For the fifth consecutive season, the Shelton Lady Bulldog basketball team brushed aside the competition, Deshler, Red Cloud and Silver Lake, to earn the Twin Valley Conference championship last week. A few members of this year’s squad served as student managers for the team when they claimed the first of five conference championships in 2022.
The Cairo Volunteer Fire Department had a great turnout for their training held Tuesday, February 3. They worked on burn ops, which in this case, is setting up a wet line (water on whatever fuel they are working with), then burning up to the wet line with drip torches and flares. The idea is using fire to fight fire. The department would deploy this technique on rapidly growing, and hard to control fires, where they simply don’t have enough water or resources to stop it traditionally. This method is highly effective, but takes a lot of practice and understanding of fuel behaviors, tools used and positioning of trucks, and a typically hard to come by, degree of cooperation from Mother Nature. The firemen with the Cairo Volunteer Fire Department are working hard to make sure they have the knowledge necessary to stop any sort of fire!
The family of Janice McGregor is requesting a card shower in honor of her 95th birthday on February 19. Cards can be sent to PO Box 176, Gibbon NE 68840-0176.
The LouPlatte Conference basketball tournament saw the fifth seeded Wood River boys team defeated number four seed Central City in overtime, 59-56, on the court at Central City on Tuesday, February 3, and fell to top seeded Doniphan/ Trumbull, 34-73, in Gibbon on Friday, February 6. The Eagles faced sixth seeded St. Paul in the consolation bracket on Saturday, February 7, at Gibbon, and fell 40-49 for a fourth place finish in the tournament.
Shelton’s boys basketball team split the two games played in the Twin Valley Conference Tournament held last week. The local club met defeat at the hands of Silver Lake on the court at Lawrence/ Nelson on Tuesday, February 3, but came back for a win over Kenesaw in a consolation bracket contest on Saturday, February 7, at Adams Central.
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