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Feline friends Why some see purr-fect pets in senior cats Page 6

Fall fun A trip to the Black Hills

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O.K. with us A visit with ‘Old Kinderhook’ in New York

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Index

On the cover Harry, left, and Moses, a pair of senior cats, sit with their owner Maria Pfeiffer at their home in Manhattan.

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Tailgate

In all kinds of different weather,

TAILGATING is American tradition

BY JANE BURNS

Wisconsin State Journal

MADISON, Wis. | As any good sports fan knows, games are set for TV time and not mealtime.

That’s why tailgating can be a magical time of bratwurst for breakfast.

“You can have them for breakfast,” Patti Kendall, of Cambridge, Wis., said of bratwurst as she stood before a spread of food at a tailgate that began early in the morning prior to the Wisconsin Badgers’ 11 a.m. game against Western Illinois on Sept.

6 in Madison. “It’s meat.

It’s like a breakfast sausage, only bigger.”

Many tailgates are defined by much more than brats. It’s a chance for some cooks to get creative, and for others to try to juggle the delicate food balance of tradition and adventure.

“People will say they love my food,” said Ken Werner, of Mukwonago, Wis., who hosts a big tailgate spread on Badgers game days along Old University Avenue. “That’s great, but I say, ‘I’m just glad you’re here.’

“If you come for the food, you’re missing the point.”

Taylor Mathis spent three seasons, 201012, checking out tail-

No matter the time of day, Kendall brings deviled eggs, dozens of them. It’s a classic recipe from a Better Homes and Gardens cookbook she got when she married in 1970.

She used to try to mix it up with different spices or adding things such as olives, but she’s given up on that.

“People said ‘We don’t Jim Lee, Sioux City Journal file like the green things.

Corey Garvin, of Sioux City, plays Frisbee in November during Just leave them the way a tailgating party before the Morningside College NAIA they were,’” she said. football game against Baker University in Baldwin City, Kan. For the home opener, Werner had a breakgate scenes at college Taste. fast dish as a prefootball games and “It started just as game meal — a braid the result was “The exploring tailgating of ham, cheese and Southern Tailgating across the country,” he eggs. His big spread Cookbook,” which said, “but then I realwould come after the serves up recipes and ized by going to school game. Werner — who tailgating tips. Some are in the Midwest I didn’t also goes by “Kilted specific to the South, have the allegiance to but many are for fans any school in the South. Ken” — is familiar to Badger fans as a guy anywhere. North or “With the Midwest, South, he said, fans the kickoff times make in a decked-out jacket and kilt or the guy who have much in common. a difference,” Mathis married his wife, Jill, “It all comes down said. “If it’s at 11 a.m. on the 50-yard-line of to the pride they have instead of noon, that’s Camp Randall Stadium in their team,” said a big difference. That in 1991. But among his Mathis. “What they extra hour takes away friends, he’s equally wear, how they decoa lot.” known for the lavish rate the spread, if they Kendall and her feleffort he puts into the serve the opponent on a low tailgating hosts tailgate meals. platter.” have a regular menu For each home game, Mathis, a food photog- they offer, but they did rapher from Charlotte, tweak it for the Western Werner sends an email to about 120 people North Carolina, travIllinois game. The detailing what his menu eled beyond the South spread had its usual will be for the game for the tailgate parties fare of hamburgers, and also offering some but honed in on the bratwurst, cookies in history on the opporegion for the book. His the shape of a W, fruit nent. Against Western mother, Sally James, and cheese, but also Illinois, the fare was developed the recipes added muffins, cheesy for the book and their potatoes and breakfast TAILGATING, PAGE 19 blog, Taylor Takes a casseroles.

Jeffrey Phelps, Associated Press file

Icicles are seen outside Lambeau Field as fans tailgate before an NFL wild-card playoff football game between the Green Bay Packers and the San Francisco 49ers Jan. 5 in Green Bay, Wis.

Amber Arnold, Wisconsin State Journal

Greg Chesmore, of Madison, grills cheese and onion sliders during a tailgate party. The party started early because of an 11 a.m. kickoff, but Chesmore always makes sliders for the games no matter what time they start.

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Terry’s Turn

A storm makes one appreciate small blessings On Labor Day weekend a fierce storm raced through Siouxland and knocked down trees and damaged homes.

Although our house wasn’t hit, several trees, including one that towered more than 50 Terry Turner feet in the air, tturner174@longlines.com came crashing down in the yard.

One tree took out the power pole at one end of the block, another tree flat-

tened the pole at the other end and a third took the power and phone wires to our house. It even pulled the electric meter off the side of the house. The result was we were without power, TV cable and Internet. It made me realize I didn’t appreciate many of the small blessings in life we all take for granted.

I never stopped to think about how much I relied on electricity in my daily life until suddenly I was without it. We all need electricity for just about everything we do.

Not only does it provide the means to generate sufficient light (and by the way, candles are romantic but they

don’t throw off a whole lot of illumination) I discovered we also need electricity for a whole lot more.

Hot water for example is no longer available when the power goes out. The thermostat in the water heater needs electricity to operate.

Then there’s the more obvious luxuries like the refrigerator, TV, Internet, air conditioning, hot showers and ...

OH, MY GOD ... THE HAIR DRYER DOESN’T WORK! During the short time we were without power I found myself automatically flipping on the light switch when I walked into a room.

At one point I went outside and punched in the code

SMILE!

for the garage door opener, realized it too was not going to work and quickly looked around to see if anyone saw me. Whenever I sat on the couch my hand automatically reached for the remote and I starred at the blank TV screen while pushing the power button.

When the lights go out you quickly find out how many dead batteries you have in the house. During our blackout I also discovered we only have one flashlight and the batteries in it were about to give out. I dug out an old transistor radio I had in the bottom of my desk drawer only to find out it was as dead as the trees in the yard.

After a futile search for some fresh batteries I somehow found a pad of paper in the dark and wrote it on the grocery list.

But thanks to the diligent work of city crews in Sergeant Bluff we only had to endure the torture of no electricity for a day and a half. But because of that traumatic experience I now have a greater appreciation for the simple blessings in life.

Now if you’ll excuse me I think I’ll go take a hot shower and then watch a few hours of mind-numbing TV.

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ST. LOUIS | It was touted as the strongest chess tournament ever, featuring six of the world’s top 10 players and a purse of $315,000.

And to say that Fabiano Caruana, 22, won the second-annual Sinquefield Cup would be an understatement.

Caruana dominated the competition at the event held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, beating the world’s greatest players one after the other – seven victories in a row. He’ll also take home the $100,000 first-place prize money.

Jeff Roberson, Associated Press

Fabiano Caruana, of Italy, stands up between moves during the sixth round of the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament on Sept. 2 in St. Louis.

The history of chess certainly includes longer win streaks, such as former world champion Bobby Fischer’s 20 consecutive victories in

1970, but they are rare, especially in the modern era.

After his recent performance, Caruana is ranked No. 2 in the world, behind only Magnus Carlsen, 23, of Norway.

Caruana, born in Miami, holds dual citizenship in Italy and the U.S., but he plays under the Italian flag.

Asked if he would ever consider playing for the U.S., Caruana seemed open to the possibility.

“I was born in Florida and spent most of my childhood in the U.S.,” he said. “But I can’t comment on anything in particular. It’s too early to say.”

