Laurel Advocate

LAUREL – The LifeServe Blood Center will hold a blood drive in Laurel this month.

The old song and dance

HARTINGTON – Laurel-Concord-Coleridge got busy over the past week as the golf team prepares for the upcoming district tournament May 14 in Hartington.

PONCA - The Laurel-Concord-Coleridge track teams completed a busy week with the Lewis & Clark Conference Meet held here April 27. Earlier in the week the teams were in Creighton for an invitational which saw the Lady Bears bring home the runner-up hardware.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY – On Friday, April 19, Laurel-Concord- Coleridge music students participated in the District Music Contest at South Sioux City Middle School.

CONCORD – Concord Awana Clubs hosted a year-end celebration and awards ceremony at Evangelical Free Church of Concord on Wednesday, April 24.

Area residents (back row) Shane Kinkaid

PONCA – Anglers can learn the basics of fly-fishing and fly-tying at a workshop April 27 at Ponca State Park.

Council approves asbestos abatement

HARTINGTON – The Cedar County Clerk’s Office mailed ballots for the May 14 primary election to registered voters April 24.

Dr. Betsy Becker is first individual to receive the designation from the UNMC Interprofessional Academy of Educators

CONCORD – Have you considered growing cover crops, tried and failed but want to succeed, or had success but want to try something new?

LAUREL - Mother Nature delayed the Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Invitational by a couple of days but the meet went on without a hitch, April 18 here at Haskell Field.

LiteracyNightwasheldThursday,April18attheLCCschool. The theme this year was SuperHeroes. (above) SuperHero Teachers (back) June Koester, Julie Hart, Jean Granquist, SheriChristiansen,LisaWolfgram,KristinaSteinle,(front) Amy Gould, Denise Kinkaid, and Sue Koch helped out last week’s special event. (left) Denise Kinkaid, Finn and Nicole Dennis work on letters at the Literacy Night event. The elementary teachersplannedstationsthatincludedsuperhero activities that promote reading. There were Hero Photos using the green screen, a who would win Superhero style station, create your own Superhero, crack the code using black lights, a Superhero comic strip station and Superhero snacks. Students also had the opportunity to purchase books from the book fair, which was organized by the PTO.

LAUREL – Registered Laurel voters will have a local sales tax referendum to look out for after they receive their 2024 primary election ballots in the mail this week.

Signs of Spring

CONCORD – The Concord Awana Clubs held their annual Awana Grand Prix, Sunday, April 7, at the Evangelical Free Church in Concord.

WAYNE – Dynamic jazz meets dramatic film music at the Wayne State College Jazz and String Ensembles concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in Ramsey Theatre, located in the Peterson Fine Arts Building at Wayne State. The concert is free and open to the public.

LAUREL – Laurel-Concord-Coleridge hosted its own golf invitational on April 11 at Cedar View Country Club in Laurel, and the Bears finished ninth out of 15 teams in the tournament.

The arrival of winter weather in December 1953 brought construction to a halt on the earthen embankment that would form the greater part of Gavins Point Dam.

LINCOLN – In an effort to emphasize the importance of multiactivity participation, the Nebraska School Activities Association and the Nebraska State Colleges launched the Nebraska State Colleges Multi-Activity Student Award program in the fall of 2020.