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Summer 2014 featured a collection of unique stories John Schreier

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The most-read story on The Nonpareil’s website from July through September used the word “hopeful” in its headline. And there were many of those types of stories, though both triumphant and tragic stories graced front pages over those three months. Several articles that captured the unique flavor of southwest Iowa generated the most discussion during that time

frame. Almost all of them had one theme in common: success in small towns. Whether it was the crowd that turned out to catch a glimpse of the “Hog Ranch” – a famed house of ill repute and illicit gambling intentionally built to straddle the Mills-Pottawattamie County line – or the booming business of a McClelland meat market, southwest Iowa saw its true colorful character play out in print. In Council Bluffs, hope abounded, too. Whether it was for proposal or grand opening of a new business or courage in the

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face of difficult medical odds, eyes were on the future this summer. Not every story, however, was as optimistic. Many covered the final chapters of long, tragic sagas. This summer saw the end of the search for a man who died in a house fire in Mills County, Dr. Dennis Jones’ trials on sex abuse and child pornography charges and a man whose body was found on a Council Bluffs golf course. September also featured one of the

year’s most difficult stories. Abraham Lincoln High School mourned the death of a student who suffered head injuries during a September altercation in the high school commons. Through all of these stories with unhappy endings, however, one thing remained constant: hope. Take a look inside this third edition of The Nonpareil’s Year in Review to recall the ups and downs of the year that was, which spans the range of emotions from sadness to hope.

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Griffin Pipe, which employed about 250 people at its Council Bluffs plant, was purchased by U.S. Pipe of Birmingham, Ala. The company closed the Council Bluffs plant in early May.

THE SAGA OF GRIFFIN PIPE

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Plant closed, eliminating 250 jobs

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Council Bluffs lost one of its major manufacturers in 2014. Griffin Pipe Products Co. was purchased by U.S. Pipe and Foundry early this year and laid off about 60 employees in February. It closed its plant at 2601 Ninth Ave. in early May. City officials received word on March 3 that U.S. Pipe planned to close the site and eliminate an estimated 250 jobs. The news came as a shock to workers, according to Eric Rollins, president of Steel Workers Union 3141, which represented most of the employees. “It’s pretty devastating,” said Rollins, a 27-year veteran of the company. In one incarnation or another, Griffin Pipe was a presence at the Ninth Avenue location since 1921. Griffin Wheel Company, then a part of American Steel Foundries, was one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of iron railcar wheels. Although American Steel closed the plant in 1956 when the industry switched to cast steel wheels, it was reborn as Griffin Pipe in 1960. The foundry produced pipes that transported drinking water. Its main 100,000 -square -foot plant – which manufactured pipes between 6 and 24 inches in diameter – was built in 1960. In 1998, American Steel, which had changed its name to Amsted Industries, opened a $35 million, 65,000-square-foot addition to the original plant that housed a new casting machine and annealing

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oven. The expansion allowed Griffin Pipe to produce pipes as large as 48 inches in diameter. The company invested in anti-pollution measures throughout its tenure. The 1998 expansion added 50 employees to the workforce, bringing the total number of workers at the time to about 370, making Griffin Pipe the second-largest manufacturing employer in Council Bluffs, behind only ConAgra, at that time. Griffin Pipe operated a plant in Lynchburg, Va., where the purchase by U.S. Pipe led to layoffs. Griffin ran a foundry in Florence, N.J., from 1962 until February 2009. That foundry dated back to 1867. Much of the material for the pipe produced at the Council Bluffs plant came from Alter Recycling next door. A major component of the ductile iron pipes that rolled off the line at Griffin started as recycled cars transported from their neighbor on Ninth Avenue. In September, Griffin Pipe reached an agreement with Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 officials to settle violations of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. The agreement would require Griffin to reduce lead emissions and pay a civil penalty of $950,000 if the Council Bluffs plant reopens, according to the EPA. It was still unclear whether the plant would reopen. As of late September, five employees remained at the plant to perform basic maintenance work, according to union officials. Bob Mundt, president and CEO of the

Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce, said he had kept in contact with U.S. Pipe representatives but had not heard anything about the facility reopening. “Once they contact us and say they want to reopen, we’ll do everything we can to help them do that,” he said. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources referred the environmental matters to the EPA after stack tests in 2009 showed lead and particulate matter emissions exceeded limits established by the agency. The EPA issued a Notice of Violation to Griffin Pipe in July 2010 for the violations. Griffin violated the Clean Water Act by illegally discharging untreated process wastewater to the city’s wastewater collection system from at least April 2007 until April 2008, according to the EPA. These discharges exceeded the limits for lead and zinc. In March of 2011, the agency issued an administrative order to the company for violations of its storm water permit. Griffin also violated permits by discharging zinc, lead, copper and other pollutants in violation of its permitted levels for at least 582 days between 2006 and 2011. The company installed a $14 million baghouse – an air pollution-reduction device – that eliminated the majority of pollutants in its wastewater discharges and significantly improved air emissions, the agency said. As part of the settlement agreement, Griffin certified that it had come into compliance with the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.

THE RANDOM DEAD

2014 sees unusual number of bodies

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An unfortunate recurring story in 2014 was the discovery of bodies in the metro area. On March 26, Mike Cheers had taken a brief break from installing fiber optic wires when he discovered a man’s body in Mosquito Creek below the Madison Avenue bridge. “I looked around and saw he was laying there,” said Cheers, who told coworkers and then called 911. Joseph A. Nacarelli Jr., 47, was found dead around 12:15 p.m. that day. Based on the state of Nacarelli’s body, Sgt. David Dawson with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Council Bluffs Police Department guessed the man had been in the creek for about 48 hours. Cheers and Joe Ward found Nacarelli underneath the Madison Avenue overpass near the intersection of Valley View Drive. The body was lying in shallow water, face up, with his legs crossed. Cheers, too, said there was no sign of a struggle or trauma. “He was there with his legs crossed, arm on his stomach, like he was just chilling,” Ward said. The workers found a pair of broken eyeglasses and an unopened beer can nearby. Dawson said the area isn’t terribly popular for transients, though it

appeared Nacarelli had been living under the bridge for a brief period. “There’s indication he’d been here for a little while,” Dawson said, though there’s no large encampment that implies a long stay or that anyone else was there.” Authorities said foul play was not suspected in the death, and an autopsy showed no trauma to the body and indicated the death was from natural causes. On July 1, law enforcement officials found a decomposed body in the Missouri River south of Council Bluffs. Chief Deputy Bruce Paulsen of the Mills County Sheriff’s Office said a camper found Robert Jensen at 4:45 p.m. at Lincoln’s Landing campground, which is near the U.S. Highway 34 bridge in Mills County that connects to Plattsmouth, Neb. On July 15, authorities were able to determine the body was the 49-year-old Jensen of Council Bluffs, according to the Iowa Department of Public Safety. Authorities released a detailed description of the man in an effort to make positive identification. Members of Jensen’s family contacted law enforcement after reading descriptions of the body’s tattoos in local media, then confirmed it was Robert Jensen. A doctor also helped identify Jensen through dental comparison analysis. An Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation inquiry into the matter and an autopsy led to the conclusion that foul play was not involved in Jensen’s death.

“There were no obvious signs of trauma and no one came forward with information,” an investigator said. The family told investigators Jensen was homeless and bounced between a few bridges in the area for living quarters. The coroner listed the cause of death as undetermined. On Sept. 12, a witness spotted a body floating in a Council Bluffs golf course water hazard. Josey Janssen, 33, was found dead in a pond at the Council Bluffs Country Club, according to the Council Bluffs Police Department. The 33-year-old was last seen between 10:30 and 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 in the area of a bar at 401 Veterans Memorial Highway, police said. Janssen was seen walking south toward his residence and may have attempted to take a different route. Authorities were called to the country club shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 12, where a witness had seen Janssen’s body floating on wood-lined water on the course southeast of the intersection of Wright Road and Piute Street behind the Tractor Supply Company. Janssen was floating about 50-75 feet from the shoreline in water estimated to be 9-feet deep. The medical examiner found no indications of foul play. “We believe at this time this incident to be only a tragic accident,” Sgt. David Dawson with the police department said.

After several years of little or no change to county property tax levy rates, the Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors in April approved a budget for the 2015 fiscal year that included substantial levy increases – the largest oneyear increase in modern times. The increases were designed to generate an additional $6.5 million in county tax revenues. The new levy rates are expected to take the current fiscal year’s estimated tax revenues of $34.8 million to $41.3 million in the 2015 fiscal year – an increase of nearly 19 percent. According to County Auditor Marilyn Jo Drake, the county needed to end each fiscal year on June 30 with enough money in the bank to operate from July 1, the first day of the new fiscal year, until the first of September, when new tax revenues begin coming into the county coffers. If the cash reserve is less than what’s needed to operate those two months, the county could be forced to borrow outside money; or, as it has done in the past, the county will find itself needing to move money from one or more special funding accounts to the general fund in order to pay operating expenses the first two months of the fiscal year. The transferred monies are always reimbursed to the appropriate special funding accounts as soon as the county begins receiving new tax dollars in September, Drake said. In order to avoid the need

for such maneuvering going forward, Drake said $3 million of the additional $6.5 million in tax revenue will be used to increase the cash reserve in the general fund at the end of the 2015 fiscal year. Another $2.7 million will be used to pay for increased expenses in fiscal 2015. A general breakdown of the $2.7 million is as follows: • Providing increased security in the courthouse will cost the county $500,000 in 2015. A half-million dollars will be used to buy and install the necessary equipment, and to pay for additional staffing – sheriff’s deputies – to man the security entrances. The initial expense will go away once the equipment is purchased and installed, but the new salary and benefit expenses will be ongoing. • Another $400,000 will be used to cover the cost of the 2014 fall general election, an expense that occurs every two years. • The county’s contribution to the Emergency Management Agency will increase by approximately $92,000; and, with some areas of spending declining in 2015 while others are budgeted to increase, a little more than $200,000 will be used to fund the net increase in non-personnel operating expenses. • The final budgeted expenditure increase is $1.5 million to cover wage and benefit increases. The remaining $800,000 of the $6.5 million will be used to offset lost revenue due to the 5 percent rollback in taxable valuations for commercial properties as mandated by the state, which occurs in fiscal 2015.

