Come the end of the year, newborns will no longer be delivered at the Howard County Medical Center (HCMC) outside of emergency situations. Over the last several decades, the county’s critical access hospital has become part of an ever- dwindling minority of rural hospitals to provide the service.

During the Howard County Board of Commissioners’ second semimonthly regular meeting for the month of October last Tuesday, the board appointed Grand-Island-based firm Spotanski Creative Building Design & Drafting, LLC (SCBDD) as the architect and engineer for their county yards project, which will see a new, eighty-by-two-hundred-foot roads building constructed on about five acres of land at the Howard County Fairgrounds. The county had purchased the land from the Howard County Agricultural Society in mid-June for $50,000.

The St. Paul Country Quilters met on Monday, October 16th at the Sts.

In honor of Memorial Stadium’s 100th anniversary, Nebraska Public Media Labs and its content production team have created a 2-D tour that allows visitors to virtually travel back in time to see Memorial Stadium as it was when it was first built, along with one of the venue’s first expansions.

Visitors to the “In The Deed, The Glory: Memorial Stadium” website at NebraksaPublicMedia. org/ MemorialStadium can use their computers or mobile devices to see how the stadium looked and learn about its history.

308.968.3348 Julie Spilinek hosted the annual birthday bonfire at her home on Saturday evening with a potluck meal that was attended by Nathan and Candace Stenka and girls of Doniphan, Chelsea and Aaron Gothier and Noctis of Laurel, Thomas Spilinek and Alex Calleroz of Arcadia, John and Lisa Follmer and Devanee Spilinek of Kearney, Zach Follmer of Omaha, Daniel and Erica Houdek and boys of rural Farwell, Jason Spilinek, Danica and Liam of Grand Island, Tami Stenka, Michelle Stenka and children, Ed Spilinek, Taylor and Shelbea Goldie and family, Brady Spilinek, and Matt and Amelia Retzlaff and Oliver. Three guests included Marcia Dammann of St.

308.968.3348 Dave and Barbara Tuma were brief Thursday morning visitors of Bernard and JoAnn Danczak at St. Paul.