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Your GreenDATE HI LOW MT13 0 -13 .2014 3 -17 .0715 1 -28 016 -3 -30 017 4 -14 T18 18 1 T19 22 -1 T20 25 -1 0

Snow: 2.3” on February 13; 1.1”on February 14; 0.1” on February17; and trace on February 18 andFebruary 19.Wind Chill: -17 degrees at 8:14a.m. on February 13; -19 at 9:47p.m. on February 14; -32 at 6:30a.m. on February 15; -31 at 8:12a.m. on February 16; -10 at 12:00a.m. on February 17; and 7 aboveat 10:25 p.m. on February 18.

Local businesses aresponsoring a “Save &Spend Your Green in Sta-pleton” night, Thursday,March 11. See the ad onpage 12 of this issue forcomplete details on every-thing that will be going onthat afternoon andevening. Some busi-nesses will be open ex-tended hours and Herbie’sSpeakeasy will host aWine & Whiskey tastingfrom 4 - 9.

MARCIA HORA

Vet’s Club

Cook-Off Contest

The Vet’s Club will besponsoring another cook-off contest. This time fea-turing chicken andnoodles. Everyone is en-couraged to enter the con-test that will be heldSaturday, March 13. En-tries need to be in by 6:00p.m. and judging will takeplace at 6:30 p.m. Open topublic for tasting at 7:00p.m. There will be karaoketoo.

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Golf Association fund-raiser brings in $4,000

MELODY HANSEN

KENDRA CUTLER - THE STAPLETON ENTERPRISE

Stapleton High School Honor Society members helping with the golf course fund-raiser were, back row, l-r: Caleb Burnside, Hannah Burnside, Sadie Dimmitt, TrinityHansen, Trisha Bernt, and Tad Dimmitt. Front row, l-r: Keali Florea and Megan Amos.

Scott Gaites, left, representing the Stapleton Golf Association, congratulates TrevorHanna on winning the .22 mag Henry rifle that was raffled off to help raise funds forthe Augusta Winds Golf Course. Kay Uphoff won the family golf membership, andVickie Weems, the golf bag.

The Stapleton Golf Asso-ciation held a fund raiser,Saturday, February 13,and in spite of extremelycold temperatures nearly60 people were in atten-dance to enjoy a steak din-ner at the StapletonCommunity Center.

Skip Hecox, president ofthe golf association, said500 raffle tickets were

sold and Trevor Hannawon the .22 mag Henryrifle. Kay Uphoff won theone-year family member-ship and Vickie Weems,the golf bag.

There were severalsilent items that took inadditional money and acash bar.

Scott Gaites, treasurer,said the event netted

around $4,000.00 and avery generous donationwas given by Ann Wells.

Stapleton High SchoolNational Honor Societymembers served the mealand helped with set-upand clean-up.

Money will be used forthe Augusta Wind GolfCourse watering systemand a new mower.

Donations are verymuch appreciated as thegolf course board is work-ing to improve the course.To contribute you may

contact Skip Hecox at 308-529-1861 or Scott Gaites at308-636-8308.

Other board members

are Jayce Doyle, KamanDailey, Eric Garrelts, MikeNeeds, Travis Hansen,and Tim Karn.

Selling groceries during a pandemic

MARCIA HORA - THE STAPLETON ENTERPRISE

Janet Boeser checks out Logan County Sheriff Sean Carson and Eula Boeser at the Stapleton Cooperative Market& Deli last week. The store will observe its 4th anniversary on March 12. Store manager, Pam Schaeffer, said the lastyear was very trying due to the pandemic, but the store saw an uptick in sales as people stayed closer to home andsupported their local businesses. Your continued support is vital in keeping the market operational and the shelveswell stocked.

Editor’s Note: This is thesecond in a series of storieson efforts made by busi-nesses, individuals, teach-ing staff and governmentofficials in our commu-nity, who helped get usthrough the past year as apandemic rocked our na-tion.

After purchasing andclosing on the grocerystore building on March2, 2020, Pam Schaeffer,manager of the StapletonCooperative Market &Deli sat at her desk andlooked at the amountneeded to fill the groceryshelves. She said a prayerbefore hitting the sendbutton. There was very lit-tle money in the checkingaccount and she knew theonly way the store couldget through was withGod’s help.

Little did she know thatMarch 11, 2020 would bethe biggest day of sales inthe history of the store.

“That was the day thepandemic hit and every-one rushed to the store topurchase groceries,”Schaeffer said. “It wastruly an answer to prayer,but we had our hands fulltrying to keep up our in-ventory and getting someitems was next to impossi-

ble.”Milk was a problem and

so were all paper prod-ucts, including the nowinfamous toilet papershortage. Cleaning sup-plies and disinfectantswere not available as peo-ple rushed in masses tostock up and even “bootleg” via the internet.

Schaeffer made handsanitizer and wipes forthe store and employeeswent into overdrive wip-ing down everything andtook every precaution tokeep the store as “germfree” as possible. Plasticguard shields were placedabove the check-out coun-ters.

Almost a year later, it isstill difficult to find stocksome items, including Mc-Cormick spices.

The store was not ex-empt from COVID-19 ei-ther as Schaeffer camedown with it in October.She worked from homeand employees steppedup to fill in the gap.

“The employees are awe-some and there have beenfive who have beenthrough a lot this pastyear. I cannot say enoughabout them and the jobthey do,” Schaeffer added.“Those five are Teresa

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Legal NoticeREQUEST FOR

PROPOSALSThe State of Nebraska,

Department of Trans-portation (NDOT) is issu-ing this Request forProposal (RFP), R302-21,for the purpose of select-ing a qualified contractorto provide Right-of WayMowing Services forNDOT, District 6.

Those interested in bid-ding on this proposal mayview the Prequalificationinformation and the Re-quest for Proposal (RFP)#R302-21 at the NebraskaDepartment of Trans-portation website:

http://dot.nebraska.gov/business-center/business-opp/pre-maint/. A copy ofthe RFP may be obtainedfrom the Nebraska De-partment of Transporta-tion.

Written questions aredue no later than Febru-ary 23, 2021, and shouldbe submitted via e-mail [email protected].

Sealed proposals frompre-qualified contractorsmust be received in theNebraska Department ofTransportation, Opera-tions Division, PO Box94759, Lincoln, NE 68509-4759 on or before March18, 2021, 3:00 P.M. CDT atwhich time the openingof the proposals will bepublic and the contrac-tors will be announced.

Publish: February 11, 18& 25, 2021 ZNEZ

Logan CountyNotice Of

Public Hearing

NOTICE OFORGANIZATION

Notice is hereby giventhat CJC Ag L.L.C. (the“Company”) has been or-ganized under the laws ofthe State of Nebraska. TheDesignated Office of theCompany is 514 A Street,Stapleton, Nebraska69163. The RegisteredAgent of the Company isChayton Crow, 514 AStreet, Stapleton, Ne-braska 69163. The Com-pany was formed onFebruary 2, 2021.

Publish: February 18, 25& March 4, 2021 ZNEZ

Legal Notice

The Logan CountyBoard of Commissionerswill be accepting bids forthe janitorial work for thecourthouse. They will beaccepting bids as contractlabor or hourly salary.The hours to be no morethan 25 hours a week. De-scriptions of the requiredwork for this job can bepicked up at the Clerk’soffice in the Courthouse.Written bids will be ac-cepted at the CountyClerk’s Office, PO Box 8,S t a p l e to n , N e b r a s k a ,69163, until 3:00 P.M.CST, March 16, 2021, thebids will be considered onMarch 17, 2021 at the reg-ular Commissioners’meeting at 9:30 a.m. Thestarting date will be April1, 2021. The LoganCounty Board reservesthe right to reject any andall bids.Robert Doyle, ChairmanPublish: February 18, 25

& March 4, 2021 ZNEZ

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Board of EducationMeeting

Stapleton PublicSchools

District 57-0501February 15, 2021

President Opela calledthe regular meeting of theStapleton Public SchoolsBoard of Education toorder at 7:00 p.m. onMonday, February 15,2021, in the library at Sta-pleton Public Schools.

The Pledge of Allegiancewas recited; the boardnorms were read aloud.

President Opela ob-served Open Meeting Lawrequirements.

Burnside: Present,Kramer: Present, Kramer:Present, Opela: Present,Schaeffer: Present, Walz:Present.

Moved by Walz, sec-onded by Schaeffer, to ap-prove the board meetingagenda as presented. Mo-tion carried.

Burnside: Aye, F.Kramer: Aye, K. Kramer:Aye, Opela: Aye, Schaeffer:Aye, Walz: Aye

Notice of the meetingwas published in The Sta-pleton Enterprise onThursday, February 11,2021, and posted at fivelocal business along withnotice to the president ofthe board and all mem-bers prior to the meetingdate.

President Opela asked ifthere was any public com-ment and referred to theguidelines in the agenda.

There was no one wish-ing to speak to the board.

A card of thanks wasread from the family ofRay Howard.

Moved by K. Kramer,seconded by Opela, to ap-prove the January 18,2021, regular board meet-ing minutes as presented.Motion carried.


Moved by F. Kramer, sec-onded by Schaeffer, to ap-prove the claims aspresented. Motion car-ried.


The treasurer's reportwas presented by Super-intendent Gaffney.

Lacy Kinderknecht gaveher Community Liaisons'report which included:Stapleton FoundationGala March 6th, Websiteand Facebook updates,and Saving Green promo-tion planned in Stapleton.Lacy is resigning from theliaison position and shehas enjoyed the position.

The Activities Director'sreport given by JasonWehnes included the fol-lowing: speech team com-peted virtual with a greatshowing, congratulationsto Dayton Gipe (unde-feated) for making it toState Wrestling, girls bas-ketball competes Wednes-day at Merna insub-districts, boys basket-ball will have their finalregular game this Fridaywith sub-districts nextweek, and NSAA winterguidelines now have at-tendance restricted to 75%with masks still required.

Principal Walker's re-port included: parent-teacher conferences, 1stSemester Honor Roll, pro-fessional development in-service day, Ron

Gustafson - motivationalspeaker, Earth/Arbor Day,Kindergarten Roundup,Option Enrollment andrequired Consumer Classfor graduation.

The Building andGrounds Committee gavea report on the meetingwith the architect andfinal building plans.

The board discussed up-coming NASB New BoardMember Workshop, NASBBoard President's Retreatand NRCSA Spring Con-ference and purchasing anew lawn mower.

Moved by Walz, sec-onded by K. Kramer, toapprove resolution to joinNebraska Liquid AssetFund and designateHoward R. Gaffney andJeana M. Hanna as au-thorized officials to effec-tuate the investment andwithdrawal of monies forStapleton Public Schools.Motion carried.


Moved by Walz, sec-onded by F. Kramer, to ap-prove 2021-2022 TeacherNegotiated Agreement aspresented. Motion car-ried.


Moved by Burnside, sec-onded by Schaeffer, to ad-vertise one time foroption enrollment in theNorth Platte Bulletin. Mo-tion carried.


Moved by K. Kramer,seconded by Walz, to ap-prove contract with archi-tect Bradley Brandenberg& Associates as presented.Motion carried.


Moved by Burnside, sec-onded by Schaeffer, totable action on mainte-nance/custodial position.Motion carried.


Moved by Walz, sec-onded by F. Kramer, topurchase a 47 passengerThomas bus from Ne-braska Truck Center. Mo-tion carried.


Moved by F. Kramer, sec-onded by Burnside, to ap-prove 2021-2022 member-ship with Nebraska Asso-ciation of School Boards(NASB). Motion carried.


Moved by Burnside, sec-onded by Schaeffer, totable 2021-2022 contractswith ESU #16. Motion car-ried.


Moved by Burnside, sec-onded by Schaeffer, to ap-prove lawn fertilizer bidwith Charron Lawn Serv-ice for 2021. Motion car-ried.


No action was taken onconsumer science gradua-tion requirement.

Moved by Burnside, sec-onded by F. Kramer, totable purchase of custo-dian supplies. Motion car-ried.


Moved by Burnside, sec-onded by Walz, to tablethe sale of surplus prop-erty. Motion carried.


Moved by K. Kramer,seconded by Walz, to ap-prove taking bids on put-ting in a bathroom,making both bedroomsegress compliant andadding sump pump in thebasement of the superin-tendent's house. Motioncarried.

Burnside: Aye, F.

Kramer: Aye, K. Kramer:Aye, Opela: Aye, Schaeffer:Aye, Walz: Aye

Moved by Burnside, sec-onded by F. Kramer, to ap-prove Superintendentelect Brian Redinger at-tending NASB PresidentConference and/orNRCSA Spring Confer-ence if he wishes. Motioncarried.


Superintendent Gaff-ney's report presented in-formation on thefollowing: sale completeon Frey land purchase,heating system in severecold weather update,teacher certification defi-ciency, teachers letters ofintent to return, mainte-nance/custodian positionand deposit of bondmonies.

The next regular boardmeeting will be held onMonday, March 15, 2021,at 7:00 p.m. in the libraryat Stapleton PublicSchools.

President Opela ad-journed the meeting at8:50 p.m.

