Stories from Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Friday's Chamber Coffee, at 9:30 a.m., will be hosted by North Star Community Credit Union; 1030 South 2nd Street.

The City of Cherokee continues exploring the process for the voluntary annexation and zoning of he South Industrial Area, which includes the former Tyson Deli Foods facility, which has been vacant since 2014. The Cherokee Planning & Zoning Commission supports the voluntary annexation of the former Tyson Site...

Kevin Duane Borkowski of Sac City, age 54, passed away on Friday, October 13, 2017, at his home in Sac City. A Celebration of Life was held on Monday October 16, from 4- 6 p.m., with a "Time of Remembrance” and luncheon at 6 p.m. in the basement lunchroom at the fFarber-Otteman funeral home in Sac City ...

The Cherokee PTA has teamed up with students at Roosevelt Elementary School to participate in a Spooky Stride on October 31, 2017. This will be a fun time for kids to parade around in their Halloween costumes. We are asking people to join in our stride or park on the route and watch this event. Our route will be announced at a later time….please watch for those details...

The Cherokee volleyball team played their final Saturday tournament of the season at Storm Lake on October 14, and the Braves went 4-1 on the day, bringing their regular season record to 22-10.  Cherokee beat Storm Lake 2-0, Kingsley Pierson 2-0, Estherville-Lincoln Central 2-1, and Spirit Lake 2-1.  After beating Spirit Lake in pool play, the Braves played the Indians again in the championship match and lost 1-2.  ...

EMMETSBURG- The Storm Lake High School girls took to the pool in a dual meet against Algona here on Thursday Oct. 12th.. The team makes this as a fun meet, trying new events, events they don’t usually swim, or events they won’t get to swim again during the season. The team had lots of top finishes and the final score was Storm Lake 149, Algona 105...

MONDAMIN - River Valley finished its football season Friday with a 20-6 win over West Harrison in 8 Man district football action here. Dominic Schirmer rolled for 227 rushing yards in 35 attempts. Schirmer scored once, on a 39-run run. Quarterback Trey Goettsch also scored one rushing touchdown, a 14 yarder. Colton Cockburn snared a 20 yard touchdown reception on a pass from Goettsch...

ARMSTRONG - South O’Brien traveled to Armstrong Friday to take on North Union, and the final score showed the Wolverines driving away with their second consecutive win, 33-0. South O’Brien took the ball on the opening kickoff and ended up with good field position. Four plays later Senior Carson Louscher snuck in the end zone on a 1 yard run. Drew Faust kicked the extra point so with 10:47 to go in the first quarter the Wolverines were leading 7-0...

MILFORD - Alta-Aurelia picked up its third win of the season as they topped host Okoboji 47-0, in Class 1-A District football action Friday. Alta-Aurelia senior Kaleb Sleezer galloped 116 yards on 10 rushing attempts, including one 61 yard touchdown, to lead the AWrriors, while sophomore Anthony Krier added 89 yards on 10 carries.. ...

The Cherokee Braves hosted the Estherville Lincoln Central Midgets last Friday in their last home game of the season. Coming into the game the Braves seemed to match up well with ELC, but the Midgets played a great second half to beat the Braves 30-6...

HOLSTEIN - Ridge View hosted Marcus/Meriden-Cleghorn / Remsen Union in Class A district football action here Friday, and Ridge View won, 44-12.  The Raptors are now 5-3 overall and 4-2 in district play.  Ridge View coach Dale Tokheim said, “I was proud of the boys because we came out and took care of business.  We had to win and win big to keep a sliver of hope alive for the wildcard playoff spot.  We were coming off of a couple of disappointing losses, and the boys responded well.”  ...

Mud On Main "officially" opened its Cherokee location Friday October 13th when owner Jessica Kannegieter cut the Chamber of Commerce's red ribbon. The bistro also hosted the weekly Chamber Coffee, and there was a nice-sized turnout for both events. Kannegieter also owns a Mud on Main in neighboring Aurelia...

Mary Gravenish Blair of Meriden displays two giant potatoes dug out of her garden last week. Blair, age 88, said she’s been gardening and planting potatoes for more than 80 years and these are the biggest ever dug up. With Blair is Diane Bunkers of Remsen, who tends to the gardening for Blair. Photo by Paul Struck...

The Cherokee County Fair Association has received a $1,000 grant from the Iowa Committee Assurance Pool (ICAP) , the member’s property and casualty coverage provider. The ICAP grant provides up to $1,000 per member for the purchase of select loss control and/or risk management items. Such items include, but are not limited to:...

Recently, Matt Gustafson of NW Iowa Twisted Steel Fitness presented Roosevelt Elementary’s student body with a $500 donation for the school having the most participants in his Twisted Steel Kids OCR, which was held in his gym in Cleghorn last spring...

JOHNSTON - Pvt. Trevor Stevenson, a River Valley graduate now of Cedar Falls, was part of approximately 70 Iowa Army National Guard Soldiers recently recognized during a patching ceremony held at the Camp Dodge Joint Maneuver Training Center in Johnston...

The Shopko Foundation’s Community Charitable Grant Program recently awarded the Cherokee Trail Committee a grant of $500 for use in completing the Bluff Street Trail Project. This project includes paving the final section of the abandoned railroad line between Bluff Street and U.S. ...

SCHALLER, Iowa — Federal safety regulators have shut down a troubled Northwest Iowa trucking company that owned the semitrailer recently involved in a human trafficking case in which 10 immigrants died in Texas. Pyle Transportation of Schaller was placed under an "out-of-service order" Monday by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration after a review found the company's safety rating was so unsatisfactory that it was unfit to remain in business, agency spokesman Duane DeBruyne confirmed to The Associated Press.. ...

Cherokee Police Chief Nate James sadly reports that Ike, the Police Department’s beloved K-9 dog, has cancer and the doctor hasn’t given him long to live (30-60 days). “We can see him going downhill. Ike will be with us till he can’t do it anymore,” said Chief James...

Jade Peterson and Malachi Zermeno announce the birth of their baby boy, born on October 12, 2017. Kaiysen Zermeno was born at 12:15 a.m., weighed 8 lb. 6 oz., measured 20 inches long, and he was welcomed home by his big sister, Sapphire,

You know it by its beauty, the rows of golden corn stalks against the bright blue sky which the next day are rows of golden stubble against the deep, dark earth or the fullness of the bright yellow-green in the soybean fields. It is, indeed, a pretty time of year. It’s also a dangerous time of year...

In case you missed it ... the city of Las Vegas, Nevada (pop. 583,756 permanent residents) now has its first professional sports team, the expansion Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League. The team won its first three games in this, its first season, and their first home win helped a city trying to recover from the recent massacre...

I have been concentrating on downsizing the children’s department easy reading story books and non-fiction to make room for all the new books we have added to our collection. I believe that all the new material is interesting, fun, educational, and stimulating. We needed to freshen up the bins and shelves. It looks pretty good on the top floor. Please come by and see for yourselves...

Lanna Kaye (Corrington) Niebuhr, age 70, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on October 5, 2017 in Adel, Iowa. Lanna was born, the youngest of three children to Leo (Jinx) and Bonnie Corrington on January 12, 1947 in Cherokee, Iowa. She was raised in rural Aurelia and graduated from Aurelia High School in 1965. Lanna married her high school sweetheart, James Niebuhr, on December 18, 1966, and they were blessed with four children...