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It’s time to Spring Forward! Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 9. Turn your clocks ahead one hour before bed on Saturday, March 8. HISTORIC SEASON FOR ORIOLES PAGE B1 REASON TO CELEBRATE $1.25 | 159TH YEAR, NUMBER 10 | JONES COUNTY, IOWA | THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014 Jones County’s Newspaper Monticello Family Dentistry, P.C. We will do it ALL! New Patients & Emergencies Welcome! No Dental Insurance? No Problem! Over half of our patients have NO insurance. Interest-Free Payment Plan Available • We Accept Over 200 Insurance Plans (319) 465-3533 | 630 S. Main St. • Monticello, IA | www.monticellofamilydentistry.com Dr. Brian James, Dr. Nathan Hall, Orthodontist and Registered Hygienists: Kim Loeffelholz & MaryLynne Wulfekuhle. Norlins honored Greg and Nancy Norlin were honored by the Great Pump- kin Commonwealth with the Vine of Honor award for their ongoing contributions. Page A8 Senior Dining cuts The Heritage Agency an- nounced cuts of $6,227 in funding for Jones County Senior Dining, but dona- tions will fill the gap. Page A3 Republicans meet The Jones County Republi- cans will hold their annual convention on Saturday at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa. Page A3 School budget The Anamosa school board approved its proposed bud- get for the 2014-15 school year and set a public hear- ing for April 7. Page A3 ANAMOSA JONES COUNTY JONES COUNTY ANAMOSA BUSINESS DIRECTORY ...............A8-9 CLASSIFIEDS ............................ B4-5 HELP WANTED ........................... B4-5 LIFESTYLES ................................A5-6 NEWS ............................ A1-3, A7-10 OBITUARIES .................................. A6 OPINION ....................................... A4 PUBLIC NOTICES ........................... A7 REAL ESTATE ............................. B4-5 SPORTS .................................... B1-3 THE BACK PAGE............................. B6 INDEX Hometown newspaper of Dennis and Marla Boots of Wyoming District concert The All Anamosa School Dis- trict Band Concert featured a new composition commis- sioned by the Anamosa Music Boosters called “Under Con- trol.” It debuted Feb. 25. Page A9 BY ROBERT CROZIER Staff Writer ANAMOSA Alice Grassfield hasn’t had running water in her house since Friday, Feb. 14. Like some other Anamosa residents and business- es, her pipes were frozen by the frigid temperatures. She has lived in the same Ana- mosa house for 75 years, and this is the first time her pipes have fro- zen, she said. Her plumber, Mike Shaf- fer, cannot help her because of the way the pipes flow into the house. “Right now we’re kind of at a standstill,” Grassfield said. Her nephew’s family, Jacki and Mike Miner Sr., have helped by bringing jugs and coolers of water every night and doing her laun- dry, she said. Grassfield heats water in the microwave, takes sponge baths, and otherwise gets by, she said. Mike Miner even constructed a contraption to allow her to use the toilet, she said. Shaffer said he has been called to 10 or 12 residences with pipes frozen under the street this win- ter, and it’s a new epidemic. “We’ve not seen this before,” he said, adding he’s been called for only one such case in his pre- vious 30 years as a plumber in Anamosa. Anamosa-based plumber Jeff Parker with 5 Star Plumbing, who serves a 60-mile radius, said he has taken a lot of calls for frozen pipes this winter. “I couldn’t even count them; there have been so many,” he said last month. “Probably 100 [frozen Deep freeze, big problems Some residents don’t have running water BY ROBERT CROZIER Staff Writer More than 40 people packed into Monday night’s Anamosa school board meeting to sup- port an archery program that has grown over the last five years and may soon become a school- sponsored sport like basketball or wrestling. More than 100 kids between the third and 12th grades partici- pate in Anamosa’s archery pro- gram, archery coach Brenda An- ders said. Currently, the program occu- pies a “no man’s land” between school-sponsored and non-school sponsored that may expose the district to liability, Superinten- dent Lisa Beames said. “Neither the school nor the or- ganization can live in this limbo land very well,” she said. “We are trying to bring clarity to our pro- cess.” If the program is going to be school-sponsored, then the school needs to employ, super- vise and evaluate the coach, and the program needs to use school transportation, she said. It would also get the priority access to school facilities that as- sistant archery coach Tom Dim- mer said the program needs. “I think [becoming school- sponsored] is going to be the eventual goal,” he said, adding that he still expects the program to be largely self-funded. Beames asked the board how they