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Hooker County February 25, 2021 MULLENMULLENMULLEN 75¢ 50¢ VOL 133 #31 www.hookercountytribune.com USPS 249-640 TRIBUNE Sandhills Stewards open house MHS scholarship blood drive is Monday by Josey French, MHS lives lost every single day. Drive on Monday, March 1 in Mullen Monday, March 1 senior The COVID-19 pandemic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Every single day in the Unit- has also made it harder for American Red Cross will also ed States, there are 16,438 car blood drives to be performed still be testing all blood, plate- crashes. A single car accident and blood to be collected. let and plasma donations for victim can use up to 100 units If you would like to help COVID-19 antibodies. To make of blood. Without blood dona- those in need, please donate an appointment to donate, tions from citizens like you, blood at the Mullen High please contact Sarah Hardin at there would be thousands of School scholarship Blood 308-546-2223. Paxton, DeNaeyer medal at State Wrestling by Gerri Peterson Six Mullen Bronco wrestlers ended their season at the Class D NSAA State Champi- onships in Omaha last week, with two of them bringing home medals. As a team, the Broncos placed 14th out of 66 teams. Sophomore Eli Paxton placed fifth at 113. He pinned Cody Booth (Neligh-Oakdale) in 1:55 before losing a close match, 2-3, to Carter Beck- man (Elgin/Pope John) in the courtesy photo quarterfinal. He then pinned Ty and Sammy Walker with their sons, Cooper and Cody. Ashton Sinn (Thayer Central) in 4:02 and Nathan Halsey Kris Forsen by Gerri Peterson has also been through various (Elkhorn Valley) in 2:17 before Eli Paxton placed 5th in D113 at State Wrestling. The Sandhills Task Force is programs such as Ranching losing 5-9 to Jacob Fox (Ax- a rancher-led non-profit orga- for Profit School and Ranch tell). To bring home the fifth nization that was formed in Practicum. place medal, he pinned Creel 1993 to enhance the Sandhills Ty was a board member Weber (Hemingford) in 3:56. wetland-grassland ecosystem of the Sandhills Task Force Junior Spencer DeNaeyer in a way that sustains profit- for less than a year before placed sixth in the 152 weight able private ranching, wildlife becoming the Stewardship class. He pinned Trevor Brown and vegetative diversity, and Coordinator, which is a full (Southern Valley) in 3:06 associated water supplies. time position. before being pinned in 1:44 by The newest program of Ty is looking forward Matt VanPelt (Southwest), who the Sandhills Task Force - to building the Sandhills would go on to place second. Sandhills Stewards - began Stewards program from the DeNaeyer then pinned Archer at the beginning of this year. ground up and feels like he is Grint (Twin Loup) in 1:14 and The Stewardship Coordina- doing work that matters. RJ Wilmes (Creighton) in 2:14 tor, Ty Walker, is holding an “The Task Force’s mission before losing 7-15 to Levi open house at his new office and goal of protecting the Lewis (North Central) and be- in Mullen, located east of the Sandhills means a lot to me,” ing pinned in 5:00 by Austin post office at 110 NE 1st St he said. Rudolf (Neligh-Oakdale). on Monday, March 1. Ty will be meeting indi- Sophomore Jeffery Forsen Spencer DeNaeyer placed 6th at State Wrestling in D152. Ty and his wife Sammy vidually with ranchers to help scored 7 team points, compet- ing at 106. He pinned Tristan ranch and their two children, them in any way he can - for ing 4-9 to Dierks Nekoliczak Payton Christiancy (Superior). Olson (Anselmo-Merna) in Cooper and Cody, attend example, to help develop a (Central Valley). He then pinned Tavin Uden 5:42 before losing 3-8 to school in Mullen. Ty is origi- grazing plan, a drought plan Sophomore Isaac Welch (Franklin) in 1:14 and Austin Sebastian Sauceda (Shelton). nally from Arthur. Besides or provide them with net- scored 6 team points at 285. Meyer (Perkins County) in 4:46 He then pinned Wyatt Heessel his personal experience, Ty He lost his first match, 2-4, to S EE W REST LING , 8 SEE SANDHILLS STEWARDS, 3 (Maxwell) in 2:13 before los- SEE WRESTLING, 8 ~2~ Thursday, February 25, 2021 Hooker County Tribune SJSB awarded National Scenic Byway Designation Sandhills Calendar Lincoln - On Tuesday, and this new National Byway Scenic Byway runs 272 miles Feb. 16, the Federal Highway status will help in promot- along Nebraska Highway 2 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Administration announced ing our byways as road trips from Grand Island to Alli- 7:00 Hooker County Historical Society, Old Hotel that Nebraska’s Sandhills become increasingly more ance. This byway follows the MONDAY, MARCH 1 Journey Scenic Byway and popular due to