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works to honor the memory of fallen special deputy trail becomes cold. Dail was a World War I veteran who served as a private with the 150th Field Artillery. After the war, he moved to Council Bluffs to live with his father. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be nice to have a living relative to contact whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Missouri or here,â&#x20AC;? LeMaster

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ason LeMaster wanted to make sure Claude B. Dail got his due. For three days, Claude B. Dail was a special deputy in the Pottawattamie County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. One of nearly 100 deputized in the wake of a farmers strike sweeping into Council Bluffs, his mission was to protect the Council Bluffs jail â&#x20AC;&#x201C; now the Historic Squirrel Cage Jail museum â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at all costs. But his service was short-lived. Cpl. LeMaster, who also serves on the board of directors for the Historical Society of Pottawattamie County, said an analysis of several Nonpareil articles printed in 1932, detailed the story of Dail, a Council Bluffs resident and World War I veteran, who died three days after he was hired. The sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office has for years honored two recorded deaths of deputies in the line of duty. But LeMasterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent discovery of Dailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s service has led Pottawattamie County to expand its list. Dail was added to the National Law Enforcement Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. His name will be formally dedicated on May 13 at the 26th Annual Candlelight Vigil during National Police Week. In 1932, Midwest residents organized the Farmers Holiday Association in response to low market prices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because the market prices were low, their farms were being foreclosed and their equipment was being seized,â&#x20AC;? LeMaster said. Sheriff Percy A. Lainson printed a warning in The Nonpareil on Aug. 26, 1932, that told people to stay away from the jail because residents could be injured by picketers. The farmers had declared a Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Holiday in which no one would harvest, work or transport goods to other locations. The movement became known as the Farmers Holiday Strike. However, residents did not take kindly to the request. Lainson expected more farmers to come from Sioux City and

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said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so we can honor our past.â&#x20AC;? LeMaster said the deputy was not married or did not have any children. But the sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office hopes to find additional information about the man to keep a more complete record. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a loss, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not forgotten,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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a Happy & Healthy With warm wishes to you and your family as we celebrate this special ďż˝me of the year. northwest Iowa to picket highways in Council Bluffs. Farmers had blocked several major highways so produce could not enter or leave the city. Trees and road spikes were used to block U.S. Highway 34, which then ran near the Iowa School for the Deaf, U.S. Highway 6 and Iowa Highway 92. Lainson hired 98 special deputies on Aug. 22, 1932, to thwart potential violence from Iowa farmers who rebelled, fearing low market prices would rob them of land and income. Dail, a Missouri native, joined the sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s department during a crisis in which farmers were imprisoned for picketing those major highways in Council Bluffs to prevent the shipping of agricultural products. Lainson told his deputies that maintaining security at

the Squirrel Cage Jail, where farmers were held, was a top priority. After an incident where 66 picketing farmers were arrested and taken to the jail, Lainson had deputies outfit the perimeter of the jail with Gatling guns to serve as a last defense against aggravated farmers. He feared a mass attack that would free those inside the Squirrel Cage Jail. Lainson told his deputies that if any farmers tried to storm the Squirrel Cage Jail, they were authorized to kill them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are armed,â&#x20AC;? Lainson told The Nonpareil on Aug. 25, 1932. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If there is mob violence, we shall handle it in the best possible manner.â&#x20AC;? That day, Dail and Special Deputy Joe Ludwig were

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tasked with guarding the jail from picketers who wanted to rescue their fellow farmers. While testing the weapons, a gun accidentally discharged, fatally striking Dail and injuring Ludwig. They were taken to Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs by a man named H.D. Kelly. Dail later died of his injuries. The sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office has a record that Dailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father picked up his remains after a cremation at a Council Bluffs funeral home, but that is where the

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GUILTY PLEA Cox gets 25 years in death of wife Tim Rohwer

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A Council Bluffs man is spending the next 25 years in prison following a plea deal earlier this year in the death of his wife in October of 2013. On Feb. 6, Darwin Cox, 55, pleaded guilty in district court to three charges as part of a plea deal with the Pottawattamie County Attorney’s Office for the death of his wife after an incident on Oct. 15 of the previous year. Early on that date, after an overnight altercation between Cox and his wife, Millisa, the situation escalated even more. Around 8 a.m., Millisa Cox ran out the door of their home at 3441 Ave. B when her husband pulled out a handgun. From inside the home, Cox fired through a window, striking his wife. The suspect attempted suicide shortly thereafter, shooting himself in the head, and spent time in the hospital before being transferred to the Pottawattamie County Jail. Cox was initially charged with first-degree murder. In court, he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, intimidation with a dangerous weapon with intent and going armed with intent. The first two charges are both Class C felonies, and each carries a 10-year maximum sentence. The third charge is a Class D felony with a five-year sentence. The intimidation charge includes a weapons enhancement that requires Cox to serve at least five years of the sentence. The prison sentences will be served consecutively as part of the plea deal. Before the mid-October incident Darwin Cox had at least three other domestic assault arrests and two assault arrests in Pottawattamie County – from 1996 to the present – all of which were dismissed in court. Millisa Cox also had at least one domestic assault arrest as well, for a 2010 incident that was dismissed. On Oct. 14 and 15, the couple was heard shouting and fighting, with their 16-year-old son, Morgan Cox, and two friends trying to keep the peace. Eventually, Millisa Cox allegedly threw a pair of scissors at her husband, which briefly stuck in his skin before falling out. She then attacked Darwin Cox further before the fight was broken up. The three teenagers were able to calm things down at the house, with the five sitting and talking well into the night, before things took a turn for the worse the next morning.

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Jury returns guilty verdict in Oakland murder Scott Stewart

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Oakland’s first murder in more than seven years had a trial that saw five delays before a conviction was ultimately handed down in November. Robert A. Reynolds Jr., 64, of Oakland, was found guilty by a jury of the first-degree murder of Patricia Kinkade-Dorsey, 64, of Atlantic. The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office and Iowa State Patrol were called to Reynolds’ residence on Brown Street in Oakland during the early morning hours of April 8. First responders found Kinkade-Dorsey dead inside the residence. A visceral cheer went up from family and friends of KinkadeDorsey as Fourth District Court Judge Greg Steensland read the jury’s guilty verdict Nov. 21. “Justice is done,” said Rob Stamp, an Atlantic resident and friend of the victim for around 20 years. He noted he’d been a friend of Robert and his wife, Theresa, for about four years. Added Susie Page, a former area resident who now lives in Kansas City, Mo., and came up for the trial: “We can breathe now.” The shooting was the first murder in Oakland since the November 2006 killing of 24-year-old April Corter of Red Oak, whose body was found in a well near the city of 1,500 people. Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber said the connections of a small town made the case tougher to prosecute. “People know each other,” he said. “But like I said in closing, just because you’re a neighbor, a nice guy, doesn’t mean you’re above the law.” According to evidence from the trial, Reynolds fatally shot Kinkade-Dorsey just above the right eye with a 9-milimeter handgun around 3 a.m. She was a friend of his wife, Theresa Reynolds, and was staying at the home to catch a flight in Omaha to California to see her grandson off for a deployment with the Air Force. The three had spent the previous evening drinking with the Reynolds’ neighbors, who left around 10:30 p.m. Around 3 a.m. that night, Theresa Reynolds awoke to find her husband screaming at Kinkade-Dorsey in the kitchen. After she entered the fray, telling Robert Reynolds to stop yelling, he left the kitchen and returned with the gun. After more shouting – including from Theresa and her daughter Amber Hoyt, who begged the victim to leave the house and her stepfather to put the gun down – he shot Kinkade-Dorsey. During his closing arguments, Wilber first played a phone call Reynolds made to his mother and stepfather’s home around 11:30 a.m. April 8 from the Pottawattamie County Jail. When asked by his stepfather what’s going on, Reynolds said, “I killed a woman last night.” Eric Nelson, who represented Reynolds with Joseph Reedy, argued that his client had no reason to want to cause harm to Kinkade-Dorsey. Reedy said an appeal would be made if Steensland chooses not to overturn the jury’s decision. Among the defense’s objections is Steensland’s decision to allow the jailhouse recording to be entered as an exhibit in the case. Iowa court records show the jury verdict but did not show a final disposition for the case as of press time for the Year in Review section. Reynolds is scheduled to be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 14, 2015.

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Woman deemed incompetent to stand trial for Independence Day murder

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A Council Bluffs man died after being stabbed around noon on the Fourth of July in the 3500 block of Fifth Avenue. Jodie M. Sherman, 45, of Council Bluffs, was arrested and charged with suspicion of first-degree murder, among other charges, according to police Sgt. Dave Dawson. The victim, Douglas E. Richt, 52, died at the CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center. Sherman was initially set to stand trial for the murder. A state mental health evaluator has since found Sherman incompetent to stand trial. Sherman On July 4, officers found Richt lying on the front porch of the home at 3501 Fifth Ave. with a stab wound to the neck. The man died as medical personnel were transporting him to the Omaha hospital. Police said Richt went to the Fifth Avenue address to pick up Sherman. She got into Richt’s vehicle, a 1999 Saturn, where a verbal argument ensued. Witnesses told investigating officers they saw Richt exit the vehicle and attempt to crawl onto the porch at 3501 Fifth Ave. Sherman also exited the vehicle and fled on foot, going west on Fifth Avenue. She was apprehended shortly thereafter

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Council Bluffs Police responded to South 35th Street and Fifth Avenue about noon July 4 following the report of a stabbing at that location. by a police officer in the area. Sherman was also charged with willful injury causing serious injury. The stabbing incident was not Sherman’s first. In October 2013, the suspect allegedly attacked another woman, Brandy Reed, in the alley at Fifth Avenue and South 36th Street – one block west of the location of the fatal stabbing. Reed told responding officers that she defended

herself when she was attacked by Sherman, who was armed with a kitchen knife. Reed, who said she did not know Sherman prior to the altercation, received a cut on the chin and was treated at the scene. She declined prosecution in relation to the assault, though Sherman was charged with suspicion of public intoxication.

– Reporter Tim Rohwer contributed to this story.

2014 Year in Review

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

NONPAREIL STARS OF 2014 TODAY: Jason LeMaster V Mary Lou McGinn V Ron & Suzanne Mahoney

TUESDAY: Mark Alba V City of Avoca V Steve Gilfillan and Tank the Turtle WEDNESDAY: Google V Hy-Vee V Kirn Middle School

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class. Well, sort of. “I didn’t like the dates, but I liked the stories,” she said. What began as a fondness in elementary school grew to a passion to help tell the stories of Council Bluffs. McGinn’s work has been critical in telling the city’s history in plain sight, ranging from cemetery books to historic home tours. Her work has also been instrumental in the listing of five Council Bluffs areas as National Historic Districts, as the nomination process is beginning for a sixth neighborhood. For her work in sharing and saving the city’s history, McGinn has been named one of The Nonpareil’s community stars in 2014. Though her work may be most visible when she’s sharing the story of historic homes in Council Bluffs – her “The History We Live In” column runs in the Sunday Nonpareil biweekly – McGinn began introducing the city to the history of Fairview Cemetery. She was among those who started operating trolley tours in the historic cemetery, where many of the city’s earliest civic and business leaders are buried. Many of their stories are in “Living History of Council Bluffs,” which she and Kathleen Meldrum wrote. A trip to historic Galena, Ill., planted a seed in McGinn’s mind for something bigger. The small town had many preserved homes, dating back to a slew of Civil War generals. Why couldn’t Council Bluffs do the same, she thought. “We thought, ‘We’ve got things this good in Council Bluffs.’” In 2005, she was among the researchers who helped put together a proposal to get the Third/Bluff/Willow District nominated on the National Register of Historic Places. The nomination was accepted, and the area of stately homes became the city’s first area so honored. And the historic home trolley tours – which run monthly during the summer, often selling out – began shortly thereafter. “People were kind of excited about being on the Register, and we knew we had reason to get the word out,” McGinn said. The hour-long journeys take visitors on a narrated tour through all five of the city’s federally recognized historic districts – three residential and two commercial – and the area Preserve Council Bluffs is seeking to add as the sixth. Most of the tour, sponsored

