Angela Stork, the daughter of Deb Stork and Ken Pederson of Glidden and Dave Stork of Lake View, recently completed her first year at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City and is spending five weeks of her summer at Stewart Memorial Community Hospital (SMCH) as a MECO student.
This program gives the student first-hand experience in all areas of the medical profession. The MECO program, a cooperative effort by the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City and SMCH has been very successful. The hospital has participated in the MECO program almost every year since 1973 providing a rewarding experience not only for the student but the entire healthcare team.
Angie was born at Stewart Memorial, lived in Lake View until the age of 10 and graduated from Glidden-Ralston High School in 1999. She graduated from the University of Iowa in 2004 with a B.A. in Anthropology and Global Health Studies. In 2007 Angie graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City with a M.A. in Forensic Psychology. She is engaged and looking forward to him moving from New York to join her in Iowa City this fall.
Angie’s travels have offered her the opportunity to participate in several public health and medical internships doing research in West Africa, Trinidad, St. Lucia and most recently with the Himalyan Health Exchange in the Himalayas of North India.
“I chose SMCH because I thought it would be a great opportunity to gain medical experience while working in my home area,” states Stork. “I’ve been so impressed with how warm and welcoming the entire staff at SMCH has been. I love the small. Community feel of this hospital. It’s great to finally get some clinical experience to reinforce the countless hours of studying during this past year and to see the different ways that physicians practice medicine and interact with their patients.”

Among the mythical figures encountered in fairy tales, the ogre is perhaps the most elusive. He appears to have no well established characteristics other than his large size, his fierce temper, and his ability to change his shape and size. The Ogre of ‘Puss in Boots’ may not be a typical ogre according to the letter attached.
In Defense of My Master the Ogre
I am writing this message as I, and my fellow servants, prepare to leave our long-time home following the dastardly slaying of our master, know far and wide simply as the Ogre, but the villainous Puss In Boots. Since I know not what will become of us, or where our travels will take us, I am leaving this message in the secret compartment in the back staircase of our castle in the hopes that someone may eventually find it. May my master’s soul rest in peace. Pierre August 14, 1233 A.D.
The Ogre, as he has come to be known, was the last member of an ancient family that had resided in this castle in Carrabas for hundreds of years. The family was a generous one that always looked after their own servants as well as all of the peasants in the surrounding area. My own family had worded for the Ogre’s family for at least eight generations. I was still a young man when tragedy befell them. On a cold December night my mistress finally gave birth to a son who, alas, turned out by some freak of nature to be enormously large and badly disfigured. Like all good families they loved and treasured their son and cared for him carefully as he grew. When their son first began to make noise he muttered a sound that seemed like “arrggh.” It was from that sound that they began to call him their little ogre and, as he grew older, simply Ogre. Ogre was large and unusual looking but he was an intelligent and cheerful boy who, as he grew older, developed a wonderful sense of humor. His tutor a would-be magician and actor specializing in rapid costume changes made for him a series of costumes of both animal and human form that could be stored in a hidden chamber behind the bookcases in the great hall. Ogre soon learned how to create a cloud of smoke, move into the chamber and emerge in a different form. Eventually they created a small hole in the bottom of the bookcase so that Ogre could disappear into the chamber, put on a mouse hand-puppet, and while sticking his hand through the whole making people thing he had transformed himself into a mouse. Soon references to the Ogre became widespread and fantastic tales about his shape-changing abilities became common throughout the region. When the Ogre was about 35 his mother died, a few years later his father also died, as did his faithful tutor. He was left alone in the family castle. As the rumors magnified the isolation increased and soon he was living in solitude. I was summoned to the gate one day to meet a visitor. She was a young woman with long silky hair wearing a beautiful pair of boots and a cat’s mask. She told me that she was with a traveling troupe of actors who wanted to learn from the Ogre’s shape-changing abilities. As was usual, after I brought her in and introduced them I pretended to take my leave but, instead, hid behind the arras just inside the door. There I remained as a witness to the horrible events that were to transpire. In a puff of smoke, the Ogre made himself into a roaring lion. Pretending to be scared she sweetly asked him if he could make himself smaller. Soon the lion was gone and a small mouse emerged from a hole along the wall. The evil Puss pulled out a sword and slashed at the mouse which rolled on the floor as if dead. I rushed out to open the hidden door and check on my master only to find that it was locked or jammed. Stunned by the fact that his hand had been cut off, Ogre had collapsed and soon bled to death. There was nothing more that could be done for him. Puss in Boots claimed the castle for her master and turned it over to him.
Is this truly the factual account about the Ogre? Come to Fanny Howell Saturday August 9 at 7:30 or Sunday August 10 at 2:00 and see Village Square Theatre’s production of ‘Puss in Boots’ and draw your own conclusions on the Ogre. They guarantee it is not as grisly as it sounds in this letter.

A benefit is being planned on Saturday, August 30th from 8:00 to 4:00 at the Lake City Community Building for Jared Mohr, who was in an accident back on February 24th, where he lost his leg. Mohr was in the hospital for several weeks and has continuing rehab. All the proceeds will help Jared pay for his medical bills from the accident.
It starts off with a Dad’s Belgium Waffles breakfast being served from 8 a.m. – Noon, Auction at 1:00 p.m. with a John Deere Gator being raffled off following the auction. Raffle tickets are $10 and will be available for purchase at Wilkins Napa, Lake City Hardware & Gifts and Heritage Computers. Any outside tickets or donations can be handled by Mischelle Hardy 515-290-0983 or Joey & Steph Mohr 712-662-3244.
Also, join them later for a hog roast at Pugs in Lohrville. Entertainment will be provided. Free will donation.