BORN TO RUN
Teen who lost legs finds calling in cross country, 1C
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Ukrainian boys home at
last after Hiawatha couple
hit major adoption hurdles
Mission
accomplished
Scott Breckenridge embraces his adopted sons, 10-year-old Mkolya (left) and 16-year-old twins Bogdan (middle) and Ilya (face not visible),
as his wife, Jenna Breckenridge, grows emotional as they are reunited Tuesday at The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids. TOP: Scott and
Jenna Breckenridge hug for the first time after Jenna spent months in Ukraine finalizing the adoption. (Savannah Blake photos/The Gazette)
By Elijah Decious, The Gazette
H
IAWATHA — Nearly 28
months after Ukrainian
twins Ilya and Bogdan
first walked through
the terminal exit at
The Eastern Iowa Airport, they
returned — this time, with their
mother and a newly adopted little
brother.
It was at these doors that Jenna
Breckenridge first fell in love with
the twins she instantly realized
Insurance fuels Iowa Farm Bureau revenue growth
Nonprofit’s leaders earn
salaries in high six figures
By Sky Chadde and Eli Hoff,
Investigate Midwest; and Mark
Ossolinski, Watchdog Writers Group
In May, senior executives
at the Iowa Farm Bureau
Federation finalized a little-
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In race to
lead C.R.,
partisan
divides
emerge
Andrews runs as Dem;
other candidates bristle
at political party ties
By Marissa Payne, The Gazette
CEDAR RAPIDS — As the
adage goes, there’s no Demo-
cratic or Republican way of
filling a pothole — someone
must pave it.
But in Cedar Rapids’ Nov. 2
mayoral race, partisan political
ties are painting the campaign
trail with stripes of red and
blue, following a trend seen
across the country
of national divi-
sions in politics
driving a wedge in
local elections.
The office of
mayor is nonpar-
tisan, but True-
North executive Amara
Amara Andrews Andrews
is pushing par-
tisan messaging
— billing herself
as a progressive
Democrat — while
others in the four-
way race bristle
at attempts to be
tied to any politi-
Brad Hart
cal party. Instead,
they say they are
in the race solely
to serve Cedar
Rapids.
Andrews has
run ads and fund-
raising emails
condemning the
Republican af- Tiffany
filiations of Mayor O’Donnell
were meant to be her children. It were on the ground here.” Brad Hart and
wasn’t until the plane landed last challenger Tiffany O’Donnell,
Tuesday in Cedar Rapids that she THE ADOPTION PROCESS chief executive officer of Wom-
could release the tension she car- Ukraine may not be the “end of en Lead Change.
ried for over two years from an ar- the earth” in proximity to Iowa. Andrews’ campaign last
duous adoption process. But considering the circumstances month sent a fundraising
Now, the kids she met through a Jenna and Scott Breckenridge sur- email with images of the two
host program aren’t just her boys mounted to adopt their three boys, candidates alongside photos
— they’re her sons. they may as well have traveled to of former President Donald
“It wasn’t until we hit Cedar Rap- the ends of the earth. Trump, U.S. Rep. Ashley Hin-
ids and the wheels hit the ground The adoption process was sup- son and Gov. Kim Reynolds
that I lost it,” Jenna Breckenridge posed to take only about nine — all Republicans — with a
said. “I was sobbing. … I wasn’t go- banner below their images
ing to accept it (as final) until we ; ADOPTION, PAGE 6A that reads, “Not Progressive.”
; MAYOR, PAGE 6A
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noticed financial maneuver
that could boost their income
tize the company. But the
move spurred several law-
one, at least for Farm Bureau
leaders. A review of public
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Farm Bureau owned a highly of lowballing shareholders have benefited for years from
profitable, publicly traded it was attempting to buy out. the nonprofit’s majority own- VOL. 139 NO. 281
insurance business called To settle, it paid investors ership of the insurance com-
FBL Financial Group. For more and the deal closed this pany. The story of FBL also
Sunday
nearly a year, the executives spring. highlights the complicated
— whose incomes depended If history is any indica-
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2A The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021
Vaccine mandates working, hospitals say
Washington Post
At Houston Methodist
— one of the first Ameri-
can health care institu-
tions to require workers
to get vaccinated against
the coronavirus — the
backlash was short-lived.
More than 150 employ-
ees were fired. There
were legal battles and
protests. But President
and CEO Marc Boom has
no regrets: 98 percent of
staff have been vaccinat-
ed, and they and patients
are safer as a result, he
said.
“I can unequivocally
say (it was) the best de-
cision we ever made,”
Boom said in an inter-
view.
Houston Methodist is
not alone in requiring its
employees to be vacci-
nated. About 41 per-
cent of hospitals nation-
wide — roughly 2,570
facilities — have some
sort of vaccine mandate,
according to data col-
lected by the American
Hospital Association, a
trade group. Others are
expected to follow after
President Joe Biden an-
nounced last month that
he would require most
health care facilities that
accept Medicaid or Medi-
care funding — many of
which also treat immu-
nocompromised people
who are at high risk of
getting severely ill from
COVID — to vaccinate
their employees.
Most health care
systems that require
vaccination have touted
widespread compliance.
In interviews, admin-
istrators at some of the
nation’s largest hospital
systems said the man-
dates worked: Officials
said that they have very
high vaccination rates
they attributed to the
requirement and that
they have seen corona-
virus infections — and
sick leaves — noticeably
drop.
At Novant Health, a
35,000-employee health
care system in four
Southeast states, more
than 99 percent of work-
ers have complied with a
vaccine mandate, spokes-
woman Caryn Klebba
wrote in an email.
“Without a vac-
cine mandate for team
members, we faced the
strong possibility of hav-
ing a third of our staff
unable to work due to
contracting, or exposure
to, COVID-19,” she said.
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Iowa City. UIHC hasn’t mandated the coronavirus vaccine for its employees, but last month said over
90 percent had gotten the shots voluntarily. (The Gazette)
“This possibility only
increases heading into a
fall season with the more
contagious and deadly
delta variant.”
California-based Kai-
ser Permanente, with
216,000 employees and
23,000 physicians, report-
ed that more than
92 percent have been
vaccinated as of Sept. 30,
when staff members were
required to get the shot,
spokesman Marc Brown
wrote in an email. About
6 percent of the workers
were unvaccinated but
sought exemptions, leav-
ing 2 percent who did not
comply and were placed
on unpaid administrative
leave, Brown said. He
said since then, “many”
of those workers have
agreed to get vaccinated
or applied for an exemp-
tion, but he did not speci-
fy a number.
In New York, a state-
wide vaccine mandate
for health care workers,
which went into effect
Sept. 27, increased the
number of people get-
ting immunized. Ninety
percent of the state’s
health care workforce
now is vaccinated, ac-
cording to state data.
Northwell Health, the
state’s largest provider,
said it fired 1,400 employ-
ees — less than 2 percent
of its 76,000-member
workforce — for refus-
ing to get vaccinated.
Northwell said it expects
no interruptions to its
service as a result of the
terminations.
A federal judge ruled
Tuesday that the state
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Methodist’s 26,578 em- Center in Gresham, Ore.,
ployees quit or were fired was put on administra-
because they refused the tive unpaid leave Sept.
vaccine. Ninety-eight 30 for refusing to get vac-
percent are now vacci- cinated. She was among
nated and 2 were exempt 794 workers — about
or allowed to defer, most 5 percent of Legacy’s
for medical reasons, 14,000 employees — who
Boom said. were not yet vaccinated.
On Monday, Texas Re- Espino is searching for
publican Gov. Greg Ab- employment elsewhere
bott issued an executive and is considering seek-
order banning any entity ing a license in Florida,
in Texas, including pri- where vaccination re-
vate businesses, from re- quirements are lax.
quiring vaccinations for “Oregon state is strip-
employees or customers. ping away my livelihood
Boom said he was “grate- and everything I hold
ful” the hospital had true,” Espino said.
mandated vaccinations Since Espino and oth-
“early so the order will ers were put on admin-
not have an immediate istrative leave, 114 em-
impact.” ployees have come into
Jared Woodfill, a law- compliance and 97 are on
yer representing work- their way to becoming
ers who were terminat- fully vaccinated, Legacy
ed, said in an interview spokeswoman Kristin
and a letter sent to the Whitney said. Still, the
hospital that Abbott’s or- system of six hospitals
der applies to his clients and about 70 clinics has
must continue to allow percent of employees and they should be re- temporarily consolidated
health care workers to have gotten the shots instated — an argument or closed services, in-
request religious exemp- voluntarily. he said he plans to make cluding CT, mammogra-
tions as a lawsuit over Other health systems in his ongoing lawsuits phy and ultrasound, at
the state’s vaccine re- in Iowa, including Mercy against the hospital in about 10 facilities to less-
quirement proceeds. Medical Center in Ce- state and federal court. en the burden on staff
dar Rapids, UnityPoint Stefanie Asin, a hospi- from employees on leave.
MANY LACK MANDATES Health, MercyOne and tal spokeswoman, said, There were 986 exemp-
But many hospitals Mercy Iowa City, have “There is no merit to tion requests, of which
still lack mandates, and implemented vaccine what he is saying.” The at least 897 were denied,
efforts to vaccinate every mandates that are set hospital will not rehire according to an internal
eligible staff member to take effect later this the unvaccinated former presentation shared with
have lagged. Some of- year. employees, Asin said. the Washington Post.
ficials fear that staff Boom credited the Workers leaving their
members, overwhelmed LEGAL BATTLES widespread vaccinations jobs also are reckoning
from the summer delta with keeping 300 workers with stepping away from
variant surge, could Yet the unvaccinated from getting sick over hospitals at a time when
remain exposed amid a minority of hospital the summer, according staffing is most needed.
potential “twindemic” workers have drawn the to an analysis the hospi- When asked what a
of COVID and flu spikes public’s attention with tal conducted of short- loss of 1 percent of health
this winter. their vocal opposition term disability leaves. care workers could look
The federal govern- in the form of protests Staff members who did like in New Mexico —
ment does not require and lawsuits. Hospital get sick with COVID-19 which has mandated
health care facilities to workers have filed or reported less severe vaccination for those em-
share their vaccination joined lawsuits in at least cases, Boom said, and no ployees — David Scrase,
data. But at more than eight states — includ- employees died over the the acting head of the
2,000 facilities nation- ing Oregon, Minnesota summer. Houston Meth- state’s Health Depart-
wide that voluntarily and New York — against odist lost two workers ment, said the impact on
reported numbers to the their employers or public to COVID-19 in summer an already strained sys-
Department of Health agencies over vaccine 2020. tem is considerable.
and Human Services, mandates. But he added that even
Houston Methodist, STAFFING ISSUES if unvaccinated work-
about 1 in 4 hospital
workers are unvacci- too, made headlines over Despite the clinical ers kept their jobs, they
nated, according to data the summer for suspend- and real-world evidence could be out for long
provided last month. ing 178 employees who that vaccination not periods if they became
Even at hospitals that did not get vaccinated — only protects the person infected.
have not yet mandated after a judge dismissed a who gets their shots “A 1 percent impact
shots, administrators lawsuit from 117 employ- but those around them, on health care workers
have touted their vac- ees who challenged the some hospital workers in our state would mean
cination rates. A spokes- mandate, alleging it was have still declined to get that all the other health
man for HCA Healthcare, reminiscent of Nazi-era vaccinated, leaving hos- care workers would
which has 185 hospitals “nonconsensual human pitals in some parts of have to work 1 percent
in 20 states, said the “ma- experimentation.” the country struggling to harder,” he told report-
jority” of its employees But Boom says the convince them. ers on a call last month.
are vaccinated, but did headlines belie the fact Arnhild Espino, a reg- “They’re already work-
not give a specific figure. that very few — less than istered nurse at Legacy ing as hard as they can,
At the University of 0.6 percent — of Houston Mount Hood Medical so I think it’s a big deal.”
Iowa Hospitals and Clin-
ics, there is no vaccine
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NATION/WORLD
Tributes paid to slain
lawmaker in England
Associated Press

LEIGH-ON-SEA, England —
David Amess was a man of the
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden leave after attending a
ceremony honoring fallen law enforcement officers Saturday at the people, a hardworking British
U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Associated Press) lawmaker who had no grand po-
litical ambitions beyond serving
those who had elected him for

Biden: ‘Democracy nigh-on 40 years.

His shocking death at the
hands of a knife-wielding man at

survived’ Capitol riot a church where he was meeting

voters has reopened questions
about the security needs of Brit-

because of police ain’s members of Parliament as

they go about their daily work.
Police, who have said it was
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (second
President pays tribute stitutional and funda-
mentally un-American
a terrorist-related attack, con-
tinued Saturday to question a from left) carry flowers as they arrive Saturday at the scene where a member of Parlia-
to fallen officers attack on our nation’s 25-year-old British man. ment was stabbed Friday in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. (Associated Press)
values and our votes. Be- For the second time in five
Associated Press cause of you, democracy years, Britain’s political lead- lawmaker, who was stabbed to lawmaker Jo Cox by a far-right
survived,” Biden said. ers put their differences aside to death less than 24 hours earlier. extremist in her own district.
WASHINGTON — “Because of these men gather Saturday morning at the The slaying of the 69-year-old Home Secretary Priti Patel
Framed by the Capitol, and women, we avoided scene of a fallen colleague. Brit- Conservative lawmaker at a said she has convened meetings
President Joe Biden paid a catastrophe, but their ish Prime Minister Boris John- regular meeting with voters has with the speaker of the House
tribute Saturday to fallen heroism came at a cost to son and Keir Starmer, leader caused shock and anxiety across of Commons, police and U.K.
law enforcement officers you and your families.” of the opposition Labour Party, Britain’s political spectrum, not security services to ensure “all
and honored those who Hundreds of officers stood side-by-side and laid flow- least because it is reminiscent measures are being put in place
fought off the Jan. 6 in- and their families sat ers as they paid tribute to the of the 2016 murder of Labour for the security of MPs... .”
surrection at that very on chairs assembled on
site by declaring “be- the Capitol’s west front.
cause of you, democracy Some in the audience
survived.” dabbed their eyes as the
Biden spoke at the president drew connec-
40th annual National tions with their loss and
Peace Officers’ Memo- his own history of grief,
rial Service to remember including the deaths of
the 491 law enforcement his first wife and two
officers who died in the children, comparing it to
line of duty in 2019 and “losing part of your soul.”
2020. Standing where Biden also under-
the violent mob tried to scored the heavy burden
block his own ascension placed on law enforce-
to the presidency, Biden ment officers, and re-
singled out the 150 of- buked the “defund the
ficers who were injured police” political move-
and the five who died in ment, saying that those
the attack’s aftermath. gathered before him
“Nine months ago, would get “more resour-
your brothers and sisters ces, not fewer, so you can
thwarted an uncon- do your job.”

Deputy killed in ambush at bar

Associated Press County Precinct 4 Con-
stable Mark Herman.
HOUSTON — A man The two deputies
with an AR-15-style rifle were trying to arrest
ambushed three con- someone when another
stable deputies outside a person ambushed them,
Houston bar early Satur- Herman’s office said in
day, killing one and leav- a statement. That man
ing two others wounded, had an AR-15-style rifle
authorities in Texas said. and opened fire on them
Authorities detained from behind, according
one person near the to authorities. The third
scene but he is not be- deputy was shot when he
lieved to be the shooter, came to help.
according to the Hous- One of the first depu-
ton Police Department, ties who was shot, Ka-
which is investigating reem Atkins, died from
the shooting. his wounds, according
The deputies were to the constable’s office.
working extra secu- Atkins, 30, leaves behind
rity jobs at the 45 Norte a wife and 2-month-old
Sports Bar when two baby, the statement said.
of them responded to a The constable’s office
witness’ report of a sus- identified the other depu-
pected robbery outside ties as Darrell Garrett,
the business around 2:15 28, and Juqaim Barthen,
a.m., according to Harris 26.

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy space-
craft aboard launches Saturday at Cape Canaveral Space Force
Station in Florida. (Orlando Sentinel via AP)
Asteroid hunter
soars into sky
Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. — A NASA space-
craft named Lucy rock-
eted into the sky with
diamonds Saturday
morning on a 12-year
quest to explore eight
asteroids.
Seven of the myste-
rious space rocks are
among swarms of aster-
oids sharing Jupiter’s
orbit, thought to be the
pristine leftovers of
planetary formation.
An Atlas V rocket
blasted off before dawn,
sending Lucy on a
roundabout journey
spanning nearly 4 bil-
lion miles. Researchers
grew emotional de-
scribing the successful
launch — lead scientist
Hal Levison said it was
like witnessing the
birth of a child. “Go
Lucy!” he urged.
Lucy is named after
the 3.2 million-year-old
skeletal remains of a hu-
man ancestor found in
Ethiopia nearly a half-
century ago. That dis-
covery got its name from
the 1967 Beatles song
“Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds,” prompting
NASA to send the space-
craft soaring with band
members’ lyrics and
other luminaries’ words
of wisdom imprinted on
a plaque. The spacecraft
also carried a disc made
of lab-grown diamonds
for one of its science
instruments.
In a prerecorded
video for NASA, Beatles
PRESCRIPTION
DRUGS
ARE
STILL
DRUGS.
drummer Ringo Starr
paid tribute to his late
colleague John Lennon,
credited for writing the
song that inspired all
this.
“I’m so excited —
Lucy is going back in
the sky with diamonds.
Johnny will love that,”
Starr said. “Anyway,
if you meet anyone up
there, Lucy, give them
peace and love from
me.”
The paleoanthropolo-
gist behind the fossil
Lucy discovery, Donald
Johanson, had goose
bumps watching Lucy
soar — “I will never
look at Jupiter the same
... absolutely mind-
expanding.” He said he
was filled with wonder
about this “intersection
of our past, our present
and our future.”
Lucy’s $981 million
mission is the first to
aim for Jupiter’s so-
called Trojan entourage:
thousands — if not mil-
lions — of asteroids that
share the gas giant’s ex-
pansive orbit around the
sun. Some of the Trojan
asteroids precede Ju-
piter in its orbit, while
others trail it.
Despite their orbits,
the Trojans are far from
the planet and mostly
scattered far from each
other. So there’s es-
sentially zero chance of
Lucy getting clobbered
by one as it swoops past
its targets, said Levison
of Southwest Research
Institute, the mission’s
principal scientist.
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White House scrambles to
pare back climate initiative
Move comes after
stiff pushback
from Manchin
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The
White House is scram-
bling to salvage a criti-
cal proposal to reduce
carbon emissions and
deliver on President
Joe Biden’s ambitious
climate agenda, as push-
back from Sen. Joe Man-
chin, D-W.Va., creates
new headaches for the
administration entering
key international nego-
tiations next month.
The fight revolves
around the Clean Energy
Performance Program,
which Democrats have
proposed as a way to
reward utilities that in-
crease their clean energy
supply by 4 percent each
year — while penalizing
those that don’t. Law-
makers have included
the initiative as part of
a still-forming, multi-
trillion dollar tax-and-
spending package that
aims to advance Biden’s
broader economic vision.
But the emissions-
U.S. plans to make ‘condolence payments’
Money will compensate
families of those killed
in botched drone strike
Washington Post
The United States has
pledged to make undis-
closed “ex gratia condo-
lence payments” to the
families of 10 Afghan
civilians — including
seven children — who
were killed in a botched
drone strike in August,
as American troops
clamored to exit the
country, the Pentagon
said in a statement late
Friday.
The statement fol-
lows a meeting held
Thursday between U.S.
officials and the head of a
California-based charity
that employed Zamarai
Ahmadi, the Afghan man
targeted and killed in the
drone strike Aug. 29.
Ahmadi, a father of
four, was an aid worker
with the U.S. nonprofit,
which aims to allevi-
ate malnutrition in
Afghanistan. He had
just arrived home to his
family compound in a
neighborhood west of
Kabul’s Hamid Karzai
International Airport,
when a Hellfire missile
strike was conducted.
meantime have added to
the high political stakes
for Biden as he prepares
to travel to Glasgow,
Scotland, for a United
Nations climate summit
next month. The Sierra
Club, an environmental
organization, stressed
in a statement Saturday
that Democrats needed
to preserve the CEPP, as
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., departs after a vote on Capitol Hill on it is known, or deliver
Oct. 7 in Washington. (Washington Post) investments in “other
climate priorities to close
reduction program has would provide federal the emissions gap and
drawn fierce public and funding to help com- meet the president’s in-
private opposition from panies curb pollution, ternational climate goals
Manchin, whose home according to two people in the coming days and
state of West Virginia close to the negotiations. weeks as the U.N. cli-
depends heavily on coal. But it remains un- mate negotiations near.”
The standoff has jeop- clear how, exactly, the Even the president’s
ardized Biden’s pledge program would be struc- top envoy for climate,
to halve emissions by tured, and whether it former Secretary of State
2030 — and inspired a would be sufficient to sat- John Kerry, delivered a
new flurry of last-minute isfy Democratic lawmak- stark warning this past
policy proposals just two ers who have demanded week, stressing that a
weeks before the presi- aggressive climate ac- failure to adopt climate
dent and other world tion, added the sources, legislation promptly
leaders are set to con- who requested anonym- could undermine the
vene the most important ity to describe the private United States at a time
global warming talks in discussions. Some in the when it hopes to encour-
a quarter-century. party have taken the age other countries to
One of the ideas under opposite approach from
take action. Biden, how-
consideration would Manchin, fearing they ever, dismissed the com-
establish a scaled-back, risk squandering a gen- ments Friday evening as
voluntary emissions erational opportunity to “a little hyperbole,” add-
trading system among respond to the dire con- ing: “It’d be good to have
aluminum, steel, con- sequences of a steadily agreement on the climate
crete and chemicals warming planet. piece, but we’re going to
manufacturers that The tense talks in the get the climate piece.”
U.S. military officials chain of miscalculations undersecretary of de-
said they had tracked by U.S. commanders, fense for policy, and
Ahmadi’s white Toyota who wrongly believed Steven Kwon, founder of
sedan car for hours after the aid worker was haul- Nutrition & Education
the vehicle left a suspect- ing explosives in his car, International, the char-
ed ISIS-K safe house. The they said. ity Ahmadi worked for,
Pentagon later issued a Thursday’s virtual Pentagon spokesman
mea culpa and said the meeting took place be- John Kirby said in the
strike was a result of a tween Colin Kahl, U.S. statement Friday.
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NATION/WORLD

Hope fades as Lebanon’s crisis deepens

Washington Post
BEIRUT — The recent
appointment of a new
prime minister in Leba-
non after more than a
year of political bicker-
ing brought at least a
small glimmer of hope to
a country on its knees:
a massive financial col-
lapse, a huge chemical
explosion, a chronic
shortage of electricity
and the absence of a gov-
ernment empowered to
take action.
Then came armed con-
frontations in the past
week pitting supporters
of the Shiite-led Hezbol-
lah against Christian
Lebanese Forces. Any
hope of a turnaround
evaporated as Lebanon
appeared to descend into
a new and potentially
deeper crisis.
No one expects an
outright civil war of the
kind that ravaged Leba-
non from 1975 to 1990.
Iran-backed Hezbollah is
the country’s most pow-
erful political and mili-
tary force, the only fac-
tion with a well-armed
militia and vast stocks
of weapons that make it
more capable than the
Lebanese army.
But the flare-up has
ignited fears that sim-
mering civil and sectar-
ian strife will indefinitely
defer solutions to the
multiple other problems
the country is facing —
from a lack of fuel for the
country’s power stations
to the slide in the value
of the currency that has
gutted the finances of
Lebanon’s once relative-
ly prosperous citizens.
The streets are now
calm, but tensions per-
sist. The senior Hezbol-
lah leader who led funer-
als for two Hezbollah
members — among the
Supporters of the Shiite Amal group fire weapons in the air Friday during the funeral procession of
Hassan Jamil Nehmeh, who was killed during Thursday clashes, in the southern Beirut suburb of
Dahiyeh, Lebanon. (Associated Press)
six people killed in the
clash Thursday — vowed
that their blood had not
been spilled “in vain,”
hinting at revenge.
CHRISTIAN DEFENSE
The Lebanese Forces
have accused Hezbol-
lah of seeking to impose
its will on the entire
country, including the
Christians, and has
warned it would resist
any attempts by the Shi-
ite group’s adherents to
enter Christian areas.
Lebanese Forces sup-
porters are now patrol-
ling Christian neighbor-
hoods in the vicinity of
the clash, said a woman
named Souad. She lives
in a Christian section of
Tayoune, where the vio-
lence flared, and asked
for her full name not to
be identified for fear of
retribution.
“They are prepared
and ready for any at-
tempt to enter the area,”
she said of the Lebanese
Forces supporters. “They
carry sticks, not guns.
The guns are hidden.”
The immediate trigger
of this latest crisis was a
call made earlier in the
week by the Hezbollah
leader, Hassan Nasral-
lah, for the dismissal of
Tariq Bitar, the judge in
charge of investigating
the explosion that killed
more than 200 people at
Beirut’s port last year.
During a rally held
by armed supporters of
Hezbollah and its Shiite
ally Amal to support
Nasrallah’s demand, at
least one sniper opened
fire when the marchers
approached a Christian
neighborhood. That
prompted volleys of re-
turn fire from the march-
ers, who then sought to
storm nearby Christian
neighborhoods.
The Lebanese Forces,
a former civil war faction
that now is a political
party, denies Hezbollah
accusations that it was
responsible for the snip-
er fire. But the Forces
also have said Christians
were entitled to defend
themselves against in-
cursions into Christian
areas.
The stakes are far
higher than the fate of a
single judge, however.
The country has
now polarized between
Christians who support
the continuation of the
judge’s investigations
and Shiites who support
Hezbollah’s calls for his
dismissal. The standoff
touches on sectarian
fault lines that crisscross
streets, neighborhoods
and the government.
“A red line has been
drawn between Christian
areas and other areas
and if (all sides) do not
try to de-escalate, this
will not turn out well,”
said Khaldoun el-Charif,
a Lebanese political ana-
lyst. “At any moment a
clash could take place in
any mixed area.”
POLITICAL PARALYSIS
Even if the violence
is contained, the stage is
now set for a potentially
prolonged period of po-
litical paralysis, he said.
Hezbollah is stand-
ing its ground. Both
President Michel Aoun,
a Christian, and the new
Prime Minister Najib
Mikati, a Sunni Muslim,
are standing by Bitar.
Without any conces-
sions, the government
will be unable to agree
on the steps necessary
to pull Lebanon from
its misery, including
political and economic
reforms required by the
International Monetary
Fund to unlock the emer-
gency funding Lebanon
so badly needs.
An alternative scenar-
io is that the president
and prime minister sub-
mit to Hezbollah’s calls
to dismiss Bitar, said
Nizar Hassan, co-host of
the “Lebanese Politics”
podcast.
But that comes with
its own price. The gov-
ernment would likely
lose the support of the
United States and other
Western allies, who have
insisted on a transpar-
ent investigation into the
port explosion and whose
support would be vital
if there is to be an IMF
bailout.
“In both scenarios
the government will be-
come powerless, either
because Hezbollah is in
conflict with it or the
West is in conflict with
it,” he said. “So Mikati
has no good choices.”
HEZBOLLAH MOTIVES
Many Lebanese are
questioning why Hezbol-
lah seems so determined
to remove Bitar, even at
risk of igniting conflict.
One possibility is that
Bitar, who has not re-
vealed his findings, may
have uncovered evidence
implicating Hezbollah in
the shipment of ammo-
nium nitrate that blew
up or with negligence in
leaving it unattended for
over six years at the port,
said Kim Ghattas, the
Beirut-based author of
the book “Black Wave”
about the regionwide
rivalry between Iran and
Saudi Arabia.
More broadly, Hezbol-
lah may be seeking to
undermine the investiga-
tion because of the threat
it poses to the established
political order, which
has for decades protected
the country’s powerful
and often corrupt elites
from scrutiny or ac-
countability, including
Hezbollah, she said.
Bitar’s attempts to in-
terrogate former senior
government officials
would set a precedent
that could unravel the
immunity long enjoyed
by the politicians.
With parliamentary
elections due to be held
early next year, the ten-
sions are unlikely to
abate soon, analysts say.
It serves the interests of
both Hezbollah and the
Lebanese Forces to en-
courage sectarian senti-
ments among Lebanese
who are deeply disillu-
sioned with the political
system that underpins
their collapsed economy
and failing state, said
Bassel Salloukh, a Leba-
non expert and associate
professor of political sci-
ence associate professor
at the Doha Institute for
Graduate Studies
“It’s a win-win situ-
ation for both groups,
because they can use this
to mobilize their constit-
uencies behind them,”
he said.

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Mayor/Partisan labels can be useful to voters

; FROM PAGE 1A
The email said O’Donnell “is a
Republican who has donated
to and supported the types of
politicians who are trying to
undermine the integrity of the
2020 election by pushing the
Big Lie” that the election was
stolen.
In her own campaign, she
uses Act Blue, a Democratic
online fundraising platform.
Federal campaign data shows
she has used the platform to
contribute to the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Com-
mittee, former U.S. Rep. Abby
Finkenauer, former congres-
sional hopeful J.D. Scholten
and Beto O’Rourke of Texas, a
2020 presidential candidate.
Locally, she has contributed
only to Linn County Supervi-
sor Stacey Walker, a progres-
sive Democrat who is support-
ing Andrews’ bid for mayor,
and to the Linn Phoenix Club,
a group that works to elect
Democrats.
She said GOP policies like
those banning certain types of
diversity training in schools
and governments and restrict-
ing voter access are harmful
for the city.
“I have said all along: My
campaign is about putting peo-
ple first — people, small busi-
nesses, workers — and that is
the truth,” Andrews said. “It
doesn’t matter what party you
belong to, but there are mem-
bers of certain parties who be-
lieve things that are damaging
to our community, and that is
what I strongly oppose.”
Her political views are an
indicator of the policies she
would advocate for, Andrews
said in an Oct. 6 forum hosted
by the Cedar Rapids Metro
Economic Alliance and Hawk-
eye Area Labor Council, and
people can judge candidates’
character and decision-mak-
ing by their party alignment.
“Once you get on council
and really in life, this is about
coalition-building,” Andrews
said. “We find common ground
even though we may disagree
in our party politics.”
‘PARTY OF CEDAR RAPIDS’
When incumbent Hart won
in 2017 in a runoff against
Quaker Oats employee Myra Colby
Bradwell answers a question Friday
during a mayoral candidate forum
with the Daybreak Rotary at the Cedar
Rapids Country Club. (Jim Slosiarek/
The Gazette)
Monica Vernon, who had
campaigned as a Democrat for
Congress and lieutenant gov-
ernor, he had touted his lack
of partisan baggage and com-
mitment to keeping the role
of mayor nonpartisan. He has
revived the same refrain now.
During a Sept. 30 candidates
forum hosted by The Gazette,
Hart said, “I want to continue
to serve Cedar Rapids and
only Cedar Rapids.”
He doubled down on his
support for the nonpartisan
design of city government
later in the Oct. 6 forum.
“Our city government is
nonpartisan, and that’s why
we’re effective,” Hart said.
Elected officials sometimes
come to City Hall having
served in partisan roles. For
instance, former Mayor Ron
Corbett was a former Republi-
can speaker of the Iowa House
and later ran for governor. His
predecessor, Kay Halloran,
had served as a Democratic
state lawmaker. Former May-
or Paul Pate was a Republican
state senator and now is Iowa
secretary of state.
Voters do ask Hart about
his political views and who
he supported for president in
2020, he said. Hart is a regis-
tered Republican but tends to
hold moderate views on cer-
tain issues — supporting mask
mandates to curb COVID-19
spread and marijuana legal-
ization, for example.
In the past, he has con-
tributed to campaigns across
the political spectrum. State
campaign records show he has
donated to Hinson as a state
House candidate, Democratic
state Rep. Kirsten Running-
Marquardt and a number of
mostly local candidates for
council and school board, in-
cluding three of his eight other
council members — Scott
Overland, Ann Poe and Marty
Hoeger. On the federal level,
he has contributed to Demo-
cratic congressional hopefuls
Vernon and Swati Dandekar,
data shows.
As the incumbent, he ar-
gued that he has an asset that
should be more revealing to
voters: “I have a record. You
can look at my record, so you
really shouldn’t care as much
whether or not I have certain
positions at the state or the
federal government.”
O’Donnell, also a registered
Republican, has shied away
from partisan connections.
Her campaign sells T-shirts
that say, “The Party of Cedar
Rapids,” followed by a list of
three checked boxes next to the
words “Republican,” “Demo-
crat” and “Independent.”
“I’m running in this race
because it is nonpartisan,”
O’Donnell said during The Ga-
zette’s forum. “I firmly believe
that we have an opportunity
to show the world how this
works. We can be a solutions-
based government. … We are
the party of Cedar Rapids, and
I wholeheartedly embrace
that.”
State records show
O’Donnell has donated to 2018
Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Fred Hubbell and
to several local campaigns for
Walker and council member
Ashley Vanorny. She and her
husband also contributed to
Hart’s 2017 campaign and to
Cedar Rapids school board
member Jen Neumann. On the
federal level, she has contrib-
uted only to Hinson, campaign
filings show.
“We have to work with
people who don’t always agree
with us,” O’Donnell said. “We
have to lean on elected state
and federal officials who we
don’t agree with but we need
them. And when we throw
them under the bus regularly
and then want to call them
and say we need flood protec-
tion support, ‘We need help,’ I
think that’s a challenge.”
Andrews told The Gazette
partisan ties should not have a first Black mayor of Cedar
bearing on how the city works Rapids, those policies matter
with state and federal elected locally, Goldberg said.
officials, who are mostly “They’re sort of arguing
Republican. that actually there are ways to
“This is a democracy,” An- pave roads or build highways
drews said. “We have differ- or local infrastructure that
ences, but we are all, if elected, does perpetuate structural
representing our constituents racism, and that is very tied
— and that goes for our state up in partisanship,” Goldberg
electeds as well. We should all said.
be able to put parties aside and Peterson said partisan la-
make the best decisions for bels can provide helpful infor-
our city, for our state, for our mation to voters. For instance,
regions.” Democrats are more likely to
After an exchange between support mask mandates, and
Andrews and O’Donnell about Republicans may be less sup-
their partisan ties during portive of police reforms.
The Gazette’s forum, Quaker “The choice is a strategic
Oats employee Myra Colby one: Am I likely to attract
Bradwell, formerly known more voters by telling them
as Gregory Hughes, said, this is who I am and you share
“We have two people that are these preferences than they
fighting about Democrats and are to push away because they
Republicans. This is a Cedar find the partisan bit a little dis-
Rapids issue, it’s a nonparti- tasteful?” Peterson said.
san issue, yet they’ll want us
to talk about whether you’re WINNING STRATEGY?
a Democrat or Republican or Since Hart won in 2017,
whatever. We need to think there are about 12,000 more
about Cedar Rapids and the Democrats registered to vote
people here.” in Linn County, compared
with only about 4,000 more Re-
LOCAL POLITICS NATIONALIZED publicans.
State politics has become “Even if (Andrews) turns
more nationalized, political off the voters who might have
science experts told The Ga- been willing to vote for a more
zette, and that has trickled moderate but still sort of left-
down to the local level. of-center candidate, that’s OK
“The key debate for local as long as the candidate on the
government isn’t about zon- right is drawing away from
ing, or about where should the middle as well,” Peterson
traffic lights be and what said.
should the speed limit be over While some may bristle at
there, but it’s about things partisan politics, Goldberg
like COVID mitigation policies said — even the framers of
or Black Lives Matter,” said the Constitution did — non-
Dave Peterson, a political-sci- partisanship isn’t good in and
ence professor at Iowa State of itself and can pose its own
University in Ames. “There’s problems for democratic
not really a partisan differ- accountability.
ence on zoning or on develop- “If you have these very
ment ... .” pure, nonpartisan elections,
Noting the saying that pav- but you really don’t like the
ing roads is not a partisan way Cedar Rapids is right
issue, Megan Goldberg, an as- now — you’re really upset
sistant professor of American about the roads, or you’re
politics at Cornell College in upset about zoning — how do
Mount Vernon, said that while you change it?” Goldberg said.
there are not Democratic and “There’s not a clear coalition
Republican ways to patch a of people in charge that you
pothole, policy outcomes can can easily figure out without
perpetuate inequality at the knowing a lot about local
local level. politics.”
For a candidate like An-
drews, a social justice advo- Comments: (319) 398-8494;
cate who would become the marissa.payne@thegazette.com

Adoption/Family has ‘unheard of’ experience in Ukraine

; FROM PAGE 1A Eventually, Jenna’s adop- As the twins approach 17,
tion facilitator spelled it out: Scott and Jenna feel robbed of
months. Jenna spent about The judge had suspicions she a childhood they could have
four months, from June to was adopting Mkolya to har- been part of earlier as parents,
October, living in Ukraine to vest his organs for one of her had it not been for extensive
finalize the legal adoption pro- other children. adoption delays. But no mat-
cess. The couple started the “I didn’t think we were go- ter when their lives together
process for the twins over two ing to get (approval),” Jenna started, the twins will always
years ago. They went through said. be their children. And no mat-
three adoption agencies, los- But the instant, inseparable ter their age, they know they
ing thousands of dollars and bond between Mkolya and belong in the family because
months of progress after the Jenna cracked a single smile of a love they said transcends
government shut down one out of the judge. words.
and corruption cordoned off “This is my mother,” he told
another. her — something he managed WHAT’S NEXT?
Applications and paper- to recognize despite never The hard work doesn’t stop
work were rejected for the having known one before. here, though.
wrong color of pen ink, a “You would have thought Soon, the boys will be tested
middle name missing from a he’s known us forever,” Jennato see their grade placement in
notary’s signature, a slightly said. “He was so attached, school.
misaligned stamp and paying which is really uncommon.” For Mkolya, having broth-
a fee they were incorrectly Why nobody wanted to ers, a family and the ability to
told to pay. The last one put adopt someone as motivated, be alone in a room outside the
them on the verge of being smart and kind as him is orphanage are new realities
unable to adopt Ilya and Bog- something the Breckenridges he’ll have to adjust to. Soon,
dan, with a filing rejection may never understand. he’ll establish medical care for
returned a mere month before any special needs.
the twins’ 16th birthday, the THE TWINS Ilya and Bogdan will soon
deadline for one U.S. Citizen- Twins Ilya and Bogdan, 16, schedule a naturalization
ship and Immigration Services can confirm that their mother ceremony to become U.S. citi-
requirement. and father love them. zens. Ilya wants to become a
And in case you were won- “Maybe too much,” Bogdan police officer; Bogdan dreams
dering, Ukraine officials pre- told the judge in court. of playing professional soccer
fer blue ink, not black. The teens, who were 14 but is working on a backup
In a mix of Ukrainian and when they met their now plan at his parents’ insistence.
English, “I miss you” and “I Scott Breckenridge shares a moment Tuesday with his youngest adopted son, adoptive parents, aged out of Though Jenna said their
love you” were the refrains Mkolya, 10, as their family is reunited at The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar the orphanage when they fin- family will continue to be
that bridged the relationship Rapids. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) ished ninth grade. Since then, open to more children, they
over 5,000 miles through the they had been living in a hos- will never adopt from Ukraine
entirety of the pandemic. Now, normal even in that country Mkolya a gift at their first tel room with four people. again. They continue to pay off
the family doesn’t have to rely happened so often that the meeting. Then the ques- Now, the boys are only 15 the debt remaining from the
on words over Wi-Fi to express family developed their own tions became more sinister, months away from being legal $65,000 it took to bring their
their love. slogan: “It’s Ukraine.” Jenna said, as she asked why adults in their new country. three sons home.
“Everything that happened the Breckenridges wanted a But for the first time in years, “We have the ability to have
TREATED LIKE A CRIMINAL to us is unheard of,” Jenna child with special needs from they’re being afforded the free- a big family and give all the
Jenna and Scott flew to said. Ukraine. dom of youth after taking care children equal attention and
Ukraine on June 28 to meet Mkolya’s adoption hear- “She couldn’t believe we of themselves for so long. equal amounts of love,” she
Mkolya for the first time and ing, which would usually be wanted to adopt him because The pair, distinguished by said.
start the final processes to finalized in a day, was being of his special needs,” Jenna their personalities — Bogdan Two years ago, Jenna was
adopt all three boys. Scott re- handled by a judge who dealt said. “They shun these kids in poses a more serious contrast a biological mother to one and
turned to Hiawatha in August mostly in criminal proceed- this country.” to happy-go-lucky Ilya — have a stepmom who never consid-
as Jenna finalized the process ings — and she treated Jenna Those special needs were a been in the orphanage since ered adoption. Now, she has a
in Ukrainian courts, working no differently than most crimi- simple cleft palate and devel- age 12, when they were re- drive to be the mother she said
remotely from her apartment nals in her courtroom. opmental delay. Mkolya, now moved from their mother’s ne- she never experienced herself.
as she lived there. Jenna was interrogated 11, has spent almost his entire glect. They went through six “We’re just happy they’re
“Nothing went as planned,” about her criminal history, life in an orphanage since his foster homes in three years. home,” Scott said.
she said. why Scott wasn’t present mother left him at the hospital “I keep telling Bogdan he Comments: (319) 398-8340;
The deviations from what is and why she hadn’t brought as a baby. can be a kid now,” Jenna said. elijah.decious@thegazette.com

Farm Bureau/Gaining ‘outsized influence’
; FROM PAGE 1A
nature of the modern
Iowa Farm Bureau, and
the potential conflicts of
interest at the heart of
the nonprofit organiza-
tion that sits atop multi-
ple for-profit companies.
The political activities
of farm bureaus at the
state and federal level
are well-documented.
But the scope of the Iowa
Farm Bureau’s sprawl-
ing financial operations
is less understood.
Through expanded in-
vestments, it has reaped
massive profits. Over
the past decade, its total
revenue has increased
about 200 percent. And,
lately, about 80 percent
of it comes from invest-
ments, according to tax
documents. No other
farm bureau approaches
that ratio.
The Iowa Farm Bu-
reau recently reported
total revenue of about
$100 million, the most of
any farm bureau by far
and nearly three times
that of the influential
national umbrella group,
the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation. Today
its investment portfolio
is worth more than a bil-
lion dollars. Executive
compensation is in the
high six figures.
The Farm Bureau has
reaped these gains while
many farmers have suf-
fered through expensive
seed and fertilizer prices
but low sale prices for
their products. The bu-
reau’s stated mission
is to provide a “vibrant
future” to farm families,
but it has been criticized
for piling up cash while
Iowa farmers struggle.
In recent years, Iowa
farmers have suffered
through low-to-negative
profit margins, according
to Iowa State University
research reviewing 1999
to 2015. And, in the 2010s,
Iowa continued its trend
of losing farms as opera-
tor income dropped 21
percent, according to
U.S. Department of Agri-
culture data.
“The economic situ-
ation is getting worse
for farmers in Iowa, and
(it) keeps getting bigger,
and that’s the crux,” said
Austin Frerick, a native
Iowan who has studied
the Farm Bureau and
been a vocal critic. In the
2018 congressional mid-
terms, he ran as a Demo-
crat but dropped out of
the race that Democratic
Rep. Cindy Axne later
won. “They are not what
their mission states.
They are actually work-
ing against it.”
FBL, the insurance
company, is the engine
behind much of the Farm
Bureau’s profits. It il-
lustrates the inherent
tension within the Farm
Bureau’s for-profit and
nonprofit entities. A pre-
viously unreported loan
to FBL, extended in 2008,
drives to the heart of
these tensions.
In 2008, the Iowa Farm
Bureau feared FBL was
poised to fail. That fall,
the insurer’s stock was
cratering in the midst of
the global financial cri-
sis. This posed a problem
for senior Farm Bureau
executives — they were
compensated by the in-
surance business. They
took action. As the stock
price fell, according to
court records, the Farm
Maduro ally extradited to U.S. on money laundering charges
Associated Press Alex Saab was on a
chartered Justice De-
MIAMI — A top fugi- partment flight from the
tive close to Venezuela’s West African country,
socialist government has a small island chain,
been put on a flight from where he was arrested 16
Cape Verde to the United months ago while mak-
States to face money ing a stop on the way to
laundering charges, a Iran for what Nicolas
senior U.S. official con- Maduro’s government
firmed Saturday. later described as a dip-
Sunday, October 17, 2021 ● The Gazette 7A
In 2019, the latest
year available, Parker’s
income from the Farm
Bureau was again $0,
but his total compensa-
tion from FBL and other
related organizations
was about $840,000. The
executive director made
almost $1 million this
way. Craig Hill, the cur-
rent president, brought
in about $650,000, as well.
The Iowa Farm Bu-
reau did not respond
when asked about the
experts’ comments on
the loan or the bureau’s
executive pay.
Hill told The Gazette
in 2017 the bureau
learned from the finan-
cial crisis.
“That fear created by
the financial crisis gave
us a pause to think and
rethink about our invest-
ments,” he told the news-
paper. “We’re trying to
put money into more di-
versified portfolios so we
don’t have all our eggs in
Farm Bureau President Craig Hill talks about conservation efforts April 19, 2017, at a farm near Ackworth. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) one basket.”
AFTER THE LOAN
Over time, profits
from the Farm Bureau’s
companies have helped
its nonprofit arm become
one of the most influen-
tial political organiza-
tions in Iowa.
In the early 2010s, text
in a state plan to address
fertilizer runoff closely
mirrored wording the
Farm Bureau had pro-
posed, according to the
Des Moines Register.
In 2016, the Storm Lake
Times reported the Farm
Bureau was one of a
handful of agricultural
groups that bankrolled
A sign above the Iowa Farm Bureau building (left) and the building itself are pictured Sept. 11 in West Des Moines. (Emily E. Blobaum/ a legal challenge to an
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting)
effort to curtail harmful
runoff. And, in 2018, the
Bureau arranged a 2007, FBL’s stock price by ProPublica. This wasn’t the case state exempted health
$25 million loan. reached a high of about When asked about the with the loan to FBL. insurance plans provided
When asked about the $33. discrepancy, Wheeler, The company’s stock re- by the Farm Bureau
loan, Iowa Farm Bureau Then the financial the spokesman, provided bounded as the economy from federal regulations
spokesman Andrew crisis hit, putting FBL in the statement saying recovered, and then governing the minimum
Wheeler said the bu- deep jeopardy. The com- the bureau was not “di- spiked in the years after. coverage health plans
reau “has never directly pany faced the possibility rectly” involved in the At the same time, the are supposed to offer.
participated in a loan to that its policyholders transaction. But there is Farm Bureau’s execu- For Josh Nelson, an
FBL Financial Group might stop paying their evidence that Parker, the tives cashed in. Iowa farmer who serves
Inc. Any information to premiums, gutting its general counsel, was. These profits highlight at the county level on the
the contrary would be revenue. It would need In a 2016 deposition for another conflict inherent bureau’s soil and water
incorrect or out of con- to raise more money, the the lawsuit, Jim Gard- in loans like the one to conservation commis-
text.” He did not return company told the Securi- ner, who’s worked on the FBL. sion, the bureau is very
requests for clarificationties and Exchange Com- Farm Bureau’s finances Nonprofit executives effective at advocating
over three months. mission, in order to keep since 1996 and is now the are supposed to operate for its members.
The Farm Bureau operating normally. chief financial officer, in the best interest of “Sometimes it’s a little
also did not respond to By the end of October agreed the bureau’s plan the nonprofit. But by not lopsided because people
a list of questions for 2008, FBL’s stock had was to loan FBL money. taking salaries and hav- think of agriculture and
other parts of this story,fallen to about $14. A lawyer asked if Parker ing their income tied to they think of Farm Bu-
such as criticism about The effort to save FBL was involved. FBL’s performance, the reau,” he said. “I would
the disparity between involved the top leaders “Yes,” Gardner said. Farm Bureau’s execu- probably argue the ma-
its finances and those of of the Iowa Farm Bu- But, in 2008, the Farm tives open themselves up jority of farmers that I’ve
many Iowa farmers. In reau, who are charged Bureau had a different to questions. dealt with broadly align
its tax documents, the with looking after the story for federal authori- “Do they have a self- with the political stances
Farm Bureau said it does nonprofit’s financial ties. The day after Parker interest in it? It seems Farm Bureau takes, but
not make its conflict of health. signed the agreement to me the answer on the I don’t know if it neces-
interest policies public. In late 2008, the Farm with the bank, on Nov. 6, surface is yes,” said Mi- sarily services all of agri-
A committee reviews po- Bureau’s general coun- 2008, FBL submitted an chael Granof, an expert culture, all the farmers,
tential conflicts of inter-
sel, Edward Parker, update to the SEC, say- in nonprofit accounting everybody out there like
est each year and makes contacted First Ameri- ing that “an investment at the University of Tex- they say they do.”
judgments, according to can Bank, according to affiliate” of the Farm as. “They’re not getting As for its insurance
its tax forms. documents in a state Bureau had acquired the paid by the not-for-profit. business, Nelson said, he
court case. Parker, who $25 million loan. Therefore, their salary, sees it as another way to
THE LOAN still is with the Farm Bu- By law, transactions their well-being, depends exert power in the state.
The seeds for the reau, has taken no salary of more than $120,000 on the survival of the in- “They realize how
$25 million loan, and the from the bureau since between related enti- surance company.” having private, for-profit
Farm Bureau’s financial he became its general ties are supposed to be In 2008, Parker’s com- companies can give that
growth, were planted counsel in October 2007, disclosed. If the SEC had pensation from the Farm nonprofit an outsized
when the country began according to nonprofit discovered the nondisclo- Bureau itself was $0, influence and outsized
convulsing from the 2008 tax forms collected by sure within the five-year according to that year’s voice,” he said, “because
crisis. ProPublica’s Nonprofit statute of limitations, 990. But his pay from it’s easy to rack up a lot
While the nonprofit Explorer. it could have pursued related organizations, in- of influence if you’ve got
part of the Farm Bureau On Nov. 5, 2008, a case, said Adam cluding FBL, was about a pretty successful busi-
might have been more Parker signed an agree- Pritchard, a securities $370,000. Similarly, the ness on the side.”
insulated from market ment under which the law expert at the Univer- executive director made
gyrations, the company’s nonprofit Farm Bureau sity of Michigan. $0 from the Farm Bureau Steve Garrison of Watchdog
insurance business was would loan $25 million But the SEC has lim- but about $750,000 from Writers Group contributed.
not. At particular risk to FBL, with the bank ited resources, and, gen- related organizations Investigate Midwest is a nonprofit,
was FBL, which had facilitating the transac- erally, instances where including FBL. And online newsroom offering
been formed in 1944 as tion. The loan was not shareholders lose money Craig Lang, the presi- investigative and enterprise
coverage of agribusiness, Big
the Farm Bureau Life recorded on the Farm get more attention. dent at the time, brought Ag and related issues through
Insurance Co. In 1996, Bureau’s public disclo- “It’s a big problem in about half a million data analysis, visualizations,
the Farm Bureau took sure form, called a 990, only if the loan goes from FBL and related in-depth reports and interactive
FBL public. Before 2008, although transactions bad,” Pritchard said. organizations. (Lang did web tools. Visit us online at
the Farm Bureau’s such as these are sup- “People only go looking not return requests to investigatemidwest.org. This
story is a collaboration between
return from FBL was posed to be, according to for false disclosures if comment to his personal Investigate Midwest and Watchdog
rising steadily. In late the tax forms collected something bad happens.” email address.) Writers Group.
lomatic humanitarian Saab’s arrival in the the U.S. for the “kidnap- have been targeting Saab
mission. U.S. is bound to compli- ping” and “torture” of for years, believing he
The official spoke cate relations between Saab, a businessman holds numerous secrets
on condition he not be Washington and Cara- from Colombia who about how Maduro, the
named. A public rela- cas, possibly disrupting prosecutors say amassed president’s family and
tions firm representing fledgling talks between a fortune wheeling and his top aides siphoned off
Saab said in an email Maduro’s government dealing on behalf of the millions of dollars in gov-
that the Colombian busi- and its U.S.-backed op- socialist government, ernment contracts for
nessman was taken from position taking place in which faces heavy U.S. food and housing amid
his home without his Mexico. sanctions. widespread hunger in
lawyers being notified. Maduro has blasted American authorities oil-rich Venezuela.
8A The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021
Redistricting likely to mean less compromise
Erasure of competitive
districts means fewer
politicians will be willing
to buck their party
Washington Post
In Texas, a proposed
Republican reworking
of U.S. House districts
would reduce the state’s
12 competitive districts
to one. In Oregon, the
approved Democratic
map shored up two com-
petitive seats, making
them more solidly blue.
In Indiana, Republicans
eliminated the state’s
only competitive seat by
shifting it from a district
former President Donald
Trump won by 2 per-
centage points to one he
would have won by 16.
Redistricting is just
getting started around
the country, but the
first maps released sug-
gest a coming decade
of even more deeply
entrenched partisanship
for Congress.
Most House lawmak-
ers already represent
solidly partisan constitu-
encies. Every two years,
party control is deter-
mined by the outcome of
only a few dozen seats.
Next year, Republicans
need to flip only a hand-
ful of seats to wrest pow-
er away from Democrats.
Of the country’s 435
congressional districts,
Trump or President
Joe Biden won just 50
of them by 5 or less per-
centage points. Those
swing districts could
be reduced by at least a
third after redistricting,
experts estimate.
“There are really
only about three dozen
truly competitive seats
anyway, and partisans
have realized in these
polarized times the best
way to flip a district is
to gerrymander it after
the census,” said David
Daley, a senior fellow for
FairVote, a nonpartisan
voting rights advocacy
organization, and author
of two books on modern
redistricting. “Now parti-
sans are coming back for
more.”
Ahead of the 2022
contests, the Democratic
Congressional Campaign
Committee had listed two
Texas districts currently
held by Republicans as
targets to flip in 2022, but
the proposed new map
would push them out of
reach. The 23rd, which
stretches along the bor-
der from San Antonio to
El Paso, would go from
a district Trump won by
less than 2 percentage
points to one he won by
7, and the 24th, located in
northern Dallas, would
turn from one Biden won
by 5 points to one Trump
would have won by 12.
Democrats had also
hoped to target Indiana’s
lone competitive district,
which will now become
solidly Republican.
For its part, the Na-
tional Republican Con-
gressional Committee in-
cluded both competitive
Oregon districts, held by
Democrats, on its target
list. The new map makes
both much safer for
Democrats.
Oregon is the only
state where redistrict-
ing is controlled by
Democrats that gained
a seat due to population
growth.
The state’s redistrict-
ing chairwoman, Demo-
cratic state Rep. Andrea
Salinas, announced ear-
lier this month that she
may run for the new seat
— a deep blue district
south of Portland that
Biden would have won
by double digits.
Rep. Christine Drazan,
the Oregon state as-
sembly GOP leader who
sat on the legislature’s
redistricting committee,
pointed to Salinas’ move
as evidence of partisan
self-interest afoot during
People examine the current South Carolina Senate districts at a public meeting by a Senate subcommittee on redistricting on July 28
in Sumter, S.C. Two civil rights groups have sued South Carolina, saying state lawmakers are taking too long to draw the new maps.
(Associated Press)
redistricting.
“Politicians should
not be drawing political
boundaries, no matter
who they are,” she said
in an interview. “We are
getting more polarized
by nature of these maps.
How do we stop being
broken if we’re not will-
ing to recognize that the
process itself is broken?”
NO COMPROMISE
The bitter polarization
in American politics re-
lies on many factors, but
many critics of Washing-
ton’s persistent gridlock
point to partisan gerry-
mandering as a leading
reason lawmakers in
Congress have little in-
centive to compromise.
“If you’re representing
a district where you have
to listen to both sides,
you hear both points of
view, and then you go
to Washington and you
find most everyone else
comes from a district
where they only hear
one viewpoint,” said for-
mer congressman Jason
Altmire, who lost his
re-election bid in the 2012
Democratic Pennsylvania
primary after redistrict-
ing merged his district
with one held by another
Democratic incumbent.
The primary winner, for-
mer congressman Mark
Critz, lost in the general
election to a Republican
who was aided by the
narrowly red district.
Altmire, a moderate
Democrat from the Pitts-
burgh suburbs, was one
of many casualties of re-
districting in 2011, when
Republican state officials
in charge of the process
in most of the nation’s
traditional battleground
states redrew boundaries
to increase their share
of the seats and packed
Democrats into as few as
possible.
Before 2011, at least
six congressional dis-
tricts in Ohio had swung
back and forth between
Democrats and Repub-
licans over the previous
decade. When Barack
Obama won Ohio in the
2008 presidential elec-
tion, Democrats won 10
of the state’s 18 House
seats. Four years later,
after Republicans redrew
the lines to their advan-
tage, Obama again won
the state, but Democrats
won only four seats.
They have not flipped a
single GOP seat in the
last decade.
“Most of these guys
have never faced the
prospect of a real elec-
tion with swing voters
to decide it,” said David
Pepper, the former chair-
man of the Ohio Demo-
cratic Party. “It just
shows you, if they can’t
beat you through the
election then they’ll just
take your district away.”
Pepper said eliminat-
ing competition also has
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the effect of suppress-
ing the vote. And, he
said, it handicaps Ohio
Democrats’ ability to
recruit a deeper bench
of candidates if there are
only four viable seats in
which they can run.
“If in a non-presiden-
tial year every race is
predetermined, why do
people turn out to vote?”
Pepper said. “If you’ve
rigged every election so
99 percent of the elec-
tions were determined in
2011, it starts to pull any
energy out of democracy
entirely.”
Ohio, which lost two
seats a decade ago, is los-
ing another one in the
current mapmaking. Re-
publicans, who control
state government, have
not yet released new
congressional boundar-
ies, but Democrats are
bracing for the loss to
come at their expense.
That would reduce their
representation to just
three of 15 seats in a state
in which Biden received
more than 45 percent of
the vote.
Nationally, Democrats
lost the House in the 2010
tea party rout before re-
districting, but new maps
in 2012 made it much
harder to win it back. In
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competitive district in
the state by far, there’s
no doubt in my mind that
[Hill] spoke to Republican
buddies in the legislature
about how to make it eas-
ier for him,” Cartwright
said. “It’s unfortunate Re-
publicans want to choose
power over fairness, but I
don’t think it’s a surprise,
either.”
NO BUCKING THE PARTY
The erasure of compet-
itive districts also means
the number of lawmak-
ers willing to buck their
party and vote with the
other side will continue
to diminish.
Two probable casual-
ties of redistricting next
year are Reps. Adam
Kinzinger, R-Ill., and
John Katko, R-N.Y., two
of the 10 Republicans
who joined Democrats to
vote to impeach Trump
over the former presi-
dent’s role in the Jan. 6
Capitol riots.
In Illinois, which is
losing a congressional
seat, Democrats in con-
trol there are expected
the next three congres- where the population is to scrap Kinzinger’s dis-
sional elections, Repub- becoming more diverse trict and force him into
licans had a net benefit and Democratic, particu- a primary with another
of 16 to 17 seats because larly in the suburbs, Re- Republican incumbent.
of partisan gerryman- publicans in charge are Katko, who already rep-
dering, according to a expected to carve up the resents a district that
2017 analysis of election maps to head off any po- tilts Democratic, is ex-
results by the Brennan tential Democratic gains. pected to find his Upstate
Center for Justice. “These are not short- New York seat become
term seat maximization even bluer.
LONG-TERM REDRAWING gerrymanders; they are Kinzinger in a writ-
The GOP hold on the designed to build a wall ten statement said
House lasted until 2018 around demographic state Democrats were a
when Democrats won change, designed with an “prime example” of re-
back the majority largely eye on what the state will districting partisanship.
because of a repudiation look like in 2026, 2030,” Other Republicans
of Trump among subur- FairVote’s Daley said. who voted to impeach
ban voters, boosted by Earlier this month, Trump, like 18-term mod-
netting three new Penn- Republicans in Arkansas erate Rep. Fred Upton
sylvania seats after the finalized a new map that of Michigan, may find
state Supreme Court or- sliced Pulaski County themselves in redder,
dered the state to redraw into three congressional less familiar territory as
its gerrymandered map. districts, dividing voters redistricting makes them
“The design is to bake in the most populous and more vulnerable to a pri-
in results. They are de- racially diverse part of mary challenger who will
fensive gerrymanders ... the state. The state’s 2nd then have a huge edge in
it’s very much about cre- Congressional District, the general election.
ating safe districts,” said which would have been
Michael Li, redistricting a stretch but not impos- “If you draw a district
expert at the Brennan sible for a Democrat to that’s safe, the party
Center. “If you have win under the current no longer cares about
competitive seats it’s be- lines, will now be safe for recruiting a broadly ap-
cause a commission or a a Republican. pealing candidate,” said
court drew them.” Nick Cartwright, a David Wasserman, a vet-
Democrats in Mary- Democrat running to eran analyst of election
land may gut the only take on incumbent Re- data for the Cook Politi-
Republican-held seat in publican Rep. French cal Report.
that state, creating an 8-0 Hill in that district, said “This is a vicious
Democratic delegation. he believes the new lines cycle in that the decline
And in states like North were drawn to create a of competitive seats leads
Carolina, South Caro- GOP firewall. to a more extreme and
lina, Florida and Utah “This was the most dysfunctional Congress.”
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NATION/WORLD

Many Afghans pack their bags and wait

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghani-
stan — As their flight to
Islamabad was finally
about to take off, Somaya
took her husband Ali’s
hand, lay her head back
and closed her eyes. Ten-
sion had been building
in her for weeks. Now
it was happening: They
were leaving Afghani-
stan, their homeland.
The couple had been Najia (second left) poses Oct. 1 with her family in Kabul, Afghani-
trying to go ever since stan. They sold their home and used the money to try to escape.
the Taliban took over in Najia, once a bacha posh, thinks there is no place for them under
mid-August, for multiple the current regime. Bacha posh means in Dari “dressed up as a
boy” and is a regional tradition allowing parents to dress and raise
reasons. Ali is a journal- their daughters as boys to provide them with a different life.
ist and Somaya a civil en-
gineer who has worked
on United Nations devel- But he said they told “I didn’t take them
opment programs. They him he could not bring because I wanted to stay
worry how the Taliban A child sleeps on a hammock Sept. 27 next to packed suitcases from the Jawed family in Kabul, his parents and siblings. and I wanted to work and
will treat anyone with Afghanistan. Despite the family unsuccessfully trying to leave Afghanistan since the arrival of the In early October, Popal I wanted to make a differ-
those jobs. They also are
Taliban, two suitcases packed with clothes are set to go. (Associated Press photos) managed to get out to ence,” he said, speaking
members of the mainly Iran. Complaining that on condition he not be
Shiite Hazara minority, and upperclass teens, the Some don’t have the Taliban takeover, Popal he’s had no help from the named for his protection.
which fears the Sunni waiter lists the countries money for travel, others returned to Afghanistan British Foreign Office, he Now he is in hiding,
militants. to which he has applied don’t have passports, in hopes of getting his is making his way back waiting for his opportu-
Most important of all: for visas. and the Afghan passport family out. His father to Britain, where he will nity to escape.
Somaya is five months Some say their lives offices reopened only once worked at a mili- try to find a way to bring The American Univer-
pregnant with their are in danger because recently. tary base in Logar Prov- out his family. sity of Afghanistan, a pri-
daughter, whom they’ve of links with the ousted ince, where his mother The British Foreign vate university in Kabul,
already named Negar. government or with ‘SHATTERED’ DREAMS was a teacher. His sisters Office said in a statement is arranging flights out
“I will not allow my Western organizations. The exodus is empty- have been studying med- that it is working to en- for many of its students.
daughter to step in Af- Others say their way of ing Afghanistan of many icine in Kabul. sure British nationals in In Pakistan, at the Is-
ghanistan if the Taliban life cannot endure under of its young people who The recent weeks have Afghanistan are able to lamabad airport, a group
are in charge,” Somaya the hard-line Taliban, no- had hoped to help build been tumultuous. His leave. of American University
told the Associated Press torious for their restric- their homeland. family’s home in Logar A former adviser to a students, freshly arrived
on the flight with them. tions on women, on civil “I was raised with one was destroyed by the senior Cabinet minister from Kabul, waited to
Like others leaving liberties and their harsh dream, that I study hard Taliban, and they moved in Afghanistan’s ousted cross through immigra-
or trying to leave, the interpretation of Islamic and be someone, and I’d to Kabul. They believe it government said he tion. They will go on to
couple asked that their law. Some are not as con- come back to this coun- was because they refused was searching for a way sister schools in Central
full names not be used cerned with the Taliban try and help,” said Popal, to give information to out. The decision came Asia.
for their protection. They themselves but fear that a 27-year-old engineer. relatives who are linked after years of sticking it But their families
don’t know if they’ll ever under them, an already “With this sudden to the Taliban. One of his out through mounting could not come with
return. collapsing economy will collapse, every dream is sisters went missing as violence. He survived them, so they face the
Ask almost anyone in utterly crash. shattered.” she commuted between a 2016 suicide bombing uncertain future alone
the Afghan capital what Tens of thousands of When Popal was 5, his Kabul and Logar, and has that hit a protest march for the moment.
they want now that the people were evacuated father sent him to Brit- not been heard from in in Kabul and killed more Without her family for
Taliban are in power, and by the United States and ain with relatives to get weeks. The family fears than 90 people. Friends the first time ever, Mee-
the answer is the same: its allies in the frantic an education. Growing it could be connected to of his were killed in an na, a 21-year-old political
They want to leave. It’s days between the Aug. 15 up, Popal worked low- warnings they received attack later that year on science student, cringed
the same at every level Taliban takeover and the skill jobs, sending money from relatives to stop the the American University as an airport official
of society, in the local official end of the evacu- back to his family, while daughters from studies, of Afghanistan, killing at shouted at the students.
market, in a barbershop, ation Aug. 30. After that, studying engineering. He Popal told the AP. least 13. “I don’t know my
at Kabul University, at a the numbers slowed, eventually gained British Popal has been in In the past, he had op- future. I had a lot of
camp of displaced people. leaving many who want citizenship and worked contact for weeks with portunities and offers to dreams, but now I don’t
At a restaurant once pop- to leave but are strug- in the nuclear sector. British officials trying go to the United States or know,” she said, starting
ular with businessmen gling to find a way out. A few weeks before the to arrange evacuations. Europe. to cry.

