Stories from Monday, September 18, 2017

The Cherokee Community Theatre is excited to announce its 59th year of entertaining. Two hilarious farces, along with a beloved family musical, are on tap for another exciting season of local theatre this year, The CCT’s first show of the season will be “Lend Me a Tenor” by Ken Ludwig. Set in 1934, this madcap farce features a world-famous opera star, a mis-diagnosed death, a frantic theatre manager and her assistant, women in lingerie, and a lot of misunderstanding...

  Animal athletes from Barnes PRCA Rodeo are in high demand between September 28 - October 1, 2017.  Marty Barnes and his son Westin Barnes will take part in seven rodeo performances in just four days in Iowa and South Dakota.   Barnes PRCA Rodeo is providing livestock for two Great Plains Regional Rodeos at Iowa Central Community College and Iowa State University.  Also, eight of their top bucking horses and bulls were selected to compete at the Wrangler Champions Challenge Finale in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on September 29 and 30.. ...

SIOUX RAPIDS - On a hot and windy day on a hilly course, the Alta-Aurelia Cross Country teams were up to the challenge at the Sioux Central Cross Country Meet here Thursday. The A-A girls won the team title, scoring 43 points to runner-up Spirit Lake’s 48. ...

NEWELL - The Alta-Aurelia volleyball girls posted wins over two Twin lakes Conference rivals in a triangular meet here Thursday, topping Pocahontas Area 3-0, by game scores of 25-18, 25-21, 25-18, and beating Newell-Fonda 3-1, by game scores of 25-22, 23-25, 25-13, 33-31...

The Cherokee Knights of Columbus’ annual Outreach Project for people with disabilities is now under way. Anyone who received a letter about the program from either the Knights of Columbus or Crossroads of Western Iowa can send their donation to: Knights of Columbus; P.O. Box 265; Cherokee, IA 51012...

Now that the reorganization vote creating the new Alta-Aurelia School District has passed, here is the plan for A-A school board membership in the future: 1) A seven member transitional board will be formed from existing board members (there are currently five Alta board members and five Aurelia board members)...

Today's teens find themselves facing more pressures than ever before. The advent of new technologies, the pitfalls of social networking sites, single moms and a fluctuating economy that has many parents struggling to make ends meet, may leave teens more on their own than ever before...