Newsletter 9-2-2026

 

 

 

 

Don't forget Food Bank delivery is this Friday at the Park from 2 - 3 p.m. Volunteers are always welcome!

 

 

 

Please keep an eye on the weather - they are predicting 100+ days the rest of the week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SDA PTO

Help us fundraise while getting great plants and updating your SDA spirit gear!

Apparel:

https://stores.inksoft.com/syracuse_rockets/shop/home sales open through Sept 14th!

Mums:

https://www.janetsjungle.com/syracuse-ne---syracuse-pto.html. Sale open through September 7th!

 

 

 

 

These are showing up everywhere!

Do you call them toadstools or mushrooms?

 

 

Results from the 2026 Groundhog Golf Tournament on 8-28-26

Eighty-seven golfers participated at the Syracuse Country Club

Pin prizes: Hole #1-Carl Ashman; closest to groundhog; Hole #3 - Bob Brandt; closest to pin; Hole #5 - Bob Hallstrom, closest to pin; Hole #6, Brian Rademacher, longest drive; Hole #8, Dan Snyder, longest putt; Hole #9, Travis Walters, closest in two. Putt Putt Putt winners, two teams tied: Jerry Stilmock, Randy Rehmeier, & Roger Smith and Tammy Kohler, Jim Christensen, & Steve Cooper. First Flight: 64-Dick Kohler, Eric Wallace, Caryn Wallace. Second Flight: 66-Ken Lamb, Brian Rademacher, Travis Walters. Third Flight: Bill Baird, Larry Fleck, Mark Czapla. This was the 36th year of the tournament and was held at the Syracuse Country Club.

There was $2400 raised for the Boy Scouts of America, The Rocket Booster Club, and the Youth Pheasant Hunt sponsored by the Nemaha Muddy Hooper Creek Association.

 

The raffle drawings after the tournament were conducted by the tournament organizers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

9-2   Everett Bowersmith, Mark & Tracy Meyer, Justin & Hannah Hassler Walden

9-3   Bob & Barb Wilhelm, Allen Emerson

9-4   Harry & Chelsea Meginnis

9-6   Emma Porter, Roger & Carolyn Kastens

9-7   Christie Brehm, Lori Boone, Cheryl Hopp Bohling

9-8   David Maloy

 

 

NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO

Friday, 9-3-1926, The Otoe Union:

"Harvey Whitehead, George Rogers, and several other Otoe County farmers are making good use of their old binders by transforming them into sweet clover strippers. It is quite remarkable how well sweet clover seed can be harvested with one of those machines."