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So long, friend Terry Turner says goodbye to grilling

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Terry’s Turn

Sadly, grilling season is over It’s November already and there’s a chill in the air with the portent of approaching winter. Time to get ready for the ice and snow of another Midwestern winter.

One of the things I always do about this time of year is to have one final go at grilling before packing it away for the winter.

I always like to have one last hurrah over the blazing fire on my gas grill at the end of the seaTerry Turner son. And now it’s tturner174@longlines.com time. Time for the end of the season ritual of fixing that last meal.

As I open the lid to the grill and stare into the dark depths of its innards I can feel the sadness in the air around my neighborhood as I’m sure others are about to have the same ceremony. I look around and see several whiffs of smoke curling towards the heavens as others are doing the same thing. It may be charcoal or propane creating those symbolic symbols of fall’s last fling

but the result is the same. Warm weather is over and winter is coming on fast.

I get out the brush and begin cleaning the grill. I think back to all the hot dogs, hamburgers and occasional steaks that have been on those porcelain covered bars. I fend off the coolness of the day as I stand there and instead imagine a warm, sunny summer afternoon. There was that Saturday in July when I grilled hot dogs to perfection. Then there was the time I tried cooking sweet corn on the grill for the first time. It was delicious.

As I stand there about to light the grill for the final time I realize something. This is a man’s environment. Outside over an open fire.

Well, somewhat open anyway. I finish cleaning the grill and turn on the gas and light the flame.

Sure it’s true women are cooks and very good ones but here outside in the wilderness by the open fire this is a man’s natural world. We have it in our DNA to cook over an open flame. Man has been doing this same thing since prehistoric times.

I can just imagine the gas grill is instead a roaring fire in a cave.

Instead of the sweatshirt I’m wear-

I look at the grill and the propane powered flames and see the carcass of some animal I tracked for hours then killed and is now skewered and roasting over the open wood fire. I suddenly have the urge to beat my chest and give a primeval yell. Instead I settle for the man grunt made famous by Tim Allen on “Home Improvement”. I throw back my head and shout to the heavens, “Uhhhhh...uhhhh...uhhhh.” Off in the distance in the direction of the smoke I saw earlier I think I hear an answer back. “Uhhhh...uhhhh... uhhhh.” The man tribes of Sergeant Bluff are communicating on this final day of grilling.

Suddenly I’m brought back to reality when the back door opens. “Hey! You’re burning the hamburgers.” It’s my wife. I look at the grill and see the blackened remains of two burgPhoto by Jupiterimages ers. “You’re standing right there.

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I give her a sheepish look and comes to meats served during tailgating toss the charred hockey pucks into season. the trash then reach for some more ing in my mind I can see the skin hamburger. of a saber toothed tiger wrapped As I stand there carefully cooking around me. I killed the beast with the next batch of burgers a thought just a sharpened stick then took his crosses my mind. I wonder if prehishide to keep me warm. toric man had these same problems.

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Health

Demise of Obama long-term care plan leaves gap

BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It’s the one major health expense for which nearly all Americans are uninsured.

The dilemma of paying for long-term care is likely to worsen now that the Obama administration pulled the plug on a program seen as a first step.

The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program, or CLASS, was included in the health overhaul law to provide basic longterm care insurance at an affordable cost. But financial problems dogged it from the outset.

Those concerns prompted the administration to announce that CLASS would not go forward. Yet it could take a decade or longer for lawmakers to tackle the issue again, and by then the retirement of the Baby Boomers will be in full swing.

Most families don’t plan for longterm care. Often the need comes unexpectedly: an elder takes a bad fall, a teen is calamitously injured in a car crash or a middle-aged worker suffers a debilitating stroke.

Nursing home charges can run more than $200 a day and a home health aide averages $450 a week, usually part-time. Yet Medicare doesn’t cover long-term care, and only about 3 percent of adults have a private policy.

“Long-term care is a critical issue, and people are in total denial about it,” said Bill Novelli, former CEO of AARP. “I am very sorry the administration did what they finally did, although I understand it. It is going to take a long time to get this back — and fixed.”

The irony, experts say, is that paying for long-term care is the kind of problem insurance should be able to solve. It has to do with the mathematics of risk.

Most drivers will have some kind of accident during their years behind the wheel, but few will be involved in a catastrophic wreck. And some very careful drivers will not experience any accidents. The risks of long-term care are not all that different, says economist Harriet Komisar of the Georgetown University Public Policy

credits to make it more affordable.

Some experts say it will take a combination of both approaches.

“It almost has to be,” said Robert Yee, a financial actuary hired by the Obama administration to try to make CLASS work.

Lower-income workers probably would never be able to afford private insurance, Yee explained. And a lavish public plan is out of the question.

“Anytime people talk about a social program, you are talking about a basic layer,” he said.

