Stories from Wednesday, October 18, 2017

On October 28 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Buena Vista County Sheriff’s Office, Storm Lake Police Department, Newell Police Department and Sioux Rapids Police Department in cooperation with Compass Pointe Drug & Alcohol Treatment Center and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its 14th opportunity in seven years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs...

Storm Lake St. Mary’s School has announced that Seth and Etta Smith will be co-chairing the March 17, 2018 St. Mary’s Ball and Charity Auction with chairs Andy and Lisa Hurd. The gala event is the single largest fundraiser of the year for the local Catholic preK-12 School. It will be held in the Siebens Forum on the Buena Vista University Campus in Storm Lake. Attendance tickets will go on sale in January 2018...

Rain has kept Iowa and Nebraska farmers out of corn and soybean fields in the past few weeks significantly delaying the harvest. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says just 32 percent of the Iowa soybean crop has been harvested, the lowest percentage harvested by this date since 1985 and only 13 percent of the corn crop for grain is finished, the smallest percentage harvested by this date since 2009...

Iowa is on track to see a 10 percent decline of opioid sales for 2017 amid national concerns about the abuse of such prescriptions. The Des Moines Register reports that the executive director of the Iowa Board of Pharmacy, Andrew Funk, relayed the information on Monday to a legislative committee studying opioid abuse...

A little more than two weeks ago, Austin Crew was celebrating being named Spencer High School homecoming king and a huge victory on Dale Norton Field against Sioux City Heelan. Friday night, he was in the parking lot outside Storm Lake High School’s football field, celebrating another big win for the program, on the way to his car with friends when he suddenly collapsed...

By DANA LARSEN Pilot-Tribune Editor On occasion in Storm Lake, students are sent to sit in study halls because there is no teacher to teach them. “It doesn’t happen a lot, but it has happened,” Superintendent of Schools Carl Turner says. “It’s really tough to find people any more. It’s a really big issue.”...

She wears her scars with pride today. It was not always so. Kelsay Parrott, a survivor of a horrific childhood burn accident, 51 surgeries, multiple suicide attempts and years of bullying, spoke out to students at Storm Lake High School Friday. Now a successful college student and advocate for other burn victims, she is embarking on a new role as a motivational speaker. The auditorium full of teenagers was her largest audience to date...

The Storm Lake City Council took the next step toward a condominium development this week, approving plans for driveways from Sunrise Park Road to access the construction site adjacent to the golf course. The one time Sunset Bay condos site that had been abandoned for years is now owned by a subsidiary of Kansas City-based Foutch Brothers LLC. Low bid for a pair of drives to access the site is $255,132, with the City having previously agreed to foot $100,000 of the bill...

Storm Lake native Matt Hanson competed at the IRONMAN World Championship event in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. He stated it was a tough day for him as he got off to his best swim of his career, but began to suffer cramping issues that plagued him the rest of the day...

STORM LAKE - The Tornado volleyball team hosted their home tournament on Saturday and struggled on their court, dropping all four contests on the day. The first contest of the day saw Storm Lake fall in two sets against Cherokee, 11-21 and 15-21. Senior Kaylee Oehler led the team with three kills on 11 attack attempts. ...

SIOUX RAPIDS - The Warrior girls and Rebel boys both came away with conference titles on Saturday at the Twin Lakes Conference cross country meet. The Alta-Aurelia boys took third place and the Sioux Central ladies came away with seventh. “I am very proud of our runners today. ...

Tornadoes playoff hopes hinge on win against #4 Sergeant Bluff-Luton A handful of plays kept Storm Lake from besting their heated rival, the Spencer Tigers, last week in a 17-14 defeat. That loss, coupled with a 10-7 defeat against Bishop Heelan earlier in the season, has left the Tornadoes in a must win situation on Friday night as they head to Sergeant Bluff to take on the fourth best team in 3A, the Warriors of SBL...

April 29, 1939 - October 15, 2017

JD and Wendy Goodchild of Storm Lake are pleased to announce the engagement of their son Courtney, to Nicole Goldsmith, daughter of Joe and Linda Goldsmith of Earlville. Nicole is a graduate of University of Northern Iowa and is employed at Cottingham and Butler in Dubuque. Courtney is a graduate of UNI and Palmer Chiropractic and will be opening a Chiropractic practice in Dubuque...