Kim Kramer, SecretaryCLAIMSAmerican Family

Insurance ............1,385.83Blue Cross

Blue Shield........29,230.90Colonial Supplemental

Insurance................110.27Madison National

Life...........................860.67Madison National Life

Insurance................307.74Stapleton General

MG Trust .............5,492.33Stapleton General

NTRT ..................25,574.52Stapleton General

TASC ........................824.98Stapleton General

Account..............34.156.04VSP...........................220.86ACC Business ...........74.82ACT ..........................448.00Andersen & Sons .......9.63Apple Inc ...........18,343.00Bow Family Furniture &

Flooring ..................219.00Country Partners ..877.41Creative Printers ...266.76Custer Public

Power District .....7,099.24Decker

Equipment .............123.48Educational Service

Unit #16 .............29,745.38Frey’s General

Store .....................2,258.54Great Plains

Communications...337.23Melody Hansen......139.17Tammy Harris .......149.23Ideal Linen

Supply .....................132.71JM Parts &

Equipment Inc.......507.94The Lampo

Group LLC...........1,178.43Nebraska Association Of

School Boards .....2,953.00OneSource ................25.00Perkins County

High School.........4,409.00Perry Guthery Haase &

Gessfor ....................300.00Presto X

Company ................123.00Savvas Learning

Company LLC ........308.00Scenario

Learning LLC ...........50.00Spiffy

Cleaners.............11,889.76Stapleton Area Chamber

Of Commerce...........40.00Stapleton Cooperative

Market & Deli...........87.23Troyer

Enterprises .............231.10US Bank ...............1,186.11Village Of

Stapleton.................505.00Rex Walz .................100.00Total .................182,458.24Void #5979............(123.48)Void #6040............(275.00)Net Payroll.........90,259.85Grand Total.....272,319.61

Publish: February 25,2021 ZNEZ

RESOLUTION NO. 2021 A RESOLUTION FIXING

THE TIME, DATE, ANDPLACE FOR PUBLICHEARING.

BE IT RESOLVED BYTHE CHAIRMAN ANDBOARD OF COMMIS-SIONERS, LOGANCOUNTY, NEBRASKA ASFOLLOWS:

Section 1. The LoganCounty Board of Commis-sioners ("Board") herebydirects a public hearing tobe held on the vacation orabandonment of that por-tion of Logan CountyRoad Sixty (60) ("CountyRoad"), to wit:

The east .6 miles of thesection line road betweenSections 12 and 13, Range28 West of the 6th P.M.,Township 17 North,Logan County, Nebraska,currently known asCounty Road 50 but la-beled as Road 3 in thecounty road book.

Section 2. Such publichearing shall take placeon Wednesday, March 17,2021, at 10:00 a.m., in theCommissioners MeetingRoom at the LoganCounty Courthouse, Sta-pleton, NE, 69163.

Section 3. This Resolu-tion shall be publishedonce a week for three (3)consecutive weeks in alegal newspaper of gen-eral circulation in theCounty.

Section 4. The CountyClerk is hereby directed toserve copies of this Reso-lution, by either regis-tered or certified mail, onthe owners of land abut-ting on or adjacent to theCounty Road not less thantwo (2) weeks in advanceof such hearing.

Passed and approvedthis 17 day of February,2021.

State of Nebraska, LoganCounty

Lee WonchRobert Doyle

Scott GaitesATTEST:

Debbie Myers (SEAL),Logan County Clerk

Publish: February 25,Mar. 4 & 11, 2021 ZNEZ

NOTICE OF PUBLICHEARING

Notice is hereby giventhat the Board of Com-missioners of LoganCounty, Nebraska willhold a public hearing onthe closing of a countyroad. Such road is thatpart of Logan CountyRoad 50 extending from.4 mile east of the southwest corner of section 12,Township 17N, Range28W extending to the easta distance of .6 mile end-ing at the south east cor-ner of section 12,Township 17N, Range28W, and is describedgenerally as the East .6miles of County Road 50extending from .4 mileEast of Highway 83 to theeast end of this portion ofCounty Road 50.

The hearing will be heldat Logan County Commis-sioners meeting room, lo-cated in the Logan CountyCourthouse, Stapleton,Nebraska 69163, on the17th day of March, 2021at the hour of 10:00 A.M.

All interested partiesshall be afforded at suchpublic hearing a reason-able opportunity to ex-press their viewsrespecting the proposedroad closing.

Debbie Myers,Logan County Clerk

Publish: February 25,Mar. 4 & 11, 2021 ZNEZ

COUNTYCOMMISSIONERS'

PROCEEDINGSDATE: Feb. 17, 2021

TIME: 9:00 A.M.Regular meeting of the

County Commissioners ofLogan County, Nebraskawas held in the Commis-sioners' Room of theCourthouse in Stapleton,Nebraska. Notice of thismeeting was given in ad-vance thereof by publica-tion in The StapletonEnterprise in the issuedated February 11, 2021,

and posting at least by thethird day before thescheduled meeting at theLogan County Court-house and the StapletonPost Office and was simul-taneously given to theChairman and all mem-bers of the County Board.Availability of the agendawas communicated in thenotice and in the notice tomembers of the Board ofthis meeting. All proceed-ings hereafter shownwere taken while the con-vened meeting was opento the attendance of thepublic.

Meeting was called toorder by ChairmanRobert Doyle.

Roll call was answeredas follows: Present:Robert Doyle, Chairman.Scott Gaites, Board Mem-ber, Lee Wonch, BoardMember, Debbie Myers,Clerk/Assessor and ColtenVenteicher, County Attor-ney

Also present were: DickGewecke, Treasurer,Richard Cook Highwayand Weed Superintend-ent, Sean Carson, Sheriffand Emergency Manager,Art Storm and TegwinGracey.

Motion by Gaites sec-onded by Wonch to ap-prove January 20, 2021minutes without readingas the Clerk previouslyfurnished each memberwith a copy thereof. YeasGaites, Wonch and Doyle.Nays: None.

Motion by Wonch sec-onded by Gaites to ap-prove claims aspresented. Yeas: Wonch,Doyle and Gaites. Nays:None.

COUNTY GENERALAmeritas County

Share ....................2,450.01Bierman VeterinaryServices, PC

K9 Costs ....................30.00Blue Cross-Blue ShieldEmployerShare ..................10,153.49Blue360 MediaOffice & Law EnforceSupplies ..................162.75Bomgaars

K9 Costs ....................37.99Cook, Richard

Mileage, Meals .......174.72Country PartnersCooperative

Fuel And Repairs...890.23Creative Printers

Printing &Publishing ..............384.43DAS State Acctg-Central Fin DataProcessing ..............168.84Eakes Office SolutionsSupplies &Maintenance ..........280.01Frey's General StoreUtilities & BuildingSupplies ..................591.41Galls LLCSupplies LawEnforcement ..........955.98Harvey, Pat

Prior Service ............72.00Ideal Linen & Uniform

Rug Service ............609.60Integrated ComputerSystemsEquipmentRepair......................500.00Keith County Treasurer911 Service &Tower ......................333.33Lincoln CountyTreasurerCooperative Extension2nd Quarter ........2,046.85Logan CountyDistrict Court DistrictCourt Costs ...............83.00Mid-Plains CommunityCollege

Training ....................50.00MIPS, Inc.

Service .................1,073.79NE Assn Of Co Clk,Reg Deeds ElectCom Dues .................75.00NE Assn Of EmergencyManagement

Dues...........................50.00Petty Cash FundTele, Utilities, Dues,Subscriptions &Postage .................1,222.62Sandhills RC&D

Dues.........................100.00Shaw, ChevasCounty CourtCosts ........................155.40Spiffy Cleaners

Contract ...............1,200.00Sunset Law EnforcementSuppliesLaw Enforcement ....72.96Transunion Risk &Alternative

Data Processing .......75.00U.S. BankOffice & Law EnforceSupplies ..................746.96Verizon WirelessTelephoneService.....................252.68

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Thursday, February 25 -Cabbage roll, rice, carrots,s t rawber r y/bananas ,salad bar

Friday, February 26 -Choice of chicken friedsteak or fish, mashed po-tatoes and gravy, greenbeans, fruit mixture, din-ner roll, salad bar

Monday, March 1 -Chicken and rice casse-role, carrots, baked ap-ples, biscuit, salad bar

Tuesday, March 2 -Lasagna soup, greenbeans, pears, garlic bread,

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The Founding of Logan County, Nebraska: TheSoldiers’ Nebraska Colony Town Site Association

salad barWednesday, March 3 -

Boneless chicken, mashedpotatoes and gravy, broc-coli, oranges, dinner roll,salad bar

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COURTESY PHOTOS

According to censusrecords, by 1890, Eliza H.Walden had returned toRinggold County, Iowa.She died in Jerome Idaho,on March 2, 1915, and isburied in RinggoldCounty, Iowa, with hertombstone spelling herlast name “Waldon.”There are “Nulph” familyin Ringgold County, andher daughter, Clara Beth-lehem Flick Baker (1850-1934) lived there. Iassume she may havegone to Idaho at age 88 tolive with one of her chil-dren or grandchildren,but I could not confirmthis.

“C. [Charles] S. Wells(1838-1917) has proved upon 320 acres near Gandyand has brought his herdof cattle to North Platte,where he is successfullyrunning a feedlot.” I as-sume this is Charles S.Wells, Sr. who eventuallyaccumulated 640 acres.His enterprise may nothave worked out as hehoped. In 1897, his landwas sold by a sheriff’sdeed, and by 1910, he wasa retired carpenter livingwith his son in Lincoln.

“John Brosius (1838-1910) can beat everybodyin the world raising cornabout four miles west ofGandy, where he has ahalf section of rich bot-tom land.” “Brosius,” asthe reader may wellknow, is a prominentname in Logan Countyhistory with family stillliving in the county. JohnBrosius patented a Home-stead on November 8,1891, at E1/SW1/4 31-17N-27W. Perhaps hefarmed land elsewhere atthe time, but I wonderabout the writer of the“Special Correspon-dence” sense of directionsince John Brosius’ Home-stead is almost straightsouth of Gandy on theLincoln County line

In the 1885 LoganCounty census, 56-year-old John listed his birth-place as “Prussia,” as didall his children, exceptthe last one, listed as “Wil-helm” (but later angli-cized to “William”) andborn in Nebraska (April13, 1885). Interestingly,John, wife, Mary AnnaWerner Brosius (1846-1912) listed her birth-

place as “Luxembourg.”While we might think ofPrussia as eastern Ger-many, other sources placehis birth at Schleidweiler,Germany, a few kilome-ters from the Luxem-bourg border. TheRhineland area becamepart of the Kingdom ofPrussia after theNapoleonic Wars, well be-fore John’s birth. Theymarried on February 20,1871, in Luxembourg. Forthe 1910 census, Johnchanged his place of birthto “Germany,” and hisyoungest son, at age 14,had become “Willie.”John Brosius was proba-bly not a member of theSoldiers’ Colony Associa-tion, but he was in the1885 census and, thus, avery early settler of LoganCounty.

“Willard Ginn (1836-1927) has a lovely houseon a good quarter sectioneast of Logan and is mak-ing farming pay.” Per-haps he did makefarming pay but by thetime of the 1900 census,he was back in SandyPoint Maine, perhaps asthe result of some irregu-larities in the county trea-surer’s office. Since weknow from the 1880 cen-sus he lived at Alexandria,Nebraska, he probablyspent about twenty yearsin the state.

The final individualmentioned by the un-known writer came afterthe initial settlement ofthe county. “James Mc-Carty came out of Lincolnlast spring [1888] andchanged his tree claiminto a preemption be-cause prairie dogs ate hisyoung trees. [It is proba-bly safe to say that most ofthe trees planted underthe Timber Culture Actdid die.] He poisoned thedogs and made proof forhis land a few days agoand now has one of thebest farms in the county.”James M. McCartypatented his 160-acre pur-chase on September 21,1891, at NW1/4 9-16N-27W, which is about amile into Lincoln Countyon the Garfield Table. Icould find no otherrecord of him in the area,although there are otherswith similar names at thetime in Custer County

and Red Willow County. The unidentified writer

(probably again CharlesShrader) of this “SpecialCorrespondence” thenended the article with aflourish, “Many othermembers of the colonycame out, but had not thenerve to stay and battlethe frontier life, so re-turned to their formerhomes or sought locationselsewhere. Those whohad the pluck to hold onto their lands and im-prove them are sure toreap a rich reward for theprivations and hardshipsthey have undergone assoon as railroads shall bebuilt through that sectionof the country, which willno doubt be done soon,when a market will be es-tablished for the lands towhich they have acquiredtitle.” Shrader continu-ally promoted the rail-road but by the mid-1890she had left Logan Countyfor Oklahoma. The de-pression and droughts ofthe 1890s drove many ofthose remaining “plucky”settlers off their farms.

Old SettlersReunion---1890!

Interestingly, even fromthe earliest days, the set-tlers of Logan Countyshowed a proclivity for re-unions and reminis-cences. Fortunately, itgives me another oppor-tunity to determine wholived in the county at thetime and what they weredoing. On June 13, 1890,The Nebraska State Jour-nal carried another “Spe-cial Correspondence”from an unidentifiedwriter (once again proba-bly Charles Shrader). Thearticle started with a boldheading that became pro-gressively smaller: “Ob-served as Gala Day:Logan County has its FirstReunion. Older SettlersFrom Far and Near—Ap-propriate Exercises—Whatthe People Want.” Asmany had gathered forthe July 4, 1885, celebra-tion, residents of LoganCounty five years laterhad developed anotherreason to gather---a re-union.

Ever effusive, the writerof the article began, “Yes-terday was old settlers’ re-union day in Logancounty and a gala day it

was with the farmers ofthat county. The place se-lected for the picnic wason the farm of J. [Jesse] B.Doan (1838-1895) [Hisfarm would be about amile east of where high-way 83 enters LincolnCounty.], who came outwith the soldiers’ colonyin the spring of 1884, andfrom 10 o’clock in themorning until noon wag-ons, buggies, and cartsloaded with men, women,and children and lunchbaskets came pouring infrom every direction, giv-ing the place the appear-ance of a well-attendedhorse race, or a state fairin full blast. And in look-ing over the broad, rollingprairies with only hereand there a house to beseen, one wonders whereall the people came from,as with the prairieseemed to be coveredwith them. The place ofmeeting was on the openprairie, where a largetent, in connection with aframe shade, furnishedample protection fromthe sun’s rays. An organ,with several bright, beau-tiful young ladies to per-form, gave the assembledpeople plenty of music.Harmony and happinesswere staple articles there,and everybody wantedeverybody else to samplehis or her lunch basket.After dinner the followingprogramme was carriedout.”

