STOCKTON HIGH SCHOOL HOMECOMING king candidates, Jace Hull, Markeis Spiller and Troy Rogers, gathered on the track prior to the ceremony held on Friday at Tiger Stadium. Rogers was crowned Homecoming king for 2020.

A live webinar for businesses in Rooks County on Friday, October 2 will help position the independent businesses for accelerated success as the nation continues to deal with the global coronavirus pandemic.

CROWNBEARERS FOR THE 2020 HOMECOMING festivities were cuties, Kaisyn Muir (top) and Cohen Muir (bottom). Despite dealing with a sore foot, Kaisyn, and her partner Cohen, performed their duties to perfection.

THE ROOKS COUNTY NEW YEAR’S BABY QUILT for 2020 was finally presented to the precious baby, Ezra Michael Kriley, born in February to Dustin and Dayna Kriley of Stockton. The cute quilt was made by Crossroads Quilt Guild members, Betty Bedore and Elaine Hrabe.

The Rooks County Commissioners, along with health nurse Lori Eichman, emergency management director Butch Post and treasurer Kim Northup, held a conference call with Witt O’Brien dealing with the SPARK funds. The County will pay out the distributions to each department or entity with each group to send in a monthly reconciliation of the COVID funds they used within that time period. These records will then be reviewed and recorded by Witt O’Brien before they are submitted to the state.

Linda Melton made a trip to rural Riley to visit her sister, Norma Sharp. They spent the afternoon decorating her farmstead with milo, corn, cattails, grasses, and pumpkins that Linda purchased at a Beloit pumpkin patch. For Norma’s October birthday, Linda gave her an old garden gate. Norma always wants to repay so she sent Linda home with Victoria magazines and jars of homemade salsa, bread and butter pickles and pickled beets. What a busy time of year with combines, grain trucks, tractors with drills running all along the way.

THE QUEEN CANDIDATES for Stockton’s 2020 Homecoming on Friday night were Logan Winklepleck, Harley Kester and Chloe Plumer. The queen’s crown went to Plumer. Again, due to COVID, this picture was Photoshopped to include Plumer.

There will be a regular USD 271 Board of Education meeting on Monday, October 5, at the District Office. The agenda is as follows: Agenda • Call to Order • Additions or Deletions to the Agenda • Approval of the Consent Agenda: a.) Minutes of previous meeting— September 7th and 23rd, 2020; b.) Clerk’s Report and Manifest of Bills; and c.) Petty Cash and Activity Account Reports • Surplus Equipment • DLT Report • Administrative Reports: a.) Mrs.

THE NEW POUR-IN-PLACE SURFACING under the Stockton City Park’s playground equipment was laid on Thursday, September 24th by a subcontractor of Sterling West of Nebraska. This project was made possible through the fundraising of the Stockton PRIDE organization, a KDHE Tire Waste Grant and local donations, as well as through donations from the Olive Reed Schafer Fund and the William H. Andreason Fund. It is through the efforts of all combined that this project is now a reality. The new surfacing will now be enjoyed for years to come by the children as well as the adults of the community.

Week of October 5 Breakfast Monday—Pancakes, fruit, juice, milk. Tuesday—Poptart, fruit, juice, milk.