Stories from Monday, May 7, 2018

POCAHONTAS - The Twin Lakes Conference attempted to stage its annual Conference track meet here Tuesday, but only nine of 19 events were completed before the stormy weather brought a halt to the proceedings - as it has so many times this spring. The Alta-Aurelia boys were in the team lead after Tuesday’s events, and the Warriors were halfway to Pocahontas Thursday for the conclusion of the meet when bad weather hit again and the meet was cancelled. ...

The Alta-Aurelia Trap team hosted a trap shoot on Saturday April 28th. Teams competing were Alta-Aurelia, Storm Lake, Okoboji. GTRA and Sioux City.  In the High School division, the Alta-Aurelia squad of Noah Sundene, Cody Goodwin, Cory Goodwin, Nick Beazley and Wyatt Tuttle won 1st place. Alta-Aurelia team members placing individually: High School boys: Cody Goodwin 1st place; Brock Mier 2nd place...

ESTHERVILLE - On Wednesday May 3rd, the Alta-Aurelia High School Trap team traveled to Estherville to compete at the Emmet County Izaak Walton League. The A-A squad of, left to right, Wyatt Tuttle, Nick Beazley, Cory Goodwin, Cody Goodwin and Noah Sundene, placed second at the meet. Photo contributed...

SPIRIT LAKE - The Lakes Conference held its Conference Track Meet here Thursday on a drizzly day, when It didn't stop raining until the last couple of events. The Cherokee girls finished 6th in the Team Standings and were able to come away with one conference championship, with Bri Sleezer winning the 400 meters in 1:02.80, making her a two-time conference champ in that event.  The Braves finished second in the 800 Sprint Medley (1:57.28) and third in the 4x100 ( 54.67) with the quartet of Megan Brown, JeMae Nichols, Kassidy Pingel and Sleezer running in both events, and the Cherokee team had a couple of season bests, even with the rain. . ...

Brenda Backman, the Artist of the Month at the Thiel Sanford Museum in Cherokee, has been making art and stitching since she was twelve years old when she started making her own needlepoint designs., and she says she’s been “hooked ever since.” Backman graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2000 and began her professional art career then.  She has shown her work all over the United States as well as internationally...

More than 10,000 men have been added' to the roll call at Camp Dodge the past ten days. They have been pouring in from Illinois, Minnesota,. North Dakota and Iowa by the train load. Officers were on duty in the city to receive the newcomers and escort them to the interurban station where great trains were in waiting to take them to the big cantonment twelve miles northwest of the city. ...

On Sunday April 22, 16 of the Ridge View FFA Chapter members travelled to Ames to compete in the 90th Annual State Leadership Conference.  On Monday, the 23rd, The Parliamentary Procedure Team consisting of Russell Brummer, Katlyn Wiese, Emerson Else, Rachel Kenny, and Brooklyn Albers received a gold rating. ...

Cherokee VFW Auxiliary #2253 recently presented awards to 3rd Grade and 4th Grade students at MMCRU school in Marcus. The 3rd Grade class wrote essays on '"I Love America Because",. Winners were: 1st place Samantha Thelen; 2nd place Skyler Garland and 3rd place Jordyn Neddermeyer...

Darrell D. “Rocky” Weiland 79, of Cherokee, Iowa, passed away Thursday morning, May 3, 2018 at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa. Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, May 8th, at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cherokee, Iowa., with Pastor Jon Riggert officiating, and burial will be at a later date. ...

Ellen M. Henderson of Cherokee, Iowa, 84, passed away peacefully at her home in Cherokee Wednesday evening, May 2, 2018 , in the company of her daughter Bonnie and her friend, Betty Harrison. Funeral services will be held on Monday, May 7th at 5 p.m. ...