Exeter-Milligan Students Compete in Elks Hoop Shoot

The following Exeter-Milligan Elementary students competed
in the Elks Hoop Shoot on January 8, 2011, at York High
School.

Left to Right: (3rd Grade)Caleb Horne, (6th Grade) Samantha
Horne, (3rd Grade) Brooke Poppert, and (6th Grade) Hailey
Luzum

Exeter Senior Hosts Labors of Love Quilt and Craft Show

Exeter Public Library to Start Reading Group

An organizational meeting for the new adult reading group at Exeter Public Library will be held Sunday, February 6th at 4 p.m. at the library.  Please call Jessica at the library at 266-3031 with any questions.

Exeter-Milligan Elementary Students Celebrate 100th Day of School

Exeter-Milligan first graders show their 100 projects.  They are pictured bottom row from the left Peyton Pribyl, Alivia Hartmann, Ben Bartu, Alec Schlueter, Braden Capek, Kohl Svec,and Cami Jansky.  Second row from the left are Wesley Ronne, Emma Olsen, Katelyn Babula, Olivia Poppert, Briana Capek and Becca Krupicka.

Exeter-Milligan elementary students celebrated a milestone on Thursday, the 100th day of school.

 

 Alivia Hartmann shows her necklace of 100 beads she made to celebrate the 100th day of school.

 First grade teacher Sharon Lott shows some of the projects her class worked on during the 100th day of school.

 

Exeter-Milligan Kindergarten students show their 100 piece cereal necklaces.

 

 

Students in Kindergarten, first and second grades spent the day counting to 100 with the first graders spending the majority of their day focusing on 100.

 

The Kindergarten class made necklaces with 100 pieces of cereal along with special headbands and a book about 100.  They also brought 100 of something to show to their class.

 

The first graders celebrated "100 days of being smarter."  Their teacher, Sharon Lott, encouraged them to dress up like they were 100 years old.  Canes and gray wigs were popular among the students.  Lott makes learning about the day very special, "We enjoy doing and sharing the projects to incorporate many areas of learning, not just the counting aspect."

 

During the day the first grade class shared the projects they created with 100 pieces of something ranging from 100 dog stickers to cotton balls, Lego's and pennies.

 

The students created books about 100 and practiced writing up to 100 ten days before the event so they could learn to count to 1000 as well.  They made t-shirts celebrating the fact that they were 100 days smarter and brought book reports to make a bookworm with 100 segments in the hallway.

 

Also prior to the 100th day they each collected 100 signatures from friends, family and neighbors.  In the afternoon the students had cookies and a giant chocolate chip cookie that had, of course, 100 chocolate chips that the students made.

FCDC Annual Meeting

The Fillmore County Development Corporation annual meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 16^th beginning at noon at the VFW Hall in Geneva.

Speaker for the event will be Larry Johnson, President of the Nebraska Trucking Association. Mr. Johnson says there are tons of things going on with trucking and a hot topic right now is inland ports. His presentation promises to be informative. Since nearly everything is on a truck at some point before it gets to the consumer the topic will be of interest to everyone.

For reservations or more information call the Fillmore County Development Corporation office at 759-4910 or email lentfer.fcdc@genevamail.com.

Exeter-Milligan Update: Elementary Perfect Attendance

Exeter-Milligan 3rd-6th Grade Second Quarter Perfect
Attendance

Front Row: Wyatt Motis, Ty Underwood, Brooke Poppert, Anna
Sluka, Caitlin Murphy
Second Row: Peytan Brandt, Eric Olsen, Seth Maxson, Joey
Bartu
Third Row: Kaitlyn Vavra, Alexis Uldrich, Tara Mueller, Ella
Wilkins, Trystan Brandt.  Not pictured: James Becker

Village of Exeter Police Department New Vehicle

This is what you don't want to see in your rear view mirror. The Village of Exeter recently purchased a new police vehicle and Saturday it saw it's first hours of service.

 

The vehicle, a 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo Edition, was purchased from Erdkamp Motors in Exeter.  The old vehicle was traded in on the new purchase.

 

Village Board members chose the vehicle specifically because it has four-wheel drive along with a back seat and a storage area behind.

 

The vehicle was purchased with funds set aside specifically for a police car in the village budget.  Unfortunately, some of the old radio equipment would not fit in the new vehicle however grant money was found to purchase the new equipment.

 

Village Marshal Mark McFarland and Brian McFarland have been working on converting the equipment from the old vehicle to the new vehicle. The decals were put in place on the car on Thursday, and after curing on Friday the car was ready for service on Saturday just in time for more snow and ice.

Goals Met, Hair Dyed

 Meredith Emshoff, Becca Vossler, MiKayla Ruhl and Amanda Dinneen "prep" Mr. Sheffield for his pink experience.

 Mr. Sheffield shows off his new look to the Kindergarten class and gets a big reaction from Chase Vnoucek.

 FCCLA advisor Mrs. Vossler helps Mr. Sheffield adjust his "ask me why my hair is PINK sign".

Mr. Sheffield poses with all of the Exeter-Milligan members of the FCCLA.

Sticking to his promise, Exeter-Milligan Superintendent Paul Sheffield spent his lunch hour with the FCCLA members dyeing his hair pink.

