MAPLETON -- IKM-Manning’s Brooke Waterbury shot identical nine-hole rounds of 50 on Monday, scoring an even 100 to place fourth in the Class 2-A, Region 2A Girls Golf Tournament at Mapleton’s Willow Vale Golf Club. By placing in the top five with her career-best 18-hole score, Waterbury qualified to play in the Region 2 Final tournament Monday, May 23, at Neola’s Quail Run Country Club.

    EARLING -- Linda Louise Kaufman, 65, Earling, died May 25 at Elm Crest Retirement Community.    Services will be held Saturday, May 28 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Westphalia with burial in the St. Boniface Cemetery at Westphalia.  A prayer service will be held Friday, May 27 at 7 p.m. at the church.  Visitation is Friday from 5-8 p.m.

    OMAHA, NE -- Word has been received of the death of Karen G. Risk, 68, Omaha, NE, a former Shelby County resident.    Services were held Tuesday, May 24 at 11 a.m. at Heafey Hoffmann Dworak Cutler Mortuary with interment in the Fort Calhoun Cemetery.    She is survived by her husband, Robert; brothers Gerald (Betty) of Portsmouth, Dallan (Sharon) of Omaha and Neil (Cherylene) of Panama; nieces and nephews. 

    AVOCA -- Gerald Aldrich Peck, 87, Avoca, died May 23 at Bergan Mercy Medical Center.    Services will be held Friday, May 27 at 10 a.m. at United Church of Avoca with burial in the Graceland Cemetery in Avoca.  Visitation was Thursday, May 26 from 1-7 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-7 p.m.

    ELK HORN -- Mabel Madsen used to wait for her husband, Robert, to come home to greet him when he came home from work. This was one of her ways she showed her love.    Now as Robert and Mabel sit side-by-side holding hands at Salem Lutheran Homes in Elk Horn, Mabel repeats the question a little louder for her husband to hear. This is one of the ways she shows her love.

HARLAN – Four Harlan Community High School students earned outstanding honors at the national Business Professionals of America leadership conference this month, including a national champion crowned in freshman Jay Swanson and a national runner-up in Kyle Schmitz.    Swanson, a freshman, became HCHS’s fourth ever BPA national champion with a first-place finish in his Administrative Research Project/Presentation event.  Schmitz earned a second

    ELK HORN -- Salem Lutheran Homes and Rehabilitation Center announced today that construction will begin on the expansion of its dining room June 6.    The project will add space for veterans’ activities to build upon being the only Veterans Certified facility in the area, allow Salem Homes to book events for larger community attendance, and refurbish the current dining room so that residents may have a restaurant-like dining experience.  

    HARLAN -- The search for Harlan’s new management structure officially began this week, as the city’s Personnel and Finance Committee Wednesday, May 18 brought in a representative of the Institute of Public Affairs from the University of Iowa.    Jeff Schott, program director,  and Mark Miller, senior advisor of the Iowa City/County Management Association, met with committee members Mike Kolbe, Dave Miller and Sharon Kroger, to lay out the

    ASHLAND, NE -- Kelli Goeser and Jason Florell both of South Bend, NE, were married on April 2, 2016 in an outdoor ceremony at Ashland Golf Club.    Parents of the couple are Bruce and Julie Goeser, Harlan; and Gene and Barb Florell, Elm Creek, NE.