family living october 2009

celebrating iowa life

october 2009

marching for a victoryProtecting your family

from the H1N1 flupage 3

festival celebratescountry music heritagepage 6

Plan a fall escapeto an apple orchard page 10

iowa marching bandsdazzle football fansPAGe 4

Here comes the bandIowa marching bands rev up football fans with a show of school spirit.page 4

Iowa's musical rootsOld-Time Country Music Festival in Le Mars celebrates the Midwest musical heritage.page 6

A day at the orchardCenter Grove Orchard in Cambridge specializes in family-friendly activities.page 10

Paying it forwardNew York volunteers impacted by the 9/11 tragedy rebuild a tornado-dam-aged boy scout camp in western Iowa.page 13

Safe teen drivingThinkFirst Iowa campaign educates teens about the dangers of the road.page 14

Member benefitsFlu shots may be covered under the $500 preventive services allowance from Well-mark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa.page 2

Healthy living Learn how to protect your family from the new H1N1 flu virus.page 3

This Iowa lifeSmall town of Knierim revolves around the bumper harvests every fall.page 8

Iowa's environmentIowa farmers volunteer for wetland restoration projects to help protect the state's water quality.page 12

On the coverTuba player Jimmy Rubin takes to the field with the Ogden High School march-ing band. The Ogden band will compete in the Mid-Iowa Band Championship in Ankeny Oct. 17.

Cover photo by Joseph L. Murphy

Editorial Staff

Editor Dirck Steimel

Features Writer Teresa Bjork

Writer & Photographer Joseph L. Murphy

iowa farm BurEau fEdErationCraig Lang, president; Craig Hill, vice-president; Denny Presnall, secretary-treasurer and executive director; Edward G. Parker, general counsel.

Board of dirEctorS(District 1) Carlton Kjos, Decorah (2) Charlie Norris, Mason City; (3) Phil Sundblad, Albert City; (4) Doug Gronau, Vail; (5) Richard Merrill, Fort Dodge; (6) Joe Heinrich, Maquoketa; (7) Andrew Hora, Riverside; (8) Calvin Rozenboom, Oskaloosa; (9) Jim McKnight, Afton.

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table of contents OCTOBeR 2009

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This fall more than ever Americans are urged to prepare for the flu season. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion) recommends “Take 3” steps: 1) Take time to get vaccinated, 2) Take everyday preventive actions - wash your handsfrequently, avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth and stay home when feeling ill, 3) Take flu antiviral drugs if yourdoctor recommends them.

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healthy living bY teresa bjork

Seasonal flu shots are available now, but the H1N1 flu vaccine won't be available until mid-October, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health.

The new fluSafeguarding your family from h1n1

With the return of the cold and flu season this fall, parents now must look out for a new virus that can make their kids sick, the H1N1 flu.

U.s. health officials plan to launch a campaign starting in october to vaccinate americans against the H1N1 virus, a new strain of the flu spreading in Iowa among schools and college campuses.

to help clear up confusion about H1N1, we asked Dr. ann Garvey with the Iowa Department of Public Health to answer some common questions about the virus and what parents can do to protect their kids from this illness.

Q. How concerned should parents be about the H1N1 flu outbreak?

“the good thing is that the severity of the illness is about the same as the seasonal flu. but because it’s a new virus, most people haven’t been exposed to it before, so we’re working on a vaccine—that’s not available yet—for people who don’t have an immunity to (H1N1)."

What parents should know to protect their kids from the new H1N1 flu virus.

Q. Who is the most at-risk for con-tracting the H1N1 virus?

“again, the severity is pretty similar to what we’ve seen with the seasonal flu. Most of the cases are occurring in people ages 5 to 24. the people who are at the highest risk for complications are children under 4, pregnant women and people of any age with chronic medical conditions or (immune system) suppression.”

Q. Who should get vaccinated for the H1N1 virus, according to public-health recommendations?

“the centers for Disease control and acIP (advisory committee on Immunization Practices) have identified some preliminary groups of people. the focus is on pregnant women, household contacts and caregivers for children younger than 6 months of age, healthcare workers, people 6 months to 24 years (of age) and people ages 25 to 64 with higher risk of medical complications.

“We would expect that the vaccine will be available from midtolate october. and nationwide, we expect there will be initially 45 million doses available, with about 20 million doses each week thereafter.”

Q. If you receive an H1N1 immuniza-tion, do you still need to get the sea-sonal flu shot?

“Yes. We are still trying to emphasize

that it’s important to get your seasonal vaccine, because we anticipate that we will see seasonal flu virus strains, as well. Many (healthcare) providers currently have the seasonal flu vaccine available.”

