02/10/2013
The Exeter Alumni Association is in the process
of updating our Directory. A new directory will be printed this Spring
and will be sold at the 2013 Alumni Banquet. Directories are printed
every 5 years.
If you or you know of graduates who have moved
or changed their name in the last 5 years, please submit updates to Kay
Due. Each class will be contacted as well. You can email
information to Kay Due or
call or text to 402-641-3512. You may also find Kay on facebook under Kay Ruhl
Due.
All Postal Customers in the Exeter area should
have received a letter about the POST plan. The letter includes a survey
that all customers should fill out and return in the postage paid
envelope. If you want to continue to have a post office in Exeter you
should return the survey and mark #1. This needs to be returned by March
4.
The post office has announced that they will
hold a meeting at the Exeter Fire Hall on March 18th at 4:30 p.m. to answer any
questions and provide additional information about the POST plan. At the
time of the meeting they will be sharing the results of the survey. IT IS
VERY IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE RETURN THEIR SURVEY!!!
The options for Exeter are either to reduce
hours at the post office or to close the post office and to have a postal
retail unit.
Mrs. Julia Polak's 6th grade science class at Milligan
studied forces and motion. The teach constructedf "skiers" out
of ice cream sticks and pipe cleaners. then they tried different
substances that they thought would reduce friction between the skier and the
plexiglass "slope." This particular example used body powder as
a lubricant.
Exeter-Milligan 6th graders participated in some STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) activities. In this one they
had to roll newpapers in to long narrow "rods," and build a structure
that the whole team could stand up in.
The Exeter Village Board welcomed
Exeter-Milligan Superintendent Paul Sheffield to their meeting Wednesday to
talk about the possibility of a joint effort for a wellness center and gym to
be used by the school and the community.
According to the
paperwork that Sheffield reviewed in the village board meeting the facility
with an estimate of $3 million and with a 15 year bond the total estimated
annual payment would be $234,000 at an interest rate of 2.3%.
Sheffield reassured
the Village Board that there would be no additional cost to the tax payers and
the Village would not be required to make any contribution toward the project.
“With our current levy we have 8.8 cents going into the building fund, we would
reduce the building fund by 5.7 to pay for the bonds and the school would use
the other 3.1. If we do this, your tax statement it would just show another
line noting joint powers bond and the building fund amount would be reduced by
the same amount.”
Sheffield summed up
the project, “We want to enhance the educational experience for our kids.”
The Village Board
responded positively to working with the school board and Sheffield reported,
“As far as timeline goes, it will take approximately three to four months to
create the joint entity and my hope is to be up and running by Jan 1, 2014 with
the new facility.”
Mrs.
Sharon Lott's first graders are doing many hands on activities in Saxon Math.
We are now shopping at our classroom store-- buying two items, writing price
and item on blank receipts. We use pennies and dimes to add two-digit numbers
with regrouping by trading ten pennies for a dime. We are using real money
which makes it more fun.
Madeleine Ensrud, an exchange student at
Exeter-Milligan, recently participated in the UNK Honor Choir. She is
pictured with Dr. David Bauer, director of this year's Honor Choir.
Jordyn and
Trystan Brandt, children of Roger and Dianne Brandt of Exeter, participated in
the Wayne State College Honor Band Festival on Feb. 2. Jordyn, a
Sophomore, played flute in the Honor Wind Ensemble. Trystan, an 8th
grader, performed trumpet in the Jr. High Honor Band. Participants
attended from Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota and were selected by recorded auditions.
Jordyn
was also honored to be selected as a member of the Hastings College Honor
Band Feb. 7-9.
