Monthly Archives: May 2015

Ehresman named new DTFC manager

Tashia Ehresman, of Sully, has recently been hired as the new Diamond Trail Fitness Center Manager. Ehresman replaces ChyAnne Huyser, who had been with DTFC for seven years before her husband’s job relocated them out of state. Ehresman, born and raised in Grinnell, graduated from Grinnell High School and then Cornell College with majors in...
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2.86 percent total package increase approved for L-S administration, support staff

The Lynnville-Sully School Board of Directors met Monday, May 18, at 7 p.m. in the Lynnville-Sully High School Library. Highlights of the meeting included approving for administration and support staff the same 2.86 percent total package increase the teachers received at last month's meeting, numerous resignations, transfers, and new contracts, as well as much discussion...
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Walter Sylvester reports on Cambodia – Life on the Growing Edge

Walter Sylvester reports on Cambodia – Life on the Growing Edge
Walter Sylvester of Lynnville took an extended mission trip to Southeast Asia, including Cambodia and Thailand, Apr. 27-May 11. He visited a number of missionaries in the area and did a few tourist things also. “I hope to share with you a few experiences and maybe stretch your thought patterns with some of my observations,”...
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Pastor’s Pen: War on the Word

By Pastor Tim Morgan, Kellogg-Pleasant View United Methodist Churches We are, perhaps, only weeks away from the most cataclysmic turning point in American history. Our government – ours because it is of the people, by the people, and for the people – is poised to declare itself in open and deliberate rebellion against God. The United...
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Vos spends academically-rigorous semester in England

Vos spends academically-rigorous semester in England
It’s fitting that Justin Vos recently spent a semester abroad at the University of Oxford in England. As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, the school is the perfect place for someone who loves history. From January through April, Vos, a history and political science major, was a visiting student at Oxford as part of...
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L-S recognizes leaders during School Board Recognition Month

By Shane Ehresman, L-S Superintendent The Lynnville-Sully Community School District has joined school systems throughout the state to salute their local education leaders during Iowa’s annual School Board Member Recognition Month in May. We salute these public servants of the Lynnville-Sully School, whose commitment and civic responsibility make local control of public schools in our community possible:...
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