Doniphan West HS homecoming candidates: Claire Cole, Avery Weathersbee, Kyra Johnson, Jacob Blanton, Brody Jeschke, and Braden Simmons.

Members of the Holton HS KAYS picked up over 2500 cigarette buts around the Holton square tonight!!!  
 

NEK Home Health & Hospice

One of our very own volunteers, Dixie Westervelt received the Home Care Hero Award at this year’s KHCHA Conference in Wichita. She is a true treasure to NEK. No one is more deserving than this loving lady for this award . Congratulations Dixie!

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Atchison County Community Junior Senior High School congratulates the 2022 Homecoming Royalty, who were crowned prior to the football game against Oskaloosa on Friday, September 16, 2022. Kreyton Bauerle was named Homecoming King, and Jordan Caplinger was named Homecoming Queen. Rounding out the royal court were candidates Natalie Nitz, Aleah Wallisch, Trenton Kimmi, and Bricen Lee.

STEP Foundation Announces New Seneca Impact Fund for Murals
The Nemaha County STEP Foundation is happy to announce the creation of the new Seneca Impact Fund. The fund was created for the restoration and creation of murals in Seneca, Kansas. We are dedicated to promoting, encouraging and improving the business, civic, historical and cultural vitality for the Seneca area and to create a vibrant, thriving, environmentally sound and economically strong community.

Pictured Above: (Left to Right): Tory Jost, STEP Executive Director; Marceil Hasenkamp, STEP Board President, Kylee Bergstrom, Executive Director of the Seneca Area Chamber and Downtown Impact; and Brandon Nordhus, Treasurer of the Seneca Area Chamber and Downtown Impact

Horton Chargers 2022 Homecoming Candidates!

Caden Wilburn, son of Brandy & Michael Wilburn.

Kickapoo nation princess 

( Pictured Left to Right: Sheri Burdiek, Church Treasurer; Sandy Vernon, Church President; Dustin Walters, STEP Board Member; Marceil Hasenkamp, STEP Board President; and Tory Jost, STEP Executive Director )

The Centralia Community Church has collaborated with the Nemaha County STEP Foundation to establish two new funds.

The first fund is called the Centralia Community Church Endowment Fund in the amount of $200,000. This fund is to support and encourage the Christian community in Centralia.

The Centralia Community Church Scholarship Fund established in the amount of $10,000, will provide scholarships to graduating Centralia High School students.

These funds will serve and bless the Centralia community now and for generations to come.

Curtis Bloom, son of Jim and Alane Bloom, will be a senior at Kansas State University in the Agribusiness program. After graduating from the Wetmore Academic Center, Curtis attended Kansas State University in Manhattan. “I grew up around my family farm where my cousins raise fat cattle, row crop, put up hay, and operate a custom forage harvesting business. Throughout middle and high school, I spent my summers and winter breaks working on the family farm where I found my passion and love for the agriculture industry,” Bloom shared in his scholarship application. “It is because of this that I decided to attend K-State and major in the College of Ag.”

This past summer Bloom had a summer internship working for Corporate Vermeer as a product specialist. Over the past few years, he has also worked at the K-State feedlot, interned at Heinen Brothers, worked for a Farm Bureau agent as sales support, and learned about an equipment dealership at Bruna Implement. All these positions have provided Bloom more experience in the agriculture industry.

The Nemaha County STEP Foundation is proud to award Curtis Bloom the $500 scholarship established in 2008 by Lola Droge and her family which is called the Leslie Albert and Lola Fern Droge Scholarship for Agricultural Studies.

The scholarship honors Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Droge who lived and farmed most of their married life in Nemaha County. Leslie and Lola purchased and moved to the Droge family farm after Leslie returned from serving his country in World War II.

The couple was progressive and looked for new and modern ways of farming. They became leaders in terracing and other land conservation methods. Managing a cow and calf herd along with grasslands, wheat, and row crops, they provided a living for their family while producing plants and animals to help feed the world.

Not only did they work hard in agriculture, but they also served in other areas as well. Lola was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and was actively involved in her political party. Leslie served in the Kansas Senate and was chairperson of the Senate Agricultural committee. Leslie and Lola, as well as their five children, all attended Kansas State University.

The Leslie Albert and Lola Fern Droge Scholarship for Agricultural Studies is awarded to a Nemaha County high school graduate who is a junior or above and enrolled in the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University.