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NATION/WORLD

Nursing school applications rise despite virus

Associated Press
STORRS, Conn. —
Nurses around the U.S.
are getting burned out by
the COVID-19 crisis and
quitting, yet applications
to nursing schools are
rising, driven by what
educators say are young
people who see the global
emergency as an oppor-
tunity and a challenge.
Among them is Uni-
versity of Connecticut
sophomore Brianna
Monte, a 19-year-old
from Mahopac, N.Y., who
had been considering
majoring in education
but decided on nursing
after watching nurses
care for her 84-year-
grandmother, who was
diagnosed last year with
COVID-19 and also had
cancer.
“They were switching
out their protective gear
in between every patient,
running like crazy trying
to make sure all of their
patients were attended
to,” she said. “I had that
moment of clarity that
made me want to jump
right in to health care
and join the workers on
the front line.”
Nationally, enrollment
in bachelor’s, master’s
and doctoral nursing
programs increased
5.6 percent in 2020 from
the year before to just
over 250,000 students, ac-
cording to the American
Association of Colleges of
Nursing.
Figures for the current
2021-22 school year won’t
be available until Janu-
ary, but administrators
say they have continued
to see a spike in interest.
The University of
Michigan nursing school
reported getting about
1,800 applications for 150
freshman slots this fall,
compared with about
First-year nursing student Emma Champlin poses for a photo Wednesday in her clinical laboratory
class at Fresno State in Fresno, Calif. Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-
19 crisis and quitting, yet enrollment at nursing schools is surging. Champlin said that like many of
her classmates, she saw the pandemic as a chance to learn critical-care skills and to help at a time
when those abilities are needed. (Associated Press)
1,200 in 2019.
Marie Nolan, ex-
ecutive vice dean of the
Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity School of Nursing
in Baltimore, said it has
seen its biggest number
of applicants ever, many
of them applying even
before a vaccine was
available, despite her
worries that COVID-19
would scare off students.
Students at those and
other schools have been
able to gain valuable
hands-on experience
during the pandemic,
doing COVID-19 testing
and contact tracing and
working at community
vaccination clinics.
“We’ve said to the stu-
dents, ‘This is a career
opportunity that you’ll
never see again,’ ” Nolan
said.
Emma Champlin, a
first-year nursing stu-
dent at Fresno State, said
that like many of her
classmates, she saw the
pandemic as a chance to
learn critical-care skills
and then apply them.
And she is young and her
immune system is fine,
she said, “so the idea of
getting the virus didn’t
scare me.”
“It’s just time for us
to step in and give it our
all and figure out how we
can help, because there
has to be a new genera-
tion and that’s got to be
us,” the 21-year-old said.
The higher enrollment
could help ease a nurs-
ing shortage that existed
even before COVID-19.
But it has brought its
own problems: The in-
crease, combined with
the departure of many
experienced nurses
whose job is to help train
students, has left many
nursing programs with-
out the ability to expand.
The rise is happening
even as hospital leaders
around the U.S. report
that thousands of nurses
have quit or retired dur-
ing the outbreak, many
of them exhausted and
demoralized because of
the pressure of caring for
the dying, hostility from
patients and families,
and the frustration in
knowing many deaths
were preventable with
masks and vaccinations.
Eric Kumor saw many
of his nursing colleagues
from a COVID-19 unit in
Lansing, Mich., transfer
or take other jobs this
past spring when the
pandemic’s third wave
began to hit. He followed
them out the door in
July.
“It was like this mass
exodus. Everybody chose
their own health and
wellness over dealing
with another wave,” he
said.
He said he plans on
returning to health care
someday, but for now is ments, giving health sys-
working at a barbecue tems more flexibility in
joint, where the worst training and hiring.
thing that can happen is Champlin, the Fresno
“burning a brisket.” State student now do-
“I’m not done with ing clinical studies in a
nursing yet,” he said. COVID-19 ward, said the
Betty Jo Rocchio, chief stress, even on students,
nursing officer for Mercy is sometimes overwhelm-
Health, which runs hos- ing. It’s physically and
pitals and clinics in Mis- mentally tiring to don
souri, Arkansas, Kansas cumbersome protective
and Oklahoma, said her equipment every time
system has about 8,500 you enter someone’s
nurses but is losing room and then watch
about 160 each month. as a tube is inserted
The departures also down the frightened
are taking their toll patient’s throat and the
on nursing education, person is hooked up to a
which relies on clinical ventilator.
instructors and precep- “I don’t even know
tors, the experienced, when it will stop,” she
hands-on nurses who said. “Is this the new
mentor students. normal? I think the scari-
Nursing faculty is ness of it has worn off at
expected to shrink by this point, and now we’re
25 percent by 2025 across just all exhausted.” She
the country as nurses confessed: “That has had
retire or leave because me reconsider, at times,
of burnout or other rea- my career choice.”
sons, said Patricia Hurn, Hurn said the pandem-
the nursing school dean ic has led to a new focus
at Michigan. at her school on the men-
Mindy Schiebler, a tal health of students,
cardiac nurse from Van- leading to the creation of
couver, Wash., taught programs such as “Yoga
nursing students for on the Lawn.”
three years before quit- “For nursing, you
ting in 2016. She said have to develop the skills
she would love to still to be resilient, to adapt to
be teaching but that it’s high-strain conditions,”
not workable financially. she said.
She said she knows nurs- Monte, whose grand-
ing professors who work mother survived, said
multiple jobs or dip into she believes the pandem-
their retirement savings. ic is waning and hopes
“How long can you to have a long career no
subsidize your own job?” matter the challenges.
she asked. “Nurses will “They do have this
make double what you nursing shortage right
make in just a few years now, which selfishly is
out of the gate.” good for me, because
Administrators said I won’t have trouble
they would like to see finding a job, wherever
more financial incentives I decide to go,” she said.
such as tax breaks for in- “I feel like I won’t get
structors and preceptors. burned out, even if we
Rocchio said it would have another national
also help to have na- emergency. I feel I’ll
tional licensing instead still be committed to
of state-by-state require- nursing.”

We Stand Behind You

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has put pressure on all of us, but among all those impacted since the start
of the pandemic, one group has met incredible challenges: healthcare workers. From doctors to nurses
to hospital housekeepers, these unsung heroes risk their lives to save others and prevent the spread of
the virus. Since the beginning of the pandemic, they have worked tirelessly, with their own needs often
neglected. We stand behind you and together, we will overcome this pandemic.

Thank you, healthcare workers.

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Charlie Becker Randy Easton Dr. Jared Kray Robin Mixdorf Chris Skogman
Anne Carter Brian Globokar Doug Laird Michelle Niermann Dr. Lori Sundberg
Steve Caves Sally Gray Lura McBride Doug Olson Dr. Steven Wahle
Greg Churchill Anne Gruenewald Dr. Dana Messenger Anne Parmley
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Iowa defensive back Kaevon Merriweather (26) pushes Purdue wide receiver David Bell (3) out of bounds during the first half of a Big Ten Conference football game at Kinnick Stadium on Saturday in Iowa
City. Bell rolled up 11 catches for 240 yards and a touchdown as the Boilers spoiled Iowa’s unbeaten season with a 24-7 win. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

No. 2 Iowa humbled as Boilers assassin Bell torches Hawkeye defense

By John Steppe, The Gazette
IOWA CITY — Purdue has
had Iowa’s number lately. The
Boilermakers most likely took
Iowa’s number — the No. 2
ranking next to its name — on
Saturday, as well.
The unranked Boilermak-
ers (4-2, 2-1) upset No. 2 Iowa
(6-1, 3-1) on Saturday, 24-7,
shocking the college football
world and denting the Hawk-
eyes’ College Football Playoff
aspirations.
Iowa never had a lead in
what turned into an ugly
Saturday. For the second con-
secutive week, it found itself
in a double-digit deficit, but
the Hawkeyes didn’t muster
a second-half comeback this
time.
Purdue wide receiver Da-
vid Bell, whom Iowa heav-
ily recruited, torched the
Hawkeyes. The Boilermaker
quarterbacks targeted him 12
times. He caught 11 of those
passes for 240 yards.
It helped Purdue, using a
mix of Aidan O’Connell, Jack
Plummer and Austin Burton,
produce more at the quarter-
back position than any of the
Hawkeyes’ first six opponents.
O’Connell, who took the
bulk of the throws, was the
first opposing quarterback to
throw for more than 300 yards
against the Hawkeyes in 2021.
The defense that forced
an FBS-best 16 interceptions
; IOWA, PAGE 8B

MIKE HLAS | THE GAZETTE

Hawkeyes get their bells rung

An Iowa fan, ducking his head into
his sweatshirt before Saturday’s
game between Iowa and Purdue at
Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, may
have had a vision of the future. The
Hawkeyes lost, 24-7. (Jim Slosiarek/
The Gazette)
I
OWA CITY — Ask not for whom
David Bell tolls, he tolls for the Iowa
football team.
They play the slow tolling of a
2,000-pound bronze bell from the start of
AC/DC’s “Hells Bells,” in Kinnick Sta-
dium before big third-downs for Iowa’s
opponents. They played it Saturday when
Purdue led 17-7 and faced a third-and-16
at the Iowa 42 early in the fourth quarter.
Junior Purdue wide receiver Bell then
caught a 20-yard pass. Gong! Two plays
later, Bell caught a 21-yard touchdown
pass. Gong! The Boilermakers went on to
a 24-7 win. And Iowa’s unbeaten record
was going, going … gong!
Every game is hard, Iowa Coach
Kirk Ferentz has kept telling us this fall
through all the Hawkeyes’ winning.
Games are really hard when you don’t
block well, don’t cover receivers well,
don’t move the ball well, don’t get a truck-
load of the takeaways Iowa has lived off
this fall, don’t get good enough field posi-
tion to give your punter a chance to kill
his kicks inside the 2-yard line.
We believed you, Kirk. We knew you
were right, because we knew you didn’t
have a turbo offense to roar away with
wins on the rare days your defense wasn’t
tight.
But that doesn’t change the fact few
losses will be harder to digest around
here than this one, when so much had
been built over six weeks only to have
chunks of it stripped away.
No. 2 Iowa’s dreams of a 12-0 regular
season that had looked attainable were
shattered by a Purdue team and coaching
staff that Iowa just can’t wrap its arms
around. And, by Bell who used the Hawk-
eyes as his foot wipe for three years.
Indianapolis’ Bell made an official visit
to Iowa on Dec. 15, 2018. He committed to
Purdue a few weeks later.
“I like the coaching staff and I also like
the type of style that they play,” Bell said
at the time. That was five touchdown
catches ago against Iowa in three games.
That was 37 receptions and 558 yards ago,
11 for 240 Saturday.
Every game is hard, or is if you’re Iowa
and the opponent is Purdue. Its coach,
Jeff Brohm is now 4-1 against the Hawk-
eyes, 12-19 against the rest of the Big Ten.
This was the same Purdue team that
scored 13 points against both Illinois
and Minnesota. But the one team that
; HLAS, PAGE 8B
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TURNING POINT
Which Aidan O’Connell-to-
GAME 7 David Bell pass do you want to
pick? Let’s go with this one. Or

PUR UI these two, actually.

There was still some hope
for Iowa early in the fourth
quarter. The Hawkeyes were

24 7 down, 17-7, but still somehow

sort of hanging around.
Purdue began a drive near
midfield, at the Iowa 46, to be
SCORING specific. The Boilermakers con-
verted on a third-and-15 play
1 2 3 4 due to a pass interference call
Purdue 7 7 3 7 on Iowa’s Jestin Jacobs.
Iowa 0 7 0 0 Then on third-and-16 from
First quarter the Iowa 45, O’Connell threw
PUR — TD: O’Connell 6-yard run
a perfect pass over the middle
(Fineran kick), 3:38. Drive: 10 plays, that was over Iowa’s lineback-
67 ayrds, 4:56. ers and in front of its safeties
to Bell for 23 yards and a first
Second quarter down. Two plays later, on sec-
IOWA — TD: Kelly-Martin 3-yard run ond-and-9 from the Hawkeyes
(Shudak kick), 3:20. Drive: 9 plays, 21, Bell — on the right side —
80 yards, 5:11. began a route that started out
PUR — TD: Sheffield 3-yard pass from as a slant but ended as a fade.
O’Connell (Fineran kick), :19. Drive: 10 O’Connell’s throw to the
plays, 75 yards, 3:01. right corner of the end zone
Third quarter was perfect again, over cor-
PUR — TD: Fineran, 31 yards, 12:29. nerback Matt Hankins and
Drive: 8 plays, 66 yards, 3:46. into Bell’s hands. Touchdown
Fourth quarter Purdue, a 24-7 lead and ... ball-
game.
PUR — TD: Bell 21-yard pass from
O’Connell (Fineran kick), 12:29. Drive: BY THE NUMBERS
7 plays, 46 yards, 3:00.
Attendance: 69,250 4 — Interceptions thrown
by Iowa quarterback Spencer
Petras in this game.
Team stats 7 — Third consecutive game
Iowa has trailed by this margin
Passing yards at halftime.
35 — Catches by Purdue’s
378 David Bell in the three games
195 he has played against Iowa.
458 — Receiving yards Bell
Rushing yards has obtained in his three games
86 against Iowa.
76 NOTEBOOK
Total yards • Boilering Up Again
Purdue has a history of beat-
464 ing second-ranked teams in the
271 country. A long one. Purdue wide receiver David Bell (3) hauls in a touchdown pass in front of Iowa defensive back Matt Hankins (8) during
The Boilermakers’ win here the second half of a Big Ten Conference football game Saturday at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. Purdue won, 24-7. (Jim
Penalties/yards was the school’s ninth as an Slosiarek photos/The Gazette)
4 30 unranked team against No. 2.
No other school has done that
3 28 as much, not even close.
The next-best total is four.
Time of possession
Purdue’s previous win over a
34:46 second-ranked team came Oct.
25:14 21, 2018, a 49-20 beatdown of
Ohio State in West Lafayette.
First downs • Purdue quarterbacks
continue to light up Iowa
24
Iowa’s defensive reputation
17 is well known, yet Purdue con-
tinues to be its kryptonite.
Quarterback Aidan Purdue cornerback Jamari Brown (7)
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS O’Connell was superb here, high-fives fellow cornerback Dedrick
going 30-for-40 passing for 375 Mackey (1) after Mackey’s intercep-
RUSHING Att Yds Avg TD yards and two touchdowns. tion during the second half at Kinnick
Purdue That’s a quarterback rating of Stadium in Iowa City.
King Doerue 18 48 2.7 0
Jack Plummer 5 20 4.0 0
170.3, by the way.
Austin Burton 3 10 3.3 0 In last season’s opener, with an apparent shoulder
Dylan Downing 4 6 1.5 0 O’Connell was 31 of 50 for 282 injury. He went to the locker
Jackson Anthrop 1 4 4.0 0 yards and three TDs. Purdue room but returned to the field
Aidan O’Connell 2 -2 -1.0 1
Iowa
won, 24-20. and game. Jermari Harris took
Tyler Goodson 12 68 5.7 0 In the 2019 game between his place during his absence.
Ivory Kelly-Martin 6 23 3.8 1 these teams, which Iowa won, Offensive lineman Cody Ince
Monte Pottebaum 3 10 3.3 0 26-20, Purdue QB Jack Plum- and tight end Luke Lachey
Tyrone Tracy Jr. 1 1 1.0 0
Team 1 -2 -2.0 0
mer threw for 327 yards and did not play with unspecified
Spencer Petras 7 -24 -3.4 0 two touchdowns. David Blough Iowa wide receiver Keagan Johnson (6) pushes away Purdue cornerback Jamari injuries. Iowa starting line was
threw for 333 yards and four Brown (7) on the opening drive during the first quarter Saturday at Kinnick Connor Colby, Mason Rich-
PASSING Cmp Att Int Yds TD
TDs in Purdue’s 38-36 win Stadium in Iowa City. man, Tyler Linderbaum, Kyler
Purdue
Aidan O’Connell 30 40 0 375 2 in 2018, with Elijah Sindelar Schott and Jack Plumb.
Jack Plummer 1 2 0 3 0 throwing three TD passes in run in the second quarter. That INJURY REPORT
Austin Burton 0 1 0 0 0 Purdue’s 24-15 win at Kinnick was his first TD sine Nov. 3, Starting cornerback Riley UP NEXT
Iowa 2018 ... against Purdue.
Stadium in 2017. Moss is out at least a couple Iowa has no game this com-
Spencer Petras 17 32 4 195 0
Of course, wide receiver Da- • True freshman Keagan of weeks with a leg injury ing week, a welcomed bye.
RECEIVING No. Yds TD vid Bell has been omnipresent Johnson got the start in this incurred while diving for an Then it’s a short road trip to
Purdue in three of these games, but it game for Iowa at wide receiver interception in last week’s win Madison to face Wisconsin on
David Bell 11 240 1
TJ Sheffield 8 48 1
hasn’t only been just him. and caught a 38-yard pass over Penn State. Terry Roberts Oct. 30 (11 a.m. kickoff, televi-
Payne Durham 5 15 0 (more of a short-ish catch and got the start in his place at sion to be determined). The
Milton Wright 4 38 0 THIS AND THAT longer run) from Petras on the right corner. Badgers were 2-3 going into
Broc Thompson
Dylan Downing
1
1
28
6
0
0
• Iowa running back Ivory very first play. Johnson had Iowa’s other starting cor- their home non-conference
King Doerue 1 3 0 Kelly-Martin scored Iowa’s one other catch in the game for nerback, Matt Hankins, left game Saturday night against
Iowa lone touchdown, on a 3-yard 12 yards. the game in the second quarter Army.
Sam LaPorta 5 61 0
Tyler Goodson 4 16 0
Keagan Johnson 2 50 0 BIG TEN ROUNDUP
Nico Ragaini 2 29 0

Gophers capitalize, top Huskers BIG TEN STANDINGS

Charlie Jones 2 20 0
Arland Bruce IV 1 12 0
Terry Roberts 1 7 0 School Conf All
PUNTING No. Avg Lng EAST
Purdue Michigan State ..... 4-0 7-0
Jack Ansell 4 35.2 38 Associated Press third quarter after Minnesota resulting in a safety that made it Michigan .............. 3-0 6-0
Iowa punts, the Huskers drove deep 23-16. Minnesota then got the ball Ohio State............ 3-0 5-1
Tory Taylor 3 40.7 45 into Gophers territory but came back and pushed its lead to 30-16 Penn State ........... 2-1 5-1
TFL/
Tanner Morgan threw for 209
TACKLES U A Tot Yds yards and two touchdowns and up empty both times. First, the on a 56-yard touchdown run by Maryland .............. 1-2 4-2
Purdue Bryce Williams rushed for 127 Gophers defense made three con- Bryce Williams with 2:12 to play. Indiana................. 0-3 2-4
Jaylan Alexander 8 2 10 1-4 yards and another score on Sat- secutive stops at the goal line to Rutgers ................ 0-4 3-4
Marvin Grant 5 3 8 —
urday as Minnesota defeated Ne- force a turnover on downs. Then MICHIGAN STATE 20, INDIANA
Kydran Jenkins 4 2 6 2.5-15 WEST
Dedrick Mackey 5 0 5 1-1 braska, 30-23, in Minneapolis. Nebraska kicker Connor Culp 15 — At Bloomington, Ind., Matt Iowa..................... 3-1 6-1
Branson Deen 2 3 5 1.5-11 The Gophers dominated the missed a 27-yard field goal on the Coghlin’s 51-yard field goal to Minnesota ............ 2-1 4-2
Lawrence Johnson 2 2 4 — first half, taking a 21-9 lead be- first play of the fourth quarter. open the second half gave No. 10 Purdue ................. 2-1 4-2
Cam Allen 2 2 4 —
hind near-perfect passing from Midway through the fourth, Michigan State the lead and Pay- Northwestern........ 1-2 3-3
Jalen Graham 2 2 4 — ton Thorne’s 12-yard touchdown Wisconsin............. 1-2 2-3
Iowa Morgan. But Nebraska flipped the Gophers punted instead of
Seth Benson 10 2 12 1-8 the script in the second half, forc- electing to go for it on fourth- pass provided the margin the Illinois .................. 1-3 2-5
Jack Koerner 5 4 9 2-4 ing two interceptions to get back and-1 near midfield. On first Spartans needed to hold on for Nebraska ............. 1-4 3-5
Jack Campbell 3 6 9 1-3
into the game. However, a num- down from his own 11, Nebraska the win. Saturday
Noah Shannon 3 3 6 —
Dane Belton 5 0 5 — ber of missed opportunities pre- quarterback Adrian Martinez NORTHWESTERN 21, RUTGERS Purdue 24, Iowa 7
Terry Roberts 4 1 5 — vented the Huskers from taking was wrapped up in the end zone 7 — At Evanston, Ill., Ryan Hil- Mich. State 20, Indiana 15
Matt Hankins 4 1 5 — the lead and allowed Minnesota by Esezi Otomewo. Martinez inski threw for 267 yards and Minnesota 30, Nebraska 23
Kaevon Merriweather 4 0 4 — threw the ball away but was two touchdown passes to boost
John Waggoner 2 2 4 —
to hang on. Northwestern 21, Rutgers 7
Logan Lee 0 4 4 — Given short fields twice in the called for intentional grounding, Northwestern. Army at Wisconsin, late
 Sunday, October 17, 2021 ● The Gazette 3B

SPORTS
SIDELINE NORTHERN IOWA FOOTBALL

MLB PLAYOFFS
Boston Red Sox’s J.D. Martinez cel-
ebrates his grand slam against the
Houston Astros during the first inning
Saturday in Houston. (Associated
Press)
Doubly grand game
for Red Sox in ALCS
HOUSTON — J.D. Martinez
and Rafael Devers helped the
Red Sox have a grand old time
Coyote ugly start for Panthers
No. 21 South Dakota uses
miscues to take an early
lead, defeat No. 16 UNI
By Cole Bair, correspondent
CEDAR FALLS — An er-
ror-ridden first half was too
much to overcome for No. 16
Northern Iowa on Saturday
at the UNI-Dome, as No. 21
South Dakota upset the Pan-
thers, 34-21.
UNI’s afternoon of errors
began in the first quarter
when a low snap to punter
Nate Murphy resulted in a
short punt and 8-yard
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL REWIND
return by Isaiah McDaniels — had his attempt for the first half for a 24-0 lead at
to the Panthers’ 13. Three Quan Hampton deflected halftime.
plays later, quarterback Car- and intercepted by Jack The Panthers (3-3, 1-2)
son Camp — who finished Cochrane. Cochrane began the second half with a
16-of-20 for 153 returned the pass 22 yards spark and looked poised for
yards and two to the UNI 20, once again a comeback after a 62-yard
touchdowns — setting up the Coyotes with a Vance McShane touchdown
threw a 5-yard short field. Four plays later, run and 28-yard touchdown
touchdown pass a 4-yard touchdown run by reception by Sam Schnee in
to Carter Bell Travis Theis extended the the first 4:25 of the quarter,
for a 7-0 lead Coyotes lead to 14. but a 45-yard field goal by
the Coyotes The ugly first quarter bled Mason Lorber and 10-play,
Spencer
wouldn’t relin- into the second when Day’s 72 yard drive by the Coyotes
Cuvelier quish. pass up the middle for Isaiah (5-2, 3-1) afterward stiff-
19 tackles
One play Weston was jarred loose on armed the comeback bid.
after South Dakota’s a big hit by Jailen Holman UNI travels to No. 7 South
touchdown, Theo Day — and returned 65 yards by Dakota State (5-1, 2-1) next
who finished 25-of-35 with Josiah Ganues to the UNI week. Kickoff at Dana J.
303 yards, two touchdowns 15. The return set up South Dykhouse Stadium is at 2
and two interceptions Dakota’s third touchdown of p.m. (ESPN+).

Saying goodbye
in Houston.
Boston became the first
team to slug two grand slams
in a postseason game, with
Martinez and Devers connect-
ing in the first two innings of
a 9-5 win over the Astros on
Saturday that tied their AL
Championship Series at one
game apiece. Game 3 is Mon-
day night in Boston.
Kike Hernandez, after a
two-homer performance in
Game 1, remained on fire Sat-
urday. He had two hits, high-
lighted by a solo homer in the
fourth inning.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Soko, defense lead

Coe past Loras, 27-20
DUBUQUE — Coe bounced
back from back-to-back losses
to American Rivers Confer-
ence leaders Wartburg and
Central to handle Loras, 27-20,
on Saturday at the Rock Bowl.
The Kohawks led just 14-13
late in the third quarter, then
got a pair of big touchdown
runs from Alphonso Soko (27
and 25 yards). Soko also had a
39-yard score in the first half,
and finished with 144 rushing
yards on 18 carries.
Coe (4-2, 2-2) dominated
with defense, getting four in-
terceptions — two by Anthony
Bullard — and six quarterback
sacks — two each for Jay Oos-
tendorp and Alex Aitchison.
Noah Sigwarth had 310
yards passing and 66 yards
rushing for Loras (3-4, 3-2).
Fans fill the stadium to watch the sophomore football game Friday night at Thomas Park in Marion. The Wolves played their last game at the stadium
Wartburg buries Friday. A new field is being built near the high school. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)
Luther, 67-0
DECORAH — Wartburg
pounded Luther, 67-0, on Sat-
Marion plays final game at nearly 90-year-old Thomas Park
urday at Carlson Stadium.
By Jeff Johnson, The Gazette intendent, hence, the all-star seats. Bender, tight end Allen Reisner

Wartburg (4-2, 3-1) out-
gained the Norse 518 yards
to 167, including 295 rushing
yards to minus-1. Luther fell
to 0-7, 0-5.
Minnesota State
thumps Upper Iowa
FAYETTE — It wasn’t a
fun Saturday for Upper Iowa,
which lost to Minnesota State,
58-0, at Harms-Eischeid Sta-
dium.
Upper Iowa (0-7) has four
games remaining, including
next week at Minot State (0-6).
M
He began helping the program in 1972 and defensive lineman Ron Geater
ARION — He remem- as a “scout,” then was head freshman eventually found their ways from
bers sitting on the home coach, head sophomore coach and Thomas Park to the National Foot-
team bench when he head varsity coach for 18 years. ball League.
was a kid. Must’ve been He was right there front and cen- Messerli was right there front
sometime in the 1960s. ter when Marion won a state cham- and center Friday night, helping
“That was a thrill,” Dave Mes- pionship in 1980, right there front run the clock for the final football
serli said. and center to watch running backs game ever at Thomas Park. Marion
No one is more synonymous with Todd Twachtmann (The Gazette’s dropped a 22-21 heartbreaker to Ma-
Marion High School football than first Male Athlete of the Year) and son City.
Messerli. Carey Bender do otherworldly
His father was the district’s super- things. ; REWIND, PAGE 5B
JUNIOR HOCKEY

NASCAR
Nemechek claims
Xfinity win in Texas
FORT WORTH, Texas — All
four spots in the champion-
ship round of the NASCAR
Xfinity Series are still up for
grabs after non-playoff quali-
fier John Hunter Nemechek
overcame a late penalty Sat-
urday to win at Texas Motor
Speedway.
Nemechek won the first of
three races in the round of
eight, leaving the eight playoff
drivers with two more races
in the semifinals, at Kansas
and Martinsville, to qualify
for the championship finale in
Phoenix.
Daniel Hemric led seven
of the eight playoff qualifiers
across the finish line next, tak-
ing second in the 117th race of
his career without a victory.
Joey Gase finished 30th and
Landon Cassill finished 36th.
The Gazette and Associated Press
Shoudy twins promise mom ... no fights
Travis is RoughRiders Their teams played last night
in the first United States
defenseman, Tiernan a Hockey League game at
forward for Des Moines ImOn Ice in about 14 months.
“It’s going to
By Jeff Johnson, The Gazette be fun to try and
shut him down,”
CEDAR RAPIDS — They Travis said, ear-
were teasing the idea of lier in the week.
dropping the gloves and “We’ve always
throwing down against each played together,
other. never played
But realistically there was against each Travis
Shoudy
no way that would happen. other, so it’ll
Dad wouldn’t accept it. be a nice little Cedar Rapids
RoughRiders
Mom would hate it more. reunion going
defenseman
“My mom would be against him …
freaking out,” said Tiernan We are best friends, for sure.
Shoudy, with a chuckle. He is my closest brother, my
So Tiernan and his twin closest friend, everything. I
brother, Travis, just went talk to him every day.”
out and played hockey. Travis made the
Against each other, for the RoughRiders roster this sea-
first time in an official game. son as a non-drafted player,
Travis is a defenseman for setting up this brother-
the Cedar Rapids RoughRid- against-brother encounter.
ers, Tiernan a forward for Mom and dad, Todd and Deb-
the Des Moines Buccaneers. ora, were planning on watch-
ing their sons, the 19-year-old
Michiganders, via computer,
but will make the trip to Iowa
early next month.
That’s when,
conveniently,
the RoughRiders
and Buccaneers
have a weekend
home-and-home
series: a Friday
night game in
Tiernan Des Moines
Shoudy
followed by a
Des Moines Saturday night
Buccaneers
game at ImOn
forward
Ice.
Tiernan had four goals
and six points in Des Moines’
first four games. He’s a
Michigan State commit.
Travis had an assist in
four games for Cedar Rapids.
He has yet to make a college
commitment.
The brothers said they fell
in love with hockey as very
little boys watching their
two older brothers play.
Once they started learning
how to skate and put the uni-
form on, they were hooked.
Travis also was a forward
growing up, but got moved
to the blue line at the sugges-
tion of a coach when one of
the boys’ youth teams had a
dearth of defensemen. It has
been a fit.
“I love getting to hit
guys,” he smiled.
That includes his brother,
if he got the chance last
night. He was asked if his
dad was giving him any ad-
vice leading into the game.
“He just said ‘Don’t get
dangled by your brother,’”
Travis said with a laugh.
“Now that I saw your
tweet about him not getting
dangled, it’s going to be my
mission to dangle him,” Tier-
nan said.
Comments:
jeff.johnson@thegazette.com
4B The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021
GIRLS’ SWIMMING
MVC Super Meet
Iowa City West’s Scarlet Martin competes in the 100-yard backstroke during the Mississippi Valley Conference Super Meet on Super Meet on Saturday in Cedar Rapids. Linn-Mar finished
Saturday at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids. Iowa City West won the meet and Martin was named the Valley Athlete of the fourth with 323 points. Cedar Falls was third (325), Kennedy
Year. Martin broke the pool record in the 50 freestyle. (Savannah Blake photos/The Gazette)
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Cornell can’t keep up with D’Ambrose, Chicago
By K.J. Pilcher, The Gazette
MOUNT VERNON
— Cornell showed
some feistiness at times
against the University of
Chicago football team.
“I thought the effort
was good,” Rams Coach
Dan Pifer said. “It’s just
the mental mistakes. We
keep beating ourselves
with little things.”
Chicago scored on
its first play of scrim-
mage and Maroons
running back Nicholas
D’Ambrose scored five
touchdowns in a 47-21
victory over the Rams in
a Midwest Conference
game Saturday at Van
Metre Field at Ash Park.
Cornell (2-4, 2-3 MWC)
was within two scores
early in the fourth, but
D’Ambrose added scor-
ing runs of 25 and 21.
“We dug ourselves
deep pretty early,” Davis
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL
Springville’s Breitfelder ‘just
went off’ in Tri-Rivers final
No. 3 Orioles top
No. 4 Lisbon for
league tourney title
By Jeff Linder, The Gazette
WHEATLAND —
That’s Kennady, with an
“A.”
As in “A game,” and
she brought it.
Kennady Breitfelder
“just went off,” in the
words of teammate
Nia Howard, knocking
down 12 kills as Class 1A
third-ranked Springville
topped No. 4 Lisbon in
the championship match
of Saturday’s Tri-Rivers
Conference volleyball
tournament, 25-21, 25-15,
at the Calamus-Wheat-
land Activity Center.
“They couldn’t stop
her,” Howard said. “They
would think we would go
to our middles, and she
would just kill it.”
Springville (30-4)
trailed for the major-
ity of the first set, by as
many as five points. But
the Orioles battled back
to tie six times, then Bre-
itfelder’s block put them
in front for the first
time, 21-20.
said. “We kept it close
and I know it got away at
the end.”
Chicago (5-1, 4-1)
built a 28-0 lead on a
D’Ambrose
8-yard scor-
ing rush
with 8:42 left
in the sec-
ond quarter.
Cornell
Denver
Wilson
freshman
Denver Wil-
son replaced
Freshman QB Isaak Hahn
at quarterback. Daniel
Abesames-Hammer
opened the first scoring
drive with a 32-yard run.
Four plays later, Wilson
hit tight end Mason Da-
vis for a 47-yard touch-
down pass to put the
Rams on the board with
6:25 in the second.
“We just wanted to
give (Wilson) a shot,”
Pifer said. “He came in
and the first drive we got
It was part of a 6-1 run
to close the set, then the
Orioles captured Game 2
handily.
“I have total trust in
my team,” Breitfelder
said. “We’ve
been down
before, and
we know
how to get
back up.
“That
was the best
Kennady competi-
Breitfelder tion we had.
Springville We knew it
would be Lisbon or Star-
mont (in the final), and
they’re both tough.”
The Orioles were
tougher. And now, with
the postseason up next,
Breitfelder said, “We’re
right where we want to
be, doing what we want
to do.”
Springville won its
first two matches con-
vincingly, handling
Cedar Valley Christian
in the quarterfinals, 25-
6, 25-13, then sweeping
Central City in the semi-
finals, 25-9, 25-11.
Lisbon (34-6) ad-
vanced with wins over
East Buchanan (25-21,
25-13) and Starmont (27-
SPORTS
Iowa City West teammates cheer on Olivia Taeger as she
holds the lead in lap three of four in the 200-yard IM during
the MVC Super Meet on Saturday in Cedar Rapids. Taeger
won the event in 2:12.58.
Linn-Mar’s Hayley Kimmel starts her second lap of four while
competing in the 100-yard breaststroke during the MVC
was second (334) and Iowa City West was first (485).
a touchdown out of it, so a 43-yard run. The Rams Davis was a bright Cornell next travels
let’s roll with it. He did struggled to contain the spot for the Rams. He to Monmouth (Ill.) Col-
some good things and speedy, quick-cutting amassed 92 receiving lege. The Fighting Scots
some freshman things, D’Ambrose, who entered yards on four catches. defeated Chicago last
too.” the game with a league- “It’s nice to get stats week and is one of three
Defense made an im- best 130.2 rushing yards but it’s never really unbeaten teams in the
pact on the next posses- a game. He finished with about them,” Davis said. conference.
sion. Chicago drove in- 297 rushing yards on 35 “This is my fifth year. I Comments: kj.pilcher@thegazette.
side the Cornell 10 when carries. came back to win.” com
linebacker Colden Clark
ripped the ball from
D’Ambrose and rumbled
87 yards, getting dragged
down at the Maroons’
3. Wilson scored on a
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Ella Clark made most
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opener 4-0, then 9-5, then is simply stated, powerful,
13-8. But as Howard personal, and a goldmine of very
said, Breitfelder “just
went off,” and the match
easy steps each of us can take.
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for good. how thousands of people are
“This feels really
good,” Howard said.
managing their “yard.” I am one of
“Last year, it didn’t go them. Please join me!
our way. And we had
that in our mind. We -- Clark McLeod
knew we could do it.”
Starmont (18-9) ad-
vanced to the semifinals
with a 25-13, 25-14 first-
round win over Clinton
Prince of Peace; Central
City (18-13) made it to
the final four by defeat-
ing Easton Valley, 25-20,
25-18.
Comments: jeff.linder@thegazette.
com

