Stories from Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Distribution of Foote estate benefits numerous Dickinson County entities (08/11/10)
Dickinson County environmental organizations will get a boost with the estate distribution of a Lakes area nature lover. Local organizations including the Dickinson County Nature Center, Lakeside Labs, the Spirit Lake Library and the Mini-Wakan Shelter House were the recipients of monies of LaVonne Foote, whose $4.5 million estate allocations were announced late last week...

Two Okoboji softball standouts collect more hardware (08/11/10)
All of the dedication and hard work the Okoboji senior duo of Keely Bracelin and Makenzi Anderson have put in over the course of their careers helped to land them on the recently released 2010 Iowa Girls Coaches Association All-State Softball Teams...

Sports Preview Night set for Aug. 19 at OHS (08/11/10)
The Okoboji Booster Club and the Okoboji High School Athletic Department will be holding its annual Fall Sports Preview Night for the 2010-2011 school year on Thursday, August 19, 2010, at the high school. The football team will scrimmage from 5:00 to 5:30 p.m., followed by the volleyball team from 5:45 to 6:15 p.m. ...

SLHS to host Fall Sports Preview & BBQ on Aug. 20 (08/11/10)
The Spirit Lake High School Athletic Department and the Indian Athletic Booster Club will be hosting its annual Fall Sports Preview & Barbecue for the 2010-2011 school year on Friday, August, 20, 2010, at the high school. A volleyball demonstration in the new gym will start off the festivities at 5:00 p.m., followed by a barbecue from 5:30-6:30 p.m. ...

Iowa Lakes softball coach advances to Division I job (08/11/10)
Mike Bosch, the head softball coach at Iowa Lakes Community College has announced he is moving on to Syracuse University -- a NCAA Division I college. Bosch, who has been coaching and teaching math at Iowa Lakes for 14 years, has been the head coach for 13 seasons. ...

Anderson, Bracelin awarded with All-District honors (08/11/10)
Makenzi Anderson and Keely Bracelin, a pair of seniors from Okoboji, were recently named to the 2010 Iowa Girls Coaches Association All-District Softball Team after putting together impressive resumes this summer on the diamond. The Pioneer tandem was selected to the Northwest Team in Class 2A by high school coaches from throughout the state. ...

Osprey release punctuates mixed summer at Nature Center (08/11/10)
Sure, the Dickinson County Nature Center's high-perched guests were messy eaters in the hacking station, but that had nothing to do with their time behind bars. The osprey pair were there for a chance to grow up along the nature center's trails in Okoboji. Conservationists behind a local restoration program hope the birds eventually call the Iowa Great Lakes home -- they are about midway through a seven-year program of importing osprey from Minnesota to northwest Iowa...

Final week of Cinderella at Treasure Village (08/11/10)
The Treasure Village Children's Theatre season will finish this week with performances of Cinderella and of Little Red Riding Hood & the 3 Little Pigs. The funny characters and charming songs in Cinderella will delight audiences. Cinderella performances are Tuesday through Thursday, August 10-12, and Saturday, August 14. ...

Wilma Jean Coyer Galvin Small (08/11/10)
Wilma Jean Coyer Galvin Small was born in Worthington, Minn., and raised on a farm in the Sioux Valley, Minnesota area. She attended District #108 Jackson County Country School and graduated from the Spirit Lake High School.

Gaylin Derold Johnson (08/11/10)
May 20, 1934 - Aug. 4, 2010 Gaylin Derold Johnson was born May 20, 1934 in Spencer the son of Martin and Gertrude Elnora (Mills) Johnson. On July 9, 1966, Gaylin was united in marriage to Ethel Mohr in the Little Brown Church in the Vale in Nashua. The family lived on a farm northwest of Terril until 2009 when they moved to Homestead in Spirit Lake...

Gary D. Kane (08/11/10)
Feb. 28, 1942 -- July 27, 2010 Funeral services for Gary D. Kane, 68, of Milford were held Saturday, July 31, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Milford with Father Thomas Flanagan officiating. Interment was at Calvary Cemetery in Milford. Gary Dean Kane was born Feb. 28, 1942 in Spencer, the son of William and Elvera ( Crist ) Kane. He was raised and educated in Milford, graduating from Milford High School. Following high school, Gary served in the U.S. Army...

Until next time (08/11/10)
Mid-August is such a strange time of year. It's the worst part of the summer because in your head, you know it's almost time for school to start, but you just can't bring yourself to actually recognize that summer is ending. Unfortunately, it's just starting to hit me that the season is coming to an end...