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After decades of hosting Oktoberfest in Menno, with a polka band or a Branson style show, SoDak Stamm Chapter of the Germans from Russia Heritage Society is trying something new, or Neu as it is spelled in German.
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THE CALL TO ACTION FOR EVERY RESIDENT
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Drew Hento, Avon School District graduate and alumni, has returned to his alma materthisfalltoteachfourth grade for the Avon School District. Drew is a 2006 graduate of Avon High School who then attended Dakota State University to obtain his teaching degree. Drew was very excited to hear that Avon had an opening and was hoping to get to teach at a smaller school district. He isverygratefulthattheAvon School District welcomed himback.ThisisDrew’sfirst year teaching; he completed his student teaching at the Harrisburg School District, where he student taught fourth grade as well. Drew had been working at an insurance office in Tea prior to taking the position in the Avon school.
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“There’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.” That quote hung on a gate on our family farm and ranch growing up. It wasn’t until years later that I realized who said those words: the Gipper himself, President Ronald Reagan.
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On a beautiful, cool, breezy morning well over a hundred people gathered at the Sumac Loop TTrailhead in Pickstown to celebrate and honor Lisa M. Durham at the dedication of her memorial trail...
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Funeral Services for Wayne Wendt, age 75, of Bristow will be at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, September 27 at the Bristow Community Hall with Jeff Hart officiating. Burial will follow in the Bristow Cemetery with Military Rites provided by the Spencer American Legion Post 78. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, September 26 at Biglin’s Mortuary in Spencer with a 7 p.m. Prayer Service. Wayne passed away after a lengthy illness on Saturday, September 21. Memorials may be directed to his family for future designation. Arrangements are entrusted to Biglin’s Mortuary in Spencer.
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Jay Bowler, age 77, of Monroe, Michigan, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on Tuesday, September 17 at Corewell Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, after battling esophageal cancer.
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