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Food pantry board member Bruce Ramsour, front center, helps unload a delivery during last week’s Can Care-a-Van drive. Pictured at right are Channel 10/11 representatives Jon and Taryn Vanderford. -
Diane Keller was excited to learn Thursday of the creation of the new Diane Keller Healthcare Scholarship, which was established by the MCHI and Foundation boards. -
Kailyn Wilson presses the button to dunk Principal Chris Pietrzak into the tank. The volleyball team which sponsored the event had a rule that if an child hits the button, the team members would dunk the principal. -
Emcee Deryl Hilligas wandered on to Main Street Sunday to ask young Noah Miller about his ride in the Booster Days parade. Known as “The Voice,” Hilligas interviewed several participants at events throughout the day. -
Keegan Chaney makes a dive back to first base in the early hours of Friday’s game against Central City.
Can Care-a-Van drive tops goal by thousands
Donations far exceeded expectations during last week’s annual Can Care-a-Van drive in Aurora, with local residents contributing food and cash donations which added up to a record 45,648 pounds.
The goal for this year’s food drive in Aurora was 30,000, thus organizers were thrilled with the final results.
“It was an amazing day,” said Kathy Ramsour, a member of the Hamilton County Food Pantry Board and co-coordinator for the event. “The weather was beautiful and once again the county was so generous again with their donations. We were just once again very blessed with the whole day.”
Healthcare scholarship created in Keller’s name
Diane Keller was recognized for her 50 years of service to Memorial Community Health Thursday with a reception in her honor, where she learned that a $50,000 fund has been established to support the Diane Keller Health Care Scholarship.
“There is nothing that I could have expected that I would feel more honored by than this gift of working toward the establishment of the ongoing legacy of training the next generation of healthcare workers for the entire area,” Keller said as part of an emotional response. “This is an amazing thing and I want to thank you so very, very much. It was so unexpected, but I love training new staff and bringing people in and this is the best thing anybody could have done for me. I appreciate it so much.”
Giltner Daze back in sun-filled blaze
Hundreds of people attended Giltner Daze held in the city park with events at the water tower and community center in the blazing heat of Saturday.
Most of the day was aimed at children with a tractor pull, penny dig, bounce houses, a dunk tank and scavenger hunt, encouraging parents to bring their families out.
“Well, our biggest thing is to bring the young families in,” said Gary Consbruck, president of the Giltner Area Development Corporation. “You bring the kids in, you keep the school going. We’re about the only small town around that still has their own school.”
Booster Days a hit in Hampton
The small town of Hampton heated up this weekend with its annual Booster Days celebration bringing lots of people together on three consecutive days, culminating with a grand finale Sunday afternoon and evening.
Corbin Fagan, chairman of this year’s planning committee, said the overall numbers may have been down some from a year ago but he felt good about the 2022 celebration.
“Overall it was good and I want to give a shout out to anybody that helped put it together,” Fagan said as the final event, the barrel wars water fight, was about to begin Sunday night. “I think our numbers were down a little from last year because there is just so much else going on with volleyball and other things, but I think people had a good time.”
Aurora Coop Juniors win it like they stole it
Finally finding the rhythm and rhyme to a successful season the Aurora Cooperative Juniors found not one, but two wins over the last week of baseball.
After a pair of losses earlier in the week the tide shifted for the team Saturday against Kearney, where the Juniors raced to a dramatic 15-13 win, a well-deserved first of the season.
“They (really came) together as a team Saturday and Sunday with Collin Stolpe leading the charge at the junior level,” said coach Jeremy Burgener. “He has been able to rally those guys in a good direction.”
After a brief hiccup in the top of the first, the team pulled together to advance to a 2-1 lead thanks to runs scored by Lucas Gautier and Lucas Fry.
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