Distance Learning

Preparing for Africa (12/19/09)
Bob, Barb, Austin, Stephanie and Cameron Van Wyk have recently contemplated printing up buttons stating "Dec. 29" and "Yes" to answer two questions they've heard over and over: "When are you leaving?" and "Are you excited?" The Spencer family has spent the last 18 months sharing their story with others across the nation and raising the funds needed to cover work-related and personal expenses while they serve abroad as missionaries the next three years. ...

Learning to live lighter (09/01/09)
It's hard to ignore, bright blue steel parked, unceremoniously, just outside my front door. That steel encloses, I've been told, 12 cubic yards of emptiness. It's up to me to help fill it, my husband explains. "It's a perfect time to clean out those closets, get rid of some of the junk," he says...

Beaver named new children's librarian (03/04/09)
Sarah Beth (Fuchsen) Beaver has been named the new youth services librarian at Spencer Public Library. Monday, March 23 will mark her first official day on job. The 27-year-old daughter of Tom and Marianne Fuchsen, Spencer, is a 2000 Spencer High School alumna who also graduated from the University of South Dakota at Vermillion. Beaver is currently working to complete her master's degree in library science online from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee this December...

Conover reflects on 22 years service in Iowa's community colleges (12/18/08)
As Kitty Conover sifts through the things in her office this week, her thoughts jump from what she's witnessed over the past 22 years, the last four of which have been as Iowa Lakes Community College's Spencer Campus dean, to anticipations of what may be in store for her in the future...

EXECUTIVE DEAN RESIGNS AT IOWA LAKES (11/13/08)
Several new faculty members at Iowa Lakes Community College met the members of the Board of Trustees at their meeting Tuesday afternoon in Estherville; and an executive dean stepped down. The executive dean of the Estherville campus of Iowa Lakes Community College has turned in her resignation and the trustees accepted it...

Space needed for ILCC Wind Energy students (09/18/08)
The Board of Trustees of Iowa Lakes Community College decided to secure more classroom space for Wind Energy students during their meeting in Estherville late Tuesday afternoon. The Trustees heard from Delaine Hiney, executive director of Facilities Management, who updated them on the need. ...

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