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Holiday Hours Announced For MHP

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MAHASKA COUNTY— Mahaska Health Partnership (MHP) announced Thanksgiving holiday hours as follows:

MHP Medical Group, Home Health and Hospice Services and Public Health will be closed for the holiday on Thursday, Nov. 26, and will be open for normal office hours on Friday, Nov. 27. A nurse will be on call Thursday to assist with any home health and hospice needs.

Behavioral Health Services will be closed  Thursday, Nov. 26, and resume normal hours on Friday, Nov. 27.

Please call the switchboard at (641) 672-3100 for emergencies or to reach the on-call therapist.

The New Sharon Medical Center will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 26 and 27.

They will resume normal business hours on Monday, Nov. 30.

For more information on Thanksgiving holiday hours, call (641) 672-3100. From the MHP Family to yours, have a happy Thanksgiving!

Central With National Aspirations In Men’s Cross Country

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PELLA— The No. 20 Central College men’s cross country team, vying for a fourth straight national meet berth, will try to use its home course to an advantage, hosting the NCAA Division III Central Region Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships for a second consecutive year.

The 6,000-meter women’s race starts at 11 a.m. followed by the 8,000-meter men’s race at 12:30 p.m. at the A.N. Kuyper Athletics Complex course.

The Central Region features 30 women’s teams and 29 men’s teams from Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin. The teams will face off in an effort to qualify for the Division III national meet Nov. 22 in Winneconne, Wis. The top two teams from each side and the top 10 individuals not on either of those teams will automatically advance.Sunday, 16 at-large berths will be given from the eight regions to complete the 32-team field.

Coach Joe Dunham is ready to show off the course to the rest of the region.

“It’s great to represent Central College to the entire region,” he said. “We are an institution set up well to host. We have a great staff and we couldn’t have put together a better team to coordinate this event.”

The Dutch runners are hoping to get a leg up running at home.

“We have been on this course multiple times training throughout the year,” Dunham said. “That should give us a little advantage against the tough competition.”

Overtaking the Oles—If the Dutch men are to win their first regional crown in school history, they have to take down three-time defending regional champion St. Olaf.  The fourth-ranked Oles took second at the national meet last season and have been atop the regional rankings all season. Central competed in the St. Olaf Invitational Sept. 19, taking fourth in the 20-team field while the Oles won the title.

Central earned national berths the past three seasons, placing 12th in the nation in 2012, sixth in 2013 and 11th last year.

Central was third in last year’s regional, behind St. Olaf and Iowa Conference foe Loras. The No. 19 Duhawks won the conference title this season, edging the Dutch by seven points and a total of four seconds at the league meet Oct. 31 at Dubuque.

The Dutch will lean on the services of back-to-back conference champion Cole Decker (senior, Des Moines/Dowling Catholic HS) to lead them back to the national race. Decker took 20th at the regional race last year.

“Cole is really confident right now,” Dunham said. “He’s feeling good and has stayed healthy. We are excited about the opportunity that he has in front of him.”

The Dutch are looking to prove they are among the nation’s elite.

“The conference race did not end the way we wanted,” Dunham said. “We have to put that behind us and focus on qualifying for nationals.”

Carleton going for back-to-back—After the Wartburg women won the Central Regional for three consecutive years from 2011-13, Carleton (Minn.) took the crown last season and is in prime position to do so again. The No. 14 Knights are the highest-ranked member of the Central Region and have been atop the regional rankings all season. St. Thomas (Minn.) and Cornell are the only other Central Region schools nationally ranked, coming in at No. 24 and No. 32, respectively.

The Dutch women will try to improve on their 15th-place finish from last year. Central is coming off a fourth-place finish at the conference race.

“Our women have really developed over the season,” Dunham said. “They have put in a lot of hard work and have set their sights on a better finish than last season.”

Sophomore Holly McKinney (Saint Charles/Interstate 35-Truro HS) has led Central in every race this season and will play a big role if the Dutch want to compete with the best. She took 14th at the conference meet.

“Holly has had a great season,” Dunham said. “She will have a great opportunity to get toward the front and compete with the best runners in the region.”

After running in sub-freezing temperatures at last year’s regional, the teams are looking forward to the high-50s forecast for Saturday.

“It should be very comfortable for the runners,” Dunham said. “Hopefully there will be a breeze to keep them cool and it will be a great day to run.”

Meet information, including course maps, are available on the regional championship website at http://www.central.edu/athletics/cross-country-regionals/. Meet results will be posted there immediately after the races.

Story provided by Alex Cooper

South Central Conference Announces Their All-Conference teams

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The South Central Conference has announced their All-Conference teams, and local

athletes are all over the lists.

The first team involves three members of the state qualifying Rockets of Eddyville-

Blakesburg-Fremont. Senior attackers Karlie Taylor and Taylor Leffler were honored,

along with junior libero Haegen Boyer. Centerville had two members on the team:

Senior attacker Alyssa Barger and senior libero Amory Glosser. Finally, the last two

spots were given to two Mustangs from Davis County, as senior attacker Mallory Wells

and junior libero Hallie Owens were named to the team.

Taylor, Leffler, Barger, and Wells were all unanimous selections.

The second team had one player from each of the seven conference schools. EBF’s

McKinley Moore, Centerville’s Libby Sebolt, Davis County’s Connor Wilfawn, Chariton’s

Aubrey Richards, Knoxville’s Haley DeMoss, Albia’s Molly Spurgin, and Clarke’s Maddy

Heath make up the seven member team.