Q. Since the H1N1 vaccine is new, should parents be concerned about its safety?

“It’s important to know that this vaccine is being manufactured the same way that seasonal vaccines are manufactured. It’s just a different (flu) strain. It’s the same process.”

Q. Can people catch the flu from get-ting the flu shot?

“It’s a common myth. the flu shot doesn’t cause influenza, and it’s one of the best ways to protect yourself and your children.”

Q. If a child comes home sick from daycare or school, what symptoms should parents look for to determine if their kids may be infected with H1N1 flu?

“Definitely a fever and respiratory symptoms, sore throat, cough, that type of thing. With H1N1, people have also reported vomiting and diarrhea. that’s a little different than the season flu.

“If your children are ill, make sure you keep them home until 24 hours after the fever is completely gone. so keep those kids out of school.”

Q. What can parents do to treat chil-dren who are sick with the flu?

“the same things they do for seasonal flu every year. keep a close eye on your kids. Provide feverreducing medications, those types of things.

"If parents have any concerns that the illness is getting more severe, they should always contact their healthcare provider."

Q. What prevention steps should parents take to help keep their kids from getting sick with H1N1 flu?

“Make sure you are emphasizing handwashing and covering your cough in your sleeve. You can also encourage your children not to share personal items like beverages and cups. and the big thing, again, is getting the seasonal flu vaccine and H1N1 vaccine when it becomes available.”

h1n1 iSn'T 'Swine flu'national media and some government agencies have mistakenly called the h1n1 virus "swine flu."

however, h1n1 has never been transmitted from swine to humans. and people can’t get the flu virus from eating pork, scientists say.

u.S. Secretary of agricul-ture and former iowa gov. Tom Vilsack has urged the media to stop using the term “swine flu” when re-ferring to the h1n1 virus.

“i want folks who are in the business of conveying messages to understand that behind the message there is a family today, wondering how they’re going to be able to pay the bills when they continu-ally sell pork for less than what it costs to produce,” Vilsack said in a press conference last month. “and they continue to get hammered for something that they have absolutely nothing to do with.”

flu preVenTionThe iowa department of public health recommends the “3 Cs” for preventing illness from h1n1 and seasonal flu viruses:

• Clean your hands frequently. lather and scrub your hands and wrists with warm, soapy water for 20 seconds. if soap and wa-ter aren’t available, use alcohol-based gel to clean hands.

• Cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue or your sleeve.• Contain germs by staying home when ill.

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Trumpet player Elly Adams joins the Ogden High School marching band in playing a selection of songs from the movie, "The Nightmare Before Christmas," during half time of the season football opener. Left: Night falls as the 58-member Ogden marching band, proudly wearing their school colors, takes to the field.

Marching to their own beat

iowa Marching bands thrill football fans

story by teresa bjorkphotos by joseph l. Murphy

The cut grass shimmered

with early-morning dew

as members of the Ogden

High School marching

band took to the field for practice.

One by one, students claimed their

spot on the field. The flutes and

saxophones warmed up by playing

scales, while the drum line set up

the xylophones by the director's

stand.

With a nip in the air, several

musicians wore Ogden Bulldog or

Iowa State University sweatshirts

to keep warm. But a couple of

young women on the color guard

shivered in dresses and shorts, not

yet ready to give up their summer

wardrobe.

It's another early morning for the

58-member Ogden marching band.

The student musicians practice

four days a week, often as early as

7:30 a.m., long before their class-

mates arrive, to prepare for their

half-time shows at home football

games. The central Iowa band also

travels to state marching band

competitions in the fall.

across ioWa, the same practices

are taking place in small towns and

big cities. In a world of cell phones

and iPods, marching bands remain

a time-honored musical tradition

in Iowa high schools and colleges.

The bands have become a symbol

of school pride, community spirit

and American patriotism.

“(Iowans) appreciate Friday night

football and all of the traditions

that come along with that, and

marching band is one of them,"

said Darin Haack, director of the

Ankeny High School marching

band and organizer of the Mid-Iowa

F o o t b a l l F r i d a y n i g h t s wouldn't be the same without the roaring sound of a high school marching band.

Band Championship in Ankeny.

"It’s a community thing, as much

as anything else, a pride in the

school and the football team and

the band.”

indeed, the student musicians

proudly wear their school colors,

with uniforms and music that

reflect the community’s heritage.

