Stories from Wednesday, July 1, 2015

The South O'Brien girls continued their busy softball schedule last week, playing a total of eight games. Their initial game was against the always tough Hinton Blackhawks and the Wolverines were up by a score of 8-2 after three innings of play. In the 4th inning, however, Hinton scored five runs of their own to come within one run of the lead. ...

PAULLINA - South O'Brien hosted a War Eagle Conference baseball game against Gehlen Catholic last Thursday, and Gehlen got an early jump on the Wolverines, scoring two runs in the first inning, five in the second, and adding another run in the 3rd, to hold an 8-0 lead. The Wolverines would answer back in the bottom of the 3rd with two runs of their own, with Cody Johanson driving in Keaton Rohrbaugh with a single and Johanson later scoring on a passed ball, but despite some threats, they were...

The South O'Brien baseball team started last week off by traveling to Hinton on Monday for a War Eagle Conference game against the Hinton Blackhawks. The Blackhawks continued to play great baseball, as they have all year, shutting the Wolverines down,10-0,in five innings...

The Ridge View Softball Team ran into a tough Maple Valley/Anthon-Oto team on Wednesday June 24th and lost 3-0. Katie Davidson took the hard luck loss on the mound. She threw a nice game, giving up three runs on four singles. all in the 5th inning. while walking one and striking out one...

ALTA - Five inches of rain in Coon Rapids forced a last-minute game site change last Thursday for the Alta-Aurelia-Coon Rapids-Bayard baseball game, with the teams meeting on the Alta field instead. Facing an opponent ranked 4th in the state in Class 1A, the Warriors struck early, scoring three runs in the first two innings, and they were never behind in a 6-3 non-conference victory over the Crusaders...

MARCUS - The Cherokee Police Reserves 11th annual Golf Tournament is scheduled for July 13 at the Marcus Golf Club. The 4-person best shot tourney costs $45 per person ($180 per team) and includes 18 holes of golf, morning pastries and lunch, and door prizes...

MARCUS - The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Athletic Boosters are hosting a 4-person Best Shot Golf Tournament Saturday, July 25, at the Marcus Golf Course. The 18-hole Tournament costs $120 per team and includes a free will lunch and prizes. There's a shotgun start at 10 a.m. The tourney is limited to 18 teams of players high school age and above...

Ladies'"DARE TO DISCOVER" your artistic side at the 2015 Cherokee County Fair. Participants at this year's Ladies Day Program will be painting on 11 x 16 barn board to create an Americana Masterpiece/ The program will be from 1-3 p.m.on Saturday July 18th at the newly air-conditioned Bomgaars Conference Center on the Cherokee County Fairgrounds...

Join us on Saturday, July 18th, for demonstrations and presentations on the north end of the Commercial building on the Cherokee County Fairgrounds. Presentations will start on the hour, beginning at 9 a.m, and continue throughout the day on the hour. There will be door prizes and goodie bags for those who come and listen to a variety of presenters. Each presentation will last approximately 1/2 hour...

The 92nd annual Cherokee County Fair is Thursday, July 16 through Sunday, July 19. Among main events this year are 7 p.m. Thursday, July 16 T&C Bullriding, Barrell Racing, and Mutton Busting, with fireworks to follow; 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 17 Nashville Recording Country Artist Casey Muessigmann; 7 p.m. ...

Pilot Rock Chapter NSDAR presented Charlotte Siegel a Certificate of Appreciation from the Department of Defense recognizing Charlotte and her family sacrifice made during the Vietnam War. This is the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. Charlotte lost a son during the war and is a Gold Star Mother. ...

Because of the July 4th holiday, the Chronicle Times office will be closed on Friday, July 3. Rather than a Friday newspaper, there will be a Thursday, July 2 newspaper this week.

A 2' x 4' 50th anniversary map of the Korean War. displayed in the VA booth at Veteran's Appreciation Day at the Cherokee County Fairgrounds on June 20th. is missing, and the Veteran's Affairs Office requests that it be returned to their office as soon as possible...

Jillian Galloway has been dancing as long as she can remember and wants to share her passion with others in the Cherokee area. The 23-year-old New York native is taking over the dance studio at the old Garfield School building, 515 West Cedar, that has been operated by Libby Peterson, who will be leaving Cherokee for college soon...

Ivan Theisen of Marcus, age 88 , passed away Thursday, June 25, 2015 at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. Funeral services were held Tuesday, June 30, at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Name Catholic Church in Marcu, with. Father Dan Guenther officiating. Visitation was on Monday, June 29, beginning at 2 p.m. ...

Marcella Panhorst of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, 79, passed away on June 21, 2015, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Marcella was born in Cherokee, Iowa on May 28, 1936, to Walter and Margaret Denny. Marcella owned and operated a printing company in Chicago for a number of years, and after she sold the business, she moved to Door County, Wisconsin, where over the years she worked for Emerson Electric, 27 Pines Golf Course and the Maritime Museum. ...

Funeral services for Dr. Thayer "Zip" Hoover, 57, were held Saturday, June 27, 2015, at Spirit Life Fellowship in Spirit Lake. Thayer Charles Hoover, son of June (Thayer) and Robert Hoover, was born October 7, 1957 in Freeport, Illinois. He graduated from Fort Dodge High School in 1975 and later graduated from veterinary school at Iowa State University in 1982. ...

The Cherokee Washington High girls won their fifth game in a row with two victories Friday at the two-day Spencer Softball Tournament, defeating Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn 13-0, and taking down MOC-Floyd Valley 11-8. Kaely Hummel totaled four hits, including a home run, three RBI and three runs scored to pace Cherokee past MMC-RU, while Lindsay Williams was 3-3 with a triple and two RBI, and Paityn Hagberg 2-2 with two RBI and two runs scored. ...

The comin' on Cherokee Braves claimed their sixth consecutive victory with a doubleheader 12-2 and 11-5 sweep of Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen-Union in Cherokee Saturday, that on the heels of a 11-1 conquest of Storm Lake here last week. Eric Peterson was 2-3 with two RBI and two runs scored to lead the Braves past the Tornadoes, while Mason Pitts went 2-3 with a double, RBi and two runs scored. ...

Trips, family picnics and fireworks are among the activities coming up this weekend for people across the country. Safety awareness should also be a Fourth of July tradition. Traffic is always heavy near the Fourth of July holiday. Unlike for some years, this Fourth of July falls on a day that creates a three day weekend so traffic may be particularly heavy and drivers should be particularly cautious...

A few weeks ago one of my friends on Facebook had a post about "cruising the loop. " For those of you who grew up in Cherokee,I'm sure the loop was Highway 59, north to south, south to north, north to south etc. etc. I know that because I used to see Oscar, the Green Ford Tempo (as my daughter called it) on that path when my kids were in high school. ...

A few weeks ago one of my friends on Facebook had a post about "cruising the loop. " For those of you who grew up in Cherokee,I'm sure the loop was Highway 59, north to south, south to north, north to south etc. etc. I know that because I used to see Oscar, the Green Ford Tempo (as my daughter called it) on that path when my kids were in high school. ...

Here is the updated list of vendors and the items you will have available for sale during the Cherokee Area Farmers Market under the canopy at the depot from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. this Thursday, July 2, 2015. This will be the fifth market of the 2015 market season...