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How would I want to hear the guy announce? I guess you could say
I’m a fan behind the microphone. That’s how I approach it.”
Sean Cockrell,
announcer for the Burlington Bees
A voice for all seasons
Would-be researchers face several
challenges, little hope in career.
“The line is: ‘If it’s
not a public health
issue, why are so many
people dying?’ ”
By MIKE STOBBE
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Amid the
bloodbaths of 21st-century
America, you might think there
would be a lot of research into
the causes of gun violence
Philip Cook, a Duke
and which policies work best
against it.
University economist
You would be wrong.
Gun interests, wary of any
possible limits on weaponry, successfully have lobbied for limitations on government research and funding, and private sources
have not filled the breach. So funding for basic gun violence
research and data collection remains minuscule — the annual
sum total for gun violence research projects appears to be less
than $5 million. A grant for a single study in areas like autism, cancer or HIV can be more than twice that much.
There are public health students who want to better understand
rising gun-related suicide rates, recent explosions in firearm murders in several U.S. cities and mass murders, such as the one this
month at an Oregon community college, where a lone gunman
killed nine people.
But several young researchers are staying away from the field.
Some believe there’s little hope Congress will do anything substantive to reduce gun violence, regardless of what scientists find.
And the work is stressful — several who study gun violence report
receiving angry emails and death threats from believers in unrestricted gun ownership.
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Sean Cockrell is shown taking a break from announcing duties at a West Burlington-Notre Dame football game Friday.
Cockrell is the radio announcer for the football games at West Burlington High School, among other sports.
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Cockrell skilled announcer for Bees, other sports
Lower gas prices
mean no Social
Security increase
By BOB SAAR
for The Hawk Eye
You might say Sean Cockrell has to be a
little windy when he talks sports.
Cockrell wrapped up his second
season as the Burlington Bees’ public
address announcer and is covering West
Burlington High School football, volleyball and basketball this winter.
The oldest of Ted and Mary Cockrell’s
five children, Cockrell was named after
actor Sean Connery, who starred in his
sixth James Bond film, “Diamonds Are
Forever” in 1971.
“In ’71, he was the man,” Cockrell said.
“Mom really liked the name.”
He graduated from Burlington High
School in 1989.
“I am a Greyhound,” he said. “Even
though I announce for the Falcons and
broadcast for the Falcons, I am a Greyhound.”
Cockrell joined the Air Force after
graduating high school. His unit was
deployed during Desert Storm in 1991, but
the brief conflict ended before they were
sent to the theater.
He left the Air Force as a Senior Airman after seven years.
“I came back here, worked different
jobs. Probably the one I stayed longest in
was the Department of Corrections,” he
said.
Cockrell was a correctional officer for
the Iowa Department of Corrections for
more than 12 years, working security at
the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility
and the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort
Madison.
“I have led a traveled path,” he said,
laughing. “But it’s a good path.”
Good news at the pump means
bad news for older Americans.
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON— For only the
third time in 40 years, millions
of Social Security recipients,
disabled veterans and federal
retirees can expect no increase
in benefits next year, unwelcome
news for more than one-fifth of
the nation’s population.
They can blame low gas
prices.
By law, the annual cost-ofliving adjustment, or COLA, is
based on a government measure of inflation, which is being
dragged down by lower prices at
the pump.
The government is scheduled
to announce the COLA — or
lack of one — Thursday, when
it releases the Consumer Price
Index for September. Inflation
has been so low this year, economists said there is little chance
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Sean Cockrell is shown during Oktoberfest Saturday at the Port of Burlington in
Burlington. Cockrell was the master of ceremonies for the event.
Cockrell could feel the wind of change
blowing in his direction. He began taking
classes at Southeastern Community College in 2008, earning a degree in 2010.
The winds of change nearly blew Cockrell down that year. A divorce and doctor’s
advice to slow down urged him to move
on, and he left the high-stress prison life
in 2011.
“I got out of corrections because I’m
a people person. I’m glad I did,” he said.
“That’s when I went back to school and
re-invented myself.”
He transferred to Western Illinois University then Iowa Wesleyan, where he is
presently just shy of a bachelor’s degree in
business administration.
“I like to work with people and the
public,” Cockrell said. “I was a volunteer
fireman in West Burlington for 10 years
and volunteered on a lot of boards: the
air show in 2000, the Des Moines County
Red Cross chapter — I’m a big Burlington
guy.”
He’s the father of two daughters, Molly
and Lucy, and they were, in a sense, the
gentle breeze that nudged Cockrell in
front of the microphone.
“My daughters have a wonderful support system between myself, my ex-wife
and family,” Cockrell said.
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the September numbers will produce a benefit increase for next
year.
Prices actually have dropped
from a year ago, according to the
inflation measure used for the
COLA.
“It’s a very high probability
that it will be zero,” said economist Polina Vlasenko, a research
fellow at the American Institute
for Economic Research. “Other
prices — other than energy —
would have to jump. It would
have to be a very sizable increase
that would be visible, and I don’t
think that’s happened.”
Congress enacted automatic
increases for Social Security
beneficiaries in 1975, when inflation was high and there was a
lot of pressure to regularly raise
benefits. Since then, increases
have averaged 4 percent a year.
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Going the extra mile to promote hunger awareness
More than 100 people
participate in Sunday’s
annual CROP Walk.
By SARAH TOMKINSON
stomkinson@thehawkeye.com
Groups of walkers took to the
streets of downtown Burlington
Sunday to promote awareness
for world hunger and water supply issues during the 31st annual
CROP Walk.
The walk began at The Loft on
Jefferson Street, which is owned
and operated by First United
Methodist Church.
Several organizations and
churches donated to walkers to
raise funds to eliminate hunger
“I’m testing out my new knees,”
Dawn Durgin said.
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Durgin, along with others from
Community of Christ Church, has
participated in the event for several years.
She sat out last year’s event, as
did Dale Warner who was sidelined by heart complications a
few years ago.
“My past heart problem is
going to stop me from doing this
event. It’s a good cause,” Warner
said.
Last year, walkers traveled
through drizzly weather, but this
year was sunshine.
“Last year, we had coats. This
year, we have short sleeves. You
never know what weather we
get,” event co-chairman Chip
Readinger.
Each year, about $10,500 is
raised.
A portion of funds raised stays
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in the community where the
money is donated. This year’s
proceeds will go to Burlington
Neighborhood Center Food Pantry. According to Readinger, 135
food items were collected to be
directly donated to the pantry at
700 Jefferson St.
Worldwide, one in eight people
go to sleep hungry every day, 6
million children die of malnutrition every year, and 925 million
people are hungry today.
Burlington’s event always is
held the Sunday before World
Food Day, which is Oct. 16 this
year.
The 106 walkers are expected
to have their money turned in by
Oct. 30.
People also can donate without walking by going to www.
cwsglobal.org.
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Matt Smerge holds a copy of “Chicago Baseball” magazine Friday at his home in Vernon Hills, Ill. A judge recently ruled
Smerge no longer can sell the magazine next to Wrigley Field as he’s done for 19 years and must move across the street.
Smerge is expected to ask an appeals court today for an emergency ruling letting him sell magazines at the same spot at
least through the playoffs.
Publisher is prepared to take case to Supreme Court
By MICHAEL TARM
Associated Press
CHICAGO — A cable TV ad salesman
by day, Matt Smerge hoped to join in the
Chicago Cubs’ smashing success this year
— the 19th selling his own, low-budget
baseball magazine for $2 a copy right outside Wrigley Field. Nearly all the profits, he
said, go into a college fund for his teenage
son.
But as the Cubs won the right to go
deeper into the playoffs — boosting hopes
for a first World Series victory in more
than 100 years — a judge ruled Smerge
no longer can sell “Chicago Baseball” on
the public sidewalk by the stadium. He
was ordered to move across the street to
a less-traveled and, Smerge said, less-profitable location.
The dispute stems from a lawsuit
Smerge filed against the city after a police
officer ticketed him during the April home
opener. It pits the one-man publisher
against the city and Cubs, raising issues
about free-speech rights and sports franchises’ attempts to enhance their own
profits.
There are several Chicago ordinances
city lawyers said should apply to Smerge,
including ones restricting peddlers like
him on the public sidewalk next to Wrigley
Field because the pedestrian congestion
they contribute to as 40,000 fans arrive
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entirely by private property, which unambiguously is off limits to peddlers without
team permission.
U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso sided
with the city last Monday — two days
before the Cubs beat the Pittsburgh
Pirates in the National League Wild Card
game, ensuring a Division Series matchup
against their longtime rivals, the St. Louis
Cardinals.
Alonso said the city’s safety concerns
were legitimate, and he saw no effort to
stifle Smerge’s free speech. Weinberg said
he’ll ask an appeals court Monday for an
emergency ruling allowing Smerge to sell
his magazines at least through the playoffs; the first game at Wrigley is today.
On regular-season home game days,
Smerge sold about 1,000 magazines, generating $2,000 at the prime sidewalk location. He’d expected profits to boom during
the playoffs.
Smerge, who remains a die-hard Cubs
fans, said he’s prepared to take the case to
the U.S. Supreme Court.
If he doesn’t prevail, he may consider
shutting down the magazine. But he’d
rather ride along with the rising fortunes
of the Cubs, long the lovable losers of baseball.
“The Cubs are entering a golden age,”
he said. “We’d love to keep the magazine
going ... with what should be a lot of playoffs and, eventually, that World Series.”
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and leave is a safety hazard.
But the 41-year-old Smerge, whose magazine often contains criticism of Cubs
management, argues he shouldn’t be subject to ordinances designed for peanut or
T-shirt vendors because his publication is
subject to First Amendment protections.
The team’s billionaire owners, Smerge
and his lawyer contend, have been pushing the city to enforce the ordinances to
ensure the Cubs get exclusive access to
fans’ money not only in Wrigley Field but
also in surrounding public spaces.
“They have their kingdom, and they
want to protect it against a maverick seller
trying to express his views on a public
sidewalk,” Smerge said.
His attorney, Mark Weinberg, added:
“The Cubs are essentially building a moat
around Wrigley Field” because sports
teams can reap millions of dollars in revenue by thwarting small-time vendors.
The Cubs aren’t named as a defendant
in Smerge’s lawsuit, and team spokesman Julian Green declined to comment
Friday. The Cubs-owning Ricketts family,
however, previously has called for better
enforcement of peddling ordinances.
The setting of 101-year-old Wrigley
Field poses unique challenges. It’s on a
three-acre plot hemmed in by bustling city
sidewalks the public has well-established
rights to use. Newer stadiums nationwide
often sit on 30-acre plots surrounded
SPENCER — The northwest
Iowa city of Spencer is recycling
more than 1,500 tons of wood
waste by sending it to an ethanol
plant to be burned.
The wood waste will help
power the ethanol plant, and
it won’t cost the city of Spencer anything to dispose of
between 50 and 100 truckloads
of debris.
The wood waste accumulating in Spencer during about six
months will be burned at a Poet
Bio refining plant in Chancellor,
S.D., during the next few weeks.
General manager Dean Frederickson said the plant also
burns used shipping pallets and
methane gas generated at the
Sioux Falls, S.D., landfill.
The ethanol plant has helped
dispose of large amounts of trees
after ice storms in the past. Frederickson said the plant burned
more than 80,000 tons of wood
after a bad ice storm in Sioux
Falls a few years ago.
“We chipped it at the city and
brought it in to burn instead of
natural gas for more than three
months,” Frederickson said.
This approach to wood recycling might help Iowa cities deal
with a mountain of dead ash
trees expected from the emerald
ash borer in the next few years.
“Disposal is an issue. And if
we can make use of the material, it’s better than letting it go
to waste. There’s no doubt about
that,” said Rick Bauer, with
Denali Power Systems, the Minnesota company grinding up the
wood in Spencer to prepare it for
burning.
One of the byproducts of the
recycling process is the branches
are ground down into debris less
than 2-inches in diameter that
won’t allow the emerald ash borers to survive.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois
law says government officials’
emails about taxpayer business
are public records for all to see.
But what if they’re sent from private accounts or personal cellphones?
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel argues those are not for public consumption. The Chicago
Tribune claims they are and took
the matter to court last month.
Gov. Bruce Rauner had his own
dust-up this summer about an
aide’s private emails, and the
practice cost a University of Illinois chancellor her job in August.
The issue, once limited to scattered consternations over politicians playing fast and loose with
new technology, is pervasive this
year, beginning with revelations
about Democratic presidential
front-runner Hillary Clinton’s
use of a private email server to
conduct business while she was
U.S. secretary of state — a case
spurring a lawsuit by the Associated Press.
Public-access advocates insist
Illinois law is clear, and the state’s
attorney general and appellate
court weighed in just two years
ago, declaring public business is
public record — no matter how
it’s conducted.
The Illinois Freedom of Information Act requires disclosure
of public records “regardless of
physical form or characteristics.”
The appellate court decreed in a
case involving the Champaign
City Council making an exception for communication on private devices allows officials to
“subvert” FOIA by avoiding all
official channels.
The concern is back in court
as government officials parse the
2013 ruling’s language.
“There is an express presumption of openness in the statute ...”
said Matthew Topic, a lawyer and
FOIA expert in Chicago. “Unfortunately, this line of thinking has
become all too common: Even
when the language of the statute
is clear, public bodies won’t comply until a court tells them that
they must.”
In the case of Emanuel, the Tribune sought emails related to Chicago’s scandal-tainted system of
red-light tickets enforced through
cameras. But the Democrat’s
administration argued messages
sent from private devices are not
in a public body’s possession.