Pella band members march in wood-

en shoes in a homage to their Dutch

founders. The Mason City High

School band thrills crowds with its

rendition of “76 Trombones,” com-

posed by Mason City native Meredith

Wilson, who made the North Iowa

town famous in his Broadway musi-

cal, “The Music Man.”

the ogden high school march-

ing band may not have 76 trom-

bones, but the band’s eight trom-

bone players would make River

City’s Harold Hill proud.

Last year, the Ogden marching

band received a superior rating

from the Iowa High School Music

Association’s state competition.

The band also placed second in its

division at the annual Mid-Iowa

Band Championship in Ankeny.

Back on the ogden practice field,

a ringing bell over the loudspeaker

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Color guard member Bailey Alexander helps cheer on the Ogden football team as the student athletes take to the field.

cuts through the musician’s rau-

cous warm-up. The instruments

went quiet as Ogden Band Director

Nate Newhard stepped in front of

the band. But a few latecomers

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The guilTy sTudenTs set down

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“Hut!” Newhard yelled. The students

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The Ogden marching band

started practicing two weeks ahead

of the football team's home opener.

The students voluntarily gave up

part of their summer vacation to

attend band camp, a daily practice

that lasts from three to six hours.

Students learned how to perform

routines, how to follow the drum

major, how to play the music and,

most importantly, how to march to

the beat in unison.

“Once you learn it, you’ll be walk-

ing down the street and hear some-

thing, and you’ll start walking in

step,” said Elly Adams, an Ogden

High School senior and trumpet

player who serves as captain of the

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yeT The challenge of marching

band isn’t just stepping in rhythm

to a beat. The performers must

follow the choreography without

breaking a line or wandering out of

position, all the while maintaining

the quality of the music.

“It’s a pretty grueling activity,”

Haack said. “The kids work really

hard to make it happen. It’s very

physical, not just moving on the

field as quickly as they do, but to

play the instrument, the amount

of air it takes to play and move like

that is significant.”

Band direcTOr Newhard remind-

ed students during band practice

to keep their knees up when they

were high-stepping to the music.

“Roll your toes! Toes up in the air!”

Newhard said through a mega-

phone.

This year, the Ogden marching band

is performing a show based on

“The Nightmare Before Christmas”

movie. They play one song from the

soundtrack at each home football

game before performing the entire

show in competition.

aT The mid-iOwa Band Champ-

ionship this month, a panel of

judges will evaluate the Ogden

marching band and the 24 other

competing bands based on the

color-guard and drum line per-

formance, marching style, music

quality and the total effect on the

audience.

Continued from page 4

More than 7,000 people will pack

the Ankeny High School football sta-

dium to watch the marching band

championship, which attracts bands

from Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota

and Minnesota.

“It’s towards the end of the season for

all of the bands, so it’s a great way for

them to showcase what they’ve been

working on all fall," Haack says.

Ogden high schOOl junior and

drum major Rachael Boettcher agreed

that the students love to entertain

and amaze the crowds.

“Sometimes, those early morning

(practices) can be tough, but we all

like marching band enough that we

go through it,” Boettcher said.

newhard nOTed that many of

the kids who stayed until 9:30 p.m.

for the Monday evening drum line

practice were the first to show up on

Tuesday morning for regular march-

ing band practice.

“I think the discipline part of march-

ing band helps transfer to the class-

room,” Newhard said.

anOTher Bell rang out across

the schoolyard, calling the students

back to class. As the students walked

off the field, the drum line began an

impromptu jam session. The snappy

sound of snare drums echoed against

the brick school building.

It may be the end of practice, but the

students want the band to play on.

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honoring iowa's Country musiC roots

Nashville musician Terry

S m i t h a d j u s t e d t h e

strings on his guitar,

stepped up to the micro-

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crowd settled down in their lawn

chairs for a day of country music.

“What song do you want us to close

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could end with ‘Jordan,’ or would

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Old-Time Country Music Festival in Le Mars keeps music heritage alive.

“Jordan!” someone called out

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keep alive the early rural music of

Iowa, from the

very beginnings

o f t h e f i r s t

pioneers” said

Everhart, a 73-

year-old profes-

sional musician

who plays 12-

s t r i n g g u i t a r,

harmonica and

saxophone.

EvErhart said thE Le Mars

event is the largest traditional

country music festival west of the

Mississippi. This year’s festival,

held in early September, featured

more than 125 Iowa musicians, plus

another 75 or so musicians from

across the country and around the

world.

Musicians played on 10 stages, each

reserved for a certain musical style.

