Stories from Friday, April 15, 2016

Roger E. Nelson of Marcus, 81, went to his heavenly home Thursday, April 14, 2016 at the Heartland Care Center in Marcus after a short illness. Funeral service will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 16, 2016 at Peace Lutheran Church in Marcus, with Rev. ...

Scientists in a variety of fields demonstrated scientific principles to visitors at the Sanford Museum on April 10 during Meet the Scientist Day. A guest from the Great Plains Zoo's ZooExpress Program taught about the science of animals with help of a live zoo animals...

The Cherokee Athletic Boosters received a donation recently from Hy-Vee for $2,000. Hy-Vee Cherokee Store Manager (center) Joe Bertino is flanked here by booster members Shannon DeWitt on the left and Ann Wolterman on the right.

April 14 - Wendy Nelson of Sutherland April 15 - Steve Thomas of Cherokee

Seventeen students from Cherokee Middle School recently participated in the 39th Annual Sine Nomine Honor Band, which was held at Cherokee Middle School. The band is comprised of students from Cherokee, Le Mars, Sheldon, Spencer, and Storm Lake Middle Schools, and the guest conductor of the band this year was Russ Nagel from Sioux City. ...

Construction workers and residents of O'Brien County now have the opportunity to observe perhaps precedent setting sights this summer and into the fall that rarely, if ever, transpire simultaneously. Work on two major but radically diverse energy infrastructure projects will likely be constructed concurrently...

The Cherokee Soil & Water Conservation District will be having their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 19 at 8:30 a.m. at the USDA Service Center -- 314 Lake Street in Cherokee. Individuals with disabilities and/or special needs should notify Tracy Rasmussen at 225-4151 of their need for special services far enough in advance of the meeting to enable services to be secured...

The Cherokee County Pork Producers will again be taking applications for $500 scholarships to county residents who are enrolled in full time college course work in an agricultural field or major. Applications for the scholarship will be available from area high school guidance counselors of from the CCPP scholarship committee membership upon request. Those CCPP scholarship committee members include Marla Conley, Rodney Parker and Scott Osborn...

West of Hwy 59 to the railroad tracks and north of Bluff Street to Victory Drive to include the Lundsgaard Addition, Fishman Addition and the area of Autumn Park Apartments, Hy-Vee Food Store and Sioux Valley Drive. Along Hwy 3, Hy-Vee Warehouse area, Colony Addition, Ament Addition, Valley View and Roosevelt School...

A barricaded section of sidewalk at the northwest corner of the intersection of S. Second St. and W. Maple St. was a topic of discussion at the April 12 meeting of the Cherokee City Council. The city had determined in October that the sidewalk wrapping around both the east and south side of a building owned by Gay Lynn Strub was a safety hazard because the sidewalk could collapse into a void that was, at some past date, used for coal storage...

Boyd McGee of Peterson, 75, passed away on April 9, 2016. Funeral services will be held on Friday, April 15th, at the United Methodist Church in Peterson, with Pastor Kim Dewey and Pastor Russell Mullenberg officiating, and interment will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Diamond Center Cemetery south of Aurelia...

Donald L. Meyer of Quimby, age 65, passed away Thursday morning, April 14, 2016 at Cherokee Specialty Care. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee.

On Wednesday April 20th, the students from the Immaculate Conception Parish will be canvassing the town of Cherokee to collect nonperishable food items for the Christian Action Program food pantry, which is located at the Immaculate Conception Church...

A blood drive will take place in Cherokee on Tuesday, April 26, from noon to 5:30 p.m., at the Cherokee Community Center, 530 W. Bluff. A blood drive in Marcus will take place a week later, on Tuesday, May 3, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Holy Name Church, 100 S. Elm Street...

A reminder that Hwy 7, from M-21 to Hwy 3 in Aurelia (from the Chesterman Plant to the Pioneer Plant) will be closed from about 7:30 a.m. to early afternoon on Sunday. April 17, for a planned burn of an old grain elevator, in Aurelia, which is also serving as a drill for area fire departments...

President Barack Obama recently said that his failure to follow through on the toppling of Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi, which occurred in 2011, and failure to plan for the aftermath of that event -- which US and NATO airstrikes helped bring about -- was the worst mistake of his seven years in office...

In a column published in the April 13 Chronicle Times, Kathleen Parker informed readers that she is nervous about Bernie Sanders' Democratic Socialism. She states, "The striving for greater equality is always a proper operating principle, but what Sanders is aiming for without saying so is equal outcomes. The imposition of equality by third parties never works very well and inevitably carries the unwelcome penalty of less freedom."...

The girls' golf teams from Cherokee Washington, LeMars and Emmetsburg played a match at the Prairie Rose Golf Club in Brunsville on April 5th. 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...

CHEROKEE - The Washington High School girls' tennis teams hosted the girls from Le Mars at the Sam Doupe Complex on a cold and windy Monday, and the gals from the 'kee had their hands full. In the varsity singles matches, the Braves' number one Dusty Wright fell to the Bulldogs' Danielle Martin 10-3; number 2 Clare Conley lost to Le Mars' Elizabeth Irke 10-2; number three Jordyn Bingham was on the short end of a 10-4 match against Amy Isebrand; Grace Boyle dropped an 11-9 match to Mary Meis; Kylie Mongan lost to Sarah Adams 10-7; and Jennifer Baker lost, 10-8. ...

PRIMGHAR - The South O'Brien girls hosted Emmetsburg in a golf dual here Tuesday, and the three Wolverines' golfers totaled 170 strokes among them.. A pair of E'Hawk golfers, Freeman and Moser, had the match's low scores, with each girl posting a 52...

Materials are being hauled for the addition to the Bradford Hotel in Storm Lake, and work will be under way shortly on the new part. The entire building is to be redecorated on the inside and landlord Eilers will install a great lot of new furniture to make the house both more attractive and more comfortable...

The City of Cherokee and Sanitary Services are sponsoring city-wide cleanup days on Monday and Tuesday, April 18 and 19. Sanitary Services will be picking up anything two men can lift on those days. No appliances, tires, batteries, yard-waste, hazardous waste or large amounts of construction materials will be picked up...