Stories from Monday, April 14, 2014

Storm Lake Police were called to Dynos convenience store, East Lakeshore Drive and Flindt Drive, on a reported sexual assault at 3:30 a.m. Saturday. The 19-year-old female clerk told officers that a man had entered the store shortly after 1 a.m. and attacked her. The man sexually assaulted the clerk inside of the store and then fled, police say...

Storm Lake Police re asking for the public's help in solving a reported robbery attempt at Buena Vista University. A victim walking in the 400 block of Grand Avenue was reportedly robbed Sunday morning at approximately 12:30 a.m. He told police that he was grabbed from behind by a male subject who told the victim, "Give me your wallet or I'll stab you."...

ORANGE CITY - The Storm Lake boys' golf team came in fourth at the Unity Christian Invite at the Landsmeer Golf Club. Blake Berry individually got fourth for the Tornadoes with an 80, he shot a 38 and 42 respectively. Other scores for the Tornadoes were Zach Brashears finished with an 82 finishing with scores of 43 and 39. ...

Storm Lake St. Mary's High School Senior Jasmine Demers was chosen as MVP of the 1A Select Team Iowa Senior All Star Game in Cedar Rapids Sunday, April 6. The 1A Select Team beat the 2A Select Team 93-90 with a 3-point shot at the buzzer made by fellow select team player Renee Maneman of Newell-Fonda. Demers is the daughter of Jim and Patti Demers...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY - On the warmest day of the year so far the Storm Lake Albatross took on the Siouxland Swine Rugby Club. The Albatross did not allow that to deter them from putting on a good showing. The Tross were only able to travel with 12 players; however, they put up a great fight with their biggest rival. The first half had the Tross down 25-0 with great back play from the Siouxland team...

SAC CITY - A day after the Ridge View boys' track team traded blows with the Alta-Aurelia boys' track team they match-up again on Friday at the Raider Relays. Conference foe Newell-Fonda was in attendence as well as three pretty solid 2A teams, South Central Calhoun, IKM-Manning and East Sac County...

Sioux Central Head Girls Basketball Coach John Barbier and Head Boys Coach Stephen Tjaden are pleased to announce that on Monday, June 2 and Tuesday, June 3 Sioux Central will be hosting a Chute Shooting Camp. The camp will be led by Sioux Central alum Kelly Terrell who coached the NIACC women's basketball team to a national tournament appearance this season...

FORT DODGE - The Storm Lake boys' tennis team is still looking for the first team victory of the season as they fell to Fort Dodge St. Edmond on Friday, 8-1 in singles and 3-0 in doubles. The lone win for the Tornadoes was Danny Souksay who defeated Jacob Meyer; 6-3,3-6,10-6. Souksay is now 2-0 on the season. Ross Dewerff lost 6-3,7-6(8-6), Caleb Hinners lost 6-1, 6-0. Jake Luedtke lost his match 6-1, 6-1 while Brett Dewerff lost 6-2,6-0 and Tanner Hoops lost 6-1, 6-0...

SPENCER - The Laurens-Marathon girls' track team placed fourth at the Maverick Relays last Friday with a total of 48.5 team points. Kenzie Sullivan placed first in the shot put and discus and Brooke Runneberg won the high jump. Briley Sullivan placed second in the shot put, Destini Oehlertz finished third in 1500 meter run. Maili Todd came in third in 3000 meter run and the Distance medley team placed first...

A handful of events were represented by the Buena Vista men's track and field team as the Beavers competed in the Jim Duncan Relays on Friday and Saturday. Going up against a number of Division I and II athletes, BVU did land several top-tier finishes. ...

CHEROKEE - The Sioux Central Rebels girls' track team won the Tomahawk Relays on Friday by a landslide with 128 team points, Central Lyon placed second with 91. Ridge View girls' placed sixth on the day with 49 points and Alta-Aurelia finished eighth with 41 points...

As technology continues to evolve so does the need to update the technology that is being used. With constant updates needed, and a changing direction in the way that the Storm Lake schools wish to use computers, the tech plan for Storm Lake received several suggested changes for the coming school year...

Just before heading to Azerbaijan for a Peace Corps Placement, Hannah Frantz of Storm Lake learned that the Peace Corps Placement was canceled.

By MARK SCHAFER Pilot-Tribune Staff The second game of a double header was over; a Beaver base runner was running down the first base line, just in case. Then, Central College's first baseman, while his foot was firmly planted on the bag , leaned forward and gathered in the pass from the third baseman. The throw, however, rolled out of Grant Seuferer's glove and bounced off the field-turf...

The budget for the Storm Lake Community School will increase for the 2014-2015 school year. However, even though the budget is increasing, the taxes in the area are going to decrease. "It's not very often that we have a situation where our budget is able to increase, and we actually see the taxes go down," said School Board president Peter Steinfeld. "This reflects well on our community, and the school board."...

After a month of negotiations the School Board and the Storm Lake Education Association were able to come to an agreement on the teacher negations for the 2014-2015 school year. For the next school year, the teachers will receive a 4.52 percent total package increase. This will come at a total cost of $522,316 with the salary base to be determined a few weeks from now when the insurance information is received...

Bid for Expansion Boulevard $1.5 million project set for May

Storm Lake was named a demonstration community for water best practices earlier this year. This means communities in Iowa will use the system set up by the city as a template for their own communitie's storm water management. "It's exciting that we will be looked at throughout the state, very humbling and scary, but very exciting too," exclaimed Storm Water Board member Melinda Coogan...

Jake Nelson has made the transition from a Storm Lake college student and wrestler to a member of the Storm Lake Police Department. Nelson, 23, who always had an interest in law enforcement growing up, majored in Criminal Justice while attending BVU. During his time in college, Nelson prepared himself to enter the police force...

Farm Nutrients, a new business to Buena Vista County, is awaiting one final piece before they can satisfy county laws. Once that is complete construction can begin. At a BV County Board of Supervisors meeting in February a third reading was passed on Farm Nutrients ability to become commercially zoned, but a resolution to complete the action was put on hold...