Monthly Archives: June 2014

Danish girl heads home with nine months of memories, learned life lessons

Danish girl heads home with nine months of memories, learned life lessons
Nine months ago, Marlo and Ruth Jansen were practically strangers to Line Rossen Ascanius. Now, the Jansens are a second family to 16-year-old Line, a foreign exchange student from Denmark. Line (pronounced Lee-nuh) has spent the school year living with the Jansens in their home on the edge of Sully. And in that time, one of...
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Finnish student learns more about himself through exchange experience

Finnish student learns more about himself through exchange experience
When Lauri “Fin” Ryyppoe was on the other side of his foreign exchange student experience last summer, he was told that the year ahead would be “life-altering.” After living in the United States for about nine months, Fin can’t help but agree with that statement. “You really grow as a person,” he said. Nicknamed Fin after his...
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Remember When – 6/5/14

35 years ago (1979) Linda Gifford, Jasper County Auditor, announced that the Board of Supervisors placed the proposed county zoning maps around the county. Public hearings were to be held on the proposed county zoning plan. The Lynnville-Sully boys baseball team downed Pella Christian 4-0. Jad Van Der Zyl and Kent Baarda each had a triple and...
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21-day salute: Flag Day through the Fourth

The way the calendar is this year, Flag Day and Father’s Day are a day apart so I’m sharing Flag Day information early this year. Flag Day, June 14, begins a significant 21-day period extending through the Fourth of July which presents an opportunity for every American to assess what he or she is doing to...
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Steve Fritz, 66

Steven Lehrl Fritz was born Mar. 19, 1948, to Lehrl and Lucile Hays Fritz. He grew up on a farm near Lynnville and attended Grinnell High School. After graduating, he attended Simpson College in Indianola where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and sang tenor in the Simpson College Madrigal. Following graduation,...
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Geraldine L. Allison, 80

Geraldine Allison, 80, formerly of the Lynnville and Newton areas, passed away Saturday morning, May 31, 2014, at Mayflower Health Care in Grinnell, under the care of Hospice. Private family services will be at a later date. The Pence~Reese Funeral Home in Newton has been entrusted with the arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorials in Geraldine’s...
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William D. Sylvester, 84

William Donald Sylvester, 84, of Poughkeepsie, NY, went home to be with Jesus on May 26, 2014, surrounded by his family. He is survived by Bertha, his wife of more than 60 years; his four children, seven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, brothers Walter Sylvester of Lynnville and Howard and Richard of California, sister Rosa of Cedar...
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