Each year, Northwest District and Iowa FFA officers plan and facilitate Greenhand Fire-Up Conferences for FFA members in the northwest district. Recently, freshman FFA members from Western Christian attended four interactive workshops for first-year high school FFA...
June De Wit | Staff Writer Members of Boyden William Monster American Legion Post #272 is inviting high school students to participate in an oratorical contest this year as a way to obtain college scholarships. This is a speech contest in which students speak about...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer Teaching students about the power of prayer is the theme for chapel at Hull Christian School this year. During October, the school focused on praying for businesses in the community. Each month teachers and classes take turns leading the...
June De Wit |Staff Writer Roger and Carol Vis of Hull have become experts of a sort when it comes to growing potatoes, at least this year. They like the Kennebec seed potatoes the best, as they seem to grow and keep well. When Roger dug up the potatoes this fall,...
Jeanne Visser | Staff Writer “We want to continue serving the community as Hull continues to grow,” stated attorney Philip De Koster, an owner of De Koster & De Koster Law in Hull. To do that, he and his father, attorney John De Koster, decided their work place...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor SPIRIT LAKE-It was a wet and cold night for the Lakes Conference cross-country meet at Brooks Golf Course in Spirit Lake Monday, Oct. 8, but Western Christian did well enough to have three runners claim all-conference honors. The Wolfpack...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor SIBLEY-The Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley girls’ and boys’ cross-country teams have been led by Lizzy Blum, Madie Strubbe, Emily De Ruyter, Marco Lopez and Dayton Brunsting for much of the 2018 season. Those runners were rewarded with...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor ORANGE CITY - Trinity Christian knew the task to repeat as War Eagle Conference champions at the conference meet hosted by Unity Christian at Landsmeer Golf Club in Orange City Friday, Oct. 12 would be tough. In the end, the Tigers fell...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Remsen-St. Mary’s 23-20-25-19 1 Trinity Christian 25-25-14-25 3 HULL-Trinity Christian will admit it did not play a full four sets of War Eagle Conference volleyball against Remsen-St. Mary’s Tuesday, Oct. 9, but the Tigers did...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Cherokee 12-14-20 0 Western Christian 25-25-25 3 HULL-Class 2A third-ranked Western Christian knew the task at hand: defeat Cherokee and claim another Lakes Conference title for the seniors on Senior Night. The Wolfpack...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Sioux Center 25-16-17-24 1 Boyden-Hull 20-25-25-26 3 HULL-The Boyden-Hull volleyball team once again had a slow start in its Siouxland Conference volleyball match with Sioux Center Tuesday, Oct. 9, but the Comets bounced back in the...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor Western Christian 7-7-0-0 14 Emmetsburg 0-14-6-0 20 EMMETSBURG-Western Christian kept the game within reach, but inconsistencies on offense and some big plays given up by the defense cost the Wolfpack a 20-14 Class 1A District 1...
Nathan Broek | Sports Editor MOC-Floyd Valley 7-0-0-0 7 Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 7-14-7-7 35 ROCK VALLEY-Class 2A second-ranked Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley had its fair share of troubles in a Class 2A District 1 football game with MOC-Floyd Valley...
Dorothy McCormack 91 Rock Rapids, Iowa October 8, 2018 Dorothy McCormack, 91, of Rock Rapids, Iowa, died Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, at Lyon Specialty Care, Rock Rapids. Funeral service was Saturday, Oct. 13, at United Methodist Church, Rock Rapids, with interment in...
Registrations are now being taken for Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach’s annual STEM Fest at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon. The 2018 Fall STEM Fest will be Saturday, Oct. 27 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. STEM Fest is open to all area fourth...
Richard and Betty Odgaard will be the featured guests at Pizza & Policy Thursday, Oct. 25. Sioux County Conservatives is hosting the event at Sioux Center Pizza Hut. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. “Religious liberty is fundamental to our nation’s founding,” said...
(Right) Johnny Van Voorst and (Left) Addison Van Voorst were two of several children who enjoyed the Build-A-Dog workshop at the Boyden Public Library Thursday, Oct. 11. (Photos/June De Wit)
The Boyden-Hull FFA soils team competed in two events recently. The team competed in the Dordt College Agronomy and Soils contest Sept. 18. The team finished in first place. The contest consisted of identifying plants and insects and evaluating soil. The district...
Promise Community Health Center of Sioux Center recently announced the hiring of Amy Kleinhesselink and Emily Tuschen as joint chief executive officers. They also will continue in their current leadership roles with the health center. Kleinhesselink has served as the...