Marion football players sit in the end zone and watch the sophomore game Friday night at Thomas
Park in Marion. The Wolves played their last game at the stadium Friday. (Savannah Blake/The
Gazette)
Rewind/Field becoming
an elementary school
; FROM PAGE 3B
Not the way anyone
wanted it to end at a
place the school has
been playing its home
football games since the
mid-1930s. The very first
game was against Cedar
Rapids Roosevelt on
Sept. 27, 1936.
“First off, I think the
setting at Thomas Park
is really unique for a
football field,” Messerli
said.
As Messerli said, the
stadium is part of a park,
part of a neighborhood,
with houses right across
the street behind one
end zone and trees be-
hind the other. There’s
a creek that runs a few
hundred feet below the
home grandstand.
It’s not on the high
school campus, so Mari-
on’s varsity team would
congregate and dress at
the school, hop on a bus
and ride the short way to
the field.
“I always felt it was
neat to go down to the
field,” Messerli said. “One
of the things I loved most
was when we rode the
bus down from school,
and we were about ready
to go down the hills, you
could see the lights and
see the stands. That was
really the time when the
kids started getting ex-
cited on the bus. They’d
be tapping their feet, their
shoes on the bus floor in
excitement.
“Sometimes that
would make the hair
stick up on the back of
my neck. That sort of got
you excited.”
Coe College played
some of its home games
at the facility over the
HOW THEY FARED
Week 8 featured several undefeated teams squaring off
By Nathan Ford, The Gazette
The regular season
ended with a bang in the
smaller Iowa high school
football classes, with
three unbeaten match-
ups and four games
between ranked teams
Friday night.
The top-ranked teams
in Class 1A and Class A —
Van Meter and West Han-
cock — handled fellow
7-0 foes in Guthrie Center
ACGC and North Butler.
But 2A No. 1 Southeast
Valley suffered its first
loss, 21-14, to Spirit Lake. 34-16. (Grace Smith/Daily Iowan)
The other three
classes also had ranked
matchups in their pen-
ultimate regular-season
week.
Here’s a look at how
the 70 teams ranked in
the Gazette poll fared in
Week 8.
Class 5A
No. 1 Cedar Rapids Kennedy Davenport Central, 62-13
beat Johnston, 24-10
No. 2 Southeast Polk beat Dowling beat No. 3 West Des
Ankeny Centennial, 16-0
No. 3 West Des Moines
Valley lost to No. 9 West Des Bettendorf, 28-0
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
“To me, it’s a sentimental place.
Because it brings back a lot of
positive memories over the years.”
Dave Messerli, Marion football coach
years, including when
the late Bob Thurness
was its head coach. Thur-
ness went to Coe after
leading Marion to that
aforementioned state
championship.
“Thurny would prob-
ably say ‘Well, men, this
is a pretty good place to
play,’ ” Messerli said,
imitating Thurness’
infamous gruff voice.
“I know he had a lot of
sentimental feelings and
love for the place.”
So do a ton of people.
The Aug. 2020 derecho
did a number on the sta-
dium, making it unplay-
able for the truncated
2020 prep football season.
Yet somehow enough
repairs were made to
it to have Marion host
one final season there.
An elementary school
will be built at the facil-
ity, with a brand-new
football field and track
being constructed in land
directly adjacent to the
high school.
It is supposed to be
ready for the 2022 season.
“I guess it’s a sign of
the times,” Messerli said.
“Change, in this case,
will be very positive for
the whole Marion school
community. With the
new additions, a new el-
ementary, a new facility
at the high school, with
artificial turf and ev-
erything, it’s going to be
exciting. There are a lot
of memories to be made
up at the new facility …
Regina cornerback Steven Liu tackles Durant running back Nolan
DeLong on Friday at Regina High School in Iowa City. Regina won, No. 3 West Delaware, 25-14
Moines Dowling, 31-27
No. 4 Ankeny beat Waukee
Northwest, 48-7
No. 5 Urbandale beat
Waukee, 35-0
No. 6 Cedar Rapids Prairie
beat Iowa City West, 50-14
No. 7 Iowa City High beat
Davenport West, 76-0
No. 8 Linn-Mar beat
No. 9 West Des Moines
Moines Valley, 31-27
No. 10 Cedar Falls lost to
It should be one of the
better facilities around.
I know they are going
to put everything they
have into it to make it
one of the better facilities
around.”
In many ways, it still
won’t have the feel of
the 90-year-old facility at
Thomas Park.
“To me, it’s a sentimen-
tal place,” Messerli said.
“Because it brings back a
lot of positive memories
over the years.”
PLAYOFF TALK
The Gazette area has
27 schools who have qual-
ified for the playoffs in
the smallest four classes.
That’s six in 8-Player:
Springville, Turkey Val-
ley, Ed-Co, Montezuma,
BGM and English Valleys.
In Class A, North
Linn, Lisbon, Highland,
Starmont, Alburnett,
East Buchanan, North
Tama and Belle Plaine.
In 1A, Dyersville Beck-
man, Cascade, Iowa City
Regina, West Branch,
Sigourney-Keota and
MFL MarMac.
In 2A, qualifiers are
West Liberty, Waukon,
La Porte City Union,
Monticello, Williams-
burg, North Fayette Val-
ley and Mid-Prairie.
First-round games are
Friday. There is one final
regular-season week for
teams in Class 3A, 4A
and 5A.
Comments: jeff.johnson@
thegazette.com
No. 10 Pleasant Valley beat beat Maquoketa, 42-14
Dubuque Senior, 28-14
Class 4A
No. 1 North Scott beat Fort
Madison, 35-0
No. 2 Cedar Rapids Xavier
beat Newton, 48-24
No. 3 Bondurant-Farrar lost
to No. 8 Indianola, 15-7
No. 4 Lewis Central beat
Dallas Center-Grimes, 42-10
No. 5 Norwalk lost to
Carlisle, 21-14
No. 6 Waverly-Shell Rock
beat Western Dubuque, 55-39
No. 7 Winterset beat Des
Sunday, October 17, 2021 ● The Gazette 5B
STANDINGS AND SCORES
Standings 8-PLAYER DISTRICT 3 Dist. All Lisbon 36, Starmont 21
(Through Friday) x-Turkey Valley ...........................6-0 8-0 North Linn 50, Maquoketa Valley 0
y-Janesville ....................................5-1 7-1 District 5
CLASS 5A (Area) All y-Tripoli ..........................................4-2 5-3 Alburnett 13, Columbus Community 9
Riceville ...........................................3-3 3-5 Highland 49, Pekin 14
y-Cedar Rapids Kennedy ................ 8-0 Lisbon 36, Starmont 21
y-Iowa City High................................. 7-1 Rockford .........................................2-4 2-6
West Central...................................1-5 2-6 Wapello 48, North Cedar 6
y-Linn-Mar.......................................... 7-1 District 6
y-Cedar Rapids Prairie.................... 6-2 Clarksville .......................................0-6 1-7
Colfax-Mingo 1, Wayne 0 (forfeit)
Iowa City West .................................... 2-6 8-PLAYER DISTRICT 5 Dist. All IKM-Manning 35, Ogden 21
Cedar Rapids Jefferson.................... 0-8 Lynnville-Sully 25, Belle Plaine 8
x-Easton Valley............................7-0 8-0
CLASS 4A DISTRICT 2 Dist. All y-Lansing Kee...............................6-1 7-1 Madrid 21, North Mahaska 12
y-Edgewood-Colesburg ............5-2 5-3 8-PLAYER
y-Waverly-Shell Rock.................4-0 7-1 y-Springville...................................4-3 4-4 District 3
y-Decorah ......................................4-0 6-2 Midland............................................3-4 3-6 Janesville 56, Dunkerton 18
Western Dubuque ........................2-2 4-4 Central City.....................................2-5 2-6 Riceville 58, Clarksville 34
Mason City......................................2-2 3-5 Elkader Central.............................1-6 2-6 Tripoli 66, Rockford 12
Marion .............................................0-4 1-7 Calamus-Wheatland....................0-7 0-9 Turkey Valley 65, West Central 8
Waterloo East................................0-4 1-7 District 4
8-PLAYER DISTRICT 6 Dist. All
CLASS 4A DISTRICT 3 Dist. All Colo-Nesco 48, GMG 12
x-WACO .........................................6-0 8-0 Don Bosco 1, Meskwaki 0 (forfeit)
x-North Scott.................................4-0 8-0 y-English Valleys..........................5-1 6-1 Gladbrook-Reinbeck 36, Collins-Maxwell 6
Burlington .......................................3-1 6-2 y-New London ..............................3-3 4-3 Janesville 56, Dunkerton 18
Fort Madison .................................2-2 6-2 Winfield-Mount Union.................3-3 4-3 District 5
Iowa City Liberty..........................2-2 2-6 Lone Tree .......................................2-4 4-4
Clinton ..............................................1-3 2-6 Iowa Valley.....................................2-4 3-5 Central City 46, Elkader Central 12
Mount Pleasant .............................0-4 1-7 HLV..................................................0-6 1-7 Easton Valley 51, Lansing Kee 46
Edgewood-Colesburg 54, Midland 20
CLASS 4A DISTRICT 4 Dist. All 8-PLAYER DISTRICT 7 Dist. All Springville 63, Calamus-Wheatland 13
x-Montezuma................................6-0 9-0 District 6
x-Cedar Rapids Xavier ..............4-0 7-1 English Valleys 54, Winfield-Mount Union 18
Pella..................................................3-1 4-4 y-Baxter..........................................5-1 7-1
y-BGM ............................................4-2 5-3 Lone Tree 42, Iowa Valley 40
Clear Creek Amana.....................2-2 5-3 New London 32, HLV 6
Cedar Rapids Washington .........2-2 4-4 Grand View Christian..................3-3 3-5
Melcher-Dallas .............................2-4 3-5 District 7
Newton ............................................1-3 5-3
Oskaloosa........................................0-4 4-4 Twin Cedars...................................1-5 1-7 Baxter 72, Twin Cedars 0
Woodward Academy..................0-6 0-8 BGM 51, Melcher-Dallas 0
Montezuma 1, Woodward Academy 0
CLASS 3A DISTRICT 3 Dist. All
x — district champion and playoff qualifier (forfeit)
x-West Delaware .........................4-0 7-1
y-Independence ............................3-1 7-1
y — clinched playoff berth Mormon Trail 59, Grand View Christian 10
Charles City....................................2-2 4-4
Friday scores Playoffs
Hampton-Dumont/CAL ............2-2 4-4
South Tama....................................1-3 2-6 METRO/IOWA CITY All first-round games kick off at 7 p.m.
Center Point-Urbana...................0-4 2-6 Burlington 20, Iowa City Liberty 18 Friday. Class 5A, 4A and 3A begin playoffs
C.R. Kennedy 24, Johnston 10 Friday, Oct. 29.
CLASS 3A DISTRICT 4 Dist. All C.R. Prairie 50, Iowa City West 14 CLASS 2A
x-Benton Community .................4-0 7-1 C.R. Washington 35, Oskaloosa 0 The top four teams from each of eight dis-
y-Davenport Assumption..........3-1 5-3 C.R. Xavier 48, Newton 24 tricts comprise a 32-team field.
DeWitt Central...............................2-2 5-3 Iowa City High 76, Davenport West 0 Fourth place at first place
Mount Vernon................................2-2 5-3 Iowa City Regina 34, Durant 16 Garner GHV (2-6) at West Lyon (6-2)
Vinton-Shellsburg.........................1-3 2-6 Linn-Mar 63, Davenport Central 13 Sheldon (3-5) at Southeast Valley (7-1)
Maquoketa .....................................0-4 0-8 Marshalltown 68, C.R. Jefferson 25 Spirit Lake (6-2) at Osage (5-3)
Mason City 22, Marion 21 West Liberty (3-5) at Waukon (7-1)
CLASS 3A DISTRICT 5 Dist. All Union Community (3-5) at Monticello (6-2)
x-Solon.............................................4-0 8-0 CLASS 5A Clarke (5-3) at Williamsburg (5-3)
Grinnell ............................................3-1
Fairfield...........................................2-2
5-3
5-3
Group 3
Bettendorf 28, Cedar Falls 0
Centerville (4-4) at West Marshall (7-1)
Roland-Story (3-5) at Greene County (7-1)
Third place at second place
Washington.....................................2-2 3-5 C.R. Kennedy 24, Johnston 10
Keokuk ............................................1-3 2-6 Davenport North 34, Muscatine 13 Estherville-Lincoln Central (5-3) at Central
West Burlington-Notre Dame ..0-4 0-8 Lyon/George-Little Rock (5-3)
Dubuque Hempstead 28, Waterloo West 14
CLASS 2A DISTRICT 4
x-Waukon.......................................5-0
Dist. All
7-1
Iowa City High 76, Davenport West 0
Group 4
Red Oak (3-5) at Ida Grove OABCIG (7-1)
Unity Christian (5-3) at Clear Lake (5-3)
N.Hampton (5-3) at N.Fayette Valley (7-1)
Bettendorf 28, Cedar Falls 0
y-North Fayette Valley ..............4-1 7-1 C.R. Prairie 50, Iowa City West 14 Dubuque Wahlert (3-5) at Camanche (5-3)
y-Dubuque Wahlert.....................3-2 3-5 Davenport North 34, Muscatine 13 Northeast (4-4) at Mid-Prairie (5-3)
y-Union Community....................2-3 3-5 Iowa City High 76, Davenport West 0 Davis County (4-4) at I.Falls-Alden (5-3)
Oelwein............................................1-4 1-7 Linn-Mar 63, Davenport Central 13 Monroe PCM (4-4) at Clarinda (4-4)
Jesup................................................0-5 2-6 CLASS 1A
Group 5
The top four teams from each of eight dis-
CLASS 2A DISTRICT 5 Dist. All C.R. Prairie 50, Iowa City West 14
Dubuque Hempstead 28, Waterloo West 14 tricts comprise a 32-team field.
x-Monticello...................................4-1 6-2 Linn-Mar 63, Davenport Central 13 Fourth place at first place
y-Camanche ..................................4-1 5-3 Marshalltown 68, C.R. Jefferson 25 West Monona (2-6) at West Sioux (7-1)
y-Northeast....................................3-2 4-4 Ottumwa 28, Des Moines North 22 Emmetsburg (3-5) at South Central Cal-
y-West Liberty..............................3-2 3-5 Southeast Polk 16,Ankeny Centennial 0 houn (7-1)
Anamosa.........................................1-4 1-7 Eagle Grove (3-5) at Dike-New Hartford
Tipton...............................................0-5 0-8 CLASS 4A (8-0)
CLASS 2A DISTRICT 6 Dist. All
District 2 South Hardin (3-5) at Dyersville Beckman
(8-0)
Decorah 37, Waterloo East 0
x-Williamsburg .............................5-0 5-3 Mason City 22, Marion 21 Cascade (4-4) at Iowa City Regina (8-0)
Durant (2-6) at Sigourney-Keota (8-0)
y-Mid-Prairie................................4-1
y-Davis County.............................3-2
5-3
4-4
Waverly-Shell Rock 55, Western Dubuque 39
Pleasantville (4-4) at Van Meter (8-0)
District 3
y-Centerville ..................................2-3 4-4 Burlington 20, Iowa City Liberty 18
Nodaway Valley (4-4) at Underwood (8-0)
Eddyville EBF...............................1-4 2-6 Third place at second place
Central Lee.....................................0-5 0-8
Clinton 49, Mount Pleasant 7
Carroll Kuemper (4-4) at Western Chris-
North Scott 35, Fort Madison 0
CLASS 1A DISTRICT 4 Dist. All District 4 tian (3-5)
Interstate 35 (4-4) at Woodward-Granger
x-Dyersville Beckman................5-0 8-0
C.R. Washington 35, Oskaloosa 0 (5-3)
C.R. Xavier 48, Newton 24
y-Waterloo Columbus.................4-1 6-2 Pella 28, Clear Creek Amana 9
MFL MarMac (6-2) at Denver (7-1)
Aplington-Parkersburg (5-3) at Waterloo
y-MFL MarMac...........................3-2 6-2
y-Cascade.......................................2-3 4-4 CLASS 3A
Columbus (6-2)
Cardinal (5-3) at West Branch (6-2)
Sumner-Fredericksburg ...........1-4 2-6 District 3 Mediapolis (5-3) at Pella Christian (7-1)
Postville ...........................................0-5 0-8
Charles City 30, South Tama 27
Hampton-Dumont/CAL 42, C.P.-Urbana 6
S.Hamilton (4-4) at Guthrie C. ACGC (7-1)
CLASS 1A DISTRICT 5 Dist. All Ridge View (5-3) at Treynor (6-2)
West Delaware 25, Independence 14
x-Iowa City Regina......................5-0
y-West Branch..............................4-1
8-0
6-2
District 4
CLASS A
The top four teams from each of eight dis-
Benton Community 42, Maquoketa 14 tricts comprise a 32-team field.
y-Mediapolis..................................2-3
y-Durant .........................................2-3
5-3
2-6
Mount Vernon 34, DeWitt Central 14 Fourth place at first place
District 5
Wilton ...............................................2-3 5-3
Keokuk 26, West Burlington 21
Tri-Center (5-3) at Hartley HMS (6-2)
Louisa-Muscatine........................0-5 0-8 Alta-Aurelia (5-3) at West Hancock (8-0)
Solon 35, Grinnell 17 Saint Ansgar (3-5) at Grundy Center (7-1)
Washington (Iowa) 17, Fairfield 14
CLASS 1A DISTRICT 6 Dist. All Nashua-Plainfield (4-4) at North Linn (8-0)
x-Sigourney-Keota......................5-0 8-0 Bellevue (5-3) at Lisbon (7-1)
y-Pella Christian...........................4-1 7-1
CLASS 2A Highland (3-5) at Lynnville-Sully (7-1)
District 3
y-Cardinal.......................................2-3 5-3
Garner-Hayfield/Ventura 25, Forest City 14
Madrid (3-5) at Mount Ayr (6-2)
Avoca AHSTW (4-4) at Woodbury C. (7-1)
y-Pleasantville...............................2-3 4-4
New Hampton 32, Clear Lake 28 Third place at second place
Central Decatur ............................2-3 4-4
Osage 36, Crestwood 7
Van Buren County........................0-5 2-6 IKM-Manning (5-3) at South O’Brien (6-2)
District 4 Starmont (3-5) at North Butler (7-1)
CLASS A DISTRICT 3 Dist. All Dubuque Wahlert 49, Jesup 0 Alburnett (4-4) at Wapsie Valley (6-2)
North Fayette Valley 39, Oelwein 0 Mason City Newman (6-2) at East Bu-
x-Grundy Center..........................6-0 7-1 Waukon 59, Union Community 28
y-Wapsie Valley............................5-1 6-2 chanan (7-1)
y-North Tama...............................4-2 6-2
District 5 North Tama (6-2) at Wapello (6-2)
Camanche 34, Tipton 14 Earlham (5-3) at Belle Plaine (6-2)
y-Nashua-Plainfield ....................3-3 4-4
Monticello 34, Northeast 14 Ogden (4-4) at Southwest Valley (6-2)
Ackley AGWSR ............................2-4 4-4
Hudson.............................................1-5 1-7 West Liberty 42, Anamosa 21 Le Mars Gehlen (5-3) at Logan-Mag. (7-1)
Conrad BCLUW............................0-6 0-8 District 6 8-PLAYER
Centerville 54, Central Lee 0
The top three teams from each of 10 dis-
CLASS A DISTRICT 4 Dist. All Mid-Prairie 49, Davis County 32 tricts automatically qualify, along with two
x-North Linn..................................6-0 8-0 Williamsburg 42, EBF 0 at-large teams based on the 17-point rule.
Fourth place at first place
y-East Buchanan .........................5-1 7-1
CLASS 1A
y-Starmont.....................................3-3 3-5 Springville (4-4) at Turkey Valley (8-0)
y-Bellevue.......................................3-3 5-3 District 4 East Mills (4-4) at Anita CAM (8-0)
Clayton Ridge ................................2-4 3-5 Cascade 1, Postville 0 (forfeit) Third place at first place
Dyersville Beckman 41, MFL MarMac 7
South Winneshiek .........................2-4 2-6 Exira-EHK (5-3) at Remsen St. Mary’s
Maquoketa Valley........................0-6 1-7 Waterloo Columbus 42, Sumner-Freder- (8-0)
icksburg 0 Kingsley-Pierson (4-4) at Harris-Lake
CLASS A DISTRICT 5 Dist. All District 5
Park (6-2)
x-Lisbon..........................................6-0 7-1 Iowa City Regina 34, Durant 16 Tripoli (5-3) at Don Bosco (6-2)
y-Wapello .......................................5-1 6-2 West Branch 28, Wilton 12 Dunkerton (4-4) at Easton Valley (8-0)
District 6 Edgewood-Col. (5-3) at WACO (8-0)
y-Alburnett.....................................4-2
y-Highland......................................3-3
4-4
3-5 Pella Christian 42, Central Decatur 7 New London (4-3) at Montezuma (9-0)
Columbus Community................2-4 3-5 Pleasantville 29, Cardinal 28 BGM (5-3) at Martensdale-St. Marys (6-2)
North Cedar ...................................1-5 1-7 Sigourney-Keota 49, Van Buren 0 Lamoni (4-4) at Lenox (8-0)
Third place at second place
Pekin ................................................0-6 0-8
CLASS A Northwood-Kensett (6-2) at Lansing Kee
CLASS A DISTRICT 6 Dist. All
District 3 (7-1)
Stanton (6-2) at Audubon (7-1)
x-Lynnville-Sully ..........................6-0 7-1 AGWSR 30, West Fork 10
y-Belle Plaine.................................5-1 6-2 Grundy Center 28, North Tama 0 Second place at second place
y-Ogden...........................................3-3 4-4 Nashua-Plainfield 20, Hudson 18, OT Newell-Fonda (7-1) at Janesville (7-1)
y-Madrid.........................................3-3 3-5 Wapsie Valley 47, BCLUW 0 Ruthven GTRA (7-1) at Gladbrook-Rein-
Colfax-Mingo.................................3-3 3-5 District 4 beck (7-1)
English Valleys (6-1) at SE Warren (5-3)
North Mahaska.............................1-5 2-5 Bellevue 7, Clayton Ridge 6
Wayne..............................................0-6 0-8 East Buchanan 40, South Winneshiek 16 Baxter (7-1) at Fremont-Mills (5-3)
Moines Hoover, 53-0 No. 5 Greene County beat No. 3 North Linn beat
No. 8 Indianola beat No. 3 Clarke, 49-3 Maquoketa Valley, 50-0
Bondurant-Farrar, 15-7 No. 5 West Lyon beat No. 4 Lisbon beat Starmont,
No. 9 Webster City beat Cherokee, 50-0 36-21
Storm Lake, 41-6 No. 7 Central Lyon/George- No. 5 Logan-Magnolia beat
No. 10 Decorah beat Little Rock beat Okoboji, 45-14 Lawton-Bronson, 41-0
Waterloo East, 37-0 No. 7 Spirit Lake beat No. 1 No. 6 North Butler lost to
Class 3A Southeast Valley, 21-14 No. 1 West Hancock, 36-0
No. 1 Harlan beat Creston, No. 9 Estherville-Lincoln Cen. No. 7 Woodbury Central beat
42-0 beat Pocahontas Area, 45-0 Missouri Valley, 60-8
No. 2 Boyden-Hull/Rock V. No. 10 Williamsburg beat No. 8 Belle Plaine lost to
beat MOC-Floyd Valley, 41-7 Eddyville EBF, 42-0 Lynnville-Sully, 25-8
No. 3 West Delaware beat Class 1A No. 9 East Buchanan beat
No. 6 Independence, 25-14 No. 1 Van Meter beat No. 8 South Winneshiek, 40-16
No. 4 Solon beat Grinnell, Guthrie Center ACGC, 41-7 No. 10 Southwest Valley lost
35-17 No. 2 Underwood beat to Mount Ayr, 41-33
No. 5 Humboldt beat No. 7 Carroll Kuemper, 42-7 8-Player
Nevada, 19-15 No. 3 Iowa City Regina beat No. 1 Anita CAM beat Boyer
No. 6 Independence lost to Durant, 34-16 Valley, 74-6
No. 4 Dike-New Hartford beat No. 2 Montezuma beat
No. 7 Nevada lost to No. 5 Central Springs, 55-0 Woodward Academy, forfeit
Humboldt, 19-15 No. 5 Sigourney-Keota beat No. 3 Remsen St. Mary’s
No. 8 Benton Community Van Buren County, 49-0 beat Glidden-Ralston, 53-0
No. 6 Dyersville Beckman No. 4 Easton Valley beat No.
No. 9 Sergeant Bluff-Luton beat MFL MarMac, 41-7 9 Lansing Kee, 51-46
beat Sioux City Heelan, 42-9 No. 6 West Sioux beat Sioux No. 5 Audubon beat
No. 10 Adel ADM beat Central, 26-14 Woodbine, 49-24
Knoxville, 52-0 No. 8 Guthrie Center ACGC No. 6 Turkey Valley beat
No. 10 Algona lost to lost to No. 1 Van Meter, 41-7 West Central, 65-8
Ballard, 49-21 No. 9 Pella Christian beat No. 7 WACO was idle
Class 2A Central Decatur, 42-7 No. 8 Lenox beat Fremont
No. 1 Southeast Valley lost No. 10 Waterloo Columbus Mills, 52-46 (2OT)
to No. 7 Spirit Lake, 21-14 beat Sumner-Fredericksburg, No. 9 Lansing Kee lost to
No. 2 West Marshall beat 42-0 No. 4 Easton Valley, 51-46
Albia, 53-8 Class A No. 10 Don Bosco beat
No. 3 Ida Grove OABCIG beat No. 1 West Hancock beat Meskwaki, forfeit
Clarion CGD, 56-26 No. 6 North Butler, 36-0
No. 4 Waukon beat Union No. 2 Grundy Center beat Comments: nathan.ford@
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EVENTS OF AREA INTEREST
Women’s field hockey
■ Ohio State at Iowa, noon
Women’s soccer
■ 1 p.m.: Illinois at Iowa; TCU at
Iowa State; UNI at Valparaiso
ON TELEVISION
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Major League Baseball
■ NL Championship Series,
Game 2: Dodgers at Braves,
6 p.m., TBS
NFL
■ Dolphins vs Jaguars, 8:30
a.m., KGAN; Packers at
Bears, noon, KFXA; Chiefs at
Washington Football Team,
noon, KGAN; Cowboys at
Patriots, 3:25 p.m., KGAN;
Seahawks at Steelers, 7:20
p.m., KWWL
MLS
■ New York City FC at New York
Red Bulls, noon, ESPN
Women’s soccer
■ Bemidji State at Upper Iowa,
noon, KCRG 9.3; Florida at
Auburn, noon, ESPNU; Michigan
at Ohio State, 1 p.m., BTN
Pro golf
■ Golf Channel: Estrella Damm
N.A. Andalucia Masters, 6:30
a.m.; SAS Championship, 1:30
p.m.; The CJ Cup at Summit,
4 p.m.
Pro soccer
■ Everton vs West Ham United,
8 a.m., NBCSN; Newcastle
United vs Tottenham Hotspur,
10:30 a.m., NBCSN
Women’s volleyball
■ Penn State at Purdue, 1 p.m.,
ESPN2
WNBA
■ Finals: Phoenix Mercury at
Chicago Sky, 2 p.m., ESPN
Men’s soccer
■ Indiana at Penn State, 11
a.m., BTN; Purdue Northwest at
Upper Iowa, 2:30 p.m.,
KCRG 9.3
Auto racing
■ NHRA Thunder Valley
Nationals, noon, 1 p.m., FS1;
Autotrader EchoPark Automotive
500, 1 p.m., KWWL
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■ NLCS Game 2: Dodgers
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(1600, 102.3)
NFL
■ KGYM: Chargers at Ravens,
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Packers at Bears, 11:30 a.m.,
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Broncos, 3:15 p.m., (106.3,
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Major League Baseball
Playoffs
LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
Late Friday
Houston 5, Boston 4
Saturday’s results
Boston 9, Houston 5
(series tied 1-1)
Los Angeles at Atlanta, late
(series tied 0-0)
Today
(Iowa times)
Los Angeles at Atlanta, 6:38 p.m.
Monday
Houston at Boston, 7:08 p.m.
Tuesday
Atlanta at Los Angeles, 4:08 p.m.
Houston at Boston, 7:08 p.m.
Wednesday
x-Houston at Boston, 4:08 p.m.
Atlanta at Los Angeles, 7:08 p.m.
Thursday
x-Atlanta at Los Angeles, 7:08 p.m.
YOUR EASTERN IOWA WEATHER
CEDAR RAPIDS/IOWA CITY
CEDAR RAPIDS
Normal high/low ......................................... 64/42
Record high ......................................... 86 in 1950
Record low .......................................... 22 in 1976
High/low temp Saturday .............................. 60/35
24-hour high Friday............................................61
24-hour low Friday.............................................37
Total precipitation for October....................... 3.39”
Normal precipitation for October ................... 2.83”
Normal precipitation through October .......... 33.58”
Total precipitation for 2021 ........................ 18.92”
(Precipitation totals at The Eastern Iowa Airport)
RIVER LEVELS IN EASTERN IOWA
CEDAR RIVER
Waterloo (13) 5.68 falling
Cedar Rapids (12) 3.62 falling
Conesville (13) 5.90 falling
IOWA RIVER
Marshalltown (19) 8.87 falling
Belle Plaine (15) 5.01 falling
Marengo (15) 5.44 falling
Iowa City (24) NA
● Sunday, October 17, 2021
Pro football
Thursday
Tampa Bay 28, Philadelphia 22
Today’s games
(Iowa times)
Miami vs Jacksonville at London, 8:30 a.m.
Cincinnati at Detroit, noon
Green Bay at Chicago, noon
Houston at Indianapolis, noon
Kansas City at Washington, noon
L.A. Chargers at Baltimore, noon
L.A. Rams at N.Y. Giants, noon
Minnesota at Carolina, noon
Arizona at Cleveland, 3:05 p.m.
Dallas at New England, 3:25 p.m.
Las Vegas at Denver, 3:25 p.m.
Seattle at Pittsburgh, 7:20 p.m.
BYES: N.Y. Jets, Atlanta, New Orleans,
San Francisco
Monday’s game
Buffalo at Tennessee, 8:15 p.m.
Pro hockey
National Hockey League
Late Friday
New Jersey 4, Chicago 3, OT
Vancouver 5, Philadelphia 4, SO
Minnesota 2, Anaheim 1
Saturday’s results
Buffalo 2, Arizona 1, SO
N.Y. Islanders at Florida, late
Chicago at Pittsburgh, late
Dallas at Boston, late
N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, late
Ottawa at Toronto, late
Seattle at Columbus, late
Tampa Bay at Washington, late
Vancouver at Detroit, late
Carolina at Nashville, late
St. Louis at Colorado, late
Calgary at Edmonton, late
Winnipeg at San Jose, late
Minnesota at Los Angeles, late
Today’s game
(Iowa time)
Dallas at Ottawa, 5 p.m.
Pro basketball
NBA Preseason
Late Friday
Miami 121, Boston 100
Cleveland 110, Indiana 94
Detroit 112, Philadelphia 108
New York 115, Washington 113
Dallas 114, Milwaukee 103
Chicago 118, Memphis 105
San Antonio 126, Houston 98
Golden State 119, Portland 97
END OF PRESEASON
Tuesday’s games
(Iowa times)
Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.
Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.
WNBA Finals
(Best-of-5; x-if necessary)
Today’s game
Phoenix at Chicago, 2 p.m.
(Sky leads series 2-1)
Tuesday
x-Chicago at Phoenix, 8 p.m.
Women’s volleyball
Friday
IOWA COLLEGES
Central def. Luther, 25-22, 25-18, 22-25,
25-21
Cornell def. Nebraska Wesleyan, 24-26, 25-
21, 25-22, 25-10
Evansville (Ill.) def. Northern Iowa, 17-25,
25-16, 29-27, 25-20
Grinnell def. Knox (Ill.), 25-20, 25-18, 25-20
Indiana State def. Drake, 25-20, 25-17,
16-25, 25-16
Upper Iowa def. Sioux Falls, 25-22, 25-23,
25-23
Men’s soccer
Saturday
IOWA COLLEGES
Cornell 2, Lake Forest (Ill.) 1
Grinnell 1, Lawrence (Wis.) 0
Luther 1, Simpson 1 (2OT)
Wartburg 2, Central 0
AT MOUNT VERNON
Cornell 2, Lake Forest 1
Goals — Cornell: Gaurab Khadka, Justin
Howe; Lake Forest: Connor Keast
Assists — Cornell: George Archer,
Blake Soto; Lake Forest: Frank Janicke
Permanyer
AT INDIANOLA
Luther 1, Simpson 1 (2OT)
Goals — Luther: Marcos Vila; Simpson:
Jordy Triana-Vasquez
Friday
IOWA COLLEGES
Davenport (Mich.) 2, Upper Iowa 1
AT FAYETTE
Davenport 2, Upper Iowa 1
Goals — Davenport: Matt Whelan (2);
Upper Iowa: Italo Martins Soares
Assists — Upper Iowa: Tate Lofdahl
Billiards
Wednesday 7pm Open
2nd Ave. Corner Pocket
5&0 Golf-Pool 10’ Diamond
Winners: Game 1 — Dennis Walrob; Game
2 — Stuart Kee.
Thursday Noon Open
2&1/4 Golf-Pool 10’ Diamond
Winner: Games 1,2,3 — Dennis Walrob
Highs are for today; lows are for tonight
DAYLIGHT
Sunset tonight ....................................... 6:22 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow................................... 7:23 a.m.
Today’s daylight ...............................11 hrs. 1 min.
IOWA CITY
Normal high/low ......................................... 64/42
High/low temp Saturday .............................. 63/38
24-hour high Friday............................................63
24-hour low Friday.............................................39
Total precipitation for October....................... 2.45”
Total precipitation for 2021 ........................ 24.67”
(Precipitation totals at Iowa City Municipal Airport)
Lone Tree (16) 4.33 falling
Columbus Jct (23) 10.09 falling
Wapello (21) 11.22 falling
WAPSIPINICON RIVER
Independence (12) 5.95 falling
Anamosa (14) 7.28 falling
CORALVILLE POOL
NA Above sea level 685.52
SCORES & MORE
Bowling College football Coe 27 Men’s cross country
Leagues Saturday Loras 20 Saturday
AT LANCER LANES
Friday Golden Age — Deb Strunk 190-
IOWA COLLEGES
AT DUBUQUE
COE LOR
AUGUSTANA INVITATIONAL
Purdue 24, Iowa 7 First downs.................................11 31 At Rock Island, Ill.
474, Dennis Stiefel 266, Gay Strunk 624; Chicago 47, Cornell 21 Rushes-yards................... 32-226 51-142 (Saukie Golf Course)
Weakenders — Monica Benish 188-501, Coe 27, Loras 20
Jonny Bishop 269-738. Passing ......................................102 320 Teams — 1. Wartburg 39, 2. Pomona-
Knox 49, Grinnell 28 Comp-Att-Int.....................8-21-1 29-57-4 Pitzer (Calif.) 46, 3. North Central (Ill.) 120,
Minnesota State 58, Upper Iowa 0 Return Yards.............................87 195 4. Otterbein (Ohio) 121, 5. Washington (Mo.)
AT MAY CITY BOWL San Diego 13, Drake 10
Punts-Avg. ..........................9-32.1 2-37.0 122, 6. U of Chicago 150, 7. Calvin (Mich.) 232,
Pinbusters — Rylee Bries 104-294, Lincoln South Dakota 34, Northern Iowa 21 8. Colorado College 241, 9. Stout (Wis.) 276,
Fowler 136-329; Stars — Emma Hindt 222- Wartburg 67, Luther 0
Fumbles-lost............................1-1 2-1
Penalties-Yards....................3-35 5-40 10. Depauw (Ind.) 308, 11. Hope (Mich.) 326,
540, Jaxon Robinson 236-659. Iowa State at Kansas State, late Time of Possession .............21:53 38:07 12. Occidental (Calif.) 373, 13. Millikin (Ill.)
Coe............................................ 7 7 13 0—27 377, 14. Augustana (Ill.) 392, 15. Dubuque
Girls’ swimming/diving BIG TEN
Purdue 24, Iowa 7 Loras........................................ 7 0 6 7—20
LOR—Joey Foley 25 punt return (Nicolas
406, 16. Cornell 434, 17. Bethel (Minn.) 489,
18. Wheaton (Ill.) 500, 19. Grinnell 557, 20.
Michigan State 20, Indiana 15 Wisconsin-Superior 577, 21. Illinois Institute of
Saturday Minnesota 30, Nebraska 23 Farfan kick)
Technology 675, 22. Concordia-Chicago 705,
MVC SUPERMEET Northwestern 21, Rutgers 7 COE—Chance Newton 63 run (Evan Ellis
kick) 23. North Park (Ill.) 725, 24. Knox (Ill.) 780.
Teams — 1. Iowa City West 485, 2. Ken- Army at Wisconsin, late Top individuals — 1. Joe
COE—Alphonso Soko 39 run (Ellis kick)
nedy 334, 3. Cedar Falls 325, 4. Linn-Mar 323, Freiburger (Wartburg), 24:16; 2. Christopher
5. Dubuque Senior 182, 6. Dubuque Wahlert BIG 12
LOR—FG 26 Scott Talmadge
Collet (Wartburg), 24:21; 3. Lucas Florsheim
LOR—FG 33 Talmadge
134, 7. City High 116, 8. Dubuque Hempstead Iowa State at Kansas State, late COE—Soko 27 run (kick failed) (Pomona), 24:28.
109, 9. Jefferson 91, 10. Waterloo 76, 11. Baylor 38, BYU 24 COE—Soko 25 run (Ellis kick) Cornell — 32. Aaron Davidson 25:01, 93.
Washington 60. Emery Bird 26:02, 106. Caleb Schopen 26:15,
200 medley relay — 1. Iowa City West
(Carlee Wilkins, Makala Hajek, Scarlet Mar-
Oklahoma State 32, Texas 24
Texas Tech 41, Kansas 14
LOR—Marty McGovern 27 pass from
Noah Sigwarth (Farfan kick) 144. Gabe Soda 27:05, 155. Tyler Bilskie 27:23,
159. Isaak Hutchings 27:28, 166. Peter Weber
tin, Ella Hochsterler), 1:50.87; 2. Cedar Falls
TCU at Oklahoma, late
27:48, 197. Luke Murray 28:56, 202. Charlie
1:53.85; 3. Linn-Mar 1:54.72; 200 free — 1. TOP 25
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Link 29:01, 225. Dane Markegard 33:11.
Jade Roghair (ICW), 1:55.15; 2. Kolby Re- Rushing — Coe: Alphonso Soko 18-144,
No. 1 Georgia 30, No. 11 Kentucky 13 Chance Newton 1-63, Nick Casey 6-10, Luke
ese (ICW), 1:59.41; 3. Lauren Trent (ICW),
2:00.31; 200 IM — 1. Olivia Taeger (ICW), Purdue 24, No. 2 Iowa 7
No. 3 Cincinnati 56, UCF 21
Lenoch 1-5, Dominic Shepardson 1-2, Ray
Seidel 2-2; Loras: Noah Sigwarth 22-66, Ty
Prep volleyball
2:12.58; 2. Makala Hajek (ICW), 2:14.24; 3.
Kendall Mallaro (CF), 2:16.95; 50 free — 1. TCU at No. 4 Oklahoma, late Bausch 22-42, Elijah Thomas 7-34. Saturday
Scarlet Martin (ICW), 24.10; 2. Grace Hoeper No. 5 Alabama at Mississippi State, late Passing — Coe: Casey 8-21-1-102; Loras: TRI-RIVERS CONFERENCE
No. 9 Oregon 24, California 17
(City), 24.57; 3. Ella Hochstetler (ICW), 25.02;
No. 10 Michigan State 20, Indiana 15
Sigwarth 28-55-4-310, Bausch 1-2-0-10. TOURNAMENT
100 butterfly — 1. Kendall Mallaro (CF), Receiving — Coe: Amel Saric 1-34, Shepa-
No. 12 Oklahoma State 32, No. 25 Texas 24 rdson 4-26, Joshua Bishop 1-7, Cooper Zeck At Wheatland
1:00.35; 2. Ella Hochstetler (ICW), 1:00.53;
3. Karen Liu (ICW), 1:02.99; 100 free — 1. No. 13 Ole Miss at Tennessee, late 1-6; Loras: Marty McGovern 5-77, Bausch Quarterfinals
Grace Frericks (CF), 52.60; 2. Grace Hoeper Auburn 38, No. 17 Arkansas 23 7-55, Dwayne Emilus 3-51, Hunter Matye Lisbon def. East Buchanan, 25-21, 25-13
(City), 53.15; 3. Olivia Taeger (ICW), 54.58; No. 18 Arizona State at Utah, late 3-45, Je’Von Williams 4-41, Thomas 3-24, Starmont def. Clinton Prince of Peace, 25-
500 free — 1. Jade Roghair (ICW), 5:10.00; 2. Baylor 38, No. 19 BYU 24 Eric Hradek 2-12, Hareson Willis 1-9, Mike 13, 25-14
LSU 49, No. 20 Florida 42 McDevitt 1-6. Central City def. Easton Valley, 25-20,
Lilly Weber (L-M), 5:13.27; 3. Kolby Reese
No. 21 Texas A&M 35, Missouri 14 A — 500. 25-18
(ICW), 5:15.02; 200 free relay — 1. Iowa City
West (Hochstetler, Taeger, Roghair, Mar- No. 22 NC State at Boston College, late Springville def. Cedar Valley Christian, 25-
No. 24 San Diego St 19, San Jose St 13 (Fri) 6, 25-13
tin), 1:39.13; 2. Linn-Mar 1:40.84; 3. Kennedy Minnesota State 58 Consolation
1:44.99; 100 backstroke — 1. Grace Frericks
(CF), 56.46; 2. Scarlet Martin (ICW), 56.56; 3. Chicago 47 Upper Iowa 0 East Buchanan def. Clinton Prince of
Avery Schmidt (DW), 1:00.19; 1 meter diving Peace, 21-19, 21-16
— Sam Klein (ICW), 461.40; 2. Nat Freeman Cornell 21 AT FAYETTE
Easton Valley def. Cedar Valley Christian,
(CRJ), 436.35; 3. Corrin Williams (L-M), AT VAN METRE FIELD AT ASH PARK
MSU UIU 18-21, 22-20, 15-4
First downs.................................24 20 Semifinals
424.05. CHI COR Rushes-yards................... 33-153 44-162
First downs.................................26 13 Passing ......................................368 131 Lisbon def. Starmont, 27-25, 25-21
Women’s soccer Rushes-yards................... 50-431 37-130 Comp-Att-Int.................. 22-31-0 11-39-2 Springville def. Central City, 25-9, 25-11
Saturday
Passing ......................................162
Comp-Att-Int.....................8-17-2
130
8-19-3
Return Yards...........................103
Punts-Avg. ..........................3-44.0
39
7-36.0
Championship
Springville def. Lisbon, 25-21, 25-15
Return Yards.............................41 52 Fumbles-lost............................3-2 0-0
IOWA COLLEGES
Lake Forest (Ill.) 1, Cornell 0
Punts-Avg. ............................0-0.0
Fumbles-lost............................3-2
4-35.5
0-0
Penalties-Yards..................10-90
Time of Possession .............26:42
3-35
33:18 Women’s cross country
Lawrence (Wis.) 1, Grinnell 0 Penalties-Yards....................8-75 7-55
Simpson 2, Luther 0 Time of Possession .............31:18 28:42
Minnesota St......................... 20 14 14 10—58 Saturday
Chicago.................................. 14 14 6 13—47
Upper Iowa............................. 0 0 0 0—0
AUGUSTANA INVITATIONAL
MSU—Blake VerMulm 3 pass from JD
AT MOUNT VERNON Cornell...................................... 0 14 0 7—21 Ekowa (kick failed) At Rock Island, Ill.
Lake Forest 1, Cornell 0 CHI — #19 M.Quaglia 68 yd pass from #12 MSU—Ekowa 11 run (Damian Chowaniec (Saukie Golf Course)
Goals — Lake Forest: Ella Manthey P.Martini (#10 W.Goodman kick) kick) Teams — 1. Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.) 68, 2.
Assists — Lake Forest: Iman Shepard CHI — #11 N.D’Ambrose 3 yd rush (#10 MSU—Nyles Williams 13 run Wartburg 75, 3. Washington (Mo.) 97, 4. U
W.Goodman kick) (Luke Williams kick) of Chicago 97, 5. Hope (Mich.) 100, 6. Calvin
AT INDIANOLA CHI — #18 A.Mandell 54 yd rush (#10 MSU—Gabe Hagen 10 pass from Ekowa (Mich.) 134, 7. Colorado College 197, 8. Stout
W.Goodman kick), 4-58
Simpson 2, Luther 0 (Chowaniec kick) (Wis.) 283, 9. Depauw (Ind.) 306, 10. North
Goals — Simpson: Alexis Ponce, Megan CHI — #11 N.D’Ambrose 8 yd rush (#10 MSU—Parker Gloudemans 8 pass from Central (Ill.) 325, 11. Bethel (Minn.) 330, 12.
W.Goodman kick)
Roberts
COR — #85 M.Davis 47 yd pass from #16
Ekowa (Williams kick) Wheaton (Ill.) 360, 13. Millikin (Ill.) 391, 14. Ot-
Assists — Simpson: Hailey Kowzan, Cassie MSU—Jalen Sample 25 pass from Ekowa terbein (Ohio) 391, 15. Grinnell 409, 16. Cornell
D.Wilson (#87 A.Mitchell kick) (Chowaniec kick) 452, 17. Occidental (Calif.) 503, 18. Augustana
Nash
COR — #16 D.Wilson 1 yd rush (#87 MSU—Ty’Shonan Brooks 68 punt return (Ill.) 503, 19. North Park (Ill.) 615, 20. Wiscon-
A.Mitchell kick) (Williams kick) sin-Superior 646, 21. Concordia-Chicago 666,
Transactions CHI — #11 N.D’Ambrose 43 yd rush (#10
W.Goodman kick blocked)
MSU—FG 45 Chowaniec
MSU—Christian Vasser 4 run (Williams
22. Dubuque 671, 23. Coe 741.
Top individuals — 1. Anastasia Tucker
Saturday COR — #33 T.Martushev 2 yd rush (#87
A.Mitchell kick)
kick) (Hope), 21:21; 2. Claudia Harnett (U of Chi.)
BASEBALL 21:33; 3. Sadie Heeringa (Calvin) 21:42.
CHI — #11 N.D’Ambrose 25 yd rush (#10 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Cornell — 98. Natalie Neuhaus 24:00, 103.
National League W.Goodman kick)
Rushing — MSU: Kaleb Sleezer 5-39, Jeanelle Jimenez 24:09, 105. Billie Fogarty
ATLANTA BRAVES — Reassigned LF CHI — #11 N.D’Ambrose 21 yd rush (#10 24:11, 114. Caroline Riss 24:26, 122. Michelle
Charles Coleman 8-33, Christian Vasser 6-30,
Terrance Gore and LHP Dylan Lee to the W.Goodman kick missed)
Hayden Ekern 7-20, JD Ekowa 5-19, Nyles Nava 24:33, 185. Sam See 27:04, 192. Taylor
minor leagues. Activated RHP Chris Martin INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
and 1B Johan Camargo. Rushing — Chicago: Nick D’Ambrose 35-
Williams 1-13, Deyon Campbell 1-(-1); UIU: Walsh 27:22, 194. Mio Aoki-Sherwood 27:31,
199. Miranda Hall 28:07, 205. Annika Sutter
LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Activated
LHP Justin Bruihl and RHP Evan Phillips.
297, Aiden Mandell 1-54, Philip Martini,6-41,
Greg Asare 4-21, Rhys Bommarito-Logan
Willy Camacho 16-66, Keontae Luckett 17-
61, Desean Phillips 9-42, Zach Reader 2-(-7). 29:16.
Coe — 180. Crystal Burke 26:49, 200. Becky
Reassigned LHP David Price and LF Billy Passing — MSU: Ekowa 16-20-0-286,
McKinney to the minor leagues.
2-18, TEAM 2-(-1); Cornell: Daniel Abesa- Ekern 6-11-0-82; UIU: Reader 10-38-2-126, Mills 28:11, 203. Cailyn Wright 28:32, 210. Fio-
mes-Hammer 7-58, Peni Waqairatu 8-20, Jack Beulke 1-1-0-5. na Mahler 30:54, 211. Karla Silva 30:56.
Romien Taguiam 4-11, Jordan Braud 3-10,
Receiving — MSU: Williams 4-90, Jalen
BASKETEBALL Denver Wilson 9-21, Isaak Hahn 2-5, Tom
National Basketball Association Martushev 3-2, Marcellus Parks 1-(-1).
Sample 3-79, Parker Gloudemans 3-67,
Sleezer 1-32, Campbell 3-27, Willie Walton Pro golf
BROOKLYN NETS — Announced con- Passing — Chicago: Philip Martini 8-17-2- 2-20, Vasser 1-12, DJ Barber 1-12, Tanner
tract conversion for Malik Fitts to a two-way 162; Cornell: Denver Wilson 7-14-2-112, Isaak Saturday
contract. Waived F Devontae Cacok. Hahn 1-5-1-18.
Johnson 1-10, Gabe Hagen 1-10, Coleman
PGA Tour Champions
1-6, Blake VerMulm 1-3; UIU: DJ Emsweller
CHICAGO BULLS — Waived Fs Stanley Receiving — Chicago: Matt Quaglia 3-103, 3-45, Alexander Stevens 3-44, Cole Ewald SAS Championship
Johnson and Troy Baxter Jr. Announced Elliott Grays 2-25, Nick D’Ambrose 1-18, AJ
contract conversion for F Tyler Cook to a Markett 1-10, Mark Eaton 1-6; Cornell: Ma-
2-13, Lane Canny 1-12, Camacho 1-12, At Cary, N.C.
Xavier Saldana 1-5.
two-way contract. son Davis 4-92, Aaryn Hailpern 3-20, Trey A — 1,537.
(Prestonwood Country Club, par 72)
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — An- Birdsong 1-18. Second Round
nounced contract conversion for C Tacko Fall A — 635. Alex Cejka........................................... 68-67—135
and G R.J. Nembhard to two-way contracts. South Dakota 34 Miguel Angel Jiménez..................... 67-68—135
Waived Gs Mitch Ballock, Kyle Guy and Jus-
tin James.
Wartburg 67 Northern Iowa 21 Bernhard Langer.............................. 70-66—136
Scott Dunlap....................................... 68-68—136
DENVER NUGGETS — Waived G Nik Luther 0 AT UNI-DOME Scott Parel .......................................... 65-71—136
Stauskas. SD UNI Harrison Frazar................................ 68-69—137
AT DECORAH
DETROIT PISTONS — Waived Gs Jared
Cunningham, Cassius Stanley and Derrick WAR LUT
First downs.................................19
Rushes-yards................... 51-161
20
24-90
Lee Janzen.......................................... 67-70—137
Thongchai Jaidee ............................. 66-71—137
First downs.................................23 6
Walton Jr.
Rushes-yards................... 42-295 35-(-1)
Passing ......................................153 303 Woody Austin .................................... 71-67—138
INDIANA PACERS — Waived Fs Justin Comp-Att-Int.................. 16-21-0 25-35-2 Padraig Harrington.......................... 71-67—138
Anderson and Bennie Boatwright, C Derek Passing ......................................223 168 Return Yards.............................11 3 Jim Furyk........................................... 69-69—138
Comp-Att-Int.................. 13-17-0 9-19-1
Culver, Gs Nate Hinton, Keifer Sykes and
Return Yards...........................160 121
Punts-Avg. ..........................6-43.7 5-41.4 Kevin Sutherland .............................. 69-69—138
Terry Taylor. Fumbles-lost............................0-0 0-0 Paul Broadhurst ............................... 68-70—138
MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Waived Gs Kris Punts-Avg. .............................1-19 8-25.9 Penalties-Yards....................4-36 7-59 Stuart Appleby .................................. 68-70—138
Dunn and David Stockton and F Matt Hurt. Fumbles-lost............................2-1 0-0 Time of Possession .............36:01 23:59
Penalties-Yards....................5-34 2-21
MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Waived Gs South Dakota ....................... 14 10 10 0—34 PGA Tour
Jalen Lecque and Tremont Waters, F We- Time of Possession .............30:14 29:46
UNI............................................ 0 0 14 7—21 The CJ Cup at Summit
nyen Gabriel and C Javin DeLaurier. Wartburg .............................. 20 27 7 13—67
At Las Vegas
MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES —
Waived F Vincent Edwards.
Luther ...................................... 0 0 0 0—0
WAR—Caleb Dodd 0 blocked punt return
SD—Bell 5 pass from Camp (kick failed)
SD—Theis 4 run (Lorber kick)
SD—Galbreath 9 pass from Camp
(The Summit Club, par 72)
Third Round
(Kain Eagle kick)
WAR—Jace Moore 6 run (Eagle kick)
(Lorber kick) Rickie Fowler .............................. 66-66-63—195
FOOTBALL SD—FG 31 Lorber
WAR—Braydin Farrell 27 pass from Rory McIlroy ............................... 68-67-62—197
National Football League UNI—V. McShane 62 run (Cook kick)
Moore (kick failed) Robert Streb................................. 61-72-65—198
CHICAGO BEARS — Promoted RB Ar- UNI—Schnee 28 pass from Day (Cook Adam Scott................................... 68-63-67—198
tavis Pierce and OL Dieter Eiselen to roster. WAR—Moore 24 run (Eagle kick) kick)
WAR—Drake George 35 pass from Moore Abraham Ancer.......................... 70-65-63—198
DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed TE Jer- SD—FG 45 Lorber
emy Sprinkle and FB Nick Ralston. Waived T (Eagle kick) SD—Thomas 2 run (Lorber kick)
Keith Mitchell............................... 62-64-73—199
WAR—Ben Bryant 30 run (kick failed) Tyrrell Hatton.............................. 67-65-67—199
Brandon Knight. UNI—Morancy 20 pass from Day (Cook Cameron Smith ........................... 66-67-67—200
DENVER BRONCOS — DB Mike Ford on WAR—Hunter Clasen 40 run (Eagle kick) kick)
WAR—Austin Griffin 3 run (Eagle kick) Ian Poulter .................................... 66-67-67—200
IR. John Brown and Tyrie Cleveland to roster.
WAR—FG 24 A. Muhamedagic Harry Higgs ................................. 64-67-70—201
DETROIT LIONS — WR Geronimo Allison INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Aaron Wise................................... 66-67-68—201
and CB Nickell Roby-Coleman to roster. WAR—FG 28 A. Muhamedagic
WAR—Griffin 13 run (Muhamedagic kick) Rushing — South Dakota: Travis Theis Erik van Rooyen......................... 67-66-68—201
GREEN BAY PACKERS — WR Juwann 29-113, Nate Thomas 14-59, Michael Man- Sam Burns.................................... 67-68-66—201
Winfree to the active roster.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS saray 4-8, Carson Camp 4-(-19); UNI: Vance
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — K Rodrigo McShane 4-65, Bradrick Shaw 6-27, Deion
Blankenship on IR. WR T.Y. Hilton, K Michael
Badgley and S Jordan Lucas to roster.
Rushing — Wartburg: Hunter Clasen
9-135, Austin Griffin 14-84, Ben Bryant 1-30,
McShane 1-9, Dom Williams 3-1, Theo Day
10-(-12).
Pro soccer
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Activated QB Tua
Tagovailoa from IR. Promoted WRs Isaiah
Jace Moore 2-30; Luther: Vershon Brooks
19-30, Sam Ballesteros 1-5, Canon Reece 1-2,
Passing — South Dakota: Camp 16-20-0-
153; UNI: Day 25-35-2-303.
Major League Soccer
Avant Porter 1-1, Cody Hocker 5-(-39). Saturday’s results
Ford and Kirk Merritt to the active roster.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Promoted TE Passing — Wartburg: Moore 9-12-0-150,
Receiving — South Dakota: Austin Goeh- Philadelphia 2, CF Montréal 2, tie
ring 3-41, Caleb Vander Esch 5-31, Kody Los Angeles FC 3, San Jose 1
Luke Stocker to active roster. Nile Mclaughlin 4-5-0-73; Luther: Hocker Case 1-25, Brett Samson 2-23, Carter Bell
PITTSBURGH STEELERS — OT Zach 8-14-1-114, Alex Griffeth 1-4-0-54. Columbus 4, Miami 0
3-18, JJ Galbreath 1-9, Theis 1-6; UNI: Quan
Banner activated from IR. WR JuJu Smith- Receiving — Wartburg: Robert Califf 3-70, Hampton 9-108, D. McShane 7-82, Sergio
Schuster placed on IR. Braydin Farrell 2-40, JoJo McNair 2-18, Today’s games
Morancy 3-39, Isaiah Weston 2-38, Sam
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — WR Phillip Drake George 1-35; Luther: Andre Atkins (Iowa times)
Dorsett and QB Jake Luton to roster. the 6-163, Brooks 2-(-3), Parker Kizer 1-8.
Schnee 2-31, Daric Whipple 1-5, Williams 1-0.
New York City FC at New York, noon
A — 16,324.
practice squad. Placed QB Russell Wilson A — 405. Sporting Kansas City at Vancouver, 9 p.m.
and RB Chris Carson on IR.
TRAVELERS’
WEATHER
Atlanta 67/48/sun
TOP WEATHER STORY Highlights from history,
trivia and events in weather Boston
Chicago
65/49/pc
66/46/sun
Dubuque catching up with the 30s Cincinnati
Cleveland
65/45/sun
61/45/sh
Clear skies and a cool air mass in place allowed Dallas 74/49/pc
temperatures to dip into the 30s across most of Eastern Iowa Denver 73/41/sun
on Saturday morning. For some, this was the first time such Detroit 63/44/sun
readings were measured this season. Honolulu 86/72/sh
Houston 76/51/pc
Dubuque is in that group, which is well behind the average Indianapolis 64/45/sun
first day with a low in the 30s of Sept. 27. This late of a date Kansas City 73/46/sun
hasn’t been seen in decades for the Key City, in fact. The last Las Vegas 81/58/pc
time the first 30-something low was this late was in 1960. Los Angeles 75/54/pc
Although Cedar Rapids also reached the 30s on Saturday, it Memphis 70/47/sun
wasn’t the first time of the season. That took place Sept. 25, Milwaukee 65/46/sun
which is only one day ahead of the average first date. Minneapolis 67/46/sun
Nashville 66/45/sun
— Meteorologist Corey Thompson New Orleans 74/61/sun
New York 64/50/pc
For up-to-date weather info, visit www.kcrg.com/weather Omaha 75/47/sun
Orlando 84/63/pc
Philadelphia 64/49/pc
Phoenix 89/61/cdy
IOWA CLIMATE/SATURDAY Portland, Ore.
Raleigh/Durham
58/46/rn
66/44/sun
EASTERN IOWA
Anamosa 61/36/none
Waterloo
Williamsburg
63/37/none
63/38/none
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
71/49/sun
69/49/pc
MISSISSIPPI RIVER Davenport 62/38/none San Francisco 64/51/cdy
La Crosse (12) 4.85 rising Decorah 59/36/none ACROSS THE STATE Seattle 56/45/rn
Lansing (17) 7.91 falling Dubuque 60/34/none Sioux Falls 73/45/sun
Ames 64/35/none
McGregor (16) 7.40 falling Independence 63/38/0.01” Council Bluffs 64/39/none Tampa 83/64/sun
Guttenberg (15) 4.87 falling Manchester 63/38/0.01” Des Moines 64/39/none Washington, D.C. 66/50/sun
Dubuque (17) 7.74 falling Monticello 61/36/none Fort Dodge 63/32/none sun=sunny, pc=partly cloudy,
Bellevue (17) 4.92 falling Muscatine 63/41/none Mason City 62/33/none cdy=cloudy, sh=showers,
Quad Cities (15) 5.12 rising Tama 62/34/none Ottumwa 62/39/none tst=thunderstorms, rn=rain,
rising Muscatine (16) 6.30 falling Washington 63/37/none Sioux City 68/33/none sf=snow flurries, sn=snow
 Sunday, October 17, 2021 ● The Gazette 7B

THE FINAL SCORE

Iowa running back Tyler Goodson (15) flexes after getting a first down and is congratulated by offensive lineman Jack Plumb (79) during the first half of their Big Ten Conference football game against
Purdue at Kinnick Stadium on Saturday in Iowa City. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Purdue quarterback Jack Plummer (13) is brought down by Iowa defensive backs
Matt Hankins (right) and Jack Koerner (second from left) and defensive end Joe
Evans (13) during the first half at Kinnick Stadium. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

ABOVE: Iowa
cheerleaders celebrate
as the team takes the
field before the first
quarter. (Geoff Stellfox/
The Gazette)
LEFT: Purdue
quarterback Aidan
O’Connell (16) throws
under pressure from
Iowa defensive lineman
Logan Lee (85) during
the first half. (Jim
Slosiarek/The Gazette)
RIGHT: Iowa defensive
lineman Zach
VanValkenburg (97)
drags down Purdue
running back King
Doerue (22) during the
first half. (Jim Slosiarek/
The Gazette)

BIG 12 ROUNDUP

Cowboys rally in fourth to beat Longhorns BIG 12 STANDINGS

Associated Press
Tanner Brown’s fourth field
goal of the game gave No. 12
Oklahoma State its first lead,
and Spencer Sanders’ scram-
bling 10-yard touchdown run
with 2:18 to play capped a 32-24
victory over No. 25 Texas on
Saturday in Austin, Texas, to
keep the Cowboys undefeated.
Texas built leads of 17-3 and
24-13 behind three touchdowns
from Bijan Robinson before
Oklahoma State’s defense and
punishing run game behind
Jaylen Warren took over for the
Cowboys.
It was the second straight
week Texas surrendered a big
lead in a tough loss. The Long-
horns led Oklahoma 28-7 before
losing 55-48 last week.
Brown’s kicking and Jason
Taylor II’s 85-yard interception
return for a touchdown in the
second quarter kept the Cow-
boys in the game while Sanders
and the offense were struggling
early.
The Cowboys allowed Texas
just 317 total yards. Warren fin-
ished with 193 yards rushing on
33 carries.
Sanders pulled Oklahoma
State within 24-22 with a 7-yard
touchdown pass to Brennan
Presley. Brown’s 29-yard field
goal put the Cowboys ahead.
Texas still had time to pos-
sibly retake the lead, but the
Cowboys defense stuffed the
Longhorns on fourth down at
the Texas 42.
BAYLOR 38, BYU 24 — Abram
Smith ran for 188 yards with
three touchdowns, Baylor line-
backer and part-time fullback
Dillon Doyle — an Iowa City
West grad and former Hawkeye
— scored on both of his offen-
sive touches and the Bears beat
future Big 12 foe BYU in Waco,
Texas.
Baylor (6-1) led by only
three points midway through
the third quarter before Doyle
caught a 2-yard TD pass. The
Cougars have lost back-to-back
games after a 5-0 start.
School Conf All
Oklahoma.............. 3-0 6-0
Oklahoma State..... 3-0 6-0
Baylor.................... 3-1 6-1
Texas Tech............ 2-2 5-2
Texas .................... 2-2 4-3
Iowa State............. 1-1 3-2
TCU....................... 1-1 3-2
Kansas State ........ 0-2 3-2
West Virginia ......... 0-3 2-4
Kansas ................. 0-3 1-5
Saturday
Okla. State 32, Texas 24
Baylor 38, BYU 24
Texas Tech 41, Kansas 7
TCU at Oklahoma, late
Iowa State at K-State, late
8B The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021
Iowa wide receiver Tyrone Tracy Jr. (3) walks off the field after the Hawkeyes’ Big Ten Conference football loss to Purdue on Saturday at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. Purdue won, 24-7. (Jim Slosiarek/
The Gazette)
Hlas/For whom the Bell tolled
; FROM PAGE 1B
gives Phil Parker’s defense is
Brohm’s.
This game gave the rest of
the nation the opportunity,
if it chose to accept it, to say tras’ overthrown pass getting
“See, they weren’t for real as a deflected by the Boilermakers
playoff contender.” The nation and then intercepted by line-
accepted the opportunity, by
the way.
That fourth-quarter Big
Noise that was heard here the just Purdue’s third takeaway
Saturday before when Iowa
rallied to beat Penn State? The an Iowa team that entered this
Iowa/Hawks have bye week to regroup
; FROM PAGE 1B
through its first six
games did not force a
turnover until late in the
third quarter Saturday.
The lone turnover was
the result of an obscure
rule, as well. A Purdue
receiver fumbled the ball
into the pylon, which re-
sulted in an Iowa touch-
back.
The underwhelming
defensive performance
was Iowa’s first without
starting cornerback
Riley Moss, whom Iowa
head coach Kirk Ferentz
said Tuesday will be
out for a “couple weeks,
hopefully.” Moss, who
was not in uniform, had
a brace on his left knee
during Saturday’s loss.
Iowa’s offense, mean-
while, struggled against
Purdue’s defensive front.
Quarterback Spencer
Petras had one of his
worst performances of
the season, completing
just 53 percent of his
passes for 195 yards and
tossing a season-high
four interceptions.
Petras did not find
the end zone for the first
time this season.
The running game
didn’t go much better,
averaging 2.5 yards per
carry.
Running back Tyler
Goodson had a 32-yard
run in the second quar-
ter, but otherwise rarely
had much room to run.
Iowa appeared to be on
the way to a fourth-quar-
ter comeback when Ivory
Kelly-Martin returned
a kickoff 67 yards to the
THE FINAL SCORE
Hawkeyes took the beating game with a turnover margin footing. Iowa is 6-1 and still can go
this time, not the fans’ ear- of plus-15. Then Iowa’s defense to Bell’s hometown for the
drums. That defense didn’t do any slipped. Purdue responded Big Ten title game. But every
It didn’t take long for the taking this day, and the score with a 75-yard touchdown game is hard, and the next one
game to have that uphill feel- tells you what happens in that drive of its own, with 65 of it is at Wisconsin.
ing for Iowa, with Spencer Pe- event. coming on Aidan O’Connell The yardage was in Pur-
Iowa had a great-looking passes. Seldom was he truly due’s favor by almost 200
80-yard touchdown drive to tie pressured. yards. The team that had been
the game at 7 with 3:20 left. It “Throwing with comfort,” last in the nation in takeaways
backer Kieren Douglas. used just one forward pass, a was how Ferentz described had 4. The national leader had
That was Iowa’s fourth play 22-yard connection between what O’Connell did in the first 1.
from scrimmage. It also was Petras and Sam LaPorta. Five half during his halftime radio Gong!
different Hawkeyes had rush- interview with the Hawkeye
of the season, coming against ing attempts on the drive. It network. The comfort lingered Comments: (319) 398-8440;
felt like Iowa had found its after that. mike.hlas@thegazette.com
Purdue 19-yard line. The
Iowa offense went four-
and-out, though, after
Petras ran for no gain on
fourth down.
It was one of three
Iowa trips within the
Purdue 10-yard-line, but
the Hawkeyes scored just
once on those trips.
Kicker Caleb Shudak
missed a 25-yard field
goal in the second quar-
ter, negating a 17-play,
68-yard Iowa drive.
The Hawkeyes had
success on their next
drive, though. Kelly-
Martin had a 3-yard
touchdown to cap off an
80-yard drive.
Iowa’s offense didn’t
get back into Purdue
territory until the Kelly-
Martin kickoff return
that ended in a four-and-
out.
The rest of the Iowa
special teams unit that
had been elite in the first
six games had a setback
Saturday amid windy
conditions at Kinnick
Iowa quarterback Spencer Petras (7) is brought down by Purdue’s Kydran Jenkins (44) on Saturday at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City.
(Geoff Stellfox photos/The Gazette)
Stadium.
Punter Tory Taylor
averaged just 40.7 yards matchups against Iowa. at a signature win that
per punt, although all This one likely hurts could bolster their post-
three of his punts came even more, though, be- season resume.
against the 16-mile-per- cause of the postseason Ferentz knew there
hour wind. implications. Ranked No. was a chance this game
Shudak’s 25-yard miss 2 in every major poll, the might not go Iowa’s way.
was his shortest miss of Hawkeyes appeared to “We could be crying
his career. Entering Sat- be on the trajectory for next week at this time
urday’s game, he made a College Football Play- or we could be really
11 of 12 field goals this off berth. But with the happy,” Ferentz said
season. Purdue loss, Iowa faces after last week’s Penn
Saturday’s heartbreak a tumble from the top of State win.
wasn’t new for Iowa fans. the charts. It was the former, and
The Hawkeyes have The Hawkeyes might now the Hawkeyes have
plenty of painful memo- have to wait until the Big a bye week to wipe away
ries against Purdue. The Ten Championship Game those tears. Iowa running back Ivory Kelly-Martin (21) is brought down in the
Boilermakers have now — if they make it there — Comments: (319) 398-8394; backfield by Purdue linebacker Jaylan Alexander (36) on Saturday
won four of the last five for another opportunity john.steppe@thegazette.com at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City.
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IOWA PROFILE
Checkups
on dog
breeders
often no
‘surprise’
State says unannounced
welfare inspections
aren’t always possible
By Clark Kauffman,
Iowa Capital Dispatch

State inspections at Iowa’s

dog-breeding facilities are
supposed to take place on a
“surprise” basis, but some of
Iowa’s biggest offenders have
their inspections scheduled
at their own convenience.
Although the federal U.S.
Department of Agriculture
handles the enforcement of
the federal Animal Welfare
Act, the Iowa Department of
Hannah Longmire, 14, reaches the 1-mile marker Tuesday during the final cross-country meet of the regular season at Cherry Hill Park in Cedar Rapids. Agriculture and Land Stew-
Hannah, an eighth-grader at Northwest Junior High School in Coralville, is a double amputee and the lead runner on her school’s cross-country team. (Geoff ardship also plays a role.
Stellfox photos/The Gazette) Under Iowa law, all USDA-

Blade runner finds her

licensed commercial dog
breeding facilities operating
in Iowa are also required to
have a permit or license from
the state ag department.
The state doesn’t conduct

‘family’ in cross-country
routine inspections at these
USDA-licensed facilities. The
state ag department has pub-
lished information saying if
it receives a complaint about
such a facility, it will relay
the complaint to the USDA
and may “assist the USDA
Girl who lost legs at age 2 among with an inspection” or take
“additional steps.”
fastest runners at Coralville school The Iowa Department of
Agriculture states in a guide
published for breeders that
By Erin Jordan, The Gazette its inspections of these facili-

‘B
ties are “unannounced.” But
e savage, not average” was the state records show that even
when dealing with breeders
quote Hannah Longmire decided
with a history of serious and
to put on her prosthetic running recurring violations, state
blades for the last cross-country inspectors are not only noti-
meet of the regular season. fying breeders of the precise
time and date of their upcom-
Hannah, 14, an eighth-grader at Northwest ing visits, they are consulting
Junior High, wanted other runners to know some- with the breeders as to the
thing about her besides that she has prosthetic times most convenient for
legs. And that she’s the fastest girl on her team, them.
running sub-seven-minute miles. For example, Kurt and
“I’m different and I need to show that off,” she Hannah Longmire and her teammates wait Tuesday to receive their race bib Hollie Pille of St. Anthony
said. numbers at Cherry Hill Park in Cedar Rapids. run a breeding operation that
Hannah, of Coralville, was born with a congeni- has been cited for numerous
tal limb difference, which caused her to have her issues and been listed among
legs amputated below the knee when she was 2. the 100 worst puppy mills in
For the first few years after the surgery, she had the nation.
ill-fitting prostheses that were uncomfortable and In January, state inspec-
heavy. She didn’t want to wear them and some- tors visited the Pilles’ facili-
times was pushed in a stroller. ties and reported that some
“I was a pretty lazy kid,” she said. dogs had no protection from
But when she was 10, Hannah was fitted for new the cold, and most had only
prosthetic legs. Lighter and with a piece of foam frozen water in their kennels.
between her leg and the plastic, the legs were more Other issues found during the
comfortable and opened a new world of mobility. inspection included a “lack
She also got a pair of running blades, which have of roofing” in an outbuilding
a curved piece of metal that rebounds a runner’s that put the dogs at risk, dirty
energy as it strikes the ground. conditions and dogs exposed
“I was trying out different sports,” Hannah said. to unfinished walls and ex-
“I did rowing, swimming, soccer, running and posed insulation that they
dance. I did enjoy the other sports, but I enjoyed were at risk of ingesting.
running the most. The more I won, the more I liked Iowa Department of Agri-
it.” culture inspector Stephanie
Hannah Longmire, 14, jokes with teammates Tuesday before the start of her
; RUNNER, PAGE 7C race at Cherry Hill Park in Cedar Rapids. ; BREEDERS, PAGE 8C

What Cedar Rapids wants for Christmas: An evergreen tree

Derecho decreased the number of potential trees for Greene Square
By Katie Mills Giorgio, made that task more chal- its space or has created
correspondent lenging, though. visibility issues, say, by a
And it can’t just be any driveway.”
CEDAR RAPIDS — Re- evergreen. The selection process
purposing has been a buzz- City Arborist Todd Fagan involves Fagan going out to
word in everything from said the tree needs to meet look at each candidate.
fashion to home design. For several requirements to be “I look to make sure that
the past 25 years, the city of considered. An eligible tree it is accessible. It might be
Cedar Rapids has applied must be planned for remov- a great tree, but if we can't
this concept to holiday al due to circumstances that physically get it out without
traditions. cannot be remedied; it must destroying it, then it's not
Each year the city’s be more than 25 feet tall; worth it to us.,” he said.
forestry division seeks a and it needs to be located in If selected, the tree will
homeowner to donate an a spot that is not difficult to be removed by crane so as
evergreen tree — fir, pine or access. not to damage any of the
spruce — to be used as the “Homeowners need to be canopy or any of the sides of
city’s Christmas tree placed looking to get rid of the tree, the tree. “If we have to drag
in Greene Square and deco- not just because they don’t it around, that’s no good,”
rated for the holiday season. want it anymore,” he said.
The August 2020 derecho “Maybe it has outgrown ; TREE, PAGE 7C A man walks by the city of Cedar Rapids Christmas tree on Dec. 9, 2019. (The Gazette)
2C The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021
NEWSTRACK
CATCHING UP ON AN EARLIER STORY
After delays, trial
in fatal crash
set for January
By Trish Mehaffey, The Gazette
BACKGROUND
CEDAR RAPIDS — A
Coralville man passed
another vehicle last year
when he approached a hill
where construction was
underway east of Atkins and
crashed into an oncoming
vehicle driven by a Cedar
Rapids woman.
Bryce James Wagehoft
was headed west when his
car crashed head-on into an
eastbound vehicle driven
by Dawn Elaine Detweiler
Stout, 43, at 5:37 p.m.
April 1, 2020, according to
a criminal complaint. Stout
died at the scene.
Wagehoft, 32, was
ejected and trapped beneath
his vehicle, according to
authorities. He was taken
to a hospital along with his
passengers, Wendie Beard,
23, of Vinton, and David
Nelson, 33, of Palo. There
was no information in the
records on their injuries.
Crash data from
Wagehoft’s vehicle showed
he was driving 84 mph five
seconds before impact.
He didn’t brake until one
second before impact,
hitting Stout’s vehicle at
about 71 mph, which was
over the speed limit at
12001 Ellis Rd. in Palo.
Blood taken from
Wagehoft after the
crash revealed he had
amphetamines, marijuana
and opiates in his system,
according to the complaint.
A Linn County sheriff’s
deputy said Wagehoft
admitted that he was a
heroin addict and that he
smoked methamphetamine
the morning of the crash.
Investigators found two
spoons, syringes and a pipe
in Wagehoft’s vehicle, the
complaint said. The pipe
smelled of marijuana, and
a spoon tested positive for
opiates.
His driver’s license was
barred at the time of the
crash, and he had two
previous convictions for
being under the influence of
drugs or alcohol.
Stout, who was born and
raised in Cedar Rapids,
enjoyed being a mother
of two, “giving her time
and love to her children,”
according to her obituary.
She also “loved spending
time with her family and
friends, quilting and
exploring nature and enjoying
a quality glass of wine next
to a warm fireplace.”
WHAT’S HAPPENED SINCE
Wagehoft was charged
in June 2020 with vehicu-
lar homicide — under
the influence of drugs;
vehicular homicide —
recklessness; third of-
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fense operating while
intoxicated by drugs;
driving while barred;
and possession of drug
paraphernalia.
He is accused in a
complaint of “uninten-
tionally” causing the
death of Stout.
A judge set his bail
at $50,000 cash. After
a bail review hearing,
another judge lowered it
but had con-
cerns about
Wagehoft’s
previous
convictions
for driving John Deere Dubuque Works union employees Rick Heid (from left), Sheila Stirm, Kevin Hoftender and Craig Brandt picket outside
under the the entrance to the plant Thursday in Dubuque. More than 10,000 Deere & Co. workers went on strike Thursday, the first major
influence walkout at the agricultural machinery giant in more than three decades. (Dave Kettering/Telegraph Herald via AP)
and driv- Bryce
ing while Wagehoft
barred. IN THE NEWS Services Agency will deliver the latest Iowa crop report. Biden and Democrats, the
Deere workers go a second proposal to CIO resigns: Annette Democrats’ federal budget
Wagehoft also had been lawmakers by Oct. 21. Dunn, the state’s chief proposal, the media, even
on pretrial release on on strike: Deere & Co.
workers went on strike after Vaccine legislation: information officer, has Mitch McConnell and
a forgery charge at the Gov. Kim Reynolds said announced her resignation congressional Republicans,
time of the crash. union representatives did
not come to a tentative she’s having “great effective Oct. 22. She will and of course the 2020
Sixth Judicial District conversations” with pursue an opportunity in the election results — all
Judge Andrew Chappell agreement with Deere by
the deadline of 11:59 p.m. legislative leaders about private sector, according to were targets of former
agreed to lower his bail
Wednesday. It was the considering a bill during Gov. Kim Reynolds. President Donald Trump’s
to $35,000, cash only.
first major strike by Deere the upcoming special ire during a rally attended
Wagehoft then pleaded THE WATER COOLER
workers since 1986. The session that would prohibit by a tens of thousands at
not guilty but remained
strike affects workers in workplace requirements for Special election: the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
in jail pending a trial set
Illinois, Iowa and Kansas. COVID-19 vaccinations. Republican Jon Dunwell, It was Trump’s first public
to start Nov. 2, 2020.
Workers say the agriculture THEY SAID … a pastor and financial appearance in Iowa since
That trial was post- just before the 2020
manufacturer is not offering services representative
poned because of the
adequate wage and benefit “Every single day in the from Newton, won the Iowa election, stoking questions
pandemic. The Iowa about whether he plans
increases as the company car, I cry.” House District 29 special
Supreme Court delayed
enjoys record profits. — Tara Erpelding, whose election. He replaces former to run for president again
all trials in March 2020, in 2024. He said nothing
Union members say they daughter Charly is one of two Rep. Wes Breckenridge,
then restarted them in about a potential run during
experienced mandatory
Quad Cities-area homecoming D-Newton, who stepped
mid-September before queens living with cancer his remarks.
overtime, an increasing down last month to take a
postponing them again Sports betting: Iowa
workload and lack of state job.
in November 2020. Jury “Wealthy Iowans work, sports betting nearly
support from managers. Complaint filed: The
trials didn’t start again too.” doubled in September,
Climate report: Iowans Iowa Democratic Party
until Feb. 1 of this year. with wagers exceeding
are vulnerable to power — Iowa Sen. Jack Whitver, asked the Office of
Wagehoft’s trial first R-Ankeny, on whether Iowa $210 million, giving the
outages because of climate Congressional Ethics to
was reset to Aug. 2. His Republicans want state income
state a half-million-dollar
change, and must be investigate U.S. Rep.
lawyer, before that date tax cuts specifically for middle-
payout. The surge was
prepared to pay higher income workers, or for all Mariannette Miller-Meeks’
in a case management re- fueled, in part, by betting on
electricity bills so power 2020 financial disclosure,
port required by judges, ODDS AND ENDS
companies can harden saying the ophthalmologist the annual Cy-Hawk football
said all the evidence had game and a full slate of
infrastructure and bury Mask lawsuit: A federal representing Iowa’s 2nd
been reviewed and no college and professional
power lines to protect judge extended an order Congressional District
depositions were neces- games.
against extreme weather, that will prevent state omitted information.
sary. Then, by agreement Franken running: Mike
said the 2021 Iowa Climate officials from enforcing a Disclosures filed: U.S.
of defense and prosecu- Franken, a Sioux City
Statement signed by more law that prohibits school Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Des
tion, the trial was reset veteran and Democrat,
than 200 Iowa scientists. districts from implementing Moines, filed financial
to earlier this month. announced his candidacy in
Special session: The mask requirements until a disclosure statements
The defense, in a Sep- Iowa’s 2022 U.S. Senate
Legislature will meet Oct. federal lawsuit challenging whose absence came to
tember report, said depo- race. Franken, a retired
28 to consider a second the law can be heard. light in a recent watchdog
sitions now were going to
plan for redistricting Crop report: Recent report, a spokesman for her three-star admiral in the
be taken this month. The U.S. Navy, also ran in the
congressional and rainfall slowed fieldwork, office said.
judge then reset the trial 2020 Democratic U.S.
to Jan. 11. legislative boundaries. but Iowa farmers still have
harvested nearly a third of
MORE IN THE NEWS Senate primary.
Online records show Republican senators
rejected the first plan, so corn for grain and over half Trump in Iowa rails on
Wagehoft has a lengthy
the nonpartisan Legislative of soybeans, according to election: President Joe Gazette Des Moines Bureau
criminal history, mostly
in Johnson County. He
has been convicted of
drug possession, thefts,
domestic abuse assault, ON E Y EA R A F TER : TH E D ERECHO REMEMB RANCE EXHI B I T
probation violations and
filing false reports, in
addition to the driving-
related offenses.
Wagehoft remains in
jail pending trial. If con-
victed of vehicular homi-
cide and other charges,
he faces up to 42 years in
prison. His forgery trial
is set for Jan. 4 in Linn
County District Court.
Comments: (319) 398-8318;
trish.mehaffey@thegazette.com
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Aid lets day cares hire, but not pay more

