Two Falcon track team members excelled at the D-4 District Track Meet in O'Neill today to qualify for a trip to state. Ranee Keehn qualified for state in the girls triple jump with a leap of 34-3.25. She earned second place. Chris Peterson also captured a silver medal with his toss of 46-6 in the boys shot put to qualify for state. Clearwater-Orchard and Elkhorn Valley track teams are competing at districts today. The District D-4 meet will be held at the O'Neill High School track with field events beginning at 10 a.m. Athletes from nine schools will compete: CWC, Clearwater-Orchard, Cody-Kilgore, Elkhorn Valley, Ewing, North Central, Santee, St. Mary's and Stuart. Kids will learn how to respond in a variety of emergency situations at the kids' health fair in Tilden. Tilden Community Hospital and TCH Medical Clinic will hosting their annual kids’ health fair on Wednesday, May 14. The event will be held at the Tilden Community Hospital from 3:45 to 7 p.m. This year’s theme is focused on safety, preparedness, and emergency. Kids and their parents will get to see the LifeNet helicopter, as well as learn about ambulance emergencies, fire safety, and more! Mom's home-cooked meals are often intertwined with our childhood memories. Fried chicken, cooked up crispy and golden. The first sweat peas of the season paired with new potatoes in a creamy sauce. Fresh-picked cabbage, shredded into a refreshing cole slaw. A rich coconut cream pie, topped with meringue and flakes of toasty coconut. This springtime meal was Ginny Werkmeister's favorite as a young girl in Oklahoma. "We had canned meat and vegetables all winter long, so fresh fryers with spring potatoes and peas were a treat," she said. "We always had cole slaw with this meal, and my mom always said this pie is so good, it is fit for angels, so she called it Coconut Cream Angel Pie." About seven years ago, Werkmeister, now of Tilden, decided to enter her mother's recipes in a contest sponsored by the "Taste of Home" magazine. To enter, she would need to send in at least four recipes and a background story about her mother, Enoth Bratten. Click here to read the article, originally published in Taste of Home's April/May 2009 issue. "I basically did it because I wanted to honor my mother that way," Werkmeister said. "I never thought I would actually win. They are pretty old-fashioned recipes." A year later, a staff member from "Taste of Home" contacted her. "They wanted to use my story, but they wanted me to cut it down," she said. "And they tested all of the recipes before printing them." Werkmeister said they revised her pie recipe slightly, since a similar one had been featured in an earlier issue. "I think all they changed was the cornstarch," she said. "I use 1/8 cup of flour and 1/8 cup cornstarch. They made it 1/4 cup cornstarch and left out the flour, but I like it with flour better. There is a little difference in texture and I like the flavor better." Her recipes were finally published in the April/May 2009 issue and later featured in the "Taste of Home 2009 Annual Recipes Cookbook." She received $75 and a free magazine. Click here for the Coconut Cream Angel Pie recipe. Click here for the Fried Chicken With Pan Gravy recipe. Click here for the Creamed Potatoes and Peas recipe. Click here for the Garden Coleslaw recipe. Werkmeister said the best part was reconnecting with an old friend she hadn't seen in more than 50 years. Her friend, who had moved to Texas, saw the magazine article and contacted her. Werkmeister and her husband Marvin were able to visit a couple times before her friend lost her battle with cancer four years later. "Doing something like this can get more return than just money," she said. Five years after the article was published, Werkmeister is surprised the magazine continues to feature her mother's recipes. A link to her pie recipe was just posted on the magazine's Facebook page today. It read, "Happy Coconut Cream Pie Day! Celebrate with this highly-rated coconut cream angel pie recipe shared by Ginny Werkmeister of Tilden, Nebraska." "I had no idea that they would still be using this recipe this many years later," she said. Elkhorn Valley junior high and high school students were awarded five judge's merit ribbons at the Niobrara Valley Conference Art Show last week. Earning judge's merit awards were: David Short, fibers, Cattalily on a Vine; Ashley Hale, collage, Creation of Many Faces; Shawn