want to classify the program after a financial snafu brought its status into question. e archery program has been using St. Patrick Catholic Church’s facilities for practice and equipment storage, and archery coaches decided to donate $2,500 to the church to reimburse them for services rendered, Dimmer said. But because the program is in- sured by the school district, it is bound by financial laws that gov- Archery may get school sponsorship BY ROBERT CROZIER Staff Writer ANAMOSA Two Anamosa school board members opened the copper box workers found in the cornerstone of West Middle School, inside were a trove of papers. Board members Shaun Lam- bertsen and Rich Crump, who once attended classes at West Middle School, found a book stack of venerable papers inside when the box was opened at the board meeting Monday, March 3. e documents were crum- bling and difficult to read. e board members held up what appeared to be a yearbook, a list of handwritten names, some business cards and a few folded papers that they decided not to unfold. e school district is going to call an expert to process the items, school board President Connie McKean said. McKean called it “a very inter- esting and special moment.” Crumbling papers found in time capsule ROBERT CROZIER/JOURNAL-EUREKA School board members Shaun Lam- bertsen and Rich Crump examine the contents of the copper box. BY ROBERT CROZIER Staff Writer Legend tells that anyone who folds a thousand cranes will be granted a wish, and that’s just what Anamosa’s sixth-grade class did when a close family member of one of their classmates was di- agnosed with cancer. “We had a running count on the board,” teacher Joyce Johnson said, adding that they ended up folding more than 1,100 origami cranes. e student who brought the idea to the class was inspired by the book, “Sadako and the ou- sand Paper Cranes,” by Eleanor Coerr, Johnson said. e book is a story about a girl living in Hiroshima, Japan, who decides to fold a thousand cranes when she is diagnosed with leuke- mia. e student presented the cranes to his family member Feb. 28, Johnson said. “It was fun watching kids teach each other,” she said. A thousand wishes Sixth-graders fold cranes for classmate ROBERT CROZIER/JOURNAL-EUREKA A pile of cranes awaits delivery in Joyce Johnson’s sixth-grade class at Anamosa Middle School. MORE INSIDE Anamosa’s David Machart and Kallie Ruhl made their names known at the state level tournament March 1, each winning a silver medal in the competi- tion. Page B1. SEE ARCHERY | PAGE A10 SEE FREEZE | PAGE A10
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Transcript of News Feature-Oragami Cranes
It’s time to Spring
Forward!Daylight Savings Time
begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 9.
Turn your clocks ahead one hour before bed on Saturday, March 8.
HISTORIC SEASON FOR ORIOLESPAGE B1
REASON TO
CELEBRATE
$1.25 | 159TH YEAR, NUMBER 10 | JONES COUNTY, IOWA | THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014 Jones County’s Newspaper
Monticello Family Dentistry, P.C.We will do it ALL! New Patients & Emergencies Welcome!
No Dental Insurance? No Problem! Over half of our patients have NO insurance.Interest-Free Payment Plan Available • We Accept Over 200 Insurance Plans
(319) 465-3533 | 630 S. Main St. • Monticello, IA | www.monticellofamilydentistry.comDr. Brian James, Dr. Nathan Hall, Orthodontist and Registered Hygienists: Kim Loeffelholz & MaryLynne Wulfekuhle.
Norlins honoredGreg and Nancy Norlin were honored by the Great Pump-kin Commonwealth with the Vine of Honor award for their ongoing contributions.
Page A8
Senior Dining cutsThe Heritage Agency an-nounced cuts of $6,227 in funding for Jones County Senior Dining, but dona-tions will fill the gap.
Page A3
Republicans meetThe Jones County Republi-cans will hold their annual convention on Saturday at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa.
Page A3
School budgetThe Anamosa school board approved its proposed bud-get for the 2014-15 school year and set a public hear-ing for April 7.
Page A3
ANAMOSA
JONES COUNTY
JONES COUNTY
ANAMOSA
BUSINESS DIRECTORY ...............A8-9CLASSIFIEDS ............................ B4-5HELP WANTED ........................... B4-5LIFESTYLES ................................A5-6NEWS ............................ A1-3, A7-10OBITUARIES ..................................A6OPINION .......................................A4PUBLIC NOTICES ...........................A7REAL ESTATE ............................. B4-5SPORTS .................................... B1-3THE BACK PAGE.............................B6
INDEX
Hometown newspaper of Dennis and Marla Boots of Wyoming
District concertThe All Anamosa School Dis-trict Band Concert featured a new composition commis-sioned by the Anamosa Music Boosters called “Under Con-trol.” It debuted Feb. 25.
