Fall Is In The Air For Activities & Sports

Good morning! Here we are into the third week of September. Holy cow, but time is flying.

Today there is a varsity volleyball triangular at Minatare with Minatare, Creek Valley and the Wildcat ladies! Game time is 3:30 p.m.

Then for the weekend, Friday, September 20th, there will be a middle school football game here at home vs. Hay Springs at 10 a.m.

On Saturday, the varsity cross country team will compete in an invitational with approximately 18 other schools. They will begin at 9 a.m. and will compete at Laing Lake Park, which is in Alliance at Box Butte and 18th Street. The middle school team will compete at 3 p.m. Good luck and safe travel to all of you.

Friday, September 20th at 4 p.m.through the 22nd there will be a Vintage Camper Rally at the “ Pitts“ in the Bridgeport State Recreation Area for anyone interested.

If you are not involved in cross country on Saturday you have several different options of ‘ things to do:

• The Gering Public Library will hold Rodeo Time Story Hour at 10 a.m. in conjunction with the 28th annual Harvest Festival at the Legacy of the Plains Museum. There will be excellent displays, games, food, a parade and more from Saturday at 9 a.m. and to Sunday at 4 p.m. The featured crop this year is beets, and there will be potatoes to pick up also!

• A similar event will be going on in Alliance at the Dolby Fall Festival. From the 21st at 10 a.m.to the 22nd at 4 p.m., there will be live entertainment, Josephine’s Old Time Photo Parlor, homemade candy & ice cream, vendors and more. They are located at 320 E 25th.

• There also will be a Falling into Autumn Craft Fair at 424 Flack Avenue, Alliance, beginning at 9 a.m..

The weekend movie at the Midwest Theater will actually begin at 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. on the 20th, 7 p.m. on the 21st & at 1:30 p.m. on the 22nd. The movie is ‘ Reagan.” Also on Saturday the 21st at 1:30 p.m., they will present the movie “Stagecoach” in celebration of this movie’s 85th anniversary.

Meanwhile, Amberley Snyder was a young barrel racer, born in California and living in Utah, when in 2010 she was headed to the Denver Stock Show. Outside of Sinclair, Wyoming, she was in an accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down. You are invited to hear her story on Monday, September 23rd at the Scotts Bluff County fair grounds in Mitchell at 7 p.m. This event is FREE and titled “Turning Tragedy into Triumph.”. I will say this much, this accident has not stopped her; she still rides.

Back at the schoolhouse beginning on Monday the 23rd, it will be Homecoming Week 2024. So you know what that means, there will be some wild and crazy creatures throughout the school.

Also on the 23rd, the varsity volleyball team will travel to Kimball for 5 p.m. competition against the Longhorns.

On the 24th, the 3rd graders will head to the YMCA Campground for Wellness Day, and on the 25th the FFA members involved in range judging will go to Wauneta for State Range Judging competition. Good luck and safe travel to all of you.

Well folks, that is all I have for now, take care until next time. Barb Cross 436-7152.