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Feeding South Dakota food distribution will be held Friday, Aug. 25 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 Avon Community VBS was held July 31 through August 4th at the Avon City Park from 9 a.m. to noon. There were 47 students registered the first day with the theme being, “Keepers of the Kingdom.” Each day the children were taught about the Middle Ages and the Good ( God’s ) Kingdom or the Bad (Satan’s) Kingdom. King Aaron (Rush) and Lord Hayden (Talsma) did askitintroducingGod’sArmor for the opening each morning. Lord Hayden was dressed in the full suit of Armor of God on Friday, as he had followed the Code of Conduct all week and was now prepared to be a knight in God’s Army.
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LandonThuryattendedAvonAmericanLegion&Auxiliary's dinner and flag retirement ceremony at Mary and Rick Hurd's Hilltop Haven/The Bunker in rural Wagner on August 15th.
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Leona Ann Bruner, 93, went to her heavenly home Wednesday, August 9 at Edgewood Mitchell Memory Care Center from Alzheimers Disease. Funeral mass was Monday, August 14 at St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Geddes. Arrangements by Koehn Bros. Funeral Home in Armour.
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Marcella Josephine Kirchhevel, 100, went to her heavenly home Thursday, August 10 at Sanford Health Vermillion Care Center. Funeral service will be Wednesday, August 16 at 10:30 a.m., with visitation beginning at 9:30 a.m., at First Lutheran Church in Lake Andes. Arrangements by Koehn Bros. Funeral Home in Lake Andes.
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The Wednesday Wagner Rotary meeting on August 9th began with a nice ring of the Rotary Bell by President Becky Brunsing. She was complimented on her ring. (Ringing the bell is an art at Rotary and is used as a beginning, a warning, or an object of derision).
Read moreWith the beginning of school, Moms in Prayer will be starting up again. This is a Christ centered prayer ministry made up of Moms and other interested ladies desiring to pray for the students and the school. The organization was started over 30 years ago by Fern Nichols. She, along with one other lady met to pray for their children as they started school. That small beginning has grown into an International Organization that has praying groups in all 50 states and over 120 countries.
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