Stories from Monday, November 4, 2019

Three unopposed incumbents seek to return to their Cherokee City Council positions in the Nov. 5 City Election, including Amy Loughlin in Ward 1, Wayne Pingel in Ward 3, and Chad Brown At-Large. For Council member At-Large in Aurelia, three seek two positions, including Courtney Bruce, Cindy Nelson, and Robert Stroud. Gene Suhr is unopposed and seeks another term as Aurelia Mayor...

The dedicated members of Friends of the Library are ready for the 20th annual Book Basket Project. Area library supporters have been bringing in their basket projects for the Friends to wrap, but there is still time to bring a book basket in! The Friends would like all baskets to be at the Library as soon as possible. The baskets will then be on display at the Library until Saturday, December 7. Bidding began Friday, Nov. 1 and closes at noon Saturday, Dec. 7...

Alicia and Taylor Luraas of Holstein, Iowa are proud to announce the birth of their new son, Crue Taylor Luraas. He was born on October 28, 2019 at 6:51 p.m. and weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce, and was 20 and 1/4 inches. He has two brothers, Colt and Cash Luraas, and one sister, Caelor Luraas. His grandparents are Joe and Denice Redenius of Cushing, Iowa and Melanie Meyer of Ida Grove, Iowa...

Taking credit for something you had nothing to do with is lame and has no place in society. People who do this are sorrowful, sad, pathetic creatures who must be pitied and reviled, and then dismissed from memory, left alone to wander about in their forlorn wanna-be oblivion...

A Bird in the hand… Way back in the late 1960s when Cherokee IC boys basketball teams were rampaging all comers, this college boy, fortified by a few lagers, sat on the IC stage during a game, riding the refs for all their “bad” calls. I was a know-it-all jock who played the game all my life and had also taken sports officiating classes in college, refereed a few junior high and JV games and therefore had all the answers. ...

Here is "Whats happening this week..." a brief calendar of community events, groups, and meetings that are going on in our area.