Dear Friends,
With media attention seemingly always on bad news, stock market, wars, mass killings, gender issues, lawsuits, and natural disasters, it seems as if the world has gone totally crazy, and we have no hope for tomorrow.
Indeed, as a grandfather of five and by the time this is published, number six, I wonder what kind...
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Hoksey Seeds helps create butterfly garden at Peoria school
Peoria Christian School is excited to announce the creation of a butterfly garden on the sledding hill at the school. Thanks to a local company, Hoksey Native Seeds of Lynnville (hokseynativeseeds.com), who has donated, planted, and cultivated about 1.5 acres of land into Iowa native prairie with a spike of plants desirable for monarch butterflies....
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Peoria Team wins Fourth of July softball tourney
Four slow-pitch softball teams battled it out on the ball diamond at the annual Fourth of July coed tournament held on Saturday, July 2, this year. Seven games later, the Peoria Team earned the title of tourney champ. Team members were Andrew Vander Hart, Matt Vander Hart, Spencer Fynaardt, Grant Fynaardt, Terry Fopma, Mark Van...
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L-S boys win final SICL game of the season
In their final SICL game of the season, the Lynnville-Sully varsity baseball team hosted the HLV Warriors on Wednesday, June 29. In their first meeting of the year, the Hawks defeated the Warriors, 10-7, and were looking to repeat. Last week, the L-S boys took an early 5-0 lead after two innings of play and...
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From the kitchen: Christy Diers
With no shortage of hot, humid, and sunny days this summer, Christy Diers and family can often be found at Lake Red Rock, enjoying one of their favorite pastimes: Boating. The Dierses recently introduced the newest member of their family, seven-month-old daughter Brianna, to the water.
“Brianna went out for her first time a couple of...
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Press INKlings: A break to renovate his horse?
Each week, we look over the pages of this newspaper and still a letter or comma are incorrect because there will never ever be a perfect newspaper. I’m used to that fact. How important is proofreading? It seems people usually don’t read what they send us for the newspaper, but we try to catch the...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers – 7-7-16
When I was younger, I thought as a person got older, they got smarter. Not in my case.
I spend at least one hour every day looking for a tool that is usually in my back pocket.
I’ve managed to raise the most hideous garden in four decades. There are plants out there producing something that looks...
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