Indeed, Yee had proposed to keep CLASS afloat by using some of the techniques of private insurers to attract the healthy and discourage the frail. The administration rejected that hybrid approach as incompatible with the law’s intent to cover all regardless of health.

“Despite our best analytical efforts, I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told congressional leaders.

The Associated Press Although CLASS would have come file photo too late to help his disabled mother, Jacob Bockser of Walnut Creek, Calif., says he is disappointed.

Bockser, 29, is a former emergency medical technician studying to become a respiratory therapist. His mother Elizabeth, 58, is struggling Institute.

For those who do need extended with an aggressive form of multiple “A small percentage of people are nursing home care, Medicaid has sclerosis. going to need a year, two years, five become the default provider, since She had moved to lower-cost years or more in a nursing home, but Medicare only covers short-term Washington state to save money, but for those who do, it’s huge,” Komisar stays for rehab. But Medicaid is for as her condition worsens her son said. “Insurance makes sense when low-income people, so the disabled is trying to find a way to bring her the odds are small but the financial literally have to impoverish themback to California. She can still live risk is potentially high and unafford- selves to qualify, a wrenching expein her own home, with help to keep able.” rience for families. safe.

Komisar and her colleagues estiLiberals say the answer is govern“She did a lot of good saving. But mate that nearly 7 in 10 people will ment-sponsored insurance, like the because she did good, it disqualifies need some level of long-term care CLASS plan the Obama administraher from some kinds of public assisafter turning 65. That’s defined as tion included in the health overhaul tance,” said the son. “When you are help with personal tasks such as get- law, only to find it wouldn’t work only 58 and looking at hopefully livting dressed, going to the toilet, eatfinancially. ing another 20 or 25 years, it’s scary ing, or taking a bath.

The administration was unable to to think the money just won’t last.”

Many of those who need help will reconcile twin goals of CLASS: finanBockser says he doesn’t expect get it from a family member. Only 5 cial solvency and affordable coverthe government to solve everything, percent will need five years or more age easily accessible to all working but “even if there is the opportunity in a nursing home. And 3 in 10 will adults, regardless of health. to try to piece together a couple of not need any long-term care assisConservatives have called for different programs that would be a tance at all. private coverage, perhaps with tax start.”

In this May 19 file photo, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration’s decision to pull the plug on a financially flawed long-term care insurance plan is likely to worsen a dilemma most middle-class families are totally unprepared for. “Despite our best analytical efforts, I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time,” Sebelius told congressional leaders.

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Journal photo by Tim Hynds

Paul Speidel of Sioux City has learned how to deal with his Type 2 diabetes.

Grappling with diabetes presents many challenges stay up to date on this revolving disease proSIOUX CITY – Marie cess,” he said. “When Hibbs is 4 1/2 years old you take away the acute and she has it. injuries, illnesses and Paul Speidel is 38 wellness visits, as a years old and he has it. busy family physician, “It” – according Type 2 diabetes to national statisis probably one tics – affects 25.8 of the most commillion children mon diagnoses I and adults in the treat.”

United States or Speidel, who 8.3 percent of the has Type 2 diabepopulation. tes, admitted he “It” is diabetes. Dr. Jeff had never been a Kellogg Because diabig fan of going betes touches to the doctor. the lives of many “I knew something families in Siouxland, was wrong because Family Health Care I was experiencing of Siouxland recently extreme thirst, vision hosted a free Diabetic changes and I knew Health Fair, explained diabetes ran in my famDr. Jeff Kellogg. ily,” said the pastor of “An event like this Westlawn Presbyterian allows the public to Church. “About nine

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months ago, during church, I couldn’t see the pews or get my thoughts together.� “Diabetes affects the entire body,� Kellogg pointed out. “It affects the nervous system.

With reference to eyes it can cause diabetic retinopathy. Diabetes affects the cardiovascular system. It affects the kidneys and can cause kidney complications.�

Two-year-old Marie Hibbs, daughter of Jeb Hibbs and Aubrey McCaslen-Hibbs, had a cold she just didn’t seem to shake in 2009. “Once she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, Marie was admitted to the hospital immediately,� Aubrey said. “They needed to get insulin in her as soon as possible, they explained. If we had waited just one more day, she would have been in a coma.�

Diabetes refers to a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood glucose, commonly called blood sugar. Kellogg suggested that even those who don’t suffer from diabetes would benefit from attending the health fair. “Knowing more about

diabetes helps you be a team player with a loved one who may have diabetes,� he said. “Also there is a significant amount of undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes in the community as well as undiagnosed metabolic syndrome and impaired glucose tolerance, both have to do with the prediabetic states which can affect cardiovascular mortality.�

Kellogg estimated a lot of people walk around with diabetes without the symptomatology of excessive thirst, excessive urination, weight loss and fatigue. “If you are a pre-diabetic, it’s important for you to understand this diagnosis and what you need to do in reference to lifestyle changes and dietary changes in order to prevent the progression to Type 2 diabetes,� he said. “If you are an individual who has undiagnosed diabetes, a health care fair like this can help present that diagnosis.�

