SIOUX CENTER HEALTH Sioux Center Health Community Education has offered supportive programs for many years. Various support groups meet throughout the year, and three upcoming programs to offer hope through the holidays include the following: Dec. 11 from 1-2 p.m....
Sixty-six women were at the Demco Community Center Monday, Dec. 2, to make winter arrangements. Whitleigh Vande Griend works on her arrangement. Julie Bosma | Editorial Assistant On Monday, Dec. 2, the Boyden Public Library had its annual Decorative Winter Arrangement...
Lilly and Ella De Groot make ornaments out of pipe cleaners and newspapers. Clye Verwolf holds up his star. Julie Bosma | Editorial Assistant The Hull Library Art Club met Monday, Dec. 2, to make Christmas ornaments to decorate a tree at Prairie Woods Nature Center....
Reese Wielenga tried on the fire gear. The Hull Clovers posed by the fire truck. Julie Bosma | Editorial Assistant Thirty-five Hull Clovers met with Rick Kiers at the safety complex Tuesday, Nov. 26. Kiers gave them a tour of the ambulance and fire trucks and...
Julie Bosma | Editorial Assistant The Lego Club was busy Thursday, Dec. 5, making new creations — everything from a medieval house to a dinosaur lair and a Viking ship. (Photos/Julie Bosma) Joseph Westra, Taylor Moss, Owen Van Beek, Jackson Warner and Bode Jon Van...
The kindergarten class wore hats and mittens for the song “Wiggles.” First through sixth graders presented the musical “An Almost Cancelled Christmas.” Julie Boma | Editorial Assistant Boyden-Hull Elementary students presented their Christmas program Thursday, Dec. 5....
Article submitted Nadja Stanojkovic presented about Serbia to Boyden-Hull high school students on Monday and Tuesday, November 18 and 19 during Comet Time and to Junior High students on November 21. After the presentations, students sampled Lazy Apple Pie, a...
Sioux County Board of Supervisors’ Report Craig Hoftyzer | Contributor, Sioux County Board of Supervisors, 5th District Supervisor Report for December 3, 2024No matter the weather, November seems like fall to me which technically it is. The weather can still be fair...
Movies are great for any number of reasons. They can fill time when the hours are long and the days seem even longer. They can transport us to times and places where we never have envisioned to go or hope someday to visit. They can also tell the stories of the...
The “Blast from the “Past” book on Hull’s history is available now! The books will be available for purchase at Winterfest and at the Index office from 8:15 – 11:30 Monday through Friday. From photographs to column to book Julie Bosma | Editorial Assistant “Blast from...
A SIGN TO BE PROUD OF From left to right, Adrienne Thorson and Eniya, Travis and Helen Soodsma pose with the Century Farm Award they received this August. The Soodsma family has owned the land since 1922, and current owner Travis looks forward to displaying the sign...
AMERICAN BEEF IN JAPAN Hayley Moss stands in an aisle containing American beef in a Japanese supermarket. Moss was honored to travel to Taiwan and Japan as part of an Agriculture Trade Mission coordinated by the Iowa Economic Development Authority from Nov. 15-23....
The combined choir sang “Jesus Loves Me” with several small ensembles at a concert Nov. 25. (Photo/Julie Bosma) The combined junior high band from Hull Protestant Reformed Christian School and Northwest Iowa Protestant Reformed School presented its concert Monday,...
In 1904 Sherman David Thompson was the mail carrier for the first horse-driven wooden wagon. (Photo/Diamond Jubilee) Two rural mail wagons are shown in front of the Boyden Post Office in 1905. (Photo/Diamond Jubilee) Betty Mouw arranged the keys to the new post office...
FINE-TUNING Trinity Robotics team members tweak their robot bzBots during their most recent competition at Sioux City East Middle School Nov. 23. The team fine-tuned their robot to earn another first place out of 16 teams at their latest competition and is now ranked...
READY FOR DISTRIBUTION Kellen Van Schepen loads boxes of fruit to deliver from this year’s FFA fruit sales at Western Christian Tuesday, Nov. 19. FFA members sold fruit and other items throughout October and have finally completed the fundraiser after distributing all...
WESTERN CHRISTIAN ALL STATERS From left to right, Ava Van Maanen, Ari Van Grootheest, Allie Wielenga, Katie Veldman and Jenessa Van Roekel. (Photo/Submitted) Seven local students perform at All-State Music Festival Amy Lyon | Staff Writer Music filled the arena of the...
Hull Christian School’s junior high demonstrates service through fall clean-up Amy Lyon | Staff Writer Hull Christian School’s motto is “Rooted in Christ,” and one way they live that out-loud is through service. An example of such service took place Nov. 12 when the...
One of the junior high band’s selection was “Gettysburg” by Brian Balmages which used many instruments to depict the events at the Battle of Gettysburg. (Photo/Julie Bosma) The seventh- and eighth-grade choir sang an Israeli Folk Song “Zum Gali Gali” which was...
Jessa Haahr | Country Kids 4-H Reporter The Country Kids 4-H Club met Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Inwood Community Center. There were 23 members present. Members were reminded to get enrolled online for the new 4-H year if they haven’t already done so. Our club will be...
