POPCORN DAYS 2010: Watch next week's Quiz for photos of the North Loup Lions Club Talent Show winners, Turtle Race winners, parade winners & MUCH MORE!
Two longtime residents of Valley County recently made significant gifts totaling $286,000 to benefit the people of their community for generations to come.
Lloyd and Naomi Geweke of Ord used proceeds from the sale of a home in Arizona to fund three permanent endowments for Valley County through affiliated funds of the Nebraska Community Foundation.
Generous major gifts were made to Valley County Health System Foundation Fund; the Geweke Family Ord United Methodist Church Endowment and the Geweke Family Youth Endowment within the Valley County Community Foundation Fund.
An Ord man died Tuesday morning as a result of injuries he received when he came into contact with a live electrical wire at the Loup Valley Alfalfa plant in Burwell, according to Garfield County attorney Dale Crandall.
Three Arcadia-area young ladies are vying for the title of "2010 Fall Festival Queen." Candidates are: "Desi" White, Hollie O'Brien and "Katie" Kusant for the celebration.
For the first time, students across Nebraska took the same grade-level tests to gauge their proficiency on state reading standards last April and May. Test results were recently released to schools and media across the state. The school wanted to take this opportunity to inform the parents, patrons and stakeholders of the district of how the students at Ord Public Schools performed on the test
Peg Trubey won the first Football Contest of the year by picking 23 winners out of the 28 games listed. Peg picked Gothenburg to beat the Chants 20 to 13 for her tiebreaker. She also picked Broken Bow to beat St. Paul.
The Ord High School "Boys of Fall" traveled to Dawson County this past Friday night to take on the Gothenburg Swedes on a steamy August evening. Anticipation filled the air for this opening football game, the boys were super charged and prepared for 48 minutes of football fun.