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museum in June to house the fuzzy-haired Akron Beacon Journal troll dolls and parapherAKRON, Ohio | Sherry nalia she spent decades amassing. Its main Groom has a thing for attraction are the dolls beady eyes and impish that earned her inclugrins. sion in Guinness World Thousands of thouRecords for the largsands of them, in fact. est troll collection, an The Cuyahoga Falls, assemblage that stood Ohio, resident is the at 2,990 dolls when the proprietor of the Troll record was set on Oct. Hole, a museum in 26, 2012, and continues Alliance, Ohio, that to grow. houses her worldIt all started somerecord collection of time in the 1960s, troll dolls as well as when Groom was one more than 10,000 artifacts related to the toys of countless American kids who found troll and the legend that dolls under their inspired them.

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Pets

Old pets, new chances: Case for senior adoption cate people on the benefits of adopting senior dogs,” she says. “Often CHICAGO | Perhaps times a senior dog is a Moses and Harry realmuch better fit than a ize how fortunate they puppy.” are. But if they do, There’s no need for they’re not talking. housebreaking, and Moses and Harry are owners bypass the cats, 11 and 13, respecconstant supervision tively, who are living that a kitten or puppy comfortably in the requires.

New York apartment of Conversely, though, if Maria Pfeiffer. someone is looking for What’s special about an exercise companion, these two felines is a senior dog may not be that they were both a good fit.

11 years old when What’s out there: they were adopted by Petfinder (petfinder.

Pfeiffer and her boycom), an online adopfriend. tion site that works Senior cats and older with 13,000 shelters, dogs _ typically anihas nearly 340,000 pets mals past age 6 or 7, E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune available for adoption, say the animal welfare Harry, left, and Moses, a pair of senior cats, sit with their owner Maria Pfeiffer at their home says Sara Kent, the experts we talked to in Manhattan on Aug. 21. Senior cats and older dogs are often deemed unadoptable because organization’s director _ are often deemed of their age, but some believe older pets are just as delightful as their younger counterparts. of shelter outreach. Of unadoptable simply that number, 17,500, because of age. So they about 5 percent, are not like they get old older animals.

Bunny cues, fosters and finds are left to languish in senior animals.

Hofberg hears it all the homes for senior cats. shelters. But older pets and grouchy. They “I would say the might have an attitude, time.

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“I hate to use a cliche,” Hofberg says, “but it’s the glass halfempty versus half-full idea. Instead of looking at the negative side, look at it as how much you can give each other in the time you have together.”

Joyce Paschall, of Palatine, Ill., agrees; she is currently fostering Tootsie, a 7-year-old beagle, her 32nd foster pet.

“When you adopt a senior, you know they have less time,” Paschall says. “For us, we keep track of our former foster dogs. ...

When we hear that one of them has passed on, yes, it’s sad. But then, they had a good last few years. You know that dog (had) limited options. And I really think they’re more grateful.”

The vet bill concern: Older animals obviously face the illnesses of advanced age sooner than puppies or kittens, so prospective owners have to be prepared for that. But, as Pfeiffer notes, “You can adopt a cat at age 1, and they could have a serious problem and be gone in a year.”

Petfinder’s Kent adds that vet bills are a reality for any owner, whatever the animal’s age.

“Those costs may come sooner with a senior pet,” she acknowledges, “but any pet is likely to have those costs at some time in their life.”

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Beg. 2 Line Dance, 10:00 am Walking Off Pounds, Senior Yoga, Men’s Club, Intermediate German, 11:00 am Beginning German, Advanced Line Dance, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Chinese Classic Mah Jong, 12:30 pm Canasta, Bridge, Penny Bingo, 1:00 pm Men’s & Women’s Social Group, Inter. Line Dance, Woodcarving, Bridge Group, Cribbage, 2:00 pm Ping Pong Oct. 3: 8:30 am Exercise Plus 50, 9:30 am Fitness, 10:00 am Beginners Ping Pong, Blood Pressures, 10:30 am Pool Shooting For Women, 11:30 am Lunch, 12:00 pm Basic Tap, Bridge Group, 1:00 pm Open Craft Time, Bridge, 500, Scrabble, Friday Dance Oct. 6: 8:30 am Yoga with Suzi, Exercise Plus 50, 9:30 am Wii Practice, Strength Class, Tap Class, 10:00 am Knitting & Crocheting, Siouxland 11:30 am Duplicate Bridge, 11:30 am Lunch, 1:00 Center for Active pm American Mah Jong, Generations Pinochle, Woodcarving, Siouxland Center, 313 2:00 pm Fitness with Cook St. is open from 8 Kelly a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday Oct. 7: 8:30 am Penny through Friday.

Bingo, 9:00 am Senior Yoga, Weekly classes, Mexican Language/Culture, programs: 9:30 am Painting Class, Oct. 1: 9:00 am 10:00 am Creative Writing, Intermediate Spanish, Senior Walking Off Pounds, 10:30 Yoga, Dup. Bridge, 9:30 am Countryside Exercise am Painting Class, 10:00 Class, 11:30 am Lunch, am Chess Group, Beginner 12:00 pm Tap Class, 12:30 Tap Practice, 3 Mile Walk, Penny Bingo, 1:00 pm 10:30 am Injury Screening, Painting Class, Pitch, 2:00 Talk Show, 10:45 am Guitar pm Ping Pong Practice, 11:00 am Drama Oct. 8: 9:00 am Chorus, Group, 11:30 am Lunch, Intermediate Spanish, 12:00 pm Choreographed Senior Yoga, Novice Dup. Ballroom, 12:30 pm Bridge, Bridge Game, 9:30 am 1:00 pm Painting Class, Painting Class, 10:00 am Scrabble, 500, 2:40 pm 1 Chess Group, Beginner Tap Mile Walk Warm Up, 3:00 Practice, 3 Mile Walk, 10:30 pm Fitness with Kelly Talk Show, 10:45 am Guitar Oct. 2: 8:30 am Penny Practice, 11:00 am Drama Bingo, 8:45 am Beg. 1 Line Group, 11:30 am Lunch, Dance, 9:00 am Yoga, 9:30 12:00 pm Choreographed am Drum Circle, 9:45 am Ballroom, 12:30 pm Bridge, Persons 60 years and older, and their spouses may participate in the elderly nutrition program in Siouxland. In Sioux City, meals are served Tuesday-Friday at Riverside Lutheran Church, 1817 Riverside Blvd. ; on Monday at Riverside Gardens’ Community Room, 715 Bruner Ave. Fairmount Park, 210 S. Fairmount St. and Centennial Manor, 441 W. Third St. A suggested contribution is $3.75.

Reservations are required a day in advance by calling the Sergeant Bluff site at 943-4669 or the Connections Area Agency on Aging nutrition office at 279-6900 ext. 25. For more information about other available meal sites, call 279-6900.

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Kids These Days

Millennials’ ‘American Troll: Rooms devoted to dolls Dream’ not so different from anyone else’s

BY TIM LOGAN

Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES | Maybe the kids today aren’t so different after all.

A survey from The Demand Institute, which studies consumer trends, finds that millennials have an outlook on housing that’s not unlike previous generations, with most saying they hope to own a house in the suburbs and they’re OK with driving around out there.

