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Letters of love
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NRHEG junior Hallie Schultz admits that, ever since seeing information about “Letters of Love” on social media, she has been looking for an opportunity to contribute. The Minnesota organization receives cards and letters from volunteers and distributes them to children who are in the hospital or who are battling long-term illnesses.
Snow Week at a glance
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By ELI LUTGENS
Publisher/Editor
Candidates for NRHEG snow week set for February 6-11 are, for queen: Ashley Wobschall, daughter of Jeri Wobschall; Grace Wilkenson, daughter of Matt and Kara Wilkenson; Erin Jacobson daughter of Erik and Heidi Jacobson; Taya Lembke daughter of Jeff and Tara Lembke; Katheryn Kofstad, daughter of Isaac and Martha Kofstad; Andrea Briggs, daughter of April Martin and the late Garrett Briggs.
Candidates for king: Jed Pfundt, son of Jed Pfundt and Jessica Rowland; Ethan Thompson son of Jena and David Thompson; Lucas Hanna, son of Jonathan and Miriam Hanna; Gavin Wilkenson, son Billie Jo Wilkenson and Dan Wilkenson; Evan Beckmann, son of Diana Foster and the late Mathew Beckmann; and Dylan Ingvaldson son of Tait and Jennifer Ingvaldson.
One act to perform Saturday
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The NRHEG One Act Play ensemble will be presenting two plays for the public at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 in the high school gym. One is the hilarious “Clemson Bartholomew,” which introduces the audience to the “All News All the Time Network.” Despite impending disaster in the middle east, the network focuses on rumors surrounding the possible sudden death of pop icon Clemson Bartholomew.
“Ignoble Death,” the ensemble’s contest play, will also be performed. The play was presented this past week at subsection competition, but ranked behind winning plays performed by USC and St. Clair. This story also features rumors and uncertainty: Socialite Frank Noble has disappeared from a train. Did he fall? Was he pushed? Trapped in the station during the police investigation, characters reveal some of their secrets and shed light on Frank’s “Ignoble Death.”
Admission to watch both plays is $3.
‘Little miracle’
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Vulcan donates kidney to Billing
By ELI LUTGENS, AND MARY IVERSON
Publisher and Contributing Writer
With very little fanfare, Wayne Billing, 67, was gifted a new kidney from his former assistant SaraJo Vulcan on Jan. 18, 2023.
“I guess you could call it a little miracle,” Vulcan, 45, said of the decision, the donation, and the match. “I want to give him a chance for more years of life...more life together with his family, with their grandchildren and much more.”
In order for one person to donate a kidney to another, many details must fall in line. Both persons must have the same “tissue type.” Although no two people except identical twins can have the exact same tissue type, doctors look for 12 specific “protein markers.”
Champs!!!
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By DEB BENTLY
Staff Writer
“Cheerleading isn’t just waving your arms and shouting,” observes NRHEG senior Grace Wilkenson. Fellow senior Eva Wayne agrees: “People often don’t realize how serious it is,” she says. “It’s actually very competitive and very demanding.”
As three-time members of NRHEG’s state champion competitive cheer team and 10-year participants in the sport, the two of them would know.
Wayne and Wilkenson were among the 15 cheerleaders and four coaches who represented NRHEG at the weekend-long competition that ended Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. On Saturday morning, the group performed its two-minute, 30-second routine along with 8 other competing teams and was ranked in the top half, thus advancing to finals later that evening.