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Members of the 2025 Shelton Youth Sports Club first and second grade football team are, front row, left to right, coach Preston Berger, Arlo Berger, Richard Abenoja, Brecken Meyer, Asher Wiseman, Layne Spellman, and coach Tanner Hawks; and back row, Max Mayfield, Henry Poehler, Jaxton Sheppard, Wyatt Hawks, Declan O’Brien, Maddox Rogers, and coach Levi Rogers.

The Nebraska State Junior High Cross Country Invite was held Saturday, October 11, at Papillion-LaVista South High School. The Shelton junior high cross country team had five athletes compete, pictured above, left to right, Erick Mendez, Kameron Taylor, Hudsyn Hagan, Wyatt Rogers, and Quynn Andrews. This year, the invite was split into to categories, Class A/B and Class C/D, due to the amount of competitors. Only the top 25 medal. Lady Bulldog Andrews earned her 17th place medal by crossing the finish line in 12:19. There was a total of 163 competitors in the Class C/D race. She was the fifth fastest seventh grader in Class C/D and 12th fastest seventh grader overall in A/B/C/D combined. Andrews placed 35th out of 363 runners overall in A/B/ C/D. Mendez brought home a seventh place medal for the Bulldogs with his time of 10:50. A total of 227 runners competed in the Class C/D race. He was the second fastest seventh grade in Class C/D and third fastest seventh grader overall in the A/ B/C/D combined. There were 478 individual runners overall in A/B/C/D, and Mendez was fourteenth. Taylor crossed the finish line 12:40, Hagan had a time of 14:32, and Rogers finished with a time of 15:50. (—courtesy photo)

The three community volunteer fire departments of Cairo, Boelus, and Dannebrog combined their resources and personnel to conduct a rural wildfire drill recently. Two portable water tanks, each with a capacity of roughly 2,000 gallons, were established on a given route with pumpers providing stationary draft/ distribution (water to fire). Several large tanker trucks circled from the portables to a hydrant roughly 1/2 mile away, and refilled their trucks, thus completing a water supply loop, keeping the portables supplied. This simulation exercise of a wildfire blaze was valuable for all. It required teamwork, communication, and coordination of personnel and machinery to create an operation that could last for the duration of a blaze. Roughly 40 firefighters were involved to make the evening successful. (—courtesy photo)