Fifty-nine Birds Seen This Week Adds to Year List
An amateur naturalist records weekly bird sightings detailing 13 species on a south drive to Shiloh School Basin and a return, followed by additions from the Platte River route. Notable sightings include red-headed woodpecker, brown thrasher, green heron, ruby crowned kinglet, Audubon warbler quest, and chimney swifts returning. Weekly total reaches 45 with winds complicating Friday observations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiloh School Basin
Line Road
Arborville Bridge
Platte River
Lee Morris
Platte
Blender
Polk
Wilson
Polk community Cancer Drive surpasses target with 169 donors
Polks eleven solicitors turned in envelopes to Chairman Mrs Dwight Burney this week. Polk had 169 individual contributors totaling 180 dollars with five dollars from the American Legion Auxiliary and three dollars each from the Women's Club and Faithful Workers. Thanks go to solicitors Mines, Gerhardt Dose, Neil McNaught, Martin Hoffman, Joe Ehn, Elvera Nyberg, John Kruse, Alvena Lind, Blanche Sundberg, Lyle Dornburgh, Carl Carlstrom and Reuben Hanquist. Our thanks to all who gave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polks
Dwight Burney
Polk
American Legion, Auxiliary
Women's Club
Solicitors Mines
Gerhardt Dose
Neil McNaught
Martin Hoffman
Joe Ehn
Elvera Nyberg
John Kruse
Alvena Lind
Blanche Sundberg
Lyle
Local visitors tour tornado damage sites and towns
Polk County residents from Ollie Johnson and Dwight Burney visit Arcadia to view tornado damage, tour Chalk Mines, and picnic at Scotia. They call at Park View Central City and dine with Hannah Bodine and Elvera Nyberg after church services.
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Ollie Johnson
Leslie Adelson
Dwight Burney
Hulda Sagehorn
Blanch Sundberg
Arthur Linneman
Papillion
Arcadia
Scotia
Emma Johnson
Sadie Clark
Ed Coover
Cliff Branting
Henry Steinke
Park View
Central City
Linneman
Burney
Hannah Bodine
Elvera Nyberg
Hilmer Jones
Birding notes in Polk area report diverse species
The observer documents a Platte River district week with American bittern gray cheeked thrush clay colored sparrows yellow warbler Myrtle warblers and green winged teal among others totaling 59 birds. A separate classroom report describes a Trinity Lutheran School fifth grade reading loft using a bathtub as a reading nook and a loft teaching aid.
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Lind
Polk Cemetery
Platte River
Loren
Randal Meske
Paul Kerschinske
Trinity East School
Heidi Plagge
Kris Levenhagen
Fremont Tribune
Also Mentioned on This Page
Farmers’ Co-op Grain Association
Co-op Grain
Co-Op
Polk, Nebraska
Marlin Schulz
Concordia
Wilshusen
Gresham
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