Stories from Monday, July 20, 2015

Karen Borchers was recently honored by a grateful Board of Directors and other supporters upon her retirement as the Executive Director of the Ecumenical Institute. During the Board's July 16, 105 meeting in the EI offices on the Cherokee MHI campus, Borchers was presented with a plaque and flowers by EI founder and Emeritus Supervisor Father Gene Sitzmann...

ALTA - Alta-Aurelia scored two runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to offset the go-ahead run their opponent Sioux Central, had scored in the top of that frame, to take a thrilling extra-inning 5-4 win here Thursday in a Class 1A District semi-final matchup of Twin Lakes Conference rivals...

Schoon Construction and Excavation hosted a Cherokee Chamber of Commerce Coffee and Ribbon Cutting on Friday, July 17. The business is located at 5047 Hwy. 3 and is owned by Cory Bouchard, assisted by his wife, Maria. They have three children, pictured, left to right - youngest to oldest , Ava, Allie and Noah...

Lisa Mazurek, a past graduate of Lawton-Bronson High School and the University of Iowa, and a December 2005 graduate of the University of Iowa Law School, recently returned to practice law as an associate at the Miler, Miller and Miller Law Firm in Cherokee...

Maurice "Morey" Regennitter of Marcus, age 84, passed away on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at the Heartland Care Center in Marcus. A memorial service was held on Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. at the Nicklas D. Jensen Funeral Home in Holstein, with the Pastor Barb Dinelli officiating. Burial will be at a later date. A visitation at the funeral home was held on Friday, July 17, 2015 from 6:30 p.,m. - 8:30 p.m. The Nicklas D. Jensen Funeral Home of Holstein is in charge of the arrangements...

Deve K. (Ritter) Killian of Cherokee, 82, passed away Thursday morning, July 16, 2015, at the Countryside Estates in Cherokee. Funeral services will be held at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee on Wednesday, July 22nd, at 10:30 a.m., with Carey Hetrick officiating, and burial will be in the Sunset View Cemetery at Washta, with military rites by L.A. ...

Marvin Walter Tuttle, Sr., 84, passed away July 11, 2015 at Mercy Hospice in Johnston, Iowa, surrounded by his family. Marvin was born September 20, 1930 in Aurelia, Iowa, to his parents, Augusta (Hasenwinkel) and Ernest Tuttle, and he graduated from the Iowa School for the Deaf and attended Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C...

Mark Eugene Courtright of Cherokee, 64, died peacefully at his home on July 16, 2015 while surrounded by family, after a courageous battle with cancer. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, July 20, 2015, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee,with Father Dan Guenther officiating,and burial will be at Mt. ...

Another successful Cherokee County Fair is behind us and the people who worked since last summer to bring us the 2015 fair will now start working on the 2016 fair. County fairs provide one of the few traditions in rural America that continues on from the 19th century. In Cherokee County, the fair provided some impressive attractions as well as the competitive activities that highlight rural life of youth and adults...

The musical group The Grateful Dead recently performed a series of concerts, which they call the "Fare Thee Well" shows, in California and Chicago - the final performances of a group which first formed in 1965, some 50 years ago. To be totally accurate, the group which performed at the Fare Thee Well shows was not the complete Dead group. ...