The plaque
Today's Wormy Applewood Plaque goes to Dale Sharp, president of the school board and to the other members of the board for the boondoggle of the school year.
The board changed the opening date of the public schools because builders couldn't get the new grade school completed in time.
(Let's hope they have time to connect the plumbing.)
And now with the later school beginning, all the Moms and Dads can look forward to classes ending in June instead of the usual May school ending.
Good show, school board.
The winner
Congratulations to Mrs. Dale Norstadt of Nebraska City on winning the Chamber's One Last Fling summer vacation special.
Mrs. Norstadt and her group of four will be guests of Nebraska City businesses at Adventureland. The prize also included scrip money, hotel, meal and $25 expense money.
Mrs. Willard White was chairman of the event for businesses.
School begins
There was a clunkety-clunk of feet in the kitchen the other night er morning and when the sun came up I discovered that No. 1 son had returned.
He and Craig Marshall arrived home during the early morning hours, dumped all their dirty clothes on the two "Moms", and took off the next day to go water skiing with friends.
That's the way it's been this summer — few visits and dirty clothes. Craig and Keaton have been working the summer for Jack Pagel at the Husky Truck Stop on I-80 near Aurora. The boys worked for Jack when he operated the J & P Truck stop on Iowa No. 2.
Gary Cohn is also working at the station and I imagine his visits have been running about the same. The boys worked long hours and have been trying to convince us they put some money in savings.
Well, summer is over and school is beginning. The boys have stopped pumping diesel fuel and changing truck tires and next week will be pumping brain-power into University books and changing their own sheets.
It's been a good summer, but especially brief for parents.
Congratulations
to Greg Mann, son of Dr. and Mrs. G. E. Mann, who received a full tuition Regents scholarship to the University. He completed his first year at UNL with a perfect 4.0 grade. We'd say he certainly earned that scholarship.
The County Fair.
Orville Koch, president of the Otoe County Fair Board, is pretty excited about this, the 50th year of the County Fair.
It looks like a "bumper" crop of entries in the livestock divisions. And that means more 4-Hers and FFA boys and girls and that's what the fair is all about.
The fair opens Sunday with entries and runs through Thursday, the sale day. It promises to be one of the largest in displays and entries.
The brownout
Thanks to the City Utilities crews for getting the electric service restored after the brownout Monday afternoon. The hour of the day bothered newspaper people more than the 90-plus heat, but the local power crews got things going and in a short time we were running. The paper was late, but not as late as we feared.
Saving wildlife
Few people are dedicated to preserving wildlife as Joe Voges of Nebraska City and it's easy to see his true love in his display of mounted species.
Joe spoke to Optimists the other day about taxidermy but more about the need for preserving wildlife. He's a naturalist and takes a great deal of pride in the town's Nature Center. That is located in the former City Hall near St. Mary's Catholic church. It is open every Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.
Football
We're going to miss foot ball at our house this year. This will be the first time in several years that we haven't had a young man walking around the house chewing on his mouthpiece and calling to his mother "Hey, mom did you wash my jock?"
From my mother-in-law
Life isn't a bowl of cherries, it's a bunch of raisins — raisin' kids, raisin' money and raisin' heck about both of them.