First on the ”pro-gramme” came: “SongPrayer Rev. Giltner” ThisRev. Henry M. Giltner(1827-1903). On Septem-ber 26, 1890, he patenteda 160-acre purchase atSW1/4SE1/4 and SE1/4SW1/41N-17N-28W andW/2NE1/4 19-17N-28W.This is about six to sevenmiles southwest of Staple-ton. He spent most of hislife in Aurora, Nebraska,except, according to hisobituary, “For three yearsspent in Logan Countywith his sons, caring forhis invalid wife, who diedthere January 19, 1893.”Both he and his wife,Susan E. Giltner (1830-1893) are buried in theAurora Cemetery.

Next came, “Music Ora-tion…Pioneer Life…. v……J. [Joseph] S. Hoagland(1847-1920). By then hehad become a practicinglawyer in North Platte.His talk probably gavehim an opportunity todemonstrate his oratoryskills. One wondersabout the role musicplayed in his presenta-tion. Even by 1890 speak-ers apparently hadstarted waxing sentimen-tally about “pioneer life.”

Greetings everyone. Wehope all is going well withyou. Continued prayersfor the ranchers and any-one else who has to be outin the ridiculously coldweather. We have beenkeeping busy and warmwith all of our activities.This cold weather does

TEN YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 24, 2011

Stapleton’s buildingconstruction team placedthird at the technicalskills contest held inNorth Platte. Team mem-bers pictured wereSawyer Hanna, Eric Gar-relts, Zach Kramer andAustin Jones. GordonNeeds participated in thecabinet making division.

Stapleton Public Schoolstudents enjoyed 4-Hclover-shaped cookiesprovided to them by theLogan County 4-H Coun-cil. The cookies werehanded out as part ofState 4-H Week.

Deaths: Marian I.McPherrin, February 8,2011; Charlotte JeanetteNansel, 73, February 17,2011; Bernard HenryWalz, 89, February 19,2011.

Stapleton second gradestudents were picturedsharing the love with sen-ior citizens on February14. They were Jesse Ben-nell, Brett Downing, HopeBrosius, Lyndee Rogers,Saige Johnson, DaylonGastineau, Hunter Lovitt,Taylar Doggett, MichelleBrown, Trinity Hansen,Will Sisson, Weston Mor-row, Brooke Hodges-Har-vey, Hannah Burnside,Haley Ostrum and Jo-hanna Honeywell.

TWENTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 22, 2001

Area resident, 101-year-old Mynor Smith, was theonly known living WorldWar I veteran to purchasea brick in the proposedmemorial to be located inNorth Platte’s Iron HorsePark.

The Senior Spotlight fea-tured Seth M. Doty.

Deaths: Ralph WilliamArensdorf, 66, February14.

THIRTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 21, 1991

School board membersvoted to hire DavidBlevins as head boys’track coach for 1991.

Second grade studentsfrom Arnold toured Cre-ative Printers on Valen-tine’s Day. The class wasstudying a unit on news-papers.

John Kramer has beencalled as an Army Re-servist, to serve as an ar-tillery instructor at FortSill, Oklahoma.

Bob Ryland attended the49th annual meeting ofthe National Rural Elec-tric Cooperative Associa-tion.

Births: Wesley BoydChampion, January 22.

Deaths: Willis W. “Red”Johnson, 78, February 10.

FORTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 26, 1981

Carla Hanzal was thefirst place winner in theFarm Bureau Youth Citi-zenship Contest and willrepresent Logan Countyat the Nebraska Farm Bu-reau Federation YouthCitizenship Seminar.

Maribel Carlson hasbeen selected by ChadronState College as the recip-ient of a Golden EagleAward.

Bill Sazama was electedpresident of the StapletonChamber of Commerce.

Mr. and Mrs. Roland Bayreturned home from a 10-day trip to Hawaii.

A 10-pound bag of sugaris $2.99.

A new 1980 Dodge D150pickup is on sale for$6,544.00.

Deaths: Freeda M.Thompson, 84, February19.

FIFTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 25, 1971

The Stapleton VolunteerFire Department was

called to a fire in a ca-boose at the UP Depot inStapleton.

Mr. and Mrs. HenryJoedeman will start theBerean FundamentalChurch in Gandy.

Births: a boy to Mr. andMrs. LeRoy Hodges, Feb-ruary 22; Craig AnthonyConnell, February 19; ason to Mr. and Mrs. Mil-ford D. Marley, February15.

Deaths: Glen A. Myers,72, February 17.

SIXTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 23, 1961

The New Power andProgress Show will besponsored by Wallace E.Salisbury, the local Inter-national Harvester dealerin Stapleton.

Susan Weems, BillyKramer, Mardelle Wellsand Lana Jo Abrams werecontestants on KNOP-TV’sSpelling Bee.

Christine Birth was cho-sen Valentine Sweetheartof her class in NorthPlatte.

Myron Barner returnedhome from Memorial hos-pital, where he spent sixweeks following an acci-dent at Pawnee SpringsRanch near Maxwell.

SEVENTY YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 22, 1951

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Monday I was still notfeeling up to par, so wehad some one-on-one vis-its and exercises. I am soblessed because several of

the residents were con-cerned about me andwere happy to know that Ihadn’t left the country.

Tuesday morning TwilaSpringer, Patsy Berney,Marlene Dykes, JoyceShanks and Mary Kempwere all out for reminisce

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Dear Dave,We’d like to own a home

someday, but we knowwe’re not ready for thatkind of financial commit-ment yet. Where doesbuying a house fit in yourBaby Steps plan?

Heather

Dear Heather,Buying a home when

you’re broke is the easiestway I know to become aforeclosure statistic. I’mglad you two are beingthoughtful and sensibleabout taking such a bigstep.

If you remember, inBaby Step 1 I advise peo-ple to save up a beginneremergency fund of$1,000. Baby Step 2 is pay-ing off all consumer debtfrom smallest to largestusing the debt snowballmethod. Then, Baby Step3 is where you go backand grow your emergencyfund to a full three to sixmonths of living ex-penses.

With all this in mind,let’s call getting ready tobuy a home Baby Step 3b.Save up for a down pay-ment of at least 20 per-cent to avoid PMI (privatemortgage insurance).Also, make sure any mort-gage loan is a 15-year,fixed rate loan, where thepayments are no morethan 25 percent of yourmonthly take-home pay.

Doing it this way maydelay your dream of beinga homeowner for a while,but it will help ensureyour new home is a bless-ing and not a financialcurse!

—Dave

Dear Dave,How far in advance do

you recommend figuringfuture purchases intoyour budget?

Robbie

Dear Robbie,I recommend starting to

put money aside, and in-cluding it in your budgetas soon as you know theneed for an item is a realpossibility. Waiting untilthings go wrong or some-thing breaks down willleave you in a real mess,more times than not.

For example, if you’repretty sure you’ll need an-other vehicle in a year ortwo, the smart thing is tostart putting money asidenow. Do some research onprices, then do the mathto see how much you’llneed to set aside eachmonth.

And remember, it’s awhole lot easier to savemoney when you don’thave things like creditcard payments and otherdebt hanging aroundyour neck. That’s one ofthe big reasons I want tohelp people learn to livedebt-free!

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Eight-year-old Jason, oneof our foster children,slammed his pencildown. “If you truly lovedme, you wouldn’t makeme do things I hate, likethis math!”

Jason had come to ourhome with his sister andbrother. The three chil-dren were taken fromtheir home because theirmother needed medicalhelp to stabilize her men-tally, and their fatherplayed video games allday and didn’t take careof them. The children hadbeen left on their own toget food, get on the bus,and fend for themselves.

Often the boys missedschool, and when theydid go, they showed thelack of care they were re-ceiving. Though almostfour, Talia had been leftin a crib all day, oftengoing hungry and havingno interaction with any-one when her brothersweren’t home.

Shortly after the chil-dren came to our home,we started receiving callsand letters from the boys’teachers. They were strug-gling with homework andother related items. Jasonwas especially having ahard time. He was heldback in the same grade hewas in the previous yearbut was still failing everysubject.

Sitting in his chair atour kitchen table where Ihad been working withhim, Jason glared at me.He was defiantly daringme to teach him anymore.

“Jason,” I calmly said,“love is not letting a per-son throw their life awaywhen you know they havegreat potential. True loveis helping them becomethe best they can be.”

Jason’s expressionturned from one of angerto one of confusion.“What?”

“Jason, you can do thismath. I know you can.You’re a smart little boy.You have the ability to bethe top student in yourclass. And I’m not willingto let you do or be lessthan you can be. How-ever, that only comesthrough hard work.”

Jason stared at me for along time. Finally, hesaid, “When you make mework on the homeworkthat I hate, it’s becauseyou love me?”

I nodded. “I want to seeyou become the best thatyou can be, and I knowyou can do great things.”

He just stared at me fora minute or so. It was evi-dent that he had neverthought of it that way be-fore. Finally, he quietlyopened his book, and wewent back to work. It tooka while to get the wholeassignment right becauseI wouldn’t just give himthe answers. I made him

work them and thenshowed him what he wasnot understanding. But acouple of days later, whenhe brought home a paperwith a perfect score, itwas the first time hedidn’t get a zero, and hewas thrilled.

I wish I could say it wasperfect after that, but itwasn’t. Still, one successled to another. As he feltthe joy of accomplish-ment, he sought more. Mywife and I spent hoursworking with him onreading, writing, math,and all of his subjects.Soon he was bringinghome high scores onevery assignment.

After a few monthsJason brought home hisgrade report. He hadnearly perfect grades inevery subject. He alsobrought a letter from histeacher. She said he wasthe top student in herclass in almost every area.He was now working hardand wasn’t belligerent.She said Jason had topscores in nearly every atti-tude category, whichpleased her even morethan his grades. Sheended with, “I don’t knowwhat you’re doing, butkeep it up.”

When I read his grades,I praised him, and he justbeamed. He smiled andsaid, “Love is helpingsomeone do their best,and doing my best feelsgood.”

As he ran off to join theother children, I thoughtthat with all he hadlearned, his new under-standing of what lovetruly is was probably themost important thing ofall.

I’m happy with a dumb TV

what to do.It was a real team effort

as we read the screen to-gether and looked at eachother most of the timeand just pressed no. Ibreezed past voice recog-nition before gettingstuck on the internethook-up. For the life ofme I couldn’t remembermy password. Even if Icould have rememberedit, I didn’t know how topick the right letters.After a fashion we got theright zip code pro-grammed in and the Sonywas so smart it knew wehad Great Plains Commu-nications cable. This wasgoing to be great and weonly had one more O.K. topush and we would havethis wonderful picture ona beautiful screen and theworld at our fingertips.

Wouldn’t you know it?The television was sosmart it knew it wasn’tconnected to the cablebox or vice versa, no mat-ter how many times orhow many ways wepushed O.K.

I came to the conclusion,after a lot of searchingand googling, that we did-n’t have the right cableand an outdated cablebox.

We are waiting for bothto arrive and watchingour old “dumb” televisionand as far as I’m con-cerned it works just fine.

Green Energy

After the cold snap wejust went through, therehas been a lot writtenabout green energy latelyand how it is largely toblame for the power out-ages and the rolling black-outs that many in ourarea experienced.

This is my take from allof this....

The green energy gener-ation (wind, solar andhydro) takes priority onthe grid which is prima-rily during the day (peakhours and highest rate).The fossil fueled plantspick up the slack whensolar and wind are notproducing which is dur-ing off peak hours (lowestrate per kw hour). So fos-sil fueled plants are oper-ating at a loss a lot of thetime so have no budget tomake repairs, upgradesand extra cost to preparefor situations like this (in-

sulation and winteriza-tion procedures).

The fossil fueled plantswere designed to run atfull capacity and not cycleup and down. With thegreen energy on the grid,they are forced to shutdown and start up daily.This causes thermal fa-tigue on all the pipingand components whichcause the need for morerepairs and increases cost

I knew I was in troublewhen our flatscreen TVwent out two weeks ago.Well, it didn’t really goout, you just couldn’t seeanything except a fuzzypicture. But the soundwas still good. I was actu-ally fine with it becausethere’s nothing to watchanyway. My husband, onthe other hand, an-nounced he was going topurchase a new one. Hecame home on one of thecoldest days ever and saidhe’d snagged one on saleand we needed to pick itup on Valentine’s Day, thesecond coldest day ever.

We got it home andthings were going prettysmoothly. I was even ableto hold up my end of the65” box while wadingthrough unshoveled snowto the back door. I onlydropped it once and myhusband said it probablydidn’t hurt anything be-cause no doubt it hadbeen dropped numeroustimes enroute to the store.We slid it down the base-ment steps and struggledgetting it out of the box.

It quickly went downhillfrom there. Somewhat ofa two page instructionsheet was included, butwe threw it away andwinged it on how to in-stall the legs.

That’s when the real funbegan. According to thebox, this TV has a micro-processor, high-speed in-ternet connectability, youcan surf the web, playvideo games, and streamyour favorite shows. Iteven has a Netflix buttonon the remote. It did lookpretty smart, too, untilyou actually turn it onand try and figure out

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McPherson County News~ Established 1889 ~

Incorporating The Tryon Graphic

Page 6 Thursday, February 25, 2021 The Stapleton Enterprise

Graphic FilesFrom The Tryon Graphic Archives

for County Officials at theNorth Platte Holiday Inn,Thursday.

FORTY YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 19, 1981

Hannah Doyle andLayne Pyzer from thelocal high school weremembers of the selectband at the High PlainsMusic Festival at Chadronlast week, and MarshaBullington of MCHS, wasa member of the selectchorus.