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And the fun stories are what keep her coming back for more. She continues to stumble onto odd and quirky houses simply by driving around the community. One of the most popular editions of her column focused on a home built out of a Sears catalog – which the owner gave her for her research. Sure enough, she believes it may be the last example of the houses, once very popular, still standing in Council Bluffs. “I’ve just knocked on doors: ‘Can I write about your house?” she said, with a laugh. Despite many years of research, she’s still fascinated by the city’s history. Since Council Bluffs predates Omaha by a decade, she finds it the most authentic gauge of how the first settlers in the area lived. “We have a really interesting town,” she said. McGinn’s latest project, however, doesn’t center on houses. In fact, she’s come full circle to one of Council Bluffs’ oldest cemeteries. She’s working with an Illinois historian to honor Billy Caldwell – sometimes known as Chief Sauganash – the leader of the Potawatomi band living in what became Kanesville when the first permanent residents arrived. The pair organized a successful Kickstarter (an online fundraising website) project to raise enough money to honor Caldwell with a statue at his gravesite. The Illinois histori-

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RJ Hemmingsen got his repeat state championship. Then he helped Lewis Central to its best-ever team finish at the boys state swimming meet. On a Saturday in mid-February, Hemmingsen defended his 100-yard butterfly title in a state-meet record time of 47.84 seconds. It marked his second state title and the third ever for a Titan in the sport. Hemmingsen also finished second in the 50 freestyle by .61 seconds. He swam in the 200 free relay (fifth place) and 400 free relay (fourth) and helped L.C. to a program-best fifth place in Hemmingsen the overall team standings. “I just completely obliterated my expectations,” Hemmingsen said afterward. “I can’t believe we accomplished our goals and did so well. We really, really had outstanding swims toward the end of the meet.” Hemmingsen signed with Iowa and has received regular action as a true freshman.

Mykenzie Leehy continued her assault on Lewis Central’s swimming records and added an event state championship during a dominant season in the pool. The sophomore capped her year by winning the 100 freestyle in 50.40 seconds – a mark that shattered the previous best in state history. She also nabbed fourth in the 50 free with a time of 23.44 seconds which still was good for ninth on Iowa’s all-time list. “That’s what I was going for, and I’m really happy because I worked my butt off this season – it’s probably the hardest I’ve ever worked in my life for something,” Leehy said after the meet. “I was just hoping for it, and that’s what I got.” Both records set new program bests. Along Leehy with the 500 free that she took over during the season, Leehy now owns at least a share of school records in seven different events. Leehy had been coming off a freshman campaign in which she took second in the 100 and was part of a state-record setting effort in the 400 free relay.

A stellar prep career came to an end for St. Albert’s Kylie Ferguson, who went out strong in 2014. During basketball season, Ferguson moved to point guard and was the team’s primary ball handler and scorer. Her 20 points per game and 460 points in the campaign were 5-player school records. She ended as St. Albert’s No. 3 all-time scorer (1,300 points) and rebounder (553). Ferguson broke the program’s single-game school record by scoring 35 points in a 57-46 road victory at Missouri Valley. She capped the hoops season as The Daily Nonpareil’s City Player of the Year, then repeated as City Athlete of the Year at the end of the summer. “I was happy with seeing results because Ferguson of how much work I’ve put in,” Ferguson said after basketball season. “I’ve listened to criticism. I’m far from perfecting my game, but I work every day towards it. I told myself that there was going to be a jump. My senior year was going to be my best year.” Ferguson also ran in her third state track meet, appearing in the 1,600 relay (14th in Class 2-A at state), sprint medley relay (18th) and distance medley relay (24th). Now a college basketball basketball player, Ferguson has seen regular court time at NCAA Division II Lindenwood (Mo.). She is averaging about five points per game.

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IWCC baseball wins the national title

Dominant. There’s really no other way to describe the Iowa Western baseball team’s run through last spring’s NJCAA World Series in Grand Junction, Colo. No. 3 Iowa Western (56-11) blasted No. 10 Miami Dade (38-17) 17-5 in the championship game to claim its third national title in five years by becoming the first team since Howard in 2009 to go unbeaten in the 10-team, double-elimination tournament. After falling behind 5-0 in their tourney opener against No. 6 Columbia State, the Reivers outscored their opponents 36-1 over the next 23 innings to get to the championship game. They ended three consecutive games, against Miami Dade and No. 13 Midland twice, by invoking a run rule. And then they blasted the Sharks again in front of 10,123 fans. “Now that it’s over, other than the first game, we really did have some dominance. It’s unbelievable,” Iowa Western coach Marc Rardin said. “We gave up 11 runs and scored a ton. I can’t explain it other than the system works. The kids believed in each other and they just fed off each other.” Tournament most valuable player Alex Krupa collected four singles and drove in four runs from the leadoff spot, and Ryan Merrill had five RBIs after entering the game in the seventh as a pinch hitter. Winning pitcher Drake Robison shut down the Sharks on two hits after a five-run fourth. He got a double play from the tourney’s top defender, shortstop Jacob Sheldon-Collins, in the bottom of the ninth before inducing a groundout that started the Reiver celebration. Krupa drove in two runs in the second and another in the fourth as Iowa Western put three runs on the board in each inning. A two-run single by Dom Thompson-Williams in the top of the fourth gave starting pitcher Quinn Carpenter a six-run advantage to work with. But the Reiver ace couldn’t get out of the bottom half. The Sharks opened the inning with four consecutive hits. Deivy Palmerio then drilled a three-run homer to right field. The blast pulled Miami Dade within one at 6-5. And the game then went to the bullpens. Robison held the Sharks scoreless. His teammates, meanwhile, battered three relief pitchers for 11 runs over the final three innings. Merrill and Kaden Moore had consecutive two-run singles before Krupa drove in his eighth run of the tourney in the seventh. Merrill later capped the dominant week with a three-run homer during the six-run ninth. “We went out there, and we played Reiver baseball,” Krupa said. “We didn’t let up one time. We didn’t get down besides that first game. We never got down. We always stood up.”

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IWCC football reaches national championship

Is it really possible that just six years ago, there was no such thing as Iowa Western football? The Reiver program was born in 2009. In 2014, Iowa Western qualified for its second national championship game in three years, falling to No. 1 and fellow unbeaten East Mississippi 34-17 in the Mississippi Bowl Dec. 7 in Biloxi, Miss. Iowa Western completed its second unbeaten regular season in three years with a workmanlike 38-10 victory over Iowa Central, claiming the Kinney Cup that goes to the winner in the process. “I’m proud of them,’’ Iowa Western coach Scott Strohmeier said. “To go 11 straight, I mean, they’ve been going since August 1st, really. You look across national TV and there’s always someone that’s having a down week. For us to be able to take it and win them all, credit to these kids.’’ Said sophomore linebacker Marcus Montgomery: “A lot of preparation, a lot of work goes into it.’’ Special teams ace Iowa Western tight end Stone Kane of Wapsie Andrew Davis, left, hauls in Valley High School in a pass in the end zone for a touchdown over Garden City Fairbank said the ReivCommunity College’s Tray- ers all accept their roles. “There’s a lot of playvonne Blake with 44.3 seconds left in the second quarter Sat- makers on this team,’’ he urday at Broncbuster Sta- said. “We were all the studs in high school. We dium in Garden City, Kans. come here to win championships.’’ Strohmeier said he and his staff try periodically to take time to smell the roses of their success. In the program’s sixth year under Strohmeier, the Reivers are 57-9, including 52-5 in the last five. He knows it’s important to appreciate it. “In 2010, when we’re 9-0 and No. 2 in the country, we win and we play for a national championship,’’ Strohmeier said. “(After we lost) everybody said, ‘Coach, you’re a second-year program. 9-1 is good.’ My thing was, there’s a lot of things that have to go your way to get back. “So that one really stung in 2010. But then to be able to come back and do it in ’12, and we were really one game away last year, and now here we are, in it again. Man, I never would have dreamed it. I’m enjoying it, though.’’

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Uncertainty surrounded Lewis Central during the summer months as it prepared for its first football season playing in Class 4-A. But any doubts about playing in Iowa’s largest class were quickly erased. The Titans won their first four games of the year and finished the regular season 8-1 overall. They also became the first Council Bluffs school to win a 4-A postseason game with a 42-0 victory over Abraham Lincoln. The run ended the next week at Ankeny when the Titans looked up at the scoreboard and confirmed a 42-28 loss in the second round of the playoffs. Reality set in for the seven players who had just played the last game of their prep careers. But then L.C. coach Jim Duggan gathered his players at midfield and reminded them of what they had accomplished over the past three months. “Nobody expected us to do what we did, and once we got going, our kids just kept believing in themselves and picked up some confidence,” Duggan said. “Here we ended up 9-2 and in the second round of the playoffs. There’s not much more you could ask for.” The Titans entered the Ankeny game as winners of five straight, averaging more than 44 points per game in that span. Seven seniors played a huge part in the success, including quarterback Austin Simmons, who accounted for 3,260 yards and 46 touchdowns and was honored as The Daily Nonpareil’s City Football Player of the Year. “This group of seven kids just did an unbelievable job in the offseason of leading us into the season,” Duggan said. “It was just a gritty group of kids.”

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s individuals and as a couple, Ron and Suzanne Mahoney have enjoyed many benefits growing out of their years in Council Bluffs. The active participation that was the hallmark of their younger years has increasingly given way more to financial participation as the couple reached retirement years, but their interest in bettering the community remains as strong as ever – perhaps stronger. Ron, a native of Council Bluffs and 1957 graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School where he was named to the school’s Hall of Fame in 2013, worked in the construction business for 15 years before starting Mahoney Construction, when he was 33. Suzanne, an Omaha native, has been a Council Bluffs resident since the couple married, working in the private sector until they started their own business. Individually and as a couple, those pre-retirement years included active involvement in the Elks Lodge where Ron rose through the chairs to become exalted ruler, the Council Bluffs Business Association, the Council Bluffs Building and Trades Association, the Iowa Western Community College Volunteer Board and the Iowa Western Community College Foundation Board. Ron also served on a number of community boards, including the Council Bluffs Planning Commission and the Chamber of Commerce. In addition to her work with the Service League of Council Bluffs, Suzanne served on the General Dodge Trust. Today, Ron and Suzanne lean toward what they refer to as “hands-on giving” – financial assistance for projects that can been seen and enjoyed for those living here today and for those in generations yet to come. To that end, the couple provided financial assistance to the fund drive that resulted in the extensive renovation and expansion of the Lewis and Clark Monument overlooking the Missouri River valley and Big Lake Park. They provided major contributions to the successful fund drive that resulted in the renovation of Bayliss Park as well as to the fund drive to construct the Veterans Memorial located on the east side of Bayliss Park. They have also contributed frequently in recent years to assist with construction and renovation projects at Children’s Square, U.S.A. Having no children, their shared love of pets has underscored their contributions to a number of local organizations. Over the years, the Mahoneys have been frequent financial supporters of Support Our Local Animal Shelter – SOLAS – a volunteer group that assists at the Council Bluffs Animal Shelter. In August, the couple donated $2,500 to the Pottawattamie County Animal Shelter to pay for ligament repair surgery for a 4-year-old chocolate Lab that has been abandoned. “We have no children, and our pets have always had a No. 1 ranking in our lives,” Suzanne said at the time. “We wish all animals could be treated as well as ours have been,” Ron added. “Our dogs have brought so much joy into our lives, and we would like to do what we can to help pets in need find loving homes.” More recently, a $6,000 donation from the Mahoneys marked the final funding needed by Promise 4 Paws to purchase a property near Missouri Valley where the nonprofit organization will open a special shelter for senior dogs that would otherwise be aban-