the pandemic.” gently rolling Nebraska Sand- 1:00-5:00 Sandhills Task Force’s Sandhills Stewards open house, 110 NE 1st St, Mullen - east of the post office Lincoln Highway Scenic and Along with increased hills that are situated atop the TUESDAY, MARCH 2 Historic Byway were awarded awareness, the newly des- Ogallala Aquifer, the nation’s 8:30-12 12:45-4:30 Drivers Examiner, Hooker County Courthouse a National Scenic Byway Des- ignated byways will also be largest under-ground water 7:00 Mullen Volunteer Firemen business meeting, Firehall ignation. The two byways are featured in a commemorative supply. World-class natural WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3 the first in Nebraska to receive 2021 National Scenic Byways wonders are found along this 7:00 Fair Board, Village meeting room a designation to America’s Program Designations Book- rural route, including dark MONDAY, MARCH 8 Byways® Collection. let and will be added to the skies perfect for stargazing, 7:45 a.m. Hospital District Board, PMRH upstairs break room “The Nebraska Lincoln America’s Byways website. the Nebraska National Forest Highway Scenic and Historic The Lincoln Highway Scenic and the sandhill crane migra- Byway Board of Directors, and Historic Byway stretches tion in the spring. Church Calendar Sandhills Journey Scenic 450 miles along Highway The 2021 Nebraska State Byway and the Nebraska 30 across the entire state of Travel Guide features all nine ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Department of Transporta- Nebraska, border to border. of Nebraska’s scenic byways 10:00 a.m. Confessions, 10:30 a.m. Mass. tion spent a lot of time and The Lincoln Highway was with small-town highlights ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH effort on their applications to America’s first transconti- and unique stops along the Adult and Children Sunday School classes - 10:00 a.m., Morn- receive this designation. Their nental highway and followed way. In the past, the byways ing Worship 11:00 a.m., 2nd Sunday - 12:00 Fellowship Dinner hard work paid off and we’re closely the historic transporta- have been awarded Nebraska - open to the community. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH excited to have Nebraska’s tion route of the “Great Platte Tourism grant dollars for Jr. High and Sr. High MYF - 2nd and 4th Wednesdays. Jr. High - first two National Scenic By- River Road” that began with marketing efforts and have 4:30-5:30 p.m., Sr. High - 6 p.m. dinner, lesson at 6:30 p.m. way Designation’s because of early Native Americans, fur had stops featured on the Youth Sunday School at 10 a.m., ages 3 through 5th grade it,” said John Ricks, Nebraska trappers and traders, west- Nebraska Passport program. 11:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship. Tourism executive director. ward migration routes, Pony For more information on ST. JOSEPH EPISCOPAL CHURCH “The byways in our state give Express and the Union Pacific Nebraska’s scenic byways, go Sundays at 10:00 a.m. a scenic and historic look into Railroad. to https://visitnebraska.com/ SANDHILLS COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH what Nebraska has to offer The Sandhills Journey scenic-byways. 9:00 a.m. Sunday School; 10:00 a.m. Worship. Youth Ministry Wed. 7:00 p.m. for 7-12 grades. Ladies Bible Study Wednesday 9 a.m. Call the church 546-0570 for location. Mullen Book Club to meet March 17 at library TRINITY LUTHERAN MISSOURI SYNOD Thedford - Sunday School at 10:30 a.m. CT, church service 11:30 The Mullen Book Club will all of it. A grace so ordinary the soda counter of Halder- CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS meet next on Wednesday, there was no reason at all to son’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff Whitman - 10:00 a.m. March 17, at 6:00 p.m. in the remember it. Yet I have never comic books were a mainstay UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Hooker County Library base- across the forty years since it on every barbershop magazine Seneca - 11:00 a.m. MT. ment. They will be discussing was spoken forgotten a single rack. It was a time of inno- “Ordinary Grace” by William word.” cence and hope for a country Kent Krueger. Copies of the New Bremen, Minnesota, with a new, young president. Looking Back book are available at the 1961. The Twins were playing But for thirteen-year-old Frank Hooker County Library. their debut season, ice-cold Drum it was a grim summer in 1 YEAR AGO - 2020 “That was it. That was root beers were selling out at which death visited frequently State Wrestling results: Teven Marshall - 1st, Clayton Hassett - 1st, and assumed many forms. Eli Paxton - 2nd, Ty Kvanvig - 4th, Tristin Grooms - 4th.