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[ June 4, 2025 ] Worship that’s worth it Community
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[ June 4, 2025 ] Home energy conservation tips from Realtor Perry Thessen Community

Sign up for summer fun at SKyPAC Camps

May 5, 2019 tim@sokyhappenings.com Comments Off

From arts and crafts to theatre and dance, there’s something for campers of ALL ages at SKyPAC. Our camps are taught by professional teaching artists and educators who work every day in the subject […]

Essential areas of financial planning for business owners from Ben Smith Investments

June 4, 2025 0

Owning your own business provides you with many great opportunities, but it also comes with its own unique set of circumstances. Growing up with a father and grandparents who owned businesses, I saw firsthand the [...]
Worship that’s worth it

June 4, 2025 0

If you think “worship” is that time in the church service where you sing some songs, you’d be right, but it’s so much more. Online, worship as a noun is explained as “the feeling or [...]
A parents’ summer survival guide

June 4, 2025 0

HELLO SUMMER! We did it, moms and dads… we made it through another school year, and now it’s time to throw caution to the wind and embrace the chaotic season that is summer. Constant towing [...]
Come visit The Garden Patch in our new location – our farm!

June 4, 2025 0

The Garden Patch has made a change in our ongoing story! After many years in our great ole house in downtown Smiths Grove, we have moved back to our farm. Our roots are dug in [...]

Preparing for a purchase at The Design Studio at Ford’s Furniture

December 3, 2023 Comments Off on Preparing for a purchase at The Design Studio at Ford’s Furniture

It is always exciting to update your home, but it can also be a bit overwhelming. So don’t make it more difficult than it is. Preparation is the way to relieve stress and have a [...]
Dance schools in America: A cultural history

May 29, 2020 Comments Off on Dance schools in America: A cultural history

In the 19th century, classical ballet in the US was just a part of “popular culture.” In Europe, the arts had always been government supported to promote kings and tsars. America, by contrast, had been [...]
Fashion resolutions

January 7, 2023 Comments Off on Fashion resolutions

Here we are again at the end of another year. It’s New Year’s Eve and we find ourselves vowing to change something for the coming year. Most of us think about exercising more, eating healthy, [...]
Let’s celebrate National Sewing Machine Day at The Sewing & Vacuum Center!

June 5, 2023 Comments Off on Let’s celebrate National Sewing Machine Day at The Sewing & Vacuum Center!

June brings us a number of celebration days including the unofficial National Sewing Machine Day on June 13. This day acknowledges the first patent of a sewing machine by Englishman Thomas Saint in 1790. However, [...]