Stories from Monday, July 30, 2018

Donnabell Bumann, age 91, of Springdale, AR, formerly of Holstein and Galva, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, July 22, 2018 at the Circle of Life Hospice of Springdale, AR. A funeral service will be held on Friday, July 27, 2018 at 10:30 AM at the Arthur Evangelical Free Church of Arthur with the Rev. ...

Carmen, Larry, and Keith Anderson invite you to the 70th wedding anniversary open house for their parents Kenneth and Jane Anderson to be held from 2 o'clock until 5:00 PM on August 11, 2018 in the Allee building in Newell, Iowa. Our parents were married August 8, 1948 in Eagle Grove, Iowa. After graduation from Iowa State College, they moved to Newell and continued farming there until retirement in 1985...

Avey/Grouws Band, the winners of the 2017 Iowa Blues Challenge, will perform in Storm Lake as part of the Wood, Wine & Blues Festival August 17-19. The band will offer a free show at Lake Avenue Lounge Friday from 8-11 p.m. "Avey/Grouws Band resides on the Iowa edge of the Driftless and deep in the heart of the Blues," one reviewer said of the band...

Hanover Historical Society members are busy preparing for varied events scheduled at the Hanover Village southwest of Alta at the C-65 and M 27 intersection during the month of August. The 14th Annual Tractor Ride will take place Saturday, August 18. The ride begins at the Village with registration at 8:30 a.m. and will travel northwest with lunch scheduled at the Grainery. The $20 fee covers cost of coffee break and noon meal...

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I've never been a fan of pink. I'd much rather steer to purples and blues. Thankfully for me, it might be saving me some money. Often women, and people in general, don't pay attention to the price of daily necessities, but as females, we should. It's no secret that males are earning more money per year than women do. So why is it that products targeted toward women are more expensive than products targeted toward men?...

Pickelball, basketball and soccer golf were on the agenda as the Storm Lake Mayor's Committee on Parks, Trails and Urban Forestry met Thursday. The city had planned to paint pickle ball court lines on tennis courts in Chautauqua and Emerald parks this season, after being approached by an enthusiast last winter...

After some two years of discussion, the first bit of an on-street bike trail should soon be painted as something of a pilot project. The Mayor's Committee on Parks, Trails and Urban Forestry discussed the matter at length Thursday. Earlier in the week, city representatives had meet with a consulting engineer firm, and learned that plans to run a major part of the cross-city route on Fifth Street is unwise, due to high speed traffic and lack of room to add the four-foot trail on one side and still have two full lanes for traffic to pass.. ...

In a Storm Lake summit on the arts, representatives of area fine arts, theater, film and history attractions lamented a struggle to attract people to their doors and retain staff with limited assets. "In too many people's minds, the arts are unnecessary," a frustrated Witter Gallery Board President Patrician Hampton told the group...

Texting and driving in Storm Lake and Iowa is at "epidemic levels," according to Director of Public Safety Mark Prosser. "You can go virtually anywhere and watch it occur," he said. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that roughly 11 people are killed daily, and more than 1,000 people are injured in crashes attributed to distracted driving...

The Iowa Girls Coaches Association has released their state teams for the 2018 softball season and nine area girls made the various teams through three different classes. In 1A, Newell-Fonda had a trio of girls earn honors. Freshman Ella Larsen earned second team honors, junior Olivia Larsen took third team honors and junior Emma Stewart earned an honorable mention...

ALTA - It was a big night on Wednesday for the Buena Vista Raceway as the Arnold Motor Supply Dirt Knight Tour rolled into town which was also sponsored by Peterson Jewelry of Alta and Energy Transport of Storm Lake. A total of 40 modified drivers took part in the event, one coming as far as Phoenix, Arizona, with two feature races being the highlight of the night. ...

The 2018 baseball season for the high school boys has come to a close. It was a solid year for the six area programs with one advancing to State in Alta-Aurelia. The Sioux Central Rebels came close to State as a substate runner up. There were numerous highlight plays and great players. It is time to name the All-Area teams, the player of the year and the coach of the year...