“Appreciate your Christian training to prepare you for the work God has planned for you to do as a citizen of God’s Kingdom.” A member of Pella Christian High School’s first graduating class, the Class of 1941, recently gave this piece of advice to today’s students. Constituents of the Pella Christian High School (PCHS) community...
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Sully Ambulance and Fire Dept. Emergency Topics for You
If I were to say things are getting busier as the weather gets warmer, that would be a huge understatement. The farmers are very busy getting to the field, especially putting on anhydrous, which brings a lot of safety concerns of its own. The school kids and school officials are busy finishing up the school...
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Remember When – 4/9/15
35 years ago (1980)
Lynnville Volunteer Fire Department Chief Gary Tice displayed the air masks the department received through donations from Elsie and Lucile Sparks and the LSK Jaycees.
Ardena Nelson, Lynnville-Sully business education teacher, retired after serving the L-S School since 1959.
In response to the grain embargo of suspension of grain sales to the USSR, 52...
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When’s the last time you wrote a letter?
April is National Letter-Writing Month, which was created to encourage us to send letters, postcards, and cards in April. That means a real letter, written on paper, placed in an envelope, and mailed, not an email, tweet, or instant message. Of course, if everyone in the world who can read and write were to do...
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Local flight instructor Kendall Arkema receives Airline Transport Pilot Certificate
Kendall Arkema was awarded an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate after passing a checkride with an FAA designated pilot examine on Mar. 30.
Arkema is a pilot and flight instructor with Classic Aviation, the operator at the Pella Municipal Airport. He flies and trains pilots in a wide variety of aircraft, including vintage taildraggers and technologically-advanced jet...
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Sully Fire Department fire calls reported
Mar. 31 at 3:30 p.m., 11267 S, 60th Avenue E., Sully, for a grass fire, assisted by Lynnville Fire Department.
Apr. 2 at 6:05 p.m., the intersection of South 52nd Avenue and East 92nd Street, Newton, to assist the Kellogg Fire Department at a car accident; Newton ambulance also assisted.
Apr. 4 at 4:20 p.m., 9658 Hwy....
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Robert M. Slegh, 87
Robert M. Slegh, 87 of Prairie City, passed away on Thursday, Apr. 2, 2015, at Park Centre in Newton. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Apr. 7, at 2 p.m. at Coburn Funeral Home in Prairie City. Burial was at Waveland Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Park Centre Activity Department.
The...
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