Bob Nass, former Sequoia Brigade Camp director and Christian Service Brigade regional director, who devoted his life to discipling boys into God-honoring men, has died. He was 84. To me as a young 5-year-old in Kristy Nass’s kindergarten class, Bob was simply Mr. Nass, who sang crazy camp songs in chapel once a year. But […]
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NICK EICHER, HOST: And now for this hour’s storyline. The American Legion is raising awareness of veterans for Memorial Day. WJI Reporter Jeremiah Yonemura has more from a small town in Northwest Iowa. SOUND: [Carts moving, car engines, scanning of items] JEREMIAH YONEMURA: In front of the Fareway grocery store in Sioux Center, volunteers hand
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Jared Stokes, a student at New Saint Andrews College (NSA), has a unique part-time job. He is a contributor to The Daily Caller, the news organization founded by Tucker Carlson. Editors offer Stokes assignments — usually breaking news — that he can choose to accept or decline. Upon acceptance of a story, Stokes has an
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ORANGE CITY, Iowa — Over 100,000 people from various Midwestern states explored the annual Dutch Orange City Tulip Festival on May 16-18. Attendees had different views on how America is doing and who should be elected president on Nov. 5. Attendees beliefs ranged from the country’s state being all right to frustration at the rising
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SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants were losing to the Milwaukee Brewers at the end of the sixth inning 3-1 on May 27, 2011. The Brewers had an 89.2% chance of winning. While not impossible for the Giants to win, it was unlikely. That is, until the Giants loaded the bases in the seventh
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On July 30, 2021, the last camp for junior counselors had finished, and it was time to pack up and go home. We would stay the night in Torrance at Dave’s brother’s house. The last cleanup item was packing up the canoes and putting them onto the trailer. As we left the camp for the
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Coming back home from Thanksgiving break, I wanted food. So I called Joe and convinced him to take me to In-‘N’-Out. Jesse and Kaitlyn would join too. While we were waiting in the Hotchkiss lounge, we started talking about how people spell “Kaitlyn” with a C. Others would spell Kaitlyn “K-A-T-E-L-Y-N.” I, being the loving
It rains in California, just very little. California is perpetually in drought, but the winter of 2022-2023 was different. We received multiple waves of heavy rain that would last for about a week. As a result, the roads flooded. On New Year’s Eve, we went to Nonno’s house to celebrate New Year’s with the five
The night before was a long night. After getting dinner with Herbert and Hannah, I embarked on a six-hour drive to the Bay Area at 7:30 p.m. and arrived at 4:15 a.m. That meant that the next day was exhausting. I got my haircut and then took Nathan with me, at the request of Mom.
Walking to class after work on October 12, 2022, the rain poured as Mom texted me, “The hospital left a message… Nonno is being admitted.” Mom had called earlier to let me know that Nonno was weak and going to the emergency room. At first, the situation didn’t seem so bad. He was mildly dehydrated;