The Woman of the Yeartitle for 1980 was awardedto Mrs. Carol Moore ofTryon, at the 62nd FarmBureau State Conventionheld in Kearney. Caroland her husband, Don,who is currently a stateboard member, live on aranch northwest ofTryon.

Births: Mr. and Mrs.Louis Lutes of Tryon, re-ceived word that theyhave a new grandson, El-liott Thomas, born Febru-ary 10 to Tom and EstherHarmon of Pierre, S.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin JoeSmolik Jr. of Bethany,Oklahoma, are the par-ents of a baby daughter,Audra Renee, born Febru-ary 7, 1981.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 25, 1971

There were severalovernighters in the Tryonvicinity Thursday night,due to the storm and slickroads with visibility beingvery poor. Dr. and Mrs.Early Walker of Mullen,were at the Hank Hal-stead home; Mr. and Mrs.Bob Runner of Mullen, atthe Harold Neal home,and Marion Miller at theGene Evans home. DaveMcClintock had the mis-fortune of getting stuckon the big hill north ofTryon, so he walked to theMelvin Waits home.Everyone was home safeand sound by Friday af-ternoon.

Word was received Feb-ruary 22 of the marriageof Eileen James, daughterof Mr. and Mrs. LeonardBabb of Ringgold, and El-fred Young. The couplewas married at Reno, Ne-vada and will live at Cen-tral Point, Oregon.

Mrs. Linda Neal andfamily and Mr. and Mrs.LaVerne Neal and familyreceived word that DavidNeal has been promotedto SP5. Dave is still a clerk-typist and his address willstill be the same, exceptfor the SP5.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 23, 1961

At a recent family gath-ering, the four great-grandmothers of littleJanelle Sue Snyder,daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Jim Snyder, were picturedwith the new baby. Theywere: Mrs. M.A. (Elisa-beth) Connell, 84, of

Tryon; Mrs. A.B. (Grace)Snyder, 79, of NorthPlatte; Mrs. Harry A.(Nora) Blackstone, 82, ofMaywood; and Mrs.Lawrence (Leona) Bassett,75, of Tryon. Harry Black-stone, 84, was Janelle’sonly living great-grandfa-ther.

Local well driller, TomKemp, returned homeWednesday from an all-ex-pense paid trip to Madi-son, Wisconsin where hewas a guest of the BakerMfg. Company.

The American Legion’straining school for citi-zenship and state govern-ment, will be held againthis year on the campusof the College of Agricul-ture in Lincoln in June,with 360 boys from juniorclasses of Nebraska highschools as the citizens ofthis mythical state. RonDaly, son of Mr. and Mrs.George R. Daly of Tryon,has been chosen by theArt Gray Post No. 189 ofTryon, as the delegate toBoy’s State, and Jerry Sny-der, son of Mr. and Mrs.Miles Snyder of Flats, willbe alternate.

SEVENTY YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 22, 1951

Fred Wendling has beenmoving Orval Bellew’smachinery to a placesouth of Tryon where theBellew family will liveafter May 1st.

The Helping Hand Clubmet with Mrs. FlorenceHuffman and Henrietta attheir home in NorthPlatte, February 7th.

Those who helped BobJelden celebrate his birth-day Sunday evening at theTom Ellis and Taft Haddyhome were, Mr. and Mrs.John Dahlin, Mr. and Mrs.Ray Dobbins, and son,Ronnie, Mr. and Mrs. BobCotton, Carolyn and Reva,Mr. and Mrs. RichardDavis and children, Mr.and Mrs. John Streiff andchildren, Mr. and Mrs.Tom Ellis and children,and Mr. and Mrs. T.W.Haddy. The evening wasspent looking at themovie pictures that Evaand Taft had taken. Mr.Jelden teaches at McPher-son County High School.

EIGHTY YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 20, 1941

On Saturday morning,February 15, 1941, at thechurch parsonage atGrant, Nebraska, oc-curred the marriage ofMyrtle E. Bedker of Her-shey to Charles E. Daly ofFlats, the marriage linesbeing read by Rev. FloydPrice, pastor. Accompany-ing the couple were Mr.and Mrs. Willis Johnsonand Mr. and Mrs. WalterG. Daly, brothers of bothbride and groom.

The MCHS basketballteam dropped a closegame to the Platte Valleyteam 25 to 27 at Suther-land Tuesday evening in agame in which local fansexpected the MCHS boysto come out on top.

Ed Highland of Denver,brother of Mrs. S.A. (Julia)French, was a guest at the

TEN YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Kermit Paxton spent his96th birthday transport-ing mail. Kermit cele-brated his birthday onFebruary 17.

The resignation of DavidThelen, MCHS teacher,was accepted with regret,at a special School District#90 Board of Educationmeeting held Friday, Feb-ruary 18.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 22, 2001

McPherson CountyCommissioners voted tofurnish a used vehicle forCounty Sheriff Barry Hin-kle at their regular meet-ing February 14, 2001.Several options and signa-tures from county resi-dents were reviewed, andfollowing a recess forlunch, CommissionerSowders moved to pur-chase the 1996 FordCrown Victoria fromCuster County Supervi-sors for $4,500, subject toinspection.

Katrina Fisher, daughterof Wiley (Kent) and Kath-leen Fisher, was featuredin the “Senior Spotlight”for the week. She was ac-tive in many organiza-tions and activitiesduring her high schooldays including sports,plays, music, Bridging theGap and 4-H.

Births: Michael andShannon Dickman ofMaryland, were the par-ents of a baby daughter,Emily Elaine, born Febru-ary 6. Great-Grandparentsinclude Lloyd and CleaoConnell of Tryon, andgrandparents were Ken-neth and Ruth Gage ofMaxwell.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 21, 1991

Gary and Jerry Nealdrove to Kearney Fridayevening where they metBrett, Cindy, Kristin, andMindy Neal from Lincoln,and all attended the Kear-ney-Chadron basketballgame. Brian Hope, afriend of Mindy’s, playsball for the Chadronteam. They were alsojoined by Joyce Wilkinsand grandson, Shea.

The MCHS varsity boysturned in a fine perform-ance in a 67-31 win overMaywood in their last reg-ular season game Febru-ary 15th. Mike Daly ledTryon with 17 points,Rusty Moore had 15, andZane Connell, Dusty Pax-ton and Travis Kemp eachhad eight points.

After church Sunday,Wm. and Sue Masters haddinner at the StockmanInn in North Platte thenwent to the theater to see“Dances with Wolves.”

Robert Long, Judy Dai-ley and Donald Thomp-son attended the WestCentral District meeting

Over The HillsJ.R. Trumbull

Quote: “Is it procrasti-nation if I am never goingto do it?”

Putting things off isvery tempting in the coldweather we have gonethrough in February. For-tunately, I don’t havemany outside chores todo but still like to waituntil it is at least zero be-fore I go out to feed Oscarthe Corgi, the Moochercats, and the little herd of“wild” turkeys and makesure that there is water inthe heated water bowl,etc. It is always so muchbetter once it is done andI am back inside where itis warmer. I have noticedthat the bird populationhas been enjoying theheated water bowl. I justwish that they wouldkeep their backsides onthe outside of the bowl.I’m sure that Oscar andthe Moochers do not ap-preciate the added flavor-ings to their water.

The “wild” turkeys aremore pets (or pests) thananything else. They letme know when they arehungry and provide en-tertainment of sorts bywalking on the trailerroof and pecking at theElm tree buds that havefallen on the roof. Thecats are still trying to fig-ure out what the noise is

PROCRASTINATION

It’s so easy to procrastinate,To put things off until it’s too late,

Using tomorrow as a convenient baitAnd leaving consequences up to fate!

Why do we keep putting off stuff?We know when the going gets rough

That putting it off just isn’t enoughAnd we have to get up off our duff!

Procrastination isn’t a real excuseSo putting it off is really no use.It just leads to more self-abuse

And no way can we declare a truce.

On occasion there are reasonsWhere putting off completionOf a task to another season

Has justifications legion.

For the most part, procrastinationIs something we should ration,As it leads to much frustration

And eventual stagnation.

J.R. Trumbull

27 June 2016

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French home, here lastweek.

Joe Schmidt was busygrinding feed last week.On Monday he groundrye for V.W. Hora. OnTuesday he ground ryefor Frank Gillard, rye andear corn for John Leedsand Floyd Allen, and onSaturday he ground ryefor Leo Cash and V.W.Hora. He also threshedsome cane last week.

NINETY YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 19, 1931

A number of peoplefrom the northwest partof the county, and alsoHooker County, residentsof that vicinity, will give a

play at the Eclipse Churchentitled “Her Step-Hus-band.” Proceeds from theplay will be used to repairthe Eclipse Church. TheHelping Hand Club ofthat neighborhood, planto serve lunch.

Legion men of this partof the country, theirmothers, sisters andwives with their families,plan to meet Sunday, Feb-ruary 22, at the LegionHall in Tryon for an all-day reunion meeting. Atthat time, they will organ-ize an American LegionAuxiliary.

Joe Minor used to rideover his Grant County

ranch on a cow pony.When his holding in-creased, he turned hishorse out to range and ne-gotiated the sand roads inan automobile. Even thatis too slow a manner ofgetting over 100,000 acresof ranchland. So, Minorrecently purchased aplane employed a pilot,and moved ranching up afew degrees in the scale ofdevelopment. When JoeMinor arrived in thesandhills country about50 years ago, his sole pos-sessions were a horse andsaddle. His earnings as aranch hand went intocows.

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McPherson County FFA Chapter members attended the Ne-braska Cattlemen’s Classic, Thursday, February 18 in Kearney.Students were given a topic in the morning in which they workedtogether to develop a short presentation from conversations theyhad with vendors and cattle producers. The topic this year was“How has COVID-19 impacted/affected your operation or busi-ness?.” Students had the opportunity to network with people in-volved in the agriculture industry, as well as watch the cattlebreed shows. McPherson County had the youngest team compet-ing in the contest and they stepped up to the challenge.Pictured above at the NCC, l-r: William Anderson, Rachael

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Pictured above are McPherson County seniors, l-r: Lane Watson,Malaky Johnston and Tabitha Viter, working on their AmericanismEssays in class.

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Valentine candy grams were delivered to all students! The guesshow many heart sweet tarts in the jar/mailbox, closest withoutgoing over winners were Isaac Goosey in the JH-HS division andPierce Phelps in the elementary division. Shelly Apperson wasthe winner in the staff division! Pictured above is Kinnley Powersand Alyssa Magana distributing Valentines.

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Isaac Goosey Pierce Phelps


McPherson County Schools had guest speakers from the Ne-braska 4-H Extension provide the real colors personality assess-ment to all those in seventh through twelfth grades. Real Colorsis a PERSPECTIVE-not a label. They learned to recognize theirown strengths and the strengths of others, understand how oth-ers process information, and recognize the learning styles of oth-ers. Students also learned about preferences and perceptions.

Real Colors Assessment

McPherson County Students working on their Real Colors per-spectives. Pictured l-r: Kamilla Johnston, Saije Phelps, KlaireWard and Brayden McNutt.

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Mrs. Burke checks in with Kylee Lee and SeanReyder on their stock market portfolio.


Raised on a farm inLyons, Nebraska, Ron“Gus” Gustafson was astandout basketballplayer in high school inspite of having lost hisright arm and shoulder ina tragic childhood farmaccident.

Then a knee injuryended his collegiate bas-ketball career and he wasdevastated.

Once again, his faith andcourage sustained himand he redirected his en-ergies, building outstand-ing academic andbusiness careers.

Tim Karn arranged forGustafson to come speakto Stapleton Public Schoolstudents recently and thespecial presentation wasattended by 6th through12th grade students.

When you face an obsta-cle in your life, think ofGus. After losing his rightarm and shoulder andcrushed his right leg atthe age of nine in a tractoraccident, he was deter-mined to excel in athlet-ics. He was namedhonorable mention, allstate in varsity basketballand earned the respect ofthe coach who once saidhe’d never make theteam. Each set-back gaveGus an opportunity to

Ron Gustafson during his motivational session atStapleton Public Schools.

$44,000 Revision GrantImproves Business Room

Mrs. Burke works with Mikayla Honeywell during the freshman Personal Fi-nance class. The freshman class is utilizing the new desktops for their StockMarket Game and they have completed their portfolio investments. They areable to buy and sell stocks and results will be known in May.

Mrs. Burke's classroomlooks drastically differentas she has received a Revi-sion Grant for over$44,000 to be spentwithin the next threeyears. There are 22 newdesktop Mac computers,five brand new 27" Macdesktop computers, 22copies of the 2019 Mi-crosoft Office Suite soft-ware, and four copies ofQuickBooks.

Her students are nowworking towards becom-ing Microsoft Office certi-fied and QuickBookscertified.

The sixth grade classlearned about cells in sci-ence with Mrs. Stewart.They all created a modelof a cell.

Out of 94 votes, the win-ner of the most creativecategory went to AshtinJohns, Scott Labs, andColtan Clouse. Most scien-tific, with 81 of the 96votes went to Monsai

Caro, Kamryn Kramer,and Briley Kramer. Madi-lynn McEntee also re-

ceived an honorable men-tion for almost tying forMost Creative.

Hunter Schaeffer, Brody Goforth, and Johanna Honeywell vote on the 6thgrade cell projects. They chose their favorite in the most creative and mostscientific categories.

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grow and he is now a re-markable motivator andspeaker.

Gus shared with localstudents how you can riseabove your own limits,whether they’re imposedby circumstances, otherpeople, or yourself.

Gustafson came from anathletic family and he wasto be the best athlete ofthem all. He aspired toplay professional footballuntil the farm accident.

Gus has now shared his

message with around 1.5million people and au-thored the book, “FullyArmed.” He now calls theday of his accident “one ofthe best days of his life,”because he learned tolook at life from a wholenew perspective. It gavehim a passion to live,learn and share.