FOIA “does not impose an
obligation to locate and search
private email accounts,” the city
said in a July denial letter to the
Tribune. The newspaper filed the
lawsuit Sept. 24.
As for Rauner, the Chicago
Sun-Times reported education
adviser Beth Purvis, operating
as a contractual employee, was
using a private email account to
conduct public business. Rauner’s legal staff denied a Sun-Times
FOIA for Purvis, using the “possession” argument, then reversed
itself and disclosed several documents, including one marked
“confidential.” But the office
maintains the issue remains
“unsettled.”
Rauner’s office did not respond
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to a request for comment from the
AP but told the Sun-Times this
summer, “Case law and statutory
interpretation of Illinois’ FOIA
make it plain that personal emails
are not public records.”
Non-elected officials also
came under fire this year. The
University of Illinois cited FOIA
wiggle room when it announced
in August emails sent to and from
former Chancellor Phyllis Wise
to and from private accounts
potentially had been improperly
withheld.
A school statement declared
the FOIA law is not specific about
“personal email accounts,” and
the law is “not settled on this
issue.”
Access advocates said it was
settled in the 2013 appellate court
ruling on a lawsuit filed by the
Champaign News-Gazette, but
others believe the court’s opinion provides maneuverability.
City council members texting
one another during a public
meeting, prompting the newspaper to argue the texts contained
information that could affect the
officeholders’ policy positions.
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Apollo School sale leads city council agenda
Council will hold public
auction Oct. 19.
By KATHLEEN SLOAN
ksloan@thehawkeye.com
The Burlington City Council will discuss future action items Monday to prepare for the Oct. 19 meeting.
The meeting begins at 4:30 p.m. at
city hall, 400 Washington St., third floor.
It is open to the public.
On Oct. 19, the city council will hold
a public hearing on the sale of the old
Apollo School at 1201 Valley St., followed by a public auction.
Proposed conditions to the sale,
according to the city packet found
at
http://www.burlingtoniowa.org/
ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/1130,
Burlington
City Council
include construction of at least 40 housing units within the existing building
and a $5 million minimum redevelopment investment in the existing building, to be completed within two years.
The city is proposing to further narrow who may buy the building by making the sale contingent on the buyer
successfully receiving Iowa Finance
Authority low-income-housing tax credits by April 1, 2016.
A public hearing and auction on the
sale of 1321 Iowa St., a city-owned lot,
will be discussed. The item was slated
for action at the last regular session
meeting, but the city council tabled it.
A couple who owns property next
door offered to buy the property for
$500 but didn’t show up for the public
hearing or public auction scheduled
Oct. 5. A man, who lives at 1325 Iowa St.,
was present for the auction but was not
allowed to bid.
The council wanted to give more
notice to the couple, who may have
assumed their prearranged deal to buy
the lot made their presence unnecessary.
The condition of sale for the lot is
a house be built to code within six
months by the purchaser, if not an adjacent owner. The council will decide if
this will be required during discussion.
At the last action meeting, the city
approved the first reading of one ordinance making six changes to zoning
law. Councilwoman Becky Anderson
asked if an amendment to one of the
changes was possible.
Under group living land use, she
asked a short-term-stay facility that
doesn’t require the property owner
to live on site, as required for bed and
breakfast facilities, be added.
She also asked the square-footage
requirements be less than for boarding
houses, which limit occupancy to one
person for every 300 square feet of floor
space. A brief stay requires less space,
she said.
Burlington Development and Parks
Director Eric Tysland said he would
look into it. If an amendment is possi-
ble, it may be discussed in preparation
for the second reading of the ordinance
Oct. 19.
A resolution setting up an internal
loan from the general fund to be paid
back from the Tax Increment Revenue
Fund will be discussed.
The city paid attorneys Dorsey and
Whitney to add five Tax Increment
Financing projects and two areas to
the existing Urban Renewal Plan. The
nearly $50,000 was paid from the general fund, and the internal loan is necessary to arrange reimbursement.
Action is to be taken on the matter
Oct. 19.
Other discussion items include a
Tama Building update, a sewer separation update from engineering firm RJN
and Mason Road speed limits.
“I’ll go to another church, but it won’t be the same. I’m going to always be thankful I grew up here.”
Cedar Creek Friends Church organist Jeanette Trueblood
Cedar Creek Friends Church
will close doors after 174 years
Church celebrated anniversary Sunday; last service will be Dec. 27.
By SARAH TOMKINSON
stomkinson@thehawkeye.com
S
ALEM — The trip to Cedar
Creek Friends Church north
of Salem isn’t the easiest. The
church can be accessed either by
gravel or dirt roads, depending on
the route the person wants to take.
Five faithful members of the church
have been taking the trip for most of
their lives, but they won’t be taking
the trip much longer as the church is
preparing to close its doors after 174
years of service.
“I’ll go to another church, but it
won’t be the same,” church organist
Jeanette Trueblood said. “I’m going
to always be thankful I grew up
here.”
She and her sister, Irene Thompson, grew up attending Cedar Creek
Church and remember times when
boys and girls weren’t allowed to
sit next to each other during the
service.
“Boys were on the right, girls on
the left, and what we called the old
people, parents and grandparents,
sat in the middle,” Thompson said.
“There’s so many stories we can
share.”
The church at one time had more
than 80 students in its Sunday
school, but now, the church has
only five church members, with an
average of 10 making it to service on
Sundays.
On Sunday morning, the church
was full for a celebration of its 174
years of service in Henry County.
Several with connections to Cedar
Creek came back to fill the church
with its celebration.
“It’s such a joy to celebrate 174
years of incredible ministry,” said
Debra Savage, pastor of Grace Community Friends in Mount Pleasant.
Grace Community and Cedar
Creek are part of the Iowa Yearly
Meeting of Friends, and Savage’s
mother-in-law use to be an organist
for Cedar Creek.
Current pastor Don Coffin
addressed the church about its
upcoming closure but found he had
trouble getting the words out at the
beginning of his message.
“This is harder than I thought it
was going to be,” Coffin said. “We’ve
been so blessed to have people
come back and help around the
church.”
While the members prepare to
move on, the church’s former pastor,
Daryl Coffin, and current leader,
Meeting set for
today at city hall.
By SARAH TOMKINSON
stomkinson@thehawkeye.com
Lauren Kastner/The Hawk Eye
Attendees pray during the 10 a.m. church service Sunday at Cedar Creek Friends Church in Salem. The church will
hold its last service in December due to lack of members and funds.
fin said.
Cedar Creek was founded in 1841
as a Quaker church. An original
structure was built shortly after it
was formed. In 1914, a newer structure was built over the old one and
still is used to this day. Original shillings from the 1860s structure can
be seen on the inside of the current
church, and a 100-year-old organ
with some much-needed repairs
goes along with current church
building.
Trueblood said the demands of
maintaining an old building is part
of the reason they are closing its
doors.
“The building has problems due
to its age that we just don’t have the
money to fix,” Trueblood said.
Lauren Kastner/The Hawk Eye
With its rich history, the Cedar
Cedar Creek Friends Church members and attendees celebrated the church’s Creek Friends Church was a
trend-setter for churches when it
174th anniversary Sunday.
first started. It was one of the first
Daryl Coffin encouraged people to in the Henry County area to have
Don Coffin, urged the members and
attendees to remember the amazing treasure every memory they have of hymnals and a Sunday school. The
the church.
experiences they had at the church
church’s first pastor was a female it
“Just like how Mary treasured
as they venture to new churches.
paid $50 a month to preach.
everything and kept them in her
“Maybe we can teach someone
Cedar Creek will continue to hold
heart, we, too, can treasure everyhow to be amazed over a flower like
services until the end of the year,
we were when our Easter lilies were thing we’ve experienced here and
with their last service set for Sunday,
iced over,” Don Coffin said.
keep them in our hearts,” Daryl Cof- Dec. 27.
Art center’s Sunday packed with events
Volunteers were busy
with receptions and
Halloween Bash.
By SARAH TOMKINSON
stomkinson@thehawkeye.com
The Art Center of Burlington’s staff
and volunteers kept their hands busy
with several events Sunday.
The facility hosted a reception for
artists Barbara Cave and Elizabeth
Shriver in the gallery, while children
attended the Halloween Bash in the
workshop area.
“It’s a busy Sunday for us,” said executive director Tammy McCoy.
The events highlighted the unique
purposes the art center has put upon
itself: to showcase art and to teach art.
While children made woodblock
Frankensteins and pet ghosts, Cave
talked about how learning at a young
age had a lasting affect on her.
“If I got my school work done in
time, I would go over to my great aunt
and take art lessons from her,” Cave
said.
She shared a small portion of her
Clerk
seeks
help with
cemetery
project
Lauren Kastner/The Hawk Eye
Conor Patton, 4, paints a T-shirt on his pumpkin during the Halloween Bash
Sunday at the Art Center of Burlington.
artwork with a crowd of loved ones.
“This is just a drop in the bucket of
her work,” said Cave’s daughter, Betsy
Chrischilles of Iowa City.
Cave admitted to having paintings
stacked under different beds in her
home.
Cave’s early passion for art began at
a young age, but she said she didn’t get
to fully utilize her skills until she was
older.
“It wasn’t until all the children were
out of the house that I started painting
regularly again,” Cave said.
She said between art workshops and
reading books on art from the library,
she’s a self-taught artist. Her mediums
vary from pastel, oil and watercolor.
Cave’s work is alongside Shriver’s,
who is a sculpture, but was not present
at the reception.
On the other side of the wall in the
workshop, children were enjoying
the Halloween Bash. Children created masks, pet ghosts, woodblock
monsters, pipe cleaner skeletons and
painted pumpkins.
“We had her (daughter’s) birthday
party here last week, and had so much
fun, we decided to be on the lookout
for more events,” Amy Belman said.
Her daughter, Hannah Parkins, said
she really enjoys art.
Jessica Frank brought her daughter,
Elley Frank, to get her in the holiday
spirit.
“Halloween is my third favorite holiday,” Elley Frank said as she finished
making her pet ghost.
Volunteer Cheryl Falcone said the
Halloween Bash was a first for the art
center.
FORT MADISON — The city clerk
of Fort Madison is looking for volunteers to make as complete a list as
possible of who and where people are
buried in the four city cemeteries in
Fort Madison.
Melinda Blind will host a meeting at
10:30 a.m. today at Fort Madison City
Hall to explain to potential volunteers
how help her complete the project.
Blind said volunteers can take on
one of two tasks: take city maps in to
the city to properly mark who is buried in the lots and to put the information into a system at city hall.
“Taking the maps to the cemetery
can be done at night or over the weekend, but the plugging into our system
will have to be done during city hall
office hours,” Blind said.
The maps people will use are old,
and Blind said a lot of times information on the maps can be off due to how
they were drawn up.
The city runs four different cemeteries, and Blind said it’s hard to even
estimate how many are buried. Alone,
1,500 people are buried in soldier’s circle in Oakland Cemetery.
“I’m hoping to have this done by the
end of 2016, and I don’t know if that’s
realistic,” Blind said.
She added she doesn’t expect people to commit themselves completely
until the project is done. Even if they
only have a few days to volunteer, she
said the effort would be appreciated.
Blind hopes one day the efforts can
be posted on a searchable database
online.
“We can link this to the public
library’s genealogical project,” Blind
said.
Those wanting to volunteer but
can’t attend today’s meeting can contact Blind at (319) 372-7700, ext. 206,
or at ablind@fortmadison-ia.com.
Schramm House
sustains damage
from small fire
By SARAH TOMKINSON
stomkinson@thehawkeye.com
Burlington and West Burlington
fire departments responded to a small
fire at the historic Schramm House
Bed and Breakfast at 616 Columbia St.
Saturday night.
About 10:37 p.m., the fire departments responded to a small dryer fire
caused by lint in its vents. By the time
the departments arrived, a resident of
the home had extinguished the fire
with a fire extinguisher and water.
Firemen were on the scene for only
40 minutes.
Officials estimated $500 in damage
between the damaged dryer, clothes
and vent system. The historical home
sustained no structural damage.
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FROM THE FRONT
Violence
Continued from page 1A
Currently, guns rank among
the top five killers of people ages
1 to 64, according to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
Deaths from gunfire have
been holding steady at about
32,000 a year, with about half
of them occurring in the South.
But while the rates for gun murders and unintentional shooting
deaths have been falling, firearm
suicides — which account for 60
percent of gun deaths — have
been rising. And nonfatal shooting injuries have reached their
highest level since 1995.
U.S. health researchers began
to take a hard look at gun violence about 30 years ago, when
firearm homicide rates were
climbing to what were described
as epidemic proportions.
“The line is: ‘If it’s not a public
health issue, why are so many
people dying?’” said Philip Cook,
a Duke University economist
who in the 1970s began studying
the impact of guns on society.
The CDC, the federal government’s lead agency for the detection and prevention of health
threats, took an early leading
role in fostering more research
into violence.
But beginning in the 1980s,
the National Rifle Association
tried to discredit CDC-funded
studies, accusing the agency
and the researchers the agency
funded of incompetence and falsifying data.
NRA officials in Washington
did not respond to repeated AP
requests for comment for this
story.
In 1996, lawmakers sympathetic to the NRA took the
$2.6 million CDC budgeted for
firearm injury research and
earmarked it for traumatic
brain injury. Congressional
Republicans also included lan-
guage directing no CDC injury
research funding could go to
research that might be used, in
whole or in part, to advocate or
promote gun control.
Exactly what the language
meant wasn’t clear. But CDC officials, aware of how vulnerable
their injury research center was
becoming, adopted a conservative interpretation. The agency
ceased to be the main engine
driving gun violence research.
