Stories from Friday, October 17, 2014

SPENCER-The Tornado swimmers swam in a "pinked out" pool here on Monday in a rematch of their recent home meet with Spencer and Algona, and the results were very similar, as expected, but the "Pink Out" event made for a great crowd and several High School principals from the competing teams took a plunge in the pink tinted pool - with a little help from some of their students - to raise money for fighting breast cancer, all in honor of the mother of one of the Spencer swimmers, who is fighting the disease. ...

CARROLL- It was another successful night overall for the Storm Lake Girls Swim Team recently, when they swam a double dual with Carroll and Boone. The Tornadoes came out on top against Boone by a score of 49-45 and they tied with Carroll with 47 points earned by each team...

SIOUX CITY-The Storm Lake girls' swim team had a good meet against a strong Sioux City Metro team here recently. Though Metro came out ahead, scoring 100 points to Storm Lake's 65, Storm Lake coach Jodi B. Mongan stated that "There were many great races and it was a fun meet."...

DES MOINES - The Storm Lake High School girls' swimming team, which is coached by Cherokee's Jodi B. Mongan and includes several Cherokee swimmers, has been assigned to the Fort Dodge Regional Meet, according to the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union...

MARCUS - The War Eagle Conference Cross Country Meet was run here on Monday, and runners from the strong Orange City Unity Christian teams swept the first four individual places in both the Boys varsity and Girls varsity divisions, and not surprisingly, also took the team championships in both divisions as well...

The Cherokee Braves baseball team is looking for a building to use this winter for throwing and hitting. The facility must be big enough to set up a couple of batting cages plus a few stations to allow players to sharpen their skills before the spring season...

HOLSTEIN - Logan Richard was on the receiving end of two touchdowns - one from each opposing quarterback - to fuel Ridge View's convincing 35-0 Homecoming whitewash of Sibley-Ocheyedan in Class 1A District football action here Friday night. Richard, who was earlier named the Rideg View Homecoming King, caught a TD pass from Raptor QB John Kofmehl, returned an interception 70 yards off of Generals' QB Garrett Sayler, and tallied two 2-point conversions to put up 16 of Ridge's View's 35-point total.. ...

Earlier this year, the Grand Meadow Heritage Center near Washta received a $5,000 grant from the Cherokee County Legacy Foundation, and with that grant money, GMHC began a restoration project in its Assembly Room at the Grand Meadow School. Located on the top floor, the Assembly Room was in dire need of repairs. Nearly two years ago, the roof on the north half at the school began leaking, and water directly affected the Assembly Room...

Real employees, a real company, and an exciting reality TV show, "American Executive" is the latest unscripted sensation to hit the small screen. Television executives have invaded a publishing business, and for two months every move the employees make is captured on film. ...

Ralph "Rod" Johnson of Moville, 67, passed away Tuesday morning, October 14, 2014 at his residence. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 18th, at 10 a.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, with Father Richard Ries officiating, and burial will be in the Silver Township Cemetery in rural Quimby. ...

The Cherokee County Auditor's Office will be open on Saturday Oct. 25 and Saturday Nov. 1, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for absentee voting for the General Election. Oct. 25 is the Pre-Registration deadline for the Nov. 4, General Election and any new voter registrations after this date will require a current photo ID and proof of residency...

A benefit spaghetti dinner and live auction are planned Saturday, Nov. 1 for cancer victim John Langschwager of Cherokee. The benefit will be at the Cherokee Community Center, and will begin with a free-will donation dinner at 5 p.m., to be followed by the live auction at 6 p.m.and basket raffle drawings at 7 p.m. for fabulous items donated by Cherokee area merchants...

Rick Emswhiler of Emswhiler Architects and Jeff Frank of Morrissey Engineering were present at Tuesday's meeting of the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors to update the supervisors on the Law Enforcement Center expansion project. The two stated that they have inspected the electrical system at the L.E.C. ...

The Cherokee Symphony will begin its 59th season with the presentation of the ever-popular Pops Concert to be held Sunday, Oct. 26, 4 p.m., at the Cherokee Community Center. Ted Hallberg, cellist and string teacher/music coordinator for the LeMars Community School District, will begin his second season as conductor of the Symphony. A number of musicians, representing 21 communities, have committed to this year's concert schedule, resulting in a full orchestra...

Service providers like Cherokee County Work Services (CCWS) that run sheltered workshops or pre -vocational work centers for people with disabilities anxiously await the release of new rules that will determine their organization's future. In fact, sheltered workshops could disappear entirely as dollars are redistributed to agencies federally mandated to integrate clients into community employment...

ALTA - A recurring theme at Monday's monthly meeting of the Alta and Aurelia school boards was the use of both districts' buildings or fields by outside groups. In Old Business, the Aurelia Board formally approved the use of the football field and practice field, locker room, and gymnasium by the Northwest Iowa Bulldogs football team after the group submitted proof of insurance...

Hallowe'en used to be such a simple occasion. Kids dressed up in their favorite costumes and embarked on a night of trick-or-treating. They then spent the rest of the night gorging on candy. It wasn't really a "holiday" because no one got off work or school. It was just a fun event...

The Cherokee High School football team defeated the Sibley team by a score of 32 to 0. In the game played at Sibley, last Saturday October 10. The game on the whole would be considered an exceptionally clean game, the only penalty being for off side, and that occurring but twice during the whole game, one for Sibley and one for Cherokee...