Monthly Archives: May 2019

Hackert conquers the Special Olympics one step at a time

Acea Hackert, 15-year-old son of Jamie and Cindy Hackert of Lynnville, joined nearly 3,000 other athletes at the Special Olympics Games at Iowa State University in Ames on Friday, May 24.

                Friday marked Acea’s second trip to the Special Olympics, and his parents had one goal for him. Simply put, they wanted him...

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Large crowd at rainy pancake breakfast on Memorial Day

Even though the rain was falling again, a large crowd attended the freewill donation annual Sully Christian Reformed Church Cadets pancake breakfast on Memorial Day morning at Sully Christian School. Of course, the conversations around the tables were about the weather and farming. During the past two weeks, over 10 inches of rain has fallen in the...

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Support the Agan family on Saturday, June 1

The community is invited to support Alison Agan and her three young sons at the Agan Benefit on Saturday, June 1, at Sully Community Church starting at 5 p.m.

The Agan family, clockwise from left, in a picture taken during the 2018 holiday season: Kyler, Shelby, Alison,...
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Where’s the apron?

APRON GIVEAWAY: Please send us a picture of your favorite apron and/or apron story and you could win an apron yourself! Share by emailing press@netins.net and put apron in the subject line. Submissions must be emailed by June 5. One entry will be drawn at random and the winner will be announced in the June 13 Hometown...

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L-S softball falls to 4A Pella in otherwise successful opening week

The Lynnville-Sully softball team got off to a hot start in the opening week of the season. The girls won four of their five games, with their only loss coming to Class 4A Pella during a home tournament on Saturday.

                “Our focus this week was just finding ways to win,” said L-S Coach...

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L-S baseball drops conference matchups versus NM, HLV

Three games into the 2019 season, Lynnville-Sully’s baseball team is still searching for its first win.

                After suffering a 6-1 loss in the season opener against Montezuma on Monday, May 20, the Hawks fin-ished the week with two more losses at the hands of SICL Confer-ence teams.

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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers May 30, 2019

The rain is still giving me grief. My yard has six inches of water sitting on it. I don’t know when I will be able to get my mower on it. Maybe in a month or two. I sloshed my push mower through it a couple weeks ago. It was a great job. I had so...

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