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Community rallying together to support veterans PAIGE GODDEN PGODDEN@REGISTERMEDIA.COM

Welcoming veterans to Indianola is a job for the entire community. While officials work toward becoming a Home Base Iowa city, local

entities such as Simpson College are getting a jump start on helping veterans transition to the next stage of their lives. Simpson has hired a fulltime veterans service coordinator to recruit both veterans and active-duty military

members and to help them transition to campus life if they decide to settle there. Steven Griffith, vice president and academic dean at Simpson, said the college has been working to become more attractive to veterans for

many years, even before Iowa Governor Terry Branstad officially launched Home Base Iowa in 2013. Griffith said before the program was announced, he See SUPPORT, Page 3A

FEEDING A FRATERNITY FOR 40 YEARS

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The city of Norwalk, the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce and the Norwalk school district teamed up to build the NorwalkNexus app. The app features city and school calendars, local garage sales and maps.

Norwalk launches new local app PAIGE GODDEN PGODDEN@REGISTERMEDIA.COM

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Simpson College student Tyler Stokesbery poses with Sally Jenkins who has been cooking for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house at Simpson College for 40 years. The fraternity recently awarded her its highest honor, the Order of the Violet.

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t was the beginning of April 1976 when Sally Jenkins tried to fix lunch during her first shift as the head (and only) cook for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. She was in the kitchen, in the

basement of the last house on fraternity row on the west side of the Simpson College campus. It would be the first time in several years there was a cook in the SAE kitchen. The fraternity’s last cook had left and the position was never replaced. Dr. Joe Walt, the fraternity’s faculty sponsor, had struck a deal

with Jenkins. If she cooked lunch and dinner five days a week in April and May for the fraternity, the kids liked her and she liked the job, she could return the next year. Walt helped Jenkins create the first two weeks worth of menus. Her very first meal was pretty See SAL, Page 4A

A new digital app is taking over Norwalk. It’s called NorwalkNexus and it has everything anyone would want to know about the city. Or at least it will soon. The app, available in the Play Store and on iTunes, includes a list of chamber members, a calendar of events, which includes city, school and chamber calendars, a list of local garage sales, a list of schools, churches and parks, community resources, the Norwalk Warriors’ sports schedule, classified ads, area attractions and more. “It’s one place to go for residents,” said chamber board member Jon Niemeyer. “For residents, it’s a way to know what’s happening in town. If there’s some school events or something at parks and rec., or if there’s a chamber event going on.” He said the application was a joint project among the city, school and the chamber. “So for the people coming in See APP, Page 7A

Carlisle librarian closes the book on a 38-year career PAIGE GODDEN PGODDEN@REGISTERMEDIA.COM

A Carlisle librarian who has spent the better part of 38 years pairing children with books is retiring. Kathy Spratt began working as a volunteer at the library in

1978 while it was still in an old house where the current library is. She said each room in the house held a different type of book. There was a room for fiction, a room for non-fiction, a room for kids and so on. The new library, she said, was built in 1981. The building was re-

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Local............................2A-12A

Obituaries.....................3B-4B

Viewpoint ..........................8A

Records..................4B, 5B, 7B

Your Life..............................1B

Classifieds .....................6B-7B

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Public Notices ..............3C-4C

Family Notes ......................2B

Sports ........................... 1D-4D

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Carlisle librarian Kathy Spratt celebrated her retirement with a party at the Carlisle Public Library on April 23.

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