Stories from Monday, April 14, 2014

Mark Jacobs, businessman running as a Republican for the United States Senate in Iowa, met with several Cherokee County residents at Danny's Sport Stop during a campaign stop in Cherokee on Thursday. Jacobs A life-long Republican, Jacobs was previously CEO of electric energy company Reliant Energy. Originally joining Reliant as CFO in 2002 when it was near bankruptcy, Jacobs was an integral part of a team that managed a turnaround that saved the company...

Christensen Bros. Construction of Cherokee has announced the tentative work schedule for the replacement of the bridge located on River Road, immediately adjacent to Cherokee County Conservation offices and High Country Salvage. Clearing and grubbing work is under way, with the date of bridge closing now set for Monday, April 21. The road will remain closed until project completion - which is estimated in early July now with the announced delay...

Jan Carlson and Nicole Weathers from the Cherokee Regional Medical Center's Public Health Education Department recently visited the Cherokee Middle School's eighth grade science class to teach students about the many short and long-term consequences of tobacco use...

Last week, Cherokee VFW L.A. Wescott Post #2253 Commander Ed Boger presented four Certificates of Recognition from the National VFW Commander to Cherokee Washington High School and Cherokee Roosevelt Elementary School for the recent VFW Iowa Teacher Year honors. ...

The annual Cherokee VFW Easter Egg Hunt at Koser Spring Lake Park will be held on Saturday, April 19. The hunt will begin at 10 a.m. and organizers advise all to dress accordingly in case of inclement weather.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hot Dog Days in Cherokee. The Cherokee Chamber of Commerce would like to make this event the biggest and best one yet. Last year there were 30 businesses and organizations who participated. The Chamber would love to see others get involved and have fun with the Top Dog Contest...

On April 25, the Cherokee/Ida Drug Endangered Children (DEC) team is hosting "Light the Night DEC GLOW 5K," a fundraiser for drug endangered children in Cherokee and Ida Counties. The informal fun run will start at 8:30 p.m. and have 5K or one-mile options on the Cherokee Mental Health Institute Campus, with glow stops throughout the route...

The Cherokee City Council last week unanimously approved a labor settlement with the I.U.O.E. Union, and extended a 25-year electric franchise contract with existing supplier Mid-American Energy. The 3-year contract with the I.U.O.E. includes a 2% wage increase July 1st of each contract year and a .5% wage increase effective January 1st of each contract year; health insurance benefits remain the same for the 3-year contract; employee pays 3% of premium for single coverage; employee pays 15% of difference between single plan and dependent plan; On-Call pay increases from $8/day to $12/day; additional vacation leave authorizing 22.5 days of vacation for employees with 25 or more years of service; each public works employee shall receive $200 per contract year for all uniforms, clothing, boots, gloves, etc. ...

Wesley E. Hirschman of Marcus, 98, former long-time resident of Fielding and Cherokee, passed away Friday April 11, 2014 at Heartland Care Center in Marcus. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 16th, at 10:30 a.m. at the Memorial Presbyterian Church in Cherokee, with Rev. ...

Jessica and Justin Foresman of Cherokee are happy to announce the birth of their baby boy on April 2, 2014. Harrison Wayne Foresman was born at 4:52 p.m. He weighed 7 lb. 9 oz. and measured 20 1/2 inches long, and he was welcomed home by his brother, Cooper, and his sister, Rylee. Grandparents are Bill and Cathy Robinson and David and Anita Cougill...

April 12 Loretta Rosenthal of Cherokee April 14 Mary Bierman of Larrabee

CHEROKEE - Le Mars won Class 2A, and Ridge View captured the 1A crown at the boys' Tomahawk Relays in Cherokee Thursday night. The Bulldogs tallied 118 points, followed by Kingsley-Pierson/Woodbury Central 98, Spirit Lake Park 95, Spencer 94, Estherville-LC 65, OA-BCIG 34, MOC-Floyd Valley 30, Central Lyon 14, Cherokee 10...

MAPLETON - The River Valley track and field teams competed in last week's Maple Valley/Anthon-Oto Relays, with the RV girls making a strong showing for fourth place in the team standings. Denison-Schleswig won the girls division with 172 points, followed by IKM-Manning 140, MVAO 140, River Valley 81, Boyer Valley 76, and Charter Oak-Ute 58...

PRIMGHAR - The South O'Brien golf teams had beautiful weather here Thursday as they took on Hinton in a War Eagle Conference dual, and though the Wolverine golfers played well, the Blackhawks won both the girls and boys matches. The Hinton girls defeated SOS by a narrow three stroke margin, 210 - 213...

KINGSLEY - The Ridge View girls golf team played in a five team tournament here on Thursday, and the Raptors placed 4th, with a team score of 216. Ridge View was led by Emily Forristal, who shot a 52. Karlen Lamp posted a score of 53, Ashley Albers a 55, and Caitlyn Gottschalk 56...

QUIMBY - The Ridge View boys placed third in a five team field in a golf tournament here on Thursday, hosted by River Valley. Woodbury Central took team honors, posting a team total of 157, followed by Kingsley-Pierson, 174; Ridge View, 179; River Valley, 185 and Siouxland Christian, 196...

The Cherokee Washington girls had a great day on the tennis court Thursday, winning most of their matches against Estherville-Lincoln Central. Cherokee coach Tricia Langholdt-Vannatta said, "It was a fantastic way to start the season and we had beautiful weather to play in. ...

STORM LAKE - The defending State champion Alta-Aurelia girls cruised to a 201-282 win over Twin Lakes Conference rival Storm Lake Mary's in a golf dual at the Lake Creek Country Club here on Thursday. The Warriors' Erica Lockin was medalist with a round of 44 and teammate Jenna Snyder was runner-up medailist with a score of 48. ...

LE MARS - The young Cherokee Washington High girls track and field team featured four runner-up finishes and one third-place finish at last week's Le Mars Invitational. Individually for Cherokee, Madison Hodgdon was second in the 400 meters in a time of 1:06, and Brianna DeVos was second in the 3000 meters in 13:31...

South O'Brien golf (B & G) at LeMars Gehlen South O'Brien track (B & G) at Kingsley Russ Kraai Relays at Holstein - Ridge View, MMC, Alta-Aurelia (all coed) Cherokee Wash. track (coed) at Unity, Orange City River Valley golf (G) at Kingsley-Pierson...