Montezuma history teacher runs for president

Leah Farrington, high school history teacher, announced her candidacy for president on the Whig party ticket on April 1.

by Andrea Farrington

For several weeks, it has been rumored that Montezuma history teacher Leah Farrington   will be running for president in the 2012 campaign on the Whig ticket.  On Sunday, April 1, Farrington confirmed her candidacy.

 Her main goal for her presidential campaign is to increase American influence in every country in the world. 

She has a Ponzi Scheme with her running mate, Bernie Madoff, which is how she plans to afford her campaign. 

Now the question the majority of Montezuma wants to know is, why is she running for president? 

In an up-close interview with her, she said, “I want money and power!” 

Throughout the interview she spoke about three specific subjects several times. 

“I plan to spend more money than any president in the past because I don’t think we have enough debt in the world today,” Farrington said. 

We got on the subject of unemployment and she says to fix this problem she is going to prepare children for the workforce by training all fourth through twelveth grade students on the oil fields. 

She also mentioned social security during her 45-minute interview and stated that she thinks we should get rid of social security completely because she believes someone will steal her identity. 

“There is nobody as smart as me, I don’t want them to ruin my reputation,” Farrington said.

She believes that she outshines the other candidates with her beautiful looks and stunning personality. She also won American Idol and her dad is the governor of Iowa, which gives her a head start. 

Support our local citizen and vote for her on November 6!

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Corny theme park will be "udderly" terrific!

Cornucopia, Montezuma’s newest agriculture-themed amusement park, is being completed during the warm spring weather and will open July 27. The Cob Castle, above, is finished.

by Elizabeth Ostrem and Kayla Werner

Have you ever wanted to go to Disneyland and at the same time learn more about agriculture (and eat it too!)? If yes, the soon-to-be-unveiled Cornucopia just outside of Montezuma should pique your Iowan interests.

The park will feature all things corn, including (but not limited to): corn on the cob, candy corn, corn syrup, corn dogs, and corn cider for adults. There will also be a Dairy Park, where kids can swim in the Milky Way pool, milk a real cow, craft butter sculptures alongside professional butter artisans, and bob for marshmallows in freshly made cottage cheese.

Rides, games and other attractions will include a corn maze, baby formula racing, macaroni and cheese rapids, the “Silo of Terror” and kettle corn bingo. 

A central gift shop will satisfy any corn or dairy enthusiast’s taste in quality knick-knacks. (Cornucopia accepts MasterCard, Visa and Discover cards.)

Park guests can also watch the Dairy Queen and Kernel King make nightly appearances outside of Cornucopia’s most extravagant building, Cob Castle, underneath a spectacular fireworks display using real popcorn. 

Due to the unseasonably warm weather, work has gone more quickly than anticipated and will be open for enjoyment this summer.

Delectable corn milkshakes will be offered on the house all evening long during the nighttime celebrations on the park’s opening on July 27, 2012. Park officials hope that Cornucopia will grow on Montezuma residents and will sow the seeds for more corn- and dairy-related amusement parks in the future.

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Rock star made in Montezuma

by Natalie Kirton

Montezuma’s own Scott Stanton was proud to announce on Thursday, March 22 that a big opportunity had come his way. It was no surprise to hear that Stanton was offered the job of a lifetime, to travel the world doing what he loves most. Stanton, the elementary through high school band teacher of Montezuma Community Schools, has spent years teaching, writing and performing music. He can play various instruments and has a lot of knowledge on all things music. 

Stanton was approached earlier in the week by a team from a large corporate music industry. This company takes talented music teachers from across the country to give them a chance to become rockstars. They had learned of Stanton through various musical merchandise stores and decided to come and speak directly to him. That day, Stanton was given the offer to join a rock band within the company. With this opportunity, Stanton will be able to tour the world and perform his own music with other talented artists. 

Stanton told the group that he would think about the offer. He was ecstatic about receiving the opportunity, but also had some doubts.

“I love my position here at the school. Teaching students brings me a lot of satisfaction to my life. But I’m not sure I want to do leave because I’ll miss my students. They’ve progressed so much over the years and I love to be a part of that,” said Stanton. 

If he does decide to take the offer, Stanton will fly out to Minnesota to be acquainted with his band mates. There they will get to know each others’ music styles and begin to create their own music. Afterwards, Stanton and his new band will be thrown into the limelight, opening for bands such as Green Day, U2 and Coldplay. This new band will have their own merchandise line consisting of t-shirts, CD’s, signed instruments, posters and accessories. 

Some projected tour locations include New York, Florida, California, Nevada, Canada, England and Germany. 

Stanton has been given two months to make his final decision.

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Local Loch Ness found

by Natalie Kirton

In the early morning of Monday, March 26, a Montezuma resident was jogging on a trail near Lake Ponderosa when she spotted what looked to be a rather large snake gliding through the water. 

“It had to be at least three feet thick, I have no clue how long it was,” said the resident who remains anonymous. 

The local says she watched the snake-like creature for a couple minutes before calling the authorities.

Once they arrived, both authorities and a group of locals that had gathered around the scene were shocked to see the beast raise its head above water. 

“We can safely say that the creature was definitely not a snake,” said an off-duty policeman. “It’s neck was at least seven feet long.”

County officials later sent out a specialized team, fully equipped with scanning sonars, underwater cameras, fish baits and nets to try and catch and tag the animal. Oddly, after a thorough search of the entire lake, nothing was found of the mysterious creature. 

A small child that was a part of the group commented that he thought the beast looked like the Loch Ness Monster, a mythological creature found in Ireland.

“I saw flippers! He looked just like the pictures on TV!” said the boy. 

Officials plan to search again for the supposed Loch Ness Monster of Ponderosa Lake within a few days. For now, authorities are puzzled as to how such a big creature could appear and disappear from the lake in such a brief period of time.

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Longer spring break due to computer virus

by Morgan Sanders

As students will be sad to find out, school will be extended one week this year in order to fix the computer system. The computers crashed Friday, March 30 due to excessive playing of computer games. 

An undisclosed individual was playing a game and accidentally downloaded a virus onto the computer. The virus spread via the server the students use to login to computers and infected first the main server, then each user, leaving every computer in an unstable state. 

The virus rendered Time Machine useless, the program used to restore the computers to a previous state to clear virus, giving the infection open reign in every part of the computer system. 

This virus also crashed JMC, the program where teachers store their grades and take attendance. Teachers will have to keep grades and attendance on paper until the server is rebooted, then update JMC after the system is restored.

In order to repair the system, the entire server and every computer must be shut down and the main server must be cleared of all infections. Then, each user must be individually cleaned and their files restored.

Finally, each computer’s hard drive must be analyzed and cleaned, one by one, by a computer expert coming down from Des Moines, Dr. Dennis Waldork, Ph.D. 

“It’s just a huge mess,” Waldork said. “This kind of virus rarely hits, but when it does, the repercussions are massive.”

The computers will be fixed April 10-13, giving the students a long spring break. Instead of the shorter scheduled break from April 5-9, students will be let out early April 4 at 2:30 and will not return until 8:30 on April 16. 

To make up for the lost days, an extra week of school will be added to the end of the year.  Instead of ending classes on May 17, the school year will now end on May 24.

School authorities will be establishing two major new measures to prevent a similar event from happening again in the future. 

First, a new, advanced anti-virus will be purchased using the money originally designated to install new heating and air conditioning to protect the server.

Next, students will no longer be able to play online video games on the computers without the express permission of the tech department. Those caught infringing upon this rule will lose computer privileges for the remainder of their high school career.

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