An effort to fill Spencer elementary and pre-elementary rooms with volunteer readers generated strong community support Friday for Rally The Readers. SpencerReads appealed to members of the district area to turn out and read to Johnson, Fairview, Lincoln and Iowa Great Lakes Lutheran elementary classrooms, as well as the YMCA 4-year-old preschool room. Readers were asked to bring a book or read a selection from the classroom teach.
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Spencer D.A.R.E Program Starts New Year
By charguth February 12, 2021 9:31 am
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Spencer, IA (KICD)– The Drug Abuse Resistance Program or DARE has returned to Spencer schools focusing on helping kids avoid drug use as they continue toward adulthood.
School Resource Officer Darren Hansen tells KICD News while name of the program focuses on drugs, he likes to look closely at the relationship building between kids and law enforcement.
Lieutenant Kyle Van Otterloo oversees the program at Spencer Sacred Heart and Iowa Great Lakes Lutheran School. He says the theme of personal responsibility is a lesson that can be carried into many facets of life, including what have gone through over the past year with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local Students Celebrate Lutheran Schools Week
January 27, 2021 1:04 pm
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Spencer, IA (KICD)– We are in the middle of an annual celebration known as Lutheran Schools Week and Iowa Great Lakes Lutheran School in Spencer is once again taking part in the festivities.
Principal Sarah Popp tells KICD News this week looks a little bit different than in past years because of COVID-19, but the school is still cheering about the fact that education like this exists in our country.
Popp says Iowa Great Lakes Lutheran also takes time during this week to learn about religion in other cultures.
Iowa Great Lakes Lutheran is based out of Spencer’s First English Lutheran Church and currently enrolls 83 kindergarten through sixth grade students.