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SUMMER BEGINS JUNE 21ST!

 

 

Thank you to Rose Marie Brandt for her donation of her old band

uniform to the History Room. And to the family of Berdean West and 

Jim & Marilyn Schreiner for their continued donations. The History and

Veterans Rooms will be open this Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

along with the restrooms. Stop in!

 

 

 

 

 

Hope to see you this weekend at the Unadilla festivities. Keep 

checking our FB page for the latest updates.

We can still use some more volunteers!

 

 

 

 

Some folks are just generous with their time and abilities: Thanks to

Bob Bryan for mowing roadside ditches and to Tom Block for cleaning

out the storm drain by the Park

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Continued get well wishes for a speedy recovery to

Sandi Kimbell and Marvin Lucas.

 

 

 

 

Just a reminder: once you turn 65, you are eligible for the

senior discount rate on your garbage service!

 

 

 

Otoe County Genealogical Society members traveled to Tecumseh

Saturday, June 15, and toured the Johnson County Museum. What a 

wonderful job these volunteers have done. The space is open and well

lit and they have done a fantastic job on the displays. 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we went across the street onto the courthouse square and

looked at their new veterans memorial which was just dedicated last

month. It is so beautiful and thoughtfully laid out. 

 

 

 

The heat finally got to us and we headed for the Lorton Lounge, where

we had a great lunch. The last couple of months we have connected

people from Maine, Louisiana and Australia to family and friends who

lived in Otoe County. It's a small world isn't it?

 

 

 

Sunday at the Christian Church started out with a potluck breakfast - so

much yummy food. After the sermon, the children gave a program about

fathers and then gave each father a birdhouse they had made. A special

honor was given to our oldest member, Roland Rodaway, and the

children gave him a walking stick made by the campers at Camp Kalaheo.

 

 

Jacob Griepenstroh, Pastor Sandy Denton, Kaden Aernie, Cheyenne Bean, Kayla Griepenstroh

Roland Rodaway, Mollie Aernie, Mason Bean

 

 

 

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

 

6-20   Bob Wilhelm, Riley Walters

6-21   Marvin & Jean Lucas, Corryn Lewis, Nick Emerson,

Matt & Suzie Doeden

6-23   Brian Zahn, Nola West Herman

6-24   Brianne Neemann Wilhelm, Harvey Cox

6-25   Shirley Conradi

 

 

 

NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO

 

Friday, 6-20-1919, The Otoe Union:

"Old Charley", James Doyle's dray horse, died at the age of 27.

"Miss Ida Thoms, North Russell, got her face quite badly poisoned while

picking strawberries." Large amounts of "smut" was discovered in the

wheat. Everyone was waiting for the rain to end so they could pick cherries.