Stories from Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Cherokee Chamber of Commerce welcomed Mainstreet Catering as a new Chamber member on Friday during the weekly Chamber Coffee with a Red Ribbon ceremony. Located at 223 W. Main Street, Mainstreet Catering will be able to supply all your catering needs along with providing a building that is available for rent to the general public for a variety of occasions. Photo by Mike Leckband...

The Cherokee Educational Foundation's annual Benefit Dinner and Auction is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 22 on the upper level of the Cherokee Community Center. This enjoyable "evening out" will begin at 6 p.m. with a social hour and viewing and bidding on several valuable silent auction items. A delicious dinner of prime rib or fish, catered by The Family Table, will follow, and the evening will conclude with the lively and entertaining "live" auction...

This month's Cherokee Sanford Museum's Artist of the Month is Steph Fitzsimmons of Des Moines. Fitzsimmons is an Iowa artist who specializes in painting dogs (and sometimes cats). Mainly her paintings are acrylics on canvas. Sometimes she switches it up and works in pencil, ink, colored pencil, watercolor, digitally in Photoshop or Illustrator, or some crazy combination of these...

Voters in Cherokee County went to the polls on Tuesday to determine the fate of Public Measure 18-A. A overwhelming majority (93.23 percent) favored the Public Measure, which asked: "Shall the Board of Directors of Western Iowa Tech Community College in the Counties of Buena Vista, Carroll, Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison, Ida, Monona, Plymouth, Sac, Shelby, Sioux and Woodbury, State of Iowa, cause to be levied a tax not to exceed six (6) cents per thousand dollars of assessed value in any one year for a period of ten consecutive fiscal years beginning with the tax levy to be made for collection in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, for either of the following purposes: program sharing between community colleges or for the purchase of instructional equipment; or for such other purposes as authorized by law, as provided in Chapter 260C, Section 28 of the Code of Iowa?". ...

The Cherokee community needs the public's help in measuring community assets. The City has been selected by the Iowa Department of Health for a "Fit For Life" project. The Cherokee Asset meeting will be Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 5 p.m. at the Cherokee Western Iowa Tech Community College Campus, Room 301...

Vernon L. Riedemann, age 70 of Marcus, passed away Saturday, January 26, 2013, at the Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City.. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at the United Methodist Church in Marcus. Visitation was at 2:00 p.m. ...

Gillian E. Ament, age 54, of Silver Springs, Maryland, formerly of Cherokee, passed away Monday, February 4, 2013 at her residence in Maryland. Funeral arrangements are currently pending with the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.greenwoodfuneral.com...

Simon Mummert, left, and Sam Zindal, both members of the Cherokee Youth Wrestling Club, won first place medals at a recent tournament at Lake Park. Photo contributed.

Alamo, TX - James Herman Nelson, born on May 28, 1931 in Cherokee, passed away Monday, February 4, 2013 at his residence in Alamo, at the age of 81. James married Esther Lee Wallace on July 18, 1952 in Cherokee, and the couple had just celebrated their 60th anniversary in July...

This week's Chamber Coffee, at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, will be at Danny's Sports Spot, 1013 S. 2nd St,, and will be hosted by Delta Properties and Cherokee Career Women.

Alanna Valentine and Gabe Fuller of Cherokee are happy to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Alanna, the daughter of Troy and Leanne Valentine of Cherokee, is a 2008 graduate of Cherokee Washington High School and 2012 graduate of Buena Vista University, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. ...

Molli Hasenwinkel and Nate Overturf of Aurelia are pleased to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding, which will take place at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Aurelia on Saturday April 13, 2013. Parents of the couple are Rod and Cheri Hasenwinkel of Aurelia and Bill and Linda Overturf of Adair...

Every 13 minutes, someone dies on America's roads, amounting to more than 40,000 deaths consistently each year. Traffic crashes are the leading killer of people ages 1-34, and the real calamity here is how complacent our nation has become about these very preventable tragedies...

Whew... January's over! That month seemed to go on forever as it was full of meetings and things to do, some with deadlines. During January the Friends of the Cherokee Public Library met to discuss results of the book basket fund raiser. Their profit was $2026.50. They also had some lovely gifts and with book sale proceeds added in, it gave them a very healthy bank account. They will be able to do a lot for the library this year...

DES MOINES - The pairings for the Girls' High School Regional Basketball Tournaments were announced on Monday. Here are the opening games for the teams in the Chronicle Times' coverage area: In Class 1A, Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn will play Remsen St. Mary's at Marcus on Thursday, February 7th, with the winner to play West Sioux at Hawarden on Tuesday, Feb. ...

BOONE - The pairings for the upcoming Iowa Boys High School District Basketball Tournament have been announced. Here are the scheduled games for the teams in the Chronicle Times coverage area: Marcus-Meriden-Cleghhorn will play Kingsley-Pierson at Marcus on Thursday Feb. 14, and the winner of that game will play either Gehlen Catholic or the winner of the Remsen St. Mary's - Spalding first round game on Tuesday, February 19...

ALTA - The Alta-Aurelia and Storm Lake St. Mary's girls played a basketball game here Tuesday that was close all the way, and in the end the Warriors wound up on top by a narrow 65-62 margin. Jenna Snyder led Warrior scoring with 14 points and teammate Taler Stanton had a double-double, with 10 points and 11 rebounds. ...

MARCUS - It was a long night on the hardwood for the Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn girls on Tuesday, as they netted just 12 points over the first three quarters of their War Eagle Conference game here against Unity Christian. MMC equaled that total in the 4th quarter, though, falling to the Knights by a final score of 59-24...

MARCUS - The Unity Christian boys defeated the host Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn team on Tuesday, 60-54. MMC was led by Dylan Spieler, who scored 24 points and had six steals on defense; Nate Rassel, who scored 10 points and took down nine rebounds; and Zach Kellogg, who scored nine points...

Here are the latest standings for the Cherokee Parks & Recreation Adult Volleyball Leagues: Women's League - 1. Hawkeyes, 36 wins; 2. Honey Baders, 33; 3. Icon Ag & Tuef, 20; 4. Hits & Giggles, 16; 5. Chronicle Times, 14; 6. The Pub (Serve-ivors) Tourney Play starts in three weeks...

SIOUX CITY - Four of Morningside's elite track & field athletes competed against predominately NCAA Division I competition at the University of Nebraska's Frank Sevigne Invitational indoor meet held Friday and Saturday in Lincoln. The Mustangs more than held their own with four top 10 finishes, including a first place performance from Breanna Mathes and a school-record effort from Taylor Chapman...