State awaits task force turnover rate is high. Iowa al-
ready lost more than 200 child
report before handing care facilities over the past
two years, and providers are
out more relief funds struggling to attract workers
in a tight labor market. She
to child care providers said the situation is perplexing
because state government just
By Rod Boshart, reported a $1.24 billion budget
Gazette Des Moines Bureau surplus, and state officials
have nearly $400 million in
DES MOINES — Iowa’s federal COVID-19 relief money
child care providers continue
to tread financially troubled
for child care block grants that
has been obligated but not
expended.
waters after being thrown a
much-needed lifeline via fed- “We’ve seen child care set-
eral COVID-19 relief funds. ting closures across our state
Like all sectors of the because they’re unable to find
economy, the child care in- workforce that are willing to
those being child development
or registered home-based child
care providers and another
roughly 1,500 licensed child
care centers.
“There’s always a constant
ebb and flow that we experi-
ence with our child care pro-
grams,” she added, noting that
since Jan. 1, 2020, Iowa lost
less than 2 percent of licensed
child care centers “so when we
have some closings, we also
have some other openings.”
The DHS official said her
agency is awaiting recommen-
dations from the Governor’s
Child Care Task Force. Gov.
Kim Reynolds created the task
see what those recommenda-
tions are so we know where
our community partners say
they want us to be investing
the money. With those stabi-
lization grants, we will have
an eligibility protocol for folks
to apply for the funding, and
those are the kinds of details
that we still have to work out
on how much programs can
access.”
Q: Is there a Catch-22 here
in that child care centers
need workers to stay open, but
funding can be used to hire
new workers but not raise ex-
isting salaries with one-time
money?

dustry was hard hit when
coronavirus arrived in Iowa in
March 2020. However, unlike
some businesses and services,
Iowa’s for-profit, nonprofit,
group homes and others that
take care of small children
were allowed to continue as
essential operations.
Various federal COVID-
related relief and recovery
funding streams have pumped
more than $120 million into Io-
wa’s child care network. Reju-
venation grants help providers
cover expenses and support
qualifying low-income families
with stipends and reduced
co-pay requirements. That
was separately supplemented
by direct child care tax cred-
its that temporarily provide
monthly help of $300.
Ryan Page, team leader in
the Iowa Department of Hu-
man Services’ child care bu-
reau policy division, said state
officials also have funneled
federal money into some new
or expanded programs effec-
tive July 1.
Backers said those efforts
were designed to increase the
child care workforce, increase
provider rates to maintain
existing child care facilities,
provide incentives to develop
new child care facilities, and
help working families cover
child care costs. State officials
Ryan Page is a team leader in the Iowa
Department of Human Services’ child
care bureau policy division. “Staffing is
an issue” for child care providers, she
says. (Supplied photo)
also monitor best practices
for the ratio of children per
adults based on various ages
and program types under the
state’s purview. That’s an is-
sue of concern particularly
in rural areas that legisla-
tors addressed in part by al-
lowing nonregistered child
care homes to expand by one
school-aged child — from five
up to six slots.
“Child care is expensive
to operate because when you
have low ratios to
promote not just
health and safety
but appropriate
age and brain de-
velopment, you’ve
got to have those
lower ratios to
protect kids. So
staffing is a huge
Sen. Janet
Petersen
D-Des Moines
cost issue,” Page
said.
To that end, Sen. Janet Pe-
tersen, D-Des Moines, raised
concern that Reynolds admin-
istration officials have decided
not to use federal money to
cover child care provider pay
increases for existing staff
at a time when the employee
work for such poverty wages,”
Petersen said.
Backers say raising wages
for child care workers would
advance equity for women
and increase their labor force
participation, lift families out
of poverty, boost the broader
economy and improve out-
comes for children.
While child care provider
pay increases are an allow-
able expense under the federal
CARES Act, DHS officials said
the Investing in Iowa’s Child
Care program was intended to
help child care programs with
up-front expenses needed to in-
crease their capacity. Increas-
ing wages for staff was not in-
cluded due to concern the pay
levels could not be sustained
after one-time funding ended.
“It was recognized that
increasing capacity requires
new staff and that these staff
would need to be hired before
the children were enrolled and
parents were paying tuition,
therefore a formula account-
ing for three months of salary
and First Aid/CPR costs was
developed to support pro-
grams paying new staff until
child tuition payments could
take over that cost,” according
to the department.
Page said Iowa has roughly
4,000 registered child care
providers, with up to 2,500 of
force by executive order and
appointed members in March
to develop a comprehensive
strategy to address the child
care shortage and barriers to
work. The panel’s report will
direct how the federal money
available through fiscal 2024
will be used, including about
$227 million in “stabilization”
money to assist child care
providers with their operating
costs — of which about 80 per-
cent is staffing. Officials with
the state Department of Eco-
nomic Development, which
houses the task force, did not
respond to requests for infor-
mation about the task force
deliberations.
Page answered some ad-
ditional questions from The
Gazette about the use of federal
relief funds and the outlook for
the child care industry in Iowa.
Q: When do you expect to
release those additional
federal relief funds?
A: “We’re anxiously await-
ing the child care task
force final report and their
formal recommendations.
That will help inform how we
potentially use some of the
other federal funding sources
that we do have. Whether
that’s for stimulus funding or
whether that’s part of our an-
nual allocation to our block
grants. We’re just waiting to
A:
“We have to think about
a number of things like
sustainability. If we have a
new policy, we need to look at
it long term if this funding is
not always going to be avail-
able. The volatility of the child
care market — it costs a lot of
money for families to access
child care but then the wages
of the child care employees
don’t always match up to that.
To raise wages, typically in a
free market there’s supply and
demand. It doesn’t really work
like that with child care. Do I
have concern about stabiliza-
tion of the market pre- and
post-COVID? I have a concern
about it in general. I think that
the market is complicated and
without stabilized funding,
then the infusion might be a
short-term solution.
“Staffing is an issue, in
Iowa and nationally and in
multiple sectors, that is some-
thing we have not been able
to fix. But I do believe that the
money that we are putting
into the system is helping to
sustain our child care infra-
structure. I do think it’s going
to improve it in some ways,
but the work is not done, and
there are certainly areas of the
system that are broken from a
national perspective.”
Comments: (515) 243-7220;
rod.boshart@thegazette.com

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GRAND OPENING!
Royyal Dog, a graffiti and street artist originally from South Korea, works on a mural Oct. 6 on the J&L
Staffing building on the east end of Sioux City’s West Seventh Street business corridor. According to
a city news release, the mural “will depict three girls who represent the African American, Southeast
Asian, and Jewish communities and businesses that have made their home in the West 7th Street
Corridor over the years.” The mural joins another mural that features a harrier hawk that was painted
across the street earlier this year by Sarah C. Rutherford. (Tim Hynds/Sioux City Journal via AP)

Artist hopes new mural makes

Sioux City wall ‘spring to life’
By Earl Horlyk, “I loved hip-hop music on the West Seventh
Sioux City Journal and culture,” he said. Corridor in the next year

SIOUX CITY — For

“Graffiti was a big part
of that culture.”
or so.
“People do like watch-
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more than a week, a So was a style of pho- ing me paint,” Royyal
South Korean graffiti torealism that Royyal Dog said. “They will
artist has been trans- Dog uses for mural art. keep tabs on progress.
Saturday, October 23rd from 1:00-4:00pm
forming the side of a Using conventional It almost seems like
building into larger- paints as well as spray I’m putting on a bit of a Join us for the official Grand Opening of the new Vintage
than-life mural art. paint, his work is known show. My scaffolding be- Cooperative of Iowa City! This active 55+, maintenance-
On the outside wall for its color and atten- comes like a stage.”
of J & L Staffing and tion to detail. It is in this setting free community features 53 homes with floor plans that
Recruiting, 219 West Sev- “Nothing is more where the artist is en- range from 1050 sq.ft. - 1797 sq.ft.
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IOWA TODAY®

TIMEMAC
ACHINE
A LOOK BACK AT PEOPLE, PLACES, EVENTS IN EASTERN IOWA

National Newspaper Week

Hardly anyone takes
note of the occasion,
including newspapers
By Diane Fannon-Langton,
correspondent
It’s unlikely you’ll
ever see a Page 1 head-
line touting National
Newspaper Week —
which is no surprise.
National Newspaper
Week began in October
1940 but didn’t catch fire
with newspaper staffers.
As a whole, they rarely
toot their own horns,
having more important
stories to pursue.
This year’s National
Newspaper Week — you
likely missed it — was
Oct. 3 to 9. Its focus:
“Community Forum.”
PUBLIC GOOD WILL
The idea for a week
honoring newspapers
began with H.R. Helsby,
editor of the Olean, N.Y.,
Times Herald, who wrote
of the incredible respon-
sibility shouldered by a
free press and how news
gathering depends on the
public’s good will.
“A newspaper, to be
successful, must appeal
to the rank-and-file of
people. It must provide
information, entertain-
ment and inspiration,”
Helsby wrote in 1939.
“It is entirely depen-
dent upon the good will
of the public; and noth-
ing its owners or its staff
can do can perpetuate it
if that good will is forfeit- This was the poster for National Newspaper Week in 1955, published in the Oct. 5 Gazette. The
ed,” he said. “This unas- caption said the week “reminds you of the eternal battle the press wages with forces which would
sailable fact is an irrefut- attempt censorship — direct or deviously — of any public action anytime and anywhere in this country.”
able answer to those who
continually charge that a
newspaper is ‘controlled’
by this or that interest.”
FIRST OBSERVANCE
A newly formed
Newspaper Association
Managers set the first
National Newspaper
Week for Oct. 1 to 8, 1940,
as World War II was rag-
ing in other parts of the
globe.
The Gazette men-
tioned that first obser-
vance on Page 11, ex-
plaining what the week
meant and why it was
important.
“For generations,
Americans have taken
their newspapers for
granted, like pure water
or fresh air. We have
always had them,” the
article read. “They have
been easily available,
cheap, trustworthy. We
give lip service to a ‘free
press’ without the least
understanding of its
meaning.
“So, October 1st to
8th has been designated
as Newspaper Week.
Perhaps it is the war in
Europe and threats to
our principles of freedom torial self-glorification,” eastern Iowa newspaper paper.
(freedom of the press
being one of them) that
prompted this National
Newspaper Week.”
At the end of the week, forces that threaten his
an editorial appeared
expressing uncertainty
about what to say about
a new national week
honoring newspapers.
In celebration of National Newspaper Week, Gazette readers were offered coffee and discussion on
Oct. 6, 2012. It was the last Gazette event for National Newspaper Week.
“A newspaper reader
isn’t going to acquire a
sudden new appreciation tell him so.
of how vital a free press
is to his freedom, secu-
rity and general welfare is an Iowa newspaper
from a few words of edi-
the editorial stated.
“Unless his own paper primarily for what it con- A new program was
is constantly on its toes
to reveal and battle the
interests, nothing it can
say will convince him of
its indispensability. And CARRIERS, CLASSROOMS discussions, 364 newspa- read newspapers.
if his paper is in there
pitching for him, from
one year’s end to the
next, it doesn’t have to
“The Gazette is not a
national newspaper. It
— more specifically an
— edited and managed
ceives to be the interests introduced into schools
of the people of Cedar
Rapids and the sur-
rounding territory.”
While the first five
years or so of Newspaper including The Gazette,
Week at The Gazette
featured editorials about
the value of newspapers,
the focus gradually
turned to features about
the carriers — usually
kids — who delivered the
Flash forward to 1971.
called “Newspaper in the 1977, with the theme “Freedom again begun to grow,”
Classroom.” Using film
strips on current events,
news quizzes and class
pers across the country,
This ad for National Newspaper Week ran in The Gazette on Oct.
13, 1967. (Gazette archives photos)
A Gazette ad for National News- mid-2000s, but their web-
paper Week ran on Oct. 10, site audience traffic has
in Our Hands.”
encouraged students to
The program contin-
ued into 1977’s National
WHAT ARE YOU
INTERESTED IN?
● Have a suggestion of
where the Time Machine
should travel? We want to
look back at key people,
places and events in Eastern
Iowa and need your help.
Email d.fannonlangton@
gmail.com
● Time Machine is online,
too, with additional time
lines, photos and other
materials at thegazette.com.
Newspaper Week, Oct.
9-15, with “Freedom
in Our Hands” as the
theme.
Schools were provided
with a program on the
First Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution.
The last time The Ga-
zette mentioned National
Newspaper Week was
in an ad on Oct. 3, 2012,
advertising a Gazette
coffee with editors Zack
Kucharski and Annette
Schulte.
DIGITAL IMPACT
In 2021, fewer newspa-
pers are landing in yards
and doorsteps, with more
people getting their news
off laptops, tablets and
cellphones.
The Gazette has not
been immune to chang-
ing reader habits, closing
its printing plant and
moving printing of the
paper to Des Moines.
Its reporting, editing,
advertising and circula-
tion business remains in
Cedar Rapids and Iowa
City.
“The industry’s fi-
nancial fortunes and
subscriber base have
been in decline since the
the Pew Research Center
reported in June of this
year.
So, there’s still plenty
to celebrate for National
Newspaper Week.

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OBIT INDEX
IN TODAY’S GAZETTE
CEDAR RAPIDS: Robert J. Bucklin, Barbara Ann Chester,
Charles L. Davisson, Barbara G. Engholm, Leo L.
Halsch, John Robert Holley, Gail Leggett, Helen M.
Mendenhall
GUTTENBERG: William D. Linderwell
IOWA CITY: Helenjean L. Heck
MARION: Velda (Eash) Chapman
SPRINGVILLE: John Karl Gagliardi
OTHER DEATHS: Byron Lester Hensch (Poteet, Texas),
Myrna Lu Myers (Avondale, Ariz.), Paul Harper-Shirk
(Gainesville, Fla.), Michael Paul Valley (Jacksonville,
Fla.), Kenneth Vogel (Lake St. Louis, Mo.), Edward
"Butch" White (Waverly)
OTHER NOTICES
MANCHESTER
Anthony “Bud” John Goedken, 87, died Friday,
Oct. 15, 2021. Leonard-Muller Funeral Home,
Manchester.
OBITUARY SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES
All obituaries for Monday-Friday publication in The
Gazette must be submitted by 1 p.m. the prior day;
obituaries for Saturday and Sunday publication must be
submitted by 1 p.m. on Fridays. There may be an earlier
deadline for holidays. The obituary department is
staffed Sunday-Friday, but not on Saturdays.
Obituaries must be received via email
(obits@thegazette.com) or web submission form
(www.thegazette.com/obituaries/submit-an-obituary).
All submitted obituaries will be edited for correct
grammar and spelling, libel, and Gazette and AP
newspaper style. For more information, email
obits@thegazette.com or call (319) 398-8221.
ROBERT J. BUCKLIN
Cedar Rapids
Robert J. Bucklin, 66, of
Marion, Iowa, passed away
peacefully in his home on
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021,
surrounded by family.
Visitation will be from 4 to
6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, at
Cedar Memorial Park Funeral
Home. A Celebration of Life
will be held at 6 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 23, at Indian
Creek Country Club.
Survivors include his wife,
Wendy (Dankert) Bucklin;
children, Max (Cathy)
Bucklin of Marion, Mindi (Kent) Vangilder of Cedar
Rapids and Somer (Jeff) Sherwood-White of Santa
Clarita, Calif.; grandchildren, Rylie Bucklin, Gabe
Bucklin and Oliver Sherwood; sisters-in-law, Renee
Bucklin, Jackie Bucklin and Evelyn Prasil; brothers-in-
law, Jerry Dankert and Roger Prasil; and many nieces
and nephews and great friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Francis L.
and Mary G. (Dwyer) Bucklin; four brothers, Bill
Bucklin, Patrick Bucklin, Mike Bucklin and Tim
Bucklin; two sisters, Mary Conger and Patricia Bucklin; and Wealtha Davisson, was
and brother-in-law, Bernie Conger.
Robert (Bob) was born the son of Francis and Mary
Bucklin on Sept. 15, 1955, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was Perlee and graduated from Fairfield High School in 1957. City, Colo., and Abby (Joe) Woodward-Wallig of Grimes;
united in marriage to Wendy on Dec. 22, 2001. Bob and
Wendy became friends when they were 12 years old, but
as adults they followed separate paths until they were
reunited in January 2000. Prior to that, Bob was married Dec. 28, 1958. He moved to the Cedar Rapids area in 1965 (Russ) Warner of Sioux City, Cindy (Mark) Martin of
to Sarah (Fahnle) Essig.
Bob sold insurance for a period, but the majority of
his life’s work was dedicated to the car and truck
industry. Bob began his career at Gene’s DX in Cedar
Rapids as a teenager and ended his career after 17 years a long-time member of First Congregational Church in
with Hunter Engineering, where he was a
manufacturer’s representative. Bob had a quick wit and
loved a good joke. He most enjoyed playing golf and
spending time with friends and family.
The family is especially grateful to Dr. Ann Stroh and respective fields. He also loved to travel with his family. Andy Leggett; parents, Elwood and Dorothy
all the nurses and staff at Hall-Perrine Cancer Center;
Dr. Tim Sagers; and so many other doctors and nurses
over the years who cared for Bob.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the
family or to Mercy Medical Center Foundation, Hall-
Perrine Cancer Center.
Online condolences may be directed to the family at
www.cedarmemorial.com under obituaries.
LEO L. HALSCH
Cedar Rapids
Leo L. Halsch, 81, of Cedar Rapids, passed away at
home on Friday, July 9, 2021. Family and friends are
invited to gather for a Celebration of his Life from 2 to
6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, at Leo and Jane’s home in
Cedar Rapids.
Read Leo’s full obituary at www.stewartbaxter.com, 4550, Iowa City, IA 52244-4450. On the memo line, please
searching under the obituaries tab.
JOHN KARL GAGLIARDI
Springville
John Karl Gagliardi, 59, of Springville, passed away
on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at Mercy Medical Center.
Private family services will be held at
Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation
Service of Marion.
John was born on Nov. 18, 1961, in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, the son of Karl and Dorothy
(Pagel) Gagliardi. He was a 1980 graduate
of Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids.
He went on to serve honorably in the U.S.
Army. John was a master painter and
worked for the Solid Waste Co. If he wasn’t watching
the Hawkeyes, Vikings or Twins he was riding his
Victory motorcycle. John will be greatly missed by all
who knew and loved him.
John is survived and lovingly remembered by his
father, Karl (Terri) Gagliardi of Marion; mother,
Dorothy Kilpatrick of Marion; son, Anthony Gagliardi of
Colorado; sisters, Lynn (Greg) Brown of Cedar Rapids
and Debby (Jim) Roth of Marion; step-sister, Laura
(Mark) Olinger of Anamosa; niece, Katy Richard of
Cedar Rapids; and nephew, Phillip Roth of Cedar
Rapids.
Please share a memory of John at
www.murdochfuneralhome.com under obituaries.
OBITUARIES
BARBARA G. ENGHOLM
Cedar Rapids
Barbara G. Engholm, 87,
formerly of Cedar Rapids,
passed away on Oct. 13, 2021,
in Naperville, Ill. Funeral
Mass: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct.
19, at St. Matthew Catholic
Church, Cedar Rapids.
Visitation: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
in the church’s Kearn Hall.
Burial: Mount Calvary
Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.
Stewart Baxter Funeral &
Memorial Services, Cedar
Rapids, is caring for Barbara
and her family.
Friends and extended family unable to join in person
may watch the Mass via webcast. A link to the webcast
and to share your support and memories with Barbara’s
family can be found on her tribute wall at
www.stewartbaxter.com under obituaries.
Barbara was greatly loved by her six children, Kathy
(Jeff), Donna (Norm), Dennis (Kari), Dan (Tawni), Jill
(Jennifer) and Carol (Paul); 12 grandchildren, Mike
(Matthew), Todd (Heather), Andy, Joel, Sarah, Eric,
Clare, Matthew, Will, Mark, Ryan and Julie; and two
great-grandchildren, Abigail and Timothy.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth;
parents, Francis and Mabel Hanify (nee Gary); and
brother, Gary Hanify.
Barbara was born in Toledo, Iowa, where she lived
until she graduated from high school. She attended Iowa
State College, earning her bachelor’s degree in textiles
and clothing. She and Ken met at the Newman Center in
Ames and were married Aug. 10, 1957. They made their
home in Cedar Rapids where they raised their family
and were very active in their church, schools and
community.
An avid seamstress and baker, she also knitted,
crocheted, and enjoyed playing bridge, bicycling,
gardening, attending symphony concerts, and was a
member of the Home Economics Club. She volunteered
in many capacities over the years, including in her
children’s schools, Camp Fire Girls, St. Pius X and St.
Matthew Catholic Churches and Mercy Hospital.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the
Alzheimer’s Association at www.alz.org.
CHARLES L. DAVISSON
Cedar Rapids
Charles L. Davisson, 82, of
Cedar Rapids, died Monday,
Oct. 11, 2021, at the University
of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics,
of pulmonary complications
of COVID-19. Per his family’s
wishes, only private
observances will be held.
Brosh Chapel and The
Avacentre in Cedar Rapids is
caring for Charles and his
family.
Charles, the son of Charles
born on April 18, 1939, in
Perlee, Iowa. He attended a one-room schoolhouse in
He went on to earn both B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from
The University of Iowa.
He was united in marriage to Barbara Stopher on
and worked at Collins Radio until it was sold to
Rockwell. He then became an entrepreneur, owning real Carla (Greg) Warner of Madison, Ind.; father-in-law, Rev.
estate, laundromats and built a transportation business
that employed over 400 people throughout Iowa. He was Essexville, Mich., Joe (Wendy) Leggett of Sioux Falls,
Cedar Rapids.
Charles strongly valued education and passed that
along to his children who each earned post-graduate
degrees and are also entrepreneurs within their
Some of his favorite spots were Colorado, Europe and
the Cayman Islands. While he was quiet, he was known brothers-in-law John Langford, Jim Leggett and John
as kind and gentle and was always willing to help
others. His presence will be sorely missed.
The family is extremely grateful to the Heart and
Vascular Center at the University of Iowa Hospitals and
Clinics for their outstanding care of Charles over three
decades.
Charles is survived by his wife, Barbara; children,
Robin Davisson (David Skorton) of Washington, D.C.,
and Chuck Davisson and Monique Johnson (Larry), both
of Cedar Rapids; as well as two grandchildren, Gabriel
and Roman.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Cedar Rapids.
Wealtha; and brother, Ray Davisson.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be
made in support of the UI Heart and Vascular Center,
University of Iowa Center for Advancement, P.O. Box
indicate “Gift in memory of Charles Davisson.”
Contributions by credit card can also be made at
givetoiowa.org/davisson. Online condolences may be
expressed to the family at www.broshchapel.com.
WILLIAM D. LINDERWELL
Guttenberg
William D. Linderwell, 82, of Guttenberg, Iowa,
passed away on Oct. 12, 2021, at the Guttenberg Care
Center.
Bill was born Sept. 23, 1939, in Dundee,
Iowa. He married the love of his life,
Sharon Bauman, Sept. 13, 1969. They just
celebrated 52 years together.
His greatest loves were his family, deer
hunting, fishing, cutting wood and playing
cards.
He was employed at LeFebure in Cedar
Rapids as a welder and he served in the
U.S. Army.
Survivors include his wife, Sharon; his son, Jamie
(Sherri); daughter, Shelley Tharp; grandchildren, Randy and a son-in-law, John Kosman.
Tharp, Sally Jones, Mark Fite, Daniel Kelchen and
Austin (Mel) Kelchen; and great-grandchildren, Kaylie
Kelchen, Kirra and Kyler Caples.
Family and friends may celebrate his life from 1 to
4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, at the American Legion, 204
Franklin Street Manchester, Iowa.
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BARBARA ANN CHESTER
Cedar Rapids
Barbara Ann Chester, 86, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
passed away on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, at Living Center
West in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Per her request, there will
be no services. Murdoch Funeral Home &
Cremation Service of Marion is assisting
the family.
Barbara was born on Dec. 28, 1934, in
Spokane, Wash., the daughter of William
and Agnes (Olson) Woolsey. On Oct. 11,
1953, Barbara was united in marriage to
Edward Chester. She was a friendly person
who could strike up a conversation with
anyone and had a great sense of humor. Barbara loved
to travel, enjoying many adventures through the years.
She was a devoted Green Bay Packers fan. Barbara will
be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
Barbara is survived by her two sons, Michael
Robertson and Douglas (Rebecca) Chester;
grandchildren, Patrick (Nikki Williams) Robertson,
Shane (Angela) Robertson and Kristi (Kyle) Pillard;
seven great-grandchildren; sister, Alice Coldsnow; many
special nieces and nephews including, Jealee Weber and
Kim (Kirk) Dighton; several extended family members;
and many friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, William
and Agnes Woolsey; husband, Edward; brother, William
Woolsey; and sisters, Mary Lubbers and Jean Peterson.
Memorials in Barbara’s memory may be directed to
Camp Courageous in Monticello, Iowa, or Noelridge
Christian Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Please share a memory of Barbara at
www.murdochfuneralhome.com under obituaries.
GAIL LEGGETT
Cedar Rapids
Gail was called home on
Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, to be
with her loving Savior, Jesus
Christ. She was a loving,
loyal, and faithful wife,
mother, sister, aunt and
grandmother. Memorial
service: 11 a.m. Monday, Oct.
18, at Stonebridge Church.
Friends may visit with the
family before the service at
10 a.m. Teahen Funeral Home
is serving the family.
Gail was born on Dec. 13,
1955, in Normal, Ill., the
daughter of Elwood and Dorothy (Shipley) Breidenbach.
She graduated from Clinton High School in 1974. On
June 5, 1976, Gail married Jeff Leggett in Sioux Falls,
S.D. Gail was proud to do in-home daycare while raising
her four children. In 1993, she started with the Cedar
Rapids Community School District, where she took great
joy in influencing the education of hundreds of
children’s lives until her retirement in 2017. After
retirement, she deeply enjoyed playing with and caring
for her grandchildren, and spending more time with her
family. She had a cherished positive attitude; her smile
and infectious joy will always be what she is most
remembered for.
Gail is survived by her loving husband, Jeff Leggett;
her children, Amanda (Erik) Kohl of Grinnell, Adam
Leggett of Cedar Rapids, Aaron (Lydia) Leggett of Canon
four grandchildren, Sean and Mackenzie Kohl, Greyson
and Easton Woodward-Wallig; her siblings, Larry
Breidenbach (Tim Michelsen) of Sarasota, Fla., Vicky
Sebastian, Fla., Lindy (Pat) Killean of Cedar Rapids and
John Leggett of Sun Praire, Wis., Christine Leggett of
S.D., Jerry (Patsy) Leggett of Tubac, Ariz., and Joyce
(Dave) Grigg of Sun Prairie, Wis.; and 25 nieces and
nephews.
Gail is preceded in death by her nephew, Nathan
Breidenbach; sister-in-law, Suzanne Leggett; nephew,
Breidenbach; mother-in-law, Dottie Leggett; and
Leggett.
Memorials may be directed to West Willow
Elementary (previously Coolidge) in Gail’s name for
books to add to their library.
Online condolences can be left for the family at
www.teahenfuneralhome.com.
HELEN M. MENDENHALL
Cedar Rapids
Helen M. Mendenhall, 73, of Cedar Rapids, passed
away on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, at St. Luke’s Hospital in
Her Celebration of Life will be held at
5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, at Springs of
Life Church Fourth Square Gospel in Cedar
Rapids. Dawson Funeral Services of Olin is
caring for her family.
Helen Marie was born on Oct. 19, 1947, in
Cedar Rapids, to George Anthony and Helen
Marie (Platt) Van Dee Kerkove. She
graduated from St. Ludmila Catholic School.
For many years, she worked as a TSA for the Cedar
Rapids Airport. She also was employed at Souvenir
Group making pens.
Helen had a very devoted relationship with God and
enjoyed bible study. She was a loving mother, sister,
grandmother and great-grandmother. She was salt and
light to all of those around her. Helen was loved and will
be missed by everyone who knew her.
Those left to cherish her memories is her daughter,
Alicia Kosman of Mount Vernon; four grandchildren,
Christy Pate, Devin Burns, Kelsey Kosman and Josey
Kosman; three great-grandchildren, Troy Cryder, Josiah
Auston and Jeremiah Gardner; and her siblings, Emily
Ramirez of Sioux Falls, S.D., Mildred McGuire of North
English, Ann Berstler of Marengo, George Van Dee of
Cedar Rapids, Florence Moellers of Cedar Rapids, Sarah
Martens of Shellsburg and Carl Van Dee of Cedar
Rapids.
She was preceded in death by her parents; son, Mark;
Memorials may be directed to the family in his
honor. Cards of condolences for the family may be
directed to Dawson Funeral Services Attn: Helen
Mendenhall Family, P.O. Box 258, Wyoming, IA 52362.
Online condolences may be left for the family at
www.dawsonfuneral.com.
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HELENJEAN L. HECK
Iowa City
Helenjean L. Heck, 83,
loving wife of Dale, died
peacefully at home on
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021,
surrounded by her family.
A service of remembrance
and celebration will be held
at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23,
on the Heck property on
Gathering Place Lane, next to
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
Church. Father Jeff Belger
will officiate. Inurnment will
be at a later date at Oak Hill
Cemetery in Tiffin.
Helen was born May 1, 1938, in Iowa City, Iowa, the
daughter of Robert and Velda (Runyon) Rowe. She was a
1956 graduate of Iowa City City High School. After
highschool, Helen attended the University of Iowa
College of Nursing from 1956 to 1959. On May 2, 1959,
Helen married Dale Heck. Helen and Dale owned and
operated Heck Candy and Vending Company for over 45
years.
Helen loved to garden and enjoyed the beauty of
nature. She was active in her community throughout
her life; she was a Girl Scout leader, a 4-H leader, a
school PTO president, and never said no when
volunteers were needed. She was always engaged with
charities. She logged countless hours at baseball and
softball diamonds over the years, missing very few of
her children’s and grandchildren’s events. Throughout
the years, Helen fostered many students attending the
University of Iowa. She had an infectious smile, a larger
than life personality and never knew a stranger. Her
home doors were always open.
Most important to Helen was her family. She loved
being Grammy. Helen is survived by her husband, Dale,
and their children, Dave (Suzy) Heck of Iowa City and
Deb Heck of Phoenix, Ariz.; son-in-law, Marty (Pam)
Jones of Iowa City; five grandsons, Chris (Renee) Jones, on Oct. 9.
Cutler Simpson, Braxton Simpson, D.J. Heck and Gage
Heck.
Helen was preceded in death by her daughter, Pam
Jones; her parents; and her siblings, Robert, LaVonna,
LaVelda, and an infant sister, Clara LaVerna.
Helen was loved and will be missed by everyone who
knew her.
Helen’s family would like to share their heartfelt
gratitude with Drs. Rick and Ann Larew and Dr. John
Canady for providing loving and compassionate care for
our Grammy until the end.
Online condolences may be sent to
www.lensingfuneral.com.
VELDA (EASH) CHAPMAN
Marion
Velda (Eash) Chapman, 79, of Marion, Iowa, passed
away on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, at Dennis & Donna
Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy. A public visitation will because he wanted people to feel they were just as
be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon on
Wednesday, Oct. 20, at The Church on
Northland (First Baptist Church-Church of
the Brethren) with a memorial service to
follow at noon. The family ask that masks
be worn at the church. A private family
burial will take place at Oak Shade
Cemetery. Murdoch Funeral Home &
Cremation Service of Marion is assisting
the family.
Velda was born on May 8, 1942, in Iowa City, Iowa,
the daughter of William and Ruth (Miller) Eash. She was on May 1st, 2009. Over their time together, they owned
a 1960 graduate from Iowa Mennonite School in Kalona. and managed a series of salons and spas and taught
On Sept. 1, 1961, Velda was united in marriage to James hairdressing and cosmetology. They enjoyed traveling to
C. Chapman in South English, Iowa. Velda had a love
for traveling, getting her hair and nails done, shopping up at book signings of their favorite authors (Paul’s
and being a social butterfly. But what she loved most of secret love was for “Chick Lit: Paranormal Cozy
all was spending time with her family, especially her
great-grandchildren. Velda will be greatly missed by all horror novels), going to fantasy conventions, playing
who knew and loved her.
Velda is survived by her two daughters, Susan
(Michael) Benedict of Embarrass, Minn., and Elizabeth
(Carroll) Bogard of Victor, Idaho; grandchildren, Katie
(Todd) Tumilty, Joseph (Deena) Johnson, Samual
Johnson and Mikaela Bogard; four great-grandchildren, niece, Katie Shirk. He was a beloved husband, brother,
Audrey, Tyler, Delilah and Ivy; brothers, Dennis
(Nancy) Eash and Michael (Angie) Eash; and
sister-in-law Rose Marie Eash.
She was preceded in death by her parents, William
and Ruth Eash; husband, James Chapman; and siblings, Oct. 31, at Gay and Ciha Funeral home in Iowa City. For John grew up in Cedar Rapid, graduating
Verla Kaalberg, Judy Yoder and William Eash.
Memorials in Velda memory may be directed to The
Church of Northland, The American Baptist Conference for Youth, Iowa City, IA 319-338-7518,
of Green Lake, Wis., and Mercy Dialysis Center.
Please share a memory of Velda at
www.murdochfuneralhome.com under obituaries.
BYRON LESTER HENSCH
Poteet, Texas
May/15/1936 - Oct./8/2021
Byron Lester Hensch of
Poteet, Texas, passed away at
home early Friday morning,
Oct. 8, 2021, with his wife and
children at his side, after a
long battle with complications
caused by cancer.
Byron was born in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, to the late
Robert and Mary Hensch. He
was a loving and faithful
husband of 66 years to
Rosalie who is still living in
Poteet. He was also a
dedicated and loving father to
their three children: Scott Alan Hensch of Selma, Texas, the last living member.
Dawn Hensch Snow of Myrtle, Mo., and Dana Hensch
Owens of Boerne, Texas. He was a loving grandfather to Louis, Mo.; Lael Buchanan (Bob) of Sarasota, Fla.;
five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He was a structural engineer in San Antonio from
1960 to 2006. A long-time amateur photographer, he also
owned a photographic supply store and gallery with a
professional darkroom on Broadway and taught
darkroom procedure at the Southwest Craft Center in
the 1970s.
He was admired for his quick wit, sharp intellect and Hawk Ridge Clubhouse in Lake St. Louis on Oct. 24 at
talents. He is and always will be loved.
Services will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct.
21, at Camero Funeral Home in Von Ormy, Texas. In
lieu of flowers, please donate to your local spay and
neuter animal clinic in his name.
MYRNA LU MYERS
Avondale, Ariz.
Myrna Lu Myers, 86, of
Avondale, Ariz., formerly of
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, passed
away Friday, Oct. 1, 2021.
Services will be announced at
a later date. Myrna and her
husband will be entombed at
Cedar Memorial Park
Cemetery.
Myrna was very proud of
her service in the U.S. Air
Force as a W.A.C.K. She
always made time for her
friends, family and loved
ones. She was one of a kind.
She is survived by children,
Stephen Sandquist, Jon (Jean) Sandquist,
Julie Cole and Rob (Todd) Sandquist;
eight grandchildren; four great-
grandchildren; and all the kids who
called her mom.
Myrna was preceded in death by her husband, Gerald
C. Myers; infant son Jerry; two sisters, Leta and Esther;
and parents, Wallace and Allice Bixby.
The family would like to thank all of her medical
doctors and Hospice Of Valley.
In lieu of flowers, please send memorials to Sandquist
Family, 4120 37th Ave. SW, No. B, Cedar Rapids, IA.
52404.
PAUL HARPER-SHIRK
Gainesville, Fla.
Paul Harper-Shirk died on Oct. 8, 2021, in his home in Warriors Project for helping Mike.
Gainesville, Fla., of heart failure. He would have been 46
Paul was born in Iowa City, Iowa, on Oct.
9, 1975, to Paul Harper and Carol Case. He
spent many of his early years in Kirksville,
Mo., and Sundance, Wyo., but returned to
Iowa City for junior high and high school.
Paul is an alumnus of CEC, an alternative
high school where much of who he became
was formed. At age 17, Paul found himself
homeless due to a difficult divorce situation.
His mentors at CEC and advocates at United Action for
Youth guided him through the difficult process of
emancipation, securing him housing and supporting
him to finish his education while working full time.
Despite his difficult beginnings, he managed to
become a well-loved townie and friend of many. He
studied computer science at Kirkwood CC and later put
himself through LaJames International. He would
become a beloved hairdresser known for his flamboyant
style and quick wit. He described his work as “hairapy”
beautiful inside as their hair color was on the outside.
He tried to inspire people to love themselves and others.
To take his love of his career and clients further, he
would return to LaJames as a teacher to give others the
gift he received when he was a student in need of
guidance and inspiration.
In 2001, Paul connected with the love of his life and
occasional partner in crime Jeffrey Harper-Shirk over a
dinner to protest being single on Valentine’s Day or, as
Jeff called it “Glorified Rejection Day.” The spark was
lit, they used the L-Word in the first week and married
sunny climates, attending music festivals, snobbing it
Mysteries,’’ but I didn’t tell you that -- officially he liked
role playing games and cosplaying, cooking French and
Chinese cuisine, and spending time entertaining their
many friends and family members.
He is survived by his husband, Jeffrey Harper-Shirk;
his sister, Paula Mackey; his nephew, Joey Shirk; and
uncle, friend, teacher, hairdresser and merry trickster.
He touched every life he encountered and will be
missed.
A memorial is being held from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Larry L. (Faye) Holley and Margaret (Richard) Hamed.
more information, please visit gayandciha.com. In lieu
of flowers, please consider a donation to United Action
unitedactionforyouth.org.
Please visit his memorial page at
www.williamsthomasfuneralhome.com. For further
information, Williams-Thomas downtown, (352) 376-7556. moved to Minnesota after graduation, where
KENNETH VOGEL
Lake St. Louis, Mo.
Kenneth Vogel, 91, former Cedar Rapids-area resident, Hayes), Lexus Hamed, Cayden and Taylor Hayes; and
passed away Oct. 2, 2021, after a lengthy illness.
Ken and Lea Vogel (Lake St. Louis, Mo.) grew up on
farms in Iowa, and were married for 71
years. Ken graduated from Iowa State
University and had a diverse career in
dairy plant management, life insurance/
investments, and land development. His
hobby in later years was wall treatments.
Ken sang lead for 43 years with "The
Vigortones Barbershop Quartet" and was
Surviving children include Carle Nicklas of Lake St.
Kenda Fuerst, and Roger Vogel (Joann) both of Kearney, various organizations are available at $10 each. Up to
Neb; seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. three symbols may be used per obituary. Some examples
Ken loved playing pinochle and was also a proud
woodworker. He planted trees in all nine homes where
he lived, all kinds and sizes. He was a member of Living
Lord Lutheran Church in Lake St. Louis.
A memorial reception is planned at the Heritage of
4 p.m.
Donations may be made to the National Arbor
Foundation “Trees in Memory”
(https://shop.arborday.org/trees-in-memory) or by
calling 1 (888) 448-7337.
MICHAEL PAUL VALLEY
Jacksonille, Fla.
Michael Paul Valley, 44 of
Jacksonville, Fla., formerly of
Cedar Rapids, died on
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, of
natural causes. Funeral
service: 10 a.m. Friday, Oct.
22, at St. Patrick Catholic
Church by the Rev. Greg
Bahl. Burial: Mound
Cemetery, Watkins. Friends
may visit with the family
from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 21, at Teahen Funeral
Home. Mike’s funeral service
will be livestreamed through
St. Patrick’s Facebook account at
Facebook.com/stpatrickcr.
Mike is survived by his son, Michael, and daughter,
Abigail, both of Jacksonville; parents, Barbara and
Stephen Valley of Cedar Rapids; aunts and uncles,
Judith (Brent) Robbins of Council Bluffs, Debra
(Thomas) Johnson of La Crosse, Wis., Daniel (Margaret)
Valley of La Crosse, Wis., Cathryn Drugger of Cedar
Rapids and Kay Hauke of La Crescent, Minn.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, John
and Garnetta Luethye, and Maurice and Betty Valley.
Mike was born on March 25, 1977, in Cedar Rapids,
son of Barbara and Stephen Luethye Valley. He attended
Cleveland Grade School and graduated in 1995 from
Jefferson High School. Mike was a 17 year military
veteran, first serving in the U.S. Navy and then in the
Army, serving as sergeant during the Iraq War. He
worked for the Florida Department of Health.
Mike loved his family and enjoyed going to his kids’
many school and sporting events. He will be missed by
all who knew and loved him.
The family would like to thank the Wounded
A memorial fund has been established in Mike’s
name that will benefit his children’s future or to be used
for masses at St. Patrick Catholic Church.
Online condolences can be left at
www.teahenfuneralhome.com.
EDWARD "BUTCH" WHITE
Waverly
Edward "Butch" White, 77, of Waverly, Iowa, died on
Sept. 1, 2021.
A Celebration of Life will be held from 5 to 7 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 22, at the Waverly Area
Veterans Post. Donations can be made in
Ed’s honor to the Veterans Post.
Ed was born Oct. 8, 1943, to Ray Farnum
and Margaret (Weger) White in Cedar
Rapids. Ed was a 1961 graduate of Jefferson
High School. After graduation, he enlisted
in the U.S. Air Force. Upon return, he met
the love of his life, Sandra Koepsell, and
they married Aug. 19, 1967 in Cedar Rapids. Ed
graduated from Wartburg in 1972.
Ed played fast pitch softball in Cedar Rapids winning
many state tournaments, including the United States
National Tournament with Welty Way in 1971. In 1972
they went on to the Philippines for the World
Championship only to lose the final game to Canada 1-0
in eleven innings. While managing Midwest Galleries,
Ed was selected all star manager. He was inducted into
the Softball Hall of Fame in 1992.
In 1985 Ed and Larry Wendt became business
partners and remained best friends. He was an avid
Cubs, Bears and Iowa Hawkeyes fan.
Ed is survived by his wife, Sandra; daughter, Kristine
of Florida; son, Dan of Waverly; granddaughters,
Kathrine and Trisha; and sister, Donna Cross of Cedar
Rapids.
He was preceded in death by his parents; infant son,
Brian; and sister, Esther White.
JOHN ROBERT HOLLEY
Cedar Rapids
John Robert Holley passed away suddenly, Sept. 7,
2021, in Richfield, Minn.
John was born Oc. 17, 1969, in Ottumwa, Iowa, to
from Kennedy High School in 1988. John
continued his education after high school,
receiving his Bachelor’s degree from the
University of Northern Iowa and Master’s
degree in International Business from the
University of Wisconsin (Whitewater). John
he resided in the Minneapolis area until his passing.
John’s professional career was in the treasury and
financial services area. Most recently, he was employed
by FIS as Global Head of Professional Services.
John enjoyed cooking, traveling, deep sea fishing and,
most of all, family.
John is survived by his parents; sons, Keagen and
Brennan Nelson-Talley; brother, Brian Hamed (Brenda
sister, Susan Hamed, Jacob and Julia Cacioppo.
He was preceded in death by his paternal and
maternal grandparents.
A celebration of John’s life will be held at a later
date.
Per John’s request, his ashes will become living
underwater Memorial Reefs in Cozumel.
Memorials in John’s name may be made to
www.4oceans.com.
EMBLEMS
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are shown. Emblems for other organizations and fraternal
groups are also available.
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Flag Footprints Christian Legion Muslim
VFW Elks Jewish Lions AmVets
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Hannah Longmire (center) leads her team Tuesday in a huddle before they begin their final race of the regular season at Cherry Hill Park in Cedar Rapids. (Geoff Stellfox photos/The Gazette)

Runner/Wants to be in Paralympics
; FROM PAGE 1C
Hannah was home-
schooled from third
through sixth grades.
When she went to junior
high last year, she didn’t
know what her peers
would think about her.
Would they stare at her
prostheses? Would they
think she looked little
when she took them off?
“I had this thing when
I didn’t want to take off
my prosthetics,” she
said. “I don’t have the
shape of a regular foot.
Usually when you take
off your shoes and socks,
you have a foot. When
you take off mine, it’s
like the bottom of a heel.
I don’t know if I really
have an ankle. I’m defi- Northwest Junior High’s Hannah Longmire warms up with teammates Tuesday before a race at Cherry
nitely a lot tinier without Hill Park in Cedar Rapids. Hannah’s legs were amputated when she was 2 years old.
them.”
But she made friends
who didn’t care about “It’s really nice to be part of a team, a supportive
her legs. They cared
more about her style and one, a family.”
her stories and the laugh
that bubbles out when Hannah Longmire, Northwest Junior High runner whose legs were amputated ABOVE: Teammate Kate Van Waning helps Hannah Longmire
she talks. remove her race sensor after her race Tuesday at Cherry Hill Park
Because of COVID-19, designed for people with learn how to do baton Hannah also has mod- in Cedar Rapids. TOP: Hannah, who is unable to reach the bottom
Hannah’s seventh-grade disabilities. “There are handoffs. eled, advertising prod- of her prosthetics, receives help putting on her race bib.
cross-country season not many people like me, Her hands are shaped ucts for Disney, Claire’s
was canceled. When with two prosthetics be- differently and her left and GoGo squeeZ apple- when she grows up. Washburn Middle School
track season rolled low the knee.” hand has a weaker grip. sauce. She is the second- “I want to be profes- Statewide Cross Country
around, it didn’t take Now, competing But she adapted, the youngest of Mack and sional running coach to Meet this Saturday in
long for her peers to see against eighth grade same way she did with Lee Longmire’s eight people who want to go to Ankeny.
her skill in 800-meter and girls from across Eastern writing, using chop children, three of whom the Olympics and Para- “It’s really nice to be
1-mile races. Iowa, “I get first place be- sticks and texting. have disabilities. lympics,” she said. This part of a team, a support-
“When I do my para cause I earned it. I didn’t “I text faster than a lot Given Hannah’s ease is after she goes to the ive one, a family,” she
races, it’s not the same get first place because I of people can,” she said. doing a newspaper inter- Paralympics herself in said.
because you have to run was the only one in my “I hold the phone with view, it’s no surprise she high school or college.
against people like you,” category,” she said. my pointer fingers and has a quick answer about Until then, Hannah Comments: (319) 339-3157;
Hannah said of races Hannah did have to text with my thumbs.” what she wants to be was excited for the Dick erin.jordan@thegazette.com

Tree/City wants to build its list for years to come

; FROM PAGE 1C rated in Greene Square park. the year if they have a tree to more challenging, along came to the loss of any tree. Trees
It’s a nice holiday spectacle.” be considered that they’d be last year’s derecho and the list decorated for the holidays
Fagan noted. In years past, trees have willing to keep until the city is of potential trees the city had are only used if they would be
The city removes the tree come from across the city, and able to retrieve it. going was depleted. removed anyway and can be
free of charge for the home- even from surrounding towns “Usually, we put out a press “We scrambled to find one repurposed,” said Gail Loskill,
owner and grinds the stump. like Ely. Fagan said the city release and we would get sev- for last year,” Fagan recalled. Parks and Recreation commu-
The city in turn saves on the especially appreciates when eral people to respond, so we’d “But we’d like to get back to nications specialist for the city.
cost of purchasing a tree. it works out to use a tree that have a list of trees we could the point where we aren’t “The homeowners have
Once the tree is selected and is located near Greene Square review. We might then have scrambling every year.” always been meant to drive
then is being cut down, Fagan because transporting the tree five trees, so we’d be set up for Fagan noted he believes this, not the other way
said it usually garners a lot of is quite the process. a few years. Most folks were the city has found this year’s around. It’s our hope that they
neighborhood attention. It also has been a tradition OK with leaving the tree until Christmas tree, but definitely will call us when they have a
“A lot of people in the neigh- for the last several years to we need it, and it worked out wants to build the list for tree that needs to come down.
borhood come out to watch be- have the homeowners who do- really well.” years to come. It can be mutually beneficial.
cause there’s all kinds of equip- nated the tree flip the switch A 35-foot Colorado blue While it has always been We are doing everything we
ment there and then there's a at the annual tree lighting cer- spruce was donated by the the intention of the city to take can not to take down trees
40-foot tree flying through the emony that happens the first Jenay Sullivan family for 2019, down only trees that needed to unnecessarily.”
air for a little bit before it lands weekend in December. the city reported at the time. be removed for some reason, Homeowners who have a
and trailer,” he said. “It's al- “Most people really get a A spruce was donated by the staff reiterated that healthy tree that might meet the condi-
ways kind of neat when people kick out of that,” Fagan said. Steepleton family for last year, trees will not and never have tions for donation are asked to
come out and watch that. Fagan noted that while the but the lighting ceremony was been considered for removal. email forestry@cedar-rapids.
“And then we always get a city is looking for residents held virtually due to the coro- “The city values every tree org with the owner’s name
positive response from people to contact it now, they also navirus pandemic. in Cedar Rapids, and now — and address as well as infor-
who see the tree up and deco- may reach out at any time in As if to make the process more than ever — is sensitive mation about the tree.
8C The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021

Breeders/No reinspection fee in Iowa

; FROM PAGE 1C
Black wrote in one January
report that “basset hounds do
not appear to have adequate
cover from weather and wind.
It is the responsibility of the
licensee to ensure that all
animals are protected against
freezing temperatures and
that bedding is not allowed to
blow away.”
Later in January, Black
returned and wrote that “the
roof of the large outbuilding
remains at issue,” but added
the dogs inside the building
were “protected from falling
debris with sufficient struc-
tural change.”
Black’s report suggested
there were too many animals
for Hollie Pille to care for, stat-
ing: “The population is cur-
rently 34 canines in the care of
one adult. Reduction conver-
sation will continue.”
In early February, Black
was traveling to the facility to
conduct another inspection. In
her notes on that visit, Black
indicated the visit was a pre-
arranged appointment. She
wrote: “Scheduled for 10:30.
During drive, appointment
was canceled due to personal,
family emergency. Will at-
tempt to reschedule for the
week of February 8, 2021.”
Black then emailed Hol-
lie Pille and stated, “Thank
you for having Kurt contact
me to reschedule today’s ap-
pointment. I currently have
Monday or Wednesday of next attempting an unannounced
week available, if 10:30 works inspection. The residence ap-
for you. Just let me know
which day.”
Hollie wrote back: “Let’s
do Wednesday at 10:30, I’ll see to loose canines. I attempted a buckets for winter 2021.”
you then.”
Black responded: “Hollie:
My Wednesday is already
booked. My earliest opportu-
nity to your area is Friday the
12th or Tuesday the 16th of
February. Do either of those
mornings work for you at
10:30?” According to Black’s
possible.
“If we go there a certain
amount of times and we’re un-
able to reach someone, then
we may have to schedule a
time,” she said.
Animal advocates say that
process makes no sense: All a
dog breeder must do to avoid
a surprise inspection by the
state is violate the federal
regulation that guarantees in-
spectors access to any licensed
facility during regular busi-
ness hours. Since that viola-
tion rarely results in a penal-
ty, a breeder risks nothing by
simply refusing to come to the
door or answer the phone.
“We’ve often heard that
breeders who are not ready for
Inspectors filed this photo taken during a visit to a Wayne County dog breeder
— Daniel Gingerich — facing state and federal sanctions for dozens of Animal inspection just will not answer
Welfare Act violations. In a description of the photo, inspectors note there was a the door and take a minor
lack of potable water for the dogs. (Federal court exhibit) ‘unavailable’ violation, as op-
posed to getting more severe
violations,” said Mindi Cal-
“We’ve often heard that breeders who lison of Bailing Out Benji, an
Iowa-based animal advocacy
are not ready for inspection just will group.
“This does a huge disservice
not answer the door and take a minor to the animals in their care
because the inspectors are
‘unavailable’ violation, as opposed to not seeing how these animals
getting more severe violations.” live year-round. We saw this
in the Daniel Gingerich puppy
mill case where he denied
Mindi Callison, of Bailing Out Benji animal advocacy group
entrance to an inspector and
said, ‘Just cite me for refusing
the inspection.’ ”
notes, Hollie never responded. the four dogs housed there Gingerich is a Wayne Coun-
In February, Black drove to were “protected by a cover of ty breeder facing state and
the facility. In her notes, she fencing sections.” federal sanctions for dozens
wrote: “On this day Thursday, She also noted that walls of Animal Welfare Act viola-
February 25, 2021, 10:54, I’m that once were lined with tions. Federal officials say
exposed insulation were now that this summer, Gingerich
covered in plastic sheeting, repeatedly refused to let them
pears occupied, with usual and that she had a “realistic inside a barn on his property
autos on site. The front door discussion” with the owner in Seymour, telling inspectors
is not accessible by foot due about “heated water bowls or to just write him up for deny-
ing them access.
text message and a phone call. Eventually, the inspectors
Ms. Pille appears to be avoid- STATE: SOME INSPECTIONS
got inside and found 27 dogs
ing regulation. I sat in vehicle MUST BE ANNOUNCED Gingerich had allegedly hid-
in driveway twenty minutes.” Iowa Department of den there in “filthy” condi-
In March, Black returned Agriculture spokeswoman tions, including some dogs
and found the facility to be Keely Compass said the that were dead, emaciated or
in complete compliance. She agency attempts to make all of left without water.
wrote that while the outbuild- its inspections unannounced, Callison said while it’s im-
ing roof was still in disrepair, but adds that this isn’t always portant for inspectors to “get
eyes on the facility, even by
means of scheduling an ap-
pointment,” there must be
consequences for denying ac-
cess to the inspectors. Nebras-
ka, she said, imposes a $125
reinspection fee on breeders in
such cases, and also has them
pay costs based on the inspec-
tor’s mileage.
PLAN FOR FEWER SURPRISE
INSPECTIONS DREW CRITICISM
Under the Trump admin-
istration, the USDA moved
away from surprise federal in-
spections. In 2018, the agency
sent licensees a letter an-
nouncing a pilot project that
would make use of scheduled,
announced inspections to de-
termine whether they would
improve “the efficiency of our
inspection program and im-
prove the humane treatment
of animals.”
That proposal died after an-
imal-rights groups, including
the American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, protested. At the time,
the organization said planned,
announced inspections “give
puppy mills plenty of time to
clean up filthy conditions and
temporarily conceal suffering
animals.”
Asked how often Iowa’s
dog breeders are informed in
advance of the precise time
and date of a state inspection,
Compass said she would fol-
low up on that question with
the department’s “animal
team” and report back.
The agency has yet to pro-
vide that information.
The Iowa Capital Dispatch
recently requested access
to all of the emails Black ex-
changed with the Pilles. An
Iowa Department of Agricul-
ture representative said the
fee for access would be $25 an
hour to retrieve the emails,
plus 25 cents per page. The
Capital Dispatch declined the
offer.

