a good feeling that God has blessed me with people in those lives,” Schuiteman said. “It makes me very happy to be a part of it.”

Karen Van Der Maaten, Bonnie Petersen, Val Van Roekel, Amy Eben, Wendy Heemstra and Laurie Ann Anderson are members of a Beth Moore Bible study group that meets in Sioux Center. They began a new project called “Prom Moms” for which the women will take couple’s photographs at prom to raise money to build a house and buy a goat for a family in Haiti. (Photo submitted)

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cAr tHeFt inFo souGHt CARNES—The S ioux County Sheriff’s Department is seeking information regarding an investiga-tion into a report of a stolen vehicle that was found parked along High-way 60 expressway just southwest of Jackson Avenue near Carnes. The vehicle was a 1986 blue Jeep Comanche pickup and was found to have been stolen from Columbus, NE. It is thought that the vehicle was left along the highway sometime between 10 and 11 p.m. on Saturday, March 3. Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff’s department at (712) 737-2280 or e-mail [email protected] or through Text-A-Tip at 274637 scso.

DriVer Hurt in AcciDent IRETON—One person was injured in a one-vehicle accident about 4:05 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, near the inter-section of Dipper Avenue and 470th Street, four miles southwest of Ireton. Dale Michael Manley, 57, Struble, was driving south on Dipper Avenue when he lost control of his 2007 Ford F-150 pickup, which entered the east ditch and rolled, according to the Sioux County Sheriff’s Department. The pickup then started on fire and Manley was able to escape. Manley received minor injuries but refused treatment at the scene. Upon further investigation, Manley was arrested for operating while intoxicated, a serious misdemeanor. He also was cited for failure to maintain control and open container of alcohol, both simple misdemeanors.

sLusH LeADs to crAsH SIBLEY—One person was injured in a two-vehicle accident about 12:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20, on the Highway 60 expressway about a mile southeast of Sibley. Kaitlin Fischer, 18, Jackson, MN, was driv-ing a 2009 Chevrolet Aveo north on the highway when she attempted to pass a 2007 Chrysler van driven by Margaret Craig, 70, Ponca, NE, on the left, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Department. Fischer lost control due to the slush on the road-way and collided with Craig’s vehicle on the road before entering the east ditch. Fischer was transported to Osceola Community Hospital in Sib-ley. No other injuries were reported.

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n To hire “Prom Moms” for high school prom photography, contact Laurie Ann Anderson at (712) 541-5961. All proceeds will go toward building a house and buying a goat for a family in Haiti.

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LARCHWOOD—The target opening date for Grand Falls Casino Resort near Larchwood has been moved up. Originally, it slated to open on the Fourth of July weekend. General man-ager Sharon Haselhoff now expects the $120 million facility to be up and run-ning by May 26. “We feel as long as everything lines up where it needs to and the weather

cooperates this spring, we’re shooting for Memorial Day weekend,” she said. Haselhoff said the reasons why offi-cials have been able to move up the timetable is because good fall weather conditions allowed for the building to be enclosed by winter and dedicated construction crews.

“There’s a lot of coordination needed on a project this scale,” she said. “Every-one is really on the same page. We’ve got wonderful staff in place. Things couldn’t be going better.” A timeline for a project of that

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REGIONAL—Rural flooding has been com-monplace in N’West Iowa the past two years, and that likely will be the case again this spring. The most recent f l o o d i n g o u t l o o k r e l e a s e d b y t h e National Weather Ser-vice in Sioux Falls, SD, indicates that most of the main rivers in the area will see at least minor flooding with the potential for moderate to major flooding in some places.

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Three churches, three trips to HaitiThey travel overseas to help people in need

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REGIONAL—More than 2,000 miles southeast of Iowa, the nation of Haiti seems so far away. The people of Haiti, however, remain close to the hearts of 48

N’West Iowa residents who traveled to the earthquake-stricken nation in January. Although they visited the same country on three different mission trips, each person brought back with them a different Haiti memory that has impacted their life.

Building relationships Dennis Ten Clay of Sheldon holds in his mind Lucia, Esther and Fabienne

— a Haitian boy and two girls — who he and his wife, Deb sponsor through the organization Mission To Haiti. The organization is located in Cazeau, a suburb of Port-au-Prince about 10 minutes from the airport, and works with 10 schools to sponsor about 800 children. Each sponsorship, which is about $1 a day, provides edu-cation, one meal per day and medical

See HAITI on page A7

Augustana College band members are able to return safely

KEEP UPDATED ONLINE: ■ The Grand Falls Casino Resort plans to put a lot of scheduling information on its website: www.grandfallscasinoresort.com. Middle management jobs will be adver-tised in the next few weeks, and information about dealer schools will start being announced in March. A large job fair will be held in April, with most employees being brought in during the first part of May. People also can keep track of the construction progress through a live webcam.

The main gaming area of the Grand Falls Casino Resort is shown. General manager Sharon Haselhoff hopes to have the facility running by May 26, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. (Photo by Josh Harrell)

Loren Meyer of rural Hull works out on an exercise bike during cardio therapy Wednesday in Sioux Center. More than 83 million adults nationwide are estimated have some cardiovascular disease. (Photo by Josh Harrell)

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Last weekend, Peter and I were called into action in Des Moines. CeCe, our daughter-in-law, had

planned for weeks to be in Seattle for a little rest and relaxation over a long weekend. Could we stay with Zoey and Kiernan? Of course! Most often, when the grandchildren are going to be with us, we meet in Lake View, a two-hour drive for each of us, pick the kids up there and bring them back to Sibley. However, this time Kier-nan had a music contest on Saturday and a basketball banquet on Sunday afternoon. Zoey needed to be cheerlead-ing on Saturday at Holy Trinity’s seventh-grade championship game. They needed to stay in Des Moines for the weekend. I guess the days of easily coming to Grandma and Papa’s house are quickly becoming a fond memory as the two of them become more involved, or as Peter would say, as they begin to grow those wings to fly away! When I do go to their house, I love to spend my time arranging their rooms and their stuff. I categorize all of Kier-nan’s school uniforms into colors: all the red polos, the navy blue polos and the white polos neatly in the closet. Then all

the tan pants. When I finish with that, I delve into his huge collection of books and K’Nex and Pokémon cards, and on and on. Zoey’s room is easier for me, I guess, because I understand girl stuff: hair, scarves, jewelry, toiletries, books, maga-zines and then the clothing. So far, they both seem happy with my attempts at cleaning their rooms, and I get no complaints later that they can’t find what they might be looking for. So that was my project for Friday while the kids were in school. Then, at 3:15, Peter and I picked the two of them up, and to my surprise, Kiernan had some-one with him and apparently was going home with us. “Aw, who’s your little friend?” I asked, understanding full well that I was going to have to rethink some of the activities we had planned if we were going to have three youngsters in tow for the evening. “This is Cameron, and he’s staying overnight and going with us tomorrow to the music contest,” Kiernan informed me with wide eyes and realizing maybe he should have asked me before he asked Cameron. “He can come over for a few hours, but maybe he should go to his own house

tonight so you can be sure to get a good night’s rest and be ready for the competi-tion tomorrow,” I offered as a solution. Cameron immediately leaned over and whispered something in Kiernan’s ear that I could see was posing some kind of a problem. “There’s not going to be anyone at my house tonight,” he sadly told me. “When my family knew I would be at Kiernan’s house overnight, they all made plans to be out.” What could I do at that point but enthusiastically tell him that would be perfect, and we’d have a great time! We all did have a fun evening, but when it was time for bed, I realized Cam-eron didn’t have pajamas or anything with him for an overnight stay. That was no problem, though, we got him all fixed up in Kiernan’s pajamas. Early Saturday morning, I slipped into the boys’ bedroom, laid out Kiernan’s pants for the day, grabbed the other two pair of pants that had been thrown on the floor the night before and slipped back out to fill the washer. I let the boys sleep as late as possible, calling them with just enough time for a little breakfast and on the road we needed to be.

Time was slipping by, and I was calling up the stairs every few minutes that it was time to go! “Mrs. Wagner, I’ve looked everywhere, and I just can’t find my tan pants. I laid them right by the bed before I went to sleep,” my new friend innocently told me. I immediately knew exactly where they were: whirling about in gallons of water in the washing machine! I told Cameron what I had done and reassured him that he could wear a pair of Kiernan’s pants. That was not quite as easy as it sounds since Kiernan is a bit bigger than Cameron! But we tucked and folded and belted those pants, and I do confess he looked a little like he was wearing his big brother’s pants, but at 10 years old, he didn’t seem to mind. Peter and I laughed off and on all day about my always being overorganized and then the trouble I can make for myself and most often other people, too. But it was a good weekend and . . . God is so good!

Connie Wagner lives in Sibley.She is the co-publisher of The N’West Iowa REVIEW and may be reachedat [email protected].

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Spalding school systemlooks at future options


HOSPERS—The Spalding Catholic School Board has decided to keep the Hospers Center open for at least one more year. The Sioux City Catholic Diocese has asked all of its Catholic schools to come up with a strategic, long-range plan. Spalding Catholic completed that plan last year, looking at all the buildings, their capacity and how they are being used. The school board unanimously decided last week to retain the former 1930s nuns’ convent for classes in the 2012-13 school year. The Hospers Cen-ter houses grades K-3. “Any time you’re looking at closing a

building there’s an emotion tied to it,” said Spalding Catholic principal Lisa Hamerlinck. “The building has a lot of charm and character. It’s a very well-kept building.” The Hospers Center is the oldest building in the Spalding Catholic School system. Prior to the decision, the school

board asked Hamerlinck to come up with a plan in which the Alton and Granville buildings could absorb the students from the Hospers Center if it were to be closed and the students moved to the Alton building. “It’s a feasible option,” Hamerlinck said. “The proposal I put together would be grades five and six moving to

Granville and having a middle school environment with the high school on the second floor.” The proposal would mean having a wall reconstructed in Alton. Enrollment has dropped substantial-ly at the school over the last 20 years. Despite a leveling off of the decline in

the last five years, the building closure eventually may be the direction the school chooses to go. “It’s not in a period of high growth,” Hamerlinck said. The school plans to review the plan each year to determine a proper course of action at that time.

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LESTER—Sometimes it’s good to be different. Other times, such as Lester’s veterans memorial dilemma, it’s not so good. “We’re the only town in the county that doesn’t have a memorial,” said Carol Boom, president of the American Legion Auxiliary’s Edward Bouwman Post 683 in Lester. “We just feel we should honor our veterans and all those who are presently serving.” That all could change by this fall if details fall into place. The Legion has been given a 30-by-150-foot lot by the city on which to build the memo-rial. The location is vacant property on the west side of Clinton Street, just east of the softball diamond. “People walking down to the park will hopefully be able to see the monument,” Boom said. A monument has been in discussions for several years. When Grand Falls Casino Resort near Larchwood began offering its grant program to nonprofits last fall, Boom and the other auxiliary members saw a way to obtain a portion of the funding it needed. A veterans memorial com-mittee was formed with two members of the Legion and two from the auxiliary. The members began looking for a location and doing cost esti-mates. “ We’v e h a d v e r y g o o d response from our Legion members and from the com-munity,” Boom said. The framework for the design is in place. It will include a 25-foot circu-lar cement pad with two monuments. A 4-by-6-foot granite tablet will feature the emblems of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard on the front and will list the names of the Les-ter area residents who have lost their lives in battle on the back. The other monu-ment will be a bronze image of a soldier’s boots, gun and

helmet resting on a black ped-estal. A 20-foot-wide, colored cement walkway will lead from the sidewalk to the memorial area. A flagpole will be put up on the back side of the monument along with landscaping bushes and flow-ers. The project is expected to cost about $40,000. One unfortunate issue fac-ing Post 683 is it inadvertently failed to fill out some neces-sary paperwork last spring and lost its tax-exempt status. The post is in the process of rectifying the situation. Until that gets worked out, it will not be able to file a grant application with the casino as a nonprofit. The next grant filing period is in March. “If we don’t get to file in this cycle of the grant, we’ll do it on the next one,” Boom said. If the organization can get the grant application filed in March and have it accepted, work could start as early as May. Boom said she would love to have it completed by the fall in time to dedicate the memorial on Veterans Day in November.


ALTON—Are you a “Jeopardy!” wanna-be? Do you shutter when some-one’s about to give an incorrect response when asked, “Is that

your final answer?” Maybe you were a quiz bowl participant in your high school glory days. Whatever the case, Orange City Area Health System’s newest event might be for you. Orange City Area Health System Auxiliary is holding a Trivia Night on Friday, March 23, at Sioux Golf & Country Club in Alton. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the trivia com-petition beginning at 7. All proceeds will go to support the con-struction of a new nursing home in Orange City. The committee has come up with 10 rounds of 10 questions — 100 in all — in 10 different categories, ranging from music and movies to pop culture and sports. “Sometimes you think, ‘Nobody’s going to know that.’ You’d be surprised what they know,” said Mary Plathe, volunteer services manager with the Orange City Area Health System. Trivia Night replaces the Spring Fling Style Show that had been running for 16 years. Plathe said it was time for a change. After brainstorming, the committee decided a

Trivia Night would be a good way to get a younger demographic involved. “It seems like every time our committee gets together and starts talking about it, we just get more excited,” Plathe said. “It’s going to be so much fun. It’s going to be a relaxed atmosphere.” Teams compete in groups made up of two to eight individuals. Group answers are written down on tally sheets at the tables, and at the end of each round, the tally sheets will be gathered and answers announced. The trivia rounds will be split up with dif-ferent games, karaoke and food. An appe-tizer and dessert buffet will be provided for participants who also will receive one complimentary drink ticket. Teams can score extra points by par-ticipating in karaoke, dressing as a team or decorating their table. “There are ways to earn points without knowing anything,” Plathe said. “It’s going to be really interesting to see how they all score.” A cash prize is awarded to the winning team. The second-place team will win con-solation prizes. Several rules are being put into place to guard against cheating. Cell phones may not be used to call, text or look up facts on the Internet. There is no consulting with neighboring tables. Some legal cheating is permitted, though, at a cost. Teams can buy a mulligan which allows

them to submit two answers for a question if they are not sure. Trivia questions have been compiled by the committee using trivia books and trivia facts on the Internet. The emcees for the event are Beth Ool-man and Joel Stauffer, teachers in the MOC-Floyd Valley School District. Plathe said ticket sales have gone well so far, but there are a limited number avail-able. “We are about half sold out already,” Plathe said. “We know our population in the immediate area are procrastinators. I think people will get their team put togeth-er and get in before the 23rd.”

Lester puts plans in motion to build veterans memorial

SOUP SUPPER: n The major fundraiser for American Legion Edward Bouwman Post 683 in Lester is the annual soup supper. This year’s soup supper will be 5-7 p.m. Saturday, March 17, at Lester Community Center along Fifth Street. Three varieties of soup, along with sandwiches and desserts, will be served. All proceeds after expenses will go to support the veterans memorial project.

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Hospers center to remain openKINDERGARTEN MOVING: There will be one change at the Hospers Center for the 2012-13 school year. The school board made the decision to move the kindergarten classes to the Alton Center. Alton already houses the preschool. “We’re still looking at data and input from teachers and parents at this time,” said Spalding Catholic principal Lisa Hamerlinck. “We’d like to have them in proximity to our preschool program. It’s good for collaboration. Our preschool and kindergarten teachers have expressed some need for collaboration.” Hamerlinck said the preschool students will be able to better connect with the kindergarten students by having them in the same building, therefore easing the transition for the next year.

The Spalding Catholic School Board has decided to keep the Hospers Center open for another year with a year-by-year review for proper course of action. The kindergarten will attend class at the Alton Center starting next school year. (Photo by Josh Harrell)

THINK YOU KNOW IT ALL?

There’s still time to sign up for the first annual

n There’s still time to get your team of two to eight people together for Orange City Area Health System’s Trivia Night at 6 p.m. Friday, March 23. The cost is $15 per person. To register, contact Mary Plathe at (712) 737-5349. A limited number of tickets are available.

TO SIGN UP:

TRIVIA CATEGORIES: n Movies n Television n Sports n Music n Slogans n History

n Pop culture n Geography n Current events n Famous quotes

Event will serve as fundraiser to support plansto construct new nursing home in Orange City

Orange City Area Health System board member Jane Vogel and hospital volunteer services manager Mary Plathe have been preparing questions for Trivia Night. The fundraiser event hosted by hospital auxiliary will be held Fri-day, March 23, at Sioux Golf & Country Club in Alton. (Photo by Josh Harrell)

3 p.m. at New Life Reformed Church in Sioux Center and 5 p.m. at Orange City Area Health System’s Downtown Campus. For more information, contact Angela Kroeze-Visser at (712) 737-2971, 1-800-435-3454 or [email protected].

Support group fordiabetes to meet PAULLINA—Blood sugar meter checks will be available and “Patient-Centered Medical Home” will be discussed when the O’Brien County Diabetes Support Group meets at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, at Paullina Community Building. For more information, call (712) 957-2326.

Grief group meetsweekly in Sibley SIBLEY—GriefShare is host-ing a 13-week series of meet-ings dealing with loss. The last session, “Heaven,” will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 17, at First Baptist Church in Sibley. This session gives practical advice on how to tap into and hold on to the source of hope in this disappointing world. For more information, call Jo Winkowitsch at (712) 330-7091.

Students at NCCoffer free tax help S H E L D O N — Ac c o u n t i n g program students at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon are again offering free income tax filing assistance

for basic tax returns for people with low and limited income, individuals with disabilities, non-English speaking and elderly taxpayers. Appoint-ments may be made 10:10 a.m.-3:25 p.m. Fridays, March 16, 23, 30; or 4-7 p.m. Wednes-days, March 14, 21, 28, and April 4. To make an appoint-ment, call (712) 324-5061 or 1-800-352-4907 Ext. 183.

Support group fordiabetes to meet ORANGE CITY—“Better Liv-ing with Diabetes: Diabetes and Blood Pressure” will be the discussion topic when Dr. Christina Lankhorst speaks to the Sioux County Diabetes Support Group via teleconfer-ence at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, at Orange City Area Health System. Due to lim-ited seating, preregistration is appreciated by calling Shan-non Beaty at (712) 737-5289 or visit www.ochealthsystem.org under classes and events/diabetes.

Help wanted forMission Makeover REGIONAL—More than 100 volunteer painters and workers of all skill levels are needed for a four-day, 10-room Mission Makeover at the Sioux City Gospel Mission Women’s and Children’s Shelter. Area church-es are partnering together to fund and organize this mission transformation which will take place March 15-17 and 22. To

volunteer for a few hours, a day or for the entire project, call Tonia Woudstra of Sioux Center at (712) 722-1064.

LifeServe mobilesets blood drives REGIONAL—LifeServe Blood Center (formerly Siouxland Community Blood Bank) will hold a blood drive 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, March 15, at Centre Mall in Sioux Center; 1-6 p.m. Monday, March 19, at the Masonic Lodge Hall in Sutherland; 1-6 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, at Hull Community Center; and 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at Orange City Area Health System’s Downtown Campus. For more information or to schedule a donation appointment, call 1-800-287-4903 or visit www.lifeservebloodcenter.org.

Improv class setfor middle school O R A N G E C I T Y — D o IMPROV!, an improvisation class for middle school stu-dents, will be held 4-5 p.m. Thursday, March 15, at First Impact in Orange City. Aaron Bauer and Black V, the improv team from Northwestern Col-lege in Orange City, will lead the class. No registration is nec-essary. For more information, contact Jamie Jeltema at [email protected] or Janine Calsbeek at the Orange City Arts Council at [email protected].

Sioux County togive away grants REGIONAL—Sioux County Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Siouxland Com-munity Foundation, is accept-ing grant applications from nonprofit organizations and units of local government until March 15. Applications may be obtained by contacting a local advisory board member or downloaded at www.sioux-landcommunityfoundation.org/sioux.aspx. For more infor-mation, contact Lori Wolkow at (712) 725-2371 or Debbie Hub-bard at (712) 293-3303.

NWC seniors todisplay artwork ORANGE CITY—Three senior art/graphic design majors at Northwestern College will dis-play their work March 16-22 in the college’s Te Paske Gallery in Orange City. A public recep-tion is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, March 16. The exhibit will feature watercolors by Brit-tany Leikvoll of Willmar, MN,

photography by Angelica Perez of Sioux Center and prints by Melissa Saint of Orange City. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-midnight, Monday through Saturday, and 1 p.m.-midnight Sunday.

Aging associationboard sets meeting SPENCER—The Northwest Aging Association Board of Directors will meet 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, at the Central Office at 714 10th Ave. E., Spencer. The agenda will include a legislative update. For more information on the meet-ing, call (712) 262-1775.

Late death notices:n Peder Buck, 84, Hartley,

died Tuesday, March 6, St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids. Services will be 2 p.m. today (Saturday, March 10) at Trin-ity United Church of Christ in Hartley. Burial will be at a later date at Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley, under the direction of Hartley Funeral Home.

n Andrew Penning, 90, Gran-ville, died Wednesday March 7, at home. Services will be 10:30 a.m. today (Saturday, March 10) at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Granville. Burial will be at the church cemetery, with grave-side military services. Arrange-ments are under the direction of Fisch Funeral Home in Rem-sen.

n Bernadette “Bernie” Bau-er, 83, Larchwood, died Wed-nesday, March 7, at Dougherty Hospice House in Sioux Falls, SD. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 12, at The Church of St. Mary in Larch-wood. Burial will be at Larch-wood Cemetery. Visitation will be 3-8 p.m. Sunday, March 11, with family 6-8 p.m. at the church. There will be a rosary and vigil service at 7:30 p.m. at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Jurrens Funeral Home in Rock Rapids.

n Richard Den Hartog , 92, Primghar, died Thursday, March 8, at Prairie View Home in Sanborn. Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, March 17, at American Reformed Church in Primghar. There will be a private burial. There will be no visitation. Arrangements are under the direction of Eldridge Fa m i l y Fu n e ra l Ho m e i n Primghar.

Corrections: The N’West Iowa REVIEW welcomes comments and sug-gestions as well as information about errors that call for a correction. Call (712) 324-5347 Ext. 5740 or e-mail [email protected].

SIOUX CENTER—Tornadoes left mounds of rubble and piles of work to do in Branson, Mis-souri. Because Dordt College’s men’s basketball team would be playing nationals there, Dordt personnel knew that alumni and friends of the col-lege attending the games might want to help in the cleanup. The college coordinated its efforts with the First Presbyte-rian Church in Branson. On Wednesday, March 7, 25 volunteers showed up in the morning of the Dordt’s open-ing-round game and worked in two different locations. On Thursday, March 8, the group more than doubled to 55 volunteers, but heavy rain caused the work to end earlier than expected. “We were overwhelmed by people’s willingness to show up — even in the rain,” said Barb Mellema, one of the coordina-tors for the cleanup and Dordt’s director of annual giving. “Everybody came and worked anyway.”

Funds providedto purchase trees REGIONAL—MidAmer i-can Energy Co. is providing $239,000 to 97 cities and com-munity organizations through-out its Iowa service territory in support of its “Trees Please!” program. N’West Iowa com-munities and organizations awarded grants are the cities of Rock Valley and Sheldon, $2,000 each, and Sheldon Rec-reational Trail, $1,000.

Immunizationsoffered in region REGIONAL—Community Health Partners will provide immunizations for children through age 18 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, at New Life Reformed Church in Sioux Center; 1-5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, at Orange City Public Health; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at Trinity Christian Reformed Church in Rock Val-ley; 1-5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19, at Hope Christian Reformed Church in Hull; and 1-5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 25, at the Christian Reformed Church in Hawarden. For more infor-mation, call (712) 737-2971, 1-800-435-3454 or visit www.siouxcountychp.org.

Bierly to presentprogram ‘Blessed’ REGIONAL—Christian sing-er/songwriter Deborah Bierly of Hull will present her pro-gram, “Blessed,” at 2 p.m. Mon-day, March 12, at Aspen Heights in Hull; 2 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at Fieldcrest Assisted Living in Sheldon; 2 p.m. Monday, March 26, at Pleasant Acres in Hull; and 2 p.m. Friday, March 30, at Hickory Heights in Sibley.

Screenings offeredfor varicose veins ORANGE CIT Y—Orange City Area Health System surgeons Steve Locker and Brent Nykamp are offering free screenings for the VNUS Closure procedure to deal with varicose veins, by appoint-ment, 4-7 p.m. March 12 and 26, in the Orange City clinic. To preregister, call (712) 737-5317.

Exercise programset for older adults REGIONAL—SOAR (Strength-ening Older Adult Recreation), a six-week physical activ-ity program, will be offered for adults age 50 and older, begin-ning Wednesday, March 14. Classes will start at 9:30 a.m. at the Ireton Community Center

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three cheers for the dutchSeven-year-olds Caiden Moss, Jackson Vanden Bosch and Kael Arends of Orange City cheer as the MOC-Floyd Valley High School boys basketball team is introduced during the Class 3A state tournament Tuesday afternoon at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. See the sports section for more photos and the story. (Photo by Josh Harrell)

Thank You The family of Elsie Kruse wishes to thank relatives and friends for their prayers, cards, flowers, memorials and expressions of sympathy during our loss. We especially thank the hospital, doctors and nurses at Sanford for their loving care. Thanks to Pastor Dan and Pastor Lint for their visits and prayers. Your thoughtfulness was very much appreciated.