With the CDC largely out of the
picture, gun violence researchers turned to other sources. But
there wasn’t much. The field
withered, with limited funding
and not much new blood.
In the last decade, funding
for gun violence grew so tight
Garen Wintemute, a long-time
gun violence researcher at the
University of California at Davis,
spent more than $1 million of his
own money to keep different gun
violence research projects going.
Much of the research done
has had to be relatively simple
— based on small surveys or
on what limited data has been
collected on guns and on gun-related injuries and deaths.
As state and federal officials
debate gun laws or violence
prevention programs, it’s often
not clear how well they’ll work.
To answer such questions,
researchers ideally would like
to know the exact number, type,
and distribution of guns, as well
as who owns them and where
people got them. They’d like to
know how and where they’re
stored and to track use of gun
safety courses.
It’s key data for determining
actual risk and what actions best
reduce risk.
Researchers have wondered
if there will be a turning point
that might cause more people to
advocate for research.
Then came the December
2012 carnage in Newtown,
Conn., where an armed 20-yearold man entered an elementary
school and used a semiauto-
Susan Walsh/Associated Press
Neil Heslin, the father of Jesse, a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Conn., holds a picture of
them together as he wipes his eye while testifying Feb. 23, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Assault Weapons
Ban of 2013 on Capitol Hill. The bill was defeated in the Senate. Gun interests, wary of any possible limits on weaponry, successfully have lobbied for limitations on government research and funding, and private sources have not filled the breach.
matic rifle to slay 20 first graders
and six adult school staff members before killing himself. It
was the deadliest mass slaying
at a school in U.S. history.
The White House directed
the CDC to research the causes
and prevention of gun violence.
The actions included a call for
Congress to provide $10 million
to the CDC for gun violence
research.
The prestigious Institute of
Medicine convened a special
committee of experts to develop
a research agenda.
But Congress did not budget
money to the CDC for gun violence research.
It didn’t strip away the legislative language that had chilled
CDC activity on guns, either. The
research agenda was not formally adopted.
Some young researchers are
put off by the frustration of work-
Increase
Continued from page 1A
Only twice before, in 2010
and 2011, have there been no
increases.
In all, the COLA affects payments to more than 70 million
Americans.
About 60 million retirees,
disabled workers, spouses and
children get Social Security
benefits. The average monthly
payment is $1,224.
The COLA also affects benefits for about 4 million disabled
veterans, 2.5 million federal
retirees and their survivors,
and more than 8 million people
who get Supplemental Security
Income, the disability program
for the poor. Several people
who get SSI also receive Social
Security.
Carol Mead of Montrose, Pa.,
said she and her husband were
counting on Social Security
COLA to help them with their
finances.
“My husband is working
just so we can pay our bills,”
said Mead, a retired land-use
administrator.
“He’s 70 years old, and he’s
still working in a stone quarry.
He’s told me a number of times
that he thinks he’s going to have
to work until the day he dies.”
More bad news: The lack of a
COLA means that older people
could face higher health care
costs.
Brett Carlsen/Associated Press
Glen Mead operates a line drill machine at a rock quarry, in Montrose, Pa. Mead spent his life
working as a dairy farmer and at age 60, began working with Rock Ridge Stone in Montrose, to
make ends meet. For only the third time in 40 years, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can expect no increase in benefits next year, unwelcome news
for more than one-fifth of the nation’s population.
Most have their Medicare
Part B premiums for outpatient
care deducted directly from
their Social Security payments,
and the annual cost-of-living
increase is usually enough to
cover any rise in premiums.
When it doesn’t happen, a
long-standing federal “hold
harmless” law protects the
majority of beneficiaries from
Voice
Continued from page 1A
“They are my life.”
He was the girls’ baseball coach,
from T-Ball to Little League. Cockrell
served on the Little League board of
directors.
“We would host tournaments, and
Scott Zaiser, who was president at the
time, asked me to do some announcing during them,” Cockrell said.
“That’s where I got the announcer bug.
A few years later, the Bees needed
an announcer, and one thing led to
another ....”
Cockrell met with Bees general
manager Chuck Brockett, and the
two agreed the PA man not only
announces, he’s in charge of music and
sound effects.
“You’re kind of like a producer up
there,” Cockrell said. “Between the
on-field staff and what has to happen
in between innings and the script, it’s a
machine, and it has to go. If it doesn’t,
it affects the environment, and it
affects the Bees game.”
The game script is similar to a TV
show script. It lists advertisements
and contests, when they need to be
announced, and on-field contests and
special events, such as a first pitch.
“It’s my guideline to help make the
ballpark an enjoyable experience,”
Cockrell said.
Cockrell said whenever he’s
announcing, be it a basketball game, a
football game or a baseball game, he
pictures himself in the stands with the
fans.
“How would I want to hear the
guy announce? I guess you could say
having their Social Security
payments reduced.
But that leaves about 30 percent of Medicare beneficiaries
on the hook for a premium
increase that otherwise would
be spread among all.
Those who would pay the
higher premiums include 2.8
million new beneficiaries,
1.6 million whose premiums
I’m a fan behind
the microphone.
That’s how I
approach it,” he
said.
Cockrell has no
recording of his
first Bees game.
of 2015
“I’m glad it
wasn’t recorded
because it was probably a train
wreck,” he said with a laugh.
He shares the announce booth with
media personnel, including sports
reporters. During his first season,
Cockrell worked with the late Susan
Denk of The Hawk Eye.
“I’d only known Susie about a
month, and she brought cupcakes up
to the pressbox for my birthday,” he
said.
It was an epic day: The Bees lost 20
to 17, blowing a 16-1 lead, and made
Sports Illustrated, where Cockrell was
quoted.
The game made national news as
one of biggest comebacks in baseball
history,” he said.
Chad Drury, sportswriter for The
Hawk Eye, who sat in the pressbox
with Cockrell for 70 home games last
season, said Cockrell was at his best
when the Bees held their annual Bark
in the Park, the first since Denk passed
away.
“He held it together well as he read
a touching tribute about someone people loved and dearly miss,” Drury said.
“It took courage to read that, and he
handled it well.”
Cockrell choked up remembering
Denk.
“Just getting to know Susie was a
treat. The last three times I’ve had to
talk about her out there on the mic,
aren’t deducted from their
Social Security payments and
3.1 million people with higher
incomes.
Their premiums could jump
by about $54 a month, or 50
percent. Those with higher
incomes would pay even larger
amounts.
States also would feel a budget impact because they pay
I’ve almost lost it. She had that much
of an effect on everybody up there,” he
said. “She was wonderful, and I’m glad
we dedicated the pressbox to her.”
Denk’s score sheet from the last
game she covered before her untimely
death at 39 is framed and on the pressbox wall.
“Sean is very professional about
his job,” Drury said. “He injects passion into his announcing and makes
the fans feel involved in the game. He
has an affinity for kids, simply by how
he treats them during the Small Fry
announcer segment. He essentially
hands over the microphone, but he
helps that person pronounce names
of the hitters coming to the plate. It’s
a great gesture on his part.”
Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky came
to town to see his son, Trevor, play
with the Bees in the 2014 playoffs.
“I got to see Wayne, but I was busy
while everybody else was talking to
him,” Cockrell said. “But it was cool,
I do have to admit, as an announcer of
any sport, to say the name ‘Gretzky’ a
hundred times a year.”
Drury said Cockrell simply has a
passion for the Bees.
“You can tell he loves the game,” he
said.
“I am stung by the fun!” Cockrell
whooped, sounding a bit like Harry
Caray on a Stan Musial homer. “Go
Bees!”
Speaking of baseball and announcers, does Cockrell have any role models?
“Vin Scully. I’m a Cardinal fan, all
right?” he said. “Harry Caray, Jack
Buck; I love them, Cardinal greats.”
“He loves to talk about his Cardinals
any chance he gets,” Drury said dryly.
“I’d listen to Vin Scully read a phone
ing in a field where their findings
would likely be politicized and
have little impact. Worried about
ensuring a flow of funding, even
those most intrigued by gun violence must spend a lot of time
working on other topics.
Meanwhile, the longtime
leaders in gun violence research
aren’t getting any younger; several are in their 60s and 70s.
Some, worried the field may
soon shrink through attrition,
are working hard to recruit successors.
Michael Levas, a young
researcher in Milwaukee, is
drawn to the area of gun violence
and fascinated by its potential,
but he won’t commit to it.
“If the climate was right and
the funding was there, it would
make sense to focus on gun violence prevention,” he said. “But
right now, it would be a dead
end.”
part of the Medicare premium
for about 10 million low-income
beneficiaries.
All beneficiaries would see
their Part B annual deductible for outpatient care jump
by $76, to an estimated $223.
The deductible is the annual
amount patients pay before
Medicare kicks in.
“This would affect all beneficiaries,” said Tricia Neuman of
the nonpartisan Kaiser Family
Foundation. “This kind of an
increase is unprecedented.”
Senate Democrats have
introduced legislation freezing
Medicare’s Part B premium and
deductible for 2016, but its prospects are uncertain.
White House spokeswoman
Katie Hill said, “We share the
goal of keeping Medicare’s
premiums affordable, and are
exploring all options.”
By law, the cost-of-living
adjustment is based on the
Consumer Price Index for
Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W, a broad
measure of consumer prices
generated by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
It measures price changes
for food, housing, clothing,
transportation, energy, medical
care, recreation and education.
The COLA is calculated by
comparing consumer prices
in July, August and September
each year with prices in the
same three months from the
previous year. If prices go up,
benefits go up. If prices drop or
stay flat, benefits stay the same.
The numbers for July and
August show that, overall, consumer prices have fallen since
last year. Fuel prices are down
by 23 percent from a year ago,
according to the August inflation report. But prices for some
other goods and services, such
as health care and housing, are
up.
Advocates argue the government’s measure of inflation
doesn’t accurately reflect price
increases in the goods and services that older Americans use.
“The COLA is determined by
the buying power of younger
working adults,” said Mary
Johnson of The Senior Citizens
League.
Several
advocates
for
seniors want Congress to adopt
an experimental price index
that seeks to capture the inflation experienced by Americans
62 and older.
The Social Security Administration estimates it would
increase the annual COLA by
an average of 0.2 percentage
points — which still might not
be enough to generate a COLA
for next year.
Lee Marshall of Greenville,
Calif., said the current inflation
index isn’t good enough.
“They have a formula that
they use that doesn’t reflect the
actual cost of living,” said Marshall, 68, a retired laborer and
casino dealer. “Just because the
price of gas is going down, that
doesn’t mean anything.”
book,” Cockrell said.
OK, so who’s going to win the World
Series?
“I’ve been a Cardinal fan since ’77;
that’s the answer to that question,” he
said.
Unlike iconic announcer — and former Cardinals catcher — Tim McCarver, Cockrell was not much of a ballplayer as a child.
“I did play Little League, and church
league softball, but not anything like
high school ball,” he said.
You don’t have to make movies to
enjoy watching them, and you don’t
have to play baseball to enjoy the
game.
“I do love baseball. I love sports in
general, but baseball ... being up there
in that pressbox, it feels like home,”
Cockrell said.
And that puff of wind that sent
Cockrell into the announce booth a
few years back?
“My daughter, Molly, has worked
Game Day staff with me the past two
years, so it’s kind of a family affair,” he
said. “It’s an experience we’ll have 20
years from now.”
Cockrell keeps expanding his
microphone experience; he emceed
this year’s Oktoberfest and works at
other local charity events.
“I love it,” he said. “It’s like a switch
goes off when I get behind a microphone.”
Cockrell is presently serving a
three-year term on the Burlington
Steamboat Days committee. If longtime BSD stage announcer Scott Smith
ever decides to retire, would Cockrell
be willing to step in?
“I would love to, if I’m ever asked,”
he said.
He said he’s looking into the world
of voiceover work because people tell
him he has a good voice for it, so he
consulted a voice coach.
“One thing he said was, ‘When
you’re reading, picture it in your
mind.’ I said I already do that when I’m
talking, no matter what it is. He said he
could tell I’ve done some announcing,”
Cockrell said. “That kind of made me
feel good, so who knows? Maybe that’s
in my future.”
For now, Cockrell is happy calling
winter sports in West Burlington as
the WBHS webcaster.
“They do their varsity sports on a
YouTube channel, and I’m one of their
webcasters who will do play-by-play
or color,” he said. “I’m going to do
some JV public address out here; KC
Fleming does their varsity stuff.”
Cockrell filled in for Fleming as PA
announcer for a few games last year.
“Basketball is a blast,” he said. “With
basketball, you can be a lot louder and
roust the crowd up more.”
But what if a major league franchise
approached him?
“If a job using my voice came up,
and I could make decent living, and
my girls were out of school and in college, I would consider it because I love
it that much,” Cockrell said. “Like they
say, when you work and enjoy it, it’s
not work. This is a talent I never knew
I had, and all of a sudden, boom! Here
it is. So yes, I’d probably relocate if the
dream job came up, as it were. A Vin
Scully job, a Harry Caray job.”
And if the dream job never blows
into Cockrell’s life, he’ll be happy
nonetheless.
“Burlington is a wonderful place to
live,” he said.
You might say Sean Cockrell’s life is
a breeze these days.
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NATION & WORLD
Islamic State could gain from peace rally bombing
Turks and Kurds trade
blame for deadly blasts
as chaos in Syria bleeds
across long border.
By SUZAN FRASER
Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey — Thousands mourned the 95 victims
of Turkey’s deadliest attack in
years as state inspectors tried
Sunday to identify who sent suicide bombers to a rally promoting peace with Kurdish rebels.