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GUEST COLUMN | LYLE MULLER

Downtown Farmersburg on July 23. (Lyle Muller / IowaWatch)

IOWA’S SOUL
Despite declining population, rural areas make up Iowa’s soul

R
elaxing with a cup of coffee at
Madeline’s in Riverside, Iowa,
you could hear Morgan Rod-
gers chatting with customers
one recent August morning. She knew
them all.
“We just appreciate our customers and the
continued support they’ve given us,” Rodgers,
an 11-year resident of Riverside, said about the
shop she and her husband, Andy, opened in
May 2019.
Knowing people is the happy trade-off for all
the hard work needed to keep a small business
going in a town the size of Riverside, population
1,061 in the 2020 census. Rodgers at least is for-
tunate to be living in one of the few Iowa towns
with 5,000 or fewer people that grew from the
2010 census, when Riverside’s population was
993.
The hard work needed to be a vibrant small
town is a big reason Iowa’s government, busi-
ness and civic leaders are worried when they
see rural Iowa losing people.
If urban areas are Iowa’s heartbeat, the
state’s rural areas are its soul.
Figures from the 2020 census, released in
August, showed Iowa’s urban population in-
creasing to 64 percent of the state’s 3.16 million
people. Urban residents had been around 61
percent of Iowa’s population in both 2010 and
2000, 58 percent in 1990 and 57 percent in 1980.
But the way of life that appeals to people
in small, rural towns is at risk, according to
research into multiple data sets that include
population, employment figures and school
performance; a series of IowaWatch interviews;
and visits reporter Pat Kinney and I made
; MULLER, PAGE 4D

AT LIBERTY | ADAM SULLIVAN

A partisan pledge in a nonpartisan race

I
owa City’s supposedly non-
partisan city council race
feels pretty partisan this
year.
Three of the four candidates
— Bruce Teague and Megan
Alter for at-large and Shawn
Harmsen for District B — are
mutually supporting one an-
other in one way or another.
The other at-large candi-
date, Jason Glass, is the odd
man out. He is not support-
ing any other candidates and
he didn’t seek their support.
Not coincidentally, Glass is a
former Republican, while the
other three are active Demo-
crats.
It’s a bit of a throwback to
2015, when the progressive
“Core Four”swept Iowa City
elections. Candidates said they
weren’t a slate, but supporters
and the media saw them that
way. The left-leaning alterna-
tive magazine Little Village
captured the vibe nicely — its
postelection cover depicted the
four candidates as some kind
of medieval warriors.
I think candidates on the
same ballot supporting each
other is unhealthy for our
form of local government.
This year’s cadre of cozy
candidates isn’t coordinat-
ing to the same extent as the
“Core Four,” but they have
variously appeared at events
together, hoisted each other’s
signs and exchanged endorse-
ments. Alter’s website lists
Harmsen as an endorser and
also listed Teague until it was
recently updated.
The backdrop of all this is
that local elections increasing-
ly are divided along national
partisan lines. Local parties
have become involved with
nonpartisan races.
More than two dozen
Johnson County Democrats,
including Harmsen, recently
signed a party loyalty pledge
endorsing Alter and Teague,
“Democrats in good standing
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COMMUNITY LETTERS
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Andrews would be a
“Our potential strong C.R. mayor
is limitless. The election for the mayor
of Cedar Rapids is important
Realizing that and deserves our attention.
potential requires While several of those run-
ning have held leadership
bold leadership, positions in our city, my
vote will be cast for Amara
and not just a Andrews.
Amara is a strong leader
modest upgrade.” with a rich background of
experiences in both econom-
Amara Andrews, candidate ic development and social
for Cedar Rapids mayor justice initiatives. Amara
can capably provide direc-
“During the next tion as we continue to grow
our economy and, at the
four years, with same time, bring opportu-
nity to those in our commu-
my experienced nity who have had no voice.
leadership, we Amara understands the need
for business initiatives and
will keep the know that many in our city
have been left out of those
momentum initiatives in the past.
moving forward.” Amara is actually the can-
didate for “all the people” as
Editorial cartoonist Joe Heller is based in Green Bay. Comments: Hellertoon.com
she understands the needs of
Brad Hart, candidate for
everyone in our community.
Cedar Rapids mayor
She can lead our city and creating a more vibrant com- City, Jason deserves your up his sleeves and fights for
provide representation for munity. I appreciate the time vote on Nov. 2. you, your family and our city
“Some days everyone. she has taken to connect with Terry and Jo Dickens every day, then Brad Hart
Please vote in the Nov. 2 the neighborhood associa- Iowa City should be your choice.
it seems like election and give Amara An- tions about what the city can I hope you will join me in
drews your strongest consid- do to expand, support and Hart’s record makes proudly voting Brad Hart for
we’re running in sustain diverse communities.
eration. A vote for Amara is him best pick for mayor mayor. We still need to have
place. I’m tired a vote for a progressive and
innovative future.
I hope you will take the time
to read more about her plans During the Flood of 2008, I
Hart!
Gary Ficken
of watching other Mary Wilcynski and to meet her. I know when crossed paths with Brad Hart Cedar Rapids
you do, you’ll join me in vot- and was impressed that he
cities pass us by.” Cedar Rapids
ing for Tiffany on Nov. 2! was willing to help strangers Republicans take credit
O’Donnell is the right Amy Reasner muck out their homes. In the for bill they opposed
Tiffany O’Donnell, candidate aftermath of the derecho, I
person to be mayor Cedar Rapids
for Cedar Rapids mayor was impressed that he was In March, the American
While we are fortunate to Glass would provide at the crisis command center Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was
day despite having his signed into law by President
“It’s not just have four good people offer-
ing to serve us as mayor, Tif-
leadership in Iowa City every own house severely dam- Joe Biden. Only Democrats
treating medical fany O’Donnell is the right Your vote is important aged to the point where a voted in favor of the legisla-
person for the job right now. and we ask you to cast your tree hit his wife as it crashed tion. Included were provi-
needs. It’s Tiffany, through her experi- ballot Nov. 2 for Jason Glass through the roof. sions for emergency rural
for Iowa City Council. The fact that he has served development grants for rural
treating basic ence as COO and then as the
CEO of a women’s leadership Iowa City needs strong, on the boards of many non- health care, K-12 education,
needs, so they development organization, sensible leadership and we
believe Jason Glass is the
profits in this community
is something that I admire
child care, emergency assis-
tance for rural housing and
has not only been at the fore-
can be healthy front of driving diversity, right person for the job. Ja- about him the most, his em- broadband investment, to
equity and inclusion, but son is a proven collaborator, pathy for others. When you name a few.
and learn.” works every day to expand problem solver and an inde- look at the past four years, Only one representative
opportunity for women pendent thinker. despite a pandemic and a from Iowa voted for this
Sara Gordon, school nurse across the state. She knows He has spent 20 years derecho, I see progress. The legislation, and that was
at Metro High School in what the city can do to help working in human resource city has fixed miles of streets Rep. Cindy Axne of the 3rd
Cedar Rapids businesses retain their talent roles in various organiza- and flood protection is ex- District. Yet, our governor
and to create a welcoming tions in the area, and is cur- panding every day. You also is now touting the receipt of
funds for increasing broad-
“When we got environment for new talent.
Moreover, Tiffany has been
rently serving as vice chair
on the Iowa City Human
see the announcements of
new amenities such as Cedar band access in the state.
together with building the kind of relation- Rights Commission. He is Lake and First & First. There Look, I don’t know the rea-
sons given by members of
ships with business, indus- the equal opportunity leader is also continuous news of
the schools it try as well as local, state and for his National Guard unit business expansion, which Congress to oppose the legis-
lation, but it is particularly
was to make our national leaders that Cedar
Rapids needs to create a cli-
and also served a term
on the Iowa Human Rights
brings family-supporting
jobs and more housing devel- galling to take credit for
program even mate where businesses and Commission. opment projects. legislation that you opposed,
and it is also distressing
nonprofits can thrive and Jason loves Iowa City It is his track record and
better.” where all ages have plenty of and is committed to put forth experience that we need to that so many Iowans don’t
educational and recreational the time and energy it takes keep Cedar Rapids on the recognize that Democrats in
Brent Long, captain with opportunities. to serve on the Iowa City right path. Congress were the only ones
the Cedar Rapids Police As an owner and one of the Council. If you want a polished to vote to help the residents
Department, on recently leaders of a small business in With his vast experience, public speaker or a great of this state. Opposing leg-
approved changes to the downtown Cedar Rapids, I re- his strong record of service politician who never says islation is one thing; taking
department’s agreement spect Tiffany’s fresh perspec- and his ability to give a the wrong thing, Brad may credit for it is quite another.
with Cedar Rapids schools tive on speeding up the flood respectful and rational ap- not be your candidate. But, if Carolyn L. Stucker
and derecho recovery and proach to issues facing Iowa you want a mayor who rolls Springville
“We’re fully
aware that GUEST COLUMN | KURT ULLRICH
housing stock

The full ache of autumn arrives

in Cedar Rapids
is extremely
low after the

derecho.”
Sara Zejnic, director of
refugee and immigrant
services at Catherine
McAuley Center in Cedar
Rapids, on challenges of
placing new Afghan refugees
into adequate housing
“It’s like the
system is having
a party with the
people in the
alley below it.”
Jason Snell, a local artist,
on the new light display
in an alley between South
Dubuque Street and South
Linn Street in Iowa City
“Stadiums and
arenas across the
A
s I write this there are two small
rib-eye steaks smoking on my
outdoor grill. My side dish may
be cottage cheese. I come from people
wherein the women of the house
worked very hard and long on side dish-
es, while the men stood by a grill, can of
beer in hand, perhaps drawing on light-
ed nicotine, turning meat on occasion
and, invariably, receiving the compli-
ments for his wonderful cooking. Why
women stood for this I have no idea.
Another year has passed and once
again I was passed over for a MacAr-
thur Fellowship, the so-called “genius
grant.” How is this possible? Actually,
I’m not a genius by any stretch of the
imagination, but I’m smart enough to
realize that my plan to get back onto a
motorcycle this year was a bad idea.
You see, some months back I pur-
chased a riding tractor, my first, and
with only three hours on it I found wet
grass and a hill. Not a good combina-
tion, as I was tossed down the hill,
tractor tumbling behind me, stopping
inches away. Even average Kurt is
bright enough to realize that at age 70 if
he can’t handle a riding tractor he sure
as hell shouldn’t be on a motorcycle.
It has been a tough year for animals.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has
proposed that nearly two dozen crea-
tures be declared extinct, including
the spectacularly beautiful ivory-billed
woodpecker, a bird last seen during
World War II.
I predict that the fuzzy black and
brown woolly bear caterpillar will be
extinct soon. The colorful little crea-
tures have been very common here
for years, foolishly crossing highways,
beginning in August and ending their
journey in late October or November.
This year I’ve encountered exactly one.
I wanted to stop my car and help her
across the road. I hope she made it.
Yesterday a large flock of Canada
geese flew low over the house, a chorus
of honking and chatting it up, heading
north. I waved my arms and yelled,
“No, no! You’re going the wrong way!”
Not surprisingly the flock ignored me.
It’s raining here and it feels like
we’re into the full ache of autumn, the
time of year when love takes us by
surprise. It did for me in high school
more than 50 years ago when I couldn’t
wait to ditch my football uniform to
spend a bit of time with my girlfriend
at her parents’ house after the game, a
sweetheart flute player with spearmint
breath. Full ache indeed.
A week ago I was crossing a bridge
from Iowa to Illinois and there was
a long diesel train rumbling heavily
beneath my car, heading south along
the Mississippi River, a three-engine
Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight
train carrying hundreds of thousands
of tons of cargo toward St. Louis and
New Orleans. At the time my car radio
was playing Vivaldi, but it should have
been an old railroad song, Willie Nel-
son, Jimmie Rodgers maybe.
The sound of a train feels forlorn.
Not sure why. Hearing it I thought
about those we’ve lost the past couple
of years, 700,000 to COVID in the United
States alone, many thousands to other
causes and now I look for the ghosts of
those who have gone before, beautiful
ghosts who make sure we are our best
selves. I welcome them.
Kurt Ullrich lives in rural Jackson County. His book
“The Iowa State Fair” is available from the University
of Iowa Press.

country that face

staffing shortages
and issues that
arise from that.”
Marcus Wilson, executive
senior associate athletics
director at the University of
Iowa, on staffing shortages
at Kinnick Stadium
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AMARA ANDREWS BRAD HART TIFFANY O’DONNELL
FOR CEDAR RAPIDS MAYOR FOR CEDAR RAPIDS MAYOR FOR CEDAR RAPIDS MAYOR

Bold leadership, Our great city is Make a brighter

righteous energy on the right track city for everyone
A I I
re we better off incubator program for have had the great homes. I’m also proud have two big rea- I’m tired of watching
now than we entrepreneurs. I cur- honor of serving as of our police and fire de- sons for running for other cities pass us
were four years rently serve as a leader your mayor since partments for their hard mayor: Devon and by. I’m concerned that
ago? If your answer in one of the largest 2018. During that time, I work directly with our Lucci, my daughters. we’re “OK with being
gives you pause, then homegrown businesses have witnessed firsthand citizens as they support I’m a lifelong Iowan OK.” We need new
we must consider a in our city. Now, I hope the generosity, ingenuity and protect our city. and my husband, Mi- leadership that expects
change. As Iowa’s sec- to work for you. and resiliency of Cedar During the next four chael, is a fifth genera- more. I’m ready to be
ond largest city and one We are in the midst Rapidians. I brought to years, with my experi- tion Cedar Rapidian. that leader.
of the largest economic of extraordinary times, the mayor’s office almost enced leadership, we We moved home in As a 15-year news
engines regionally, our and we need leaders 40 years of experience as will keep the momentum 2001 to raise a family. anchor, the stories of
potential is limitless. with clear-eyed vision a business attorney and moving forward — mo- As our girls got older, Cedar Rapids were per-
Realizing that potential to help us navigate 30 years of serving this mentum that allowed we encouraged them sonal for me. For the
requires bold leader- massive recovery — community in volunteer Cedar Rapids to grow to pursue their dreams past six years, I’ve been
ship, and not just a from floods to the pan- leadership roles. its population at almost wherever they may be, advocating for women
modest upgrade. demic, to the derecho. Together we’ve twice the rate of Des hoping that someday and helping grow their
Some folks have These are tough chal- navigated through a pan- Moines. We will ensure they would return careers. Along the way,
suggested that because lenges, but with the demic and worked to re- derecho relief is finished home like we did. But I’ve been an active com-
I’m not a native Cedar right leadership, they cover from a devastating and “ReLeaf” our city will they? If they don’t, munity leader building
Rapidian, I can’t possi- can provide us opportu- derecho. Despite those as we recover from the who will? things like NewBo City
bly share Cedar Rapids nity, and a real shot at grave challenges, over loss of 65 percent of our If we want all our Market and more. I
values. The truth is, renewal. the last four years we’ve tree canopy. We’ll con- kids, and the workforce want to put that experi-
three out of the four can- It has been an honor held the line on the city’s tinue our ongoing street of tomorrow, to make ence to work for all of
didates were not born to run for mayor. I’ve tax levy rate, continued improvements, add to Cedar Rapids home, we Cedar Rapids.
here. We’re transplants, had the chance to meet to improve and fix our our flood control system need a new approach. I’m not a politician.
and that is something thousands of people streets, built key sec- and grow our tax base To see a future Cedar I’m a mom, a neighbor,
we should celebrate. who, at their core, tions of our flood control with quality jobs to help Rapids, just look at a small-business
My values were share our values. We system, and issued more make Cedar Rapids the our great past. There owner. I’m supported
passed down to me value community and than $1 billion to grow best place in Iowa to live, was a day when Cedar by Democrats,
from my father, who one another, no mat- our economy and our tax work and play. Rapids had diverse Republicans and
was raised in the seg- ter your race, creed or base. I’m proud that more neighborhoods like independents. One
regated South, and country of origin. We In addition, we’ve than 65 percent of our Czech Village and Time hundred percent of
my mother, who was all choose Cedar Rapids helped create family- residents believe our Check with affordable my donations come
born right here in the because we believe in supporting jobs by at- great city is on the right housing, shops and from individuals. It’s
Midwest. They both its potential. My prom- tracting new businesses track. It would be my restaurants all within about Cedar Rapids for
worked hard to provide ise to you if elected: I and by working with our honor to continue serving a 15-minute walk, sur- me. Let’s make Cedar
a loving home. I went to will lead with compas- existing small business- you. I’m proud of what rounding a vibrant Rapids that brighter
college and law school. sion, thoughtfulness es. We’ve significantly we’ve accomplished to- downtown. A city with city for everyone —
I worked as a teacher and a righteous energy increased affordable gether over the past four a place for everyone. together. I humbly ask
in the inner city, for a to move our community housing units, and are years, and I humbly ask What’s holding us for your vote on Nov. 2.
nonprofit that sought forward. committed to helping for your vote on Nov. 2. back? Leadership.
to close the achieve- Amara Andrews is a candidate people finish rebuilding Brad Hart is a candidate for Cedar Some days it seems like Tiffany O’Donnell is a candidate
ment gap and ran an for Cedar Rapids mayor. their derecho-damaged Rapids mayor. we’re running in place. for Cedar Rapids mayor.

TAMARA MARCUS
DALE TODD FOR CEDAR RAPIDS CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 3
FOR CEDAR RAPIDS CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 3

I believe in the people Integrity and the ability to lead

W T
e live in a time that feels
so divided by politics —
“Are you a Democrat or
Republican?” — as if that ques-
tion tells us everything we need
to know about a person. But deep
down, we know that people are
more complex than their parties.
As a native Cedar Rapidian who
traveled the world doing research
and working with local communi-
ties to create actionable policy, I
can safely tell you that there is no
better place than Cedar Rapids,
and that’s why I came back. We
care about this town and the peo-
ple in it, and we show up for each
other when things get rough.
We are all allowed to disagree,
that’s the easy part. The hard part
is what we do after. We all have
something to learn from one an-
other. When we create space for
disagreement, we create space for
conversation and for reconcilia-
tion. That is how we build a united
community — by challenging one
another, listening to new perspec-
tives, and working together to cre-
ate solutions that work for us all.
We need leadership that really
listens to the needs of the people,
that puts in the hard work to find
solutions that work for businesses,
industry, people and the environ-
ment; that does the work to find
answers that balance the needs of
each, but not at the expense of the
other.
We’ve been through floods,
derechos and a pandemic. And here
we are, still. We have always risen
to the occasion and absolutely no
one in this state, country or world
would dare question how resilient
we are.
I believe in Cedar Rapids be-
cause I believe in the people of
Cedar Rapids. And I hope to har-
ness the energy, intelligence and
compassion of our great city to be a
conduit for the will of the people.
Tamara Marcus is a candidate for Cedar Rapids
City Council.
here was no play-
book for an event
like last year’s
derecho, but our City
Council and staff looked
to the lessons we learned
from past disasters and
got right to work address-
ing this one. Public works
crews went to the city’s
well fields to secure and
protect our water and
sewer systems. Search
and rescue teams visited
countless buildings. Waste
and debris collection
kicked into high gear. We
all worked together, and
we survived with no loss of
life in Cedar Rapids.
In our ongoing recov-
ery, we’ve already made
repairs and improvements
to public amenities like
our ice arena and Veter-
ans Memorial Stadium.
Roads that have been un-
der construction are now
opening. Our new flood
control system has come
online in parts of our city,
providing peace of mind to
businesses and citizens in
flood zones.
Yet there still is much
to do. We’re still working
to shore up the safety nets
for people who are living
in poverty or with mental
illness. Our slow COVID
recovery continues to
challenge us with labor
shortages that impact
businesses and supply-
chain delays that impact
the marketplace.
As mayor pro tem and
chairman of the Public
Safety and Youth Services
Committee, my priority
has always been to make
sure that all people feel
safe as they live, work and
prosper in our community.
I’ve worked diligently in
my years on the City Coun-
cil to develop programs
that address gun violence
through innovative social
services, jobs programs
and recreation opportuni-
ties. I’ve pioneered the
development of community
assets like Cedar Lake and
our parks and trails. When
local restaurants needed
flexible options for serving
customers outside because
of COVID, I helped make it
happen.
Experience, leadership,
integrity and the ability to
make tough decisions are
the traits I bring every day
to the City Council. I ask
for your support this No-
vember so we can continue
the citywide progress we
are making.
Dale Todd is a candidate for Cedar
Rapids City Council.

DALE MONROE FOR MARION CITY COUNCIL AT LARGE RANDY STRNAD FOR MARION CITY COUNCIL AT LARGE

Where we’ve been and what Develop a future vision to

we have yet to accomplish serve the whole community
I I
have been a resident of Marion
for 40-plus years. During that
time, my wife Jean and I have
enjoyed watching the community
grow and prosper.
We’ve also had the opportunity to
have our family born and raised as
a part of this growing community.
My sons William, John and David
and now my daughter-in-law Sa-
mantha have enjoyed Marion as a
great place to live, play, work and
grow our family.
I believe my background as an
administrator, current member
of Marion Planning and Zoning
Commission, former chair of
MEDCO and former chair of
the Chamber of Commerce has
strengthened my understanding
of where we have been and what
we have yet to accomplish. My
background in education and the
various federal, state and local
funding streams add to my strong
background in managing finances
in a growing community. I have
had the experience of managing
budgets that require close attention
to income and expenses, especially
in a rapidly growing community.
Add the business development
experiences I have had to this list,
and I feel well qualified to meet the
needs of all Marion residents and
businesses.
My community involvement has
allowed me to develop strong rela-
tionships that will continue and ex-
pand as we come up with solutions
to meet our future needs.
While I have heard from many
of you the key discussion points for
the community, I recognize the need
to continue to listen, learn and lead
while being cognizant of our city’s
past and the impending future.
With your vote, I will look for-
ward to continue serving Marion
and will use my demonstrated
strengths of leadership to accom-
plish our goals.
Dale Monroe is a candidate for Marion City
Council.
am honored to be seeking re-elec-
tion for Marion City Council. I was
appointed to the City Council in 2016
and elected in 2017 to serve in one of
three at-large positions.
My wife and I are longtime residents
of Marion, where we have raised our
children and grew our insurance busi-
ness over the past 25 years. Being in
civic roles such as an on-call firefighter,
chair of the Marion Firefighters Associ-
ation, Local Option Sales Tax Oversight
Committee member and chair of the
Marion Chamber Ambassadors, I have
learned that community service is my
passion.
As a certified elected municipal of-
ficial, I am active in the Iowa League of
Cities. I also serve on Marion’s Hotel-
Motel Tax Review Board and our Invest-
ment Oversight and Marion Airport
Advisory committees, and I am a repre-
sentative on the Corridor Metropolitan
Planning Organization. This experience
enables me to bring meaningful perspec-
tives to council proceedings. Notably, I
visit our Statehouse, working alongside
representatives to address critical issues
and fund community needs.
Being in the insurance industry has
exposed me to the risks and challenges
experienced by our residents, business
owners and senior citizens. Under-
standing this helps me be of enhanced
service to the City Council.
Thankfully we have many positive
projects and programs underway and
forthcoming. Hiring and onboarding
our next city manager and starting
work on our upcoming budget are at the
top of our “to-do” list while maintaining
oversight of the vital projects currently
underway. Helping our current projects
to be successful while fostering an en-
vironment to develop the community’s
future vision is foremost in my mind.
Importantly, my re-election to
the City Council will offer stability in
this pivotal time. I look forward to ap-
plying my deep civic background to
support the introduction of our new city
manager.
Randy Strnad is a candidate for Marion City Council.
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EDITORIAL FELLOW | SOFIA DEMARTINO

Entrepreneurship: A gateway for immigrants

B
efore a pandemic crossed
the county line, before a
derecho caused a single
leaf to quiver and before the
very first 2020 census-taker
rang a doorbell, I joined a
crowd gathered at National
Czech & Slovak Museum &
Library to hear the Gateways
for Growth action plan for
Cedar Rapids.
The plan’s purpose was to
address an issue that is both
a challenge and an opportu-
nity for our community: Linn
County is growing, and nearly
half of that growth is due to
immigration. With nearly
all our neighboring counties
showing population losses, the
growth in our community is
cause for celebration. Once the
new demographics data is re-
viewed, our population growth
is cause for self-examination
as well.
The Gateways for Growth
plan outlined key opportuni-
ties for Cedar Rapids to sup-
port immigrants in both social
services and economic growth
— issues identified as barriers
to success in conversations
with immigrants living and
working in the city.
Population growth is impor-
tant to economic growth and
innovation. The immigrant
community in Linn County ac-
counted for over $21 million in
state and local tax revenue in
2017. Contrary to misinforma-
tion regarding the contribu-
tions of those not born on U.S.
soil, immigrants also pay into
Social Security and Medicare,
although they are less likely
to draw on either Medicare or
Medicaid.
For many newcomers, cul-
tural differences in the work-
place can make advancement
difficult. This may be part of
the reason so many turn to en-
trepreneurship — in fact, Linn
County immigrants are over
45 percent more likely to be
entrepreneurs than residents
born in the U.S.
This was certainly the case
for real estate agent Marie
Hancock. Marie arrived in
Iowa with an education fo-
cused on finance, and her
corporate pursuits reflected
her schooling. However, she
did not feel supported by her
employers and felt ostracized
by her colleagues. Although
her superiors felt comfortable
enough with her performance
to grant her additional respon-
sibilities and a more complex
workload, she received what
were essentially promotions
in title only. There was to be
no additional compensation,
and no ability to take enough
consecutive days off to allow
her to visit immediate family
abroad.
“Many immigrants in that
position would simply quit
their job, go home to visit,
return and begin another job
search. This is one of the rea-
sons advancement can be very
difficult,” Marie lamented
over the phone.
Rather than continue to
plead with employers who
didn’t see the value in creat-
ing a more functional work
environment, Marie decided
to take matters into her own
hands and build a life that
would reward her efforts. In
March 2020, one week before
shutdown, Marie activated her
real estate license and began
to sell homes.
Because of her connections
with the immigrant commu-
nity and her understanding
of the challenges and barriers
that exist for foreign-born
newcomers to Cedar Rapids,
Marie Hancock sold $5 million
in real estate in her first year.
She accomplished this feat
during a pandemic, a global
uprising and a historic storm
that nearly leveled half the
town. She accomplished it
without the extensive network
that comes with a lifetime of
connections in one area, and
without the support of a men-
tor to shepherd her through
the first year or two as is
common in the real estate
industry.
“My peers will say to a cli-
ent, ‘Talk to me once you have
a preapproval.’ My role has
been entirely different — my
role has been, ‘This is what
preapproval means.’ ”
Marie has been teaching her
clients about understanding
credit, understanding what
qualifies as an asset and how
to apply for financing. She has
also served as an advocate
with lenders on behalf of her
clients, helping both to navi-
gate cultural differences that
make becoming a homeowner
so difficult. In a city filled
with billboards showcasing
the smiling faces of real estate
agents, Marie has not used
advertising to generate any of
her business. Marie’s ability to
bridge the divide has created
so much organic interest in
her services that she antici-
pates needing an assistant in
the near future.
“So you are filling a gap in
the market that other agents
haven’t yet tapped into be-
cause they don’t understand
the population you are work-
ing with?” I asked her.
“Exactly.”
In this microcosm of our
community, Marie’s ability to
recognize a problem and capi-
talize on the solution while
improving the lives of others
is the American dream in its
purest form.
However, this is one woman
in one industry. There are
certain to be other pain points
for foreign-born community
members, and it is likely that
more solutions and innovative
service models will come from
within the immigrant com-
munity rather than be created
on their behalf. There are a
few organizations working to
assist immigrants with entre-
preneurial endeavors.
Catherine McAuley Center
offers a child care business
development program that
offers business planning and
ongoing support in addition to
assistance with licensing in-
home child care centers.
Sara Zejnic elaborated on
their strategy: “We work with
our clients to determine ca-
reer and employment goals
and plan for the future. If an
individual is interested in
going into business, we con-
nect them with community
resources. Among others, we
have worked with the City
of Cedar Rapids, the Metro
Economic Alliance, Lutheran
Services and the Empower
program at Jane Boyd.”
Empower by GoDaddy
works in partnership with
Jane Boyd to provide business
coaching and development
support to entrepreneurs.
Program Manager Maurice
Davis described the evolution
of the program from “a social
services program that helped
people through entrepreneur-
ship to an entrepreneurship
program with social service
capabilities. Now, we spend a
lot more time focusing on the
business acumen of the entre-
preneur. I foresee Empower
allowing more flexibility in
the future, and serving as an
organization that can unlock
resources for entrepreneurs.”
Davis has big goals for the
future of Empower. The big-
gest need for Empower right
now is awareness of and con-
versation about the work that
they are doing. “It is challeng-
ing to grow something when
the people that know we exist
aren’t mentioning our name in
the places that matter.”
Just a year before the Gate-
ways for Growth plan was
unveiled in October 2019, I sat
in the conference center at the
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
with a few hundred friends
and watched the origin story
of GreatAmerica Financial, a
Cedar Rapids institution.
The Metro Economic
Alliance was presenting
GreatAmerica founder Tony
Golobic with the Howard Hall
Excellence in Business Award.
Golobic had arrived in the
United States an immigrant;
his mother had been a guer-
rilla fighter resisting Nazi
occupation. He began his life
in America with very little
and built an enterprise that
has changed the lives of
thousands.
We applauded his corporate
and philanthropic contribu-
tions and the legacy he has
built, and I wondered then
as I do now whether those
in attendance recognize the
parallels between his story
and the experiences of more
recent immigrants striving for
a better tomorrow. If we are to
exalt these successes, we must
also exalt the initiatives and
the people that foster future
success. We are better because
of the immigrants who have
helped to build this commu-
nity, and if we want our city to
win, we need to have the same
desire for foreign-born resi-
dents to win as well.
After an hour of conversa-
tion with Marie, I posed a
final question. “If you were
standing in a room full of im-
migrants considering entre-
preneurship, what would you
want them to know?”
Marie paused briefly and
exhaled before responding in
a steady voice. “We are more
powerful than we think. Even
at our small demographic
percentage, I would like to
see you focused and hungry
— hungrier than you’ve ever
been for anything, because
success is reachable.”
Sofia DeMartino is a Gazette editorial
fellow. Comments: sofia.demartino@
thegazette.com

Muller/Hard work, success Sullivan/Cozy candidates in I.C.

; FROM PAGE 1D from the 2010 count. ; FROM PAGE 1D ment should not be made up of a group of
This small-town background friends rotating in and out of various com-
during summer to 58 Iowa towns helped shape my interest in being who have spent years supporting local, munity and party positions.
with fewer than 5,000 people. part of IowaWatch’s small-town state, and national level Democratic I have known Glass for several years
IowaWatch included this in- reporting project. candidates.” through politics. We have similar back-
formation in a series of reports The loss of people creates con- I explained the gist of this column to grounds in the libertarian-Republican
about small Iowa towns that are cerns because local governments Harmsen and Alter, and they each ex- movement, but we’ve both grown disillu-
hanging in there by growing pop- still provide basic services, such plained their reasoning for backing fellow sioned at partisan politics. He eventually
ulation, having something other as public safety, roads, schools candidates. left the party and registered as no-party
than population growth to stay and general quality-of-life oppor- “If I wasn’t running, I would be out last year.
alive, or both. The series showed tunities. there saying the same things. These are The candidate has not shied away from
that relentlessly hard work by Yet, for all the dire trends two people [Alter and Teague] I’ve known his partisan history. He did the Demo-
residents, small business owners facing some of these places, say- for a long time, who I trust,” Harmsen crats’ opposition research for them, post-
and volunteers in these towns can ing that small Iowa towns no said. ing a lengthy blog post about his political
pay off, even though success is longer can thrive misses a few He also said, “We are our own individ- history and evolution.
not guaranteed. points. While vitality is affected ual people. There's no quid pro quo. It’s a Glass said leaving the party was “hard
“I don’t want that to sound pes- by the number of people sharing matter of values.” and freeing.” He’s glad to be out of the
simistic because we keep trying, it, population growth is not the “People look for shortcuts for values. GOP but also sees how our political sys-
but it’s a huge challenge,” Fayette only measure of success. Towns People look for who’s supporting whom tem makes it much more comfortable to
Mayor Andrew Wenthe said in with a sense of local awareness and so it’s one more piece of input for vot- align with a party.
one of the interviews. have shown this. ers to decide on,” Alter said. “Partisan offices are easier because
Wenthe, a former Democratic In western Iowa’s Audubon, She also said, “There’s an artificiality no matter what you do you always have
state legislator, said financial volunteers and businesses raised in all of a sudden, in a community that like 30 percent of the electorate that will
help from some combination of enough money to open in late 2018 already knows my views, to say I will not love you because you’re on their team. If
foundations, state government a $2.6 million community center endorse anyone or support anyone since you’re on school board, everyone can hate
or federal government is needed that they say already needs a that’s already out there and known. That you,” Glass said.
to keep small towns alive with planned $2 million expansion. seems disingenuous.” Glass promises he won’t accept en-
adequate housing, internet and Yet, Audubon lost population, Teague, on the other hand, didn’t want dorsements from current council mem-
other quality of life needs. Grant from 2,176 in 2010 to 2,053 in 2020. to talk about it. He told me part way bers or candidates during his council
programs exist at the state and Residents in Eastern Iowa’s La through our conversation that he didn’t service. He also said he won’t endorse or
federal level in Iowa. Porte City supported each other think it was on the record, even though I donate to any candidates nor register with
Weaken that support, Wenthe and local businesses when COV- told him ahead of time it was an interview a party.
said, and “you’re going to start ID-19 hit hard in 2020, the town’s for my column. I told him he could think Local Democrats’ recent collective
to see this hollowing out of these mayor, Dave Neil, says in a story about it, email me a comment instead, but endorsement calls Glass “problematic.”
smaller communities.” Kinney wrote. The 2020 census he didn’t take me up on it. It lists his past associations with the Re-
Fayette’s 2020 census count of showed it holding steady from Alter and Harmsen both mentioned publican Party and GOP candidates but
1,256 is down from 1,338 in 2010, 2010 to 2020 at 2,284. In southern values, but it’s hard to see what form does not mention any of Glass’ city policy
the new data for this small town Iowa, Humeston’s downtown lo- that takes in city government. All four positions. To do so, they would have to ac-
that is home to steady employer cal shop owners band together candidates are more alike on the big is- knowledge they agree with him on much
Upper Iowa University show. and promote each other to bring sues than they are different. Glass backs of it. They would show themselves guilty
Fayette County overall lost 1,371 people to their town — population the same progressive policy agenda as of associating with the wrong-thinker.
in population from 2010 to 2020 — 465 in 2020, 494 in 2010. his opponents — restructuring the police The one issue I have seen opponents hit
to 19,509. The story is similar in People still make things hap- department, expanding affordable hous- Glass on is local law enforcement’s use of
neighboring counties. pen in towns like these. They ing, funding excluded workers, mandating an armored vehicle — he wants to keep
Chickasaw County, next over do it through vision, a sense of masks by local order, the city’s climate the military surplus vehicle or replace
to the northwest, had 12,012 peo- community and persistence. Any- action plan. it with a civilian model. I disagree with
ple in 2020, 427 fewer than in 2010. thing less will shred the fabric Local elected bodies already are suscep- him on that, but majorities of the Johnson
I lived in that county in my teen that keeps rural Iowa strong as tible to groupthink — they get the same County Board of Supervisors and Iowa
years. Fredericksburg, where I the state becomes even more ur- presentations from city staff and they are City Council have the exact same position
graduated from high school 50 ban in the future. overwhelmingly inclined to agree with as Glass. Fellow loyal Democrats have not
years ago, had 987 people in 2020, them. I worry that’s made worse in a par- been eager to criticize them for it. Some
up 56 from 2010. New Hampton, Lyle Muller is a former Gazette editor and tisanized environment.
longtime Iowa journalist who was IowaWatch’s values.
where I lived before Fredericks- executive director-editor until retiring in 2019. By exchanging political support, politi- However independent-minded the
burg, had 3,494 people in 2020, He is a board member for the Iowa Center cians are hitching their wagons together. candidates think they will be on council,
down 77 from 2010. for Public Affairs Journalism and continues They may be reluctant to speak out surely a loyalty pledge is bad for local
The first small Iowa town to report and write while advising student against their friends or to agree with their politics.
where I lived when young, Clay- journalists at Grinnell College and the
University of Iowa.
campaign foes. Partisans are known to “I’ve had prominent Democrats, in-
ton County’s Farmersburg, had protect their own. cluding elected ones, who have told me
271 people in 2020, down from 302 IowaWatch — The Iowa Center for Public I acknowledge, as Alter and Harmsen privately they are supportive of what I’m
in 2010. It had 250 people when my Affairs Journalism is a nonpartisan, nonprofit
news outlet that strives to be the state's pointed out, that the candidates’ personal doing but can’t do so publicly because of
family moved away in 1967. Clay- leading collaborative investigative news and political connections predate their fear of retribution,” Glass told me.
ton County’s population of 17,403 organization. Read more or support its mission recent runs for office. They’re just friends
in 2020 was down 1,086 people at iowawatch.org. backing friends. But maybe city govern- (319) 339-3156; adam.sullivan@thegazette.com
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BOOKS

15 adult books for teens moving up

By Karen MacPherson, Washington Post
As a longtime children’s
and teen librarian, often I
am asked when it’s time for
a reader to move up — for
instance, from picture books
to chapter books or from
middle-grade to young-adult
books. Lately, I’ve been talk-
ing to teens about what seems
like an even bigger step: from
young-adult to adult books.
It turns out (perhaps not sur-
prisingly) that many teens
have already made that leap.
Recently I asked a group of
teens what appealed to them
about adult books — in con-
trast to YA books — and got
some intriguing answers.
Though many teens said
that they liked young-adult
books, others felt that by age
14 or so, they had grown out of
them. One reader told me that
young-adult books were too
redundant of real life: We are
living in that world, he said, so
“we don’t need to read about
it.” Other teens said they like
to mix it up and read both
young adult and adult books.
“There’s a lot of romance
filler in YA,” one teen said. “I
kind of get bored with that. …
There’s more character devel-
opment in adult books.” Her
friend added: “In adult books,
there aren’t as many basic
tropes as YA books. It’s a little
bit more wide-ranging.”
Parents may worry that
adult books could be inap-
propriate for teens. Yet these
days, some YA books, espe-
cially those aimed at older
teens, often can hold their own
against adult books when it
comes to sex and violence. In
fact, some adult books — light
fiction or cozy mysteries —
actually may offer less sex or
violence than some YA books.
If parents still are con-
cerned over the appropriate-
ness of teens reading adult
books, one solution is to either
pre-read the book or read a
second copy alongside your
teen. It could even spark some
thoughtful conversations.
So, what are some good
adult reading possibilities
for teens? One great place to
start is the American Library
Association’s Alex Awards,
which are given annually to 10
books “written for adults that
have special appeal to young
adults, ages 12-18.” Those are
great choices, and here are
some more, a wide selection of
mystery, romance, non-fiction
and science fiction selected by
me and my colleagues Jessica
Jones and Dave Burbank, as
well as teens themselves:
LIBRARIAN
RECOMMENDATIONS
THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE
Sherlock Holmes meets his
match in the teenage Mary
Russell, in this story by Lau-
rie R. King. This is the first of his efforts to understand his
a long-running series and a
perfect next step for fans of the Obama’s book will engage
Enola Holmes books by Nancy teens in the midst of their own
Springer. Teens will especially self-discovery.
enjoy the battle of wills be-
tween Russell and Holmes.
BLANCHE ON THE LAM
In this first of a quartet of
books by Barbara Neely, a
Black housekeeper named
Blanche White becomes a
prime suspect when there’s
a murder in the house where
she’s working. Teens will find writing, the story’s setting and
interest in Neely’s exploration the memorable characters.
of the racism — both overt
and indirect — experienced by
Blanche even as they enjoy a
good mystery and Blanche’s
irrepressible personality.
DIAL ‘A’ FOR AUNTIES
Part caper, part rom-com,
this page-turner of a mystery
by Jesse Sutanto offers a
madcap plot, an irresistible
protagonist and a fascinating
look at Indonesian and Chi-
nese culture. Teens looking for THREE ORDINARY GIRLS
a new twist on mysteries will
welcome this lighthearted, of- about how a group of ordinary
ten hilarious page-turner.
DREAMS FROM MY FATHER
Former President Barack
Obama writes movingly of
identity as a biracial man.
THE FIFTH SEASON
In the first book in the
Hugo Award-winning Broken tive, imaginative retellings
Earth trilogy, N.K. Jemisin de- of the story of the goddess
scribes a mother’s search for
her daughter in the midst of
cataclysmic geological events. exciting to the young, modern
Teen fans of speculative fic-
tion will savor Jemisin’s fine
MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW author Augustus Everett
A haunting but hopeful
work of speculative fiction,
Waubgeshig Rice’s tale traces
the tale of a family in northern
Canada as it rebuilds follow-
ing the collapse of society.
Rice weaves his Anishinaabe
heritage into an absorbing,
unique story that will interest
teens fans of this genre.
NEUROMANCER
In this classic work of mod-
ern cyberpunk, a hacker faces
down a powerful artificial in-
telligence orbiting Earth. Wil-
liam Gibson’s visions of the
democratizing ability of com-
puters to dissolve geographi-
cal, economic and political
boundaries — here in a com-
mon hallucinatory graphic
interface called cyberspace —
will fascinate teens who love
speculative fiction.
PARABLE OF THE SOWER
In a world beset by climate
change and lawlessness, Lau-
ren Olamina was born with
the ability to feel others’ emo-
tions, especially their pain,
as her own. Although the
book was published in 1993,
teens will readily relate to the
themes of social injustice and
environmental calamity in
this book by Octavia Butler.
A true story by Tim Brady
teens helped the Dutch resis-
tance against the Nazis. The
book’s teenage protagonists
and their bravery will enthrall
young adults, who may find
themselves inspired to take up
their own causes.
TEEN RECOMMENDATIONS
ACHILLES
In these two books, Mad-
eline Miller delivers provoca-
Circe and of Homer’s the Iliad,
making them accessible and
reader.
BEACH READ
Romance writer January
Andrews and literary fiction
could not be more different.
So, they decide on a challenge:
January will try writing seri-
ous fiction while Augustus
will pen a rom-com novel.
Guess what happens? Teens
looking for an opposites-
attract romance will enjoy this
tale by Emily Henry.
CIRCE AND THE SONG OF
NORMAL PEOPLE
What starts as a secret re-
lationship between two young
adults becomes a painful yet
unbreakable connection that
determines their future. The
intense sexuality between
Marianne and Connell might
worry parents, but many teens
will find themselves drawn
to the emotionally-complex
dynamics between the charac-
ters by Sally Rooney.
THE KITE RUNNER
Set in Afghanistan, this
stirring story of an unlikely
bond between two young men,
Amir and Hassan, has become
a modern classic, and an es-
pecially important and timely
book, nearly two decades since
its publication. “The Kite Run-
ner” by Khaled Hosseini has
some tough moments, espe-
cially when bullies sets upon
Hassan, but teens will readily
relate to this poignant tale of
friendship and betrayal.
RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE
In this deliciously escapist
novel, Alex Claremont-Diaz,
the charismatic son of the first
female U.S. president, gets to-
gether with Henry, the Prince
of Wales — and sexual fire-
works ensue. Teens will enjoy
the sometimes rowdy humor
as well as Casey McQuiston’s
gift for witty dialogue.
THE SEVEN HUSBANDS
OF EVELYN HUGO
When reclusive film star
Evelyn Hugo chooses little-
known magazine writer Mo-
nique Grant to finally tell
her life story, everyone is
surprised, including Monique.
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book
is a page-turner, with plenty
of well-drawn characters and
sex.

REVIEW | ‘VOICES FROM THE PANDEMIC’

Journalist chronicles a year like no other

By Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times as well. Darlene Krawetz of Syracuse,
N.Y., is a 52-year-old nurse who con-

‘V
oices from the Pandemic” is
an eerie reading experience:
It seems both painfully im-
mediate and an account of a past we’ve
already started to forget.
The book’s 27 interviews with a
wide range of Americans were con-
ducted during the first year of the
coronavirus epidemic, from January
2020, when it seemed little more than a
rumor, to January of this year, as vac-
cines were rolled out and hope seemed
possible despite more than half a mil-
lion deaths.
The interviews are drawn from a
series of articles that journalist Eli
Saslow wrote for the Washington Post
during that year. The series earned
him the 2020 George Polk award for
oral history.
Saslow’s last book, “Rising Out of
Hatred,” won the 2019 Dayton Literary
Peace Prize for its recounting of the
story of Derek Black, a young white
supremacist leader whose life was dra-
matically changed when he attended
New College in Sarasota, Fla. Saslow,
a longtime Post reporter, won the Pu-
litzer Prize for explanatory reporting
in 2014 and has been a Pulitzer finalist
several times.
“Voices from the Pandemic” is a di-
verse chorus: first responders, medical
professionals, government employees,
nursing home residents, business own-
ers, coronavirus survivors and the
families of those who don’t survive.
If there’s an overarching theme in
these interviews, it’s that the pandem-
ic has brought out the best in many
Americans and the worst in others.
One of the heroes Saslow interviews
is Burnell Cotlon, a New Orleans man
who opened a neighborhood market
in the Lower Ninth Ward to help the
community recover from the devasta-
tion of Hurricane Katrina. When the
pandemic hit, Cotlon’s customers were
among the first to lose their jobs. Even
though he operated on a shoestring
himself, he began giving them grocer-
ies on credit for the first time: “I’ve got
sixty-two tabs in the book now. From
A cyclist rides his bicycle down the middle of a main road March 22, 2020, in downtown New York.
That day, New York City’s mayor was preparing to order his city behind closed doors in an attempt to
slow a pandemic. (Associated Press)
zero to sixty-two in less than a month.”
And he does much more.
Another is New York City paramed-
ic Anthony Almojera. He talks about
his shockingly poorly paid co-workers:
“There are EMTs on my team who’ve
been pulling double shifts in a pan-
demic and performing life support for
sixteen hours, and then they go home
and they have to drive Uber
to pay their rent.” He’s pull-
ing those shifts too, and then
trying to help suicidal col-
leagues. “Heroes, right? The
anger is blinding.”
Saslow talks to doctors
and nurses about their
nightmarish experiences: A
Chicago doctor who is work-
ing six nights a week, 14
hours a night, doing nothing
but intubating patients. An
emergency nurse who nor-
mally oversees four patients
trying to handle two dozen, all of them
critically ill. An ER nursing manager
who talks about patients sitting in the
waiting room for a full day after ad-
mission because that chair is the only
place left to put them.
Some of the interview subjects are
people whose jobs bring them into con-
flict with anti-maskers and conspiracy
theorists of various stripes. Lori Wag-
oner is a retail clerk in North Carolina
who is menaced so viciously when she
asks customers to wear masks that the
store’s owners begin locking the doors
during business hours, and
she keeps pepper spray at
the register.
Amber Elliot is a county
health director in Missouri
who is blindsided by the
hostility of people who rage
against her at meetings and
on social media. “It’s true,”
she says. “I do have an agen-
da. I want disease transmis-
sion to go down. I want to
keep this community safe.
I want fewer people to die.”
Her county is a COVID-19
hot spot at the time of the interview,
but she’s so disturbed by people fol-
lowing her children and making death
threats against her that she resigns.
Saslow talks to coronavirus patients
tracts COVID-19 and tells him about
her overwhelming symptoms in care-
ful detail. After she dies, Saslow inter-
views her son and daughter.
Another subject, Kaitlin Denis,
survives the coronavirus but is inter-
viewed nine months later, when she’s
still suffering “long COVID.” When
she caught the virus, she was 30, a new
bride, an “insanely healthy” runner
with a high-powered job in finance.
Now she suffers such severe fatigue,
brain fog and other symptoms that she
can’t work and gets winded from tak-
ing a shower.
“A few months ago,” she says, “I
was making million-dollar trades and
traveling all over the country. Now I
draw little scarecrows and tape them
up on the wall.”
Florida makes several appearances
in the book. Roger Desjarlais, county
manager in Lee County, talks about
the disastrous bumbling of the initial
vaccine rollout in December 2020,
when the federal government handed
it off to the states and Florida in turn
dropped it on the unprepared counties.
Fort Myers resident Marlene Roehm
talks about she and her husband
making 248 calls to the vaccine ap-
pointment hotline before they “hit the
jackpot.”
Johnny Rivero of Brandon, Fla.,
whom Saslow interviewed in May 2020
as he stood in line at a food bank, is a
Coast Guard vet who’s never needed
assistance before, but the long-lasting
breakdown of Florida’s unemployment
system in the first part of the pandem-
ic leaves him desperate.
“Voices from the Pandemic” ends
with some voices of hope: a virologist
who consulted on the development of
vaccines, a nursing home resident who
celebrates finally getting a shot.
That was in January, before the
delta variant and the anti-vaxxers.
Saslow has done a sterling job of cap-
turing real people’s experiences of the
start of the pandemic. It’s going to be
interesting to read the chronicles of
the second year.
6D The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021

BOOKS
NATIONAL REVIEW | ‘TASTE: MY LIFE THROUGH FOOD’

Stanley Tucci opens his recipe book

BESTSELLERS
FICTION
1. “The Lincoln
Highway” Towles
2. “The Wish” Sparks
3. “Cloud Cuckoo By Jennifer Reese, the coq au vin he ate on food is what gives Tucci’s Manhattan eateries that Since 2012, Tucci has
Land” Doerr Washington Post his first date with his book its sweetness. He sustained him as a strug- been gradually moving
4. “Crossroads” first wife, Kate (who died writes of his family’s gling young actor, places food to the center of his

I
Franzen f you’re looking for of breast cancer in 2009), rituals with tenderness, like Big Nick’s, which professional life. He’s
5. “The Butler” Steel detail on the career magnificent breakfasts from the Christmas tim- sold “enormous, greasy, written two cookbooks
6. “Apples Never Fall” of the great character on German film sets pano (a mighty pastry bloody burgers on plump and earlier this year won
Moriarty actor Stanley Tucci, you (“Someone please em- drum stuffed with ziti, buns.” There will always an Emmy for his TV se-
7. “The Jailhouse should probably pass on ploy me there again”) salami, cheese, eggs and be a place in his heart ries “In Search of Italy,”
Lawyer” Patterson/ his lovely new memoir and how he is passing meatballs) to the epic In- for the Carnegie Deli, a tantalizing tour of the
Allen “Taste: My Life Through family culinary tradi- dependence Day picnics where towering pastrami country’s distinctive
8. “Billy Summers” Food.” Nowhere in its tions onto his children, at which guests played sandwiches nourished regional cuisines. But in
King 300 witty pages will you one salami sandwich at bocce, sang body and soul the darkest of ironies, in
9. “The Last Thing He learn what inspired a time. “Yankee Doo- “when you the book’s penultimate
Told Me” Dave Tucci to become an ac- And what rich tradi- dle,” drank jug popped in late chapter, Tucci reveals
10. “Harlem Shuffle” tor or how it felt to wear tions they are. Tucci wine and feast- at night after a that in 2017 he was di-
Whitehead a lavender bouffant wig grew up in semirural ed on sausages few too many agnosed with salivary
in “The Hunger Games” Westchester County, and peppers. at a cheap gland cancer. The grue-
NON-FICTION or to kiss Colin Firth in N.Y., where he once Of his mother, downtown bar, some treatment didn’t
1. “The Storyteller” “Supernova.” found his immigrant Ital- Tucci writes, en route to the just nauseate him, it also
Grohl At age 60, “edging ian grandmother skin- “I can honestly one-bedroom made even water burn
2. “Peril” Woodward/ toward the mid-to-late ning a squirrel on the say that on the apartment his mouth “like battery
Costa autumn” of his years, porch. Bottles of tomato four-burner you thought acid.” For six months, he
3. “I’ll Take Your Tucci finds that food sauce, simmered over an electric stove you’d be liv- poured his food directly
Questions Now” — specifically, the way open fire and strained she used ing in for the into his stomach via a
Grisham food connects him to the through a pillowcase, throughout rest of your feeding tube. Happily,
4. “Taste: My Life people he loves — means lined the shelves of the my childhood life if some- Tucci is once again able
Through Food” Tucci more to him than show damp basement where and on the gas hob that one didn’t give you a job to savor favorite dishes
5. “Where Do We Go business. A handful of his grandfather made replaced it many years soon.” that he lists on a page to-
from Here?” Jeremiah celebrity co-stars make cloudy purple wine. later, she has never Apparently, someone ward the end of the book,
6. “Feeding the Soul cameos in “Taste,” but “Was it the best wine in cooked a bad meal. Not gave him a job fairly from “chili con carne
(Because It’s My only because they hap- the world?” Tucci asks. once.” The book includes soon because within a (extremely mild!)” to “a
Business)” Brown pened to be sitting across “No. Was it the worst? a handful of recipes, in- few chapters Tucci is fried egg on a very thin
7. “American Marxism” from him at a memorable Very close. Did it mat- cluding the meaty Tucci supping at glamorous toasted bagel.” Reading
Levin meal. This book focuses ter? No. It was part of my family ragu that I am restaurants in far-flung this book will make you
8. “Jesus Listens” on Tucci’s more intimate grandfather, whom we eager to try. locales like Vancouver, more attentive to the glo-
Young food experiences: the adored, and that made it Tucci adores restau- Normandy and Reykja- rious food on your table,
9. “Vanderbilt” Cooper/ eggplant parm hoagies the sweetest liquid ever rants almost as much as vik. Even when the food and to the people with
Howe his mother packed in his to pass our lips.” home cooking. He loving- isn’t fabulous it makes a whom you are privileged
10. “The Dying Citizen” childhood lunchboxes, This fusion of love and ly describes the defunct good story. to share it.
Hanson

Publishers Weekly REVIEW | ‘CARRY ON: REFLECTIONS FOR A NEW GENERATION’

LOCAL
BESTSELLERS
John Lewis’ final meditations on activism
FICTION/NON-FICTION By Peniel E. Joseph, Washington Post farm boy born near Troy, Ala., Aug. 28, 1963, March on Wash- he imbibed at the feet of King
in 1940, who preached to chick- ington. “Carry On” is at its best and the mentoring he received

‘C
1. “Once and Future arry On: Reflections ens as a child, came a long way when Lewis casually discusses from countless Black women
Witches” Harrow for a New Generation” from his modest beginnings. A the intricacies behind this his- and men in the movement.
2. “Lincoln Highway” is a small, powerful letter written to Martin Luther tory, including parts of his Lewis’ very presence was a
Towles and deeply observed King Jr. while Lewis speech that were censored by reminder of both the distance
3. “Dune” Herbert book of rumina- was in high school be- concerned allies who thought traveled since the Jim Crow
4. “Cloud Cuckoo tions written by gan a friendship that his words were too incendiary. regime placed a stranglehold on
Land” Doerr John Lewis, the civil would change both “I believed in nonviolence, and American democracy and the
5. “A Solitude of rights activist turned men’s lives. I didn’t need to use that imag- journey that remained in the
Wolverines” Henderson congressman who Lewis joined the ery,” he concedes. age of Black Lives Matter.
6. “State of Terror” died last year at the civil rights struggle Black Lives Matter demon- He found a renewed spirit of
Penny/Clinton height of the national as a Freedom Rider strations in 2020; the police kill- activism in the age of Trump
7. “Out of Love” Hayes political and racial and endured a brutal ings of Floyd, Breonna Taylor and became a north star for
8. “The Wish” Sparks turmoil unleashed in beating outside a bus and other Black Americans; multiple generations of grass-
9. “I’ll Take Your the wake of George station in Anniston, and the national thirst for a new roots activists who found hope
Questions Now” Floyd’s murder. Ala., on May 14, 1961. beginning serve as through- in his story.
Grisham At 80, Lewis had His courage, tenacity lines for Lewis’s reflections on “Carry On” represents a final
10. “The Light in long crossed over and humility became activism, spirituality, courage, literary gift to a new generation
Hidden Places” into the category of hallmarks. As chairman of the politics and love. Gravely ill of activists who have taken the
Cameron living legend. Humble, kind, Student Nonviolent Coordinat- with the cancer that would take responsibility to move America
Barnes & Noble, Cedar authentic and passionately ing Committee, Lewis was the his life, Lewis remained a hope- closer to the Beloved Commu-
Rapids committed to social justice, the youngest keynote speaker at the ful optimist, steadfast in lessons nity.

THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD

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Catholic church August, unlike the 36 Northern California
official 81 Pan-fries other months of town once home
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silence ____ Bakery
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 Sunday, October 17, 2021 ● The Gazette 7D

OUTDOORS
DEER FARMS FISHING REPORT
This weekly fishing
report is compiled from
information gathered from
local bait shops, angler
creel surveys and county
and state parks staff. You
can check the activity of
your favorite lake or stretch
of river within each district,
including which species are
being caught, a rating of
the bite (slow, fair, good or
excellent), as well as a hot
bait or lure pattern.

CEDAR RIVER
Water levels are low
above Nashua, but relatively
stable. Use caution when
boating. Clarity is good.
Channel catfish are “good.”
Chubs and crawlers fished
on bottom under a bobber
work well. Two to three
pound catfish are common.
Anglers are doing well
on smallmouth bass and
walleye from Nashua to
La Porte City. Walleye
Two deer run through a farm field in this file photo. Minnesota is cracking down on deer farms to halt the spread of chronic wasting disease. (Associated Press) are “excellent.” Try a jig

Halting captive
and plastic tipped with
half a crawler or casting
crankbaits.

