Yearly Archives: 2019

Former L-S players reunite on hardwood for community games

Playing the game they love for a good cause drew 25 Lynnville-Sully alums to the L-S High School gym on Saturday, Mar. 2. There, former Hawk basketball players battled it out on the court in the annual L-S Men’s Community Basketball Games to raise money for the high school basketball program. Players ranged in age from last year’s grads...

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Winter Sports Salute

GIRLS BASKETBALL

The Lynnville-Sully basketball girls carried on their long-standing tradition of success on the hardwood with an 18-4 record during the 2018-19 season. That included a conference runner-up finish, a title L-S Head Coach Jerry Hulsing noted as “a big accomplishment.” Another achievement included beating conference rival North Mahaska twice.

Arkema earns seventh, Mintle eighth at Super PeeWee State Wrestling

Little Hawk wrestlers Hudson Arkema, Cole Mintle, and Jaxson Merten all competed at the Iowa AAU Super PeeWee State Wrestling Meet held at Young Arena in Waterloo this past weekend. The tournament is open to kindergarten through second graders in the state of Iowa. 

                Arkema got things started right on Saturday by...

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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers Mar. 7, 2019

                I can take a joke as well as the next guy but this weather is wearing me down.

                I’m writing this article at 11:45 p.m. on Monday night. Margaret wants it up to her office no later than 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning. I rarely make it up there before the...

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Ruth Ver Woert, 94

                Funeral services were held Monday, Mar. 4, at 1:30 p.m. at Garden Chapel Funeral Home in Pella for Ruth Ver Woert, 94, who died Feb. 25, 2019, in Pella. Memorials have been designated for Wesley Life and Crossroads of Pella.

                Ruth Virginia Ver Woert was adopted as a young child after Robert...

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Brooklyn Harper

                Travis and Karissa Chapman of Sully are the parents of a daughter, Brooklyn Harper, born Feb. 25, 2019, at 5:01 a.m. She weighed 6 pounds 13 ounces and measured 19-1/2 inches long. She was welcomed by her brother, Aiden, 6.

                Grandparents are Steve and Rita Vos of Lynnville and Glen and Terri...

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Squires remembered at Iowa AAU State Wrestling Tourney

The L-S Little Hawk Wrestling Club and hundreds in attendance at the Iowa AAU State Wrestling Tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines observed a special moment of silence on Saturday, Feb. 23, for Steve Squires, the beloved coach, youth leader, and community member who passed away after a courageous battle with cancer.