Gustason puts hope inhis faith and says, “God ismy best friend and myleader.”

FinalsMarch 5 - End Of 3rd

Qtr; Kindergarten Round-up, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Mar. 6 - Foundation Gala

Hope Gustason

Date Of Birth: November, 12,2002

Family: Parents - Rick & Bobbi;Siblings - Chance & Blake

Favorite Food: Ranch CornNuts

Favorite Movie/T.V. Show:Adventure Time

Favorite Song: “Come & Go,”--by Juice Wrid Ft. Marshmello

Best Experience So Far: Mysophomore year. I went on atrip to New York & Washington

D.C. with several other members of the school’s band. Itwas very educational and opened my eyes to how differentlife in urban areas is from rural Nebraska

If I Could Sit Down With Anyone I Would Sit Down With:Vincent van Gogh

Best Advice Ever Given: Pain is temporary. Swag is foreverFavorite Quote: “You can be a king or a street sweeper, buteveryone dances with the grim reaper.

--Robert Alton HarrisI Think The Most Important Issue In The WorldToday Is: How divided and unwilling to compromise ourcountry is.

Future Plans: Next year, I plan onattending the University of Nebraska-Lincolnto major in Psychology. Eventually, I want topursue a career in Forensic Psychology

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The Mavericks endedtheir regular season onFriday by traveling toHyannis for the year-endfinale.

Sandhills Valley startedearly with their scoringand continued through-out the game. It was niceto get off to a good startand not get behind early.Hyannis entered thegame 12-6 and 10-2 overthe last 12 games butwere no match for theMavericks as they had notplayed since the Mullengame and were ready forsome game time.

Defense keyed the of-fense as they did a good

Rylin Johns with the three-point attempt in varsitybasketball action. Pictured in the background forthe Mavs is Jared Trimble.

Megan Amos goes up for two-points in recent bas-ketball action.

Gipe is state runner-up Win at Hyannis

Lady Mavs endseason, 6-18

Dayton Gipe with the pin in state wrestlling action. He is the first state medal winner for the SandhillsMaverick sports cooperative.

ELAINE ZUTAVERN

Dayton Gipe, a sopho-more at McPhersonCounty HIgh School, isthe first state medal win-ner for the Sandhills Val-ley Maverick sportscooperative.

Gipe qualified for the2021 NSAA State Champi-onships by winning theClass D3 District Champi-onship in the 120 poundweight class in Greeley onSaturday, February 13.

Gipe wrestled in Omahaon February 17 and 18and scored 21.5 teampoints for the Mavericks.

In the ChampionshipRound 1 Gipe won by techfall over Carter VanPelt,Soutwest, (TF-1.5 2:14 (16-0)).

Gipe won by fall overLance Russell, HighPlains Community, (Fall:38) in the Quarterfinalround.

In the semifinals, Gipewon by decision overZack Hartl, Elkhorn Val-ley, (Dec 7-2).

In the first place match,which was televised,Scout Ashburn, Plain-

view, won in sudden vic-tory -1 over Gipe, (SV -1 4-2).

Gipe ends his seasonwith a 39-1 record andbrought home the state

COACH TIM KARN

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The Lady Mavericksended their 2021 basket-ball season in the D1-10subdistricts, Wednesday,February 17, at Anselmo-

Merna High School. Thegirls lost the game to

job of taking away one ofthe Longhorns leadingscorers and holding himin check. The Maverickshad three players score indouble digits and had aseason high 20 assists.

They also pulled down41 rebounds leading to afinal score of 77-55. Thisimproves the Mavericksto 16-6 on the season.

The sub-districts beganMonday in North Plattewhere the Mavericks willhave another rematch asthey drew Sandhills Thed-ford in the first round ofthe D1-11 sub-district.Tip-off was scheduled for6:00 p.m. CST at McDaidElementary.

championship runner-upmedal.

Dayton Gipe receiving his runner-up state champion medal in the Class D120 pound class. The top six are, l-r: 6. Owen Vondra, Elkhorn Valley; 4. ZackHartl, Elkhorn Valley; 2. Dayton Gipe, Sandhills Valley; 1. Scout Ashburn, Plain-view; 3. Cayden Ellis, Winside; 5. Cauy Morgan, Sutherland.

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Preacher learns curiosity isn’t onlything that can kill a cat

You may remember thestory about the preacherwho was doing somedoor-to-door visitation. Heintroduced himself to anolder woman who wasnone too happy to seehim. She demanded heleave immediately andslammed the door.

The door, however,bounced back open. Theangry woman shouted,“Get your foot out of mydoor.”

“But ma’am,” thepreacher managed to saybefore the womanslammed the door again.

Again, it bounced backopen.”

“I said get your foot outof my door,” the womanyelled louder this time.Again, she slammed thedoor.

Again, it bounced open.“But ma’am …”“I don’t want to hear it,”

she shouted. “Get off myproperty.” Then, sheslammed the door, again.

Again, it bounced backopen.”

The preacher, nowstanding in the yard, fi-nally got a word in edge-wise, telling the woman,“You’ll be able to closeyour door if you get thatkitten out of the way.”

You know, I remember atime when preacherswere greatly respected, atime when folks wel-comed them into theirhomes. They were ad-mired. They were trusted.They were held in highestregard. Then came theage of television. Reli-gious shysters started

Contact pastors on aweekly basis forservice updates.

Ain’t It The TruthBy Roger Alford

Worship/FaithThe Stapleton Enterprise

buying airtime. For a fee,they’d pray for you. Justsend them cash and you’dget your healing, theyclaimed. They got richwhile people died waitingfor their promised mira-cles. Well, it didn’t take agenius to see throughtheir silliness. Unfortu-nately, some people beganto think all preacherswere motivated bymoney, and, over time,some people began tomistrust everyone in thepulpit.

A recent Gallup Pollshowed that only 37 per-cent of Americans trustpreachers. In fact, the pollfound that Americanstrust preachers onlyslightly more than jour-nalists and building con-tractors.

If you’re open to somesound advice, let me offersome. Within a shortdrive of your home is apreacher who you knowvery well. You probablyknew his parents. Youlikely know his wife andchildren. You know that

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Guest EditorialBy Glenn Mollette

I hear a lot about whiteprivilege.

I grew up in Martincounty, Kentucky. Wewere considered one ofthe poorest counties inthe United States. InApril, 1964 President Lyn-don B. Johnson and hisentourage of staff, secretservice, media and otherpoliticians swarmed intothe county seat of Inezduring his war on povertycampaign tour.

Johnson and the en-tourage rode through ourtown waving and thenproceeded on down route3, which was less thanthree miles north of myhomeplace. He walkedonto the porch of a localfamily where he did aphoto session that wouldbe shown on every mediasource around the world.I just watched it onYouTube. He then re-turned to his Cadillac,came back through Inezand shook a few hands atthe courthouse before heboarded his helicopterand left us. He had whathe needed which werereal pictures of realpoverty and a story of realpoverty from the hills ofEast, Kentucky. There wasnothing about Johnson'svisit that communicatedanything about the whiteprivilege of East, Ken-tucky. We had never

heard of white privilege.We hadn't thought muchabout privilege or povertyeither. I don't think toomany of us thought wewere poor. We didn'tknow the difference re-ally. We didn't have any-body telling us that weshould be demanding eq-uity with others in thecountry.

After Johnson flew out,we resumed our normallifestyles. The family pic-tured in the photo op con-tinued to have a verydifficult life of poverty.Even though they had thePresident of the UnitedStates on their frontporch it wasn't enough tosave them from lives ofpoverty and difficulttimes. President John-son's intentions weregood. He led Congress topass the Economic Op-portunity Act in August,1964 which was part ofhis war on poverty effort.It was a nice gesture.

Unfortunately, familiesthroughout Martincounty and East, Ken-tucky still grappled withpoverty after the govern-ment money and newprograms were approved.Common life continuedto be living without in-door plumbing. For manypeople this meant a verydifficult life of finding al-ternative ways to access

water. Some people hadoutdoor wells. Theywould drop a bailerbucket into a well and"draw" up a bucket ofwater. Several of my fam-ily members had wells ofthis nature and I remem-ber their water tastingpretty good. This alsomeant many families didnot have indoor bath-rooms. Going to the bath-room meant goingoutside to a tiny littlebuilding built over a holein the ground. In the win-ter, trudging snow to go tothe bathroom at any hourof the day was cruel. Thisalso meant taking a bathby collecting water fromthe well and carrying itinto the house which in-volved a lot of carrying ifyou were going to take abath. The same processoccurred when washingclothes. Enough waterhad to be collected towash and then rinse theclothes. This was a mas-sive job. Does this soundlike white privilege?

By the time I was born,my family had indoorplumbing and we had onebathroom. We still had anoutdoor toilet that sat outfrom the house in theback yard. I tore it down acouple of years back. Ac-tually, it was hard to tearit down because I knew itsymbolized a very differ-ent era of life which toomany of us Appalachianpeople are all too familiar.

We had terrible water asa kid. It was really bad todrink and terrible forwashing clothes. The sul-phur in the water wouldruin our clothes. Thismeant my mother was al-ways catching rain waterin large tubs outside thehouse. In dry weatherwhen I was a child wewould walk to the creekand carry water back tothe house one bucket at atime. That always embar-rassed me as a kid. I don'tknow why. Most of thepeople up and down thecreek where I lived had todo the same thing plusmany of these people didnot have indoor plumb-ing either. Does thissound like white privi-lege?

When school was in ses-sion at my elementarycalled Tomahawk, I satwith classmates every daywho came to school hun-gry. The free school lunchprogram was the only de-cent meal they ever got toeat. Several boys in ourschool who did not haveindoor plumbing came toschool dirty but wouldoften stand in the schoolbathroom washing theirhands and faces before

Poverty never comes with privilege

he’s a trustworthy manwho cares for his flock.My advice is this, go to hischurch and support hisministry. You can likelycount on that man.

The preacher on TV mayhave a great public imagewith his shiny new Cadil-lac and his $1,000 suits,but that may be all he has.That preacher in thechurch right down theroad may drive a 20-year-old pickup truck andwear clothing from thesecond-hand store, but hemay have treasures laidup in Heaven beyondyour wildest dreams.

We would perhaps bewise to turn off the tele-vangelists and to stopdriving an hour to amegachurch to hear apreacher we don’t evenknow and who we’venever even met face toface.

And, by all means, let’sopen our doors to ourlocal pastors when theycome to visit. Our kittenscertainly would be a lotsafer if we’d do that.

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Confirmation was held Sunday, January 24, 2021 at St. John the EvangelistCatholic Church in Stapleton for the three parishes, St. Agnes, St. Bonifaceand St. John. Most Reverend Joseph Hanefeldt, Bishop of Grand Island,presided over the service. Reverend Thomas Gudipalli assisted.

Nine youth were confirmed and they are pictured above, back row, l-r: IsabelleStallbaumer, Zane Kreikemeier, Owen Stallbaumer, William Sisson and TaylarDoggett. Front row, l-r: Irelyn Rosfeld, Hope Brosius, Bishop Joseph Hanefeldt,Father Thomas Gudipalli, Kylee Lehmkuhler and Megan Amos.

A reception was held in the church basement following the service.

Confirmation held forSt. Agnes, St. Boniface &St. John the Evangelist


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From the Past (Continued from page 3)time. That afternoonVicky Earl and I had crafttime with Nadene Ander-sen, Wanda Mackley, DebMinor and Sharon Car-son. We made some cuteheart decorations andVicky went around andasked them to fill out aheart on what they loved.Most of them put theirfamily but there wassome other ones too, likeone put that she lovedCheetos and the other oneput that he loved gam-bling. I bet it won’t takeyou long to figure outwho those two are. Wehad fun anyway.

Wednesday was Bingoday. Those out to playwere Nadene, Ann Con-nell, Stan Boyer, Bob Os-terman, Florence Cooper,Wanda, Sharon C. andDeb. We had three black-out winners this week.Talk about breaking thebank.

Thursday we enjoyedcurrent events and watch-ing the basketball onStriv.

Friday morning I hadthe pleasure to fix someof the ladies’ hair for visi-tors and the Valentine’sDay party that afternoon.I must admit I’m getting alittle better at fixing hair.That afternoon we en-joyed our Valentine’s Dayparty. This year we didnot vote on a queen andking. I thought everyoneshould have the chance tobe king and queen for theafternoon. We had a funphoto session, a kissingbooth, enjoyed cookies,chocolates, little smokiesand punch. If you are stillreading this and did notpass out from the kissingbooth comment, it was ajoke. It was brought up atthe Resident Councilmeeting but it was only ajoke. Just seeing if you’repaying attention! Plusthey didn’t think that Iwould put it in the news.A good time was had byeveryone who attended.Lots of visiting and laugh-

ter. Thank you to PattyWadas for the fun back-drop, props and necklacesfor the photo shoot,Jeanette, Gladys andCourtney for bringing theresidents out and toMarie and Tammy for thefood.

We would like to thankDiane Andersen for theboxes of chocolates givento residents and staff, theTogether In Faith groupfor the table decorationsand the placemats andFirst State Bank for theValentine’s Day cards andcandies given to each res-ident. You made Valen-tine’s Day brighter for allof us. Thank you.

Some of our visitors thatbraved the cold were:

Marilyn Wright washere to visit with her dadRichard Broyles.

Duane McNutt and hiswife were here to visitMary Kemp.

Steve Springer was hereto visit with his wifeTwila Springer.

Missy Holt was here tosee her mom SherryForbes.

Brad Nutter was here tovisit his mom WandaMackley.

Stuart and Leah Carsonwere here to visit withSharon and Jerry Carson.

Cindy and KoKo Wrightwere here to visit their fa-vorite person, VirginiaWright.

Good luck to all thewrestlers and coaches thisweek at State Wresting.We will be cheering youon.

