Yearly Archives: 2023

Veenstra claims Pella Christian’s school record in shot put

Veenstra claims Pella Christian’s school record in shot put
Pella Christian junior Trevor Veenstra, son of Darrell and Angela Veenstra, can add another line to his impressive track and field resume – that of school record holder. The junior heaved a 57’-11” toss in the shot put at the second indoor meet of the season on Thursday, Mar. 23, to write his name in the...
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To Texas and back

To Texas and back
By Megan Pothoven We are back to Iowa winter weather after traveling for a week to Galveston, TX, with my parents and siblings. We had such a great time! We risked the 16-hour drive with two littles, and they surprisingly rode so well in the car. When we first arrived to our beachfront house in 80-degree...
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The DeeZee Spirit By Darrell Zegers, March 30, 2023

My job allowed me to meet an enormous number of people, men and women of all ages. I always wondered what gave people their personalities. Several were a pleasure to deal with. They were fairly smart and courteous and easy to deal with. They could tell in a minute that I was not smart. It gave them a...
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Kurt Jackson, 66

Kurt Michael Jackson, husband of Meri Ann (Ehler) Jackson, father of Amanda Nicole Jack-son and Sarah Marie Jackson; the son of Roy Weeks Jackson Jr. and Beverly Jo (Brown) Jackson, was born July 19, 1956, in Oklahoma City, OK. He graduated from Marshalltown Senior High School with the Class of 1974. He went on to...
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Sharon Rook-Wisse, 57

Sharon Deanna Rook-Wisse was born Apr. 23, 1965, to Roy and Shirley (Cutberth) Meeks in the Martin Army Community Hospital in Fort Benning, GA. She attended first grade in Florida, second and third grade in Mississippi, and was a 1983 graduate of Lynnville-Sully High School. Dec. 28, 1984, she married Larry Rook. To this union they...
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Sadie Kathleen

Devin and Sarah Holesinger of Sully are the parents of a daughter, Sadie Kathleen, born at 5:45 p.m., Saturday, Mar. 25, 2023. She weighed 8 pounds 1 ounce and measured 20 inches long. Her big sister is Bethany, age 2. Grandparents are Steve and Sharon Fopma of Lynnville, Bill Holesinger of Fulton, IL, and Donna Holesinger...
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Van Wyks deepen their roots with Dutch Letter Homestead

Van Wyks deepen their roots with Dutch Letter Homestead
For Roger and Rebecca Van Wyk, their vision for becoming winemakers and relocating to a homestead that would also be home to their winery, has always been a faith project and a deeply rooted family affair. Roger’s ancestors Willem Jans van Wijk and Trijntje van den Heuvel van Wijk immigrated in 1892 from The Netherlands to...
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