Earl Horlyk

2 weeks ago | siouxcityjournal.com | Earl Horlyk

SIOUX CITY -- Colton Jay Warren, a senior at Woodbury Central High School, and Fisher Larsen Uhl, a senior at Bishop Heelan Catholic High School, have both earned Eagle Scout, the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) scouting program. Colton, the son of Jay and Laurie Warren, had an Eagle Scout project that involved making artificial fish structures that were placed in Midway County Park in rural Moville.

2 weeks ago | siouxcityjournal.com | Earl Horlyk

SIOUX CITY -- Even though cloudy skies and daytime highs in the mid-60s won't be ideal sailing weather, Jason Addington hopes to introduce himself to plenty of boaters during the Memorial Day weekend. Addington is the new general manager of the Sioux City Marina, which has been closed since the end of the summer boating season in 2023.

2 weeks ago | siouxcityjournal.com | Earl Horlyk

1 Honoring our forefathers!The Girls of '68 are sponsoring a Memorial Celebration, honoring Chief War Eagle and Theophile Bruguier, at 10 a.m. Saturday at War Eagle Park, 4000 War Eagle Drive. War Eagle was the Dakota-born tribal chief of Yankton Sioux Tribe. Bruguier married two of War Eagle's daughters and his cabin is considered the first white settlement in what is now known as Sioux City.

2 weeks ago | siouxcityjournal.com | Earl Horlyk

It has been 13 years since Peggy La started Siouxland’s first-ever Asian Festival and she acknowledged how much she and the event have evolved over that time. “I wasn’t married back 13 years ago, and we didn’t yet have our kids (four-and-a-half-year-old Zeus and nearly two-year-old Zena),” she said. In addition, the always-busy La – longtime owner of Hong Kong Supermarket – didn’t have her real estate license at the very first Siouxland Asian Fest, that was held at Sioux City’s Riverside Park.

2 weeks ago | siouxcityjournal.com | Earl Horlyk

SIOUX CITY -- The cuisine of the Windy City is coming to Northwest Iowa, and Stephen Mack is serving it with a side of lemon peppered fries, from a food truck named 2 The Macks. A native of the south side of Chicago, Mack grew up eating street foods like a Chicago-style hot dog (an all-beef sausage surrounded by onions, tomatoes, green relish and sport pepper on a bun) as well as its cousin, the Maxwell Street Polish (the exact same sandwich with a Polish sausage replacing the wiener).