Stories from Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Small non-farm businesses in 31 Iowa counties are now eligible to apply for low‑interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Tanya N. Garfield of SBA’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the following primary counties that began Aug. 4, 2020...

Foundation Analytical Laboratory (FAL) and Cherokee Area Economic Development Corporation (CAEDC) hosted U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, August 27th for a facility tour and roundtable with FAL employees. “This was a tremendous opportunity for our community to discuss issues most important to Cherokee County,” stated Bill Anderson, Executive Director of CAEDC. “We were honored to have Sen. Grassley visit Cherokee County and tour Foundation Analytical Laboratory’s state-of-the-art facility.”...

Elaine Ione Dyslin, age 81 of Norfolk, NE and formerly Aurelia, IA, passed away on Saturday, August 29, 2020, at her residence in Norfolk. Funeral services will occur at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, September 2, 2020, at the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee. ...

James D. Jenness, 75, of Marshalltown, Iowa, formerly of Quimby, Iowa passed away Sunday evening, August 30, 2020 in the Iowa Veteran’s Home at Marshalltown, Iowa.   Graveside memorial services will be held at a later date. The Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa is assisting the family with the arrangements. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com...

Visitation for Loyd Reineke, 80, will be held on Sunday, August 30, 2020 from 1:00 P.M. until 5:00 P.M. at the Aurelia Community Center, with the family present. Masks and social distancing are required. Private family burial will take place at the Sunset View Cemetery in Washta at a later time. The Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia is in charge of arrangements...

Nicole Solares Brandt of Holstein has received the WITCC TRIO-Student Support Services Achiever of the Month Award for September. This award recognizes Western Iowa Tech TRIO students for demonstrating qualities of leadership and citizenship while achieving collegiate academic success.  Nicole began taking classes on the Cherokee WIT Campus in the Fall of 2019.  She soon became actively involved in the TRIO program attending an RN-BSN Transfer Fair and Hamilton Broadway production at the Omaha Orpheum Theater among other TRIO-sponsored activities. ...

Racial inequality in the United States has been an open wound for 250 years, but in the past four years, the scabs have been torn off and that fact, coupled with social media and tragic videos of cops shooting and killing unarmed blacks, have ripped this country apart...

The Cherokee Braves overcame a slow first half last Friday against the Royals off MMCRU to advance to 1-0 on the season with a 21-7 victory on the road. Both teams struggled offensively early in as the Braves led 2-0, scoring a safety, going into halftime...

The library had quite a bit of excitement on Friday, August 21 with a swarm of bees taking up residence in the southern giant spruce tree in front of the library. The bees landed right before noon and made themselves comfortable and had a nice rest until our amazing local conservationist, Laura Jones, came to save both the library and the bees around 4. ...

(This column written several years ago couldn’t be more appropriate than now as a long overdue reckoning between blacks and whites hopefully is at hand. Perhaps goodness will prevail after all.) I’ll never forget her beautiful face as she saved the Struck boys’ lives...