One stage hosted 1950s-style coun-

try performers. Gospel musicians

played in an open-air tent. And

one “stage” was the front porch

of a small log cabin, where musi-

cians played pioneer folk songs like

“Froggy Goes a Courtin’.”

thE fEstival triEs to squeeze

in as many bands and musicians as

possible, which sometimes limits

the on-stage time to under 15 min-

utes, Everhart said.

“We have to add (stages) every

year because of the increase in the

number of people who play the

music,” he said.

“The audience, however, doesn’t

increase. We have a hard time find-

ing ways to get people, especially

young people, to come and listen

to the older music. But we keep

trying.”

oncE country-music fans dis-

cover the festival, they usually

come back. Al Parvu, owner of a

Culver’s restaurant franchise in

Sioux City, sets up a concession

stand at the festival each year so

he can spend an entire week lis-

tening to the sounds of dulcimers,

fiddles and banjos.

Parvu said he enjoys seeing the

country musicians meet off stage

for impromptu “jam” sessions. One

day, Parvu was surprised to find

Len Miller of New Mexico, front left, and his sons, from left to right, Levi, Landon and Lance performed as the Triple L band at the Old-Time Country Music Festival in Le Mars. Organizers say a new generation is discovering old-time country music.

Clockwise from top: Dorothy Techau and Marilyn Prien play with the Down Home Dulcimers from Silver City. Smokey Smith of Des Moines remem-bers his days as an Iowa country-music promoter. Tom Luke of Papillion, Neb., sings "Froggy Goes a Courtin'."


EVERHART

a band playing in the men’s rest-

room.

“There were six of them, jamming

with their guitars and everything,”

Parvu said. “That’s the first time

I’ve ever had music played to me

in the bathroom. They will play

anyplace.”

art PEtErson, an accordion play-

er from San Francisco, said the

Old-Time Country Music Festival

has become a “family reunion” for

many of the musicians.

“There are a lot of good play-

ers who come here, and a lot

of folks who just really love the

music,” Peterson said. “It’s emo-

tional music. The songs are about

people and love and trying to get

somewhere.”

country music isn't just loved

by Americans. Several internation-

al country musicians performed

at the festival, including Robert

Simek, a Johnny Cash tribute per-

former from Slovakia.

“(Cash) is the magic man. He is

my heart,” says Simek with a thick

accent, dressed in a black suit and

carrying a guitar case.

onE of Johnny cash's friends,

Smokey Smith, 87, of Des Moines,

returns to the festival each year.

Smith, a long-time country radio

DJ in Iowa, hosted a television

show on KRNT (now known as

KCCI) in the 1950s that featured

country stars, including Johnny

Cash.

Smith admits that he isn’t too

“comfortable” with some of the

country music coming out of

Nashville nowadays.

“out hErE, you arE getting more

actual country music,” said Smith,

dressed in a cowboy hat with his

trademark cigar in his front shirt

pocket.

“If we don’t get a field of young-

sters involved in it when we are

here, the music will be gone,” he

adds. “But there are a few of them

that are getting into it, and the

ones that are are good.”

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Harvest watcH in knierim

In past years, the bin-busting corn and soybean crops that farmers brought to the NEW Cooperative in Knierim have overflowed in piles onto the town's business district.

LittLe pLace draws Him Like a magnetThe tiny town wound up being on our columnist’s “preferred route” between northwest and central Iowa, so he’s been there dozens of times, and keeps coming back. He especially thinks of Knierim in the fall, when the community does its best to hold 4.5 million bushels of incoming grain. It’s amazing to experi-ence it then, and you can feel the pulse quickly by talking to the mayor and co-op elevator manager—same fella. I

t’s odd how you can stum-

ble into a little place that you

think is out in the middle of

nowhere, and then over the

years, you find yourself back there

again, and again, and again.

That’s how it is for me in Knierim,

a town of 57. (City Clerk Joyce

Gadbury did an up-to-the-minute

head count for me.) It is located

about 15 miles west of Fort Dodge, at

the junction of two paved Calhoun

County roads, P19 and D26.

It was about 35 years ago when

I first went through Knierim,

undoubtedly on a trip from Des

Moines to some destination in

northwest Iowa. I’ve always pre-

ferred nice country roads over

main highways.

I do remember that the first time I

saw the town, it was in full-swing

of the harvest season, and there

was a traffic jam of tractors, grain

wagons, grain trucks and other

vehicles all busily coming and

going from the huge grain elevator

on the south edge of town.