The government said Kurdish rebels or Islamic State militants were likely responsible,
while mourners accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of
fomenting violence to gain votes
for the ruling party.
No one has claimed responsibility, but the attack bears similarities to a suicide bombing
the government blames on the
Islamic State group that killed
33 Turkish and Kurdish peace
activists near a town bordering
Syria in July.
Police detained 14 suspected
Islamic State members Sunday
in the central Turkish city of
Konya, but it wasn’t clear if they
were related.
Some Turkish media declared
that peace itself was under
attack. The bombers struck
hours before Kurdish rebels
battling Turkish security forces
followed through with plans to
declare a unilateral cease-fire,
to reduce tensions leading up to
Nov. 1 elections.
Turkey’s government rejected
the declaration, saying the rebels must lay down arms for good
and leave the country. Turkey’s
military meanwhile carried out
more cross-border airstrikes
against Kurdish shelters and
positions in the Zap and Metina
regions of Iraq.
While no one group has been
ruled out in the bombings, government opponents blamed
security forces for failing to protect the peace rally.
“The state which gets information about the bird that flies
and every flap of its wing, was
not able to prevent a massacre in
the heart of Ankara,” said Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of
the pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party.
On Sunday, police fired tear
gas and scuffled with the mourners — some chanting “Murderer
Erdogan!” — who tried to reach
the blast site to lay carnations. A
group of about 70 was eventually
allowed to enter the cordoned off
area.
More than 10,000 also gathered in Turkey’s mostly Kurdish
southeastern city of Diyarbakir,
holding a moment of silence for
the victims, including hundreds
of wounded.
Thousands also demonstrated
in Istanbul Saturday, blaming the
government.
Erdogan is hoping the ruling
party regains its political majority, and critics accuse him of
intensifying attacks on Kurds
to rally nationalist votes. They
worry the bombings could entice
rogue Kurdish forces to attack,
persuading Turks to seek security over peace.
The Islamic State group,
which is fighting Syrian Kurdish
forces allied to Turkey’s Kurdish
rebels, could benefit the most
from this, since a continued
military offensive within Turkey would take pressure off the
extremist group in Syria.
The Syrian government also
has an interest in destabilizing
Turkey, which has made no
secret of its desire to see President Bashar Assad ousted.
Regardless of who may have
planned the attack, it showed
how deeply Turkey is being
drawn into the chaos in Syria,
with which it shares a border.
Turkey already hosts some
2.2 million refugees from Syria
— more than any other nation
Burhan Ozbilici/Associated Press
A relative cries over the coffin of Korkmaz Tedik, 25, who was killed in Saturday’s bombing attacks, Sunday during his funeral at the
Pir Sultan Abdal Cemevi, a place of worship for Turkey’s Alevi community in the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey. The country declared
three days of mourning following Saturday’s nearly simultaneous explosions targeting a peace rally in Ankara to call for increased
democracy and an end to the renewed fighting between the Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels.
— and extremists use Turkish
territory to enter or exit the fray,
increasing the threat of violence.
Turkey’s skies also are vulnerable. Russia reportedly violated Turkish airspace last week
while bombing anti-Assad rebels in Syria, and Sunday, Syrian
jets and surface-to-air missile
systems locked radars on three
Turkish F-16 jets patrolling the
border, Turkey’s military said.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who
leads the pro-secular opposition
party, blamed Turkey’s support
of opposition groups in Syria for
the violence.
“That policy has brought terror to our country,” Kilicdaroglu said Sunday. “Turkey needs
to rapidly get out of the Middle
Eastern quagmire.”
Turkey agreed recently to
more actively support the U.S.led battle against the Islamic
State group, opening its bases
to U.S. aircraft launching air
strikes on the extremist group in
Syria and carrying out a limited
number of strikes on the group
itself.
Relations between Kurds and
Turks already are tense. Hundreds have died in Turkey in the
last few months as a 2012 peace
process was shattered.
Electoral gains by the People’s Democracy Party in June
deprived the ruling party, which
Erdogan founded, of its parliamentary majority after a decade
of single-party rule. The new
election was called after the ruling party failed to strike a coalition deal.
Erdogan is seeking to extend
the executive powers of his presidency, and while he denies it,
opponents believe he has deliberately re-ignited the conflict with
the Kurdistan Workers’ Party,
or PKK, to shore up his party’s
support. Erdogan has asserted
that Kurdish rebels are a bigger
threat to Turkey than the Islamic
State group.
Opinion polls indicate, meanwhile, that the ruling party is
unlikely to regain a majority,
again forcing it to build a governing coalition.
Just how Saturday’s bombings
will affect all this remains to be
seen.
Panama condo owners to Trump: You’re fired!
Condo details busted
budgets, alleged
mismanagement.
By JEFF HORWITZ
Associated Press
PANAMA CITY — The
directors of a massive Trumpbranded luxury condominium
development in Panama fired
Donald Trump’s company in
the summer about allegations of
mismanagement, overspending
and undisclosed bonuses executives paid themselves, according
to an Associated Press examination.
The coup at Central America’s largest building, Panama
City Trump Ocean Club, offers a
glimpse into the workings of the
Republican presidential frontrunner’s business empire — and
the style of management that
might be expected from a Trump
White House. Transparency and
close attention to expenses are
not strengths. Squeezing the
most from contractual language
is. Whether wheeling and dealing
with Wall Street bankers, debating Republican presidential
rivals or running a condo association, Trump has forwarded his
interests by leveraging his outsized reputation, canniness and
aggression.
In an interview, Trump’s
son, Eric, dismissed the allegations of mismanagement as an
orchestrated attempt to sully the
Trumps’ reputation.
He called the project “an
amazing icon and, frankly, a
great testament to America.”
Built in the shape of an arcing,
wind-filled sail, the development
is recognized as among the finest
building in Panama. Visitors can
sip drinks next to a 65th-floor,
edgeless pool that seems to float
above the ocean.
“I am proud to develop this
extraordinary high rise,” Trump
said in one 2007 promotional
brochure, promising to build a
“landmark in Latin America and
the Caribbean.”
It turns out Trump wasn’t
a developer on the project.
He merely licensed his brand,
though even that imprimatur
came at a high price. A 2007 bond
prospectus for the project estimated his cumulative licensing
payout would total $75.4 million,
roughly two-thirds the amount
raised.
Burdened by cost overruns
and the global recession, the
actual developer stopped making debt payments within a few
months of the ribbon cutting
in 2011. Trump earned an estimated $20 million of concessions
in a subsequent bankruptcy deal,
and he is probably the only participant in the original deal to
come out ahead.
Along with his branding and
hotel management deals, Trump
held a third contract to manage
the overall building.
A patchwork of contractual
language gave Trump’s company
the right to vote at owners meetings on behalf of hundreds of
hotel and condo units.
Buyers learned they were
abdicating their voting rights
only if they read the fine print of
their sales agreements, said Al
Monstavicius, a retired Nevada
doctor who bought a penthouse
condo.
“I shouldn’t have signed that,”
Monstavicius said. “But there
was nothing I could do because
my money was committed.”
Some owners feared that
Trump’s management might be
disproportionately spending the
building’s budget in ways that
benefited the hotel instead of the
building’s other components.
But despite repeated requests,
Trump’s managers never provided a detailed breakdown of
the costs generated by each of
part of the building, and never
established the separate bank
accounts stipulated in their
management contract. A senior
Trump executive in New York
told one owner in 2012 that
maintaining five bank accounts
would be too expensive.
Trump’s top employees in
Panama also awarded themselves hundreds of thousands of
dollars in bonuses without seeking the authorization of unit owners, according to members of the
board. Eric Trump said such
payments were appropriately
disclosed — though board members say they still don’t know the
amounts of the bonuses.
Transparency concerns took
on a heightened urgency given
the Trumps’ failure to stay within
its owner-approved budget.
“We made the budget, other
than extraordinary things we
can’t control,” said Eric Trump.
He cited rising local costs and
a broken water main as culprits
for $1 million deficits in 2013 and
2014.
“We had an unbelievable
team, and we managed to an
internationally renowned set of
standards,” Eric Trump said.
At a December meeting, restive unit owners disagreed.
“Civility was lost,” said Duncan McGowan, a real estate
agent and property manager on
the building’s board.
After the meeting, McGowan
and other dissidents lobbied
fellow owners to revoke proxy
voting rights granted to Trump.
With the help of votes controlled
by representatives of both the
casino and the developer, the
dissidents defeated a Trumpbacked special assessment at a
building-wide meeting in May.
Two senior Trump administrators resigned their jobs and
board positions following the
rebuke, leaving the dissidents in
charge. After negotiating with
Trump Organization executives
in New York for several months,
July 28, the board fired Trump.
Trump attorney Alan Garten
responded days later, calling the
termination “a complete sham”
and refusing to accept it. He
accused the board of ingratitude
and criminal trespassing. Garten
declared that Trump’s company
was quitting — and demanded a
$5 million termination fee. When
the directors took possession
of the administration offices,
Trump’s people disconnected
the phone and Internet service
and repossessed the copying
machine.
Following a period of heated
correspondence, a tense cooperation has set in. Trump’s name
is still on the building, and the
Trump Organization operates
and oversees the hotel, but not
the rest of the complex.
“The hotel is something near
and dear to our heart,” Eric
Trump said, noting that the hotel
management contract runs for
40 years.
Even unit owners who have
expressed misgivings about
Trump’s tactics are OK with the
arrangement.
“He’s a predatory businessman,” said Monstavicius.
But the Trump name still
holds an allure.
Arnulfo Francola/Associated Press
Panama City Trump Ocean Club, third building from left, is
shown in Panama City. The tale of a 70-story waterfront tower
along Panama Bay that was managed by the Trump empire
offers insight into the Republican presidential candidate’s business traits and hints about the management style.
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‘Pan’ lacks magic at the box office
LOS ANGELES — “Pan” produced no Neverland magic at
the box office.
The fantasy, which cost an
estimated $150 million to produce, earned $15.5 million in its
opening weekend, according to
Rentrak estimates Sunday making it one of the worst bombs
of the year. Early tracking did
not look promising for the Joe
Wright-directed film but still
predicted “Pan” would open at
least in the $20 million range.
The PG-rated epic, sold as
a Peter Pan origin story and a
lavish visual feast, has had a
bumpy ride from the beginning,
starting when actress Rooney
Mara, who is white, was cast
as Tiger Lily, who is historically
Native American. The film, star-
ring Hugh Jackman and Garrett
Hedlund, also had been pushed
from July to October. It has not
been well-received by critics,
either.
“Pan” now ranks among 2015’s
biggest flops, including “Fantastic Four” and “Tomorrowland.”
International earnings don’t
look promising, either. The film
brought in a weak $20.5 million.
For comparison, “The Martian”
earned $58.1 million.
“This had a lot going against
it,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a
senior media analyst for Rentrak.
He also believes competition
in the family market from the
Halloween-themed animated
feature “Hotel Transylvania 2”
hurt “Pan.”
“Family films always have
an audience, but that audience
is extremely fickle and hard to
please, just like the kids who
go to these movies,” Dergarabedian said. “You just never know
what’s going to resonate.”
Sony’s high-wire spectacle
“The Walk” also stumbled in its
first weekend in wide release,
after debuting on IMAX screens
last week. The tale of Philippe
Petit’s tight-rope walk between
the towers of the World Trade
Center earned $3.7 million this
weekend, bringing its total
to $6.4 million. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in film directed
by Robert Zemeckis.
Not all was bleak at the box
office, though. Ridley Scott’s
space adventure “The Martian”
earned a solid $37 million in its
second week in theaters, nabbing the top spot once more. Its
domestic total stands at $108.7
million.
“Hotel Transylvania 2” took
second place in its third weekend with $20.3 million, bumping
its total to $116.8 million. “Pan”
came in at No. 3.
Nancy Meyers’ workplace
comedy “The Intern” earned
$8.7 million, and the border
thriller “Sicario” brought in $7.4
million, rounding out the top
five.
Outside the top 10, “Steve
Jobs,” the biopic of the late
Apple CEO directed by Danny
Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, opened in four theaters in
New York and Los Angeles to a
powerful $520,942. Its $130,000
per-theater average ranks as the
best of the year and should bode
well for the film’s expansion
across the next two weeks.
“This is a movie everyone’s
talking about, and now they’re
going to be talking about it even
more,” Dergarabedian said.
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Heroin proves a formidable foe in Ohio county
Death toll soars in a
suburban county that’s
losing ground in battle
against the drug.
By DAN SEWELL
Associated Press
HAMILTON, Ohio — Scenes
from a community under siege:
• It’s been a hectic morning
for the Butler County coroner,
who’s investigating three new
deaths, all of them suspected
heroin overdoses. If Lisa Mannix’s office confirms heroin as
the cause, they will add to a
deadly pace well ahead of last
year’s record toll.
• Less than a mile away, Steve
Monnin, wearing a sleeveless
neon-green shirt with the message “God is Good,” spreads out
recent heroin-related finds on
his red pickup truck’s hood in
a riverside park that’s become
a spot for drug deals, shooting
up and sex acts performed in
return for heroin. There are four
needles and syringes, a couple
of scorched spoons and a knife
from along the Great Miami
River.
• In the same downtown
building as the coroner’s office,
Judge Daniel Gattermeyer is
keeping cases moving through
his Municipal Court session’s
docket. A young man in handcuffs turns to his mother and
grandmother in the courtroom
and said “I love you” as he’s led
away after appearing on a heroin charge. His was one of a
half-dozen cases involving heroin-related counts this morning, but back in his chambers
later, the judge said he’s nearly
certain several other suspects
who were before him on theft
and burglary charges were
driven by heroin.
