Stories from Monday, October 29, 2018

Delbert and Norma Johnson will be celebrating birthdays this week. Delbert will celebrate his 90th birthday on October 30 and Norma will celebrate her 85th birthday on November 8. Del and Norma have lived in Storm Lake for over 60 years.

An 80 birthday is a special event. On November 5, Ed Quirin will reach this milestone and is still “D-FINE.” Please help us to fill up his mailbox with cards and memories. Thank you for your thoughts, His wife, kids, grandkids, and all of his family...

Reverend Paul White, age 87, of St. Columbans, Nebraska, formerly of Fonda, died on Tuesday, October 23, in Papillion, Nebraska. Funeral Mass will be held on Tuesday, October 30, at 10:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Fonda. Burial will be in the Mt. Zion Cemetery in Fonda. Visitation will take place on Monday, October 29, from 6:30 - 8 p.m. at the church. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is in charge of the arrangements...

Buena Vista Regional Medical Center’s First Embrace Obstetrics is now working with Mother’s Milk Bank of Iowa. Mother’s Milk Bank of Iowa collects donations of human milk and then distribute to those in need. The milk is available to hospitalized premature infants when their mother’s own milk is not available. Babies in neonatal intensive care unit are given priority to milk donations. Human milk provides optimal nutrition...

Toss and turn, punch the pillow, stare at the ceiling, toss some more. Sound familiar? More than two-thirds of Americans struggle with sleep problems at least once a week, according to a 2016 Consumer Reports survey. Lack of proper sleep can be debilitating in the short run, and it can cause serious health problems over time...

Storm Lake St. Mary’s High School east hallway now has Marian artifacts worthy of museums, thanks to efforts of their chaplain and benefactors. Twenty one images of the Virgin Mary from around the world are displayed in a glass display case, images from Guatemala to New Zealand to Poland...

Blues performed Shawn Holt will be in concert at Byron’s in Pomeroy, November 25, 5 p.m. Shawn is the son of Blues Legend Magic Slim. The high energy, hard-driving sound of The Teardrops is still alive and well and if you like what Magic Slim and The Teardrops have been doing for the last 35 years, you can continue to enjoy that unique sound and energy with Shawn Holt, a chip off the old block, fronting his dad’s band...

The Spencer Performing Arts Coalition (SPARC) announces its 2018-2019 Season. The season kicks off on Friday, November 9, at 7:30 p.m. with Country Roads: A John Denver Tribute. Country Roads is sponsored by BIG Country CD 107.7. Headlined by Dennis Curley, Country Roads is a tribute show to one of America’s best-loved performers and draws deeply on Curley’s own love of John Denver’s music. ...

The Texas Gypsies are the next performers in the Rosemary Clausen Center 2018-19 series. A collection of well-seasoned Grammy Award winners who have supported many top jazz, swing and pop performers in their time, the Texas Gypsies will be in Holstein Saturday, November 17. Showtimes is 7:30 p.m...

Tickets are on sale now for Carly Pearce, in concert January 19 at the Hard Rock resort in Sioux City. Carly has been there. Trying to make her dream come true, the 20-something knows what dead ends look like, how pulled up short feels and that the irrepressibility of want-to will lift you up over and over again. ...

Buena Vista University President Josh Merchant, Ph.D. has been appointed as a member of the NCAA Division III Nominating Committee. His term of service on the committee will begin at the close of the January 2019 Convention and continue through the close of the 2021 Convention...

With just 12 days left before the midterm elections, Democratic candidate for Iowa lieutenant governor, Rita Hart, visited the Spencer campus of Iowa Lakes Community College sharing the Hubbell-Hart vision for Iowa and attempting to draw a contrast with the current direction of the state under the leadership of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds...

Four Storm Lake St. Mary’s High School Science students went to Buena Vista University with their instructor Dr. Erica Larson recently to solve a fictional murder mystery using forensic science!  They joined BVU faculty in doing hands-on lab activities with DNA samples, fingerprints, pharmaceuticals, code-cracking, and more.  Students used the information gleaned from the crime scene to solve the mystery. ...

