Stories from Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The Cherokee Community Theatre is pleased to announce their first show of the 2010-2011 season, "Christmas Belles," by Jesse Jones, Nicolas Hope and Jamie Wooten - the same team that brought you the hilarious and beloved "Dearly Departed." The authors have scored again with this gem. Full of fun, this play is sure to make you ache with laughter as it warms your heart with the Christmas spirit...

AURELIA - The Aurelia High School Drama Department will present its 2010 fall play, "The Ransom of Miss Elverna Dower," this weekend. If somebody kidnapped your least favorite teacher, would you want her back? In an award-winning comedic tale, Casey and Tim nab their demanding English teacher to avoid having to take a test, but they find that no one wants her back! It's bad enough that she corrects the grammar in their ransom note and makes them rewrite it, but when the captive teacher assigns them a research paper on famous kidnappings in history, the young kidnappers find themselves doing more school work than ever!. ...

The Sanford Museum Association Presents "Juke Boxes, Pool Halls and Ducktails" with Layton Zbornick on Saturday, Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Zbornick wrote and recorded Iowa's first Rock & Roll record, entitled "Janet," and he was inducted into Iowa's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. This program is an entertaining look at those good old days of the 40's, 50's and 60's, seen from the perspective of a young man who grew up in rural small town Iowa...

The need for improved and expanded facilities for the Cherokee County Fair was first identified during the 2008 Cherokee County Fair. The 4-H Facilities Betterment Project Committee was founded, and preliminary planning and grant writing was undertaken. The Cherokee Fair Association assisted the committee in securing a Vision Iowa's Community Attraction and Tourism Grant...

The Cherokee Police Department and family members are again sponsoring the annual "Toys For Tots" Program benefiting the needy children of Cherokee County at Christmas time. The Toys For Tots Program is a non-profit organization that seeks donations to provide the needy children in the county with presents at Christmas time...

The Cherokee Hy-Vee store will join with other Hy-Vee supermarkets throughout the Midwest to honor America's veterans with a free breakfast buffet on Veterans Day. "This is just one small way for us to recognize these heroes for their service and sacrifice," said Tim Haupert, Store Director at Cherokee Hy-Vee. "Our Veterans Breakfast has become a Hy-Vee tradition that many people look forward to all year."...

Rory Payne, an assistant football coach for the Alta-Aurelia Warriors team, has been selected as an Assistant Coach of the Year by the Iowa Football Coaches' Association, one of two coaches named in Class 1A. Payne will be recognized during halftime of the Class 1A Championship game on Saturday, Nov. 20 in the UNI-Dome at Cedar Falls...

Dustin Duane Konrady, son of Rick and Cindy Konrady of Spencer, and Destiny Dawn Peterson, daughter of Bruce and Carla Peterson of Alta, were united in marriage on June 5th, 2010, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Aurelia, with Rev. Larry Lemke officiating. A reception and dance at the Aurelia Community Center followed the service...

At its annual meeting recently, the Practice Partner Research Network (PPRNet) announced that Stephen Veit Family Practice of Cherokee received a High Performance Practice award, signifying excellence in patient care across a broad spectrum of clinical conditions...

The Cherokee County 4H Awards Banquet potluck which was scheduled for November 14, 2010 at the Marcus Community Center has been postponed. A staff member has had a family health emergency which has lingered over the past few weeks, and we have decided to postpone this event in order to get better prepared. The Banquet will be re-scheduled to a later date yet to be determined. Organizers will make another announcement when that date is finalized...

On Nov. 11, our country will honor its veterans as it does every year, with parades, ceremonies, speeches and patriotic music. Schools will welcome us into their classrooms and ask us to tell our stories, and everywhere we go, young and old alike, will clasp our hands and say, "Thank you for serving." We are blessed to live in a grateful nation...

Funeral services for Jack Darrell Coombs, 90, of Mapleton, formerly of Aurelia, will be Friday, Nov. 12 at 10:30 a.m. at the First Congregational Church, 500 Main St, Aurelia, with Pastor Bruce Rapp officiating. Visitation will be Thursday, Nov. 11, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia with the family present. Jack died Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, at the Burgess Health Center in Onawa...

Judy Ann Obbink, age 68 of Cherokee, passed away Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, at Careage Hills in Cherokee. Memorial services were held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cherokee. Rev. Larry Lemke officiated. Burial was at Oak Hill Cemetery in Cherokee. ...

Harlan "Shorty" Koeppen, 82, passed away Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010, at his residence in Sioux City. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Nov. 11, at 10:30 a.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, with Rev. Ray Kruger officiatong. Burial will be in the Afton Township Cemetery at rural Cherokee. ...

Funeral services for Doris B. French, 102, of Cherokee, formerly of Peterson, were held Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 2 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Peterson, with Pastor Michael Hyde officiating. Burial was in the Oakland Cemetery, Peterson. Visitation was held on Tuesday from 1 p.m. until service time at the church. The Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia was in charge of arrangements...