Volunteers heeded the call for help and showed up with tools in hand Friday, May 29, to help install the new playground equipment in the Sully Central Park. Approximately 20 people, the majority volunteers, provided the manpower needed to construct the ADA-approved playground under the direction of a project supervisor from Boland Recreation.
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Vos represents PC at state golf tourney
Local Lynnville resident and Pella Christian senior, Autumn Vos, wrote her name in the school’s record books by becoming the first golfer from Pella Christian to advance to the state golf tournament. Vos earned the honor by carding an 85 on the 18-hole course during the Region 2 final at Crestwood Hills Golf Course in...
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Coffee Cup Café expanding with additional location in Pella
The Coffee Cup Café of Sully, owned by Darin and Robin Morvant, will soon be opening an additional location in Pella.
The Morvant family has purchased the restaurant at 313 E. Oskaloosa Street, most recently Pella Family Restaurant and prior to that, home to Pizza Hut.
Tentatively, they plan to open the Pella location in mid-June, depending...
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Part 2: Walter Sylvester reports on Cambodia – Life on the Growing Edge
Walter Sylvester of Lynnville took an extended mission trip to Southeast Asia, including Cambodia and Thailand, Apr. 27-May 11. He visited a number of missionaries in the area and did a few tourist things also. “I hope to share with you a few experiences and maybe stretch your thought patterns with some of my observations,”...
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Pastor’s Pen – 5/28/15
By Pastor Wayne Sneller, Sully First Reformed Church
“Therefore, I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body so that I myself will not be disqualified,” 1 Corinthians 9:26-27.
Recently, I was the discus official at a Lynnville-Sully High School...
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German student makes transition from city to farm life
When David Bastuck signed up to be an exchange student to the U.S., he had no clue he’d be placed in the Midwest.
“I kind of expected to go to somewhere by the ocean or down in like California where it’s warm,” he said. That’s where he had visited when he came to the U.S. a...
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Norwegian student says year was ‘better than I could have ever hoped for’
From the western-most city in Norway on the island of Florelandet to the middle of land-locked Iowa, Amalie Bortne made quite the move when she came to the U.S. for her foreign exchange experience.
While in the U.S., Amalie (pronounced uh-mall-ee-uh) has been living with empty nesters Marlo and Ruth Jansen on the edge of Sully....
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