Stories from Friday, June 17, 2016

During bid opening at the June 14 meeting of the Cherokee City Council, it was learned that the downtown Cherokee Facade restoration project bids came in at about 15 percent more than the architect's estimate, meaning the project cannot go forward with the current level of funding from a combination of a federal Community Development Block Grant, city support, a county contribution, a contribution from the Cherokee Industrial Corporation and the portion assessed to each individual property owner.. ...

Eileen Bush of Cleghorn, age 83, passed away at her residence on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Monday, June 20, 2016, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee. Burial will be at Maryhill Visitation Cemetery, rural Cherokee. ...

Members of the Holstein Community Theatre are pictured here rehearsing for their performance of a female version of Neil Simon's 'The Odd Couple.' The play will be presented at the Rosemary Clausen Center for Performing Arts in Holstein at 7 p.m. on June 23rd and June 25th and again at 2 p.m. on Sunday June 26th. Photo contributed...

A flag disposal ceremony by the Boy Scouts, originally scheduled for June 14 at the Cherokee Airport has been delayed until June 21 at 6 p.m. The public is welcome to attend and may bring lawn chairs

ALTA - At their monthly joint school board meeting here Monday, the Alta and Aurelia boards heard about the 2016-2017 school year insurance package for the districts from insurance agents Brian Lockin and Dustin Drzycimski. The boards also authorized Business Manager Vicki Kolpin to pay the year-end bills for the 2015-2016 school year...

There were slight adjustments from the unofficial vote totals for the June 7 Cherokee County primary elections, following the official canvas by the Cherokee County Board of Supervisor on June 14, but there was no change in the results as far as winners in the county-wide contests...

Max Martinsen will be celebrating his 90th birthday on June 23, 2016. Anyone wishing to may send a card to him at 711 Aspen Street; Cherokee, IA 51012

Betsy L. Christensen of Cherokee, 97. passed away Tuesday evening, June 14, 2016 at Sunset Knoll Care & Rehab Center in Aurelia. Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, June 21st, at 10:30 a.m. at the Memorial Presbyterian Church in Cherokee, with Rev. ...

The Cherokee Library is hosting a gift making workshop for Father's Day in the children's department on Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m. to noon.

The 82nd Sioux Valley Men's Match Play Tournament, the longest running Match Play tournament in Iowa, takes place this weekend at the Cherokee Golf and Country Club. Bret Taylor defeated two-time champion JD Anderson 1-up in last year's tourney. Former Champion Bill Mathers leads the qualifying scores for this year's tournament, and several other former champs are also among the low 16 scores...

The Ridge View softball team traveled to Paullina on Sat. June 11th to participate in the South O'Brien Softball Tournament, and the Raptors came out on the short end of both of their games, losing to Hinton in their first game by the score of 6-5 and losing 4-3 to South O'Brien in their second game. ...

On June 8th the South O'Brien softball team traveled to Harris-Lake Park and the home team jumped out to an early 4-0 lead after just one inning of play. For the remainder of the game each team scored three runs, to bring the final score to 7-3 in favor of H-LP...

LAWTON - The Ridge View baseball team had a a 4-0 lead over host Lawton-Bronson through 6 2/3 innings here on Monday June 13th, but the Eagles came storming back to score four runs in the bottom of the 7th inning to tie it up. In the 8th inning, Ridge View scored a run to take back the lead, but Lawton-Bronson scored two runs of their own in the bottom of the 8th inning to end the game in a 6-5 Eagle win...

ROYAL - The MMCRU softball team traveled to the town of Royal on Thursday June 9th and the MMCRU Royals took a 15-3 win over host Clay Central-Everly. Maddie Phillips pitched a complete game for MMCRU, giving up no earned runs, striking out 11 and walking three...

The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen Union boys played a pair of baseball games last Thursday and Friday, and the two games wound up with the same final score, 11-0. The only difference was that the Royals were on the winning side of the score on Thursday and the losing side on Friday...

MOVILLE - The Cherokee varsity softball team played in a tournament here on Saturday June 11 and the Braves came away with two wins in the three games they played. Against Storm Lake St. Mary's, the Braves scored four runs in the top of the 5th to overcome a six-run 4th inning by St. ...

A USA TODAY investigation reveals that hundreds of workers, including laborers and contractors, say they were not paid for work they performed for Donald Trump and his businesses. At least 60 lawsuits and hundreds of liens, judgments and government filings allege that the billionaire did not pay contractors and employees, including a glass company, carpet company, plumber, dishwasher, painters and dozens of waiters, bartenders and other hourly workers employed at Trump's resorts and clubs across the country.. ...

There are common practices among speakers of the English language that annoy me. I don't got perfect grammar myself, so readers may want to share some complaints about my writing. If so, a reader may print out a complaint in 12-point Montserrat font on heavy stock dull matte finish paper and await further instructions on what to do with it...

Alta-Aurelia's Abby Kraemer pitched two shutouts in recent outings. On Saturday, the Warriors traveled to Dayton to take on Southeast Valley in a twin Lakes Conference tilt, and powered by two RBI from Becca Kestel and one from Lily Peterson, A-A took home a 4-0 win...