I feel like I am forgettingsomething but I can’tthink of it at the moment.Everyone have a greatweek. Stay warm. Safetravels. Until next week…

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and inconsistent run ca-pability.

The need for more pip-ing and components, cre-ates the need for moremining, production, anduse of fossil fuels. Thiscreates a larger carbonfootprint than before.

Fossil fueled plants emitthe greatest amount ofemissions during startup. Once they are up andrunning, the emissionsdrop to near zero. In Cali-fornia, the plants aremandated to run on de-mand, but are only al-lowed so many startupsper year. Many hit thisnumber as early as Febru-ary and March! Once theyexceed their allotted num-ber of startups they arefined each time they haveto restart. So, they eitherpay the fines or throttleback the plants to run atlow loads. This creates asimilar case to starting upwhich again producesgreater emissions. Sogreen energy is actuallycreating more emissionsand pollution!

Coal is another issue. Itis abundant, cheap andvery reliable. With thetechnology we have today,they can run muchcleaner than ever before.The government and neweconomic dynamics of themarket, have caused themto no longer be economi-cally viable and forced toclose. This has meant ahuge reduction in theamount of electricityavailability to the grid.

Green energy actuallyhas a large carbon foot-print from indirect in-puts. There is a lot ofmining to produce thematerials to make all thecomponents. Wind tur-bines use a huge amountof oil to lubricate thegears in the turbines,some solar uses oil whichis heated from the solarreflection mirrors andthen heats the water tomake steam for their tur-bines and generate theelectricity. A large

amount of water is alsoused to create the steam.Solar panels are largelymanufactured in Chinawhich has no regulationson emissions and alsomakes us reliant on a po-tential foe. They also use alarge amount of silicawhich is mined.

Solar and wind have notbeen reliable during thisstorm, due to the amountof snow and ice. Withthis, and the reducednumber of fossil fueledplants, we have createdour lack of power avail-ability.

Another issue with“Green Energy” is that itis not currently economi-cally feasible to produce.So the government subsi-dizes them to keep themrunning.

Then with NPPD sellingus out to the SouthwestPower Pool, without somuch as a mention as towhat could happen ifmore power was neededby them (rolling black-outs in Nebraska), we arebeing subjected to thepoor management ofstates like Texas, whoseelected officials are sell-ing out their local oil andgas energy companies fora quick buck from subsi-dies. Maybe we need tostart asking our localpower districts “why,”and holding them ac-countable for getting usinto potential problems.

We can’t just think ofthe people that need elec-tricity here at home tokeep warm, cook, work orgo to school, but we alsoneed to think about thelivestock that rely onpower to get their water,feed and warmth duringthese extreme cold spells.Maybe we need to reeval-uate what is best for ourstate and what some ofthe decisions these ‘pub-lic’ power districts aremaking that are in no waybeneficial to the peoplethat financially supportthem!

walks and highways witha treacherous coating ofice.

Donal Clouse is the newproud owner of a newHereford herd bull, H.G.Royal Heir 224th, pur-chased in Kansas.

Logan County Libraryreceived a permanentloan of 200 books fromthe State Library Commis-sion.

Births: Michael RussAbrams, February 20.

EIGHTY YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 27, 1941

Byron Keslar will have apublic sale at his farm.

Floyd S. Rozmiarek, NelsMorrison and Swain M.Leach were inducted intothe U.S. Army for oneyear’s service.

Mrs. Georgia Hubbellwas injured in an acci-dent involving the car shewas riding and the Gillanbread truck.

Weddings: Miss DorisMarson and Bernard Bro-sius, February 22; MissIrene Merritt and Ken-neth Brosius; Miss Chris-tiana Morrison and LeoBrosius; Lola EmpfieldBrandstetter and Eli An-drew Path, February 15;Haleyon V. Lutes andLloyd D. Miller, February10; Miss Nellie McCall andCharles Galvin, February15.

Deaths: Lewis L. Mann,65, February 23.

NINETY YEARS AGO

FEBRUARY 26, 1931

The 22 members of thegraduating class of theBaker Rural High Schooland their sponsor, J.E.

Lawrence, went to NorthPlatte to engage in that allimportant event. Theclass broadcast a specialprogram from stationKGNF, as guest of “Lucky”Dedmore at what hetermed, “a radio party.”

Dell Welsh had the mis-fortune to lose his barn,six head of his best horsesand all of his harness byfire.

Salisbury and Baskinwill oil a harness for$1.00.

Births: a boy to Mr. andMrs. O.L. Hedrick, Febru-ary 21.

Weddings: Miss FayeBrummet and CliffordKramer, January 18.

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Harry Lamb and familyof Stapleton are movingonto their farm north ofRinggold.

Mr. Bertran was a busi-ness caller in Stapleton.

Colburn Kilmer andfamily are moving to New-man Grove where theyhave rented a farm for thecoming year.

The fifth grade have fin-ished their text in readingand are taking up supple-mentary work for the restof the year.

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Darwin “Derb” Frey, 88,of Stapleton, Nebraska,passed away peacefullyon February 4, 2021, atthe Central Nebraska Vet-eran’s Home in Kearney.

Darwin was born May14, 1932 at the home ofHarry and Eva Frey inStapleton. He graduatedin 1950 from Baker RuralHigh School and enlistedin the United States AirForce. Darwin served dur-ing the Korean War as anaerial gunner on a B-29bomber flying out of Oki-nawa. He was decoratedwith the Air Medal withthree oak leaf clusters.After serving four yearseach of active and reserveduty, he was honorablydischarged from the AirForce and enrolled in theUniversity of Wyomingusing the G.I. Bill. Darwingraduated in 1959 with abachelor’s degree in geol-ogy and a master’s degreein petroleum geology. Heaccepted a position withChevron Oil Companyworking in Colorado,Utah, Wyoming, and Ne-braska.

In the summer of 1955while still in college, Dar-win and his hometownsweetheart LewellynPhilpot were united inmarriage. They wereblessed with two sons,Steven & Gregory. Dar-win’s job with Chevronrequired him to be awayfrom home much of thetime and living in a bigcity was simply unaccept-able, so he resigned fromChevron and moved hisfamily back to his home-town and began his careerin agriculture. Lewellyn’sfather purchased the Mor-rison Ranch in LoganCounty and made Darwinmanager, giving the boysa ranch life.

Darwin was a licensedpilot logging over 400

hours flying his Piper Tri-Pacer around the ranchchecking pastures andwindmills and takingfamily members to doctorappointments.

Darwin later purchasedthe propane and hard-ware business with sonSteve and wife Cindy for-merly owned by MikeHanna. This business alsoworked well for Darwinbeing a Pioneer Seed Rep-resentative which lastedfor 35 years. Darwin,along with younger sonGreg and wife Katrinapurchased the land for-merly owned by his sib-lings.

Darwin served on theRural Fire Board, SchoolBoard, Upper Loup NRD,Selective Service DraftBoard for 25 years, and asthe Vet’s Club managerand maintenance man.He belonged to the Uni-versity of Wyoming hon-orary chapter of theSigma XI, AAPG (Ameri-can Association of Petro-leum Geologists), AIME(American Institute ofMining Engineers), Amer-ican Society of Crop Advi-

sors, and Nebraska Agri-Business Association. Dar-win was a 50-year lifemember of VFW Post8258, served as Quarter-master for eight years andwas given a citation byVFW National Headquar-ters for his efforts in re-cruiting life members. Hewas a 40-year member ofthe American Legion Post324. Darwin gave thecommands at several mil-itary funerals and waselected senior vice com-mander. Darwin was verypatriotic, and he stoodand saluted our Americanflag and had no time forthose who did not. Hespent many years placingflags on Veteran’s gravesat the McCain, Loup Val-ley, and St. John’s Ceme-teries on Memorial Day.

Darwin loved animalsand had many pets. Beinga geologist, he collectedmany rocks which can beseen in his yard.

Darwin was preceded indeath by his wifeLewellyn, his parentsHarry and Eva Frey, sib-lings Calvin, Harry Wayneand Dolores.

He is survived by sonsSteven (Cindy) and Gre-gory (Katrina) of Staple-ton; grandchildren Steph(Greg) Miller of Lincoln,Sondy Frey (Wayne Claar)of Mayfield, KY, ShawnaFrey of Stapleton, Devan(Mitch) McAdow of Hyan-nis, Payton Frey ofPrescott AZ, and Max Freyof Lincoln.

Those choosing to do-nate to memorials inhonor of Darwin, memo-rials are suggested to theStaleton VFW Post 8258or to the Callahan CancerCenter.

Graveside services willbe held April 14, 2021, atFt. McPherson Cemetery.

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class. I'm sure some girlsdid the same thing Ourlittle elementary schoolbathroom was a luxury tothem. Does this soundlike white privilege?

I hear all this talk aboutwhite privilege. Growingup in an inner-citydwelling is surely filledwith hardships, but thesedwellers at least have ac-cess to a real kitchen, run-ning water, an indoorbathroom and even televi-sion and radio reception.These are luxuries thatmany Appalachian kidsdid not have growing up.Even today, in too manyplaces in East, Kentuckyand throughout Ap-palachia there are stillfamilies growing up with-out indoor bathrooms, ac-cess to water andsurviving daily hunger.Internet cannot be foundin too many Appalachianareas. These are the sce-narios that have becomeignored by media, govern-ment and employers.Thank God it's not evenclose to what it once wasbut I've been in thehollers of the mountainsand seen enough to knowpoverty is still real and acruel existence.

Today, 14 of the 50 poor-est counties in the UnitedStates are all from thesame East Kentucky re-gion that Johnson visitedin 1964. For Martincounty, "The per capita in-come is just over$18,000," according to the2019 Census report.Twenty-six (26.3) percentof the county is still at thepoverty level according toData USA with a medianhousehold income of$35,125. The county is 99percent white. Does thissound like a place ofwhite privilege? McCrearycounty is located in theDaniel Boone NationalForest in southern Ken-tucky along the Ten-nessee state border. Theonly county nationwidewhere most householdsearn less than $20,000 ayear, McCreary is thepoorest county in bothKentucky and the UnitedStates. The life ex-pectancy is just 73. (USAToday) Does this soundlike white privilege? The

Washington Post reportedthat the life expectancyfor the 5th district in East-ern, Kentucky is under 73making it the shortest lifespan expectancy in theUnited States. OwsleyCounty Kentucky's lifespan expectancy has beenreported to be 67.3 yearswhile in San Jose, Califor-nia the life expectancy is83.

The white privilege I en-joyed as a kid was that Iwas fortunate to be raisedaround hard-working peo-ple. My dad spent fourhours a day driving to andfrom Holden, West Vir-ginia to work in an under-ground coal mine. Hespent over 30 yearsstooped over, on his kneesor on his back in a darkcoal mine. He made a liv-ing until at the age of 55his health started failinghim and he had to quit.He and my mother keptfood on the table. Weraised a garden. We hadlivestock. My familyworked hard. My unclesand aunts farmed andworked whatever jobsthey could find to makeends meet. My grandfa-ther and grandmotherHinkle worked in a verysmall grocery store sixdays a week until he was83 and she was 80. Theyworked hard until theydied. No one had unem-ployment checks rollingin. No one had Social Se-curity Disability checks.No one was receivingstimulus checks. Thereweren't food stamps orother federal or statemoney available to helpanyone out. Our familyhad a mindset to work be-cause that was our onlymeans of surviving.

I have never experi-enced anything like whatsome of my Americanfriends have experiencedgrowing up. Or, whatsome still experience. I'mcertainly not intending tobelittle your experiencesor trying to "one up you"on who was poorer or hadit harder. Just be awarethat Appalachia is stillfilled with hurting,poverty-stricken people ofdifferent colors. Povertynever comes with privi-lege regardless of color.

The West Central Dis-trict Health Department’srisk dial moved from a2.77 down to a 2.69,which remains in the ele-vated risk level. Therewere changes in the fol-lowing variables that con-tributed to movement inthe dial:

We had a decrease in thefollowing:

• Measure ID R12: Med-ical & Surgical Beds

The COVID-19 Risk Dialcontains recommendedguidance to help preventand control the spread ofCOVID-19.

While in the Elevated

West Central risk dialmoves from 2.77 to 2.69

Risk category, physicaldistance of 6 feet orgreater, wearing face cov-erings when outside thehome, frequent hand-washing (or use of handsanitizer), staying home ifyou are having flu-like orCOVID-like symptoms,disinfecting high touchsurfaces, and having at-risk and vulnerable peo-ple remain home arerecommended as thegreatest tools in reducingthe spread of COVID-19.For more information onrecommendations for thevarious risk categories ofthe WCDHD CommunityRisk Dial, please visit theCOVID-19 Risk Dial pageon our website.

There have been 38cases of COVID-19 for thetime period of 2/10/2021to 2/16/2021. As a re-minder, WCDHD will be

posting a COVID-19 casenumber update everyThursday with the riskdial update.

The state of Nebraskacontinues to see shipmentdelays of the Modernavaccine. As of February19, 2021, West CentralDistrict Health Depart-ment (WCDHD) has notreceived notice of an up-dated shipment date.“There is a strong poten-tial there may be somelast-minute appointmentcancellations due to thelack of vaccine,” saidShannon Vanderheiden,Executive Director ofWest Central DistrictHealth Department. Asmore information onavailability of vaccines isobtained, WCDHD willcommunicate throughmedia outlets and theirsocial media sites.

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Community First BankEmployer ShareOasi.......................2,393.74

GENERAL ROADBlue Cross-Blue Shield

Employer Share.....919.99Country PartnersCooperative

Fuel And Repairs...451.44Eastside ServiceFuel AndRepairs .................1,894.40Frey's General Store

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COUNTY LIBRARYTrimble, Kathryn

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The clerk informed theboard of the West CentralDistrict Meeting to beheld March 25, 2021 atthe Quality Inn in Ogal-lala.

