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The Rev. Cloos Bob Cloos was given Continued from 1A the same This road race just keeps welcome Education: Bachelor’s as Rev. in finance and accounting, Richmond studied five years of pre- growing, lending a hand Tuesday theology and four years of afternoon theology at Sacred Heart the winding trails there. School of Theology in Mil- on the „ Get Your Rear GET YOUR REAR “What a great facility waukee. playground in Gear has IN GEAR that is,” Fessler said. Employment: Worked at Sts. Mary One of the biggest To sign up for the Get Your Rear in for his father in welding and Mathias ‘own identity,’ benefits of the event is that Gear 5K run/walk, visit the event’s fabrication shop, was in Catholic continues to help Web page at : the funds raised with the the air force and the Navy School in www.getyourrearingear.com event are used locally. Fes- reserves after high school, Muscatine. those in need sler estimated that during currently parochial vicar the past three years, the at Sts. Mary and Mathias Jason Liegois event has raised $38,500, Catholic Church in Mus- MUSCATINE JOURNAL 563-262-0525 Fessler said the event and that its organizers are catine. FILE PHOTO Jason.Liegois@muscatinejournal. was his way of giving back hoping to hit the $50,000- com to the community after its mark after this year’s edi- Q&A support of his family dur- tion. How was your time in MUSCATINE, Iowa ing Ellen’s illness, but the Those funds have gone the air force valuable to — Sept. 20 will see Musca- event has grown signifi- directly to Trinity Musca- you? probably 45 at the time — I the different committees, tine’s Discovery Park host- cantly in the years since it’s tine. The hospital has set The thing about the mil- just kind of disregarded it what they do. ing the fourth annual “Get started. aside those funds to help itary is it helps you mature. because I didn’t think that I’m learning Span- Your Rear in Gear” five “It’s developed its own those without insurance It really helps you become applying to a seminary was ish, so I’m starting to do kilometer run/walk. identity at this point,” he receive colonoscopies, more responsible and more even an option, I didn’t quinceaneras and Spanish The race’s intention is said. which are used to detect disciplined. And I really even know where [the idea] baptisms. to raise funds under the One of the examples of early signs of colon can- enjoyed working with a lot came from actually. But it It can be [overwhelm- umbrella of the Colon Can- that is the fact that other cer. Fessler said the funds of the people. I met people kept on coming back to me ing]. Especially when you’re cer Coalition. Race director organizations now check helped 50 to 55 people from all over the world. It and I knew it was a message first walking in the door Bryan Fessler, who works to see when the run will needing examination so far. was very enriching. A lot from God, that I needed to and you haven’t been in at Kent Nutrition Group in occur, noting that they “A lot of people don’t of people from Australia. investigate the priesthood. this kind of environment, a Muscatine, has a personal want to avoid scheduling have resources for that,” They went to Operation Red So I first approach the business environment. connection to the disease their events at the same said Holly Thomas- Flag where we would prac- archdiocese of Dubuque I worked maintenance — his wife Ellen, an elemen- time. The event also has Koehler, marketing and tice war over the Nevada and because of my age they the last number of years so tary teacher in the Musca- returned to Discovery Park, communications specialist Desert and we’d invite the told me that they don’t I was outside of the major tine School District, died 3300 Cedar St., where both for Trinity Muscatine. “It’s air force, the navy and the sponsor anyone over 45 decision-making; they just of the disease in 2009 after the timed 5K run and the 5K a direct impact and that’s marines, not only from and I was 47/48 when I told me what needed to battling it for eight years. walk will take place along what’s unique about it.” the United States but from approached them but they be done. So now I gotta be Australia, from Europe. told me go down to see part of the process. And I’ll How did you come to be Father Marty Goetz in Dav- probably make mistakes and involved in the clergy? enport, so that’s how I got I hope to learn from them. Well I was cradle hooked up. I know the parishioners are Catholic; I was brought up What is the most very supportive. Catholic. It’s kind of hard important aspect of your How are you finding to explain, but it’s a calling. faith to you? Muscatine so far? Everybody has a calling in The source and summit Oh I like Muscatine. life. For some it’s priest- of our faith is the Eucharist, People are great, extremely hood, for some women it’s is Jesus Christ. For a priest, friendly, very welcoming. sisters, and for others it’s you really need to be con- I’ve invitations to go out married and for some it’s nected with Jesus because fishing and I’m looking just the single life. we are acting in persona forward to that because I After I got out of the Christi — in the person like to fish but sometimes, service, I lived a lot of my of Christ. Of course the especially when you’re new life on the West Coast. Blessed Virgin Mary is also and trying to get settled, it’s From 1986-2000, I was in our spiritual mother and we hard to find time to break Oregon and I worked for a have connection with her away and relax. national video rental chain, through the rosary, through Do you have other hob- Hollywood Video, which is prayer. bies? no longer in existence. But What is your role as I’m still learning to play BETH VAN ZANDT/MUSCATINE JOURNAL as I was working, one day parochial vicar? the guitar. I try to play golf, Casey’s Landing is located along the Muscatine riverfront on the Running River Trail I just had this feeling that It’s probably closest to but I’ve never had lessons System. I was not doing what I was say I’m associate pastor, so that’s a work in progress. supposed to be doing. Father Troy’s associate. I like to read. One of my So I began praying over I’m still learning to be a favorite spiritual writers is riverfront reads: “Presented historians have said it was it and it took a couple priest and the rites and Henri Nouwen. But there Name to the City of Muscatine by derived from the name of years before finally the everything. It’s a learning are so many different writ- Musquitine Tribe No. 95. the Mascoutin Indian tribe word ‘priesthood’ came to process: all the workings of ers out there. I’m still col- Continued from 1A Improved Order of Red Men that lived in the area in the me and at my age — I was a parish, the finances and lecting books and Dedicated to the Mas- 1700-1800s. Others have How the name became, coutin Indians 1926.” said it is from the Indian however, is a bit unclear. Although it’s clear why word meaning “island James Casey settled in the the townspeople wanted a of fire,” a phrase used to your forehead or rolling known about. area in 1835, establishing a different name, it’s unclear describe the piece of land 50 Ways your eyes. But talking about If there’s something you steamboat landing and wood exactly how the word “Mus- now known as Muscatine and debating lists is half the don’t see on the list, tell us. yard that he called Casey’s catine” came about. Some Island. Continued from 1A fun of reading them. E-mail us at news@mus- Landing or Casey’s Wood- We ask only one thing: catinejournal.com or call us pile. The woodpile helped 301 E. Third Street We can count among Agree or disagree, don’t take at 563-262-0529. If we get supply steamboats chugging Muscatine, IA 52761 our “old friends” one of the it personally. 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