With all that activity in a town

that is really only about 12 square

blocks, it was as busy there as

at Seventh and Grand in down-

town Des Moines. And the silos of

the elevator loomed overhead like

country skyscrapers.

RIght then, KnIeRIm became

my “harvest town.” I’ve been

through there at all different

times of the year, dozens of

times, maybe even 100 times,

since the town is on my preferred

route between central Iowa and

northwest Iowa. But it’s during

harvest when Knierim is most

alive and interesting.

There was the fall of 1992 when

the NEW Cooperative elevator had

more than 200,000 bushels of corn

piled on the south corner of the

business district. It was piled so

high that Knierim Mayor Rick Jud,

who also happens to be the man-

ager of the elevator, had one of

his employees remove the street

signs atop a 10-foot-tall pole “so

the grain wouldn’t damage the

signs when we went over the top.”

A photo of that wound up on page

1 of USA Today.

In the fall of 1997, I had my

most memorable trip to Knierim,

because I thought I might die

right there. Our son Andrew was

a senior at Buena Vista University

in Storm Lake then, and for

Parents’ Weekend, my wife Carla

and I decided we would ride our

bicycles up and back—two days to

Storm Lake, two days back to Des

Moines, in what was promised to

be gorgeous autumn weather.

Continued on page 9

There will be an “at-

grade” intersection

on the super high-

way, allowing traffic

an easy route into

Knierim. Paving may

start as early as this

fall, Mayor Jud said.

Knierim is going to

need a huge new sign

on that highway, I

said, with the town

slogan on it.

"We don’t have

a town slogan,” Jud

responded. So I told

him I’ve hung out

here so much through

the years, I’ll get to

work on a new slogan—and all you

Family Living readers are hereby

invited to send me your ideas for

it, too. But my early choice actually

comes from the mayor’s daughter-

in-law.

“Knierim,” she had said to me.

“And we say it with the ‘K,’ you

know.”

So, the slogan?

“KNIERIM!” in large letters, and

then: “And we say it with the ‘K,’

you k-now.”

You can reach the columnist at (515)

386-5488 or [email protected].

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going to be another year

when we hope everybody

breaks even.”

d e s p i t e t h at h a i l -

storm’s damage, there

will still be a glut of grain

coming into Knierim.

The elevator can now

store 4.5 million bushels,

about 80 percent of that

corn, the rest soybeans.

Piling grain in the busi-

ness district ended when

NEW Cooperative built

two huge outdoor “tem-

porary storage areas”

southwest of the eleva-

tor, where corn will be

piled in circles 315 feet in

diameter, to a height of

about 60 feet.

Meanwhile, the town looks good,

I told the mayor. “We’ve managed

to get title to some of the rough-

er-looking properties, and we’re

either cleaning them up or getting

rid of them,” he said.

Besides the nicely-renovated bar

and grill in the business district, there

is also a new fire station under co

nstruction. “We didn’t mess around

trying to get grants for it,” Jud said.

“You have to jump through too many

hoops getting grants. We operate the

town pretty conservatively, so we

had some money saved, and we’re

using a lot of volunteer labor to get

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In fact, temperatures for several

successive days that late September

crept up into the 90s, and a steady

west wind of 20 to 30 miles per hour

was roaring across northwest Iowa.

Somewhere between Callendar

and Knierim in mid-afternoon,

both Carla and I ran out of water

on our bikes. We kept pedaling into

the brutal headwind, and by the

time we arrived in Knierim, I was

so dehydrated I was starting to see

pretty colors, always a danger sign.

I yelled to Carla, “To the elevator!

They’ll at least have a pop machine

and a candy bar!”

Rick Jud said he still remem-

bers that day as clearly as I do.

“Just as you two were almost

crawling up into our office, we

were cutting a cold watermelon

that one of the guys in the area

had brought in for us all, kind of a

harvest treat,” he said. I’m sure I’d

be embarrassed if I could remem-

ber how much of the watermelon

Carla and I ate!

So, with another harvest now under

way, and with what had been her-

alded as record Iowa corn and soy-

bean crops coming in, I decided

recently it was time for another

stop in Knierim.

the fiRst peRson I ran into was

young Rachel Jud, daughter-in-law

of the mayor, who was walking up

Centre Street, between Jud’s Bar

& Grill, which she owns with her

husband Mike, toward their nearby

home.

She was drinking a cup of coffee as

she walked. She provided a quick

update on the Who’s Who of Knierim,

and then gave me the reminder that

local folks routinely give to all strang-

ers, “And we say it with the ‘K,’ you

know.” K-nierim. Got it.