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The person in charge isn’t the only thing that’s new about Travel Council Bluffs Convention & Visitors Bureau (a new name, by the way). Executive Director Mark Eckman took over Dec. 1 after a series of changes for the bureau. After years of being managed by the Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce, the CVB broke off from the chamber in July 2013 and became its own nonprofit organization governed by a seven-member board of directors. The CVB reorganized to reflect the way communities now market themselves, officials said. Pottawattamie County won three of the 12 awards presented during this year’s Iowa Tourism Conference at the Mid-America Center – the Outstanding Collaboration Award, the Niche Market Initiative and the Outstanding Website Award. Coincidentally, Eckman was on the committee that oversaw the conference. The Outstanding Collaboration Award was given for the WattaWay project by the CVB and the county’s tourism committee. “Watta” is taken from the county’s name. “We started three years ago on this project,” said Kathy Fiscus, who served as interim director of the CVB before Eckman’s arrival. “It’s a scenic and historic route around the county.” The Niche Market Initiative refers to the Living Loess project in which eight artisans within the Loess Hills all open their businesses on the third Saturday of each month between May and October. These artisans are the Sawmill Hollow Family Farm, the Loess Hills Lavender Farm, the Harrison County Historical Village and Welcoming Center, Hitchcock Nature Center, the Honey Creek Creamery, Harvest Studio, Gallaher Design and the Loess Hills Woodworks. In 2012, the project’s first year, the artisans reported 675 attendees during the Third Saturday Tour event, Fiscus said. This year, 1,600 took part in the tour, which brought in nearly $425,000 in state and local revenue. “The object is to get people to buy products,” said Cindy Thompson, a CVB board member. The artisans also charge admission on the tours to generate additional revenue, she added. The bureau launched a new website May 1, started a blog about local events and added a calendar of events later that month. The new calendar features a search function, utilizes event and attraction photos and is easy for the visitor to use. Organizations can add their events to the listings by using the submit button at TravelCouncilBluffs.com.

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SPORTING GOODS STORE Dick’s Sporting Goods coming soon

A Dick’s Sporting Goods store is slated to open at the Metro Crossing Shopping Center. In a unanimous vote Aug. 25, the Council Bluffs City Council amended the original commercial development plan around the Target store at the shopping center so the nationallyknown store could move in. “They amended the original plan to provide a location for Dick’s just south of Target,” City Attorney Richard Wade said. KIMCO Realty Corp. and Target requested an amendment to the plan, said Rose Brown, a city planning coordinator. “That would include two new buildings with one of them for Dick’s and the other for multitenants,” he said. KIMCO is the shopping center’s developer, while Target owns the large property where the

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proposed two buildings would be built, Brown said. Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. is a Fortune 500 corporation in the sporting goods and retail industries headquartered in Coraopolis, Penn. It has more than 550 stores in 46 states, including two stores in Omaha and one in Papillion, Neb. The plan is to subdivide the vacant Council Bluffs property that Target owns to allow Dick’s near the Target store and a future multi-tenant building built in the current Target parking lot. The developer, however, will not have to build an additional 31 stalls to make up for the Target parking loss until and unless they’re needed. The ground where the two buildings would be built covers 15-plus acres, Brown said.

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In an effort to be even more famous with local folks, Famous Dave’s Restaurant moved to the Metro Crossing Shopping Center this year from its former spot in the Mid-America Center plaza. The restaurant did well at the MAC, but it was tucked away and was more of a destination place, a company spokeswoman said. “Here, we have easier access and great exposure,” Kelly Yakopec said of the move. “This is such a great area for us.” The restaurant is in the former location of a

Cox Brothers restaurant. Besides a new location, the setup inside is slightly different in that patrons now go to the counter for ordering. That kind of setup is becoming the norm for Famous Dave’s around the country, Yakopec said. There is also a drive-through. “Our prices are a little lower, but the value is still there,” Yakopec said. “You will still get a big plate.” All of the barbecue options at the former location are available in the new spot, she said. Famous Dave sandwiches include Georgia chopped pork, Texas beef brisket, barbecue pulled chicken, macaroni and pig, hickory chicken, cajun chicken and others.

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Council Bluffs residents aren’t running afoul of a law passed this year by the City Council that prohibits the feeding of turkeys, a city official said. “There’s been no citations issued, there’s been no court dates on any of this stuff,” said Galen Barrett, the city’s chief animal control officer. “It’s just been letters notifying on how the act is prohibited, more of an informational thing.” In fact, Barrett estimated only five or six letters have actually gone out to those suspected of feeding turkeys. At its July 14 meeting, the council unanimously approved an ordinance that outlaws turkey feeding. According to the approved ordinance, “No person shall place or permit to be placed on the ground, or within 5 feet of the ground surface, any grain, fodder, salt licks, fruit or vegetables, nuts, hay or

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keys on purpose would include setting out bowls of corn or other feed, or other acts to obviously attract turkeys, said Donn Dierks, the city’s Public Health Department director. To grow a regular garden with vegetables or flowers would not be considered a deliberate feeding act, even if turkeys were attracted to the garden, he said. The first sighting of a resident purposely feeding turkeys would probably result in

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adult entertainment club. “Hey, it’s a legal business, and it’s a lot of fun. We love what we do.” Josee Beier, director of convention and sports sales for the Council Bluffs Convention & Visitors Bureau, said the city has a wide array of entertainment opportunities such as farmers markets and the recent Loessfest at Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park. “It’s kind of a cool, sexy destination because we’re on the riverfront,” Beier said. “We think it’s great. The more promotion, the better.” Taylo said the wild side of Council Bluffs brings different people to the city – such as rapper Lil Wayne, who Taylo said visited Lipstix when in town for a concert in Omaha. “You meet every kind of person in the world,” she said. “I really enjoy it.”

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A pair of wild turkeys feed outside an apartment at Risen Son in September. other edible materials, which may reasonably be expected to intentionally result in deer or turkey feeding, unless items are screened or protected in a manner that prevents deer or turkey from feeding on them. Living fruit trees and vegetation shall not be considered as deer or turkey feeding.” As examples of feeding tur-

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KROPP retires from Bethany

After 18- plus years as chaplain at Bethany Lutheran Nursing & Rehabilitation Center and Bethany Heights, the Rev. Noel Kropp retired Feb. 28. Kropp held services Wednesdays and Fridays (with communion on the first four Fridays of the month), as well as a couple classes and a devotional time each week. He also visited residents and met with family members when a loved one was ailing. He performed funerals and baptisms and occasionally filled the pulpit at local churches. An Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor, he was in parish ministry for 26 years before starting at Bethany Nov. 1, 1995. He was a part-time chaplain at a nursing home while at his first church, and the interest had resurfaced. Kropp grew up in Marquette, Mich., a city of about 21,000 on the southern shore of Lake Superior. He graduated from Northern Michigan University in Marquette and attended Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He completed an internship in Brainerd, Minn., and did the rest of his parish ministry at just two churches – one in Detroit Lakes, Minn., and the other in Ortonville, Minn. Kropp hoped to find an opportunity to work part time at a church or plenty of opportunities to fill pulpits.

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retires after five years as police chief After five years as police chief – and 37 total years in law enforcement – Ralph O’Donnell decided to call it a career in March. “Hey, it’s time. A guy knows when it’s time,” he said upon his announcement. “This has been a great job, a dream come true.” The longtime lawman has served in a patrol or supervisory position in every division of the department except traffic, with stops in internal affairs, the criminal investigation division, community relations and services division on his way to promotion to assistant chief in 2007. O’Donnell replaced Chief Keith Mehlin in January of 2009.

The retiree said the accomplishments he’s proud of include making progress on a new police building, improvements at the Southwest Iowa Law Enforcement Training Facility and overseeing technology upgrades, noting, “Our equipment the men and women use is second to none.”

He lauded the support from the people of Council Bluffs in discussing his retirement. “This community, I tell you, we have a great community – the department has great community support,” he said. “And the leadership of the city, past and present, support the department.” At O’Donnell’s retirement party his counterpart in the city, Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker, said “Ralph did a great job as chief.” “He’s been very easy to work with. If I ever need help on something,” Danker said. “I never hesitate to call, and likewise for him. I wish him well in retirement. I hate to see him go.”

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finishes term on County Board of Supervisors Lynn Leaders, who has had a seat on the Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors since 2003, will give up that seat in early January. In the June Republican Party primary, Leaders finished out of the running in which the top three candidates moved on to the November general election. Leaders finished behind incumbent Scott Belt, newcomer Justin Schultz, incumbent Loren Knauss and former supervisor Tim Wichman. Leaders’ last day on the board is on Jan. 2 of next year. He has been a Realtor for 26 years. “I’ll have more time to focus on that,” Leaders said recently. Any future political plans? “I have no desire to do anything else in the political world,” Leaders said.

SCHULTZ returning to law career DES MOINES – Former Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz will leave the office after four years to become the Madison County Attorney. Schultz said he’s excited to return to the practice of law. Paul Pate will succeed him as secretary. “I learned a lot as secretary of state and I’m proud of my service here,” he said. “I think just the experience I’ve had will just help me be a better public servant, especially on the local level.” He leaves the office unable to get voter ID through the Legislature and with a controversial legacy, including lawsuits and harsh criticism that he tried to suppress votes. As secretary, Schultz paid $250,000 over two years to investigate voter fraud cases that resulted in election-related charges against 27 people. Critics including the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa said Schultz spent too much time and money pursuing cases of a small number of voters who didn’t intend to break the law. The ACLU sued Schultz in 2012 over a rule

he passed that would have removed voters from registration rolls if they could not confirm their citizenship. A judge found state law does not authorize the secretary of state to cancel a voter’s registration based on citizenship questions. Schultz has appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court, which hasn’t yet ruled. “I truly believe that our system is built on having this trust in our elections and that voter ID and making sure that if you’re voting that you’re eligible to vote is an inherent part of that,” he said. Schultz said he’s not looking beyond the county attorney job, which will include prosecuting criminal cases including drug violations and domestic abuse. “Quite frankly I’m a better lawyer than I am a politician, so I’m excited about getting into the courtroom and using those skills and being able to serve that community,” he said. He didn’t deny that he might seek statewide office again.

