Week of November 14, 2024
Week of November 14, 2024
Friday was a special day in Jewell. Two businesses opened! Both are located at 213 Main Street in Jewell. The building is often referred to as "the old Merc." The owners of the businesses are Ryan and Ashton Wilson Cates. Ryan Cates, owner of Neb-Kan Consultant Service, has moved his office from his home to the Jewell location. Cates graduated from Belleville High School with the Class of 2005, then graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in agronomy. He has been involved with...
Saturday evening, the Superior High School D1 Nebraska State Champion volleyball team stopped by the Superior Auditorium to celebrate with the Brodstone Healthcare gala participants. Above, one can see the Superior High School vans in the foreground, some of the crowd greeting the girls in front of the auditorium and greeters on the auditorium deck. It was truly a red carpet night in Superior. Members of the Superior High School Nebraska State D-1 champion volleyballl team pose for a picture...
Frequent Ideal Market shoppers have noticed the store has new shelf tags. The tags are one of two major changes made this year which will help keep grocery costs competitive. The less visible change are solar panels which cover the roof. Shannon and Jenny McCord, store managers, have for several years focused on modernizing the grocery store. Customers have seen the front windows replaced with a wall and increased show case room, new air cooled freezers and coolers have replaced water cooled...
How often does the average person use the Nelson library and all its assets? Where would you go if you couldn't use the library? And what would the cost be to you if you were to use a computer elsewhere, buy a book or a CD-DVD, eBooks and Audiobooks or Wi-Fi use? Where and at what cost could you use a meeting room, get homework help, use Makerspace equipment or have computer-electronic device training and assistance and have access to local newspapers and many magazines? Many of us take the...
The senior class at Lawrence Nelson High School presented yet another immaculate presentation for the veterans of our community. Monday's program was filled with artwork, interviews, woodwork and a live bald eagle. Each year, these students continue to amaze the staff and community with their contributions. The students shared a description of their project while also discussing what Veteran's Day means to them. In the coming years, it would be great to see more public and veterans attend....
The Superior Wildcat Volleyball team pushed through five sets with both Cedar Catholic (Thursday), then Bruning-Davenport-Shickley (Friday) to secure an opportunity to win the Nebraska State D-1 title on Saturday. It was the fifth time this season Lady Cats out lasted its opponent in five sets. Reagan Meyers, a 6'2" sophomore leads the team statistically in kills, aces and digs. However veteran players Jordan Duncan - junior, Halle Bargen - senior, Mia Gardner - senior, Faith Butler - senior,...
Supply problems are not a new challenge. When I was in high school I remember when the family’s filling station nearly ran out of gasoline. Dad was gone and he had left me charge. I didn’t know how I could explain how I let the station run out of its best selling item and frantically worked to solve the problem. It was standard procedure to measure the fuel left in all tanks at opening every morning as we balanced recorded sales with the gallons pumped to make sure all sales were recorded and the money accounted for. When the amount of...
And then it was over . . . There was just silence . . . Well, OK, maybe that silence note wasn’t correct. A couple of comments on the election. • I thought I was correct in saying Nebraska residents really didn’t want to be known as a state that welcomed people into their state to “Kill” their babies via abortion. We not only stopped “Liberals” from putting an imagined “Right to an abortion” into the Nebraska Constitution, but improved the current limits (although still not great) on abortions. • Of all the other...
The stroke left her paralyzed and stole away the present, leaving her mercifully living in the past. When I came to visit, she would ask me if I had seen “Mama”. I would tell her that Mama was really busy caring for the chickens. Grace loved them. She and Mama were proud of the many chickens they had raised over the years. She also asked about her favorite riding horse, Dick, and wanted him brought around so she could ride. When we had her sale that year, we found Dick in the basement truck. Alice told us he was always getting loose so...
Q: If you tithe are you more apt to go to heaven? A: Bible verses such as Habakkuk 2:4, John 3:36, Romans 4:5, Romans 6:23, Romans 11:6 and Galatians 2:21 (to name just a few) all make it very clear that eternal life in heaven is offered by God to all as a completely free gift. There is nothing we must do to qualify for this gift and indeed nothing we could do to earn it even if we wanted to (Isaiah 64:6). All we have to do is accept eternal life as a gift from God by trusting in Jesus. Giving money to God, church or charity earns you no...
“We don’t know them all but we owe them all!” A great saying this Veterans Day as this is being written. I swell with pride thinking of our brave veterans who were willing to serve this great country and keep it safe and free. I think of this every time I go to vote, attend the church of my choice, give a salute to the American flag as the anthem is being played, live where I chose, do the jobs I chose to do and not be afraid of being arrested for supporting my country. I was raised to give honor to this America and the veterans and...