The town was named after the

German immigrant farmers Will-

iam and Wilhelmine Knierim, who

donated the land for a town site

in the late 1800s. The community

started to develop in 1899, after the

arrival of the railroad, and it was

incorporated in 1901.

at the elevatoR, Rick Jud, now

57, tells me that the co-op busi-

ness, the area’s farmers and the

town itself are all struggling some

in this dicey economy. “Things

were looking hopeful because we

had one of the best crops develop-

ing around here through June and

July,” he said. “I’m sure we were on

our way to records.”

But on Sunday morning, Aug. 9,

“we had a violent hailstorm come

through south of us, and it took

out a big swath of crops, from way

over west around Sioux City, all the

way east to the Waterloo area. The

aerial photos make it look like a

huge line, a mile or two wide, kind

of snaking back and forth along

U.S. Highway 20. The crops there

were all destroyed. So that set us

back.

"And (crop) input costs were so

high last spring, we had started

off in a real hole. Still, we were

all hopeful that corn prices might

rally, but look at us now—$2.80

per bushel corn. It looks like this is

Knierim Mayor Rick Jud also manages the NEW Cooperative in town. Jud says local farmers were hit hard this summer by a hail storm that damaged valuable crops.


the fire station done.”

Uh, how long has he been mayor?

the question stopped him in his

tracks. “Well,” he said, pausing for

thought, “I don’t really know. Since

sometime in the 1970s, I think. It’s

not the kind of thing we worry about

in Knierim. Nobody ever takes out

papers to run for office here. You

just get written in. That’s how we

do it, and I guess I haven’t messed

up enough that somebody else got

written in as mayor yet.”

City Clerk Gadbury did some quick

digging in city records and said it

was actually in 1976 when Rick Jud

was first elected mayor. She said he’s

correct that he has never actually

filed papers to run for the position.

And no one has ever run against

him. That’s how he has become one

of Iowa’s longest-tenured mayors!

theRe’s one otheR huge project

materializing now, something that

could really trigger some growth

in Knierim. The new four-lane U.S.

Highway 20 is being construct-

ed on the south edge of town.

"I’ve hung out here so much through the years, I’ll get to work on a new (town) slogan—and all you Family Living readers are hereby invited to send me your ideas for it, too."


Amy Van Maanen, an employee at Center Grove Orchard in Cambridge, heats up caramel for dipping apples. The farm sells as many as 3,000 caramel apples during the busy visitor weekends in the fall.

TasTe of The counTry

savor The fall aT family-friendly orchardCenter Grove Orchard in Cambridge offers pumpkin patch, corn maze and family memories.

The caramel apples were

dipped and ready. Hand-

picked Honeycrisp apples

were chilling in the cooler.

And the corn “pool” was filled with

golden kernels, just waiting for the

first kids to arrive at the Center

Grove Orchard in Cambridge.

For six weeks each fall, the farm

and apple orchard becomes a lively

playground for families looking for

a country escape. It's one of dozens

of orchards and pumpkin patches

that dot the Iowa countryside.

The family-owned Center

Grove Orchard offers every Iowan

a chance to be a farm kid for a day.

Youngsters can jump in a shal-

low “pool” of corn kernels and run

through the “3 Little Pigs” houses.

They can feed apples to the baby

goats and get their hands sticky

from caramel apples.

“It’s just a safe place for families to

go and have fun and learn about

farming,” says co-owner Steve

Black, a 32-year-old farmer who

grew up and still lives in the yel-

low farmhouse that overlooks the

orchard and barnyard.

CenTer Grove Orchard hosts a

growing number of visitors each

fall as more families discover the

agritourism destination. The Black

family keeps adding new, unique

activities designed especially for

kids ages 3 to 10.

This year, the family planted small

alfalfa, soybean and corn plots to

give kids an up-close look at the

typical crops grown in Iowa. They

call the exhibit the “ABCs of Iowa

crops.”

The orChard hosTs daily school

tours, with as many as 6,000 to

10,000 students visiting the farm

during the fall season. Steve’s mom

Pat Black, a retired school teacher,

converted the farm’s red cattle barn

into a learning center to teach kids

about modern agriculture.

“(Kids) really don’t get much exper-

ience on a farm today. And they

really don’t know where our food

comes from and how it is raised,”

Pat says.

s T e v e , w h o m a naG e s t h e

orchard throughout the year, says

he comes up with the ideas for

new orchard activities by looking

back at his childhood.

“I try to find stuff that I did growing

up, like the corn pool. We always

had corn to go play in and pedal

tractors and farm animals,” Steve

says.

sTeve’s dad larry planted the

farm’s first apple trees in 1986.

