Stories from Friday, September 23, 2016

Jerry Lembcke, a professor of sociology, wrote a July 3, 2015, op-ed peice titled, "Nobody spat on American GIs." This commentary updated his 1998 book, "The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam." The more recent piece began, "Stories of spat-on veterans began proliferating in the U.S. ...

A funeral service for Susan VanRoekel Brooks of Spirit Lake, age 41, formerly of Cherokee, will be held Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 at 11 a.m. at Good News Community Church in Okoboji. Burial will be at Lakeview Gardens Cemetery in Spirit Lake. Visitation at the church will begin one hour prior to the service. Turner Jenness Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

We've seen American Muslims, parents of a war hero killed in action, disrespected by a presidential candidate. That attitude is not isolated and even extends into the military. In March, Raheel Siddiqui, 20, a Pakistani-American Muslim from Taylor, Mich., died after jumping into a stairwell and falling 38 feet while at Marine boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. ...

The first Cherokee County 'Hunger Stomp' last year exceeded expectations, so a higher goal was set for this year's local effort to feed people suffering from war and famine around the world. A portion of the food also goes to food pantries in the Midwest...

An aging population of Cherokee County Fair Board members and a lack of young people interested in serving threaten the future of the fair, according to Gary Lundquist, a member of the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors and fair liaison, in discussion at the Sept. 27 board meeting...

A famous line from the classic movie 'Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid' was "Who are those guys?" as a group of cowboys not to be denied persisted in tracking down and capturing lawbreakers Butch & Sundance. Well, it's a good bet folks in Iowa City and Hawkeye football fans everywhere last Saturday were asking that same question after the North Dakota State University Bison stalked and captured the Hawkeyes 23-21 in what was billed as a big school-little school football mismatch for the-then #13 D-1 Iowa team.. ...

William Halder, the new technology director for the Cherokee School District, gave introductory remarks at the Cherokee School Board meeting on Sept. 19. This is the first school job for Halder, formerly a network administrator at Buena Vista Regional Medical Center...

Rich and Barb Dorr will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday September 24. The couple were married in the United Methodist Church in Havelock, Iowa, and they have four children - Robert (Joan) Dorr of Lewisville, Texas, Sandi (Doug) Stowater of Cherokee, Becky (Chris) Hockman of Ankeny and Blake Dorr of Jacksonville, Florida, and six grandchildren - Nathan and Haley Dorr. ...

CORRECTIONVILLE - The River Valley girls split two recent volleyball matches at home, beating OABCIG 3-0, and falling 3-0 to rival Ridge View. Game scores against OABCIG were 25-20, 25-19, 25-17. Leading hitters for RV were Delaney Zahnley 14-16 and four kills, followed by Makenna Thomas 12-13 and four kills, Marie Sauvain 10-12 and five kills, and Alycen Knaack 9-10 and five kills. ...

MARCUS - The MMCRU volleyball team split two recent matches in Marcus, defeating Storm Lake St. Nary's 3-0, and losing to West Sioux 3-0. Game scores in the win over St. Mary's were 25-23, 25-11, 25-20; and in the loss to West Sioux scores were Leading hitters against the Panthers were Emily Moser 15-16 and four kills, dollowed by Aliyah Jackson 12-14 and five kills, and Kayla Alesch 10-10 and three kills. ...

Wilma "Billie" Martin of Cherokee, age 92, passed away Monday, September 19, 2016 at her home in Cherokee. Funeral memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, September 23, 2016 at the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee, with the family officiating, and burial will be at the Quimby Cemetery. ...

Cherokee Healthy Families, a voluntary home visiting program offered by CRMC Public Health, and the Cherokee County Legacy Foundation have partnered to help provide a safer living environment for young Cherokee area families. Accredited via Healthy Families of America, Cherokee Healthy Families is a program designed to offer long-term support for families beginning in the prenatal stages and continuing until the child reaches somewhere between three and five years old...

Chuck Wulfsen, President of Central Bank in Cherokee, is pleased to announce that the Scholarship Fund of the late John Dewar has extended its scholarship award to Ariana Smith for the 2016-2017 school year. Ariana will receive $275, based on the current annual income of the trust, which is adminstered by Central Bank. This amount brings the total scholarship funds paid to $74,010.00...

Cherokee County was put on the map as a beef producing county when Leon Mitchell of Marcus carried off first prize and the $40 prize offered by the iowa Beef Processors' Association for the best calf exhibited by boys who fed calves at the recent Interstate Fair...

ALTA - The Alta-Aurelia volleyball team lost a tough Twin Lakes Conference match here against Pocahontas Area Mobday night, three games to two. The Warriors won the first two games of the match, 30-28 and 25-17, but they were unable to close it out, as Poky came back to win the next three games by scores of 25-15, 25-19, 15-10...