The report is a bit of a pushback from conventional wisdom in real estate circles that today’s twentysomethings are more likely to choose walkable urban neighborhoods, or the idea they’re so scarred from coming of age in the housing crash that they’ll never themselves buy. But it

FROM PAGE 5 1965, and she and her sisters all got them.

“But I was the only one who became captivated by it,” she said.

“Just part of my quirky also shows that there’s a already own or plan to personality.” kernel of truth to those purchase a home, and Years later, she startideas, and bigger barri- 75 percent described ed picking up the dolls ers to homeownership homeownership as “an in secondhand shops than previous generaimportant long-term tions may have faced. goal.” Sixty-two percent and antique stores, because for some rea“A fundamental ques- said their next home son she just couldn’t tion about millennials would be a single-fampass them by. It wasn’t is whether their comily house, and only 38 exactly an obsession at ing of age in the Great percent said they plan first. She figures she Recession has shaped for their next home to owned 20 or 30 until their goals and aspirabe in the city. A majorthe late 1980s, when the tions to be different ity said they were fine dolls enjoyed a resurfrom those of previbeing a “short drive” gence. ous generations,” said from grocery stores, Suddenly trolls Louise Keely, president restaurants and shopwere everywhere, and of the Demand Institute ping, instead of walking Groom’s passion went and senior vice presidistance, and 88 percent dent at Nielsen. “We own a car, down just found that, while this one point from 89 pergeneration has many cent in 2001. unique characteristics There were, though, when it comes to their some differences. housing choices, they As other studies have, share many of the same this one found that intentions as young young college grads adults in previous with student loan debt decades.” are less likely to own a Of the 1,000 househouse than people who holds age 18 to 29 that didn’t go to college. were surveyed, 84 perThat’s a shift from earcent said they either lier generations.

into overdrive.

Her collection mushroomed. She even bought out the inventory of Trolling Around, a former museum and gift shop in Whitman, Mass., and part of the collection of its owner, Lisa Kerner.

“First it was a few shelves,” she said.

“Then the shelves got overfilled. Then it was a troll room.”

Now it’s an entire museum, which Groom shows to visitors while costumed as a huldra, an alluring female troll from Norwegian mythology.

Groom’s collection is housed in two buildings,

one of which displays newer trolls and associated artifacts. There’s a scene of a girl’s bedroom from the late 1980s, complete with troll sheets, a troll chair, troll wall hangings and a troll Barbie. There are troll pencils and cologne and fruit snacks. There are troll dolls that resemble celebrities (curiously advertised as “anatomically correct”) and trolls that stick out their tongues or make rude body noises when you squeeze their bellies.

There’s even an X-rated troll. “We keep him in the box,” Jay Groom said.

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Cover story

Exploring the HOME of Pr

BY TERRY TURNER

KINDERHOOK, N.Y. | Martin Van Buren was born in what was once called, “Old Kinderhook” and got the nickname “OK.” He was later dubbed “The OK President” and some historians attribute the use today of the term OK to come from that.

Our eighth president was by all accounts a shrewd politician who laid the foundation for the Democratic Party.

Van Buren was born Dec. 5, 1782, in Old Kinderhook, N.Y., to Abraham and Maria Van Buren. His father was a farmer who also ran a tavern where young Martin was introduced to lively discussions on politics. His father couldn’t afford to send him to college but did manage to get his son an apprenticeship with a lawyer. Van Buren studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1803 and then began his own practice.

Dennis Andrews, a National Park Service ranger and tour guide at the Martin Van Buren home in Kinderhook, said Van Buren married his cousin Hannah Hoes in 1807. “They had four children,” said Andrews, “and two of them served in the president’s cabinet.”

Shortly after his marriage, Van Buren became more involved in politics and in 1812 was elected to the first

Terry Turner photos

Many unusual design features are in the Martin Van Buren home including this unique doorway arch.

If you go WHAT: The Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is located at 1013 Old Post Road in Kinderhook, New York.

WHEN: Ranger guided tours of the home are given daily from May through October. The home is closed during the winter but the grounds are open from 7 a.m. to dusk year round.

MORE INFO: nps.gov/ mava or 518-758-9689.

of two terms in the New York State Senate. In 1815 he was appointed as New York’s attorney general. It was during this time he proved himself to be an adept politician. Just as Van Buren was finishing his second term, his beloved wife Hannah died of tuberculosis.

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National Park Ranger Dennis Andrews talks to visitors in the dining room of the business of the newly formed Democratic party.

An 1800s clothes dryer is on display in the Martin Van Buren home. The Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is in Kinderhook, N.Y.

In spite of his personal tragedy, he continued to pursue his political goals and in 1821 was elected to the United States Senate. After John Quincy Adams became president in 1824, Van Buren – along with Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and John Calhoun – got

together to form a new political party based on the idea of limited government. This would eventually evolve into the Democratic Party.

In 1828, Van Buren was elected governor of New York and gave up his Senate seat. A few months later, he Martin Van Buren left that position when

resident Martin Van Buren

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The Martin Van Buren home is operated by the National Park Service and is open for tours.

President Andrew Jackson appointed him as his secretary of state. Later Jackson reorganized his cabinet and appointed Van Buren as minister to Great Britain.

When Jackson ran for a second term he selected Van Buren as his m of the Martin Van Buren home. In this room Van Buren conducted much running mate. Jackson and Van Buren won the election and in 1835 at the end of Jackson’s Park Ranger term, Van Buren was Dennis Andrews holds nominated for president a walking stick and won the election once owned in 1836, becoming the

by Martin Van eighth president of the Buren.

United States. However, he failed to win a bid for a second term.

After retiring from politics, Van Buren returned to Kinderhook and moved into a 36-room mansion he named Lindenwald. The National Park Service now owns and operates the home situated

The burial place of Martin Van Buren, America’s eighth president, is seen in the Hudson River town of Kinderhook, N.Y.

He also hung portraits in the house of some of his personal friends including Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson.

The servant’s eating area in the Martin Van Buren home.

on 40 acres. The house has been meticulously restored to its 1800s condition said Andrews.

“The dining room has the original wallpaper and many of the furnishings in the house are original.”

several owners before Van Buren bought it.

Van Buren made many improvements to the home including having 51 colored wallpaper panels from France installed to create a mural hunting scene in the dining room and Andrews said Van Buren lived in the house main hall. It was the dining room where from 1841 until his death in 1862. The two- much of the business of the new Democratic story brick home was party was conducted. built in 1797 and had

Today visitors can see the house as it was when Van Buren lived there. The first stop is the visitor’s center which is a small building not far from the house where tickets can be purchased for a guided tour by a knowledgeable park ranger.

Visitors can also drive a short distance to the Kinderhook Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery where Van Buren along with his wife Hannah, his parents and his son Martin Jr. are buried. The cemetery was founded in 1817 and is located on Albany Avenue in Kinderhook.

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Mount Rushmore

In fall, Black Hills shout of the vibrant West

BY ELLEN CREAGER

IF YOU GO

Detroit Free Press

MOUNT RUSHMORE, S.D. | As fall begins, the light is as golden as the prairie. The sky is big and blue. This year, with lots of rain, the hills of ponderosa pines undulate in a deep, thick green carpet so solid that the hills really do look black.

One can see why American Indians revere this land so, and why a sculptor spent 14 years hanging off the edge of a cliff to chisel its fine granite.

