The fight to find a cure for HLH – Hemophagocytic LymphoHistiocytosis – continues for the Hoogeveen family in honor of their daughter, sister, granddaughter, and friend, Megan, who succumbed to the horrific disease five years ago. Mike Hoogeveen and his son, Benjamin, traveled to Cincinnati, OH, for the seventh Annual HLH Conference held at the...
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Inspirations receives four-star rating, new playground
Currently, there are only three childcare centers in Jasper County that hold a four-star rating on the Iowa Department of Human Services Quality Rating Scale (QRS), and Inspirations Childcare and Preschool Center of Sully can proudly say they are one of them.
The center recently learned its rating in the voluntary childcare rating system is now...
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A Hawk homecoming of heroic proportions
Lynnville-Sully’s 2016 homecoming celebration, held Oct. 3-8, was a memorable one full of superheroes, Hawk pride, and thrilling finishes. L-S staff and students embraced the super- hero theme and enjoyed a fun-filled week of dress-up days, class competitions, and more. Thursday night, coronation activities drew a crowd and delighted those in attendance with class skits,...
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L-S soils team advances to state
By Brett Vanden Hoek
Four high school students – juniors Mariah Vos and McKinley Conover and sophomores Tessa Van Maanen and Caitlyn Bartholomew – represented Lynnville-Sully and the L-S FFA Chapter very well at the FFA District Soils Contest on Tuesday, Sept. 27, in Knoxville. The team came home with a third-place finish out of 29 participating...
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Reaching the unreached in Vietnam
Fueled by a fervent desire to “reach the unreached,” 2013 Lynnville-Sully alum Cale Van Wyk spent a good portion of his summer in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Van Wyk, the son of Kevin and Julie Van Wyk of Sully, is currently a senior at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) and went on this...
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New wrestling room in the making
Work on the new wrestling room has officially begun. Although the high school wrestling program numbers have held steady between 15 to 20 over the last couple of years, the elementary program is consistently bringing in more numbers every year. These higher numbers showed a need for a bigger and updated wrestling room.
“I think a...
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Hawk VB goes 3-0 against two SICL teams
English Valleys
By Allison Renaud
L-S Newspaper II Class
The Hawk volleyball team picked up a conference win by beating English Valleys on Thursday, Sept. 29. The team went 3-0 for the first time this season with scores of 25-13, 25-13, and 25-21, and the girls are now 9-6 on the season.
The Hawks were 94 percent from the...
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