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Avon’s senior class of 2021 traveled down to Eureka Springs, Arkansas for their senior trip. They left on March 24 at midnight and returned March 26 at 10:30 p.m. The group included ten seniors and two chaperones, plus the bus driver! After a long nine-hour drive, they arrived at their first destination.
Read moreAfter a year without, on March 27 Avon High Schoolers got their fancy on...Welcome back Prom. The theme of the Prom was Unmask the Night.
Read moreMonday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m. the music department hosted the Big and Little Dance in the Avon School’s main gym. The event piggybacks on the Prom using their decorations and theme to help make the evening more festive.
Read moreThe Wagner Rotary Club met at the clubhouse on Main Street last Wednesday at Noon. Members were surprised to find the meeting room in disarray. The “Rotary Building” originally was the Barkl Building and consisted of three levels. The top level was home to the Duggan Hospital at one time and later was turned into apartments. The second or main level has hosted many business enterprises over the years, but The First State Bank was the first business to begin in the Barkl Building. There was an artesian well flowing on Main Street in front of this building and a watering trough was placed there for watering horses. The last occupants of the portion of the building which now houses the Rotary was Don Piroutek and his father Emil who conducted an insurance business there for many years. Don was a Rotarian, and he deeded the building to the Wagner Rotary.
Read moreLifeServe Blood Center, the sole supplier of blood products to more than 120 hospitals in South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, is asking for donors to help with the blood supply. It doesn’t take a tragedy for hospital patients in the area to need blood donations to survive. Every day, local hospital patients need blood transfusions to survive. The only way cancer patients, premature babies, transplant recipients, and other patients can receive blood is when a generous donor rolls up their sleeve!
Read moreHoegemeyer Hybrids Announced 63 Dealers As Big Hitter Saks Award Recipients. Among them were: Chuck and Chet Eitemiller and Eugene Soukup.
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