Friday, November 10, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Throwback Thursday: 11/03/2013
11/03/2013
Every October the Exeter Volunteer Fire Department hosts a Junior Fire Patrol classes during Fire Safety Month.
Part education and part training, the fifth graders from Exeter Milligan love the program. “They’re learning valuable life skills for not only now, but when they have families of their own. It’s a fun class but at the end of the day I want them to remember this could actually save someone in their families lives,” explained lead instructor Hope Androyna.
This is the fifteenth year that the Exeter Volunteer Fire Department has sponsored the Junior Fire Patrol for area fifth graders. This year there were four participants.
Three of the students had perfect attendance and passed all of the requirements to become junior fire marshals. They are Jaiden Papik, Jackson Beethe and Georgia Meyer. All three of these students have a parent who serves on the Exeter Volunteer Fire Department. Clint Oldehoeft also participated.
The department is now seeing a side benefit to the program that wasn’t realized for a number of years, as several Junior Fire Marshalls have become active members of the Exeter department. One, Jacob Miller, now serve as assistant fire chief.
Hope Androyna served as the lead instructor this year. Many other members of the department served as instructors and volunteers throughout the four weeks including Ed Mark, Jacob Miller, Jackie Miller, Marv Swanson, Dan Everheart, Ken Strate, Mark Beethe, Doug Papik, Craig Meyer, Nate Kahler.
The Psychology students in Mr. Marr's class decided to have a little fun with the Exeter-Milligan Kindergarten, first and second graders on Halloween. The high school students wore costumes to school and created boxes of "parts" for the elementary students to examine.
The Exeter-Milligan junior high football team
recently completed their 2013 season.
Five of the six games were played in Milligan.
The team was slowed by injuries
throughout the season. The EM team finished with
a 1-5 record.
The Omaha World-Herald ranked the Exeter-Milligan Volleyball team #9 this season. The team plays tonight in Wilber versus the Hampton Hawks at 7 p.m. at the Sub-District Finals.
Exeter-Milligan Softball Players Receive Post-Season Honors
Congratulations to senior Logan Zeleny, the catcher for the Fillmore Central/Exeter-Milligan Panther Softball Team as she was selected for the Southern Nebraska Conference first team. Zeleny was also selected on the York News-Times All-Area Softball Team and was given an honorable mention on the Class C Super State Team. Senior Meredith Emshoff was recognized with an honorable mention with both the Southern Nebraska Conference and the York News Times All-Area Softball Team. The FC/EM Panthers headed to the Class C State Tournament and posted 1-2 record there. They finished the season with a 24-12 record.
HOMEOWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM (HOP) FUNDS
for DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE IN FILLMORE COUNTY
Funds were received from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund (NAHTF) to provide “down payment assistance” to eligible homebuyers in Fillmore County for the purchase of existing homes in Fillmore County communities. The program runs through September 22 of 2015 and $128,000 dollars is available for down payment assistance. The assistance comes in the form of a no interest loan that is paid back when the home is sold.
Participants must occupy the property as a principal residence and be income eligible. The purchase must be of an existing home in a Fillmore County community and the cost may not exceed $135,000. The maximum subsidy cannot exceed 20% of the purchase price and has a maximum of $17,000.
Mr. Murphy’s social studies classes have spent a good deal of time discussing current issues affecting our country. In addition, the Post World War II History class has been investigating the Cold War and African decolonization following World War II. The high school American History class has researched local pioneers and westward expansion, as well as, immigration and culture of the late 1800s. World Geography completed a unit on Nebraska geography and is currently looking at how weather and climate influences human geography. At this time, History 8 is studying the American Revolution.
Chemistry is the study of matter and energy, and the changes they undergo. Currently, we are looking at emission line spectra as a method of identifying unknown gases. Every element gives off specific wavelengths of light when it has electricity running through it. These types of light are commonly referred to as “neon” lights, but not all of these bright lights contain neon. Neon happens to produce a red orange color, but there are many other gases that yield the different colors of the spectrum.
Our students are using this experiment to look at just one variety of properties that electrons are responsible for. electron behavior is the primary area of study in chemistry because electrons are the outer most parts of the atom and are responsible for the way atoms interact with each other.
When
the students use the pictured apparatus, called a spectroscope, to view the
tubes of gas, they see a distinct line spectrum. We will then compare the
spectra of the unknown gases with the spectra of known gases and determine what
the tubes are filled with. Some practical applications of this technology are
in forensics and cosmology.
