Opal Coakley’s son, Roger, visited her for a week. They visited in Franklin, Naponee and Oxford at Alumni Banquets over the Memorial Day weekend. In Oxford, they ate at the old school house, which is now a senior center, museum and meeting hall. Many memorable times. On the 2nd of June, guests at Prairie Pines lunch were niece, Velma Loose of Holdrege and great niece, Nova Loose of Oxford. More memorable days.

Ilene Collins attended the Memorial for Bob Collins on Monday and attended the carry-in dinner at the Methodist Church. The June pot luck dinner was on Monday, June 7th with hostesses Joyce Utterback and Ruth Beck with Patriotic decorations.

Visitors of Jim and Ida Mae McBride a few days before Memorial Day were her aunt and cousin Charlene Adden and Tracy Adden of Lincoln. They had lunch out on Wednesday at a local restaurant. They were here especially to decorate graves for Memorial Day.

Three wheat variety plots will be the focus of field days coming for this area. K-State Research and Extension, Twin Creeks District and Kansas Wheat Alliance along with Larry and Brian Miller of Dresden and Roger May and Family of Oberlin and Gayle & Denton Haag will host several wheat tours. There will be a variety of speakers and researchers at each location. The Miller’s plot tour will be Monday evening, June 14th at 7:00 pm. Location is from Dresden, Kansas: travel South on Highway 23 to the #9 highway intersection, then travel East on #9 to Road 2000. On the next day, June 15th, the May Family plot tour will begin with a breakfast at 7:00 am at the 4-H building on the Decatur County fairgrounds then at 8:00 am will move to the plot site 2 ½ miles west of Oberlin on Highway 36. Finally, the last plot stop will be held south of Lebanon, Nebraska to start at 11:30 am. You can take US Highway 36 East of Oberlin to the Kanona Road, Rd 495 and proceed North 9 miles; then go 4 miles East on Road 308 (Lyle Road) then 1.5 miles North. From Lebanon, Nebraska go 1.5 miles West then 5 miles South. The Gayle & Denton Haag plot is a KSU wheat breeding nursery, replicated variety performance trial, along with a variety of wheat management and fertility trials. A light sandwich lunch will be served with thanks to Ag Valley Co-op and Decatur Cooperative Association and Kansas Wheat Alliance. We are requesting an RSVP by Friday, June 11th by either calling the Twin Creeks District Oberlin office at 785-475-8121 or the Norton office at 785-877-5755.

Elwood Chamber of Commerce Yard of the Week! Congratulations to Kern and Mary Gydesen! Your yard looks fantastic!.

We are open to in-house meals and as long as our Gosper County numbers stay down we can remain open. We are following the guidelines that WCNAAA has suggested for our Center. Masks are optional. We will continue to do Home Delivery meals if you are homebound; Pick-up meals on need base only. Please call and visit with Lana at 785-2500 if you have questions, we will work it out. Thanks for your continued support.

LINCOLN, Neb. – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will consider recommendations for a 2022 mountain lion hunting season, as well as a 2021 river otter harvest season, at its June 11 meeting in Chadron. The meeting begins at 8 a.m. Mountain time at Chadron State Park’s Central Building, 15951 U.S. Hwy. 385. Staff will recommend a mountain lion season in the Pine Ridge, identical to the 2021 season, that would have a maximum harvest of four mountain lions, with a sublimit of two females. The objective is to allow a harvest opportunity for mountain lions that allows the population to remain resilient and healthy while limiting future growth or moderately reducing numbers.

Our Redeemer Lutheran – Missouri Synod Elwood Pastor Michael Wolff ourredeemerelwood.com Friday, June 11: 9:00 a.m.-Exercise Group. Sunday, June 13: 10:00 a.m.- Worship.

Lexington – On June 9, 2021, Dawson Area Development’s Dawson Area Youth Leadership program will host a ceremony in Lexington at the Majestic Theatre to honor 12 youth for their successful completion of the program’s coursework and other requirements.

June (McCook, Neb.) — Weather permitting, a chip seal project will begin June 8 on N-23, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation. Chip seal is an application of an asphalt binder to a roadway surface followed by an aggregate.