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Crowning Miss and Little Miss Rock Rapids 2024

Apr 30, 2024 | , , ,

Dominique Kooiker | Editor On Sunday, April 28, Rock Rapids community members gathered in the Forster Community Center to crown the 2024 Miss Rock Rapids and Little Miss Rock Rapids representatives.The contestants for Miss Rock Rapids were Liza Jans, daughter of David and Amy Jans; Jade Kruse, daughter of Sam and Nicole Kruse; Elsie Oedekoven, […]

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Putting on the blue jacket

Apr 23, 2024 | , , , ,

Jessica Jensen | Contributor The Iowa FFA organization focuses on encouraging youth to pursue careers and leadership roles in the agricultural industry and serves student members and local chapters in schools across Iowa. For Kadence Boender, a 2023 Central Lyon graduate and FFA chapter past president, the organization represents much more.“Ever since I was a […]

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Training for the worst

Apr 16, 2024 | , , , ,

George-Little Rock runs emergency dri Dominique Kooiker | Editor April is 911 Education Month and Distracted Driving Month. In order to give students the opportunity to learn what happens in the wake of a car accident, George-Little Rock High School hosted a drill involving George Emergency Medical Services (GEMS), George and Little Rock Fire Departments, […]

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Get Moving at the Pond

Apr 9, 2024 | , , , ,

Central Lyon CAPS program creates videos for Avera fitness trail Dominique Kooiker | Editor In the summer of 2023, Avera installed a fitness trail in Southside Park in Rock Rapids across the street from Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital and on the banks of the new pond. Avera wanted to provide an opportunity for the community […]

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Rock Rapids VFW hosts Easter egg hunt

Apr 2, 2024 | , , ,

Dominique Kooiker | Editor On Saturday, March 30, the Rock Rapids Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6960 hosted an Easter egg hunt for the children of the community. Island Park was filled with dozens of eggs hidden across the playground near the pool, and children of all ages and their families came out to hunt […]

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Embracing the Challenges

Mar 26, 2024 | , , ,

Dominique Kooiker | Editor For one Rock Rapids woman, April has a whole new meaning this year. April is Limb Loss Awareness Month, and Kari Jurrens of Rock Rapids now has a personal reason to spread awareness.Jurrens’ journey toward amputation began six years ago with a four-wheeler accident.“On April 4, 2018, I was driving our […]

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Roadracing in the fast lane

Mar 12, 2024 | , , ,

Local roadracer discusses career Dominique Kooiker | Editor During the week, Sean Stettnichs of Rock Rapids is the director of human resources at MAIA Biotechnology based out of Chicago. On summer weekends, however, Stettnichs feels the need for speed, competing in motorcycle roadracing at tracks local and national.“I started roadracing when I was 24. I […]

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Passion project turns into labor of love

Mar 5, 2024 | , , ,

Dominique Kooiker | Editor In a world driven by deadlines and routines, some creative individuals find solace in creating passion projects. One such creative individual was Alan Huber of Rock Rapids. He kept his passion project, a book entitled “Titan Song,” a secret for many years, only revealing the book to his wife, Maria, when […]

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Back 2 Back 2 Back

Feb 27, 2024 | , , , , , , ,

Lady Lions to head back to The Well for the third straight season The Central Lyon girls’ basketball team celebrates a victory over Hinton during the Class 2A regional final on Wednesday, Feb. 21 punching their ticket to the state tournament. Read the full story in the sports section in this issue. Central Lyon will […]

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Celebrating half a century of community theatre

Feb 20, 2024 | , , ,

“Community theatre is an opportunity to create ‘magic’ as Tom Gaspar once said and to invite the community into stories — from the realistic to the fantastical, to laugh and to cry, to celebrate and to remember.” – Jessica Van Roekel Dominique Kooiker | Editor As the sounds of “State Fair” echo through the Forster […]

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