is a seasonal display of antique holiday animation, housed in a former Victorian library. The Buena Vista County Historical Society operates a museum. King's Pointe is a 100-room community-owned tourism resort located on the lakefront, with waterparks, banquet facilities and a restaurant. A concert bandshell is located in Sunset Park. Parks and recreation The city operates Sunrise Pointe, a 9-hole golf course. The city has are five beach areas, and a recreation trail linking them. Education The Storm Lake Community School District operates five local public schools, including a high school, a middle school, and an elementary school. As of the 2020-21 school year, the Storm Lake Community School District served 2,841 students. St. Mary's Catholic Church operates a private K-12 school system, St. Mary's High School. Buena Vista University is located in Storm Lake. As of 2022, the university has 1,982 students on a campus within Storm Lake. The city hosts a satellite campus for Iowa Central Community College, including an industrial training center established in 2021. Media The community has a twice-weekly newspaper, the Storm Lake Times Pilot, which merged with the Pilot-Tribune in 2022. KAYL/KKIA radio serves the community, as well as a university radio station, KBVU. A Spanish-language newspaper also covers the area. Infrastructure Emergency services The Storm Lake Police Department provides law enforcement services to the city. The department employes 21 sworn officers, and two community services officer. Health care Storm Lake is served by Buena Vista Regional Medical Center, a 54-bed critical access hospital, and United Community Health Center. Notable people Nate Bjorkgren, basketball coach Skip Carnine (born 1941), retired educator and Storm Lake native; Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Rogers Art Cullen, editor of the Storm Lake Times, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Janet Dailey, romance novelist Joe Decker (1947–2003), MLB player George B. French, actor Edmund B. Gregory, Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army Julie Gutz (born 1926), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player Gene Hackman, Oscar-winning actor resided here in 1945; reference Storm Lake "Breeze" yearbook 1945, 10th grade Winton Hoch, Oscar-winning cinematographer Marjorie Holmes (1910–2002), author of hundreds of magazine articles and several novels, most notably Two From Galilee Frederic O. MacCartney (1864-1903), Massachusetts socialist politician, graduate of Storm Lake High School Reno H. Sales (1876–1969), Chief Geologist of Anaconda Corporation, "father of mining geology" References External links Cities in Buena Vista County,