Klinetobe, colored drawing, Purple Beauty; Rachal Hahne, mixed, Fox Trot; and Emily Stockwish, mixed, Cheeting Panda. A total of 1,850 pieces of artwork from grades 7-12 were on display in the St. Mary's School gym on Friday. Students representing 18 area schools featured pieces in the show: Chambers, Clearwater-Orchard, Elgin, Elkhorn Valley, Ewing, Keya Paha, Lynch, Neligh-Oakdale, Niobrara, Pope John, Rock County, Saint Mary’s , Santee, Stuart, Verdigre, West Boyd, West Holt, and Wheeler Central. The day of the art show students attended the art activity of “Creating Art on the Ipad” taught by Keya Paha art teacher Joan Swim with her students assisting. The judges for this year’s art show were Kevin McNichols of O’Neill and Diane Cole of Emmett for the high school, and Teri Schacht of Orchard for the junior high. Next year's show will be in Ewing. The Elkhorn Valley boys and girls track teams competed in the Niobrara Valley Conference meet in Atkinson on Saturday. Falcons placing in the conference meet were: Girl Medalists: Girls Triple Jump: 3. Ranee Keehn, 33-02.00 Boy Medalists: Boys Shot Put: 6. Chris Petersen, 39-09.50 Boys Long Jump: 5. Noah Rutjens, 18-07.75 Boys Triple Jump: 3. Noah Rutjens, 40-01.00 Boys 400 Meter Dash: 5. Tyler Rautenberg, 56.00 Boys 100 Meter Dash: 5. Chris Petersen, 12.2 Boys 4x100 Meter Relay: 5. Elkhorn Valley, 48.20 (Tyler Rautenberg, Noah Rutjens, Chris Petersen, Michael Knievel)Boys Pole Vault: 6. Jayson Larson, 8-06.0 The only member of the Elkhorn Valley track team to qualify for the Norfolk Classic earned a fifth place medal Thursday. Ranee Keehn leaped 33-feet, 10.5 inches in the triple jump to finish fifth in the event. She was listed in eighth place heading into the meet with a qualifying jump of 33-feet, 8.5 inches. Click this link for full results from the 2014 Norfolk Classic. Elkhorn Valley competed in the Niobrara Valley Conference golf meet with just two golfers on their roster Thursday. The meet was held at the Antelope Country Club in Neligh with 11 schools competing. Falcon golfers Adam Potter and John Hupp shot a 124 and a 133, respectively. Full results from the Niobrara Valley Conference Meet are listed below. Team Scores: 1. West Holt, 340 2. EPPJ, 384 3. North Central, 386 4. Clearwater-Orchard, 388 5. Boyd County, 398 6. Neligh-Oakdale, 400 7. Ewing, 407 8. CWC, 439 9. Niobrara-Verdigre, 543 10. Santee, not a full team 11. Elkhorn Valley, not a full team Individual Results: 1 Cameron Schmuecker West Holt 82 2 Jake Friedrich North Central 82 3 Alex Fritz West Holt 82 4 Aaron Hauf Orchard-Clearwater 84 5 Austyn Ramm-Lech West Holt 86 6 Tate Schutt Orchard-Clearwater 89 7 Robert Nordby Ewing 89 8 Chad Bode EPPJ 89 9 Kyle Heithoff EPPJ 90 10 Kelby Feddern West Holt 90 11 Cody Bernt Boyd County 90 12 Mitchell Atkinson Boyd County 92 13 Miles Schrage EPPJ 93 14 Brady Kalhoff Neligh-Oakdale 95 15 Troy Gibson North Central 96 16 Ben Ramold Ewing 100 17 Grant Knutson Neligh-Oakdale 100 18 Chase Kalhoff Neligh-Oakdale 100 19 Courtney Heyden North Central 101 20 Keelie Meyer Orchard-Clearwater 101 21 Karter Schulte Boyd County 102 22 Clint Jordan CWC 104 23 Seth Hytrek West Holt 105 24 Chris Bentley Neligh-Oakdale 105 25 Darren Allen North Central 107 26 Matthew Kurpgeweit Ewing 109 27 Blake Cunningham Ewing 109 28 Donovan Pike Santee 109 29 Garett Allemang Neligh-Oakdale 110 30 Alex Hoffman CWC 110 31 Jack Borer EPPJ 112 32 Trevor Jarman CWC 112 33 Devyn Thor CWC 113 34 Ian Kotrous Niobrara-Verdigre 113 35 Chandi Zotti Boyd County 114 36 Wyatt Boettcher Boyd County 114 37 Zach Martin Orchard-Clearwater 114 38 Damon Pojar Santee 115 39 Mathias Jensen Ewing 117 40 Riley Snider Orchard-Clearwater 121 41 Regan Kerkman EPPJ 122 42 Dalton Schmidt North Central 124 43 Adam Potter Elkhorn Valley 124 44 John Hupp Elkhorn Valley 133 45 Rylee Klawitter Niobrara-Verdigre 134 46 Brandon Ausmus Niobrara-Verdigre 136 47 Jacob Green CWC 139 48 Alex Hollmann Niobrara-Verdigre 160 A supper and informational meeting about long-term care services will be held in Elgin next week.
The public is invited to attend the supper at the Elgin Community Center on Thursday, May 8 at 6 p.m. Please RSVP to Prairie View at 402-368-2250 or the Bank of Elgin at 402-843-2228. Prairie View Assisted Living of Tilden and the Bank of Elgin have teamed up with the following services to bring this information to the area:
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