Over spring break last week, a group of 13 junior high and high school students and six chaperones from Sully Community Church went to Kentucky. Their destinations: The Creation Museum and The Ark Encounter. The group left Sully early Wednesday morning, Mar. 15, arriving at their hotel around 5 p.m. After unwinding at the hotel...
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The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin: Pancakes
Hello, again, everyone!
As some of you know, I'm obsessed with two things: Pancakes and donuts. Making one at home is much easier than the other. Every Saturday, we feast on pancakes and whatever other breakfast food the littles request, but ALWAYS pancakes.
Usually, I make Pioneer Woman's Sour Cream Pancakes because they are a grand slam...
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Visiting warm climate is fabulous
A friend and I got away from the Iowa winter for a few days earlier this month, and Florida’s warm climate was simply fabulous. The warmth and sunshine were enjoyable. Even the one day the sunscreen didn’t completely work was okay too, as well as the chillier day we chose to visit a beach. We...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers
I have dealt with many so-called professional people in my life who were not what I would call professional.
At one time, my job description would have been a professional driver. What a joke!
I remember things about my driving I would not call professional. Ron Swank and I drove two old Detroit diesel-powered 18-wheelers owned and...
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L-S School Board meeting includes new principal, operational sharing with Montezuma
The Lynnville-Sully School Board met Monday, Mar. 20, at 7 p.m. in the high school library with board members Tim Dunsbergen, Tammy Vos, Jer Schnell, Gerry Van Dyke, and Steph Young present. Administrators Shane Wheeler, Teri Bowlin, and Shane Ehresman along with student ex-officio Skyler Young and school board secretary Karla DeCook were also in...
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Sweet Sully Memories
By Erika Veurink
For 20 years, I didn’t know the address of my Grandma’s farm.
I don’t think any of the cousins really did. We knew you drove to Sully, Iowa, and then turned at this mass of metal structures and then just when you thought you were there, turned right one more time. Its unknown coordinates...
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L-S names Wheeler new high school principal
The Lynnville-Sully Board of Education named Shane Wheeler, cur-rent 7-12 dean of students and technology di-rector, the new high school principal at the school board meeting on Monday, Mar. 20.
In 2015, L-S Superintendent Shane Ehresman started serving dual roles as superintendent and high school principal following the elimination of the principal position in an effort...
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