Category Archives: Opinion

May, the month for memories and moms, is almost over. The memories are the ones created at graduations and also those remembered on Memorial Day. May also brings warmer weather, longer days, and a lot of motorcycles. When I hear a motorcycle ride by, I’m happy because that means warmer weather is here. Even when...

Facebook has become very popular in a lot of homes and can be found on smart phones, which I don’t carry for obvious reasons (NOT SMART). My daughters got me going on Facebook a few years ago when I was house-bound recuperating from back surgery. I got in quite a bit of trouble at first because I...

35 years ago (1979) Don Jansen, Lynnville-Sully School Board President, presented diplomas to the 61 Lynnville-Sully graduates. Class officers were Lori Zylstra, president; Susan Zylstra, vice president; and Judith Hoksbergen, secretary-treasurer. Hoksbergen was class valedictorian. Jody Jay was named salutatorian. A ladies banquet was held at St. Andrews Church. Kathy Rankin opened the evening with devotions.  There...

I will never forget my visit to our nation’s capital several years ago. Among the many places I visited was the Arlington National Cemetery. The Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was a moving experience. Now, Arlington National Cemetery with row after row after row of alabaster headstones endlessly arrayed...

Margaret is probably right thinking I’m a hopeless geezer that can’t even remember what he wrote sometime before. I always have a couple people read the article to see how many mistakes I made. They must have missed it. Margaret will probably fire me, and I will fire my readers, and we will all go...

35 years ago (1979) The Lynnville Development Corporation shareholders started construction on the new restaurant in Lynnville. The building was north of the Lynnville City Hall and Library building. Van Weelden Construction of Pella erected the steel building which had a brick front. Willa Mae Vos of Lynnville leased the restaurant under the name Willie’s Diner. Jody...

Congratulations 2014 graduates! Graduation is always a time of mixed feelings marking an important educational milestone. Students are excited, and so are their parents who have worried with them, laughed with them, and maybe even cried with them. To let them go means another chapter has come to a close all too quickly. The excitement for...