Children of Elsie Kruse

2nd AnnualGarage SaleFriday, March 239:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Saturday, March 249:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Location:The Former Main Street Depot/De Boer PharmacyMain Street, Sanborn, IAFill a bag for one low price (bag provided). Larger items will be individually marked.

•Clothing •Toys•Games •Decor•Baked Goods•Household •Etc.Sponsored by Sanborn Christian School Auxiliary

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5 - 7:30 p.m.Monday, March 19at the Eagles in Sheldon

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The O’Brien CooperativeFuneral Association

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The Eighty-fourth Annual Meetingof the O’Brien Cooperative

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the meeting and to elect two board member for a three year term.

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FUTUREContinued from page A1sporting clay, trap and skeet, and rifle ranges. Because of busy schedules, Roze-boom said the only communication the NIOSC board has had has been through e-mail. “I’m not going to say the board of supervisors’ decision blindsided us as a board,” Rozeboom said. “We knew there was a pretty good chance they were going to vote it down. We did all we could. We jumped through all the hoops that they wanted us to.” Sioux Center mayor Dennis Walstra said the city council has not formally discussed the decision, either, and he is not sure it will. “I don’t know that we’ve had any kind of an indication that we’d discuss it again,” Walstra said. “We thought it might be well to put a bunch of people together to do some brainstorm-ing from a number of different age groups.” Changes will have to be made in NIOSC’s proposal if the development is to continue. “NIOSC, based on the decisions the supervisors made, is pretty much out of the picture as far as the sporting

clays and the trap shoot and the rifle and pistol range,” Walstra said. “They still have the opportunity to use a por-tion of that for their archery.” The archery range alone is not a via-ble option for making the facility self-sustaining. NIOSC had talked about making other facility upgrades to the campground, fishing ponds and park, but those were predicated on creating a revenue stream from the gun range. Rozeboom painted a much differ-ent picture regarding the last several indecisive months than Sioux County Board of Supervisors chairman Mark Sybesma did. Sybesma said at last week’s supervisors meeting that he had reached out to NIOSC in an effort to have an open dialogue about compromise, but his calls were not returned. “To me, that’s totally wrong. If any-thing at all, it’s just exactly the oppo-site,” Rozeboom said. “Mark Sybesma told me that he was going to take no more comments. He was sick of his phone ringing. That is the honest truth. He told that to my face in my office several weeks ago.” Rozeboom said NIOSC volunteers have put in thousands of hours at the facility and spent a lot of money that was donated by members and the

Iowa Department of Natural Resourc-es through grants to get construction started. NIOSC, operating the site through a 28E agreement with the city, removed some fencing, cut down old trees, painted the clubhouse and built shooting stations. That was all done at a risk, however. There never was a guarantee the facil-ity would be approved. Rozeboom said NIOSC is not the

only party that has lost money. Sioux Center has put in several thousand dollars through lawyer fees, the 28E agreement and the filing of nonprofit documents with the Internal Revenue Service. A decision of what happens next ultimately starts with NIOSC but must be a joint effort with the city, accord-ing to Rozeboom. He expects a lot of dialogue to occur in support of the

project at the annual Sioux County Sportsmen’s Club banquet, which is today (Saturday, March 10). “I would be surprised if we just give up. I don’t like those two words,” Roze-boom said. “It would be sad to turn a plow to it. I think we’d have a lot of upset people if we closed the camp-ground and let Mother Nature take its course. I don’t think that’s an option, either. We need to do something.”

Sheldon man mayface imprisonment

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SIOUX CITY—A 62-year-old Sheldon man was convicted by a jury of five federal firearms charges March 1 following a three-day trial. Tony Hulstein was convicted in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa in Sioux City of one count of unli-censed dealing in firearms and four counts of interstate travel in dealing firearms. The verdict was delivered after about three hours of jury deliberations. Evidence at the trial showed that Hulstein obtained and disposed of more than 800 guns and was in possession of nearly 100 more at the time of his arrest. Hulstein traveled to Michigan three times and Texas

once to acquire firearms for his unlicensed dealing. Sentencing will be scheduled before U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett after a presentence report is prepared. Before the sentencing, Hulstein remains free on bond as previously set. He faces a maximum sen-tence of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, $500 in special assessments and up to three years of supervised release fol-lowing any imprisonment. Hulstein was arrested in Shel-don on April 22, 2009, by feder-al, state and local law enforce-ment agents — headed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. More than 20 officers also executed a search warrant that day at this residence at 3192 McKinley Ave. on the northwest edge of Sheldon and confiscated fire-arms and other items. The arrest was the culmina-tion of an eight-month investi-gation by an undercover agent

from the ATF. Hulstein was released on $100,000 bond. Agencies involved in the investigation included the ATF, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, U.S. Immigra-tions and Customs Enforce-m e n t , In t e r n a l Re v e n u e Service, Sheldon Police Depart-ment and O’Brien County Sheriff’s Department. The case was prosecuted by the U.S. attorney’s office in Sioux City, with Robert Knief serving as the lead attorney at the trial. Hulstein was repre-sented at the trial by attorney Earl Paul Gray of St. Paul, MN. The federal case in U.S. dis-trict court saw several delays before going to trial, including a stay that was issued in June 2010 after U.S. prosecutors made an interlocking appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in St. Louis. The appeal was in regard to evidence that was excluded

in an order by the U.S. district court. The appeals court ruling in August 2011 affirmed the district court ruling that the government could not submit both 460 separate exhibits and a summary exhibit of evidence regarding Hulstein’s extensive dealings in firearms. The ruling opened up the case again in U.S. district court. The trial was Feb. 27-29. The jury returned its verdict on March 1.

Project appliesmath principles


SIOUX CENTER—On a quiet, overcast Friday afternoon, a war was being waged in N’West Iowa. Fortresses fashioned from cardboard boxes were under siege in the Sioux Center Christian School gym. Chunks of clay rained down on plastic soldiers and wooden-block structures. The fortresses and toy soldiers were no match for the weapon that eighth-graders created for the battle: the trebuchet. The students built their own miniature trebuchets as part of a math and science unit. A trebuchet is a medieval siege weapon similar to a cata-pult, except it uses a counter-

weight to provide the momen-tum to fling objects. The students tested their devices in a battle by dividing into teams named “Great Wall of Iowa” and “Beasts.” Medieval trebuchets could throw up to 250 pounds, said math teacher Steve Crull. Of course, the eighth-graders’ trebuchets were built on a much smaller scale, but func-tioned similar to their medieval counterparts. “They’re pretty accurate,” Crull said. “We’re amazed how accurate they are.” Creating a wooden trebuchet was an application of linear equations and the quadratic formula that students were practicing in math class. They created a formula to estimate the trajectory of a projectile and created their own diagrams to determine where to best place their trebuchets. “They’re not just sitting ran-

domly,” Crull said. “They had to draw a war plan, you might say.” Adjusting the string on the trebuchet’s arm determined whether the projectile had arch or was on a line drive. The goal was to strike the oth-er team’s flag with the projectile for 10 points. Each plastic sol-dier was worth one point. But for the students, the battle was not only about playing with replicas of medieval weap-ons. “When you really use some-thing and experiment like this, then they see that it actually does that, it does make sense,” Crull said. He said students who struggle understanding concepts had the opportunity to succeed and better understand the equa-tions. “There are some pleasant sur-prises,” Crull said. “There’s a lot of benefits you don’t see in the

classroom.” Eighth-grader Dustin Marra said after learning quadratic and linear equations, apply-ing the concepts to something concrete helped him under-stand the material.

“It’s more fun, and it’s easier because if people say it, you don’t always understand it,” Marra said. “It makes more sense.” Science, Bible and language teacher Tyler Knobloch said

the project is all about how to provide the best education for students. “If I can get students out of a desk and out of a classroom, I see so much learning take place,” Knobloch said.

Sioux Center Christian School eighth-grader Kaira Moss watches as classmates Melissa Moget, Ana Christians and Chanda Zomermaand attempt to fix a trebuchet.

“Great Wall of Iowa” volleys their clay ammunition at Sioux Center Christian School. The activity was an exercise in the combination of math and science with trebuchets placed in calculated spots and counter-weights set to specific weights for the most accuracy. (Photos by Josh Harrell)

Students wage warfare with use of trebuchets

n Court file information is available at ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 09-4028. People have to register for a login to access the federal court information online.

THE CASE:

NIOSC, Sioux Center not sure of next steps

Tonya Pontier and Glenda Mulder, both of Orange City, relax by a fire at a Sandy Hollow Recreational Area camping site near Sioux Center. The future of Sandy Hollow is uncertain. (File photo)

Jury convicts Hulstein of firearms crimes LAW & ORDERciteD For FALse rePorts LARCHWOOD—The Lyon County Sheriff’s Department arrested Aaron John Abels, 25, Inwood, Tuesday, Feb. 21, on two counts of false reporting, serious misdemean-ors, after he confessed to making up a story about being robbed west of Larchwood. Abels had told law enforcement the previous day that he had been driving east on 140th Street (A18) at about 1:20 that morning when he came upon a dark red Ford SUV with its hazard lights activated.. He said when he stopped to offer help, a man came from behind him and took his debit card.

PAssenGer to HosPitAL SHELDON—One person was injured in a two-vehicle accident about 2:50 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, at the intersection of the Highway 60 expressway and Northwest Boulevard about four miles north of Sheldon. Donald Lee Caauwe, 68, Sanborn, pulled out from the stop sign at the intersection to travel north on the expressway and his 2006 Dodge struck a northbound semitruck and trailer driven by John Glaser, Han-cock, MI, according to the O’Brien County Sherif f ’s Department.

Michael Keith Koenecke, 29, Paul-lina, a passenger in the Caauwe vehicle, was transported to Sanford Sheldon Medical Center.

one Hurt in coLLision ROCK RAPIDS—One person was injured in a two-vehicle crash about 6:40 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at the intersection of Garfield Avenue and Highway 9, about two miles west of Rock Rapids. Paul Bachman, 59, Harrisburg, SD, was driving west on the highway when his 2008 Chevro-let Malibu struck the rear of a 2006 Buick Rendezvous, driven by Rosa-lyn Kahl, 64, Rock Rapids, who had initiated her left-signal light to turn left onto Garfield, according to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department. Kahl was transported to Sanford Rock Rapids Medical Center. No other injuries were reported.

ArresteD For AssAuLt SHELDON—The Sioux County Sheriff’s Department reported the arrest of Joshua Paul Kruse, 30, Sheldon, on a charge of domestic assault, a serious misdemeanor, following a reported domestic dis-turbance at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, at 3123 Larch Ave., northwest of Sheldon. Authorities say Kruse assaulted his wife.


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Bankruptcy status changesfor partially-completed plant


HULL—Creditors for the former Bison Renew-able Energy plant may have let an opportunity slip away to complete the maligned methane gas facility near Hull. On Feb. 28, 2011, Bison merged with Interna-tional Energy Holdings Corp. of Tampa, FL. One month later, the organization filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. In September, Bison signed an agreement with International Energy Holdings Corp. to transfer all of its stake in the half-finished plant along 330th Street, one-half mile west of High-way 75 or three miles southwest of Hull. J. Ram Ajjarapu, CEO of the India investor-owned International Energy Holdings Corp., seemed to be giving due diligence to a restruc-turing plan and an amended bankruptcy disclosure statement to restart construction at the plant. Then, in January, creditors decided to transfer the case from Chapter 11 reorganiza-tion to Chapter 7, which essentially is a liquida-tion of the assets through an auction. Ajjarapu got together a financing plan that involved negotiations with a California-based utilities company to purchase the methane. That’s when the rug was pulled out from underneath him. “The plant was abandoned. Nobody was pay-ing any attention,” Ajjarapu said. “Suddenly, they got interested when I got involved and started to put together all these things. Instead of allowing me to continue, they thought con-verting this into Chapter 7 might be in their best interest.” Under Chapter 11, Ajjarapu thinks there would have been a good chance the facility could have become operational. Now, there’s much more uncertainty over whether it will even produce an ounce of methane gas. “It is actually a loss for a lot of creditors because in an auction nobody knows who will come in and who will buy it — if they will buy it

as a whole plant or if they will buy it in parts and pieces,” Ajjarapu said. The plant dates back to 2006 when investors chose Sioux County as the site for a $25.5 mil-lion plant that would turn waste products into methane. Construction started in 2007 but stalled in September 2008 when Bison ran dry on money. Two months later, the investment group out of Mendota Heights, MN, bailed on the project, giving it no direction. Construction never resumed. The concept of the project never has been in doubt. N’West Iowa seemed a logical location to turn waste products into a renewable fuel. However, facing extreme cost overruns and a plummeting natural gas market, the cash flow tanked. Ajjarapu said his facility would provide ben-efits for the economy and the environment. He said the plant would employ 15-20 full-time workers and create an environmentally-friend-ly gas. The plant also might lower property values in the county. Ajjarapu is not sure what will happen from this point. A U.S. trustee appointed by U.S. Bank-ruptcy Court will set a date for an auction of the assets. Ajjarapu did not know when that will be, but his best guess is in three to six months. Despite what’s happened in the last few weeks, Ajjarapu still is interested in purchasing the full site and developing it. “If I buy it, I am quite interested to go ahead and rebuild it because I’ve put so much effort in bringing this together,” Ajjarapu said. “Every-thing has a price to it. Even though I’m inter-ested, if it’s not the right price, I will not be.” He said it is time something happens. “There’s a lot of benefit to the community,” Ajjarapu said. “I would be very disappointed if this gets dismantled and taken away.”

County still needslong-term solution


PRIMGHAR—The search for a new engineer is just beginning in O’Brien County. The O’Brien County Board of Supervisors, however, has identified a probable solution for the meantime. Current county engineer Steve Struble announced his resignation Feb. 28 after secur-ing a similar position in Warren County. Struble, 57, of Sheldon, has served O’Brien County for 16 years. As Struble’s last day is March 29, the supervisors held a spe-

cial meeting Friday, March 2, to discuss how the engineer role would be filled during the time between his departure and the hiring of a full-time replace-ment for the supervisory role of the secondary roads depart-ment. Each supervisor was tasked with contacting adjacent coun-ties and discussing the option of undergoing either an interim or permanent sharing agree-ment with O’Brien County. Cherokee, Clay, Osceola and Sioux counties expressed inter-est in assisting the county in the interim, while Dickinson County was more enthralled with the idea of a more perma-nent situation. The board, however, agreed that finding help in the interim is the most immediate need.

O’Brien County auditor Barb Rohwer said, in conversing with Struble and O’Brien Coun-ty attorney Micah Schreurs, that O’Brien County has had the most experience in working with Sioux County. “We have shared staff back and forth, and Micah has a rela-tionship with their attorney, so they feel like that would be the best fit for the interim,” Rohwer said. As a result, the board held a conference call with the Sioux County Board of Supervisors, Sioux County attorney Cole-man McAllister and Sioux County engineer Doug Julius during its regularly scheduled weekly meeting Tuesday. Board chairperson pro-tem Rich Haack, who was acting on behalf of Emily Waund, said

O’Brien County’s immediate concern is a farm-to-market project bid letting on April 17. If the county does not have an authorized agreement by then, the project could be bumped back. “The critical thing is having someone come in to sign off on these federal projects,” said O’Brien County engineer office manager Darla Negus. “If we’re in limbo, the project will get moved back.” Sioux County board chair-person Mark Sybesma said Julius would be willing to help advance such projects but does not want to get involved in day-to-day operations. “My impression is he’d be willing to sign off on projects and whatever is necessary from a legal requirement for him

to fulfill,” Sybesma said. “He would be willing to do that, but that would probably be the extent of it.” “I’d be open to that, but I feel I have enough going on where I’m at, and I don’t really want to get involved in day-to-day operations,” Julius said. “I don’t

want things to get disrupted here.” The counties entered a verbal agreement to have Schreurs, McAllister and Julius work on drafting a preliminary version of a 28E agreement, which will be voted on by both boards later this month.

Board approves2012-13 budget


SHELDON—Property owners in Northwest Iowa Community College’s service area will see a slight increase in their tax rate for fiscal year 2012-13 as a result of the budget approved Thursday for the college based in Sheldon. The unanimous approval by the board followed a public hearing held by teleconference on NCC’s campus. The budget establishes a max-imum amount of expenditures that NCC can incur without an amendment and establishes a tax levy amount in the college’s service area, which is made up of Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola and Sioux counties and the Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn School District in Cherokee County. An approved budget must be submitted to O’Brien County no later than March 15. The budget for NCC calls for an overall tax levy for fiscal year

2012-13 of 66 cents per $1,000 of taxable property valuation, which is 10 cents more than this year. “If you consider all 15 com-munity colleges, with one being the highest levy and 15 being the lowest, we would be No. 14,” said Mark Brown, NCC’s vice president of operations and finances. “The only col-lege that is lower from a levy rate in the state of Iowa would be DMACC (Des Moines Area Community College), and as you can imagine, there’s some unique dynamics of that, where they have a very large tax base in a very metropolitan area, so if you were to throw DMACC out, we would be the lowest community college in the state of Iowa.” The state has set the prop-erty tax rollback for residential property at over 50.75 percent of assessed value for fiscal year 2012-13. That means, for example, a house assessed at $100,000 will have a taxable value of $50,750 for next fis-cal year. Therefore, the prop-erty taxes for the college on that house would amount to about

$33.50. The taxable value for com-mercial and industrial property again will be set at 100 percent of assessed value. The rollback will be over 57.54 percent for agricultural property. The college is budgeting about $15.82 million in reve-nues and nearly $15.72 million in expenses in its general fund for next fiscal year. That will result in an estimated increase of $102,150 in the general fund balance to about $2.1 million on June 30, 2013. The general fund revenues include about $5.6 million in tuition, over $3.9 million in state aid and more than $1.4 million in property tax. The college also is budgeting about $3.7 million in both reve-nues and expenses in its physi-cal plant account for 2012-13. The plant fund is expected to have an ending fund balance of about $1.03 million. The total combined revenues are projected at about $19.51 million and expenses at nearly $19.41 million. The ending fund balance for all funds is projected at over $3.12 million.

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MODELContinued from page A1across the country being held Feb. 21-March 11. “America’s Next Top Model” was created by model Tyra Banks, who also serves as the host and head judge for the show. The cable television show premiered in May 2003. For the next cycle, deemed “The College Edition,” the real-ity show will select up to 14 women who will compete for a modeling contract. Sheldon’s on-site audition was put on by Siouxland’s CW, which falls under KTIV-TV of Sioux City, and included the applicants walking the cat-walk and speaking on camera to three interviewers: NCC marketing director Kristin Kollbaum, NCC photography instructor Michelle Davis and KTIV director of news and operations Bridget Breen. Victoria Hoogendoorn of Sheldon arrived for the cast-ing at 5:30 p.m. — a half hour before the aspiring models were allowed to strut their stuff — and was placed as No. 19 in the lineup. The 17-year-old 5-foot-10-inch senior at Sheldon High School admitted she has not followed “America’s Next Top Model” recently, but was per-suaded to audition after her sis-ter, Kayla, informed her about the casting call. Whitley Van Donge of Boyden found out about the casting when a commercial advertising the event came on the televi-sion while she was working out in the recreation room at Wayne State College in Wayne, NE. The 5-foot-9½-inch inte-rior design major immediately impressed the judges. “I have major shoe envy,” Breen said as Van Donge walked into the audition room. “Those are hot.” Van Donge said she had been wearing her black stilettoes from Charlotte Russe all day to make sure she did not fall over while walking the catwalk. Breen also was envious of the knee-high gray boots Andrea Nieuwenhuis of Primghar sported during her audition. The 20-year-old 5-foot-9-inch business management major at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids made quite the impression on Breen and the other judges when she identi-fied her stomach area as her best physical feature. “Do you do crunches?” Breen asked. “No,” Nieuwenhuis said. “I don’t work out at all.” Briana Schaeuble of Kingsley, however, sported a more ath-letic physique. The 6-foot-1-inch volleyball player at Morningside College in Sioux City said her sports skills could help her through-out the high-stress competi-tion of “America’s Next Top Model.” “Because I am an athlete, I feel like I am very coachable, so I could listen to the pho-tographers,” the 21-year-old said. “I’m competitive, and I am confident, and I know that when you’re a model there’s a lot of people saying, ‘You’re not tall enough. You’re not skinny enough. You need to

do this and do this,’ but I am comfortable in my own skin, so I feel like I would be a good top model.” The counseling psychology major with minors in religion and photography, who audi-tioned for the competition last

year in Omaha, NE, has a goal of working with girls who have low self-esteem issues in the future. Jessica Wallace of Spirit Lake noted she had a similar career goal in mind of helping out those less fortunate.

The 5-foot-7-inch 19-year-old definitely stood out during the competition when she showed off her runway skills. “I can just picture you walking to the theme music of ‘I’m Sexy and I Know It,’” Breen said.

While LMFAO was not avail-able to provide the background montage, Wallace, who works at the Taco House in Arnolds Park and attends Iowa Lakes Community College in Esther-ville, said her walk was only one

reason she would be a great contestant for Cycle 19. “I have a six-pack, big biceps, and I haven’t seen that on the show yet,” she said. “I was thinking like Sports Illustrated, they’re going to call me.”

EDUCATIONContinued from page A1wavier on Feb. 28, but sought the input from administrators, teachers, parents and students in January and February through public meetings held across the state. In making its request, the Iowa Department of Education wrote that the state is seeking a waiver from No Child Left Behind because the act “doesn’t reward schools based on overall progress. Instead, it penalizes schools that, while they have made substantial progress, still fall short of federal thresholds.” Under 2001 act — a revision by former President George Bush administration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act enacted in 1965 under former President Lyndon Johnson — all public schools must meet standards regulated by No Child Left Behind, as determined by perfor-mance on state standardized testing. According to the act, the goal is for schools to achieve “proficient” scores in reading and math on standardized tests by 2014 and make “annual yearly progress” to achieve proficiency. Schools or districts failing to meet requirements are deemed “schools in need of assistance.” In N’West Iowa, Sibley-Ocheyedan Middle School, Okoboji Middle

School and Spirit Lake Middle School all are considered schools in need of assistance, according to statistics from the Iowa Department of Education. “It’s not a realistic goal. The best schools could still have students who don’t meet it. The absolute best school in the nation could still have students who don’t meet it,” Becker said. He said a small group of Sibley-Ocheyedan Middle School students was not able to meet standards set by No Child Left Behind, which resulted in the school being labeled as a school in need of assistance. The challenge is striking a balance between state mandates and assisting individual students who may fall short

of those standards. “The best mandate is when you have to show growth in the students,” Beck-er said. “If you do that, that means each year we better be targeting the students who are struggling and find-ing individual intervention.” Under the waiver, Iowa schools will emphasize three basic principles:

n College- and career-ready expec-tations: Students are prepared for college courses without needing addi-tional assistance, like tutoring;

n Differentiated recognition, accountability and support: Ensuring students are performing, learning and growing at high levels;

n Supporting effective instruction

and leadership: Developing teacher and principal evaluation systems. “The waiver attempts to give a truer picture of the value that schools are passing on to the children as far as student achievement,” said Gary Rich-ardson, the shared superintendent for the MOC-Floyd Valley and West Sioux school districts. Under No Child Left Behind, Rich-ardson said MOC-Floyd Valley and West Sioux felt pressure to determine how best to improve struggling learn-ers’ proficiency. While the standards set under No Child Left Behind seemed unrealis-tic, Richardson said the act did push the two districts that he oversees to ramp up professional development, research best practice, and place teachers and principals in collabora-tive groups to discuss best practice. “That’s what’s made a big difference,”

Richardson said. Despite any changes from the cur-rent No Child Left Behind regulations, schools still will be required to meet certain standards. The changes that could occur for the state if the waiver is approved remain to be seen. “It wouldn’t get states off the accountability issue,” said Sheldon School District superintendent Robin Spears. “In order to get the waiver, you’re going to have to meet certain requirements. That means more teacher accountability, looking at achievement differently.” No formal action will take place in terms of applying state-mandated regulations to schools until the waiver is approved. According to the U.S. Department of Education, waivers will be under consideration by peer reviewers who will be convening this month.

‘Top Model’ hopefuls walk runway in Sheldon

Eighteen-year-old Paisley Conlon of Rodney strikes a pose at the end of her runway walk during an audition for “America’s Next Top Model” Tuesday at the Northwest Iowa Lifelong Learning and Recreation Center in Sheldon. More than 30 women from all over the Midwest showed up to contest for a spot on Cycle 19 of the show, which is dubbed “The College Edition.” (Photos by Rylan Howe)

Northwest Iowa Community College marketing direc-tor Kristin Kollbaum, KTIV director of news and opera-tions Bridget Breen and NCC photography instructor Michelle Davis laugh at the response of a contestant auditioning for a spot on the next cycle of “America’s Next Top Model.” The trio of judges questioned more than 30 women over the course of about three hours.

Twenty-one-year-old Briana Schaeuble of Kingsley chats with her mom, Shelly, as she waits her turn to audition during an open casting call “America’s Next Top Model” Tuesday. She decided to try a second time after auditioning for the show last year in Omaha, NE.

