Fitness

Live Healthy Le Mars offers team approach to good health (01/11/10)
Get ready to get in shape in 2010 by participating Live Healthy Le Mars. The 100-day challenge promotes a team approach to weight loss and physical activity. Local sponsors for Live Healthy Le Mars are the Le Mars YMCA, Floyd Valley Hospital and ISU Plymouth County Extension...

One aerobics class changes Harms' life (07/30/09)
When Suzie Harms showed up for her first Zumba® class, she was just looking for something to help her get back in shape. "I wasn't looking for a career change," she said. But that's exactly what she ended up with. "After one class I signed up to be an instructor," Harms said. "There was just so much energy."...

Exotic aerobics? Strip Shape gives fitness a new twist (07/17/09)
Carmen Electra isn't the only person instructing a unique way to burn some calories. A new business on main street in Le Mars is teaching a new and creative way to get into shape. In a brightly decorated studio filled with shades of pink and black, Erica Manning, owner and operator of Strip Shape Aerobics, teaches a unique aerobic workout that incorporates some exotic dance moves with other dance techniques and cardio to create a head-to-toe workout...

Fourth of July hoopla to unfold (07/02/09)
Fourth of July festivities will fill the day at the Plymouth County Historical Museum this Saturday with the traditional antique flea market. The flea market will be set up in "Old Central" Gym with items for sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hot jumbo dogs and all the trimmings -- chips and Fourth of July birthday cake -- will be the feature at the Gym Dandy Diner in the gym lobby...

LCS board OKs gym doors, freeze superintendent's salary (06/10/09)
There will be new doors at the entrance of Carey Gymnasium this fall. The Le Mars Community School Board of Education conducted a bid opening and hearing on the project at the start of its Monday meeting. It also accepted the low bid of $61,000 from L & L Builders of Sioux City...

Memory of two students lights up the scoreboard (05/19/09)
A flashy new scoreboard -- complete with video screen -- is on the wall in the varsity gymnasium at Le Mars Community School. Underneath it a sign reads: "In Memory of Shawn and Lindsay Hayden." The brother and sister, whose second home was the gym, lost their lives tragically in a 2006 shooting...

Heart Walk has special meaning for local residents (04/30/09)
Two Le Mars residents will have a special place of honor at the 2009 Plymouth/Sioux County Heart Walk Saturday, May 2, at the Maser Walking Trail at Le Mars Municipal Park. Serving as 2009 Honorary Heart King is Scott Vander Sluis. The 2009 Heart Princess is Cara Woerdehoff daughter of Andy and Tami Woerdehoff...

Live Healthy Le Mars challengers share success stories (04/24/09)
Patti Engle had a goal. She wanted to lose weight before her vacation in Cancún at the end of February. "I wanted to fit into my summer clothes," Engle said. That's why she took on the Live Healthy Le Mars' 100 day challenge, which started Jan. 14 and ended Thursday...

Live Healthy Le Mars poker walk Thursday (04/21/09)
Le Mars is living healthy. After almost 100 days of the Live Healthy fitness and nutrition challenge, participants have lost more than 450 pounds and exercised more than 8,000 hours. But before the challenge wraps up, one final event, the poker walk, is yet to come...

Floyd Valley Hospital's Avera pre-diabetes program shows successful outcomes (04/10/09)
A program conducted by Avera McKennan's Diabetes Center at Floyd Valley Hospital and other regional partner sites shows education is successful in helping people with pre-diabetes lose weight, and prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. In 2006, the Avera McKennan Diabetes Center received a $6,000 grant through the Avera Health Community Service Fund for the development of a Pre-Diabetes Education Program over two years...

Requests for county LOST grants reach nearly half a million (03/16/09)
Twenty-two Plymouth County groups are putting their name in for money from the $180,000 Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) revenue grant pool. Asking for a total of $431,261, the 21 groups' applications range from buying a Wii exercise DVD -- a kind of interactive video game -- for special needs people to renovation of the Akron Opera House...

LCS dancers plan Friday exhibition (02/23/09)
The Le Mars Community School dance team is hosting a dance exhibition Friday night at the high school gym. The performance, which begins at 7 p.m., will include performances of their dances this year, a co-ed dance with guys from the high school, and dances from four other schools' dance teams...

Thirty-five teams ready to take Live Healthy challenge (01/20/09)
This year, Live Healthy Le Mars has 35 registered teams with a total of 186 people involved in the program Live Healthy Le Mars started on January 14 and runs for 100 days, ending April 23 with a Poker Walk around Willow Creek Golf Course on the Maser Recreational Trail...

Live Healthy Le Mars: The 100-day healthy living challenge is back (01/05/09)
It's got a new name, but the former Lighten Up Le Mars is back in town. Meet Live Healthy Le Mars. It's the same 100-day challenge as last year with some fresh offerings. Live Healthy Le Mars is a team-based physical activity and weight loss challenge that aims to help people form better habits in nutrition and physical activity...

Museum plans silent auction at New Year's Eve ball (12/31/08)
Fifty area businesses from five communities in Plymouth County will have offerings on the Plymouth County Historical Museum's New Year's Eve Ball silent auction tonight (Wednesday). The doors for the silent auction will open at 5:30 p.m. in "Old Central" Gym lobby. Bidding may continue on the auction items until 10 p.m...

Museum plans New Year's Eve ball (12/26/08)
"New York! New York!" once again will be the theme for the Plymouth County Historical Museum's fourth annual New Year's Eve Ball from 7 to 11 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 31. Dancing and fellowship will be available in "Old Central" Gym where "Music Illusions" will star Tom and Patty Mullally and friends. Doors to the Gym lobby will open at 6 p.m...

Museum plans Pearl Harbor, WWII day (12/02/08)
It was a Sunday afternoon, Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into the fighing of World War II. This Sunday, Dec. 7, the Plymouth County Historical Museum will host the program "Pearl Harbor, World War II Christmas Memories" at 2 p.m. in the museum's "Old Central" Gym in Le Mars...

School board candidates share views heading into election (09/02/08)
The Le Mars Community School District has two open seats on the board of education. The election to fill the District 3 and 5 seats will be Sept. 9. Joe Cain and incumbent Dan Smith are running for the District 5 spot, and Mark Hemmingson is running a write-in campaign for the District 3 spot, which no one filed papers to fill. To get to know the candidates more, the Daily Sentinel asked each one eight questions, which are printed below with their answers.

Questions answered on school levy issue (08/29/08)
Two public information meetings brought approximately 75 Le Mars Community School District residents out to learn about the Instructional Support Levy (ISL) Wednesday and Thursday evenings. A vote on whether to implement the levy will be held on Sept. 9, the same day as school board elections...

Trail paves the way for recreation (08/08/08)
Delores Lancaster regularly walks on a recreation trail looping around Le Mars. And she's not the only one. People jogging, walking, biking, exercising dogs, in-line skating -- all use the trail. Even though it isn't complete yet, officials are working to finish its final section, which will complete the nearly 9-mile circuit...

Building on education: LCS addition nearly complete (08/07/08)
With only two weeks until school starts, teachers and staff at Le Mars Community High School and Middle School are busy putting the finishing touches on moves to new classroom space and computer labs and looking forward to the new middle school gymnasium...

Hinton school hosts public meeting on proposed expansion (07/01/08)
Hinton Community School is looking at building a new early elementary building and gym, and now officials want to hear what the public has to say. The school board will host a public meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 15 in the school gym to give an update on the proposed pre-Kindergarten through third grade building and competitive gymnasium, anticipated to cost more than $7.5 million...

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