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Fall Backyard Activities for Families

‘Tis the season of fall. If you and your kids have been waiting for the breezy winds and falling leaves, this is the time for you. Fall is the best time for you and your kids to get out of the home and enjoy the season in its full bloom. One great idea to have fun outdoors is to come up with backyard activities that you and your family can enjoy easily!

Yard and Garden: Ornamental grasses questions answered

Every year as we enter the fall season, it becomes clear why ornamental grasses are great additions to the landscape. They offer color, texture, movement and a bit of sophistication to the garden. Ornamental grasses are grown for their ornamental colors, patterns, forms and/or flowers.

New Paint

The Methodist Church of Hamburg recently spruced up the church with trim and steeple painting Thompson Painting out of Hamburg. Judy Holliman with the Methodist Church said the painting had been needed with paint cracking. Some of the condition might have been related to the flood. The church did have flood water in its basement and the high degree of humidity likely affected the paint elsewhere on the building. The Hamburg Methodist Church shares Pastor Courtney Dake with the United Trinity Church, also from Hamburg. The two churches alternate the site of their service.

A Weekend To Remember

with Phyllis Buell Just when I had begun to think Nebraska wouldn’t/couldn’t win a football game - they did! Since my twelfth great grandchild had been baptized on Sunday morning and we spent the day celebrating – I was too tired to last out the Chiefs/Buc’s game. So I asked my computer who won this morning.

Straub’s jet ski adventure took 101 days, but memories will last a lifetime

How long does it take to climb Mount Everest? According to an article published on the web by CNN, it takes about two months. Mike Straub, an Omaha resident and graduate of Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca High School, took on his version of the Everest by tackling the grand water traveling adventure known as America’s Great Loop on a 2022 Sea Doo Fish Pro Trophy jet ski.

Fremont County Youth Celebrate National 4-H Week

October 2-8 marks the annual National 4-H Week, a time during which millions of youth, parents, volunteers and alumni across the country celebrate everything 4-H. It is the perfect time to showcase the incredible experiences that 4-H offers young people, and to highlight members and volunteers who pledge their “head to clearer thinking, their heart to greater loyalty, their hands to larger service, and their health to better living for their club, their community, their country and their world.”