Victoria Hoogendoorn, a senior at Sheldon High School, holds still for the camera during an audition for “America’s Next Top Model” Tuesday evening on the campus of Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon. Siouxland’s CW, which falls under KTIV-TV of Sioux City, hosted the open casting call. A sister told Hoogendoorn about the auditions, which included strolling down a catwalk and being interviewed.

A new edition of “America’s Next Top Model” returned last week with Cycle 18 and the first “British Invasion.” The program features former contestants from “Britain’s Next Top Model” and an all-new crop of American hopefuls competing for the grand prize. Cycle 18 of “America’s Next Top Model” airs at 8 p.m. each Wednesday on The CW Network. Show creator Tyra Banks leads the panel of judges, comprised of New York Times best-selling author and fashion public relations maven Kelly Cutrone and noted fashion photographer Nigel Barker. This cycle’s contestants are competing for a career-launching prize package: a modeling contract with LA/NY Models, a chance to be a guest correspondent on the hit newsmagazine EXTRA, a fashion spread in Vogue Italia, the cover and spread in Beauty in Vogue, the face of “America’s Next Top Model” perfume Dream Come True, a single to be released with CBS and a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics.

CYCLE 18:

Iowa seeking waiver of No Child Left Behind rules

n Eleven states submitted waivers from the provisions of No Child Left Behind act in the first round of submissions. All states that submitted waivers were awarded waivers as of Feb. 15. They were Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Tennessee. n Iowa was among 26 states that submitted waivers during the second round of applications, due Feb. 28. Other states seeking waivers were Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

STATE WAIVERS: It wouldn’t get states off the accountability

issue. In order to get the waiver, you’re going

to have to meet certain requirements. That means more

teacher accountability, looking at achievement differently.

Robin Spears SHELDON SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT

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R E V I E W E D I T O R I A L


For such a successful businessman, Mitt Romney certainly is

having a tough time closing the sale. The ancient curse, “May you live in interesting times,” seems fitting for the campaign to pick a Republican presidential candidate. It’s interesting, but there are concerns about whether it’s a good thing for the GOP. Romney, for example, just had what most people would consider a hugely successful “Super Tuesday” election performance. He won six of the 10 states, including Ohio, and will take the majority of the delegates. But the former Massachusetts governor simply cannot seem to put his rivals — Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul — away. Santorum won three states, and Gingrich captured his home state of Georgia.They did so despite having much less money to spend than the Romney campaign. The election day polls continue to give the Romney side reasons to fret. He does well among Republicans who are looking for a candidate to defeat Barack Obama but not so well among voters who identify themselves as blue-collar, evangelistic or “very conservative.” Try as he might, and he has spent millions of dollars trying, Romney can’t seem to convince GOP

conservatives that he’s conservative enough. There’s just something about him that they don’t trust. This would appear to be worrisome news if you’re a Republican voter who still cares most about kicking Obama out of office. It has to make GOP stalwarts cringe to see how much money is being spent by the campaigns, and even more by the so-called Super PACs, to rip each other. Won’t this cripple the eventual nominee heading into the general election? We don’t think so. First, voters have a short memory. Second, once the Republicans choose a nominee, Obama’s record is going to get more attention than it currently has. In fact, one might argue that this sort of tough nomination crucible will serve the Republican nominee well. After all, it was only four years ago that the Democrats fought and clawed each other, right up until the convention. Remember all the talk then that women, irritated at the treatment directed at Hillary Clinton, would sit out the general election? It didn’t happen, and Obama cruised to victory. Our guess is that Republicans eventually will coalesce behind their nominee as well. In any event, for better or worse, it’s going to be interesting.

GOP race interestingRomney can’t close deal yet

I have a complicated rela-tionship with Rush Lim-baugh.

OK, he’s a famous, rich, pow-erful radio host who doesn’t know that I exist, so maybe it’s not all that complicated. So let me put it another way: I was there in the beginning. In 1988, I was working as a reporter at The Des Moines Register, writing a series of arti-cles about life in a small town. The town was State Center, and almost every day I’d drive there and drive back. That year, on WHO radio, I listened to a guy with a strange name and strong opinions. It was the year that Rush started his national radio pro-gram, and WHO radio was one of his original subscribers. This was not your grandfa-ther’s radio host. No Arthur Godfrey was Rush. He went after “Feminazis,” liberals and the media, espe-cially for their hero-worship of Mikhail Gorbachev, which Rush referred to as “Gor-basms.” What I remember most from those early days was how funny Rush was. He also seemed determined to educate the public about conservatism, especially the brand of conservatism prac-ticed by his hero, Ronald Rea-gan. I couldn’t get enough of it. I started planning my trips to State Center for the early afternoon, so I could listen while driving. I told my friends, “You’ve got to hear this guy.” It’s not that I’m such a die-hard conservative. I’m a proud moderate (com-mence booing). Actually, I’m whatever you call a person who’s old enough to cast a wary eye toward every politician and all political par-ties. I’m not on anyone’s team.

What I admired about Rush back then was his ability to spoof the left with an air of good cheer. He was, I thought, a happy warrior. He routinely invited liberals to call the pro-gram and challenge him. He was a marketing genius, no doubt about that. He had identified a large segment of the American public that felt increasingly alienated from the media, academia and Hol-lywood. He spoke for them, and millions of people began listening to him. But something changed over the years. Maybe it was me. Or maybe the show had grown stale. I’d describe it differently. I’d say Rush the happy warrior was replaced by someone else. He seems much angrier now. The show isn’t as fun. It’s like a three-hour harangue. What had once sounded funny now sounded mean-spirited to me. I started listen-ing less. For me, the final break came when Rush started referring to everyone who disagreed with him as a “seminar caller” and quickly ended the call. Apparently, there are pro-grams out there that teach people what to say when they call Rush. Or so he says. To which I say: So what?

I have heard Rush take on enough liberals over the years to know that he could quickly eviscerate any of these so-called “seminar callers.” Seemed to me he simply want-ed to weed out everyone who disagreed with him. He did the same thing recent-ly, accusing Mitt Romney supporters of being “seminar callers.” It sounded really lame, and he sounded increasingly isolated. Which brings us to the most recent controversy, in which Rush referred to a Georgetown University student as a “slut” for advocating in support of a requirement that would require health-care companies provide for birth control. It’s a perfectly reasonable dis-cussion topic — should the rest of us pay for someone’s birth control? But Rush made it per-sonal, and he used a descrip-tion that’s pretty high on the list of Words You Should Never Describe A Woman As. He has apologized, saying he was trying to be funny, but I’ve heard some of the clips. It didn’t sound like he was trying to be funny. He sounded, as usual, ticked off. I miss the guy who could do spot-on impressions, who ran funny song parodies, who didn’t treat every person and politician who disagreed with him like they were Satan’s little helper. Nobody can be that outraged for that long. Lighten up, Rush. There was a time when you knew the difference between true satire and humor and call-ing a college student an ugly name. I miss those days.

Ken Fuson lives in Des Moines. He may be reached at [email protected].

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Applauds attemptby city and NIOSCTo The REVIEW: This letter is in response to all that has transpired in the past year plus concerning the future of the Sandy Hollow golf area. As I read an article in a local newspaper, I applaud the vision of the city of Sioux Cen-ter and all those involved in the Northwest Iowa Outdoor Sport-ing Complex in their attempt to do something positive by put-ting a gun/archery range and ATV course on land that has very limited potential. It seems as though any com-promising was one-sided and those against the course were not willing to give on anything. I can say that it doesn’t sur-prise me that some supervisors considered passing the deci-sion on yet again to another entity. In today’s world it is hard to find elected leaders willing to take a stand and make the tough decisions that leadership involves. As I continue the article, I read a comment by Greg Hooyer, a neighbor to Sandy Hollow, that states “I’m just hoping that Sioux Center will go ahead and do something to fix up Sandy Hollow.” I thought that is what they were attempting to do in cooperation with NIOSC, and I would encourage them both to continue to pursue the sport-ing complex. As a Sioux Center resident and taxpayer, I am against the city spending my tax dollars to keep a bunch of unreasonable county residents and others happy by “fixing up” Sandy Hollow. They had their chance and led the fight to defeat the good use and maintenance of that area by a stand-up entity. Now they need to step up and do what others were trying to do and maintain it themselves. You can’t always have your cake and eat it too.

Randy DeKruyf,Sioux Center

Oil is finite, notinfinite resourceTo The REVIEW: For some reason I had a vivid dream about the Middle East overnight. Must have been the spicy food. Afterward I was wide awake and thinking clearly. Up until World War I, the whole region, which was then referred to as “Arabia,” was con-trolled by Turkey for nearly 500 years. This control was not of the iron-fisted variety, for much of the region was barren desert and oil had not yet been dis-covered. Then the British, who had a colonial base in Cairo, got interested in the region. The famous British officer T.E. Law-rence united the nomadic Arab tribes and they succeeded in ousting the Turks. This is the subject of the book, “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.” At the end of the war these

Arab tribes, each headed by feudal sheiks, failed to unite to form any type of regional government. So the region was divided up into nations headed by Arab kings who claimed to possess royal blood. There was hardly anything democratic about these nations. For the king con-trolled the wealth and natural resources which lay inside their boundaries. This wealth became substantial once oil was discovered. To solidify their claims on the wealth of their nations, these kings, essentially dicta-tors, were able to form armies and buy arsenals which were funded by oil money. Thus the nations in the region, formed solely along bloodlines, became male-dom-inated authoritarian regimes. While being autocratic the region was stable until the United Nations, with the prod-ding of Eleanor Roosevelt, decided to grant the survivors of the Holocaust a sanctuary. This sanctuary was to become Israel. The nation of Palestine even-tually ceased to exist, which from that time until the present has been a bone of contention for a majority of the popula-tion. For Arabs, Palestine was per-ceived as being the Rivera of the Middle East. And still con-tained fertile land highly prized by desert nations. Now the “Arab Spring” has come. A computer generated democratic movement of Arab intellectuals wishing to throw off the shackles of dictatorial monarchies. A movement not without socialistic implica-tions. Assad in Syria, who owns and pays his army, is now without much conscience, murdering Syrian revolutionaries who want a voice in government. And our chief diplomat, Sec-retary of State Hillary Clinton, is urging the world to assist the revolutionaries much as NATO did in Libya. Of course the future hot spot may be Iran, which in a theo-cratic revolution disposed the Shah of Iran some 33 years ago. Far from being a democracy, Iran is now a theocracy. Which is why it’s so easy to believe that Iran wants nuclear weapons to blow them to heaven and us to hell. Our patriots of the night are itching to use their trigger fingers in Iran (Gingrich chief among them). This would keep the defense industry dollars flowing into their states and insure votes from citizens who work in the defense industry. Word from their gospels have it that the price of oil would spiral out of control if we don’t rattle our sabers, sharpen our knives and kick Iran’s you know what. But let me say something that many people refuse to believe in the United States. Oil is a fos-sil fuel. At least in regards to the Middle East it is. And as such, oil is a finite resource, not an infinite resource. Whether or

not there is another war in the Middle East is not the point. For Middle Eastern oil will, by necessity, become more expen-sive in the future. Oil wells do run dry. Jimmy Carter said it a long time ago. We must reduce our dependence on foreign oil. As for Iran causing problems. Do you really think Israel is going to let Iran have nuclear weapons? If you do, you don’t know Israel.

Duane Kooistra,Sheldon

Money continuesto have influenceTo The REVIEW: The American people are witnessing an evolutionary change in the way presidential campaigns are funded. We were used to hearing about Political Action Commit-tees (PAC) raising money for a candidate. There are rules and laws regulating the amount an individual can give. Corporations and compa-nies are outlawed. The rule for Super PAC came about from a ruling by the Supreme Court decision “Freed by the Citizens” case that allowed donations with minimum disclosure. The Super PAC can have no direct connection with the candidate. So how do they operate? They pick a favorite and his opposi-tion gets slammed with nega-tive ads. An Associated Press release by Stephen Baum claims more than one-half of the $60 million collected so far for the Super PAC has come from 24 Ameri-can families. The Wall Street Journal also reported large donations to unnamed Super PACs from large Wall Street firms. Harry Truman was famous for his one-liners. One was, “Poli-tics is the art of compromise.” The question becomes: Can a president, when approached by a wealthy donor, not be influenced? That line in the sand that they shall not cross is hard to maintain. Our govern-mental processes are formed by “special interests” and now we have Super PACs on top of that. Money has been buying favorable laws for business and labor for years. We have now reached a point in the financial affairs of our country where the nation must come first and selfish interests come second. Wall Street is infested with special investment funds. Some are known as “Vulture Funds.” They like to say that they make capitalism more efficient, but the fund manager becomes rich. They find corpo-rations with lucrative balance sheets that are prospects for takeover. After the merger they take everything they can get. A couple examples are Enron and R.J. Reynolds and Nabisco. Read “Barbarians at the Gates” for a report of a ruthless take-over and who ends up with the money.

Byron Niewendorp,Sanborn

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the first couple of years attempting to launch The Golden Shopper were

difficult. The local businesses wanted competition to keep down advertising costs but continued to feel they needed to spend the majority of their dollars in The Osceola County Gazette-Tribune, the estab-lished newspaper in Sibley. Most of the early years we spent more dollars just print-ing and distributing the free circulation Golden Shopper than we took in as advertising revenue. With no previous experience in the publishing business, we didn’t understand column widths or the established formula for what that should be charged per column inch. At first we divided the tabloid pages into four equal columns that were almost 2 inches wide. To be competitive we charged 60 cents per inch, for 3,000 printed papers, 18 cents below the Gazette rate for 2,000 cop-ies. But with their narrower standard columns, the Gazette was actually getting an average of $100 more a page for their ads than we were. Still, not knowing what we were doing, often was a good thing as often as bad. Since we’d been able to hire Johnny King, a somewhat experienced local printer to run our press, we were able to put more attention to creating business growth.

Expanding the market Realizing there would never be enough advertising dollars in Sibley to support two publi-cations, our business partner, Gary Whidden, started making sales calls in nearby Worthing-ton, MN. I in turn headed south to solicit ads in Sheldon. Gary had good results getting almost weekly ads from Barney

Bishop at Bishop’s Clothing and from Worthington Savings & Loan, which made many of the home loans in Sibley. I experienced favorable results at Bartel’s and Landhuis Jewelry, Graham’s Sheldon Department Store and some weeks with Marv Jacobson at Wolff’s Department Store who ran hot and cold most of the years we were both in business. “If you’re dumb enough to try to sell me, I guess I can be dumb enough to buy from you,” Marv once told me. But even as we started to sell more advertising, neither Gary nor I understood that we were breaking a major publishing rule. Every publisher was sup-posed to stay in their own mar-ket, we were told, and sell only to the business firms in their own community. Still the idea of eventually expanding outside of Sibley and becoming a regional paper had been part of our plan from the beginning. It was the single reason we selected the name The Golden Shopper for our paper. It didn’t tie us to one local market, and we were always careful to never refer to our paper as the “Sibley” Golden Shopper. The name actually came from a special section produced by the Sioux Falls Argus Leader

the week Whidden and I met in that city to discuss our possible partnership. The advertising section was dedicated to pro-moting the businesses along West 12th Street and titled The Golden Mile. “Perfect,” Whidden told me. “we’ll call our paper The Gold-en Shopper.” Those out-of-town sales trips often created interesting expe-riences for Gary and me.

Hit by a flying horse Gary was in Worthington making calls once and got hit by a flying horse. It happened as he was heading home on the Highway 60 loop on the east side of that community. Suddenly a horse ran out onto the highway from a nearby farm and a Ford Mus-tang immediately hit the huge animal throwing it high into the air. When it came down it was on the hood of the company’s pickup truck. The weight and impact crumpled the hood, fenders and covered the vehicle with bits of the ani-mal. Interestingly, neither the farmer owning the horse or the driver of the Mustang was ruled responsible. We and our insurance company ended up paying for the expensive body repair.

the toilet and the tub I almost daily took our first-born, Jeff, with me on my sales calls. He’d travel in a little “Pumpkin Seat” that strapped into the car when we were driving, and in which he could sit when we went into a store. I happily remember regular sales calls on Glenn Jobes in Melvin where Jeff would sit on the counter and listen as Glen and I worked out the details for that week’s ad. Glen, by the way, became

both a great customer and a good friend. Even today I often tell seminars I’m invited to speak to about how I first got the furniture store owner to advertise in The Golden Shop-per. I’d been calling on Glen for months, never getting much more than a classified. When he began to handle Dexter Twin Tub washing machines, the manufacturer had allotted the store with some coopera-tive advertising dollars. Glen decided to spend some of those dollars with me. The ad, one column wide by 4 inches tall, was available only in the form of a mat. That mat would have to be cast into lead and printed on a proof press if I was going to use the copy in my offset printed shopper. By the time I’d driven the mat to Worthington to have it cast and proofed, I had more money tied up in the process than the ad would bill. Still, it was an opportunity to show Glen Jobes what The Golden Shopper could do. The following week I returned to Melvin to see what kind of results the little ad had pro-duced. To be truthful, I didn’t have high expectations from such a small effort. “Hi, Glen,” I said, “I bet you sold two or three of those washers off my ad.” “No,” responded Jobes, “but I did sell one.” Then before I could brag too much, Glen went on to tell me how it happened. It seemed an Ashton woman had cleaned her basement the day The Golden Shop-per arrived in the mail. And since she had cleaned the area around the basement toilet, she used The Golden Shopper to provide protection from the damp floor for anyone using the basement facility.

Within a few hours her hus-band came into the house to use the toilet. Sitting down on the toilet he looked down at the printed pages for lack of anything else to read. And it was while he was doing so that he noticed Jobes’ ad and thought the new washer advertised was just the thing for his wife. Within minutes the couple was on their way in his pickup to Melvin to buy one of the machines. “Ya,” I said, “but you sold one.” “That’s right,” replied the store owner, “and here is a quarter page mattress ad for next week.”

Colorful program Melvin was a good sales area for us in those early days. The client base included Jobes Furniture, Art’s Electric, two grocery stores, Grave’s Lumber, three aggressive implement dealers, a great locker plant, a bowling alley, a full-service ele-vator and a hometown bank. But even in those early years we didn’t depend just on The Golden Shopper our income. The first summer after our first edition on Oct. 3, we published a Sibley Dairy Days “Official” Program Book in multiple colors. We planned to do it on 11-by-17-inch sheets and staple it on the spine. But we made a mistake somewhere in the process, I don’t remember exactly where, and ended up having to cut the pages into letter size and stable each one of them along the side. Still it was the most colorful printed product produced up to that time and we enjoyed a profitable ad count. One ad came from KELO, our first Sioux Falls customer. We were able to sell the television sta-tion into the project because Dave Dedrick — Captain 11

— was the parade marshal that year. We tried to get them to repeat the ad the next year but they declined, saying without Dedrick being there the ad was of little value.

In-house operation Gary, Connie and I continued printing our own paper and working out of the old Sibley Post Office building for the bet-ter part of another year. Then, with the Worthington Daily Globe installing a large offset printing press we decided to print at its plant. We sold our tiny single-sheet press and other equipment to Harold Aardema who was about to launch his Doon Press. Gary and I delivered the items to Doon ourselves in a pickup truck we borrowed from Jake Vos at Vos Hatchery. It took us three trips to get it delivered to the Doon location, About that same time, we moved our business into the basement of the house that Connie and I rented on Sibley’s Fifth Street. We had few cus-tomers come to our downtown office and really didn’t need to be on Main Street. The move helped us lower our overhead and gave Connie the opportu-nity to watch our two sons at the same time she worked. And since the house was directly across the street from Johnson’s Cottage Grocery — one of three neighborhood groceries in Sibley at that time — it was never a problem if we got hungry for a snack while laying out that day’s sold ads. We’d just run across the street for something sweet.

Peter W. Wagner lives in Sibley. He is the founder and publisher of The N’West Iowa REVIEW and may be reached at [email protected].

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DEERContinued from page A1Boltjes, director of O’Brien County Conservation, has been getting phone calls from recre-ational hunters regarding the lack of game. “The hunters are the last ones to ever complain about it until it’s to that point where it’s really bad when they finally voice their opinion, which we’re finally starting to see now,” he said. The population is growing smaller perhaps because of two consecutive harsh winters that may have stressed does, result-ing in fewer fawns born in the spring, Boltjes said. “I still see deer when I do go, but you might see two or three and the last couple of years prior I’d probably see maybe 10 or 12 a night,” he said, adding he used to be able to see up to 100 deer in a given night in food plots. In Osceola County, where the deer population already is small due to few wooded areas, the hunting yield was consider-ably low. Nicholas Schmalen, director of the Osceola County Con-servation Board, speculated there were fewer deer this year because of the mild weather. “It changes the deer move-ment patterns,” Schmalen said. The fewer the deer, the less

success hunters have dur-ing the season. As a result, Schmalen said he noticed fewer hunters out in Osceola County. These smaller num-b e r s b e c a m e e v i d e n t t o Schmalen during the first shot-gun week Dec. 3-7. “There was nobody around,”

Schmalen said. “Even last year, there would be people out.” Craig Van Otterloo, executive director of Lyon County Con-servation Board, also noticed fewer hunters registered this year, especially hunters under the age of 25. He said hunters become dis-

couraged when they are unable to shoot or even find deer and give up on the hobby. As a result, the number of deer harvested in Lyon County this season was down more the 25 percent compared to last year. “We’re losing deer numbers. We’ve sold less deer tags again

this year,” Van Otterloo said. He speculated the reason the yield was lower this year was a result of the number of does killed the past four of five years. The result is a dwindling popu-lation of deer. Van Otterloo said the deer numbers will continue to fall in Lyon County if hunters continue shooting does. “The problem is we’re getting a lot of complaints from hunt-ers that the deer population is too low,” Van Otterloo said. The Iowa Legislature creates the hunting rules. Van Otterloo said lawmakers will need to declare buck-only seasons for about three or four years to increase the deer population in about five or six years. “According to the DNR, there will not be a buck-only season,” Van Otterloo said. “We’ll con-tinue to see our deer numbers drop.” He thinks certain state enti-ties, like the Iowa Farm Bureau, prefer to keep the deer popula-tion smaller to prevent them from eating the crop. And he speculated insurance compa-nies are glad numbers are lower to help limit vehicle accidents caused by deer. “We’ve got to find that fine line of balance where you’re content with the number of deer being shot, but you also like the amount of population around, too,” Van Otterloo said.

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ACCENTThe N’West Iowa REVIEW • March 10, 2012 • Section B

SANBORNIt’s hard to believe, but we’realready well into our second

decade of another century.The N’West Iowa REVIEW is taking

an in-depth at some of the area’scommunities, specifi cally

fi nding out what projects they have in the works in the near future.

This week we visit Sanborn.

