Sales receipts from the Ida County Fair livestock auction on July 21 totaled $607,611.76. That figure was up from last year’s total of $516,908.26. The total number of animals sold was 345, up from last year’s total of 313. This year, there were 114 hogs, 151 cattle (including 45 pens of three), 64 sheep, and 16 chickens.
The Ida Grove King Theatre is set for a trip back in time on Tuesday, Aug. 12.
The theater will play host to a showing of the 1973 film “American Graffiti,” written and directed by George Lucas, and a car show that will celebrate the film’s cruising culture theme.
The event will be a community activity and a fundraiser for the theater.
Ida Grove City Council discussed options for detouring motorists during the Main Street Bridge reconstruction.
Options presented during the July 21 meeting included 1. Keystone Avenue and 260th Street, costing $15,000; 2. Phased construction reducing traffic down to just one lane, adding at least 60 and possibly as much as 90 days to the time needed and costing over $200,000 and 3. A temp stream crossing, also costing over $200,000.
The 2025 OABCIG Summer Theatre Camp production of “Dream Street: The Musical,” took place last Friday at the OABCIG High School auditorium.
Josie Morris, who teaches seventh grade and high school English at East Sac County Community Schools, was in charge of the theatre camp and the production.
Students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades could participate as actors, singers and dancers.
A Bitcoin mining endeavor is suing in Ida County Court over alleged fraud involving sites in Galva and Arthur.
BitCap IA, LLC has filed a lawsuit alleging misrepresentation by Paul Thiara and DIGTB, Inc. with damages sought in at least the six figures.
The Moonlight Garden Party will make a return to Prairie Pedlar Gardens this Sunday, Aug. 3.
“The Moonlight Garden Party is kind of a fan-favorite. We started doing it in 1997, and we did it for about 20 years,” said Jane Hogue, who owns Prairie Pedlar along with her husband, Jack.
“Then we kind of took a break. We were so busy with weddings on weekends that we couldn’t find a date to ever have it.”
A public meeting to discuss cancer in Ida County is planned.
The Iowa Cancer Registry and University of Iowa College of Public Health, in collaboration with the Iowa Cancer Consortium, University of Iowa Health Care Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Iowa Rural Health Association, is hosting the Cancer in Iowa: 99 Counties Project to present county-specific cancer information and address community concerns in each of Iowa’s 99 counties.
As the statewide unemployment average climbed up to 3.7 percent, Ida County beat that with 3.3 percent.
Cherokee County led the region with 2.8 percent, tying Plymouth County, while Monona County was slightly higher at three percent. Buena Vista had 3.4 percent, Sac County stood at 3.5 percent while Woodbury had 3.9 percent, with Crawford County seeing the highest in the region at 4.5 percent.
Iowa’s rate was up from 3.6 percent to 3.7 percent as the national rate was 4.1 percent.
Submitted by Nancy Ploeger
Lutheran Women in Mission (LWML) 41st Biennial Convention was held in Omaha, Nebraska July 26-29, 2025. It was hosted by LWML Nebraska North and Nebraska South Districts under the theme Growing in God’s Grace, To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. 2 Peter 3:18 b.
