Stories from Monday, November 24, 2014

On Thursday our nation will be celebrating something called Thanksgiving Day. Last I heard, it was some kind of national holiday or something. Never hear much about it anymore, though. It seems like the media and stores start whooping it up for an unofficial holiday called Hallowe'en about mid-September, and as soon as that passes, they go into full pre-Christmas mode...

With each passing year, fewer Americans can immediately answer the question, "What major event happened on Nov. 22, 1963?" For those old enough to recall that date, it is known as one of those moments of history that happen maybe once every two or three decades, when the world suddenly and irreversibly changes...

Josh Allender, 35, Cherokee, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder in Cherokee County District Court on Wednesday. The charge resulted from the alleged firing of a gun several times out of an upstairs window at his residence on Oct. 30 after police responded to a report that an individual was threatening suicide...

Four o'clock, June 7, 2014 marked the time and date that Stacie Ruth Stoelting, daughter of Dr. Wendell and Mary Stoelting of Cherokee, became the bride of Rev. James Hudzinski, son of Jeff and Cindy Hudzinski. Pastor Doug Corlew of Summit Evangelical Free Church conducted the candlelit ceremony. ...

Gary Peck has traveled around the country participating in auto races, first as a formula 1 driver and more recently as a prototype 1 driver. He has roots in Cherokee, the son of Garland and Fern Nelson Peck, and two local residents have participated on his pit crew - Lee Nelson, who is Peck's uncle, and Scott Simms...

The Cherokee Regional Medical Center Hospice will once again have lighted Christmas trees in Cherokee, Marcus, Aurelia and Holstein during the holiday season. These trees are a special way of remembering your friends and loved ones. You may help light the trees through a tax-deductible donation of any size. The money that is raised through this holiday tradition is used to help CRMC Hospice continue to serve and provide end-of-life and bereavement care in the area...

The Cherokee County Legacy Foundation has received $88,496 from the County Endowment Fund to be granted to local organizations for 2015. Grant applications can be located at www.iowacommunityfoundations.org/cheroke.... Applicants must print and complete the application pages and then email to cclf@gmail.com between Monday, Dec. 1 and Friday, Jan. 30...

Because Dakota Access Pipeline LLC (DAPL) filed an application with the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) on Nov. 6th to construct, operate and maintain their proposed 30-inch diameter Bakken crude oil pipeline project across Iowa, DAPL now must hold landowner's informational meetings in all 18 counties that the hazardous liquids pipeline will cross...

CEDAR FALLS - Jason Hess replaced starter Brady Dicks at quarterback for Newell-Fonda in the second half of Thursday's 8-man championship football game against #3 Fremont Mills of Tabor, after Dicks went down with an injury. Hess then led the Mustangs to a thrilling 39-35 victory...

CEDAR FALLS - A Cherokee native highly accomplished in the medical field received a special honor at last week's Class 3A Championship Football game here, winning the coveted Iowa Sports Medicine Award from the Iowa High School Athletic Association...

Marie Elaine O'Dell of Rossville, Indiana, 72, a former resident of Quimby, passed away Thursday, November 20, 2014, at her home. Marie was born in Cherokee on September 24, 1942, to George and Dola Wymore Clark, and graduated from Quimby High School in 1960. ...

Katie Jo Burkhardt, daughter of William and Karen Burkhardt of Cherokee, will be exchanging wedding vows with Peiqi Zhou at Memorial Presbyterian Church in Cherokee on December 13, 2014 at 4:30 p.m, with Rev. Ethan Sayler performing the ceremony. Katie met Peiqi in his native China during the four years she resided in that country, and the groom's parents, Mr. Zhou and Mrs. Wan of Wuhan, China, will be special guests at the wedding ceremony...