The Black Hills shout of the vibrant West.

And whisper of a far older past.

The highlights: Mount Rushmore National Memorial: You see the throngs of tourists snapping away on their cameras as they get a first glimpse of the famous sight in person.

But walk closer. And closer. And closer. A nice, wide pavilion gives you the classic view.

Rushmore was built between 1927 and 1941 with ingenuity and pure muscle.

Skip the evening illumination ceremony, which is basically just a long video with a few patriotic songs thrown in and a white light shining on the heads.

Keystone: Keystone is Ellen Creager, Detroit Free Press Mount Rushmore is shown. Fall is a perfect time to venture west. an old mining town that struck it rich with the Take the Presidential Washington, Lincoln and incoming tourist throngs Trail and you’ll get Jefferson and Teddy of Mount Rushmore, so close you can look Roosevelt. Visit sculptor but it retains its rough, up the nostrils of the Gutzon Borglum’s studio Western personality.

60-foot-high sculpand a museum that tells Crazy Horse tures of Presidents the story of how Mount. Memorial: A must-see to complement Mount Rushmore 17 miles Want to make a difference in your away. In 1948 sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski (and local community? eventually his wife and Or need some extra $ each month? 10 children) began a sculpture taller than the Consider joining the pyramids of Egypt to Senior Companion Program. honor the Oglala Lakota warrior.

Senior Companions provide friendship, Now that the 87-footunderstanding and assistance to homehigh head is finally finished, you can easily based adults in your community. imagine how the entire Volunteers, age 55 and older, may receive completed sculpture will a Federal tax-free stipend that does not amaze folks long after affect any type of assistance. we’re dead and gone.

Take the small bus tour The Senior Companion Program as close as it can get to 4200 War Eagle Drive, Sioux City, Iowa 51109 the fierce pink granite memorial. The site also Phone: 712-577-7848 or 712-577-7858

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Dirk Lammers, Associated Press file

Crazy Horse Memorial near Custer, S.D., is shown.

has a nice American Indian museum and a good restaurant.

Needles Highway and the Iron Mountain Road, Custer State Park: Needles Highway is not for the faint of heart.

With switchbacks and drop-offs as it passes pointy spires of ancient granite, the 14-mile drive has vistas worth stopping for – if only you can find a place to stop. At one point, a one-way tunnel blasted through the granite is barely 8 feet wide.

The Iron Mountain Road, connecting the heart of Custer State Park with Keystone, is more accessible and equally as charming.

Each of its three tunnels frames a view of Mount Rushmore. It also has curlicue “pigtail” bridges that twist around to maximize the views on the 17-mile trip. Both of these trails are partly inside Custer State Park and part of a scenic loop called the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway.

Buffalo herd, Custer State Park: State Game Lodge in Custer State Park is a 71,000-

Mount Rushmore Memorial: $11 parking fee; the park is free; 1300 Highway 244, Keystone (www.nps.gov/moru, 605574-2523).

Keystone: K Bar S Lodge ($119/night and up; www. kbarslodge.com, 866-5227724); 1880 Train steam train tour, $28, $12 ages 3-12. Downtown Keystone (www.1880train.com, 605574-2222).

Crazy Horse Memorial: 12151 Avenue of the Chiefs, Crazy Horse; $11 admission per person plus $4 if you want the up-close bus tour, highly recommended.

Twice a year (certain dates in September and June) visitors can hike up onto the arm of Crazy Horse (www. crazyhorsememorial.org, 605-673-4681).

Custer State Park: Custer City; $15 entrance fee (www. custerstatepark.com, 605255-4460). Free to drive the wildlife loop; a free Buffalo Roundup each September is open to the public, this year it’s Sept. 26. To reserve a lodge or cabin within the park, contact www.custerresorts.com, 888-875-0001.

The State Game Lodge is on the high end ($150/ night-up).

For more: Order a South Dakota vacation guide at www.travelsd.com, 800732-5682. It comes with maps.

acre park that is the nation’s second-largest state park after the Adirondacks. The south part of the park is a vast prairie environment where 1,400 buffalo roam – descendants of 38 buffalo rescued by conservationists that were turned loose here in 1914.

Local & Government Services Siouxland Directory of Elderly Services

Volunteer Program): Center for Siouxland, Johnalyn Platt, 252-1861, ext. 21 Senior Community Service Employment Program: 2700 Leech Ave., Cindy Thomas, 274-1610 Experienced Works: Siouxland Workforce Development Center, 2508 Fourth St., assistant; Faye Kinnaman, 233-9030 ext. 1020 Senior Companion Program: 4200 War Eagle Drive, (712) 577-7848 or (712) 577-7858

Salvation Army: 510 Bluff St., 255-8836 Mid-City SHARE: Center Sioux City for Siouxland, Johna Platt, Better Business Bureau: 252-1861, ext. 21, (Distribution 1-800-222-1600 Site: Mary TreglIowa, 900 City Hall: 405 Sixth St., Jennings St.) 279-6109 Siouxland Center for Active Department of Human Generations: 313 Cook St., Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-1729, congregate meal 255-0833 site Elder Abuse Awareness: Siouxland Tri State Food 1-800-362-2178 Bank: 215 Douglas St., 255Emergency: 911 9741 Fire Department: 279-6314 South Sioux City Community Police Department: 279Action Center: 2120 Dakota 6960 (general) Financial Assistance Ave., 494-3259 Post Office (Main): 214 Commission of Veterans South Sioux City Senior Jackson St., 277-6411 Affairs: 702 Courthouse, 279Center: 1501 West 29th St., Connections Area Agency 6606 on Aging: 2301 Pierce St., 279Iowa Department of Human 494-1500, congregate meal site 6900. Information and referral Services: 822 Douglas St., St. Luke’s Heat-n-Eat services, case management.

255-0833 Meals: 2720 Stone Park Blvd., Senior Advocacy Program, Salvation Army: 510 Bluff 279-3630, Karen Bergenske Chris Kuchta, program director St., 255-8836 Center for Siouxland: Food Social Security Office: 3555 Social Security Southern Hills Drive, 255-5525 Administration: 3555 Southern pantry, 715 Douglas St., 2521861 South Sioux City Hills Drive, 255-5525 Community Action Agency City Hall: 1615 First Ave., South Sioux City Community of Siouxland: 2700 Leech St., 494-7500 Center: 2120 Dakota Ave., 274-1610 Department of Social 494-3259 Services: Dakota City, Neb., Community Action Agency 987-3445 of Siouxland: 2700 Leech Ave., Health Care Emergency: 911 274-1610, energy assistance Information Fire Department: 494-7555 Alzheimer’s Association: Police Department: 701 420 Chambers St., 279-5802.

Financial, Insurance West 29th St., 494-7555 Referral and information about and Tax Counseling Post Office: 801 West 29th Alzheimer’s disease, support Consumer Credit St., 494-1312 groups and respite care Counseling Service: 715 Dakota County Health Douglas St., 252-1861 ext. 47 Adult Day Programs Siouxland Center for Active Nurse: 402-987-2164 Iowa Department of the Adult Day Program: Generations: 313 Cook St., Blind: 1-800-362-2587 Alzheimer’s Association, 420 255-1729, tax counseling Lifeline: Personal Chambers St., 279-5802.

