Stories from Monday, April 13, 2015

Funeral services for Betty Wieland of Aurelia, 83, will be at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia, with Pastor Thomas Petersen and Nelva Petersen officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, rural Aurelia. Visitation at the church will be on Monday from 4 p.m. - 7p.m., with the family present from 5 - 7 p.m. A memorial fund has been established. The Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia is in charge of arrangements...

There will be a Sign Up for the Cherokee Swim Team on the Upper Level of the Cherokee Community Center on Tuesday April 21 from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. and again on Wednesday April 22 from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Members must be 18 years of age or younger, and they should be able to swim 20 meters on their own...

Congratulations to both the Varsity and Freshmen Large Group and Individual Speech students at Cherokee Washington High School! Both the Large Group and Individual Speech teams earned the Distinguished Academic Award from the Iowa High School Speech Association. This means that, collectively, the team members earned a GPA between 3.25 and 4.00 in the classroom...

The Cherokee School Board is meeting in the superintendent's office at noon today (Monday, April 13) in a special session to act on three personnel matters: 1.Accepting the resignation of Larry Weede as Cherokee Middle School principal; 2.Accepting the resignation of Dr. John Chalstrom as superintendent; and...

Jessica Rhea found the Golden Egg on Friday,April 10th, entitling her to the grand prize of $1,000 in furniture from Carey's Furniture in Cherokee. Jessica is seen here with Chris Reed of the Chronicle Times and Chad Carey of Carey's Furniture.

The Tomahawk Relays King and Queen candidates at the coronation ceremonies in the Washington High School auditorium on Thursday, April 9, were: (seated) Mikki Hinkhouse, Courtney Johnson, Kaitlan Kennebeck, Breeana DeVos and Brookelyn Hoeppner; (standing) Levi Murphy, Nathan Johnson, Brendan Rupp, Caleb Smith and Jesse Foxhoven. Jesse Foxhoven and Breeana DeVos were named King and Queen...

I came across this amusing question while looking through a Junior Master Gardener manual. Did you guess the answer? Soil. Sunflowers grow in soil, where they receive nutrients, water and support. Cows feed on plants that grow in soil and jeans are made from fibers that got their start in soil. We probably don't spend much time thinking about the fact that many of the clothes we wear wouldn't exist without soil, but as gardeners we do need to spend time thinking about the health of our soils...

Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative (NIPCO) presented the prestigious "N Award" to former Director and Board Treasurer Vernon Winterhof at its 2015 Annual Meeting, held in Sioux City on April 7th. Elected to the Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative Board of Directors in 2001, Winterhof of Aurelia joined the NIPCO Board as the Director Representative from Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative, where he had served since 1998...

Double Overtime Fitness and Event Center has attracted numerous customers already, having just opened in January of this year. The business, located at 228 West Main Street, in the former Central Bank building, is owned by Brandon and Wendy Slaughter of Cherokee, and the center provides personal training, sports sessions and agility sessions...

Five generations of a Cherokee family recently posed for this photo. Seated are Great-great -grandmother Connie Means, with the newest member of the family, Bennett Lee Jones, and Bennett's father, Tim Jones. Standing are Great-grandmother Julia Miller and Grandmother Dawn Miller. Photo contributed...

Robert D. Mortenson of Cherokee, 88, passed away Thursday evening, April 9, 2015 at Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, April 14th, at 10:30 at Oakdale Evangelical Free Church in rural Meriden, with Pastor Jim Hunter and Rev. ...

Dana Faye Kies of Tacoma, Washington, 58, formerly of Cherokee, passed away unexpectedly at her residence on Sunday, April 5, 2015. Memorial services in Tacoma were held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, 2015, at the Resurrection Lutheran Church, and Memorial services in Cherokee will be held at 10:30 a.m. ...

There will be a Sign Up for the Cherokee Swim Team on the Upper Level of the Cherokee Community Center on Tuesday April 21 from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. and on Wednesday April 22 from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Members must be 18 years of age or younger, and they should be able to swim 20 meters on their own...

A snow flurry in Cherokee County on Thursday, April 9, was more amusing than depressing. People understood it was a brief April aberration. It would not develop into a blizzard. It did not herald the coming of a long period of frigid temperatures and miserable travel conditions in the same way that a snow flurry in October would...

April 11 - Larry Walker of Cherokee April 13 - Jill Roethler of Cherokee