Kellogg pointed out that being overweight can play a part in Type 2 diabetes. “If you have a BMI (Body Mass Index) over 30, you definitely should be screened for

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diabetes,� he insisted. “We here at Family Health Care now are starting to screen patients with a BMI of 26 or higher and we are doing a test called a hemoglobin A1c which is a three-month average of sugars to screen for pre-diabetic or early diabetic state.�

Speidel fell into that category, estimating he was over 350 pounds when his health started to suffer. “I was a huge cola fan, but replaced both with Pepsi Max and Coke Zero,� he said. “Just those and some other lifestyle changes allowed me to lose 67 pounds in six months and decrease my medications in half.�

Type 1 diabetes, once called juvenile diabetes, differs from Type 2 in that it is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little

or no insulin. It it not the result of lifestyle choices, McCaslenHibbs stressed. “That’s been a real eye-opener for me,� she added. “People seem to think we were loading Marie with sweets and sugar drinks and so her Type 1 diabetes was somehow our fault.

The diabetes was going to surface sometime in her life because it is a chronic illness.�

Like Speidel, Marie monitors her blood glucose level. She held up the index finger on her right hand to show which one she prefers to prick. “Marie knows how to prick herself and has an insulin pump,� her mother explained. “Our goal is to help her manage the disease on her own and make her as independent as possible, not interfering with her being a 4-year-old.�

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Finance

Switching banks becomes popular option big bank customers, angry about new debit card usage fees, harder-to-avoid checkNEW YORK - Cory and ing accounts fees and rising Stephanie Heck are in the ATM surcharges, are taking midst of doing what counttheir frustrations and their less other Bank of America business elsewhere. customers have threatened. “They’re coming over in In response to the bank’s big chunks,� said David plan to charge $5 per month for using debit cards, they’re Glaser, vice president of National Capital Bank, a switching banks. “We work too hard to have family run, two-branch comto pay to access our money,� munity bank in Washington said Cory Heck, 31, a Bank of D.C. He estimated that 80 America customer for about percent of the new accounts opened in the three weeks four years. since news broke about the “For me, it’s a cus$5 debit card fees have been tomer service issue,� said opened by customers of the Stephanie, also 31, a human Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank resources manager. “As a customer, they haven’t treat- of America Corp.

And not all of those switched us the way I would expect ing would even get charged to be treated.� the debit fee. “I had a woman The Hecks are far from bring me a quarter of a milalone. A growing number of

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lion dollars, Glaser said. “She would not have paid the $5 fee, she just didn’t like the idea.�

There’s even a campaign, dubbed “Bank Transfer Day� that has more than 11,500 people pledging on Facebook to switch financial institutions by Nov. 5. Most say they are headed to credit unions.

That’s the choice made by the Hecks. After they searched for options in their hometown of Royal Oak, Mich., they decided to become members of Genisys Credit Union.

Most credit unions are small, nonprofit membership organizations, that don’t charge any fees or have low fees for their basic accounts.

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Union of Long Island, N.Y., is even offering a certificate with a lifetime “no fee guarantee� to its customers.

Bethpage President and CEO Kirk Kordeleski said it has opened more than 1,500 new accounts in the two weeks after the Bank of America debit fee was announced, greater than twice the normal pace. “People are literally walking into branches and cutting up their Bank of America cards.�

Offering the no-fee guarantee was easy, said Kordeleski, because the credit union has always offered free checking. “Credit unions owned the free checking business in the ’80s and ’90s, because banks typically had a monthly fee

at that time,� he said.

Debit cards and overdraft fees played a big roll in changing the landscape.

Banks were able to regain their earnings from monthly checking fees with steady fee income paid by the retailers for debit card transactions. And they changed policies to ratchet up overdraft fees as well.

Now that regulations are limiting overdraft charges and capping debit card transaction fees, banks are turning back to customers to cover the cost of maintaining their accounts. The availability of free checking accounts declined in 2010 for the first time since 2003, according to a recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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Fresno Pacific players react after defeating Columbia during NAIA volleyball championship volleyball Dec. 4, 2010, at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City.

Are you ready for some volleyball?

Since 2008, the NAIA Women’s Volleyball National Championship has brought some of the nation’s top talent in the sport to Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center.

This year’s event, running Nov. 29-Dec. 3, will be no different.

Hosting the tournament for the fourth straight year (only San Diego has hosted the event more), Sioux City typically turns out in big numbers for the tournament. Fresno Pacific has won four straight NAIA championships with three of those victories coming at the Tyson Events Center.

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When life is too long: The debate over older prisoners Keeping inmates locked up might be too expensive, unnecessary

BY MICHAEL VIRTANEN The Associated Press

DANNEMORA, N.Y. - Yohannes Johnson is serving 75 years to life in a remote upstate New York prison, behind 30-foot concrete walls and locked steel doors, 300 miles and 30 years and 10 months from home in New York City.