SHIIP (Senior Health emergency response system: A safe, nurturing group Insurance Information St. Luke’s, 279-3279; Mercy environment for functionally Program): Information Medical Center, 279-2036 impaired adults who need available from either Mercy Mercy Medical Center: supervision. Available Monday Medical Center, St. Luke’s Community Education, 279through Friday from 7 a.m. to Regional Medical Center, or 2989 6 p.m.

The Center Siouxland Community Center for Siouxland: Health Center: 1021 Nebraska 715 Douglas St., 252-1861.

Counseling St., 252-2477 Conservatorship service, Catholic Charities: 1601 Siouxland District Health: provides money management Military Road, 252-4547 1014 Nebraska St., 279-6119 and protective payee services Heartland Counseling Woodbury County Extension or 1-800-587-3005 Service: 917 West 21st., South St. Luke’s Health Service: 4301 Sergeant Road, Sioux City, 494-3337 Professionals: 279-3333 276-2157 Lutheran Social Service: 4240 Hickory Lane, 276-1073 Mercy Behavioral Care Home Health Care Food Center: 801 5th St., 279-5991 Boys and Girls Home and Iowa Department of Human Siouxland Mental Health: Family Services: 2101 Court Services: 822 Douglas St., 625 Court St., 252-3871 St., 293-4700 255-0833 Vet Center: 1551 Indian Hills Care Initiatives Hospice: Meals on Wheels: Siouxland Drive, No. 204, 255-3808 4301 Sergeant Road, Suite Aging Services, 2301 Pierce Employment and Volunteer St., 279-6900, deliver noon 110, (712) 239-1226 Service Geri-Care: Transit Plaza, meals, suggested donation RSVP (Retired and Senior 276-9860 $3.72 per meal

Home Instead Senior Care: 220 S. Fairmount, 258-4267, non-medical home health Hospice of Siouxland: 4300 Hamilton Blvd., 233-4144, nursing care, home health aide/ homemaker, social services Mercy Home Care: 801 Fifth St., Suite 320, 233-5100, 1-800-897-3840, home health aides/homemaker services, therapy services REM Health of Iowa Inc.: 2212 Pierce St., Suite 200, 233-5494, skilled nursing care, home health aides, homemaker services, waivers Siouxland District Public Health Nursing: 1014 Nebraska St., 279-6119, skilled nursing care in home, home health aide, homemaker services St. Luke’s Home Care: 2905 Hamilton Blvd., 279-3279.

In-home nursing, therapy, home medical equipment and supplies, lifeline program Tri-State Nursing Services: 621 16th St., 277-4442, skilled nursing care, Home Health aide services, services ordered by

a doctor respite (short stay) welcomed.

Synergy Home Care: Kim Countryside Retirement Kreber, 600 Stevens Port Drive, Apartments: Lilac Lane, 276Suite 102, Dakota Dunes, S.D., 3000 (605) 242-6056 Floyd House: 403 C Street, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, (712) 943-7025, Affordable, multiple Home Maintenance levels of care, studio, oneSiouxland Aging Services: bedroom, respite 2301 Pierce St., 279Holy Spirit Retirement 6900, CHORE service, yard Apartments: 1701 West 25th maintenance, heavy cleaning St., 252-2726 (Riley Fields) Maple Heights: 5300 Stone Hospitals Ave., 276-3821, contact Mercy Medical Center: 801 Jennifer Turner. This is Fifth St., 279-2010 St. Luke’s Regional Medical subsidized low-income housing with rent based on income Center: 2720 Stone Park, NorthPark Senior Living 279-3500 Community: 2562 Pierce St., Siouxland Surgery Center: 255-1200. 48 independent 600 Sioux Point Road, 605living apartments, 57 232-3332 supervised living apartments and three respite apartments Housing Northern Hills Retirement Sioux City Community: 4000 Teton Bickford Senior Living, Trace, 239-9400. Studio, oneAssisted Living & Memory bedroom and two-bedroom Care: 4020/4022 Indian Hills apartments Drive, 239-2065 or 239Northern Hills Assisted 6851, Nicole Gosch, director.

Living: 4002 Teton Trace, 239Family owned and operated, 9402. Studio, one-bedroom individualized “level of care”, and two-bedroom apartments

Glaucoma?

If you have glaucoma and are considering cataract surgery, you may be eligible to participate in the COMPASS Clinical Study. The study is evaluating an investigational treatment designed to reduce pressure buildup inside the eye, which may help reduce or eliminate the need for glaucoma medications.

If you participate, you will receive all study-related eye exams at no cost.

In addition, you may be reimbursed for your time and travel.

For more information: Lisa, Study Coordinator, Jones Eye Clinic (712) 239-7045 October 2014 | 13

Pillsbury Bake-Off

At 89, woman doesn’t back off from baking off died late last month (“I know he is happy where he is now,” she said).

ST. LOUIS | The last But she is still cooking time Betty Staufenbiel up a storm. participated in the In November, she will Pillsbury Bake-Off, be in Nashville, comshe did peting in her second very well.

Pillsbury Bake-Off. She She was a will be the oldest conrunner-up testant there. winner — Staufenbiel’s entry technically, this time around is she was called a Peppered a second Staufenbiel Bacon-Wrapped Turkey senior winPub Sandwich (the ner — and her efforts name, she says, was won her $2,000.

Of course, $2,000 went given to her recipe by the folks at Pillsbury). It a lot farther in 1961. is a sandwich made with Now, the Mehlville, green onion-studded bisMo., resident is 89. She cuit dough, stuffed with does not hear as well pepper-bacon-wrapped as she used to, and her turkey tenderloins beloved husband, Dan,

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and melted cheese and smeared with garlic mayonnaise.

The mother of eight, grandmother of 14 and great-grandmother of four came up with the idea for the recipe at a family Thanksgiving dinner.

“One of the kids said, ‘I wish we could put it all on a piece of bread and eat it like a sandwich,’” she said.

And that concept fits in perfectly with the category in which she is entered, Amazing Doable Dinners. The idea is to make a full dinner in a single, easy dish — using Pillsbury products, of course. The

only dinner item missing from the sandwich, she said, is some form of salad.

Back in 1961, she won with a recipe she called California Onion Twists and that Pillsbury decided to call Barbecue Twists. At the time (and even today, to some extent), every party had California Onion Dip — the familiar combination of sour cream and onion soup mix. After one big party, she had some of the dip left over, and “I’m too frugal to throw anything away.” So she used the dip in place of sour cream in her mother’s recipe for sour cream

dinner rolls.

The result was a success, both with her friends and the judges at Pillsbury. But doing well in contests was not unusual for Staufenbiel, who entered contests as a hobby with a group of like-minded friends.

When her children needed bicycles, she won them bicycles.

Another time, she won a gasoline-powered miniature car, which she sold for a much-needed $500.

But those awards are small fry. She once won a Caribbean vacation. And she also won a contest requiring her to describe in 25 words or less what 7Up had in

common with Datsun, the car company now known as Nissan.

“I think God provides us with the ability to do a positive thing with something that we have in our hand. It is his gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to somebody else,” she said, explaining her penchant for giving away her winnings. And this generosity comes back to her in good ways, she said.

“Here we are again.

I’m going to the BakeOff again. Who knows what is going to happen this time? We’ll wait and see. At 89, you’d better get on the ball.”

