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Come and see Santa!


Saturday, December 20


9:30 - 11:30 a.m.


at the Duncan Building

 

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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?



 

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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:

 

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"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

 

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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

 

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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.




 

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Journey Into_Christmas



“Christmas Belles” Kicks off Holiday Season at the Lofte
Manley, NE [November 21, 2014] - The Lofte Community Theatre will usher in the holiday season on Saturday, December 6 with the hilarious family comedy, “Christmas Belles.”  Written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, “Belles” is the story of three squabbling southern sisters trying to pull-off their church's Christmas program.
  
Poor suffering Frankie is pregnant with twins and weeks past her due date.  Hot-flash suffering Honey Rae is trying to keep the Tabernacle of the Lamb's Christmas program from spiraling out of control and middle-sister, Twink, is in jail for inadvertently setting the town on fire.  Their hilarious holiday journey through a misadventure-filled Christmas Eve is guaranteed to bring joy to your world!  If you saw the Lofte’s first season production, “Dearly Beloved,” you will recognize many of the same colorful characters in this sequel.
Directed by Kevin Colbert, the play features Keri Hogue of Elmwood, Shari Hoelker of Omaha and Wendy Allen of Plattsmouth as the three Futrelle sisters.  The production also showcases the talents of Randy Wallace and Doug Rothgeb of Omaha, Ross Mumford and Ken Snyder of Elmwood, Kirsten Wood and Melinda Mead of Plattsmouth, Betty Colbert of Weeping Water and Alyssa DiPaolo of Lincoln.    
“Christmas Belles,” runs December 6, 7, 12-14 and 19-21.  Friday and Saturday night curtain times are 7:30pm.  All Sunday performances are 2pm matinees.  Tickets are $19, but there are special reduced rates for groups of 20 or more.  Call the box office at (402) 234-2553 to make reservations.  

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Pictured on Attachment:  Shari Hoelker, Keri Hogue and Wendy Allen revisit their roles as the colorful and always dramatic Futrelle Sisters in, “Christmas Belles."

 

 

 

 

 


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Go Big_Red_Nebraska_Football

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