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
EMF Bobcats Headed to Semi-Final Game
EMF got on the board first with 7:10 left in the first quarter and Breckan Schluter found the end zone for six and for the two point conversion the Bobcats pulled out a tricky reverse play and Draven Payne found crossed the line for the extra two. With 3:09 left in the first quarter the Pats put up six and two and evened the score.
The Bobcats hit the air and Tyler Due found Draven Payne for a big gain to scoring position, Schuter carried it in for six but the extra point didn't fly. 14-8 with 8:20 left in the first half.
St Pats got their offense moving and after the runningback bounced off almost every Bobcat defender they made it to the end zone and kicked the point after making it 14-15.
Before the half ended the Due tossed a pass way downfield to Schluter and he came up with the ball in the end zone with 15 seconds left in the half. Schluter ran it in for the two point and the score at the half was 22-15
With 9:22 left in the third St Pats scored again and then decided to kick which tied up the score 22-22. The Bobcats scored again and never let St Pats catch up. Final score was 44-28 with Schluter finding the end zone each time. St Pats undefeated season ended. The Bobcats travel to Crofton on Friday at 6 p.m.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Throwback Thursday: 10/27/2013
10/27/2013
The Exeter-Milligan elementary students sang the National Anthem at a volleyball game earlier this fall. Thirty-one students were able to participate. This was the fifth year the elementary students have performed.
Students in Mrs. Rachel Haider’s Exeter-Milligan English classes have been working hard studying literature of various genres and gearing up for the Nebraska State Accountability tests in writing (NeSA-W) which all 4th, 8th, and 11th graders take in January. Writing is a school improvement goal for the Timberwolves this year, and thus a major focus across all classes.
The first several weeks of the semester we spent learning a writing process to help us generate and then organize our ideas for writing. As we master the writing process we are spending more time producing samples of writing and then working to learn revising and editing strategies. Writing is improving across all grades.
Fourteen 9th-12th grade
ladies are busy preparing for One-Act Drama competition starting at the end of
November. This year Exeter-Milligan is producing a comedy, “Epic Fail” by
Bradley Hayward. The show is about 5 high school students who all fail epically
at some everyday task. Plan to attend our Dessert Theatre sponsored with the
FCCLA chapter on Nov. 10th at 2:30 pm in the Exeter Site Gym. A small admission
fee will be collected.
The Teacher position at Exeter Preschool/Playschool for spring semester of 2013-14 school yea r was open.
Exeter-Milligan defeated Hartington Huskies
56-6 in the first round of the football playoffs.
The Timberwolves will meet High Plains Storm in
Clarks on November 6 at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Exeter-Milligan Update: 6th grade science
Science Update
By Lorie Sliefert, Exeter-Milligan Science Instructor
The E-M 6th grade science class has been learning about the engineering design process. They had to work together to build a structure of uncooked spaghetti to hold up a large marshmallow. They eventually worked through the process to build a prototype of a bicycle helmet to protect an egg.
Crosby Oldehoeft and Archer Kanode
Monday, October 30, 2023
Exeter's Trunk or Treat
Hot chocolate was perfect for a chilly Trunk or Treat night in Exeter and the EMF Bobcat cheerleaders were on hand to serve it up.
With a dusting of snow and temperatures in the 30’s Exeter’s Annual Trunk or Treat was moved inside the Legion on Sunday afternoon.
Instead of trunks, kids walked around the Legion to different stations where they got to see scary witches, walk the plank, fill up on hot dogs and cotton candy, play a game of Plinko or tic tac toe and see the dinosaurs at Jurassic Park. It was a busy evening with over 80 kids who walked through.
There were plenty of treats to be hand and the Exeter Community Club sponsored the hot dog meal that was served free to everyone. Sponsors of the meal and hot chocolate were Generations Bank, Sweetwater Bar, Casey’s and the Exeter Senior Center.
Each station could enter a decorating contest and the winners were the Zach Becker family for their Jurassic Park booth and Pirates Lane Strate and Kristine Hankins where you could walk the plank.
Maize Ogren plays tic tac toe with Paul Sheffield at Exeter’s Trunk or Treat.
Winslow Pella is fascinated by Sharon Dyer’s scary pumpkin.
Below – The Becker family lines up in front of their Jurassic Park “trunk.” Pictured from the left are Gracelyn, Knox, J.J., Beau and Creighton all in their dinosaur costumes.
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