“It’s a terrible problem,” said
Gattermeyer, a former prosecutor who has seen heroin gain
a foothold and spread rapidly
within a few years. “Now, it’s
just crazy.”
Butler County, Ohio: home to
bustling, growing northern Cincinnati suburbs, two older mill
cities, rural burgs nestled amid
farmland, a college town, and
about 374,000 residents including outgoing House Speaker
John Boehner. And to a stunning heroin scourge, despite a
range of community efforts to
turn it back.
What the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
has called a national epidemic
is hitting especially hard here.
The CDC said heroin-related
deaths nationally nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013, when
8,200 deaths were linked to
heroin. In Butler County, they
have nearly quadrupled in a little more than three years. Heroin-related deaths soared from
30 in 2012 to 103 in 2014, with 86
recorded already through the
first half of 2015.
Explanations for the county’s
heroin problem usually start
with location. Lying between
Cincinnati and Dayton, Interstate 75 cuts through it, and
easy access to four other interstates and multiple state and
federal highways keep supplies
flowing in. And like other counties with past problems with
abuse of prescription painkillers, which have become more
tightly regulated, Butler officials increasingly have seen
users making the dangerous
switch to cheaper, easier-to-get
heroin for numbing themselves.
“Heroin’s a whole different
ballgame,” said Melissa SmithProcter, 42. “I always call it the
devil, because it’s something
you would sell your soul for.”
The lifelong Hamilton resident said she’s had two ex-boyfriends, several other friends
and two women she was in
treatment with die from heroin. She recently celebrated 20
months of sobriety after more
than two decades of abusing
drugs and alcohol.
At the coroner’s office, Mannix puts on her glasses as she
studies the latest reports. In a
few hours’ time, two couples
have been found in separate
residences after apparent heroin overdoses. Only one of the
four survived.
She sighs.
“Unfortunately, it’s becoming
very common,” she said of this
day’s caseload.
Last year’s heroin toll was
among 137 total deaths from
all overdoses, marking the first
time drug overdose deaths outnumbered all other causes of
death, such as traffic accidents,
homicides and natural causes
investigated by the county coroner’s office. The dead have
been found on porches, in cars,
parks, alleys, “everywhere,”
Mannix said.
“Sometimes, the syringe is
still in their arm. That’s how
quick it is.”
It’s not as if Butler County
has ignored the problem.
There has been a series of
community Heroin Summits.
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Dorothy McIntosh Shuemake, mother of Alison Shuemake who died of a suspected heroin overdose, cries as she clutches her daughter’s toy stuffed rabbit during an interview at her home in
Middletown, Ohio. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called heroin use a national
epidemic, and it is hitting hard in southern Ohio. The CDC said heroin-related deaths nationally
nearly quadrupled in a decade. In Ohio’s Butler County, they nearly have quadrupled in just the
past three years.
Police go after traffickers in
multi-agency task forces and
special units; churches have
banded together in a “Hope Over
Heroin” campaign that included
a three-day festival drawing
thousands; people have held
rallies wearing T-shirts, saying “Heroin Sucks;” and recent
events, such as a “Harleys Over
Heroin” motorcycle ride and
“Bash Heroin” concert, raised
funds for anti-heroin work.
One of the new cases Mannix was investigating this day
was the death of 18-year-old
Alison Shuemake of Middletown. Her parents, Fred and
by drugs, has made a crusade of
trying to win back Combs Park
from drug use for the sake of
family gatherings, fishing and
other outdoor activities. He
confronts people when he spots
illicit activities, despite threats.
“The dopers don’t like me,”
he said. “We’re not going to stop
them, but we can get them out
of here.”
Sojourner Recovery Services, a nonprofit treatment center that has expanded capacity
by 80 percent in a year, recently
opened “sober living” housing
for recovering addicts, has cut
wait times by months and introduced a pre-treatment counseling program while addicts wait
for beds to open up.
Scott Gehring, the center’s
CEO, said he’s certain the
expansion in services has saved
lives, as have the community
awareness campaigns.
“We’re just still fighting an
uphill battle,” Gehring said.
Another setback has come
from recent rise in abuse of the
painkiller fentanyl, which often
is combined with heroin. Butler
had the fourth-highest number of fentanyl-related deaths
among Ohio counties in 2014,
contributing to a statewide 18
percent increase in drug overdose deaths.
“The numbers don’t show any
positive impact at this point,”
Mannix said. “But I think that’s
going to be a big, big ship to
turn around.”
Gattermeyer gets ready to
return to his courtroom, where
a Hamilton man charged with
selling heroin awaits.
He’s part of several families
the judge has gotten to know
because of heroin’s damaging
impact.
“It’s not hopeless,” he insists.
“You’ve got to just keep fighting.”
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A young male refugee sits on a bed last month at a reception center in the county of Kent in
southeast England. The Afghan, Eritrean and Sudanese refugee boys at the center will be moved
again and this time, it’s a happy occasion: After months of hardship traversing continents, the
teenage refugees finally are on the way to English homes where they can settle down for a long
dreamed-of life in Europe.
relaxing and chatting in the
courtyard.
“They go out to familiarize
themselves with English life
— they play football, go to the
shops,” said Sue Clifton, county
manager overseeing the center.
“They learn about the expectations of living in England.”
It’s a huge change of circumstances for the teenagers, several who had crossed the Mediterranean squeezed onto small
boats with hundreds of other
migrants.
Some had seen their families killed. One said he hung on
under a truck from France for
10 hours before reaching Dover.
Another was held at gunpoint in
Libya.
Still others endure worse
during their trip. Lacking
money for the whole journey,
some are forced into prostitution, or try to earn enough by
working in factories in Turkey
or Iran, said Torvik. A journey
from Afghanistan to Sweden
could take months, sometimes
years, he said.
“They have been showing
tremendous strength,” he said.
“Even though they have been
witnessing very hard things in
their home country, the separation from their family is a
trauma in itself. Sometimes
(officials) encounter children
crying out of control in the night
... it’s a very hard situation in a
foreign country, not knowing
the language, without their families.”
Authorities in Britain and
Sweden said their resources
have been strained hiring extra
staff and trying to find new
homes for the influx, which
has not shown signs of slowing. During the summer, Kent
officials have had to put some
children in taxis to other counties to find a suitable foster
home because there was sim-
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ply nowhere to house them.
Officials estimate that each
child refugee costs the county
$45,500 a year.
In Malmo, the Swedish city
receiving the bulk of the country’s child refugees, social
services have opened five new
reception centers and hired
some 70 extra staff to cope
since August. Annelie Larsson,
who heads the city’s social services, said it receives an average
of 80 children every day, with
most arriving by bus, train or
car from neighboring Denmark.
Most are unlikely to reunite
with their families, she said.
Larsson and Torvik agree
that Sweden, with its strong
tradition for solidarity and children’s rights, will continue to
attract scores of refugees — and
will keep on accommodating
them. And in Kent, officials are
also trying their best to secure
more central government funding for their work.
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couldn’t go to school. I miss (my
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to go back,” said Simon, 16, who
left his parents and seven siblings in Eritrea.
Is Europe a dream come
true? “I don’t know. I’ll wait to
find out what the reality is.”
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are packed, the goodbye hugs
done. The Afghan, Eritrean and
Sudanese boys are on the move
again, but this time, it’s a happy
occasion. After months of hardship traversing continents, the
teenage refugees finally are on
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Upon reaching the shores of
Dover, they were brought to a
reception center in Kent, southern England, where they were
given temporary shelter. As the
teenagers leave for more permanent social housing or foster homes, they are seen off by
another group of boys who are
eagerly awaiting their turn.
The
European
Union’s
migrant crisis has seen a record
surge of unaccompanied child
asylum seekers fleeing civil
war, conscription and poverty
at home to countries including Britain and Sweden, which
have scrambled to provide care
for thousands of newly arrived
minors. Most are boys aged
between 14 to 18 hailing from
Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and
Sudan.
“I’m happy to leave today,”
said Sadiq, a shy 17-year-old
Sudanese, who said he wanted
to become an engineer.
Like all the refugees interviewed at the center, his full
name cannot be reported
because they are minors under
government care.
Like the other children,
Sadiq had made it to Europe
alone after leaving behind his
family and may never see his
loved ones again. He lowered
his head when asked about his
homeland, where a years-long
conflict has killed thousands
and driven millions from their
homes.
“Since I left, I have had no
information, I don’t know anything about my family. I’m very
sad because of that, but what
can I do?”
In Kent, the main English
county receiving the children,
arrivals jumped from 296 in
September 2014 to almost 800
in the same period this year.
Almost all land in Dover, a key
port connected by rail and road
to France.
And in Sweden, which takes
the largest number of refugees per capita in Europe, the
Migration Agency said about
1,300 minors sought asylum in
a single week in September — a
staggering increase from about
400 a week in June. The agency
estimates about 12,000 unaccompanied children would have
sought asylum in the country
this year.
“The municipalities have
never been close to having a
situation like this before, ever,”
said Kjell-Terje Torvik, an
expert at the Swedish migration
board who has worked with
child refugees for over a decade.
“Even though we knew the numbers were going to rise, this is
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
More cities are recognizing
Native Americans on Columbus
Day this year as they revive a
movement to change the name
of the holiday to celebrate the
history and contributions of
indigenous cultures throughout
the country.
As the U.S. observes Columbus Day today, it also will be
Indigenous Peoples Day in at
least nine cities for the first time
this year, including Albuquerque; Portland, Ore.; St. Paul,
Minn., and Olympia, Wash.
Encouraged by city council
votes in Minneapolis and Seattle last year, Native American
activists made a push in dozens
of cities in recent months to get
local leaders to officially recognize the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day.
Their success was mixed.
The campaigns said the federal holiday honoring Christopher Columbus — and the
parades and pageantry accompanying it — overlook a painful
history of colonialism, enslavement, discrimination and land
grabs following the Italian
explorer’s 1492 arrival in the
Americas. The indigenous holiday takes into account the history and contributions of Native
Americans for a more accurate
historical record, activists have
argued.
Columbus Day supporters
said the holiday celebrates
centuries of cultural exchange
between America and Europe,
commemorates an iconic
explorer and honors Italian-Americans, a group enduring its own share of discrimination.
“For the Native community
here, Indigenous Peoples Day
means a lot. We actually have
something,” said Nick Estes of
Albuquerque, who is coordinating a celebration today after the
city council recently issued a
proclamation. “We understand
it’s just a proclamation, but at
the same time, we also understand this is the beginning of
something greater.”
Native Americans are the
nation’s smallest demographic,
making up about 2 percent of
the U.S. population. In recent
decades, a significant number
of tribal members have moved
from reservations to urban
areas, where a large majority
lives today. The shift makes the
cities’ resolutions and proclamations more meaningful, Estes
said.
Congress set aside the second
Monday of October as a federal
holiday honoring Columbus in
1934. During the years, Native
Americans slowly have begun
winning more recognition
around the day.
South Dakota renamed
Columbus Day to Native American Day in 1990, and it has
been an official state holiday
ever since. Berkeley, Calif., has
observed Indigenous Peoples
Day since 1992.
Parades and festivals developing around Columbus Day
have faced protests known for
being confrontational, especially in Denver. Anna Vann, a
longtime member of the Sons
of Italy’s Denver Lodge, recalls
protests during the 1992 parade,
which marked the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage, as
the most unnerving and pivotal.
That year, protesters blocked
the parade route for several
hours, she said. After that, the
parade wasn’t held again until
2000, and it has been difficult to
make it the draw it once was, she
said.
“It’s been a struggle to even
get people to come and attend
the parades as spectators,”
Vann said. “It’s a celebration of
when the Europeans came over
and started their lives here. We
wouldn’t be where we are today
if it weren’t for this history.”
The renewed push for Indigenous Peoples Day carries the
sentiment of past decades’ protests against Columbus, but it
has proven less confrontational,
with advocates instead finding
traction at city hall.
“They really didn’t prove anything,” Rey Garduno, an Albuquerque city councilman and
longtime community organizer,
said of the confrontational protests. “Whatever victory people
took from them, you still ended
up at the end of the day in the
same place or even worse.”
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Dale Alison, managing editor Mike Sweet, columnist
John Gaines, news content coordinator
Our editorial
GOP dissension
evin McCarthy doesn’t want to be Speaker of the House.
He is currently a representative from California who
serves as Majority Leader for the Republicans. He was
set to replace Speaker John Boehner at the end of the month.
Boehner abruptly called it quits earlier this month. He’d lost
control of the tea-party faction within his party and rather
than fight it, the man who
is third in the line of succession to the president
said he’d had enough.
Most Republicans
and nearly all Democrats walking the halls
of Congress expected
McCarthy’s anointment
to the job. On Thursday,
McCarthy surprised many
with his decision not to
seek it.
“We need a new face,”
McCarthy said following a
brief meeting with House
Republicans. It was a
meeting — held behind
Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press closed doors — in which
House Majority Leader Kevin Mc- his colleagues in the
party were expected to
Carthy of Calif. walks toward the
House Chamber Friday on Capitol nominate him for the job,
a nomination that McCarHill in Washington.
thy said wasn’t a certainty
among the members of
the House. The next speaker needs 218 votes to win the job.
McCarthy went on: “If we are going to be strong, we’ve got to
be 100 percent united.”
That’s something Boehner couldn’t accomplish within his
party. And it’s unlikely the next speaker will be able to get the
job done, either.
There is clearly dissent among Republican members of the
House. It doesn’t bode well for a party that had as its torchbearer in the presidential race a billionaire who has taken four
of his business ventures into bankruptcy.
