Le Mars Daily Sentinel (Newspaper) - August 23, 2005, Le Mars, Iowa 2005 Football Spotlight Page 7 at carrier delivered to your home Untied on yearly Sentinel Opinion For the Obituaries People & August 23, 2005 Back to staff gears up for new year By Bob Eschliman Staff Second in the series not the people who get our stories written in said Le Mars Community Schools food services director Judy the ones who Work behind the scenes and just do our If it weren't for the many kitchen bus secretaries and other LCS support there wouldn't be a school This as our children prepare to return to these yet ble members of our educational system will be going back to as For many getting to school requires them to ride one of the LCS school driven by professionals like Marlyn The Brunsville native starts his route each morning at 7:05 a.m. the first person a lot of students see at the beginning of the day and the last person they see at the end of the school See On Page 3 Passing Swarms of butterflies in Le Mars right A few kinds of butterflies migrate to a warmer Some may travel up to 2,000 miles from Canada to and photo by Joyce Le Mars couple love at the races By Earl Horlyk Editor Entering the fifth grade offers new challenges By Don McDowell Special to the Daily Sentinel Do you remember your first day of Bet you Writer Don McDowell will be exploring the excitement and the anxiety facing several new students as they begin school in this week-long series of Going back to school can be a real But for Ashley the fifth grade will be an exciting Unlike a lot of fifth graders in the Kellen and her classmates won't be switching schools or moving to a bigger At Le Gehlen she'll be in the same building she's been in since she started Though the building offers Kellen a sense of she knows she'll be facing new changes and challenges starting day get to have more than one Kellen used to have one teacher and stay in the classroom all Now I'll have different teachers teaching different subjects in different be real she The curriculum of Kellen and her classmates will also become more With subjects such as and social she knows the fifth grade will be But she is more than See On Page 3 The roar of the the smell of and burnt gasoline filling the mud heading straight for ya at a high rate of don't cha just love a Everybody wants to get their wedding off on a fast track and for one Le Mars exchanging vows at Park Jefferson Speedway this Saturday night seems like the most natural thing to know getting married on a race during may sound like the ultimate thing to Kent Vande Weerd says with a really was a mutual decision between Cathy and we were going to Cathy Bailey if you you gonna need some place to elope I'd ask Kent where he wanted to go and he'd always say had a sneaky suspicion that wherever we got auto racing would play a big part in she says with a good-natured finally told him save a little money and just get married at Park when I found out our track LeRoy just happens to be an ordained Vande Weerd cool is that must be a good he adds with a far-off look in his this must be our For Vande auto racing has never been a simple It's been a way of As the flag man at Park Jefferson he knows he has the best seat in the house each and every really is my dream Vande Weerd says without missing a Growing up in Rock Valley and Sioux Vande Weerd spent a good chuck of his formative years at had a sneaky suspicion that wherever we got auto racing would play a big part in Cathy Bailey used to race cars up in Rock he used to love watching him race on the His dad also worked at the having had a hand in designing the infield pits and the See On Pace 3 Akron area pastor retires Kellen Is excited about the challenges of the new school photo by Don By Beverly Van Buskirk Lifestyles A rural Akron church pastor will retire in The Rev. William pastor of St. John Evangelical Lutheran rural will conduct his final worship service with the congregation on Sept. 4, at 10 a.m. A program will follow the worship service at 11 with a catered dinner served at A freewill offering will be received for the Friends are welcome to attend the day's Reservations for the dinner may be made by calling Carrie Eastman at 712-533-6561 or Charlotte Hillrichs at 712-568-2167, by Aug. 29. Kallestad has served St. John at Akron since September 1996 and began his 38th year in ministry in He graduated from Augsburg College in 1963 with a bachelor of arts degree in He attended Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary where he earned his bachelor of divinity degree in 1967. His internship was served at Friedens Lutheran Church at Kan. He was ordained June 1, 1967. He began his ministry at a two-point parish in Salem Lutheran at Mahtowa and Bethel Lutheran at serving there from 1967 to 1972. In 1972, he accepted a call to Faith Lutheran Church in where he served until 1981. His next call brought him to and the parishes of Lutheran at rural Pomeroy and Trinity Lutheran of rural The Trinity Lutheran parish closed in 1989, with the church building moved to Jefferson where a new church was He accepted the call to St. John Evangelical Lutheran Preston rural and was installed in September See ON Pace 3 1 V ' ' 1 1 i The Rev. William B. pastor at St. John Evangelical Lutheran rural since 1996, will retire in photo by Beverly Van