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GLORIA BERGNER, right, received the 2020 Friend of the 4-H award, presented by Phillips County 4-H Council President and her daughter, Lauren, during the annual achievement program Sunday. Bergner has served local 4-H youth in Phillips County for the past 20 years. To read more about those honored at this year's achievement program, look inside this week's issue of the Herald....
Red J Welding, Double H Supply and now 5 Star Rentals and Equipment; Ryan and Danyell Horton sealed the deal on their third business venture last week, bringing 5 Star Rentals and Equipment to Haxtun. The couple operate their businesses just four and a half miles south of Haxtun on Highway 59. The Hortons officially purchased 5 Star Rentals and Equipment from Mike and Deb Woodhead, of Holyoke, on Oct. 1. The Woodheads plan to continue to operate their other business venture, Woody's Pivot Servic...
The first Sunday of October always marks an annual celebration of the current 4-H year's success and this year was no different as Phillips County 4-H members gathered at the Haxtun Community Center to celebrate the efforts and achievements of 2020 on Sunday, Oct. 4. This year's achievement program honored Friend of the 4-H award recipient Gloria Bergner, who received her recognition from her daughter, Lauren, 4-H Council President. Bergner has served local 4-H youth in a number of capacities...
HAXTUN HIGH School's graduating class of 1955 met for their 65-year reunion on Friday, Sept. 25 at the Paoli Town Hall. Class members in attendance are pictured front row (l-r), Janice Bieber, Darryl Yorke, Vickie Hadeen, Charlotte Yost and Marilyn Miller; back row (l-r), Dick Potter, Evelyn Reyher, Carol Smith and Augie Bjorklun....
HAXTUN HIGH SCHOOL'S Class of 1970 gathered for their 50th reunion the last week in September. The group the met over Corn Festival weekend and is pictured front row (l-r), John Secrist, Lynette (Renzelman) Harms, Kenny Harms, Pat Avery and Evan Michael; back row (l-r), Clinton Anderson, Stan Ricker, Marlene (Barkey) Green, Larry McConnell, Mike Salyards, Adele (Peterson) McConnell, Cheryl (Anderson) Naff, Pam (Hadeen) Adams, Lynn Seger and Vicki (Johnson) Fuesz....
HHS'S graduating Class of 2000 met for their 20-year reunion during Corn Festival activities on Saturday, Sept. 26. Those in attendance include front row (l-r), Jody Sawyer, Naomi Schafer, Crystal Whitaker, Abby Ensminger-Henry and Lisa Buerke; back row (l-r), Kyle McConnell, Dustin Hadeen, Ross Edwards and Tony Wagoner....
Why is the last of the season’s produce the best? It’s not because it is perfect in form or yield. In fact much of it constitutes the roughest looking goods the garden offers, buggy and imperfect. To our surprise, while ignoring our waning garden, we chanced upon a second round of tomatoes that refused to call it quits. We dismissed further canning efforts two weeks ago after a light first frost hit. The vines have since rebounded to the degree that we feel guilty walking past them. Guilt and ve...
Sue stood silently by as I paced back and forth in front of our jointly shared clothes closet. I may have never written a sentence as full of exaggerations as the one you have just finished reading. Such a simple, innocent sounding statement, you might say. Nothing could be further from the truth. If any of you male readers share a closet with a member of the opposite gender, two glaring inaccuracies are already obvious. Number one, there is no such thing as a “jointly shared” clothes clo...
Alternative crops bring both benefits and challenges that are not present in the major crops of our region. Growing an uncommon crop means pest pressure will likely be lower. It also means finding a market can be unreliable. Several alternative crops have potential in our region. They also come with a higher risk of crop failure. Being a cutting-edge producer can bring pride and joy. But, producing crops that are not common in the region means having to search harder for answers to challenges. Canola is a major crop in the Canadian great...
In the west, we do best when we start locally. Take governance and the bottom-up approach that serves us well in our school districts, our town councils and county commissions and is reflected in those who represent our communities in our statehouses. Each of us has a voice. In our rural communities, people come together locally through not-for-profit, member-owned and member-governed electric cooperatives to voice their needs and opinions on how they are served power. Therefore, it may come as a surprise that electric cooperatives like ours,...
7 years ago Oct. 4, 1950 Those who have contributed wheat during the past 10 days for the Haxtun Memorial Hospital fund are H.L. Hofmeister, Harold Gall, Carl Eckman, L.C. Corning, Ray Phillips, South Side Grocery, and Glenn Jones of the Texaco Company. The choral robe fund of the Haxtun High School chorus continues to grow with recent donations from Rickard Roos, Mrs. George Jones Jr. and Merle Switzer. Mr. Funke, band leader and chorus director state that the order was sent in Wednesday and...
On Oct. 2, after an investigation by the Haxtun Police Department, a joint operation conducted with the Haxtun Police Department, Phillips County Sheriff's Office, the Logan County Sheriff's Office and the 13th Judicial District Attorney's Office, led to the arrest of Joshua Stuteville, 31, Otis, after he agreed to meet an underage, 14-year-old female with plans on engaging in a sexual encounter. Stuteville was taken into custody without incident. Stuteville is charged with the following...
HAXTUN CORN FESTIVAL 2020 Queen Barbara Fix and King Bud Biesemeier were crowned at the Extended Care Unit at Haxtun Health last week. Royalty are chosen by a vote of fellow residents as well as staff members. Fix received roses and a crown and Biesemeier received a rose boutonniere and crown....
June Pauline Edwards passed away on Sept. 20, 2020 in Haxtun at the age of 68. June was born on July 10, 1952 to Willis and Mary Ann Holtman in Girard, Kan. In 1968, she met Warren Edwards and they wed on Nov. 29, 1969 going on to have three children: Jesse, Damon and Cindy. June dedicated her life to being a fantastic and wonderful mother. June was also a second mother to many kids in Haxtun. She was always very active in the lives of all of her kids. She volunteered in each of their classrooms growing up she and she was a Den Mother for the C...
Adam John Powell passed away on Sept. 21, 2020 at the age of 39. Adam was born on April 27, 1981 in Atwood, Kan. and grew up in McDonald, Kan. attending Cheylin elementary and high school. He graduated from Cheylin High School in 1999. After high school Adam attended Sterling College in Sterling, Kan. on a football scholarship for one season before returning to Colby Community College. Adam was a cook at heart and began cooking at various restaurants before opening his own bar and grill in Atwoo...
THE 2020 Haxtun Fightin' Bulldog football team is pictured front row (l-r), Brock Miller, Mason Bornhoft, Kailin Kelley, Kaiden Schelling, Keegan Colglazier and Josh Wright; second row (l-r), Kristopher Hadeen, Mac Tempel, Michael Gerk, Kyle Fryrear and Gehrig Thompson; third row (l-r), Jake Tori, Isaac Andersen, Owen Knode, David Avery, Ashton Ayala and Victor Knapp; back row (l-r), Osman Coss, Ryan Tempel and Dylan Buccelli. The Bulldogs are coached by JD Stone, Marc Bornhoft and Andy...
MEMBERS OF this year's defending 6-man State Champion Fleming Wildcat football team pictured are front row (l-r), Matix Haney, Christian Polly, Wyatt Cochran, David Betley and Kenneth Bandy; middle row (l-r), Harry Harms, Nolan Japp, Joel Muller, Kolten Houser, Braylen Feather and Blake Feather; back row (l-r), Maddix Welch, Hayden Burr, Charles Hobbs, Brady Kuntz, Stan Tryboski, Chris Goss, Kade Comstock and Nate Betley. Not pictured is Hayden Lockard. The team is coached by John King, Mark...