DECORAH
DISTRICT STREAMS
Clarity is good to

deer movement
excellent on most streams.
Trout anglers using any kind
of lightweight rods and reels
with spinnerbaits or a hook
tipped with small piece of
crawler, cheese or dough
can be just as successful as
fly anglers.
Deer farms may be The concern about Minnesota deer farms that the disease has ever been
found.
Brook and brown trout are
“good.” Hoppers, beetles
spreading CWD was heightened earlier this year when The Beltrami farm had pur- and anything that looks
chased deer from an infected buggy work well this time of
researchers detected chronic wasting farm in Winona County. Most year on brownies. Rainbow
By Tony Kennedy, Minneapolis Star Tribune
disease on a Beltrami County deer farm, alarming was evidence that
dead, infected deer from the
trout are “excellent.” Use
hair jigs, spinnerbaits
Minnesota Natural Re- the farthest north in the state that the Beltrami farm were dumped or small shallow water
sources Commissioner Sarah illegally on nearby public land crankbaits for aggressive
Strommen has stepped up her disease has ever been found. that has since been fenced off fish.
campaign to protect wild deer by taxpayers as a biohazard to Area river levels are
against the spread of chronic last as long as 15 months, up to “It’s going to take a while wild deer. University of Min- stabilizing and clear due to
wasting disease (CWD) by once a year longer than the previous to get this work done,” Meier nesota researchers have found minimal rainfall. For current
again halting the movement of two movement bans combined. said. loads of CWD contagions there, fishing information, call the
captive deer among deer farms. The action comes as the Tim Spreck, a lobbyist for on the ground. Chuck Gipp Decorah Fish
Her third emergency action DNR investigates CWD’s the Minnesota Deer Farmers “This disease poses a clear, Hatchery, (563) 382-8324.
against deer farms has the po- known spread in Minnesota Association (MDFA), did not immediate and serious threat
tential to last much longer than and possible other exposures. comment. Previously, the as- to Minnesota’s wild deer, and UPPER IOWA RIVER
the previous two, and it arrived Meier said pausing the trade sociation has strongly objected these actions reflect what’s
five days after she put the Min- of captive deer will allow time to the bans, filing lawsuits in at stake,” Strommen said in a Water levels are
nesota Board of Animal Health for investigators from Wiscon- both cases. news release. stabilizing with elevated
on notice that the DNR won’t sin, Minnesota and the U.S. “We are still processing the The Minnesota Legislature flows. Clarity is good to
hesitate to exercise its new au- Department of Agriculture to current order, and I have not this year gave DNR shared excellent. Use caution when
thority over the industry. unravel the “spiderwebbing” of had a chance to discuss its authority over the state’s 253 paddling. Smallmouth bass
In Minnesota and elsewhere, CWD transmission set in mo- implications with the MDFA captive deer herds, encroach- are “good.” Try spinnerbaits
scientists have traced the geo- tion by a Wisconsin farm. The Board,” Spreck said. ing on governance previously or jigs tipped with plastics
graphic spread of CWD to the operator shipped 387 farmed A phone call and email made dominated by the Board of Ani- along rock ledges, seams
commercial trade of infected, deer to farms in seven states, directly to the deer farmers as- mal Health. and eddies.
farmed deer. including five to three farms sociation were not answered. The movement ban takes
Assistant DNR Commission- in Minnesota. DNR Fish and The concern about Min- place at a time when breeders MAQUOKETA RIVER
er Bob Meier told reporters last Wildlife Division Director Dave nesota deer farms was height- of genetically modified, big- Anglers are catching
week the latest ban against the Olfelt said it’s possible more of ened earlier this year when antlered bucks often sell their smallmouth bass and
intrastate movement of farmed the suspected animals landed researchers detected CWD on animals to other deer farmers walleye. River levels have
deer and the ban against im- in Minnesota via resales from a Beltrami County deer farm, who promote fenced-in hunts bumped up with recent
ports from out of state could farms in other states. the farthest north in the state for trophy seekers. rainfall. Walleye are “fair.”
Use a jig and plastic tipped
with half a crawler or cast
crankbaits.
COMMENTARY

Pheasants Forever still boosting conservation efforts

MANCHESTER
DISTRICT STREAMS
Area streams remain
By Dennis Anderson, CEO, Bue joined PF and QF in excellent conditions,
Minneapolis Star Tribune in 2006 to expand its strategic providing many angling
partnerships with companies opportunities for rainbow
If you’re tramping a Minne- like Nestle Purina Petcare Co. and brown trout.
sota wildlife management area (“Purina.”) Interior rivers may likely
(WMA) looking for pheasants Long an advertiser in the bump up with recent rainfall.
on the season’s first weekend, conservation groups’ maga- Conditions remain favorable
or following your dog on an- zines and supporter of their and are providing great
other piece of public ground or annual PheasantFest, Purina angling opportunities. Fishing
perhaps on private property, has expanded its partnership should improve during
you might or might not find a with PF and QF to include an autumn. Reports of good
limit of birds. emphasis on climate resiliency walleye and smallmouth
Regardless, take comfort in and supply sustainability. bass fishing on the interior
knowing a lot of people, some The effort culminated re- rivers.
of whom perhaps couldn’t iden- cently with a $1 million dona- Call the Manchester
tify a rooster ringneck from tion by Purina to PF and QF to Hatchery, (563) 927-3276,
a hen, are working to ensure improve soil health and con- for more information.
habitats supporting pheasants serve strategic wildlife lands in
and other upland wildlife — the Dakotas. MISSISSIPPI RIVER
grasslands especially — will be Pheasants Forever has more on its plate than pheasants. (Minneapolis Star “The prairie pothole region Upper Mississippi River
present on the American land- Tribune) is a special area for conserva- levels remain stable. Check
scape for a long time to come. tion and for farming,” said boat ramp conditions before
That’s the picture that groups, PF and QF took a hunter-members it attracts. Joe Sivewright, Purina CEO, you go; water levels are low.
emerges from an evolving financial hit during the pan- Now employing some 280 announcing the grant. “This Pool 9 — Yellow Perch
Pheasants Forever, the Minne- demic when the groups’ more wildlife biologists — second in partnership will find ways to are “excellent.” The bite is
sota-based conservation group than 700 chapters were forced number nationally only to the enhance both so that native picking up with some sorting
that since 1982 has organized to cancel their fundraising ban- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plants and cherished wildlife needed for larger fish. Drift
hunters — its “orange army” quets. As a result, their com- — PF and QF are leveraging can flourish alongside healthy hair jigs with a piece of
— to advocate for better and bined membership dropped significant new government ingredients like those used crawler in 6 to 8 feet of
more intensified conservation about 22,000 from its pre-pan- and corporate funds to multi- in Purina’s complete and bal- water.
on state, federal and private demic mark of 143,000. ply their conservation reach. anced formulas.”
lands. More positively, the groups’ “More and more Fortune 500 Given climate change’s Pool 10 — Smallmouth
The primary intent always leaders say, its unaffiliated companies, and even Fortune possible effects on natural re- bass are “excellent.” Use
has been to increase pheasant membership is at an all-time 100 companies, are develop- sources, including soil health spinners or crankbaits fished
numbers and boost pheasant high and membership is expect- ing ways, or want to develop and water availability, compa- in main channel rock piles
hunting prospects, twin goals ed to rebound as chapters begin ways, to reach sustainability nies like Purina that depend along the tips of islands.
that were broadened nation- again to hold fundraisers. goals,” said David Bue, PF and on uninterrupted shipments of Pool 11 — White bass
ally in 2005 when PF formed a Yet the transformation in QF chief development officer. grains and other crops increas- are “good.” Cast inline
companion organization, Quail recent years of PF and QF that “They need partners to do that ingly realize their bottom lines spinners in areas of current.
Forever (QF). has occurred, and is occurring, and we’re filling that role.” depend on sustainable supply Look for schools of white
Like other conservation extends beyond the number of A former regional bank chains. bass feeding on minnows.
8D The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021

LEISURE
THE NATURE CALL

John Lawrence Hanson’s kayak rests at the Painted Rocks landing. (John Lawrence Hanson/correspondent)

A day on the river

A quiet trip down Maquoketa was just what was needed
By John Lawrence Hanson, correspondent

C
ompared to what?
My friend and pad-
dling companion told
me about the upstream
river gauge. It was in
Manchester, we were going to pad-
dle starting at Monticello.
On Saturday noon that gauge
read 111 cubic feet per sec (cfs). I
didn’t know what that meant. He re-
lated it meant the river was pretty
low. As in, be prepared to get out
and drag the boats.
Cool water be darned, I planned
to wear my river sandals accord-
ingly.
You know our rivers run year-
round. But how often do people
interact with our rivers after Labor
Day besides just looking at them?
Our interior rivers generally
flow from the northwest to the
southeast. Many of them drain our
magnificent yet degraded “Prairie
Pothole Region.” The Maquoketa
doesn’t drain the Prairie Pothole
Region from the last glacier, but an
area to its east from a much more
ancient ice sheet.
The stretch from the Mon-Maq
dam in Monticello to the Painted
Rocks landing is a popular summer
float. On a given summer weekend
hundreds of canoes, kayaks, and
even tubes, put in for the almost
8-mile lubricated gravity ride.
That’s not my scene. I wanted an
empty river.
About 11:30 Sunday morning,
I managed to plop into the kayak
with only getting one foot wet.
Brian launched his one-man canoe
and kept both his feet dry. That is
all you need to know about the gulf
between his skill level and mine.
With one wet foot and one dry,
I took notice of the launch site. It
too was a study in contrasts. The
gust and sound of water over the
dam contrasted with the smooth
and gently flowing water taking
us downstream. And then we were
away and I heard the dam no more.
Would we see anyone else on the
river? Would I get a full baptism
treatment this Sunday? The former
question was trifling, the latter was
realistic — my life jacket was fas-
tened accordingly.
The Maquoketa River can be a popular place in the summer. But in the fall, after Labor Day, it can be serene. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
I later learned the Manchester
gauge that day was 109 cfs. Two
fewer cfs is the difference of about
13 gallons. Maybe that doesn’t seem
like much, but a faucet that puts out
just that volume would make short
work of filling the bathtub.
The Maquoketa has a sister
river, the Wapsipinicon. It parallels
the Maquoketa and seems similar
in so many ways. On the same day,
the Wapsi was flowing at 245 cfs ac-
cording to the Independence gauge,
a difference of 225 percent.
Compared to what? Well, here
was my answer.
The flows for both rivers were in
the normal range for October, de-
spite the drought. The Cedar River
by comparison was flowing at 1,640
cfs by way of the 5-in-1 Dam gauge.
Compared to the Red Cedar, the
Maquoketa was just a stream. But
a stream with enough water to float
a kayak and soak a Continental
Marine.
Birds were the active feature:
shorebirds, wood ducks, eagles and
vultures abounded. And just when
they thought they had the place to
themselves.
I thought the kingfishers stole
the show. They are flamboyant
birds in dress, dance and voice. I
counted 10 but then stopped keep-
ing track because I ran out of
fingers. I suppose I could have em-
ployed my toes. But my feet were
deep in a kayak and I was deter-
mined to keep them there and dry
as they had become.
Paddle, pay attention, watch my
line, repeat, became my unspoken
mantra.
The river was quiet; it flowed
lazily. Calm winds made it easy to
hear all the nothing I so coveted.
I anticipated noise from farm ma-
chinery harvesting nearby fields,
there was none. No modern sounds
at all save a moment when a small
airplane passed at a distance.
The river felt so real and authen-
tic instead of the backdrop for sum-
mer carnivals. Serene.
And then it happened. The
weight of my backside pressed the
kayak’s bottom into a rifle from
whom the now insufficient draft
became an immovable impediment.
I was stuck.
Efforts to push a little with my
hands and “sit light” were futile
and undignified. Brian glided by.
With two wet feet I was back go-
ing with the flow. I chalked that up
to hopefully the only unplanned
exit of the kayak I needed.
At 12:44, a chipmunk passed in
front of my bow as it swam from
bank to bank. Compared to me, that
chipmunk was crossing a mighty
and vast river.
We neared the Painted Rocks
area and the depth of the forest
grew. Now and then an especially
large tree stood out among the sec-
ond and third growth. In particular
one was a sycamore, another was a
cottonwood.
The high palisades of ancient
coral reefs were just gaining more
visibility from their screen of trees,
some leaves had fallen, some had
turned colors. In another week or
two, I’m sure it’d be even prettier.
At 1:46, I rewet one foot and then
stood on the landing. It was glorious
all the same. The sun was overtak-
ing the clouds, the clear water had
been a gentle transport, and a good
paddling companion made memo-
ries to share.
I suppose a lot of people have a
glorious experience in the summer.
But you need to try the river at both
times or you might be left asking
about the quality of your experi-
ence — “compared to what?”
Looking up, looking ahead, and
keeping my pencil sharp.
John Lawrence Hanson, Ed.D., of Marion teaches
U.S. history with an emphasis on environmental
issues at Linn-Mar High School and sits on the
Linn County Conservation Board
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HOME+GARDEN
●

Movin’ on up
When deciding which rooms to tackle first, choose the rooms you use the most, like the living room. (Dreamstime photos/TNS)

How to furnish, fill and decorate your new, larger home

By Jura Koncius, Washington Post

Y
ou just bought your
first home.
Now what?
Upsizing from a
small apartment to
a two- or three-bedroom row
house or bungalow is an excit-
ing move.
But after closing, you might
go into a bit of a panic when
you have to make decisions
about furnishing and decorat-
ing the place. You probably al-
ready own the basics, but their
scale may be off — or you may
be sick of that hand-me-down
chintz sofa that you’ve hauled
around since college. Take
your time, though. Designers
say there’s no reason to dump Some designers say painting all the
everything right away and rooms a light neutral or white will
rush to buy items simply to fill make your home feel light and airy.
up space.
“You can’t just offload your

Q: Where
furniture because you want Upsizing from a small apartment to a two- or three-bedroom bungalow is an exciting move. But it also means making do I begin?

A: tape measure.
all new things,” says Jessica decisions about furnishings and how to decorate the place. First, pull out a
Davis, owner of JL Design
in Nashville. Even if you did be overwhelming to go from ment, think about furnishings Measure all the rooms in
have the budget, there are of- a small apartment to a larger as an investment, too.” your new home, as well as
ten complications and delays home. Begin by thinking about We asked Davis, Low, Hay large pieces you already own,
when ordering furniture, es- the purpose of each room, and Risdon to share their best such as your sofa and beds.
pecially during the pandemic, she says, to help guide your design tricks for first-time Keep all this information,
with delivery times often run- choices. homeowners, with an eye to- including your floor plans,
ning six months or more. “So And don’t just rush to a big- ward budget. Here are their in your phone, so you can
you have to live with your old box store and buy everything answers to some common reference it quickly while
stuff a bit longer. You can’t on your list, says Toronto questions. shopping. Risdon says spaces

Q:
move in with nothing,” Davis designer Rebecca Hay. Think What should I get rid of should evolve, but you need
says. Consider replacing your full-size bed sustainably and reuse what before moving? an initial strategy to begin.
with a king, if you have the room. The you can. Whatever you do buy,
A:
“Often, when people move, Take a good, hard look “Create a plan for how furni-
they tell me, ‘It’s a differ- full-size bed can go into the guest ture should be laid out, along
make sure it’s the best quality at your furniture, bed-
ent place and different vibe, room. with color schemes,” he says.
you can afford. Washington ding and accessories, and
and I want something new,’ ” designer Byron Risdon says donate or toss anything torn, Execute that plan as time and
says Shaolin Low, an interior should go through what they that, “since this is the first worn or not often used, as well budget permits. Don’t rush to
designer at Studio Shaolin have and figure out if they time you are buying a home as anything you bought as a
in Honolulu. “But first, they still love it.” Low says it can and making this sort of invest- temporary fix. ; UPSIZING, PAGE 2E

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CURB APPEAL
How to pick the
right color, style
for a front door
By Marissa Hermanson,
Washington Post
Washington-based
designer Annie Elliott
knows all about first
impressions. It’s an im-
portant part of her job,
dressing interiors so
homes properly reflect
the residents. And the
designer says the exte-
rior of the home is just
as important. Neighbors,
passersby, the gen-
eral public: They all can
make judgments based
on the condition of your
home’s exterior.
Curb appeal sets the
tone for your home, and
the entryway helps to es-
tablish the mood, consid-
ering it’s the focal point
of your exterior. Door
style, paint color, hard-
ware and decorations all
work together to create
an overall scene.
Here, Elliott shares
her rules for creating a
beautiful entryway, with
a focus on the front door.
This interview has
been edited for length
and clarity.
Q: What can the front
door convey about
a home’s residents?
A: It reflects the
personality of the
people who live there. It
telegraphs to the world
who you are and what
your priorities are.
You may have a very
traditional white Colo-
nial house with black
shutters. It’s safe to paint
the front door black or
navy blue. That says a
lot of things about the
owner: “I’m just playing
it safe. This is a classic
house. I respect tradi-
tion.” If you paint it pink
or bright orange, that
says other things, like:
“I’m going to have a little
fun,” or, “I think there’s
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finish it.
Q: Which room should
I tackle first?
A: “Focus on the
rooms you use the
most,” Risdon says. “The
bedroom is very impor-
tant. It should be a sort of
safe haven and place of
respite.”
Low suggests going to
a retailer, such as Macy’s
or Bed Bath & Beyond,
where you can get your
basic bedding and mat-
tress pad in one stop. A
plain white comforter is
a good place to start.
Your upsized home
probably has two or
three bedrooms. If there
are one or two people
living in the house, one
room is usually the
primary bedroom, the
second is the guest room
or office, and the third
can be used for storage,
an office, craft space or a
workout room. If you are
hoping to start a family,
a pullout couch may be
a good purchase for the
smallest bedroom. (You
can add a crib later.)
Q: Should I worry
about paint colors?
A: With more rooms
to think about, you
might be uncertain about
paint color choices. Now
you have to think about
how colors work togeth-
er. Some designers say
painting all the rooms
a light neutral or white
will make your home feel
light and airy. Later, you
can go bolder with paint
or choose a statement
wallpaper for some of
The style and color of your front
Journal Sentinel/TNS)
more than one way to be
classic.” Those are just
different interpretations.
Q: How do you choose
a paint color for
the front door?
A: Choosing a comple-
mentary color for
(Dreamstime photos/TNS)
You probably already own the basics to decorate a new, larger home, but their scale may be off. says.
your spaces.
Low suggests an off-
white, such as Swiss
Coffee, Alabaster or
Simply White, all by
Benjamin Moore. “Look
at the paint with lots of
natural lighting,” she
says, to make sure it’s a
good fit for your space.
If you have white up-
holstery, though, Low
says, you might want to
rethink the white walls.
“A solid white wall will
look dingy if you have
white furniture. One will surface that can be
always look dirtier than tucked into a corner of a
the other,” she says.
Davis often uses High an end table, a table at
Reflective White by
Sherwin-Williams. “It
adapts to any other color Risdon says. “Put a lamp to upsize your full- or
you put in the room,” she on it and some family
says. Hay recommends
Benjamin Moore’s Cloud life.” You can also give it may have only had room
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door says a lot about you, says designer Annie Elliott. (Milwaukee If they are painted dark,
your front door always
works. (Complementary green is across from
colors are across from
each other on the color
wheel.) So if you have a
brick house, you can’t
go wrong with a blue
or green door. (Blue
Cover, a warm greige, as a fresh look by painting
a good backdrop for art
and furniture.
Q: What do I do with
my dining table?
A: Moving from
an apartment
to a small home often
includes more dining
space. But the small ta-
ble you have been using
might come in handy for can’t find a place for it
another room, so don’t
give yours away.
A smaller table is a
great work-from-home
room. “You can use it as tress quality and/or size?
the back of a sofa, or also
as an entry hall table,”
photos to give it new
is across from orange,
red.) If you have a yellow trim color of the house, it
house, a violet front door accentuates the pattern.
would look nice.
Houses are painted a
million colors. In gen-
eral, people are pretty
for a full-size mattress.
“A double bed can look
like a toddler bed in a
town house bedroom
— just too small for the
scale of the room,” Hay
ents to get a king-size bed
if their primary bedroom
or staining it. dimensions will support
If your new home has it.
a formal dining space
and you aren’t planning one day have dogs, cats
to host sit-down holiday or kids trying to squeeze
dinners for 12, put your themselves into bed with
small table in there, and you. She says you need a
turn the dining room
into an office.
If all else fails and you
in your new home, post
your table on Facebook
Marketplace or a neigh-
borhood group.
Q:
Is this the time to
upgrade my mat-
A:
Yes. Moving to
larger quarters is
the perfect opportunity
queen-size mattress.
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conservative about their
house colors. It’s a big
investment and decision.
If your house is white or
light gray, you can do
any color you want.
The one color I don’t
like for a front door is
white. It looks unfin-
ished. You would never
have white shutters
against a white house.
Q:
Are there color
rules for the storm
door, too?
A:
This is driven by
practicality for me.
If your screen or storm
door is made of wood, I
suggest painting it the
same color as the main
door. That helps de-
emphasize the outer door
and keeps the color front
and center.
If you have a metal
outer door, though, those
are tricky to paint, so I
think it’s fine to leave
them metal. Ideally,
you’ll have white or sil-
ver if your front door is
a light color and black if
the door color is darker.
You want the outdoor
door to be as inconspicu-
ous as possible.
Q: Should the side-
lights be painted,
or just the door?
A: People do it both
ways. I usually
say, in the interior de-
sign world, there is more
than one right answer.
Usually that is true, but
in the case of sidelights, I
strongly believe the side-
lights should be painted
the color of the house
trim, especially if the
trim is white.
Transoms (or win-
dows) over the top of the
door, they are detailed
and pretty and intricate.
you can’t see the detail.
By painting the transom
and sidelights a light col-
or, matching them to the
Then it leaves the color
to the door. It makes the
door itself truly special.
It looks goofy if you
When deciding which rooms
to tackle first, consider the
bedroom because it should
be a safe haven and place of
respite.
Davis advises her cli-
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paint all the woodwork
around the door red and
then the woodwork on
the other parts of the
house is white. It looks
careless. But if I only
paint the door, and I love
that color and I want to
use more of that color,
in that case, if you have
shutters, you can match
the shutters to the door.
Q:
Are there excep-
tions to this rule?
A:
Rules are made to
be broken. There
are two exceptions. If
your door is a stained
wood and the sidelights
are all stained wood,
then that looks fine. It’s
all one piece. It’s also OK
to have painted sidelights
with a stained front door.
The other exception is
ironwork. If you have
ironwork around your
door, both the ironwork
and the door can be high-
gloss black. Sometimes
the door itself is iron
with glass behind. Only
black, no other color!
Q:
How do you pick
a front door style
that echoes the architec-
tural style of the house?
Or does door style not
matter?
A: I think it matters a
lot. Any multi-pan-
eled door, like a six-panel
door, that’s a very classic
door. Traditional styles
are best for traditional
houses.
And when you get
into modern houses, you
need a slab door with
no detail at all. It could
have a window, but only
something very simple
and plain.
Q: How do you select
the right door
hardware?
A: You don’t think
about hardware
until you have to replace
it. Chances are, if your
house is super modern,
your hardware is going
to be some tone of silver.
I prefer nickel. But if
your house is contempo-
rary, you might go with
brushed steel.
minimum of a 12-by-15-
foot bedroom to
accommodate a king
comfortably.
“Go big and invest in
a mattress you will love
long term,” Low says.
“It’s overwhelming to
move, and you will need
your best sleep, so treat
yourself to extra space.”
Your current queen or
full can be used in your
guest room, if it’s in good
shape. And if it’s not?
Don’t move an ancient,
saggy mattress you in-
herited from a long-ago
roommate into your new
home.
Q: What design as-
pects should I take
my time with?
A: In a word: every-
thing. “The biggest
mistake you can make
is hurrying to purchase
something you don’t love
or doesn’t fit right,” Low
says. Then you waste
money on replacing it.
“The more expensive the
item is,” Low adds, “the
more you should take
time with it.”
Robinwood

LINES ON DESIGN | ERIN OWEN
These 13-inch table lamps are better in terms of scale for this
buffet. Previously, lamps double the size and with a larger shade
were there and it looked off. (Erin Owen)
Tilt the design
scale in the
right direction
W
hen something
in a room looks
off, but it’s
hard to express why, the
reason is likely related
to a misuse or omis-
sion of the principles of
design. These are the
tools to determine why
a room is visually pleas-
ing rather than just say-
ing a room looks pretty.
These principles are the
why behind the pretty.
The combination
of wanting to finish a
room and working with
existing furnishings
led to a narrow buffet
being overwhelmed by
two table lamps. The
symmetry of the lamps
was a nice element, but
the lamps overwhelmed
the surface and adjacent
art. I see that clearly
now. The scale was
wrong.
Taken together,
proportion and scale
are one of seven design
principles. Interior de-
signers use these prin-
ciples to develop a room.
I wrote about contrast in
this column published
Sept. 19 and thought it
might be helpful to con-
tinue writing about the
remaining principles.
At the start of the
interior design program,
we were asked to find
pictures in magazines
and evaluate them based
on design principles.
This was one of my
favorite tasks. Designers
can break down why
a room is appealing
regardless of if they
like the material or
furnishing choices.
Taste is subjective, but
the design principles are
objective.
Proportion and
scale are all about size.
Proportion is the size
relationship between
the parts that make up
a whole. Scale focuses
on the size of objects in
relation to each other.
There is a measure-
ment, the golden ratio,
to evaluate proportion.
The golden ratio is a
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mathematical sequence
often found in nature,
including the human
body. In architecture,
think of the Parthenon
in Greece.
The golden ratio for
interior designers trans-
lates into 60/30/10. This
means the dominant col-
or occupies 60 percent of
the room, a secondary
color fills 30 percent
and an accent pops up
in 10 percent. Furniture
should fill 60 percent of
the room. Larger rooms
need larger pieces of fur-
niture. In a 15- by 20-foot
living room, a grouping
of furniture could be
around 10 feet by 13 feet.
Then there is the rule
of thirds. Photographers
use this idea to visually
divide the frame with
two horizontal and two
vertical lines. They
capture the subject of
a photo in one-third of
the frame, ideally where
the lines intersect, and
leave two-thirds open.
This draws attention to
the subject.
Interior designers
can similarly divide a
room to determine a
furniture plan or how
the space will be used.
A living room’s main
furniture would occupy
two-thirds and the last
third could be for a
secondary related use.
The rule of thirds can be
used to determine the
proper size of art and
furniture. A coffee table,
for instance, should be
two-thirds the size of the
sofa.
It all starts with
knowing the guidelines
of design principles.
Then breaking a prin-
ciple is a purposeful
decision and not just a
mistake. Just make sure
to train your eyes to
spot the mistake.
Erin Owen graduated from
the interior design program at
Kirkwood Community College.
She has worked as a commercial
and residential interior designer.
Comments: erin.n.owen@gmail.
com
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HOME+GARDEN
ColorBlaze Coleus offers easy
color scheme companions
By Norman Winter,
Tribune News Service
ColorBlaze El Brighto
Coleus will make its de-
but in 2022, and make no
mistake about it, award-
winning color scheme
opportunities await as
you select flower part-
ners. At the Young’s
Plant Farm 2021 Garden
Tour in Auburn, Ala.,
this summer it made a
memorable impression
on me.
The last 30 years I
have fancied myself as ColorBlaze Royale Brandy
a guru of color. I talk Coleus and Luscious Royale
about color schemes to Cosmo lantana create a mono-
Master Gardeners and chromatic partnership of color.
have put artist color
wheels in the books I
have written. This day at Nearly Noir at one end,
the garden tour, I got su- the color at the other
percharged again on the end would be the pink
use of color, particularly of the Luminary Opales-
incorporating coleus. cence phlox.
This particular bed CorlorBlaze Coleus
featured two new flow- varieties can work just
ers for 2022: Ladybird ColorBlaze El Brighto Coleus makes its debut in 2022. In this like flowers in your
Sunglow, a Calylophus colorful combination it is partnered with Ladybird Sunglow Ca- color schemes, whether
hybrid selection of Texas lylophus or Texas primrose, Luscious Citron lantana and Vermil- they be analogous, com-
primrose and Luscious lionaire cuphea. (Norman Winter photos/TNS) plementary, monochro-
Citron lantana. That matic or even slightly
would have worked as a more challenging like a
monochromatic plant- triadic harmony, three
ing, but the addition of colors equally split on
Vermillionaire Cuphea the artist color wheel.
and ColorBlaze El Brigh- Two of my favorite
to coleus turned it into a colors are fiery orange
dazzling analogous color and lime green. So when
scheme. the opportunity to grow
An analogous color Color Coded Orange You
scheme is designed Awesome echinacea and
with colors next to each ColorBlaze Lime Time
other on a color wheel. It Coleus together, I could
doesn’t have to be exact, not pass it up. The third
but within close prox- partner in the combina-
imity. In this case the tion was Dolce Wild-
red-orange of both Ver- berry Heuchera. It still
millionaire Cuphea and is one of my favorites
ColorBlaze El Brighto ColorBlaze Lime Time Coleus, ColorBlaze Wicked Hot is an today.
Coleus was perfect. They Color Coded Orange You award-winning coleus that Using ColorBlaze
offered more than that, Awesome echinacea and Dolce made its debut in 2020 and Coleus in your combina-
however, in that the yel- Winterberry heuchera create a indeed looks flaming as it gets tion plantings offers one
low tips of the Cuphea three-part or triadic harmony of backlit by the sun. Here it is other game-changing
blossoms and the yellow color. partnered with golden needle- trait: They will perform
like foliage of the Fluffy arbor-
gold margins of the Co- until frost. The perenni-
leus echoed the colors of all means, don’t be shy vitae. als and annuals both will
both the lantana and the on this one. ColorBlaze cycle in bloom through-
primrose. Nearly Noir will offer a also would have been a out the long hot growing
Just talking about this total contrast in which- great choice. season, but the Coleus
demonstrates how fun ever color you combine I have used Nearly stays camera-ready.
it can be incorporating it with. Noir with Alocasia up- Come spring, look for
foliage plants like Color- When we have a right elephant ears and the ColorBlaze series
Blaze Coleus into your total contrast, we typi- Luminary Opalescence and the new El Brighto,
flower and foliage part- cally refer to that as a phlox. While a great con- and Nearly Noir intro-
nerships. ColorBlaze has complementary color trast with the phlox, you ductions. Regardless of
another new selection scheme. Nearly Noir could tell there was a what you choose, incor-
for 2022 called Nearly will enhance every- color relationship. If you porate them into your
Noir. It is such a dark thing around it. In the had a paint chip card color schemes and you’ll
burgundy it really does planting above with El from the home improve- find your neighbors
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HOME+GARDEN

Fall foods and moods, 2021 edition

By Erin Thorburn,
Tribune News Service
The pandemic has
made us hyperaware of
many things, including
the state of our homes,
waistlines, and the way
we interact with people.
As fall approaches,
it’s an opportune time to
cast any negative notions
that may have been tied
to these areas of life in
favor of foods and moods
that promote positivity,
abundance and unity.
It’s a time to explore all
the things we love about
the autumn season with
our closest friends. Read
on for a few ways to pair
some of the top seasonal
decorative accents and
bites for a memorable
fall experience.
CULTIVATE COZY
CABIN VIBES
Not everyone can es-
cape to a cabin this fall,
but that doesn’t mean
you can’t bring the cabin
to you. Better yet, there
is a way to achieve a dif-
ferent type of cabin at-
mosphere for everyone.
Whether your taste runs
woodsy-lumberjack or
lake house fishing, there
is a means to bring forth
flavors of fall for all.
While the last few
years have reflected a
fascination with furry
throws, pillows and
rugs, this year, cabin
trends are more about
quilts, afghans and wo-
ven blankets. These can
be stacked on a hearth,
draped over couches
and chairs and spread
over ottomans. Red-and-
black buffalo plaid is also
making its way to many
cabinesque spaces, and
can effortlessly add a pop
of color to otherwise neu-
tral areas (think about a
throw pillow or two).
Include soft accents
like vanilla-wood scented
candles, woodland ani-
mal decor, and stacks of
outdoor-themed books
on mantels, coffee tables
and hutches.
While your guests
savor your autumnal
atmosphere, invite them
to a feast of Manhattan
Fish Chowder or Baked
Tilapia and Vegetable
Casserole (visit
Lamb Shanks, White
Chili with Chicken, or
Mozzarella Baked Gnoc-
chi (visit HonestCooking.
com for full recipes).
GET CREATIVE
AND CRAFTY
There’s something
about the crisp autumn
air and changing colors
that inspire creativ-
ity. What better time to
invite your friends and
family to a fall-focused
crafting session? If
you’re fortunate to live
in an area ensconced
with vibrant foliage,
encourage your guests
to bring a variety of
colorful leaves of their
choosing. Press them
into scrapbooks, use
them to make jewelry,
or have your partygoers
make them into a string
of garland.
For a more ambitious
creative outlet, try your
hand at homemade can-
Fire pits are coveted right now, especially for those who love to entertain. Treat your guests to special treats like s’mores. (Jim Slosia- dle-making. Udemy even
rek/The Gazette) offers a how-to course.
Finished products double
as take-home gifts for
guests, and you can use
yours for the next time
you entertain.
While your guests are
making their creations,
serve a platter of grab-
and-go options such as
Grilled Apples with Pro-
sciutto and Honey, Lem-
on Herb Cheese Bites,
and Cajun Sausage Puffs
with Bourbon Mustard
(visit CountryLiving.com
for full recipe).
GO ON AN ADVENTURE
If you’d rather not
Choose both form and function
by stacking your favorite throw retrofit your home to
blankets and show off your imbibe fall foods and
plaids. (Handout/TNS) moods — or at least not
for an entire evening
— consider gathering
tertaining: an elaborate everyone for a little caf-
After not being able to entertain for a while, elaborate table settings are trending, beckoning guests table setting. As people feine first, followed by
to the dining table. Plaid and pumpkins are perfect this fall. (Handout/TNS) embark on gathering in an “off-roading” expe-
person again, the dining rience. You can begin
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taining guests who love And don’t forget S’mores tarnished candelabras, syrups and spices (pump-
TAKE IT OUTSIDE a good campfire without with fun additions such velvet table runners and kin, maple, cinnamon
Fire pits are widely the fragrant, stick-to- as Nutella, sliced straw- lots of vintage vases and and nutmeg). Then take
coveted at present. If you your-clothes aftermath. berries and peanut centerpieces are serving your crew to a local corn
don’t have a permanent While conversing butter. as popular table maze, harvest festival
one in your outdoor liv- around the campfire, adornments. or apple orchard. End
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Stainless steel or cast-iron are good material choices for a round bar sink. (Kohler/TNS)

Don’t wait around if you want

to install a round bar sink
By Ed Del Grande, Tribune News Service with the material choice. I like stain-
less steel or cast-iron bar sinks.

Q: We’re having a kitchen island

complete with a bar sink in-
Checking to see what colors or fin-
ishes are available can help with your
stalled. I don’t want a standard square material choice.
sink; I’d like a round bar sink. What Then decide if you want a drop-in
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cial sink. should be smooth sailing for your new
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1,263 HEAD 10/14/2021
At Hertz Real Estate Services Monday, November 8, 2021 @ 10:00 a.m. Choice Steers: $122.00-133.75
Turner Hall, 91 2nd St., Keystone, IA 52249 Select Steers: $114.00-121.50
6314 Chancellor Dr./P.O. Box 1105, Cedar Falls, IA 50613 Choice Heifers: $122.00-131.00
Select Heifers: $114.00-121.50
Choice Hol: $110.00-115.00

Cedar Falls Office • 319.234.1949 • www.Hertz.ag Cedar Falls Office • 319.234.1949 • www.Hertz.ag Select Hol: $105.00-109.50
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SM SQ ALF/GRASS: $5.50-7.00
SM SQ GRASS: $4.50-5.50
284.97 Acres, m/l - Jack
Jacksonson County
County 81.48 Acres, m/l - Washing
Washington
ton County
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Wednesday, October 20 from 3:00 to 6:00
• Located 1¾ Miles West of Highway 1 Results per CWT:
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61-67#
$277.50-325.00
$239.00-317.50
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81-85#
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$172.50-257.50
92.00 acres m/l of pasture, 73.00 acres m/l of timber, 92-98#
100-146#
$210.00-250.00
$210.00-242.50
and house with buildings. Wednesday, November 3, 2021 @ 10:00 a.m. Ewes:
Rams:
120-283#
125-330#
$ 91.00-123.00
$ 95.00-118.00

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50-69#
$130.00-150.00
$135.00-190.00
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Running on empty? Think ethanol
the next time you gas up
The Gazette • October 18, 2015
319-828-4485
Chuck Cochran • 319-936-2045
When the fuel gauge is nearing
“E,” what’s the There is no doubt that enough
first thing that comes to mind? grain is produced
How far is the annually to supply the world’s
next gas station? Where can need for food
I buy the cheapest

Tom Cochran • 319-430-0011

and fuel. Even after accounting
fuel?
used for biofuels, there is more
for the grain • E15 is a blend of 15 percent
grain available
The next time the fuel needle
hovers near “E,” today for food and feed use than
at any time in
ethanol and 85 percent gasoline
think about E15. It’s the newest

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history. In addition, through
ethanol blend
available, and it’s the lowest-cost facturing process, one-third of
the ethanol manu- — that’s just 5 percent more
fuel on the every bushel of
market. corn processed into ethanol is
converted into
ethanol than the E10 fuel that
livestock feed. Last year the ethanol
E15 is a blend of 15 percent ethanol
and 85 produced enough livestock feed
industry has been around since 1978.
percent gasoline — that’s just to provide seven
5 percent more quarter-pound hamburgers for
ethanol than the E10 fuel that
has been around the planet. There is no doubt
every person on • E15 is approved for use in all
since 1978. It’s approved for the world’s grain
use in all 2001 and supply has grown large enough 2001 and newer cars, trucks and
A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words
newer cars, trucks and SUVs. to satisfy both
E15 also will save increased demand for food and
you money because it’s priced
less than E10 and animal feed, as
well as increased biofuel production. SUVs.
is significantly cheaper than All of this
gasoline without boils down to the availability
ethanol.
plies and affordable fuel.
of record food sup- • E15 is priced less than E10 and
Ethanol-blended fuel has been
ing consumers money because
credited with sav- Since there is a correlation between is significantly cheaper than
blending more food prices
cost-competitive ethanol with
gasoline lowers
and oil consumption, the more
ethanol used, the gasoline without ethanol.
the price of fuel. The U.S. renewable less impact on food costs. The
fuels pro- Renewable Fuel
gram is credited with saving Standard (RFS) was originally
motorists between implemented in
$0.50 and $1.50 per gallon on 2005 to create increased blending prevent some harmful pollutants
fuel purchases. of biofuels from reaching
That gives every American more in our nation’s gasoline. And the atmosphere. Last year, by
dollars to put since that time, using ethanol, mo-
toward food, clothing, a night food prices have risen more slowly. torists helped reduce of greenhouse
out, or a summer Food price gas emis-
vacation. inflation has averaged 2.8 percent sions by 40 million metric tons.
annually since That’s the same
2005, the year the RFS was enacted, effect as taking 8.4 million cars
This added value is all made compared off the road. And
possible by the to an average 3.5 percent from that’s not all. Ethanol reduces
innovation and efficiency of the 1980 through dependence on oil
ethanol industry 2004, according to the U.S. Department imports. Because ethanol is blended
and Iowa farmers. Iowa’s ethanol of in 98 per-
industry sup- Agriculture. The World Bank cent of all the fuel sold nationwide, oil imports
plies about 30 percent of the reports that most of
nation’s ethanol, the contribution to food price have dropped to 28 percent. Last
making Iowa the nation’s ethanol changes, starting year, ethanol
capital. Com- in 1997 through 2012, comes use is credited with replacing
bined with the increasing production from the price of 512 million barrels
efficiency crude oil. Through these years, of crude oil — that’s slightly
of Iowa corn growers, this partnership ethanol produc- more than the oil
provides tion has risen while annual food imported annually from Saudi
enough products to both feed price inflation Arabia.
and fuel the world. has declined. So ethanol is not
This is all made possible by using only helping keep Ethanol. It’s clean, it’s
fewer acres food prices affordable, it’s also driving Iowa’s economy,
because corn yields have doubled lowering fuel it’s saving motorists money at
over the last prices. the pump, and
(319) 351-1720 • Oaknoll.com 40 years. And research indicates
yields may even Ethanol is the lowest-cost, cleanest
it’s helping feed and fuel the
world. So, the next
double again by the middle of time your gas gauge hovers near
this century. octane empty, don’t
source in the world. This environmentall hesitate to reach for the ethanol
Sept. 9, 2015 y handle. You’ll
A feature of The Gazette • Wednesday, friendly, biodegradable octane be doing yourself, your family, your car, and the
booster helps
environment a favor. Choose
ethanol.

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AUTO REVIEW | 2022 LEXUS NX HYBRID
The 2022 Lexus NX compact SUV offers a pair of gasoline engines, a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid. (Detroit Free Press photos)
Welcome to the party
New compact SUV boasts
36-mile plug-in hybrid
By Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press
P
HOENIX — Lexus
adds a welcome plug-
in hybrid, among
other useful features,
to its 2022 NX com-
pact SUV. Brief tests also sug-
gest significantly improved
infotainment and connectiv-
ity systems.
The new NX should join
its big brother — the RX,
without which no higher-end
preschool pickup lane is com-
plete — as the mainstays of
Lexus’ lineup in a post-sedan,
increasingly electrified auto
industry.
The NX is already popular.
It sold 62,079 in the U.S. in
2020. The new lineup, which
includes two gasoline-pow-
ered models, a hybrid and
the plug-in hybrid, as well
as both front- and all-wheel-
drive models, should increase
the NX’s appeal.
Competitors include the
Acura RDX, BMW X2, Cadil-
lac XT5, Lincoln Corsair,
Infiniti QX50 and Mercedes
GLC.
I drove varieties of the
NX from suburban Phoenix
through neighborhoods and
desert scrub to quirky sundi-
als and sculptures of nearby
Carefree.
WHAT’S NEW?
The 2022 NX is 183.5 inches
long, on a 105.9-inch wheel-
base. Both figures are 1.2
inches longer than the 2021
model.
The NX uses a new plat-
form that makes the new
models significantly lighter
than their predecessors.
The 2022’s styling is sup-
posed to embody Lexus’ new
dedication to performance
and handling, but it’s an evo-
lution of the outgoing SUV.
Obvious changes include
moving the L-shaped daytime
running lights from below to
above the headlights.
The current hybrid — EPA
rating: 33 mpg city/30 high-
way/31 combined — accounts
for 23 percent of NX sales.
Lexus estimates the 2022 hy-
brid will score 41/37/49 when
testing is complete.
Lexus expects the 2022 NX
350h hybrid to snag 25 per-
cent of sales, the NX 450h+
PHEV another 5 percent. The
450h+ will be available mostly
in California and other states
that incentivize zero-emission
vehicles. Lexus estimates it’ll
go about 36 miles on a charge,
everything many drivers
need on a daily basis.
Official EPA figures for
the PHEV and all the rest of
the ’22s will be available later
this year.
Sunday, October 17, 2021 ● The Gazette 7E
MOTORMOUTH
What’s
that
shudder?
By Bob Weber, Tribune News Service
Q: Every now and then
when coming to stop
signs the brakes on my 2014
Hyundai Sonata will shudder.
The dealer mechanic tells me
my pads are OK. Is this some-
thing I should be concerned
about? Is it a dangerous condi-
tion? — D.B., Las Vegas
A: Occasional shuddering is
no big deal. But at your
car’s age, you may be ready for
a brake job. A complete brake
job — rather than just replace-
ment pads — includes all the
essential hardware (pins,
shims, anti-rattle clips etc.).
I have a hunch your shudder
will be gone for good.
Q: I have a 2006 Lexus SC430
with 74,000 miles on it.
Recently I replaced run-flats
with new standard tires, which
were aligned and balanced.
Front struts were also recently
replaced. Between 55-70 mph
only, there is some vibration
in the steering wheel. This also
occurred prior to the new tires
but is less pronounced with
the new tires and is not always
constant. Any ideas as to the
source of the vibration? — F.B.,
Chicago
A: Vibration at a specific
speed is almost always
due to imbalance. But other
factors may be the cause. For
instance, one of the wheels may
not be true. The wheel hub may
be a contributor. Or, one of the
new tires may be the problem.
Have your shop swap the front
tires to the rear and see if the
vibration goes away or moves
to the rear of the vehicle. Other-
wise, a suspension inspection is
called for.
Q: I thought I would pass
along my experience with
random TPMS warnings pop-
ping up. I discovered that those
USB chargers that go into the
12-volt socket trigger an alarm.
I plugged in the device and after
a while the low-pressure alarm
came on. Unplugging the device
would, after a few minutes of
driving over 20 miles per hour,
reset the alarm. The solution
The 2022 Lexus NX compact SUV offers an optional 14-inch touchscreen. came to me after maybe a dozen
trips to the dealer for recalibra-
The 450h+ plug-in hybrid All NX models benefit from tion of the tire sensors. When I
AT A GLANCE also has an electrically pow- a cloud-based infotainment picked up my vehicle, the USB
charger was unplugged and
ered rear axle, CVT and 239 system Toyota developed in
• What: 2022 Lexus NX Hybrid total hp. Estimated 0-60 time Texas. laying in the cup holder. They
• Base price: $37,950; price as is 6 seconds. Prices start at Reliant on touch screens never wrote it up on the service
tested: $59,61 $55,560. EPA fuel economy and voice commands, it’s ticket or mentioned the USB
• On sale: December 2021 estimates will be available a huge improvement from device to me when picking up
• Powerplant: 2.5L four-cylinder before sales begin. quixotic previous Lexus con- the car, but eventually I would
engine and two electric motors; trols that included a joystick need the charger and plug it
Electric rear axle IMPRESSIONS and a touch pad. back in and would get a low
• Total system output: 239 hp; The NX 350 is the sporty The climate controls in- tire alarm shortly after. — B.R.,
torque not available member of the family. The clude dials for temperature, Apple Valley, Minn.
•
Transmission: Continuously
variable automatic
• Estimated EPA fuel economy
350h hybrid’s acceleration
is adequate, but its gasoline
but rely on the touch screen
to adjust fan speed. Audio A: We have recently had
several readers reporting
mysterious low tire pressure
engine is a bit noisy when ac- controls have a physical vol-
rating: Not available. 91 octanecelerating hard. The PHEV’s ume dial and touch screen warnings and you may have
or higher fuel recommended; more powerful batteries de- tuning. solved the mystery. By the way,
Estimated battery range: 36 miles
liver acceleration with less In addition to Google with colder temperatures com-
• Cargo space: 27.4 cubic feet fuss. searches for destinations, ing, your tires’ cold inflation
behind rear seat, 46.9 with rear Only the normally aspi- menus, operating hours and pressures may drop. Pressure
seat folded rated base engine — which the like, the cloud-based usually drops about one psi for
• Towing capacity: Not advised Lexus did not make available system can store multiple every 10-degree drop in outside
• Assembled: Cambridge, Ontario to test — achieves its pub- drivers’ preferences for temperature. Be sure to bring
lished performance with 87 audio, climate and more. the tires up to the proper cold
octane regular gasoline. Both Bonus: Those preferences inflation pressure shown on the
HOW MUCH? sticker at the driver’s door.
hybrids and the turbo recom- will be available when you
The base NX 250 model has mend 91 octane or higher.
a 203-horsepower normally
aspirated 2.5L four-cylinder
The base suspension pro-
get into any Lexus or Toyota
equipped with the new info- Q: I recently walked away
from my 2018 GMC Aca-
dia and carried the key fob
vides a smooth ride. Avail- tainment system.
engine, front-wheel drive able adaptive shocks reduce The base touch screen with me. The car automati-
and an eight-speed automatic body roll and improve stabil- measures a generous 9.8 inch- cally locks itself, and under
transmission. Prices start at ity in enthusiastic driving. es, with a gargantuan 14-inch normal circumstances this is
$37,950. All-wheel drive raises 2022 Lexus NX safety and one available. fine. However, in this instance
the price to $39,950. Accelera- driver assistance features: The navigation system a passenger was locked in the
tion is a leisurely 8.6 seconds blind spot and cross traffic stores the destination when vehicle and could not exit. I
with front drive, 8.2 seconds alerts; right or left turn and the connection to the cloud had no idea that the passenger
for AWD. intersection; oncoming pedes- gets tenuous. Activated by could not unlock the car from
The sportiest NX is the 350, trian and vehicle detection/ the command, “Hey, Lexus,” the inside. Warnings about this
which comes with a 275-hp braking; dynamic radar adap- the new digital assistant were not explicit either from
turbocharged 2.4L engine, tive cruise control with curve consistently filled requests the manual or the dealership.
all-wheel drive and the eight- speed management; road quickly and accurately. — R.L., Spring Valley, Ill.
speed automatic. The quick-
est in the lineup, it acceler-
sign recognition; emergency
steering assist; collision alert;
ates to 60 mph in 6.6 seconds. with front automatic braking;
Just about every interior
surface is padded. Wireless A: All vehicles are sup-
posed to have a means of
manually unlocking the doors
Apple CarPlay and Android
Prices start at $41,550. pedestrian and cyclist detec- Auto are standard. Wireless from the inside. Otherwise, as
The $41,050 350h hybrid tion; lane centering; lane charging is an option. you discovered, a person could
has a 2.5L engine, electrically departure alert with steering A configurable 10-inch be trapped. Try this: Pull the
powered rear axle and con- assist; automatic high beams; head up display presents in- door handle once. This usually
tinuously variable transmis- digital latch and safe exit as- formation clearly, and can be releases the lock. Pull it again
sion. Total power is 239 hp. sistant; digital rear view mir- adjusted from a convenient and the door will usually open.
The 350h reaches 60 mph in ror vastly improved controls, thumb pad on the steering Send questions along with name and town
7.2 seconds. digital assistant. wheel. to motormouth.tribune@gmail.com.
8E The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021
Why does gutter cleaning matter?
Ask Angi
Your gutters do so
much more than just
direct water away from
your house. They’re an
essential defensive mea-
sure that protects your
yard, foundation, roof
and basement from long-
term water damage. It
can be easy to forget
to keep them clean, but
gutter cleaning is a
vital step in home
maintenance.
When gutters get
clogged, they overflow
and back up the water
instead of depositing it
several feet away from
the house.
When this happens,
water spills directly
onto the yard, causing
erosion of your soil and
increasing pressure
on the basement or
foundation. If standing
water remains in your
basement or crawl space,
you might experience
mold or other damage. It
also can fall behind the
gutters, causing fascia
boards to rot.
During cold weather,
water overflow can
freeze and cause
foundation cracks or
back up onto the roof,
causing ice dams and
eventual roof damage.
You can prevent this
with regular gutter
cleaning. How often
you need it depends
on numerous factors,
including the region
where you live and the
number and type of
trees near your home. In
most cases, experts say
you should clean your
gutters twice a year —
once in spring and the
next time late in fall,
once all the leaves have
fallen. Gutter cleaners
How to replace hard-wired smoke detectors
By Jeanne Huber,
Washington Post
Q: My home has
hard-wired smoke
detectors. How often do
I need to replace them,
and what kind of replace-
ments do I need? Can I
do it myself, or do I need
a professional? And if I
need a pro, what kind?
A: Manufacturers
typically use the
term “smoke alarms”
to refer to the kind that
blare and “smoke detec-
tors” for ones that both
blare and send an alert
to a security company
or your cellphone. But
whatever you call them,
they should be replaced
every 10 years, according
to manufacturers and the
National Fire Protection
Association, a nonprofit
organization funded by
the fire-protection indus-
try that provides code
language for local build-
ing departments and cer-
tification programs for
people in various safety-
related roles.
Many smoke alarms
now come with sealed
lithium-ion batteries
designed to last for 10
years, and some building
codes are moving toward
requiring these in new
construction. A 10-year
battery eliminates the
hassle of waking up in
the middle of the night
to the incessant chirping
of a worn-out battery.
It also reinforces the
advice to replace alarms
every 10 years. Once a
10-year battery fails, the
whole device needs to be
replaced. When detec-
tors are about that old or
older, replace them all
at the same time. But if
they are just a few years
old and one keeps chirp-
ing even after you’ve
replaced the backup
battery or fails to sound
Leaves, dirt and other debris can cause serious problems if they block up your gutters. (Dreamstime/TNS)
get very busy in the fall,
so it’s a good idea to get
on the schedule as early
as possible.
Gutter cleaning costs
between $115 and $225.
Most jobs take an hour
or two. The exact price
will vary based on the
size of your home and
the number of stories
the cleaners have to
Test smoke alarms twice a year and check the batteries to be sure they’re in optimal condition.
(Dreamstime/TNS)
when you press the test
button, just replace that
one.
Which replacement
model you need depends
partly on whether the
existing devices are
wired independently or
are interconnected. If
you aren’t sure what you
have, press the test but-
ton on one. If all devices
go off, they are intercon-
nected, typically linked
with a red or orange wire
to carry a direct current
signal in addition to reg-
ular alternating current
wires for power. If only
one sounds, they are
wired independently.
If you have intercon-
nected alarms, check the
specifications to ensure
you get a compatible re-
placement — or replace
all the devices in your
home with a single model
or with ones listed as be-
ing mutually compatible.
If the package isn’t clear,
call the manufacturer’s
HOME+GARDEN
reach. If your gutters
haven’t been cleaned out
in a while and require
extra time to clear out
the debris, the job might
also cost more. In most
cases, downspouts won’t
require much if any
cleaning, but in cases
where debris has clogged
the downspout, expect to
pay between $50 and $100
consumer help line,
which you can find on
the company’s website.
But if you have indepen-
dently wired detectors,
the replacement doesn’t
need to match. It just
needs to be a wired-in
model.
Consumer Reports
magazine, an advertis-
ing-free publication that
regularly tests alarms,
reported in a recent
review that although it
has found problems with
carbon monoxide detec-
tors, it has never found
a smoke detector that
failed its tests. But there
are issues other than
reliability to consider be-
fore you buy.
Modern detectors
typically have a specially
designed plug, which
the industry calls a wir-
ing harness, that links
to house wiring. If you
stick with the brand you
have, the existing mount-
ing bracket and plug will
more.
Installing gutter
guards means you
may not have to hire
gutter cleaners as often.
However, when that
job does take place, you
might be charged extra
because of the additional
time they must take to
remove and reinstall the
guards.
probably work. If you
switch, you’ll probably
need to install a new
mounting bracket (typi-
cally included with new
devices and easy to set
up) and you may need an
adapter plug (an extra
expense).
Beyond that, there are
performance issues to
consider. One is whether
to get a dual-sensing de-
tector, with both a pho-
toelectric eye to quickly
detect smoke and an
ionization sensor, often
called a heat detector,
to quickly detect flames.
Both types sense both
types of fires, but the
speed of detection differs.
Especially in a bedroom,
a dual-sensing detector
is best.
But if you’ve had prob-
lems with false alarms,
you might want a pho-
toelectric sensor in the
kitchen, an ionization
sensor in the garage,
the ability to add a voice
It’s possible to clean
gutters yourself, but if
you do so, make sure you
take all proper safety
precautions, including
wearing protective eye-
wear and work gloves
and having a spotter to
hold the ladder sturdy.
When hiring a pro,
verify that your cleaner
has liability and work-
saying “Fire!” to alert a
sleeping child, or a sen-
sor with a strobe light for
someone who is hard of
hearing.
If you have indepen-
dent sensors and a large
multistory house, where
interconnected detectors
would be especially use-
ful to ensure that every-
one hears an alarm trig-
gered in a distant room,
you might want to spring
for replacement detec-
tors that interconnect via
radio signal. They don’t
depend on Wi-Fi and will
work even if the power
is out. Examples include
First Alert’s hard-wired
smoke alarm with pho-
toelectric sensor ($35.74
on Amazon) and Kidde’s
10-year worry-free hard-
wired smoke detector
with intelligent wire-free
voice ($49.97 at Home
Depot).
It’s also possible to in-
corporate “smart” home
technology, so you can
know something’s wrong
even if you’re not home.
Short of contracting with
a home-security com-
pany or installing a DIY
version, such as a Sim-
pliSafe security system
(simplisafe.com), you can
get detectors that link to
a cellphone. A wired-in
Google Nest combination
smoke and carbon mon-
oxide detector is $114.99
on Amazon. There are
also workarounds that
add smartphone alerts to
regular alarms. The Kid-
de’s RemoteLync smart
home monitor ($73.50)
also listens for alarms
and relays them to a cell-
phone using Wi-Fi.
There are also some
basics to consider before
buying a replacement
detector. It should have
a label from a respected
testing laboratory, such
as UL. Check the manu-
facture date to ensure
ers’ comp insurance,
which protects you in
the event of damage to
your home or injury to
a worker. This is always
a good idea when hiring
any home service, but
it is particularly vital in
work that involves risky
activities like climbing
ladders or going on the
roof.
you get a replacement
that is as fresh as pos-
sible. And look for a
button that allows you to
poke a broom handle at
the device to get it to stop
making noise when there
is a false alarm.
Do you need to call
in a pro to install new
smoke detectors? In most
cases, no, unless they are
too high to reach from a
ladder or stepstool that
you feel comfortable
using.
Get a stepstool or lad-
der, wear a headlamp if
necessary, and grab a
screwdriver and possibly
wire strippers. Write the
date on the back of the
new detector. Turn off
power to the circuit, and
confirm it’s off by check-
ing the LED light; use a
noncontact voltage de-
tector if you have an old
detector that connects
directly to the house wir-
ing. Twist off the detec-
tor (look for an arrow
showing the direction).
If the mounting plate
doesn’t work with your
new detector, loosen the
screws holding it in place
just enough to twist off
the old plate and install
a new one. Retighten the
screws.
Depending on your
situation, you can then
plug in the new detector,
install an adapter plug or
use wire nuts to connect
the new detector to the
house wiring after you
first strip excess insula-
tion from the ends of the
detector wires. Tuck
excess wiring into the
ceiling box.
Before you twist the
new detector into place
against the backing
plate, remove the tab
that would keep the bat-
tery from working. Turn
the power back on, and
test the detector to en-
sure it’s working.

BUSINESS 380
An Amazon.com employee works in a fulfillment center in Monee, Ill. (Chicago Tribune)
Warehouse jobs
are hard to fill
‘10 hours on your feet’
Washington Post
W
arehouse jobs were
supposed to be the
future of the retail
industry, offering opportuni-
ties for displaced employees
and reshaping the American
workforce.
Amazon.com, Target,
Walmart and other compa-
nies pledged to create hun-
dreds of thousands of these
positions at competitive
wages — and increasingly
with perks such as free col-
lege — so they could fill the
deluge of online orders that
began with the pandemic and
continue unabated.
But the industry is facing
an unexpected problem: Far
too few people are willing to
take on the often-grueling
work, according to industry
officials and economic data.
It is the latest sign that
the job market is being buf-
feted by unexpected trends
that are leading workers to
reconsider the types of posi-
tions they want — and up-
ending industries across the
economy.
“Every year we say, ‘Wow,
this is really difficult’ — and
every year, it gets more
challenging,” said Sabrina
Wnorowski, vice president of
human resources at Radial,
which operates fulfillment
centers for brands such as
Cole Haan, Aeropostale and
the Children’s Place.
The company, she said,
is offering daily raffles with
prizes such as PlayStations
MY BIZ
Ice Cube Press publishes dreams
Its books can show how
best to ‘live in the Midwest’
By Steve Gravelle, correspondent
Ice Cube Press’ 30th year kind
of sneaked up on its proprietor,
Steve Semken.
“It is really strange to think
about,” Semken said one morn-
ing this past week. “Who’s going
to give me my watch? Oh, yeah, I
Sunday, October 17, 2021 ● The Gazette 1F
PLANNING POINTS
PETE ALEPRA
Is your
financial
‘home’
prepared?
M
arket fluctuation can
be viewed as the price
investors have to pay
for being involved with the
wealth-building power of the
financial markets.
But rationalizing market
fluctuations doesn’t make them
any less nerve wracking, espe-
cially if you’re nearing retire-
ment age.
It is important to build your
financial home during good
weather when you can evalu-
ate priorities in an objective
manner. Acknowledging the
weather will not always be sun-
ny and preparing in a proactive
manner will alleviate anxiety
when a storm does occur.
Some investors react to vola-
tility as if they were living in
the path of a hurricane. They
board up the windows, gather
the essentials, stay put and
hope the storm passes without
hitting too hard.
Their approach is to hope
things go well and sometimes
prefer not to acknowledge what
is happening.
Others may get nervous
and want to leave their home
and run from stormy weather.
These are the investors that
sometimes sell their invest-
ments at a less than ideal time.
The truth is, if you have pre-
pared appropriately for market
volatility, then normal market
fluctuations shouldn’t be a con-
cern, and you should be able
to continue to pursue the im-
portant things in your life and
spend as you normally would
during times of mild weather.
There are several important
issues to keep in mind when
building your financial home:
CREATE A WEALTH PLAN THAT
COVERS ALL YOUR BASES
No wealth plan is totally
immune to market fluctua-
tions. But by diversifying your
investments across stocks,
bonds, and other financial
vehicles, it alleviates the expo-
sure that a single market event
is going to jeopardize your
long-term security.
It also is helpful to have both
long- and short-term savings
“buckets” that can be used de-
A United Parcel Service driver sorts boxes in New York. (Bloomberg News) pending on your age, goals
and how close you are to
retirement.
“Given high unemployment, you’d expect portation industry had a re-
cord 490,000 openings in July This combination of diversi-
that it would be easy to attract labor, — a gap that experts predict fied assets and adequate liquid-
ity provides stability. It also
will widen in coming months.
but it’s been the opposite.” The dearth of willing provides flexibility that can be
workers is hitting companies used to address potential prob-
Sabrina Wnorowski, vice president of human resources at Radial just as they’re preparing for lems or to take advantage of
a fraught holiday season. opportunities that might ben-
Supply chain hiccups, efit your overall portfolio.
and iPads, as well as pizza already has cycled through shipping delays and out-of- Understanding your overall
parties and on-site food trucks millions of workers, some of stock products are expected plan and how your spending
in a bid to attract 27,000 ware- whom say they’ve sworn off to cut into retailers’ sales goals are met through your
house workers this year, up warehouse jobs altogether. and profits, and analysts say various cash flows may allow
30 percent from 2019. That, labor economists staffing shortages make the you to get through any storm
“Given high unemploy- say, is creating new challeng- outlook even more uncertain. that may occur in the future.
ment, you’d expect that it es for retailers scrambling The number of seasonal Looking at your plan as a
would be easy to attract la- to fill crucial jobs unloading postings advertising “ur- “home” that has money flow-
bor,” she said, “but it’s been trucks, picking orders and gent” or “immediate” ing in and out based off of your
the opposite.” delivering packages.
The warehouse industry The warehouse and trans- ; JOBS, PAGE 2F ; PLANNING, PAGE 3F
have to do it myself.”
Semken, 57, was ICE CUBE PRESS
months.”
No matter the day
just in his mid-20s ● Owner: Steve Semken
job, when he came
with a degree in ● Phone: (319) 626-2055
home from work,
English and history ● Website: icecubepress.
Semken wrote.
from the University “I kept writing
com
of Iowa when he be- and writing, and I
came a publisher. thought, ‘I really
“I was really kind of jumping want to stay with writing,’ ” he
around,” he said. “I was working said.
at a cable company in Lawrence, So in 1991, Semken published
Kan., and I never really knew his own work as a chapbook, a
what I was going to do. I was kind Steve Semken has been publishing books through his company,
of on something every couple of ; ICE CUBE, PAGE 2F Ice Cube Press, for 30 years. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
2F The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021

Jobs/Warehouse workers under more pressure

; FROM PAGE 1F into account things like time cardo, who asked to be identi-
in role, experience and their fied by his first name because
vacancies on the jobs site In- safety and well-being.” he fears losing his job.
deed has grown tenfold from She also noted that many “You know when you’re
a year ago, according to com- employees look to Amazon worked to the bone, and you
pany economist AnnElizabeth for short-term work “to make just want to go home, eat and
Konkel. some extra income when they sleep? It’s like that all the
Many more employers also need it.” time.”
are advertising hiring incen- A “large percentage” of Analysts note warehouse
tives such as signing bonuses workers, she said, are “re- and delivery workers are un-
and cash, she said. hires,” though she declined to der increased pressure this
Gap is touting around-the- share specifics. year, given widespread prod-
clock telehealth appointments The company, which is hop- uct shortages and shipping de-
and 50 percent discounts on ing to hire 125,000 warehouse lays that are complicating an
its clothing. Aldi has bumped and logistics workers before already stressful environment.
up the average starting pay at the holidays, is offering $3,000 “Workers are exhausted,
warehouses to $19 an hour. bonuses and starting hourly and they’re working very
Walmart is promising extra wages of as much as $22. It physical jobs,” said Ellen Re-
pay for supply chain employ- recently dropped marijuana ese, chair of labor studies at
ees who show up to all sched- An employee pulls a pallet jack carrying plastic crates at the Amazon.com fulfill- testing requirements. the University of California at
uled shifts. ment center in Robbinsville, N.J. (Bloomberg News) Riverside.
And Sleep Number is of- A ‘STAGGERING’ VOLUME “Add in the long hours and
fering sign-on bonuses of as asked to be identified by his senior researcher and policy “Coming out of COVID, quick pace of the holiday sea-
much as $1,000 at distribution first name only because he analyst for the National Em- there’s been a major shift in son, and that can lead to a lot
centers in Ohio and California,fears retribution at work. ployment Law Project. the willingness of workers of additional risks.”
plus free mattresses for all “The job is brutal — 10 “Amazon is the standard- to take on jobs,” said David In Colorado, uniform com-
new hires. hours on your feet,” he said. bearer, and it is dragging Niekerk, a former vice presi- pany UniFirst has for months
The country’s largest retail-
“Half the people quit after down working conditions for dent of human resources for been posting job openings
ers are going a step further. their first day.” everybody.” global operations at Amazon. promising life insurance,
Walmart, Target and Amazon A spokeswoman for Ama- The company, which pays “The volume of workers employee discounts and week-
announced this summer that zon declined to comment on a starting hourly rate of $15, (warehouses) are looking to ends off. But so far, hardly
they would begin offering free the worker’s claim or on the often requires employees to hire are pretty staggering at a anyone is interested.
college tuition and textbooks company’s overall turnover work 10-hour shifts with rigid time when the whole country “We are overwhelmed,
to employees. rate. Amazon.com founder Jeff quotas. seems to be having trouble understaffed and without ap-
“There is a lot more ur- Bezos owns the Washington A recent Washington Post staffing.” plicants,” said a driver for the
gency this year,” Konkel said. Post. analysis of Occupational Walmart is seeking 20,000 company, who spoke on the
“But on the flip side, when Labor experts say the na- Safety and Health Administra- logistics workers ahead of the condition of anonymity be-
we look at job seeker interest,tion’s 1.5 million warehouse tion data found that rates of holidays, while UPS, Kohl’s cause he fears losing his job.
we’re really not seeing a jobs have been reshaped by serious injury at Amazon are and Target are planning to “The only applicants we’ve
rebound.” the industry’s biggest player, nearly double those of other hire about 100,000 apiece. been getting are middle-aged
Amazon, which has 950,000 U.S. warehouses. But labor experts say actu- men in their 50s and 60s. When
60-HOUR WORKWEEKS U.S. workers, making it the And this summer, officials ally finding those employees we do get anyone younger
In interviews with more country’s second-largest pri- in Washington state concluded will be tough in a labor market than 30, they’re usually here
than a dozen current and vate employer. that there was a “direct con- where there already are more no more than a month.”
former warehouse workers Amazon, according to ex- nection” between injuries at job openings than unemployed While competitors have
across the country, nearly all perts, has had a mixed impact Amazon warehouses and its Americans. raised wages, starting pay at
described being overwhelmed on local job markets. The com- “employee monitoring and dis- “Employers came into this the facility remains $15 an
amid staff shortages, with few pany has created hundreds of cipline systems.” holiday season already deep hour, he said.
prospects for moving up. thousands of fulfillment jobs, “Employers have to wake up into a labor shortage,” said UniFirst spokesman Adam
Many spoke of 60-hour often at better pay than what’s to the fact that these jobs are Andy Challenger, senior vice Soreff said the company pro-
workweeks and requests to offered in the local community. not sustainable,” Tung said. president at staffing firm Chal- vides competitive pay and
take on even more shifts dur- At the same time, critics “People can’t stay because they lenger, Gray and Christmas. benefits. But “like many com-
ing the peak holiday season. say, it also has dragged down get injured or because their “It’s slamming every indus- panies in today’s market, we
Some longtime employees — working conditions and wages bodies just give out.” try, but particularly positions are operating in a difficult and
particularly those who worked for the warehouse industry, Barbara Agrait, a spokes- in retail, transportation and challenging environment.”
through the early days of the where starting pay has gener- woman for Amazon, said the warehousing — those are by The employee said he is try-
pandemic — say they’re re- ally been higher than in other company has invested hun- far the hardest jobs to fill right ing to keep pace by clocking 14-
sentful of newcomers who are sectors, including retail and dreds of millions of dollars now.” hour shifts, five days a week.
being wooed with large signing hospitality. in worker safety, including a Four months into his job at But after 18 years in the in-
bonuses and higher wages. In counties with an Amazon staff of nearly 8,000 safety per- a warehouse in El Paso, Ricar- dustry, he’s considering leav-
But even those incentives, warehouse, turnover often is sonnel and ongoing training do is already thinking of quit- ing it altogether.
they say, haven’t been enough double the national industry tools and technology. ting. He makes $10 an hour “Morale is low,” he said.
to keep workers from leaving. rate, according to the National “The safety and well-being preparing orders for customer “Nearly every day, I’ll sit in
“People quit every single Employment Law Project. of our employees is always pickup and delivery, and says my car for 10 minutes in the
day,” said David, who works “Once Amazon gets to town, a top priority,” she said in a he’s exhausted. employee parking lot and say
at an Amazon fulfillment cen- turnover skyrockets and wag- statement. “When setting (em- “I feel like I’m doing the to myself, ‘Just get through
ter in Washington state and es decline,” said Irene Tung, ployee) expectations, we take work of six people,” said Ri- another day.’ ”

