Stories from Monday, October 31, 2016

Do you have some extra room in your home or heart? Consider becoming a foster parent for Iowa children, sibling groups, and teens who need safe foster homes. These youth enter foster care through no fault of their own and need a caring, stable family for a short or long-term basis. Foster parents can be single, a couple, or married and come from all walks of life...

Alta-Aurelia students Carly Drenth and Alex Sangwin have attained the highest individual honor available for Iowa high school musicians by being selected as members of the 2016 All-State Band. The 2016 Festival will celebrate the 70th anniversary of this prestigious event. ...

At this time in our four-year election cycle, there are complaints about the length of the presidential campaign season, which starts about two years out from the election. This year in particular has been a long and bitter competition. People are naturally fed up, but we don’t know how the season could be shortened by government action without restricting constitutionally protected free speech...

Brent and Fallon Woods of Tripp, South Dakota are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Lenyn Marie Woods. She was born on September 27, 2016 at 5:19 p.m., weighed 8 lbs. 7 oz., and was 21 inches long. Lenyn has one big sister, Kaitlyn...

A Cherokee native and Washington High grad steeped in Exercise Science and physical training on a national level has returned home to serve his community as a police officer and impart his considerable strenfth and conditioning knowledge through his new “Warrior Fitness” business...

A fundraising event for the Cherokee Washington High Prom and Post-Prom Party is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Cherokee Golf Course Club House. The event is sponsored by the Prom and After Prom Committees. There will be a 7 p.m. cocktail hour, followed by a live auction at 8 p.m., with many valuable items to be auctiioned off to benefit the WHS Prom. There also will be music from 9-11 p.m. featuring DJ Chris Samsel...

One of the designated times for putting together meals that will go to feed those in need was filled Washington High School juniors and seniors (see photo). Other time slots were filled by other students from the Cherokee and MMCRU schools. All of the ready- to- eat meals this year will be going to the storm ravaged country of Haiti...