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Health

When cancer simply vanishes, could it be a key to a cure?

BY JULIE DEARDORFF Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO | In her 28-year career, Dr. Deborah Axelrod, a New York physician, says she’s had just one patient whose advanced breast cancer inexplicably vanished.

The patient, Ann Fonfa, endured multiple surgeries to remove cancerous tumors that kept growing back. All the while, Fonfa refused the recommended treatments of chemotherapy and radiation, instead experimenting with unproven alternative therapies, including changing her diet, taking herbs and reducing stress.

Seven years after her original diagnosis, Fonfa received good news: The cancer was undetectable. Fonfa, 66, has been cancer-free for the last 14 years.

In a few rare cases, people defy cancer without medical treatment or by using therapies that are considered inadequate, a phenomenon known as spontaneous remission.

Scientists have been fascinated and baffled by these developments for as long as cancer has been recognized as a disease. Was it luck?

Or did the patients do something special to harness the awesome power of the immune system?

Studying these exceptional people, however, is fraught with difficulty, controversy and the dangers of promoting bad science. The potential benefits of highlighting the unusual recoveries should be balanced against the risks, experts warn, including offering patients false hope, blaming those who succumb and encouraging alternative treatments in place of conventional methods that could prolong or save lives.

“We have all heard or seen a few cases like this,” said Axelrod, of the Perlmutter Cancer Center at New York University Langone Medical Center. “I have also seen women die of neglected cancers, despite a fervent belief that they will be cured with a nontraditional treatment.”

The public hunger for new ways to fight cancer – along with the enormous gap in scientific evidence – is reflected in the recent best-selling book “Radical Remission” by Kelly Turner, a psychotherapist and independent researcher who wrote about nine factors she believes could play a role in spontaneous remission.

The best way to win the war on cancer, according to Turner, is to talk to those who

Jim Rassol, Sun Sentinel

Ann Fonfa poses for a portrait in Delray Beach, Fla., on July 30. Fonfa’s breast cancer spontaneously disappeared.

She now works to raise awareness about nonconventional treatments for cancer.

have already won. “It’s only false hope if the stories are false,” she said. “But these people truly had cancer. And they are well now.”

Turner interviewed more than 200 people, including Fonfa, and analyzed more than 1,000 published cases.

She found that those

who heal from cancer without using conventional treatments – or after the treatments failed – had made significant lifestyle changes, such as radically altering the diet, using herbs and supplements, and embracing social support.

Medical experts say

such observations aren’t very meaningful given the lack of a comparison group.

“For every person we hear about who refuses cancer therapy and lives, there are additional people who refuse standard medical therapy and die,” said Dr. Rebecca Johnson, a cancer specialist in the Seattle area who has also battled breast cancer. “There’s no way to count the latter number.

Without formal scientific studies, it’s impossible to generate statistics on the efficacy of alternative treatments.”

Turner stresses that she is not suggesting that patients abandon standard medical interventions. Instead, she hopes to encourage further study and share the stories of people diagnosed with advanced cancer who experienced unexpected recoveries.

It’s impossible to know how often spontaneous remission occurs because physicians often don’t document or publish the cases, the patient may simply stop showing up at the doctor’s office, and most cancer patients in the past century have been conventionally treated in one way or another.

To date, the medical literature consists only of individual case studies and overviews.

Some incidents, when

more closely scrutinized, prove not to have been remissions at all.

Still, the phenomenon has been reported with virtually all kinds of cancer, more frequently in some types than others. Kidney, brain, uterine and skin cancer (melanoma) were the four most common types, according to a review of 176 published cases from 1900 to 1960

by University of Illinois College of Medicine surgeons Tilden Everson and Warren Cole. In cases of infant neuroblastoma, regression is so common that screening isn’t recommended, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Everson and Cole didn’t specify that the remission had to be permanent. They also excluded cases of lymphoma or leukemia because of the natural fluctuations in growth rates of these cancers.

In a follow-up study looking at incidence rates from 1900 to 1987, University of Calgary researchers found lymphoma and leukemia ranked among the most common remissions, along with melanoma and cancers of the brain and the retina. By contrast, the most common cancers overall were lung, colon and rectum and breast, according to the study.

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Calendar Arts & Theater

no charge. 1-5 p.m.

712-546-7476.. http:// Through April 1 Jackson Pollock ‘Mural’, ww.lemarsarts.com.

Oct. 16 Sioux City Art Center, 225 ARTilicious!, Sioux City Nebraska St, Sioux City, Art Center, 225 Nebraska IA. Jackson Pollock’s St., Sioux City, IA. This Mural, considered to event combines the culinary be the most important talents and wine and beer modern American offerings of Hy-Vee Food artwork ever made. 10 Stores of Sioux City with a.m.-4 p.m. http://www. a Silent Auction of Art siouxcityartcenter.org/.

Center’s ArtSplash artwork.

Through Oct. 25 Tickets available at the National Watercolor Sioux City Art Center and Society Traveling area Hy-Vee Food Stores.

Exhibition, Le Mars Arts Included in ticket price are Center, 200 Central Ave special values on Art Center SE, Le Mars, IA. The National Watercolor Society memberships and catering/ wine and beer from Hy-Vee. has selected a group 5:30-8:30 p.m. $40/person, of paintings from their $70/two tickets. 712international show, held 279-6272.. http://www. annually in San Pedro, siouxcityartcenter.org.

CA, to travel the United Oct. 23 – Nov. 2 States as ambassadors for Dracula, Sioux City the medium of watercolor Community Theatre, 1401 and the society’s fine artists. Open to the public, Riverside Blvd, Sioux City,

To learn more about our affordable housing services, call (712) 548-4108.

For Telecommunications Relay Service, Dial 711.

620 14th Ave NE • LeMars, IA 51031 All faiths or beliefs are welcome. 11-G1924

IA. Rich with both humor and horror, this play paints a wickedly theatrical picture of Stoker’s famous vampire. 7:30 p.m.

712-233-2788.. http:// scctheatre.org.

1-4 p.m. 712-224-2387..

Oct. 18 Camp High Hopes Haunted Lodge Party, Camp High Hopes, 5804 Correctionville Rd., Sioux City, IA. We promise this will be an adult Halloween party of a lifetime. Must be 21 and over to enter.

Costumes are encouraged.

Proceeds from ticket sales will help Camp High Hopes provide safe, fun and adaptive recreational experiences for children, teens and adults with disabilities. 7:30-11 p.m.

712-224-2267.. http://www. camphighhopes.com.

Oct. 27 Morningside Lutheran Asian Dinner, Morningside Lutheran Church, 700 S. Martha St., Sioux City, IA. 6 p.m.

interested in learning more about the disease of addiction, attend the series.

It is free, informational, and completely confidential. 6-8 p.m. 712-234-2390..

