Stories from Friday, May 13, 2016

Shania Rehmudin found the cold Iowa climate difficult to get used to at first, but found the attitude of the people in Cherokee warm and inviting. "I was surprised at how nice people are. People smile at you who don't even know you," Shania said. The 16-year-old Washington High School student is an exchange student from Tanga, Tanzania, on the east Africa coast, an Indian Ocean seaport of about a quarter million people...

State Savings Bank and Robert Grant, Co-Trustees for the Carroll C. Mongan Trust announced this year's recipients of the Carroll C. Mongan Trust scholarships and student loans. Recipients are chosen based on their academic achievements, goals and activities. ...

Postal carriers throughout Cherokee County will be participating in a Stamp Out Hunger food drive on Saturday, May 14. Postal patrons are encouraged to leave non-perishable items by their mailbox for pickup on Saturday (no expired items nor anything in a glass container)...

Gary Lundquist of the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors reported to the Cherokee City Council at the May 10 city council meeting that the Cherokee County Solid Waste Commission had been approached about the possibility of reducing the tipping fee, the per tonnage fee charged for waste disposal...

Clover Sanow of Remsen, 98, formerly of Cherokee County, passed away May 1, 2016 at the Happy Siesta Health Care Center in Remsen. Funeral services were held Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the Christ Lutheran Church in Remsen with Pastor Dennis Martens officiating. Burial was in the Remsen Community Cemetery. Visitation was from 9 a.m. until service time at the church...

Scot and Calleen Ladenthin of Cherokee are happy to announce the birth of their baby daughter on May 8, 2016. Oakley Mae Ladenthin was born at 12:26 a.m., weighed 7 lb. 15 oz., measured 19 inches long, and was welcomed home by her big brother Miken and sisters Alisa and Emalie. Grandparents are Bruce and Donna Amundson of Larrabee and Phil and Alayda Ladenthin of Marcus, and Great-grandparents are Yvonne Amundson, Elmer and Stella Beltman, Anna Mae Ladenthin and Maxine Irwin...

Laura and Anthony Horton of Cherokee are happy to announce the birth of their baby boy, who was born on May 9, 2016. Matson Anthony Horton was born at 3:52 p.m. and he weighed 7 lb. 15 oz. and measured 20 1/2 inches long. Matson was welcomed home by his big brothers, Durks and Mitchell. His grandparents are Denise Green and Mark and Denise Horton, all of Cherokee...

AURELIA - At their monthly joint School Board meeting here Monday evening, the Alta and Aurelia boards continued their discussion about building new running tracks at either or both schools. After months of gathering input from coaches, AD's, principals, board members, community members, the local economic development committee in Aurelia and the City Council in Alta, Superintendent Evans made the recommendation to the boards Monday to construct six lane tracks in both Alta and Aurelia to also include areas for the high jump and long jump. ...

According to a report in the New York Times, the 2016 Republican and Democratic nominating conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia will be bankrolled entirely with money from corporations and wealthy individuals. In 1972, legislation favorable to the ITT Corporation was directly linked to a $400,000 pledge from ITT to fund the Republican convention. ...

During a period of my life known as "the not Cherokee period," I wrote for a newspaper known as "not the Chronicle Times." In a column written in October of 2013, titled "Fragile Republican alliance crumbles," I stated that the modern Republican Party is a diverse collection of factions without a consistent or coherent underlying philosophy...