Stories from Friday, April 26, 2019

Goodwill of the Great Plains is hosting a Job Fair on Tuesday April 30, 2019 from 10am-2pm at the Prairie Lakes AEA Building, 824 Flindt Dr, Storm Lake, IA. We will have over 15 local employers seeking individuals to fill job openings. “Our Job Fairs are just one of the ways that we can help individuals connect with local employers in the area. ...

Plains Area Mental Health, Inc. is pleased to announce that Meg McKeon, Ed.D., LISW, has joined their group of professionals to provide services in the Cherokee, and Storm Lake offices of Plains Area Mental Health. Meg received her bachelor of science in recreation with a concentration in therapeutic recreation from Shepherd University. ...

After 32 years of private practice, Dr. Daniel Douglas retired from dentistry in his small office tucked away behind the Hy-Vee Bedel Pharmacy on West 5th Street, giving the reins to Dr. Fotene Gennatos, a northwest Iowa native. Gennatos has practiced in Sioux City for the last 10 years at a group practice, which allowed her to spend more time with family. She previously had her own private practice after graduating from the University of Iowa in 2004...

Depending on where you live, you may be experiencing the first glimpses of spring. As the temperature continues to rise and plants and flowers begin to bloom, everyone seems to be in a better mood. But you didn’t have to wait for spring to feel the effects of nature - bringing plants into your home may bring you the same benefits...

The Shore Side Pub & Grub in Manson presents the 3rd Annual Crash My Crater. Saturday, June 29 featuring Riley Green with his chart topping debut single “There Was This Girl”. Also featuring Travis Denning with his Top 35 charting single “David Ashley Parker from Powder Springs.” Two of Nashville’s hottest new acts in country on stage in Manson...

Motor sports action will make its debut in the Sleep Number Grandstand at the 2019 Clay County Fair with national touring ATV Big Air Tour. The show will fly into action at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12. “This will be a great night of family-friendly entertainment as our fairgoers will enjoy these high-flying performers,” fair manager Jeremy Parsons said. “ATVs, motorcycles and BMX bikes will be soaring off the big ramps located in front of the Sleep Number Grandstand.”...

Spring could be right around the corner, but who knows at this point? At any rate, getting acquainted with a good book for those rainy, spring mornings, or upcoming lazy, summer afternoons, might be a good idea, sooner or later. Here’s a list of a variety of books that could fit some bills...

Storm Lake St. Mary’s School spent Tuesday packing 83,160 meals for the hungry of Honduras, working with the Then Feed Just One organization. Students, faculty, administration, clergy and members of the community all worked assembly lines to package dried nutritious meals for the less fortunate. ...

A scrapbook of World War II memories has turned up at the Newell Public Library, perhaps not seen since the 1940s. “It was found in the library under a pile of stuff. I worked at the library for years and have never seen it before,” said Penny Lanxon, of the Friends of the Library group...

Striking a balance between giving the audience what they have come to expect and moving the story in a direction that highlights the emotional depth of "Mama Mia!" is one of the main challenges show director Shaley Cullen and the cast and crew have faced as they prepare to bring the popular musical to the stage. The show debuts for a two-weekend run at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Spencer Community Theatre Playhouse...

Monty Python’s Spamalot plays this week at Buena Vista University’s Schaller Memorial Chapel on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Directed by David Walker and costumed in part by his wife, Professor Bethany Larson, the theater department will put monks, minstrels, ladies and lords on awkward display for your comedic pleasure...

A babysitter’s training course will be held at The Meeting Place in Galva on Tuesday, June 18th from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. If you are 11-15 years old and want to become a babysitter, this one-day American Red Cross class will provide youth who are planning to babysit with the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and responsibly give care for children, toddlers and infants. Note: A mature 10-year old can attend...

Quad County Corn Processors, a 12.5-million-bushel corn processing biorefinery in Galva, Iowa, recently donated $250 to Cherokee County, Sac County, Ida County, Buena Vista County 4-H members and Ridge View FFA. The donations will help defray the annual participation cost of each individual 4-H member in said counties...

Storm Lake natives Michael and Tony Pertzborn have been selected as co-commodores of the popular Star Spangled Spectacular July 3-4 events in Storm Lake, working alongside commodores Rob and Michelle Smith. In 2016, the brothers moved back to Storm Lake. ...

Updates from the Storm Lake Police Department, the Buena Vista County Sheriff's Office and the Storm Lake Fire Department.

Kirk Langner, native of Schaller Iowa, will be featured speaker at the Buena Vista County Historical Society’s Annual Meeting at the museum, on Sunday, April 28, 2 p.m., following the Museum Annual Report at 1:30 p.m.. The title of his talk is: “Talking Weather’: Kirk is a 2017 graduate of Alta-Aurelia High School and is currently completing a degree in Music Education at Iowa Central. ...

September 19, 1947 - April 21, 2019

Donald H.  Pingel, 84, of Cherokee, passed away Wednesday, April 24 in the Cherokee Regional Medical Center.  Funeral services will be held on Monday, April 29 at 10:30 a.m. at the Memorial Presbyterian Church in Cherokee. Rev. Eric Wright will officiate. ...

October 3, 1935 - April 23, 2019

A Spirit Lake man is scheduled to appear May 16 on charges that he violated terms of the Iowa Sex Offender registry 13 months ago. Jason A. Krayenborg was on the offender registry for a Dec. 12, 2007, conviction for assault with the intent to commit sexual abuse involving a minor girl under the age of 13...

In a public forum this week, Storm Lake Public Library supporters expressed both gratitude for what the facility offers, and concerns that it may not be receiving enough funding. One woman said she enjoys the book club and jigsaw puzzle competitions. “I never walk in without seeing someone sitting in a chair enjoying the newspaper,” she said...

Ecology class students at Storm Lake High School are getting trashy—in picking it up, that is. In conjunction with Storm Lake Proud week, students are taking six days from April 29 to May 4 to implement their ecology projects that beautify The City Beautiful...

A Des Moines area water utility says construction and testing are complete on a $2.5 million system that will enable it to treat nitrate removed during its purification process rather than dump the material back into the Raccoon River. Des Moines Water Works announced Monday it had finished work on a pump station and pipe that will carry nitrate from a facility to the Des Moines wastewater center, where it will be treated and turned into a material that can be applied to farms...

A Fonda family injured in a fireworks show blast last summer has filed a lawsuit against the City of Newell. Tina Peter, her three children and grandson, and Randy Andreason, were injured when a mortar tipped over during the shooting of a July 6 show at the golf course, sending a shot rocketing along the ground toward the softball field area where spectators were located...

Local farmers are getting anxious, as wet spring conditions have put them slightly behind on planting schedules. “They are getting antsy, not so much for the delay but because we need to get dried out. If we have an inch of rain now, it will knock us another week behind,” with subsoil profiles already overflowing from a wet fall and heavy winter snowfalls, says Kris Kohl, Iowa State Extension Service ag engineering specialist in Buena Vista County...