Stories from Wednesday, July 24, 2019

A lawsuit filed Tuesday, July 16, in U.S. District Court in Sioux City by Christine Kluver of Le Mars, alledges long-term exposure to the herbicide Roundup led to the death of her husband. Arlen Kluver died in 2001 at the age of 46 from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma...

The [Storm Lake ] FFA chapter has been awarded $[2375], as part of the Grants for Growing program. The nationwide program, sponsored by Tractor Supply Company, provides grant funds to local FFA chapters to support the development or improvement of agricultural education projects that enhance the classroom experiences for students through chapter engagement activities. ...

Storm Lake Police have made two arrests in a series of early morning shoplifting incidents. Storm Lake Police advise that on July 10, they took a report in reference to an alleged theft at the Storm Lake Walmart Store located on North Lake Avenue at approximately 3 a.m. ...

Crews are moving full speed to make way for the footings on the new $2.5 million Industrial Technology Center, the first building on Iowa Central Community College’s site on the north edge of Storm Lake.

A series of workshops addressing mental health needs of a diverse community are being offered on August 9 at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 1614 W. 5th St in Storm Lake. Dr. Carlos Canales, Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA, SEP™, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, Certified Group Psychotherapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner will be the presenter...

The Rembrandt Alumni & Friends Band presented a one-hour concert before the annual Rembrandt All-School Reunion on Saturday, July 20, 2019, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Rembrandt. This is their 18th concert, starting with the Centennial in 2001. ...

The path Debra Marquart followed to becoming a writer was far from ordinary. And yet, it is hard to imagine how the Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of English could have taken any other route and achieved as much. That’s because every unexpected detour and fork in the road – even the “grim existence of life on the farm” – have strongly influenced her poetry, short stories and novels. ...

Storm Lake student Lessly Ortega, taking part in the Rocket Girls education program at Kennedy Space Center.

Buena Vista University joined an elite group of colleges and universities this year in earning the 2019 CASE Educational Fundraising Award. “BVU is among a select group of more than 90 colleges and universities receiving awards this year,” says Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) President and CEO Sue Cunningham. ...

Pet Rock, a tribute band for the soft rock hits of the 1970s, belts out an Eagles tune on the Great Lawn at Awaysis Park Friday, in the Storm Lake United Lighthouse Summer Concert Series. The series will wrap up with one more free show, Parranderos Latin Combo, appearing August 9...

On Monday, July 29, Buena Vista University will host the DCI Shoreline Classic, a Drum Corps International Tour event in which Open Class drum corps perform and compete as they vie for top honors just a week later at the 2019 Drum Corps International World Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana...

It will come as no surprise to the people who knew John Senn that he wanted memorials directed to the Iowa Rock ‘n’ Roll Music Association. He passed away Thursday at Lakes Regional Healthcare in Spirit Lake at the age of 78. A funeral service for the Lakes music icon was held Monday...

Storm Lake lived up to its name to start the weekend, as a storm system with angry clouds and high winds swept in. Local photographer Leslie Murphy shares this image of the dramatic sky.

The youngest serving member of the Spencer American Legion Glen Pedersen Post No. 1, Bri Pullen, became the post’s 81st commander Wednesday evening. “This is probably the first volunteer organization I have been involved in that I wholehearted believed in,” Pullen said. “I really believe in what we do — helping out our veterans in our community in anyway that we can. It is very important to me. It is probably one of the most important things for me.”...

Fourteen students and two professors started their summer by working thousands of miles from the Buena Vista University campus in Storm Lake. Drs. Andrea Frantz, professor of digital media, and Annamaria Formichella, professor of English and director of strategic initiatives, accompanied a BVU record 14 students of varying majors in a two-week study of Ireland, of which about half the time was spent in the village of Sneem as students worked to photograph, interview, and write about residents for the annual “Sneem Parish News,” a magazine, and the community’s sole source of local news, published by volunteer editors from the village.. ...

A Carroll teenager arrested in a fight and break-in Sunday in Storm Lake has also been connected to a gun incident reported here in June. Storm Lake Police were called to a fight in progress at 706 Geneseo shortly after 4:30 a.m. Sunday. Officers found two men fighting in apartment #4, and also detained an adult woman and juvenile girl at the scene...

A small but enthusiastic group gathered at the Storm Lake Public Library Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, guzzling Tang, watching a documentary of the event, and battling to assemble a stubborn puzzle of the moon’s surface before the facility closed...

For a Californian who has never before set foot in Iowa, Robert Garcia seemed at home in the back room of Plaza Mexico Sunday night, nursing a Diet Coke while trying to convince a small gathering of Storm Lake Democrats that his ally Kamala Harris is the answer to their needs...