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Jaymes Bral follows his dad, Jaymie, into Iowa Air Guard

The Star Spangled Spectacular Committee has named Jaymie and Jaymes Bral as grand marshals of the Big Parade July 4.

Jaymie Bral serves as assistant principal of Storm Lake Middle School and was in the Iowa Army Air National Guard from 1984 to 2010.

Hayes leads drive for fresh meats, prepared foods

Tyson Foods, Inc. announced Monday its board of directors has promoted Tom Hayes to the position of president.

Seven years with no violations

by Tom Cullen

Storm Lake’s water treatment plant is fully compliant with the EPA’s maximum contaminant levels for seven pollutants.

The City of Storm Lake issued a letter to every resident Friday, stating its finished drinking water was in compliance with the EPA’s maximum contaminant levels of haloacetic acids, lead, copper, chlorine, fluoride, arsenic and barium.

Archer to refer pain patients to other physicians

‘This was no crime. It was just a mistake.’

by Tom Cullen

Storm Lake physician Dr. David Archer agreed to pay a $5,000 fine as part of a settlement with the Iowa Board of Medicine, which alleged Archer carelessly prescribed addictive painkillers.

Hope E-Free was saving cash for babies, expectant moms

The Storm Lake Police Department has filed an additional charge against a Pocahontas man for burglarizing a mission fund established to help newborn children and expectant mothers.

Gangsters in El Salvador wanted to kill elmer Salazar for rescuing boys

Video tells how Iowa Central helps him thrive in US

The harrowing story of an El Salvadoran man’s escape from danger in his home country and his subsequent education at Iowa Central Community College in Storm Lake is told in a video financed by a grant from the U. S. Department of Labor and sent  by Dan Anderson of ICCC.

Iowa’s pheasant harvest jumped in 2015, as numbers climbed to their highest level since 2009. Pheasant hunters killed 270,000 roosters in 2015, a 24% increase over 2014.

“We expected to see more pheasants and quail harvested based on the August roadside survey and our current trend of mild winters,” said Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife research biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

School starts Aug. 23 with new auditorium ready for use

Storm Lake Superintendent Carl Turner has set an open house for the opening of the newly renovated Storm Lake High School and its auditorium for Aug. 21.

Turner plans for each of the school’s performing ensembles to perform at 2 p.m., followed by speeches from district officials, such as High School Principal Beau Ruleaux and School Board President Peter Steinfeld.

A strip of concrete on the intersection of 500th St. and Hwy. 71 buckled due to the extreme heat northwest Iowa suffered over last weekend and many other stretches of highway in the county are susceptible to buckling, according to Iowa DOT Maintenance Supervisor Doug Williams.

Buena Vista County Sheriff deputies reported a one-foot swell of the southbound lane of U.S. 71 at the intersection of the highway and 500th St. in Rembrandt Sunday. Williams said the reason for the buckle was the near-record temperatures, which exceeded 95 degrees Saturday and Sunday.

The orange slide at King’s Pointe underwent a complete paint job this week. Safe Slide Restorations from Fredericktown, Mo., started earlier this year in Sea Word and finished their working tour in Storm Lake. It took around 400 gallons to cover the twisting giant and spray couldn’t be used because of the nature of the polysiloxane paint. Saran wrap was wrapped around the support structures of the slide because the paint tends to drip, said project manager Adam Rowland. It should last five to eight years. Times photo by Dolores Cullen