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There was a statement recently shared about grandchildren, “some of the greatest blessings call us Grandma and Grandpa.” Grandparents certainly appreciate and agree with that statement. I know I do. Over Thanksgiving weekend, families and friends came together. That included grandparents with their grandchildren. It brought back precious grandparent memories of our past family times together. Thoughts came to mind of the joy on my grandmother’s face when a new grandchild was placed in her arms as she would rock back and forth, cuddling the l...
Did you ever get a song caught in your mind and it kept repeating itself over and over all day (or maybe more than a day) in your mind. Maybe it was a thought or phrase or whatever. Well, I recently heard a song and had to look up just when and where it came from. The name of the song is “People are Crazy.” It was written in 2008 and the three lines I keep hearing in my mind were: “God is Great!” “Beer is Good!” “People are Crazy!” I got to thinking: “God is Great.” That is the only one of the three lines that is true without qualificati...
Editorʼs Notebook By Bill Blauvelt While my father would later advertise that he offered tankwagon service, that was a misnomer. Dad offered tanktruck service for his bulk delivery tank was mounted on some kind of truck. His earliest Dodge truck was about the size of a modern pickup. As the years passed, the trucks got bigger. His largest, which was never put into service, held 5,000 gallons and was made to be pulled by a semi-tractor. I suspect the 1903 tankwagon had a steel tank mounted on wagon gear pulled by a team of horses or mules. A...
Q: Does having a church around actually benefit anything? What is it good for? A: That will depend on the church. Churches that are Bible-based, Spirit-filled and faithful will be tremendous blessings to the community they are a part of. Churches that are dead, toxic or legalistic are a heavy drag on the community and a disgrace to the name of Christ. While I am neither a Christian nor a pastor because I believe all churches are perfect, I do believe that faithful churches and Christians have the greatest potential for blessing both...
Duke found his voice! I’ve heard him bark, playfully, but he is not typically a vocal pup. My friend, Linda, popped in the other day. Like always, she walked on in. I knew she was there, I heard the door, but it caught Duke off guard. When he barked, I almost jumped out of my skin. He sounds scary! I guess that is what they mean by “his bark is worse than his bite.” I’m feeling a little better, and yes, I may have been feeling a little sorry for myself the past few weeks, but I’m allowed. Life is hard, and when one is not feeling well, it is a...
Following a weekend fire, a young Superior couple is without a home and their possessions. Firemen were called about 12:50 Saturday afternoon to 1104 N. Park after a motorist saw smoke pouring from the house. Jasper Butler and Rhiannan Pierce were in the house but asleep at the time and unaware an electrical system failure in the bathroom-kitchen area had apparently started the fire. Thanks to the alert from the motorists, all occupants and pets were able to escape the fire unharmed....
Basil William Johnson, the son of William and Grace (Bauer) Johnson, was born on Oct. 11, 1929, in Davenport, Nebraska. He died on Nov. 26, 2023, at Bryan LGH West in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 94 years, 1 months, 15 days. He was baptized and confirmed at Christ Lutheran Church, Davenport, Nebraska, went to a rural grade school and graduated from Davenport High School, May 1947. He married Eulanda Lacey in 1951. One daughter was born to this union (Lucinda) June 26, 1955. Basil enlisted in...
Four houses got at least a temporary stay of execution when the Superior City Council met Monday evening. If repair progress continues as expected, the houses will receive pardons. Their previous owners had allowed the properties to run afoul of city standards and they had been placed on the list of homes to be removed. An agreement was reached to sell the city owned house at 826 Central to Tracy Purcell. She will be required to pay any back taxes and liens attached to the property. Purcell said she would begin at once to clean and repair the...
Randy Haba’s story began on a small farm, run by his father, Dean, just outside of Glenvil, with his family. The family relocated to Colorado in 1982 when Randy was three. He was the youngest of his four siblings, Joe, Julia and Rene. Trying to keep up with his older brother, Joe, and farm work through the years made Randy a bit of an athlete. In high school, he played several sports, helping his football and basketball teams win state championships. However, he had never been much of a swimmer, having been land-locked most of his life. A...
Among the special holiday activities planned for this week is the annual Nuckolls County Historical Society’s annual Christmas program in the museum church. There has a been a change in the starting time because of a another engagement conflict by one of the presenters. The program start has been delayed from 2 to 3 p.m. Arnold Miller and John Price will be the musicians and Lori Kitzing, pastor of churches in Superior and Ruskin, will be the featured speaker. The museum will be open to visitors from 1 to 5 p.m. Refreshments will be a...
There has been an unusual find this week in a northern Jewell County field. Two dead buck deer were observed but there was no evidence of blood or signs the animals had been dragged to the disposal site. On closer examination, it was determined the deer had apparently been fighting and gotten their antlers tangled in the bottom wire that had been pulled from the landowners’ fence. Locked together, they eventually died....
Anthony Roy, from Bogue, Kansas, is the new Mankato city administrator. Roy has been in local government for approximately 10 years, both city and county. That, along with a deep interest in Jewell County, pushed him to apply for and accept the city administrator position for the City of Mankato. Roy is from western Kansas and believes Jewell County is a lot like where he grew up. He also knows the Boyd family that used to own the newspaper in Mankato. His interest in the community peaked with...
Before the pandemic, Nancy Vorkink Machin and Mel La Rue, residents at Cherry Creek Retirement Village in Aurora, Colorado, would sit in the dining hall, sharing stories of overseas travels, wildlife and a passion for conservation. Mel, a 1947 graduate of Mankato High School, had been a volunteer at the Denver Zoo for years and had visited the wildlife in Africa. Nancy had lived and taught in Africa, been a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer and got an advanced degree in social ecology in Nigeria. In...
