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dubuque& tri-state
news in brief
2, including toddler, die
after 1-vehicle rollover
BERNARD, Iowa — Two people,
including a 2-year-old boy, were
killed Friday evening in a one-vehicle rollover crash near Bernard, Iowa.
Ellen K. Edwards, 20, and Joseph
P. Edwards, 2, both of Bernard, died
from injuries sustained in a wreck
on 86th Avenue about 1 mile north
of Bernard Road, according to a report from the Iowa State Patrol. The
crash occurred around 6 p.m. Friday,
according to scanner traffic.
Ellen Edwards was driving a vehicle northbound on 86th Avenue
when she lost control while traveling
down a hill, according to the report.
Troopers said the vehicle struck a
railing and landed on its top in a
creek. Both vehicle occupants were
transported by Bernard Ambulance
to Jackson County Hospital.
Historical finds at Wapello
Land and Water Reserve
HANOVER, Ill. — An archaeological expedition last week at the Wapello Land and Water Reserve has
turned out to be lucrative in terms
of historical value.
On Monday, a River Ridge (Ill.)
Middle School student unearthed an
11,000-year-old spear point. One day
later, students from Scales Mound
and Galena high schools uncovered
more arrow points and pottery fragments.
Among the items picked up were
triangular arrow points and a distinct ceramic rim sherd, according
to a press release from the Jo Daviess County Conservation Foundation.
Recovered items could indicate
that researchers have stumbled
upon a “very concentrated occupation” of Woodland people who lived
in the area “prior to Mississippian
influence,” according to the release.
The foundation purchased the
98-acre Wapello Land and Water
Reserve a year ago. More than 150
people participated in the two-day
research project, which was supported by grants from the Grand Victoria
Foundation and the Illinois Clean
Energy Community Foundation.
Program allows SNAP
benefits at farmers market
A new program this year will allow
residents to use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to
purchase food at the Dubuque Farmers Market.
The market will launch its Market Money Saturday, May 2, when it
opens for the 2015 season. The program will allow customers to swipe
EBT cards to receive dollar-for-dollar tokens that can be used to buy
SNAP-eligible items.
SNAP users who purchase a minimum of $5 in Market Money tokens
also will receive two free passes to
ride Jule buses.
Any customer will be able to use
debit or credit cards to purchase $5
tokens to be used at the market. The
service is available at no additional
charge.
Other markets nationwide have
utilized similar token-based systems
for more than a decade, according to
a release from Dubuque Main Street.
There are nearly 190,000 families in
Iowa who receive SNAP benefits, according to the release.
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Documentary ‘Angel Azul’ reels in awards
Marcy Cravat’s narrative
snags Best Documentary,
Grand Jury Prize at Julien
Dubuque International
Film Festival.
ANTHONY FRENZEL
the winners
Best of Iowa ($500): “West
by Orphan Train”
Best short ($3,000): “The
Emissary”
Best documentary
($8,500): “Angel Azul”
Best feature ($8,500):
“Reparation”
[email protected]
Awards night can be a glamorous evening, with the red carpet,
flashing camera bulbs and high
fashion. But it also can be an emotional time.
That holds especially true for
Marcy Cravat, whose documentary “Angel Azul” brought home
both Best Documentary and the
Grand Jury Prize Saturday at the
Julien Dubuque International
Film Festival Award Ceremony
and Gala. The film earned the
four-day festival’s top honor, not
to mention a combined award of
$23,500.
“I honestly don’t know what I
can say,” Cravat said, laughing, af-
Grand jury prize ($15,000):
“Angel Azul”
ter she walked off the award stage
for the second time.
The first win for Best Documentary had been an emotional,
tear-filled moment. But the second win left her breathless.
“Surely, I didn’t see this coming.
I did not even know I was up for
this one,” Cravat said. “I would
just like to say this is the most
fantastic town to be in to win a
film festival award. You know, you
don’t go enough to different states
in your own country. You always
go off to Europe or somewhere
MIKE BURLEY • TH Media
Filmmakers walk the red carpet before the Julien Dubuque
International Film Festival’s awards ceremony on Saturday at the
Five Flags Theater in Dubuque. Video: THonline.com
and you just don’t know the gems
you’re missing until you get out
of your state and see some other
ones.”
