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The Andes Central/Dakota Christian boys basketball team came ready to play for Region action as they took the court against Kimball/White Lake on Monday, March 2nd. This was a game that will be talked about for a long time. The Thunder team left everyone feeling very proud as the buzzer sounded. The score may have had them down by 1 point at the end, but they won in the hearts of many as they took everything they learned all season and played an absolutely amazing game.
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William Martin Ruhl, 93, of Bettendorf, passed away February 25, 2020 at Clarissa C. Cook Hospice House in Bettendorf.
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Dolores Jean Holbeck, 96, died on March 4, 2020 at the Good Samaritan Center in Corsica. Funeral services were March 7 at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Armour with burial following in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Armour. Arrangements by Koehn Bros. Funeral Home in Armour.
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Funeral services for Harlan Horned Eagle, 63, of Lake Andes were Friday, February 28 at the White Swan Center. Burial was in the Cedar Presbyterian Cemetery, rural Wagner. PetersFuneral Home in Wagner was in charge of arrangements.
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Congratulations Sheryl Gravatt, the March 2020 Millie E. Olson Award Recipient!
Read moreDo you know the background to how the City library is operated? The City of Lake Andes is the governing body under which the library operates. A budget for supplies, books, computers, in-service for employees, upkeep of the building, maintenance of the building, and salaries, is provided by tax dollars collected for the City. The library has a Board of Directors made up of five members of the City of Lake Andes, the Library Director, and a City Council person. This board meets quarterly at the library. The board members are kept abreast of the activities at the library, they approve all hires and are a critical part of the funding for summer activities through fundraising completed by board members. All library board meetings are open to the public. Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of the months of March, June, September and December.
Read moreIt’s hard enough getting old, what with all of the creeping ailments—diabetes, COPD, dementia, heart disease—that come along with age. Now add a novel coronavirus to the mix. There are more than 91,000 COVID-19 cases and 3,100 deaths as of writing, but the virus doesn’t hit all demographics equally hard—and seniors are the most vulnerable.
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