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Body Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on Oct. 24 in the church.

Body Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services.

Body My first experience with cardiopulmonary resuscitation was during the summer of 1969. I was an orderly in a Minneapolis intensive care unit (ICU) when my patient stopped breathing. I called for help and provided mouth-to-mouth breathing until the team arrived.

Body There were 20 migrating white pelicans on Lake Helen last week. The birds overwinter along the Gulf Coast and then nest in the northern Great Plains. They pass through Nebraska both during the spring and fall, and some even stick around all summer long.

Body Two elderly women were out driving in a large car - both could barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising along, they came to an intersection.

Body From the Collection of Pat Young Remember when: You were born a daughter. You looked up to your mother.

Body Don’t you love the sound of that first thunderstorm after winter with all the lighting and thunder? Lighting is described as a ”natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud”.

Body 1. Restores and cleans padded leather dashboards in vehicles, as well as vinyl bumpers.

Body The dog and I took a walk along the river road and I wished I had along my son’s ranger beads. Ranger beads are a string of beads that soldiers use and they are like an abacus. There are two sections. The top has four beads and the bottom has nine.

Body *EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to breaking news of the grass fire last week, this installment of The Village Naturalist was moved to this week. Though Leap Day is past, the history of Leap Year is quite interesting.