Soon, the business grew, and the

family turned an on-farm machine

shed into a country store to sell

their bagged apples.

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died soon after, leaving Steve to

manage the orchard.

Pat credits her son for turn-

ing Center Grove Orchard into a

thriving agritourism business. In

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steve gave uP the cattle business

and instead filled the barnyard with

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and baby pigs for the kids.

“It seems like people are just as

much interested in looking at farm

animals as they are picking apples,”

Steve says.

in addition to the apple orchard,

the farm offers a corn maze and

a 10-acre pumpkin patch. New

this year is a lunch shed offering

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applesauce, sweet corn and apple-

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More goodies are available in the

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people a taste of the country life.

“When you look at the land-

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just a good, safe way to let kids

experience what I grew up with,

the fun things I got to do,” Steve

says.


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Jim McHugh says the restored wetland on his farm near Boone has reduced nitrate runoff and created habitat for waterfowl. A state and federal program provided the cost-share funds for the wetland's construction.

restored wetlAnds benefIt wAter quAlIty

It’s hard to imagine that just three years ago the lush, scenic wetland on jim McHugh’s boone county farm was once a soybean field.

the wetland, which includes an 11-acre pond, has become a frequent stop for migratory birds and a nest-ing ground for swans.

“this morning, when I went out to feed my cows, we had a flock of pelicans in (the wetland)—great

Iowa farmers volunteer to participate in Iowa CREP wetland restoration.

photo by joseph l. murphy big, mammoth white birds,” McHugh says.

Wildlife habitat is just one of the many conservation benefits of a re-stored wetland. McHugh volunteered to give up more than 100 acres of farmland for two wetland projects to help protect Iowa’s water quality.

over the last decade, Iowa farmers have helped restore and construct more than 35 wetlands as part of the state- and federally-funded conser-vation reserve enhancement Pro-gram (creP).

the program, administered by the Iowa Department of agriculture and Land stewardship (IDaLs), provides incentives to landowners who volun-tarily establish wetlands to benefit water quality.

IDaLs targets the construction of the creP wetlands to areas of the high-est environmental value.

Don’t let the peaceful setting fool you. a wetland is a workhorse at filt-ering Iowa streams and rivers.

“It’s working great,” says McHugh, who likes to show off his creP wetland project to visitors. “We are trying to do as much as we can to settle the pollutants out of the water that comes down the creek

ahead of me.”

the creP projects have become so popular with Iowa farmers that there currently is a two-year waiting list of landowners who want to participate.

“It’s limited in the amount of state funds,” explains Dean Lemke, IDaLs water quality bureau chief.

In fiscal year 2009, state funding for the Iowa creP totaled $1.5 million. since 2001, the state has spent more than $12 million to help fund creP projects in the tile-drained areas of northern and central Iowa.

“We’re the only state that’s building these kinds of wetlands for this pur-pose,” Lemke says.

Iowa state University (IsU) devel-oped the technology for the creP wetland projects. “It’s a very green technology, a technology of the fu-ture,” Lemke says.

He explains that wetlands act “like a kidney in the body." they remove ni-trates and other nutrients that enter from a watershed, or the land where water flows across or under on its way

to a river, lake or stream.

Lemke says Iowa’s rich, black soil is loaded with nitrogen. Heavy rains in the spring and summer carry these ni-trates into rivers, lakes and streams.

“a misnomer in all of this is that ni-trogen is exclusively the result of fertilizer,” Lemke says. “that really understates the situation.”

IsU testing has shown that the creP wetlands remove 40 to 70 percent of the nitrates from the watershed, as well as up to 90 percent of the herbi-cides that enter into the wetland.

several acres of wildflowers and native grasses are planted around the creP wetlands to help con-trol soil erosion and create wildlife habitat.

“these are very nice-looking wet-lands,” Lemke says. “the wildlife very quickly find those areas on the land-scape and move to them...there’s a lot of habitat, and a lot of interest from landowners who value those kinds of features.”

this summer is one of the biggest construction seasons for the Iowa creP, with 17 wetland sites under construction. another 20 wetlands are in the design phase, bringing the total number of creP wetlands to 72.

creP funds pay for the wetland con-struction and seeding costs. Farmers also receive incentive payments to keep the land out of agricultural pro-duction.

