Stories from Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Richard D. “Rick” Wilson of Bellevue, NE, passed into the arms of Jesus on Monday, September 17, after battling ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig Disease.   Richard D. Wilson was born April 7, 1948 in Storm Lake, to Frank K. and Ruth L. (Follett) Wilson. Rick graduated from Storm Lake High School in 1966. He received a BA in German and Spanish from University of Iowa in 1971, and later receiving an MBA from University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1981...

Kerry Carothers, age 60, of Storm Lake, died on Monday, September 24 at Fonda Specialty Care in Fonda. There are no services planned.  Kerry Ezell Carothers, the son of Stanley and Mary (Gater) Carothers, was born on October 19, 1957 in Water Valley, MS. ...

On the morning of Sunday, September 23 at approximately 2:03 a.m., the Storm Lake Fire Department responded to McCorkle Hall on the campus of Buena Vista University in reference to an automated fire alarm. Upon arrival of fire fighters they determined that a sprinkler head failed and discharged water in a first floor suite causing the alarm to activate. There was no fire or smoke.Water damage is estimated at $5000...

The Storm Lake football team was able to rally on Friday night against LeMars to pick up their fourth win of the year, 28-12. The green and white used a 28 point second half to rally for the win as they will play their next two games at home. This Friday night they welcome in rival Spencer in what is a match up of Top 10 RPI teams with Storm Lake at sixth and Spencer seventh...

The Newell-Fonda Mustangs are fresh off a 52-8 thrashing of River Valley to get to 5-0, 3-0 on the year. With Homecoming this week, they are in store for a fellow 5-0, 3-0 team to roll into town in Ar-We-Va. Newell-Fonda is fifth in the RPI, Ar-We-Va sixth, but the AP poll has the Rockets at #4 and Mustangs #6...

The Sioux Central Rebels are starting to build momentum after a 20-6 win last week over Ridge View to move to 4-1, 1-0 this season. They sit at 21st in the Class A RPI rankings as they welcome in St. Edmond this Friday night for Homecoming. The Gaels enter this week with a 2-3, 0-1 record and have had a jekyll and hyde act this season. ...

Alta-Aurelia are coming off their fourth win of the season, a 26-8 victory over Manson-NW Webster, while the Raptors went back to the drawing board following their fifth loss of the season, 20-6 against Sioux Central. Ridge View Head Coach Dale Tokheim sees the effort despite the 0-5 record...

As I was looking around social media this weekend in the young football season, we’re only a few weeks into college and professional, I began to notice somewhat of a trend. People hitting the panic button after three weeks. People are jumping off a bandwagon, looking for another one to hitch onto, and will probably not be satisfied with that one either...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nike caused an uproar earlier this month with its ad featuring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick that debuted just as the football season was about to begin. But the shoe maker’s stock is up and sales have been steady. While purpose-driven marketing can be a land mine for some companies, others like Nike have found it a useful way to appeal to their core demographic and differentiate themselves...

Buena Vista head men’s basketball coach Todd Lorensen has announced the Beavers’ 2018-19 schedule. It includes 25 regular season contests and two exhibition games against NCAA DI competition. In their nine non-conference games, BVU will hit the road four times and host five opponents. The American Rivers Conference action kicks-off on November 28, at home against Coe College...

STORM LAKE - Buena Vista senior Gum Riak scored the match-tying goal on a free kick just outside the box early in the second half, but then it was Mount Marty that followed with the go-ahead score off a free kick of its own midway through the half, and the Lancers hung on to hand the Beavers a tough 2-1 home loss on Monday night...

STORM LAKE - The Buena Vista women’s soccer team couldn’t overcome the fast start by visiting Augustana College (Ill.) on Sunday afternoon, as the Vikings dealt the Beavers a 5-0 setback on Senior Day inside of J. Leslie Rollins Stadium. Augustana (7-1-1) came out on fire from the opening whistle, finiding the back of the net four times in the first eight minutes of the contest to lead 4-0. ...

It was another night and another invitational for both the Alta-Aurelia and Sioux Central cross country teams. There were 10 scoring boys teams on the night as Sioux Central was third and Alta-Aurelia right behind them at fourth. There were nine girls scoring teams, A-A taking seventh and the Rebels eights. Cherokee took the girls’ meet and Sibley-Ocheyedan won the boys’...

New Members include - Front Row:  Rachel James, Becca Mandernach, Beth Greenfield & Megan Morenz. Back Row: Aden Mahler, Bryce Coppock and Treyton Mahler. Speaker for the induction was Jennifer Huested (former graduate of Newell-Fonda). All NHS Members: Row 1: Brenna Emerick, Rachel James, Becca Mandernach, Beth Greenfield, Megan Morenz, *Mariana Gonzales. ...

