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Wagner Community School officially changed its booster club fundraising program on August 1st for the 2024-2025 school year. What used to be individual booster clubs raising funds has since become the W Club which encompasses all of the WCS fundraising organizations. The purpose of the W Club is to organize donations given from the community to school sponsored events. The goal of this new program is to eliminate fundraising that the individual booster clubs were doing that involved selling items to the people in the Wagner community.
Read moreLSS OARN, the Older Adult Resource Network serving Douglas and Charles Mix counties, is pleased to announce Jacqueline Johnson as the new OARN Program Coordinator.
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Come on out to the County Fair August 8th and 9th. On the 8th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. will be food trucks and a community BBQ at 5:00 p.m. with a watermelon eating contest, the beef show and sheep show are held that day, with shows starting at noon. On the 9th from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. a community breakfast will be held, the swine, dairy, goat, poultry, rabbit and companion animal shows are held the 9th starting at 8 a.m. You can beat the heat by taking a break in the A/C to check out all the display exhibits! Come on out to see the hard work for the Charles Mix 4-H members!
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As of 2022, the Charles-Mix County Fair Board has reorganized in order to bring back the Charles-Mix County Fair that was always held in conjunction with the Charles-Mix County 4-H Achievement Days. The first Charles-Mix County Fair since its dissipation was held last year in 2023. The board organized a quilt display and a sausage gravy and biscuits breakfast during the 4-H achievement days. This year the board has expanded the community events at the fair boasting events both Thursday and Friday during the 4-H Achievement Days. Thursday morning at 9 a.m. Joey Koupal will provide a horseshoe and trimming clinic to all wishing to attend. Thursday will also feature a BBQ, an all-age watermelon feed, and live music that will run in conjunction with viewing the 4-H exhibits. On Friday morning the fair board will have a free-will donation breakfast of sausage biscuits and gravy. Members of the Charles-Mix County Fair Board include Alice Koupal, President; Mike Dangel, Vice-President; Jason Gant, Secretary/Treasurer; Bev Steinmark, Josh Bultje, Colin Soukup, Jo Cee Johnston, Lesley Rygaard, and Rhonda Pederson.
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In October of 1990 through May 1992, a study which was initiated by local request was conducted on Charles-Mix County Lake. The purpose of this study was to determine the water quality problems, identify pollution sources and develop lake specific restoration alternatives. One of the key components of the water quality of Lake Andes is stagnant water. The study results showed that the lake was found to have very high concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus, creating a hypereutrophic lake. Having these nutrients in such high concentrations can cause algae blooms, summer kill and winterkill events and plays a role in other nutrients and elements exceeding the state regulatory standards. Algae blooms can become a problem when they grow out of control and produce toxic or harmful effects on fish, birds, etc. Summer kill happens with warm water and long hours of daylight maximize the growth conditions for photosynthesis of algae; winter kill is when the oxygen levels get too low causing fish to perish.
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To ensure the safety of all our students during drop-off, we are going to implement a “one-way” street from 7:30 – 8:25 a.m. on school days. Please enter Pine Street from the North (Old Hwy 50 or 2nd Street). Drive South to the front of the school where your child can be dropped off by the main entrance. As you leave Pine Street on the south end, you can go straight, or turn east or west to leave the school. High school students will enter from the North and turn into the parking lot. If they have younger students with them, they will all walk from the parking lot.
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Much like the HBO miniseries, “Band of Brothers” depicting the lives of a company of soldiers and their experiences during WWII, there are five local men that grew up in the Avon area that became a band of brothers. Virgil Cihak, Le-WayneLukkes,BruceVoigt, Roland Luke and Melvin Mudder joined the military, some starting out in different branches, but all ending up serving in the Springfield National Guard Unit. Springfield had a National Guard unit from 1956 until 1994. Late 1993 into early 1994, the entire state had a National Guard reorganization, where their battalion (the 153rd) went from four companies to three companies, eliminatingSpringfield whichwasaDcompany.With the Springfield unit closing its doors in January of 1994, the five soldiers evaluated their time with the National Guard three of the five men ending their service. Le-Wayne and Melvin decided tocontinuetheirserviceand joined the Wagner National Guard Unit. When all five of the fellow soldiers’ time serving in the National Guard is added up, it equals 125years.Thesefivemennot only served their country together but formed a bond that went past being just being soldiers, friends or classmates; they became like family.
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