He measures time in long, slow, personal change. And he maintains hope he will, someday, walk outside the Clinton Correction Facility.

“One thing I don’t do is subject myself to the thought I’ll never leave prison,” said Johnson, now 55, slender and soft-spoken, his hair flecked with gray. He’s a convicted robber and killer and president of the prison’s Lifer’s and Long-Termer’s Organization, part of a growing club of inmates locked up for life nationwide. “I can’t afford to do that. I do that, I lose hope. I lose hope then I don’t care about anything. I don’t care about anything then I become a detriment to myself and those around me.”

Now, even corrections officials are considering different options for older inmates while some research suggests keeping them locked up until they die might be an expensive and unnecessary price for the public to pay.

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In this Oct. 6 photo, inmates participate in a Lifer’s and Long-Termer’s Organization meeting at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. Participants in the program are serving long-term or life sentences. from lawmakers “dramatically” expanding the types and repeat offenses that carry potential life terms, research analyst Ashley Nellis said.

“The theme is we’re protecting society, then the question is: From what?” said Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, a watchdog group. She said with the cost of keeping a state inmate $55,000 a year — a

cost that grows as they age and their medical needs increase — a financial analysis shows that parole and probation are far cheaper punishments that can also satisfy the public need for retribution.

Meanwhile, data show new crimes by convicted felons steadily declining from their teens through their dotage.

“Most criminal behavior is tied with impulse control. The section

of the brain that controls impulse control is the last section of the brain that becomes fully developed,” Elijah said. There’s a large drop-off in criminal behavior and recidivism after 40 or 45, she said, a point seldom made in public discussion “because it’s not convenient.

It doesn’t dovetail with the kind of tough-on-crime mentality that results in votes.”

Patricia Gioia, whose daughter was

murdered 26 years ago in California and who runs the Albany chapter of Parents of Murdered Children, said killers should spend their lives locked up, contemplating what they did, the person whose life they took and the lifelong suffering of families and friends. “They should in effect be punished for this and should not enjoy the freedom that other people have to wander the world,” she said.

The lifers know well the patterns of youth.

“In the ’80s I used to say, ‘No, I don’t regret nothing. I’d do it all again,’” Johnson said. “In the ’90s I realized it was that attitude that got me in the position I’m in.”

Johnson went to prison at 17 for attempted robbery and again at 21 for grand larceny and attempted weapon possession. In 1982, at age 24, he was convicted of murder, attempted murder and robbery for shotgun holdups of cabdrivers in Manhattan and killing a driver.

Some of the lifers and long-termers meeting last week discussed Dannemora’s younger prisoners, whom they variously described as still having “a child-like mentality,” overriding selfishness, a tendency to respond to difficulties with violence and those “who just don’t know how to conduct themselves.”

“We got a lot of young brothers in here who are going to return back to society,” said Doran Evans, a thickshouldered man doing life without parole for murder. “As lifers we’ve got an obligation.”

This autumn day, Johnson was surrounded by 18 others in one of their few respites. The Lifer’s and Long Termer’s Organization is a break from the numbing monotony of maximum prison: Walking in lines through locked doors and gray halls on fixed schedules to and from meals, and nine hours a night spent in 6-by-8-foot cells, where anyone’s policy infractions can mean punishment for all.

About two dozen prisoners among more than 2,000 men at the maximum-security main prison attend the weekly three-hour meetings. Far more could qualify: 458 are serving 15 years to life, 712 doing 25 to life and 40 sentenced to life without parole.

Through barred or meshscreened windows, they can see the

age 40 and even more so after age 50,” the study found. In New York, the number of lifers with few prospects for release has grown in the past decade, tracking a national trend and raising a new set of criminal justice policy questions.

“What kind of treatment programs should we be considering for the offenders who have a sentence of life without parole, or enter the system with sentences of 50 years to life?”

Commissioner Brian Fischer asked recently on the 40th anniversary of the deadly riots at Attica, another maximum-security prison in New York. Since the state’s 1996 sentencing amendments for capital crimes, establishing life without parole for first-degree murder, inmates with that sentence rose from four to 223, with 15 more expected each year, he said.

New York now has more than 800 prisoners who are 65 or older, double the total a decade ago. It has no death penalty, though 34 states and In this Oct. 6 photo, Reynaldo Lopez, of the Bronx borough of New York, speaks during the federal government do. Federal a Lifer’s and Long-Termer’s Organization meeting. prisons held 3,254 inmates age 66 or older in August, up from 1,326 in the prison peaceful and avoiding 2000. lockdowns, and collecting clothing From 1985 to 2006 in New York, 72 prisoners released when they and food for Hurricane Irene relief. were over 65 were returned for new According to some older lifers crimes, less than 5 percent. at Clinton, they are no longer a The lifers say they have somethreat and should be let go. Prisoner thing more positive to give back advocates say the same, pointing to home.