Her film documents artist Jason deCaires Taylor’s underwater,
lifelike statues, which are being
used to create an artificial coral
reef.
There is one more scheduled
showing of “Angel Azul” at 3:45
p.m. today at Five Flags Center.
New to the festival this year –
it’s fourth— were a wide variety of
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Civil War re-enactor
Colin Fagan, of
Riverside, Ill., shows
a replica gun to Boy
Scouts while giving a
history lesson during
the Boy Scouts’ annual
U.S. Grant Pilgrimage
in Galena, Ill., on
Saturday.
Video: THonline.com
MIKE BURLEY • TH Media
Area Boy Scouts prepare for Civil War
More than 4,000 Scouts attend
the U.S. Grant Pilgrimage, which
marks the 150th anniversary
of the end of the conflict.
BY WILLIAM GARBE
[email protected]
GALENA, Ill. — More than 4,000 Boy Scouts
from at least five states gathered on the banks
of the Galena River on Saturday for the annual
U.S. Grant Pilgrimage.
This year’s pilgrimage marked the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Like many
events in Galena this month, the theme for the
pilgrimage was “Peace in Union.”
The Blackhawk Area Council organizes the
event, which began in 1955.
Matt Ohms, Blackhawk Area Council district director, said this year’s event drew Scouts
and their families from the tri-state area, as
well as Minnesota, Michigan and Indiana.
Civil War re-enactors staged a battle recre-
ation at around 11:30 a.m. along the Galena
River.
Scouts ran up to Wayne Issleb, one of two
re-enactors dressed as Gen. John Rawlins,
a Galena native who served alongside Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant in the Civil War.
The scouts asked Issleb for his best imitation of Rawlins’ signature in the hopes of
collecting autographs from at least four of Galena’s nine Civil War generals. Scouts who successfully snagged the signatures were eligible
to purchase a special pin at the Trading Post.
“This is my first time to Galena so far,” said
Issleb, who has been a re-enactor for more
than 10 years. “The field here is beautiful. You
can’t ask for a better backdrop.”
Near the battle walked Samuel Hamaker,
a Boy Scout, and Scott Steingraeber, an adult
volunteer, both of whom are from Troop 123 in
Rockford, Ill. Steingraeber, who said he’s been
part of scouting for more than 40 years, said he
enjoys his trips to Galena.
“It’s a unique event that draws scouts from
all over the Midwest,” he said. “It’s a wonderful
town full of lots of history.”
Over the sounds of cannon blasts a few
yards away, Hamaker described his second
time at the pilgrimage.
“I think it’s a very fun experience, and it’s fun
to watch. There’s cannons, there’s rifles, there’s
lots of sounds,” he said. “They show things that
happened in the past and what it was like.”
Just over the river, Liam Farrell and his
family from Geneva, Ill., donned ponchos as
rain began to fall around noon. Ferrell, a Boy
Scout from Geneva’s Troop 36, said he enjoys
the time he spends with other Scouts.
“It’s a fun time for us to not be with our parents,” he said.
His dad, T.J. Farrell, said the event is an opportunity for scouts to enjoy the history of
Galena.
“The boys have a lot of fun just walking
around, seeing the historic sites, meeting the
generals,” T.J. Farrell said. “Of course, they
like doing the shopping, checking out all the
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8th-graders targeting human trafficking
2 George Washington
Middle School students
take modern-day slavery
project 1 step further.
BY STACEY BECKER
police
[email protected]
Dubuque police reported:
• Robert E. Riddell, 30, of 2921
Balke St., reported the theft of $600
worth of items from his home at
1:23 a.m. Saturday. Among the stolen items were a cell phone and
tools.
• Denise A. Foht, 42, of 723 Peru
Road, reported the burglary of $6,125
from her home sometime between
noon and 3 p.m. Friday. Among the
stolen items were a tablet, money,
jewelry and a video game system and
accessories.
