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This year’s honorary referees for the Avon Invitational Track Meet are Allen and Lori Cihak. Allen a 1982 graduate of Avon. Allen and Lori have three children graduates of Avon, Derek (2011), Mitchell Technical Institute (2013) and farms in the Avon area, Mallory (2014), Mt. Marty University (2018), teaches 3rd grade in the Yankton School District and is engaged to Justin Bochman and Jacob (2018) is a junior at SDSU studying Agronomy. Allen is employed with Williams Masonry as a Bricklayer. Lori is employed with Good Samaritan-Tyndall as Health Information Director, Medicare Coordinator, CNA. Lori has been on the Avon School Board for 11 years. Cihak’s have volunteered time and donated to the Avon Post Prom Committee, Booster Club, Avon Science Fair and After School Backpack program. Al and Lori continue to support the Pirate activities and enjoy donating back to the Avon School District and community.
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On March 30, Ali Sees, Kristen Namminga, and Makayla Kopp hopped in a van with their physics teacher Paul Kuhlman heading to the Scotland Quiz Bowl, traditionally referred to as the Scotland Pizza Bowl. At the quiz bowl, teams competed against other schools, and who ever got the most questions right won.
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Avon’s senior class of 2021 traveled down to Eureka Springs, Arkansas for their senior trip. They left on March 24 at midnight and returned March 26 at 10:30 p.m. The group included ten seniors and two chaperones, plus the bus driver! After a long nine-hour drive, they arrived at their first destination.
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After a year without, on March 27 Avon High Schoolers got their fancy on...Welcome back Prom. The theme of the Prom was Unmask the Night.
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Monday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m. the music department hosted the Big and Little Dance in the Avon School’s main gym. The event piggybacks on the Prom using their decorations and theme to help make the evening more festive.
Read moreThe Wagner Rotary Club met at the clubhouse on Main Street last Wednesday at Noon. Members were surprised to find the meeting room in disarray. The “Rotary Building” originally was the Barkl Building and consisted of three levels. The top level was home to the Duggan Hospital at one time and later was turned into apartments. The second or main level has hosted many business enterprises over the years, but The First State Bank was the first business to begin in the Barkl Building. There was an artesian well flowing on Main Street in front of this building and a watering trough was placed there for watering horses. The last occupants of the portion of the building which now houses the Rotary was Don Piroutek and his father Emil who conducted an insurance business there for many years. Don was a Rotarian, and he deeded the building to the Wagner Rotary.
Read moreLifeServe Blood Center, the sole supplier of blood products to more than 120 hospitals in South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, is asking for donors to help with the blood supply. It doesn’t take a tragedy for hospital patients in the area to need blood donations to survive. Every day, local hospital patients need blood transfusions to survive. The only way cancer patients, premature babies, transplant recipients, and other patients can receive blood is when a generous donor rolls up their sleeve!
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Hoegemeyer Hybrids Announced 63 Dealers As Big Hitter Saks Award Recipients. Among them were: Chuck and Chet Eitemiller and Eugene Soukup.
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