SANBORNIt’s hard to believe, but we’re

More space neededfor new businesses


SANBORN—Sanborn has a problem. In this case though, it’s a good problem. High interest in the 10-year-old Sanborn Industrial Park has nearly filled the 45-acre park to capacity. “I see it as a real good problem,”

said Sanborn city administrator Jim Zeuten-horst. “There are communities that have put business or commercial parks in and they stand empty for a long time.” The industrial park off Eastern Street, which has 12 tenants, has only a pair of three-acre lots

left. “It’s a real good thing, but it pres-ents the problem trying to find addi-t i o n a l g ro u n d ,” Zeutenhorst said. “We’re getting to the point where obvi-ously we need more land than that.” The city is begin-ning to identify possible sites for a second business and commercial park. Zeutenhorst said a handful of loca-tions already have been discussed, some are located along Highway 18, others are not. In each case, the land currently is being used as agri-cultural ground. The city will look into several factors when determining which site to pur-sue. After determin-ing which location

is the most purchasable for the city, the next determining factor may be which is easiest to get its municipal utilities of gas, electric, water and sewer out to most efficiently. “We’d like to find some commercial ground that’s in our service territory for our utilities,” Zeutenhorst said. “We’ve definitely identified a

See INDUSTRIAL PARK on page B4

Forty-fi ve acre Sanborn Industrial Park nearly fi lled

Manor to receiveinterior face-liftPrairie View facility’s gathering roomto get new paint job, carpet, furniture


SANBORN—The pink, mauve and turquoise color scheme at Prairie View Manor has outlived its welcome. The common gathering room inside the 18-unit independent living facility in Sanborn soon will receive a makeover. “We’re going to get rid of the mauves and pinks and get a little more modern and up-to-date,” said Prairie View Campus administrator Wendy Nelson. Besides a color change, the large room will get new carpet, furniture and updated decor. As evident from the current design, the facility has not changed much in recent years. Despite a special effort to keep

See PRAIRIE VIEW on page B3

Lawrence Moser of Sanborn works on a 1,000-piece puzzle in the common gathering room of Prairie View Manor in Sanborn. The room will be receiv-ing a face-lift when it gets carpet and a new color scheme to make it “a little more modern and up-to-date.” (Photo by Josh Harrell)

AMPI to install extra vat toincrease processing capacity‘Key part’ to production of cheesecompressed into 640-pound blocks


SANBORN—Associated Milk Producers Inc. in San-born soon will install an extra vat to allow the plant to increase processing capacity to 1.6 million pounds of milk. The Sanborn plant currently processes 1.4 million pounds of milk annually with the existing vat. Installing the additional vat sometime in the second half of 2012 will increase production by 2 million pounds. “There’s a long cheese production process here, but the vat is a key part of that process,” said Sarah

Schmidt, AMPI communications director. The vat is a 7,000-pound stainless steel structure. “I like to think of it as the pot that cooks the milk that turns it into cheese,” Schmidt said. Inside the vat, milk is heated to begin the curdling process to make cheese following the homogenization and pasteurization of the milk. During this process, renin is added to the milk to begin the coagulation of the liquid into curds. Rotat-ing paddles stir the milk and slice the curds once they have formed. From the vat, the cheese is relocated to a salting table and then is compressed into a 640-pound block of cheddar cheese and eventually packaged. “The additional vat is going to increase our produc-tion capacity to produce cheese and we’ve got some

See AMPI on page B4

SanbornMachinemoves intolarger spaceExtra room required toaccommodate its growth


SANBORN—Sanborn Machine recent-ly moved its operations into a larger space to accommodate its growing busi-ness. Sanborn Machine moved its opera-tions to a new building, a former ceram-ics store, located at 407 First St. in late November. The new structure offers double the space of its previous home. “We were basically just out of room,” said Jim Smith, owner of Sanborn Machine. “We couldn’t gain anymore customers. We were kind of at our max.” He said the company had been looking into purchasing a new building to house operations for a year prior to moving into the new location. It was six months before Smith started searching for a new building that he noticed the company was over capacity. “We’re not tripping over everything,” Smith said. “That has really helped.” Sanborn Machine operates as a com-puter numerical control (CNC) machine shop and does primarily production

See MACHINE on page B3

Machinist Randy Van Dyke drills holes in spindles at Sanborn Machine. The machining com-pany moved to its current site in November. (Photo by Josh Harrell)

Erice Franke of Van’t Hof Trucking installs mud flaps on a newly refurbished trailer in Sanborn. The industrial park has reached capacity in Sanborn and the city is looking a place to expand into. (Photo by Josh Harrell)

Associated Milk Producers Inc. of Sanborn will be installing an extra vat to increase its processing capacity to 1.6 million pounds of milk. By the later half of this year, AMPI hopes to increase the plant’s production by 2 million pounds. (Photo by Josh Harrell)

COMMERCIAL PARK BUSINESSESn E&R Constructionn Hardware Hankn Hartog Elevatorn J&R Storagen Meerdink Truckingn Pioneer Seedsn Rental Cornern Sybesma Graphicsn TCA telecommunications

buildingn Vander Haag’s Truck

Museum and storage facilities

n Van’t Hof Truckingn Vos Electric

SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012 n THE N'WEST IOWA REVIEW/SHELDON, IA B3

WHAT NOW? SANBORN

PRAIRIE VIEWContinued from B1the residents’ individual units updated with new carpet over the last two years, the commons area has been kept widely as is. The commons room is open, but broken off into three differ-ent sections. One of the pods is for watch-ing television or DVDs, a sec-ond area has a couch and love seat next to the fire place and the third pod has tables and chairs for playing cards, pool or other games. There also is a small bird avi-ary, a popular attraction for the residents. The space gets used regularly, especially if residents have guests or larger groups visiting. The residents eat, play games at the tables and have fellow-ship in the commons area. The room also has hosted public events like quilt shows and legislative forums. The biggest cost in the remodeling is the carpet replacement. Nelson said a more neutral-colored carpet will be chosen.

The wallpaper will be stripped off and a layer of paint applied. “We’re going with a warm

color scheme and functional furniture,” Nelson said. “We want it to be a little more mod-

ern, yet warm and fuzzy like everyone’s living room.” Similar to past projects of this nature, Nelson will work directly with Fay Schall, owner of Paradox in Sanborn, to come up with an inviting and homey design. “We’ve had a lot of compli-ments on our current design and color schemes within the home,” Nelson said. The other project in the renovation is relandscaping around the outside of the com-mons. Nelson said the plants are either overgrown or dead and there are lot of rocks missing. Prairie View also expects to clean up one of the existing parts of the landscape. “We’ve got a big rock sitting out there that now we finally need to just get engraved,” Nelson said. “It’s time to get it polished and prettied up.” Nelson said most of the residents would be humble enough to say the renovations are not needed, but she said they will be appreciated just the same. “I know they will enjoy it,” Nelson said.

New lights, carpet,cabinetry installed


SANBORN—Sanborn Golf & Country Club is in the midst of receiving a face-lift. Work began on remodeling the facility’s clubhouse in early January. According to Sanborn Golf & Country Club Board president Brice Mosier, the overhaul marks the first major upgrade to the clubhouse since it was built almost 30 years ago. “It was in need of an update,” said Mosier, who has served on the board for two and a half years. The city-owned Sanborn Golf & Country Club is located on the southwest edge of town adjacent to Miller Park, a 129-acre recreational area that has had numerous N’West Iowa communities envious of its offerings, which include a 2-mile-long, 6-foot-wide asphalt nature trail for walk-ing, jogging or bicycling with benches and sheltered rest areas along the path; a combi-nation of enclosed and exterior shelter; a children’s playground area; lighted softball diamonds and tennis courts and more, since its inception in August of 1982. The park is named after Elmer Miller, a wealthy Sanborn area farmer who died in 1975. Among the bequests of his will was that on the death of his wife, Edna, who passed away in 1978, the remainder of their estate “Be used in acquiring and improving a recreational area and park of the use and benefit of the Sanborn com-munity.” The 160-acre farm they left was located about six miles from Sanborn, but city officials managed to work an acre-for-acre exchange with Bill Brady, who owned land adja-cent to the city. Sanborn also purchased an additional 13 acres in the deal. The land was annexed to the city in 1980. At about the same time, Sanborn was designing a new wastewater treatment plant that was being funded by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Natural Resources. Through a series of meetings, the area was born to combine the recreational complex with the wastewater treatment plant. The EPA planned to put the treatment buildings and lagoons on the Miller land. However, city officials, serv-ing as trustees to Miller’s will, got a court order to show the agency had to pay Sanborn for the 44 acres needed because the will specifically stated the land could only be used for the recreational facility unless the city was compensated. The case was battled until it reached the EPA Appeal Board in Washington, D.C., where the ruling favored the will. One of the provisions of the ruling was that the treated water from the final lagoon would be sprayed over the entire park through an elabo-rate system of underground spray heads. It marked the first time in the nation when a wastewater treatment plant had ever been combined with a recreation center. From the time of Miller Park’s inception, however, construct-

ing a golf course was a dream of the city’s park and rec board. Funds from the Miller estate along with some money from a previously awarded Iowa Conservation Commission grant were used. A nonprofit organization deemed Sanborn Golf & Country Club Inc. was created to handle the opera-tion and maintenance of the course along with overseeing the construction of the club-house. About $65,000 for the clubhouse construction was raised by private contributions from the community. The golf corporation and the park and rec board worked out an agreement where the board leases the clubhouse, the course and all its facilities, with maintenance charged for rental. The board, however, decided last year that the clubhouse, which features a dining room, lounge and golf shop on the top floor and a large room used as a community center on the bottom floor, was in need of an update. According to Mosier, the board approached the Sanborn City Council, which agreed to assisting in the update. The remodel involves updat-ing the men’s and women’s rest-rooms, pro shop, and dining and lounge area by incorporat-ing new lighting, flooring and cabinetry. “We still have some flooring to do yet, some touch-up paint-ing and some final decorating left,” Mosier said. “We hope to have that finished by the first of April.” He said Sanborn Golf & Coun-try Club is anticipating holding an opening during the middle of April, but it will depend on weather conditions. “We’re just real excited for the new year,” Mosier said.

Renovation underway for clubhouse

ABOUT THE FACILITY: Located on the southwest edge of town, the city-owned Sanborn Golf & Country Club offers a nine-hole golf course that has been a favorite relaxation spot for area golf enthusiasts for about 30 years. The golf course is open according to weather conditions and provides alternate tee boxes that give golfers nine different starting points the second time around. The fairways and challenging greens always are plush in even the driest weather conditions thanks to continuous irrigation from the treated water of the nearby waste water plant. Putting greens and a practice sand trap also are available. The clubhouse is open year-round for lunch and supper, and features a lounge, a special party room available for renovations, a pro shop with retail golf equipment and a community center in the basement. For more information, call (712) 930-5600.

Sanborn Golf & Country Club board president Brice Mosier carries a piece of underlayment to staple down in the clubhouse floor. The clubhouse is getting a remodel that includes updated restrooms and pro shop, as well as new lighting, flooring and carpet throughout the building. (Photo by Rylan Howe)

Improvements to include relandscaping

Prairie View Manor in Sanborn opened its doors in September of 1992. The common gathering room in the manor will soon receive new carpet, furniture and new decor. (Photo by Josh Harrell)

ABOUT PRAIRIE VIEW MANOR: The independent living facility, Prairie View Manor, is one of four entities at the Prairie View Campus on the east side of Sanborn. The campus also includes assisted living and skilled nursing facilities and a special care unit. In 1991 Prairie View constructed the 18-unit independent living complex, Prairie View Manor. The facility has six double rooms, 12 single rooms, three large parlor areas, an activity center and a dining area. Prairie View Manor opened in September 1992.

Station’s newest vehicleis a 1988 pumper truck


SANBORN—“Every minute counts when you’re dealing with a fire.” So said Sanborn fire chief Randy Lyman. He knows from experience. Lyman has served on the Sanborn Fire Department since 1978 and was elected chief four years later. While he gave up his leader position for one year, he was elected the department’s top commander again and has held the title since. As Lyman knows how important the time restraint is when dealing with fires, he also has observed the age of the department’s current trucks. The Sanborn Fire Department currently utilizes two pumpers — one manufac-tured in 1972 and the other in 1988 — and a 1980 rescue truck. “The trucks are getting older, and there are new fire regulations on how much water you have to be able to carry, and how the guys can’t be riding on it without being in the cab with their seat belts on,” Lyman said. However, with the department’s current top truck, the 1988 pumper, one firefight-er has to stand outside of the truck while it is traveling down the road. “Once they’re at the scene they’re kind of wasting time,” Lyman said. “They have to spend extra time getting their gear on before they’re at the scene.” As a result, members of the volunteer department, which currently has 19 firefighters, have been discussing the fea-sibility of obtaining a new pumper with the area it serves — all of Franklin and portions of Center, Lincoln and Summit townships — for the last dozen years. “We had told the trustees of the town-ships that Sanborn serves 12 years ago that within 12 years we’d be buying a new truck,” Lyman said. The department has been attempting to secure Federal Emergency Management Agency funds during that time. However, Lyman said FEMA has been awarding more grants for safety precau-tions instead of for trucks in recent years. No matter, the need for a new truck has not diminished. Rather, the extremity of the situation has

grown greater than ever. “We could probably get by with the trucks we have, but about the time you say a truck will last another five years, two years down the line something happens and you’re scrambling,” Lyman said. As a result, the department approached the township trustees within the immedi-ate vicinity of Sanborn to see how much each group would be willing to spend on a new truck. Lyman said the city of Sanborn will foot the rest of the bill, and the department has agreed to spend funds it has collected over the years for other equipment it wants included on the new truck. The new truck — a pumper and rescue combination — currently is in the design stage. Firefighter Jeff Kuehl has been collecting facts and figures on what the department would like to see in the new truck, while Heiman Fire Inc. in Lyons, SD, is accom-modating the group’s needs. “Once we get something that we like, their engineers will say if it will work or not, and then we’ll send truck specs out

to other truck manufacturers and get bids on what we want,” Lyman said. “That way we’ll be comparing apples to apples.” He anticipates the truck will cost about $350,000. It will replace the department’s 1978 pumper, becoming the fleet’s top truck. The 1988 pumper will move down the line, while the new truck also will serve as a potential backup for the 32-year-old rescue truck should something happen to it. Lyman said the new pumper-rescue combination will pump 1,500 gallons per minute and carry 1,250 gallons of water. Additionally, the cab will accommodate six firefighters and come equipped with air pack seats for each. The department anticipates having a design completed within the next couple months. The design then will go out to bid and be delivered in the next 12-15 months. “We’ll be a little more assured if we do get a call,” Lyman said. “It will go out the door and be able to operate; that would be the biggest thing.”

Firefighters seeking new pumper

The fleet of the Sanborn Fire Department includes this 1980 rescue truck. The department is looking to upgrade its vehicles, specifically replacing a 1972 pumper. (File photo)

DONATIONS: While discussing funding for Sanborn Fire Department’s new pumper-rescue combination fire truck, which is projected to cost about $350,000, chief Randy Lyman said the townships it serves may not be able to finance much of the purchase. “The trustees of the townships are being asked to pay for quite a bit of the truck, and because we’re a rural community, the townships should be more into paying for it,” Lyman said. “I don’t know if we’ll go out and start taking donations, but that may be something down the road if the townships can’t help out.”

Company wanted to stay hereMACHINEContinued from page B1machinery for customers in a 100-mile radius of Sanborn. The company required more space to store raw materials and needed an area where it could unload material and equipment. The new building includes space for extra storage, and a parking lot that makes off-street unloading possible. With the new available space, Sanborn Machine was able to hire a new employee and has plans to purchase new CNC equipment in the future. “At our other facility, there was no possibility of adding more equipment or people,” Smith said. He said he considered a couple other possibilities, but the building decided upon was close to the old location and was the right size. “It was an existing building, that was appealing to us,” Smith said. “We wanted to be able to stay in Sanborn, that

was our biggest thing.” The company originated in Sanborn in August 2006, and

Smith has no plans of moving the business out of town. “This is where we started,” he

said. “When we expanded we wanted to be able to expand here.”

Shop setup man Ron Prostrollo sets up a computer numerical control lathe to make a spacer at Sanborn Machine. The shop serves customers in a 100-mile radius of Sanborn. (Photo by Josh Harrell)


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INDUSTRIAL PARKContinued from page B1few possible areas.” With ag land values in Iowa at all-time highs, the city will need to have a suitable financing plan in place. Zeutenhorst said the purchase would be funded through a combination of a utili-ties reserve and a fund from the lot sales of the existing commercial park. Despite the hard economic times, he said there still are interested parties — particularly the smaller commercial busi-nesses — looking to bring business into town. “We feel like there’s pretty good interest yet,” Zeutenhorst said. The city plans to purchase a piece of land in the next one to three years.

AMPIContinued from page B1high quality milk coming into the sanborn plant,” Schmidt said. The finished product is trans-ported to the AMPI consumer packaging plant in Portage, WI, where it is either processed further into a number of products, including shredded cheese and processed cheese slices among other items, or it remains in its 640-pound block form to be sold to customers to process and package them-selves. AMPI is a cooperative in which many members of the board of directors are N’West Iowa dairy farmers. Schmidt said AMPI head-quarters has been working with these members of the board to increase production of the Sanborn plant. “To grow with them, we have been consistently and incre-mentally steadily growing our plant production,” Schmidt said.

AMPI toinstallnew vat

The city of Sanborn also is starting discussions to improve First Street, which runs the one-mile length of town from Western Street to Eastern Street on the south side of town. The street sustains a high amount of heavy truck traffic from companies like Hartog Elevator, Farmers Cooperative and Associated Milk Producers Incorporated, which are all situated on First Street. That traffic has taken its toll on the roads. “We’ve been discussing for a while that we need to do some reconstruction of that street,” said city administrator Jim Zeutenhorst. “We’ve tried to do some seal coating and some things to hold it together, but it’s starting to show its age.” Zeutenhorst said the project probably is not going to happen until spring 2013, and it would be done in two phases. The first phase would reconstruct the road from Main Street to Western Street, while the second phase would be from Main Street to Eastern Street. A decision has not yet been made whether the current asphalt road would be torn up and converted to concrete or whether it would be a resurfacing overlay project.

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Associated Milk Producers Inc. of Sanborn is adding an additional 7,000-pound vat to boost production. The dairy company hopes to raise production to 2 million pounds annually with the installment of the vat. (Photo by Josh Harrell)

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UNITED REFORMED, 2485 300th St. Rev. James Sinke. Sun-day: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

SANBORN

CHRISTIAN REFORMED, 208 N. Western St. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

CORNERSTONE UNITED RE -FORMED, 805 Sunrise Ave. Rev. Dan Donovan. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Worship.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN, 410 Franklin St. Rev. Gregg Johnson, interim pastor. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

FIRST REFORMED, 512 Summit St. Rev. Gary Hegstad. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Worship.

GRACE EVANGELICAL FREE, 210 N. Main St. Rev. Kenneth Carl-son. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

S T. A N D R E W ’ S U N I T E D METHODIST, 604 Sunrise Ave. Rev. Thomas Connors. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

ST. CECILIA’S CATHOLIC, 310 E. Fourth St. Father Tim Hogan. Saturday: 6 p.m. Mass.

S T. J O H N ’ S L U T H E R A N (LCMS), 305 Angie St. Pastor Jesse Burns. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

SHELDON

BETHEL REFORMED , 611 Seventh St. Rev. Troy Van Beek. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship; 3 p.m. Comunidad Cristiana Worship.

CALVARY BAPTIST, 823 10th St. Rev. Marcus Moffitt. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, 3011 Marsh Ave. Rev. David Love-all. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

CROSSROADS COMMUNITY (EFCA), Pastor Bob Donley. Office at 518 Park St. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship at Northwest Enter-prises.

F I R S T C H R I S T I A N R E -FORMED, 901 Ninth St. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

FIRST REFORMED, 1101 Sev-enth St. Rev. David Brower. Sun-day: 8:30 a.m. Heritage Worship; 11 a.m. Hosanna Worship.

IMMANUEL CHRISTIAN RE -FORMED, 601 Union Ave. Rev. Kevin Muyskens. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

O U R S AV I O R LU T H E R A N (LCMS), 1225 S. Second Ave. Sun-day: 9 a.m. Worship.

PARKVIEW ASSEMBLY OF GOD, 516 Fourth Ave. Rev. Ken Snyder. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship; 6:30 p.m. Evening Praise.

ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC, 310 10th St. Father Allan Reicks. Sun-day: 9 a.m. Mass; 11 a.m. Spanish Mass. Saturday: 5:30 p.m. Mass.

ST. PAUL LUTHERAN (NALC), 1425 Pleasant Court. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

UNITED METHODIST, 506 Eighth St. Rev. Marvin Lindley. Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Traditional Worship; 11 a.m. Modern Wor-ship.

SIBLEY

CHRISTIAN REFORMED, 115 Maple. Rev. Roger Bouwman, interim pastor. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Worship.

FAITH LUTHERAN, 700 11th Ave. (Meeting at United Methodist Church) Rev. Tim Nappe. Satur-day: 6:30 p.m. Worship.

FIRST BAPTIST, 402 Sixth St. Pastor Doug Noonkester. Sun-day: 9 a.m. Traditional Worship; 11 a.m. Contemporary Worship. First Sunday of Month: 11 a.m. Combined Worship.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN, 601 Sixth Ave. Rev. Terry Simm. Sun-day: 10 a.m. Worship.

FIRST REFORMED, 1010 Sixth St. Rev. Gary Van Heukelom; Mike Molettiere, director of youth and education. Sunday: 9 a.m. Cor-nerstone Worship; 11 a.m. Open Door Gathering Worship.

ST. ANDREW’S CATHOLIC, 708 Eighth St. Father John Vakulskas. First, Third and Fifth Saturdays: 5 p.m. Mass. Sunday: 10 a.m. Mass.

TRINITY LUTHERAN (ELCA), 704 Poplar Drive. Pastor James Berka. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship.

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST C O N G R E G AT I O N A L , 7 0 4 Fourth Ave. Rev. Larry Laskie. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship.

UNITED METHODIST, 700 11th Ave. N.E. Pastor Shannon Pascual. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

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Churches are encouraged to submit updated information, which is listed as space allows.

ALTON

PRESBYTERIAN, 311 12th St. E. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

REFORMED, 305 Eighth St. Sun-day: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC, 609 10th St. Father Paul Eisele. Sun-day: 8:30 a.m. Mass.

ALVORD

CHRIST LUTHERAN (ELCA), 308 First St. Pastor Carla Jensen. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

ARCHER

REFORMED, 210 Locust St. Rev. Jeremy Wiersema. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

UNITED METHODIST, 309 Harriman Ave. Rev. Doris Lindley. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

ASHTON

ASHTON BIBLE, 140 First St. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC, 643 Sixth St. Father John Vakulskas. Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Mass. Second and Fourth Saturdays: 5 p.m. Mass.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN, 419 Fourth St. Meeting at Jurrens Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Dale Lint. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

BOYDEN

FIRST REFORMED, 901 Pleas-ant St. Rev. Matthew Draffen. Sun-day: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

ST. JOHN LUTHERAN (NALC), 3941 280th St. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

UNITED PRESBYTERIAN, 817 Lincoln St. Sunday: 9:25 a.m. Worship.

CALUMET

ZION UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, 110 W. Third St. Pastor Barbara Weier. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

CARMEL

REFORMED, 2801 360th St. Rev. Mark Heijerman. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

DOON

FIRST REFORMED, 406 Barton Ave. Rev. Donald Baker. Sunday: 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST, 201 Barton Ave. Pastor Steven Swenson. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

PROTESTANT REFORMED, 408 Sixth Ave. Rev. David Overway. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

UNITED REFORMED, 602 Rice Ave. Rev. Simon Lievaart. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Worship.

GEORGE

CENTRAL BAPTIST, 206 E. Min-nesota Ave. Rev. Harold “Harry” Anderson and Pastor Aaron Van’t Hul. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

EBENEZER PRESBYTERIAN, 300 E. Iowa Ave. Sunday: 9:25 a.m. Worship.

FIRST BAPTIST, 4102 190th St. Rev. Stephen May. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

HOPE REFORMED, 2251 Jay Ave. Rev. David Poppen. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship; 6:30 p.m. Bible Study.

I M M A N U E L L U T H E R A N (ELCA), 400 E. Iowa Ave. Rev. Tony Metz. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

LYON COUNTY FIRST PRES-BYTERIAN, 4140 230th St. Rev. Paul Fischer. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

TABERNACLE BAPTIST, 206 E. Indiana Ave. Pastor Bryan Ander-son. Pastor Rick Henning, youth pastor. Sunday: 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Worship.

ZOAR PRESBYTERIAN, 2002 Log Ave. Rev. Dale Lint. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

GERMANTOWN

ST. JOHN LUTHERAN (LCMS), 5092 480th St. Rev. Donald Erick-son. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship.

GRANVILLE

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC, 528 Elm St. Father Richard Ball. Satur-

day: 4 p.m. Mass. Sunday: 9 a.m. Mass.

HARTLEY

ST. JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC, 260 N. Fourth Ave. W. Father Tim Hogan. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Mass.

ST. PAUL LUTHERAN (LCMS), 60 N. Central Ave. Rev. David Ericksen. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, 140 N. Fifth Ave. Rev. Jeffrey Filkins. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

UNITED METHODIST, 361 N. Eighth Ave. W. Rev. Steve Camp-bell. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

HAWARDEN

A M E R I C A N L U T H E R A N (ELCA), 1417 12th St. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship.

ASSOCIATED CHURCH (UCC and Presbyterian), 719 10th St. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

CHRISTIAN REFORMED, 1515 16th St. Sunday: 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

FIRST BAPTIST, 1100 Central Ave. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

FRIENDSHIP ASSEMBLY OF GOD, 802 12th St. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship.

HAWARDEN COMMUNITY (RCA), 1700 Central Ave. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC, 1121 Avenue L. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Mass. Saturday: 5 p.m. Mass.

TRINITY LUTHERAN (LCMS), 1103 Central Ave. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship. Saturday: 6 p.m. Worship.

UNITED METHODIST, 803 13th St. Rev. Barb Joy. Saturday: 5 p.m. Worship. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

HOSPERS

CHRISTIAN REFORMED, 110 Fourth Ave. N. Rev. Nicholas Davelaar. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN (Pres-byterian Church in America), 200 Elm St. Dr. Brian Janssen. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

FIRST REFORMED, 501 Main St. Rev. Milton Sikkema. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

ST. ANTHONY CATHOLIC, 500 Elm St. Father Paul Eisele. Call (712) 752-8784 for Mass times.

HULL

AMERICAN REFORMED, 911 First St. Rev. Steve Bierly. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Worship.

C A LVA R Y P R O T E S TA N T REFORMED CHURCH, meeting in Boyden-Hull High School The-atre. Pastor Cory Griess. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

F I R S T C H R I S T I A N R E -FORMED, 1121 Fifth St. Rev. Paul

Hansen. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

FIRST REFORMED, 911 Second St. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

HERITAGE REFORMED, 1204 Third St. Rev. Michael Fintelman. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

H O P E C H R I S T I A N R E -FORMED, 1407 Sixth St. Rev. Todd Zuidema. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

PROTESTANT REFORMED, 1006 Hayes Ave. Rev. Steven Key. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

ST. PAUL LUTHERAN (LCMC), 3483 290th St. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship.

INWOOD

B E T H L E H E M LU T H E R A N (ELCA), 302 N. Oak St. Pastor John Wolf. Sunday: 9 a.m. Wor-ship.

CHRISTIAN REFORMED, 302 E. Madison St. Pastor Sam Krikke. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Worship.

