Exeter Cub Scouts Hold Blue and Gold Banquet and Pinewood Derby

 Brothers Josh Meyer (left of the track) and Blake Meyer (right of the track) race against each other at the Pack 218 Pinewood Derby.  Mr. Sheffield and Mrs. Mueller were the judges for the event.

After a long night of celebrating the scouts posed with their cars and their medals.  Front row from the left:  Tyler Due, Mikey Bartu, Braden Capek, Blake Meyer, Troy Kallhoff, Devin Harrison and Josh Meyer.  Back row from the left are Clint Oldehoeft, Chris Kelch and Ben Bartu.

Cub Scouts in Pack 218 celebrated the birthday of Cub Scouting on Sunday, Feb. 23 in Exeter.

The scouts opened the evening with a flag ceremony led by Webelos Scout Blake Meyer.  A prayer for the food was led by Braden Capek.

Before the meal was served the scouts performed a skit.  Webelos Scout Clint Oldehoeft played the part of Wendell Windbag as he retold the history of scouts as he had researched.  The cub scouts dressed as a caveman, a shepherd in Biblical times, an explorer, a medieval knight, frontiersboys, an American Indian, an alien and a mummy before one scout corrected the historian and the scouts sang “Happy Birthday Cub Scouts.”

Later in the evening the scouts had a Friends of Scouting presentation by the Cornhusker Council District Director Jerad Reimers.

The scouts also received their awards during the evening.  Receiving the wolf rank were Josh Meyer, Tyler Due, Troy Kallhoff, Devin Harrison and Mikey Bartu.  Receiving the Webelos rank were Braden Capek, Chris Kelch and Ben Bartu.  Clint Oldehoeft and Blake Meyer received additional Webelos pins and will be awarded their Arrow of Light at an upcoming ceremony.

The scouts looked forward to the highlight of the evening, the Pinewood Derby Race.  Mr. Stanley Rhodes brought the wood track that he made 35 years ago for the scouts and had Lance Larsen and Steve Rhodes for his assistants for the evening.  The group directed the scouts in the race and judged the show portion of the evening.

The show results included modified winners: Ben Bartu, first, Braden Capek, second and Devin Harrison, third.  In the stock show Tyler Due came in first with Mikey Bartu in second and Chris Kelch in third.

The race was exciting and the final winners had to have a race off to see who was the top winner.  Overall in race Tyler Due finished first barely beating out Clint Oldehoeft.  In third place overall was Josh Meyer.  When the cars were divided up by type, Braden Capek took second in modified race and Devin Harrison took third.

Exeter-Milligan Update: Third Grade Inventors

Ms. Casey Pohl's 3rd Graders at Exeter-Milligan have been studying inventors in social studies.  Pictured above are the students holding posters of an inventor they selected.  They were asked to research that inventor and create a poster on the Pic Collage app on their iPads.

pictured L-R: Olivea Swanson, Chase Vnoucek, Gabe Jindra, Cade Kresak, and Marcus Krupicka.

Exeter Area Filings for May Primary

Exeter residents will need to head to the election polls in May and will have several options when voting.  Monday, March 3^rd at 4:30 p.m. is the deadline for non-incumbents to register for the May primary.  The incumbent deadline has passed.

Exeter-Milligan School Board members Tom Sluka and Brent Moore have not refiled leaving their seats open.  Incumbent Sharon Kuska has filed along with newcomers Adam Erdkamp, Mark Bigelow and Kendra Jansky.

County Supervisor Bob Mueller has filed to run again for District #1 and Galen Kuska has filed for the Liberty Township Board.  As of Friday morning no one had filed for the opening on the Exeter Fairmont Township Board.

There is an opening on the Exeter Village Board as Margaret Petro has not refiled for her position.  Tim Wilbeck, who currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Village Board has filed for the election.

Farmer's Market in Exeter?

Anyone who has any interest in learning how to run a farmer's market or wants to have a certified kitchen in their home is invited to a special event at the Saline Center on Saturday, March 1st.  This workshop normally has a fee but is being offered for free this Saturday from 11 to 4.  For more information call Debbie at 402-826-6699

Exeter-Milligan Update: County Spelling Bee

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Caitlin Murphy poses with her 3^rd place trophy from the Fillmore County Spelling Bee that was held in Geneva on February 18^th.

Exeter-Milligan Eighth grader, Clarissa (Claire) Mounce placed 3^rd in the Junior High Division of the Fillmore County Spelling Bee.  Other junior high spellers competing were Josie Kresak, Colton Bossaller, and Katarina (Katie) Mounce.

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The 5th & 6th grade participants in the Fillmore County Spelling Bee were pictured from the left Georgia Meyer, Jaiden Papik, Caitlin Murphy and Ryan Sharp.