Stories from Tuesday, October 7, 2014

About 50 people packed the Storm Lake City Council chambers Monday night to plead their opposition to a proposed deal with Canadian National Railroad to close several railroad crossings. These include Gilbert, Hudson, Barton and Ontario street crossings, and pedestrian sidewalk closings on Seneca, College, Grand and Otsego (East sidewalk only on Otsego.)...

Alex's Army was back in action Saturday in Des Moines, taking part in The Walk to Defeat ALS. The team easily surpassed its fundraising goal, taking part in honor of Alexandra "Alex" Hermsted, the Storm Lake teenager who passed away after a lengthy battle with an undiagnosed illness the family now believes was a rare form of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - ALS - also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease...

Shirley A. Carstens, age 82, of Alta, passed away on Friday, October 3, at her home of Alta. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, October 11, at 10:30 a.m. at the Trinity Lutheran Church of Alta with the Rev. Melba E. Smith officiating. Burial will be at the Woodlawn Cemetery of Alta. ...

Alta-Aurelia's winning streak snapped Saturday

CommUNITY Education offered a Start Smart Sports Sampler from September 4-22 for children between the ages of 3-7. Start Smart Sports Sampler is a six-session instructional program that introduced participants to the following sports: football, basketball, tennis, soccer, golf and baseball with a new sport introduced nightly. ...

Volleyball teams now know who they will play as the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released the regionals volley ball pairings last week. In class 1A action the Panthers of St. Mary's will travel to Newell to face the Newell-Fonda Mustangs in the first round. The game is Oct. 21...

Storm Lake traveled up to Estherville where they were one of eight schools to play in a volleyball tournament Saturday. The Tornadoes were able to come home with three set wins, however a match escaped them on the night. Despite playing well in all of the games and closing the score several times, the Tornadoes went 0-4 on the afternoon...

The season may be nearing its end, but the Alta-Aurelia Warriors are just starting to show what they can really do on the volleyball court. Saturday the team was in Correctionville for the River Valley tournament. There the Warriors finished 4-1 on the day and fell just short of the championship...

With four matches in the book already, the Lady Rebels of Sioux Central were one match away from winning their first tournament of the year on Saturday in Estherville. In order to do so they would have to play the host school, who had vanquished all of their opponents on the way to the finals, most in two sets...

STORM LAKE - Six times in the second quarter the touchdown was signaled by the IIAC refs on Saturday afternoon. A scoring frenzy in the second quarter led the Beavers past Simpson College with a 38-31 score. Simpson College put their first points on the board at the end of the first quarter on a 12 play drive that ended with just under a minute and a half remaining in the first quarter...

ALBERT CITY -- Sioux Central (3-3, 2-2) looked dominant in the first half Saturday night against Akron-Westfield (2-4, 2-), leading 28-12 at the break, but a few timely Rebel miscues opened the door for the Westerners as they scored five second-half touchdowns in a game moved a day due to tragedy dealt to Sioux Central earlier this week...