Newsletter 12-17-2025
Here's hoping you're not on the naughty list!
Christmas Coffee at the Unadilla Bank on Friday, 12-19
Santa at the Duncan Building on Saturday, 12-20, from 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Every Thursday evening, except Christmas, the gym is reserved from 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., for the pickelball players. Please take note!
The Day to Day Life of a Squirrel
by Renowned Wildlife Cub Reporter, Bob Wilhelm
Recently Binx and I were sitting in the drive-thru lane at the Syracuse Runza waiting for our order. We were looking at the tree line in the field west of Runza that runs north and south along the small creek between the old and new highways. I noticed that there were a great number of squirrel nests in those trees. An extrodinary amount actually. It got me to thinking how weird that was.It is like a bedroom community for squirrels nestled away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Each nest with a squirrel family in it. Papa squirrel, mama squirrel, and their kits/kittens.Imagine that the kits/kittens have just passed through the "pinkies" stage having been born blind and hairless with no fur. Now maybe they are home schooled or go to a squirrel daycare somewhere in this tree line. Here they will learn to scamper and chase each other up and down trees, crack nuts with their buck teeth, tease dogs by dropping acorns on them, and learn how to do high wire balance acts on powers lines between poles without getting electrocuted...at least most of the times...and all other sorts of squirrel like things. In the morning papa and maybe mama squirrel, if they are a dual income family, after sending the youngsters off to shool or daycare will commute to their jobs in the neighborhoods of Syracuse. Their preferred occupations are grabbing walnuts and acorns off the ground or fresh from the trees and burying them and marking their locations with GPS like acuracy for later retrieval to feed their families. They also enjoy darting in front of vehicles while changing directions and zigging and zagging like an NFL running back and most of the time without ending up a motionless pile of fur in the middle of the street. After a long day at work, they make the long commute back to the squirrel housing area. They will pick up the kits before going home to settle in for the evening, eat dinner while watching Wheel of Fortune and ready themselves to do it all over again in the morning, even on the weekends, because being a squirrel is a 24-7-365 day type of job.
BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
12-18 Eloise Stubbendeck, Hazel Wilhelm, Michele Hogan Donovan
12-20 Chuck Bjork
12-21 Chad & Jonna Pester, Bryce Ray Wallen, Ben Kroese
NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO
Friday, 12-18-1925, The Otoe Union:
"Disasterous fire sweeps Burr Village - main mercantile block in ashes from fire Sunday night and Bank scorched." Henry Hahn marketed the only corn in Unadilla that had passed the grade at the Farmer's Elevator. County graveling operations were being upgraded.
NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS
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DO YOU NEED HELP with FOOD, HOUSING or OTHER EMERGENCY SERVICES?
SENCA (Southeast Nebraska Community Action) is HERE to HELP YOU!
To drop off donations or pick up food at the local food pantry, you need to make an appointment.
Monday - Friday
8am - 4:30 pm
Call or text for appointment, 402-297-7418
SENCA Cass County Outreach
First Presbyterian Church, lower level
701 Chicago Ave.
Plattsmouth, NE 68048
(Please enter the lower level on the north side of the church at the driveway directly across from Oakmont Drive, off of Chicago Avenue.)
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Have a GREAT week!
Barb
"May the work I have done speak for me."
THE VILLAGE OF UNADILLA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