New York and new California data “Those communities we came showing they commit few crimes if from, we left them in shambles,” paroled.

Johnson said. “There’s a generation “After a 10-year stretch, our behind us and a generation behind recidivism rate is nearly zero,” said them that thinks prison is a rite of Michael Mack, 48, an outgoing expassage.”

Marine serving 30 years at Clinton In this Oct. 6 photo, Yohannes Johnson, In the lifers meeting, even foul lanfor two separate robbery convicof New York, speaks during a Lifer’s and guage is barred. Johnson said they tions, one he said he did.

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Sioux City Better Business Bureau: 1-800-222-1600 City Hall: 405 Sixth St., 279-6109 Department of Human Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833 Elder Abuse Awareness: 1-800-362-2178 Emergency: 911 Fire Department: 279-6314 Police Department: 2796960 (general) Post Office (Main): 214 Jackson St., 277-6411 Siouxland Aging Services: 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900.

Information and referral services, case management.

Senior Advocacy Program, Chris Kuchta, program director.

Social Security Office: 3555 Southern Hills Drive, 255-5525 South Sioux City City Hall: 1615 First Ave., 494-7500 Department of Social Services: Dakota City, Neb., 987-3445

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Adult Day Programs

Adult Day Program: Alzheimer’s Association, 420 Chambers St. 279-5802.

A safe, nurturing group environment for functionally impaired adults who need supervision. Available Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Counseling

Catholic Charities: 1601 Military Road, 252-4547 Heartland Counseling Service: 917 West 21st., South Sioux City, 494-3337 Lutheran Social Service: 4240 Hickory LaNeb.276-1073 Mercy Behavioral Care Center: 4301 Sergeant Road, 274-4200 Prime Time Connections: Mercy Medical Center, 2795700. Social support program

using volunteers who provide companionship for elderly experiencing depression Siouxland Mental Health: 625 Court St., 252-3871 Vet Center: 1551 Indian Hills Drive, No. 204, 255-3808

Employment and Volunteer Service

RSVP (Retired and Senior 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, 712577-7848 or 712-577-7858

Financial Assistance

Commission of Veterans Affairs: 702 Courthouse, 2796606 Iowa Department of Human

Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833 Salvation Army: 510 Bluff St., 255-8836 Social Security Administration: 3555 Southern Hills Drive, 255-5525 South Sioux City Community Center: 2120 Dakota Ave., 494-3259 Center for Siouxland: 715 Douglas St., 252-1861, Tax Counseling Community Action Agency of Siouxland: 2700 Leech Ave., 274-1610, energy assistance

Financial, Insurance and Tax Counseling

Consumer Credit Counseling Service: 705 Douglas St., 252-5666 Siouxland Senior Center: 217 Pierce St., 255-1729, tax counseling SHIIP (Senior Health Insurance Information Program): Information available from either Mercy Medical Center, St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center, or The Center

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Food

Iowa Department of Human Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833 Meals on Wheels: Siouxland Aging Services, 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900, deliver noon meals, suggested donation $3.72 per meal Salvation Army: 510 Bluff St., 255-8836 Le Mars SHARE: Betty Dutcher, (712) 5484229 (Distribution Site: Assembly of God, 410 First St. S.W.) Mid-City SHARE: Center for Siouxland, Johna Platt, 252-1861, ext. 21, (Distribution Site: Mary TreglIowa.900 Jennings St.) Sioux City SHARE: Center For Siouxland, Lisa Thomas, 259-7412 (Distribution Site: DAV, 5129 Military Road) South Sioux City SHARE: Sherry Stubbs, 4946477 (Distribution Site: First Lutheran Church, 3601 Dakota Ave.) Siouxland Senior Center: 217 Pierce St., 2554240, congregate meal site Siouxland Tri State Food Bank: 215 Douglas St., 255-9741 South Sioux City Community Action Center: 2120 Dakota Ave., 494-3259 South Sioux City Senior Center: 1501 West 29th St., 494-1500, congregate meal site St. Luke’s Heat-n-Eat Meals: 2720 Stone Park Blvd., 279-3630, Cindy Hanson Center for Siouxland: Food pantry, 715 Douglas St., 252-1861 Community Action Agency of Siouxland: 2700 Leech St., 274-1610 Health Care Information Alzheimer’s Association: 420 Chambers St., 279-5802. Referral and information about Alzheimer’s disease, support groups and respite care Dakota County Health Nurse: 987-2164 Iowa Department of the Blind: 1-800-3622587 Lifeline: Personal emergency response system: St. Luke’s, 279-3375, Jenny Herrick; Mercy Medical Center, 279-2036, Karen Johnson

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Home Health Care

Boys and Girls Home and Family Services: 2101 Court St., 293-4700 Care Initiatives Hospice: 4301 Sgt. Road, Suite 110, Sioux City, Iowa, 712-239-1226 Geri-Care: Transit Plaza, 276-9860 Home Instead Senior Care: 220 S. Fairmont, 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 Synergy Home Care: Kim Kreber, 600 Stevens Port Drive, Suite 102, Dakota Dunes, S.D., (605) 242-6056.

