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Gus Stop III celebrated their 10th anniversary serving free hot dogs and offering door prize drawings. Rebecca Lehmann and Ashley Kirkpatrick gave a report on their happenings during Girls State Week.

Kennedy Kourt recently took her Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) exam on June 6th and passed to receive her EMT certification. Kennedy is the daughter of Trista and Dustin Kourt and a 2024 Wagner Community School graduate.

35 kids gave it their all in a local Pitch, Hit and Run Contest in Wagner July 11. They pitched, batted and ran in hopes to advance to the next level. The highest scores from all local contests will move to a regional competition and possibly the finals. Best of luck to all of our local winners!

10 Years Ago – 2014 Wagner Girls Softball teams (18U and 14U) participated in the State Softball Tournament. Pete and Connie (Uecker) Murphy celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. The Fort Randall Casino held their annual King and Queen of the Hill contest.

President Jordan Weber presided over his first regular meeting of his Rotary Year by leading the members in prayer. Guests of Jeff Doom were Amy Doom and his mother Jeanette. Kristina Ymker was a guest of Amanda Bechen.

“Sessions By The Lake” will once again return to the park at Wagner Lake beginning with the first of three follow up concerts to the “605 Unity Jam”. The first concert is on Thursday, August 1 starting at 6:30 and ending at 8:30.

Last week, this group of students competed in Houston at the HOSA International Leadership Conference. Competing were:Erica Cahoy in clinical lab science, and McKenna Kocmich, Courtney Sees and Caleb Wallingaand Landon Thury in HOSA Quiz Bowl.

The Annual Open Class Show will be held during the Bon Homme County 4-H Achievement Days. If you enjoy making projects or have a hobby and would like to show off your work, here is your chance! You can enter a variety of items to show.

10 Years Ago – 2014 Corn growing in a field south of Avon was knee high by the 4th of July. The skies lit up as the fireworks show was held at Tolsma’s Cove. Janel Tolsma did the commentary for the Minnow Races that were held at Tolsma’s Cove.

Sorry for the absence of this article for the last couple of weeks. The library has been busy with summer programming and the article just got moved to the back burner. Did you know that the library has a variety of learning kits to be checked out to enjoy at home.