Stories from Tuesday, May 25, 2010

An accident at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, at the north T-intersection of Highways 18 and 71 in Spencer, resulted in multiple injuries, sending three children by lifeflight to regional hospitals. Htoo Baw, 49 of Storm Lake was traveling south on Highway 71 in a 1997 Dodge Caravan, approaching the northern city limits of Spencer, when 47-year-old Russell Leroy Osterkamp of Hawarden, operating a 2009 Toyota Tundra traveled into the path of the Caravan. ...

It's safe to say that Kodi Hansen is a self-motivated woman who knows how to rope and ride. Hansen, who became a Clay Central-Everly alumna May 16, particularly enjoys team roping with partner CJae Lenhart, of Bedford, breakaway roping and goat tying events...

Music Man - Gabriel Farago, a recording artist, producer and author from Nashville, Tenn., - is coming to Spencer. Identifying himself as a charismatic priest with vast information to share with those interested in pursuing their dreams in the country music industry, the minister of melodies will be at the Spencer Public Library at 7 p.m. to offer, at no charge, his personal roadmap designed to navigate the country music highway...

Funeral services for Mr. Dennis Riepma, 66, of Spencer, will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 26, at Hope Reformed Church in Spencer. Rev. Russell Muilenburg will officiate the service. Visitation will begin at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, with the family present from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Warner Funeral Home in Spencer...

Is anyone missing a powder blue recliner chair? Or a slightly battered refrigerator? I'm just wondering, because certainly no one would drive out into the country, find a gravel road, and dump their garbage in the ditch. On purpose. Certainly not. Those items, along with the myriad other odds and ends that appear, like magic, along the roadsides of rural Clay County, must be lost. ...