Ice Cube/Ice Cube Press has dozens of titles in print

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small paperback of about 40
pages. About 18 months later,
he launched a magazine, Syca-
more Roots, that lasted about
three years.
“I called that the MFA (mas-
ter of fine arts degree) I never
got,” he said. “I wanted to be
a famous New York Times-
bestselling writer, but I fig-
ured out that was never going
to happen.
“But I found I loved lay-
ing out the newsletter. It was
just learning how to meet real
writers and learn about the re-
ality of being a book publisher
and an author, and that’s what
I wanted to know.”
Semken pored over the
Literary Marketplace, a direc-
tory for writers, publishers
and book sellers, at the local
library.
“It was kind of like the Yel-
low Pages,” he recalled. “I’d
go home and I’d write those
people.
“You’d figure out who were
the writers you really liked,
and how to get in touch with
them. You really have to dig
in, and I’m still doing that to
this day.”
Ice Cube’s first book in 1995
was “River Tips and Tree
Trunks,” a collection of Sem-
ken’s own essays and short
stories. He listed the book on
an online site he’d heard about
— Amazon.com, then just a
year old.
By 1999, Semken was work-
ing with Humanities Iowa and
the Iowa Arts Council on an
annual lecture tour covering
the state’s natural environ-
ment and resources, with an
accompanying book.
“I was really over-
whelmed,” he said. “I started
getting more submissions than
I could take.”
The part-time pursuit be-
came full time in 2001-02 when
Semken resigned his last day
An Iowa true crime book that Steve
Semken published through his pub-
lishing company is seen in his stock
room/shipping area at his home.
had a strict business plan, al-
though he’s taken some mana-
gerial courses at the Univer-
sity of Iowa’s Tippie College of
Business.
“I don’t have a state grant
and I don’t have university
funding, so it’s just been me,
with a rudimentary under-
standing of business in some
ways,” he said. “But in other
ways, it’s not rudimentary at
all.
“I’ve been amazed, watch-
ing other literary enterprises
come along, and they’re just
Steve Semken shows some of the books he’s published through his publishing company, Ice Cube Press, on Wednesday unwilling to ask people to buy
at his home in North Liberty. (Jim Slosiarek photos/The Gazette)
things. What you have to do is,
find out what they’re looking
job as an office manager for many books you’re going to With titles on his schedule for.”
Lutheran Campus Ministry. print at a time has just been through 2023, Semken doesn’t And there still are plenty
“I’ve never really disliked amazing.” worry about finding new proj- of great books yet to be
any job I’ve had,” he said. “I Ice Cube’s titles include a ects. He fields four or five “re- published.
think part of the reason is range of styles and genres, but ally good” submissions each “At first, I didn’t take peo-
because I’ve always known I its focus remains regional. week. ple’s submissions as seriously
was going to do something like “My mission is to use the “More people trust you, and as I should have,” Semken
what I’m doing now.” literary arts to better under- I’m getting better projects,” said. “Now that I realize how
Ice Cube Press lists dozens stand how we can best live in he said. “Lucky for me, at much time and energy goes
of titles still in print, including the Midwest,” Semken said. this point I can choose people into writing a book, after a
some of its earliest. Changes “That can be poetry, biogra- whose books are pretty much person’s family or their health
in the printing industry enable phy, graphic novels — it’s the ready to go, or close to it.” or their work, the thing that
shorter press runs, allowing works. Last year’s COVID-19 shut- they send to me is usually the
Semken to keep older titles in “I do stray from that from down may be a factor in con- thing that they’ve put so much
circulation. time to time, but that’s the tinued submissions. energy in. It’s their dream and
“There was no such thing heart of what I do. There’s “It’s one of those strange their passion, and I started re-
as print-on-demand when definitely an amazing amount things about the pandemic,” alizing that ... .
I started,” he said. “About of interest in it.” he said. “Everyone kept say- “I really do work with peo-
2001, I had a book I thought Semken remains his sole ing, ‘It must be a great time ple’s passions and sincerity
was good but there’s no way full-time employee. to read.’ What was happen- and dreams, and it does kind
I’m going to sell that many of “I have some readers that ing was, everyone finally got of keep me in my place.”
them. That’s half of what I do help me with editing, and I a chance to write. It hasn’t
Know a Corridor business that just might
now, at least — short runs and have a sales guy who helps me slowed down a lot.” make for an intriguing “My Biz” feature?
print-on-demand. in Chicago,” he said. “But ev- Semken’s never taken out a Let us know by emailing michaelchevy.
“The ability to control how eryone’s just commission.” business loan, and he’s never castranova@thegazette.com.
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BUSINESS 380

‘As seen on TikTok’ is

the new ‘As seen on TV’
It’s becoming
a shopping
Passengers board a train at the Amtrak train depot in Mount
Pleasant in 2018. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
phenomenon
Associated Press

Passenger trains Near the Twizzlers

and Sour Patch Kids at

could receive
a New York candy store
are fruit-shaped soft
jelly candies that earned
a spot on the shelves be-

a big expansion
New routes would
include through Iowa
Chicago Tribune
Passenger train
service across the Mid-
west could get a huge
boost in the coming
decades, with multiple
new routes and more
frequent trains running
out of Chicago, under a
concept envisioned by
the Federal Railroad
Administration.
The concept, unveiled
this past week, is in ear-
ly stages and is intended
to be a 40-year frame-
work. It also depends on
state and federal fund-
ing. But as envisioned, it
would include service in
at least a dozen new cit-
ies including Columbus,
Ohio; Fort Wayne, Ind.;
and Madison, Wis.
It calls for a new
route from Chicago to
the Quad Cities, extend-
ing on to Des Moines
and Omaha, Neb.
Another new route
could connect a train
line out of Dallas to
Wichita, Kan., and on
to Chicago, said Laura
Kliewer, director of
the Midwest Interstate
Passenger Rail
Commission.
The rail commission
also could explore ser-
vice to Canada, most
likely between Detroit
and Toronto, Kliewer
said. Other cities in the
12-state area studied
could get more frequent
passenger service.
Chicago would be a
major rail hub under
the vision, and smaller
hubs could be created
in Indianapolis, Kansas
City and Minneapolis,
Kliewer said.
“While America’s in-
terstate highway system
and commercial avia-
tion industry are vital
and indispensable, rail
can and must play a key
role in our multimodal
transportation system,”
said Amit Bose, deputy
administrator of the
Federal Railroad
Administration.
That concept could
have implications for
the Chicago area’s exist-
ing commuter, freight
and Amtrak routes, and
for Chicago Union Sta-
tion, which served more
than 3 million Amtrak
passengers annually be-
fore the pandemic.
Officials would be
tasked with boost-
ing passenger service
without disrupting
existing service, said
Peter Schwartz, chief of
project engineering and
transportation planning
at the Federal Railroad
Administration.
They also could look
at reconfiguring Chi-
cago’s Union Station
and potentially adding
tracks, he said.
“There’s no question
that there’s a lot more
that could be done with
the (Union Station) foot-
print that’s here today,”
he said.
The concept also is
intended to better serve
rural areas, said Sharon
Negele, the rail commis-
sion’s financial officer
and Indiana representa-
tive. She touted the en-
vironmental benefits of
increased rail travel.
The Federal Railroad
Administration’s Mid-
west idea complements
an Amtrak vision for ex-
panded service nation-
wide the rail service put
out in the spring.
Amtrak’s idea in-
cluded 39 possible new
routes and improve-
ments to 25 existing
routes by 2035, intended
to create more frequent
and reliable service.
Along with the rail
service’s vision, Amtrak
CEO William Flynn sent
a letter to Congress in
late May calling for
action including provid-
ing “dedicated, predict-
able and sufficient
funding.”
“Intercity passenger
rail has been under-
funded for decades as
federal funding has
prioritized highways
and aviation despite the
clear strengths offered
by rail service in certain
markets,” Flynn said in
the letter. “Amtrak and
our state, local and host
railroad partners need
increased funding levels
and new, more pre-
dictable mechanisms,
such as an Intercity
Passenger Rail Trust
Fund, like what virtu-
ally every other mode of
transportation already
enjoys, to fund annual
grants and the Federal
Railroad Administra-
tion’s discretionary
grant programs.”
cause they went viral on
TikTok.
A flood of videos last
year showed people bit-
ing into the fruit gum-
mies’ plastic casing,
squirting artificially
colored jelly from their
mouths.
Store staffers at
the candy store chain
It’Sugar urged it to stock
up, and the gummies
did so well that TikTok
became part of the com-
pany’s sales strategy.
The chain now has signs
with the app’s logo in
stores, and goods from
TikTok make up
5 percent to 10 percent
of weekly sales.
“That’s an insane
number,” said Chris
Lindstedt, the assistant
vice president of mer-
chandising at It’Sugar,
which has about 100
locations.
TikTok, an app best
known for dancing vid-
eos with 1 billion users
worldwide, also become
a shopping phenomenon.
National chains,
hoping to get TikTok’s
mostly young users into
its stores, are setting
up TikTok sections,
reminiscent of “As seen
on TV” stores that sold
products hawked on
infomercials.
At Barnes & Noble,
tables display signs with
#BookTok, a book rec-
ommendation hashtag
on TikTok that has
pushed paperbacks up
the bestseller list.
Amazon.com has a
section of its site it calls
“Internet Famous,” with
lists of products that
anyone who has spent
time on TikTok would
recognize.
The hashtag #Tik-
TokMadeMeBuyIt has
gotten more than 5 bil-
lion views on TikTok,
and the app has made a
grab-bag of products a
surprise hit — leggings,
purses, cleaners, even
feta cheese.
Videos of a baked feta
pasta recipe sent the
salty white cheese fly-
ing out of supermarket
refrigerators earlier this
year.
It’s hard to crack the
code of what becomes
the next TikTok
sensation.
How TikTok decides
who gets to see what
remains largely a mys-
tery. Companies often
are caught off guard and
tend to swoop in after
their product has taken
off, showering creators
A column of candy featured in TikTok videos is displayed at a candy store in New York City. (Associ-
ated Press)
with free stuff, hiring
them to appear in com-
mercials or buying up
ads on TikTok.
“It was a little bit of a
head scratcher at first,”
said Jenny Campbell,
the chief marketing
officer of Kate Spade,
remembering when
searches for “heart”
spiked on Kate Spade’s
website earlier this year.
The culprit turned
out to be a 60-second
clip on TikTok posted by
22-year-old Nathalie Co-
varrubias. She recorded
herself in a parked car
gushing about a pink
heart-shaped purse she’d
just bought.
Others copied her
video, posting TikToks
of themselves buying the
bag or trying it on with
different outfits. The
$300 heart-shaped purse
sold out.
“I couldn’t believe it
because I wasn’t trying
to advertise the bag,”
said Covarrubias, a
makeup artist from Sa-
linas, Calif., who wasn’t
paid to post the video.
“I really was so excit-
ed and happy about the
purse and how unique it
was.”
Kate Spade sent Co-
varrubias free items in
exchange for posting an-
other TikTok when the
bag was back in stores.
That video was marked
as an ad.
It turned what was
supposed to be a limited
Valentine’s Day purse
into one sold year-round
in different colors and
fabrics, such as faux fur.
TikTok is a powerful
purchasing push for Gen
Z because the creators
seem authentic, as op-
posed to Instagram,
where the goal is to post
the most perfect looking
selfie, said Hana Ben-
Shabat, the founder of
Gen Z Planet.
Her advisory business
focuses on the genera-
tion born between the
late 1990s and 2016 — a
group that practically
lives on TikTok.
Users trust the recom-
mendations, she said.
“This is a real person,
telling me a real story,”
she said.
Instagram, YouTube
and other platforms
connected people with
friends or random funny
videos before marketers
realized their selling
potential.
For TikTok, losing the
veneer of authenticity
as more ads and ways
to shop flood the app
could be a risk. If ads are
“blatant or awkward, it’s
more of a problem,” said
Colin Campbell, an as-
sistant professor of mar-
keting at the University
of San Diego.
Influencers who get
paid to shill for brands
are getting better at
pitching goods to their
followers, telling them
that even though they
get paid, they’re recom-
mending a product they
actually like.
“They feel like they
are our friend, even
though they aren’t,” he
said.
Channah Myers,
a 21-year-old barista
from Goodyear, Ariz.,
bought a pair of $50 Ae-
rie leggings after seeing
several TikTok videos
of women saying the
cross-banding on the
waist gave them a more
hourglass-like figure.
“It’s funny, I shop re-
ligiously at Aerie and I
had no idea they existed
until I saw them on Tik-
Tok,” Myers said.
After those Aerie leg-
gings went viral on Tik-
Tok in 2020, the teen re-
tailer expanded the same
design to biker shorts,
tennis skirts and bikini
bottoms, all of which
can be found by search-
ing “TikTok” on Aerie’s
website.
It wouldn’t say how
many of the leggings
sold.
TikTok, along with
other tech companies
such as Snapchat, is
gearing up to challenge
Facebook as a social-
shopping powerhouse.
Shopping on social
media sites, known as
social commerce, is a
$37 billion market in the
United States, according
to eMarketer, mostly
coming from Instagram
and its parent company
Facebook.
By the end of 2025,
that number is expected
to more than double, to
$80 billion.
Last month, TikTok
began testing a way for
brands to set up shop
within the app and send
users to checkout on
their sites. But TikTok
has hinted that more is
coming.
It eventually may
look more like Douyin,
TikTok’s sister app in
China, where products
can be bought and sold
without leaving the
app — just as you can
on Facebook and
Instagram.
“Over the past year,
we’ve witnessed a new
kind of shopping experi-
ence come to life that’s
been driven by the Tik-
Tok community,” said
TikTok General Man-
ager Sandie Hawkins,
who works with brands
to get them to buy ads on
the app and help them
boost sales.
“We’re excited to
continue listening to our
community and building
solutions that help them
discover, engage and
purchase the products
they love.”
That includes the
Pink Stuff, a British
cleaning product that
wasn’t available in the
United States last year.
That all changed when
videos of people using it
to scrub rusty pots and
greasy countertops went
viral on TikTok, pushing
the brand to cross the
Atlantic.
It launched in the
United States in January
on Amazon.com, with
1.3 million tubs sold
monthly, and is getting
calls from major stores
wanting to stock it, ac-
cording to Sal Pesce,
president and chief oper-
ating officer of the Pink
Stuff U.S.
“I’ve never seen any-
thing like this,” he said.

Planning/Don’t try to make changes during the ‘storm’

; FROM PAGE 1F
needs and overall allocations
will create a more objective
view of your long-term finan-
cial path.
Using a process that in-
cludes interactive tools that
allows the simulation of future a plan proactively when these
“storms” and how they af-
fect your financial home will
lessen the anxiety level and
decrease the “surprise” factor
when they do occur.
Identifying what you feel
is a comfortable level of fluc-
tuation before it happens is a kets, worrisome investors may
priority when building your
wealth plan.
Return is important, but
not at the expense of comfort.
Identifying these issues up-
front lessens the likelihood of
emotional reaction later.
Unfortunately, fear and
greed are the primary emo-
tions that drive financial deci-
sions at the extremes. Building
emotions are not present will
help create an objective disci-
pline for your plan.
Market volatility can trig-
ger some emotional decisions
at both ends of the scale.
During extreme down mar-
feel the need to over-allocate
to cash, bonds, CDs and other
low-yield options that cripple
long-term wealth-building.
Overly optimistic investors
may see “buy” signs every-
where they look and get in over
their heads. Creating a plan
ahead of time allows clients to
weather the storm knowing
they have prepared for it.
The goal is not to make
changes during the storm but
to build a home that will with-
stand the volatility along the
way that is within an accept-
able comfort zone.
Having someone in your
life who understands your
attitudes toward money can
be one of the biggest benefits
when developing an objective
plan.
It is important this person
knows you, your history and
your goals before you let bad
news or scary headlines dis-
tract you from a well-thought-
out plan.
FOCUS ON LONG TERM
There always seems to be
some issue or event the mar-
ket appears to focus on and
create fluctuation in your
portfolio.
Managing your plan with
a long-term perspective will
help lessen the importance of
these movements and allow
you to focus on what is impor-
tant in your daily life.
Your financial home will
evolve over time and is a long-
term ongoing project. Evalu-
ating your goals on a regular
basis and making adjustments
will allow you to handle any
troubling weather that comes
your way.
And knowing your plan is
customized to your needs may
allow you to sleep soundly
each night.
This article is provided by Pete Alepra,
a financial adviser at RBC Wealth
Management in Cedar Rapids; peter.
alepra@rbc.com. The opinions in this
article are for general information only and
are not intended to provide specific advice
or recommendations for any individual.
RBC Wealth Management is a division of
RBC Capital Markets, a member of the
NYSE, FINRA and SIPC.
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BUSINESS 380

How I.C. Facebook worker unfriended a giant

Frances Haugen
part of rise in social
media whistleblowers
Associated Press
Less than two years
after Facebook hired
Frances Haugen to help
correct dangerous distor-
tions spilling across its
platform, she had seen
enough.
The idealism she and
countless others had
invested in promises by
the world’s biggest social
network to fix itself had
been woefully misplaced,
she decided.
The harm Facebook
and sibling Instagram
were doing to users
was rivaled only by the
company’s resistance to
change, she concluded.
And the world beyond
Facebook needed to
know.
When the 37-year-old
data scientist from Iowa
City went before Con-
gress and the cameras
earlier this month to
accuse Facebook of pur-
suing profit over safety,
it was likely the most
consequential choice of
her life.
And for a still-young
industry that has mush-
roomed into one of soci-
ety’s most powerful forc-
es, it spotlighted a rising
threat: The era of the Big
Tech whistleblower has
most definitely arrived.
“There has just been
a general awakening
amongst workers at the
tech companies ask-
ing, ‘What am I doing
here?’ ” said Jonas Kron
of Trillium Investment
Management, which
has pushed Google to
increase protection for
employees who raise the
alarm about corporate
misdeeds.
“When you have
hundreds of thousands
of people asking that
question, it’s inevitable
you’ll get more whistle-
blowing,” he said.
Haugen is by far the
most visible of those
whistleblowers. And her
accusations that Face-
book’s platforms harm
children and incite politi-
cal violence — backed up
by thousands of pages of
Former Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen departs after an
Oct. 5 hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
tion Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and
Data Security, on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)
the company’s own re-
search — may well be the
most damning.
But she is just the
latest to join in a grow-
ing list of workers from
across tech determined
to speak out. Nearly
all are women, and ob-
servers say that’s no
coincidence.
Even after making
inroads, women and es-
pecially women of color
remain outsiders in the
heavily male tech sector,
said Ellen Pao, an ex-
ecutive who sued Silicon
Valley investment firm
Kleiner Perkins in 2012
for gender discrimina-
tion.
That status positions
them to be more criti-
cal and see “some of the
systemic issues in a way
that people who are part
of the system and who
are benefiting from it
the most and who are
entrenched in it, may not
be able to process,” she
said.
In recent years, work-
ers at companies includ-
ing Google, Pinterest,
Uber and Theranos,
as well as others from
Facebook, have sounded
alarms about what they
say are gross abuses
of power by those in
control.
Their new outspoken-
ness is ruffling an indus-
try that touts its power
to improve society, while
earning billions. Work-
ers, many well educated
and highly paid, have
long embraced that ethic.
But for a growing
number, faith in the com-
pany line is fading.
Still, there is a differ-
ence between stewing
about your company’s
failings and revealing
them to the world. There
is a price to be paid, and
Haugen certainly knew
that.
“It absolutely is ter-
rifying, terrifying to
get to the point of doing
what she did. And you
know that the moment
you start your testimony,
your life is going to
change,” said Wendell
Potter, a former health
insurance executive who
blew the whistle on his
own industry’s practices.
Since coming before
Congress, Haugen has re-
ceded from public view.
A representative said she
and her lawyer were un-
available for comment.
The daughter of a
doctor and an academic
turned pastor, Haugen
arrived in the spotlight
with sparkling creden-
tials, including a Har-
vard business degree and
multiple patents.
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Long before she be-
came a whistleblower,
Haugen was something
of a local wunderkind.
Raised near the Uni-
versity of Iowa campus
in Iowa City, where her
father taught medicine,
Haugen was a member of
a high school engineer-
ing team ranked in the
country’s top 10.
Years later, when the
local newspaper wrote
about Haugen’s landing
at Google, one of her ele-
mentary school teachers
recalled her as “horrifi-
cally bright,” while not
at all self-conscious.
In the fall of 2002,
she left for the newly
established Olin College
of Engineering, outside
Boston, to join its first
class of 75.
Many had declined
offers from top universi-
ties, attracted by Olin’s
offer of a free education
to the first arrivals, and
the chance to join in
creating something new,
said Lynn Andrea Stein,
a computer science
professor.
But the school
couldn’t get its accredita-
tion until it began pro-
ducing graduates, mak-
ing it a non-entity in the
eyes of some employers
and presenting a hurdle
for Haugen and others
like her.
“The Google folks ac-
tually threw out her ap-
plication without reading
it,” Stein said.
Stein helped persuade
the company to change
its mind, sending an
email that described
Haugen as a “voracious
learner and an absolute
can-do person” with ter-
rific work ethic and com-
munication and leader-
ship skills.
At Google, Haugen
worked on a project to
make thousands of books
accessible on mobile
phones, and another to
help create a fledgling
social network.
Google paid for Hau-
gen to get a graduate
business degree at Har-
vard, where a classmate
said even then they were
having deep discussions
about the societal effects
of new technology.
“Smartphones were
just becoming a thing.
We talked a lot of about
ethical use of data and
building things the
wrong way,” said Jona-
than Sheffi, who gradu-
ated with Haugen in 2011.
“She was always
super-interested in the
intersection of people’s
well-being and technol-
ogy.”
Sheffi said he laughed
when he saw social me-
dia posts in recent days
questioning Haugen’s
motivations for whistle-
blowing.
“Nobody puts Frances
up to anything,” he said.
While at Harvard,
Haugen worked with
another student to create
an online dating platform
to put like-minded mates
together, a template the
partner later turned into
dating app Hinge.
Haugen returned to
Google, before moving on
to jobs at Yelp and Pin-
terest, at each stop work-
ing with the algorithms
engineered to under-
stand the desires of users
and put them together
with people and content
that fit their interests.
In late 2018, she was
contacted by a recruiter
from Facebook.
In recent interviews
on “60 Minutes” and with
the Wall Street Journal,
Haugen recalled telling
the company that she
might be interested in
a job if it involved help-
ing the platform address
democracy and misinfor-
mation.
She said she told
managers about a friend
who had been drawn to
white nationalism after
spending time in online
forums, and her desire to
prevent that from hap-
pening to others.
In June 2019, she
joined a Facebook team
that focused on network
activity surrounding
international elections.
But she has said she
grew frustrated as she
became more aware of
widespread misinforma-
tion online that stoked
violence and abuse and
that Facebook would not
adequately address.
She resigned in May,
but only after working
for weeks to sift through
internal company re-
search and copy thou-
sands of documents.
Still, she told congres-
sional investigators,
she is not out to destroy
Facebook, just change it.
“I believe in the po-
tential of Facebook,” she
said during testimony.
“We can have social
media we enjoy, that con-
nects us, without tearing
apart our democracy,
putting our children in
danger, and sowing eth-
nic violence around the
world. We can do better.”
Maybe, but those who
know the industry say
Facebook and other tech
giants will dig in.
“There’s going to be a
clamp-down internally.
There already has been,”
said Ifeoma Ozoma, a
whistleblower at Pin-
terest now trying to
encourage others in tech
to expose corporate mis-
conduct.
“In that way there’s
a chilling effect through
the increased surveil-
lance that employees will
be under.”
Within the larger com-
munity of whistleblow-
ers, many are rooting for
Haugen, praising what
they see as her gutsiness,
calm intellect and the
forethought to take the
paperwork that reinforc-
es her case.
“What she did right
was she got all her docu-
mentation in a row and
she did that upfront. …
That’s going to be her
power,” said Eileen Fos-
ter, a former executive at
Countrywide Financial
who struggled to find an-
other job in banking af-
ter exposing widespread
fraud in the company’s
approval of subprime
loans in 2008.
Sophie Zhang, a for-
mer Facebook employee
who last year accused
the social network of
ignoring fake accounts
used to undermine
foreign elections, said
she was surprised the
company had not caught
Haugen when she was
going through company
research.
“I think they’ve fallen
into a trap where they
keep making denials and
hunkering down and
becoming more incendi-
ary,” she said. “And this
causes more people to
come forward.”
Still, Haugen’s actions
could well make it im-
possible for her to land
another job in the indus-
try, Foster said. And if
Facebook goes after her
legally for taking docu-
ments, it will have the re-
sources for battle that a
lone employee can never
hope to match.
Foster recalls how her
boss at Countrywide, an
ally, begged her to give
it up.
“He said, ‘Eileen, what
are you doing? You are
just a speck. A speck!’
And I said, ‘Yeah, but I’m
a pissed-off speck,’ ” Fos-
ter said.

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PROMOTIONS
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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell ordered a systemwide review of ethics rules and
since has asked the Fed inspector general to take a look at the trading of “certain senior officials.”
(Associated Press)

Ethics probe spurs calls

for more Fed oversight
Chairman Powell:
‘No one is happy’
Bloomberg News
even more during the
pandemic.
The search for new
leaders in Dallas and
Boston, which on Tues-
day announced it has
nance and relationships
between directors and
Celebrate your
presidents are hard to
discern.
Bloomberg News in
2016 sought the annual

ANNIVERSARY
The Federal Reserve’s begun looking for a new evaluations of the 12
most embarrassing eth- president, may shift regional chiefs via Free-
ics scandal in years has more influence in that dom of Information Act
cast a harsh spotlight on process to Washington, requests.
D.C. The banks declined,
the world’s most pow-
erful central bank and Democrats such as
Sen. Robert Menendez of
with one citing court rul-
ings that “performance
In the Gazette Milestones
the arm’s-length gover-
nance of its 12 regional New Jersey are urging evaluations are intensely
branches. Powell to improve di- personal and not subject
Their chiefs are versity among the Fed’s to public disclosure.”
among America’s most leaders. The Boston Fed board
influential public offi- Regional presidents chairman through a
cials, helping to set bor- are currently almost all spokesman declined to
rowing costs for the white and only three are comment on whether
$23 trillion economy. women. there was an internal
But the process of Republicans wrote review of Rosengren’s
picking them, and assess- to the boards of both investment decisions.
ing their performance reserve banks Tuesday, The Dallas Fed board
in office, has long been urging them to remain chair and general coun-
shielded from public independent of partisan sel both reviewed Rob
scrutiny and account- politics and pick candi- Kaplan’s investment
ability — something dates that adhere to the activities and found they
that’s now drawing “narrow statutory mis- “were in compliance
mounting sion” of the Fed with the rules and poli-
criticism. without regard to cies of the Federal Re-
When Dallas Fed political pressure. serve System,” said the
President Robert The fight for bank’s spokesman James
Kaplan stepped sway over the cen- Hoard.
down last month tral bank and its Peter Conti-Brown,
in the wake of influential region- an associate professor
disclosures about al branches goes at the University of
Robert back more than a Pennsylvania, said local
his trading activ-
Kaplan century and is as boards have “zero
ity, his board of
directors said his complicated as its accountability.”
investing was in peculiar public- “The idea that they
line with the rules private structure. would have a serious
and it lauded his Created in role akin to the U.S. Sen-
contribution. 1913, the Fed ate in determining who
Jerome Powell system was a our central bankers are
struck a different compromise. and how they are behav-
tone. Banks wanted a ing I think is wrong,”
“No one is hap- Eric reserve backstop said Conti-Brown.
py,” the Fed chair- Rosengren after enduring a “It is not good demo-
man told reporters damaging run of cratic hygiene.”
days before news of the financial crises. Popu-
departure of Kaplan and lists were suspicious of
THE LATEST STRAW
Boston Fed chief Eric Wall Street, and Presi- The trading contro-
Rosengren, who retired dent Woodrow Wilson versy is the latest embar-
citing ill health after wanted a supervisory rassment for the Fed.
his trading also drew board in Washington. Richmond Fed Presi-
scrutiny. The result was a net- dent Jeffrey Lacker re-
Powell ordered a sys- work of a dozen regional signed abruptly in 2017
temwide review of ethics banks — each with as he announced his role
rules and since has asked shareholders and direc- in a leak of confidential
the Fed inspector general tors — and a politically information about policy
to take a look at the trad- appointed seven-member options the central bank
ing of “certain senior Board of Governors. was considering in 2012.
officials.” “The Fed still lives The New York Fed
with this original sin. also came under fire dur-
WHO OVERSEES THE FED? It is not clear who the ing the financial crisis af-
reserve banks are ac- ter it granted a waiver al-
The contrasting re-
countable to,” said Kaleb lowing a Goldman Sachs
sponses point to a ques-
Nygaard, a senior re- board member to stay on
tion present since the
search associate at the as a member of the New
Fed’s creation: Who
Yale Program on Finan- York Fed board after
really governs its semi-
cial Stability. Goldman Sachs became a
autonomous regional
“It is something that bank holding company in
branches?
has been an issue from September 2008.
While the questions
the very beginning.” The change in status
about financial dealings
Reserve banks initial- put it under New York
have broadened — Sen.
ly had significant auton- Fed supervision.
Elizabeth Warren includ-
omy, until legislation af- Past congressional ef-
ed transactions by Fed
ter the Great Depression forts to revamp the Fed
Vice Chairman Richard
concentrated power over system haven’t gone far.
Clarida in urging the Se-
monetary policy with the Lawmakers, just as they
curities Exchange Com-
Washington Board. did when the institution
mission investigate for
Reserve banks are was created, like hav-
possible insider trading
governed by regional ing a regional balance of
— regional Feds remain
directors, but who holds power to offset the influ-
in focus.
real governance power is ence of Washington and
“The notion of a quasi-
public private institution
opaque. Wall Street. 319-368-8873
that has a direct vote There is no public vet- Six former Fed presi-
on monetary policy and ting of Fed bank chiefs, dents interviewed by
such a low level of trans- unlike Washington Bloomberg News also
parency undermines Board members, who are defended the current TheGazette.com/Milestones
democratic accountabil- nominated by the U.S. structure.
ity,” Brookings Institu- president and confirmed They argued it pro-
tion senior fellow Sarah by the U.S. Senate. tects Fed independence
Binder said. Search committees to
She said the Fed needs select regional presidents
because the regional
presidents are not politi-
Milestones@TheGazette.com
a degree of transparency are run by each board, cal appointees, while lo-
that matches its expand- but they don’t produce a cal directors provide on-
ing footprint in the public report. the-ground insight into
economy, which grew Day-to-day gover- the regional economy.
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Detroit Free Press venile jail for robbery, found Christ By Karla L. Miller, Washington Post who had been ordered back to the
and became a Christian hip-hop office after “doing everything right

T
There are now six brands of rent- artist known as E-Fetti. o say my recent column on for 18 months” of remote work end-
al e-scooters cruising the sidewalks Since COVID-19 hit, Detroit has “The Great Resignation” ed up with breakthrough cases of
and streets of Detroit, up from none been the only city where Boaz’s fleet touched a nerve is an under- COVID-19.
four years ago. of 400 scooters operates. However, statement. Hundreds of online com- For Katherine Vickery of Tam-
All but one are stand-up scooters. the company plans to deploy in Los ments and dozens of emails from pa, who was hospitalized in 2015
For the casual rider, those brands Angeles later this fall, then expand readers who identified with the for flu-induced pneumonia, it was
are more or less interchangeable, to other cities next year if and when piece related how pandemic work- frightening being called back to
aside from differing color schemes, it can obtain more investment. ing conditions finally drove them work inside a busy campus build-
logos and smartphone apps to down- Nnani’s idea for Boaz came after out of jobs they would otherwise ing. “Working in an environment
load and constantly update. witnessing an e-scooter crash in have stayed in. where vaccines and masks were not
The other company, Boaz Bikes, Dallas in 2018. He recalls seeing Some readers said they quit required terrified me,” she said in
is unique in its design. Most no- blood everywhere and the injured because of acute health concerns an email.
ticeably, it’s the only e-scooter in rider leaving by ambulance. during the coronavirus pandemic. The university where Vickery
the city with a seat for riders and “I was thinking, man, how unsafe Others described a long-simmering worked called employees back to
a basket for carrying things. The these scooters were and for this per- but barely tolerable state of discon- campus because “deans wanted to
company says its sit-down scooters son, life was going to be different,” tent in which the pandemic abrupt- see bustling buildings again so stu-
are safer than regular scooters and Nnani said. ly cranked up the heat, making the dents could have a ‘normal’ experi-
accessible to more potential riders. Boaz is still very much an under- situation “jump or boil.” ence,” according to Vickery.
Boaz also is one of the few Black- dog compared to the big nationwide Some people set off on new career Employees with health concerns
owned e-scooter companies in the e-scooter companies such as Bird paths; others decided to speed up were required to apply under the
country, and one of only two that and Lime and Ford-owned Spin. their retirement by a few months or Americans With Disabilities Act to
are headquartered in Detroit and “It’s really just a relationship years. keep working remotely. After sub-
not the West or East Coast. model and it’s all about who you Many departing workers said mitting documentation from two
Boaz founder and CEO Emil know,” Nnani said. “If you’re not their employers didn’t take the doctors, Vickery was offered the
Nnani, 32, has had one of the most in that network, if you didn’t go to COVID-19 threat or their concerns “accommodation” of a solo office in-
unique journeys to becoming an that school, if you don’t know the about it seriously. side a busy academic building.
e-scooter company founder. connections from the people who One 15-year government em- Vickery left for another universi-
He is a former Bloods gang mem- graduated from that school — I was ployee said they now plan to put in ty that lets her work fully remotely
ber who, after serving stints in ju- completely out of that circle.” their notice after several colleagues with better pay and benefits.

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Associate Director of
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Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Applications are being accepted by the
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interfaces, performing validation
studies of HL7 interfaces, maintaining
and updating standards-based
vocabulary in the SHL’s Laboratory
Information Management System, and
supporting program workflows.
Requires Bachelors Degree in STEM
Field and 1 Year Experience in field
related to electronic data exchange.
To review a full position description
and position requirements, to obtain
contact information, and to apply, visit
our website at https://jobs.uiowa.edu.
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Pay Range:
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$23.20 - $35.24 hourly
Job Description: Join our team as the
Safety Officer at Anamosa State
Penitentiary. In this position you will
have safety oversight of the facility.
Research and review current
regulations, interpretations and
requirements form various
publications and organizations such as
OSHA, NFPA, EPA, DNR. Maintain,
develop and implement training for
staff and offenders regarding safety
issues ranging from Bloodborne
Pathogens to fire extinguisher training
and chain saw safety. Ensure proper
documentation of all such training.
Conduct regular inspections of all
areas and departments of the
institution to ensure compliance with
safety and health laws and regulations.
Provide a monthly report detailing
findings of inspections noting
deficiencies, problems or concerns for
area supervisor to address and
correct.
Benefits: Include IPERS retirement
program, group health & dental
insurance, paid leave, 401(a)/457
retirement plan with employer match,
holiday pay, etc.
For more information and to apply for
this position go to https://das.iowa.gov
Contact Person: Nikki Taylor at
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parent company, the Gazette in Cedar Rapids.
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ideas on how to present news in an ever-changing media landscape.
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O P C I T E D D A E S C R L E S S

Today’s Answer

LIVING
A BITE OF BRAZIL | ALEXANDRA OLSEN
Heart
Known as “palmito” in Brazil, hearts of palm are popular in Central and South American cuisine. (Alexandra Olsen)
OF
Brazilian cooking
Hearts of palm can be eaten many ways, including right out of the jar
I
f there is one ingredient in this
Known for their world that immediately trans-
ports me back to my childhood
‘meat-like’ texture, home in Brazil it is hearts of
hearts of palm palm.
Known as “palmito” in Brazil, this
are often found in vegetable is popular in Central and
South American cuisine.
vegan recipes here In truth, I’ve never tasted this
in the States and vegetable in an American recipe. I
know there must be some, as canned
used as a meat hearts of palm are easy to find in
any canned food aisle, but to me this
replacement. unassuming vegetable tastes like my
grandmother’s house.
HISTORY Creep the Alley
Come explore the dark side of downtown
architecture with this unique historic alley tour
by The History Center’s Mike Bryant. Included
are stories of how alleys function as service
and utility access, how they provided secret
entrances for Prohibition-era businesses as
well as clever retail store designs.
● When: 6 p.m. Tuesday
● Where: Town Centre Plaza, Third Avenue SE
and Third Street SE, Cedar Rapids
THINGS
● Cost: $5 to $7
MUSIC Stone Temple Pilots
TO DO Alternative rock band Stone Temple Pilots
with hits such as “Plush,” “Creep” and
“Interstate Love Song” is touring after
THIS WEEK releasing its eighth studio album last year,
“Perdida.” Opening for the group will be Tyler
Bryant and the Shakedown.
POWERED BY HOOPLA: ● When: 8 p.m. Wednesday
WWW.HOOPLANOW.COM
In Brazil, hearts of palm are usu-
ally served as a side dish with a
heartier lunch or dinner. They are
often seen sharing dish space with
pickled quail eggs, radishes and
beets, all of which I love dearly.
They are also typically served in
their basic tube shape, not chopped
or sliced, simply removed from the
can or jar and placed on the plate.
Sometimes I still like to eat them this
way, as a snack, straight out of the
can.
; HEARTS OF PALM, PAGE 2L
● Where: Alliant Energy PowerHouse Arena,
370 First Ave. NE, Cedar Rapids
● Cost: $30 to $65
HOBBY The Eastern Iowa Orchid Show
and Sale: Orchids are a Scream
Come see hundreds of blooming orchids
exhibited by orchid societies from around the
Midwest and displays of orchid-related crafts
and collectibles.
● When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 24
● Where: Elks Lodge No. 251, 801 33rd Ave.
SW, Cedar Rapids
● Cost: Free
MUSIC Day of the Dead Halloween Bash
Celebrate the Day of the Dead with a bash
that will feature The Mixtape. Don’t forget to
wear your costume for the contest.
● When: 8:30 p.m. Saturday
● Where: The Olympic South Side Theater,
Sunday, October 17, 2021 ● The Gazette 1L
RECIPE
BRAZILIAN SIDE SALAD
The dressing
1 lemon, juiced
3 tablespoons of red wine
vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon of honey
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 teaspoon of dried oregano
Salt to taste
The salad
1 1/2 cups of canned hearts
of palm, diced
1 cup of fresh tomatoes,
diced
Greens of your choice, to
taste
First, make the dressing.
I personally like to combine
all ingredients in a jar and
then shake well, but you
can also stir them together
in a bowl.
Then, combine all your
salad ingredients in a large
bowl. Use as much or as
little of the greens as you’d
like, the real star here is
the palm.
Add salad dressing to the
bowl and toss well before
serving.
Serve as a side or as
your main course. You also
can add any type of protein
to this simple and easy
salad.
Source: Alexandra Olsen
1202 Third St. SE, Cedar Rapids
●Cost: $15 advance, $20 door
OUTDOORS Full Moon Night Hike
Lace up your hiking shoes and venture out at
dusk to join a small group of adventurers for
a guided night hike.
● When: 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday
● Where: Indian Creek Nature Center, 5300
Otis Rd. SE, Cedar Rapids
● Cost: $5 to $7; free kids under 12
HOLIDAY The 5th Realm
Enter the Cedar Hills Sanitorium for a
haunted attraction that is an interactive,
immersive theatrical experience.
● When: 7 to 11 p.m. Thursday, Friday and
Saturday
● Where: Lindale Mall, 4444 First Ave. NE,
Cedar Rapids, inside the entrance next to Von
Maur
● Cost: $15
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LIVING

A Greek-inspired sheet-pan meal

G. Daniela Galarza, SHEET PAN CHICKEN garnish (optional)
Washington Post OR CAULIFLOWER Position a rack in the
middle of the oven and pre-
WITH LEMONY POTATOES heat to 425 degrees.

I
’m not sure where I
read it, but someone
recently pointed out
that recipes today have
to be both incredibly
precise and entirely
adaptable.
Home cooks — myself
included! — want and de-
serve to be set up for suc-
cess. That means know-
ing how many ounces of
chopped yellow onion to
use — and exactly what
to do if you don’t have or
eat onions.
The pandemic is
partially to blame, but
these new metrics for
recipe success also speak
to our varying skill
levels in the kitchen, the
inconsistent availability
of ingredients and our
increasingly global
pantries.
Some cooks have little
access to fresh food,
others are limited by
long commutes or rising
prices, while others are
overwhelmed by options
at megamarkets stocked
with fresh and shelf-
stable ingredients from
all over the world. (The
internet has further in-
creased availability
for some, but not every-
one has access or the
credit necessary to shop
online.)
Aside from the easy
swaps like what to use if
you’re out of fresh lemon
juice (lime juice, white
wine vinegar or rice vin-
egar) or if you hate cilan-
tro (omit it, or use scal-
lions instead), I think a
lot about how to make a
dish vegetarian or vegan.
That’s how I approached
the development of this
recipe, for roasted Greek
Chicken or Cauliflower
Sheet Pan Chicken or Cauliflower with Lemony Potatoes and Kalamata Olives. (Washington Post)
with Potatoes, Arti-
chokes and Olives.
You start with either
chicken quarters — the
ones where the leg and
thigh are attached — or
a whole, large quartered with the flavors you pre- or dried parsley or dill.
cauliflower. These get
rubbed with spices and
herbs and roasted atop
a medley of chopped
potatoes and artichoke
hearts. As it turns out,
two pounds of chicken
quarters (about 4
medium-sized) and a
two-pound cauliflower,
quartered, take the same you can use any neutral- hearts you could use
amount of time to cook.
The potatoes roast
and caramelize as the
artichoke hearts soften.
Then, once it’s out of the you don’t like it, or use 2
oven, you add smashed
olives and some of their
brine. Once it mixes with cloves.
the pan juices, it turns
into a tangy and rich
sauce — whether your
meal is meaty or vegan.
A generous sprinkle of
freshly chopped parsley
adds a peppery finish.
But as always, I have
even more suggestions
for how to make this
fer and the ingredients
available to you.
This recipe was de-
signed for omnivores and can use more or less if
vegetarians, though, if
you make it with cauli-
flower, it’s actually veg-
an. Here are other ways
to adapt it:
Instead of olive oil
tasting oil or melted
butter.
Garlic adds lots of fla- or chopped cabbage or
vor to this, but skip it if
teaspoons of garlic pow- their brine are great here
der instead of the fresh
The lemon zest in com-
bination with the herbs
gives this dish its Greek
flavor though orange zest instead.
AND KALAMATA OLIVES
In a large bowl, mix to-
Active time: 15 minutes
Total time: 1 hour
4 to 6 servings
Oregano, lemon zest
and garlic infuse chicken
quarters — or, a quartered
head of cauliflower — with
aromatic flavors.
Storage Notes: Leftovers
may be refrigerated in a
covered container for up to
4 days.
NOTE: Many chicken leg
quarters are quite large. If
they weigh significantly more
than 2 pounds total, you
may need to increase the
bake time to 1 hour or more.
5 tablespoons olive oil, divided
4 cloves garlic, minced or
finely grated
2 tablespoons finely grated
lemon zest (from 2 large
lemons)
1 1/2 teaspoons dried
would be nice instead, or oregano, or 2 tablespoons
you could use a lemon- chopped fresh oregano
pepper spice blend in- 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt,
stead of the salt, pepper plus more as needed
and lemon zest. 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
No oregano? Use fresh or cracked black pepper
4 chicken leg quarters
The small amount of (about 2 pounds total;
paprika or pepper goes see NOTE), patted dry, or
a long way though you 1 large head cauliflower
(about 2 pounds), trimmed
desired. and quartered
Not into potatoes? 4 Yukon Gold potatoes
How about butternut (about 1 1/2 pounds),
squash or just using all scrubbed and cut into
artichoke hearts? 1-inch cubes
Instead of artichoke One (13.5-ounce) can whole
artichoke hearts, drained
all potatoes, substitute and halved
whole fresh green beans 1/3 cup kalamata olives,
halved or smashed
kale instead.
1/4 cup Kalamata olive brine
Kalamata olives and or 2 tablespoons water
and 2 tablespoons red
but you could skip them, wine vinegar
or use any oily olive. 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
Out of lemon juice? (from 1 or 2 lemons)
Use more brine or an- Small handful (about 1/2
other splash of vinegar ounce) fresh parsley
leaves, chopped, for
gether 3 tablespoons of the
olive oil, the garlic, lemon
zest, oregano, salt and pa-
prika or black pepper. Add
the chicken or cauliflower
and, using your hands, rub
the mixture into the meat or
vegetable.
On a large, rimmed bak-
ing sheet, combine the po-
tatoes and artichoke hearts.
Drizzle with the remaining
olive oil, and toss.
Lay the quarters atop
the potatoes and artichoke
hearts and roast for 30
minutes. Toss the potatoes
and artichoke hearts so they
brown evenly. Rotate the
pan, then roast for an addi-
tional 20 to 30 minutes, or
until the chicken is cooked
— an instant-read ther-
mometer should read 165
degrees when inserted into
the thickest part of the thigh
— or cauliflower is crisp on
the outside but fork-tender
all the way through.
Remove the pan from the
oven and add the olives,
olive brine and lemon juice.
Use a spatula or wooden
spoon to help mix any
browned bits into the sauce,
top with chopped fresh
parsley, if using, and serve
family style.
Nutrition information per
serving (3/4 piece of chicken
or cauliflower, 1 cup of roasted
vegetables), based on 6 | If us-
ing cauliflower: Calories: 293;
Total Fat: 14 g; Saturated Fat:
2 g; Cholesterol: 0 mg; Sodium:
926 mg; Carbohydrates: 38 g;
Dietary Fiber: 9 g; Sugars: 4 g;
Protein: 8 g. If using chicken:
Calories: 463; Total Fat: 27 g;
Saturated Fat: 5 g; Cholesterol:
91 mg; Sodium: 969 mg; Car-
bohydrates: 30 g; Dietary Fiber:
6 g; Sugars: 1 g; Protein: 25 g.
Source: G. Daniela Galarza
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Homemade pumpkin spice Try creamy tomato

is what fall should taste like
By Becky Krystal, Washington Post
Before there was pumpkin
spice latte — and pumpkin spice
Oreos and cereal and deodorant
and pumpkin spice everything
else — there was pumpkin
spice. Or pumpkin pie spice, de-
pending on who is talking about
it and marketing it. Either way,
this aromatic blend has been
maligned and mangled until it’s
often no longer recognizable or
even good.
At this point, even the su-
permarket shelf jar of pumpkin
pie spice seems like a purer
distillation of the concept, so far
from its origins as we now are.
Those origins? A 1936 recipe for
Pumpkin Spice Cake, which we
updated for modern tastes and
techniques.
The original and updated rec-
ipes have in common that they
don’t call for a premade mix.
Instead, you combine individual
spices out of the pantry. With a
pumpkin (pie) spice blend from
the store, the work is done for
you. My advice: Take it a step
above by making your own
blend to have on hand. By doing
so, you gain the convenience of
a premade blend but one that’s
fresher and more vibrant than
what’s at the store, with plenty
of room for personalization.
Plus, you can make as much or
as little as you want, likely with
spices you already have, with-
out buying yet another jar.
While some formulations
call for a variety of spices in
equal amounts, I prefer a more
nuanced approach that uses
cinnamon as the backbone with
ginger playing a strong sup-
porting role. I include smaller
amounts of nutmeg and cloves
relative to the cinnamon and
ginger (a 4:2:1 ratio), because I
find they can easily overwhelm
other flavors, especially in
store-bought blends. I played
around with alternatives that
are a little mellower, at least in
Pumpkin Spice. (Washington Post)
my opinion. Instead of nutmeg,
try mace, which is actually a
case around the nutmeg seed
that tends to run a bit sweeter
and softer. I struggle with the
sharpness of cloves, so I found
allspice a very good substitute.
Which you choose is up to you.
Consider including one ad-
ditional spice on top of the basic
four ingredients. My go-to is
cardamom. In a batch of muf-
fins in which I tested the blend,
it brought a subtle, piney sweet-
ness to the party. My other
twist is granulated orange peel.
But knowing that orange zest
would render the idea of a shelf-
stable blend moot, I turned to
granulated dried orange peel
(not pieces or strips). McCor-
mick is one grocery store brand
that sells it. The citrus flavor
adds an appreciated brightness
and floral delicacy to the mix.
Want to try both? Just make the
full recipe below, divide it in
half, and use half the amount of
cardamom for one mini-batch
and half the orange peel for the
other.
You should feel just as em-
powered, though, to change
any of the ratios or ingredients
pumpkin soup for an
extra dose of comfort
By Ellie Krieger,
Washington Post
With all the fuss over
pumpkin spice, it’s easy
to forget that the orange
squash is a nutritious
vegetable that can also
lean savory. Pumpkin
can be used just like any
other winter squash, cut
into wedges or cubes and
roasted, or simmered
for side dishes salads
and soups. Just don’t
bother cooking that
big carving pumpkin. I
learned the hard way,
when I was just out of
college, that the flesh of
that variety is bland, wa-
tery and fibrous.
Instead, get the
to suit your taste and pantry
smaller kind labeled
supplies. That’s the beauty of a “sugar” or “pie”
homemade blend.
pumpkin, which
cooks up creamy and
dense with a delicate
PUMPKIN SPICE MIX sweetness. Those
Total time: 10 minutes
qualities are brought
Servings: 12 into play in this velvety
We’ve started with a fairly tradi-
tomato soup, adding a
tional cinnamon-led base that al- dynamic layer of interest
lows for you to choose between nut-
to a pot that’s brimming
meg or mace and allspice or cloves, with warming flavors.
depending on your taste.
While you can cer-
Storage Notes: The spice blend tainly use fresh-cooked,
can be stored in an airtight con-
pureed pumpkin to make
tainer at room temperature, prefer- it, taking advantage of
ably in a dark pantry, for up to 6
canned pumpkin works,
months. too, and it makes the
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon soup a completely pan-
1 tablespoon ground ginger try-friendly recipe.
1 1/2 teaspoons freshly grated/
ground nutmeg or mace
1 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice or CREAMY TOMATO
ground cloves PUMPKIN SOUP
1 teaspoon ground cardamom or 1 Active time: 20 minutes
teaspoon granulated dried orange
Total time: 35 minutes
peel) 4 servings
Combine cinnamon, ginger, nut- 1 tablespoon neutral
meg or mace, allspice or cloves oil, such as canola,
grapeseed or safflower
and, if using, cardamom or orange
peel in a small bowl. Stir until thor- 1 small-to-medium onion
oughly incorporated and transfer to (about 5 ounces), diced
a jar or other airtight container. 2 cloves garlic, minced or
finely grated
2 teaspoons finely grated
fresh ginger
2 cups low-sodium vegetable
or chicken broth
One (15-ounce) can no-salt-
added diced tomatoes
with their juices
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 teaspoon table salt or
fine sea salt
1/4 teaspoon ground
cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 cup plus 2 teaspoons
light coconut milk, divided
2 teaspoons honey or maple
syrup
Freshly ground black pepper
(optional)
In medium pot over me-
dium heat, heat oil until
shimmering. Add onion and
cook, stirring occasionally,
until softened, about 3 min-
utes. Stir in garlic and gin-
ger and cook until aromatic,
30 seconds.
Add broth, tomatoes,
pumpkin, salt, cinnamon
and allspice and bring to
a boil. Reduce heat to low
and simmer, uncovered,
stirring occasionally, until
flavors have melded, about
15 minutes. Stir in 1/2
cup of coconut milk and of
honey, and remove from
heat. Using an immersion
blender, puree until
smooth. (Alternatively, let
cool slightly and puree
in batches in a regular
blender.) Divide among 4
bowls, garnish with a drizzle
of coconut milk and pepper,
if using. Serve hot.
Nutrition information per
serving (1 1/4 cup), based on
4 | Calories: 117; Total Fat: 6
g; Saturated Fat: 3 g; Choles-
terol: 0 mg; Sodium: 368 mg;
Carbohydrates: 15 g; Dietary
Fiber: 3 g; Sugar: 7 g; Protein:
2g
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Best apples for making apple pie

By Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post

Y
ou can use any apple to
make an apple pie. Full
stop. However, some
are better than others when it
comes to flavor and texture.
And instead of choosing just
one type of apple, a combina-
tion of at least two or three is
a smart way to get more com-
plex flavors and textures into
your pie.
There are thousands of
varieties of apples across the
globe, so which are best when
it comes time to slice or dice
them into a pie filling?
For starters, you don’t want
an apple that’s soft or mealy,
because it might break down
too much and turn into some-
thing resembling the texture
of baby food. (For example:
McIntosh apples are great for
eating out of hand, but they
don’t hold up well in baking.)
And then there are others that
are either lacking in the flavor
department completely or sim-
ply one-dimensional. (Red De-
licious, we’re looking at you.)
Thankfully, there are plenty
of other options. Below are 10
we recommend you seek out
the next time you’re ready to
bake an apple pie.
• Braeburn. This apple is a
Granny Smith (top left and bottom); Pink Lady (both top left); Golden Delicious (top left and center left); Braeburn (center right); and Honeycrisp (top right and
descendant of Granny Smith,
but slightly sweeter. Some bottom right). (Washington Post photos)
say it tastes almost like a pear
when cooked. the best flavor when used as flavor can be hard to beat.” crisp apple certainly is sturdy
• Cortland. Some might the sole cultivar in an exten- •Jonagold or Jonathan. enough to hold its shape when
shun Cortlands for baking sive apple pie test for Serious Crunchy and sweet-tart, Jo- baked. It’s a nice mix of sweet
because they can get a little Eats. nagolds are a cross between and tart and boasts a vibrant
soft compared to others, but •Granny Smith. Firm and Jonathan and Golden Deli- pink skin (hence the name).
in pies, they hold their shape very tart, this variety is the go- cious apples. They’re one • Winesap. This heirloom
decently and can be a great to for many when it comes to of pastry chef Paola Velez’s cultivar is said to have been
textural addition when used pie because it keeps its shape favorite apples to use in pie around for centuries. “Wine-
with firmer apples. extremely well. But it isn’t along with Granny Smith and sap apples are highly aromatic
• Crispin (Mutsu). In- exactly known for its flavor, so Honeycrisp. with a balanced sweet-tart
troduced in 1949, Crispins
One recipe for apple pie suggests using
five or six different types of apples. Granny Smiths are best used •Northern Spy. Not al- taste and get their name due to
are a cross between Golden in conjunction with sweeter ways the easiest to find, but their distinctive spicy winelike
Delicious and Indo cultivars. and/or more flavorful apples. when you do, these beauties flavor,” per the store Specialty
They have a nice tartness is the variety many would rec- •Honeycrisp. These apples will have you wanting to grab Produce in San Diego.
that works well to balance the ommend. My colleague Becky can be a little pricey at times a bushel or two. My colleague Now, the only question that
sweetness of desserts. Krystal likes it for its acces- because they’re more diffi- Daniela Galarza says this is remains is: Who’s getting the
• Golden Delicious. If you sibility and reliability, and J. cult to grow and have a lower one of her favorites. vanilla ice cream to scoop on
had to pick just one apple, this Kenji Lopez-Alt found it had yield, but as Krystal said, “The •Pink Lady. This super top?

