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October 28, 2013

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“Keep A Kid Warm”

Titans send Panthers to Sioux City again

Annual Coat Giveaway

The coat giveaway will take place at the United Methodist Church at the corner of Elm & Howard Streets in Creston

Tuesday, October 29 • 6-8 p.m.

SPORTS, page 6A

Special thanks to the Creston News Advertiser, Walmart Supercenter and Maple Street Laundry for their support!

— child must be present to receive a coat —

Creston’s Emmy-winning actress Marcia Wallace dies By JAKE WADDINGHAM CNA staff reporter

jwaddingham@crestonnews.com

Marcia Wallace, an Emmyaward winning actress and Creston native, was a fighter. On the big screen, she kept her coworkers on their toes as the slightly sarcastic and witty secretary Carol Kester on “The Bob Newhart Show.” Wallace also spent decades as the voice of teacher Ms. Edna Krabappel on the popular Fox animated series “The Simpsons.” Wal-

lace’s character was in constant, playful battles with troublemaker Bart Simpson. But Wallace’s toughest and longest fight was against breast cancer — a battle she eventually lost Friday around 9 p.m. She was 70 years old. “She was always willing to visit and talk with everyone,” said life-long friend Linda Hartsock of Creston. “Really a strong, gal, a faithful friend and brought love and laughter to all of our lives.” Born Nov. 1, 1942, in Creston, Wallace was a 1960 Creston High

School WALLACE graduate before she was inducted moved out into the CHS to Holly- Hall of Fame wood. She in 2005. eventually found success and established her career as an actress and comedian. In addition to “The Bob Newhart Show,” she appeared more than 75 times on “The Merv Griffin Show” and earned an Emmy nomination on “Murphy Brown” in 1994.

Wallace eventually won an Emmy for her work as Ms. Krabappel on “The Simpsons.” Her iconic laugh — a single and sharp “Ha!” — became the character’s trademark on the show that started in 1990. Hartsock said Wallace spent a lot of her time as a spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society. After losing her husband, Dennis Hawley in 1992, she published an autobiography, “Don’t Look Back, We’re Not Going That Way.” The subtitle — “How I Over-

came a Rocky Childhood, a Nervous Breakdown, Breast Cancer, Widowhood, Fat, Fire & Menopausal Motherhood and Still Managed to Count My Lucky Chickens” — gives a thorough look of Wallace’s past that helped shape her career and ability to use comedy to get through life’s tough situations. “She came back (to Creston) for the centennial, helped with Relay for Life and high school Please see WALLACE, Page 2

Christie recalls how Obama reached out after Sandy TRENTON, N.J. (MCT) — It may be the defining image of Chris Christie in the days after Superstorm Sandy: the governor clasping President Obama’s hand, the president placing his hand on Christie’s shoulder in a moment of shared grief. That embrace of the president — a Democrat days away from re-election in a race many Republicans believed at the time still close — still has Republicans seething and pundits analyzing how it will affect Christie’s national potential. Politics, Christie said, never crossed his mind when Obama called. “Part of what I don’t think people understand is, political people think I was sitting there thinking about, ‘How do I move the pieces on the chess board?’ ” Christie said during an interview with The Record ahead of the one-year anniversary of the storm. “I was looking at that Christie saying to myself, ‘My God, what am I going to do?’ ” But it was not until angry Republicans began calling him — two days after Obama’s Oct. 31 visit — that Christie said he started Obama to think about the political implications of that hug, an embrace that came to symbolize their tight, working relationship. Christie detailed that relationship in an expansive interview in his State House office to mark the one-year anniversary of the storm that reshaped both the state and his career. A politician adept at delivering his message, Christie seemed starkly honest when recalling the emotion of those days and when detailing how he tried to convey that shock to the president. It was Obama who reached out and initiated the relationship with a phone call on Oct. 30, early on the day after the storm had slammed into the state, Christie said. That first call came, Christie recalled, as he and his team were struggling to come to terms with the depth of the

From left, brothers Austin and Jaxson Jondle of Creston dress as Maverick and Goose from “Top Gun.”

Brady McDonald, 3, of Creston — dressed as Spiderman — snatches a piece of candy Saturday at Bright Eyes held at McKinley Park in Creston.

■ The annual Bright Eyes trick-or-treat event held Saturday at McKinley Park had visits from Dorothy, Spiderman, Goose, Maverick and many more. Bright Eyes is coordinated by C.A.R.E. The treats are supplied by businesses/organizations.

Danielle Schwarz, front, and Jacob Walter — part of the East Union band — participate in the second annual shortest Halloween parade Saturday on Myrtle Street in Creston.

Macy Vanwyhe, 3, of Creston — dressed as Dorothy from “Wizard of Oz” — waves to a friend at Bright Eyes Saturday.

Trick -or-treat nights Thursday Afton - 5 to 7 p.m. Creston - 5 to 8 p.m. Greenfield - 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox – 5 to 8 p.m. Orient - 5 to 8 p.m. Friday Mount Ayr – 6 to 8:30 p.m. Corning had trick or treat on Main Street Oct. 25.

Above, zombies Brayden and A.J. Rouh take a picture with PCSB employees Amanda Lawson and Dawn Loudon at Bright Eyes. Right, Cooper Clear, 1, of Creston — dressed as a biker — walks with his sister Allison while collecting candy at Bright Eyes.

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