Newsletter 11-20-2013

Give thanks

Thanks to these All-Fund Drive contributors:

Chuck Bjork, Bev Wilhelm, Tom Pruitt, Lynn Schomerus, Warren

Lashley, Danny Mitchell, Chris Moore, Ronald Johnson, Dallas

Royal, Larry Larson, Tony Engelbrecht, Gene Watermeier,

John Stilwell, and Rodney Wellsandt. Your donations will be

used to benefit our community.

JFK

This Friday, November 22, will be 50 years since JFK was

assassinated. For all of you who graduated from Syracuse,

Nebr. before 1980, you will remember Ron Wagner, coach,

freshman science, and sophomore biology teacher, and,

of course, physical education instructor. A soft-spoken and

humorous guy who could bring the whole room to tears as he

was dissecting a frog, or make us blush as we learned the basic

bandage techniques on "Annie" the blow-up patient. Where was

I when President Kennedy was shot? I was in the library, as

was the whole biology class, and the librarian, Mrs. Masters,

asked me to return and tell Ron what had happened. It was the

first time I had ever seen a grown man cry. By the time class was

dismissed, everyone was crying. And it seems to me, we

were pretty much in tears for weeks to come. I will remember

that day as long as I live.

Thanks

Thanks to Rita & Danny Mitchell for donating the nice

Schwinn exercise bike for the exercise room.

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Here's hoping all your family makes it home for

Thanksgiving safely - have a wonderful holiday!

UNADILLA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

November 23rd from 11 to 12:30, freewill offering lunch

serving creamed chicken, barbecue, sandwiches, pies, salads.

Auction for donated items begins at 1:00 all are welcome!

Cell 402-432-9844.

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Maples near Keith Liesemeyer home (Bob Brandt)

Sugar maple near Clark Stubbendeck home (Bob Brandt)

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

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11-21 Ralph Tipken, Jordan Rumery, Amy Vodicka

Frank & Joyce Schulze (#51)

11-22 Gavin Wardyn

11-25 Jim Bartling, Bob Aernie, Janet Simmons

11-26 Jordan Long

11-27 Jody Clark, Danae Stoner, Cherie Davis

NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO

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Friday, 11-21-1913, The Otoe Union:

A son was born to Otto Young's and Phil Miller's. A daughter

was born to Curtis Massie's. R.J. Vaughn sold Lots 1,2, &3,

Block 28, White's Addition, to H. Byron Barker for $250. E.L.

Brownlee left with a car of goods for Klickitat County,

Washington, where he would make his new home. Ruth

Whipple was the teacher at Orchard Hill. "Holly Luff has a

highly discolored optic and Paul Stutt a bruised jaw and is

otherwise bruised up. We are not certain whether they

received these injuries from being dumped out of a buggy

(as they state) or from too much "basketball" last

Saturday night."

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'Best Christmas Pageant Ever' is at the Lofte

The Lofte Community Theatre in Manley announces that the beloved children's story, 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," will open on the main stage on Saturday, November 30.

Based upon the book written by Barbara Robinson, this is the story of the six rough-and-tumble Herdman kids who bully their way into the annual Sunday School Nativity play. The church ladies, the Revrand and even the volunteer fire department are sure this will be the worst Christmas pageant ever, but the Sunday School teacher remains stubbornly optimistic. The production is filled with youthful energy and a the true spirit of Christmas

The production is directed by Kevin Colbert. Starring as the pageant director and her husband are Anne Pope and Scott Nielsen of Eagle. Their children, Charlie and Beth help to narrate the story, and are played by real-life brother and sister Noah and Tess Arent of Murdock. The Herdmans are played by Mia Thomas of Bellevue, Samuel Gauthier and Adeline Morgenson of Louisville, Talon Flodman and Gus Pope of Eagle and Xander Monson of Brock. In all, there are fifty-six people in the play. Forty-four of them are children!

The production will run November 30, December 1, 6-8 and 12-15. Curtain times are at 7:30pm except for Sundays which are 2pm matinees. Tickets are $17 for adults and only $10 for children under 12. For reservations, please call the Lofte box office at 402.234.2553.

Pictured on Attachment: Front row, Xander Monson and Samuel Gauthier. Back row, Mia Thomas, Gus Pope, Adeline Morgenson and Talon Flodman as the obnoxious Herdman clan!