Monthly Archives: June 2020

PC Sports Shorts

ABOVE: Blake Veenstra gives Coach Marcus Van Zee, son of Doug and Elly Van Zee of Lynnville, an elbow as he rounds third after hitting a homerun against Pella SOFTBALL The PC softball team came out on top twice in a doubleheader against Pella High on Wednesday, June 17. PC won game one, 9-4, with help from...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers June 25, 2020

Nothing much is happening lately. I just got home from Grinnell. I happened to think of things that had happened out on the highway. I was 17 years old when I was driving a tandem rock truck. I had 15 tons of rock on when the front wheel broke off, and I went upside down...
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Mary Sommar, 90

Mass of Christian Burial for Mary E. Sommar, 90, and Paul Sommar, 97, will be Saturday, June 27, 2020, at 1 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Melcher-Dallas. Interment will be at the Sacred Heart Cemetery following the service. The service may also be viewed on the Pierschbacher Funeral Home Facebook page beginning at...
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Paul J. Sommar, 97

Paul Sommar, 97, of Melcher-Dallas, passed away at Knoxville Area Community Hospital on Apr. 14, 2020. A private family service was held Saturday, Apr. 18. Burial was at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Melcher-Dallas. Paul was born July 25, 1922, to Edward and Elizabeth (Ripperger) Sommar at the family farm east of Bauer. He was united in...
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Heart of Worship hosts June Easter event

An “Easter Egg Hunt” sign with an arrow directing vehicles with kids to Lynnville Old Settlers Park is not what you expect to see in June. However, due to COVID-19 postponing original plans slated for Apr. 11, Lynnville Heart of Worship held a modified Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, June 13. It’s also not often in June...

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Date set, beneficiary named for 2020’s Smoke on the Water

                Smoke on the Water (SOTW), the annual community benefit living up to its tagline of “Good People, Good Food, Good Cause,” will be held on Saturday, Aug. 29, at Lynnville’s Old Settlers Grounds. Top grillmasters from across the state will gather in Lynnville and put their top-secret recipes to the test on a quest to win...

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Local dancers celebrate on stage despite COVID-19 delay

ABOVE: Angie Ver Ploeg, on the far right, directs her younger dancers at their postponed recital on Thursday, June 11. The dance recitals were moved to Lynnville’s Old Settlers Pavilion after a nearly three-month delay due to COVID-19.

                A series of changes from start to finish made Angie Ver Ploeg’s...

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