The honorable-mention squad features three players from each team in the conference:

Hannah Romanco Albia

Mary Shepard Albia

Jade Van Polen Albia

Peyton Kauffman Centerville

Alex Kelly Centerville

Mikala White Centerville

Carley Arnold Chariton

Alexis Curran Chariton

Sarah Fuhs Chariton

Baylie Balcaen Clarke

Alex Boyce Clarke

Lexy Carson Clarke

Kaitlin Francis Davis County

Jordyn Thompson Davis County

Bailea Yanke Davis County

Torie Alexander E-B-F

Emma Bunnell E-B-F

Taryn Swartz E-B-F

Jenna Kauzlarich Knoxville

Emily Wallace Knoxville

Chelsea Wares Knoxville

EBF won the conference with a perfect 6-0 record. Centerville was second at 5-1,

followed by Davis County at 4-2. Chariton was in 4th at 3-3, Knoxville finished 5th at 2-4,

Albia finished 6th at 1-5, and Clarke rounded out the conference at 0-6 in SCC play.

Alex Bowman Joins JR Motorsports X-Finity Series Lineup For 2016

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Junior Motorsports announced Wednesday that Alex Bowman will drive its Number-88 Chevrolet in nine X-FINITY Series races next season – sharing seat time in the car with team owner Dale Earnhardt Junior, Kevin Harvick and Kasey Kahne.

The three-car organization also will feature Elliott Sadler and Justin Allgaier, who will both run full schedules in pursuit of the X-FINITY Series championship. Bowman’s nine-race slate with J-R-M in 2016 will begin in mid-May at Dover and end in November at Phoenix International Raceway, which he considers his “home track.”

Bowman, 22, is a native of Tucson, Arizona … He’s in his second season of Sprint Cup Series competition and is currently thirty-third in points driving for Tommy Baldwin Racing. Bowman is among forty-three drivers on the preliminary entry list for Sunday’s Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

City Commits To Project

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OSKALOOSA — The penny has plenty of power, especially when it is being used to potentially fund a $24 million dollar community improvement project.

Oskaloosa City Council members went on record Monday night saying they would use part of the city’s Local Option Sales Tax to back the multi-million dollar YMCA/early childhood development project.

The city receives approximately $1.1 million annually  from the tax, according to City Manager Michael Schrock. In recent years, the funds generated from the penny tax have been used for infrastructure improvements with a special emphasis on roadway repairs.

“There has been more concrete construction in Oskaloosa this year than the past 40 years,” said council member Tom Walling during discussion.

The council as a whole agreed that it has caught the attention of the community, which is pleased with the improvements being made and did not want the YMCA project to take away from continued roadway renovations.

“I’m hoping for as many partners as we can find,” said Walling, “so we can do this project and still continue with the roads,” he said.

During an Oskaloosa Community Schools Board of Directors meeting Tuesday night, members went on record saying they would support the funding of the project, which the district will utilize for both athletic and educational projects if built. The district has not put a price tag on the amount they can spend on the project, but Superintendent Russ Reiter explained, “The school will have additional restrictions on what we can spend our dollars on.

“That’s the one thing that is really holding us back on a commitment side because our statewide penny dollars can only be spent on certain

things,” said Reiter.

“We’re willing to spend the money and bring some additional dollars potentially, but we are, of all three entities, are more restricted by law. [However] we’ll do everything we can.”

Mahaska County Board of Supervisors have discussed using the approximately $800,000 it receives from the tax for the joint project but has yet to make a commitment. During an open input meeting earlier this year, rural community members came before the supervisors to express their support for the YMCA project as well as the construction of an Environmental Learning Center, which would display the mammoth bones found within the county.

The financially supportive entities will likely go into a 28E Agreement to take ownership of the project and contract a managing third party, according to board members.

“There is a general desire to make this thing work,” said Mayor Dave Krutzfeldt during discussion. “But there are a number of unknowns at this point. We need to start playing around with the recipe to see how we can get to that $24 million price tag.”

Board members Walling and Jason Van Zetten will work with a project steering committee to negotiate the amount of money each funding party would have to vow to contribute to make the project a reality.

“Are you comfortable starting at 70 percent or is 50 percent too high?” Van Zetten asked his peers. “I don’t want to sit here and waste my time [if it is]. My personal feeling is that the school district needs to be in on their part for about 60 percent of their penny. We gave them all of our penny in the past, and I’m not trying to rob the school, I’m just saying it’s got to start somewhere

“If we don’t start talking about it, then it’s going to go on forever and we don’t have time for that anymore, so I’m just saying this is the starting point,” he added.

“I’m in for half,” replied Walling, beginning the funding conversation which will continue over the course of the next few months.

Council members must finalize ballot language by the end of January and give it to the supervisors for review by Feb. 9, 2016. The item will be voted on next May, according to the mayor.

“By the end of January we need to be able to come to some sort of agreement as to what we think the funding of this thing could be, so the clock starts ticking,” said Krutzfeldt before closing the work session.

Story provided by Danielle Lunsford

Central’s Marchiori Wins All-Conference Soccer Honor

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PELLA — Central College men’s soccer defender Adelmo Marchiori IV (Carlinville, Ill.) received all-Iowa Conference honorable mention Tuesday.

Marchiori was one of just three players to start all 17 games for the Dutch this season. He took 10 shots from his defender position, four of those on goal.

The junior defender was the team Newcomer of the Year in his freshman season and the team’s Most Valuable Player in 2014. He has three career goals on 40 shots and has played in 53 career games.

Central finished the season 4-13 overall with a 1-6 record in conference play. The Dutch missed the conference tournament by one game after falling 1-0 to Coe in the season finale.

Story provided by Alex Cooper

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