Stories from Wednesday, June 8, 2016

The corporation that owns the Chronicle Times has a policy against letters to the editor that endorse candidates for public office. Since we had already published such letters prior to learning of the policy, we continued publishing such letters prior to the June 7 primary. We did not publish one letter that could have been printed the Friday before the Tuesday primary election because that would not have allowed time for a response before the election...

"It's what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it" - a quote from Oscar Wilde about the pleasure of reading, which brings me to our topic: Reading is my wheelhouse. Reading has steered me through everything in my life and opened doors beyond my wildest dreams. ...

SIOUX CITY - Morningside College's Megan Carlson and Natasha Hongsermeier were recently named to the 2016 College Division Academic All-America Women's At-Large First Team as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Carlson, a junior women's tennis player from Cherokee, has a...

CHEROKEE - The Cherokee baseball squad hosted their own tournament Saturday and they weren't exactly hospitable hosts on the diamond, as the Braves collected two five inning victories over their guests. A six run 4th inning allowed the Braves to take a 14-1 win over Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn, with Tyler Faist getting the win on the mound. ...

A Memorial Service will be held at Memorial Presbyterian Church in Cherokee1 at 10 a.m. this Saturday, June 11, 2016, for Barbara June Beazley Birch of Phoenix, Arizona, formerly of the Cleghorn area ,who passed away at her home in Phoenix on November 21, 2015. Rev. Eric Wright will officiate, and burial of the cremains will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Cherokee. The Boothby Funeral Home of Cherokee is assisting the family with the arrangements...

Lillian "Billie" (Collins) Horacek of Marcus, age 95, formerly of Grand Island, Nebraska, passed away Sunday, June 5, 2016, at the Heartland Care Center in Marcus. Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 10, 2016, at Holy Name Catholic Church in Marcus, with Father Dan Guenther officiating. ...

Deb Payne of Cherokee, age 59, passed away on January 18, 2016 in Cherokee. A memorial graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 11, 2016 at Oak Hill Cemetery in Cherokee, a time of food and fellowship will follow at the Spring Lake Yacht Club in Cherokee following the burial. The Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee is assisting the family with arrangements...

Eric Wright, a native of Marian, Iowa, returned to his home state on April 24th this year when he became the new pastor at Cherokee's Memorial Presbyterian Church, and he was officially installed as the congregation's minister at a service on May 29th. Memorial Presbyterian, founded in 1871, currently has 239 communicant members...

Tanner and Kelsie Carlson of Cherokee are happy to announce the birth of their son, who was born on June 1, 2016. Ryder Rath Carlson was born at 6:55 p.m. and he weighed 8 lb. 13 oz. and measured 20 inches long. Ryder was welcomed home by his big brother Wyatt...

Peter Nee and Emily Anderson of Cherokee are happy to announce the birth of their son, who was born on June 2, 2016. Abraham David Nee was born at 6:33 p.m., weighed 9 lb. 5 oz., and measured 21 inches long. He was welcomed home by his big brother Kaden. Grandparents are Jomi Anderson and Jimmy Davis of Cherokee and Dave and Chris Nee of Hampton...

In primary voting on Tuesday, Jerod Clyde won the Republican nomination for the office of Cherokee County Sheriff, defeating Jeff Friederichsen by a vote of 1,153 (57.4 percent) to 850 (42.3 percent). Duane Mummert won the Republican nomination for the District 5 seat on the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors, defeating James Peck by a vote of 1,242 (66.1 percent) to 638 (33.9 percent)...

The 11th Annual Veteran's Appreciation Day will take place on Saturday, June 11, at the Cherokee County Fairgrounds. There will be free lunch served between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The program will take place at 1 p.m.

Here is the updated list of vendors and the items you will have available for sale during the Cherokee Area Farmers Market under the canopy at the depot from 4 to 6 p.m. this Thursday, June 9. This will be our second market of the 2016 market season...

The Cherokee Community Theater Jr. will be conducting a CT Jr. Theater Camp for kids age 7 through 14, for five days, Monday through Friday, July 25 through 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Participants must be 7 by July 1. The camp will culminate with a performance of four one-act plays for the public at the Community Center on Friday, July 29...

The 25th Annual "Friends of Conservation Fun Day," sponsored by the Cherokee County Conservation Department, was held recently at Silver Sioux Park.

Each year the Cherokee Soil & Water Conservation District has a poster contest for 4th graders. This year's theme was "We All Need Trees". Students from Cherokee, MMC, Aurelia, and River Valley participated, and all of the posters will be on display at the Sanford Museum during the month of June...

The children, grandchildren, and great grandchild of Dick and Janice Abrahamson are pleased to announce the 60th Anniversary of their parents/grandparents. Dick and Janice were married June 17th, 1956 at the Cleghorn Presbyterian Church. They will be celebrating with family and friends. ...

REMSEN - The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen Union baseball team played two games recently against Harris-Lake Park and Unity Christian. Against HLP in Remsen on Tuesday May 31, the Royals gave up a run in the top of the first and that turned out to be the game's lone run in a pitcher's dual between sophomores Braeton Nitscke of HLP and Tristan Olson of MMCRU.. ...

CHEROKEE - The Cherokee baseball squad hosted their own tournament Saturday and they weren't exactly hospitable hosts on the diamond, as the Braves collected two five inning victories over their guests. A six run 4th inning allowed the Braves to take a 14-1 win over Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn, with Tyler Faist getting the win on the mound. ...

The upcoming Sioux Valley Golf Tournament in Cherokee (June 17-19) is unique in that it is a Match Play Tournament. Match play is in one sense a whole different game than stroke play. In stroke play, golfers accumulate strokes over the course of 18 holes, and the golfer with the fewest strokes at the completion of the round wins...