FIRST REFORMED, 414 North Oak St. Rev. Rob Horstman. Sun-day: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD, 709 S. Douglas St. Rev. Tim Lar-son. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Worship.

OUR SAVIOR’S LUTHERAN (LCMC), 2065 Birch Ave. Sunday: 10:45 a.m. Worship.

IRETON

CHRISTIAN REFORMED, 301 Maple St. Rev. Norlyn Van Beek. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

FIRST REFORMED, 502 Ash St. Rev. Douglas Van Aartsen. Sun-day: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

ST. PAUL LUTHERAN (LCMS), 602 Main St. Pastor Andrew Carl-son. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

UNITED METHODIST, 502 Fifth St. Rev. Barb Joy. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

LESTER

APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN, 510 Dove Ave. Sunday 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Worship. 7:30 p.m. worship first and third Sundays.

BETHEL REFORMED, 2314 150th St. Rev. Donald Baker. Sun-day 9 a.m. Worship.

SEEDS OF FAITH UNITED METHODIST, 408 Main St. Rev. Don Nelson. Sunday 9:30 a.m. Worship.

LITTLE ROCK

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN, 503 Fisher St. Rev. Scott Burdsall. Sun-day: 10 a.m. Worship.

SALEM REFORMED, 123 First Ave. Rev. Brian Hellenga. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

MAURICE

FIRST REFORMED, 410 Main St. Pastor Don De Kok, preaching pastor. Pastor Harlan De Jong, congregational care pastor. Sun-day: 8:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Worship.

MAY CITY

ST. JOHN LUTHERAN (LCMS), 6665 Frederick Ave. Rev. Paul Johnson. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

MELVIN

A M E R I C A N L U T H E R A N (ELCA), 352 Center St. Pastor Judy Johnson. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

FIRST REFORMED, 138 North St. Rev. Benson Den Hartog. Sun-day: 9:30 a.m. Worship; 7:30 p.m. Worship (third Sunday).

UNITED METHODIST, 9534 Melvin Road. Rev. David Finley. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

MERIDEN

OAKDALE FREE, 1207 450th St. Rev. Clint Hogrefe, senior pastor; Mark Anderson, pastor of student ministries; Rev. Merle Wester, visitation pastor. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship. Wednesday: 7 p.m. Midweek Worship.

MIDDLEBURG

FREE GRACE REFORMED , 3630 370th St. Rev. Stephen Breen. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. Worship.

NEWKIRK

REFORMED, 4103 400 St. Rev. David Powers. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

OCHEYEDAN

CHRISTIAN REFORMED, 833 Fifth St. Rev. J. William Van Der Heide. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

ST. PETER LUTHERAN (LCMS), 1075 Pine St. Rev. Russell Ander-son. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

UNITED METHODIST, 687 Third St. Pastor Shannon Pascual. Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship.

ZION LUTHERAN (LCMS), 1307 Tanager Ave. Rev. Russell Ander-son. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

ORANGE CITY

AMERICAN REFORMED, 407 Albany Ave. S.E. Rev. Keith Krebs. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

CALVARY CHRISTIAN RE -FORMED, 709 Fifth St. S.E. Rev. David Heilman. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

CHURCH OF THE SAVIOR, 7530 Arizona Ave. S.W. Rev. Dr. Karen Wacome. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship. CORNERSTONE BAPTIST, 211 Third St. Rev. Jay Anderson. Sun-day: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

DOVER AVENUE ALLIANCE, 417 Third St. N.E. Rev. Jeffrey Keady. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Wor-ship.

FAITH LUTHERAN (LCMS), 710 Eighth St. S.E. Rev. David Daumer. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

F I R S T C H R I S T I A N R E -FORMED, 408 Arizona Ave. S.W. Rev. Tim Ouwinga. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

FIRST REFORMED, 420 Central Ave. N.W. Rev. Timothy Breen; Rev. Mark Haverdink, pastor of congregational life. Sunday: 9:15 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Worship.

H A R V E S T C O M M U N I T Y (Presbyterian Church of Amer-ica), 209 First St. N.E. Rev. James Hakim. Sunday: 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

IMMANUEL CHRISTIAN RE -FORMED, 1405 Albany Ave. N.E. Rev. Bob Drenten. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Worship.

LIVING WATER COMMUNITY, 1005 Eighth St. S.E. (Highway 10). Pastor Jason Wyk. Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship.

NEW HOPE EVANGELICAL FREE, 718 Florida Ave. S.W. Rev. Jeff Whitt. Sunday: 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Worship.

R E D E E M E R U N I T E D R E -FORMED, 302 St. Paul Ave. S.E., Rev. Todd DeRooy. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

TRINITY REFORMED , 310 Albany Ave. N.E. Rev. Jonathan Opgenorth, senior pastor; Rev. Jonathan Nelson, associate pas-tor. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship at Northwestern College’s Christ Chapel.


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ORANGE CITY—Azza Soliman, general director of the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance, will speak on “Egypt before and after the Arab

Spring,” as well as “Human/Women’s Rights in the Middle East,” during the adult discipleship hour beginning at 10:40 a.m. Sunday, March 11, at Ameri-can Reformed Church in Orange City. Soliman is a lawyer based in Cairo, working in the field of human rights and development for more than 12 yeas. She also is a trainer in the field of human rights concepts, women’s rights and gender mainstreaming. Soliman also works with governmen-tal and nongovernmental organizations throughout the Middle East, and presented at the United Nations in New York City prior to coming to Iowa to visit her son. Her youngest son, Mohanad, is a high school exchange student attending MOC-Floyd Valley High School in Orange City this year. Her oldest son, Nadeem is a recent political science grad-uate from American University in Cairo and will be travel-ing with her. He will participate in the discussion at American Reformed as well. Both young men were embedded in the Egyptian protests last January and this past fall in Tahrir Square. American Reformed is located at 407 Albany Ave. S.E. Sunday service begins at 9:30 a.m., followed by coffee fel-lowship.

Rights lawyer tospeak on Egypt

Azza Soliman


ORANGE CITY—Mrs. Mar-ian Betten, age 88, of Orange City, passed away on Wednes-day, Feb. 29, 2012, at the Orange City Area Health System Hos-pital. F u n e r a l s e r v i c e s w e r e o n S a t u r d a y, March 3, at the St. Paul L u t h e r a n Church in Sheldon. The Rev. Daniel Hart and the Rev. Keith Krebs officiated. Interment was at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City, under the direc-tion of Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. Marian Loretta (Juhl) Betten was born on Oct. 19, 1923, on a farm in Plymouth County, near Remsen, the daughter of Chris-tian and Mary (Mortensen) Juhl. She was baptized and confirmed in the Nazareth Lutheran Church (now Faith Lutheran) in Marcus. She attended a rural school and graduated from the Marcus High School in 1941. Marian was united in mar-riage to Warren John Betten at the Nazareth Lutheran Church on March 21, 1943. They farmed in the Boyden area until 1961, when they moved south of Carnes. They retired to Orange City in December of 1999. Warren passed away on Dec. 11, 2005, in Remsen, after 62 years of marriage. On Sept. 29, 1946, Mr. and Mrs. Betten became mem-bers of the St. Paul Lutheran Church, where she belonged to the Esther Circle. In later years, she also worshipped at the American Reformed Church in Orange City, where their pastor called on her many times. She

often prayed to the Lord for help, even when backing a load of grain into the machine shed when a storm was coming or hooking onto wagons. Marian was a true farmer’s wife, always helping her hus-band, whatever the work would be, from going to the field with a tractor, to the barn with a shovel, to helping with live-stock, and to mowing the lawn on her Dixon mower. Many sto-ries were told about these jobs. She and Warren enjoyed work-ing side by side, even bringing coffee along to the field. She was a devoted wife, moth-er, grandmother and great-grandmother, always ready to help anyone when needed, and doing it with a smile and a hug. Her family was the love of her life. Her daughter was her pride and joy and was taught to help with all the farm work. After moving to town and Warren’s death, to keep her hands busy, she started making quilts for her family and has completed one for each member. She will be lovingly remem-bered by her daughter and her husband, Sandra and Alvin J. Nibbelink of Orange City; two granddaughters and their hus-bands, Rhonda and Dwaine Tiedemann of Canton, South Dakota, and Lynette and Alan Lems of Doon; and two great-grandchildren, Dalton Lems, and his wife, Brittany, and Sable Lems, all of Doon. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by three sisters, Myrtle Bleasdell Riter, Della Gray and Irma Garvin; and a brother, Howard Juhl. Memorials will be directed to the Orange City Area Home Health and Hospice and the Health System Hospital. You may express your sympa-thy at www.oolman.com.

Marian BettenOct. 19, 1923—Feb. 29, 2012

Marian Betten

SHELDON—Funeral ser-vices for Florence Marie Boone, age 92, of Sheldon, Iowa, who passed away on Fri-day, March 2, 2012, at the Sanford S h e l d o n Senior Care in Sheldon, Iowa, were M a r c h 6 , 2 0 1 2 , a t t h e F i r s t R e f o r m e d Church in Sheldon, Iowa, with the Rev. David Brower officiat-ing. Burial was in the East Lawn Cemetery in Sheldon, Iowa. Online memorial condolenc-es may be sent to: vanderploeg-funerals.com Arrangements under the care of Vander Ploeg Funeral Home, Sheldon, Iowa. Florence was born on Oct. 24, 1919, to William and Elizabeth (DeMots) De Kraai in Maple Lake, Minnesota. She grew up on the family farm in Minnesota, where she worked very hard. She attended the Edgerton Public School System where she graduated in 1937. Florence and Alexander “Sandy” Boone were married on Feb. 16, 1939, in Florence’s parent’s home in Sheldon. After their marriage the couple start-ed farming north of Sheldon, where they farmed for many years. The couple retired in the early 1980s into Sheldon. They enjoyed their retire-ment years living in Sheldon. Florence donated many hours working on the Sheldon Hospi-

tal Bazaar. She also assisted at Oak Park Care Center for many years, assisting with crafts for the residents. Sandy passed away on Dec. 29, 2002. In September 2004, Flor-ence moved into the Christian Retirement Home; in Septem-ber of 2008, she moved to Field-crest Assisted Living; and in September of 2010, she moved to Sanford Senior Care. She was a member of the First Reformed Church in Sheldon, where she was a member of several Bible study groups where she served as president several times. She enjoyed embroidering, gardening and especially spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Florence leaves to cherish her memory her two daughters and their husbands, Carol and Dave Van Beek and Lola and Willie Van Kalsbeek, all of Sheldon; seven grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; a sister, Jo Lain of Overland Park, Kansas; two sisters-in-law, Aletha Olden-kamp of Sheldon and Leona Moret of Washta, Iowa; and other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Sandy; a daughter, Leona Rolston; two grandsons, Kevin Van Kalsbeek and Mike Van Beek; two sons-in-law, Keith Olivier and Jerry Rolston; her parents; her broth-er, Bill De Kraai; five sisters, Mary Bridges, Annie Bakker, Henrietta Vander Ham, Joyce Brunsting and Wilhelmina Schmidt; her half brother, Ed De Kraai, and two half sisters, Clara Tinklenberg and Ethel Sankey.

Florence BooneOct. 24, 1919—March 2, 2012

Boone

IOWA CITY—Paul D. Dykstra, 62, of Tipton, IA, died March 2, of pancreatic cancer, peacefully surrounded by family at home. A t h i s request, his body will be c r e m a t e d with inter-m e n t a t a later date. There will b e a C e l -ebration of Life today (Saturday, March 10) at 11 a.m. at Lensing Funeral and Cremation Service, Iowa City. Paul was born on Oct. 21, 1949, in Orange City, IA, to Dick and Grace (Lems) Dykstra. In 1982 Paul moved to Iowa City and started Iowa City Land-scaping with his brother Den-nis Dykstra, and sister-in-law, Linda Dykstra. Paul served as the president of Iowa City Landscaping for the last 30 years. During that time he served as a mentor to many young people. He will be missed by the staff and his partners. Paul was a son that called his Father every Sunday, a brother that never missed a birthday, an uncle that always had time for his nieces and nephews.

Paul was a friend to many and he valued those friendships. Paul enjoyed fishing and hunting, especially archery hunting. He also enjoyed teaching his nephews about archery and the great out-doors. One of his favorite sayings was, “I don’t need to shoot anything; I just want to be there!” Paul was also a world class morel mushroom hunter. All his mushroom bounty was given to his friends. Paul is survived by his father, Dick (Ann) Dykstra of Hull, IA, his siblings, Dr. Edward (Linda) Dykstra of Iowa City, Dennis (Lorna) Dykstra of Iowa City, Richard (Nancy) Dykstra of Hull, IA, Emily (Dick Ogle) of Sioux City, Robert (Jackie) of North Liberty, Laura (Steve) Heitritter of Boyden, IA; and many nephews and nieces. He was preceded in death by his mother, Grace. A memorial fund has been established for, and Aiming for a Cure Foundation at MidWe-stOne Bank, P.O. Box 1700, Iowa City, IA 52244-1700. Memorials may also be made to the Iowa Nursery and Landscaping Scholarship Fund and Iowa City Hospice. Online condolences may be sent to www.lensingfuneral.com

Paul DykstraOct. 21, 1949—March 2, 2012

Paul Dykstra

SIBLEY—Eileen Joy Grave, 60, Sibley, died Sunday, March 4, at Avera Heart Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD. S e r v i c e s were Friday, M a r c h 9 , a t Tr i n i t y Evangelical L u t h e r a n C h u r c h i n S i b l e y, w i t h t h e R e v s . J i m Berka and D u r w o o d “Woody” Clausen officiating. Burial was at Gilman Township Cemetery in Ashton, under the direction of Andringa Funeral Home in Sibley. Eileen Joy Grave was born on Jan. 19, 1952 in Sheldon, Iowa. She was the daughter of Emory and Henrietta (Kamies) Mohlenkamp. She lived her youth in Melvin, Iowa, until she graduated from high school in 1970. Following graduation she attended Sheldon Vocational School in the secretarial pro-gram. Eileen was united in mar-riage to James A. Grave of Sibley, Iowa, on July 21, 1972, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sibley. They lived in Sibley where Eileen worked for Don Skiver, Title Company and as Deputy Clerk. Later, Eileen was appointed Clerk of Court for Osceola County, and eventually Lyon County as well. She loved her work. She was very active at Trinity Lutheran and in her commu-nity. She served as coordinator of the Old 18th, was a member of Friends of the Library, and P.E.O. She golfed on women’s league and bowled for many years. She served on the church council several times and was currently on the call committee and the secretary of W.ELCA. Jim and Eileen spent a great deal of time fishing in bass

tournaments. They traveled many miles fishing and spend-ing time with their tournament friends. Together they did very well and Eileen received many accolades for her bass fish-ing. Most summer weekends Jim and Eileen were fishing or enjoying their place at Okoboji. The only two things that out-ranked bass fishing were her granddaughters, Isabelle (10) and Ilsa (4). Eileen cherished the time with them most of all. Whether it be shopping or playing Husker Du, dance pro-grams or watching cartoons, Eileen was quick to drop every-thing to spend time with them. Eileen loved to travel but loved it most when it was with her family. Eileen lived an exceptional life of high quality. For herself and for all those around her she expected much and set a high bar. Through much hard work and discipline she excelled and motivated those around her in excellence. At the same time she was a woman of great kindness and compassion. She touched many lives in deep and meaningful ways. Eileen passed away on Sun-day, March 4, 2012, at the Avera Heart Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Eileen was 60 years old. Those left to cherish her memories are her husband of 39 years: Jim Grave of Sibley, IA; her son and daughter-in-law: Jay and Elizabeth Grave of Windom, MN; two grand-daughters: Isabelle and Ilsa; brothers-in-law; sisters-in-law; nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews; and many, many friends. Online Expressions of sympa-thy can be sent to www.andrin-gafuneralhome.com She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers-in-law and her two sisters, Norma Scheiber and Phyllis Sterler.

Eileen GraveJan. 19, 1952—March 4, 2012

Eileen Grave

ORANGE CITY—Mrs. Wil-helmina Vollink, age 97, of Orange City, passed away on M o n d a y , M a r c h 5 , 2012, at the Orange City Area Health System Hos-pital. A memo-rial service w a s h e l d on Friday, March 9, at the Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Orange City. The Rev. Timothy Ouwinga officiated. Interment was prior to the service at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Ireton, under the direction of Oolman Funer-al Home in Orange City. Wilhelmina was born on Jan. 18, 1915, in Sioux Center, the daughter of John and Rena (Kas) Draayer. She was raised at Ireton, where she attended the Chris-tian school. On April 2, 1937, she married Herman Vollink in Ireton. They farmed in the Ireton area until February of 1994, when they moved to Orange City. Herm passed away on Jan. 1, 1999, in Orange City, after more than 61 years of marriage. In September of 2009, “Wilmi-na” became a resident of the Pleasant Acres Care Center in Hull. She enjoyed playing organ

and piano and knitting and crocheting. Mr. and Mrs. Vol-link spent many winters in Mis-sion, Texas. Survivors include her three children, Ruth Kamp of Tinley Park, Illinois; Tunis Vollink, and his wife, Kathy of Orange City; and Wanda, and her husband, Curt Miersma of Woodstock, Minnesota; eight grandchil-dren, Harvey Oosterveen, Jewel (Daniel) Hutt, Laura (Gary) Harmelink, Marlin (Diane) Vollink, Kristy (David) Moss, Scott (Rebecca) Vollink, Chad (Steffanie) Miersma, and Jason (Nicole) Miersma; 16 great-grandchildren; a brother-in-law, Gilbert (Bonnie) Vollink of Archer; and a sister-in-law, Jeanette Roetman of Hospers. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by three grandchildren, Gerard Oosterveen, Bruce Vollink, and Faith Miersma; two brothers, Henry (Vivian) Nyhof and Ger-rit (Gertie) Nyhof; a sister, Rena Nyhof; two brothers-in-law, Fred (Hattie) Vollink and Lam-bert Roetman; and four sisters-in-law, Dorothy (Art) Vander Bilt, Cynthia (Henry Balt and Cort) Roskamp, Margaret Vol-link, and Alma (Ivan Visser and Marion) Andringa. In lieu of flowers, memorials will be directed to Bethshan (grandson Harvey’s Christian group home in Palos Heights, Illinois). You may express your sympa-thy at www.oolman.com.

Wilhelmina VollinkJan. 18, 1915—March 5, 2012

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HARTLEY—Robert John Stall-man, 80, Hartley, died Monday, Feb. 27, at his home in Hartley. Services were Friday, March 2, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church

in Hartley. Burial was at Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley, under the direction of Hartley Funeral Home.

Robert StallmanNov. 29, 1931—Feb. 27, 2012

HARTLEY—Lorene Hart-m a n n , 9 6 , Ha r t l e y, d i e d Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Commu-nity Memorial Health Center in Hartley. Services were Saturday, March

3, at Trinity United Church of Christ in Hartley. Burial was at Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley, under the direction of Hartley Funeral Home.

Lorene HartmannAug. 27, 1915—Feb. 28, 2012

SANBORN—Tillie Anema, 94, Sanborn, died Wednesday, Feb. 29, at Prairie View Home in Sanborn. Services were Sat-urday, March 3, at Cornerstone

United Reformed Church in Sanborn. Burial was at Rose-land Cemetery in Sanborn, under the direction of Sanborn Funeral Home.

Tillie AnemaAug. 12, 1917—Feb. 29, 2012

SIOUX CENTER—Allan Eu -gene De Groot, 59, Sioux Cen-ter, died Thursday, March 1, at Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center. Services were Monday, March

5, at Faith Christian Reformed Church in Sioux Center. Burial was at Memory Gardens Cem-etery in Sioux Center, under the direction of Memorial Funeral Home in Sioux Center.

Allan De GrootMarch 8, 1952—March 1, 2012

HULL—Mark Allan Marra, 56, Hull, died Thursday, March 1, at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD. Services were Wednesday, March 7, at Ameri-

can Reformed Church in Hull. Burial was at Hope Cemetery in Hull, under the direction of Memorial Funeral Home in Sioux Center.

Mark MarraOct. 17, 1955—March 1, 2012

ROCK RAPIDS—Barbara Hubbard, 89, Rock Rapids, died Thursday, March 1, at Rock Rapids Health Centre. Services were Tuesday, March

6, at Holy Name Catholic Church in Rock Rapids. Burial was at the church cemetery, under the direction of Jurrens Funeral Home in Rock Rapids.

Barbara HubbardMay 15, 1922—March 1, 2012

OCHEYEDAN—Alan Arnold Siemers, 53, Ocheyedan, died Saturday, March 3, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN. Services were Thursday, March 8, at United Methodist

Church in Ocheyedan. Burial of the cremated remains was Friday, March 9, at Ocheyedan Township Cemetery, under the direction of Andringa Funeral Home in Ocheyedan.

Alan SiemersAug. 20, 1958—March 3, 2012

SIOUX CENTER—Winifred Jeanette Bomgaars, 100, Sioux Center, died Saturday, March 3, at Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center. Services were Tuesday, March

6, at First Reformed Church in Sioux Center. Burial was at Newkirk Cem-etery, under the direction of Memorial Funeral Home in Sioux Center.

Winifred BomgaarsMarch 13, 1911—March 3, 2012

ROCK VALLEY—Jennie Den Boer, 95, Rock Valley, died Sat-urday, March 3, at Hegg Memo-rial Health Center in Rock Val-ley. Services were Wednesday,

March 7, at Netherlands Re -formed Congregation in Rock Valley. Burial was at Valley View Cemetery in Rock Valley, under the direction of Porter Funeral Home in Rock Valley.

Jennie Den BoerMay 5, 1916—March 3, 2012

ALTON—Aric Orban, 21, rural Sheldon, died Sunday, March 4, in Alton. Services were Thursday,

March 8, at Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. Burial was at Nassau Town-ship Cemetery near Alton.

Aric OrbanSept. 9 1990—March 4, 2012

ORANGE CITY—Dorothy Bomgaars, 99, Orange City, formerly of Sioux Center, died Monday, March 5, at Orange City Area Health Center. Ser-vices were Thursday, March 8,

at Central Reformed Church in Orange City. Burial will be a Memory Gardens Cemetery in Sioux Center, under the direc-tion of Memorial Funeral Home in Sioux Center.

Dorothy BomgaarsMarch 17—March 5, 2012

HARTLEY—Dean E. Meyer, 82, Hartley, died Tuesday, March 6, at Baum Harmon Mercy Hospital in Primghar. A memorial service will be 11 a.m. today (Saturday, March 10)

at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hartley. Burial will be at 10:15 a.m. today at Pleasant View Ceme-tery in Hartley, under the direc-tion of Hartley Funeral Home.

Dean MeyerMarch 20, 1929—March 6, 2012

ST. PETER, MN—Elizabeth J. Matuska, 92, St. Peter, MN, formerly of Jackson, MN, died Tuesday, March 6, at Benedic-tine Living Center in St. Peter. Services will be 10:30 a.m. today (Saturday, March 10) at Church of the Good Shepherd

in Jackson. Burial will be at Good Shep-herd Cemetery, under the direction of Osterberg Funeral Home. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church.

Elizabeth MatuskaOct. 23, 1919—March 6, 2012

SIOUX CENTER—Margaret Schutt, 95, Sioux Center, died Monday, March 5, at Royale Meadows Care Center in Sioux Center. Visitation with the family present will be 10-11 a.m. today (Saturday, March 10) at First

Reformed Church in Sioux Center. Services will be 11 a.m. today at the church. Burial will be at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Sioux Center, under the direc-tion of Memorial Funeral Home in Sioux Center.

Margaret SchuttJan. 16, 1917—March 5, 2012

CHURCHContinued from page B5

SIOUX CENTER

AMISTAD CRISTIANA (Chris-tian Fellowship), 117 Third St. N.E. Rev. Gianni Gracia. Sunday: 3:30 p.m. Spanish Worship.

B E T H E L C H R I S T I A N R E -FORMED, 341 S. Main Ave. Rev. John Lee. Sunday: 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

BRIDGE OF HOPE MINIS-TRIES (an outreach ministry of the Christian Reformed Church meeting at Te Paske Theatre in Sioux Center High School). Sun-day: 10 a.m. Worship.

CENTRAL REFORMED, 113 N. Main Ave. Rev. Van Rathbun. Sun-day: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

CHRIST COMMUNITY (Evan-gelical Free Church), 945 Sev-enth Ave. S.E. Pastor Randy Wid-bin. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Worship.

CHRIST THE KING CATHO-LIC, 501 Second Ave. S.W. Father Douglas Klein. Sunday: 9 a.m. English Mass. Domingos: 11 a.m. Misa en Español.

COVENANT CHRISTIAN RE -FORMED, 106 Second St. N.E. Rev. Herman Van Niejenhuis. Sun-day: 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

F A I T H C H R I S T I A N R E -FORMED, 801 Ninth St. S.E. Rev. Bernie Haan. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

F I R S T C H R I S T I A N R E -FORMED, 321 Second St. S.E. Rev. Mark Verbruggen. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship.

FIRST REFORMED, 160 10th St. S.E. Rev. Roger Voskuil, Rev. Tan-ner Smith. Sunday: 9:30 a.m., 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Worship.

