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Avon American Legion Auxiliary will meet Tuesday, January 17th, at 7 p.m. at a NEW LOCATION: the Avon Public Library, 116 North Main Street. Hostess is Myrtle Reiff. Topic of discussion: favorite memory of 2022/2023 New Year's Resolution.
Read moreFeeding South Dakota food distribution will be held Friday, January 27 at the Scotland Community Church at 8:45 a.m.; the Tyndall Fire Hall at 10:30 a.m. and at the Avon Fire Hall at 12 noon.
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The first Rotary meeting of the year 2023 was held on Wednesday, January 11th. The first Wednesday of the year everyone was still digging out from a long blizzard which left us plenty of snow for the remainder of winter. President Rachel Woods called the meeting to order with a weak rap on the Rotary Bell mostly from not having much practice ringing the bell given our bad weather for the previous weeks.
Read moreThe Bon Homme Community Choir will be meeting soon to start preparing for the 2023 Easter Cantata. This is will the 84th year of gathering in the Lords name to tell the Easter Story through narration and song. The Cantata was first organized in 1939 by the Avon School Principal. We will be under the direction of the Avon Choir Director Autumn Schultz once again. The Community choir is made of many members from the surrounding towns, into Nebraska, as far as Sioux Falls, and Jr high and High School students from area schools. We welcome any new members who would love to join us in song and looking forward to seeing all the returning members. This years Cantata will be 'Echoes of Easter' arranged by Cliff Duran, Cap Kirkland & Phil Nitz. The first practice is scheduled for Sunday, January 29th at 2pm. Practices will be located at the First Baptist Church in Avon. With any questions you may have, call or text Mary Driesen at 605-661-1078.
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Meet the new hair stylist at Town and Country Beauty Salon, Lauren Bastemeyer. Lauren is not foreign to Wagner as she grew up here until middle school. Even after moving to Bon Homme she came back to spend many Summers with her grandparents, Jim and Pam Bastemeyer.
Read moreSouth Dakota and surrounding Northern Plains states are now home to a new group, the Northern Plains Forage Association. The new association is opentoforagegrowers,buyers,industrypartners,and anyinterestedstakeholdersintheforageindustry.The group intends to create a forage networking and education community in order to ‘promote sustainable, quality, profitable forage production’ in our region.
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SNOW DAYS EXTEND SCHOOL HOLIDAY BREAK
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Last week's snowfall of around 25 inches became one for the record books
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