St. John’s Lutheran School

St. John’s staff preparing for start of school Sept. 7

Sep 1, 2021

The staff at St. John’s Lutheran School has been busily preparing for the new school year, the school said in a news release. St. John’s will open its doors to students on Sept. 7 and begin the year with an opening service at 8:40 a.m. in the church. All are welcome to attend this service. Mrs....

School starts next week

Sep 1, 2021

The 2021-2022 school year for Lake City students begins next week. Lincoln High School welcomes seventh through 12th grade students back Tuesday, Sept. 7, as does St. John’s Lutheran School (see related story about St. John’s on page 9). Kindergarten through sixth grade at Bluff View Elementary...

Fire prevention prize winners at St. John’s

Dec 16, 2020

The Lake City Fire Department has announced the winners of its fire prevention week contests and drawing at St. John’s Lutheran School. At right is Talan Dodd, a kindergartener, with the toy fire truck he won. With him is Lake City firefighter Justin Novak. At right below are winners of the escape...

VFW Auxiliary announces Patriot’s Pen winners

Nov 18, 2020

The Lake City VFW Auxiliary has announced the local winners of the Patriot’s Pen essay contest. Lori Meyers, the auxiliary’s scholarship chairperson, led a committee to select the winners. First place, and a $100 prize, went to Ethan Stehr. Second place, and $50, went to Lydia Harteneck. And third...

St. John’s begins Phase I of playground improvements

Oct 28, 2020

Phase I of a three-phase playground renewal project at St. John’s Lutheran School is underway. “This playground is for the preschool students and kindergarteners of our school as well as those within the community,” Principal David Zabel said. “Once the set is completely installed we will install...

Playground project moving along thanks to community

Sep 30, 2020

St John’s Lutheran School garage sale committee held their annual sale on September 10-12 despite the “100 Mile Garage Sale” being cancelled. We want to thank everyone who volunteered their time and talents to make this event successful. We would like to thank everyone who donated items to our...

St. John’s to open school with face-to-face learning model

Aug 19, 2020

Editor’s note: The Graphic asked St. John’s Lutheran School Principal David Zabel to describe how learning will take place as the school year begins and the process that led to those decisions. His full response follows. Once the Governor made his decision to “let local schools districts decide...

St. John’s kindergarten teacher retires

Jun 17, 2020

In June, Denise Steffenhagen will be retiring from 25 years as a Lutheran elementary school teacher. For the last seven of those twenty-five years, she has been the Kindergarten teacher at St. John’s in Lake City. After fourteen years as a stay-at-home mom, Denise Steffenhagen began her...

Parade narrows gap between students and school staff

May 28, 2020

After months of distance learning that took place predominantly online, students and staff at Lake City Public Schools and St. John’s Lutheran School got to see one another in person – if only briefly and from a physical distance – May 20 during a parade organized by Bluff Country School Bus...

St. John’s students have a coin war, Lake City Food Shelf wins

Mar 11, 2020

Students at St. John’s Lutheran School recently held a coin war during spirit week to see which class could raise the most money for the Lake City Food Shelf. The eighth grade students won the challenge, and on March 5 they presented a check representing all the money raised during the coin war to...