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HARTINGTON – For the second straight year, pink postcards are piling up in Cedar County residents’ mailboxes.

The 1950s were a wild time. Everything was in black and white, there weren’t any footprints on the moon and no one had even heard of Taylor Swift. Can you imagine what that must have been like?

Before Emory Graffis left for the service he asked Inger Kastrup to marry him. She accepted. While stationed in Hawaii, he sent her a birthday card: It read: “Sweetheart of mine -- Loving you means happiness and skies a bit more blue! Thinking of you means my thoughts are bright and happy, too! Greeting you just means I’m glad, to have a part. In birthday thoughts and wishes, when they’re for you Sweetheart! Emory.”

Capitol View

The fire siren blew at 7:05 p.m. Monday summoning local emergency crews to the scene of a mock accident just south of Hartington behind Grossenberg Implement. When the emergency crews arrived, they discovered a bus had collided with a grain truck and the bus had gone off the road and rolled on its side. Firemen had to determine how to best handle the situation, while ambulance personnel dealt with the mock victims.

COLERIDGE – A Coleridge man is out of jail on bond while he awaits trial in October for a sexual crime against a child.

HARTINGTON – John Grindvold said he’s been blessed all of his 103 years.

T he history of Trinity Lutheran Church in Hartington dates back to before the community was even named and platted.

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Pastoral Points

HARTINGTON – Rev. Emil Gustav Andreas Christensen is considered to be the first resident Lutheran home missionary pastor in Northeast Nebraska and Southeast Dakota Territory.

HARTINGTON – Pastor Nels G. Tvedt, the first resident pastor in Northeast Nebraska, had many trials and tribulations. He came to this area in 1875 as an assistant to Pastor Emil Christensen, who was located at Gayville, S.D.

Rev. N.G. Tvedt became the first resident pastor serving from 18801907.

HARTINGTON – The need for spiritual guidance and a hunger for God’s word were strong in the hearts of Cedar County pioneers.