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PEOPLE & THINGS TO WATCH IN 2015 TODAY: Tim Carmody u Justin James u Timothy Dickmeyer

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THE FIRE CHIEF

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THE POLICE CHIEF Carmody brings 31 years of experience to Council Bluffs Mike Brownlee mbrownlee@nonpareilonline.com

Tim Carmody took over as the new chief of the Council Bluffs Police Department in September after a lengthy search to replace Ralph O’Donnell. Mayor Matt Walsh swore Carmody into the position in front of a crowd of about 100 people at the Council Bluffs Public Library who’d gathered to watch the former Fort Dodge chief take over. “I’ll do everything I can to uphold your expectations and lead with honor, integrity and passion,” the 53-year-old Carmody told the crowd on Sept. 2 after reading the oath with Walsh’s guidance. “I am so thankful and excited about our future together. There are amazing things happening in the area and the metro. The city is growing in so many ways.” Carmody has spent 31 years in law enforcement, starting with the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office before moving to the Omaha Police Department in 1988. While with Omaha police, Carmody patrolled North Omaha, taught at the Omaha Police Training Academy and worked in supervisory positions with the Omaha police fugitive squad and the multiagency Metro Area Fugitive Task Force. In 2007, he took over command of the emergency response team and also went on to help coordinate the department’s security presence at the College World Series, NCAA basketball tournament and U.S. Olympic swim trials. The Omaha police promoted Carmody to captain in 2010, a position he retired from in September after 22 years of service to take the top job in Fort Dodge. Carmody noted the need to work with the community, commending the alreadyexisting Neighborhood Watch, Citizen’s Police Academy and other community affairs programs within the department. He outlined to the crowd three bullet points he wanted to focus on as he takes over.

The first is clear communication with citizens, the city, within the department and beyond. The second, he said, was for the department to be corrective and proactive in problem solving. And, finally, “we all go home.” “Many in law enforcement understand what that means, but it applies to the community in general,” he said, noting an effort to keep people safe. “As chief of the Council Bluffs Police Department, I understand the obligation that comes with it. I’ll do everything I can do carry out those promises.” The new chief was a finalist for the job along with current Council Bluffs Police Department Capt. Terry LeMaster; Jeff Theulen, program chair for the criminal justice, fire science and forensics program at Iowa Western Community College; and Dan McGovern, security and facilities officer for Security National Bank of Omaha. Walsh cited Carmody’s experience as a chief, his varied experience in Omaha and his relationship with the Omaha department as factors in his decision to hire the new chief. After an initial round of interviews LeMaster was the only qualified candidate. Walsh decided to reopen the matter, soliciting more applications before arriving at the aforementioned list of finalists. Walsh defended the hiring process – which included a selection committee of himself, Ellen Stageman, the city’s acting human resources director; Wendy Schultz, the city’s chief of staff; Mike Sanders, a federal agent with the local office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency; and Jean Edwards, who represented city landlords. The mayor said making the decision was tough. Dean Sharp – president of the police union, who has criticized the selection process for the new chief but not the selection of Carmody – said he congratulates his new boss. “We’re glad to have him,” Sharp said. “It’s a new day.”

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A year of change in Council Bluffs included the installation of a new fire chief. In late May Mayor Matt Walsh announced 37-year-old Justin James would take over the Council Bluffs Fire Department. James replaced the retired Alan Byers and Interim Chief Larry Wohlers. “This is a huge honor,” James said of his selection, calling the men and women of the department “some of the best resources our community has.” At his confirmation before the City Councilwoman Lynne Branigan said she’d researched the matter and found James is the youngest fire chief in the city’s history. James grew up in Council Bluffs, graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1995. He joined the fire department in September of 1999 and spent eight years as a firefighter before moving on to the fire marshal’s office. James graduated from the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy and served as arson investigator, working closely with the Council Bluffs Police Department, while in the fire marshal’s office. During that time, James spent more than a year running the regional hazardous materials team. From 2003 until 2010, James also served as the president of the fire union. In January of 2013, Byers promoted James to assistant fire chief, where he managed about 30 people on the “C” shift. “I want us to be the best,” the new fire chief said when asked about his

vision for the future. “And I’ll work to inspire them to be the best. We have great personnel. I know we’ll give it 100 percent.” Our goal is to keep and improve open communication channels with the firefighters, James said. “I’m interested in their opinions and working with them. I’m going to be a strong advocate on hearing what they have to say.” James was among five candidates for the job, along with internal candidates Terry Spencer of Pisgah, Jim Wheat of Glenwood and Jim Wood of Underwood – all three captains – and external candidate Anthony Lang, a retired Omaha Fire Department member. Byers retired after 35 years with Council Bluffs Fire – and 19 years as chief – in August of 2013. Wohlers, an

assistant chief at the time, took over as interim chief, guiding the department while waiting for a new mayor to be elected and for that mayor to select the next permanent chief. Wohlers said he decided against applying for the position because he’s close to retirement. The prospective chiefs went through the testing portion of the process in April, with two outside fire chiefs – Tom Everett of Sioux City and Roger Bissen of Harlan – assessing the results. Walsh said James was the top scorer in testing and has a diverse background in the field. “He’s done it all,” the mayor said. “We were well aware of his leadership skills before testing, and we wanted to choose the best candidate after testing. And that was him.”

THE ARTS CHIEF

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For several years, Tim Dickmeyer has had his eye on the Arts Center. The Treynor resident had spent many years working in various capacities for different arts venues in the Council Bluffs-Omaha metro area, including the Mid-America Center, Omaha Performing Arts and the Omaha Symphony. But something about the Arts Center always intrigued him. So when Molly Noon, former director of the Arts Center was promoted to vice president of Institutional Advancement at Iowa Western Community College, the opportunity to persue his interest came back up. “What drew me was the size of the facility and the quality of the performances that were being held here,” Dickmeyer said in November. “It’s a unique venue in that it is a high quality performance hall for its size.” Dickmeyer began work as the Arts Center’s new director on Oct. 26. With a background in the performing arts, including a music education degree, the position seemed like a good fit for Dickmeyer. “It’s very exciting for me and I’m looking forward to putting together our next season,” he said, noting that the current performance season is already booked and runs through late spring 2015.

On a personal level, Dickmeyer is a trombone player and has a deep love for big band and country music. “I really like Latin jazz ... Arturo Sandoval and Gordon Goodwin. Those groups are keeping the genre alive,” he said. “I also appreciate some of the classics. If you are familiar with the Count Basie Orchestra, then you know what I’m talking about.” In planning the Art Center’s 2015-16 season, Dickmeyer said his goals are to schedule shows that create a good balance with “rock solid artists” while at the same time providing “great entertainment value.” Keeping the community active and involved in the Arts Center is a high prior-

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ent arts programs that Iowa Western offers. Their activities are essential to the Arts Center.” Dickmeyer said he plans to continue to work with local schools to provide educational programming for area students. “It’s essential to expose kids to the arts,” he said. “We’re the flagship arts center in southwest Iowa, and it’s one of our main responsibilites to the public to maintain that connection with the kids. I want to keep that going.”

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uly can be a month of carefree family fun centering around picnics, fireworks and the like. But, sometimes local news can turn to a tragic, more sober mood. Such was the case this July when Council Bluffs experienced a rare case of violent death on Independence Day. Prior to that, the murder of a man 11 years earlier returned to the news again. On July 1, a jury of 12 men and women found James Cain Harris guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Nelson Alvarez-Hernadez, which occurred on July 31, 2003 at a residence on South 13th Street. As the decision was handed down, family and friends of Harris broke down, crying and hugging each other in the courtroom. Also on July 1, the body of a man was found in Mills County near the Missouri River. He would later be identified as Robert Jensen, 49, of Council Bluffs. While many were enjoying Fourth of July events, a local man, Douglas Richt, 52, was stabbed to death at a home in the 3500 block of Fifth Avenue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a kitchen-type knife, almost 7 inches long,â&#x20AC;? Council Bluffs Police Sgt. Dave Dawson said of the weapon. Jodie M. Sherman, 45, was quickly arrested in connection with the crime. She was later found not competent to stand trial. On July 11, a Council Bluffs woman, Rebecca Beyer, 47, was convicted of first-degree kidnapping and willful injury causing serious injury in the abuse of her developmentally-delayed stepson. The sentence was life in prison without parole. But, there were plenty of more positive, forward-looking events. Large crowds gathered downtown on July 8 and 10 to learn more about the Mid-City Neighborhood Plan. Urban planners told them a large part of central Council Bluffs could see a mixture of uses in the coming years. Three scenarios for the future were offered with some differences, but all of them featured green space with community gardens and a trail, an innovative campus for job training and room for businesses and some residential areas. On July 14, the City Council approved a ban on purposely feeding turkeys. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s causing a lot of nuisance,â&#x20AC;? said Councilman Nate Watson of this habit. There was continued progress toward the construction of a new YMCA. On July 14, Tyson Foods Inc. announced a $100,000 donation toward a specialized kitchen in the new facility where members will learn more about nutrition and exercise. On July 16, a fire heavily damaged an old, historic-looking home on Ninth Avenue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was smoke coming out of both sides of the building, particularly heavy on the west side,â&#x20AC;? said Interim Fire Marshal Curtis McKeon. The fire caused about $38,000 in damage to the structure,

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any Council Bluffs residents weren’t paying their garbage bills at the start of August. Those overdue bills resulted in 3,526 liens being made against property owners. Lewis Central High School welcomed a student from Iowa School for the Deaf for band camp during early August. Austin Davis said he followed visual cues from those around him in the marching band. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, made a stop in Council Bluffs on Aug. 1 as part of his farewell tour. He was eventually replaced in November by Red Oak native Joni Ernst. The Council Bluffs Community School District announced in early August that it saved $250,000 from insurance and other savings from its district safety program, which also reduced injuries among its employees. Superintendent Martha Bruckner also announced in early August that Council Bluffs joined eight other districts in applying for a waiver for portions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. No word on the waiver has yet been announced. Council Bluffs marked its annual National Night Out on Aug. 5, with hot dogs, potato chips and safety messages. The Hamburg and Farragut school districts in Fremont County completed a petition drive for reorganizing the districts in early August. Voters in Hamburg ultimately rejected the plan by seven votes in early December. Two projects connected to 150 jobs were announced along Gifford Road. ECHO Group Inc. announced 200,000 square feet of buildings while Consolidated Concrete said it wants a new plant, offices and storage facilities near the recycling center. Iowa State University announced the end of the VEISHA festival on Aug. 7, after a rowdy crowd caused a student to be injured and property damaged on April 8. Kirn Park received an upgrade Aug. 8 when new entry signs were unveiled. The signs were created by artist Sean Ward. Harrah’s Casino received an overhaul in August as well, with the opening of its TAG (Totally Animated Gaming) Lounge & Bar, which features craft cocktails. Business was booming at Jon Nelson’s McClelland business after a profile in The Daily Nonpareil on Jon’s Naturals brought more customers than Nelson could handle. Tim Carmody was selected as Council Bluffs’ police chief by the Council Bluffs City Council on Aug. 11, with his first day Sept. 2. His selection was accompanied by concerns about how Walsh made the decision, which were ultimately dropped. O Face Bar received word Aug. 11 it would keep its liquor license after an ill-advised

