Stories from Wednesday, April 25, 2018

MARIJUANA ARREST On the evening of Friday, April 20, at approximately 8:57 p.m. a Storm Lake Police Officer stopped a vehicle in the 800 block of Erie Street for a traffic violation.

MARIJUANA ARREST On the evening of Friday, April 20, at approximately 8:57 p.m. a Storm Lake Police Officer stopped a vehicle in the 800 block of Erie Street for a traffic violation.

What is happening with DACA? Is TPS still available? The American Association of University Women of Storm Lake will be presenting and Immigration Update at Better Day Cafe on April 28 from 5 to 7 p.m. This event will be presented by Marie-Ann Sennett, Immigration Attorney and Sara Huddleston, Leagl Assistant...

Crews with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources are usually working around the clock in early April collecting walleyes. The cold, late spring is making this year’s collection schedule less predictable and much later than normal. “This spring has been very unusual,” said Jay Rudacille, DNR Warm and Coolwater Fish Culture supervisor. ...

Storm Lake St. Mary’s School packaged 100,008 meals during their school wide Then Feed Just One service project Thursday. Students, faculty, staff, clergy and community members joined to measure, weigh and package dry materials into plastic bags then package them into boxes and onto pallets ready to ship to Honduras...

On the evening of Saturday, April 21, the Storm Lake Police Department partnered with the Buena Vista County Sheriff’s Department, the Iowa State Patrol and the Iowa Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division to conduct a traffic enforcement project geared at detecting impaired drivers...

On Saturday, April 28, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. coffee, dinner and a bake sale will be held at the Covenant Church in Albert City.

The Albert City Historical Museum will be hosting their spring meeting on April 29 at the Evangelical Covenant Church. The program will feature Jessica Wood- Growing up in Shipshewanna, Indiana in the Amish Community. Refreshments will follow the meeting. The public in encouraged to attend and bring a friend...

Congratulations to Vanesa Alday, who was chosen to attend the National GEAR UP Conference as one of four students to represent Iowa. Alday is excited to represent the diversity of Iowa, hear from inspirational speakers and connect with others in the program. ...

Five Iowa projects have received grants from the Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation, with one of these going to the Cultivate Training Garden in Storm Lake. Organized by the Bridge of Storm Lake, this project focuses on the immigrant and refugee families in the community, working to provide training and agriculture curriculums to individuals through a master gardener at the training garden...

Washington, D.C.- Congressman Steve King, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, announced recently that his “Protect Interstate Commerce Act”(PICA), H.R. 4879, has been included as a provision of H.R. 2, the “Farm Bill.” King offered PICA as an amendment during the House Agriculture Committee’s mark-up of H.R. ...

Performances have been set for the 2018-19 season at the Rosemary Clausen Center in Holstein. For ticket information call 712-368-4849. Current season ticket holders will have an opportunity to renew in June. Season tickets still open will be made available for new season ticket sales, and individual show tickets will be sold when available...

Mark the calendars for the Storm Lake High School spring play “You Can’t Take It With You” April 27 and 28 at the High School Auditorium at 7 p.m.  The public will fall in love with Martin Vanderhof and the hilarious, eccentric Sycamore household who march to the beat of their own drum. ...

Coming to the Live at the Lake free concert series this season is the popular regional band The Pork Tornadoes, on tap for June 30 at the greenspace next to Arnolds Park Amusement Park. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. The Pork Tornadoes are a versatile and talented cover band that has been taking the Midwest by storm...

Ms. Habben’s first grade classroom is partnered with Security Trust and Savings Bank as their Partners in Excellence partnership for the 2017-2018 school year. On April 20, Security Trust and Savings Bank stopped by the classroom to teach them about the importance of saving money, and how to do that. ...

Buena Vista County Farm Bureau is pleased to announce the winners of their 2018 County Farm Bureau scholarship awards. A total of $3250 ws awarded to five Buena Vista County high school seniors. Makayla Bjork, Albert City, daughter of Chad and Julie Bjork, is the recipient of the $1000 Buena Vista County Farm Bureau scholarship. ...

The Iowa High School Music Association state solo/ensemble contest was held at Storm Lake on Monday, March 26.Students were critiqued by a judge for a rating on their solos and ensembles. Three events were chosen as outstanding performers at the end of the day. These students will perform at the state honor’s recital on May 9 in Ames. ...

The Buena Vista County Board of Supervisors held two public hearings Tuesday morning. One was to review the commissioners’ report for reclassification of benefits for the Drainage District No. 34 Upper Main Open Ditch, and the other to approve a master matrix evaluation for RAH Pork LLC’s hog confinement plan in Scott Township...

