Exeter-Milligan Athletes Chosen for All State Honors

Congratulations to these Exeter-Milligan athletes who were chosen for the Omaha World Herald All-State Honors for Volleyball and Football:
Jackie Luzum
Taylor Erdkamp
Robbie Androyna
Nolan White
Blake Papik

Honorable Mentions:
Malinda Hall,
Erica Yound
Jennifer Pribyl
Dusty Axline
Derek Luzum
Garrett Pribyl
Kyle Jensen

The York News Times did an excellent story on the five Exeter-Milligan senior girls. Click here to see the story and video.

Exeter Cub Scouts Make Cards

Exeter Cub Scout Pack 218 spent part of their meeting last Monday making holiday greeting cards to send to the American Red Cross.  The Red Cross distributes the cards to wounded military personnel in the States.  Pictured are Webelos Den Members Jackson Beethe, left, and Clint Oldehoeft making cards.  They made close to thirty cards.

Santa Visits Exeter

The Murphy girls gave Santa their list and paused for a photo with him before playing Christmas Bingo.

Caleb and Savannah Horne play Christmas Bingo.

Santa visited Exeter on Saturday morning.  There were lots of lists given to Santa while he was here and the kids enjoyed visiting with him .  Each child also received a gift bag from Santa and the rest of their time was spent playing Christmas Bingo.  The Exeter Chamber of Commerce sponsored the visit with Santa and the Bingo.

Exeter-Milligan Splits With Friend

above– Exeter-Milligan’s Garrett Pribyl looks around Friend’s Brad Ricenbaw for someone to pass to.

below - Exeter-Milligan’s Jesse Hall pulls down a rebound with Friend’s Brad Ricenbaw in front of him. Exeter gets the w 68-52.

above – Exeter –Milligan’s Jackie Luzum blocks Friend’s Taylor Menke during the Tuesday match-up between the two rivals.  Friend took this hard fought win 46-42.

below- Friend’s Taylor Menke goes up for a shot with Exeter-Milligan Megan Zwickl (#4) and Logan Zeleny.

 

Exeter-Milligan Performs Elementary Concert

The Fifth and Sixth grade band performs.

 

 The Kindergarten, first and second graders peform.

Mrs. Claus and the elves.

 

Swim trunks, snorkels and a surfin’ Santa filled the Exeter-Milligan gymnasium Tuesday evening as the Exeter-Milligan Kindergarten through sixth grade presented their Christmas program, “Surfin’ Santa.”

The evening began with the fifth and sixth grade band performing “First Rockin’ Christmas” and “Holly Jolly Christmas.”  The third and fourth graders then performed “Joyous Prelude” on their recorders.

The Kindergarten, first and second graders took the stage next performing a variety of Christmas songs including “Santa’s Comin’ Down The Chimney,” Top of The Housetop,” and “I Want to Be An Elf.”

The third through the sixth graders performed the musical “Surfin’ Santa.”  The third and fourth grade classes were dressed in their best surf and vacation outfits while the fifth graders played the elves and the sixth graders were the members of the cast.

Peytan Brandt played the Santa who was struggling to make it through another cold winter with his main elf, Jingle, played by Mitchell Manning.  Mrs. Clause was played by Katherine White.  The bad guy, Mr. Grimley, was played by Spencer Pribyl with his sidekick “Wally,” Trever Zelenka.  Kevin (Joel Klemm) and Ellen (Macy Due) overheard Mr. Grimley’s plans to take over Santa’s workshop and mailed themselves to the North Pole only to find that Santa had already left for an island vacation.

Santa is kept busy by the activities director, Marvin (Theron Odvody) and snorkels and surfs before his head elf, Jingle arrives. Jingle convices Santa and Mrs. Claus that they didn’t really win a vacation, it was all a plot to take away their toy workshop. They return just in time to save Christmas and Mr. Grimley decides to donate his extra toys to Santa.

Mrs. Angie Murphy, K-12 music teacher, directed the program for the elementary students.

Exeter Public Library New Books

Adults:

The Bone Bed – Patricia Cornwell

The Panther – Nelson DeMille

Notorious Nineteen – Janet Evanovich

Children/Young Adults:

The Twin Towers (A Place in History) – David Abbott

Pearl Harbor (A Place in History) – Stewart Ross

Hiroshima (A Place in History) – Stewart Ross

Auschwitz (A Place in History) – Sean Sheehan

The Normandy Beaches (A Place in History) – Brian Williams

Dear America: The Diary of Piper Davis – Kirby Larson

Dear America: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl – Patricia C. McKissack

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel – Jeff Kinney

Homer the Library Cat – Reeve Lindbergh

Speechless – Hannah Harrington

The List – Siobhan Vivian

DVDs:

Brave

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

The Lorax