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Football camps prep athletes for upcoming season

Football camps prep athletes for upcoming season
Lynnville-Sully football teams kicked off the 2016 season by putting their nose to the grindstone and giving it their all during football camp the first week in August. L-S Head Football Coach Mike Parkinson held the annual three-day youth football camp for students in grades first through eighth, Aug. 2-4. Over 60 youth football players, mainly...
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Press INKlings: Tell your grandchildren stories often

Local schools host grandparents day. Sometimes the highlight of the event is when the students "interview" their grandparents on what school was like for them at their grandchild’s age or a story about the grandchild’s parents. The anecdotes shared by the grandparents never fail to dazzle and often downright befuddle the rapt grandchildren. There’s no need...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers – 8/11/16

I remember a lot of odd things used to happen around mealtime and still do. I remember very well the kitchen in my parents’ home where I grew up. There was a table in the middle of the kitchen with a very slick surface. If no one was home, when I was a teenager, I would...
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Elizabeth Leah

Gwyn and Jake Ferguson of Norwalk are the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth Leah, born at 11:01 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. She weighed 8 pounds 12 ounces and measured 20 inches long. Her proud big brothers are David (4) and Isaac (2). Grandparents are Leon and Margaret Vander Weerdt of Sully and Joe and...
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Zimmerman injured at motocross event

Daniel Zimmerman, 20, of Galesburg was injured in a motocross race on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 7, at the Oak Ridge Track in Garwin. Zimmerman was life-flighted to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. He is currently in stable condition and recuperating at Mercy. Thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated by the family....
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Abigail A. Bohstedt, 25

Abigail Anne Bohstedt, 25, of Highland, IN, and formerly of Grinnell, was killed in a multi-vehicular traffic accident on Monday, Aug. 1, 2016, near Ottawa, IL. Her fiancé, Darrell Scott, Jr., was killed in the same accident; they were to be married Nov. 12. A funeral service was held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6,...
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Hay wins graduate student weed science competition

Marshall Hay, 24, agronomy graduate student at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, was the overall winner of the graduate students weed science competition July 28 held at Purdue University in Indiana. Eight universities were represented at the competition. Hay also was the top individual in the farmer problem competition. His team was the top team...
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