When the sun sets and the stars come out, the City of Algona will begin to glow. 
Hundreds of community members have already signed up to participate in Saturday’s 4th Annual AlGLOna 5K GLO Run/Walk. 
Four years ago, the Leadership Algona Class planned and hosted the first GLO Run/Walk as a way to give back to the community by raising funds for the Algona Recreational Trial. 

What does it take to get grown men to don high heels and parade down the main street of a town? A good cause. 
In honor of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, gentlemen from across the area banned together to show awareness of the tragic situations of victims and their families, by joining in the ninth annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event. 

After 76 years of lying unidentified in a mass grave in Hawaii, Navy Fireman 1st Class William Henry Kennedy, will be laid to rest next to his mother at the Buffalo Township Cemetery.  
Kennedy was the son of William Henry Kennedy Sr. and Elizabeth Martha Erickson Tienan Kennedy. 
Growing up in the Titonka area, he attended business school in Texas under the sponsorship of his uncle and decided to make the Navy a career. 

ALGONA — Algona High School students danced the night away at the ‘Midnight Masquerade’ at the 2017 prom at Algona High School gym on Saturday, April 29.
Michael Jensen and Angel Block, two 11th graders, were enjoying everything around them in preparation for the Grand March. Both said they had been to the prom the year before.
“I like the whole thing,” Jensen said. “I just remember all of the pictures being taken.”
 

90th birthday

90th birthday

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Anna Rose Jensen

Jack Ryan Pedersen

Calla Elise Bormann

BANCROFT — No one was sure what check broke the $1 million mark during Wednesday’s (April 19) Kossuth County Community Foundation 2017 grant award celebration at the Summit Center.

LEDYARD — An individual might be hard pressed to find someone in the Ledyard area that does not know Rev. Sam Belz. 
Since being ordained and installed at the Bethany Evangelical and Reformed Church in Ledyard on Aug. 9, 2015, Belz has been reaching out to community members both in and outside of his church community. 
Growing up in one of the few PCA (Presbyterian Church of America) churches in Iowa, Belz said, “Coming here (to Ledyard) is sort of like coming home.”

Whip cream bottles were pulled off the shelf and ran through the checkout, making their way to Bertha Godfrey Elementary School for a special event, concluding the Read a Million Minutes program on Friday, April 21. 
Students rejoiced, as they saw pie tins being filled with whip cream for the impending creaming of their principal Stacy Mueller and custodian Billy Bradford. 

Students partied in “Small Town USA” at Saturday night’s Bishop Garrigan Prom. 
The entrance, hallway and Friedmann Auditorium were completely transformed with twinkly lights, rustic weathered wood, windmills and tulle, creating an atmosphere of a classy country gathering. 
 
For more on this story, please see the April 27 issue of the Kossuth County Advance.

50th anniversary
 
Bob and Bev (Johnson) Cink were married on April 22, 1967 and will be celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. Their family, including their children, Jeff (Jackie) Cink and their family, and Julie (Joe) Bollig and their family, are encouraging family and friends to shower them with cards to help them celebrate. Cards and well wishes will reach them at 501 East Elm Street, Algona, IA 50511.