For weeks Dakota Valley students in 4th through 8th grade have been gathering donations for Embassy Care & Rehab Center in Sergeant Bluff, IA. It was a community service project that brought a lot of holiday cheer to all.

Eighth-grader Asher Pfeifer, of Dakota Dunes, was elected student body president for the middle school in the fall. He and many others from the upper elementary and middle sch…