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The annual 2024 Pirate AwardsProgramwasheld May 2ndintheAvonAuxiliaryGym. InterimSuperintendent,Brian Fields, was the Master of Ceremonies for this year’s event. PastorLorneyVanGerpengave the opening prayer. Then the Avon High School Men’s Choir underthedirectionofAutumn Schultz sang “I’m Just Ken” by MarkRonson.Afterwards,the banquetbeganandwascatered by Dale Buchholz Catering.
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Explorers Credit Union of Yankton teamed up with the South Dakota Department of Labor to bring the Bite of Reality Simulationtothehighschool studentsofAvon.Theeventtook placeattheAvongymnasiumon Wednesday,May1,from10a.m. until 11:30 p.m. Avon Chamber of Commerce members, Deb Voigt and Nyla Raysby, scheduled 14 community volunteers to assist with the simulation.
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McKenna Kocmich placed 1st at the Burke/Platte-Geddes invite at Dakota Trails golf course last week with an 82! Congratulations Kenna! Courtesy Photo
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Eleanor (Soukup) Andersh has been a lifelong Wagner resident. When she began school, she first attended the Big Tobacco country school which was located three miles from the Soukup family’s rural residence. She attended the Big Tobacco school for first and second grade and then again in eighth grade. When the weather was nice, she would have to walk home from school. For her third-grade year of school, Eleanor was sent to the Tabor Catholic School at the Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Church which at the time was also a boarding school with a dormitory. Her parents decided to send Eleanor and later her sister Mary to the catholic boarding school after her older brothers had graduated from the eighth grade from the Big Tobacco country school.
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