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Siouxland Aging Services: 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900, CHORE service, yard maintenance, heavy cleaning (Riley Fields) SOS of Siouxland Inc.: Center for Siouxland, 715 Douglas St., 252-1861. Non-profit organization which uses volunteers to provide repair services. Serves veterans, senior citizens (especially women) and handicap persons.

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Hospitals

Mercy Medical Center: 801 Fifth St., 279-2010 St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center: 2720 Stone Park, 279-3500 Siouxland Surgery Center: 600 Sioux Point Road, 232-3332

Housing

Sioux City Bickford Cottage Assisted Living: 4042 Indian Hills Drive, 239-2065, Troy Anderson.director.

36 apartments, family owned and operated. We take pets.

Bickford Cottage Memory Care: 4022 Indian Hills Drive, 239-6851, Joy Beaver, director. 36 apartments, three levels of care depending on need.

Countryside Retirement Apartments: Lilac LaNeb.276-3000 Floyd House: 403 C Street, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, 712-943-7025, Affordable, multiple levels of care, studio, one-bedroom, respite Holy Spirit Retirement Apartments: 1701 West 25th St., 252-2726 Lessenich Place Apartments: 301 Fifth St. Contact Connie Whitney or Pat Trosin at (712) 262-5965 Maple Heights: 5300 Stone Ave., 276-3821, contact Jennifer Turner. This is subsidized lowincome housing with rent based on income

NorthPark Senior Living Community: 2562 Pierce St., 255-1200. 48 independent living apartments, 57 supervised living apartments and three respite apartments Northern Hills Retirement Community: 4000 Teton Trace, 239-9400. Studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments.

Northern Hills Assisted Living: 4002 Teton Trace, 239-9402. Studio, one-bedroom and twobedroom apartments.

Oakleaf Property Management: 1309 Nebraska St., 255-3665, contact leasing department. Martin Towers, 410 Pierce St.; Shire Apartments, 4236 Hickory LaNeb.Centennial Manor, 441 W. Third St. This is subsidized housing, rent is based on income.

Prime Assisted Living: 725 Pearl St., 2266300. Affordable, spacious 1 bedroom assisted living apartments for persons 65 and older.

Income guidelines apply. Accept all sources of payment including Title 19 and private pay.

River Heights: 2201 Gibson St., 2764930. This is subsidized housing that is not handicapped accessible.

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In 1984 Moon purchased it from eastern edge of Iowa and just behind “The World’s Largest Truck Stop� is Amoco. Almost immediately the the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum. Even facility began to grow. The Moon family made renovations and offered though it’s a trucking museum you unique amenities such as state-ofdon’t have to be a truck driver to enjoy it. If you like history or beauti- the-art private showers and a separate area for truckers in the restaufully restored vehicles you’ll find it rant both of which were rare at the in abundance here. time. Then in 1989 Iowa 80 added The museum tells the story of the a new store which soon became trucking industry through a huge collection of historic trucks and dis- famous for its huge truck chrome section and a 1918 Oldsmobile that plays. The collection and museum hung above the cashier island. Just started with one man, Bill Moon. three years later in 1992 the Iowa 80 Moon became manager of the small Truckstop expanded its fuel center Iowa 80 Truckstop in 1965 which and became a Truckstops of America was only a year after it opened in (TA) franchisee and two years later Walcott. The truck stop opened before the Interstate was completed the truck stop went through a $4 million expansion virtually insuring and featured a trucker’s store, one Journal photos by Terry Turner lube bay and a restaurant operated its place as the world’s biggest. The Some of the many trucks on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum in Walcott. truck stop now has a 300 seat restauby the Peel family. Today the Iowa

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Sadly, Bill Moon passed away in 1992 but his family has continued to operate the truck stop as he would have wanted it and went on to fulfill a dream he had. That dream was to build a trucking museum. Moon’s dream museum now has over 100 trucks with at least 30 on display at any one time. An expansion project was recently begun that will allow even more trucks to be on display.

The oldest truck currently on display is a 1910 Avery tractor/gasoline farm wagon. The newest is a 1980 Ford CL9000 COE. One of the rarest trucks now on display is a 1925 Kenworth KS 3 ton which is believed to be the earliest Kenworth known to exist.

As visitors enter the museum they are greeted by a unique electric truck. The 1911 Walker Electric Model 43 was used to deliver milk for the Bowman Dairy in Chicago.

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IF YOU GO The Iowa 80 Trucking Museum is located just north of the Iowa 80 Truckstop at Interstate 80 and Exit 284 in Walcott, Iowa. The museum is open in the winter Wednesday through Sunday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and is closed Monday and Tuesday. During the summer the museum is open daily from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The museum is free but donations are appreciated.

