Stories from Friday, December 5, 2014

Matthew and Erika Jenness of Moville are happy to announce the birth of their baby boy, who was born on October 28, 2014. Karson Matthew Jenness was born at 9:07 p.m., weighed 8 lbs. 0 oz. and measured 20 inches long. He was welcomed home by his brothers, McKinley and Korver, and their dog, Ray. Grandparents are Perry and Barb Slota of Washta and Lloyd and Tami Jenness of Moville, and great-grandparents are Sylveta Slota and Margaret Stanberg of Cherokee and Shirley Crawford of Moville...

CORRECTIONVILLE - Hot-shooting West Monona raced away to a 30-13 lead in the first quarter and made that bulge hang on to claim a 68-38 boys basketball victory over River Valley here Tuesday night. Wyatt Fitch led the host Wolverines with 14 points, followed by Tucker Zahnley 11, Matthew Sniderhan nine, and Sam Briese eight...

Visiting Sergeant Bluff-Luton jumped out to a 23-11 first-quarter lead and steadily built on that to pocket an 80-41 boys basketball victory over the Cherokee Braves here Tuesday night. The Warriors connected on 27-60 field goals for a warm 45 percent shooting effort and out-rebounded Cherokee 35-22 to dominate the game from the early going...

SIOUX CITY - Ridge View boys' basketball coach Ken Slater said he knew their Western Valley Conference game against Siouxland Community Christian would be tough "coming off our win last night (Monday) and playing away from home. Siouxland Christian also shoots well at their place and they made it difficult all night."...

SIOUX CITY - The Ridge View girls basketball team was able to battle through a tough game and get their first win of the season here Tuesday night, beating Siouxland Community Christian by a score of 41-33. The teams were tied 19-19 at the half, and Ridge View had girls in foul trouble at that time, and the Raptors hadn't really gotten into a rhythm yet at that point...

AKRON - The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn girls jumped out to a 17-8 first quarter lead over host Akron-Westfield and the Lady Eagles never looked back, going on to post a 60-36 win over the Westerners in War Eagle Conference basketball action Tuesday. MMC was led by Sarah Dreckman, who scored 17 points, grabbed six rebounds, and dished out seven assists. ...

AKRON - The Akron-Westfield boys, led by Joel Brenner, got off to a 36-15 halftime lead over Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn, then cruised to a 61-41 victory in War Eagle Conference basketball action here on Tuesday. Brenner, a 6-3 senior, scored 24 points and pulled down 15 rebounds as the Westerners were never threatened. ...

MARCUS- The Alta-Aurelia Warriors traveled to Marcus on Tuesday to start their varsity wrestling schedule with a double dual with Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and Ridge View. The Warriors won both duals and the coaches were impressed with their effort they put out on the mat...

MAPLETON - The youthful Cherokee Braves, featuring six first-year varsity wrestlers, dropped a pair of well-contested matches in a double dual here Tuesday night also featuring host Maple Valley/Anthon-Oto and MOC-Floyd Valley. The Braves lost 60-24 to the Dutchmen, and 48-36 to the Rams in a dual that was decided by two close matches that could have gone either way...

IDA GROVE - The River Valley girls had trouble scoring in a 38-29 loss at Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove here Monday night. The visiting Wolverines could manage just 12-47 field goals for 26 percent and had no player reach double-figure scoring in the setback. RV netted 4-8 free throws...

IDA GROVE - Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove bombed River Valley, 78-12, in a boys basketball season opener here Monday night, after roaring out to a 20-0 lead after the first quarter, and an insurmountable 49-2 halftime lead. The young Wolverines scored 10 of their 12 total points in the third quarter, and were shut out 18-0 in the fourth period...

All four of the competitors in this year's celebrity Scrooge competition in Cherokee raised significant amounts for the local food pantries. Scrooge candidates John Comstock, Sandy Siegel, Tim Haupert and Tom Letsche raised a combined total of more than $6,000, but Comstock edged out the others and he was named Grand Marshal of the 2014 Christmas Parade, held in Cherokee on Thursday evening. Look for pictures of the parade in the Monday edition of the Chronicle Times...

Among Cherokee and O'Brien County landowners, awareness has grown since the Nov. 6th, 2014 announcement that the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) and Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) were set to hold landowners' informational meetings to explain IUB procedures and the scope of the proposed 30-inch diameter Dakota Access Pipeline Project (DAPL) through Iowa...

People gathered at the newly completed Hospice Garden in Cherokee on the evening of December 2nd to participate in the 19th annual Tree of Lights Ceremony and to remember loved ones who have passed. This was also the one fund raising event that the 20-year-old Cherokee Regional Medical Center Hospice holds every year, according to Hospice Nurse Manager Lynn Ivarson...

An Advent Tryst for the Christmas Season will be sponsored again this year by the Memorial Presbyterian Women and the St. Paul Methodist Church Ladies. The Tryst will take place at the Memorial Presbyterian Church in Cherokee on Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 9:30 a.m...

Ronald C. Johnson, of Cherokee, 72, passed away peacefully at his home Tuesday morning, December 2, 2014, surrounded by his family. Funeral services will be held on Friday, December 5th, at 11 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cherokee. Pastor Jon Riggert will officiate. ...

Recently, several Cherokee County employees, including the Board of Supervisors, along with staff members from the city of Cherokee, R.J. Thomas Mfg., Hy-Vee Grocery Store, and Hy-Vee Distribution Center, attended SAVE (Surviving A Violent Encounter) Yourself training...

Bethany and Kayla Boeck, formerly of Alta, have received the WITCC TRiO-Student Support Services Achiever Award for December. This award recognizes Western Iowa Tech TRIO students for demonstrating qualities of leadership and citizenship while achieving collegiate academic success. ...

Bomber and Amy Fuller of Sutherland are happy to announce the birth of their baby girl, who was born on November 24, 2014. Charlotte Jo Fuller was born at 12:35 a.m., weighed 7 lb. 11 oz., and measured 19 inches long, and she was welcomed home by her brother Ryan and her sister Ryleigh. Charlotte's grandparents are Glenn and Pam Fuller of Paullina and Les and Sandy Zearing of Hartley...

I recently wrote a column about the groupthink orthodoxy of both liberal and conservative media pundits who support military intervention in Iraq. There is animated disagreement, largely for cosmetic purposes, on the form this intervention should take, but there is general agreement that we must interject ourselves in a 1,400-year-old struggle between Sunni and Shia factions, because, although this has had disastrous effects during the past two decades, this time it will be different...

If we could end the frigid temperatures and excessive snow by an editorial critical of such immoderate weather, we would certainly write such an editorial. However, complaining will do no good, so the best thing we can do is keep active during the winter months...

The following article from a Michigan City, Indiana, paper will be of interest to our reader,inasmuch as Walter L Mellor, son-in-law of E. C. Herrick, is one of the inventors, and the further fact that the new State Bank in this city is to be equipped with the device...