Yearly Archives: 2023

Nine Hawks named to SICL All-Conference teams 

Nine Hawks named to SICL All-Conference teams 
The South Iowa Cedar League has released All-Conference selections for the 2022-23 season. Five Lynnville-Sully boys varsity players and four girls varsity  players were honored. L-S Head Boys Basketball Coach Nick Harthoorn was named SICL Coach of the Year. First team all-conference honors on the boys’ side went to senior Conner Maston and junior Klayton Van...
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The DeeZee Spirit By Darrell Zegers, March 2, 2023

I had no idea I would live to be a geezer. I have arrived at that age. The one good thing I thought I would be done with was visits with highway patrolmen. I got a ticket recently and found out they will write tickets to old, awful drivers like me! When I got pulled over, I...
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   Ellowyn Marie

Joe and Krista Blom of Wauwatosa, WI, are the parents of a daughter, Ellowyn Marie, born Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, at 6:32 a.m. She weighed 8 pounds. Her brother is J.J., age 2 1/2. Grandparents are Loren and Shawna Fopma of Pella and Mike and Luann Blom of Pella. Great-grandparents are Delores Van Rees, Loren Vander Wilt,...
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Joel Vander Molen: 38 years of life as a quadriplegic

Joel Vander Molen: 38 years of life as a quadriplegic
Vander Molen preaches in Georgetown, IN, for a friend on Oct. 7, 2018.    By Margaret Vander Weerdt Thirty-eight years ago, on Feb. 20, the life of Joel Vander Molen (now age 41 and living in Pella) and his family changed forever. (His mom Julie grew up in Sully as one of five children of Henrietta Laverman now...
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Church youth groups unite to donate nearly 2,000 pounds of food to local food pantry

Church youth groups unite to donate nearly 2,000 pounds of food to local food pantry
 High school youth group members from Sully Christian Reformed Church, Sully First Reformed Church, and Sully Community Church gathered at Sully Christian School on Wednesday, Feb. 15, to organize 1,720 pounds of donated food collected for a local food pantry.   The high school youth groups of Sully Christian Reformed Church, Sully First Reformed Church, and Sully...
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‘Farm to Table’ by Julie Van Manen

‘Farm to Table’ by Julie Van Manen
  [caption id="attachment_7076636" align="alignleft" width="360"] Karter, our grandson, was a big helper on transport day for cattle leaving the farm and calves arriving. He is shown with his dad, Jacob, in front of the semi on what turned out to thankfully be a warm winter day so he could assist and...
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L-S School Board awards $950,770 parking lot project to TK Concrete of Pella

Lynnville-Sully School Board of Directors held its regular meeting in the Lynnville-Sully High School Library on Monday, Feb. 20, at 6:30 p.m. A public hearing was held seeking public input on the high school parking lot project. No one spoke and the public hearing adjourned. Later in the meeting, the highlight included approval of Pella...
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