“This is unprecedented to have a small group, a tiny minority,
hijack the party and blackmail the House,” Rep. Peter King,
R-N.Y. said last week.
But that’s the status of the party. Boehner appears to be
getting out while the getting is ripe.
With Boehner packing and no clear favorite to take his place,
the GOP members of the House are putting governing on the
back burner. Unfortunately, as they fight it out over their party
leadership, Americans wait.
Letters
Play as priority
R
eading Wednesday’s
paper, I was amazed at
the debate comment of
John Fenton. It was reported he
said, “The RecPlex, parks, and
Burlington Bees facility should
be cut from the city’s budget.”
Perhaps he has never been to
an event at one of those venues.
Doesn’t he know play is
essential in life? Play to the
youngster is serious learning. It
is the work of childhood. Play
relates to recreation, whether
at the RecPlex, in the park, or at
the ball field. And parks make a
difference in the quality of life
here in Burlington.
The thing Fenton needs to
understand is play for the child
or for the adult is not a luxury
but a necessity. It is the way
children learn and the way
adults relax and it’s done in
their leisure time.
It also was interesting to
read the quote on the council
room wall at the back of the
debaters which read, “City
of Burlington, Great Place to
Live, Work, and Play. Let’s not
let anybody cut the budget for
these important items — our
parks, the RecPlex, and for the
Bees.
Let the public be educated.
DAVE WIEMER
Burlington
Response to Vinny Vodis
B
ecause you think I am an
independent, I shouldn’t
express my views, especially on Republicans in The
Hawk Eye. A true independent
wouldn’t do that. However, I
disagree regardless of what
party a person claims to be, can
still write their opinion. I don’t
care what party you belong to.
You said I lied about the
comment I made about Dick
Cheney. She said, “In time, the
American people would show
their gratitude for her father’s
public service.” He (Dick
Cheney) doesn’t deserve gratitude of any kind. He has a track
record to prove it. Mainly Iraq
and lies he tells.
I write mostly about Republicans because they want to
remove or reduce benefits in
social security, Medicare and
all entitlement programs.
In the 6 1/2 years the Republicans haven’t supported
President Obama on anything.
Health care, infrastructure,
immigration or anything else.
This is true. Check it out.
Republicans do so many
things that are not good for our
country or the people. This is
true.
I will not disappear nor will
my editorials. If you check out
what Republicans are doing
you might agree.
If you and your friends don’t
like my editorials, don’t read
them. If you feel you need to
respond to any editorial I write,
do so. You’re entitled to your
opinion. So am I.
I voted for Ronald Reagan
and Jim Leach. They’re Republican. I will vote for the person I
think can do the job. Party affiliation doesn’t make that much
difference to me.
The only thing Republican
candidates do is bash Hillary
Clinton. They don’t talk about
important issues.
I write editorials because
I care about our country, our
people, and the people in
charge. I really do.
WAYNE DECK
Fort Madison
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
— First Amendment, U.S. Constitution
Can unions help workers adapt?
W
hat is the largest challenge workers face today? President Barack
Obama believes the answer is not
enough union representation. That’s why
the White House recently hosted a summit
arguing for expanding union membership.
But what unions have to offer now
appeals to few workers. Focusing on them
diverts attention from greater barriers in
the workplace.
Of course management gets the union it
deserves. Employees have a statutory right
to unionize. Employees mistreated at work
will probably exercise that right. But union
representation has fallen primarily because
most workers see little value in it.
Unions have little ability to raise wages
anymore. In today’s competitive economy,
unionized firms cannot pass on those costs
as higher prices; their customers will go
elsewhere. The average union member
makes more than the average non-union
member, but primarily because union organizers target higher-paying companies to
begin with.
Economists have compared companies
whose workers vote to unionize to those
that vote not to. Pay grows just as fast at the
companies that remained non-union.
But without higher pay, unions only offer
workers general representation. Many workers do not want these services. Collective
union contracts necessarily ignore their
individual contributions.
Consider what happened when a Giant
Eagle grocery store in Pennsylvania
tried to reward its employees’ hard work.
Managers gave two dozen workers performance-based raises above and beyond their
union rates. United Food and Commercial
Workers Local 23 promptly filed suit. It
wanted seniority alone to determine pay.
The arbitrator sided with the union and
ordered the performance-raises rescinded.
This mindset turns off many workers.
Alan Krueger, the former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, has found that almost all the decline in
Just as importantly, the government
should remove barriers that prevent workers from taking jobs they could succeed
in. One-third of jobs in the economy now
require a government license to perform.
Some of these requirements make sense;
surgeons should have considerable training
before operating on people. But many of
these licenses involve jobs without safety
James Sherk
concerns.
Louisiana licenses florists. Florida
Heritage Foundation
licenses interior designers. Maryland
counties license fortune tellers. Every state
U.S. union membership is “due to a decline
licenses barbers — requiring an average of
in worker demand for union representaa year of training before they can cut hair.
tion.”
Does it really take a year of training to avoid
Employees have a federally protected
right to unionize. The fact that union mem- bad haircuts?
In fact trade associations — not conbership keeps falling suggests the White
sumer groups — lobby for these restricHouse has misdiagnosed workers’ probtions. Licensing keeps potential competitors
lems. A far greater challenge facing many
out. That benefits incumbent practitioners,
workers is how to adapt to the ongoing
at the cost of higher prices for consumers
transformation of the economy.
For the past generation, employment has and reduced opportunities for those changfallen in jobs that require routine skills and ing jobs. It most hurts disadvantaged workers; they can least afford to stop working to
grown in non-routine jobs. Routine jobs
tend to lie in the middle of the skill distribu- jump through bureaucratic hoops.
For example, Dallas police arrested
tion; non-routine jobs at the top and bottom
Isis Brantley for braiding African-Ameriof it. The economy needs far fewer secretar- can women’s hair without a cosmetology
ies and assembly line workers than it once
license. That license required 1,500 hours
did. It also needs far more homecare aides
of training and had nothing to do with
and IT specialists.
hair braiding. So the mother of five did not
MIT economist David Autor has found
obtain it. For that she went to jail and lost
this “job polarization” has occurred in every her job.
major EU country. It has happened in counEarlier this year the Texas legislature
tries with strong unions and weak unions,
eliminated that unnecessary requirement.
with high taxes and low taxes. This strongly Brantley can now freely teach and practice
suggests that factors like globalization
hair braiding. But similar licensing requireand technological advances — not union’s
ments in other states and occupations wall
decline — drive this trend.
off a third of the economy to job-switchers.
On the whole, these changes have raised Similarly, many states are attempting to
living standards. But they have created
regulate new-economy companies such as
serious challenges for many workers who
Uber and Airbnb out of existence.
formerly held routine jobs. Union memberPolicymakers should allow more Ameriship can’t change this. A better response is
cans to work without needing government
to improve and expand access to education. permission. That would do far more than
union membership to address their current
This would better prepare workers for the
challenges.
new jobs the economy is creating.
Blame it on Rio
I
f you want to see the future of journalism and the benefits of a free press, at
least some of it can be seen in parts of
this huge South American nation.
More precisely, look in the coastal city of
Salvador in a small, multistory building on
a steep and narrow street in a modest area
of town just above the cargo docks is home
to the Ethnic Media Institute.
Look and learn from community journalist Thais Cavalcante, who publishes her
own newspaper and lives in Rio in a favela
— a slum where the poorest of the poor
lives — that’s both a short distance and yet
a world away from the sunny, shiny beaches
of Copacabana.
And there it is again in the busy Rio
newsroom of the brash newspaper Extra,
where Fabio Gusman demonstrates how
the light chat of social media can also
become a serious tool to report breaking
news and document police abuses.
From the top-floor windows of the Ethnic Media Institute in Salvador, you can
see the Atlantic Ocean — and the future
way news will be gathered and reported,
courtesy of founder and executive director
Paulo Rogerio and his colleagues. They
use mobile phone and online technology to
bring news, information and cultural information to minority communities underserved or ignored by traditional news media
here, particularly Afro Brazilians. They
also proudly describe a new system where
even those who live in rural areas where no
Web access is possible can telephone into
a system that transcribes and posts their
dictated items.
At the downtown offices of Extra, the
social media phenom “WhatsApp” has been
shaped into a news-gathering tool that
Doonesbury
K
As the GOP house crumbles, Americans are
left waiting for governance.
said of her community journalism, if only to
give voice to those “doing good things.”
While all are different ventures, each
represents a slice of how journalism of
the 2st century is being shaped here: local,
personal and multimedia; dependent-on but
also exploiting the exciting possibilities of
new media; and reporting to their readers
and users but also carrying news of the
Gene Policinski
community to the world beyond economic,
racial and physical barriers.
First Amendment Center
Specialists at the U.S. Consulate in Rio,
through a program to assist and advise
offers speed, reliability and a reach that
community journalists, note lower prices
makes every user potentially a reporter or
videographer. One example: Video sent in a for Web access and cheaper mobile phones
roundabout way to the paper (to protect the have helped propel the impact of hyperlocal
journalism, even as traditional Brazilian
life of the person who recorded it on a cellnews media experience a sharp wave of job
phone) of narco-criminals firing dozens of
rounds from automatic weapons at a soccer cutbacks resulting from drops in advertismatch they sponsored — video that eventu- ing income that hit U.S. media more than a
decade ago.
ally led to arrests, Gusman said.
Not that long ago, another new medium
Extra’s success has led at least one other
newspaper to copy the technique — and the — television — helped many in the U.S. see
the scourge of segregation and the reality of
expectation is more will reach out to “citidiscrimination had existed for decades out
zen-journalists.”
Calvacante labors each day to bring news of the sight and consciences of many white
Americans. It’s too soon to know if someand the needs of her community to fellow
thing similar will happen here, particularly
residents and to an outside world that has
long ignored rampant crime and drug deal- as Brazil faces economic crisis and political
ing, inadequate public services and corrupt meltdown.
But even as they create a new future for
police operations.
journalism here — and an example for the
With a print circulation of 20,000 copworld — Rogerio, Gusman and Calvacante
ies — important in a neighborhood where
also are advancing what in the U.S. are the
some cannot afford even low-cost Web
First Amendment values of quality journalaccess — and a digital reach beyond those
ism and a free press: Serving as a watchdog
papers, Calvacante doesn’t mince words
about her role. Traditional media are racist on government and standing as a “tribune”
and biased against favela dwellers, she said, — that Roman Senate member who represented those whose voices and needs were
seeing only the violence and rampant drug
trafficking that plagues her community. “It’s not being heard by the powerful — for their
fellow citizens.
important that we occupy this space,” she
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Edward Meierotto
A l v i n
Edward Meierotto, 84, of
Fort
Madison died at
11:57 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10,
2015, at Great
River Medical
Center in West
Burlington.
Born Dec.
22, 1930, at
Houghton, he
was the son of
Frank and Clara Holtkamp Meierotto. On Dec. 29, 1952, he married
Mary Margaret “Margie” Coster at
Fort Madison.
Mr. Meierotto graduated from
St. Joseph’s Catholic High School
in Fort Madison. He attended the
University of Iowa, where he studied engineering. He worked as a
foreman at J.I. Case, retiring in 1989.
He was a member of SS. Mary
and Joseph Catholic Church, Holy
Family Parish.
He was a veteran of the United
States Marine Corps, serving
during the Korean War.
He enjoyed playing cards, fishing, gardening, canning and special
times with his grandchildren.
Survivors include his wife; four
sons, Daniel Meierotto of Wever,
Brian Meierotto of Montrose, Patrick
Meierotto of Delhi and James Meierotto of Fort Madison; two daughters, Deborah Mapes of Montrose
and Carol Glasgow of West Point;
two brothers, Cyril Meierotto of Fort
Madison and Francis “Frank” Meierotto of Colorado; one sister, Darlene Denz of Burlington; 19 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren;
five great-great-grandchildren; and
nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his
parents, three brothers, two sisters,
one son and one grandson.
A rosary for Mr. Meierotto will be
recited at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Barr
Memorial Chapel in Fort Madison.
Visitation will follow and continue
until 6 p.m.
A Mass of Christian Burial will
be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at SS. Mary
and Joseph Catholic Church, Holy
Family Parish, Fort Madison, with
the Rev. David Wilkening as Celebrant. Burial will full military rites
will be in Soldiers Circle, Oakland
Cemetery, Fort Madison.
A memorial has been established
for the Soldiers Circle Fund.
Odella Fritz
Odella Mae Fritz, 94, of Brighton
died Friday, Oct. 9, 2015, at New
London Specialty Care Center.
Born May 8, 1921, in Clear
Creek, she was the daughter of
Lawrence Joseph and Emma
Tinnes Sieren. She married Maynard Fritz at St. Joseph Church
in East Pleasant Plain on May 17,
1941. He died Feb. 21, 2002.
Mrs. Fritz grew up in the Keota-Sigourney area.
She was a homemaker. She
also worked outside the home
for several years as a cook at
the Stever House and for Parsons College Food Service and
at Nelson Nursing Home, all in
Fairfield.
She was a member of St.
Joseph Catholic Church. She also
was a member of the Altar and
Rosary Society and the Burr Oak
Club.
Survivors include one daughter, Helen L. Menke of Fort Madison; two sons, Bernard F. Fritz of
West Burlington and James Fritz
of Mount Pleasant; nine grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren;
and three great-great-grandchildren.
Besides her husband, she was
preceded in death by her parents,
two infant daughters, one grandson, three brothers and one sister.