HOPE LUTHERAN (ELCA) , Highway 75 South. Pastor Tony Metz. Sunday: 8:45 a.m. Worship.

NETHERLANDS REFORMED, 435 Main Ave. Rev. Herman Hof-

man Jr. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Worship.

NEW LIFE REFORMED, 232 16th St. S.E. Rev. Ray Tilstra, Rev. Dan Kruse, Rev. Rick Van Ravenswaay. Sunday: 8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m. Wor-ship; 5 p.m. Praise and Prayer.

PEACE LUTHERAN (LCMC), 2512 380th St. Sunday: 10:15 a.m. Worship.

UNITED REFORMED, 744 N. Main Ave., Sunday: 9:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Worship.

SUTHERLAND

CHURCH OF CHRIST, 203 Oak St. Sunday: 10:45 a.m. Worship.

BETHEL LUTHERAN (LCMS), 502 Ash St. Rev. Leroy Riemer. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

SACRED HEART CATHOLIC, 204 W. Washington St. Father Tim Hogan. Saturday: 4:30 p.m. Mass.

UNITED METHODIST, 214 W. Second St. Rev. Kwang Song. Sun-day: 10:30 a.m. Worship.

CHURCH

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100TH BIRTHDAY

n Lukas David Serck, son of Nick and Michelle Serck of Harrisburg, SD, was born Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, weigh-ing 7 pounds, 10 ounces, and measuring 21 inches. He has a brother, Koury. Grandparents are Gene and Luann Serck of Rock Rapids, Rick and Julie Stewart of Salem, SD, and Rees and Connie Kirk of Puyallup, WA. Great-grandparents are Carl and Pearl Folkens of Rock Rapids, Vern Serck of Inwood, Arlene Serck of Sioux Falls, SD, Farrell and Ruth Kirk of Mor-gan, UT, Ervin and Lois Stigen of Grand Forks, ND, and Robert and Shirley Stewart of Custer, SD.

n Alekye Adam Maassen, son of Adam and Ashley Maassen of Maurice, was born Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at Orange City Area Health Center, weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces, and measur-ing 20½ inches. He has a broth-er, Ayden, 5½, and sister, Addal-

ey, 2. Grandparents are Lee and Emily Maassen of Maurice and Harv and Nancy De Jager of Maurice. Great-grandparents are Paul and Sharla De Jager of Maurice, John and Marie Maas-sen of Orange City, and Lucille Vanden Bosch of Remsen.

n Jillian Mae Puhrmann, daughter of Dustin and Missy Puhrmann of Paullina, was born Saturday, March 3, 2012, at Sanford Sheldon Medical Center, weighing 5 pounds, 14 ounces, and measuring 19½ inches. Grandparents are Paul and Donna Puhrmann of Cleghorn and Gerald and Cindy Beranek of New Ulm, MN. Great-grandparents are Clifford and LeVera Puhrmann of Germantown, Marvin and Doreen Newman of Willmar, MN, and Phyllis Jaminet of Cherokee.

n Note: Birth announce-ments may be e-mailed [email protected].

BIRTHS

March 31 weddingplans announced Arlen and Leola Van Raven-swaay of Sanborn announce the engagement of their daughter, Tricia Lux, to Jacob Elgersma, son of Arlin and Ann Elgersma of Sanborn. A 2 p.m. family wedding cer-emony is planned on March 31 at the Wild Rose Inn Bed and Breakfast in Okoboji, with a dinner reception at 6 p.m. at the Sanborn Community Cen-ter. Jacob and Tricia

May 5 weddingplans announced OKOBOJI—Gerry and Betty Budden of Granville announce the engagement of their daughter, Laura, to Wade Shaver, son of John and Karen Shaver of Sioux Falls, SD. The bride-to-be is a 1999 graduate of Spalding Catholic High School in Granville and graduated from Faust Institute in Spirit lake. She is employed as a cosme-tologist in the Sioux Falls area. Her fiancé is a 1989 graduate of O’Gorman High School in Sioux Falls and a graduate of Southeast Tech in Sioux Falls, the University of South Dakota in Vermillion and South Dako-ta State University in Brook-

ings. He is employed as a surgical technologist at Family Surgery Center in Willmar, MN. A May 5 wedding ceremony is planned at Okoboji.

Wade and Laura

May 26 weddingplans announced ROCK RAPIDS—Scott and Amy Sieperda of Rock Rapids announce the engagement of their daughter, Sabrina Mae Sieperda, to Nathan Jon DeJong, son of Greg and Sherri DeJong of Rock Rapids. The bride-to-be is a student at Morningside College in Sioux City, studying elementary and special education. Following graduation in May, she plans to become an educa-tor. Her fiancé is studying pre-chiropractic at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville and plays on the col-lege’s football team. Following a

December 2012 graduation, he will attend chiropractic college. A May 26 wedding is planned at 4 p.m. at First Reformed Church in Rock Rapids.

Nathan and Sabrina

June weddingplans announced OKOBOJI—The families of Sara Tschetter and Nick Kole-graff announce their engage-ment. Parents of the couple are Scott and Karen Tschetter and Dr. Ron and Jill Kolegraff. The couple, both 24, met while attending Okoboji Mid-dle School. They continued to date through high school, college and up until their engagement in August. The bride-to-be is an assistant store manager of While House Black Market. Her fiancé is a large scale machine learning architect at Accenture, a global consulting firm.

The couple is working and living in the San Francisco Bay area. A June wedding ceremony is planned at the Wild Rose Inn in Okoboji with Pastor Lon Lewis officiating.

Nick and Sara

Atalie DeBoer, Boyden, was named to the fall semester dean’s list at Augsburg College

in Minneapolis for achieving a 3.50 or higher grade-point average.

Open house slatedfor Mary Kamies ORANGE CITY—The family of Mary Kamies invites you to help them celebrate her 100th birthday at an open house 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, at Heritage House in Orange City. If you are unable to attend, please send a birthday wish by card to Mary Kamies, 519 Alba-ny Ave. S.E., Room 23, Orange City, IA 51041. Mary Kamies

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SPORTSThe N’West Iowa REVIEW • March 10, 2012 • Section C

C L A S S 1 A B O Y S B A S K E T B A L L S T AT E F I N A L

Sioux Center High School boys basket-ball coach Todd Arends was the right man at the right time.

Arends deserves kudos for showing class and offering perspec-tive after what hap-pened to his team in the first round of the Class 2A state tourna-ment of Monday. Sioux Center, the tournament’s eighth seed, was in the midst of a stunning come-back that may have netted an upset of top-seeded MFL/Mar-Mac when the team was assessed a technical foul for not removing senior Beau Boer after he committed his fifth foul with 11 seconds left. The Warriors

See BYERS on page C4

SCOTT BYERSSPORTS EDITOR

Coach keepsperspectivein close loss

Heemstra,Dykstra toBig DanceRock Valley alumni helpSDSU to first D1 tourney


WeStern illinoiS univerSity 28 16 6 - 50SoutH dakota State univerSity 24 20 8 - 52

SIOUX FALLS, SD—Marcus Heemstra and Jordan Dykstra are about to get their one shining moment. The sophomore duo from Rock Valley is heading to the NCAA Division I Men’s Bas-ketball Tournament after helping South Dakota State University to a 52-50 over-time win over Western Illinois University

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SDSU MEN’S bASkEtbAll

C L A S S 3 A G I R L S B A S K E T B A L L S T AT E F I N A L

Knights claim secondstraight tourney title

b y s c ot t b y e r sS p o rt S e d i t o r

Moc-Floyd valley 8 11 6 7 - 32aSSuMPtion 22 11 12 14 - 59

DES MOINES—The MOC-Floyd Valley girls basketball team was 32 minutes away from perfection,

but the final hurdle was too high to clear. Davenport Assumption made it back-to-back state championships by controlling the action from start to finish in a 59-32 win over the Dutch in the Class 3A state cham-pionship game last Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. The Dutch took a 27-0 mark into the title game and were ranked second. The Knights were 24-2

and ranked fourth. Davenport Assumption coach Mallory Young-blut knew the challenges of facing MOC-Floyd Valley. She was par-ticularly concerned with slowing sophomore Alexis Conaway, who went into the state tournament averaging 19.5 points per contest. “We knew she was an excellent player, and she was having a great

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Defending champ Assumptionshuts down MOC-FV offense

MOC-Floyd Valley senior Lauren McDonald and her teammates huddle up before the trophy and all-tournament team presentations at the conclusion of the Class 3A state tournament championship game against Davenport Assumption last Saturday. (Photo by Rylan Howe)

Rock Valley native Jordan Dykstra puts the ball on the deck for South Dakota State against Western Illi-nois University’s Don McAvoy in the Summit League Tournament cham-pionship game Tuesday in Sioux Falls, SD. (Photo by Dan Breen)

Shooting StarsBoyden-Hull blazes nets to earn state title

Members of the Boyden-Hull boys basketball team race to received their trophy after it is announced that they are the Class 1A state champions Friday evening at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. The Comets defeated top-ranked Danville 63-45.

Boyden-Hull senior Nathan Alexander shovels off a pass during the Class 1A state championship game Friday night. He was named the Pizza Ranch MVP of the title contest. (Photos by Roy Tucker)


Boyden-Hull 10 20 13 20 - 63danville 16 11 12 6 - 45

DES MOINES—Boyden-Hull shot so well in its Class 1A boys basketball state tournament semifinal game on Thursday, one would have thought the Comets were due to cool off. Think again. Boyden-Hull shot 58.3 percent from the field, pulling away from top-ranked and previously unbeaten Danville for a 63-45 win in the state championship game Friday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. The Comets, ranked fifth but seeded third in the tournament, shot a combined 58.1 percent from the field in three games in Des Moines. “It doesn’t seem like we shot it that well, but when I think back on it, I can only remember one or two times where I thought we took a bad shot. We do have kids that can shoot the ball, but it’s not so much our shooting, but the way we share the ball,” said Boyden-Hull coach Bill Francis. “Our kids are also smart basketball players. You don’t see guys that aren’t three-

point shooters launch-ing up threes. By the same token, you don’t see someone like Taylor (Francis) going in and trying to post someone up. His game is at the three-point line, so he stays out there.” T h e g a m e w a s a rematch of a first-round state tournament con-

test from last season. Danville won that contest 69-62. “That left a bitter taste. It was a long bus ride home,” said Comet senior Nathan Alexander, who was named the Pizza Ranch MVP of the champi-onship game.

See COMETS on page C3

DES MOINES—Boyden-Hull shot so well in its Class 1A boys basketball state tournament semifinal game on Thursday, one would have thought the Comets were due to cool off.

Boyden-Hull shot 58.3 percent from the field, pulling away from top-ranked and previously unbeaten Danville for a 63-45 win in the state championship game Friday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. The Comets, ranked fifth but seeded third in the tournament, shot a combined 58.1 percent from the field in three games in Des Moines. “It doesn’t seem like we shot it that well, but when I think back on it, I can only remember one or two times where I thought we took a bad shot. We do have kids that can shoot the ball, but it’s not so much our shooting, but the way we share the ball,” said Boyden-Hull coach Bill Francis. “Our

Take your heart out, step on it for a while, cut it up in a meat grinder and

throw it in the garbage. That’s how this feels,”

Sioux Center boys basketball coach Todd Arends after state loss

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DUTCHContinued from page C1state tournament. I really tried to challenge a number of our kids. We rotated quite a few dif-ferent girls on her,” Youngblut said. “We wanted to really lock on her. We wanted to make it as difficult for her as possible. We were not going to give her an inch anywhere on the court.” MOC-Floyd Valley coach Mark Gunderson noticed all three teams the Dutch faced at state taking that approach. “Those teams were holding her by the arm, tripping her, knocking her down. They just physically beat on her,” he said. “I guess that’s how they have to play us.” Conaway said the difference in the title contest compared to the first two rounds was the rotation of players. “As the season goes on, the games get more physical. That’s just another aspect of the game you have to deal with,” she said. “I would say them using a lot of girls did make a difference. In our other games, if I started get-ting tired, I could see the other girl was getting tired, too. They were able to keep their girls fresh.” Conaway finished with 13 points in the championship game, but MOC-Floyd Valley’s entire offense was struggling. The Dutch shot 26 percent on the night, including 19 percent in the second half. “They were definitely the best defensive team we’ve played. They knew exactly how to stop us,” said MOC-Floyd Valley senior Caitlyn Van Es. “They were able to get us out of our offense. They are very quick. We were going to try to outrun them and beat the defense down the floor, but they were always right there. They did a very nice job.” In the halfcourt game, MOC-Floyd Valley was not able to get shots off inside the paint due to the defensive work of Hailey Schneden, who was named the captain of the all-tournament team. The junior had 11 points, six rebounds and three blocks in the title clash. “They definitely made us hur-

ry. We needed to just take a step back, but it was hard to relax,” said MOC-Floyd Valley senior Lauren McDonald. “She was great. There was a reason she got named the captain of the all-tournament team. I actually got to talk to her a little after the game, and she is very humble. It’s never easy to lose, but they were very classy about it.” The Dutch actually had the quicker start, leading 5-2 at the first media timeout. That was the end of the good news for MOC-Floyd Valley as Davenport Assumption answered with a 17-2 run. A three-pointer by junior Mary Kate Fennelly ended the first period with the Knights ahead 22-8. “We knew they had eight or nine really good athletes. They were more athletic than we were at every spot,” Gunderson said. “We got a little sloppy in

the middle of the first quarter. Our heads weren’t in the game. Their posts were dominating our posts, and that hasn’t really happened to us this year. They were just a lot better than we were tonight. That is what a state tournament champion is supposed to look like.” The teams basical ly ex -changed baskets throughout the second quarter, which end-ed with Davenport Assumption ahead 33-19. “I kept thinking if we could get the score cut down a little and get our crowd behind us, we could change the momentum, but we just kept making mis-take after mistake,” Gunderson said. “A lot of the credit for that goes to them. They are the best defensive team we’ve played. They get their hands on you, and they don’t let go. They are every bit as good as any team in 4A. They could compete with

any one of them, and they do all year long. ” For Davenport Assumption, the double-digit lead meant the game plan was working and the Knights just needed to stick with it. “We have a lot of different kids who can do a lot of different things,” Youngblut said. “They all understand their roles, and they played them very well.” MOC-Floyd Valley hoped to get the lead to single digits as quickly as possible in the sec-ond half but instead was held to six points in the third period as the Knights increased the edge to 45-25. The final quarter did not treat the Dutch much better as the lead never got under 19 points. Grace Fennelly, the only senior in the Davenport Assumption starting lineup, scored 12 points for the Knights. She also had six rebounds and three steals. Conaway also had six re -bounds and four steals for MOC-Floyd Valley. Senior Tri-sha De Jong also grabbed six rebounds. Conaway and McDonald rep-resented MOC-Floyd Valley on the all-tournament team. McDonald said what she will

remember most about the state tournament is the Dutch coming back from a big deficit late in the semifinal round to beat Sioux City Heelan in over-time. “I will remember that second round and the atmosphere around that game,” McDonald said. “We played our best game ever. Even with how it went today, we can walk out with our heads held high.” Gunderson thanked his team leaders.

“We had five good seniors to lead us, and this has been a fun bunch to work with. They work hard,” he said. “And playing in the state championship game isn’t a bad way to end your career.” Van Es was thankful for the opportunity. “We know there are so many teams that wanted to be here tonight playing in the cham-pionship,” she said. “We were blessed to even be playing for that trophy.”

GIRLS STATE NOTEBOOK

N’West Iowa officials work tourney games

DES MOINES—The girls basketball teams on the floor were not the only ones who earned their way to the high school state tournament Feb. 27-March 3 held in

Des Moines. Also on the Wells Fargo Arena court were some officials with N’West Iowa ties. Marlowe Van Ginkel of Rock Valley worked the state tournament for the 24th time. Terry McMillen of Orange City earned his 16th state assignment. Van Ginkel and McMillen are both in the officials Hall of Fame. Scott Wynja and Dave Van Essen, both of Sheldon, worked the tournament for the fourth time. Brad Van Roekel of Boyden drew his third assignment. Lyle Fedders, a Sheldon High School graduate who lives in Des Moines, worked the tournament for the second time.

Jansen, Van Wyk on All-Iowa Dance Team Two N’West Iowa high school students, senior Colby Janssen of West Sioux and freshman Brittany Van Wyk of Sheldon, were among the 224 dancers selected for the All-Iowa Honor Dance Team, which performed before and during halftime of the Class 3A state championship game.

B-H’s Vander Maten to play in Senior Classic Boyden-Hull’s Whitney Vander Maten was among the players selected to participate in the Iowa Girls Coaches Association 2012 Senior Basketball Classic. The event will be held March 31-April 1 at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids. Vander Maten will be on the Class 1A select team coached by Jim Kettmann of Bellevue Marquette. That team will face the Class 2A select team at 2:45 p.m. Sunday, April 1.

Vander Maten, Peschong receive honors Whitney Vander Maten of Boyden-Hull and Mikkinzie Peschong of Okoboji were selected to the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association Academic All-State Team. To be nominated, senior players had to meet the minimum standards of a 25 ACT composite and a 3.25 grade-point average and be in the top 25 percent of their senior class.

Brasser named to Academic All-State Team The Iowa Girls Coaches Association also announced its Academic All-State Team. South O’Brien senior Erin Brasser earned that honor.

Knights corral MOC-FV for crown

MOC-Floyd Valley senior Caitlyn Van Es gets tangled up with Davenport Assumption sophomore Danielle Cabel during the third quarter of the Class 3A state title game last Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. The Dutch saw their undefeated season come to an end with a 59-32 loss to the Knights. (Photo by Rylan Howe)

2012 CLASS 3A ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAMn Mary Kate Fennelly, Davenport Assumption juniorn Lauren McDonald, MOC-Floyd Valley seniorn Madison Yohe, Sioux City Heelan seniorn Danielle Moore, Davenport Assumption juniorn Alexis Conaway, MOC-Floyd Valley sophomoren Hailey Schneden, Davenport Assumption junior, captain


SPORTS

Heelan comes backin fourth for win


Sioux city Heelan 9 6 11 9 - 35Moc-Floyd valley 12 7 10 4 - 33

DES MOINES—Sometimes sports can be hard to explain. MOC-Floyd Valley’s scoring machine threw a rod at the worst possible time Tuesday, grinding to a halt in a 35-33 loss to Sioux City Heelan in the first round of the Class 3A boys basketball state tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. MOC-Floyd Valley went into the game at 24-0 and was the top seed and top-ranked team in the class. The Dutch were averaging 70.5 points per game. As a team, they were shooting 53 percent from the field and 44.5 percent from three-point range. On the big stage at state, MOC-Floyd Valley shot just 31.6 percent, including an 0-for-14 performance from three-point land. “I have no regrets at all about anything we did in this game,” said MOC-Floyd Valley coach Loren De Jong. “There is just nothing you can do when the shots don’t go down.” Of course, some of that could be attributed to the sticky defense of Sioux City Heelan, which was not the average eighth seed. The Crusaders were the three-time defending state champions. “Don’t kid yourself. Even though they’ve graduated some Division I athletes the last couple of years, that doesn’t mean they don’t still have good athletes,” De Jong said. Sioux City Heelan went into the game at 18-5 and ranked 10th. The Crusaders were boosted, however, when word came in Monday that senior Mike Malloy was cleared to play for the first time all sea-

son. It has been a star-crossed senior year for Malloy, who was offered a scholarship to play football at the University of Iowa but then missed the first three grid games of the year for disciplinary reasons. Shortly after his return, Malloy tore his ACL in a loss to Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley. He wound up hav-ing the scholarship offer pulled and had to walk on with the Hawkeyes. The state tourna-ment game was the first ath-letic action for Malloy since his injury. “Having Michael back really helped us a lot,” said Sioux City Heelan coach Tom Betz. “He gave us our best chance physi-cally to match up with (Daniel) Jansen. The question was how well he would hold up condi-tioningwise. He played great in that last minute and a half. He did a great job of denying him the ball.” Even Betz had no answers for why MOC-Floyd Valley had such major struggles from the field.

“Loren De Jong did a very good job coaching that team. They have a really nice club,” Betz said. “You saw it. It wasn’t pretty for either side. We’re just happy to be moving on.” From the beginning, the Dutch had to deal with the Cru-saders slowing the pace of the game to a crawl and cold shoot-ing from its perimeter players. MOC-Floyd Valley’s starting guards, seniors Caleb De Haan and Keegan Mulder, combined to go 0-for-15 from the floor, including 0-for-12 from three-point land. “Sports are just crazy. You never know,” De Jong said. “I would have never expected this when you look at our shooting numbers for the season, and we’ve done that against some pretty good teams.” MOC-Floyd Valley held the lead for much of the contest but never was able to open a wide gap on the Crusaders. The Dutch led 12-9 after one quarter. MOC-Floyd Valley took its biggest advantage at

16-9 when Trey Achterhoff hit a jumper at the 5:03 mark of the first half. The Dutch were up 19-15 going into the break. “We knew MOC-Floyd Val-ley was tough. You don’t get a record like that without being tough,” said Sioux City Heelan senior Shane Graves. “But all week we just tried to keep the focus on us.” Jansen said that MOC-Floyd Valley was doing a good job of slowing Sioux City Heelan down, but the Crusaders also were patient. “They are really good on defense. They move quickly to the ball. We did get some of the shots we wanted, but we couldn’t hit them,” Jansen said. “I think it was their game plan to slow it down. At the same time, we played good defense and forced them to slow down.” Junior Justin Van Kalsbeek said Sioux City Heelan had a great game plan. “They were making us play defense for at least 30 seconds every single time down the

floor,” Van Kalsbeek said. Both teams shot 33 percent from the field in the first half. MOC-Floyd Valley got the lead to six right away on a tip-in by Van Kalsbeek, but that was as big as it would get. Sioux City Heelan tied the score at 23-23 on a Graves three-pointer with 3:38 left in the third quarter. The Dutch got the lead back and eventually took a 29-26 advantage on a putback by senior Jacob Conaway that ended the third quarter. The teams slowly exchanged buck-ets for the first 3:05 of the fourth quarter. Jansen scored a layup with 4:55 left to make it 33-30. That was the last points MOC-Floyd Valley scored. From that point on, the Dutch missed five free throws and three field goals and committed three turn-overs. “This one really hurts. We got all the looks we wanted. We got open shots, open looks, with the people we wanted. We had people at the free-throw line that we wanted. For whatever reason, the ball didn’t go in,” De Jong said. “All year long, when

we had one guy that was going bad, we’ve had others that would get hot and pick them up. That’s what made us so tough, but that didn’t happen this time.” Sioux City Heelan cut the MOC-Floyd Valley lead to one on two free throws by junior Kyle Heaton with 2:05 left. Hea-ton made two more at the 1:10 mark to give the Crusaders the lead. MOC-Floyd Valley committed a turnover, but Malloy missed a foul shot. The Dutch then got the ball to Jansen, but he missed twice at the line. Sioux City Heelan called a timeout with 11 seconds left to avoid a 10-second call in the back-court. Out of the timeout, they got the ball to Heaton, who got fouled and hit 1-of-2 free throws. Jansen got the rebound and MOC-Floyd Valley hustled back down. The Dutch got the ball to Mulder, who was open for a long three, but the shot glanced off the rim to end the contest. “I knew that kid can really stroke it,” Graves said of Mul-der. “I was thinking, ‘He hasn’t made one today, and now he’s going to make the last one? You’ve got to be kidding me.’” Jansen said it came down to the most basic part of basket-ball. “They made more shots than we did,” he said. “We got a lot of the shots we wanted. I missed two free throws at the end that could have made a big differ-ence, so I will take a lot of that burden myself. Heelan played a good game. They have a good team.” Jansen finished a stellar career with 20 points, 10 rebounds and three steals in the contest for the Dutch. Van Kalsbeek had eight points and six rebounds. Conaway collected 10 rebounds, seven of them offensive. “We had a great year,” Van Kalsbeek said. “This is just a hard way for it to end.”

