Plans are underway once again for the 17th Annual Travis Carpenter Memorial softball tournament, set to take place at Sutton’s DLD Park, Aug. 3-4.

Proceeds from the annual event will go to help support local organizations, as well as a $500 annual scholarship awarded to a local senior in memory of Travis Carpenter.

Entry fee per team this year is $200. You are asked to pre-register your team on or before Friday, July 26. To register, please call either Brent Mau at 402-469-1174, or Todd Mau at 402-984-0064.

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The 10th annual Harvard UCC 5K/one mile run/walk for the People’s Project to help those in need in Harvard will begin at 8 a.m., Saturday, July 27.

Registration is in advance from 7-7:50 a.m., in the Conway driveway near the start of Walnut and N. Harlan Avenue (near the park). Entry fees will be used to help those in need in Harvard. There is potential for $400 in cash awards, trophies for the male and female winners of each race, and master’s division (40+) for the 5K, along with medals for all finishers.

The guest speaker this year is Erika Knott, Hastings Family YMCA Wellness Director; she will speak from 9-9:20 a.m.

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In preparation for the seventh annual Allegro Wolf Broadway Academy, several items had to be set up and ready to go once students arrived Sunday, July 14.

The most students AWBA has ever hosted filtered into the Allegro Wolf Arts Center Sunday, to meet directors and staff and greet their host families for the week.

Thirty-nine students—coming from Clay County, Aurora, York, Iowa, and Colorado, to name a few places—along with 13 directors and mentors, rehearsed for hours on end, enjoyed group times with their mentors, and grew friendships, all-the-while preparing for the main event at the end of the week—the student showcase and the staff’s dinner theatre.

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BY ASHLEY D. SWANSON

In continuing efforts to grow Sutton’s downtown, the City of Sutton released a Downtown Revitalization Plan Survey, which was compiled and will be available to the public during an open house from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 1, at Sutton City Hall.

According to Bobbie Pettit, a planner on the project, after looking at the results of the survey, exterior appearance of the downtown area in Sutton proved to be the most desirous place for improvements.

Harvard’s 14th annual Veterans Memorial Car Show has been set for Saturday, July 27.

The car show portion of the day will go from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at the City Park (505 East Walnut), with registration from 10 a.m.-noon; entry fee is $15.

Trophies will be presented at 3 p.m.; there will be prize drawings throughout the car show. All proceeds will go to the Harvard Veterans Memorial Wall, and food onsite will be sponsored by the United Church of Christ.

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The Sutton Senior Legion baseball team claimed two of three wins this past week, taking care of business against Fairbury and Geneva, before being handed a six-run loss to Grand Island Sunday afternoon.

In action at DLD Park June 19, Sutton scored three runs in each of the first, second, fourth and sixth innings, to post a 12-4 win over Fairbury.

Nathan Drudik, Garrett Nuss and Will Reeson pounded out two hits each in the eight-run win, as Drudik was 2-2, while Nuss and Reeson were both 2-4 with a single and a double each to lead Sutton.

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Sutton Community Home will host a “Run/Walk For a Resident,” as a fundraiser for the proposed new Sutton Community Home facility as a benefit to the Sutton Community Home Foundation.

The race, which begins at 7:45 a.m., this Saturday, starting at the home.

The fees are $20 for a onemile fun run/walk and $25 to participate in the 5k. All paid entries will receive a T-shirt and goodie bag.

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About 25 youth joined in a community kickball game on June 20 at Glenvil’s ballfield, cooling off later with root beer floats. Here, Caillee League tosses the ball in during an inning of kickball.

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Typically the beginning and middle of June is fairly easy-going. And then Dugout Days and EdgarFest weekend roll around, and then it’s Clay Center’s Fourth of July Celebration, and then the fair, and Harvard’s Veterans Car Show, and Fairfield’s Triple F Fest, and then BOOM...school starts.

You know how I mentioned that this year was going to be the best year yet and it didn’t get a choice? Well....so far, since turning 27, it’s been extra stressful and busier than usual.

I’m not sure if this is just an added “bonus” to getting older, or if God’s up there testing me every day to see how tough I am. Either way, it’s been a trying couple of months.

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Clay Center resident Kay Frances Friend, 76, passed away June 18, 2019, at Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings.

Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m., Saturday, June 22, 2019, at the United Church of Christ in Clay Center, with Rev. Ethan Feistner officiating. Interment followed at the Clay Center Cemetery. Visitation was Friday, from 4-8 p.m., at McLaughlin Funeral Chapel in Clay Center.

Memorial contributions may be directed to the family to be designated later.

Condolences may be left at www.mclaughlinchapel.com.