Clockwise from top left, a wakeboarder zooms behind a motorboat at Lake Manawa State Park on an August evening. Several boats, jet skis and other water-traversing vehicles hit the Lake Manawa waters during the pleasant summer day. Kara Dunphy, right, one of the 2014 recipients of the Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital Spirit of Courage honors, starts off the Celebrity Weekend golf outing with the opening tee shot at Dodge Riverside Golf Club on Aug. 18. Thirty-six teams of four drove, chipped and putted their way through the golf course in the sold-out benefit round to raise money for the hospital’s Cancer Center Charitable Patient Care Fund. A banquet, and auction, was held that evening at the MidAmerica Center, and several returned to the same venue Sunday afternoon for a benefit poker tournament. Local and national celebrities, including actors Richard Horvitz and David DeLuise, as well as former Husker football player Ron Kellogg and retired NFL offensive lineman Chris Bober, attended the weekend’s events. From left, Zach, Tasha Coberly of Missouri Valley, Emily Method, Stacey, and other supporters walk arounf the track at Iowa Western Community College during Crossroads of Western Iowa’s Great Iowa Walkabout fundraiser on Aug. 4. Retiring U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, right, speaks with community members at The Center on Aug. 1. Avery Servellon, 14, jams along to a song while playing “Rock Band 3” on the Xbox 360 during Wired Wednesday at the Council Bluffs Public Library on Aug. 6. Wired Wednesday is a weekly event for area youth where library staff serves free popcorn and kids play various video games across several platforms.

appearance on “Bar Rescue” brought scorn upon the establishment. Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors decided Aug. 12 to approve the sale of $1.9 million in general obligation bonds, with most of the money going toward funding the new Veterans Affairs Building. The following day, Aug. 13, an honor flight for 400 Iowa veterans was announced, flying to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 30. Heartland Christian School was the first school to return from the summer on Aug. 14, with students from Iowa School for the Deaf

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following Aug. 18. St. Albert Catholic Schools began Aug. 21 along with the Lewis Central Community School District, while the Council Bluffs Community School District waited until Aug. 28. Dennis Jones was sentenced Aug. 15 to more than 10 years in prison for child pornography charges in federal court. Court documents state the former Council Bluffs doctor possessed an estimated 1.2 million images of child pornography and 9,300 videos of child pornography. Jones was found guilty on Aug. 19 of lascivious acts with a child by Fourth Judicial District

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Court Judge Richard Davidson. Jones was sentenced to 10 years, which will be served concurrently with the 121 month federal sentence. A record crowd turned out Aug. 15 for Spirit of Courage honorees Kara Dunphy, Dr. Lori Platt, Dolores Silkworth and the late Marilyn Weber during annual Methodist Jennie Edmundson award dinner. The Council Bluffs schools announced two new programs in mid-August. New after-school activities were added at Wilson and Kirn middle schools as part of a $900,000 federal grant, and a new federal program brought free meals to students at eight Council Bluffs schools: Wilson as well as Bloomer, Carter Lake, Edison, Franklin, Longfellow, Roosevelt and Rue elementary schools. Pottawattamie County was among five area counties to change its undocumented immigrant policy to no longer detain persons suspected of being undocumented without a judge issuing a probable cause warrant. In Red Oak, the school board continued to struggle with complaints to the Iowa Public Information Board that it violated open meetings laws. It ultimately reached a negotiated settlement with those bringing complaints, including one brought by Margaret Stoldorf in mid-August. An estimated 60 people met Aug. 20 to review the City of Council Bluffs’ new comprehensive plan for the next 15 years. “It’s more steady growth, no big out-of-the-box things,” said civic activist Barry Cleaveland. Lewis Central suffered some angst from parents when bus services were delayed for many students for the first few days of school. At St. Albert, school officials kicked off the school’s 50th anniversary celebrations as students returned. Plans were unveiled for a Dick’s Sportings Goods near Target at Metro Crossing. The City Council approved updating records Aug. 25 for the store. The Council Bluffs school district opened its new central office in August at the Omni Centre, holding its first board meeting Aug. 26 in the space. Lone Mountain Truck Leasing announced in late August it would move its corporate office from Omaha to Carter Lake. The biggest study ever for West Broadway moved forward in late August, when the City Council approved hiring a firm from Pittsburgh, Penn. “I don’t know of anything in the past to be of this scope,” said Don Gross, director of the Council Bluffs Community Development Department. August wrapped up with the Omaha Public Schools announcing they would hold graduations at the Mid-America Center as well as a motorcycle fatality, with Todd Ronnfeldt of Council Bluffs dying in a crash on Interstate 29 near the 16th Street on-ramp on Aug. 30.

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SEPTEMBER

brings bleachers, honors unidentified Civil War veterans

how it all came to fruition.” More than 20,000 Civil War graves remain unidentified in Iowa, said David Lamb, an honor guard member for Company A of the 49th Iowa Infantry. “We’re still finding graves of Civil War veterans,” he said. Since 2009, about 4,500 graves have been identified. During the Civil War, Iowa had 76,534 enlisted soldiers. Of those troops, 13,151 suffered casualties. One of those identified troops is Thomas Dorsett, a veteran buried at the Crescent Township Cemetery whose grave was unmarked for more than eight decades. Lamb and his men, who make up the governor’s honor guard, assist state and national groups with the identification of Civil War era veterans in an effort to honor them and provide more information for their families. The group provided a memorial service in Crescent for

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eptember featured a tragic helicopter crash, a water main break in Red Oak and more. On Sept. 7, a helicopter pilot crop-dusting a bean field south of Pioneer Trail at 340th Street south of Macedonia crashed when the chopper hit a power pole. Chris Moore died from injuries suffered in the crash. The helicopter hit a static wire, according to John Bentley with Macedonia Rescue, who noted that Mid-American crews confirmed the power lines in the area were not live at the time of the crash. On the scene, the remnants of the chopper were a heap of metal that in no way resembled a helicopter. Most of the wreckage sat at the bank of a terrace, while the rotor from the helicopter was about 30 feet away atop the terrace. “It’s just rubble down there,” Jahn Kirlin with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s office said at the time. The crash occurred around noon that day. A medical helicopter transported Moore to CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center, where he died on Sept. 11. Students at Red Oak Middle School had an extended Labor Day break. As much as 2 inches of water flooded the second floor of the building over the Labor Day weekend, according to Superintendent Terry Schmidt. An alarm was triggered, and firefighters and district personnel found a water valve was open. Students and staff are iat the end of an extended stay in temporary classrooms in the Red Oak Technology Center and Red Oak High School. A water leak was found at the school over the Labor Day weekend, which left as much as 2 inches of water on the second floor of the century-old facility. Initially, the damage appeared concentrated on drywall, but water was found in electrical conduits – resulting in its indefinite closure for safety concerns. School officials confirmed they will return to the middle school building after the holiday break. On Sept. 2, the Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital Cancer Center has received a $1 million grant to help upgrade its radiation therapy equipment. The award from The Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, along with a $1 million challenge grant from an anonymous donor, will help fund the purchase a state-ofthe-art linear accelerator. “We are so appreciative of the Helmsley Charitable Trust grant, as it allows us to purchase the latest linear accelerator, assuring residents of southwest Iowa that they can get state-of-the-art care right here close to home,” said Steve Baumert, president and CEO at Jennie. The Helmsley grant is intended to enhance health care delivery to residents of rural areas, said Shelley Stingley, program director of the Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Rural Healthcare Program, who grew up in northeastern Nebraska. “Our organization believes just because you live in rural America doesn’t mean you have to settle for lesser care,” she said. “Let’s bring the best treatment we can to these people so they can be cared for close to home.” On Sept. 5, St. Albert hosted Treynor in a prep football match at Al Leber Field, which was the debut of the new home for the old outfield bleachers from Omaha’s Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium. Three years after the stadium’s demise, the bleachers have now replaced the former benches for the grandstand of St. Albert football home. The newly refurbished bleachers wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the school’s scores of volunteers. St. Albert President Joe Connolly said a parent, Lisa

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Dorsett who served as a private and died at age 82 on Oct. 18, 1926. About 60 people attended the gathering organized by Dorsett’s great-granddaughter, Brenda Floyd of Council Bluffs. “They’re more aware of his history and the sacrifices he gave,” she said. Tragedy struck in September as Abraham Lincoln High School junior Dakota Escritt died after a confrontation with another student. During the incident on Sept. 25, 16-year-old Gregary Teer punched Escritt, a blow that left the latter unconscious as he fell and hit his head on tile floor in the school’s commons area. Escritt, 17, died on Sept. 27 at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha from injuries suffered in the fall. After a review of surveillance footage of the fight and other evidence, the Pottawattamie County Attorney’s Office decided against filing charges against Teer, saying the student acted in self defense.

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David ‘Mike’ Lynch

“Master jeweler” David M. “Mike” Lynch, 66, of Underwood died on Aug. 10 after a year-long battle with cancer. “He did not want to die in a hospital, so he died with his family around – his loved ones,” said Marti Lynch, his wife of 28 years. “I’m glad he’s at peace now.” Lynch was a jeweler for 36 years, and the couple has operated Lynch Jewelry at 126 E.

• Corrine R. Brokman, 85, worked in the lunchroom for the Council Bluffs Community School District. The Council Bluffs native died July 3 at Jennie Edmundson Hospital. She was a homemaker, a clerk at Woolworth’s and Kresge’s and worked the lunch program for the school district. • Charlene Fox, 85, was a longtime resident of Jewell and a Council Bluffs educator who died July 1 in Story City. She was the valedictorian of Randall Consolidated School, and she earned a master’s degree in home economics from Iowa State College. Fox taught in Hansell, Olin, Rolfe and Albert City-Truesdale before her first Council Bluffs classroom in 1968. She retired in 1994. Fox was a member of Alpha Delta Kappa, Pi Chapter (Sapphire Sister) serving as a past state president. She was also a member of ISRVP and a lifetime member of the National Education Association. When in Council Bluffs she was very active in many organizations including serving as a volunteer for Mercy Hospital, Southwest Iowa Education Foundation Inc. and Council Bluffs Education Association. • Grant Stanley Hunter, 91, was a state champion wrestler who was a veteran and a former employee of The Daily Nonpareil. The Council Bluffs native and Abraham Lincoln High School graduate died July 23 at Risen Son Christian Village. Hunter served his country from 1942 to 1945 as a B-24 crew chief and mechanic. After the war, he opened his own typesetting business, Hunter Typesetting. He began his career at age 13 operating a Linotype machine at his father’s print shop. He composed and edited and published a newspaper called the Neighborhood Enlightener. He later worked in Silver City and Glenwood and operated Linotype at The Nonpareil and the Omaha World-Herald. Hunter taught printing classes at Thomas Jefferson High School in the 1960s, and he helped launch the graphic arts and printing program at Iowa Western Community College. He worked at Iowa Western for 18 years as the director of continuing education. Outside of work, he was president of the Lewis Central Community School District board and was instrumental in organizing the Lewis Central district. He served on the area education agency, county school board and the Pottawattamie County Society for Crippled Children. He was also a member of Rotary Club No.153, Morning Rotary, YMCA Board, Masonic Lodge and Our Saviors Lutheran Church, and he was a Boy Scout troop leader. • Marian Viola Moore, 86, was an educator who spent her life in southwest Iowa before dying July 15 in Bellevue, Neb. The Pacific Junction resident was born in Council Bluffs and attended Glenwood High School. She taught school in Glenwood, Woodbine and Council Bluffs for more than 30 years until retiring. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Council Bluffs, Beta Sigma Phi and D.A.R. • Herbert Frank Schewe, 91, was a World War II veteran and charter member of Carter Lake Fire and Rescue who died July 21. He served in the U.S. Navy after high school, and he worked for many years as a carpenter. • Clyde M. Peck was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 when Japanese planes began bombing causing this country to enter World War II, which he proudly served as a member of the U.S. Army. Peck was 91 when he died at his Council Bluffs home on Aug. 3. He was born in Erie, Pa. on Jan. 9, 1923 to William and Edith (Jackson) Peck. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Gloria, and a son, Tommy; Survivors included his second wife, Gloria. • Born in Council Bluffs, Larry H. Sollazzo, 74 at his passing on Aug. 8, served in the U.S. Navy and was involved in photography, including being a photographer with the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil. He also served as a photographer in the Navy and later at the Fremont (Ohio) News Messenger. For more than a decade, Sollazzo operated photographic studio in Fremont for a number of years. He retired from the Houston (Texas) Medical Center as a certi-

