Students at Centura Public Schools carved out time last Thursday to salute area veterans during the district’s annual Veterans Day Program. In front of a sizable crowd gathered inside the high school gymnasium, students used a variety of mediums to thank the veterans in attendance for their service and sacrifice.

Several organizations—including the Royal Coachmen Car Club, the GCA Days Committee, the City of St. Paul, the Rotary, the Booster Club, and the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce—pitched in and donated funds for the purchase of a speaker system for downtown St. Paul. St. Paul Superintendent John Poppert organized the effort that resulted in the purchase of a $10,250 system. Bluetooth and an iPod will be added to the system.

REPRESENTATIVES of Brookefield Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation were in attendance for the St. Paul Volunteer Fire Department’s meeting last Thursday to present the department with a $500 donation. Pictured with Brookefield Park staff and leadership are members of the department.

Centurions already earning accolades on stage with musical comedy Students at Centura High School are loading up their prairie schooners and trekking out west this play production season, staging performances of the musical Westward, Whoa! by Tim Kelly. “It’s a western musical comedy,” explained Centura Play Director Kris Simon following her troupe’s performance at the Central Valley One-Act Festival in Scotia last Wednesday.

On a mild Friday morning last week, residents of several Greeley County communities made their way to Central Valley Public Schools’ high school gym in Greeley to pay respects to the nation’s veterans. The Veterans Day ceremony had been the first of two held by the district that day, the second having been hosted in the elementary gym in Scotia that afternoon.

Practicing the corporal and spiritual works of mercy should be an essential part of our daily practice of Christianity; we cannot be good Christians if we do not act as Christians ought. The corporal works of mercy are well-known: to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, and bury the dead. Their practice insures that the temporary, physical needs of our fellow humans are met. The spiritual works of mercy, because they focus on our spiritual needs, are arguably more important, since they concern the well-being of our immortal souls.

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