Month: February 2019

Brialle Koerselman chooses Northwestern College

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Boyden-Hull girls’ golf standout, Brialle Koerselman, has signed a letter of intent to continue her golf career at Northwestern College next fall. Koerselman, who will be entering her senior season for the Comets this spring, has played...

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Comets outlast Warriors 49-44

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Sioux Center 15-10-7-12  44 Boyden-Hull 13-16-6-14  49 HULL-Beating a team for the third time in a season is never an easy task. That proved to be the case for Class 2A fifth-ranked Boyden-Hull against Sioux Center in the Class 2A District...

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Van’t Hul and Kooi prepare for Shrine Bowl

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley and Western Christian football standouts, J.T. Van’t Hul and Carter Kooi, were recently selected to the 2019 Shrine Bowl to be played July 20, and both players are honored to have been given the opportunity to play...

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Season ends at the hands of the Mustangs

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Trinity Christian 9-14-15-6  44 George-Little Rock 25-21-21-8  75 GEORGE-Trinity Christian came into its Class 1A District 2 boys’ basketball tournament game with third-ranked George-Little Rock playing its best defense of the season, but...

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Dean Schmith

Dean Schmith 78 Boyden, Iowa February 19, 2019 Dean Schmith, 78, of Boyden, Iowa, died Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, at Sanford Hospital, Sheldon, Iowa. Funeral service was Saturday, Feb. 23, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, rural Hull, Iowa with Rev. Aaron Deutsh officiating....

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Leora Koele

Leora Koele 96 Sanborn, Iowa February 4, 2019 Leora Jean Koele, 96, of Sanborn, Iowa, died Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, at Prairie View Retirement Home, Sanborn. Services were Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Vander Ploeg Funeral Home, Sheldon, Iowa, with interment in East Lawn...

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Wilhelmina Kraayenbrink

Wilhelmina Kraayenbrink 92 Hull, Iowa February 11, 2019 Wilhelmina Henrietta Kraayenbrink, 92, of Hull, Iowa, passed away Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, at Pleasant Acres Care Center, Hull. Memorial services were Tuesday, Feb. 19, at First Reformed Church, Hull, with...

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Angela DeRuyter

Angela DeRuyter 34 Tea, South Dakota February 21, 2019 Angela DeRuyter, 34, of Tea, South Dakota, passed away from injuries she received in a traffic accident Thursday, Feb., 21, 2019. Memorial services were Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Tea. With...

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Author Pals to speak about growing up in Hull

Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Pete Pals never intended to write a book. But somehow the Orange City man’s collection of stories about growing up in Hull ended up published and for sale on Amazon. “Memories of Growing up in Hull, Iowa: the 1940’s and 1950’s” is a...

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Ven Huizen composes piece for junior high band festival

June De Wit | Staff Writer Getting into the spirit of Western Christian’s 100th anniversary, Lyle Van Ravenswaay, the school’s instrumental instructor, commissioned Jacob Ven Huizen, a local composer, to create a piece in honor of the anniversary. The commissioned...

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2019 Iowa Beef Expo held

June De Wit |Staff Writer The 2019 Iowa Beef Expo Livestock Judging Contest is a week-long event that was Saturday, Feb. 9 to Sunday, Feb. 17. Showing their beef livestock is one of the activities Riley and Reagan Jansen of Hull enjoy doing. They showed Friday through...

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New plant proposed for former Bison Energy site

Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer The former Bison Renewable Energy site, located south of Perkins, is the proposed location for ReadiFuels-Iowa, a $58.7 million plant that would produce approximately 34 million gallons of renewable diesel and renewable naphtha annually....

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Boyden-Hull to host presentation on teen vaping

Boyden-Hull Community School is partnering with the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office and Sioux County Community Health Partners to host a community- and area-wide informational presentation on the dangers of vaping on a teen’s developing brain and body. Teri Bos, RN, BSN...

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Packing for Sack Pack

Many hands make quick work at a Sack Pack packing event Thursday, Feb. 21. The Lincoln Loggers 4-H Club got together and packed two weeks’ worth of sacks for the Sack Pack program. The sack pack program supplements food for kids who probably don’t have food to eat...

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Pizza & Policy to feature King challenger

Sioux County Conservatives will host Woodbury County Supervisor Jeremy Taylor at Pizza & Policy at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28 at Sioux Center Pizza Hut. Taylor is running for U.S. House of Representatives in Iowa’s Fourth Congressional District. The seat is...

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Rozeboom gains experience, ends season in Des Moines

Jessica Jensen | Managing Editor DES MOINES-Jaxson Rozeboom might not have been considered by many to be in contention for a state wrestling tournament berth at the beginning of the season, but by the end of the district tournament the freshman grappler for...

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Mulder wrestles his way to the championship match

Jessica Jensen | Managing Editor DES MOINES-First-time high school wrestling state-qualifier, Tristan Mulder, and Western Christian wrestling head coach, Pete Di Pol, in his first year at the helm of the Wolfpack program, had several goals in mind when they made the...

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Boyden-Hull holds off South O’Brien for postseason victory

Jason Hommes | Staff Writer Boyden-Hull 9  11  10 13 43 South O’Brien 9  11  8   14 42 PAULLINA-Boyden-Hull was on the road Wednesday night, Feb. 13, to battle the South O’Brien Wolverines in the second round of the Class 2A Region 1 tournament, and the Comets...

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Comets ‘take care of business’ over Sibley-Ocheyedan

Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Sibley-Ocheyedan 10-10-20-13  53 Boyden-Hull 18-13-18-19  68 HULL-Sibley-Ocheyedan gave Class 2A fifth-ranked Boyden-Hull a run in the third quarter during Class 2A District 1 boys’ basketball tournament action Thursday, Feb. 15, but the...

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