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Good morning Banner County! After a week of horrible strong winds, this one has been quite a lot nicer. I know many of you who had property damage due to the wind last week and we had our share so now we have those messes to clean up. Did you see the pictures from out at the Scotts Bluff National Monument of the cattle pulling the covered wagon? Mother Nature doing some ‘cow tipping!’ Seriously though, I hope there was no serious damage. For real cattle, this past Saturday was beef weigh-in tim...
The 55 And Up Club potluck luncheon will be held on Friday, March 11 at 12 p.m. at the Friendship Alliance North Church in Grover. Everyone 55 and over are welcome to attend. Come and join in the fun with your family and friends. There will also be a door prize! Aileen Barry will be giving a presentation on Disaster Preparedness. On February 21, at the Hereford Community Church, Leonard Wiggin, Gracie and Rosalyn Reifschneider all celebrated their birthdays. For the special Steve Hauer sang...
Good morning Banner County! Here is hoping that all is well with all of you. We only had three days of school this week, so our boy had some serious cleaning to do. His room is, or was, scary to walk around in if you were barefoot. So this is at least a part of what is going on around here. Beginning today February 18 and going on through February 20 is state high school wrestling. I believe that we have qualified wrestlers, but am not positive. Also, high school girls basketball sub-district...
The 55 And Up Club met on Friday, February 12, for their monthly potluck luncheon. The theme for the day was Valentine’s Day. There were several door prizes given. They went to Kirk Rush, Bob Michall, Larry Enderson, Beulah Klinginsmith, Bob Rohn, and Carolyn Ragsdale. After the delicious luncheon, Carol Enderson gave a slide presentation of their visit to Torino (Turin), Italy. This week at the Hereford Community Church, Pastor Opdycke shared a Valentine poem and gave the history of P...
Friday night brought in a dense fog and a change in the air. Saturday had s sense of spring. The trees in Albin began to melt. The bark cracked with the weight of the frozen fog coming out. They all seemed to be saying, “Listen up, spring is here!” Maybe spring hasn’t arrived yet, but good news for the Town Council came in loud and clear. All of the SLIB projects were accepted for this bidding season. The town will purchase a SUV for business travel. The town was also given more money to finis...
Well. Last week was a week of snow, cancellations, and re-scheduling. I am pretty sure that I do not know about all of them either, so I will attempt to get you caught up to what’s going on for this week. Today, Thursday, February 11, the junior high MAC basketball tournament will begin in Leyton with the boys playing in Gurley at 12:30 p.m. and the girls playing in Dalton at 3 p.m. Friday the senior high girls will play here at home verses the Potter-Dix Coyotes (almost said Panthers!). The g...
We may be Wildcats here in Albin, but on Super Bowl Sunday, many of us were Broncos. From Carol Sorensen to the Persons to the grade school students sporting orange and blue at school Friday, we all had Bronco fever. It seemed to be just what the doctor order, too. Most of us football fans knew once the first field goal went through the uprights in the early minutes of the first quarter, the game was going to bring a “Rocky Mountain High.” Some watched at home not to be disturbed by others more...
Good morning, or evening, whatever the case may be. I am hoping that all is going well with you. I have hit sort of a bump in the road here the past few days and all I want to do is sleep. Winter hibernation! This coming week-end is the date for the Farm Expo beginning with breakfast tomorrow morning Friday, February 5 at the Mitchell Fairgrounds. Events continue through Saturday. Then Saturday evening, the annual Bandana Benefit Ball will begin at 5:30 p.m. with social hour and the dinner bell...
The 55 And Up Club will hold their monthly potluck luncheon on Friday, February 12, at 12 p.m. at the Friendship Alliance North Church in Grover. Everyone 55 and over are welcome to attend. Come and join in the fun with your family and friends. There will also be a door prize! Carol Enderson will be giving a slide presentation of one of the families most recent trips. For the special this week, January 31, at the Hereford Community Church Andrea Reifschneider, a young piano student, played...
Small town news slows down significantly when the weather turns cold and white and windy. You may be thinking that is almost every day in Wyoming. So, to clarify, when the thermometer does not get above zero, the drifts are plowed and then blow back over the road and the wind goes faster than some speed limits, small towns hibernate. Nothing too exciting to report from our tundra up north. Basketball is keeping the youngsters warm. The senior Albin Wildcat boys basketball team is keeping things...
Good morning! I hope everyone is doing well, we are all certainly warmer and shoveling less snow than those folks east of us. Weather back there has been horrible, one more reason to be thankful here in the mid-west. I can hardly believe that January is all but over and we are heading into February. We send our sympathy to the Person family on their recent loss of Charles. He was a life long resident of Banner Count. The Harrisburg Community Church will hold their annual board meeting on...
The 55 And Up Club potluck luncheon will be held on Friday, February 12, at 12 p.m. at the Friendship Alliance North Church in Grover. Everyone 55 and over is welcome to attend. Come and join in the fun with your family and friends. There will also be a door prize! Carol Enderson will be giving a slide presentation of one of the families most recent trips. This week, January 24, at the Hereford Community Church for the special Karel Smock told about the Stand Down project, which helps homeless...