Broadway for more than 20 years. “The store is going to continue to stay open and operate, because that is what he wanted,” Marti Lynch said. “We still offer the same things.” Lynch was born in Lafayette, Ind., and spent part of his childhood in the Dunlap area. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1966 to 1972. He and a brother established Lynch Bros. Manufacturing Ltd., in 1976. The business

fied biomedical electronics technician x-ray specialist. Sollazzo was survived by his wife, Rita Raye, and three children and several grandchildren. He was buried at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton, Ga. • Marty J. Hughes was a member of the family that runs Kelly’s Carpet in Council Bluffs. He was born on March 1, 1978 in Omaha to Jerry and Jan (Quandt) Hughes and graduated from St. Albert High School in 1996. While he was in high school, Hughes was chosen to be its homecoming king and also played soccer. He was also a horse owner and loved horse racing, dancing and being around his family. Hughes died from cancer on Aug. 12 at age 36. Survivors included his wife, Glen, whom he married on Sept. 24, 2011. • Jack A. O’Brien, a former public servant in Council Bluffs and Shenandoah, passed away on Aug. 13 at Risen Son Christian Village in Council Bluffs. He was 83. O’Brien served for more than 15 years on the Council Bluffs Water Works Board, including eight years as its chairman. He also served as mayor of Shenandoah. • Dorothy “Jean” Redinbaugh, who passed away on Aug. 21 at age 86, served as a host and information director for the Iowa Tourism Visitors Center. She was also active in the Neola American Legion Auxiliary and a frequent blood donor for the American Red Cross. She was born on Oct. 9, 1927 in Council Bluffs to Carl and Christina Clausen and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1945. She was united in marriage to Ivan “Ike” Redinbaugh in 1948. Besides her career at the tourism center, Redinbaugh was employed as a secretary to a local real estate agency. • A longtime teacher in the Council Bluffs school system, Peggy I. “Frau” Rodriguez died on Aug. 27 at Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital. She was 70. She was born in Council Bluffs on Nov. 5, 1943 to Fred and Irene (Fickel) Kemp. After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she graduated from Morningside College in Sioux City. She taught German, Russian and English in the local schools before retiring in 2000. Rodriguez volunteered at Jennie Edmundson. She and her surviving husband, Juan Rodriguez, were married for 48 years and had three daughters. • Gladys L. Harris, who died on Aug. 28 at her Council Bluffs home, worked as a counselor and house parent at the Iowa School for the Deaf for many years. She was born on Oct. 20, 1929 in Missouri Valley to John P. and Anna (Flynn) Allmon. Her survivors included brothers Tom and Michael Allmon of Council Bluffs, one daughter and six sons. • Paul N. McCulley was a professor at Iowa Western Community College for nearly 28 years, retiring in 2002. He was a member of Salem United Methodist Church, the National Educators Association, the National Rifle Association, and was an avid hunter and fisherman. McCulley passed away at his Council Bluffs home on Aug. 28 at age 68. He was preceded in death by his parents, and brother, Ward. • James R. Mocha, who died on Aug. 29 at the age of 65, was president of Mocha and Sons Construction Co. He lived in Honey Creek, but died at the Hospice House in Omaha. Survivors included his special friend, Sandi Papineau, and brothers, Roy and wife, Connie, of Honey Creek, and Bob and wife, Kay, of Missouri Valley. • Dakota M. Escritt, age 17, of Council Bluffs, passed away September 27, 2014. He was a junior at Abraham Lincoln High School. Escritt died after suffering a severe head injury in a fight at school on Sept. 26. No chargers were filed against Gregary Teer, another high school student. Escritt was knocked unconscious when his head hit the tile floor during the fight before the start of classes. The fight did not involve any weapons. He joined the YMCA in 2012 to have a place to hang out with his friends who shared similar interests such as video games, manga and anime — forms of Japanese animation and comics.

was based in the Ervin Building at Fourth Street and West Broadway. He and his wife were married in 1986. “We met playing ball,” she said. “We were both (softball) players.” In 1992, the couple bought the company and began looking for a retail location. “We put our house on the line,” Marti said. They found their location at 126 E. Broadway, Marti Lynch

said. Both were trained and certified by the Gemological Institute of America. “Mike was a master jeweler,” she said. “He set the diamonds. He could go right from wax to the completed piece.” The Lynches long supported MICAH House, donating diamonds and jewelry for the shelter’s annual Champagne and Diamonds Event. In recent years, they donated prizes for Heartland Family Service ben-

“He just needed a little direction,” said Kyle Gay, a teen director at the Council Bluffs YMCA. “I mentored him a little and talked to him.” He often visited the library with his friends to surf the Internet, said Anna Hartmann, the library’s teen director. “He’s always been good-natured,” Hartmann said. • Robert Eugene “Bob” Hastings, age 82, of Council Bluffs, died peacefully at home on August 31, 2014, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Hastings was born June 17, 1932, in Council Bluffs, to Elmer W. and Lillian I. Hastings. Bob was also raised by his grandparents, Kirby and Emily Potts, along with his aunt, Edna Kline. Bob graduated in 1950, from Abraham Lincoln High School and lived most of his life in Council Bluffs, but spent some time in Fremont and Omaha. After graduation he attended Boyles Business College studying typing, accounting and bookkeeping. In October 1959, he was hired as the assistant Pottawattamie County Assessor, a position he held until 1972, when he became City Assessor for Council Bluffs. At the end of 1973, the County Assessor decided to retire, the City dissolved their City Assessor office and Bob became the County Assessor. Bob married Marcia Ann Martin at St. John Lutheran Church on August 2, 1969. Bob was also very active in Kiwanis, joining the Council Bluffs Kiwanis Club in June 1970. He served as club president, District lieutenant governor and in 1990-91, as governor of the 9,000 plus member Nebraska-Iowa District of Kiwanis International. After his year as governor, Bob served as Kiwanis International Community services cChairman for a year. He was active in the Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce serving on several committees and was President of the Cee Bees for one year. He was life member of the Historical Society of Pottawattamie County, National World War II Museum (Charter Member), Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (Charter Member), Ronald Reagan Ranch (Charter Member), and the George W. Bush Presidential Library (Charter Member). • George E. Feilen, age 71, Council Bluffs, passed away Sept. 2, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital. George was born February 22, 1943, in Nebraska City, Neb., to Kenneth D. and Emma (Sporhase) Feilen. He was united in marriage to Rowene James on August 31, 1962. He served as a foreman for Wonder Bread and later worked in the Council Bluffs School System at Carter Lake Elementary in the Janitorial Department. • Dale E. Standley, age 81, passed away Sept. 1. He was born April 14, 1933, near Prescott, Iowa, to Ferman and Carrie Standley. Dale and his family moved from their Nevinville, Iowa, farm in 1960, to Omaha, Neb., where he briefly worked for Fruehauf. He was accountant for Master Furniture, Western Wine, and United Distillers. In 1977, he and his wife started Standley Auction & Realty Co. In his recent semi-retirement, he made the Council Bluffs airport his second home and loved returning to flying. • Rose Ella Fauble, age 93, passed away Sept. 4. Rose was born October 29, 1920, in Honey Creek, Iowa, to Charles J. and Clara H. (McKeown) Chapman. She was united in marriage to Glen B. Fauble Jr. on Sept. 11, 1954. Rose lived in the Council Bluffs area most of her life and worked as an Administrative Assistant for Area 13 Education Agency, retiring in 1982. She was a member of New Horizon Presbyterian Church. • Phyllis L. Wheeler, age 85, of Council Bluffs, passed away Sept. 8, at Risen Son Christian Village. Phyllis was born July 12, 1929, in Council Bluffs, to the late Harley W. and Nora (Morris) Prickett. She graduated from Glenwood, Iowa High School in 1947. Phyllis and her former husband owned and operated Maple Oak Beach Resort in Spirit Lake, Iowa from 1948-1960. She also worked for City Transit and the Daily Nonpareil. • Robert “Bob” Bentz, age 59, of Council Bluffs, died Saturday, Sept. 6, following a tragic accident near Kerkhoven, Minn.

efits. Lynch was diagnosed with cancer about a year prior to his death. “He had a hard time bouncing back,” she said. “He fought the good fight.” Lynch was a member of RJO (jewelers), the American Legion, National Rifle Association, Council Bluffs Fish and Game Club and served as a deacon at the Church of Christ for many years. He enjoyed being outdoors.

