By Pastor Tim Morgan; Kellogg – Pleasant View United Methodist Churches
I have always tended to approach the Christmas season with mixed feelings. Certainly, it is a time of year that has many good and pleasant qualities. We outdo ourselves to make our surroundings extra beautiful for all those we share them with. We take more...
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Heart of Worship addition in progress
An addition project at the Lynnville Heart of Worship is in full swing on the west edge of Lynnville with work being done by the Key Cooperative Lumber Department. The addition looking east is pictured with the progress, slowed some by the recent rain, as of Monday, Dec. 14. Earth Works Inc. did the excavation...
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Students sing in Christmas season
Students in third through fifth grade ushered in the Christmas season with a winter concert performance on Thursday, Dec. 10. It may not have looked or felt like Christmas outside given the unseasonably warm temperature, but holiday spirit was high inside the high school gym.
The fifth-grade band opened up the concert, in their first performance...
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Grassley’s statement on Terry Branstad as the longest-serving governor in U.S. history
The Sully City Council met in regular session at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 14, in the council chambers at the Sully Community Center. Council members present were mayor Brent Vander Molen, city clerk Barbra Maasdam, public works director Shaun Needham, councilmembers Chad Fikse, Brad Rozendaal, Diane Vos, Darin Morvant, and Jeff Brummel as well...
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Remember When – 12/17/15
35 years ago (1980)
Work continued on the two million dollar switching station Iowa Southern Utilities Co. was building northwest of Montezuma. The facility was the termination point for a 345,000-volt line running from the Ottumwa Generation Station near Chillicothe.
Kruseman Fertilizer’s Ag Chemical Sale had Lasso for $14.38 a gallon, Counter for $1 a pound, Treflan...
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Press INKlings: Can you picture Santa with a frown?
Wouldn’t you think by now that the fat man in the funny red suit would realize he no longer fits with today’s world? By modern standards, he’s just way out of date.
In our modern age, he still runs around in an antiquated sleigh. And that “Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas!” is the same old corny...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers – 12/17/15
This has been a strange winter so far.
We have hardly seen below freezing, which is good because I have a couple of cars that have 20- degrees-above-zero antifreeze. One of the things I’m always going to take care of tomorrow, but just have not been able to have time, is to put in more antifreeze....
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