Stories from Thursday, November 21, 2013

Jean A. Hirschman of Cherokee, 66, passed away Saturday, November 16, 2013, at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Memorial services were held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 20, 2013, at Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee. Father Dan Guenther officiated. ...

Ryker David Lepley, infant son of Amanda Allbaugh and Doug Lepley, passed away Saturday, November 16, 2013, at a Des Moines Hospital. Funeral services will be held privately at a later date. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.greenwoodfuneral.com...

HOLSTEIN - VT Industries, Inc., the North American leader in the production of Architectural Wood Doors, has signed an agreement to acquire Creative Composites Ltd. Creative Composites is a leader in the innovation and production of STC (Sound Transmission Class) and fire core materials for the Architectural Door Industry...

The Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner held at Carey's Restaurant is scheduled for Thanksgiving Day, November 28, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event, sponsored by the First Church of Christ in Cherokee, is free, and the public is invited to share in this Thanksgiving meal. Carry-out meals are available upon request...

This week's Cherokee Chamber Coffee will be hosted by Cherokee Villa, 1011 N. Roosevelt St., at 9:30 a.m. on Friday.

Construction has started on the newest spec home built in the Doherty Addition by the Cherokee Development Corporation with cooperation from Cherokee State Bank.The address of the new home will be 847 Amber. The basement has been dug at the site, with concrete scheduled to be poured soon. The crew will be working to get the home enclosed, so that the interior can be completed over the winter...

Members of the Ridge View FFA Chapter recently went to Louisville, Kentucky, for the National FFA Convention. They took a chartered bus with the FFA Chapters from Boyden-Hull, South O'Brien, and Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn,and among the group's passengers was South O'Brien's Evan Magnusson, a national FFA finalist in forage production.

Students in grades K-2 at Cherokee's Roosevelt School were each presented with a potato recently, compliments of Taco John's and the Fareway grocery store. The students were asked to decorate their potato and return it to Taco John's. When bringing in their decorated potato, each student was given a taco token, good for one free beef taco. The prizes awarded in each grade level were as follows:...

Approximately 160 high school musicians from 40 area high schools will combine their talents at the 60th Annual Northwest Iowa Honor Band Festival Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 7 p.m. in Eppley Auditorium on the Morningside College Campus in Sioux City...

SHELDON -- Iowa State University Extension (ISU) and Outreach, the Iowa Pork Producers' Association and the Iowa Pork Industry Center are hosting an Advance Reproduction Conference for swine producers, veterinarians, and other allied industry consultants at Northwest Community College in Sheldon(Building A, Room 119) on Tuesday December 3,2013, beginning at 10 a.m...

MidAmerican Energy said that construction work has started on the 1050 megawatt (MW), $1.9 billion wind energy expansion program they formally announced on May 8th. On August 9, the Iowa Utilities Board approved an agreement between MidAmerican Energy and the Office of Consumer Advocate granting state approval for the wind generation expansion...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure...

My goodness! This month seems to be flying by! Next Thursday is Thanksgiving already. We have been having fun at the library programs doing Thanksgiving activities, crafts, and learning new games that we can play that do not require a computer. "Roll a Turkey" was a dice game the boys and girls played this month. ...

The Cherokee Washington High girls volleyball team, coming off one of its better seasons in several years competing in the rugged Lakes Conference, earned two First Team spots and two Second Team spots on this year's All-Lakes Conference selections...

1. Baby Boomers, 11; 2. Honey Badgers, 8; 3. Hits and Giggles, 5; 4. Chronicle Times 1. Ball Busters, 8; 2. Hawkeyes, 8; 3. Icon Ag & Turf , 4; 4. Destructive Divas, 3 1. Shinqueallas, 8; 2. Mark Crop Ins. , 7; 3. Hy-Vee Deuce, 2; 4. Thursday, 1...