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University has awarded nearly $3.5 million in scholarships to students for the 2018-19 academic year.

Since 2005, scholarship totals for incoming freshmen and current students have tripled, thanks to gifts from donors...

Storm Lake St. Mary’s High School students have earned three perfect scores in standardized tests in the latest reporting. St. Mary’s 6-12 Principal Ryan Berg reported at the September School board meeting that the ninth grade students and the eleventh grade students received 100 percent proficiency scores in reading. The eleventh grade students also received 100 percent proficient scores in math. The ninth grade students received 92 percent proficiency in math...

DMACC’S Summer semester President’s list Des Moines Area Community College President Rob Denson recently released the names of students eligible for the Summer Semester President’s List.  To be eligible, a student must have completed a minimum of 6 credits and earned a 4.0 grade point average for that semester...

Ag Citing - Making the Ag Connection, the unique Agricultural Education program for fourth graders, began in 1998 and just completed its twentieth consecutive year in Buena Vista County. This educational partnership continues, thanks to funding from Iowa Corn Growers, Farm Credit Services of America, Farm Bureau, ISU Extension and Outreach in Buena Vista County and ISU Allee Research Farm...

Congratulations to Dorothy Ohrlund, who will be celebrating her 95th birthday on October 3. Cards can be sent to Dorothy at Methodist Manor Retirement Community, 1206 West Fourth Street, Room 140, Storm Lake, IA 50588. We would like to invite everyone to the 95th birthday celebration for Norma Loving...

Freedom Rock Park construction in Albert City is making progress. Rocks from each town in Buena Vista County will be donated to circle the ribbon-shaped sidewalk, honoring veterans and those who have served the country. River rocks will fill the surface area surrounding it, serving as a bed for the donated rocks. / Photo submitted...

Fareway of Storm Lake and their customers raised $1,360 for the K-9 dog. The Storm Lake Police Department would like to thank everyone for their generous donations. Storm Lake St. Mary’s School students and staff contributed $225 towards the Storm Lake Public Safety’s K-9 fundraising drive. ...

Celebrate survivors, honor loved ones who have lost their breast cancer battle, support those who are currently undergoing cancer care and join in helping bring attention to the importance of increasing awareness of breast cancer screenings and treatment by participating in the Spencer area Breast Cancer Awareness Walk on Sunday, October 7 at 4 p.m...

A selection of short films, featuring the talents of Iowa filmmakers, will be shown on Iowa Films Night, Thursday, October 4, in the Lauridsen Theater, at the Pearson Lakes Art Center in Okoboji. Beginning with a drone overview of the aftermath of the Marshalltown tornado by Spirit Lake graduate, Todd Shaw, the films will include short dramas, a travel feature, documentaries, comedy, human study, science fiction and romance.  ...

The Fonda Arts Center hosted the “R & R Line” Band from Storm Lake on Saturday for a show featuring old standards, country and pop music. The band consists of Rex Wittrock on vocals, banjo and guitar; and Roger Christiansen on keyboards and vocals. Gene Kestel joined the boys on tenor saxophone along with local musicians from the Fonda area including Larry Henschke, longtime local performer...

Okoboji area favorites Boon & Lambert will be playing the InnSpiration Winery at Linn Grove, Friday, Sept. 26. Showtime is 6:30 p.m. The duo have over 40 years performing experience between them. They joined forced in 2014 when bass player David Boon joined guitar artist Gary Lambert’s popular band, Rock A La Carte. ...

The frustratingly long wait for Tamara Jenkins’ follow-up to her 2007 Oscar-nominated film, “The Savages,” seemed to finally be coming to an end. She had spent two years on the script to “Private Life,” and secured Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti to star as a middle-aged New York couple navigating the medical and emotional gauntlet of assisted reproduction. But just when the production was ready to go, the company that had developed it, Amazon Studios, stepped back, leaving Jenkins in the lurch...

A Healthy Walk is planned for the Storm Lake elementary and middle school on October 3 at 1:30. Community members are welcome to join in. About 1,500 kids are expected to take part, and will walk to Frank Starr Park area and back (or a shorter loop for the youngest kids.) Elementary Principal Barb Lange said the event is intended to encourage fitness and healthy behavior...