Rock Hills High School Theater Department will present the classic board game "Clue to Life" Saturday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 3 at 5 p.m. The performers are (from left) Matthew Rice as Professor Plum, Peyton Zadina as Miss Scarlet, Garrett Kerstner as Mr. Green, Bella Volker as Mrs. Peacock, Cooper Rhea as Colonel Mustard and Arielle Jacobs as Mrs. White....
The Jewell County Commissioners Brent Beck, Keith Roe and Ed Duskie met Nov. 20. Carla Waugh, county clerk, was present for the meeting. P.J. Garst, solid waste director, discussed disposal of solid waste from the transfer station. He said that Hamm is increasing the price for transporting the waste to their Perry, Kansas location. P.J. is looking into an alternative option for taking solid waste to Saline County, but Jewell County would have to transport it. This would require purchasing a walking floor trailer. He said he was working with...
The Jewell County Commissioners, Brent Beck, Keith Roe and Ed Duskie, met on Nov. 13, as the Board of County Canvassers. The meeting was opened to canvass the ballots from the Nov. 7, 2023, General Election. Carla J. Waugh, Jewell County clerk-election officer, was also present. Waugh, reviewed the election night tabulation and the advance ballot count that was received after election night. She then reviewed the five provisional ballots and the reason for being provisional. She then went over the guidelines in the Kansas Election Standards...
The Jewell County Commissioners met Nov. 13. Commissioners Brent Beck, Keith Roe and Ed Duskie were present along with Carla Waugh, county clerk. Waugh discussed issues with a delinquent payment on a department’s county credit card. She also discussed designated holidays set by the county commissioners and a department not following the designation. Joel Elkins, general superintendent, discussed road and bridge maintenance. He attended the wildfire mitigation meeting hosted by the insurance company. Commissioners appointed voting delegates f...
If you haven't noticed, things just keep moving in high school sports (and all other things as well). Football playoffs just finished last week and Nebraska high schools will begin a schedule of winter activities this coming weekend. The L-N High School basketball teams and the wrestling team will begin their fun and games this Friday and Saturday. Both the boys and the girls' basketball teams are in class D-2 this year. They begin their 2023-2024 season with home games. They entertain Red...
Lorene D. Friend, 95, of Keller Texas, formerly from Lawrence, Nebraska, died on Nov. 24, 2023, at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Grapevine, Texas. Lorene was born to John and Bertha (Ostdiek) Lemke, on Election Day Nov. 6, 1928, at home in Mt. Clare in Nuckolls County. She attended St Stephens School and later graduated from Lawrence Public High School in 1946. On Sept. 26, 1950, she married her high school sweetheart and the love of her life, Robert (Bob) Friend, at St. Stephens Church in Nuckolls County. To this union they had six...
Members of a family with a longtime connection to the Lawrence business community have closed out an 80 year association with a motor vehicle parts store in Hastings. Ike and Daisy Friend launched Friend’s Motor Supply in downtown Hastings in August of 1943, and grandchildren grew the business which eventually included parts stores in Hastings, Kearney, Minden, Aurora and Grand Island. The auto parts business has now been sold to the Genuine Parts Company, the owner of the National Auto Parts Association brand name and a member of the Friend f...
If you happen to be a regular at the Nelson Library, you may notice a new face popping in from time to time. Teraesa Bruce will be joining Mary Statz and Dawn Shaw at the library a few hours a week. Teraesa currently works for this newspaper and writes the weekly column “Love my Crazy Life” that is published in the Nuckolls County Locomotive Gazette. Teraesa’s interests include, reading, writing, swimming, camping, boating and photography, among other things. The list is long and her closets are full of her hobbies. She is a bit of a goofb...
Saturday, Nov. 18 was a lovely sunny day for the Nelson Rubies to trek to Davenport for lunch and to attend the opening of the Homegrown Craft and Vendor venue. Part of the Homegrown experience was to ride in a carriage pulled by a patient and beautiful black horse. A large garage sale featuring a number of retro and antique items was located in the area and became a drawing card for several of the Rubies also. The December Ruby event will be held in the afternoon on the 7th at the Nelson American Legion Clubhouse and will offer an opportunity...
Preliminary results from the 2023 Nebraska November firearm deer season show statewide harvest was down 18 percent from 2022 and down 29 percent from the 2018 to 2022 average. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission expected these results for the Nov. 11 to 19 season based on several factors that indicated a decline in harvest was coming. Lower harvest and deer populations were recorded in 2022 and lead to a reduced number of permits available for 2023. Other factors indicating the decline included: Permits and harvest had increased in 2019 and...
With the state championship games for Nebraska’s high school football season being played last week, the 2023 season is now in the history books. For the L-N High School Raiders, the year was a successful season as they ended up in the state playoffs, winning and losing a game therein. The season record was 7-3. The Raiders had a balanced team this season and looking beyond the won-loss record, the Raiders’ offense generated a total of 3,422 yards for the season. The defense held all opponents to only 2,283 yards of offense. South Loop was the...
According to the week of November 13, 2023’s VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Action Corps Weekly, the VFW has issued a Claim Shark factsheet concerning individuals or companies that charge hefty fees to “assist” or “consult” veterans with filing their VA benefit claims. This practice is Illegal. Some Claim Sharks listed on the factsheet are: Trajector Medical, Vet Benefits Guide, Veterans Guardian, VA Claims Insider, Telemedica, Patriot Angels, Veteran Care Services, VetComm, VA Claims Academy and at Assist. Veterans should always work with...
