Stories from Wednesday, August 31, 2016

AURELIA - Alta-Aurelia edged Ridge View 27-19 in a season opening non-district football game here Friday night. The exciting game featured a lot of offense, including some long touchdowns. Ridge View senior quarterback Tyler Wingert rang up 255 yards of total offense, rushing for 98 yards on 15 carries and completing 13 of 22 passes for 157 yards and two touchdowns. Juan Nava was the Raptors' leading receiver, snagging six passes for 109 yards and one touchdown...

GOWRIE - Alta-Aurelia beat Southeast Valley 3-0 in Twin Lakes Conference volleyball action here Thursday, winning by game scores of 25-16, 25-12, 25-14. The win gave the Warriors of Coach Jeannie Henningsen a 2-0 record this season. Erin Lockin had 12 kills for Alta-Aurelia, while Lauren Rohwer had nine and Laney Stanton added eight. ...

Elaine Ruth Gano of Boone, age 94, formerly of Cherokee, passed away peacefully ,surrounded by her children, at the Israel Family Hospice House in Ames on August 28, 2016. A Celebration of her Life will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, September 1, 2016, at the First United Methodist Church in Boone, with Pastor Doug Cue officiating. ...

Glodean Marquardt, 88, a resident of Portland, Oregon and former resident of Cherokee, died August 27, 2016, after a brief hospitalization. A celebration of Glodean's life will be held Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016 at 5 p.m. at Ascension Lutheran Church, 1440 S.E. 182nd Avenue, Gresham, Oregon, and private inurnment will be at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Gresham, Oregon...

Elvira Bindner of Marcus, age 100, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016 at the Heartland Care Center in Marcus. Mass of Christian Burial will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016 at Holy Name Catholic Church in Marcus, with Father Daniel C. ...

Dozens of area people met with U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley during an open forum Monday at the Cherokee County Courthouse. "Cherokee County always has a good turnout," Grassley said during introductory remarks. One of the concerns raised was land in the Conservation Reserve Program that, according to one person attending the forum, is often let go to weeds in violation of program requirements...

After decades of war between the government of Columbia and a revolutionary force (FARC - Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - in English: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), a resolution might have been reached. The two sides worked out a plan but ending a conflict dating back to 1963 that has included atrocities committed by both sides will take more that just a piece of paper...

I am someone who has no problem asking for help or advice. None whatsoever, I am not the least bit shy. Always looking for ideas and opportunities to enrich my programs at the library, I put feelers out to staff and patrons and am delighted when a notion or an opinion is offered up. As the poet e.e.cummings wrote "Always the beautiful answer that asks an even more beautiful question". So please do not hesitate to make suggestions to enrich our children's library programs. I relish the input...

Here is the updated list of vendors and the items that will be available for sale during the Cherokee Area Farmers Market, under the canopy at the depot from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. this Thursday, September 1, 2016. This will be our 14th market of the 2016 market season...

The Cherokee Chamber of Commerce invites businesses, organizations, and individuals to participate in the 10th Annual Scarecrow Contest this Fall. Scarecrows will be set up along East and West Main Street and in front of participating businesses in Cherokee...

STORM LAKE - With perfect weather to open up the football season, the Storm Lake Tornadoes used great field position in the first quarter to take an early 13-0 lead over the Braves and that hole was too deep for the Braves to get out of as the Tornadoes won their home opener, 39-14 and took back the Battle Axe Trophy...

According to an Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (ETP) website, ETP and Sunoco Logistics Partners, L.P. announced they had signed an agreement to sell 36.75% of the Bakken Pipeline Project to MarEn Bakken Company, LLC. Marathon Petroleum Corporation and Canada based Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. jointly own MarEn Bakken...

MARCUS - The inaugural Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen-Union football program couldn't overcome a rejuvenated Le Mars Gehlen team here Friday night, dropping a hard-fought 14-8 game that marked the first ever MMCRU 11-player contest. The Royals scored their lone touchdown on an 8-yard carry from Andrew Prescott, with Evan Cluck crashing in for the 2-point conversion...

This Friday's Chamber Coffee, at 9:30 a.m., will be hosted by Trinity Lutheran Church Preschool, 1827 530th Street.