Storm Lake, Iowa · Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Local and Area News
'With You Always' Benefit Ride for soldiers Oct. 2 (09/01/10)
Show your support for local troops with the American Legion Riders as they sponsor a "With You Always," Benefit Ride, Oct. 2. Earlier this year Debbie Emery, Midwest Motorcycle Apparel, Alta, organized a collection of care packages for area soldiers. ...
Iowa's Strongest Man making waves in competitive lifting (09/01/10)
Storm Lake Strongman's next goal: Olympic Games.
Grief support to begin Sept. 13 (08/30/10)
In cooperation the Sliefert Funeral Homes, Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Homes, Mahaney Funeral Home and the BVRMC Hospice will be sponsoring a seven week grief support group program beginning Monday, Sept. 13, 2010 at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake. Brad Smith, a funeral director and certified bereavement facilitator with 24 years of grief counseling experience, will be conducting the group...
BV grads 'Over the Edge' for Special Olympians (08/30/10)
Buena Vista University alums Jacob Flaws and his wife Carly (Evans) Flaws are taking on a challenge to rappel from one of the tallest buildings in Des Moines to raise money for the Special Olympics of Iowa. In the Over the Edge challenge, they must raise at least $1,000 for the charitable program. If they are successful, they will take the plunge September 22 from 345 feet, atop the Financial Center, one of the tallest buildings in Iowa...
Bettering their community (08/30/10)
Scouts work on Little Lake trail, memorial fountain, defibrillator, Genesis sidewalk.
BVU to Honor 7 at Founders' Day Service (08/27/10)
Buena Vista University will hold its 33rd annual Founders' Day memorial service on Saturday, Aug. 28 to honor seven deceased individuals who have served the institution as faculty, staff, trustees, alumni, and friends and benefactors. "Founders Day is a special time for Buena Vista University to recognize in memoriam those who have selflessly contributed in a variety of ways to the mission of this institution," says BVU President Fred Moore. ...
Labor Day weekend fun in SL: Runs, car show, karate, concert, crafts, food and more (08/27/10)
A full day of fun is planned for the Labor Day holiday weekend in Storm Lake. Sunday, Sept. 5 dawns with the Jump Right in and Run event, starting at 7:30 a.m. at King's Pointe. Participants can complete a half marathon, half marathon two-persona relay or 5K run-walk, with entertainment to follow in the King's Pointe area...
Gay in the Ministry: Congregations grapple with new guidelines (08/25/10)
The 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted Aug. 21, 2009, to open the ministry of the church to gay and lesbian pastors and other professional workers living in committed relationships. This national decision has become a divisive - and at times personal and political - issue in some local congregations as they deal with its implementation...
Entertainment Feed from Variety
  • Guest
    Film Reviews: In "Guest," Jose Luis Guerin seizes the opportunity afforded by a year of festival travel to explore the often dirty reality of life on a city's edges, away from all cameras but his own.
  • Weir's 'Way Back' to open in January
    Film News: Newmarket to release pic on Jan. 21 -- Peter Weir's prison escape drama "The Way Back" has been slotted for domestic release on Jan. 21 by Newmarket Films.
  • How to train your voters?
    Film News: DreamWorks Animation fires up 'Dragon' campaign -- DreamWorks Animation is unleashing the dragon early on awards voters, with an unseasonably kudos appeal.
  • Disney, Time Warner Cable cut deal
    TV News: Mammoth carriage accord includes digital rights, services -- Disney and Time Warner Cable have inked a mammoth carriage deal that covers the Mouse House's cablers, four ABC O&Os and gives Time Warner Cable expanded digital and video-on-demand rights to Mouse House programming.
  • Colombia's third net still in limbo
    International News: Council determines how to deal with bids -- Colombia's long-awaited third channel remains in limbo as the country's state council determines how to deal with demands for more competitive bids.
  • Actress Nandita Das to direct 'Trafficking'
    Film News: Film is set in the world of global sex trafficking. -- Actress Nandita Das has signed on to direct indie thriller "Trafficking," set in the world of global sex trafficking.
  • Gilliam goes Gallic with 'Brazil'
    Film News: Director to open Deauville with director's cut of pic -- Terry Gilliam will open the 36th Deauville American Film Festival with his director's cut of "Brazil," as a plethora of celebs and industryites make the trek to the French resort.
  • Oscar mark, set, go
    International News: Foreign-language contenders emerge -- With the 83rd Academy Awards pushed back to Feb. 27 from last year's March 7 date, the selections for consideration in the foreign-language Oscar race are already starting to roll in.
  • Herbie Hancock - Seven Decades: The Birthday Celebration
    Music Reviews: Performers celebrated the forward-looking innovator who expands his canvas to embrace the globe.
  • IFC Films snags rights to 'Inhale'
    Film News: Kormakur thriller stars Mulroney, Kruger -- IFC Films has snagged North American rights to "Inhale," the Baltasar Kormakur thriller toplined by Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger.
Associated Press Headlines
  • FBI: 6 accused in forced labor of 400 Thai workers
    HONOLULU (AP) -- Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history....
  • Oil platform explodes off La. coast; crew rescued
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed....
  • Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in gunbattle near border
    MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- A shootout between soldiers and purported drug cartel gunmen killed 25 suspects Thursday in northern Nuevo Leon state, near Mexico's border with Texas, the military said....
  • Arizona governor stumbles during debate
    PHOENIX (AP) -- It will go down as one of the most painful openings to a political debate in recent memory....
  • US teen Capra upsets Rezai, plays Sharapova next
    NEW YORK (AP) -- A year ago at the U.S. Open, American teenager Melanie Oudin told the world to "BELIEVE," with her sneakers and her play....
  • LA police ID owner of trunk containing baby bodies
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Investigators have identified the owner of a trunk in which the mummified remains of two babies were found, bringing them a step closer to solving the intriguing international mystery....
  • Earl weakens but still powerful as it smacks NC
    BUXTON, N.C. (AP) -- The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 110 mph winds Thursday on North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and potentially most destructive stop on the storm's projected journey up the Eastern Seaboard....
  • Man in Letterman blackmail plot freed from NY jail
    NEW YORK (AP) -- The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman was freed Thursday after four months in jail for a plot that put a spotlight on the comic icon's office affairs, city Correction Department records show....
  • Hopeful sign: More talks for Israel, Palestinians
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an early sign of promise, Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged Thursday in a cordial first round of talks to keep meeting at regular intervals, aiming to nail down a framework for overcoming deep disputes and achieving lasting peace within a year....
  • Discounts spur surprising Aug. retail sales gains
    NEW YORK (AP) -- This year's back-to-school season isn't as big a bust for retailers as they feared - or as last year's - but it's not great either....