The De Yagers ran Foreign Candy out of their home until they ran out of room and built a new building on Highway 18 in June 1980. (Photo/Sioux County Index-Reporter archives) When Foreign Candy was running out of room in their building on Highway 18, they started a...
IN SUPPORT OF FCCLA Pictured is Blake Woelber who supports the awareness of the Boyden-Hull FCCLA chapter by wearing construction-themed apparel during National FCCLA Week Feb. 12-16. (Photo/Submitted) UP FOR A CAUSE Pictured is Lauren Phillips wearing beach-themed...
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a national Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) for students in Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) education in public and private schools through grade 12. FCCLA offers intra-curricular resources...
Checks issued to eligible customer-owners the last week of January SHELDON, IOWA – Farmers and ranchers in O’Brien, Sioux, Lyon, Osceola and Cherokee counties will be receiving an estimated $11 million in cash-back dividends returned by Farm Credit Services of America...
SRO POLLEMA TAKES ON NEW ROLE Sioux County Sheriff’s Office SRO Waylon Pollema will begin a new full-time role at Western Christian High School as director of campus safety and student support beginning Aug. 1, 2024. Pollema brings his years of working with the Sioux...
Shane D. Johnson |Editor The City of Hull has undertaken some zoning changes for residents, a change that has come to fruition after the last update to zoning ordinances in February 1995. Mayor Arlan Moss commented on the changes made.“Our city staff and council...
HELPING STUDENTS THRIVEPictured is Emily Miranda, Boyden-Hull Junior/Senior High School’s guidance counselor who has been in the position two years. (Photo/Submitted) THROUGH STRUGGLES AND SUCCESSES Pictured is Abby Vanden Bosch, guidance counselor for Western...
Students dance the Galopede Dance with their parents, grandparents and siblings. Swinging partners in the Galopede Dance. Julie Bosma | Editorial Assistant Third- and fourth-grade students at Hull Christian had their Folk Song and Dance Celebration Tuesday, Feb. 6....
The kindergarten through second graders danced to “I Will Survive” at Dance Team Night February 5. The Western Christian dance team performed its hoopla routine on Dance Team Night. Julie Bosma|Editorial Assistant Western Christian had its Dance Team Night Monday,...
Sandy Westra, Carol Vis, Betty Techen and Betty Bolkema got together Feb. 2 to play Scrabble. Wanda Talsma, Bev Altena, and Darlene Woelber played Scrabble at another table. One of the activities the Hull Public Library sponsors is Scrabble. Usually about six people...
Cobyn Sandbulte demonstrates his ball launcher at the Hull Christian School Science Fair Friday, Feb. 9. Elliot Blankespoor explains how his potato battery works at the Hull Christian School Science Fair Friday, Feb. 9. Thirty-nine seventh and eighth graders at Hull...
Sioux County Board of Supervisors’ report Craig Hoftyzer | Contributor, Sioux County Board of Supervisors, 5th District Supervisor Report for February 6, 2024Due to the constraints of time, this will be an abbreviated version this week. Some of you may have noticed...
Kids talk about god Corey Kinsolving | Columnist “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you,” wrote Lewis Smedes.I’ll never forget the video I saw of a session where a counselor urged a woman to forgive her mother. With great effort,...
For over 15 years, Boyden and surrounding communities have supported the local blood bank, LifeServe Blood Center, with at least six blood donation opportunities per year. At the Feb. 2 blood drive in Boyden, 12 units of blood that has the ability to save up to 36...
The Iowa Governor’s STEM advisory council recently announced Western Christian High School as one of the 21 school districts receiving the STEM BEST® (Businesses Engaging Students and Teachers) Program award for its work on launching The JumpSTART Pathway and relevant...
Shane D. Johnson |Editor During the Feb. 3 state speech contest, Mya Brands was given a “1” rating for her short film “Lonely.” That was not the only short film presented to judges as Maliyha deBoom, Kyra Visser, Piper Hanson, Laney VanVoorst, Amelya Dunn and Olivia...
Work began on the first Hull Casey’s General Store in August 1978. (Photo/Sioux County Index-Reporter archives) This is Casey’s in January 1979. The Hull Casey’s opening was slowed somewhat by work on the other 117 Casey’s stores which had opened in the last year....
DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa Falls Times Citizen was named Thursday as the Iowa Newspaper Association 2024 “Newspaper of the Year.” The award was announced during the association’s Awards Ceremony Feb. 8. Presentations were made to winners of the 2024 Iowa Better Newspaper...
FOR ALL TO SEEPictured is the work of Western Christian’s welding class that has come to fruition in the form of a Wolfpack sculpture created in connection with Demco of Boyden. The students were led by Demco’s Cody Cammann and Jason Kraai. (Photo/Submitted) "Perhaps...
BLUEJAY STRONG AND COMET STRONGPictured are two of the many bookmarks made by Boyden-Hull Elementary students in support of Perry Community School District in Perry, Iowa, after a Jan. 4 school shooting that killed sixth-grader Ahmir Jolliff and Perry High School...
