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It’s getting to the end of the camping season and that saddens me. I know not everyone feels the same as I do about time at the lakes with a camper trailer. Years ago, when our sons were young, my husband and I thought we needed to get away from the farming duties and our outside jobs for a day or two. Quality time with our boys was important to us. We came up with the idea of purchasing a camper trailer and going to some place for time together. With the closest lake only a few miles away from our farm, we knew chores could still be done if n...
After learning two high school mates of mine observed their 54th wedding anniversary last week, I have been wondering where the years went. It shouldn’t been a shock for I walked across the Superior Auditorium stage and received my diploma 57 years ago. But the couples I took wedding photos of have remained forever young in my mind. I was the hired photographer when Tim and Lana Shotzman were married at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in the fall of 1967. They were young then and I still think of them as a newly married couple. After taking two...
Presenting Biblical answers to tough questions Q: How could a loving God command genocide? God told Israel to kill all of the Canaanites, men women and children! Part One: The first question I would have to ask this person is whether they are accusing God of injustice or inconsistency? In order to accuse God of injustice we would have to know more about justice than God does and be powerful enough to hold Him to our point of view. I don’t see that happening any time soon. If our wish is to reconcile God’s love and goodness with his sterner com...
Puffs The more things change . . . the more they stay the same. I wasn’t sure how to begin this week as I just came across a couple of items from different sources I would like to tie together that might just help explain some activities of our current political world. First off, from Pope Francis himself: “Division and exclusion come from Satan.” His actual quote was: “Because the devil, who is the divider – this is what the word ‘devil’ means – always insinuates suspicions to divide and exclude.” Keep that in mind as I’m going back in histo...
Well, Jacob is on the injured list again, not sure how severe. I’m going to have to start selling organs to be able to pay to fix his limbs! We are working away at the money pit. I’m starting to feel like that is going to be my story for the foreseeable future. I’ve started to patch and repair plaster. It’s not hard work, just tedious, and there is so much plaster to repair. The texturizing will be the hard part. George is getting ready to install the new furnace. He was working on the electrical, but we ran out of wire and light fixture...
The Nuckolls County Board of Commissioners met at the Nuckolls County courthouse in Nelson, Monday. All three board members were present. The board, on the advice of Jeff Wagner, county highway superintendent, did not accept the lone bid submitted for bridge replacement project C-65 (716). The project is located southwest of Nelson. It will replace a bridge with three steel tube culverts. Wagner reccommended the highway department bundle the project with another one in the spring. The hope is steel prices will have lowered. The board heard a...
The call reporting an accident at the Hardy elevator was of the type that local responders envision in their nightmares. It was reported a man had fallen while working on a piece of equipment known as a leg. Elevator legs are used to lift the grain from the ground to distributors which then send it on to the desired bin. While legs may have stairs or ladders, they are not designed in a way to make movement of an injured person easy. When the call for help came to the first responders, they were...
There is a new restaurant on Superior's horizon i. Eric and April Perrie have purchased the location of the former Superior Pizza Hut. The couple are planning a major renovation project to revitalize the building. Eric is son of Jim and Vicki Perrie, Superior. He is a 2001 graduate of Superior High School. He is currently employed at Duncan Aviation, Lincoln, as an aircraft mechanic. April Garcia Perrie grew up in Nelson and is also a 2001 Superior High School graduate. She serves as the...
Hours of operation for Superior’s burn pit changed with the arrival of October. The pit is located in a former sand pit about three-quarters of a mile north of the cement terminal on west Eighth Street. A century ago the sand pit was served by a spur off the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the fine sand taken from the pit was shipped from here to be used in making of plaster. Through November, the burn pit will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays. On Saturdays, it will be open from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Only trees, b...
It’s early October and planning is well underway for the annual Harvest Festival sponsored each fall by the Living Faith Fellowship Church. In previous years the festival was described as a carnival. After an absence of several years, this year’s event is returning to the newly upgraded Superior Auditorium. That is where the annual carnival started but after the auditorium was closed by a tight fisted city council that had grown tired of the annual appropriation needed to fund the building’s operation. The facility is now privately owned and s...
As we head into the fall and winter months, charitable agencies are stepping up their requests for donations. Most are located in some far off city and we do not know those responsible for its operation. But that isn't true of one group. The Ambassadors of Kindness is a nonprofit group based in Superior. It provides children in foster care with Christmas gifts through donations. In recent years, the group has begun doing more than just playing Santa to hundreds of children. Jaxon and Ellie...
The Superior Family Medical Center and the Nelson Family Medical Center will be administering flu shots via drive thru shot clinics this year. They have announced two dates for Superior and one date for Nelson. No appointments are required and patients are asked to bring their insurance card if insured. Flu Shots are $55 without insurance and cash or check will be accepted only. Wearing a mask is recommended. For questions or more information, call Superior Family Medical Center at 402-879-4781. Superior – Monday, Oct. 11, from 2 to 4p.m. a...
Gale Jeffery, rural Burr Oak, has found a unique ironclad hobby featuring agricultural history. Six years ago this cow-calf operator and semi retired farmer started making shelves and tables as a place to display his hunted mounts. As people saw Jeffery's creations, his hobby began to grow. Now it keeps him occupied in his spare time. His tables, shelves and stools are unique because they are made out of cast iron, incorporating mostly old antique farm items. Since Jeffery is a farmer-rancher,...