Robert Steven Bentz was born on Nov. 18, 1954, in Omaha, Neb., the son of Harvey and Doris (Seba) Bentz. He grew up in Council Bluffs, where he went to elementary school and graduated from Lewis Central High School in 1973. After high school he began working for Griffin Pipe Company. It was there that he met and fell in love with Sue Dirks. On July 3, 1987, they were united in marriage. This union combined their two homes to one and they raised two sons and two daughters together. After 28 1/2 years Bob retired from Griffin Pipe in 2000. He then moved to Norway Lake where he owned and operated Last Chance Bait and Grocery for 12 years. Bob loved to fish, golf, play pool, play cards, and wood working. He was a member of the Sons of the American Legion. • Elsie G. Taylor, age 93, passed away September 14, at Elm Crest Retirement Community in Harlan. Elsie was born on April 3, 1921, in Nevada, Iowa, to LeRoy and Mina Weeks and graduated from Nevada High. She married Earl Taylor in 1941, and they were married for 60 years until his death in August of 2002. The Taylors had two sons, Kenneth and wife, Keri, of Council Bluffs, and Kevin and wife, Kimberly of Glenwood; five grandchildren, Greg Broyles, Mindy McCollough, Jennifer Taylor, Kyle Taylor, Kristofor Taylor; great-grandchildren, sister, Helen Porter, of Des Moines, Iowa; and brother, James (Velda) Weeks, of Henderson, Iowa. The Taylors farmed near Silver City, for 30 years, moving upon retirement to Treynor. They supported their sons in their school activities as well as volunteering work with the American Cancer Society, Jennie Edmundson Hospital and providing music for shutins both in Council Bluffs and during the winter stays in Scottsdale, Ariz. Elsie wrote a travel column for the Treynor Newspaper for many years, covering local activities as well as reports of Statesman Club Travels. Elsie’s artwork is represented in many businesses and homes in southwest Iowa as well as Omaha. • Nicholas (Nick) P. Shepard, age 38, passed away Sept. 11. He was born in Omaha, Neb., on Sept. 2, 1976. Nick enjoyed cooking food and entertaining a crowd. He was also an avid college football fan: GO HAWKEYES! Nick is survived by his wife, Billie (Wood) Shepard; daughter, Taylor-Rae Shepard; parents, Brian and Roxanne Shepard and Lynn Durham, of Council Bluffs; sister and brother-in-law, Lisa and Brian Ranklin, of Riverview, Fla.; brother and sister-in-law, Benjamin and Traci Shepard, of Council Bluffs; sister-in-law Jolene Wood, of Council Bluffs; brother-in-law, Darwin Maron Jr.; sister and brotherin-laws, Amy and Kyle Armes; sister and brother-in-law, Tanya and Terrance Prine. Also many nieces and nephews, family and friends. • Martin E. “Marty” Meyer, age 67, of Council Bluffs, passed away Sept. 15, at The Nebraska Medical Center. Marty was born July 25, 1947, in Council Bluffs, to Stanley and Jessie (Wood) Meyer. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1966 and proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. Marty was a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service for 32 1/2 years retiring in August of 2002. He was a member of the American Legion Post #2 and was an avid fisherman and hunter. Marty is survived by his longtime companion, Shirley Burnham, of Omaha; daughters, Cynthia (Rusty) Willard, of Denton, Texas, Jackie (Shane) Garden, of Gardner, Kansas, Heidi (John) Sharp, of Omaha; son, Sterling (Karen) Lehmer, of Council Bluffs; 9 grandchildren; 1 great grandson; father, Stan Meyer; sister, Connie (David) Eledge, all of Council Bluffs; brothers, Rodney (Lisa) Meyer, of Tampa Bay, Fla., Monty (Cindy) Meyer, of Carter Lake, Iowa, Douglas (Katie) Meyer, of Jackson, Calif.; nieces and nephews. • Keith Glen Lane, age 48, of Council Bluffs, passed away Sept. 18. Keith was born Dec. 2, 1965, in Council Bluffs, to Kenneth and Gladys (Pedersen) Lane and was a 1984 graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School. He was a corrections officer for 14 years and worked as a carpenter. Keith is survived by his parents, Ken and Gladys Lane; brother, Kehry Anson Lane and wife, Rachel Howell; niece, Louisa Lane; nephew, Austin Pope; grandpa, Lyle Hinkle; aunts, uncles, and cousins.

IN MEMORIAM: Remembering those who left us in 2014 JULY Alan D. LaChappell Alexander Benjamin Allen Arlon “Fat” Grap Bernie A. Thieschafer Betty Claire Anderson Huneke Bruce David Fleming Burton W. “Butch” Loveless IV Charlene Fox Charles LaDon Troxel Corrine R. Brokman Dallas D. Tennigkeit Dee Mollison “Molly” Juhl Delores F. “Dee” Elder Dennis C. Moss Dennis Lee (Poke) Lockard Donald Allen Donald Dean Mace Donald E. Williams Donald Edward Snipes Donald J. Warner Donna Rae (Franks) Lockard, (Maude) Dorothy Pearl Schroder Dortha May “Dorothy” Seavey Douglas E. Richt Dr. John Holmes Hansen Edward E. Green Edward F. Weber Edward L. Behm Evelyn M. Sanders Gale R. Arch Geraldine M. Schanuth Glen Thomas Farrell Goodmond H. Danielsen, Jr. Grant Stanley Hunter Harold E. McCormick Sr. Harold L. Ward Helen May Abel Herbert F. Schewe Jackie Dean Phippen Jan Marie Lapham Sparks Jane Louise Rachau

Jeannelle M. Bothwell Jerry J. Coppock Jimmie P. Toland John L. Orr Joseph R. Grote Joyce E. Bohlen Judy L. Gustin K. Dale Thomas Kenneth D. Arrick Laurence Floyd “Bud” Taylor Lois Ieleen Allen Lucille Mae Shipley Lynn Marie Novak Margaret Alice Hammer Marian Viola Moore Marie Carman Marjorie E. Greer Marjorie T. Barnett Martha M. Volovich Martin V. Smith Marvin D. Cox Mary M. Hannan Michael A. Hollins Michael “Todd” Stephens Michael V. Detton Michon R. Runyon Mildred L. Green Norman H. Pierson Patrick R. Shannon Paul James Cox Sr. Ralph L. Harmon, Sr. Randy W. Stotts Robert L. Stevens Robert “Bob” Saunders Roger L. Wild Roy H. Eyberg Ruth Louise Waters Saralee J. Cole Sharon Rae Anderson Thomas Keith Walker V. Wendolene “Wendy” Rash Walter E. Cabe

Warren Fredrick Mathis William “Bill” Cleon Clark William Henry Schupp, Sr. Christopher C. Doyle Earl J. Hatcher Melvin E. “Bud” Whitman AUGUST Ann M. Harris Archie D. Hove Arthur Rath August R. “Augie” Monzu Barbara Bonnie Davidson Bernie A. Thieschafer Betty J. Leber Betty M. Fenn Bonnie Esther (Eames) Minssen Bradford Clayton Baylis Brian Dean Settell Carolyn Rae Vanata Carter James Kelly Christopher C. Doyle Clyde M. Peck Connie Jo Howat Curtis Floyd David M. “Mike” Lynch Delores Ethel Schupp Donna Jean Hatcher Donna M. Yecha Dorothy G. Thomas Dorothy I. Haight Dorothy “Jean” Redinbaugh Earl Dean West Earl James Hadden Earl L. Cushman Edith Lynn Whaley Edna M. Brown Emma F. Steffen Evelyn M. Foster Fern Elizabeth Allan G. Lyle Ward Gerald L. Hicks Gladys L. Harris

Harold L. “Pete” Petersen Howard Alan Johnson Howard D. Emme Hugh Leroy Brownell, Jr. Jack A. O’Brien Jack Graham James R. Mocha Jean Poore Jean R. Weatherill Jeanne L. Fenstermacher Jimmy O. Whitbeck John Frederick Evans, Jr. Keith W. Craig Larry H. Sollazzo LeRoy J. “Judd” Gillespie, Jr. Linda K. Poor Lois Mae Pedersen Lonnie L. Points Lou Haack Manly “John” Beaman Margaret Hughes Margaret Sturgeon Marilyn J. Turner Foster Marty J. Hughes Mary Anna (Gravitt) McCallan Mary Bengtson-Almquist Mary L. Pettengill Mary Lucille Filkins Peterson Mary M. Voss Matthew K. Carpenter Michael A. Thomas Michael K. Olesen Opal Grace “Needham” Kruse Paul N. McCulley Paul Stapleton Peggy I. “Frau” Rodriguez Phyllis Lank Rachel L. Mahoney Randy J. Thompson Raymond Parsons Rhea Wandalee Young Richard F. Swanger, Sr.

Robert D. McCuen Robert J. Johnson Robert P. Weare Robert “Bob” W. Achenbach Rose D. (Powers) Ellison Russell Soren Jensen Shelley K. Lewis Shirley J. O’Hara Stanley G. Maynard Jr. Stanley R. Collins Stephen J. Thompson Timothy C. Harmon Trinidad Osbahr Wayne Eugene Colvin Wendell A. Hagerman William A. Lauver, Jr. Dorothy D. Hildebrand Ernest “Ernie” Eugene Harwig John Beaman Lonnie Boos Rita Raye Vance Sollazzo SEPTEMBER Addison “Sonny” Foutch Albion K. “Mike” Frink Alyxandrea May Giovannoni Ann M. Lammert Barbara E. Peters Betty May Henry Betty Shook Britten Carolyn Mae Loomis Harvey Heitman Charles P. “Charlie” Bernhhards Christine L. (Chris) Miller Connie Kay (French) Noyes Connie S. O’Hara-Lee Dakota M. Escritt Dale E. Bussing Dale E. Standley Darlene Daisy Mott Delbert Fritz Heitmann Donald Richard Smith Dorothy Jean Struck Doug E. Hanke

Earl W. Jensen Edward J. Svacina Elbert Marquis Snethen Elsie G. Taylor Everett Leroy Vannier Frances Iolene (Steinhoff) Jacobson Francis Dale Turk Francis “Frank” Gregory Miller Fred A. Kemp Freda Ann McKern Gene H. Zimmerman George E. Feilen George P. Roennau Gerald D. “Jerry” Hoag Harrison W. “Hap” Clark Harry N. Langdon Harvey Rau Helen Clem Hope Dominguez Ila Fae Johnson Ila M. Seely Jacqueline Eliz Wintour James E. Hayes James “Sam” Lee James “Jim” Raymon Minshall, Sr. Jamison T. Putnam Jan Lee Huddleston Jane M. Green Jeffrey Lynn Vosler Jerry E. Huber Johnny T. Becerra Joseph Arlen “Jody” Matthews Sr. Kay R. Goodman Keith Glen Lane Kelly Lynn Berg Kenneth G. French Kenneth W. Hunt Kimberly L. (Haines) Stroud Larry D. Fuller Larry L. Rhoades Leonard D. Clark Linda Kay Roof

Lonnie Dean Boos Lorie C. Anderson Louis “Dean” Carper Lynn U. Moffatt, Jr. Margaret A. Knickerbocker Margaret Elizabeth Hale Martin E. “Marty” Meyer Marvin William Cozad Mary Lou Owen Muriel Lee McIntosh Nadine M. Frost Nicholas (Nick) P. Shepard Nora Louise Martin Norma Love O’Sullivan Pablo Navarrete Sanchez Pamela J. Black Pauline R. Carl Phyllis J. Wallace Phyllis L. Wheeler Ray Thomas Frederick Richard Joseph Hadlund, Jr. Robert “Bob” Bentz Robert E. “Bob” Hastings Robert Earl Branch Robert R. Raes Robert W. Robison Rose Ella Fauble Ryan J. Joneson Sharon L. Vinson Shirley Ann Vaughn Terry Sorey Thomas A. Mackland Thomas E. Taylor Travis C. Vincent William R. Stanfill Wilma Jane (Charter) Christensen Betty J. (Tobin) Bales Cecil G. Harper Johnnie Hockabout Kenneth L. Mead Marilyn M. Dendinger (nee Fuhs)

The names listed above are from Obituaries & Funeral Notices published in The Daily Nonpareil during 2014 (through December 14th). The list may not be a complete list of all area deaths. This tribute sponsored by your friends at...

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