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VACATION TIME IS HERE!

The Books & Brew Book Club met Tuesday, May 19. The book

reviewed was "Patty Jane's House of Curl" by Lorna Landvik.

Our next meeting will be July 7 at 10:00 a.m. The book for read-

ing will be "A Woman's Place" by Lynn Austin.

Please join us if you can!

The Community Center was really busy Saturday night.

The SHS Class of 1975 held their reunion in the gym and

the Unadilla High School Alumni dinner was held in Suite #2.

Peggy Leefers reports: 38 alumnie and spouses attended the Unadilla Alumni dinner. The social hour was spent viewing the new history rooms that included displays featuring Veteran's photos, uniforms, and memorabilia, school photos and mementos of years gon by, and the miniature villages and trains displayed by Corey Schulze and Sharon Demaree. A carry in dinner with fried chicken provided by the Alumni Association were complimented by many deliscious salads and yummy desserts provided by the attendees. A local history quiz and readings of past events followed. 

The honored class of 1945 was represented by Arvilla Kuenning and Bob Fey. The honored class of 1950 was represented by Marvin Lucas and Bill Stoner. Attending from the class of 1955, were Colleen Zenisek, Jan Thomson, Katherine Callaway, Larry Halverson, and Larry Bartling. The class of 1955 will be hosting the 2016 annual dinner. Prizes of Caseys and Walmart gift cards and bouquet centerpieces were given to some lucky winners.

The ballpark is getting quite a workout this summer. Two teams are

using Unadilla as their home field and most of those games are

played on Friday night.

Memorial Day, May 25th a fundraiser lunch was held in the Unadilla Community Center to help support the new history rooms and to give visitors a place to meet and socialize. The event was sponsored by the Unadilla Library and a grant from Thrivent. Approximately 60 people enjoyed the free will offering lunch with donations of $535. A huge thank you to Frank & Joyce Schulze for the donation of sloppy joes, Sharon and Corey for once again having the villages and trains going, Sue and Julia from the library for serving, the town board for taking down and putting away all the chairs and tables, and Barb for setting up the displays. A special thank you to Peggy Leefers for all her work and organization.

The history rooms were open for viewing and the responses were quite positive.This rooms are already proving to be valuable to the community in keeping our local history alive. They can be viewed any time the Village Office is open or on weekends by appointment. Anyone with items to loan or donate, please call Barb Willhelm or the Village office. Thank you again for your generosity.

Wall of Heroes

Brandt family display

Uniforms belonging to Bill Brandt, Harland Wallen, Roger

Kastens, and Jack Stilwell

Did you know if you started using cloth napkins it would keep

500,000+ tons of paper based trash out of landfills each year?

Even considering the cost of laundering those napkins, the 

impact on the planet would be huge!

The Unadilla Cemetery Board would like to thank everyone

for their help in putting up and taking down the flags, and

Nash-Jensen American Legion Post #195 for the ceremony

on Memorial Day morning.

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

5-27   Bev Anderson, Andrew Priefert, Aiden Vodicka,

Brooklyn Lewis

5-28   Rex Oelke

5-30   Loy Boardman, Randy Brehm

5-31   Vince Hinrichsen

6-1   Chad Pester

NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO

Friday, 5-28-1915, The Otoe Union:

Jesse J. Richardson, manager of the Finigan Creamery,

and Ardell Miller, a teacher at Palmyra school, were married

in Lincoln. "Jas. H. Eaton left for Detroit, Mich., Tuesday to

visit the Ford factory and see if he could not stimulate the

shipment of his invoice of Ford cars." "The Burlington has 

laid a substantial brick platform in front of the depot and

recovered the roof with new metal shingles tinted green."