A police call for a verbal altercation resulted in a foot pursuit for Storm Lake officers, and the arrest of a wanted man. Saturday afternoon, police took a report of a man and woman arguing near the intersection of Kenzy Street and East 1st Street. As they were responding, the two reportedly separated and were walking away from each other...

Buena Vista University Theatre will present Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” April 26-28 at 7:30 p.m. in Anderson Auditorium on the BVU campus. The closing night of the show will follow BVU’s annual Student Recognition Dinner. Tickets for the play can be reserved online at www.bvu.edu/tickets or by calling the BVU Theatre Hotline at 712.749.2211. ...

Buena Vista University has approved the launch of a new Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Resource Management. The institute marks the University’s next phase of academic and co-curricular programming growth under President Joshua D. Merchant. “The ever-changing landscape of the agricultural industry presents ample opportunity for highly-skilled jobs,” said Merchant. ...

Monday night, neighbor cities Storm Lake and Spencer put their heads together to discuss increasing ethnic diversity in northwest Iowa. Chamber of Commerce leaders in Spencer invited Storm Lake Superintendent of Schools Carl Turner and Public Safety Director Mark Prosser to address a gathering as part of its Leadership Spencer class series...

An electrical short circuit is being blamed for a blaze let Sunday night that caused approximately $100,000 damage to the building housing the Social Security office in Storm Lake. One firefighter suffered minor injuries. The fire department was called to the building at 800 Oneida Street - directly across the street from the fire station - around 11:35 p.m. ...

Project planning in phases, site to host Pre-K through 1st grade Normally an architect designs a new building for a community. This time, the community designed one for the architects. The Storm Lake School District’s Early Childhood Center Committee was called back together Monday evening for the first time in months. ...

NEWELL - The Newell-Fonda and Alta-Aurelia boys and girls golf teams played off against one another on Monday night. The Mustang boys got the better of the Warrior boys, 179-184, and the Warrior girls bested the Mustang ladies, 194-228. AA’s Alex Snyder was the medalist in the boys match with the low score of 42 on the day. ...

STORM LAKE - It was a tough night for the Storm Lake boys’ tennis team, falling 9-0 to rival Spencer on Monday night. In singles action: Luxes Inthamath fell to Kade Carpenter, 10-1; Renato Guanajuato fell to Trey Sievers, 10-3; Phoung Hoang fell to Marcus Klemme, 10-2; Jaylen Saenchanpheng fell to Austin Crew, 10-3: Wency Navarro fell to John Feldman, 10-1; and Jorge Pineda fell to Grant Carpenter, 10-1...

Storm Lake St. Mary’s High School has rescheduled their inaugural Hall of Fame inductions for Saturday, April 28 at 7 p.m. in the school gym. (The first was canceled due to inclement weather.) All of the team and individual state champions will be inducted into the new athletic Hall of Fame, hosted by the St. Mary’s Athletic Boosters...

ESTHERVILLE - The Tornado boys finally got the chance to run outside after weeks of delays and cancellations due to weather and finished seventh out of 10 teams at the Estherville Boys Relays on Monday night. Mure Werge placed fourth in the 200 meter dash with a final of 24.44 seconds. Juan Venagas finished fifth in the 1600 meter run with a time of 5:12.62. In the 3200 meter, Matt Marroquin finished fourth with a time of 11:19.62 and Thomas Olson was behind him in fifth, running a 11:21.94...

SPENCER - The Tornado girls tennis team had a hard time getting it going again on Monday night after a two week layoff from being outside as they fell to Spencer, 8-1. In singles action: Destiny Syhvaong fell 11-9; Serena Chaiyawong fell 10-8; Jenny Almanza fell 11-9; Briana Soto fell 10-6; Natalia Garza fell 10-3; and Beauna Thammathai fell 10-2...

HOLSTEIN - A handful of area teams competed at the Raptor Relays on Monday night with Alta-Aurelia taking first place in girls and second place in boys. Ridge View finished third for girls and fifth for boys, Newell-Fonda finished fifth for girls and ninth for boys, and the St. Mary’s boys finished 10th...

STORM LAKE - The Tornadoes girls’ soccer team had a tough slate in the first half on Tuesday night against Western Christian, conceding four first half goals, but played a clean second half in a 4-0 defeat. The game remained scoreless until the 23:30 mark in the first half when WC’s Emma Bousema hit the first of her three goals in the half. She connected again less than nine minutes later and her third game with 3:13 left in the half. The other Wolfpack score came at 11:32 left in the half...

IOUX CITY/STORM LAKE - The Storm Lake boys soccer team, rated second in 2A, continued their winning ways with a pair of wins on Saturday and then picked up another victory on Monday night. The Tornadoes opened up their Saturday slate with a heartstopper against Bishop Heelan, taking a 2-1 victory over the #13 team in 2A. ...