Good morning Banner County, neighbors near and far. I hope this week is treating you well. I am sure there is a lot going on in the personal lives of the folks here in our community and their extended families, however, as far as community events go there are very few this time of the year. Most of us enjoy staying home and close to the fire anyway! We do have some exciting news though with the arrival of two babies last week, and no not twins. Congratulations to grandma and grandpa Cashler on...
We had more snow this week and the wind drifted some of the older snow, so some roads were icy and slick. Anyone who is out there on the roads, be careful. There was no one celebrating their birthday this week and no one was scheduled for the special. Pastor Opdycke continued her study of Hebrews with Chapter 2. Her topic was Jesus Is God’s Answer To All Life’s Problems. Next week, January 24, the sermon topic will be Revolt! The topic for January 31 will be Resting in God. If you have news to...
Spring is not quite here yet. We have many more weeks of cold dark wintry nights ahead of us, no matter what the little rodent says February 2. However, some of us are starting spring activities. Some are calving. Some are having baby rabbits. Some are preparing to clean. Albin is no different than another other community, although quite a bit less of us make the “some.” But isn’t it the “some” of the whole is greater than the parts? Let us see what those “parts” have been up to. So some may s...
Good morning! Well it is still bright and beautiful outside my windows. Some recent warmer weather has helped melt the snow a tiny bit but there is still plenty of it around. We still have a fairly good sized snow mound to slide on. Come on over if you are inclined to do that. At this point I am just glad that I do not live in California, Arizona, or anywhere back east. The weather there has not been so great. The ‘winter blues’ have not hit me yet, have they got you? If so, the Western Neb...
This week, January 10, at the Hereford Community Church Tami Walden was celebrating her birthday. For the special, Carol Opdycke read Choose the Good and What The Saints Have Taught Us from her devotional. The sermon topic was God Has Spoken. Pastor Opdycke has started a study of Hebrews and this week the text was Chapter 1. Next week, the sermon topic will be God’s Answer. The Prairie Songbirds choir will begin practice for their Easter cantata on January 20. They welcome new voices. For m...
Not many billionaires reside in Albin or even Laramie county. However, there could be one more this week. Have you bought your ticket? Maybe you are a first time buyer. It might be a waste of $2, but if you don’t play, you can’t win. And paying $2 to dream of the “what ifs” is a pretty good deal. We did, however, hit the lottery with snow. Even with the nice weekend and the wind on Sunday, it looks like it is here to stay. Some residents who are almost as good to have as a winning lottery...
Good morning Banner County, and a very cold one it is! We have hit 30 degrees here of late and it has felt like a heat wave. Under 80 days until spring....just sayin. Well the teachers and staff returned to school Monday, January 4th and some students happily returned on Tuesday, the 5th. Some students just returned and some parents were happy for them. I would be one of those parents. We had a really nice vacation from school, but the house has been total chaos for the past two weeks and I am...
Happy New Year everyone! For the special this week at the Hereford Community Church Steve Hauer sang Who Nailed Him There? The congregation burned their burdens and partook of Holy Communion. The sermon topic was Son Of God. There were many scriptures, but Colossians 1:15-20 seemed to summarize them all. Next Sunday, January 10, the sermon topic will be God Has Spoken. The church will hold their quarterly business meeting at 10 a.m. before the worship service on January 10. The Prairie...
A new year represents a clean slate, a new start, a chance to be better. Some people are so hopeful and confident in their life they seem to be merry about everything and are always happy. Perhaps the season is the only time merry and happy come out in your vocabulary. Maybe this year would be a good year to throw out all the sad dark words and begin to communicate cheer and light. The Albin News section is a great way to start that. Send us your story to put in our section. It could be history...
Good morning Banner County, neighbors both near and far! Here is hoping that you all had a very, very Merry Christmas. Christmas Eve services at the Harrisburg Community Church were uplifting, with many braving the cold temperatures. The ice candles were glowing, and so were many faces as we remembered the reason for the season. As more snow and wind blew in Saturday night causing closed roads and cancellations of church services Sunday morning, I think we were extra glad for the Thursday servic...
HAPPY NEW YEAR! The Christmas storm left us with a lot of drifted snow. Several people, including us, were snowed in. It was reported that there was a large drift in front of the church, so there was no church service this past Sunday. To start off the new year, the Hereford Community Church will have Communion on Jan. 3, and the sermon topic will be The Real Motive. Then on Jan. 10 the sermon topic will be God Has Spoken. The 55 And Up Club will hold their monthly potluck luncheon on Friday,...
If we are fortunate, we see many years end and many years begin. We experience new beginnings and endure sad endings, hanging on to the memories that stay behind. The end of the year is a natural time to look back on what was, but also spend a little time to look forward to what will be. A few events broke records or were just pretty darn interesting in 2015 for Albin. The Albin Community Center got a makeover with a new floor in the lobby and lunchroom. Richard Persons celebrated his birthday...
The next 55 And Up Club potluck luncheon will be held on Friday, Jan. 8, at 12 p.m. at the Friendship Alliance North Church in Grover. Everyone 55 and over is welcome to attend. Come and join in the fun with your family and friends. There will also be a door prize. Carol Enderson will have a slide presentation of one of the families’ most recent trips. Merry Christmas from the Hereford Community Church. On Sunday morning, Dec. 20, Leslie, Alison and Ozzy Mickelson lit the 4th Advent candle. S...
