We are over half-way through the school year and I have many good things going at LMCS.
Features
The Mads Hansen family from Denmark have been traveling the world for close to a year, in a Range Rover with a roof tent (pictured below) and an RV, customized by Mads. They arrived in the U.S. this spring and Iowa, this past Sunday, June 23. The family met John and Kathleen Grunhovd at Rice Lake’s...
The LMHS baseball team celebrated Throw Back Thursday, June 13, and encouraged parents to participate. Pictured above are those who went through their closets. Front row (L-R): Carrie Hanson, Marna Groe, Julie Helgeson, Gary Helgeson, Shawn Helgeson, and Karla Eaton. Back row: Scott Hanson, Krishna...
“ROAR—Life is wild and God is Good” was the theme for last week’s Vacation Bible School for One In Christ parishes and Salem Lutheran Church kids. The six parishes involved also drew in some community members, bringing the total to 113 kids.
Putting on the program were four pastors, one parish...
by Lisa Ralls
Winnebago County Naturalist
In recent years, Monarch butterflies have received a lot of attention, and rightly so, because their numbers have declined so dramatically. But, sometimes we tend to forget that there are other butterflies in Iowa and they, too, have special needs. And,...
As part of the Summer Reading Program, the RAD Zoo, from Owatonna, Minn., paid a visit to the Lake Mills Public Library last Wednesday evening, June 5. Jamie Pastika, executive director at the RAD Zoo, brought several turtles, snakes, a lizard and an alligator.
The Lake Mills High School Marching Band participated in the North Iowa Band Festival, Saturday, May 25. The band performed music from the Broadway show musical “Wicked.” Drum majors, Libby Heagel and Brianna Renneker, portrayed the two witches (Glinda and Elphaba), the color guard ladies were...
Carys Christianson and Brady Hanson, eighth grade students at LMCS, were presented the Ryan Peterson Citizenship Award last Tuesday, May 28, by Korin Peterson, sister of the late Ryan Peterson. Carys is the daughter of Jody and the late Tom Christianson. Brady is the son of Ross and Paula Hanson....
Thursday, May 30, Daryl Sherman, (Rice Lake) was cutting up a hollow tree that had fallen in a strong wind onto their property. The tree was dead, and must have been a good place for a squirrel to build a nest and hide a stash of golf balls, many of which were gnawed to expose the rubber core....
by Bonnie Kay Baldwin
Lake Mills Graphic
What an incredible amount of foresight and vision, coupled with a great deal of hard work, the Hagen family has had. They started with a huge cornfield and hog pasture in seemingly, the middle of nowhere.
Fast forward 10 years . . . a successful, thriving...
Devyn Nicholson was the winner of the local karaoke contest and sang at Tree Town Festival, held in Forest City. She performed the National Anthem and several other songs, Sunday afternoon, May 26.
