Stories from Monday, December 23, 2013

LE MARS - Righting several first-half wrongs, the gritty Cherokee Washington High girls roared back with a 17-2 scoring run in the third quarter to take command of a competitive basketball game with Le Mars here Friday night, only to lose out at the end in a bitter 57-56 defeat in entertaining Lakes Conference action...

LE MARS - The inexperienced Cherokee Braves allowed the fast-paced tempo preferred by a veteran Le Mars club to take over the game in the first half and the result was a convincing 65-28 loss to the potent Bulldogs (5-1) in Lakes Conference basketball action here Friday night...

ESTHERVILLE - The Cherokee Braves could not overcome the 3-man juggernaut of David Hughes, Carsten Bosch and Joe Heinrichs as they fell to Estherville-Lincoln Central, 79-47, in Lakes Conference basketball action here last week. Hughes had a double-double, scoring 21 points and pulling down 13 rebounds, while Bosch scored 18 points and Heinrichs 17 in leading the Midgets to their fifth win in seven games this season...

There will be no edition of the Chronicle Times on Wednesday due to the Christmas Holiday.

Cherokee County employees participated in "Casual for a Cause," a campaign designed to encourage charitable donations, this year. "Casual for a Cause" allowed county employees to dress casually at work on Fridays for exchange for a promised donation to a charitable organization...

As part of the upcoming 14th Cherokee Jazz & Blues Festival, musical wizard Studebaker John will be performing at the Cherokee Bowl's Blue Room on Saturday, Jan. 18 from 9 p.m. to midnight. Studebaker John Grimaldi was born in an Italian-American section of Chicago, and he started playing harmonica at age 7...

The Iowa High School Football Coaches Association has selected the coaches for the 2014 Iowa Shrine All-Star Football Classic to be played at 4 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the UNI Dome in Cedar Falls. The North head coach is Toby Lorenzen of Central Lyon/George-Little Rock, and assistant coaches are Travis Schipper of Cherokee, Bob Lape of North Fayette Valley, Steve Diediker and Bruce Held of Hinton, and Kevin Bowman of Maquoketa...

ONAWA - The Ridge View wrestling team traveled here Thursday night to compete againist West Monona and Woodbine in wrestling action, and the Raptors defeated West Monona, 69-12, in their first dual and bested Woodbine, 51-21, in their second dual...

The faculty, staff and students on the Cherokee campus of Western Iowa Tech Community College, along with the Cherokee Hy-Vee store, recently worked with a local charity in determining a deserving area family to receive a donation of a live Christmas Tree, toys, and food items for Christmas...

CRMC Wellness Center celebrates 1,000,000 visitors At 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, Mary Letsche of Cherokee arrived at the CRMC Wellness Center with the goal of putting in some good miles on the treadmill. She quickly found out, however, that this was not just an ordinary visit to the facility. She was the winner of a bag full of goodies and six personal training sessions for being the lucky 1,000,000th customer at the Wellness Center...

Christmas came early for Cherokee School District Transportation Director Mike Wiederholt last week when the Cherokee Board of Education approved the purchase of two new school buses for the District's aging fleet. The School Board approved the purchase of two new buses from Thomas Bus Sales Company at a quoted price of $82,614 each, for a total of $165,228. The buses will arrive in late February, according to Wiederholt...

Ernest L. Thompson of Newburg, Oregon, 88, passed away Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Graveside services will be on Saturday, December 28th, at 10:30 a.m. at the Cedar Cemetery, rural Larrabee, Iowa. Visitation will be on Friday, December 27th from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. with the family present from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com...

CORALVILLE - Dr. Ron Robinson of Robinson Family Wellness in Coralville was featured as a contributing author of "The ART of Being Healthy - Wellness Concepts from the Pros." In his chapter, Dr. Robinson, a Cherokee Washington HS alum, takes readers through an exploration of their current beliefs about health, and challenges them to discover the true meaning of health and wellness...

1.Newell-Fonda; 2. Burlington-Notre Dame; 3.Colo-Nesco; 4. Lynnville-Sully; 5. Murray; 6.Stanton; 7. Dunkerton; 8. Janesville; 9. Ar-We-Va; 10. Bedford; 14. LeMars Gehlen Catholic 1.Hull Western Christian; 2. Iowa City Regina; 3. Manson-NW Webster; 4. Cascade; 5. Fort Dodge St. Edmond; 6. Hinton; 7. North-Linn; 8. Dike-New Hartford; 9. Hudson; 10. South Central Calhoun; 13. Maple Valley/Anthon-Oto...

ESTHERVILLE - The Cherokee Braves could not overcome the 3-man juggernaut of David Hughes, Carsten Bosch and Joe Heinrichs as they fell to Estherville-Lincoln Central, 79-47, in Lakes Conference basketball action here on Tuesday. Hughes had a double-double, scoring 21 points and pulling down 13 rebounds, while Bosch scored 18 points and Heinrichs 17 in leading the Midgets to their fifth win in seven games this season...

The holidays may be a cheerful time for most people, but for many others they can be a painful reminder of a lost loved one. Individuals and families struggling with grief can find that grief all the more intense and quite difficult to cope with during the holidays...

(the following column has been published during two previous Christmas seasons,but I feel the message is worth repeating frequently - dw) The origins of the Christmas holiday, like Thanksgiving, I fear, seem to be neglected by many people. Certainly not all people, mind you, but many...