Stories from Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Friday's Chamber Coffee at 9:30 a.m. will be hosted by the Cherokee PRCA Rodeo and will be held at the Cherokee County Fairgrounds.

The 27th annual Friends of Conservation Fun Day will take place on Sunday June 3rd at Silver Sioux Park. The fun events that day will start with wagon rides through the woods at 11 a/m/, and rides will be available again at 12:30, 2 and 3:30. Prairie Stew will be cooked over an open fire and will be served from 12 noon until 3 p.m. Naturalist Laura Jones will present a program on Animal Tracks and Animal Skins, and there will be demonstrations of spinning wool, rope making and wood working...

The Cherokee County Auditor’s Office will be open on Saturday, June 2nd, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for absentee voting. Voters will be asked to provide an approved form of identification before they may receive and cast a ballot. The Pre-Registration deadline for the June 2018 Primary Election was May 25th, therefore, any new voter registrations will require a current photo ID and proof of residency...

At last week’s Cherokee County Board of Supervisors meeting, Steve Reinert, representing the Cherokee VFW, reported on dwindling numbers of veterans available to provide graveside Color Guard services and requested funding to update Color Guard equipment...

Having received just one bid, the Cherokee City Council last week ultimately agreed with City Engineer Josh Pope’s asessment that the bid was fair and competitive, and approved a $392,300 contract to Blacktop Services of Humboldt for the 2018 City Street Improvement Project...

Graveside memorial services for Eugene and Donna Brown of Cherokee, Iowa will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 2nd at Oak Hill Cemetery in Cherokee, Iowa.  Pastor Mark Leeds will officiate. Military rites will be given by L.A. Wescott Post #2253 of the V.F.W. The Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa  is in charge of the arrangements...

Roy W. Wilson of Cherokee, Iowa, 78, passed away peacefully Friday morning, May 25, 2018 at Careage Hills. Memorial services will be held on Saturday, June 16th, at 10:30 a.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa, with Pastor Pinky Person officiating, and burial will be at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Cherokee. Visitation at the Boothby Funeral Home will be on Saturday morning June 16th from 9 a.m. until service time  On line condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com...

Peg (Peggy) Ann Wetherell, 75, of Spencer, Iowa, passed away Sunday afternoon, May 27, 2018 at St. Luke’s Lutheran Home following a courageous battle with cancer.   Peggy was born November 2, 1942 in Cherokee, Iowa to Clifford and Ruby (Dicks) Wetherell. ...

Donna Jean Lewallen of Cherokee, Iowa, 68, passed away on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 30, 2018, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee, with Father Randy Schoon and Father Timothy Schott officiating, and burial will be at a later date. ...

Summer is finally here, and man did it take its sweet time getting here. I know Iowa winters are unpredictable, but this winter past did not want to leave and when it was time to change seasons, went out with a vengeance. With the area schools releasing for summer break in the next few weeks, that means that summer reading season has begun! The library has plenty of programming and activities to rock on through the summer with this year’s theme of “Libraries Rock”...

Last week he Cherokee WHS softball team traveled to play East Sac County.  They got down 2-0 after the first inning. but never looked back, scoring five runs in the fourth inning.  Teagan Slaughter started the inning with a double to left field, JeMae Nichols followed it up with a hard -hit ball to left and advanced to second on the error.  Kassidy Pingel then singled  to score Slaughter and the Braves executed a perfect squeeze play by Lily Anderson to score Nichols from third.  Apryl Mesler then doubled to score Pingel and Anderson.. ...

The Cherokee Braves’ baseball season opened with a pair of non—conference games last week, and the season got off to a rocky start, as Cherokee lost their opener Wednesday at MOC-Floyd Valley, 10-0 in six innings, then fell at home to Humboldt, 10-2, on Thursday...

BATTLE CREEK - The Ridge View softball team came up short in a hard- fought 6-5 loss to Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove here Thursday night   Taking the loss for the Raptors was Katie Brinkman, who threw 6.66 innings and gave up six runs (two earned) while walking one and striking out one ...

IDA GROVE - The Ridge View baseball team evened their record in this young season at 1-1 with an 8-5 Western Valley Conference win here Thursday over Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove. Ridge View trailed 5-2 going into the 7th inning, but scored six runs in that frame to take an 8-5 lead, and the Raptors shut the door in the bottom of the 7th inning for the win.  Jake Tokheim was the winning pitcher, hurling three innings of no-hit, five strikeout relief, and Tokheim also had a good offensive night with two hits, including a double.  Jaxon Franken also had two hits for the Raptors.. ...

WEST BEND - Alta-Aurelia senior Alex Snyder got his final season on the mound off to a perfect start here Thursday as he faced 15 West Bend-Mallard batters and sent them all down, 11 on strikes, leading his Warriors to a 15-0 five inning win over the host school...