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Here it is, the first week in December 2022! It’s beginning to feel and look like a Kansas-Nebraska December. Tuesday, it was cloudy, and the cold northern winds were blowing. North of us there were reports of slick roadways because of moisture falling and freezing. For me, it was a good day to stay inside my comfy home. Maybe it was a good day to begin decorating our home for Christmas as many are now doing but I’m really not in the true spirit yet. I could have begun baking Christmas treats and freezing them. But no, I’m not in that spirit ye...
I was surprised last Wednesday morning when I looked out and found a heavy fog had descended on the area. It has been so dry in recent weeks I didn’t think there would be enough moisture in the atmosphere to form fog. Most mornings fog doesn’t inconvenience me greatly other than I may chose to walk rather than ride to work. Only two blocks separate my home from work and generally I make the commute via a bicycle. If I need a vehicle during the day, I have access to a vehicle left in the newspaper’s garage. But Wednesday mornings are diffe...
Presenting Biblical answers to tough questions Q: I’m not a Christian, can I still pray? A: When most people today speak about prayer they usually mean “to talk to God.” But there is another meaning for prayer that is more common in the Bible, and it is the idea of bringing a petition or request to Him. Understanding this, I think the best answer to the above question is that unbelievers can both talk to God and bring petitions to Him, but only Christians can engage in these activities most fully and effectively. There are many examples of pe...
Just as Christmas is not “just a day,” Thanksgiving is also not “just a day.” You may think this opinion is a day, or two, late, but I think it is never too late to say “Thank You.” For the Thanksgiving holiday many families take time for each to say “Thank You” for whatever is most important to them. To do so, is a good practice, but we’ve just never got around to doing that. We try to attend a morning Mass that day and use the day to thank God for all of his many blessings. “If” I were asked to give a single thing I’m most grateful for, I wo...
Here I am, last minute, sitting down to write about this week’s Crazy Life. Tuesday morning when George told me goodbye, he said, if you go anywhere today, please be careful. I took one look outside, and my decision to stay home held firm. The only plan for the day was to cover the drafty windows with plastic. We made it to California and back again. It’s all a blur, and it feels like I dreamt rather than experienced it. Flying wasn’t all that bad, although I felt like a sardine shoved into a tin can. Given a choice, I still prefer to drive...
Two teams of horses arrived in Superior more than an hour before Candy Cane Lane's first hayrack rides of the season, Friday evening. The teams are perhaps some of the best trained teams in Nebraska. One team, owned by Jerry Mousel, was driven by co-teamsters Larry Jerkins and Hayley Boon. Some standing near-by may have considered Boon, a high school student, inexperience. However, this summer she took second place in obstacle competition with a team owned by her grandfather. "She lives next...
Candy Cane Lane had a great opening Friday night. As expected the park was a popular place to be with not only the light show but the Scout Cabin was open and serving hot chili, hot dogs, hot chocolate, coffee, S’Mores and other goodies. As usual the horse drawn wagon rides through the park were popular. However, there have been some surprises and on Monday the future of this year’s display was in question. An electrical fuse costing $12.50 each and serving Pole One had repeatedly blown. It wasn’t a problem in past years but the display was s...
The first two weeks winning names have been drawn as part of the Superior Chamber of Commerce Superior Bucks holiday promotion. Week two winners included Linda Dress, Richard Ahrens, Adam Sunday and Jackie Ernest. Week one winners were Ezra Morris, JoAnn Rogers, Rita Jeffs and Kristin Thornson. Each received 50 Superior Bucks which may be spent like cash in participating Superior stores. There are two more drawings this season. Sunday is the day for the annual Christmas program presented in the Nuckolls County Museum’s church building. Mike S...
As part of the Christmas in Mankato festivities on Saturday, the Jewell County Historical Museum hosted a soft opening of the nearly-completed Columbian Mammoth exhibit with more than 95 people in attendance. Drawing winners were Madi Engel - T-shirt, Kyra Lampe - mammoth stuffed animal, Letti Kohn - book, and Lovaeh Meyer - T-Shirt. The museum has been undergoing renovations since April, and this was the first time the general public were allowed a sneak peak of the progress. Some of the new...
The Superior Express and Jewell County Record newspapers are planning to feature Letters to Santa Claus in their Thursday, Dec. 22 combined edition. Invitations have been sent to area school teachers encouraging them to have their students write Santa letters or other Christmas essays and submit to the newspaper for possible publication. Letters may be mailed to either the Jewell County Record at P.O. Box 305, Mankato, Kansas 66956 or The Superior Express at P.O. Box 408, Superior, Nebraska 68978. Or they may be delivered to one of the offices...
Ron Wilson Huck Boyd Institute for Rural Developement “We deliver the male.” No, I’m not referring to the U.S. Postal Service. In this case, it refers to a business that delivers selected male genetics to pork production operations across the Midwest. This same innovative farm family is also pursuing blockchain and bitcoin mining from its location near the Village of Hardy. Lannin Zoltenko is president and managing partner at Zoltenko Farms and Wildcat Blockchain. His family’s farm is in Jewell County, just one mile from the Nebraska state l...
As part of the National Rural Health Day celebration in mid-November, Brodstone Healthcare announced it has been recognized with a 2022 Performance Leadership Award for excellence in the areas of quality and patient perspective. Compiled by The Chartis Center for Rural Health, the Performance Leadership Awards honor top quartile performance (e.g., 75th percentile or above) among rural hospitals. “Patient experience and quality is something that guides us in every decision we make here at Brodstone,” said Treg Vyzourek, CEO at Brodstone Hea...
