Exeter Care Center recently crowned their Valentine's Day royalty. They are pictured from the left:
Princess~ Verna Steeves
Queen~ Delores Zieg
King ~ Marvin Dockter
Prince~ Merritt Otoupal
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Exeter-Milligan Update: National Anthem Sung by 5th and 6th grade girls
Friday, February 17, 2012
Exeter-Milligan Drowns Dorchester 63-26
The Timberwolves rolled over the Longhorns racking up 22 points in the first period. In the first few minutes Exeter scored five with Nate Bigelow adding two more to make it seven to zip. Jalen Maxson sunk one from the free throw line to make the score nine to nothing. Derek Luzum sunk the last bucket of the period bringing the score 22-0.
The Timberwolves continued to hold the Longhorns scoreless until there were 5:45 minutes left in the second period.
Sluka was on fire in the second period making several impressive shots bringing the score to 32-4. Dalton Zelenka sunk a three pointer bring the half time score to 37-9.
The Timberwolves continued to oppress the Longhorns closing the third period at 51-15. A three pointer from Kyle Jensen ended the game at 63-26.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Exeter-Milligan Update: Speech Team
Speech Team notes by Jami Adelman
The Exeter-Milligan Speech Team gave a strong performance and finished in third place at the Meridian Speech Tournament on Saturday, February 11th. Special congratulations go to Becca Vossler, who placed first in persuasive speaking; Deidre Stevens, who placed first in entertainment speaking; and Liz Murphy and Deidre Stevens, who placed second in duet acting. Liz Murphy also placed third in serious prose, and Toni Bossaller was awarded a fourth place medal in poetry. Overall, the team has revealed during competition that their abilities are improving significantly from their ongoing efforts to perfect their pieces. The team considers the comments from previous competitions valuable as each member prepares to face some very tough opponents in the upcoming meets. The speech team will compete in Sutton on Saturday, February 18th. The CRC competition will be Wednesday, February 22nd in Meridian, and the district competition will be in Deshler on March 15th. The Exeter-Milligan Speech Team also welcomes patrons to join them at their annual Speech Night on Monday, March 6th. On this night, students will perform their competition pieces for the public.
(Pictured: Elizabeth Murphy, Kylie Briske, Deidre Stevens, Becca Vossler, Jennifer Pribyl, Amber Pribyl, Meredith Emshoff, and Maitlyn Thomsen
Not Pictured: Toni Bossaller)
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Exeter-Milligan Update: The Smart Cookies
Time does not stand still in Exeter-Milligan! Mrs.Kara Myers reading group, The Smart Cookies, are enjoying their trip through time while reading a story about two young boys who find a time machine and travel to many different places and through many different times. So far we have “traveled” 40,000 years ago to the time of the dinosaur (mammoths, eohippuses, and saber tooth tigers...oh my!), 5,000 years ago to the pyramids of Egypt (amazing how they built those pyramids with what little tools they had), and 3,000 years ago to Greece during the Greece and Troy war (all for the love of a women, Helen). We have also visited Spain in 1492 (Christopher Columbus) and San Francisco in 1906 (the earthquake was quite scary). These Smart Cookies have also seen 4,000 years in the future (or what it might be like)! After reading about a certain time, the Smart Cookies draw pictures of what they learned during that time and place and put them on the class timeline, which takes up half the class! The picture shows Ben Bartu (left) and Braden Capek placing their 1492 pictures on the time line.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Exeter-Milligan Update: Kindergarten Registration
If you anticipate enrolling your child in kindergarten at Exeter-Milligan the fall of 2012, please plan to attend our Kindergarten registration on Monday, March 5 at 5:00 p.m at the Exeter site cafeteria. During this time, Mrs. Laura Kroll, elementary principal, will help complete the necessary paperwork for your child’s enrollment into kindergarten. Mr. Paul Sheffield, superintendent, and Mrs. Judy Kassik, kindergarten teacher, will be available to field questions people may have. Please note, according to the recently adopted state law, children must be 5 years of age as of July 31. As provided in school policy, the Exeter-Milligan Public Schools may admit a child to kindergarten that will reach the age of 5 years on or after August 1 and on or before October 15 based on certain guidelines. For more information, please contact the School office at 266-5911 (Exeter) or 629-4265 (Milligan).
Monday, February 13, 2012
Exeter Chamber of Commerce Holds Annual Pancake Feed
The Exeter Chamber of Commerce held their annual Pancake Feed last Monday night. Despite the recent snowstorm over 100 braved the weather to eat pancakes and sausage.
Clean plates equals happy smiles at the Exeter Chamber of Commerce Pancake Feed
Brett Kallhoff enjoyed his pancake supper.
These Exeter-Milligan students didn't have to wait long for pancakes at the Exeter Chamber of Commerce Pancake Feed.