For more information about the museum visit their web site at www.iowa80truckingmuseum.com.

1906 to 1942 at the Walker plant in Chicago. The Model 43 had a 3.5 hp, 84 volt motor and could haul 6,000 lbs at 15 mph. It could travel up to 50 miles on one battery charge.

The trucks were known as “Silent Walkers� because they made little noise compared to similar trucks of the day. A 1923 Walker Model 120 sold new for $4,500.

A recent acquisition for the museum is also on display in the atrium as visitors enter the building. It’s a 1956 International RF 405 that was originally used by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in northern California. The truck was used to haul heavy electrical transformers.

It was completely restored from the frame up in 1991 and was purchased by the museum earlier this year.

A fully restored 1912 Mack Jr. one-ton truck is one of the oldest trucks on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum in Walcott. The truck has a 350 cubic inch engine that developed 32 hp and could reach a top speed of 18 mph.

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Calendar Nutrition program Persons 60 years of age 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 $2.75 or what each person can afford without causing a financial hardship.

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Nov. 15: Penny bingo, advanced Spanish, 8:30 a.m. ; senior yoga, 9 a.m. ; genealogy, painting class, beg. /interm. Spanish, 9:30 a.m. ; creative writing, walking off pounds, 10 a.m. ; tap practice, noon; painting class, pitch, tap practice, 1 p.m. ; ping pong, 2 p.m.

Nov. 16: Chorus, senior yoga, 9 a.m. ; painting class, novice duplicate bridge game, 9:30 a.m. ; beginner tap practice, 3 mile walk, 10 a.m. ; talk show, “What to look for on your skin,� 10:30 a.m. ; drama

group, 11 a.m. ; bridge, zumba gold, 12:30 p.m. ; scrabble, 500, 1 p.m. ; 1 mile walk warm up, 2:40 p.m. ; fitness with Kelly, 3 p.m. ; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m.

Nov. 17: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m. ; beg. 1 line dance, 8:45 a.m. ; walking off pounds, 9 a.m. ; beg 2 line dance, 9:45 a.m. ; senior yoga, Men’s Club, beginning German, 10 a.m. ; advanced line dance, advanced German, 11 a.m. ; inter. line dance, woodcarving, bridge group, cribbage, 1 p.m. ; ping pong, 2 p.m.

Nov. 18: Exercise Plus 50, 8:30 a.m. ; fitness with Sandy, Wii practice, 9:30 a.m. ; blood pressures, 10 a.m. ; bridge group, noon; bridge & 500, scrabble, card design class, dance with Terry and the Remnants, 1 p.m.

Nov. 21: Exercise Plus 50, 8:15 a.m. ; experienced tap class, 9 a.m. ; Wii practice, guitar practice, 9:30 a.m. ; beginner tap class, 9:45 a.m. ; tap dance workshop, 10:30 a.m. ; duplicate bridge, 11:30 a.m. ; movie “The Glenn Miller Story,� Mah Jong, pinochle, woodcarving, 1 p.m. ; fitness with Kelly, 2 p.m.

Nov. 22: Penny bingo, advanced Spanish, 8:30 a.m. ; senior yoga, 9 a.m. ; genealogy, painting class, beg. /interm. Spanish, 9:30 a.m. ; creative writing, walking off pounds, 10 a.m. ; crafts, 10:30 a.m. ; tap practice, noon; painting class, pitch, tap practice, 1 p.m. ; ping pong, 2 p.m.

Nov. 23: Chorus, senior yoga, 9 a.m. ; painting class, novice duplicate bridge game, 9:30 a.m. ; beginner tap practice, 3 mile walk, 10 a.m. ; drama group, 11 a.m. ; bridge, zumba gold, 12:30 p.m. ; scrabble, 500, 1 p.m. ; 1 mile walk warm up, 2:40 p.m. ; fitness, 3 p.m. ; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m.

Nov. 24: Thanksgiving Day. Closed.

Nov. 25: Closed.

Nov. 28: Exercise Plus 50, 8:15 p.m. ; experienced tap class, 9 a.m. ; Wii practice, guitar practice, 9:30 a.m. ; beginner tap class, 9:45 a.m. ; tap dance workshop, 10:30 a.m. ; duplicate bridge, 11:30 a.m. ; movie, “Shenandoah,� Parkinson’s meeting, Mah Jong, pinochle, woodcarving, 1 p.m. ; Super Strong Seniors with Kelly, 2:30 p.m.

Nov. 29: Penny bingo, advanced Spanish, 8:30 a.m. ; senior yoga, 9 a.m. ; genealogy, painting class, beg. /interm. Spanish, 9:30 a.m. ; creative writing, walking off pounds, 10 a.m. ; tap practice, noon; painting class, pitch, tap practice, 1 p.m. ; ping pong, 2 p.m.