Every settlement on the Plains had several requirements. The establishment of a post office, securing, if possible, a location on a railroad, schools, churches and places of commerce. One often overlooked necessity was a resting place for deceased members of the community. Early homesteaders often buried their deceased family members on the family farmland as new towns were slow to develop. Superior was no exception to this practice. William Loudon arrived in the Republican River valley in 1871. He first visited the valley area on the Kansas...
Should you sell your grain? Should you store? What are the grain markets telling you? An upcoming Nebraska Extension workshop will help farmers develop marketing plans for 2023. Nebraska Extension in Thayer County will host a cash grain marketing workshop in Deshler from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 8, at the Thayer County Fairgrounds Building. This workshop will cover the basic steps to help develop a proactive grain marketing plan. It will focus on developing marketing goals, using cash price tools and marketing plan exit strategies. It...
On Nov.11, Timothy Blecha, MD, of Superior, Nebraska, was recognized by the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Family Medicine as the 2022 recipient of the Marion D. and Theodore H. Koefoot, Jr., MD, Outstanding Preceptor in Rural Family Medicine Award. The award is granted to a rural Nebraska family physician who provides outstanding teaching and mentoring of medical students during their family medicine rural preceptorship and serves as an outstanding community physician. Dr....
Stephanie Dickerson spent an “eternity” on Dec. 15, 2021, huddled with her husband, son, a neighbor and a hired hand in the cab of a pickup truck as a wildfire made the doors too hot to touch. It didn’t matter that they were parked in the middle of a green wheat field. It didn’t matter that a volunteer firefighter was dousing the vehicle with water from a tanker truck. The heat was still seeping into the cab. “They basically poured water on us for about 15 or 20 minutes,” Dickerson said. “The only thing not burned in that field was the circl...
The Jewell County Commissioners met Nov. 21, with Commissioners Steve Greene, Brent Beck, and Keith Roe present. Carla J. Waugh, county clerk, and Ed Duskie, commissioner elect joined the meeting. Carla Waugh said Travis Garst, solid waste director, requested a revised solid waste resolution for determining when fees would be charged. Jeff Cheek and Brett Williams discussed employee pay scales. Jeff said he was attending on behalf of every county employee requesting a pay raise. He said staffing is down which requires others to take on more...
The St. Stephen Council 1906, Knights of Columbus started out the 2022 Christmas season with a couple of charitable donations. The Council took action during their November meeting. One donation was made to the ‘Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House’ near Waverly. The Retreat House recently lost the use of their furnace that required the facility to replace the entire system. As such, as part of their effort to raise money to pay for a new furnace, they contacted the Knights of Columbus organizations across the state for support. In res...
Because of high community transmission levels of COVID-19, Mary Lanning Healthcare is changing its visitor policies to meet with Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines. The South Heartland District Health Department on Friday released the new transmission levels. Because levels in Adams County went from the “substantial” to “high,” MLH is requiring all visitors to wear masks in all settings while at the hospital. All staff are required to wear masks in public and patient facing areas. Unvaccinated staff members will be required to wear...
As Fall comes to a close, it finds the Lawrence Community Club busy with winter events. The Tour of Homes will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Saturday, Dec. 3. Preston and Lacey Hild, Jordan and Samantha Juranek, Brett and Makenzie Kohmetscher and Don and Dee Kohmetscher will graciously open their homes to visitors. The cost is only $15. See the ad in the paper for more information. There are many craft shows and other activities in the area so load up the car with family and friends and make a fun day of it. On Wednesday, Dec. 7, Goodwill...
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will be closing its Hastings office at 300 N. St. Joseph Ave on Dec. 16, 2022. DHHS is currently working to secure a temporary location and will inform residents as soon as that location is secured. In the meantime, a drop box will be available at 300 N. St. Joseph where residents can drop off documents. The drop box and mail delivered to the office will be checked daily by DHHS staff. If residents need immediate assistance, call 855-632-7633 for Medicaid or 800-383-4278 for Economic...
Should you sell your grain? Should you store? What are the grain markets telling you? An upcoming Nebraska Extension workshop will help farmers develop marketing plans for 2023. Nebraska Extension in Thayer County will host a cash grain marketing workshop in Deshler from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 8, at the Thayer County Fairgrounds Building. This workshop will cover the basic steps to help develop a proactive grain marketing plan. It will focus on developing marketing goals, using cash price tools and marketing plan exit strategies. It...
Phillip Virgil Eckles the oldest son of five children of William and Verna Littrell Eckles was born Feb. 18, 1924, in Nelson. He died Nov. 28, 2022, at Parkview Nursing Home at the age of 98 years, 9 months, 10 days. Phillip (Phil) graduated from Wilber High School with the Class of 1943. He then started his career with the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company which was interrupted by being drafted into the U.S. Army as a medic during WWII. After an honorable discharge from the Army, Phil...
Darrel Ray Uhrmacher, 69, of Sutherland, died Nov. 22, 2022 at home. He was born on Sept. 20, 1953, to Raymond and Helen (Tanner) Uhrmacher in Superior. Darrel grew up in Superior, attending a country school through the 8th grade, and graduating from Superior High School in 1971. After graduating, Darrel began secretly taking flying lessons, against his parents’ approval. In 1972, he received his pilot’s license and also joined the Army National Guard, serving from 1972-1978. Darrel flew private planes, crop dusters and eventually cor...
Sue Ellen Rose, the daughter of Homer and Emma (Engel) Hoff, was born June 21, 1946, At McCook. She died on Nov. 20, 2022, at the Sutton Community Home in Sutton where she had resided briefly at the age of 76 years, 4 months and 29 days. Sue spent her early years in Wauneta, and graduated from the Wauneta Public Schools. She continued her formal education attending Kearney State College where she earned both her bachelor and master’s degrees. She was united in marriage with Jerry Rose on Nov. 30, 1973, in Superior. Sue taught elementary s...
