Stories from Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Zyaad Akram Labib was surprised out how nice people were when he came from Egypt last summer to spend a year as an exchange student at Washington High School in Cherokee. "I expected all America to be like Los Angeles and Chicago. I think Iowa and Cherokee specifically is the best place I could come to, a quiet city with nice people. They want to know about my country and my culture and my religion. I'm proud to be in Cherokee," he said...

Funeral services for Lola Dilocker of Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, 81, formerly of Cherokee, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, May 19th, 2016 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Aurelia, with Pastor Larry Lemke officiating, and burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, rural Aurelia. ...

Larry O. Bainbridge of Cherokee, 72 , formerly of Anthon, died Sunday, May 1, 2016, at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. A Celebration of Life will be held on Thursday, May 19, 2016, at the Oto Ambulance Building in Oto from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m, and there will be a memorial service at 6:30 p.m. that same day. Armstrong Funeral Home of Anthon was entrusted with the arrangements. The family is receiving condolences on line at www.armstrongfuneral.com...

Shirley G. Griffin of Cherokee, 90,, passed away Friday morning, May 13, 2016 in the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Graveside services will be held on Friday, May 20th, at 10:30 a.m. at the Oak Hill Cemetery at Cherokee, with Pastor Gregg Johnson officiating. Visitation at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee will be on Thursday from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m., with the family present from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com...

Patrick Cronin of Albert City, age 62, passed away Monday, May 16, 2016 at a Sioux City hospital. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 20, 2016, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee, with Father Dan Guenther officiating, and burial will be at Maryhill Visitation Cemetery in rural Cherokee. ...

Sandra J. Domina of Washta, 71, passed away Tuesday morning, May 17, 2016 at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee.

Rob and Mollie Tjelemand of Roland, Iowa ar happy to announce the birth of their baby daughter. Kami Evelyn was born at 2:45 a.m. on April 25, 2016 at Methodist West Hospital in Des Moines, and she weighed 5 lb. 14 1/2 oz. and measured 18 inches long at birth. Kami was welcomed home by her big sister, Delanie...

Washington High School in Cherokee, Alta-Aurelia High School, Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn High School and River Valley High School will all hold graduation ceremonies on Sunday afternoon, May 22. Look for photos from all four graduation ceremonies in a future edition of the Chronicle-Times...

Self-care is important not only for survivors, but people from all walks of life. Self-care is about nurturing your emotional needs. Self-care is caring for your soul, your inner self, and your very being. An amazing way to indulge in self-care is adult coloring! Join CAASA by demonstrating your coloring skills and showing your support to survivors...

At its May 16 meeting, the Cherokee School Board reviewed an estimated $387,000 in summer buildings and facilities projects. The cost estimates were not from bids but were just presented as "ballpark" figures. The cost does not include the use of on-staff labor that will be involved in some of the projects. ...

The Cherokee School District started using Chromebook laptop computers for assignments in the middle school grades at the start of the 2014/15 school year and in the high school at the start of the present school year and will expand to grades 3 and 4 next school year...

The Cherokee Rotary Student of the Month for May is Glenn Zimmer. Glenn was nominated for contributing his time and talents to the fine arts - vocal music, instrumental music, and speech. He is recognized as taking on leadership roles in all programs and achieving honors in all programs! Pictured is Julie Hering Kent, Rotary President, with Glenn Zimmer...

The Cherokee Depot was one of two recipients of funds raised this year by the Knights of Columbus Money Calendars. The $750 will fund ongoing improvements at the Cherokee Depot. At the presentation were Wayne Nafe of Depot Renovation, Inc., Ron Peterson of Depot Renovation, Inc., Mike Robinson of the Knights of Columbus, Jim Adamson of Depot Renovation Inc. and Dick Sokolowski of the Knights of Columbus...

Let's be clear from the start that the heading for this editorial is sarcastic. We have been critical of Donald Trump in this space in the past, but the hit piece that was the lead story in the Sunday, May 15, New York Times was an overblown rehash of what everyone already knew...

Automation.... I remember when that word scared me to death in 1998. It was overwhelming and daunting to put all of our materials into a computer database and to use those new machines for checking out materials. But we did it and in the end the whole automation project proved to be one of the best things we've ever done at the Cherokee Public Library...

Water quality and soil heath. These are two topics on many people's minds these days. In the last few months, I've had the opportunity to attend a few conferences and seminars to learn more about soil health - what healthy soil is and how we can achieve it...

Here are the (fairly) complete results for area high schools who competed at the Class 2A State Qualifying Track Meet in Ida Grove on Thursday May 11th:

The following athletes from area schools qualified for this weekend's Class 1A State Track Meet at Thursday's Qualifying Meet in Holstein: 800 Meters - Justin Beeson Shot Put - Joe Kenny and Kyle Schiernbeck; Discus -- Kyle Schiernbeck; 110 High Hurdles -- Cole Degen; 400 Meter Dash -- Juan Nava; 400 Meter Hurdles -- Andrés Carbajal; Shuttle Hurdle Relay -- Ryan Cougill, Felipe Carbajal, Andrés Carbajal, Cole Degen (alternates: Evan Leuschen & Ryan McGuire); 4x100 Meter Relay-- Peyton Boyle, Andrew Conover, Josué Solares, Ryan Cougill (alternates: Ryan McGuire, Jackson Graff); 4x400 Meter Relay -- Jackson Graff, Andrés Carbajal, Caden Wandrey, Juan Nava (alternates: Jacob Tokheim, Ian Reed); 4x800 Meter Relay - Jackson Graff, Garret Lamp, Grant Anderson, Juan Nava (alternates: Tyler Wingert, Zach Kenny). ...

QUIMBY - River Valley, with the top four individual finishers, easily won the team title by 48 strokes at the Class 1A Regional girls golf meet Monday on their home course at the Quimby Golf Club RV's Jenna Knaack was the medalist witn 18 hole 84 total, one better than teammate Makenna Thomas who was runner-up medalist. ...

MAPLETON - The Alta-Aurelai girls' golf team, the defending Class 2A State champions, had little trouble advancing to the Regional Finals, winning the 2A Regional here Monday with an 18 hole team score of 374, Second place Maple Individuals Advancing to the Regional Finals (the Top 5 golfers & ties) include...

The Cherokee girls competed in Regional Tennis play on Saturday May 14th, In Round One agaibst Spencer, Dusty Wright lost 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 8-10 vs. v. Ayrial Schnel; Clare Conley lost 1-6, 2-6 v. Taylor Blume; Jordyn Bingham beat Megan Huss 6-1, 6-0; Grace Boyle beat Gracie Ahern 6-0, 6-1; Kylie Mongan beat Krista Determan 6-0, 6-0; and Jennifer Baker beat Autumn Rausch 6-1, 6-1...

The Cherokee boys' tennis team competed at the Class 1A District Tournament in Spencer on Friday May 12, 2016. The Braves' doubles team of Tyler Richardson and Thadeus Booth fell to Spencer's Tom O'Hara and Kade Carpenter and Calle Pingel lost to Spirit Lake's Nick Gooodenow and Tully Reed 0-6, 5-7, also in the first round...