“It’s a good plan. I’m 100 percent for it,” McHugh says. “there is tremen-dous wildlife habitat now, and it has a dual purpose of cleaning up the water.”

dId you know?Conservation efforts by Iowa farmers have helped reduce nitrogen delivery to the Gulf of Mexico by 21 percent between 2001 and 2005.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stew-ardship and USDA Farm Service Agency in Iowa were nominated by the Iowa Farm Bureau and received a “Gulf Guardian Award” from the Environmental Protection Agency in 2008 for their work to reduce nutrients traveling to the Gulf of Mexico.

After the devastation of

the 9/11 terrorist attack,

thousands of Americans

donated the i r t ime,

money and equipment to help with

the recovery and clean-up efforts

at the World Trade Center in New

York City.

Now a group of New York firefight-

ers and survivors have decided to

pay it forward.

Over LabOr Day weekend, more

than 220 members of the New

York Says Thank You Foundation

descended on the western Iowa

town of Missouri Valley to help re-

build the Little Sioux Scout Ranch.

The camp had been devastated by

a tornado in June 2008, killing four

scouts and leveling the camp.

Those arriving from New York

included survivors of the World

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schoolchildren who had been

affected, Ground Zero construction

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people who had been the recipi-

ent of the foundation’s past work

camps also came along. In all,

more than 1,000 people worked on

rebuilding the camp and putting

up a chapel onsite.

“We LOOk fOr a special project

each year, one that will help a com-

munity where a natural disaster

has taken place,” says Jeff Parness,

founder of New York Says Thank

You.

In past years, the New York Says

Thank You group has worked at

tornado sites in Indiana, Texas and

Kansas; at the sites of the San

Diego wildfires; and at clean-up

efforts for Hurricane Katrina. “We

made a decision to get together

and pay it forward each 9/11 anni-

versary weekend,” Parness says.

“Ultimately, it’s not so much about

9/11 as it is about the hope of

9/12.”

as each WOrk camp takes place,

many of the recipients of that site

move along the next year to help

with the following project.

The chapel that was built at the Little

Sioux Scout Ranch used re-claimed

timber from the tornado damage.

In addition, volunteers worked on

restoring the trails that overlook the

chapel, put in new landscaping and

painted existing buildings for the

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Volunteers with the group New York Says Thank You rebuilt a chapel destroyed by a deadly tornado that struck the Little Sioux Boy Scout camp in western Iowa last summer.

story by valerie van kootenphoto by terri queck-matzie

paying it forwardvolunteers rebuild iowa boy scout camp

Farm Bureau members serve meals to volunteers working to rebuild an Iowa boy scout camp destroyed by a tornado.

many IOWa grOups were also

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Valley Fairgrounds on Saturday

evening, with southwestern Iowa

Farm Bureau groups and Iowa Farm

Bureau putting up the money to

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“When...the scouts who survived

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Iowans Chad Thomas, left, and Jesse Gildea travel the state to talk with teens about the accidents that caused their spinal cord injuries. submitted photo

Keeping teens safeteen drivers learn about dangers of the road

When Chad Thomas

and Jesse Gildea

w e r e t e e n a g e r s

with big post-high

school dreams, they were look-

ing forward to their respective

futures—one headed off to college

and the other headed off to the

pro-racing circuit.

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lives and their futures in an

unspeakable way—except that’s

exactly what they do: Speak about

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hopes of getting across the mes-

sage of playing it safe.

The young men are VIPs (voices

for injury prevention guest speak-

ers) for ThinkFirst Iowa, a pro-

gram administered by Iowa Health

System to emphasize the impor-

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is program director of the Iowa

chapter.

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“I was 18 when my accident

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“I injured my spinal cord—I’m a

T10 spinal cord injury, around the

navel. I’m confined to a wheel-

chair and have no motor function

or feeling below the belly button.

That’s the message I want to get

across to the kids—that there’s no

cure, no fix. It lasts a lifetime.”

In ITs 22nd year, the program

reaches 30,000 students in Iowa

each year through school-based

assemblies. There are 127 chapters

worldwide.

“We emphasize wearing seat belts

and helmets, not drinking and

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drugs, not being distracted while

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said.

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ize that they’re not invincible and

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and riding motocross. When he was

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is specialized to hold my hips in

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to wear helmets. If it weren’t for

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a wheelchair.”

Not only is Gildea sharing his story

with youth, but shares his admira-

tion for a program that he hopes

will save at least one youth from

making a life-altering mistake.

“The ThinkFirst Iowa program is

one of the best programs there

is for injury prevention," he said.

“Having them see someone in a

wheelchair, someone with the very

disability you’re talking about pre-

venting, that really gets the mes-

sage across.”

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