Stories from Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Seasons Center will be hosting a virtual Foster and Adoptive Summit in September 2020 to support foster and adoptive families. The 4th Annual We are Family Summit will be hosted virtually this year, in order to protect the health and safety of presenters and attendees. ...

UnityPoint Health – Fort Dodge is excited to announce, in partnership with Center for Neurology, Orthopedics and Spine (CNOS), local neurology care will be available to the Fort Dodge community coming this fall. “Based on our successful partnership with CNOS for Orthopedic Care, we are grateful to partner with CNOS for outpatient neurology services,” shares Leah Glasgo, UnityPoint Health – Fort Dodge President and CEO...

Buena Vista Regional Medical Center thanks all of its 2019-2020 Life Saver donors for helping local hearts stay healthy by supporting the purchase of an echocardiology ultrasound.

All are invited to enjoy the 5th Annual German Feast Meal to benefit the Hanover Historical Society on Saturday, September 26, starting at 6 pm. The Hanover Historical Society Board of Directors is hosting this carry-out only German Feast meal as a fundraiser. ...

Emma Bloom remembers visiting Buena Vista University and sitting in on a class taught by Dr. William Feis, Professor of History. His passion and energy for the subject convinced her BVU would be her college choice. “I sent my SAT scores to BVU on a whim, really,” says Bloom, a senior from Middletown, Md. ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will relax the fishing regulations at Spring Lake at Koser Spring Lake Park starting this week to allow anglers to more freely harvest fish before the lake is renovated this fall to eliminate carp. Spring Lake has flooded numerous times in the past several years and brought an influx of rough fish species, including the invasive silver carp. Recent construction work by the City of Cherokee has reduced the risk of future flooding...

Turnout was low in Buena Vista County in Tuesday’s special election on Revenue Purpose Statements for continued use of the existing SAVE penny sales tax. Voters in all of the county’s school district approved the measure easily. Just 438 voters or 3.2 percent of those registered in the county went to the polls. In Storm Lake, 213 voted yes and 17 no. (92.6 percent approval)...

Younglove Construction, general contractor on the multi-million-dollar Tyson Feed Mill project, has been granted a noise variance for the next stage of construction. Younglove is planning on performing the concrete slip-forming pour September 14th through October 3rd, weather permitting. ...

Many of the cars entered in the Storm Lake Kiwanis “Escape to the Lake” car show recently were meticulously restored showpieces, but for Robert and Ronda Hartje, car projects are all about fun, not perfection. Robert’s entry this year was a newly-obtained 1921 Model T Ford “bucket” known as “Built to a T.”...

Craig Williams of Manning has been designated a “Friend of Agriculture” by the Iowa Farm Bureau Political Action Committee (PAC). Williams is seeking Senate District 6 seat that includes Buena Vista, Sac, Carroll, Audubon and the eastern portion of Crawford County...

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 13 Iowa counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in the area county of Sac, along with Adair, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Shelby and Webster counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans...

Dorris M. Kintigh, 88, of Cherokee, Iowa, formerly of Storm Lake, passed away Tuesday afternoon, September 8, in the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, September 15, at 1:30 p.m. at the Memorial Presbyterian Church in Cherokee. ...

George Norris, age 100 of Nemaha, passed away on July 29, at Humboldt Care Center North in Humboldt, IA. George Washington Norris was born on July 30, 1919, in Yutan, Union Township, NE, to parents Marcus and Elise (Wagamann) Norris. He graduated high school at 16 years old in 1936, and was nominated to serve in Conservation Corps (CCC). ...

Beatification efforts had been in full swing at the State Pier in Arnolds Park for some time, but the project was capped off recently with a ceremony renaming the pier after Lakes Area icon Berkley Bedell. Bedell passed away in early December, and organizers with the beautification group Imagine Iowa Great Lakes shifted gears soon after to rename the pier in his honor. ...

The faint smell of smoke carried on the wind in Royal as the Royal City Council met for their regular meeting Wednesday night. The council spoke to Lucas Kline, of Ag Partners, to discuss the status of the Ag Partners elevator following a reported explosion on Aug. 25, which Ag Partners had described as “a grain dust incident” in a statement...

By Perry Beeman Iowa Capital Dispatch Iowa’s economy in July showed some of its first signs of positive movement since the coronavirus pandemic started, but still is fighting bearish indicators, the state reported Friday. “COVID-19 has swiftly and sharply affected the Iowa economy along with the U.S. as a whole, July is the first month over month positive change since the COVID-19 crisis impacted Iowa,” the Iowa Department of Revenue’s report authors wrote...

Buena Vista University is dealing with its first outbreak of COVID-19. On Friday, the university reported 38 active cases on the Storm Lake campus, up from eight a week earlier. The uptick in cases began over the previous weekend, triggering new restrictions on visitation in the residence halls. ...

Shelby Lynch loves horseback riding, and the competition that goes with it – everything from tacking up her horse, then heading out for a good trail ride, on the vast northwest Iowa country side, or competing in an area event with her horse. For Shelby, who is currently a sophomore at Newell - Fonda High, she can’t remember a time when she wasn’t around horses...

What’s worse than living in poverty? Living in poverty under the shadow of coronavirus. The year started out relatively healthy for poverty numbers in the region. “And then came February,” Jamie Whitney, director of Upper Des Moines Opportunity, the charitable agency serving the region, reports with an audible sigh. “Still, we were close to status quo until mid-summer. That’s when we really started to feel the spike here.”...