Stories from Monday, August 19, 2019

On the afternoon of Wednesday, August 14, at approximately 12:06 p.m. the Storm Lake Police Department took a report in reference to alleged domestic assault. Police met with Lay Paw, age 32 of Storm Lake who alleged that her husband identified as Nee Htoo, age 31 of Storm Lake physically assaulted her by striking her in head on the evening of August 13...

Drainage Design Workshop presented by Kris Kohl, Agricultural Engineering Field Specialist to be held at the Sac County Extension Office. The meeting will be Tuesday, August 27 from 1 – 4 pm. If you are a farmer, landowner, drainage contractor or anyone else interested in drainage design you should attend this meeting. ...

Senator Bernie Sanders will return to Storm Lake Tuesday. The Democrat presidential hopeful will hold a “Storm Lake Breakfast with Bernie” event at 10 a.m. at Better Day Cafe, 518 Lake Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. Sanders spoke at the same location in 2015 during his previous presidential campaign, as well as appearing at Buena Vista University during that period. ...

The 66th annual Stille Family Reunion was held on Sunday, August 4, 2019, at Scharnberg P-ark, Everly, Iowa. Families enjoyed a: cate-red mealwhile catching up on happenings of the past year and remembering fun times growing up on the family farms. The 90th birthdays of Audrey Thiessen, from Spencer, and Kay Schmitt, from Storm Lake were celebrated. ...

The 2019 blue ribbon Sac County Fair is over and the Iowa State Fair is nearly completed. But Fair season is not over. There will be one more fair for area families to enjoy. The 2019 Sac County Quilt-A-Fair will take place on September 21st and 22nd at the beautiful Sac County Fair Grounds. ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Results of the 2019 American Rivers Conference Football Preseason Poll (as voted on by the league’s head coaches): 1. Wartburg (7) t-2. Central (2) t-2. Dubuque (1) 4. Simpson 5. Coe 6. Loras 7. Nebraska Wesleyan 8. Luther 9. Buena Vista...

There is a new head volleyball coach for the St. Mary’s Panthers this season as Marissa Promes will take over the duties after the departure of former coach, Beth Bjorkgren. Promes, a Jefferson native, has seen coaching flow in her family’s veins. How she got the coaching gig was pretty simple...

By Dr. KellyAnn Light-McGroary Special to The Pilot August marks back-to-school season, an ideal time for parents in Iowa to help improve their children’s health. Before schedules become packed with classes, homework and extracurricular activities, here’s a back-to-school “health checklist” to help give children a better chance to succeed inside and outside the classroom:...

The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) hosted a discussion with Senator Chuck Grassley about the barriers that rural Iowans face in securing quality health care on August 13 at UnityPoint Health-Des Moines. Hospital leaders, including Dawn Bach, BVRMC Chief Clinical Officer at Buena Vista Regional Medical Center, sat on a panel to help BPC’s Rural Health Task Force address rural America’s health care shortages...

Catherine Glackin is beginning her second year in pursuing a flute performance and music education degree at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. As a Bienen School student, she performs in large bands and orchestras, as well as chamber ensembles which include: flute quartets, woodwind quintets, flute-viola-harp trios, and more. ...

The Hanover Historical Society will host the 23rd Annual Hanover Festival on Sunday, August 25, from noon to 7 p.m. at the Hanover Village located southwest of Alta at the Junction of M-27 and C-65.  The event features entertainment for all ages and salutes the rural heritage of the area.  Those attending can view the restored village buildings with their many displays and enjoy a tasty hot sandwich along with homemade pie and ice cream...

Parranderos Latin Combo, a worldly combination of performers based in central Iowa who perform several latin musical styles, performed a lively concert at Awaysis Park’s Great Lawn in Storm Lake, the last of four free concerts in the first Lighthouse Concert Series put on by Storm Lake United. The crowd enjoyed the high-energy performance until it was cut short by a risk of rain...

Use modern technology to unlock the past! “Stories in Stone” will be hosted by the O’Brien County Conservation Board at the Waterman Cemetery, 420S HiView Street in Sutherland. Meet the Naturalist at the main monument on Thursday, August 29 at 6 p.m. This event will use GPS equipment to look for clues in a scavenger hunt type activity. Instructions will be given on how to use the GPS units. Then, participants will set out to explore the cemetery...

Monarch migration will soon be starting. Single butterflies will begin to gather in MASS. Millions of monarchs will be on the move. The O’Brien County Conservation Board is hosting the annual monarch tagging event at Mill Creek Park on Thursday, September 5 beginning at 5:30 p.m...

The City of Storm Lake is asking residents for help in using water in a smart and conservative manner as water usage has significantly increase in the last few weeks. While there is no mandatory water conservation order in affect the amount of water being used on a daily based by all users of the Storm Lake water system has increased steadily over the past few days...

New teachers are preparing for the beginning of school in the Storm Lake District. Front row:  Maranda Gowdy, Andrea McDonald, Katelyn Smith, Lindsay DeHaan, Nou Yang. Middle row: Corbet Butler, Jarrod Roth, Lindsey Stille, Laura Stansberry, Heather Speers. Back row: David Hackbarth, Brian Woodford, Angie Snyder, Jill Gallagher...

As the district prepares for the upcoming school year, Clay Central-Everly School Board members held their regular meeting Wednesday evening in the Royal elementary school building. New Clay Central-Everly administrators, Assistant Superintendent Jeff Scharn and Superintendent Scott Williamson were questioned by the board about the future of the former CC-E High School building which is now closed in Everly...

An Iowa-based grocery store chain is warning customers about what it says is a security incident involving payment card systems. Hy-Vee said in a news release Wednesday that it launched an investigation after it detected unauthorized activity on some of its payment processing systems — activity that the company thinks has stopped...

After a successful fundraising campaign, the Clay County Cattlemen raised $5,200 for the Nebraska Relief Fund, which will assist Nebraskans effected by the severe flooding which has impacted the area since the spring. “They went around the local area and people donated hay and money,” said Art Hamrick, of the Clay County Cattlemen. ...

Storm Lake FFA wants to thank to everyone who came out and bought corn today. They appreciate your support and stay tuned for online corn orders.

You’ll never read about one of the darkest figures to emerge from Storm Lake’s past in any of the local history books. May Otis Blackburn began life in humble fashion as the daughter of a local railroad worker, but gained fame later in life as founder and immortal Queen of the Blackburn Cult in the Hollywood Hills of the 1920s. ...

A GoServ Global mission team built a church in Uganda out of a Sukup Manufacturing steel building that will serve refugee children at the New Hope Children’s Home and the entire community. A GoServ Global team of 10, including two skilled iron construction workers, assisted and trained the local Ugandans on how to build the church in Pawel, Uganda...

Sunset Park in Storm Lake was buzzing over the weekend - literally - as some of the premier chainsaw artists from around the country created their work in the annual Wood, Wine & Blues festival. The event included wine-tasting and concerts along with the carving competitions...

There is room in the heated gun control debate for compromise, says Storm Lake Public Safety Director Mark Prosser, but local state legislator Gary Worthan worries that giving up any gun rights would be the beginning of a slippery slope. “I’m a proponent of the Second Amendment,” veteran police chief Prosser says, “but at the same time, I believe in reasonable and sensible gun laws.”...