Come and see Santa!
Saturday, December 20
9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
at the Duncan Building
Groundhog Day T shirts for 2015 are now available for
purchase at the Bank. Adults: 2 for $25
Youth sizes $10 each
Contact Peggy Leefers at 402-828-5725
if you are wanting groundhog cookie cutters
I've had a request for a photo of "Klondike" the dog from
the 1970's. Can't find one - anyone out there have one?
Thanks to these All Fund Drive donors: Larry & Rosemarie
Halvorsen, Dean & Peggy Luff, Vaughn & Dana Pester,
Lynn & Anita Schomerus, Mark & Denise Moerer, Bob & Barb
Wilhelm, Marvin & Jean Lucas, Norma Jean Boettcher, John
Moss, Barry Brandt, Tyler & Donna Crownover, Jason
Schomerus, James Grosch, John & Gera Stilwell, Ernie &
Lucille Schmucker, Leroy Covert, Norman & Rose Ann
Duncan, Steve & Betty Vodicka, MK Meats, Harvey &
Maureen Vogt, Don & Linda Esch, and May Lamb.
Your generosity has been amazing - can you think of a
better place to live? I can't!
Get well wishes and prayers for Bill Davis.
As of this writing, we still do not know the outcome of the
TR Mart auction last Saturday.
A favorite pastime of mine is finding photos for "Throw
Back Thursdays". I also like to write down stories from my
childhood to put in the scrapbooks I keep for my grandkids:
"My family and friends looked forward to this time of the
year because it was the beginning of "sled season".
Sometimes it was sponsored by one of the churches and
sometimes we just got together. The insurance company
would forbid it now, but the town blocked off the street from
the intersection south of the school to Main Street.
There were different variations, depending on who put
up the barricades. (Making the curve to go past the
Laundromat was very tricky!) We only went down the hill
in front of the Methodist church once, it was too scary
even for the bravest among us.
We spent hours waxing the runners of our sled with
paraffin wax to make it go faster. If there was a lot of
snow or no school, my Dad would build us a ramp over
the railroad tracks on the old road that went south of
the Bank. When you went off the ramp and up over the
tracks, it was like flying! The older kids who owned a
much coveted driver's license, would pull an old car hood
behind their car with 3 or 4 people in it. I don't remember
anyone getting hurt, but I remember quite a few trees
getting "trimmed". When our hands became too cold to
guide the sled or our toes too numb to walk back up the
hill, we went back to Mom's kitchen in search of hot
chocolate, always with miniature marshmallows,
and sugar cookies."
Please share your stories with us this season.
BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
12-10 Michael Bowersmith, Dave Hall, Renee Jensen
12-11 Peggy Leefers, Dirk Baker
12-12 Bill Kea
12-15 Jonna Pester
12-16 Dyland Bartling, Leah Lewis
NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO
Friday, 12-4-1914, The Otoe Union:
"The town board ordered the practice of throwing ashes
into the street discontinued and instructed the Marshall
to serve notices to that effect." Another fire at Palmyra
took down the 6 buildings on the south end of the main
business block; the loss totaled over $40,000. Floyd Luff
was shelling corn for Ray Bryant. Fritz Borchers bought
a farm in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and would
move there. Dunbar's basketball team beat Unadilla
by 1 point.
NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS
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8-30 Nebraska vs Florida Atlantic - won 55-7
9-6 Nebraska vs McNeese State - won 31-24
9-13 Fresno State vs Nebraska - won 55-19
9-20 Nebraska vs Miami Fla - won 41-31
9-27 Nebraska vs Illinois (Homecoming)
(8:00 pm CT/BTN) - won 45-14
10-4 Michigan State vs Nebraska - lost 22-27
10-11 BYE
10-18 Northwestern vs Nebraska - won 38-17
10-25 Nebraska vs Rutgers -won 42-24
11-1 Nebraska vs Purdue - won 35-14
11-8 BYE
11-15 Wisconsin vs Nebraska -lost 24-59
11-22 Nebraska vs Minnesota -lost 24-28
11-28 Iowa vs Nebraska - won 37-34
12-27 Nebraska vs San Diego (Holiday Bowl)
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Have a GREAT week!
Barb