Oct. 2 Beginner Couples Dances, Rookies Bar, 8th & Dakota Av, So Sioux Benefit & City, NE. Will learn the 2 Fundraiser step, Waltz, Triple2 step, Oct. 3 Stationary Cha Cha, Barn Wine on a Dime, Marina Dance, Teton, and many Inn, 385 E. Fourth St., more. DO NOT need a South Sioux City, NE. partner to come 7-8:30 Sample unique wines, p.m. $5. 712-276-6694.. beers and spirits, enjoy Oct. 3 the Marina’s culinary First Friday Coffee: delights and support the Welcome to Medicare, families and children that Connections Area Agency we educate and empower. on Aging/Housing Acct., Comedian David Crowe will 2301 Pierce St., Sioux perform. 6 p.m. 712-258City, IA. This unbiased, 5137.. http://marytreglia. informative seminar for org/wine-on-a-dime. new Medicare beneficiaries Oct. 4 is held the first Friday of every month. PreOktoberfest at Bev’s Classes & Lectures registration is required as on the River, Bev’s On space is limited. There is Oct. 1 The River, 1110 Larsen Park Rd, Sioux City, IA. Family Education Series, no cost to attend. Contact Everyone is German for Jackson Recovery Centers, Connections Area Agency on Aging at 712-279-6900, this day! Tickets include 800 5th St. Peter Waitt 800-432-9209. 1:30-4 p.m. a bratwurst lunch and 5 Education Rm, Sioux Oct. 6 tastes of German beer or City, IA. To help family Beginner Linedance, wine plus an opportunity to members, loved ones, Rookies Bar, 8th & Dakota dance the polka. Proceeds and our community better Av, So Sioux City, Ne. Will go to the Children’s understand addiction, Museum of Siouxland. A Jackson offers a free Family start with the basic steps live band starts at 3 p.m.

Education Series. We highly and then learn many, many new and fun dances. 7-8 Buy tickets at Bev’s on recommend all family p.m. $5. 712-276-6694.. the River or from any of members with a loved Oct. 9 the Children’s Museum of one involved in Jackson’s Siouxland board members! services, or any individual Hoping for More: Talking

Faith in the Toughest of Times, Morningside College, Olsen Student Center, 3609 Peters Ave., Sioux City, IA. Lecture by Deanna A. Thompson. 12 p.m.

Oct. 9 Talking Faith in the Toughest of Times, Grace United Methodist Church, 1735 Morningside Ave, Sioux City, IA. Deanna A. Thompson, a religion professor who was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer at the age of 42, will present the annual Morningside College Wright Lecture. 7 p.m.

Oct. 14 Global Food Security lecture, Morningside College, 1501 Morningside Avenue, Sioux City, IA. Jack Bobo, senior advisor for biotechnology with the U.S. Department of State, will present a lecture on global food security issues. 5:30 p.m.

Oct. 28 Library Tech Talk, Sioux City Public Library, 529 Pierce St, Sioux City, IA. Demos and one-onone assistance with tech devices. Meets the 4th Tuesday of the month, or call 255-2933 x 221 to schedule a consultation at a time convenient to you. 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. http://www. siouxcitylibrary.org.

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Oct. 1 Theo Von, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City , 111 3rd St., Sioux City, IA. Must be 21 or older to attend. 8-10:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $15. 844222-7625.http://www. hardrockcasinosiouxcity. com.

Oct. 8 Jim Breuer, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City , 111 3rd St., Sioux City, IA. In 1995, Jim joined NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” becoming best known for his original character “Goat Boy” and his impression of actor Joe Pesci. Must be 21 or older. 8-10:30 p.m. Tickets start at $15.

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Oct. 15 Josh Blue, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd Street, Sioux City, IA. Josh Blue has been a fast-rising star since first appearing on Comedy Central’s “Mind of Mencia” before gaining the attention and endearment of the country as a favorite on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.”

Must be 21 or older to attend. 8-11:30 p.m. Ticket prices starting at $15.

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Oct. 24 Rodney Carrington, Grand Falls Casino & Resort, 1415 Grand Falls Blvd., Larchwood, IA. 8 p.m. $49.

Oct. 25 Williams & Ree, Grand Falls Casino & Resort, 1415 Grand Falls Blvd., Larchwood, IA. 8 p.m. $20.

Oct. 27 Blue Man Group, Orpheum Theatre, 528

fossils, petrified wood and meteorites. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sioux City Public Museum, Community 712-279-6174..

Through Dec. 7 Oct. 2 Airwave Classics: The Woodbury County Sam Seldon Vintage Iowa State Legislature Radio Collection, Sioux Candidates’ Debate, City Public Museum, 607 WITCC Cargill Auditorium, 4th St., Sioux City, IA. 4647 Stone Avenue, Bldg.

A selection of historic 4. Parking Lot 14, Sioux radios, accessories and City, Iowa. The League of microphones from the Women Voters of Sioux collection of the late Sam City will host a public Seldon, longtime chief debate for candidates of engineer at KTRI radio and any contested races for KSCJ radio in Sioux City.

House seats 6, 13 and 14 12 a.m. Sioux City Public as well as Senate seats 3 Museum, 712-279-6174.. and 7. Panelists from the Through Dec. 28 LWVSC, Greater Sioux City History of Sioux City Press Club, and one other Journal, Sioux City Public invitee will pose questions Museum, 607 Fourth St., in the first segment, Sioux City, IA. Exhibit candidates will pose looks at the history of the questions to one another in news organization, from the second segment, and its founding by young the evening will conclude lawyer Samuel Tait Davis with candidates answering to its current role today. audience questions.

Features Journal artifacts, Cableone, Channel 10, will photos and original pieces broadcast the debate from of the old newspaper office 7-9 p.m. on Oct. 8 & 9. on Douglas Street. 7127 p.m.-9 p.m. 712-276279-6174.. http://www.

5222.. siouxcitymuseum.org/.

Oct. 2 Through Oct. 29 Morningside College Sioux City Farmers Homecoming dedication, Market (Wed & Sat Morningside College, through Oct 29), Tyson 1501 Morningside Events Center Suite Parking Avenue, Sioux City, IA. Lot, corner of TriView Morningside College Avenue and Pearl Street, will kick off its 2014 Sioux City, IA. Enjoy the Homecoming celebration bounty of the locally grown with the dedication and produce, delicious baked ribbon cutting for its $13 goods and beautifully million “academic village.” hand crafted items. 8 Homecoming events will a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday take place throughout and Saturday. 712the weekend for alumni, 224-3350.. http://www. friends, students and their siouxcityfarmersmarket. parents. 7:30 p.m. com.

Oct. 3 Through Dec. 7 First Congregational Nature’s Kaleidoscope: United Church of Digging into the Past, Christ Fall Festival/ Sioux City Public Museum, Children’s Closet, First 607 4th St., Sioux City, IA. Congregational United A world class collection of Church of Christ, 4600 agates, geodes, minerals, Hamilton Blvd, Sioux City, Pierce St., Sioux City, IA. 7:30 p.m.

IA. First Congregational United Church of Christ will hold its annual Fall Festival for Mission Fri, Oct 3, from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sat, Oct 4th, from 9 a.m.-noon. The proceeds from this event are passed on to local agencies for work with women and children. BChildcare is available all during the sale as well. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. 712239-3385.. http://www. firstcongregational.net/.

Oct. 4 1st Saturday Family Storytime: Barn Dance!, Sioux City Public Library - The Wilbur Aalfs (Main) Library, 529 Pierce Street, Sioux City , IA. Here a quack, there a quack! Join us at 10:30 or 11:30 a.m. for stories, songs, and fun on the farm. All ages welcome; free parking on weekends. 10:30 a.m.-11 a.m. 712-255-2933 x 231.. http://www.siouxcitylibrary. org.