Page A9
By ROBERT CROzIERStaff Writer
ANAMOSA Alice Grassfield hasn’t had running water in her house since Friday, Feb. 14. Like some other Anamosa residents and business-es, her pipes were frozen by the frigid temperatures. She has lived in the same Ana-mosa house for 75 years, and this
is the first time her pipes have fro-zen, she said. Her plumber, Mike Shaf-fer, cannot help her because of the way the pipes flow into the house. “Right now we’re kind of at a standstill,” Grassfield said. Her nephew’s family, Jacki and Mike Miner Sr., have helped by bringing jugs and coolers of water
every night and doing her laun-dry, she said. Grassfield heats water in the microwave, takes sponge baths, and otherwise gets by, she said. Mike Miner even constructed a contraption to allow her to use the toilet, she said. Shaffer said he has been called to 10 or 12 residences with pipes frozen under the street this win-ter, and it’s a new epidemic. “We’ve not seen this before,” he said, adding he’s been called
for only one such case in his pre-vious 30 years as a plumber in Anamosa. Anamosa-based plumber Jeff Parker with 5 Star Plumbing, who serves a 60-mile radius, said he has taken a lot of calls for frozen pipes this winter. “I couldn’t even count them; there have been so many,” he said last month. “Probably 100 [frozen
Deep freeze, big problemsSome residents don’t have running water
By ROBERT CROzIERStaff Writer
More than 40 people packed into Monday night’s Anamosa school board meeting to sup-port an archery program that has grown over the last five years and may soon become a school-sponsored sport like basketball or wrestling. More than 100 kids between the third and 12th grades partici-pate in Anamosa’s archery pro-gram, archery coach Brenda An-ders said. Currently, the program occu-pies a “no man’s land” between school-sponsored and non-school sponsored that may expose the district to liability, Superinten-dent Lisa Beames said. “Neither the school nor the or-ganization can live in this limbo land very well,” she said. “We are trying to bring clarity to our pro-cess.” If the program is going to be school-sponsored, then the school needs to employ, super-vise and evaluate the coach, and the program needs to use school transportation, she said. It would also get the priority access to school facilities that as-sistant archery coach Tom Dim-mer said the program needs. “I think [becoming school-sponsored] is going to be the eventual goal,” he said, adding that he still expects the program to be largely self-funded. Beames asked the board how they want to classify the program after a financial snafu brought its status into question. The archery program has been using St. Patrick Catholic Church’s facilities for practice and equipment storage, and archery coaches decided to donate $2,500 to the church to reimburse them for services rendered, Dimmer said. But because the program is in-sured by the school district, it is bound by financial laws that gov-
Archery mayget schoolsponsorship
By ROBERT CROzIERStaff Writer
ANAMOSA Two Anamosa school board members opened the copper box workers found in the cornerstone of West Middle School, inside were a trove of papers. Board members Shaun Lam-bertsen and Rich Crump, who once attended classes at West Middle School, found a book stack of venerable papers inside when the box was opened at the
board meeting Monday, March 3. The documents were crum-bling and difficult to read. The board members held up what appeared to be a yearbook, a list of handwritten names, some business cards and a few folded papers that they decided not to unfold. The school district is going to call an expert to process the items, school board President Connie McKean said. McKean called it “a very inter-esting and special moment.”
Crumbling papers found in time capsule
ROBERT CROzIER/JOURNAL-EUREKA
School board members Shaun Lam-bertsen and Rich Crump examine the contents of the copper box.
By ROBERT CROzIERStaff Writer
Legend tells that anyone who folds a thousand cranes will be granted a wish, and that’s just what Anamosa’s sixth-grade class
did when a close family member of one of their classmates was di-agnosed with cancer. “We had a running count on the board,” teacher Joyce Johnson said, adding that they ended up folding more than 1,100 origami cranes. The student who brought the idea to the class was inspired by the book, “Sadako and the Thou-sand Paper Cranes,” by Eleanor
Coerr, Johnson said. The book is a story about a girl living in Hiroshima, Japan, who decides to fold a thousand cranes when she is diagnosed with leuke-mia. The student presented the cranes to his family member Feb. 28, Johnson said. “It was fun watching kids teach each other,” she said.
A thousand wishesSixth-graders fold cranes for classmate
ROBERT CROzIER/JOURNAL-EUREKA
A pile of cranes awaits delivery in Joyce Johnson’s sixth-grade class at Anamosa Middle School.
MORE INSIDE
Anamosa’s David Machart and Kallie Ruhl made their names known at the state level tournament March 1, each winning a silver medal in the competi-tion. Page B1.
SEE ARCHERY | PAGE A10
SEE FREEZE | PAGE A10
