Every other week, “The Wooden Spoon” kitchen feature occupies this newspaper space. This week’s featured cook, Kyra Smith, was lucky enough to have a one-on-one cooking lesson (albeit gone wrong) with the cooking genius behind the column.
“The Wooden Spoon Lady attempted to teach me how to cook something one evening,” said Kyra. “My only requirement...
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Ag Day promotes farm safety, awareness
Lynnville-Sully FFA’s annual Ag Day for L-S fifth graders was held Wednesday, May 3, in the school parking lot. The afternoon was all about informing and educating fifth graders about farm safety, new technology, and basic farm knowledge.
“Ag Day is a nice opportunity for our high school students to share their knowledge of agriculture with...
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The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin – 5-4-17
Let’s get right to it this week! No lollygagging. Now that I see that word spelled out, it's kind of a creepy word.
What's not creepy? This recipe.
What needs help? My segues.
Who has two thumbs and is currently stuffing her face with chips?
This girl!
Who is going to regret that?
This girl!
Okay. It's off to the races we...
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From the Kitchen: LeAnn Hjelmeland
This week’s featured cook is likely a familiar name, but not face, to many of our Hometown Press readers. LeAnn Hjelmeland is an integral part of our newspaper staff, working remotely from her home in southern Minnesota. LeAnn has been with the Hometown Press and Co-Line now for over five years. Three and half years...
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Mrs. Hite to retire after 41 years
Many students will always remember fond memories from elementary school. Whether it be the nap times younger students are graced with or the recess times allowed, students usually miss being in the elementary. More so, students usually miss their kind-hearted teachers. Most students who have been at L-S since kindergarten will fondly remember kindergarten teacher...
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The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin – 4/20/17
So usually anything that happens around here, I affectionately refer to as a "workplace incident," and, usually, there's only one or two every week. This doesn't include all of the things I forget, whether that be a workplace incident. or an appointment. or a parent- teacher conference. or what day of the week it is....
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers – 4/20/17
The past week has not been one of the best of my life. Many things have either stopped working or flew apart.
The first was my old hot-rod 1954 Ford. One day, it just started running awfully. I wasted days on the thing and even had a couple of hot-rod men with big brains over. They...
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