A great Big Thank You (and that is very insufficient) to everyone who came running with their combines, grain carts, trucks, meals, snacks, videos and anything else used to finish up my soybean harvest when they found out I was going in for a heart overhaul.

RIVER VALLEY EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH - Nathan Goshert, Pastor; 1201 Elm St., Arapahoe, Ph. 962-7730.

Thursday, October 21: Pasta/meat sauce, lettuce salad, broccoli salad, pineapple ambrosia, garlic bread. Friday, October 22: Salmon patty, buttered potatoes, pea salad, cherry dump cake.

The Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition, Nebraska Extension, and Nebraska Environmental Trust will be hosting the 2021 Traveling Road Show in November at 8 Nebraska locations in 4 days. The featured speakers will be Joshua and Tara Dukart of Seek First Ranch in western North Dakota.

We are excited to announce that we are the owners of a Mark V AccuCut die cut machine!!! If you are a quilter, crafter, scrapbooker or all around creative person, this is for you! We have several dies available for our patron's use. We have small and capital letters, numbers, and shapes.

Grand Island, Neb. – More than $4.9 million in grants have been disbursed to Central Community College students as part of the American Rescue Plan.

First Christian Church, 501 Calvert Ave., Elwood, 308-785-2669 Sundays-Fellowship and Coffee 10:00 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m. Our Redeemer Lutheran – Missouri Synod Elwood ourredeemerelwood.com Friday, October 22: 9:00 a.m.-Exercise Group.

Thursday, October 21: 6:30 p.m.-Football 1st Round Playoffs Hi-Line vs Sutherland @ Eustis. Friday, October 22: 9:30 State Cross Country Send Off; No school at Elwood Public School.

If you would like to join us please call the Center by 9:30 am. The Center is delighted with folks coming to share in the noon meal. Beginning Oct. 1, 2021 we are offering folks the opportunity to have a carry out meal if they so desire. Please call for reservations by 9:30 a.m

Since Monday, October 11 was a holiday, the Elwood School Board met on Wednesday, October 13 rather than their regularly scheduled second Monday of the month meeting time.