Exeter Chamber of Commerce Serves Record Crowd at Pancake Feed

 The Exeter Chamber of Commerce served several hundred people at their annual Free Pancake feed on March 10th.  Above, Margaret Petro makes sure that her Bob Mueller gets the pancakes cooked just right.

 The Exeter-Milligan ladies stopped in after track practice and before the FCCLA STAR and Speech night at the school. Below, these ladies enjoyed some pancakes for supper.

Exeter-Milligan Update: Shining Stars

Kara Myers’ reading group, the "Shining Stars,” are "soaring" through the Reading Mastery series.  They are proud to announce they have successfully finished Signatures 1 (orange book) and are now embarking into Signatures 2 (green book)!  They will continue to sound out difficult words and read well and quickly.  They will learn how to remember information that is important and how to use that information to answer questions.  These "bright" students will be able to read with better understanding for subjects like science and social studies.  They will also work on important writing and language skills.  Best of all, they will continue to find out that reading is enjoyable!

Pictured are (L-R): Liberty Johnson, Dravin Birkes, Kierra Papik, Aidan Vavra, Jayden Capek and Amarah Carr

 

Exeter-Milligan Elementary Presents "It's Showtime"

Exeter-Milligan Elementary students turned on the lights and pulled up the current for the Spring Concert on Tuesday, March 11 in the Milligan gymnasium.

The students performed show tunes from "Annie," "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Lion King."
Exeter-Milligan Music teacher Angie Murphy opened the show directing the 5th and 6th grade band ensembles. The fifth grade band performed the "William Tell Overture" and "Let's Go Band."  Together with the sixth grade they performed "American Patrol."


The sixth grade band did an excellent job on their performance of "Gonna Fly Now" and the "Theme from Our Director."

Mrs. Murphy presented the performance ribbons from the Bruning-Davenport Band Contest. 

The third and fourth grade performed "La Boomba" on their boomwhackers and then the students who had participated in Sing Around Nebraska performed the song they learned.

The choir portion of the evening began with the entire elementary performing "Turn the Lights On!" before the kindergarten, first and second grade performed four songs from the musical "Annie."

The third and fourth graders performed songs from "The Wizard of Oz" concluding with "We're Off to See the Wizard."

The fifth and sixth grade classes performed songs from "The Lion King" with soloists including Anna Sluka, Kayla Geiger, Eli Johnson, Nick Hayek and Caitlin Murphy.

The concert finale included all graders performing "Dim the Lights Now!"

Guests were invited to enjoy the Elementary Art Show before and after the concert.

Exeter-Milligan Doesn't Go Down Without a Fight

Tied at half-time in front of an over capacity crowd at Lincoln East, the Storm just blew into Lincoln a little bit harder than the Timberwolves.  The Timberwolves came back from a double digit deficit in the third and fourth quarters but only got within four points before the buzzer sounded at the end of the game.  The T-wolves had a great season and once again gave Exeter and Milligan a group of student athletes to be proud of.  Thanks!  High Plains Storm 49 - 45 Exeter-Milligan Timberwolves

Exeter-Milligan Senior Chosen for Utility Line Scholarpship

Alex Benorden receives utility line scholarship

Alex Benorden will receive a utility line scholarship from Perennial Public Power District.

Alex is the son of Mark and Starlene Benorden of Exeter. He is a senior at Exeter/Milligan High School and will be awarded a $1000 per year scholarship to attend Northeast Community College’s two year utility line program beginning this fall.

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If you would like more information about this, please contact Lisa Wurtele at 402/362-3355 or e-mail lwurtele@perennialpower.com.

photo courtesy of Kathy Kahler

Exeter Cub Scouts Bring Home Hardware from District Pinewood Derby

Members of Pack 218 out of Exeter who participated in the Cornhusker Council Prairie Wind’s District Pinewood Derby are pictured from the left Clint Oldehoeft, Mikey Bartu, Tyler Due and Ben Bartu.

 Tyler Due, left, with his trophy from the district pinewood derby.  He took first place in the wolf division.  He is pictured with the second and third place winners.

Cub Scouts in the Prairie Winds District of the Cornhusker Council posed for a minute with their trophies from the show category.  Front row from the left are Mikey Bartu Pack 218 Exeter Wolf first place, Aiden Canady Bear first place, Kolton Loos, Pack 256 Seward Tiger first place bear tiger and Carter Frazy first place in the Open class.  Back row from the left are Ben Bartu Pack 218 Exeter first place in the Webelos, Evan Fraser Pack 173 York first place in the commercial division, Tanner Beckman first place in most unusual, Nolan Eickhoff, Pack 290 out of Milford, Best of Show, and Aaron Ford first place in the realistic division

It was an intense competition at the Cornhusker Council Prairie Winds District Pinewood Derby on Saturday, March 9th at the Seward High School Gym as just .40 of a second separated the car speeds from first place to sixteenth place.

Cub Scouts from the nine counties that make up the district gathered to see who took top honors in both speed and show.  In order to be eligible to attend the district event, scouts had to place in the top three in their pack pinewood derby for race or show.

For the show portion of the events scouts were interviewed individually on the techniques and tools they used to make their cars. 

In the end there were winners and they were fast.  The fastest car in the district was Isaac Janing, barreling down the track in just 10.99.  Janing, a member of Pack 175 in Geneva, was the only scout who broke the 11 second barrier.  The top webelo scout was Trevor Shafer of York Pack 173.  Eli Hiser, a bear in Seward Pack 256 won his rank and Tyler Due, Pack 218 in Exeter, took the top honors in the wolf competition.  The fastest tiger cub was Jayden Fuehrer of Pack 174 in York.

In the show category, Tiger Cub Kolton Loos out of Seward Pack 256 took first.  Mikey Bartu, out of Pack 218 in Exeter took first in the wolf category, and Aiden Canady was the top Bear scout.  Ben Bartu out of Pack 218 in Exeter was at the top of the Webelo category.  Evan Fraser, a Webelo in Pack 173 from York took the top honors in the Commercial Category.  In the realistic category Aaron Ford came out on top, with Tanner Beckman winning the trophy for best unusual car and Nolan Eickhoff of Pack 290 from Milford took best of show overall.  The open class show was won by Carter Frazy.

During the day, the hosts, Pack 256 of Seward offered concessions and a bake sale the proceeds of which they planned to donate to one of their pack families who are struggling with health issues.