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At the recent quarterly meeting of the Wood River Community Centennial Foundation (WRCCF), a check for $5,000 was presented to the Wood River Elementary School for The Go Big Give Playground Update Grant. At the February meeting, a matching grant of $1.00 for every $2.00 raised up to $10,000.00 was approved. Funds for this grant came from the Benefactor Fund, The Education Fund, Knight Family Fund (Dorothy, Turk and Patty), and the Wayne Rennau Fund. This is another example of the benefit of establishing funds with the WRCCF. When a grant is submitted for the Wood River area, funds are available. Working together we can accomplish so much. Pictured are, left to right, Dave Harders, Peg Krause, Jenny Reeder, Blanca Rodriguez, Kaye Doane, Heather Zessin, Jason Rotter, Pam Kjar, Adrienne Gill, Mary Harders, and Abby Rennau. (–courtesy photo)

Josh Wiese grew up about one and half miles southwest of Shelton. He is the son of Chuck and Julie Wiese and Angela and Craig Steele. Josh graduated from Shelton High in 2006 and worked for several years at Open Air Nursery in Shelton. That job sparked a love of plants, and in turn nature, that led the Shelton native to his current position at the Crane Trust south of Wood River.

Fourteen Gibbon FBLA members picked up trash on Lowell Road between Gibbon High School and Windmill State Park on May 17 as part of the FBLA’s Adopt A Highway project. Adopt-a-Highway is a State FBLA Go Green Ribbon Project for the Gibbon chapter and also a commitment to the Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) to clean twice a year. All trash bags and safety vests are provided by the NDOT. FBLA members taking part included, front row, left to right, Jose Lopez, Gerardo Corona, Madi Armstrong, Marco Medina, Darian Dorsey, and Roy Mendez;, and back row, Idania Oliva-Magana, Abram Mendez, Landon Philbrick, Hernan Vargas, Natalie Bendfeldt, Karsyn Grimes, Paolo Murillo, and Orlando Oliva-Magana. (–courtesy photo)