Stories from Wednesday, November 23, 2016

There will be no Chamber of Commerce Coffee this Friday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Next Friday, December 2nd, Accura Healthcare (the former Countryside Estates) will host the coffee.

Roosevelt Elementary teacher Natasha Timmerman's third grade class read the book 'A Turkey for Thanksgiving,' which is about a moose family that tries to find a turkey for Thanksgiving. The turkey is terrified - until he realizes they are inviting him to sit AT the table and not ON it. The students then wrote their own letters to Mr. Turkey, inviting him to their Thanksgiving as a guest - and not as a meal.”...

Cherokee County Work Services Director Ben Shuberg (left) recently accepted a check for CCWS , presented by Knights of Columbus Grand Knight Terry Boisen, as part of the Knights' Project Outreach fund raising effort. The $12,496.50 donation will be used by CCWS to upgrade its pickup truck, which is used for a variety of projects, including the recently- added activity of recycling cardboard...

Jim Flahive (left) and Chad Owens (right), of HyVee Food Store in Cherokee, recently presented Shirley Staver (center) with a new 2016 Ford 150 pickup, the prize in a recent HyVee promotion.

Everyone is welcome to come to the Cherokee County Conservation Board office from 2 to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11 to make holiday and seasonal crafts using items from nature. Join us at the conservation board office to create a snowman using sticks and tree cookies or a reindeer ornament for the tree! We’ll have crafty items and nature items for you to create your own holiday and winter decorations. ...

Cherokee Washington High senior Olivia Dagel has signed a letter of intent for track and field at the University of South Dakota. She was recruited by USD Coyote throws coach and three-time Olympian thrower AG Kruger. Olivia, who also excelled in basketball and volleyball at WHS, is flanked here by her parents, Bruce and Leah Dagel of Cherokee. Back, WHS track and field coaches Travis Schipper, Lynn Jolly and Matt Hoskinson...

Three South O’Brien players, two from Cherokee, and one from Alta-Aurelia have been selected to the Iowa Newspaper Association’s 2016 All-State Football teams. Cherokee senior Ben Lingelfelter was a Class 2A first-team pick as an offensive lineman and senior Trey Valentine was named to the third team as a wide receiver. ...

It has been a tradition that a president is transparent in his financial dealings and is removed from any control of financial holdings that could be affected by his decisions as president. Donald Trump is defying that tradition. A few of Trump’s conflicts of interest are apparent. ...

Holiday season is here. There is no denying the holiday music in the store or the twinkling, sparkling decorations beginning to take over. And in just a week, 'Black Friday' will be upon us. But, following Black Friday and gaining steam each year, is 'Small Business Saturday.'...

Children’s Story Tellers such as Judy Blume, Kate DiCamillo, Jeff Kinney, Lois Lowry, J.K. Rowling, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss and Company, Shel Silverstein, Mo Willems, Dav Pilkey, Jane Yolen, and many more too numerous to mention, have given us a gift nonpareil...

The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen Union school invites everyone to an evening of hidden identities and royal festivities! We bid thee come to the Sawyer Center Castle Hall in Marcus on the weekend of Saturday, December 10th at 6 p.m. and Sunday, Dec.11th at 5 p.m., when a bountiful feast will be served for a mere pence of $15!...

U.S. Senator Joni Ernst completed her 99-county Iowa tour on Tuesday with a town hall meeting in the auditorium of Western Iowa Tech Community College's Cherokee campus. Ernst started the meeting by describing bills she had gotten through Congress this year before opening Ernst said, that of the five bills she got to the president’s desk, two were vetoed by the President...

Keith S. Olhausen of Cherokee, age 85, passed away Friday, November 18, 2016 at Accura Health in Cherokee. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, November 22, 2016, at the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee. Pastor Jean Morse will officiate. ...

Donna R. Brown of Cherokee, 70, passed away Monday afternoon, November 21, 2016 at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 26th, at 11 a.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, with Pastor Mark Leeds officiating, and burial will be at a later date. Visitation at the funeral home will be on Saturday from 10 a.m. until service time . Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com...