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Sen. Tonya Storer June 12, I toured Burwell’s Department of Health facility, where I had an in-depth discussion about the facility’s operations and services.

The Callaway Volunteer Fire Department elected Larry Mowery, Larry Franssen and Robert Edgington to serve as officers for the Custer County Mutual Aid Control at their meeting on Monday, June 2. Mutual Aid is made up of representatives from all fire departments in Custer County. The group meets four times a year with a different fire department providing the officers for each year.

The Nebraska Farmers Network (NFN) is proud to announce the official launch of its new subsidiary, NFN Auctions. NFN Auctions is an online auction platform built to serve the needs of Nebraska's agricultural community.

Arnold residents will double-down their donations at the upcoming ‘Be A Game Changer’ fundraiser. This event is on June 22 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Arnold Community Center with the purpose of improving Arnold. The Arnold Community Foundation Fund has agreed to match all local donated funds dollar for dollar. Following a free will donation meal, teams can compete in three game changing events, including a combination of all three called a triathlon. There will be three rounds for each event and each event will last for 50 minutes.

It was 25 years ago that a Halloween night tornado ripped through Oconto, leveling a good share of the town including the fire hall. The next June a fundraiser BBQ was hosted by the Oconto fire department to raise money to rebuild. The event was a huge success, and 25 years later it still is.

Reviewing and updating school policies is one of those parts of the school board’s job that is not glamorous, or sometimes even fun, but it is necessary. The policy committee of the Callaway Board of Education has devoted hours to that task, said Superintendent JD Furrow, and at the board’s June 9 meeting some of those were approved on second reading and others on first reading.

Weekends were for family trips or staying home to play, We all did things together, even went to church to pray. When we did weekend trips depending on the weather, No one stayed at home because we liked to be together.

The month of June includes two American holidays that seem to be slightly obscure and confusing to a lot of us. After recently discovering that I may not be the only one to not fully understand the meaning of these two observed holidays, it seemed like a good idea to inform myself and the public on the meaning behind them.

The Callaway Good Life Center Board invites everyone to a Breakfast Fundraiser on Saturday, June 28, from 7-10 a.m. at the Community Center. Pancakes, sausage, eggs, fruit, coffee and juice will be served with proceeds going to the New Building Fund.

This is to the person who cut off my flowering Iris, the day before I was going to cut them and take them to the cemetery to put on my husband’s grave. He had replanted them in four different places. First here in Callaway in 1961, then when we moved to Palmer in