Oct. 4 S.T.A.R.S. 30th Celebration, Special Troopers Adaptive Riding School, 33148 K22, Sioux City, IA. Fun for the whole family with wagon rides,

games, train rides, silent auction and pumpkin painting. 5 p.m. http:// www.scstars.org.

Oct. 6 Free diabetes class, UnityPoint Health - St. Luke’s, lower level room 2, Sioux City, IA. Join UnityPoint Health St. Luke’s Diabetes Education Services for a free program designed for individuals with pre-diabetes and diabetes. Classes will cover a variety of topics, from goal setting, meal planning, weight management and nutrition to activities and shopping trips. Register by Sept. 4 by calling 712-2793188. 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. http://unitypoint.org.

Oct. 7 SSC Chamber Business Award Luncheon, Camp Goodwill, 570 152nd Street, South Sioux City, NE. 12 a.m. 402494-1626.. http://www. southsiouxchamber.org/.

Oct. 7 Woodbury County Candidates’ Debate, Western Iowa Tech Community College’s Cargill Auditorium, 4647 Stone Avenue, Bldg. 4.

Parking Lot 14, Sioux City, IA. The League of Women Voters of Sioux City will host a public debate for Woodbury County Board of Supervisors candidates. Panelists from the LWVSC, Taxpayers Research Council, and Greater Sioux City Press Club will pose questions in the first segment, candidates will pose questions to one another in the second segment, and the evening will conclude with candidates answering audience questions.

Cableone, Channel 10, will broadcast the debate from 7-9 p.m. on Oct. 15 and 17. 7-9 p.m. 712-2765222..

Oct. 11 Spirit Knoll Dedication, Time to be determined. The Iowa State Preserves Board will officially dedicate Spirit Knoll as a State Preserve on this day. Spirit Knoll is located approximately 3 miles north of Stone State Park on Highway 12. For more information contact Kevin Pape at 712-2554698. 12 a.m.

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Calendar Oct. 11 Fall Fest 2014, Various locations, Sioux City, IA. More than a dozen venues around Sioux City will host events designed for residents and visitors to enjoy the fall season, spend time with friends and family, and showcase Sioux City attractions.

Participants include: Harvest Festival at Lakeport Commons, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City Farmers Market, Sioux City Public Libraries, Mid America Museum of Aviation & Transportation, Sioux City Public Museum, Sioux City Railroad Museum, Siouxland Zombie Walk, Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center.

Oct. 11 Turkey Dinner, Grace United Methodist Church, 1735 Morningside Ave,

Sioux City, IA. Includes turkey, dressing, potatoes, gravy, veggies, salads, and desserts. 4 p.m.-7 p.m.

Adults: $10, Children (3 10 years): $4, Carry-outs: $10.50. 402-490-6065..

Oct. 16 History at High Noon: The Military in Sioux City 1941-Present, Sioux City Public Museum, 607 4th St., Sioux City, IA. Photographic presentation.

Attendees encouraged to bring their own lunches.

12:05 p.m.-12:55 p.m.

712-279-6174.. http://www. siouxcitymuseum.org.

Oct. 18 Camp High Hopes Haunted Lodge Party, Camp High Hopes, 5804 Correctionville Rd., Sioux City, IA. We promise this will be an adult Halloween party of a lifetime.Must be 21 and over to enter. Costumes are

encouraged.Proceeds from ticket sales will help Camp High Hopes provide safe, fun and adaptive recreational experiences for children, teens and adults with disabilities. 7:30-11 p.m.

712-224-2267.. http://www. camphighhopes.com.

Oct. 19 Siouxland CROP Walk, Grace United Methodist Church/38th Annual Siouxland CROP Walk, 1735 Morningside Avenue, Sioux City, Iowa. The 38th Annual CROP Walk will take place on Oct. 19, Sunday, from 1:00-2:00 P.M. starting at Grace United Methodist Church, 1735 Morningside Avenue.

Churches, organizations, and individuals/families are invited to walk and raise pledges to support Church World Services “Communities Responding

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Oct. 27 Blue Man Group, Orpheum Theatre, 528 Pierce St., Sioux City, IA. 7:30 p.m.

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Oct. 2 Lil Ed and The Blues Imperials, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd Street, Sioux City, IA . Master bluesman Lil’ Ed Williams and his blistering Blues Imperials. Must be 21 or older to attend. 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Ticket prices starting at $15.

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Oct. 3 Curt St.Cyr & the Calico Cats, Vangarde Arts, 420 Jackson Street, Sioux City, IA. Smokin’ Chicagostyle Blues featuring the harmonica and vocals of Curt St.Cyr. This promises to be a memorable night of jumpin’ Blues! 8 p.m.-11 p.m. $10. 712-251-6432.. http://www.vangardearts. com.

Oct. 4 JJ Grey & Mofro, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City , 111 3rd St., Sioux City, IA. Southern rock, cold-blooded swamp funk and sly Memphis soul.

Must be 21 or older to attend. 8 p.m.-11 p.m.

Tickets start at $19. 844222-7625.http://www.

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Oct. 9 Reverend Peyton’s Big Dam* Band, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd Street, Sioux City, IA. Roaring out of the southern Indiana foothills comes Reverend Peyton’s Big Dam* Band playing a brand of Americana and Blues that stands alone.

Must be 21 or older to attend. 8-11:30 p.m. Ticket prices starting at $15.

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Oct. 10 Smash Mouth, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd Street, Sioux City, IA. Smash Mouth, the band that’s given you such memorable songs as “All-Star,” “Walkin’ on the Sun,” “Then the Morning Comes,” and “I’m a Believer,” is headed out on tour to celebrate their 20th Anniversary. Must be 21 or older to attend.

8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Ticket prices starting at $19.

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Oct. 10 Midtown Men, WinnaVegas Casino Resort, 1500 330th Street, Sloan, IA. Doors open at 7 p.m. All ages welcome. 8 p.m.-10 p.m. Advance tickets $25, Day of show $35; table seating $40, day of show $50.. 800-468-9466.. http:// www.winnavegas.com/ entertainment.

Oct. 11 38 Special, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd Street, Sioux City, IA . After more than three decades together, 38 SPECIAL continues to bring their signature blast of Southern Rock to over

100 cities a year. Must be 21 or older to attend.

8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Ticket prices starting at $29.

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Oct. 16 Nick Moss Band, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd Street, Sioux City, IA. Nick Moss and his band have been featured performers at blues festivals across the globe, but it’s at home in Chicago the capital city of the blues where he and his band get the ultimate stamp of approval from one Hall of Famer and blues icon Buddy Guy. Must be 21 or older to attend. 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Ticket prices start at $15. 712226-7717.. http://www. hardrockcasinosiouxcity. com.

Oct. 17 Paul and Carolyn Country Dinner Dance, Le Mars Senior Center, 110 1/2 6th Ave NE, Le Mars, IA. Paul and Carolyn are a local singing duo who perform country music. 6 p.m.-9 p.m. $3.

Oct. 18 Sioux City Symphony: Oz with Orchestra, Orpheum Theater, 528 Pierce St, Sioux City, IA. Experience one of the most beloved movies of all time on the Orpheum’s big screen as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the MGM classic, The Wizard of Oz. Hear the original 1939 Judy Garland studio recordings accompanied by Maestro Ryan Haskins, and your Sioux City Symphony.

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