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HAXTUN ELEMENTARY and junior high hosted the annual Spelling Bee before the holiday break with Taylor Frank taking honors as top speller of the bee. Others who placed and will advance to the Regional Spelling Bee include front row (l-r) Jayce Boerner, Jinjer Stroyek and Mikayli Deering; back row (l-r) Kelan Mandel, Regan Jones and Emily Anderson. Not pictured is Bobbi Starkebaum....
Lori Lundgren, Mayor Pro-Tem, presided over the first Haxtun Town Council meeting of the new year in absence of Haxtun Mayor Brandon Biesemeier. Council members met on Monday, Jan. 4 at the Haxtun Community Center to better practice social distancing, something they plan to do moving forward in 2021. The meeting, which last just 32 minutes, opened with traditional beginning of the year business, by designating a public meeting posting location. As has been for years, members of the Haxtun Town Council voted to designate the front door of the...
Phillips County has distributed close to $150,000 in COVID relief funds to local businesses. That money has been given as grant funds to Phillips County businesses who applied for funding through the County’s application process. Word of distribution came at the Phillips County Commissioners’ year-end meeting on Dec. 31. To date, Phillips County has received just under $300,000 in CVRF funds through the Department of Local Affairs, which was distributed throughout Phillips County to those in Haxtun, Paoli and Holyoke. Additionally, Help Colorad...
Haxtun Health is always striving to provide the best quality healthcare for our community and that begins with offering an array of healthcare services at convenient, accessible times. After listening to the needs of our community, the hours for the Haxtun Health Clinic and Pharmacy have recently been extended to include weekends and the Clinic team has added two new providers to increase availability to patients. Tabitha Schanhals, Director of Clinic Services at Haxtun Health, said that with more providers and availability of appointments,...
The checklist began before sundown by syncing the six by 24 mm finder scope with the primary barrel of the five inch (127 mm) equatorial Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. Lightweight and efficient, it reflects gathered light back and forth until it enters the eyepiece, drawing the ultimate attention of the observer. Securing the mount in place based on latitude is followed by orienting the scope toward the North Star. From there, declination (the angular distance from the equator) and right...
What’s in a name? Well, for some a lot more than was intended. Among the hundred or so emails my office computer attracts each day came a prime example of perhaps too much or too little thought going into some names. This message came from a group that advocates livestock grazing. How could I find fault with that? Their monthly message usually includes new ideas for rotational grazing, mixed species grazing and other ides to make livestock and the folks who own them, happier. What caught my a...
As we look forward to a new year with excitement for new opportunities, it can be important to look back into the past as well. The past can not only teach us but can inspire us, especially when analyzing the rich history of 4-H. In the late 1800s, agricultural researchers were having a difficult time in building relationships with livestock and crop producers, which created extra challenges in distributing new information and equipment. With plenty of attempts made to connect with older,...
13 Years Ago Jan. 8, 1936 Harvest subscription campaign brought to a sensational close Saturday night: Mrs. A. R. Haskins and Mrs. Ella Sharpe win new Chevrolet cars. Checks amounting to 10 percent of money collected on subscriptions have been made out to other contestants. A large crowd visited The Harvest office Saturday night to witness the closing of the contest. Murl Jones of Omaha is the victim of gas Tuesday: Mr. and Mrs. George Jones Sr. received the shocking news Tuesday of the...
Local ag-lending cooperative Premier Farm Credit has announced that they will mail $4.5 million in Cash Patronage Dividend checks to their member-owners in early 2021. “Getting a Cash Patronage Dividend check shows that the borrowers of Premier Farm Credit are part-owners of a business that’s working for them,” said Becky Lenz, Board Chair. “$4.5 million dollars is a significant amount and demonstrates the Board of Directors’ commitment to supporting the member-owners of this lending cooperative — in good times and bad.” This year’s substa...
BUD BIESEMEIER holds a small goat the Haxtun Health Extended Care Unit in late December. The kids belong to Cyd and Pat Dick and family who brought them in for residents to enjoy....
Eric Allen Kipp passed away Dec. 14, 2020 in Chappell, Neb. with longtime girlfriend Lori by his side. Eric was born May 1, 1971 in Wray to Frank Allen Kipp and Mary (Riggs) Kipp. He was a lifelong resident of the Pleasant Valley Community in Northwest Yuma County. He graduated from Yuma High School in 1989 and furthered his education with two years at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling. Eric grew up farming and hunting on his parents' farm and developed a love of hunting and raising sheep....
Thomas Duane Davis died on Jan. 7, 2021 while in care at the North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley due to complications with COVID. Tom was born on Nov. 24, 1947 in Haxtun to his parents Andrew and Opal (Marvin) Davis. He attended Haxtun Schools and graduated from Haxtun High School in 1966. He loved playing sports, playing drums in the band and singing in the choir. Tom earned certification from the Police Academy and the Sheriff's Academy. Tom was a member of the Colorado Association of Chi...
Evelyn Berdine (North) Koberstein was called to the heavenly garden on Dec. 18, 2020 at the age of 90. Berdine was born to Claude V. and Goldie E. (Hall) Koberstein on June 10, 1930 in Phillips County. She spent her childhood southwest of Holyoke in the Pleasant Valley area. She attended school in Holyoke and graduated from Phillips County High School. Following high school, she attended college in Denver. On May 7, 1950 Berdine was united in marriage to Ray W. “Swede” Koberstein at the First United Methodist Church in Holyoke, where they wer...
Mable Louise Postal, a resident of Brighton for more than 50 years, died Dec. 10, 2020 of natural causes at the home of her nephew in Westminster. She was 93. Mable was born to G. J. "Joe" Moon and Wilma Barden Moon in Akron on June 3, 1927. Her mother died when Mable was just two years old. When an Iowa single mother, Bernice Thurber, heard from her aunt in Fleming about the widowed farmer with three young children, she moved to the Moon farm north of Dailey to become the housekeeper and...
Leonard Lee Anderson died Dec. 22, 2020 at Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center in Brush at the age of 88. He was born Oct. 19, 1932 on his grandmother's (Lola Griebel Anderson) homestead north of Webster, Kan. to George W. Anderson and Elma (Evans) Anderson. Due to difficulties of the Depression the family ended up moving to north central Colorado in 1935 looking for opportunities. After working for several farmers in the area the family ended up in Nunn in 1941 and went to work managing the Campion...
Kenneth Laverne Salyards passed away Jan. 6, 2021 at the Haxtun Hospital at the age of 92. He was born in Haxtun on April 23, 1928, the son of Lloyd and Anna (Holmes) Salyards. Ken attended schools in Ovid, Dailey and Haxtun. The family lived in Ovid, Littleton and Eaton for a period of time, before returning to Haxtun. He married Lily Mae Fetzer on Jan. 1, 1950 in Dailey; they were parents to three sons, Patrick, Mike and Dennis. The couple lived and farmed north of Haxtun and later in life mov...
Darrell Russell Hiatt passed away on Nov. 28, 2020 at Melissa Memorial Hospital at the age of 88. He was born Nov. 24, 1932 to Wayne and Doris Hiatt in Ovid. Darrell married Jean Hettrich on June 27, 1954. They were married for 66 years. Darrell love to farm, and build and fly remote airplanes. In past years Darrell and Jean enjoyed square dancing and camp outs with their camp and dancer club. Darrell is survived by his wife Jean Hiatt, Holyoke; son Gary and wife Linda, Barnunn, Wyo.; daughter...
