Polk school news reports activities and football schedule
Senior students named for Regent Scholarship testing in York on November 3. FBLA officers attended a Grand Island workshop with 250 students from Lincoln East to Cozad. Fire Prevention Week featured Polk fire truck visit. Charles Otte earns Extension Service recognition for State Fair media work. ASVAB tests for Polk seniors next week. Adult Basic Education program offers free classes in York Stromsburg and Seward. Volleyball teams lose to Genoa and Polk with top scorers listed. Branting and Albin star in varsity match.
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Regent
Linda Swanson
Marilyn Rosno
Cindy Tewell
Charles Otte
Kevin Graves
Marla Branting
Melody Albin
Pami Marless
York
FBLA
Future Business Leaders OF America
Grand T Island
Rick Hoffman
Karen Sterns
Jeanelle Carlson
Roger Carlstrom
Miss Mann
Lincoln East
Cozad
U.S
Polk
Extension Service
Charles
Don Ringier
Tom Allen
Omaha World Herald
Otte
Stromsburg
Seward
Richey
Sue Wainright
Platte Avenue
Nebr
Abbi Harrington
Peggy Neeman
Cheryl Fisher
Brendan Bankson
Patti Bender
School Lunch Menu for October Week of 15
The menu lists daily meals from Monday October 15 to Friday October 19 with options including goulash peanut butter sandwiches wethers and beans barbecue beef on bun cream of dried beef dishes, assorted vegetables, fruit servings and desserts. Special notes indicate National and Nebraska menus with possible changes.
School Lunch Week Honors National Menu Across States
The week of October 14 to 20 is School Lunch Week. Wednesday features the national suggested menu for school lunch programs and Friday mirrors menus used by Nebraska schools.
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Nebraska
Polk Happenings as Local Residents Travel and Celebrate
Mr and Mrs Gilbert Lampshire return from a ten day Ozarks vacation visiting Silver Dollar City and relatives in Bolivar Missouri Overland Park Kansas and a birthday celebration for Mrs Ansel Frederickson drew family including Ollie Johnson Alfred Dailey Kenneth Peterson Earl Johnson and Fred White Omaha visitors included Mr and Mrs Johnson Gordon Bush and Kelly Bush plus Guthries Prososkies and Janet Meyer. Also Orlie Miller and Roy Glasser joined in Sunday visit with Enoch Peterson at St Francis Hospital Grand Island.
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Gilbert Lampshire
Ozarks
Silver Dollar City
Charles Russell
Bolivar
Marvin McKenzie
Overland Park, Kansas
Ansel Fredrickson
Messers. and
Mines
Ollie Johnson
Alfred Dailey
Kenneth Peterson
Earl Johnson
Fred White
Bird watching trip yields mixed flock near Lake Mary’s Ranch Camp
On a breezy Sunday Lee Morris and the observer bird watched along a Platte area bridge and tracks. They identified chickadees myrtle warblers white throat sparrow Harris sparrows towhee ruby crowned kinglet field sparrows goldfinches quail flocks flickers bluebirds phoebes and ospreys with occasional cormorants and great blue herons. A belted kingfisher and a possible redtail hawk were noted. many other species proved hard to pin down.
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Lee Morris
Platte
Lee
Lake Mary's Ranch
Prairie Island Road
Clarks Bridge
Juncos
Agnew and Nixon Exchange On Watergate Fallout
A historical note recalls Vice President Agnew telling President Nixon he has done no wrong amid Watergate concerns. The exchange hints at internal defense tensions as Nixon allegedly reacts that he’s been saying the same for months.
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Agnew
Nixon
Spiro
Birthday Party Honoring Mrs Margaret Bowers in Stromsburg
Mrs Evelyn Shenk attended a Sunday birthday gathering at Swede Haven in Stromsburg with guests including Mr and Mrs Grant Johnson of Stromsberg, Mr and Mrs Lloyd Bower and family from Aurora, and others. Mrs Bethel King returned home Friday after a month with sister Mrs Lester Holcomb in Gering Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Shenk
Swede Haven
Stromsburg
Margaret Bowers
Grant Johnson
Stromsberg
Lloyd Bower
Patty
Ellen Bower
Aurora
Don Bower
Hordville
Ida Stark
the Covenant Home
Alf Shockey
Wallace Sherwood
Stromberg
Bethel King
Gering
Nebr
Lester Holcomb
Birds of Platte valley outing logs forty species heard
In a four hour birding run beyond the Platte valley east of Robert Willits farm home the party sighted 37 species and estimated over 40 different birds including goldfinches myrtle warblers bluebirds sparrows Savannahs vesper sparrow and house sparrows, noting many in a fence line.
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Platte Valley
Robert Willits
Lee
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