On the evening of Friday, September 21 at approximately 9:40 p.m. the Storm Lake Police Department was dispatched to McDonalds located at 800 Seneca Street in reference to a fight in progress. Upon arrival of police they intervened and took Mark Barnett, age 59 and Darchele Groce, age 54 both of Storm Lake into custody...

Authorities in Webster County say a woman’s body has been pulled from inside a submerged car. Sheriff’s deputies were sent to a pond east of Moorland, near Fort Dodge, after a caller reported that a car ran off Highway 20 and into the pond Friday morning...

The Storm Lake Public Library Board and Staff will be celebrating their new public computer lab on Friday, September 28 at 4p.m. Rebnord Technologies of Storm Lake donated one computer for the public to use to celebrate their 25th anniversary. State Library Enrich Iowa funds were used to purchase two computers. The Friends of the Storm Lake Public Library purchased a new table with chairs...

The Storm Lake Board of Education has unanimously re-elected Peter Steinfeld as board president, and Dave Skibsted as vice-president. The board held a written-ballot vote Wednesday. Both accepted the roles for another year. “We finally agreed on something,” board member Melea Raveling jokes. Steinfeld is shown taking the oath of the office...

“In order to be a government of the people, by the people, for the people, you need to include the people,” said 4th District House candidate J.D. Scholten at Buena Vista University in a recent campaign. It was one of at least five Scholten has made in Storm Lake since announcing his candidacy, as part of his tour through incumbent Rep. Steve King’s 39 county territory...

Riders mounted upon what they refer to as “ancient iron” roared through the Lakes Area Friday afternoon on their way to complete the 2018 Motorcycle Cannonball Run. More than 100 riders from six different countries signed up to weave their way across the nation from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon. ...

Fall is a great time to catch fish with family and friends. The air is cool, the views are picturesque, lakes are less crowded and the fish are easy to catch. “Fantastic fishing opportunities await both new and expert anglers, said Joe Larscheid, chief of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Bureau. “Get out and enjoy them...

Four Storm Lake women have been arrested after a brutal altercation in which one was struck in the head with a bottle and another reported being bit. Police were called to a residence on Rose Lane shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday on a report of a group of people fighting outside...

The Storm Lake Police Department is asking the community’s help in connection with a report of an attempted robbery Monday evening. A woman told police that around 9:40 p.m., she was walking in the 500 block of East 1st Street when she was approached by two males. As she walked by one of the men grabbed for her purse. Startled, she pulled away. The man did not get the purse, and she continued to her place of work and then notified police...

In a thick French Canadian accent, he talks a lot about “balls.” As in, even if you don’t have them, you have to metaphorically have them. In this case, that sort of fortitude led Pierre Pépin and his wife Jennifer Gosselin to give up everything - high paying jobs, their home, possessions and comfortable lifestyle - to embark on a wilderness adventure everyone told them was impossible...

The results of a recent survey indicate there may be strong community support for the Storm Lake Community School District moving now to address its capacity and facility needs, district leaders feel. Through the survey, open August 23 to September 9, district residents provided their input on how the district should best address the most urgent facility and capacity needs that have arisen due to increasing enrollment. ...

It was another night and another invitational for both the Alta-Aurelia and Sioux Central cross country teams. There were 10 scoring boys teams on the night as Sioux Central was third and Alta-Aurelia right behind them at fourth. There were nine girls scoring teams, A-A taking seventh and the Rebels eights. Cherokee took the girls’ meet and Sibley-Ocheyedan won the boys’...

Tornadoes look to build momentum after win The Storm Lake football team was able to rally on Friday night against LeMars to pick up their fourth win of the year, 28-12. The green and white used a 28 point second half to rally for the win as they will play their next two games at home. This Friday night they welcome in rival Spencer in what is a match up of Top 10 RPI teams with Storm Lake at sixth and Spencer seventh...

An anhydrous ammonia leak from a 30,000 gallon tank at First Cooperative Association in Aurelia, detected at about 10 a.m. Monday, forced an evacuation of the town for about seven hours. A faulty valve broke causing the leak of ammonia from the tank, which was about 80 percent full at the time. Evacuation began shortly after the discovery while crews worked throughout the day to drain the ammonia into semi-tanks, according to Cherokee County Emergency Manager Justin Pritts...

By ELIJAH DECIOUS Pilot-Tribune news staff Despite a recent mishap, Sugar Bowl, the gift shop on Lake Avenue, is running just fine. "Everyone is just so ready for fall," co-owner Holly Shipler said as they replenish their autumn inventory. Apparently their building is too, as bricks from the top of the corner shop's building unexpectedly crashed to the sidewalk Saturday evening, around 7:30...