By Kerma Crouse The 2021 Corn Show Parade Grand Marshalls are about as "Jewell" as the Jewell Corn Show. Calvin Bohnert grew up on a farm just outside the city limits on the west side of Jewell. The same farm where he and his wife, Peg Griffeth Bohnert, now live. He went to Jewell Elementary School and graduated from Jewell High School, USD 279 with the Class of 1968. Peg's family moved to Jewell in time for her fifth-grade year. She finished elementary school in Jewell and like Calvin...
Today, Thursday the 7th of October, the 2021 Jewell Corn Show really gets started. The exhibits are on display in the Jewell Community Center today from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. They can be seen Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. or Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Remember everything comes down at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. On Friday evening get those golf carts, ATVs and mowers running and head out to Lake Emerson for the 6 p.m. start of the “PAIR-A-DICE” Ride. Follow a route around Jewell and roll those dice to win a cash prize. Friday isn’t over – Grab-N-...
Census reports continue to be compiled and released to the public. Two Jewell County communities are among the 15 fastest growing communities in the 12 county area served by the North Central Regional Planning Commission office at Beloit. While some towns grew, all 12 counties lost population when compared to the 2010 census. In that 10-year period between the population counts, the 12 counties had a population decline of 5,729 people. The greatest population loss by percentage was in Lincoln County, the lowest loss by percentage was in...
The Jewell County Commissioners met Sept. 20, with commissioners, Brent Beck, Steve Greene and Keith Roe. Carla J. Waugh, county clerk, was present for the meeting. Nancy Marihugh, health administrator, said she contacted the Smith County Health Department, and they are using a modified quarantine but currently have no COVID-19 cases associated with the school. Nancy reported Jewell County had 12 more positives the previous week. She said some of the new COVID-19 cases were positive on the 13 to 14th day of exposure. Curt Slate, road...
The Jewell County commissioners met Sept, 13. Natalie Frost, Crystal Cosand, Pamela Wirth and Brenden Wirth were present to discuss COVD-19 quarantine protocols. Pamela Wirth requested that Jewell County consider these changes to COVID-19 quarantine protocols: 1) If you are a close contact, you are required to wear a mask for 10 days but remain in school and participate in activities. 2) Still quarantine close contacts in the same household. The group stated some other county health departments were modifying quarantine protocols. They said it...
Jewell County Commissioners Brent Beck, Steve Greene and Keith Roe met last Monday. Carla J. Waugh, county clerk, was present for the meeting. The following were present for office head meeting: Amanda Davis, register of deeds; Nancy Marihugh, health administrator; Anna Porter, county appraiser; Alexandria Carabajal, county attorney; and Kevin Peroutek, noxious weed director, emergency preparedness director and 911 coordinator. Those absent; Nora Rhoades, Post Rock Extension District director; Shannon Meier, ambulance director; Travis Garst,...
On Sept. 29, the 2021 State Range Judging Contest was held in the beautiful Sandhills of Cherry County near Valentine (nine miles from the South Dakota border). This contest was hosted by the Society for Range Management, the NRCS, the Nebraska Extension and the NRD. The contest is held in varying parts of the state each year and can prove to be a challenge even for those students familiar with the area. Vying for top spot were 269 students from 42 FFA chapters including: Ainsworth, Amherst,...
Harvest 2021 is here. However, the harvest isn't always corn and beans. Many, many folks in south central Nebraska still grow gardens in and around their homes. And it is time for garden harvests as well as the crops in the field. Pat Faimon of Lawrence has a garden most every year and enjoys the produce from it. However, just last weekend, he got a bit of a surprise while digging up sweet potatoes. The picture above shows Mr. Faimon with the growth from one hill of sweet potatoes. He noted...
Impressed by the amount of scoring done this year by the L-N Raider football team ? ? ? Well, after last Friday's 70-43 victory over Giltner, I surely was. In fact at half time I commented just where the score of the game might end. I was reminded by a fan that it might just take some doing to beat that game of several years ago when L-N scored 90 point, also against Giltner. My memory, not being as good as it should made me go home and look up scores from the past several years and there it...
One point . . . That was the difference between the first place winner and the second place runner-up at the Twin Valley Conference Cross Country Meet last Thursday held at Red Cloud. The Co-op team between Lawrence-Nelson and Sandy Creek performed their best at the meet and Coach Fox noted: "many of the boys ran personal best times. It was and exciting day, Rowan earned his first ever first place medal. Logan tied his career best finish by finishing third and Sean ran an incredible race and...
It won’t go down in history as the world’s largest Memorial, but it has to be one of the most heartfelt Memorials ever. If you were at the L-N football game last Friday night and happened to be on the Raider side of the field near the bleachers, you had the chance to see a small Memorial expression built to recognize and honor the 13 American military personnel killed during the recent exodus from Afghanistan during the terrorist takeover of that country. The effort came from a L-N junior student, Will Dougherty, who put the Memorial tog...
Volleyball schedules can vary quite a bit from week to week. Last week was a busy one for the L-N Lady Raider team. They took part in the annual St. Cecilia Invitational Tournament in Hastings and faced three C-2 and two, D-1 teams in the process. In the course of the week, they defeated one C-2 team and one D-1 team. The three teams they lost to have a combined 45-10 won-loss record. Summaries: L-N – SUPERIOR: 25-22, 22-25, 11-25: This was the second time of this season meeting Superior and the Raiders picked up one Set win against the r...
