Category Archives: Opinion

To the Editor, May is National Foster Care Month, a time to raise awareness about teens and children in foster care and to celebrate the foster families and workers who make a difference in their lives. Iowa has an ongoing need for more foster homes, especially for teenagers, sibling groups, and children with special needs or...

35 years ago (1980) Bryce Van Der Kamp, Sully Cooperative Exchange Oil Department Manager, informed the public that all services were available again after the fire. Gas was being sold at the old station location. Service work was being done at the Sully Transport building. Kay Evans presented vocal music awards to Lynnville-Sully High School students. Soloists...

Besides being Friday tomorrow, National Chocolate Chip Day is celebrated on May 15, 2015. It's a day to celebrate the sweet and tasty small chunks of chocolate. Chocolate chips are a great invention and certainly deserve a little recognition. After all, where would chocolate chip cookies, cakes, and muffins be without the chocolate chip? Chocolate...

We are having some great weather. I need to mow today. I’m going to have to find my insulated coverall and a stocking cap. The weather makes me think of the people who tell us what weather we are going to get, “The Weather Man” or “The Weather Woman.” I could predict the oncoming weather better than...

May is Beef Month, and I’ve been receiving lots of interesting trivia about beef. The first “beef on the hoof” in the U.S. were Longhorns, brought into the southwest by the Spaniards in the early 1500s. Sioux County is the county with the most beef cattle in Iowa, where cattle are raised in all 99 counties....

By Sheryl Baarda “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living,” Psalm 27:13. On Jan. 27 of this year, my husband Craig and I had our world rocked to the core. Craig sat across from a doctor and heard the dreaded...

Today, Apr. 30, is National Honesty Day, which encourages us to be honest today and every day. Most people honestly try their best to be honest. Honesty is a great virtue. If we want people to believe us when it’s important, then we need to be open and honest all of the time. In order for...