I’ve mentioned before how great the golden years are. They suck. No one builds a home in my area. There is one major reason: ME. I have cars and motor cycles and I always get the urge to work on them around midnight after I have slept in my recliner for a few hours.
I bought...
Read more
Margaret Vande Krol, 96
Margaret R. (Huyser) Vande Krol, 96, formerly of Sully and recently of Pella where she had resided since 2019, passed away Wednes-day, May 31, 2023, at Hospice of Pella Comfort House. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Saturday, June 3, at Sully First Reformed Church. Interment followed in Sully Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be...
Read more
Judy Roose, 75
Judy R. (Weber) Roose passed away peacefully at her home in Peoria on May 28, 2023, at the age of 75. A Celebration of Life Service will be held Saturday, June 10, at 10:30 a.m. at The Lighthouse Church in New Sharon. Family will receive friends from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the church. A luncheon will...
Read more
Memorial Day dawns bright and beautiful for annual morning fly-in
Memorial Day was a beautiful day for about 20 small plane pilots to land at Sully Airport and walk over to Sully Christian School for the Cadets’ annual pancake breakfast. This red biplane was one in the long line of planes of a variety of ages and colors parked in Sully. The Cadets served approximately...
Read more
Lynnville-Sully’s partnership with SAFE Program delivers significant safety improvements
Lynnville-Sully’s student and school resource officer-led SAFE Program will be highlighted at the Iowa Governor’s Traffic Safety Conference this summer thanks to the role it played in significantly improving seatbelt use among L-S students over the course of the 2022-23 school year.
SAFE – Seatbelts Are For Everyone – is a student-led program for high schoolers...
Read more
Motocross racers ‘Pack the Track’ at Sully MX event
The Sully MX motocross track nestled between cornfields northeast of Sully was the place to be for two days of action-packed dirt bike racing in round two of Iowa’s AMA State Championship Series May 26-27. The Memorial Day weekend race drew a record-breaking number of entries, all of whom were fueled by a need for speed...
Read more
‘A Slice of Home’ by Simone Bates
What are you craving?
Recently, I started the final countdown to the blessed end of pregnancy and the blessed beginning of our family adding baby number two. I am so grateful for the absolute miracle growing within me, and I can’t wait for her to join us, but beyond her life, there is not much I...
Read more