Stories from Friday, December 6, 2013

At the most recent city council meeting an application for housing was approved, a letter of interest was sent about water pilot communities, a grant for fluoride equipment was accepted, a bid was accepted for waste water treatment improvements, a yard waste agreement was signed, and an amendment to the Bargloff Urban Renewal Plan was approved...

A senior fitness class is making it's way to Storm Lake starting next week. Lake Pointe Villa and Ostego Place will be hosting the class designed to "reduce the amount of falls" by focusing on overall strength, flexibility, and balance. Mike Pap of Live 2B Healthy Senior Fitness says, "there is always a need for more wellness in all of us."...

Generation of people can recall what movie series they were in love with at different times in their life. The current millennial generation will remember Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley as their childhood memories, or even friends...

One Storm Lake family's roots go back to a time when the United States was on the brink of collapse, the Civil War. Benjamin Franklin Whitehouse is famous within the Whitehouse family having been a soldier in the Civil War and Indian Wars. His grandson, George Whitehouse, moved to Storm Lake after retiring and began to delve deeper into who his grandfather was and calls his grandfather "100 percent patriot."...

After researching the lake the summer of 2013 the Iowa State research group has presented their ideas to the Department of Natural Resources and are now "refining" their finds. Ideas included adding additional islands in the lake, tree belts, and rock jetties...