MOC-Floyd Valley senior Daniel Jansen squats with his head in his hands after the loss to Sioux City Heelan during a Class 3A state tournament opener Tuesday. The top-seeded Dutch lost to the Crusaders 35-33. (Photos by Josh Harrell)

Junior Justin Van Kalsbeek grabs a rebound for MOC-Floyd Valley against Sioux City Heelan in a Class 3A state tournament first-round game on Tuesday afternoon at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

MOC-FV shooters go ice cold in hotly contested gameC L A S S 3 A B O Y S B A S K E T B A L L S T AT E O P E N E R

COMETSContinued from page C1 “We knew we were better than them. We should have beaten them last year. We came into this game with a lot of confi-dence.” Boyden-Hull senior Bryce Moss said there was one major difference between the match-up last year and the one this year. “We shot the ball well. We took it to them this time,” Moss said. “We talked about getting penetration, getting it to the blocks and then kicking it out to the other side. We executed well.” Alexander said that confi-dence was part of coach Fran-cis’ message to the team before the game. “He kept telling us we were the best horse in the race, we just had to go out and prove it,” Alexander said. The Comets did have trouble doing so against a Danville team that was playing in the state title game for the second consecutive year. The Bears led 16-10 after one quarter. “They are an excellent club and they played hard. You don’t get to the finals two years in a row without being good,” coach Francis said. “Our guys battled through and kept play-ing.” Danville junior standout Ste-ven Soukup picked up his third foul of the game with 5:52 left in the first half. Boyden-Hull took advantage, going on a 10-0 run to take a 22-18 lead. The Bears briefly regained the advantage at 23-22, but Boy-den-Hull continued to attack. The Comets took a 30-27 lead to the break. By that time, Dan-ville had two players with three fouls and two more with two personals. “It must be something about the state games and how they are officiated. There is just so much of a difference between here and the way it is called in the regular season. We needed to adjust better to that,” said Danville coach Ken Laffoon. “The same thing happened to us last year. I’m not happy with the officiating, but that’s not what cost us the game. We got

outplayed.” The Comets had a few foul issues of their own, but coach Francis said the players got that taken care of. “The big difference was right away after that first quarter, our guys adjusted to the officials. I think we were down 5-1 in fouls at that point, but our guys were able to figure it out and play smarter,” he said. “Their guys didn’t.” Boyden-Hull junior Brandt Van Roekel said coach Francis pointed out the Comets were outrebounded in the first two quarters. “In the first half we got out-rebounding, and rebounding well was one of our big goals for the game. We knew we had to be more physical and box out,” Van Roekel said. “We started to take care of the ball and settle

in and do what we needed to do. We picked up our defense, and the way we hit our free throws at the end again was huge.” Danville hit the first shot of the second half but never got closer than two after break. A jumper by Alexander put the Comets in front 43-35 with 2:30 left in the third quarter. The Bears cut it back to 43-39 enter-ing the last eight minutes. Boyden-Hull has played some strong fourth quarters lately, and that would be the case again. “I’m not sure what that is. We just seem to step it up,” Moss said. “We don’t like to lose. We’re kind of stubborn about it. When we win we usually go out and celebrate, but if we lose it’s usually pretty quiet.” Moss hit two free throws,

Taylor Francis made a layup and then Moss scored inside to push the advantage to double digits. Another Moss bucket made it 51-39 with 4:44 left. The fouls turned out to be a double dose of trouble for the Bears. Not only did they lose junior Michael Soukup and senior Josh Stevens when each picked up his fifth foul midway through the fourth quarter, but the double-digit deficit forced them to put the Comets on the foul line. Just as it was the pre-vious night against defending state champion Storm Lake St. Mary’s, Boyden-Hull was clutch at the line. The Comets went 10-for-13 from the stripe in the last four minutes. “I don’t remember a day when we haven’t shot free throws and shot them a lot,” Alexander said. “But I’ve got to give it to

Taylor on that. That’s how he spends his Saturday nights — shooting free throws.” Taylor Francis went 5-of-6 from the line, with all of those coming down the stretch. “Every single second of it is worth it now,” Taylor Francis said of his relentless practicing. “You can tell it pays off. When you get the ball at the end and you step to that line, you feel a lot of confidence. You know you are going to hit them.” Boyden-Hull outscored Dan-ville 20-6 in the final frame. “Again, it was early in the second half when it felt like we broke it open,” Taylor Francis said. “We got up by about six, and we just kept adding more and more. We were hitting shots, and with the way we were making free throws we knew we were going to win.”

Moss finished with 17 points for the Comets. Van Roekel net-ted 15 points, nine rebounds, six assists and two steals. Alexander had 15 points, five rebounds and three assists. Francis added 13 points. Steven Soukup scored 15 points for Danville. Stevens tallied 10 points. The Bears finished the season with a 27-1 record. It was the second state title in school history for Boyden-Hull. The Comets finished 26-2, with both losses to Class 3A state-qualifier MOC-Floyd Valley. “We knew we had a shot at this. It was a big goal all year. It was a big goal last year, too,” Van Roekel said. “We just needed to take care of business. We had to make sure we kept improving all year long, and we had to peak at the right time.”

Practice pays off withsecond B-H state title

Boyden-Hull junior Brandt Van Roekel floats one to the basket against Danville during the Class 1A state cham-pionship game on Friday night. The Comets won 63-45.

Senior Bryce Moss collects a rebound for Boyden-Hull and out of the clutches of Dan-ville during the Class 1A state championship game Friday. (Photos by Roy Tucker)

2012 CLASS 1A ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAMn Brandt Van Roekel, Boyden-Hull juniorn Kennedy Drey, Storm Lake St. Mary’s juniorn Michael Soukup, Danville juniorn Luke Lenhart, Storm Lake St. Mary’s juniorn Bryce Moss, Boyden-Hull seniorn Steven Soukup, Danville junior, captain


SPORTS

Controversial endupsetting to fans


Sioux center 14 13 18 27 - 72MFl/Mar-Mac 13 17 19 24 - 73

DES MOINES—MFL/Mar-Mac and Sioux Center played in a memorable game in the opening round of the Class 2A boys basketball state tourna-ment Monday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Unfortunately, for all in -volved, the part of that memory that will stick out most had little to do with the wonderful play on both ends of the floor. Instead, a chorus of boos rained down as the final horn sounded after the final seconds of a controversial 73-72 MFL/Mar-Mac victory. The problems occurred as the eighth-seeded Warriors were attempting a remarkable come-back against the top-seeded Bulldogs. Sioux Center trailed by 12 with 3:53 remaining in the game but had just cut it to 70-69 on two free throws by senior Beau Boer with 12 seconds left. Boer immediately fouled MFL/Mar-Mac senior Jacob Dotzler on the inbounds play. The foul was Boer’s fifth. What happened next was the source of the sore spot for Sioux Center fans. Boer still was lined up next to the lane when the officials granted Dotzler his first foul shot. He missed. Dotzler was given the ball for his second shot. He missed again. Sioux Center freshman Steven Kragt grabbed the rebound, and it looked like the Warriors would have the ball and a shot to win, but at that point, the officials blew the whistle and stopped the game. The three-man crew gathered at midcourt to discuss the situa-tion and eventually determined that Sioux Center would be assessed a technical foul for not removing Boer. “I’m disappointed, but I don’t know what the rule on that is. I’ll have to look it up. They told me it was a technical because he hadn’t left the floor,” said Sioux Center coach Todd Arends. “We had subs there ready to come in.” The MFL/Mar-Mac sideline had been pleading with the offi-cials since the first free throw. “We got lucky,” said MFL/Mar-Mac coach Eric Dettbarn. “I didn’t know the rule. After they stopped it, they explained that the player not leaving the floor was a technical foul. I had actually figured what was going to happen was that they would have to take him out, and we’d get to replay the shots. I had no idea it was a technical. Our guys were yelling about it right away, but it’s so loud in here, no one could hear.” Bulldog junior C.J. Mason came in and hit both of the free throws following the technical. On the ensuing possession, Mason was fouled again and made 1-of-2 from the stripe. Sioux Center senior Jason Sneller snagged the rebound and threw it down to sopho-more Andrew O’Donnell, who canned a three-pointer. How-ever, with less than five seconds

left, the Bulldogs did not have to put the ball back in play and let the clock wind down. “Take your heart out, step on it for a while, cut it up in a meat grinder and throw it in the garbage. That’s how this feels,” Arends said. “It’s heartbreaking. We’re done. We’re never going to get to play high school basketball again,” Sneller said. “There are no worse feelings than this.” Prior to that closing stretch, it was the work of the players that had stood out. The teams went back and forth for the first eight min-utes, with Sioux Center taking a 14-13 lead after the opening period. The downside for the Warriors was that senior Micah Lassen turned an ankle in that first period. Lassen tried to gut it out, re-entering the game a few times, but in the end, his injury forced him to the sidelines for the bulk of the contest. “Lassen is one of our main-stays. He’s a finisher,” Arends said. “He tried to play here and there, but that foot just wouldn’t let him go. We ended up playing some guys who haven’t seen the floor for four weeks. They came in and did a great job. Jason Sneller and Beau Boer had big games. Steven Kragt was play-ing in the lane by himself for a while. We’ve got a nine-man rotation, and by the end of the game, we were down to about six and a half, but everyone was giving it everything they had.” MFL/Mar-Mac got big con-tributions from its bench in the second quarter, especially junior Blake Winter. He came into the game averaging only 3.3 points and 2.2 rebounds per game but saw his playing time increase with starting senior

center Brandon Hertrampf on the bench with two fouls. Win-ter had eight points and seven rebounds in the first half. Six of those boards were offensive. “Blake hit some big shots for us,” Dettbarn said. “He’s done that a couple of times this year. I thought we did a pretty good job of moving the ball on offense. Defensively, we were able to create some turnovers and get some layups.” The much smaller Bulldogs outrebounded the Warriors 22-21 in the first half and had nine second-chance points, earning a 30-27 lead at the break. “All our coach talked about at halftime was the offensive rebounds. We had to stop those,” O’Donnell said. “During the season, the majority of our points have came in transition, but you can’t get into transition if you can’t get rebounds,” Sneller said. The score was tied four times, and the lead changed six times in the first two periods. Arends said the Warriors did not capitalize often enough in the first half after giving them-selves some opportunities. “Our defense was OK. We got them to miss a lot of first shots, but we didn’t rebound, and then on the offensive side, we didn’t finish in contact very well,” he said. MFL/Mar-Mac started the second half with a 12-2 burst. Mason and senior Dalton Dett-barn each hit treys during the run, which made it 42-29. Snel ler said despite the mounting evidence, the War-riors never thought they were out of it. “We’ve come back like that a couple of times. Against West Lyon, I think we were down 20

at one point, and we came back and won in four overtimes,” Sneller said. “There was no doubt we were going to fight back.” Senior T.J. Buyert and Lassen hit big shots as Sioux Center started to cut into the lead. The Warriors had it down to 49-45 entering the final stanza. The Bulldogs got off to a fast start in the fourth quarter. Consecutive layups by Dotzler capped a surge that made it 61-49 with 3:53 left. Sioux Center scored s ix straight points to slice the dif-ference in half but then lost Buyert to his fifth foul with three minutes remaining. That, combined with the Lassen injury, left Arends without the duo he called his “Batman and Robin.” “We kept fighting, even with

two of our best guys out,” Boer said. “That shows a lot of guts.” Boer converted a traditional three-point play to get the mar-gin down to six with 2:03 left. He then got the rebound after a defensive stop, got fouled and made two free throws. Mason made two foul shots to push the lead back to six. O’Donnell and Mason then exchanged free throws, making it 68-62 with 1:11 left. Boer got an offensive rebound after a missed three-pointer and made a layup. After two missed foul shots by Cody Mason, Sneller drained a three to cut it to 68-67 with 32 sec-onds left. Dotzler and Boer each made two free throws, setting up the controversial final 12 seconds. “This is going to be a hard one to get over, but in the scope of everything we’ve had to go

through, it’s still just basket-ball,” Arends said, referring to assistant coach Grant Vietor’s struggles with leukemia. “That’s just a small part of what we’ve learned. We’ve learned a lot about life this year.” Mason f inished with 17 points, nine rebounds, four steals and three assists for the Bulldogs, who improved to 24-1. Dotzler netted 13 points and eight rebounds. Boer scored 15 points and snagged eight rebounds for Sioux Center. O’Donnell had 14 points, three steals and two assists. Buyert managed 12 points and 10 rebounds. Kragt accounted for eight points, eight rebounds and five blocked shots. Sneller ended with eight points. Sioux Center finished the sea-son with an 18-7 record.

Top-seeded team sends Warriors to sidelinesC L A S S 2 A B O Y S B A S K E T B A L L S T AT E O P E N E R

Sioux Center freshman Steven Kragt walks off the court with his hands on his head as the MFL/Mar-Mac bench celebrates Monday night during the Class 2A state tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. The Warriors lost 73-72 to the tournament’s top-seeded team.

Members of the Sioux Center boys basketball team holds up the participation trophy they received following their loss to MFL/Mar Mac during the Class 2A state tourna-ment Monday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. (Photos by Josh Harrell)

BYERSContinued from page C1trailed by one point at the time. MFL/Mar-Mac missed both of the free throws it had earned when Boer committed the foul. Sioux Center got the rebound, but the game was stopped, and after much discussion among what seemed to be a confused officiating crew, the technical was assessed. The Bulldogs scored two points as a direct result of the technical and one more on the ensuing possession. That swing was critical in what ended up as a one-point MFL/Mar-Mac win. “We got lucky,” MFL/Mar-Mac coach Eric Dettbarn said after the game. Both coaches professed not to know the rule that applies to such situations. Dettbarn said he thought that the Bulldogs would just get to attempt the two missed free throws over again. Iowa High School Athletic Association representatives were quick to defend the offi-

cials’ actions, saying the rule was administered properly. Maybe in the most technical sense, but even that is shaky from what I witnessed. The officials and the IHSAA work-ers at the scorers’ table certain-ly handled it differently than in any game I have seen in my more than 20 years in sports journalism. According to the National Federation of State High School Associations’ Basketball Rule Book, it is the responsibil-ity of the scorer to: “Record the personal and technical fouls called on each player and notify an official immediately when the fifth foul (personal and technical) is charged to any player, the second techni-cal foul is charged to any team member, bench personnel, or directly to the head coach, or the third technical foul is charged to the head coach.” That part may have hap-pened. While there was no horn, I did see one of the three officials talking to the scorer, then standing there with five fingers up.

The procedure if a player who has committed his fifth foul continues to play because the scorer has failed to notify the official is as follows: “As soon as the scorer discovers the irregularity, the game horn should be sounded after, or as soon as, the ball is in control of the offending team or is dead. The disqualified player must be removed immediately. Any points which may have been scored while such player was illegally in the game are counted. If other aspects of the error are correctable, the procedure to be followed is included among the duties of the officials.” I guess that did happen. The game was stopped after Sioux Center got the rebound. That appears to absolve the scorer, although in pretty much every other game I’ve ever seen someone foul out in, the horn is blown before the ball is ever put back in play — before the first free throw is shot. The officials, however, may not be off the hook, according

to the NFHS rule book. They are to: “Remove a player from the game who commits his/her fifth foul (personal and technical).” They certainly didn’t do that. And the officials are to: “Noti-fy the coach and request the timer to begin the replacement interval, and then notify the player on a disqualification.” They may have started a timer, but if they notified either coach other than by the one official standing away from the play with his hand in the air, that’s news to me. It must be news to MFL/Mar-Mac, too, since its bench was screaming during both free throws about the disqualification. I’m guess-ing it was at least kind of news to coach Arends as well. He had subs come into the game in between the first two free throws, but they did not replace Boer. Certainly, Boer must have been thinking he might not have fouled out since he started toward the bench, hesitated and stayed in. None of the floor officials talked to him directly to tell

him he had five fouls. Adding to the confusion, the public address announcer said something during that time, but I know I couldn’t hear it due to all of the noise in the arena. I actually marked in my notes that it may have been a cor-rection — that they may have charged the foul to someone else. All of that chaos should have been enough to let those floor officials know that they needed to do a little more at that point than have just one of them stand there silently with five fingers in the air. It is just com-mon sense. All of this was a far cry from what normally happens when a player fouls out late in a close game. Usually what you see is either the coach pulling his whole team near him, essen-tially using the replacement time as an extra timeout, or you will see the coach use the maximum amount of time before replacing the player as a form of protest over what that coach might have thought

was a bad call or a series of bad calls. In either of those cases, you always see a referee come over and tell the coach that the player has to go out at that point. That their time is up. There are whistles blown. There are horns sounded. Arends did not complain or point fingers in the postgame interview sessions that he had to endure. “This is going to be a hard one to get over, but in the scope of everything we’ve had to go through, it’s still just bas-ketball,” Arends said, referring to assistant coach Grant Viet-or’s struggles with leukemia. “That’s just a small part of what we’ve learned. We’ve learned a lot about life this year.” I’m not sure I would have been able to hold my tongue as well in that same situation. The officials at the state tour-nament are supposed to earn their way there with their per-formance. If there is any justice, that crew should not be making the trip next season.

Questionable response by officials mars squad’s valiant rally


SPORTS

Hot-shooting putsB-H in title contest


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DES MOINES—Boyden-Hull shot 62.2 percent from the floor and made 12-of-14 free throws in the final 2:02 to seal a 69-61 victory over defending state champion Storm Lake St. Mary’s on Thursday in the semifinal round of the Class 1A boys basketball state tourna-ment in Des Moines. Storm Lake St. Mary’s came into the game at 26-0 and on a 45-game win streak. The Pan-thers had been ranked second all season behind Danville, a team that it had beaten deci-sively in the state title game last year. However, the fifth-ranked Comets were not interested in seeing a rematch of last year’s title contest. Boyden-Hull per-formed at an extremely high level in improving to 25-2. “You have to play well to beat a team like that,” said Boyden-Hull coach Bill Francis. “They are a winning club. They have a bunch of good players. We did just enough to counter their runs in the fourth quarter and hold them off. Our guards did a really good job of making their free throws. If we miss one or two of those, it’s a different game.” Senior Taylor Francis, the coach’s son, had not missed a free throw in the fourth quarter all season until he misfired on one in the first round of the state tournament against Iowa Mennonite of Kalona. In the semifinal, he canned 9-of-10 from the stripe during the stretch run. “He spends a lot of time in the gym. As a coach and as a dad, I was really glad to see that work pay off for him,” coach Francis said. Taylor Francis said he was doing everything he could to create those chances. “There weren’t a whole lot of nerves. I’ve been practicing my whole life for this. It’s actually kind of nice to be in that situ-ation and know the game is in your hands,” he said. “I wanted to keep the ball in my hands and get to the line as much as possible.” Junior guard Brandt Van Roekel was 7-for-9 from the line in the game. “Playing in the Siouxland Conference, we see a lot of close games like that,” Van Roekel said. “We’ve been in tough situations. When you go to the free-throw line at a time like that, you just try to do what you do every day in practice. You don’t really think about the situation too much.” Both teams came in allowing under 46 points per game, but Van Roekel thought it would be the offensive talents that showed up more in the semifi-nal. “We knew they were a good team. They are really athletic. Luke Lenhart and Kennedy Drey are great basketball play-ers,” Van Roekel said. “We knew this was going to be a shoot-out.” The coaches and players alike pointed to the defensive work by Boyden-Hull senior Nathan Alexander on Drey as a key to the contest. Drey, a senior, was averaging 17.8 points and 8.2 rebounds per game, but managed just 11 points and six reboounds.

“The key there was Nathan Alexander. He’s done it all year,” coach Francis said. “When you look at some of the guys he has to guard, guys like T.J. Buyert (of Sioux Center) and Daniel Jan-sen (of MOC-Floyd Valley), they are big kids who can play both inside and out. Nathan is just a tireless defender. He is going to work his tail off and make them earn everything they get.” Alexander credited his team-mates. “We helped each other out a lot. I tried to guard him as best I could, but I got a lot of help. That’s probably what won the game for us,” he said. Boyden-Hull took a 12-6 lead with 3:35 left in the first quarter on back-to-back three-pointers by Taylor Francis and junior Colin Bolkema. The advantage was 19-12 with 1:07 left in the period. Drey then jumped out for a steal and outran everyone for a dunk that concluded the first-quarter scoring. That seemed to inspire the Panthers. It marked the beginning of an 18-6 run that put Storm Lake St. Mary’s ahead 30-25 with 3:30 remaining before the break. “We were playing kind of stagnant against their press,” Taylor Francis said. “We were letting them come to us instead of going at them.” A couple of buckets from senior Bryce Moss got Boyden-Hull back on track. Taylor Fran-cis then buried a three-pointer to give the Comets a 32-30 lead. Moss then converted a tradi-tional three-point play, giving his squad a 35-30 halftime edge. “We were able to get some things off dribble penetration and get the ball to Moss. He

is going to finish most of the time,” Taylor Francis said. “He’s scary good.” Moss said his scoring is largely due to good ball movement by the team. “The guys do a good job of driving in and kicking it back out. We have enough good shooters that they are going to have to jump out on them, and when they do, that opens it up for me,” Moss said. “They have to account for everybody.” After the 10-0 run to end the first half, Boyden-Hull took control with a 10-4 run to start the third quarter to make it 45-34.

“We were not good on defense for a while,” said Storm Lake St. Mary’s coach Brad Wilkening. “We were letting them score from 3 feet and in against our man-to-man, and our guys know we can’t do that.” Boyden-Hull was up 50-42 entering the final frame. Storm Lake St. Mary’s turned up the pressure right away, trimming the lead to four with 7:18 left. By the 3:26 mark, it was down to three. With 1:55 remaining, Lenhart hit a trey to cut it to 59-57. “We’ve been a second-half team all year,” Wilkening said. “We just started hitting shots.

It gets easier when you shoot it well. We gave ourselves an opportunity to get back into the game, but we never got the shot we needed to get it tied or take the lead.” Alexander said the final two minutes were “very intense.” Boyden-Hull tried to pull away, but a three-pointer by Drey cut it to three again with 49 sec-onds left. The Comets then iced it from the stripe. “They have been here before and won it, so we knew they would try to come back, and they were coming back with a vengeance,” Alexander said. “We were able to make our free throws and pull it out. I’m excited. This is what you dream about. I love these guys. We’ve been playing together for a long time, and we weren’t very good

when we were younger. We’ve come a long way.” Moss made 10-of-11 shots from the field and scored 22 points. He was 18-of-19 from the field in the first two rounds of the state tournament. Taylor Francis scored 18 points. Van Roekel and Alexander each netted 13 points. Van Roekel had seven rebounds, five assists and three steals. Alexander grabbed six rebounds. Moss swatted away five shots. Fran-cis made three steals. Lenhart, a junior, led Storm Lake St. Mary’s with 17 points and four assists. Boyden-Hull moved on to face undefeated and top-ranked Danville in the Class 1A final. Danville beat the Comets 69-62 in the first round of last year’s state tournament.

Warner, Wolterstorfftop scorers in victories

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POINT LOOKOUT, MO—The Dordt College men’s basketball team is head-ing to the Elite Eight of the NAIA Divi-sion II National Championship after picking up victories in each of the first two rounds. The Defenders, 30-4 and the fourth seed in the national tournament, will play fifth-seeded McPherson College of Kansas (32-3) at 1 p.m. today (Satur-day, March 10) in the quarterfinals. The winner will play at 6 p.m. Mon-day.

The title game is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday.

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POINT LOOKOUT, MO—Three-point marksmanship was the key for Dordt College in the 77-70 second-round win over Warner Pacific College of Oregon in the NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball National Champion-ship on Friday. The Defenders again trailed early, this time 7-3, but followed that with an 11-0 run and did not fall behind again. Dordt extended the lead to 39-22 by halftime and pushed the advantage to

52-34 with 13:51 left in the game on a pair of free throws by junior Cliff War-ner. The free throws were the last points the Defenders scored until a three-point shot by Warner ended a five-minute drought. In the meantime, the Knights converted seven field goals for 16 straight points. Warner’s shot made it 55-50. The lead was two again at the 1:28 mark, but four straight free throws by Warner made it a two-possession game, and Dordt held on to win, 77-70. The Defenders made 10 three-point-ers, seven in the first half. Warner led the team with 26 points. He also had six rebounds and three assists. Sopho-more Austin Katje scored 17 points

and dealt out three assists. Junior Jordan Vogel netted 14 points and six rebounds.

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POINT LOOKOUT, MO—Dordt College got off to a nervous start in the NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball National Championship, trailing 9-4 early in its game against California Maritime Academy on Wednesday. The Defenders got on track with a 13-1 run and eventually took a 32-22 lead to half on the way to a 63-54 win. Defender coach Ross Douma said his team clearly had momentum going to

the locker room but came out flat in the second half. The Keelhaulers started the second half with an 8-0 run, and the battle was on. The game was tied at 50-50 with less than four minutes left. Junior Trevor Wolterstorff then hit a bucket to give Dordt a lead it did not give back. The Defenders ended the game on a 13-4 run. Dordt was led in scoring by Wolter-storff, who had a game high 19 points and 10 rebounds. Junior Cliff Warner added 15 points, dished out three assists and grabbed six rebounds. Junior Jordan Vogel had 12 points and seven rebounds. The Defenders dominated the boards, snaring 43 rebounds while limiting Cal Maritime to just 20.

BOYS STATE NOTEBOOK

Sneiderman, Kooiman honored at tourney

DES MOINES—Two longtime N’West Iowa high school activities directors are being honored for their work during championship action at the boys basketball state

tournament today (Saturday, March 10) in Des Moines. Darrell Sneiderman of Sheldon and John Kooiman of Orange City will receive Administrator Awards from the Iowa High School Athletic Association. Sneiderman grew up in South Dakota, graduating from Hurley High School in 1969 and Dakota State College in Madison, SD, in 1993. He later completed his graduate education and a counseling endorsement at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion and Morningside College in Sioux City. He first taught industrial arts and physical education for two years at Springfield High School in South Dakota before coming to Sheldon in 1975. During his years at Sheldon, Sneiderman held positions as an industrial arts and physical education teacher, middle and high school guidance counselor, at-risk coordinator and interim high school principal. He became the activities director in 1999. He also did much coaching in Sheldon. He served as the head football coach for 25 years, starting with the 1979 season. He also coached wrestling, track, golf, softball and baseball at various levels. Sneiderman was named the Northwest Iowa Middle School Athletic Director of the Year in 2007. He served as a member of various organizations, including the Iowa State Education Association, National Education Association, School Administrators of Iowa and Iowa High School Athletic Directors Association. He also has been active in various state coaching associations. A graduate of Southwest Christian High School in Edgerton, MN, Kooiman went on to earn degrees from Dordt College in Sioux Center and the University of South Dakota. He began his career in education as a teacher and coach in Indiana 1970-75. Kooiman went on to serve more than 35 years at Unity Christian High School in Orange City. His service at Unity Christian began in 1975 as a guidance counselor and coach. He served in that capacity until 1997 when he became the school’s activities director and vice principal. His duties also included service as a basketball and golf coach. In later years, he served as the finance and transportation director for the school. During his career, he was active in the Iowa Guidance & Counseling Association, Iowa High School Athletic Directors Association and the basketball and golf coaches associations. He was an assistant basketball coach on three state championship teams and his work as the head boys golf coach included a team winning percentage of 84 percent and included one state medalist honor.