The clerk reminded theboard and officials to filetheir financial statementswith the state by March 1,2021.

Rich Cook, High Super-intendent gave a reporton his findings and rec-ommendations for Road50. Motion by Wonch sec-ond by Gaites to approveresolution #21-2 to fix atime date and place for apublic hearing on Road50. The hearing will takeplace Wednesday, March17,2021 at 10:00 a.m., inthe Commissioners Meet-ing Room at the LoganCounty Courthouse inStapleton. Yeas: Doyle,Gaites and Wonch. Nays:None.

Motion by Gaites sec-onded by Wonch to ap-prove resolution #21-4declaring September 13,2021 as "Larry Dix Day".

Larry Dix retired Febru-ary 1, 2021 as the Directorof the Nebraska Associa-tion of County Officialsafter over 19 years of serv-ice and all County Offi-cials are wanting to honorhim on his birthday. Mo-tion by Gaites secondedby Wonch to pass, ap-prove and adopt Resolu-tion #21-4 declaring"Larry Dix Day” on Sep-tember 13, 2021. Yeas:Doyle, Gaites and Wonch.Nays: None.

Rich Cook gave a high-way superintendent re-port. Rich Cook discussedthe Dump Truck with theboard. It is in the shopwith major repairs and itwas discussed if theywanted to put the moneyinto fixing or not. Decidedto have Rich look aroundto see if they can get therepairs done any place ata lower cost.

Hearing of the One-and-Six-year road Plan wasopened at 9:30 A.M. andclosed at 9:45 A.M. Motionby Wonch seconded byGaites to pass, approveand adopt Resolution #21-3 approving the One-and-Six-year road improve-ment plan as amended.Yeas: Doyle, Wonch andGaites. Nays: None.

Colten Venteicher,County Attorney had noreport. Sean Carson gavea sheriff’s report on newlegislation that is beingpresented for sheriffs.Scott Gaites gave a reporton the West CentralHealth District meetinghe attended.

The Logan CountyBoard of Commissionersrecessed at 10:00 A.M. toopen up as Board ofEqualization. Chairman

Robert Doyle called themeeting to order. Roll callwas as follows: Doyle,Gaites and Wonch.

Logan County Clerk pre-sented the board with aTax List Correction forparcel 570016843 per-sonal property. An ac-countant filed anamended schedule onJanuary 27, 2021 for the2020 personal property. Awaterline system put in2019 was added to theLogan County personalproperty and shouldn'thave been in LoganCounty. Correction was toremove the value of thewaterline system fromthe 2020 tax book. Motionby Gaites seconded byWonch to make tax bookcorrection to 2020 taxyear as presented. Yeas:Wonch, Gaites and Doyle.

The Assessor discussedthe 2021 Ag land valuesfor Irrigated, Dryland andGrassland classes, it lookslike there will be an in-crease in grass and irri-gated land groups anddryland will see nochange for 2021 tax year;values are set from salesoccurring from October 1,2017 to September 30,2020. The value in resi-dential will change due toa reappraisal done inGandy, Stapleton and torural residential proper-ties and a new deprecia-tion was put into place.

Board of Equalizationadjourned at 10:10 to re-convened into Board ofCommissioners.

Logan County Board ofCommissioners reviewedan interlocal agreementbetween Logan Countyand Stapleton Village forLaw Enforcement. Motionby Wonch seconded byGaites to approve andsign the Law Enforce-ment Contract betweenLogan County and the Vil-lage of Stapleton to rununtil June 30, 2021 atwhich time it will be re-viewed. Yeas: Gaites,Doyle and Wonch. Nays:None.

Caleb W. Johnson, of 113Enterprises, LLC metwith the board about anagreement for doing thecounty budget for the2021-2022 and 2022-2023budget years. Motion byWonch seconded byGaites to approve theagreement between 113Enterprises, LLC andLogan county to dobudget for Logan County2021-2022 and 2022-2023and appoint Caleb W.Johnson as the LoganCounty budget authorityfor the 2021-2022 budgetyear. Yeas: Doyle Wonchand Gaites. Nays: None.

No further businessmeeting adjourned tomeet March 18, 2020 at9:00 a.m.

Robert J. Doyle,ChairmanATTEST:

Debbie Myers (SEAL),Logan County Clerk


McPHERSON COUNTYSCHOOL BOARD

MEETINGFebruary 11,2021

The District #90 Boardof Education was called toorder by President Wat-son at 7:00 pm. Watsonled in the Pledge of Alle-giance.

Roll call of memberspresent: Toni Powers,Lana Watson, Josh Streiff,Chris Schultis and ToddAscherl. Absent: TrentNeal. Ascherl moved to ex-cuse Neal. Powers 2ndthe motion. Voting: Aye-Ascherl, Powers, Streiff,Schultis & Watson. Nay-None. Motion carried.

President Watson notedthat the open meetingslaw was posted in theroom and asked if anyonewas recording the meet-ing. No recordings. Legalnotice of the meeting wasposted at the customarysites on February 8, 2021.

CONSENT AGENDA:Powers moved to approvethe agenda. Ascherl 2ndthe motion. PresidentWatson read the conflictof interest statement andall members on the listfor the month signed it.Voting: Aye –Powers, As-cherl, Streiff, Schultis &Watson. Nay - none. Mo-tion carried.

RECOGNITION OF VISI-TORS: None

COMMITTEE REPORTS:Housing/Facility/Trans-

portation: Mr. Vanderhei-den reported that the newbus lost power and Inlandmade a service call and re-paired it. The old bus ishaving heater issues thatcannot be repaired easily.We need to start lookingat a new bus to replacethe old one. We were notapproved for the busgrant we applied for. Wewere 70/400+ applicants.The sidewalk needswidened on the east sideof the elementary tomake it handicap accessi-ble. Highmark Electric iscoming to look at thehouses and apartmentsand upgrade outlets. Hewill also be looking at thefootball field for installinglights this summer.

Negotiation/Finance:The committee has metwith teachers and havecome to an agreementthat will be voted on latertonight.

Americanism/Multicul-turalism/Curriculum/Pol-icy: No new report

Marketing: Radio andTV ads are running, andsocial media ads are beingmade by some of the highschool classes. The boardwould like ads updatedregularly on the teach Ne-braska website.

Co-op: Dayton Gipe isdoing amazing inwrestling and is currentlyranked 7th in state. Hehas already wrestled andbeat state ranks 1 through6 in the last couple weeks.

Student Board Member:Malaky Johnson reportedthat the kids at schoolseem incredibly stressedthese last couple weeks.State FFA will all be on-line this year. Speechmeets have been post-poned or canceled latelydue to weather.

Principal: PrincipalBrownfield stated she hasaccepted a position forprincipal at another loca-tion. Kindergartenround-up will be heldMarch 10th. Map testingfor the winter session hasbeen partially completed.She also let the boardknow that state assess-ments will be transition-ing to NSCAS starting thisspring.

Superintendent: Super-intendent Vanderheidenreported that professionaldevelopment for theteachers has been goingvery well. Half of theteachers have had theirrefresher for CPI and theother half have been dis-cussing the book “Engag-ing Kids in Poverty.”They will switch roles onFebruary 15th and onFebruary 24th they willhave CPI training for thenewer teachers and tech-nology instruction for therest. All letters of intent tostay have been sent to theteachers and they are re-quired to have them backto the office by March 15,

2021. POLICY:No policies were dis-

cussed.DISCUSS & TAKE POSSI-

BLE ACTION ITEMS: #1. 2021-2022 Con-

tracted Services with ESU16. Powers moved to ap-prove the ESU 16 con-tracts for 2021-2022school year in the amountof: Sped $74,781 (downabout $22,000 from 2020-2021 school year), MentalHealth $8298 and Dis-tance Learning $23,000.Ascherl 2nd the motion.Voting: Aye- Powers, As-cherl, Streiff, Schultis &Watson. Nay-None. Mo-tion carried.

#2. Mileage Reimburse-ment. State mileage hasdropped to $.56 from$.58. Per policy, McPher-son Co. Schools will paymileage at the currentstate rate.

#3. NASB MembershipDues. Mr. Vanderheidenwould like the schoolboard to join Nebraska As-sociation of SchoolBoards for professionaldevelopment and train-ings that they offer acrossthe state. We would re-coup our dues with thediscount we receive fromthem when the board at-tends their trainings as amember versus nonmem-bers. Powers moved tojoin NASB and pay the an-nual dues of $2,169.Streiff 2nd the motion.Voting: Aye- Powers,Streiff, Ascherl, Schultis &Watson. Nay-None. Mo-tion carried.

#4. Teacher Negotia-tions. The board dis-cussed the negotiatedagreement that the com-mittee and teachers havebeen working on for 2021-2023. The board also dis-cussed possible hiringbonuses for new teachers,extra duty days for techcoordinator and FFAteacher and possiblyadding a stipended As-sessment Coordinator po-sition. Powers moved toapprove the 2021-2023 ne-gotiated agreement aspresented by the teachersand negotiations commit-tee. Ascherl 2nd the mo-tion. Voting: Aye- Powers,Ascherl, Streiff, Schultis &Watson. Nay-None. Mo-tion carried.

The next regular boardmeeting will be March 11,2021 at 7:00 p.m.

Ascherl moved to ad-journ at 8:18 p.m. Powers2nd the motion. Voting:Aye- Ascherl, Powers,Streiff, Schultis & Watson.Nay-None. Motion car-ried.

February 2021 CLAIMSGENERAL

EFTPS.................19,420.61Nebraska Department of

Revenue ...............2,982.91AFLAC ..................1,804.00Blue Cross

Blue Shield........19,226.29Sandhills State

Bank ...................56,268.00MCHS Housing ...1,093.25WageWorks .............125.00Nebraska School

Retirement ........16,103.18First National Bank

Omaha3.....................55.00First National Bank

Omaha5 ..................991.00First National

Bank9 ......................159.34Creative Printers ...158.69Culligan...................131.63Custer Public

Power ................1,524.69Eagle

Communications1,000.00Eakes Office

Plus.......................1,071.90ESU 16................10,835.26Great Plains

Communication ...216.49Harris, T. ................555.36Hometown

Leasing....................189.00Husker Radio ......1,200.00Ideal Bluffs Facility

Solutions...................18.87Ideal Linen ...............76.55Jostens .......................31.97KSB School Law.....236.00LexiNexis ..................81.08Menards .................323.96Neal Oil and

Auto Center .........9,355.51Nebraska Safety and Fire

Equipment .............120.00One Source ...............20.00Recognition

Unlimited..................24.65Rosenberg Ins...19,835.00Simmons, K. .............92.80Wage Works ..............55.25Walmart ....................60.34Sub Total .........165,443.58

ACTIVITYFirst National Bank

VILLAGE OFSTAPLETON

REGULAR MEETINGMINUTES

February 10th, 20217:30 P.M.

Location of Meeting: Vil-lage Hall

Notice: Published in TheStapleton Enterprise andposted at three local busi-nesses as provided by law

Called to Order: 7:30P.M. by Chairman DanBeckius

Present at Meeting:Chairman Dan Beckiuswith Trustees, Amber Tat-man, Anita Harwager,and Wayne Hora in atten-dance. Trustee LarryVasquez was absent. Alsopresent were Stacey An-derson, Sheriff Sean Car-son, Marcia Hora, ScottSalisbury, and Mark Frey.

Open Meetings Law:Chairman Beckius statedto all persons in atten-dance that a copy of theOpen Meetings Law wasposted on the wall for allto see.

Previous Minutes: Mo-tion by Hora to approvethe minutes of the previ-ous regular meeting aspresented. Tatman sec-onded. Approved 3-0. Rollcall vote: Aye: Beckius,

Hora, Tatman. Nay: none.Absent: Vasquez. Motioncarried.

Old Business: • Sheriff Carson was

present to discuss con-tract. Tatman made a mo-tion to table the contractuntil the final rough draftis complete. Harwagerseconded. 4-0. Roll callvote: Aye: Beckius, Hora,Tatman, Harwager. Nay:none. Absent: Vasquez.Motion carried.

• The new nuisance or-dinance was discussed.Attorney Borders will pro-ceed with enforcement.

• Coco livestock applica-tion was denied at thistime until proper paper-work is filled out.

• Hora made a motion toaccept a bid from RoyLicking to add on toclerk’s office. Tatman sec-onded. 4-0. Roll call vote:Aye: Beckius, Hora, Tat-man, Harwager. Nay:none. Absent: Vasquez.Motion carried.

• Payment from FEMAwill be direct deposited innext coming weeks.

• Beckius signed awaiver for Creative Print-ers to host a tasting on3/11/21.

• Beckius approved therequest for alcohol to beserved at the Gala on3/6/21.

• Tatman made a mo-tion for a letter to be sentto a village resident re-garding an unlicensedpick-up parked on thestreet. Hora seconded. 4-0. Roll call vote: Aye: Beck-ius, Hora, Tatman,Harwager. Nay: none. Ab-sent: Vasquez. Motioncarried.

New Business: • Anita Harwager signed

her oath of office as atrustee in front of MarciaHora, notary.

• Hora made a motion toput Anita Harwager,trustee on all bank ac-counts at CommunityFirst Bank. Tatman sec-onded. 3-0. Roll call vote:Aye: Beckius, Hora, Tat-man. Nay: none. Absent:Vasquez. Motion carried.

• Foreclosure on Lots 11& 12, Block 14 has beenfiled with the court.

• Foreclosure onLots 5 & 6, Block 17 hasbeen filed with the court.

• Tatman made a mo-tion to approve Lazy RWto hold a tasting at Cre-ative Printers on 3/11/21.Harwager seconded. 4-0.Roll call vote: Aye: Beck-ius, Hora, Tatman, Har-wager. Nay: none. Absent:Vasquez. Motion carried.

