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CURRENT EVENTS The Valley Grove Preservation Society board is pleased to announce that almost 70 of the funds needed for the 1894 wooden church steeple restoration has been raised in 2024. Donations small and large and from all over the country have made that possible. As an added incentive for larger donations landscape artist Tom Maakestad son of the founders of the preservation society who grew up near Valley Grove donated an original painting of Valley Grove as a lottery prize. Congratulations to Steve and Barb Strack neighbors to Valley Grove who were the winners of the lottery draw.