Hannah Olsen and Kamryn
Foht took their school project on
slavery one step further.
The George Washington Middle School eighth-graders are
selling shirts they designed to
raise awareness of, and to help
end, modern day slavery in the
United States.
Kamryn said people need to
realize that slavery didn’t end
after the Civil War.
Although slavery is outlawed,
it persists in many forms, includ-
ing human trafficking.
“We can help stop it. It’s not
safe for the people that are being
forced into human
trafficking,” Kamryn
said.
St u d e n t s d i d n’t
know much about
modern-day slavery
before Tracy Mours,
Hannah
an eighth-grade soOlsen
cial studies teacher,
required them to research the topic as
they finished a unit
on slavery prior to the
Civil War.
“There’s more slavery now than back
Kamryn
then,” Mours said.
Foht
One out of every 280
people in the world
are enslaved today, according to
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T-shirt sales
George Washington Middle School eighth-graders Hannah Olsen
and Kamryn Foht are selling T-shirts to raise awareness of and help
end modern-day slavery.
T-shirts cost $12; larger sizes are $13. Shirts will be sold through
2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30.
All proceeds will be donated to the Network Against Human
Trafficking in Ames, Iowa.
To purchase a shirt, contact Tracy Mours at tmours@dbqschools.
org or 563-552-4852.
www.endslaverynow.org. Hannah and Kamryn were surprised
to learn around 50 slaves work for
each of them.
The discovery came before
Washington students researched
modern day slavery worldwide.
Mours required her students to
complete a survey at slaveryfootprint.org, which determined how
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many forced laborers have helped
make the things people use.
Students created public-awareness campaigns and class presentations. Mours encouraged them
to attempt one of their campaign’s
solutions. While some made posters and ribbons, Hannah and
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politics
Risks, rewards associated with political fundraising
his personal funds.
Both ways of doing business
have potential risks and rewards,
said University of Northern Iowa
political science professor Justin
Holmes.
BY WILLIAM GARBE
“It’s a serious war chest and
TH staff writer
certainly something to be
reckoned with, but in some ways
There are many
it may not be as helpful that it’s
ways to raise $500,000, out of state,” Holmes said of
two of which were
Patel’s haul. As for Blum, “The
highlighted last week
self-funding has some of those
in a TH Media article
same problems as out-of-state
reviewing fundraising money,” Holmes said. Whether by
activities for two First
loan or by out-of-state donation,
Congressional District candidates. Holmes argued, “it’s money
Cedar Rapids Democrat Ravi
you can spend, but you’re not
Patel said he was able locking in votes, volunteers, etc.”
to raise $522,351 in
There’s plenty of time for things to
itemized individual
change, but Holmes can make this
contributions thanks, prediction: “This one’s going to be
in large part, to a
huge, at least by Iowa standards.”
network of fellow
ISENHART SETS
hoteliers. All but
UP WATER WEBSITE
Ravi Patel
$90,900 of those
The waters of the Chesapeake
donations came from
Bay and the efforts of scientists
outside Iowa.
at the University of Maryland
Incumbent
to keep them clean are on
Rep. Rod Blum,
R-Dubuque,
the radar of State Rep. Chuck
Isenhart, D-Dubuque. He hopes
raised $119,543
what scientists have learned in
in individual and
Rob Blum
Maryland can help clean up the
political committee
contributions. He then Mississippi River.
Earlier this month, Isenhart
loaned his campaign $500,000 of
to continue their discussions.
UNI political science
professor says Ravi Patel,
Rod Blum ‘not locking in
votes’ with their efforts.
hosted three watershed experts
from Maryland during a
conference at Drake University.
Discussions connected lessons
learned at the Chesapeake with
problems experienced in Iowa’s
rivers. Since the conference,
Isenhart and the University
of Maryland experts created
cleanwaterdialogue.org as a way
BOOZE, METH AND AN
‘APOLOGY’
A Republican Polk County
supervisor has apologized for
“poorly” communicating when
he referred to state Sen. Tony
Bisignano, D-Des Moines, as
“Senator Boozehound” in an
email to Bisignano’s colleagues in
the Iowa Legislature.
