Stories from Friday, April 8, 2016

Millions of dollars in equipment was auctioned off Wednesday and Thursday at Lundell's Construction in Cherokee. The business has stopped operating, primarily because of its inability to find enough workers.

Following a presentation by Linda Burkhart, director of the Sanford Museum and Planetarium, at the April 5 meeting of the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors, the supervisors pledged $50,000 from the rural betterment fund toward a major renovation project at the museum...

At the April 17 concert at the Washington High School Auditorium, Jodi Goble will play the grand piano to accompany world famous opera bass/baritone Simon Estes, WHS alumnus (now a professional bass/baritone singer residing in New York City) Blake Burroughs, and a choir of WHS and MMCHS singers...

Nick Cristano, played by Aaron Waples (far right) tries in vain to reason with one of his grandparents, Aida Gianelli, played by Rosanne Loucks, in the Cherokee Community Theater production of the comedy "Over the River and Through the Woods." Nick Cristano's grandparents are seated, left to right, Nunzio Cristano, played by Joe Vannatta, Emma Cristano, played by Janet Brown, and Frank Gianelli, played by Ryan Brown. ...

April 7 - Kenny Steward of Cherokee April 8 - Emerson Lucas of Cherokee

Jennifer Davis, a 2014 graduate of Cherokee Washington High School and currently a student at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and she has undergone extensive surgery at University Hospital in Iowa City...

Joyce Alma Lundquist Skarin of Onawa, 79, passed away on Friday, April 1, 2016 at Burgess Health Center in Onawa, surrounded by her loving family. Joyce Alma was born May 10, 1936 in Paullina, the daughter of Chester and Marie (Swabach) Lundquist. She was raised in the Paullina area where she attended country school and then Paullina Public School. ...

The Taliban is gaining strength in Afghanistan, and thousands of Afghans who worked alongside the U.S. military, as well as members of their families, are at growing risk of retaliation for assisting our troops. The Special Immigrant Visa program is designed to bring both Afghan and Iraqi nationals associated with the U.S. to safety in America...

The two oldest U.S. Senators, Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., have been acting on a bias they developed in their youth. The two senior senators conducted a hearing to validate their belief that a current Department of Justice policy is creating a public health hazard. That policy, instituted by President Obama, is to not enforce federal laws against marijuana in states where recreational marijuana use has been legalized...

HOLSTEIN - The 76th edition of the Ridge View (formerly Holstein) Relays, delayed a few days by uncooperative weather, managed to avoid another spell of the wet stuff Tuesday (although a stiff wind prevailled throughout the first part of the meet) and a field of 10 Girls teams and six boys' teams produced another fine track meet on the Holstein oval...

BRUNSVILLE, Ia - The girls' golf teams from Cherokee Washington, LeMars and Emmetsburg played a match Tuesday at the Prairie Rose Golf Club here. Emmetsburg , the 2015 Lakes Conference champions, edged LeMars by one stroke, 197 - 198, to win the match, while the Braves' team, playing its first match of the season, posted a team score of 235...

The weather was a little chilly, but low winds and sunshine on Monday April 4th made for a nice day of golf, as the West Sioux boys defeated South O'Brien, 176 to 196, in a Golf Dual. The Wolverines' Cameron Maxwell placed third in his first - ever golf meet, with a nine hole score of 45, while teammate Sam Nelson finished with a 48...

MARCUS - The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen Union Co-Ed Relays were run here Monday on a sunny day with a bit of a wind, and the strong Kingsley-Pierson/Woodbury Central teams took home the team honors in both the girls and boys divisions of the meet, with MMC-RU finishing second in each division...

SIOUX RAPIDS - Sioux Central held its first track meet Monday on their new, not-quite-finished track, and the Alta-Aurelia boys had a great night - winning several individual and relay events - to edge their hosts, Sioux Central, in the final team standings, 158.5 - 149...

"It may seem an exaggeration to you, but I am firmly convinced that if suffrage wins in Iowa next June it will benefit women even in far away Servia," declared Miss Elizabeth Perkins of Des Moines in addressing a suffrage meeting at the Methodist Episcopal church Thursday night...