Rembrandt - A large crowd of agricultural professionals, area community members, government officials and many others toured the recently completed Adrian’s Finisher Farm in Rembrandt Thursday for an open house hosted by Iowa Select Farms, Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers and Trent Hatlen of Hatlen Family Farms, who owns and will operate the hog barn contracted for Iowa Select Farms. ...

If investigators are correct, the summer of 2017 was hell for a little boy identified in court records as “E.S.” His teachers were alarmed at the start of the school year. E.S. was too thin for his age. He was always looking for food. His hair was falling out in patches...

Buena Vista Regional Medical Center hosted the Infection Prevention Long Term Care conference on Friday October 19. Patients in acute care facilities are at risk for acquiring health care associated infections. Infection prevention and control programs in long-term care facilities can help prevent the spread of infection to vulnerable residents. ...

Each year, more than 500,000 lives are positively impacted across Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota because of LifeServe Blood Center blood donors. It takes less than one hour to give blood and in that hour, a volunteer blood donor can help save the lives of up to three different hospital patients. LifeServe encourages regular blood donors to schedule their next appointment, and invites new, first time donors to roll up their sleeve to save lives...

An exciting first has come to The Buena Vista University campus this fall. The Harold Walter Siebens School of Business welcomed a new professor this semester, Gary Sterling, instructor of management. Sterling, however, is not the first one in the family to teach at the University, as he is the father of Dr. Kristy McClellan, associate professor of biology in the School of Science...

A newly-constructed bridge on Highway 20 will be named in honor of an area soldier who took his own life after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bridge spans the scenic Maple River, where Dillion Naslund loved to canoe and kayak through the countryside near his family’s home while growing up. Army Sgt. Naslund took his own life December 10th, 2012 at the age of 25, after returning home from a deployment...

A new holiday event will be coming to the Storm Lake area as a fundraiser for the Pilot-Tribune’s Mr. Goodfellow program, the Holiday Ho-Ho-Homes Tour. Participants will be able to visit the homes of six local families, where a room in each will be decorated for the holidays by some of the area’s most creative home design professionals...

“His dream was hijacked by heroin,” said Rod Courtney, whose son, Chad, died of a fentanyl overdose nearly two years ago. “My son didn’t want to be an addict.” Chad was one of 72,000 in 2017, according to opioid overdose death estimates from the Centers for Disease Control. Yet the science and cycle of addiction eludes understanding for many in the country that has 5 percent of the world’s population but consumes 95 percent of its opioid drugs...

FORT DODGE - Fifteen members of the Storm Lake High School Girls’ Swim Team travelled to Regional swim meet on Saturday. The results overall were very good as many personal best and season best times achieved during the meet. The team as a whole placed seventh...

FORT DODGE - It was a warm and sunny day for numerous area cross country runners on Saturday at the State cross country meet. A total of four individuals and one team ran for the Pilot-Tribune area as five of them were able to get top 50 finishes. In 3A, Storm Lake’s Thomas Olson picked up 32nd place after a time of 17:14.9. In 1A, Sioux Central’s Dawson Hatch claimed 30th place as teammate Wyatt Erickson was 53rd with times of 17:16 and 17:42 respectively...

LACONA - Despite three second half touchdown scrambles and 170 yards rushing from junior quarterback Bryce Coppock, Newell-Fonda couldn’t keep pace with an undefeated Southeast Warren squad Friday night. The Mustangs, in their ninth straight season appearing in the postseason, bowed 47-31 in the eight-man playoffs opening round...

AVOCA - It was a game of emotion, momentum swings and a will by both teams to win on Friday night. Alta-Aurelia stood toe-to-toe with the second ranked team in Class A, AHSTW and nearly sprung their second upset in as many weeks to continue their season. The Vikings were able to defend their home field and send Alta-Aurelia back home with a 30-28 decision that needed three overtimes...

Financial news site 24/7 Wall St. has named Storm Lake to its "America's 50 Best Cities to Live" list. Coming in at #47, sandwiched between Snyder, Texas, and Bridgeport, West Virginia, the city was lauded for its affordability and recreation assets...