The family of Mrs. Fritz will
meet with friends from 5:30 to
7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph
Catholic Church in East Pleasant Plain. Prayers for a Christian
Wake will begin at 7 p.m.
A funeral Mass will be
10:30 a.m. Wednesday
at St
Joseph Catholic Church, with the
Rev. Robert Striegel officiating.
Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery.
Memorials have been designated for St. Joseph Cemetery,
HCI Hospice of Mount Pleasant
and New London Specialty Care
Center and may be left at the
church or mailed to Bernard Fritz
at 708 N. Gear Ave., West Burlington, Iowa 52655.
Richard Iles
The
Rev.
Richard Allen
“Dick”
Iles,
73, of Mount
Pleasant died
Friday, Oct. 9,
2015, at Sunrise Terrace
Nursing and
Rehabilitation
Center in Winfield.
Born March
22, 1942, in
Mount Pleasant, he was the son of Jacob Henry
and LaVon Velma Fleig Iles. On
July 29, 1972, he married Peggy
Louise Saner at Wesley United
Methodist Church in Ottumwa.
Mr. Iles graduated from Mount
Pleasant High School in 1960. For
20 years, he owned and operated
Iles Stockyard and Iles Trucking
Co. He bought and sold hogs at
the stockyard and transported
livestock.
He joined the Iowa Army
National Guard, where he served
several years as a cook. His unit
was called to active duty to serve
in Vietnam, but the unit never was
deployed. During that time, he
attended the former Burlington
Community College (now Southeastern Community College) and
graduated from Iowa Wesleyan
College in 1966 with a Bachelor of
Arts degree in business administration.
In 1990, he entered Dubuque
Theological
Seminary.
He
received his Masters of Divinity
degree in 1993. He was ordained
an elder in the Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist
Church. He was appointed to
the Pulaski and Troy churches,
serving eight years. He then was
appointed to the Fenton-BurtGood Hope parish in northern
Iowa, serving six years, and then
to the Waukon-Forest Mills Parish
in northeast Iowa, serving nine
years until his retirement in June
2014.
During his ministry, Iles served
on the Board of Camps for the
Iowa Annual Conference. He later
served and chaired the disabilities
commission of the conference. He
served several years as a counselor at the former Camp Golden
Valley near Lockridge. Because of
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his love of real airplanes, model
airplanes and flying, he became a
principal organizer and leader for
the annual Air Show and Airplane
Camp at Golden Valley.
He was a member of the
Masonic Bodies in every community he lived. He was a member and past master of AF & AM
lodges in Mount Pleasant, Algona
and Postville. He also was a past
worthy patron of the Order of the
Eastern Star Chapters in Mount
Pleasant, Algona and Decorah. He
was a member of the Lions Club in
Waukon.
He was a gifted mechanic and
always kept a well-organized
tool kit in every vehicle. He loved
to take time off at Labor Day to
attended Midwest Old Threshers. He would use the time to
paint one side of his house every
year. He supported the Theater
Museum, in which the Schaffner
Players’ Toby and Susie shows
are based, featuring his son,
Brian, as Toby. He also played the
accordion.
When in Mount Pleasant, he
sang in the chancel choir and
instructed the acolytes at First
United Methodist Church.
He was constantly on the go.
Survivors include his wife; one
son, Brian Iles of Mount Pleasant;
one daughter, Kristy Robison of
Moravia; two grandchildren; and
one nephew.
He was preceded in death by
his parents and one brother.
Friends of the Rev. Richard
Iles may call from noon to 9 p.m.
Tuesday at Kimzey Funeral
Home, 213 N. Main St. in Mount
Pleasant. A Masonic service will
be conducted at 6:30 p.m. by the
Mount Pleasant Lodge No. 8 AF &
AM. The family will greet friends
from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and one
hour prior to the service Wednesday.
The funeral will be 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday at First United Methodist Church, 309 N. Main St. in
Mount Pleasant, with the Rev.
Deborah J. Stowers officiating.
Burial will be in Forest Home
Cemetery, with military honors
conducted by the Henry County
Honor Guard.
Memorials have been designated for the cancer fund or the
United Methodist Church.
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Carl Franklin DeFosse, 87,
of Burlington
died at 7:07 p.m.
Friday,
Oct.
9, 2015, at the
Great
River
Hospice House.
Born Nov.
20, 1927 in Palmyra, Mo., he
was the son
of John and
Esther Carlson
DeFosse. On
Oct. 16, 1949 he married Pauline
Finke at Prairie Grove.
Mr. DeFosse spent his years in
sales and maintenance, retiring
after 25 years from Yetter Oil, and
five more years with the Burlington School District in the janitorial department, retiring in 1990.
He was a Navy veteran as an
electrician’s mate and one of seven
brothers who served during World
War II. He witnessed the first
atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.
He was a member of the Trinity
Lutheran Church. He also was a
member of Teamsters 218 and the
Golden Oldies.
He loved hunting and fishing,
woodcarving, the Cardinals, being
a handyman and, especially, time
with his grandchildren.
Survivors include his wife; two
daughters, Patty Chacey of Burlington and Paula McPherson of
Davenport; one son, Steve DeFosse
of Myrtle Beach, S.C.; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a brother, Larry DeFosse of
California; and several nieces and
nephews.
He was preceded in death by
his parents, nine brothers and five
sisters.
Memorial services for Mr. Carl
DeFosse will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday
at Trinity Lutheran Church, with
Rev. Ryan Cosgrove officiating. The
family will receive friends from
9:30 a.m. until time of services at
the church, with military services
following. Private inurnment will
be in the Aspen Grove Cemetery.
A memorial has been established for Trinity Lutheran Church
and the Golden Oldies.
Cremation has been entrusted to
the Lunning Chapel.
Billy E. Cox,
61, of Oquawka,
Ill., died at
4:10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10,
2015, at Cottage
Hospital in Galesburg, Ill.
Born Aug. 3, 1954, in Pekin, Ill.,
he was the son of W. W. and Dorothy L. Williams Cox. He married
Ramona Marie Powell Jan. 26,
1983, in Burlington.
Mr. Cox received his education
in Pekin, Ill., and Arizona.
He served in the U.S. Army as a
private first class from 1971 to 1972
during peace time.
He began work as a tow truck
driver for Tazewell Towing in
Pekin. When the family moved
to Burlington, he worked as a
driver for Lamont Manufacturing
for several years. He later was an
over-the-road driver for several
local companies. His most recent
position was as a driver for Liberty
Trucking until his retirement.
He loved hunting and enjoyed
joking with his friends. He was
a quiet person but would do anything for a friend.
Survivors include his wife and his
mother, both of Oquawka, and one
brother, Richard Cox of Oquawka.
He was preceded in death by his
grandparents, his father and one
brother.
A gathering of Mr. Cox’s friends
and family will be 5 to 7 p.m.
Wednesday at Turnbull Funeral
Home in Monmouth, Ill., followed
by military honors at 7 p.m. Cremation has been accorded.
A memorial fund has been
established.
Turnbull Funeral Home in
Oquawka is in charge of local
arrangements.
Jean Hertig
Jean Katherine Hertig,
80, of Wayland
died Saturday,
Oct. 10, 2015, at
Parkview Home
in Wayland.
Born Oct. 14,
1934, in Washington County,
she was the daughter of Charlie and
Rhua Mann Davison. On Sept. 11,
1955, she married Donnie Hertig at
Wayland Mennonite Church.
She was a graduate of Wayland
High School.
She was a farm wife for most of
her life. She worked as a bookkeeper
and secretary for her husband’s fertilizer business.
She enjoyed sewing, crocheting,
collecting dolls and artwork and
being active with her church and
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Dixie Christofferson
Dixie
L.
Christofferson,
70, of Burlington
died
at
9:30 a.m.
Saturday, Oct.
10, 2015, at the
home of her
daughter.
Born Aug.
4, 1945, in Burlington, she was the
daughter of Otto E. and Louise
Myers Christofferson. On Dec. 25,
1981, she married Jerry Christofferson in Las Vegas. He died March
7, 1998.
Mrs. Christofferson attended
Gladstone, Ill., Schools.
She was a homemaker and a
housekeeper.
She enjoyed motorcycle riding,
camping, dancing, traveling and
country and gospel music.
She was a member of First Baptist Church in Mediapolis.
Survivors include one daughter,
Penny Leibli of Burlington; two sons,
John Dameron of Burlington and
Bufford Flaar of Yearington, Nev.;
11 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; one sister, Delila Bloomer of
Burlington; and one brother, John
Christofferson of Oquawka, Ill.; and
nieces and nephews.
Besides her husband, she was
preceded in death by her parents,
one daughter, three sisters and
four brothers.
Friends may call after noon
Thursday at Lunning Chapel,
where the family will receive
friends from 6 to 8 p.m.
The funeral for Mrs. Christofferson will be 10 a.m. Friday at
Lunning Chapel, with Pastor Dan
Baker officiating. Burial will be in
Carman Cemetery in Carman, Ill.
A luncheon will follow at the Gulfport Fire Station.
A memorial has been established for final expenses.
Gregory Seth
Gregory
K. Seth, 63, of
rural
Farmington
died
at 10:20 a.m.
Saturday, Oct.
10, 2015, at the
home of his sister in Salem.
Born Aug. 4,
1952, at Keokuk, he was the son of
Bernard Lee and Donna E. Mosier
Seth.
Mr. Seth graduated from Revere,
Mo., High School. He attended
Northeast Missouri State University, where he received a degree in
agricultural management.
He was a member of Anson
Community Church, where he
served as an elder.
He farmed with his father in
rural Clark County, Mo.
He enjoyed hunting, fishing,
woodworking, gardening, cooking
and animals.
He was a member of the International Harvester Collectors Club,
Iowa Chapter, and the North American Hunting Club.
Survivors include one sister,
Shelley Barber of Salem; nieces;
nephews; and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his
parents and one sister.
There will be no visitation. His
body has been cremated.
A memorial service for Mr.
Seth will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at
Anson Community Church in
Anson, Mo., with Pastor Josh
DeJong officiating. Burial will
be in Christy Cemetery in rural
Farmington.
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6-17-98 to
10-12-13
T h e
funeral
service
for Emilie Jane
S c h u l t z,
77,
will
be 11:00
AM today
at
First
United
Church of Christ with Pastor
JudyAnn Morse officiating.
Cremation will be entrusted
to the care of Prugh-Thielen
Crematory following the service. Burial will be in Aspen
Grove Cemetery at a later
date. A memorial has been
established for the First United Church of Christ.
Michael Prior
Dixie
Christofferson
The funeral service for
Mrs. Dixie L. Christofferson,
70, who died Saturday, October 10, 2015, will be 10 a.m.
Friday, October 16th, at
Lunning Chapel. The Pastor Dan Baker will officiate.
Friends may call after noon
on Thursday, Oct 15th at Lunning Chapel where the family
will receive friends 6:00 until
8:00 p.m. Interment will be in
Carman Cemetery and a luncheon will be served following
at the Gulfport Fire Station. A
memorial has been established for final expenses.
Vonda Gooding
family.
Survivors include two daughters,
Vicky Hertig of Seattle and Denise
Kluger of Eldridge; three grandchildren; one brother, Don Davison of
Wayland; and twin sisters, Janice
Flory and Joyce Letts, both of Washington.
She was preceded in death by her
husband in 2001.
Visitation for Mrs. Hertig will
be from 1 to 7 p.m. today at Beatty
Funeral Home in Wayland, where
the family will greet friends from 5
to 7 p.m.
A celebration of life service will
be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Bethel Mennonite Church in Wayland. Burial
will follow in North Hill Cemetery
in Wayland.
A memorial fund has been established for Parkview Home and Hospice of Washington County.
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standard death notices of
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The
memorial
funeral service for Mrs. Vonda
Lee Gooding, 74, who died
Wednesday, October 7, 2015,
will be held at Faith Lutheran
Church, Saturday, October
17th, 2015, at 11:00 A.M. Cremation has been entrusted to
the Lunning Chapel.
T h e
Funeral
Mass of
the Resurrection
for
Michael F.
Prior, 59,
will
be
10:00 AM
Wednesday at SS. Mary and Patrick
Catholic Church, West Burlington with Rev. Father David
G. Steinle as the Celebrant.
Music will be provided by the
Des Moines County Resurrection Choir. Burial will be
in Sacred Heart Cemetery.
Visitation will be from noon
until 7:00 PM with the family
to receive friends from 5:00
PM until 7:00 PM Tuesday at
Prugh-Thielen Funeral Home,
3940 Division St. A memorial
has been established for the
Quad City Animal Welfare
Center 724 2nd Ave. W, Milan, IL 61264.
Condolences may be sent from
www.thielenfuneralhome.com.
Carl DeFosse
The memorial funeral service for Mr. Carl Franklin DeFosse, 87, who died Friday,
October 9, 2015, will be 11
A.M. Tuesday, October 13, at
Trinity Lutheran Church. The
Rev. Ryan Cosgrove will officiate. The family will receive
friends 9:30 a.m. until the
time of services at the church
with military rites by the Burlington Area Veterans Honor Guard following. Private
inurnment will be in Aspen
Grove Cemetery. A memorial has been established for
Trinity Lutheran Church and
the Golden Oldies. Cremation has been entrusted to the
Lunning Chapel.
Carol Herbert
The memorial service for
Ms. Carol Louise Herbert,
57, who died Friday, October
9, 2015, will be held at a later date. Cremation has been
entrusted to the Lunning
Chapel.
Send a sympathy message at:
www.LunningFuneralChapel.com
Remembrance Picture Tributes
and Funeral Services may be viewed
at the respective obituaries
of participating families.