 

To raise funds and awareness for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Sheffield promised to sport the magenta look if the group raised over $400.00 during their recent fundraising efforts.

 

According to FCCLA advisor Mary Lou Vossler the group raised "$848.00 from our events.  We raised $353 from the Pink Out raffle, $81 during the shot for a pop and $175 with cookie sales."

 

Adding to the total were the staff members who donate to wear jeans on Fridays and chose to contribute their Denim Days' collection to the pot.

 

Last year the FCCLA group raised around $400 for their pink event including the cake raffle they held which they had not planned for this year.  Sheffield volunteered to contribute some motivation.  "Besides raising funds I just wanted to get the kids involved.  I wanted to step it up and my sister double-dog dared me.  She shared a clipping of a principal in another state who put in pink hair extensions and challenged me to beat that."

 

It wasn't clear if students donated more or community members and parents, "There was a concerted effort and they were all in cahoots to see me with pink hair for the rest of the month," commented Sheffield.

 

During the transformation Sheffield endured many comments from the student body.  Junior Brady Bristol made sure Sheffield knew "I bought like 1,000 cookies to make sure this happened."

 

Sheffield plans to keep the 'do for the rest of the month as promised and is wearing a sign around his neck that prompts those he encounters to ask him why his hair is pink.

Exeter-Milligan Update: Kindergarten

Exeter-Milligan Kindergarten Students take a break from computer classto smile for the camera. The students enjoy many differentweb sites to practice a wide variety of skills.

pictured are: Olivea Swanson, Aaron Ostrand, Cece Murphy,
Marcus Krupicka, Gabe Jindra, Chase Vnoucek, Allison
Kirkpatrick, Alexis Kirkpatrick,  and Cade Kreshak.

Exeter-Milligan Update: Book Reviews

Students often look forward to having a snow day, but once it arrives, they sometimes don’t know what to do with extra time. The English students at Exeter-Milligan suggest that snow days offer great opportunities to curl up with a good book. Avid readers may already have a stack of new books waiting to be opened; or at least some old favorites to re-read. Those who don’t particularly like to read, may have problems figuring out what book to choose. Here are some ideas from readers at Exeter Milligan School.

Mystery: The 39 Clues Maze Of Bone, by Rick Riordan

Reviewed By: Broc Mueller,

The main characters are Dan, Amy, The Holt Family, Mr. Alistair, Ian, and Natalie. The most important people are Dan and Amy. They are trying to get the 39 clues are which will make them the most powerful people in the world, and they could also become very rich. The first clue was found in Paris, France. My favorite part of the book is when Dan and Amy went into the catacombs, which is a cave full of bones, which is in Paris. I would recommend this book for people who like adventures and mysteries.

Sports Fiction: Forward Pass by

Reviewed by: Kyle J.

Forward Pass is about a girl named Jill Winston, who is a really good athlete and a great basketball player. On the football field there is a good quarterback named Scott Butler who throws a great bullet pass but he has no one to throw it to because nobody can catch it. The football coach Frank Gardner talks to Jill in the morning after a basketball game and she said yes her dad says no right away but coach talks him into it, but if the basketball coach finds out right away she could stop it so no one mentions it to her. My favorite part of the book is when Jill plays her first game because everyone on the opposite make a big deal about it and how she can’t play, but she actually can because there is no rule that says she cannot. I recommend this book if you like football and being a receiver even if you’re a girl it’s a good book.

Realistic Fiction: TTYL, by Lauren Myracle

Reviewed by: Janey Due

TTYL is about three girls named Zoe, Angela, and Maddie, who are entering high school as best friends, and trying to stay that way. Zoe likes a teacher and goes to church with him. Maddie is always mad except when she finds a boy that she likes. Angela also likes a boy and they get along really well. Maddie kind of breaks off from the group of friends to hang out with a girl named Jana. Zoe and Angela are kind of mad about it but it ends up working well in the end when all the girls work it out. Once I started reading this book I didn’t want to put it down. It really relates to real life and teens in high school. The girls learn to beat the pressures of high school and stay together. It was a very good book, and a lot of girls would probably like it if they gave it a chance.

Romance: The Last Song, By Nicholas Sparks

Reviewed by: Kylie Briske

The Last Song is about a girl named Veronica “Ronnie” Miller, who is from New York City. That summer she and her little brother, Jonah were visiting her father in South Carolina, who divorced her mother years earlier so she does like him at all. During the town fair she meets a boy named Will Blaklee, whose family owns a nation wide auto-care company and they are very wealthy. After Ronnie finally warmed up to her dad, they became closer, until tragedy struck. One evening Ronnie, Will, Jonah, and their father were watching over sea turtle eggs on the beach, and her father started to cough and then he fell on the ground with blood leaking out of his mouth. That night Ronnie and Jonah learn that their father is dying of cancer, and that he has stopped taking treatments for it. As the school year approaches, Ronnie decides to take a semester off from Julliard and stay in South Carolina to help her father. After about a month and a half, Ronnie’s father passes away and she decides to return to college with will just a few miles away. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a romance, but also a sad story. This is one of my most favorite books and I'm sure anyone would enjoy this book.

Winter is only seasonal, but a good story sticks with you forever. So find a good book to curl up with, take some time to read during every season of the year. Your next great read is only a page turn away.