Features – Page 107

Steeby 3rd-grader writing contest winner, plants 3 trees

June 1, 2016

Nikol Yanakieva, a third-grader from Lori Howell’s class at Steeby Elementary School, recently won first place in the Michigan Arbor Day Alliance 2016 "Go Green Youth Challenge" creative writing contest. Students were given a list of questions to think about and were asked to use their imaginations and tell the...

Memorial Day parade in Wayland a little quieter

May 30, 2016

The annual memorial Day tradition of parades, ceremonies and decorating graves in area cemeteries was fulfilled again Monday across the United States. Many witnesses dai the noise level for the parade was considerably less this year, as public safety officers toned down sirens and other sound apparatus. Meanwhile, Wyoming Lee...

Former WHS English teacher to visit Class of ’66 reunion

May 28, 2016

The Wayland High School Class of 1966 reunion June 25 will be a sort of "homecoming" for long-lost English teacher Mary Ellen Nyuli. Nyuli, who taught at Wayland High School from 1963 to 1972, and her husband plan to make a trip from their home in Florida to drop in...

Dorr students raise more than $800 for children’s hospital

May 28, 2016

Dorr Elementary student Cassie Reece presented a check to Helen DeVos Children's Hospital Friday for $833 at an all-school assembly. Cassie organized the fund-raiser this spring called "Hoops for Helen" to raise money for the hospital. At right with the microphone is Principal Kevin Zaschak.

Third-graders get lesson at high school science wing

May 27, 2016

Steeby Elementary third-graders this week had a science lesson at the Wayland High School Science & Innovation Center, where teacher Lynn Gosson taught them about the properties of matter. The students worked in the lab stations with high school anatomy students and conducted experiments to determine if the mass changes...

Wayland ’55-plus’ group visits Damveld gas station shrine

May 26, 2016

The Wayland Union Schools Community Ed Leisure Life pizza/prize bingo event Wednesday featured a unique visit at Gregg and Mary Damveld's pole barn/garage to see Gregg's collection of Corvettes and Standard Oil classic collectibles. The local group, open to people ages 55 and older, first met for lunch at BC...

Bygone Days: A brief look at Wayland area’s past, Part 217

May 25, 2016

25 Years Ago — May 29, 1991 Ralph Sytsma, 72, chairman of the Allegan County Board of Commissioners, died of cancer. A member of the board for 23 years, he owned a 100-acre farm in Leighton Township. Voters in the Hopkins school district will face a 6-6-mill request for $9.8...

Hopkins High School academic top 10 announced

May 23, 2016

The academic top ten students for the Hopkins High School Class of 2016 have been announced. Earning the honors were seniors Amber Bliek, Olivia Smit, Jesse Oosterhouse, Madeline Henrickson, Madeleine Gaca, Sadie Brookhouse, Brandon Ryan, Emma Fernhout, Zachary Blank and Kaitlyn TeGrootenhuis....

Wayland man wins National Endowment stipend

May 21, 2016

Mike D. Miller of Wayland has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities stipend for the summer institute "Teaching Beowulf in the Context of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature" at Western Michigan University. The four-week institute, under the Medieval Institute director Jana Schulman, will include guest lecturers in the fields of...

WHS Orchestra, GR Symphony do ‘Side by Side’ again

May 18, 2016

The second "Side by Side" concert performed in Wayland by the WHS Strings Orchestra and members of the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra took place Tuesday evening in the Fine Arts Center. As part of the GR Symphony's Community Outreach program, musicians come to a town and perform "side by side"...

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