Can You See the Motorcycle?

The Honda crotch rocket rider was driving about 85 mph. The VW driver was talking on a cell phone when she pulled out from a side street. The car had two passengers and the bike rider was found inside the car with them. The VW actually flipped over from the force of impact. All 3 were killed instantly.

Stop talking and texting on your phone when driving.

It could kill you. Literally.

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Have You Been to Any of These?

Franklin County has a large number of places on the National Historic Register. They include:
Beeds Lake State Park
H.E. Boehmler House
Franklin County Courthouse
G.A.R. Soldier’s Memorial Hall
Sheriffs Residence and Jail
Hampton Double Square Historic District
Hampton Public Library
Dr.O.B. Harriman House
Maysville School House
Reeve Electric Association Plant
Leander Reeve House (Old Stone House)
Herman Wood Round Barn
How many of these places have you been too?

http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/IA/franklin/state.html for more information.

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Seven Stars Restaurant – 641-456-5378
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Julie Has A new Daughter

My new daughter, Jadira, has grown up in Dashoguz, Turkmenistan, which is on the northern border next to Uzbekistan in Central Asia. She will be living with me until the end of the Iowa Falls-Alden school year. This semester, she is taking English III, Spanish I, U.S. History, cooking, photography, PE, and chorus.

She already has taken all the math and science classes offered. She also has taken 8 years of English and has studied Russian and the Turkish language. In her home, they speak Kazakh, her father's native language. The national language is Turkmen and she understands her friends who speak Uzbek. In Dashoguz, she can take classes where the teacher speaks either Turkmen or Russian. Her mother teaches Russian in another school and her father is a dispatcher for the city fire department where his brother is the captain.

She is a FLEX student here on scholarship. She has several mandatory activities that regular foreign exchange students do not have to do. She has to do 50 hours of community service/volunteer projects with documentation, 3 presentations with documentation, complete Three Point Action Plan projects with documentation, a community mentor/shadowing project with documentation, examine the origins of the ethnic group in our area with documentation, organize a community service project in Iowa Falls with documentation. She wants to be an interpreter but her father wants her to be a jurist (lawyer).

The Future Leaders Exchange program (FLEX) chooses intelligent students to study in the USA for a year to experience American way of life and culture and education. Usually this program chooses students who are currently at school on the 9th or 10th grade level. For older students American-Turkmen scholarships are offered to American University of Central Asia (AUCA) which is located in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Jadira plans on attending University in Kyrgyzstan. She says that it is very difficult to be admitted to a university in Turkmenistan. Only serious students are allowed to even attend secondary school. There are no extra curricular activities connected to the school but there are after school activities around the city.

There are many schools in Dashoguz, but few higher institutions. Students at her school attend from nursery school thru secondary school. She has 125 students in her class. Each grade level wears a different color uniform and each city school has different uniforms. Schools, universities and other educational structures are controlled by the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan. The schools begin on September 1 and end on May 25. Students attend school 6 days a week, with one week vacation in the fall, two weeks in the winter, and one week in the spring.

Places like Dashoguz captures the interests of many people and the government of the United States because of ancient places like Kunya-urgench. Early in its history, it was a popular stop on the Silk Road because it had a spring. In recent years, the Silk Route is again being used for the maritime and overland routes.

Jadira and I are enjoying our time together. She is delightful. I am happy being a mom again. Even if it is for a short time.

Julie Ziesman

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Seven Stars Restaurant – 641-456-5378
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HOLLYDAZZLE DECORATORS NEEDED

Hampton area merchants invite groups and businesses to decorate a Christmas tree in the Hollydazzle Tree Decorating Contest. Any group, school organization, non profit, business or religious organization can decorate a tree. There is a $5.00 entry fee which will be put toward the prizes. A total of $400 in Chamber Bucks will be awarded in prizes.

Deadline for entry is October 26. You can pick up entry forms at Center One 5 First St. SW, Hampton or go online to www.hamptoniowa.org Return the forms to Center One, Chamber office by October 26. On October 27th decorating groups will be paired with tree sponsor locations. November 2 to November 4 is the time assigned for tree decorating.

There are three categories: Most Creative, Most Beautiful and Best Representation of an Organization or Business. There will also be a Peoples Choice award and a random drawing from the voters. A judge will select the winners of the three categories. The Peoples Choice will be selected through ballots available at participating merchants from November 5 through December 3. Ballots will also serve as an entry for a prize drawing on December 4.

Winners will be announced December 4 at the Mainstreet drawing. Call now to reserve your tree, as space is limited. Have the entry forms and $5 submitted by October 26. If you would like more information, contact the Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce at 641-456-5668 or email brook@hamptoniowa.org

Hampton Today made possible by sponsors like:
Michelle Hartman – Tupperware –641-373-8880
Denise Passehl – Watkins – 641-580-4052
Franklin County Farmers Market 641-456-4811
Patrick Palmer – The Computer Guy – 641-420-1234
Seven Stars Restaurant – 641-456-5378
Debra Brown – Melaleuca - 641-458-1114