• Tatman made a mo-tion to allow CreativePrinters to serve alcoholat the Gala on 3/6/21.Harwager seconded. 4-0.Roll call vote: Aye: Beck-ius, Hora, Tatman, Har-wager. Nay: none. Absent:Vasquez. Motion carried.

• Tatman made a mo-tion to pay Loup ValleyConstruction, Inc. with$30,000.00 from streetfund and the remainderbalance out of generalfund. Hora seconded. 4-0. Roll call vote: Aye: Beck-ius, Hora, Tatman,Harwager. Nay: none. Ab-sent: Vasquez. Motioncarried

Open discussion:• Discussed dogs not

being licensed in the vil-lage

• Discussed people park-ing wrong way on streetsin the village

Maintenance report: • Slaughterhouse Road

project is complete• 10 aluminum picnic

tables have been deliv-ered

• Ordered 12 new polydumpsters

• Hora made a motion toaccept Mike ATV’s mowerbid for $12,689.25. Har-wager seconded. 4-0. Rollcall vote: Aye: Beckius,Hora, Tatman, Harwager.Nay: none. Absent:Vasquez. Motion carried.

• Working on back-upgenerator grant for wells

• 100 x 60 recyclingbuilding grant will be de-cided on April 8th

• Sewage back-up, t-shirtwas flushed down sewer

Approval of claims: • Motion by Tatman to

pay the claims as pre-sented. Hora seconded.Approved 4-0. Roll callvote: Aye: Beckius, Hora,Tatman, Harwager. Nay:none. Absent: Vasquez.Motion carried.Mark L Frey

Paycheck..............1,164.84Frey, Mark L.Equipment/VehicleRental Mark............250.00Mark L Frey

Retirement .............207.79State Of Nebr. Payment

State Payroll Tax....403.50Nebraska UC FundUnemploymentPayment ....................37.61Stacey E Anderson

Paycheck .................689.77Ebay

Fiberglass Flagpole MetalTop Order#04-06521-11275 ......42.15Nebraska MunicipalClerks Association

Clerk Institute........393.00City Of North Platte

Landfill ................1,850.14One Call Concepts, Inc

Inv# 1010867..............1.54Waste SystemsFilter CartIn-Tank....................433.44Creative Printers

Invoice #8273.........657.16Par-Kan CompanyTrash Lid Rods Order# Mwc02384 ...........108.62Frey's General Store

Supplies ..................462.73Great Plains TelephoneTelephone/Internet...................326.06Village Of Stapleton

Water TankSavings ....................895.00Roll-Offs USA

12 Metal YellowDumpsters...........9,024.00U.S. Cellular

Mark Cell Phone......47.17MJK CPA, P.C.

Accounting Fees ....731.25United Healthcare

Mark’s HealthInsurance ............4,302.79Chamber

2021 MembershipDues...........................40.00Ideal Linen Supply

Inv# 1138601..........119.00Core & MainSupplies ForWater Repairs.........818.95Michael Todd &Company

Order Number112622 Signs ..........326.59American Agricultural

LaboratoryWater Samples .........19.50U. S. Postal Service

3 Rolls Of Stamps ..165.00Banks, Susan (Cleaning)MonthlyCleaning..................150.00Jack H Brummet

Paycheck .................232.63Anita L. Harwager,

TrusteePaycheck ...................46.17Amber L. Tatman,

TrusteePaycheck ...................46.18Dan Beckius, Chairman

Paycheck ...................46.18Larry Vasquez, Trustee

Paycheck ...................46.18Wayne Hora,

Vice ChairmanPaycheck ...................46.18USA Bluebook

Supplies-Inv#486357 .........4,740.32Country Partners

Diesel.......................580.98Stapleton Coop Market &

DeliCleaning Supplies ...43.11CPPD

Electricity ............1,670.08Wex Bank

Fuel..........................817.14Aupperle Plumbing &Heating

Sewer North OfSchool......................322.00Lexington ASWA

Inv # 134925...........251.70Core & Main

Touchreader AndTouchpads ..............818.95NMC- Cat

Lamp Gp -Head......157.56Borders Law Office

Inv# 10574..............177.00Ideal Linen Supply

Inv# 1114059..........120.79Com. First BankAcct# 449608-MonthlyPayment...............1,616.10Mark L Frey

Paycheck..............1,164.84TOTAL................36,611.69

Approval of treasurer’sreport:

Motion by Tatman to ap-prove Treasurer’s reportas presented. Accountbalances $236,183.70. In-come for month$26,406.87. Expenses formonth $48,964.49. Har-wager seconded. 4-0. Rollcall vote: Aye: Beckius,Hora, Tatman, Harwager.Nay: none. Absent:Vasquez. Motion carried.

Next meeting: March10, 2021 at 7:30 P.M. atVillage Hall.

Adjourn meeting: 9:03P.M.

Dan Beckius, ChairmanStacey E. Anderson,

Village ClerkPublish: February 25,

2021 ZENZ

Village OfStapleton Board

Proceedings

The Stapleton EnterprisePage 14 Thursday, February 25, 2021 Proceedings & Notices

How is it possible that a“regional transmissionauthority” in Arkansascan order our Nebraskapublic power utilities toshut off electricity to Ne-braskans? Nebraska by it-self has more thanenough electrical genera-tion within our own stateto meet the load require-ments that Nebraskausers have. Why mustpower be shut off to Ne-braskans?

In 2009, when Ne-braska’s public power or-ganizations decided tojoin the Southwest PowerPool, they made this deci-sion all by themselves.The decision to join a 17-state consortium of elec-trical utilities was never aquestion before the Legis-lature. No bill was ever in-troduced, no publichearings before a commit-tee were ever held, and nopublic debate by ourelected representativeswas ever conducted. Nobill was ever put on theGovernor’s desk for signa-ture or veto. No questionwas ever put on the ballotfor the people to decide.

I question whether ornot the Nebraska PublicPower District had thelegal authority to makesuch a choice on behalf ofour entire state in the firstplace, especially when itworks against one of thereasons the Legislature

Legislative NewsDistrict 43 - Tom Brewer

402-471-2628 • [email protected]

How can Arkansas order electricitybe shut off to Nebraskans?

Our state deserves an answer.

provided for the existenceof public power districtsin the very first law writ-ten to create them. Ne-braska law says thatpublic power districts“have an obligation toprovide the inhabitantsand customers of the dis-trict an adequate, reliable,and economical source ofelectric power and en-ergy.” Willfully turningoff the heat during thecoldest winter in genera-tions is the opposite ofproviding reliable power.It ought to be criminal.

I can tell you one thingfor certain, no ranchertrying to keep his cattlealive in record coldweather ever voted forthis wrong-headed idea.Some years back the Leg-islature was not pleasedwith how the Departmentof Health and HumanServices was dealing withgovernment programs forchildren, so they createdan Inspector General forChild Welfare the Legisla-ture could call upon whenissues arose.

The issue of prison over-crowding raised similarconcerns in the Legisla-ture so a special investiga-tive committee for thedepartment of correc-tions was created andthey also have an inspec-tor general now.

In 2011, an entire spe-cial session of the Legisla-

ture was convened to passa body of laws that ad-dressed how the KeystoneXL pipeline would berouted and built in Ne-braska.

It is plain to see the Ne-braska Legislature has along history of creatingmore oversight and de-manding more accounta-bility for things that ourState is not doing verywell. Deliberately shut-ting off electricity to Ne-braskans because someoutfit in another state or-dered us to do so is a life-or-death matter that criesout for more accountabil-ity. There are numerousopportunities this year tofind a way to bring publicpower before this legisla-ture under oath. Theyhave some tough ques-tions to respond to. Theirvery existence may relyon their answers.

Please contact my officewith any comments, ques-tions, or concerns. Emailme at [email protected],mail a letter to Sen. TomBrewer, Room #1101, P.O.Box 94604, Lincoln, NE68509, or call us at (402)471-2628.

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Omaha3 ..................254.32Buchanan, M..........145.00Connell, L. ................25.00Florea, K..................239.54Heart City

Bull Bash ................180.00Jobman, D...............145.00McNutt, Chad ..........25.00Maxwell Public

Schools ....................138.00MCIC .........................77.50North Platte

High School............138.00North Platte

Public Schools........138.00Stapleton Schools ..287.50Sutherland

Schools ...................138.00Vanderheiden, T. ..160.66Venteucher .............145.00Walmart ...................60.88Sub Total..............2,297.40

BUILDING FUNDCulligan.....................29.00Menards ....................38.39Sub Total...................67.39


Notice of PublicMeeting

McPherson CountyBoard of EqualizationNOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN that the McPher-son County Board ofEqualization will meet at10:00 A.M. on March 10,2021, to approve filed Per-missive Exemptions. Thismeeting will be held inthe courtroom of theMcPherson County Court-house in Tryon Nebraska.This meeting will be opento the public. A list of ap-plications from organiza-tions seeking taxexemptions, descriptionsof the property and rec-ommendations of thecounty assessor are avail-able in the county asses-sor’s office.

Katherine E HobergMcPherson County

ClerkPublish: February 25,

2021 ZNEZ

McPherson Co.Board of

EqualizationPublic Notice

Schroder, Lori Streit,Candy Salisbury, JanetBoeser and Anita Harwa-ger.”

Throughout the chal-lenges the past yearbrought, the store contin-ued to prepare Thursdaylunch meals, provide thebest possible service tocustomers, made homedelivery to shut-ins, andoffered curb-side pick-upfor those who did notwant to come into thestore.

There was an uptick insales in 2020, but Schaef-fer said the past monthsales have slacked off.

“We want to thankeveryone for their sup-port of the store and en-courage you to keepshopping locally,” shesaid. “It is the only waywe can continue to fullystock the store. We haveso many great specialseach and every week. Besure to check out our fly-ers in the newspaper andon Facebook. I thinkyou’ll be surprised at howmuch you can save andhelp grow your local com-munity at the same time.”

Stapleton CooperativeMarket & Deli will hold itsannual shareholdersmeeting Tuesday, March16, at the Stapleton Com-munity Center. A meal ofcorn beef and cabbagewill be served at 6:30 p.m.

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and the meeting willbegin at 7:30 p.m.

All shareholders are en-couraged to attend andhear what’s going on inyour store. Year-end re-ports will be given andtwo board of directorswill be elected. The termsof Cindy Frey, treasurerand Robin Garlett, vicepresident are up for elec-tion. Other board mem-bers are HeatherHarwager, president; Mar-cia Hora, secretary; DanBeckius, Tom Johnson,and Jason Trimble.

“We encourage share-holders and our cus-tomers to let us knowwhat they would like tosee and if there arechanges we need tomake,” Schaeffer added.“We continue to sign-upnew shareholders and ifyou are interested in be-coming one, packets areavailable.”

The Stapleton Coopera-tive Market & Deli man-ager, employees andboard of directors arecommitted to bringingyou the best locally-owned grocery store pos-sible and appreciate eachand every one of you whosupport the store. Work-ing together we can con-tinue to improve ourcommunity and make itthe a good place to live,work, and play.

If you or someone you know, is going through

teen dating violence, RDAP is here to help.

Our services are free and confidential.

Crisis line - 24 hour: 308-534-3495

OFFICE:

308-532-0624

The Stapleton Golf Association would like to thank all

those who helped make our fund-raiser such a great suc-

cess by purchasing raffle tickets, attending the dinner,

and donating silent auction items. A special thank you to

Mark Frey and Jake Schrock for cooking steaks in sub-

zero weather, to the Stapleton High School National

Honor Society members for serving the meal and assist-

ing with clean-up, and to Herbie’s Speakeasy for the cash

bar. Proceeds will go towards improvements at the Au-

gusta Wind Golf Course. Stay tuned as we hope to make

this an annual event.

NebraskaFarm Numbers

LowerNebraska’s number of

farms and ranches de-clined during 2020, ac-cording to USDA’sNational Agricultural Sta-tistics Service.

The number of farmsand ranches in the state,at 45,500, was down 200farms from 2019.

Numbers of farms andranches in Nebraska withless than $100,000 in agri-

cultural sales decreased200 farms from a year ear-lier while operations withagricultural sales of$100,000 or more was un-changed.

Land in farms andranches in Nebraska to-taled 44.9 million acres,unchanged from 2019.The average size of opera-tion, t 987 acres was up 5acres from a year earlier.

200,000 register for vaccineThe Nebraska Depart-

ment of Health andHuman Services (DHHS)COVID-19 Vaccinationportal reached and ex-ceeded the milestone of200,000 Nebraskans regis-tered for the COVID-19vaccine as of Thursday

evening. “This is a significant mo-

ment in Nebraska’s effortto mitigate COVID-19 andensure access to the vac-cine,” said DHHS ChiefInformation Officer LoriSnyder. “It means the sys-tems we have put in placeare reaching Nebraskansand making the processof getting the vaccine aseasy and equitable as pos-sible for residents.

Launched the last weekof January, Vaccinate.NE.Gov is the State’s offi-cial COVID-19 vaccineregistration portal. Thosewho have registered for

vaccination with theirlocal health departmentdo not need to register asecond time using thestate site as informationwill be transferred be-tween local health depart-ments and DHHS.

Nebraska is updating itsVaccine Phasing guidanceto provide further infor-mation and expectationsas to when the generalpopulation will be eligibleto receive the COVID-19vaccine. Health depart-ments are currently inPhase 1B, vaccinatingthose over 65 years old orworking in critical infra-structure.

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Anselmo-Merna by thescore of 18-62.

Ansley-Litchfield wonover Maxwell in the otherfirst round game.

Anselmo-Merna wonover Ansley-Litchfield bythe score of 55-29 to ad-vance to district play.

Sandhills Valley con-cludes their season with a6-18 record.

Sr. FriendshipClub Meeting

Sr. Friendship Club willmeet Friday, February 26at 1:30 p.m. at the Staple-ton Senior Center.

All are welcome. Pleasejoin us.

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