Stories from Friday, June 22, 2007

By Elliott Fifer Daily Staff Reporter One day. One night. One community. The 10th Annual Clay County Relay for Life, a walk designed to raise money for cancer research, will begin at 4 p.m. Saturday and last until 6 a.m. Sunday at the Clay County Fairgrounds in Spencer...

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The Clay County Fairgrounds will serve as the hub location for riders and their hosts in Spencer. The site is accustomed to large crowds as an estimated 300,000 visitors pass through the fairgrounds gates over nine days each September. n Learn more about the upcoming RAGBRAI stop in Spencer on Sunday, July 22 at www.spencerragbrai.com...

Dickinson County plans pachyderm party Candidates for president have been invited to the Dickinson County Republican Pachyderm Party at 5:30 p.m. tonight at The Inn on Okoboji.  Dave Rowley will entertain during the social hour.  Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m., followed by Lauren and Sara Hummel singing special patriotic and popular songs.  Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, State Sen. ...

Accidents...

George Owen McMillin passed away Sunday, June 17, 2007, south of Spencer from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. George was cremated and his memorial service will be held Monday, June 25, 2007, at 10 a.m. at Sellergren-Lindell-DeMarce Funeral Home. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Rev. Caryn Pedersen, officiating...

Funeral services for Kenneth Roger Woolston will be held at 10:30 a.m., today, Friday, June 22, 2007, at Maple Grove Church of God in Sutherland. Rev. Michael Hyde will officiate the service. Casket bearers will be Bill Gropp, Dick Mulsow, J. Trost, Keith Trost, Matt Trost and David Woolston...

Funeral services for Phyllis Helen Oviatt, 69, of Spencer will be held Saturday, June 23, 2007, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Spencer. Rev. Harry McAlpine will officiate the 10 a.m. service. Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery in Spencer. Mrs. Oviatt passed away Tuesday, June 19, 2007, at Spencer Hospital...

Verlyn "Ray" Zesiger, 73, passed away June 20, 2007, in Las Vegas, Nev. Services are pending in Las Vegas, Nev. Ray was a Korean Veteran from 1952-1956. He was preceded in death by his sister Joyce; his mother and father, Marge and Lloyd -- both of Everly...

Funeral services for LaVern "Cliff" Clifford, 82, of Spencer, formerly of Milford, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at Union Memorial Church in Milford. Mr. Clifford passed away Monday, June 18, 2007, at St. Luke Lutheran Home in Spencer...

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 23, 2007, at the United Methodist Church in Everly for Theodore Rhinehold Kosta, 96, of Spencer, formerly of Everly. Mr. Kosta passed away Tuesday, June 19, 2007, at Spencer Hospital. Rev. Michael Hyde will officiate and burial will be at Lone Tree Cemetery in Everly...

The team "Krile's Driver's" is in charge of the Silent Auction which will be held at the Relay for Life on Saturday, June 23 at the Clay County Fairgrounds. Anyone may bid on the items displayed and winners will be announced at 10 that evening. Some of the donated items include: a doll, garbage can, leather bound atlas, SCT tickets, dinners at a local restaurant, rounds of golf, collector tractors, Daily Reporter subscription, teeth whitening certificate, massages, Hawkeye & Cyclone Yard rocks, model airplane, bike helmet, beverage tote, 8" frozen birthday cake, Tiger t-shirt, Super bowl pennants, Breast Cancer pin, Christmas plate, wall shelves, pedicure, 2 tickets to Fair show, framed poetry, Bogenrief vase, Hawkeye print, discount coupons, beauty items, yard rakes, Misc. ...

By Russ Mitchell with Associated Press reports Local Democrats who hoped to hear singer Paul Simon speak nearby will have to settle for "The Sound of Silence" for now. Simon, half of the popular 1960s duo Simon and Garfunkel, will join Sen. Chris Dodd's Democratic presidential campaign for two days of a bus tour the Connecticut senator is making across Iowa on July 3-7...

"It is recommended that the decision of the Board of Directors of the Clay Central(/Everly) Community School District, made on April 16, 2007, to relocate grades three through five from the north site to the south site, be reversed." - Administrative Law Judge Carol Greta...