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A spicy chicken sandwich is better for you

By Ann Maloney,
Washington Post
Seems like just about
every fast-food restau-
rant in America has
jumped on the chicken
sandwich bandwagon,
and I’ve tried many of
them. (My favorite is also
nearly everyone else’s
favorite: Popeyes.)
Still, it is rare for
me to stop at fast-food
restaurants, especially
when the thing I’m crav-
ing can be made just as
quickly and almost as
cheaply at home. This
Chipotle Chicken Sand-
wich with Avocado from
cookbook author Toby
Amidor can be on the
table in about 30 min-
utes, and it definitely
scratches my chicken
sandwich itch.
No, it’s not deep fried
like Popeyes, but it still
packs a lot of spicy flavor
because it is marinated
in a hot rub and then
sauteed in a pan on the
stovetop.
In “The Family Immu-
nity Cookbook” (Robert
Rose, 2021), Amidor,
a registered dietitian,
shares the sandwich as
one of the 101 recipes
that she says incorpo-
rate healthier choices in
ingredients. Her goal is
to help people eat well,
which helps to support
their immune system.
Amidor offers insights
into the health benefits
of certain foods, as well
as strategies for shop-
ping, prepping and por-
tioning. She notes that
part of making healthful
home cooking more ac-
cessible is removing the
stress in the kitchen by
using few bowls and pans
and keeping the prep to
around 30 minutes. This
dish does that.
breast (see NOTE)
1 avocado, peeled, pitted
and thinly sliced
4 whole-wheat rolls, toasted
4 slices Monterey Jack
cheese, plain or pepper
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 tomato, thinly sliced
(optional)
4 large iceberg lettuce leaves
(optional)
In a medium bowl or
resealable container, whisk
together the oil, lime juice,
chipotle powder, smoked pa-
prika, garlic powder, cumin,
coriander and salt to create
a thick paste. Add the chick-
en and turn and, using your
hands, massage until fully
coated. Cover and refriger-
ate for 15 to 20 minutes or
up to 2 hours.
When ready to cook,
lightly oil a large grill pan or
saute pan and set it over
medium heat until the oil
is shimmering. (Turn on
the vent over your stove
because the spicy marinade
is pungent.) Working in
batches if needed, add the
Chipotle Chicken Sandwich with Avocado is healthier than fast food and easy to make. (Washington Post) chicken in a single layer,
and cook until the internal
The sandwich calls for trol the spiciness here keep it light and fresh. chicken breasts handy, you temperature reaches 165
degrees, 3 to 4 minutes per
chicken cutlets, which because you are making can thinly slice the larger
makes it a bit thriftier the rub. If you use it full- chicken breasts into cutlets. side. Discard any remaining
as well, especially if you spice, as I did, turn on CHIPOTLE CHICKEN Use a sharp chef’s knife to marinade.
slice your own cutlets the vent or open a win- SANDWICH WITH carefully and evenly slice Place several slices of
from breast halves. (See dow because when the through the equator of each avocado on one half of
AVOCADO breast half so the breast each roll and top with chi-
instructions for how to chicken hits the hot pan, Active time: 20 minutes |
do that in the NOTE be- it fills the air with pep- opens like butterfly wings. potle chicken and a slice
Total time: 35 minutes
low.) pery scents. Or, adjust Separate the halves into of cheese. Spread 1 table-
4 servings
Amidor uses light as Amidor advises: To two cutlets and trim away spoon of the mayonnaise
Tip: To up the heat level,
mayonnaise and reduced add spiciness, increase any visible fat. on the other half of each
increase the chipotle pow-
fat cheese to keep the fat the chipotle powder and der and smoked paprika by 3 tablespoons canola or roll and top with lettuce and
and calories in line, but I smoked paprika by 1 tea- 1 teaspoon total. To make another neutral oil, plus tomato, if using. Press the
prefer full-fat, and spoon. To decrease the sandwich halves together
a milder sandwich, cut back more for greasing the pan
I used pepper jack in- spiciness, cut back on the on the two spices by 1 tea- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice and serve.
stead of plain Monterey two spices by 1 teaspoon. spoon total. (from 1 to 2 limes)
Jack cheese, for a little The recipes calls for 15 Nutrition information (per
Make Ahead: The chicken 2 teaspoons chipotle powder sandwich) | Calories: 545; Total
extra kick. The spicy minutes to 2 hours of must be marinated for at 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
marinating, but keep in Fat: 36 g; Saturated Fat: 3 g;
chicken cutlet on the least 15 minutes or up to 2 2 teaspoons garlic powder Cholesterol: 106 mg; Sodium:
toasted whole wheat mind that the longer you hours. 2 teaspoons ground cumin 470 mg; Carbohydrates: 16 g;
bun gets creaminess marinate the chicken, Storage Notes: Leftover 2 teaspoons ground Dietary Fiber: 2 g; Sugar: 3 g;
from sliced avocado, the spicier it may get. chicken can be refrigerated coriander Protein: 40 g
making it is easy to go Skip the fries or chips, for up to 3 days. 1/4 teaspoon table salt or
light on or even skip the and serve this sandwich NOTE: If you cannot find fine sea salt Source: Adapted from “The Family
mayonnaise. with a green or fruit chicken cutlets at your 4 (5-ounce) thinly sliced Immunity Cookbook” by Toby
It also is simple to con- salad instead, so you can grocery or have full-size boneless skinless chicken Amidor (Robert Rose, 2021)

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Black Forest icebox cake is no-bake
By Aaron Hutcherson,
Washington Post
The icebox cake is an
ideal dessert for the hot-
ter parts of the year, but
why limit it? At its sim-
plest, all you need
are cookies, whipped
cream, a little assembly
and some time in the
refrigerator (aka icebox)
to create this cool confec-
tion.
Black Forest cake is a
delightful combination of
chocolate cake, whipped
cream, cherries and
kirsch or kirschwasser,
a clear cherry brandy.
Instead of chocolate
cake, this recipe uses
store-bought cookies
(though you could cer-
tainly bake your own
from scratch) that soften
as they sit between lay-
ers of cream and take on
a light and fluffy texture.
Thin and crispy cookies,
such as the icebox classic
Nabisco Famous Choco-
late Wafers, are best in
this kind of cake. (In my
recipe testing, the 365
by Whole Foods Market
Brownie Cookie Thins
were easier to source,
and one box was just
enough for this recipe.)
Instead of a plain
whipped cream, I used
cream cheese for a tart,
more stable cake. It is
sweetened with cherry
preserves and spiked
with kirsch for extra
cherry flavor. Kirsch is
traditional in this des-
sert, but you could omit
it to make the recipe al-
cohol-free or if you don’t
want to buy an entire
bottle of the alcohol just
for this recipe. (Though
I’ve learned that it makes
an excellent adult cherry
cola when mixed with
Coke or Pepsi.) You
could also add a splash
Black Forest Icebox Cake (Washington Post)
of almond extract in its
place to complement the
cherry flavor.
Fresh cherries are
a great option when in
season, but thawed, pre-
viously frozen fruit will
work just fine during
other parts of the year.
Aside from whipping
cream and pitting cher-
ries (if you’re using fresh
fruit), the only other
work required is as-
sembling this chocolate
and cherry icebox cake.
Just add layers of cream,
cookies and cherries to
a pan and then chill it
in the fridge for a few
hours. A springform pan
is your best bet if you
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Turn off the mixer, add
the heavy cream, cherry
preserves and kirsch
and whisk on low until
incorporated. Gradually
increase the speed to
medium-high and whisk the
mixture until it holds stiff
peaks, 1 to 2 minutes,
making sure to scrape
the bowl with a rubber
spatula so that it is fully
incorporated.
Spread a layer of
whipped cream mixture
on the bottom of the pan
and cover with a layer of
cookies, filling any gaps with
broken cookies (breaking
them, if necessary). You
want a reasonably solid
layer where the pieces
touch or overlap a little bit,
but it doesn’t need to be
completely solid. Scatter
2/3 cup cherries on top
of the cookies. Continue
layering with the whipped
cream, cookies and cherries
two more times, ending with
a final layer of cream.
Cover the top of the cake
and refrigerate for 6 to 8
hours or overnight. Crumble
any remaining cookies and
store in an airtight container
at room temperature.
want to attempt clean has set up in the refrig- 3 cups heavy cream To serve, remove the
slices of cake — pop- erator, tightly wrapped 3/4 cup cherry preserves sides of the pan and peel
ping it in the freezer to in plastic wrap and alu- 2 tablespoons kirsch away the parchment strip.
firm up a bit also helps minum foil, for up to 1 50 thin chocolate wafer Place the cake on a serving
— otherwise, a large month. Defrost the cake cookies plate, sprinkle the top with
casserole dish, such as a in the refrigerator over- 2 cups stemmed, pitted and the reserved crumbled cook-
9-by-13-inch pan, works night before you plan to halved sweet cherries, ies, garnish with whole cher-
for scooping out more serve it. plus optional stem-on ries and slice as you would
rustic portions. Wait to Storage Notes: Left- cherries for decorating a layer cake.
sprinkle the top with the overs can be wrapped in
crushed leftover cookies plastic wrap or placed in Grease the sides of a NOTE: If you want to cut
until just before serv- an airtight container and round 9-inch springform pan the cake into thin pieces to
ing to add a little bit of refrigerated, and are best that is 3 inches deep with get 16 slices, it is best to
crunch to smooth cream, within 1 day. cooking spray. Line freeze it for about 30 min-
softened cookies and the sides with a strip of utes first.
firm fruit. parchment.
BLACK FOREST Nutrition per serving based
Make Ahead: The Add the cream cheese to
unsliced cake will keep, ICEBOX CAKE the bowl of a stand mixer
on 16: Calories 336; Total
Non-stick cooking spray for Fat 26 g; Saturated Fat 15 g;
loosely covered with fitted with the whisk attach- Cholesterol 85 mg; Sodium
plastic wrap, in the the pan ment. Whisk on medium 171 mg; Carbohydrates 24 g;
refrigerator for up to 3 12 ounces cream cheese, at speed until smooth, about 3 Dietary Fiber 1 g; Sugar: 17 g;
days, or frozen, after it room temperature minutes. Protein 3 g
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Grey Poupon
uncorks its own
wine — with
mustard seeds
By Karu F. Daniels, deskside speed snack-
New York Daily News ing,” Kraft Heinz brand
manager for sandwich

O
ne of the condi- enhancers Danielle Coo-
ment world’s persmith said with the
“finest plea- announcement. “Here
sures” has upped the at Grey Poupon, we
ante with a brand ex- want lunch to feel wor-
tension into the booze thy of savoring again.”
business. Now on sale for $30
Grey Poupon has for a standard bottle
introduced new white (including a jar of Grey
wine, La Moutarde Vin, Poupon mustard)
which is now on sale. through the website
The name translated GreyPouponWine.com,
from French to English La Moutarde Vin is
means mustard wine. intended for “making
Stuffed Vegetables in Tomato Sauce. (Washington Post) Earlier this month, lunch feel like a feast.”
Kraft Heinz announced During the mid-1800s,

Peppers aren’t the only

the limited-edition alco- Dijon mustard manu-
holic beverage as a “cel- facturers Maurice Grey
ebration” of the white and August Poupon
wine used in its famous partnered to mass pro-
mustard recipe. duce the wine-infused

vegetable worth stuffing

By Joe Yonan, Washington Post
a hefty dose of chopped
parsley and a full table-
end off the bell pepper;
reserve these bits. Halve
pan and nestle the reserved
cut stem ends against
The full-bodied wine condiment in Dijon,
is infused with Grey France.
Poupon mustard seeds Grey Poupon mus-
and uses Viognier tard grew in popularity
grapes from southern in the United States in
France. The company the early 1980s when
said the wine features people wanted more
“bright hints of spice than conventional

I
once thought only spoon of spices: I used each vegetable lengthwise. squash and zucchini, and and pronounced citrus” American yellow
peppers could be a Lebanese seven-spice Using a spoon or corer, place stem-end top back on and “floral character- mustards.
stuffed. My Midwest- blend from Maureen remove flesh in a channel the bell pepper, to prevent istics” making it ideal The condiment be-
ern mom stuffed them Abood’s online store, from zucchini and squash filling from spilling out too to pair with meat and came ensconced in pop
with a mixture of ground but baharat would work and chop flesh. Discard much during cooking. cheese charcuterie culture thanks to a
beef, rice and (minimal) well, as would a pinch seeds from bell pepper. In a large measuring boards, Dijon maple- savvy marketing cam-
seasonings before bak- each of a handful of com- Use a fork or skewer to cup or bowl, mix together glazed salmon, ham and paign touting it as “one
ing them in a tomato mon spices. poke holes all over the out- the diced tomatoes with Gruyere cheese sand- of the world’s finest
sauce. I’ll be honest: With the spices, the side of the vegetables. remaining 1 cup of water, wiches or even Grey pleasures” and a 1981
I preferred the filling tomatoes, the long sim- Set a shallow Dutch tomato paste, remaining 2 Poupon itself. commercial featuring
over the vessel, mostly mering and the one-pot oven, or other oven-safe, tablespoons of lemon juice, “We’ve watched a snooty British man
because I wasn’t (and nature of the dish, it lidded pan that can hold remaining 1/2 teaspoon as leisurely lunches asking “Pardon me,
still am not) a big fan of proved warming and the vegetables in one layer, of salt and pepper. Pour it have been replaced by would you have any
green peppers. homey — just what I over medium heat. Pour in over stuffed vegetables. food delivery apps and Grey Poupon?”
At some point, she want for fall. olive oil, and when it shim- Set pan over medium-
started rolling the filling mers, add onion and cook, high heat and bring mixture
in cabbage leaves in- stirring, until it softens and to a boil. Reduce heat to
stead, and I was hooked. STUFFED VEGETABLES IN lightly browns, about 5 medium-low, cover and cook
What else could be TOMATO SAUCE minutes. Add soaked rice until vegetables are tender
stuffed? Active time: 45 minutes and lentils, the chopped and rice and lentils are
So many vegetables, | Total time: 1 hour 30 vegetable flesh, 1/2 cup cooked, 30 to 45 minutes.
of course — and in so minutes, plus 1 hour or of the water, the parsley, Garnish with additional
many cultures. One of more of soaking time quinoa, 1 tablespoon of the whole parsley leaves and
my favorite Mexican 4 to 6 servings lemon juice, spice mix and serve hot.
dishes is chile relleno, This recipe originally 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cook, Nutrition per serving (half a
another stuffed green called for the use of stirring frequently, until rice stuffed vegetable plus 1/4 cup
pepper — although a po- “vegan mince,” or meat- and lentils start to soften sauce), based on 6 | Calories:
blano is a pretty far cry less crumbles, and you can slightly, about 10 minutes. 236; Total Fat: 6 g; Saturated
from a plain bell. And Remove from heat, let Fat: 1 g; Cholesterol: 0 mg; So-
certainly use them instead dium: 548 mg; Carbohydrates:
what doesn’t taste good of the lentils here, if you’d mixture cool slightly, then
when you coat it in a bat- like. We tested this using fill zucchini and squash 38 g; Dietary Fiber: 8 g; Sugar:
8 g; Protein: 9 g
ter and fry it, especially a Lebanese seven-spice halves with it, and place
after you stuff it with blend, but you can also one half on top of the other
cheese? look for baharat or use to close them up. Fill red Source: Adapted from “The Vegan
The squash family of the combination of spices bell pepper with stuffing. Iraqi Cookbook” by Lamees Grey Poupon uncorks its very own wine. (Business Wire/Kraft
vegetables is full of great listed. Feel free to vary the Place vegetables in same Ibrahim (Babylon Books, 2020) Heinz)
candidates for stuffing. vegetables or use all of a
In the winter, pumpkins single vegetable, as long as
can be hollowed out and you keep the total weight to
baked to showstopping 2 pounds. Serve with rice or
effect. But this time of another grain or a salad.

Breaking news
year, I’ve got yellow Make Ahead: Rice and
summer squash (still) lentils need to be soaked at
coming out of my back- least 1 hour and up to over-
yard garden faster than night in advance of cooking.
I can use them, and now Storage Notes: Stuffed

never stops
that the nights are cool- vegetables can be refriger-
ing down, it feels right to ated for up to 5 days.
stuff them. 1/2 cup long-grain white rice
Dishes like these are a 1/3 cup brown lentils
staple of Iraqi and other 1 medium-to-large zucchini
Middle Eastern cooking,

(and neither do we).

(12 ounces)
and it was in an Iraqi 1 medium-to-large summer
cookbook that I found squash (12 ounces)
my latest method. The 1 large red bell pepper (8
book, by Lamees Ibra- ounces)
him, a Baghdad-born 2 tablespoons extra-virgin
Londoner, has recipes olive oil Unlock instant access to breaking news, the latest scores,
for stuffed zucchini,
stuffed cucumber and,
1 medium yellow onion (8 award-winning photo galleries, videos, and more.
ounces), chopped
my pick, stuffed mixed 1 1/2 cups water, divided
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flat-leaf parsley, chopped,
sauce. plus more leaves for
I love the combina- garnish
tion approach, because 1/4 cup red or white quinoa
it offers the most flex- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon
ibility. I used a yellow juice, divided
squash from my garden, 1 tablespoon baharat or
plus a zucchini from Lebanese seven-spice
the farmers market and (may substitute a scant
a bell pepper from the 1/2 teaspoon each
grocery store. If I had of ground coriander,
run across any appro- cinnamon, cloves, cumin,
priately sized (that is, nutmeg, turmeric, ginger)
not gigantic) eggplants, I 1 teaspoon fine sea salt or
would’ve subbed in one table salt, divided
of those instead. Ibra- One (14.5-ounce) can diced
him’s recipes are vegan, tomatoes and their juices
so she calls for using 2 tablespoons tomato paste
“vegan mince” (or what 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground
we might see marketed black pepper
as crumbles) and grains In a small bowl, combine
in her stuffing, and that the rice and lentils and add
would work just fine, but water to cover. Soak for at
I wanted to use up some least 1 hour and up to over-
of the (many) lentils in night, then drain.
my pantry instead. Cut off the stem ends of
My favorite aspects of the zucchini and summer
her recipe are the use of squash and cut the stem
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Pizza salad features

tomatoes, mozzarella
and marinated beans
By Joe Yonan, Washington Post

If you’re a fan of the con-

venience and versatility of
canned beans but you’ve
thought they could use a fla-
vor boost, I’ve got two words
for you: Marinate them.
Beans can soak up the fla-
vors in a simple combination
of vinegar, olive oil, garlic,
basil and red-pepper flakes
— and they can do it even
more quickly with the appli-
cation of a little heat. The fol-
lowing use of this idea comes
from Jenny Rosenstrach’s
new book, “The Weekday
Vegetarians” (Clarkson Pot-
ter, 2021), which is full of her
ideas for eating meatless five
days a week and then being
free for carnivorous splurges
The pink box is optional, but very effective for Ted Lasso messaging purposes. (Bloomberg News) on two. Rosenstrach calls
for marinating the beans in
Pizza Salad with Marinated White
Beans. (Washington Post)
Make Ahead: Beans can be
refrigerated for up to 5 days be-
fore assembling the salad.
FOR THE MARINATED BEANS
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 garlic clove, halved
Fine sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
8 fresh basil leaves, chopped, or
1 rosemary sprig, left whole
Pinch crushed red pepper flakes

How Milk Bar makes the

the refrigerator for as little 3 cups cooked white beans,
as 15 minutes and as long as such as cranberry, cannellini,
five days. She doesn’t call for or great northern, or two
warming, but I knew — and (15-ounce) cans, rinsed and

addictive Ted Lasso biscuits

verified in testing — that it drained
jump-starts the whole affair FOR THE SALAD
so effectively it’s worth in- 5 ounces lettuce, such as bibb,
corporating into the method. little gem or baby greens of
Marinated beans have all your choice (about 8 cups)
By Kate Krader, Bloomberg News wind, check what kind of pan, biscuit and roll it in doughnut sorts of uses, from simple 1 pint quartered or sliced
does he have a stand mixer, sugar. I think about the 50 dif- side dish to grain-bowl top- tomatoes, preferably grape or
By all accounts, the Emmy how is he cutting them,” she ferent things I can do with it.” ping, but Rosenstrach tosses ripe heirlooms
award-winning British soccer says. The following recipe is from them into what she calls 1 large shallot (3 ounces), thinly
show has been an overwhelm- To celebrate the season fi- Christina Tosi, founder of “pizza salad.” The brilliant sliced
ing hit. nale on Oct. 8, Tosi introduced Milk Bar. thing about it is that the 6 ounces bocconcini (small
In September, Apple re- the Ted Lasso x Milk Bar bis- beans’ marinade becomes mozzarella balls) or 1/2-inch
leased an official Ted Lasso cuit, for free. At the Milk Bar TED LASSO X the salad dressing; unlike cubes fresh mozzarella
biscuit recipe. Consisting of flagships in New York and MILK BAR BISCUITS with meat marinades, there’s 1/2 cup (2 ounces) shaved
just four ingredients — flour, Los Angeles, 500 orders of the Makes 12 Lasso-size slices no need to worry about food- Parmesan cheese
butter, powdered sugar, salt sweets were available in, yes, 2 sticks (1/2 pound) unsalted safety issues in the reusing. 8 large fresh basil leaves,
— the cookies hit the but- little pink boxes. butter, softened By the way, you can in- chopped
tery notes but didn’t provide For those who missed out 1 3/4 cup powdered sugar terpret the “pizza salad” Make the marinated beans:
the compulsive adulation as on the limited offerings, the 3 tablespoons light brown sugar name any way you like here. In a small skillet over medium
seen on TV; many tasters pro- way to sample the dead-simple 3 large egg yolks Rosenstrach calls it that be- heat, whisk together olive oil,
nounced it old-fashioned, like biscuit is to make it yourself. 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour cause it reminds her of her vinegar, garlic, salt, black pep-
the show. Tosi’s version does inspire 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt family’s tradition of topping per, basil and red pepper flakes.
One of the country’s best the kind of stop-everything- Heat oven to 315 degrees and tomato pizza with salad. And Toss in beans, bring mixture to a
bakers saw the opportunity to else fixation portrayed on the prepare an 8-inch square baking this would work beautifully simmer, then remove from heat,
make a more compelling ver- show; they’re superior to the dish with cooking spray. for that — or on the side. I transfer to a bowl, and let come
sion of the viral sweet. Chris- official version. That’s because In a medium bowl, mix the like the name because with to room temperature, about 30
tina Tosi, founder of Milk Bar, Tosi adds egg yolks and a few butter and sugars vigorously until tomatoes, mozzarella and minutes. (If desired, cover and
a bakery embodying the same spoonfuls of brown sugar to smooth. Parmesan, you’ve got many refrigerate overnight or up to 5
unabashed positive energy as the equation, giving her rect- Stir in the egg yolks. Add the of the elements of a simple days.)
the show, is a Ted Lasso fan. angular cookie a terrific, cara- flour and salt, mix just until the pizza, except the crust. Add Make the salad: In a large
“When Season 1 came out, it melized wave of flavor, along dough comes together. (“The some croutons, if you like, shallow bowl, toss together let-
made positivity cool again,” with an addictive chew that less you mix the dough, the more and you’d get even closer. tuce, tomatoes, shallot, mozza-
says Tosi. “And the stickiest enhances the melt-in-your- positive vibes your biscuits will rella, Parmesan and basil. Toss
part of it was the power (of the mouth tenderness. have,” according to Tosi.) Using PIZZA SALAD WITH in beans with marinade and
biscuits) in a tiny little pink The Lasso biscuits will damp hands, press the dough in MARINATED WHITE BEANS serve.
box. It’s a show with the secret not be for sale at Milk Bar an even layer in the pan and bake Active time: 15 mins Nutrition: Per serving (a generous
undertone of the power of stores. Tosi shies away from for 40 to 45 minutes until a thin, Total time: 45 mins (or up to 1 3/4 cups) | Calories: 357; Total
baked goods.” straightforward classics — her golden brown layer forms on top. overnight for marinating) Fat: 21 g; Saturated Fat: 7 g; Cho-
Tosi says she paid particu- chocolate chip cookies include Let cool completely before cutting 6 servings lesterol: 23 mg; Sodium: 226 mg;
lar attention whenever the cornflakes and marshmallows. into two even columns and then To make it vegan, substitute Carbohydrates: 28 g; Dietary Fiber: 7
biscuits appeared on screen, But, she says, “I am confident six even rows. Arrange in pink g; Sugar: 3 g; Protein: 18 g
baked tofu for mozzarella and
studying them like a crime it will inspire something at boxes, if you have them. leave out Parmesan, or choose Source: Adapted from “The Weekday
scene pathologist. “I would re- Milk Bar. I want to take that Source: Christina Tosi of Milk Bar a vegan version such as Violife. Vegetarians” by Jenny Rosenstrach

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A Yellowstone trek?
No prob-llama
By Mary Winston Nicklin,
Washington Post

I
was walking along a
trail in Yellowstone
National Park, medi-
tating on mountains,
breathing in the scent
of pine and sagebrush,
when a llama sneezed in
my ear. With bear spray
strapped to my waist, I
had been expecting to be
startled by another kind
of animal. But Sarek, the
llama I was leading on
our hike, had evidently
inhaled an unwanted ele-
ment as he snacked on
grass and brush. I yelped
as loud as a coyote.
Thus began an adven-
ture that took us off the
traffic-clogged circuits
of Yellowstone into the
majesty and solitude of
Montana wilderness.
Over the course of three
glorious summer days in
the backcountry, I didn’t
think about the pandem-
ic or politics or the un-
certainty of the autumn
ahead. I thought mostly
about llamas, the came-
lids first domesticated by
the Inca in the high-alti-
tude Andean mountains
some 5,000 years ago, a
calm and gentle beast of
burden whose presence
delighted our children
Hikers and llamas traverse the Daly Creek trail in Montana. (Mary Winston Nicklin photos/Washington Post)
and eased the weight on
our backs.
I can’t take credit the trail; Dewey made a
for this llama trekking IF YOU GO humming noise with the
epiphany. That flash of kids’ hugs; and Granite,
brilliance is owed to our
friends who organized
• Yellowstone National the easygoing champion
who could carry the most
Park, 2 Officers Row,
the expedition. It all Yellowstone National Park, weight, had a thing for
started, many moons Wyo.; (307) 344-2860; www. eating spiky thistle.
back, with an email — nps.gov/yell/index.htm A word about bears:
poetic in its brevity. Covering about 3,500 When hiking in the
Subject line: “guys i’ve square miles mostly in backcountry, it’s impor-
figured out our plans for Wyoming and famed for tant to be prepared. We
Montana.” Body: “we its geothermal activity, carried bear spray and
are going backpacking, Beyond the well-traveled learned the rules (if you
WITH LLAMAS.” road circuits, it offers more encounter a bear, make
Wait ... what? than 900 miles of trails a lot of noise and stand
But our friend Dan to explore. The park has your ground). But with a
was onto something. Un- five entrances, named for group of our size, bears
beknown to us, he had points on the compass: could hear us from miles
embarked on a llama ini- North, Northeast, East, away, and there was no
tiation with Dennis Due- South and West. Annual chance of surprising a
nas of Montana Llama pass $70, seven-day pass grizzly.
Guides, an outfitter with for noncommercial vehicle We worried, how-
a farm outside Bozeman. $35. Permits required for ever, whether the llamas
When you haven’t seen all overnight stays in the would be safe at night
good friends in nearly backcountry and must be in the meadows where
two years, separated obtained in person; guests we tethered them near
from your adventur- our tents, more than 100
The writer’s youngest daughter, Cecilia, embraces Dewey. The children developed a deep affection must pay the park entrance yards away from the food
ous travel buddies by a fee and backcountry permit
for the llamas. area. Duenas assured
pandemic and an ocean, fee. Nightly permits for stock
you go all out. And in our parties $5 per person. me that it’s not an issue.
case, “all out” meant that
our group of four adults
is small and compact,
even touted as the clean- pack.”
ture is going to be able to activity is legendary;
sitting atop a massive
Montana Llama Guides, • “Llamas smell differ-
ent and look different
montanallamaguides.com;
and five kids was going est on earth. (A three- The husbands left dormant volcano, Yel- (406) 600-3835. than any kind of food
to do it ourselves, rent- compartment stomach before dawn with two of lowstone has the world’s Just outside Bozeman, source. A bear’s not go-
ing llamas and wrangling allows for regurgitating the most eager kids to highest concentration this llama ranch offers a ing to mess with them.”
them without a guide. and chewing cud. It’s this pick up the trailer with of hot springs and gey- number of activities. Take The biggest bear-related
There was a lot of substance that a llama the llamas from Duenas sers. Needless to say, the part in ranch tours and challenge was hoisting
prep: taking a llama will spit if angry with outside of Bozeman. To- park is always popular, learn about the breeding our containers of food by
packing class with Due- another llama.) But it’s bie, Dan’s wife, the other but interest has sky- program, sign up for a rope over the bear poles
nas, gathering all the more than these quali- kids and I met them at rocketed following the guided hike with llamas or at the campsites every
camping equipment and ties, Duenas explained to the Daly Creek trailhead, 2020 pandemic year. A rent llamas for your own self- night: a test of strength,
navigating Yellowstone’s me later: “I call it llama situated in the far north- record-breaking number guided expedition. First-time endurance and physics.
byzantine reservation therapy.” A calming western corner of Yel- of visitors inundated the renters must participate On that last night,
system for backcountry immersion in nature is lowstone, outside of the park this summer. In in a “packing with llamas” pitching our tents at the
campsites (fax machine complemented by time official park entrances. fact, July was the busi- training course ($125). campsite on the Black
required!). The national bonding with the llamas. From here, we unloaded est month in the park’s One- to four-day hike $80 Butte Trail known as
park maintains 293 “People start to care for the llamas and moved history and the first time per llama and per day, with WF1, I crawled into my
such campsites, mostly them.” one car down the road, the number of monthly a two-llama minimum. Trailer sleeping bag giddy on
limited to one group at There’s an increasing following the famous visits has surpassed rental $35 per day for up to stars. No campfires were
a time with a permit, interest in llama trek- Gallatin River, to where 1 million. two llamas; $50 per day for allowed because of the
and reserving them is a king, amplified by social we would finish the 10- But Yellowstone isn’t up to four llamas. wildfire risk, so we fo-
competitive sport. Yel-
lowstone rangers helped
media and television per- mile hike.
sonality Randy Newberg, Then we commenced
just Old Faithful. Sprawl-
ing across more than
Details: www.nps. • cused our attention on
the sky. Above the mead-
gov/yell/planyourvisit/
us determine an itiner- the Bozeman, Mont.- the llama care, which 2.2 million acres, the backcountryhiking.htm ow strewn with Indian
ary that would take us based hunter who has would become a soothing park offers more than paintbrush flowers, the
on trails easy enough featured pack llamas on ritual. First, you must 900 miles of trails worth constellations seemed
for a 4-year-old to hike his show (as a means to brush the llamas to re- exploring, yet we en- pany in llamas. We got to to swirl together in a
but also permissible for haul elk meat). In recent move any burs or straw countered only two other know their personalities, swallowing immensity.
stock animals, alongside years, llamas have even that could create saddle hikers. Under the never- quirks and herd dynam- I fell asleep listening to
a creek. become trendy. “They’re sores. The kids loved ending Montana sky, ics: Sunfire didn’t like a wolflike bark echoing
The beauty of hiking the new unicorn,” Due- this task, affectionately fortunately unmarred to get his feet wet; Sarek in the trees, the sound of
with llamas is the ability nas said. “Alpacas and petting them while re- by wildfire smoke, needed to see another the rushing water in the
to pack large amounts llamas have only been moving huge amounts of we contemplated the llama in front of him on creek.
of camping gear and in the country since the hair that we would pack metaphysical vastness
gourmet provisions. In late 1970s, and if you out with our trash. Wa- of the wilderness. We
our case, our children saw them beforehand, tering and feeding were adapted to our young-
couldn’t be expected to it would’ve been in the followed by saddling and est hiker’s rhythm and
carry big backpacks, and zoo or circus, seen as attaching the panniers, embraced the mantra of Dec. 1-2
we had grand ambitions an exotic animal.” Now a process we soon real- slow travel — less than
that llamas have become ized created more than a 2 mph — which allowed
Mall of America and Mystic Lake Casino.
for open-air feasts far
from the usual freeze- mainstream, he added, physical attachment. In the opportunity to no- With Christmas right around the corner we will all be shopping for our loved ones. We want to
make it as easy as possible with an excursion to the nation’s largest retail and entertainment
dried camping meals. visitors “show up for this symbiotic relation- tice the wildflowers, the complex with over 520 stores and 50 restaurants. With as much variety as you will find at the
Plus, llamas have less en- ranch tours wearing lla- ship, we cared for the chittering chipmunks, Mall Of America your Christmas shopping chores will be accomplished in one fun filled day.
Put together a group of friends or neighbors and make this a party. There is no sales tax in
vironmental effects than ma socks and T-shirts.” creatures facilitating our the trickle of a creek’s Minnesota on clothing.
other stock, weighing But Duenas empha- journey. currents on glacial rocks Let’s make this tour even more fun by spending the evening at the famous MYSTIC LAKE
CASINO. We can look forward to a beautiful resort accommodation, $10 free play and
around 400 pounds com- sized the importance of Created in 1872 as the and, to the hilarity of the breakfast in the morning.
For those that would like to spend more time at the mall or Casino, the Casino provides
pared with a horse’s 1,000 trekking with llamas country’s first national kids, the (glacially slow) regular shuttle service between each facility.
pounds, with padded feet that have been prop- park, Yellowstone has time it takes for a llama $299 pp.dbl.oc. $364 Sig.oc.
rather than hard hoofs. erly trained. “Not every served as inspiration for to urinate. Please check our website for a detailed summary of these tours or call for a hard copy sent via U.S.P.S. mail or Email
An efficient digestive llama is created equal. national parks around And through it all, we
system means their dung Not every llama in a pas- the globe. Its geothermal had the best kind of com-
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SUDOKU
Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-
3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

Daily and Sunday puzzle answers can be found online at

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LINDA BLACK Horoscopes DEAR ABBY

Check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Today’s Birthday (10/17/21). Pursue pas-
sion to grow this year. Develop skills, talents
and arts with dedicated discipline. Guide
shared finances around autumn obstacles,
before netting winter prizes with communi-
cation and creativity. Spring profits benefit
family cash flow, before a summer income
boost. Cherish who and what you love.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 9
-- You’re energized. Romance flowers, with
Aquarius Jupiter direct. Encourage passion.
Advance creative plans. Harness inspiration
and enthusiasm. Play and have fun with
someone special.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8
-- It’s a good time to launch home improve-
ment projects now that Jupiter’s direct.
Take action to advance long-anticipated
plans. Nurture your family, pets and garden.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today
is an 8 -- Communications flow more free-
ly, with Jupiter direct for nine months.
Participate in a bigger conversation.
Network and strengthen communities.
Expand creative collaborations and projects.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a
9 -- Get creative with marketing. Finances
improve, with expansive Jupiter stationing
direct for the next nine months. Find lucra-
tive opportunities. Grow your business and
profits.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is
a 9 -- Stand for what you love, with Jupiter
direct in your sign. You’re empowered to
make things happen. Your influence is
expanding. Use it for good.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8
-- Consider possibilities. Your intuition gets
louder, with Jupiter direct. Insights inspire
your meditation, reflection and introspec-
tion. Benefit through transition and change
for nine months.
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is
an 8 -- Collaborations surge ahead, with
Aquarius Jupiter stationing direct tonight
for the next nine months. Friendship and
community ties bring opportunities and ben-
efits. Launch team efforts.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an
8 -- Launch professional plans, with lucky
Jupiter direct for nine months. Step into
leadership. Take charge of your career, and
step lively. You’re in growth mode.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 9
-- Grow professionally. Travels, adventures
and studies take new ground, with Jupiter
direct. Launch or widen an exploration.
Visit uncharted territory. Expand your ter-
rain.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 9
-- Grow family fortunes with steady contri-
bution. Now that Aquarius Jupiter is direct,
it’s easier to save money. Work together to
realize long-term dreams.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 --
Advance to the next level in a partnership.
Teamwork comes easier now that Jupiter’s
direct. Collaborate, negotiate and compro-
mise. Expand and grow together.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9
-- Collaborate. Physical energy grows, with
lucky Jupiter direct for nine months. Add
structures to manage increased demand for
your work. Strive for excellence.
Man’s unkempt look is
driving wife out the door
D
ear Abby: My husband is
a wonderful man. We’ve
been married 31 years and
have been retired for the past six.
He takes care of most of the house-
work, and I work at a part-time
job. We have no children or nearby
relatives. We are pretty much all
we have to depend upon.
My only complaint is something
that has driven me crazy for years
now, and I need your advice. When
a certain political candidate was
elected, my good-looking husband
decided to grow out his hair and
beard in protest. I let it slide, but
he knew how I felt about it. I fig-
ured it would last only a few years.
Well, that politician has been out
of office quite a while now, and my
husband still looks like Tim Allen
in “The Santa Clause.” He looks
like he’s indigent. It’s so embar-
rassing, I don’t want to be seen
with him. This is a man who was
very good looking.
I have begged, pleaded, nagged
(his term) and kept quiet, hoping
he would surprise me with a hair-
cut. Nothing. I even tried insulting
him, telling him his credibility was
trash because, obviously, this has
nothing to do with his “protest.” I
am ready to leave. The last straw
was when he started quoting How-
ard Hughes.
Do you think my husband has
lost it? Because I’m about to.
— Embarrassed in Illinois
Dear Embarrassed: A mar-
riage to someone you can no longer
stand to be near isn’t much of a
marriage.
If your husband is quoting How-
ard Hughes, you know his long-
term memory is intact. However,
it may be time for you to make an
appointment for the two of you
for your annual checkups. When
you do, relate your concerns to the
doctor in advance. If it turns out
that your husband’s mental status
is normal (although, who knows
what is “normal” these days),
you may have to issue your hairy
hubby an ultimatum. A word of
warning though: Do NOT issue one
unless you are serious about fol-
lowing through.
● Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or
P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
 Sunday, October 17, 2021 ● The Gazette 11L

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BROADCAST MC IMO IC SS DSH DTV 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30
KGAN 2 2 2 2 2 2 60 Minutes (N) (HDTV) Å The Equalizer Diplomat’s daughter NCIS: Los Angeles A veteran is the vic- SEAL Team An escape from a danger- Iowa’s News Now Hope City Church Bull “Light My Fire”
CBS ^ seeks McCall’s help. (N) (TV14) tim of a hate crime. (N) (TV14) ous country. (N) (TV14-L) At 10 (N) (TV14-L)
KGAN1 102 702 102 3 Bob’s Burgers The Simpsons The Great North Bob’s Burgers Family Guy (N) Iowa’s News Now At 9 (N) (Live) Bensinger Game Time Two/Half Men Two/Half Men
KGAN2 101 704 101 Walker, Ranger Walker, Texas Ranger (TV14-V) Walker, Texas Ranger (TV14-V) Starsky and Hutch (TVPG-V) Å Starsky and Hutch (TVPG-V) Å Charlie’s Angels (TVPG) Å
KWWL 7 7 7 7 7 7 (6:00) Football Night in America (N) (:20) NFL Football Seattle Seahawks at Pittsburgh Steelers. (N) (Live) (HDTV) Å KWWL News at (:05) SEAL Team Jason and the team
NBC _ (Live) (HDTV) (TV14) Å Ten (N) must deploy early. (TV14-L,V)
CW (7.2) 107 10 107 5 20 8 (6:00) Baywatch Star Trek (TVPG) Å Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TVPG) Star Trek: Voyager (TVPG) Å Star Trek: Enterprise (TVPG-S,V)
MeTV (7.3) 106 707 106 6 (5:00) Columbo Monk (TVPG) Å Monk (TVPG) Å Ed Sullivan Carol Burnett Dick Van Dyke Dick Van Dyke Honeymooners Twilight Zone
KCRG 9 9 9 9 9 9 America’s Funniest Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Melissa Supermarket Sweep “Bring That Meat The Rookie Wesley must overcome an KCRG-TV9 News at (:35) Heartland Matt Campbell (:35) Cardinals
ABC ) Home Videos Joan Hart; Tituss Burgess. (TVPG) Back, Girl” (N) (TVPG-L) impossible task. (N) (TV14) 10 (N) Å (TVPG) Insider
BROADCAST

KCRGn 109 709 109 10 (6:00) Wipeout Castle “The Nose” (TVPG-L,V) Storm of Suspicion (TVPG) black-ish (TV14) black-ish (HDTV) Friends (TVPG) Big Bang Theory Family Guy Bob’s Burgers
KCRGo 110 710 110 11 Seinfeld (TVPG) Legends of the Hidden Temple (N) Killer Camp (N) (HDTV) (TV14-D,L,V) Family Guy Bob’s Burgers Weather Gone Viral (TVG) Storm of Suspicion (TVPG)
KCRGp 705 16 (6:00) Baywatch Star Trek (TVPG) Å Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TVPG) Star Trek: Voyager (TVPG) Å Star Trek: Enterprise (TVPG-S,V)
KCRGq 706 17 (6:00) The Closer Ghost Whisperer (TVPG) Å Ghost Whisperer “The One” (TVPG) Rizzoli & Isles (TV14-V) Å In Plain Sight (TVPG) Å The Good Wife (TV14-L) Å
KWKB 10 10 10 20 9159 Courts of Heaven Prophecy USA Christ in Prophecy Prophetic Con- End of the Age Journey Through Van Impe Minis- God’s Compass (2016, Drama) (HDTV) Karen Abercrombie, T.C. Stallings, Jazelle
AZA 4 (HDTV) (TVG) (HDTV) (TVG) (HDTV) nection (HDTV) (TVG) the Bible (HDTV) tries Special Foster. On the night of her retirement, Suzanne faces a crisis.
KFXA 8 8 8 28 28 28 (6:00) The Living Bob Vila’s Home Dirty Business Disaster Decks (N) Disaster Decks (N) Sell This House! Sell This House! Find & Design Find & Design Flip This House Veronica’s first flip.
DABL< Room Again (TVG) (TVG) Å (TVG) (TVG) (TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVG) Å (TVPG) Å
KPXR 6 3 6 24 48 48 (6:00) Criminal Criminal Minds Searching for a female Criminal Minds Deaths with religious Criminal Minds Notorious New England Criminal Minds The team hunts for a se- Criminal Minds “Conflicted” Serial killer
P Minds (TV14-L,V) serial killer. (TV14-D,L,S,V) overtones. (TV14-L,V) Å serial killer. (TV14-L,V) Å rial arsonist. (TV14-L,V) Å targeting coeds. (TV14-D,L,V)
IPT 12 12 13 12 32 (6:00) Call the Mid- Call the Midwife A young woman with Grantchester on Masterpiece A coun- Baptiste on Masterpiece (Season Pre- Professor T A man is found dead near As Time Goes By Keeping Up Ap-
PBS wife (TV14) health challenges. (N) (TV14) cilor’s death. (N) (TV14-L) miere) (N) (TV14) Å (DVS) railway tracks. (TV14) Å (TVPG) Å pearances Å
Kids IPT.2 712 118 Wild Kratts Wild Kratts: Back in Creature Time Wild Kratts: Creatures Cyberchase WordGirl (TVY7) Hero Elementary Xavier Riddle Molly of Denali Arthur (TVY)
World IPT.3 119 713 119 14 History With Nature “Animal Odd Couples” (TVG) Finding Your Roots With Henry Doc World “Cocaine Prison” Å Ghost Forests Morfar’s View Nature “Animal Odd Couples” (TVG)
CABLE MC IMO IC SS DSH DTV 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30
GOVT 18 6 4 (5:00) Community Programming Task Force on Aging Coralville City Council Meeting Econews Foreign Relations Council
GVT/ACCESS

ICPL 10 (6:00) Talk Shows Arts Music Hobbies Local History Library Information
KTS 11 711 11 280 Bob Cummings Date With Angels Lawless Years Long John Silver ››› (1954, Adventure) Robert Newton, Kit Taylor. Sword of Lancelot ››› (1963, Adventure) Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace.
MC22 22 22 Basketball Geneseo Wrestling Invitational (N) High School Basketball Girls High School Basketball
PATV - IC 18 (6:00) Prime Focus Chajj Da Vichar Prime Discussion Prime Hassiyan Prime Special Prime Focus (N) (Live) Chajj Da Vichar
UITV 705 17 281 Performing Arts Athletics Campus Programming
CNBC 68 101 68 111 208 355 (6:00) Shark Tank Shark Tank (TVPG) Å Shark Tank (TVPG-L) Å (DVS) Shark Tank (TVPG) Å (DVS) Shark Tank (TVPG) Å (DVS) Shark Tank (TVPG) Å
NEWS

CNN 33 106 33 104 200 202 CNN Newsroom Diana “The Girl From Norfolk” Diana “Royal Rivalries” (N) Å This Is Life With Lisa Ling (TVPG) Diana “The Girl From Norfolk” Diana “Royal Rivalries” Å
FOXN 23 107 23 102 205 360 Sunday Night Life, Liberty & Levin (N) Å The Next Revolution With Sunday Night in America With Trey Life, Liberty & Levin Å The Next Revolution With
MSNBC 32 104 32 107 209 356 American Voices The Mehdi Hasan Show (N) Å Ayman (N) (Live) Å Voices-Alicia Menendez The Mehdi Hasan Show Å Ayman Å
BIGTEN 72 45 72 40 410 610 B1G Football The Final Drive Å B1G Football in 60 (N) Å B1G Football in 60 (N) Å The Final Drive Å B1G Football in 60 Å
CBSSN 171 171 158 221 Lucas Oil Mot. PBR Bull Riding Manchester Invitational. From Manchester, N.H. Motocro Motocro Lucas Oil Motorsports Hour (TVPG)
ESPN 24 29 24 30 140 206 SportsCenter (N) SportsCenter (N) PTI 20 SEC Storied (TVG) SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å
SPORTS

ESPN2 25 30 25 31 143 209 High School Basketball Champ. Drive 30 for 30 World of X Games (N) Baseball Tonight World of X
GOLF 211 46 211 46 401 218 PGA Golf Golf Central (N) (Live) (TVG) Å PGA Tour Golf The CJ Cup at Summit, Final Round. Å PGA Champions
NBCSCH 44 44 44 72 429 665 Natl Dog Show Bensinger Poker Night Heartland Poker Tour American Ninja Warrior (TVPG) Football Aftershow Poker Night
NBCSN 69 43 69 49 159 220 Superbike Cornhole National Championships. From Omaha, Nebraska. Å Cornhole National Championships. From Omaha, Nebraska. Å Mecum Auto Auctions “Dallas”
FS1 42 52 42 50 150 219 PBC Collection PBC Collection From May 1, 2021. PokerStars Shark Cage (N) Å PokerStars Shark Cage (N) Å PBA Bowling CP3 Celebrity Invitational. Å
A&E 30 63 30 85 118 265 The First 48 Homicide Squad Atlanta Homicide Squad Atlanta Homicide Squad Atlanta Homicide Squad Atlanta Homicide Squad Atlanta
ANPL 38 99 38 153 184 282 North Woods Louisiana Law: Defending Creatures-Forrest Galante Lone Star Law (TV14) (:01) Lone Star Law (TV14) Creatures-Forrest Galante
BET 57 57 94 124 329 Nutty Prof. 2 (6:57) Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns ›› (2008) Tyler Perry, Angela Bassett. Å Martin (TVPG) Martin (TVPG) Martin (TVPG) Martin (TVPG) Martin (TVPG)
BRAVO 46 50 46 190 129 237 Housewives The Real Housewives of Potomac The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (N) (TV14) The Real Housewives of Potomac Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Real Housewives
COM 45 45 91 107 249 (6:00) The Other Guys ››› (2010) Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg. Å Dumb & Dumber ››› (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly. Å South Park South Park
CMT 58 58 248 166 327 (5:45) Daddy Day Care ›› (2003) Eddie Murphy. Overboard ›› (1987, Comedy) Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann. Å Mr. Deeds › (2002, Comedy) Adam Sandler. Å
DEST 204 27 226 154 286 Holmes/Home Holmes on Homes (TVG) Å Holmes on Homes (TVG) Holmes on Homes (TVG) Holmes on Homes (TVG) Holmes on Homes (TVG) Å
DISN 43 34 43 133 172 290 (:15) Zombies 2 (2020) Meg Donnelly. (TVG) Å Zombies Gabby Duran (:05) Disney’s Magic Bake-Off Big City Greens Big City Greens Big City Greens Big City Greens
DSC 29 100 29 144 182 278 Alaskan Bush Alaskan Bush People (N) (TVPG) (:01) Homestead Rescue Marty constructs a massive yurt. (TVPG) Å (:02) Homestead Rescue (TVPG) Alaskan Bush People (TVPG) Å
E! 74 55 74 93 114 236 (:15) Sister Act ›› (1992) (ESP) Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith. Å Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit ›› (1993) Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy. Å Clash of the Bradshaw
FOOD 64 105 64 202 110 231 Guy’s Games Halloween Wars (TVG) Å Halloween Wars (N) (TVG) Å Outrageous Pumpkins (N) (TVG) Halloween Baking Championship Halloween Wars (TVG) Å
FREE 48 26 48 138 180 311 (:20) Hotel Transylvania 2 ›› (2015) Voices of Adam Sandler. Å (:25) Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation ›› (2018, Children’s) Å Toy-Terror! (:05) Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
FX 35 56 35 78 136 248 (4:30) Deadpool Venom ›› (2018, Action) Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams. Å Venom ›› (2018, Action) Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams. Å Halloween ›› (2018, Horror) Å
GAC 56 119 78 247 165 326 Coffee Shop Å Welcome to Great American Christmas (TVPG) Å Coffee Shop (2014) Laura Vandervoort, Cory M. Grant. (TVG) Å Great American Christmas
GSN 67 96 116 233 America Says America Says America Says America Says America Says Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud
VARIETY CABLE

HALL 50 58 50 211 185 312 Advice to Love Chesapeake Shores (TVG) Å Sweet Autumn (2020) Nikki Deloach, Andrew Walker. (TVG) Å (DVS) The Golden Girls The Golden Girls The Golden Girls The Golden Girls
HALLDR 128 186 564 (6:00) Rose Hill ›› (1997) Jennifer Garner. (TVG) Å The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005) (HDTV) Keri Russell. (TVPG) Å The Waltons (HDTV) (TVG) Å The Waltons (HDTV) (TVG) Å
HGTV 47 25 47 199 112 229 Fixer to Fab. Property Brothers: Forever Home Property Brothers: Forever Home Renovation, Inc: Home Sweet Home Property Brothers: Forever Home Property Brothers: Forever Home
HIST 60 86 60 160 120 269 Built America Engineering That Built the World Engineering That Built the World (:03) When Big Things Go Wrong (:05) When Big Things Go Wrong Engineering That Built the World
LIFE 28 23 33 177 108 252 (4:30) Enough The Fight That Never Ends (2021, Drama) Allen Payne. Premiere. Å (:03) Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story (2021) Å (:01) The Fight That Never Ends
NGEO 65 74 65 149 197 276 Wicked Tuna Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks (TV14) Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks (TV14) Storm Rising (N) Å Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks (TV14) Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks (TV14)
OWN 203 28 203 188 189 279 20/20 on OWN 20/20 on OWN (TV14-V) 20/20 on OWN (TV14) Å 20/20 on OWN (TV14) Å 20/20 on OWN (TV14-V) 20/20 on OWN (TV14) Å
SYFY 70 71 70 81 122 244 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ››› (2005) Daniel Radcliffe. Voldemort lays a trap for Harry at the Triwizard Tournament. Chucky (TVMA) Å (DVS) Day of the Dead (TVMA) Å
TBN 92 21 92 258 260 372 Pastor Robert Joel Osteen Turning Point Huckabee (TVPG) Å Eric Metaxas Creflo Dollar Praise “July 8, 2021” (TVG) Å Praise (TVG) Å
TBS 66 61 66 76 139 247 (6:00) MLB Baseball NL Championship Series, Game 2: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Å Postseason Superbad ››› (2007) Jonah Hill. Å (DVS)
TLC 40 98 40 189 183 280 90 Day: Other 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way “Selective Virtues” (N) (TV14) (:01) I Love a Mama’s Boy (TVPG) 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way (N) 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way
TNT 36 57 36 77 138 245 Avengers: War (:03) Avengers: Endgame ››› (2019) Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans. The Avengers prepare for an epic showdown with Thanos. Å (DVS) (10:58) A Star Is Born ›››
TRAV 63 24 63 205 196 277 Paranormal Ca. Paranormal Caught on Camera A witch taunts investigators. (N) (TV14) The Osbournes Want to Believe (N) The Osbournes Want to Believe Paranormal Caught on Camera
TRU 77 72 77 86 242 246 Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Inside Jokes
TVL 26 26 220 106 304 Two/Half Men Two/Half Men (:45) Two and a Half Men Å Two/Half Men Two/Half Men Two/Half Men Two/Half Men Two/Half Men Two/Half Men Two/Half Men
USA 31 62 31 79 105 242 Law & Order Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Chucky (TVMA) Å (DVS)
VH1 37 37 242 162 335 (5:30) Ride Along ›› (2014, Comedy) Ice Cube. Å All About the Benjamins ›› (2002, Action) Ice Cube, Mike Epps. Å Black Ink Crew: Chicago (TV14) Black Ink Crew: Chicago (TV14)
WE 61 69 61 183 128 260 (6:00) NCIS NCIS “Recovery” (TVPG-L,V) NCIS “Phoenix” (TVPG-L,V) NCIS “Lost at Sea” (TVPG-L,V) NCIS (TVPG-L,V) Å (DVS) NCIS (TV14-L,V) Å (DVS)
WGN-A 78 53 75 239 307 Dan Abrams Live NewsNation Prime (N) (Live) Å NewsNation Prime (N) (Live) Å Banfield Å On Balance With Leland Vittert NewsNation Prime Å
YOUTO 215 215 219 (6:00) Jacob’s Ladder ››› (1990) Tim Robbins. Jacob’s Ladder ››› (1990, Horror) Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña. Life of Cards Talking Pictures Sidewalks Ent
MOVIES MC IMO IC SS DSH DTV 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30
(:45) Fear the Walking Dead “Bonus Edition: 06016: The Be- Fear the Walking Dead “The Beacon” (:09) The Walking Dead: World Beyond (:11) Talking Dead (N) (TV14-L,V) Å (:11) Fear the Walking Dead “The Bea-
AMC 41 60 41 226 131 254 ginning” (N) (TVMA) Å (TVMA-L,S,V) Å “Exit Wounds” (N) (TVMA-L,V) con” (TVMA-L,S,V) Å
(:10) Those Who Wish Me Dead ›› (2021, Action) (ESP) Succession (Season Premiere) (N) (ESP) Succession (ESP) (TVMA) Å Last Week Tonight- (:35) Succession (ESP) (TVMA) Å (:40) Axios (TV14)
HBO 301 250 301 300 300 501 Angelina Jolie, Finn Little, Jon Bernthal. Å (TVMA) Å John Å
(:36) Everybody (:08) Everybody (:40) Everybody (:12) Everybody (:44) Everybody Loves Raymond “The (:16) Everybody (9:48) Everybody (:21) Everybody Everybody Loves (:25) Everybody
IFC 219 73 219 227 133 333 Loves Raymond Loves Raymond Loves Raymond Loves Raymond Family Bed” (TVPG) Å Loves Raymond Loves Raymond Loves Raymond Raymond (TVG) Loves Raymond
(5:23) Down a Dark Showtime › (2002, Comedy) (ESP) Robert De Niro. A TV (:36) Drumline ››› (2002) (ESP) Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones. (:35) Argo ››› (2012) Ben Affleck. A CIA agent poses as a
MAX 325 256 325 325 310 515 Hall (2018) crew follows two real-life police officers on the job. Rivalry between two drummers threatens a college band. Å producer to rescue Americans in Iran. Å
(6:00) American The Circus: Inside The Circus: Inside Buried George Franklin is charged with American Rust Harris travels back to Desus & Mero (N) American Rust Harris travels back to Desus & Mero
SHOW 351 200 351 310 318 545 Rust (TVMA) the Greatest the Greatest murder. (N) (TVMA) Å Pittsburgh. (N) (TVMA) Å (TVMA) Å Pittsburgh. (TVMA) Å (TVMA) Å
MOVIES

(:04) BMF (ESP) BMF “Heroes” Lamar’s reign of terror (7:58) Hightown Jackie is out to prove (8:57) BMF “Heroes” Lamar’s reign of (9:53) Hightown Jackie is out to prove (10:53) BMF “Heroes” Lamar’s reign of
STARZ 401 270 401 335 350 527 (TVMA) Å continues. (N) (TVMA) Å herself as a cop. (TVMA) terror continues. (TVMA) Å herself as a cop. (TVMA) terror continues. (TVMA) Å
(:07) Bloodshot ›› (2020) (ESP) Vin Diesel. A reanimated Tales From the Hood ›› (1995) (ESP) Clarence Williams III. (:41) Paranormal Activity 2 ›› (2010, Horror) (ESP) Katie Featherston, Micah (:17) The Medallion
STZENC 420 160 420 345 340 535 soldier tries to recover his true memories. Å Inner-city tales with supernatural twist. Å Sloat, Brian Boland. Supernatural occurrences plague a family. Å ›› (2003)
(5:46) White House Down ›› (2013) (ESP) Channing Tatum. Ray ››› (2004, Biography) (ESP) Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King. Ray Charles over- (:35) Big Trouble in Little China ›› (1986, Action) (ESP)
STZENL 424 162 424 346 346 537 Paramilitary soldiers take over the White House. comes hardships to become a legend. Å Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun. Å
(:10) Black and Blue ›› (2019, Suspense) (ESP) Naomie The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019) (ESP) Claes Bang. An art (:41) 3000 Miles to Graceland ›› (2001, Action) (ESP) Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox.
STZENS 426 161 427 348 344 539 Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Frank Grillo. Å critic is asked to steal a valuable work of art. Å Fake Elvis impersonators stage a casino heist in Las Vegas. Å
(5:15) Crossing Poltergeist ››› (1982, Horror) Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams. A suburban fam- Burnt Offerings ›› (1976, Horror) Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis. A (:15) Roaring Road (1926) Kenneth Mac-
TCM 75 70 75 222 132 256 Delancey ››› ily’s lives are disrupted by vengeful ghosts. Å haunted house casts a fearful pall over a young family. Å Donald, Jane Thomas. Premiere.
(5:00) Full Metal The Fighter ››› (2010, Drama) (ESP) Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale. Two broth- Embattled (2020, Drama) Stephen Dorff, Darren Mann, Karrueche Tran. The son of Drive Angry ›› (2011) (ESP) Nicolas
TMC 380 220 380 319 327 553 Jacket ››› ers reunite to train for a historic boxing match. Å an MMA champion tries to end a cycle of abuse. Å Cage, Amber Heard. Å
Guide to Symbols: (N)=new show; Å=closed caption; (DVS)=descriptive video service; D=dialogue; L=language; S=sexual situations; V= violence

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ATLANTA — The original What: “The Wonder Years” •
so talented,” Sengbloh said.
beloved version of “The Won- When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays •
“There were some days we
der Years” debuted 33 years
ago and ran six seasons, a
Where: ABC and available the •
were sitting in the audience
and I was thinking, ‘I get paid
next day on Hulu
warm nostalgia bath back to to watch Jennifer Hudson
the late 1960s featuring fresh- sing?’ ”
faced suburban 12-year-old on ABC Family. He played my The Tri-Cities High connec-
Kevin Arnold crushing on grandfather in a flashback. tion: Sengbloh went to school
Winnie Cooper. Dule and I also knew each oth- at Tri-Cities High School in
ABC has brought the show er from Broadway. In between the mid-1990s in East Point,
back using the same time takes, he’s constantly tapping Ga., overlapping with mem-
frame but focuses instead on his feet. We both have rhythm. bers of OutKast and Xscape
12-year-old Dean Williams (El- We get along so well. I’m glad and graduating with “Satur-
isha Williams), part of a mid- he has so much experience day Night Live” star Kenan
dle-class Black family in 1968 on TV. He’s got all the advice. Thompson.
living in Montgomery, Ala. He’s a very thoughtful, giving “There was definitely some-
(Fred Savage, who played the Saycon Sengbloh plays 12-year-old Dean’s accountant mom in the reboot of actor.” thing in the water. Those were
original Kevin, is an executive “The Wonder Years.” It airs at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday on ABC. (ABC) So much respect: Her roots some talented music acts and
producer of this reboot.) for 1960s music runs deep. actors.” She later worked with
Atlanta resident and Tony- “You get to see my character the first version: “I hope they She has previously performed Kenny Leon at the Alliance
nominated actress Saycon come to life and learn what can open their minds to a new in “Hair” and “Motown the Theatre and performed with 7
Sengbloh, in her first regular makes Lillian tick.” experience. And even if they Musical” on Broadway. So Stages.
TV series role, plays Dean’s Here are highlights from say they won’t watch it, I hope hearing all those classics on Why she left Agnes Scott
accountant mom Lillian, who the Atlanta Journal-Constitu- they secretly do anyway!” “The Wonder Years” has been College: She departed junior
is married to professional mu- tion interview with Sengbloh: Working with Dule Hill: “I a blast for her. year to do a play that she
sician Bill, played by Dule Hill Her memories of the origi- was so excited. The first movie She also played one of said “crashed and burned.”
(“Psych,” “The West Wing”). nal show: “I loved it. I had a I ever did, Dule and I were Aretha Franklin’s sisters But soon after, she joined the
Her role is augmented from crush on Fred Savage. And I both in it, but we weren’t in in the recent film “Respect” new national tour of “Rent”
the mom role in the original wanted the bangs like Winnie the same scenes. It was called starring Jennifer Hudson as as Mimi. This led to 10 other
show. but somehow that blow dryer ‘The Ditchdigger’s Daughters.’ Franklin and directed by Liesl Broadway productions includ-
“I’m not just an accouter- couldn’t quite do it!” We were in North Carolina. It Tommy, who also directed ing “Aida,” “Wicked” and
ment for the kid,” she said. The backlash from lovers of was a sweet movie, something the 2017 Broadway play “The Color Purple.”
12L The Gazette ● Sunday, October 17, 2021

DAYS TO REMEMBER

ANNIVERSARY
60th Anniversary
Dennis & Mary
Possehl will be cele-
brating their 60th Wed-
ding Anniversary. They
were married at Hope
Lutheran Church in
Littleport, IA on Oct.
21, 1961. They have
two daughters, DeAnn
Possehl & Denise
(Dennis) Grove, & four
grandchildren, Nolan,
Brady, Ella & Grace.

Carly Ambrisco. Beautiful at 18 and 90.

Happy 90th birthday to the matriarch and grand dame of our family. Here’s to many more
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The family of Kenny Coder would like to express
our heartfelt appreciation to family and friends
for all the warm wishes and support during our
time of sorrow. We are so grateful to everyone.
We would especially like to extend our
appreciation to Pastor Kevin Coder, Kenny’s
dear friend John Mac, caretaker Teresa Coder,
Solon American Legion #460, the family and
friends whom Kenny relied on so much in his
neighborhood, and our wonderful family
members who joined together and were so
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