Stories from Monday, November 19, 2018

Grace Lutheran will be hosting their Cookie Walk fundraiser on Saturday December 1 from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. at the Storm Lake Grace Lutheran church. You will be able to purchase Cookies for $5 a dozen as well as coffee and cinnamon rolls for $2. Proceeds go to Grace Lutheran charities and organizations...

On the evening of Thursday, November 15 at approximately 8 p.m., a Storm Lake Police Officer stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation in the 700 block of Michigan Street. The driver of the vehicle was identified as Everardo Manriquez–Mendoza age 24 of Storm Lake. ...

James “Jim” Allen Hunter, 74, of Great Falls, Montana, passed away on November 3, at Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana. He died of complications following a heart procedure. Jim was born in Porath Hospital to Harold and Wanda (Hansen) Hunter on January 24, 1944. ...

Harris Bishop, age 87, of Storm Lake, formerly of Laurens, died on Monday, November 12, at the Methodist Manor Retirement Community in Storm Lake. Funeral services was held on Saturday, November 17, at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake. Burial was in the Laurens Cemetery in Laurens. Visitation took place on Friday, November 16 at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is in charge of the arrangements...

The Witter Gallery has been looking to sell its old piano, displayed in the library foyer, for a bargain price. The gallery recently obtained a new instrument.

The Sac County Extension and Outreach 4-H program held their annual 4-H Awards Event. The Sac County 4-H’ers submitted their record books to the Extension and Outreach Office. The committee came in and judged the record books over a case of three weeks. The Awards Event was held at the Wall Lake Community Center on Sunday, November 4...

The American Red Cross is facing a severe blood shortage and urgently needs blood and platelet donors to give now to avoid delays in lifesaving medical care for patients. Volunteer blood drive hosts are also critically needed to prevent the shortage from worsening this winter...

For the first time, Apple Watch will be integrated into UnitedHealthcare Motion®, a digital wellness program that provides people with access to activity trackers that can enable them to earn up to $1,000 per year by meeting certain daily walking goals. The addition of Apple Watch was announced at HIMSS 2018 in Las Vegas...

UnityPoint Hospice will be holding its annual Hospice Memorial Service on Sunday, December 2nd at 2:30 p.m. at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 1614 W. 5th St., Storm Lake.  “It is a time for honoring memories and celebrating the lives of loved ones who are no longer with us,” said Chaplain Norman Prather.  There will be a short service followed by a time of fellowship. ...

Hawk-I Plumbing & Electric donated $1000 to Buena Vista Regional Medical Center’s P.i.n.k. which helps provide free mammograms to women with financial barriers. They ran an October promotion where they donated $50 for every heating system check and $200 for every furnace purchased. Hawk-I Plumbing & Electric team members presented the check to Katie Schwint with BVRMC...

In the summer, a grass roots effort to create an indoor playspace for children and families in the city of Spencer began. Helmed by Megan Jones, Angela McCaulley and other volunteers, their vision is now named “WonderLab,” and has began to secure a number of donations meant to make the project a reality...

Registration for the 39th Annual University of Okoboji Winter Games is officially open. Participants are encouraged to get signed up for events from broomball to chess. Visit www.uofowintergames.com for a printable registration form or access to online registration...

Every once in a while, a detective novel comes along that breaks all the barriers of genre and is destined to become a literary classic. That’s the best way to describe Dead Man Running by author Steve Hamilton, formerly from Upper Peninsula Michigan and now living in Cottekill, N.Y...

If there is a big studio movie that’s more generally crowd-pleasing than ”Green Book ” this season, I have yet to find it. In this landscape of challenging, provocative, edgy films, Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali and, of all people, director Peter Farrelly have come along with a movie about friendship that goes down so easy that it’s almost suspect, as though it were flung out of 1996 and gifted to our weary 2018 brains...

The Lakeside City Council has fielded some concerns about ice patches being formed by residents using their sump pumps to move excess water onto the streets, especially in the Elm Street area. “If this continues, it’s going to be a skating rink. People are going to end up in someone’s front yard,” one council member said...

With two new Supreme Court Justices taking the bench in the past year, U.S. Rep. Steve King hopes the balance of the high court has shifted enough to uphold his proposed federal heartbeat bill. The bill would outlaw abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected during an ultrasound examination. ...

“STEM and the ARTS Festival” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) was hosted by Buena Vista University and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach 4-H Program with support from the Governor’s Northwest Iowa STEM Council. This event was open to all youth in grades 4th to 8th on Saturday, Nov. ...

AMES — Officials say Iowa State will use a large portion of a $6 million gift from Boeing Co. to help fund construction of the Student Innovation Center. A news release sent Tuesday about Boeing’s $6 million commitment says 140,000-square-foot (13,006 square meters) center on the Ames campus is expected to be finished in January 2020...

Hundreds of Iowa National Guard soldiers have been told they were overpaid after a year-long deployment to the Middle East and that they must make plans to repay the money. The 248th Aviation Support Battalion held a homecoming ceremony on Nov. 2 to celebrate returning from Kuwait and Iraq. The next day, about 366 of the battalion’s 400 soldiers were informed of the money issue, The Quad-City Times reported ...

OMAHA — For the first time this year, a monthly survey of bankers in parts of 10 Plains and Western states indicates the regional rural economy is shrinking. The overall index of the Rural Mainstreet survey for November sank to 49.9, the first time it’s dipped below 50 since January and down from October’s 54.3. Any score above 50 suggests a growing economy in the months ahead, while a score below 50 indicates a shrinking economy...

The veteran’s memorial statue in Sioux Rapids stood tall for the Veterans Day holiday, with its plaque reading “All gave some, some gave all.”

Storm Lake (including Little Storm Lake) Storm Lake has a daily limit of three walleye and all 17- to 22-inch walleye must be released; no more than one walleye longer than 22 inches may be taken per day. Walleye - Fair: Try twisters and leaches fished under a bobber from shore and near the inlet. White Bass - Fair: Use crankbaits and crawlers fished from shore and near the inlet...

Mayra Lopez, Storm Lake, has been named to the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Services. Governor Kim Reynolds announced numerous appointments to boards and commissions this week, with Lopez as the only area resident included. The Storm Lake woman only learned about the appointment in a Facebook post where a friend had tagged her, and is waiting for contact from the state on when her first meeting will be...

The BVU cheerleaders huddle togeter on a frigid Saturday at the football game.

Six candidates have applied for an open Storm Lake City Council seat, as the council plans to appoint a member to fill the term of Bruce Carlson, who passed away recently. Candidates are Susan Slagle - Boyd, Tony Statz, Maria Ramos, Kevin McKinney, Randy Johnson and Jim Eliason...

The annual Adopt-A-Family for Christmas program begins today. The Pilot-Tribune and Upper Des Moines Opportunity co-sponsor the program each year, matching generous individuals, families, businesses, clubs, classrooms and church groups with needy local families to provide the Christmas experience they might otherwise not have...

It may be the silence that’s killing us. Talking about suicide is taboo in society, says Dr. Willa Casstevens, professor of social work at North Carolina State University. But from 1999 to 2016, the suicide rate in Iowa increased 36 percent—a median rate of increase across the United States, with rural and western states seeing higher increases. It remains the second-leading cause of death for 15 to 34-year-olds...

SAC CITY - It was the beginning of a new season and a new era for the Storm Lake girl’s basketball team on Friday night when they traveled southeast to take on the East Sac County Raiders. Despite a double-double from senior Rachel Bozonie, the green and white fell in another close contest against the Raiders, 46-44...