Thank You

SWANTEK

Thank you family and friends for the cards and coming to my Open House for my 85th birthday celebration.

- - - Phil Swantek

REIMER

Dear Nance County Journal, Thank you for donating to the Nance County 4-H Youth Incentive Fund. My favorite projects this year were my steer and heifer, Larry and Daisy. Your donation will help me to continue showing next year. It is greatly appreciated.

- - - Sincerely, Elena Reimer

CONNELLY

Dear Nance County Journal, Thank you for your support of the Nance County 4-H program. I learned a lot this year and enjoyed working on projects with my family. I appreciate your generous donation.

- - - Thanks again, Molly Connelly

REIMER

Dear Nance County Journal, Thank you for donating to the Nance County 4-H Incentive Fund. I sewed a dress this year. I enjoyed showing my cat, Sam, too. - - - Sincerely, Mindy Reimer

SONDERUP

Dear Nance County Journal Staff, Thank you for your generous support of the Nance County 4-H program. Your donation will help myself and other 4-H members develop life skills and become leaders.

My name is Lora Sonderup and I am ten years old and a fifth grader at Fullerton Elementary school. This is my sixth year in 4-H where I am a member of the Trailblazers 4-H Club, Hot Shots shooting sports program, and Levi’s Horse Club.

I enjoy showing animals, sewing, crafting, photography, and baking.

The highlight of my year was showing my horse Winchester. I was awarded Grand Champion in four classes at the horse show. I showed my cat Socks, and had a junior herd, market steer and bucket calf at the fair. This year, I was finally old enough to show my breeding heifer at the State Fair!

I was chosen to represent our county as a clothing model, and my paper-pieced Charolais quilt received top honors on its class at the State Fair.

I greatly appreciate the premiums I received from your donation. Last year I was able to purchase my own compound bow that I learned to use at our shooting sports club meetings. This year, I plan to purchase a new saddle pad and save for college.

Thanks again for your support! - - - Sincerely, Lora Sonderup

Storyteller Pippa White will bring the prairie to life when she brings her one-woman show, “Far as the Eye Can See,” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, at College Park in Grand Island.

She’ll rivet the audience with her tales of the pioneers who crossed the prairie and then settled it, the brave people of the Dust Bowl, and the Native Americans who struggled to hang onto the prairie that was once theirs alone.

White has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition to professional storytelling, she offers workshops and residencies and has been a teaching artist with the Nebraska Arts Council since 1990. To date, she has performed in more than 30 states at universities and colleges, conferences, performing arts centers, museums, libraries and festivals.

The show is sponsored by Central Community College-Grand Island. The cost is $5 for senior citizens and current CCC students and $10 for all other individuals. For more information call 308-398-7441.

Andy Wallin

Promoted to Albion

Crew Leader

COLUMBUS, Neb. — Loup Power District has named Andy Wallin as Crew Leader for the Albion Division.

In his new role, Wallin, will lead the crew in charge of construction and maintenance of Loup’s electrical transmission and distribution system in the Albion Division.

Wallin joined Loup Power District as a Line Technician at the Columbus Service Center in 2011. He was promoted to Journey Line Technician in 2014 and remained in that position until this promotion.

Wallin graduated from Newman Grove High School and earned an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Utility Line from Northeast Community College in Norfolk.

UNMC welcomed area students this fall semester

The University of Nebraska Medical Center welcomed 1,273 new students this fall as they made a commitment to the health professions and began educational programs in Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney, Scottsbluff and Norfolk. Students are enrolled in programs for medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, allied health professions and graduate studies.

New students include:

• College of Nursing Kearney Division: Clarks–McKenna Morris

• College of Nursing Northern Division (Norfolk): Fullerton– Violet Heinbaugh; Genoa–Christy Kemper Radiation Therapy: Silver Creek–Brittany Roberts.

Twin River’s Aiden

Cuba earns State

Land Judging

Champion slot

Students and instructors from 29 high schools met near Gering to compete in State Land Judging Oct. 19. The North Platte Natural Resources District (NRD) partnered with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to host the annual competition.

Students judged in a dryland corn field southwest of Wildcat Hills Recreation Area. Land Judging is a high school competition that challenges students to gain a better understanding of soil structure and land evaluation.

Teams consist of four students from the same FFA chapter, and a few individuals who qualified separate from a team. During the competition, students judge four soil pits using an evaluation card to make assessments on soil depth, surface texture, permeability, slope, thickness of surface and erosion. 2022 State Land Judging Individual Champions: 1. Ashlynn Millikan, Norfolk 2. Colton Miller, Lyons- Decatur 3. Aiden Cuba, Twin River 4. Clay Maloloey, Holdrege 5. Jameson Doyle, Hampton 2022 State Land Judging Team Champions: 1. Norfolk 2. Hampton 3. Southwest 4. Bayard 5. Lewiston. These top five Nebraska teams will advance to the national competition hosted in Oklahoma City May 2-4, 2023.

Flower Belles entertained with ‘Cosmos Flower’

The Fullerton Flower Belles met October 21 at South View Estates. Jeanan Glenn was hostess for the ten members present and one guest, Mary Mitchell’s daughter Diane. Hostesses for the 2023 meetings were scheduled. Officers for 2023 were elected. They are Jeanan Glenn, president; Jan Hellbusch, vice-president; Wylene Novicki, treasurer-secretary; and Karen Delaney, scrapbook. Mary Mitchell entertained the members with a Spanish song titled ‘Cosmos Flower’ and sang it for the group. Invitations were given for the Christmas gathering. The meeting closed with the hostess serving refreshments.

The Mystery of

Hunting’s End

Chosen as 2023

One Book One

Nebraska

People across Nebraska are encouraged to read the work of a Nebraskan — and then talk about it with their friends and neighbors. The Mystery of Hunting’s End (Bison Books, 1998) by Mignon Eberhart is the 2023 One Book One Nebraska selection.

The Mystery of Hunting’s End is a 1930s chiller, inspired and set in the Sand Hills of Nebraska, where Mignon G. Eberhart lived as a newlywed. Smack in the middle of the rolling desolation is Hunting’s End, a weekend lodge owned by the rich Kingery family. To that place socialite Matil Kingery invites a strange collection of guests — the same people who were at the lodge when her father died of “heart failure” exactly five years ago. She intends to find out which one of them murdered him.

The selection committee for the 2023 One Book One Nebraska enjoyed the concept of a mystery. This is a book that keeps the reader guessing as to who is behind the murders taking place in a lodge outside of Valentine during a blizzard. Why were these murders committed, are any of the guests staying at the lodge safe, and who is the killer? The book is full of colorful characters, including Nurse Sarah Keate and detective Lance O’Leary. The reader is challenged to find clues that will lead to the discovery of who is the guilty party. Mignon G. Eberhart was born and raised in Lincoln, NE. She had a long and celebrated career, writing a total of 59 novels, earning her the Grand Master Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. She died at the age of ninety-seven in 1996.

Libraries across Nebraska will join other literary and cultural organizations in planning book discussions, activities, and events that will encourage Nebraskans to read and discuss this book. Support materials to assist with local reading/discussion activities will be available after January 1, 2023 at http://onebook.nebraska. gov. Updates and activity listings will be posted on the One Book One Nebraska Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/onebookonenebraska.

2023 will mark the 19th year of the One Book One Nebraska reading program, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book.