The Des Moines Register
chronicled the March 13 email
exchanges initiated by Supervisor
Bob Brownell in an article
last week. At issue was a bill
concerning compensation for
county elected officials.
Bisignano, who replaced Jack
Hatch in the Iowa Senate, in
2014 was the subject of a dispute
regarding whether drunken
driving was an “infamous crime”
as it relates to a ban on running for
office.
Said Brownell to the Register,
“It’s not as if I was manufacturing
meth; I don’t have any bodies
buried in my backyard. I called a
guy some names, shouldn’t have
done it and I apologized.”
Garbe covers politics for TH Media.
His email address is william.garbe@
thmedia.com.
END: Girls believe the shirts will
FILM: Producer scouts Dubuque
educate community members
for possible filming location
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Kamryn decided to sell shirts and donate
the proceeds to the Network Against Human
Trafficking in Ames, Iowa.
“We’re only 14, but there’s got to be something we can do,” Hannah said.
They believe T-shirts will educate the
community about human trafficking.
On the front of their shirts is an “x”
through the phrase “END IT; SHINE A LIGHT
ON SLAVERY.” The quote, “You may choose
to look the other way, but you can never say
again that you did not know,” by William Wil-
berforce, is on the back.
Although the quote is from an abolitionist
who died in 1833, Hannah and Kamryn said
it’s still relevant. They want people to help
those who are slaves.
“You are their light. You are their way out,”
Hannah said, adding, “They probably feel
alone and helpless.”
Mours said having students be inspired by
a project to sell T-shirts to educate others is
one of her best teaching moments.
“They’re capable of a whole lot more
than we give them credit for,” Mours said of
eighth-graders.
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live music acts. Croatian-American composer
Nenad Bach, Beatlemania,
TR3N each contr ibuted tunes, as did former
Dubuquer Di Sheldon, who
performed her original
song, “Gonna Help Somebody.”
Iowa was well represented in the awards ceremony with Colleen Krantz’s
“West by Orphan Train”
taking home the Best in
Iowa award. Her film details
the lost history of nearly a
quarter of a million children who were sent west
by train “for the picking”
between 1854 and 1929.
“It’s exciting that people
are responding,” Krantz
said. “It was really rewarding because of the fact that
there were a couple of peo-
SCOUTS: Event ‘bigger part of scouting’
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knives and lighters and that
kind of stuff. They have a
good time. It gives us an opportunity to get out, walk
around and be a bigger part
of scouting than we are just
as a troop.”
Also in tow were T.J.’s
mom, Lisa Farrell, and little
sister, Gretchen. After attending several pilgrimages
with rain, the family knew to
bring gear for damp weather.
“We’ve been out here at
least five, six times now, and
it’s rained four times out of
the six,” Lisa Farrell said.
“We’re very prepared because we’re scouts.”
the final day
The fourth annual Julien Dubuque International Film
Festival will continue at 3 p.m. today with the Irish at the
Festival closing day event at the Five Flags Theater, 405
Main St.
The event will begin with a viewing of the film “A
Proper Pint,” which will be followed by “The O’Briens” at
4 p.m.
The closing night party will start at 6 p.m. at Stone Cliff
Winery, 600 Star Brewery Drive.
For more information on the festival, including a listing
of film showtimes, visit julienfilmfest.com.
ple who had never really
told their story publicly.
Those that are still living
— there’s probably only 50
to 100 — and there was a
stigma that made them not
want to talk about it.”
There also was some
buzz about the possibility of
Dubuque hosting production on an upcoming movie.
“The town of Dubuque
has been so warm and
welcoming,” said Roberto
Miller, who wrote, directed, produced and starred
in the film “Mandorla.” “We
are developing our second
feature film and it has a
connection to France and
the Midwest. And we have
the idea that it might be in
Dubuque. So, we’re taking
an extra day and we’re going all over town, looking at
locations.”
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