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Saturday Nov 15 | KCAU-TV Sioux City

Siouxland Retailers Say Holiday Shopping Forecast Good

While many national chains are saying their outlook for the holiday shopping season is grim, Siouxland consumers and stores are convinced it will still be a happy holiday.

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Related Topix: Orange City, IA

Mon Oct 20, 2008

Sioux City Journal

Woman ejected in rollover Saturday near Alton

A Littleton, Colo., woman was injured Saturday when she lost control of the vehicle she was driving two miles north of Alton.

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Related Topix: Sioux County, IA, Orange City, IA, Sioux City, IA

Fri Oct 17, 2008

Sioux City Journal

Man injured when semi truck hits cow

A Russell, Minn., man was injured Thursday when the semi truck he was a passenger in struck a cow.

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Related Topix: Sioux County, IA, Orange City, IA

Wed Oct 15, 2008

Le Mars Daily Sentinel

Art Center holds quilt trunk show

This quilted wall hanging titled "Log Cabin with Flowers" is one of several by Hildred Vander Weide of Sioux Center currently on display at the Arts Center.

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Related Topix: Sioux Center, IA, Le Mars, IA, Orange City, IA, Akron, IA

Fri Oct 10, 2008

KGAN

2 sisters hit by pickup in Sioux Center

Two sisters were hit by a pickup truck as they crossed a highway in Sioux Center.

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Related Topix: Sioux Center, IA, Sioux City, IA

Sat Oct 04, 2008

Le Mars Daily Sentinel

The Challenger

Virginia Templeton, right, of Alton, talks with the Challenger's conductor, Reed Jackson, left, about the days when her husband, Floyd Templeton, used to be an engineer on locomotives like this one.

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Related Topix: Le Mars, IA, Sioux City, IA

Thu Oct 02, 2008

Le Mars Daily Sentinel

All aboard: Steam engine roars into Le Mars

Brenden Fisch, 4, of Remsen, with his grandpa Joe Fisch, cheers for the Challenger as it chugged into Le Mars Wednesday for a stop on its tour from St.

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Related Topix: Le Mars, IA, Remsen, IA, Sioux City, IA

Sun Sep 28, 2008

Sioux City Journal

Detours don't deter pastry therapy

A drive that takes 45 minutes took me 55 Saturday morning. And a 25-minute run lasted 44.

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Related Topix: Briar Cliff University, Sioux County, IA, Moville, IA, Orange City, IA

Fri Sep 26, 2008

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Thelma R. Broek

Thelma R. Broek, 83, of Sioux Center died Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at the Sioux Center Community Hospital.

Memorial services were held Saturday at 11a.m. at Bethel Christian Reformed Church with the Rev. Duane Tinklenberg officiating. Interment was held prior to the memorial service in Memory Gardens Cemetery of Sioux Center.

The Broek Family prefers memorials be directed to Bethel Christian Reformed Church or the Sioux Center Community Hospital Foundation.

Thelma Rose Broek was born July 20, 1925 in Grand Rapids, Mich. to Casey and Sarah (Douma) Heyman. Her family moved to Hull when she was a young child. She received her education in Hull and graduated from the Hull Community High School.

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Related Topix: Sioux Center, IA, Hull, IA

Wed Sep 24, 2008

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Sophia M. Dykhuizen

Sophia M. Dykhuizen, age 99, of Sheldon passed away on Sunday, August 3, 2008, at Sanford Sheldon Senior Care in Sheldon.

Funeral services were held on Thursday, August 7, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. at the Andringa Funeral Home Sheldon Funeral Service in Sheldon with the Rev. Marcus Moffitt officiating.  Burial was held in the Sheridan Township Cemetery in Boyden.

Sophia Marie Dykhuizen was born May 5, 1909, in Bunnik, Netherlands, to John and Antonia (Burggraaf) Vander Lee. She came to America with her family at the age of five. They settled on a farm near Alton. They later moved to Nebraska, where they lived for three years. They then returned to the Boyden area.

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Related Topix: Sheldon, IA, Boyden, IA, Hull, IA

Mon Sep 22, 2008

KCAU-TV Sioux City

Officials Determine Cause of Silo Explossion

State investigators say overheated equipment is the likely cause of an explosion and fire at a grain coop in Alton, IA this summer.

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Related Topix: Explosion

Sat Sep 20, 2008

KTIV-TV Sioux City

Investigators Determine Cause Of Alton Grain Co-Op Exposion

Two years ago, a ban on all abortions, in South Dakota, failed at the ballot box.

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Related Topix: Explosion, Remsen, IA

Fri Sep 19, 2008

KTIV-TV Sioux City

Alton explosion result of overheated equipment

Despite every other piece of bad economic news, falling oil prices have been a bright spot.

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Related Topix: Explosion

Sat Sep 06, 2008

KLEM-AM Le Mars

KLEM: News

Thirty-six-year-old Jody O'Keefe had been scheduled to be tried Tuesday for first-degree murder for the January 24th death of 32-year-old Samuel Toliver of Le Mars.

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Related Topix: Plymouth County, IA, Le Mars, IA, Explosion

Thu Sep 04, 2008

KWWL-TV Waterloo

Alton co-op tears down fire-damaged silos

Plane crash injures two in Wisconsin Falcons draw national attention This Friday will be the first home football game for A-P after the May 25th tornado.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents, Financial Services

Sioux City Journal

Midwest Farmers Co-op tearing down fire-damaged silos

Demolition crews set the wrecking ball to work Wednesday, knocking down one of six massive concrete silos at Midwest Farmers Co-op's Alton facility, starting from the inside out.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Fri Aug 29, 2008

Sioux City Journal

New day care, preschool to open Tuesday in Orange City

ORANGE CITY, IOWA n A new day care and preschool will receive its first children on Tuesday on the campus of the Orange City Area Health System hospital, just off state Highway 10 in Orange City.

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Related Topix: Orange City, IA

Wed Aug 27, 2008

Sioux City Journal

New Orange City preschool plans opening

Dave Dreeszen Journal business editor ORANGE CITY -- The Orange City Area Daycare and Preschool will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new facility at 5 p.m. Thursday at 1103 Lincoln Circle, just north of ...

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Related Topix: Orange City, IA

Mon Aug 25, 2008

Sioux City Journal

Running with buffalo

The buffalo aren't being cooperative. Farm manager Devin DeJong hollers at the four female yearlings, trying to stir them into moving a little closer to the 7-foot-tall electric fence that surrounds their ...

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Related Topix: Omaha, NE Metro, Orange City, IA, Agriculture, Science, Life, Beef, Food, Meat

Sat Aug 23, 2008

KLEM-AM Le Mars

Klem News Update

THE VICTIMS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THE DRIVER OF A CAR, 52-YEAR OLD STEVEN BUH OF MARION, AND HIS PASSENGER, 58-YEAR OLD DONALD LAKE OF OMAHA.

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Related Topix: Marion, IA, Omaha, NE Metro, Boyden, IA

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