Friends & Family
The people at St. John Lutheran Home are excited to celebrate National Nursing Home Week May 13-19.
This year’s theme, “Celebrating Life’s Stories,” serves as a tribute to life’s most significant events, relationships and experiences that shape the unique perspectives of residents, families, staff...
Kale is not a new vegetable, but you may have just started hearing more about it. It’s very popular in northern Europe and now throughout the United States. During the Middle Ages, kale was planted and used to feed humans and livestock. History books state that Thomas Jefferson experimented with...
All you may want to know about Little Golden Books, you can learn from college professor Ellen Radel
As a parent, and a teacher by profession, Ellen Radel of Willmar spoke with passion and enthusiasm about her hobby of collecting children’s books during the annual meeting of the Springfield Area Historical Society the evening of April 16.
Ellen Radel, semi-retired college professor, remembers...
Springfield Public Library will be offering morning movies monthly — on the last Saturday of the month— starting at 9:30. The movies will be offered free and, generally, will be children’s movies. The first movie to be shown will be “Ferdinand” on Saturday, April 28.
“Ferdinand” is a 2017...
School photo taken in School District 79, Cottonwood County in 1934. Front, from left: Warren Johnson, Nathan Johnson, Agnes Neeb, Lorraine Pabst, ____Johnson, Julian Johnson and Addy Brown. Middle Row: Albert Pabst, Marvin Brown, Delaine Essig, Alice Kastner, Peggy Pabst, Ivan Brown and Esther...
The staff at the Farmers & Merchants Bank has been performing ‘Random Acts of Kindness’ during the past year leading up to the celebration of the bank’s centennial next month.
The bankers hope to brighten peoples’ lives, build relationships, and make a difference one Random Act of Kindness...
After working nearly 44 years in banking, Deb Janni will soon retire.
The First National Bank will hold open house on Tuesday, April 3, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. to celebrate Janni’s years in banking. All are welcome.
Deb began working at the State Bank of Springfield following her graduation from...
Ruth Schneider is about to join an elite group — centenarians — those who live to and past age 100.
One in every 10,000 individuals in the U.S. reaches the age of 100; there are currently an estimated 60,000 centenarians in the U.S. For the past decade, researchers have marveled at these folks...
One year after completing the largest internal living-donor kidney transplant chain in Nebraska history, the Nebraska Medicine Kidney Transplant Team was presented with the Gift of Life Heroes award at the 2018 Heroes in the Heartland luncheon, put on by the American Red Cross on March 8 in Omaha,...
Lara Renner of Alton, New Hampshire, behind her team of Siberian Huskies, finished in tenth place in the 2018 Junior Iditarod that was finished on February 26. She was one of 11 mushers, ages 14-17, in a field of five veterans and six rookies racing 150 miles, responsible for their dogs, their...
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