Jack Underwood gets ready to flip some pancakes at the Exeter Chamber of Commerce Pancake Feed while Dave Manwarren looks on.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Fez Comes to Town
Felix Ochsenfeld, fondly nicknamed Fez after the foreign exchange student on That 70's Show, with his host family brother Devin Sheffield, right.
Ochsenfeld, who lives with his mom in Luenen, Germany, population 90,000, found out where he was headed and went online to Google maps to check what he was getting into. “I was just hoping for everything new, I knew it could be everything from a big to a small town.”
In Germany, Ochsenfeld has around 140 in his class, so coming to a school the size of Exeter-Milligan was a bit of a shock. Another adjustment for Ochsenfeld was the importance placed on sports in the States. “If I wanted to do sports in Germany we don’t have school sports. You have to go to a club team.” He played club soccer and club golf at home and is looking forward to playing on the Exeter-Milligan golf team.
From his perspective this is a great option for students, “It’s good, you’re always busy, never time to be bored.”
After arriving on August 4th Ochsenfeld got active right away, serving as the student manager for the Exeter-Milligan football team. Living with the family of Superintendent Paul Sheffield has been a wonderful experience for him. He has enjoyed the contrast to his home life in Germany. He doesn’t have any siblings so he has enjoyed having three new siblings. “It’s cool when you are at home there’s another kid or two - shooting hoops or whatever, but we have to discuss what we watch on tv.”
As far as the food goes, he notes that they have fast food where he lives in Germany but the biggest difference is that he eats lunch at home, where his mom prepares their main meal at 2 pm when he gets home from school and then they eat a very light, usually cold evening meal.
Ochsenfeld also finds the culture very different as he lives in a large city and the Exeter-Milligan community is primarily agriculture and rural. He also finds the mentality in Nebraska to be a stark contrast to his homeland. “Everyone is more open and friendly to people you don’t know here. You don’t do that in Germany.”
While in the States Ochsenfeld is working on obtaining his driver’s license, taking driver’s ed this Spring hoping to return to Germany and transfer his license. Not only is the driving age 18 in Germany but the coursework to get the license is close to $2500. However, driving is not as important in Germany, as the train system is extensive and is a practical means of transportation.
If Ochsenfeld isn’t riding the train to visit his friends, he will ride his bike ten or fifteen minutes to get to the mall to hang out with them. Just how big Nebraska is has been one of the biggest adjustments for Ochsenfeld, “Driving everywhere, to go to the mall you have to drive for an hour. Everything is so far away and so big.”
Over the Christmas vacation the Sheffields and Ochsenfeld drove to Phoenix for the holidays. Felix enjoyed the trip immensely especially the day trip they made to the Grand Canyon. He had seen it in pictures but the experience of being there was “amazing.”
The extremes of weather have also been am adjustment for Felix. The summertime temps in Germany hover around 70 to 80 degrees versus Nebraska’s 90’s and 100’s. He was looking forward to lots of snow because in the wintertime in Germany “three inches is a lot of snow, parents let their kids stay home from school.”
So far Felix has really enjoyed his year here, the only drawback he can see so far is that he will have to redo the school year, “Who cares about one year, it’s worth it. I would do a class twice again for this. . .plus I’ll dominate in English and maybe geography.”
The Sheffield family has thoroughly enjoyed the experience so far as well, “It’s great to have another brother at home,” according to tenth grader Devin Sheffield. Paul Sheffield concurred, “It’s been great so far. Felix has fit so well with the family. It has been a scary good experience. I wouldn’t mind doing it again but we’ve been so spoiled with this experience.”
Ochsenfeld will be staying until June when his Mom comes to visit. He is excited to share the community of Exeter with her. “I want to show her all the country life and the people. I want the families here to meet her and I want to take her to a farm.”
Until that time Ochsenfeld is looking forward to finishing the basketball season, playing plenty of golf and lots more driving here in Nebraska.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Exeter Sees Over a Foot of Snow
After a foot of heavy wet snow in the Exeter area starting Friday evening, trees and bushes were weighted down to their maximum with many breaking under the weight. The only thing that could have made the Exeter-Milligan students happier about the snow would be a snow day. Despite having to go to school, the Exeter-Milligan elementary students had a blast playing on the piles of snow cleared from their playground.
Snow clung to the trees for days after the Friday night storm.
Almost all of the elementary kids were on the snow piles during the lunchtime recess. An unidentifiable Exeter-Milligan student yells "cannonball" has he jumps off the pile of snow.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Exeter Chamber of Commerce Community Pancake Feed TONIGHT
The Exeter Chamber of Commerce will host their FREE Community Pancake Feed tonight, Monday, Feb 6, from 5 - 7 pm. Come enjoy the fun and food!
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