Stories from Monday, November 7, 2016

The Sanford Museum and Planetarium is pleased to announce receiving a $50,000 matching grant award from the Gilchrist Foundation. The mission of the Gilchrist Foundation is to further the philanthropic interests of the Gilchrist family in the arts, wildlife and conservation, and public broadcasting. ...

Recent news has been filled with security breaches of large companies. Is this something that could that happen to your small business? Small businesses are quickly becoming a target of hackers and thieves intent on stealing credit card and other sensitive information. Both the data theft divisions of Verizon and the United States Secret Service saw data theft reports at small businesses jump 400% last year...

Rick Mongan, the current District 1 representative on the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors, is running unopposed for reelection on the Nov. 8, ballot, and he was also unopposed for the Republican nomination in the June primary. Mongan is currently completing his first four-year term and is the vice chair of the board...

Local citizens are invited to show both their generosity ad their creativity by having a hand painted tile place on an outside wall of the museum in commemoration of a donation of $500 or more. Individual donors are invited to decorate their own tiles or get help from Sanford staff in creating a tile with a design or favorite quote...

Some states allow voters to take "selfies" with their completed ballots and some states outlaw that practice. Iowa has a mixed approach, outlawing cameras, cellphones or other electronic devices in voting booths, but allowing photos of completed absentee ballots...

Trent Coombs. plant manager at Hubbard Feeds of Alta, presented a check on behalf of Hubbard Feeds to Cherokee Police Chief Nate James, accepting on behalf of the Cherokee Police Department's 'Toys for

The top ranked rough stock cowboys in Pro Rodeo have selected Barnes PRCA Rodeo livestock for both the 2016 RAM Great Lakes Circuit Finals (GLCF) in Louisville, Kentucky on Nov. 10-12 and the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (WNFR) in Las Vegas on Dec. 1-10. ...

Thirteen local women recently completed Iowa State University Extension and Outreach’s “Annie’s Project” in Cherokee. “Annie’s Project” is a hands-on agricultural class, taught and facilitated mostly by women, for women. The focus this fall was risk management, including financial, production, price and market, legal and personal risk...

Cherokee Regional Medical Center is happy to announce that Boden Dean Gorden is the CRMC 100th Anniversary Baby. Boden earned this honor by being the 100th baby born during CRMC’s centennial year of 2016. Boden was born on October 15th, and he was delivered by Dr. Chris VandeLune. He joins his mother Josey and father, Brice at home in Battle Creek, Iowa...