Nov. 30: Chorus, senior yoga, 9 a.m. ;

painting class, duplicate bridge lessons, 9:30 a.m. ; beginner tap practice, 3 mile walk, 10 a.m. ; talk show, “Focus on fixed income,” 10:30 a.m. ; drama group, 11 a.m. ; bridge, zumba gold, 12:30 p.m. ; scrabble, 500, 1 p.m. ; 1 mile walk warm up, 2:40 p.m. ; fitness with Kelly, 3 p.m. ; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m.

Arts & Theatre

Video Games Live, 7 p.m. Nov. 3, Orpheum Theatre, 520 Pierce St. A complete celebration and multimedia concert experience featuring music from the most popular video games of all time, $35, $29 and $20. 712-279-4850.

‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’, 8 p.m. Nov. 4-20, Evelyn Larson Theatre, 413 Nebraska St. $15 or $10 for students. www. shotprod.org/ Siouxland Artists, Inc. Holiday Show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 4, Clarion Hotel, Fourth St. 16 artists will be showing original art of all mediums in the lobby.

Ar-to-re-tum open house, 11 a.m. Nov. 5 and 12, Ron and Gia Emory’s property, 200 Drive on 45th St. Free. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Siouxland Artists Holiday Art Show and Sale, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Nov. 5, Plymouth Block Bldg, 1106 Historical 4th St. 712-2760951, Fiddler On The Roof, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Nov. 16, Orpheum Theatre, 528 Pierce St. 712279-4850. www.ticketmaster.com ‘The Pillowman’, 8 p.m. Nov. 4-19, Evelyn Larson Theatre, 413 Nebraska St. $10 for adults, $18 for couples, $6 for students. 712-389-0701.

Holiday Movie-It’s A Wonderful Life, 7 p.m. Nov. 26, Orpheum Theatre, 528 Pierce St. Free. www.orpheumlive.com

Classes & Lectures

The Return of Iowa’s Bald Eagles with Ty Smedes, program and book signing, 2-3 p.m. Nov. 5, Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center, 4500 Sioux River Rd, 712-258-0838, www. woodburyparks.com Kidney Health Options, 1-3 p.m. Nov. 9, Fresenius Medical Care Siouxland, 2530 Glenn Ave. Free class on treatment options for those with poor kidney function. (712) 266-1246 Luther Ellis, former NFL pro, speaks at Orphan Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Nov. 13, New Life Reformed Church, 232 16th St. SE, Sioux Center, Iowa. www.katelynsfund.org

Community

O’Connor House Tours, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Nov. 5 and Nov. 12, O’Connor House, F Avenue, Homer, Neb. 712-301-4031, www. dakotacountyhistoricalsociety.com/ Open Book Club, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Nov. 7, Sioux City Public Library-Morningside Branch, 4005 Morningside Ave. 712-2552933 x 221.

Breakfast with Santa, 8:30-10 a.m. Nov. 26, Terra Centre Atrium, 600 Fourth St. For kids of all ages. Enjoy a full breakfast, cookie decorating and a visit with the jolly man himself. Pre-register by Nov. 18. $6.

Fundraisers/Benefits

Fashion as Art, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Nov. 3, Marina Inn, 4th & B Streets, South Sioux City. Luncheon and Fashion Show benefitting the education initiatives of the Sioux City Art Center. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Regis Garvey, rgarvey@sioux-city.org, 712279-6272, www.siouxcityartcenter.org Siouxland Sleep-Out, 5 p.m. Nov. 4, Lewis and Clark Stadium. 712-255-1691, www.siouxlandsleepout.org The Sierra Club’s Chili-Mania!, 6 p.m.

Nov. 10, Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center, 4500 Sioux River Rd. The Grand Opening for The Sioux City Conservatory of Music, 7-9 p.m. Nov. 13, Orpheum Theatre, 520 Pierce St. $13.

Music

Men and Women in Song Festival Concert, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 3, Morningside College Music Dept, Eppley Auditiorium 3625 Garretson Ave. Rockestra concert-The Fab Four and More, 8 p.m. Nov. 5, Orpheum Theatre, 520 Pierce St. 8 p.m. 712-279-4850, www. siouxcityrockestra.com John Jorgenson Quintet/Gypsy Jazz Masters, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Nov. 6, Eppley Auditorium, 3625 Garretson Ave. Single tickets are $17 general admission or $22 reserved for adults, student rates available.

Opera Theatre Performance, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 11, Morningside College Music Dept, Eppley Auditiorium 3625 Garretson Ave. Sioux City Symphony-Firebird, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 12, Orpheum Theatre, 520 Pierce St. Featuring the Firebird Suite by Stravinsky.

712-279-4850, www.siouxcitysymphony. org Eric Grossman, violinist; Michele Grossman, pianist, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19, Eppley Auditorium, 3625 Garretson Ave. Single tickets are $17 general admission or $22 reserved for adults, student rates available.

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