Stories from Monday, June 18, 2018

It may not appear to be the case anymore, but there are still a vast majority of American men dutifully serving 24-7 as good, solid, God-fearing, caring, loving, compassionate, hard-working, cooperative fathers and husbands. We hope each and every one of them had a wonderful, well-deserved Father’s Day this past weekend...

CAMP DODGE, Iowa - The most important work noww being done at Camp Dodge is making American citizens out of the motley throng represnting about every nation under thye sun. Swedes, Greeks, Italians, Hollanders, Belgians and represntatives of other allied or neutral countries have presnted themselves by the hundeds before an improvised civil court in building 1215, presided over by Judge Thomas J. Guthrie and A.H. Bode, represnting the U.S. government...

The Cherokee Community Theater (CCT) recently purchased a short-throw projector system for the purpose of enhancing and supplementing background scenery for the CCT productions. This projection system will allow for the use of photos, animation or videos to go with traditional set pieces or to act as the set itself. ...

Chuck and Julie Tolzin were married on June 21, 1968 at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Cherokee, and on Sunday June 24, 2018, from 10:30 a.m.- 1 p.m., the couple’s daughters, Anne Holmes and Laura Benson, are honoring their parents on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary with an Open House at St. Paul’s, 531 West Main Street...

Virginia Whiittenburg will be marking her 90th birthday on June 21st. You can shower Virginia with congratulatory cards and messages sent to her at : 712 N. Roosevelt; Cherokee, IA 51012.

Graveside services for Frances Donnabell Erickson Williams Frederick, 93, will be held on Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 2 p.m. at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in rural Aurelia, with Pastor Bruce Rapp officiating and a time of fellowship and sharing will immediately follow at the Aurelia Community Center. Local arrangements are being handled by the Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia...

DeWayne “Ed” Skinner of the Denver, Colorado area, formerly of Cherokee, passed away June 11, 2018 at the age of 94. Services will be held at Shepard of the Hills Presbyterian Church in Lakewood, Colorado on June 22 at 1 p.m., and burial, with military honors, will be at Fort Logan Cemetery, Staging Area C, on June 26 at 10:15 am. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America...

Boy Scout Troop 107, in conjunction with VFW Post 2253 and American Legion Post 230, presented retired flags for proper disposal at the Cherokee Airport parking lot at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 14 to commemorate Flag Day, and the scouts were joined by members of the community...

Alta-Aurelia High School musicians Carly Drenth, Kirk Langner, Colton Henkel and Matthew Edwards will tour Europe with the Iowa Ambassadors of Music (IAM) July 3-18, 2018. These local students are part of a select group of 390 student musicians, advisors and parents from across Iowa...

MARCUS - The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Remsen Union baseball team has been very busy lately, playing eight games in as many days. On June 6th, the Royals played two games with Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn. In the first game, MMCRU scored three in the 1st inning and added three more in the 4th to take a 6-0 lead. ...

ALTA - The Alta-Aurelia baseball team scored a 12-6 win over Sioux Central in Twin Lakes Conference baseball action here Wednesday, improving their season’s record to 10- 1. The Warriors had a 9-1 lead after three innings. TJ Walter got the win on the mound for A-A, allowing three runs (one earned) on four hits in 5 2/3 innings pitched, walking four and striking out four. ...

ALTA - The undefeated Alta-Aurelia girls blanked Harttley-Melvin-Sanborn, 11-0 in five innings, in non conference softball action here Thursday, improving their season mark to 14-0. Warriors’ pitcher Abby Kraemer spun a no-hitter, walking one and striking out eight. Alta-Aurelia collected nine hits, all singles, with Jessica Flaherty, Rowan Kolpin and Alicia Turnquist each having two hits...

On June 4th the South O’Brien girls traveled to Hinton and came away with a 9-7 conference win. The 4th inning turned out to be South O’Brien’s big inning as they scored five runs on four hits, a walk, and an error. Skye Rehder, Kaylee Jacobs, Struve and Hintz each recorded base hits that inning to make the score 7-5 in the Wolverines’ favor and to turn the momentum of the game. ...

The Ridge View baseball team lost a pair of Western Valley Conference games on June 7th and 8th. The Raptors played at Sloan on Thursday, and they scored first with a run in the 1st inning, but they weren’t able to score again in the game.  Westwood scored two runs in the 4th inning, and that's all they needed for a 2-1 win. Jake Mitchell pitched well for the Raptors in the loss.  Mitchell, Logan Gross, Caleb Kistenmacher and Logan Cuthrell each had two hits for the Raptors...

The Ridge View softball team traveled to Paullina to compete in the South O’Brien Tournament on Saturday June 9th and came away with a 1-1 record on the day.  In their first game Ridge View took on Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn and came away with a 15-0, 3 inning victory.  Picking up the win was Addison Schmidt, who threw all three innings giving up no hits and walking one.  The coaches thought she did very in her first varsity start and. “ She threw strikes and mixed it up very well and our defense made the plays on the field,” commented Coach Scott Phelps.. ...