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Services
for Connie Lynn
Jester
Noble,
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of
Burlington, Iowa,
w h o
died at Great River Hospice
House, West Burlington, on
Saturday, October 10, 2015
will be held in Prugh’s Chapel on Thursday, October
15, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. with
Pastor Jeremy Hess officiating. Visitation with family receiving friends will be
held in Prugh’s Chapel on
Wednesday night from 6:00
until 7:30 p.m. Burial will be in
Wapello Cemetery, Wapello,
Iowa. Following the interment
in Wapello the family will celebrate Connie’s life at Farney’s
on Jefferson Street in Burlington. A Memorial has been
established in her memory.
Sam Long
Funeral services for Samuel K. Long of Burlington who
died Saturday, October 10th
2015 at his home are pending
at Prugh Funeral Service.
Condolences may be sent to
www.prughfuneralservice.com.
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9:48 p.m. 1100 block of Iowa 78.
Randy Blake, 60, of Wayland was
driving a 1991 Honda Accord on
Iowa 78 while intoxicated and
collided with the rear of a wagon pulled by a tractor. Kenneth
Shelman, 56, of Olds was driving
the tractor, and no injuries were
reported. Blake was charged
with drunken driving and failure
to maintain control of his vehicle.
Arrests/citations
Reports are taken directly from
the daily logs of area law enforcement agencies. Some
agencies do not differentiate
between arrests and citations.
Burlington
Saturday
11:38 p.m. 2420 Division St.
Colton Lee Blankenship, 22,
same address: three counts of
sale and manufacturing of drug
paraphernalia.
1:34 p.m. Des Moines County jail,
3630 Bauer Drive. Chad Cicero
Graham, 42, 21 Gemstone Circle, Camdenton, Mo.: probation
violation.
1:58 a.m. 835 Valley St. Rico
Demonta Stringer, 23, same address: driving while under the
influence.
1:23 a.m. Mount Pleasant Street
and Roosevelt Avenue. Katherine Michelle Anderson, 31, 103 S.
Blair Street, Morning Sun: driving while under the influence.
Friday
Fun City, 3001 Winegard Drive.
Fight reported at 1:08 a.m.
100 block of Glendale Drive.
Vandalism reported at 12:02 a.m.
16
2200 block of Seneca Street.
Vandalism reported at 11:43 p.m.
Midtown Motel, 2731 Mount
Pleasant St. Disorderly conduct reported at 11:39 p.m.
Circle K, 1012 Maple St. Intoxicated person reported at
11:04 p.m.
1800 block of Sunnyside Avenue. Burglary reported at
10:14 p.m.
Fun City, 3001 Winegard Drive.
Theft reported at 9:29 p.m.
200 block of Hayes Street.
Disorderly conduct reported at
9:11 p.m.
Hot Toddies, 1500 Agency St.
Intoxicated driver reported at
8:07 p.m.
HyVee, 939 Angular St. Reckless driver reported at 6:21 p.m.
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Disorderly conduct reported at
6:09 p.m.
Market Street and Roosevelt
Avenue. Reckless driver reported at 6 p.m.
Gas Land, 1703 Mount Pleasant St. Theft reported at
5:11 p.m.
1900 block of South Third
Street. Vandalism reported at
4:02 p.m.
Burlington Public Library, 210
Court St. Theft reported at
3:53 p.m.
200 block of South Fifth
Street. Disorderly conduct reported at 11:19 a.m.
Hopefully Yours, 425 Valley St.
Theft reported at 8:42 a.m.
1700 block of Oak Street. Burglary reported at 6:52 a.m.
McDonalds, 1725 N. Roosevelt
Ave. Intoxicated person reported at 1:50 a.m.
800 block of Valley Street. Assault reported at 1:28 a.m.
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Thursday
5:30 p.m. 32 Alta Drive. Krystal
Ann Young, 32, same address:
simple domestic abuse; Russell
Arlo Young, 39, same address:
simple domestic abuse.
1:38 p.m. Fort Madison Middle
School, 502 48th Street. Jameson Alan Hensley, 10, 1 Oak Drive:
third-degree criminal mischief.
Michael Prior
Saturday
2500 block of Iowa Avenue.
Reckless driver reported at
9:07 p.m.
1800 block of U.S. 34. Reckless
driver reported at 7:37 p.m.
255th Street and Grand Avenue. Reckless driver reported
at 1:06 p.m.
300 block of East Monroe
Street. Vandalism reported at
10:26 a.m.
400 block of East Mapleleaf
Drive. Assault reported at
8:14 a.m.
Michael F.
Prior, 59, of
Davenport died
at
3:35 a.m.
Saturday, Oct.
10, 2015, at his
home in Davenport.
Born Oct.
31, 1955, in Burlington, he was the son of Francis
Xavier and M. Kathleen “Kay” Riffel
Prior. On Oct. 10, 2001, he married
Verna Louise Armstrong in West
Burlington.
Mr. Prior graduated from Burlington Notre Dame High School and
the University of Northern Iowa.
He worked for the Burlington
Northern Santa Fe Railroad for 35
years.
He was a member of Our Lady
of Lourdes Catholic Church in Bettendorf. He also was a member of
the Knights of Columbus Council
No. 568.
He enjoyed watching sports,
especially the Pittsburgh Pirates
and Pittsburgh Steelers. He also
enjoyed spending time with his
dogs, reading and playing pool.
Survivors include his wife; his
mother of West Burlington; four
sisters, Peg Speed of Burlington,
Teresa Prior-Curry of Bothell,
Wash., Kathleen Prior of Stevens
Point, Wis., and Carol Wheeler of
Altoona; and several nieces and
nephews.
He was preceded in death by his
father and three sisters.
Visitation for Mr. Prior will be
from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday at
Prugh-Thielen Funeral Home,
3940 Division St., with the family
receiving friends from 5 to 7 p.m.
The funeral Mass of the Resurrection will be 10 a.m. Wednesday
at SS. Mary and Patrick Catholic
Church in West Burlington, with
Rev. Father David G. Steinle as the
Celebrant. Music will be provided
by the Des Moines County Resurrection Choir. Burial will be in
Sacred Heart Cemetery. A time of
food and fellowship will be held in
St. Mary’s Parish Center following
the burial.
A memorial has been established in his name.
Connie Noble
Connie Lynn
Jester Noble,
52, of Burlington died Saturday, Oct. 10,
2015, at Great
River Hospice
House in West
Burlington.
Born April
25, 1963, in Peoria, Ill., she was the
daughter of Robert Leroy and Norma
Lee Diveley Noble. On Oct. 26, 1995,
she married Freddie Lee Noble in
Oquawka, Ill. He died Oct. 2, 2000.
Mrs. Noble was a housekeeper at
the Super 8 Motel.
She enjoyed fishing, camping,
swimming and watching TV, especially “Wheel of Fortune.”
Survivors include three sisters,
Sandy Harris of Trivoli, Ill., Char-
lotte Kalb of Princeville, Ill., and
Nadine Roscum of Burlington; her
significant other, Rex Morris of
Burlington; one stepson, Nicholas
Noble of Burlington; four grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
Besides her husband, she was
preceded in death by her parents
and one sister.
The family of Mrs. Noble will
receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday in Prugh’s Chapel.
The funeral will be 10:30 a.m.
Thursday in Prugh’s Chapel, with
Pastor Jeremy Hess officiating.
Burial will be in Wapello Cemetery.
Following the burial, the family
will celebrate Mrs. Noble’s life at
Farney’s on Jefferson Street in Burlington.
A memorial has been established.
Betty Logan
Betty
J. household while her husband was
Logan, 89, of on the road.
She liked to cook, play rummy
Mount Pleasant
died Friday, Oct. and work jigsaw puzzles. She spent
9, 2015, at Pleas- hours on her front porch swing,
ant Manor Care socializing with everyone who
Center in Mount passed by. She was an avid fan of
Pleasant.
the WWE and its star, John Cena.
Born July 30, She especially enjoyed time with her
1926, in Fair- children, grandchildren and family.
field, she was the daughter of LauSurvivors include one daughter,
rence Victor and Clara Belinda San- Jean Logan of Mount Pleasant; six
den Coleson. On March 30, 1944, she grandchildren; and nine great-grandmarried Lawrence Wilbert Logan in children.
Besides her husband, she was preFairfield. He died June 3, 1992.
Mrs. Logan attended school in ceded in death by her parents, two
sons, three sisters and one brother.
Fairfield.
Friends of Mrs. Logan may call
She worked at local restaurants
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Mount Pleasant
800-762-3947
11:40 p.m. 811 Avenue E. Craig
Edward Allgood, 33, 1930 Iowa
2, Donnellson: first-offense
drunken driving, no drivers license, no insurance and following too closely.
10:15 p.m. 1111 Avenue H. Carri
Lou Carson, 38, same address:
contempt of court.
6:30 a.m. 1814 Avenue G. Crystal
Lynn Kline, 31, same address:
possession of drug paraphernalia.
See page 9A
Saturday
5:38 p.m. 704 S. Central Ave.
Marc Andrew Moehn, 19, 800
Morningside Drive: possession
High: 61°
of marijuana.
Low: 37°
3:28
p.m. Des Moines County
Sunny
jail, 3630 Bauer Drive. Chasika
Todd, 20, 973 Eighth St., Lomax,
Sun & moon
Almanac | yesterday
Ill.: first-offense drunken driv- Friday
High/low
82°/51°
Today
Tomorrow
ing and eluding police.
Normals
68°/46°
7:12 a.m.
7:13 a.m.
Sunrise
1200 block of Agency Street.
8:43 a.m. Des Moines County
Record high
88° (1962)
6:29 p.m.
6:27 p.m.
Sunset
Fight reported at 8:34 p.m.
Courthouse,
513
N.
Main
St.
DaRecord low
25° (1987)
6:47 a.m.
7:43 a.m.
Moonrise
Moonrise
100
block of South Marshall
vid
Lutz
Ruiz
De
Chavez,
26,
529
6:31 p.m.
7:02 p.m.
Moonset
Precipitation (through 4 p.m.)
0.00"
Street. Theft of vehicles reportMonth
to date/Normal
T"/1.18"
Maple
Ave.:
failure
to
appear.
New
First
Full
Last
T"
Month to date
ed at 7:12 p.m.
to date/Normal
29.68"/31.95"
Quarter
Quarter Year
29.68"
Year to date
West
Burlington
Snow yesterday
50 "Midtown Lane. Burglary of
1.18"
Normal month-to-date
Wednesday
Snow
month to date
31.95"
Normal year-to-date
residence
reported at 7:06 p.m.
"
Oct 12
Oct 20
Oct 27
Nov 3
11:03
p.m.toMount
Snow
season
date Pleasant Street
" block of Gnahn Street.
1500
and West Burlington Avenue.
River stages | yesterday
Theft of vehicles reported at
Michael LaShawn Horton, 27,
Stage (ft.) Change Flood Stg.
Site
Stage (ft.) Change Flood Stg. Site
1:04 p.m.
West Burlington: violation of
Lone Tree
6.15
-0.52
15
Mississippi River
Fort
Madison
12.48
+0.07
20
no-contactPredominant
order; Jacqlyn
Wapello
pollen: JoeDubuque
7.67
+0.04
17
lene Plowman, 22, West Burl- Thursday
Des Moines River
Davenport
4.51
-0.29
15
Ottumwa
Muscatine
2.93
-0.1
15
6.32
+0.01
16
ington: driving while suspendKeosauqua
12.12
-0.28
22
Keithsburg 6.22
+0.19
14
ed and violation of no-contact 2000 block of Avenue D. Vandalism reported at 9:21 p.m.
6.32
+0.01
16
Saint Francisville
Burlington
8.2
+0.26
15
order.
100.0 97.9 -2.1
Keokuk
4.14
+0.54
16
Skunk River
100
97.3 -2.7 block of Avenue E. Vandal5:55 p.m. 726 Swan100.0
St. Ashley
Brighton
NA
NA
14
Iowa River
ism reported at 7:37 a.m.
Marie Rogers, 19, 100.0
Burlington:
Augusta
2.93
-0.1
15
Iowa City
11.19
-0.04
22
97.5 -2.5
Wednesday
criminal mischief. 100.0
UV Index
4:53 p.m. Kohl’s, 306 E. Agency 1400 block of Avenue M. VanPollen count
dalism reported at 3:46 p.m.
Very high
Road.Road
Crystalconditions
Marlene TimmerToday's allergy levels:
5.2/med
man,•Dial
23,5-1-1
Burlington:
fifth-de- 3400 block of Avenue N. Van12
Extreme
or
11
gree •Iowa:
theft, possession of800-288-1047
marPredominant Pollen:
dalism reported at 11:52 a.m.
10
Very high
800-452-4368
•Illinois:
Ragweed, Chenopods, Grass
ijuana
and
possession
of
drug
9
800-222-6400
•Missouri:
3000
block of Avenue N. Theft
paraphernalia.
8 The UV index fore4.9/med
•Kansas:
800-585-7623 reported at 11:05 a.m.
Tomorrow's allergy levels:
High
7 casts the ultraviolet
•Minnesota:
800-542-0220
MONDAY
FRIDAY
• More obituaries
1400 block of Dodge Street.
Vandalism reported at 6:12 a.m.
1500 block of Louisa Street.
Vandalism reported at 5:57 a.m.
1300 block of South 15th
Street. Vandalism reported at
5:37 a.m.
1300 block of Summer Street.
Intoxicated person reported at
3:54 a.m.
Hobby Lobby, 3351 Agency St.
Vandalism reported at 3:23 a.m.
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