Stories from Thursday, February 23, 2017

ALBERT CITY, – The Alceco board of Directors is pleased to authorize a cash revolvement of $1.3 million to its members. This revolvement represents a payout in three categories: Class B Preferred Stock and Regional Equity to all patrons age 87 and over, Class B Preferred Equity issued prior to 2010, and 10 percent of all Midwest Farmers Cooperative Regional Equity...

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HOLSTEIN - VT Industries, Inc. is proud to name the Sac City manufacturing facility as the “2016 Countertop Plant of the Year.” In honor of the achievement, VT celebrated this prestigious award with employees on Tuesday, February 14th with an award ceremony as well as an employee luncheon...

Quad County Corn Processors, in Galva, recently donated $250 to the Cherokee County 4-H Youth Council. The donation will help defray the annual participation cost of each individual 4-H member in Cherokee County. Quad County Corn Processors’ employees Adam Todd (back left) and Dave Juelsgaard (far right) are pictured here with Cherokee County 4-H members at their February meeting at the Cherokee County Extension Office. ...

Theft On the afternoon of Tuesday, February 21, at approximately 2 p.m., the Storm Lake Police Department was dispatched to the Storm Lake Walmart store in reference to a theft. Upon arrival of police they were advised that an adult, male customer had allegedly stolen a car stereo from the store and left the store in a white, flatbed pickup truck...

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Buena Vista University’s student organization Student MOVE (Mobilizing Outreach & Volunteer Efforts) will be hosting the annual Glass Slipper Shop event in the Harold Walter Siebens Forum on the BVU campus. The event is open to members of the Storm Lake and surrounding communities on the following dates and times:...

Eleven ladies from across northwest Iowa gathered at The Meeting Place in Galva to paint on February 21st. Creative Spirits out of Okoboji led the paint-by-number class, and each participant painted someone or something that they loved as part of the evening. The ladies did not finish their portraits and took home paint and brushes. They are shown here in the photograph with their one-of-a-kind paintings...

The Storm Lake High School Jazz Band for placed first at the district jazz contest. They earned a spot at the Iowa Jazz Championships. They will play at ISU in Ames on Tuesday, April 4. There will be 15 Class 3A bands competing for placings. / Photo courtesy of Storm Lake Music Department Facebook page...

The Storm Lake Parade of Bands will present “Marvel: The Music,” held Thursday night, March 2, at the high school gym. Admission is free. New this year is a chili supper from 5:30-7 at the school commons, a fundraiser by the Music Boosters. Meals are $5, $3 for preschool age children. The high school jazz band will be performing during the meal...

The 36th  Annual Buena Vista University Honor Band Festival will be held Saturday.  The following students from Storm Lake High School  have been selected to perform in the festival:  Logan Musel, Kylee Shannon, Raul Arevalo, Damian Guanajuatro, Jon Raymundo, Sandra Ramos, Beatriz Espino, Arwal Andrews and Cathleen Manivong. Colleen Hecht is the high school band director. ...

Classic Las Vegas lives on in Iowa Central Community College’s production, “The Rat Pack is Back,” March 11 at Willow Ridge Golf Course clubhouse in Fort Dodge. Student performers will show off their musical talents, and the night will also feature endless hors d’oeuvres and casino tables...

Storm Lake United teamed up with Bob Jensen and Jessie Polley to feature the City Beautiful in Iowa Journeys, a television series featuring the best that Iowa has to offer. During this 30-minute segment, Bob and Jessie explore the many different Storm Lake attractions including the hike and bike trail, multiple chainsaw carvings, and the downtown shopping district. ...

A good teacher is one who can hold his or her students’ interest at the same time teaching them valuable lessons. Recently Charles Carter, Storm Lake High School language arts teacher, gave his students a new perspective of how to study literature. The freshman class’ current project consists of reading “Of Mice and Men.” For those of you that have never read the book or just simply can’t remember it, it is a story of two men, Lenny, a large mentally disabled man, and George, a smaller, kind and smart man who looked out after Lenny. ...

AMES - An audit is questioning whether Iowa State University President Steven Leath violated policy by storing and transporting firearms in campus housing and airplanes without written approvals. A Board of Regents report says ISU has no documentation that Leath applied for and received waivers required to bring guns on school property...

DES MOINES — The state has cut nearly 2,100 jobs since Terry Branstad returned as Iowa governor in 2011, a point of pride for the Republican but worrisome to some state workers who say the reductions have endangered the public and other public employees...

Storm Lake St. Mary’s School sixth grade student John Ching will be advancing to the state spelling bee on March 5. He recently won the regional spelling bee. He is the son of Louie and Luisa Ching of Sac City and is the student of Mrs. Gaylene Kestel...

The City of Cherokee is working with the railroad concerning a frequent early morning train passing through at the West Bluff Street crossing just prior to Cherokee Washington High School’s start of the school day and the heavy influx of vehicle traffic that generates...

In a study session Monday on railroad crossings, a representative of the Canadian National Railroad approached the Storm Lake City Council to suggest that some crossings be closed. A year ago, the City was notified by the DOT that funding would be available to erect crossing signals at some unprotected intersections such as Barton, Oneida, Hudson, Gilbert and Radio Road streets, with the Department of Transportation and the CN Railroad paying the cost, along with a smaller amount of funding from the City.. ...

The Storm Lake City Council has approved an amendment to an urban renewal plan that would allow for up to $4.5 million in remodeling for King’s Pointe resort, purchase of property from Lakeshore Drive to Memorial Park Road to Marshall Avenue for up to half a million dollars, stormwater and flood mitigation on the property for $750,000 with any land not used for that purpose to be revitalized into commercial use, and replacement of outdoor waterpark concrete at up to $800,000...

Storm Lake will seek a Land and Water Conservation Grant from the federal government to develop the marina area at Casino Beach with a campground and cabins. The city council approved an agreement with local engineering firm ISG Monday to prepare plans for the site at a cost of $9,100, as the grant application deadline - March 15 - is rapidly approaching...

Thick fog clings to the lake Monday. Weather has gone from near summer like highs (64 on Wednesday in Storm Lake) to a National Weather Service Blizzard Watch issued yesterday for Thursday evening through Friday evening. National Weather Service predicts 6-12 inches of snow, drifting with wind gusts up to 45 mph Friday. / Photo by Hugh Perry...

After 75 years, WWII canteen left behind on Bataan Death March will be returned to its rightful family by the grandson of the war pilot who discovered it

Much has transpired in the two weeks since President Trump signed the executive order suspending immigration from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Most recently, on Feb. 3, a federal court in Seattle entered a nationwide injunction banning implementation of the order, meaning the travel ban is, at least temporarily, not being enforced. ...

Snow! There’s a slight chance of snow tomorrow!” There’s a look of panic on the weatherman’s face. It’s as if he were announcing that car-sized balls of flaming magnesium mixed with nuclear waste were going to be falling out of the sky tomorrow. Snow! All plant and animal life will to cease to exist. And traffic will be a nightmare! Oh, the humanity!...