Eekhoff named national coach of the year Western Christian’s Jim Eekhoff has been named the National Federation of State High School Association’s national coach of the year in boys basketball for 2012. Eekhoff recently finished his 30th season as the coach at Western Christian and has compiled a 586-135 career record. His win total is seventh all-time in Iowa and fourth among active coaches. He has taken 15 teams to state and has won six state titles.

Saeger working statistics once again Orange City resident Jeff Saeger is once again taking vacation time from his job at Diamond Vogel to help out as a part of the Iowa High School Athletic Association stat crew at the state tournament.

Officials have N’West Iowa connections Curt Strouth of Rock Valley, Dave Van Essen of Sheldon, Brad Van Roekel of Boyden and Scott Wynja of Sheldon worked as officials during the state tournament. Also among those blowing the whistles was Sheldon High School graduate Lyle Fedders, who lives in Des Moines.

Pomerenke performs national anthem MOC-Floyd Valley fans who stuck around to watch games on Wednesday got to see one of their own perform the national anthem. MOC-Floyd Valley senior Katie Pomerenke did the honors at the 12:05 p.m. session.

Three-pointers put fourth-seeded Dordt in Elite Eight

C L A S S 1 A B O Y S B A S K E T B A L L S T AT E S E M I F I N A L

Comets end Panthers’ season,45-game win streak to advance

Boyden-Hull junior Colin Bolkema passes to a teammate under the bucket against Storm Lake St. Mary’s in a Class 1A state tournament semifinal game on Thursday in Des Moines. The Comets beat the defending state champion Panthers 69-61.

Senior Nathan Alexander puts up a shot for Boyden-Hull against Storm Lake St. Mary’s during the Class 1A state tournament Thursday. (Photos by Roy Tucker)

NAIA DIVISION II MEN’S bASkEtbAll CHAMPIONSHIP


SPORTS

Red Raiders next to faceNo. 1 Indiana Wesleyan


SIOUX CITY—Northwestern College’s women’s basketball team is plenty familiar with the Tyson Events Center and that comfort level has once again landed the Red Raiders in the NAIA Division II National Championship field of eight. The two-time defending national champion Red Raiders won their 12th consecutive game in the Sioux City arena Friday morning. Extending that streak further will not be easy. Northwestern, sporting a 25-7 record, will face top-ranked and top-seeded Indiana Wesleyan Univer-sity (33-2) in the quarterfinals at 1 p.m. today (Saturday, March 10). The winner will play at 6 p.m. Monday, with potential opponents including Morningside College and Briar Cliff Col-lege. The title game is scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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SIOUX CITY—When the score got tight in the second half Friday, North-western College did not play tight. Instead, the Red Raiders showed poise during a key five-minute stretch that pushed the lead from three to 16 points and propelled them into the quarter-finals of the NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball National Championship with an 80-58 win over Jamestown College of

North Dakota. “We played well. I thought we played aggressive on both ends of the floor,” said first-year Red Raider coach Chris Yaw. “We didn’t want to wait for the action. We wanted to make sure we were the instigators. Offensively, I thought our kids pushed the ball well and played well in the half court.” Northwestern broke out to a 7-2 lead, but then got into a little foul trouble. Jamestown used the free-throw line to get back into the game. The Jimmies took a 13-11 edge with 10:09 left in the first half. Yaw rolled the dice at that point and brought back in junior Kendra De Jong who was saddled with two fouls early. The move paid off in a big way. De Jong scored two straight baskets during a 15-0 run that was bookended with a pair of De Jong free throws. “It’s maybe a little bit of a gamble, but in our mind it’s a trusting relationship that makes the difference,” Yaw said. “Kendra’s a smart player. She’s played a lot of games. She knows how she can still be effective even with a couple of fouls.” Senior Kami Kuhlmann had a huge first half for Northwestern with 19 points, helping the Red Raiders to a 35-27 lead. De Jong and Kuhlmann scored all but five of the Red Raider points in the first half. “One of my challenges this year has been to keep shooting,” Kuhlmann said. “When you’re missing it gets kind of degrading sometimes, but my team-mates did a great job to keep playing. When they keep playing it really opens things up for me and Kendra De Jong.” The Jimmies got as close as 38-35 in the second half, when Northwestern took over. A 9-0 run increased the cushion again and the Red Raiders

never looked back after that. The lead expanded out to 57-41 during the 19-6 spurt. Yaw said defense and rebounding were key during that stretch. “We didn’t change anything as far as what we were trying to do in the first half, it was more emphasizing the things we thought were important,” he said. The 8:30 a.m. tipoff presented a unique challenge for Northwestern. Yaw said he encouraged his players to get into a routine a few days before the tournament, waking up early so they would be ready for two early games at the tournament. Kuhlmann finished with 31 points, nine rebounds and four assists. De Jong had a double-double with 15 points and 12 rebounds. Sophomore Alli Dunkelburger had eight points and six rebounds.

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SIOUX CITY—Northwestern College kicked off its tournament by showing off its team depth in a 76-56 win over Indi-ana University Southeast on Wednes-day. The Red Raiders got more than half their scoring, 38 points, from their bench. By contrast the Grenadiers got just six points from their reserves. “Our kids off the bench have been doing a great job over the last fourth or third of the season,” said Northwestern coach Chris Yaw. He called the bench play “outstand-ing.” “We ask them to provide a little spark with who you are, not a spark by being

somebody different,” he said. “Those kids coming off the bench have done a tremendous job.” Indiana University Southeast kept the game close in the first half. The score was tied three times, but Northwestern made a push just before the half to get the difference out to 31-24. The Red Raiders led 35-28 at the intermission. From there, Northwestern kept inch-ing the lead out further. Every time the Grenadiers made a run, the Red Raiders answered with an even bigger run of their own. After Indiana University Southeast closed the margin to 45-41 with 12:36 left, Northwestern put the game away with a 13-0 run over the next three min-utes. Junior Mallory Cunard had eight points during that stretch and capped off the run with a three-pointer. The Grenadiers never got closer than 13 points the rest of the way. Northwest-ern’s biggest lead was the final score. The Red Raiders limited Indiana Uni-versity Southeast to 28 percent shooting in the game, while shooting 50 percent themselves. Northwestern may have put the game away earlier had it not turned the ball over 24 times. “There are kids on our team who have certainly played here, so the adjustment is not as great,” Yaw said. “I think the big thing about shooting percentages is kids understanding their roles. You shoot the shots your teammates are expecting you to shoot, working together to get high percentage shots.” Junior Kendra De Jong had a big game for the Red Raiders, scoring 18 points, pulling down 15 rebounds and dish-ing out four assists. Cunard and senior Kami Kuhlmann each finished with 11 points. Sophomore Mackenzie Small contributed 10 points.

Comets settle inafter early deficit


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DES MOINES—Boyden-Hull survived an early flurry from junior Chance Miller Iowa Mennonite of Kalona and took advantage of a foe wounded by foul trouble in the second half of a 64-44 first-round win at the Class 1A boys basketball state tournament Monday in Des Moines. Iowa Mennonite, the tourna-ment’s sixth seed, came in with five players averaging in double figures in scoring. However, the third-seeded Comets were not fooled by that. They knew the key to the IMS offense was Miller. “In practice, we had talked about how we can’t let Chance shoot it,” said Boyden-Hull junior Brandt Van Roekel. “Obviously, we were not real good at that at the start of the game.” Miller made his first five shots, all three-pointers, as Iowa Men-nonite took a 19-15 lead in the opening quarter. “I actually thought on a few of those we were getting there, but we were getting there with our hands down. We needed to be that fraction quicker and get our hands up so he had to shoot over us,” said Boyden-Hull coach Bill Francis. “We started to do that after that first quarter. He’s a rhythm shooter, and we started to get him frus-trated. I think because he was frustrated at the offensive end, that led to him getting into foul trouble.” Boyden-Hull took a 20-19 edge with 6:37 left in the half on an inside hoop from junior

J.C. Koerselman. It was the first lead for the Comets since they had a 4-2 advantage in the opening moments. “We didn’t start off great. Miller was really hot, and we gave him 15 right away,” said Boyden-Hull senior Taylor Francis. “Then we started to come out and play with some intensity and anticipation. I thought we started to get the momentum right at the start of the second quarter, and we kept it from there on out.” It was the Comets who got into foul trouble first, with senior Bryce Moss picking up his second foul with 1:28 left in the first quarter and sitting the rest of the half. That started to even out in the second stanza when Miller went out at the 4:24 mark after picking up his second personal. By the end of the half, each team had three players with two personal fouls. Boyden-Hull took a 30-28 advantage into the locker room. “Our fouls were more about our decision-making,” coach Francis said. “Moss had two fouls, and neither one of them was in the paint. One of them was 80 feet from the basket, and the other one was around halfcourt trying to get a steal from a point guard. We felt good to still get to half with the lead. Our bench guys came in and did a great job.” The Comets created 13 IMS turnovers in the first two quar-ters. “We got a little careless. We weren’t really ripping the ball through on the offensive end,” said Iowa Mennonite coach Dwight Gingerich. “Boyden-Hull was very alert. They got out in the passing lanes better than any team we’ve seen all year. They played really well. They are a really good team.” The foul trouble became

more acute for Iowa Mennonite in the third quarter. Senior cen-ter Brian Hagedorn notched his third and fourth fouls less than a minute after the break. Miller got his third at the 5:11 mark, then was whistled for his fourth with 2:20 left in the third period. “The whole difference was we settled in, and they never really did. In that first quarter, we did some things that were really uncharacteristic of us,” coach Francis said. “I think the guys were trying to play so hard they went over that edge and got a little wild. After that, we were able to settle in and start play-ing our game.” Boyden-Hull took a 39-31 lead with 5:11 left in the third quar-ter. The Comet edge reached 44-34 with 2:21 remaining in

the period on a foul shot by senior Nathan Alexander. Iowa Mennonite cut the difference to 44-38 late in the third, but Alexander hit a jumper to end the stanza and put Boyden-Hull up 46-38. “We were able to get out and run a little bit. We try to do that every game. We try to get out and pressure,” Van Roekel said. “We came out with a lot of energy.” Despite increasing the pres-sure, Boyden-Hull was able to avoid the foul woes it suffered in the opening half. “A lot of our fouls in the first half were just boneheaded plays on our part,” Van Roekel said. “In the second half, we were able to calm down and play our game.” Moss was called for his fourth

foul with 5:35 left, but stayed in the game and was a major factor. He scored 12 of his 18 points in the second half. “I was definitely pumped to be back in the game. I hate sit-ting out with fouls,” Moss said. “I knew I needed to come out and play better, and I couldn’t commit those fouls. I thought in the second half we definitely got it inside. We drove more, and we were able to kick it out when we needed to.” Meanwhile, Miller played only one minute and 39 seconds in the fourth quarter before he fouled out. Coach Francis said the Com-ets did not alter their approach specifically to exploit the IMS players who were in foul trou-ble. “Our goal is to attack every-body, all the time, night in and night out,” he said. “That’s where our conference schedule really helps. If you play passive in the Siouxland Conference, you are going to get run over.” Gingerich said Iowa Menno-nite never was able to make an

extended run. “We didn’t play with strength the way we needed to,” he said. “There were times when we executed well, but there were times when the things that had bit us earlier in the game came back and bit us again.” Iowa Mennonite did not score in the last 6:26 of the contest. Boyden-Hull finished on a 10-0 run. The Comets shot 55 percent from the floor in the game and forced 21 Iowa Mennonite turnovers. Moss was 8-for-8 from the field and led his team in scor-ing. He also pulled down seven rebounds. Francis scored 16 points and Van Roekel had 15. Alexander grabbed seven rebounds. Francis and Van Roekel had three assists. Alex-ander and Francis each made three steals. Miller scored 15 points, snared five rebounds and had two steals for Iowa Mennonite. Junior Cameron Gingerich had 13 points and two steals as IMS ended its season at 22-5.

Two-time defending champ NWC to Elite Eight

C L A S S 1 A B O Y S B A S K E T B A L L S T AT E O P E N E R

NAIA DIVISION II WOMEN’S bASkEtbAll CHAMPIONSHIP COLLEGEDorDt seconD in GPAc LINCOLN, NE—The Dordt Col-lege women had their highest finish ever at the Great Plains Ath-letic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships, placing sec-ond Feb. 17-18 in Lincoln, NE. The Defenders were in the title chase until the last race, but finished four points behind Doane Col-lege. Brianna Vander Woude won the pentathlon, the 60-meter hurdles and the long jump. She placed second in the 60 dash, fifth in the high jump and seventh in the 200. Katie Bonnema won the 400 and 800. The Dordt men were led by Nic Pfeifle, who placed third in the 400 and joined Alex Henderson, Aaron Floen and Joe Lammers on the 1,600 relay team that placed second. Matt Huisman won the GPAC title in the high jump to pace the Northwestern College men. Brianna Hobbs led the Red Raider women, placing second in the 600 and fourth in the 800.

runners Join DorDt SIOUX CENTER—Unity Chris tian High School seniors stacy Van regenmorter and Kayla Byl along with siera Wilgenburg, a senior at Hills-Beaver Creek High School in Minnesota, have announced their intentions to attend Dordt College and partici-pate in track and field. Van Regenmorter is a distance track runner who also will partici-pate in cross country. She was a part of a 2011 state championship team in cross country. Byl also will participate in track and field and cross country. She qualified for state in cross country four times. In track, she competes in the 800-, 1,500- and 3,000-meter runs. Wilgenburg specializes in the 200 and 400 dashes and the 800 run.

Senior Bryce Moss of Boyden-Hull celebrates after drawing a foul from Iowa Mennonite on Monday during the Class 1A state tournament. Moss led the Comets in scoring with 18 points. (Photos by Josh Harrell)

Sophomore Riley Francis, junior Miguel Alvarado, senior J.C. Koerselman and Boyden-Hull coach Bill Francis watch as a shot is launched Monday during the Comets’ opening-round game of the Class 1A state tour-nament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

Junior Brandt Van Roekel grabs for a rebound for Boyden-Hull against Iowa Mennonite on Monday after-noon during the Class 1A state tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. The Comets won 64-44.

Boyden-Hull senior Nathan Alexander releases a three-pointer Monday against Iowa Mennonite in the opening round of the Class 1A state tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. The Comets triumphed 64-44.

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SDSUContinued from page C1in the championship game of the Summit League Tournament on Tues-day at the Sioux Falls Arena. The Summit League awards its auto-matic bid to the Big Dance to its con-ference tournament champion. It will be the Jackrabbits’ first appearance in the NCAA tournament. “I’ve never had more fun in my life,” said Dykstra, a 6-foot-8-inch power forward who starts for the Jackrabbits. “There’s not words to describe it. It’s what you dream about from being a young kid. That’s what you go out on your little hoops in the driveway for. You just dream to be in this moment.” “This is awesome,” said the 6-9 Heemstra who provides the Jackrab-bits with some depth on the bench. “It’s a dream come true. God is good, and we’re so blessed and so thankful for this opportunity. I couldn’t have asked to go with a greater group of guys.” It wasn’t easy. SDSU had to dig down deep to pull out the win and improve its record to 27-7. The second-seeded Jackrabbits caught a bit of a break when Western Illinois University, the fourth-seed, knocked off regular-season champion and top-seeded Oral Roberts Univer-sity in the tournament semifinal game Monday. Defensive-minded Western Illinois proved that was no fluke against SDSU, building a 37-25 lead with 15:26 left in the second half, and silencing a crowd of 6,526, dressed almost exclu-sively in Jackrabbit blue and gold. The Brookings, SD, campus is only about 50 mile north of Sioux Falls but it was not until about the 10-minute mark when the Jackrabbits finally started to take advantage of pseudo home-court advantage. Griffan Callahan, SDSU’s only senior, hit a pair of free throws with 16 second left in regulation that tied the game at 42-42 and forced overtime. He then bounced in a big three-pointer in OT that proved to be the game-winner with 1:30 left. “We kept getting stops. We proved a lot on the defensive end,” said Heem-stra, who scored four points and had three rebounds in three minutes of action, all in the first half. Dykstra, an all-tournament team selection, was 3-for-4 from the floor for six points and four rebounds. All of his points came in the first 8:13 of the game. He struggled a bit with six turnovers. Heemstra and Dykstra are plenty familiar playing in big games. They helped Rock Valley High School win back-to-back Class 1A state titles in 2009 and 2010, but both agreed the circumstances were different. “They’re so much different experi-ences,” Heemstra said. “What we had in Rock Valley was awesome. This is just a whole nother level.” Dykstra said part of that is the amount of time you spend around teammates in college and the natural physical and emotional rigors of a sea-son. “The amount we put into this each and every day makes this so much more gratifying,” said Dykstra, who has added 25 pounds of muscle to his frame since stepping on campus. SDSU began the transition into an NCAA Division I program in 2004. It did not become eligible for postsea-son tournament play until the 2008-09 season. Last year the Jackrabbits lost to eventual Summit League Tournament champion Oakland University of Michigan in the semifinals.

“When last year’s season ended, we knew going into the offseason we were going to have to work hard and get better, especially on the defensive end,” Heemstra said. “We had a lot of motivation going for us.” Without a major professional fran-chise in the state, some fans were dubbing Tuesday’s game as the most significant sporting event in the his-

tory of South Dakota. “To experience this with your best friend and go through it and take this journey together is something beyond words,” Dykstra said. “I gave him a big hug afterward,” Heemstra said. “We never would’ve dreamed this growing up. We’re going dancing together.” As of Friday, ESPN’s bracketologist

Joe Lunardi had SDSU as a 13th seed in the NCAA tournament’s Midwest Region, facing fourth-seed Wichita State University of Kansas in Portland, OR. Jerry Palm of CBSSports has the Jackrabbits as the 14th-seed in the West Region facing third-seeded Uni-versity of Michigan. The Bracket Project’s Bracket Matrix 2012, a composite of 102 tourna-ment field prediction sites, had SDSU

with an average seed of 13.5, which grouped it as the best of the 14 seeds. The official pairings will be an -nounced on CBS at 6 p.m. Sunday on its tournament Selection Show. “We’re going to try to make a splash in the NCAAs,” Dykstra said. “I don’t know exactly what’s going to happen, but we’re going to go out and prepare and play our best just like we have all year.”

Dykstra, Heemstra help take Jackrabbits dancing

South Dakota State University sophomores Austin Hennings and Jordan Dykstra rush on to the court after the Jackrabbits make a final defensive stop, sending SDSU to the college’s first NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament with a 52-50 overtime win over Western Illinois University on Tuesday. Dykstra and teammate Marcus Heemstra are from Rock Valley. (Photos by Dan Breen)

Marcus Heemstra, a Rock Valley native and sophomore on the South Dakota State University men’s basketball team reacts to a big defensive stop at the end of regulation against Western Illinois University that forced the game into overtime on Tuesday evening.

Rock Valley native and South Dakota State University sophomore Jordan Dykstra puts some pressure on Western Illinois Univer-sity guard Ceola Clark in the championship game of the Summit League basketball Tournament on Tuesday in Sioux Falls, SD.

n Prior to Tuesday, South Dakota was one of only three states never to have a team qualify for the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament. The only states left with that distinction are Maine and Alaska. The University of Maine, from the America East Conference, is the only Division I team in that state. Alaska does not have a Division I basketball school.

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Raiders had won nine,including GPAC crown POINT LOOKOUT, MO—Northwest-ern College was unable to maintain the momentum it had coming into the NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball National Championship further than the opening round as the Red Raiders were ousted in the second round on Friday. The Red Raiders were riding a nine-game win streak that included a Great Plains Athletic Conference Tournament title until their season came to an end with a 26-7 record.

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POINT LOOKOUT, MO—Jordan Call scored 26 of his game-high 33 points in the second half as Northwest University of Washington ousted Northwestern College in the second round of the NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball National Champion-ship by a 83-74 score. After shooting only 32 percent in the first half, Northwest heated up to 55 percent in the second half and went 6-of-12 from the

three-point line. Call, a senior, was espe-cially effective, hitting three of his four three-pointers in the second half. Northwest led 12-8 early on but the Red Raiders scored seven in a row and pushed the advantage to 22-16 with 10 minutes into the contest. The Eagles fought their way back after a timeout and held a 30-29 halftime edge. Northwestern grabbed its final lead at 45-42 after consecutive three-point plays by seniors Ryan Stock and Walker Seim. An ensuing 14-2 Northwest run put the Eagles up for good but the Red Raiders kept it close behind the shooting of Seim, who hit a tournament-high seven three-pointers. Northwest made enough plays at the end to hold off any Red Raiders comeback attempt. Seim finished with 32 points. Ryan Stock scored 12 points before fouling out with three minutes to go. Junior Ben Miller and sophomore Zack Leeper added 11 points each.

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POINT LOOKOUT, MO—Ninth-seeded Northwestern College rolled to a 95-69

win over Tennessee Wesleyan College in the first game of the opening round of the NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball National Championship. Northwestern shot nearly 60 percent for the game and made 9-of-18 three-point attempts. Sophomore Zack Leeper led a balanced scoring effort with 18 points, going 7-for-9 from the field. Senior Ryan Stock and junior Daniel Van Kalsbeek came off the bench to score 16 points each. Stock, who set a new career-high in points, made 4-of-5 three-pointers, all in the second half. The Red Raiders started fast, opening up an 11-2 lead before Tennessee Wesleyan came back to within two before North-western went on a 15-4 run and pushed the advantage to 42-31 by halftime. Northwestern began the second half on a 16-8 run and held a 19-point lead with four minutes gone by. A Stock three-pointer gave the Red Raiders a 23-point lead with 13 minutes to go and the Red Raiders led by 20 or more the rest of the way. Senior Walker Seim added 14 points for Northwestern and junior Ben Miller chipped in 12 points The win was 29th at the national tourna-ment for the Red Raiders, the most all-time at the championship.

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COLLEGEDeFenDers ADD recruits SIOUX CENTER—The Dordt College football program has added several incoming recruits for the 2012 sea-son, with three of them products of the program at Unity Christian High School in Orange City. n Matt Albert, a senior at Unity Christian, played tight end and line-backer for the Knights. The 6-foot-1-inch, 200-pounder caught 12 passes for 167 yards and three touchdowns and made 49 tackles during his senior year. n Heath Huitink played center and defensive end for the Knights. The 6-4, 220-pounder earned all-dis-trict honors for his play in his senior season. n Lokken Vande Vegte played running back and linebacker for Unity Christian. Listed at 5-9, 185 pounds, he ran for 911 yards and seven touchdowns as a senior. He is a two-time all-district selection. n Cole McClain, a senior at Sunshine Bible Academy in South Dakota, played quarterback, cor-nerback, safety, running back, wide receiver and punter during his high school career. As a senior, Offen-sively, he threw for 1,413 yards and 12 touchdowns, rushed for 678 yards and 11 touchdowns, and caught eight passes. He also recorded 131 tackles and had one interception on defense.. n Andrew Cameron of Green-wood, NE, is a senior at Ashland-Greenwood High School. He is a 5-11, 245-pound offensive lineman who earned all-district second-team honors as a senior. n Rick Van Grouw is a senior at Nampa Christian High School in Idaho. He was a all-conference first-

team offensive guard and earned second-team honors on defense, where he played both tackle and linebacker. He led his team to a dis-trict championship and was Nampa’s defensive MVP as a senior.

unitY senior to DorDt SIOUX CENTER—Micah Roos, a senior at Unity Christian High School in Orange City, has signed a letter of intent and will play golf at Dordt Col-lege. He is a two-year letterwinner for the Knights. Unity Christian won conference titles in both of those seasons. Roos was an All-War Eagle Conference first-team selection as a junior.

sAMueLson to nWc ORANGE CITY—Payton Samu-elson has decided to attend North-western College and play volleyball for the Red Raiders. The 5-foot-11-inch middle hitter from Omaha, NE, twice earned all-conference honors at Gretna High School. She had a .312 hitting efficiency and totaled 198 kills and 51 solo blocks as a senior, help-ing Gretna to a 26-5 record and a spot in the state tournament.

stAte cHAMP siGns SIOUX CENTER—Aaron Wub-ben, a senior at Central Minnesota Christian High School, has decided to attend Dordt College, where he will continue his track and field career. Wubben won a state championship in the high jump as a junior, clearing 6 feet, 7 inches. His personal best in the long jump is 20 feet, 0.75 meters, and he has a best of 22.84 seconds in the 200-meter dash.

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